WritingPrompts

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[WP] The door looks completely unassuming, but the moment you make contact with it in any way, you hear a voice in your head: “PERMISSIONS REQUIRED FOR ENTRY. PLEASE CONTACT ADMINISTRATOR.”	25
[WP] "I'm here because the greatest criminal mind in the world has a massive bounty on his head," said the man at your door. He steps past you, points, and says "Him." You follow his gaze and see he is here to collect the cat who has lived with you for seven years.	25
[WP] Long ago, a massive asteroid was set to strike and destroy the realm, but a sorcerer slowed it until it lodged into the ground whole, forming a mountain. Over time, the radiation and surface birthed a new ecosystem upon it. Decades have passed, and still no one has yet made it to the top alive.	23
[WP] After a quick and painless death, you find yourself in a beige conference room. The woman across the table opens a file with your name on it as you ask if you're dead. She responds, without making eye contact, "Yeah, but don't get comfortable: you're going back."	23
[WP] After many long years of no contact with your mother, you sit at the table facing her. You demand to know why after all this time she has requested your presence, and after a pause, she calmly answers: "I need you to kill someone."	22
[WP] “My name is Stephen. My home is on an island at the coordinates on your screen. I am announcing my official secession and establishment as an independent nation. Any unauthorized presence on or around a one nautical mile radius of my island shall be met with the harshest of retaliatory action.”	21
[WP]: You are a physics professor who is visited in your office by a man claiming to have invented a time machine. He asks for a list of must-know facts and basic equations for his journey. Despite thinking him mad, you provide the list as a fun thought exercise. He then asks if you want to see it.	20
[WP] The aliens demonstrated their might by reducing Mt. Everest to dust in a single blast. Now, they broadcast to every screen in every language across the planet their one and only demand: “We will leave your planet in peace only if each and every human sends us a dollar.”	19
[WP] You are an agent of a hidden division of the SEC. For over 20 years, your coworkers have secretly analyzed investment patterns and stock portfolio fluctuations to watch for one form of anomaly: time travelers looking to get rich on foreknowledge.	18
[WP] Provided you wear the appropriate human disguise, it is only a short light speed jump to the most popular and sought out planet in the galaxy: Earth. Not for the people, or the nature, or the architecture, or even the culture. No, Earth is special for one reason: humans are MASTERS of food.	17

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