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Riotous Reference
Writing prompt You're in desperate need of advice, but it comes from a person you least expect...
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Zero Mystery
Writing prompt You were summoned from another world to help the kingdom deal with the Dark Lord. However, instead of killing the Dark Lord, they want you to get them and their counsel to work out and sign a peace treaty.
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Weather? Or Not?
Writing prompt For the last nine months, Father Michael has been performing miracles. From healing all forms of sickness and disease, to turning the Sahara Desert into a jungle; his powers were proven to be real without the shadow of a doubt. But you knew that already, he sold his soul to your boss for them.
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Riotous Request
Original prompt heading Smash 'Em Up Sunday: Brontë / McCarthy
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Sharp Affront
Writing prompt 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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Illuminating Sun
Writing prompt 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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That's Fare
Writing prompt You're a taxi driver, and somehow, you can tell everything about 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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Turbo's Day Out
Writing prompt You are in the street to buy some food, then a notification pops on everyone's 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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Hand-delivered Invitation
Writing prompt The final invitation is out, “Just 30 days until the Halloween Bash!”
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Party Games
Writing prompt Contrary to popular belief, zombies aren't actually mindless individuals who have risen from the dead. After getting bitten, you realise you are actually still conscious and very much alive, just that you are trapped within your rotting body, unable to control it as if it has a mind of its own.
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Handy Ability
Original prompt heading Smash 'Em Up Suday: Day by Day Horror.
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Future History
Writing prompt 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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Searching Sun
Writing prompt "In Death, we all are made humble. In Death, we all are made Equal."
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First-day Flutters
Writing prompt A day at the mythological creature vet.
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Emerging View
Writing prompt So it's been a few weeks since "The Emergence." The TL;DR, major cities across the globe have been rearanged, but it turns out dragons, magic, and a whole lot of fantasy goodness are all real. Or rather, "became real."
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Turbo Trial
Writing prompt 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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Obligatory Orientation
Writing prompt "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 realitities. Orientation is over here. Good luck."
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Royal Suggestion
Writing prompt 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. 879 words. 25081
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Turbo Assistance
Original prompt heading Smash 'Em Up Sunday: Slightly Off
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Real Problem
Writing prompt 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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Zero Assistance
Writing prompt 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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Fluttering Revelation
Writing prompt You study dragons, and you start to recall some of the most fascinating ones.
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Q.Q
Writing prompt 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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Royal Assistance
Writing prompt 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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Runaway Luck
Writing prompt 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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Def Doctor
Writing prompt 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 farther 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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Friendly Fae
Writing prompt "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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In the Driver's Seat
Writing prompt 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 to ask any questions.
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Turbo's Triple
Writing prompt 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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Cat Facts?
Writing prompt It was a warm and windy day.
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Zero Worth
Writing prompt 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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Sharp Updates
Writing prompt 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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Information Hazard
Writing prompt 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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Sharp Patch
Writing prompt 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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Sharp Priority
Writing prompt Your character has been accused of witchcraft and has to defend their innocence or else get burnt at the stake.
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Erroneous Identity
Writing prompt 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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Sharp Design
Writing prompt 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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Sharp Origin
Writing prompt There are two types of people in this world, and I'm not one of them.
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Zero Invite
Writing prompt 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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Sun Seeking Fun
Writing prompt 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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Killer. Spider.
Writing prompt 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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Sharp Effort
Writing prompt 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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Tama's... Song?
Writing prompt "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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Sharp Revision
Writing prompt 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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Lunar Memory
Writing prompt 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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Scared? May be.
Writing prompt 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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Personal Priority
Writing prompt You make a deal with the devil in order to save the only person you've ever truly loved.
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Ruinous Announcement
Writing prompt 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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