/r/WritingPrompts
[WP] A highly advanced alien species plan to invade the Earth. However, they learn about our legends, our mightiest heroes, our darkest monsters. Unaware of the concept of fiction, they start to rethink their strategy.
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[WP] A child with the uncanny ability to build anything is jokingly recruited by the UN to solve world peace. Three weeks later the child returns with a large box, smiles and asks, "give me a hard one next time!"
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[WP] it turns out that all aliens are disgusting and unhygienic, with disease and epidemic so common in the galactic community that there is usually at least 3 galactic pandemics at all times, and humans have decided to take up the challenge of putting an end to the galactic health crisis
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[WP] You are a monster who lives under them bed of a child in a bad situation, one day you decide that enough is enough.
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(WP) You have a friend who is from 100 years in the future. Though they vow never to reveal anything, once in a while you trick them into slipping up.
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[WP] You are part of a crew of astronauts sent to Proxima Centauri to explore the newly discovered exoplanet Proxima B. After 100 years of cryogenic sleep, you awake to find that soon after you left, humans discovered an ultra-fast method of space travel and beat you to the punch by decades.
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[WP] You post a picture on reddit of the stick your daughter found and is using as a magic wand. It is actually an ancient, powerful wand, and you just alerted the wizarding community to its presence.
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[WP] The Zombie apocalypse has finally happened. The dead rose from their graves all over the world. They do not however, crave flesh, eat brains or hunt humans. Honestly they don't do much of anything except shuffle around. The Zombie hordes are more of an inconvenience than the end of the world.
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[WP] Yes, he spends his spare time trying to summon unspeakable horrors from the darkness beyond reality. Yes he once tried to convince an intern to participate in a ritual sacrifice. But damn, if he isn't up for employee of the month again.
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[WP] They call you Perspective Man. remember when you were a kid, bored in the car pretending to crush distant things between your thumb and forefinger? Well that’s your power except it works. hungry? Just put your face right next to a cup cake, now it is giant. The possibilities are endless.
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