/u/mekkanik's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
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[WP] “Explosions?” Howled the Warthulian scientist poring over the schematic of an internal combustion engine. “This is madness... how am I supposed to ratify your transportation technology? Much less the survivalist instinct of your species?”
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[WP] You decide to clean out your teenagers messy room. What is this? Piles of ash under the bed? You poke around under the bed with the broom. There’s a snarl: “Watch where you poke that thing!!”
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[EU] You are a pilot training in the Imperial flight academy in the middle of the rebellion. You’re always picked on for your origins on Tatooine. The day you graduate and receive your orders, you are handed a slip: “Report to Death Star II, call sign DS-61-3.”
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[EU] Every client is one missed payment away from being a target. Every target is one bribe away from being a client.
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[WP](Warning; quite silly) You are having lunch at home, watching something on your phone. A drop if sauce splashes in the screen and you absent mindedly lick it off. Alexa/Siri responds: “oh my, I never realised you felt that way about me...”
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[WP] Cursing the unnatural cold, you slip into your suburban home. You hear a sneeze and a glob of gooey flame misses your head. “Sorry, I have the worst cold ever,” says the dragon lying on your couch, wrapped up in your blanket.
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[WP] “I don’t care if you ‘charmed’ the displacer beast. It is not your familiar, and definitely not a pack animal!” groaned the exasperated bard.
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