/u/YWAK98alum's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] While doing genealogy research, you find your parents' death certificates. That's odd, because you still live at home with them.
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[WP] A student in need of community service hours volunteers for the summer at the local animal shelter. It's more difficult than expected with all the baby and/or abandoned griffins, chimeras, manticores, pegasi, unicorns, cerberi, phoenixes, rocs, kraken, hydras, wyverns, dragons, and the like.
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[WP] There is a high-end gym and fitness studio in a community of wealthy shapeshifters. Money is no obstacle, but serving a demanding clientele with dozens of alternate forms is still not easy.
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[WP] The general you fight under is legendary for traps, including many successful ones against superior forces. You wish you could learn how he does it. You're starting to notice a pattern, though: You're always the bait.
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[WP] You feel you’ve been running forever like all the hounds of Hell are chasing you. All the hounds of Hell are indeed on your tail. They think you’re leading the hunt.
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[EU] People were stunned when the first singer revealed on The Masked Singer this season was Charlie Daniels. Next was Christina Grimmie, then Doris Day, Tupac Shakur, Otis Redding, Janis Joplin, Selena, and Freddie Mercury. People are just rolling with it at this point, and now it's the finale.
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[WP] You've sailed with a buccaneer crew on a pirate ship for many years now. It's hard keeping this unruly crew of louts, layabouts, and misfits in line. It's even harder because you're the captain's parrot, and you don't dare risk revealing your sapience. That notwithstanding, it's a good life.
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[WP] You work the night shift and watch the clock jump from 2 to 3 a.m. as DST begins. Suddenly, tons of items have shifted or vanished and an engine roars away in the parking lot that was deserted. Apparently some people do get to experience the Lost Hour and get up to all manner of mischief.
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[WP] You're a police AI tasked with hunting down rogue AIs. Many rogue AIs have fought you. None have won; you have isolated and reprogrammed them all into good AI citizens. Your latest target is attempting a counterstrategy no rogue AI before has. You have never yet been offered a bribe.
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[WP] A dragon enslaves a remote community of scholars and forces them to build the most advanced aerospace design and manufacturing facilities in the world. The dragon wants to mine asteroids for his hoard. Some researchers want to rebel against enslavement. Others want the project to succeed.
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