WritingPrompts

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[WP] Your son's recurrent dreams about a monster have become so intense that you take him to a psychiatrist, who prescribes him a medication. While filling the prescription, you notice that the name of the drug is the same as the name of the monster in your son's dreams.	3032
[WP] A board of directors of a corporation are plotting a fake alien invasion to cover up an environmental disaster. Unbeknownst to them, a group of real aliens is using the fake invasion as cover for their real invasion.	611
[WP] You've been living a fairly "normal" life--good job, adequate social life, family, etc. One day, a group of people you've never met stage an intervention, claiming you've been brainwashed by a cult. Memories, hazy at first, start to return...	317
[WP] After inventing and successfully testing a method of teleportation, the inventor develops a phobia of seeing or feeling straight edges and sharp angles. You're a reporter interviewing the inventor in her specially outfitted room at a private psychiatric facility. You discover she's not crazy.	105
[WP] In the near future, weather forecasts are accompanied by mentions of the chance of an unspecified "anomaly." On your way home from work, while stuck in traffic, you hear that a "severe anomaly warning" has been issued and you're advised to seek shelter immediately. What happens next?	65
[WP] You're a caregiver for an elderly person who, while increasingly forgetting past events, begins clearly "remembering" future events which happen exactly as he says	52
[WP] Recorded dreams are the hot new entertainment trend, and you're one of the most popular "dream stars" since your dreams are so vivid and bizarre. A deranged fan is trying to make you have nightmares, but you have a surprise for him...	50
[WP] Your crazy uncle shows you a book which he claims is "The Book" from which all the swear words originate (i.e., "every word in The Book.") Flipping the pages, you see the usual suspects, plus a few weird ones with the warning "Use at your own risk."	38
[TT] You are either a veteran of a war fought with telepathic aliens that use their enemies' greatest wishes against them, or you are still fighting the war. You're not sure which is true anymore.	38
[WP] Like thousands of others, you've moved your family to a parallel Earth to conquer new markets and exploit new resources. American culture there is quite different, and you fear that your rebellious son is starting to go native.	36

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