WritingPrompts

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[WP] You are just informed by the authorities that your DNA is a match as a crime suspect for a murder that occurred 40 years ago. The thing is - you are only 20 years old	90
[WP] A retired old man comes across some antique wooden furniture. He decides to restore it. He takes it apart and stacks the wood boards along a wall. After a few hours, he looks at the boards and realizes that the grains of wood are actually forming a picture.	25
[WP] You are God. 10,000 years ago, at the Tower of Babel, you confused the languages of men and dispersed them across the globe, to prevent them from becoming too powerful (Genesis 11). Now, technology has advanced to the point where the barriers of language or physical distance no longer apply.	24
[WP] 5000 years in the future, humanity has been extinct for 4000 years. An alien race lands on the planet, and from their archeological studies, they determine that humans worshipped cats and dogs	19
[WP] You open the morning paper, and are surprised to see a picture of yourself and news of your tragic, macabre death.	15
[WP] Scientists figure out how to harness the electric energy in the atmosphere to supply the energy needs of mankind. However, the side effect is that there is no longer any lightning, anywhere in the world	10
[WP] You just purchased a VR machine that lets you experience, in complete detail, any chosen memory... with the caveat that, once you relive the memory, it is no longer accessible, at all - it is completely gone.	7
[WP] Genesis 11 says God “confused the languages” of men at the Tower of Babel to prevent “all things becoming possible” to them. Millennia later, the internet is now to the point where language is no longer a barrier between cultures. What if Genesis 11 was actually a prophecy for our time?	6
[WP] I am in my first month at work. I am a RF signal analyst for a defense contractor. There is a certain RF signal that, when we receive it, the boss wants me to categorize as "Other" and place into a special folder. I see these several times per week. I am starting to get curious....	6
[WP] You're a clerk at a Air Force base. You start having trouble with your phone. You can't get voicemail, you can't dial out.. it's driving you crazy! In frustration, you start kind of hitting buttons at random.... Damn phone! Then you hear on the headset "Nuclear launch code verified"	5

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