/u/zleuth's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] A bored technician at a computer research facility decided to see if he could run Doom on the experimental quantum computer. It's been three days since the facility went into lockdown and you're tasked with gaining access to the facility to find out what happened.
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[WP] Aliens have begun harvesting humans as a delicacy, the iron-rich blood prized for it's uniqueness. However the vampires that have lived hidden among us for millennia don't like the competition.
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[WP] George R.R. Martin was inspired to write the Game of Thrones series by observing his pet turtles die when he was a boy; Write about the pet shop owner that procures murderous, incestuous and scheming turtles to sell to a young Goergie.
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[WP] As an all powerful genie you delight in granting wishes in ways that are technically what was asked for while being absolutely awful. Except for the masochists. They suck all the fun out of it.
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[WP] Aliens have arrived on Earth and the strangest things about them isn't their appearance or way of communicating, but their sense of humor. Their incredibly obnoxious sense of humor.
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[WP] "... When someone asks you if you're a god, you say YES!" You never forgot this important lesson from the Ghostbusters movie, and having been asked, you're feeling some regret.
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[WP] It's 2029, the NASA Artemis missions to the moon have been wildly successful and the latest mission is to revisit one of the Apollo landing sites. The astronauts are shocked to find the remains of the lunar Landing Module are covered with graffiti, and there are empty beer cans on the ground.
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[WP] Everyone you meet appears extremely interested in you and seems to know know about every event before it happens. Everyone you encounter is trapped in a 'Groundhog Day', but you're not.
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[WP] In the next century teleportation of anything more complex than a few particles is still impossible. Until an accident put an intern through the process- and it works! Apparently the subject has to *want* to be molecularly reassembled. The Fermi paradox is solved: Nobody wants to visit earth.
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