/u/Mahler5's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You have just been abducted by a UFO. While you are figuring out what just happened to to you, a frantic alien bursts into the room. "You have no idea how many rules I'm breaking, but my Human Studies final is tomorrow and I need help."
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[WP] After a violent revolution, the government of a country is overthrown. You are assigned to guard the cell the former king/president/supreme leader is in before his public execution. He starts a conversation with you.
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[EU] In the year 44 B.C., a spacecraft falls to Earth in the farmlands of Sicily. It contains a child from the alien world of Krypton, named Kal-El. The child is adopted by Julianus and Martina Cantus, simple Roman farmers, who soon realize this child has abilities far beyond normal humans.
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[WP] Humanity has discovered immortality, meaning all new children since the discovery will never die. Your generation is the last mortal generation.
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[WP] You accidentally uncover a vast, dangerous, government conspiracy that only exists to cover up something petty and absurd.
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[WP] Over thousands of years, astronomers slowly notice that the Andromeda galaxy is dimming. In the far future, when a ship is sent out to colonize, we finally find out why: millions and millions of Dyson Spheres.
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[WP] You are part of the first generation of a society that has uploaded its consciousness to computers. You are struggling teaching your robotic "children" basic things like emotions and basic interaction.
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