/u/QuickBASIC's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Pulling off the highway at a small town during your roadtrip, you stop for gas at a small gas station. Raid sirens go off and a fog rolls in and the the clerk and other locals start saying "They're coming! Get out! Get out now!"
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[WP] Cryogenic freezing doesn't work on animals bigger than a rodent because they can't be reliably unfrozen due to their size. With the sun going supernova within the next 50 years humanity looks to incredibly smart genetically modified mice, hamsters, and rats to carry out legacy to the stars.
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[WP] Time travel is possible, but there's no special frame of reference so if you time travel even a second forward or backward you end up in the middle of space.
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[WP] You live in a world where you can borrow luck from your future self at any time. Most people only use it for small things though because they're worried about their future self.
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[WP] Millions of people come popping out of a portal in the middle of the AZ desert. They claim to be from the future near the heat death of the universe and now is the farthest back they can go due to energy constraints, and but promise technology and prosperity if we allow them to settle here.
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[WP] IF YOU'RE READING THIS, YOU'VE BEEN IN A COMA FOR ALMOST 20 YEARS NOW. WE'RE TRYING A NEW TECHNIQUE. WE DON'T KNOW WHERE THIS MESSAGE WILL END UP IN YOUR DREAM, BUT WE HOPE WE'RE GETTING THROUGH.
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[WP] In order to make a contract with a demon it must give you its true name. If the demon double-crosses you just know the fae are very keen to know that name.
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[WP] You're a sentience who is not used to existing in linear time and you are inserted sideways into our timeline. You exist as a human... mostly unsuccessfully because you don't understand existing only in one moment at a time and keep making mistakes.
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[WP] As a scion of a wealthy family is unceremoniously dropped off on a twilight lit strand, she hears a strange calling and sees images of a flaming sword play across her mind, she has a strange feeling of deja vu as she defends herself from the undead with a fortuitous piece of driftwood.
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