WritingPrompts

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[WP] Two Earthlike planets follow the same orbit in opposite directions, the upper fringes of their atmospheres barely brushing each other once every 6 months. After millennia of looking up in wonder the society of one world has advanced enough to mount an expedition to explore the other.	525
[WP] Zombies are newborn, primal creatures. But like any infant, given time and opportunity they have the capacity to develop into intelligent and rational individuals. In the years following the Zombie Apocalypse we never expected them to become our greatest asset in rebuilding civilization.	509
[WP] In the near future a company holding the only patent to a point-to-point teleportation system in widespread use is exposed as a fraud and the truth is more horrible than anyone expected it to be.	506
[WP] Reincarnation exists and for society's worst criminals death is the ultimate escape plan. Prisons keep them alive as long as possible but once they die Interpol races to locate, identify and contain them again before it is too late.	474
[WP] Mankind's first mission to Mars is a high risk venture. Mission planners secretly include a skilled magic user on the crew roster with orders not to reveal themselves unless things go seriously wrong.	471
[WP] Centuries ago a race of alien mystics happened upon Earth and on encountering humanity chose to bind our nascent magical abilities out of fear of what we might one day become. Now they have returned to discover denying us magic made us become something far stronger than they ever imagined.	465
[WP] The true reason that the original American Constitution document is protected so heavily is because it is a fixed point in time: If anyone was to edit it in the present those changes would ripple back in time to when it was originally written.	457
[WP] Science and Magic are merely opposite sides to which the pendulum of time swings. It has leaned for the past few centuries towards the Laws of Science but even now it begins to return ever faster back towards the Laws of Magic.	443
[EU] Hogwarts gets a new Muggle Studies Professor - who is competent and actually knows what he is teaching.	439
[WP] Gene Splicing has become so commonplace that anyone wanting to edit their own genome can simply buy a kit to do it at home. Most use it for minor self-improvement but there are those who choose to make radical changes. You are part of a special team called in when edits go drastically wrong.	427

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