WritingPrompts

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[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See.	27732
[WP] You have the power to tell just by looking at a photograph whether a person in it is currently alive or dead. This has minimal impact on your life, right up until the day you see a photograph from the 1800s in your history book, and know instantly that the person in it is still alive.	1257
[WP] You are an official Hero Parent - you raise specially-chosen heroic babies until they are old enough for their tragic backstory to begin, and then you fake your own death and move on to the next child. One day, you are caught up in a disaster and rescued by one of your long-lost children.	35
[WP] You have the ability to see what the firstborn child of any two people would look like. You see an awkward, ordinary couple on a first date, and just for fun, you decide to conjure an image of their firstborn. To your shock, the image you end up looking at is not human.	27
[WP] Your son’s fifth birthday party is going splendidly, and your family keeps telling you what a joy it’s been to watch him grow up. Problem is, you don’t have a son. You’d never seen this kid in your life before you woke up this morning.	16
[WP] You receive a visit from your future self. However, instead of offering you valuable life advice or future winning lottery numbers, they take a single glance at you, burst into tears, and sob "Oh my god, I'm already too late. I wasted my once chance," before disappearing into thin air.	16
[WP] While walking through a crowded area, you happen to glance at the screen of a tourist’s phone as she prepares to take a photo. To your shock, the images on her screen show a dark, warped version of the area in front of you. The tourist seems unbothered by this.	12
[WP] You've just been promoted to a job that your coworkers joke is "cursed"; everyone who gets this job seems to quit suddenly and move far away within a year. On your first day, you walk into your new office, open your desk drawer, and realize that your coworkers were right all along.	12
[WP] You wake up on an ordinary morning, get out of bed, head to the kitchen for some coffee, and notice - with some surprise - that there is a full-grown Grizzly bear in the middle of your living room.	7

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