/u/xwhy's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Your invention was supposed to stop time. Instead, it stopped you in the flow of time, but time moved on without you.
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[WP] Write a story that appears to be building to a pun ending, and then at the last minute subvert the pun
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[WP] Under the full moon, the posse rode out and hunted down the changeling. By the next full moon, every man in the posse was dead except for one. A new posse was hunting him down.
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[WP] Everyone wonders how you always finish fourth in everything with 4 or more people involved. No one suspects your real power is your uncanny ability to predict who will finish 1st, 2nd, and 3rd.
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[WP] Due to a closely passing comet, about 30% of the population was left infertile. Twenty years later, it become apparent that 25% of the babies born after were sterile. Others carry the genetic defect. Twenty years later, you are a community leader in a dwindling community
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[WP] You’re a cop in a city of 60K people. A handful are Level 2-3 heroes who maintain order. A regional L4 passes thru at times. Most villains are L1-2. You mostly deal w non-powered crime but your CI is a former L3 whos hit the skids& couldnt rob the liquor store he frequents in his current state
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[WP] As you watch the ball drop in Times Square on TV, a doorway appears in your living room. A hand comes through and beckons you. Then a face appears and looks at you and says, "Come! You need to cross over into a different new year."
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[WP] You planned on spending Christmas alone this year, as you have for the past five, since all the humans died or fled the Earth. But now there's a ship approaching.
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[WP]A human settlement grew and prospered, secluded from the northern and western kingdoms. Curious elves, dwarves and other races came to live in this wonderful, peaceful human place. One day they realize that the old humans had died off and younger ones couldn't afford to stay there any more
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