WritingPrompts

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[EU] An adorable, plucky, red-headed orphan finds her savior: an immensely rich, powerful bald businessman who adopts her. But he’s not Daddy Warbucks. He’s Lex Luthor.	146
[WP] In a cyberpunk future, “ghosts” composed of pure data roam the virtual world and can appear on display devices in the physical. You see your opportunity to fit in with them and escape, because you’re a real ghost who has been bound for centuries.	42
[EU] An 8-year-old girl writes out a common wish, but her spelling is not the best. Her wish is granted overnight and the next morning she wakes up to a sparkly, rainbow-colored Unicron.	28
[WP] Dragons hoard gold even though they have nothing to spend it on. Why? Because being rich gives them social status among humans. One day you find out what else they do for social status.	17
[WP] It’s 2050 and machine learning systems are adept at faking videos quickly and convincingly. A virus spreads that causes new episodes of a TV show or video podcast to appear in which the stars behave increasingly violently and erratically and spout extremist views.	6
[WP] Zen Buddhism has the paradoxical saying, “if you meet the Buddha, kill him.” Only now do you realize it wasn’t meant literally.	5
[EU] Hell's most fiendish plan has almost reached fruition: to erase all music, even from hearts and minds. A music lovers club's last-ditch, desperate ritual summons Major Tom, Eleanor Rigby, Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, Isobel, and Puff the Magic Dragon. They are The Songs, and they're here to save us.	4
[WP] Our world has been overrun by ghouls, ghosts, zombies, and vampires, but clerics of every faith can "turn" them: make them flee or destroy them. Now everyone sees which clerics have the greatest spiritual power, and it's not based on choice of religion or official church status.	2
[WP] "And what if they did go back in time to change the outcome of the Titanomachy, so the Titans defeat the Greek gods instead? That's in a world of myth; it wouldn't affect the present-day. real world." Slowly I pointed upward: "Um, I wouldn't be too sure about that..."	1
[WP] The highly advanced, progressive society was a constitutional kakistocracy: officially ruled by its worst, least competent, most corrupt member. This gave them an awfully strong incentive to make sure every member of the society was a decent, productive person.	1

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