/u/Prezombie's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] The narrator has grown to utterly despise the protagonist, but cannot break his contract. While continuing to maintain character, he's started adding the worst possible comparative imagery to the narration.
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[WP] You discovered a sword embedded in a stone, and feel compelled to pull it out. The problem is that the stone is a newly cataloged asteroid.
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[WP] Even though it's happened to many professions before now, I never expected my job to become obsolete.
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[WP] You've been whisked off to a magical land where you'll get to have an amazing adventure, meet fun characters, defeat evil, and get back home the moment you left. This is the ninteenth time this has happened.
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[WP] For years you've been training to defeat the dark ruler in single combat, but today you discovered that their seat is technically an elected position, just nobody has dared to run against them in decades. You've prepared to kill them for ages, beating them in an election should be even easier!
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Two careers considered completely disparate by your culture are treated as a single job path in the culture of a distant civilization.
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[WP] The aliens don't care much about humanity. We've got no new technology they want, and they really don't understand the concept of fiction for entertainment. But, they're absolutely obsessed over our nature documentaries.
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[WP] A distant galaxy has been locked in an eon-long cold war between biologicals and synthetics. Neither side knows how to treat a new ship appearing out of hyperspace, containing a human and their android spouse.
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[WP] With a lot of bluff, I've managed to survive this urban fantasy nightmare for a week despite being a completely vanilla human. That is, until I slipped, and did what I swore I wouldn't: I asked a question which has an answer that even their children know.
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