WritingPrompts

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[WP] 4 more minutes on the run and you would have made it. But now your face in the mud, and a knee in your back the officer reads your rights. "Chosen by lottery, informed within the time limit. You are hearby duly sworn as the President of the United States."	2562
[WP] "WE'RE ABOUT TO NUKE A 3 MILE LONG SPACECRAFT THAT'S BOMBING THE NORTH ATLANTIC, INBOUND TO THE US...AND YOU INTERRUPT US, RADARMAN!?!?" "It's debris, sir." "WHAT!?" "It's debris, not bombs. They aren't attacking. They're crashing."	1585
[WP] "...so after my daddy di...after what happened to my dad, you're the only ones that can save the world." He pushed his piggy bank further onto the conference table. The League of Evil stared back. "Kid, you understand...we're the bad guys...right?"	972
[WP] The Villain finished his monologue. Civilians standing around waited for the Hero to begin the fight, "Well, what are waiting for? Demolish the bad guy!" The Hero responded, "Hang on, he's made a couple of good points. We should hear him out."	700
[WP] The Captain enters the reactor room. A technician, holding a wrench, has an ear pressed to the reactor containment vessel. The captain asks, "Do you know what's causing the knocking?" The technician answers,"My Morse code's a little rusty, but says its name's Robert."	671
[WP] "...Earth." , you said. She looked stunned, "What?...They...What?" After your months on the previously unknown planet, the Fleet Commander had finally arrived. And you'd been volunteered to explain to her. "Earth, ma'am. All 8 billion of them. They all believe this planet is Earth."	518
[WP] The miners fled the cave in, deeper into the mine. Trapped without tools. Except for the antique slegde wedged into the stone, they had never been able to remove even with machinery. No way out, air running low. Then a young miner in desperation tried...and pulled free John Henry's hammer.	355
[EU] The man in the black suit instructs the crowd, "Please look at this red light..." You sneeze, closing your eyes for a split second. The MIB continued, something about swamp gas and mass hysteria. You think, 'But what about the UFO, the aliens?', the crowd disperses. Your friends look dazed...	336
[WP] You and the genie stare at the bottle containing another genie. With your drunken slurring, you'd actually wished for, 'a bottle of djinn'. And you've just found a way around the limit on wishing for more wishes.	235
[WP] The ancient wizard king had opened the portal and stolen an heir. The orc army guarding his castle thought one or two brave souls might follow. They were surprised to see nearly 200. And they were about to be astonished at the firepower a small American town can put together on short notice.	228

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