/r/WritingPrompts

Title	Upvotes	Author
[WP] Enthralled with your magical studies, you only leave your retreat every 10 days to buy supplies from a nearby town. However, you've become something of a legend. The mystical hermit who arrives every 10 years without having aged a day.	6792	Nebarious
[WP] Your dad left when you turned 16. His, too. The night before your son’s 16th, you look in on him & can’t imagine leaving like they did. You wake up in a feudal inn. Walking down to the pub, you see every patriarch, back generations. Your dad stands: “Grab a seat, son! Tell me about your boy!”	6792	Styve2001
[WP] The world's most powerful leaders enter cryostasis as the world is on the brink of ecological collapse, planning to return when stability is assured. Hundreds of years later they are woken to stand trial. "The world was fixed while these men slept. An apology will not suffice".	6785	Go_easy_on_me_folks
[WP] Aliens arrived on earth, but they are super lame. The following decade after contact they take humanity as "the cool kids" and try hard to be like us.	6785	tao-nui
[WP] Reincarnation is real, but you've reincarnated into the same time period as you previous lived, and you've just met somebody you remember being.	6779	Daveator
[WP] The alien invaders don’t need to eat or drink. They photosynthesize. Outnumbered, our meager troops have made a last ditch effort: They’re leading them to Alaska, in November. As the sun dips past the horizon, we know it won’t rise for another two months. Oh, how they tables have turned.	6772	Captain_Cookiez
[WP] The protagonist has realized that they are not allowed to die, because it would end the story. They have now stopped giving a shit about danger and would rather do the opposite of what the story wants them to do.	6770	AX_ZonE
[WP] Zombies appear one day, and people are thankful for zombie media teaching them how to survive. Unfortunately for them, a cure is discovered just a few days later, and many are put on trial for shooting the infected that could have otherwise been saved.	6769	BrienneOfTurtles
[WP] As the Village Seer, you peer into the mystical to give the villagers sage wisdom from beyond. The problem is, you're not magical, you're just smart and you live in an exceptionally dumb village.	6768	baltinerdist
[WP] What’s worse than a mad scientist? A well-meaning scientist that has no comprehension what social upheaval their inventions will inflict on society. As the city’s superhero, it inevitably falls on you to explain, every time, to this socially oblivious genius what’s gone wrong and why.	6767	adriantullberg

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