/u/ShoutAtThe_Devil's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] All good stories need conflict, but your whole life has been abnormally peaceful: Everyone agrees with you and would never fight you; whoever you like always says yes to you; you live comfortably in a town with perfect weather. YET YOU ARE TIRED OF IT ALL. YOU WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR DRAMA.
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[WP] You use your cents to buy a snack, but one coin sticks out. It dates from 10 years into the future, and your face is on it.
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[WP] You have effectively out-aged everyone you knew without getting any older, and today, after 117 years, you get a letter from the government. They are interested in you. VERY interested.
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[WP] Time travel is now possible, and you've been chosen for an expedition a century into the future to report how bad will things get, but the few survivors you met so far assure you: you can't travel back, so instead of "savior from the future", you are the disoriented traveller from the past.
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[WP] In 2019, a tibetan monk not only manages to publish the philosophical-book-to-end-them-all but also proves he is been writing under the Anonymous pseudonym ever since -2100, when he did The Epic of Gilgamesh. He claims his next book, due to a late 2020 release, will be his and everyone's last.
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[WP] You arrive in Heaven, the promised land of harmony, but there is noone to welcome you. After weeks adventuring into its nature of wonders, you hear a revolt. It's in the frontier. Everyone is gathered at its edge looking down upon Hell's eternal party. They crave to go, but God won't let it.
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