WritingPrompts

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[WP] A wealthy but shady antiquities dealer who steals from other countries to sell to the British Museum discovers to his horror that his family home has been robbed of all personal possessions. Three weeks later a museum in Nigeria opens an exhibit: “The Lost Treasures of Stanley Oglethorpe, OBE.”	3144
[WP] The Queen has been kidnapped and is being held for ransom. Her only potential rescuers: a misfit band of aging actors, rock stars, and other socialites that she Knighted in the last few years.	213
[WP] Thousands of years in the future, archaeologists attempting to reconstruct American history from the ruins of their otherwise forgotten civilization stumble onto the remains of a Renaissance Festival.	5
[WP] 10,000 years ago in the year 2020 politics in the US had become so divisive and toxic that the rest of the World quarantined it and cut off all contact. In 12,020 scientists from London broke the quarantine to investigate the emergence of two proto-species: homo liberalis and homo conservatus.	5
[WP] 35 miles outside Eau Claire on a forgotten dusty back road you wander into an unmarked local bar looking for directions back to I-94. You're about to realize that you've stumbled upon a Time Traveler's Bar, one of a few scattered across time where time travelers meet to drink and share stories.	4
[WP] Somewhere on an Alternate Earth, every adult is granted the right, just once, to legally kill any one other person at some point in their lives.	2
[WP] In a distant future where captcha bots and spam bots became so sophisticated that they evolved into deadly killing machines bent on destroying each other, the last of humanity struggles to survive in their crossfire.	1
[WP] a physicist devotes her life to time travel in order to return to 2020 and prevent the COVID-19 pandemic. She successfully reaches 2020 only to be confronted by another time traveling version of herself. “No, it has to play out like this,” she insists. “The alternative is far, far worse.”	1
[WP] 1930s Berlin. A special temporal task force has established a permanent undercover operation with a single objective: protect the future by preventing hundreds of individual assassination attempts on Adolph Hitler by well-meaning time travelers.	1

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