/u/quantumfirefly's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] One day, you find a note in your breakfast; one of the guards knows you're innocent and is going to try to help you escape. You aren't innocent.
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[WP] The story of an unsolved murder is brought up in an /r/AskReddit thread with several incorrect details. The murderer shows up to set the record straight.
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[WP] Your entire life, you've been followed by a voice only you can hear that constantly narrates everything you do and say. One day, the voice talks directly to you for the first time, and it has a warning for you.
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[WP] There's a reason we write "rest in peace" on our gravestones; the absence of it constitutes a binding legal contract that agrees to an eternity of military service in the afterlife.
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[WP] After a zombie outbreak decimates Renaissance-era Europe, a small fleet of refugees stumbles across the previously undiscovered Americas. Five hundred years later, the first expedition makes land on the beach of what was once Normandy, France.
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[WP] Faster-than-light propulsion has made interstellar travel possible but communication is still limited to lightspeed. You're an archaeologist who searches for radio broadcasts travelling away from Old Earth.
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[WP] All contact is lost with the first colony on Mars. The rescue mission arrives to find the settlement abandoned and a word carved into a nearby rock: CROATOAN.
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[WP] You're a 911 operator who has been receiving calls from a serial killer who calls 911 to report each of his murders. One night, you receive a call from the serial killer, but they aren't calling to report a murder.
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