WritingPrompts

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[WP] You swat at a fly only to miss. The fly lands on your arm, bites, and flies away before you're able to hit it. Looking up, you notice floating above your head a long, red, transparent bar with a sliver missing from the end. Orchestral music fills your ears as the fly charges at you again.	820
[WP] Whenever someone commits an unforgivable sin a supernatural force marks them with a "X" on their forehead. You walk into work one day and notice that everyone, from the janitor and receptionist, to your coworkers and the CEO, have this mark.	123
[WP] You've purchased what was advertised as the most violent game ever made. When you get home and open box, you only find two things: A knife and sheet of paper. The paper lists several names with a cash value next to each one.	114
[WP] You're bored at work one day so you start snooping through random files on the company server. You find one labeled "Employee profiles" and investigate. Finding your name, you click on it. A window opens with a live feed of exactly what you are seeing through your own eyes.	18
[WP] The servers to a big MMORPG are soon going to be shutdown, so players have spent the last month seeing all they can and saying goodbye to friends. It's the last week before the shutdown and the NPC's have begun to ask questions.	15
[WP] Astronauts return to the moon after several decades. After exploring the surface for a while, one of the astronauts see something odd. Picking it up, it appears to be a Nokia cellular phone with the "unread messages" screen flashing.	13
[WP] You wake up one morning and find an envelope under your pillow. You open it up and pour out dozens of baby teeth and a note.	10
[WP] The world is faced with doom at the hand of the dark lord. However, angels have built the only weapon that can defeat the him and have given it to you to wield. Too bad they didn't realize you're a quadrapolegic.	3
[WP] You have died and your spiritual form is still tethered to your corpse. Death appears in front of you, but before he reaps your soul he says, "No, you're not getting out of it until It's done. I told you already; suicide doesn't count!"	1
Centuries in the future a counsel of wise scholars is called. They must decipher an artifact from long ago which allegedly talks of the end times. The artifact in question appears to be a floppy disk with the word "DOOM" scrawled across it.	1

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