/u/dont-mention-it's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] As an alien force tries to damage us by introducing a native weed to Earth, they inadvertently gave us a source of food. When we retaliated with nukes, we inadvertently helped heal their wounded thanks to the radiation.
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[WP] You’re a sociopathic mass murderer who has never felt any remorse for the countless deaths you’ve committed. After you were finally caught, you were given an experimental drug that gave you empathy, and all your deeds come rushing to your mind.
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[WP] There is an afterlife, but anyone with unfinished business first becomes a ghost and must finish said business before passing on. When the apocalypse came and destroyed the Earth, many people became ghosts with no way to finish their business.
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[WP] After discovering someone asleep in some kind of machine, you send a message into their dream telling them they’re asleep and that they need to wake up. They send a message back that says they’re well aware that they’re asleep, and that they don’t want to wake up.
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[WP] “We’ve arrived in a solar system with 9 planets, 5 solid and 4 gaseous. One planet is too far away from the Sun and 2 are too close. One planet is covered in toxic oxygen and seems to be inhabited by plants. The last one seems to have had a civilization, but all that’s left are some robots.
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[WP] A group of dads get away from home for a weekend and go curling for fun. By the end of the week they end up in the olympics representing their country in curling.
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[WP] You have the ability to stop time and move around to wherever you want to go. However, while using this ability you constantly notice various figures just outside you field of vision, and from what you recall of their shapes they’re definitely not human.
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[EU] Recently in the land of Agrabah, Iago passed away. Assuming Jafar would be saddened by this, the sultan brought in a man with a from Venice with the same name hoping he could make a suitable replacement.
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