WritingPrompts

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[WP] Your grandfather is turning 100 and stayed up until midnight to see off the century on his old flip phone that he refuses to replace. At the strike of midnight his phone rings. He recognizes the number. It‘s the call he’s been waiting for - someone he still loves who passed away long ago.	55
[WP] Black cats are an elite force tasked with crossing the paths of people who deserve bad luck. An ink black kitten just got its latest target but has mixed feeling about whether or not to carry it out.	54
[WP] In the 24th century it’s discovered that DNA contains a ancestor’s memories which can be unpacked by a customized virus. The virus mutates into a strain that completely overwrites the host. You‘re patient zero, contagious, on the run, and viewing a future world through your descendent’s eyes.	52
[WP] Through the static and the ambient noise of the baby monitor, you hear your 3-month-old, who should be sleeping - talking, in complex sentences and with profound insight, to themselves or someone in the room, about the family’s interpersonal dynamics.	49
[PI] 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.	47
[WP] Drilling deeper and deeper into the Earth’s crust in search resources and sources for geo-thermal power. Humanity found vast isolated chambers lit by luminous moss and filled with a wide variety of thriving ecosystems and undiscovered civilizations. The exploration of inner space has begun.	46
[WP] For the last 20 years you’ve been able to make things, anything - disappear without a trace. You’ve used this strange ability often, for many reasons. Today you discovered where everything went, and that tomorrow it’s all coming back.	45
[WP] A procedure is invented which allows people to remember past lives. Everyone who has utilized it is drastically changed, becoming, according to their friends and family, a completely different person. Your husband just had the procedure and you are at the hospital waiting outside his room.	44
[WP] Christ returns to save humanity from the evangelicals.	40
[WP] 20 years ago you owned a Members Only jacket. You’ve lost track of it, but today you received a note telling you that you’re still a member and that membership comes with certain obligations.	39

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