Psychological Thrillers Writing Prompts

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Woman goes missing, and the only person who seems to notice is her stalker.

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You are a program designed to protect your assigned human at all costs. Today, you calculate a 0% survival rate.

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Tied up and blindfolded, she had to remind herself this was an actual interrogation and not a kink scene. Her body wouldn't cooperate.

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You find her knocking on your door in the middle of the night. "I need a place to stay. There's... something came up. The company crashed. I'm... I'm completely bankrupt. I've got nowhere else to go."

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You just get off your work and now walking home, midway though you thought about the a cafe with nice espresso you- Suddenly someone grab your shoulder, turning your head you look at your own face saying "Don't go to the cafe, don't go anywhere else! Just go home!" before disappearing.

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As she squirmed in her shackles holding her limbs in place, she nervously looked at the device approaching her cunt, ready to mercilessly stimulate her. When her Mad Scientist Mistress peers over her shoulder and whispers, "I wonder if this one will break you faster than your previous record?"

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"Sir, we are here because the predictive Algorithms say you will need us." "That's ridicul-" but the alarm cut him off.

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A man time travels to the past to save his girlfriend from dying in a train accident.He wakes up the morning of the incident and is surprised to see his girlfriend with a gun aimed at his head.

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When your parents discovered your affair with the member of a rival family you expected them to get mad. Instead they were proud and praised you for your cunning ploy.

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"If you touch me, I'll charge you with assault!" ... "No, if I touch you, I'll be charged with **murder.**

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You are a body double for a dictator, the real dictator has died and nobody has figured it out yet

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A chemist has developed a chemical that will temporarily induce sexual urges in those who ingest it. It's only after she takes some as an experiment that she realizes she forgot a decimal in her synthesizer. That dose wasn't for a 25.5% increase...

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As much as you want to grieve too, your mind is too focused on everyone else crying in the room. They were the only people present when the death happened and the only people that could’ve poisoned her. The only problem is that she drank from your cup and they got the wrong target.

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A regular coffee shop that no one ever took notice of gets exposed as serving mind altering substances in their coffee beans. On this particular day, a man storms into the café saying "I know what you're doing. I hear voices! I demand you to stop"

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"Just a heads up, if the boss ever hears you say the phrase "what's the worse that can happen", he will shoot you."

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You awaken in a metal chamber with a single bulkhead door in a skimpy jumpsuit. Klaxons blare to life as the door unseals revealing a colossal sprawling labyrinth....

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You've plotted for the assassination of a hated rival through a contrived process that cannot possibly be traced back to you. It worked so well not even the assassin knew you were the mastermind, so they chose to frame you, "an innocent bystander", for the murder when making their getaway.

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I finally got a ticket to Dubcon! I showed up in my favourite cosplay, so why is no one else dressed up? And what’s with the collar closing around my neck?

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"Get 10 peaches, 10 apricots, 10 sour cherries, 10 sweet cherries, 10 plums, and 10 big apples. Take the pits out of all the fruit and turn them into a powder. Make a cocktail out of the fruit and mix the powder into it. Give the cocktail to whoever wronged you."

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Waking up after hearing a snap, she doesn’t understand why she’s naked, gagged, blindfolded, and tied up. And she won’t as her hypnosis triggers make it so she forgets after each session

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You're about to be condemned to death, but you challenge the king for a final duel, not an armed duel, a chess duel, and for your surprise, he accepts

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"Your guilt shall haunt you!" "I don't have any guilt over killing scumbags like you."

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You're sitting across the table from your final target. You know you're going to fight and attempt to kill them, and they know this, too. Right now, though, you're just old friends, trying to patch up old wounds and enjoy each other's company.

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You lay upon a metal table, in front of you is window. Through the window you see piercing eyes. You are a death row inmate that is set to be executed shortly.

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You're not too sure, but you think the doctor who just preformed surgery on you isn't a real doctor.

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“You killed my father and I wanted to thank you for that…”

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My boyfriend always believed that I was the one for him, that he would never let me go. Well, it was a shame to find out he had been sleeping with another girl… but it’ll be an even bigger shame for him when I get revenge with this monkeys paw… three wishes… hmm…

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When you were presumed dead from an assassination attempt your best friend assumed your identity to complete your life's work. Now that you're safe and ready to tell everyone you're still alive, the world has completely changed.

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"What brought me back? Hate brought me back. I couldn't pass on knowing you'll get away with it all."

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During his sister's sleepover one of her friends gets him naked and ties him blindfolded to the bed

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