/u/Drix1942's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You're the Grim Reaper. When you approach dying people you see a timer and cause of death in text above them, and your x-ray vision always confirms their illnesses. Today seemed normal but the text above the person in front of you says "Death: Cancer, 9 seconds." Problem is that he is healthy.
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[WP] In the future faster-than-light travel is invented and people colonize other planets. Problem is that telescope tech has advanced vastly, as well, and the colonists see in high res detail what happened on Earth in the past. What do they discover when they look at Earth and back in time?
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[WP] You are a timetraveller who likes to visit the past. Even though you've interacted with people from time to time these small things like saying hello don't seem to impact your timeline in any visible way. Only this time you returned to your timeline to find Earth technologically very advanced.
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[WP] God contacts you and tells you that, yes, he created the universe, but every religion got it wrong: There is no grand plan, no intended meaning of life, and there is no afterlife as far as he knows; he is just a creator with the personality of a normal human being. He says. "Come with me."
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[WP] You are standing next to your body after you died in a car accident. Standing around you, in varying sizes, are your inner demons that you've struggled with in life.
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[WP] People who have been resuscitated all agree on one thing: The "tunnel of light" isn't a tunnel but a singularity of souls; it turns out every soul was once part of a whole before "The Big Bang of Souls" that resulted in a mass blooming of life throughout the universe.
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[WP] 2020 was a horrible year. There was a general atmosphere of hopelessness, and everyone thought it was all downhill. Turns out 2020 was rock bottom before the best year in all of history.
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