WritingPrompts

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[WP] When you were kids, your twin sister was your best friend, but she disappeared one day without a trace. In your dreams, she tells you to remember her, and that your psychic connection will help her come home when it’s time. But your therapist says it’s time to let go.	17
[WP] In a dystopian government that watches its people closely, anomalies that most people miss become patterns. While most investigators leave behind the things they shouldn’t have found, this government does not leave anything alone.	17
[WP] 12 days ago, an email to a group mail box in the state department introduced themselves as a junior translator for an interstellar government to announce the arrival of a diplomat. It was assumed to be a hoax and no one responded. Today a ship the size of Long Island arrived in orbit.	16
[WP] The drums get louder, and you dig faster. The lights get brighter and you have to bury it. The voices start yelling and you need to run... but you can’t let them find it.	16
[WP] "The empire does not exist because of the emperor's faith," You say to the row of guns pointed at you, "but because of his faithlessness. He believes that there is no hope for us, beyond himself. That there is no one watching over us, so he must."	16
[WP] A new button has suddenly appeared next to all “report,” “ban,” and “block” options on social media and video streaming platforms that says “Submit Violation to THE MACHINE.” Not even programming teams know where the button came from, but it seems to work…	16
[WP] You've carried a gun for 13 years, as is trade practice for scavengers. You only just now realized you've never actually fired it when a sound you have never heard anything even close to comes from down a dark corridor, and your shaky fingers try to find their grip.	16
[WP] The first trip to Mars yielded an impossible discovery- A woman, the supposed martian princess, frozen in cryo-stasis. But the more she says, the less adds up. On the return to earth with her on board, you find you are the only one who doesn't trust her.	16
[SP] Actually, I think the most terrifying man I’ve ever met never broke a rule in his life.	16
[WP] The alien queen, in her siren-song voice, called to us with cries for help and for arms. And we glory hungry fools, so cast in her simple spell, came running. Now we're in a completely foreign land, with incomprehensible weapons, fighting unknowable terrors. And yet we feel right at home...	16

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