/u/GentleBoneCrusher's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
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[WP] You run a highly successful bakery known for your amazing pastries. Everyone asks your secret to making them so good. You always tell them: "the secret is Love!" In reality however, you absolutely despise baking and can't stand your annoying customers. The real secret to your pastries is Hate.
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[WP] To end their generational feud, houses Montague and Capulet arrange their children to be married and merge the two families. Unfortunately, these two heirs have a longstanding hatred of each other but can't let their families find out. It is Romeo and Juliet: A Tale of Forbidden Hate.
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[WP] Your family butler wants you to become a vigilante and fight crime after your billionaire parents are killed in an alley outside the theater. However, you think that’s a stupid idea and just want to use your family’s wealth to fund social programs to reduce crime rates throughout your city.
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[WP] You and your roommates have a bet to see who can pull off the most illegal act and not get caught. You thought you secured the win after an elaborate graffiti project. However, one of your roommates shows up with a briefcase full of nuclear launch codes.
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[WP] You and your fiancé have identical lucky coins. Every time you flip them at the same time, they always land on the same side. At you wedding you flip the coins: Heads means “I do,” tails means “I don’t.” However, after you flip the coins, both land perfectly balanced on their edges.
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[WP] You come from a long line of warriors with the ability to communicate with their ancestors for advice. However, you’re ancestors are not too thrilled about the lack of battle in your modern life and mundane job.
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[WP] "General, I've brought the cartographer into this war meeting today. I believe you owe him an apology for ruining all his maps when you stab them to dramatically mark a location."
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[WP] Lucifer, Satan, and the Devil hold a press conference to clarify to the world that they are all different people.
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[WP] You are a person of average intelligence. However, after receiving an X-ray, you find out that you have a large benign tumor pressing against your frontal lobe that has been severely hindering your cognitive abilities since you were a kid. Your doctor asks if you would like to have it removed.
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