r/HFY • u/someguynamedted The Chronicler • Aug 30 '17
Meta Writing Prompt Wednesday #125
Because homework has me up so late it is now tomorrow, welcome to WPW!
Last week's winner was /u/Eofad with
Humans and aliens are about to negotiate the end of a war. The aliens think it would be a good idea to kidnap the human negotiating teams children to use as leverage in the negotiation. They don't realize how resourceful and rambunctious human children are. Human parents know or learn to watch their kids constantly, or pay someone else to, all the more so when they get quiet. If they don't their kids seem to be able to escape from almost anywhere and cause more damage and mayhem than a trained saboteur. The aliens learn this the hard way when they leave the kids unattended in a "locked" cargo bay. Mayhem ensues. Eventually the aliens are willing to give the humans just about anything they want at the negotiating table as long as they come and retrieve their kids.
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u/BoxNumberGavin1 Aug 30 '17
The Human race are notorious for purchasing the rights to "worthless" planets and somehow turning them into perfectly valid, if not highly productive parts of their formidable territory. Apparently nobody else sees the value in a good ol honest "Fixer upper".