/u/Child_Cautious's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] For the past 17 years, an old man has been leaving flowers at each gravestone in a graveyard on Saturday. When he goes out of town in order to meet his relatives he gets kidnapped. The ghosts, upset at losing their favorite human and not ready for the old man to join them go out to find him.
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[WP] "Listen, I have no idea what I'm doing here either" Said the demon leering out from my closet. "When you wished for a protector I guess I was the closest thing on hand." "Well good." Said the little girl hearing footsteps in the hall. "You better be a good one."
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[WP] A hero who, if they die, they restart the day. That hero is on a superhero team, and one day you notice something. Every single one of their moves seems rehearsed. They say one-liners the same time you do. You realize something is horribly wrong.
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[WP] An explorer enters the tomb. A scraping of stone against stone reverberates against the cold, hard walls and an unearthly voice speaks out. "Fool, you thought you could enter without feeling my curse?" The explorer replies, "Exactly what I'm after."
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[WP] After being killed in a car crash, a rat eats a part of your corpse. From then on, your ghost can inhabit any rat that comes close to it. And you have an oath of vengeance against that asshole of a driver.
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[WP] As it turns out, doing magic is like sleeping. If you pretend to do it, it happens. A new society is formed as the downtrodden street performers begin to create their own worlds and rule over all.
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[WP] You wake up in a wagon. In the middle of nowhere. You have no idea how you got there, nor who you are. But when a spaceship flies overhead and soldiers step out you vaguely remember being important. You now need to bluster through years of training, clueless.
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[WP] A creature that absorbs massive amounts of information from something by touching it comes in contact with the internet. The researchers are confused when it starts spouting strange words like "based" and "amogus".
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[WP] "Sorry it took me so long to bail you out of jail, man." "No no, it's alright. I shouldn't have used my one call to prank the police."
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