/r/WritingPrompts

Title	Upvotes	Author
[WP]: It is customary to propose a marriage by sticking an ornate dagger on your love's door. The bigger and more beautiful the weapon is, the more tempting the offer. One morning you wake up to a massive, engraved claymore stabbed right through your front door.	570	actually_crazy_irl
[WP] You are a renowned engineer nearing death. Expecting to find some form of afterlife, you instead wake up in the body of a child who's been in a coma for a year. The year is 1973 and although you remember everything from this life, you seem to have retained the knowledge from your past life too.	570	SweeneyPie
[WP] You accidentally purchased WinRAR. Soon after, you were contacted by a powerful secret society welcoming you to their ranks.	570	Kaleon
[WP] You're a prolific serial killer. After careful study, the FBI created your profile: you're extremely intelligent, meticulous bordering on OCD, attractive, have a good job. Thing is, you're none of these. You're dumb as a rock. You just keep getting lucky.	570	imakesawdust
[WP] On paper, you’re the perfect doctor. You swiftly diagnose with accuracy and treat accordingly. After an in-depth audit of your every move, they still can’t figure out why you have such an absurdly high mortality rate.	570	JoggingSkeleton
[WP] An alien race invades Earth, expecting to strike fear into the hearts of many and have humanity bow down before them. However, it appears they severely miscalculated the size of a human.	570	maxthekillbot
[WP] Drug dealers have opened up a front business to mask their illegal activity only to realize that the front business is their true passion and calling in life.	569	kombuchaha
[WP] Instead of having laws controlling the population, each person has specific laws assigned to them specifically. Some people aren't allowed to murder, some aren't allowed to wear green. They forgot to tell you what your law was, but you're 47 and you still haven't broken it.	569	dax812
[WP] You are an exorcist in a world where demons don’t possess people, instead they reside within inanimate objects. A knife that instills bloodlust, a painting with a tiny imperfection that lures viewers to it to be devoured.	569	lordhelmos
[WP] Everyone has heard the fable of King Midas. There is some truth - the King really did exist and was your distant ancestor. In every generation of his bloodline born since one child is born with the same power, except over the next element higher in the periodic table than the previous child.	569	Lorix_In_Oz

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