Gone without a Trace

Create a story where an entire town wakes up to find one of its residents disappeared without any sign.

Promptly, overnight a lively resident becomes the talk of the town in his absence. Did they run? Were they kidnapped? Or, something eerie happened? The writer could mold the story around the town’s hypothesis and responses to the disappearance while arriving at an unexpected conclusion. This prompt enables you to delve into the heart of small-town dynamics, human relationships and the unsettling question of what might have happened.