WritingPrompts

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[WP]A faded tan gardener’s pickup pulls up front and a man in a black suit gets out. “You’re late,” you say, leaning back into the rocker on your patio. “Yes,” responds Death as he walks toward you across the lawn, “but you’ve asked me to do something that I really can’t.”	4
[WP]You receive a package in the mail that you did not order. Inside is a key ring with 10 keys on it and a note that says: "When a woman asks you to meet her next week at a coffee shop next to a bank, do it. Sincerely, yourself."	3
[WP]We were promised flying cars and utopia. Instead we got computers in our pockets that give us constant drivel about a dysfunctional government. You've discovered the flying cars are real, and we have an easy way to get to utopia . . . along with the plot to keep them secret.	2
[WP]You were poor, then you took an (in)famous writer to heart. To make money you started a religion. You made it the most absurd thing you could think of, and it took off. But then everything you claimed turned out to be real, and you want out.	2
[WP] You are riding the first space elevator to a launch platform, a 1hr trip. 30 minutes in, you hear a ding and an "M" lights up on the floor indicator. The doors open . . .	2
[WP]Health technology has improved enough that no one has to die of natural causes anymore. You are the last one that the technology cannot help, and you are in your final days.	2
[WP]The oral tradition faerie tales are real, and they are warnings about what not to do. You found a cache of written faerie tales, and they tell an entirely different story. This is the faerie tale about you, and it warns kids never to read stories.	1
[WP]You've created the first truly human-like AI and it is in big demand. Unfortunately it comes with a moral price - every unit needs to be occupied by a captured human ghost.	1
[WP]While walking in a dark park something flies out of the dark and hits your head. From then on, your right eye sees five minutes into the future. You're left eye still sees now. What do you do?	1
[WP] You believe that you are the only one that realizes the rest of the country has been brainwashed into a cult. Convince others you are right.	1

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