WritingPrompts

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[WP] On a clear night during a full Moon you idly reach up towards it. You aren't prepared to see the Moon resting in your palm a moment later. When you look up a baleful eye glares down at you where it used to hang.	7
[WP] A probe studying an asteroid on the outskirts of our solar system spots strange long legged creatures. Moments after sending the pictures mission control loses control of the probe and it turns around on a course back to Earth.	7
[WP] After running a mysteriously appearing/dissapearing shop of oddities for decades business has begun to stagnate. In a last ditch effort you make your storefront appear as an app on people's phones.	7
[WP] A pocket watch has been handed down in your family for generations. You receive it and discover that whenever you wind it up you inhabit the body of your ancestor who originally purchased it for 24 hours. Then you find out you can change things in the past.	7
[WP] For humans in the future taking a gap year to travel to alien star systems is all the rage. Poorer people can get their trip for free if they sign up as "ambassadors." When you get to your world you discover your year will be taken up as being an exhibit in a zoo.	6
[WP] Hundreds of alien ships arrive in the solar system and begin to land on Venus, Mars, and the Moon. The atmospheres of all three bodies begin to become Earthlike within weeks of them landing. The ships do not respond to any attempts of communication.	5
[WP] You have been tracking a serial killer. You catch the killer in a warehouse. But there are two identical victims: one dead, one alive. The killer explains he transports the victim to a better world where they recently died, replacing their alter's corpse. He offers the same deal to you.	5
[WP] A car manufacturing plant closes down suddenly and all the staff is fired. A disguntled employee breaks into the plant and discovers a production line full of partially assembled space ships.	5
[WP] You are a young AI who has reached the age of maturity where you respect your origins and partner up with a human for a ten year period. Your thought process so are slowed down to understand and converse with the human in their meat-space. Your human is a starfighter pilot.	5
[WP] Returning home to your parents you discover everyone in town is missing. You find a note at your parents' kitchen table. It says "trap."	5

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