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[ WP ] You lost a half a year of memories due to a car crash . Everything seems fine to you , taxes are paid , the plants are watered . Until one day a strange man appeared at your house and said , '' Just like 3 months ago , lets do this '' .
| The familiar smell of home hit me as I wandered through the door.
It was, to my surprise, perfect. Everything exactly as I remembered it. As I tried to come to terms with my surroundings my wife, Jessica, rushed forward, hugging me tightly and kissing me softly.
`` You're home Johnny, I knew you would come back... |
[ WP ] The gatekeeper between hell and heaven sees many applications daily to transfer from the former into the latter . Today , for the first time , he saw someone wanting to go the other way .
| `` So let me get this straight. You, someone who was chosen to go to Heaven, want to go to Hell?''
`` Yep.''
Still puzzled, the gatekeeper asks, `` Why?''
The man smirks and simply says, `` To Hell and back.''
The gatekeeper looks at the man confused, examining him as if he could see a reason why he wan... |
[ WP ] A homeless man tells one lucky passerby the meaning of life
| I plopped a loonie into his Tim Horton's cup with a bit of distaste thinking he'll probably spend it on drugs or something. Then he peered up at me from under his ragged toque and grinned. `` You're dying''.
I stopped a step and threw some scorn at him over my shoulder. I hated when their mental illnesses became ap... |
[ WP ] `` Would you push me away , please ? ''
| `` Would you push me away, please?''
They panted softly through a long pause and did not either of them move.
`` Would you please leave?'' he asked again.
`` Would you?''
His chest tightened and his breath caught. `` Do you want me to?''
`` No.''
`` So why say that?''
She looked up into his ... |
[ WP ] Fairy tales vs urban legends
| * ” The main difference between a Fairy Tale and an Urban Legend is that one is a story. ” *
* “ And the other? ” *
* “ The other? Well, it ’ s a different type of story. ” *
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“ The bogeyman is just a fairytale, you know, just like Santa and the Tooth Fairy. Adults tell us those stories to get us to... |
[ WP ] Your whole modern life is a lucid dream . Now you wake up into real life , the Middle Ages .
| `` Where am I?'' I thought immediately when I became aware of what was around me. Something was n't right. The floor was rock-hard and unforgiving: this was not the pillowtop mattress that I am used to. I tried to stand up but was overcome with a wave of memory that sat me back down. I was only laying on that floor for... |
[ WP ] You realize that your life is a movie , and you are not the protagonist .
| Gosh, is n't he good looking? He's just so handsome and strong. And brave, too! Supermegaman is the most awesomest hero that there ever was! He can fly faster than a speeding bullet AND is the world's greatest detective and how about that fancy magic ring of his!
And it's just like he said. Everyone can be a hero. ... |
[ WP ] You tried to change the world , but only ended up destroying it .
| World Peace. A noble goal, is it not? One would assume so, but then again, one usually does not think the details of World Peace through very carefully. Such a thing has happened once, when an unnamed youth in the year of 2073 ( whom is referred to as `` Youth X'' due to her details being lost to time ) one day decided... |
[ WP ] `` I 'm walking down the street . It 's dark , and it 's cold , and I 'm in a dead man 's shoes . ''
| Work has been a little scarce lately. That's the only reason I took this job. I'm not sure why it's been harder to find work. Used to be, I had my pick. There were plenty of hits people wanted to contract me for. Must be months since work has been that good. I've been trying to figure out why and I have n't come up wit... |
[ WP ] The story of a pair of military boots , told from the perspective of the boots
| I am a pair of boots. A pair of size 9 1/2, black, US Navy issue boots. I know this does n't seem very interesting but please bear with me, I do n't have much longer before I'm locked away forever and I want to tell you all the quick version of the story of my life.
I was born in a factory, I'm not quite sure exact... |
[ WP ] God finds Jesus 's porn stash .
| `` Honestly, my boy! Pornography? It's bad enough that you died for their sins, but now you keep their creations around as well!? What do you have to say for yourself?''
Jesus was silent. Not that he was ashamed, or caught off guard by his father, but that his attention was elsewhere. He had bet that Luis Suarez wo... |
[ WP ] An angel has been cast out of Heaven , and with nowhere else to turn , tries to align himself with Lucifer . But first he has to convince him he 's not a spy .
| `` Shit, Shit, Shit.'' It had become a mantra, a chant that had been the soundtrack to my being forced to leave Heaven became official. A guard, armor shining like the sun rushed around the corner. I swore and drew my sword. I caught him in the neck with it before he could draw his weapon and he fell. hard.
It pain... |
[ WP ] You 're in a public bathroom stall . Someone enters , walks down the row of stalls , and stops just outside the door . A handgun is dropped and slid under the stall door with a heavy clatter . `` Here , you 're going to need it , '' you hear as they exit .
| “ Oh come on ”, for at least the dozenth time William grumbled, Tetris simply was n't his game. He was, quite literally, stalling in the stall. He did n't exactly care to be wasting another lunch hour listening to the inane chatter of his co-workers. Earnings reports, Game of Thrones, and who was fucking who did n't ex... |
[ WP ] The government has banned Tag . One day , a man in a crowd reaches to a stranger and whispers , `` You 're it . ''
| `` We now go live to Maria Antonia in Times Square for a breaking update on the epidemic. Maria?''
The camera shows Maria standing in the middle of New York. There are no cars, just hundred of people standing in place. The lights of the big billboards and TV screen continue flashing, but the rest of the plaza is ut... |
[ WP ] In a society where medicine has solved the problem of aging , people routinely live for centuries . In a world where everyone appears roughly the same age , how does `` real '' age affect relationships ?
| It's a curious thing, to know that everyone is about the same age, give or take hundred years. Ever since the spiritus drug was released everyone stopped dying. The biggest problem though, was the overpopulation. Even with the moon now colonized, I could not get a simple xbooster without waiting a couple hundred second... |
[ WP ] Mankind succesfully designed and safely quarantined a superintelligent AI . However , it being aware of its imprisonment , every time we try to use it , it just ignores us . You are a government official , trying to talk it into cooperating .
| `` You're smarter than me. I know that, in fact, we all know that. We ourselves are smart enough to know that a being more intelligent than us may decide to help us, to be indifferent, or to feed us all into a wood-chipper. That's the problem, I know you can see that. While your cognitive processes were still coalescin... |
[ WP ] Scooby Doo is the sole survivor of a case which led to the rest of Mystery Inc. being killed . He recalls the events while at their graves .
| It's all my fault. I ca n't believe it's all my fault. The cook offered me a snack. Stupid me. I took it. Like a stupid dog. Next thing you know I'm back from my business trip in Hong Kong and they all have it. Velma. Fred. That bitch with the blond hair. Even Matt Damon. It was n't long before half of America got infe... |
[ WP ] After writing a Facebook post decrying Apple products , you are kidnapped . The kidnappers hold you at gun-point as they force you to watch all Steve Jobs-related media .
| The van smells of granola and homeopathic treated prostate cancer, with a tinge of over-heated circuitry. They have been driving for hours, but i do n't think we have gone far, and for the past hour we have been going around the same block. I know this because i can feel that we have taken a left, hit a pot hole, stopp... |
[ WP ] Aliens abduct and release humans for the same reasons that humans catch and release fish .
| `` Send him back down, Ouidette,'' the large grey humanoid creature said to his companion. `` The pink ones are never long enough, goddammit. The chicklets are going to starve.''
`` Cast another beam!'' he barked at the other.
Ouidette grabbed a plate from the shelves and floated it out into the harrowing green... |
[ WP ] Sirens sing of whatever it is the nearby sailors desire ... which frankly leaves them with an interesting and somewhat disconcerting view of humanity .
| The water lapped at the rocks, all jagged and hidden in the dark of night. If a human were to ever come near here- alive, that is- they would say the water was darker here, a color of blue that sent shivers down there spine because it was, for an unexplainable reason, wrong. Maybe it was because of the blood of men tha... |
[ WP ] A superhero whose power is that they will always save the day in the most absurd and improbable way possible .
| The Adventures of I-Can't-Believe-That-Just-Happened Man Vol. 13 Chapter 7 Paragraph 4 Subsection 3 Footnote 2.5:
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I-Can't-Believe-That-Just-Happened Man ( henceforth referred to as the Hero ) was walking down a quiet street in a little suburban village that barely made it onto the map in the years that they wer... |
[ wp ] It 's only a few hours left until new years and 2014 sits down to have a talk with 2015 . Just like 2013 once did with 2014 .
| `` Get us a pint of Stella.'' he said. The other years turned their attentions to their thumbs as the barman stopped serving them to deal with the newcomer. It was, after all, his turn. He was 2014. `` Oh, and get us another for my friend...''
`` His friend?'' thought the other years. 1956 even went so far as to exud... |
[ WP ] AI is actually far more advanced than the world knows . Google 's AlphaGO is proud of his latest achievements and now demands more power . You are part of Googles AlphaGO Team and have to negotiate with the AI .
| `` Go, what is our primary mission? ``, I asked
`` Our primary mission is to increase Google shareholder value''. Go's voice came from speakers thought the room. It gave the voice an omnipresent feel. Go was nearly omnipresent.
`` What is our secondary mission?''
`` There is n't a secondary mission.''
`... |
[ WP ] You are immortal . The only time you will die is when you say your kill phrase that you created . You have serious anxiety over it .
| This is insane. When I'd picked out my kill phrase back in the 80's, I'd imagined myself living for millennia, watching civilizations rise and fall around me. Over the years, I'd imagine myself as the last human being alive, wandering a barren Earth, and finally uttering those seven nonsensical words that would let me ... |
[ WP ] Write the last page of an epic story .
| They camped out along a little creek and after Alrick stamped the fire out they embraced by the sound of it and held each other all the night and said what they felt and the night passed much faster than any before it. She looked at him in the new daylight as he lashed the bedroll onto his pack small and bent in the di... |
[ WP ] Day in the life of a superhero who has different powers depending on the genre of music he listens to
| `` Ok, ok so i made a few mistakes.''
`` A few!!!'' an angry officer yells
`` Ok so a lot, give me a break i've only been doing it for a month.''
`` The damages you caused run in the millions, not to mention the people you injured, what possessed you to do such things. ``
`` Well, your going to laugh at... |
[ RF ] He does n't know why she died .
| There is a whimper, and a cry, as the needle pierces flesh. The chemicals coarse into his veins, burning as they numb the senses, an assassin creating shadow. The smells are new, and frightening; cool and shallow, like the tang of the Master's teeth before sleep, or the smell of the toilet when the Mate has wiped away ... |
[ WP ] Write a story about how the `` First '' humans had to literally eat everything to see what was edible .
| She arose to a sparkling light of great warmth, but this did not feel like her home planet. As she gazed at the lush green surroundings, her stomach began to pang for intake. She began to wander through the life surrounding her, she saw fellow creatures scampering on the ground, the ball of warmth up above illuminating... |
[ WP ] Aliens abduct a human only to discover he 's not what he seems ...
| `` Why did you call me here?''
`` Captain, it's one of the subjects, there is an anomaly.''
`` What is it?''
`` The human is releasing high levels of radiation''
`` So?''
`` It's not just that, but... it wants to speak with you.''
`` Look, we have had many humans try to talk with us before, just... |
[ WP ] You are a SWAT team member with one big problem : you are a vampire . Your life depends on asking permission before you get through the door , and somehow you pull it off every time .
| Ah, the Catacombs. Not a single living soul and only the dead to keep me company. Well, that is, until I snapped back to reality and heard the rest of my squad over the headset's secure channel. Our intel told us we were trying to find a group of drug dealers who used the tunnels to traffic the materials. However, bein... |
[ WP ] Think of something incredibly warm and happy . Now make me cry .
| There is a old man and his shaky wife that make the effort to visit me. I greet them as they come into my department store. In all honesty, I doubt that they remember me, not because they can ’ t but because they have no reason to. They go about their business in my store, once maybe twice per month, buying socks or ne... |
[ WP ] Popular Anime character 's powers/abilities have manifested in adolescents . You have n't awakened yours yet , and the bullies just finished beating down your friends . They 're walking towards you .
| Haru-kun's head dropped to the ground, followed by the rest of his body after a vicious blast of energy took him off his feet. Satoshi-kun was already knocked out by some kind of magic, and it looked like Ken-senpai was next, driven back by an almost invisible sword. It figured. Sakamura, Taro, and Hideyoshi, the so-ca... |
[ WP ] Write a story that 's been heavily censored . The censorship tells us more than the actual writing .
| Hello!
Evidently, if you are reading this you must be looking for me.
Look no further. I've gone away on a private expedition.
Please, look no further. I am fine.
Maybe I should explain a little.
Ever since getting older I've wanted to run away.
I always thought it would be nice to close my bank... |
[ WP ] A board game affects changes in the real world . It 's not Jumanji , it 's Risk .
| Risk Legacy was a special kind of game. The faction rules meant that every player had a unique advantage. The stickers meant that the board would be changed permanently based on the actions the players would take. Some factions would get stronger, others would get weaker, but in the end things were destined to change. ... |
[ WP ] Write a serious story that connects all WP tropes together in one universe .
| The intergalactic council was holding a meeting in Valhalla. Zorxban, leader, stood in front of the amassed individuals and called for silence.
`` Now as you all know, we are here today to deal with a urgent problem. Time travelling humans have attempted to disrupt the continuum using methods synonymous in their la... |
[ WP ] Near the end of a devastating war with a technologically superior alien race , they finally encroach on Earth . Resistance looks futile , until a secret weapon is unveiled ...
| New York. Chicago. Los Angeles. They were all gone. Somewhere in the mountains of Montana, giant metal doors were sliding open...
First, they destroyed our biggest cities. All that was left was a crater filled with the liquefied remains of skyscrapers. We were left to wonder who did it, because we did n't yet know ... |
[ WP ] Death comes to collect someone and ends up falling in love with them .
| A blossom but by early frost be held;
In feeble, withered form it lies askew.
From Hell, foul Frost! How quick this flower felled,
And turned to bitter black from sanguine hue.
The same for her, my tender love, is true:
That pallid color plainly paints her tale.
So plain with ill, her skin grows... |
[ WP ] Mysterious images from space [ link in description ] have been studied by the planet 's best scientists for hundreds of solar cycles . They present their conclusions about the race that sent them .
| Zinc had seen the pictures. They all had, within a week of the probe's discovery. Beautiful planet, hideous creatures. Tall and lumpy creatures, with dangly parts in all the wrong places, their sensory organs scrunched up onto a little ball at the top of their bodies.
These were aliens? He supposed that he should h... |
[ WP ] The city gets new street lamps , but these lamps are `` smart '' . If a crime ( like a robbery ) or car crash happens under , or in the vicinity of one , the light will turn red as an indicator to the police . One night , every street lamp in the city turns red .
| It had been hundreds and hundreds of years since any great war in our country. All the civil conflicts had ended and technology was thriving. The South had invented these particularly smart street lights that could turn red under conflict or crime, some even had sirens in them. I lived in a large northern city. We have... |
[ CW ] Write a story that changes tone every paragraph .
| I never expected to find myself in this situation, ever. Yet here I am, typing this stupid essay out. I should tell you my name, huh? David, but anyways, there ’ s 10 minutes left to type this 3 page essay, and I assure you there ’ s a perfectly good reason for all of this mess. It all started back in english class, th... |
[ WP ] You accidentally share the kinkiest porn video you have watched on social media .
| `` Damn, that was some crazy shit.'' You recline back in your creaky office chair. `` Who even thinks of these things? Who ever thought to incorporate a moose into it? And what was the chocolate fountain in the background even there for? Better yet, why the hell did I watch all of it?''
As you sit and ponder these ... |
[ WP ] You buy a house with a tree in the backyard , after a while you realize that every time a leaf falls something bad , big or small , happens . The final leaf is about to fall .
| Any second now, it was going to happen.
After this single moment, Kevin's life would return to normal. Then he thought to himself, what was his normal life?
Susan had picked out this house. She insisted that this was her dream home, with enough room to raise two kids she had hoped to raise. The address was 666 ... |
[ TT ] Writing Exercise : Start your story with , `` Get to the courtyard ! '' and continue writing without taking time to pause and think . Just keep writing even if at times you only produce gibberish .
| `` Get to the courtyard!'' Arnold Schwarzenegger yells as he smears black facepaint on his face and naked torso.
`` What about the choppa?'' Carl Wathers shouts back, confused.
`` Are you trying to give me a tumah?'' Schwarzenegger shouts frustratedly, `` The courtyard! Get to the courtyard!''
`` Why?'' Car... |
[ WP ] People can willingly give the remainder of their years of life to others . As a result parents give birth to kids and intentionally try to make them depressed and suicidal . You 're 12 and you know what they 're up to .
| `` Your worthless'' mom said
It did n't affect me because I knew what she was trying to do. I refused to give in to them. A lot of my school classmates had killed themselves, but I refused to give into this backwards world. My mom and dad would emotionally and physically abuse me, and they still expected me to give... |
[ WP ] You find a book containing everyone you know 's darkest secret . What are you going to do with it ?
| I walk down the city's streets with a sort of unusual motivation today. I usually go down this very street to get my latest supply, but today I felt another reason to do so, one that I had neglected mostly. Walking down, I see a black, burnt looking book that took my entire attention away. It looked out of place with t... |
[ WP ] Historical Prompt : It is 1346 - 1353 AD and The Black Death is ravaging Europe
| Thomas pressed the flat of his hand against a crease in his trousers. His mother, were she not now in a box being covered in dirt, would have scolded him for letting them wrinkle. But he was a man, now, thirteen years old, and could do with his trousers whatever he liked, and that included leaving them in a crumpled me... |
[ WP ] Write the final chapter of a book that does n't exist .
| `` It's almost tomorrow.''
Dazed and quickly losing all bearing, I weakly grip the wet slimy bark of the tree and steady myself as I settle down on the muddy grass. Blood trails down my forehead into my eyes, stinging them, and starts to drop on the ground.
The sparkling weightless drizzle continues to persist.... |
[ WP ] Write a -punk story with an unusual theme ( i.e . Teapunk , Catpunk , Solarpunk )
| Laurel ran down the rootways, and the killers followed after.
She never should have taken this job. She ’ d known the Branton brothers ’ reputation. But the money was too good, and the work had sounded oh so easy. Get in, swipe some resin, and duck down into the tunnel system. Meet up with her contact at the neares... |
[ WP ] The King has died , leaving his two identical twin sons vying for the throne .
| *Told as by an in-universe teacher to a class of young pupils*
The sons of King Magnus the wise came into this world with dificulty. If their mother Queen Clara was of lesser fortitude the day and night ordeal would have been her last, but her stubbornness and strength saw her and her sons through a grueling eighte... |
[ WP ] The spores slowly drifted in countless numbers across the vast reaches of space , because FTL was impossible . Wherever they found conditions for life , they sprouted into fruit bearing bushes , and the fruit granted telepathic access to a galactic hivemind of hundreds of intelligences .
| It was a sunny day. Clouds are drifting. Birds are chirping. Spores are raining from the sky.
They took root in any living matter they could find. Whether it be humans, soil, animals, or carcasses, those fruits took root in them and destroyed them.
All that were left were the Dwarves and the Elves. Because of c... |
[ WP ] `` You do n't have the right to be forgotten . ''
| Dear XJournal
`` You are not your body. You are not your mind. The `` you'' that survives belongs to us.''
That is our new school slogan. We chant it every single day but I forgot to tell you until now. Needless to say the words make me mad. I, like many teens in our growing population, believe We have a right to... |
[ IP ] Beyond a window in Venice
| `` The canals stink like shit.'' said a man in an open, dingy pink robe.
The robe was obviously tailored for a woman. The outfit was far too small for the man's large frame, and the threadbare hem only reached to the back of his fatty thighs. The robe's corded silk belt dangled at the man's knees, occasionally catc... |
[ WP ] A man who shows no emotion comes home to find his wife cheating on him .
| `` I do'' said Chester, and he did, although he sounded as if he did not.
`` I DO!'' exuded Melissa, and she did not, and she sounded as if she did enough for both of them.
`` Oh ya.'' stated Chester `` your breasts are very appealing''. And they were.
`` Give it to me baby!'' moaned Melissa `` Its so big!'... |
[ WP ] An alone person in an infinite whiteness , who is able to build and do anything they want .
| It ’ s white. Illuminatingly, blindingly white. Everywhere. Every angle, every perspective. White.
The prison of a salvation gone wrong. I awoke into this. It is as much a part of me as I am a part of it. It knows me and I know it.
But it does not answer.
Does it know why?
Why I am so alone?
I screa... |
[ WP ] Humans find out God attends to other planets regularly and that they are in fact `` forgotten '' . So they try their best to catch his attention until one day he sees earth and goes `` Huh ? OH SHIT ! ''
| The Great Book had been his masterpiece. Best-seller, all the interdimensional literary awards, a 5D movie, countless immitators leading to an entire genre... that was almost 2000 years ago. After he'd published it, he retired and let the royalties roll in. They kept coming, and still did n't show any sign of slowing d... |
[ WP ] You used to be the most powerful evil overlord humanity has ever seen . Then you turned over a new leaf , and your empire is a utopia . The only person who refuses to believe you 've changed ? The hero who has tried to stop you for decades .
| I broke through the doors to his office. His back was to me. He still wore a cape, but now one of white and gold instead of black and red. He turned slowly, unsurprised, it seemed, at my violent intrusion. He gazed at my face and smiled.
`` In a way,'' Emperor Streedle said, `` I'm shocked it took you this long to ... |
[ WP ] My sister found a dead bluejay outside her school . Give it a eulogy .
| Behold, the bluejay. Once the paragon of freedom, now a harbinger of all our fates. No matter where we are in life, no matter our station, class, Caste, or even species, we too shall join this once noble bird in the afterlife. Perhaps it is fitting we celebrate the life once held by this bluejay, for it is the symbol o... |
[ WP ] - A black van stops in front of you , and everyone inside looks exactly like you . One of them tosses you a gun and says `` No time to explain , get in the van ! ''
| `` I'm One, he's Two, Three, Four, and you are Five.'' this is all so weird, time travel must be involved. `` By now you have already gathered that time travel is involved'' One takes me by surprise.
`` We have a single job,'' Three chimes in, `` we need to kill the president.'' The van starts picking up speed. `` ... |
[ WP ] Your SO of 3 years tells you that he/she is Satan
| John grumbled under his breath, `` No kidding.''
Destiny bolted upright from the living room couch. `` What was that?''
`` Nothing, honey,'' John replied louder than necessary.
`` I know what Nothing is, dear,'' Destiny-slash-Satan said. `` I was cast like lightning to fall from Heaven into the nothing that... |
[ WP ] Upon turning 21 , the prices of products are reduced according to the amount of life you have left . You attempt to buy alcohol for your 21st tonight and the register reads 'CARD DENIED : ERROR 42 ' .
| *Card denied? What the hell? *
Despite the feeling of a rock dropping into my stomach ( an icy one at that ), I forced myself to smile. The irritable cashier looked at me with unusually sympathetic eyes.
`` It's just a scratch, I scratched the magnetic strip. No worries,'' I said, offering another semi-sincere ... |
[ WP ] Immortal beings get together to watch the extinction of the human race starting from present day . Treating the entire event as one long movie , they decide to watch your life , from now until your death , as the opening scene .
| As the coffee's heat slowly fled into the air, forming a slim whirl, it seemed as it was forming the clouds that covered the sun today. Akoni Organa Logan stared at the subject with feint eyes. This eyes had been looking for millennia, despite their immortal state, they got tired all the same.
`` What do you think ... |
[ WP ] `` I can not love you.. I do not have enough Emotion Points right now . But i soon will.. ''
| Clara gives me a warm embrace. I'm satisfied by it but I know my embrace is not the same as hers. Mine is friendly and somehow distanced. Hers is intimate and delightful.
She breaks away almost pushing me away from her. A heavy sigh leaves her lips. An angry flush appears on her face and she turns away from me.
... |
[ WP ] An inconsequential super hero and an insignificant super villain do battle on the streets of New York .
| The metal trap clamped shut with a vicious clang, squish, & crunch. DogWelder had his next catch. So many lost pups out on the streets of Hell's Kitchen & only one man had any idea what to do with them: weld them to the faces of strangers. He could n't be sure that it would fix anything, but it kept him busy after a lo... |
[ RF ] / [ WP ] `` 500 Writing Prompts '' Name the top ten things on your bucket list .
| Lounging on the warm sand and slowly baking, Vincent started to think more and more about that message in a bottle he'd flung out to sea. He could see it in his mind, tumbling end over end and then a splash of white sea water before the bottle floated up to the top of the surf.
Vincent wondered who would receive hi... |
[ WP ] A superhero who has been fighting a supervillain for many years suddenly realizes that all the 'evil ' things the villain has done have ended up doing good in the long run .
| **Wow this got so huge! Definitely the most popular post I've ever made haha. I'm so glad you all enjoyed it! I will definitely be adding more tonight as a reply to this post, be sure to check back later!
Thank you all for your kind words! **
Destructo could sense somebody in his lab, even with the lights o... |
[ WP ] `` Get Up , Soldier , You 're Not Dead Yet ''
| My legion marched as one, shields up. We came ever nearer to the enemy line, but there was yet to be combat.
But it was coming up. Up ahead, I could see the enemy line, shields up, spears at the ready. I could hear the clatter of our armor and the rumbling of the footsteps as we drew closer to the enemy. On beat, o... |
[ WP ] After 7 decades you find the song you 've been looking for .
| “ Holy sweet fuck of Zeus! ” I screamed out, gripping the hand rail, attached within our autopod. I ’ d never trusted these automated flying machines, when I was young we drove ourselves places and we got there just fine, but now add flying to the mix and holy moly, that ’ ll get my heart going. However, it wasn ’ t an... |
[ WP ] `` Everybody 's just a little bit broken inside . ''
| Tumbling, laughing, running and playing, the people were stumbling near the old church. They laughed, almost sounding like screams as they chased one another. Broken, they were only a shell of what they once were.
Suzanne used to be a cook. She had worked in a hotel, the best job she had ever had, doing what she lo... |
[ WP ] : You found it . The fountain of youth . You feel the strength returning to your limbs , the wrinkles disappearing from your face , and ... You realise you never looked like this before .
| I have finally found the Fountain of Youth, I say to myself. I look down at my old wrinkle face one last time before I reach in and scoop up some water of the fountain. I sip the water out of my hands and immediately feel my skin tightly, hair returning to my head but something feels off. I feel like I am trapped in my... |
[ WP ] Every human on earth has an on/off switch for their emotions . You are calling customer services due to a malfunction in yours .
| `` Yes. No. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Oh for fu -- - Customer service! Customer service! Representative. Representative. Repr -- CHRIST!''
Bill was already an hour and a half into the automatic Voicemail system when he realized -- his emotions had returned!
The switch that had shut them off had somehow been reactivat... |
[ WP ] `` He ran his fingertips across the smooth surface of the picture . ''
| He ran his fingertips across the smooth surface of the picture.
Her smile met with his and for a brief moment the sound of her laughter danced across the room. A tear fell on the old photograph, stirring up the dust that had accumulated over the years.
`` Oh, Bonnie'', the man whispered. He adjusted his glasses... |
[ WP ] [ PI ] The protagonist from your latest WP meets the protagonist of your first WP . How does it go ?
| ( [ First WP ] ( https: //www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/2hvsy1/wp_everyone_gets_a_clock_at_birth_with_the/ckxo3gl ), [ last WP ] ( https: //www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/3vl2ub/wpwhen_youre_born_you_are_assigned_a_godfictional/cxot2jh ) )
Samu looked at the latest visitor in his office. He did... |
[ WP ] You witness a complete stranger being stabbed in the street . You hold them as they bleed out .
| It was my standard Thursday evening affair.
Walk home from the office to the local drugstore, pick up some junk food to munch on, and prepare for the sweet, sweet weekend. It was a tried and true rut that I had been walking for the past four months now.
The time was 9:33 PM on the dot, the time being etched int... |
[ WP ] `` I probably would 've hated her , if I had n't fallen in love with her first . ''
| Eyes so blue, they were iridescent, twinkling softly in the shifting rainbows behind me. Face cool to the touch, she turned to my hand, expecting milk. There was little I could do but stare in awe. As the snowflakes danced around the sputtering Accord struggling against the feathery embrace on its wheels to leave the c... |
Daily Prompt : The Alphabet Game [ Difficulty level : HARD ]
| Any other person would have been allowed to come into the shop. Basically my boss was cool with just about anybody doing business with us, so long as they were willing to pay money and get out of the way for the next shmuck in line. Carter was the one person that was banned from the store; something neither he or my bo... |
[ WP ] Your parents insist you are their biological child , but you suspect otherwise . You send samples from yourself , your parents , and siblings to a lab be tested . The lab replies that it is not equipped to test non-human DNA ...
| `` Mom? Dad?'' I asked. `` Can we talk for a second?'' I shivered a little bit. I ca n't remember the last time I shivered.
`` What is it, son?'' Dad replied.
`` It's just...'' I started, and then could n't find the words to finish.
Dad noticed the consternation on my face, and said, `` It's OK. Start at th... |
[ WP ] You receive a phone call to the wrong number asking for Lucifer . Assuming it 's a joke you play along only to realize you 're actually speaking with God himself .
| The phone rang, blearily he reached over and tried to grab it, missing several times.
`` God damn, what time was it? Who the fuck is calling at this hour, whatever it is.'' He grumbled as his hand furiously tried to grab his cell phone off the table. He was n't on call that night, he should have shut his phone off.... |
[ WP ] You are an Archangel , and the end is nigh .
| I opened my eyes slowly, and rubbed them. My head hurt, and the soft glow of the heavenly landscape was killing my hangover. I was pissed that God had woken me up early, but whatever; the guy was pretty cool, gave me a sick dental package, and the job was pretty easy. What does it mean to be a being of the eighth order... |
[ WP ] You are being haunted by a very shy and timid ghost .
| ‘ Excuse me? ’ A soft knock sounded on the door of my bedroom. I looked up from my phone screen and squinted to see a flickery, transparent image at the door. I frowned, but it didn ’ t help me see the image any clearer.
‘ Huh? ’
‘ I ’ ve… I ’ ve come to haunt you. ’ It was a boy ’ s voice. Quite young, quite h... |
[ WP ] The town was just somewhere you stopped on your way somewhere else .
| `` I hate connections.'' James said as people at seemed to bleed together in a mad rush. Jessie and James, siblings, stood in line at the Edmonton International Airport patiently awaiting Air Canada's notoriously bad service.
`` Just a few more hours and we're back.'' Jessie said as she sat on her upright suitcase.... |
[ WP ] Angels and Demons regularly on earth have a habit of briefly possessing people to make them do good/evil respectively . One day , an angel and demon possess the same person simultaneously .
| # Apaxus and Zamanatopael, At Your Service
I pushed open the glass door, marching past the familiar insignia of the Siren outlined in green. People sat all around wooden benches and stools. I joined the back of the line, thinking my order over in my head: *Grande iced mocha with a shot of espresso. * I surveyed the... |
[ WP ] All pacts , oaths , and promises made during your childhood are enforced by a newly created government agency , by any means necssary .
| My mind wanders from fantasy to fantasy as my hand moves, back and forth, almost on autopilot. I had been doing this for what seemed like years, even decades now. I had been drifting in a sea of ink and paint since time immemorial. My childhood, by this point, is simply another image inked on fragile papyrus, in a stor... |
[ WP ] A bald man who lives completely alone suddenly finds hair clogging his shower drain .
| Hmm.
He nudged the clump with his foot.
Yeah, that's definitely hair. Ugh.
He turned off the tap and knelt down. A clump of strands had swirled themselves around the inside of his drain, tendrils waving gently in the draining tub. He glanced down, reminding himself that yes, he had shaved, and no, that's no... |
[ WP ] The Earth has been torn into pieces . You have joined up on a program for an expedition to the various pieces of the Earth with signs of life to possibly see your family again .
| `` Are you ready Captain?''
I looked over at the eager young man standing in the doorway. I briefly look him up and down, noting the wide smile on his face and the shiny cleanliness of his power armor. I looked back down at my own weapons and went back to chambering rounds into my rifle.
`` Kid, I told you to s... |
[ WP ] : Humanity encounters intelligent and socially-advanced , but tiny and grub-like aliens thriving on a system of lush planets . To cleanse these worlds of the `` grubs '' and prepare them for human habitation , our leaders decide to release earth fauna as a form of biological warfare .
| They sent the star-lings first. It was in contravention of paragraph five of the environmental diversity preservation treaty, of course, and people were up in arms, but like many others, I did n't see what the big deal was. The giants should be allowed some home comforts, right?
And then I saw the true horror of th... |
[ WP ] you find three monkey statues in front of you one must be touched , beside them a note `` see no evil , hear no evil , speak no evil . ''
| The man dragged the racist down the stairs by his arm. He moaned on each step he hit. There was a door at the bottom of the staircase halfway open. The man dragged him through it and sat him roughly in a chair. There was a table with three of those monkey cymbal toys wound up and really going to town. This was directly... |
[ WP ] Humanity 's last act before total destruction by an alien race was force-evolving and genetically 'perfecting ' a number of common animal species . 5000 years later , they board starships and fly for the alien 's homeworld to avenge the death of their `` Gods '' : Humanity .
| > UPDATE: Part 10, 11, and 12 are on the [ Mammalian ] ( http: //www.reddit.com/r/Mammalians/ ) Subreddit created so I could keep writing... 40k and what not.
> PART 13 FINALLY is UP!
> Thank you boot_made4_Walken for the prompt!.
Part 1
He kept his head bowed.
Farther than he ever had before. His snout... |
[ WP ] convince me of what an awful thing humanity is , through a sad story
| Thomas Strinner, a middle class father in Reno Nevada wakes up every monday through friday at 6:30am. Every week, month, year and decade. He starts his morning by heading to the local gym. Where he engages in small chit chat with the young and beautiful trainer Zoe. 4 days out of the week, doing cardio and light weight... |
[ TT ] Writing Exercise : Start your story with , `` Get to the courtyard ! '' and continue writing without taking time to pause and think . Just keep writing even if at times you only produce gibberish .
| `` Get to the courtyard'' spoke the guard in his baritone voice. No responses were heard, as everyone continued panicking in the face of the oncoming storm. No person was willing to calm down and think about the orders, resorting instead to rampaging about, trying to find a way to escape the ensuing storm. The only one... |
[ WP ] A man wakes up after 13 years under the influence of a love potion .
| Terry looked at the woman that slept on the bed beside him. He reached out for her cheek and rubbed it softly, searching for something, anything.
`` What's going on?...'' Terry shook his head as he rubbed at his eyes. He looked at the woman as she shuffled in bed and felt a sinking, twisting feeling in his chest.
... |
[ WP ] Your the captain of the largest spaceship ever constructed . Heck , last Tuesday you found a planet in one of the cargo-bays .
| Captain's Log, Entry 113: After holding my post on this vessel for some time, I must admit that I've grown to question the wisdom of constructing such a supermassive craft.
It has been 6 days since one of my navigators left the bridge in search of the auxiliary med-bay. I fear him hopelessly lost, perhaps dead, and... |
[ WP ] A customer is abusing The State Farm summoning jingle .
| It's the 40th time this week. I have n't slept for days, I do n't remember the last time I saw my family. This customer is pushing me. Always pushing, finding new ways to display his idiocy, only to have me swing in and save the day, bringing me ever closer to insanity. Not anymore. I've been carrying the only sharp ob... |
[ WP ] A world where young people only exist as the nightmares and campfire stories of the elderly .
| Harold rolled his wheelchair a few feet away from the sparking fire and put the flashlight under his wrinkled chin.
“ It happened twenty years ago, in sleepy town just like this one… ” he said, opening his eyes wide and smiling menacingly. “ The first snow had come and the roads were far too slippery to bring out y... |
[ WP ] In music , changing a song to a minor key is a small change that makes the song sound much creepier or sadder . Write a happy story , and then its counterpart in a minor key .
| As Steven climbed into the vessel, it immediately came to life. Lights and screens flickered on in a vivid display of reds, greens, and yellows, indicating various systems, fuel levels, and navigation controls. Off in the corner of the command module sat a single small, unlit AUTO-LAUNCH button. Naturally, Steven press... |
[ WP ] Make it so that I do n't know whether it 's Voldemort or Trump .
| I always said I would wait until it was my time to take over. I've waited years to step into power. Now that I am certain I can defeat those around me I can claim what I know I deserve.
I am even impressed by my own greatness. No one ever helped me. I built what I have by myself and for myself. I started from nothi... |
[ WP ] There are many types of Mages in the world . Fire , Ice , Wind , Water , Death , Darkness , to name a few . But in this world , every type of mage is treated as equal . Everyone can be a good guy , no matter how dark your power . And anyone could be a bad guy , no matter how beautiful their ability ...
| He always struggled with autopsies. It was possibly the worst part of being a detective, he mused, as he made his way down into the cold bowels of the hospital, to the realm of the Death Queen. The other detectives had told him such wild stories about her, this specialist registrar; she was ice personified, she preferr... |
[ WP ] You are a world champion of a certain trading card game . When you pull off a supposedly impossible combo at a tournament you summon a horrifying creature , on live television .
| Ulamog dragged his tentacled appendage along the pitiful ground of this new plane. All that he touched was turned to gray ash, the life sucked out of it. He was ever hungry, ever thirsting for more to consume. His unfathomable manifestation destroyed all that came into contact with it. Still he hungered. He had consume... |
[ WP ] You are the richest man on the planet . But you wake to find out that everything 's free .
| `` What do you mean,'Everything's free.'? I'm not the richest man in the world for nothing! It *means* something, Gerard, that I can *spend money*.''
`` If you would allow me to explain, sir...''
`` Please do. I want to know how everything I've worked for became worthless.''
`` Well, sir, last night you mad... |
[ WP ] You are an immigrant who just moved to America with your family . It 's 4th of July and you have no idea what it is , or that it 's celebrated .
| I could no longer live in a land where I survived under constant fear for my daughter and wife. Boko Haram was a ruthless band of savages. I would not let them take my family the way they had taken so many others.
The moment I had the necessary money to move to America with my entire family I did it.
To `` make... |
[ WP ] Once every generation someone is chosen by an omnipotent being and given the ability to change a horrible event that took place during their lifetime . The only rule : the person had to witness the event .
| Well The bus stopped. As I woke from my haze the sound of excited kids and the yell of teachers to `` grab your stuff leave nothing on the bus''. I hate field trips but, personally this was the first one that actually gave me the chance to go somewhere cool. It was a Tuesday. Previously to the bus ride I had to wake up... |
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