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Sharp Angle
Writing prompt You fell in love with the sun, but now you only ever catch glimpses of her. You want her back.
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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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Turbo Processing
Writing prompt As a science project, you were entrusted to fully develop a planet. Checking it every once in a while, you noticed your planet had become infested with humans. You attempt to clear out the infestation.
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Zero Friendship
Writing prompt A girl finds a collection of old comic books in her grandfather's attic, and is intrigued by a advertisements on the back pages. As a joke, she calls the number and orders an item. When it arrives, she is surprised to find that it actually works!
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Purpose & Perspective
Writing prompt The one and only tree of the Signate species is in the atrium of the King's home. The shape of the leaf is so unique from other species that leaves are used as official seals. A thief steals a Signate seed for an unknown purpose.
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God. So Annoying.
Writing prompt You work at ExistaBrew, the best coffee house in reality, serving all manner of deities, demons, spirits, and monsters. There's one customer who seems to think pretty highly of himself, though, and nobody enjoys serving him. He calls himself 'God'.
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Sharp Directive
Writing prompt The evil has been defeated, the world is saved. Now the hero must face the reality of being obsolete and no longer having a purpose in life.
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Notions. Ruined.
Writing prompt You've always been able to tell if someone is speaking the truth. Today, a man walked into your bar with the most fantastic of stories. Only, all of them seem to be true.
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Sharp Circle
Writing prompt You have always been loyal to a fault. You've done many horrible deeds, ignoring your empathy or compassion, all for the one you follow.
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Monday. Hell.
Writing prompt You accidentally summon a demon, and they want you to sign a contract for the thing you most desire. What the demon doesn't know, however, is that you're a very prestigious contract negotiator.
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Crushing Outbreak
Writing prompt A mall where all the tenants, excluding anchors, are actually doorways to pocket dimensions.
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Pleasant Monday
Writing prompt Reincarnation isreal and when you die you remember all the memories from your past lives, but you wake up to and hear "I can't believe we saved him" and you remember everything.
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Lucky Rune
Writing prompt Unlike the stories, a Fairy Ring is actually a prison, you just destroyed one and you have no idea what has been released.
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Sharp Message
Writing prompt Your phone broke yesterday, so you took it to one of those repair kiosks to get it fixed. The operator decides to crack the case open while you are there, when you both notice that the inside of your phone is completely empty.
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Sharp Help
Writing prompt The gravitation field of a nearby star has slowed down the tangential velocity of Earth. Earth will now start spiraling inwards towards the sun. Scientists say it will take around 48 days for the planet and everything on it to become ash.
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Sage Advice
Writing prompt On top of the tallest mountain, the great village sage rests. Not many come and visit him. Why? Because he's actually an insufferable person that makes anyone forget what they came there for.
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Bloody Cool
Writing prompt In this more enlightened days, a vampire can simply go to a supermarket to get a few hundred cc of blood. It even comes in a variety of options such as iron-rich, added-caffeine and barbecue.
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Glorious Reputation
Writing prompt Your Ex keeps summoning spirits, gods, and demons to destroy you but it seems like they like you too much to do it.
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Entertaining Hunt
Writing prompt You've been kidnapped by a gang of lunatics that hunt people for sport, what they don't know however is that you're not human.
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Stellar Courtesy
Writing prompt You've somehow slipped into the Backrooms, and hearing about every internet post about it, it fills you with dread and terror. Traversing the halls however, you notice that it's awfully empty. No monsters lurking in corners, no survivors leaving signs. And it's the most peace you felt in years.
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Stellar Discovery
Writing prompt A team of scientists discover how to communicate with a parallel Earth. Years later, we share a unified Internet and people from each side openly communicate but the hardest thing is when two people fall in love with each other online but discover they are quite literally worlds apart.
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Sharp Soil
Writing prompt You're NASA and some rando dingleberry from the general public started selling Mars dirt for 5billion per pound. They seem to have a large supply of them, and the dudes at the NASA lab say its real fucking Mars dirt. How.
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Awake at Home
Writing prompt Ever since you moved into the neighborhood, weird things keep happening. You get a DNA sample and a dossier in your pizza box instead of a pizza. Your cereal box is filled with bullets. And your neighbors keep calling you Number Nine...
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Royal Entertainment
Writing prompt And on that day, everyone lost their hands.
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Late Night Riot
Writing prompt After being sidetracked by a monster attack, a demon invasion, a regular invasion, a balrog, and an evil god, the Hero's Party realized that they forgot their main quest of stopping the local corrupt noble.
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Tent-a-Cool
Writing prompt You are at a date with the girl/boy of your dreams! Just one problem, they are a squid.
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Bringing Outbreak In
Writing prompt "Don't worry. I know what I'm doing" ...
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Chrome Connection
Writing prompt Your job in the police department or district attorney's office is liaison with the local superhero community.
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Stellar Service
Writing prompt When a wizard or magical creature knows your name, they have power over you. The baristas at the local coffee shop are Fae, and they've been collecting names.
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Sharp Professional
Writing prompt You have a crush on the barista at the local Starbucks, she is also in your university class but you have never met each other, you decide to jokingly ask, Hey remember when we were kids and we would never leave each other? "OMG yes I remember!" You can implant and remove someone's memories now.
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Stellar Match
Writing prompt You nailed it when you met the genie. Your request was to become a free soul that can travel through space and time and take over minds of living beings. after 100 years of existence though, you're tired of fixing humanity's bullshit.
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Stellar Humor
Writing prompt Take any phrase with "angle" (like Angle Parking Only) and replace it with "angel". Write about that.
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Playing with the Heart
Writing prompt You tend to the old moustached man who lays there on the street corner, bleeding out all over his suit. He reaches to his top hat next to him and uncovers $1500 and a gun. "Move quick, trust no one and make the Boardwalk before the rest..."
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Solar Rush
Writing prompt You open a book. Its contents are... unexpected.
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Vanilla Bunny
Writing prompt There they are. Finally you found him. The person who murdered you.
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Sunny Match
Writing prompt You've lived alone ever since you decided to move out. After years, you decide to go back and visit. Except, no matter what you do, you can't seem to find any records about your hometown or its people. By all accounts, it doesn't seem to exist.
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Stone Sun
Writing prompt An explorer enters the tomb. A scraping of stone against stone reverberates against the cold, hard walls and an unearthly voice speaks out. "Fool, you thought you could enter without feeling my curse?" The explorer replies, "Exactly what I'm after."
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Brilliantly Petty
Writing prompt You walk outside and every single one of your neighbors is sitting or standing around front of their door. Some are hastily scrolling on their phones, some talking on them, some just staring into space. You walk down the street, and the same thing is happening everywhere....
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Stellar Home
Writing prompt You wake up and the sky is red.
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Sharp Trend
Writing prompt You're a TikToker who has a new sponsorship with some pretty high stakes. You see, last week, you were kidnapped off the street and taken to a secret government building where you were informed that the world would be ending soon. They're paying you very well to prepare people for it.
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Unique? Who?
Writing prompt Lately, reality has seemed more and more streamlined. You remember more people, countries, foods, animals, planets, etc. But no one else does. On a whim, you run an ad in the paper with a list of things that don't exist anymore, asking if anyone recalls them. You get a reply.
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Gloria's Neighborhood
Writing prompt You have recently moved into a new house. After getting settled in there is a knock at your door. Your neighbors greet you with a housewarming gift. As they begin talking you find out the area you moved into is part of a cult. After considering, you decide to join.
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Monday's Advice
Writing prompt The James Webb Space Telescope has just been fully deployed and starts to slowly deliver first photographs. 4 hours later NASA gives the order to self destruct the telescope.
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Stellar Commitment
Writing prompt It's a normal afternoon on earth but then suddenly an entire fleet of imperial ships exit hyperspace and are now in earths orbit. How would the Earths governments react if those ships in the sky just stay there for days, weeks and maybe even months just doing nothing?
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Nothing New
Writing prompt In your world, people receive xp for defeating other creatures and can level up. Swatting a fly gets you 2xp. Beating your friend at chess gets you 65xp. One morning, you wake up to the notification "7,125,000 xp obtained. Maximum level reached. Only, you don't remember defeating anyone.
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Stellar Precautions
Writing prompt The first manned trip to Mars ended with a catastrophic mechanical failure 3 days from Mars. The second failed when one of the crew went mad and sabotaged the mission, also 3 days from Mars. You're onboard the third shuttle, minutes away from crossing the 3-day threshold...
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Learn by Doing
Writing prompt You take 'write what you know' to extremes-- you've been sky-diving, rock-climbing, and spelunking in the name of making your work more authentic. Now, your publisher is demanding you write a murder mystery.
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Stellar Fulfillment
Writing prompt You wake up from a cryostasis unit in the middle of a secret research facility called HEPHAESTUS. You're a government experiment genetically modified with an alien mutagenic nanite swarm.
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Star Sight. Hindsight.
Writing prompt You've woken up after trauma to your head. You can now see souls with your very eyes, and what you see is terrifying.
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