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Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2018-01-11
Writing prompt[WP] You have the ability to freeze time, you use this unlimited time to do whatever you want, but one day something else is moving even though time is currently frozen.
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Source date: 2018-01-09
Writing prompt[IP] Corruption by ChrisCold
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Source date: 2018-01-09
Writing prompt[WP] You rub a lamp and free a genie who grants you 3 wishes (standard Aladdin rules apply). After you make two foolish wishes, the sly genie manages to ruin your life. In great resentment, you decide to use your third wish to get revenge on the genie..
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Source date: 2018-01-07
Writing prompt[CW] What endearing tale can you tell me without needing the letter "s"?
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Source date: 2018-01-06
Writing prompt[WP] The hero's power changes every 15 minutes.
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Source date: 2018-01-05
Writing prompt[WP] If you're about to kill someone you see what the world would be like without them. As a hitman you think you've seen everything, but this kill surprises you.
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Source date: 2018-01-04
Writing prompt[WP] "Oh, don't mind those mage protestors. They're just pissed that our technology is advanced enough to emulate their spells."
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Source date: 2018-01-03
Writing prompt[WP] At a certain age, all children are given a superpower of their choice. When it is your turn, you ask for nothing.
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Source date: 2018-01-02
Writing prompt[WP] The Four Horsemen have arrived to start the Apocalypse. Their names are Kramer, George, Elain, and Jerry.
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Source date: 2018-01-01
Writing prompt[WP] After decades, humanity finally discovers why there seems to be no other life in the Milky Way. Everyone else fled to Andromeda. The new pressing question being: What were they running from?"
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Source date: 2017-12-19
Writing promptOn one fateful day, everyone in the world received a slip of paper with a date on it. (Date as in M/D/Y) It turns out that this date is when the person closest to you dies. The slip of paper that you have has tomorrow's date.
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Source date: 2017-12-11
Writing promptPeople lose the ability to dream if they have committed a murder. And you are desperate to end your constant nightmares...
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Source date: 2017-12-10
Writing prompt“So why exactly is there a cow on the roof?”
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Source date: 2017-11-30
Writing promptSummonning a supernatural entity and then running before it manifests becomes the new teenager craze. All the cool kids are ding-dong ditching demons.
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Source date: 2017-11-29
Writing prompt"Oh come on, how was I supposed to know that robbing one bank would lead to all this shit?!"
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Source date: 2017-11-27
Writing prompt[WP] Write the most long-winded, convoluted story (or lack thereof) about absolutely nothing.
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Source date: 2017-11-24
Writing promptYou can talk to plants.
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Source date: 2017-11-22
Writing promptFlash Fiction Challenge! Location: A rooftop | Object: A tin can
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Source date: 2017-11-22
Writing prompt[WP] Some monsters come with the fog. Some come at night. Others in the closet, and in dreams. However; this monster breaks all the cliches.
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Source date: 2017-11-21
Writing prompt[WP] You are the hero the kingdom needs, just not the one it wants. You are The Necromancer.
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Source date: 2017-11-20
Writing prompt"Sir, we've discovered time travel, but it seems we have to sacrifice a baby goat every time"
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Source date: 2017-11-17
Writing promptIt turns out that every conspiracy theorist is right, each conspiracy theory is true but they all come from a different timeline.
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Source date: 2017-11-16
Writing promptIn a world where jokes can cast spells, you’re the most powerful wizard by only using puns.
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Source date: 2017-11-15
Writing prompt"Come on, dude! I don't believe you." "I'm telling you, I'm half demon." "Oh yeah, next you'll be telling me Satan was your dad." "Actually..."
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Source date: 2017-11-14
Writing promptAfter rescuing the princess from the dragon, the king angrily tells you, "No, you idiot! I wanted you to rescue the DRAGON!"
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Source date: 2017-11-13
Writing promptThe last sentence must be "Mom drinks more coffee."
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Source date: 2017-11-13
Writing prompt[WP] You’re a normal villager in a fantasy town and the main hero has just moved in next door after completing his quest.
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Source date: 2017-11-10
Writing promptA group of people summon a demon, but not to sell their souls for immortality or anything, they want him to DM for their game of dungeons and dragons.
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Source date: 2017-11-09
Writing promptWrite a story that involves a donkey, lime juice and aliens.
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Source date: 2017-11-08
Writing prompt"I wish I had the power of reading people's minds." "No, no you really don't."
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Source date: 2017-11-07
Writing promptYou have telekinesis. You're not a hero, and so you live a normal mundane life, with telekinesis.
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Source date: 2017-11-06
Writing prompt"Alright genie, for my last wish...I wish for every day to be better than the last."
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Source date: 2017-10-30
Writing promptSomething horrible really did happen on Y2K, and experts are just now starting to realise the gravity of the situation.
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Source date: 2017-10-27
Writing promptYou live in a world where people are granted superpowers, however you have to mentally solve a math problem to be able to use it, and the effect of it scales with difficulty. You have the power of instant teleportation, but are not good at math. One day, you appear to have cheated the system.
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Source date: 2017-10-26
Writing promptBackground story for 74 year old Japanese Ninja Thief.
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Source date: 2017-10-25
Writing promptObject: Graffiti
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Source date: 2017-10-24
Writing prompt[EU] A Jedi knight gets tired of fighting wars and decides to pursue a another passion. Real-estate.
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Source date: 2017-10-24
Writing promptYou have followed the same morning routine for the past 8 years of your life, but one day you wake up and suddenly the routine seems wrong. It's as if your muscle memory doesn't fit anymore.
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Source date: 2017-10-23
Writing promptStory where the main character is preparing a sandwich. Make it sound EPIC
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Source date: 2017-10-23
Writing prompt[WP] It's been a long time, old friend.
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Source date: 2017-10-20
Writing promptDeath makes a mistake and comes to you. Upon realizing you are the wrong person, he lets you choose your death date for compensation.
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Source date: 2017-10-20
Writing prompt[WP]There is no time left for explanations. You must destroy your city using one penny and you only have 24 hours left.
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Source date: 2017-10-19
Writing promptIn the near future, you are making dinner because you are about to meet your girlfriend's dad for the first time. All you have in the kitchen is cooked frozen steaks. In walks your girlfriend and her dad, Gordon Ramsey.
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Source date: 2017-10-19
Writing prompt[TT] A criminal sits in solitary, reflecting on the path that brought them there.
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Source date: 2017-10-18
Writing prompt[WP] A pandemic "illness" sweeps across the world in which its victims all have superpowers. You don't know what yours is.
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Source date: 2017-10-18
Writing prompt[WP] You alone have the ability to give any "power" you wish to anybody any time... but you're also really petty and use it for revenge / personal amusement
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Source date: 2017-10-17
Writing promptYou’ve been living a happy, successful life until one day when you wake up to discover you’ve been in a coma and it was all a dream. You awake to a life almost exactly the same as the life you had been living, apart from one crucial detail.
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Source date: 2017-10-17
Writing prompt[WP] Words are like animals. In order to speak a certain word you need to hunt it first. Most people have only a small vocabulary but one day you meet an old man who knows more words than you have ever heard of.
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