/u/elheber's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You're excited to visit the set of the movie based on the life of someone you know, but then you meet the actor portraying you.
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[WP] Aliens arrive to Earth to meet with the leader of humanity, but they mistakenly land at the ramshackle doorstep of some random bumpkin, to the abject horror of everyone watching over live TV. "Leader of humanity?" He scratches his belly. "Sure, yeah that's me."
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[WP] Once humanity mastered bioengineering, there was no reason to make anything out of concrete and metal. Buildings are made out of self-repairing fleshy material. Pipes and sewers are arterial. Large esophageal tubes are used for public transport. However, people have started going missing.
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[WP] All drugs have been legalized, but for some unstated reason avocados have been made highly illegal. "You got the stuff?" A briefcase opens.
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[WP] Just before the revealing climax of a compelling thriller, the narrator gets bored of his own story and begins drifting into a completely different topic.
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[CW] Without using the word "I", write a first-person short about awakening on a desolate ship/transport/tanker.
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[WP] Every badass action team has the one comedic relief character. This badass action team, however, is nearly ALL comedic relief, and the only serious hero of the bunch has absolutely had it!
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[WP] After unwittingly traveling hundreds of years into the past, you discover you can time travel to either when an object you're touching is created or when it is destroyed. Now you're just trying to get back to your original time without overshooting again.
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[WP] Several individuals immune to a time-stopping relic are in a secret, longstanding war to control it. You were fatally stabbed in a confrontation; but since bodily fluids freeze in time when it exits the body, you're still alive... for now. Hopefully time doesn't restart soon.
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