/u/takaperoinen-miete's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP]: You've been breaking into the confession booth and impersonating a priest for some time now. Mostly to hear the colourful and bizarre confessions of one sinner in particular.
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[WP]: One night, you hear a THUD and a window rattles. You wonder what bird could be flying around at this time of the night, go on the porch to see it, and discover a moth the size of a cat.
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[WP]: Mortals used to be proper. They used to be simple, humble, easily fightened. Even the most stubborn could be broken into grudging, resentful servitude. But your new thrall has no respect, is impossible to get rid of, and keeps calling you ”daddy”.
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[WP]: In the schools of heroes, the children are assigned quickly: to the stone and the blade. The blades are cultivated, raised towards success. The whetstones are tolerated, their presence is mainly meant to hone the blades to be better and sharper. You were classified wrong.
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[WP]: You wake up in the morning to find amphetamine-pumped Mothman calculating wild and complex algebra all over your walls. Your house has been possessed by the myth math meth moth.
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[WP]: You're a world-famous abstract sculptor, and only now at the age of 36 found out the truth: People aren't paying high prices for them because of your talent - your mom sells them as a money laundering front.
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[WP]: You are ancient and immortal, immune to ageing and most kinds of injury. You've been around since the Byzantine era, you speak so many dead languages it's hard to keep up. Unfortunately, you're stuck appearing 14.
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[WP]: Zombies can and do happen, but a vaccine was developed quickly, and now the few, isolated cases who do get infected are rendered essentially harmless by herd immunity.
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[WP]: "Do you know the difference between respecting someone... and honouring them?" the man asked, still wielding a rubber chicken like a sword
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