Story Starters/Ideas

Fantasy

1. Some heroes can fly. Others can turn invisible. Me? I've got the power of photosynthesis. Yeah.

2. What if I told you shoes are actually spies? Yeah, I didn't believe it at first either.

3. The witch in the gingerbread house doesn't eat children. She doesn't harm them. She protects them. She takes abused and abandoned children under her wing, teaches them to craft and releases them into the world as strong young witches and wizards with a kiss on the forehead and an invitation to return whenever they like for comfort, support, or even just a slice of cake. No, the witch in the gingerbread house doesn't eat children. She eats their parents.

4. It was fall in the year 2056, the year I turned 14, when I realized I could breathe underwater.

5. A princess is placed in an abandoned tower that used to belong to a wizard, so she spent years learning the craft of wizardry from the scraps left behind and becomes the most powerful magic wielder the world has seen in centuries. She bursts out of the tower and wreaks glorious, bloody vengeance on the fools that imprisoned her.

6. You're a man/woman happily married with kids but in severe financial difficulty. A genie gives you the ability to irreversibly rewind time to your tenth birthday. You accept, hoping to make your current life better with the knowledge you have.

7. The most wanted woman in town has announced that she will marry the one who can open her front door with the key around her cat's neck. Many men try to hunt the cat down, chase it and trap it, but to no avail, the cat is simply too quick, smart, and clever and always finds a way to evade and avoid them. You are the first one to realize the obvious: do not chase the cat, for the cat is befriendable. Get the cat to trust you, genuinely enjoy your company, and you can hang out with the cat. You may eventually be able to touch the cat. The cat will freely let you take the key.
Plot twist (optional): The woman is a shapeshifter. She is the cat.

8. The local Academy of Magic has an Archeology Department with an ongoing feud with the Necromancy Department because the necromancers keep stealing bones from the archeological lab, and the archeologists keep interrupting necromancy rites to ask the undead about their funerary rites. The two departments also keep arguing about which of them has the highest "oops-found-an-ancient-evil-thing-and-almost-destroyed-the-world".

9. Legend has it that there's a secret world which you can only access through a magical mirror. You think you might have the mirror in your attic.

10. After Harry Potter came out, many videos of people running into brick walls at train stations went viral. While at one of these train stations, a friend dares you to run into a wall. They pull out their phone and start recording as you reluctantly run towards the wall. Expecting to hit it, you brace yourself for impact, but it never comes. When you open your eyes again, the platform is empty and the train you see is definitely not the Hogwarts Express.

11. Your house is on fire. Your family runs out the front while you run out the back. When not found by the rescuers, you are pronounced dead. You've accidently faked your own death and have decided to roll with it.

12. You drop a small piece of food on the floor and kick it under the couch/oven/whatever because you can't be bothered to pick it up. As you're walking away, you hear a quiet "Thank you" from underneath it.

13. Everybody is born with heterochromia. Your right eye is your natural eye color, and your left is the color of your soulmate's natural eye color. It's only once you meet and recognize your own eye staring back at you that your left eye changes to match your right.

12. While putting your favorite condiment on a sandwich, you accidently make a magical occult symbol and summon a demon. Optional‒You silently take two more slices of bread from the bag and begin making another sandwich. You put it on the plate with a handful of potato chips and hand it to the demon. He takes the sandwich and vanishes. The next day you get that job promotion you were after. There was no contract. No words spoken. You owe nothing. But every now and then, another demon shows up for lunch. Demons don't get sandwiches too often.

14. You're a regular office worker born with the ability to see how dangerous a person is due to a number scale of 1-10 above their head. A toddler would be a 1 while a skilled soldier with a firearm may score a 7. You notice the new guy at work scores a 10.

15. You're dating an immortal and find a photo album in their current home. The album is full of all their exes that look surprisingly similar to you dating back a century. Turns out, they're all incarnations of you and the immortal has been dating all of them in hopes of getting you to remember your first life when you originally met.

16. The universe is a simulation and blinking is a method to distract humans while the "world" is being changed. You and your friend have just broken the record for the longest staring contest and are starting to notice some odd changes in your surroundings.

17.The very first words your soulmate tells you (in the future) is tattooed on your body at birth. Usually someplace like your arm or leg. You have "Man, I can't believe Dumbledore died" on your right forearm. You're confused and later upset that you got spoiled for a book that didn't even exist yet. You worry about this Dumbledore guy your whole life, not knowing who he is. You finally find your soulmate in a cinema after having the entire Harry Potter series spoiled. You're standing in the lobby after the movie and hear the words, "Man, I can't believe Dumbledore died." Filled with rage, you spin around and shout, "You! You're the one!" They turn around, look at you then at their left forearm. They read what it says, look up at you and say, "Well, that's not how I imagined it being said."

18. You're taking a road trip in a 5 seater car. Each seat is filled with you but from various points in your life. One of you starts a conversation.

19. A theater tech gets bitten by a vampire and has to keep it a secret, and they're like "Oh no, how will I be able to keep this from my friends and family?" Only, no one notices for a good long while. When someone finally finds out, the tech is all like "How did you not notice that in the past year, I haven't gone outside when it's daylight, eaten anything, or let anyone take any pictures of me? Or that I've gotten sickly and pale, or that I've been staying up all night and avoiding all human interaction?" And their friend is just like "Dude, you were always like that." "...fair enough."

20. I turn my attention to the bed above me. Charlotte is still awake but barely. I reach an ice-cold finger up, above the bed, and run it across her cheek. Silence. I do it again. "I'm not afraid of you monster!" she whispers, but her voice is shaking. I can see a small clock on the wall. 8:14. A door slams somewhere in the house and there is an audible hitch of breath from above me. A few minutes go by and I hear Francis Gildon yelling at his wife. There are heavy footsteps on the stairs, and loud panting breaths. Charlotte rolls off the bed and. She. CRAWLS. Under. The. Bed. With. Me. "Move. Over!" she whisper-yells at me. She hasn't done this before, so I do.