/u/UndeadBurgScrub's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You are a hitman who has just finished their most recent job. Or, at least, thought had finished, because the second you take your eyes off your target’s corpse, you hear “Hey, not bad! I actually felt that one.”
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[WP] You have been born with the ability to see and make sense of UV light. One day, on a crowded street, you lock eyes with an extremely tall man in strange clothes. When you notice that people move through him rather than around him, he starts running towards you.
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[WP] You were born with the ability to see the number of lives a person has taken. Even legendary soldiers and serial killers rarely make it to triple digits. The person you just met has a lot more than three digits above their head, though.
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[WP] 100 years after the end of civilization, survivor groups have become tribes. As the tribes interact with one another, a startling truth is laid bare: each group has recorded a different, disparate apocalypse as the one that destroyed the last world.
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[WP] Biological immortality has been discovered, but comes at a cost: every year spent awake must be rebalanced by a 10-year sleep. Upon waking, you notice that there is nobody there, and that the facilities you were resting in look like they have aged much, much longer than 10 years.
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[WP] You are an experienced firefighter. This call is completely outside your experience, though: for one, the fire is black.
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[WP] You die, and wake up in front of the gates of Heaven. The first three things you notice are the “Do Not Disturb” sign slung over the top, the sound of the ajar gate creaking, and how utterly alone you are.
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[WP] As humanity travels the galaxy, a strange discovery is made: humans are inhabiting most star systems.
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