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I write stories for you!

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And every day, a new story based on a prompt will come forth from my possibly deranged mind and bless your dash with fiction. [I’m assuming you follow me]

There’s no such thing as a bad prompt. There may be such a thing as a bad story. You’ll find out when I get to your prompt.

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[C'mon. My muse is running low on fuel]

Challenge #00529 - A154: The Problem With Tired Old Plots

Free day!

There are a certain number of possible reactions to finding out that one is temporarily invisible and inaudible to the rest of the crew aboard the vessel you all share.

“FUCK!” is in the top ten.

So is, “This is a plot from a bad science fiction series!”

As well as a solid string of curses old and new.

Jabrelle went through the entire top ten before she settled down and attempted to get a grip. She wouldn’t have

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Challenge #00528 - A153: Knowing Where People Don't Look

One of your old stories - “(Nightcrawler) can get away with not using the image inducer if he just puts on a hoodie and keeps his hands in his pockets. I mean, he doesn’t even hide the tail! And his shoes have to be made special.”

Plus a paraphrased quote:

Most people don’t notice things they don’t expect to see. Children though, they’ll recognise you instantly.

It’s a good thing kids are also the least likely to

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Challenge #00527 - A152: Creative Collaboration

http://scienceisadesiretoknow.tumblr.com/post/83664332691/teamrocketing-i-was-looking-up-chicken-noises

That showed up on my dashboard. Your prompt is:

“Music Night during the Amity Incident”

There was a small flock of scientists with her now. Including a very sweet, very junior male whom T'reka kept accidentally deferring to out of social instinct.

Koku had taken to very prominently wearing his ID with the ‘Junior’ part of his 'Junior Assistant’ title highlighted with the help of the humans photo-reactive ink.

Her

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Challenge #00525 - A150: Not Made to be Broken

FREE DAY!

Of course Steve had heard about the secret weapon code-named Rabbit. It was impossible to not hear about other secret weapons when one is also technically a secret weapon.

This was one of the few he got to meet.

He was used to techies referring to their weapons and vehicles as ‘she’ or ‘he’. He was not used to the pale wraith joining their team as “Rabbit’s chief technician”. He was the palest person Steve had ever seen, which

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Challenge #00524 - A149: That Ole Time Religion

“All hail the sun god, he is the fun god. Ra! Ra! Ra!”

“Gimmie a Q! Gimmie a U! Gimmie an E-T-Z! Gimmie an A! Gimmie an L! Gimmie a C-O-A-T-L! Whadduzit spell?”

“Quetzalcoatl!”

“Whadduzit spell?”

“Quetzalcoatl!”

“Give hearts! And blood! To make the rain! Why do we love ‘im? We might be insane!”

YYYYAAAAAAAAYYYY!

“Zeus! Zeus! He’s our man! If he can’t do it, Hera can!

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Challenge #00522 - A147: Sympathy for the Monster

Rule of Fiction 13: Any monster, fictional or real, will have a romance written about it, often one where it turns out to be “not that bad”. A lot will be absurdly well-written and thought out, and a lot will be barely-readable trash.

Pre-Amity humans and Galactic Alliance again, I’d rather see well written (because your stuff is always well written) but there’s always the Twilight in Space option if you feel like it

[AN: The problem with any Twilight

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Challenge #00521 - A146: Necrotheque

“they’re British skeletons of course they’re dancing sarcastically. ”

The place was alive. But only technically.

Crowds of “people” flooded the dance floor and the air was full of the unique miasma of a dance club. Music, people shouting to be heard over the music, stale alcohol and even staler cigarette smoke.

This was Club 86. Where the undead went to live it up.

Maia was busy trying not to freak out. She was the only person&

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Challenge #00520 - A145: Two Types

http://devisamarama.tumblr.com/post/81454106149/nightvaleradiostation-pewdiepiesfanblog

A character that uses every opportunity to throw her prosthetic arm at people, hand it to them etc.

The Membletak used to be a race of conquerors. As far as manifest destinies were concerned, they were mostly benevolent. They did not, for instance, use germ warfare or treat their conquered planets as dump sites or their conquered people as second-class citizens.

They did rely on heavy taxes, but you can’t have everything.

That is,

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Challenge #00518 - A143: Salvation From the Lessers

(since you’re a DS9 fan like I am) It was ironic that after the war, the Cardassian/Bajoran hybrids that Cardassia had neglected and cast out were instrumental in its rebuilding, and its rebirth.

Cardassia was in ruins.

It had never been in ruins. Not in all of its glorious history. Certainly, there had been wars in the pre-spaceflight days, but only individual areas ever became ruined.

An entire planet - and entire planetary empire in ruins… Just sucked the very

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Challenge #00517 - A142: Conclusion-Jumping

One of the many early miscommunications when the humans first started to contact the galactic alliance: Alien expresses interest that human is still alive having broken one or more bones, slightly dense human gets the wrong end of the stick entirely and now half the camp thinks people with injuries like that are killed, because why else would something like a trifling broken arm mean you die?

Susan was learning what many in the new proto-city of Wiwazheer were calling Chickenese. Grey

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Challenge #00516 - A141: Dem Dry Bones

Zoology revision prompt! This is an excerpt about what you can tell from just a skull.

“A defining trait of mammals is specialised teeth. Mammals are the only class on Earth to evolve specialised teeth, with specific shapes for vegetation, meat, insects and combination diets. Reptile teeth are all very similar, single-point and peglike, often not as firmly rooted. They vary in size, for instance snake fangs, but in general are all very similar.”

There were skeletons all over this

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Challenge #00515 - A140: Problematic Material

Video Prompt!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WgXN0kO1JEA

The music, such as it was, was a collection of intersecting beats. The man in the white suit danced in interesting ways.

He wore a white suit with black tie and gloves.

And the interesting thing about the otherwise ordinary room was the grass floor.

Shayde sat pondering the video as it played out. And Rael stood pondering Shayde.

“So what is it?” Rael said.

“It&

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Challenge #00514 - A139: One Dank Morning in the Dire Halls of MegaGlobocorp, West Esterly

“Should you choose to accept it, your mission - which you are required to accept or you’re fired - is…”

Working as a faceless minion in MegaGlobocorp was never fun. It was a dangerous lottery before one even made it to the labyrinthine spread of the offices. As unskilled labor, Dar had the marvellous advantage of having twenty bosses to tell her when she messed up. And a random number generator assigned her at random, to one of the

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SKIP Revamped: The Case of the Polite Vampire

This prompt entitles the receiver to one free day, to be used any time out of sequence of the normal prompt list when the receiver deems it necessary or just already has a really awesome ministory idea that has nothing to do with they day’s prompt but has to be written right now.

[Thank you for this prompt. It doesn’t count on the Official Tally, but, damn, I want to write the heck out of this…]

There’

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