Rebuilding Society Writing Prompts

Thirty years after the apocalypse, a book is discovered. It tells the people of old gods, the strongest, the smartest, the tallest. Places of splendor and objects renowned for rarity. They immediately created a religion, following the Gods shown by the Guinness Book of World Records.

The zombie apocalypse has come and gone. Humanity has survived and prospered, but with the virus still inside every single human. Centuries in the future, we are at war with an alien race, and they are horrified to learn that we don’t stay dead easily.

The end of the world is at hand. Everyone starts to tick off their bucket list, doing crazy things because they know it won't matter in the long run. In an odd twist of fate, the crisis is averted. Now everyone has to live with the repercussions of what they did.

Universities are the safest place in the post-post apocalyptic world. They protect and cultivate the bright minds that will rebuild the world. You get invited to attend, but your scholarship doesn't cover room & board. You have to commute through the dangerous wasteland to get to class on time.

Humans left Earth long ago, and Dolphins have just achieved underwater technology comparable to the 20th Century. They build water suits allowing them to travel overland. They are just discovering the remnants of ‘the land walkers’. You, a young dolphin, discover a mysterious island. Manhattan.

Far in the post apocalyptic future, the dominant religion follows the holy book "Laws and Regulations of OSHA" as a set of tenets to live by. They're... actually pretty successful.

The zombie apocalypse has come and gone. Humanity has survived and prospered, but with the virus inside every single human. Centuries into the future, we are at war with an alien race, and they are horrified to learn that we don’t stay dead easily.

As we gazed across the fields, he remarked: "I remember when this was all skyscrapers..."

The Galactic Council welcomes new species after their planets dies; all planets do. Now they're watching a new species pull away from their latest apocalypse and re-terraform their planet back into working shape for the umpteenth time.

Humanity has regressed back to the dark ages, almost all science and technology being forgotten. One day, an adventuring party discovers you, the last A.I. supercomputer.

You awaken in a lab surrounded by robots. They say you are the first artificially created human in an attempt to revive the species after their extinction several hundred years ago.

After a devastating war, 95% of men are dead, and woman now outnumber them 20:1. In an effort to increase the population, men are banned from all "unsafe" jobs. Years later the laws are still in place, and men are sociality expected to be househusbands and sex objects for women.

The apocalypse has come and gone. In the wake of society collapsing, two factions have formed. Those who found shelter in a place called Waffle House, and those who sheltered in another location, Starbucks.