/u/joshglen's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] For many years, humans have been sent to try to turn off a self-replicating super computer that is getting out of hand. Every time someone goes in, they leave completely unharmed, but convinced by the perfect argument, that it should not be turned off. You decide to go in and try it yourself.
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[WP] The reason Aliens can't contact humans is because they live in a time frame that goes at the speed of light. They are born, breath, move, fly, and think in less than a microsecond. We appear to be standing still to them.
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[WP] You have a magical plant. Every time you make an important decision correctly, it grows a branch, but every time you make one incorrectly, it grows a root. One day, you wake up to find that its branches have doubled.
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[WP] You have the ability to do anything, but only when you are extremely bored. The government recruits you, and your job is to sit in a blank white room for hours until your powers gather enough strength to help.
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[WP] In a world of superpowers, you have a rather mundane one: You can unlock anything by pointing finger guns at it. The government decides to recruit you.
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[WP] You, a time traveler, are sent back with one mission: to break the heart of the aspiring scientist that will end up creating time travel in his despair.
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[WP] At birth, each person is given a sapling in a pot. It grows with you, and if it dies, you die too (and vice versa). One day you wake up and see that you have 2 young trees in the pot instead of 1 old one.
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[WP] Ever since the beginning of time, there has been a briefcase the dictates the outcomes of wars. It only has the words "Do Not Open" written on it. The side in possession of it always wins. You are entrusted with it, and one day you trip and fall, opening the briefcase.
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