WritingPrompts

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[WP] As a newly-arrived immigrant to China, you laugh at all the hilariously-translated English t-shirts and signs you see. That is, until you notice that they start saying increasingly disturbing and prescient things.	57
[WP] You're the lead editor for an extremely popular cable news show. One night while producing a clip reel of the past few months, you notice something. The host has been blinking in morse code.	36
[WP] Your eccentric and obscenely wealthy great aunt Winifred left you her entire fortune, but the conditions of her will are more than a little out of the ordinary.	34
[WP]You have the ability to point at any person and say the name of a crime which they will then be inescapably compelled to commit. This power works flawlessly until one day your target suddenly steps aside and you catch your own pointing reflection in a store window.	20
[WP] You're the best in the business, if only your clients realized what you really were up to. See, they think they're hiring the best hitman around. But really, you're the best hintman.	12
[WP] You are moments from falling asleep when your cell phone rings. You don't recognize the number but you answer it. After hearing what the caller has to say, your task is clear and you get out of bed.	9
[WP] A man needs a name.	9
[WP] ...and your story ends with a plot twist. Wait... the plot twist refuses to twist. Try as you might, this story wants to end deliberately and directly.	8
[WP] Lemony Snicket is hired as an adjunct professor to teach a Freshman English course. Unfortunately, he forgets to not do his signature narration about the goings-on of the class.	8
[WP] The zoo administrators are absolutely furious. Somebody thought it would be funny to sneak into one of the habitats and it caused chaos. Time for a meeting at the head office of the "Ecology and Research Terrestrial Habitat" or "EARTH" for short.	7

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