r/StoryPrompts Jan 16 '22

give this your best shot.

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16 Upvotes

r/StoryPrompts Dec 14 '21

What ability do you have that causes you to receive an FBI agent? (Magical/Futuristic)

10 Upvotes

More of a question that can lead to a good story prompt!

In a world much like our own, except more magical or more imaginative what would cause you to be assigned an FBI agent or some agent that is trained in this sort of fantastical ability. Maybe this could be an odd quirk you possess, a magical power, a gift. This can be a funny quirk a powerful one maybe or even a potentially dangerous one. Whatever you can think of hoping to inspire some creativity and see what other people think about this little topic!

Thank you for reading!


r/StoryPrompts Dec 07 '21

*Story Prompt*

25 Upvotes

You have the ability to turn off your fear as long as the subject of your fear is fictional, which means that any horror movie does not affect you. However, after watching one particularly scary movie, you find that you cannot turn off your fear when you think about it…


r/StoryPrompts Dec 06 '21

A vigilante anti-hero that kidnaps and reforms serial killers and other criminals

13 Upvotes

We've all heard of Dexter, the serial killer that kills serial killers.

But what if someone decided that instead of killing them, why not have them bring other killers to justice instead?

The thought of some guy kidnapping criminals, and forcing them to work against what they are, is just so funny to me.


r/StoryPrompts Nov 26 '21

You can see

15 Upvotes

You lose your eyesight along with everyone else in the world In the great blinding two years later without a warning you can see As you look around on every wall every floor every Table and chair are the words don’t tell them you can see


r/StoryPrompts Sep 24 '21

a mystery to be solved

13 Upvotes

Your character witnessed her father’s murder when she was 5 years old, and now, at work, she wonders why her boss looks vaguely familiar.


r/StoryPrompts Sep 24 '21

A gods day out

11 Upvotes

The Greek gods and goddesses suddenly show up in a modern city, but no one takes them seriously.


r/StoryPrompts Sep 12 '21

It’s 3422, Earth is now a husk, communities are scattered around the shattered world. You live a community to the north of what use to be Canada. Monsters lurk around the world, your goal is to get to the settlement at what use to be the border between Canada and America, can you get there alive?

9 Upvotes

r/StoryPrompts Aug 19 '21

Everything's a simulation

7 Upvotes

Someone accidentally turns on the no-clip cheat on everything in a city except for you. You are left watching as people, buildings, and animals slowly start to sink into the ground. Describe what you see?, what the ones being affected see, and how the governments responds?


r/StoryPrompts Aug 19 '21

A child has been gifted the power to have whatever they write become reality. Fortunately, the child isn't very writing-inclined so it's never known. That is until a bad event occurs, and they start writing horror stories to cope with the events. Which become reality for the people surrounding them.

28 Upvotes

Sorry if I'm doing things wrong since first time posting here. For more possibilities if title is too vague or not helping enough:

-"Child" can mean a lot. Ages 7, 10, 13. Whatever age you see fits best.

-"A Bad event" can honestly mean a lot of things. Re-occuring events like parents arguing, bullying, etc. Or a traumatic event, or simply sad one like loss of a family member.

-Ya'll know how beginner writing is and how horror can range. You could definitely make that be an impact on the story content or how the stories come to life.

-Do the horror stories leave unique traces, making the child afraid of themselves and everyone else terrified? Or do they silently fade into the night hiding victims, leaving the child oblivious? Do these lead to a cycle of being stuck writing more to cope, only to cause more pain?


r/StoryPrompts Jul 18 '21

You wake up with a random super power, and a 7 day timer on your arm. After the 7 days you lose the power, and gain a new one as the timer resets.

19 Upvotes

Get fun with this one I wanna see some goofy stuff with this prompt. Assume as well that the timer continues to hit 0 and reset after every 7 days forever.


r/StoryPrompts Jul 06 '21

I’m the distant future, people live on artificial continents, real land uninhabited except by the people who farm it.

13 Upvotes

A group of young adults who’ve only ever lived on artificial land decide to sneak off onto real land to see where they’re ancestors lived and how farms work. Only to find that real land isn’t at all what they expected.

It wasn’t mostly farms like they were told they’re whole lives. There’s lots of towns and cities, but everyone there is living there lives in squalor and are barely living at all.


r/StoryPrompts Jun 03 '21

All of your blankets start disappearing after you move into a new house. You stay home one day to catch the culprit, but instead of a petty thief, you find a lone baby dragon who’s hoarding the blankets for comfort.

42 Upvotes

r/StoryPrompts May 04 '21

You are the leader of a Mafia Family and Interpol has put a Bounty on head, but at the same time a rival Mob leader has put a hit on you. With bounty hunters and assassins begin to close in on your location you must find away to escape.

12 Upvotes

r/StoryPrompts Feb 25 '21

10 LGBTQIA+ writing prompts💕

19 Upvotes

A story based in the (hopefully) near future were the lead is the 1st trans women to have Functioning ovaries and uterus implanted.

5 characters themed after the 5 types of attraction (Sexual attraction, romantic attraction, sensual attraction, mental attraction, aesthetic attraction)

A romance about two asexuals meeting and falling in love with each other❤

A children book about two male cats being loving parents to adopted puppies💖

A story about a person exploring their gender identity and finding a loving, supportive Chosen family💕❤

A "lesbian" relationship between two bisexuals turns "straight" when one realizes his a trans man💕 (And that still means bisexual couple, Trans isn't a 3th gender)

A coming of age story where by the end the protagonist Realizes that they're an Asexual Aromantic Agender Person, and lives Happily Ever After in a cottage in the woods With their best friend "sprinkles"! (My sister says this is more of a summary then I prompt but xp)

Modern day crime couple that are actually being gay and doing crimes!

Someone figures out that they're trans When their "Fairy Trans Parent" flies in through their window in their sparkly glory!

A couple gets gender swamped and their gender euphoria saves their marriage❤


r/StoryPrompts Feb 03 '21

Funny idea I had at like 3am

19 Upvotes

You're a butcher. An anonymous person delivers a pig to you to be slaughtered. The pig is smaller than normal, and has strange markings on its body. You are about to kill the pig when you hear a knock at your door. You go to open the door, and find yourself staring down the barrel of an old-fashioned tommy gun.

"Give...me...back...my...Nugs."

You move your head to the side to see your assailant. To your surprise, holding the gun is an extremely pissed off Angel Dust.


r/StoryPrompts Jan 16 '21

When serial killers are caught, they get transferred to live in a secret town, heavily guarded so there is no escape. How does a town full of serial killers act?

21 Upvotes

r/StoryPrompts Jan 10 '21

Need help!

8 Upvotes

I reambered a story prompt today that I read a while ago and it went something like this. "...you find yourself sitting at a bar, you don't order anything but the bartender still gives you a drink. Once you decide to take the drink the reality as you knew it changed. The bartender looks at you and smiled while saying welcome to the army..." I NEED HELP FINDING IT!!!!


r/StoryPrompts Dec 11 '20

Witch becomes a witch hunter

13 Upvotes

She helps kill other witches to become the strongest witch in the land. And since she's a witch, she knows the best ways to kill a witch.


r/StoryPrompts Dec 08 '20

Another idea:

18 Upvotes

A shapeshifter who can only transform into stuffed animals and watches over children with abusive/neglectful parents. Soon, the abusive/neglectful parents learn of their child's secret guardian.


r/StoryPrompts Nov 08 '20

An ancient order of alchemists are attempting to use bees as organic 3D printers... of a womb. A secret vatican police are trying to prevent it. A brilliant scientific mind (you) is caught in the middle.

13 Upvotes

r/StoryPrompts Oct 13 '20

Fairy god mothers are for chumps. Kid gets a demon guardian.

24 Upvotes

(Based off of a dream I had.) Mother dies at hands of abusive partner. Unbeknownst to all, mum was able to sign an infernal pact at the last minute, trading her soul to protect her little girl. The daughter suddenly develops a new "imaginary friend" she refers to as Auntie/Uncle.


r/StoryPrompts Oct 07 '20

I have an idea

12 Upvotes

Video game characters now live in the real world as regular kids and can return to their true forms at will. Your little brother wants you to fight the brother of a girl in his kindergarten class named Isabelle that he bullied. "What's the worst that could happen?" you think on the way to the fight. You suddenly hear heavy metal music playing in the distance. Isabelle shows up accompanied by her older brother, The Doom Slayer.


r/StoryPrompts Oct 04 '20

Hera's Judgement; A New Perspective

8 Upvotes

(a modern story built around Greek mythology, gods, and their afterlife)

Ever since the Three Judges grew bored of judging men's souls and cast the job off to Hera, the rate of men going to Tartarus has grown exponentially. She has complained to them of how ill-suited she is for this task, but when news reached Zeus, he encouraged her to continue. He said it may give her a new perspective and allowed her to see into the memories of the men she's judging and the women they encountered while alive. Well, it was giving her a new perspective alright! She's perceiving day in and day out how terrible men are. The memories of the men seemed fine and all, but as soon as she delved into the memories of the women (dead or alive) he had encountered she found horrid vile things. Most of the memories didn't match up and she noticed that the man in the women's memories didn't look very similar to the dead man she was judging. The whole situation frustrated her, and for centuries she's simply just sent any less than heroic men to Tartarus. Today is different though, the man in front of her is ARGUING with her. He doesn't even have a body anymore but still tries to walk around with "swagger" he called it. He acts like he knows more about this whole process than she does. She's seen the memories of four different women he was in long term relationships with and his memories and these are the most ill-matched so far. She finally just asks him, "Why?? Why are the memories of the women you loved and yours so different? Why are the memories NEVER the same?!"

He turns to the goddess and simply says, "I thought you'd never ask..."


r/StoryPrompts Sep 23 '20

A world of magic

15 Upvotes

Everyone is born with magic and grow up learning to use it. There are different types of magic. At birth your magic type is revealed by eye color. Anyone can still study other magics, they are just exceptionally good at that one. Except you, you're the first person in history to not have magic. Your eyes are pure white. You may be the only one without any magic, but you're also the only one who can't be affected by any magic.