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[WP] Magic requires calories. The world's most powerful wizards must eat constantly.

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[WP] My 10 year old daughter's chemistry experiment won the school science fair. Then guys in suits offered to buy the patent. A few weeks later, UN weapons inspectors showed up at our door with some questions.

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[WP] In the courtyard of a jail just outside of Istanbul, an elderly convict grows the world’s best oregano. The mission: Break in, buy some from him, then break out.

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[WP] "Nobody expects a good April Fool's joke in mid-October."

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[WP] Once per week since August 2013, 1d6 of Goblins appears and attacks people and businesses randomly. Tell the story from the view of the city's police chief who had to adapt his force over the past year to fight the new threat.

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[WP] If you blow out the candles on your cake, your wish comes true. It's legally binding. Wishes must be pre-approved ahead of time by the wish police to make sure they are possible and don't contradict other successful wishes.

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[WP] "I've used my one opportunity to travel back in time thirteen years to prevent some huge terrorist attacks that are going to happen on September 11." "Um, it's September 13th. You're two days too late."

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[TT] "We've been fighting since before the giant lizards ran their planet. Humans entered deep space just 10 years ago and now act as if the entire galactic conflict revolves around them."

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[WP] An increasing number of countries send rovers to Mars to sabotage each other. The robot fights get brutal. Countries fight proxy wars through their rovers. Mars becomes a landscape of defeated hulks of metal and a few robot champions that control territory through violence.

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[PI] Everyone on earth has a super power. Rarely someone will have two powers. One in a billion will have three. You have thousands of powers and don't really want to call attention to yourself but crap keeps happening around you.

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Title	Upvotes	Subreddit	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
[WP] Magic requires calories. The world's most powerful wizards must eat constantly.	45	WritingPrompts
[WP] My 10 year old daughter's chemistry experiment won the school science fair. Then guys in suits offered to buy the patent. A few weeks later, UN weapons inspectors showed up at our door with some questions.	41	WritingPrompts
[WP] In the courtyard of a jail just outside of Istanbul, an elderly convict grows the world’s best oregano. The mission: Break in, buy some from him, then break out.	40	WritingPrompts
[WP] "Nobody expects a good April Fool's joke in mid-October."	37	WritingPrompts
[WP] Once per week since August 2013, 1d6 of Goblins appears and attacks people and businesses randomly. Tell the story from the view of the city's police chief who had to adapt his force over the past year to fight the new threat.	34	WritingPrompts
[WP] If you blow out the candles on your cake, your wish comes true. It's legally binding. Wishes must be pre-approved ahead of time by the wish police to make sure they are possible and don't contradict other successful wishes.	29	WritingPrompts
[WP] "I've used my one opportunity to travel back in time thirteen years to prevent some huge terrorist attacks that are going to happen on September 11." "Um, it's September 13th. You're two days too late."	29	WritingPrompts
[TT] "We've been fighting since before the giant lizards ran their planet. Humans entered deep space just 10 years ago and now act as if the entire galactic conflict revolves around them."	29	WritingPrompts
[WP] An increasing number of countries send rovers to Mars to sabotage each other. The robot fights get brutal. Countries fight proxy wars through their rovers. Mars becomes a landscape of defeated hulks of metal and a few robot champions that control territory through violence.	29	WritingPrompts
[PI] Everyone on earth has a super power. Rarely someone will have two powers. One in a billion will have three. You have thousands of powers and don't really want to call attention to yourself but crap keeps happening around you.	27	WritingPrompts