Story Ideas about Communication and More...
(On this page, you'll find story ideas related to the theme of communication. Scrolling down, you'll find links to hundreds of other creative writing prompts.)1) On a foreign holiday, your character meets an extremely attractive man or woman. They don't speak the same language, but they somehow find a way to understand each other, and your character feels a powerful connection that s/he has never felt with anyone before. Impulsively, your character marries this person after they've only known each other a very short time. Your character's new husband/wife moves to your character's country and begins to take language classes there. The better the spouse is able to communicate, the more your character realizes that s/he isn't the person your character had believed...
2) On a first date, your character makes a joke about wanting to kill his/her boss. But when the boss ends up in the hospital following a brutal attack, your character begins to worry that his/her new boyfriend/girlfriend may have taken the joke too literally...
3) Your character runs a small charity. The charity's most important donor has just died, and the donor’s widow shows no interest in continuing to contribute to the charity. Your character fears that the charity will not survive the loss of funding. Then your character learns that the widow regularly visits a psychic -- which gives your character an idea. Your character will convince the widow that s/he has the ability to speak with the dead, and will pretend to pass on messages from the dead husband urging her to continue with the charitable donations. But something strange and unexpected begins to happen. When your character pretends to summon the dead, s/he has a distinct feeling that someone, or something, is actually trying to communicate with him or her...
4) Your character's best friend confides in your character about his/her marital problems. Your character secretly thinks that his/her friend's wrong and the friend's husband/wife is right. But, wanting to be supportive of his/her friend, your character pretends to agree with him/her. Meanwhile, the marital problems are getting worse, the friend's behavior toward his/her husband/wife is becoming and more appalling, and your character is becoming more and more uncomfortable with his/her role in the situation...
5) Your character has been kidnapped and locked in an attic. The attic has a small window overlooking the garden of a neighbor's house, where your character sometimes sees children playing. Your character doesn't dare shout out the window because the kidnapper might hear. S/he needs to find a way to signal for help without the kidnapper discovering what s/he's doing, and without endangering the children...
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