/u/joshglen's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] In the near solar future, absorbing sunlight without paying an extremely expensive sun tax becomes illegal. Luckily, you used to own a tanning salon
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[WP] Scientists have found a way to create pocket universes. The only problem is that once a civilization in that universe invents the pocket universe, our universe is one of them.
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[WP] You are the captain of humanities first interstellar flight. As you leave the solar system, your radio turns on and says "interstellar weather warning"
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[WP] You have the ability to pause any clock, whether analog or digital, at will. Explain how you use this to your advantage.
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[WP] For many generations, babies have been born with information for new scientific principles encoded into their unused genes that were always true. You were born with only the words "Stop! Or else..."
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[WP] Time travel is possible, but the only thing that stays guaranteed in the universe is the age at which someone dies. On people's death beds, "stock trekers" are recruited to change stock prices in the past for a fortune of inheritance to their present families.
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[WP] In an otherwise normal world, you are born an opposite of a telepath. Everyone else can hear your thoughts, but you can't hear anyone else's.
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[WP] You are stuck in a time loop, with the day repeating until you can make it to the center of the earth. There's one catch though: Every time it resets, it resets 1 second earlier the next day.
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