/u/Iansheng's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You've sacrificed everything to learn from a reclusive people known for their legendary culinary skills. They agree to teach you, but to discourage you, they teach you in the strictest way possible. You finish your training. Humbled. But unbeknownst to you, you have surpassed your masters.
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[WP] You are the devil. Satan himself. You've made a wager with God that you could convince a human soul to choose Hell over Heaven. You look upon your domain designed for suffering. Lacking God's power to create something from nothing, you crack your knuckles: You've got a lot of work to do.
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[WP] A bored god grants random, often times ironic powers to the desperate. But there's a catch: 1. Your lifespan will be 15 years total, regardless. 2. Using the powers uses up your time left. 3. Steal remaining life from others like you by killing them. One day, you find yourself very desperate...
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[WP] The aliens have landed their ship. The army had come to meet them. Both sides quiet, both not moving. Until finally, one of the aliens moved forward and placed a helmet carefully on the ground and stepped back. It seems they want someone to wear it. Earth's choice? Death row inmates.
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[WP] You see her everyday at the office, and everyday you treat each other indifferently. But you make the mistake of eating one of her cookies. She starts screaming and almost kills you. You rewind time to before the cookies. Another co-worker eats it, and then... She does nothing. Curious...
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[WP] The future! Humanity has achieved great things in medicine. The average human lifespan is now 200 years! Having exhausted what medicine has to offer, Humanity seeks new ways to "prolong" life elsewhere: Creating a virtual world where 100 years is only 1 real-world hour. You are human trials 1.
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[WP] A heartbroken man meets a stranger at a bar. Thinks hit off great between the two and after a year of courtship and self-improvement on his part, he and the woman are engaged. But a fall makes him lose memory of his fiance. All he remembers is he was about to court the girl who rejected him.
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[WP] Mankind finally figured out the science on how to bring the cryogenically frozen back to life, but everyone they've brought back does not remember anything about their past life... Except you. And you know you've been murdered.
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[WP] A company has claimed to have the technology to revive cryogenically frozen people. In actuality, the people they "resurrect" are actually clones who pretend to be their originals.
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[WP] They called it Time-Domino. TD. Anyone who has it ceases to be alive in a week or less. But it also ends one random person you know at a random point in time. This, naturally, alters history, but the people who remain do not forget what was rewritten. You observe this first hand in your life.
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