/r/WritingPrompts
[WP] A Selkie and a Mermaid meet on dry land. They hide their non-human origins from each other and become close. Fascinated by humans, they do their best to demonstrate human knowledge to one another. Hoping that the other doesn’t suspect anything.
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[WP] Everyone knows the symbolism of a dove carrying an olive branch. But what about a dragon landing at the castle gates with an olive tree in tow?
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[WP] "Name one reason I can't run for president." "You're a colony of parasitic worms puppeting a human skeleton." "It's only a plastic skeleton."
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[WP] God loves all mankind, and he feels our pain. All our pain, all the time. An angel has arrived with a message: god can't take it anymore, there are too many humans in too much pain. He's giving us one year to improve things or else he's just going to start cutting down the population again...
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[WP] You’re a supervillain that was working on a grand scheme until the hero came by, massacred hundreds of your minions, and foiled your plans. Now at their mercy, you closed your eyes and accepted your death when suddenly they let you go, claiming that if they kill you, they’ll be just like you.
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[WP] You were abandoned by your parents as a child and raised by wolves until you were 14, when you reentered society. Now, 15 years later, you are a successful forest ranger bringing your fiancee back home to meet the folks for the first time.
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[WP] You're a 50+ year old woman who has found the cure for wrinkles, and you've just evaded the tenth attempt on your life by a dermatologist.
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[WP] It's been four years since the apocalypse. However, you slept through it, and honestly have no idea what happened. People refer to it as vague things, such as The Cataclysm, The Event, or That Day. You've begun to suspect that nobody actually knows what happened, but doesn't want to admit it.
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[WP] The protagonists of a mystery, a fantasy and a romance find themselves in a drama gathered around a dying man in a hospital bed. Each of them think they're still in their own genre and intepret the situation as such.
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