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Writing prompt You wake up and a mysterious entity tells you that all major events that happened and will happen in your life are directly influenced by the speaker. Your life isn't too bad, but not too good either, which makes you ask that entity why it has an eye on you.
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Writing prompt You knew the company you signed up with for your WFH gig was in a different time zone, but you've just realized that their present is two years in your past.
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Writing prompt After walking into the wrong orientation you find yourself working for a spy agency. The boss knows you shouldn't be there but they can't afford another mistake on their record or they will lose their job. As such they have partnered you, a normal citizen, with their best agent.
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Writing prompt The apocalypse won't stop Joe's Pizza from fulfilling its "30 minutes, or It's Free!" guarantee.
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Writing prompt A mediocre wizard searches for items to boost their power. He/She finds a strange hut which has a 'special goods for sale' sign. They enter... "What's this hideous thing?" "It's an item you can use without incantation... it's called a gun and there's much more I can show you."
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Writing prompt Countless adventurers have attempted to get the relic you guard, all have failed. But now this wimpy bard seems to be trying something else.
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Writing prompt You're the last player of a long dead MMORPG. You've played alone for years. Today, a new player created a character.
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Writing prompt Wizard duels are highly formalized. You state what spell you are casting, so your opponent has a chance to react. This makes it a battle of magical power and wit, rather than reaction speed. Your magic has always been weak. But you discovered a curious spell called simply: "Gun".
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Writing prompt You're back from a tour, and now you and your girlfriend are just chilling.
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Writing prompt It's just a normal day at the market. No, seriously, it's just a normal day. There's no twist.
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Writing prompt You have the ability to see souls. One day, you walk by someone and notice that their soul is missing.
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Writing prompt In the distant future, kids of a certain age have their "Potential" values checked by machines, and it determines their lives. It's your turn this year and all you get is "Error".
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Writing prompt A regular person with a regular life is stopped in their tracks by a couple Time Agents who appeared out of nowhere with accusations of "Temporal Crimes Against Humanity".
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Writing prompt Almost immediately after the invention of the time machine, one guy said he would go back in time to kill his own grandmother. He never returned. Nobody knows exactly how time travel paradoxes are resolved because anybody who creates one never comes back.
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Writing prompt You keep finding heart drawings left for you in your room. The thing is, you live in a remote research station and the nearest human is on a different continent.
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Writing prompt Regardless of genre or context, write scene where a character has gone days without food and sleep but has to keep going.
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Writing prompt The HERO slams into the Dark Lord's throne room, ready for battle! And finds a nondescript man sitting at a large table covered in paperwork. "School budgets... school budgets.. Where are the..Ah! Oh, another hero. Could you wait to fight? I need to get this done before the end of the month."752 words.
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Writing prompt Your sibling is the chosen one, upon learning this, everyone started to spoil them. But the thing no one else seems to notice is that they're utterly incompetent, so you decided to train, learn, and gather resources, to get the attention of your parent (oh and also to save the world.)
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Writing prompt "A special place in hell." Usually this saying is for the most vile and wicked people to be specifically tormented by what they've done. However, you're in line looking at your waiting ticket: "#267,822,000: Interview for 10th Circle Admission" The sign is currently serving #267,821,998.
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Writing prompt Somewhere in nevada...
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Writing prompt The Hero that saved the Princess except it's a bandit who took a wrong turn in his forest.
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Writing prompt You are known as the great oracle your prophecies have never been wrong. The only problem is you have been making them up this whole time and you don't know why it keeps working.
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Writing prompt You're walking down the street when suddenly a stranger dressed in weird clothes stops you and asks: "excuse me, could you tell me what year is this?"
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Writing prompt "Ohh yeah yeah I totally get what you're saying!" You did not get what they were saying.
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Writing prompt As a supervillain, you don't usually receive requests for personal appearances. So it comes as a surprise when you are contacted by the Make A Wish foundation.
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Writing prompt For years, you've been going up the mountain, visiting the beautiful woman sealed in glass, bound in chain, seated within runes upon runes. Now, you've found a way to free her.
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Writing prompt You've always hated dating and never got any hits. To switch things up, you join a dating app for mythical creatures and gods, you are the first human ever to join and inundated with offers.
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Writing prompt You just died, and the 12 demons, 7 faeries, 3 gods, and even Satan himself that you sold your soul to have all come to collect.
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Writing prompt There are various villainous expies of Superman, including Hyperion, the Homelander, Omni-Man, Brandon Breyer, the Plutonian, etc. Introduce your own villainous expy of a mainstream superhero(ine) other than Superman.
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Writing prompt A super intelligent AI killed all of humanity, now years later said AI is wondering if that was the right thing to do.
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Writing prompt You are watching the last sunset go down with someone you care deeply for. Not wanting to waste this moment, you try to figure out what to say to and do with them as the sun goes down.
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Writing prompt You fell in love with the sun, but now you only ever catch glimpses of her. You want her back.
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Writing prompt As a science project, you were entrusted to fully develop a planet. Checking it every once in a while, you noticed your planet had become infested with humans. You attempt to clear out the infestation.
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Writing prompt A girl finds a collection of old comic books in her grandfather's attic, and is intrigued by a advertisements on the back pages. As a joke, she calls the number and orders an item. When it arrives, she is surprised to find that it actually works!
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Writing prompt The one and only tree of the Signate species is in the atrium of the King's home. The shape of the leaf is so unique from other species that leaves are used as official seals. A thief steals a Signate seed for an unknown purpose.
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Writing prompt You work at ExistaBrew, the best coffee house in reality, serving all manner of deities, demons, spirits, and monsters. There's one customer who seems to think pretty highly of himself, though, and nobody enjoys serving him. He calls himself 'God'.
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Writing prompt The evil has been defeated, the world is saved. Now the hero must face the reality of being obsolete and no longer having a purpose in life.
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Writing prompt You've always been able to tell if someone is speaking the truth. Today, a man walked into your bar with the most fantastic of stories. Only, all of them seem to be true.
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Writing prompt You have always been loyal to a fault. You've done many horrible deeds, ignoring your empathy or compassion, all for the one you follow.
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Writing prompt You accidentally summon a demon, and they want you to sign a contract for the thing you most desire. What the demon doesn't know, however, is that you're a very prestigious contract negotiator.
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Writing prompt A mall where all the tenants, excluding anchors, are actually doorways to pocket dimensions.
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Writing prompt Reincarnation isreal and when you die you remember all the memories from your past lives, but you wake up to and hear "I can't believe we saved him" and you remember everything.
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Writing prompt Unlike the stories, a Fairy Ring is actually a prison, you just destroyed one and you have no idea what has been released.
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Writing prompt Your phone broke yesterday, so you took it to one of those repair kiosks to get it fixed. The operator decides to crack the case open while you are there, when you both notice that the inside of your phone is completely empty.
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Writing prompt The gravitation field of a nearby star has slowed down the tangential velocity of Earth. Earth will now start spiraling inwards towards the sun. Scientists say it will take around 48 days for the planet and everything on it to become ash.
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Writing prompt On top of the tallest mountain, the great village sage rests. Not many come and visit him. Why? Because he's actually an insufferable person that makes anyone forget what they came there for.
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Writing prompt In this more enlightened days, a vampire can simply go to a supermarket to get a few hundred cc of blood. It even comes in a variety of options such as iron-rich, added-caffeine and barbecue.
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Writing prompt Your Ex keeps summoning spirits, gods, and demons to destroy you but it seems like they like you too much to do it.
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