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r/WritingPrompts 18,855,212 subscribers — Writing Prompts. You're a writer and you just want to flex those muscles? You've come to the right place! If you see a prompt you like, simply write a short story based on it. Get comments from others, and leave commentary for other people's works. Let's help each other.
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Post Score Posted [WP] Villains mother dramatically reveals to the villain and the hero that they are twins only for the both of them to look at her and say "We know, dad raised us, just because you chose to be an absentee parent doesn't mean he did" 430 7d ago [WP] "well uh, usually theres whole families welcoming their newly deceased relatives to paradise... but I searched the place twice over and couldn't find anyone directly related to you..." your guardian angel said, wringing their hands nervously. 378 7d ago [WP] As a cat its your job to feed your human, usually they're dumb and clumsy. Except for once a month, when they grow big and strong for a night and bring back a big kill after the moon sets, you don't know why they can't be like all the time, but you're just glad they can take care of themselves. 375 5d ago [WP] you're a member of an alien police force. Recently you got stuck with the new recruit from someplace called "earth". Like everyone else you don't think much of them, until they experience a bout of hysterical strength and save a life. 368 4d ago [WP] After your coronation you try to take the crown off at night but it won't budge. Your vizier enters the room. "That is the dark secret of why our kings die young. It will shrink each day. Make the best of the time you have, your highness." 355 3d ago [WP] "For your crimes, I issue the most severe punishment that dwarven law allows. Tomorrow your beard shall be shaven, and a hair-killing elixir will be applied to your face. Take him away." 322 3d ago [WP] You are in the middle of telling a story to some people about how you survived a brush with death, but freeze mid-telling. You realize your survival was impossible. You died. You had to have died. 312 6d ago [WP] There's a very good reason why otherworldly deities always choose depressed lonely nobodies as the people to be isekai'd into their fantasy worlds, that reason is you: a father who had a wife and child before he was suddenly had his entire life taken away from him by a truck. 283 5d ago [WP] Being the crown prince was a heavy burden—one you wanted to escape more than anything. One night, without telling a soul, you and your girlfriend ran away. Six months have passed, and strangely enough, no one seems to be looking for you. 281 4d ago [WP] The most powerful man in the world works as a humble accountant. A superhero comments that he can do a lot of good if he used his powers, the man counters that keeping his powers hidden, away from prying eyes, is its own form of heroism. 273 6d ago
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