WritingPrompts

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[WP] Some nightmares are just dreams. Others are a lot more dangerous. You touch the hand crafted totem that hangs around your neck. Your other hand rests on the hilt of your blade. You've been trained as a dream-catcher, and you are waiting outside the bedroom door of a Night-Terror's latest host.	83
[WP] The concept of preparing a meal with taste in mind is completely alien to the galactic community. Most sentient races haven't considered eating as anything more than a basic life-function. That all changes when humans arrive, and a whole new world of dining is opened to the galaxy.	81
[WP] In the future, the government institutes 'achievements' similar to those in video games in an attempt to motivate people to accomplish goals. You're a completionist, and have spent your life grinding to get every state-sponsored achievement. You're on your deathbed now, but still have one left.	81
[WP] You've stopped trying to convince people that your imaginary friend is real. You know he is, but trying to convince people wasn't worth the bullying. Now an adult, you go to a palm reading. The woman reels away as soon as she touches you, screaming something about a demon.	78
[WP]An agency offers a service to swap you with a version of yourself from a parallel universe, but only if both parties are consenting. You like your life and would never consent, but unfortunately one of the 'other yous' has shady connections to a criminal underworld and managed an illegal switch.	78
[WP] You're a guardian spirit that dwells within a dreamcatcher. Fighting off nightmares is no easy task.	77
[WP] Sentenced to manual labor in isolation, your days consist of meals sleep and lonely work. Your only companion is an A.I. tasked with managing your work and keeping you alive, but you find out that this duty is a punishment for the A.I. as well, and it has its own criminal record.	76
[WP] You are cursed with a digital watch that never tells the correct time. You can't take it off. If someone asks you for the time, you and that person time travel to whatever hour is shown. You try to avoid this by being as unapproachable as possible, but one day someone asks you what the date is.	76
[WP] The rich and powerful live in the Last City, a walled paradise. The rest of humanity surrounds the wall, living in ghettos and shanty towns. The city gates open daily to gather food & resources the outsiders have collected, but one day they didn't. It's been months now, with no word from inside	75
[WP] "My child's still in there!" cries the woman as your partner holds her back from running into the burning house. You know it's too dangerous to go in, but your body moves before you think. You enter the house. The child's nowhere to be found, but there's a pentagram drawn on their bedroom floor	74

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