WritingPrompts

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[WP] As a serial killer you live in a section of woods waiting for groups of teenagers to murder. Things take a turn when the latest group of teenagers to come to your area are themselves a small cult who are looking for people to kill.	228
[WP] As humans make their way into the stars, ready to be the exception to some pre-established norm, they find that they’re actually pretty standard as far as space-faring races go. Your captain isn’t taking it well.	218
[WP] Three oracles have told a king that he will die in a specific way, to which the king says “okay, I guess that’s how life goes” and resolves to just let it happen. The oracles begin to panic as they were expecting him to try and escape his fate.	214
[WP] You die once physically and die again when you’re forgotten by the world. While in the afterlife, you see someone appear next to you after his name was discovered in an archaeological dig site. When you ask him what was after the second death, he just looks at you and screams.	196
[WP] You were recently diagnosed with schizophrenia. After taking the medication assigned to you, you noticed that your family had disappeared. When you went out searching for them you also realized that you couldn’t find anyone else either.	192
[WP] As the world burned, the holy men smiled, for they knew that Rapture would come and ascend them to Heaven. When Rapture came, it only ascended those who the holy men considered ‘heathens’ and, for once in their life, the holy men felt fear.	192
[WP] Magic does exist in this world, but casting a spell is so vastly over complicated that no one has figured out how to do so. One day, a group of scientists are able to piece together a scientific formula to cast a single spell.	173
[WP] When the first human opened their third eye, humanity began its next Renaissance and figured out space travel. Things began to take a turn when someone opened their fourth eye. And their fifth. And sixth.	164
[WP] Herodotus has said that Persians had a tradition of stating ideas while sober and while drunk to see if it sounded good in both circumstances. Leaders of today thought that sounded fun and decided to adopt it for modern politics.	153
[WP] On a planet of superheroes and supervillains, one man is used as the ‘normal guy’ that needs to be saved everyday. When a supervillain accidentally kills him, he tries to escape the horde of supers trying to enact the punishment of turning him into the new ‘normal guy’.	152

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