WritingPrompts

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[WP] During your walks you notice signage on licenses, bumper stickers, street signs, storefronts and billboards are spelling out messages to you. On a whim, you whisper, "are you talking to me?" Then you see a sign with your name on it, and various signage spelling out, "yes, I'm glad you noticed."	170
[WP] After the brutal murder and cannibalization of Nine, the remaining single digits gather to figure out what to do about Seven. But their days are numbered, because Seven has calculated ways to divide them from each other and subtract them one by one.	169
[WP] Thirty years in the future, a retired Robert Downey Jr. is contacted by agents claiming Earth is under attack. Mankind’s best defense is a squadron of armored soldiers who just need a hero to lead and inspire them. Now an old actor is playing the role of a lifetime, and armoring up for real.	161
[WP] In a world torn apart by a war between the right handed and the left handed, an ambidextrous child is born.	155
[WP] A goth girl you teased for years wrote “don’t ever change” in your year book. Now, years later, you realize it’s a curse.	136
[WP] Behavior modification has been perfected, but due to the complexity of human motivations and unintended consequences of the procedure - it's heavily regulated. At 35, citizens are eligible to implant or remove a single compulsion. Today's your 35th birthday.	130
[WP] You’re a test subject for a new medicine that increases intelligence, It works! But it’s also worked on your gut bacteria as well, and now your stomach isn’t just growlinn, it’s talking, and it’s warning you about the scientists running the sturdy.	124
[WP] Inside of your house there are 8 windows. You’ve just realized that on the outside of your house there are 9. Curious, you peer into the impossible window. Inside, through the curtains and the blinds, you see yourself living a completely different life.	121
[WP] You've enjoyed countless hours watching the ants in your backyard. You've left out food, sand, clay, and straw, and other things as well, and even hooked up a sound system softly playing classical music. Gradually you've become aware of how unique the culture you've been encouraging has become.	114
[WP] Earth defeated the invaders by destroying the hive mind. Now it’s just a matter of rounding up the pod people that had integrated themself into our society. One of them is your spouse. You hadn’t realized they had been replaced. You just thought that the two of you were falling in love again.	110

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