Getting back to Writing

This is a 15-minute writing prompt from  5,000 writing prompts.  I only did about 10 minutes because I was falling asleep. 50 PLOTS FROM SHAKESPEARE AND OTHER ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE Prompt #45: Two rich old men want their children to marry. Each knows his own child is a fool; neither knows that the other young person is also a fool. (Mother Bombie, by John Lyly.) "Breakfast?  Why I haven't the foggiest idea how to make breakfast, Lyle.  Why don't you call up Cookie and have her come in to make us food?" "I haven't gotten the money to pay her.  We had to let her go along with the rest of the staff." "Well, what about your job or investments?" "I'm a man of leisure, not a worker. And my investments are Papa's for now.  I assume I will get them when he kicks off." "But Lyle," Johanna whined, "we can't just not eat until your father dies!" "Well, what about your father, then?" countered Lyle. ...

 This is a 15-minute writing prompt from "5,000 Writing Prompts". Mystery Story Prompt #46: A Man who Faked his Own Death Must be Found in Time John was an ordinary guy.  He had an ordinary hair cut.  He wore ordinary clothes.  He lived in an ordinary house. Even his name was painfully ordinary.  So, John decided it was time for a change. He wondered if an unordinary funeral was right for him.  And so John was "cremated" and invited all his friends and family to his own funeral.  It was quite the experiment...that is, until John was kidnapped the next week.  When family started getting ransom notes for him, they thought it was a joke.  You can't kidnap a dead man.  The kidnappers were frustrated.  Did no one in John's family care about him enough to pay the ransom?  What kind of worthless guy did they bother kidnapping? But John's family had finally heard enough from the kidnappers and decided to contact the funeral home. ...