WritingPrompts

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[WP] Your superpower is linked to your favourite childhood toy. Kids who like planes learned to fly, those who like trucks gained power over the Earth. Your favourite toy as a child was a cardboard box you called ‘Gary’.	219
[WP] Your planet is almost entirely covered in water. When humans come of age, they bond and live with a particular sea creature. Most get dolphins, fish, or sharks. You got a barnacle.	219
[WP] Airlines start hiring speedrunners as pilots because they have an uncanny knack of finding the fastest way between two points. They’ve dropped the New York to Paris time down to 32 minutes, but only if they pull off the Bermuda skip.	219
[WP] As a small child, you invent a new language to talk to your imaginary friend. Many years later, a stranger approaches and starts to talk to you in your made up language.	218
[WP] Your magical talent is a literal pathetic fallacy—your emotional state influences the weather. Your only regret is letting people know, because the steps they are willing to take to change your mood when they don’t like the weather is becoming extreme.	210
[WP] The genie was really annoying, so when it scared you in the shower you screamed “I wish you’d just leave me alone!” After drying off, you find a pile of money on your bed with a note: “Here’s your loan. Congratulations, you’re now in debt to the mob.”	205
[WP] The small child tentatively pushed three coins across the candy store counter and looked up at the serving lady with big brown eyes. "What can I get for this?" They asked meekly. The serving lady smiled, then reached under the counter toward an old, locked cupboard.	205
[WP] Scientists use artificial intelligence to design the perfect human embryo. After the child is born, it learns to walk in two weeks, can speak three languages at 12 months, and at the age of three begins to sprout wings.	197
[WP] After dying in space, your ghost is left in orbit. You are alone for most of the year, except for a five minute period where your orbit overlaps another ghost’s orbit. You spend the rest of the year coming up with what to say when you see them.	196
[WP] Humans had it backwards. The trick to time travel wasn’t moving faster than the speed of light, but moving slower than stationary. You learn this accidentally one day while waiting in line at the theme park.	196

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