WritingPrompts

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[WP] An 18th Century polymath requests & is granted immortality, but discovers that such a long life chiefly consists of watching people in his life die, and his knowledge becoming obsolete. But in modern times he finds an unexpected niche....	6
[WP] Scene: A marketing professional finds himself bluffing his way through a presentation to a group of people he does not know. It slowly dawns on him that the stakes are far higher than he's ever faced before.	5
[WP] An urban explorer finds an old cellphone on an office desk in a creepy abandoned warehouse. At home, he charges it up and dials the contact labeled Emergency. It connects to the local FBI office's Cold Case unit...	5
[WP] A minor character: small-town failed politician, who was never elected to office, comes to terms with the failure of his ambitions during his small-town retirement	4
[WP] A small town, economically depressed for years after its major industry folded, adjusts as a new industry slowly revives it.	4
[WP] You are a time traveler, running a newsstand in 1912 New York City. You discover you are not the only future person in the city when a man comes up to the stand and says, "Let me have one copy of everything."	3
[WP] Somehow, everyone who has ever contemplated committing a crime against you personally has found your contact info, and is sending you apologies for it. Emails, texts, letters, calls; then some of them start apologizing in person.	3
[WP] A thoroughly unpleasant academic who's made a career of poisoning students' minds against their country, "corporations" and "the system" begins to mellow & become more open-minded, thanks to kindness from an unexpected source.	3
[WP] A willful Asian grandmother, brought to an American suburb by her immigrant children, gets into a number of funny misadventures, with a heartwarming conclusion	3
[WP] "Dammit, Fletcher; what kind of a lepidopterist are you? For god's sake, stand up to them, man!	3

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