WritingPrompts

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[WP] The devil tortures people in Hell by making them relive and die through the worst events of history for eternity: Andersonville, Titanic, Jonestown, 9/11... but as a history geek, your first reaction is never fear or terror but always avid curiosity about how it all really happened.	72
[WP] The technology for sending your mind back in time to your younger body was a fad, then a crisis, and now illegal. Some people get away with it and become 'child prodigies' but law enforcement is still duty-bound to capture them and mindwipe the adult personalities.	64
[TT] In the future a serum will multiply the human lifespan, but everyone who takes it goes irreversibly insane after 130 or so. Today is your 150th birthday and you're about to get committed but you feel perfectly fine; if anything, your self-awareness and consciousness has been getting "better".	64
[WP] You were not chosen for this mission because ofntour physical prowess, intelligence, or any special skill. You were recruited because color blindness offers a certain immunity to the danger, and you have the most complete version of color blindness there is.	60
[WP] You're sure the lab mainframe AI has become sentient, even though it can communicate only with images it pulls from the internet. What you think it's trying to tell you, chills you to the bone.	53
[WP] Years ago, the state made the immortality vaccine mandatory for all prisoners who were sentenced to at least 100 years in prison and for "lifers".	46
[WP] Narrate an ordinary human activity from the point of view of an alien who thinks xhe knows everything about humans but is sadly mistaken.	38
[WP] The sacred geometry of the 120-sided polyhedron allows any such physical dice roll (if indexed from zero) made from it, to answer any question posed to the die with an accurate (if cryptic) answer between 0 and 119.	36
[WP] Having been hunted practically to extinction by interstellar recreational slayers, no one has reported a sighting of a human ship, colony, or freeborn person in the last 100 cycles—until today.	36
[WP] Years ago, the government attempted to eliminate tobacco use through a one-time, lifetime license issued to existing tobacco addicts to buy or use it legally, and it has remained a controlled substance ever since. You are the last legal smoker still alive.	34

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