/u/SlowCrates's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] It's 7 AM. You hear tires squealing, then music, then your best work pal pulls up to your house in an ice cream truck, yells, "Get in! No time to explain!"
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[WP] You have theorized that split personalities exist in everyone, though most of them live dormant, in a dream-like stasis. You have dedicated your life to finding another person in your head. That was a really big mistake.
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[WP] You invented time travel just in time to go 3 years into the future. You're shocked to find out that 2020 is universally considered the best year in a generation despite how it started.
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[WP] Before bed, you grab your journal to quickly chronicle the day's events. But you're disturbed and intrigued to find that your journal is far more weathered than it should be, with years of entries you haven't written yet.
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[WP] "When I said that a new environment could help, I didn't mean travel to a parallel universe. How did you manage that, anyway?"
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[WP] The entire planet is frozen. Every molecule from the atmosphere to the crust, unmoving. The native species appear as if they never saw it coming. So where did the distress signal come from?
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[WP] You can always see 5 minutes into the future, like a pip screen in the corner of your mind. You use this to adjust your course throughout the day. But 30 seconds ago your realized that you can't avoid what's coming.
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[WP] A man awakens in some kind of lab, with amnesia. A note says, "DON'T PANIC - YOU CONTAIN US ALL."
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[WP] You were just a kid when the war started. 8 years later, you are now grown, and you've spent your life thinking, training, planning, and recruiting others to help you end the war. No one sees you coming.
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