WritingPrompts

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[WP] You are an assassin, a hitman, loaned out to the highest bidder. One day, a young woman hires you out for a large sum of money. When you turn up, it turns out she doesn't have a target who she wants dead — she's in love with you and you've never even met before.	88
[WP] Words have enough power to harm or even kill humans. The government is hugely strict on insults and the like. You're an assassin who specialises in finding the words that can kill a person.	69
[WP] Everybody in the world remembers a phrase. They hear it the moment they're born, and it's the way they die — sometimes speech before death, sometimes the method of death itself, sometimes a stray thought. But you could never make sense of yours. "Don't answer the phone."	11
[WP] A genie appears to an author. The genie came out of an old typewriter. He told the author he could grant one wish, as a lesser genie, explaining that normal genies give three and the Elder Genies give five. The author wished for the ability to change anything he wished through his writing.	6
[WP] You buy a grandfather clock with 'kinks' to it. Apparently there are flaws and oddities about it, according to the seller. But you can't see any, so you buy it. When tinkering with it, you find that if you stop it ticking, time freezes. If you turn the hands back, they go back, and vice versa.	5
[WP] If people laugh too much they die. Comedians are strictly monitored and YouTube 'try not to laugh videos' are.. Mostly unchanged, actually. You're an assassin specialising in murder by laughter.	3
[WP] One day, without warning, you gain a 'danger level' bar just to the lower right of your everyday life. Nobody else can see it. You get home that day and, when talking to your mother, the danger level spikes.	2

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