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Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-04-03
Writing prompt[WP] In a world of superpowers, your power is that you get sent a few hours back in time whenever you die. This made you a famous superhero during the days, but now you're old and on your deathbed. You're frustrated because you're stuck in a respawning loop.
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Source date: 2020-04-02
Writing prompt[WP] A four-year old discovers that they can freeze time when they are being babysat one night.
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Source date: 2020-04-01
Writing prompt[SP] It was sealed away for an eternity. An eternity has passed for it, and the seal has broken.
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Source date: 2020-03-31
Writing prompt[WP] It is said that in the world's greatest time of need, deities and other mythological figures from around the world will return to support their places of origin. Now is that time.
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Source date: 2020-03-30
Writing prompt[WP] The first words a person's destined love speaks to them are somehow imprinted on the inside of their arm long before the two ever meet face to face. However, your arm is mysteriously blank. No one can figure out why.
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Source date: 2020-03-29
Writing prompt[SP] "Wait, so you want me to become the next death?"
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Source date: 2020-03-27
Writing prompt[WP] You hook up with a girl, and her Ex tries to kill you by summoning a demon. When the demon sees you, he smiles and asks how you have been.
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Source date: 2020-03-26
Writing prompt[WP] You are a doctor at a psychiatric hospital, working special cases. For some reason all of your patients believe themselves to be either some kind of superhero, or anime protagonist.
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Source date: 2020-03-25
Writing prompt[WP] You're the only person in your neighborhood your ornery old neighbor tolerates. They even like you, in their own way. When they die, they leave you everything they own. Properties, accounts, collectibles, you got it all. However, you were not prepared for what was in their garage out back.
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Source date: 2020-03-24
Writing prompt[WP] The time traveler will drop you off anywhere, anytime on Earth. You'll win $1000 for each person whose life you saved in the next 24 hours, but you'll lose it all if your actions kill more people in the next year than you saved.
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Source date: 2020-03-23
Writing prompt[WP] You can control the weather using an app on your phone. One day you try to impress a girl you like with your powers. You soon find out that "control" is a loose term.
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Source date: 2020-03-22
Original prompt heading[WP] Smash 'Em Up! Sunday
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Source date: 2020-03-21
Writing prompt[WP] Earth gets an eviction notice from the higher ups. We are to be moved into a different planet by the end of the week.
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Source date: 2020-03-20
Writing prompt[WP] You're on the window seat of the plane and everyone is asleep. You look out the window, and to your shock, all the clouds are purple. You pinch yourself. Hey wait, they are definitely green now.
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Source date: 2020-03-19
Writing prompt[WP] An advanced AI designed to devise weaponry and military strategy keeps almost exclusively arriving at benign, benevolent, cooperative, or mutually benificial ways of solving strategic problems and achieving national aims.
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Source date: 2020-03-18
Writing prompt[WP] The world is split into its hemispheres through a giant wall. In the southern half lives society. In the Northern half live those who are exiled for their crimes. You become one of the exiled, and upon moving to the Northern half, you're shocked to see how things actually are.
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Source date: 2020-03-17
Writing prompt[WP] You don't even remember plugging in the old rotary phone when you moved into the house. The fact that it's been ringing repeatedly for the last five minutes means you have, and the line must be active. Though when you pick up the receiver, that's when things really get strange.
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Source date: 2020-03-16
Writing prompt[WP] There's a website where you can input any decision you may take and it will tell you how many people will die from that decision. One day you're bored and decide to type for fun "Kill my neighbor". The number on screen is negative.
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Source date: 2020-03-15
Writing prompt[WP] You're only still alive because the window was open when they came
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Source date: 2020-03-14
Writing prompt[WP] You've got a super power that lets you heal people so well you can even bring someone dead back to life each time you use this power no one remembers who you are. All documents about you vanish and evne memories of you no longer exists.
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Source date: 2020-03-13
Writing prompt[WP] It's been a year since you graduated from the academy for gifted individuals, where you learned to control your super powers, and you've since been living a normal life as a functioning citizen of society, only using your powers in private. This day, however, you get a call from an old teacher.
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Source date: 2020-03-12
Writing prompt[WP] There's a blood drive going on in your town and a friend of yours has talked you into going with them to donate. Everything goes fine and seems normal until it's your turn and they start drawing your blood.
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Source date: 2020-03-11
Writing prompt[WP] A small technology company holds their first "Bring your kid to work" day! All the employees bring their children to an all hands meeting that morning, where the CEO makes an important announcement...
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Source date: 2020-03-10
Writing prompt[WP] One morning when leaving to work you notice something odd soon after you close the door. It is dead silent in the city. When walking to the bus stop you notice that no one is moving, not even when pushed. All of a sudden you hear someone shout "Why are you moving? No one should be able to move!"
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Source date: 2020-03-09
Writing prompt[SP] It's too late now.
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Source date: 2020-03-08
Writing prompt[WP] Every full moon, a bridge appears, with no end in sight. One night, you decide to take it, to find out the other side.
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Source date: 2020-03-07
Writing prompt[WP] The vampires, necromancers, and all other practitioners of dark magic believe their powers come from Satan, or some other unholy source. You, a skeptical scientist, are so eager to prove them wrong.
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Source date: 2020-03-06
Writing prompt[WP] You're tasked to extract vital information from an evasive suspect using unusual methods. Entering the interrogation, you say "I'm Agent G from QNSIB. I have questions for you." The suspect looks up, saying "Do whatever you want, I'm not talking!" You respond, "After I'm done, you will."
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Source date: 2020-03-05
Writing prompt[WP] A traditional, cliche horror story but the characters are not dumb fucks.
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Source date: 2020-03-04
Writing prompt[WP] You're a firefighter 4 days from retiring when you get some bad news.
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Source date: 2020-03-03
Writing prompt[WP] You and your drinking buddies find yourselves on another world trying to slay a dragon because Steve was curious and called the number he saw scrawled on the bathroom stall.
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Source date: 2020-03-02
Writing prompt[WP] Most of your life has been great. Popular in school, played on the baseball team, pretty girlfriend you married, got a job at her dad's law firm. You live a nice picturesque life. That's why it would be terrible if they found out. It's not like it's illegal, technically. No one can find out....
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Source date: 2020-03-01
Writing prompt[WP] Bored and fed up, you jokingly ask Google "OK Google, find me another reality", your phone pings and gives you directions to a clearing in a nearby forest.
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Source date: 2020-02-29
Writing prompt[WP] The world was normal till 20 seconds ago when everyone blacked out for 1 hour. When everyone woke up some people said they heard a bell chime but what's more scary is now fantasy creatures exist. Elves, Orks, Trolls and so on now exists with whole new continents for them.
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Source date: 2020-02-28
Writing prompt[WP] One day the snow started falling and it never stopped.
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Source date: 2020-02-27
Writing prompt[WP] You're able to gather meaning form any writing in any language. You think it's pretty cool until you visit Stonehenge and read it as "WARNING - DANGER ZONE"
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Source date: 2020-02-26
Writing prompt[CW] Flash Fiction Challenge A garage|A bow
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Source date: 2020-02-25
Writing prompt[WP] You use multiple identities in your line of work, and the top ten list of your field ended up all secretly you. Tomorrow is a competition to decide who is the best of them all, and you are sent 10 invitations.
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Source date: 2020-02-24
Writing prompt[WP] In a world of heroes, powers are determined by tattoos. The most powerful ones are completely covered, but that's not always the case. You are the first person to get a dragon tattoo.
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Source date: 2020-02-23
Writing prompt[WP] For as long as you can remember, you've seen a timer above every person's head, telling you the exact moment they'll die. One day while making your commute to work, a man in a suit accidentally bumps into you. He hurriedly apologizes as you stare at the infinity symbol hovering above his head.
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Source date: 2020-02-22
Writing prompt[SP] "Do whatever you want" He spat, a mixture of blood and saliva. "I won't say nothing!"
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Source date: 2020-02-21
Writing prompt[SP] "I want to be immortal!"
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Source date: 2020-02-20
Writing prompt[WP] You wanted to be a hero, so you made a deal with the Devil.
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Source date: 2020-02-19
Writing prompt[WP] On their sixteenth birthday, all children get their familiar: a magical animal that can share its attributes with its master. Your friends have familiars like tigers, wolves, and bears. You have a spider.
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Source date: 2020-02-18
Writing prompt[WP] You were just a normal person, or so you thought. Until one day, you discovered you had the ability to freeze & unfreeze time. Being the good person you are, you use this power to save people from dying (usually from fatal accidents). Everything went well, until Death knocked on your door.
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Source date: 2020-02-17
Writing prompt[WP] "That's cursed. That's cursed. That's broken..."
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Source date: 2020-02-16
Original prompt heading[WP] Smash 'Em Up Sunday!
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Source date: 2020-02-15
Writing prompt[WP] You wake up 7 minutes before your alarm, as you head down the hallway you notice everything is a low rendered wireframe version of your house interior. You hear scurrying and a voice whisper "commence quick launch simulation world 63,239,430 we have an unscheduled early rise here."
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