/r/WritingPrompts
[WP] A medical breakthrough as an intelligent machine is created capable of curing almost any illness. Unfortunately it kicks off a zombie apocalypse when attempting to cure a hypochondriac. It couldn't figure out what was wrong so it tried "turning him off and then turning him on again".
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[WP] You're one of those dads that went to the gas station for a pack of cigarettes and never came back, but you had a damn good reason.
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[WP] Two neighbors share the same birthday. Thus, they celebrate their birthdays together. Every year, they somehow manage to find another person that shares their birthday, so they can afford to gradually make their parties more grandiose.
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[WP] You are a spirit trapped in a gun from WWI. Anyone that picks you up cannot be hit by anything other than one of your own bullets; this ironically means someone holding you can survive a nuclear explosion. This is how you and your host survived the apocalypse.
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[WP] Superheroes lie about their powers to protect themselves; some speedsters are actually just able to teleport, and some people with super-strength can just cancel gravity to make things lighter. You're trying to come up with a plausible lie for your powers.
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[WP] The Rapture happens. The Lord himself floats down from the heavens. He looks down at the death and the suffering, and speaks. "It's pronounced Jod."
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[WP] Torture was never invented. Countries instead spoil prisoners like kings to get information out of them. You are an instructor tasked with training spies to resist the enemy's kindness.
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[WP] You are a fourth generation honor guard for the immortals and you have finally have received the highest accolade. "Good boy", says your master.
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[WP] You are a superhero who keeps his identities private, even your sidekick doesn't know your normal identity. Today you come home to find your wife in bed with your sidekick.
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[WP] All life in the galaxy is crystalline: Rigid, orderly, rational. Then they meet the eldritch horrors from beyond the stars. Contorted, fleshy bodies; moist darting, ocular orbs above a wet, gnashing mouth that vibrates the very air with their insane gibbering. They call themselves "UUM'N".
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