/u/jpeezey's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You're a great demon that people can summon. In exchange for a percentage of their soul, you must perform any favor they ask. Usually they ask for wealth or forbidden love or for someone to be killed. This one guy, however, keeps summoning you just to clip his toenails for him.
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[WP] You are what you eat. When people reach adulthood, they must choose a food and eat only that. Their bodies will adopt certain characteristics of the animal or plant they consume. You are cornered in an alleyway by a person who has only human characteristics.
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[WP] You already had everything you wanted from your first two wishes, so you used your third to free the genie from his lamp. The resulting burst of magical energy destroyed the area like nuke. You wake up 3 weeks later with the ability to wield magic, but the world is in apocalyptic shambles.
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[WP] You were cursed to have a portal to another dimension in your throat. Even though you starve, you cannot eat, and even though you speak, no sound gets passed the portal. The curse keeps you alive, but miserable. Luckily, you've found some joy being a mute sword-swallower for a traveling fair.
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[WP] There is a serial killer who believes he is the embodiment of death. You are investigating the case, trying to track him down. Oddly enough, family and friends of his victims never seen too distraught; this killer is only taking the lives of those already close to death, or in great pain.
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[WP] A solar flare strikes the Earth, glassing the planet and annihilating humans. Aliens come upon Earth and begin mining the surface for 'sunglass,' an almost indestructible material, but certain pieces of sunglass contain imprints of human minds, causing things created with it to gain sentience.
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[WP] You've just turned 16, and it's time to head out into the wilderness, alone, to merge with your spirit animal. Most kids find a dog, bird, or something mundane. The lucky find a bear, wolf, or eagle on their journey. But the animal you find isn't something you've ever seen or heard of before.
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[WP] All of your characters are annoyed with you. They know you are the author, and they don't appreciate you constantly causing conflict in their lives. Despite that, they must dance to the tune of your creative whims, but they do slip in a few attitude-filled fourth wall breaks where they can.
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[WP] Mother Nature was fine with the aliens wiping out humanity- we only caused her problems anyways -but when the aliens decide to eradicate ALL organic life on the planet, she decides it's time to step in. 4 avatars of nature's wrath appear to defend the planet. Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire.
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