Detective Fiction writing prompt
The Taxi's Unknown Destination
In a bustling city, taxi drivers begin to disappear one by one, each after dropping off a mysterious passenger. Despite the lack of communication between drivers, they all share one commonality — they all logged an unknown destination before vanishing. A rookie detective decides to go undercover as a taxi driver to solve the disappearances.
Suggested length: A short story: 1,500 to 5,000 words, or flash fiction under 1,000
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Three ways to take this prompt somewhere nobody else will.
- 1Let the most helpful witness be the one with the most to hide.
- 2Tell it from the point of view of a suspect who is lying about something else.
- 3Give the victim a secret the reader learns before the detective does.
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