WritingPrompts

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[WP] In the future everything is voted for. Small things like should the street lights come on, to much bigger things too. All the votes are proposed by humans, voted for on phones and independently counted by an AI. You have started to suspect that the AI isn’t so independent after a recent vote.	88
[WP] You’re a psychiatrist in a mental wellness centre. Your patient is a troubled lawyer who claims he’s given instructions by a higher power on which cases to take. You do your best to help. One day you’re running late and hear a dark and ominous voice talking to your patient inside your office.	85
[WP] You go to a party as a civilian, hiding you’re a superhero. Everyone is given a drink and your friend does a toast. You taste something. Suddenly people start to lose breath. You’re the only guest alive. Your friend looks at you in shock. “I knew I’d find you eventually...”	78
[WP] Jenny sipped her coffee and unlocked her iPad in Starbucks. A little boy came running up to her. “Can I see?” he said with excited eyes. She nodded and handed it over. “Wow” he said with wonder. “Mum, Mum, look. It’s so primitive”. The Mum replied “Come on Steven. The machine is waiting”	74
[WP] You get sunburn really easily. The summer months make you feel weak and uneasy. A total eclipse comes to your hometown. As the sun crests behind the moon a rush of power comes over you. Your eyes turn black. You mutter an unspoken language. The sun returns. The crowd is looking at you, shocked.	69
[WP] You’ve been stuck in a time loop for about a year now. On a typical loop you’ll wake up, go to class and come home. On the last loop however you decide to unleash your wild side. You’re rude to everyone, steal loads of stuff and trash the town. Unfortunately for you, this is when the loop ends.	63
[WP] Human spirits get restless in heaven after a few millennia, so the angels set up jobs on Earth. Weather controllers, guardian angels, and so on. You are the chief hiring officer for the Heavenly Staff. Your next candidate walks into the interview room. Your eyes bulge when you see who it is...	55
[WP] Your best friend and ally just helped you overthrow the tyrant king. You both enter the throne room triumphantly, agreeing in advance that you would be king. Your friend pushes you aside and sits on the throne. “Arrest him” he cries to his soldiers. Half look confused. Half are loyal to you.	50
[WP] You come from a futuristic society where everyone is a clone. There are 30 standard models, but when you were ‘born’ you accidentally had some random variation. 21 years later and half the population love and admire you for being completely unique, and the other half fear and despise you.	47
[WP] The astronaut extends his hand to the bipedal alien standing opposite him, for the first ever alien contact. As he does so he spots a Christianity cross around the aliens neck, and what looks like a bible in an alien language.	47

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