/r/WritingPrompts
[WP] It's 1862, you buy a candle to carry with you in case you have to walk around at night. After using it, you try to turn it off, but it won't go out. You decide to leave it covered until the morning, but when you uncover it it's still burning. Days, weeks, months pass, it's still burning.
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[WP] It hasn't stopped raining for 10 years, everything is flooded. Humanity is hosting the annual meeting to discuss survival plans when a mysterious old man enters the room. "Sorry, for being late" - he says. Everyone looks out the window. The rain has stopped.
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[WP] 2460: Your ship crashes on a planet at the edge of known space. Crawling from the wreckage, you're amazed to see a paved road and ruined buildings all around. You realize that you've discovered the abandoned home planet of all humanity: Earth.
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[WP] You just made a life changing discovery about dragons. They don't hoard gold for some greedy reason. The gold is literally just their old scales that shed as they grow new ones. Now you boldly stride up to the dragon with a business proposal.
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[WP] You've dedicated a decent portion of your life to deciphering dead languages. After acquiring an old, antique book two years ago, you've finally figured out how to understand some of the words. As soon as you say the word for 'Fire', a flame suddenly erupts from your palm.
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[WP] A demon is summoned, expects a normal soul pact, but finds himself in a strange situation: the summoner is an AI which therefore does not have a soul in the first place
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[WP] Hell has recently taken big steps towards digitization. Demons can now be summoned through video games and Excel spreadsheets, and you can make deals with the devil in online shops. You're an IT consultant turned exorcist, dealing with possessed company servers and cursed WiFi devices.
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[EU] "I meant what I said, I saw these giant flying yellow letters zooming through space, I'm not joking." The Jedi decided to investigate this anomaly, and they weren't lying, they come across yellow letters flying through space: EPISODE I, The Phantom Menace...
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[WP] After the fall of humanity and the rise of the apes, a now intelligent George returns to confront the Man in the Yellow Hat.
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