The SST AlterNet
Arc dates: September 6, 2021 – June 5, 2022. Collection and publication dates remain separate from fictional time.
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Writing prompt You work security at an entry gate at the worlds only cemetary. A large landmass where all bodies are interred. Tell me about an unusual encounter with a person/group that comes to mourn one of the dead.
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Writing prompt A terrorist with a device that can detonate all the nuclear bombs in the world is currently hiding in a warehouse but unbeknownst to them a SWAT team is outside about to break in. How does the operation go?
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Writing prompt [WP] "Help me, noble sir!" cries the squirrel. "I was cursed by a sorceress to this puny form, and I need your help to be saved!" You narrow your eyes in suspicion. You've been hoodwinked by such scams before.
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Writing prompt As you are walking to work one day, an elderly man asks you for change. As you hand him money, he gives you a small paper bag and whispers "run". You turn your head and see 2 black SUVs speeding in your direction.
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Writing prompt You watch a movie which begins with 'Based On A True Story', which is followed by the most unrealistic and unbelievable movie you've ever seen. You write to the director complaining, but he contacts you back insisting that the movie really is based on truth.
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Writing prompt You and your friends are stuck in the woods with crazy serial killer chasing you. However, what this guy didn't anticipate is that you are secretly a professional mercenary. Time to show this amateur that he picked the wrong target.
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Writing prompt I can't tell you much, but all you need to know is that you should be careful around this man, he's not the kindly old grandfather everybody thinks he is. In a time long gone, Kings and emperors sought his allegiance, and queens and princesses begged for his hand in marriage."
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Writing prompt It was a dark and stormy night.
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Writing prompt Write a short story that contains these three words or elements as part of the main plot: midnight, forest, empire. 1046 words. 81819 words. total.
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Writing prompt It's December 27, Santa did not come this year. You are part of the explorer team sent to the North pole to find out what happened to Santa. What you find out was horrible.
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Writing prompt You have been told by your boss to fetch a file from the basement. But the file is nowhere to be found. In fact, the cabinet where the file should have been stored seems to be missing entirely. What you do find, however, will change your life forever.
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Writing prompt Following the mysterious murder of your girlfriend and your parents, you are wrongfully convicted. On the way to prison the convoy is hijacked by vigilantes who set you free and give you orders to run. It's been 4 years since then and you're still on the run.
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Writing prompt A lonely old man picks up his phone expecting a prank caller. He is greeted by a little girl expecting to talk to Santa Claus. Against his better judgement, he decides to humor her. And the next kid. And the next kid...
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Writing prompt A strange cloaked man walks into a shop. You look over aisles and you see the man seems to follow you wherever you go. Slowly moving forward. You feel a tap on your shoulder, you turn around and the cloaked man is behind you "Hello -your name-".
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Writing prompt MERRY CHRISTMAS! Make any Christmas related story or anything festive and winter holiday related.
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Writing prompt Creepypasta/Crackpasta Prompt: You, wanting to start anew, moves far away and gets a nightshift job at a 24-hour hotel. It turns out that the owner of the hotel is a vampire and the hotel is a haven for supernatural.
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Writing prompt All you need to do to read someone's mind is to touch them. When a stranger brushes against you on your way to work, you stop dead in your tracks.
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Writing prompt In a world full of superheroes you're looking for a partner in more than just teamwork, and sign up for speed dating. Now you and your current tablemate have a minute and a half each to share your crime-fighting abilities and compatible relationship traits.
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Writing prompt Your thoughts usually drift to a variety of topics while in school. You never really paid much attention to who was around you or what you were doing. Another day goes by of your usual listlessness when someone comes up to you and says hi.
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Writing prompt A young boy in the middle ages wishes for a better life one night. When he wakes up, he finds himself in the middle of a modernized magitek fantasy city, surrounded by mythical creatures staring at him in shock.
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Writing prompt The demon lord plunged his sword through the heroes chest, he whispers into his ear "Shoulda had a v8". The hero looks to him and asks "You're from Earth?" The demon lord's eyes go wide as he realized he just killed the only connection to his old life.
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Writing prompt A story where the world is ending, but that is not the topic or focus.
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Writing prompt As an immortal it is common to see time pass by. TEchnology advance, nations rise and fall, and friends pass away. After being incarcerated in the 1800's you just finished serving a 218 year long life sentence.
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Writing prompt The sun has began "blinking" on and off at irregular intervals for about a week. Further observations reveal that the blinks are actually morse code.
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Writing prompt You're the best swordsmith in your kingdom. Your blades are the sharpest and toughest, your axes the keenest. A farmer would sell his house to get just one of your tools. Your secret? Your pet baby dragon. But now it's growing bigger and you have no idea what to do.
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Writing prompt After having the absolute worst day of your life, you take a walk hoping to clear your head. Suddenly, an odd flyer catches your attention; "Tired of your lonely, joyless life? Sign up now and become a sorcerer today! Anyone can learn magic, and so can you!" You call the number and sign up.
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Writing prompt Your stuck in a school during a winter when a zombie outbreak happens.
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Writing prompt Walking to your school you notice a strange bush. It wasn't there before, so you step closer to it. You find yourself inside your house again. Turns out, you glitched the game respawned back to your last save. Oh also, you're in a video game.
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Writing prompt A young vampire princess sneaks away from home to explore and witnesses other races like humans, high elves, wood elves, dark elves, dwarfs, orcs, werewolves, centaurs, merfolk and dragons for the first time. Her curiosity overwhelms her and she decides to investigate their camp.
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Writing prompt A bloodied up child knocks on your door in the middle of the night, asking that you let her in. A man stands across the street watching.
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Writing prompt Whoever pulled the sword from the stone would rule all of Camelot. But over time borders change, and on the day the sword is pulled free all that's left of Camelot is a run down shopping mall.
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Writing prompt You are walking along a deserted beach one afternoon, when you see what appears to be an antique bottle floating in the surf just a few feet from shore. Upon collecting and opening the bottle, you remove a large map with a list of names of notorious pirates and the exact locations of their loot.
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Writing prompt You are sent to be killed under claims of witchery, though you are not a witch. The night before you are to be killed a strange person save you...
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Writing prompt On an expedition to find a legendary lost civilization, the team slowly comes to realize that they are all spies sent by various powers to secure ancient technologies and treasures. In fact, there isn't a single real archaeologist among them.
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Writing prompt Captains love to exaggerate stories, your ability to view the truth makes it very entertaining to see what they changed, this captain claims that he won a fight against a storm, that he built his first ship out of dirt and rocks, and that he tamed every beast on an island, you detect no lies...
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Writing prompt The zombie apocalypse hit, and you ran to your crazy prepared uncle's bunker. Instead of fresh water and rations, you find potions and elixirs. instead of guns and ammo, you find staves and grimoires.
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Writing prompt Someone just tried to mug you. Next to a graveyard, and you're a necromancer.
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Writing prompt You are an unemployed, low level monster in a generic fantasy setting who must face their most difficult task yet: applying for the position of an evil minion for a new master.
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Writing prompt You're a doctor for magical creatures.
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Writing prompt A first person death game/obstacle course where all participants are equally likely to die. If the person you are writing the view from dies, it jumps to another contestant.
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Writing prompt Defeated by the villain, the hero has only one weapon left: Wit. So, in an act of desperation to keep the villain occupied until help comes, they ask: "Now what? What do you do since you've won?" It gives the villain pause.
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Ten minutes later, Real Glenn stood in front of the mirror in a pitch dark dressing room. He needed to cover the window blinds with blankest to prevent light coming in. He taped over all device LEDs in the room and hung
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Writing prompt Your wife brings an old antique mirror home from a local thrift shop one day. You begin to notice that your reflection, and ONLY your reflection, is taunting you...
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Writing prompt Throughout the years of being a time travelling agent, you have learnt that one cannot change the past. This begs the question: Why does the agency send agents on lethal missions that, through the influence of agents, have a terrible outcome.
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Writing prompt She looks at you, eyes wide, filled with tears of joy. The earth around her was cracked and destroyed, nothing left, but you are happy, you've found her. "Buddy!" she yelled, "Bark!" you replied.
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Writing prompt After waking up, you find yourself in the middle of a seemingly infinite white space.
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Writing prompt Diagnosed with an uncurable disease, you opt to be cryogenically preserved until a cure is found. Imagine your surprise when you wake up, only to find you have been claimed as part of a dragon's hoard, and they're staring at you right now.
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Writing prompt "So what do you collect?" "tattoos" "but you don't have any...?" "I collect... other people's tattoos."
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