/u/SongsOfLightAndDark's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Cats live for fifteen to twenty years, mice for only three. Jerry III is dying and must explain to his son the multigenerational rivalry between the Jerrys and the local house cat and why the tradition must go on.
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[WP] Vampires are ancient, far older than people think. You were born in a longhouse covered in mammoth skins and today you live in a penthouse.
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[WP] You’re the big bad evil guy. All of the prophecies about the Chosen One are secretly written by you, so they always sand misfit teenagers to defeat you instead of actual threats.
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[WP] As a vanity project a computer scientist/mathematician sets a super computer to calculating the digits of Pi to trillions of digits. One day he notices that for a stretch of thousands of digits Pi repeated a sequence of ones and zeroes, which he plugs into a binary translator.
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[WP] You sold your soul to Satan, but since you had no soul to begin with the devil is mad as hell for being swindled, but he can’t exactly threaten you with eternal damnation now can he?
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[EU] After each year at Hogwarts Professor Dumbledore’s ads in the Daily Prophet for a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher grow increasingly desperate.
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[WP] The peasant boy who rescued the princess and then married her finds himself utterly out of his league at court and they both realize that relationships born in hardship and trauma rarely work out in the long term.
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[EU] One day in Ba Sing Se’s most popular tea shop the elderly proprietor overhears two retired Earth Kingdom officers boasting about the Fire Nation prince they killed during the siege.
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[WP] You ask your Alexa when the world will end as a joke. It answers “I’ll get back to you.” A few days later you see that your amazon cart is full of survival gear.
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