/u/AcheronFlow's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] A future in which common citizens have access to faster-than-light self-sustaining spaceships. The new age of exploration begins.
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[WP] You're a monster hiding under the bed. You're just about to burst out and frighten your victim when the father bursts into the room and starts mercilessly beating his own child.
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[WP] A hero without superpowers dies in the midst of battle, only to discover that their superpower could only have been revealed through their death.
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[WP] As the rings of the chronomachine slowly spun to a halt, the scientists froze in disbelief. "I told you," Petersen groaned, staring up at the prehistoric beasts towering thousands of feet above them. "Cartilage doesn't fossilize."
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[WP] In the wake of the destruction of Mars, our original home, humanity's leadership decide that if we are to survive, those sent to Earth to perpetuate the species can never know what we became.
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[WP] Just before being born, a human soul must shed its memories in order to experience mortality once again. A single soul has found a loophole, and twenty two years into its life, the gods of fate have started to grow suspicious of the unnaturally successful person it's become.
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[WP] You form a strong mental connection with your recently-deceased fiance. The connection is so strong, in fact, that your fiance sends you physical gifts while you sleep, which you awake with in your hand. One morning, you wake up holding a gun.
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[WP] At the edge of the known universe, astronomers discover a massive stellar fingerprint; a pattern of cosmic dust that forms a thumb print over 6,000 light years in diameter. And the thumb print is yours.
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