/u/SingularBlue's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You are shopping at a grocery store and there, on the soup shelves, is a misplaced can. The label reads "COSMIC HORROR", and underneath are the words "One Serving". The image on the label is a chaotic swarm of tentacles, eyes, cancerous growths, and hideously grinning mouths.
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[WP] You're a vampire in a 50+ community. You have to be careful who you prey on, because Cialis makes the blood you suck pool in strange areas, and blood tainted with Eliquis is just worthless.
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[WP] MISSION CONTROL: 'Freedom 12, Please respond" FREEDOM 12: "What?" MC: "Freedom 12, are you there?" F12: "Here Mission Control. The stars are different. I'm going outside to check it out." MC: "Negative Freedom 12. Stay in your capsule." F12: "They're calling me. Gotta go." MC: "Freedom 12?"
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[WP] You are the main realtor of a house buying show. Your producer has given you a supervillain as a client. The supervillain is looking for a new lair. Just by coincidence, you are aware of three "opportunities" that might fill the bill
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[WP] You are the Chosen One, but you refuse to take the bait. You know what happens to Messiahs, and you want no part of it. Far away, on a mountaintop, in the Shrine of the Small God comes spectral laughter and a voice that says, "Perfect. All according to plan!"
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[EU] "What do you think about time travel, Professor?" "I think it's a good thing it's not possible. You throw out causality and you have a shitshow on your hands. All you need is one do-gooder trying to "right wrongs" and you have a Time War. Then the Universe collapses." The student is Dr. Who.
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[WP] You enter one of those Christmas mazes on a lark, but a few hours later it doesn't seem like fun anymore. You turn a corner and come face to face to a not-so-jolly-anymore man in black boots and a red suit. "For the love of God, help me!" The man says. "I've got presents to deliver!"
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[WP] You come from a world without magic into a world where mundane people have immortal parts called 'souls'. You are mortal, and you have only one power: you can completely destroy magic. During an exorcism you accidentally destroy both the demon and the victim's soul. This attracts attention.
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[EU] You are Robert Langdon, professor of semiotics. Your friend, Peter Solomon, has a problem: people become homicidal after reading a play called 'The King in Yellow'. The only clue is a strange symbol, the so-called "yellow sign."
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[EU] Buy the toughest fishing game you'll never finish! DARK SOLES:DEEP WATERS! Take two hours to get past the tutorial guppy! Thrill to being stung again and again by a Man O War with the face of Scarlett Johanson! When you hear "thar she blows," they're talking about YOU! DARK SOLES: DEEP WATERS!
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