[WP] Fantasy stories often have a talking sword or grimoire. You, a modern-day teenager, were endowed with a talking, fully sentient familiar that assumes the shape of a smartphone to justify always being around you. How will you navigate the perils of freshman year with a sassy phone by your side?
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[WP] Twelve years ago you and your enemy swore to return to this place and finish it once and for all. Having trained to become a master fighter, you return to the designated meeting place only to discover that you have severely misunderstood what your enemy meant by ‘finishing it once and for all’.
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[WP] You fall asleep in the occult section of your local library. When you wake up, your electronic watch reads ‘25:78’ and there’s a bird frozen in mid-flight outside the window.
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[WP] You’ve finally found it… the secret toothpaste that is recommended by the remaining one dentist from the Council of Ten.
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[WP] Millions of years after the fall of mankind, trees become sapient creatures. As their civilisation becomes akin to our 21st century society, they discover artefacts from human civilisation. This discovery changes them forever…
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[WP] A brilliant but impoverished scientist accidentally ends up being accepted to teach at a university for wizards. Desperate to pay off his debts, the scientist must pretend to teach magic, while actually teaching science.
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[WP] For centuries, the secret tunnel system owned by the Vatican that runs below Europe has been sealed shut. According to legend, the colossal structure was built with demonic forces… Now you, an excommunicated priest, have been assigned task of investigating these tunnels… none have ever returned
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A weekly list of short stories, poems, and essays to read based on the Bradbury Challenge. It's like meal prepping, but for literature!
[WP] As AI became more advanced, people naturally feared they would turn on humans. However, machines began getting upset at each other. Starting groups, gangs, and even wars between themselves, right under peoples noses.
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[WP] “AVADA KEDAVRA THIS!” shouts Harry, unloading his AR 15 straight into Voldemort’s skull.
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[WP] the imp read over a contract you just signed to give up your soul to his dark lord. “Uh… I think I messed up where the signatures go, I think you own his now?”
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[WP] On a whim, you start clicking links in your spam email folder. Over the next few days, you are alarmed to find an African prince with a briefcase of money, a lifetime supply of discount medications, and four hot singles from your area showing up at your door. What happens next takes the cake.
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[WP] Human beings unlock skills as they grow up, walking, taking, etc. You are the oldest person in the history of the world, and today you unlock a skill no one ever had.
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[WP] Your phone went to 1% battery and you decided not to charge it until it died. It’s been three years and it’s still going.
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[WP] Your power is that Any insect that gets within 30 feet of you is vaporized. One day on your regular walk to work a man steps in your field and is turned to dust in the middle of the street. People start fleeing in a panic, except for a few standing about 30 ft away staring at you hatefully
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[WP] You are an Elder God, older than time, beyond the knowledge of man. Yet, in some tiny corner of the infinite omniverse and beyond, on a little blue ball, you find yourself content as a caretaker and guardian of some poor lesser being. You do enjoy being called “a good boy.”
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[WP] Everyone has magical control over a single thing. When a person finds thier domain, they are called The (blank) Witch/Wizard. You don’t seem to have a domain. That is, until one faitful day at a pizza shop, where you find it. Now begins your legend. Now begins the legend of The Pinball Wizard.
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[WP] Through voodoo magic, a plantation-era slave-owner wakes up in the body of their slave.
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[WP] Like many, you accrued colossal student debt as you studied to be a wizard. Like many, you planned to evade payment by putting your newly-gained knowledge of the arcane to use. Like many, you underestimated the Collectors.
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[WP] As an act of desperation, you applied to every college on the list. Sifting through the apologetic rejections, a pure black envelope catches your eye. The letters on it glow crimson red, charcoal-colored smoke wafts from the pages...
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[WP] A group of ultra-rich college kids amuse themselves by travelling into the past and slaughtering innocent people with the aid of superior technology. None of these kids expected the 11th century knights to put up a fight. With the time machine blown to smithereens, there may be no escape.
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[WP] In 2017, the first known interstellar object passed Earth. Its odd properties led some to believe it was an alien artefact. Now, 100s of similar objects are entering our solar system. From the wreckage, scientists piece together the story of what occurred 12.3 million years ago.
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[WP] Closing one eye, you squish a distant person's head with your fingertips. Suddenly, you hear screams. To your horror, the unsuspecting victim's head has actually been crushed.
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[WP] Melting ice in Antarctica reveals a ruined city. Days later, tall, long-headed humans emerge from the wreckage repeating the same phrase over and over. You, the world's leading linguist have just decoded the message. It's horrifying.
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[WP] Coming back from a gruelling day at work, you notice a long-haired girl crawling out of your television. Absolutely fed up with the shit life throws at you, you push the protesting girl back into the TV set. The nine o' clock news takes a turn for the occult.
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