WritingPrompts

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[WP] Scientists have finally decrypted Whale songs, and are able to listen in on long distance conversations. After a few weeks of listening in, all research is quickly classified, and NASA starts silent, hurried plans to reach Sirius, even reaching out to other space agencies for help.	4773
[WP] You're a highly respected Justice of the US Supreme Court. You're known to dispense justice very quickly and harshly, but that's only because you can secretly read minds. Today, you're judging a case that'll either reveal your secret power to the world, or kill a defenseless, innocent woman.	32
[WP] Beginner's luck is a very real thing for you. ANYTHING you try for the first time goes phenomenally well. But the second time's a letdown. To circumvent that inconvenience, you find a way to experience everything you want for the first time over and over again: selectively wiping your memories.	15
[WP] A genie grants you a wish. You, remembering the story of the Monkey’s Paw, make a carefully phrased wish: ‘If I see a video of anything I desire, I should be able to reach into the screen and pull it out, making it real.’ After all, what could possibly go wrong with that?	12
[WP] Valhalla is celebrating the expected arrival of a great warrior, who just fell in epic battle. The celebrations come to a screeching halt when Odin does a spit-take at the doors opening slowly to reveal...Kratos.	11
[WP] You find a lamp, and as usual, there's a Genie in there, wanting to grant three wishes. One thing though: Your third wish, must, absolutely, without any chance or possibility of deviation, be for a small, blue, wooden mallet.	6
[WP] Mankind's First Contact incident wasn't the message 'We come in Peace'. It was a chant, 'We came in Peace, We came in Peace, We came in Peace,...'.	5
[WP] Everybody has a guardian angel, and the angel is as strong as the situation warrants. You've lived a danger free life, as a home schooled nerd. One day, a leaf drops from a tree near you, and a giant, fully armed mecha leaps out to defend you.	4
[WP] You were recently murdered by something standing in the corner of your bedroom at night. Now, against advice, you explore your new world to understand why you were violently ripped from your old, happy world. What you find makes you wish you HAD listened to that advice.	2
[WP] You’re being haunted by two ghosts: your loving birth mother, and your cruel step mother.	2

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