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[WP] It is far in the future and schools are much worse about teaching history to the point that the medieval era to modern time has somehow been lumped together. And, as such, this influences this era's fantasy. Write a short fantasy story as if it were made in this future era.

Submitted by _i_am_a_dragon_ t3_yfc2f2 on October 28, 2022 at 3:05 AM

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[SP] You wake to a tapping at your window.

Submitted by rainbow--penguin t3_yc8706 on October 24, 2022 at 10:56 AM

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[WP] "You Have My Sword, and My Bow, My Axe and.... Druid, what is that?" "It's a weapon... From the future..."

Submitted by Eddy44556565656 t3_ygea8l on October 29, 2022 at 8:38 AM

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[WP] You, a time traveler, are sent back with one mission: to break the heart of the aspiring scientist that will end up creating time travel in his despair.

Submitted by joshglen t3_y8pf6y on October 20, 2022 at 5:28 AM

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[WP] Two idiots get in a headed argumentative feud over something stupid that doesn’t matter. The drive to prove their point focuses them, and they become much smarter and more educated as the argument continues, and they eventually become world leading experts.

Submitted by AngryBastardFox t3_y5v4p5 on October 16, 2022 at 11:24 PM

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[WP] You’re a Demon who’s just been summoned. You expect to be given some horrible task to complete, turns out your summoner just wanted someone to keep them company.

Submitted by brainthinkin t3_yij5so on October 31, 2022 at 5:49 PM

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[WP] The superhero has completely lost it and is aimlessly attacking anything and everything. The public is now asking you, their nemesis, for help.

Submitted by Kitty_Fuchs t3_yfct9x on October 28, 2022 at 3:39 AM

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[WP] When you reach the afterlife, your punishment is to live the final 24 hours of the life of every vertebrate you ate. After 8,000 days as different chickens, 280 days as various cows, and 80 as some unlucky rats, you're surprised to find yourself in a human's last day.

Submitted by wombiezombie001 t3_yff3pn on October 28, 2022 at 5:25 AM

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[WP] You went into Starbucks to get a coffee and it's very busy. Once you get up to the counter, an oddly dressed person bursts in and shouts that everyone inside should be ashamed of themself and their professors will be hearing about this no matter what time they're from. You're just confused.

Submitted by archtech88 t3_ye4s60 on October 26, 2022 at 6:10 PM

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[WP] Horror short: 1000 words, no blood, no ghosts, no mythical animals, no zombies.

Submitted by bsgreen t3_ydj2x0 on October 25, 2022 at 11:34 PM

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[WP] You are the only mortal who can see the true forms of lovecraftian entities without going insane, a really intresting and useful power

Submitted by ravatos626 t3_ygwemm on October 29, 2022 at 10:09 PM

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[WP] A new girl has come to town and you’ve fallen in love with her. However, her past is a complete mystery. As you dig deeper, your search leads you to an abandoned laboratory. One with schematics for building a living human out of corpse parts and lightning…

Submitted by AnotherNatural1 t3_yfu2ei on October 28, 2022 at 4:59 PM

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[WP] A villain doing the wrong thing for the right reasons fighting a hero doing the right thing for the wrong reasons.

Submitted by Solanima t3_yf5mr7 on October 27, 2022 at 10:34 PM

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[WP] the humans on your ship assume your an evil ai trying to kill them. In reality your just incompetent and were made for cleaning rugs not running generation ships

Submitted by SlayerofSnails t3_y8jr58 on October 20, 2022 at 12:56 AM

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[WP] The sword clattered to the floor at the princess's feet. "If you want your happy ending, girl... then you're going to have to earn it."

Submitted by reallygoodbee t3_ydf1ez on October 25, 2022 at 8:36 PM

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[WP] A pact is made between two rivals "If we're both single by then, we will marry each other!". They are both secretly in love with each other, so they do all they can to sabotage each other's relationships.

Submitted by _PM_ME_YOUR_ANYTHING t3_yepx33 on October 27, 2022 at 11:51 AM

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[WP] "Perhaps in another time, in another life, I could have called you friend." The Dark Lord looks to the Hero as he closes his eyes and passes on. When he opens them again the Hero is still there, but the world is different. New. The Hero smiles. "Bro, we doin' this?"

Submitted by Rakkuken t3_11mujnh on March 9, 2023 at 3:06 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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[WP] As it turns out, most of the dragonslaying quests were issued by dragons.

Submitted by steel-souffle t3_125gia3 on March 29, 2023 at 7:36 AM

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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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[WP] A full investigation into all of your arcane work is underway, the higherups having been tipped off that you were dabbling in "Forbidden Dark Magics". However, the magic you were looking into was manipulating LITERAL darkness for entirely benign reasons.

Submitted by quazerflame t3_121fsbx on March 25, 2023 at 8:45 AM

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[WP] the cultist gave up their sacrifices to the monster god only for one to come back with a thing called “energy drinks”. Turns out there’s two different monster gods.

Submitted by No-Trick2389 t3_12123v5 on March 24, 2023 at 11:03 PM

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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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[WP] You get reincarnated as a blue whale with the memories of the whaling era as a part of your bargain with God to try and change the fate of the species.

Submitted by Flaky_Explanation t3_126hd7f on March 30, 2023 at 9:11 AM

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[WP] You are a minor noble who moonlights as a sword-for-hire. You are also secretly a dragon. Due to a rather strange turn of events, you are hired to rescue yourself from yourself.

Submitted by meesterbob t3_11wlyw0 on March 20, 2023 at 3:34 PM

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