WritingPrompts

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[WP]You didn't evacuate when the hurricane came, and so you've been trapped in your flooded home for nearly a week. Your phone doesn't work. You live in an isolated part of town and you have no idea what's happened to anyone else. This morning you awoke to the sound of tapping on an upstairs window.	4
[WP] A hero struggling with their first failure finds unlikely solace with the villain, who's struggling to cope with the ramifications of their first success.	4
[WP] The world operates under the Law of Equivalent Luck, whereby an "unearned" positive outcome must inevitably be matched by an equally negative outcome, and vice versa. Except you haven’t experienced any bad luck in years and it’s making you paranoid.	4
[WP] In the midst of a terrible storm, you find a cockroach in your house. Despite your best efforts you cannot kill it, but that is only because it refuses to die until it has delivered its message.	4
[RF] Your father has died. As the funeral clears out you find that only you and your step-mother remain. You have never spoken before.	4
[WP] In a rat-soaked world, brought to near-apocalypse by plague and famine, the Crazy Cat Lady is king.	4
[WP] In a world with crippling overpopulation and massive childbirth taxes, parents can hire a "future historian" to observe their child across time, returning to provide a report before a decision is made. You're a future historian who just made a huge mistake - you fell in love with your subject.	4
[WP] You're a publisher who happens upon an enchanted printing press. While a book prints, its characters come to life. Today you've begun the fifth and final printing of your all-time best seller. The book's characters aren't taking the news well.	4
[WP] There is only one "true" hand-to-hand fighting style. You strive to be the greatest champion of all. To do so you must travel high into the mountains in search of an ancient, mystical warrior known only as "The Macho Man".	4
[WP] You're a bright-eyed, young doctor whose idealism is about to be put to the test when you're sent on a relief mission to one of the poorest, most underdeveloped planets in the galaxy: Earth.	4

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