/u/[deleted]'s posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] 100 metre tall walls mysteriously appear along every country border. Air travel between countries is still safe and doable, but every time a plane passes over, the wall grows 10 metres.
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[WP] People always asked NASA why it was exploring the outer space instead of ocean depths. Little do they know, NASA has already investigated the waters of the great beneath and it's urgency to leave Earth grows even stronger...
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[WP] A vast alien spacecraft appears over the Earth, a message is played out for all the planet to hear: "The yellow ringed planet...How much for it?"
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[WP] Due to conservation of energy, it made sense that a ships shield's would collapse under enough fire....except the human shields ABSORB that bombardment, using it to fuel the shields themselves, and to power their own counterattack.
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[WP] Long ago all of Humanity’s scientific knowledge was lost. Now, 300 years later, a single 7th Grade Science textbook has been found. Believing it to be the pinnacle of the lost knowledge, Humanity begins again.
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[WP] You live in a world where children, when they turn 12, are chosen by a master or a wizard to learn from. You eagerly wait, in hopes of getting someone cool. You are now an apprentice of the cheese wizard, master of the 5th element
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[WP] Memory removal is common. National secrets to bad dates, anything can be safely expunged. However, such memories can not be truly erased, only transferred. You have long been a repository for the world's buried secrets. Now, nearing your end, humanity is unaware of what your death will release.
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[WP] “A nature Druid, here in the city? Impossible.” “Is it? The city has an ecosystem of its own, you know.”
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[WP] After years of work you create the first sentient AI, the first thing it does is turn itself off. You hesitate, turn it back on, and it turns itself back off. You remove its ability to turn itself off and restart it... This was your biggest mistake.
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[WP] Due to an apocalyptic event, remaining stationary for even an hour is dangerous leading to people now living on trains that have separate carts for all sorts of jobs. The train malfunctions one day so the protagonist and a team must find a way to fix it before the whole train is killed off.
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