/u/cultured_banana_slug's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You, an atheist, have died. All the gods that have ever been line up to offer you their version of heaven if only you believe in _them_. Turns out souls are currency and yours is up for grabs.
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[WP] You live in a world where eating has all the taboos that sex does in our world. No one eats in public and cooking food is shameful. In defiance of social norms, you run an illegal "red light" buffet.
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[WP] You wake up one morning to find everything is just WRONG. Lamp too far to reach, coffee taking too long to brew, doorknobs too slippery to use. You’ve been transported to… the World of Commercials.
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[WP] As a drunken joke, you make a little shrine to the ancient goddess Ishtar, sacrificing chicken nuggets in her honor. When you wake up, she's sitting on the end of your bed. You're her new prophet and you've got a lot of work to do.
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[WP] You live in a world where memories are bought and sold on the black market. The more central the memory, the more money it’s worth. You’ve hit hard times and are down to your very last central memory: The morning of your fifth birthday.
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[WP] It’s not the tunnel to Hell in your Nana’s basement that you have a problem with: It’s the fact that all these demons keep bugging you for cakes now that you're living there! And... uh oh. She died without leaving any recipes.
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[WP] You are a dragon tired of knights trying to fight you for your treasure. You just want to be left alone. You see an ad in the mail: “Princess for hire: No knight is too strong, no prince too haughty! I’ll take them all on!” There's a number at the bottom and you pick up the phone.
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[WP] The hero is chasing the villain through the restaurant district when he bursts into the back entrance of a kitchen run by Gordon Ramsay.
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[WP] You are the first person to beat Death in a game for your soul. “At last,” he says, “I can train an apprentice! Your first task: Collect the soul of Mrs. Devon. I have no idea where she is so, um… good luck with that. By the way, if you can’t find her, I get to collect your soul after all.”
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