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[OT] Announcing the Best of Writing Prompts for 2020!

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[OT] SatChat: What are you most excited for this year? (New here? Introduce yourself!)

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[WP] NASA launches their Faster Than Light spacecraft and makes a round trip to the moon. Upon reentering earth's orbit, they ask Houston for the time. Houston replies "Quit messing around with the coms, theres still an hour until launch".

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[WP] “Wait, we removed it all from their solar system, how do the humans even know it exists?” “By its absence, they call it Dark Matter.”

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Writing Prompts. You're a writer and you just want to flex those muscles? You've come to the right place! If you see a prompt you like, simply write a short story based on it. Get comments from others, and leave commentary for other people's works. Let's help each other.

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