/u/randomboat's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You live in an uber-religious society in 3543, and the biggest historical discovery has just been made. It is a video, and will be broadcast across the world. No one knows it's contents, and no one can stop the broadcast once it begins. "history of the entire world, i guess" by bill wurtz.
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[WP] You're a gravekeeper. The dead are buried with strings attached to bells. If one is buried alive, they can ring the bell to call for help. One night, you hear muffled screaming, and one of the bells keeps ringing, but the person inside has been dead there for over 2 months.
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[WP] You are a wizard who makes charmed items for a living. One day, you jokingly charm an item to protect the holder from the undead. You accidentally drop it on your pet, and find yourself suddenly unable to go near it.
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[WP] A well-known alien food critic has come from thousands of light years away to taste a human delicacy unheard of anywhere else. Spicy food.
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[WP] You, an astronaut on the way to the moon, see two round satellites, both seemingly watching you, one with an orange eye and the other blue. You think nothing of it until the blue-eyed one hacks into your radio, introduces itself as "Wheatley", and begs you for help getting back to Earth.
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[WP] Write an interesting, suspenseful story, but at the end turn it all into a setup for a terrible pun
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[WP] Aliens have come, but not to fight. They're the weakest species in the galaxy, and have come to learn the human arts of "hand-to-hand combat" and "bodybuilding"
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[WP] Aliens forged an alliance and started living among humans mid-spring, and now it's winter and they think it's the end of the world
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