WritingPrompts

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[WP] A trans-Pacific flight must make an emergency water landing when its computers go haywire, stranding everyone on a deserted island. The captain explains someone didn't turn off their electronic devices, causing the malfunction. You are that someone. A witch hunt for the perpetrator begins.	11
[WP] It happened a long time ago, but the scars still ache.	11
[WP] She is old and stooped and wrinkled, and he has never been more in love.	11
[WP] In the quiet hours of the night, you think about your life and the direction it has taken. An opportunity to escape and start over suddenly presents itself. You are Donald Trump's hair.	10
[WP] You live and work alone, maintaining a weather monitoring station in a distant corner of space. Your only feasible human contact is another maintenance work on a different monitoring station in a nearby star system. You communicate daily via chat log, but there's a six month delay in replies.	9
[PM] Looking to flex my creative muscles. I'm wanting to do some flash fiction, so please give me prompts that lend themselves to brevity.	9
[WP] You bought a piñata for your niece's birthday party. The one thing you didn't count on was the piñata being sentient.	9
[WP] You're in a traumatic accident. Next thing you know, you're in a dark empty place. A voice tells you that you have a choice; you can choose to: survive the accident, or to sacrifice yourself to save someone else. This can be someone you know or someone famous, and it can work retroactively.	8
[WP] When your spouse brought the first one home, it didn't seem like that big of a deal. Now your home is full of them. You might have a problem.	8
[WP] You are an FDA-commissioned slaughterhouse inspector. It's your job to ensure that the animals undergo no undue stress or cruelty before being killed. You visit a slaughterhouse where each beef cow gets a hug before it's killed.	7

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