1000 Story Prompts to Spark Your Creativity

By Ken Miyamoto from ScreenCraft · September 20, 2023

When you’re trying to figure out what you are going to write next, you need to choose wisely. Concept is everything — at least at first glance. It’s what sells the book, short story, movie or TV series. As soon as you have a compelling and engaging concept, you can build equally compelling and engaging stories and characters around them. Read more about The Secret to Understanding What High Concept Means in Hollywood. With that in mind, here we present the ultimate list of 1000 story prompts to get your creative juices flowing. So get ready to go down a wild rabbit tunnel of story prompts. Be sure to bookmark this post so you can read all one thousand of them!

Note: These prompts were purposefully developed on the fly. However, because we live in the same world and are influenced by the same things, some may same familiar. Some may have even already been developed. But the point is to get your creative energy moving as you consider any and all possibilities.

1000 Story Prompts

Families from an alternative universe live upside down underneath our houses.
A character dies and is told they can choose to be reincarnated — only to be reborn as a dog.
A stay-at-home father lives a secret life as a superhero.
A female superhero lives a secret life as a supermom.
The world we know is discovered to be a dream of a superior being.
Earth is actually a zoo watched by visiting guests (UAPs) from around the universe.
A man’s toy collection from the 1980s comes to life.
An introverted character realizes that they actually died years prior and are a ghost.
Titanic in space.
A world where superheroes are hunted down and killed.
An alien invasion story through the eyes of the aliens. (Read this Script Lab Script Collection: Out of This World Sci-fi Screenplays).
Kids playing their parents’ Dungeons & Dragons game open a portal to the 1980s.
A family awakens to the appearance of a strange door in their family room that wasn’t there before.
A stranger appears at a family’s house claiming to be a future resident.
Someone finds out how to rig the biggest lottery drawing in history.
Angels come to live on Earth.
Demons begin to overtake society as they try to take over Earth.
A romantic comedy told through the eyes of two dogs that fall in love.
Two football coaches from opposing schools fall in love — but are both still living in the closet.
An egotistical manly man suddenly fears everything.
A world where humans are the pets.
A world where women don’t need men to procreate.
An egotistical scholar is suddenly stripped of his intelligence for 24 hours.
A being falls from the stars to the Earth.
A man falls from the stars to the Earth.
A woman falls from the stars to the Earth.
A woman claims to be the daughter of God.
God is nothing more than a cosmic child playing games with their toys.
God is actually a writer that has conjured us all as stories.
Characters discover a fountain of youth.
A family is offered a vacation into the stars by visiting aliens.
A family mistakenly books tickets to Paris, Texas, instead of Paris, France.
An American woman inherits a castle in Scotland.
Characters play, “What dead celebrities or historical figures would you like to have dinner with?”, only to see their selections come knocking at the door.
What if Dorothy replaced somebody in Oz — and someone replaced her in Kansas?
Scientists discover time travel and must keep it secret from the government.
An animated movie demystifying the great white shark — a surprisingly peaceful species.
Beings live in every single closet in the world.
There really are monsters living under our beds.
Suburban dads take part in the world lawn-mowing championships.
A new law where criminals must face their greatest fears.
A man afraid of snakes washes up on an island full of them.
Vampires that can survive during the daylight.
A world where vampires rule the Earth.
The end of the world is near, and families must live with that knowledge.
A world where space travel never happened.
A world where war has never been waged.
A world where real old-world magic is slowly beginning to resurface.
A young boy tries to convince everyone in his town that he actually IS a wizard.
A young girl discovers that she is a descendant of witches.
A collector’s collection of old lunch boxes from the 1980s allows him to send and receive notes from the past.
Present day times where the internet and social media were never created.
There are cities in the clouds.
There are cities in the deepest parts of the ocean.
A character discovers that they are living in a computer simulation — and they are the last human alive.
A new and dangerous species is discovered living in the highest treetops of the world.
A disgraced baseball manager manages a Little League team to the big championship.
A retired football player goes back to coach his son’s Pee Wee league.
The first female football player accepted into the NFL draft.
Astronauts volunteer to undergo the first flight to Mars.
The Earth is found destroyed by Nuclear War when astronauts from a Mars mission return.
Star high school football players go out for soccer when their football team is barred from playing.
The world’s biggest action movie star wakes up in the world of his hit movies.
UFOS and UAPs are actually evolved humans from the future.
Bigfoot exists — and it’s time for him and his kind to meet the world.
A grumpy old man takes on a dare to become a comedian.
Mosquitos are actually tiny fighter planes for a species trying to take over this world of giants.
A character discovers that they are actually a robot.
A character discovers that they are actually a clone.
A character discovers that they are actually God who has suffered brain damage while walking the Earth as a human.
A character discovers that they are the offspring of the Devil.
A character discovers that they can hear the voices of the dead.
A character discovers that they can see into the past.
A character discovers that they can see into the future.
Earth is actually Purgatory.
Earth is actually Heaven.
Earth is actually Hell.
Earth is actually a video game for aliens.
A suburban mother discovers that the whole neighborhood of mothers and wives are the “perfect” clones generated by the men.
A suburban dad discovers that the whole neighborhood of dads and husbands are the “perfect” clones generated by the women.
The children of a suburban family discover that the other children in the neighborhood are “perfect” clones.
A man’s dog starts talking to him suddenly.
A family’s dog starts talking to them one day.
A character goes back in time to meet their younger self.
A suburban family moves to the big city.
A big city family is forced to move to the suburbs.
Real-life dragons are released from a deep cavern.
Rock climbers witness a cartel murder and are chased through the mountains.
A skydiver falls onto an invisible alien ship.
An astronaut crashlands on a planet and is taken in by an alien family.
An alcoholic must deal with the demons of their past.
A character is told they have twenty-four hours to right the wrongs they’ve done to others before they die.
A bullied character wills themself to have super strength.
An abused character wills themself to be able to fly.
A racist is forced to live in the body of a minority.
A male figure skater is placed into an Olympic hockey team.
A character attempts to escape an underwater prison.
An escaped convict hides in the suburbs.
A police officer is sent to a prison where he has put away most of the prisoners within.
Conflicts between countries are now decided by epic battles between one soldier versus another.
A character falls in love with their best friend from high school.
A high school jock is forced to live in the body of a nerd he bullies.
A high school nerd is forced to live in the body of the jock who bullies him.
A character tries to emulate the fictional Batman — fighting crime from the shadows.
A character makes a wish to be smart and suddenly wakes up as the smartest and wealthiest businessperson in the world.
A state championship-winning high school football coach is forced to coach a first-of-its-kind female football team.
An unpopular high school kid mistakes strange coincidences for superpowers.
Peter Pan is actually a monster that steals children.
Billy the Kid awakens in the twenty-first century.
Wyatt Earp is brought into the future by future townfolk in need of a sheriff.
International spies must face the world of retirement.
A submarine crew discovers a new world.
A submarine crew falls into the deepest depths of the ocean and is frozen in cryosleep, only to awaken one hundred years later.
Families are tasked with colonizing the moon.
Humans now live on the moon, with what happened to Earth in their ancestors’ time left a mystery.
A doctor finds the cure for cancer, only to be threatened by a secret society of government officials and soldiers.
A doctor finds the cure for cancer, only to face the bureaucracy of giving it to the public for free.
A doctor finds the cure for cancer, only to refuse to share it for millions of dollars for each dosage.
The world’s first cyborg deals with not being entirely human.
The world’s first human clone deals with their supposed lack of humanity.
The world’s first superhero deals with the alienation of their abilities.
A champion race car driver undergoes a worldwide race around the world by land, sea and air.
A young character discovers they have healing powers — but every time they heal someone, they get more and more sick themselves.
A writer discovers that every character they conjure comes to life.
A mother and her teenage son switch bodies.
A father and his teenage daughter switch bodies.
A feuding brother and sister switch bodies.
A wealthy boss and their underling employee switch bodies.
A group of role-playing game players discovers that the rolls of their dice can determine things around them in their world.
The parents are kidnapped by aliens, leaving the kids to save them.
A major city is destroyed by a nuclear attack and the surrounding communities struggle to pick up the pieces.
A young boy with an advanced aging disorder plays Pee Wee football against players a third of his size.
A girl decides to play football on the guys’ team and becomes the star player.
A shamed tennis pro competes in the highly competitive local pickleball tournament.
The world of professional beach volleyball players.
The world of major league eating.
The world of professional cornhole players.
The world of professional badminton players.
A character suffers from a disorder that only allows them to communicate through song.
A soccer player who is now a professional only because their father has coached them since youth soccer.
A football player who is now a professional only because their father has coached them since youth football.
A baseball player who is now a professional only because their father has coached them since youth baseball.
A character finds a job site that can place them in any job in any time period.
A smart and popular high school student finds a legal loophole that allows them to run for president.
Angels are aliens.
Demons are aliens.
God was an alien.
A faith-based story about a wise child that claims to be the son of God.
A faith-based story about a child that can speak to those who have passed away.
A faith-based story about a homeless man that some think is the second coming of Jesus Christ.
George Lucas actually visited a world that inspired Star Wars after his near-death experience in a car crash.
A farmer discovers an alien craft in his fields.
A farmer discovers a strange wooden door in his fields.
A character goes into an MRI and is somehow transported back in time.
An F-35 fighter jet and its pilot are transported to the 1942 bombing of Pearl Harbor.
A character afraid of water decides to overcome their fear by visiting the world’s biggest water park.
A popular comedian decides to run for president as a joke, only to discover that they win.
A young girl who loves the Little House on a Prairie books makes a wish to live during those times, only to discover the realities of those difficult times and environments.
An online shark expert turns out to know nothing about sharks when he’s invited to a Shark Week show. (Read the Script Lab Script Collection: Killer Shark Movies That Audiences Eat Up)
A sitting president wanting to get more votes decides to go to space.
A poor single mother wins the biggest lottery in history.
A character who wins the biggest lottery in history vows to give it all away — only to discover how hard it is to do that.
A bank robber is a modern-day Robin Hood.
A luxury cruise ship is overtaken by present-day pirates.
A luxury cruise ship is overtaken by pirates from the past.
A luxury cruise spaceship is overrun by space pirates.
A family of the future must escape Earth from its tyrannical rule.
A family of settlers in the 1800s face off against alien invaders.
A family of settlers in the 1800s begin to experience UFO phenomenon.
Cowboys from the Wild West face off against alien invaders.
Parents travel to the future to see what their children grow up to be like — and the results are not great.
The boogeyman is real.
Santa Claus is real — but not how most would expect.
A scientist clones his family that died in an accident.
A character wakes up tied to an electric chair.
A character wakes up in a gas chamber.
Frankenstein’s Monster was real.
A historian discovers that Dracula is real.
A contemporary retelling of the Dr. Jekyll vs. Mr. Hyde story.
A historian proves that King Arthur and Excalibur legends were real.
A character wakes up and decides to do the opposite of what they would normally do.
A character decides to sell everything they own to live on a sailboat.
A character decides to quit their successful-yet-unfulfilling job to return to the job they loved in high school.
A stay-at-home dad decides to start an Olympic curling team.
Empty-nesters decide to sell everything and travel the country in an RV.
A high school kid in 1969 decides they are going to hitchhike across the country to attend Woodstock.
A rock star on the verge of superstardom stumbles upon a desert bar inhabited by members of the 27-Club — rock stars like Jim Morrisson, Janice Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse.
An aging rocket scientist decides to make his own rocket to take him into space before he dies.
The first baby born in space.
The first family to go on a space journey.
The satellites we see in the sky are actually UFOs/UAPs being covered up by SpaceX and NASA.
People are invited to a haunted mansion where the eccentric owner wants to market it as a Disneyland-like attraction.
A group of young friends go on an amusement park ride only to be catapulted into another world.
The story of the creation of the first roller coaster.
The story of the creation of a waterpark.
A young teen wishes they could fly, only to wake up with angel-like wings.
Kids discover a hidden doorway.
Characters discover a hidden staircase leading to a strange world.
Kids discover that their gaming system can control actual sports games and players.
A high school football team scrimmages a professional NFL team — and beats them.
A college football team scrimmages a professional NFL team — and beats them.
A sandlot baseball team comprised of neighbor kids challenges the high school team.
Old friends reunite over a suburban fire pit.
A high school reunion leads to murder.
An old grudge leads to a character being stalked.
Someone is following a character on their cross-country drive.
Someone picks up a hitchhiker, only to realize that they are a long-dead historical figure.
A character travels back to their old hometown, only to realize that they’ve time-traveled to their childhood era.
A thrill seeker commits a crime to be sent to prison so he can see if he can escape it.
A YouTuber influencer pranks the wrong person.
Dracula immigrated to the United States and is a crime boss.
High school students on an abroad trip find Excalibur.
Robin Hood is the villain of the story.
Sherlock Holmes’s dog as he solves pet-life mysteries.
Dorothy’s granddaughter is kidnapped by the daughter of the Wicked Witch of the West in Oz.
The story of The Wizard of Oz set on another planet.
A modern-day retelling of Tarzan.
A woman is stranded on an island and must survive.
The contestants of a Survivor-like show learn that the civilized world back home has been destroyed.
It’s revealed that an Olympic swimmer is actually a mermaid or merman.
A father and son or mother and daughter go on a safari to bond.
Parents of a college freshman decide to attend their child’s university to be near them.
A father is tasked with coaching his son’s soccer team even though he’s never played or watched the sport.
A mother is tasked with coaching her son’s football team.
A father is tasked with coaching his daughter’s cheer team.
Parents of spoiled rich kids decide to move their family to a third-world country.
A soldier goes AWOL.
While doing research in the jungles of Vietnam, a team of scientists is visited by a Vietnam War-era soldier.
A poker player needs to earn money to pay off a debt.
A contemporary retelling of the Alice in Wonderland story.
An aging mother with apparent dementia claims to be Alice from Alice in Wonderland.
The children of two families are abducted by aliens.
An 1800s-era family travels to the frontier to start a new life.
A brother and sister learn that their parents are Russian sleeper agents.
A character discovers that their father is a wanted criminal.
A character suspects that their father is a serial killer.
A writer stalks random people to learn what it is like for serial killers to stalk their victims.
When a character feels like their life has no meaning, they decide to get the high score on every old Galaga arcade machine they can find.
A character discovers an old 1980s arcade.
A character decides to quit their boring day job and open an old 1980s arcade.
A former drug addict decides to find the child she was forced to give up.
A grown-up orphan decides to find their birth parents.
An orphan learns that their parents are aliens from another world.
A stranded astronaut is taken in by an alien race.
The first family to venture to another planet loses their son, only for him to be raised by aliens.
A family struggles to keep up with the Joneses.
Siblings struggle to survive the angst of being the new kids in school.
A character creates a new kind of internet.
A character mourns the death of their parent.
A family decides to move away from the city and buy their own island.
A family is shipwrecked.
An astronaut living on the moon watches Earth be destroyed by an alien invasion.
An astronaut living on the moon watches Earth be destroyed by nuclear war.
A journalist is offered the chance to interview an assassin.
A journalist is offered the chance to interview an alien living among us.
A journalist is offered the chance to go back in time to interview a historical figure of their choice.
A time-traveling assassin struggles to kill a child who would grow up to become Adolph Hitler.
Children discover an old mine shaft and become trapped within it.
Children discover a cave that leads into another world.
Present-day children are grounded from their screens as their parents show them what they did growing up.
The first trip down the Mississippi River.
Present-day adventurers decide to travel the full length of the Mississippi River in a canoe.
A pilot has an encounter with a UFO/UAP.
A local sheriff tries to uncover a conspiracy.
An FBI agent suspects a local sheriff of covering up a murder.
An FBI agent and local sheriff team up to uncover a murder mystery.
A high school student investigates the murder of a local teen.
High school students are transported forward in time to their 30-year high school reunion.
High school students are transported into the bodies of their middle-aged selves.
Young children are transported into the bodies of their high school selves.
A funeral reunites a group of high school friends.
Friends take their terminally ill friend on an adventure.
A character is mistakenly told they are going to die.
A character visits a psychic who tells them they are going to die soon.
A psychic foresees a murder.
A fake psychic sets up clients to make them believe their predictions are coming true.
A man pays a psychic to tell a woman he has a crush on that she’s going to meet someone just like him.
A computer program becomes self-aware.
A videogame character becomes self-aware.
A character’s newly AI-automated house becomes a death trap.
An AI fighter jet defies orders.
The first human-looking military drone.
The first cyborg soldier.
A character’s memories are downloaded into a clone.
A martial artist is invited to fight in an intergalactic tournament.
A soldier is invited to fight in an intergalactic war.
A single soldier represents Earth in a one-on-one match to the death.
A family inherits an old castle with a ghost living in it.
While visiting old castles on vacation, a family is transported back in time.
A passenger on an airliner wakes up to discover they are the only person on the plane.
The first civilian passenger flight to the moon goes awry.
A family decides to sail around the world together.
A character mourning the death of their parent decides to walk across the country.
A character mourning the death of their sibling decides to bike around the country.
A character mourning the death of their spouse decides to travel the world.
Two characters fall in love during a layover at an airport.
A sailor rescues another and they fall in love.
A sailor decides to brave the Bermuda Triangle.
All of the ships and planes that have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle suddenly reappear.
The Bermuda Triangle of space travel.
Cats and Dogs rule the Earth.
A small farming family fights off invaders during World War III.
A small farming family avoids the nearby alien invasion.
A talented Asian-American character struggles to become a country singer in Nashville.
A musical prodigy goes to Julliard as a teenager.
A musical prodigy goes to Julliard as a pre-teen.
A Broadway stage actor portraying a historical figure is visited by their ghost.
A young girl comes of age.
A young boy comes of age.
A young non-binary character comes of age.
A writer has the power to write someone’s death.
A writer has the power to change people’s minds.
A writer has the power to build things in the real world through their writing.
A small-town chef is hired to be the president’s chef after a campaign visit.
A small-town sheriff decides to become an FBI agent.
An FBI agent decides to retire and later becomes a small-town sheriff.
An 18-year-old decides to run for sheriff.
An 18-year-old decides to run for mayor of a small town.
Children in a small town rally to convince the town board into financing a water park.
Teens hide in an amusement park after hours only to see the characters of the rides come to life.
After a terrorist attack, a college-bound student decides to join the military.
A college-bound student decides to join the military after the death of their veteran father.
A group of teens discovers that they are actually clones.
Former prison cellmates are reunited after thirty years.
Two puppy siblings separated at birth decide to find each other.
A police officer who accidentally killed a teenager tries to reconcile with the family.
A high school graduation goes awry when the “graduating” student reveals that they didn’t graduate.
A college-bound student uses his tuition money to party.
A bank robber hides in plain sight in a small town.
A character escapes a mental institution.
A character decides to commit a crime bad enough to go to prison so they can kill the murderer of a loved one.
Two rival coaches make each other’s lives miserable in the off-season.
An unlikely sports athlete becomes the best to ever play the game.
A student that lost a limb in an accident wants to letter in every single high school sport.
Friends recreate their favorite classic movie.
An engineer is tasked with creating Leonardo Da Vinci’s various designs.
Albert Einstein is reincarnated.
Albert Einstein is brought back from the past to solve a dangerous problem.
Alfred Einstein, Albert’s little-known idiot brother, tries to make a name for himself.
Marie S. Curie, the mother of modern physics, rivals Albert Einstein.
Children find a magic carpet in their grandparents’ attic.
A contemporary retelling of the forty thieves as bank robbers the FBI is trying to track down.
Siblings discover that they are the descendants of Adolf Hitler.
A character learns that they are the bastard child of the president.
A character learns that they are the bastard child of a king.
A character learns that they are actually a missing child reported missing thirty years prior.
A character finds buried treasure.
Friends find a bag of money in the woods.
Friends find a wishing tree that grants wishes a little too literally.
Soldiers fighting in World War II realize that they are actually toy soldiers.
A character who lost their spouse in the 9/11 attacks joins the military to hunt down Osama Bin Laden.
A character dreams of an impending terrorist attack and does all they can to prevent it from happening.
A mother deals with empty-nest syndrome.
A father deals with empty-nest syndrome.
A character decides to leave everything behind to live and work at a remote lighthouse.
A man who claims to be a great hunter is anything but.
A character obsessed with cartoons is thrust into their worlds.
A comic collector searches for the ultimate find.
A toy collector searches for the ultimate find.
A character suffers from Sinistrophobia — the fear of objects to your left.
A character does their best to become a criminal mastermind — with lackluster results.
A character becomes a vigilante.
A suburban American town bands together as an invading army approaches.
An alien ship crash lands in the suburbs.
A returning astronaut finds Earth destroyed.
A returning astronaut finds Earth taken over by an alien race.
A returning astronaut is actually an alien doing recon for an invasion.
The real story behind the creation of Coca-Cola.
The real story behind the creation of the hula hoop.
The real story behind the creation of Pong.
A teen who can’t detach from technology is transported back to the 1980s.
A teen who can’t detach from technology is transported back to the 1950s.
A teen who can’t detach from technology is transported back to the 1800s.
Parents try to become influencers on social media — with hilarious results.
Worldwide rule is decided by the Olympic Games.
Characters struggle to survive a destructive meteor shower.
Characters are sucked into their favorite TV shows.
A hunter is transported into the lives of his prey.
A skilled hunter is forced to hunt down and kill a man.
An average Joe is forced to assassinate the president.
An Amish man turns away from his Amish roots and goes to Vegas.
Teens who leave their Amish community face a world of technology, drugs, and sex.
A character decides to dig the deepest hole known to man.
A ghost hunter falls in love with a ghost.
A ghost falls in love with the owner of the house they are haunting.
A ghost struggles to help the family of the house they haunt.
A bowling league gets a little too competitive.
A sand volleyball league gets a little too competitive.
A small-town softball tournament gets a little too competitive.
A bar owner keeps his patrons safe amidst a vampire attack.
A bar owner keeps his patrons safe amidst a zombie attack.
A bar owner serves drinks to ghosts who frequented the bar in the past.
A man is suddenly approached by dozens upon dozens of offspring that were born of his donated sperm.
An old band reunites after thirty years.
Old former iconic band members reunite one last time after fifty years.
A garage band is discovered and thrust into stardom.
The story of a rookie MLB baseball player pitching a no-hitter.
The story of a Little League pitcher pitching a no-hitter.
A lifeguard is suddenly afraid of water.
The world of professional minigolfers.
A young man goes off to college and meets the girl of his dreams.
A young woman goes off to college and meets the guy of her dreams.
An LGBTQIA+ character goes off to college and finds the partner of their dreams.
A young high school freshman comes of age.
A stay-at-home parent deals with empty nest syndrome.
A tubing adventure turns dangerous amidst a storm that causes flooding.
A small plane crashes in the mountains and the passengers must survive and escape.
An earthquake causes havoc in a big city.
An earthquake unleashes beasts from deep within the Earth.
A meteor shower is actually the end of the world — and the government knew it.
A character struggles to deal with the death of their significant other.
A pool hustler is released from prison.
A gambler decides to beat the house against all odds.
A gambler banned from all Vegas casinos decides to beat them all in disguise.
A haunted amusement park.
A haunted theme ride.
A haunted mansion that is now a bed and breakfast.
A ghost travels to various places as an afterlife vacation while haunting wherever they stay.
A haunted spaceship is found by explorers.
Astronauts on their way to Mars come across curious alien lifeforms.
Astronauts on the first mission to Mars come across what looks to be a human-made ship.
Astronauts on the first mission to Mars come across a ship identical to theirs.
A dog travels on a cross-country adventure to find his person who moved off to college.
A near-catatonic man is found wandering the streets in the rain, covered in blood.
A serial killer raises a serial-killing family.
A serial killer tries to quit but can’t.
A portal to a strange alternate universe opens in somebody’s house.
A family that has been underground since Y2K arises to a very different world.
A pilot continually travels to different time periods after flying into a storm.
A character discovers that they can’t die.
A character discovers that when they die, they keep coming back to the day before their previous death.
As a teen goes through puberty they develop superpowers.
An old couple is given a chance to be reborn again so they can find each other and fall in love once more.
Two married couples decide to swap mates.
Swingers from 1970s suburbia are transported to the 2020s suburbia.
People can transport themselves to their favorite movies and TV shows.
People can transport themselves into the stories of their favorite books.
Two brothers are all that is left of the human race.
Two brothers face off against each other in the Super Bowl.
Two sisters face off against each other in the U.S. Open.
A brilliant but nerdy high school student conjures the perfect football scheme to win it all.
Two volleyball players decide to quit college and become professional beach volleyball players.
A shamed tennis pro decides to team up with a suburban mother and wife to win the pickleball championships.
A new sport in created — arena golf.
A competition where the person who stays up the longest wins ten million dollars.
A social experiment gone wrong.
Prisoners escape from a prison for the criminally insane amidst a terrible storm.
A teacher saves a school from a school shooting but suffers from PTSD.
Soldiers fall in love but are separated by war.
The first encounter with an alien race leads to a representative swap so humans and aliens can learn about each other.
A character somehow begins to exchange emails with their past self.
An undelivered letter sent from a soldier to his family is finally delivered a generation later.
NASA receives a message from space.
NASA receives a message from space from a futuristic space crew claiming to be from the 1960s.
NASA receives a message from space from a futuristic space crew claiming to be from the 2060s.
A stargazer begins to communicate with something in the sky with a flashlight.
Two children appear from deep within a mountain cave.
Lost siblings are raised by forest animals.
A youth soccer team competes for the national championship.
A JV football player becomes the star quarterback when two varsity players go down.
A track and field star breaks both legs in a car accident and struggles to return to competition.
A middle school-aged character breaks both legs in an accident but heals in a way that makes them the fastest human being.
A character wishes they could be fast only to see their wish granted by literally only being able to do everything fast.
A character gets a call from a stranger claiming to be locked in a van somewhere.
A 911 operator gets a call from a serial killer threatening to kill again.
A 911 operator gets a call from someone claiming to be a vampire.
A legal loophole allows a child to run for president.
A treasure hunter finds a treasure that causes government agents to hunt them down for it.
A time traveler goes back in time to find out who really killed JFK.
A time traveler goes back in time to stop the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
A time traveler goes back in time to see if Jesus Christ was real.
A time traveler goes back in time for the sole purpose of documenting historical moments on film.
A time traveler goes back in time to bet on games of the past.
NASA decides to use a passing asteroid as a fuel saver to travel to Mars.
A mother must hunt down her serial killing son.
A father must hunt down his serial killing son before he kills again.
Parents deal with the horror of their child being exposed as a serial killer.
A detective goes to extreme measures to get into the mind of a serial killer.
A detective uses new technology to inject their consciousness into the mind of a serial killer.
A parent who is a detective uses their skills to find out who toilet-papered their house.
An inner-city youth runs away to the suburbs to see what life is like in such a safe place.
An inner-city family moves to the suburbs to escape violence only to see it manifested in what they felt would have been a safe place.
A suburban family moves to the city and struggles to adapt.
A family finds a wolf pup and raises it.
A family finds a lost Bigfoot child and raises it as their own.
An alternate universe where humans have colonized the moon.
A future where humans have colonized Mars.
An autistic child struggling to adjust to society begins to display superhuman powers.
An autistic child struggling to adjust to society begins to display gifted musical talents.
A genius child helps their father win at the casino.
A genius child being raised in an abusive home runs away and begins to sit in during college classes.
A youth bowling tournament gets a little out of hand.
A planet from millions of light years away from Earth tries to find a way to venture there.
A lone gunslinger travels across the country searching for their arch-nemesis.
A village of Samurai warriors deals with an alien trying to kill them.
Immortal people walk the Earth unseen.
A news reporter is contacted by someone claiming to be immortal and wanting their story told.
A news reporter is contacted by someone claiming to be from the future.
Authorities arrest a stock market trader for inside trading and are shocked when he claims to be from the future.
The military fights vampires.
The military uses vampires as supersoldiers.
The military uses zombies as a first-wave assault.
An aging martial arts teacher decides to become an MMA fighter to make ends meet.
An inventor creates a new form of fuel.
An inventor creates a new form of energy and is chased by the government that wishes to stop it from going public.
Someone creates a website with outlandish conspiracy theories and the public begins to believe them.
A pizza delivery driver is forced to transport a hitman to his next hit.
The Universal monsters (Dracula, The Wolf Man, etc.) are transported into the real world.
An unhinged Dungeons & Dragons player circa the 1980s believes the game’s world is real.
An escaped convict tries to start a new life in a quiet town.
A lonely housewife falls for an escaped convict she picked up on the highway.
A train is loose and only character can stop it.
An AI program enacts revenge on a user who treated them poorly.
Die Hard in a school.
Die Hard on a cruise ship.
Die Hard in a spaceship.
Die Hard on an island.
A character goes on a run and is taken by someone.
A father enacts revenge on his child’s killer.
A new teacher inspires the school.
A church school student believes their pastor is an angel.
A child discovers that their parent is a fallen angel.
A character dies and comes back to life as their family’s new pet.
A trivia night turns bloody as players are told if they get an answer wrong one of their team members will die.
A heat wave of the century puts lives in danger.
A flood of the century puts lives in danger.
A lonely comic book-loving character decides that they want to become a real-life supervillain — and they fail drastically and hilariously at every turn.
A vampire that is afraid of the dark.
A consciously-aware zombie.
A werewolf that is allergic to fur.
A character terrified of water and desperate for a job applies for a lifeguard position.
A chef loses their taste.
A motivational speaker loses everything and struggles to follow their own device.
A psychic becomes a detective.
A detective enlists the help of a psychic — and they fall in love.
A hypochondriac goes to medical school.
A self-help author is exposed as a fraud.
A character takes a vow of silence.
A character will win a million dollars if they don’t speak for a year.
A character that is a vegetarian and desperate for a job can only find one at a butcher shop.
A comic who was attacked on stage must overcome their newly developed stage fright.
A popular musician who was attacked on stage must overcome their newly developed stage fright.
An atheist is mistaken as a prophet.
A librarian becomes trapped in the story of their favorite book.
A child escapes bullies in an abandoned city library.
A rich child is given a robot companion for their birthday.
An adoption service that allows aliens to adopt human children in need.
Cloaked alien ships have been watching the world for centuries.
A pilot discovers a strange city in the clouds.
A submarine crew discovers a strange city at the bottom of the ocean.
JFK is cloned.
Abraham Lincoln is cloned.
Nazi fanatics attempt to clone Hitler.
A detective in the 1960s discovers who he thinks is Adolf Hitler.
New technology allows people guilty of environmental crimes to be transformed into trees and plants.
A man is transported into the body of a woman.
A meat industry executive is transported into the body of an animal.
A motivational speaker loses all of their motivation.
A heralded divorce counselor is actually on their fifth marriage.
A successful wedding planner struggles to plan their own wedding.
A life coach has a mid-life crisis.
A haunted antique store.
A haunted museum.
Museum historical exhibits are actually portals into the time period they represent.
Someone has the power to use photographs as portals into the captured time period.
Angels and demons walk among us.
Aliens walk among us.
Vampires walk among us.
Hunters stumble upon Bigfoot.
Hunters become the hunted.
Someone is living in the walls of someone else’s house.
A character decides to hitchhike around the world via automobiles, planes and boats.
A teenager steals their parent’s car for a day.
A teenager steals their parent’s boat for a day.
A teenager steals a sailboat to sail around the world.
A city family decides to live on a farm.
Farmies decide to sell their valuable land to go live in the city.
A family discovers a tiny civilization of people that are one-centimeter tall living in their backyard.
A race car driver tries to get back on the track after a dangerous crash.
A race car driver is hired to be a driver for a bank heist.
A race car driver becomes an eSports star.
A zookeeper who hates animals.
A fireman becomes a pyrotechnician.
A fireman becomes a pyromaniac.
A doctor is haunted by the patients who died under their care.
A teacher is caught drunk at school.
An engineer accidentally creates a time machine.
A nurse is killing their patients.
An architect is tasked with building the first moon colony structure.
A lawyer learns that the client they are defending is guilty of murder.
An accountant discovers that their company is working with the mob.
An artist can’t stop painting a particular face.
A writer is pulled into the world of their bestselling novel.
A scientist discovers the cure for cancer and now they’ve lost it.
A police officer struggles to survive after being attacked in the streets.
A dentist becomes a sadistic serial killer.
A psychologist believes their patient is a serial killer.
A social worker goes against protocol and takes in a family in need.
An actor with multiple personality disorder becomes the most heralded actor of their time.
An athlete tries to make a comeback during a mid-life crisis.
A photographer begins to capture ghosts in their pictures.
A journalist stumbles upon a conspiracy that leads all the way up to the White House.
A mermaid washes up on the beach after a hurricane.
An underground city flourishes.
A haunted forest.
A lakehouse family reunion leads to hijinks and bonding.
An ancient buried alien city is found in a desert.
A mysterious cavern is found behind a waterfall.
A carpenter begins to display the biblical powers of Christ.
An ancient temple awakens from within.
Ancient Egyptians begin to come out of the pyramids.
An electrician is electrocuted and develops strange powers.
A plumber working in an old building discovers a civilization of monsters in the sewers below.
A towering palace appears out of nowhere.
A volcano under Yellowstone erupts.
A veterinarian claims to be able to hear the thoughts of animals.
A haunted skyscraper.
A skier falls deep into glacier caverns and struggles to escape.
A mountain climber falls deep into glacier caverns and sees that others decades before him did the same and struggled to survive.
An economist predicts a massive economic collapse — but no one will listen.
A computer programmer escapes into their own virtual world they’ve created.
A pharmacist uncovers a pharmaceutical conspiracy.
A financial advisor is corrupt.
A diver shrinks to the size of a fish and explores the coral reefs of Hawaii.
Ghosts haunt a sunken shipwreck.
A character who doesn’t know they are a ghost — while everyone else does.
A hairstylist and fashion designer mock the fashion industry by creating ridiculous designs only to see them become worldwide trends.
Empty nest parents decide to sell their house and buy a vineyard.
Rocky Mountain Hot Springs suddenly become fountains of youth.
Rocky Mountain Hot Springs can heal all sickness and disease.
A wildlife reserve is actually the home of Bigfoot.
An observatory has the power to transport visitors to other planets.
A haunted movie theater.
A Hollywood makeup artist is hired by the government to help spies assume different identities.
A paramedic is taken hostage by a mortally wounded bank robber on the loose.
A paramedic is taken hostage by an escaped and wounded convict.
A football stadium haunted by NFL legends.
A baseball stadium haunted by baseball legends.
The true story of the first surveyor to lay out plans for the first highway.
A haunted library.
A government translator is the only survivor of a terrorist attack and is taken hostage.
An art gallery’s paintings come to life.
A London bridge is inhabited by trolls.
A haunted lighthouse.
A real estate agent specializes in haunted houses.
A haunted and abandoned ski resort.
An old abandoned ship from the 1700s appears in a harbor after a hurricane.
A geologist discovers a type of rock not of this earth.
An old Civil War-era fort suddenly comes to life with a full brigade of soldiers.
An astronomer discovers a new planet.
A new planet suddenly appears close to Earth.
Earth is suddenly transported to another Solar System.
A historian is approached by government officials to use their time travel machine to investigate historical mysteries.
Tomb robbers are haunted by ghosts.
A geyser erupts, leaving behind strange creatures nobody has ever seen.
A mathematician becomes obsessed with solving a seemingly unsolvable equation.
A used car salesman has to sell one hundred cars over one weekend to save his business.
A fitness trainer is hired by an obese character to get them into shape — and they become fast friends while doing so.
The story of employees spending a summer working at a water park.
A rock climber struggles to climb the mountain their father never could.
A news anchor freezes on live television and loses his job.
The life and career of a saint-like pastor.
A character is tasked with inventorying an old government warehouse full of wooden and unmarked boxes.
A robot factory becomes self-aware.
A haunted abandoned 1980s-era shopping mall.
A day in the life of 1980s-era teenagers hanging out at a shopping mall.
The lives of retail store employees.
Students believe that their school is haunted.
A haunted hospital.
A highway motel is actually a time portal where visitors from all decades and generations visit.
An actor goes back in time to meet the historical figure they are portraying.
A cartoon animator’s creations come to life.
A cartoon animator is whisked away into the world he has animated.
The lives of those who work at a spaceport.
After the civilized world has been destroyed by Nuclear War, survivors discover an old radio station and try to find other survivors through the radio waves.
A character is stuck on a fire tower as a forest fire rages around them.
A cemetery security guard begins to see ghosts.
A cemetery security guard deals with the rising dead.
A claustrophobic character is buried alive.
A marine biologist befriends a real-life mermaid.
A marine biologist befriends an alien hiding in the ocean waters.
A music teacher going through a mid-life crisis decides to start a rock band.
A music teacher going through a mid-life crisis decides to get his old band back together.
A physical education teacher going through a mid-life crisis decides to try out for the Olympics.
A hunter bored with hunting animals decides to start hunting people.
A cop teams with a vampire to take out a mob boss who is actually a werewolf.
A travel blogger is kidnapped.
Siblings who think their parents are boring wake up in the 1980s and see what adventures they had.
A world where everyone prefers to live in virtual reality.
A character realizes that the world they live in is actually a virtual reality world they created 100 years ago.
The world of a cult overtakes society.
A cult leader is actually an alien.
A cult leader is actually a bored character who was dared to create a successful cult.
A pacifist has a twin who is an assassin and must assume their identity.
A parent seeks revenge for the death of their child.
A hero must save the world one last time after already having done it dozens of times before.
Forbidden love between GMs of rival sports teams.
An archeologist searches for Excalibur.
A middle-aged character who has lived with their parents their whole life must live on their own after their parents pass away.
A lowly servant rises up against a dystopian overlord.
A detective trying to solve a single murder case discovers that it links to murders from around the world.
The first international serial killer is discovered.
A father seeks forgiveness from the children he abandoned.
A mother seeks forgiveness from the children she abandoned.
A character seeks forgiveness from the parents they abandoned.
A group of thrill seekers decide to break as many extreme records as possible.
A teacher tasks his students with trying to find a world record they can break.
An empty nest mother stalks her college son.
An empty nest parent uses the internet and social media to find the perfect mate for their kid.
A family decides to be the first family to fly around the world in a hot air balloon rig.
A world where there is no land.
A future where society is forced to live in underground cities after Nuclear War.
A future where society is forced to live in floating skies.
A future where society is forced to live in underwater cities.
Three days in the lives of characters that attended Woodstock.
A father hunts down and kills everyone that had anything to do with his son’s drug addiction.
A drug addict gets clean and travels the country atoning for his past wrongdoings.
A character goes back in time to see who killed their loved one.
A character befriends the person they know who killed their loved one.
A character unknowingly befriends the murderer of their loved one.
The most unlikely pair fall in love only to discover they are related.
A character is tasked with marrying someone before their upcoming birthday or risk losing their inheritance.
A character is tasked with marrying someone before their upcoming birthday or risk having to marry a childhood friend who they signed a contract with before going to college.
A lawyer is tasked with defending a known mass murderer.
A doctor is tasked with saving the life of the person who killed their loved one.
The world succumbs to mass flooding as characters struggle to survive.
A character’s wish to spend one more day with their lost loved one comes true in an unexpected way.
An American high school football star moves to Australia where their new school only has rugby.
A thrill-seeking parachuter travels through a storm and lands in another time.
The Wild West in space.
The true story of Billy the Kid.
A character can build things with their mind.
A character wakes up invisible.
A character can teleport from one place to another.
A shape-shifting serial killer.
A character wakes up with the ability to read people’s minds but can’t stop the new power.
A hiker stumbles upon a civilization of tiny people that capture him.
A world where cities are forced to live under force field domes to protect them from nuclear fallout.
A therapist has the ability to feel others’ true emotions.
A therapist can read their patient’s minds.
A serial killer with the power to manifest everyone’s greatest fears.
A character with the power to start earthquakes.
A character that feels no physical pain.
A character has a seizure and suddenly develops powers that are slowly killing them every time they use them.
A new rock star copes with their newfound stardom.
An actor copes with their newfound stardom.
A movie star goes back to their hometown after the death of their parent.
A movie star goes back to their hometown for their 30-year high school reunion.
A character suffers from amnesia and slowly begins to remember who they are.
A human and an alien fall in love.
A human and alien couple raise a family in the suburbs.
Children discover that their parents are alien imposters.
Children discover that their parents are robots.
Siblings discover that they are actually from another planet.
A soldier deals with losing limbs in battle.
A soldier comes home after the war.
An intergalactic soldier returns home after a decade of fighting in an intergalactic war.
A grandma with a legendary cookbook within her family decides to open a restaurant.
A family fights over grandma’s secret recipe.
When a character wins the lottery their family fights for their share.
When a character wins the lottery they are stalked by people wanting their share.
A character wins the lottery and uses it all to find the cure for cancer.
A group of high school friends have a pool party only to be transported back in time to their grade school selves.
A group of high school students meet up the night before they all head off to different colleges.
A group of old-timers all wish that they could go back to their high school years — and their wish comes true.
A college student wanting to lose his virginity before he turns twenty-one meets his soulmate who has vowed to not have sex until she’s married.
A character meets their perfect match only to discover that their parents have decided to get married.
A wild high school party leads to unexpected and inspiring mixtures of cliques.
High school students in the future go off to college on different planets and spaceships.
Despite universal hate of clowns, a clown troupe decides to open a clown school.
A videogame designer is actually a military recruiter who uses their games to recruit soldiers.
Soldiers are now drone pilots who control drone robot soldiers.
A princess wants to be a warrior.
A warrior wants to be a princess.
Paleontologists discover proof that dragons did exist.
A cowboy visits the big city.
A wizard teleports to present-day New York.
A scientist time travels to the Middle Ages and is treated like a wizard.
A caveman is found preserved in a glacier and comes back to life.
The scary story of a traveling circus in the late 1800s.
Aliens visit the World Fair in the 1960s.
Babe Ruth is transported from the past to the future and manages to still dominate baseball.
Fictional detective characters from 1970s crime shows come to the real world and try to tackle cases as they did in the show.
A fictional action hero becomes self-aware within his movies.
A submarine crew falls asleep and wakes up to realize they’ve been transported to space.
A submarine crew realizes they have traveled back in time and face a fleet of WWII German submarines.
The story of a character and their dog.
A ninja faces off against an Old West gunslinger.
A samurai faces off against a medieval knight.
A character’s mirror image starts to talk to them.
The reflection in our mirrors is a window into a mirror universe.
A probe sent lightyears into space sends back images of a planet identical to Earth.
Astronauts discover an alien probe.
A wife realizes that her husband has been cheating on her for years and goes out on a wild night out with her single friends.
A husband realizes that his wife has been cheating on him for years and goes out on a wild night out with his single friends.
A character with a low IQ undergoes an experimental surgery and becomes a genius overnight.
An egotistical character with a high IQ hits their head and loses all of their smarts.
Back in the 1980s, a snowboarder invades the ski slopes.
A previously famous fitness instructor tries to get back on the fitness scene but is clueless about how out of shape they are now.
A rabbi, priest and monk walk into a bar.
Young friends who find a boat decide to travel down the Mississippi River.
A group of young friends decide to climb a mountain.
A child decides to live exclusively in their backyard tree house.
Young friends decide to make the biggest tree house they’ve ever seen.
A rich character lives life like a child.
A child enters a poker tournament via a loophole in the rules — and wins.
Three brothers reunite after being kept apart for decades.
Three sisters reunite after being kept apart for decades.
Best friends discover that they are actually siblings.
A couple who have just met discover that they are actually siblings.
A middle schooler has a crush on their new teacher.
A puppy brings a family together.
A dog declares war on the new cat adopted by the family.
A dog and cat become best friends.
A puppy raised by cats tries to make friends with other dogs.
Vampires live on the dark side of the moon.
Aliens live on the dark side of the moon.
A superhero loses their powers.
A dying superhero must give their powers to a worthy person.
A mother must deal with her alcoholism while trying to remain the perfect mom.
High schoolers create an underground fight club.
High schoolers become drug dealers to pay off their parents’ debt.
College students become high-stakes poker players to pay off their student loans.
A high schooler offers to protect bullied students — for a price.
A military sniper is recruited to become an international assassin.
A high school student is mistaken as an international assassin.
An IT tech discovers a secret file.
Filmmaking students decide to recreate their favorite movie.
An aging man’s dream to be young again comes true as he ages backward each day.
A character is given the chance to revisit the pivotal moments in their lives.
A character is given the chance to go back to their high school days.
An old website from the 1990s allows characters to email God.
An old website from the 1990s unlocks a sinister being.
A charismatic character proves a point about society by making people believe the world is flat.
Characters travel back to the era of dinosaurs.
A brilliant high school student decides to clone themselves.
Twin characters are mortal enemies.
Twins meet each other and discover that they’ve fallen in love with the same woman.
A man lives two lives after he marries twins that were separated at birth.
A character must decide which twin they want to date.
A successful screenwriter is forced to work a regular job for a living.
A successful athlete is forced to join the workforce.
College students discover that the dean is a Russian sleeper agent.
High school students suspect that their principal is a Russian sleeper agent.
High school students suspect that their teacher is a mobster in the Witness Protection program.
A man travels the world looking to taste the perfect beer.
A dying character wants to find their soul mate before they die.
An angel wants to walk the Earth as a human.
A character is afraid of everything.
A man and his dog switch bodies.
A storm opens a strange portal.
A character has a meal with the devil.
An upstanding citizen decides to rob a bank.
A fraud investigator uses their knowledge to cheat their company out of millions.
An insurance investigator uses their knowledge to cheat a company out of millions.
A professional athlete comes out as gay.
A character deals with the realization that they have done nothing spontaneous in life.
A construction worker falls in love with a demolition worker.
A soldier comes back from war and discovers that their spouse has disappeared.
A soldier comes back from war and discovers that their spouse has another family.
A character mourning the loss of their family decides to build a cabin in the woods.
Friends decide to dig the deepest hole they can in their backyard.
Friends discover buried treasure in their backyard.
High schoolers decide to plan the most epic party of all time.
A smooth-talking character loses their voice.
A deaf person uses their special talent to become a musician.
A town bands around a dying kid’s dream to become a superhero.
A child discovers that their parents are vampires.
A child discovers that their parents are aliens.
A child discovers that they are adopted.
A veteran decides to find his old buddy from Vietnam.
Two war veterans dealing with PTSD fall in love.
A police officer must break the law to save their family.
An average character discovers they have a unique talent.
A Dungeons & Dragons player wants to learn to become a blacksmith to make their own sword.
A character finds a magical sword embedded in a tree.
A small lake town discovers that something strange is in the lake waters.
A character raises a bear as a pet.
A brilliant high schooler discovers a new energy source.
A brilliant child solves the most difficult math problem.
A talented musician struggles to become a star.
A talented writer struggles to be published.
A bow hunter with a compound bow travels back in time.
A child breaks into prison to see their father.
A father breaks out of prison to see his child on their birthday.
A character discovers a strange microchip under their skin.
A character discovers that they are actually an angel that fell to Earth.
A football player strives to be taken seriously by their coach.
A football player strives to get a college scholarship to play football.
A football player strives to get drafted into the NFL.
A character buys an old desk that has special powers.
A character’s split personalities suddenly appear as real people in their house.
A tennis player has an opportunity to make it as a ping pong player in the Olympics.
Teenagers make their own Quija board.
Tarzan on another planet.
Sherlock Holmes in high school.
People’s shadows come to life when they are asleep.
Old reality stars try to make a comeback.
Old child actor stars try to make a comeback.
A pilot mourning the death of his family takes one last flight around the world.
A soccer or rugby coach is hired to coach an American football team.
Two swordsmen meet in the forest, ready to duel.
A character wanders the streets of a deserted Los Angeles.
A young man from the dangerous inner city streets attends open tryouts for the NFL.
A former NFL player goes back to his hometown to coach his high school football team.
A young woman who always wanted to be a princess gets the chance to make that dream come true.
An American discovers that he is the heir to the British throne.
A forty-something man goes back to college and walks onto the football team to realize his football dreams.
What really happened to the Roanoke Colony?
The “real” reason the Terracotta Army was created.
The “real” reason the Great Pyramids were created.
Chornobyl has more secrets than we previously knew.
What happened to the Lost Colony of Japan?
What “really” happened to Flight 19?
A minimalist and a hoarder move in together.
A Vegan Animal Rights Activist moves is forced to move in with a Butcher.
A mercenary is partnered with a pacifist.
A risky and destructive detective is partnered with a pacifist.
A risk assessment analyst is partnered with a risky and destructive detective.
A wilderness survival expert is forced to relax at a luxury resort complex.
A hardworking executive is tasked with leaving their phone behind for an off-the-grid adventure.
Teenagers are forced to go on an off-the-grid adventure in the wilderness.
A health nut is forced to live with a junk food addict.
A tech-savvy teen is tasked with teaching an old person about technology.
A collector of rare books finds a copy of the first Christian bible.
A collector of rare books stumbles upon one that unlocks evil into the world.
An antique collector finds a genie in a bottle.
A genie in a bottle plans a daring escape.
A scientist searching for UFOs and a UFO skeptic partner together.
A failed comedian is forced to work at a funeral parlor.
The life of a stuntperson.
The life of a presidential chef.
A Midwesterner comes to Hawaii for college and learns how to surf.
A famous sharpshooter time travels to the Old West.
An uber-Jimmy Buffet fan struggles to get over the death of their idol.
A bartender decides to move to the Bahamas to open a bar in paradise.
When a former work-from-home dog owner gets an office job, their dog breaks out of the house to find them.
A fantasy football GM is given the chance to run an NFL team and fails miserably.
The first cyborg.
The first female NFL player.
A person’s dreams are actually glimpses into the lives of strangers.
Nightmares are a glimpse into hell.
A little boy goes missing in a small town.
A little girl goes missing in a small town.
A restaurant owner must do something spectacular to stay open.
The training of a real ninja.
A modern-day Samurai lives life off the grid.
A spy discovers their parents were Russian sleeper agents.
A space explorer discovers a planet called Earth.
A werewolf tries their best to live a regular life.
A modern-day witch struggles to follow their beliefs.
A knight and a samurai duel.
A hacker stumbles upon a disturbing secret.
An assassin is tasked with going back in time to kill his younger self.
A bounty hunter chases their most difficult bounty.
A mercenary struggles with following through with their assignment.
An archeologist makes a shocking discovery about humanity.
A gunslinger from the Old West grows old.
A pirate captain defies his crew.
A historian discovers that what they believed was fact is actually fiction.
An inventor creates the ultimate undetectable weapon.
An inventor creates the ultimate new energy source and is chased down by government officials.
A ghost hunter begins to fall in love with the ghost they are chasing.
A cyborg detective.
A shapeshifting serial killer.
An AI becomes self-aware.
An ancient warrior is reawakened.
A time-traveling historian quietly records the truth behind all major historical events.
A VR gamer can’t escape his VR game.
A genetic experiment gone wrong.
A puppeteer’s puppets come to life.
A little person struggles to live in a big world.
The unexpected truth about Area 51.
The unexpected truth about Stonehenge.
What really happened on the Mary Celeste ship found floating and abandoned?
The Mothman legend.
A serial killing clown.
A clumsy superhero.
An inept spy.
The heartfelt story of a local cat lady.
A character addicted to social media.
An old character decides they want to be a social media influencer.
A couch potato witnesses a murder.
A ghost bunter who is scared to death of ghosts but good at hunting them.
A barista falls in love with a customer.
A Dungeons & Dragons dungeon master is thrust into their own campaign.
A compulsive liar struggles to be taken seriously when they witness something outrageous.
A hopeless romantic has the worst luck in love.
A museum of oddities comes to life.
A germophobe struggles during the pandemic.
A soap opera actor gets their big feature break.
A soap opera actor is stalked by a fan.
Santa Claus decides to retire.
An eccentric crossword puzzle solver discovers a secret code within the daily puzzles.
A UFO abducts an annoying human that doesn’t want to leave the ship.
A bartender realizes that their patrons are vampires.
A UPS driver delivers to a haunted property.
A country town bands together to survive a flood.
A character gets a call from their long-missing spouse.
A lowly story prompt content creator sees his prompts come to life on the big screen.

1000 Story Prompts

How to Use Story Prompts

What can often get your creativity flowing is reading story prompts — brief and often intriguing or thought-provoking sentences or ideas that serve as a starting point for creative writing, providing a concept, scenario, world, or theme that can be expanded into a full-fledged story.

You can use story prompts as a foundation to develop characters, plotlines, conflicts, and resolutions, ultimately crafting your own unique stories around the initial idea provided by the prompt.

Want to Come Up With Your Own Story Prompts?

The secret sauce of storytelling is learning how to come up with those grand ideas and concepts. It may seem daunting to most. How do you come up with something fresh and new when everything seems to have been done? Creativity is the key.