WritingPrompts

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[WP] Instead of playing the lotto, you started befriending and assisting lonely elderly people to scam your way into their wills. Years later you're doing ok, completely oblivious to the fact families recommend you as the most affordable, most professional in-home care available.	561
[WP] Cybernetics and nanotechnology advances to full-body conversions. It's normal; even the brain is gradually replaced over years, a single neuron at a time. Near immortality through a routine process. One day, however, someone is alarmed to find themselves haunted by a ghost . . . of themself?	173
[WP] It is 11:59AM on an otherwise unassuming day. Exactly 1 minute from now every person on Earth will lose the capacity to experience or participate in logical fallacies. There is no forewarning, no "why". Unaware, you approach the podium. Beaming, shushing the crowd, you begin. It is noon.	41
[WP] No one ever develops warp of any kind. No new physics that effect space travel, of any kind, exist. Stasis can't do complex carbon life. Traveling through space is about developing ships that survive, supporting many generations. Human beings are about to meet their first non-human race.	18
[WP] You are part of a story written buy a terrible writer, but you suffer the affects of all the rules. There's nothing you could of done. But maybe, maybe, you can snatch victory from the jaws of the feet.	10
[WP] Companies' ingredients are accepted as secret. Technology is miraculous. Scientists are pressured get any half assed study published and into papers. Generations of planning have finally let the world's dynasties sneak their magic back into plain sight.	8
[CW] You are a spy on a very dangerous mission armed only with a pocket supercomputer. It is damaged at a very critical moment. Ask a child younger than 8 to help you with this, because their exact answers, knowledge and suggestions are the only functionality it retains.	4
[WP] Suffering severe epilepsy as a child, doctors were forced to perform a corpus callosotomy; you happily live your life with nearly unnoticeable split-brain syndrome. Yesterday you discovered why the right brain was designed with no language capacity . . . and constant oversight from the left.	4
[WP] You are the world famous Dr. Michael Hunt. Your nemesis, The Minstrel Killer has used his psychic abilities to take over your pad. You're concerned about a mole. Things are getting hairy.	4
[WP] In the near-future AI is widely implemented to subjugate the general populace. Early detection of revolutionary and/or unionizing ideation enables those in power to simply quell both before they have legs. One day a leader appears, able to organize a revolution with dry humor and sarcasm.	4

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