| you have the ability to see everyone 's physical manifestations of their greatest fear . You can interact with them but no one notices , you 've befriended yours . While at the bar and the man sitting across from you buys your next round . When he comes over , you notice that he has no fear `` shadow '' ... | |
| Long ago , several hundred years now , a mad wizard cursed every single human being , and their descendants with the form of a human/animal hybrid . Since then , the world has begun anew , with a renaissance of magic and arcane knowledge . For whatever reason , you are human . Find out why . | |
| Twins seperated at birth and given to an adoption agency get into a car accident as adults . One dies and the other has amnesia . The hospital mixes the records and the surivivor resumes living his twin 's life . After some time , his memory slowly starts to return . | |
| It is the year 2288 . As you wander the Wastelands , you find Vault 74 . Inside the vault is a team of video game designers from the pre-war company known as Valve Corporation , who have just finished working on a video game known as Half Life 3 . | |
| Ants have a telepathic link to all members of their colony . It 's so specific that , as the colony grows , so does it 's collective intelligence . One such colony has become so massive that it 's about to break a major intelligence threshold . | |
| You live in a world where each lie creates a scar on the liar 's body . The bigger the lie , the deeper and larger the mark . One day , you meet someone that only has one scar ; it is the biggest one you have ever seen . | |
| You 're a human scientist living on the moon . One day , while out in your spacesuit , you notice a small human child playing in the dirt . She 's not wearing a spacesuit , but she 's breathing just fine . | |
| When people turn 20 , they get to meet their guardian angel . It 's your 20th birthday , you finally get to meet the angel that 's been protecting you , and you 're horrified by what you see . | |
| You have died and gone to hell , but it 's not what you expect . You wake up naked in a field with nothing but trees around you ... it turns out that hell is an early access survival game . | |
| Your neighbor is the protagonist of a musical . Any time a musical number starts , anyone within a certain radius ca n't help but join in . You are trying to have one normal day when you hear music approach . | |
| `` It 's surprising that the most important person in the world has so little security . '' Said the assassin to his target . `` I am here , there is no better security . '' Was the casual reply . | |
| As a Space marine you have an allowance of one call home a day . Today 's battle was especially bad and your best friend died I 'm the heat of it all . Time to call home . | |
| Let 's play an RPG together . /r/WritingPrompts is the protagonist , and I am the DM . You make the decisions , I create the content . Let 's begin . | |
| As a villager in an MMORPG , you 've grown increasingly jaded from every single hero easily completing your `` quest '' . You 've decided to actively sabotage them from now on ... | |
| You have an ATM that gives you the exact amount of money you need to survive for the day , how you spend it is your choice . Today you are given $ 70,000,000 . | |
| You 're a robber in a house coming down the stairs with valuable items from the master bedroom . You encounter another robber in the home on your way out ; Write a story about what happens . | |
| By day , he 's mild-manned office worker Frank Lee . By night , he 's Honest Man , a superhero with the power of honesty so brutal , it 's lethal . | |
| Donald Trump becomes President of the United States of America . You are a writer for a local NYC paper assigned to writing about his actions/decisions after his first year as President . | |
| You kiss your girlfriend of 10 years goodnight.You return in the morning to find her house completely abandoned , boarded up , with no trace of your girlfriend or her family . | |
| Throughout your childhood you are made fun of for `` making up your own language '' , till Earth is contacted by another race and you are the only one that understands them . | |
| You wake up the day after having literally lived the best day of your life . Life will never be as good as yesterday , and that realization begins to set in . | |
| Instead of Christianity , Judaism , and Islam , the three major religions to make it to the 21st century were the Greek , Roman , and Norse pantheons . | |
| After a bad breakup , you take Reddit 's famous advice . Lawyer up , hit the gym , delete Facebook . The problem ? You are Mark Zuckerberg . | |
| You 're not about to let the end of the world make people forget about the greatest music written by mankind . You are the Rock Bard of the Apocalypse . | |
| You walk up to a beggar to give him a dollar bill when he looks directly into your eyes . You realize the old man is Santa Claus . | |
| You died . You were reborn . You remembered your previous life . But that 's actually pretty useless - because you were n't reborn human . | |
| Mark Zuckerberg decides to end Facebook . He 's going to pay users $ 1 for every `` Like '' they accumulate until the company is bankrupt . | |
| When everyone turns 18 , they receive a pet which is figurative of their personality . You 're the first person to receive a dragon ... | |
| It suddenly becomes possible to gain XP and level up in the real world , but you can only do so by getting kills . | |
| You are a dog who is trying to kill its master , but the family 's cat stops you at every turn . | |
| You are the Historian , a shapeshifting , immortal being that gives historical figures a push in the right direction . | |
| A genie will grant you one wish . You wish to be the adult your younger self imagined you would be . | |
| You just discovered England 's biggest secret : every time they say long live the queen it extends the queens life . | |
| You run an RPG pawn shop . You haggle with adventurers who try to sell loot they 've acquired . | |
| Everyday for the past week the same man goes in the middle of Time 's Square and kills himself . | |
| Write a story where the first sentence means something totally different than the last by the end of the story . | |
| You are an NPC in the GrandTheftAuto universe . Describe a normal day in your life . | |
| : One day , you find yourself uncontrollably jumping into the bodies of other versions of yourself . | |
| You are blind . The love of your life is deaf . Tell me how you first met . | |
| A magical mirror shows your reflection and your future soulmate . You only see your reflection . | |
| The ancient dragon , nearing his end , takes a moment to reflect upon his long life . | |
| One day while hanging out with your friends , you accidentally discover that you have the force . | |
| Retell a major historical event as if they were the events of a kindergarten classroom . | |
| Humanity is pushed to the brink of extinction and you could n't be happier . | |
| I 'd like to take a moment to appreciate Sir Terry Pratchett . | |
| And then she whispered , `` No . '' The story ends with this line . | |
| Middle Earth , 4000 years after the events of the Lord of the Rings trilogy . | |
| He did n't have enough knowledge to fill an entire world up with things . | |
| Your dementia riddled mother has a brief period of lucidity just before she dies . | |
| The villain finally win and kills the protagonist . People around the world celebrate . | |
| She dedicated her life to hunting monsters . Until she realized she was one . | |
| He finally said it : I 'm proud of you , son . | |
| Make the most tense or suspenseful story you can in 500 words . | |
| The day you drowned was the sunniest day of the year . | |
| Make me fall in love with a character in 200 words or less . | |
| You 're on a plane , and it 's going down . | |
| You really , I mean REALLY , like that pair of shoes . | |
| Tell a surreal pirate story , full of myth and splendor . | |
| Walking along a bridge of petrified wood , following another . | |
| Trees are the resting place of a soul . | |
| Secure your own mask first before helping others . | |
| A love story that starts with rice . | |
| The last words of anyone as they die are prophetic , and always come true : tell the story of a professional Prophecy Detective . | |
| I 'm afraid we can not use your blood for the transfusion . Our tests show it is not human blood . | |
| You forgot your umbrella on a rainy day . The butterfly effect cause your day to spin out of control and several people end up dead . | |
| An insomniac gets the best sleep he 's had in years , except the next day , he ca n't stop thinking about a dream he had ... | |
| You a real master magician , a legend amongst true casters . From conjuring and summoning to simple hexes and curses . You are now hosting a trick to not only fool Penn and Teller , but make them question even their own knowledge of the art . | |
| You have died and have been sentenced to Heck . | |
| Your decision not to buy a chewing gum at the grocery store causes a series of events that lead to global economic collapse . | |
| You discover a grand hall filled with legendary weapons like Mjonir and Excalibur . Each generation or so , warriors come to the hall to inherit a weapon that they are worthy enough to wield . Across the hall you see a forgotten weapon that 's been collecting dust . You hear it call to you . | |
| A man is locked in his bedroom . His zombified wife and children struggle against the door to beat it down . A loaded pistol rests on the dresser next to him . | |
| Your baby starts crying everytime you leave their room . Finally , you pick up your child and leave the room together . As soon as you step out , you hear crying coming from the room . | |
| You 're the sole survivor of a plane that crashed into the ocean . What you do n't know is that while you 're fighting to survive , the rest of humanity is fighting it 's own battle for survival . | |
| Secure your own mask first before helping others . | |
| The devil once promised he would grant you any wish , free of charge , on the day Hell froze over . Today he 's back , and covered in snow . | |
| An assassin receives an unusual contract : a man on death row already slated for execution . | |
| An alien race encounters the most terrifying predator imaginable . A lone , unarmed human . | |
| You were born with a large birthmark in the shape of a dragon . However , this is just a coincidence ; there is absolutely nothing magical about it , and you 're getting really tired of explaining this . | |
| With the window broken , the white curtains danced with the wind , the red of it now growing ... | |
| Describe your everyday morning routine in the most badass way possible . | |
| When you die the afterlife is an arena where you face every insect and animal you killed in your life . If you win you go to heaven , lose you go to hell . Your job was an exterminator on earth . | |
| It 's 1912 . You 're drinking at a pub when a mysterious man dressed in a strange garb walks in ... | |
| A super-hero/heroine returns home , having failed to save the world . He/She has but a few minutes with his/her family before the world is destroyed . | |
| Write the last paragraph of a science fiction epic . | |
| The Zombie Apocalypse is on its 3rd week . You expected them to be dangerous but you never expected them to be able to talk . | |
| Knowledge is property . Leave a job ? Your employer keeps your work experience . Break up with someone ? You can take back their knowledge of your secrets . Want to get an education ? You can rent it for cheap ... just do n't fall behind in your payments if you value what you learned . | |
| Hilda is a Valkyrie , one of the oldest . She 's collected the souls of many a great warrior and war hero ... even an accountant , once . Still shes is quite surprised to find herself in a school playground to collect the soul of a very confused 9 year old child . | |
| You are awaken in the middle of the night by the sound of your baby crying on the baby monitor when you hear an unfamiliar voice saying `` It 's alright ... '' in your child 's room . | |
| The monster under your bed is protecting you from something much worse . | |
| A person with the ability to stop time suddenly notices some one who is unaffected by the freeze . | |
| You can change your body to an exact match of anyone else 's with a single touch , but that destroys the original , and you must do it every 24 hours or you will die . | |
| Write the silliest and scariest story that you can . | |
| Reflection . | |
| In an alternate universe , two earths orbit our sun . Today we finally launch a first mission to visit our sister planet . | |
| World of Warcraft finally ends and shuts down all servers . All the WoW addicts have to fill the hole left in their life . | |
| You have discovered an old typewriter in your attic , but it does more than simply print words onto paper ... | |
| Google image finally opens face recognition to the public . For fun you submit a picture of yourself , and find lots of photos of yourself in places you 've never been to . | |
| Describe Operation Eastern Trident , the USMC 's successful counter offensive against the zombie apocalpypse , aimed at New York City , through the eye of PFC . Johnathan Rhodes , Ft : Omega , 2nd Platoon , 3rd Infantry Regiment , II Marine Expeditionary unit . | |
| The last thing anyone ever invented . | |
| You are tending the bar at Stephen Hawking 's party for time travelers . As expected , nobody showed up and the party is winding down . You are about to close the bar when the doorbell rings . | |
| There is a monster in your house that can only attack you once you acknowledge that it exists . You know this and try to write off the various ways it tries to get your attention . | |
| Every dream you have ever had has come true . You have just awoken from the worst nightmare you have ever had . | |
| Every year during hunting season , deer convene in secret areas of the forest to avoid being shot by hunters . Deer `` criminals '' are then left to fend for themselves during this time , and you are one of those looking to survive . | |
| A man is sitting on a park bench at night . There 's half a foot of snow on the ground and more snow falling . Only his footprints are in the snow . As he stares across the park he hears approaching footsteps in the snow but he does n't turn around . Someone taps him on his shoulder . | |
| The shortest story ever told . Once upon a time there was a magical place where it never rained . The end . | |
| Tell the story of a man accused of murdering his wife from the perspective of one person present during the trial , but ... | |
| You are the descendant of a line of Androids built in the image of man ( but less intelligent and taught to worship humans as gods ) . You are one of the lucky few chosen to visit Earth , home of the gods . | |
| Everyone has a nickname in the style of First Name `` Nick Name '' Last Name . However , they have it from birth and so many people do n't know why they have their nickname yet . | |
| You 're trapped in a horror setting ( ex . Silent Hill ) but you 're a superpowered individual , and no monster can hurt you . Hilarity ensues . | |
| Tell the story of a spider that fell in love with an arachnophobe . | |
| Write about something that is disgusting or ugly in such a way that it becomes something beautiful -- without using the 'beautiful inside ' cliche . | |
| An innocent passerby notices another man about to hang himself on a playground . To avert the man 's death , the passerby decides to have a casual conversation with him . To goal is to make the ensuing conversation so funny that the reader forgets about the suicide . | |
| Write a modern day nursery rhyme or children 's fable . | |
| In 200 words or less , write a well-known villain as a hero , but do not tell us who they are . | |
| Due to a genetic mutation , hair follicles have now been linked to pain receptors and getting a haircut is absolute agony . As a barber , describe how your life is changed and what your new role in society is . | |
| You are a supervillain named The Keymaster . Instead of creating grand plans to conquer the world , all you do is run around and free other captured supervillains from prison , after the superheroes defeat them . | |
| Write your heart onto your sleeve , Reddit . | |
| Parts of America are annexed by another nation . The protagonist , until recently living on American soil , suddenly finds himself with new citizenship . | |
| You discover a grand hall filled with legendary weapons like Mjonir and Excalibur . Each generation or so , warriors come to the hall to inherit a weapon that they are worthy enough to wield . Across the hall you see a forgotten weapon that 's been collecting dust . You hear it call to you . | |
| A redditor grows increasingly depressed because no one replies to his WritingPrompts . Then one day ... . | |
| It suddenly becomes possible to gain XP and level up in the real world , but you can only do so by getting kills . | |
| Barack Obama announces that he will be the last POTUS . He gives a speech explaining why and everyone realizes that he is right . | |
| A Craigslist murderer creates an ad and sets up a deal . The person who shows up to trade happens to also be a Craigslist murderer . | |
| Bob Ross was actually a serial killer that painted where he buried his victims . His paintings are becoming suspicious and the body count is rising . | |
| Becoming a god . | |
| You run an RPG pawn shop . You haggle with adventurers who try to sell loot they 've acquired . | |
| Listen to the music listed below and write a short response about how the music made you feel . | |
| You 're a composer with synesthesia . Describe your works without using sound . | |
| When everyone turns 18 , they receive a pet which is figurative of their personality . You 're the first person to receive a dragon ... | |
| Russia surrenders unconditionally to the US . You are the President , and you have no idea what just happened . | |
| A boy asks a girl out . It 's high school . It 's awkward . Narrate it from the point of view of a nature documentary . | |
| You were born on a colonizing spacecraft on your way to a distant star . You are the middle generation of history ; born to late to have seen Earth , and to early to live to see your destination . | |
| When you die the afterlife is an arena where you face every insect and animal you killed in your life . If you win you go to heaven , lose you go to hell . Your job was an exterminator on earth . | |
| A commonly thrown out material today is incredibly valuable and rare forty years from now . | |
| Your romantic life is n't real . | |
| No one ever does . | |
| The four last people on earth decide to commit suicide one by one . The last man decides he can not bring himself to end his own life . Describe the remainder of his life . | |
| Every time you fall asleep , you are given two options : Continue or Retry . Continue , you wake up to the next day as usual . Retry , you wake up to the day you just had . The catch : your body remains the same even if you retry a day . | |
| You tend to lose things very easily . One day you realize that the things you lose literally vanish into another dimension . You are the gateway to the Void , and you intend to use your power for the best or the worst . | |
| You want to rewatch your favorite TV show , but find that it does n't exist . Nobody has ever heard of it . | |
| Break up letter from a highschooler ( male ) to his girlfriend after a short relationship . | |
| Backwards time travel is a reality , however forward time travel is not . Therefore when you go back you must relive everything again . | |
| You have struggled through many things in life that others around you do n't seem to . After one exhausting day you close your eyes to see the words `` DIFFICULTY LEVEL - HARD '' flashing before you . You realise you have the option to switch to easy mode . | |
| You buy a new alarm clock with a special feature , and test it out the next morning . Every time you hit snooze , time pauses around you for 10 minutes . | |
| You have gained the ability to transmit your thoughts to anyone you are looking at . You can not control your ability . | |
| What if tears left scars as they trickled down someone ’ s face ? How would this change our world ? Tell the story ... | |
| Write banter for Poker Night 3 , starring Rick Sanchez ( Rick and Morty ) , Grunkle Stan ( Gravity Falls ) , Batman ( Detective Comics Comics ) , and a fourth character of your choice . | |
| Twinkle , twinkle , little star , how I wonder what you are . Up above the world so high , falling swiftly from the sky ... | |
| You 're browsing the contents of your `` My Documents '' folder , when you see a file that will change your life forever . | |
| Open Concept : Instead of choosing between the red pill and the blue pill , Morpheus offers an ENTIRE rainbow of six pills to choose from . | |
| a shapeshifter has been walking among humans for thousands of years . write about him finally getting discovered , by a small child . | |
| Everytime someone has a 'blonde moment ' they get a little blonder . Black hair is now a symbol of brilliance , and you 've just invented hair dye . | |
| The socialite hostess of an upscale cocktail party enters the room wearing just heels and necklace . | |
| You are a retired assassin . The only thing you want is to die . Keeping you from this is the fulfillment of your last contract : A celebrated performer paid you to kill him if he ever tried to make a `` comeback '' as an old man . After years in retirement , the performer announces a world tour . | |
| Start with any of the short sad , serious , tearjerker story prompts ; then add a sentence which completely ruins the mood . | |
| Every left shoe on earth vanishes . society crumbles . | |
| You wakeup to discover you 've developed an underwhelming but oddly applicable superpower . | |
| You have the ability to look into someone 's eyes and see their soul . Everyone so far has been either beautiful or terrifying , until the day you look into a child 's eyes and see nothing . | |
| After cheating on a woman who was secretly a witch , a man is cursed with a size-shifting manhood which becomes inversely-proportional to the love he has for each woman he makes love to . | |
| The person sitting closest to you ( or if you 're alone , the last person you saw ) suddenly touches your shoulder and reveals a major , life-changing secret . | |
| : Children are named by the traits they are fated to have - Brave , Serene , Deeply Caring , Unmoved - and of course your lovely daughter , Bites People . | |
| Tell the story of an adventure in a fantasy world has advanced to become an interstellar civilization , using magic , not technology . | |
| Pain is discovered to be the most efficient form of energy . It is ruled illegal , but secret human pain factories have already begun . You are the owner of one of these factories . | |
| Everyone wants to be a beast until it 's time to do something bestial . | |
| Once you die , Hell is meeting the person you could have been . | |
| A human being that can not die has wandered the earth for 100,00 years . They finally fall in love and marry a murderous con artist that just took out a huge life insurance policy on them . | |
| Humans for all of recorded history have reported seeing a man or women close to them when they are on the brink of death . Today , this figure appears to you though you believed yourself to be in good health . | |
| Whenever you have to make a decision , you watch numbly as your personified emotions fight over who is in control each time . Today you find yourself on a bridge - you came here with the intent to jump . | |
| As a villager in an MMORPG , you 've grown increasingly jaded from every single hero easily completing your `` quest '' . You 've decided to actively sabotage them from now on ... | |
| All individuals receive the memories and knowledge of one of their randomly selected ancestors on their 21st birthday . Yesterday was your 21st birthday . | |
| Your most embarrassing moment and I 'll write as an onlooker . | |
| A person gains a superpower through an accident , and must decide if they will be a superhero or a supervillain . | |
| Write a horror story with no gore or death , not even implied . | |
| You live in a world where walking a mile in someone else 's shoes gives you one of their skills . You work in a used shoe store . | |
| Write about whatever you want , but use as many unnecessary adjectives as possible . | |
| You play the lottery to win the next $ 1 Billion powerball , and in the joy of celebrating your winning ticket , it 's blown out of your hands by a strong gust of wind . | |
| You 're the last person on earth - but thank god Pokemon Go still functions ! You amuse yourself by catching Pokemon as you travel so as to not feel so isolated and alone . One day , on your screen , you see in the distance that someone has set up a lure . | |
| Something invisible lives in your home . You try to expose it without letting it know that you 're aware of its presence . | |
| It 's New Years Eve . Your best friend died in September , you 've been robbed twice , your girl friend is leaving you , you 've just lost your job and the only one left to talk to is a gay burglar you 've got tied up in the kitchen . P.S . Your cat is dead . | |
| Everybody who turns 25 learns a reality shattering secret about the world . Nobody has ever leaked this secret to somebody under 25 . Today is your 25th birthday . | |
| The lottery is an Institution designed to catch Time Travelers . | |
| Becoming a god . | |
| After a very small percentage of the earths population develops super powers governments start training them for military use , one of them has just been assigned to your unit ... | |
| Pick a singer and write a song/short story from only the words in their songs . | |
| Begin with the sentence , `` I am alone , but I am happy '' . | |
| You discover a grand hall filled with legendary weapons like Mjonir and Excalibur . Each generation or so , warriors come to the hall to inherit a weapon that they are worthy enough to wield . Across the hall you see a forgotten weapon that 's been collecting dust . You hear it call to you . | |
| You have the luxury of blindly throwing a dart at a map and traveling to the place the dart lands . One day the dart keeps landing in one specific country , no matter how many times you throw it . | |
| Rewrite your favorite song as a story . | |
| One if by land . Two if by sea . Three if by air . Four if by ... | |
| You have an ATM that gives you the exact amount of money you need to survive for the day , how you spend it is your choice . Today you are given $ 70,000,000 . | |
| Write a story that ends with `` I love her . That 's why I killed her '' . | |
| You reject someone by saying `` I 'll go on a date with you the day hell freezes over . '' The next day , Satan appears in your room , shivering , and covered in snow . | |
| Today I turned 18 and it changed everything . The list of upcoming 18 year olds acquiring their powers released . Your on that list under Tier 1 classification . As you stare in disbelief there 's an ominous pounding at the door . | |
| A boy asks a girl out . It 's high school . It 's awkward . Narrate it from the point of view of a nature documentary . | |
| You write a note to your future self . When you store it , you find another note there- a response from your older self . | |
| You are scrolling through r/WritingPrompts , when this very prompt catches your attention . Intrigued by it 's meta nature , you debate with yourself whether or not you 'll write about it . | |
| Begin with the sentence , `` I am alone , but I am happy '' . | |
| Ever since The Red , I 've been a mess . | |
| Make a mundane moment WAY too over-dramatic . | |
| You are a professional hitman for the past 15 years , that is until you botch a job and end up with amnesia , waking up you remember nothing of the last 20 years , at this point you were not at all in the business , you 're approached to do a hit ... or die . | |
| You are an immortal who has lived some 2,300 years , so long you have forgotten who or what made you this way . You go to a hypnotist to help you remember . | |
| Write something that goes with this soundtrack . | |
| Each of Bob Ross ' landscape paintings is a real place , the different locations of his countless murders . | |
| A team of Allied paratroopers retreat into a forest and at night , their numbers begin to mysteriously dwindle . | |
| You are John Doe , a completely unremarkable and forgettable person . You are so forgettable , in fact , that even Death forgot about you . | |
| Groundhog 's Day except everyone remembers . | |
| A person finds out they can steal the knowledge of others through contact . Soon it becomes an obsession . | |
| Hilda is a Valkyrie , one of the oldest . She 's collected the souls of many a great warrior and war hero ... even an accountant , once . Still shes is quite surprised to find herself in a school playground to collect the soul of a very confused 9 year old child . | |
| Aliens have abducted you in a random sampling of men , women and children . Analyzing your cell , and the artificial gravity in the ship , you conclude that your captors hail from a planet with a only fraction of Earth 's gravity - and they have seriously underestimated our strength . | |
| Years after waking up deaf due to an unknown cause , you bump into someone that you can hear . | |
| Man wakes up in the middle of a strange forest which extends thousands of miles in every direction , there 's a large moon in the sky , and it 's almost dead silent . He finds out he 's travelled back 500 million years to the Devonian era , and he 's in the centre of Pangaea . | |
| You 're a low class detective washing clothes one day when one of your socks go missing . So like any good detective you decide to slip a sock onto your hand as a puppet and interrogate the other socks . | |
| Write your heart onto your sleeve , Reddit . | |
| You buy a new alarm clock with a special feature , and test it out the next morning . Every time you hit snooze , time pauses around you for 10 minutes . | |
| You work with a girl , and some days she wears glasses with her hair up , other days she wears colored contacts with her hair down . You think she is two separate people . You begin dating one , and eventually `` cheat '' with the other one . | |
| Write an incredibly dark finale for your favourite light-hearted TV show . | |
| A renowned author on their deathbed is visited by the characters the author created , come to say goodbye . | |
| A machine allows you to have a 15-minute conversation with your one true soul mate , romantic or otherwise . Your match lives 100 years in the future . | |
| In a sci-fi like future , somebody accidently shouts out `` the bad word '' . | |
| In the entire world , opening things like doors , gates , hatches , boxes and etc . leads to alternative universes . | |
| Write your heart onto your sleeve , Reddit . | |
| A story told in 2nd person where the protagonist falls in love with the reader . | |
| Fit for a king . | |
| No one ever does . | |
| You spend years as a war prisioner in a small cell . Suddenly you realize you are , in fact , a dog . | |
| Crimes do not exist solely on Earth . They are also seen on Heaven . | |
| You have received a text/call/letter from someone and it is everything that you want to hear and simultaneously nothing you want to hear . | |
| Write a story with the grim reaper/angel of death ( a position that can be passed on ) as the protagonist . | |
| The people sent a human sacrifice to the gods . The gods want them to take it back . | |
| There exists a phone line that will correctly answer any question asked to it . Write about either someone calling the line , or the person answering the question ... | |
| Give me a story where the good guy wins , but the victory is unsatisfying . | |
| You form a pact with the monster in your closet to work together in order to get rid of your terrible roommate . | |
| It turns out that everyone 's imaginary friends were actually extraterrestrials that were trying to contact Earth through children . | |
| In Soviet Russia , ghosts fear you . | |
| The fire dies and the darkness encroaches . | |
| A world where kids dream of being accountants , cashiers , bank managers etc . In the adulthood their dreams are crushed when they have to become astronauts , cowboys , ninjas etc . | |
| Going about your normal day you 're surprised as the sky goes dark and then is awash with flame . At this moment you know you should have taken your fortune cookie much more seriously . | |
| You are a con artist that travels back in time to a gullible era so that you can sell money tree seeds . | |
| On his last day in office the US president gives a short farewell speech on live TV . Minutes later the streets everywhere in the country are filled with people - armed and angry people . | |
| While Sam and Dean Winchester are visiting Ohio on a case , they make a stop at a diner in the small town of Springfield . While eating lunch they overhear two local cops talking about a strange murder at 1418 Elm Street . | |
| The day the music died . | |
| You are the King 's favorite engineer , however your successes have all been complete shots in the dark . The King has just come to you with the task of saving the kingdom . | |
| A veteran Holocaust Jewish survivor meets a man in the elevator . As they strike a conversation , he slowly realizes the man was his brutal Nazi prison warden . | |
| The Mexican-American War never ended . Mexico has been secretly sneaking soldiers in the US by going through the border and pretending they 're illegal immigrants . Its 2020 , the war began as a shock . | |
| You are trapped in an airtight room on the Titanic as it sinks . | |
| write a story from the point of view of a serial killers favorite knife . | |
| Describe a universe where a personal stat is displayed above everyone 's head . One can see everyone else 's stat except their own . Talking about the stat is strongly taboo . Reveal what the stat represents at the end . | |
| You and your team land on mars for the first time in human history . There is only one problem . About a mile from your landing zone , there is a single set of human footprints . | |
| A young student is drafted off to fight in a bloody foreign war . He quickly finds that war is the most enjoyable thing he has ever experienced . | |
| You 've finally created the worlds first true A.I . Unfortunately it now sees you as it 's god and is terrified of talking to you . | |
| Hilda is a Valkyrie , one of the oldest . She 's collected the souls of many a great warrior and war hero ... even an accountant , once . Still shes is quite surprised to find herself in a school playground to collect the soul of a very confused 9 year old child . | |
| Give the reader a tour of your mind . | |
| You just discovered England 's biggest secret : every time they say long live the queen it extends the queens life . | |
| A 4-D star collides with Earth , causing it to `` unroll '' into a seemingly infinite plane . Though satellite images from orbit appear normal , on the surface , everything has changed . There are suddenly new continents , new seas , stretching endlessly onward . A new age of exploration begins . | |
| A mysterious event occurs where mentally deficient individuals suddenly become cognitive and sufficient but their caretakers become mentally impaired . | |
| Tell me the middle of a sci-fi epic . No beginning or introduction to the setting or characters , nor any context to what 's going on , and no resolution of any kind . | |
| A man is secretly in love with his barber . He begins to bald . | |
| Throughout your childhood you are made fun of for `` making up your own language '' , till Earth is contacted by another race and you are the only one that understands them . | |
| you have the ability to see everyone 's physical manifestations of their greatest fear . You can interact with them but no one notices , you 've befriended yours . While at the bar and the man sitting across from you buys your next round . When he comes over , you notice that he has no fear `` shadow '' ... | |
| You just bumped into the man who killed your wife and child . | |
| Everytime someone has a 'blonde moment ' they get a little blonder . Black hair is now a symbol of brilliance , and you 've just invented hair dye . | |
| Holding your breath , you tap the softly glowing light . At your touch , it flashes , and the darkness begins to disappear . | |
| Write yourself into a corner . | |
| You 're on your computer , when suddenly , you get an email from a person named 'S ' . | |
| Be afraid . For when the gods created man , they created him not in their own image , but to appease what lurks in the void . | |
| It 's New Years Eve . Your best friend died in September , you 've been robbed twice , your girl friend is leaving you , you 've just lost your job and the only one left to talk to is a gay burglar you 've got tied up in the kitchen . P.S . Your cat is dead . | |
| You die and are greeted in the afterlife by the all knowing God ( choose one ) , ready to judge you . However , for some reason he has no recollection of you ever existing . | |
| Light is one of the goods that can be traded and sold . The poor live in darkness , but for the the rich people , it 's time to shine . | |
| Leonardo DiCaprio in a fit of rage begins to torpedo his own career by deliberately acting poorly and taking on bad films . He finally wins an oscar for starring in Paul Blart : Mall Cop 3 . | |
| Reflection . | |
| Scare me in three paragraphs . | |
| You were born with a large birthmark in the shape of a dragon . However , this is just a coincidence ; there is absolutely nothing magical about it , and you 're getting really tired of explaining this . | |
| You 're an astronaut on the first mission to the moon since the 1970 's . You begin to dig for samples in the soft sentiment when your shovel hits something soft , yet tough . You brush the dirt away , revealing a dead man in a bloody spacesuit . | |
| Two serial killers stumble upon each other while hiking . Both find the other to be the perfect next victim . | |
| Humanity has cured old age . You were a friend of the last person to die of natural causes . | |
| Write your heart onto your sleeve , Reddit . | |
| A person 's eye colour correlates to what superpower they have , activated at age 18 . You are the first person to be born with totally black eyes . | |
| A man with OCD is stranded on a deserted island . | |
| A dreamweaver is heartbroken and decides to curse the world with nightmares . Only one man can stop her . | |
| Today you realize the real reason why the earth is the way it is . Its because you long back you forgot you were the one who created it in the first place . | |
| You are a volunteer Search and Rescue dog handler . The dog is trained to find dead bodies . While out for a walk while on vacation , your dog starts barking madly . | |
| For as long as you can remember , you 've had that scar . You stopped noticing it . Then , one morning , you 're pretty sure it 's in a different spot . You shake it off , but every morning it moves a little closer to your heart . | |
| A sequence from an RTS game , from the perspective of the units . | |
| You live in a world where suicide is illegal . There is a division of law enforcement that travels to the afterlife to catch people that committed suicide and then bring them back to serve time in prison . You just killed yourself and someone is chasing you , but it 's not the cops . | |
| A man that is socially awkward goes to a party full of mind readers . | |
| World of Warcraft finally ends and shuts down all servers . All the WoW addicts have to fill the hole left in their life . | |
| A meteor has just hit Earth and has started a chain of natural disasters that eventually lead to world war three . Write only the titles of the top-rated news submissions on Reddit in such a way that it tells a story as time goes on . | |
| It 's 2015 , and the Titanic has just sailed into New York Harbor . | |
| A group of friends have to go into a old house and recover a item , in order to receive a rich inheritance . However the house is haunted by ghosts , who have fortified the house . The friends have resorted to siege warfare to claim the item . | |
| The gods play a practical joke on their followers for just one day . Allah , Buddha , Jesus , the Hindu gods and the Greek gods and goddesses took part . | |
| A child needed a protector . The demon needed redemption . | |
| A small group of researchers on Mars begin detecting Oxygen in the air . They trace the source to a leak . A pipe leak . | |
| You discover you got the power to change reality at will ; but no one believes you , they say things have always been this way no matter what you change . | |
| With the salt wind in my face , I felt free for the first time in years . | |
| You 've had enough . Life is just too damn hard . It 's time . Only , on your way to the bridge , you spot someone else standing on the ledge already . | |
| When I touch you , you freeze . | |
| The most powerful spell ever forged . | |
| Long Ago , God sent his son Jesus to Earth . Now , Satan sends his daughter , Jessica ... | |
| You are scrolling through r/WritingPrompts , when this very prompt catches your attention . Intrigued by it 's meta nature , you debate with yourself whether or not you 'll write about it . | |
| Your beloved grandpa dies but all he leaves you is a horse called Sneezy . One afternoon while riding , Sneezy sneezes and suddenly you 're in a different era . | |
| You are a corrupted tooth fairy who knocks out adults ' teeth . | |
| Everybody who turns 25 learns a reality shattering secret about the world . Nobody has ever leaked this secret to somebody under 25 . Today is your 25th birthday . | |
| At their 18th birthday everybody is given a car which is manufactured to last without any problem till you die . This morning your check engine light went on . | |
| You died . You were reborn . You remembered your previous life . But that 's actually pretty useless - because you were n't reborn human . | |
| You are a member of a mildly intelligent species that evolved on the inside of Enceladus 's ice crust . Humans have just bored through and made contact . | |
| Fabricate an inspiring encounter with a stranger that changed your life . | |
| After the Dark Lord conquered the realm everything turns out really damn good . | |
| A person with the ability to stop time suddenly notices some one who is unaffected by the freeze . | |
| After brushing your teeth in the morning you go downstairs to fry an egg , but when you try the frying pan buzzes at you and text appears reading , `` level 18 cooking required to use object '' . | |
| You meet someone who is exactly like your childhood imaginary friend . You discover they had an imaginary friend that is eerily similar to you . | |
| You really want a peanut butter and jelly sandwich . You only have crunch peanut butter . You hate crunchy peanut butter . Tell me a narrative drama of a man put in this heart wrenching situation , and his journey for the lunch he truly desires . I expect to be moved to tears . | |
| A depressed , suicidal mailman wins the lottery . With no friends or family to share the money with , he decides to use the money to personally deliver packages across the world in search of a reason to live . |