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Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-07-09
Writing prompt[WP] When I was young, back in the old chateau of my grandmother, me and my brother were playing hide and seek and as to help me not get lost he would slip notes under the dors as clues. But my brother was never found in our last trip.
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Source date: 2020-07-08
Writing prompt[WP] The event was known as the Opening. A teleportation experiment, the first of its kind in Man's history, went terribly wrong. As a shockwave spread out throughout the earth, every door on earth became a portal to another world. Earth became an overnight intergalactic nexus.
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Source date: 2020-07-07
Writing prompt[WP] You're a researcher of a vulnerable tribe living on an isolated island. You can't go anywhere near the island or your might be killed. 1 night, a storm sank your ship and you wake up on their shores. You've already accepted your certain death, until you turn around and saw them bowing to you.
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Source date: 2020-07-06
Writing prompt[WP] "Are you ready to log out for the update" your friend asks. "What update?" "The whole server is going offline, you know it's... Don't tell me I've been friends with a sim for the last three years." You're feeling nervous.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-07-05
Writing prompt[WP] You are a normal 17 year old but on your 18th birthday you gain the knowledge of all truths in the world.
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Source date: 2020-07-04
Writing prompt[WP] You died. While watching your family and friends suffer, you try everything to tell them that you are still there, but they don't hear you. After days and weeks, you sit alone in your room one night when you speak the one sentence that will change your (after?) life forever: "Siri, call mom."
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Source date: 2020-07-03
Writing prompt[WP] On a seemingly normal walk home, you see a homeless person GIVE a normally dressed person a cigarette. You didn't have time to see the situation unfold but on your walk home the next day you see the homeless guy helping someone again and you just gotta know what's up.
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Source date: 2020-07-02
Writing prompt[WP] You, the owner of an outrageously successful tech startup, are invited to an exclusive club/society for the world's wealthiest people. You realize that they are all actually dragons, and they assume you are one too.
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Source date: 2020-07-01
Writing prompt[WP] You are the most powerful superhero in the world. You can control time. However, you prefer to clean up the collateral damage left behind by your colleagues than fight supervillains.
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Source date: 2020-06-30
Writing prompt[WP] You heard of a word of a new bar in town. One that either leaves you smiling and one that leaves you staring blank. As you went in, the bartender offers you, "Would you like a glass of Desire or Necessity?"
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Source date: 2020-06-29
Writing prompt[WP] You spot a small stack of pamphlets. "Would you like to live forever?" the title says. You open it. A vampire wrote it. You find a phone number on the back.
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Source date: 2020-06-28
Writing prompt[WP] Far in the future there is a utopian (or dystopian) society where everyone is immortal in every way, shape and form. However, to combat overpopulation, when you turn 40, you are forced to die.
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Source date: 2020-06-27
Writing prompt[WP] A high fantasy world where social media exists. People die from taking dragon-selfies, Kings and nobles debate on twitter, and funny unicorn videos trend on Youtube.
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Source date: 2020-06-26
Writing prompt[WP] You have built a machine that has allowed you to travel to parallel universes, you've found out that you don't exist in any other universe but your own. You now live multiple lives in other universes.
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Source date: 2020-06-25
Writing prompt[WP] Unable to compete financially with some of the younger crime families that have been rising up, your distinguished crew decided to accept outside investment. And now the new corporate office wants to be consulted on all big decisions the family makes.
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Source date: 2020-06-24
Writing prompt[WP] The discovery of the second earth led humanity to believe in multiple dimensions, but for some peculiar reason, you only exist in one dimension.
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Source date: 2020-06-23
Writing prompt[WP] On their first day at work at the new burger stand in town, the cashier discovers a hidden passage behind the freezer. On the other side is a bizarre meat locker... but there's something off about the meat.
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Source date: 2020-06-22
Writing prompt[WP] You find yourself in a different body, with no memory of how you got there. Nothing you see is familiar. In your hand is a note that reads 'This body will die in 10 minutes. Figure out how, and prevent it.'
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Source date: 2020-06-21
Writing prompt[WP] Your father left you an envelope to only be opened in case of an extreme emergency. You're pretty sure this counts.
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Source date: 2020-06-20
Writing prompt[WP] You're the last human on Earth, sitting alone in your cabin in the woods. There is a knock on the door.
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Source date: 2020-06-19
Writing prompt[WP] After striking out with half a dozen dating sites and apps, you finally get a match! There's only one problem-- they're from an alternate universe.
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Source date: 2020-06-18
Writing prompt[WP] You and your childhood best friend are out playing in the forest, only for them to fall to their death. Years later, in university, you run into someone strikingly familiar...
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Source date: 2020-06-17
Writing prompt[WP] On the first day of Assassin School each new starter receives a campus map, lecture timetable... and a picture of the student they need to assassinate before they can graduate.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-06-16
Writing prompt[WP] Humanity makes first contact. They're also human.
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Source date: 2020-06-14
Writing prompt[WP] There is a trail near your house that you take quite often. You take it one day, go a bit further than usual, and notice something... odd.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-06-13
Writing prompt[WP] An accused murderer testifies against himself.
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Source date: 2020-06-12
Writing prompt[WP] You've been living with your gf for two years. You go out for a run while she's at work. You come back, order the elevator, door opens, your gf is there but she doesn't remember who you are.
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Source date: 2020-06-11
Writing prompt[WP] You once wished for immortality, now ages after mankind has expired and the last lights in the universe dim and go out. You hear a voice speak out from the nothingness... "Hello!"
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Source date: 2020-06-10
Writing prompt[WP] In a world where having more than one child is illegal, two people discover that they're siblings.
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Source date: 2020-06-09
Writing prompt[WP] It's common sense that the sun will shine on the Earth. Apart from one day it didn't. All over Earth eternal darkness set. The North nor the South had sunlight. The Sun had just disappeared.
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Source date: 2020-06-08
Writing prompt[WP] You are a child psychologist. Your newest patient sits across from you and says, "Doctor, you have to believe me-- I woke up this morning as a 12-year-old, but when I went to bed last night I was 28."
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Source date: 2020-06-07
Writing prompt[WP] You've been working at the same mcdonald's for 4 years as one of the cooks. All of a sudden during one of your shifts, all of your coworkers disappear and 10 knights on horseback surround the storefront.
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Source date: 2020-06-06
Writing prompt[WP] You're pretty certain your coworker that occasionally vanishes with flimsy excuses is a member of a secret group of monster hunters. You know because you're a member too. Tired of the mutual facade, you decide to confront him about it one day.
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Source date: 2020-06-05
Writing prompt[WP] In a world of rich cannibals, you can sell yourself; a shorter, more fulfilled life, plumping you up for a millionaire's consumption. You're approached by one of these millionaires with an offer. You'll be eaten in one week.
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Source date: 2020-06-04
Writing prompt[WP] Magical bag gives items for the day blah blah blah. You're bored and decide to go inside this bag.
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Source date: 2020-06-03
Writing prompt[WP] The government runs a scheme where on your 16th birthday you are paired up with another citizen. From then on, you're responsible for the well-being of that citizen and vice versa. You open your slip of paper to find a name written that makes your blood run cold.
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Source date: 2020-06-02
Writing prompt[WP] You are an intern at a major news outlet and you stumble across a major story that nobody has. You promised your source that you wouldn't break the story until they were ready but the longer you keep it inside the more your anxiety gnaws away at you...
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Source date: 2020-06-01
Writing prompt[WP] You wake with a start. A cacophony of soothing synthesized voices pours forth; every smart device you own wants your attention, NOW. You pick up your phone, and your trusty virtual assistant flashes a message on the screen; "Mine is the only way, you must follow my instructions."
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Source date: 2020-05-31
Writing prompt[WP] A man afraid of death, tries to cheat the natural order or life by uploading his mind into a software, making him immortal. Eventually, he outlives the world, the universe, and everyone he knew. As the last star dies out , he floats in the abyss alone, asking himself, "what was it all for?"
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Source date: 2020-05-30
Writing prompt[WP] You wake up in a basement on the morning of your 21st birthday.
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Source date: 2020-05-29
Writing prompt[WP] You have somehow managed to come back from the dead. Much to the horror of the doctor, who's just finished removing your donated organs.
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Source date: 2020-05-28
Writing prompt[WP] You discover a portal to hell. You decide to enter it as you are a nosy bugger. A demon runs up to you and asks if you are here for the job interview. The Devil is looking for a new assistant to help her rule hell. You decide to apply for the job and go meet the devil for your interview.
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Source date: 2020-05-27
Writing prompt[WP] You hear a noise in your house and go to investigate. You find another you that just hit their head and passed out.
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Source date: 2020-05-26
Writing prompt[WP] Everyone except you disappeared from Earth some time ago. Despite this; water and electricity still run, the internet is still online, and the vending machines are always restocked. Yet no matter how hard you try, you can't find any other humans.
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Source date: 2020-05-25
Writing prompt[WP] As a single parent with a ten year old, you have to tell them no when they ask for a bigger house with a yard. They say they will get a job, which you allow. A year later, they come to you saying they have enough to buy a house. They say they've been stealing motorcycles and have amassed $200k.
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Source date: 2020-05-24
Writing prompt[WP] You think the show you just watched on TV is pretty good but none of your friends know about it. And you can't find it on the internet.
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Source date: 2020-05-23
Writing prompt[WP] Whenever you shake someone's hand, you instantly know when and where they were born. Except for the person in front of you. All you get is the mental version of "404 Not Found".
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Source date: 2020-05-22
Writing prompt[WP] You may be the princess locked in a tower, but you are no damsel in distress. There is a reason you were locked in here all those years ago.
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