/u/King_Sarathos's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] No one can figure out what your superpower is. You don't sleep, you never blink, sometimes you teleport. It's creepy. It's also rather simple: Time stops when you're not looking.
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[WP] Sick of watching your friends be slaughtered, you and a party of other low-level monsters have decided to do some grinding. The next group of adventurers is in for a bad time.
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[WP] Lots of kids like to imagine a figure outside keeping pace with whatever vehicle they ride in. Sometimes it's a hero, sometimes its an animal. However, your class of 4th graders all see something disturbingly consistent. Today, you saw it too.
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[WP] You've been hearing voices for years. You've rationalized your condition and recently began a new form of treatment. Today you woke up to find that the voices are silent. As you enjoy your first quiet morning in years you hear "Finally. It's usually so hard to talk over all the commotion."
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[WP] You've been crawling through stone tunnels for nearly two hours. Finally you spot a dim light ahead of you. You can hear your partner talking into the light, but your own throat is too sore to call out. As you reach the mouth of the tunnel, you can make out their whimpering "Take them instead"
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[WP] "Eith this spell we should be able to take him down. We'll need a catalyst. A diamond, or something just as valuable." You finish speaking and your spouse looks at you with a frown. "It's for a good cause." They slip their wedding ring off of their finger and hand it to you. Cubic Zirconia...
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[WP] Several years ago, you cheated a con-man out of his own game. He smiled and said "There'll be Hell to pay for that..." All this time, you thought he was making an empty threat. Now there's a demon in your favorite chair talking about balances owed.
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[WP] Coroner's Report: Deayh by hypoxia due to foreign organic matter blocking the trachea. Subject is brain-dead, yet on first incision asked that I stop the autopsy. Sedatives and blunt trauma both proved ineffective. Subject requests that I place foreign organic matter back within the trachea.
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