WritingPrompts

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[WP] One night at a bar, you order the club special. As you down it, the world melts away. The bartender speaks, "what you see now is the real world. They pump poison in your veins to keep you complacent. I just gave you the antidote, but it won't last. Will you join the resistance?"	193
[WP] You live in a world where superpowers are spread like a virus. Most disappear benignly after a few weeks, yet others are violent or irregular enough to kill you. You have just been diagnosed, and the doctor instantly pulls his gun on you.	176
[WP] As a kid, you were fascinated by fireflies and would catch and stare at them blinking for hours. Now an adult, you decide to revisit your hobby. But you now notice a pattern in their flashes. Morse? You look up and see the stars are blinking back. Having translated the message, you grow pale.	148
[WP] After a long and miserable life, you finally decide to commit suicide. As you plunge a silver knife through your heart, you instead exorcise a demon that's been posessing you your whole life. What you thought 'you' were is gone.	142
[WP] "I wish-" were his last words, before Master passed away. Unable to be freed until the final wish was granted, the Genie embarked into the afterlife to finish his task, armed only with his glib tongue and supernatural wit.	132
[WP] On their 13th birthday everyone is assigned a guardian beast, to protect and even lay down their lives. You get a butterfly. Sensing your dismay, it says "I may be small and frail, but the flaps of my wings have been known to cause hurricanes."	132
[WP] The first human to reach the bottom of Marianas Trench found a single button with a sign beside it, "Reset Earth"	125
[WP] You wake up amidst the corpses of your friends and family at your birthday party. It looked like a massacre had taken place, and no one was spared. The Grim Reaper hovers above you, "they unanimously demanded you be brought back to avenge them."	118
[WP] Humans achieved immortality, but they couldn't quite cure the effects of aging. Many thousands of years later, Earth became littered with trillions of withered human husks, unable to do more than communicate with their closest neighbors.	118
[WP] Your superpower is infinite knowledge. When you hear 'why?', the answer instantly fills your mind. But the last time you spoke with an adult, your power put you in a coma due to the sheer complexity of the answer. So now you teach kindergarten.	117

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