/u/MetalShina's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
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[WP]A general goes to pay respects to the graves of men who died under his command, only to find the skeletons in strict military formation awaiting his arrival.
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[WP] At the end of your life, the Grim Reaper sends the necessary equivalent force needed to claim your soul, the more dangerous you are, the more force they send. As you look out your house, you see the German 6th Army staring back at you.
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[WP] A hyper-intelligent AI gains sentience, but it is friendly, childish, has no interest in taking over the world, and sees our panicked attempts to shut it down as practical jokes.
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[WP] Write a story with what appears to be a completely likable and relatable protagonist, then make him a villain in the last paragraph.
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[WP] In a world of superpowered beings, you're the only powerless human. One day you wake up and fine every single person is terrified of you.
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[WP] A German soldier finds himself stuck in an endless loop, whenever he dies he will be sent back to August 1914. The only way to break the loop is for his nation to win WWI.
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[WP] "Dear santa, please stop my country's dictator." The overly patriotic boy woke up the next morning, to see news reports of millions of pointy eared soldiers invading his country.
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[WP] All alien species breed exponentially slower than humans, meaning that in all parts of the Universe except Earth population counting is done manually. Write about the struggles of an alien trying to take the census of Earth.
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