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Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2018-09-07
Writing prompt[WP] You created a device that lets you tune into any other sound playing device in a 20m radius. Your favorite thing to use it for is sitting on a park bench and judging passer-bys on their music taste. One day as you do so, you listen to something very strange...
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Source date: 2018-09-06
Writing prompt[WP] John Shoester is a bitter old man who travels around and tells people their approximate time of death. Five years. Twenty years. Two months. And he's always been 100% smugly accurate - then he met you. Last week!?
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Source date: 2018-09-05
Writing prompt[WP] The time travel experiment went wrong and your consciousness is shifted to different timelines. Every few days or months, you shift into a different "you" and have to readjust to the new reality. And if your theory is correct, every shift brings the multiverse one step closer to destruction.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2018-09-04
Writing prompt[WP] "You are alone" -This is the first and only message humanity has ever received from the stars
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Source date: 2018-09-03
Writing prompt[WP] 2 people are playing chess; one can see the future, the other can read minds.
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Source date: 2018-09-02
Original prompt heading[OT] Sunday Free Write - J. R. R. Tolkien Edition
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Source date: 2018-09-01
Writing prompt[WP] Every ten years, the village votes to choose a young girl to sacrifice to Sherazem, the demon who inhabits the surrounding woods. This time around, they voted to sacrifice your daughter.
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Source date: 2018-08-31
Writing prompt[WP] Something absolutely world-shaking happened today... Write from the perspective of the one news outlet that, either obliviously or purposefully, is skirting around this incredible story despite how present it is.
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Source date: 2018-08-30
Writing prompt[WP] You hear the ring of your doorbell. Huh, you mumble to yourself. You check the clock sitting next to your bed. 3:00 AM. It rings again. You go to the door and find a man standing at the door. "Good morning, sir. You are under arrest by the Intergalactic police for crimes against Zof-gathra."
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Source date: 2018-08-29
Writing prompt[WP] You are living a good life for a vampire. Working the night shift in a hospital, chatting with patients. Until a new worker joins the night shift. You'd recognize that stink everywhere, a werewolf!
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Source date: 2018-08-28
Writing prompt[WP] Universal Groundhog Day. Everyone in the world is living the same day over again.
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Source date: 2018-08-27
Writing prompt[WP] You've been in a time loop for decades now. you'd be insane if it wasn't for all the things you've done differently each time. But now you've run out of things to do. You've gone everywhere, met everyone, read every book, learned every language... You've done literally everything.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2018-08-26
Original prompt heading[OT] Sunday Free Write - Mother Teresa Edition
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Source date: 2018-08-25
Writing prompt[WP] Every hand crafted item contains a tiny spark of magic. This enchantment grows in power the more it is used or the longer it ages. Your party has discovered what appears to be a 1000 year old untouched temple.
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Source date: 2018-08-24
Writing prompt[WP] You are the hero of legend, a prophesied to save your people from the oppressive overlords...but you are an animal at the zoo.
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Source date: 2018-08-23
Writing prompt[WP] "Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there," we chant. Another agent appears inside the pentagram and screams. The dark lord feasts tonight.
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Source date: 2018-08-22
Writing prompt[CW] Flash Fiction Challenge! Location: A Zoo | Object: Backpack
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Source date: 2018-08-21
Writing prompt[WP] You've always expected just a blank nothingness after dying. Now that you actually have you've found the truth to be much more terrifying.
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Source date: 2018-08-20
Writing prompt[WP] You finally pluck up the courage to get your first tattoo, a scorpion on your shoulder. When you remove the dressing the scorpion becomes 3D, walks to the top of your shoulder and says "At last! What's the plan?"
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Source date: 2018-08-19
Original prompt heading[OT] Sunday Free Write - Groucho Marx Edition
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Source date: 2018-08-18
Writing prompt[WP] When Alice ordered one with everything, from the new pizza shop around the corner, this was not what she was expecting.
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Source date: 2018-08-17
Writing prompt[WP] 9 out of 10 dentists recommend this toothpaste. you are the 1 out of 10 who doesn't - and for a very good reason.
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Source date: 2018-08-16
Writing prompt[WP] Everytime you die, you are reincarnated, but you keep all your memories. You can't tell anyone or else you'll die permanently.
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Source date: 2018-08-15
Writing prompt[WP] You hear something making noises beneath your bed. You decide to investigate and find a monster of all things. He tells you he came to seek shelter from the cold.
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Source date: 2018-08-14
Writing prompt[WP] You are a homicide investigator and you have just been assigned a really high-profile case. However, you've had a disorder since you were a kid where you can only speak using song lyrics.
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Source date: 2018-08-13
Writing prompt[WP] At work, you always meet this girl in the lift. Very cute, but almost always silent. Randomly talking to your boss then, you discover that there is no girl working in the building. You meet her only when you take the lift alone. She's already there, and you are always the first to leave.
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Source date: 2018-08-12
Original prompt heading[OT] Sunday Free Write - Ian Fleming Edition
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Source date: 2018-08-11
Writing prompt[WP] You're an Uber driver who just picked up a new client. You brandish your brightest smile, look back and ask "where to?" the priest who just stepped in your car answers plainly. "The ninth circle of hell please."
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Source date: 2018-08-10
Writing prompt[WP] You wake up one day with the ability to see someone's life flashing before your eyes. One day, you try your power on a homeless man who is laying on the floor. To your surprise, you are overloaded with thousands of years worth of memories...
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Source date: 2018-08-09
Writing prompt[WP] You live in 3145, and technology has vastly advanced. Robots are now personal assistants, maids, pets, workers and entertainers. You come home, it is roughly about 6:30PM, and as you do every day, you ask your home assistant to turn on the lights. You are surprised by a sharp "No."
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Source date: 2018-08-08
Writing prompt[WP] You find three little puppies sleeping on your porch. Actually, upon closer inspection, it's not three little puppies. It's Cerberus, Hades' three headed dog. The collar around the middle head reads, "Cerberus. If lost, please call Hell. (666-666-6666)"
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Source date: 2018-08-07
Writing prompt[WP] The monster under your bed finally meets the monster in your closet.
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Source date: 2018-08-06
Writing prompt[WP] We are stuck on a loop of our lives, doomed to make the same choices. Everytime we die we are informed of this before our memories are wiped and we are born again. You just died.
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Source date: 2018-08-05
Original prompt heading[OT] Sunday Free Write - Conrad Aiken Edition
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Source date: 2018-08-04
Writing prompt[WP] You are a giant robot designed for one purpose: to destroy life on planets that stand in your master's way. Recently however, you've been getting very bored with your job.
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Source date: 2018-08-03
Writing prompt[WP] You're a surgeon and you've accidentally left an item in someone's body. Write a song or poem explaining to the patient your mistake.
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Source date: 2018-08-02
Writing prompt[WP] Every 100 years your planet passes close to another habitable planet, you are on the first expedition to it.
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Source date: 2018-08-01
Writing prompt[WP] You wake up in an unfamiliar and empty diner. You find you are clean shaven and dressed in a suit, which is odd as you know for a fact that you've spent the last six months homeless and without a job. you look outside and see that it is night and that you recognize none of the buildings.
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Source date: 2018-07-31
Writing prompt[WP] A person is about to perform a very complicated surgery on another person. We don't know if he or she is really a trained professional until the end.
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Source date: 2018-07-30
Writing prompt[WP] The hero will agree to go save the prince/princess who has been kidnapped by a kingdom of monsters, however they have one condition: they get to live stream the whole thing.
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Source date: 2018-07-29
Original prompt heading[OT] Sunday Free Write - The Fellowship of the Ring Edition
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Source date: 2018-07-28
Writing prompt[WP] As long as someone in the world is singing "Long Live the Queen", the Queen will not die. But someone is assassinating them one by one.
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Source date: 2018-07-27
Writing prompt[WP] I grabbed a pen and signed the pact. "So, what do you wish for?" said the devil. "I wish to replace you and become the new devil."
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Source date: 2018-07-26
Writing prompt[WP] You work for either NRA or NSA, and one day you pull up to work and notice that the sign on the building has been changed to the sign for the other place.
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Source date: 2018-07-25
Writing prompt[WP] Scientists have found that a person experiencing the chills is directly related to that person dying in one of the 1000 closest alternate dimensions to his or her own. With this discovery, you realize that you have been getting the chills every day at exactly 2:43 PM for the past 10 years.
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Source date: 2018-07-24
Writing prompt[WP] A device was invented that allows people recovering from major surgeries to spend their recovery in the world's ubiquitous VR platform to escape the pain of rehabilitation. Three months after your operation you notice the option to return to your physical body has disappeared from your console.
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Source date: 2018-07-23
Writing prompt[WP] You were born with a great gift. Whenever you see a person, you can think of a "statistic" and it will be unerringly shown above their head. In jest, you thought about "number of living beings killed"... when you noticed a nine digit number gently floating above someone walking in front of you.
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Source date: 2018-07-22
Original prompt heading[OT] Sunday Free Write - WritingPrompts edition
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