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Hitting a Wall
Source date: 2018-06-03
Original prompt heading[OT] Sunday Free Write - Franz Kafka Edition
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Scenic Romance
Source date: 2018-06-02
Writing prompt[WP] In your house there is a window that cannot be opened. When you look out from that window, you don't see your world.
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Destiny of Choice
Source date: 2018-06-01
Writing prompt[WP] You and your wife just had your first child. The thing is... the baby was born with bright , pink, spiky hair. your child is a Main Character.
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Teamwork
Source date: 2018-05-31
Writing prompt[WP] Years ago a human promised you their firstborn as payment - However, as you arrive to collect your debt, you discover you're not the only one they promised their child to.
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Startwatch
Source date: 2018-05-30
Writing prompt[WP] "Tomorrow is a brand new day."
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Alien Sights
Source date: 2018-05-29
Writing prompt[WP] Area 51 has just started offering guided tours...
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Stranger and Stranger
Source date: 2018-05-28
Writing prompt[WP] Everyone switches physical location with another random human every 24 hours.
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Roaring Success
Source date: 2018-05-27
Original prompt heading[OT] Sunday Free Write - Christopher Lee Edition
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Imagine That
Source date: 2018-05-26
Writing prompt[WP] You've had an imaginary friend ever since you were a small child. You still see and interact with them even as a teenager even if no one else can. They are your oldest friend and closest confidant. Starting today, everyone can see them too.
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Due Time
Source date: 2018-05-25
Writing prompt[WP] You have a small keyring with a button on it. When you press it, everyone except you freezes in time until you press it again. You've frozen everyone in time, but you drop it and break it.
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Unexpected Choice
Source date: 2018-05-24
Writing prompt[WP] You are a low-class citizen, struggling to live paycheck to paycheck. Luckily or unluckily for you, a new market emerges from the birth of a new invention: a machine that can transfer lifespan from one person to another.
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Taking a Seat
Source date: 2018-05-23
Writing prompt[WP] for centuries werewolves, vampires and zombies have hunted together, and werewolves get the flesh, vampires the bones and zombies the brain, and this system works perfectly until
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Helmut's Choice
Source date: 2018-05-22
Writing prompt[WP] It's time to make a choice: You can save your family, or you can conceal your illegal cybernetic enhancements. Tonight, you can't do both.
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Freeing Meal
Source date: 2018-05-21
Writing prompt[WP] You just have to go in there, get the package, and come out. Easy-peasy.
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Dread vs. Jelly_Jim
Source date: 2018-05-20
Original prompt heading[OT] Sunday Free Write - Shakespeare Edition
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Marriage or Death?
Source date: 2018-05-19
Writing prompt[WP] You're a shopkeeper by day and a dungeon delver at night. A customer comes along and asks for a unique item. You don't have it, but you know where to find it, and it won't be easy to get.
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Unique Conversation
Source date: 2018-05-18
Writing prompt[CW] Write a story in which the narrator can only use words the characters have used. Or the converse: the characters can only use words the narrator has used.
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Alien Kindness
Source date: 2018-05-17
Writing prompt[WP] A homeless guy that you see everyday on your way to and from work always holds up a sign that says, "the Aliens are coming!" One day, as you're coming home, you see that he has added something to his sign. Now it says, "The Aliens are coming! They'll be here tomorrow!"
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Lion's Tale
Source date: 2018-05-16
Writing prompt[WP] Future seers tend to be very successful, but every one of them turned to the dark side eventually and became history's worst mass murderers, tyrants and dictators. One day, you saw into the future, thousands of years into the future. You decide to use this knowledge for good.
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Clueless to Conspiracy
Source date: 2018-05-15
Writing prompt[WP] You've been walking all day, so you decide to take a rest on a nearby park bench. Once you do, a man in a black suit comes out and drops a briefcase by your feet before nodding and walking away. You notice a note attached to the case...
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Inkedskin
Source date: 2018-05-14
Writing prompt[WP] Write a fairytale in the style of a superhero origin story.
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Game Start
Source date: 2018-05-13
Original prompt heading[OT] Sunday Free Write - Mother's Day Edition
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Ballisea's Story
Source date: 2018-05-12
Writing prompt[WP] Even monsters have stories. Tell me yours, wanderer, I wish no harm to you.
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History Rebuff
Source date: 2018-05-11
Writing prompt[WP] Earth was the crash site of a human escape ship that was lost. It is not until the modern era that the rest of humanity has found us in an exploratory mission.
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Lullabye and Pizza
Source date: 2018-05-10
Original prompt heading[OT] Theme Thursday - Media Prompts: Female Vocals
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Adventures in Babysitting
Source date: 2018-05-09
Writing prompt[WP] You're babysitting.
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Wakeup Call
Source date: 2018-05-08
Writing prompt[WP] After checking into an inn and waking up the next day, the scenery out the window is pitch black. The inn's manager insists that no one goes outside.
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Do the Crime, Do the Time
Source date: 2018-05-07
Writing prompt[WP] A corrupt prosecutor wakes up in the body of the innocent man he just convicted.
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AlterNet Entrance
Source date: 2018-05-06
Original prompt heading[OT] Sunday Free Write - Phantom Edition
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Thirsty for Anything
Source date: 2018-05-05
Writing prompt[WP] It started when your kids came home from school with it. Then, it was the main story on the news. Then, it was unavoidable. You're not sure what to do about it. It seems to be everywhere now.
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These Brains are Making Me Thirsty
Source date: 2018-05-04
Writing prompt[WP] As an unexpected twist to boost ratings, the zombie apocalypse breaks out on a TV sitcom (Friends, The Office, Parks & Rec, HIMYM,etc. )
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Over My Dead Body
Source date: 2018-05-03
Writing prompt[WP] A genie appears to you and your partner of 60 years in your final days. He says he will allow one of you a new start as a 20 y/o. The catch is you'd lose all memory of your partner and it would only be one of you. You tell the genie not a chance. You're shocked when your partner takes the deal.
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Nuclear Family
Source date: 2018-05-02
Writing prompt[CW] Write three stories: Two that appear unrelated and a third that ties them all together. Use a combined 1000 words or less.
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Flight Coupon
Source date: 2018-05-01
Writing prompt[WP] "You dropped this." A stranger hands you a folded piece of paper, and vanishes into the crowd before you can say that it isn't yours.
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Time for Lunch
Source date: 2018-04-30
Writing prompt[WP] You are able to see how long every person you come across has to live. As you walk through the city you come across someone with only one hour left.
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Mission Objective: Spider
Source date: 2018-04-29
Original prompt heading[WP] Sunday Free Write - Alfred Hitchcock Edition
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AlterNet 2.0
Source date: 2018-04-28
Writing prompt[WP] The first fully immersive online VR game has released in which anything is possible. After months of saving you eagerly log in and hit 'random server.'
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Favored Sibling
Source date: 2018-04-27
Writing prompt[WP] Whenever a baby is born, he or shee is taken to The Armory, an ancient alien temple where each child has a unique weapon bestowed upon them, for use their whole lives. YYou were given a key.
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Chosen Path
Source date: 2018-04-26
Writing prompt[WP] You wake up alone in a motel room with no idea who you are, where you are, or how you got there. On the bedside table is a map and a choose your own adventure book.
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Lemon of a Drink
Source date: 2018-04-25
Writing prompt[CW] Flash Fiction Challenge! Location: A Museum | Object: Lemonade
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Jail Time
Source date: 2018-04-24
Writing prompt[WP] "The jailer is the key, kill him and you'll be free..."
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Delivery Method
Source date: 2018-04-23
Writing prompt[WP] Your job as a researcher in the facility isn't too bad. The hours are shit and the coffee maker is broken, but at least the people are nice. And the job is easy: talk to the telepathic spider, run some tests on the witch, give the eldritch god his daily newspaper, basic stuff. Describe your day.
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Gearing Up
Source date: 2018-04-22
Original prompt heading[OT] Sunday Free Write - Earth Day Edition
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Shattered Bones
Source date: 2018-04-21
Writing prompt[WP] "Let's just blow it up and call it a day."
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Dirge & Dread
Source date: 2018-04-20
Writing prompt[WP] "Tag you're it!" She giggled. "See you in a hundred years!"
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Dreaded Homecoming
Source date: 2018-04-19
Writing prompt[WP] They fear the light.
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New Friends, Old Friends
Source date: 2018-04-18
Writing prompt[WP] Your coworkers are disappearing and you find out that your boss is a vampire, but thre's still hope, someone you work with is secretly a werewolf, the janitor.
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Unicorn Helper
Source date: 2018-04-17
Writing prompt[WP] Your kid walks into the living room with a unicorn trailing behind him. With pleading eyes, he goes, "I swear, he followed me home. Can we keep him?"
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