WritingPrompts

Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
[WP] Prisons have been replaced by a punishment which can last from a few seconds to a full minute, and which is 90% effective at stopping crime. You have been sentenced to an unprecedented thirty minutes.	6
[WP] The first human to make a test run of a spaceship with a faster-than-light drive returns in a semi-catatonic, traumatized state, saying "I just want to go back to Earth." You're a psychologist, trying to convince him that he's already on Earth.	5
[WP] The zombie apocalypse has arrived, but not as anyone expected. Rather than eating people, zombies have an insatiable urge to make new things and modify old things--and people--in bizarre ways.	5
[WP] You’re a fundamentalist priest of a major faith. While preparing a sermon, you notice that the text of your holy book of choice has been edited. Thinking you’ve been pranked, you check other copies and find that each contains the same new text.	5
[WP] You'd been taking care of your grandma, who has moderate dementia, when the economic collapse happened. Things have gotten very difficult, but the hardest is dealing with the fact that she has very little idea of what's actually happening.	5
[WP] Wednesdays have become taboo. Nothing is planned for Wednesdays, and everyone is expected to take the day off and sleep with the aid of sedatives. Even mentioning the day is considered offensive except for euphemisms. One Wednesday afternoon, you wake after taking an underdose.	5
[WP] A spoiled princess befriends a talking frog who retrieved her golden ball from a pond...but the frog turns out to be, not a prince, but a cursed court jester with anti-monarchist sentiments	5
[WP] You're descending an escalator when you notice that the crowd stepping off at the bottom contains none of the same people you see descending with you. No one else seems to notice.	5
[TT] Strong emotions occasionally manifest as objects or living characters and creatures. You're a lawyer defending a couple against charges of child abuse. The trial seems to be going well for the defense, until piles of tomatoes begin to appear.	5
[WP] Five people, each with a severe physical and/or mental disability, help each other survive in the post-apocalyptic ruins of a city. How do they do it?	5

« < > »