/u/177013orcoward's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] At 16, you decide to finally get in shape and buy some weights from a dodgy seller. 4 years pass, and they seem just as heavy as before. Having lost all motivation and after a couple of beers, you decide to challenge the gym strongman to an arm-wrestle. You break his arm and destroy the table.
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[WP] Hundreds of thousands of years ago, homo sapiens killed off all the other human species. After extensive exploration of the amazon rainforest in 2024, they discover a colony of the surviving "extinct" humans.
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[WP] As knife crime in the UK increases, people turn to using machetes, then longswords. Before you know it, they are starting to don full plate armor instead of the classic puffer jacket and have gone full medieval.
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[WP] 986, the vikings have just discovered America, only to find it purged of life. They find bones of massive creatures and texts of great wars tens of thousands of years ago. As they venture deeper into America, they find a strange family.
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[WP] The Galaxy is in constant war, and the only reason Earth hasn't been crushed, is that it carries the virus that wiped out half the universe.
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[WP] The Greek, Norse and Roman pantheons have been peacefully living together for thousands of years. That is until the weird shit people worship start entering the gates of the afterlife.
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[WP] When your grandma passed, you were devastated. It was like she could convince anyone to forgive you. That man who harassed you, doesn't even look at you anymore. The next morning, a group of men in suits approach you. "As stated, Madam Nancy has picked you to take over our global drug empire."
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[WP] You've been an orphan for as long as you can remember. On your 18th birthday you take an ancestry test and find out your last shared common ancestor was not primates, but bacteria found on mars.
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[WP] A medieval enthusiast and long-time twitter user wakes up in the middle ages. After studying medieval culture and winning thousands of arguments on twitter, they use their finesse of words to do whatever they want.
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