/u/meinmanhattan's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] It's 15,000 years in the future, and humanity has been wiped from the face of the earth. Aliens have discovered the planet and as they study us, one manages to activate a computer server. All it contains is a complete archive of Reddit.
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[WP]. You wake up clumsy and awkward, unable to button a shirt or use a fork, until you use your left hand. In front of your mirror, something looks off. After a moment, you realize that nothing is exactly where it should be. You have become a mirror image of yourself overnight.
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[WP] You liven deep in the hills. Days of relentless rain have finally ended. As you walk down the hill, past the washed-down mud and stones, you see a flickering light in the side of the hill. You approach. It's a keypad, next to huge door covered in mud and debris. The panel reads "unlocked."
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[WP] You woke up this morning and went into the bathroom. As you step in front of the mirror, you see that your left eyebrow is gone and that there are three stitches in your right cheek. You have no idea what happened to your eyebrow or how you got the stitches.
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[WP] You've just bought an antique desk to restore. Behind the drawers you find an old, blank leather-bound notebook, and leave it open on the desk. When you return to the desk the next morning, you notice the notebook; its first page is filled with elegant script.
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[WP] An envelope, no return address, arrives in your mail. You open it. It contains twenty photographs of you that you've never seen. They start with your childhood and end in old age. You are 30 years old.
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[WP] After a blow to the head, you regain consciousness to find that time moves at half speed for everyone but you.
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[WP] You rise from the toilet, having taken what may be the largest dump of your life. As you reach to flush, you hear, in a faint but deep voice, "wait!" It's coming from the bowl.
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[W] You rise from the toilet, having taken what may be the largest dump of your life. As you reach to flush, you hear, in a faint but deep voice, "wait!" It's coming from the bowl.
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