WritingPrompts

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[WP] A diner next to a cemetery is staffed by the ghosts of those buried nearby. Some of the staff know they're dead, but keep this a secret from the ones who don't. No one knows where the diner came from, it just appeared one day. But the food is so good that people in town keep coming back...	4867
[WP] It's halfway through 2017, and already it has proven to be one of the most uneventful years in recent memory. Not a single mass-shooting. Not a single attack, no mass die-offs or heat records broken. Slowly, people begin to realize that something is terribly wrong...	1155
[WP] You always save the day, but at the last minute and in the laziest way possible. You are...The Procrastinator.	1004
[WP] A man with little artistic talent makes a deal with a supernatural entity in exchange for the ability to "draw anything," not realizing it is a curse. Unable to stop himself, he begins to draw things he shouldn't be able to know. Things no one was ever meant to see.	457
[WP] It is 1845. The Russian tsar sneaks off and disguises himself as a laborer in a busy shipyard, to understand the life of the "common man." In a spectacular coincidence, all the other workers in the yard are also slumming dignitaries and royals in disguise, and so far, no one has realized this	452
[WP] You're an accidental alchemist. A poor student who barely studied the art, you've achieved things other alchemists would kill for. The elixir or life, transmuting gold... problem is, you have no idea how you did it or how to do it again, and now the whole kingdom is pounding on your door.	198
[WP] A 4-D star collides with Earth, causing it to "unroll" into a seemingly infinite plane. Though satellite images from orbit appear normal, on the surface, everything has changed. There are suddenly new continents, new seas, stretching endlessly onward. A new age of exploration begins.	191
[WP] The Russian Tsar sneaks off and disguises himself as a laborer in a shipyard, to understand the life of the common man. Little does he know, the other ship-builders are also slumming dignitaries and royals in disguise, and no one has realized this.	172
[WP] While running errands, a man approaches you claiming that he's been getting paid to gaslight you for months. Exasperated, he demands to know how you've withstood his methods of psychological torture. From your perspective everything has been normal, and you have no idea what he's talking about.	119
[WP] You are the dictator's personal chef. His trusted confidant, you have been there from the beginning. Today, he bursts into his meeting room, looking sweaty and chagrined. He has just survived an assassination attempt...one that you orchestrated.	98

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