WritingPrompts

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[WP] You return home one day and feel that something is off. Suddenly you realize: Everything in your house has been replaced with an approximate replica.	28
[WP] To decide whether they enter heaven or hell, souls are given over to angelic attorneys who vouch on their behalf before a celestial court. You are one of those attorneys, and today you have a particularly complicated client...	28
[WP] In the future, advertising has found a new frontier: Dreams. Using a special wavelength frequency, stations can broadcast advertisements directly into the public’s heads as they sleep. This goes awry when a crazed and disgruntled worker seizes the dream station and broadcasts at his own will…	22
[WP] You return to your home one day to find the murdered body of a total stranger on your living room floor. Stunned, you call the police immediately. As they investigate, more and more evidence seems to tell the same story: It was you. How did this happen?	16
[WP] Astronomers have made a terrifying discovery: In 36 days, an unpreventable cosmological event will destroy all life on earth. The human race will soon be over. They inform the public of this discovery, and the world is left to cope with this knowledge…	15
[WP] You are not a pilot. But one day, you wake up behind the controls of a large commercial airliner, cruising at 35,000 feet of altitude. You are in full pilot’s attire, and have no recollection of how to fly a plane.	14
[WP] Breathing was something you always took for granted. But now, pinned like a vice between two cavern walls, you will never do so again. Inhale, and you’re stuck. Exhale, and you can inch ever so slightly in either direction...	14
[WP] Scientists have just discovered that the ‘Uncanny Valley’ sensation evolved in humans as a fear response to predatory humanoids. They learned also that some such humanoids still live among us today…	14
[WP] You are an anthropologist. Scouring a remote forest one day you discover an un-contacted people, who live in a vast network of caves	12
[WP] It turns out that zoos are actually prisons, for animals that have committed felonies	11

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