Hidden Worlds Within Our Own Writing Prompts
Search thousands of the most popular writing prompts from Reddit, and write a story from any of them with AI.
Search thousands of the most popular writing prompts from Reddit, and write a story from any of them with AI.
Your entire life, you've been told you're deathly allergic to bees. You've always had people protecting you from them, be it your mother or a hired hand. Today, one slips through and lands on your shoulder. You hear a tiny voice say "Your Majesty, what are your orders?"
When you ask your daughter what she wants for Christmas, she asks for a unicorn. Your wife laughs it off, but you don't. Neither your wife or daughter know that you're the best monster trapper in the world, and your daughter is getting her unicorn no matter what.
Since birth you have had telekinesis, one night you try and turn off the light and nothing happens, then a hidden voice goes “whoops boss that’s my bad, wasn’t paying attention” and the light switch flicks off
You've lived on Grandpa's humble farm your whole life. But Grandpa's on his last days now and you're expecting a few people to come say their last goodbyes. 12 kings, 8 dragons, 4 emperors, some minor deities, and many others later, you got more than a few questions for Grandpa.
It turns out that all birds share a common language and even have an official political voting process. One day, you find an injured bird and rescue it. You don’t know it, but it’s the leader of all the birds. Strange things around you start happening...
You shoo your kitten away from a battered mouse she's playing with. As you bend over with a towel to scoop up the mouse to carry it outside, you see it's wearing leather armor, a cat claw necklace, and that clutched tightly in a trembling paw is the handle of a broken yellow plastic sword pick.
Your dad loved his train set. It filled his basement and included a town, farmland, woods, and plastic figures. He passed away last week, and last night you were visited by two tiny figures claiming their sun has been dark for a week, the train no longer runs, and a rat is terrorizing the land.
Your village has exactly 92 people living in it, but only 91 are human. The last one is an elf and - despite being older than the village itself - a child at that. You're her 53rd adoptive parent.
You never really believed your grandmother's stories about the little people who lived in her home. After she passed and left it to you, you said, "Okay, Little People! I'm sorry, but the economy sucks, so I'm going to have start charging rent." In the morning, you find a small pile of gold.
As a renown astronomer you’ve known there are intelligent extraterrestrial life forms for years, it wasn’t that difficult to find, nor was it for their searches to find us. However, you’ve realized that both societies are not ready to interact. That doesn’t stop you guys from being pan pals.
When you were a young teen you were teleported to a magical world and had an adventure over the summer before returning home. 20 years later the crystal necklace you used for communication during your adventure beings making noise for the first time since you left the magical world.
While magic exists, it’s impossible for it to affect "normies", nor can they witness it. You can cast a huge explosion, but only those magically gifted will be hurt. Buildings & objects constructed by normies are unaffected too. You’ve been waging a secret war with Jerry from HR for years now.
You know your dog is anything but a dog, but you don’t mind since you both agree that it’s better than whatever’s in the basement.
You’re a shopkeeper who sells liquid dreams. People come to your shop for many reasons; self revelation, escapism, to see a gone loved one or for a precious good night sleep. Your shop is located between dimensions so no visitor can come twice. However, recently you’ve seemed to gain a regular.
You run a Bakery, just a normal bakery, the only problem is that your customers at midnight to 6AM are mythical creatures who pay with gemstones and ancient gold and silver coins
For the longest, you could see faeries, vampires, gods, ghosts, and other entities of the hidden world. However, you pretended not to see them because you just wanted to live a normal life. That was until they began noticing you.
You never knew your birth parents, growing up across the country in orphanages. While alone you learned to cook and shared your meals across the world, eventually owning your own business. One day you suddenly find out what your parents were. They were Fae… you’ve fed thousands Fae Food.
There's a 10PM curfew in your city. Past that time is when members of the magical community come out: Wizards, monsters, fae, etc. It's not a strictly enforced curfew, more like an advised time for regular humans to not be out.
You are a fay, but were raised human and have no idea of your true nature. You simply believed people were naturally honest about their deals with you - until a ridiculous 'joke' deal opens your eyes to the fact something's wrong.
After years of searching you finally found that little shop that magically appears then disappears without a trace. But you didn’t come here to shop. You came here because you use to work for them and that jackass owner owes you your last paycheck.
All her life, she's been on herbal supplements, which she didn't know were suppressing her half-succubus nature. now that she was at college though, she'd slacked off on them, and her figure and libido, amongst other things, were coming into bloom.
The revelation that your parents are retired supervillains was surprising. The revelation that every adult in your neighborhood is a supervillain who agreed to amnesty in exchange for retiring, living there and allowing the government to “keep an eye on them” even more so.
A man keeps failing to resist the charms of other women...but his girlfriend is actually a shapeshifter and she LOVES tricking him into cheating on her.
You were captured by a witch and cursed so that tentacles, invisible and intangible to everyone but you, are constantly swarming you 'playing' with you. The worst part is you can't tell anyone about them and you're forced to go about your normal life to the best of your ability...
She was a bully, but decided to become a better person after a local hero saved her live. One day, after a hard fight, she finds him unconscious in the streets. When she takes him home and removes his mask she is shocked to see, that the hero she had a crush on is the boy she bullied the most.
Your family is rich and powerful, often keeping your parents away. To help manage the daily affairs of your life, they hired an extremely attractive and bitchy assistant to help you. Your friends don't know why you still keep her around. If only they knew what a covert pervert she really is.
A video has been spreading across college of a tomboyish girl getting sent to pound town for a good 30 minutes, and no one has been able to figure out who the "Mysterious Tomboy" is. As you overhear a group chattering about the Mystery Tomboy, you smirk, because you were the Tomboy in the video.
The class bimbo has been flirting with him for months. But while she is cute and nice he prefers smart girls. When he falls behind in a Subjekt, the teacher assigns her to be his Tutor. Turns out, despite acting like a ditz and beeing horny all the time she is highly intelligent.
You never completely understood why the convenience store by your house was always so busy. But the one day you decided to try getting an energy drink before work, you saw a businessman stumble out of the back room followed by a busty worker. "Thank you, please cum again!"
You find out your shy female classmate is actually your favorite smut writer...
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