/r/WritingPrompts
[WP] A man makes a time machine so he could go back and cheat on his wife with the past version of her, back before she slowly grew bitter because he spent too much time making his time machine.
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[WP] You live in a quiet town of little note. You start noticing more and more people showing up saying things like "So this is where it happened. No, this is where it's going to happen." Your little burb has started attracting time traveling tourists taking trips to better understand...something.
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[WP] Time literally moves faster the more people are close together. Cities are in The far future and the remote wilderness have animals from the Jurassic period
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[WP] You have been kidnapped by a cult preparing to sacrifice you to their god. However, you are immortal, the god they worship is a close friend of yours, and the entire cult was a prank you pulled centuries ago.
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[WP] A man commits the perfect murder. The cop investigating the case is corrupt. Looking to give his career a boost, the corrupt cop pins the murder on a random person, who happens to be the man who committed the perfect murder.
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[WP] Write a dystopian vision of the future from the perspective of the year 1900, while actually describing our present world today.
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[WP] While cleaning your attic, you find a box of glass balls with names on them. You accidentally drop one, and as soon as it shatters, you hear your neighbor scream. Her husband has dropped dead.
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[WP] "As payment, I demand your firstborn!" the demon said. "Deal!" You said, hastily signing the contract to seal the deal. "Good luck with them, sucker!"
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[WP] You can stop time. However, during your vacation where you have stopped time for a year, someone runs up to you and asks “Dude, why have you stopped for this long?”
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[WP] You run a successful hotel in the city. After receiving outstanding yelp reviews your boss comes to you. You are asked to scale back your popularity and public notoriety. It turns out it the hotel was started as a front for a criminal organization and you're drawing unwanted attention.
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