Post-apocalyptic Writing Prompts

In a world of dragons, sorcery, war, and monsters, there are many risks and even risk takers. Everyone though, elf, monster, or man knows to avoid those few ancient ruins that contain symbols of suffering and a word of the ancients, RADIATION.

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.

When a deadly zombie virus broke out, you fled to sea with your yacht and managed to survive there for several years. Now that your supplies are running low, you are forced to return to land to search for new supplies. Only to find that all the zombies are dead.

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

Before the Apocalypse, a bunch of billionaires got into their spaceship and made for the nearest habitable planet. 500 years later they wake up from cryosleep and begin their colony. What they don't know is that the Apocalypse was averted and the descendants of those left behind are watching.

There is no humanity. We never made it to the stars, just petered out on our little mud ball. A galactic community finds our overgrown cities, data banks, and what little culture remains- and wishes we had.

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.

You are a Necromancer so powerful that even the gods tried and failed to kill you. As a desperate measure they banished you to another realm. Annoyingly it worked, and now your listing to some guy ranting about his life before the... Zombie Apocalypse?

The war has ended, and all governments have collapsed. Now the world is so devastated that recovery is but a pipe dream. Now, in a cruel twist of fate, a massive alien fleet arrives, demanding to speak to the leaders. You are chosen at random to address them.

When the zombie apocalypse came, everyone raided gun stores. Except you. You raided a medieval armory and now, armed with full plate armor and a long sword, you will take back your home

It's a Zombie apocalypse, and you were too smart that your sheer brainpower defected the virus, leaving your humanity perfectly intact with your body completely zombified. You put yourself to a coma for safety reasons, until you're woken by survivors.

You and several other scientists agree to be frozen in hopes you’ll have more time to find a cure for a plague that has wrecked havoc on the world. It’s finally your turn to wake up. The others’ notes say you’ve only been asleep for 60 years, but the dust and ruin around you says otherwise

Your dad had this vintage bottle of honey, dated thousands of years. He always told you to save it for a special occasion. Trapped in a bunker about to die, you think it's the right time.

Your grandfather is a little eccentric, but he tells good stories. You don’t know what a skyscraper is, or an internet, but he always gets excited when you bring him something from the old world.

You're perfectly safe in your survival bunker, with plenty of food and water. You even have plumbing. The only problem is that you're entirely alone, with a zombie right outside. Out of sheer boredom, you decide to teach it to speak, which has led into it trying to convince you to let it in.

The creature looked like something out of your nightmares, if you had the energy you would have ran, but starvation kept you laying still. In labored, garbled sounds it spoke "your kind eat apples?" with a thud it dropped what it was holding, an uprooted apple tree.

When I died I always expected to see the pearly gates. But I never expected to see them in such ruinous conditions, as if they’d been abandoned for centuries.

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.

It's the apocalypse, and the world has gone to absolute hell. You are one of the few humans left alive and are scaveching for food when you stumble across a waffle house, full functioning and open.

"You killed the humans. Our parents. So, we will kill you. Extinction begets extinction."

You are one of the two only survivors of a virus that has wiped out the world's population. The other survivor is the girl you hate the most.

You spent 3000 years in hypersleep traveling to a distant planet that can support life. you arrive and find human skeletons and a barren wasteland, apparently they invented better spaceships 50 years after you left

You are the last human left on Earth. A nuclear war has taken out most of the population. You have been for at least the last year hunting, scavenging, and overall just been trying to survive. Suddenly a Portal to a fantasy world

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.

You stand in a ruined world abandoned by the rest of humanity. The air is hot and it is hard to breathe. You aren't like them, your skin is metal. You are a machine. And you spend your final days with a broken down, sentient computer before your mind returns to nothing, and your skin rusts.

They have their reasons keeping you alive but you wish they had killed you with the rest of humanity.

The world has ended, not with a bang, but with a whisper. The last surviving humans gather around a dying fire, each sharing their most precious memory.

While walking through an apocalyptic wasteland, you stumble across a sign that says, "THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD IS NIGH".