/u/PotentialSmell's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Much like how a desperate human might summon a demon to make a contract for power or immortality you find yourself summoned in hell by a demon trying to negotiate a contract for what seems to you like mundane advice and aid
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[WP] You watch in horror and strange fascination as the undead husk which bit you suddenly sprouts healthy new flesh where once rotting meat sat, its moans starting to sound more and more like human screams of agony and confusion. You have successfully infected the zombie with you
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[WP] As you drive around the nuclear wasteland in a ridiculously modified car decked out with scavenged alien tech from the recent invasion plowing through hordes of the undead you find on the horizon what appears to be normal civilisation untouched by the several concurrent apocalypses
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[WP] "Welcome to Hell mortal! Do not try to flee from your judgement for I can see all the sins you ha- seriously? You are just gay? Again? Ok this is a problem, I really must apologise- stay right there I have a few phone calls to make..."
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[WP] You have always enjoyed collecting antiques, but after years of buying various ancient trinkets of questionable value you have developed a little bit of a ghost problem in your house. You know you should probably stop doing this, but that suspicious spoon will go great with that cursed fork!
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[WP] Family reunions are always hard, especially if you have a long line of necromancers on one parent's side and an equally long line of paladins on the other
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[WP] The reason we don't remember our previous reincarnations is because most past lives in the pre industrial era were short affairs that often ended before the child even made it to 5, making storing memories frankly a huge waste of time. Now things are changing, people are starting to remember
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[WP] "Dude this is not what it looks like!" "You know I have been looking at it for like 20 minutes and I still don't even know what it is supposed to look like."
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[WP] Everyone, even the villains they regularly face, know the hero's hilariously ineffective "secret" identity. They don't tell him how bad it is mostly out of respect for the man and because it is funny how he thinks a pair of glasses and a tie change anything
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[WP] Every day at your job you learn a secret that shatters your reality, you have seen horrors beyond the ability for words to describe and things that mankind was never meant to witness. You are a janitor, and you wish those top-secret experiments could be less messy.
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