Fiction Prompts

Have just found a source of some fiction prompts which was what I was looking for 🙂 Will start working through these to give me some ideas for short stories and flash fiction.

I will add more fiction prompts as I find them or think of them for anyone to use 🙂

I found this bunch at Eric J. Krause’s Writing Spot

• The moon looks big in the sky. A little too big.
• A minor cut won’t stop bleeding.
• Something is scratching the inside of your closet door.
• Your life is on your phone, but you just dropped it into a pit of deadly vipers.
• Your mouthwash is actually a magic potion.
• You awaken to find yourself locked in a casket.
• You trade lives with your cat for a day.
• The new USB drive you bought came preloaded with a strange secret.
• Everytime you enter your house, you hear the faint sound of children laughing. You have no children, and none live on your street.
• Your rich uncle give you the supernatural secret to his fortune.
• You interact with a ghost that doesn’t know it’s dead.
• Your new running shoes have a special feature which allows you to run further and faster, but it comes with a unique price.
• A strange new social movement was actually started by space aliens (or time travelers).
• One of the books in the library glows.
• A mummy’s curse falls over an entire town.
• Your fingernails fall out, but are replaced by retractable claws.
• An app store lets you download magic spells.
• Those toy laser guns at the amusement park souvenir stand aren’t toys.
• Your imagination runs wild – everything you imagine comes true.
• Your parents reveal a dark family secret.
• Unbeknownst to you, an alien has been visiting you in your sleep for years.
• A favorite piece of jewelry is more than it seems.
• Your favorite childhood storybook comes to life.
• What in the world is that in your stocking?
• Santa has a terrible secret that may ruin Christmas.
• A newborn child can converse in perfect English.
• The Mayans were right…sort of.
• The airline didn’t lose your luggage — they changed it into something different.
• A new app for your phone bends the laws of physics.
• A patch of quicksand leads to another world.
• The fireplace leads to a wonderland, but only when it’s lit.
• An alien society seizes control of your tablet computer.
• A new app lets you copy your soul and download it into different things.
• Your pen contains magic ink.
• A tiny planet declares independence from the intergalactic empire.
• The heat and humidity begin to melt people. Literally.
• Days begin to run backwards.
• Terrorists create an app that instantly kills anyone who downloads it.
• The scent of a certain rose does strange things to people’s minds.
• Space aliens built the pyramids.
• Ancient Atlantis is discovered, and it is a thriving society.
• A Twitter follower follows you in real life.
• The Post Office demands more than just a mere stamp to deliver your letter.
• If a top-secret government computer is shut down, the entire universe is shut down.
• There’s intelligence in that stray dog’s eyes. Too much intelligence.
• Your iPod plays a strange song you didn’t load onto it.
• You turn on the shower and blood pours out of the faucet.
• You awaken into the world of your favorite novel.
• There’s a new app available that lets you control minds.
• A tiny dragon, no bigger than a hummingbird, befriends you.
• The newest gym craze is exploding exercise bikes: stop peddling and BOOM!
• A new bottled water on the market doesn’t exactly contain water.
• The light from a sun in a distant solar system has strange effects on a crew of astronauts.
• A rabbit-eared television set can control time and space.
• A radical environmental group starts assassinating smokers.
• Is that Santa climbing down your chimney…or something else entirely?
• Your favorite stuffed animal comes to life.
• A tiny spacecraft crashes through your bedroom window.
• Gnomes follow you home.
• A buzzard circles above you.
• Space aliens knock on your front door.
• Your dog strikes up a conversation with you.
• An Internet virus affects your computer in a strange way.
• You hear a nearby train whistle. There are no railroad tracks anywhere close.
• The court jester has a sinister gleam in his eyes.
• You’re alone, but there are footsteps in the hall.
• You find a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
• The local zoo displays a real unicorn.
• There is a monster inside your mattress.
• A dragon is spotted flying over a distant farm.
• A shooting star just changed directions.
• Your favorite video game is actually a training manual for death.

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