/u/asburysouthpaw's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You and your three siblings are immortal, but you haven’t seen them in almost 400 years. You live far away from civilization, so it’s a surprise when a group of soldiers arrive at your doorstep. They say you’re the only one who can kill the three warlords who are revenging the rest of the world
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[WP] A generation after genetic engineering has allowed for children to be designed in the womb, all the “designer babies” are winning every sport, running the government, and saturating the media. That’s when their one genetic defect begins to show up.
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[WP] You can see 90 minutes into a persons future, so you get a job at a carnival and mostly see uneventful things. One day a little girl asks to see her future and suddenly you see the next 90 years including several wars - all fought over her.
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[WP] a famous mathematician is found dead years after he disappeared. When investigating the scene, you find equations scrawled on the walls and every formula’s answer written and circled: tomorrow’s date. Clutched in the dead man’s hand is a note that says “I couldn’t change the variables.”
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[WP] you live next door to a sweet single mother and her wheel-chair bound, severely mentally handicapped daughter. One day the daughter shows up at your front door walking on her own and speaking normally. She frantically asks for your help hiding from her mother.
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[WP] A mysterious, wealthy family that has hardly left their large estate in years all perishes in a fire that burns their enormous house to the ground. every family member’s body is accounted for. The only survivor is the youngest child: an infant who doesn’t have a scratch on her.
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[WP] You are part of the team of guardians who protect the last known library on earth. One day, a group of masked warriors mysteriously steal a single book. You’re assigned to retrieve it.
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[WP] It’s 1987, you’ve been tracking a serial killer for the last decade. The latest victim was left for dead and managed to scrawl five words in his own blood - “Elvis Presley is still alive.”
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