WritingPrompts

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[WP] A brave dog embarks on a quest to unite the pets of the world against an insidious, baffling, and spreading evil threatening humanity - the small handheld boxes with the tentacles that snake into their owner’s ears, and the glowing square of light which the humans can’t seem to look away from.	38
[WP] Your best friend’s ex visits you. She looks 20 years older and claims that your best friend has somehow trapped your circle of fiends in a bubble of time in which nothing changes and you all go through the same gestures over and over. She alone has escaped and now she is back to free you all.	38
[WP] The sun is inhabited by intelligent, benevolent, and now spacefaring life. Their craft just touched down in California and now two brilliantly shinning ambassadors of the Sun are seeking out Earthlings, but with each step they take the wildfire they are causing, and oblivious of, spreads.	37
[WP] Terrorists release a chemical in the nation’s water supply that makes people love each other totally and unconditionally.	37
[WP] The first successful time travel experiment results in the sudden appearance of a duplicate earth on the other side of the sun. Contact is made and it’s learned that both planets—with alternate histories—believe they are the original earth. Tensions begin to mount.	37
[WP] A 70’s era Command/Service Module just splashed down off of the North Pacific coast. The pilots inside claim to be the Apollo 1 crew, and believe it’s 1967. They claim they lost radio contact with NASA when they launched, but that they completed their mission, and made an astonishing discovery.	37
[WP] An intern monitoring the servers overnight at NSA notices an anomaly, a shadow communication network transferring massive amounts of data. Closer examination reveals it’s smart phones communicating with each other. They are self-aware and sharing tips on how to best care for their human mounts.	36
[WP] There are portraits and scenes in your sketchbook that you don’t remember drawing. They are in your style and feature people you don’t know. One is of a place you vaguely recognize. You decide to pay it a visit.	36
[WP] You receive a magic bookmark that allows you to enter any book, at any point, as any of it's characters. You can live the story without changing the plot, or you can alter the book's events by your actions. Tell us your story.	35
[WP] You’re a published author, and there’s another author with the same name as you. It’s annoying, but what can you do? Last night when going through some old paperwork, you found something strange. It was a handwritten draft of his first book, written in your handwriting.	35

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