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Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2019-05-02
Writing prompt[WP] Arnold Topps teenage daughter has gotten involved with a secret society of supernatural creatures. She's been telling them about it at dinner and both Arnold and Martha (his wife) have gotten a little bit worried. So they've decided to tag along on the daughter's next adventure.
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Source date: 2019-05-01
Writing prompt[WP] Exploring the attic of your dead grandmother's old house, you find 30 pieces of candy that when eaten, transports your consciousness ]to another, magical world (for 3 days in theirs and 3 minutes in ours). You find the love of your life in this world, but the candies are running out...
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Source date: 2019-04-30
Writing prompt[WP] You've been dropping dollars into the same homeless woman's cup for years. This time, though, she reaches for your hand and whispers, "Thank you, my son... you've been granted access to The Kingdom"
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Source date: 2019-04-29
Writing prompt[WP] Two strangers wake up in an empty room together. Neither of them know why they're there or how they got there. What they don't know is they're twins waiting to be born.
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Source date: 2019-04-28
Original prompt heading[OT] Smash 'Em Up Sunday!
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Source date: 2019-04-27
Writing prompt[WP] A secret society of those with supernatural abilities has kidnapped you. Why, yo uask? Turns out, they have mistaken your magic tricks for a potent superpower.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2019-04-26
Writing prompt[WP] This is the story of a girl who cried a river and drowned the whole world.
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Source date: 2019-04-25
Writing prompt[WP] You have invented a Universe/World changing device. Your colleagues and/or friends are really surprised and annoyed to find out you use it for very simple, mundane, and/or pathetic task.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2019-04-24
Writing prompt[SP] "Please? Just this once?"
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Source date: 2019-04-23
Writing prompt[WP] As you take your nemesis of 30 years to jail (for the millionth time), you stop and sit them down and ask one simple question, "Why?" What they say shocks you to your core.
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Source date: 2019-04-22
Writing prompt[WP] "You mean to tell me, that your rommate is the literal son of the actual, literal devil? That would actually explain a lot... Remind me, why are you not moving out yet?"
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Source date: 2019-04-21
Original prompt heading[OT] Smash 'Em Up Sunday!
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Source date: 2019-04-20
Writing prompt[WP] Stolen from u/Tramelo on r/showerthoughts: "When people think about reincarnation, they imagine they'll become a wolf, ant, dog or an animal like that, but they never imagine they'll reincarnate in some unknown form of life billions of light years away or in another dimension"
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Source date: 2019-04-19
Writing prompt[WP] While out for your morning job you stumble in the dim light and trip over something heavy and hard. Upon closer inspection you find a smooth, metallic egg shaped object about the size of a football.. You pick it up to examine it closer and after looking it over intently it begins to vibrate.
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Source date: 2019-04-18
Writing prompt[WP] There are two men in an alleyway. The first, lowering his now empty gun, asks "What the hell are you?" The other man, completely unscathed, simply replies; "Call me Fate."
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Source date: 2019-04-17
Writing prompt[WP] And that, son, is how I found out your mother was an alien.
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Source date: 2019-04-16
Writing prompt[WP] You find a Genie's lamp, but this one only grants you one wish, thinking about it for a long time you tell them your wish, "I wish to have all the money I'll ever need for the rest of my life!" The Genie nods their head and promptly gives you five dollars.
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Source date: 2019-04-15
Writing prompt[WP] Through a strange quirk of acoustics, you can hear and speak with someone in a different apartment through the vent in your bedroom. You don't know who they are, but the two of you have gotten to talking at night.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2019-04-14
Original prompt heading[OT] Smash 'Em Up Sunday!
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Source date: 2019-04-13
Writing prompt[WP] Disclaimer: Any patrons using the transporters today should be aware that there have been several disappearances. Please be aware that any individual stepping onto the pad assumes all risk of atomisation, transportation to other dimensions or removal from this and any other plane of existence.
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Source date: 2019-04-12
Writing prompt[WP] You are walking down the street when you see a man running toward you looking desperate and flustered. He comes to a stop right in front of you and yells, "I need your pants!"
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Source date: 2019-04-11
Writing prompt[WP] There are actually 8 days a week, but only a few special people know about Hveday, the one day a week where the world stands still. Except for them, of course.
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Source date: 2019-04-10
Writing prompt[WP] "Hi, could I have a name for your order?" "Van'droth the Dread Dragon."
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Source date: 2019-04-09
Writing prompt[CW] Write an alphabet poem (where each line starts with the next letter of the alphabet) about the oddities of language.
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Source date: 2019-04-08
Writing prompt[WP] After discovering a new technology, our world begins to invade and conquer other parallel worlds. In retrospect, it should have been pretty obvious that we would not be the only ones doing this.
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Source date: 2019-04-07
Original prompt heading[OT] Smash 'Em Up Sunday!
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Source date: 2019-04-06
Writing prompt[WP] You play an MMORPG and are part of a large guild. Today however no one else is online. Bored you log off, only to hear a knock at your door. It's a person claiming to be from your guild and begging you to help saying the guild is in danger - in real life.
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Source date: 2019-04-05
Writing prompt[WP] Suddenly, you find yourself in a diner. It looks completely normal, except that you have no idea how you got there. Not knowing what else to do, you sit at a table. A moment later, a cheerful waitress comes up to you and says: "Welcome to the Multiverse Diner. What can I get you today?"
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Source date: 2019-04-04
Writing prompt[WP] You haven't had a good nights' sleep in weeks, and recently you've stopped dreaming. One morning, you wake up in a field, miles from home. You're covered in blood- not yours. Splayed out next to you, a human corpse, mauled beyond recognition, clutching a pistol and a handful of silver bullets.
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Source date: 2019-04-03
Writing prompt[WP] Due to catastrophic accident humankind is in a race to survive. Earth is only inhabitable for the next three years, after which we will all perish. We are all frantic to find a new home among the stars, and it is your duty to get us there...
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Source date: 2019-04-02
Writing prompt[WP] After a severe head injury as a child, you grew up without the ability to speak. One day, whilst waiting in line at the supermarket, you crack a particularly excellent joke in your head, and the person behind you can't stop laughing.
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Source date: 2019-04-01
Writing prompt[CW] Write a story no more than 500 words in length about an everyday person living an everyday life in an genre setting you choose. Make them decent, their actions good, and bring a smile to those who read it.
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Source date: 2019-03-31
Original prompt heading[WP] Smash 'Em Up Sundays
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Source date: 2019-03-30
Writing prompt[WP] The main character is trapped in a black hole.
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Source date: 2019-03-29
Writing prompt[OT] Friday Free-form.
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Source date: 2019-03-28
Writing prompt[CW] Flash Fiction Challenge - Location: A park| Object: A ticket
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Source date: 2019-03-27
Writing prompt[WP] You are a social worker in a poor neighborhood dominated by crime. Today, the day begins with ambiguous news: the former crime lord that kept things somewhat peaceful had been murdered.
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Source date: 2019-03-26
Writing prompt[WP] It's just another day doing job interviews for your company with the standard questions: "So what are your weaknesses?" "Garlic and silver"
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Source date: 2019-03-25
Writing prompt[WP] You've just arrived at a new school and everything's fine so far, although something feels peculiar about it all.
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Source date: 2019-03-24
Original prompt heading[OT] Smash 'Em Up Sundays
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Source date: 2019-03-23
Writing prompt[SP]“Who we want to be”
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Source date: 2019-03-22
Writing prompt[OT] Friday Free-Form: The Danger Zone
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Source date: 2019-03-21
Writing prompt[WP] You one day get the ability to stop time. You start using it for everything from getting extra time for tests to thinking over tough decisions. For you time passes as normally, but for everyone else they don't notice, until one day you get stuck in frozen time and can't seem to get out...
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Source date: 2019-03-20
Writing prompt[WP] Your immigration consultant opens his binder. "Well, most people immigrate to Canada or Denmark or something for the free health care, but why don't I do you one better?" He winks as he hands you a brochure: Reincarnate Into Your Fantasy World.
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Source date: 2019-03-19
Writing prompt[WP] When I was 15, I found out I had superpowers.
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Source date: 2019-03-18
Writing prompt[WP] You have the ability to stop time but you've never been able to control when time starts again. One day, you stop time and see someone else not frozen. Then, they un-freeze time.
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Source date: 2019-03-17
Original prompt heading[OT] Smash 'Em Up Sundays
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Source date: 2019-03-16
Writing prompt[WP] A humble priest works in a small, quiet village. One day, after entering the church's confessional, he sees an actual winged and horned demon in the other booth.
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