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Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
Writing prompt [WP] Affordable lab created meat is a reality, and your company is the market leader. You're in a meeting brainstorming on new product ideas, when an intern raises his hand to speak. "Since we just need a few cells to grow it, how about human steak?"
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
Writing prompt [WP] A man in a black suit walks into the room, he has a large black book in his hands and looks at you with piercing eyes. He smiles and speaks: "You have been chose."
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Writing prompt [WP] Turning the dial, you try once more to find the signal. It's been a week since you last heard it, and it has haunted your every waking moment. This time you will not rest until you have understood its meaning.
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Writing prompt [WP] God comes down to say he's going to give you a chance to better the world how you'd see fit. You now have three chances to tell a lie that all who hear will believe as pure truth. Whatever you say all will believe no matter what but they must hear it directly from you be it one person or a group.
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Writing prompt [WP] You and a coworker get stuck in a lift due to some malfunction. He looks at you and sighs. "Look, you might suffer from some residual effects, but I really need to get out of here. I have a meeting that I just can't miss. He makes some hand motions and in a flash of light, disappears.
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Writing prompt [WP] The demon stands before you, "For the past 10 years, you have led your ideal, perfect life. As we agreed then, it is now time for me to collect your soul." You reach into your pocket & casually toss him the keys to your Kia.
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Writing prompt [WP] You're sitting in a coffee shop surrounded by strangers but then it dawns on you that these were the same "strangers" who were in the restaurant where you had dinner last night. You head to the beach and realize again that the people around you are once more the same.
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"I wish I were the
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Writing prompt [WP] All the super heroes nemeses come together to discuss how to finally destroy the super heroes but talks are interrupted by a more pressing concern. Is supervillain or super villain the correct spelling since spell check with correct you if using supervillain but Google doesn't. Arguments ensue.
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Writing prompt [WP] A witches child was found and raised by a witch hunter, their sibling escaped and grew up to be the highest ranked of all witches. After so long apart the two finally reunite.
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Writing prompt [WP] You're working a minimum wage fast food job when you make an offhanded comment about the weather to a customer. He looks confused, and starts muttering about how you're "an NPC" and "shouldn't be able to do that".
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Writing prompt [WP] Scientists mocked you when you announced a new therapy that would infuse and restore magic to the world. They laughed at you when you said you could bring back the age of dragons. Several devastated major metropolitan cities later, no one's laughing anymore.
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Writing prompt [WP] A frantic woman approaches you, shaking. "What year is it?" she asks. "2020" you respond. "Good, there's still time." Then she runs off. But she dropped something unusual.
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Writing prompt [WP] A co-worker of yours winds a music box every hour on the hour, claiming if they don't, something bad will happen. One day, frustrated by the constant chiming of the box, someone smashes it. Describe what happens next.
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Writing prompt [WP] "Why Universe?!?! Why do you hate me?!?!" You shout tone day out of frustration from your seemingly endless string of bad luck. You never expected for the universe to answer back, however.
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Writing prompt [WP] A person is walking down the street and they see their Ex go into the local cafe with someone. Against better judgement they go take a peek through the window. The couple inside is smiling and laughing, they glance a look at who's sitting across from their Ex and it is...themself.
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Writing prompt [WP] "...coming to you live after the devastating attacks on major cities around the world. This just in, I'm receiving word that yes, God has claimed responsibility for these attacks."
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Writing prompt [WP] "I told you, we grow babies in the other lab". Stopping in his tracks Cameron said "Wait......what?" I replied coldly "Why do you think no one is allowed on the seventh floor?" Looking confused Cameron said "There is no seventh floor!"
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Writing prompt [WP] "Heroes never rest" That's what your boss said when you asked for a day off. You're a superhero working for a hero team, although you love what you do, the work conditions are terrible. You just want some free time and health insurance and you're not going to stop until you get it.
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Writing prompt [WP] The discovery of an alternate dimension has provided humanity an untouched, uninhabited second earth. Passing between the two dimensions was as easy as booking a flight, or at least it was until an unexplained phenomena caused you to be the only one who could do it.
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Writing prompt [WP] Picking out a pet at the local shelter, your 4yo daughter runs to an empty kennel and shouts "I like this one!" Struggling to see the dog, you then notice splashes from the water bowl. "Naww he even drinks cute! Can we keep him?" You turn around to find the owner curiously staring at you two...
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Writing prompt [WP] You are a demon charged with corrupting mortal souls. Your plan is to give good advice to get them to trust you, then corrupt them. But as time goes on, you grow to like the good deeds that result from your advice. Hell is not happy with your lack of progress...
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
Writing prompt [WP] The scientists looked puzzled, trying to figure out how the man in front of them got there. The note tied to his hand wrote: "Dear Universe 441-B-2, he's your problem now. May the luck be on your side."
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Writing prompt [WP] "I bet my soul," you say confidently. "If you win, you take my soul. If I win, you give me something just as valuable." You go on to win the bet, only to be granted a single $1 bill.
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
"What's that yellow one!?"
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Writing prompt [WP] You visit a fortune teller for your twentieth birthday. However, you accidentally trip over and snap a wire... only to be told that the wire was your path of fate.
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Writing prompt [WP] You have just moved into your new apartment. You've joined your building's Facebook page. At 1:00am, people start posting weird things. "He's back. Get ready."
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Writing prompt [WP] Everyone is born with a tattoo of their native country, if your partly a different race as well that flag also appears. But one day, children all across the globe are born with a flag that has never been seen before.
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
Writing prompt [WP] It's a dystopian future America, and you're a government official. You're on the run from a bunch of delinquent teenagers with "special" abilities who claim the government is corrupt and have successfully started a revolution to enforce their rules on the once fairly peaceful country.
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
Writing prompt [WP] As you are watching the news, breaking news is announced that time travel has finally been achieved. The very next second, an explosion happens on your yard. You look out the window to see a huge fleet of armed people on your front lawn. They begin to move toward your door.
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
Writing prompt [WP] You are at your job pretending to work when your boss frantically rushes into your cubicle with a promise of a raise if you pretend to be him for 5 minutes. You are sitting there fumbling for words when three men in suits walk up to you both and ask, "Which one of you is Mr. Vincent?"
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Writing prompt [WP] After an incredibly stressful shift, a waitress thinks her last customer stiffed her on the bill, writing only "Worthy" in the tip-line, and leaving her what turns out to be a magical dagger, disguised as a ballpoint pen.
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Writing prompt [WP] You just mmoved into your new apartment. You're putting dishes away when you find a locked box in a cupboard. On the box is a sticky note that says "Please don't open or else".
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Writing prompt [WP] You wake up 7 minutes before your alarm, as you head down the hallway you notice everything is a low rendered wireframe version of your house interior. You hear scurrying and a voice whisper "commence quick launch simulation world 63,239,430 we have an unscheduled early rise here."
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Original prompt heading [WP] Smash 'Em Up Sunday!
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Writing prompt [WP] "That's cursed. That's cursed. That's broken..."
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Writing prompt [WP] You were just a normal person, or so you thought. Until one day, you discovered you had the ability to freeze & unfreeze time. Being the good person you are, you use this power to save people from dying (usually from fatal accidents). Everything went well, until Death knocked on your door.
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Writing prompt [WP] On their sixteenth birthday, all children get their familiar: a magical animal that can share its attributes with its master. Your friends have familiars like tigers, wolves, and bears. You have a spider.
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
Writing prompt [WP] You wanted to be a hero, so you made a deal with the Devil.
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Writing prompt [SP] "I want to be immortal!"
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Writing prompt [SP] "Do whatever you want" He spat, a mixture of blood and saliva. "I won't say nothing!"
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Writing prompt [WP] For as long as you can remember, you've seen a timer above every person's head, telling you the exact moment they'll die. One day while making your commute to work, a man in a suit accidentally bumps into you. He hurriedly apologizes as you stare at the infinity symbol hovering above his head.
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
Writing prompt [WP] In a world of heroes, powers are determined by tattoos. The most powerful ones are completely covered, but that's not always the case. You are the first person to get a dragon tattoo.
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Writing prompt [WP] You use multiple identities in your line of work, and the top ten list of your field ended up all secretly you. Tomorrow is a competition to decide who is the best of them all, and you are sent 10 invitations.
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
Writing prompt [CW] Flash Fiction Challenge A garage|A bow
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Writing prompt [WP] You're able to gather meaning form any writing in any language. You think it's pretty cool until you visit Stonehenge and read it as "WARNING - DANGER ZONE"
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
Writing prompt [WP] One day the snow started falling and it never stopped.
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Writing prompt [WP] The world was normal till 20 seconds ago when everyone blacked out for 1 hour. When everyone woke up some people said they heard a bell chime but what's more scary is now fantasy creatures exist. Elves, Orks, Trolls and so on now exists with whole new continents for them.
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