WritingPrompts

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[WP] Your mother buys you a 365-day devotional calendar right before a leap year. You idly dispose of each page but forget to check the dates, until you notice a few weeks after 29 February that each devotion's advice seems to fit the next day all too uncannily. Then they start warning of judgments.	6
[EU] Cthulhu has his own cuisine show, but each 'restaurant' is a different planet, and today's food turns out to be spicier than he counted on.	6
[WP] Digital messages replace written letters, turning handwriting into a lost art. After a surge destroys your city's communication towers, you secretly teach penmanship. One student's elegant calligraphy accidentally casts a magic spell; soon the literate elite spar and skirmish via ornate essays.	6
[WP] On your first day of genie work, a clerical error led to you accidentally granting an impoverished man four wishes. As punishment, you're tasked with convincing him which of his wishes—food, shelter, a safe neighborhood, and love—has to be reverted.	5
[WP] You learned to speed-read books. Your parents told you it was selfish to keep them for more than one day. Then one book speaks to you. "When next I am finished, my ink disappears forever. I want someone to truly appreciate me, one last time."	5
[WP] My old professor's cat once flung pieces of food onto the ceiling with his claw, creating a series of numbers. My professor played the lottery with these numbers and won $50. Write a story from the cat's point of view.	4
[WP] Your commander asks you to be his wingman. He thinks he's looking for a support pilot. You think he's looking for a date.	4
[WP] A certain fighter jet once had a main gun that couldn't fire, thanks to a software bug. It wasn't set to get fixed for years. Write a story where someone finds this out in the middle of a battle.	3
[WP] You're sent to Hell's highest level for jaywalking, but heat rises. The devil and her goons are baffled at you stockpiling crimes to trade additional punishments for the broiling heat, but the farther down you go, the weirder the definitions of a "crime" get.	3
[WP] You travel into the future. Despite only inputting what appears to be a small time gap, civilization and society have advanced to be unrecognizable. A mechanic mentions that your machine auto-updated to several new calendars, the old Gregorian one (and your original year) now long forgotten.	3

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