/u/saddetective87's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] "I don't know why people think organs are so scary. I've lived in my mansion with one for 427 years and nothing creepy has ever happened here in all the time I have been playing it." "Yeah, I guess you're r--- Wait, how long have you been playing?"
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[WP] When the zombie apocalypse hits, you have to make do with what you have. Lucky for the good people of Fairfax County, the annual Spud Gun competition was on when the word spread. Spud guns, moonshine, and zombies oh my.
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[WP] As a frustrated film student you decide to write, shoot, and edit movie trailers to movies that don't exist and upload them to Youtube. Six months later a classmate wakes you up with an anxious call - the title to the first trailer is listed as playing next month in a local multiplex theater...
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[WP] "What do we know?" "It's at least 25,000 years old. The structure is made from the bones of 60 wooly mammoths. Based on other digs in the area, it was built by a Paleolithic group." "I'm guessing to serve as homes, temples, or storage?" "We thought so at first, then we found something inside."
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[WP] "What do you mean I got the wrong ink?" "You got my magic ink, I got your tattoo ink." "But I've already used it on clients!" "Oh gods. Without a properly formed spell, the magic will act with whatever tattoos you drew, and who knows what will happen. How many clients have you had?" "Twenty."
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[WP] Millenia ago, the Celtic Druids made a pact with the Old Ones to honour them on Samhain in exchange for the worst of them going to the Netherworld and leaving the Earth. Now, Halloween has been banned in too many places to uphold the terms of the contract, and the Old Ones are coming back...
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[WP] "Now, pay attention. There is a story to everything in the shop. This teapot pours whatever drink you want, this key opens a door to any destination you can remember, and this pen lets you write letters to the dead. Now, over here..." You wonder if you could still get a job at Starbucks...
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[WP] In the near future, due to tech advances amnesia is now a commodity. Medical sciences use it to help people remove debilitating trauma, consumers use it to watch classic movies for the first time again, and numerous other uses. You call your local doctor to arrange an amnesia session...
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[WP] The teacher called about your child's recent drawings in class. On the phone, the teacher said that the drawings were full of strange, arcane symbols that the teachers had never seen before. But you've seen them, from the recent dig you were at ... in that book of dark magic the crew found ...
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[WP] You were so happy to come back to work after sick leave. As it was your first day back, you were tagged to pick up lunch from the deli across the street. When you come back with everyone's orders, the office door is smashed open, blood and bullet holes on the walls, and everyone is dead.
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