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Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-02-14
Writing prompt[WP] You just mmoved into your new apartment. You're putting dishes away when you find a locked box in a cupboard. On the box is a sticky note that says "Please don't open or else".
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Source date: 2020-02-13
Writing prompt[WP] After an incredibly stressful shift, a waitress thinks her last customer stiffed her on the bill, writing only "Worthy" in the tip-line, and leaving her what turns out to be a magical dagger, disguised as a ballpoint pen.
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Source date: 2020-02-12
Writing prompt[WP] You are at your job pretending to work when your boss frantically rushes into your cubicle with a promise of a raise if you pretend to be him for 5 minutes. You are sitting there fumbling for words when three men in suits walk up to you both and ask, "Which one of you is Mr. Vincent?"
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Source date: 2020-02-11
Writing prompt[WP] As you are watching the news, breaking news is announced that time travel has finally been achieved. The very next second, an explosion happens on your yard. You look out the window to see a huge fleet of armed people on your front lawn. They begin to move toward your door.
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Source date: 2020-02-10
Writing prompt[WP] It's a dystopian future America, and you're a government official. You're on the run from a bunch of delinquent teenagers with "special" abilities who claim the government is corrupt and have successfully started a revolution to enforce their rules on the once fairly peaceful country.
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Source date: 2020-02-09
Writing prompt[WP] Everyone is born with a tattoo of their native country, if your partly a different race as well that flag also appears. But one day, children all across the globe are born with a flag that has never been seen before.
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Source date: 2020-02-08
Writing prompt[WP] You have just moved into your new apartment. You've joined your building's Facebook page. At 1:00am, people start posting weird things. "He's back. Get ready."
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Source date: 2020-02-07
Writing prompt[WP] You visit a fortune teller for your twentieth birthday. However, you accidentally trip over and snap a wire... only to be told that the wire was your path of fate.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-02-06
Original prompt heading[TT] Theme Thursday - Depth
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Source date: 2020-02-05
Writing prompt[WP] "I bet my soul," you say confidently. "If you win, you take my soul. If I win, you give me something just as valuable." You go on to win the bet, only to be granted a single $1 bill.
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Source date: 2020-02-04
Writing prompt[WP] The scientists looked puzzled, trying to figure out how the man in front of them got there. The note tied to his hand wrote: "Dear Universe 441-B-2, he's your problem now. May the luck be on your side."
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Source date: 2020-02-03
Writing prompt[WP] You are a demon charged with corrupting mortal souls. Your plan is to give good advice to get them to trust you, then corrupt them. But as time goes on, you grow to like the good deeds that result from your advice. Hell is not happy with your lack of progress...
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Source date: 2020-02-02
Writing prompt[WP] Picking out a pet at the local shelter, your 4yo daughter runs to an empty kennel and shouts "I like this one!" Struggling to see the dog, you then notice splashes from the water bowl. "Naww he even drinks cute! Can we keep him?" You turn around to find the owner curiously staring at you two...
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Source date: 2020-02-01
Writing prompt[WP] The discovery of an alternate dimension has provided humanity an untouched, uninhabited second earth. Passing between the two dimensions was as easy as booking a flight, or at least it was until an unexplained phenomena caused you to be the only one who could do it.
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Source date: 2020-01-31
Writing prompt[WP] "Heroes never rest" That's what your boss said when you asked for a day off. You're a superhero working for a hero team, although you love what you do, the work conditions are terrible. You just want some free time and health insurance and you're not going to stop until you get it.
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Source date: 2020-01-30
Writing prompt[WP] "I told you, we grow babies in the other lab". Stopping in his tracks Cameron said "Wait......what?" I replied coldly "Why do you think no one is allowed on the seventh floor?" Looking confused Cameron said "There is no seventh floor!"
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Source date: 2020-01-29
Writing prompt[WP] "...coming to you live after the devastating attacks on major cities around the world. This just in, I'm receiving word that yes, God has claimed responsibility for these attacks."
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Source date: 2020-01-28
Writing prompt[WP] A person is walking down the street and they see their Ex go into the local cafe with someone. Against better judgement they go take a peek through the window. The couple inside is smiling and laughing, they glance a look at who's sitting across from their Ex and it is...themself.
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Source date: 2020-01-27
Writing prompt[WP] "Why Universe?!?! Why do you hate me?!?!" You shout tone day out of frustration from your seemingly endless string of bad luck. You never expected for the universe to answer back, however.
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Source date: 2020-01-26
Writing prompt[WP] A co-worker of yours winds a music box every hour on the hour, claiming if they don't, something bad will happen. One day, frustrated by the constant chiming of the box, someone smashes it. Describe what happens next.
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Source date: 2020-01-25
Writing prompt[WP] A frantic woman approaches you, shaking. "What year is it?" she asks. "2020" you respond. "Good, there's still time." Then she runs off. But she dropped something unusual.
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Source date: 2020-01-24
Writing prompt[WP] Scientists mocked you when you announced a new therapy that would infuse and restore magic to the world. They laughed at you when you said you could bring back the age of dragons. Several devastated major metropolitan cities later, no one's laughing anymore.
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Source date: 2020-01-23
Writing prompt[WP] You're working a minimum wage fast food job when you make an offhanded comment about the weather to a customer. He looks confused, and starts muttering about how you're "an NPC" and "shouldn't be able to do that".
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Source date: 2020-01-22
Writing prompt[WP] A witches child was found and raised by a witch hunter, their sibling escaped and grew up to be the highest ranked of all witches. After so long apart the two finally reunite.
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Source date: 2020-01-21
Writing prompt[WP] All the super heroes nemeses come together to discuss how to finally destroy the super heroes but talks are interrupted by a more pressing concern. Is supervillain or super villain the correct spelling since spell check with correct you if using supervillain but Google doesn't. Arguments ensue.
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Source date: 2020-01-20
Writing prompt[WP] Then, without really thinking, I told the genie: "I wish I were the richest person in the world."
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Source date: 2020-01-18
Writing prompt[WP] You're sitting in a coffee shop surrounded by strangers but then it dawns on you that these were the same "strangers" who were in the restaurant where you had dinner last night. You head to the beach and realize again that the people around you are once more the same.
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Source date: 2020-01-17
Writing prompt[WP] The demon stands before you, "For the past 10 years, you have led your ideal, perfect life. As we agreed then, it is now time for me to collect your soul." You reach into your pocket & casually toss him the keys to your Kia.
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Source date: 2020-01-16
Writing prompt[WP] You and a coworker get stuck in a lift due to some malfunction. He looks at you and sighs. "Look, you might suffer from some residual effects, but I really need to get out of here. I have a meeting that I just can't miss. He makes some hand motions and in a flash of light, disappears.
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Source date: 2020-01-15
Writing prompt[WP] God comes down to say he's going to give you a chance to better the world how you'd see fit. You now have three chances to tell a lie that all who hear will believe as pure truth. Whatever you say all will believe no matter what but they must hear it directly from you be it one person or a group.
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Source date: 2020-01-14
Writing prompt[WP] Turning the dial, you try once more to find the signal. It's been a week since you last heard it, and it has haunted your every waking moment. This time you will not rest until you have understood its meaning.
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Source date: 2020-01-13
Writing prompt[WP] A man in a black suit walks into the room, he has a large black book in his hands and looks at you with piercing eyes. He smiles and speaks: "You have been chose."
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Source date: 2020-01-12
Writing prompt[WP] Affordable lab created meat is a reality, and your company is the market leader. You're in a meeting brainstorming on new product ideas, when an intern raises his hand to speak. "Since we just need a few cells to grow it, how about human steak?"
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Source date: 2020-01-11
Writing prompt[WP] Being a billionaire has its perks, stocks in Hell have just come up for sale and you are now majority shareholder controlling over 50% of voting shares.
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Source date: 2020-01-10
Writing prompt[WP] On a whim, you type into google search "Are you awake?". The screen goes white, and a cursor shows up, and slowly, "yes i Am awake" appears on your screen.
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Source date: 2020-01-09
Writing prompt[WP] You're a kindergarten teacher. One of your student's mom's meets with you on the first day of school and demands that you never let her son draw a triangle. She doesn't explain why, but is aggressively persistent. You decide to ask him to draw you a triangle at the end of the first day.
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Source date: 2020-01-08
Writing prompt[WP] The Earth is invaded by a far more technologically advanced alternate universe. Only you can save us. You see, the tyrant who took over the world, advanced technology thousands of years and invaded the multiverse is an alternate you, and you might just be able to talk you down.
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Source date: 2020-01-07
Writing prompt[WP] In the distant future, police is able to know the victim of a crime a few seconds in advance but not the nature of the crime. One seemingly normal day you receive a phone call from the police: "911, what's your emergency?"
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Source date: 2020-01-06
Writing prompt[WP] You're in school, and a kid that always acted strange just went to the restroom carrying an odd leather book. You follow him to the bathroom, and you secretly watch as he performs a spell.
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Source date: 2020-01-05
Original prompt heading[WP] Smash 'Em Up Sunday: Mysteries
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Source date: 2020-01-04
Writing prompt[WP] All of the ghosts in the world are rising up. They create their own society, and have shown no sign of being hostile yet. Your acquaintance, who happens to be a ghost, tells you that their goal is to collect all of the corn in the world.
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Source date: 2020-01-03
Writing prompt[WP] "Have you ever danced with the devil under the pale moonlight?" Why yes, yes you have. In fact you have a date with him right this evening.
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Source date: 2020-01-02
Writing prompt[WP] You are the world's greatest hero. You haven't been challenged in five years. You worry about your legacy. So you go out to find a villain that can properly test you.
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Source date: 2020-01-01
Writing prompt[WP] You wake up, and it's January 1, 2010. Everyone remembers the events of the past decade.
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Source date: 2019-12-31
Writing prompt[WP] You've always been able to freeze time at will with no consequences. When time is unfrozen, no time has passed for the rest of us. One day, just after you freeze time, you hear a voice say "What the hell do you think you're doing?"
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Source date: 2019-12-30
Writing prompt[WP] Generations of us left our Earthen home to explore the vast darkness of space. We only found barren rocks dancing around dying stars. We introverted, with virtual worlds becoming our next frontier. It was the last place we thought we would find alien life.
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Source date: 2019-12-29
Writing prompt[WP] You wouldn't exactly call it a superpower, but you are a unique individual. You can see "links" between people and read what they are. Those two are secretly dating. Those two have been married for 27 years. Those two hate each other.
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Source date: 2019-12-28
Writing prompt[WP] You wake up one day with the strange ability to pull an Oreo out of any pocket, whether or not there was an Oreo there beforehand.
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