/u/IlovePetrichor's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You've led a long and interesting life for thousands of years, disappearing when your immortality became inconvenient. One day, you receive a letter... Your realise that not only do you have a descendant, but they did an AncestryandMe test.. and they have questions.
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[WP] You've always been able to see people's auras. They generally don't stretch beyond a few centimetres from their head. Red means passion, pink love, black hate, green envy and blue neutral. One day, you turn into a street tinted yellow - the homeless guy's aura covers the whole street.
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[WP] You grew up a typical child with a loving family but never really had friends over since you lived further away from school. As you now visit home with your SO from uni, you open the door and hug your parents as per usual and turn around, only to see your SO staring at you with horror.
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[WP] You run into Death in a bar/pub just down the road on a quiet night and have a chat as you both treat each other to rounds.
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[WP] You are the last person living on Earth as far as you know. Post the apocalypse, in your solitude, you've kept posting your thoughts to reddit. One day, a notification comes up : someone just commented on your last post.
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[WP] You and the rest of the world looked up in wonder at first as soft, sweet smelling flowers fell from the sky onto the streets. It's now been days - they won't stop falling.
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[WP] On the 31st December 2021, a massive robot lands in London. 'Attention humanity, I am not one of your so called 'Gods' but have come here to guide you to the future. We have determined that at this rate, you will all die within 100 years.'
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[WP] It turns out that mankind has been labouring under a mistaken belief for millenia. The dinosaurs weren't actually wiped out by a meteorite, plants are the actual dominant species on Earth. They've just been dormant for thousands of years. Now they're waking up and we're about to find out why.
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[WP] Twenty percent of the population is born with some kind of superpower. Yours? You can make other people trip over small objects and fall.
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