/r/WritingPrompts

Title	Upvotes	Author
[WP] You are a software developer with a strange power. You can tell what the cost of a line of code is. Normally the cost is measured in cpu cycles, or bytes of RAM, or hours of future maintenance. Today it's measured in lives lost.	6942	Swiftster
[WP] Someone is trying to complete the captcha on a website, but just can't seem to complete it. Slowly he starts to realize that he's a robot.	6938	Bregtc
[WP] The seven aspects of the universe gathered in the room, Good, Evil, Life, Death, Order, Chaos, and Dave, from accounting.	6935	KingManTheSaiyan
[WP] When you gain a superpower it is a reflection of your inner self, good people tend to get typical 'good' powers such as flight while bad people get 'bad' powers such as mind control. Oddly enough the top superhero and supervillain each have powers that seemingly do not suit them at all	6933	PotentialSmell
[WP] Aliens have come across one of the Pioneer spacecrafts and have tried using the map to trace it back to its origin. However, there is some debate on whether or not this is the right solar system, as the plaque shows 9 planets, but this one only has 8 according to the inhabitants of the 3rd plan	6931	Jasper_Ridge
[WP] Everyone hates Stan. However, you are the new guy and no one will tell you why they hate Stan. You decide to talk to Stan. Its been 3 months and now you're telling the new guy why everyone hates Stan.	6930	Rosenlyn
[WP] The apocalypse has begun. The four horsemen are Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates.	6929	etymologynerd
[WP] You commit a crime. Time passes and it seems like you have gotten away with it. One day you are called to jury duty and when you the trail starts, you realise that the trail is for the crime that you committed.	6927	FaceKissing
[WP] A broke adventure has to buy cheap terrible items with weird curses on them. Little do they know that those cursed items happen to synergize so well together that they quickly become overpowered.	6927	Two-thirdsBucky
[WP] You'll soon arrive at Earth. The latest reports are from just 4 centuries ago and show a backwards planet, so technologically primitive it hurts. Just wait until those peasants gawk at your wondrous technical displays, like the Talking Box and the Image Viewer! They'll think you're a god!	6926	Xedro

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