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[WP] Having been born with the ability to hear everyone's inner thoughts, you're used to hearing all manner of evil stuff that people don't say aloud. Until one day, you hear someone's inner thoughts, and it's... just the AOL dial-up noise?

Submitted by CookLawrenceAt325F t3_120565q on March 24, 2023 at 1:45 AM

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[WP] You’re a vampire and you’ve decided to become an environmental activist. Not because you actually care about the planet, but because you’re tired of drinking blood tainted with microplastics.

Submitted by HonestAbe1809 t3_11zp1m0 on March 23, 2023 at 4:11 PM

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[WP] When aliens finally came to conquer the earth, we discovered their weapons technology were several centuries behind ours.

Submitted by Remarkable-Youth-504 t3_11m3z4w on March 8, 2023 at 6:28 PM

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[OT] Fun Trope Friday, Writing with Tropes: Reluctant Hero & Horror

Submitted by katpoker666 t3_11u2hbp on March 17, 2023 at 8:18 PM

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[WP] Prophets and seers don't HAVE to give musings and warnings of the future in vague, riddling, or purposefully misleading ways. They mostly only do that when the people who come to them are being arrogant jerks or when someone knowing their actual happy end will cause that end to not happen.

Submitted by archtech88 t3_11znjxg on March 23, 2023 at 3:19 PM

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[WP] A colony ship with 5000 human passengers in stasis is heavily damaged in a meteor shower. While the onboard computer does not have the raw materials needed for repairs, it calculates that it has a very large amount of organic matter and a genetics lab. A solution path is now being executed...

Submitted by lordhelmos t3_11x6pxp on March 21, 2023 at 4:28 AM

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[WP] The trickster god, to his horror, finds out that the other gods have grown used to his brand of shenanigans and no longer reacts to them. In response he grants a fraction of his power to seven humans with very different views and has them run wild.

Submitted by The_Thing_Behind_You t3_11z5a7m on March 23, 2023 at 2:09 AM

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[CW] Flash Fiction Challenge: An Enclave and a Figurine

Submitted by Cody_Fox23 t3_11ysplr on March 22, 2023 at 6:54 PM

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[PM] The world has ended. The Waffle House still stands. Describe a customer, wandering in from the wastelands, and I'll tell you their story.

Submitted by Kaiju_Blue t3_11zp637 on March 23, 2023 at 4:15 PM

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[WP] The Rock of Transmogrification allows you change shape into the animate or inanimate, magically retaining all of your senses. To work, part of you must be touching the rock. The best advice is to transmogrify with it inside you. Otherwise, someone might take it, leaving you transformed, forever

Submitted by chacham2 t3_11ylrgr on March 22, 2023 at 3:03 PM

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[WP] It turns out God would absolutely love to come down and make the world a better place, and planned to do so a long time ago. Unfortunately, Something ravenous has been clawing its way into our reality for millennia, and it has taken every last sliver of His infinity to keep It at bay.

Submitted by MasterV3ga t3_11ymlau on March 22, 2023 at 3:31 PM

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[WP] AITA for refusing to accept my 5 yo nephew as king and taking over the throne instead?

Submitted by glubnyan t3_11yzj9a on March 22, 2023 at 10:41 PM

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[WP] “400 years… that’s a long time to hate someone...”

Submitted by AthenaCat95 t3_11yvhu2 on March 22, 2023 at 8:26 PM

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[WP] "Being a werewolf is fantastic! Super strength, super durability, super senses... Why would I ever shift back, there's no downside at- SQUIRREL!"

Submitted by quazerflame t3_11yrarj on March 22, 2023 at 6:07 PM

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[WP] A world famous detective is invited to a nobleman’s party, and all is well until there is a murder. Problem is, the one murdered was the detective.

Submitted by Zak_The_Slack t3_11xtexr on March 21, 2023 at 8:30 PM

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[WP]You're a peaceful witch who survived the witch trials 100s of years ago, who now lives in the woods outside a small town. One day, a young woman visits you, saying shes related to you which she learned via the internet and she wants to be your apprentice

Submitted by S-K_215 t3_11xuoxg on March 21, 2023 at 9:10 PM

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[WP] Everyone loves the brooding Adventurer who took a liking to your village. For weeks, they have been quietly enjoying your peaceful ways and helping around. The Hero's secret is that this is only delaying the inevitable. Once they go back to advancing the Main Quest, the village will be doomed.

Submitted by Daedal75 t3_11woto4 on March 20, 2023 at 5:15 PM

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[WP] They say the food at Long Pig's Diner is to die for, but frankly, you don't trust the place. Everyone else in town seems to be addicted to it, but something about the over-all air of the place leaves a bad taste in your mouth no matter how much people try to persuade you to try it.

Submitted by xylophonesRus t3_11y8jct on March 22, 2023 at 5:41 AM

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[WP] You've spent years building up your remote mountain stronghold. Now, when you're finally done and sit down with a good book and a cup of coffee, the heroes arrive...

Submitted by filwi t3_11xqbhw on March 21, 2023 at 6:49 PM

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[WP] The wizard is actually not immortal. Instead he steals just a minute from everyone every few thousand years or so (justifying it to himself by all the good he does for them). Though everyone loses consciousness for a moment, nobody talks about it, and it is soon forgotten.

Submitted by chacham2 t3_11xipsj on March 21, 2023 at 2:36 PM

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[WP] "You're the best person I've ever known," you say, and you both draw your blades. "I will regret your death more than all the others of the world." He replies quietly: "I know, my child, and I give my blessing to the world you'll make. But let us start your story, and end mine." And you clash.

Submitted by NicomacheanOrc t3_11wb3qs on March 20, 2023 at 6:43 AM

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[WP] You belong to a family of superheroes. Your dad can fly, your mom can turn invisible & your sister can read minds. It's the day your superpower reveals itself & turns out you have the amazing power of... always speaking in rhymes.

Submitted by mir07 t3_11wk5es on March 20, 2023 at 2:19 PM

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[WP] Your boss, an evil mastermind who's outsmarted every hero out there, makes a confession to you: "I haven't had a successful plans in years. All the stuff I come up fails miserably. Things just keep working out in my favor. I say "all according to plan" just to look like I know what I'm doing."

Submitted by ImTheAverageJoe t3_11wsppj on March 20, 2023 at 7:19 PM

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[WP] You are a literary thief, able to pull the words from fictional texts and manifest them in reality. However, these words will be irreversibly removed from every copy of that text, and its effects cannot be undone.

Submitted by Cautious_Damage_3219 t3_11xn2zs on March 21, 2023 at 5:02 PM

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[SP] A curse placed upon you reveals to anyone what you are thinking of when you interact with them.

Submitted by chacham2 t3_11wn9s3 on March 20, 2023 at 4:20 PM

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