/u/mateusz_nadsat's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You are an old African priest tired of watching your people being terrorized by vampires. You saw the weather forecast, and you know your job. Today, you'll bless the rains down in Africa.
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[WP] Your useless superpower: seeing the time since a living person't last inhale of air - usually 1-20 seconds. One day you're passing an abandoned cementry and above one grave you see "314 years".
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[WP] most alien spieces are extremely vulnerable to their star's radiation; it turns out that our sun's light is thousands of times deadlier. humans' ability to tan is seen as a godlike superpower, and melanin is a mythical substance rumored about. one day, aliens reach earth and discover sunscreen.
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[WP] Humans are the only members of Intergalactic Community that require sleep. Other spieces put way too much mysticism and hoax in the concept of Sleeping. They suspect humans are hiding something.
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[WP] Aliens turn out to look just like retro caricatures of them - green-skinned with big heads and slim limbs. They find out and start thinking humans posess supernatural mental powers.
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[WP] You know a bit of Latin, so one night when you're being mugged you start chanting nonsense to scare off the thug - it doesn't work, he takes your wallet and flees. You reach for your phone and see a message. "50,000$ has been transferred to your bank account. from: MOTHERLODExxx"
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[WP] Turns out, God.exe stops working when the amount of humans exceeds certain number. It's been months since massive disease outbreaks that wiped out 95% of humanity. You trip over a rock, cussing "god DAMN it!", seconds later a powerful lighting bolt precisely evaporates the rock.
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[WP] Alien explorers are invited to dinner with national dishes of Earth. With horror, they find out it's all packed with acids and dangerous capsaicin, but humans call it "sour&spicy".
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[WP] They threw the last surviving humans onto the most isolated and harsh planet to meet certain death. Centuries later, humans come back. As colonizers.
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