WritingPrompts

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[WP] Bored, you decide to run a "party visits the real world" session with your gaming group. Reading the news the next day, you discover that a group matching your players' characters is credited with taking down a local mob boss... who also seems to exactly match the villain you had in your game.	448
[WP] When you're a mad scientist, the saying "The real treasure is the friends you made along the way!" is quite a bit more literal than anyone nearby is comfortable with.	434
[WP] You're a superhero, but not one who (normally) fights villains. No, your job is pulling survivors from the rubble, evacuating dangerous areas, stabilizing the wounded, and generally keeping civilian casualties to a minimum as the chaos of battle rages around you.	414
[WP] After a year of ominously observing us, the aliens make an announcement. "People of Earth, we have judged your species and come to a verdict. Every last one of you needs therapy."	404
[WP] Turns out that Death doesn't actually mind people becoming immortal... as long as they do it right. No, it's when they fuck it up and cause disastrous consequences for themselves and everyone nearby - causing lots of extra work for Death in the process - that Death gets pissed.	380
[WP] Write a mystery story in which the detective gets it wrong, but the reader can figure it out.	369
[WP] It's not that vampires are particularly weak to sunlight. It's more that the sun absolutely hates vampires. Sixteen minutes and forty seconds of light lag, then the beam hits. And if it happens to miss? The next shot won't be the kind that needs to aim.	345
[WP] A time traveler and an oracle are dating; the oracle sets a date by burying it for the time traveler to dig up thousands of years later.	336
[WP] After dying, you were confronted by a man at a desk who listed your afterlife options. Heaven sounded awful, Hell was a no go, and you didn't fancy Reincarnation, leaving you with only one option. Welcome to Grim Reaper Boot Camp, Cadet!	299
[WP] When humanity developed FTL, the specifics of the drive meant that each ship needed to be the size of Manhattan and built like an anti-nuke bunker to survive a trip, not to mention using enough power to fry a continent. This was shocking to aliens more used to gentler, subtler means of travel.	279

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