WritingPrompts

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[WP] The sun is going to fail. Not in billions of years, but within a lifetime. Trapped by our primitive technology, humanity is doomed to die by fire. Then we start receiving messages from the sky teaching us to build space arks.	15
[WP] Welcome, mighty warriors! You've made it to the end. I regret there is only one vial of immortality here. Its price is simple: I give it to the one who hands me his sword.	14
[WP] We're actually ethically okay as interstellar species go. We discovered this early in our explorations because most other species are utterly vicious, genocidal warmongers. Our only hope for survival is to build some kind of Federation with likeminded civilizations.	14
[WP] An intelligence agent uses his clearance to access to all social media accounts and histories to improve his dating chances.	14
[WP] It's the future. You have a VR girlfriend. She's perfectly nice. But you've met someone in the real world and things are getting serious. Now your real girlfriend wants you to delete your VR girlfriend.	14
[WP] A traveling salesman sits in a diner on the road away from his family. He suddenly realizes he's dying.	12
[WP] You are a trial-by-combat champion for hire. It's a stressful job for both you and your family.	12
[WP] There is one elixir of immortality in the room. You and your friend discuss which of you gets to drink it.	11
[WP] Because your parents are unorthodox time travelers, you live in the future but go to school in the past. Because Time cannot be rewritten, you know how each of your classmates' live turn out.	11
[WP] You walk toward the alien ship. First Contact should be an epochal event, but your analysts have told you they're pretty sure these jerks are the alien equivalent of drunken frat guys pranking us.	11

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