/u/wlot28's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You stumble into an abandoned warehouse and find a room completely covered in dials marked with years. Each dial is labeled with a different species. You find the dial that's labeled "Human" with the dial turned to 122 years, the longest anyone has ever lived. You decide to tamper with it.
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[WP] You gain the ability to stop time, but you don't know how long the timestop lasts. To avoid a potentially fatal accident you use your power again, despite your reluctance. It's now been ten years and you're still waiting for time to continue.
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[WP] A world where "You're a natural" is literal. All people are born with one perfect skill – but they don't know what it is.
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[WP] Half the world's population has disappeared overnight, and so has the memory of those very people's lives from the remaining population. However, evidence of their prior existence still remains…
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Aliens destroy the entire human race, except for 10 people. They are all put in one room, and are left alone. The group tries to piece together why exactly they were spared, and question themselves as individuals. [WP]
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[WP] You are offered 1 million dollars to attend a dinner party at a rich stranger's house. You prepare for the worst, but upon arrival you simply find a lonely young man, sitting at a small table for two.
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[WP] A virtual reality game is made that is based around all the real unsolved mysteries in the world, letting players try their hand at attempting to solve them in their respective historical backdrop. You’ve cracked nearly every case the game has to offer, but one still has you completely stumped.
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[WP] A depressed and suicidal man starts to take up incredibly dangerous hobbies in order to die doing something unimportant. Over the years, he's inadvertently grown to be pretty good at those pastimes.
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[WP] One normal morning, a man finds that he keeps running into the exact same guy over and over during the day, no matter how hard he tries to get away from him.
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