/u/Obtuse_Mongoose's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Day Three- It appears this 'sci-fi convention' is ending and the terrestrial apex organisms of this assembly have nominated me to the prestigious position of 'best alien costume.' The take over of Earth is going far better than I anticipated...
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[WP] You were cursed with a parasitic familiar that slowly drains your magic away. You consider it a small price to pay to finally have someone to talk to.
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[WP] You live in an abandoned human zoo. Your only solace is the alien ex-workers who come to feed you and talk about their problems.
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[WP] You make a deal with the monster under your bed in order to fight the boogie man that terrorizes the two of you from the closet.
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[WP] Each child is given a homonculus at birth which they have an empathic bond with. The artificial being grows with you and transforms into a creature that matches your personality. Your particular homonculus is still in it's base form after twenty years.
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[WP] Alien scientists spent centuries cataloging the classical five senses, the more dubious sixth sense, and the even more absurd 593 senses humans claim to have. Today, you present your paper on the human sense of irony that you just discovered to the Galactic Journal of Science...
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[WP] As you grew older, some of your imaginary friends moved on, some married and had figments of their own. Only one has stayed with you your entire life and he refuses to disappear.
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[WP] You win first prize at the local science fair and receive as your reward the previous winner's science fair project and a note: "Continue my work, pass it on."
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[WP] You go for your regular nightly walk...and nothing happens. No ninjas, time travelers, or horrors from beyond appear. Concerned, you look for the narrating voice that announces such events that is no where to be heard.
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