/u/ContributionOk4879's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] A medical breakthrough occurs when an intelligent machine is created capable of curing almost any illness. Unfortunately it kicks off a zombie apocalypse when it attempts to cure a schizophrenic. It couldn't figure out what was wrong so it tried "turning him off and then turning him on again".
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[WP] A team of researchers in a plane are caught in a huge storm. The plane climbs above the clouds until the storm passes. When they go back down, they can’t get a fix on their location or find land. When night falls, there are two moons in the sky and the constellations are completely unfamiliar.
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[WP] According to US Navy tradition, submarines that have not been confirmed to be destroyed, are still on patrol. Since WWII, there have been 52 submarines that haven’t yet returned to port, yet to report in, nor have been confirmed to be destroyed. You are one of those, on the eternal patrol.
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[WP] The opposite of paranoia is pronia, the delusion that the entire world is out to help you. Write a story about an individual who suffers from pronia.
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[WP] In an alternate timeline, dinosaurs in the Eastern hemisphere were wiped out by the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, but those in the Americas survived the fallout. Millions of years later, a crew of European explorers land on the shores of the New World...
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[WP] After the Industrial Revolution, it was assumed that the nature druids would die out as the Earth environments were slowly destroyed. However, they simply evolved, harnessing the primal energies dormant within concrete and steel...
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[WP] On his way to spread Christmas cheer, Santa is ambushed by the Krampus and badly wounded. With the help of a few idealistic kids, they attempt to turn the tables on the monster and save Christmas
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[WP] In this world, superpowers exist, however they are the complete opposite of one's personality. Tell me the story of one such individual.
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[WP] The year is 3023. You have been in cryosleep for 1000 years to see what the Earth would look like in the future. However, a war occurred right after you were cryogenically frozen that was so devastating that it sent human civilization back 2000 years. You wake up in a medieval future instead.
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