/u/LubbockGuy95's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You study magic at the top school in the world. Your village saved every penny to send you, but you suck. You find the spells hard to pronounce and memorize. They always feel odd, till one day you discover something called a "dictionary" and you see everyone is pronouncing them incorrectly.
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[WP] When people die they utter a final sentence predicting some future event. This is known. As you attempt to save this soldier he takes his final breathe and says nothing. As you look around you begin to realize the field usually full of dying prophesies, is completely quiet.
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[WP] Alien life was discovered centuries ago and though they are advance they live relatively short lives (25-35 years). You ask your alien friend why he thinks humans live so long. He laughs and says it's because humans run at half power. You laugh back but he stops and says "No you really do."
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[WP] You and your sister have a unique ability. When you concentrate on a person you can see the worse thing they will do over the course of their entire life. Your sister, she sees the best thing they will do.
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[WP] There is an average of 9,728 planes carrying 1,270,406 passengers in the sky at any given time. As these flights touch down at their airports they find them empty. In fact everywhere seems too be empty. The only people left were those in the air from commercial jetliner to single engine prop.
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[WP] You are a necromancer for hire. No you don't raise undead armies to take over the world. You are usually contracted out by police to help solve murders. Or yo raise those who have passed to settle lawsuits surrounding their will. It's not much but it's honest work.
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[WP] The reason NASA is working so hard to get us off earth is because, they early on used their technlogy to explore the oceans and what they found down there has them racing to get humanity off this planet ASAP.
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[WP] You've always had difficulty falling asleep. So one night you decide to just not sleep. You do the same the next night. And the next night. A two months later you haven't slept a wink and yet you feel perfectly fine.
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[WP] After training your whole life you finally vanquish the big baddie. You're the hero of your land. Over time tho the people start fearing you and your power and exile you from your homeland. In the wasteland you make the most unusual friends. The henchmen and lieutenants of your vanquished foe.
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[WP] The phrase "All dogs go to heaven. All cats go to hell." Comes from a long time ago when the walls that separated earth, heaven, and hell were much thinner and closer together. It turns out dogs are great at keeping angels in heaven and cats are great at keeping demons in hell.
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