WritingPrompts

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[WP] When you kill someone, their remaining life span is added to yours. Archaeologists have just found a cavern, apparently sealed off for thousands of years, with a single person living inside.	15820
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years.	10754
[WP] First we discovered that Jupiter's gravity protects us from meteors. Much later, we discovered that it is not a naturally occurring celestial body; someone built it for us. Soon after that, we discovered that someone else was sending the meteors.	8821
[WP] Your Italian restaurant is frequented by the mafia, and for some reason they think you're a front for someone powerful. You aren't, but you still like to mess with them.	8524
[WP] Every night in your sleep you meet a successful-looking future you who tells you what you should do the next day. So far your life has gone well indeed, but one day you fall asleep during the daytime. You meet a tired, disheveled version of yourself who begs you not to listen to the other.	7778
[WP] "Sudden onset spiky colorful hair can only mean one thing. Your child has... protagonitis. You have mere days to live. I am sorry." "Uh, did you mean THEY have mere days to live?" "No."	7663
[WP] A dragon shows up at the adventurers' guild after hearing that humans will just GIVE away gold for something called a "quest."	7409
[WP] Suddenly, all sea life vacates a 300 mile wide area in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. A ship is deployed to investigate.	6471
[WP] You're an immortal who makes a living teaching dead languages at universities, periodically relocating to avoid suspicion. One of your students this semester has the aptitude of a native speaker.	3153
[WP] A couple going through a rough spot in their marriage each unwittingly hire the same PI to investigate the other. The PI decides to try to covertly fix their relationship.	2716

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