/u/CarolineJohnson's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] In a society where a baby's first word decides their name, and actual names are only seen in fiction, you strive to make your son's first word the name of your favorite book protagonist.
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[WP] While out hiking one day, you find a strange plant you've never seen before. You decide to dig it up and take it to an expert. But when you show him, his gaze grows dark and troubled. "How much do you know? Who have you told about this?"
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[WP] The story of a loving, happy relationship between two people that hate each other. The twist: they're not faking the loving and happy parts.
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[WP] Skeletons reanimate as mindless creatures once fully cleaned and reassembled, and are treated as undying pets. But one by one, pet skellies that have been in families for generations are becoming permanently inanimate for seemingly no reason. One man decides to research how to fix this.
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[WP] You are secretly a telepath. One day, you read some random stranger's mind and find their thoughts are calculations to prove that telepathy is completely impossible. After doing some research at home, you find their calculations are *completely correct*.
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[WP] David Tennant finds out he's a Time Lord in real life, and his Time Lord consciousness has been sealed for years.
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[WP] You're playing a new augmented reality game with real life consequences and realize you're the only person whose account has an assistant AI that has been teaching you how to play.
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[WP] Your entire family can turn into cool sea creatures, both real and mythical. You? You turn into a type of duck.
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[WP] For unknown reasons, a young girl is born with "reverse deafness". She's not deaf, but people within 10 feet of her become deaf until they move farther away from her. A doctor and a paranormal investigator are called on to try and reverse this phenomenon once and for all.
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