/u/shakeythirsty's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Another lazy Tuesday. Or is it Wednesday? Nothing much happening. You grab a little to drink and eat. Okey dokey. Yawn. You lay back in your life raft and stare out at the ocean. Day 36.
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[RF] He convinced her to tend to his plants while he was in prison, assuming she wouldn't know what they were. On the day he gets out, she pulls up to the prison in a limo.
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[WP] You sit on the boardwalk, making a few bucks drawing sketches of what kids might look like in 30 years. A wrinkled old man sits down beside you and says "sketch me".
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[WP] It was funny when a website published your fake UFO pictures, but then came TV interviews and invitations to conventions. Now the Pentagon wants a secret briefing, and you're a wreck. Time to fess up or go for broke.
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[WP] You've removed the satellite view and traffic data from your GPS display, but there's still a black 'X' visible a few miles off your route. Your significant other laughs and says, "Buried treasure?"
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[WP] The good news: You know where you left your badge and phaser. The bad news: They're hidden in the Seprillian death bar where you just had your cover blown.
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[WP] Humans think of us as coldly logical and impassive. Perhaps so, but even robots have our own rituals when we lose one of our family.
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[WP] After the second full day being stuck in an elevator, telling jokes and stories gets old, social norms begin to collapse, and there's no small amount of yelling. You're not used to being alone this long.
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[WP] Dressed as the Statue of Liberty, you stand outside waving people in to a tax prep service. That is, until a blinding light transports you aboard a spaceship. A room of creatures stares at you. Then one whispers: "We want freedom. "
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