/u/bystander007's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You're a single parent on Christmas morning. Awake at 1:00 am putting presents under the tree. You're startled when a nine foot tall Utahraptor wearing the top half of a Santa outfit comes tumbling down your Chimney with a sack full of gifts hanging from its jaws.
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[WP] While fishing one day you accidentally hook a sword and pull it out of the lake. Admiring the weapon, a beautiful woman rushes to the surface and gasps at the sight of you holding the blade. "Shit. You're the king of Britain now." She says.
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[WP] You're the captain of a starship designed to seek out inhabited worlds and welcome them into an intergalactic alliance. Upon nearing such a planet you pick up a radio signal that your ship translates as one message playing on repeat, "Stay far. End us."
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[WP] You're just a everyday amateur occultist trying to summon a demon to help you exact some cold hard revenge on your enemies. Unfortunately something goes wrong and the demon you summon is just a child. Turns out even Hell has an AMBER Alert.
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[WP] You find a lost child and try to help them. After arriving at a police station you find it strange that they don't trust anyone else and throw a tantrum whenever you try to leave. Then two men in black suits arrive and inform you the child isn't human. And that it thinks you're its new mother.
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[WP] Celtic folklore tells that the Ankou, watcher of graveyards and collector of souls, is the last person of a parish to die in the year. So for the next 365 days they must call to dead as henchmen of death. You just died on December 31st. A weary looking man tells you "Good luck." and vanishes.
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[WP] Everyone has a karma rating ranging from 0 to 1,000,000. We all start at 2,500 and good/bad deeds raise or lower it. At 1,000,000 you ascend to nirvana. At 0 you vanish. You've been in the negative for 3 years and still haven't vanished.
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[WP] Humanity had discovered the existence of an afterlife beyond their comprehension. Death, realizing he no longer has to hide in the shadows, starts a game show for the recently deceased that gives them a second chance at life if they win. Sponsored, produced, and created by Nickelodeon.
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[WP] You're approached by a Djinn that offers small wishes in exchange for honest answers to its questions, such as what your name is. As you ask for more wishes the questions begin to trouble you as the consequences of your desires begin to show.
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