WritingPrompts

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[WP] Life Console - You save a man’s life, and he rewards you with a handheld device he says allows you to enter cheat codes for life. You bring it home and fire it up. You go to the “index” and find a code. “Player.AddItem Dollars 1000”. Your phone buzzes. $1000 has been added to your bank account.	162
[WP] My brother always told me, “if you’re walking down the street and a street light goes out, NEVER look behind you.” I always remembered those words, especially after he died inexplicably walking in our neighborhood one night. But tonight, as I was walking, a light went out... and I looked.	157
[WP] On 1/1/2016, each human being on Earth was cursed to only use 1000 words for the rest of their lives. At word 1000, your heart immediately stops beating. It’s 2033 in this alternate apocalyptic reality, and you’ve just said words 996 and 997, “fuck you”.	90
[WP] The Door - You’ve inherited and move into your late grandfather’s home and find there’s a brushed metal door in the basement with no handle, which you try to open but can’t. 6 years later, you hear giggling from the basement, so you go down to check it out, and realize the door is cracked open.	26
[WP] “But Alfred, I don’t know the first thing about being Batman!” “Of course you do,” Alfred interjects. “He’s here, in your heart, in all our hearts... and he’s dead, so we’re out of options. You may not be the hero Gotham wants... but Zack Morris, you’re the hero Gotham needs right now.”	23
[WP] Every night I see it, the dark, lanky silhouette, 8 feet tall by the bedroom door. I try to convince myself it’s a shadow, but I can see it has mass. It says nothing. It does nothing. It just... sways. But waking tonight, through the darkness, I see it’s glowing red eyes. “It’s time,” it says.	12
[WP] Our first date was going great, until ‘the event’, a series of flashes that put an end to life as we knew it, flashes that turned into flashbacks. The world now remembered... we had forgotten the day we all died. But why did it happen, and where are we now? So started the last day of my ‘life’.	6
[WP] The Written Word - You’re a fiction writer and are shocked to learn everything you write comes true. You gleefully consider the possibilities, but then you remember the book you published last year, titled “August 15, 2018”. Oh no...	6
[WP] Time Traveler - You figure if time travel is to be possible in your lifetime, you should be able to specify a future place, date and time to meet your future self. The date comes and you go to that place, but nothing. You turn to leave, slightly disappointed, until you see the note...	6
[WP] - The Secret - Your wife has always had a secret she wouldn’t share. One day, you’re at the store and she runs into an old acquaintance, a woman twice her age. They exchange harmless small talk and part ways. Then she turns to you, “I have to tell you what happened when I was a kid.”	5

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