WritingPrompts

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[WP] You share a unique relationship with one of your parallel selves: when they receive a tattoo it also appears on you, and vice versa. You happen to have very different tastes, and so begins a passive aggressive cross-reality war fought entirely in tattoos and cover-ups.	2414
[WP] The key to unlimited cross-breeding is discovered. Nations begin a feverish, genetic arms race, using every species at their disposal - not for conquest, but simply to defend themselves from inevitable horrors that Australia is about to unleash.	1882
[WP] You Google your own name and in the results you find a strange Kickstarter campaign called "Ruin [your name]'s Life". You think maybe it's a prank, but the funding goal is $500,000 and it's already 90 percent funded.	1700
[WP] Responding to a scratching at the door, you find a wonderfully fluffy puppy with a note attached to its collar. The note reads: WEEP AND TREMBLE, FOR I AM THE EMISSARY OF DOOM AND DESPAIR, COME TO BEGIN THE FINAL CLEANSING OF MANKIND. The puppy really is quite fluffy, though.	1402
[WP] You return home from a long, foreign war, only to find that many of the people you knew in your small town are now gone. However, every night a man puts on a puppet show in the town square and you recognize the puppets - they look just like your missing friends and neighbors.	1368
[WP] You deliver meals to elderly shut-ins. One of your clients is convinced you are Death, and you play along, letting them "outsmart" you every day. Today, however, they're dressed in their Sunday finest, saying, "I'm ready."	1137
[WP] Turns out man was never meant to fly. One day all the planes in the sky inexplicably freeze where they are. There can be no rescue. Most planes eventually run out of supplies and perish. It's five years later, however, and society is flourishing on Flight 3407 to Orlando.	963
[WP] As a small child, you walked in on Death taking your great grandmother. You unexpectedly became friends and Death began to visit you often for tea and conversation. You're now very, very old and Death has become quite evasive on subject of your ultimate demise.	956
[WP] Your boarding school is a tower. To advance a grade is to move up a floor. Today there is an old woman sitting among your classmates. You catch her eye. "The only way out is down," she whispers.	866
[TT] "Best bounty hunter in the universe? Well, then you want them," said the man, pointing down the bar to where a little girl and her robot were playing chess.	693

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