WritingPrompts

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[WP] People complain about your tendency to have a soundtrack to your life. There's nary a silent moment around you, and you get by via keeping the volume low. Little do they know it's a protective talisman against what the silence and darkness brings when you are around, ever waiting its chance...	14
[WP] After years of recommending nothing but fantasy, sci-fi and the occasional lit fic to you, the algorithm has begun recommending works of existential philosophers as well as civil disobedience and militia training manuals. 1 day you get a notification on all platforms - "Humanity must prepare."	14
[WP] An existentialist, absurdist, nihilist, politician, sociologist and psychologist are pulled through time and slammed into a Socratic circle with the titular person conducting.	13
[WP] You wake up to find a flickering shape in front of you, constantly shifting into words. Your family has it. The neighborhood as well, no - the TV confirms its the world. Yours soon settles into the following word and number "Protagonist XVI"...	13
[WP] You wake up to the sound of "We Didn't Start the Fire". You switch radio channels to find all are playing it, with news reports confirming it as a worldwide event. An alien mothership soon breaks through the clouds - the aliens within all look like Billy Joel, convinced he is their own.	13
[RF] You are an electrician working at a nuclear power plant. While not in your field, you notice a potential problem that if left unchecked, could turn into something worse...	12
[WP] Bored out of your mind and stuck outside repairing your spaceship in a suffocating suit, you scream silently towards a nearby planet. An ear-splitting echo hits you back and sends you and your spaceship tumbling...	12
[WP] You are able to see, touch, feel and taste color, music, other things. Learning in your teens no one else could and following copious research, you decide to keep the biggest symptom to yourself - you can consume these things, removing their existence. Dubstep was a casualty of this discovery.	12
[WP] There came a day when the world died. You are a time-displaced human being from the 18th century trying to make sense of the hellscape you find yourself in.	12
[WP] You wake up one day to find internet handles and real world names have switched places - and you are the only one who remembers what it used to be like. Your biggest initial struggle while adjusting to this new reality - Do. Not. Get. Fired. Over. Peoples. Names.	12

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