WritingPrompts

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[WP] You've noticed that unlike the rest of your companions, the elves you're travelling with have never excused themselves to answer nature's call, even though they eat and drink just as often as you do. When you work up the courage to ask the elves about this, their explanation astounds you.	1930
[WP] The kind Princess wishes for a handsome Prince to rescue her from the Dragon, but in her kingdom they see this as an outdated trope. So, she languishes in a tower as the kingdom patiently waits for her to rescue herself, fall in love with the Dragon, or reveal that she was the Dragon all along.	321
[WP] A mummy on display at the British Museum gets fed up with all the small children constantly yelling at it ("Mummy? Mummy!") and finally decides to get up out of its sarcophagus, and find out what the hell all these little British kids could possibly want from a 3000 year-old Pharaoh.	301
[EU] As the Lorax is making his big speech, he's suddenly interrupted. He turns to see a small furry creature holding an an axe on his shoulder, and cradling a tiny sapling ready to be replanted. "Stop this dramatic one-sided hornswoggling! I'm the Xarol: I speak for responsible logging!"	216
[WP] An evil spirit is summoned by the use of a Ouija board. Usually it'd be impersonating a dead relative to deceive a foolish mortal, possessing a weak-minded occultist -- the usual. To its surprise, it appears in a living room to find a bored housecat idly batting the planchette around the board.	52
[WP] Personal names are now exchanged with millions of people over the internet, diluting the mystical power they once had. Otherworldly beings like fairies must instead join scammers in seeking out the personal designations that today's people keep secret: their SSN, SIN, or NIN.	29
[WP]You guard the Museum of Conceptual Science, containing the actual Mary's Room, Hilbert's Hotel, Plato's Cave, and many others, all accessible via The Problematic Trolley. Schrodinger's Cat and Roko's Basilisk are safely caged as usual, but what's this?! Someone stole the Arrow of Entropic Time!	13
[WP] You own a particularly smart Border Collie. Today you came home and greeted him as usual: "Hello, baby! Did you miss Mommy/Daddy?" In a firm but caring voice, he replied "(Your name), this needs to STOP. I am a DOG, and this is NOT healthy for either of us."	12
[WP] In a future world where ascended humans uplifted their favorite animals to carry on the legacy of Earth before departing, a sentient bipedal Panda tries to ensure the survival of it's dwindling species by constantly coaxing other Pandas to mate with each other, as the vanished humans once did.	10
[WP] An island has been discovered that harbors hundreds of species of animals thought to be long extinct, from many different prehistoric eras. However, due to their confined environment, all of said species have been drastically effected by insular dwarfism.	9

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