Reddit Writing Prompts

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After her surgery, she needed to have a small implant installed in her neck to send signals through all her nerves again. Unfortunately, her sister discovers it has a full API exposed through an open Wi-Fi network...

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Every Freshman had to have a medical exam, which required them to join a queue of naked people.

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The hotel you’re staying at is exclusive, expensive and one of the finest in the world. One of the perks of staying there is that staff must comply to every request asked of them by guests, you decide to make full use of this rule on your weekend there

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After bullying the quiet gothy/witchy girl, you wake up the next morning and notice changes to your body. Even more concerning is that only she and you notice them.

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A fairy tale involving a beautiful cum-guzzling princess, who unapologetically loves cum! But there’s LOTS of whispering about her among all the fair maidens in the royal court. Some can’t believe it, and disapprove — but others admire the princess, and who are even a little jealous!

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You're sitting across the table from your final target. You know you're going to fight and attempt to kill them, and they know this, too. Right now, though, you're just old friends, trying to patch up old wounds and enjoy each other's company.

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You’ve been cursed to start dancing whenever you hear music. Well screw them, you’re going to turn this into a positive.

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You have spent weeks embedding yourself in a secret society in the capital city on suspicion of movement against the king. You’ve finally gained access to their secret base of operations and…what on earth is a “speakeasy”?

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The magical ability tests results got leaked... what nobody expected was some rando to be the most powerful mage at the academy

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"Welcome to the 2024 Paris Fairy Tale Olympics! We've got some real tough contenders this year. America is coming in strong with multiple monsters, third sons and youngest daughters, but Zimbabwe is rumored to have an athlete who's both the 7th son of a 7th son and the 13th child!"

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You come across a woman in kimono playing a traditional Japanese woodwind instrument.

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Haunted by an insatiable obsession with the afterlife, a man uncovers the devastating truth of its nonexistence. Refusing to surrender to despair, he vows to defy fate and forge an afterlife of his own creation.

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Gleefully, you load a shotgun as you walk to the villain’s base. “I’ve been waiting forever to do this!” You say as you play “New Noise” on your phone.

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Two narrators, one wants to make it a romance story and the other an action flick, they switch every two paragraphs.

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You are the best swordsman in the land who got to the top using only one technique. Today, you fight someone who finally figured out how to counter it

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You are a Fey that runs a magic cafe in an urban fantasy big city 🌆 that specializes in breaking people's curses, a cake that wards off sleep demons, a latte that helps you find true love, and a soda machine that changes fate. IDK have fun

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Whoever said absolute power corrupts absolutely has obviously never met Gary.

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You are a clone whose body and mind are slowly degrading. Not wanting your life to be a waste, you document the effects for future study.

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In a world where books have long been obsolete, our hero stumbles across the last remaining bookstore.

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Reverse Omelas: a god will wreak havoc on the city if one person's happiness isn't kept perfect, to the constant anxiety and often material detriment of everyone else

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The Space Race continues into the 21st century, with humanity preparing to reach Mars by 2000. Two scientists from rival nations landed, and met each other for the first time...

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A man buys/inherits a dungeon after it was cleared by adventurers but more people keep showing up to take his things. He discovers the magical books and artifacts the previous owner had and learns to use them over time. Now he has become the bad guy on accident when all he wanted was solitude.

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You work at a pet shop that, unbeknownst to the general public, caters almost exclusively to various supernatural entities. Today, Lucifer Morningstar himself walks in the door, requesting an emotional support animal for his depressed son, the Antichrist.

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You recently found out that your mother is actually an ancient dragon who has been waging a bloody war of conquest across all realms without your knowledge. Now that she’s gone missing, you’re left to govern her massive multi-realm empire.

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While we appreciate your passion for the protection of Earth, the Terran Defense Force doesn't recruit 60 year olds. But if you want to help, there is a program looking for volunteers... it's experimental.

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You, a human, were sent to observe a developing alien species, but your space shuttle crashed and you were injured and pass out in the crash. You awake in an alien hospital, as aliens desperately try to save you

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You just learned why the chicken crossed the road. All those years ago, on that fateful day...

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You are a new necromancer in Chicago who just escaped the Inquisition due to a new union law letting you use the undead for free labor.

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You lay upon a metal table, in front of you is window. Through the window you see piercing eyes. You are a death row inmate that is set to be executed shortly.

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Write a story about the most clumsy and dumb assassin who somehow manages to get the job done.

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