WritingPrompts

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[WP] Having finally saved the city from your lifelong nemesis, you peacefully retire to the suburbs to live a quiet life. The next day you hear a knock at the door: it is your arch-enemy, begging you to help him create a LinkedIn profile.	21
[WP] Robots and machines have become sentient and have taken over the world. You are humanity's last hope from extinction: explain to the Robot High Council why the human race should not be eliminated.	15
[WP] Everyone is afraid of leaving the house now that gravity can flip at any given moment: hundreds of screaming people are pulled up into the sky every day. You would be scared too, if you weren't the one flipping the switch.	14
[WP] You have prayed to God for good health and fortune for your entire life. Now that you have passed on, it is time to pay off those debts. You learn, however, that God was scrapped for cash one day and sold your prayer debt to Satan, who is coming to collect.	13
[WP] After forty years of working at the most boring job imaginable, you are ready to call it quits and retire. On your last day, everything seems normal, until you find a bomb in your desk, ticking down.	11
[WP] In a not so distant future, books have been replaced by tablets and e-readers. However, after a fatal systems crash, the original texts were lost. After years of pretending to be well-read, you have been chosen to recreate the lost classics.	11
[WP] In order to escape your terminal illness, you agree to have your consciousness transplanted into your favorite film or television show. However, you slowly begin to realize that the plot is being rewritten to accommodate for your presence.	9
[WP] You have an essay due in an hour about a topic you know absolutely nothing about. You are also the proud owner of a typetop, a typewriter-laptop hybrid that prevents backspacing or editing of any kind whatsoever.	8
[WP] You have stumbled upon a message in a bottle, what looks to be an ancient treasure map to untold riches. At least, you think it is. It's been three hours and you still can't get the damn thing out.	7
[WP] It is 2093 and the world has just been consumed by a fatal toxin. A very limited supply of the antidote can be produced each year. You are a failing student taking your last final when you hear the news: in order to control the population, only B's or above will be given the antidote.	7

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