Time Travel Writing Prompts

You created a device to travel back in time, you chose the ice age but when you arrived you appeared in the middle of a battle between orcs, men and elves. What's worse you device has been damaged and now your stuck in the past.

You wake up in bed 10 years into the future and you find a woman you don't recognise beside you.

"Do the thing."\ "What thing?"\ "You know, the thing where you pause time, fuck me silly for a while then unpause and the sensations come crashing into me all at once.\ "Oh that. Give me a sec."\ "a second for wh-oHGod!"

You're a writer. Or you were, yesterday. The publishers agreed it wasn't worth the time. After you tried self-publishing, you're inclined to agree. But a fuming physicist appears in a flash. She threatens to kick your teeth in if she returns to the future and her favorite series isn't complete.

After traveling through time, you wander into a museum. There you eventually find a display with your name on it.

“Never in a million years!” You swore fervently. Well strap in bucko, because the year is 1,002,025.

A couple in their late 30's want to spice up their bedroom. They want to bring in others but neither wants to cheat. Fortunately time travel has just been invented. So who is the best choice to bring to the bedroom? Why, their 18 year old selves of course.

With the ability to stop time, came the natural next step for a young man like you. Perverted acts. However as you squeeze and lick the ass of a random gorgeous, and fat assed woman, she suddenly laughs. “Hehe. I thought I was the only time stopper. Enjoying my ass?”

It seems you are caught in a strangely pornographic Groundhog Day Loop; with one change per loop. Every time you wake up, you get turn into a different porn trope. One day, you're a big tittied tomboy, the next, a milky cowgirl. The day after, a bubbly bimbo.

You just get off your work and now walking home, midway though you thought about the a cafe with nice espresso you- Suddenly someone grab your shoulder, turning your head you look at your own face saying "Don't go to the cafe, don't go anywhere else! Just go home!" before disappearing.

As a housekeeper for a hotel, you have seen the effects of the time loop tens if not hundreds of times. It never ends well. Now, you fear it is happening to yourself.

You are visited by a time traveler, but much to your surprise they are actually from the past.

A man time travels to the past to save his girlfriend from dying in a train accident.He wakes up the morning of the incident and is surprised to see his girlfriend with a gun aimed at his head.

A professional archer from the Olympics gets transported into a field full of live bison 2000 years ago. The native tribes desperately hunt with hand-made wooden bow and arrows but their aim is terrible and their lack of skills are making the tribe go hungry

The day started out normal here in Britain, at least until that bright light and earthquake. Now all satellites are down and the emergency radio broadcast keeps saying the navy keeps seeing people dressed as Romans and Gauls on the french coast. Did the Whole of Britain really time travel.

When you are drunk you can temporarily go back in time. Only when begin to sober up you immediately teleport to your new reality. Tonight you didn’t mean but got not only drunk, but way drunker than you wanted.

Your son went missing when he was 5, and no one believes a strange portal took him. As the only suspect, you went to jail for 30 years. But as you are released in front of at least a hundred people, your son appears from a portal. He's still 5, but also looks like he lived a thousand years.

Every time your rich friend comes back from vacation, he talks in weird slang. Over the last 10 years, you have come to suspect that he is actually a time traveler.

You are a time traveler hunting down another time traveler taking shelter in the old west. You enter a saloon, looking for the suspect. The piano player, noticing your entry, smiles and begins to play "Smooth Criminal." You have found your target.

You are a homicide detective called to the scene of a murder. You quickly realize that the victim is a younger version of yourself.

Reincarnation is real, but you can reincarnate through time. You can reincarnate in the past or in the distant future.

A time traveler, Alien, reverse-isekai'd elf, and a robot, are all stuck as roommates in the same apartment, each totally oblivious to the fact that their roommates are as fantastical as they are while they all desperately attempt to pretend to be normal humans from this time/world/planet.

A distant descendant of yours comes back in time to interview you for a school project. This actually manages to be less surprising than their differences from a modern-day human.

You accidentally get sent 150 years into the future and everyone is speaking Brainrot. You're the only one speaking normal English but they're treating you as though you've been speaking Archaic

You are transported to a fantasy world. Thirty years later, your best friends from your old world are transported there as well.

An unfamiliar man, mortally wounded in medieval armor stumbles up to you, grabbing you by the shirt collar, all but pleading "I *must* complete the circle, but it is up to you to break it!", handing you- strangely- a lottery ticket. Then dies. Tomorrow, you learn that ticket won $1.9 billion...

Here it is dude! The “what if?” machine! You can ask it any question, and it will transport us to a universe where the question is true. Like what if America had lost the space race, or if 9/11 never happened! Wait, bro, what did you just ask?!

You've been reincarnated 10,000 years into the future, with all your modern day knowledge intact. It's time to tell these "historians" how wrong they really are about the 21st century.

You angered not one but two beings of incredible power unfortunately they didn't communicate beforehand so now you're stuck in a time loop AND the body of a dog.

“Why are there always so many clocks floating around whenever we time travel?”