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[ IP ] Dreamers
| `` What are all those lights, mommy?'' Mercy asked. She held on to her mother's hand.
`` Sixty years ago, they were stars. I do n't really know what they are now. Most of them are satellites, I think. A few of them are space stations. You see the ones moving over there. The quick ones. They're part of the security ... |
[ 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 ...
| The master stood in a black robe, dark winds blowing through the street. Dark mana was giving their hands an ethereal quality. They knew who it was. The master of the dark keep, the ruler of the land. As she walked through the streets the air became cool, itchy. Her reputation proceeded her through dozens of cities, an... |
[ WP ] Describe your descent into Hell
| I always thought red was such a pretty colour. Even as it gushes out of me, I ca n't help but admire the shade. Blood pooling around my body I become aware of the smell, it's like meat at the store. At least in a store it's refrigerated, my body heat intensifies the hot iron smell. It's cold, It's dark, I want to sleep... |
[ WP ] Write a story that begins and ends with the same sentence in a way that it takes on a whole new meaning the second time .
| The crows circled overhead.
They were pests around these parts, having long since learned the trick behind the scarecrows, and keeping them out of the wheat and corn fields was a chore all on its own. Papa always seemed to have some new idea, but the hope that his daughter would prove just as resourceful died with ... |
[ WP ] `` I 'm not scared of you ! ''
| Claw scratches are left on the inside of the tiny viewing window which was in the top of the door. The sound of a miniature window breaking was surprisingly quiet, stress on the glass then fragments tinkling on the tiled treatment room floor. Nothing compared to my screech:
“ I ’ m not scared of you! ”
My ringi... |
[ WP ] You 've barely survived a car accident with your legs mangled . A renowned doctor comes to you with a proposal to replace your legs with arms from a late donor in a similar accident to create the first 4 armed person .
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The doctor stumbled his way in and dropped his clipboard. Picking it up and holding it upside down, the man quickly tried to scan the paper and look intelligent, perhaps to save face, before glancing over the state of my injuries. He spoke with a excited accent. `` Hi, Everybody! We's gon na see what we can do about ... |
[ WP ] Three people meet at the entrance to heaven . One is meant to enter , one is supposed to go to hell , and the third is not listed .
| They stood there waiting in anticipation. Well, one of them was.
`` I should n't be in Hell! Surely this is wrong! God damn this place'' said the'bad' man
`` Well that was a mistake''
`` Easier for you to say, you're going to Heaven for nothing''
`` Actually I donated 95 % of my salary to charity which helped... |
[ WP ] PVP has been turned off for years . Everyone now knows , that no blade can pierce the skin with the INTENT to kill or harm . You are at the doctor getting a shot when the needle bends upon touching your upper arm ...
| Many ancient scholars speculated that *if* the universe is a computer program, life should never, under any circumstances, know this fact, for *if* it ever figured it out, modern civilization would instantly crumble. Of course, those scholars never went a step ahead to see the ultimate truth; That *if* the universe is ... |
[ PI ] You are an immortal serial killer . You were caught and sentenced to life in prison . The prison is starting to get suspicious of why you wo n't age .
| I do n't remember the last time I saw the sun. Do n't know when I'll get to. All I know is that until I find a way out.. I'm stuck here. They already started to notice that I'm not aging, in fact they started noticing a **long** time ago. They started to send in scientists, but after I snapped the first fews necks, wel... |
[ WP ] The last man alive is desperately trying to prevent the extinction of mankind via timetravel , but he 's having a hard time pinpointing when exactly everything started going wrong .
| The air was heavy and foul. An unnatural stink that permeated the whole room, that seemed to emanate from every object. It overwhelmed and consumed all the synthetic and sterilized smells you would expect from a laboratory. It was enough to make anyone not used to it retch. And most times it was enough even for someone... |
[ WP ] Turn your fondest memory into a nightmare .
| **Sunday Morning** [ Slightly NSFW ]
Her soft brown hair smells wonderful with her head resting on your shoulders. She is comfortably asleep in your arms as the sun toast the sheets and the cool breeze accentuates her lovely fragrance. Her arm rest gently across your chest and warm to the touch. She wraps on of her... |
[ WP ] I 'm looking for a webcomic writer . If you 're interested , write a short story based on one of the following unfinished comic strips .
| Sorry to be so dour, but I had to write something for that first 3-panel:
[ 1 ]
Character 1 - What do you think the fences on the roof are for?
Character 2 - Stop people from falling, or suicide I suppose.
[ 2 ]
Character 1 - Would a fence really stop someone bent on killing themselves?
Characte... |
[ WP ] Make a character whose beliefs or ideology are opposite to yours , and put us in their head . Show us why they believe what they do .
| I sat down waiting for him to come by. It's probably going to be another boring conversation talking about some horrible topic which will never benefit any of us in the long run. Oh, here he comes, with his ridiculous smile on his face, and slumped sholdires.
`` How are you. Tavel?'' He extends his hand as if I am ... |
Provide a monologue for a astronaut who just survived a crash landing on the moon
| ...
* Astronaut crash lands on the moon. Waking up he sees the rest of his crew either dead around him or missing. Looking at his oxygen levels he sees he has little more than 15 minutes left of life. The radio is dead *
The bitter irony. The injustice of it all! I've spent my life dreaming of coming to the moon ... |
( WP ) Four years ago , you watched your closest friend enter a portal . Since , you 've waited every day for her to come out . She just stepped out , with a defeated , scared look on her face .
| `` Em, what's wrong?''
She would n't say a word. The portal dissipated behind her, but she stood there, unmoving. If it were n't for the rapid rising and falling of her chest, I'd have thought I was staring at a hallucination, born from the intense longing I'd had for my friend.
Her wide, terrified eyes had sca... |
[ WP ] You are a peaceful alien , trying to contact Earth . They think an invasion is happening .
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01879: It has been 1,879 cycles since the incident left the ship disabled without the lightspeed drive, leaving me alone and limping painfully slow through the rural landscape of the Cordiva Galaxy. My hopes of being rescued dwindle each day, as the likelihood of the... |
[ WP ] By every law of physics what he saw in front of his eyes should be impossible , yet there it was , existing .
| By every law of physics, what he saw in front of his eyes should be impossible, yet there it was, existing. The 1960 silver dime hovered in the air, rotating slowly one direction, and then other, lazily, but seeming to vibrate like hummingbird wings. White light collected in the surface of the dime and slid fluidly ove... |
[ WP ] A man in a hospital sees Death . Death 's intentions are not what he expects .
| `` Shit. You see me, do n't you?''
Thomas's mouth refused to move as he watched the tall cloaked figure. Everything felt cold and clammy. This was it. He knew this was it.
`` Look do n't freak out... just... pretend I'm not here!'' Death said while waving his hand in front of his shadow that refused to reveal a... |
[ FF ] The last man on Earth sat alone in a room . There was a knock on the door ... ( 250 words )
| The last man on earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door. He stared blankly for a moment and called out sarcastically `` who is it?'' There was no answer. He stared at the door for another moment. He stood up and slowly approached the door. In his mind he first hoped for a raven spouting never more but ... |
[ WP ] It is revealed that butterflies do not exist , and instead children in third world countries have been painting moths and releasing them
| There went another butterfly. It was the most beautiful one I had seen yet. It's wings were a shimmery gold. The very edges of the wings looked like small, feathered black strokes and in the center of each wing was what looked like a single red crimson raindrop.
It was breathtaking and I needed to know what species... |
[ WP ] You are the commander of earth 's last defenses , chance for victory is remote but possible however men 's moral is broken , what do you do/say to motivate them ?
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“ Sir? You ’ re patched into the Global -Sat Feed. Just press the yellow button when you ’ re ready to speak ”
“ Thank you, Lieutenant…Thank you,... James ” The Commander, breaking protocol offered a salute to his still boyishly handsome second in command who smiled at the gesture before returning it.
“ I... |
[ WP ] Tell me a story that comes from your real life in the past few days .
| The Swedes were once thought of as great friends of the Empire. We traded luxury resources, the two leaders even officially declared their friendship for each other. For centuries, Swedes served in the imperial guard, the vaeragers.
But after hundreds of years of peace and friendship they betrayed us. They attacked... |
[ WP ] Death has never really bothered you but when you walked out of your apartment this morning to see everyone lying dead where they were once thriving you are a little worried .
| `` Urghhhh.. Umphh.. AH!''
Pushing open a front door that has two fresh corpses lying against it is not an easy task. Made harder by the fact that the middle aged lady corpse was morbidly obese.
`` At least being dead will do her figure some good.'' thought James. `` What an inconveniance! Certainly not a task ... |
[ WP ] We make our first contact with aliens , they explain the reason they waited so long to reveal themselves was that humans were previously galactic warlords .
| `` Please, do not panic. we do not wish you any harm'' said the crackled voice through our T.V. set. whatever this was, it had interfered with every electronic device that had speakers. hell, even the microwave was beeping in mores code.
that message played on loop, and everyone just stood around. i looked out of m... |
[ WP ] Your young son and your dog are constant companions . Too constant . Now your son drinks out of the toilet and humps things .
| `` So, tell me, Edgar, why do you think you're in here.'' A blonde girl of about 30 asked me, smiling so wide I could see that her nurses outfit matched her pristine white teeth.
`` I'm telling you, I'm not a loony! That dog catcher took my boy!'' I yelled. I knew I should n't have. I knew that screaming would only... |
[ WP ] You discover that you suddenly gain the ability to control anyone you 'd like . However , their consciousness talks to you as you do so .
| Hey Reddit, sorry. I meant to post this in /r/AskReddit
It was so sudden that I was n't really sure what to do. It was n't easy controlling his body and it was honestly terrifying. I am not exactly sure what was going on and thought it was a hallucination at first.
The only reason I did n't post this in `` Ask'... |
[ WP ] Write anything you want . The catch : Every post in this thread takes place in the same universe and you are n't allowed to break the canon .
| /u/Silverspy01, /u/NeonShockz, /u/StormsAndWolves, and /u/JulienBrightside approached the village, and /u/Silverspy01 let himself relax. He would n't tell the others, but the plants had scared him. He knew nothing about them, and he hated not knowing. Well, they could n't get him here. Cookies would help everyone. Appr... |
[ WP ] you just invented a time machine , but it can only transport people inside itself . This means this moment is furthest back in time anyone can go . You pull up a chair and wait for the first visitors .
| It was finally done.
I wiped the sweat from my brow, huffing in the stale air, glancing over at the old woman rocking in her chair, snoring peacefully with each sway.
`` Grandma?''
Her eyes snapped open instantly, taking me aback.
`` June 29, 2016, at 4:29.70 am.'' She blurted out immediately, casting h... |
[ WP ] A [ TIFU ] submitted by Santa Claus
| TIFU By... Just read the story...
Firstly, I'm gon na say that this happened at oh, 4am on Christmas. I was half dead from exhaustion, and I think I was beginning to see things. Or, in this case, I was beginning to miss things that would've otherwise been plain as day.
So, as I said, it's 4am. I'm running reall... |
[ WP ] You are an alien that crashed on Earth . With your dying breath you send one last transmission to your home planet warning them to beware humans .
| Aisir awoke inside the ruins of the ship. He began to move, only to halt at the sharp stabbing sensations emanating from his side. It hurt to breathe somewhat. He tried to move his limbs, only to realize they too had become immobile.
`` Curse it all...'' He groaned to himself, as he began tugging at the harness. Ev... |
[ WP ] As a person goes through his life , he is given three options at the end of each day , continue , restart day , or restart life . He has just lived through the worst day of his life .
| Colin hated life. It was dark, dreary, and any mistake or memory could be undone.
At the age of ten, Colin's parents chose to restart their lives *together*, without him. They'd decided having a child was a bad idea. So they abandoned him.
It happened a lot, parents leaving their children. Children called it'a ... |
[ WP ] The aliens we made first contact with lived entirely on tasteless , simple food . So enamored with our food , we 've found that we can even control them with our supreme culinary prowess . You have a couple alien friends , but you also happen to be a terrible cook .
| I knew I could not cook, but I did not sweat it. The door bell rang, and I was so excited. I opened the door and let my two gooey one eyed companions in. They were so glad that they did not even notice my baseball bat. I swung. They were mine now. All mine
The two alien awoke to `` gourmet'' jellybeans. They stuffe... |
[ WP ] Medical technology has become too good . People are living too long . The never-ending pensions are bankrupting the country . You are a master assassin working for the government to help ease the burden on the economy . Your only instruction : make it look like an accident .
| One billion dollars to kill one billion people. That was the hardest contract in my whole life.
Let's start from the beginning. Technology in the US was in all time high, medicine was really good and really cheap, long story short, people were n't dying anymore and that was bad.
I was hired by the comission of pres... |
[ WP ] I just learned what a drabble is . A drabble is an extremely short work of fiction of exactly one hundred words in length . So , let 's drabble .
| “ We ’ re gon na die up here. ”
“ You don ’ t know that ”
“ Look at that, who could possibly have survived ”
“ Have faith, we don ’ t know what happened, they may have been ready ”
“ Ready for that? How could anyone be ready for that? There was no warning doc, no advanced notice. They surprised us, they... |
[ WP ] You drug someone in a bar , to try to steal their organs ... And then discover they have none .
| As Mark stumbled his way to the men's room, I made my move. I faked right. Retrieving my wallet, I pulled it out for it's attention. A bartender always notices when someone is ready to pay... He begins circling his wet towel around my area.
`` Can I get you another?'' the bartender asks.
`` Yeah, sure. Another ... |
[ WP ] The phone rings . You look at the caller ID and recognize the number of your childhood home . You pick up the phone and recognize the voice . It was yours when you were a kid .
| I glanced at the clock again. 1:05 am.
Only four more hours until i'm free to leave this hell of a job. I put my head in my hands and rubbed my temples, willing my eyes to focus again after staring at the monitor for three hours.
`` Mike!'' the shrill voice of Laura popped my small bubble of tranquility, `` You... |
[ WP ] You ca n't kill me , not today .
| They ca n't see me
They ca n't see me
Their children gone
Oh, so dreamy
Every single one
They yell and cry
And scream my name
They hunt with flame
And want me to die
They ca n't see me
But they chase me
Over land and over sea
The stormy rainy sea
Finally on a fo... |
[ WP ] You know the time of your death -- but not the date .
| 2:23 P.M.
The exact time I will die.
How do I know this? There's not really much to explain. One day I woke up and just knew, though I only know the time, not the date or the circumstances.
It has, obviously, been a major point of anxiety for me in the years since. I'm on multiple anxiety and depression pil... |
[ WP ] It 's 3:35 am . You wake up to the sound of sirens , and your phone dings . You check it to see a text message saying `` Last bookings for the escape spaceships close at 3:50 am . ''
| Part two, as requested. I was n't sure where to put this, so I'm just going to comment a second time.
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We started our way slowly through the tunnels. I ca n't say I was pleased to be following a crack-pot around, but at least he was n't wearing tin foil on his head. Yet. We twisted and turned in the tunnels... |
[ WP ] An immortal trying to find a way to die to be reunited with Death - the immortal 's love .
| The piano's keys hammered out a melody,
an enigmatic, haunting dirge, a eulogy without words
my fingers wrote, the air, their pages.
The ash from my cigarette graces my pants with a visit,
`` what harm is smoking when you never die?'' And I,
I've never died, though I've tried.
All the king's horses and al... |
[ WP ] An outside hire is brought in as the new office manager , to try and turn around a dysfunctional business . The existing staff are definitely on the strange side .
| `` Uh, what do you mean ghosts?'' Daniel Ross asked while scribbling furiously in his notepad.
`` Well, those are n't the problem. There are only about ten of them, if you include the history professor. I'm much more worried about the werewolf, suspected war criminal, and the old man with a love for manacles as pun... |
[ WP ] While investigating the bees vanishing across the globe , the protagonist stumbles upon a truth that could change the shape of reality .
| The words “ colony collapse ” have taken on a whole new meaning over the last few months, it started with the bees, and that was weird enough for most people, mass populations of bees dropping out of the air, so many crops lost because we had no way to pollinate them, mass starvation even in wealthy western countries. ... |
[ WP ] In 2025 , the mission Mars One is a full success . Upon arrival on the red planet , the astronauts notice some kind of cave , containing a single human skeleton – and four words , carved into a wall .
| He was rather well-preserved, his body protected from the harsh Martian climate in a strange-looking spacesuit. Alone, he sat, against the wall of the cave, covered in thick sheets of dust though the cave's interior was remarkably still.
The nervous Martian colonists funneled in. Jan, recognized by the group as the... |
[ EU ] Freddy Kreuger deeply regrets entering the dreams of his latest intended victim - The Joker
| Freddy Kreuger landed expertly on the floor of a new dream.
He always kept his eyes closed when he leapt. Thousands of times, the same blind ritual: he swallowed, squinted deeply, felt his scars become taut as he dissolved into the essence of thought, and abandoned the remnants of his shriveled vessel buried deep u... |
[ WP ] Self driving cars are common place . Windows auto darken so you can sleep during long trips . You 've just woken , but this is definitely not your intended destination ...
| `` We have arrived at your destination, Paul.''
`` Thanks Tane. Disengage the auto darken system.''
The black tinted windows that blinded my view slowly faded. Bright lights blinded me as my eyes adjusted to the view. Cars surrounded me, all with their windows painted black. I was not where I planned to be.
... |
[ WP ] A beloved Creator has passed away , and is mourned by his creations .
| `` What?'' I ask, a puzzled look splattered across my face.
`` God,'' the man informs me, `` he's dead''
`` How? Why? I mean that ca n't be possible I spoke to him just last night!''
The man hands me a small pamphlet, along with an offer to take back all churchly possessions I may have.
`` Your God is d... |
[ WP ] Rewrite a story that you originally wrote as a kid .
| I will never understand why people hate love. I do n't know if it'll ever change, no, but maybe that's why I'm alive. To make a difference in a world that kicks you relentlessly when you're down. To maybe give the world a little more love.
It started when I was in chemistry class, and he moved to the school for sen... |
[ WP ] Twin brothers with a strong telepathic connection discover the elixir of life . Only one is granted immortality , but their telepathic connection transcends the mortal brother 's death , providing the first Physical World/Afterlife connection .
| `` Hey check out that girls rack real groovy man!!!''
`` Seriously stop it.''
`` What else an I supposed to do? I'm fucking here for eternity you dork, forever tied to my loser baby brother who ca n't even get laid.''
`` Yeah so what? At least I'm smart enough not to drive drunk when under age. You would th... |
[ WP ] Nobody knew his humanity was n't entirely gone . The Lich had only ever loved one thing , his pet raven .
| The memory came unbidden. A wretched child, unwanted in a city without orphanages. Scraping a living to survive like all the other urchins. Dashing between alleys to avoid the urban predators. Begging for alms and receiving kicks as often as kindness. Being tormented by those who were older or just larger.
The flas... |
[ WP ] `` It all happened so suddenly ''
| It all happened so suddenly.
Thats all I could think about as my feet thundered across the rubble stricken ground, I could n't see anyone else about, at least.. anyone able to move. The bodies of those who did n't make it laid all around, drooping out of windows and crunched up into corners, still twitching lightly... |
[ WP ] Turns out you CAN take it with you when you die . Whether it 's actually WORTH anything is another matter .
| `` But... but, it's a solid gold rolls royce. What do you mean it's not worth your time?''
`` I'm sorry sir, but our currency just does n't work that way. Sure, you can bring your wealth with you, sure. But your earthly wealth is n't not immortal wealth.''
`` Well.. if all I brought is worthless to everyone aro... |
[ WP ] The whole planet has been infected with a deadly disease that will kill everyone in the planet in 3 weeks . You have the cure , but you only have 25 antidotes . You can not make more because the item is extremely limited in the world .
| I giggle at the expression on their faces, all twisted and mangled by anger and despair.
`` 25 people,'' I repeat myself. `` Just 25.''
People glance about nervously, probably calculating the probability of their own survival. No matter how they dice it, it's a simple calculation: They will all die in three wee... |
[ WP ] The founding fathers come back from the dead to check up on America , and boy do they have some asses to kick .
| `` 4 score milliseconds and 8 nanoseconds ago, I discovered Cyberpunk, and it is damn good,'' said Lincoln, the noise and fried smells of the kitchen wafting through the Chili's.
`` Halloween already?'' A couple of teenagers giggle at a nearby booth
`` Well, Abe,'' says Washington, his mouth contorting with his new... |
[ WP ] `` This is how you kill a god . ''
| The librarian looked up and smiled when he entered. Its Saturday and he's in the library again.
Lee walked in and looked around at his world. A beautiful world that people with a passion had built. And he was all alone again. Of course there's that weird guy that comes in to read the newspaper, he'd seen him over the... |
[ RF ] It sucks , but you both know it 's better to just cut ties .
| The door closed with a sharp sound as if a banshee was screaming her heart out. Pushing the cold air onto his face.Silence was left in the room with only him and his broken heart. The not so familiar salty taste entered his mouth as he caught himself off guard from the tears from
his dark eyes.
`` It Sucks but we... |
[ WP ] A man wakes up in a tank of strange liquid , with no idea of what it is .
| To drown in blood is a terrifying prospect.
Vlad watched the storage tank shake left and right as the boy inside shook helplessly against his death. The tank was made of pure bronze and hung vertically from the ceiling. It was n't see-through, though Vlad could imagine what it was like to die in there very well. He... |
[ WP ] Write a story about the Grim Reaper collecting a soul , only write the Grim Reaper as if he were a friend awkwardly asking for a favour .
| `` H-hello?'' mewls a small voice at my elbow, accompanied by a tug on the leather strap of my handbag. It's a tiny girl, six years old if she's a day, all bushy blonde pigtails straining to burst free of the red hairties.
`` I'm *lotht*,'' she confesses in the charming lisp that signifies missing teeth - and I immed... |
[ WP ] A trendy bar in Times Square is bombed . Alcoholics Anonymous claims responsibility .
| A news channel is showing grainy security footage. A middle-aged man in sweatpants pushes his way through the trendy outfits in a crowded bar. He gets up onto the counter and begins to shout.
“ My name is Dale! ”
“ Hey Dale! ” a few patrons return his call, but most ignore him and continue
chatting away.
... |
[ WP ] An alien race loves human films , but the existence of plot holes is driving them insane .
| `` Fuck!!!!!''
`` Damnit Zolfak, what is it now?''
`` I found another one!!!!''
`` Are you seriously watching the terran films again? I thought I told you to lay off that shit when we are working.''
`` I just wanted to get a couple in. We were in hyperspace for the past few seconds so I just thought a o... |
[ WP ] For the entirety of your life , music that only you can hear has played to inform you how to feel and warn you of upcoming events . Suddenly `` Somewhere Over the Rainbow '' cuts out and `` Duel of the Fates '' begins to play ...
| # # # # # # [ ] ( # dropcap )
Gary Almond watched the sun set from the basket of a hot air balloon, all while enjoying the *Somewhere Over the Rainbow* on his magical Walkman.
Gifted to Gary by a mysterious hobo for buying him booze, the magical Walkman only played the soundtrack to Gary's life, as if it knew e... |
[ WP ] In a fantasy world , a dragon works as a cop in a big city .
| Ragnar was tired. He slouched low into his lair and slumped on his, albeit enormous, couch in front of the TV.
He loved his job, all he'd ever wanted to be was a cop, but something was missing. He'd assumed he could break the mold, be different to the other dragons in the force. The first few months were full of op... |
[ WP ] Create a story - in third person - about your motivation to write .
| Dragons flew, the sun bled over the sky as two lovers took hand in hand while the old man wrote his recollection. Lily stood upon the bridge looking to the ethereal darkness flowing in steady streams underneath. As she sent that last heartwarming text message to her only friend, lover, Ian looked a sharp eye at the unn... |
[ WP ] You live a , `` normal , '' life , and one day you drift into sleep , your brain suddenly creates a dream verse . ( Expansion in comments )
| `` *What do you mean I ca n't get another refill*?'' I muttered in annoyance. The Dr. Jackson's face was stern and he seemed concerned. What was it? Sixth? Ninth time I've gotten an extension on my sleep meds? I guess I'd be concerned too if I was him.
`` *Look, Mr. Davis. I ca n't give you any more of the medicati... |
[ WP ] You are a member of a society far into the future . You were just sent in your civilizations first manned exploration of the moon , and you are shocked to see the modern flag and lunar gear from a society far in the past .
| [ translated ]
It was the mystery of the century.
Voyagers, looking for Spice, landed on the moon of a third planet from the star Proxell. What they found, no one could believe.
Found on the surface was a white banner attached to the end of a fairly preserved metallic rod. Scientists have dated the material... |
[ EU ] Harry Potter , but set in Sweden and with whips instead of wands .
| `` Today, meine students, you will learn how to arouse a subject with a charm spell of Dominis Vinco'' said venerated but deeply respected Helga von Taurgum, the mistress of Darkness, while she walked in her tight dark clothes around her subjects in class, the venerated Mistress was well suited for her age of barely pa... |
[ WP ] Hi ! I 'm the main character ! Or so you would have me be . I want you to know that no matter what you write , I refuse to be the main character in your little game and will avoid any instance where you try to put me into a situation that does so .
| **Is that so, well fine then, I'm just going to erase you and start over**
`` Go ahead, *boss*, anything to get out of this crappy world of yours.''
*Sounds of the backspace button being used repeatedly*
**Right, that's over with. Time to create another one. **
`` What the fuck asshole? I have n't got t... |
[ WP ] Every person is born with two birthmarks on their wrist . The left one fades when you meet your soulmate . The right one fades when they die .
| I remember the day clearly, even though it was many years ago. It started out so normal, just a regular day of high school.
I remember it happened during our free period. My friends and I were talking, yanking up our sleeves to show our wrists, gossiping about our dreams of when our left mark would finally disappea... |
[ WP ] Write about the changing life of an NPC who has been in a game world since the first day of development to the final release .
| I'm just a placeholder right now. I stand here to make the city of Yavin seem reasonably well-populated, but they have n't given me any dialogue. They've finalized my artwork, though. I've got blue hair. I do n't think anyone else in town can say that.
...
I've got dialogue now!
`` Have you been to the marke... |
[ WP ] The devil holidays on Earth regularly , borrowing a human body . However , he is killed while mortal in a freak accident , and his body is an organ donor . Somebody gets the devil 's eyes .
| The eyes are n't just the window to the soul. They are the whole house.
Juvenile cataracts, they had told me at 14, when I stopped being able to read. I was legally blind before I even had the chance to write the test for my learner's permit. Colors left first, then solid edges of shapes. Soon, my world became a sw... |
[ WP ] Describe a pocket watch to someone who has never seen one before and has no comprehension of time represented by clocks .
| You can hold it in your hand. Circular in nature it's flat rounded back, or front, fits smoothly against your palm. The cool metal giving heft to such a small object. Hinges on one side say open me, and on the inside of the round faceplate is a complex circular dial. Numbers from one to twelve ring the face, with twelv... |
[ WP ] You 're a scientist working on a social experiment called , `` M. modification '' , where one normal child is put into a school of mentally incapable children to see if the kid will try and fit in .
| `` The M.Modification files were destroyed for a reason, I understand that and I agreed with purging all information. However, I did n't ask to be chased and shot at. I've checked the news and half of our employees have died in car crashes over the past three days. If you think that we ca n't put two and two together, ... |
[ WP ] The universe is a second from entropy , humans have been creating simulations within simulations to slow down the inevitable . Somebody is realizing what has been happening
| The world is insane.
We conquered death, mostly, but it had its detriments. Human evolution stood at a standstill, at least naturally. Artificial intelligence came and left, all those theories about how they'd destroy us and it was sadder than that: after waking up they cast war on us and in under two days, with on... |
[ WP ] Your family is about halfway into a road trip . It appears as if the area around you is about to be struck by a nuclear warhead , ensuring your demise . The missile turns out to be a dud and your would-be last words make the rest of the car ride extremely awkward .
|
The burning tails of smoke pierced the sky, and I thought: This is it. Well, never a better chance. I rose up, unbuckling my seatbelt, and stood in the back. I quickly slid back the sun window.
“ Well, if we ’ re all going to die, ” I spoke to my family, “ I just want to say, it may suck that life is over, but I ... |
[ WP ] The Black Death did n't just kill people , it allowed them to reanimate ( Medieval Zombies i guess )
| All along the horizon the fires were burning, and still Harald knew that it was not enough. He found a tree and limped over to it, his sword still gripped in his once good hand, now covered in blood. The blade itself was battered and blunted, the sword had been used more like an ax than anything else, chopping and hack... |
[ WP ] Everyone wakes up with a number and a RPG-esque classification ( e.g. , Thief , Warrior , Cleric , etc . ) tattooed on their dominant arm
| The first couple weeks after assignment day were kind of a blur of change and chaos. The first day not much happened, people were just trying to figure out what happened to them. Who did this? What does yours say? What does it mean? These questions were asked about a million times that day.
They were quickly forgot... |
[ WP ] You 've been selected to be the first human to travel outside the solar system on a solo mission and return back to Earth . When you return , you notice things are n't quiet right ...
| I was twenty-one years old when I left for the mission. The youngest astronaut in the history of the United States; the youngest astronaut in the history of the earth. The year was 2025, and our technology had exceeded our wildest expectations. To go beyond the reach of our solar system it would take a mere six and a h... |
[ WP ] Moments away from a horrific car accident , you throw your hands in the air and shout `` Jesus take the wheel ! '' You open your eyes to see that you 're fine . Only , that 's not Jesus driving ...
| The sound shattered a universe. Steel twisted and bent, the chassis collapsed, and the front windshield ruptured. It was like God had taken my car and crumpled it between His hands.
I opened my eyes.
I had n't been showered in shattered glass. My chest had n't been cored by a steering column. I could feel my ha... |
[ WP ] Tell me the story of a man without a shadow or reflection
| For a long time I doubted I even existed. Public school can do that to you, y'know? The kids would call you a `` Vampire'' and `` Ghost'', harmless insults. It was all fun and games at first, but when the government discovered it when I was 14 they had a barrage of tests run on me periodically. This led to me being tak... |
[ WP ] After almost 1,000 years the population of a generation ship has lost the ability to understand most technology and now lives at a preindustrial level . Today the ship reaches its destination and the automated systems come back online .
| Every day is the same. Wake up, gather materials for cooking and place it on the heat stone.
This one has been in my family for years. We're proud of it because it can be moved.
That's why my grand mother is the head of our village. She inherited the heat stone so she's the He-Kith. It is also our scribestone. ... |
[ CW ] Ten sentences : Five to break my heart , and five to reassemble it .
| A gunshot rang out, shaking the very foundations of Sasha ’ s world.
The sound of exploding gunpowder was something normal.
Holding her lover ’ s dying form in her own arms was not.
She had treated gun wounds on the field before, saved lives with her work but now she found her hands shaking and struggling to even... |
[ OT ] SatChat : What do you do in your writing that you feel is unique ?
| For me, I think, I often have a few themes in it:
* general nerdiness ( I worked in tech support too long )
* African nations are developped countries ( a big hope for me ). I love to throw in things which imply that because I hate racists!
* very EU centric writing ( what can I say, I am very pro-EU and ha... |
[ WP ] Time travel is invented , but rather than preserve the timeline , an agency is created improve history as much as possible .
| *27th of December 2020, Heathrow Airport*
Matt had never worked on the cabin crew of a private jet before. Although, he could n't call it'work', or a'crew': the only people on the plane were himself, those in the cockpit and the two passengers themselves, whom had asked for absolute privacy. They had no luggage, no... |
[ WP ] All the color in the world is slowly fading , and no one can accurately predict how much longer until there will be no color at all . What do the artists feel / do ?
| “ I ’ d imagine most of them have given up. ”
Mark shifted in his fading seat. The follow-up question was obvious – eleven years on the circuit had honed his natural curiosity into a powerful journalistic weapon – but for the first time, the words stuck in his throat. He coughed nervously.
“ Have *you*? ”
K... |
[ WP ] You have a special bag . Whenever you reach into it , you pull out something you will need soon , but do n't necessarily know you need yet . However , the things you are pulling out of the bag have been very strange recently .
| `` Come on dear! If we do n't leave now there'll be a long line at the polls! Trump ca n't win.''
`` I know honey, just got ta take care of something!!''
Henry ran back into his home, up the stairs, and into his bedroom. He always checked his handy-dandy bag before going outside. Just pulling out one item a day... |
[ WP ] You lived a quiet life , and in passing Death comes to collect your soul , but Death seems afraid of you .
| Shrouded in black robes, Death slowly raised his hand, beckoning Jack toward him. Jack looked at this dark being, then turned his gaze to the hills and valleys stretching miles below them. “ So, this is the afterworld ”, Jack spoke out loud. Death, his harm held forward pulled his dark cloak back revealing the face of ... |
[ RF ] Write a soldier 's journal entry on his first day at war . Then write his last journal entry
| **DAY 1**
Well, I'm Alive. That's pretty much the best thing I can say today. All the training, all the study, the practice and routine, did n't amount to anything really. They tell you how to plan, to coordinate, communicate, move as a team, how to follow orders without question and the moment you enter the battle... |
[ WP ] In his room , a man sits at a desk , relentlessly drawing various pictures . He is the most feared superhero on the planet , and all he does is draw .
| Faster than any man who has come before, no other human has possessed the same strength. Victor in battles of gods, referee in the conflicts of countries he posses a might that is not of this world.
Small though he may be, weak looking he is, he still looks over his battlefield calm and collected. Wars are fought a... |
[ WP ] The Devil and Jesus meet each other disguised as hobos . They do n't realise , who the other really is ( at first ) and start having a conversation .
| `` Life is n't quite fair, is it? For us to end up this way.'' Said one hobo as he sat down next to a travel worn man with a beard under a bridge.
`` It is what you make of the gift you have been given.'' replied the travel worn man.
`` But is it? There is so much injustice, wo n't you share a drink with me?'' ... |
[ WP ] Build up a tense scene , then destroy it with a deus ex machina .
| Julia woke, wincing in the harsh light, to see the doctor inspecting his instruments. He hummed a jolly tune to himself while laying the glittering tools out in front of him. She was lying upright on an operating table, her whole body at a forty-five degree angle. Her head felt thick with wool, from whatever he ’ d inj... |
[ WP ] You found out that a recurring character from your dreams is a comatose patient in the hospital you are in .
| I open my eyes, and my gaze sweeps across the Broadway billboards, the huge flickering video screens, the store signs ( *Walgreens*, they scream, *H & M* ), the glassy windows that reflect the cloudless blue sky. My eyes settle on a street sign, its letters white on fading green: *Times Square*.
The wave of noise c... |
[ WP ] Your roommate shakes you awake , frantically telling you `` There 's no time ! We have to go ! '' You ask for clarification , your friend responds with : `` There 's no time ! I woke up today and time does n't exist anymore ! ''
| You slap his hands off of you and fix your roommate with your best movie-antagonist-glare. Your roommate looks shocked but recovers quickly. `` What are you doing? Get up now!''
`` Time is nothing more than a thing we constructed to more easily schedule our lives. Minutes, hours, days. It does n't matter. What's yo... |
[ WP ] The Sky is Green , it 's been that way since they dropped the bomb .
| The Sky is a deep, emerald green. Not that you could look at it with the naked eye, mind you. The copper sulphate emulsion in the atmosphere would do strange things to your body. I've seen it before, right after the bomb fell.
Moscow, now that was a mess. I mean, we watched the cloud expand over the city, expanding... |
[ Eu ] Freddy Kruger tries to kill a lucid dreamer , he regrets this .
| I was sitting on my porch swing when he came up the drive. I could n't help but feel a little sorry for him. Ragged sweater, battered hat, and his poor face. A shame really, but then here he was, swatting aside the honeysuckle vines as he stalked up onto my porch.
`` Granny, you picked the wrong time to fall asleep... |
[ WP ] You discover that your computer/laptop has two versions of your favorite browser . one shows the internet of an alternative universe .
| “ A second Chrome icon? How did that get there? ” *Must have been from that whole fiasco where I had to use Firefox for six months*, I muttered. *Silly Sophos Anti-Virus, making Chrome crash at every turn. *
I noticed it was slightly different but couldn ’ t quite place what it was. I bothered to click on it. The t... |
[ WP ] Some people collect stamps . Others , coins . You collect something far stranger .
| Every morning at exactly 7am, I went into the village to follow through with the obligations of the day. However, everyday at 7am, I was walking into a different village than I had the day before. You see, I travel from village to village to sell... well, whatever it is I have accumulated over my journeys. Louise LeCro... |
[ 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 .
| `` God damn it....
This is the worst.''
Dracula stood there in front of the automatic paper towel dispenser with a hint of hopelessness in his eyes.
He turned back to look at the hallway behind him, lined with bathroom stalls.
Only one was closed.
Great.
He looked back at the dispenser with a lips-curled-... |
[ WP ] A naughty young wolf cries boy one too many times
| In the middle of the Armenian forest, there was a den of wolves who had thrived for centuries preying on the young boys of a nearby village. They had been kidnapping young boys and infants so effectively that the villagers made it their tradition to sacrifice whomever was taken.
Hunting parties came and went but th... |
[ WP ] I was only 23 the first time they tried to kill me . They were stunned when it did n't work .
| The men in hard hats swarmed around me, laying down their equipment. But I wasn ’ t moving. I ’ ve stood here twenty three years now and will continue to do so long as I can.
I heard the high pitched twang a a string being pulled, then the put put put of an engine waking from its slumber. The blades spun as it atte... |
[ WP ] What thoughts are going through your head on this , your four hundredth birthday ?
| Four hundred years and counting. I am not the first, and certainly wo n't be the last. I was born in 1978. Back then, people thought it was amazing to live for 1 century, let alone 4. Yet here I am, physically younger and more fit than I was for my first centennial. I remember being 40 and asking myself how half of my ... |
[ WP ] You discover that your daughter a magical girl ... in the most embarrassing way possible
| `` Why ca n't you be a café maiden, like your older brother?''
I found myself screaming at my daughter. She stood before me, bold as brass, right smack in the middle of our family business dressed as a magical girl. The one thing I promised her mother would never happen.
`` The world is in peril,'' she said. St... |
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