WritingPrompts

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[WP] Jack and the Beanstalk isn’t a fable - it’s a warning. There are magic beans that alter the fabric of reality. The appear in odd places, want to be used, and they give the user their heart’s desire - good or bad. One was used making the coffee your drinking and you’re starting to feel strange.	3
[WP] You’re an artist who adds elements to thrift shop paintings - things like cartoons, monsters, UFOs, etc. The latest canvas you’ve been painting is odd. It’s a painting of a castle on a hill and when you add elements they’re gone the next day and the painting’s changed. You begin experimenting.	3
[WP] While performing an autopsy, a pathologist swats a pesky fly. On a whim he slides it's crushed body under his microscope and is shocked to discover that the fly is an incredibly high tech recording device with a manufacture date inscribed on it's crushed thorax that's 25 years in the future.	3
[WP] For as long as you can remember, you’ve had a little black hole following you around. It’s caused some problems, but you’ve grown attached to it. Now you and it are being pursued by government agents who want to channel its power.	3
[WP] There’s a stoplight in your town that occasionally displays unusually colored lights. Running these lights transports you to alternate realities. You just visited a terrifying one and rushing back, you were seen running the light and are now being pursued by that realm’s authorities.	3
[WP] People in your life keep changing. Their replacements go by the same name and are superficially similar - but you know they’re different, and you are starting to suspect that they know you know.	3
[WP] A wizard in a comic strip universe, concerned by the decreased quality of art, shrinking panel sizes, bland storylines and humorless gags; summons a creature of unfathomable power to set the wrongs right - a human doodler.	3
[WP] In the future we're able to backup our personalities and memories in the cloud. It's a type of virtual immortality; granting our loved ones the illusion of interacting with a believable facsimile of us in a VR environment after we've passed on. You've just been informed that you are the backup.	3
[WP] It's 2054, a violent high tech dystopia. All social programs for the elderly were consumed by the baby boomers. To afford the genetic and cybernetic enhancements they need to survive, Millennials and Gen X-ers must join a paramilitary force of augmented geriatrics. Welcome to Geri-attack Force!	3
[WP] At night, as you lay sleeping, your tattoos come to life; moving, changing and interacting beneath the surface of your skin. Each morning you awake as a altered tapestry. Tell us about about the world of you and the stop motion adventure unfolding before your eyes.	3

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