/r/WritingPrompts

Title	Upvotes	Author
[WP] Turns out, most alien species actually evolved in the vacuum of space. Their bodies are unable to deal with even the weakest of gravitational fields and the presence of an atmosphere, hence they concluded life couldn't exist on planetary bodies...until they discovered humans.	566	RuberCuber
[WP] 30 years from today, an animal rights organization has developed a scanner which reproduces the animal’s circumstances of death upon scanning its meat. You decide to scan a cheeseburger for fun. You hear not a cow, but someone screaming desperately for help.	566	AlxRev
[WP] You and your friend, Mediterranean archaeologists, exploring a cave. You think you hear rocks shift. “Is somebody there?”, you say. “No”, your friend replies, “Nobody’s lived on this island for thousands of years, nobody’s here.” A voice suddenly booms throughout the cave: “Nobody? NOBODY!”	566	BlueJ5
[WP] First contact did not go as well as anyone planned. It turns out humans are regarded as the cutest most adorable organisms in the galaxy, and the only ones who didn’t know... was us.	566	nanobot001
[WP] You scare off even the toughest of villains by summoning giant, glowing, magical beasts. Little do they know, your only superpower is commanding a swarm of harmless fireflies.	566	Ashamed_Hand_7585
[WP] A thirteen year old child wanders the street of the city just trying to survive when they find an old man. He's very kind but too old to help himself, and so the kid decides to help him completely unaware that the old man is The Allfather Odin testing to see how far their kindness will go.	566	EllipsisMark
[WP] It takes the lives of 100 people to summon a hero, and every 100 more adds to their strength. You wake in a city filled with thousands of corpses, just as confused and terrified as the survivors.	566	Kancho_Ninja
[WP] A beverage distributor, a metallurgist, and a drug trafficker are sitting at a bar having a conversation. None of them realize that the others are talking about a different kind of coke.	566	saseg
[WP] Everyone received the exact amount of money they would need for the rest of their life. Most people got many thousands or even millions, while you were given exactly five bucks.	566	Kitty_Fuchs
[WP] First contact is established with an intelligent alien species. Oddly, they find humans adorable, and compulsively want to pet them. This wouldn't normally be a deal breaker per-se- they're a gentle and sensitive species... its just that they happen to be giant 12 legged spider creatures.	566	TheAero1221

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