/u/baltinerdist's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Of course the hero and the villain know each other's secret identities: they're roommates and coworkers. They just do this epic battle schtick in the evenings because they're so bored at work.
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[WP] On a whim, you start clicking links in your spam email folder. Over the next few days, you are alarmed to find an African prince with a briefcase of money, a lifetime supply of discount medications, and four hot singles from your area showing up at your door. What happens next takes the cake.
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[WP] As the Village Seer, you peer into the mystical to give the villagers sage wisdom from beyond. The problem is, you're not magical, you're just smart and you live in an exceptionally dumb village.
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[WP] The three rules have been passed down from generation to generation: One, when it visits, do not refuse it entry. Two, when it offers a gift, do not reject its generosity. Three, when it leaves, do not turn your back until it is no longer in sight. In this way, our family has been kept safe.
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[WP] Your boss told you not to press the flashing red button. Your coworker told you not to push the flashing red button. The big book on the desk says don't push the flashing red button. There's even a sign that says "Never push the flashing red button." But still...
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[WP] The ghost of a murdered Victorian woman haunts a group of college students, but as that group is a study group for Dr. Wolffer's notoriously difficult British History 414, they'll take all the help they can get.
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[WP] You’re not the chosen one. You’re not in the chosen one’s circle. You’re just trying to get through senior year, apply to college, and get the hell out of this unnecessarily supernatural town nobody else seems to notice.
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[WP] You’re the last survivor in a town full of body snatched / mind controlled / pod people and… they don’t seem interested in adding you to the hive. And you’re starting to take it personally.
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[WP] On a hike in the Tennessee woods, you pick up a discarded beer can and brush off the dust. Suddenly in a puff of barbecue-scented smoke, a strangely dressed man appears before you. “Hi y’all. I’m Abner Cadabner, the redneck genie.”
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