/u/MurmurJunk's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] The message from an alien civilization that inspired so many people to contribute to space exploration was revealed to be a scam by NASA to get funding. You feel hopelessly alone and stupid, standing on the foreign planet, until you meet an alien who just received similar news from his planet.
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[WP] The first day of "Anti-Squid Game": desperate people were expecting series of deathmatches, but instead participate in therapeutic exercises, and to win a round they must experience an emotional breakthrough.
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[WP] In a lucid dream, you meet someone who looks like you, but slightly different in appearance. He does some weird stuff, and you try calmly to make him stop. "Wow, that's a pretty coherent set of arguments for a dream" he says. You look into a mirror and see that you're someone else.
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[WP] Long ago, The Gods got tired of The Wizard challenging their reign, and reduced his powers to nonsense: seeing while sneezing; speaking with chicken - about business only; etc. But one of those - absurd at the time - new powers was to learn a person's first pet's name just by looking at them.
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[WP] The TV show in question has been running for more than a decade. Although it is formally about a drug syndicate, people stuck with it for its soap-opery core. Everyone loves it. That's why it's so hard for you, a detective, to prove that the show is a drug syndicate's money laundering branch.
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