/u/Man-in-The-Void's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] By some miracle, jokes(specifically of the punny kind) can make you live longer. But they’re all so bad that everyone wants to kill you
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[CW] write a story where >Every< action the main character takes is preceded by a roll of a die, which then tells you how successful (or unsuccessful) that action is.
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[WP] You run a flowershop with a curious sign above the door: “How mad are they?” With numbers 1-10 with a respective sample bouquet next to them. In your 25 years running the place, no one’s ever come in with higher than a 5. One day, someone comes rushing in, yelling, “OH MY GOD HELP ITS A NINE!”
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[WP] You are the Gardener, planting a seed for any notable deaths in your village and growing it until their “second death”. The type of plant that grows relates to the personality of the person who died. One day, you notice a new plant has been planted. You don’t know what kind it is.
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[WP] Your team of archeologists are tasked with exploring a planet in the Sol system, one curious for being the only habitable planet in the system. It’s going well, but more and more iterations of a sigil of some kind keep popping up. The only clue you can find to their origin is their same name.
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[WP] A new system has been put in place in which each year, 500 of the world’s criminals, from debtors to murderers, are chosen to fight to the death under gov. supervision. You have been wrongfully convicted for a crime and happen to be chosen to fight alongside your more... severe inmates.
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[WP] My time is almost up; I stare at the man I love and wonder how can he be so heartless, so cruel? As I silently, desperately, beg for his mercy, he whispers calmly, “Good boy,” as the vet slides the syringe in.
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[WP] Alexandria’s Library never fell; it was enchanted, and for millennia after it held all the world’s, then later universe’s, knowledge. Then its magic collapses. The worlds of media are overlapping; Huck Finn and Lovecraft, Law and Order and Crime and Punishment. And it’s leaking into reality.
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