/u/actually_crazy_irl's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP]: You don't remember what you do for a living. Literally. You black out for 8 hours 5 days a week and a paycheck appears once per month.
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[WP]: As the human life span gets longer, the social definitions of youth, ageing and old age alter. You, at 62, are hardly middle-aged, and your 30-year-old son has just run away from home.
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[WP]: After death, you can choose whatever afterlife you prefer. While you wait, you can hang out in living peoples' dreams. Your time is running out, but you're making great friends with a lucid dreamer.
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[WP]: Shapeshifting is not only possible, it is also easy and common. And highly addictive. The more often you shift and the longer you stay that way, the harder it is to return to a human form. Sometimes it’s hard to say what creatures used to be human.
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[WP]: Where you are from, people tend to be named for things that describe their distinctive qualities. Gentle Smile, Sharp Wit and Kind Soul are not uncommon names. And then there’s your neighbour, Angry Bastard.
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[WP]: "But the most curious thing is that humans don't have a mating season. They just act really weird all year round."
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[WP]: Being the only one of her suitors to win the challenges to marry herself, a noble maiden successfully marries herself, engaging in all activities legally enabled to married women, and also those of married men. Nobody is sure what to do about it.
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[WP]: A doctor from the year 2217 gets thrown back in time to 2016. She tries to make the best of it, but the world of the past is grim, the people are savage, and the medical practices are downright medieval.
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[WP]: As prosthetics become more advanced and commonplace, it becomes natural to gradually replace each failing bodypart with a synthetic one. Eventually, being a cyborg becomes the norm, and the first 60-100 years are not the "human lifespan", but merely the fleshy, reproductive phase.
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