The SST AlterNet
Arc dates: June 6, 2022 – August 19, 2022. Collection and publication dates remain separate from fictional time.
Aurelio’s Sun
Writing prompt Virtual reality has become so advanced that everything feels life-like. Anyone can be anything, do anything, and go anywhere. But instead of a dark plot-twist to this tale, we get a very wholesome and heartwarming ending!
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Writing prompt The last man on Earth sat alone in his home, and then he heard a knock on his door.
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Writing prompt Taking the elevator you notice a button you've never noticed before. A floor 0. Curiosity gets the better of you and you press it.
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Writing prompt The Demon Lord wants to retire. After interviewing a bunch of his demon commanders, he realises there is no worthy successor.
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Writing prompt It looks like your child. It talks like your child. It says it is your child. But you know that thing is not your child.
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Writing prompt The Chosen One is dead, the Dark Lord has won. It turns out he is a much better ruler than the king.
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Writing prompt Like the Phoenix, after death, you're swiftly reborn yet again into a new family around the world; your endless past achievements, knowledge and pending endeavors are sealed until you've become your own new person at 16 years into your new life. Now that you remember, what will you do?
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Writing prompt Don't let them hear you.
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Writing prompt A vampire is peacefully fishing in the harbor at night, when he is confronted by the town guards.
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Writing prompt Time in its entirety is a loop. As you experience the strongest déjà vu you ever have on the streets, a little girl comes up to you and says "Will you remember this time?"
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Writing prompt You are a superhero in a maximum security prison for supervillains.
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Writing prompt You are the Demon King on a quest of conquest of the World of Mankind. However you have a problem, no it's not a chosen hero trying to kill you or even a rival Demon King, no it's a sudden infestation of man-eating bunnies in your Stronghold which is your problem.
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Writing prompt Aliens have come to Earth and decided to reset humanity. In each country, they've randomly chosen one person to survive. You are that person. They allow you to choose three other people to survive with you. The aliens leave you with a single book as a guide to living off the land.
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Writing prompt "I guess people tend to hallucinate as they die" you say to yourself, seeing the figure seemingly walk through empty space towards you. Their voice was clear "you okay? Do you need any help?"
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Writing prompt You are a soldier from Earth that got isekai'd to a fantasy world, and quickly found yourself as a member of a friendly adventurer group.
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Writing prompt The world has ended and you've been alone for months. You find a charger pack and bring your phone back to life. Strangely, the internet is available. Stranger still, it's as if nothing happened, social media is as active as before.
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Writing prompt You never really felt as though you belonged with the rest of the human race; you never felt like you belonged at all. Nothing ever felt right, natural, normal. You never even felt like yourself. Today you found out why.
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Writing prompt The king had no choice but to use it. An ancient weapon from before the Age of Magic. "Orbital strike activated." The weapon said in a language long lost.
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Writing prompt You're walking down the street and someone appears before you. They tell you your world is a simulation and they're getting fired from the project and so decided to give you admin privileges.
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Writing prompt A universe claiming themselves to be Earth-One has been conquering and enslaving alternate version of earth for resources, after discovering multiversal travel. Sad for them, they chose your universe to be the next.
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Writing prompt You're a busboy working at a popular interdimensional restaurant.
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Writing prompt There is a bell that hangs in the middle of the town. It's been there as far as anyone remembers and then some. No one knows what its for. People just know that if it rings, something very very bad is about to happen.
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Writing prompt For the past month, every time you've fallen asleep you've awakened in a new fictional setting. This morning you wake up and realize you're in serious trouble...
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Writing prompt You hear a knock at your door. When you open it, you find your archnemesis sprawled out just past the threshold, battered, bruised, and very clearly only hanging onto life by a thread. "Sorry. It's just... I didn't know where else to go" they mutter as you look down at them.
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Writing prompt You have the power to travel between different dimensions and you end up in a place with millions of doors with a different and unique world inside every one. The only problem is that you forgot where the real world is.
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Writing prompt An undercover police officer enters a jail as an inmate to find a drug kingpin. Thing is, the drug kingpin knows this, and also knows that he is the only inmate who isn't an undercover cop.
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Writing prompt A random person with the power to travel the multiverse asks you to try and find the perfect universe.
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Writing prompt Superpower Subscription services are services where the user subscribes to a service, and for as long as they remain subscribed they possess powers of their choosing, the price of said subscription depends partially on what powers the user decides.
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Writing prompt You're a sickly, malnourished orphan in the streets of a large city. You're the last person anyone expects to save the world. You stumble into a modest little cafe to escape the rain. You're greeted by the owner, a lively and energetic toad man. "Come in and warm up! I've been waiting for you."
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Writing prompt "Now class, who can tell me why, across all alternate universes, the only constant is a planet Earth that is inhabited by humans? Yes Hannes from Earth 17?"
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Writing prompt "Welcome to the superhero registry. Name, powers, and secret identity please."
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Writing prompt July 12th, 2022. Everyone on the James Webb Telescope Imaging team is excited about the first super-deep-space image ever recorded.
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Writing prompt In an apocalyptic wasteland, you're one of the most important people. One that all seek. One that can mark the rise and fall of nations. One who can control all of civilizations. For you are one of the last farmers.
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Writing prompt A man walks into your workplace and takes out a gun. Nervous, but resolutely, he aims at you and says "I'm sorry, but you know the rules of the game."
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Writing prompt Everyone is gone, you are alone now.
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Writing prompt Contrary to most expectations, the first thing the UN did after making contact with a magic world was to trade.
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Writing prompt A Muslim girl snoops in her local mosque's basement and discovers a portal to another dimension.
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Writing prompt The supervillain prepared everything for this heist. Every little detail has been perfected. There's only one problem, the city superhero is nowhere to be seen.
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Writing prompt Every 100 years, time stops for the living, as the dead rise up and live once again for 100 years.
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The green-eyed tilted her head at her for a moment, then grinned broadly.
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Writing prompt A meteor strikes the Earth, and everyone seems to get superpowers... everyone except you. You'll do anything to figure out what yours are, but the world has changed and your options are desperate.
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"So, it's none of my business..," Britt said. "But, are you having trouble with not being normal? It's not that weird that you can talk to fish, you know?"
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Writing prompt You and 5 other people are transported to a warehouse. You hear a voice over the intercom. "I'm going to hunt y'all down, and whoever is the last man standing gets to live. Y'all have 10 seconds to start running"
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Writing prompt The miles-long alien ship impacted the ocean, devastating every coast on Earth with massive tsunami. "Scientists cannot explain the environmental changes or the emergence of strange powers or mutations, but they suspect nanobots and advise avoiding any golden mist" the reporter said.
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Writing prompt Tired of your insomnia you beg to whatever is watching to help you before this night's sleep, you wake up the next day having the best sleep of your life, and a notification on your phone of food you don't remember ordering with a note... "Thank you for using my services! - Dream Girl \<3"
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Writing prompt You wake up in a forest with no memory of how you got there. You find a note in your pocket. To escape, hunt the unicorn.
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Writing prompt You're a shopkeeper. A few times a month always different strangely dressed people visit your shop and murmur strange things looking at maps or history books. They also never pay using real money.
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Writing prompt Video games have become reality. You are at the point where you have to choose one to play for the rest of your life.
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