High School Science Fiction Writing Prompts

Walking to work one day, staring off into the clouds, the sky starts to fracture in front of your eyes...

Write a poem based on this scene.

For your birthday, you receive a pair of glasses that allow you to see hidden or invisible things…

Write a short story that follows an archaeologist excavating a city 500 years from now.

What has lasted 500 years, and what hasn’t? What do they discover, and what goes unfound?

You live in a world where you are assigned a pet animal since birth.

It is not necessary to include mythical animals but don’t feel limited to just domesticated pets!

Write the origin story of a supernatural villian.

Make this villian up instead of using one from a story. How did they come to be evil?

In a world where space travel is the norm, your protagonist chooses to stay on earth.

Write a story from this character's point of view, revealing details about their reasons for this stance.

If you put a special mixture on your eyelids before sleep, you will dream of how you will die.

Describe what you dream the night you decide to finally do it. Remember it is a dream, so it can have surreal elements that don't make logical sense, but still have meaning.

Write a story where all the dialogue takes place through telepathy.

You don't only have to write dialogue, but consider how telepathy would affect the incorporation of action, tone, and development of your story.

When a person meets the love of their life, they unlock an extra sense.

Write about how your protagonist discovers theirs, and what it turns out to be.

Your character has an intense dream, and it starts to affect how they behave in real life.

You could go into detail of the dream, but focus on why elements of it affect the character in the real world.

You're at work, when the imminent end of the world is announced.

What happens next?

Human emotions can be extracted and sold as the new favourite drug. Your protagonist is about to buy an emotion...

Try to describe in detail the feelings of your protagonist, real or bought.