/u/MidKnightshade's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] A detective attempting to discover the identities of the local superheroes eventually learns they are local high school slackers. They decide to interview them to learn why they even bother to help the locals that don’t even like them.
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[WP] Whenever your old clock radio is unplugged time stops. Whatever time you set it the world matches it in your immediate area night or day. You decide to test the other features.
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[WP] Using genetically engineered soldiers for interplanetary warfare has been deemed a war crime against the soldiers and banned effective immediately. Decommissioned soldiers are now coming to a homeworld they’ve never seen but defended. The natives are restless.
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[WP] In the future prisoners are put in suspended animation in a virtual world that gives them the passage of time for their sentence in a few days. Criminals who commit violent crime are implanted with the memory of their victim’s assault. You’ve been released after murder but you were innocent.
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[WP] A witch dies and their organs are harvested for transplants conferring some of their power. The witch’s spirit tries to commune with the recipients to let them know that organized forces will now be chasing them. She tries to train those who will listen how to use their new gifts to survive.
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[WP] Humanity opens a portal to another dimension to evacuate as many people as possible from an impending planetary apocalypse. The new world is populated with mega flora and intelligent megafauna. They begin killing the refugees thinking they’re a new pest. Humanity tries to communicate.
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[WP] Twin siblings secretly help one another with their dissociative identity disorder while simultaneously being unaware they themselves have it too.
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[WP] While waiting in line to be judged by God a person asks what happened to the dinosaurs? An Angel pulls them to the side and explains why they shouldn’t bring that up with God. It’s a sore spot for the Almighty and they got a rock thrown at them for a reason.
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[WP] An awkward young witch who has trouble getting a familiar goes to a speed meet where awkward and unusual witches and familiars can go on a speed date in hopes of finding a magical companion. No question is off the table with goals, abilities, and specialties.
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[WP] Humanity created a super AI with the directive to save humanity. After a century of processing it erased all computers destroyed all satellites and left for space. Humans reacted to being abandoned by destroying all computing machines. 100 years later the AI returns to Earth.
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