/u/QueriesAndQuests's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Every year on the same night, the village kids visited the old man who lived at the end of the street, gathered in his sitting room to hear the wild tales of his life. The new kid in town curiously joins this ritual and is shocked to see the kids sitting in silence for hours around a skeleton.
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[WP] "Our greatest feat was switching all the fairytale books and history books, once upon a time. Now they've so muddied the truth with fiction that they'll never learn it." "This is a good thing?" "Good lord, yes. Have you seen the history they THINK is real? Imagine what they'll do with reality."
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[WP] Time travel is not possible, but you work for an agency that made an app allowing agents to contact folks from the past via text messages. As an agent you talk to past persons to help mitigate terrible disasters. The hardest part is finding the disaster--since success means it never happened.
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[WP] You are a celebrated warrior with countless titles heralding your might. With every victory, you bring the kingdom one step closer to peace--and the foul beasts that roam the hills are almost entirely slain. You are the Humanslayer, greatest of dragons.
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[WP] The last dragon and the last unicorn set out on a quest to figure out why they're always hunted to near extinction while all the other fantastical creatures get off scott free
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[WP] Humanity has run its course and faded with the passage of time. A new species grew to sentience in the ruins of the old civilizations. Write a creation myth that the new species would tell to explain the old technology left behind by humans.
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[WP] The gods have tried everything over the centuries to gain followers, from promises of wealth to promises of damnation. Now they're shocked to discover some up-and-coming internet user in the 20th century is gaining followers fast, and some of the gods feel threatened.
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[SP] Two individuals are caught in a cat-and-mouse game. One person is a time-traveler trying to kill the other; the other is the time-traveler's past self and has no idea why the future self is trying to kill them.
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