/u/legalbagelbeagle's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Your friend was a disaster but gradually got it together. Now, you're the one whose life is adrift. You discover that your friend takes a drug that wrecks your life in the short term but makes you super-human if you take it consistently. The problem is, it's expensive.
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[WP] The Pope has made direct contact with God. He enters the celestial chamber and asks “Oh Lord, did you make your chosen people in your holy image?” A Labrador Retriever stop a golden throne responds “Yes my son.”
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[WP] Humanities competing religions fomented a great war that almost wiped out all life on Earth. The few human survivors created a holy order devoted to Science. They followed it with unwavering faith under the central tenant "The Earth is Flat." Heresy was strictly forbidden.
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[WP] You know all of those murder mysteries where a private detective goes into a mansion owned by a wealthy family to discover which one of them is a murderer? My name is Carlos De Leon. I am such a private eye, but I only do pro-bono work for incredibly poor families who have murder mysteries...
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[WP] A new technology allows people to turn back time for a short while. The original idea was that you can fix little problems in your life. Unfortunately, the real outcome is that people end up fixated on every mistake and end up missing out on better opportunities and personal growth.
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[WP] he made her feel like she was the only girl in the world. It wasn’t until the last day of his life that he told her that there were others…
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[WP] For millennia you toiled in the asphodel meadows of the underworld. You barely remember the living world. One day you escape upon the river Styx. You commit to blending into the modern world. Your only study guide is a Cosmo magazine titled "9 ways you are wearing back thongs wrong for summer."
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[WP] The more you torture a pepper plant, the hotter the peppers. Starve them until they are almost dead then overwater them and repeat. That was our dad's theory on parenting. "Dad" of course, being a euphemism for the lead doctor at our clone orphanage. My name is C-117, and I was raised to kill.
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[WP] 50,000 years ago, the other Neanderthals in your tribe used magic to turn you into a vampire. You slept in a deep earthen cavern awaiting your revenge. Upon waking in the year 2100, you discover that the world is controlled by a single totalitarian surveillance state populated by homo sapiens.
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