WritingPrompts

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[WP] You’ve always been a really lucky person. You can walk into traffic but cars never hit you. You make no effort at work but always get promoted. Then, one night, you wake up to use the bathroom and someone is re-writing your quarterly report. “Who are you” you ask. “I’m your Guardian” they reply	42
[WP] You’re immortal, but your immortality will pass on to your first born and you will become mortal, just as it happened to you. Your mother lived for 500 years before you were born, your grandfather lived for 1000. You have lived for 2000 years, and you just found out your girlfriend is pregnant.	37
[WP] You’re a super intelligent being assigned to Earth to look out for humanity. You care for them and guide them from the shadows and the background, until one day the thing you’ve been waiting for finally happens. In 1915 a human smarter than you emerges. His name is Albert Einstein.	35
[WP] A pill is invented to stop the need for sleeping. Productivity skyrockets, people learn new skills at night, things get done that always got put off. But creativity nosedives. No more ideas, no more art, no more dreams. In protest, you stop taking the pill. You dream for the first time in years	34
[WP] For years your planet has enjoyed the radio waves and television signals sent from Earth, completely unbeknownst to humanity. One day, the signals stop and the airwaves are clean. Your leader vows to put a person on Earth and return them safely before the end of the decade. You are that person.	26
[WP] Somehow money was never invented. You show up at the Apple store with twelve pigs, three sofa cushions and a pen, ready to buy your brand new iPhone.	25
[WP] The year is 1988. You get home from school and find a letter for you with a post mark that’s way into the future. Curious, you open the letter and recognise your hand writing immediately. There is only one sentence on the page. “Be excellent to each other, and party on dudes!”	21
[WP] As a kid you fell from a great height and passed out. You remember seeing a meadow and a man planting a tree. Decades later you have an operation under anaesthetic, this time the tree is fully grown in your vision. More decades pass, and you have another vision. Someone greets you by the tree	20
[WP] You were Earth’s mightiest hero who died and went to heaven stopping the evil genius. Heaven is amazing and you are finally at peace. One day the clouds disappear beneath your feet and you plummet to Earth and your mortal body. The evil genius apprentice looks at you. “You don’t deserve heaven”	20
[WP] A super secret evil organisation hires a normal employee to avoid suspicion. You start your new job and keep stumbling into things they try to explain as normal. The giant evil laser was a satellite dish. The shark tank was a new ride at Disney. You just stumbled into their craziest plan yet...	19

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