/u/joshglen's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You take your dog for a half hour walk around the neighborhood. When you come back where your house should be, you see that it looks like an empty plot of land, and two men with sunglasses and tuxedos say that "You shouldn't have come back here so soon, son."
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[WP] The world is divided into two classes: The rich who can afford the SleepStop, a method of stopping time while sleeping and giving your day an additional 8 hours of productivity, and the poor who can't
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[WP] Everyone has magical powers, but only discover them 3 seconds before they die. Your power is immortality.
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[WP] There exists a city in which people's gender switches daily when they are in it. Only, they and everyone else have no idea, and history always rewrites itself to compensate. You begin to feel that something fishy is going on.
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[WP] Every time you make a bad decision, you get a marble in your pocket. For 500 of these, you can change your past decisions and have the consequences carry forward. You make bad decisions all the time in hopes that you will be able to mold your life later on.
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[WP] You are trained to stop an assassin from killing important historical figures that contributed to the advancement of science. However, one day, you were unsuccessful. Write about the scientist and how the modern world would be now if they were still alive.
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[WP] You, a regular human, are sent to infect and cull a population of overpopulated immortals who only stay alive because there are no natural diseases.
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[WP] You can seemingly travel through time, but only when viewed through a doorway. As a traveling salesman, this has led to some interesting interactions with potential clients.
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[WP] One day, while you are feeding ducks at your local duck pond, a person in what appears to be a time machine appears. They snatch a seemingly random duck, and after saying "you saw nothing" depart back to their time with the duck in their arms. Write a story about the importance of that duck.
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