/u/josiahstick's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
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[WP] It's commonly believed that the coroner is a lonely man. But that's not quite true. Actually, he needs no friends because he gets such great conversations out of the ghosts of the bodies he examines.
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[WP] "Okay... So how do I get back to the past from here?" "You walk." "Just walk?" "Yep." "Is it a long walk?" "Oh, yeah..."
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[WP] I can switch bodies with others at will. Came in handy for a while, but then one day I lost track of my original body and swapped with a third person, displacing their soul into the second body. Now I've changed bodies hundreds of times and no one knows whose body is whose anymore.
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[WP] Well, the sun is going to explode someday soon. Time to find a new planet, right? But I, and millions of others, can't afford to leave. We're just going to have to enjoy our last days on Earth while we can...
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[WP] "Okay, we've got two options. Either decide how to split up the inheritance ourselves, or use the inheritance to pay a PI to find Gramps' will so we can find out how he wanted us to split the inheritance." Either way, I know it's gonna be a long week.
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[WP] Every few hundred years, superheroes grow so strong that they're invincible, supervillains stop trying, and the heroes get other jobs since fighting villains is no longer needed. But then they get weaker, villains rise again, superheroes reemerge, fight, get stronger, and the cycle continues.
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[WP] What we call science is actually source code written by God because he couldn't be bothered to run things manually. Every extinction, natural disaster, or environmental problem is a result of bugs in the code. After millennia of letting it automate, God sits down and finally fixes all the bugs.
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