/u/MtnDewm's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] All day long you’ve heard random beeping. Then everything goes dark. Soon words appear in front of you: “Connection to universe lost. Attempting to reconnect.”
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[WP] “Daddy, can I fly like a superhero?” You’re busy on your phone so you say “Yeah, sure, of course.” So your 3-year old stretches out their arms, jumps… and flies.
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[WP] You can wield all the amazing fantasy magic -- lightning bolts, fireballs, invisibility, mind control, even necromancy, in 2017 America. But if anyone realizes you have these powers, you lose them instantly.
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[WP] You come home to find you’ve locked yourself out. In exasperation you pound on the door. Someone opens it. It’s you.
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[WP] They have always only been three doors to your house: the front door, the back door, and the side door to the garage. Only ever three doors. Today, when you woke up, there were four.
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[WP] At the end of your life, you close your life, and everything goes black. A few moments or eternities later, you hear a voice say, “Hey, you. You’re finally awake.”
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Turns out humans are like insects. There are alien species far stronger and smarter than we are. But no matter how often they swat at us or try to exterminate us, we always come back.
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[WP] The deed is done so you call 911. When the police arrive, you say, “The corpse on the floor is me. I’m from the future. It had to be done.”
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[WP] You find a genie who will grant you unlimited wishes. But for every wish it grants, one of your nightmares must also come true.
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[WP] First, your phone didn’t open to your pin code. Then your computer. Next, your keys didn’t fit in your door. Soon, people in your life started to act like they didn’t recognize you. When it felt like all was lost, you heard a voice behind you say, “I’m sorry, but this was the only way.“
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