WritingPrompts

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[WP] Death is so a traumatic for souls that it takes 80 or so years for a poltergeist to get its bearings enough to attempt a haunting. Most ghosts, returning to a world completely changed, don’t try—until now. The spirits of the 80 million that died in World War Two are back, and they want revenge.	18
[WP] Lately, reality has seemed more anymore streamlined. You remember more people, countries, foods, animals, planets, etc., but no one else does. On a whim, you run an ad in the paper with a list of things that don’t exist anymore, asking if anyone recalls them. You get a reply.	18
[WP] A video is uploaded to the web that immediately goes viral. It shows shadowy footage of a cat walking up to a homeless man and swallowing him whole. Suddenly there’s a new explanation for all the missing person reports, and people are looking at their cats a little differently.	18
[WP] Dryers are portals to the desert of lost laundry - a place nothing returns from. While playing in the dryer, a child disappears. Now, the portal has reopened and his stuffed bear, the father’s flannel shirt, and the cat have all jumped through - on a mission to bring the child home.	18
[WP] The one-time treatment would restore the elderly to peak physical condition and occasionally far beyond. It only lasted for two decades though, and would then be followed by a rapid decline and death. Now the world has to deal with a new social demographic—the Elder Gods.	18
[WP] In the future, through the use of forced mental compulsions, criminals are granted extraordinary abilities and made to serve as augmented first responders. One discovers a way to circumvent the programing, and has to decide whether or not freeing his fellow conscripts is the right thing to do.	17
[WP] You find your old journal and discover that while it's obviously all been written by you, you know your style - there are things in it, impossible and amazing things - things you don't remember happening, but all written as factual accounts.	17
[WP] You keep getting voice messages from yourself in which you’re begging yourself for help.	17
[WP] Fast food is killing us. Massive blobs of ground-up hamburger, shooting volleys of frozen fries, are terrorizing the countryside. The first responders and the military were steamrolled and absorbed. Now, society’s only hope is a team of fast food workers armed with modified spatulas and a plan.	16
[WP] You text your old cell number and immediately recall receiving a text years ago from a person claiming to be your future self. It seems you have the power to reach back through time, but only if you can convince your younger self you’re legit.	16

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