WritingPrompts

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[WP] A person adopts an orphaned child. The child's parents then begin regularly visiting the person in his/her dreams. They have no malevolent intentions, they just want to be sure their child is in the right hands.	1
[WP] The onset of the zombie apocalypse was bad enough. But as humanity adapted to the living dead, nobody could have anticipated the effect the abundance of corpses would have on crows.	1
[WP] The world is teetering on the edge of destruction. You are about to make a televised speech to the nation in its darkest hour, but frankly, you could really give half a shit.	1
There are 11.78 popes per square mile in the Vatican City. Every now and then they meet up for lunch.	1
[WP] Take a story you or someone else has previously written (including but not limited to this subreddit) and shoehorn in a new character-- the more out of place, the better-- without changing the overall plot.	1
[WP] After the fall and rise of humanity, the internet is restored. A group is tasked with scouring it and recovering any useful information. They are the Internauts.	1
[WP] A person begins their new life in America on September 3rd, 1783, the end of the Revolutionary War. This person is a slave.	1
[WP] Upon achieving sentience, the world's most powerful supercomputer uses its intelligence to game the stock market. Before anyone realizes what's going on, the entire world is in debt to the supercomputer.	1
[WP] You are a history student in the future. Your thesis is not on the fall of the American Empire, or the First Contact, but how the historic musician Paul McCartney died and was replaced long before his death that history had agreed upon.	1
On a particularly unremarkable day, everyone on earth inexplicably decides to do nothing that could be construed as interesting, exciting, or otherwise. The media panics as they struggle to find any sort of story.	1

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