/u/8panckakes4ever's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You have the ability to know the worst thing you can do in the next 10 seconds. You only really get stuff along the lines of: Drive off a bridge or stab the chief of police. One day on your way into work you get the alert: Go to work.
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[WP] You have always had the power to read minds. One day while stuck in traffic you look to your left and read the mind of the person in the car next to you. You hear them think ”I can’t wait for my fleet to destroy this miserable planet so I can finally get home.”
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[WP] When humans join an intergalactic government, we learn we are the only species to domesticate animals. Every other species is baffled by it.
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[WP] On your way to work you get in a car crash, as you get out you hear a voice say “CUT! Drivers, pay attention, now we have to shoot this day from the beginning, wipe his memory”
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[WP] Humanity has established communication with an intelligent species far away. The only problem is neither us or them are able to travel between solar systems. This leaves us to essentially be pen pals.
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[WP] Who would have guessed that humans are the fastest intelligent life in the universe. When aliens visit us their sentences take 37x longer to say because they speak so slow.
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[WP] You are a low ranked superhero that never gets much attention. Yet when the strongest superhero in the world is asked “Do you think anyone is more powerful than you?”, he says your name.
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[WP] You stumble across a room filled with some of the most powerful magical artifacts in existence. Grim reapers scythe, Father Times hourglass, Cupid’s Arrows, the blood of Christ, and........ a slinky?
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[WP] Every person is born with a set of coordinates on their body. These coordinates show where they should be on their 21st birthday. Most people meet their soulmate there or find their dream job. Yours is on another planet.
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[WP] Your mild-mannered reporter friend has always been a bit of a scaredy cat who always slips away when danger happens. You decide to jump-scare him as a prank. You jump out and yell, and he assumes a fighting stance, his eyes glow red, and he starts to float an inch above the ground.
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