About today's writing prompt genre: Take the following story aspect and work it into a piece, whether poetry or prose, whether you explore what led up to this place in the story, it begins with the thread, or the thread is merely a tiny aspect of the story that has crystallized around the original image. However you choose to write it, use the following as a jumping off point.
Today's thread is...
A friend tells you they won the lottery and you need to drop everything and take a trip to wherever you want, no strings attached. Of course there's a catch, but not until you're in way deeper than you realized.
This one is pretty prescriptive, it could certainly be a poem, it could begin at the end and be told through flashbacks, it could be exceedingly dark, or it could be an outlet for a sci-fi story.