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Death's Door
Writing prompt A character of your choice witnesses something that puts him/her/them in danger. How do they react? What do they do next?
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Stellar Loyalty
Writing prompt NASA has been sending signals into space attempting extraterrestrial contact and we finally received our first response. "Are you idiots trying to get your planet consumed? Shut down that goddamn signal before they find you."
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Stellar Opponents
Writing prompt It is the 31st of August, and you are reading the update logs for Earth v2021.09 which will take effect the day after when you notice something out of the ordinary...
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Cherry's Choice
Writing prompt Multiverse, 1 universe invents dimensional teleportation, first test subject is ms, something goes wrong, you are in random universe now, hop between dimensions until you reach home, mc tries to survives/ find a way to go home in each new dimension.
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Stellar Equipment
Writing prompt You're known as the deadliest wizard in the realm, when in reality you're a gun enthusiast who was teleported to a magical land along with your... extensive collection.
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Parenthood: Majestic
Writing prompt The supervillain stared at the superhero. "I need you to help me... they took my daughter."
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Dragged In
Original prompt heading Smash 'Em Up Sunday! - Secretarybird.
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Justine Jets
Writing prompt For the longest time you've just wanted to have your existence erased. Everything about you gone, like you were never here to start with. Today someone finally said they could do it, for a price obviously.
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Sharp Metrics
Writing prompt High Elf Executive Branches, Dragon Treasurers, Dwarven Managers, and worst of all - HR. Life isn't easy as an office worker in a Fantasy Corporation.
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Sharp Scholarship
Writing prompt A year and a day is a long time to wait, but at the same time it was hardly enough time to prepare for what was coming.
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What a Riot.
Writing prompt As the hero utters the secret words, the light shines, music starts and their transformation begins! Yet instead of the normal and expected result, the hero has turned into something quite... different.
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Hand Holding
Writing prompt Like any fairytale princess you have been waiting in the tower for many, many years. You've always thought it'd be a knight who'd save you, but when the day came it wasn't a knight who saved you, but a....
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Sunlit Secret
Writing prompt "Don't open the door!" she screamed at the TV. "Who said that?!" asked the character on screen as he turned and locked eyes with her.
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Lunar Invitation
Original prompt heading Smash 'Em Up Sunday! - Humuhumunukunukuapua'a.
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Opportunities a-Pear
Writing prompt Everyone has super powers but mine isn't so great. I'm actually classed as "defective" as I've always told everyone I was born without one. At the end of the day, what sort of power is the ability to hear a person's inner theme tune?
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Pear'd Up
Writing prompt You have just won a golden ticket to a fictional world of your choice.
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Canta-decide-a
Writing prompt You're in hell, which is weird since you just faked your death.
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Hellish Notions
Writing prompt Hypothetically if there were or is an afterlife, design what you would envision as the perfect afterlife/heaven for you.
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Sharp Adjustments
Writing prompt A public service announcement for parents who think their children might be superheores.
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Royal Surprise
Writing prompt They called it "cleaning out the fridge". The facility was built for the containment of various supernaturals. They were systemically eliminating their catalogue going floor by floor. All was going well until they hit the basement level with its oldest "residents".
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Sharp Strategy
Original prompt heading Smash 'Em Up Sunday: Mad Libs VII.
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Rules Highlights for the Exhibition match between Green Tornados and Skull Crushers::
Rules Highlights for the Exhibition match between Green Tornados and Skull Crushers::
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Corporate Hell
Writing prompt You are a demon. Turns out that selling your soul in the small print of electronic contracts is 100% binding. Problem is, as it became standard practice in demonic circles, every human keeps selling their soul unknowingly over and over and... well.. it's now time to start collecting.
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Scientific. Opportunity.
Writing prompt A brilliant but impoverished scientist accidentally ends up being accepted to teach at a university for wizards. Desperate to pay off his debts, the scientist must pretend to teach magic, while actually teaching science.
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Sun. Gloss.
Writing prompt An isekai anime but instead of an average teenager, the entire city of New York gets transported to another world.
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Destiny: Hidden
Writing prompt Everyone has an official from the Bureau of Prophecies and Probabilities write down a prediction for you at or around the time of your birth. This prediction is then locked away until your sixteenth birthday at which time you can share it with anyone. The Bureau can't seem to find your file.
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Idle Interview
Writing prompt Japan is threatened by Godzilla. Only the Kamen Raiders can save us now!
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Zero Uniqueness
Writing prompt A teenager from a poor background learns they are a witch. They discover this when a talking animal keeps following them around asking to be their familiar. No one else can hear it speak so people think they are crazy. It promises to teach them how to use their magic if they accept them.
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Sharp End
Original prompt heading Smash 'Em Up Sunday: Huston/Shelley.
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[part b] Favored. ~Sun
[part b] Favored. ~Sun
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[part c] Game. Ruined.
[part c] Game. Ruined.
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Sweet Introduction
Writing prompt I helped out some fairies, and in thanks they gave me a bag of candy that never runs out. I just got back from the dentist, and....
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Love & Flutters
Writing prompt You're about to introduce your parents to your new girlfriend. She's the kindest, sweetest person you've ever met. Not mentioning she's also eight feet tall and can bench-press cars.
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Timey Tim
Writing prompt You are a normal person just eating chips in your living room, then suddenly a weird thing appears in the living. 15 time travellers from 2178 come to 2021 to visit you, because in 2030 you did something historically important.
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Cheating: Death
Writing prompt You are handed The Big Book of Universal Constants, a pencil, and an eraser.
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Masked: Truth
Writing prompt "You know, I used to be a god once," said your cat.
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Untitled story · 2021-09-11
Writing prompt An asteroid almost destroyed earth but a solar flare moved it out of the way, when scientists look where the flare come from on the sun it says in every language "You're Welcome".
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Driftwood Draggin'
Writing prompt An undercover agent of the Crown has infiltrated the world of piracy to catch a Corsair that has gone renegade. Contacts have assured them that they are at the infamous floating mobile pirates' cove, Driftwood. Only pirate captains know how to find it, so capturing this intel is vital as well.
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AlterNet Class
Writing prompt In a world otherwise much like our own, people have special abilities not unlike video game mechanics -- seeing dialogue options, special vision to locate useful items, being able to gain extra lives, and much, much more!
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A Very un-Special Episode
Writing prompt There never really is a chosen one, there are always chosen many, thousands upon thousands, each fitting into the vague language of each prophecy neatly, truthfully being a chosen one is frankly less special than winning the lottery.
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Quest for Vengeance
Writing prompt They shambled up to you, gun in hand. "Carry my legacy," they say, before they pass into dust, leaving nothing but their helmet and revolver.
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Meaty Mystery
Writing prompt There's a new sandwich shop in town staffed by witches. You're not entirely sure what's on the sandwich you're eating now, but it's really good. And the delivery girl on the broom was really cute.
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Great Moose Detective
Writing prompt Caffeine has been made illegal. However, this hasn't ended your job as a barista. Only changed the customers and delivery methods.
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Royal Regret
Writing prompt Everyone came out of their homes, staring up at the now red sky with unease. A countdown has appeared with the text 'god is coming...
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Spider. Student.
Writing prompt You have a superpower, but you never really use it. Not for any moral or legal reason, but because you don't like being the centre of attention.
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Dungeons & Pumpkins
Writing prompt You're a street vendor selling cheap street food at the city gate in an RPG's dungeon city. Your typical daily ledger: Taco, Sold, $10. Hot dog, Sold, $5. Enchanted Flaming Shortsword of Demonslaying, Bout, -$8300, and so on.
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Mettle Detector
Writing prompt This battle would be a true test of mettle.
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Mornin' Swarmin'
Writing prompt Despite a chaotic beginning, the day held promise.
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