/u/Urbenmyth's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Somehow, the worst part of the apocalypse wasn't the death of billions, the destruction of cities, the extinction of countless species. Somehow, the worst thing is that all this devastation was caused by something so goddamn ridiculous.
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[WP] Look, you know how it sounds. But letting the brain slug infect you IS a really good idea and you REALLY don't regret it. It's not mind control! You'd know if the brain slug was mind controlling you, you really do just want everyone to get a brain slug!
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[WP] As a struggling artist, a muse of the gods descended to grant you inspiration. Now that story is a major media franchise, the muse is back. She's demanding 50% of profits as co-creator, and it's time to meet her in court.
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[WP] Ten years into the dark lord's reign of terror, there's no chosen one. No signs of a saviour from another world or a royal bloodline resurfacing, nothing. And as the wise mentor, you must resort to desperate measures. If you can't find a chosen one? You'll make your own.
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[WP] You seem like everyone else. Normal life, normal job, friends and family. But it's not true. Something else has been controlling your body for the last ten years, living this everyday life while you can only watch helplessly through your own eyes. Today, it finally let you go.
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[WP] Maybe the real horror is the everyday cruelties and injustices of society, the thousand petty evils we pass off as "just how the world works". Or maybe it's the pack of werewolves hunting you. Barricaded in your minimum wage workplace, you have a rare opportunity to compare!
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[WP] The noble knight hears of a princess kidnapped by a dragon for millennia, and he goes to save her. He slays the beast. But as the dragon dies, it speaks "I was the only thing powerful enough to keep her confined. You have no idea what horrors you have unleashed. Run."
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[WP] Looking over the chaos, the destruction and the madness, you sigh. You start to take witness statements, look for evidence, anything to finally solve this mystery. Where did he come from? Where did he go? Where did you come from, Cotton-Eyed Joe?
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[WP] Despite countless attempts, no-one knows the secret identity of the World's Greatest Superhero. As it turns out, not even the World's Greatest Superhero themself.
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