/u/Mr_Westerfield's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] The AI that handles America’s nuclear arsenal is experiencing a bout of massive depression. The NSA has found the only person who can keep it from killing us all is the last human truck driver, the only person who can relate to having way too much time to pondering the mysteries of life
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[WP] You're an alchemist, 10 years ago you created a batch of soulless homunculi that escaped into the forest. Some nights you can still hear the little blue Devils singing their incantations, "Tra-la-la-la-la-la-la, La-la-la-la-la"
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[WP] The Starship Enterprise is sent to initiate relations with a planet where people are polite to the point of being obnoxious. Picard starts a diplomatic incident when he fails to hold the door open for someone 20 feet behind him and people keep loudly informing Geordi when he's near furniture
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[WP] Unbeknownst to humanity, the earth is actually a giant human reserve used by aliens to ethically harvest the bones of dead humans for their homeopathic medicine. However after a zombie apocalypse makes this impossible the aliens decide to declare open season on all humans, undead or alive
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[WP] You were a world famous scientist until one day an accident causes you to become immortal with the power to travel across time, space and the multiverse at will. The catch is you've been wiped out from every possible existence in the process
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[WP] The "rumor mill" is an actual place where Dickensian orphans devise gossip about everyone from high school students to world leaders. This is their story...
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[EU] Quark talks Chief O'Brien into going into business together to commercialize the 5 or 6 different ways they discovered to de-age people using transporters during his time on the Enterprise
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[EU] After another controversial shooting by the police, the Detroit Police Department decides to increase visibility of African American police officers by literally building one, introducing the world to Black Robocop
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[WP] You invent a way to bring bread to life and decide to use this power to become a super villain: Terror Miss Sue, Pastry Chef of the Revolution!
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