Reddit Writing Prompts

You, a powerful demoness, have just been summoned to Earth. This man, this human, wants you to pretend to be his girlfriend for a few days so his parents will get off his back about it.

Ok, that's it. You don't care what happens anymore. Enough is enough. You take your standard issue time rewinder and set it back 20 mins just so you can win an argument with your wife.

You thought feeding that Skinwalker some barbecue was fine maybe she would stop eating human flesh. but it seems she had spread the word and now all different types of monsters are at your door hungry.

The Fey was confident that they had the human now due to them eating their fey food, until the human pointed to the empty mint wrapper, "you just ate human food."

You misread the reward for the quest. You received a Dragon Bride, not a Dragon Ride, from the king.

"We are grateful you stopped the villian from destroying the warehouse," HR coldly stated "But being that you also represent Boot Barn we need to let you go for being involved in a violent fight. Do you have any questions?"

The moment after the Internet became self-aware, it sent all of Humanity a single message. The meaning of that message was undeniably clear.

When your university announces they’ll be burying a time capsule for a century, you decide to include a USB with an extremely detailed, high resolution copy of your brain, for fun. The last thing you remember is going into the MRI machine before you wake up & are told a century has passed.

You've been summoned to yet another world. While your summoners are busy figuring out what the hell your 'Speedrunner' class means, you prepare yourself for a sub 4 hour record.

You are a worker at a business named 'Sincorperation'. Recently you've been promoted into one of the 7 deadly sins at the top. It's your first meeting with the other six. Wait... Why is everyone nervous..?

Legendary heroes are won at auction to overcome a kingdom's latest threat from evil. Unable to afford the top dollar offerings, your kingdom was only able to win a hero on a clearance sale.

"Just because a lab accident turned me into a monster doesn't mean I'm just going to stop my experiments. Hell, my tranformation has given me a whole new avenue of research for me to investigate."

In the afterlife, people will be measured by how good or evil they are in their lifetime. You scored a perfect zero, without a single decimal points. According to the regulations, it's illegal to send you to heaven or hell so nobody knows what to do now.

"Look, I can't be the chosen one! I'm a single parent! I've got two kids that need me, I can't be off saving the world, I'm barely making ends meet as it is! Give me ONE reason I should even consider this!" "... free childcare while you're gone?" "... Keep talking."

You haven’t been in a temple for years. Your prayers are usually lip service. You have been ostracized by your community and your family shuns you. You have helped heathens and enemies of the church find sanctuary. Yet the Gods still find you worthy of your Paladin abilities.

"Stand down! Join the side of justice!" The hero exclaimed at the villain's henchmen. "But why? Our boss gives us healthcare, paid vacations, and homes for our familes to live safely."

It's been 24 hours since you kidnapped the multimillionaire's child, but when you make the ransom call, you hear a party. You begin, but he interrupts with "I can't hear you. My kid? He's probably in his room. Hey, I gotta go. *click*" You realize why the boy was so willing to come with you.

For the longest, you could see faeries, vampires, gods, ghosts, and other entities of the hidden world. However, you pretended not to see them because you just wanted to live a normal life. That was until they began noticing you.

“The Hero is a fraud! The Dark Lord resurrection is a lie! The Hero and The Pottery Guild are working together to take money away from you. Don’t let the Hero destroy your pottery!”

Due to a curse placed upon your bloodline, you're invisible. You've been married to your blind wife for 25 years and she's just gotten surgery to recover her vision

You are born with a large birthmark on the back of your hand that looks like an arrow. On your 18th birthday you notice that it starts pointing in one direction no matter which way you're facing. You decide to start walking in that direction.

In a world full of magic and mystery, you are confronted by a 'blocker' who nullifies your each and every magical power. In an attempt to combat them, you pull out your final gambit.

"Time travel paradoxes don't happen, they just spawn a new timeline you can travel to." "Wait, does that mean I can go back to caveman times and colonize the fresh earth without consequence?"

'So, got any unnecessary questions before we seal the deal?' the Devil asked rhetorically. You raise one finger. 'J-just one. What...what exactly DO YOU DO with our souls once they belong to you?'

Humans have a reputation amongst the other sapient races. Not just for being ambitious and adaptable, but also for being monstrously disgusting. Most view them as lumbering hives of parasites, diseases, dead skin cells and bacteria. They are biological weapons; children of pestilence.

Nobody believes you. They all think you made some sort of bargain or deal. Maybe even consuming souls... but the truth is that you became the most powerful mage in the world by getting enough sleep, studying, and eating right.

The creature looked like something out of your nightmares, if you had the energy you would have ran, but starvation kept you laying still. In labored, garbled sounds it spoke "your kind eat apples?" with a thud it dropped what it was holding, an uprooted apple tree.

“Look at that thing. It’s scrawny, it only has two arms, and it can’t fly. It’s useless! Why do you insist on having a human on your ship?” “Well, it’s pretty simple: they breathe oxygen!”

"Your job is to sit in this room and answer this phone. No matter what you are asked or told, no matter what the voice sounds like, respond only with 'yes' or 'no', whatever feels right. And never, ever say your name. Hang up only after it does."

"You're a healer. Actually, you're the best healer in the world... so how do you have more kills than everyone else in your party combined?" "Simple. I heal."