/u/goawayplease_'s posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Time slows down every time you are in danger. The more serious the danger is, the more time you have to save yourself. During one terrible car accident, you had almost a minute to react. And now, time has almost completely stopped for a whole month, and you don’t know why.
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[WP] Your life is successful, but one day you receive a package with a letter attached to it. The note on the package says to look inside. You find a pistol, but as you look at the back of the note, you see words written in a hurry 'only you can see the gun.' Suddenly you hear the doorbell ring.
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[WP] A story the first sentence of which contains twenty words, the next one nineteen, and so on in descending order. There is only one word in the last sentence.
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[WP] You are the park ranger, and today is your first day at work. Your partner gives you the last instructions before the start of your joint shift, "if you find yourself in a forest zone and hear a woman scream, never go there."
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[WP] A hooded man gives you a scythe and says, ‘I can’t stand it anymore. Now it's your job.’ You believe that you have become Death with a scythe, but after the harvest it turns out that it was just a gardener. The police are looking for you.
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[WP] You buy a camera at a pawnshop. The camera shows everything that you photograph as it was ten years ago. Thus, you photograph your old dog and see him as a puppy in the picture. Fun lasts until you decide to take a picture of your bedroom.
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[WP] Chilling with your friend, you hear strange sounds outside. Wondering what they were, you see your friend start crying. "It's them..." He whispers to you, sobbing. Suddenly, you hear someone knock on the window.
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[WP] You tell your friend a story, he doubts its veracity. You explain: no story can be told without exaggeration or fiction. Next day, bus stop. An old man approaches you and tells a story you're sure is fictional. He turns around, dissolves into the crowd. You realise your phone has disappeared.
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