/u/MossRock42's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You are riding with a group of friends. One asks, "You up for some fun?" The pavement turns to gravel, and then to an old dirt road lined with scraggly trees. The car slowly creeps past the gates of the haunted graveyard and stops. You get a sick feeling as the car engine sputters and quits.
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[WP] You were taken prisoner by a Cthulhu cult. You are making your escape. Just as you are about to reach the gate, a woman jumps in front of your path. She offers to let you leave if you can solve her riddle.
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[WP] The cave dwellers sat on rocks and logs surrounding the campfire. The tribes' shaman "Fucani" got up. He took a torch from the fire and waved it overhead. Then he began telling a story about the ancestors from far away.
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[WP] The world is controlled by two rival dystopias. The first is individualistic. The song, "Live and let die." Is their national anthem. The other is a tightly controlled, state-owned, one-party rule system where talk of freedom will get you sent to a prison camp.
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[WP] You arrive at work one morning to find everyone is wearing tin-foil hats. When you check your email, you see there is a new company policy. There's a tin-foil hat waiting for you on your desk.
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[WP] You have a chance encounter with the town drunk. You agree to buy him a drink in exchange for his story. He says he turned to drink after a horrific encounter with _insert_something_, and the tale is so chilling you can't sleep so you write about it.
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[WP] A farmer is awoken by a noise outside. He gets up and takes a look but sees nothing wrong. In the morning he goes out. He finds a set of strange footprints leading to the barn. They proceed straight up the outside wall and over the barn roof to the other side and off into the pasture.
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[WP] Two empires were at war for decades. Strikes and retaliatory strikes left both devastated. With no end in sight, a diverse group of children from both empires decided to do something.
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