WritingPrompts

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[WP] You’re a computer technician dealing with the weirdest situation you’ve ever seen. It’s a laptop displaying a video feed of a group of people who are claiming to be trapped INSIDE the laptop. You’re starting to believe them.	102
[WP] An elderly man becomes a product tester of an experimental AI personal assistant designed to learn and grow based on the level of interaction with the user. The man talks to it a lot. One day he mentions that someday he’ll be dead. The AI, horrified by this idea, vows to stop it from happening.	101
[WP] As the sole adult on a colonizing ship of embryos, upon planetary arrival you set up the nursery, and program the educational bots with the colonies’ cultural objectives. Then you enter the sleep pod for a 50 years. Reawakening, you discover a typo you made created unusual culture developments.	98
[WP] After the accident you had a floating blind spot the size of a quarter in your right eye. Lately you’ve been noticing what looks like figures moving around inside of it. They’ve noticed you’ve noticed.	97
[WP] You draw a black circle while doodling. Moments later, tapping on the paper, your fingertip sinks in - without appearing on the other side. You pull your hand away and look at the drawing. From inside it you can hear the sound of wind blowing.	96
[WP] You found out something surprising. While lots of people admit to occasionally talking to their reflection in their bedroom mirror, no one else’s reflection talks back, or hands them things, or invites them through the glass. Perplexed, you decide to go home to talk to your reflection about it.	90
[WP] When the aliens arrived, they rapidly assimilated themselves into human society. Then, they began appearing in old photos and historical footage and documents. Impossible as it seems, they’re gradually invading humanity’s past, and you’re the only one who seems to notice.	88
[WP] Four times now, you’ve found a bloody body in your garage - a body identical to yours. You’ve disposed of all of them. What else could you do? This time, right as you were about to roll the latest familiar corpse into a hastily dug grave, your duplicate opens it’s eyes and croaks out “wait.”	82
[WP] Curious about your sudden weight loss and restlessness, your doctor runs some tests. You’re told it’s cancer and that you have a week to live at most. That was three weeks ago. Since then you’ve not needed to eat or sleep, you seem to be getting smarter, and each day you feel better and better.	82
[PI] You’re the very good pupper of a very bad man. The cat has coldly revealed to you the horrible truth; your owner is a serial killer. While you pride yourself on your obedience and loyalty, you know that you have to do something to help the latest victim held prisoner in the basement labyrinth.	75

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