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Arman Chowdhury 🍉
@armanchowdhury.bsky.social
Writer 🇧🇩 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Finalist. Associate Fiction Editor, West Branch magazine 2023-25. Notre Dame MFA ‘23. Tin House ‘22. Loft literary Fellow ´21.

📍South Bend, IN | armanchowdhury.com
…to reveal truth and distortion simultaneously? What happens when the story you wanted to tell becomes the story you’re trapped in?

#writingprompt #satire #conspiracy #suspense #chaos #writersky
November 9, 2025 at 12:19 AM
…themselves simultaneously witness, participant and pawn in the unfolding drama. The lines between believer and skeptic, captor and captive, blur and loop. How do you blend satire with suspense to reflect the absurdity of power? How can you use the narrator’s tone and platform…
November 9, 2025 at 12:19 AM
…How does the narrator’s focus drift to trivial details? How do these delay action? How does their own body begin to feel like someone else’s?

#writingprompt #writersky #dissociation #avoidance #distraction
October 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
…real version hasn’t thought yet. Try building dread not through what happens, but through what’s not explained. As a constraint, avoid direct dialogue or overt emotional cues. Let tension emerge through dissociation, distraction, and avoidance…
October 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
…to unfold into invention. The piece should blur the space between memory, guilt, and imagination without declaring what’s true. Let form mirror thought, with digressions, contradictions, and silences that feel intentional.

#writersky #writingprompt #autofiction #memory #guilt #invention
October 21, 2025 at 11:39 AM
…diversity and inclusion. How can you use close, sensory detail to make its alienation feel ordinary? What kind of voice can capture both resignation and quiet defiance? How does assimilation erode the self it is trying to save?

#writingprompt #writersky #monster #assimilation #inclusion
October 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
…The landlord refuses to fix its leaking ceiling because “you people are used to damp.” Co-workers ask if it’s comfortable in daylight. Dating apps flag its selfies as inappropriate content. Still, it keeps trying by learning small talk, filing taxes, attending HR workshops on…
October 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
…The story is less about the witch’s magic and more about the strange equilibrium of living beside it. How does acceptance become its own quiet transformation?

#writingprompt #witch #acceptance
October 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
…in the evenings. She converses with crows. She blesses the kettle before pouring tea. None of this is hidden, and none of it is treated as extraordinary. The writer, at first unnerved, slowly learns to live with it, to write amid her quiet spells and mundane miracles…
October 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The low res, doorbell security cam deepfakes annoy the crap out of me—because what do you mean a toddler petting a crocodile isn’t real
October 17, 2025 at 3:19 AM