/u/Avemist's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Everyone's laughing. It's contagious and has spread around the globe. The head of CIA, between fits of hysteria, has tasked you, a P.I. with the world's driest sense of humor with investigating the outbreak. Your job, uncover the joke that started all this.
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[WP] You're an FBI agent whose just busted a barber shop with a backroom smuggling ring. You head to the back and find another door, inside is a backroom casino...with another door. You decide to see how far this rabbit hole goes.
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[WP] You are Sputnik, alone in space. Through a combination of radiation, other space debris, and fortunate luck, you have become sentient. These are your musings as you look down on humanity over the next several hundred years.
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[WP] You are the sword of the Chosen One magically disguised as a simple quarter. You await being found by a daring hero. Instead, you're picked up by a hopeless romantic that just wants to toss you in a fountain to make a wish.
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[WP] Turns out handsanatizer has accelerated the evolution of bacteria. The 0.01% that survived have become a new sentiant species with a bit of a bone to pick with humanity.
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[WP] "...and so goodbye mom and dad." You put the letter on the kitchen table, then step outside. A man dressed as a monk stands up, pulls back his good, and asks, "Are you ready to begin?"
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[WP] You've learned just recently that your boyfriend is an elemental force of the universe (Time, Life, Chaos, etc). No big deal, he's nice and he's good to you. But now you have to meet his family.
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[WP] Three Swords in Three Stones: Only One Can Be Drawn. With Each Comes Great Power, But Also a Great Cost. The Hero, Overwhelmed, Asks You, His Loyal Companion, to Help Him Decide Which Sword to Draw.
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[WP] Our lives are nothing more than a simulation that a post-human civilization uses as a prison sentence. When you get put in, you are born and your life on Earth is meant to correct your behavior. You have just died for your fifth life.
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