WritingPrompts

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[WP] Nobody is born with citizenship. When someone turns twenty, they are exiled from the country and must earn the right to become a citizen and return. Lately, however, fewer and fewer seem to be making it back.	680
[WP] A traveling salesman tries to make a living by selling his homemade massless, frictionless pulleys to high school physics classes, but sales are low. Upon arriving at a university's engineering class, everyone's suddenly very interested for some reason.	456
[WP] A time-looper spent centuries inside a time loop, mastering every skill, meeting every person, learning every secret. Now that they're finally free, they realize that they've also built up a lot of bad habits.	437
[WP] You are a conceptual theif. You can steal sharpness from a knife, freshness from the air, difficulty from a problem.	437
[WP] Superheroes are fairly common and have existed for over a hundred years. As a young, up-and-coming superhero, you are facing the greatest challenge to this generation of superheroes: to find a superhero name that doesn't sound stupid, but hasn't been copyrighted/trademarked.	382
[WP] "I have seen the face of the one true God. And it's just a bunch of lesser gods in a trench coat."	379
[WP] The hero arrives in a kingdom of which people tell tales of extreme cruelty and horror. Confronting the evil overlord, they start to realize the overlord is quite nice and reasonable, but the citizens are just really whiny.	362
[WP] An ultra-egalitarian society has finally gotten rid of one of the last forms of inequality: family. Children are taken away from parents at birth, their identities randomized, and raised communally. Inheritance is outlawed, and searching for biological parentage is forbidden until adulthood.	286
[WP] As the great dragon searched for ways to further grow its hoard of treasures, it realized there was a way for people to voluntarily give it more treasures: open a museum.	244
[WP] You are capable of achieving great things, but only by accident. You became a champion bodybuilder when you just wanted to lose a few pounds, you became a renowned neurosurgeon when you thought you were taking a first aid course. But the simple things in life still elude you...	222

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