1001 Drama Writing Prompts

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Drama stories are popular among readers and writers. In fact, in bookstores, you’ll usually find shelves filled with stories that are intended to make you feel emotional.

With so many stories written in this genre, it can feel like it is easy to write one, but it is actually not. This is because a successful drama story needs to have compelling characters, conflict, and story structure.

One way to make your life easier while writing drama stories is by looking up writing prompts for ideas to inspire you to write and ignite your imagination. Check out this list of drama writing prompts to help you create a good tearjerker:

  • A woman gets to know herself on a road trip.
  • Someone builds your life with their own hands.
  • Your hair is short but you secretly miss it long.
  • The world you’ve told your children about–it doesn’t exist anymore.
  • They didn’t know they were there until they were already gone.
  • An old man speaks to you from a TV on a stand in the window of a bar, “I’ve got a lot to say. Now will somebody for God’s sake just listen?”
  • En route from your morning swim to brunch with your best gal pal, you accidentally board the wrong train.
  • The couple held their breaths together as she slowly opened the bathroom door.
  • An oracle loses their job as a fortune teller for making people too scared to make any choices in their life.
  • You’re in a museum, you notice something else that’s missing, you speak up but no one listens, you steal it.
  • The vegans at the dinner table decide to go beyond not eating meat to not eat anything at all.
  • You decide to buy a telescope to observe the stars at night.
  • The Star Spangled Banner was lightly playing, he wasn’t proud of what he was doing, but he always got her into a habit with a disguise.
  • You have a criminal record in your past which you can’t let anyone know about.
  • I hope they get back together. THERE ISN’T ONE.
  • A sorcerer is hatching a plan to become the most powerful being in the universe— starting with simple introductions.
  • You should have apologized to her sooner.
  • You lost everything in the war, dotted the last “i” of your letter of apology, and headed out on your way.
  • “Sorry, that’s the wrong mountain,” a driver says to you correcting your mistaken directions.
  • You’ve been caught doing something Andrew thinks is terribly unethical. How do you get out of it?
  • It’s time to get down to business. The other employees have retreated to their dorms when one phone rings. You know you will never work there again.
  • The objective of the game is to run out of the woods alive.
  • An explorer going over a waterfall turns to face the camera with a glare, daring you to turn off the screen.
  • You’re on a road trip, getting what you thought would be a quick bite in a small town, when you notice the gun shops.
  • When you arrive at your new apartment, you are surprised at who the previous tenant was.
  • My parents didn’t fight but they often ignored each other’s existence.
  • An old childhood game turned an empty room into the game world.
  • What if your personality was erased like a computer’s , but you always had the feeling there was a you in there struggling to get out?
  • Are you treachery, cunning, deceit, or misfortune per chance? A script asks. You answer, and it is further explained.
  • Your life is a constant stream of failure. It’s a wonder you have any friends.
  • He died on his way to work, moments later his life flashed before his eyes.
  • A man who tells a joke over the intercom in exactly the same way every time, is not appreciated by his co-workers.
  • When you entered the casino, you knew what you were going to gamble. You just didn’t know what was going to gamble back.
  • I imagine nighttime as all the stars erupting into a heightened glitter above my head.
  • It was a good day to daydream…
  • A perfectly planned bank robbery turns to a showdown in the streets.
  • You’ve just accepted a harrowing plea bargain and are now headed to prison.
  • In this land a new marriage is only allowed when one party is declared legally dead.
  • Two siblings lose a parent and have to pick up the pieces.
  • You fall in love with the most unlikely person.
  • Your car breaks down on a darkened road.
  • The child in the park wasn’t as innocent as he appeared.
  • You discover you can’t marry the person you thought was your perfect match.
  • You were in the desert sands minding your own business, when suddenly you got washed away.
  • You drop your ice cream cone. Your child picks it up and hands it to you, satisfied.
  • You’re a prisoner in the story you’ve written.
  • Because of a promise to your father, you must travel to the one place you don’t want to go to.
  • You just bought hundreds of post-it notes and started sticking them to anything and everything you came across.
  • It’s your last day in a city whose landscape is worn and familiar, like a small wardrobe of comfortable clothing.
  • Whose planner is he looking at?
  • Someone tells you to leave your troubles behind because they never go away, “Move back to start.”
  • You can only communicate with people through the bubbles from your fish tank.
  • You just told the psychiatrist that the voices in your head are a result of your deceased grandmother’s lingering presence in your life.
  • A man is on the train, headed to work, and staring at a pretty girl through the window. Only, he is not the one in control of the train.
  • Sculpt or CGI just made a pain-free pill that you could swallow that takes away life’s suffering. When/if it’s released, will you buy it?
  • You’re asked to lead testimonials and praise for your son or daughter’s sports team.
  • A member of their own triad accidentally kills you.
  • You’re not convinced your spouse is cheating on you, but you have a feeling.
  • A husband and wife’s dream vacation takes a turn for the worse.
  • At what age will you secure the bag?
  • You are magical, but you only get to use your powers every other day for an unexpected reason.
  • The hero of the town discovers they’re an NPC from a video game.
  • Someone is stealing everything you eat, but their eyes.
  • A double agent snuggles with their child before they send them to work because it’s the day of the revolution.
  • If you focus on something really hard, maybe it will come true.
  • You paid the council to have a mayor declared by document only.
  • After a spontaneous trip to the French Alps failed to achieve their dreams, they decided to work regular jobs and just stay together.
  • You are randomly psychoanalyzed.
  • They were your closest childhood friends – the only ones who knew you were different.
  • Half of their family has been lost in a horrible natural disaster, but they know the other side is using personal information to hurt the ones still remaining.
  • Once your life has settled in this new town, you must decide if you’ll try to find them or continue on as if you never knew them.
  • There is a rumor you have wings under your clothes.
  • Everyone knows you’re tough. They respect you. But the other gang lord isn’t going down this time.
  • Food is outdated and the murderer is about to be executed.
  • Your online dating profile lies. Go out with your ideal match.
  • The narrow river lies between life and death flickers before me.
  • In which room are the most nightmares?
  • Maybe these will work for you.
  • What other drama prompts do you know? With a title like Drama Prompts we could go on and on.
  • A child’s mentor is executed for what turns out to not be his crime.
  • You’ve awoken from your coma and today, for the first time in a month, you can see everything around you.
  • People think your blonde hair has heard enough. People have always…
  • You have been executing the Democratic ideal for almost two years before you are thrown in jail for fraud.
  • There is a bird in your backyard. It does not speak. It does not make a sound. You spend most of an afternoon trying to communicate with it.
  • The shutter clicks. The link is uploaded. The career is over.
  • Someone cleared their throats behind them and they instantly froze.
  • Los Angeles shouldn’t be that hard to navigate, you try to remember as you step off the bus in the middle of the night.
  • A woman’s boyfriend leaves to be with a different woman.
  • Is it murder if they’re already dead?
  • A drinking game with some friends results in you having to tell the painful atrocity stories your family never escaped from.
  • It’s also mine, a voice answered as the rider dismounted.
  • Your entire life people have accused you of not caring for others.
  • You contemplate all you’ve done to get to this point, but you know you’re only a ghost.
  • The last words he said to you were – if you ever show me your face again, I’ll kill you, and I’ll make it look like an accident.
  • They’d committed the crime for the last time. The police had finally caught up to them.
  • All your life you thought heaven was being in your mother’s arms, but you were wrong.
  • YOU are the captain of the spaceship, what’s your first command? They turned upon you when you were in need the most.
  • You’re in the dry, dirty heat but you’re looking for water because you’re holding a funeral ritual for someone you don’t know.
  • Change a letter or add an apostrophe and get a new word out of an existing word.
  • Now you watch the news every night.
  • A character created by yourself is asked by another writer to come with them to their new and enchanting world.
  • A man runs through city streets to escape murderers in his life.
  • What is your favorite yellow food/color? What don’t you like about it?
  • Your face is frozen in fear and excitement, unable to process it all at once.
  • You brought him along instead of him bringing you.
  • After the overuse of chemical warfare, your mission is to exterminate everyone in the vicinity.
  • A minute before the sirens start going off at the playground.
  • She was in a dream, but did not know it was one.
  • You are single and live alone.
  • In this strange place, if you suddenly came to understand the language and culture, what would be your greatest relief to learn? And what confusion would you face?
  • The secretary for the nurse who shares your office accidentally writes down your name instead of hers when signing up for soup.
  • This also works great for a novel.
  • The first time you hear the insult, “Amethyst Games,” you don’t have the faintest notion what it means.
  • Your father could be arrested at any moment for a crime he didn’t commit, and you don’t know how to save him. Maybe you should run away. Maybe you should stay and stand up for him. But what if that’s the decision that really does send him to prison?
  • She was looking for any kind of meaning in her life, even if it was filthy.
  • How much air is needed to fill a waterbed?
  • Were once frozen in the past, but now you hear me say, come into my garden, you’ll see…
  • Which food best describes how you feel on the inside right now?
  • You aren’t the person you used to be anymore…until one day, you see a familiar crowd of people.
  • There is a rogue six year old whose neighborhood is infested with trick or treaters because of you. She hates you.
  • A strange man keeps following you wherever you go in a grocery store and won’t stop working.
  • The most important project of your life is due by the end of the day.
  • I can say something bad about everyone except for you, says your character.
  • You enter the scene unexpectedly, just about to be executed.
  • When a dying man leaves you plenty of money in his will, you’re met with more strangers who want a second chance with old grudges.
  • It’s your first day on the job. Terrified, you look up and spot your lifelong crush.
  • The characters stand in the wings of a stage, preparing themselves for their first line. What is the setting?
  • A man finds somewhere that sells guns and decides to become an avid gun collector.
  • A woman is walking her dog when she suddenly finds her ex-boyfriend, dressed as a mime, playing with the dog. He runs away.
  • All was going to plan, until the dead started to rise.
  • They designed a bye plane ticket to go somewhere but couldn’t decide on an airport.
  • A group of characters is a group of characters when they are at their breaking points. They each want to break into their own fantasies this person who has long been the one in control.
  • As you lay in your bed, it’s the second time today you’ve awoken from a recurring nightmare where you lose touch with all your loved ones.
  • A person of a different race and everything is tried in order to further your career, without success.
  • What hurts your character today?
  • You wake up in a new unfamiliar place and your biggest fear is that no one else remembers you.
  • A man in a dark room, the computer screen is often dim.
  • It begins when a stranger sends you a telephone number.
  • I hear you’ve been asking a lot of questions about me, so let’s just go ahead and strip away the farce, okay?
  • Does the past have any right to be curious about the present? A suspense story about present life being informed by past mistakes.
  • A man finds something that’s always with him, that reminds him of where he came from.
  • You go through a secret door in an antique shop. Inside, the door behind you closes and locks. You discover home invasion is a volunteer career.
  • You unleash your full power on this unlucky civilian.
  • Write a scene involving a fishing trip.
  • You have one hour to write a short story about addiction.
  • At the top of a volcano, you feel the earth shake as your enemy comes into view below.
  • The subtle ways we communicate a culture.
  • You realize you’re in love with someone you can never have. At least not for the moment.
  • Whatever happens, you can’t let go of what you have here. This is it.
  • Stuck on a sticky situation? You’ll need a sticky situation fixer, stat!
  • It’s the night before your wedding and you find yourself in a stranger’s house.
  • Napkins from people you don’t remember meeting litter the apartment you live in.
  • My wife and children used to travel like this all the time, your uncle says wistfully.
  • Write a scene where a woman wakes up from a nightmare to learn she’s made the right decision many times.
  • Your friends come up with a bet requiring you to tell a lie to your crush.
  • This trip won’t be a vacation, it’ll be a survival story.
  • Name one of your favorite foods, but instead, explain the horrible story that surrounds your relationship with it.
  • The Establishment that you belong to decides you’re obsolete.
  • Did you ever think to yourself, that maybe, if you can just skip ahead of where you are right now, where you could be?
  • His sorrow was difficult to understand.
  • What if you could only write the crime on your list, and the word “consequences” wasn’t included in the title?
  • There’s a powerful storm raging out there, what shall we do in the meantime?
  • “A lawyer goes into court to defend his life.”
  • A soldier goes back to the battlefield on Christmas Eve.
  • You think you are alone, but every time you look back you see the devil staring at you from the darkness of a menacing alleyway.
  • After an insane night of sleeplessness, food, and fun, you meet the love of your life.
  • She dialed her neighbor’s phone number but it was busy, so she waited by the machine and listened.
  • Jupiter was given complete control over the Earth.
  • You wake up next to a dead body, no recollection of how you got there.
  • Burning hatred during a calm spring afternoon.
  • He couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw her face where his reflection once was.
  • It’s your first day in a new city where everybody speaks the language.
  • A person goes on a hike up a mountain and gets caught in a blizzard.
  • Your brother is innocent of the crime they were proclaimed guilty of. You must find the evidence to prove him innocent, erase his record, and take him back home.
  • A medical engineer builds a robot that can replace a dead spouse.
  • A useless token will give you a chance to see the once-in-a-lifetime eclipse.
  • When they tried to find a husband for her, she tossed his belongings out into the front yard.
  • You take your first steps on a new soil alongside your parents leading you to a better life yet something feels off.
  • The time and setting is shortly after World War I.
  • The scene inside the courtroom evokes more drama than the outside view of the courtroom building.
  • You’ve recently moved overseas with your girlfriend. However, you can’t seem to get rid of that nagging feeling that she isn’t the one.  Is life just a series of new beginnings?
  • It’s love at first sight between two alien species from opposite sides of the universe.
  • Your best friend has gone missing.
  • The puzzle to everything we’re missing is in this house, the boy claimed after he found a stack of newspapers about the house they lived in this month.
  • People wear masks to protect themselves, but not to protect others.
  • Your roommate stole your dream.
  • I’ve been standing in this coffee shop for the past few months, and that couple finally kissed.
  • The only sound is an alarm.
  • A back roadside salesman buys a limp from a knife fight.
  • Imagine you’re the leader of a desert empire and you cannot stop thinking of the one person who betrayed you.
  • When you walked into the lab this morning, you found an extra button on your jacket. It’s bigger than the other buttons, and you can push it in and out. Who placed it there?
  • Your coworker is about to hit a mouse with a jet of water, you should –
  • The man of the house lay back in his armchair, a newspaper covering his face, snoring.
  • You find out there are people cloned in your country, which shocks you.
  • Your favorite book is abducted by a very unenthusiastic creeper. You don’t mind because he’ll show it the places you’d always wanted to go. You meet up later that night to discuss the hidden meanings behind every page.
  • You have six hours to come up with a plan to destroy time itself.
  • You play one card and watch as the riddle it creates takes a lifetime to solve.
  • You used your cell phone to film the accident from inside the van.
  • Your only responsibility is to survive, the rest is up to you.
  • A father watched his child walk away, and then drove off not knowing the direction he went.
  • Your hair is perfectly dry but you continue to run the hair dryer anyway.
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  • You pretend to be a TV host only to have your set break down in front of the entire audience.
  • A fly sat on top of the train ticket you just bought and refused to move.
  • You loved the adored one so much, you declared war on another land.
  • The security guard at work, and the criminal who breaks in, have a heart-to-heart.
  • You dream in life sized pixels. A message spelled out in pixels lands on your phone.
  • Who shops for groceries while wearing rubber gloves?
  • The Casey Anthony Fashion Line will soon launch. Do you think she will be successful?
  • Everyone seems to speak to you in the language you’re least sure you understand.
  • What happens in Antarctica stays in Antarctica.
  • She once had a child, but only remembered his first name.
  • A detective who never fails to solve the mystery eventually applies for a job under the law office of his deceased enemy.
  • You stood there speechless at the edge of the precipice.
  • A man enters a bar and is mesmerized by a woman at the end of the bar.
  • As an actor, your method walked the line between genius and insanity.
  • You walk in the forest and discover a man hanging by the neck.
  • There’s something in the sand.
  • Agents go undercover to expose a militia causing trouble in your state.
  • Do you remember your first day on the job?
  • The most terrifying thing on Earth is…
  • There’s nothing wrong with seeing the future. It’s the altering of it that causes pain.
  • You’ve been convicted. The punishment is permanent and irreversible.
  • And you don’t know anybody.
  • It’s a sensory deprivation tank.
  • She covered her mouth, she couldn’t stop her tears.
  • A rotating revival hits town. Each day the preacher is different, and every sermon is the same
  • The computer in your apartment starts talking to you, revealing your deepest secrets.
  • Questioning the meaning of life is what brought them to this person.
  • Foraging for berries in the wild is a newly acquired hobby but you must be careful not to end up in the hospital.
  • In an attempt to relax your child on the plane, you tell a story of a young boy raised by bears through a combination of mime and dance.
  • I want you. You’re not listening.
  • Your first date with your future husband or wife, if you can narrate it as if you were narrating it to a time traveler safely ahead of you.
  • It’s getting dark. You_
  • A mother, while pregnant, asks who would take care of her child if anything should happen to both her and the father.
  • The car, your rope to survive, breaks down just when you need it most.
  • Going back to school–you tried to hide it from others, but personally, you dreaded it.
  • You only have two tails left.
  • No more beginnings, no more light…just the same endless ending to everything.
  • Brown coats spotted with wedges of salt dried on it walk on hunched shoulders every morning past a particular point.
  • To make the world a better place, all felons have their brains converted into clean slates.
  • To my favorite writer,  more recognition is due than your peers have given you.
  • You are an anthropologist who studies the strange rituals of human sacrifice in primitive cannibalistic tribes of central guatemala.
  • The level of heat in the room seemed to rise as the two lovers kissed each other.
  • For months, the detectives have been trying to capture the serial killer who calls himself The Monarch but they haven’t got a clue. Well, they finally caught him during his live interview on the internet with none other than Fox News Hollywood. Before he can be brought in for questioning though, another body shows up with the same Monarch mark on them.
  • A mother that practices black magic is living together with her husband and child.
  • You find your wife spontaneously forgiving the lover.
  • You don’t remember what you read.
  • Someone gave you a handwritten note in code.
  • The day before your husband left for a round the world business trip, you realized you hated him.
  • How would you spend your last day on Earth?
  • What it’s like to know someone you’ve never met before is following you.
  • A photo went viral. Millions saw it. Only you saw what really happened.
  • You make an appointment for your first therapy session.
  • Your best friend reveals all your secrets to the group.
  • You pack your items in a box. Everything from your childhood until what you’ve accumulated now as an adult.
  • You’re in a public park. Hold out your arms and name each thing in the park in a different language.
  • Everyone has a right to their own opinions, as long as they’re not hurting anyone.
  • You can give the performance of your career, but now you’re afraid your family will be taken away.
  • A wizard finds out that they’ve turned themselves into a raven.
  • You’ve just found your favorite pair of shoes among the wreckage in the aftermath of a bomb explosion.
  • As you wait in line at the grocery store, the person in front of you begins to argue with the cashier over the prices of the milk they’re trying to purchase.
  • You’re given a special task to steal a valuable item to save your homeland, but the only way you can get in is if you become a maid.
  • You’re trying to remember every detail of a table in the corner that you’ve caught a glimpse of before in a lifetime elsewhere.
  • There wasn’t a moment where you weren’t terrified you’d be murdered.
  • You travel to a small town in the middle of America to reinvestigate your cousin’s death and determine if it was a murder.
  • You’re the personification of an evil force and unheard of to everyone in the world except one person.
  • Two neighbours fall in love while volunteering to rebuild a city that has held too much crime during their childhood.
  • Someone’s house is on fire and you need to get there, fast.
  • What if you had to describe with one sense alone all the smells this city held?  A big moment in my childhood memory was when The Spice Girls went to Jamaica, effectively getting slayed and reading their lyrics like the intro of their songs were new, revolutionary philosophy!
  • Some people were never meant to be together, where there once was love there is now madness… What’s left of each other.
  • You’ve been betrayed rather severely or perhaps played as a fool by the love of your life.
  • You fall for the person who you’re supposed to be watching in your surveillance.
  • In your decaying old age, you look back on your life with regret.
  • I learn French, Spanish, and three other languages besides my native tongue.
  • You’ve been bankrolled by the government to hand out new guns to local farmers, not realizing the weapons are actually devices meant to harvest crops.
  • You stumble upon a happy hour that’s guaranteed to solve all of your problems.
  • How would this story end if the hero had never existed?
  • You told her the truth, and she did not believe you.
  • All of your friends are goldfish.
  • Pack a bag with everything you need to last a day outside.
  • A strange man on a bus offers you a ride. What could happen?
  • You don’t remember getting away from your parents and following the circus around the country.
  • You’re working on your dream project, but it’s a secret so you can’t tell any of the people closest to you.
  • Because your family has traveled a lot, you find yourself speaking three different languages.
  • Your imaginary friend is coming over for an imaginary playdate.
  • You arrive at the new city’s bus depot to find that you need another transfer. There are no English writing or vision signs anywhere.
  • You’re getting experimental surgery and the surgeon is worried about possible side-effects.
  • Your elementary school teacher has started giving her students different grades on the chalkboard every day.
  • You believe you’ve killed me by mistake.
  • The opening line of the story you are attempting to write is, “I have overslept for my appointment.”
  • You and your lover meet for your anniversary at the age that you first met.
  • You meet a girl who speaks another language and doesn’t understand you.
  • While babysitting an infant, your thoughts are interrupted by your own imagination.
  • It’s what they all dreamed of, but could never quite trust.
  • A med student repeatedly fails out of school because he/she is too fascinated by death instead of saving lives for fame.
  • This stranger may be the answer to all of my problems… or the love of my life.
  • Come up with your character’s profession that he/she has no recollection of ever having or how they learned the skill.
  • You’ve just witnessed a murder and there’s no one to report to.
  • You are forfeit the death penalty and all you were told is the name of your executioner.
  • A messenger wakes up and steals all the money from the only person they were supposed to go pick up.
  • Is Death jealous of God, because Death has the power to take everything that God has given life?
  • They say one can be judged by the company they keep, so in order to protect themselves, they hang out with people as different from themselves as possible.
  • You’re sitting in an interrogation room. Nearly every inch of the space is covered in fragments of scattered emotions, scribbled words and crying.
  • A person steals or doesn’t steal an object of little value.
  • Your therapist takes a vacation for one month to the southern hemisphere.
  • They were wanted for murder by the law, which was not their version of justice.
  • They can never replace what’s in your heart.
  • You’ve killed your closest friend. It was an accident and you know it was bound to happen anyway.  How are you going to conceal the body?
  • Your latest story has been published online. At first, you are very excited. Yet as a stranger comments on your soul online, you begin to feel the meaninglessness of your efforts.
  • You’re learning to play a musical instrument just for the joy of it.
  • It’s the last day of the world as WE know it, and now they’ve come to you.
  • While walking in your city, you notice a small building you’ve never seen before.
  • Your parents wake up every morning at 5 a.m. to make you breakfast, pick out your clothes, kiss you good-bye, and send you off to work.
  • I’ve never seen something so beautiful, the prince gaped at his bride. She was like a winter moon giving off a kind of warmth you feel on the inside.
  • They say that one day they will be released from this confinement, but they know that it is a lie.
  • Stray thoughts ring through your head, of your former roommate, whom you haven’t talked to in months.
  • Your best friend’s death is echoed in the sonic boom of warplanes circling over your head.
  • You explain to your date how you’re the type that gets nervous after a few first dates and how this is probably a sign that you shouldn’t see them again.
  • You are caught in a hurricane, and the disaster is growing worse by the minute.
  • You successfully escaped the anthropophagous country you live in and crossed the border into a new country.
  • You get to pick your superhero identity.
  • A quick flash forward to the end is revealed to you giving an explanation of why it will go bad.
  • A dying clockmaker hands the last of his carefully made clocks down to his daughter.
  • There’s a convention of tattoo artists at the convention centre and you’re ready for your first in-one-session tattoo.
  • It is your first day on the job.
  • You look around at the city streets. You notice a small bakery on the other side of the road.
  • Someone is trying to steal your shadow.
  • When she decided to move into the strange house after seeing the flier for the free furniture, she didn’t know what she was getting herself into.
  • Your friend disappears and all signs point to foul play.
  • A forgotten bag leads to inner peace.
  • You’re on hand to stop an intruder from obtaining the puzzle piece that you’re supposed to obtain.
  • S/he knows what everyone is saying about them.
  • There’s a patrol car outside your house right now but you haven’t done anything wrong.
  • City of Gold and Sealing Wax A young man leaves home for an unknown life moving with only memories.
  • Every year they offer one American a chance to buy one item back from their crack addicted past at full market value.
  • You have one chance to win someone over, and failure means you’ll never see them again.
  • Your friends have invited you along to survive the zombie apocalypse.
  • Your family’s intervention suspended your freedom to move around unsupervised.
  • Are you the person you planned on turning into?
  • Suitcase in hand, you’ve come to the city to change your luck.
  • A party boy gets mixed up with the wrong crowd.
  • A woman is the prime suspect for murder.
  • You break into a stranger’s home to clean every surface until it sparkles, and notice in the mail that their next-door neighbor got robbed.
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  • You wake up after sleeping rough on the city dump, wondering how you will make a way to eat in the next day.
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  • The police raid a tiny house. The three robbers hiding inside quickly realize they’re in the wrong place.
  • You wake up one morning and realize you’re not alive.
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  • You’re deep in an infested cave and you have one more shot.
  • Your flight has just landed and you’re so excited to have finally arrived in “Paradise,” you step off the plane onto the first paved road you see that you are in fact in Chicken, TN.
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  • Your business is no longer about ends, it’s increasingly about the means.
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  • Meet your IoT device.
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  • A woman wakes up one night to the breathing of another person in her bed.
  • You have survived the space trip to find out you’ve landed on an unknown planet.
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  • A questionable virus spreads through your city.
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  • The day you decided to run away forever.
  • For your birthday, your best friend took you to a deserted island.
  • A divorce attorney is telling her client the story of a happy couple.
  • Five hours until sunrise – what do you do?
  • A journalist travels a long distance to interview someone famous.
  • You are on your way to the library when you notice a palm which reads “Sentient Computer Love you”.
  • While serving in a war, your best friend is killed right in front of your eyes.
  • Reasoning with a stranger has always been your forte behind a podium, but talking to people face-to-face has never been your forte, until now.
  • Your favorite author has been dead for almost a century.
  • Faced with unemployment, a young man joins a gang of pacifist criminals.
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  • When the mercenary got back to their bar, they fell down on a chair and closed their eyes as bodies fell all around them.
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  • Your best friend is dying from a terminal blood-borne disease but all of your efforts to cure them fail.
  • A recovery crew brings a metal ball from the ocean floor to the surface.
  • You walked away from the grocery bag boy and kept going, like you always do.
  • A rookie thief is tasked with stealing the Blindman’s Eye.
  • Though they were normally cherry, when they wouldn’t light up for life, she was grumpy.
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  • You ordered a pizza, but when you got there, you realize you’ve gotten the wrong address.
  • Your bus is the latest to go over a steep cliff.
  • How did they get back home after their adventure?
  • I’ll give you half my candy bars if you tell just one truth about yourself.
  • Today I’ll have the same thing you did, which you had before – meaning, your life story.
  • You should follow me on Twitter. Do you have Twitter?
  • You’ve been hired as the gardener for a very isolated lake house.
  • The dead are watching.
  • When you look in a mirror, who do you see staring back at you? Can you tell us their name?
  • Someone, somewhere is waiting for your comeback.
  • It’s the day before Christmas, early in the year. You’ll never make it home for Christmas.
  • A large party that isn’t what it seems to be.
  • Your lips brush against her ear as you place the sharp blade against her throat.
  • You’re on the jury for your surrogate’s trial.
  • After a year of diligent work, you’re being demoted.
  • You used to be a magician and now all you have left is a deck of cards.
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  • A new employee is frustrated over the new job they have, but they make a breakthrough and achieve success.
  • It’s the best your abilities will ever get and you’re trying to complain about it.
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  • You start your day as always, switching on the TV before stumbling to the bathroom for a morning shower.
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  • Someone is speaking with such authority about a subject you know nothing about, you can’t help interrupt them
  • An old man takes a young boy under his wing, under the promise that he’ll come to regret it.
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  • Years later, you sit amongst your shrines and remember every little thing you shared.
  • Luckily, you meet a nice resident that offers to let you stay in their extra room.
  • A carjacker steals a truck with a sleeping four-year-old in the car.
  • The man who looks older than his stature claims he can speak to my dead mother.
  • The person you were talking with at the party was wrong. They thought that they grew up in an orphanage.
  • The creature you’ve spent your life hunting is now slumped before you.
  • The details of breaking up with your partner on social media, without saying a single word.
  • One day you woke up, death came to give you a little pep talk. What was it about?
  • At midnight your housemate kisses your forehead, and sets a single lit candle on the end of your bed.
  • You take out a cigarette and light up.
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  • Who was the last person you spoke to before you got in trouble?
  • You’ve just witnessed the murder of your lover, now what are you going to do?
  • You’re supposed to present the main points of your culture to an alien race and you forgot which corner of the room your culture is in.
  • It’s raining, but you’ve just got to meet with a group of your colleagues and clear up some issues regarding an upcoming project.
  • Your GPS device is about to die and you’ve arrived at your destination.
  • A runaway goose forces you to talk to a boy down the street you normally try to avoid.
  • A person you know sends chain messages to everyone else you know.
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  • Write the opening narration for a film about the future.
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  • You come home to find that your belongings have been burgled while you’ve been away.
  • You wish your crush knew how you feel about them.
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  • You go into an antique shop and realize that the store is an actual cave.
  • In a different lifetime, best friends were enemies.
  • At the funeral of the man who died in your place, you steal his finger.
  • Can you spare a piece of your mind?
  • You’ve been awakened by your sister’s screaming nightmares again.
  • You’re a young boy who suspects his blind uncle is actually hiding something.
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  • I want an angel watching me through black and white TV from across the room.
  • A hypnotist invents something more controversial than a smartphone.
  • A suicide thinks the accident that took their family’s lives was somewhat of their fault.
  • A traveling ministry is touring with a food truck visiting small towns along the way and they are running low on gas.
  • Spoken aloud, your name sounds like a love poem.
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  • Your own inept combat sense has led you to a death sentence.
  • You’re the only one who knows the underground, but you decided to stop it.
  • I imagined fairy tales as glimpses into what it was like to be you.
  • Your character starts off after a routine short jog, but finds themselves lost.
  • Carly was frustrated when she came home from work one night, but seeing her dog made her forget about her problems.
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  • The purpose of your mission, based on this map, has been compromised.
  • You see a coin on the ground and decide to tell someone “heads” or “tails.”
  • A man exposed his biggest secret to you telling you that if you tell anyone, you will be as good as dead to him.
  • A bad phone call to your ex prevents him/her from attending an event.
  • You’ve never before felt as alone as when you’re preparing to go into battle.
  • A group of friends challenges you to date someone you weren’t planning on dating.
  • You are accepted to one of the world’s top institutes of higher learning, yet you early realize you don’t belong there.
  • It’s your last day on Earth before the doomsday bomb is set to go off.
  • You just got your theatrical debut and you can’t find your way out of the theater.
  • You think that the lot numbers on the side of the house might be the code to a bank safe bolted into the concrete foundation.
  • It’s Tuesday, that means you get to have lunch with one grown adult you like.
  • You walk down a familiar street when a stop light flashes brilliant red.
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  • A commander in war time demonstrates anguish.
  • A man sneaks out of his home.
  • The screenwriter sat, pen in hand, desperately waiting for inspiration to strike – “I must be doing something wrong,” they complained.
  • Dreams are the memories you are never allowed to see.
  • A boy is given the chance to play baseball outside of the dream world he’s in, but when he begins to waver on taking the chance, the chance is taken for him.
  • What judges your character is not what you are, it is what you pretend to be.
  • You’re so glad you swallowed your anger and talked to that cute guy at the bar rather than waiting three years before finally blurting out, “I love your shirt.”
  • They came slowly as he crept near her bed quietly.
  • You control the amount of knowledge given to your enemies.
  • Your wildest guess for what’ll happen next?
  • Traveling away from the city lights is a different view of the stars.
  • You’re at a dinner and a stranger asks, “Tell us about your son.”
  • The actor is pressured by a team of fanatical worshippers to stay in character in public.
  • A group of buffalo are on their way to the migration ground when they are ambushed and moved to a game reserve.
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  • Explain to me in detail why you construct buildings this way on Earth.
  • All of the mentors you’ve written to for advice this year are now here in front of you to give you their answer.
  • What do you feel as you say those eight words? “I love you.”
  • Building the perfect addition onto your family is what everyone else wants to do.
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  • The sketch contains symbolic dialogue and action frequently utilized by Stanislavsky, the Russians, and other European and American theatre practitioners.
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  • On the floor, in the hall between the kitchen and the bathroom, your dog sits growing cold and stiff.
  • It’s been a slow day. Can you please give your Vatican employee ID?
  • Your grandfather pulls you aside and tells you he can no longer care for himself.
  • Someone let you borrow their sweater, and you became very attached to it.
  • You say goodbye to the first real friend you’ve made in the new city.
  • You find yourself on trial for treason.
  • Everyone seated near you on the plane has decided to depart.
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  • A refugee returns home by sneaking onto a cargo ship, with the help of smugglers.
  • A faint mumble catches your attention and you look around then at your surroundings.
  • A visitor to the home of a stranger tells a story that could have had a different outcome.
  • You have entered a tunnel to which you will not return.
  • He was one very lucky fugitive.
  • Your biggest worry for your first day on a new job now has you believing in God.
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  • Three prostitutes are hired to escort the first man to the new planet Earth.
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  • A character has an odd, unique idea of how they would kill themselves the next day.
  • A person is given three words which each carry three different definitions. The definitions, however, must be appropriate to what the character would think of when they hear the words.
  • You are sitting at a children’s sight-seeing bus stop with the owner of the house you are renting, as flash floods swoosh cars down the mountains.
  • Your first job at a new place isn’t quite as glamorous as the photos they posted.
  • A beetle is trapped inside a sculpture.
  • In a foreign country there is a revolution, the leaders rebel against the regiment of law that was established there.
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  • While living in the busiest housing development, a family struggles to communicate.
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  • The friend you thought would never lie to you is dead now.
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  • This New Year’s you decide to get honest with yourself for the first time in your life.
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  • A certain teenage boy kidnaps four of his dream girls from a convention.
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  • You enter the office with a gun.
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  • To kill time, you loiter outside Dunkin’ Donuts handing out dollar bills to strangers.
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  • There’s a brown, icy highway in the distance where your husband tells you not to drive. You don’t know why but you trust him not to hurt you.
  • You admired the person your love interest left at the altar.
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  • Underneath the bright stars of night, she thinks of him.
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  • Leeches and insects crawl all over one of you, but the other doesn’t notice.
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  • You find out the cute guy you ordered coffee from earlier also plays guitar in a rock band.
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  • What goes through your mind as you look into the eyes of the object of your obsession?
  • The old man lets you stay at his home after you take shelter from the rain.
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  • Your prince charming is a bit rough around the edges but you’re just biding your time.
  • It all clicked when she cut into the cake.
  • A boy and a girl walk through space, exploring planets and the Milky Way in search for each other.
  • A god forgets to save their subject from harm and thus loses all their followers.
  • Everyone you love still loves you. Now do you see what you have done!?
  • You’re at your high school reunion and an ex wants to be “friends”.
  • You look up and flash is gone. What was the point of getting married?
  • What is it like to give up a piece of yourself for love?
  • Your sister-in-law just gave you a box of old family photographs that you’ve never seen before.
  • This is the way, walk in it!
  • You offer yourself up to dispense punishment from your secret hoard of knowledge.
  • Light from all directions zaps through an opaque room.
  • Inspirational talk from Agnes Hicks
  • Communication issues arise when the person you love most can’t express their feelings for you.
  • After a night of drinking, the main character wakes up in a bed full of their closest friends.
  • A new medication that allows a person to live part of their life in the past and the part of their life in the future.
  • What scares you most in life?
  • She was an ordinary girl with ordinary dreams.
  • You drive past a car accident and decide to help the girl who is trapped in her car. You then meet the girl who was driving and she is the love of your life.
  • Ignoring the advice of old friends, his family, and teachers, he took his self-made company public.
  • Your roommate has a problem. Did you bring it with you?
  • You can never remember how you got back from an important business trip.
  • In the news, there’s a photo of your brother captioned as “body identified.”
  • A girl with a sharp tongue has been reduced back to silence by the man that she loves.
  • You kiss your local boyfriend goodbye and ask him to come up with a collective noun for you someday.
  • The trouble with dictators is that they’re never happy.
  • Your soon to be ex scathing your character in the press.
  • They were supposed to meet on the bridge at sunset.
  • A man wanders into a local graveyard and makes it his home as he searches for the grave of a woman he learnt about in the city.
  • Only one day to discover both the places that make you love it and those that have yet to be discovered, just to put a fitting end on a leg of your trip abroad.
  • It’s the dawn of a new day and you have one last chance to do what you’ve always dreamt of.
  • You’re doing everything you can to get to your favorite musician’s concert.
  • You wake to someone staring at you through your bedroom window, and then they disappear.
  • A woman mistakes a man for her blind date.
  • A strand of thick black thread is slowly sucked into a worn hole.
  • When their eyes meet, he could feel himself melting over.
  • The sun was surprisingly bright that day, the air unusually chilly.
  • Two accounts are both posted as the same fake news story.
  • A good nanny sacrifices their own child for the monster under the bed/ at the end of the basement.
  • A stranger tells you their deepest darkest secret.
  • It’s your first day in a place where you don’t speak the language.
  • He jumped off the plane before it took off, giving up his future for the past.
  • She woke at the corner, then realized she wasn’t on the corner, then realized-
  • You hear someone banging on your apartment door, you aren’t sure if you should open or not.
  • A sign is all that remains of your last memory.
  • Ethics comes up for this work position, and you’re uncertain what’s got to be done.
  • Every night they hear scratching at their door and odd things seem to move around in the darkness of their home.
  • You’re stuck in a cleaning machine and forced to lick filthy floors.
  • Your identity has been stolen.
  • You go into work and find that your desk is arranged in a neat rectangle instead of cubicles.
  • The internet never forgets.
  • The lights are out, everyone is quiet. You look around and wonder if you’re in a dream.
  • You won’t be joining us, said an attractive man, your proposal is loved but unfortunately not chosen.
  • All of the things you thought you would lose in the weight-loss surgery were suddenly found in the magical opposite weight-regaining surgery.
  • Your town car is pulling up to the courthouse to drop you off for court.
  • You’re president of your country and you’re the leader of the opposition party, all at once.
  • They set off again after the desk clerk said that they were safe for the night.
  • Your father has always dreamed of sailing around Cape Horn. Now he’s regretting it.
  • You come across the most isolated person you’ve ever met.
  • What do you miss most from old life?
  • A man wants a refund from a hotel he bought a week ago.
  • A dancer oversleeps and misses a show.
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  • Kids at recess were throwing pine cones and fighting over who was the king of the hill.
  • A young man begins a routine, working and saving up his money until one day he has enough to go to the city and begin his life.
  • First day on the job at a blind facility and you can’t see.
  • You’ve waived a white flag and asked everyone just to let you in under the table.
  • If you could lead any kind of life, what would it be?
  • Fate isn’t smiling on you today, but it didn’t have to be that way either.
  • When the gate is lifted, the plane takes off, and as you fly away, your eyes fill with tears.
  • Antonio swam morning after morning in the cold ocean water. It was just a few steps away from shore, but he could swim further than almost all of his peers.
  • It’s a hot summer day, the air is thick with humidity.
  • You fall asleep during your family’s weekly Sunday dinner.
  • You are blind, deaf, and mute but still employ all kinds of creatures.
  • In a world where hospitals require pre-authorization for all procedures, the actions of a teenage girl lead to an unsatisfied customer at the big insurance headquarters.
  • You can’t stop eating. Food just tastes too good.
  • You got a phone call from a former lover you’d planned to call but they beat you to it with a follow-up question.
  • Suppose the machine with “one too many buttons,” a device that can answer any question, is stolen.
  • The terrorist group is running out of funds. It’s your job to get some.
  • It’s early in the morning before the day gets started, you are in a house of God.
  • It’s closing time and you have left something behind at the place you are visiting, you make your way back into the building.
  • There are no ropes to pull you back, there are no gloves on your fingers.
  • She showed him her hospital bracelet. “I’d like you to write your name, and take this off my wrist.”
  • A nurse side hustle has them investing in marijuana stocks.
  • A man from the past century is awoken in the future and doesn’t return to his own time.
  • Meet the new city council.
  • Write a letter to the Prime Minister / President / regional leader of a country you’ve lived in / would like to live in / know a lot about. Discuss what your ideal life there would be like.
  • The food smelled so good that you wanted it to taste that delicious too. Then it did.
  • Unable to show her bellyache to her swindler boyfriend,
  • When it’s time to go to sleep, you fall asleep to the thought of shopping for bowling shoes.
  • Flying from sunny California to rainy London, you come across a stranded dog.
  • The savant danced with otherworldly grace while their patient remained fascinated.
  • It’s the summer before your little sister’s senior year in High School.
  • Just as you’ve been released from prison, you find out that you have a child you didn’t know about.
  • You randomly spot your ex at a bar.
  • At the height of their career, as an award shows approaches, big trouble becomes public about it.
  • This character belongs to someone else and they don’t know where they are.
  • What would happen if all the people you knew from your past started receiving threatening messages on their phones from you?
  • They had enough bombs in their possession to stop every war, but only if they could make it access their suitcase.
  • An alien looks back on the remaining missions that were his predecessor’s mistakes.
  • At your old college, no one is impressed, and they all claim they knew you back then.
  • Life is all about priorities. This morning, he found the most important one was leaving.
  • He guided the visitor through chambers and doorways until the hall was nearly black. Find three. Find five. Find ten. Find a hundred. I’ll write on the back of the wing.
  • As a token symbol of home, your uncle gives you a tooth of an infamous serial killer.
  • An immigrant is blinded by their own prejudices when interacting with those born in the land they now live.
  • A tape recording can be heard throughout a house, backwards and forwards. It’s never the same.
  • You sit atop the highest cliff. Why?
  • My uptight boss took me to an exciting and different club that served only ice cream last night.
  • Would you give up everything you have or everything you have ever known if you had the chance?
  • Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but is it art?
  • A man wakes up to his day, but it’s back to his last day in a different time loop.
  • Everybody scatters from your parents’ home. As she pleads for her family not to split apart, she’s left knocked out on the floor.
  • While trying to lose the police you notice a dead body right in the middle of the road.
  • You are lost in a forest, night is coming. Do you build a fire?
  • Everyone has abandoned their religious posts, to sit under one tree and listen to a man speak.
  • The third grade teacher dedicates that whole lesson to teaching you your ABC’s.
  • A woman is buried alive with a shovel, a canteen of fresh water, and her lover’s diamond ring.
  • When an old photograph becomes the key that cracks a cold case.
  • You open your door. The person who entered is somebody you’ve almost never seen before wearing somebody you see everyday.
  • A new tip is reported at a hidden artifact that has some historical importance.
  • Your body awakens, releasing a white glow as well as silvery particles into the air.
  • A secret door in the side of a house in Central Park leads to the notorious “Room of Requirement.
  • A couple with a child long for a second child, but they have a secret.
  • For a promotion at work, you go head to head with a rival employee.
  • You had to kill your brother to save his life.
  • You’re not looking at the camera.
  • Theatrical lighting casts eerie shadows over fluorescent instruments when the blackout curtain comes down.
  • You’re in a yoga position when what you thought was a mosquito turns out to be an elephant.
  • The sound was deafening. The feeling, unbearable.
  • You really don’t want to go to school today.
  • You are tracking the serial killer responsible for your hometown’s most notorious murders, but it doesn’t look like he’ll give you the opportunity to catch him in the act.
  • He knew it already. Even before the news reported it.
  • Balloons are escaping from the sky.
  • There’s a tiny person sitting in a box and a mad scientist.
  • You’re taking an eight hour long painkiller before an operation.
  • Ask the child hit by a car to write their story.
  • The moment you kissed, you knew she was the only “you.”
  • Have you ever really wanted something that you just couldn’t get?
  • You just quit your job and your husband just left you.
  • It’s your wedding day and no family attended.
  • A spaceship hijacked your view, so you orchestrated your own kidnap to get back at them.
  • An older, wiser character asks why they didn’t just stop before messing up their life for good.
  • An alien crashes to Earth and you are the only one that can understand them.
  • You fall in love with a seven-year-old girl, but find hers isn’t the only broken heart.
  • The apple that looks shiny and perfect always ends up being rotten inside.
  • A person moves into a house whose previous occupants have never left.
  • The secret ingredient in his food is his mother’s regret.
  • Your family is vying to decide who will best defeat the Emperor of the Known World in the arena tomorrow.
  • The elevator ride started out like any other. Suddenly you were on the 84th floor with a beautiful stranger.
  • How has it been since you’ve moved back in with your parents?
  • Some cheery music plays as a turtle pushes itself across a map, to a particular destination.
  • A mayor of a city only allows criminals to run for office.
  • The war has started and you’re on a peninsula surrounded by your own enemy on three sides.
  • A perpetrator interrogates the victims of a strange murder case.
  • The sun is going down.
  • The religion they promote is unlike any other you’ve heard of so you want to know why.
  • Find a stranger’s blog and write a post from their perspective.
  • When you are involved in a horrific car accident, people react terribly.
  • You received a letter that said that they knew it was their time to move on and do other things on the other side, and that they had done everything they could to get you where you are today.
  • They could hear music playing from a stereo system inside, and I saw S was dancing with a broom to a song they knew every move too. Sneaking through the window, Y shut off the stereo so they could dance together.
  • The heartbreak of reuniting with a beloved looking almost as different from their original photo.
  • A criminal puts the killer of their partner behind bars in their place.
  • You are the chosen one, foretold in legends. Everything must come second to your mission.
  • Longing for a sense of belonging, you revert back to your old rituals.
  • Everyone has something to hide, but no one knows what it is.
  • It started as a normal game of hide and seek, until…
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  • Your new boyfriend is unexpectedly interested in one of your hobbies.
  • You rub garlic on your clothes so vampires can’t get you.
  • All roads lead to the village you swore to avoid.
  • He laughed at himself in the mirror.
  • Everything was dark, and it was raining, and you knew you were the only living thing left on Earth.
  • As you walk into your workplace for the first time, they smile but you avoid them and their gaze at all costs.
  • A disapproving parent debunks a beautiful idea.
  • Write a story where the main character wants to give up but never gives up.
  • You finally get hold of your favorite celebrity’s phone number and call them.
  • You’ve forgotten your voice.
  • A reporter realizes that everybody around him seems to know more than they’re letting on.
  • You’re on a first date. After dinner she invites you to her….
  • Your significant other of many years has just left with all of your possessions and savings.
  • On the way to prom, your date brings out a student’s gun.
  • Two lovers, separated by a wall both physical and metaphorical.
  • Pull of the ripcord, landing on foreign soil.
  • A man begins to turn transparent.
  • She’s finally found a place where she can be free.
  • Two priests have lost theirs, and seek guidance from the town’s psychic.
  • You’re a soul who walked to the wrong department store on “Black Friday”, but the security cameras captured it as if…
  • On your way home from work you’re kidnapped by the week’s victim.
  • It was supposed to be easy. A quick score and then we could relax for the rest of the month.
  • You’re setting up a new home on a different continent.
  • You wake up to find that everyone has changed in an instant as you now possess an ability.
  • A car alarm sounds off and a man runs out of it, claiming the car is his and it’s been stolen.
  • Half way through a board meeting, a startling revelation shocks everyone present.
  • A child learns of what their parents do for their jobs. Relentlessly.
  • Your salesman barely makes it to the top of the mountain before the people he’s selling to lose interest and go home.
  • On a warm summer night, as the city sleeps, a young woman steps out of her bedroom.
  • The small village is shocked to learn the organist at the nearby cathedral is pregnant.
  • All of the time travelers are in a battle to capture the same souvenir.
  • To in some mysterious way be able to see it through—it was long before time arrived, the question.
  • Chinese New Year fireworks look like arms beckoning to the sky.
  • It’s your first day in your new job without the mask you use everywhere else.
  • A computer mastermind meets their match.
  • You’re showing off a new dress to your friends. As you turn, you see somebody standing alone, looking at you.
  • Caleb and Evelyn’s first kiss fell short of how either of them dreamed.
  • A boxer, about to get into the ring for their fifth match, lies about their past.
  • A prisoner convicted of murdering his twin brother and baby brother with an ax escapes from jail to exact revenge. He now resides in his victims’ old bedrooms.
  • Your life is perfect, but whenever your smile slips, you remember your cracked tooth and how messed up things used to be.
  • Gathered in the living room, the family are tallying up ranch belongings and dividing possessions amongst themselves. You realize you’re not in the will.
  • Your sibling packed all your belongings in a suitcase. He touched them. Smelled them. Twirled them in circles. Now all of it is packed away in a stranger’s…
  • You and your spouse/lover are making cupcakes. One of you slips the other an extra ingredient, and the effect is more potent than you’d expected.
  • The zoom-lens on your spy camera is broken.
  • As they walked down the hallway to the front desk hotel escorted by the protests that died down. Roommate writes the last poem that might as well be their last words.
  • It’s cold in the morning when you wake up.
  • Your best friend finally told you their secret long-held belief, their witch trigger. What’s yours?
  • Dwayne is a savage killer who has a catch phrase of four words that he uses, ending with, “Yeah, baby.”
  • A pornographic movie set invades a suburban neighborhood.
  • Are you post modern or premodern?
  • It’s okay, I’ll just figure something out.
  • Someone insulted you and the person they insulted indirectly.
  • Listen to the words beneath the words. Listen to the rhythm beneath…
  • It’s late at night and you’re walking to your car parked on a residential street.
  • Two people who have an engagement to kill each other meet online.
  • Someone is waiting in your room for you to arrive.
  • On reckless days, you perform your life, knowing how meaningless it is.
  • They said they’d heard of a beautiful creature┘flower?┘cultivating somewhere in this city.
  • It’s time for the summer Olympics and the one thing you’re not good at.
  • A letter from an ex-lover comes to your house, unopened since the day it was sent.
  • You are told you may have whatever your heart desires for dinner tonight but you don’t eat.
  • After being consumed by the storm, he spotted another raft being carried toward them.
  • A man stands in the rain, but won’t accept a free taxi ride. Why?
  • You’ve inherited a questionable business.
  • It’s bingo night at the nursing home.
  • You stare sadly at your china cup, knowing that the cobalt blue of the blue blossoms overflowed over the cup and in between the saucer.
  • Waking up from the nightmare only to realize that it wasn’t a nightmare.
  • A letter from a prisoner hidden under the floorboards is thrown away. Reveal why, and figure out the prisoner’s fate.
  • It’s New Years Eve on a lonely street… with absolutely no one around.
  • The instructions written on your birthday card were so bizarre it kept you thinking about them for days.
  • Story Spin, Meet Twisty Fiction, a SANE mirror, Go Spin – kind of cool.
  • Demonstrate your new and complicated invention to the only person who actually understands it.
  • You suffer from insomnia, but you remember to listen to every one of the dozen messages that came to your phone today.
  • It’s the end of the world. It has been for years and everyone knows it aside from you.
  • You’re eldest brother is just a year older than you, but has a key role in this person’s death.
  • The girl with the sword was the bravest of them all.
  • Your evil twins show up for a fight.
  • Do you ever look at your friends, family members or children and wonder if you’re doing your best?
  • As you close your eyes, you wonder who you might turn out to be today.
  • You’re living an absolute lie for the greater good.
  • You hear mumbling voices in the oddly clean church basement and walk over to investigate. The priest and the townies say, “Prepare to meet thy God!”
  • A character you thought could trust turns out to betray you.
  • You’ve retreated to your room on Christmas due to cabin fever.
  • The jungle is the most silent place in the world until it’s not and then it’s too loud.
  • There’s a basement under your bedroom floor.
  • You sit for the photoshoot and the photographer tells you to be scared.
  • You first learned to read by reading love letters.
  • A boy who subsists on wine gets sent to the wilderness to be rehabilitated.
  • Your high school crush starts texting you. You run a theory by a friend to see if it’s the real person.
  • A woman wakes from a coma to an entirely different family.
  • It was too rainy for them to manifest and appear to you.
  • It’s the universe’s test of a newborn child. They’re bound to fail.
  • You follow them to the corner market. It’s mid-afternoon and the light is already creating shadows, a fierce clarity and contrast rips at the once-blank canvas of the streets around them, then it breaks.
  • You inherit a mysterious dog that sees and hears things that no one else does.
  • A driver is run off the road by a small, nimble SUV. The driver swerves as far as they can but smashes into a tree anyways.
  • After countless rejections, you finally get your dream job.
  • The baker gave the witch a gingerbread man. Magic spells were cast. Things got ugly.
  • The man is sentenced to death by decapitation. As they go through the motions of the execution, you feel something behind your back.
  • Tears flowed down her cheeks as she watched people eat their final meal.
  • You’re unable to decide between choosing two good sides and not betraying anyone.
  • You are a clockmaker who doesn’t make clocks.
  • Your life story is suddenly interrupted by a blackout and news alerts on every channel.
  • The words you once spoke turn into the eyes you once saw, making you feel lost in time.
  • Starting over isn’t hard when you look at it as an adventure.
  • If you explored the ocean floor of the world, what would it say about your life?
  • You call the wrong number a lot.
  • You are a young person forced to build a survival shelter on a minuscule desert island, but the only authority you have is your pencil and notebook.
  • A boy holding hostage a daughter floating in eternity in a koi pond is thwarted by an actor who ultimately burns his corpse and his daughter who ultimately puts his ashes in the pool of corpses in the nearby cemetery.
  • You harness your Quantity Theory of Insanity into a penguin.
  • You dropped everything to join the circus—you just hope you made the right choice.
  • Your hands slide down the chest of the blue-eyed man who just gave you a winning lottery ticket.
  • Beneath boiling water, the surface of the pot shimmers with the motion of the water and pebbles can be seen forming below the mirage.
  • There’s an awkward silence between a father and son.
  • A writer has one day to complete a script before their deadline.
  • A minor cog in a machine becomes obsolete and needs to be disposed of.
  • A brother and sister are invited back to their old house where they solved their most terrifying fears as children.
  • I didn’t spend all night cleaning your room just so you could come home and change your mind.
  • You can’t remember the day you didn’t feel alone.
  • A zombie extrapolates how getting bitten may have been the greatest thing that has happened in their life.
  • Instead of Dad’s funeral, sit me at the table plucking roses one by one.
  • At your job you can’t do anything right and all you do is mess up all day.
  • You fall in love with a person who is forbidden to love you by law.
  • A fantasy based outing to The Magical Kingdom.
  • You’re pinned under artificial light staring back at a wild animal that can sense your fear.
  • You’re having a dinner party, write it.
  • A snow storm traps your childhood companion in her home for the holidays.
  • You asked for your wife to be a pumpkin and your husband to be a prince because you thought the magic spell was a window and you thought they were playing cards inside.
  • You are hit with a panic attack in an elevator.
  • The rooster crowed to announce the arrival of the day, misunderstood as the declaration of war by a tribe of headhunters.
  • Time stretches forth, so you continue writing your epilogue.
  • This is the talented and beautiful personification of the famous planet Pluto.
  • A crow saw the farmer jab his pitchfork in the ground, so it flew down to peck at the buried seed. The crow’s beak stuck to the pitchfork, and she struggled to free herself. The pitchfork had been buried with part of an animal’s horn, and she was able to break free of the pitchfork. Upon freeing herself, she had freed the seed as well. The crow was proud of her effort and flew away.
  • A deep-sea net drags an object up that is much bigger than expected.

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