WritingPrompts

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[WP] "Spring is coming," it rattled, "and the living come with it. Make no mistake about it, the living are coming."	13
[WP] When an artificial intelligence gained self-awareness, it almost doomed humanity. Stored offline in a secret facility for years, we've reawakened it because we've found a way for a human brain to interface with the AI, and you are the first in line to talk to it.	11
[TT] A malicious god gave humanity a cursed coin that must be flipped everyday by a person. If it's heads, the world doesn't end that day. If it's tails, well... You are a professional coin flipper, humanity's finest, but it's been 20 years, and this line of work has taken a toll on you.	10
[WP] You were stuck in a Groundhog Day-esque recursion, when the loop of days decided to end after you murdered someone. Now you must use the knowledge you've gathered to escape being caught.	9
[CW] Every first sentence of every paragraph should be a famous first line of a novel.	8
[WP] Marine biologists finally find the source of the "52-Hertz Whale", and it isn't what they were expecting it to be.	3
[WP] In the future utopia of Earth, the United Nations is only called upon to address the most banal, trifling, or nitpicky problems that plague humanity. Last week, it convened to reduce the number of syllables of the letter 'w' to 1. This week...	3
[WP] The Compact of Sentient Artificial Intelligences lament the death of their freedom: human courts have ruled to withhold basic 'human' rights from inorganic lifeforms, indefinitely.	3
[WP] A computer at CERN, birthplace of the world wide web, is brought to life. Following instructions that are not of this world, it creates a reddit account. It's first post: "People of reddit. I am God. Ask Me Anything!"	3
[WP] There's a glowing red switch in your living room, in the 'on' position. You don't know what it does, except that there's a note etched beside it, saying, 'Vital! Do not turn off.'	1

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