u/Sonbulan

The road to equal rights is perilous and not easy to walk alone...

Write a short story or infoblurb in the world of Empty Continents with the prompt: CITIZENSHIP. Whether its ostracized outsiders wanting a vote in the chamber or migrants working on getting a visa, there are many ways to tell this story!

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Submissions will be accepted until Sat, August 23th when a new prompt will be released!

Rail lines? Electrical grids? Power plants? Let's build it up!

Write a short story or infoblurb in the world of Empty Continents with the prompt: INFRASTRUCTURE. Not only is it logistically difficult in this new world, are there mixed feelings about covering this pristine natural world with another layer of steel and concrete?

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Submissions will be accepted until Sat, August 15th when a new prompt will be released!

Your ramshackle coastal community has known hardship for generations. But today, the earth rattled - briefly but violently - and you know there isn't long left until impending disaster...

Write a short story or infoblurb in the world of Empty Continents with the prompt: TSUNAMI. It could be literal (a 10m wave of water floods markets in Luzon) or hell -- it could be metaphorical (a wave of Chinese manufactured goods floods markets in Luzon)! Whichever!

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Submissions will be accepted until Sat, August 1st when a new prompt will be released!

For mainland communities in the early post-Vanishing era, one item would consistently prove to represent independence, individualism, and a rejection of islander authority.

Write a short story or infoblurb in the world of Empty Continents with the prompt: FIREARMS. This sounds limiting, but this could be about early continental survey forces, social effects of high rates of conscription, or of course military conflicts!

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Submissions will be accepted until Sat, July 25th when a new prompt will be released!

Centers of high learning and concentrations of specialized expertise!

Write a short story or infoblurb in the world of Empty Continents with the prompt: UNIVERSITY. I'm sure something as far-reaching and mysterious as the Vanishing would shake the very foundations of academia!

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Submissions will be accepted until Sat, July 18th when a new prompt will be released!

Suddenly, a thick dense woodland appears and extends for miles and miles...

Write a short story or infoblurb in the world of Empty Continents with the prompt: FOREST. What were once urban centers or vast irrigated fields, trees have not retaken, but have replaced what once was.

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Submissions will be accepted until Sat, July 4th when a new prompt will be released!

Pack your bags, we're going traveling!

Write a short story or infoblurb in the world of Empty Continents with the prompt: CAPITAL. I'm curious, what are the new vacation destinations of this new world?

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Submissions will be accepted until Sat, June 27th when a new prompt will be released!

Welcome to the center of political life!

Write a short story or infoblurb in the world of Empty Continents with the prompt: CAPITAL. From the Mounds of Cahokia to the formidable floating city of Shujichu, there's plenty to write about!

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Submissions will be accepted until Sat, June 20th when a new prompt will be released!

The canonical date of the Vanishing. For many of you, that's the day this is posted!

Write a short story or infoblurb in the world of Empty Continents with the prompt: JUNE 7. How do people live through, process, recover from, or remember the most significant day in the history of the world?

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Submissions will be accepted until Sat, June 13th when a new prompt will be released!