/u/jpeezey's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] The girl is crying as you, a veterinarian, put her dog down. It's sad, but you know it's for the best, and you speak comforting words to the child. Abruptly, she stops crying, and regards you smugly. "I knew you'd be perfect." Suddenly you find yourself atop a horse, wielding a long scythe.
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[WP] The Evil Sorceress takes her final form: a giant hawk-like bird with beautiful flaming wings. The battle is long and arduous, but you prevail. Her body disintegrates into a pile of ash as you land the killing blow. Then something in the ash stirs. A young girl rises, lost and confused.
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[WP] We are contacted by an Alien race that has traveled across the galaxy just to meet us. They say they want to discuss the secrets of FTL travel. Unbeknownst to us, the Aliens consider FTL to mean 'Faster Than Legs' travel. They are obsessed with all our modes of terrestrial transportation.
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[WP] Other kids at school call you 'Soulless,' because when you were tested for your spirit animal, the results came back blank. At first you were going to quit; the school can't train you if you don't have a spirit animal, but then you realize that your spirit animal was just microscopic.
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[EU] You run a coffee shop in the DC/Marvel universe. Your place appears to be normal, but you have contracts with traders from all over the galaxy, making your place a hot spot for off-the-clock heroes and villains who are craving otherworldly or hard to get ingredients and flavors.
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[WP] You control two bodies. Both are identical, but your mind can control each one independently. You've kept it a secret from everyone, including your significant other, until they came home early and walked in on you helping yourself with some household chore. Now you have some explaining to do.
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[WP] Your childhood friend moved away without warning one day. Years later you meet them again when world's new evil overlord visits your town to personally see to the execution of some rebels. You see the spark of recognition in the overlord's eyes as they cancel the execution and order you untied.
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[WP] You are riding a crowded subway. Your eyes feel heavy, so you close them for a moment. When you open them, the subway has stopped, and everyone is gone. The doors are open, the lights are off. It’s quiet. This isn’t your stop, but the train doesn’t seem to be leaving anytime soon.
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[WP] As a terminally ill genius, you were given an offer by NASA. They will upload your conscience into a robot, but the process is experimental, and very expensive. As payment, they want you to do research for them... On mars. You are InSight, and you thought you were the first of your kind.
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[WP] Back in highschool, you and your friends made an apocalypse plan. You were each supposed to learn a survival skill, and were to meet in a specific location if The End ever came. 20 years later, after going your separate ways, The End comes. You're the first one to arrive at the meeting point.
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