WritingPrompts

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[WP] You have narrowly avoided death dozens of times by sheer coincidence. Later, you learn it wasn’t a coincidence, you are so vital to history, time travelers have been doing everything they can to keep you alive.	9141
[WP] You find an antique gold compass with the words ”Moral Compass”. It will automatically point to the most morally good person within a 100 meter radius. You are on jury one day and when you look at the compass, it points to the convicted serial killer.	8957
[WP] After superpowers start appearing around the world, businesses realize the use of these abilities. People with x ray vision are practically forced into being doctors and people with heat vision work as cooks. You are starting to get tired of your superpower-based job.	8755
[WP] Your father has told you the story many times. When you were born a portal appeared in the delivery room and a man from the future tried to kill you. He missed you and killed your mother, before a security guard shot and killed him. You still can’t figure out why he would want to kill you.	6894
[WP] A person who looks exactly like you appears out of thin air in front of you. He starts explaining how he is you from a hellish other universe. As he starts to describe it, you realize its better than yours.	4648
[WP] When you go to an alternate universe. Your multiverse-traveling machine rates how different each universe is from yours. Today this universe got a 10/10 on the difference scale, and you can’t find a single difference.	3464
[WP] When you die, you wake up in a massive library with the Grim Reaper at the librarians desk. He says to you “Knock yourself out kid, anything you want to know is here.”	1528
[WP] You accidentally cut off your pointer finger. You scream in pain then notice your finger inching off the counter and falling onto the floor only to notice it grew its own knuckle, then its own palm, then the rest of you. You look into the eyes of an identical version of you and think.... "Crap”	1229
[WP] Everyone has a superpower, but it only activates when in extreme danger. Today, while watching tv alone, your superpower goes on, and it won’t go off no matter what you do.	814
[WP] Your father was never a very interesting man, he was an accountant who died peacefully in his sleep at the age of 70. Yet when you arrive at his funeral, it is filled with some of the most famous, wealthy, and powerful people on the planet.	750

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