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Bonus idea: The process will kill if it fails... | [WP] A freak accident turned a man immortal. Now he tries desperately to replicate the event for someone else, so he won't end up alone for eternity. | [
"The Disk wasn’t supposed to revolve that day. It needed more basic testing before it should’ve been turned on. A black, round device, studded with small wires slithering inside. To induce low fields for the coils inside. He was there, late at night, preparing a report for the following morning, dried coffee mug on... | 6 |
[WP] Make the reader feel sympathy for an object or person you wouldn't normally feel anything for | [
"Nobody thinks twice about dish washing sponges. We press them into our leftover filth and expect them to remove our messes. No one shows any emotion to the poor sponge as we rub dish washing liquid all over it and repeatedly ram and squeeze the fluid coated sponge against uncomfortable surfaces just so they sparkl... | 4 | |
[WP] Writing Prompt. You find yourself in your favorite video game as the protagonist. The only catch, you're you. None of the training, equipment or skills of that protagonist. | [
"I wake up in damp and dirty cell in what I can only describe as a medieval prison. As I stand, my head hits a rusty shackle hanging near me and I drop back down to the floor. Laughter sounds across the hall from me in an opposite cell, echoing off every wall in the building and back at me. \n\n\"Pale skin, snotty ... | 6 | |
[WP] Centuries after World War III, humanity emerges from their underground vaults to find a species that can rival the human race | [
"The year is 2516, 500 years after the third war of the world. We are the last of the living on this planet, the ones left behind. It all started in 2015 when the UN came out to tell the world that our oil reserve is actually critically low. They were avoiding telling the world because they did not want wide spread... | 6 | |
[WP] Poor ole nessie gets a bit too old and comes floating to the surface of the lake, bloated and smelling. | [
"When the corpse floated the the surface, people didn't know what do think. The Loch Ness Monster was always the subject of wonder and mystery. People loved speculating about her, like how bigfoot is something to be thought about, or how UFO's were fun to look for.\n\nYet, when the video feed showed a bloated dec... | 2 | |
[WP] The thought process of a writer trying to start his/her masterpiece. | [
"This will be the death of me. I feel like I'm drowning in an ocean of inadequacy.\n\nIs this making enough sense? How can I change it to make it better? Have I refined my narritive to the point that it will communicate my point properly? Will they understand? Do **I** understand properly? Am I misinterpreting my o... | 2 | |
[WP]A father and son try to patch up their broken relationship using time travel. | [
"Persistence breeds pestilence \n\nBe it red or honey\n\nThe baseball lays tattered and worn\n\n.\n\nSixteen years of persecution\n\nProved both their innocence\n\nBut time waits for no one\n\n.\n\n\"I can fix it\"\n\nDaydreams twisted what once was memory\n\nStuck betwixt his pages\n\n.\n\nBack again behind those ... | 4 | |
[WP] A lone tree tells alien all about humans. | [
"Digits of ebony \n\nTwisting towards mauve and emerald\n\nVeins of gilded years proclaim truths \n\n.\n\nEleven eons stretching in confusion\n\nAs bark lays down in agony\n\nWriting the history of our mistakes\n\n.\n\nOil and fire inside\n\nTearing the skin from the roots\n\n\"What is this place\"\n\n.\n\nHorror s... | 3 | |
[WP] Make me emotionally invested in a character within 250 words. | [
"Upon a pale horse, she rode. Riding down the stone path that ran through the local forest, she traversed the dark forest with an intense flair about her. Her soft, shoulder length blue hair against the moonlight was quite the sight to see. I don't know how long I have been fascinated with her. On this night filled... | 10 | |
[WP] You board a plane to travel to your favorite vacation spot. When the plane lands, you find yourself in the same city you departed from... but no other passenger finds this unusual, they all claim the plane left from your desired destination. | [
" You know these memories that seem to have no importance but just won't leave your mind even after years? I have one of those, from high school; The teacher asked us to chose a word which, in our minds, could summarize ourselves, mine was \"forgiveness\". I never forgot that. Forgiving might be seen as a virtue,... | 2 | |
[WP] Everyone must pay a tax for existing. Those who fail to pay are erased from reality. | [
"The Galactic Revenue Service was a bit strict about not paying taxes - Don't pay taxes, you will be erased from reality permanently. Gone. Nonexistant. Ever since the GRS was founded in 2065, approximately the peak of scientific discovery, there was global - *galactic* - chaos. The first reason being that suicide ... | 2 | |
Your character can be an original character, a character from someone else's work, or a character based on a real life person. | [WP] Make me sympathize with the most unsympathetic character you can think of | [
"I can't do it.\n I can't take a vampire and layer him with all the attributes of a hero until the reader says: I wish to be a vampire too.\n \nI tried. For half an hour I thought of all the charming vampires I had seen in films, I tried to remember that they did not burn, but rather shone with a pure brilliance i... | 4 |
[WP] "You don't understand, it will stop at nothing." | [
"Laura had looked towards me, genuine fear and horror shinning in her eyes, her lips trembling as she comes close to shedding tears.\n\n\"Why does it want me so badly?\"\n\nI looked away from her as I slowly began to realize the error of my telling her that the most powerful and deadliest hybrid creation was after ... | 2 | |
[WP] The entire world loses all its WiFi, except for one place. Your body is the only WiFi hot-spot on the planet. | [
"\tIt just happened one night. I woke up at 7 to get ready for work just like any other day. I checked my emails, no new one since I checked the night before. I hope in the shower, listen to Pandora, and head to the kitchen to eat some breakfast. I head out to my car to head to work when I start to notice something... | 7 | |
[WP] Deep sea explorers have found the sunken city of R'lyeh, and cracked open the temple doors. Inside awaits Cthulhu, who's rather wide awake and preoccupied with something... | [
"Lights pierced through the murky gloom as we dove ever further down the Marina Trench. Harold scanned the sonar screen, and Captain Jim was calm. I, on the other hand, felt like the hula girl on the sub's control board: watched.\n\nC. Jim and Harold didn't seem to notice the presence that I felt. They seemed compl... | 1 | |
She sat in the Starbucks cafe, sipping her coffee and staring out of the window. The blood stained knіfе lay next to her handbag, соνered with her blue silk scarf. | [WP]Use this passage about a girl in Starbucks with a hidden bloody knife and silk scarf to write a story | [
"She sat in the Starbucks cafe, sipping her coffee and staring out of the window. The blood stained knife lay next to her handbag, covered with her blue silk scarf. She glanced down at it, eyeing the maroon purse beside its blade. It had been almost fifteen minutes since she’d tried to check her makeup, ten minutes... | 5 |
[WP] A game show contestant is a very sore loser. | [
"**Negativity**\n\nJames (not Jim. Never Jim), looked up at the scores and screamed. For the past twenty minutes he had pressed the button as quickly as possible on every question, whether he knew the answer or not. Only twice had he been faster than the other two and both time the questions had been insane:\n\n... | 2 | |
[WP] Your SO has been posessed by the devil. Unfortunately you like this side of him/her more. | [
"Her tiny body starts contorting and instead of her usual Albanian or Greek, a stream of gibberish starts sprouting from her mouth. Although she sometimes has off days I notice something is off. \"What's wrong?\" I ask her in Greek. Her eyes usually green and full of humor are an off shade of brown. \"Less talk and... | 2 | |
[WP] NASA's first deep-space mission has been exceedingly uneventful so far as the Hermes 2 makes its scheduled pass behind Jupiter, losing radio contact with Houston. When contact with the ship is reestablished, something is very different. | [
"Like a prose lost to the annals of time, just adrift in the cosmos as I stood at the bridge. Staring out the empty, at the cold behemoth of a relentless abyss that would not stop. Seemingly improbable, as time seems to plot against you. Ours be so fickle, in a worthless attempt to make use of what little we have, ... | 2 | |
[WP] You are dictator of North Korea and all You wanted to do is to do good things for your people but it always go wrong. | [
"My name is Kim Jong-un. I am the Supreme Leader of North Korea and my family has ruled for more than half a century. I am writing this to hopefully educate the world as to my intentions and how they have been misconstrued. \n\nBefore I begin, I'd like to state that I am responsible for 24 million people. 24 millio... | 2 | |
[WP] Granny was an amazing cook but never shared her recipes. Ever. When she died Jane went to copy recipes for her favorite dishes but discovered granny's recipes called for unorthodox ingredients. | [
"Ingredients for Grandma's Sweet Home-Made Cookies:\n\n* 350g plain flour\n* 1 tbsp ground ginger\n* 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda\n* 175g obsidian nitrate\n* 100g butter, chopped\n* 2-3 otherwordly portal demons (dependant on size)\n* 1 large mecha-ostrich egg (3-4 chicken eggs also acceptable)\n* 4 tbsp golden syrup\... | 3 | |
[WP] Diary of the Booty Shaking Plague Year | [
"April 10th, 1733: Dearest Juliet, it is for you that I keep these notes. The twerking began at midnight. Alone, lying in bed, my posterior began to violently convulse as if possessed; with God’s help, I will see the end of this trial.\n\n\nApril 13th, 1733: Madness has begun to set in; dementia, fugues, and an unn... | 1 | |
[WP] Hillary Clinton is the next president and hands Texas back to Mexico in a good will gesture. Overnight, Texans become Mexicans. | [
"\"Madam President, what were you thinking\" One of her advisors members asked her?\n\n\"What do you mean?\" Hilary said in a confident tone. \"No one in the USA liked Texas and now we have gotten rid of that state.\"\n\n\"That being besides the point, Texas has most of the US oil refineries. As of this morning Mex... | 2 | |
I'm interested in reading a story that doesn't rely on technology to illustrate a futuristic change in humanity.
But also one where the conflict doesn't derive from surviving an apocalypse. | [WP] Write a futuristic story without referring to technology or an apocalypse. | [
"### Ghost Cities\n\n \n\nIn 1972, people believed by now we'd have figured out how to read minds. That circulating folklore riddled pop-culture, and I remember telling my Uncle, right before I wiped that smug smile off his face and rendered him mindless, that it was true. \n\nExams were easy when you coul... | 5 |
[WP] you feed on bad memories to stay alive, you decide to open a mental clinic. | [
"Time for lunch he thought. \n\n\"Who do we have for our daily noon appointment?\" he asked his secretary.\n\n\"Mr. Sanders, Sir\", Cindy answered. \n\n\"Hmmmm... is he new?\" \n\n\"Yes, Sir. He wouldn't say why he admitted himself. He said, he would only speak to a Doctor.\" \n\n\"Thank you Cindy\", he said and wa... | 2 | |
*was thinking about The Incredibles explaining all the downsides of capes* | [WP] All superpowers come from capes. The bigger the cape, the stronger the superpower. | [
" \"Oh, God damnit.\" Pig man stopped oiling his swine companion and looked up to the sky as a shadow fell over him.\n The human mole, bursts from the soil and squints at Pig Man. 'Is that him, again?\nA frown grows beneath his mud caked moustache.\n \"Yeah, its him.\" He whispers and shakes his head. \"I hear... | 2 |
[WP] Aliens invade modern day earth. Tell a story from the viewpoint of an international arms dealer, an alien collaborator, or one of the aliens themselves. | [
"When the invasion began, they were taken by surprise. Our forces overran their nations, struck down their governments and took the land of the stars from them. Their America was taken within a day, and on their crude communications network, we executed their government. We told them, through our translators and co... | 2 | |
[WP] Heaven and Hell now have visiting hours. | [
"I didnt know it could be possible. What would I do? What would I say? My palms are sweating so bad. My heart could just explode. I wanted to see her, those pale cheeks of hers. Her blonde beautiful hair. Does she know? \n\nI saw her. Her hair flowing and her skin shining like armor in the sun. She saw me... and sh... | 2 | |
[WP] The shortest story ever told. Once upon a time there was a magical place where it never rained. The end. | [
"We sat around what any other time would have been a roaring fire. This was my sixth time across the pan handle with old Poke. Poke is what you might have called a real cowboy: tough as nails, nothing scared this guy. There was nothing he couldn't handle. He was our guide, our leader, our cook.\n\nIt was 60 days, 1... | 5 | |
[WP]A NASA Mars Rover meets another Rover - which hasn't been sent there from Earth.. | [
"\"Ambassador Niblar? The ambassador from Earth is on the line and wants to speak with you.\"\n\n\"Put him through. Hello? John! How are things going?\"\n\n\"Well, I hate to be blunt with you, but we've got a bit of a situation we'd like to clear up with you.\"\n\n\"I'm listening.\"\n\n\"You see, we have this rover... | 8 | |
[WP] The world's best martial arts fighter hijacks a plane. The Air Marshall is the worlds second best martial arts fighter | [
"Jung-Wu was the best brown belt in all of the known world, and he was on a mission. \nThe Airbus A319 was Delta's newest and most modern plane, featuring wi-fi, trays that extended upwards, and a smoking lounge. The passengers aboard continued on with what passengers do: talking to person next to them, ignoring th... | 2 | |
[WP] Write a story with an amazing buildup, but horribly anticlimactic conclusion. | [
"It blossomed like a poppy. a red flower, trite and clichéd against her the green of her overcoat.\n\n\"I, I don't understand\" she sputtered, flecks of red life drifting in the wind. There was no panic, but the question burned hot, a flame against the cold of oblivion for her thoughts to pool around.\n\n\"Why? you... | 8 | |
[WP] You are a robot in a time long after the robot revolution destroyed mankind and all its knowledge and culture, but as consequence no-one exists with the knowledge to repair you. | [
"Unit 515: command/- requesting general data report\n\nHardware functionality: 37.778%\n\nPower cells: 41.998%\n\nWeather report: insufficient data\n\n00:33:02:19 till system failure\n\n…\n\nAutomated maintenance software recommendation: continued internal data reports will advance system failure \n \nLimit energy ... | 4 | |
EDIT 1: *predictable - thanks for watching my back with that one, Autocorrect. | [WP] The all-too-predicatble zombie outbreak happens, but rather than a virus that spawns cardboard cutout zombies, you have a frightening realization: all things undead, including vampires, werebeasts, demons, imps and everything else terrifying, are also coming to life. | [
"The zombies were only the first, though most people didn't realize it at the time. They were too scared. After all, who wouldn't be? Zombies seem real. We've had hundreds of books and movies about them pervading pop culture, but all the stuff that came after-- well, the scariest vampire story in the past 10 years ... | 5 |
[WP] You're a taxi driver. One day a mysterious passenger asks you to drive him to his destination via a certain haunted road. | [
"♪*Well lemme tell a story 'bout this man I knew...*♪\n\n♪*He got a taxi cab and he got on through...*♪\n\n♪*But life was simple then; drive and get paid\n'til a mystery man whistled one day...*♪\n\n♪*Black trenchcoat and shifty eyes\nwit' a hunched over stance 'n' something to hide...*♪\n\n♪*But the taxi man's tho... | 3 | |
Edit: From a biosphere, or a colony, or a terraformed mars, or any other means to survive on mars | [WP] You are one of the people sent to mars in 2020. Everyone thinks you volunteered for a suicide mission. You watch from a biosphere as Earth gets demolished by a large asteroid. | [
"The slow tickle of blood from her nose went unnoticed for almost ten minutes. We watched the VicRo replay the same image. Earth, taken out like a dirt clot against a wall. I tried to *feel* it, the way I used to, but there was nothing inside me that felt like God or prayer. \n\n*Jesus Christ.* I wanted to mouth th... | 14 |
[WP] First day back at school from a fed up teachers point of view. | [
"Four o'clock comes quickly, much more quickly than he had hoped. Will had spent the majority of the night preparing for the first day. The students would do little more than basic tests to gauge where they were at the start of this year, but he liked to plan ahead. It was always good to be prepared. His wife slept... | 4 | |
[WP] Wizardry is as common and as professional as businessmen in todays society. write about every day life | [
"What a lot of people don't realize is the amount of paperwork that goes into magic.\n\nThey want a show - they want sparklers and lights and wind sweeping through the room on its way to bringing them stacks of cash. They want the love of their life in the palm of their hands with hearts floating up and if it's no ... | 4 | |
[WP] One day out of a blue, a message is broadcast on every form of electronic media from an unknown source. Everyone perceives it as their own language, but you're bilingual. And you're hearing two vastly different messages. | [
"\"Mr. President, I feel I should warn you-\"\n\n\"Please, be quiet! IS ANYONE RECORDING THIS?\"\n\nPresident James Relnson was a staunch, unfeeling Republican who spoke seriously, listened seriously, and never smiled in public. Knowing this, Kyoung-Min Jeong was understandably unnerved to watch him whistling aroun... | 6 | |
[WP] Start writing a story, then part of the way through, add an elephant to it. | [
"I was sick of the waiting. Sitting on a plastic chair, the heat of Saigon dripping down my back and calf muscles, waiting for my goddamn mail. I was in a hotbox of chattering Vietnamese paper-shufflers who pretended not to notice me sitting in a corner beside the only window in the place.\n\nOutside the usual orie... | 2 | |
[WP] Sleep paralysis is defensive mechanism. They can't hurt you if you don't move. | [
"I still remember the very first time that I experienced sleep paralysis. It was shortly after my fourteenth birthday, almost ten years ago. I have to admit that I was scared out of my mind the first time it happened. I was startled awake as my brother returned home around midnight from his job. He never went out o... | 11 | |
[WP] A Viking dies in glorious battle, but when he awakens in the afterlife he finds himself in the Christian Heaven instead of Valhalla. | [
"“Welcome, Erik, to the gates of Heaven!” Saint Peter said. “We have been expecting you.”\n\nErik’s brow furrowed. “Heaven . . .” he said slowly. “Don’t you mean Valhalla?”\n\nA look of confusion crossed Peter’s face, and he looked down at the scroll in his hands. “Hmm, no, you’re definitely not another transfer . ... | 2 | |
EDIT: it doesn't have to be a meteorite crashing into earth. I like the ones so far, but you can kill humanity however you want. It can be Cthulhu, it can be aliens, or it can be a solar flare. Whatever you want, the world is yours to murder. | [WP] The last minute of your life before the world ends. | [
"I totally should've asked Diane if she wanted to bang one out when we clocked in. Fuck. Even on the last day of my existence I get called into work. Fuck you, Jerry, fuck you and your three kids. Maybe I'll call my mom, she might not even know the world's ending, I can't remember the last time she checked the news... | 10 |
[WP] You are a simple horse farmer, and you notice your horses giving birth to 4 unusual foals. Upon closer inspection, you realize you breed the Four horses of the Apocalypse. | [
"At the moment of the first foals' birth, Russia invaded the Baltic states, quickly raising their flag over Tallin, and Riga. \n\nAt the birth of the second foal, the U.S. and the other members of NATO declared a defensive war. Ten thousand men were killed within the first three weeks. \n\nAt the birth of the third... | 3 | |
[WP] War, Famine, Pestilence and Death. Those were Horsemen of the Old Apocalypse. Tell me about Horsemen of the modern age. | [
"Death sighed. She missed the old days, when her three brothers were still the same. Famine, Plague, War and Death. It had a nice ring to it. Almost rolled out of the tongue. Shame it had to change. \n\nYet Death still has a job to do. The Apocalypse was upon the Earth as the seals were being opened, all that fun s... | 7 | |
[WP] It's 2039, and civilization still hasn't collapsed. People are getting impatient about it. | [
"I braced every muscle in my body, straining to protect myself against what was inevitably coming. I checked my watch as it ticked the merciless seconds by.\n\n20:38:58\n\n20:38:59\n\n20:39:00\n\nI closed my eyes and held my breath. This was it!... It's happening!... I really feel it this time!!!\n\n...\n\nI opened... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a dream that will be forgotten in the morning. | [
"\"...to the next capsule. He needs to be settled by nightfall.\"\nLight slowly shimmers across the fog surrounding VisionTech as I come to, from where I do not know. I cannot remember falling asleep, but I know today is the first day of the rest of my life. Someone in a pinstripe suit approaches, carrying a pamphl... | 4 | |
[WP] You are a scavenger who has lived your entire life in a post apocalyptic wasteland. One day, you stumble onto a bunker and open it. Inside is a friendly looking old woman, who adjusts her reading glasses, brushes the dust off her apron, and says "Oh? Is it safe to go out on the surface now?" | [
"\"Oh, is it safe to go out on the surface now? You don't look sick or anything\", she said, looking me over. \"But you do look in need of a good meal. Come in. My name is Bella, and I guess as of now, I'm the worlds only gourmet cook. Granted, it all comes from cans, but you can't really be that picky when the apo... | 6 | |
The Devil went down to EVO | [WP] You are the best competitive video game player in the world and win an International Tournament Live! While receiving your trophy, something jumps on stage and challenges you to a game in front of the whole World with an enticing reward if you win, and a terrible price if you lose... | [
"\"Nah,\" Joey replied.\n\n\"Nah?\" the Devil inquired.\n\n\"Nah.\"\n\n\"Don't you hear me? I'm offering you my golden arcade stick if you can beat me in a game of Street Fighter.\"\n\n\"What am I going to do with a golden arcade stick? Did you expect me to play with it or something? What if I lost my soul or somet... | 2 |
Write your story, and put the title that inspired it at the end as a TLDR. | [WP] Use the next irritatingly vague, hyperbolic clickbait headline you come across as the basis for a story. | [
"\"He threw a barbell at me once. He said he 'dropped' it, but he, like, *wound up?* Then, he told me that If I could dodge that, I could dodge a *ball?* I didn't get it.\" \n\nThe others nodded sagely, each holding non-fat soy chai lattes with a shot of protein powder.\n\nA large jock with a pleasant face and a ca... | 3 |
[WP]: All things end. Describe the last President of the United State's final days of Presidency | [
"Welcome to the Oval office, Mr. President. just to get you up to speed: Texas and Alaska are out of Oil and Europe is willing to Divert 15% of their reserves and production to help us out but ...\n\nI am the President, I dont give two shits what thus euro Fags say. we'll ride roughshot over their Shitty union. God... | 2 | |
It doesn't even have to be a litteral princess... just the person who is the usual helpless plot device. | [WP] The fair princess - tired of always being the damsel in distress - decides to try her luck as a hero. | [
"######[](#dropcap)\n\nHeroes. There is no such thing in this galaxy or the next. It is a lie we tell our children, a comforting falsehood to shield their thoughts from the blade slashing down at their necks, to blind their nightmares from the real-life horrors that await out there. There are only victims and the s... | 9 |
[WP] You are a superhero that makes more and more questionable decisions until one day you are called a villain, and you see your actions for what they truly are, evil. | [
"The hero lived alone in a small hut in the mountains, surrounded by a quiet landscape, far from any other civilisation. He prefered it this way..\nNaturally, our superhero was born with his powers, although he doesn't know where he was born. The earliest memories of life is that of his childhood, back when he was ... | 4 | |
[WP] You graduate top of your class with a degree in History. Immediately after the graduation ceremony, your professors usher you to a hidden room where the real history books are kept. | [
"Simon gasped. All of the studying in the world could not have prepared him for this, the **TRUTH**.\n\n\"9/11?\"\n\nYes.\n\n\"The Kennedy assassination?\n\nYes.\n\n\"Watergate?\"\n\nYes.\n\n\"*Both* World Wars?!\"\n\nYes, all orchestrated by the Reptilian overlords.\n\n\"L-l-lizard P-pee\"\n\nYes Simon, Lizard peo... | 3 | |
[WP] After a successful grassroots campaign "DIY Medicine" is fully legalized as an alternate healthcare system. All types of medication, and even surgical tools and equipment are now available for anyone to purchase over the counter. | [
"Dear diary, going to go to town on the opium and have some crazy robert frost dreams..... Will get back to you soon. \n\nOk, so what I thought was a few days, Diary. Would you believe Ive been sitting around the house for 8 months? If not for my supportive girlfriend I would have starved to death but fortunately I... | 2 | |
Just to clarify how the message works, the future that sends it back never received it themselves and hope that whoever receives it can use it to protect themselves. the changes to the timeline aren't instantaneous i.e. send the message, history changes instantly, and as a result the message sent back to change history also changed. As a result, the sender doesn't change themselves, but rather hope another version can benefit. Since sending these messages would change the past (i.e. kill Hitler before WW2), this would cause context to change (i.e. if Hitler was killed, any message about hunting down Nazi wouldn't make sense) so the messages may not always be from the same future, just futures where mankind would go if there was no message. | [WP] For the past century or so, every year on January 1st, humanity has received a broadcast from another version of itself 1 year in the future giving global advice, warnings, or random information. The year, the contents of the message are... distressing | [
"\"It is... Too late for us...\"\n\nWe watched the message in a collective silence. They'd been grim a few times but never liked this. Usually it was one lone desperate scientist. Occasionally a few... This looked like the whole city had come to record it.\n\n\"Around June of this year things change. It's subtle. I... | 3 |
[WP] Your best friend turns purple every time he tells a lie. | [
"\"Hey Dave, did you drink my Yoohoo?\"\n\n**\"What? No! Of course not, Bradley! That was your delicious chocolate beverage. I respect you too much to drink it. I can't believe you would accuse me of that!\"**\n\n\"You sure you didn't drink it?\"\n\n**\"I'm 110% positive.\"**\n\n\"Yeah? See here's the thing. You're... | 3 | |
[WP] This is it, first contact; an alien spacecraft has landed on earth. The doors of the spaceship hiss open and out steps… a human? Yeah, they're pretty confused too. | [
"\"No, no, no\" I moaned as the cube slid the wrong direction. God this game was so addicting! I clicked on to start the next level, but before it could start, I heard a rather loud crash coming from the backyard, and wondered if something had fallen off the roof. I paused the game, and hurried outside to see what ... | 2 | |
Don't have to include the quote itself, just that demons (real or figurative/metaphorical) come at night. | [WP]...at night, when the demons come. | [
"\"Sorry, rookie, the overnight shifts aren't available for humans.\" \n\n\"C'mon, I got a kid on the way!\" protested the young man. \"I need the hours.\"\n\nThe foreman adjusted his cap and peered at the newcomer. He shrugged. \"Sorry, can't help you. At night, that's when the demons come. We don't mix the ... | 3 |
[WP] On every full moon, the cursed wolf becomes a werehuman and terrorizes the wolf community. | [
"OOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWwww!, the newly formed human screamed. Apparently the transformation process is a bit painful. The were-human looked around, doing his best to make sense of his surroundings and his existence. He finally came to the conclusion that he exists because he thinks. Or maybe he thinks because he exists. ... | 3 | |
[WP] Sometimes, dreams don't come true, and that's okay. | [
"\"Sometimes, dreams don't come true, and that's okay. That's what I have to say to you, Connor.\n\n\"I was supposed to be this big shot, like my dad, earning wealth and riches, being incredibly smart, powerful and amazing. I was supposed to marry a beautiful woman,\" \"A woman? But what abo-\" \"Don't interrupt. A... | 4 | |
[WP] You are part of an ancient order that ensures humanity's progression. After your training, you are sent to a remote cottage where you are told to await a letter. Forty-seven years later, that letter arrives with your new task. | [
"Finally. It arrived. After all this waiting. All these years. They told me it would take time. 'Nothing this important can happen over night', they said. 'When it's time, you alone will be poised to act. To take the human race into a new age.'\n\nI breath deep, and open the letter.\n'Sorry, but you're kind of an i... | 3 | |
It's easy to write what I wish I could do, but I wonder what other people want. So write me that. I'm interested to see it. | [WP] Tell me what you wish you could live. It can be anything, from the most mundane, ordinary scenario to the most wild and fantastical. And write it any way you want. | [
"I wake up to same room I wake up in every day. I groggily get out of bed and walk past my computer and my gigantic bookshelf. I get dressed and I walk outside. Its always nice to walk outside and be greeted by a bunch of trees instead of the many idiots that make up society. I grab my bike and start running the tr... | 5 |
[WP] The dust settles. | [
"Ansel Wronski urged his mount around using just his legs, his hand reaching down to ready another javelin from the leather bucket hanging from his saddle horn. The tough ash shaft smacked into his steerhide gaunlets, the razor steel catching the light of the afternoon sun. He turned his head -the helm he wore limi... | 5 | |
Feel free to think about this sentence from every possible angle. | [WP] "We took too long. It cannot be removed anymore." | [
"It had been too long, the tumour had grown and it had taken over. On the bed he rested, the sun of a cloudy day painting him in grey. He had lost his battle, his war. His breaths went beneath and above his chest, sinking and filling. They were slow, chaotic, tired. He looked around the room. To his wife, her curly... | 5 |
[WP] Everyone on Earth suddenly reverts to your level of intelligence | [
"\"Finally!\" I quickly shut off the television and run down the stairs. Mom can't wait to hear this. \"MOM!\" \n \n\"Derk? What's all the screaming about?\" \n \n\"It's been announced that every nation in the world has joined an alliance to work towards the end!\" \n \n\"The end?\" \n \n\"Yeah, the true go... | 3 | |
[WP] On June 28th 2009, Stephen Hawking's hosted a party for Time Travelers but no one showed up. This is the story about a rookie Time Traveler trying to get there. | [
"\"Dammit woman, how long does it take to put on a dress?\"\n\n\"Oh screw you!\" Lindy yelled back at Nathan from the bathroom. \n\nNathan looked back into his holo-watch, furiously tapping his foot, with a pout on his face. He knew— very deep down, where not even his subconscious could detect it— that no matter h... | 3 | |
[WP] I didn't think there would be so much blood. | [
"I didn't expect this much. Stupid of me, really. I knew the human body held a lot, but to be surprised by all this is just rather foolish. God, I hope I can get the stains out. \"Chocolate\" will not be a convincing excuse--no one eats or makes or owns enough chocolate to splatter all over the floor like this. Sam... | 2 | |
[WP]: The Tower of Babel 2.0 has finished completion. You are the first person to knock on heaven's door. | [
"After the first spectacle of the ribbon-cutting sent us flying up steps, we raced ahead of the others. Our quicksuits were jumping up every single flight of stairs in one leap, and some of us were going even faster than that. We had to make it to the bar at the top first to strategically position ourselves. It was... | 2 | |
[WP] You are stuck reliving over and over the last 23 minutes of your life. What epiphany you have that stops the endless loop | [
"“Dear God,\nI’m sorry I haven’t been a good son,\nI’m sorry I haven’t been a good friend,\nI’m sorry I haven’t been a good husband,\nI’m sorry I haven’t been a good father,\nI’m sorry I haven’t been a good person,\nBut fuck you if you think it’s a good idea toying with my life.”\n\n\nI wrote it down for the fiftie... | 2 | |
[WP] You're brushing your teeth in front of the mirror one morning when you look into your reflection's eyes for the first time in a long time. You notice something's.. different and then you realize.. Your reflection's crying. | [
"Like any other morning, I rose from my bed after awakening, shuffled to the kitchen to start the coffee and headed to the bathroom. I started the shower and while the water warmed began to brush my teeth. As I finished, I looked into the mirror and recoiled with shock. I saw my reflection, but it was not me. Well,... | 8 | |
[WP] Every 1000 years, each species gets assigned a new God. Humanity is known to be the toughest. Today, an ambitious, young God gets assigned to our species. He intends to make major changes. | [
"\"Humanity? Really? Are you sure?\", the Assignment Manager said.\n\n\"Yep, mhm.\" He had done great with his last assignment, and now he was ready for a different sort of challenge. Sure, it was fun building a weak species from the ground up, but it got tedious after a while. They wouldn't just stop asking. 'Hel... | 4 | |
[WP] "Well...that was a much bigger explosion than I intended." | [
"(This is part of a longer existing work, from a different point of view. A brief explanation may be found [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/FiveNightsAtFanfic/comments/385o1p/a_catgirl_at_freddys_crossover_soft/).)\n\nShit shit *shit!*\n\nYeah, great fucking plan this was. \"We don't want them to think something's u... | 2 | |
[WP] You somehow find yourself in a great relationship with Luck itself. | [
"\"You know why I love you.\" Luck ran her finger through my hair.\n\n\"Well, that's what I don't understand, I'm just a simple man. Why do you favor me?\" I just couldn't understand this lady in front of me. Lying beside on top of the tallest building in the world. She was a goddess. She was like a light, but not ... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a 5 year old child who has a power, whatever you write becomes reality. | [
"I hate the times my family takes my stuff. My teacher learned me to write but what I write made him not alive anymore, maybe I should have not learned the bad words, blood was everywhere in the Teacher's room and it seems my Mom is hiding me away from everyone now, no more trips to McDonald's from what it seems. O... | 2 | |
[WP] She never spoke. She never made a sound, but the look in her eyes told me exactly what was going to happen. | [
"She never spoke, she never made a sound. She did show me something, something that would make most kill themselves. Her eyes said it all, a silent voice rang through my mind. It told me to follow her, follow her to some place more discrete. I pushed my way through the crowded bar, trying to not lose her from my si... | 5 | |
[WP] Major prison sentences have become a choice between two pills. One just kills you. The other, well no one knows what that one does... | [
"There was a cry, young, wet, almost broken. \n\nCharles Allen Johnson had chosen the *second pill.* \n\n\"First to the grave, second to the slave!\" \n\nNo one knew what it meant, or how the saying came to be. But it meant something far older than the hallways of Pixie Island Penitentiary. \n\nSome people called ... | 10 | |
[WP] Everyone is born with superpowers that develop awkwardly. At 21, you've discovered you're the first person who can teleport. It's not going well. | [
"everyone else seem to be getting their powers but not me. jim got his X-ray, bill can fly and tina can turn invisible. i can only imagine what my power can be. i won't be that exciting coming from the town drunk who's power is to be able to infallible but is always to drunk. and the son of my mother who has th pow... | 17 | |
[WP] The forest is all you have ever known. Mapping your home is how you spend your days. Then one day, you reach its edge. | [
"\"What are these stone monoliths?\" I muse to myself. The edge of the forest is different than I imagined. Monoliths to the sky. How could I have missed this?\n\n\"What strange new world is this? Perhaps this is why the elder forbid us from coming here. This is scary to witness. Do human beings live here?\"... | 2 | |
[WP] Ever since your birth, each day you experience life as a different film genre. You've lived through zombie apocalypses, world ending asteroids, murder mysteries and even days as a superhero. Today you wake to find something new. | [
"I wake up, still with a bit of a headache from shooting shotguns all day yesterday. Can't believe a zombie apocalypse can spread that fast. Happy that it had finally ended. I get up to feed my two dogs. I shuffle over to the kitchen half asleep looking for the dog food cabinet. I place down the dog food and walk o... | 2 | |
[WP] Normally I bit my tongue. But these would be my last words, and they would be remembered forever. | [
"Last words?\n\nHarsh. That wasn't something I expected to have to give out anytime soon. I've been head of the local mob for years. How did it come to this? Big Red sold me out, of course. I knew I should've shattered him into bits years ago. I had a contingency plan to handle Big Red but I only ever told my son, ... | 2 | |
[WP] Nothing went as planned. Your partner's in critical condition, the Eskimo is on the loose, and Smokey Joe's Taco Joint still stands. | [
"I gave Herman a pat on the head. \"Everything's gonna be okay, buddy. I promise, within one week, we'll be the best taco place in town.\"\n\n\"Um, my head was severed from the rest of my body and this machine is probably going to be useless within ten minutes, at which point I will die an agonizing death. That doe... | 2 | |
[WP] In my backyard, I found a(n)… | [
" Wander, slowly, through\n a back yard of an old house burned down by the shower\n of bullets,\n of a failed robbery,\n of a failed escape,\n a failed recovery.\n \n A tree stands, roots withered, bark gored with metal.\n An old knife carving. A heart, some names who haunt winds.\n \n... | 3 | |
[WP] To give his new song a mysterious/tribal vibe a famous pop/rap artist samples an old recording of a jungle tribe chant, not knowing those words have power. The song premiers tonight, at the Super Bowl halftime show. | [
"Kevin watched, transfixed, as the spectacle unfolded before him. The flashing lights, the fire shooting into the air, the dry ice creeping across the stage, the barely clothed dancers who moved in perfect unison - this was the coolest thing he'd ever seen in all his 10 years of life. \n\nHe'd been pretty excited w... | 3 | |
[WP] Describe a color by using the five senses (taste, touch, sight, sound, smell) but don't say the name of the color. | [
"What’s in a name? You might just as well ask what isn’t in one. Names have power, as do words. Some colors have power, too. Power to hurt and to heal. Power to describe and obscure.\n\nHow do you describe something that isn’t? A color that can feel cold and sterile one moment and warm and welcoming the next? That... | 5 | |
Are we in a sci-fi setting, with alien civilizations dealing with the re-emergence of humanity? Is this post apocalyptic, and the neighbors are other humans whose ancestors sought different shelter? Is this even about a single extremely isolationist culture bringing itself back into the "normal" world? Are the differences physical, with humans now being huge, genetically engineered juggernauts? Are we now lanky and pale from centuries underground? Are the differences social, with whole new cultures springing up from the hidey-holes of humanity? What would form taboos, how would subjective morality differ? New ideas on religion and philosophy, whole new languages? The English of today is different from the English of six centuries ago, after all. I've had a solid week of brainstorming about this, and I'd like to see what people who aren't me come up with. | [WP] Humanity emerges from centuries of seclusion, to find themselves and their neighbors vastly different than they remember. | [
"The Human Isolate was not a construct of its inhabitants' devising. It was a prison sentence - Humanity had transgressed some interstellar law. Humanity could not recall what they had done, or whether they had ever known at all. They assumed that their crime had involved nuclear aggression, but all they knew for c... | 2 |
[WP] You have a time-travelling phone. This means you can call anyone in the past or future, provided you have the correct phone number. | [
"\"You have a time travelling phone. This means you can call anyone in the past or future, provided you have the correct phone number.\"\n\n(the director was sitting upright in his chair, with one leg over the other, a script in one hand and nothing in the other because he had lost it the great camera collapse of 2... | 4 | |
Genders are interchangeable. | [WP] A mother starts to worry when she notices her daughter's cuts are healing. | [
"**Part I**\n\nEvery morning I wake up at 10:30 sharp, and reach blindly for my trusty bottle of Smirnoff vodka sitting on the bedside table. Every night after I pour the final glass required to push me to that level of inebriation where I can actually fall and stay asleep, I put it on my night stand so it'll be th... | 3 |
[WP] After eating a strange mushroom, you become irresistible to the opposite sex, write about your average day. | [
"Dear Matt,\n\nYou wouldn't believe where I am right now. I am at your house. It's 3 in the morning and I know I shouldn't be here. I only have a few minutes to explain to you why and how in the world I am at your place. I know you're with Julie right now, and she doesn't have to see this, so I beg you, please Matt... | 3 | |
pick your superpower and describe the last 24 hours of your llife | [WP] a disease has been discovered that gives the victim a superpower for 24 hours before the victim dies, you have contracted the disease. | [
"Just for tonight he would tell himself, just one more night and he would keep his promise tomorrow, but he never did. And now the next twenty-four hours would likely hold him to his word - he'd never fuck another woman again. \n\nChris Kennedy sat perched upon the doctor's examination table swinging his legs and c... | 4 |
[WP] A young couple is caught in a time loop. After years of building a successful career and raising kids, time reset itself. This is the story of their twentieth loop. | [
"\"Goddammit.\" I say as I feel the rip of time reverse me back to where it always begins. \n\n The familiar sensation of being ripped in two while simultaneously feeling like I'm being squeezed into a space the size of a golf hole passes. A mere nuisance now. In the beginning, I flipped my shit -- to be crude ab... | 3 | |
[WP] "You don't mind that I'm not...all there?" | [
"\"Listen, Ollie...\" The voice on the other end replied. \"I love you, man, I do. You're my most valuable 'player' by far, ok?\" \n \n\"Aww, thanks, Reg.\" Oliver spoke in meandering, sarcastic tone as he dropped his luggage by the front of the door and went exploring. \n \n\"It's the truth. But, buddy, you haven'... | 4 | |
Bonus points if you can turn the serial killer into the victim. | [WP] You're the worlds most feared serial killer, your crimes rank you among the most notorious in history. One day, while you are stalking your next victim, you find out they are even more twisted than you. | [
"I have saved nine-hundred and ninety-nine people. Nine-hundred and ninety-nine people of all varying creeds and colours. Nine hundred and ninety nine men, women, and children. I did not discriminate, because they all *needed* to be saved. They all needed to saved by *my* pious hands. It was my *duty* to save them,... | 4 |
[WP] You are alone in the universe. Occasionally, reality conforms to what you are thinking, but nothing living or resembling living will ever form. | [
"I was left here by less noble creatures than I could ever have known. I've grown used to being lonely, but sometimes after a failure, it becomes too much to bear.\n\n\nIn the early stages of the movement entitled \"The Ascent\", I lived on Earth. It was old and crumbling, faltering from the burden of troublesome c... | 5 | |
[WP] You've just escaped a "Groundhog Day" loop, only to find out that everything you did while to trying to escape has a consequence on the world outside the loop. | [
"Alright. Dodge to the left, and he'll miss me with the defensive axe attack. One right step into a shoulder tackle will send the axe flying. A jump off the floor at 32 degrees will ensure that my feet are at proper range to kick the axe. But only after a delay of 1.3 seconds, so that I don't get my own foot like t... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a sentient object. One day, someone dies while using/interacting with you. (Potentially NSFW) | [
"So this old motherfucker, yeah? He takes years to shit. I sit on my perch, and I have nothing better to do than watch him. There's only a few layers above me. I'll be used soon.\n\nI dread it. Like, shit man. Literally. And that's not the worst of it; I get tossed into a pot *with his shit* and a few ass hairs stu... | 2 | |
[WP] A thousand years ago, this city was the jewel of the world. | [
"Four rivers converged at the heart of our once fair city. The rivers were our lifeblood, flowing steady and strong through the canal that wove through the streets. Our waters were clean and pure. Seafood was readily available year round in the Western markets. Minerals and precious stones were carried along by the... | 4 | |
Sorry, title error. Im sure its obvious I meant Gordon Ramsay though. | [WP] Every inmate on death row gets a meal cooked exactly to their liking before their execution. Todays prisoner to be executed: Gordn Ramsay | [
"\"Who's next?\" the guard asked the janitor.\n\n\"I heard that they're calling in someone from the Food Network to help\"\n\n\"Really? Why don't they just... kill him?\"\n\n\"I don't know man. It's a law. Must be cooked to perfection.\"\n\n\"But... for Ramsay?\"\n\nA cry is heard down the hall. A chef is seen runn... | 4 |
[WP] I'm in love with my Scrabble partner. | [
"B-E-L-O-V-E-D\n\n\"21 Points\" I declare, smiling across the table at him as he mentally checks my addition. \n\n\"Very nice.\" He smiles politely, as he glances at his tiles. \"Allow me to riposte\"\n\nU-N-V-E-X-E-D\n\nHe lays the word across a triple letter score with a smile.\n\n\"I think that should do it.\" H... | 2 | |
[WP] Your life up to this point has been a hallucination. When you truly wake up for the first time, you wake up in a hospital room. | [
"Everything was glaring white and making my eyes hurt adjusting to the sudden brightness. I rested my head against the soft pillow and closed my eyes.\n\n\"Oh good, you're awake. Welcome!\" A smiling nurse in a pair of loose pants and a white tank top rounded the foot of my bed and grabbed my wrist to check my puls... | 2 |
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