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This week's contest:
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59 contest entries /
39 stories
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Write a story where a character is experiencing parallel realities.
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69 stories
Write a story featuring an element of time-travel or anachronism.
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71 stories
Write about a character who is convinced their computer is conscious.
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37 stories
Write a story about a scientist.
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42 stories
Set your story beyond our own world.
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52 stories
Set your story in a world living with the consequences of a climate apocalypse.
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137 stories
Write about an android just trying to blend in with their human companions.
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233 stories
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Your character has just realized the app they’ve been developing has become self-aware. How do they react?
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Write a space adventure story that features a visit to an alien marketplace.
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129 stories
Write about a character preparing to go into stasis for decades (or centuries).
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112 stories
Write a post-apocalyptic story that features zombies.
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183 stories
Write a story about someone who travels to the future, and isn’t happy about how they’ve been remembered.
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136 stories
Every year, one person is sent to the moon. This year, though you hid in terror, it is your turn to enter the rocket.
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129 stories
Two people who thought they were the last people left on Earth end up meeting by chance.
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148 stories
Write a story about an adventure in space.
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30 stories
