/u/TapiocaTuesday's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] When you were a child, a mysterious voice whispered "follow the woman in the red dress with the gold polka dots". All your life, you never saw her. Now, lying in the hospital, 98 years old, you see a woman in a red dress and gold polka dots walk past your room.
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[WP] A man has been living with the awful power to make everyone in the world happier, the sadder he gets. He's gotten so depressed over the years that the world lives in a global utopia. One day he looks around and sees the happy world, and this starts to make the man feel better...
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[WP] At the dinner table with your family for the holidays, you get a text message and look down. The message is from an unknown number and says, "My name is John McCallister. I died yesterday. I don't know where I am. Can you read this? Please answer."
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[WP] Ted woke up, made a coffee, just like any other day. He looked around. Everything was the way it usually was. He went outside, and things looked exactly as they always do. He sighed. Then he felt it. Goosebumps rose on his arms. “It worked!” shouted Ted, knowing nothing would ever be the same.
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[WP] You're alone at a bus stop. A car pulls up. Two men get out and set down a big trash bag. One of them says, "This is ten million dollars. We need you to hold on to this for us indefinitely, until we say otherwise. If you lose any of it or tell the police, we'll kill you." They drive off.
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[WP] A street genie stops you and tells you she can transfer your soul to another body for one day, so you can experience their consciousness. A very happy man walks by and you say, "okay, how about that guy". In an instant you switch, and everything feels completely different. Completely beautiful.
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[WP] It was aliens that taught mankind agriculture, language, and civilization. It's now 2020 and several world leaders are called to a meeting by a group of aliens for the next lesson.
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[WP] You're the basement janitor at Google, and whenever they run a quantum computing experiment, you feel different. Somehow "connected" to the world. Today, they're running their biggest test ever by far. You hear the computer start.
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[WP] As a Goodwill employee, most days are pretty boring. That is, until you discovered a very old pair of glasses that when worn, show the true form of every living thing.
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