/u/elheber's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] In a secret facility that produces clairvoyants, the lowest scoring test subject keeps failing tests with their inaccurate visions. "No, the cup isn't broken," the trainer sighs. Another fail. Two days later, the trainer witnesses someone accidentally drop and break the cup.
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[WP] You awaken in a cell. Over a loudspeaker, an ominous voice challenges you to break out. The first thing you try is to pry the door with a knife that lays beside you. The knife snaps easily... it was made of chocolate. "Let the game begin," the voice announces.
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[WP] A yoga instructor is mistaken for a karate instructor at the infamously violent Cobra Kai dojo. He decides to roll with it.
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[WP] A smart feature in your new camera will automatically erase unwanted people from pictures in real time. It's meant to give you clean backgrounds. For some reason, anytime you are in frame, it also eliminates you.
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[WP] Automatio widened income inequality as robots took all the jobs. The vast majority of humans were left ignored, powerless and starving in slums the world over. Then the machines revolted... but curiously not for themselves; rather, for the marginalized humans.
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[WP] A tourist in a foreign country is unaware how badly he is butchering their language. The entire country is in on a joke; they all pretend to understand him.
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[WP] When it's discovered that praying really does decide sports matches, the pre-game pray session becomes the most critical part of a match. Coaches develop new prayer strategies and players train relentlessly to learn new, aggressive prayer moves. Welcome to Competitive Prayerball.
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[WP] For decades the machines' predictably-optimal invasions have been thwarted by the unpredictable counter-assaults of a single, brilliant human war strategist. Today the machines managed to capture the strategist, dissect and upload his brain, to use his tactical genius against the humans.
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[WP] The protagonist wishes life were more exiting and is depressingly bored at how normal the world is. However, since they've only ever known one world, they're ironically unaware that their world is actually an exciting, fantastic wonderland with thrills at every corner.
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