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Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2018-05-04
Writing prompt[WP] As an unexpected twist to boost ratings, the zombie apocalypse breaks out on a TV sitcom (Friends, The Office, Parks & Rec, HIMYM,etc. )
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Source date: 2018-05-03
Writing prompt[WP] A genie appears to you and your partner of 60 years in your final days. He says he will allow one of you a new start as a 20 y/o. The catch is you'd lose all memory of your partner and it would only be one of you. You tell the genie not a chance. You're shocked when your partner takes the deal.
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Source date: 2018-05-02
Writing prompt[CW] Write three stories: Two that appear unrelated and a third that ties them all together. Use a combined 1000 words or less.
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Source date: 2018-05-01
Writing prompt[WP] "You dropped this." A stranger hands you a folded piece of paper, and vanishes into the crowd before you can say that it isn't yours.
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Source date: 2018-04-30
Writing prompt[WP] You are able to see how long every person you come across has to live. As you walk through the city you come across someone with only one hour left.
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Source date: 2018-04-29
Original prompt heading[WP] Sunday Free Write - Alfred Hitchcock Edition
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Source date: 2018-04-28
Writing prompt[WP] The first fully immersive online VR game has released in which anything is possible. After months of saving you eagerly log in and hit 'random server.'
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Source date: 2018-04-27
Writing prompt[WP] Whenever a baby is born, he or shee is taken to The Armory, an ancient alien temple where each child has a unique weapon bestowed upon them, for use their whole lives. YYou were given a key.
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Source date: 2018-04-26
Writing prompt[WP] You wake up alone in a motel room with no idea who you are, where you are, or how you got there. On the bedside table is a map and a choose your own adventure book.
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Source date: 2018-04-25
Writing prompt[CW] Flash Fiction Challenge! Location: A Museum | Object: Lemonade
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Source date: 2018-04-24
Writing prompt[WP] "The jailer is the key, kill him and you'll be free..."
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Source date: 2018-04-23
Writing prompt[WP] Your job as a researcher in the facility isn't too bad. The hours are shit and the coffee maker is broken, but at least the people are nice. And the job is easy: talk to the telepathic spider, run some tests on the witch, give the eldritch god his daily newspaper, basic stuff. Describe your day.
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Source date: 2018-04-22
Original prompt heading[OT] Sunday Free Write - Earth Day Edition
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Source date: 2018-04-21
Writing prompt[WP] "Let's just blow it up and call it a day."
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Source date: 2018-04-20
Writing prompt[WP] "Tag you're it!" She giggled. "See you in a hundred years!"
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Source date: 2018-04-19
Writing prompt[WP] They fear the light.
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Source date: 2018-04-18
Writing prompt[WP] Your coworkers are disappearing and you find out that your boss is a vampire, but thre's still hope, someone you work with is secretly a werewolf, the janitor.
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Source date: 2018-04-17
Writing prompt[WP] Your kid walks into the living room with a unicorn trailing behind him. With pleading eyes, he goes, "I swear, he followed me home. Can we keep him?"
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Source date: 2018-04-16
Writing prompt[WP] Burying my mother was difficult on the family. Burying her again was harder.
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Source date: 2018-04-15
Original prompt heading[OT] Sunday Free Write - Leonardo da Vinci Edition
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Source date: 2018-04-14
Writing prompt[WP] In the distant future, prisoners have their brains extracted and uploaded into a computer system in order to save space and maintain peace within prisons.
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Source date: 2018-04-13
Writing prompt[WP] You stumble upon a shrine and accidentally summon a god. he will not let you leave until you offer him a body to possess.
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Source date: 2018-04-12
Writing prompt[WP] An abandoned baby was found on your doorstep. As they grow up, you start noticing the increase of supernatural activities in your house.
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Source date: 2018-04-11
Writing prompt[WP] One of your relatives just died. You help cleaning and emptying their house. While in the attic, you find something unusual.
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Source date: 2018-04-10
Writing prompt[WP] You are a villain. Your superpower is the ability to heal all wounds.
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Source date: 2018-04-09
Writing prompt[IP] Cybermonk
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Source date: 2018-04-08
Original prompt heading[OT] Sunday Free Write - Over the Rainbow Edition
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Source date: 2018-04-07
Writing prompt[WP] Children who die at a young age are given a very special role in the afterlife: they become invisible friends, assigned to other children who need them back in the living realm.
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Source date: 2018-04-06
Writing prompt[WP] I didn't want to start this fight, but I'll finish it.
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Source date: 2018-04-05
Writing prompt[WP] You are determined to propose to your partner for 3 years. Nothing can stop you. Well, maybe one thing...
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Source date: 2018-04-04
Writing prompt[WP] ”Everyone here has their story” she said, looking around her. ”So what is yours?”
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Source date: 2018-04-03
Writing prompt[WP] You have a pair of indestructible glasses that allow you to see 5 years into the future as though a zombie apocalypse had started. You cannot interact with this world but people you can see can also see you.
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Source date: 2018-04-02
Writing prompt[WP] A spider dangles down from the ceiling in front of you, but just out of reach. You hear a quiet voice say, "So what are you going to do now?"
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Source date: 2018-04-01
Original prompt heading[OT] Sunday Free Write - Copybara Crisis Edition
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Source date: 2018-03-31
Writing prompt[WP] You fall asleep Wednesday. You wake up, arrive to work, and your co-workers begin to talk about their weekend plans. You look at your computer and the calendar reads Friday. You have no idea where Thursday went.
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Source date: 2018-03-30
Writing prompt[WP] You fail to realize that your favorite restaurant is actually a front. One day you decide to try that one weird entree that you keep overhearing others order.
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Source date: 2018-03-29
Writing prompt[WP] Your story begins with the following sentence: I have been dead a million times.
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Source date: 2018-03-28
Writing prompt[CW] Flash Fiction Challenge! Location: A Birthday Party | Object: A Radio
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Source date: 2018-03-27
Writing prompt[WP] No Exit
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Source date: 2018-03-27
Writing prompt[WP] You have the ability to take over someone's body by merely touching them, one day you find someone who you cannot take over.
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Source date: 2018-03-25
Writing prompt[WP] We've been best friends since kindergarten, and out of all the years you've known me, you literally didn't understand a word I said?"
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Source date: 2018-03-25
Original prompt heading[OT] Sunday Free Write: Flannery O'Connor Edition
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Source date: 2018-03-23
Writing prompt[WP] You now live in a world where music mp3 files are treated like trading card games, some songs are rare and some are common.
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Source date: 2018-03-22
Writing prompt[WP] you were left for dead in the middle of an unknown forest, you pass out thinking this is it. All of the sudden you wake up and all your wounds are stitched with what looks like spider webs...
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Source date: 2018-03-21
Writing prompt[WP] Technically, I'm a dragon.
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Source date: 2018-03-20
Writing prompt[WP] "You know what sucks? Being right."
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Source date: 2018-03-19
Writing prompt[WP] You are a girl inside a research facility. Whenever you see someone's face, the person dies. One day, a person wearing a golden mask comes to visit you.
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Source date: 2018-03-18
Original prompt heading[OT] Sunday Free Write - John Updike Edition
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