WritingPrompts

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[WP] It's 2009 and you're the only time traveller to make it to Stephen Hawking's famous Time Traveller Party. You're bedraggled, exhausted, injured, and you almost didn't make the time jump. You're not here to celebrate. You need Professor Hawking's help.	1046
[WP] With the money you made in the tech industry, you've been able to build a sustainable homestead: solar power, electric car, hydroponic garden, water well. But when the internet goes out and you can't reach support you venture out to find civilization had been decimated months ago.	366
[WP] "The first 80 years goes by slow, but once everyone you love dies, the next 200 years kind of flies by."	175
[WP] You're a recent amputee and due to a typo on your medical chart, you are given a "prophetic limb".	138
[WP] Prophecy has foretold of the Chosen One who will save the world but seems to have messed up the description: "Flaxen skin, hair like alabaster." Nope. The Chosen One is your 85-year-old grandma with jaundice but she's got her walker and is prepared to fulfill "that dag-nabbed prophecy-whatsit".	112
[WP] Climate change has made the equator unlivable for thousands of miles north and south and humanity had to migrate towards the poles. Thousands of years later, an ice age has made migration possible and two very different factions of humans are finally reunited.	52
[WP] SETI finally intercepts a signal from an alien world. After translating the language, we discover that this alien race does not yet have space travel capabilities, but what they do have to say chills mankind to the bone.	33
[WP] You've been stuck in a time loop for longer than you can remember but you've finally figured out the daily pattern/routine to break free. You just need to perfect the more difficult steps.	12
[WP] After being abducted by a UFO, your alien captor explains to you in broken English that he doesn’t have the heart to perform the invasive probe on you. In exchange for your freedom, you must write his report to his superiors for him.	7
[WP] You wake up and put on your tights, mask, cape, and super-boots ready to start your superhero crime fighting day, when the king bursts into your room in the castle yelling that the princess has been kidnapped by the dragon.	6

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