/r/WritingPrompts
[WP] "This person sold their soul to you fair and square," said the incredulous angel to the demon. "Why are you petitioning for them to enter heaven?" "Because after everything they did with what I gave them, they deserve to."
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[WP] You're a modern blacksmith. Your workplace connects to an alternate world that's still in the Bronze Age. You make huge profits by selling your forgings to various clients/empires. One day, out of curiosity, you decide to present them something special.
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[WP]Theories of time travel are being discussed when a scientist creates a machine that lets you contact the past, but only from the point from which the machine is created. After months of funding it’s finally activated, but nearly immediately messages from the future start to come through.
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[WP] Your love of spicy food has gotten out of hand. It began with curry, mapo tofu and so on, but when they lost their luster, you ate spicier foods, even raw ghost peppers and naga vipers. Then pepper spray. Then live coals and kerosene. Now, you look up at the sun, and salivate as you prepare.
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[WP] After decades of deciphering alien messages you and your team are forced to come to the conclusion that most of these are soap operas and ad breaks
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[WP] Each flower blooming in the enchanted garden carries a tiny fairy at its heart. Supposedly, decorative flowers make delicate and beautiful fairies, herbs quiet and industrious ones, and weeds belligerent and brutal ones. Whoever created these stereotypes was not a very good gardener.
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[WP] You’re the commander of the slave portion of the army. Your group is the fodder that softens up the enemy in preparation for the ‘real’ troops. Thing is, however, you’ve become very good at your job and can win most battles before the ‘real’ troops show up.
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[WP] You've just burned down an entire town, killed almost everyone inside of it, and stole everything of value from it. A little girl runs up to you and says, "Wow, you're such a hero! I want to be just like you when I grow up!"
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[WP] You wake up one day and find you are now a sentient cake. You cannot decompose, and all that consume you fall under your control.
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