WritingPrompts

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[WP] The Emperor’s sophisticated AIs helped him maintain control in a way never seen before. After his death he was able to select a surprisingly benevolent, pacifist heir. But now the new Empress must compete with the AI itself for power- it sees itself as having more right to rule.	30
[WP] “Your honor, a good lawyer can thrive on ‘outside the box’ thinking, and in my 15 years I have seen some odd tactics, but I feel I must reiterate- the defense’s chief witness is a bear.”	29
[WP] While the biblical “origin story” has a piece of truth, we have greatly misunderstood who we are in the story. We aren’t descendants of Adam and Eve, but of the Serpent. We were never even the main subjects of the story.	29
[WP] Supernatural phenomena is often different by geolocation but it is often handled differently by culture as well. The strangest interactions however, are in totalitarian governments, where the people would rather live with the monster than tell the authorities...	29
[WP] "Good morning class! Please open your textbooks to chapter 12, and we will begin our unit on the end of the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin wall, and the economic and political collapse of the Capitalist West. But first, our daily pledge to the communist party and the Greater USSR!"	29
[WP] It’s election year, of course, and as the debates draw near, there’s one question on everyone’s mind: Should we nuke the “flesh dimension” as more and more rifts open to our reality and people go missing? And will it help? Can we get our people back from it’s many chasms of undulating tissue?	28
[WP] The devil sits down at your table across from you. Everyone else screams in horror, but you, frustrated and emotionally spent, barely look up from your food.	28
[WP] "You tryin to get the man killed?" An old cowboy stood up from across the saloon. "You can ride through Coronado pass if you want to shave 2 hours, but ain't a fella go through there what didn't see something he wish he hadn't. Assuming he comes out at all. Even the Apache don't go in there..."	27
[WP] It’s your turn out of the cryo-tank to monitor the ship. Your stretch is 6 months. In the maddening silence, you’re beginning to suspect you’re experiencing hallucinations. But waking another crew member can throw off supply and rest calculations.	26
[WP] If demons were so powerful and scary, why do you think they’d stay down in hell? You think they jail themselves down there? Fat chance. Something else makes the rules. It’s those things you call “angels” that keep them down there, and they ain’t no chubby baby with wings.	25

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