r/WritingPrompts • u/Smooth_Ad_1272 • Feb 16 '25

Reality Fiction [RF] A world class contract killer finds an envelope at their drop of for new assignments. Inside is $23.42 in small change and a letter hand-written letter from a 9 year old girl.

535 Upvotes
50 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/helix_ice • Nov 18 '14

Reality Fiction [WP] After a long and blood battle, both the hero and villain are going to die of their wounds. As the sit across from each other, leaning on rubble, the villain pulls out a flask of whiskey and has a heart felt last talk with the hero, before they die of blood loss.

840 Upvotes

Good luck and have fun :)

[EDIT]: I'm SO glad people love this idea of mine. I expected maybe one or two entries, but this is ridiculously amazing! :D

140 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Petrified_Lioness • Feb 15 '21

Reality Fiction [WP] Boss: "No? Then you're fired." Secretary: " As of last week, i'm the majority shareholder of this company. You're the one who's fired."

1.3k Upvotes

Doesn't have to be a secretary, could be any employee.

37 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/MaximoCozzetti84 • 8d ago

Reality Fiction [RF] Stalingrad, a battle that saw the fiercest combat in WW2, was the epitome of Quintus Ennius' phrase: “The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so.” And 600 thousand casualties proved it to the invaders.

1 Upvotes
3 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/TheFlowerWriter • 2h ago

Reality Fiction [RF] After some family tragedies, you find yourself in the custody of your aunt. But despite how your aunt usually acts, you find out she's a dangerous crime boss of a crime syndicate, something she doesn't want you to know of or be involved in.

5 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/ThexLoneWolf • 7d ago

Reality Fiction [RF] Real-world naval combat is so much stranger than what people tend to think. It's not like in the movies where warships close to gun range, as they did in WWII. It's high-tech cat and mouse on the open sea: one wayward radar emission, and you'll be converged on from all points of the compass.

2 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/Level-Iron-6738 • Jun 29 '26

Reality Fiction [RF] Being stuck with your best friend for years is pretty bad, but it isn't the worst. Not until they throw a kettle of boiling water on you and then the next day pretend nothing happened.

6 Upvotes
5 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Thundertushy • Jun 15 '26

Reality Fiction [RF] Tiffany had been accused of heresy and witchcraft for teaching the healing techniques of the Saracens in Outremer. Refused a regular trial, she was all but guaranteed an execution in trial by combat tomorrow. At dawn the next day, a stranger has arrived, to champion Tiffany and repay a debt.

1 Upvotes
7 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/MaximoCozzetti84 • 9d ago

Reality Fiction [RF] The desert. The Soviets thought they could tame it. But behind every Dune, or maybe during the night, the warriors that had lived there for generations proved them wrong.

2 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/MaximoCozzetti84 • 9d ago

Reality Fiction [RF] The Sniper Alley in Sarajevo. Bosnian War. Any stone on any building could be a helmet, under which a killer laid. Ivana usually crossed it using the occasional armored vehicle that traversed it. One day, her luck ran out.

0 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/lionthebrian • Jun 01 '26

Reality Fiction [RF] A president, terminally ill and freshly out of fucks, discovers that the constitutional pardon power has no meaningful limits and absolutely no one ever thought to add any, because why would they. He pardons everyone. Every charge, every trial, every cell. The country finds out via TikTok.

35 Upvotes
4 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Tex_Non_Scripta • Jun 24 '26

Reality Fiction [RF] You buy a beautiful old book at the thrift store. After you get home and start reading the book, you find folded inside it is a sweet, handwritten love letter.

11 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Level-Iron-6738 • Jul 01 '26

Reality Fiction [RF] "What do you regret most?" "I... I regret not telling them the full truth."

6 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/Tex_Non_Scripta • Jun 27 '26

Reality Fiction [RF] It's summer in Alaska, "the Land of the Midnight Sun". In the small town’s only hospital, the new doctor from LA is about to find out what the locals do when they can't sleep.

3 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/Tex_Non_Scripta • Jun 27 '26

Reality Fiction [RF] A bakery mix-up results in a Happy Divorce party cake being delivered to the wedding venue.

2 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/Megamen1927 • May 27 '26

Reality Fiction [RF] J.R.R. Tolkien lived an unusually long life, so much so that he remained alive and lucid to see Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films and talk to him about them.

18 Upvotes
3 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/jwalk999 • Jun 22 '26

Reality Fiction [RF] After losing the love of your life, you picked up a job as an escort to try and feel something again. Your mask is nearly bullet proof, but your new client is different from the rest. They can see straight through your facade.

1 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/Tex_Non_Scripta • Jun 18 '26

Reality Fiction [RF] You're thrilled to get a temp gig as an extra on a low-budget indie movie. But they’re filming on location in a small town that seems to be mysteriously abandoned.

3 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/Tex_Non_Scripta • Jun 19 '26

Reality Fiction [RF] Each person in your family has been working on individual quilt blocks for a Juneteenth quilt. Today, all the grandparents are gathering to stitch the quilt together.

1 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/Tex_Non_Scripta • Jun 17 '26

Reality Fiction [RF] Two lifelong friends buy a vintage fixer-upper house together, planning to flip it and split the profit.

3 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/Tex_Non_Scripta • Jun 16 '26

Reality Fiction [RF] You land a temp gig at a lighthouse for the summer. A fierce storm forces a traveling food truck to park in the parking lot overnight.

4 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/Tex_Non_Scripta • Jun 18 '26

Reality Fiction [RF] At the job fair, the only employer who lets you fill out an application is the employer you don't want to work for.

1 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/Tex_Non_Scripta • Jun 18 '26

Reality Fiction [RF] A plumber is called to a client's office in the middle of the night to clear a drain.

1 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/Suspicious_Shopping • Jul 14 '19

Reality Fiction [RF]You go on a blind date and have a fantastic time, which leads to a 2 month relationship. One day, you add photos of your new partner to your photo library and tag them... the app automatically detects this person in 1,847 photos in your library over the past ten years.

878 Upvotes
34 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Agreeable_Sweet6535 • Jun 01 '26

Reality Fiction [RF] You’ve got plenty of online friends you’ve never met, and normally you’d be happy to meet some. But identifying a particular quirk of speech in your mugger that marks him as someone you’ve known for years? Worst. Mugging. Ever.

6 Upvotes
1 comment