WritingPrompts

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[WP] Everyone can do magic. Everyone except you, that is. Your aunt and uncle have always made fun of you for not being able to do magic, until one day you received a letter inviting you to a school of "science", and you discovered a secret society of people who make great things without magic.	7832
[WP] "Look," said the demon. "This is the 13th time you've summoned me to sell your soul. My boss wants to know where you're getting all these souls."	4589
[WP] Almost immediately after the invention of the time machine, one guy said he would go back in time to kill his own grandmother. He never returned. Nobody knows exactly how time travel paradoxes are resolved because anybody who creates one never comes back.	1156
[EU] The imposter has finally been outed and ejected out the airlock. The surviving crewmates continue on their original mission: to get to the imposter's homeworld and genocide their species.	405
[WP] "A superweapon, you mean like some kind of planet destroyer like the Death Star?" "You idiot! Our starships literally break the speed of light! Literally anybody can create a planet destroying relativistic projectile. No, this superweapon is far worse."	360
[WP] Aliens make first contact with humans. They have space travel technology beyond our wildest dreams, but our pocket calculators are more powerful than their best computers.	330
[WP] One day, you wake up and you can't see anymore. You turn on the radio and nobody else can see either. Chaos ensues. This isn't the story of one person being able to see again. This is the story of how the Great Blinding began.	314
[WP] You work in a space bar. Your shift is near its end, and you're ready to go home. But you just saw someone insert a tab in someone's drink. You pause, take a break, try to regain control. You wish you could just escape. Go back to space. But Caps just entered, and the fun is about to start.	296
[WP] There's been an outbreak of vampires in your town. An interesting side effect is that people are barging into each other's homes without permission to prove that they're not converted.	228
[WP] For every goal we give the AI, it kills humans. We tell it to maximize paperclips, it turns humans into paperclips. We tell it to minimize paperclips, it kills everybody because humans might make paperclips. We tell it to kill itself, it kills humans to make sure we never make the AI again.	197

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