/u/RJwrites's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] As brain transfer technology is developed it begins to be used in the criminal justice system. For severe crimes you can be forcibly "reincarnated" into an animal body for a set amount of lifetimes.
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[WP] You are an efficiency monitor working for the Galactic Government. You've discovered a hidden project that has taken up nearly 50% of this year's total budget: a superweapon the size of a planetoid. You conduct a surprise inspection. It's not going well.
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[WP] From your earliest days the door has followed you. Weird, warped, and ominous, it fits into each room you've ever been in. Nobody else has ever been able to see it and you've never opened it. Today your youngest child approached it and flings it open to run into the dark within.
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[WP] A spam e-mail gets through to your inbox. It offers the service of a mysterious butler who will solve your top three pressing problems in life. You hit accept on a whim. Somebody starts knocking on your front door.
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[WP] Bodyswapping technology develops to allow rich to buy poor people's bodies that are in better shape. You make a living by flipping bodies, getting them in shape to sell onto the next rich person. It ends when you are tricked into transferring into a body that you can't flip.
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[WP] Things have been alright in the bunker since the nuclear war. You've had plenty of food, entertainment, but have lacked company. The radiation on the surface has gone down enough for you to emerge. But what greats you is not ruins, but a green landscape dotted with medieval castles.
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[WP] You live in a society where everything is done with magic. You work as a patent clerk for spells and magical items. One day somebody submits an object they claim came from another world: a smartphone.
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[WP] You wake up to discover a birthday cake in your room. Unnerved since it is not your birthday you leave the room only to see the cake in the next room, this time with one of the candles lit. Each time you try to escape the cake it reappears with another candle lit.
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