WritingPrompts

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[WP] Waking up from an eight year coma, you find the world has been united under a benevolent dictatorship known simply as "The State". The leader of the world is seen as almost messianic, oh and he is your high school school drop out little brother. Boy do you have some catching up to do!	32
[WP] In the year 1318 a massive alien colony ship bound for Mars accidentally crash lands on Earth. Other than a few instances of persecution the aliens were largely integrated into Human civilisation and now number a significant minority. Today, 699 years later, their homeworld makes contact.	30
[WP] The Judge looked at you across the courtroom and said "I sentence you to live..........I mean life! Minimum tariff of two hundred and five years before parole can be granted" Two hundred and four years and 363 days have passed and counting, seems the first sentence is what stuck.	26
[WP] A temporal event sends your brother 10 years back in time and you 10 years forwards in a bright flash of light. Your eyes adjust and you see him there, 20 years older. "Good to see you again, I missed you."	23
[WP] One day in 2015 you decided to obey the voice in your head. 50 years later you are the eternal Dictator of a hyper authoritarian yet benevolent global society which has vanquished poverty and colonised the solar system. This is only the beginning and you want to tell your people your story.	18
[WP] Your United Earth Starship encounters a species whose planet has no flying creatures, they never even came up with the concept of flight let alone spaceflight. Yet in all other respects their technology is well over a century more advanced than ours....perhaps more.	18
[WP] You are a palaeontologist and discover a human skull amongst Dinosaurs. Carbon dating confirms it is 127 Million years old. Later, dental records confirms it is you!	15
[WP] On their 20th year young adults get their own theme music that plays at important times. Yours is the Doom Eternal soundtrack.	14
[WP] The ancient Egyptian dynasties never ended. Rome never fell. The American colonies never sought independence from the British Empire and Japan annexed much of Asia in the 1940's. It is now October 12th 2099 and tomorrow war will be declared.	14
[WP] A century ago magic came into the world. Only about 1/1000 people can wield it. You can't, but your child is special. Like you they cannot wield magic but they are immune to magic, they drain the area around them of it. This makes them dangerous, and one of a kind.	13

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