/u/Preserved_Moose's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You thought it would just be a normal driving test. Get in, do what they say, get your licence. So how the hell did you end up in this situation? How will you get out in one piece? More importantly, is this an automatic fail or can you scrape a pass, assuming you don’t both die horribly?
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[WP] A promising musician loses the use of their hands and can never play again. They know somewhere out there is a recording of them playing and they decide the only way they can move on is if they track it down.
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[WP] A time traveler can’t change the past but they can change the present by going into the future, researching their own time and using the information they find to their advantage when returning.
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[WP] Wake up, you’re a zombie now! You don’t know how, you were never bitten and you’re still your lucid self. Sure, you now have a craving for human flesh but maybe you can control it. Maybe. Anyway, time to get up and solve your own murder!
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[WP] In an alternative 1970s, struggling musicians David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed share an apartment together. They hang out, they jam, they clash and just about scrape rent every month playing clubs. All their music might still exist here but it isn’t so well known - if it’s even been recorded.
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[WP] “I don’t want to hear any more excuses!” Mum yelled at us. “People don’t “just” explode. What the hell did you do to your babysitter?!”
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[WP] You miss the last bus home at night and find yourself stranded at the bus station. Your best option is to hold out a few hours for the first bus on the morning. It looks like a few other people are in the same situation. You are all about to find out that fate brought you together for a reason.
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[WP] You know what the outcome of every event will be. You also know that no matter what happens leading up to it, the outcome will not change. You could jump off a cliff but if the outcome isn’t you dying you know the universe will find a realistic way, however improbable, to make you survive.
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[WP] Your job is to clean up crime scenes once forensics are done with them. One day there is a particularly nasty murder, You now it will be a big job. After being given the all clear to clean up you go in to find the place perfectly clean as if nothing happened.
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