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Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-08-26
Writing prompt[WP] You exist in a world where you can see a person's life scores and achievements by simply gazing over their head. One day while scrolling through the stats of your oldest friend you see something disturbing. Worlds Destroyed: 21.
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Source date: 2020-08-25
Writing prompt[WP] Your parents have both been divorced for a number of years but their reasons as to why never match up with what the other says. One night when you come home to your mom's earlier than you told her, you realize what she had been hiding from you, and most likely hid from your father.
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Source date: 2020-08-24
Writing prompt[WP] Emerging from the sealed bunker where you and the other rebels finally overthrew the corrupt ruler, you find the outside world is not the apocalyptic wasteland you were led to believe. Instead the peace talks that averted a nuclear apocalypse have led to a nearly utopian society.
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Source date: 2020-08-23
Writing prompt[WP] You died and were sent to hell. Thing is, life in hell is better than your life on earth ever was.
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Source date: 2020-08-22
Writing prompt[WP] You are an inter-dimensional alien traveler who has crash landed on Earth. You are currently sitting in a holding cell, listening to members of the Men in Black, Torchwood Institute, and SCP Foundation argue over jurisdiction.
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Source date: 2020-08-21
Writing prompt[WP] Good news is that, after months of just barely surviving in a zombie apocalypse, you finally managed to get to a large and zombie-free human settlement. The bad news is that those in charge aren't actually human.
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Source date: 2020-08-20
Writing prompt[WP] You wake up from a coma, it's been 5 years and 1. Your family is dead but you inherited all of their money and 2. Your earth has discovered a multiverse.
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Source date: 2020-08-19
Writing prompt[WP] You are the most evil villain and the Make-A-Wish foundation contacted you. One of the children wishes to be your henchman for a day.
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Source date: 2020-08-18
Writing prompt[WP] 18th August, it comes each year. Bad poets can write without fear. Please have a go and write some words, it doesn't matter if they sound like turds. It's bad poetry day so do your worst, particularly if you're not well versed.
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Source date: 2020-08-17
Writing prompt[WP] You live in a world where vampires rule and humans are either treated as lovers, pets, or food.
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Source date: 2020-08-16
Writing prompt[WP] And just like that, the entire world deposited their money into your bank account.
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Source date: 2020-08-15
Writing prompt[WP] April slid the phone back on to Alex's bedside table. She suspected an affair, but the messages she found were much, much worse. The shower stuttered into silence, she had to decide what to do now.
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Source date: 2020-08-14
Writing prompt[WP] You are a detective, investigating a series of seemingly unrelated crimes, when you hear another detective say that he can "find no rhyme or reason for this murder". Its then that you realize; the rhyme IS the reason. The perp HAD to "kill Phil".
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Source date: 2020-08-13
Writing prompt[WP] A werewolf a vampire and an alchemist walk into a bar.
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Source date: 2020-08-12
Writing prompt[WP] After a life spent on the high seas, you fell in love and decided to settle down. Your partner is a great swimmer and singer with a mesmerizing voice. The two of you were inseparable. But one day you found a large, iridescent fish scale stuck in the laundry basked.
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Source date: 2020-08-11
Writing prompt[WP] You are sitting at desk waiting for your next call. The phone rang and with a slight annoyance you answered, "Welcome to the Zombie Survival Hotline, How may I help you?"
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Source date: 2020-08-10
Writing prompt[WP] It's Monday. Your weekend watching Netflix and doing nothing was exhausting. You step away to grab a coffee and when you come back, you find your two co-workers dead and a hooded figure asking your boss for your whereabouts.
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Source date: 2020-08-09
Writing prompt[WP] I sometimes teleport when I fall asleep, and lately it's been getting worse.
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Source date: 2020-08-08
Writing prompt[WP] Husband, Wife, daughter. The wife gets in a car accident, there's head trauma. The wife starts to believe her husband has been replaced by an identical imposter.
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Source date: 2020-08-07
Writing prompt[WP] You're a ghost haunting a house. You've been scaring people off your property for a few centuries now, but it's gotten boring, so you're going to switch it up a bit.
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Source date: 2020-08-06
Writing prompt[WP] During an office move, some of the staff found a secret room they'd never seen before. Upon closer inspection, they found a half-eaten cheeseburger, a still fizzing soda, but no sign of the occupant.
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Source date: 2020-08-05
Writing prompt[WP] You have the ability to change the reality and fate of events around you to a minor degree. You use this ability to "fight crime". One day when fighting a villain you cause a street light to fall atop your opponent, but he simply back step sand dodges it with a smug grin.
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Source date: 2020-08-04
Writing prompt[WP] You are a supervillain in disguise, out shopping. You see a bunch of bullies tormenting a kid, and, on a whim, decide to intervene.
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Source date: 2020-08-03
Writing prompt[SP] Your roommate is Death.
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Source date: 2020-08-02
Writing prompt[WP] You have died, and then you find yourself standing over your body. You see that the Grim Reaper has come for you, and... no twist, he's just doing his job. You're disappointed in the normality of it all actually.
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Source date: 2020-08-01
Writing prompt[WP] Exploiting the latest neuroscience techniques, an evil government plants false memories in the minds of its citizens.
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Source date: 2020-07-31
Writing prompt[WP] You've lived a normal average life, nothing too special. One day as you are on the way home from work. A person stops you, claiming to be from the future to kill you for murdering their family and destroying the world.
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Source date: 2020-07-30
Writing prompt[WP] Pop up blocker fails. "MIB's in your area." Close. "MIB's getting closer." Close. Knock on the door. "Run!"
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Source date: 2020-07-29
Writing prompt[WP] You have just discovered that the Vampire role playing group that you've been a part of for the last year is in fact a group of real vampires.
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Source date: 2020-07-28
Writing prompt[WP] Being one of the top assassins in the industry few things if any surprise you. However as your latest target simply got up after being shot three times in the back of the head before remarking "Rude!" you have to admit you were a little caught off guard.
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Source date: 2020-07-27
Writing prompt[WP] "I'm sorry", the alien says. "Per official definition humans aren't earths dominant species. And since earths dominant species never developed spaceflight per galactic law earth is a primitive planet, with all that entails.
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Source date: 2020-07-26
Writing prompt[WP] It started a few months ago. It's not dyslexia and you're not crazy. Sometimes words rearrange themselves before your eyes into helpful messages. It might warn you of traffic, name a good restaurant, or tell you your partner is cheating. Just now your sudoku puzzle formed a phone number.
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Source date: 2020-07-25
Writing prompt[WP] A breakthrough in quantum physics allows for communication with other universes. At first everything proceeds as planned, with regular transmissions sent and received of cultural and scientific data, then one by one each of the other worlds contacted all begin to end.
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Source date: 2020-07-24
Writing prompt[WP] The year is 2086 with crime at an all time high. You have been partnered with an advanced android nicknamed the "Lawmaster". It stands 10 feet tall and is armed to the teeth and it's time for your first patrol together.
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Source date: 2020-07-23
Writing prompt[WP] You're sitting alone in a lightly busy bar when a man comes up and sits next to you. He leans in and says to you slowly "Everyone else in here is here to kill you. You need to listen to me very carefully if you want to live..."
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Source date: 2020-07-22
Writing prompt[WP] Sherlock Holmes is faced with the greatest mystery of his life: who stole the cookie from the cookie jar. It was YOU!
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Source date: 2020-07-21
Writing prompt[WP] You prepare to move out of your childhood home. After packing your belongings, you decide to peruse through the house one last time, only to discover a door that you swear didn't exist yesterday.
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Source date: 2020-07-20
Writing prompt[WP] You are a realtor showing a house. Its amazing and the couple you are showing it to are obviously in love and the price is too good to be true. At the end of the tour you know they want to make an offer, but have to disclose "The one odd thing about this home is..."
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Source date: 2020-07-19
Writing prompt[WP] You just sent in your DNA to one of those ancestry sites. After eight weeks, you can't figure out why your results have not shown up. Then, two men with dark suits show up at your front door. They have some news regarding your results.
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Source date: 2020-07-18
Writing prompt[WP] It's been 10 years since anyone has heard from Ireland. The last communication that was heard from them was "We discovered a gateway to hell". You lead a team to find out what has been going on.
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Source date: 2020-07-17
Writing prompt[WP] As a child you always had your imaginary friend to help you through tough times. Now you're an adult and doing well in life until one day your imaginary friend shows up and asks for your help.
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Source date: 2020-07-16
Writing prompt[WP] You've been having a great time chatting with a girl online and you decided it was time to meet up in person for a date. On the day you two are to meet for the first time, you wake up to discover a note by your bedside that reads "DO NOT GO ON THE DATE! - July 5th 2025".
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Source date: 2020-07-15
Writing prompt[WP] When you fall asleep you travel to a different universe to the enchanted world of kingdoms and dragons and sorcerers. In this world you are king. In the other world you're awake. You just got a job at Walmart and your boss just happens to be your sworn enemy in the other world....
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Source date: 2020-07-14
Writing prompt[WP] Your roommate always keeps a thermos with him, which presumably is filled with coffee due to how irritable he is when he doesn't have it. One day you get your thermos mixed up with his, and upon taking a sip find instead of coffee warm blood.
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Source date: 2020-07-13
Writing prompt[WP] Heros are paid much less than most realize, but villains are paid much more. As a result, all heroes gather twice a year to decide how often they will become the villains, what they will do, and who will stop them.
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Source date: 2020-07-12
Writing prompt[WP] You are a vampire. Working at a blood bank.
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Source date: 2020-07-11
Writing prompt[WP] The Exile gate was created over a century ago, a one way journey to another world. Earth's criminals were banished through it, then the undesirables, malcontents, and dissidents. Now Earth needs more resources and has opened a two-way gate to exploit that world.
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Source date: 2020-07-10
Writing prompt[WP] Everyone has a doppelganger. You've just met yours, and she's your blind date.
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