/u/sycolution's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP]History corrects itself. Just like if something happened to Edison, someone else would have made the light bulb. You just came back from the 1930s after switching out a particular rejection letter to an art school for one of acceptance. Things are different, though.
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[WP]A person who ages one year to every one hundred falls in love with a time traveler. Physically they were the same age when they met. They wish to age and die at the same rate.
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[WP]Before you, supers didn't exist. Now, though? There's hundreds. Your super power? To give other people super powers. The catch? They have to truly believe they can do what you say they can.
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[WP]Death gives you his scythe for a day. Your first charge is a little girl who you can't bring yourself to take, so you let her live. 5 minutes later a car starts careening towards her. You save her. A window falls from a tall building... the universe wants her dead.
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[EU]You work for the CPS(Child Protection Services) in the UK and you've caught wind of a particularly heinous case of mental and physical abuse. The address? Number 4 Privet Drive.
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[WP] A scientist invents a time machine. They decide to travel far into the future. On arrival they are confused to see ancient Rome. Time is looped. They are approached by an immortal saying in perfect English "This is the 3rd loop I've found you, let's see if we can't break it this time."
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[WP]Humans are the densest species in the galaxy, thus, the strongest. Which is why the Galactic Council races have been actively sabotaging our attempts at long range space travel technology and research.
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[WP] You just discovered that vampires do exist. "Why haven't you revealed yourselves? You know humanity thinks you're sexy!" "Because you keep depicting us like slobs, dripping our food down our faces..."
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[WP]Scientists found a way to give sociopaths empathy and after many clinical trials, all serial killers were treated with it and released. You, however, push past the pain...you just love killing.
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[WP]Earth has joined the galactic community and you, the captain of a crew of different aliens, come across a hostile ship manned by your ship's navigator's species and tell them to smooth it over. But they don't understand the other ship's message. They're from a different part of their planet.
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