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Fox in the Henhouse
Source date: 2018-07-21
Writing prompt[WP] You are the last person on Earth and you are sitting in your house. Suddenly there is a knock on the door.
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Death and Family
Source date: 2018-07-20
Writing prompt[WP] Your father was death but now his time has passed. It's time to carry on with his duties, the thing is, he decided to pass the duties on to the family dog, an overeager cocker spaniel named Biscuit.
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Sharp and not Sharp
Source date: 2018-07-19
Writing prompt[WP] There are millions of different timelines that contain versions of everyone in it. You have been notified that you are the last existing version of yourself across all timelines.
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Izzy's Affliction
Source date: 2018-07-18
Writing prompt[WP] Aliens have been abducting humans for thousands of years. After they're done experimenting with them, they maroon them on a faraway planet. Well, that population of humanity has been thriving and has sent Earth their first communication.
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Tree of Wisdom
Source date: 2018-07-17
Writing prompt[WP] You have the ability to know everyone's age down to the day, which comes in handy often while bartending. One night, you notice a patron asking you for a drink nowhere near 21. They're only a day old.
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No HMO
Source date: 2018-07-16
Writing prompt[WP] Humans have developed perfectly sentient A.I. and have employed them in hospitals and ambulances. After a string of patients in one A.I.'s care are lost, it gets depressed.
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Nervous Flutter
Source date: 2018-07-15
Original prompt heading[OT] Sunday Free Write - Rosetta Stone Edition
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Bull Hit
Source date: 2018-07-14
Writing prompt[WP] "It got really quiet here all of a sudden."
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Stubbed Out
Source date: 2018-07-13
Writing prompt[WP] It's the morning after the Purge and your least favorite co-worker is nowhere to be found. You know what happened to them last night. now everyone is looking at you to give them answers.
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Fight for Flight
Source date: 2018-07-12
Writing prompt[WP] You're a three hundred year old dragon living in modern New York City, and you spend half of your time in human form and the other half as a dragon. One day, you realize an order of Dragon Hunters has come into New York...
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Sharp Response
Source date: 2018-07-11
Writing prompt[WP] You are an assassin with a strict moral code. You're the best there is but you assess each job very carefully and if you believe the target does not deserve to die, you go after the one who employed you.
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Slow Day at the Subway
Source date: 2018-07-10
Writing prompt[WP] You are powerful enough to effortlessly destroy planets. You are also a 21 year old minimum wage worker at Subway.
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Magic Opportunity
Source date: 2018-07-09
Writing prompt[WP] Magic is suddenly introduced into the world. Everyone has Mana, but nobody has designed spells to use it yet.
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Thick Skin
Source date: 2018-07-08
Original prompt heading[WP] Sunday Free Write - Harry Potter Edition
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Alternate Opportunity
Source date: 2018-07-07
Writing prompt[WP] Across the internet, you've noticed reports of the same recurring dream. However, the posters never get any attention and there is no follow up. You do a bit of digging and track dreamers' internet presence. It seems as all the dreamers disappeared off the face of the earth and no one noticed.
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Devil's Intern
Source date: 2018-07-06
Writing prompt[WP] You have the ability to rewind time up to a day. You use this power to correct mistakes in your life (failing tests, job interviews, etc.) and let out some aggression (murdering your boss). One day, the creature that manages all timelines finally catches up to you.
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Son of Kings
Source date: 2018-07-05
Writing prompt[WP] You hold the title of the worlds deadliest and most evil supervillain. However you've now done something unexpected, adopted your arch nemesis' child to raise it as they would have seen fit.
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What's a Twofer?
Source date: 2018-07-04
Writing prompt[WP] During tests, when a question you don't know the answer to pops up, you try to come up with something that might be correct. Until this day you always had the devil's luck, or at least is what you thought before giving an answer you knew was wrong. As always, it was a perfect score.
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Gifting the Universe
Source date: 2018-07-03
Writing prompt[WP] You like riddles. So does your best friend. Your birthday surprise for them? The ultimate scavenger hunt.
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Miller's Time
Source date: 2018-07-02
Writing prompt[WP] You begin to dig into your families lineage and ancestry, however you only manage to find information about one generation back. Your search brings you to a librarian who passes you a note, afterwhich the librarian falls over dead.
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Friends with a Zero
Source date: 2018-07-01
Original prompt heading[OT] Sunday Free Write - Canada Day Edition
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Spiritual Bonanza
Source date: 2018-06-30
Writing prompt[WP] You recently became a God. You're trying to get used to being omnipotent. It's not going very well.
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B-Squad
Source date: 2018-06-29
Writing prompt[WP] You have lived on earth your whole life. One morning, you wake up in the center of a modestly sized crater, as you look about you see fields of violet tinted grass, a faint red sun in the sky overhead, and two moons in *much* closer orbit than our own.
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OooooooooooooooH.
Source date: 2018-06-28
Writing prompt[WP] A short story with a plot twist using the letter "o" exactly 15 times.
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Truth and Fries
Source date: 2018-06-27
Writing prompt[WP] Survivors of the apocalypse are still fighting for their lives; Whataburger seems to be doing alright though.
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What Happened to Vegas
Source date: 2018-06-26
Writing prompt[WP] Millennia ago a witch cursed your family with bad luck for 1000 generations. you are a child of the 1001st generation and the universe is trying to compensate for your ancestors' misfortune.
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AlterNet Update
Source date: 2018-06-25
Writing prompt[WP] Tell a story that's only told through patch notes.
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Bearly Immovable
Source date: 2018-06-24
Original prompt heading[OT] Sunday Free Write - Pablo Picasso Edition
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Lunch Jitters
Source date: 2018-06-23
Writing prompt[WP] You are the greatest villain in the world. When you come face to face with your only rival, he says, "Do you want to grab a coffee before we start? I haven't eaten all day."
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A Kind Death
Source date: 2018-06-22
Writing prompt[WP] You are Lord Death. After eons of work, you decide to take a vacation, and let your assistant take your spot in your absence.
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Petty Plant
Source date: 2018-06-21
Writing prompt[WP] "Well, this may shock you," your patient says. You don't expect to be shocked, people come to you with the strangest ailments. He reaches to touch the fake plant on your desk. It withers and dies.
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Heckin' Opportunity
Source date: 2018-06-20
Writing prompt[WP] You have a shoulder angel and a shoulder devil. This is somewhat unusual, but what makes it even worse is that everyone else can see and talk to them.
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Quality Time
Source date: 2018-06-19
Writing prompt[WP] The legendary hero and his "A" team of adventurers (a knight, a wizard, and a ninja) have been captures by the Dark Lord and now it's up to his "B" team (a bard, a thief and jester) all lead by the Hero's mom to rescue them and defeat the lord of darkness once and for all.
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Thumbs Down
Source date: 2018-06-18
Writing prompt[WP] You are an immortal truck driver whose Sisyphean task is to drive until a hitchhiker kills you. No matter how insane the hitchhikers look, you can't seem to get them to do it.
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Zero Cool
Source date: 2018-06-17
Original prompt heading[OT] Sunday Free Write - Anne McCaffrey Edition
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Cleanliness is Next to Godliness
Source date: 2018-06-16
Writing prompt[WP] You wake up at a supposedly haunted and abandoned asylum closed for its atrocities. Its walls and floors, previously covered with white tiles, were now turned green with mold and black with scum. You are a cleaning obsessed janitor.
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Blood and Magic
Source date: 2018-06-15
Writing prompt[WP] The prisoner is lead on the platform. The crowd is unusually quiet. As the noose is placed around the neck, a tear drops from the executioner's eye. With a muffled "Thank you", only meant to be heard by the condemned, he pulls the lever to open the trap door.
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Summer Story
Source date: 2018-06-14
Writing prompt[WP] An essay written by a fantasy student.
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Naga Hide
Source date: 2018-06-13
Writing prompt[WP] In a crime-ridden city, only fools dare to mess around with the Blackrose Church. This is the story of how you met the Blackrose Nun and her followers. May God have mercy on your enemies' souls.
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Dinner Rush
Source date: 2018-06-12
Writing prompt[WP] On Tindr, you see a picture of the cutest girl you've ever seen. She looks so friendly and nice, and every outfit has a different flower pattern. Your interests look to be the same: there's only one problem. Her job is listed as "the God of Death." You think it's funny. But now you've matched.
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Fizzle Goes to School
Source date: 2018-06-11
Writing prompt[WP] Depending on the level of the spell and the mage, spells can frequently fail. You've earned the nickname 'Fizzle' because even your low level spells often fail, and your greatest desire is to discover why.
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Tutorial Start
Source date: 2018-06-10
Original prompt heading[OT] Sunday Free Write - Ray Charles Edition
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Bacon Pizza
Source date: 2018-06-09
Writing prompt[WP] I picked up a hitchhiker last night. He seemed surprised that I'd pick up a stranger and asked "Thanks, but why would you pick me up?" How do you know that I'm not a serial killer?" I turn and tell him that the chances of two serial killers in one car would be astronomical.
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Cactus Water
Source date: 2018-06-08
Writing prompt[WP] "You're the 12th assassin we've had to send in this year. Try not to get killed." Their hands traced over the file. "It's a kid."
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Gunned Down
Source date: 2018-06-07
Writing prompt[WP] Even the strongest magicians are scared of you. Why? Because you are the "Gunmancer".
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Sun's Favorite
Source date: 2018-06-06
Writing prompt[WP] The demon hordes have finally been vanquished, and the legendary Hero-King has slain the Lord of the Darkness. As prophecies foretold, the sun god descends to reward "the bravest and most heroic" - but he walks right past the Hero-King, and instead approaches a common soldier from the rank and file.
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Underneath
Source date: 2018-06-05
Writing prompt[WP] A warrior swears blood vengeance against a time traveler from the distant future. Well aware of where and when their quarry has escaped back to the warrior approaches a feared vampire seeking the curse of immortality that they might live long enough to enact their revenge.
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Dragon Deals
Source date: 2018-06-04
Writing prompt[WP] Dragons only kidnap legitimate princesses - as such, to cement their legitimacy, both sides in a civil war seek their daughter to be taken by the local dragon.
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