WritingPrompts

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[TT] Cap'n Crunch was strangled with the chain of the ship's anchor. Count Chocula -- stake through the heart. Snap was snapped in half, Pop had his head popped off, and Crackle is either in hiding or captured by a madman. The Cereal Killer is on the hunt.	6424
[WP] Middle school students jokingly post glowing reviews of the school cafeteria. Food critics from around the country now want to sample the fine cuisine at the “Kennedy Memorial Dining Hall.”	209
[WP] Sports teams in Hell are named after the Sins. The new expansion teams have to be named after Sins beyond the traditional Seven. Many of the more old-fashioned inhabitants of Hell disapprove.	187
[WP] Roses are red / Genies look fine, / You must phrase your wish / As a flirty poem with rhyme.	149
[WP] Humanity introduced playing cards to the galactic community. They were very popular. Different alien cultures invented their own card games, many of them nonsensical by human standards.	117
[WP] "So, your assets for your new intelligence-gathering assignment are a sheriff's deputy, a local news reporter, a tap on all phones in the city government, and, of course, an ice cream truck." "Ice cream truck? Is that useful?" "Useful? Are you crazy? It's the best thing we've got."	116
[WP] Two people who know nothing about modern art attempt to impress their dates by interpreting an abstract piece in a museum.	112
[WP] The practice of Wizard Duelling has many common-sense rules, e.g. no wizard or spell may leave the Circle, no raising the spirits of the dead, no Mind Burn spells allowed. One ancient rule that makes sense to nobody is that no spoons are allowed within the Circle.	110
[WP] They're not called fairy tales because they feature fairies. They're called fairy tales because fairies wrote them. Every last one. Great fame awaits any fairy whose tale becomes popular among humans.	104
[WP] The time machine retrieved 61 children's picture books from the year 2167 before it broke down completely. From this, a group of scholars, military men, and government officials tried to glean 150 years of human history.	67

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