WritingPrompts

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[WP] In the future, "Network Server" is a job. People, (usually poor or desperate) volunteer to network their brains to process data for money. In this state, they feel hive-mind euphoria, but when unplugged, become depressed, suicidal. One of the largest networks has just been attacked.	4
[WP] Mankind is nearing completion of the first ever space elevator, which will dramatically reduce the cost of getting materials into orbit. The problem is, everyone they send to finish the last few hundred meters either dies or goes mad.	4
[WP] After refusing to toast an old man, he angrily slammed his drink down and said, "May the Curse of Mary Malign and her 9 Blind Children chase you so far over the hills of damnation that the Lord himself will not find you with a telescope!" Years later, still running, you reflect on this moment	4
[WP] The shocking discovery is made that every world EXCEPT the Earth is flat.	4
[WP] In the near future, a woman in a vegetative state is the one witness capable of stopping a horrific crime. Each new body her consciousness is moved to soon falls ill again. Her wealthy family doesn't want another procedure. Desperate for answers, a detective volunteers himself.	4
[WP] Frustrated that his previous doomsday predictions have fizzled, a religious cult-leader is determined to make sure the world ends when he next predicts it to, at all costs	3
[WP] Steve is a hard-boiled detective who has just been suspended from the force in the middle of his big case. In order to solve the case and save his career, he must once again turn to his mysterious informant, code-named "Blue," for help. Time to Skidoo, motherfuckers	3
[WP] A terrible shipwreck from the perspective of a reincarnated man in the body of a fish	3
[WP] The entire human population experiences a meta-moment in which every man, woman and child hears an unreleased verse of Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant." You are the only one not to hear it. When you come in for work the next day, your boss tells you to sit down at the "group W bench."	3
[WP] Write excerpts from the notes of a future psychotherapist, who is trying to help several virtual reality addicts who have lost the ability to distinguish between what is real and what is not.	3

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