WritingPrompts

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[WP] While googling your own name one night, you stumble upon a site that has your photo, with text that simply says “Golf: 141,377 / 7,444, 092” and “Bass Guitar: 26,610 / 858,817”. These happen to be your two best abilities. Someone, somehow is globally ranking the skills of everyone on Earth...	925
[WP] While shopping in a thrift store you find a pair of ancient reading glasses. You try them on & suddenly the store & the people in it ‘disappear’, replaced instead by a cobblestone street with people dressed in clothing from the 1700s. You remove the glasses to find the original store once more	14
[WP] Science discovers that attempting to cryogenically freeze humans actually creates a ‘zombie’ gene, so world governments immediately order the termination of any cryogenically frozen bodies. The Disney Company must make a decision...go along with the termination, or reanimate Walt.	10
[WP] You google your name & find a site that seems to be a massive database. Scrolling down you eventually find your name & DOB, along with other columns for golf & piano, which happen to be your favourite hobbies. Next to each is a large number. Someone is ranking the skills of everyone alive.	10
[WP] It’s 1502. You remember drinking with Da Vinci late into the night, but now you’ve woken up paralysed and strapped to a table, only able to move your eyeballs. Da Vinci is over in a dark corner; around him in his studio are anatomical sketches...	8
[WP] In 10 years from now, everyone wears VR headsets that augment reality, and one of the most popular apps is a program titled 'Scenario'. When faced with decision-making or conflict, the app quickly runs through several responses in time-lapse so the user can select the best one.	6
[WP] It’s 2003, and you’ve just enjoyed a late-night Mitch Hedberg stand-up routine in a theatre restaurant. You walk outside, and as you pass a row of parked cars you suddenly hear muffled voices coming from the trunk of one car...	3
[WP] It’s the year 2022, and just two months after NASA was successful in knocking an asteroid off course by deliberately hitting it with the DART spacecraft. Trouble is, the asteroid is now on the opposite side of the Solar System and on a direct course for Venus.	3
[WP] Science discovers that cryogenic freezing creates a zombie gene. Governments order the termination of all cryogenically frozen bodies. The Disney company hires mercenaries to rescue the body of their founder; it's a race against time to reanimate Walt Disney...	1
It’s 2003, and you’ve just enjoyed a late-night Mitch Hedberg stand-up routine in a theatre restaurant. You walk outside, and as you pass a row of parked cars you suddenly hear muffled voices coming from the trunk of one car...	1

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