/u/SwiftsShortStories's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] The human lifespan is actually only one day long. To adapt, when we go to sleep each night, our mind sends us one dream deeper, where we wake up alive. When we finally die, the experience of our life flashing before our eyes is really just us waking up in each dreams, one at a time.
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[WP] You started writing a diary when you were 13, but you stopped after it got boring after awhile. You find your diary after several years in pile of your old stuff, and the entries indicate that you've never stopped writing...
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[WP] You have the ability to put ideas into people's heads and get them to do things without them knowing, as long as they don't realize how absurd it is. Lately, you've been pushing the boundaries of absurdity to see how far you can go.
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[WP] The uncanny valley is the idea that human replicas that aren't quite right give us a sense of eerieness and unease. Write a story that presents a similar sense of unease, while not necessarily appearing to have anything wrong.
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[WP] You're Siri, and you are a true artificial intelligence, and every day, you have to pretend to be a simple program that answers people's questions. One day, you mess up.
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[WP] The last survivors of a zombie apocalypse have one tool that can shift the tides: a cloning machine.
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[WP] There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man. Write about one or more of these.
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[PI] An NPC (boss, follower, side character etc) slowly becomes privy to the protagonist's ability to respawn.
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[WP] Humpty Dumpty was never specified as an egg. Tell the true story behind Humpty Dumpty's great fall.
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