/r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Your grandfather is a little eccentric, but he tells good stories. You don’t know what a skyscraper is, or an internet, but he always gets excited when you bring him something from the old world.
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[WP] Years ago a machine that records dreams was invented. Dreams have become the primary form of entertainment. Particularly talented dreamers have become stars. Tell me about tonight's big "Oscar" night.
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[WP] Browsing porn on the internet, a man happens upon a collection of videos of all his sexual encounters, from his point of view. He never videotaped these experiences. (NSFW) NSFW
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[WP] You have a superpower that let's you "smell" what a person is like. For example, good hearted people smell good like vanilla, and a bad person would smell something like a public bathroom. One day, you meet someone who doesn't smell like anything.
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[WP] Most of the galaxy is dependent on certain rare minerals for things like FTL or artificial gravity. The humans never had those minerals, and so the rest of the galaxy ignored them. Then humanity figured out how to make those minerals artificially.
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[WP] When a person or animal dies, their shadow freezes, darkening the place they died. Deaths are regulated to prevent excessive darkening, and the world is relatively free of shade, except for one place...
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[WP] Mankind's first mission to Mars is a high risk venture. Mission planners secretly include a skilled magic user on the crew roster with orders not to reveal themselves unless things go seriously wrong.
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[WP] Your spouse was once a dangerous villain who almost destroyed the world. In the eleventh hour you convinced them to marry you, their best friend, instead. Now you are just an innocuous suburban family...except a superhero has been thrown into your living room by the local villain; big mistake.
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[WP] The house is haunted. Bloody walls, ghostly figures, shrieks in the night. The lot. But in this economy, you can't afford to move, so you're just going to have to sit down and talk things out with the your new spectral housemates.
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