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Writing prompt In a world full of superheroes you're looking for a partner in more than just teamwork, and sign up for speed dating. Now you and your current tablemate have a minute and a half each to share your crime-fighting abilities and compatible relationship traits.
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Writing prompt Your thoughts usually drift to a variety of topics while in school. You never really paid much attention to who was around you or what you were doing. Another day goes by of your usual listlessness when someone comes up to you and says hi.
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Writing prompt A young boy in the middle ages wishes for a better life one night. When he wakes up, he finds himself in the middle of a modernized magitek fantasy city, surrounded by mythical creatures staring at him in shock.
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Writing prompt The demon lord plunged his sword through the heroes chest, he whispers into his ear "Shoulda had a v8". The hero looks to him and asks "You're from Earth?" The demon lord's eyes go wide as he realized he just killed the only connection to his old life.
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Writing prompt A story where the world is ending, but that is not the topic or focus.
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Writing prompt As an immortal it is common to see time pass by. TEchnology advance, nations rise and fall, and friends pass away. After being incarcerated in the 1800's you just finished serving a 218 year long life sentence.
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Writing prompt The sun has began "blinking" on and off at irregular intervals for about a week. Further observations reveal that the blinks are actually morse code.
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Writing prompt You're the best swordsmith in your kingdom. Your blades are the sharpest and toughest, your axes the keenest. A farmer would sell his house to get just one of your tools. Your secret? Your pet baby dragon. But now it's growing bigger and you have no idea what to do.
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Writing prompt After having the absolute worst day of your life, you take a walk hoping to clear your head. Suddenly, an odd flyer catches your attention; "Tired of your lonely, joyless life? Sign up now and become a sorcerer today! Anyone can learn magic, and so can you!" You call the number and sign up.
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Writing prompt Your stuck in a school during a winter when a zombie outbreak happens.
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Writing prompt Walking to your school you notice a strange bush. It wasn't there before, so you step closer to it. You find yourself inside your house again. Turns out, you glitched the game respawned back to your last save. Oh also, you're in a video game.
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Writing prompt A young vampire princess sneaks away from home to explore and witnesses other races like humans, high elves, wood elves, dark elves, dwarfs, orcs, werewolves, centaurs, merfolk and dragons for the first time. Her curiosity overwhelms her and she decides to investigate their camp.
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Writing prompt A bloodied up child knocks on your door in the middle of the night, asking that you let her in. A man stands across the street watching.
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Writing prompt Whoever pulled the sword from the stone would rule all of Camelot. But over time borders change, and on the day the sword is pulled free all that's left of Camelot is a run down shopping mall.
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Writing prompt You are walking along a deserted beach one afternoon, when you see what appears to be an antique bottle floating in the surf just a few feet from shore. Upon collecting and opening the bottle, you remove a large map with a list of names of notorious pirates and the exact locations of their loot.
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Writing prompt You are sent to be killed under claims of witchery, though you are not a witch. The night before you are to be killed a strange person save you...
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Writing prompt On an expedition to find a legendary lost civilization, the team slowly comes to realize that they are all spies sent by various powers to secure ancient technologies and treasures. In fact, there isn't a single real archaeologist among them.
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Writing prompt Captains love to exaggerate stories, your ability to view the truth makes it very entertaining to see what they changed, this captain claims that he won a fight against a storm, that he built his first ship out of dirt and rocks, and that he tamed every beast on an island, you detect no lies...
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Writing prompt The zombie apocalypse hit, and you ran to your crazy prepared uncle's bunker. Instead of fresh water and rations, you find potions and elixirs. instead of guns and ammo, you find staves and grimoires.
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Writing prompt Someone just tried to mug you. Next to a graveyard, and you're a necromancer.
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Writing prompt You are an unemployed, low level monster in a generic fantasy setting who must face their most difficult task yet: applying for the position of an evil minion for a new master.
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Writing prompt You're a doctor for magical creatures.
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Writing prompt A first person death game/obstacle course where all participants are equally likely to die. If the person you are writing the view from dies, it jumps to another contestant.
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Writing prompt Defeated by the villain, the hero has only one weapon left: Wit. So, in an act of desperation to keep the villain occupied until help comes, they ask: "Now what? What do you do since you've won?" It gives the villain pause.
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Ten minutes later, Real Glenn stood in front of the mirror in a pitch dark dressing room. He needed to cover the window blinds with blankest to prevent light coming in. He taped over all device LEDs in the room and hung
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Writing prompt Your wife brings an old antique mirror home from a local thrift shop one day. You begin to notice that your reflection, and ONLY your reflection, is taunting you...
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Writing prompt Throughout the years of being a time travelling agent, you have learnt that one cannot change the past. This begs the question: Why does the agency send agents on lethal missions that, through the influence of agents, have a terrible outcome.
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Writing prompt She looks at you, eyes wide, filled with tears of joy. The earth around her was cracked and destroyed, nothing left, but you are happy, you've found her. "Buddy!" she yelled, "Bark!" you replied.
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Writing prompt After waking up, you find yourself in the middle of a seemingly infinite white space.
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Writing prompt Diagnosed with an uncurable disease, you opt to be cryogenically preserved until a cure is found. Imagine your surprise when you wake up, only to find you have been claimed as part of a dragon's hoard, and they're staring at you right now.
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Writing prompt "So what do you collect?" "tattoos" "but you don't have any...?" "I collect... other people's tattoos."
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Writing prompt The secret agent has dragged you along, blowing up buildings and flipping cars, because they heard you graduated at the top of your CIA class. But what could a secret agent want with a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America?
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Writing prompt "That is, without a doubt, the stupidest thing I've ever seen. What could we possibly be fighting that we need a platform of artillery pieces with silencers," you ask the grim-faced general.
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"Fog rolling in, Sir!" a private shouted. All three heads turned to look out at the countryside. The sun was completely out now, though not very high. But, the fog bank seemed to be moving towards the base with purpose.
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Writing prompt "You see those shining dots on the night sky? No, those aren't stars, that's a barrage of non-nuclear ICBMS coming your way."
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Writing prompt You found the book, did the ritual, and the demon came out of the portal you made- All according to plan! You even prepared a contract and everything! So... Why won't they take your soul?!
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Writing prompt You become the hero the city deserves, but not the one it needs.
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Writing prompt A device was created meant to allow the user to see anything, anywhere. It was considered a failure because it failed to produce any image at all. That is, until it became apparent that the universe is very big, and much of it empty. The device's lens simply required a little bit of focus...
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Writing prompt An underwater expedition to find Atlantis was a complete success! However instead of having mermen and Greek statues, the lost city bears an eerie resemblance to a metropolis of modern day.
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Writing prompt Write a short story containing these three words or elements in it: midnight, terrace, murder.
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Writing prompt In the multiverse, there is a universe where a watch was invented that can pause time for all but the wearer. Tragically, the wearer used it to take a nap, but had a heart attack and died in their sleep. Now every time a traveler enters that universe, they get stuck in temporal stasis.
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Writing prompt Everyone wakes up tomorrow in a random bed.
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Writing prompt "Home seems so far away now..."
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Writing prompt Someone walks up to you acting like they've known you for years, you have never met this person.
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Writing prompt With Valentine's Day fast approaching, you've been scrambling to get a date. You decide it's time to really put yourself out there, so you sign up as a volunteer to colonize and populate Mars.
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Writing prompt You went on a journey with the person you love the most to a new imaginary world where everything is serene and happy.
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Writing prompt You're a normal person going about their day, when you run into a man running around in underwear with what appear to be... machine guns? When asked 'what the hell he's doing' the man responds with "speedrunning the game, not that an npc would understand that though."
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Writing prompt The world as you know it has ended. There was a massive war that wiped out most of the world's population. You took refuge in an abandoned house deep in the woods, living off the surrounding land. One night after not seeing a soul for a year, you hear a knock at the door.
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