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Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2019-03-15
Writing prompt[WP] You suffer from a terminal illness and have gone under cryopreservation to wait for the cure for said illness. You wake up, doctors smiling at you, and it's only been 2 days.
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Source date: 2019-03-14
Writing prompt[WP] As two men approach you, you start sweating, they must have discovered your secret... "IT"S TRUE, I HAVE IT!" you screamed, they look confused.
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Source date: 2019-03-13
Writing prompt[SP] "Do you have proof?" "Look at me! Isn't that proof enough?"
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Source date: 2019-03-12
Writing prompt[WP] "Hey, why's there a chef in our dungeon party?"
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Source date: 2019-03-11
Writing prompt[WP] You jokingly donate 50$ to a Kickstarter campaign promising something impossible. You laughed it off until a package appeared on your door the next week.
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Source date: 2019-03-10
Writing prompt[WP] You see a homeless man with a sign "I do miracles $5". Curious, you walk up to him and ask if he's a prophet or something. He replies "No, I'm a god."
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Source date: 2019-03-09
Writing prompt[WP] As both their target demographic and the population at large grows older, "elderly games" become a genre in console and VR games. Simple games of exploring tourist cities, growing gardens, and nice things.
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Source date: 2019-03-08
Writing prompt[OT] Friday Free-Form: With Love from Private Snowball
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Source date: 2019-03-07
Writing prompt[WP] Every time you step in an elevator, it takes you where you need to be. Even if you don't know where that is at the time.
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Source date: 2019-03-06
Writing prompt[WP] People always made fun of you, saying you were raised in 'some cooky cult.' But when things started getting weird in the world, you knew exactly what to do.
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Source date: 2019-03-05
Writing prompt[WP] You live in a sealed luxury apartment. Every day you must step into a small room containing a gun, a prisoner in a chair, and a voice detailing their crimes. If you do not execute them you are held responsible for any future crimes they commit. Today you are given another option.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2019-03-04
Writing prompt[WP] Two people talking on a park bench. No monsters, or zombies, or superpowers, or anything. Let dialogue drive your story.
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Source date: 2019-03-03
Writing prompt[WP] Whenever you lose your train of thought or walk into a room and forget why, it's because you from an alternate reality has done something they weren't supposed to and it momentarily de-syncs all versions of you across the multiverse. One of you has just done something unspeakably heinous.
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Source date: 2019-03-02
Writing prompt[WP] You are born with the ability to control time with how you breathe. By holding your breath, you can freeze time. On the other hand, if your breathing gets faster, time speeds up too.
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Source date: 2019-03-01
Writing prompt[WP] You can suddenly see HP bars and status effects for people. You look at a stranger and see (Buff: Berserker's Rage).
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Source date: 2019-02-28
Writing prompt[SP] A world like ours except it has an mmo like systems in it, like leveling, respawning, and loot dropped from enemies.
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Source date: 2019-02-27
Writing prompt[CW] Flash Fiction Challenge! Location: A library| Object: A flower
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Source date: 2019-02-26
Writing prompt[WP] Two people, sitting on a park bench, talking, for five minutes. No flashbacks, no time skips, nothing. Let dialogue drive your story.
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Source date: 2019-02-25
Writing prompt[WP] You're hungover in an unfamiliar yet really freaking fancy place, and as you are waddling around the place trying to find the toilet, an angel appears in front of you which tells you "It's time for the ascension exam."
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Source date: 2019-02-24
Original prompt heading[OT] Smash 'Em Up Sunday: (Setting) classroom, (Item) hand fan, (Item) fencing sword.
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Source date: 2019-02-23
Writing prompt[WP] Humanity expected First Contact to be with an entirely new race - Not more humans.
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Source date: 2019-02-22
Writing prompt[WP] "Day 3. Territory and year remain unknown. War Sentinel #32 lost after entering dimensional portal. Land appears medieval: concluded by the overwhelming amount of horses, knights, and lower-class, or "peasants". Residing in small village. Must remain in disguise, must not reveal firepower."
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Source date: 2019-02-21
Writing prompt[WP] All around the world, people start appearing out of nowhere. People who believe they're dreaming, and that the world around them isn't real.
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Source date: 2019-02-20
Writing prompt[WP] Write about a regular day someone has that goes pleasantly well. No powers or magic, just a surprisingly nice day they have.
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Source date: 2019-02-19
Writing prompt[WP] You pass away at 83 in a hospital room surrounded by your loved ones. You awake the next moment sitting at a table in a brightly lit room. A much younger version of yourself enters the room and sits across from you. "83 years, not bad, but it isn't the record." Says your younger self.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2019-02-18
Writing prompt[WP] After years of saving every coin you could earn (or steal) you finally have saved enough for the entrance fee to... Knight School.
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Source date: 2019-02-17
Original prompt heading[OT] Smash 'Em Up Sunday: (Character) Raymond 'Red' Reddington (Quote) "The game is afoot!"
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Source date: 2019-02-16
Writing prompt[WP] A time traveler falls in love with a decade and keeps going back to the beginning to relive it, while also avoiding himself.
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Source date: 2019-02-15
Writing prompt[SP] An ancient dragon roars, sending ash across the sky.
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Source date: 2019-02-14
Writing prompt[WP] You've finally done it. You've worked up the courage to summon a demon lord and sell your soul for your innermost desire. You just really didn't expect your history teacher to appear.
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Source date: 2019-02-13
Writing prompt[WP] You're the world's last sorcerer, capable of the strongest magic, after hundreds of years of practice but no one can know it. The apocalypse is coming and you're the only chance humanity has.
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Source date: 2019-02-12
Writing prompt[WP] You are the most unsuccessful ghost of all time. Not because nobody has been scared by you, but because everybody has seen you, and none of them realize you're dead.
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Source date: 2019-02-11
Writing prompt[WP] It's the carpet that clues you in. It's clean, for once, and the floor is perfectly clear. Then you notice your walls are a different color -- then you hear a voice from the hall. "Here's the master bedroom. It's a cozy 100 square feet, with an attached master bath--"
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Source date: 2019-02-10
Original prompt heading[OT] Smash 'Em Up Sundays! [Item] A bouquet of roses, [Item] candy hearts.
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Source date: 2019-02-09
Writing prompt[WP] The waiter approached my table hesitantly. "Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to leave." I looked around me confused, "But I just got here. Did I do something wrong?" He shifted his eyes towards the kitchen.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2019-02-08
Writing prompt[OT] Friday Free-Form: Let's Get Down to Business!
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Source date: 2019-02-07
Writing prompt[WP] Life is a simulation. When you die, you're brought to "The Store" to buy a new basic Earth model with various presets (nerd, athlete, humanitarian, etc.) are reset & sent back to Earth. If you've lived an exceptional life you are allowed to create a custom model & sent to "The Sandbox".
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2019-02-06
Writing prompt[WP] It's February 29th, 2019. No one else seems to notice something's off.
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Source date: 2019-02-05
Writing prompt[WP] You're sitting at home, fixing breakfast for yourself, when suddenly another you appears out of a portal. They are extremely battleworn and weary. They see you and radio someone. "I found them! The key to our survival."
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Source date: 2019-02-04
Writing prompt[WP] A clean, renewable, and highly transferable energy source is discovered. Its souls.
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Source date: 2019-02-03
Original prompt heading[OT] Smash 'Em Up Sundays. (Setting) A thick forest, (Item) A tennis racket,
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Source date: 2019-02-02
Writing prompt[WP] Write a superhero story without any action.
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Source date: 2019-02-01
Writing prompt[WP] The world health organization has decided to take custody of people who play video games too often for unknown purposes. one day a flash grenade landed on your house while you were browsing steam at 3 in the morning. you woke up from unconsciousness and then you met the G-man himself.
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Source date: 2019-01-31
Writing prompt[WP] The apocalypse has come. The world as we know it has come to an end, humanity is on the brink... and you know what? Life is actually pretty good.
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Source date: 2019-01-30
Writing prompt[WP] You've always dreamed of becoming a supervillain when you got your powers, and just because you were bestowed the power of healing doesn't change anything
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Source date: 2019-01-29
Writing prompt[WP] You've been working as a simple receptionist in a high security facility for the past 4 years when you came across a classified file detailing the experiments carried out on humans with special abilities. Luckily, they have yet to realize that you're one of them.
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Source date: 2019-01-28
Writing prompt[WP] You're on a lifeless planet, alone. The atmosphere is breathable and the weather is earth-like. There is no grass in the plains and no kelp in the seas. There's no birds in the sky or animals on the land. One night when the wind is roaring outside your encampment you hear a knock at the door.
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Source date: 2019-01-27
Original prompt heading[OT] Smash 'Em Up Sundays.
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