/u/samuraisaam's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] While at a football game, you notice the man sitting in front of you is livestreaming the game to his cell phone rather than actually watching the game in front of him. You see on the screen a player running the football in for a touchdown, 32 seconds later you watch it happen in real life.
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[WP] You received a mystery update for your phone that added a day, month, year and time button to Google maps. Curious, you select June 6th, 1944, 6:30AM and moved the map to look at Omaha Beach. To your surprise, you get a perfect birds eye view of soldiers storming the beach.
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[WP] Advertisers have become increasingly invasive in their tactics. Its nearly impossible to look anywhere without seeing or hearing an advertisement. The only escape is seemingly when you sleep. At least it was. Targeted adverts are now appearing in peoples dreams and you just saw your first one.
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[WP] You were born with hollow bones, a condition so rare that they named it after you. Because your bones were hollow, they were also weak. You seemed to be doomed to a crippled life. That is until you began to notice a change in your body as you grew older. Feathers.
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[WP] The technology we used every day was about two decades behind what millitary and government agencies had access to. No one can say for sure how it happened but one day all that technology was let loose into the public and the whole world changed nearly overnight.
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[WP] Houses magically gain sentience the first time someone calls them home. As such, houses have memories but being able to communicate with them is a rare gift. You are a homicide detective who just so happens to be one of the few that has this ability.
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[WP] After a long life filled with financial success, you close your eyes for the last time as your loved ones weep at your bedside. Or so you thought. You open your eyes again and pull your headset off. Although you felt that you had lived 83 wonderful years, in reality only 4 hours had passed.
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[WP] For the past 50 years you have been working closely with people like Elvis, Tupac and Robin Williams. Your job is to fake the deaths of high profile celebrities and politicians who want a quiet retirement.
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[WP] We all thought that elderly people's bodies were becoming weaker as they grew old but when scientists discovered that we could extend human life by 300 years, we learned that their bodies weren't deteriorating but were getting ready for the next phase of human development.
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[WP] Someone hit the reset button. Every memory has been wiped. The human race no longer remembers anything. Completely unaware of the fact that they are now the most educated person on the planet, a Starbucks barista wakes up to get ready for another day of work.
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