/u/SterlingMagleby's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[PI] A witch has cursed you, but she screws it up. Instead of repeating the same day over and over for a thousand years, you experience the next 1,000 June 9ths all in a row.
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[WP] The corners of his mouth pull apart just enough to glimpse long yellowed teeth, eyes flashing triumph. "Where is your God now, child?" Shaken but still smiling, you pull the still-beating heart from the bag on your belt. "Dead," you say.
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[PI] You arrive in hell surprised to find it completely barren and empty. Satan comes to greet you. “Hello, Satan. Where is everybody?” He replies “Oh, you’re the first one here.”
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[OT] Thanks to this community I have my first published work, an anthology of polished/extended r/WritingPrompts replies!
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[PI] In tears, she kisses her fingers and presses them to her webcam. "Goodnight, Mr. FBI man." She says it to an imaginary friend, as if someone is really there listening to all her problems. He is.
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[PI] When the first alien spaceship crashed in your yard, you were shocked. When the fifth one crashed in your yard some time later, you were mildly surprised. By the time the twentieth one crashed in your yard, you were simply annoyed.
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[PI] Humanity becomes the first species in the galaxy to develop faster-than-light engines. Not because they are the most technologically advanced, but because the other species consider going faster than the speed of light a cardinal sin.
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[PI] You were the greatest hero earth had ever seen until you disappeared without a trace a few years ago and everyone thought you dead. Now you are back and and about to give your first speech since you disappeared. What no one else knows: You are also about to kill millions of people.
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[PI] One day, you wake up to discover that now you can speak a "perfect language". Then, you hear a voice in your head: "By My name, I now declare that the curse that was upon you because of the Babel Tower is over. You can now communicate with each other again."
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[PI] Mirrors are actually gateways that lead to an alternate dimension where everything is very different. You and your mirror self decide to trade places for a day. But their world is significantly better and more interesting than yours so, when the day is up, you "accidentally" smash the mirror.
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