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Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-09-13
Writing prompt[WP] It's 2045, and cybernetic augmentation is the new normal. Everyone has at least one augment, whether it be something small like an eye or something large like their spine. Everyone, except you. You're the only pure human in a world of cyborgs.
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Source date: 2020-09-12
Writing prompt[WP] We have no idea what it means, but we all noticed it. The sun flickered today.
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Source date: 2020-09-11
Writing prompt[WP] You knew you could see potential in that kid who bought that old beat up six string guitar. After all, it's not every day you see someone with stars in his eyes.
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Source date: 2020-09-10
Writing prompt[WP] You take a time machine forward in time...but the tech level seems to be medieval. You assume that it's a mistake, but then get proved wrong.
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Source date: 2020-09-09
Writing prompt[WP] A mistake happened and you died before you were supposed to. To make it up to you you are offered to be reincarnated. On top of that you are offered otherwise unavailable options.
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Source date: 2020-09-08
Writing prompt[WP] Your job at the grocery store I completely average. Absolutely nothing happens. Really! It's not interesting, nor is it painful. Nothing weird ever happens, no strange customers, nothing. It's all completely average.
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Source date: 2020-09-07
Writing prompt[WP] Can your phone give you superpowers? Ever wonder what it's like to have super strength? Lightning speed? How about the power of levitation? Or maybe you just want to open that stubborn jar? Lift the couch while the husband's at work? Look no further, cell phone users. There's an app for that.
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Source date: 2020-09-06
Writing prompt[WP] They sigh as the coffee cup bites them when they touched it. This mimic infestation is really getting out of hand.
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Source date: 2020-09-05
Writing prompt[WP] You wake to find yourself in hospital. As you start your recovery, you seem to have some strange abilities you didn't have before...
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Source date: 2020-09-04
Writing prompt[WP] You and your supervillain nemesis both know each other's secret identities. You've set a truce when the costumes are off, though, your mutual and unaware friends keep trying to set the two of you up.
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Source date: 2020-09-03
Writing prompt[WP] A supervillain and superhero fall in love... 10 years later, they're going through a divorce.
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Source date: 2020-09-02
Writing prompt[WP] You are stuck in a timeloop reliving one day. This time everything went off scenario and you heard a door knock. You see a strange man with a suitcase who claims he can help you. His help though wasn't something you expected.
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Source date: 2020-09-01
Writing prompt[WP] The aliens knew exactly where to hit us. Then we realize they look exactly like us and even speak English. These aren't aliens...they're humans from the future, and they're invading present-day Earth. We don't know how or why.
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Source date: 2020-08-31
Writing prompt[WP] You are a secret government agent. You travel to a small town to document their way of life with pictures. When you try to identify them using your software, you find out that none of them actually exist.
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Source date: 2020-08-30
Writing prompt[WP] You're a necromancer that has been run out of every town you've ever settled in for being who you are. You wipe tears out of your eyes as you did a deep hole, finding solace in your work. Your shovel bangs against bones and you stop, tears suddenly forgotten. Dinosaur bones. Now they'll pay.
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Source date: 2020-08-29
Writing prompt[WP] You are an immortal, but not the standard sort. Whenever you die you reawaken as your past self on the first day of high-school. This is your 999th repeated life and for the first time something is different.
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Source date: 2020-08-28
Writing prompt[WP] You have the ability to hop into Video Games, and hop out at will, and being able to bring stuff out from those worlds. You work with a group of heroes on a daily. One day, you gotta explain how and why you're stuck inside a Dating Sim.
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Source date: 2020-08-27
Writing prompt[WP] A loanshark becomes increasingly concerned with the extreme lengths his/er client is going to so they can pay up on time.
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Source date: 2020-08-26
Writing prompt[WP] You exist in a world where you can see a person's life scores and achievements by simply gazing over their head. One day while scrolling through the stats of your oldest friend you see something disturbing. Worlds Destroyed: 21.
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Source date: 2020-08-25
Writing prompt[WP] Your parents have both been divorced for a number of years but their reasons as to why never match up with what the other says. One night when you come home to your mom's earlier than you told her, you realize what she had been hiding from you, and most likely hid from your father.
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Source date: 2020-08-24
Writing prompt[WP] Emerging from the sealed bunker where you and the other rebels finally overthrew the corrupt ruler, you find the outside world is not the apocalyptic wasteland you were led to believe. Instead the peace talks that averted a nuclear apocalypse have led to a nearly utopian society.
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Source date: 2020-08-23
Writing prompt[WP] You died and were sent to hell. Thing is, life in hell is better than your life on earth ever was.
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Source date: 2020-08-22
Writing prompt[WP] You are an inter-dimensional alien traveler who has crash landed on Earth. You are currently sitting in a holding cell, listening to members of the Men in Black, Torchwood Institute, and SCP Foundation argue over jurisdiction.
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Source date: 2020-08-21
Writing prompt[WP] Good news is that, after months of just barely surviving in a zombie apocalypse, you finally managed to get to a large and zombie-free human settlement. The bad news is that those in charge aren't actually human.
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Source date: 2020-08-20
Writing prompt[WP] You wake up from a coma, it's been 5 years and 1. Your family is dead but you inherited all of their money and 2. Your earth has discovered a multiverse.
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Source date: 2020-08-19
Writing prompt[WP] You are the most evil villain and the Make-A-Wish foundation contacted you. One of the children wishes to be your henchman for a day.
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Source date: 2020-08-18
Writing prompt[WP] 18th August, it comes each year. Bad poets can write without fear. Please have a go and write some words, it doesn't matter if they sound like turds. It's bad poetry day so do your worst, particularly if you're not well versed.
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Source date: 2020-08-17
Writing prompt[WP] You live in a world where vampires rule and humans are either treated as lovers, pets, or food.
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Source date: 2020-08-16
Writing prompt[WP] And just like that, the entire world deposited their money into your bank account.
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Source date: 2020-08-15
Writing prompt[WP] April slid the phone back on to Alex's bedside table. She suspected an affair, but the messages she found were much, much worse. The shower stuttered into silence, she had to decide what to do now.
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Source date: 2020-08-14
Writing prompt[WP] You are a detective, investigating a series of seemingly unrelated crimes, when you hear another detective say that he can "find no rhyme or reason for this murder". Its then that you realize; the rhyme IS the reason. The perp HAD to "kill Phil".
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Source date: 2020-08-13
Writing prompt[WP] A werewolf a vampire and an alchemist walk into a bar.
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Source date: 2020-08-12
Writing prompt[WP] After a life spent on the high seas, you fell in love and decided to settle down. Your partner is a great swimmer and singer with a mesmerizing voice. The two of you were inseparable. But one day you found a large, iridescent fish scale stuck in the laundry basked.
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Source date: 2020-08-11
Writing prompt[WP] You are sitting at desk waiting for your next call. The phone rang and with a slight annoyance you answered, "Welcome to the Zombie Survival Hotline, How may I help you?"
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Source date: 2020-08-10
Writing prompt[WP] It's Monday. Your weekend watching Netflix and doing nothing was exhausting. You step away to grab a coffee and when you come back, you find your two co-workers dead and a hooded figure asking your boss for your whereabouts.
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Source date: 2020-08-09
Writing prompt[WP] I sometimes teleport when I fall asleep, and lately it's been getting worse.
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Source date: 2020-08-08
Writing prompt[WP] Husband, Wife, daughter. The wife gets in a car accident, there's head trauma. The wife starts to believe her husband has been replaced by an identical imposter.
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Source date: 2020-08-07
Writing prompt[WP] You're a ghost haunting a house. You've been scaring people off your property for a few centuries now, but it's gotten boring, so you're going to switch it up a bit.
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Source date: 2020-08-06
Writing prompt[WP] During an office move, some of the staff found a secret room they'd never seen before. Upon closer inspection, they found a half-eaten cheeseburger, a still fizzing soda, but no sign of the occupant.
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Source date: 2020-08-05
Writing prompt[WP] You have the ability to change the reality and fate of events around you to a minor degree. You use this ability to "fight crime". One day when fighting a villain you cause a street light to fall atop your opponent, but he simply back step sand dodges it with a smug grin.
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Source date: 2020-08-04
Writing prompt[WP] You are a supervillain in disguise, out shopping. You see a bunch of bullies tormenting a kid, and, on a whim, decide to intervene.
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Source date: 2020-08-03
Writing prompt[SP] Your roommate is Death.
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Source date: 2020-08-02
Writing prompt[WP] You have died, and then you find yourself standing over your body. You see that the Grim Reaper has come for you, and... no twist, he's just doing his job. You're disappointed in the normality of it all actually.
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Source date: 2020-08-01
Writing prompt[WP] Exploiting the latest neuroscience techniques, an evil government plants false memories in the minds of its citizens.
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Source date: 2020-07-31
Writing prompt[WP] You've lived a normal average life, nothing too special. One day as you are on the way home from work. A person stops you, claiming to be from the future to kill you for murdering their family and destroying the world.
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Source date: 2020-07-30
Writing prompt[WP] Pop up blocker fails. "MIB's in your area." Close. "MIB's getting closer." Close. Knock on the door. "Run!"
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Source date: 2020-07-29
Writing prompt[WP] You have just discovered that the Vampire role playing group that you've been a part of for the last year is in fact a group of real vampires.
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Source date: 2020-07-28
Writing prompt[WP] Being one of the top assassins in the industry few things if any surprise you. However as your latest target simply got up after being shot three times in the back of the head before remarking "Rude!" you have to admit you were a little caught off guard.
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