WritingPrompts

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[WP] You’re a loner and your best friend is your cat. Recently, with some encouragement, you invite the girl you have a crush on over for dinner. It goes great, but when she’s leaving she tells you that cats don’t typically walk on their hind-legs, light candles, serve the meal, and play soft jazz.	563
[WP] You find a box of old VHS movies in your uncle's attic .They're mostly sci-fi and thrillers, featuring well known actors from the 80's, but you don't recognize any of the titles and none are listed in the IMDB or anywhere else either. Once you start watching the movies things get even stranger.	479
[WP] You’ve inherited your grandfather’s toolbox. The tools magically repair everything you use them on. Perplexed, you lay them out across some spread out newspapers for a closer look. They look ordinary. Under them, you notice the paper is filled with stories about things that need fixing.	405
[WP] A man trains crows to bring him change and jewelry in exchange for treats. The crows taught others, the knowledge spread, and people had valuables snatched away. Now the police have surrounded the man’s home, and in the sky above a black cloud of crows is amassing to rescue the man they love.	382
[WP] It’s discovered humans have FOUR parents, the biological who pass on DNA, and two random dreaming people who unknowingly donated half of their mental blueprint to the embryo, thus shaping it’s eventual personality. At the age of 18, people get to meet their second parents. Today you meet yours.	360
[WP] You’re a pet exorcist. You help the spirits of pets pass on. Typically it’s a simple matter, but this case is unusual. You’ve been called to a house haunted by a Golden Retriever’s ghost that is not only refusing to pass over, he’s formed a ghost pack, and they’re trying to tell you something.	319
[WP] Your parents inform you that you’re royal refugees from a fantasy world of magic and that the strange longing you feel is that world calling you back to claim your birthright.	301
[WP] Narrating your life out loud as a joke, you discover you have the power to change reality based on your verbal proclamations. You’re enjoying your power, until a mispronounced word creates a dire situation you don’t know how to fix.	250
[WP] There’s a monster in your closet. You’re the only one who can see it, and it’s been in there a while. Last night it spoke to you. It says it was originally there to scare you, buf it’s somehow gotten stuck, and it needs your help to get out.	232
[WP] The spider cowered in fear, expecting to be smashed. Instead, it was scooped up and released outside. It had a great life, but ended up as a test subject in a lab. Now it is intelligent and knows its bite can bestow spider-powers. It goes on a quest to find the kind human who spared its life.	177

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