/u/shredder826's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] “Alexa, how much time is left?” “There are 36 days, 14 hours, 56 minutes, and 35 seconds left” “Wait, what?” “You have 3 minutes left on your 10 minute timer”
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[WP] You work for the Institute of Chaos Management, it’s little more than a handful of agents and a powerful AI. It sounds exciting, but most days it’s mind numbingly dull. Today’s task though, delay Edward Ganz by five minutes at precisely 3:41pm; projected life preservation 3 billion.
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[WP] You’ve always lived alone and frequently talk to yourself out loud. A voice, you assumed was in your head, has always answered you back. Tonight when it speaks your partner jumps and exclaims “Sorry! That startled me, I didn’t realize you had a roommate!”
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[WP] Every life has a singular purpose, when you fulfill that purpose you die. It’s been 342 years, but today is the day you finally die.
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[WP] As a viral marketing ploy for your failing business you started offering cash to buy people’s souls when they bought one of your products. It was a massive success, now a strange man won’t stop pestering you about “buying your army”.
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[WP] Lucidity, for a fleeting moment the world unscrambles. Your flesh screams. They’re all around us, in the edges of our consciousness, nearly imperceptible. You must warn the others, stop the experiment...
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[WP] As the water slowly rises you reflect upon the choices that led to this moment. The water reaches your knees, and minutes later your waist...it won’t be long now.
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