Natural Disasters Writing Prompts

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Earth is doomed in a matter of years, but you are bestowed with a mystical dagger that causes anyone killed by it to instantly resurrect on an alternate Earth that does not share the same fate. In one world you are revered as a hero, on the other the most notorious serial killer of all time.

25,306 upvotes389 comments

A day before the Earth is destroyed by a collision with a rouge planet, time freezes. You, a completely normal person are untouched and cannot die. Text on your arm appears that reads, "however long it takes, save us".

10,409 upvotes3,029 comments

You look at a falling star and make a wish: "I wish for a million more wishes" You say smugly, a milion more 'falling stars' appear in the night sky and suddenly you realize you've just inadvertedly caused the apocalypse

9,519 upvotes90 comments

Every 1000 years all of the Gods get together for a contest to see who can collect the most souls with a single catastrophic event. Last time Poseidon broke the 1M mark with a Tsunami/earthquake combo. You’re up.

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You are in a failing Dyson sphere around the last black hole, an hour away from its final moments of evaporation before it explodes and gives the universe its last moment of light. The remnants of your civilization will witness the end of the universe.

431 upvotes19 comments

The magic weave is real, every human pulls from it. But the vast Ocean that is the weave is not infinite and as the human population rises the power one can pull from the weave becomes almost non existent. Earth just faced a apocalyptic event that wiped out 80% of humanity and you feel the weave

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„Why are all the sunflowers turning away from the sun?“ „What ever that thing is, it isn’t the sun anymore!!“

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You’re a terminal archaeologist. You explore worlds that had sudden extinction level events with the intent of preventing such calamities on Earth and colonial worlds. Today you discover where the end took a week for an intelligent species.

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