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[WP] You are the greatest auditor the IRS has ever seen. You come in to work one morning and find a single black folder on your desk instead of a pile of manila ones. The Post-It on the front simply says "GOOD LUCK." You open the envelope and see your next client--Ron Swanson.
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[WP] You can see everyone's "Kill Number," the number of beings they've killed. Even for the most peaceful people this is in the tens of thousands, due to eating animals and stepping on bugs inadvertently. One day you see a person with the number Zero above their head.
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[WP] You're a demon who has just possessed a human. You... didn't expect your host's life to be THIS shitty. And now you're feeling bad for them, and quite angry at the people in their life.
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[WP] You wake up one day to find everyone talking in a gibberish language. You ask people if they speak English, and after being met with blank stares for hours, one woman responds. She tells you that English is a dead language, and she one of the few linguists who can speak it.
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[WP] You have the power to see someone's level and stats. One day while looking at levels you find someone's showing ???, with the title of admin above their head. The person looks at you and says "Isn't it rude to look at someone's level without their permission, could've asked me out first"
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[WP] It's surprisingly useful having a real witch helping out around the village. Plagues, sicknesses and animal attacks haven't been a problem ever since Old Mabel started practicing openly. So when some out-of-town witch hunters want to burn her at the stake, the villagers are none too pleased
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[WP]I recently got hired by some government acronym, and I’ve learned something interesting: magic is REAL, and migraines are our bodies response to MANA building up to dangerous levels.
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[WP] In 2009, Stephen Hawking threw a party for time travelers, sending the invitations out after the date of the party. He told the world nobody came. However, one guest did arrive from the future and gave Dr. Hawking a good reason never to tell anyone s/he had been there.
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[WP] Long ago our ancestors learned not to accept anything from a fey/faerie/elf, because this would set up a magical debt that could be called in for anything. Unbeknownst to us, modern fey have been giving out food samples at stores, and they are about to call in all their debts.
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