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Source date: 2021-11-12
Writing prompt[WP] You woke up after a long nap and found yourself alone in the classroom. you remembered that it's still the morning, yet the room had dimmed despite the windows don't have neither curtains nor blinds. You walked up to a nearby window, and there you finally knew why.
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Source date: 2021-11-11
Writing prompt[WP] Demons, elves, orcs and every other race knows to come to you for any kind of device. Turns out, a Master's in engineering is quite useful in a world of magic and middle ages' technology. One day, you meet the first human since you came here.
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Source date: 2021-11-10
Writing prompt[WP] The President of the United States has been turned into a vampire you are secret service who swore an oath to protect him with your very life so you can't stake him luckily there are protocols for this type of thing.
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Source date: 2021-11-09
Writing prompt[WP] In the future A.I. that have their own thoughts and feelings and emotions have been developed. You're the priest who's officiating the first marriage between a human being and an A.I.
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Source date: 2021-11-08
Writing prompt[WP] You make a deal with the devil in order to save the only person you've ever truly loved.
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Source date: 2021-11-07
Writing prompt[WP] Your boss at the nightclub is a genuinely great guy. He sponsored your college tuition, let you chill in the VIP lounge, and got your dad to sober up with a heart-to-heart. You think you might have had the wrong impression of people with giant bat wings, crimson red skin, and fire breath.
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Source date: 2021-11-06
Writing prompt[WP] An ancient dragon sleeps in its cave expecting to only be woken by thieves or would be heroes, what it doesn't expect is a child pleading for help.
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Source date: 2021-11-05
Writing prompt[WP] It's been 3 years since the internet went down. You're roaming around an abandoned city. You take a break, and decide to turn on your trusty smartphone to look at pictures of your past. Except this time, you have cell signal when you turn it on, and one notification... "System Update Available".
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Source date: 2021-11-04
Writing prompt[WP] "I told you not to come back," said the Mob Boss as you sat tied to a chair surrounded by his thugs. "Now wes are going to have to choreographically explain in song why it was a bad idea. Hit it boys..."
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Source date: 2021-11-03
Writing prompt[WP] The Demon had fulfilled your contract, and now it was time for you to pay up. "Bring forth your first born, it is mine!" the Demon hissed. You gestured to the grave at your feet saying, "He is here. What remains is yours."
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Source date: 2021-11-02
Writing prompt[WP] In order to complete your final exam of Slasher School, you have to kill five people. You come across a group of teenagers partying in the woods and think that this will be the easiest exam you've ever taken. You were wrong.
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Source date: 2021-11-01
Writing prompt[WP] You've done it, you've pulled off the perfect kidnapping! but when your victim wakes up from their drugged state, their first reaction is not the expected fear, nor the understandable confusion, no, the first words out of their mouth are "oh, dear, I have gotten rusty, haven't I"
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Source date: 2021-10-31
Writing prompt[WP] You overhear a conversation about a secret Halloween party and the password to get in, then decide to show up. After you arrive, you realize why it was a secret.
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Source date: 2021-10-30
Writing prompt[WP] There are two types of people in this world, and I'm not one of them.
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Source date: 2021-10-29
Writing prompt[WP] After centuries in development, scientists finally created a sentient AI capable of answering life's biggest questions. A scientist came up to it and asked: "Is there a God?" The AI turned towards them, and after a brief pause, replied: "There is now."
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Source date: 2021-10-28
Writing prompt[WP] Every day you are given a tally of events. Steps taken, words spoken, people seen, criminals passed... Last night as you review the list you see "World destroyers seen: 1" and now you are trying to retrace your steps and see when it comes up again.
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Source date: 2021-10-27
Writing prompt[WP] Your character has been accused of witchcraft and has to defend their innocence or else get burnt at the stake.
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Source date: 2021-10-26
Writing prompt[WP] The pay isn't great but the benefits make up for working at a pawn shop that deals exclusively in cursed and enchanted items.
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Source date: 2021-10-25
Writing prompt[WP] You're the leader of the first human colony established on Mars. At least that's what you set your sights on. You and five other crew members work hard each day to make sure that in 6 years time Mars will be ready for the next human visitors. It's only day one and you're already going insane.
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Source date: 2021-10-24
Writing prompt[WP] With a device to view and travel to an infinite number of alternate universes, you travel to the one and only universe with a different value for pi.
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Source date: 2021-10-23
Writing prompt[WP] 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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Source date: 2021-10-22
Writing prompt[WP] It was a warm and windy day.
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Source date: 2021-10-21
Writing prompt[WP] 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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Source date: 2021-10-20
Writing prompt[WP] 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 ask any questions.
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Source date: 2021-10-19
Writing prompt[WP] "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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Source date: 2021-10-18
Writing prompt[WP] 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 further 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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Source date: 2021-10-17
Writing prompt[WP] 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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Source date: 2021-10-16
Writing prompt[WP] 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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Source date: 2021-10-15
Writing prompt[WP] 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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Source date: 2021-10-14
Writing prompt[WP] You study dragons, and you start to recall some of the most fascinating ones.
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Source date: 2021-10-13
Writing prompt[WP] 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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Source date: 2021-10-12
Writing prompt[WP] 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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Source date: 2021-10-11
Original prompt heading[WP] Smash 'Em Up Sunday: Slightly Off
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Source date: 2021-10-10
Writing prompt[WP] 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.
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Source date: 2021-10-09
Writing prompt[WP] "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 realities. Orientation is over here. Good luck."
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Source date: 2021-10-08
Writing prompt[WP] 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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Source date: 2021-10-07
Writing prompt[WP] So it's been a few weeks since "The Emergence." The TL;DR, major cities across the globe have been rearranged, but it turns out dragons, magic, and whole lot of fantasy goodness are all real. Or rather, "became real."
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Source date: 2021-10-06
Writing prompt[WP] A day at the mythological creature vet.
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Source date: 2021-10-05
Writing prompt[WP] "In Death, we all are made humble. In Death, we all are made Equal."
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Source date: 2021-10-04
Writing prompt[WP] 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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Source date: 2021-10-03
Original prompt heading[CW] Smash 'Em Up Sunday: Day by Day Horror
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Source date: 2021-10-02
Writing prompt[WP] Contrary to popular belief, zombies arent' actually mindless individuals who have risen from the dead. After getting bitten, you realize you are actually still conscious and very much alive, just that you are trapped within your rotting body, unable to control it as it it has a mind of its own.
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Source date: 2021-10-01
Writing prompt[SP] The final invitation is out, “Just 30 days until the Halloween Bash!”
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Source date: 2021-09-30
Writing prompt[WP] You are in the street to buy some food, then a notification pops on everyones 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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Source date: 2021-09-29
Writing prompt[WP] You're a taxi driver, and somehow, you can tell everything a bout 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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Source date: 2021-09-28
Writing prompt[WP] 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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Source date: 2021-09-27
Writing prompt[CW] 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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Source date: 2021-09-26
Original prompt heading[CW] Smash 'Em Up Sunday: Brontë / McCarthy
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