/u/sharkfinattax's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP]You wake up from a coma. A nurse stands at the end of your bed. Spiders rush hastily all over her; out of her ears and nostrils, up and down her scrubs. To your left stands a doctor.Behind him stands a tall, angry looking man with a belt. You can now see people's fear. Don't look in the mirror.
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[WP] Your son is severely disabled. He has never said a word and rarely moves. This morning, you wake up tired. You shuffle out to the kitchen - your son stands over a pan, bacon sizzling, turns around and looks you dead in the eye with the warmest smile you've never seen: "Hey, you want some?"
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[WP] A high profile celebrity is publicly shot in the head but glitches and keeps walking for a good couple of seconds until they realise they have to play dead.
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[WP] A program which allows young children to simulate their entire life to 99.3% accuracy is implemented in the curriculum. The child is wired into the System, but what the parents don't know is that System Specialists monitor the simulations in order to 'Rehab' any PFTs (Potential Future Threat).
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[WP] Two men, indistinguishable from Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, are discovered unconcious, battered and bruised in an advanced, foreign spacecraft that has crashed in the middle of a sprawling city. They haven't aged a day since they left for the moon in 1969.
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[WP] A mysterious new market stall pops up at your local. A small piece of folded paper sits alone on an old wooden fold-out table. Behind it sits an old man with a long white beard and a shiny bald head. The sign reads 'Will buy secrets.'
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A mysterious new market stall pops up at your local. A small piece of folded paper sits alone on an old wooden fold-out table. Behind it sits an old man with beard as white as
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/WP: A mysterious new market stall pops up at your local. A small piece of folded paper sits alone on an old wooden fold-out table. Behind it sits an old man with a long white beard and a shiny bald head. The sign reads 'Will buy secrets.'
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[WP] African-American President Harold Bordeaux has been searching for his missing son for years. By now, he has given up hope. On a standard PR tour of the Legacy Slave Museum in Alabama, he passes through the brand new, feature exhibition, detailing the life of the bravest young slave in history.
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