WritingPrompts

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[WP] You died, but you didn't die. Your heart stopped beating and your body started decaying until all that was left was a skeleton. But you didn't die. Doctors are baffled. Priest throw holy water at you. 'Life' goes on...	49
[CW] Write a story that ends with a single spoken word from the main character. The main character can't have any other lines of dialogue. (Other characters may.)	49
[WP] When you get super drunk, the deer-head mounted on your wall talks to you. It's strange, but you know it's a drunken hallucination, and the deer-head gives great advice anyways. One day you oversleep, waking long after you should be at work. Totally sober, you hear the deer humming to itself.	48
[WP]You are the chosen one! You even have a magic sword and fantastic powers! So where the heck is the adventure? The evil that must be defeated? Despite discovered your true calling as the chosen one, nothing spectacular has happened. Life goes on as normal. Chores. School. Friends. Family. Normal.	47
[WP] There's a kid in your class who's never called on. They don't have to do presentations. The few times you've ever heard them speak, it's in a soft whisper. They're made fun of, shunned by the other kids. One day you discover why they never use their voice.	47
[WP] Your job: Hook up the witness, enter their memories, investigate the world their mind creates. The next witness is in deep repressive denial. You ask them questions before each dive to get their mind on track, but the world gets stranger and more twisted each time. You're becoming afraid to go.	47
[WP] Write a story where the main character dies in some kind of accident every few paragraphs, and the perspective shifts to one of the bystanders each time.	47
[WP] Human's settle on a world rich in valuable minerals, but it has an extremely strong repulsive magnetic force strong enough to counteract gravity. Because of this, the colonies built on the planet are effectively upside down, the surface above the hanging cities, the abyss of space below.	46
[WP] Pick a conventional occupation, and then write a story about how its function has been twisted by a dystopian society.	46
[WP] You stand before the doors to an ancient catacomb. Death hands you an ornate horseman's pick; the weapon weighs heavy in your hand. "There are creatures down there that transcend death. If you want to earn your life back, take it from them," Death says. It's time to mine some cryptocurrency.	45

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