/u/TheReal_FirePyre's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] In the post-apocalypse, you have a radio station, and regularly talked with a person at another radio station who you believe was the only other survivor. One day, that person stopped responding. Years later, your radio crackles to life and you hear: “Sorry for not responding, but I’m back.”
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[WP] The year is 3,450,677. Every possible invention has been invented. Every combination has been combined. Every question ever asked, whether scientific, spiritual, or philosophical has been definitively answered. Except you. You have the last original idea in the entire universe.
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[WP] You’re out shopping for groceries when your phone receives a government alert; STAY INDOORS. DO NOT LET ANYONE INSIDE. You rush home, knocking on the door for your SO to let you in. From the other side of the door, you hear your own voice. “Don’t let it in. It’s one of them.”
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[WP] For years, you’ve been paranoid of men in suits following you. One day, sick of the fear, you approach one and ask why he and his friends are stalking you. Confused, he says; “We’re just doing the job you assigned us, sir.”
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[EU] It’s 1920. Your dad is a kind man, but melancholic, with a faraway look in his eyes. He told you to never enter the forest without him, yet you did anyway. Inside you find a clearing with a strange, rusting metal box. Brushing away a layer of rust, the box’s name is revealed: “DELOREAN”
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[WP] In the future, a new kind of criminal is a "Hopper", an assassin who lives in the past and time travels to the present only when killing a target. You are the world's best "Time Hunter", an operative tasked with tracking Hoppers through time and apprehending them.
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[WP] After much searching, scientists have concluded that we are, in fact, alone in the universe. There are no aliens. But there are plenty of major galactic wars being fought by autonomous drones, all across the galaxy, in the name of civilisations that are long since extinct.
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[EU] The Jedi Masters have elected to execute a young trainee who they have foreseen will bring doom to the order. You, knowing he has done nothing wrong, decide to protect him from the masters. Still, you know deep down that the boy, Palpatine, will have a dark future.
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[WP] “I seen things, kid. I saw revolutions and world wars, the end of civilisations and the end of the old world order. The discovery of fire and the discovery of electricity. Yeah... I’ve seen it all. But nothing scares me more than you. No, not you now. I’m scared of what you will become.”
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[WP] You're a decorated police officer about to retire. Your greatest regret in your career was that you didn't solve the murder of a mysterious unidentified boy 30 years ago. Whilst looking through old case files, you realise the dead kid looked exactly like your grandson. Then you get the call.
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