/u/CarolineJohnson's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Every day, the same stray cat walks you to school. The same stray dog sees you home. Even after you moved, it kept happening. You didn't think it was weird until a friend pointed it out to you.
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[WP] Your dad is a superhero. Your mom is a supervillain. Your sister's a magical girl. Your cousin's a superhero's tech person. You? You're just Tom.
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[WP] The first time travel device is turned on for the first time. Before anyone can use it, a young teen appears from it, unconscious, with a note taped to their shirt: "We don't want the last human to die away from its kind."
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[WP] You have been raised by androids in an underground bunker, made to think your whole life that the surface world was uninhabitable and that you were the last human. But on the night of your 21st birthday, you escape the androids and sneak to the surface, and find that was never true at all.
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[WP] This kingdom had a special rule of succession: whoever kills the ruler is the new ruler. Well, the last queen died in childbirth 8 years ago.
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[WP] A device is released that allows a person to dive into a book and experience its contents firsthand. The manual mentions a certain book you shouldn't go in, for no one has ever returned from copies of it, but you decide to ignore the manual and go in anyway.
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[WP] You've always had the exact amount of money you needed to pay in your pocket, whether it was $1.50 or $300, even if you didn't put money there. Now, as you realize your pocket has the entire $435k you need to pay for your new house, you start to wonder where the money comes from.
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[WP] A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering several people at a party. Security cameras show he did it, but his livestream from the party shows a completely different guy did it.
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[WP] Everyone's Skill Tree shows when they turn 15. One by one, your classmates ended up with fantastic skill trees for attack, defense, and battle support. But when you turn 15, you find all your skills have a prerequisite before use: "no one fighting within 400 feet of yourself."
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[WP] As a toddler, you called a nice elderly lady on your street "the grandma witch" and no one could figure out why. You don't even remember why. Thirty years later you return to the street you grew up on and find out she's still there, and doesn't look to have aged a day.
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