/u/derbydannyk's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You turn on the news one morning and the networks are all reporting the same thing. The conspiracy theories are true - all of them.
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[WP] The island has been home to only you and your father for as long as you can remember. The night before your 18th birthday he tells you that they’re coming to take you away tomorrow, but this is his prison and he can never leave.
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[WP] Every medical professional considers you to be the finest surgeon in the world. You aren’t particularly skilled at what you do, but being able to operate in fourth dimensional space makes even the most complex procedures trivial.
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[WP] It’s been 5 years since the accident turned you into an insect. Now you’re living life as the “fly on the wall” and you’ve heard some weird shit.
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[WP] Desperate to experience what the future will bring, you spend your fortune to construct a working stasis pod. You emerge for one week each century to take in the sights and see what humanity has achieved since you last woke.
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[WP] Your mind reading abilities work flawlessly, but only half the time. The other half of the time the reading is completely wrong and you have no way to tell which it is. Telepaths are incredibly rare however, and your services are always in demand.
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[WP] While sitting at a restaurant you notice a man at the table next to you on a FaceTime video call with a young boy no more than 7 who is happily calling him daddy. You've never seen the man before, but you instantly recognize the boy as your son.
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[WP] Meet Larry Lebowitz, the best contract attorney in history. For those who can afford him he'll negotiate your way out of any contract, even with the Devil. His services don't come cheap and he's never offered a discount before, yet for some reason he's taking his next case pro bono.
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[WP] Everyone is born with the innate ability to stop time for five minutes. Very few people ever use this power because the stress it causes on the body leads to death in 24 hours. You never even considered using it, until now.
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