WritingPrompts

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[WP] In the future, illiteracy is the norm and implanted digital assistants convert text to audio. A child, who had his implant temporarily deactivated, learns to read. When the implant is reactivated, he realizes that what it reads to him is drastically different than what the text actually says.	14406
[WP] Twenty years ago you summoned a demon. It is super cool and has been your friend for the last two decades, using its vast powers to help you achieve all your dreams. Today though, its bill came due. It needs to return to hell with you - it has dreams too, and it needs your help to achieve them.	13620
[WP] Your father died when you were a child. Before he passed, he wrote you letters, one for each birthday, until your eighteen. Over the years they’ve become more and more eerily specific - addressing things he couldn’t have known would occur.	10538
[WP] You filmed your girlfriend playing the “What The Fluff” Challenge on your Beagle. The sheet dropped, she was gone, and you got great footage of your dog’s response. That was three days ago. She hasn’t reappeared and the police are asking questions. Now, you and your dog have a mystery to solve.	10348
[WP] You shoo your kitten away from a battered mouse she's playing with. As you bend over with a towel to scoop up the mouse to carry it outside, you see it's wearing leather armor, a cat claw necklace, and that clutched tightly in a trembling paw is the handle of a broken yellow plastic sword pick.	9868
[WP] Your dad loved his train set. It filled his basement and included a town, farmland, woods, and plastic figures. He passed away last week, and last night you were visited by two tiny figures claiming their sun has been dark for a week, the train no longer runs, and a rat is terrorizing the land.	9319
[WP] You’re a fresh zombie. It’s not like you expected. For one thing, you feel great. Secondly, while you can’t talk, you’re telepathically communicating with the others and they’re all REALLY cool. Thirdly, you all feel a deep and profound sense of joy—a joy you all want to share with the living.	9297
[WP] You’re psychic. It’s not a big deal, 0.5% of the population is. You keep it a secret, and you don’t eavesdrop. People’s minds are boring. Now your stuck in a room with a mind-blind idiot who keeps loudly thinking “I know you’re listening.” You want him to stop, but you can’t reveal your secret.	7450
[WP] Durning a televised birthday celebration, the world’s oldest person turns 125, at the moment of turning, her wrinkles split open—revealing scales, and wings burst from her shoulders. There’s a burst of flame, and the TV feed goes dead. Humans are embryonic dragons, and the elderly are hatching.	6122
[WP] No one gets your jokes, no one understands your references, and no one knows what your talking about. You finally figured out why. You’re somehow accessing an entirely different internet, one filled with powerful, world-changing information that only you know about, and only you can use.	5132

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