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Source date: 2021-12-30
Writing prompt[WP] 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 starting at him in shock.
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Source date: 2021-12-29
Writing prompt[WP] 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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Source date: 2021-12-28
Writing prompt[WP] 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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Source date: 2021-12-27
Writing prompt[WP] 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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Source date: 2021-12-26
Writing prompt[WP] 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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Source date: 2021-12-25
Writing prompt[WP] MERRY CHRISTMAS! Make any Christmas related story or anything festive and winter holiday related.
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Source date: 2021-12-24
Writing prompt[WP] 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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Source date: 2021-12-23
Writing prompt[WP] 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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Source date: 2021-12-22
Writing prompt[WP] 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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Source date: 2021-12-21
Writing prompt[WP] 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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Source date: 2021-12-20
Writing prompt[WP] It's December 27. Santa did not come this year. You a 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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Source date: 2021-12-19
Writing prompt[CW] Write a short story that contains these three words or elements as part of the main plot: midnight, forest, empire.
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Source date: 2021-12-18
Writing prompt[WP] It was a dark and stormy night.
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Source date: 2021-12-17
Writing prompt[WP] 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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Source date: 2021-12-16
Writing prompt[WP] 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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Source date: 2021-12-15
Writing prompt[WP] 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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Source date: 2021-12-14
Writing prompt[WP] 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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Source date: 2021-12-13
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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Source date: 2021-12-12
Writing prompt[WP] 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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Source date: 2021-12-11
Writing prompt[WP] You work security at an entry gate at the world's only cemetary. A large landmass where all bodies are interred. Tell me about an unusual encounter with a person/group that came to mourn one of the dead.
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Source date: 2021-12-10
Writing prompt[WP] I've always been invisible, an outsider, a spectator. I function like any other human, except I'm not physically here. No one can hear, see, or smell me. Im like a a gho- "Young lady! What are you doing roaming the streets this late at night? It's not safe for you, ya know?"
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Source date: 2021-12-09
Writing prompt[WP] "So you're telling me I'm the chosen one destined to save your island from destruction?" said the man in awe and excitement. "Yes, I've been waiting for you all this time." Said the native actress in charge of a tourist trap designed specifically for rich tourists with a white knight complex.
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Source date: 2021-12-08
Writing prompt[WP] After a lifetime of wondering, you make a post in ELI5: "Why do the giant creatures that move around in the fog never come out when it's clear?" All the commenters have no idea what you're talking about. Except one.
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Source date: 2021-12-07
Writing promptAt the crossroads at midnight, you can meet the devil. He'll fulfill any wish... for a price. You figured out that the soul you sell doesn't have to be your own, you just have to "own" it.
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Source date: 2021-12-06
Writing prompt[WP] One day, without warning, you are transported to a parallel universe where everything looks the same... except for the fact that your best friend never existed.
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Source date: 2021-12-05
Writing prompt[WP] Mr. and Mrs. Sweeney got married despite the protests of the townspeople. At the end of their wedding dance, Mrs. Sweeney looked over Mr. Sweeney's shoulder and screamed. Hell ensued.
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Source date: 2021-12-04
Writing prompt[WP] You got summoned as a hero, complete with the OP powers. As it turns out, the human king is a jerk. The demon king isn't any better either. You decide to kidnap both of them and lock them in the same room to talk it out.
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Source date: 2021-12-03
Writing prompt[WP] The United States decides to shut down every branch of the military. $750 billion USD/year gets redistributed to other programs, but there's no longer an armed defense.
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Source date: 2021-12-02
Writing prompt[WP] 12 years into being owner of the best dog you could ever ask for, you wake up one morning, walk downstairs and see him attentively looking out the window in an unusual demeanor for him. Owner: "What's up buddy, you ok?" Dog: "Its time."
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Source date: 2021-12-01
Writing prompt[WP] When everyone disappeared from the face of the earth, you were prepared. You had even made an excellent survival plan that was going splendidly. What you weren't prepared for was to find the shelves restocked, and electricity and wifi still working 1 month after the event.
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Source date: 2021-11-30
Writing prompt[WP] The AI absorbed the information from millions of mechanical eyes staring out over the scorched, frozen earth, coated in a layer of ash from the third Great War. It had successfully located and destroyed the last human remnants. So what was its purpose now?
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Source date: 2021-11-29
Writing prompt[WP] The life suit's systems and AI will keep you alive indefinitely - which is great, unless you're endlessly adrift in space with no hope of rescue - so you need to somehow convince the overly-protective AI to stop saving your life.
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Source date: 2021-11-28
Writing prompt[WP] The local kook, your friend, has died. In his will he lists you as sole beneficiary of his ramshackle shack at the edge of town. While digging through it, you begin to realize that he wasn't half as crazy as people thought, that dimensional travel was in fact possible.
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Source date: 2021-11-27
Writing prompt[WP] A group of astronauts walk close to their base on Mars investigating the activity seen on their radar. Eventually they approach the source of the activity. Although hard to make out in the distance they can see a solitary figure standing next to an unfamiliar flag.
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Source date: 2021-11-26
Writing prompt[WP] You've finally completed your quest to become the worst-smelling person on Earth.
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Source date: 2021-11-25
Writing prompt[WP] You've just graduated from Wizard University. Now What?
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Source date: 2021-11-24
Writing prompt[WP] Your superpower is the ability to travel in time just by touching an historic building. You travel through time trying to find someone with the superpower to bring you back to your own time.
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Source date: 2021-11-23
Writing prompt[WP] The heroes finally make it to the final battle. The Dark Lord who has been sealed away for thousands of years is about to be reborn into the world. It gets awkward when a little boy crawls out of the coffin and asks, "Do you know where my mommy is?"
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Source date: 2021-11-22
Writing prompt[SP] Plot/setting details optional, just write about a character defeating their way through a horde of mooks/henchmen/etc...
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Source date: 2021-11-21
Writing promptIn an instant countless millions of lives were annihilated, cities reduced to ash and cinder, entire nations wiped off the face ofthe planet. All in all everything went as well as it possibly could have.
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Source date: 2021-11-20
Writing prompt[WP] A kid with a villainous-sounding name tries desperately to change it and avoid his destiny.
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Source date: 2021-11-19
Writing prompt[WP] You are part of an organization that fights Vampires, werewolves, and other abominations that all vie for power in this city of light. Tonight however you come across one of these beings protecting an innocent child from a group of abominations and you choose to help.
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Source date: 2021-11-18
Writing prompt[WP] A zombie apocalypse happens on Earth, though severe the virus always wears off after a few days despite no antidote existing. Now dare devils, streamers and adrenaline junkies turn into zombies for the ultimate thrill.
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Source date: 2021-11-17
Writing prompt[WP] A week after becoming president, you are approached by two secret service agents and told to follow. You arrive at a deserted warehouse, and after passing some hidden security measures, a door opens. An elevator. Down. At the bottom, a rusty sign: "Extraterrestrial Containment Program".
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Source date: 2021-11-16
Writing prompt[WP] We've all encountered targeted ads, with ads mentioning people in your city, your interests, etc. Recently, however, they've been getting unnervingly specific; your ads now feel like they're speaking directly to you.
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Source date: 2021-11-15
Writing prompt[WP] The vampire knew it had made a miscalculation when its prey placed it in a head lock, in a feat of supernatural speed the vampire himself could not match. It began to laugh at him.
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Source date: 2021-11-14
Writing prompt[WP] Describe your morning routine with your pet.
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Source date: 2021-11-13
Writing prompt[wP] You say goodbye to your friends before you log off after playing a VRMMORPG for 5 hours. Taking off your VR headset, you are surprised to find out everyone on Earth is dead except you. You start to wonder who your VR friends really are if humanity is really gone.
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