Reddit Writing Prompts

You accidentally listed yourself as an "Infernal Medicine Doctor" instead of an "Internal Medicine Doctor" on your resume, now you keep getting request from the underworld to go help cure demons with ailments of all kinds, let's see how far this new life takes you.

"Do you know who usually wins a magic duel when it turns into a fistfight? The answer is: the magician who first realises that the duel has turned into a fistfight."

The new employee is clearly a mimic attempting to fit in. Everyone is aware of this, but the mimic is just so innocent and precious that they just accept them.

You're a retired S-tier supervillain. After you retired, you married a B-tier hero. You are forced back onto the stage when an A-tier villain attempts to kill your spouse.

Anonymous "Hero" donates human kidneys, blood, eyeballs, and various organs to the hospital every week. The number now tallying in the hundreds. Doctors and news outlets are wondering where they acquire them from and whether it is ethical to use them. Surprisingly, its not a serial killer.

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.

Vampires exist. They sleep for 10 thousand years to let the human/livestock population grow before waking up and harvesting our blood. They wake up today, assuming we are still cavemen like

"You left your excess carbon in a wet environment and let it bake by a star? Come on man... you know that's how you get humans! Do you want humans? They're probably already inventing Reality TV at this point. Go take care of it."

You were given immortality to atone for your horrific crimes against humanity. You wander the earth for millennium. Finally, you are given the option to revoke your immortality and end your suffering. You deny it.

"Honey, you know we dont have a child right?" "Yes i know, but the demon is behaving and has good grades, might as well play along"

You’ve been regularly clocking into work all these years, afraid that leaving the mob means that they would silence you like in the movies. On the other side, every member of the mob fears the member who has lived through eight different leaders.

You, a fake clone, are stuck in the classic “Shoot one, let one live” situation. To your horror, the person with the gun outsmarts you and uncovers that you were fake all along. Just as you brace yourself for the bullet, they point their gun towards the real person and pulls the trigger.

Humans have discovered how to make habitable subspaces before FTL travel, so the humans have the "smallest" territory of all the species in the galaxy.

A dragon's hoard isn't always just gold and jewels. Some dragons hoard magical artifacts, others hoard books and knowledge. Your hoard is an entire small town.

“Mom…Dad…I’m…” “Gay? We know sweetheart. And we still love yo—-“ “No I’m—“ “Trans too? Oh don’t worry dear we always kind of knew…” “No for the love of god I’ve been turned into a vampire!!”

"You claim to be an honest merchant who used to sell tomatoes and other goods... But tomatoes will not be known here until a few centuries from now." Whispered the Knight to the speechless stranger. "I never let one of us escape me, fellow time-traveller... Guards! Arrest this sorcerer!"

During the renovation of your living room you hire cheapest designer avaliable due to lack of funds. But when you come back to twitching raw muscles covering the walls and bloody heart in the chandelier you realise they might have misunderstood the assignment.

"I should've been a hero instead of following my family's legacy" a villain sighed to himself while rescuing civillians trapped under the rubbles of destroyed buildings caused by the reckless and arrogant hero who's still telling the fakest story to his Twitch fans while striking poses

Your workers always ask “Why do you put a self destruct button on your inventions?” Tired of their questioning, you decide to explain why it’s perfectly rational.

After an uneventful trip, the Titanic arrives safely in New York. Except this New York gleamed with towers of glass, not stone—and its people claim that the Titanic sunk over a century ago.

You invented a machine. Paper bills get dropped in, seeds dispense from the top. The local crows quickly discovered the wondrous vending machine and youve been getting an easy 500 a week in passive income. The police haven’t caught on yet, but today there was 500k in the machine.

One moment you are 16 years old, the next you’re 82. Now everyone thinks you have dementia because you “forgot” the last 66 years.

You are the evil overlord. You've ruled the world with an iron fist. But after you quit being an overlord as you couldn't deal with all the paperwork, a clumsy young female hero burst through your door every day claiming to end your reign. This is her 58th attempt.

Unbeknownst to the villagers, that nuisance of a dragon was actually protecting their village, so when it showed up and yelled “I have been protecting your village for over 15 years, why do you keep sending dragon slayers after me!?” at the mayor, they were very confused.

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."

Your father is a demon, and your mother is a human. You were raised by her, and only saw your father a handful of times as a kid. Your mom raised you right. You're by all accounts a pretty good person, which is why it was a shock when demon hunters showed up at your door.

After the Villain finished their Monolouge stating their True Motivations, the Hero asked a very unexpected question, "Wait, why are we fighting then?"

"Many claim human lineage. Many would be humans are just elves or dwarves with a pinch of human blood decades back. Clearly your an imposter." "I'm just a kid from Ohio and I have no idea what you're talking about."

You are a young mage who just discovered the horrifying truth about where mana actually comes from.

A dog witnesses something that we humans consider perfectly innocuous and normal, but to them is horrifying. Write from the dog's perspective, don't reveal what the normal thing is until the end.