WritingPrompts

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[WP] People get selected for urban-planning projects, jury duty-style. You've been chosen, citing your extensive experience playing SimCity, but most of what you did was fling disasters.	54
[WP] You're an eye doctor for mythological creatures. Medusa and a family of Hydras were quite interesting, but today's first patient is a young cyclops, being fitted for her first lens. She is scared.	40
[WP] A werewolf wizard slows down the moon's orbital period to become more powerful. As a geriatric vampire, you find that this delays your monthly Social Security payments.	38
[WP] You're on a historical game show in a ruthless dictatorship whose propaganda is constantly being rewritten between coups. You don't know if you'll end up in jail from answering truthfully or from accidentally playing along with the wrong party.	37
[WP] You're a retiring thief; your aging victim grins as you think you've snuck in. He offers you the pick of his house if you sell a precious jewel and split the proceeds with him. You take one look at the beautiful, pristine stone and fearfully explain that you'll never find a buyer in 100 miles.	34
[WP] For each soul you reap, you get more money the healthier they were when they died. "Improbability bonus," it's called. You've been healing one sickly soul for so long, they now see you as an angel.	32
[WP] A cooking competition allows alien entrants for the first time. The winning dish uses ingredients that do not grow in any known soil on Earth. Chefs, scientists, politicians, and alien ambassadors discuss the ethics of terraforming small ghost towns to grow these ingredients for top dollar.	26
[WP] Your religious school stages a science fair. You and several others design robots, but you secretly program yours to "pray." On the day of the fair, causing the power to flicker, your robot begins rapidly beeping, with all the other robots joining it: "BE NOT AFRAID"	26
[WP] You supply the traps for a deadly prison competition where victory means freedom, and less overcrowding. The likely candidate to win committed a heinous offense without remorse. Caught rigging a trap, you're sentenced to participate in your own game, whose solutions you're starting to forget.	23
[WP] Each new day or death, you awake as a different species, with no human knowledge except this skill and each species' memories. You've seen the top and bottom of a thousand food chains. After 100 years, a wizard instructor rehumanizes you and asks you what you've learned of the meaning of life.	23

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