WritingPrompts

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[WP] You finally decided to clean out that closet you can't possibly stuff anything else in. Working through it, you come to a large duffel bag in the back corner. When you unzip it you see a perfectly preserved dead clone of you.	517
[WP] You work at a magic support helpdesk and the newest spell compendium just dropped. It has some...interesting bugs.	43
[TT] 20 years ago, The Event occurred. Many died and the survivors now live on an Earth with cyclical "gravity tides" that can make you nearly weightless or, triple your weight. You have made a living by using these grav tides to create a business and business is good!	35
[WP] When they made contact, we quickly realized they speak in metaphors and analogies referencing movies and TV shows from the last 40 years. You just became an overnight expert in xeno-linguistics after a lifetime of couch-potatoeing and are tasked with handling first contact negotiations.	30
[WP] In a universe where technology never caught on, magic rules. All forms of magic exist but different disciplines are geographically originated. You are an elite magician in a foreign land on a personal mission.	21
[WP] Each country is master of its own type of magic. One little country, master of card tricks, just surprised everyone by creating their own Magic of Mass Destruction & you, the Ambassador, are directed speak to the country's leader & ascertain his country's intent. He's 16.	18
[WP] The Big Dumb it was called. 20 years from now, the average IQ hovers near 80. No one tests over 90. Except you. You tested at 92. You are considered the greatest mind of the modern age. No one knows the truth..	12
[WP] You are Frank. You just survived a deadly mass food poisoning at a Chinese restaurant, a fatal fast-acting viral outbreak on the subway and you just noticed that you're the sole survivor of any event you share with others. You are immune to the Apocolypse.	11
[WP] Work seemed normal today but by lunch, you noticed that your co-workers have been throwing quick glances and surreptitious nods your way but no one is talking to you. When you return from lunch a sticky note is on your monitor: "We're ready. We stand with you. Make Your move in the 3pm meeting"	11
[WP] Your pet dog pees on the same tree everyday at the same time when you walk him. Today, he sniffed the tree, froze and then turned around and said "Run!"	11

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