/u/saddetective87's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. "Onward Buttercup, there are shenanigans and f*ckery up ahead!"
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[WP] It was one of the more unlikely realities of their work, but even covert operatives need a support group. Everyone wearing ski masks and gloves helps, as Spies Anonymous needs to keep anonymous from each other, but they all need somewhere to vent. "Hello, my name is Smith." "Hello Smith."
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[WP] You're an immortal, and while in a university library you start writing in your first language in your notebook. A linguistics scholar at the next table notices the “gibberish”—they have been trying to decipher that language for twenty years! They sit down at your table and start talking to you
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[WP] Graduates of Harvard's Math 55 class are immediately employed by the NSA because they are too dangerous to allow them to go anywhere else. Graduates of Oxford's Experimental Psychology program are the same--you just received your degree and have some interesting job offers in your email inbox.
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[WP] "You've each been selected for this mission because you're unknown to the enemy and you each have a special skill. Professor Hawking, John Leslie, Phil Neville, the Wu-Tang Clan, Usher, the Sugar Puffs Monster, and Daniel Day-Lewis, welcome to Operation Circle of Madness."
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[WP] One day a scullery maid receives a life-changing inheritance which draws her into the high society she has always envied … and into the affections of a young Lord, someone she has always loved from afar. The young lord’s older brother thinks their courtship is a mistake and tries to stop them.
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[WP] It's late at night, and you ran to catch the last bus coming home from work. Just as you arrive it pulls away, and you are alone on a dark foggy road. You sit on the bus bench when you hear horse hooves clomping. A black 19th-century carriage drives up and stops. "Need a ride?" says a voice.
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[WP] "Welcome aboard doctor." "Thank you. I tried to research this place before my interview and after I was hired, but I couldn't find much. What do you do here?" "The Templin Institute investigates different aspects of science, magic, and alternate realities. Orientation is over here. Good luck."
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[WP] The graves were never a secret. But there was a reason why so many of the cemeteries’ graves remained unmarked…
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