WritingPrompts

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[WP] You've been feeling a little off the last few days, nothing serious, but you finally decide to go to the doctor. The nurse takes your temperature, then he switches to a different thermometer ... and stumbles out of the room, terrified. The thermometer reads 122°F.	21
[WP] "No boss, you misunderstood - they're not sending a hit man against you, they're sending The Slapper!" The boss's eyes went wide as his face went pale.	20
[WP] Rescued from your crippled ship by a deep space human crew, you were sure of a fate worse than death. They are bizarre, loud, contradictory, occasionally terrifying, and after several weeks you are most afraid of having to leave them.	18
[WP] 53,000 BCE - A day in the life	13
[WP] When you found a magical doorway to a fantasy world in your sub-basement, you knew all your problems were solved! Being a hoarder isn't easy with limited space, after all.	11
[WP] The psychiatrist asked calmly, "When you say the moon calls to you, can you describe that?" You begin sobbing, "It's just so mean and so cruel, it keeps calling me rude and nasty names! I couldn't take it anymore!"	11
[WP] You are Ishara, Sumerian goddess of war, slumbering for millenia, forgotten and fading. A fierce prayer awakens you: a badly injured female flees her pursuers. You want to answer her prayer but are so weak; however, the strange four-wheeled chariot she rides within gives you inspiration ...	11
[WP] The children look at you eagerly, "Grandma, tell us again about how clowns saved earth from the alien invasion!"	11
[WP] Healthy all your life, you just went to the hospital from horrible pains in your abdomen. The doctor comes in holding x-rays, eyes wide, and says "Are you aware you're missing most of your internal organs?"	11
[WP] Every couple of weeks or so, you awake to a randomly altered reality: oval stop signs, strange language trends, odd clothing, etc. They sometimes present challenges, but these differences usually "revert" after a few weeks. Nothing could have prepared you for what you awoke to today.	10

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