WritingPrompts

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[WP] "Oh, the humans discovered space travel again? The last time, they knocked themselves into the Stone Age before they made it past Neptune. Why don't you give them a hand?" "Yes sir!" You reply as you start planning.	445
[WP] Hell is torture personalized to the individual. After dying in the 1000s and experiencing a thousand years of seeing your harvests failing, you look around and wonder why the newcomers to Hell are looking at odd metallic devices in their hands screaming, "No! We only have a 2G connection!"	201
[WP] Aliens have been abducting humans for thousands of years. After they're done experimenting with them, they maroon them on a faraway planet. Well, that population of humanity has been thriving and has sent Earth their first communication.	172
[WP] Survivors of the 1st World War came home severely shell-shocked because it was the first war fought with machine guns, airplanes, and tanks. No one had ever seen such carnage. Survivors of the 3rd World War came home exponentially more shell-shocked because it was the first war fought with....	159
[WP] You were part of a routine lunar mission, but wound up being forced into stasis due to an emergency. You are awoken by a breach alert. Instead of colleagues, you are surrounded by people in extremely primitive space suits embossed with a rectangular patch of red and white stripes with stars.	118
[WP] You download your Google data report and see that it has data on you a few weeks into the future. Thinking it to be a glitch, you halfheartedly browse through it until you reach the end. A final recording in your own shaky voice, "Hey Google, search how to flee a country."	105
[WP] "We have received your signal and have come to introduce ourselves!" the aliens say. As the world rejoices, a select few scientists are examining the signal they followed and find out that it was indeed sent from Earth...50,000 years ago.	40
[WP] Welcome to The Prompt! A sketchy dive bar that offers a story with every drink. You walk in and nervously order from the gaunt barkeep, "A scotch, neat, with a spooky tale."	30
[WP] In the future, reading and writing has been outlawed for most people. Only the upper class is allowed to be literate. You run an illicit literary speakeasy and this is your story.	25
[WP] A hub connects all of humanity and contains the sum total of known history, information, and media. A neural implant at birth is the ticket in. This also enables telepathic communication, so everyone is able to understand each other. Suddenly, it fails. This hub, known as Babel, is no more.	21

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