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Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2019-06-19
Writing prompt[WP] There is a book in your library with no words or title. It is just over six hundred blank pages with no illustrations or text. No matter how hard you try to discard it, give it away, destroy it; it always turns up in your library again the very next day.
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Source date: 2019-06-18
Writing prompt[WP] You're walking in the mall, and see a group of friends about to take the escalator. You can't believe your eyes; one of them is a centaur, but nobody seems to notice. "You guys know I don't like escalators. I'll go take the elevator and meet you up there," it says. Then it notices you staring.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2019-06-17
Writing prompt[WP] When you signed up for organ donation, you didn't know they could come and ask for your liver before you actually died.
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Source date: 2019-06-16
Original prompt heading[OT] Smash 'Em Up Sunday!
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Source date: 2019-06-15
Writing prompt[EU] Everybody can read each other's mind but only you can't read minds nor can others read yours. You lived your life not knowing about this until your parents confessed on your 17th birthday.
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Source date: 2019-06-14
Writing prompt[SP] "Congratulations. You're in."
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Source date: 2019-06-13
Writing prompt[WP] You're just about to tuck your daughter in when she says there's a monster under her bed. To reassure her, you lay on the ground and check underneath, only to find your daughter, quivering. She whispers, "Daddy, there's something on top of my bed..."
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Source date: 2019-06-12
Writing prompt[WP] Achievement Unlocked: Tutorial Complete!
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Source date: 2019-06-11
Writing prompt[WP] You suddenly woke up in the middle of the night. Still sleepy, you check the time which was 2:49 AM and went back to sleep. After what felt like hours of sleeping, you woke up again to check the time. It was still 2:49 AM.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2019-06-10
Writing prompt[SP] A highschool kid finds out he can sneeze himself into other realities.
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Source date: 2019-06-09
Original prompt heading[OT] Smash 'Em Up Sunday!
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Source date: 2019-06-08
Writing prompt[WP] It is said that when people learn something new, they are in fact just remembering lost knowledge from past lives. You wake up after miraculously surviving a traumatic head injury remembering... EVERYTHING
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Source date: 2019-06-07
Writing prompt[WP] You moved into a new house recently. In the basement, there is a locked door. You can't get it open, and there's no mention of a door by the builders of the house. One day, however, there's a note nailed to the door. "I'm unlocked," it says. "Open me."
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Source date: 2019-06-06
Writing prompt[WP] Every night before you go to bed, you check off the day on your calendar. One night, you forget. When you wake up, you find that you are reliving the same day.
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Source date: 2019-06-05
Writing prompt[WP] You wake up in your hospital bed, everything looks just like it has for the last week. A new orderly walks in and says to you "Good you're up! I just have a few questions for you, just making sure I have the right chart and all. What is your name birth date and death date please?"
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2019-06-04
Writing prompt[WP] A single man declares war on the entire world. A year later, the leaders of each nation gather to discuss their surrender.
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Source date: 2019-06-03
Writing prompt[WP] Two versions of someone, each from a different timeline, sit down in a cafe together and try to figure what exactly the difference between their timelines is.
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Source date: 2019-06-02
Writing prompt[OT] S\mash 'Em Up Sunday!
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Source date: 2019-06-01
Writing prompt[WP] Suddenly, everybody can read everyone else's thoughts -- but you can't read their minds, and they can't read yours.
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Source date: 2019-05-31
Writing prompt[WP] You have always had one superpower. Anyone you ever meet you can instantly understand and get the full feel of what they do all day whether it be gaming, working in a cubicle, lecturing, brooding, studying or anything. One day you meet someone and get the most unusual feeling.
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Source date: 2019-05-30
Writing prompt[WP] You are a homeless and penniless man on the street. One day a man approaches you and offers you 100.000 dollars, but there's a catch.
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Source date: 2019-05-29
Writing prompt[WP] You wake up at 2 a.m. and realize you forgot to take out the garbage. As you drag your can to the curb, you look down the street and see something that's definitely not human rummaging through your neighbor's garbage.
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Source date: 2019-05-28
Writing prompt[WP] You have always been able to see a number above someone's head that tells you how many more times you will have to see them. You avoided looking in mirrors in fear of the decreasing number above your head. One day, in the reflection of a window, you see the 1 above your head fade into a 0.
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Source date: 2019-05-27
Writing prompt[WP] After you die, you are given a list of skills and achievements that you unlocked in your life, and, what you didn't. As you look through the list you see items you never even knew could be attained. And now they're sending you back for another chance.
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Source date: 2019-05-26
Original prompt heading[OT] Smash 'Em Up Sunday!
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Source date: 2019-05-25
Writing prompt[WP] Heads I win! Tails you lose!"Ok" said Satan. You flipped your coin, it bounces a few times and lands on its side standing straight up. "Looks like I win.Very well come with me" is all Satan says.
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Source date: 2019-05-24
Writing prompt[WP] You are the last living thing on earth following a massive disaster. Down to your last meal or two, water running low, you hear a knock on your bunker door one evening. As you approach it slowly, you hear from the other side, "I have a large Meat Lover's Pizza and a 2 liter of Sprite."
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Source date: 2019-05-23
Writing prompt[WP] You're an "assassin". You've never actually killed anyone, but you are very charismatic, and actually convinced your "victims" to fake their death and leave the country.
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Source date: 2019-05-22
Writing prompt[CW] Flash Fiction Challenge! Location: A balcony| Object: Butterflies
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Source date: 2019-05-21
Writing prompt[WP] You fall in another dimension and everything seems the same. But when you find your SO, they despise you. You really want to go back to your original dimension.
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Source date: 2019-05-20
Writing prompt[WP] There is a single tree with a bright red bark that stands in the middle of your town. One day, as you are digging into your garden, notice strange red roots that don't seem to end.
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Source date: 2019-05-19
Original prompt heading[OT] Smash 'Em Up Sunday!
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Source date: 2019-05-18
Writing prompt[WP] After years of relationship failures, you have finally found the love of your life. You think you know everything there is to know about your spouse. You were wrong.
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Source date: 2019-05-17
Writing prompt[WP] You find yourself transported to a fantasy realm of magic and mythical creatures. Are you a prophesized hero come to save the world? No. The answer is much more mundane than that.
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Source date: 2019-05-16
Writing prompt[WP] It's the first date after talking for months only through texts and online. You're positive this is it - the love of your life. Except, your star-crossed lover is actually from another dimension...
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Source date: 2019-05-15
Writing prompt[WP] Every human born is given a card with a date on it, which is the date of their death. Green text means your death will be natural, while red text means unnatural. You are the first person ever given a card with blue text.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2019-05-14
Writing prompt[CW] Write a short story that can later be revealed with a plot twist using the spoiler tag.
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Source date: 2019-05-13
Writing prompt[WP] Every week you go to your local bar for a drink and one night you meet a stranger there who claims to be a god. At first you thought he was joking and laugh it off until one night he insists on showing you proof.
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Source date: 2019-05-12
Original prompt heading[OT] Smash 'Em Up Sunday!
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Source date: 2019-05-11
Writing prompt[WP] "If I say I'm going to fill the room with deadly, toxic gas, I'm about to fill the room with deadly, toxic gas."
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Source date: 2019-05-10
Writing prompt[WP] As you were cleaning out your old basement, you accidentally found a gateway to another dimension.
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Source date: 2019-05-09
Writing prompt[WP] You and your spouse have been going to couple's therapy, unsuccessfully. One day, you show up to the therapist's office in time for your appointment but your spouse appears to be walking out of a previous session. The therapist tells you they're ready to reveal to you a big and exciting secret.
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Source date: 2019-05-08
Writing prompt[SP] "Well...you never asked."
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Source date: 2019-05-07
Writing prompt[WP] 2 days ago, your spouse told you it felt as if he/she was followed. Today, you come back to your work to see him/her cooking and smiling, seemingly enjoying the moment. However as he/she greets you, you see that he/she is using the tools with the right hand. He/she is left handed...
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Source date: 2019-05-06
Writing prompt[WP] VR has dominated the future of entertainment. VR arcades are a popular pastiime of many, allowing one to choose from hundreds of programs to simulate. You decide to visit one of these during the weekend to fulfill your hearts desire.
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Source date: 2019-05-05
Original prompt heading[OT] Smash 'Em Up Sunday!
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Source date: 2019-05-04
Writing prompt[WP] You were shot while attempting to stop a bank robbery, but healed within moments. Now you're on the run from governments who want to study you and an international gang who wants to bury you. Each conflict reveals another strange power and hidden world that lies beneath our everyday reality.
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Source date: 2019-05-03
Writing prompt[OT] Friday Free-Form: Never Tell Me the Odds
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