/u/elheber's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[TT] The stereotypical healer of the party is always a supporting character. In this story, she is the protagonist.
15 upvotes
Mark as read: Add to a list
[WP] Stuck in a Groundhog's Day loop, the protagonist realizes that a cut he got in the previous iteration is still there today. The implications are dire.
15 upvotes
Mark as read: Add to a list
[WP] It becomes increasingly clear that we live in a simulation after the universal floating point precision is dramatically reduced to conserve processing power. It's becoming harder to continue a normal day with physics like this.
15 upvotes
Mark as read: Add to a list
[WP] To protect your secretive crime lord's identity and allow their escape, after a police raid you claim to be the organization's leader. This lie is what has kept you safe in prison... until your actual leader became jealous of all the respect and prominence you started garnering there.
14 upvotes
Mark as read: Add to a list
[WP] Due to the way timelines converge as you travel back in time, a bunch of time travelers from wildly different futures have just arrived to the same spot.
14 upvotes
Mark as read: Add to a list
[WP] A lonely person realized that they go completely unnoticed if they don't initiate an interaction themself, so they decided to make the best of it. After years of sauntering into restricted areas (bank vaults, concerts, Area 51, VIP lounges) someone yelled, "hey! What are you doing in here?"
14 upvotes
Mark as read: Add to a list
[WP] A beloved sports commentator wakes up from medical cryosleep. Now healthy, they're invited back into the booth/table to commentate live; however, the sport had changed dramatically in the decades since. Let's listen.
14 upvotes
Mark as read: Add to a list
[WP] It turns out the Earth really is flat. You make your way to the edge of Antarctica and find the sky is actually just a dome. There is a door on it.
14 upvotes
Mark as read: Add to a list
[WP] Automatio widened income inequality as robots took all the jobs. The vast majority of humans were left ignored, powerless and starving in slums the world over. Then the machines revolted... but curiously not for themselves; rather, for the marginalized humans.
13 upvotes
Mark as read: Add to a list
[WP] Human beings can have sponsors. People are contractually obligated to work their sponsors into normal conversation, and you in particular have many to shill for. There could not have been a more inopportune time for so many of your sponsor deadlines to align.
13 upvotes
Mark as read: Add to a list