Reddit Writing Prompts

Many ages ago Death was defeated and sealed. Immortality is the norm, but the loss of death has lead to a society of ultralites that rule over never dying slaves. As Death's first reaper after the unsealing, you are here to remind them why Death exists... and why your master should be feared.

The power of a spell is inversely proportional to the amount of words in its name. You, hated and exiled, invented the first single word spell:

Witchcraft is illegal, but you're not a witch! You and your coven- I mean, you and your friends are just exceptionally good alchemists.

So humanity's galactic divisions are all named after sci-fi franchises. The Enterprise for exploration and diplomacy, the Spartans if combat is needed. This is the story of the less honorably named factions, such as the appropriately named "World Eaters"

You have failed and your foes have achieved their long sought goal of reviving their God-king. Everyone expected him to lead the final assault and solidify his rule once and for all. Turns out, he's actually a pretty chill guy and immediately calls the whole thing off.

I pulled myself together and got up. The autopsy technicians could only stare in horror.

You run a Bakery, just a normal bakery, the only problem is that your customers at midnight to 6AM are mythical creatures who pay with gemstones and ancient gold and silver coins

A AskReddit post which reads: "Superheroes/Supervillains, what's the most awkward situation you found yourselves in during your career?"

When someone dies, the afterlife they go to is determined by WHERE they died. Dying in Scandinavia sends the soul to Valhalla or Hel, but dying in Greece lands them in Hades, and so on. You have just died in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

You open the door and see a woman you recognise immediately: she’s the lead character of a novel you wrote years ago. And abandoned halfway. “Why did you forsake me?”

You have been kidnapped by aliens to be a zoo animal. They expect you to be upset & try to escape, but you love your new life & become an "ambassador animal" for humanity.

Healing spells can be very terrifying if done incorrectly. It was only a matter of time until somebody weaponized these flaws to make some truly horrendous attack spells.

Each type of death has a unique type of Reaper. The Reapers of Drowning collects the souls of the drowned. The Reapers of Old Age collects those that have come to their natural end. Write a story about a Reaper for an unusual death finally having a soul to collect.

When you were little, you formed a symbiotic relationship with an alien larva parasite, who's been your closest companion ever since. Today is your college graduation, and after the ceremony, you hear words from the parasite in your mind: "We need to talk."

The war has ended, and all governments have collapsed. Now the world is so devastated that recovery is but a pipe dream. Now, in a cruel twist of fate, a massive alien fleet arrives, demanding to speak to the leaders. You are chosen at random to address them.

The Elven people have finally reached the stars and have arrived at the galactic community. Upon arriving, they attempt to assert themselves as the dominant party to the galactic alliance sighting their longevity and wisdom. Only for the Elder Race known as "Humanity" to put them in there place

When the zombie apocalypse came, everyone raided gun stores. Except you. You raided a medieval armory and now, armed with full plate armor and a long sword, you will take back your home

When type 4 civilization patched a black hole that was dangerously next to a human colony, usually other species of the intergalactic community ran away, but humanity was the first to excitingly contact this civilization.

It's a Zombie apocalypse, and you were too smart that your sheer brainpower defected the virus, leaving your humanity perfectly intact with your body completely zombified. You put yourself to a coma for safety reasons, until you're woken by survivors.

"Silly Rabbit, Trix are for kids!" Well, now the kids have grown up, and they have to team up with thier old foe to get thier favorite cereal one last time.

Tired of love stricken mortals making up a sizable chunk of the underworld’s traffic, Hades decides to help mortals with their love problems before Aphrodite can answer them. It turns out that mortals are a lot more satisfied with Hades’ help than with Aphrodite’s.

We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them

You're an entirely normal human being. You have memories of a childhood and an adult life. You're not a robot. You're not a robot. You're not a robot. You know beyond all doubt you're not a robot. Why have captchas suddenly become completely impossible?

You teach at a magic school, but you do not teach any magic. In fact, you are not even a mage. Yet your classes are among the few that *every* student has to take, no matter what kind of magic they are studying.

The whole point of Hell was to torture people for all eternity, or at least that was the point on paper. In practice, everyone's too numb and too used to it to even feel a thing or even be scared anymore

You die and go to hell, instead of burning in a fire hotter than the sun, you sit in a field of flowers and the air smells like your favorite fruit. After asking the devil why hell seems like a paradise, he tells "I'm here because I don't obey the big guy"

Turns out every planet with life has a version of mammals, and they supposed to be weak, small and dumb creatures. The fact that they are not only the dominant animal clade on Earth, but also the planet's intelligent species baffles aliens.

You have the power to teleport 1 cubic centimeter of matter within a certain vicinity around you. The person holding you hostage thought your power was useless, up until they started screaming and clutching their eye because there was a 1 cubic centimeter sized hole in it.

You tried an online ancestral DNA test just for fun. To your surprise, just after an hour, the FBI broke into your house and arrested you.

Your starship was badly damaged during a routine cargo run. Your distress beacon was answered by a ship full of immortal and beautiful people. You now sit at a bar, trying to make heads or tails as to why they won't let you go after your ship was fixed.