/u/8panckakes4ever's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You are deep sea fishing in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Your hook snags something big and heavy. You pull it up to find a a coffin covered in rusted chains, you break the lock and open it. A person steps out, coughing gallons of water, and asks “What year is it”
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[WP] You decide to go to the nearest intergalactic hospital. When you walk up to the counter to complain of a runny nose, chills, cough, etc. The nurse looks up in horror, turns on the speaker and yells “THE COMMON COLD, LEVEL 10 QUARANTINE NEEDED.”
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[WP] When humans join the intergalactic government, we learn we are the only species to live more than a few Earth months.
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[WP] You have finally been released from a time loop that you have been stuck in for 14,000 years. It’s the next day and you have to reenter your normal life with 14k years worth of experience, skills, and memories.
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[WP] You have just arrived at your first SPA (Superpowers Anonymous) meeting. Its a support group to help people deal with embarrassing powers or incredibly deadly supervillain-like powers .
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[WP] When a person dies, they see a slideshow of every time they almost died. Most people have 2 or 3, daredevils can have dozens. Apparently, you have had 14 million brushes with death, and you never even realized it.
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[WP] As Earth enters into the Interplanetary Federation, we share our customs and history. Every alien species is fascinated with our technology because we are the only species to develop gunpowder.
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[WP] The Grim Reaper appears as the person who you loved the most in order to make the transition easier. When you die, you see a person you don’t recognize.
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[WP] When aliens come to Earth we learn something, no other planet has species that can heal wounds. They simply die if it cannot be patched up.
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[WP] “You never know true terror until you are on the space station and your crew mate starts asking to be let in from the space walk, and you can see that same crew mate next to you urging you to keep the door closed while your outside crew mate is claiming he’s the real person”
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