WritingPrompts

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[WP] FTL is impossible. Adult cryogenics was a dead end. Generation ships are too costly and unreliable. Instead our first successful colony ship carried millions of frozen embryos and a fleet of robots to raise them. You were born with no parents, on a new world, under a new and foreign sun.	8274
[WP] Wandering the streets, jobless, homeless, you happen across a silver ring with an inscription: "Help for the Needy." Idly you slip it on. Suddenly a voice resonates deep within your bones: "44 YARDS NORTH A CHILD LIES FACE DOWN IN THEIR POOL, UNATTENDED. DEATH IN 172 SECONDS. TIME TO RUN."	6764
[WP] Unbeknownst to you, the butterfly whose life you just saved is a ancient master of the butterfly effect. As she flutters away she makes a strategically placed flap to repay your kindness.	6616
[WP] Night after night you see the same girl in your dreams. Dreams with her are strangely vivid and easy to remember. Sometimes she's your wife, or your girlfriend, or your maid, or the princess you're saving, or the evil alien queen, or a vampire hunting you down. You're starting to fall in love.	3272
[WP] You have real OCD. You know there are 436 ceiling lights in your workplace, 198 parking spots at the store, and 1012 sidewalk squares from your house to the park. You know because count them every day, multiple times a day. Today every number you count is off and you can't figure out why.	1526
[WP] You were genetically modified as an embryo to survive on Mars. You can breath the thin atmosphere of carbon dioxide. You are impervious to the cold. And now you are growing up on the red planet, raised by parents who might as well be aliens to you, trying to figure out who you are.	545
[WP] Turns out the butterfly effect is real. Very real. Butterflies are actually super sentient beings who manipulate world events with strategic flaps of their wings. Wars wage between them that we are unaware of.	374
[WP] With Cryonic technology perfected, millions of people seize their opportunity to travel not to the stars, but to the Future. They purchase private pods, prepay long term leases, and set an auto-wake for 300 years. The Future however, wants nothing to do with these "time-tripping immigrants!"	276
[WP] You used to be a highly successful baker, but you have since been cursed such that everything you bake comes alive. The gingerbread man who ran away from everyone? Yeah, that was you. Tomorrow an invading army will reach your city, and your only defense is whatever you can bake up tonight.	276
[WP] The media claims you're a super hero with mind-controlling powers, but you're not really. All you do is listen to the villains instead of yell at them. You empathize with them, show genuine concern, maybe share some life advice if they're open to it. You just gently talk them down.	192

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