/u/Mockingasp's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] The thing wearing your mother's skin smiles at you. She uses your mother's memories and mannerisms to hide her beastly nature so well, even your father doesn't notice. But you do. And you don't know how to deal with Skinwalkers.
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[WP] Human skin isn't technically human. It's an alien symbiote that has infiltrated our society for its own ends. In exchange for a share of nutrients, they secretly protect our glistening, hyper sensitive meat from the world. But today, the aliens got the signal to go home.
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[WP] While your fellow scientists built their war machines larger and larger to fight the Elder Gods and their hordes, you took a different route. Your creation, a small arcanoxenobiological organism, is barely larger than a man. Shadows bound to fight shadows freed. This...may have been a mistake.
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[WP] When all your friends and family began to sicken and die, you thought you and your daughter were immune. When the military tried to kill you, you thought they were being jerks. Turns out you release the virus with every breath you take. You started the zombie apocalypse.
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[WP] The Kilari are a proud warriors race. Tough, brave, and disciplined. When they landed on this planet, the humans were already at each other's throats in a world war. Easy meat. They thought differently after the intense bombardment. And then the sky began raining humans. Armed ones.
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[WP] You have a brother. He is invisible. He cannot be seen in visible light, but will appear in ultraviolet light. Your family has repeatedly warned you not to interact with him in public. One night, your friends take you out to a club then freak out when your brother appears under blacklights.
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[WP] Everyone knows about the Pizza Delivery teams, who risk life and limb to deliver their prizes hot and prompt. You're part of the equally important Pizza Extraction teams, who intercepts and take away pizza from those who don't deserve it.
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[WP] Almost every human has the potential to create fire through a necromantic ritual known as "friction". All plants : *horrified gasp*
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[WP] In the new broken world, people are desperate enough to prey on anyone who they come across. To restore peace in the wastelands, you decide to bring back chivalry by establishing a new knight order. You don't have any horses, but you do have some motorcycle and a welder.
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[WP] Our stories, religions, and myths used to be full of stories about the Ghosts That Laughed. A horror with a thousand names that haunts our waking nightmares. A hundred years ago, our ancestors spared no expense in erasing every mention of them. Tonight, you find out why.
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