/u/Lorix_In_Oz's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Two habitable planets in the same orbit but travelling in opposite directions cross paths twice a year just close enough to brush each other's atmosphere. Six months ago the first balloon expedition successfully crossed, today everyone waits in excitement for the explorers anticipated return.
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[WP] Vampires are not the bloodthirsty monsters people believe them to be. For millennia their bite has been one of inoculation against the worst plagues and infections of history, humanity's greatest disease outbreaks coinciding with periods we had hunted them to near extinction.
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[WP] The biggest breakthroughs in medicine was a device allowing doctors to take full control of a patient's immune system to fight infections. Now the hardcore gamer community has repurposed it, deliberately self-infecting with deadly contagions to enjoy the thrill of the ultimate strategy game.
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[WP] Five years ago you answered an ad from a small robotics company looking for an ideal body model for a new domestic servant android. Today they are the biggest company on the planet, you now live in a world where everyone thinks you are just another customized unit of their top selling product.
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[WP] Humanity finally reaches the edge of the solar system only to encounter an impassible barrier and a warning not to try and breach it. But is it there to keep us in or to keep something else out?
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[WP] A warrior swears blood vengeance against a time traveller from the distant future. Well aware of where and when their quarry has escaped back to the warrior approaches a feared vampire seeking the curse of immortality that they might live long enough to enact their revenge.
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[WP] Instead of the death penalty, convicted criminals are sentenced to have their minds overwritten by that of a recently deceased notable individual.
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[WP] The Zombie Apocalypse arrived, except it wasn't much of an apocalypse. The dead simply came back to life in their decaying bodies but full mental faculties intact & no desire to consume human flesh. But now we live in a world where the undead outnumber the living and continue to grow each day.
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[WP] An alien abduction goes horribly wrong when the human they captured for study escapes and begins to stalk and kill off the crew members one by one.
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