WritingPrompts

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[WP] A man has the ability to smell death. The greater the stench, the closer a person is to dying. He leaves his house one day and is instantly overcome with the pungent scent of mortality. Every person he passes reeks of death.	1674
[WP] In a final act of good will, the last living human broadcasts the gift of companionship to the rest of the galaxy; the genetic blueprint of a dog.	1325
[WP] The door to the massive spaceship slides open to reveal a T-Rex in a silver jumper and sunglasses. As stunned people look on in silence, the massive creature lowers his shades and bellows, "Yo, where'd everybody go?"	667
[WP] A human colony ship is en route to its destination 122 light years away. To avoid mutiny and crew apathy, the onboard AI convinces the middle generation that everyone lives and dies on the ship. And then someone learns the truth.	526
[WP] As the hostile alien fleet closed in on Earth, oceans the world over began to churn. On the night side of the planet, all eyes are drawn skyward as the moon begins to visibly rotate. A flash of static hits every radio frequency before an echoic voice bellows, "This is our planet, too."	491
[WP] A stunned nation watches as images of the President's assassination flood the news. The killer has yet to be identified, but witnesses claim to have seen someone in a gray hoodie. You go home early, only to find your SO disassembling a high-power rifle in the kitchen... wearing a gray hoodie.	413
[WP] You wake up one night unable to sleep and decide to surf reddit. As you open the front page, every post is the same: nuclear weapons have been deployed in the middle east. Before you can react, your phone starts exploding with text messages. Then you hear the air raid sirens.	336
[WP] Every lie you tell spawns a corresponding truth in another universe. One lie in particular has snowballed into something so momentous, that an envoy is sent from that universe to confront you.	272
[WP] While in deep meditation, an amateur psychic inadvertently links themselves with a cosmic entity. Their connection seems mutually beneficial, until the entity begins to realize that the psychic is slowly losing touch with reality, and cannot sever the connection.	143
[WP] A thirty-thousand year old caveman is found by scientists and miraculously revived with his mind and memories intact. But upon regaining his vision, the caveman starts screaming and pointing at something apparently only he can see.	122

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