/u/maxart2001's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Scrolling through social media, you stumble upon one of those 'Guides For Time Travelers'. It explains the way how if you're ever in the past you could get basic antibiotics, heavier-than-air flight, clean water... near-light speed travel, energy weapons... a lightsaber? You lean in, intrigued.
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[WP] Every human in the world has a visible 'lifetime luck' supply. It is finite, and it can also be distributed over an individual's life as they wish. Some blow it all to get into a good college, others to get promoted in their job. There are rare few, however, who hoard theirs with no use at all.
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[WP] In your society, people born on February 29th age by exactly one year for their every birthday. You are one of those people.
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[WP] "This is to be our end, then?" asks the Commander quietly. You don't think it's to the crew. Standing on the Central Bridge beside him now, you almost think the violently flashing lights just outside the reinforced blast-glass are somewhat pretty. — Write about a noble death for a Spaceship.
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[WP] You see the News reporting that every country in the world has just spontaneously developed a sentient physical manifestation of themselves. You think nothing of it until you hear a voice in your head. A voice decidedly foreign.
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[WP] An alien race fundamentally different from us gets a hold of our message aboard Voyager One. Describe how they misinterpret it in the worst way possible.
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[EU] "Now, it is time to introduce our new Defence Against the Dark Arts Proffessor. I will warn you to be very careful in how you speak to her, both because of her station and because it took me immense effort to secure her. I would advise you very heavily to close your eyes momentarily."
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[WP] You've been religious your whole life, sacrificing to the Gods and following every rite. At last, after a hundred and one years, they reveal themselves to you – as you always hoped they would. Except... They aren't quite the paragons of virtue you thought them to be, and so... Rebellion time.
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[WP] Earth descends into such a state of conflict that we garner the attention of the Alien UN analogue. Their 'peacekeeping force' is about as ineffective as ours ever was... Humans continue to fight as usual, now to the backdrop of futuristic Alien spaceships with ion cannons just sitting there.
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