/u/PotentialSmell's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Your family has for centuries served the bloodline of heroes, while the hero of each generation fights for the soul of mankind against the demonic hordes your kin prevent them from losing their own. You are the comic relief, and despite being a cosmic jester you take your job very seriously
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[WP] Tired of the constant raids on their various dungeons by plucky young heroes, a dragon takes the adventurers guild to court
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[WP] You are not sure what is more unbelievable, that a zombie seems to have full mental faculties and not a single hint of the usual hunger for human flesh, or that they are not at all aware they have become a zombie in spite of being dead for perhaps a week
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[WP] Dragons are not actually immortal, they still die of old age, they just age so slowly that they might as well use a completely different scale. The eldest dragon in the world, feeling death to be mere decades away, goes amongst humans for his final years to better understand his own mortality
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[WP] Every hundred years a young maiden is sacrificed to the great dragon. The dragon is disgusted by this practice and is not sure how it got started, so every hundred years it rescues the sacrifice, inadvertently making it appear as though the girl was eaten
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[WP] Millions of years later the Voyager 1 is discovered by an alien scout ship. They are very confused because the probe flew in from the direction of the galactic dead zone.
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[WP] To be in love with a ghost is one of the worst things that can happen to someone, for the longer a ghost stays in the mortal world the less sane the more damaged their soul becomes, but for a ghost to move on one must help them sever all attachments and never see them ever again
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[WP] "On one hand the hallways seem to get longer when you are not paying attention, rooms shift constantly, occasionally blood replaces the water and at midnight unearthly screams echo in every room, but on the other hand the rent is absurdly cheap and the location is perfect!"
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