Modern History Reimagined Writing Prompts

You're a paramedic. In fact, an immortal paramedic. Since you first treated a wounded soldier on the fields of the 30-years War, you didn't age and followed the development of "Emergency Medical Service". Your coworkers are astonished by your knowledge, but sometimes, you slip into old habits..

According to US Navy tradition, submarines that have not been confirmed to be destroyed, are still on patrol. Since WWII, there have been 52 submarines that haven’t yet returned to port, yet to report in, nor have been confirmed to be destroyed. You are one of those, on the eternal patrol.

Your cranky history teacher has recently been revealed as immortal. The reason they are angry is because they have to teach according to the texts when they know what really happened. One class he has had enough and begins to answer people's questions about what truly happened in history.

There was a brief window in the 1800s where you could have an adventuring party made up of a samurai, an elderly pirate captain, a Zulu warrior, a cowboy, and a Victorian gentleman detective and have it be 100% historically correct. Write the story of this unlikely group of adventurers.

You are a time traveler in 1918, and you just accidentally said "World War One"

In World War II, an American battalion has an enlisted dog that serves as their mascot. Throughout the war, the dog has been "promoted" several times. However, after a devastating defeat, the soldiers suddenly find that the dog is the highest-ranking surviving officer.

After several thousand years, the Greek gods awaken in the in the mid 1940’s. When the gods meet up to discuss what they had learned of the modern world, Ares walks into the room with a hollow and horrified look in his eyes, the day is August 6th, 1945.(Hiroshima)

You are an immortal poet, and every so often you have to change your penname and writing style just a bit to avoid suspicion. At a book signing, a fan brings up a book for your signature, but it's a piece you wrote 1400 years ago under a different name.

"I wish I was born in the 90s," says the young girl. Suddenly, her surroundings change- french flags fly above and around her, crowds are cheering. It is France, 1793. The king is dead. Long live the revolution.

The dancing plague of 1518 returns and through social media the contagion spreads fast and globally. You're one of the few survivors in an apocalyptic wasteland, hiding from the dancing horde.

You drank a snake oil salesman's drink only for it to make you actually immortal in the old west now 300 years later you see that same salesman

An immortal person decides to start streaming themselves playing Geoguesser, and over time become extremely popular as they tell the history of the places that they guess.

Alice Liddell became famous after returning from her trip down the rabbit hole. Now an adult, she aids in the British Empire's colonisation of Wonderland.

You are the curator of a Museum of Military History. On display are artworks representing every great military leader. One day you watch an ancient, bent old man hobble in, and when you look back at the collection suddenly every portrait and statue appears to have raised its hand to salute him.

You are an Orc soldier seeking to fight the greatest warriors of the different species. The first one you choose to face is a human warrior that has claimed many lives. You find him now running a vineyard. He refuses your challenge and says to you, "Vietnam was no glorious adventure"

Both Sherlock Holmes und Dracula are set around the 1890s. So, technically, it would be possible that Sherlock was hired to investigate the deaths caused by Dracula.

You are subject to a quite unusual curse. You see, you were born twice, one day after the other, in two separate times and places. As such, you live half of your days as a noblewoman in pre-revolutionary 18th century France, and live every other day as a male millennial in the US.

During the height of the British empire you are placed in charge of a remote island in the South Pacific, with little oversight you decide to turn it into your own little depraved utopia.

As an immortal being who's been kicking around for several hundred years, there's something familiar about the rebellion's plan to bring down the oppressive regime they're fighting against...

At some point, the pirate captain had told her crew that they could fuck her anytime for a hundred gold... She hadn't anticipated how flush this most recent plunder would make them...

As an immortal, you found out that that someone has written an historical romance novel of two of your friends from 200 years ago. You're reading through it to see what they got wrong and what they got right.

You spend all your money and sell all your possessions so you can party like crazy before Y2K and then on January 1st 2000, nothing happens.

“We’re supposed to figure out whatever the hell was going on in the 20th and 21st century through just ONE person’s phone? Are you serious?”

Write me a poem about your 1800s European nation going to war, and it gets less enthusiastic and less optimistic as it goes along.

The year is 1954. You have just discovered the existence of something called a “blow job.” You simply must write a letter to your friend back home about the wondrous things you’re learning at college!

As part of a documentary you're filming about the 70s, you interview a former groupie. A lot of the interview has to be cut for sexual explicitness.