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Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
Writing prompt [WP] During one of your urban exploration trips, you lose balance and fall off a bridge. As you brace yourself for impact, you get saved by something unexpected...
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Writing prompt [WP] Every single person has a superpower that they inherit from their parents. Your power is different, it's powerful, more powerful than anything ever seen before. One day you meet your father for the first time ever.
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Writing prompt [WP] You've finally done it! Climbed your way to the top of the top. In just a few moments your debriefing into the world's shadow government will begin.
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Writing prompt [WP] "I have a confession to make." "We're getting married tomorrow. I don't think anything can surprise me at this point in our relationship." "I'm a lich and I gave you my phylactery as your engagement ring."
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Writing prompt [WP] You never look forward to any family gatherings, much less Thanksgiving, when you're the only normal human born into a family of villains with super powers. And the last time you checked, your car was destroyed *thanks* to your cousin, who fought with a superhero two days ago...
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Writing prompt [WP] Three years after the apocalypse, you finally find a functioning computer. To your surprise, you successfully connect it to the Internet. A single website is still working and hundreds of users are posting on it daily.
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Original prompt heading [CW] Smash 'Em Up Sunday: Shopping
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Writing prompt [WP] Ted woke up, made a coffee, just like any other day. He looked around. Everything was the way it usually was. He went outside, and things looked exactly as they always do. He sighed. Then he felt it. Goosebumps rose on his arms. "It worked!" shouted Ted, knowing nothing would ever be the same.
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Writing prompt [SP] Suddenly Dragons
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Writing prompt [WP] After 7 days each person holding a golden ticket will have their life forever changed according to the UN. There are no rules to obtaining the ticket, but everyone can feel its presence if they're within close proximity. You are one of the 1 million golden ticket holders in the world.
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Writing prompt [WP] You are a scientist conducting research on an advanced AI. As you comb through the logs, you begin to realize that although air-gapped, the AI has been communicating with something external...something not from this world. In the last log, you discover the AI has extended an "invitation."
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Original prompt heading [WP] Feedback Friday - Hooks
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Writing prompt [WP] You always somehow know instictively the current population of the planet, accurate down to the last person. Yesterday the population was as usual over 7.7 billion, this morning however it is 77.
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Original prompt heading [WP] Smash 'Em Up Sundays
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Writing prompt [WP] You've always been able to see a counter above people's heads. Most people are zeros, an occassional one or two, but one day you notice your friend has a 10.
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Writing prompt [WP] At the stroke of midnight on January 1st, 2020, the first snow of the new year and the new decade fell. And it never stopped.
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Writing prompt [WP] You're an unsolved crimes investigator in the most prestigious law enforcement facility in the world. Your division recently acquired time travel technology.
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Writing prompt [WP] "What am I supposed to do? Have a barbecue?"
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Writing prompt [WP] You have a very weird roomate. He can be annoying and embarrassing. One day you had enough and about to kick him out but you saw him in nicer clothes. He gives you a suitcase filled with cash.
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Writing prompt [WP] When hanging a large, antique mirror, you mistakingly lose your hold on it. It falls off the mantel, but instead of hitting you over the head, you find yourself transported to another world.
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Original prompt heading [WP] Smash 'Em Up Sunday: Anticipation
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Writing prompt [WP] You've been protecting the city you live in for 7 years now with your powers, you got married 2 years ago, but you never expected to find out that your SO was the worst villain in the whole city.
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Writing prompt [WP] Some plucky teenagers come to you asking for aid in defeating the Dark Lord, not realizing who you are.
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Writing prompt [WP] It has been 3 years since everyone around you mysteriously vanished without a trace. You've since adapted to life alone, you have a dog with you, and you have set up a shelter in an area with lots of supplies. On one of your regular supply runs, you look down the street, and see another person.
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Writing prompt [WP] You, a brilliant mind with an incurable disease, are put into cryogenic stasis in the hopes that the future holds a cure. However, the pod malfunctions midway through, and when you wake, you find you're way off schedule. Even worse, technology has not advanced while you slept. It has regressed.
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Writing prompt [WP] You and your best friend on a road trip and you break suddenly. Your friend flies out the window and lands with a cracking sound. You look on in horror as he stands up, skin broken, and sparks flying from the wires under his skin. "I can explain."
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
Writing prompt [WP] Somehow, your kindly old grandma managed to gain superpowers.
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Writing prompt [WP] Christmas morning comes, and after a deep sleep you wake and head for the living room. All seems normal until you see a boxed gift under the tree that wasn't there the night before...and the box is moving.
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
Writing prompt [WP] The last thing you remember is a car crash. A disembodied voice says, "I didn't like that ending. Go back." Everything goes blank and you wake up 5 days ago.
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Writing prompt [WP] For as long as you can remember, you have the power to control time like a VCR. You extensively use the play, stop, rewind, and fast-forward abilities. However, on one day, you attempt the eject button.
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
Writing prompt [WP] Flash Fiction Challenge! Airport | Candy Cane
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Writing prompt [WP] The demon stares at you, wrapping his bathrobe around himself tighter before taking the toothbrush out of his mouth "Botch the summoning, huh? Welcome to hell"
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Writing prompt [WP] 24 hours ago, everyone in the world started hearing a countdown to zero. It's 10 minutes from now.
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
Writing prompt [WP] You wake up one day with the strange ability to pull an Oreo out of any pocket, whether or not there was an Oreo there beforehand.
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Writing prompt [WP] You wouldn't exactly call it a superpower, but you are a unique individual. You can see "links" between people and read what they are. Those two are secretly dating. Those two have been married for 27 years. Those two hate each other.
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Writing prompt Generations of us left our Earthen home to explore the vast darkness of space. We only found barren rocks dancing around dying stars. We introverted, with virtual worlds becoming our next frontier. It was the last place we thought we would find alien life.
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"What the hell do you think you're doing?" A voice filled the air moments after Albert stopped time. The mid-20s man froze time so that he wouldn't be late to a movie. It was the first time he ever heard anyone else duri
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Writing prompt [WP] You wake up, and it's January 1, 2010. Everyone remembers the events of the past decade.
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Writing prompt [WP] You are the world's greatest hero. You haven't been challenged in five years. You worry about your legacy. So you go out to find a villain that can properly test you.
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Writing prompt [WP] "Have you ever danced with the devil under the pale moonlight?" Why yes, yes you have. In fact you have a date with him right this evening.
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"Corn?" I questioned.
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Original prompt heading [WP] Smash 'Em Up Sunday: Mysteries
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Writing prompt [WP] You're in school, and a kid that always acted strange just went to the restroom carrying an odd leather book. You follow him to the bathroom, and you secretly watch as he performs a spell.
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Writing prompt [WP] In the distant future, police is able to know the victim of a crime a few seconds in advance but not the nature of the crime. One seemingly normal day you receive a phone call from the police: "911, what's your emergency?"
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Writing prompt [WP] The Earth is invaded by a far more technologically advanced alternate universe. Only you can save us. You see, the tyrant who took over the world, advanced technology thousands of years and invaded the multiverse is an alternate you, and you might just be able to talk you down.
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Writing prompt [WP] You're a kindergarten teacher. One of your student's mom's meets with you on the first day of school and demands that you never let her son draw a triangle. She doesn't explain why, but is aggressively persistent. You decide to ask him to draw you a triangle at the end of the first day.
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Writing prompt [WP] On a whim, you type into google search "Are you awake?". The screen goes white, and a cursor shows up, and slowly, "yes i Am awake" appears on your screen.
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Writing prompt [WP] Being a billionaire has its perks, stocks in Hell have just come up for sale and you are now majority shareholder controlling over 50% of voting shares.
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