/u/[deleted]'s posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP]: You invent a time travel machine by which you can only go into the past but cannot affect past events. You are invisible to the inhabitants of the past. Being an amateur historian, you decide to fill in the gaps of historical scholarship. What you find shocks, interests and amuses you.
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[WP] You summon the most powerful and notorious demonic being in the universe. The reason why you summoned it: You are lonely, and are in need of a friend.
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[EU] Responding to a Bat Signal, the Dark Knight finds a small adolescent having ramshackled together a signal using their flashlight. They take out a folder and all the money they have, to hire the only detective left in Gotham who might take up their case for them.
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[WP] You’ve become a ghost and have decided to spy on a little child and then haunt him to freak out his parents. The only thing is that his parents are abusive and you decide to protect him.
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[WP] It is now possible to buy superpowers, but the cooler the superpower the more expensive it is. You are a salesman trying to sell cheap/discount superpowers.
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[WP] You work at a superhero themed restaurant. The staff are divided into two teams- heroes and villains. Heroes are loved by the customers while villains are scorned. You’ve had enough of heroic kids shooting spitballs at you and decide to take your job and role a bit more seriously.
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Aliens visit Earth, in search of an intense narcotic for their species: sodium chloride. To their shock, salt is so common on Earth that the planet becomes a haven for alien junkies and addicts. [WP]
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[WP] "Do you have any last words before I kill you?" snarled the demon. That was 33 years ago and I've not said a word since yet it still shadows me, waiting.
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