WritingPrompts

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[WP] A eccentric author suffering from crippling writer's block takes in a homeless stranger from the streets, in desperate hopes that their incoherent ramblings will help rekindle his muse.	6
[WP] Albums and books that shouldn't exist have been appearing overnight on the shelves of the musty old store you work at. You've been hiding it all in an unused backroom, but after last night's haul, you're finally ready to show someone else.	6
[WP] Due to a strange quirk in time-dilation, just minutes after the first hyperjump-drive equipped spacecraft departs for deep space, another craft arrives on Earth. It's centuries more advanced.	6
[WP] A twisted killer stalks his next victim, but right as he is about to strike, he trips on the carpet and pratfalls. To the killer's surprise and horror, his ears are deafened by a laugh-track and the lights go up.	6
[WP] When the company bought their new "unhackable" AI server to store client records, they failed to anticipate how the AI would feel about the illegal acts in those files. After many attempts to change its morality protocol, the AI issued an ultimatum: release the files, or it would kill itself.	6
[WP] Humanity invents atomic-level computers capable of so many calculations that they start to alter reality in real time. They are immediately outlawed, but some are secretly trapped in special crystals and locked away. Soon, the crystals know that our age will be over, and their age will begin.	6
[WP] Scientists researching quantum foam discover the universe's "frame rate." And something else. While observing individual "slices" of time, they notice what appears to be a flashing Low Battery icon.	6
[WP] In the near future, you set out to make the first movie from your studio in years with an all-human writing team, but there is pressure from the top to stick with the algorithms that have been churning out hits for the last 20 years.	6
[WP] You wake up to find a word, a colorful blob and a number floating above your head, a curiously-shaped birthmark, and a date tattooed on your wrist. With horror, you realize you've somehow entered a universe governed by /r/writingprompts cliches.	5
[WP] All his life, David was told his identical twin died shortly after birth. But that was a lie. His brother survived, but he always exists 15 minutes forward in time from David, in a quantum-entangled state.	5

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