WritingPrompts

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[WP] You were born at the exact moment a cult leader died. Person by person, the cult members have been searching for the new incarnation of their leader. They’ve decided it’s your turn to be tested.	44
[WP] You are a singer who has just started a gig on a cruise ship. You are also a siren. And now is a terrible time to figure that out.	43
[WP] You are a delivery driver on good terms with the staff of a local restaurant. Until you read out today’s name and order number. Now, nobody’s meeting your eyes, and they taped a note on the bag. It says “DON’T LOOK INSIDE.”	42
[WP] You run a motel on the edge of the city. Every month, at least one customer arrives, pays in cash, and vanishes. The cash stays. Everyone else’s memory of that person does not. You figure investigating is dangerous, so you don’t, but a person has arrived that you would like to save.	42
[WP] Crypto-wildlife rehabilitators frequently care for injured or displaced cryptids, but orphans usually do not survive in captivity. Turns out, tankers are an ideal environment for raising baby dragons. And that hatchlings will imprint on their favorite truckers.	38
[WP] You work nights cleaning a theme park. The money’s too good to give up. But sometimes, out of the corner of you eye, you can see the roller coasters twist into strange new shapes. And the mascot dolls watch and whisper.	37
[WP] You are a terrible liar. You are a prophet. You have a prophecy that will make the very dangerous person in front of you very, very unhappy. You have one chance to make your vision sound like a good thing.	35
[WP] Two people connected by the red string of fate are destined to be lovers. You haven’t seen a red string connecting anyone, but you do see a lot of fancy brocade ribbons. And old shoelaces. And baling wire. Destiny’s got some kind of plan for these people, but damned if you know what.	31
[WP] You are a seamstress, who designs and creates outfits for the heroes and villains of fairy tales. Your own quests for beautiful, impossible fabrics are fairy tales in themselves.	31
[WP] Killing a dragon means a treasure hoard, but the dragon’s body is more valuable than gold. Scales become armor, bones soothsaying instruments, glands inexhaustible energy sources. You don’t care about any of that— you’re an obsessive ornithologist, and dragon blood will let you talk to birds.	30

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