/u/Fortanono's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] All of your colleagues make fun of you because you're a real psychic working on a scam psychic hotline. They don't realize that your ability to read the minds of anyone on the other end of a phone line makes you one of the most powerful psychics in existence.
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[WP] Time travelers leave a future where Google takes over everything with an unlikely target: Make Milton Sirotta, the 9-year-old kid who named the number "googol," call it something less cute and marketable.
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[WP] You're a struggling writer who works as a hitman on the side. A client hires you to kill the actor for a character that ruined a TV show. In order to clear up the misconception that the actors represent the characters, you offer to take out the entire screenwriting team for the same price.
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[EU] A dying child's wish: Meeting Truman from the Truman Show. The Make-A-Wish Foundation is having trouble transporting him unknowingly.
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[WP] After the world's fossil fuels have been used up, a big coal exec set their sights on the last coal mine on earth: Santa's.
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[WP] In Heaven, the citizens create personality sets for new people, which is considered an art. You are an angel that harshly critiques the personality sets on what they would bring, positive or negative, into the world.
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[WP] "I want to let you know that I'm not actually a hitman; I'm an undercover FBI operative who was going to arrest you. But fuck it; I'll help you kill the bastard and show you how to get away with it too."
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[WP] Purge Night has been legalized, but no state has let people murder on that day. You're a hitman who convinces people to go to national parks, federal territory, so you can slaughter them.
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[WP] Universal translators were designed to convey information to alien species that may not understand us. This means when no direct translation is found, the code errs on the side of giving more information. You, a secret agent for humanity, just unknowingly revealed a government secret.
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