/u/RandomPhail's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] The world is the same, but every weather event is serious: Rain is literally a low-to-medium-grade acid; wind carries toxins/moves super fast; waves—across the board—are faster and taller; temperatures are wilder; etc.
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[WP] Researchers are still a few decades away from having a reliable system to steer a planet around an incoming Earth, but if Earth is as populated as their scanners say, they’d better damn well try.
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[WP] You’ve been an imaginary friend for as long as you can remember… One day, you tell your creator what you are. They look shocked for a moment, then they burst out laughing. They have to explain that YOU are the one who imagined THEM - and after informing you of this, they begin to fade...
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[WP] You just bought an old car from an anonymous seller for CHEAP, but after it arrives, you notice the gas-gauge trending down even though the car is off. Fearing a leak, you check the top of the engine, but instead of wet gas, you find a note: “Drive to fill; stop to drain; don’t let it run out.”
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[WP] All herbivores suddenly died out thousands of years ago, leaving humans to weather the consequences. Uninhibited, plant-life grew and evolved tremendously. Ravenous, predators did, too.
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[WP] One day, people just started throwing apples at you, and you weren’t sure why until you couldn’t get in to see any doctors.
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[WP] You climb to the top of Mount Everest only to get pinned down by a blizzard. After the winds subside, you notice much of the snow is gone, and in its wake: The remnants of a stairway.
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[WP] There haven’t been any prompts to update in a while, so you decide to manually check... To not much surprise, several missed updates pop up; however, there seems to be something unusual about the latest one: “Recommended: 173.10.6- Released: 10/26/3019...”
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