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Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
Writing prompt [WP] Bored and fed up, you jokingly ask Google "OK Google, find me another reality", your phone pings and gives you directions to a clearing in a nearby forest.
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Writing prompt [WP] Most of your life has been great. Popular in school, played on the baseball team, pretty girlfriend you married, got a job at her dad's law firm. You live a nice picturesque life. That's why it would be terrible if they found out. It's not like it's illegal, technically. No one can find out....
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Writing prompt [WP] You and your drinking buddies find yourselves on another world trying to slay a dragon because Steve was curious and called the number he saw scrawled on the bathroom stall.
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Writing prompt [WP] You're a firefighter 4 days from retiring when you get some bad news.
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Writing prompt [WP] A traditional, cliche horror story but the characters are not dumb fucks.
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"I GIVE UP!" Greg pleaded.
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Writing prompt [WP] The vampires, necromancers, and all other practitioners of dark magic believe their powers come from Satan, or some other unholy source. You, a skeptical scientist, are so eager to prove them wrong.
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Writing prompt [WP] Every full moon, a bridge appears, with no end in sight. One night, you decide to take it, to find out the other side.
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"Up until now, son
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Writing prompt [WP] One morning when leaving to work you notice something odd soon after you close the door. It is dead silent in the city. When walking to the bus stop you notice that no one is moving, not even when pushed. All of a sudden you hear someone shout "Why are you moving? No one should be able to move!"
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Writing prompt [WP] A small technology company holds their first "Bring your kid to work" day! All the employees bring their children to an all hands meeting that morning, where the CEO makes an important announcement...
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"This won't hurt a bit,"
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Writing prompt [WP] It's been a year since you graduated from the academy for gifted individuals, where you learned to control your super powers, and you've since been living a normal life as a functioning citizen of society, only using your powers in private. This day, however, you get a call from an old teacher.
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Writing prompt [WP] You've got a super power that lets you heal people so well you can even bring someone dead back to life each time you use this power no one remembers who you are. All documents about you vanish and evne memories of you no longer exists.
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Writing prompt [WP] You're only still alive because the window was open when they came
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Writing prompt [WP] There's a website where you can input any decision you may take and it will tell you how many people will die from that decision. One day you're bored and decide to type for fun "Kill my neighbor". The number on screen is negative.
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Writing prompt [WP] You don't even remember plugging in the old rotary phone when you moved into the house. The fact that it's been ringing repeatedly for the last five minutes means you have, and the line must be active. Though when you pick up the receiver, that's when things really get strange.
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Writing prompt [WP] The world is split into its hemispheres through a giant wall. In the southern half lives society. In the Northern half live those who are exiled for their crimes. You become one of the exiled, and upon moving to the Northern half, you're shocked to see how things actually are.
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Writing prompt [WP] An advanced AI designed to devise weaponry and military strategy keeps almost exclusively arriving at benign, benevolent, cooperative, or mutually benificial ways of solving strategic problems and achieving national aims.
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Writing prompt [WP] You're on the window seat of the plane and everyone is asleep. You look out the window, and to your shock, all the clouds are purple. You pinch yourself. Hey wait, they are definitely green now.
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Writing prompt [WP] Earth gets an eviction notice from the higher ups. We are to be moved into a different planet by the end of the week.
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Original prompt heading [WP] Smash 'Em Up! Sunday
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Writing prompt [WP] You can control the weather using an app on your phone. One day you try to impress a girl you like with your powers. You soon find out that "control" is a loose term.
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Writing prompt [WP] a serial killer abducts you when you wake up you are surrounded by five others all of which have a DnD guide book and figures in front of them the serial killer is the DM and when you die in the game or refuse to play you are killed.
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Writing prompt [WP] You're the only person in your neighborhood your ornery old neighbor tolerates. They even like you, in their own way. When they die, they leave you everything they own. Properties, accounts, collectibles, you got it all. However, you were not prepared for what was in their garage out back.
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Writing prompt [WP] You are a doctor at a psychiatric hospital, working special cases. For some reason all of your patients believe themselves to be either some kind of superhero, or anime protagonist.
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Writing prompt [WP] You hook up with a girl, and her Ex tries to kill you by summoning a demon. When the demon sees you, he smiles and asks how you have been.
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Writing prompt [SP] "Wait, so you want me to become the next death?"
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Writing prompt [WP] The first words a person's destined love speaks to them are somehow imprinted on the inside of their arm long before the two ever meet face to face. However, your arm is mysteriously blank. No one can figure out why.
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Writing prompt [WP] It is said that in the world's greatest time of need, deities and other mythological figures from around the world will return to support their places of origin. Now is that time.
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Writing prompt [SP] It was sealed away for an eternity. An eternity has passed for it, and the seal has broken.
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Writing prompt [WP] A four-year old discovers that they can freeze time when they are being babysat one night.
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Writing prompt [WP] In a world of superpowers, your power is that you get sent a few hours back in time whenever you die. This made you a famous superhero during the days, but now you're old and on your deathbed. You're frustrated because you're stuck in a respawning loop.
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Writing prompt [WP] You are a government employee whose family disappeared under mysterious circumstances years ago. You decide to travel back in time to investigate and try to save your family, however, time travel is illegal and you are now being hunted.
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Writing prompt [WP] You recently proposed to your high school girlfriend but she has a dark secret about her family she has yet to tell you.
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Writing prompt [WP] Every day, at 10:45, he sits there. The same man, the same suit. Waiting. If you look again, he's gone. Then one day, you sit in his spot and wait.
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Writing prompt [WP] One night, at a bar, you order the club special. As you drink it, the world melts away. The bartender speaks, "What you see now is the real world. They pump poison into your veins to keep you complacent. I just gave you the antidote, but it won't last. Will you join the resistance?"
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Writing prompt [WP] The sound of the wooden floor cracking is become louder and louder by the second. You can feel that something dark and monstrous is approaching you, but you cannot see it with your naked eyes. You are the only one alive in the task force.
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Writing prompt [WP] You're a straightedge suburban homeowner who's never done anything illegal. One day you notice that an unmarked vehicle has been parked in front of your house for 3 days straight. You wave to the vehicle; it speeds off. Tomorrow it's outside once more.
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Writing prompt [WP] A demon is summoned by an ancient ritual. Seeing a lone human as the summoner, the demon expects to be asked for fortune or power or something generic. "Please help us," the pitiful human whimpers, "our planet is in danger."
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Writing prompt [WP] You've been in a strange relationshp for the past year with a person on the phone who called you by mistake. Finally, you both decide to meet but when you're both in the same location you figure out somehow you both exist in different realities.
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Writing prompt [WP] You go to the fridge to see if there's anything to eat, despite it being practically empty the last three times you checked this hour. But when you open it, it's completely full.
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Writing prompt [WP] Every year, the worst 10% of humanity disappears. You show up to work Monday to find that the deli manager is missing.
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Writing prompt [WP] After thousands of years of slumber, an ancient evil has finally reawakened... in the middle of a war zone.
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Writing prompt [WP] Homeless, hungry, and desperation for connection, you find yourself face to face with Satan under an overpass offering a deal. Difference is though, it's not your soul he wants, but something much more personal.
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Writing prompt [WP] You always kept your interest in the occult a secret from your religious parents, fearful of what they would do. During your latest ritual, they appeared ...inside the summoning circle.
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Writing prompt [WP] You're having trouble sleeping when you realize your clock has stopped ticking.
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Writing prompt [WP] An archeological expedition unearths the long forgotten tomb of an ancient king. To the horror of the archeologists the mummy rises from the dead, horror that quickly shifts to confusion as the mummy just seems to be mildly annoyed at being woken up.
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