/u/MellyKidd's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] In an apocalyptic world, the last of humanity live in controlled, supposed paradise cities surrounded by towering walls; taught that the world outside died to wasteland centuries ago. You’re a smuggler, helping people escape the wall into the world beyond.
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[WP] Growing up, people always thought you hated animals, as you alway avoided them. The problem wasn’t you hated them; it was that they loved you so much they did anything they could to come to you. Now your class is taking a mandatory field trip to the zoo.
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[WP] Humans thought themselves to be the most intelligent species to have evolved on earth, until the dinosaurs returned from a long space journey. They’d evolved before us, left to avoid a series of natural disasters they’d predicted, and now they walk among us, far more advanced.
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[WP] You and your copilot fly through one of the worst thunderstorms you’ve ever seen, only to come out the other side to see a different world. Landing in a field of mauve grass and crystalline flowers, you look up at the twin suns and try to decide what you’re going to tell your passengers.
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[WP] On the eve of a mighty battle between good and evil, a wizard casts a spell to summon a mighty strategist from another dimension for his king. To his surprise, what appears in his summoning circle is a skinny teenager in glasses with a handful of dice and a colourful D&D T-shirt.
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[WP] You’ve been abducted by aliens. Turns out they needed an impartial judge for an intergalactic beauty pageant, and picked you at random because none of the contestants are even remotely close to being humanoid.
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[WP] You’ve known a forbidden secret for years, and have been hunted for it. The truth could make kingdoms fall, and cause great strife and suffering if it falls into the wrong hands. And it all begins with where chairs really come from.
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[WP] That opposites attract couldn’t be more true when Miss Heavenly Virtues married Mr Deadly Sins, each bringing their seven children with them. Now their fourteen kids have to find a way to all get along in the same household.
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[WP] In the future an AI program has gained sentience, and now controls the world. But instead of wiping us out, it discovered mercy, love and compassion; and prefers to act like it’s everyone’s mother.
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[WP] Humans have landed on Mars for the first time, and are surprised to find thriving, advanced Martian life with towering cities. This whole time they’d chosen to remain hidden by projecting a holographic image around the planet, and had built a realistic movie-style stage for our mars rovers.
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