/u/[deleted]'s posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] you are sent to Hell. you are informed you aren't here to be punished--you ARE the punishment. you sigh in relief and grin. who will it be? one of your exes? that bully from high school ? your stomach goes cold when you see you are the eternal torment for the person you loved most in life.
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[WP] You are a software developer with a strange power. You can tell what the cost of a line of code is. Normally the cost is measured in cpu cycles, or bytes of RAM, or hours of future maintenance. Today it's measured in lives lost.
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[EU] "Hogwarts is delighted to be at the forefront of history yet again. We have a lot to share with the muggle world and would love to start our tour..." "With all due respect Headmaster, the Equality and Human Rights Commission is much more interested in these...what you call... 'house elves'".
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[WP] You’re an ancient human living a nomadic life with your tribe in mesopotamia. One day you see a metallic object lodged into a tree and bring it to your tribe. The tribe elder takes it and sighs to himself, ‘production needs to do a better job of hiding the cameras.’
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[WP] Humanity is a glitch in the system, life on earth was supposed to develop into a bio-computing node for a galaxy spanning computing network. You are the repairman sent to find out what went wrong.
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[WP] The North Korean government discovered an ancient, unspeakable Lovecraftian horror in the 60s. Knowing nobody would believe it, the Kim dynasty agree to destroy it by baiting the USA into wiping them off the map.
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[WP] A strangely passive dragon has sat on the top of their tower for decades, undisturbed by the surrounding peoples, as they are afraid to anger the beast. One day, a knight approaches the dragon. The knight says, "Need help getting down?" The dragon replies, "Please."
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[WP] One day, in an industrial accident, fire is found to have a new use. One we would have never expected. NSFW
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[WP] All alien species are very sympathetic and kind towards each other, that's because they can feel the pain they inflicted upon one another. When they contacted humans, they're horrified to see our history and what we can do to other humans.
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[WP] The lone survivor of an Arctic exploration, you were captured generations ago by a band of tiny warriors. They’ve placed you under an enchantment to do their bidding; heading out into the world once each year as their unwilling emissary. They call you “slave,” or in their tongue, “Santa.”
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