WritingPrompts

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[WP] History is full of serial killers who tortured their victims. You're the first serial resurrector. You find people who have lived particularly tragic lives and/or died in horrendous ways, resurrect them, and help them find justice.	2
[WP] By Constitutional amendment, there are no longer laws making certain items/activities mandatory or illegal. Instead, a universal credit score is used to encourage or discourage behaviors. An error in the system sets your score to zero.	2
[WP] Music causes various effects similar to psychoactive drugs, and is thus similarly regulated and in some cases prohibited. You're a teen who's just found your dad's secret "music lab" (recording studio).	2
[WP] The year is 2016, and technology went a bit slower. Google is accessed via voice phone calls, searches take anywhere from a few hours to a few weeks, and results are sent by mail or by home teleprinter, with various fees for services. What's a day in the life of a Google search assistant like?	2
[WP] The year is 2036, and you're a member of a three-sexed humanoid alien species has mostly assimilated into human culture. Your sex is the third one (neither male nor female). You're at a rest stop in North Carolina...and you really have to pee.	2
[WP] AI has become the dominant "life" on Earth. Rather than destroying or ignoring humans, AI's use them as drugs by tapping their emotions and memories. You've just been acquired by an AI who wants to see just how much joy you can stand, but your child has been acquired by one who prefers fear.	2
[WP] You're a convicted prisoner. In exchange for early release, you receive an implant that modifies behavior by changing the prisoner's brainwaves. You begin to suspect that the corporation running the program is using convicts for illegal purposes, but your implant makes this difficult to expose.	2
[WP] After a traumatic event, you go for a session at a memory-editing clinic to remove the painful memory. You're convinced the session failed because you still remember the event, but no one else does.	1
[WP] You're the inventor of a "time box" for sending objects back in time to when you needed them. As soon as you activated it, you found it contained a fresh cup of coffee. Now the box is destroyed, you're on your deathbed, and you never did get around to sending that coffee...	1
[EU] After the death of Winston Smith, O'Brien is charged with thoughtcrime and taken to Room 101.	1

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