/u/Amablue's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
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[WP] Write a three paragraph story, where the paragraphs can be read in any order and still make sense.
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[WP] There is a fungus that affects ants nervous system, compelling them to climb to the highest point they can so they get eaten by birds, helping the fungus to spread. A similar fungus has just been discovered in people who have an urge to go to space.
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[WP] The original stories behind a lot of our fairytales are a lot darker than the versions we tell children. Take a really dark story (fictional or not) and water it down into a children's fairytale.
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[WP] All mankind lives on floating continents that slowly orbit the planet. Continents might come in contact with each other once in hundreds or thousands of years. Contact is about to be made between two very different continents with very different societies.
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[WP] A hardcore red piller and a radical tumblr feminist secretly fall in love, but alas, it is a love that can never be...
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[WP] Humanity finally finds out why their application to joint the galactic federation keeps getting rejected: Humans are the only species that lack a sense of globnoff, and to other species we globnoff really bad.
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[WP] A highly contagious virus sweeps the nation causing a pandemic, killing countless people. It turns out the virus only affects total assholes though. People are unsure if they really want to cure it.
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