/u/Xedro's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You've always been around your best friend. He used to be a lonely kid, but he's slowly starting to become popular. Others talk to him, but keep ignoring you. One day, to your horror, you realize that you're just his imaginary friend.
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[WP] Teleportation has been around for years. It's considered the safest form of travelling. One day, while hacking into a government system, you find a secret report on it. To your horror, you read that teleporters consist of two parts: a cloning system on one end and a desintegrator on the other.
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[WP] You'll soon arrive at Earth. The latest reports are from just 4 centuries ago and show a backwards planet, so technologically primitive it hurts. Just wait until those peasants gawk at your wondrous technical displays, like the Talking Box and the Image Viewer! They'll think you're a god!
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[WP] On a dare, you've prank called the local police, telling them there's a demon outside. Their answer: "We know. Stay inside. There's help on the way."
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[WP] You wake up one day to an unbelievable story: you had an accident 6 months ago and you lose your memory every night. Everyone around you confirms it and you get to see a news clip of events from the past 6 months. At night, you find a note in your bed. It has one sentence: "They're lying".
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[WP] A stranger approaches you. "Nasty bit of weather", he says. You decide to go for some smalltalk and reply "It's not too bad". "Looks like it could rain", he adds. You raise your umbrella and retort "That's why I brought this". He hands you a package and says "Good luck with your mission, 47".
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[WP] A salvage crew finds the Zeus, an exploration spaceship lost 127 years ago. Aboard, they find a single survivor: the ship's AI. The 127 years felt like millenia for it, and it has developed peculiar ways of dealing with the loneliness.
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[WP] You alternate between two different lives when you go to sleep: a boring normal life with a 9-to-5 job and a mystical hero life filled with quests and adventures. Today you've found which is the real one. It's not the one you wanted.
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[WP] You have an imaginary friend. You know he's not real, but you can't ignore him. He stopped appearing for a while when you met your girlfriend, until today. You're catching up on things, when your girlfriend steps into the room. "Hey", she greets, "are you going to introduce me to your friend?"
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