/r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You were born with 9000 lives. Even then, you've always lived your life peacefully with low risk for someone with that many lives, only losing one to save someone else here and then. Today you woke up, surprised and horrified at how you lost 7253 lives in one night.
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[WP] After you've been diagnosed with terminal cancer you strike a deal with a demon; in exchange for full recovery he can inherit your body. Usually he keeps quiet, just acting as commentator on your life. If you get agitated however, he takes the wheel.
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[WP] You have been diagnosed with a terminal illness, you’ve not long for this world so your DM wants to play one last DnD game. Typical plot, lich becomes the cancer of the land. But as you get closer to defeating him you feel yourself get healthier. This is a game of life and death.
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[WP] “Honey, are you sure we’re not part of this story? This is the fifth time that kid walked down the street yelling loudly ‘I sure hope nothing bad happens to me on this street!’”
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[WP] You’re sitting in a coffee shop surrounded by strangers but then it dawns on you that these were the same “strangers” who were in the restaurant where you had dinner last night. You head to the beach and realise again that the people around you are once more the same.
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[WP] A therapist starts treatment of an unusual client, a teen displaying clear symptoms of PTSD, without any sort of apparent cause. In fact, said teenager is a former Chosen One, recently returned from the fantasy world they'd been drawn into, and they're not having an easy time adjusting back.
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[WP] You've been infected by a sentient, eldritch parasite. Realizing it's counting on you for its own survival, the parasite offers occult knowledge, wisdom, and secrets in return for the host's sustenance and protection. Describe this unlikely friendship.
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[WP] You are an attorney. A client tells you he's found a genie and wants your help in crafting a wish with no ironic loopholes the genie can exploit. Your retainer fee is the third wish.
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[WP] Since birth, you have always had a bad sense of direction that would defy the laws of logic and space. Instead of arriving at your destination, you would end up in places or areas impossible for normal people to get to.
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