WritingPrompts

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[TT] As punishment for defying the emperor, you are tasked with depressing a lever that restrains a vicious creature mere centimeters away from you. If you can hold out until evening, it will be sacrificed. You let the lever go in defiance.	122
[WP] You are on your hospice death bed, elderly and weakened. A new nurse walks in, young and cheery, says a quick hello, and introduces herself as she writes her name on the board. You look back and forth between the nurse and the name, before saying, “Mom?”	115
[WP] You’re sitting around telling “Yo mama” jokes with a few others when your mom walks in on you. She looks disappointed at first then busts out the best yo mama joke ever. The group stares in disbelief; she died a year ago.	47
[WP] A loner god is bullied by other gods because of its experiments with their living substance called Wave and a new theory it has called Atom. As the gods approach in anger, it cuts itself open and adds itself to Atom.	37
[WP] Humans have gills, they’ve always had gills, yet our brains just forgot how to use them. A simple anti-anxiety pill reminds the brain how to use them. You just have to take the pill every four hours. Scuba dive anywhere!	28
[WP] A kid comes into their bedroom where I’m at and tells me they have to write a ghost story for school. They tell me to stop bumming around and do something; that I’m boring. Yeah, I’m a ghost.	22
[WP] You are finally a published author of a four book horror series. For three straight months, the books have come alive with the deaths of a family member, your best friend, and a neighbor. Fortunately book four is about the protagonist dying by their pet dog because you don’t own a dog.	22
[WP] A youth discovers the family home is haunted with ghosts and demons. The child takes solace in their presence, typically in her closet, while her family fights in other parts of the house.	21
[CW] Create the final page of a huge 5000 page novel set in a world of magical realism where you name three characters, two items that act different than our world, and one poem.	20
[WP] You are an entrepreneur during a wartime scenario. You make money hiding people from both sides of the war, one group in the basement and the other side in the attic. Through comedic or dramatic errors, the two sides come together.	15

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