/u/Lorix_In_Oz's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] With Earth about be destroyed scientists manage to create a stable "Groundhog Day" style loop of the final 24 hours, allowing humanity to survive. But after countless iterations of the same day people begin to realise it is not salvation, but purgatory that the scientists have thrust upon them.
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[WP] Time Travel technology uses the life force of humans to power it. Expeditions bring two condemned prisoners, one fuels the journey there, the other back. Our latest research trip to Victorian London also serves as the execution of the greatest serial killer of our time - Notorious Jack.
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[WP] You are a world famous music artist, popular for your unique sound and nonsensical sounding lyrics. But nobody suspects your true nature, in reality you are a magic user who has been slowly casting a powerful spell piece by piece. One that will assure you total world domination when completed.
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[WP] A professional time-traveler is secretly a temporal bigamist, married at the same time to different partners living in completely different eras. In their hubris they believe they have gotten away with the perfect crime - that is until against the odds they discover they have been caught out.
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[WP] Due to some kind of weird quantum accident your body remains intangible unless you are being directly observed by another human being.
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[WP] When someone dies their heart stops and eyes turn white, their final 24 hours spent fully lucid in a painless zombie-like state as the last of their life energy fades from their cells until they are truly deceased. Most use the time to say farewell to loved ones. Others however seek revenge.
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[WP] When a freak weather incident transports you to a different world to the mystical and magical one you grew up in it's taken years to adjust and find your own feet again. Such is the life of a Munchkin working in a Kansas roadhouse diner.
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[WP] Criminal sentences must be carried out in full, even if the perpetrator passes away. When that happens the law requires their closest relative continue serving the remaining time in their place, leading some families to go to extreme lengths to keep their convicted relatives alive at all costs.
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[WP] Years ago scientists discovered a way to transfer injuries and diseases from one person to another. Since then the elite have taken advantage of the poor underclass desperate enough to sell their health for a pittance; while outlawing research into actual treatments and cures for any ailment.
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