WritingPrompts

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[WP] You've been branded a witch, a practitioner of forbidden black magic by your paranoid neighbors. In the name of God and justice, you are to be burned at the stake for your wickedness. The charges are false, of course; you're not a witch. You're something much worse, and the fire won't hurt you.	20
[WP] "Unfortunately, you perished in an accident, but your memories and personality were salvaged and have been passed along to your clone. There's just one problem... a logistical error we made when engineering the clone. Here-" The doctor holds up a mirror for you. You don't recognize your face.	20
[WP] Storebought fireworks are weak. You purchased some "reality bending" fireworks from a sketchy fellow, got super drunk, and started setting them off. The first one you launched was the most spectacular, otherworldly, thing you've ever seen. The second one, you accidentally put in upside down.	20
[WP] While in a public place you hear someone humming a lullaby, one you've heard in your dreams for years. As you try to find the source, your eyelids start to feel heavy, and you succumb to sleep. When you wake up, you're the only survivor of some kind of disaster that killed everyone in the area.	20
[WP] A childhood friend of yours lived in a mansion, and you used to explore the big maze-like house and its many strange rooms for fun, but in hindsight, it seemed like the inside was far bigger than the outside. One day that friend texts you, begging for help. They're lost deep inside the mansion.	19
[WP] Write some kind of action scene, whether it’s military combat, a bank hold up, old west shootout, etc. Instead of guns the participants only have pies to throw at each other.	19
[WP] You get cleared over coms to dock your small ship at the asteroid mining platform for 'emergency repairs.' You prepare to raid the unarmed station, and steal the valuable material they've recently drilled out of the asteroid. Upon exiting the airlock, however, you find the platform abandoned.	19
[WP] A space station orbiting in the asteroid belt runs a mining operation that generates raw product for popular, otherworldly narcotics. Operating outside any planetary law, the station is inhabited by several factions that war over turf, both in the station, and in the field. You've just arrived.	19
[WP] The ruling tyrant gathers up all the greatest bakers in the kingdom. He’s looking for a new royal baker, and will only settle for the best. He prepares a set of challenges and competitions. Only one person will win. The rest will be executed. It’s a Batter-Royal, a true Hunger Games. Good luck.	19
[WP] An antique collector doesn't buy things for their aesthetic or cultural value, but for the ghosts often bound to such items. Housework, simple company, protection, etc; the collector uses these spirits for many things. You are a ghost attached to the latest trinket they've bought.	19

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