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[PM] Give me a genre and a plot twist, I'll de-twist it

Submitted by [deleted] t3_z3931e on November 24, 2022 at 3:28 AM

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[WP] “What could you, a feeble human, do to me?” “Half.” “…What?” “I’m only half human.”

Submitted by Absolute-Train-Wreck t3_ytntw8 on November 13, 2022 at 1:07 AM

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[SP] Dragon riders were feared. Dragon writers were feared even more.

Submitted by throwthisoneintrash t3_y5gy2u on October 16, 2022 at 1:33 PM

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[WP] You acquire a magic notebook. Write a person’s name and last name on it, and they’ll like you. Write more details about them, and they’ll like you more. The deeper the detail, the more they’ll love you.

Submitted by Kenhamef t3_xy6bcg on October 7, 2022 at 6:21 PM

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[WP] A Black Mirror style story about the dangers of new social media technology, except it's set in Renaissance Italy and about the printing press.

Submitted by TheColourOfHeartache t3_y9tpvs on October 21, 2022 at 1:27 PM

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[WP] You are a supersoldier. After years of service you are betrayed and left for dead. You now travel, looking for a purpose.

Submitted by frostbytegold t3_y78xeh on October 18, 2022 at 2:41 PM

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[WP] You have two personality living in one body, and one developed feelings for the other.

Submitted by No_Permission_5219 t3_ygb8l9 on October 29, 2022 at 5:39 AM

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[WP] You survive a space ship attack by a mysterious alien only to get flung out into space in your life pod. You are found orbiting a black hole 5000 years later where humans have idealised you for thousands of years but have only recently had the capability to rescue you. You’ve aged a week.

Submitted by moonraker727 t3_yagdet on October 22, 2022 at 6:42 AM

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[WP] In the distant future, an alien race discovers a desolate, empty earth. In order to try and learn more about humanity, they send a team of biologists to search the ruins of a hospital. There, they discover a poster detailing human anatomy, and are horrified to discover it matches their own.

Submitted by BasalTripod9684 t3_xtrtql on October 2, 2022 at 3:39 PM

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[WP] You must implement the lyrics from the original rickroll in a short story.

Submitted by Wafran t3_yicy69 on October 31, 2022 at 1:57 PM

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[WP] As you grew older horns and a tail started to appear. You have been splashed with holy water more times than you can count and now your going to a job interview with someone who is HIGHLY religious

Submitted by Pikachargaming t3_yfrrf0 on October 28, 2022 at 3:45 PM

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[WP] You're technically an assassin, but you don't actually kill anyone. Your targets always die by cosmic luck, somehow.

Submitted by 28PercentCharged t3_yb8m20 on October 23, 2022 at 5:00 AM

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[WP] Your wife of 20 years sits you down for a serious talk. "Where's my husband Tyler?" she asks. You realize that your full-body disguise has started to fail.

Submitted by suburbanchiwriter t3_1229cha on March 26, 2023 at 3:13 AM

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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 and the Other 'You's have finally managed to open an exit to the simulated world. One 'You' takes the first steps out, and vaporizes into nothing more than data- They were never real, after all. The threshold stands by in silent judgement, waiting for another 'You' to believe they are You.

Submitted by Wise_Mulberry3568 t3_125s9nr on March 29, 2023 at 3:59 PM

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[WP] You're in a government super-hero "cleanup" team. Not the aftermath... you "clean up" the heroes themselves when they "go bad." Today, a super that can generate matter from their subconscious has taken psychedelic mushrooms.

Submitted by ImperialArmorBrigade t3_126lk6o on March 30, 2023 at 12:31 PM

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[WP] You been feeling really low energy recently. So much that you don't even want to go and fight your nemesis. Suddenly, you hear a knocking at your door, it's your nemesis. "Hey you haven't been around to fight recently, are you ok? Can I get you something?"

Submitted by Masterpotato002 t3_126kuqq on March 30, 2023 at 12:00 PM

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[WP] The magical girl just stares at you, "What did you do?!". You point, "I shot him! He was coming right at me!".

Submitted by reallygoodbee t3_1268jm4 on March 30, 2023 at 2:21 AM

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[WP] A demon performs a reverse “It’s a Wonderful World”—going to a man in the prime of his life and showing him that nothing would change if he didn’t exist.

Submitted by RolePatrol t3_127i0fk on March 31, 2023 at 11:23 AM

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[WP] You, an avid cosplayer, notice someone or something has inexplicably switched your gear with the real deal. Inside is a note that offers a choice, "have fun or use it well. I'll switch out the real one tomorrow."

Submitted by Flaky_Explanation t3_11gbm2t on March 2, 2023 at 7:32 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] The church says that all people are born with 'Original Sin'. What they don't know is that this sin was actually something you did 10,000 years ago to become immortal.

Submitted by jpb103 t3_124osu6 on March 28, 2023 at 1:29 PM

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[WP]"No im not chopping your arms off and replacing them with chainsaws" You sigh. As a black market doctor, these types of insane requeats are surprisingly common. Write a story about one.

Submitted by ASentientRedditAcc t3_124e92m on March 28, 2023 at 5:22 AM

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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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[SP] Within an abandoned scrap yard that was sealed away from the rest of the world, a sentient robot teaches another sentient robot about the mysterious creatures known as Hooman Beans.

Submitted by Used-East4520 t3_11bsqjd on February 25, 2023 at 7:02 PM

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