WritingPrompts

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[WP] The government has been denying UFO sightings for years, but last night an alien spacecraft crash landed on your country farm. On its hull are written words in a strange language: "UNITED STATES SPACE FORCE"	22
[WP] You fall asleep after your first day in college and awaken from emergency brain surgery forty years later. You find that you have conquered the world and are now the unquestioned Emperor of Earth with no memory of how or why you did it.	20
[WP] You fall asleep after your first day in college as an old man in a hospital bed. "There appears to have been some complications while removing the brain tumor" the doctor says, "please forgive me, my Emperor."	14
[WP] Ragnarok is nearing and the army of Valhalla is nearly complete. Unfortunately the reality of warfare has changed a lot in the last millenia and one general is tasked by the honorable fallen to convince the gods they need to upgrade from medieval equipment and tactics.	11
[WP] A time-jumping theif doesn't understand how the timeline got so skewed after his last mission. He didn't even steal anything important; Thomas Jefferson's spare bifocals, Einstein's comb, an obscure Austrian Painter's art school acceptance letter, and other trivial nonsense like that.	9
[WP] A man discovers an ability to quicksave in real life and reset time whenever he dies or triggers it. While trying to scam a casino he gets discovered and softlocked with a save 2 seconds before death.	8
[WP] Your plane crashed on a desert island after becoming lost in a storm. As an astronomer you were tasked with using the stars to estimate your location, but you have no idea how to tell the other survivors that you are actually on the other side of the galaxy.	8
[WP] Using a hyperspace slingshot humanity scattered dozens of ships into deep space to map the stars on the return to sol. They found the solar system is within the territory of a genocidal alien empire. Now the last surviving ship is on a race to return and warn Humanity before the invasion.	8
[WP] The scientists have made a grave mistake. While ceyogenic suspension may allow the subject to be revived at the end, in the intervening time the soul resides in the after life- and every day of suspension is a century in hell.	7
[WP] You are frozen stiff. The man at your door is holding photographs of all thirty of your victims. "For a serial killer you arew far too easy to find... but I can change that. " He shakes your hand. "Richard Fineman, criminal consultant."	6

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