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At 970 years of age, you have tried everything. Every drug, every food, every ambition. You are, quite frankly, bored. Which is why you have tried to die….
When you were a teenager you were not the nicest person to be around. This only got worse when a witch cursed you to always get what you…
You have been selected by your government to initiate first contact with a freshly discovered race. You feel honoured to have been selected. That is until you meet…
The only time the voices stop talking is when you create art. As a result, you are a well-regarded artist. The problem is, the voices make a lot…
The upload went well. You are now enjoying your fifth new body. You look great for a two hundred and thirty-five year old. There is one small problem….
You have learned to be very careful to never – in any way at all – express a wish. Every time you do, the wish comes true in…
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You return from an eventless tour of the outer colonies to find that half the fleet is missing or damaged; someone has moved the earth; and no one…
In every other universe, you are the world’s greatest hero. The last adventurers from another reality have come seeking help. All the other heroes are dead. All the…
What if the dragon was kind and gentle and only wanted to know how her children were enjoying the nursery planet she had made? What if she was…
One Christmas you open a present that is addressed to you. You have no idea who put it under the tree. There only name on the box is…
Near to where you live is a bus shelter. Buses have not called at that stop for many years. You were dared to wait at the bus stop…
On your first day as a rookie police officer, you are introduced to Sam. Sam is a harmless old man who likes ice cream, flowers, and beekeeping. You…
While flying through a volume of unexplored space, your ship picks up an SOS beacon. The signal is coming from inside a nebula which scans suggest will seriously…
On your sixteenth birthday, your parents informed you that your family was part of a shadow council that ran the world. Today, you are to be inducted into…
You wake up one morning with a burning need to go on a quest. The urban area you live in does not exactly offer you many quest opportunities….
How meta can you go? Get a story within a story by having a character attempt NaNoWriMo. If you get stuck, you can always write how the character…
If you feel like you have got “flo” maybe your characters could engage in a rap battle. If you can’t rhyme for toffee, maybe the characters are much…
Can you hide a count up (or down) in your text by including numbers that increase (or decrease) over the narrative segment or chapter? Some easy cases might…
Due to a spelling error, one of your characters gets entirely the wrong idea about something. However, while following up on the false lead they stumble upon new…
Your main or supporting character is significantly hampered by catching a nasty bug. With a high temperature, sore throat, and aches and pains they find they can do…