WritingPrompts

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[WP] You've gained access to an elusive, religious cult. The group is known for their worship of a dark deity. Attending your first meeting, you find out that the whole thing is actually just a baking club. Each week the group members bake and discuss new ways to maintain their secrecy	5399
[WP] Sally sold sea shells down by the sea shore, but it was all a ruse. Her real name is Daphne, and she does dark deeds during the hours between dusk and dawn	81
[WP] You walk into an old thrift store in an abandoned part of town. When you try on a university sweatshirt from a rack you are overcome with memories of a college football game that you never attended. Immediately taking it off, you look around and to an empty store. You then grab another shirt	30
[WP] In the future scientists have discovered every possible scientific and mathematical fact. The public, however, refuses to believe this. To keep up appearances, a secret government agency carries out elaborate scientific hoaxes. You work for this agency.	24
[WP] It's late. You've fallen asleep on the couch with the TV on. You wake up to an infomercial with a man saying, "You are slowly disintegrating into your component parts. The process is nearing a threshold. Your phone will ring. Answer it to halt the process." Your phone rings.	22
[WP] You find an old, unmarked book in the attic of your great grandparents' house. The first page describes a dark, rainy day. When you read it, the outdoors changes from sunny to cloudy, and then to rain. You decide to keep reading	14
[WP] In the desert there's a town that only appears once every 25 years. The locals tell you when and where it will appear, and that no one who has visited the town has returned. Unconvinced, you set out into the desert. And eventually, on the horizon, you see the silhouettes of buildings	11
[WP] You're a computer science major at a university. You spend your nights hacking into different department databases for fun. Your latest target was the neurology department. Sorting through their email archive, you realize they've been hiding a discovery: a method for increasing intelligence	11
[WP] You're cooking dinner when your phone rings. The number reads "0". When you answer the voice on the other line says "Do not hang up. This is you, from the future. I don't have time for questions. Whatever you do, do not boil the potatoes. The world-". Then the line disconnects.	9
[WP] You escaped a cult when you were younger, and have been living in a small, quiet town for 10 years. You thought your life had moved on from the past, but one morning you find a note slipped under your door that reads: "We've succeeded. The portal has been opened. It is coming."	9

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