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Toku-high: AlterNet Class
"What a mess...," Julio sighed to himself. He glanced at the already brown-red murky water in his mop bucket, then back at the red-brown sludge stain by the banquet table. As far as food fights went, he'd cleaned up mess
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"Wake up little one, I insist on your aid," Ethan grumbled to himself as he stirred awake. He didn't know how he differentiated the two shades of pitch-black. But, somehow, he could make out the swirling, flowing void-bl
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"HAAHAhahaHahAAHAHaHAhA..." Laughter filled the air as Minerva approached the diner. It seemed to echo all around the city. It was early in the afternoon and the sun still sat high, but the manic laughter seemed to be co
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Writing prompt Someone travels for work and doesn't fall in love; they focus on working.
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Writing prompt "Why would a human even adopt me?", said the little girl, "Don't you know I am a vampire?"
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Writing prompt Legally ordering anything invites a delivery person to bring it into your property. As a starved vampire you just learned that fact.
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Writing prompt You, a supervillain are rather confused on why your minions haven't abandoned you yet and are fighting the heroes to rescue you.
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Writing prompt It sounded like a good deal. A second chance a t life in a magic world, a powerful new body, and you'll get to be a paladin. Just sign the papers. Immediately, your soul is taken and stuffed into a homunculus body. When you come to, you're a slave knight to a corrupt church.
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Writing prompt You are the first man to ever land on the moon but when you go outside, you see something. A person. Without gear. And he is staring straight at you.
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Writing prompt A person calls a help line and gets a very different sort of help than they expected.
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Writing prompt You gaze upon the one that stole the stars, finally able to ask them one question. "Why?"
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Writing prompt Your daughter seems to be socially flourishing in her Girl Scout troop until she comes back from the annual retreat with an extra arm and a suitcase of $500,000 dollars.
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Writing prompt In the middle of the night, you wake up to see a vampire standing before you. But instead of wanting to drink your blood, they seek sanctuary in your house as they are hiding from a vampire hunter in the neighborhood.
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Writing prompt The secretary at the law firm gasps, then shakes her head. "That's the name of the hotel that was here before this building. It burned down, sixty years ago, killing dozens of people. Every year, someone shows up, somehow having made a reservation..."
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Writing prompt You must be desperate if you come to me of all people for help.
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Writing prompt A wizard and a gunsmith work together to make a magical gun.
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Writing prompt "Doctor, I'll remind you that this is an Archaeology conference, not a Science fiction convention. Do you really expect us to believe you have found evidence of time travel?"
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Writing prompt On tonight's exciting episode of "Dungeon Search and Rescue"...
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Writing prompt It's never too late to change.
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Writing prompt "Run dear, run fast. Don't be scared, I'll be right behind you."
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Writing prompt The captain of a container ship mentions an island in the middle of the ocean. Somehow all satellites seem to have missed it?
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Writing prompt Scientists discovered how to alter the vibrational states of matter, leading to controllable matter transmutation that ignores the laws of conservation of mass/energy. A post-scarcity world emerges, until someone/something shows up to see who's been messing with the universe's source code.
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Writing prompt Three of your coworkers have gone missing in the past week, yet no one in the office seems the least bit concerned. You decide to bring it up to your boss, to which he replies "oh, that? You didn't get the memo?"
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Writing prompt The world didn't end because of nuclear war. It didn't end because of zombies. It didn't even end because of climate change. No, the world ended after a little-known representative from Kansas snuck a provision into a routine spending bill.
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Writing prompt As a magician you know magic tricks are just illusions but seeing this person do a magic trick in front of you... that was magic.
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Writing prompt The prospective client sits at your desk, begging for your help. He doesn't recognize you, but you'd never forget the bully made your high school years hell.
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Writing prompt Since the hit of the VR craze you've become somewhat of a local legend, topping all leaderboards in a popular VR fantasy game. One night after a long day of playing you take your headset off, but you still see the blacksmith.
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Writing prompt There are many kidnapped, trapped, or imprisoned Princesses. In fact... there are too many Princesses. Logistically, it makes no sense.803 words.
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Writing prompt The lead actor of your still-production-film has passed away due to an illness. However, he is revived again in full health the next day. Unbeknownst to everyone, you, the director, had secretly negotiated with Death to postpone his death until after the day after the film premieres in theaters.
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Writing prompt As the meteor was hurtling towards the planet, and all seemed lost, the skies opened. A sole winged figure came to Earth's defense.
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Writing prompt Write a low stakes multiverse story - too often multiverse stories are about stopping the end of the multiverse or time.
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Writing prompt You decide to join a LARP group, and show up to your first session. There was a warning that these sessions are serious and real, which you brushed-off... until now...
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Writing prompt You work for make a wish and a kid wished to meet a supervillain.
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Writing prompt It's 2132, society around the world has devolved into tribes and warlords fighting each other for resources and for survival. As you scavenge an old military complex, you bump into a computer and a large screen on the wall flashes... and you are greeted by it's previously dormant A.I.
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Writing prompt The new initiates into the werewolf pack get to choose which way they are changed into werewolves themselves. The initiates this month all made rather common or predictable choices, except for the last one: not even the werewolves knew about THAT method.
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Writing prompt Music is out of tune, love and pleasure only breed boredom in your senses and your ego has completely deflated. Who are you? An immortal bard who has lived for so many centuries.
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Writing prompt POV: You’re an evil overlord, slayer of armies, destroyer of kingdoms and feared by all. One day you are faced with the biggest challenge of all, on the doorstep of your fortress is basket with a baby in it and a simple note “you know what to do”.
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Writing prompt The hero falls unconscious in the villain’s arms, a plea of “Don’t leave me” fresh from their lips. And even a villain would not betray that trust.
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Writing prompt Yesterday, the President jokely pledged America to an alien empire. Today, the delegates have arrived in Wasington D.C
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"As you can imagine this arrangement is best kept between us," Professor Woodman said. Lupe Villalobos stood in an empty classroom in front of the seated, round man in a tweed suit. He pushed up his green horn-rimmed gla
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Los Locos cut your grass!
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