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Straightforward Plan
Writing prompt The twist is that there is no twist.
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Devilishly Adorable
Writing prompt When he summoned the demon, he was expecting something monstrous, menacing, or at least dangerously seductive. What he got was... kind of adorable.
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Real. Dead.
Writing prompt After playing your favourite videogame. You find out that the game, its world and inhabitants are alive.
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Modern: Relatively
Writing prompt Mere minutes after being isekai'd to a fantasy kingdom, you are politely escorted to a quiet room so that the court wizard can thoroughly question you about modern technology.
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Friendship is Alchemy
Writing prompt The magical and mundane have come together, living in harmony. What the magicians, especially the alchemists, did not expect, was to find themselves with a much bigger and more complex challenge than uniting both worlds. Surviving mass production.
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Carelessness: Deadly
Writing prompt The more beautiful the flower, the more deadly it is. Dandelions can cause a minor allergic reaction. Roses can cause debilitating pain with a prick from the thorns. You are a Botanist that just found the most beautiful flower you have ever seen.
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Superspeed? Hilarious.
Writing prompt A story starring a protagonist with superspeed on their daily coast-to-coast commute.
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Moon =/= Sun
Writing prompt Maybe moon is just wannabe sun.
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Monday's Mentor
Writing prompt You, a human, somehow gets a job at a hotel that caters to the secret world of monster folk. When your lich boss finds out, he decides to keep you around instead of erasing your memory. You are an incredibly competent worker, and good workers are hard to keep.
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Work. Rewarding.
Writing prompt A Great Day at Work.
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Sharp Workers
Writing prompt You hire a construction crew to build your new home. You're pretty sure they're dwarves in disguise, what with the full beards, stout builds, mystic runes here and there... Can't complain though, since they're really good at their job.
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Limitations. Programmed.
Writing prompt Scientists have found the shocking discovery that we live in a complex video game. Speed Runners immediately started looking for bugs & glitches.
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Super. Scripted.
Writing prompt "I'm just the janitor. What makes you think I can stop this supervillain?"
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Evil. Perspective.
Writing prompt "Halt, foul beast! You shall threaten this town no longer!" Yelled the hero, drawing their blade, an ancient artifact that glowed and became razor sharp in the presence of evil... except it wasn't only not glowing but dulled as the hero pointed it at the 8' tall man-wolf huddled in the corner.
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Support: The Team
Writing prompt It's been 3 years since the start of the Zombie Apocalypse. One day, you are cornered by a zombie while on a supply run. Accepting your fate, you bite the zombie as a last ditch effort. To your surprise, the zombie collapses, and after 5 minutes you hear from the once undead... "H-Hello?"
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Experiencing. Hell.
Writing prompt You were so bad in life that when you die and go to Hell, Satan offers you a job.
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Stupid: Reason
Writing prompt The Superhero Corps had already defeated all the Villains, and heroes beating up Villains is how they get their funding. So they've been staging fake Villain plots to fight against for monetary gain. A single, rogue hero, plans on exposing it.
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Sharp Automation
Writing prompt They say we are all made of stars. The Big Bang produced all of the building blocks for the Universe. You are an alchemist who has been working on capturing that very essence of the Big Bang that connects all things. Today, you have had a breakthrough!
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Why Not?
Writing prompt A battered old pickup truck pulls up to the front of the hardware store, the grizzled old man behind the wheel lowers his window and bangs on the side. "Alright, I need 5 to clear out a dungeon!"
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Opportunity Wails
Writing prompt Write a story with a line like "Seriously? This is the millionth time this month."
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Time for Punishment
Writing prompt You wake up and time has stopped.
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Enlightentment. Delivered.
Writing prompt You made a deal with a werewolf to help them win a dog competition. However, when they smell another werewolf.
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Quest. Re-Quest.
Writing prompt It's gonna be fun, they said; this job will be a piece of cake, they said. Nothing will go wrong, they said.
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Sharp Involvment
Writing prompt I'm not mad! I'm totally not mad... I'm fine! I'm very much fine...
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Stellar Choices
Writing prompt an orphan in a non magic medieval land one night wishes on a star to be taken away from this awful place, and then they wake up in a Magitek science fantasy world.
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Sharp Happiness
Writing prompt The eBay advert promises that the doll for sale is genuinely haunted.
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a Melody for the End
Writing prompt in an alternate timeline, the Area 51 raid is successful, and it changes everything.
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'S unfunny
Writing prompt The longest setup for a joke.
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Glorious Chicken
Writing prompt You find an object that can make you jump to a random universe. After countless jumps, you finally find the thing you've been looking for.
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Lucky Dog
Writing prompt You made a deal with a werewolf to help them win a dog competition. However, when they smell another werewolf.
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Rhapsody of Debt
Writing prompt You are contracted with the golden god of greed. Every month you need to pay the god or you forfeit your soul. Your payment goes to both principal, which will free you, and interest. You can also spend money on powerful abilities. Your life is a delicate balance of income and spending.
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Twin Mistakes. Twin Mis-tooken.
Writing prompt You are kidnapped by time travelers who explain that you were the key person affecting their history, and this is their one chance to fix things. As the doors open to their time, you see them all gasp. "Nothing has changed," they say. "Yeah," you say, "you probably wanted my twin brother."
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Red Sky: at Home
Writing prompt You watch as the sky turns red.
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Suspicious Heart
Writing prompt The most loyal, trustworthy and kind person in the royal court is the royal advisor. Yes, he is the skinny man dressed in black, whose familiar is a snake, laugh out loud when alone and has a cursed dagger at his hips. Why do you ask?
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Monopoly on Shortsightedness
Writing prompt "What game would you choose to prolong your life if you win?" Death said. "Monopoly" I screamed.
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Rhapsody for the Curious
Writing prompt A full investigation into all of your arcane work is underway, the higherups having been tipped off that you were dabbling in "Forbidden Dark Magics". However, the magic you were looking into was manipulating LITERAL darkness for entirely benign reasons.
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Touchy Monday
Writing prompt After being cursed to relive the same month by someone, you instead took advantage and learned everything from writing to mystic arts, and after deciding to break out the curse, you now go in search for the one who cursed you with everything you have learned.
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Reflective Rhapsody
Writing prompt With the advent of multiverse travel, telework takes on a whole new meaning. Your new boss is kinda an asshole and he's _you_.
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Tim to Party
Writing prompt You are a physics professor at an exceptional school in the year 2163. You decide to mirror the actions of Steven Hawking a man you idolize from the 20th century and hold a small party for time Travelers the date only being released after the event. The strange thing? Someone Arrives.
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Help: Shiny and Chrome
Writing prompt You are shipwrecked on a small island with a Lighthouse in the middle of nowhere.
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Laughing at the End of the World
Writing prompt Make it go BOOM! Write a story in any setting & genre, but it must have at least 3 large explosions.
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Prophecy: Not a Problem.
Writing prompt "It was never entertainment. It was prophecy. That is why you must find Parker Lewis."
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Darkened Honey
Writing prompt You've always wondered why your coworkers always choose 10-15-year-old girls as their chosen warriors, unlike you who chose a trained marine.
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Riotous Realization
Writing prompt This was not how you expected to fight your enemy.
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Searching takes a Sharp Turn
Writing prompt "Danger, Village in trouble, Need adventurers!". As the group of adventurers walk up to the village, they notice that the village is unusually upkept, and one of the villagers is reading from a script.
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Rhapsody: Hopes and Dreams
Writing prompt As a child, you dreamed of helping a wounded faerie. As an adult, they returned to repay the favour.
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Drama Star
Writing prompt You people never gave me a chance, a chance to explain myself, A chance to be redeemed, and now as I lay here and die. I'll never go back to this world ever again. I'll never be a student of that mage academy ever again.
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Coming Around
Writing prompt "You know, I was an atheist for my entire life." "I see." "Never believed in an afterlife." "Lucky to be wrong." "And I'm an American." "Good for you." "So, what the hell am I doing in an ancient Greek afterlife?"
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