/u/fague_doctor's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] The last living human decides to document all they can about human existence on planet earth for the next civilization to find. They travel the desolate world, taking hundreds of photographs and writing dozens of journals. Centuries later, their work is at last not in vain.
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[WP] Decades of war have left planet earth so barren alien scientists don't have a lot to work with. After years of searching, they have found their first proof of life on Earth. A yellow, rubber duck buried deep underground.
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[WP] The oxygen in your ship is running out. The ship's AI recieves one last directive: to comfort you during your last moments of life.
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[WP] There are insect-like creatures in the forest that climb inside abandoned armor and grow inside of it, not unlike hermit crabs. The rest of your village fears them, but you, the blacksmith, have found a decently profitable business in trading with them.
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[WP] Though your tribe is sedentary, you lust for adventure. You seek the abandoned ruins of a fallen civilization, hidden among dense forests beyond the plains. The elders warn you of the perilous journey, but you do not care. You will find the last city of human civilization, the concrete jungle.
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[WP] In a dream, you appear in a lush garden tended by a young woman who notices you before the dream ends. The next day you go visit your mother at the elderly house, when you notice an old lady wheelchair-bound, staring at you in horror. "It's you!" she yells repeatedly before being wheeled away.
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[WP] A gigantic space faring creature approaches our planet. Revealed to be passive in nature, scientists attempt to establish communication. The only words we could decipher from the colossus was a request for mankind to "kindly get off its egg. The time of hatching draws near."
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[WP] The quiet island you live in is actually the sedimented back of a massive crustacean creature in hybernation. You discover this the hard way when you attempt digging a well.
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[WP] An alternate reality where Gregor Mendel is starting to realize that with every generation of pea plants he breeds, they gain just a very tiny bit of sentience.
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[WP] In the galactic compendium, Bio-planets sit among some of the most rare universal phenomena. At their core, enormous hearts beat sending oceans of blood across their unimaginably immense veins, their surfaces thousands of kilometers of hard bone. Humanity still can't answer how they feed.
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