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[ WP ] Write the most ornate , unnecessarily detailed description of the most mundane , ordinary , boringly run-of-the-mill thing , place or event you can think of . Then , in one sentence , make all that seemingly unnecessary attention to detail critically important .
| This quilt, that my mother made,
Still makes me think to this day.
It's softest brown, and brightest blue,
The curved stitch here, reads `` made it May''.
It's hard to see, but believe me it's true,
That's not just a cloth but a piece of shirt.
You can see a logo here, and right there,
And a... |
[ TT ] Classic monsters were social statements on more basic human fears : zombies represented disease , werewolves represented dangerous animals , and vampires represented the aristocracy . Create a story of a new monster to represent a more modern fear : terrorism
| It's the job of our agency to keep track of the worlds monsters and keep them locked down. Which is complicated because people are n't allowed to know they exist or that they create them.
Fear itself, when amplified by a large amount of people, fearing that same thing enough... produces a monster to represent it, i... |
[ WP ] `` Just like old times , huh ? ''
| The first punch gets me right in the ribs, knocking the wind out of me. I half-crawl towards him from where I fell on my ass, feeling the flush of adrenaline starting to take hold.
It's a dirty fight, I suppose. We focus on causing as much pain as possible - cruel to be cruel. He stinks.
********
The actual... |
[ WP ] Randomize your music playlist . Hit Play . Write a funny or scary story based on the title of the song playing .
| Some nights I lay awake staring at the ceiling. When I wake up I swear I can see your ghost in the corner of my vision. But whenever I turn my head the only thing there is the white wall staring back at me. I think back to the fun we had. Camping in the mountains staring at the stars. Sneaking into the local pool to sk... |
[ WP ] People have been getting superpowers for a while , and today you got yours ! No one cares , though , because people are sick and tired of hearing about superpowers and superheroes
| I can hardly read the letter, because the hand holding it is shaking so bad. My hand. There's nothing wrong with me, I'm just nervous. I'm actually a pretty normal guy, painfully normal. But that's all about to change.
*Dear Mr. Thompson, we are quite happy to inform you that we have successfully received and proce... |
[ WP ] Merpeople , annoyed that humans only seem interested in zombies and vampires , try to make their mythology more enticing .
| `` They do n't believe we're interesting?'' one of the younger mermaids, Ari, asked, looking around the elders of the council. Of all the reasons for the decline of the last several decades, *interest* had not been one she had thought about. Low birthrates, weak magic, and increased illness and death in their people ha... |
[ WP ] You know you have 3 days to live . You film yourself reading a written monologue to be played at your funeral in front of your friends and family , confessing your deepest , darkest secret that you hid for your whole life ; this is that monologue .
| Not a single person in the crowd of Nora Janice's Funeral had spoken a word. Friends, Relatives, and a few other people all bonded together in the stillness of the moment. Even Nora's own parents were seen, with no idea how she could have been a part of such a horrible death. Soon, an image appeared in the front of the... |
[ WP ] The Sword of the Stranger
| `` Brigands and cutpurses have nothing on me. They're petty, cheap thugs who burgle for petty, cheap coin. Wine and women must come easily to such people.''
The stranger looks unimpressed. I continue my spiel.
`` I'm more refined. Better than a common thief. Smarter than the lot of them put together, too.''
... |
[ WP ] You are the Sergeant of a specialised squad and you have just made the hardest decision of your military life . You turn around to find each squad member has their rifle pointed at your face .
| Sergeant Clark lifted his wrist to look at the band wrapped around it. It was no different than the fitness trackers people wore, except that it was reinforced by thick ropes of steel. It looked boring, actually. Black, some kind of supple rubber. A little digital heart pulsed consistently beside of a number that read ... |
[ WP ] A father chains his werewolf daughter up in the basement on full moon nights . When someone hears the screams , child protective services investigate and find her there .
| I never thought working with CPS would be easy.
I never thought it'd be this hard.
We get more cases than we have available inspectors. It was the screams of the girl, twelve reports, that got us interested in one Stanley Colville.
The reports would flood in on full moon nights. All the crazies come out wit... |
[ CW ] Rewrite a story you find on WP today from a different character 's perspective . Link back to the original work and tag the author .
| `` Dave? It's me, mom.'' My hands shivered slightly.
`` Hey ma, why are you calling me so late?'' I checked the clock. It was late. 10:00 pm late.
`` I just wanted to see if you remembered to pick up your gramma's medicine. She needs it tonight and tomorrow morning, you know.'' I could feel his hands crushing t... |
[ WP ] The alien invasion of Earth has begun and the fearsome yet humanoid creatures came from the skys in massive bloodred ships . For unexplainable reasons , they still use sabers and ride on horseback . You find yourself being charged at by Calvary . . . in the 22nd century .
| It's quiet, living on the edge of town I manage to get away from the hustle and grind of the cyber city Teletariam. It was the first city that really embraced technology and set the standard for how cities needed to change and grow in the late 21st century. Cities across the globe had been integrating and modifying the... |
[ CW ] Write a story that uses at least 5 senses .
| Wow, just want to say this is the best prompt I've seen in the many months I've been reading WP responses. It does n't seem like the kind that will take off, but good job on thinking of it.
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Ray Thompson lay with his cheek pressing on the scorching desert sand, arm stretched desperately towards a water skin... |
[ WP ] Make me cry , then make me happy I just cried .
| Hans was never a β bright β child by any measure. He scored average in just about every capacity: IQ, grades, sports. Everything he tried, he was *average*. His parents didn β t really know what to do with him. He was now 8 years old, had a few friends, never really exhibiting talents or a profinity for anything. On a ... |
[ WP ] You wake up one morning to find that you have written a disturbing note to yourself , and you do n't remember how , when , or why .
| β β¦and we β ll have an interview with him and his prize marrow at around a quarter to eight. The time is six-fifty-five, and this is BBC Southern Counties Radio. β
The daily news blares over the radio. Light rolls through the curtains. I turn over in bed. Just another Monday morning. Minutes pass, and I hear all th... |
[ WP ] Someone discovers that mirrors lead to a parallel dimension .
| Vibrations! Vibrations and light. That was the keyοΌ I mean it all goes back to Einstein right? e=mc squaredγ
And when you think about it, everything really is just a different form of vibration: energy waves, an objects wave function in space-time, the vibration of atoms and their vibrating strings.
Once I unde... |
[ WP ] Death is a common character in writing prompts ... write a story that portrays death in a way that you have n't seen or read about before .
| Life feeds life. All living things feast on the lives of others. It is the way of the universe. It is possible to cultivate life, to let it grow, become a larger food source, which many do. So as they expanded and grew, they, too created life. It is also true that created life sometimes acknowledges this, and perceives... |
[ WP ] When humans mature , they gain a single magic spell . The incantation is a single verb , and ( a ) subsequent command ( s ) if desired .
| `` Can you hook me up?''
I looked at the kid in front of me, he was, with a liberal guess, fifteen. But he was obviously resourceful, he managed to find me in this haunted city.
`` Well, it depends on what you want.'' I said.
`` I want a *discern. *''
*Discern*. Ah. That was an expensive item, because of ... |
[ WP ] A man who has been working in a cubicle for 10 years find a monkeys paw which can grant 5 wishes , but each with a consequence .
| **Rule # 1: Do n't wish for world peace. It just does n't work out, okay? **
**Rule # 2: Wish for something simple, like a new IPad, or something. **
** Rule # 3: If you found a random monkey paw on your way back home from work, leave it behind. **
It wo n't do you any good.
Monotony was something that ... |
[ WP ] A little girl becomes pen pals with a minor cosmic horror . What are their conversations like ?
| Dearest Vernonica,
How is my favorite man-thing? Are you really three heads and a hand tall now? I can hardly believe it! Pretty soon you'll be devouring planets while the priests of this world and that one beg for oblivion.
Things are alright here in the void between the stars. The Shambler Who Stalks can ... |
[ WP ] When you open your door , a crowd a people shout , `` Happy Birthday , Timothy ! '' Your name is n't Timothy , it is n't your birthday , and you 've never seen any of these people in your life .
| To put it politely, today has been a long day. There are some other words I would add to that, but the promise of $ 200 dollars is hard to resist. Staying up all night to cram for the two hardest finals of my academic career ( so far ) was bad enough. Running into my ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend celebrating bein... |
[ WP ] You have a very mundane talent , so mundane that you 've never shown it to anyone . The first time you do , as a party trick , you 're told that your talent is physically impossible .
| `` Oh, come on. Everyone can do something. Chrissake, Jim hamboned for his talent, and that's just crap. You've * got ta * be able to do something cool''.
Truth was, though, I never really tried anything before really. I never was interested in art or music, and never had any athleticism either. I was n't any good at... |
[ WP ] What was the most terrifying experience you had ? Write about it !
| Human diversity so so huge, nothing can really encompass it, not religion or science or magic. There are always exceptions, always things you have not considered, things that just do n't fit.
A masochist probably should not do onto others as he would like others to do unto him, and neither should a judge. Killing i... |
[ WP ] We do not belong here , but it is the only 'home ' we have left .
| **Odyssey of the Edrathi: A'Home' At Last? **
Our homeworld is long dead, and few of us remain. There were many `` flotilla fleets'' like ours, although what has become of them, who can say? Do the people of Ukrub still number in the millions at least, or are the 437,521 survivors in our fleet all that remain of ou... |
[ WP ] Personification of Death , contemplating life .
| Time stands still, and he appears. Deaths robes licked the cold tile as he entered the room to claim his latest victim. Darkness flowed from them onto the floor like a mist, shrouding his movements as he shifted his frame towards the hospital bed.
He allowed his eyes to rest for a moment on the young woman that lie... |
[ WP ] Humans start out at birth with milk-white blood . The more bad deeds they commit , the darker their blood becomes . One day , you meet your soulmate . Skip a few years , and things are amazingβ¦ Until your soulmate trips , falls , and the cut they get drips ink-black bloodβ¦
| They say you die of old age with black blood. Not that I've ever seen an autopsy done before. Born with white blood and gets darker with every sin, or thats what they say. Im kinda a sceptic, could be a strange corralation. My blood the few short times a year I see it is kinda looks like a flavored coffee creamer last ... |
[ WP ] Satan repents and wants to re-enter Heaven as Lucifer . God however , has a caveat . To prove his reform , Satan must resist an extremely tempting opportunity to sin .
| `` Happy Birthday, Lucifer.''
I hunched my shoulders, closed my eyes and took a deep breath. Only one person knew it was the anniversary of my creation and that was my creator.
`` Thank you'' I turned to look at him, Him, the Almighty God. He had n't changed one bit. His presence filled me in a way my eons of s... |
[ FF ] A time traveling Native American goes back to the first Thanksgiving
| Life on the reservation was miserable. Poverty, crime and corruption ran rampant, and day-to-day life was much harder than it should be. Growing up, Steven learned about the White Man, who had come under the guise of peace and slaughtered his people, stole their land and herded them into these godforsaken hovels. Steve... |
[ WP ] Two Timers Incorporated is the Ashley Madison of the future , helping their clients establish secret affairs with people from a different times in history without getting caught . It was the perfect system , a cheater 's paradise - until the unexpected occurred .
| I rebuttoned my jeans up as I made my way back through the great city of Rome. I was n't worried about being seen by the locals, the cloaking would take care of that. For all they knew there was nobody walking down the street with a freshly sucked dick and a smile as big as the colosseum.
The rendezvous site was be... |
[ WP ] Scientists have confirmed that Earth is the only planet in the Universe with life on it .
| One.
One planet in the unimaginably vast universe has the perfect mix of chemicals and the right zap of energy at just the right point in time to bring life. Unique.
When scientists scanned every other planet and we realized that humanity was truly alone in a godless, lifeless universe everyone just lost it. Th... |
[ IP ] `` When you ca n't look on the bright side , I will sit with you in the dark . ''
| The air in the room hangs dense with a sense of dread. Another day gone, another night present, another opportunity to let the feelings creep into her core. She sits at the edge of the bed, face damp, staring at the wooden floor underneath her feet. A lamp at the corner provides dim lighting. A fan overhead slowly turn... |
[ WP ] 40,000 years from now humans and nature have been at perfect equilibrium for thousands of years . Describe the world and lifestyles of people on planet Earth .
| We still called ourselves humans, but bore little resemblence to our pre-ascendence ancestors. Their were still plenty of normal humans spread throughout the stars, but those of us who remained on Holy Terra had chosen a different path. After fighting long and hard to try and adapt the world we lived in to our needs, w... |
[ WP ] You show up for the first day of work . All of your coworkers and managers think that you 're the CEO of the company doing some kind of undercover boss stunt .
| I remove my glasses to wipe off the sweat between my eyes. I've been watching this little tutorial for ten minutes now. How long does it take to make a fucking sandwich?
While her hands moved in slow-motion, she rambled endlessly about the history of the brand, from its New England roots to its present-day empire. ... |
[ WP ] Humanity is long gone , but a surprising legacy is left behind
| Sublieutenant G'rakh sighed as he watched the flickering screen.
*Eight years at the Academy just to be stuck at this lousy post*, he thought to himself.
G'rakh was one of three officers assigned to the scanning station aboard the starship *Lek'vah*. Hours were long and uneventful, especially in this dead regio... |
[ WP ] A man hands you a credit card , pulls out a pistol , and shoots himself . You look down just in time to see the name on the card change to yours .
| It took me a few weeks to piece together what had happened. I went to the police, filed the report, and collaborated with their investigation. Luckily, the nearby ATM caught the whole thing on camera, and I never was truly under any sort of suspicion.
As the man had no other ID, it was quite another effort to tra... |
[ WP ] The society of Atlantis comes out of hiding and sends a representative to the UN with an urgent message for humanity .
| The secret congregation sits in tense silence. The wood paneling of the underground facility's room seems to simultaneously absorb and amplify all sound. There are seven chairs, one empty and six occupied. One delegate for each populated continent.
Liu Jieyi, Asia. A no nonsense, balding Chinese man who stares at G... |
[ WP ] Starting on their 18th birthday , every person is given 5 'stat points ' each year to improve anything about themselves they wish . You have just turned 40 and decided to start spending your points .
| My parents, like most, had chosen how my first 90 points had been spent. Every year, on my birthday I found out how my parents chose to improve me. Every year it was the same, and now I have 90 points of Empathy. I had even less input than most children, my parents were public figures and couldn β t risk it looking bad... |
[ IP ] Once a god ...
| We worshiped them when they came with airships that drifted in the sky like cloudsβhow could we not? They could only be gods.
Their presence was a slow acclimation. First they floated in their airships, then they came to the surfaceβemissaries of the gods. They were humanoid, very similar to us. They seemed to want... |
[ WP ] A A.I . Kills off the entire human race except one person , the A.I . Wishes to have one last talk before killing it self or the human
| One man lived. Nobody wanted him, nobody liked him. But the A.I. that killed all human beings in the world had not killed him... yet.
He was a programmer, like his parents, and had somehow been capable of luring the A.I. not to find him. Now the A.I. had him tracked. There was a large beam with the figure X pointing ... |
[ WP ] Breakfast with a God
| β I was wrong? The whole time? β
**No. I am a God. I am not your God. But your God is not nothing. **
β I β m afraid I don β t understand at all. β
**Not many do. Humans have the unfortunate tendency of assuming answers are linear, or very straight forward. **
β Can you please explain all this to me? I ... |
[ WP ] In the future readers are 'in ' the story , and what they say affects the outcome . One reader is unsatisfied with the ending of a particular story .
| Mary glared in shock at the boy as he walked quietly into the library, and it began to get dark as if it were the end of a movie.
β WHAT THE -bleep-?! ``, she shouted. `` HOLD ON A MINUTE!''
The boy named James stopped his steps, and turned around. `` U-Um... are you talking to me?''
`` Duh, James! ``... |
[ WP ] You just received a letter from `` your future self '' , featuring a set of weirdly specific instructions . There is no explanation on why you should follow the instructions , or what the possible outcome would be .
| The fact the envelope was in my own handwriting was the first sign that something was up. And it definitely was my writing β no one could quite replicate that twist of the β t β or the strangely-lopped β b β. I sat at the table in the kitchen just looking at the writing. The strangeness of the whole thing left me feeli... |
[ OT ] Sunday Free Write : Scarry Edition
| Here's two pieces!
**Love and Hate**
The engine roared. Truck shaking, sputtering, coughing. Symptoms of a perfect cocktail: made one part age, one part poor maintenance. It turned heads when it howled past people, put a pair of curious eyes between parted blinds, searching for what caused the commotion. The bl... |
[ WP ] Write about a hero who perceives themselves as the villain .
| When he returns from the mission, he tells the official version of his story so many times that he starts to believe it. He's on talk shows. He's on webcasts. He does guest appearances at sporting events and sees himself wave and smile on a screen two hundred feet tall, but he can not recognize his own face. He thinks ... |
[ WP ] Every person has a number over their head that tells them how many people have numbers on their head . The numbers reflect the population of the earth . Until one day you look in the mirror and your number head head number is backwards
| one day I waked up 2 find that every1 had number over the head
then ur in bed n feel sleepy so u go to sleep wit ur honey, looking at her hed, felling safe n sound
and when u wake up, u eat breakfast and go to work and people r staring at u funny. u get 2 work, and the boss with a number over his hed looks ... |
[ WP ] You are walking down the path to your home when you notice a `` Glitch '' .
| ( This actually happened to me )
*what a fucking day*
I eased open the door to the building, wondering how this bleak weather would greet me.
*wind in my face. not surprising*
Clacking my boots on the pavement, I headed towards my car. The last one in the parking lot.
*shit, my tire is losing air ag... |
[ WP ] Lizards regenerate , creatures dwell underwater , insects utilize poison , yet humanity remains sheltered . Governments instill mandatory programs to physially alter the human race ; millennia have passed and we have evolved , but not without controversy and warfare .
| My team and I had found where the humans were hiding. We all decided they posed a threat to the advancement of our race. It was either us or them. We could bring our race to the edge of the known universe, colonize, thrive, live in a way God could n't have even imagined. But as long as the humans lived, they continued ... |
[ WP ] The main character from the last game you played is hunting you down . How screwed are you ?
| The silence was the first thing she noticed as she strode in, usually her roommate was so happy, so loud, so.. annoying. It was what she had come to dread about heading home, what should have been a comforting reprieve from her lessons was what pushed her to do more work and stay as far from home as possible.
Her f... |
[ WP ] I do n't know who else to ask .
| Nothing will bring her mother back. Nothing will lessen her pain. It will take time for to her to heal.
But you should remind her the purpose behind the words everyone says when someone dies. `` Sorry for your loss.''
Look in to those words further. *Her* loss. Because her mother has left her, it is her life th... |
[ WP ] A catastrophe has destroyed humanity , but everyone 's still alive .
| David Poke woke up and looked out his blob. It used to be a window, but now it was some kind of shape that he did n't know the name of nor cared to learn. He rolled out of what was n't his bed anymore, and walked through something that could've been a house once, if you used your imagination.
David tried to open a ... |
[ IP ] The magic goat
| # # # # # # [ ] ( # dropcap )
It had been a long day. He knew what was coming, yet he still had to do his job. He stared out at the waiting sea, a nearby lighthouse brightening the area for a second, before continuing out to sea. He lit up his third cigarette, in what seemed like the last ten minutes standing on the ... |
[ WP ] In a world where magic can be cast through song , musicians rule over society . You are the last of your kind , a Scandinavian Death Metal Singer .
| The Pop Idols, as they have been taken to calling themselves, count on their catchy tunes and simple melodies to command the weak willed. As such, they have command over most of the land. Only the Bluesmen of the South and the Grunge Lords of the Pacific manage a hold over their lands. As they try to keep life as norma... |
[ WP ] You are a high school student that 's secretly the author of a best-seller sci-fi/fantasy novel based on your real-life adventures involving aliens , magic , time traveling , etc . Your English teacher is having the class read your book and he 's getting everything wrong .
| `` But why was I given an'F'? I covered every requirement on the report, and even did the extra-credit portion at the end,'' I exclaimed.
`` My dear boy, your paper was well written, but it misses the point of the assignment entirely.'' Mr. Alder sighed as he steepled his fingers and leaned back behind his desk. ``... |
[ WP ] The angel of death has a mortal son , and today is his day to die
| Sometimes I hate my job.
Oh, the work itself is n't bad, it's the travel. By now, I've probably got enough frequent flyer miles to spend the rest of my life in the sky. Yeah, right. As if my job would give me the time off. As if I had the money to do anything else. Jetsetting around the world for the biggest concer... |
[ WP ] The meek have inherited the Earth .
| Simon kicked at the dirt nervously as he worked up the courage to speak. `` A-ahem. Umm. Well that escalated quite, ummm, q-quickly.'' Simon stole a quick glance around and saw mostly downcast glances and a few quick nods.
Simon paused before continuing. He decided it best not recount the hell that they all lived thr... |
[ WP ] Whilst a bank heist is taking place , another group of bandits tries to rob the same bank .
| The hardest part of pulling off a bank robbery is making sure Cory has his shit together. I watch as his bandanna bounces, sliding down the ridge of his nose as our van hits every pothole in Oklahoma.
`` That's too loose, Cory. Here, turn your head.''
I reach up and pull the knot on his vale a little tighter. A... |
[ WP ] A nuclear war has decimated most of the globe , Great Britain included . A survivor treks through the Midlands , England , on his way to the South Coast , looking for a treasure , long since lost .
| The sign on the ground was unintelligible, most of the letters had been burned off a long time ago. At the edges he could see what remained of a blue background. Well that was something. This splintered and jagged road had been a motorway once. He had guessed as much, but you could never be really sure. A flyover was m... |
[ WP ] Humanity has begun exploring the galaxy , we find many worlds filled with ruins of civilizations that had long died out , realizing soon that all of these civilizations chose to end themselves , committing mass suicide . No one could figure out why they did it , until now .
| The room sat several thousands of people, centered around an holographic display on a stage. No one needed to present, one person was in charge of moving the holographs around, revealing dozens of images of the worlds beyond this solar system.
No man has ever set foot beyond Jupiter, yet they managed to send five-h... |
[ WP ] Revisit the first prompt you wrote a response for . Write a new story for it .
| From one year ago, [ The shock of dying makes everyone forget that they're even dead. That's why you're here. To make them understand. ] ( https: //www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/2snxad/wp_the_shock_of_dying_makes_everyone_forget_that/cnrvudz? context=3 )
`` It's a shame about Tom, yeah?'' One of the ... |
[ WP ] You 're a supervillain with one specific power - you can force actual physics to apply to reality-breaking superpowers
| I size up the woman in front of me. Shiny gray spandex, long cape, one of those silly little masks on her face. The Silver Bullet, fastest woman in the world. Groan.
How will I wreck her? There are lots of options with super-speed, as several of my late enemies can attest. Bolt died of starvation after expending a ... |
`` Well one of us is gon na have to test it out . '' [ WP ]
| The wizard Nadir and his knight-errant, Parallax, stood, stunned, above the corpse of the greater stone golem. The golem β s corpse lay across the flat earth of the desert. A wind whipped at the cloth of Nadir β s robe, and curved across the armor of Parallax. Parallax β s chest heaved up and down, exhausted from the b... |
[ WP ] Most genies take your wishes literally to mess with you . But yours takes everything figuratively .
| `` I wish I had a billion USD put into my bank account with Enterprise, account number 5583922856392055!'' I yell to my genie. I have thought about this moment a lot. Rephrasing in my head over and over just to get exactly what I ask. I have read many a tale that suggests trickery on the genie's side. My heart is pumpi... |
[ WP ] - In a short conversation with the devil a 7-year old child manages to do something god did n't manage in thousands of years .
| He was sitting across from the girl at a small pink table that was worse for wear. It was marked with crayon scribbles and covered in dings and dirt. The chair he was sitting in was far too small for him and the girl looked like she was about to outgrow her chair as well, though he imagined that the barbie dolls in the... |
[ WP ] For all of recorded history there has been a medium dense fog across the entire earth . Then one day it 's just gone .
| I remember hearing about it on the news in the morning it happened. Everyone was calling it `` The Clearing.'' I had known something was wrong when I could feel the warm sunlight on my face in the morning right before getting up. I'll never forget rushing down the stairs, scrambling to put on my air-filtration mask, an... |
[ WP ] `` Captain 's log ... ''
| Captain's Log, Recorded from the Captain's Chair.
134 consecutive days searching the Outer Rim have depleted our supplies. All we have left are cup ramen, green beans, cans of black beans, canned oysters, and microwave curry.
This has had adverse effects upon the crew's stomachs and bowels. As such, the Interpl... |
[ WP ] Make up some historical or little-known fact and convince me that it 's true
| At the beginning of the 20th Century, when the automobile was still new, gasoline engines were but one of the many technologies vying for dominance. Some early cars were electric, some ran on boilers fueled by burning coal or wood.
When Henry Ford opened his first factory in Detroit, the tri-state region of Indiana... |
[ WP ] Its the year 2048 . The worlds mineral resources are exhausted and the Antarctic Treaty has just expired causing a war between the world 's biggest nations .
| `` Shit,'' I muttered. I woke up late for work again today. My paranoia has been settling in recently. My eyes remain glued to the television for hours watching the news every day. I'm losing sleep over it. The Russians have flooded to us here in the U.S. and China has claimed Antarctica, shipping missiles over to it, ... |
[ WP ] Death of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse goes missing . The remaining three search for a human sadistic enough to take his place .
| β Who can replace Death? He was the most feared of us all. Without Death there can be no reckoning upon the sinful mortals. β
War scratched his thinning beard. He was running out of options. No others had dared to take up such a heavy burden. While War was no stranger to the horrors of, he shuddered to think about ... |
[ WP ] A neuroscientist finds data stored in human DNA . When deciphered , it appears to be a file named README.txt
| **NOTE: ** I have barely any knowledge whatsoever of the workings of the human genome. Do not accept *anything* said here as fact regarding the human genome, although certain individual parts may be correct.
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There have always been portions of the human genome that do n't seem to actually affect anything. A... |
[ WP ] `` If I keep this up , my ... ''
| `` Your what? Your heart's gon na give out? Believe me Chancellor, I'll think you'll live for a bit more. A little exercise is n't going to do you any harm. In fact, you likely need a bit more than a little.''
`` I beg your pardon,'' the planetary governor stammered, his pasty white flesh reddening in outrage. He w... |
[ WP ] Every night I tell my girlfriend a bedtime story by the end of this one I 'd like her to be my fiancΓ© .
|
The Prince and the princess
There once was a prince who loved a princess. But it was not to be, because this princess was already betrothed to another. But this prince could see that this princess was not truly happy. She was married to a dragon and her and that dragon were able to sire two children together. But... |
[ WP ] SHOCKING vision of the future depicts humanity as SLAVES to artificial intelligence !
| Teddy's eyes sparkle with excitement as he rummages enthusiastically and yet somehow reverently through the dusty and scuffed red leather suitcase, the case releases the warm scent of pipe tobacco, small hands lifting stacks of somehow unfaded paper. `` Look at this one dad!'' he says, waving the old magazine, a copy o... |
[ WP ] All of the major organs in your body are sentient beings . Every morning they have a council meeting to discuss the previous day and make new plans . The Brain presides as leader .
| The brain considered the liver for a few moments longer.
`` You are utterly replaceable.'' Said the brain with conviction.
Everyone else let out a collective gasp.
`` This will be the fourth time, this month, that the liver has let us all down. Just look at stomach right now!''
Stomach was black and blue from a... |
[ IP ] Prima Giedi
| The walls of Xebar-70 shook like an earthquake in the sky. We zoomed past clawed fingers of lightning which tried to lash our ship's boxed exterior. And even as ice chunks slammed into the pilot pod, I held the wheel with white-knuckled fists and pushed on. Doreen frowned at me from her co-pilot seat. `` Pull back,'' s... |
[ WP ] A superhero and super villain who both have lame powers , but take each other very seriously .
| It β d been hours. Roderick was ready to burst, and from the way his co-workers and the handful of folks unfortunate enough to be in the bank at the time wriggled, writhed, and complained, they were feeling the same. Thursday, of course it was Thursday.
Roderick brought some of his wife, Rosie β s, baked goods to t... |
[ WP ] The Day You Found Out Magic Was n't Real
| The faraway girl knew the stories.
She read the untruths.
And she thought she knew what was supposed to happen.
Stared wistfully into the empty years of youth
And waited
Until one day she realized!
The princes of novels, tall, dark, handsome,
They would n't fall out of the sky
Knock girl... |
[ WP ] Describe what it 's like to be married to Lady Gaga .
| `` No no no no! AW-Dammit!''
`` Huh? What?''
`` Why those pants? And on the new leather couch!''
`` They're my comfy pants.''
`` *They're* made of steaks!''
``... well yeah that's what makes them comfy.''
Her and I have had this talk before. I had always enjoyed her peculiar fashion sense, but h... |
[ wp ] The quirk that you loved about that special someone now drives you insane
| Anna had a habit of kissing me on the forehead.
When my mother died I β d feel a tingle down my spine when she did it. It had only been weeks since we started dating and her soft lips felt taboo against the particular patch of skin she rested them upon. The loud smack of her lips would pull me out of that hospital ... |
[ WP ] A new form of criminal management has arisen where the offender is hooked up to a device , slips into a coma , and wakes up as a better person . What is going on in the criminals minds during the coma ?
| It had happened again. I woke up in a blank white room with an almost faceless man, I mean he must have had a face, its just that I could n't make it out... I do n't know why this felt so familiar.
Before my mind could wonder, he began as he always did.
`` How do you feel right now?''
`` Fine'' I replied. By ... |
[ WP ] From the perspective of an elderly person losing the battle with Alzheimer 's as their loved ones come to visit for the last time .
| I woke up and stretched in my bed. Anther glorious day. I got up, adjusted myself, and walked off towards the kitchen to get breakfast. But everything out here was wrong. Someone had moved part of my house around. Where was I? What happened? Suddenly I felt a warm arm around my shoulders and a nice-looking woman with a... |
[ WP ] A serial killer loses his memory and wakes up in what is clearly a serial killer 's house .
| Where am I? How did I get here? What is going on? Why is there so much blood in the room?
I must keep quiet. I have clearly been attacked. I dont know where my attacker is, but I must get out of here before he returns.
I open the door to the room I am in and look around. I see a small room behind a one way mirr... |
[ WP ] In a digital future , books have been banned . Paper is the opiate of the intellectual . A small time , illegal bibliodealer just found a book that could set him up for life . Unfortunately , he has developed a taste for his own product .
| I kicked in the door, turned on the flash light and saw it sitting there among the old shelves long empty, an old copy of the bible, the leather was cracked and the pages torn but it was real a bible I could fork my fingers threw. It was unlike other books I had bought and sold it was written all over almost every page... |
[ EU ] You were raised as a wizard in the harry potter universe ... on your 11th birthday a scientist shows up and explains you that you have no magical powers and will have to visit a muggle school .
| ``... You have no magical powers, kid. I already fucking told you twice that somebody made a mistake. This type of shit happens all the time, it's really not that big a deal.'' Jerry paced around his room a bit before looking up at the man that had just destroyed his life. `` Man, you is nothing but a fucking playa' ha... |
[ RF ] A boy and his grandfather in rural New England watch Sputnik fly overhead in the autumn of 1957 .
| The telescope was patterned with verdigris and fingerprints, but the brass was still bright.
It had belonged to Robin's grandfather and her grandmother had set it up for her on the rural porch, preparing for the orbiting object. The young girl had done the mathematics herself, figuring out where in the sky the satell... |
[ WP ] In the future , people can connect their minds to control `` hive robots '' , where all of the controller 's consciousnesses contribute to what the robot does . You are a detective who is tasked with figuring out which mind in a captured hitman robot was responsible for the murder of a famous actor .
| `` Wire me to any patrol bots near the crime scene.'' I said, as i prepare to connect to investigate a case of murder. Not any ordinary murder, but one of the famous Oscar winning actor, Sebastion Jones.
`` Detective Alex Burton, LAPD.'' I said to the officer at the scene. After being let into the crime scene, I im... |
[ WP ] Our intelligent designers return to inform you that our purpose in life is to be livestock and our budding sentience is merely a result of how delicious they find our brains .
| A friend of mine said it was something like a mushroom trip or a lucid dream, and you had to skip a night of sleep for it to work. I had skipped the night of sleep like they said I needed to, truth be told, I had skipped two nights. With the help of Starbucks I was still up. We drove up to his dad's cabin. They were ch... |
[ WP ] The backstory of chess .
| `` Send orders for Sir Thompson to advance, General.''
The King's highest ranking officer bowed deferentially, and turned to pass the order down the chain of command.
`` Wait, General.''
General Stewart stopped in his tracks, and turned back to face his King.
`` Yes, your Highness?''
`` If we have t... |
[ WP ] A bedtime story for adults
| Once upon a time, in a world quite similar to our own, a middle aged divorcee sat at her table in her tiny, dimly lit kitchen. Dishes were stacked in the sink, the floor was in desperate need of a mop but at least her two noisy boys were finally asleep.
She looked out the window of her apartment. Tonight looked and... |
[ WP ] `` I am bound to this rock , unable to leave . But I still have more freedom than you . ''
| β I am bound to this rock, unable to leave. But I still have more freedom than you. β
Warden Sanjeev regarded the prisoner with bemusement. β That β s it? That β s all he says? β
The guard bobbed his helmeted head in a brief affirmative. Sanjeev couldn β t see the man β s face behind the opaque, black visor, bu... |
[ WP ] You were one of the last two humans alive . Now you are the only one left .
| I am alone. The silence is empowering. Nothing to hear. Nobody to talk to. I can finally be alone with my thoughts. Eternity is mine, and mine alone, and in it, I am whole. I am free. Someone tried to take my eternity from me. A man. He liked to talk. He did n't want to be alone. He would talk for hours, stealing my ti... |
[ IP ] Lost Valley
| The world was divided into three sorts of people. The castle folks who lived a comfortable life in the sky. The Valiant, who either had flying contraptions or tamed dragons, and lived in the valley or the castle. And the people beyond the valley. The valley was protected by the Valiant. The dragons were usually enough ... |
[ CW ] Write a story where the point of view changes every paragraph .
| I sat down and let the chair absorb my full weight, a feeling I knew meant I was out for the count, and took out a cigarette. The air felt nice, though. Why did I have to mix whiskey and... `` Alex?'' The person sitting across called my name, unsure if she got it right. I smiled in assurance that she did. She sort of l... |
[ WP ] `` Please remember , TSA rules prohibit bottles of liquid over three ounces , knife blades over two inches , and the use of spells , curses , scrolls or other magic beyond the security checkpoint . ''
| TSA Guard Extended Guidelines
1 ) Maintain an orderly queue at all times.
2 ) Maintain your composure in front of passengers at all times, especially during a crisis.
3 ) Your standard taser and entrapment spells should only be used in a true emergency.
3.1 ) A person shouting swear words is not an em... |
[ WP ] Alien visitors appear in the space around Earth . Far from being an advanced race though ... they are scavengers ... asking for parts .
| We saw their ship as it rounded Jupiter. The movies were right, the way to tell a space ship was that it was slowing down as it approached.
The earth went mad. There were celebrations and mourning. Countries furiously debated whether we were meant harm or not, and planned for each contingency. We debated nukes and ... |
[ WP ] A voice from the sky booms , `` PLOT TWIST . '' The world changes dramatically .
| Ever get to some part of your life that's taken you goddamn years, *decades*, and then just- poof, gone, `` Fuuuuuuck you! ``, God throws a switch and kicks you off the stairs and into a ditch? It's been fourteen years since that happened, and I pray every day to gods I did n't believe in that it never happens again.
... |
[ WP ] Tell the story of a `` burner '' - a human bred specifically to cause chaos so news networks have more interesting stories .
| This tastes awful. This is n't dark roast this is dark burnt. What a blunder for an establishment like this. What do you fight for? Why bother with the rent and the insurance and all of it if you ca n't make a decent cup of coffee? Suppose it does n't matter. You wo n't be making anymore anyway.
`` Gracias. Oh! Por f... |
[ IP ] High and Dry
| The bright sunlight burned my skin, in the few places where it was exposed. The ocean was, as usual, totally smooth.
The only movement was the fins of some Greywhales breaking through the surface, but they were so far away that it was difficult to distinguish anything more.
The soft wind caressed my skin, and t... |
[ WP ] A ghost sets his sights on his newest haunting victim . Little does he know , this particular individual has been haunted regularly since childhood and is tired of it .
| I've chosen the victim,
My first immolation,
To Ytripef -- god of the scare
*I'll frighten his nightmares,
I'll cause isolation,
I'll drive him to rip out his hair! *
I've planned every moment,
All possible futures,
The city is mapped end to end
*By the time I am done,
He'll need mentalist sut... |
[ WP ] You wake up one morning and find the devil at the foot of your bed . His eyes find yours , he taps your foot and says , `` You 're it , '' then disintegrates .
| He's such a dick sometimes. Being on-call for that guy is a 24/7 duty. One time I was on a date and he did the same thing when I was in the bathroom. I was guaranteed to score. When I came out of the bathroom, I tried to keep a smile on my face. But that's what I get. These looks did n't come cheap. The dude has an iro... |
[ OT ] Other than personal preference , how do you select which prompts to write ?
| I do n't get too much feedback either, but it's not always about feedback. Sometimes knowing you've written something good is a nice feeling. If you want more people to see it, you can submit your story as a [ PI ] ( prompt inspired ) and title it after the prompt you were writing about. That way you can get feedback. ... |
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