WritingPrompts

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[WP] Everything you touch with your right hand becomes completely weightless. Everything you touch with your left hand experiences triple the Earth's usual gravity. Sometimes you get them mixed up.	33
[WP] You live in a society where absolutely anything can be a paying job, provided you can prove that you are the very best at it. You've been coasting along in your strange, incredibly specific "job" for years, but now a challenger has appeared...	33
[WP] You discover a new app on your phone called "No Take-Backs." It contains a Twitter-like newsfeed of strangers' wishes, along with a thumbs up and thumbs down button.	33
[WP] Under cover of darkness, the world's most famous serial killer arrives at the back door of a suburban home...only to find the world's second most famous serial killer working on the lock.	32
[WP] When born, the first gift we receive is a blank book which records our dreams. Although it is considered a violation to read another's dreams, you open your young child's dreambook, expecting to see nonsense. Instead you find a gorgeously written novel. You begin selling your child's dreams.	31
[WP] 20 years after publication, an author bows to pressure and begins work on a sequel to their most famous novel. The novel's characters, however, aren't excited about coming out of retirement.	30
[WP] "I spent most of the morning coughing up blood. The trouble is I'm not sure whose blood it was."	30
[WP] You come from a long line of "Editors" - you can change the past at will to serve your present needs. Only a few are immune to your powers, but society considers these unlucky few to be insane.	28
[WP] Aliens have been here for centuries - for whatever reason, humans are completely unable to see or hear them. Write a field report from one of these long-suffering explorers.	28
[WP] Three months into a deep space mission, a space shuttle crew discovers someone else is on the ship. The crew assumes it must be a stowaway, but all sensor readings indicate they just arrived.	28

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