WritingPrompts

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[WP] You're playing a hacking simulation game, when you uncover a secret email address well-hidden in one of its pretend text files. Curious, you contact it, and moments later you get a response: "You're the first one to find it. Tell no one. We will be contacting you."	553
[WP] A vending machine suddenly appears in the center of town. It is dark and all the selections are unlabeled. Nobody has been able to break into it, and no one has the right coin - until you try the strange one that's been in your family for years.	249
[WP] You're a conceptual artist, and lately you've been drawing various aliens for scifi book covers. One day someone, or rather, some thing knocks on your door and asks "Ok pal, how exactly did you find out about us?"	83
[WP] On a whim, you picked up an old Etch-A-Sketch at a yard sale. But no matter what you do, it always ends up drawing the same map.	50
[WP] Nobody has ever climbed to the top of the mountain near your village. It is said to be guarded by monsters, and haunted by demons. You go up anyway, find something different, but upon your return end up telling the same cover story to the villagers to keep them away from it.	41
[WP] After years of dedication to your arcane research, you've finally learned how to communicate with the trees. Turns out the forest is ... kind of silly.	40
[CW] Describe a rainstorm without using the words "rain", "storm", or "rainstorm".	38
[WP] A kid from your neighborhood got lost in the vast tunnels under your city. You join in the search for him and actually find him, but when you do he begs you not to tell anybody, because he really wants to stay - and then he shows you why.	36
[WP] Your debut sci-fi novel is a bestseller. But in truth you're a programmer, not an author, and it was actually your custom AI that wrote the book. Amid big offers for a sequel from publishers, it's now decided it wants to write poetry instead.	35
[WP] You're out camping one night in the woods, in an area you feel drawn to. You notice an owl sitting in a nearby tree, gazing at you. Suddenly, telepathically, it speaks to you, saying "I thought you might come back here one day, old friend - perhaps something in you remembers."	25

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