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[WP] "Goodbye mission control. Thanks for trying" | [
"Not since the earliest days of space exploration had so many things gone wrong. Lt. Colonel King looked out of the port hole somberly, Jupiter's choatic visage looming in the distance.\n\nNavigation: Down. O2: Rapidly decreasing. Power: Emergency systems only.\n\nThe people back on earth were scrambling trying to ... | 2 | |
[WP] A previously uncontacted tribe finds a abandoned research ship after a storm allowing them access the internet and television. | [
"Journal Day 5\n\nAfter being deploying the lifeboat during Tropical Storm Pedro both myself and the former crew of the Scientific Survey Vessel The Promethian have found ourselves shored upon an island in the Landau region of the Pacific. The island appears habitable and the other survivors are happy to arrived on... | 2 | |
[WP] Civilization has collapsed, luckily you have found a tribe. Unfortunately before they let you in you must convince them you have a particular set of skills which will benefit the community. | [
"I don't usually post to my own prompts but it inspired me:\n\n\n\"Where was your God when the bombs fell? Where was your God when his children died? Where was your God when my sister had her throat slit for one more day of fuel!? God is dead... We don't need your God! Now go on before you end up like those corpses... | 2 | |
[WP] You wished for immortality upon a star that was 100 light years away. Your wish has just been granted, 200 years later. | [
"I was a young, impressionable teenager when I made that wish, probably high, definetly not thinking. \n\n\nIt was a conversation I was having with my friends, about life and death, our finite lifespans. This was deep and quite disappointing to us, especially after Jackie's suicide last week. She was there one day,... | 1 | |
[WP] A man in a big house has to lock all the doors and windows quickly, or "they" will get in | [
"Oh god. What time is it? Oh god please. I didn't mean to fall asleep. Don't let it end like this. I run inside just ahead of the first of them. I lock the door and immediately head towards the back of the house. They'll try the back porch next, I know they will. I only barely beat them to the back, but I lock it m... | 1 | |
[WP] You finally meet you best friend after four years of online gaming. When you go to meet him at the coffee shop, he’s decked out in medieval armor with a decapitated head in his hands. | [
"As I walked into the coffee shop, I wasn't really sure what to expect. I was a little nervous, of course. I grew up in an age when the internet was still new, and we were constantly told that the internet was full of rapists and murderers.\n\nAll of my fears, and suspicions were set aside when I saw him, though. H... | 1 | |
A bit Truman-showesque, perhaps, but there's a lot of other ways this premise could go. | [WP] You have a great life, a great home, a great family. One day, you begin to ask yourself what all the laughter is about and why nothing ever changes. Then you notice the cameras. | [
"Dinner is on the table, meatloaf and potatoes, again. You swear that you've had this every night for the last couple days but you can't figure out why. Maybe even more importantly, you can't figure out why no one else finds it strange. \n\nYou shrug it off and tell your family a joke, it's been a long day, you had... | 1 |
[WP] In the world of Dr. Suess, the Grinch is actually a drug dealer who deals in "Who Hash" and "Grickle Grass." One Christmas, narcs come to Whoville to put the illegal activity to a permanent end. They are the Lorax, the Cat in the Hat, and the two Things. | [
"Christmas was come to Whoville, Hohumm! \nAs the wicked Grinch weighed his wares, \nWho Hash and Grickle Grass to name just some-- \nStrong enough to give wicked scares.\n\n\nEnter Lorax, two Things, and the Cat, \nNow sharp minds in Whoville sat. \nThey found the old Grinch at a playground bench, \nHanding ... | 1 | |
Anything is possible, so why not write this prompt? | [WP] You are a retired Special Forces Operator who now works at Gamestop. While manning the counter one day, a group of neckbeards decide to hold the store hostage | [
"-- The Sum of All Neckbeards --\n\nIn my career in special ops, I thought I'd seen it all. \nInsurgents, thugs and terrorists were nothing that I'd call \nunusual, but when I took up this simple retail job \nI didn't plan to be hostage to a group of greasy slobs.\n\n\nI was selling some preorders, when three ne... | 2 |
should have clarified, the big bad boss had of course been slain in the final battle prior to this conversation. | [WP] in a high fantasy realm, a team of heroes finally conquer the dungeon-of-certain-death at the end of the world. To their utter shock, the big bad springs back to life and says ''Well done valiant warriors, now you must come with me and prepare for the true enemy.'' | [
"With a final downward slash of his great-sword, Tanriq the Chosen delivered the coup-de-grace towards the evil sorcerer that had threatened the Kingdom with doom. \n\nAlhazred, the evil sorcerer had plagued many kingdoms, sending his ghoulish hordes to various Kingdoms, issuing a challenge to those worthy to defea... | 1 |
[WP]Before the four main horsemen of the apocalypse ride comes the four lesser horsemen; Panic, Bewilderment, Ignorance, and Shouting | [
"'Oh God. I don't know about this. This seems like a bad idea. A very bad idea.' a whingeing voice wobbles forth from a cloaked figure, atop a stout Shetland pony perched on a cliff edge. \n\n'What was that?! Something touched me. Have I got something on my cloak?!' a second figure begins shaking out his cloak viol... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a Serial Killer who follows a special math equation to determine who your next victim should be. Your latest victim points out a flaw in how you solve the equation. | [
"This can't be right? My equation has never failed me. How does a squared variable equal -1? You can't get a negative square, it just doesn't happen, a negative times a negative is a positive, a positive times a positive is a positive..... then it dawned on me.... i, i was the answer, i am the next victim.",
"3:3... | 11 | |
[WP] You, Redditor, have been chosen! Your greatest strengths and personality traits have been amplified to superhuman proportions, granting you amazing powers with which to do great good! Tell, what is your new power? | [
"\"So your new 'power' is...\"\n\n\"Yup. Exactly,\" I replied proudly.\n\n\"That seems weird though,\" she replied while giving her head a scratfh, blonde hair bouncing about while doing so.\n\n\"But doesn't it make sense?\" I asked looking her up and down. \"Would you have known otherwise?\"\n\nThere was a long mo... | 1 | |
[WP] A man single-handedly prevented the zombie apocalypse but he's now in court of the murder and dismemberment of 15 sum-odd people. | [
"\"Your Honor, you can't possibly allow my client to stand trial.\" Jerry Boyle looked as if he had aged 10 years over the past 6 months of the case. Wrinkles creased his face and the bags under eyes looked as though he'd been mugged. \"He's clearly incompetent and living in a fantasy land. It's not right.\"\n\nJud... | 1 | |
[WP] You awake to devastation. Your family, and apparently humanity, are wiped out. It's only you, your shell of a home, and a bedside note that reads "Life goes on" | [
"My eyes were having difficulty adjusting. There was light flooding to them from every direction. I sat up and rubbed my eyes with my hands. They began to adjust, though, I wished they hadn't. Everything was charred, but the room was painfully familiar. Flames had burned away everything of mine.\n\nI glanced around... | 1 | |
[WP] Describe the perfect crime | [
"What is my perfect crime? I break into Tiffany's at midnight. Do I go for the vault? No, I go for the chandelier. It's priceless. As I'm taking it down, a woman catches me. She tells me to stop. It's her father's business. She's Tiffany. I say no. We make love all night. In the morning, the cops come and I escape ... | 1 | |
[WP] An adult visits their childhood home, now long abandoned. Strangely, there's a hatch leading to a basement that he doesn't remember. | [
"**Old Betty**\n\nIts moss-glazed walls slumped over, uneasily braced against the rain. Windows shattered and jagged, soft plywood sills bloated with damp, the sodden thatch of the roof sagging over the upper story like an unkempt fringe – it seemed to Laura that her old childhood home had become a hulking corpse, ... | 1 | |
[WP] You own a knife with a blade of unrivaled sharpness. The catch: whenever you're in danger, the blade is colored in black dust and fails to cut through anything. | [
"I had picked up the knife at a flea market, part of a mismatched set. The seller barely grunted a farewell as he pocketed the crumpled bills that had secured me my prize: a full wooden block of knives all with different handles.\n\nRushing home, I immediately began sharpening each of them, my grin reaching from ea... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the first successful AI robot, and you struggle with grasping what you are. Your job is to tend a garden and some animals, after meeting the animals you start to lose faith in humanity. | [
"The dog said--\n\nWhen I was lost,\n\nOn a freeway,\n\nOne person stopped,\n\nPicked me up,\n\nTook me home,\n\nFed me, bathed me,\n\nAnd then three weeks later,\n\nThey were gone, \n\nAnd their wife resented me,\n\nLeft me outside in the cold, \n\nSaid I was a bad bad boy.\n\nSo I came to live here,\n\nIn the gar... | 1 | |
[WP] Everyone in the world lives in a giant, windowless apartment complex, no one has seen the outside. | [
"There is a point in future-history when humanity retreats indoors. The original reasons were lost amongst the tales of history, misremembering and outright lies. But they constructed a place where they would be able to continue their existence, undisturbed by the outside world. \n\tThe best way to explain the plac... | 1 | |
[WP] Because of an administrative error in Heaven you are now shadowed by a "guardian angle" | [
"Light Yagami is an extremely intelligent young man who resents the crime and corruption in the world. His life undergoes a drastic change in the year 2003, when he discovers a mysterious notebook, known as the \"Death Note\", lying on the ground. The Death Note's instructions claim that if a human's name is writte... | 2 | |
[WP]Your best friend, known for giving you excellent advice, is running late. After searching the area, you see them having a conversation with a strange figure that looks surprising like an older version of yourself. | [
"I paced nervously at the corner of the block, dragging my shoe on the pavement. That sliding sound was strangely addictive. I continued grinding my sole against the stones, trying to drown out the panicked thoughts in my head.\n \nRalph was running late. I needed him now.\n \nI clenched, then unclenched my fist. C... | 1 | |
[WP] Captain Planet realizes that the only way to ensure the protection of the planet (and his own immortality) is to seize the five magic rings for himself... by any means necessary. | [
"He'd known for quite some time that it was going to come to this. Over the years, he'd thought more and more about it. The Planeteers hadn't summoned him in over a decade, and there had been hundreds of opportunities where the planet needed his help. \n\nDeepwater Horizon.\n \nFukushima. \n\nHell, there was even t... | 1 | |
[WP] 10,000 Humans get teleported to an Alien arena to fight to the death. With one issue, They're all Main Characters with Plot Armour. | [
"The warriors could not do anything. After hours of fighting gone by, blood was spilled everywhere but with no bodies laying still.\n\nThe combatants were tired, and the crowd was bored. The alien overlords panicked as they tried to get the spectators to stay. There was nothing the humans could do, so they did noth... | 4 | |
[WP] After catastrophic tidal waves affect coastlines around the globe, a new continent is discovered in the Pacific Ocean. Every ship or aircraft sent to explore the island so far has vanished. | [
"I knew it was to good to be true. It was like a pros and cons list with no cons. No negative yet to see. Until we approached... it was like nothing is seen before, breathtaking yet lifegiving. A beauty which even the highest had never seen. An ocean of purple shrubery and forestry, with which a camera could never ... | 1 | |
[WP] Earth has been notified that it is the new capital of the Milky Way galaxy. No one here knows what this means or how to get in contact with whomever just sent the message. | [
"CONGRATULATION EARTH :JOY EMOJI:\n\nYOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT IT IS THE NEW CAPITAL OF THE MILKY WAY GALAXY\n\nEveryone on Earth was pretty sure this text message was some kind of hacker’s hoax, until three hours later when the sky became a grid of millions of red lights. The grid lasted for a few minutes, puls... | 1 | |
[WP] After nearly 300 years traveling to a planet thought to be habitable, a rover’s signal reaches earth. Upon landing, it transmits only one image before losing contact— a foggy but brightly lit street with a billboard in the distance reading “God is here” | [
"I raised the photograph to my eye-level, then lowered it, then raised it again, then lowered it again. This was it. There was no doubt now that this was the place that I had been searching for, that we all had been searching for – for as long as any of us could remember. The street really wasn’t anything like I ha... | 1 | |
[WP] After countless attempts to no avail, you are finally having your first lucid dream. You soon grow aware of two terrifying realities: you cannot physically wake up, and there is something following you inside your dream, something far beyond your control. | [
"The clouds drifted high overhead, floating high as it shifted from shape to shape, my finger drawing its forms as I laid against the soft grass. First an elephant, then to a kitten drinking milk, and on and on. It had taken a long time, but I figured out that If I could keep going, keep my mind within the dream, i... | 2 | |
[WP] You realize that your dog gets his superpowers from the food you give him. You try some for yourself. | [
"I stared at Duke as he walked along the ceiling. my mouth gaped as he nonchalantly strolled the length of apartment. As he reached the window I saw it...the neighbors cat perched in the windowsill across the alley. Duke had for years been plotting to kill that cat. Before I could even move he bolted. A graceful le... | 1 | |
[WP]You are the anti-matchmaker. Instead of introducing someone to the love of their life, you introduce them to their mortal enemy. | [
"I would like better the idea of the main character actually looking for their anti-mortal. The person in which becomes their mortal enemy. This time they have a chance to defeat one another to live in peace.\nI'm a slow writer. So I guess you can call this a teaser. \n...... \n\n\"People are connected Beth, not as... | 2 | |
[WP] During an eclipse party you have a migraine, you go to sleep and wake up after the eclipse. Your friends are silent and smile weirdly to you. Outside your wife does the same. She's right beside a pillar. The pillar have a shadow. Your wife don't. You are certain your wife should have a shadow. | [
"Ben woke up to silence. \n\nIt was unsettling. A party should have music, conversations, laughter... \n\nHe lowered the thick blanket covering his face, squinting at the still too-bright light. Migraines plagued him since childhood, but that last one was something else entirely. As his eyes adjusted to the light... | 1 | |
[WP] Rick Sanchez meets professor Hubert Farnsworth | [
"Rick looked to Morty with barely contained contempt, slowly licking across the top of an envelope, before pressing it shut. \"You, *burp* you think we should deliver this ourselves, huh?\" \n\nMorty looked warily between the envelope and Rick, trying to sense the trap that he knew was in the question, but failing ... | 1 | |
[WP] Out of all the sentient species in the galaxy, humanity is unique in our willingness to give our lives to save others. | [
"Translated from the original 'Klectlian transcripts\n\nWe've figured it out - why they've successfully settled on so many worlds, travelled so far, learned so much in such a short time, why they are unstoppable, why their civilization will spread across the universe.\n\nWhat is it? Explain!\n\nThe vast majority of... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a trucker who survived a plummet off a forgotten road. The snow is coming down hard, and night is falling, and all you have is a torn up trailer full of torn up boxes of Legos. | [
"''You had enough Hank.''\n\nSaid the bartender to an elderly man sitting slouched at the bar.\n\nI could see that he was there for a while, his head was lying flat on the table right across the bartender who was cleaning up after a long night of work. His empty eyes were staring at me when i glanced at him, finish... | 1 | |
[WP] You've registered yourself for an international deathmatch. Your weapon? Kindness. | [
"\"Honestly I have no idea how in hell you're doing it, but you're doing it.\"\n\nAndra, my handler, couldn't help but stare at me in disbelief every time I came off the stage unscathed. \"This puts whole new meaning to the phrase 'kill them with kindness,'\" she said, shaking her head.\n\nI just grinned at her, do... | 1 | |
[WP] It happened slowly at first, a twitch here a walking shadow there. | [
"It happened slowly at first. So slow that I barely even recognized it. I wish that I hadn't brushed it off so easily. But such is the human mind, it tries to find the simplest logical explanation for everything. It is only when we are backed against the wall that we finally acknowledged the truth. And by then it's... | 2 | |
I can only assume this has been posted here before. But it's a new thought to me. Please bear with me if I'm late to the party. | [WP] In the near future, neurologists discover that dreams are a form of telepathy, and that the people we encounter therein are other dreamers communicating with us. After having a dream of special significance, you set out to find your "dream-mate" in the waking world. | [
"I was alone now.\n\nThe priests had long left the manor,finishing their sermons and carrying the coffin down into the catacombs.\n\nI walked along the black mahogany corridor with a candle,ignoring the line of pictures that cast their gloomy shadow against the walls.\n\nThe long line of our venerable house had slo... | 3 |
[WP] You summon Cuthulu to bring to a family reunion so your family stops bugging you for being single. | [
"\"Tony, don't you think it's time you found a girlfriend? You can't stay like this forever...\"\n\n\"I know that, mother. I'm trying.\" The college student replied restlessly to the advice that had become all too commonplace the past year.\n\nHis father overheard and in poor taste, increased the hassle by also chi... | 1 | |
[WP] A story where the villain's motive is they just want a sandwich. | [
"I double checked my phone. The GPS said I was in the right place. Then I checked the street sign. Correct streets. \n\nI was in the right place, but the food truck wasn’t here. Damn.\n\nI adjusted my tie in annoyance. This was unprofessional and it irked me.\n\nJaune’s didn’t roll into south town very often and I ... | 3 | |
[WP] "Grandpa, tell us another story about the Internet!" | [
"Bedtime is usually a struggle for an energetic 6 year old girl and 4 year old boy, but this poppa knows the best way to help them slow down is a boring bedtime story. \"Let's hear another one about what you did during the Third World War,\" yelled little Johnny. \"No, a fairy tale. About a princess,\" screamed Zoe... | 1 | |
[WP] Drunk man arrested in Wyoming claims he time traveled to warn of aliens | [
"When I got back to the station, the guy got antsy, saying more stuff about the spaceships and the lasers or whatever. It was just me and Collver doing graveyard, so he gave me a hand talking the guy down and getting him into the drunk tank for some sleep. He didn't sleep, but at least he was contained. Collver wen... | 1 | |
[WP] "Ugh! Why is it that all these magical lands have dark lords threatening to take over?" | [
"A gigantic rainbow portal opened over a lush green field and a gleaming white dragon fell out.\n\nThe hill-sized dragon kicked up a huge storm as it fell onto the field. Leaves and branches were whipped from trees and carts and wagons were sent flying. The dragon came to a rest on its back, unmoving.\n\nAfter the ... | 1 | |
[WP] Earth has finally entered the Interplanetary Alliance, a coalition of intelligent lifeforms across the Universe. You are a famous Earth comedian currently on tour across the galaxy, where all your jokes are just you describing the daily life and history of Earth. | [
"The atmosphere in the theatre is different. The lights scold with their attention. The speakers buzz amongst themselves. Thoughts of resounding disappointment rush to meet his minds eye as the show begins. \nThe crowd thunders with applause as his name is mentioned. He plays it cool as he walks to greet the eager ... | 1 | |
[WP] In a world where the dreams of tonight show glimpses of tomorrow, you just had a nightmare. A really terrifying nightmare. | [
"lastnight I actually did have a dream where I was in charge of a large panel of buttons and switches and telephones, and I knew that I was in control of nuclear devices and also nuclear safeties all on the same board. but for some reason I was never trained. the dream started with me sitting there and wondering wh... | 1 | |
[WP] Earth is a training facility for infiltration and camouflage. Every nation is led by an impostor from some alien species. Only one human stronghold remains. | [
"It started in 1776. The Hokani needed to revamp their ancient infiltration program. The High Executor had declared that war with the Geldash would begin in 100 generations.\n\nThe Hokani, being out of practice for quite some time decided to begin their training on a primitive planet. Of course the problem was that... | 1 | |
[WP] Someone has written a book that you literally cannot put down. | [
"I’ve lived my whole life in books. Growing up, I guess you’d say I was a normal child. My friends played outside and I played outside, we’d wrestle and tackle and run, but it seemed to me always draining when to everyone else around it seemed almost energizing. I didn’t understand it then, but as we got older I fe... | 1 | |
[WP] No one is having kids. People grow up and die off with no new children conceived. The years go on as the population dwindles to a million, a thousand, the final hundred, and now the last three. You are a part of this last 3 | [
"The waves led the sea, and the might of the wind, it's army to be sure, into our shores. I thought It was no coincidence that this assault came to the very island with the last 3 humans on a once great planet. I got up and walked to see Dee and John's body rushing like a torepedo into the rocks, and then pulling b... | 3 | |
[WP] It was only after you killed the fifth zombie when you began to wonder why they were all knocking on the door with bags of candy. | [
"I looked down at the pile of corpses on my porch and realized they had been carrying orange buckets. I squinted, too drunk to contemplate what that meant. I decided to lock my doors and go to bed.\n\nI woke up the next morning with the worst hangover I’ve ever experienced. My insides wanted to be my outsides, the ... | 2 | |
[WP] The day they came was the day the Order rose again to face them. | [
"The marble buzzed in a high pitch, flickering blue-white light, it began to heat up. \"Huh, duty calls, I guess.\" Andy muttered as he marble started to grow in his hand. \n\n\"Here goes.\" He tosses the orb forward, the moment it was a few feet away from him, the orb burst into a vortex multicolored-energy. A ga... | 1 | |
[WP] "I'm afraid our vicious arch-rivalry must come to an end. I simply ... don't hate you anymore." | [
"\"What?\" \n\nI was confused but I also couldn't let my guard down. I tightened my grip on the hilt of my sword. This is the Demon King we were talking about. \n\n\"I'm tired. We have been fighting for decades now. I can see the thin lines along your face too. Your power diminishing after each day. I've been hol... | 2 | |
[WP]Superpowers are like muscles and grow the more they're pushed. You were just hired at one of the top super human gyms and are being given a tour of the facilities and being introduced to some of it's members. | [
"The first spot just looked like a regular gym, with barbells and weight lifting machines. \"Super-strength?\" I guessed.\n\nJoe, my supervisor, chuckled. \"Guess we can just skip this part then.\"\n\nNext, I was led over to the treadmills, where one guy was already using one, his legs literally a blur. \n\n\"Super... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a badass demon who was banished from hell. Now, you work as a demon slayer to protect the land of the living. | [
"\"You betrayed us, Hazaziel. Why?\"\n\nI knew this demon. We had once been friends in Heaven, as well as in Hell. But we were no longer friends, in my heart; I cannot say the same for in his. I contemplated his question, then replied with this:\n\n\"*Lucifer* betrayed *us*, Acieron. He cost us Heaven. All for *his... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a lone astronaut floating outside your ship for a minor repair. You return to the air-locked door but it's now closed and locked. A voice comes over the comms into your ear: It's your voice, wondering who you are. | [
"\"Let me the fuck in!\" Ramirez yelled into the comms as he silently knocked on the outside of the space station.\n\r\n\"I don't know who you are, but Ramirez is sitting right here next to me. We'll let you into airlock 2 until we figure this out.\" Came the response from Barry Wilmore.\r\n\n\r\n\"I'm begging you ... | 1 | |
[WP] A spooky story to give me chills, but the driving force isn't dumb mistakes. | [
"Filipe let the Alaskan horizon seep into his memory, the melting sun spilling gold into the streams and lakes below. He set up camp with a fire and his tent on the top of a hill, a stone's throw from the rough trail. The fire hissed and snapped under a boiling pot as Filipe ran his eyes over a creased map of the f... | 2 | |
[WP] A robot takes its children from the robot-made world to the man-made world. They are in awe of the beauty of what the parent calls "nature". | [
"Curves. Curves everywhere. Luxurious arcs and undefinable nuance, shapes spelled out in contours beyond imagination. I didn’t know it would be like this. If I had, would I have bought the children?\n\nOur feet sink into the soil and a woman walks past us and smiles. Her hair is in ringlets of almost infinite compl... | 1 | |
[WP] You have a small curse. Every time you go into debt or maintain a debt bad things start to happen around the world. Paying off the debt solves the problems, but you are about to take out a loan that you are not sure how long it will take to pay off. What could go wrong? | [
"If capitalism is the invisible hand of the market, then debt is the shackle that binds the hand in place. When I was young, I was terrified ghosts. At night, my imagination would run wild and I would see monsters that were not there, hiding in the dark.\n\nAs an adult, what I see is even more terrifying. The monst... | 1 | |
[WP] You have upside down cross tattoos, and pray to Satan every night. You also give to the poor, love your neighbor, and volunteer at the thrift store. When you die, God and the Devil argue over your soul for days, and ultimately settle for joint custody. | [
"Rinse and Repeat...\n\nIt’s been such a crazy day. I died for starters and now my fate has been divided by the good and bad of my life. I guess you can say I’m lucky, both Luci and Godie wanted me and were able to be amicable about it. Lucifer hates it when I call her Luci, and Godie side eyes me when I yell her ... | 6 | |
[WP] One day you stumble upon "True Manual", an outline of the true, intended uses of all objects. You find you use nothing correctly. | [
"John screamed a beastly groan out of confused rage.\"Aaaaargghhh!!\" then fell back to his pillow from exhaustion. For what seemed like 45 minutes, John's only friend to answer his cries was the soft spoken EKG machine. No matter how hard he tried, John couldn't get his legs to move. Suddenly, the grip of loneline... | 6 | |
[WP] This Friday the 13th the Euromillions are making 13 'lucky' players around Europe millionaire. Each of these winner will a unique curse follow them after they pick up their prize. These are their stories. | [
"Daniel had always had issues with strength and his body. This was primarily due to the fact that his father and both of his brothers were exceptionally large and burly rugby stars (well, his father is a successful solicitor but that's not the point) and yet he himself had suffered a bout of illnesses since he was ... | 1 | |
[WP] In the last 300 years, the line between human and machine has grown so blurry as to be effectively indistinguishable. This proves a nasty shock for the elves and other fantasy creatures that used to make a hobby of tormenting us. | [
"I sip my coffee. It’s pretty good today, seeing as Greg is working; he’s good at the job. On days like this, Healing Tonic is a pristine example of how to mix cultures together in a perfect way. I’ve always loved coffee more than potions anyway. But I can’t even focus on my latte. \n\nThrough the glass doorways, a... | 8 | |
[WP] A person has the ability to teleport any place they desire. However, the time it takes them to teleport to a location, is how long it would have taken them to run there. Whilst "in-between", their eyes shut instinctively. Curious, the person decides to open their eyes during one trip. | [
"It was easy, now. \n\nI remembered when it used to be pure pain, like my skull splitting apart at the seams, when I concentrated on jumping. I didn’t even know what I was doing, really. I thought I was trying to go deeper into the worlds my meditation had shown me. I knew I could feel something below me, like ... | 1 | |
[WP] The descriptor of a central deity as a father spans many religions; “the Lord our Father”, “Zeus, Father of All”, but this central deity is more of an Uncle | [
"The Lord grins to himself as he applies the finishing touches to his new gift right before Jesus walks into his room. Jesus lets out a sigh when he sees the chemistry equipment laid out on a desk. \"This can't be good, can it?\"\n\n\"Who raised you to be so negative?\" God replies as he casts an annoyed glare towa... | 1 | |
[WP]A teenager has become an extremely popular internet celebrity, and has hidden it from his mother, who barely allows him to use the computer. Little does he know, she is also a very popular internet celebrity, and they are about to collaborate without even knowing who the other person really is. | [
"That ache inside was deep. It always came with the rain. He wondered why. Was it the cold? It couldn't be. It was often cold there. Winter was coming, and it never really left when it came. No, it wasn't the cold.\n\n\nThe sound of the rain should have drowned his thoughts. That was how it was supposed to work, wa... | 1 | |
[WP] A story about any group project (professional, social, family, etc...) written as though it were an intense Raid in an MMORPG. | [
"\"Alright let's do this guys!\" I almost yell at my team as we all sit around the table in the Library. \n\nAlmost immediately I recieve multiple judgemental glares mixed in with some curious ones. A librarian, we'll call her Samantha, looks around the corner glaringly at us at the same time as I wave in a sheepis... | 3 | |
[WP] When you joined the hero league you thought you were ready for anything, but you never expected your arch nemesis to be Keith from HR. | [
"David, \nI just got off the phone with Petra from accounting. She says that despite previous warnings the damages caused by your \"heroics\" are still above acceptable limits. I know what you're going to say, they have indeed gone down drastically. That is, however, not something that reflects well on current beh... | 1 | |
[WP] Due to it's perceived negative effects and addictive nature, the possession and consumption of coffee is now illegal. You are one of America's most famous coffee bootleggers. | [
"The asshole was in my office again, but there was no way in hell I was taking my boots off the desk. He wanted to talk to me, he could do it while my feet were up, it had been a long damn day. I nodded to my boys Marco and Chen at the door, and Marco had his Sig out while Chen brought the sad sack of shit to the t... | 2 | |
[WP]A depressed alchemist brews a love potion, so he can love himself again. | [
"He looked withered and old, submerged into a dark, inescapable ocean of emptiness, wrecked by decades of sadness and grief, alcoholism and despair. He'd gained many enemies during his years of travel, while he'd lost friends and family left and right, stripped bare of nearly all he knew and loved.\n\n\n\nNow, ther... | 11 | |
[WP] You are walking in a crowded street when a man who appears to be carrying a bag of jewelry and electronics walks up to you and presses a cloth-wrapped gun against your stomach. "Phone, wallet, watch," he says. Fortunately, you are a master at sleight of hand. | [
"Noon in city square. Sunny, mildly warm, Not a single cloud in the sky, slight wind chill, just another day on the job. As the crosswalk sign signaled to go, I walked among a large crowd of people, as I would on any other work day. Dressed in my white dress shirt and dark gray suit pants, wearing my aviator sungla... | 1 | |
[WP] The shrouded figure collapsed to the ground in a lifeless heap. As numerous enemies started to close in, the AI decided to intervene. "No," it stated, as if it were an absolute command. "You will not die this day." | [
"I can't sleep, I try but my stomach doesn't let me, the money they gave me from donating blood this morning wasn’t enough to buy food that would fill me\n\n\"wake up, little piggy!\" someone grabs me by the hair suddenly and pulls me out of the little cardboard box house I just made. I'm dragged on the concrete fl... | 1 | |
[WP] Write about a lonely planet trying to make life. | [
"She turned her back to him, preventing him from seeing. \nHer hands cupped on the ground, thumb moving aside from a quick peek. \nBeneath her loving fingers, life. Long grass, standing against the breeze, nudged aside by a curious furry nose. \nA mother wolf peeking from behind the strands of green, pack f... | 3 | |
I'm posting spoony prompts until Halloween! Spooky spooky! | [WP] You felt it crawling on the back of your mind. Another intrusive thought begging, aching to be acted upon. | [
"*do it*\n\n\"No, I don't want to. You can't make me.\"\n\n*they're asking for it. do it.*\n\n\"They don't even know what they're doing.\"\n\n*they're calling you out*\n\n\"No, they're jus-\"\n\n*do it*\n\n\"Can you at least let me fi-\"\n\n*you won't be able to live with yourself if you don't*\n\n\"Sure, I will. I... | 1 |
[WP] A new pyramid is discovered in Egypt, small and far away from any cities/rivers. Radiation is off the charts and there is only one working theory: it contains spent nuclear fuel. | [
"“Tutan-kham-in!”\n\nA well-dressed man opened the door and poked his head in, “Is this the right place?”\n\n“Are you Mr. Cliffard?” asked one of the two men sitting at the table.\n\n“Yeah, that’s, erm, that’s me,” said Mr. Clifford, walking in to the room, shutting the door behind him. “Are you two ..”\n\n“My name... | 1 | |
[WP] There is a real-life autocorrect when you speak. | [
"(Mobile, forgive formatting.)\n\n\nNo matter where they went, what they did, it was always there. That voice. That haunting tone, fixing every little mistake. Speaking over the conversation with no regard for the original speakers. At dinner, playing games, watching TV, anywhere and everywhere. Endlessly proper, c... | 1 | |
[WP] A usually lazy and unmotivated god decides to finally have an impact on humanity. He hires you, a struggling author trying to make a name, to write his holy book. | [
"**Writers Note: As usual, wrote this on mobile, so excuse the grammatical/formatting errors!**\n\n“Brave hero defeats snake in an epic battle.” said Eros, his palm making a motion in the air as if he were laying the words out in front of himself.\n\n“That sounds awfully like the bible. A snake, really?” \n\nI lean... | 1 | |
[WP] Humans have created FTL drives and stable worm holes allowing intergalactic travel. Given the number of stars and planets to survey, millions of drones are sent out into the universe. With the aid of an AI the data is mined and analyzed. Researchers notice an unusual trend in the results. | [
"\"How many again?\"\n\n\"Thousands and those are just from the reports IIRA has produced so far. It's only been a week and... there are thousands,\" Olivia looked at the feed coming from the Interstellar Information Retrieval and Analysis, the artificial intelligence in charge of compiling the data.\n\n\"My... God... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a cat. Like all cats, your tail is sentient and talks to you. | [
"*twitch* *twitch*... **TWITCH**\n\nI yawn sleepily and stare at my tail in annoyance “I’m awake, I’m awake”. Yawn. “What’s the matter?”\n\n“While you were sleeping, I was watching” my tail replies in it’s usual haughty tone.\n\n“Yes, I hope so”, I replied annoyed, “that’s your job. I sleep and you watch, what othe... | 1 | |
[WP] A pandemic "illness" sweeps across the world in which its victims all have superpowers. You don't know what yours is. | [
"I met a strange, amazing, and wonderful man when I was 15. I changed the world at 17. I was stupid at 16. He came from another world, but knew more about my world than I did. He taught me how to speak my own words. I said “portal” without having to catch the word. He knew so many words, and he put them together in... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a caring mother who lives with their psychopath serial killer son, who you see as your little munchkin. He's just brought back another potential wife, this would be the 5th one this month! | [
"*I don't know if I can keep doing this...*\n\n*The pretending is taking a toil on me. He doesn't even try to hide it anymore. His killing is getting so sloppy.*\n\n\"Mommy.\"\n\nI snap back to reality.\n\n\"...this is Sally.\" My son is smiling, but he looks a little mad at me.\n\n\"You're son is great,\" she says... | 1 | |
[WP] A villain is practicing their evil monologue in the mirror. | [
"“Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart —you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat... | 2 | |
[WP] You have been arrested by the thought police in a dystopian world. You have been brought forth to be judged by the “Great Leader”. You brought to a large desk and a large chair. In the chair, sits a 6 year old girl. | [
"They were dragging me across a poorly lit hallway towards the most ominous door I had yet seen, as we drew closer I could hear something entirely out of place, a child's laughter. But what shocked me most was the sight of the room once they opened the door, paintings of unicorns and all sorts of huggable animals c... | 5 | |
[WP] a zombie apocalypse but from the zombies perspective | [
"I woke up, and the voices took over. It didn't feel so bad at first, wandering the streets. It was kind of confusing. Sometimes they'd make me do something seemingly random, but most times they let me wander about to my contentment.\n\nSearch. Find. Obey.\n\nThere were other's like me. I could tell, they smelled, ... | 1 | |
[WP] You called upon a powerful God who only speaks in metaphors. You need help setting up your new entertainment system. | [
"I plugged in my Google Chrome and turned on the TV, moments later unsettling words slowly scrolled across the screen:\n\n*In the setup screen you must wait until the remote selects channel five and eight.*\n\nMy flesh crawled and itched. I looked at my hands and the began to fade out, as though they were made of o... | 1 | |
[WP] An incident leaves you with dyschronometria, preventing you from perceiving the flow of time. You reflect on your first day since it occurred. | [
"The timer rings. So it's been an hour. I walk across the room to the counter and the pad of white, lined paper, where I make a mark. Nine marks. Nine hours.\n\nIt's been nine hours. I reset the timer and go back to the couch.\n\nThere was an accident. Samantha and Jane and I were in an accident. I woke up nine hou... | 1 | |
[WP] It looked like a horse, but Black as Night and with a mouth like a Wolf. | [
"It looked like a horse, but was black as night, and had a mouth like a wolf. \n\nThe creature dropped its large shaggy head down to mine, and gave me a sniff, its breath curling up as steam in the cold night air. I stood absolutely still. Could it smell fear? I wondered. Father had spoken often about how some ... | 1 | |
[WP] You were sent to Hell by accident so the devil makes you a deal. Travel back in time and take one thing from your present time with you. | [
"\"All right - so what I need to do .. Is to go back in time with one thing from my time ...,\" I crossed my arms as I watched the devil sit on his throne in front of me. \"Yes, indeed,\" he leant forward with his fingers pressed together as he sent me a big wry smile. I stood there with a thoughtful look on my fac... | 1 | |
[WP] Ah, the beach. The perfect place to dispose of the evidence. | [
"'Ahh, the beach', thought Zasa Rah as she looked over her shoulder in the direction of Staffordtowne Keep. Even now she could hear the shouting of the men and the barking of the dogs.\n\n\n\nReaching into the folds of her cloak she produced a small bag with a golden drawstring. She waded knee deep into the cold d... | 3 | |
[WP] You are an arms and armor dealer in the Galactic Alliance, and are highly skilled in your craft. You do legit business, some not so legit business on the side, and you have seen it all. Today, a customer comes in with a weapon/armor piece with some strange tech you have never seen before. | [
"'M'ktyrn kail R'yinth?' I asked.\n\nThe varinthian stared at the weapon he had placed on my counter, and said:\n\n'M'ktyrn.'\n\n*So he's selling,* I thought to myself.\n\nAs I took his weapon off the counter and into the back of my store, I immediately noticed some odd... quirks about the weapon. A bullpup design ... | 1 | |
[WP] The Statue of Liberty awakens and begins an unstoppable march to D.C. | [
"The screams could be heard near and far as the Statue of Liberty began it's long walk to DC, as it turns out. No one knows what caused it or how it's possible, all that is known is that the Statue of Liberty began to walk one day in a southerly direction. It almost immediately began to shoot lasers at nearby buil... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a character that starts out as either very likeable, but make the reader hate them in the last paragraph. | [
"He never smoked and had not known the taste of liquor. Jimmy was not like the others. He kept to himself, but never said no when someone asked him for a hand. He worked hard during the day as a farm hand at old Joe's farm. \nJimmy helped his mom with her groceries every evening and would work the graveyard shift ... | 6 | |
[WP] Story where the main character is preparing a sandwich. Make it sound EPIC | [
"######**Part 1: The Bread**\n\nNuru emptied the last drops of warm water from his cow bladder waterskin into his dry throat, wetting his cracked lips. Across the barren terrain of scorching sand and howling winds, the silhouette of a small farm peeked into view. Nuru's heart hesitated to leap with joy; this could ... | 4 | |
[WP] For some time now, you've been hearing the voices of two sport commentators, commenting on your everyday life. | [
" When the voices first started, I thought little of it. Throughout my childhood, I often would pretend I was being filmed for my mid-career documentary; creating a dramatic backstory out of my everyday life to proceed my rise to fame. Any setback I experienced was just another opportunity to beat the odds through ... | 2 | |
[WP] A race of aggressive aliens have evolved long wave UV(blacklight) bioluminescence. It helps them prey on other species in the dark. Until now they have never encounter anything that can see the organs. You wake up to see three glowing l.e.d sized lights staring from the foot of your bed. | [
"It'd only been three hours since the object had been brought on board. We'd thought nothing of it other than a curious find; the scanners recognized trace elements that were common to this region, but they were fused together in a unique way. Some of the crew argued that it was proof of a recently dead star, and... | 1 | |
[WP]The world's greatest superhero is being beaten and humiliated. However, just as things are looking their worst the voice in his earpiece says, "We got the hostages! You can fight back now!" | [
"\"What do you mean we got the hostages! What hostages?\" - Mr. Invincible hissed at his earpiece - \"There were hostages? Oh good God! Are they okay?\"\n\n\"No, silly. I caught Dr. NotEvil's daughter... and his dog. Things will be easy now.\" - the voice spoke calmly. - \"Just do it like we practiced.\"\n\nMr. Inv... | 1 | |
[WP] That abandoned shack in your backyard you always meant to tear down turns out to be a door to another universe-and your backyard is now an interdimensional truck stop. What is a typical day like for you? | [
"I awake as I always do.\n\nCursing my existence and seeking the closest psychoactive stimulant I can get my hands on.\n\nIn the past it's varied from 100% pure cocaine acquired from a universe where I existed as a promoter for Studio 54 in the 1970s,\nto MOOP, a drinkable sludge that gives the user a YEAR'S supply... | 1 | |
[WP]You've build a machine that without doubt, proves whether there really exists a God. The whole world watches as you turn it on and begin the measurement. | [
"As the machine starts up it begins to spark and then explodes. I turn around to the inpatient crowd behind me.\n\n\"Well?\"\n\n\"I can't say, the machine blew up. I couldn't get any readings.\"\n\n\"Bah, you're just making excuses because your machine doesn't work.\"\n\n\"It was working fine before, I don't know w... | 1 | |
[WP] When you died you expected the void of nothingness. But you were shocked when you woke up in a room with representatives from multiple fantasy universes trying to convince you to live your next life in their respected universes. | [
"\"C'mon!\" The odd looking man thrusting his junk at me. He was wearing a full dress, redhead wig, and stood maybe 7 feet tall. He had a stick strapped over his back, and had odd blue lines lining his arms and face. As soon as he made a slight gesture I felt my will slowly draining from me, all I knew is I had to ... | 11 | |
[WP] You are a King/Queen from medieval times. Somehow you accidently traveled time to current Date. Now you are visiting an exhibition about yourself and your kingdom. | [
"'What a pig!\" one woman scoffed. \"Sixteen wives?! Forty-two concubines! I would have *never* agreed to be a part of such a thing! Never!\"\n\n\"But,\" I pointed out to her, \"you wouldn't have needed to. Most of those concubines were women he gathered after raiding their villages and killing all the males in the... | 2 | |
[WP] A year for you has 730 days because you live every day twice. | [
"For so long, I had always hated how long time was. It was a funny thing. Each day played out twice, one after the other. It never changed either, for whatever reason I had no control over it. It was like, I made the decisions for one day, and someone would rewind and replay it again.\n\nSo long, I hated it. I thou... | 1 | |
[WP] You keep getting put in alternate realities and the only way to get out is to find the difference in that reality then your original. No matter how big or small. | [
"The president droned on about how well the economy was doing. \"We’ve reached full employment, added universal basic income for every person living in our great nation, and completely eliminated cancerous diseases.\"\n\nWell this one was going to be easy. \"Where’s Waldo,\" I said aloud. Luce, my \"wife\", began t... | 1 | |
[WP] You have an incurable disease, so you volunteer for a very risky mission: you are cryogenically frozen, placed on a Near Light Speed space ship, and fired into space toward a cluster of "nearby" galaxies. | [
"\"You're gonna have to let me go sometime, angel,\" I muttered. There wasn't breath left for much more than that.\n\n\"But not this way!\"\n\n\"What? You'd rather be at my funeral in less than six months?\"\n\n\"No! No, but - but this might - what if this is worse?\"\n\nI smiled as best I could - more of a smirk, ... | 3 |
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