/u/jpeezey's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You haven't talked to your imaginary friend in a decade; your parents insisted you had to grow up. Now, aliens have invaded the planet, and they have insisted they speak with you personally. Escorted by government agents, you go to meet them. They look exactly like your imaginary friend did.
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[WP] While hiking, a rainstorm causes a big mudslide that shifts rocks and earth and trees. You survive, and then notice that the steep mountain side, now bare, is made of giant plates of metal. 'USS STARKEEPER 3' is engraved in the metal, and there's a large 'emergency' hatch hanging open.
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[WP] You are the only person in your family who isn’t a psychic, and they thought it would be best to keep their abilities a secret from you. One day your powers finally manifest and you realize they’ve heard your every thought up to this point.
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[WP] One day, your cat and your dog both inexplicably become human. You discover this as you awake to your 'dog' curled up on your bed while your 'cat' watches judgingly from the open windowsill.
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[WP] You were born with an identical twin. Sort of. You and your 'twin' share a single consciousness, a single will. You're one person in two completely functional bodies, each with their own brain to process the wealth of stimuli you receive. You don't hesitate to use this to your advantage.
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[WP] You're an experienced archeologist, and you're hurrying back to one of the first excavation sites you ever worked at. Apple just came out with a new portable storage device to replace the USB, and you recall a carving that looks suspiciously similar to the kind of port the new device uses.
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[WP]A unicorn made a deal with a powerful witch, but failed to uphold its end of the bargain. In return the witch cursed the entire race of unicorns, sealing their magic and contorting them into the animal we call the rhinoceros. Thousands of years later, in modern times, one rhino breaks the curse.
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[WP] You transfer to a new school. While remaining firmly grounded in physics and reality, you find that the entire faculty and student body operate within classic anime tropes. Being the clichéd transfer student yourself, you do everything in your power to ignore and avoid the tropes thrown at you.
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[WP] You are slave worker at an illegal crystal farm on a remote planet, growing gems through chemical reactions to be cut into counterfeit Galactic Federation coins. Unbeknownst to the warden, you've found a new use for the crystals, one that might help you get off this god-forsaken planet.
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[WP] You live in a primitive, tribal community whose village is built on a series of wooden platforms suspended between the trunks of gigantic, ancient trees. A mist hovers below your home, and the concept of the 'ground' doesn't exists, as it's never been seen, and any who fall disappear forever.
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