/r/WritingPrompts
[WP] For purposes of crime prevention, the police puts random people into hyper-realistic simulations where they have the motive and opportunity to commit a crime. Based on their choice, they are let go with their memories erased, or punished as if they commited the crime in reality.
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[WP] Before you are born, every possible version of you is dropped into a Hunger Games style arena to battle to the death. Whichever version lives is allowed to be born.
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[WP] Superpowers exist, but are always based on insecurities. Narcissists gain invisibility, the lonely gain powers that drive people away, and the shy get powers that make then the center of attention.
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[WP] You just died. You expected to just fade into nothing, go to some type of afterlife, anything. You did not except for an option bar to pop up, saying 'You can now play as a cat'.
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[WP] Astronauts cross a mysterious wormhole into a distant solar system. The team arrive near an earth sized planet but they land on the orbiting moon where one strange structure can be seen. Upon landing they find an entrance and a plaque with 3 lines of text in English, Chinese & Spanish:
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[WP] You live in a statistically perfect world. Eg, if you roll a die 6 times, you will get all 6 numbers once. Write about daily life and some of the more dangerous aspects of this universe (car crash chances, violence statistics, etc).
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[WP] In the future, everyone lives in a VR simulation. Except you, of course. You're the IT guy, also known as "root" or "god".
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[WP] The monsters under your bed and un your closet never went away, they grew up with you, whispering age-appropriate fears along the way.
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[WP] A young maiden dies before she is betrothed. Another family who lost a son arrange to have them married. In the afterlife the maiden is shocked to discover this marriage and unhappy with the match. She returns to the land of the living to demand a divorce.
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[WP] After graduating with honors your grandmother Baba Yaga brought you a home. It’s the offspring of her house. It’s a tiny little hut right now but she explains it will get bigger as it gets older. However the hut is a little clingy, follows you everywhere since it’s afraid it will be abandoned.
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