/u/MetalShina's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Humanity receives a message, originating from the Moon. It reads "Why did you surrender to us? We were never at war with you?" and attached to it is a picture of the US flag, by now bleached white by the Sun.
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[WP]Write a gritty and depressing story set in a cutesy and childlike environment, or do the reverse and write a childishly optimistic fairy tale set in a grim dystopia.
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[WP] Aliens invade us, but rather than coming in with guns blazing they instead deliberately manipulate us into increasing awkward situations so that they can claim the moral high ground.
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[WP] You have the power to regenerate any internal organ at will. After years of selling your organs to make money, you realize you can use your powers for more... nefarious purposes.
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[WP] For decades there's been a huge clock hovering over Earth, counting down. We've gotten used to it, until it reaches zero, Africa vanishes and the clock resets.
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[WP]Humanity defeats an alien invasion, only to learnt that we've simply beaten an illegal third rate mercenary group trying its luck, and the real alien civilization is on its way to apologize.
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[WP] People can time travel, but only to where their ancestors are and only for government approved purposes. One day, hundreds of your descendants armed to the teeth with government weaponry appear, insisting on staying near you at all times.
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[WP] Elon Musk is a time traveler from the future who is getting rich by pretending to invent future technology, but is also warning us about the future deadly killer robot wars that caused him to flee to the past in the first place.
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[WP] Time travel is possible, but it is very expensive. Therefore the rich use it to alter past events to ensure they always stay rich and powerful. For the first time, as a charity move, they let you, a brilliant but very poor college professor, go back in time.
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