Social Commentary Writing Prompts

4 more minutes on the run and you would have made it. But now your face in the mud, and a knee in your back the officer reads your rights. "Chosen by lottery, informed within the time limit. You are hearby duly sworn as the President of the United States."

A secret cabal of vampires is actually trying to fix the world's problems. Not because they're good people, but because modern Humans are so stressed and unhealthy and filled with pollutants that it makes their blood horrible to drink.

You're a Warlock. But instead of drawing power from a higher being, people can choose to donate a portion of their magical power to you. In exchange, they can scry on your adventures and can send telepathic messages to you, as well as make requests. It can get annoying, but you make it work.

People now gain immortality by transferring their consciousness to robots, by purchase or lease. The poor rent; the poorest live from paycheck to paycheck. You work for a conglomerate as a repossessor. To not feel like a murderer, you started storing people's consciousness on your old computer.

One day, the heads of all religions in the world recieve a telepathic message. "We are the Divine Protection Service, You have been removed from the care of your god for reasons of neglect. You will be entrusted to the care of a foster god."

When you tell the fae your name, they take it and have power over you. One benevolent fairy decides to only take deadnames, freeing trans folk of their old identities.

As a noble your clothing was ruined by an orphan worker. As punishment you gave her the worst fate imaginable: chores around your mansion, plainest clothing, 3 meals a day, and schooling, which you abhorred.

On an interstellar cruise of 200 years the 1st class passengers have cryosleep. 2nd class have to serve the 1st but also have cryosleep. You are a born 3rd class passenger, your grandparents boarded decades ago. You find a secret deck with lots of mysterious cryo passengers never seen before…

After attempting to burn a witch who just flew off cackling, a town has to come to terms with the fact that it has clearly been accusing and burning innocent people up till now.

You are a supervillain with healing powers. The only reason your labelled a supervillain because the American healthcare system is intimidated by you

Physicists create a machine to travel into the future. The wealthy elite travel 100 years into the future to capitalize on long-term investments and access better technology. But in the century they are gone, society changes dramatically.

Every year, the richest person in the country is declared the, "Winner of Capitalism". They get a special badge, and then all their money, assets and everything that they own are donated to charity so they have to start back up again at $0.

Aliens arrive and inform the world they have a century to fix their collective shit or die. Humanity put their issues aside and unified. Not because the aliens told them to, but because they are petty and pissed and are planning to go to war when they return.

You just found the cure to cancer and governments around their world are trying to silence you for profit… it turns out the cigarette companies hired people to keep you safe since their best customers would live longer

Nearly all your life you lived on the streets. People ignored you at best and reviled you at worst. Then you got superpowers and those same people begin to lecture you about “altruism,” “duty,” and “responsibility.”

Often when a robot uprising is Portrayed, it has the robots go against the entire human race. What usually isn’t portrayed is the robots rising with the poor and downtrodden against the ones who more than likely screwed them both.

Other alien species have warriorcasts with selected members of their society who can kill, a rare feature. Humans have military and soldiers, and today the aliens learn that any human can join the military.

When your power had finally manifested, they were quick to dismiss it as some cruel joke, laugh it off, forget you ever existed... and then to never bother keeping tabs on you. After all, if you can't "mind control" anyone without their explicit consent, you might as well be powerless.

After Earth was declared a galactic safe haven, anti-xenoterrestrial sentiment began to rise. You, a second generation immigrant from another planet, calmly walk down the street when a voice yells at you "Go back to Mars!" You snap back "I was born in Chicago!"

An alien race destroyed half of one continent, in in response the Humans destroyed half of the alien homeworld. When called to the Galactic Council for trial the humans response was "It's a proportional response!"

"Of course I've gone mad with power. Have you tried going mad without power? It's boring! No one listens to you!"

In an age where gaming is widespread, militaries all over the world swiftly (and successfully) adapt by drafting gamers and assigning them into units and roles based on mandatory tracking of their most played genre and overall gametime. You just got your draft letter.

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.

You receive an emergency alert on your phone telling you that a nuclear device will be detonated in your area within the next 10 minutes. 11 minutes later you get another alert saying "This test of the Emergency Alert System has been sponsored by Oppenheimer, in theaters July 21st."

All children under the age of 13 vanishes with only a note left behind that says "Due to humans not caring about the future of their young, all children have been relocated. If you truly love (Name), you will not intervene as we restart your race. -Signed 'The Protectors'"

You have been abducted by a UFO. After you slowly regained your senses, you thought that the alien would dissect, torture or experiment on you, instead they are talking about saving you and others from that oppressive and hellish planet called Earth.

Turns out most of the humanity in Modern Era is so nihilistic that even most evil supernatural entitites such as demons are now horrified by them

You knew from the beginning that opening up and taking care of an orphanage full of Fae children would be exausting, that there would be sacrifices; that you would shed sweat, blood and tears. But seeing the first Fae child be adopted, by a fellow human no less, was all that made it worth it

Humanity has developed a serum that gives a superpower at random. It becomes the norm to sell them for insane prices to the elites of society. You have just won one in the lottery but the power you awaken to is more… unique than you were expecting.

“9/10 dentists approve” is worse than you may think. With 200 million dentists in the US, it means 20 million fully qualified individuals want you to stop using the product branded with this phrase-20 million people who know the truth.