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A Bird in the Hand
Source date: 2019-01-26
Writing prompt[SP] "Duck!"
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Sneaker Set
Source date: 2019-01-25
Writing prompt[OT] Friday Free-form.
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New Lease on Life
Source date: 2019-01-24
Writing prompt[WP] Mid car crash, amongst the sound of tearing metal and shattering glass, time stops. An unseen speaker whispers with a dry rattling voice, "What would you sacrifice in order to live?"
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Crystal Castle
Source date: 2019-01-23
Writing prompt[OT] Flash Fiction Challenge! Location: A Castle | Object: A worn note.
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Zero Story
Source date: 2019-01-22
Writing prompt[WP] "Mom! When can I get a name?" "At the right time sweetheart" Margaret replied to little A-1067 at the dinner table. "It'll be pretty complicated son, but let's start tomorrow" Frederick exclaimed.
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Handoff
Source date: 2019-01-21
Writing prompt[WP] There was a sound at night that woke her.
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Sweet Deal
Source date: 2019-01-20
Original prompt heading[OT] Smash 'Em Up Sunday: A bag of skittles, A cup of tea, A hotel, "There was an intense beeping".
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Expository Interrogation
Source date: 2019-01-19
Writing prompt[WP] A doctor in a psych ward working with a patient that went on a random killing spree. The patient claims they "quick-saved" before they started killing and it should reload anytime.
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Royal Joke
Source date: 2019-01-18
Writing prompt[WP] Turns out our reality is a simulation, an MMO in fact, and the devs just fixed a bug that had disabled all of our menus and HUDs.
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Taken In
Source date: 2019-01-17
Writing prompt[WP] Sometimes children get born with weird diseases like vampirism or lycanthropy. The effects of these uncurable illnesses only get detectable when the kid is around 8 years old. Many parents then abandon their child. You run an orphanage for these children.
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Dreaded Surprise
Source date: 2019-01-16
Writing prompt[WP] 2 years ago you found yourself as the last human on Earth but decide to start uploading your adventures to YouTube as a keepsake. Suddenly, all your videos have 2 views, and your latest has a comment.
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Manual Labor
Source date: 2019-01-15
Writing prompt[WP] For the last 10 years as a detective, you've been following a string of cold case murders, where the victims end up with a scythe tattooed on their wrist. One morning, you wake up to find you have the same tattoo.
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Hand Shakedown
Source date: 2019-01-14
Writing prompt[WP] "Alright gentleman, the name of the game is Go Fish. Betting starts at $100,000."
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Informal Introductions
Source date: 2019-01-13
Original prompt heading[OT] Smash 'Em Up Sundays
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Things End
Source date: 2019-01-12
Writing prompt[WP] You receive a government text warning saying, "EMERGENCY - LOCK ALL DOORS AND STAY INSIDE. DO NOT PANIC." You hear your SO at the locked front door, who's just come back from the supermarket. They beg to be let inside but you're unsure. Something doesn't feel right.
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Expository Lunch
Source date: 2019-01-11
Writing prompt[OT] Friday Free-Form: More than Meets the Eye
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Magic Words
Source date: 2019-01-10
Writing prompt[WP] Your mother taught you a nursery rhyme as a child and insisted that you say it every night before bed to keep you safe. Years pass, and you grow up, head off to university. One night, after consuming a little too much at a party, you fall asleep without saying the rhyme.
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Cactus Needle
Source date: 2019-01-09
Writing prompt[WP] "But how can it be a prison? There are no walls."
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Loops of Love
Source date: 2019-01-08
Writing prompt[WP] Your relationship with your significant other has been going great so far but you feel like they are hiding something from you. One day you discover their secret; they are in a timeloop and this is just the latest of hundreds of lifetimes where you are a couple.
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Royal Verdict
Source date: 2019-01-07
Writing prompt[WP] the appeals court, ruling that the use of telepathy to read thoughts without a warrant is a violation of the 4th amendment, orders the release of the serial killer you put away. upon his release, you're surprised by a telepathic message: "I bet you didn't expect me to have powers too, did you?"
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Whiskey Bitters
Source date: 2019-01-06
Original prompt heading[OT] Smash 'Em Up Sunday!
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Zero Luck
Source date: 2019-01-05
Writing prompt[WP] You're just a regular office guy. 9 to 5, nothing spectacular, going home every day to your videogames. But this morning, there's a dude on your front yard, wielding a sword, challenging you to a duel. He seems to be serious.
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Heart's Desire
Source date: 2019-01-04
Writing prompt[WP] You're a kid lying in bed on Monday morning. You squeeze your eyes shut, hoping to disappear into another world to avoid school. You open your eyes, and to your surprise, you're somewhere else entirely.
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Chomping Games
Source date: 2019-01-03
Writing prompt[WP] After returning from a quest, an adventuring party can't find their beloved mascot: a pet mimic named Chomper.
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Buck's Bucks
Source date: 2019-01-02
Writing prompt[WP] You work a dead end retail job but have always dreamed of a life of adventure. One day a customer comes running up to you out of breath and says, "I need to purchase anything you have to kill a dragon with!" Now is your moment.
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Handy Snack
Source date: 2019-01-01
Writing prompt[WP] You are a master chef who proudly serves the royal houses of Violet. The princess is known to be an adventurous connoisseur of exotic foods such as grilled cobra or scorpion kebabs. Today she has requested something very unorthodox. She has requested a "Lunchable."
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Stopping Point
Source date: 2018-12-31
Writing prompt[WP] When you meet a person for the first time, you hear a song fitting the relationship you will have with them. When you met your significant other, you heard wedding bells, etc. Today, as you shook your new coworkers hand, all you could hear was a funeral march.
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First Gear
Source date: 2018-12-30
Writing prompt[WP] You acquire a watch that can stop time. It falls and breaks. Everything else is motionless.
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Planned Promotion
Source date: 2018-12-29
Writing prompt[WP] You have a magic calendar that tells you everything that will happen on a given day. You look to tomorrow. It just says "We can't tell you. See for yourself."
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Whispers of Earth
Source date: 2018-12-28
Writing prompt[WP] You stare at the pills in your hand. The doctor taps his foot impatiently. "These will really cure me of hearing that voice?" you ask. The doctor rolls his eyes. "Yes, you'll never hear her again." You level your gaze on the doctor. "I never told anyone the voice was female..."
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Point Man
Source date: 2018-12-27
Writing prompt[CW] Flash Fiction Challenge! - Location: Paradise | Object: Headphones
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Unknown Comforts
Source date: 2018-12-26
Writing prompt[WP] No matter what you do, people cannot remember you. Punch someone, they would forget instantly. Rob a bank without a mask, no one would remember/recognize you. You live a strange life, until one day a woman approaches you: You have grown a lot since then."
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Glorious Revelation
Source date: 2018-12-25
Writing prompt[WP] Everything is a simulation and nobody knows it. Until one day, you meet a hacker.
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Real Question
Source date: 2018-12-24
Writing prompt[WP] As you walk to your favorite hot dog stand, a woman grabs you. "To break out of the simulation, a sacrifice must be made," she says just before disappearing into the crowd. You can't stop thinking about it, as you convince yourself... what if she's right?
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Helping Hand
Source date: 2018-12-23
Writing prompt[WP] A professional pickpocket stumbles into a gent one day and lifts his wallet. A moment later the gent calls out "hey, did you drop this?" and holds up a sock. The pickpocket quickly realizes it's the sock off his right foot.
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Melon-Call-y
Source date: 2018-12-22
Writing prompt[WP] You've always heard a voice, always the opposite of your gender. As you grew up it was your best friend, and when you hit the teens you became closer with this voice. Today, in class, a new student has joined and as they begin to speak you are shocked. It's the same voice you grew up with.
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Upgraded Service
Source date: 2018-12-21
Writing prompt[WP] All of your employees jokingly refer to you as 'The Final Boss' because of your love of video games. One day your secretary frantically informs you that a group of heavily armed adventurers are storming the building.
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Ezey Answer
Source date: 2018-12-20
Writing prompt[WP] At the end of his life the wealthiest man in the world decides to spend everything. After an extremely lavish few years he dies with pennies in his account. He awakes in the afterlife hungry, tired, and disoriented, wanders into a cafe and orders some food. "That'll be 12 dollars."
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Inopportune Opportunity
Source date: 2018-12-19
Writing prompt[WP] You have a strange ability to see the heart rate and pulse of everyone around you. Nobody knows this. One day you are walking around and see a woman with no pulse, no heart beat, but she is completely normal.
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Misplaced
Source date: 2018-12-18
Writing prompt[WP] You are a vampire working as a night guard. One night you find a lone werewolf child.
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Guided Tour
Source date: 2018-12-17
Writing prompt[WP] Zombies exist but it's not an apocalypse. Just another day to day inconvenience like rain or your car breaking down.
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Forbidden Fruit
Source date: 2018-12-16
Writing prompt[WP] "After all of our debates there isn't anything you could say to change my view" the atheist says to the pastor. Wordlessly, the pastor takes off his coat and shirt and spreads his wings.
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Coffee & Flower
Source date: 2018-12-15
Writing prompt[WP] After a night out with friends you wake up in the morning slightly hungover. While the day progresses towards the end, you realize that by altering the tempo of your breath the time around you progresses at different speeds, and that you can even stop it by holding your breath.
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Okay, Go!
Source date: 2018-12-14
Writing prompt[CW] Listen to a song, and try to imagine the story that it's a soundtrack to. Write this story. Tell us what song it is, and indicate with time markers what parts of the song correspond to which sections of the story. Try to write it so that the song tells your story.
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Hand Delivered
Source date: 2018-12-13
Writing prompt[WP] An up and coming magician, mastering the arts of slight of hand and misdirection, becomes famous enough to be recognized and invited into the Society of Magicians. The magician discovers that all the other members perform real magic, and not illusions.
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Trial and Errors
Source date: 2018-12-12
Writing prompt[WP] One man enters, two men leave.
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Four-sight
Source date: 2018-12-11
Writing prompt[WP] You open your locker only to discover that all your expensive school books and supplies have been swallowed by an interdimensional portal inside the locker.
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Angel and Red
Source date: 2018-12-10
Writing prompt[WP] Every human on their 18th birthday automatically summons a familiar to join them for life. Familiars can range from a simple magical cat to a legendary dragon. Today is your 18th birthday.
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