/u/piperpike's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] All humans have the date of their death inscribed on their left forearm. Your date arrives. You go atop a small hill and sit there, agonizingly waiting for the moment to come. The hours pass by. It's midnight, and you're still alive. You look at your forearm, and the inscribed date is gone.
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[WP] You're an ancient healer who treats kids by touching their hands, and transferring the illness to rocks of appropriate sizes, which then get damaged accordingly. One day you touch a child, and you feel that you must go and touch a stone at Stonehenge. You touch one, and see it turn into dust.
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[WP] You are the daughter of the most ruthless dictator in the world. You are returning back to the capital in your private plane, writing your journal when all of a sudden you hear "brace for impact".
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[WP] You hail from a country which puts its athletes through brutal training to ensure gold medals in Olympics. Anything less than gold results in punishments. You've trained for years without breaking a sweat. The Olympics come and you do your best, but only manage a silver. Time to go home.
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[WP] All acts of humans are registered as shades be/w black (bad) to white (good) pages in a book, to be used at judgement. You're given a book of a man, and it is full of pages of the darkest shade of black. At the very end, you find a white page, and its the brightest white you've ever seen.
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[WP] Soulmates have expiration dates, after which they become soulmates for some other individual. After 5 years of being together, there's less than a month remaining for you and your soulmate. You're trying to find their next soulmate for an easier "transition".
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