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[WP] Your job description: 1) Sit in an empty room with a red button for 8 hours a day. 2) NEVER press the red button, no matter what happens. 3) Do not talk to anyone about the job. After many uneventful years, your phone rings and a stern, slightly panicked voice says: „Press the button. NOW!!“

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[WP] „It‘s not what it looks like!“, your girlfriend shouts with panic in her voice, after you walked in on her in the bathroom and stare in shock at the remaining upper half of her body. Her lower half has turned into some sparkling goo that is slowly running down the drain.

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[EU] (“Project Hail Mary”, by Andy Weir) - Dr. Ryland Grace has died of old age on Erid. The Eridians decide to send a diplomatic envoy to return his remains to Earth and to establish formal relations with the human race.

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[WP] You are on a long-distance flight. Several hours in, you take a nap. When you wake up, everyone else is gone. You cannot find a single person on the whole aircraft. The cockpit doors are open though, and the autopilot seems to be working just fine.

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[WP] A newly inaugurated US President enters the Oval Office for the first time. A man in a black suit waits for him and says: "Mr. President, I need to brief you on a top secret project."

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[WP] The White House switchboard receives a call. The caller claims to be the leader of an alien race and asks to speak to the President.

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[WP] Your job description: 1) Sit in an empty room with a red button for 8 hours a day. 2) NEVER press the red button, no matter what happens. 3) Do not talk to anyone about the job. After many uneventful years, your phone rings and a stern, slightly panicked voice says: „Press the button. NOW!!“	3738	WritingPrompts
[WP] „It‘s not what it looks like!“, your girlfriend shouts with panic in her voice, after you walked in on her in the bathroom and stare in shock at the remaining upper half of her body. Her lower half has turned into some sparkling goo that is slowly running down the drain.	1917	WritingPrompts
[EU] (“Project Hail Mary”, by Andy Weir) - Dr. Ryland Grace has died of old age on Erid. The Eridians decide to send a diplomatic envoy to return his remains to Earth and to establish formal relations with the human race.	26	WritingPrompts
[WP] You are on a long-distance flight. Several hours in, you take a nap. When you wake up, everyone else is gone. You cannot find a single person on the whole aircraft. The cockpit doors are open though, and the autopilot seems to be working just fine.	12	WritingPrompts
[WP] A newly inaugurated US President enters the Oval Office for the first time. A man in a black suit waits for him and says: "Mr. President, I need to brief you on a top secret project."	7	WritingPrompts
[WP] The White House switchboard receives a call. The caller claims to be the leader of an alien race and asks to speak to the President.	6	WritingPrompts