Reddit Writing Prompts

Everyone received the exact amount of money they would need for the rest of their life. Most people got many thousands or even millions, while you were given exactly five bucks.

You have been turned into "the snail" and the only way for you to turn back is to touch the immortal

You’re a mind reader, but your whole life everything has sounded like gibberish because of how random people’s misconstrued thoughts are, until one day all the voices shut off and you hear one very clearly say “run”

You have a strange power: When you yell ’Cut!’ from the top if your lungs, everyone presents turns into ’actors’, ’crew’ with ’equipment’ pops into existence and the area you are in turns into a set. Usually you do this when you’re bored but this time you do it to avoid an unwanted marriage.

Ever since your dog was supposed to pass, you've bartered with Death to trade one year off of your lifespan to give to your dog. Today, you realize you've used them all up.

"Our enemy is too strong to face head on. We'll have to use gorilla warfare." "Sir, do you mean guerrilla warfare?" "No."

Pyromancy is ridiculously dangerous. Most pyromancers die before they turn 20 and 25 is considered ancient by their standards. You have reached 30 and show no signs of slowing down.

A zombie apocalypse plagues the planet. Strangely the zombies seem to attack some people and leave others alone. You’re part of a team of scientists and soldiers who discover why.

You run a quaint deli that's beloved by the Italian mob. The NYPD have also become frequent patrons. Neither want to start a confrontation in your shop.

Everyone thought when Gaia made herself known to the world with the intention of suing every corporation which had polluted in the past century that the corporations would easily win. They after all had the best lawyers on Earth. Gaia alternatively had brought her most litigious Fae...

"Kid, I don't care if your the 'Chosen One' or that you need 'to Level Up', this is a nature reserve. You can't walk in and start killing innocent wildlife. You're being arrested."

"This is insane, I'm not paying this. And what is your name!?", the Faye screams at you, tearing up the forms. You pull out a second copy and hand them over. "No one escapes the IRS, not even residents of the Fayewild. Now we can do this the easy way or the hard way.", you say to them.

There is a company run by an ethereal cosmic horror entity that likes to torment it’s mortal employees by asking impossible tasks of them. However, there is one employee that somehow completes every task.

You are transported into another world where dragons rule with magic. Humans are treated in low regard as they don't have anything special in them. Everybody speaks in a language you don't understand. To your surprise, Dragons speak English to use their magic spells.

You're an oath-keeper, your god will whisper you the names of those paladins who have broken their oaths, and you slay them. But you awoke at night to an incomprehensibly long list of names, after an hour it said " fuck it, all the paladins have broken their oath, slay them all"

The fleshlight you bought is, unbeknownst to you, magical. Whenever you use it, the girl next door starts moaning as though she's having sex. Well, she is! With you. Through your magic fleshlight.

You have a soft-spoken, mild-mannered friend who would never hurt a fly. One day, you accidentally overheard them talking over their phone in a cold, apathetic voice, "I don't care how you do it. If you don't return the money by tomorrow, you can say goodbye to your family."

After years of searching, you finally unearthed a long lost and buried crypt covered in warnings of maddening knowledge beyond mortal comprehension. Unfortunately, "knowledge beyond mortal comprehension" was a much lower bar five thousand years ago.

A stranger comes up to you and says “I’ve finally found you!” Apparently, you two are part of a reincarnation cycle that has spanned a millennium in which you two always fell in love. However, this time you aren’t really into them.

You are an ancient dragon, the king has sent many soldiers to slay you all have failed. Then one day a man with leather armor wielding an iron sword. You get into your fighting stance, he then speaks up and says “the king killed my family and everything I love, will you help me?”

When you were 10, you created a secret phrase with God so you would know how to identify someone as your solemate. Your partner of two years has never said it, but as you finish shopping and start loading your items onto the conveyor belt, a random cashier utters the words to you.

Suddenly, all humans become the last creature or plant they ate. The majority of humans are now sentient lettuce heads or beans, or anthropomorphic chickens and cows. But what concerns everyone most are the people who are still human...

You are a notorious hitman. Seriously one bad mother!@#$er. And this little kid just gave you a big fistful of change to get his bike back from the neighborhood bullies.

It was supposed to be just one time you saw wherewolf pup in the snow you brought him in gave him food took care of him and then get let on his way. but then more monster children ended up on your doorstep you kind of regret it but don’t.

A young villain tried to mug you, but upon seeing your face, he fled in terror. Upon further investigation, you discover that your high school sweetheart is now the most powerful villain in the world and has you on a list titled "hurt them, and I'll kill you."

You have a café shop, and you always treat everyone kindly, whether they are heroes or villains. Everything was going well until a young hero decided to read your mind.

In a world where the government controls every aspect of citizens' lives, there is a black market where people can buy glimpses of their memories before the government wiped them. As an underground memory dealer, you must decide how far you are willing to go to help people reclaim their past

The forging of a magic sword requires a human sacrifice, and for the newest and most powerful one, a retired general renowned for many victories was chosen. However, the makers of the sword didn't know that out of disgust for the horrors of war he had seen and inflicted, he became a pacifist.

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?

After a series of misunderstandings, a dragonborn paladin of noble birth is sent on a quest to save the lost princess (herself) from a vicious dragon (also herself).