/u/aescolanus's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] As an edgy atheist teenager, Mike 'bought' the souls of his best friends. Fifty years later, they've changed, lost touch, drifted apart. Then Mike wakes up in Hell with a retinue...
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[WP] "To Serve Man" is *not* a cookbook. Thanks to your mistakes in translation, though, Earth thinks it is. Your publishing house has sent you to Earth to prevent the approaching diplomatic crisis and explain yourself to eight billion very angry humans
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[WP] All over the world, human artifacts and fossils of modern animals are appearing in Mesozoic strata. The Theory of Evolution is under attack - by creationists with time machines.
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[WP] Your best friend is a serial killer on death row. Your plan to save him: become a copycat serial killer so dangerous that the desperate police offer your friend clemency to help profile and catch you
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[WP] I Was The Dark Lord's Greatest General, But I Was Reincarnated As The Son Of The Hero Who Defeated Him... But Now He's An Alcoholic NEET?
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[WP] At the end of the world, its sole immortal travels through time to the beginning, living through its history again along with tens of thousands of her past and future selves. This is what she found worth dying for.
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[WP] Smell is the sense most strongly tied to memory. Your MC passes a person on the street, and their perfume makes them remember something they'd forgotten long ago
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[WP] After the galaxy-wide success of "To Serve Man", human beings have become critically endangered - and very, very good at concealment and self-defense. As the Galaxy's finest chef, you've taken it on yourself to track down an ingredient not seen in a hundred years: a live human infant.
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[WP] A vicious, incurable plague has destroyed your people, killing most and leaving survivors sterile. As your companions fell one by one, you finally discovered the genocidal plot behind the spread of the disease. You are the Last Mosquito, and you have sworn vengeance on mankind
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