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Countdown to Love
Source date: 2019-12-27
Writing prompt[WP] 24 hours ago, everyone in the world started hearing a countdown to zero. It's 10 minutes from now.
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Hellish Wait
Source date: 2019-12-26
Writing prompt[WP] The demon stares at you, wrapping his bathrobe around himself tighter before taking the toothbrush out of his mouth "Botch the summoning, huh? Welcome to hell"
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Death's Welcome
Source date: 2019-12-25
Writing prompt[WP] Flash Fiction Challenge! Airport | Candy Cane
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Changing Times
Source date: 2019-12-24
Writing prompt[WP] For as long as you can remember, you have the power to control time like a VCR. You extensively use the play, stop, rewind, and fast-forward abilities. However, on one day, you attempt the eject button.
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Directing Death
Source date: 2019-12-23
Writing prompt[WP] The last thing you remember is a car crash. A disembodied voice says, "I didn't like that ending. Go back." Everything goes blank and you wake up 5 days ago.
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Home for the Holidays
Source date: 2019-12-22
Writing prompt[WP] Christmas morning comes, and after a deep sleep you wake and head for the living room. All seems normal until you see a boxed gift under the tree that wasn't there the night before...and the box is moving.
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Grand Stomp
Source date: 2019-12-21
Writing prompt[WP] Somehow, your kindly old grandma managed to gain superpowers.
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Safety First
Source date: 2019-12-20
Writing prompt[WP] You and your best friend on a road trip and you break suddenly. Your friend flies out the window and lands with a cracking sound. You look on in horror as he stands up, skin broken, and sparks flying from the wires under his skin. "I can explain."
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Quest for Knowledge
Source date: 2019-12-19
Writing prompt[WP] You, a brilliant mind with an incurable disease, are put into cryogenic stasis in the hopes that the future holds a cure. However, the pod malfunctions midway through, and when you wake, you find you're way off schedule. Even worse, technology has not advanced while you slept. It has regressed.
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Lunar Request
Source date: 2019-12-18
Writing prompt[WP] It has been 3 years since everyone around you mysteriously vanished without a trace. You've since adapted to life alone, you have a dog with you, and you have set up a shelter in an area with lots of supplies. On one of your regular supply runs, you look down the street, and see another person.
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Sunny Disposition
Source date: 2019-12-17
Writing prompt[WP] Some plucky teenagers come to you asking for aid in defeating the Dark Lord, not realizing who you are.
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Heroic Motivation
Source date: 2019-12-16
Writing prompt[WP] You've been protecting the city you live in for 7 years now with your powers, you got married 2 years ago, but you never expected to find out that your SO was the worst villain in the whole city.
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Stellar Father
Source date: 2019-12-15
Original prompt heading[WP] Smash 'Em Up Sunday: Anticipation
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Stellar Orientation
Source date: 2019-12-14
Writing prompt[WP] When hanging a large, antique mirror, you mistakingly lose your hold on it. It falls off the mantel, but instead of hitting you over the head, you find yourself transported to another world.
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Damned Roommate
Source date: 2019-12-13
Writing prompt[WP] You have a very weird roomate. He can be annoying and embarrassing. One day you had enough and about to kick him out but you saw him in nicer clothes. He gives you a suitcase filled with cash.
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Ladies' Lunch
Source date: 2019-12-12
Writing prompt[WP] "What am I supposed to do? Have a barbecue?"
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Death on the Case
Source date: 2019-12-11
Writing prompt[WP] You're an unsolved crimes investigator in the most prestigious law enforcement facility in the world. Your division recently acquired time travel technology.
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Spring Cleaned
Source date: 2019-12-10
Writing prompt[WP] At the stroke of midnight on January 1st, 2020, the first snow of the new year and the new decade fell. And it never stopped.
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Friendly Game
Source date: 2019-12-09
Writing prompt[WP] You've always been able to see a counter above people's heads. Most people are zeros, an occassional one or two, but one day you notice your friend has a 10.
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Wonderous Recruit
Source date: 2019-12-08
Original prompt heading[WP] Smash 'Em Up Sundays
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Solar Efficiency
Source date: 2019-12-07
Writing prompt[WP] You always somehow know instictively the current population of the planet, accurate down to the last person. Yesterday the population was as usual over 7.7 billion, this morning however it is 77.
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Sharp Wager
Source date: 2019-12-06
Original prompt heading[WP] Feedback Friday - Hooks
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Sharp Program
Source date: 2019-12-05
Writing prompt[WP] You are a scientist conducting research on an advanced AI. As you comb through the logs, you begin to realize that although air-gapped, the AI has been communicating with something external...something not from this world. In the last log, you discover the AI has extended an "invitation."
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AlterNet Perspective
Source date: 2019-12-04
Writing prompt[WP] After 7 days each person holding a golden ticket will have their life forever changed according to the UN. There are no rules to obtaining the ticket, but everyone can feel its presence if they're within close proximity. You are one of the 1 million golden ticket holders in the world.
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Wonder. Girl
Source date: 2019-12-03
Writing prompt[SP] Suddenly Dragons
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Sensitive Program
Source date: 2019-12-02
Writing prompt[WP] Ted woke up, made a coffee, just like any other day. He looked around. Everything was the way it usually was. He went outside, and things looked exactly as they always do. He sighed. Then he felt it. Goosebumps rose on his arms. "It worked!" shouted Ted, knowing nothing would ever be the same.
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Lunar Trajectory
Source date: 2019-12-01
Original prompt heading[CW] Smash 'Em Up Sunday: Shopping
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Sharp Domain
Source date: 2019-11-30
Writing prompt[WP] Three years after the apocalypse, you finally find a functioning computer. To your surprise, you successfully connect it to the Internet. A single website is still working and hundreds of users are posting on it daily.
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Jumping Ahead
Source date: 2019-11-29
Writing prompt[WP] You never look forward to any family gatherings, much less Thanksgiving, when you're the only normal human born into a family of villains with super powers. And the last time you checked, your car was destroyed *thanks* to your cousin, who fought with a superhero two days ago...
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Lich in Love
Source date: 2019-11-28
Writing prompt[WP] "I have a confession to make." "We're getting married tomorrow. I don't think anything can surprise me at this point in our relationship." "I'm a lich and I gave you my phylactery as your engagement ring."
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Sharp Spare
Source date: 2019-11-27
Writing prompt[WP] You've finally done it! Climbed your way to the top of the top. In just a few moments your debriefing into the world's shadow government will begin.
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Lunar Origin
Source date: 2019-11-26
Writing prompt[WP] Every single person has a superpower that they inherit from their parents. Your power is different, it's powerful, more powerful than anything ever seen before. One day you meet your father for the first time ever.
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Lunar Lift
Source date: 2019-11-25
Writing prompt[WP] During one of your urban exploration trips, you lose balance and fall off a bridge. As you brace yourself for impact, you get saved by something unexpected...
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Death in the Family
Source date: 2019-11-24
Writing prompt[WP] A girl who lives with her family is tasked with delivering grandma's casserole to the well-behaved college student renting the apartment upstairs, but what she finds is not what she expected.
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Birds of a Feather
Source date: 2019-11-23
Writing prompt[WP] A bird lands on your shoulder and whispers in a human voice "You've always been good to me Hector. Whatever you do, don't go to the market square tomorrow." - However, your name is not Hector.
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Found. Lost.
Source date: 2019-11-22
Writing prompt[WP] You find a smartphone, out of curiosity you play with it, then an object next to you disappears, now you are playing real life in developer mode.
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Oasis of Dreams
Source date: 2019-11-21
Writing prompt[WP] You have the ability to see into the dreams of anyone nearby. You've had a lot of fun messing with your friends at sleepovers and such. One day, you hop on the bus home and notice the only chair left is next to a sleeping man. Your curiosity gets the better of you.
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Death and the New Guy
Source date: 2019-11-20
Writing prompt[WP] After your eccentric grandfather dies, you go to clean his house. During this, you find a mysterious hidden door, and decide to see where it leads. You eventually find a secret laboratory, filled with dozens of supernatural creatures.
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Cherry Soul
Source date: 2019-11-19
Writing prompt[SP] "They said it couldn't be done..."
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Island Earth
Source date: 2019-11-18
Writing prompt[WP] You have the ability to read the minds of anyone within visual range of you. You have been hearing the thoughts of another person for hours now which wouldn't be so strange if it wasn't for the fact that you have been stranded all alone on a deserted island for weeks.
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Lunar Landing
Source date: 2019-11-17
Writing prompt[WP] Everyone in the world is on a leaderboard sorting by how powerful each person is. Which combines physical strength, intelligence, and influence. The number one spot has been blank, until now.
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Fishy Substance
Source date: 2019-11-16
Writing prompt[WP] A mysterious new street drug, "Shift", has emerged. It supposedly allows its users to transfer their consciousness into alternate reality versions of themselves. You've decided to give it a try.
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Worldly Advice
Source date: 2019-11-15
Writing prompt[WP] You're in high school and get picked on a lot. You're bullied on a daily basis, but one day you've finally had enough. Your school bully hits you and you hit him back, but when you do, he goes flying. You just discovered you have superhuman strength and have no idea how to use it.
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Sharp Recruiter
Source date: 2019-11-14
Writing prompt[WP] You ride the bus to work every day, like clockwork. The same people sit in the same seats drinking from the same coffee mugs. Variety lacks. One morning a new bus rider joins the group. She smiles politely, then snaps her fingers, transporting the bus, and all its riders, to another dimension.
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Royal Debt
Source date: 2019-11-13
Writing prompt[WP] You made a deal with the Fae as a child, now they've come to collect.
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Sharp Singularity
Source date: 2019-11-12
Writing prompt[WP] You faked your death by live-streaming jumping off a bridge. Built a self sustaining house in isolation and lived off the grid. 20 years go by and you decide to head back to civilization only to find out that your country is no longer a country. Earth is one nation and has achieved singularity.
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Lunar Travel
Source date: 2019-11-11
Writing prompt[WP] "You intrigue me." "I'm not that interesting..." "Funny." A flicker of a smile, and a gaze that never wavered. "Uninteresting people generally don't have to say that." They stepped closer, and I was mesmerized. "What are you trying to so hard to hide?" The other murmured.
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Decisive Sun
Source date: 2019-11-10
Writing prompt[WP] You have the strange superpower of seeing a blip in the direction somebody dies. Looking at the horizon in a crowded city, you see a blip every few seconds. When you look down, you see blips from people dying on the other side of the Earth. Today, you saw the whole sky light up with blips.
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