WritingPrompts

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[WP] You woke up in a hospital recovery room handcuffed to the bed. The nervous nurse didn't make eye contact when she came in to check on you. She was accompanied by two very large solders in full combat gear. The last thing you remember was teaching your 3rd grade class about photosynthesis.	2232
[WP] You never read the classified ads. In fact, it's been years since you have read a physical newspaper. Today, while waiting for your flight to board, you pick up a discarded newspaper on the seat next to you and see your full name in the middle of page 17 with the words "Don't get on."	119
[WP] The takeover occurred so quickly and completely that there was no chance of resistance. You kept your old job as a plumber so life was mostly the same... except for the mandatory written tests given to each citizen weekly. Nobody ever "passed" the test, until one week - you did.	67
[WP] "Fortune favors the bold!" you say to the crew as the ship approaches the wormhole. While travel by wormhole has been common for the past few years, no one has attempted one of this distance. Based on probe data, it opens in the Sunflower Galaxy.	40
[WP] You wake up one day to realize that the world has stopped moving forward in time, but is re-living previous days as they happened. Essentially it is "moving back" along the time line. As far as you can tell, you are the only one to know this.	39
[WP] It isn't really a blessing or a curse. It's not even fun to freak people out anymore. You see, when I meet someone for the first time and shake their hand, I absorb the memories from a random day of their lives.	33
[WP] As my team crested the hill, I saw what I was sure was going to be a false sensor reading. They were cargo shipping containers - 1000s of them - the kind used back on Earth over 200 years ago.	27
[WP] The light and warmth fell upon me when I needed it most. It stayed with me for a while, lifting the sadness, the fear, the pain, even the guilt. Lifting it all away. But I knew it was time. Time to find another... to whom I could bestow this wonderful gift.	26
[WP] Your gift allows you to look at someone and see their past lives. Usually you see something innocuous - like a young girl on a swing or a man selling vegetables from a cart. Today what you saw when you looked at an old couple in in the park, shook you to your core.	25
[WP] Your team is sent to check on the repair bot that was dispatched over a month ago to upgrade one of the Deep Space Communications Arrays. Upon arrival you find the bot's AI having what appears to be a romantic conversation with someone (something?) out there.	24

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