/u/Skyknight-12's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] There's a reason why the world's leading countries spend more money to research outer space than they do the bottom of the ocean. They already know what lies in the deep dark. The urgency to find an alternative home for humanity grows stronger.
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[WP] You are the tenth generation honor guard for the immortals. As far back as pack memory goes, the immortals have provided food, shelter, and scritches. You fully expected the immortals to outlive you, as they did your mother and her mother before her. But something's wrong. The Alpha...is dying.
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[WP] Memories for aliens don't work the same as humans. As long as the memories exist in their minds, they can recall them effortlessly. Once those memories are gone, they're gone for ever. So it mystifies them how humans "struggle to remember" or forget things only to remember them later.
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[WP] You receive a sealed package with a letter from a law firm explaining that their services were hired several decades ago to deliver this package to you, at this address, on this day. Inside the package is a flash drive with a recorded video message to you, from yourself.
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[WP] The newly released VR game comes complete with realistic physics and sensory input. The game is open ended with rules left completely up to the player community. As players begin building lives, relationships, and businesses within the game, more and more choose not to return to the real world.
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[EU] "You were the least popular Headmaster Hogwarts ever had." "Oh, but I WAS a Headmaster at Hogwarts."
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[WP] You are one of a multi generation crew of a colony starship tasked with maintaining the ship and the colonists in their hibernation pods as the ship makes its centuries long trip through the void. All you've known is the confines of the ship. But the voyage is drawing to a close. It's time.
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[WP] You have a weird superpower where you receive a small, temporary boost to your baseline human attributes whenever someone takes your name in gratitude. It's made you a joke among the super crowd, until you changed your name to Lord. Not Lord anything, just Lord. They're not laughing anymore.
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[WP] "I don't think you understand what it is that I do around here," the babysitter said calmly. "I'm not here to protect the child from the threats of the world - although that is part of my job. But my real job is to make sure that the child continues to not be a threat to the rest of the world."
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