WritingPrompts

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[WP] One day, everyone in a small, isolated town wakes up and finds an ax resting beside their bed with a note that reads, "Do what you must."	26
[WP] Humanity wages a war on fear itself, beginning with mandatory exposure therapy for all citizens. You work in the children's ward of a desensitization hospital. Some cases require a little more creativity than others.	26
[OT] You just wrote an amazing prompt! Now, consider deleting the last sentence	25
[WP] Following a terrible year of drought and death, your village makes a deal with a demon to undo everything that happened in the past year. You're a new mother desperate to stop the pact from being completed.	25
[WP] Only you and your mother remain on the island. Once a month you see distant lights out on the water. You are safe, she says, as long as you douse the fires at dusk. But tonight you accidentally fell asleep and now those distant lights are drawing nearer.	24
[WP] Waking from a medically-induced coma, you discover that everyone has a second shadow, which displays a unique relationship with its host. Some comfort, some encourage, some mock. Your second shadow is clearly terrified of you.	24
[WP] Magic died, but the spell books remained. No matter who spoke them, the spells could not be cast. You weren't interested in magic, though - you were just looking for something cool to tattoo on your arm. Now you've accidentally ushered in a new age of magic.	24
[WP] During the ceasefire, soldiers on the front lines mingled and shared what little supplies they had, all along assuming the treaty would go through and the war would end. But negotiations fell apart and now the ceasefire ends in one hour.	20
[WP] Google Brain, the world's leading inner-cranial app, rolls out "ultra-predictive advertising", beaming soon-to-be useful ads directly onto your optic nerves. You've just received coupons for tarps, shovels, and bleach moments before meeting your mother-in-law for the first time.	18
[TT] Your parents are famous superheroes and you are always along on their adventures. Except they don't really have powers, they just happen to get an excessive burst of adrenaline every time you're in danger. You're older now, and starting to catch on.	18

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