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[ WP ] You visit his/her grave twice a month . One day , it disappears .
| You sat low to the sunset
Above the sunrise
Row on row
Pain on pain
Heartache and whatnot
It will all go away
Whatever they say to make losing you easier
Flowers come and go
Just like me some days
But twice
I stay
Once for remembrance
Once to forget
Then I do it all over again
And ag... |
[ WP ] The universe is discovered to actually be a giant computer simulation . Immediately , new religions form who worship The Programmer .
| `` It was relativity that did it,'' John said to me. `` I mean, it only makes sense - go close enough to the speed of light and time slows down for you. It's lag! Turns out you can lag the whole universe by forcing it to process frame updates for things moving fast enough.''
`` Right.'' I said. `` Why are you telli... |
[ WP ] You are a superhero known as The Bluffer . Every claim you make is a bluff ... unless someone calls your bluff .
| `` If you do n't drop your weapons, I'll kill you all in an instant,'' I said, making my voice shake a little for effect. The more outrageous the claim, the better.
`` Bullshit, it's twenty to one!'' The man I was pointing my gun at called.
`` You know, for a leader of a drug ring, you're really not that smart'... |
[ WP ] Teddy bears and dolls fend off the nightmares of children at night . You are one of the security objects .
| My human calls me Vanilla. I was a gift at her birthday two years ago, and have slept in her arms every night since. No one really knows who gets chosen to `` live'' or why we're chosen, but we're told that it's our duty to protect our human from the day we're picked up at the store.
You see, children live delicate... |
[ WP ] You wake up naked in the Garden of Eden on the day the fruit gets eaten .
| `` Oh shit. Oh shit. Wait what language is this. Wait what. And I'm black? Ooooh this is the Garden of Eden okay that makes sense.'' `` Adam'' said as he started looking around. `` Well since I'm still here I must not have taken the bite of the fruit yet.'' Adam said with a nod to himself.
`` *HEY GOD! *''
`` Y... |
[ WP ] you are an immortal and have lived a very long life . Everytime you die your body regenerates as you come back to life . Unfortunately , a serial killer finds out and sees you as the perfect victim to kill again and again . So he captures you . But he did n't expect you would play tricks on his mind
| In a dripping basement deep in the bowels of the earth sits a chair. Tied to the chair, multiple coils of black rope lashed around arms and legs and hands and feet, sits a figure. Across the room, huddled next to a rack of well used carpentry tools sits a man in blue pants, stoic faced, anger in his brown eyes.
The... |
[ FF ] A monologue about why you 're going to stop with a ( possibly ) life saving medical procedure . 100-300 words , you 're saying it to your doctor ( of choice )
| Look. I know you've tried, that you've done everything in your power to save me, but it ca n't go on. I ca n't go on. I ca n't sit here, living, knowing that this procedure caused someone else to die so I can live.
No, stop. Do n't try to tell me that it's ok. It is n't. In no universe is this ok. You took an oath.... |
[ WP ] They know .
| My father holds me tighter as we hear the men β s boots stomping above us with a sick rhythm. It β s cold down here and I feel the frost beginning to nip at my ears. Everyone is holding their breath and the tension is almost tangible. If we are found, we are dead.
My little sister whimpers in my mother β s arms a... |
[ WP ] You 're a Jew in one of Hitler 's concentration camps . You were sent here because you resisted joining the HJ . You find that your old best friend is a guard .
| Sitting in the many cells of Auschwitz, I somberly took a glance around.
Death and misery was all that greeted me.
From the start, I knew I would n't had lasted forever, but I had clung onto the hope that I would survive. Even as I waited day by day for the Gestapo to come bursting through my door, that hope ha... |
[ WP ] An alien fanatic , ridiculed by many , finally discovers actual proof of extraterrestrial life on Earth . But instead of celebrating , he decides to hide the truth . Why ?
| I sat staring disbelievingly at the computer screen. I'd done it. My primary goal in life had been achieved. Sitting inches in front of my face was definite proof of the existence of alien life. On that screen, sat a cacophony of emotions for me. All those who had mocked me in the past would see now that I had been rig... |
[ WP ] Describe to me the love of your life in past tense . Make me able to understand them through the 5 senses .
| She had skin that, when touched, felt as though the nerves in my fingers were swimming in a lake of silk. Couples these days only tend to lool for the most bubble shaped arse on a girl. A few minutes of holding her hand was enough to soothe any stress and notions of discomfort.
No matter the time of day, when I was... |
[ WP ] Make me sympathize with someone irredeemably evil
| I farted in his mouth. I farted in his mouth until his eyes watered and he begged me to stop. He was practically weeping at this point, and that's when I decided to shit in his mouth. But I'm not a bad guy. He's the bad guy, I swear. You'll understand at the end. You really will, I swear.
It all started when I met ... |
[ WP ] You work as a telephone scammer . One day at work , you realise you have accidentally managed to call God , and he is believing your story hook , line , and sinker .
| `` Hello, my name is Mike, I'm from the Federal Bureau of Investigation,'' Roger spoke into the receiver, in as smooth and authoritative a voice his lanky, slightly effeminate body could muster, `` and we have information saying that your computer may be infected with malicious software.''
Roger waited a few heartb... |
[ WP ] We did n't start the fire ...
| `` Not another generator!'' I shout. Me and the other last man on the planet rush out of our house. Bloody generator went bad and took the whole house up in flames. I make a move to run in and grab one of the spares form the basement. It's our last source of electricity.
`` No!'' My friend shouts, grabbing me by th... |
[ WP ] write a document voicing the complaints of the engineer who has to design an ancient tomb full of easily solvable puzzles .
| The Iranian archeologist has been holding on to several documents of political importance for quite some time now. Finally, in 1985 they have submitted them for a detailed digital reconstruction with an interactive user interface, to facilitate their working process. These are journal entries by the original architect,... |
[ FF ] 100 words to make me hate a character . 100 words to make me come to love them . 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them .
| `` You. You really think you're something special, do n't you?'' The man with the glasses hair looked down at the boy. He had been looking longingly at a toy soldier sitting on a shelf in the window. His shelf. His window.
β Cause you know what? You aren β t, kid. You β re just a piece of trash, and you know what h... |
[ WP ] You work for farmersonly.com and it 's your job to make sure the applicants really are farmers . You 've been authorized to use deadly force if necessary .
| I looked through the databaser thingy for freakin' hours. Not a single city slicker, so another successful workin' day!
Y'know, they say my job's nothin' but a gosh dang waste o' time, but I disagree. There are honest farmers just lookin' for somebody special, and those darn city slickers just do n't get it. They'r... |
[ WP ] Earth had been abandoned by Humanity because of massive climate change . As a result , an unexpected creature gains sentience .
| Slowly, the seasons changed. Winter turned into summer which slowly turned into winter again. It had been years since the humans left the planet, and it had finally begun to heal from the damage done to its environment. Deep within a forest that used to be a farm, within the continent that the humans referred to as Ire... |
[ WP ] Russia is warming 2.5 times faster than the rest if the world . Everyone naturally blames climate change , you know the horrifying truth
| The man crawled over the border, exhausted. The soldiers which patrolled the area looked at him confused, before rushing to his aid. He had made it, he was the first one to cross the border between Russia and Ukraine, at least after the war had broken out.
`` He... Help,'' he managed to whisper, falling to the grou... |
[ WP ] Your car crashed , and you are dying . In a moment of clarity , you grab your iPhone , hold the home button , and speak your final words - the ones you 've always heard in movies - to Siri : `` Tell my wife I love her . '' As your life ends , your wife receives a disturbing , confusing text : `` I love her '' .
| *I love her*
'Six months. Six long months to the day.' Leslie sighed. Shaking her head sadly, she tossed her phone on the table and reached for the wine glass. She knew she should stop drinking and make her way to bed; her 8am meeting was not going to put itself on hold just because she was hungover. Leslie stilled ... |
[ WP ] The really annoying thing about being a vampire is not the inability to see your reflection , but rather the fact you are n't detected by automatic doors , soap dispensers , or the paper towel dispenser .
| during college I studied psychology, was never particularly good at it but it was always interesting and the lecturers were pretty cool.
Well anyway we got on to memory and the schema; sweet we get to do an experiment where we hook someone up to an actual polygraph and try to fool their memory with a loaded intervi... |
[ WP ] You run a shop for adventurers in a fantasy town . New adventurers keep selling you gear that you sold to other adventurers a long time ago .
| In the backroom, Grover of Innsroot was tallying up the gear, sorting the bits from the bobs, the nailers from the tailors and those who know good loot.
First was one of his first sold swords, Hellpoker. Made in a backyard kiln, he was amazed that people kept on bringing it back. Meant for youngsters to prod at t... |
[ WP ] Everyone with the same name shares knowledge . If one Bob gets a degree in electrical engineering , then all Bob 's have this knowledge readily available . Soon , everyone starts naming their kids similar names until factions form . Your parents rebelled and named you something original .
| I was a kind of spectacle in this world, almost everybody was in a hive, and very few hives still remained. I currently hung out with a female body of Hank, but that did n't matter, as the hive held her mind in it's grip. It seemed they were interested in me for some wierd reason I did n't get, some reason beyond procr... |
[ WP ] you switch your bedroom light off and make your way over to your bed , reaching into the darkness . But you do not find it . Confused , you try to return to the light switch . But you walk a decent distance and do not find any walls . You begin to panic .
| I always reach for the bedpost after turning out the light. If I do n't do this, I walk *into* the bedpost, and smack my knee on the bottom or my arm on the top. That second or so, flailing in the dark until I find it, is like being untethered in a sea of darkness; some nights I overshoot and end up cursing and freshly... |
[ PI ] A world where sex is normal but eating is taboo .
| Shirley was almost done making her sign. Fred had finished making his and was now penetrating her from behind, but that distracted her very little. Her mind was awash of the events to come. People would hate her. Everywhere she went people hated her.
`` Dad, is this all right?'' she asked her father.
`` That's perf... |
[ CW ] 5 really short stories , 5 really short minutes . (
| 5 dead children, 5 soon-to-be dead murderers.
1. Just like the he killed my youngest daughter, I tied him in his sleep and taped myself penetrating him with a knife.
2. Just like my second youngest son, I kidnapped him from the very street he lived on and threw him into the bay, tied to a cannonball.
3. Jus... |
[ WP ] You wake up while experiencing sleep paralysis and open your eyes , expecting to see some sort of creature but instead you see an older version of yourself standing over you .
| Before I tell this story, you need to know, I had a recurring nightmare as a kid. I wake up and I ca n't move. A scaly creature comes up to the side of the bed, swipes a claw across my stomach and starts gorging on my intestines. After about the tenth time, I grabbed one of the knives my uncle bought me and kept it und... |
[ WP ] A woman meets a guy that she really likes . The guy finally brings her home to meet his parents . The woman has a secret past life as a prostitute and recognizes the guy 's father as one of her former clients .
| It had been a long time since I had been to the suburbs of Boston. As James drove the curvy streets toward his childhood home, I sat in the passengers seat and tried to remember the last time I'd walked the urban streets of the city that had such a grip on me. My legs bounced from the nerves, James reached over and pla... |
[ WP ] : A 92-year-old woman 's phone number is one digit away from that of a local suicide hotline . She could have it changed , but she does n't mind .
| `` Hello''
`` Hi''
``...''
``...''
`` Who is this?''
`` This is Mark.''
`` I do n't know a Mark. Do you have the wrong number?''
`` I... no.''
`` What do you want, Mark?''
`` I. Well. I do n't know.''
`` Okay. Well. How are you feeling?''
`` Not to good I guess.''
`` What... |
[ WP ] Moments before your characters death , time stops . They can only start time again by getting into their exact position they were in at the time of the stop , , and closing their eyes .
| Mark Overly had to apply more force than was usually necessary to open his front door. The ongoing wintery mix outside had caused his home to settle awkwardly against the foundation, which resulted in the door not being able to open or close properly. For weeks now, any time he has needed to get back inside, Mark has h... |
[ WP ] It 's been a month since you discovered that every time you wake up , you have a new body .
| She sleeps soundly as I peel the sheets gently from my body. In the dim light cast from the window, it still looks strange. My little gut I'd finally grown used to, gone, leaving what seems to be concave compared. I run my fingers over it, marveling for a moment before I remember my mission and slip from the bed.
M... |
[ WP ] : the world as we know it only has two rules : You own everything that you can carry , and you must carry everything that you own .
| Love hurts.
To be cast aside by your younger cousin and subjected to pain and humiliation for all eternity is a fate I wish not on anyone, except for the perpetrator himself.
Oh, how I regret not taking the other β s advice seriously. If I did, maybe we would have turned the tables during the Titanomachy, and m... |
[ WP ] You are a world-class programmer who has died . God agrees to allow you in to Heaven on the condition that you work for him while he debugs the human body . Write the patch notes for the next version of humans .
| Changelog:
Patch Notes v 4.8
- Increased resistance to cold
- Increased resistance to heat
- Fixed bug in Males causing majority between ages 14-20 having random erections
- Fixed bug causing addictive personalities. ( report states that some humans become irrationally attached to certain substances or ac... |
[ WP ] One day , you find a note in your breakfast ; one of the guards knows you 're innocent and is going to try to help you escape . You are n't innocent .
| I was sitting there studying my bread roll, trying to decide if the slightly odd discoloration was mold. I rotated the roll to see if the underside had any other odd patches when I noticed it. A small hole, something white barely peeking out. A small piece of paper, it appeared. I removed the paper, which was tightly r... |
[ IP ] Front Line
| The war was over, with no voices to sing.
Only one man stood, now with no king.
He fought to the last man, but he could never know,
He'd be the last man in a field of woe.
All of his brothers laid slain from the charge,
never standing a chance against a force so large.
When the lines broke, he l... |
[ WP ] The year is 2050 , Wal-Mart is the supreme dictating orgnaization
| `` Press the button... PRESS THE BUTTON NOW,'' my commanding officer bellowed.
The nuclear launch code had been entered. The green digits, i-11 ( ) M-iN4Ti blinked on the screen. My fingers slowly crawled over the big red button. Once again I looked at the red button in fear. `` This was it,'' I whispered to myself... |
[ RF ] Through the eyes of someone hopeless with grief .
| An October evening in the Northeast: The soft screaming of rubber, so calm and composed, as it burned itself on to the asphalt; a whisper of agony. Dying breaths of the willow trees, pushing their last warm breath through the meandering nostrils of the woods; disturbing the elderly, desiccated leaves, rocking back and ... |
[ WP ] You see yourself as a loser , a nobody . Little did you know that the birds you feed everyday see you as something else entirely .
| The wind was soft through the park. A few couples walked hand in hand down the cracked, cement paths strewn throughout the dying grass. The park bench I sat on faced a still pond. The blue waves slowly came onto the shore. I pinched a small piece of bread out from my own brown bag. The small blue birds below chirped at... |
[ WP ] Humanity is not alone , and has been admitted to a concordat of races . To their horror they discover our biological history as pursuit predatorsβunstoppable , regenerating and incredibly cunning creatures from their nightmares .
| My friend Forg trembled as he held the xenobiology book.
`` Hey man, something wrong?''
He looked at me with eyes of terror, like he'd seen a ghost. He ran away. I decided to pick up the book.
***
Homo sapiens - Humans - have unique predatory techniques that are both terrifying and brutal.
Prehistor... |
[ IP ] A deceased uncle leaves you five million dollars cash to `` finish what he started ''
| My uncle, on my mom β s side, was a quiet, energetic man. I first met him when I was around the age of seventeen. He had a lab coat on, with the name Derek embroidered on it, and was very fidgety. Not able to stay still for long. Like he needed to do something, or be somewhere. However, he stopped when he noticed that ... |
[ WP ] A gamer dies and was sent to Hell . A demon guard greeted him and explained why he is there . Head full of doubt , gamer instead thought he was in a virtual reality game . Guard is now his party member number 1 .
| Lots of people talk about what dying is supposed to be like. A tunnel, the distant voices of your family, choirs of angels. All that mushy stuff. With Mom gone for a week, and my helper on do not disturb I might just find out. Ive been stuck in this shitty VR sim for hours and cant even figure out the basic menus.
... |
[ WP ] Aliens have invaded earth , their technology runs from brain patterns , and only autistic humans can use it . The final battle approaches as we take the fight to them .
| It was Him. He walked across the plaza, slowly, completely exposed, as if daring us to attack. A thousand troops were holed up in the ruins of these buildings. A thousand against one. But it felt like Hubris. What good is strength of numbers against a god?
`` FIRE!'' came the order, and the air around him became a ... |
[ WP ] An outbreak has occurred of a virus that mimics a mild case of the common cold , but with one important side effect : those infected stop aging , permanently .
| I was one of the unlucky few. I was someone who did n't get the virus. I was assured that I would get it one day, but I never did. I was one of the unlucky 0.1 %. It seemed that the rest were going to live forever as these young beautiful angelic beings, at least those lucky enough to be infected in the right age range... |
[ WP ] Outside the rough woolen walls of the tent the raging winds blew endlessly in the frigid darkness of night .
| The storm that had badgered and hindered them since arriving only got stronger with nightfall. Somehow they had managed to make camp, hunched down against the grit and dust, but a fire was out of the question so they went to bed cold with only cold provisions to stave off hunger, two in each tent.
That suited Filly... |
[ WP ] You rent out a vacation home that you 've never been to for two weeks . Upon arrival , you find a photo album full of photos of previous vacationers at the home . Among the photos are you with people you 've never met in your life .
| He stared at the photo... At first he had glanced at it momentarily and continued flipping through the plastic film coated pages as if nothing was amiss- he was just nosing thru the album they left fo guess to write notes, comments or complaints ( one they said the bath towels were dingy... He remembered going into the... |
[ WP ] In an alternate timeline , dinosaurs in the Eastern hemisphere are wiped out by the cataclysm , but those in the Americas survive the fallout . Millions of years later , a crew of European explorers land on the shore of the New World ...
| **Edit: Woah! Gold! Thanks kind stranger! I really did n't think this was worth gold. **
`` Land ahoy! β Was heard rising on the wind from the Crow β s nest. The ship β s sails heaved and turned as strong men started to pull on them. The ship rocked in the water as it steadily moved towards the faint outline in the... |
[ WP ] Everyone in the world can choose when they get super powers . The longer you wait to claim your powers the stronger they are . Today is your one hundredth birthday , and you are finally ready to claim your powers .
| P o w e r.
A word so promising, so omnipotent that striving for it became the main goal for many, thousands of years ago. People who wanted to obtain it and were able to have been dominating earth, while those whithout power had to obey and knuckle under, thus creating a gap between the strong and the weak.
That ga... |
[ WP ] You die . You discover that in the afterlife , you 're stuck in purgatory and can not move on until you 're forgotton . ( x-post from r/writingprompt )
| It had been 70 years already. Being alive had been the best part of being. You got to experience life, you got to have choice, you had a voice and could use it to whatever whim you wanted! Now that he was down here, all that he could do was watch as the world went on above and around him, caught in his own thoughts. Tu... |
[ WP ] There is a dead ... thing ... in your backyard .
| I lock the front door of my house as I walk in. I always lock the front door, it makes me feel safe. I place my keys in the bowl on the table and set my bag on the chair. The cat greets me as I wash my hands in the kitchen sink and rubs against my calves.
`` I've missed you'' I say to him, knowing he does n't under... |
[ WP ] An assassin falls in love with his/her target .
| There she was, leaning over the balcony, her back to him. She was wearing an elegant, flowing red dress and her brown hair was worn up. She looked even more beautiful than before.
Sven sighed. In all his years as an assassin, he had faced some moral dilemmas. Most of them were minor ones, and he had always been abl... |
[ WP ] You found a way to send messages one day into the past . Today , the daily message from your future self failed to appear .
| I woke up and checked my phone, and I was welcomed with no new messages. I always send the text, 9 AM on the dot. There's an alarm specifically to remind myself. What the fuck happened today that made me unable to send a message?
I just have to be calm. I might not be dead, I could just be in the hospital. They take ... |
[ FF ] Write a 3-8 sentence story where each sentence contains at least 2 lengthy clauses . Retell the same story using sentences that contain no more than 5 words each .
| Harry's head felt like the shredded cartilage inside the knee of the running back whom had caused the cause for Harry's head to hurt in the first place. It had been a sure thing, this bet. Harry knew he had to make it, and that it had to come through, because Harry had recently acquired a rather unpleasant medical diag... |
[ WP ] You time travel 1000 years into the future to discover there is only one country . Canada .
| Jonathan stepped out of the time machine, smoke billowing from the bottom of the torpedo-shaped contraption.
After dusting himself off, he looked up. The world was nothing but a desolate husk of what it used to be.
The ground, once green and full of life, now replaced by cold dirt. Smog and smoke filled the a... |
[ WP ] Humans have stopped using sharp objects and bullets to kill . Describe what happens in a war .
| Marcus kneaded the bal in his hand. `` This is not just a game, this is war'' he thought as he warmed his hands for the upcoming fight. Next to him were the finest warriors America had to offer.
This battle would decide the conflict between America and China. Next to Marcus sat Zachary. Zachary cleaned his glasses ... |
[ WP ] The most unspeakable act has been committed . Someone has downloaded a car .
| `` *Muahahahahahaha! *''
It finally happened. The premonition of the internet has occurred. The act of transferring information over the internet into something tangible and working - the act of creating a perfect model and replica of something that existed on the internet.
`` I have done it! It is complete! No... |
[ WP ] We are visited by an advanced race of aliens . During peace talks it is discovered that the aliens ' life spans are approximately 4 of our planet 's days .
| The committee of aliens stood before our own respective committee of UN ambassadors. They were each around eight feet tall, and the yellow pupils of what appeared to be their seven eyes stared at us intently. They began to speak in a low mumbling sound, and our translator who has worked to understand their language beg... |
[ WP ] The distant ancestors of a planet-born race return to their home system to watch the sun finally go out .
| They lost everything.
Moved on, settled down all across there little galaxy. And lost everything again. There little planet, covered in swamps and oceans, long ago stripped down to a husk of its former self. The surface still marked with the glitter of the Sher'tuls vast development. Or at least, was. The sun at wh... |
[ wp ] humanity has wiped out all life on the surface after a thermonuclear war , leaving only deep sea bacteria , overtime , this evolved into land animals , then sentience , one day , a member of this new species discovers the remains of the old world
| VORAL IMPERIAL HERALD
VERDICT REACHED IN TRONTH HERESY TRIAL
> A verdict was reached today in the heresy trial of Camda Tronth of Pra Province. Tronth has been held in custody for the last fourteen months while Holy Prosecutors have perused Tronth β s journals to determine the extent of his treason. After three... |
[ WP ] After a serious accident , you discover you have developed super strength when in physical contact with another human . Now you must discover how to control this power and the resulting situations in which you find yourself .
| On that fateful day when I thought I was about to lose everything, it had been raining. Huge puddles along the side of the road, making those miniature ponds you had to jump over if you did n't want to get your socks wet. There was a lot of traffic at the commercial part of the town and I was there on the corner standi... |
[ WP ] `` He ran his fingertips across the smooth surface of the picture . ''
| He ran his fingertips across the smooth surface the picture, now ripped by the destruction. The boy cried, his parents were gone. No, he could n't cry could he? He thought, `` I mean I'm fourteen I should be strong.'' He wandered around his demolished house looking for other salvageable items. He sighed as he found the... |
[ WP ] Cthulhu awakens and takes over the world . However , he disappoints his constituency when he does n't deliver the mass insanity and chaos that he promised .
| `` Do n't blame me! I voted for Loki.''
It was the fifth such bumper sticker I saw today. The important difference, though, was that the vehicle bearing it was property of Miskatonic University, traditionally viewed as one of Cthulhu's most dedicated strongholds above the waves. And so it was, once. But now sentime... |
[ WP ] : When you died you find out that souls are put up for auction for various religions to bid upon . When you are present on the block , a bidding war started that has not been seen in millennium and you do not know why every religion wants your soul .
| I had never thought of myself as interesting. In fact, I think if forced to give an honest account, I'd have to describe myself as perfectly normal and completely uninteresting, a vapid man. My bodily measurements were perfectly average. Average American white caucasian male height ( 5'9'' ), weight ( 195.5 lbs ), body... |
[ WP ] Write the lowest point of a much larger story .
| *shit*
*ouch*
*fuck*
I stopped moving and stood up. I brushed the dirt and rocks off my clothes and felt my head. Only a little bit of bleeding. Does n't feel too major.
I saw a strem nearby. I walked into it and washed myself off a bit. It's something.
I looked up around me to see where I was.
... |
[ WP ] Kid 's imaginary friends are actually past life versions of themselves trying to fix issues they during their lifetime .
| Genghis Khan paced back and forth with long strides, tugging his long black goatee, sometimes twirling his long thin mustache.
`` I say we burn it down, loot and pillage and slaughter their sons and enslave their women.''
Churchill frowned as he sipped from his cup of tea, and cast a glance to the burly black m... |
[ WP ] You commit a murder and are called into jury duty for someone who is wrongfully accused of your crime .
| Getting the letter in the mail felt like i had a guardian angel with a hell of a sense of humour. Two emotions came rushing through me nearly slamming me to the floor. Relief, as it seems any suspicion of my guilt had been wiped clean by this government issued letter. Then the unforgiving head of anxiety reared itself ... |
[ WP ] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel . Kantian gates , Salec skip drives , Maltiun wave-riders , Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity 's solution was regarded as `` Unorthodox '' , `` Unsafe '' , and `` Damn Stupid '' by the rest of the galaxy .
| Humanity's solution was space-folding. The problem is that in the folding process, anything along the `` crease'' is annihilated utterly. The most difficult part of the process was mapping an infinite trajectory in opposite directions and seeing to it that nothing of value was along this line. This inevitably led to pr... |
[ TT ] Some years ago , the concept began of reverse revenge : elaborate , drawn-out plots to reward someone for a good deed .
| DAMN IT. F\*\*\*ing Todd brought donuts to the office again. Of course he did! Did we ask for donuts? No. Was today a holiday? No. Did we eat the donuts? Maybe. But thats beside the point! Now that *Todd* brought donuts someone has to Egnever him. And of course it's ME, like always. Because I'm his `` friend'', and eve... |
[ WP ] In the near future , all weapons come with a new safety feature : the operator must be smiling for the weapon to work .
| He was standing there just like I remember him on a designer clothes and an expensive watch on his wrist. He didn β t recognized me when I walked in the door. Why will he? To him I was just another conquest on a drunken stupor. A girl he showed a good time. But that is not the way I remember that night, I remember him ... |
[ WP ] You β ve bought/acquired a very typical object , and it somehow proceeds to ruin your life .
| I winced as an immense crash shook the room. How long would this continue? Another resounding explosion echoed through the room, dust falling onto my shoulders and caking my hair. I did n't budge, as if the blanketing dust could cover and fill the shame and sadness that is the empty void of my mind. Just yesterday, the... |
[ WP ] Laws of physics are created and repealed based on majority vote .
| `` All in favor for decreasing gravity to 8 m/s^2 for the remainder of the calendar year?''
The head of the Boston chapter for the Physical Alteration Association counted the silent vote with subtle ticks of the head. She could see some of the world's finest physicists and scientists squirm in their seats at the ... |
[ WP ] People can only have children with their soulmates . Having sex with anyone else will not result in pregnancy .
| `` So make sure you get their number.''
I really, really wanted to leave for my date and forget about this conversation. `` Ok.'' This was worse than health class.
`` But use a condom to make sure you do n't catch anthing.'' Mom wrung her hands, obviously trying to come up with more advice.
`` Ok.''
`` ... |
[ WP ] You are walking down a busy downtown street late at night . As you look through a window in passing , your eyes lock with a man who seems vaguely familiar ...
| My eyes caught the gaze of the man in the window, and for a split second, I could remember where I had seen those eyes before. The memory slid away, a leaf on the stream of my thoughts, and I was again lost, reality bringing me back to the gaze I shared. I shook it off, and continued walking, inhaling deeply the cigare... |
[ CW ] Two people . Sitting on a park bench . The entire scene lasts 5 minutes in real time . No skipping ahead , no flashbacks , nothing otherworldly . Let dialogue drive your story .
| The light just broke through the clouds as she sat down on the bench, her hands folded in her lap, legs crossed at the ankle. It smelled like morning.
`` Well, the kids have been doing well,'' she said.
He took the spot next to her. `` I'm glad. What have they been up to these days?''
`` Reid just told us t... |
[ WP ] A forensic team who investigates murders of mythical/ folklore creatures .
| It was obvious what had happened. The perp had broken a window to enter the house, only to discover that the homeowner was not, in fact, at work. A fight had ensued, knocking various keepsakes off the shelves and breaking a mahogany coffee table, culminating in the perp grabbing a paperweight and bludgeoning the victim... |
[ WP ] a self conscious mosquito that is infected with malaria describes his conflict with his decision of killing a human being to live , or dying from not feeding from a human .
| `` A self conscious mosquito that is infected with malaria describes his conflict with his decision of killing a human being to live, or dying from not feeding from a human.'' Ratty set the book down. Her yellow braid dangled down her back. She shoved the yellow cover towards her husband.
`` Did you like it?'' Mot ... |
[ WP ] People move on to heaven only after they are forgotten about . People that led simple lives move on quick to heaven while those who were famous must wait until all recognition of them is gone . Today is the day where one historical figure finally makes their passing .
| β Greetings sir, we are proud to finally welcome you into heaven, where eternity and the present are irrevocably intertwined. β The attendant looks up from his ledger, fountain pen in ink stained hand, and says, β What is your name, sir? β
β All know of me. β
β This is official procedure. What is your name, sir? β ... |
[ WP ] A world where Pangea never broke up
| `` Ryle! Ryle! Did you hear the latest? ``, a very hip and excited girl shouted, pushing herself between the rest of the passers-by until she was a few feet from me. `` Look!'' she said, pushing a wooden table to my face.
`` Alright, alright... what have we got here...'' I started to read the *newswood*, but I knew... |
[ PI ] Google is a real person that you have to talk to to search the internet
| `` Sir/m'am what is your google emergency?'' I spat out as another customer entered the room. The afternoon was long and boring; for the last 20 minutes or so I'd been exhausted. The digital clock next to my workplace happily read 5:56, so that meant only four more minutes of tedium until I could walk upstairs, chew on... |
[ WP ] The stars never came out last night .
| My world has narrowed to this room. I do n't know why I'm here. I do n't know who brought me here. The only time he makes his presence known is when he slides a plate of food and water through a slot in the reinforced steel door.
The light comes on and off, presumably to mimic the pattern of day and night, but as I... |
[ EU ] After Darth Vader dies , luke picks up his helmet , puts it on , and says `` Now I am Vader ''
| Luke's hand trembled as he slowly put on what was once his father's helmet. He could feel the evil ways of the Sith slowly consume his heart deafening the voices of his once master Obi Wan. The emotions he desperately tried to control began overwhelming him as he felt anger, passion, and fear coursing throughout his in... |
[ TT ] In the year 2099 , human augmentation has hit the market . Diseases are basically non existant , and the aging process has practically halted . You are one of the last pure humans left , and you are conflicted as to whether or not you should augment or not .
| 'When are you planning on getting augs?''
`` Never. Not worth the money.''
`` Not worth living forever?''
`` They technically ca n't prove forever.''
`` Indefinitely. You know what I mean.''
`` I guess I do.''
`` So why not?''
`` I made it this long, right? For millions of years we survived without these ... |
[ WP ] The secret identities of a hero and their arch nemesis are dating . Neither one realizes .
| We both collapsed onto the bed. I groaned in involuntary protest as he pulled me off my stomach and into his arms. He smiled at me knowingly and refused to break eye contact for as long as I tried to gather my breath.
`` That was amazing,'' I allowed him. It was, as always. He winked and ruffled my hair, satisfied.... |
[ WP ] Equivalent Exchange is the absolute law in the universe you live in . If you gain something , you will lose something equivalent in value , and vice versa . One day , you won a $ 10 billion lottery . You try to find out what price you have paid .
| Inhibriated life; a poor product.
Food is the same as all else. It sets the price. The money is spent on bread. This goes to the store. This is that. That eats bread. It is pleased. All is same.
This is what journal says. I escape. I learn speak. Flee is good and bad so no lose. Life sad. Is theory. When is bal... |
[ WP ] Everyone in the world develops superpowers between the ages of 8 and 12 such that the strength of the power increases with the age of development . You believe you are finally starting to discover your power at the age of 18 .
| `` Huh. Guess that's that,'' I speak into the empty room.
On. Off. On. Off. The light switch flips up and down, my finger moving in tandem from half the room away.
`` Weeeeeeell,'' I say, drawing the syllable out. `` Maybe it's not just light switches?''
Experimentally, I wiggle my finger in the direction o... |
[ WP ] After dying , you found yourself staring at a large screen . `` LOBBY . Current players : 7,383,275,800 . Current game time : 1059040375.2 mins . Current spectarors : 21,458,374,931 . Player rank : 2,648,535,901 . Time until next game : 23695624.8 mins ''
| My eyes hurt and it feels strange. Now I remember I have gone through this pull out phase hundreds of times already and I remember that I have never gotten used to it. Memories were flooding in and it is hard to distinguish simulation and reality. `` You better have a good reason to call time out Nikola.... That's 40 y... |
[ WP ] All of the other superheroes are out saving the world , while you 're stuck at home with your not-so-super powers .
| My bed is shaking. I *try* to think what could cause that. Stumped, I look out my window. The horizon is masked with black smoke. I *try* to see past the smoke, but I ca n't. I walk to my front door and open it. I am hit with the sounds of screams and gunshots. I *try* to hear what the screams are saying, but I ca n't.... |
[ CONTEST ] FLASH PROMPT Contest In The Chat Room Today ! REDDIT GOLD PRIZE !
| `` I took his words so literally. Two days, he said. Two days! I was happy the doctor said she would die in two days, but there she was. A slab on the bed. Fat and bloody all over. I wiped her ass for years and the one break I get she did n't give me! That man said two days. He looked me, straight faced, and lied, sir!... |
[ WP ] You 're a man who finds out that his time-travelling grandson is coming to kill him .
| It took me a while to understand what he was saying. It was n't inherently hard to grasp, but the ramifications that would stem from it were n't exactly clear. What's worse was that I need to be killed and I had to accept that.
I was a family man or rather we were still trying to start a family. Sometimes, I worked... |
[ WP ] You are given the option to travel through time , just once , but you will never be able to return to the present . Do you choose to go and if you do where do you go ?
| `` Any time I want?'' I asked incredulously.
`` Yes, but you will never return.''
`` Can I take anything with me?''
`` Only what you can carry.''
`` Can I have a day to think about it?''
`` Yes.''
The voice returned the next day, and this time I was ready for it. My backpack was loaded with 2 te... |
[ WP ] The Fall ( Replies MUST be at least 1,000 words or longer )
| He had made it.
It was 21 hours after setting out, but nonetheless, he had made it.
He took the red pack off his shoulders and examined it. His uncle had graciously gifted it to him two summers ago. Or was it three? He really couldn β t remember. He dropped the bag next to him and then plopped in the snow creatin... |
[ WP ] `` It 's like holding your breath in a room full of noxious gas . At first , it 's fine . But slowly , surely , you grow more and more desperate , until finally you ca n't take it anymore , no matter the consequences . ''
| It's not so much that you want to be poisoned, it's that you do n't know what life is like without the toxin. You're used to the pain, the diseased sluggishness in your heart and the clouded, distracted thoughts. You know now that this vapor that surrounds you is sure death, but'now' only just started.'Then,' the soul-... |
[ CW ] Write a story about your username
| I wo n't ever forget them. I *can't* ever forget them.
They raised me, they taught me what makes me the man I am today; they're my family. Up until that night, I did n't have a care in the world. I was walking on air. ( Pardon the pun )
Then came Tony Zucco, then came that fateful night, and there went my paren... |
[ WP ] [ NSFW ] Why she thinks they way she does .
| A continuation following this [ chapter. ] ( http: //www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/20ygor/wp_i_could_just_make_out_the_window_high_in_the/cg807jg )
Queen Malvina is pacing again. Despite realizing this, she can not cease moving about the dinning room. Laid out on the table is china and cutlery for two. T... |
[ WP ] You have been bitten by a zombie and locked yourself in your room . Write a letter about your experience to whoever finds you , with the language getting worse as the virus progresses .
| To Whom it May Concern,
My name is Matthew Belter and these are my final thoughts as I have been bitten by a zombie. I realize that this may leave me very little time to reveal my last words but I hope I can relay my life and what it has meant to me as best I can. I have led a very happy life where I have accomplis... |
[ WP ] You 're a part of the dog Illuminati . You know where the stick went , who has peed where , and control all of the toys . But now an urgent meeting has been called , to finally find out the answer to who 's a good boy .
| β Order! Order! I will have order in my doghouse! β The gavel fell several times, hard and ringing.
Silence fell.
β Excellent, β High Illuminati Rufus declared. β Secretary, please proceed with items on today's agenda from the top. β
Secretary Sadie's tongue lolled out in a wide doggie grin. It was her turn... |
[ WP ] When the Hero becomes the Villain
| Peter Parker cradled the lifeless body of Mary Jane Watson-Parker in his arms, as the loud laughter of a critically wounded Norman Osborn echoed through a shocked-into-silence Times Square. Peter has had his mask shredded beyond recognition, once again revealing to the world of his secret identity, but he did n't care.... |
[ WP ] Aliens seeded the earth with dinosaurs millennia before . Today they return and see humans populating it instead , and they are PISSED
| `` PREPARE TO DROP OUT OF TRANSWARP'' the voice boomed over the intercom system.
`` It does n't matter how much drazamine they pump into me, I always get sick after a jump lieutenant'' Higgins whined. Higgins was your standard asset collector, gruff, older, salty. Despite all his toughness, there was one thing that... |
[ WP ] After having made your first billion dollars , you are delivered a package containing a `` Billionaire 's Club '' card , and a pamphlet outlining its uses and benefits ...
| What's this?
Its your Billionaire Club.
Its just a...... a club.
A nice one. Did you notice the jewels?
Yeah. It's really nice. Good heft, great balance.
Good, swing it around a bit, get used to the feel of it. Now, here's a User Card, it outlines the usual situations where you can use your new Bill... |
[ WP ] Suddenly everyone in North Korea disappears . It turns out North Korea is super advanced and live in a massive underground paradise . Their only job ? To live on the surface for 1 month each year . Recently , they are on strike and want to stay underground away from the crazy people and wars above .
| June 30
7AM
Hello Surface Jornal. I am opening my eyes as I write, I applogise for any typos. I can barel think straight with the apprehension of the primitive ideals awaiting my lip servies atop our plante. Hopefully it's not as bad as it's mad to sound. Again my coordination is n't the best in the moring but not ... |
[ WP ] Instead of destroying the planet , Global warming has caused the planet 's ecosystem to grow at an exponential rate .
| 2100.
It's funny how things work. We knew that *survival of the fittest* was the rule of nature, and that *necessity was the mother of invention* had created every technology up to the point when we no longer needed but merely wanted.
Global Warming... Climate Change... call it what you like, but nobody can den... |
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