/u/Kyomei-ju's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Every year, every 18yr old takes a mandatory test. Speaking about it is prohibited. Everyone who gets 95% or above gets sent away, and nobody knows where to or why. You sign in to see your mark, and despite completely guessing on every question, you got a 96%. There's a knock at your door.
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[WP] You wake up one morning and English no longer exists. You thought you were the only person who couldn't speak or understand the gibberish language it's been replaced with until, while frantically scrolling through your city's Reddit, you see a post titled: "Help. DM if you can understand me."
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[WP] Yesterday, you woke up with a bruised neck and one word in your brain: Carl. On the news you see that a girl in your town died. Cause of death, strangulation. Prime suspect, Carl White. Today, you wake up with a wound in the shape of a bullet hole over your heart, and one word in your brain...
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[WP] You're browsing Reddit on desktop, and the posts start to become a bit boring. Due to muscle memory, you grab your phone and open Reddit to see what the other, smaller Reddit is up to. To your surprise, it's completely different... and you're unsure if you should be seeing what you're seeing.
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[WP] Gravity has stopped working for you, but only when you drop things. Rather than falling, the object floats upward. Just now, you tripped for the first time since the shift... and rather than hitting the floor, you're slowly floating instead, little by little, with no idea how to come down.
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[WP] Everything you say can and will be held against you – literally. Some unseen force, well, forces you to follow through with everything you say. And today, in the heat of the moment during an argument, the words “I’m going to kill you” fly out of your mouth before you can think to stop them.
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[WP] Just as the sun makes the earth warm - and on the worst summer days, scorching - the moon began to freeze up the earth each night.
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[WP] Yep, it's true. Losing one sense does heighten another; once you went deaf, your sense of taste shot through the roof. So much so, you can taste your next meal once you finish your last. After swallowing your last fry, you suddenly get an overwhelming taste of something unmistakable: blood.
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[WP] You have a power: upon seeing someone that you've seen before (even without knowing or never seeing their face), you get an image in your head of the last time you did. Just now, you stumble on a Facebook profile of a person you once saw commit a murder, who then ran off, never to be caught.
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