/u/Dusicyon's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
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[WP] There's an urban legend that's been circulating for years about a taxi cab that doesn't take you where you want to go, but where you need to go. One night you step into this cab.
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[WP] Shakespeare is reincarnated as a young man in 2016. Like any young writer, he dabbled in fanfiction. Cringey fanfiction. Write one of these fanfictions.
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[WP] Humanity is admitted to the Galactic Republic, however they have to meet one condition: to ban the production and distribution of music. Turns out humanity is the only species in the galaxy to create music, and its emotional affects are so potent it can incapacitate or entrance most species'.
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[WP] "You're nothing but skin and bones." Little do they know that's exactly what you are. You're an undercover skeleton infiltrating the mortal world.
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[WP] The kids at the playground have been watching too many episodes of Game of Thrones left on by their careless parents. Now the large playground is divided into 7 "kingdoms" with their own childish political intrigue.
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[WP] One night a package arrives at your doorstep. Inside of it is a single button with a note saying, "If you press the button you'll get $1 million, but doing so will kill a random person." Well since then you've been pressing the button for hours. Now there's another package at your doorstep.
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[WP] The universe is actually diverse and full of life. However, humanity committed an unforgivable war crime thousands of years ago and was sentenced to 100,000 years of isolation on a remote planet. The time is up and you're a historian discovering the war crimes your ancestors committed.
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[WP] Humans make first contact with aliens, and for the most part the aliens are unimpressed - until they see humanity's ingenious weapons. One hundred years later humans are the arms dealers of the galaxy.
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