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Here you will find story starters and story endings to inspire you. Feel free to change the wording or the context!
- start a story with a uninvited guest
- start a story with a neighbourhood row
- start a story with a car crash
- start a story with a fall down the stairs
- start a story with a sinister phone call
- start a story with a door creaking open
- start a story with someone crying
- start a story with wet feet
- start a story with a bang to the head
- end a story with an explosion
- end a story with a tree falling
- end a story with a slammed window
- end a story with a broken chair
- end a story with spilled milk
- end a story with an unusual pet
- end a story with a howl of pain
- end a story with a masked figure
- end a story with a power cut
Creepy Prompts
- Write a story about an endless nightmare…
- write something about being followed…. by who or what? And why? What happens?
- The stone bridge rose out of the mist before me, choked with ivy and softened by moss…
- For 100 years the village had been terrorised by an unknown force…
- My grandmother said, ‘don’t ever get out of bed if you hear the whistling’…
- Something followed us home from the Holloway…
- Life in the thicket had a rhythm and a secret of its own…
- After the floods the land was washed clean but something had been left behind…
- In the morning we found several strange footprints around the perimeter of our tent…
Weather Prompts
- write a story about getting lost in a storm and things change from bad to worse…
- write a story about another world reflected in a puddle
- write a story where the animals know first that something is coming
- write a story about something strange left behind after a flood
- write a story that involves being trapped/stuck/lost/closed in or at the mercy of bad weather
- write a story that reflects the resilience needed to deal with bad weather…
