/u/jpeezey's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Everybody gets their wings. Some are white like a swan, some black like a raven, some golden-brown like an eagle. When yours sprout, you gawk in horror. Your wings aren't made of feathers.
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[WP] Your parent is an archaeologist, and recently hit a gold mine of ancient ritualistic texts. You found some translation notes, and read a bit about a ritual to summon some kind of creature by creating an egg out of clay and carving inscriptions. Looks like you won't be bored in pottery class.
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[WP] A cynical wizard grants you the ability to sacrifice body parts for wishes. The more of yourself you sacrifice, the stronger the reality bending powers of that wish will be.
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[WP] You wrote a story using your friends as the characters, each one being an alien or a fairy from another world, a spy, a demon hunter, etc. After your friends all read it, they seem really uncomfortable and awkward around you. Turns out everything you wrote happens to be accurate.
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[WP] You have the ability to stop time, but when you do the world is suddenly populated with strange creatures that hunt you. Once you start time again, they disappear.
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[WP] Transporting souls to the afterlife isn't always an easy endeavor. Admittedly, fresh souls are a commodity, coveted by many otherworldly creatures. As a Catcher, your job is to swoop in, grab the souls of the dead, and protect them from would-be Poachers until they safely reach their afterlife.
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[WP] You and your friends are playing on an abandoned train when it starts to move. It's old and rusty and there's no one driving it, but still it moves. You or one of your friends is too scared to jump off, and once the train gets up to speed, you're stuck going wherever the line is taking you.
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[WP] Your parents sign you up for a spelling bee, and drop you off at an afterschool practice session. You sit with other kids, and then a giant humanoid bee arrives. "Alright kids, let's pick up where we left of with illusion magic, since some of you are still having trouble hiding your elf ears."
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[WP] When the bombs fell the child hid inside a BunkerMech, a mobile, weaponized, self-sustaining mech that a single operator can pilot indefinitely. The war is over, the world is in ruins, and the Mech's hatch is stuck shut. The child travels the wasteland searching for someone who can get it open.
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