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Entertaining Hunt
Writing prompt You've been kidnapped by a gang of lunatics that hunt people for sport, what they don't know however is that you're not human.
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Stellar Courtesy
Writing prompt You've somehow slipped into the Backrooms, and hearing about every internet post about it, it fills you with dread and terror. Traversing the halls however, you notice that it's awfully empty. No monsters lurking in corners, no survivors leaving signs. And it's the most peace you felt in years.
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Stellar Discovery
Writing prompt A team of scientists discover how to communicate with a parallel Earth. Years later, we share a unified Internet and people from each side openly communicate but the hardest thing is when two people fall in love with each other online but discover they are quite literally worlds apart.
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Sharp Soil
Writing prompt You're NASA and some rando dingleberry from the general public started selling Mars dirt for 5billion per pound. They seem to have a large supply of them, and the dudes at the NASA lab say its real fucking Mars dirt. How.
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Awake at Home
Writing prompt Ever since you moved into the neighborhood, weird things keep happening. You get a DNA sample and a dossier in your pizza box instead of a pizza. Your cereal box is filled with bullets. And your neighbors keep calling you Number Nine...
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Royal Entertainment
Writing prompt And on that day, everyone lost their hands.
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Late Night Riot
Writing prompt After being sidetracked by a monster attack, a demon invasion, a regular invasion, a balrog, and an evil god, the Hero's Party realized that they forgot their main quest of stopping the local corrupt noble.
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Tent-a-Cool
Writing prompt You are at a date with the girl/boy of your dreams! Just one problem, they are a squid.
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Bringing Outbreak In
Writing prompt "Don't worry. I know what I'm doing" ...
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Chrome Connection
Writing prompt Your job in the police department or district attorney's office is liaison with the local superhero community.
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Stellar Service
Writing prompt When a wizard or magical creature knows your name, they have power over you. The baristas at the local coffee shop are Fae, and they've been collecting names.
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Sharp Professional
Writing prompt You have a crush on the barista at the local Starbucks, she is also in your university class but you have never met each other, you decide to jokingly ask, Hey remember when we were kids and we would never leave each other? "OMG yes I remember!" You can implant and remove someone's memories now.
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Stellar Match
Writing prompt You nailed it when you met the genie. Your request was to become a free soul that can travel through space and time and take over minds of living beings. after 100 years of existence though, you're tired of fixing humanity's bullshit.
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Stellar Humor
Writing prompt Take any phrase with "angle" (like Angle Parking Only) and replace it with "angel". Write about that.
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Writing prompt You tend to the old moustached man who lays there on the street corner, bleeding out all over his suit. He reaches to his top hat next to him and uncovers $1500 and a gun. "Move quick, trust no one and make the Boardwalk before the rest..."
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Solar Rush
Writing prompt You open a book. Its contents are... unexpected.
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Vanilla Bunny
Writing prompt There they are. Finally you found him. The person who murdered you.
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Sunny Match
Writing prompt You've lived alone ever since you decided to move out. After years, you decide to go back and visit. Except, no matter what you do, you can't seem to find any records about your hometown or its people. By all accounts, it doesn't seem to exist.
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Stone Sun
Writing prompt An explorer enters the tomb. A scraping of stone against stone reverberates against the cold, hard walls and an unearthly voice speaks out. "Fool, you thought you could enter without feeling my curse?" The explorer replies, "Exactly what I'm after."
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Brilliantly Petty
Writing prompt You walk outside and every single one of your neighbors is sitting or standing around front of their door. Some are hastily scrolling on their phones, some talking on them, some just staring into space. You walk down the street, and the same thing is happening everywhere....
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Stellar Home
Writing prompt You wake up and the sky is red.
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Sharp Trend
Writing prompt You're a TikToker who has a new sponsorship with some pretty high stakes. You see, last week, you were kidnapped off the street and taken to a secret government building where you were informed that the world would be ending soon. They're paying you very well to prepare people for it.
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Unique? Who?
Writing prompt Lately, reality has seemed more and more streamlined. You remember more people, countries, foods, animals, planets, etc. But no one else does. On a whim, you run an ad in the paper with a list of things that don't exist anymore, asking if anyone recalls them. You get a reply.
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Gloria's Neighborhood
Writing prompt You have recently moved into a new house. After getting settled in there is a knock at your door. Your neighbors greet you with a housewarming gift. As they begin talking you find out the area you moved into is part of a cult. After considering, you decide to join.
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Monday's Advice
Writing prompt The James Webb Space Telescope has just been fully deployed and starts to slowly deliver first photographs. 4 hours later NASA gives the order to self destruct the telescope.
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Stellar Commitment
Writing prompt It's a normal afternoon on earth but then suddenly an entire fleet of imperial ships exit hyperspace and are now in earths orbit. How would the Earths governments react if those ships in the sky just stay there for days, weeks and maybe even months just doing nothing?
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Nothing New
Writing prompt In your world, people receive xp for defeating other creatures and can level up. Swatting a fly gets you 2xp. Beating your friend at chess gets you 65xp. One morning, you wake up to the notification "7,125,000 xp obtained. Maximum level reached. Only, you don't remember defeating anyone.
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Stellar Precautions
Writing prompt The first manned trip to Mars ended with a catastrophic mechanical failure 3 days from Mars. The second failed when one of the crew went mad and sabotaged the mission, also 3 days from Mars. You're onboard the third shuttle, minutes away from crossing the 3-day threshold...
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Learn by Doing
Writing prompt You take 'write what you know' to extremes-- you've been sky-diving, rock-climbing, and spelunking in the name of making your work more authentic. Now, your publisher is demanding you write a murder mystery.
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Stellar Fulfillment
Writing prompt You wake up from a cryostasis unit in the middle of a secret research facility called HEPHAESTUS. You're a government experiment genetically modified with an alien mutagenic nanite swarm.
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Star Sight. Hindsight.
Writing prompt You've woken up after trauma to your head. You can now see souls with your very eyes, and what you see is terrifying.
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Keeping it Quiet
Writing prompt A man has managed to create a time machine, and now he will undergo a mission where the future of humanity hangs on: to copy the entire Library of Alexandria and bring it to the present.
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Fatal Faux pas
Writing prompt In the future most live on idyllic high-tech worlds. A new hyperrealistic VR game gains popularity, in which the player can fill in any conceivable role in a fictional defense alliance fighting an existential threat in the frontier. As you rise the ranks you start to doubt it being fictional.
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Bloody Pain
Writing prompt You're shopping at the witch's market for your magical needs. When you go to pay, you realize you forgot your money, but a kind stranger decides to help you pay for your items.
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Sharp Racket
Writing prompt Time machine is now a thing and multiverse theory is proven. People now buy time machines and go back in time to make themselves rich, kings, or even gods and rule over different timelines. You can now finally afford a time machine of your own.
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Loyal? No Question.
Writing prompt You work night security for one of the few companies that can legally arm corporate security guards, and with automatic weapons, too. It's a tight ship and a higher pressure job than you expected, but as you inspect a delivery one midnight it occurs to you that you have no idea what this company does.
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Sunlight. Streaming.
Writing prompt "Uh Oh! Which way do I go? I need YOUR help!" You theatrically exclaim, to the confusion of those around you. Much like the host of a children's TV show, asking for 'audience participation always seems to solve your problems.
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Rewarding Earth
Writing prompt A whole continent just popped out of the Atlantic. No one knows how this happened, but are on the first boat to find out.
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Royal Encouragement
Writing prompt You're fighting crime for three days straight, without sleep.
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Prospects. Unlimited.
Writing prompt Well kid, you did it. You beat the bad guy, got the girl, and saved the day, woopdy-doo. But now kid, you got to ask yourself something. After all the fighting, the prophecies and the death, after all of that, you need to ask yourself something. "What now?"
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Waiting and Ready
Writing prompt You are a Knot Breaker. Your job: Search & Rescue. Your target demographic: Time Travelers and other individuals who have managed to get caught in time loops and paradoxes.
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Leaving the Lobby
Writing prompt A law is passed that requires all superheroes to take a government training course to reduce collateral damage.
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Juan. Decision.
Writing prompt You just got fired from your job as a Super Villain for employee misconduct. Looking to change careers now, you're currently first in queue for an interview at Super Hero Industries, where you've put every hero employee there in the hospital over the years.
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Break before Broke
Writing prompt You have unheard of superpowers akin to Superman but without kryptonite being a negative factor. However after days, weeks, months, or years the constant cries for help and failings of society have pushed you to the limit and you are on the breaking point.
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Public Surprise
Writing prompt A group of people trapped in the distant past realize that their phones have suddenly connected to the internet.
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Suit. Ruined.
Writing prompt Use the most grotesque, abhorrent, and discomforting imagery, tone, and themes words can possibly conjure, to tell a story that's the exact opposite; something lighthearted and actually enjoyable.
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Adventure Calls
Writing prompt "Shouldn't someone check on that pay phone? It's been ringing nonstop for...days." "You must be new in town. We never answer that phone. Ever."
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Stellar Conscience
Writing prompt You made up a gesture that signals the theoretical assailant sent to kill you that you want to negotiate. As a joke you went into an empty street at night and made the gesture. To your surprise, an assassin introduces themself.
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