WritingPrompts

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[WP] You once visited Earth and played the most magical melody to the early humans. You revisit 1000s of years later and are pleased to find that we’re still trying to recreate that magical song. We’ve never achieved it. One day you pass a busker. His melody is really close. You decide to say hello.	167
[WP] In the future everyone has a biochip that monitors their life signs. You, a biochip monitor in the arctic, watch a plague wipe out humanity. The last few lights blink away and you’re the only one left. You prepare to walk out into the cold night alone. But a light blinks on, and it’s close by.	151
[WP] A King & Queen ask for immortality and in return the Gods say that one man will attack their Kingdom every year, and double every time. The couple laugh as their wish is granted and the lone man is batted aside by their army. Now, 20 years later, more than 1 million warriors stand at their gate	151
[WP] You live in a community of humans foraging and building wooden shelters. You come of age and decide to explore the forbidden North. After months you see a strange painting with the symbols “NUCLEAR PLANT”. In the distance is a strange shelter, made of hard rock but with nothing alive around it.	146
[WP] You were born without pain receptors. You broke your arms and legs as a kid and didn’t even realise. An adult, you decide to fight low level crime. Muggings and shoplifting etc. One day you come up against your first super villain. They punch you so hard that you feel pain for the first time.	144
[WP] Your shadow has never quite looked like you. You are short and slim, your shadow is tall and strong, no matter the light source. You explain it away as an optical illusion when people ask. One day your shadow grows a tail and horns, but you stay the same. Its getting harder to explain away...	133
[WP] A WW2 veteran is walking the beaches of Normandy. “How can I live when my friends didn’t” he thinks. A French boy with his family comes over. “American?” they ask. “Yes” the man says. The boy smiles “A famous battle Operation Overlord happened here 300 years ago”. The vet replies “So I hear”.	127
[WP] You’re on trial for murder after shooting someone in the head at a clinic. Little does the judge know, you’re a time traveller who killed patient zero in a zombie outbreak.	125
[EU] You walk into the rehab facility. The smell of disinfectant looms. A sailor sits in the corner rocking back and forth. With sunken eyes and a terrible, croaky voice, he looks up at you. “Any spinach?”. You hold back tears, “No Popeye, I don’t…”	105
[WP] You’re a time agent, sent back in time to the same day every day, to make sure it happens the way it’s supposed to. You stop time tourists, time criminals, anyone that’s not supposed to be there. Unbeknownst to your Government, you’re a double agent, waiting to change the past for your masters.	93

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