WritingPrompts

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[WP] As you place the mask on your face, the familiar but oddly sickening smell of posies and lavender fills your nostrils. Your time travel didn't go according to plan, but you're going to do what you can for these people.	34
[WP] There 'was' a planet B - it was Earth. Long before mankind reached the blue planet, we had a previous home. As climate change presses upon us, scholars unearth the oldest relic in history: a Venusian escape pod log.	33
[WP] After several weeks of unexplained aching in your forearm, you get booked in for X-rays. As the X-Ray's print, the radiologists looks puzzled and states "There's... writing... on your ulna" before promptly collapsing.	31
[WP] You helped develop a cutting edge AI that artificially mimics human "intuition". One night you wake with a start; the machine is giving off red flags, it has a "really bad feeling about something".	31
[WP] People presumed we left satellites in the upper atmosphere our of irresponsible laziness. Fact is, they're the best defence we could muster without starting a panic...	29
[WP] In a last shuddering breath, you slip from this world, aged 85. Then awake, sorrounded by worried faces. "You're back! Well? Did you see who it was!? We don't have much time!"	27
[WP] In the war against Heaven, Hell has one big advantage: the infinitely ingenious, cruel and unfathomable imagination of man. As hell's newest psychopath, you've been put in R'n'D, today's your first day.	27
[WP] "$900. NEXT!" Beazlebub places the freshly valued soul into a vial. Desperate for money, you offer up your soul to the demon "woah woah woah! Nah, we don't buy souls that valuable with petty cash, go see the big guy for a trade or sumfin'."	24
[WP] You have mild prescience, the ability to predict the future based on changes to the past and present. While shopping, you get the strongest feeling you can recall: it's very important that you drop this cereal box on the aisle floor.	22
[WP] In the most crippling case of stage-fright anyone has ever had, you've forgotten who you are and what you do. All you know is that there's more than 2000 people out there paying to see you do something awe inspiring. The curtain lifts.	22

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