/r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Death has been on holiday since the start of 2016. You're his right hand, the Reaper in charge whenever he's gone. He's scheduled to be back in a weeks time, and you're panicking on how to explain what you've done this year.
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[WP] You are an elder god taking a vacation on Earth when aliens invade. You teleport to their capital ship and explain them that if they don't leave you will wipe out their entire species with a single thought. They dont believe you so you wipe out 10% of them to show you're serious.
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[WP] As it turns out, humans are not the generic, good guy, center of the galaxy type species. Humans are a specialist species, and the rest of the galaxy only cares about one thing when it comes to humanity. Our explosives.
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[WP] It's an ordinary day, you've just left work and are heading to your car. Just before you open the cardoor, 8 words appear in front of you- YOU CANNOT FAST TRAVEL WHEN ENEMIES ARE NEARBY.
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[WP] You've just died and find yourself in a room filled with animals. Recognizing a few as your past pets, you soon find out that your afterlife will be based on their testimony. You feel comforted when you see your childhood dog, but then you notice the cat you shared with your college roommate.
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[WP] Working as a world renowned therapist you have uncovered far more about secret conspiracies, horrific monsters, barely failed schemes to destroy the world and dark magical cults from your myriad of heroic patients than you could have bargained for, and you might need therapy yourself
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[WP] "So yea, I'm kind of a chicken magnet." "Don't you mean chick magnet?" *Distant Bawking Intensifies* "We've gotta go, NOW!"
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[WP] An armada of alien warships descends upon our planet, only to find a desolate wasteland void of life. A lone android surfaces from an underground bunker with a message for the would-be invaders: his masters are slumbering in the Silicon Dream. Do not disturb, or your annihilation will be swift.
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[WP] A virus causes all animals on Earth to become hostile towards each other. A tech startup mass produces small spheres which can contain the animals, while the government starts a propaganda campaign that encourages young children to “catch them all”.
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[WP] A diner next to a cemetery is staffed by the ghosts of those buried nearby. Some of the staff know they're dead, but keep this a secret from the ones who don't. No one knows where the diner came from, it just appeared one day. But the food is so good that people in town keep coming back...
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