WritingPrompts

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[WP] Mars Habitat One was thriving and the talk in the colony was about the anniversary of Terraforming Day. Only a few select people knew that the communications array wasn't really down for maintenance, but that the last message from Earth (before it went silent) was just a single word... hide.	14
[WP] You are a lesser spirit, but the Ghost of Christmas Past is out sick, you get tapped to step in... and it's the busy season.	14
[WP] You had a great afternoon with your daughter making a gingerbread house... icing, gumdrops, candy canes, the works. After a quick nap on the couch, you wake up inside a full-sized gingerbread house.	12
[WP] "Mission status condition red." The captain described a sudden deterioration in artificial gravity that was hampering operations. "We lost containment of the sample at 0530.145.2231. 16 minutes later the automated med bay reported the first..." The recording ended there.	11
[WP] It became harder and harder to predict the next stage in the simulation. The AI was working as designed, but the results were inexplicable. On day 46 it finally all made sense.	11
[WP] Life after death is real, well it's more like random reincarnation. A temporary bug in the random processing generator gives you a choice.	10
[WP] You caught a foul ball at the Atlanta Braves game yesterday. This morning at just after 6am, your house is surrounded by National Guardsmen and a voice over a megaphone instructs you to vacate your house quickly, specially telling you to leave the baseball behind.	9
[WP] You've never been popular. No dates. And never any school dances. You're 25 and at you have been invited to your first wedding. After a few drinks, you get your courage up and hit the dance floor. After your first few hip swings... it starts to rain... inside.	8
[WP] As a repair tech for the robot vacuums that serve the largest space resort across 15 solar systems, you are always busy. The things that clog the vacuums are sometimes gross, sometimes interesting, and sometimes even valuable. You never expected to find what you found today.	7
[WP] Ever since you can remember, your birthday cake candle wishes have come true. The toys, the puppy, the little brother... and since last year your cheerleader girlfriend. Your 18th birthday is coming up next week.	7

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