/u/jacob22c's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] One day a man stopped mid step. At first passerby thought he was a street artist,but after a time they began to worry. When they went to touch him their hands froze inches away from his skin with feeling only returning upon removal. They did not know it but this man had become frozen in time.
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[WP] After endless board meetings and fundraisers you are finally here 7 miles below the ocean surface in a first of it's kind deep sea submarine about to reach the bottom of the Mariana Trench. All the gauges read normal until the power flickers out and you hear something knocking on the top hatch.
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[WP] After years of being made fun of online a simple reply to one of your posts caught your attention. It simply said 2 words “prove it”, and that is what you did. After passing the exam you are now flying a plane over Antarctica and you can finally see it the ice wall and the edge of the world.
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[WP] After getting lost during a hike you happed upon the bottom of a cliff. Carved into the cliff itself you see an ancient temple, and upon your approach shockingly you can read the warning upon its massive doors "No one shall enter; for the old gods sleep and upon their wake the end shall come"
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[WP] You are a deaf sea captain that was just on the wrong end of a mutiny, and you now only have a few minutes left to convince your former crew that those half naked women singing to them from the rocks are not nice people.
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[WP] At dusk an army has settled outside of your city walls, and all hope seems to be lost. A lone emmesary rides to your gates and proclaims "We Surrender!!"
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[WP] The world watched as the first people stepped on mars, they were also the last. We believed our protocols would save us from any unknown threat that was a mistake. After surviving a millennium of heavy radiation clinging to a ship was the easy part. We thought Mars was our future we were naive.
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[WP] SpaceX has just docked with the international space station for the first time. All seemed fine while the cabins were equalizing but once the connector opens the SpaceX crew were meet with an empty cabin & an aged monitor replaying the same welcome message they had received just minutes earlier
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[WP] A decrepit old man lay upon his deathbed listening to the rain spatter against the window and the thunder crackle above. But from the darkness a middle aged woman steps forward her blonde graying hair reflecting in the moon light. She whispers Thor my son what has become of you.
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[WP] Humanity has finally found the cure for cancer. But by doing so it is soon discovered that by blocking cancers ability to cause cellular mutations our DNA can no longer merge during reproduction. Meaning that every child born will be genetically identical to either their mother or father.
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