/u/Eine_Kartoffel's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] A mind-reading duo. One mind-illiterate but capable of peering into people's thoughts, the other mind-literate but unable to peer into people's thoughts. Together they call themselves: THE ONE BRAIN CELL!
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[WP] You're a new teacher at this fairly normal school. One civilized kid keeps making silly claims of being raised by the wilderness. During parents' evening, however, fauna and flora invade the school building.
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[WP] Whenever your machine travels back in time, the timeline splits into two. One where the time machine didn't appear in the past and one where it did. With horror you realize that returning to your original timeline is therefore impossible, as you'll always just generate new ones.
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[WP] The bodysnatcher took over a member of a happy family. They learned to act human convincingly, inadvertently growing a conscience in the process. Now they grow increasingly depressed; the secret of having stolen the body is weighing heavily on them. Blood on hands that aren't even theirs.
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[WP] On a shady flea market you finally find a copy of a violent & gory retro game you've wanted to play for a long time. Unlucky for you, the cartridge has been possessed by a pacifist ghost with a bubbly personality.
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[WP] "The car crash wasn't your fault. You need to let me go." said the ghost, but it was in fact your fault and the ghost's denial is what actually keeps them from moving on.
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[WP] The repairman must've installed the wrong mechanism into the door of the bathroom stall. This isn't a regular rotating door lock; this is the Howl's portal door lock!
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[WP] With the advent of multiversal networking tech, generative technology becomes obsolete as every possible image and text already exists somewhere. Same with every possible type of person.
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[WP] You're a police officer surrounding a supervillain with your team. Turns out the superhero backup you called is married to them and your entire team awkwardly watches the two making out, not knowing what to do.
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