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Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2017-10-16
Writing promptYou build a device that allows you to send messages to the past in the form of hallucinations, one day your friend is messing around and sends a message to Julius Caesar.....
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2017-10-16
Writing prompt[WP] Magic is real, but casting spells requires reciting the whole word. The longer the word, the more powerful the spell is. The strongest spells can take hours (or even decades) to cast, and the strongest wizards are either really fast speakers or have great foresight.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2017-10-13
Writing promptWrite a story about five entirely disconnected, reckless rescue attempts succeeding because of each other.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2017-10-12
Writing promptYou are a police officer who has a medical condition where you cannot lie. Your boss has just placed you undercover.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2017-10-11
Writing promptAs you are cleaning your house one day, you find a note. "They are coming for you. Get out now!"
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2017-10-10
Writing promptYou wake up and decide to take over the world using your wits and what's in your pockets. In your right is some string, a paper clip, and $2. In your left you find a Death Laser.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2017-10-09
Writing promptAfter a young child is kidnapped, the monster under their bed and the monster in their closet decide to team up to bring them home.
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