Consider participating in Invisible Networks 2025

Invisible Networks is a yearly writing challenge. Invent a weird/magical/deeply sinister social network every day. Draw inspiration from our exquisite, hand-crafted prompts, produced by a real human brain.

Edit: Running April 1st to 14th. I forgot to specify this because time is an illusion.

2025 will be my sixth year running this micro-event. It’s usually pretty fun! The prompts are geared towards tweet-sized short fiction, but participants have, in the past, submitted marvels such as small web pages, power-point slides, and poems.

That said, this is meant to be a low-effort exercise. Write something for all fourteen days, or just one, or lurk and follow along. I’ll be posting to Twitter and BlueSky; I recommend checking out our official website’s portal to the void.

Without further ado, the prompts:

And again, in plain text:

1. tragedy of the uncommons

2. infrascripture

3. rage quit island

4. the non-linear myth

5. tech/emotional support

6. fog of warmth

7. whisker inputs

8. WASD-boat

9. pondered.core

10. NOT A CREATURE

11. graphics shard

12. NPC: neo-platonic concepticule

13. radiopassivity

14. twelve and a half minute voice message delivered at 3AM

Have fun! Or, if you prefer, suffer.