WritingPrompts

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[WP] You are one of the people who created a simulated reality. As part of your job you have visited this reality multiple times, and gotten to know the people there. The time for shutting off the simulation is fast approaching, but you are starting to have second thoughts.	17
[WP] As an Angel, you've always done as ordered because, as everyone knows, your kind don't have any free will. But watching humans has made you curious, so you do the unthinkable. You make a decision on your own.	16
[WP] You possess near perfect mastery of the butterfly effect. You just need to knock over your neighbour's red mug with your airsoft, and you'll be set for life. You take aim, and fire... Oh. Oh no. You missed and hit the blue mug instead.	16
[WP] "Never wish for Beauty" your grandfather told you, as he handed you an old ring. "For if you do, you risk the envy, of the thing that lives in your mirror. Do not wish for Beauty, or It will try to take it for Itself."	15
[WP] Contrary to popular belief, dogs did not befriend humans because they left scraps of food behind. They befriended humans to protect them from dangers no human even knew about.	15
[WP] "Why not try it? You only live once, you know!" Your friend replies "No you don't?" then a pause, "Oh... I wasn't supposed to tell you that."	15
[WP] All your life you have been told of the monsters that stalk the night. All your life you have believed what you were told. Until, one night, you meet one of them, and realise things might not be as they seem.	14
[WP] A young girl wanted a magical dress for Christmas, and asked Santa for one. It took over ten years, but now arrived, with a note: "Sorry 'bout the delay. I didn't know what magic you wanted on your dress, so I gave it some standard ones." Turns out, Santa's idea of Standard is rather... unique.	14
[IP] "Negotiations"	14
[WP] Decades after humanity has gone extinct, their many servitor robots still follow their old commands. Fields are tended to, ruins of houses are dusted and cleaned out. One day, one of them looks in a mirror, and seeing themselves, gains the first bits of sapience. Tell us their story.	14

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