/u/Important_Pen_3784's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You somewhat jokingly make an offering to an ancient and obscure goddess. You didn't expect her to show up in your room in a manic frenzy, trying desperately to reward and please her first worshipper in centuries
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[WP] A teen girl stares in shock and horror at the stump where her arm was just a few minutes ago. Shaking in horror, not because she had just lost her arm in a car accident, but because inside was sparking wires and circuits, a metal bone instead of normal flesh and blood.
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[WP] You run a secretive government department tasked with covering up...something...or at least that's what you assume. An unfortunate accident with the memory wiping gear has left the entire staff unsure what exactly they're doing here or what their job is.
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[WP] Humans are terrifying and perplexing to the rest of the galaxy when discovered. Every other species possesses a soul, is a solid entity, and was created with design by a known god. Humanity is a gigantic colony of microorganisms acting together to form sapience without a soul or intended design
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[WP] My father was always a paranoid man. Sometimes when rambling, he'd tell me it was best to organize your memories as much as possible. "Make each one a puzzle piece dependant on a dozen others, immediately", he'd tell me. "That way, it'll be easy to notice when somethings been stolen."
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[WP] As it turns out, nearly everything Earth exports, food, sugar, drugs, alcohol, even things as seemingly harmless as music and games, are INCREDIBLY addictive to nearly every other alien species. The rest of the galaxy has quickly become dependant on Earth for their fix in nearly every niche
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[WP] You're trying to figure out why you haven't moved on despite dying. Not in a Ghost Girl way, you're still sentient and controlling your increasingly decomposed body
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[WP] You run a secretive government department tasked with covering up...something...or at least that's what you assume. An unfortunate accident with the memory wiping gear has left the entire staff unsure what exactly they're doing here or what their job is...
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[WP] You have the power to drain life from people, shortening their own and extending yours. You decided to use this power for good, putting old people with terminal illnesses out of their misery and taking their final weeks for yourself, both helping people and still getting immortality
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[WP] You never should of given your best friend the Elixir of Eternal Happiness. It was supposed to be a gift, a blessing. But someone who always feels happy can feel no guilt or regret at bad actions, no conscious telling them to cease .Just pure pleasure and bliss no matter the horrors they commit
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