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Area of Conversation
Source date: 2018-12-09
Writing prompt[OT] Sunday Study - Alphabet Stories
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Game Plan
Source date: 2018-12-08
Writing prompt[WP] You walk into your room, turn on the light, and there's another you chilling on your bed.
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Hell of an Opportunity
Source date: 2018-12-07
Writing prompt[WP] You are walking through the hallways of your workplace when you notice a door you don't remember ever noticing before. You nudge it just wide enough to be able to see inside. The second you get a good look at what's in there, you instantly regret it all.
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Magic Spark
Source date: 2018-12-06
Writing prompt[WP] You are a magic show competition. The other magicians have had decent tricks and illusions but you obviously know how they work. Now it is your turn but you have one advantage over all the others.... you know REAL magic.
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Corporate Secret
Source date: 2018-12-05
Writing prompt[WP] You wake up one morning, do your morning routine and begin to make your way to work. When you open the front door you realize something; you are somewhere completely different.
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Public Space
Source date: 2018-12-04
Writing prompt[WP] You've always carried the subtle, lingering fear that someone could read your mind while you were in public, but you had always written it off as a silly form of social anxiety. That is until you spotted someone on the subway home lip-syncing the song stuck in your head.
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Keys to a Good Life
Source date: 2018-12-03
Writing prompt[SP] You have a backpack full of human brains.
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Ticket to Ride
Source date: 2018-12-02
Writing prompt[WP] For years everyone laughed at you because of your only wish to the genie. But now you are the one laughing, you and your oven that "instantly produces the perfect pizza for every occasion, even the end of the world."
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Oh Visionaries
Source date: 2018-12-01
Writing prompt[WP] Write a poem that is an ode to your favorite childhood cartoon.
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Friend & Guardian
Source date: 2018-11-30
Writing prompt[WP] Once you were everything to him, now he is about to forget you, forever. You don't know it, but this is the final step in graduating from being his imaginary friend, to being his guardian angel...
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Wealth of Soul
Source date: 2018-11-29
Writing prompt[WP] "Welcome to Mr. Natas' Unique Pawn Shop! For just 1 human soul, you get a boon for a day. For 5, you get a blessing that last's a lifetime. And for 10, you get powers not from this world! Collect souls, and spend them here. Happy shopping!"
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Bon Voyage
Source date: 2018-11-28
Writing prompt[CW] Flash Fiction Challenge - Location: Campground | Object: Snowflake
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No Chance
Source date: 2018-11-27
Writing prompt[WP] Remember, one pill if you are injured. Two pills if you are injured badly or your life is in danger. But whatever happens, never ever take three pills.
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What a Wonderful World
Source date: 2018-11-26
Writing prompt[WP] You buy a strange clock from the pawn shop for $5 that tells only one number: 23. You go to sleep only to awaken from a horrible nightmare of you being shot down by a gunner. It felt so real but you brush it off as only a dream. You then look to your new weird clock and the number changed: 22.
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Quality Quarantine
Source date: 2018-11-25
Writing prompt[WP] You are the world's most talented surgeon. While walking home from a busy shift you feel a small, piercing pain in your neck. "Target secured, transferring Dr. Jones to Area-51."
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El Pescado Called Wanda
Source date: 2018-11-24
Writing prompt[WP] You are an immortal that was caught by the mafia after you betrayed them. They deal with you the same way as traitors, chained to a cement block and thrown in a lake. After 300 years you are finally discovered by divers.
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Wingin' It
Source date: 2018-11-23
Writing prompt[WP] You're an immortal that has lived for centuries. One day you meet another person in a bar who says, "Hey, remember me? Britain, 1800s?"
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Waiting is the Worst
Source date: 2018-11-22
Writing prompt[WP] When there is no more room left in hell, the dead shall walk the earth.
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Card Tricked
Source date: 2018-11-21
Writing prompt[WP] You are the worlds most powerful sorceror. There is no spell or conjuring that you have not mastered. But you come across a conjuring that has left you stumped. A simple card trick done by a 13 year old girl on the street.
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Surprise Guest
Source date: 2018-11-20
Writing prompt[WP] Happy Birthday, make a wish. But this time your wish comes true... hope you didn't waste it.
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Shady Sun
Source date: 2018-11-19
Writing prompt[WP] Life after prison - You are a serial killer who just, to the guards amazement, finished serving 7 and a half lifetimes for your crimes and are leaving the prison for the first time in over half a millennia.
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Invitation
Source date: 2018-11-18
Writing prompt[WP] You have the uncanny ability to know exactly how old people are by looking at them. One day as you're bagging groceries at work, you look into the customers eyes and the number 5000 races through your mind.
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Shopping. Maul.
Source date: 2018-11-17
Writing prompt[WP] After your puberty started, you discovered that any sense you deprived yourself of, applied to others in regards to you (e.g. you close your eyes, nobody can see you). One day, as your eyes are closed, somebody taps your shoulder and asks "Why is everybody acting like they can't see you?"
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Choice of Millions
Source date: 2018-11-16
Original prompt heading[OT] Friday Free-Fiorm: The New Sunday Free Write
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M&M
Source date: 2018-11-15
Writing prompt[WP] After a long night of crazy partying, two guys wake up with more than just a massive hangover. They both have newfound powers they have no control over so they must retrace their steps from the night before to figure out what happened to them.
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Emotional Day
Source date: 2018-11-14
Writing prompt[WP] "I'm sorry, there's nothing more we can do, you might have a month left to live". The sick man and his wife are hit with the news like a bomb. "Come on, doctor, isn't there SOMETHING you can try?" Asks the man through his tears. "Well", says the doctor, "there is.....one last option".
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Los Locos cut your grass!
Source date: 2018-11-13
Writing prompt[WP] Gangs now do good deeds for their city. Describe a gang war
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Root Core
Source date: 2018-11-13
Writing prompt[WP] It's 3400. Earth and all humans are in deep slumber inside a virtual reality. To protect the sleeping human race from future threats, every year a few humans are randomly selected to serve a year as guard awoken. Your duty is up, and when you wake up you notice something is wrong. Really wrong.
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Source date: 2018-11-12
Writing prompt[WP] You've been falsely arrested for the murder of someone you don't even know, somewhere in the dystopian future. As a punishment, they throw you into a portal that takes you to an island that is like a regular city, but everyone there are mentally ill criminals that were sent there as punishment too.
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Clocking Out
Source date: 2018-11-11
Writing prompt[WP] On your way to work, you are in a rush and check your watch to make sure you are on time. The time reads 7:59 a.m. However, after checking it for a second time, it reads 7:60, and then 7:61 and so on.
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Seeds of Love
Source date: 2018-11-10
Writing prompt[WP] One day, at the most unexpected time, a kind of portal opens up near you. A man steps out, hands you a letter before stepping back inside and disappearing.
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Unique Awakening
Source date: 2018-11-09
Writing prompt[WP] Every other day, you water and clean a small plant in your room. One day, while you are wiping its tiny green leaves, it whispers, "I love you!"
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Dragon Test
Source date: 2018-11-08
Writing prompt[WP] The dragon has kidnapped the princess but that actually works out perfectly for the King's plot.
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Product Demo
Source date: 2018-11-07
Writing prompt[WP] There are 10 people in a small city who have been given an ability of their choosing. They do not know each other's identities. All they know is that they have to fight to the last one standing or lose what they value the most. You are the Overseer of this "contest", watching their every move.
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Bird Trouble
Source date: 2018-11-06
Writing prompt[WP] It is a dystopian future set in the year 2081. On your 14th birthday, everyone is required to take a mandatory test from the government which will decide your fate. The story follows a boy who has just turned 14 and is about to take the test.
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Battery Powered
Source date: 2018-11-05
Writing prompt[WP] Because Earth has nearly no mana, the few mages that exist become very skilled at storing and using it. As a senior apprentice to the greatest mage on Earth, you've been tossed into a mana-rich world by a spell gone wrong.
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Lunch Time
Source date: 2018-11-04
Writing prompt[WP] You can stop or rewind time for the duration of holding your breath. One day you see somebody move as you stop time.
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Star Shot
Source date: 2018-11-03
Writing prompt[WP] You make an imaginary gun with your hand and pretend to shoot the TV. The screen shattered into pieces.
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Red Herring
Source date: 2018-11-02
Writing prompt[WP] Yes, I know I wasn't invited. But you must not forget the contract made by the King. Once the heir is born, the infant must be given to me or else the Kingdom shall fall into ruin. I'm simply here to collect my due.
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Contract Upgrade
Source date: 2018-11-01
Original prompt heading[WP] Theme Thursday - Dread
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Bones & Blood
Source date: 2018-10-31
Writing prompt[WP] "Woah, your decorations look so realistic!" Little did they know how real they were.
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Sniff Test
Source date: 2018-10-31
Writing prompt[WP] Pick up from here: I wasn't sure what I was getting myself into or if I should do it, but when the professor told me he'd give me a free A in his class, I knew I had no choice. (Removed Prompt)
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Mundo Motives
Source date: 2018-10-29
Writing prompt[WP] You are a child. Your one goal in life thus far has been to make it over the top of the swing set. You try and try and one day it miraculously happens. You step off the swing triumphantly and then you realize that this is not the world you know.
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Custom Future
Source date: 2018-10-28
Writing prompt[WP] You were one of the first humans to go into cryogenic sleep when the food started running out. You were meant to be awoken when the world was better instead you awake to a humanless world.
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Hidden Shop
Source date: 2018-10-27
Writing prompt[WP] You walk down the street one night, and take a wrong turn down an alley. At the end you find an odd store you've never seen before with swords, guns, and odd glowing bottles hanging in the window with a large blue neon sign that says "Caesars Hero and Villain Surplus Store"
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Cat Person
Source date: 2018-10-26
Writing prompt[WP] You die and are sent to Heaven. You are given the option to be brought back to life as a cat.
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Well, Dragon.
Source date: 2018-10-25
Writing prompt[WP] Through a well in your backyard you're able to go to another world. It was beautiful with magic and dragons. You loved going to it. One day when you pass through the well you see, a red sky, fire, bones, blood, you hear screams and cries.
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Bottled Up
Source date: 2018-10-24
Writing prompt[WP] In ancient times, great objects were imbued with magical power. This power was passed to similar items throughout the ages. In present time, the "belt of strength" is a WWE championship belt and the "cloak of invisibility" is a unique hoodie, etc. You come to posses a magically imbued item.
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