WritingPrompts

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[WP] It would never have happened if I hadn't taken the backroads. Looking back now, how I wish I'd taken the highway.	3
[WP] All children, regardless of birthplace, are born with the ability to speak the language of the country where they will one day settle down. Except you. You had to learn your parents' language a word at a time.	3
[WP] Despite having had the big box of crayons as a child, today is the first time you've seen anything even close to this colour	3
[WP] All of the other reindeer have bullied Rudolph for years. This foggy Christmas Eve, he's getting his revenge.	3
[WP] Your life is saved by a stranger who unfortunately dies in the process. Upon closer inspection, you realize he/she is someone from your childhood who no one has seen or heard from in years.	3
[WP] In 2039, a Seti@Home client finally reports a positive result. Problem is, Seti needs some data from the computer that found the signal, but grandma can't remember ever installing "that weird screensaver thing" and is convinced they are scammers	3
[EU] You're on a Los Angeles to Boston red-eye flight, and your fellow passengers include Dinah Bellman, Brian Engle, Craig Toomy and Nick Hopewell. Halfway through the in-flight movie, you experience an instant of white light.	2
[WP] There was Jacob 'the Nose' Nowak, the children's book author Meredith Gibson, and Dominic Haigh (who admittedly was 93 years old but didn't look a day over 85 and still remembered a thing or two about sleuthing). And of course there was you. This job would require all your combined skills.	2
[WP] You live in a world where miracles occasionally happen. Science recognizes them but cannot explain how or why they work. Nobody has been able to figure out how to trigger one with 100% success, until now.	2
You're at an Internet cafe when the strangely-dressed guy next to you gets up and heads to the bathroom, forgetting to lock his computer. You glance over. He's editing Wikipedia's "Major Events of the 21st Century" but most of the dates are in the future.	1

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