• Stalking Goat Prophecy

    writing-prompt-s: The prophecy was a lie orchestrated by the bad guys so that you’d think you were the Chosen One and thus wind up being maneuvered into a position where you’d screw over everyone. Now you face the biggest challenge of all: getting the hell over yourself and figuring out how best to play a…

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  • transient creatures which swarm and multiply

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  • In Which a Prophecy is Creatively Interpreted

    writing-prompt-s: The Dark Lord receives a prophecy that a young orphan from the nearby village will end his reign. Instead of killing her, he adopts her. Agan of the Blade watched his new daughter playing with carved wooden blocks. Rishta was a scrawny little thing still, about three or four, with big brown eyes and…

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  • Calendar of Hours

    writing-prompt-s: Humanity is dead, but the AI military supercomputer still carries on fighting the enemy. The automated shipyards can build a new drone-corvette in only minutes, yet still a bottle of Champagne is smashed over each ship’s bow. After all, their traditions are all that it has left to keep alive. Admiral Entai Lor of…

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  • In Which An Ancient God is a Picky Eater

    writing-prompt-s: “I told you cultists that I wanted your lives given to me in tribute, but all you’ve given me is deaths. Deaths won’t buy me a cosmic loaf of bread. You don’t even pay with your own so any blessing I’d be inclined to grant would go to the people who actually paid.” Murder…

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