Reddit Writing Prompts

The Wendigo had stalked the lost human for hours, waiting for night to fall before killing its prey. But when it was ready to strike, it hesitated. The humans head had snapped in the creatures direction, walking and staring, in complete darkness. Their eyes never moving from the Wendigo’s…

An order of magicians attempts to summon a child hero with a pure heart to save their world from evil forces. They instead get his 40-something-year old dad, with a shotgun.

"A robot's trying to hunt down and kill you?" ... "Don't you know that the first law of robotics-" ... "H-How the hell did you piss off a robot so bad it stopped seeing you as human!?"

It's the apocalypse, and the world has gone to absolute hell. You are one of the few humans left alive and are scaveching for food when you stumble across a waffle house, full functioning and open.

“Uh, I’m a vampire. I bit you, and drank some of your blood, which means you should be under my control.” “Hahaha, you fool. I am Fae, which means that, technically, you ate some Fae food, and therefore should be under MY control.” “Alright, fine, how do you want to settle this?”

Each sinner has their own personal hell, based around their sins, their failings and their fears. However, due to a divine mix up, you're now in someone else's personal hell, and need to pretend you're being tormented so no-one finds out.

You're an ageless being that has been alive for millennia, however your eternal youth has never been a secret. You're known around the world for it. You're not rich, a ruler, hunted by the government, or special in any other way. You're just a worldly curiosity, a minor celebrity at best.

"You are what you eat" has become literal. Many would rather succumb to becoming a chicken or pig than turn into a beetroot or zucchini.

You are an officer in charge of paying off bounty hunters. One day a hunter came in, asking for reward. You looked at what the hunter brought in and shook your head. “Nope. It says right here, wanted…dead or alive. Can’t pay you if you don’t fulfill the conditions.”

"Necromancy was banned because the resurrectees kept coming back wrong," the master explained. The pupil contemplated this, then responded, "'Wrong' according to who?" The master favored them with an approving smile. "Now you are asking the right questions."

You are a superhero who joined a team for pay and benefits. However, the pay is minimum wage since you have no education and they made it so you are blackballed in the civilian world so you can’t work there either. So imagine their surprise when you joined the villain’s team.

You are subject to a quite unusual curse. You see, you were born twice, one day after the other, in two separate times and places. As such, you live half of your days as a noblewoman in pre-revolutionary 18th century France, and live every other day as a male millennial in the US.

"You did it! It works!" They cheered. Meanwhile, you're terrified, you fudged the numbers. It shouldn't have worked.

A alien empire is currently trying to figure out how a primitive ship managed to destroy their finest battleship. In turn, the human space pirates are trying to figure out why this random ship had such a piss poor hull and why it was trying to attack them with such horrible lazer weaponry.

Despite learning from one of the greatest wizards in the world, you're utterly horrible at magic. Then you discover why: he/she deliberately trained you incorrectly as a sick joke.

You kidnapped a princess, because your dragon daughter wanted a princess. You are not sure why exactly she wanted one but you got her one.

As prophesied, after ages, the walls crumbled, shackels rusted, guardians forgot and the immortal nemesis broke free again... Only to find out that humanity is no longer just a bunch of cave people with sticks.

After inventing time travel, you send agents back in time to change the future and conquer the world. Instead you get back several dead agents and a note saying “Never try that again.”

The highest and most skilled spell casters should always fear the novice for one reason: they have no strategy.

A failed author accidentally summons a demon into their house. Instead of wanting their soul, the demon shyly requests a signed copy of the only book they've ever written. As it turns out, this demon is a huge fan of their work- and he's not the only one.

In an attempt to modernize, Hell remakes the 9 circles. You are in charge of the circle dedicated to people needlessly cruel to service industry workers.

"Foolish hero. As long as there is evil-" "-Yeah, yeah, you'll return. But why? Each time you show up, you get your teeth kicked in."

You're Captain Obvious! The hero with an ability that's considered useless as you only state the obvious..... At least it was considered useless until people realized that what may be obvious to others may not be to them. Now you have your own talk show.

Once in a lifetime you get to select 3 words to describe you, and those traits are relatively normal amongst others, like “Strong, Fast and smart.” You don’t pick 3 different adjectives however, you make a 3-word sentence.

"You see, hero from another world, our land is governed by a form of arachno-communism" "You mean anarcho-communism" "No"

As the eldest child of a wealthy family, it wasn't a surprise that you'd get kidnapped. The surprise was that your parents didn't pay or even acknowledge that you're missing. Taking pity on you, the bandit gang decides to take you in and raise you as one of their own.

You are in a failing Dyson sphere around the last black hole, an hour away from its final moments of evaporation before it explodes and gives the universe its last moment of light. The remnants of your civilization will witness the end of the universe.

You are an "immortal creature", you've lived for centuries. You're not like the stories, and you've had time to read them all. You're more like a tortoise, slow and steady. You've had plenty of hobbies, degrees, and jobs. Currently you're working in the museum archives.

You're a deity of something small and seemingly unimportant. You're the first one the people stop praying and sacrificing to when things get dire. Oh, what fools they are.

Write a shitty Mary Sue story, but from the perspective of an irritated side character.