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Sweet Introduction
Writing prompt I helped out some fairies, and in thanks they gave me a bag of candy that never runs out. I just got back from the dentist, and....
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Arc dates: September 6, 2021 – June 5, 2022. Collection and publication dates remain separate from fictional time.
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Love & Flutters
Writing prompt You're about to introduce your parents to your new girlfriend. She's the kindest, sweetest person you've ever met. Not mentioning she's also eight feet tall and can bench-press cars.
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Timey Tim
Writing prompt You are a normal person just eating chips in your living room, then suddenly a weird thing appears in the living. 15 time travellers from 2178 come to 2021 to visit you, because in 2030 you did something historically important.
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Cheating: Death
Writing prompt You are handed The Big Book of Universal Constants, a pencil, and an eraser.
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Masked: Truth
Writing prompt "You know, I used to be a god once," said your cat.
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Untitled story · 2021-09-11
Writing prompt An asteroid almost destroyed earth but a solar flare moved it out of the way, when scientists look where the flare come from on the sun it says in every language "You're Welcome".
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Driftwood Draggin'
Writing prompt An undercover agent of the Crown has infiltrated the world of piracy to catch a Corsair that has gone renegade. Contacts have assured them that they are at the infamous floating mobile pirates' cove, Driftwood. Only pirate captains know how to find it, so capturing this intel is vital as well.
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AlterNet Class
Writing prompt In a world otherwise much like our own, people have special abilities not unlike video game mechanics -- seeing dialogue options, special vision to locate useful items, being able to gain extra lives, and much, much more!
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A Very un-Special Episode
Writing prompt There never really is a chosen one, there are always chosen many, thousands upon thousands, each fitting into the vague language of each prophecy neatly, truthfully being a chosen one is frankly less special than winning the lottery.
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Quest for Vengeance
Writing prompt They shambled up to you, gun in hand. "Carry my legacy," they say, before they pass into dust, leaving nothing but their helmet and revolver.
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Meaty Mystery
Writing prompt There's a new sandwich shop in town staffed by witches. You're not entirely sure what's on the sandwich you're eating now, but it's really good. And the delivery girl on the broom was really cute.
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Great Moose Detective
Writing prompt Caffeine has been made illegal. However, this hasn't ended your job as a barista. Only changed the customers and delivery methods.
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Royal Regret
Writing prompt Everyone came out of their homes, staring up at the now red sky with unease. A countdown has appeared with the text 'god is coming...
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Spider. Student.
Writing prompt You have a superpower, but you never really use it. Not for any moral or legal reason, but because you don't like being the centre of attention.
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Dungeons & Pumpkins
Writing prompt You're a street vendor selling cheap street food at the city gate in an RPG's dungeon city. Your typical daily ledger: Taco, Sold, $10. Hot dog, Sold, $5. Enchanted Flaming Shortsword of Demonslaying, Bout, -$8300, and so on.
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Mettle Detector
Writing prompt This battle would be a true test of mettle.
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Mornin' Swarmin'
Writing prompt Despite a chaotic beginning, the day held promise.
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Riotous Reference
Writing prompt You're in desperate need of advice, but it comes from a person you least expect...
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Zero Mystery
Writing prompt You were summoned from another world to help the kingdom deal with the Dark Lord. However, instead of killing the Dark Lord, they want you to get them and their counsel to work out and sign a peace treaty.
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Weather? Or Not?
Writing prompt For the last nine months, Father Michael has been performing miracles. From healing all forms of sickness and disease, to turning the Sahara Desert into a jungle; his powers were proven to be real without the shadow of a doubt. But you knew that already, he sold his soul to your boss for them.
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Riotous Request
Original prompt heading Smash 'Em Up Sunday: Brontë / McCarthy
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Sharp Affront
Writing prompt The protagonist is dead and only talked about. The only impact they have on the story is through actions made before death.
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Illuminating Sun
Writing prompt Magic didn't exist until nearly 100 years ago, when someone developed an arcane device that generated a magical field across the world, allowing people to tap into it and cast spells. It has remained hidden away ever since, but you recently discovered its location.
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That's Fare
Writing prompt You're a taxi driver, and somehow, you can tell everything about someone just by looking at them, no one knows about your ability, and there seems to be no one like you, until one day you give a ride to a woman who tells you something about you that you haven't told her.
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Turbo's Day Out
Writing prompt You are in the street to buy some food, then a notification pops on everyone's phone, they look at their phones, and then they look at you, you check your phone and you can see a image of you with a red text on the top: "CATCH HIM"
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Hand-delivered Invitation
Writing prompt The final invitation is out, “Just 30 days until the Halloween Bash!”
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Party Games
Writing prompt Contrary to popular belief, zombies aren't actually mindless individuals who have risen from the dead. After getting bitten, you realise you are actually still conscious and very much alive, just that you are trapped within your rotting body, unable to control it as if it has a mind of its own.
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Handy Ability
Original prompt heading Smash 'Em Up Suday: Day by Day Horror.
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Future History
Writing prompt You come across a startlingly thin world history textbook from what appears to be a century into the future. What's inside?
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Searching Sun
Writing prompt "In Death, we all are made humble. In Death, we all are made Equal."
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First-day Flutters
Writing prompt A day at the mythological creature vet.
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Emerging View
Writing prompt So it's been a few weeks since "The Emergence." The TL;DR, major cities across the globe have been rearanged, but it turns out dragons, magic, and a whole lot of fantasy goodness are all real. Or rather, "became real."
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Turbo Trial
Writing prompt Contrary to popular belief, zombies are not rotting corpses but have super fast healing, after a cure is found, zombification and dezombification is a widely used treatment.
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Obligatory Orientation
Writing prompt "Welcome aboard doctor." "Thank you. I tried to research this place before my interview and after I was hired, but I couldn't find much. What do you do here?" "The Templin Institute investigates different aspects of science, magic, and alternate realitities. Orientation is over here. Good luck."
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Royal Suggestion
Writing prompt You're the owner of a simple cafe, though your business hours are strange. You only operate during the night, from 9pm-5am. Needless to say, you come across interesting patrons looking for a spot to pull their all-nighters. 879 words. 25081
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Turbo Assistance
Original prompt heading Smash 'Em Up Sunday: Slightly Off
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Real Problem
Writing prompt You are an amateur archeologist. You like to roam unexplored forests in hopes of discovering the ancient and undiscovered. One day your metal detector goes off and 1 hour into digging your worldview is changed forever.
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Zero Assistance
Writing prompt In the most advanced vrmmo in the world, you're a newbie in a starter area. Wanting to go somewhere far to grind, you approach a cute rabbit. You don't see the S grade tier, or the horrifying stats.
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Fluttering Revelation
Writing prompt You study dragons, and you start to recall some of the most fascinating ones.
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Q.Q
Writing prompt It's a normal day at school. You're just getting ready to go to your next class when you hear a small noise. A voice floats out of the next room, yelling, "GOD DAMN IT KRIS WHERE THE HELL ARE WE NOW?!"
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Royal Assistance
Writing prompt A poorly equipped adventurer dared to approach the cave of a red dragon famous for its riches. However, instead of trying to steal from it, the young man politely asked if it could share some of its wealth. To his surprise, the dragon said "Sure, go ahead".
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Runaway Luck
Writing prompt A teenage runaway seeks shelter in an abandoned costume store. Inside they find a generic superhero/-ine cape and put it on for warmth. Little do they know, that this cape is not an ordinary costume piece... in fact, none of the costumes in that store are!
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Def Doctor
Writing prompt For unknown reasons, a young girl is born with "reverse deafness". She's not deaf, but people within 10 feet of her become deaf until they move farther away from her. A doctor and a paranormal investigator are called on to try and reverse this phenomenon once and for all.
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Friendly Fae
Writing prompt "So I was told you're half fae? How does that work? Did your father seduce a fae queen or something during a daring adventure or something? Or was it the other way around?"
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In the Driver's Seat
Writing prompt You ride shotgun with this peculiar stagecoach driver for a week now and it's starting to make sense on why his only requirement for the job is to know how to handle a sword, and not to ask any questions.
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Turbo's Triple
Writing prompt You have a really big sandwich but you're too full to eat it so you put it in the fridge for later.
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Cat Facts?
Writing prompt It was a warm and windy day.
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Zero Worth
Writing prompt You were born with the ability to see the cause of people´s future end as floating text above them. No dates, just a simple word of what causes their death in the future. One day you are leaving work, but when you step outside you notice everyone has the same text above them, "You."
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