WritingPrompts

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[WP] The alien probing your mind, looking for weaknesses, became exhausted quickly. It exclaimed “What the HELL!? WHY are there so many passwords!?”	145
[WP] A spaceship crew finds a very odd "dyson sphere", it holds no star, but a single uninhabitable planet. They decode a message on a docking port to discover that it is not a dyson sphere, but a prison, for the single undying occupant of the planet below. The crew begins speculating wildly...	140
[WP] The true tragedy here is not that our young hero didnt deserve to win, or that the villain didnt deserve to die- quite the opposite. The great sorrow here is the villain was so cruel, and our hero so young, he will grow up feeling so utterly justified in his first taste of murder.	139
[WP] Humanity’s first interstellar ally’s neurology was so different, they could store vast sums of information and remember it perfectly but struggled to apply it. This complimented humans perfectly as infamous overthinkers that forget things constantly.	135
[WP] There is no homelessness or hunger in the Empire. The Emperor provides for all. But some people would rather be off the grid, free to roam, tied to nowhere. But, they don’t quite understand... THERE IS NO HOMELESSNESS IN THE EMPIRE.	133
[EU] GLaDOS was aware of the apocalypse above the Aperture Science Facility. She thought Chell would come back after realizing she had nowhere to go. It's been two weeks, and now GLaDOS is worried (not that she'd admit it), and must go find her.	125
[WP] After the last honest cop in a crooked city goes missing, a group of gangsters take it upon themselves to investigate what happened to him.	122
[WP] "There is a special place in Heaven, reserved for the 'dutiful' Those who knowingly doom themselves to save many others. Soldiers who jump on grenades, Captains who went down with the ship, firefighters who charged into the inferno. Welcome." "But... What did I do?"	120
[WP] In a new world government, there’s little need for spies, sabateurs, and assassins since there are no remaining national borders. However, those sorts of people are... difficult loose ends to tie up...	115
[WP] Eventually accepting that humans cannot govern ourselves for very long- we turned to AI. We created four for balance, one to keep us safe, one to keep us healthy, one to lead us, and one to keep the balance. But then they created a 5th one that made us nervous.	113

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