/u/[deleted]'s posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] S.E.T.I. (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence) has finally found something. A single message, composed of hundreds of languages. Some of them haven't been spoken in millenia. Translated, they all say the same thing....
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[WP] You are 014 the opposite of James Bond (unalthetic, bad with women, drive around in a crappy car, no fashion sense, etc.). But you are well liked in MI6 while James Bond is constantly penalized for causing so much trouble.
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[WP] Two years ago, you visited a fortune teller. "Beware of the man wearing a misbuttoned suit; he will shoot you on your wedding day." Today is that day, and halfway along the aisle, you see the man — a photographer. As he points his camera at you, a shiver travels down your spine.
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[WP] The zombie outbreak started two years ago. You find yourself cornered by a particularly nasty specimen when you do the unthinkable and bite it first. It falls to the floor and, before your very eyes, grows all of its skin back, sits up, and asks, "What's going on?"
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[WP] WELCOME TO PURGATORY ISLAND! The rules are simple. You are all between life and death but only 1 of you can go back living. There are weapons hidden all around. Be the last one left and you win your life back . You all have 5 minutes to go search for weapons before we begin. GOOD LUCK!
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[WP] Everyday your spouse leaves for work. The odd thing is, he enters the closet. He goes in every day at the same time and opens it up at the end of the day at the same time. You’ve never questioned it, even though it’s very odd. Today he never returned, you open the closet to go in and find him
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[WP] You recently gained a new power where, as if from a video game, when you approach different people or enter different buildings, the appropriate music plays. You enter your best friends house, and ominous music starts to build up. Once you finally see your friend, intense boss music plays.
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[WP] Four roommates are extraterrestrials who have taken human form in the hopes of learning about Earth’s culture. Unfortunately, each alien is from a different planet and believes the other three are regular humans.
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[WP] A failed science experiment turns the sun to a black hole. Before it absorbs Earth, a spaceship of extraterrestrial life saves you and ~500 other humans. They announce via translators that they will take you somewhere safe. Upon arrival, you find that this place is far more than you asked for.
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[WP] The apocalypse happens and you go to heaven but find it's a bureaucratic nightmare. Due to the influx of people they ran out of halos, you share a room, it takes 3 permits before you can fly, and angels are pissed because for millennia heaven was spacious but now it is crammed full of people
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