/u/Spiritbrand's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You are a member of the Black Widows, a group of widowed, black women in the Confederate South during the Civil War trained as assassins by the North... and this is going to be your toughest assignment yet.
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[WP] A previously undiscovered microbe quickly spreads across the globe. The microbe feeds exclusively on gasoline, crude oil, etc. Reserves and oil fields all over the world are depleted in less than a month.
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[WP] It's 1972. You're in the communications division of the Time Commission. You're job is to disrupt the normal flow of events for a person by calling them with a "wrong number". All your jobs are important, but this one is very important to you personally.
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[WP] Fed up with the constant wars, God decides to initiate an across the board celestial and infernal apocalypse. As more and more angels and demons are wiped out of existence, it starts having... unusual side effects on the earthly realm.
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[WP] God's name has been known for centuries - Jehovah. What we didn't realize is that is only his first name. You just accidentally said his full name.
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[WP] No one ever really appreciated how hard very old people must work to do simple things... until the anti-aging serum came out and they quickly became the jacked bullies of the world.
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[WP] After weeks of earthquakes, it seemed like they would never stop. Then, a giant landmass breaks free from under the crust of the earth and floats hundreds of feet into the air and stops. Nothing can move it.
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[WP] Scientists have discovered a way to reset aging and disease, but it induces a second puberty and an associated growth spurt. At first, it was just amusing, but the divide between the "high"-techs and the "low"-dites is really starting to become a problem.
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[WP] It has always been that when someone dies they are granted a glimpse into the beyond. And with their last breath, utter a prophecy of what is to come. As you study the footage of a recent bombing, you are struck by what you hear... over and over and over.
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