/u/SurprisedPotato's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] "They call themselves 'human'." / "Oh good, when can we rendezvous with their spacecraft to meet them?" / "They haven't achieved spaceflight yet, sir." / "What? Then where do they test their nuclear devices?" / "On the surface of their own planet, sir."
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[WP] Your husband tells you, out of the blue, that he's been having an affair and he's leaving you for the other woman. Little did he know, the other woman is also you.
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[WP] A frustrated scientist drunkenly complains to a stranger in a bar, wishing that academics were treated with the same reverence as sports and movie stars. He didn't realise the stranger was a genie. The next day, life on campus is... interesting.
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[WP] as an archeologist, you've long dismissed in your mind that fringe theory: that robots were once programmed by a biological species called humans. One day, however, you make a shocking discovery.
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[WP] Cats have nine lives, which means they have nine souls. This makes nekomancy, well, complicated.
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[WP] Critically injured after an accident, your last memory is of the ambulance ride to a cryogenic preservation facility. You've just been revived, decades later, by a group of teenagers as part of a school science project.
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[WP] It slowly dawns on you that Wordle is a trapped and desperate sentient being, only able to communicate via a single five letter word each day
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[WP] you have a magic backpack that always contains exactly what you need for the day. Today, you are shocked to see it contains a super soaker, a losing lottery ticket from 30 years ago, and a live penguin.
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