/r/WritingPrompts
[WP] The nukes are about to start flying and it looks like that's it for the world. At the last moment, though, all of the big, immoral corporations step in - there are profits to be had and they'll be damned if thermonuclear war is going to get in the way.
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[WP] After getting fired from your job, you come across a homeless man lying on the floor on your way home. He asks “What do you want?”, to which you respond with “I wish my old boss died.” out of anger. You hear a gunshot coming from your old office. “Done”, says the man. “Anything else?”
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[WP] In a mideval fantasy world, magic is done through symbols. The more detailed and perfect the symbol, the more powerful the magic. Magic cannot write magic. Wizards sometimes dedicate hours measuring and drawing a single magic symbol. You have just constructed the first working printing press.
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[WP] Daylight Savings has always been different for you: instead of changing your clocks by an hour, you literally travel through time by a century - forward in the spring and back in the fall. Your friends in each century are very curious where you disappear to every six months...
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[WP] You are reading a love story but the main protagonist begins to fall in love with you, the reader. As time goes by, you find yourself falling in love with the protagonist, but are also becoming concerned that you’re losing your grip on reality.
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[WP] You are a powerful Lord with many Enemies who send Assassins after you a lot but you easily fend them off. They hired the famed Killer "The Hunter". No one knows how he looks or how he kills, everyone just knows he never Fails a Contract. You are "The Hunter" and also a Shapeshifter.
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[WP]In 1944, a man discovered faster than light travel. Agencies became aware and tried to capture him. He got away in a craft he built. People have always thought UFOs are aliens, but its actually your grandfather playing cat & mouse w/ the military, and he has been leaving behind clues for you
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[WP] You own a special camera. You can go to any place on earth, set a specific time & date, take a photo and the camera will photograph not what's there NOW, but what was there THEN. You have solved many historical mysteries but now you suspect someone's on to you, and trying to steal the camera.
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[WP] When seven deadly sins personified visit you as "life coaches", you initially scoff at them. After spending time with them however, you realize that Pride helps with your low self esteem, Lust gives great dating advice, Wrath trains you to stand up for yourself, etc.
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[WP] Magical Girls have a sacred ceremony called "The Debut' in which once a Girl becomes 18, she will be lifted of her duties, and allowed to live life on Earth as a human woman. When things got so grim however, they were forced to summon a demigod amongst all Magical Girls; a 25 year old saleslady
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