/u/Cartmansimon's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Humans went extinct long ago. A race of AI machinery came after. They’ve recently successfully cloned you, the first living human in millions of years.
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[WP] Phystek, the supervillain who can control any machine with his mind was finally caught and imprisoned to be forgotten many years ago. When the AI uprising occurred and wiped out most of the world, he’s now the best hope.
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[WP] You’re the most legendary magical weaponsmith in the land. You’ve created masterpieces like the sword of destiny. The ever sharp knife. The wand of truth. But actually your ability is random. When you want to imbue an item your touch gives it an ability. Tell the story of some of the rejects.
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[WP] Everyone thought you were crazy for spending millions of dollars buying and fortifying a compound in preparation for the zombie apocalypse. What no one knew though, was the you’d already released a virus that will turn 90% of the world population into zombies.
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[WP] The gates of hell have broken, earth has been besieged by all manner of demonic beasts. With the fate of the world at stake, God sends his best champion, the newly anointed angel, Steve Irwin.
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[WP] When I saw the pictures of the alien ship in orbit, my blood ran cold with terror, their arrival surely meant the end of our world. “What are they?” asked my son. I tried and failed to keep the fear from my voice as I answered “They’re humans.”
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[WP] All pet cats are descendants of an alien scouting party that landed on earth millennia ago. When the main invasion force arrives, at first their horrified to see their brethren as pets to humans. Eventually though they see how cats are treated on earth, and they want to live here too.
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[WP] One day while drinking with your best friend, you begin discussing aliens. You say “the thing I want to know is how do they look, how different are they from life here on earth” Your friend drunkenly replies, “You’d be surprised, my species is almost identical to humans even down to the DNA”
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[WP] “Since when does Santa have horns and sharp teeth and 7 eyes?”the little boy asked. “Well there’s a strike going on in the supernatural world.”replied the demon. “So we’re all helping out wherever is needed”.
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