WritingPrompts

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[WP] You're a direct descendant of Genghis Kahn. Your cubicle-mate has been a jerk all week. Your boss is making you work late again. Suddenly, you're gripped by the insatiable need to conquer Asia.	2292
[WP] A stretch of cars is stuck in a traffic jam on the interstate. Days pass with no movement. To the bewilderment of the outside world, rather than abandon their vehicles, the travelers restart their lives in and around their cars, interacting only with drivers and passengers in nearby cars.	126
[WP] It's 1959, the height of the Cold War. A vessel the size of a battleship is flying north from Antarctica. The Americans think it's Russian, and the Russians think it's American. It's neither.	80
[WP] You are a history professor reading a letter written by a soldier during WW2, and something about it strikes you as very strange.	62
[WP] You're a classically trained writer, but best job you could find was writing scenes for b-movies. You humor yourself by dropping subtle but gloriously pretentious literary references into your characters' lines.	56
[WP] It's a lonely life being a super-villain. Your mother is worried about you, so she sets you up with a nice girl from her prayer group.	46
[WP] Write a story, poem or song that sounds like it has a deep hidden meaning but is really about nothing at all.	44
[WP] After a night out, you hail a cab and drunkenly ask your driver to take you to hell. He obliges.	43
[WP] An ancient Warlock lives in a cabin in the outskirts of a small French village. He doesn't bother the locals and they don't bother him. This pact of mutual coexistence is disrupted by French national utility workers seeking to displace the Warlock to build a cellphone tower.	32
[WP] You're an extremely unreliable narrator in a story, but something just happened, and you really need the reader to take your word for it this time.	26

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