/u/Flaky_Explanation's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] For weeks now, a town has been driven into a frenzy by a phenomenon of white lines streaking through the skies and entering people's homes, leaving a letter etched on the wall and vanishing afterwards. You have been piecing the pieces together and a message is gradually taking shape.
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[WP] As the runaway truck burned to ash, you turned towards the victim you rescued, took off your glasses and introduced yourself. "I'm Dave, Isekai Protection and Prevention Initiative agent. There will be more where that one came from until you learn how to protect yourself."
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[WP] You stumble upon a pristine hand mirror on the ground while walking in a dark forest. It seems like an ordinary mirror, till you start seeing red eyes appearing in the mirror. Words appear on the mirror "Don't look up. The mirror's the only way I can guide you out of here alive."
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[WP] The new season of Earth has begun and you're settling in to watch your favourite human make it through another Solar Cycle.
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[WP] Prisons are a thing of the past in alien civilizations due to the use of a substance that slows the passage of time in the mind of the victim, enabling life sentences to be carried out in a few minutes. Humans use this to solve complex problems, resulting in unexpected tech and societal changes
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[WP] A tenuous alliance is forged between two mortal enemies to escape circumstances impossible for each to survive alone. Along the way, the alliance is forged into an unbreakable bond.
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[WP] You attempt to explain the concept of kissing to an alien who's convinced that humans have an inexplicable urge to consume each others faces
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[WP] On a stormy night, a box was left at your door. Its contents, a pup. Seeing no one in the storm, you decide to take it in. As it grew, from time to time, you'd spy vague silhouettes of two extra....heads?
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[WP] In a lake where people inexplicably drown even in shallow waters and are never found, you find a waterlogged notebook by the shore. Flipping to the first page, you see hundreds of names written down and on the last entry.... your name bleeds into the page
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