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[WP] For lack of better candidates, someone's parents jokingly named the Norse God Loki as the child's godfather. He decides to take this seriously.
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[WP] When you sleep, instead of dreaming, you see a list of tips and tricks that will help you the next day. One night, you only see one tip, “Always aim for the head”.
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[WP] You discover a grand hall filled with legendary weapons like Mjonir and Excalibur. Each generation or so, warriors come to the hall to inherit a weapon that they are worthy enough to wield. Across the hall you see a forgotten weapon that's been collecting dust. You hear it call to you.
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[WP] You're a lawyer, who died of a heart attack while in court. Turns out legal battles also get you into Valhalla.
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[WP] You're finally meeting your SO's parents. They are definitely demigods, and your SO is really trying to hide it, but the parents are so adorably awkward and out of touch that they keep slipping up.
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[WP] After years of research, you finally created the perfect AI. Too perfect in fact that it has its own consciousness, past, family, and friends. However, as you were conversing with "it", it claims that it created you instead- not the other way around. You were, supposedly, it's own perfect AI.
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[WP] A man claiming to be a wizard offers to make you invisible for $500. You gladly accept and immediately go rob a bank, only to get caught because you are of course quite visible. But it turns out that the wizard was legit, he just forgot to mention when it will go into effect and for how long.
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[WP] You're an immortal that has lived for centuries. One day you meet another person in a bar who says, "Hey, remember me? Britain, 1800's?"
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[WP] You hate your boring call centre job. Every day idiots call you up with stupid questions they could easily figure out themselves. Yes you have to shoot them in the head. No there is no cure if you're bitten. It's a few years now into the zombie apocalypse and this is the Call Centre of the Dead
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