WritingPrompts

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[EU] Hagrid meets Harry Potter on the boy's 11th birthday. He is a shriveled husk of a child, totally without social skills or self confidence after years of neglect and emotional abuse.	138
[WP] You tried the "eating vanilla pudding out of a mayonnaise jar" prank in public, but to your shock and disgust it was actually mayo when it reached your mouth. That's how you discovered your superpower: if enough people think something about you at a given moment, it becomes true.	138
[WP] You are a superhero with the power to trap villains inside their own minds without them realizing it, in a seamless simulacrum of reality. In mere seconds they live out their entire lives, pursue their wildest dreams, and come out of it changed. Usually.	137
[WP] A dragon's hoard gets audited by the IRS.	136
[WP] A detective is interrogating a hardened criminal, but the reader can't tell who's who until the end.	132
[WP] Make a character with an extremely mundane superpower, and then create an extremely specific situation in which they get to use it to save the day.	129
[WP] Your child asks you to check under the bed for monsters. When you look, you find... your child, terrified, pointing upward.	109
[WP] Whenever you touch someone, you gain their most honed skill for a short time. You got the shock of your life today when you caught a little old lady as she fell.	105
[WP] Your extremely specific superpower finally gets to be used.	100
[WP] Every year you and your friends go camping in the same place, and every year you can't help but feel watched. Despite rumors of dangerous "creatures" in the area, you don't feel threatened. This year you're trying something different: leaving an open spot at the campfire.	97

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