/u/TrustyGun's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You are a retired super heroine. Your son has recently gained superpowers and secretly moonlights as a super hero. He sucks at lying, though, so you've known since the beginning.
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[WP] Traveling between star systems looting abandoned ships and wrecks can certainly be tiring, but it's a living. During one such scavenging session you happen to stumble upon a child suspended in cyro-sleep, alone.
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[WP] The reason we cannot find any aliens is because they all died. The strangest thing is that they all died at the same time, in the same way.
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[WP] After a young child kills in self defense, they realize they have an unmatched passion for murder.
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[WP] As everyone else sleeps in their cyropods for the centuries long trip, you are periodically woken up every five years to perform routine maintenance. The most important rule is to never wake anyone else up; but as the loneliness gets to you, you begin to reconsider...
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[WP] Humanity's first contact event couldn't be more awkward. Turns out owning pets is a major faux pas in the galaxy. It does not help that our pets appear to be primitive versions of sapient alien life.
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[WP] In the future, education as we know it is long gone. Instead, people immediately learn and gain experience in new fields by having memories uploaded to them via Memory Drives. For some reason, you have decided to do things the old-fashioned way, which confuses everyone you meet.
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[IP][CW] The planet in the picture depicted is Earth. Aliens found it. Never refer to the planet as Earth, or the sun as The Sun.
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