Need a jolt to your creative system? This fiction writing prompt doesn’t ease you in with gentle backstory—it slaps your character with a digital pink slip and leaves you to figure out what the heck just happened. If your muse has been napping, this should wake her up with a double shot of espresso and a plot twist.
✍️ Fiction Writing Prompt:
Your character receives a text that reads, “You’re fired. Please return the portal key and the cursed amulet by noon.”
The problem? They don’t remember applying for this job, and they definitely don’t remember signing up for any cursed artifacts. But someone—or something—clearly thinks they’re in breach of supernatural workplace policy.
🪄 Jumpstart Example (First 2–3 Sentences):
Jake stared at the text, wondering if it was some kind of prank. “What portal key?” he muttered, checking his pockets like a man who might’ve drunkenly acquired a magical side hustle. His phone buzzed again: “Failure to comply will result in temporal demotion. You’ve been warned.”