/u/salmontail's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You have a wonderful pen pal who have very deep, philosophical questions. In reality, they are a spy master who thinks you are an informant writing in code.
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[WP] Oxygen becomes thin and difficult to breath, and “invasive” plants become illegal. You are the only black market succulents salesman left in the city, the rest being killed or detained by the oxygen tank mega corps.
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[WP] A legendary superhero and supervillain, the greatest of their respective positions, never actually met in combat. They had their own cities and own nemesis to deal with, so the legendary showdown became a fantasy dream match. 60 years later, two elders fight over the Bingo Championships.
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[WP] Your allies have got your back, they gods are forever your mountain to lean on, the kingdom will support you from behind all the way. Now, at this moment, with the dragon breathing fire straight into your face, you begin to wonder if it was a good idea being the one pushed up front.
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[WP] You are an evil emperor building your massive labyrinthian palace for the heroes to explore, when the building inspector came around to slap you with a fine for failing to adhere to the municiple building code.
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[WP] You spread a lot of rumours about yourself to become famous. Many years later, after you’ve done many great deeds and became actually famous, those rumours have been warped to the point nobody believes who you are.
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[WP] When the middle management of your company were forced to read Sun Tzu's Art of War, some of them took the lessons a bit too literally and now there's been a drastic change in corporate culture inside the office.
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[WP] A young man goes on a blind date with a great girl, and everything was going perfect until he accidentally discover her Mantis-motifed superheroine identity.
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[WP] After defeating the AI uprising, the president of Earth made a speech about never raising another enemy to mankind in our hubris. Just before he made his closing statement, the broadcast was hijacked by terrorists. The family of all the VIPs in the world have been taken hostage... By their dogs
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[WP] From the traveller's guidebook: "The necromancers of Darkrose Valley are a rare breed. They are a kind folk, who believe the rightness of their twisted morality and culture, in using every bit of the human corpse in a truly macabre display of hospitality for weary travellers."
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