Story Ideas About Secrets and More...
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Fiction Prompts about Secrets
1) Your character is an insurance salesman. But to impress his new girlfriend, he implies that he has a top-secret job that he can't talk about. This strategy works -- the girlfriend seems impressed. But, lately, your character has noticed a certain black car that seems to be following him around...
2) Your teenaged character keeps a secret diary in which she writes what she really thinks about everyone in her school. Then one of her classmates finds the diary and publishes it on the Internet...
3) Your character's ex-girlfriend shows up at his house one night, saying she needs a place to hide, but refusing to explain what's going on or why there's blood all over her clothes. Your character doesn't feel right turning her away...
4) Your character hates his job and especially his boss. He secretly goes to a job interview with another company and receives a surprising offer. The new company wants him to keep his current job but to act as their spy. In particular, they want him to copy files for them from his boss's computer..
Fiction Prompts about Travel
1) Your character wants to take a vacation, but is broke. She decides to stow away on a cruise ship...
2) Your character is traveling by train through a foreign country. The train stops in a little town, and the man who is sharing her compartment gets off. Suddenly, your character realizes that her purse is missing. That man must have taken it! She gets off the train to look for him, but the train station appears to be empty. While she's still looking, the train pulls away, leaving your character with no money and no passport in an unknown town where she doesn't speak the language. And night is falling...
3) On a business trip, your character starts an affair with a woman he meets at the hotel bar. What his wife doesn't know won't hurt her, he thinks. But then his wife shows up at the hotel to surprise him...
4) It's 20 years in the future, and space tourism has become a reality. Your character signs up for a trip to the moon. But two days into the journey, the captain of the spacecraft confides in your character that that's not where they're really headed...
5) Your character and a family member are on a plane that is experiencing extreme turbulence. Believing that they might not survive, your character wants to quickly discuss and resolve all of the deep problems in their relationship.
6) Offered the opportunity to take a trip in a time machine, your character decides to travel to the past to solve a mystery about your character's mother.
7) While in a foreign country, your character is picked up by the police. Your character doesn't know why; nor does your character trust the judicial system in this particular country. So, while the police are distracted, your character takes the opportunity to run away. Now, your character must stay hidden from the police and find a way out of the country.
8) The person seated next to your character on an airplane strikes up a conversation. They tell your character that they have magical powers, and offer to grant your character one wish. Why not? your character thinks. But what should your character wish for?
Fiction Prompts about Extreme Weather
1) Your character's boyfriend or girlfriend confesses to having done something terrible. Your character is so horrified that they want to leave immediately and never speak to this person again. Unfortunately, a violent storm is raging outside and it isn't safe to leave the house...
2) After being struck by lightning, your character develops the ability to see the dead...
3) Your character has spent years avoiding their parents because of childhood trauma. But when a devastating flood damages their parents' house, your character reluctantly returns home to help with the cleanup. In the flooded basement, they discover something that challenges everything they believed about their past...
4) During a hurricane's chaotic aftermath, your character investigates a murder that was carefully planned to use the storm as cover. But as evidence emerges, they begin to suspect the killer may strike again during the next major storm...
5) Because of global warming, a glacier is about to melt, revealing a secret frozen in its center millenia ago, something that should have remained buried...
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