/u/jpeezey's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] The last thing you remember is talking on the phone. The same goes for everyone else. Anyone who was on the phone at 2:37am lost consciousness and woke up here in this giant field along with the person they were talking to. You were making an overdue car payment with the robotic lady voice.
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[WP] The last step in summoning a demon is to sacrifice something of 'value.' Misinterpreting the instruction as something of sentimental value, you sacrifice a signed hardcover copy of your favorite novel. This causes the process to malfunction, and you end up summoning a character out of the book.
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[WP] Unbeknownst to most, the Devil considers cooking to be his most beloved hobby. He spends time on Earth disguised as a human, traveling as a chef for hire. This alias of his is in high demand, and he travels the world cooking for all sorts of people and events. He decides he needs and assistant.
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[WP] In the future, everybody has a clone waiting to be activated in case of untimely demise, their memories updated occasionally to keep the clone 'current'. A man goes missing for several years, and then resurfaces as a serial killer. Investigators wake up his clone to help with the investigation.
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[WP] Whenever you're in complete darkness, you automatically start counting down from 100 in your head, even if you try not to. You don't know why, or what happens when you reach zero. It scares you, and you generally avoid the dark at all costs.
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[WP] A series of mechanical giants wander the wasteland as part of a mechanism that globally jams radio signals. In an effort to reestablish world-wide communications, you set out to destroy these behemoths, but find them to be docile things that tenderly interact with the nature around them.
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[WP] An abandoned house sits in the lot across the street. It's only in minor disrepair, but no one will buy it and no relator will even manage the property. Sometimes, inexplicably, you wake up neatly tucked into the bed in master bedroom of the abandoned house. It's starting to happen more often.
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[WP] You keep waking up in locked rooms with complicated puzzles or in the middle of the wilderness under austere conditions. Always there is a note with a task in your pocket, and you must complete it. You are the person pictured in motivational posters, and you just want it to stop.
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[WP] Due to a highly efficient, mechanized work force, people no longer need to work. Everything is automated or online. There's no reason to even leave the house, and you haven't in years. On a whim you decide to go outside. Your door is locked, and you can't find a way to open it.
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