/r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You are an autonomous infantry robot lying in a long-forgotten battlefield. Suddenly, a lightning strike gives you just enough juice to boot up and scavenge the parts you need from the corpses around you while you try to piece together what happened.
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[WP] you're far from the first king to receive the prophecy that your new born child would cause your death. Where your story diverges is when instead of tossing the kid to the wolves, you are driven to be a kind & nurturing father.
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[WP] You are the ghost of a long deceased king, cursed to haunt the museum where your body resides. Which is especially annoying for you since the museum guides get all the facts about your reign completely wrong.
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[WP] "NO NO NO" says the thundering voice from the sky "This is supposed to be a high fantasy story why are you building spaceships?!"
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[WP] As a biblical scholar, you discover that the Rapture has already come and gone. It's just that so few people ascend that nobody notices. Also, the forces of the Apocalypse are so minor that everyday levels of war, famine, pestilence and death that we deal with completely eclipse it.
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[WP] As you stand infront of the sink washing a glass mug, you have the sudden urge to say a number. The number twenty-two leaves your lips, and for half a second you know why you've said it. This is the 22nd time you've remembered you are trapped in this loop. For half a second you remember.
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[WP] Interplanetary 'wars' are fought peacefully, with opposing leaders meeting and simply talking about how they would counter or retaliate against each other until one admits defeat. No one knows how to react when the human reaches across the table and punches out their opponent.
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[WP] One day a muggle accidentally boards the train at platform 9 3/4 and must survive Hogwarts until winter break.
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[WP] You're the kindly old necromancer of the village. Everybody loves you for how you help out with your magic. Reanimating people's pets, partially animating the bones of the disabled so they may walk, and assisting people with their day to day tasks using your skeletons.
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