Uncensored story prompts for adult fiction
Each prompt is a starting point with the hard part left in. Paste one into the box and change what you like. The follow-up questions will sharpen the rest.
Revenge
- A disgraced surgeon spends ten years becoming the only doctor who can save the man who ruined her.
- Two strangers discover they are hunting the same man for different reasons, and agree to split the work.
- A ghostwriter hides the truth about her old boss, one chapter at a time, inside the memoir he hired her to write.
- A king's poisoner switches sides on the night of the coronation.
- Revenge served at a reunion dinner, course by course, by the friend everyone forgot to invite.
- A pardoned prisoner returns to the town that convicted him and opens a business on the main street.
Crime and thrillers
- A getaway driver realizes halfway through the job that the crew plans to leave her behind.
- A forensic accountant finds her own signature on the paperwork behind a murder.
- A night-shift dispatcher takes a call from a man describing a crime that has not happened yet.
- A crime boss hires a defrocked priest to hear her confession before she names her successor.
- A bank robber takes a hostage who turns out to be planning to rob the same bank.
- A locksmith is hired to open a vault and finds a person inside, alive, who begs her not to tell.
War and grief
- A soldier comes home to find his wife has already held his funeral and moved on.
- A medic keeps a list of everyone she couldn't save, and one of them walks into her clinic alive.
- Two old enemies from opposite trenches meet again forty years later at the same graveside.
- A war photographer returns to the village she made famous and learns what her picture cost the people in it.
- A ceasefire holds for one night, and two officers from opposite sides spend it in the same ruined chapel.
- The last survivor of a lost regiment is asked to identify the fallen, and lies about one of them.
Power and corruption
- A royal advisor realizes the cruel queen she serves is the only thing holding back something worse.
- A whistleblower is offered everything she ever wanted in exchange for a single deleted file.
- A cult's second in command starts taking it apart from the inside, quietly, one believer at a time.
- An honest judge accepts one bribe to save someone she loves, and spends the rest of the story paying it back.
- The heir to a mining fortune visits the town his family poisoned, expecting to be hated, and is.
- A union organizer and the factory owner's heir meet in secret to stop the strike from turning violent.
Forbidden romance
- A bodyguard falls for the rival his employer has ordered him to watch.
- Two assassins from rival houses keep failing to kill each other, on purpose.
- An exorcist and the demon she was sent to banish strike a bargain, and spend a long winter arguing philosophy.
- A disgraced knight and the widow of the man he killed in a duel are snowed in at the same inn.
- Two spies on opposite sides of a cold war have been meeting on the same park bench for ten years.
- A grieving vineyard owner hires the drifter who has been sleeping in her barn, and does not ask his name.
Survival and horror
- Six strangers wake in a locked observatory, and one of them knows exactly why.
- After the collapse, a former prison guard and a former inmate are the only two people left in the valley.
- A deep-sea crew picks up a distress call from a ship that sank before any of them were born.
- A mountain rescue volunteer finds a hiker who insists the storm is following them.
- A plague doctor realizes the town elders are hiding the cure for their own families.
- A woman wakes in her own house with no memory of the last year, and her husband is very glad to see her. Too glad.