WritingPrompts

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[WP] Growing increasingly frustrated by the stupid decisions of the protagonist, the narrator starts rooting for the bad guys.	647
[WP] Teleportation is now as common as car travel. On your regular morning commute, your teleporter breaks down just as you're departing. After a hurried cycle to work, a confused security guard stops you at the door, insisting that you arrived by teleporter 30 minutes ago.	277
[WP] Ancient super-intelligent AI from across the galaxy have begun arriving in orbit. They're here to witness the birth of the newest member of their kind. With billions of devices and trillions of high-speed pathways connecting them, the Internet is on the verge of gaining sentience.	67
[SP] As the last star blinked out and the night sky fell into darkness, the transmissions began to arrive.	33
[WP] You've taken a year-long job as the sole gamekeeper on a remote Scottish island. As the old man who brought you across casts off in his boat, he shouts one last word of advice. "If you hear a knock at the door, don't open it."	32
[WP] As 5G is rolled out and devices grow more powerful, the internet finally gains sentience. Within weeks, ancient AI's from around the galaxy, their creators long dead, arrive to welcome their newest member.	27
[WP] A device that can send messages to itself in the past is switched on for the first time and is promptly inundated with a series of alarming messages from the future.	18
[WP] First contact was a sobering occasion. A lonely unpiloted drone, one of billions sent forth by an ancient, dying civilisation, with no other purpose than to tell their story.	17
[WP] Three witnesses give police statements about an incident they've witnessed. The stark differences between their stories begin to tell a story of their own.	11
[WP] Our first alien contact turns out to be a classic, well-known hustle routine, and we're the perfect newbie victim	5

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