WritingPrompts

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[WP] Thanks to your bumbling great-grandson's choice to literally bump into you and his invention of a time machine, he is now fading from existence. You only have a few hours with him to figure out how to set the timeline right again.	8
[WP] You are a therapist to someone with a true case of dissociative identity disorder. You have to carefully explain to your patient that they had an episode and their latent personality has committed murder.	8
[WP] Racism is not an Earthly phenomenon. Humans have just joined the Galactic Council and are horrified to learn that aquatic octopods lead the hierarchy and bipedal primates are considered vermin. Write your first report to Earth as an ambassador.	7
[WP] You are a judge on an ethics council. Your current case is a class action suit against Higher Beings who choose to encase their soul into humans, but defect at the last minute. Describe your case against the Miscarriagers.	6
[WP] Riding a train from one end of the country to the other, the flowing fields and limitless landscapes dull you to the sleep. You awake a few hours to find the train empty, contents askew, and the curious indication of the view from your window that you're underground...	6
[WP] The year is 2030. America is in the 2nd Civil War. Bloody clashes between Conservatives and Liberals are a daily occurrence. You are a reporter tasked with writing how this came to be.	4
[WP] The typical 'stuck in a simulation' story, but the sim was created by the future merger of Google, Amazon, and Facebook. Every person inside the sim was created from real-world data gathered over the course of decades. POV is either yourself or the digital clone of yourself.	4
[WP] In the near future, you are on a team exploring Mars. During a recon mission in a cave, you pick something on your audio. The sound of insects, almost like crickets. You make the call to investigate further...	4
[WP] "They do realize that they're nothing but a complicated dispersal mechanism, right?" "Who cares, once humanity gets out of the galaxy, everyone will see that investing in DNA as an artificial life encoder is a sure bet!"	4
[WP] Every night, you have the same dream about waking up in hospital bed, coming out of coma. One day, you hear the sounds of your dream in real life. Write your struggle about finding which is the true reality.	3

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