WritingPrompts

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[WP] The fledgling Mars colony is running smoothly, and you've received orders to open a sealed case which contains secret mission instructions. The contents of the first envelope are decoded: "Opportunity discovered another set of tracks. Discover what made them and report your findings."	8
[WP] you can leap back in time and re-live any day, once. When you fall asleep you leap forward into the new future you've created. You've tried to change your present 3 times now with no luck, and you're running out of time.	8
[WP] It was a small thing, but you instantly knew what it was: A stuck pixel. Now you know you're in a simulation, but you don't know why, or how far down the rabbit hole goes.	8
[WP] Every Polaroid picture is a moment captured in space and time. You have visited thousands of places and times and spent years travelling with no consequences until today, when you decide to bring someone back to 'your' photo.	8
[WP] Deep under the soil of Texas lies the ruins of an unfinished $11 billion dollar project - The Superconducting Supercollider. You and a group of adventurous friends, urban explorers, decide to map out the ruins and accidentally uncover the reason it was abandoned.	8
[WP] Most people think time is like a river that flows swift and sure in one direction. But I have seen the face of time, and I can tell you: they are wrong. Time is an ocean in a storm.	8
[EU] Two brothers go to war - one fighting for the Empire, the other for the Rebellion. After years of conflict, they both manage to return home for the holidays. Describe the tension and politics around the dinner table.	8
[WP] Automation has unemployed billions. The new economy is VR video games where your skills, abilities and crafts can be traded for RL cash. It's a struggle, grinding in both worlds just to get by.	8
[WP] Twenty years ago, thousands of portals opened and millions of refugees poured through. Elves, Dwarves, and dozens of other races, all fleeing the horrors unleaded by war on their home world. Now other portals have begun to open, allowing those horrors through.	8
[WP] Everyone knows what happens when the universe encounters a time travel paradox. But no one knows what happens when an unerring prophecy is broken. Thanks to you, the answer will be known in five years.	8

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