/u/actually_crazy_irl's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP]: When dementia takes your ability to form new memories, the old ones start to bubble up more and more. You are a nurse who was paid exceptionally to take care of this old man, and it's starting to seem like he is not who they told you he is.
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[WP]: The first time you met your king he was in the park, wielding an umbrella like a sword, attempting to fight a particularly aggressive swan.
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[WP]: "Have you ever tried to get honey back out of porridge? No matter how well you scoop, there's going to be porridge mixed in it, and some will always be left. Reviving the dead is kind of like that. It's messy business, but I'm sure that what we'll pull back is going to be mostly him."
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[WP]: You begin working at a new daycare and someone there offhandedly mentions that one of the wilder kids has been raised by wolves. You think she's joking until at the end of the day, the whole pack comes to pick her up.
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[WP]: That creature that you always imagined running beside the car as a kid is still there, looking after you after all these years. They don't mind that you don't see them anymore.
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[WP]: There are three things whose power you should never underestimate: The hysteria of large crowds, the buildup of a thousand tiny changes, and an angry peacock cornered in the printer room
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[WP]: The most efficient mathematician can't tie her own shoes. An astonishing artist who can't be left alone for five minutes or he'll find some way to endanger himself. This is your job. For a living, you manage and employ geniuses who can't care for themselves.
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