WritingPrompts

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[WP] You've met a number of unusually friendly & chatty random strangers over the years. Finally one inadvertently spills the beans: They are your distant descendants, time travelling to surreptitiously meet their ancestors.	987
[WP] You, like all vacationers, have undoubtedly appeared in the background of thousands of other people's vacation photos. One day these begin appearing in your social media feed, with you circled in red.	55
[WP] Several paintings by a famous 20th Century artist are x-rayed before being restored. The x-rays reveal disturbing clues to a terrible mystery.	44
[WP] Someone is granted a wish to return to a simpler time, but discovers that "simpler" does not mean "easier".	42
[WP] An aging computer engineer, newly downsized, accepts his obsolescence and looks for a new career, finds love instead.	26
[TT] An alcoholic engineer, shattered with guilt over a space disaster, slowly finds redemption and peace through an unlikely friendship	23
[WP] A cold case detective suspects that a serial killer from long ago is still alive. The killer's MO was to acquire photos of his future victims, and mail copies to them. Once the detective begins investigating, she receives random people's outdoor selfies, with herself circled in the background.	15
[TT] A space-faring human civilization encounters a culture of advanced aliens who nevertheless, because they live in a solar system inside a dense stellar dust cloud, have no idea that the rest of the universe exists.	12
[WP] A small child has a great time spending all day every day in the public library. She plays with puzzles, colors pictures, reads picture books, and the librarians give her stickers. Even though her mother takes her to a shelter every night to sleep, she doesn't realize that she's homeless.	8
[WP] Horrors scenes set in vehicles often utilize the mirrors, windows and back seats. But how about a scene utilizing the back-up camera screen in the dash	7

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