/u/smushedtomato's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You've lived a long and fulfilling life, and you now lie upon your deathbed. You take your last breath and close your eyes, only to see some words forming in the darkness of death: "LEVEL COMPLETE!". below it you are given two options: "CONTINUE" and "QUIT".
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[WP] After a long day at work, you head to the local pub and order a drink you've never had before. You take one sip and fall asleep near instantly. You wake up after what seems like about an hour, but something's different. You peer out the window of the bar and see a completely different world
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[WP] You're preparing to move out of your parents' house after living there all your life. You find your childhood toy chest and open it for some nostalgia, but find an unfamiliar stone. You pick it up, and hear these words: "A new hand touches the beacon."
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[WP] You live in a world where corpses are attracted to their headstone. If it is moved away from them, they rise from the ground and will stop at nothing to get back to it. Those without them will wander aimlessly. You just so happened to pick up a fancy rock that marked a mass grave.
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[WP] When you die, you arrive in line in front of an arena. You are asked by a man at a booth who you're placing your bets on. You look at the paper below you and see the names Jesus, Allah, Buddha, Xenu, Rah, Anubis, and all the other gods from every religion known to mankind.
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[WP] Everyone's name decides their fate, from their profession to the way they die. You and your wife are in a heated discussion about what to name the child. One wants the child to live a successful life, but the other doesn't want the child to have to be fated with such a gruesome demise.
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[WP] It just started raining one day, and it hasn't stopped. Weather balloons are brought down by the heavy downpours. 30 years later, in the flooded remnants of society, you are determined to do what meteorologists couldn't: Find the cause of the rain.
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[WP] The most recent shuttle launch to the Sun revealed something unsettling: It's beginning to hatch
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[EU] The 104 days of summer vacation have finished, with school coming to end it. You are in an engineering class with a kid named Phineas Flynn.
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