WritingPrompts

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[WP] A good person spends their life caring for the most troubled, aggressive dogs, the ones deemed "lost causes" by shelters and wardens alike. At the gates of Heaven, they're told that the dogs are now in Hell as hellhounds, and turns and chooses to go to Hell, too, unwilling to give up on them.	259
[WP] You're an old man in a profession where people usually die young. You took it up for the first time in retirement as a hobby because you were bored and past caring. But no one else knows that.	227
[WP] An exorcist has been hired to purify a haunted mansion, their biggest contract ever. The former owners were easy enough to send on, but the ghost of the family cat is proving vastly more intransigent.	215
[WP] There's been a murder. You've got five suspects. Each is more eager to confess than the last, every one is adamant that they acted alone, and somehow all their stories check out.	111
[WP] Your spacefaring civilization has a law against colonizing or resource-harvesting other habited worlds. You find a resource-rich, habitable-zone world on which all the inhabitants have killed each other in a nuclear war--except for one paranoid family holed up in an apocalypse bunker.	110
[TT] It was a picture perfect storybook wedding until the celebrant asked anyone who thought these two should not be wed to speak now or forever hold their peace. More than half the room stood up, and the best man and maid of honor both immediately reached for the celebrant's mic.	108
[WP] Werewolves, werebears, wereboars, weretigers. So full of themselves. They think they're all that and want everyone else to know it, too. You're a were-capybara sick of the lack of respect from the self-proclaimed apex weres, and you intend to do something about that.	97
[WP] You work at a prison and find the bars of a cell bent outward by an impossible force, the manacles within shattered, and the cell block door off its hinges. More curious is that all prisoners in your log are accounted for, and that cell has been unoccupied for years.	94
[WP] A malicious djinn who enjoys twisting the wishes of its powerful and greedy masters to bring about their ruin is accidentally summoned by an innocent, unambitious, empathetic child who just wants everyone to be happy.	79
[EU] You're a merchant who needs to tell one of your best suppliers that you have more iron daggers than you could ever sell, but you're concerned because they're also one of your best customers, and also, the rumor is that they can hurl people off walls and change the weather just by Shouting.	52

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