/u/WorldOfSilver's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] A brave and noble superhero with laughably situational superpowers suddenly gains newfound respect as his city is plagued by disasters that are a perfect fit for him. Little does he know it's his own genius daughter, who's sick of nobody seeing her dad for the hero he is.
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[WP] Your front door hasn't led to your front yard in months. It leads to an office bathroom in Zimbabwe. And that's how every door in the world works now. Walls don't break, windows don't open, and you're in the middle of The Great Indoor Desert, where no door leads outside for 500 miles.
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[EU] Back when the Statute of Secrecy was first enacted, the Wizarding World had to sort every species on Earth to determine which were magical and had to be hidden, and which could be explained by science. Unfortunately, wizards know next to nothing about science. ...There were several mistakes.
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[WP] It's a crime thriller revolving around a man with multiple personalities. But it's not the villain. It's the operative hunting him down, and every personality is an expert in a different field.
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[WP] You are a member of a precursor alien race that's been watching and recording humanity for entertainment for the last 200,000 years, and you're trying to sum up the whole series thus far to get your friend, who's super wary of the number of episodes, to watch it.
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[WP] You live on a planet where a day lasts a whole year. Your life is a constant journey westward to flee the rising sun and stay inside the planet's constantly-shifting habitable zone.
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[WP] In the year 2020, infamous immortal criminal mastermind Cypher Grey was sentenced to life in prison without parole. It is now the year four billion, Earth has been evacuated, and Cypher is awaiting transport to a new prison in a new galaxy. But Cypher has been playing a very, very long game.
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[WP] Your child asks you to write your own Christmas list for Santa. Bitterly, you write "To have a word with my worthless father who walked out on me when I was 6". That Christmas, you investigate a noise downstairs and see Santa himself. "Hello, my son. I'm sorry. I know it's been a long time."
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[WP] You're a professional excuse-maker for people living double lives. Superheroes, werewolves and teenage superspies are everywhere, and you make your living making sure their mysterious disappearances and unexplainable antics don't ruin their social lives.
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[WP] There was a car crash a month ago. You survived, but one of your parents didn't. The weird thing is... the one that died keeps changing. You live between two parallel universes, living each day twice, once in each timeline. Yesterday you went to your mom's funeral. Today you go to your dad's.
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