/u/abominableunbannable's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Your family's pub has played host to off-duty mall Santas every year. One especially jolly regular always shows up for an hour on Christmas Eve, pays generous tips and never breaks character. The only problem is that you have seen him do this seventy years in a row.
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[WP] Your family is the most prestigious and successful line of vampire hunters in the world, keeping everyone safe from the shadows. Nobody realizes that you are in fact vampires using your position to strike down competition and maintain supremecy over your own kind.
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[WP] Nobody knows why ensigns Blorgak and Smith are such good friends. They are both the only members of their respective species on the station, but they don't have much in common-although they do seem to be the only ones who know what something called "fishing" is.
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[WP] It is 1914. You just botched your assassination attempt on the Archduke and make your way to a cafe to collect yourself. A strange man sits across from you, holding a gun under the table. "I know what you will do, Princip, now allow me to tell of the century of consequences to follow."
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[WP] A hundred years ago humanity managed to fight off the alien invaders and sabotage hyperspace travel in a thousand lightyear radius of Earth. The distruption has finally subsided, and we are prepared.
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[WP] Any time you look into a person's eyes you see their soul and instantly know of all their crimes and acts of evil. You have become a world-renowned detective but you haven't looked into a mirror in decades- you know what you will see and cannot bear to be reminded of it.
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[WP] A mission to the moon in the 2030's finds a primitive spacecraft, a skeleton, a british flag and a note reading "I hereby claim this land in the name of Queen Victoria." Due to a technicality in international law the UK royal family now owns the moon.
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[WP] A superhero returns after a years-long mission in space to find that his arch-nemesis has killed the league of heroes and declared himself dictator of Earth. Surprisingly he is actually doing a really good job and has created a utopian society with no crime or poverty and a 90% approval rating.
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[WP] in a world where magic is commonplace and wizardry is taught in schools the Magical Inquisition hunts down those dangerous fools who practice science and utilize advanced dark technology.
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