/r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Everyone is given a prophecy at the instant of their birth. For most people, it is a short, cryptic sentence. Kings and Presidents often get a whole paragraph. Your daughter is four days old, and the Oracle is still scribbling furiously.
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[WP] Fifty people are stranded on a deserted island. One is an actor who fakes own death to kickstart paranoia. Outside forces film only; no attempt to harm other 49.
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[PI] Your a failing college student who needs to pass your foreign language class or fail. You've almost outright mocked superstions but make a wish on a shooting star at 11:11pm. To understand and speak all languages. Your cat wakes you up, but instead of meows. It's "wake up idiot and feed me".
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[WP] When your powers first developed your parents tried to force you to be a villan like them so you ran away. taken in by a hero you decide to become their sidekick. Now the two of you face two familiar villans and the hero learns just how evil they are.
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[WP] After death you meet your guardian angel who welcomes you to a place where every appetite can be satisfied. There's just one rule: don't ask questions. Particularly about the nature of the universe. Even suggesting a question makes your guardian angel very, very angry.
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[WP] A young race of evolved carnivores begins exploring the stars. Most other races, being paranoid prey animals, would exterminate them on sight. Fortunately, those weren't their first contact. It was humans. The only species that could look at an apex predator and think: "What a cute kitty!"
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[WP] Every time humanity makes a new discovery, it's only a short matter of time before it's weaponized. This happened with fire, iron, ships, gunpowder, aircraft, and nuclear power, to name a few. In a world shaken by the discovery of souls and the afterlife, this trend holds true.
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[WP] Everyone has a number above their heads that signifies their relevance to your life as a ratio. Both your parents are the highest you've seen (around 0.4-0.5) until today, when you spot an 0.97 hanging out under a bridge doing heroin. You make brief eye contact and they run.
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[WP] Dads that have fulfilled their "Dad Duty" earn a place in Dadhalla after they die. Write about a Dad and his deed that earned him his place, and what Dadhalla is like.
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