/u/Urbenmyth's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You're just living your life. Calling friends, doing your job, getting groceries. Alas, your narrator is unbearably pretentious, and is trying their best to frame this as a deep metaphor for the human condition no matter how much you try to make them stop.
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[WP] On earth, the fastest manmade item ever was a manhole cover, blasted into space by a nuclear launch. Far, far away in the galaxy though, you are an alien on a medieval-level world, trying to interpret what omen the gods sent by launching a metal disk from the sky to kill the king.
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[WP] If you say Bloody Mary 3 times in front of a mirror, she'll come for you. Of course, there's lots of superstitious teens and only one ghost, so it's a bit of a queue. But, years after that long forgotten sleepover, Bloody Mary has finally worked her way down the list to you.
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[WP] In a dark and corrupt future, your necromancy magic had no higher significance then another weapon to survive the undercity. Until one day, you summon a long-forgotten shade calling himself "Bob Ross", who tells you its time to paint a brighter world.
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[WP] You're watching the TV when the news breaks. The supernatural is real! Secret societies of monsters live among us! The masquerade is broken! As you sit shocked, your cat turns to you and says "OK, now we can drop the pretense, I do have a number of complaints..."
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[WP] You're almost completely immortal- only one thing can kill you. You don't know what that one thing is, though, and you're getting increasingly paranoid as the years go on.
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[EU] In your years at the Daily Planet, you've kept an eye on Clark Kent. He's clearly putting on the whole "dweebish coward" persona, he has a bunch of mysterious sources and he vanishes whenever Superman shows up. It's obvious. He's a supervillian, and you're going to find proof.
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[WP] Most ghosts have cool unfinished business: "Avenge my murder!" "Redeem my sins!" "Reveal my terrible secret!" Yours is...less impressive. But it still binds you to this world, and so you must find a medium who will help you. And not laugh when you tell them what with.
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[WP] Watching a horror movie, you yell at the main character "Don't go in there! The killers in there!". They turn to the screen and say "Thanks for the heads up!".
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[WP] When you die, you go to whatever afterlife you expect. Heaven or Hell, Reincarnation, The Underworld, Oblivion- to each according to their beliefs. You know this, so you find yourself expecting to go to whatever afterlife you expect to go to. This logic loop is having side effects.
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