/u/actually_crazy_irl's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP]: An old, broken but once very valued item has found new use as something it was never intended to be used for. Tell the story of how it got there.
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[WP]: A remarkably well-travelled man in the 5th Century BC could have met Zoroaster, Confucius, Lao Tze, the Buddha and Socrates over the course of a seventy-year lifetime. Determined to punch each of them in the face, you are this man.
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[WP]: Some people have their marriages, lives and livelihoods ruined by the drink, some by an affair. Your father, however, buys fish tanks.
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[WP]: You trade a key life skill for the ability to break the fourth wall. Your new narrator is Lemony Snicket
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[EU]: Stuck as roommates, Peter Pan and Dorian Gray spiral into the most immature prank war of the century
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[TT]: Your husband remembers the future like he remembers the past: tomorrow like yesterday, 10 years from now like 10 years before. This could be useful, were he also not the most forgetful person you've ever met.
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[WP]: For reasons you won't question, your life works by literature tropes. Today you realise that a seemingly random item in your house is a chekov's gun.
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[WP]: The love of your life was very strange, but very poetic. After being widowed, you discover they meant everything literally.
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[WP]: It's the year 2087. Your 14-year-old grandchild keeps browsing vintage internet posts from the year 2012 and sighing about being born in the wrong generation. You've had just about enough of it.
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