WritingPrompts

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[WP] When the aliens invaded, they brought incredible technical and medical advancements, advanced automation and AI, and instituted financial, social and political reforms. Then they left humanity with a warning: “If you ever venture past the confines of this solar system, we will destroy you.”	165
[WP] Your maternal grandfather is an arch demon, your paternal grandmother is an archangel, your father is a warrior king, your mother is a sorceress queen. You and your siblings have inherited all their powers, and all the political problems that come with nobility and succession to the throne(s).	163
[WP] You're a Loser. You lose things for people - painful memories, bad marriages, abusive lovers, old debts. She sat carefully in the chair, wincing, makeup concealing fresh bruises like thin paint over graffiti. "Last week. I want to lose last week."	162
[WP] Everyone in the world is a superhero or supervillain except you. You're just a normal guy with no powers...and everyone is either trying to kidnap you, save you, or keep you safe.	161
[WP] You live in a sealed luxury apartment. Every day you must step into a small room containing a gun, a prisoner in a chair, and a voice detailing their crimes. If you do not execute them you are held responsible for any future crimes they commit. Today you are given another option.	161
[WP] built atop a leaking alien reactor core, Mike's Bar is a cross-time nexus where everyone and everything eventually shows up for a drink, therapy, or maybe just to lay low for awhile. Crowded with regulars from up, down, and across the timestream, everyone goes silent as a new face walks in.	159
[WP] it took six years before the first apple tree in your orchard bore fruit. Six years before you discovered that each apple contained a memory, an event from the life of who you buried under it.	157
[WP] whenever someone dies they leave behind a soul stone containing their skills and abilities. Normally these are passed to family members but other means of acquisition exist - like auctions, chance discovery, or murder. Tonight, all three circumstances are in play.	157
[WP] As a child, you thought you understood what everyone meant when they said 'God is watching you'. Now, as an adult, you understand that no one else can see the multitude of eyes that cover everything - walls, doors, ceilings, even the sidewalks - watching everyone.	155
[WP] You're part of the FTC investigation to determine why McDonald's ice cream machines are always 'broken'. What you discover terrifies you - and now you're running for your life.	154

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