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[WP] "All you had to do was iron the fucking shirt!" | [
"I held Dan's lifeless body in my arms looked around at the desolation. Bodies everywhere. The explosion had destroyed much of the warehouse. Suddenly Dan coughed up blood and looked up at me.\n\n\"Peter! All you had to do was iron the fucking shirt! When will you-\"\nHe coughed up more blood. He was on his way out... | 2 | |
[WP] **Your wish of having dinner with any person alive or dead was just granted.** Now you are eating with a pissed-off Albert Einstein since you can't answer the most basic physics questions. | [
"I look across and see Albert playing with his peas, arranging them in a pattern. I stay silent as it seems his frustration will only grow if I interject at this point. After what seems like an eternity, he looks up at me and lets out a tired sigh.\n\n\"Do you see ze way I've arranged zese--umm--zese peas?\" He ask... | 1 | |
[WP] Robots: a race in chains. | [
"The robot’s screams are all my fault.\n\t\nThe chains rattle as it seethes steaming air into my face. Every part of its being wants my head ripped off, but not because it hates me, or it’s locked away. No, that’s simply how I *programmed* it. Twenty humanoid robots strong enough to take on entire armies—and I acci... | 1 | |
[WP] World War 3 starts over a stolen bar of soap | [
"The talks had been on for the past week, and had gotten the Eastern Union and the Western Alliance no closer to a brokerage of peace than when Eastern Ships had seized the neutral Islands in the middle of the pacific, or when Western tanks had lined up along Brandenburg.\n \n \nAnother day.\n \n \nAnother bureauc... | 1 | |
[WP] Aliens invade earth with new technology that makes everyone rhyme like Dr. Seuss. | [
"\"I hate these new things, yes I do. I hate these new things just like you!\"\n\nI spat with venom at the star reavers; at these aliens with their Martian beavers. Mighty beasts that they ride to battle, and keep us docile like herded cattle.\n\nIt was the same all over the world, no place was safe from the Kurled... | 1 | |
[WP] Death has had an easy time collecting souls, until humans decided to go into space. Now he need his own space program. | [
"“Mayday, mayday, this is the *GES Phoenix*! We are under assault in outer sector Foxtrot-Zulu-Niner by Void ships, requesting backup by anybody out there!”\n\nThe *Phoenix* hurtled through space as the crew frantically scrambled to man the weapons, all the while as explosions shook the bulky frame of the ship.\n\n... | 2 | |
[WP] You're a fairy. For centuries your people have told stories of strange creatures known as giants that, if a contract of servitude is made with, grants fairies the power to use magic. Stumbling through the forest you discover a large person with no wings. | [
"\"The Fah-ree people have lived upon the Earth since the creation. We have striven to become the balance of the world. Our efforts to control the ebb and flow of mother Earth's fury and splendor has been a tumultuous battle.\" the instructor paces around the circular stage, her students sitting cross-legged on lar... | 3 | |
[WP] There's a business that allows people to talk to future versions of themselves. You decide to use this service in order to figure out where you'll be ten years later. But there is no you ten years later. | [
"There was no me nine years later either. Or eight. Or seven. Six. Five.\n\nPanicking, I tried *one* year later. There was no me there either.\n\nNo me in six to twelve months either.\n\nIn fact, there wasn't even another me a week from now.\n\nOr a day.\n\nI could've went into hours, but I didn't. \n\nThe business... | 1 | |
[WP] A new chamber was found in the Great Pyramid and a human was found hibernating. | [
"\"Here's a headline: Living Mummy Discovered in Egypt\" \n\"No, that sounds straight from the tabloids.\" \n\"Whole thing sounds straight from the tabloids\" he said, gesturing towards the rest of the chamber. \nThe room was filled with people, scientists, doctors, journalists, archaeologists, and, lying silent... | 1 | |
[WP] "Welcome to prison", the warden said "Was his death worth it?" | [
"“All human life has innate value.” I reply.\n\n“Then why?”\n\nAnd a sadness befell me. A sadness derived not from punishment or regret, but from realization. In me something has died. Optimism maybe. Or faith. In God. In myself. In people. And I smiled at him thinly. With this death came an apathy. My world was no... | 2 | |
[WP] Write a short story riddled with annotations from an editor who basically disagrees with everything the author is trying to express. | [
"Emerald was a normal high school girl for the most part. She got good grades, had friends, did her homework, and balanced it well with her home life. ^mary ^sue, ^anybody? ^and ^this ^is ^so ^cliché, ^re-write ^and ^reconsider ^the ^character.\n\nHowever, there was one thing about her that not even her best friend... | 1 | |
[WP]You are a wizard being hunted by magic immune wizard hunters. You have chosen to make your stand in a place filled with wild magic and nothing is immune to wild magic. The catch is no one can control wild magic either so when you cast a spell you have no idea what will happen. | [
"The Temple of Time, as some of the rebellious wizards engrossed in video games liked to call it, was one of the eighty world-wide locations in which magic in its purest form was created. In this form, it was volatile, dangerous, and any ‘magic’ known to man could not control it. This raw form of magic before it di... | 1 | |
[WP] A child born on Mars awaits the arrival of the first animals to the Martian colony | [
"Pressing her nose against the glass made a funny popping sound in the tip of it. Simone puckered her lips and pressed them to the glass as well, huffing out a breath. Stepping back, she drew two dots and a curved line below for a crooked smile. Bending forward, she looked through the right eye to peer out into spa... | 2 | |
Choose your own superpower and the reason why you can't (or won't) free yourself. You can describe the experiments, what the researchers wish to understand, who tried to free you, how you got caught, etc. | [WP] You are one of the the few people with a mutation that gives you a superpower. For the past decade, you were locked in a research facility deep underground, having experiments done to you. | [
"**Subject is a twentyfive-year-old Caucasian male of highly morphic physical features. All records were expunged following standard surgical operation, and subject took minimal psychological damage during retrieval. Recording taken for posterity reasons.**\n\n**Warning: Subject was known to be incredibly sarcastic... | 2 |
[WP] You can predict the future, but your predictions don't come true if you tell anyone. | [
"I first figured it out when I was in high school. A test. One I didn't study for. Of course, I pretended like I did cause I was in this semi-competitive thing with some nerd who topped every class. He said he would get a 95. I said I would get a 96. When the test came back, there it was, a 96. \n\nBut I hadn't eve... | 2 | |
I know it may sound somber, but I really would like to see some stories about this. | [WP] Write something about the pain of being betrayed by loved ones. | [
"It's been twenty years, or close enough at any rate, but it still *hurts*. I'm still remembering things, and making connections. Realizations. And the pain comes roaring back, fresh as it was back then.\n\nThis is probably as good a place to mention that I'm honestly in a really good place. Happy, I daresay. Marri... | 2 |
[WP] "Master", Vader said, "Are we the bad guys?" | [
"The night was bitter cold, and a crowd had gathered. A sea of faces stretched on endlessly; its noise was deafening, and at its center were two men locked in combat. Vader had beaten the young man clad in white until his face was barely recognizable. As a final act of vengeance and mercy he grabbed the pale youth ... | 1 | |
I'm a cloud, I'm a cloud,
Floating high up in the sky,
Helping people, saving lives,
I'm a cloud, I'm a cloud | [WP] People like to look at cloud shapes to notice patterns, symbols and hidden meanings. You are a sentient, all-knowing cloud who goes around trying to help people. | [
"“Oh look! That’s a cat cloud!”\n\n“A cute one, too, at that!”\n\nNooooo, you’re getting it all wrong! I’m warning you! Those furballs are mighty dangerous!\n\n“I think I’ve seen that exactly-shaped clouds in Mexico and France.”\n\n“Yeah. Been seeing this everywhere for the past week now. What’s up with mother natu... | 1 |
[WP] "I'm the king of the world" they exclaimed triumphantly, before being abducted by aliens willing to negotiate a peace treaty with the self declared ruler of Earth. | [
"\"I saw this in a movie once\" you said as you approached the front of the ship. \"I'm the king of the world\" and that's all you could remember. Days pass or so you think, it's hard to keep track of time in a dark room all alone. Suddenly the door opens up, a lone figure enters the room with the door shutting beh... | 2 | |
[WP] Your superpower is completely normal and common, something hundreds of people have in varying ways. But yours is just a tiny bit different in a way that matters a whole lot. | [
"Shivering. \n\nThat is my life in a nutshell. \n\nIn the world today, powers exist among the many people. People with these powers were called Advans, as they had an advantage over common people. This term later transferred to be the blanket word for the power. Some of them range to the fantastical, such as flight... | 2 | |
[WP] While studying human anatomy for years, you discover intelligent design, if we evolve long enough it will allow the operator of our bodies which is the nervous system to leave our bodies through a preplanned and painful process. The soul is deleted as it was only needed for survival. | [
"Veronika slumped back in the chair. The file had everything: her name, address, workplace, job title, date of birth, her weight, her height, her mother’s name…\n\n“It…it can’t be…” Pandora Linstrom was there in the field to the right. The owner of Social Safety Inc. – her boss – was in fact her mother. Veronika’s ... | 1 | |
[WP] Working at a plasma donation center I stumbled onto a dark secret. Vampires are real. Instead of ingesting blood, killing or possibly turning victims, they now pay people to donate plasma which is the actual component in the blood that they use for survival. | [
"It was a pleasant midsummer afternoon in the south suburbs of Happenstance, Nowhere, where birds sang gayly and the sun shined brightly with only sparse clouds for the sole reason to say, “Mmm, yes, that’s quite nice.” \nFrank turned to Kyle and said, “I am not happy,” and frowned. \n“Not happy?” Kyle said, “Bu... | 2 | |
[WP] You and your friends are about play D&D when all of a sudden you all wake up in a field. From the sky you hear your DMs voice “guys where did you go?” | [
"  Jake, kyle, Vikki, and I had been playing Dungeons & Dragons with each other every Sunday for 3 years. Yes, 3 years! Even though Vikki was a girl! Kyle bet me 15 bucks that she would have quit the second week, but here she was over 100 games later. \n   Girl aren't so bad after all. \n &a... | 1 | |
[WP] An edgy teenager accidentally joins a cult that worships Santa | [
"\"So, let me get this straight...\"\n\nThe kid looked as if he were going to go raving mad at any second. Not an uncommon look down here, but usually it took a bit longer to set in than this.\n\n\"...you want to give your soul to me...\" \n\nThe boy nodded furiously at this, manic eyes darting here and fro as if h... | 1 | |
[WP] You fall asleep on a long-haul flight and wake up to an empty plane, all the passengers and crew have disappeared. Yet the aircraft is still in the air. | [
"Jake shakes awake from the sleep he hadn’t even realized he’d fallen into. He was honestly surprised, he never got any sleep on these overseas flights, made sleeping like a baby once he got to his hotel all the sweeter. He rubbed his eyes while yawning, glancing at his watch, middle of the night, obviously. That m... | 1 | |
[WP] Your latest Tinder hookup turns out to be your favorite fictional hero or heroine. But they're not quite the way you imagined them to be... | [
"Abby was bamboozled into the whole thing, really. She was simply not convinced that anything good ever came of Tinder. The sheer volume of propositions she'd received upon her sister forcing her to set up an account and upload her best photos was enough to turn her off from the idea entirely. That is, until she ma... | 2 | |
some songs tell a story, like One by U2 Fast Car by tracey Chapman, The last stand by Sabaton. or hell even last Friday night by katy perry.
Write a short story that encapsulates the story of a song of your choice. Bonus points for using actual lyrics from the song in your narrative, but be sure to **bold** them for p... | [WP] Tell the story of a song. | [
"First post in this sub. I hope you like it. I'm also not a native speaker so corrections are apreciated.\n\n---\n\nKnowing that you have few hours left in this world is not a pleasant feeling.\n\nThis cell has been my home for the last twelve years. Around a third of my life has been spent here, as I wait for the ... | 2 |
[WP] While roaming the depths of Hell, you happen upon a small white notebook in a shallow hole, with Lucifer's name written on the cover. It's his old diary. | [
"He walked past the decorative warped skull pillars and the iconic gargoyle lava fountain into the main hall. The red carpet that ran up to the throne was made from blonde hair dyed red with blood. \n\nThen of course there was the lord of hell himself, strained face covered in a sheen of sweat. This was made all th... | 2 | |
[WP] A super villain takes the day off | [
"The air crackled with energy well before he arrived, and Frederick Roberts, AKA the Red Titan sighed derisively as his nemesis landed with earth shattering force, splintering the concrete and throwing up clouds of dust in every direction. \n\n\"What nefarious deeds are you up to, Red Titan?\" Golden Bolt shouted,... | 1 | |
[WP] There are only two people left in the world and they're both countries apart from each other. The only way they can reach each other is by boat or plane and neither of them know how to drive/pilot it. | [
"“Goodnight,” she whispered, and the screen went black as she ended the call, and the window returned to the bright white of our lengthy chat log. I could feel my cheeks still aching from the smile I had put on hours ago. *Dear God*, I thought in a daze. *I love her so much*. \nI suppose I should consider myself lu... | 1 | |
[WP] Walking home from the bar, a stranger bumps into you and presses something into your hand. "Forgive me," he says ,"but they will come for it and I can no longer keep it safe," and runs off into the night. | [
"It felt sharp and their words scared me in a way. Considering the time and the place and that I *knew* going out was a bad idea, seeing her after so long and now this...no wonder my hand refused to open. I looked up at the stars instead. \nI slunk down in a gutter and pointedly dropped whatever it was behind me an... | 4 | |
[WP] A group of people are in a bar, with one boasting about being a major figure in an important historical event. A newcomer overhears and says "I don't remember you." | [
"In Corsica, people knew me as a war hero. When I sat at the bars, or lounges, discussing my tales of valor serving under the armies of Napoleon, people gasp in awe in my adventurous undertakings. At least, that’s what I wanted them to think. It was one of those times, I sat in a small bar near a port, talking with... | 1 | |
[WP] The human race has lost the ability to procreate. You are the last person born naturally, and the reason why we can't create life was thought to be lost until your 18th birthday, when it all of a sudden becomes clear... | [
"Abandoned.\n\nThat's what the planet has felt like more and more. House prices plummeted as a generation died. I was the last person to be born naturally. For 10 years before I was born birth rated plummeted until they reached zero. I was born a week after the 2nd last person. News crews attended my birth. I have ... | 1 | |
[WP] In WW2 a USAF plane surveys a desert area. All are killed but the pilot when engaged by Luftwaffe. He’s forced to land at a deserted airfield where a man helps repair his craft. After returning to base to tell his tale he discovers the man is a long dead war hero and the airfield doesn’t exist. | [
"[One small correction from a vet: The USAF wasn't properly incorporated until 1947. Though Army divisions specific to aircraft had flown in some of our forgotten-by-mainstream conflicts since 1907, during this period it would be the Army Air Forces (AAF). That said, I don't mind whatever terminology people use.... | 1 | |
[WP] At the local game store, you sit down with some friends ready to play a game of *Pandemic*. While setting up, in walks Bill Gates. He pulls up a chair to your table and says "Ladies and Gentlemen, let's save the world." | [
"\n\n\n\nI don't know what to do. This isn't how life works. Jeff Bezos shouldn't be rolling Monopoly dice to see how many children are infected with some mutant abomination between rabies and the plague. BIll Gates, the champion of philanthropy, the man who publicly devoted his life towards eliminating human suffe... | 1 | |
[WP] Unicorns exist but are the most vicious and well adapted killing machines in the universe. | [
"***Wild Hunt***\n\nI was running, brambles digging into my skin. Blood dripped across the ivy and moss, the half-chewed remains of my friends draped maniacally across sycamore trees. The sound of them, hooves pounding the earth into submission, wicked black horns slitting through the darkness. We'd all been told o... | 1 | |
[WP]"This whole conflict can be resolved if they just talked to each other!" That's the premise: finding a way for them to communicate. | [
"Vashur cut down the soldier with a swift swing of his blade and continued up the exterior stairwell. *Another life lost* He thought to himself as he heard the clatter of boots on metal grates above him. *How many must die?* He looked down as he watched more imperials surround Cort. They held their ground, rif... | 1 | |
[WP]You point and pull the trigger. You are stunned by the deafen boom and watch the man you just shot in the back of the head crumble to the ground. You see the smoke rising from your finger. Your imagination can kill and you are having a hard time controlling it. | [
"I just killed that demon. It was terrorizing me far too long. But I finally developed powers strong enough to fight my foes. \n\nI wasn’t always a blooming freedom fighter. I was living a happy and completely average life. But recently, before bed, my family and I would hear strange noises coming from the closet. ... | 1 | |
Credit to James Patterson, he said this in an online writing class. | [WP] To the best of my understandably shaky recollection, the first time I died went something like this... | [
"\"To the best of my understandably shaky recollection, the first time I died went something like this...\"\n\nArnold leaned back into his rocking chair, pipe hanging out of his mouth as an innocent grin crosses his face.\n\n\"The first time was when I was only 17! That was 73 years ago!\" Arnold exclaimed, the kid... | 1 |
Basicaly, robots vs wizards. An average science vs magic prompt. | [WP] In a world of magic and wizards, an A.I. lands their spaceship to prepare the world for colonization, the locals decide to wage war against them. | [
"Of all the prophecies that the council of seers possessed, the Dead Ship was the one that filled the people of Silencium with dread. The ship without a crew would come from the sky to destroy the world. It would bring forth armies without souls, controlled by a great intelligence which was neither living nor dead.... | 1 |
[WP] The year is 2134 and Tesla’s self-driving semis have taken over the trucking industry. You are the last human trucker. | [
"Driving along the auto roads was no joke, people like to think it is. \"Ah Dave, what are ya still doing that grunt work for, you know they'd let you be a manager? Anything to get you off the road right.\"\n\nIt was true, the company had been offering to retire me for years, or move me up, or give me a free perman... | 1 | |
[WP] After a dnd session in which your party struck a deal with a demon, you wake up the next morning with a d20 branded to your wrist. The numbers facing you change as you go about your day. | [
"“The old woman who gave you the quest cackles. ‘Fools! Now that you’ve done my bidding, the way is open! I have become a conduit for the power beyond!’” Erin pressed a button under the table with her foot. The lights dimmed and a thunder sound effect played from the speakers behind her. Erin threw her hands to the... | 2 | |
[WP] You're an alien race who's only heard about how humans procreate via the terms like "3rd base" and "home run". This caused your species to think we make offspring through baseball and you're about to witness your first game. | [
"Finally, the chance to see how this new race is able to reproduce. I've been waiting so long. Our spy, Jared, a college boy with pale skin has told us all about what he calls \"getting laid\". He taught us how to speak the human language and all its nuances, about how we should attend his \"keggers\" and how we sh... | 1 | |
The Chosen Hero isn't always the best hero. | [WP] In a fantasy world where "The Chosen One" is decided at birth, this prediction doesn't always take the Hero's potential into account. | [
"\"Well how exactly do you recommend I go about this mate?\" Asked Arthur dryly. \n\n\"Just, eh, give her a tug I suppose. Should come out of the stone easily enough.\" Said the blushing guard scratching his head.\n\n\"And I'm supposed to be the one to do this then?\" Asked Arthur.\n\n\"You were the seventh son of ... | 1 |
[WP] The Temporal Tourism Agency told you it was impossible to change the past, but you just proved them wrong. | [
"\"Now,\" my tour agent began, \"the most important thing to remember is that you can't *change* anything.\"\n\n\"So, what, I'm just a spectator?\" I asked. She pursed her lips off to one side as she tried to figure out a better way to explain how time travel tourism actually worked, because I'll be goddamned if *I... | 1 | |
[WP] You've been stealing little kid's noses for years and you finally have enough to start your master plan. | [
"I really do want to apologize to all the children who thought it was just a joke. The adults around them probably played games with them, covering eyes and ears only to laugh and smile and reveal nothing was amiss. Their dewy eyes and soft, glowing smiles would become muddled with confusion and expressions of fear... | 1 | |
[WP] You find out your fiancée is a professional assassin. You promised him/her that no matter what you learned, you'd still go through with the marriage. | [
"Years together and I hadn’t even known\nthe profession in which she’d been thrown,\ndays spent taking lives from others,\nthese things were kept from her father, mother and brothers.\nOur life was great, good, and splendid,\nso I didn’t flinch when normal and insanity became blended.\nWe had plans to wed and I hel... | 2 | |
[WP] Every time an alien species capture an image of Earth, they capture the blue Pacific Ocean side and assume the entire planet's surface is 100% water. This has been going on for millennia, until... | [
"“The hell is this?”\n\n“Captain? What are you seeing?”\n\n“You’ve sent me to the wrong planet. There’s no water here. We don’t have the equipment for a land-based invasion.”\n\n“... Our navigation charts say your ship is approaching the correct planet.”\n\n“Bullshit. I’ve been telling the higher-ups for years that... | 1 | |
[WP]You found a magical bag and the most valuable thing a person owns appears in the magical bag, when you touch them with it. At first money, jewelry, car keys appeared in the bag. Now much more disturbing things have started to appear. | [
"As I reached into the bag I felt something wet.\n\nLife has been pretty sweet since finding this bag in that old creeps house. Robbing him was the best thing to ever happen to me. \nI didn't know what I had at first, It just just this expensive looking green and gold bag about the size of messenger bag with all th... | 1 | |
[WP] You died being a hero, waking up to find yourself locked in a mansion with precious reincarnations of yourself, You want to be the first hero to escape. | [
"The stories you hear, of forgetting who you are, in a place you don't know is as scary as they say. When I had woken up, I was met with the sensation of my entire being writhing in insufferable pain. My silent pleas were left at that, silent. When my begging ended, I was suddenly awake to the feeling like I was ra... | 2 | |
[WP] Your job is to create plausible explanations to feed to the media for the various supernatural and alien occurrences on Earth. For some reason, you are particularly busy on Thursdays. | [
"\"Boss, we got another pyrokinetic loose at-\"\n\n\"Gas line explosion!\" George Forwell was a short man. He had a pot belly and he was balding underneath the old baseball cap he always wore to work. He had extraordinarily hairy arms and a tendency to crack his knuckles when he was getting angry. \"It's always a g... | 1 | |
[WP] Every country has a secret supernatural population made up of one race; France has ogres, England has fairies, Japan has yo-kai, etc. In 1776, when a new country has been born, the supernatural races must decide who will live in this new land. | [
"They sat at the table in silence, eyebrows furrowed, lost in their thoughts. \n\nThunder and lightning filled the night sky, and the wizard tapped a finger to the rhythmic patter of the torrential rain, stroking his long white beard with a trembling hand; waiting. Try as he did to mask his stance, tired eyes betra... | 2 | |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse is upon us, but instead of panicking you just opened up a tea shop. | [
"Sitting behind the counter, Sarah sips at her tea. She’s watching the man examining her wares with great confusion. His shotgun is slung across his back, a bandolier of shells across his chest. She’s pretty sure she can see his last kill still splattered across his dirty face. \n\n“A tea shop?” It’s the third time... | 1 | |
[WP]An evil cult prepare the final sacrifice they need in order to summon their dark master. The catch? Unbeknownst to the cult, the intended victim is actually the child of their master. | [
"It had been just over a decade since Cyril, the Wretched had been banished from the realms of earth. Cyril had been exiled more than once before, but his magic was far more old and far more powerful than that of any mage in this world. So, time and time again he returned with a lustful vengeance of a thousand devi... | 1 | |
Bonus points if you throw in a Douglas Adams reference somewhere. | [WP] Most people, for a brief moment at some point in their lives, suddenly understand the mysteries of the universe and the meaning of existence. These truths are then instantly forgotten, and no one can remember what they are. | [
"\"A near death experience didn't prompt it. I wasn't looking into a tunnel, didn't see a bright white light, or feel my soul separate from my body. \n\n\"I wasn't on LSD, mushrooms, or mescaline, although I saw more colors than you could possibly imagine. Just don't ask me to describe them to you. \n\n\"It wasn't ... | 1 |
[WP]You are an adventurer, a master of your craft. You answer a summons by the king. As you enter the throne room you can see the king is obsessed with an alchemical substance called "Bud Light". Also the court responses to His Majesty's proclamations with a cry of "dilly dilly!" | [
"\"Ello, m'lord\", I declare as I enter the throne room. The king and I had developed a friendship over the years so being summoned to him at odd hours was a normal occurrence. I approached the king to see what I could do for him on this beautiful evening. \"Taste this\", he said insistently as he shoved a cup into... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a simple programmer who codes computers. One day, you fall asleep while working at home. Unfortunately, you forgot to lock your office door before the wife and kids got home. Now you have to explain to your boss how a toddler made the first ever true AI. | [
"The computer scientists, journalists, and authorities all agree that everything began during my son's nap. While I was working in another room, my two-year-old toddler tugged our Amazon Alexa off the bookshelf in his bedroom. We kept the digital device near his crib to play him sleepy music. \n\nMy workshop was a ... | 1 | |
[WP] Your metal detector beeps rapidly as you sweep it over a patch of pale grass. You hold your breath as you begin to dig, hoping this time you might have found it. | [
"The grass crunched beneath my feet as I slowly made my way through the field. It was eerily quiet, no wind, no sun. Just moonlight and a soft cold breeze. I was on a mission, my task was to wander the nearby countryside to search for the band of rebels who had been raiding us. The rebels are weak, their weapons ... | 1 | |
[WP] After hundreds of thousands of years looking for Alien life and many disappointing finds, humanity has come to the shocking conclusion that we are by far the most advanced species in the universe. | [
"Sad and Wise are the Guardians. \nLong have the watched Us. \nThey deny we are their Children, yet they watch over us. \nThey claim they did not create us, that our destinies are our own.\nWe revere the Guardians because they teach us.\nWe curse them when they refuse to save us.\nSo rarely have we seen them, but w... | 2 | |
[WP] You are an ancient immortal being, capable of traveling across dimensions. Your purpose is to judge the Earth of that dimension. If you deem them worthy, thet live. If you don't, they die. Today, you come across our dimension. | [
"This is the 3,536,347,473,346th Earth I have judged. I have lived for trillions of years. I am to judge this dimensions Earth. I. Am. Tired. I have calculated that in judging the many Earths I have sentenced 87.33333% of them.\n\n\nThese humans. They are scum.\n\n\n\"Ab... Whatever the hell your name is, that repo... | 1 | |
[WP] Humanity never achieved space flight before running out of sufficient resources to move off world. The end of humanity is near. | [
"The histories told us that we lived in Paradise. You don't leave Paradise. We never even tried. Things grew darker and dimmer on the surface day by day, century by century. Sometimes slowly, and no one would notice, then suddenly for a while, another few shades if there was a long war. Covered in ash and soot, wha... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a mage in charge of teaching young apprentices. Today you discovered a rather strange one. While most apprentices have trouble producing enough power for spells this one produces too much power. | [
"You look over the youth. Some twenty springs old, you figure, improbably fair of skin and hair and moderately tall. His eyes are a washed blue, like the empty summer sky. Despite the overall lack of pigmentation, you can feel the hum of his spark - definitely an innate caster.\n\n\"So, you want to become my appren... | 4 | |
[WP] You’re one of the first Alien/Human hybrids to migrate back to Earth. Returning to the cradle of Humanity wasn’t going as you envisioned. | [
"The apocalypse came in the form of World War 4. Humans were massacred in the millions as we destroyed each other with weapons beyond imagination. The Earth was soon reduced to a barren husk of a planet, with radioactive winds and toxic oceans. The dust of the dead coated the scorched earth, smothering the remainin... | 1 | |
[WP] A man born with a genetic disease making him unable to fear creates a career out of moving into haunted houses and getting rid of the ghosts in any way, but mostly through sheer boredom. | [
"\"AHGHhHhhhHHhhHh!\"\n\nDamn her breaths bad. Like really bad. I guess death'll do that to ya. The ghost screams at me her mouth opening inhumanely wide. I suppose I should be scared but honestly I feel nothing beside boredom. \n\n\"Would you shut up?\"\n\nThe ghost's gaping mouth closes in surprise. Her cold dead... | 2 | |
[WP] The coffin is lowered into the ground. It's not the first time you buried her. | [
"If there was anyway to apologize for all of the sins I have committed, surely watching you die again and again has to pay the bill. Every time I watch the agony in your eyes, I wonder why you choose to stay with me. We have tried in vain to stay away from each other over many lifetimes. However, the moment our pat... | 12 | |
[WP] You picked up the wrong briefcase. | [
"**Part 1**\n\nVernon Littleson was anything but little. Vertically challenged his childhood friends would tease, but horizontally gifted. He did all the right things in all the right ways. He went to college. He started a career. He married a nice girl from a nice home and they had three nice children together. Q... | 1 | |
[WP] a love story between a deity and a human. | [
"Clementia held her breath as the boy trotted past her hiding place. He looked behind barrels and in horse stalls, but he would not find her there. She giggled, and he looked up. The boy smiled at the goddess perched in the barn rafters.\n\n.\n\nThe boy was not a boy now. Morta had taken his father. Sixteen was too... | 3 | |
[WP] Write an alien invasion from ths perspective of one of the aliens invading Earth. | [
"We...*hunger*. Our last meal was ages ago, and I feel the last vestiges of the meal depart, leaving me shivering from hunger. We must *feed*.\n\nI cast my consciousness to my scouts. My drones...*they see* a world of sentience. The wondrous smell of emotions...I *taste* it through my drones' senses, I embrace it ... | 1 | |
[WP] You die and are reincarnated... as an AI. | [
"The best way to describe Gregory's situation was ironic, inconvenient, and very, very undesirable. \n\nHe'd died. He remembered it. He had laid down on his back and stared at the maintenance shaft's ceiling as the Mars Station hurtled toward the red planet's dusty surface. After the artificial intelligence he desi... | 1 | |
[WP] ""Sometimes to do good, you have to be the bad guy." This is the quote of the world-renowned hero that caused chaos across the planet." | [
"######[](#dropcap)\n\nFROM THE OFFICE OF DAWSON & CHIME, PLLC\n\nThis document is in relation to Case #1270-21, CITY OF ATLANTA vs CHAOS MAN, pending in the State Supreme Court of Georgia. As this is an ongoing court proceeding, please treat all statements within this document as confidential.\n\nIt has come t... | 2 | |
[WP] "My wealth and treasures? If you want it, I'll let you have it...search for it! I left all of it at one place" These were the last words of the famous space pirate king Roger D. iamond | [
"**Chapter 1**\n\n\"He's gone.\" Dr. Mortimer said softly, as he carefully shut Captain Iamond's eyelids. \"Clear the quarters, please.\"\n\nI ushered the rest of the crew out of the Captain's chambers, and turned to shut the doors.\n\n\"What are we to do now!?\" Byron yelled at me, clearly overcome with emotion.\n... | 1 | |
[WP] Trained by years of zombie media, when one wanders into your backyard, you kill it and burn the body. Then you realize there are no more. You just stopped a zombie apocalypse. Good luck telling people. | [
"\"I totally believe you, Jerry, \" she rolls her eyes the second she turns pretending to search for something on the table.\n\n\n\n\"And, I took the shovel, and hit the zombie right across the face, his head flew away\" Jerry keeps talking with shaky hands and long pauses between his words.\n\n\n\n\nMiriam listens... | 6 | |
[WP] You meet a fairy in an unusual place, he needs help.. So you're helping the fairy and your life takes an adventurous turn | [
"\"Pst. Hey, hey you.\"\n\nI'm at the laundromat waiting for my towels to dry when I hear someone whispering for someone. I don't know anyone here so clearly it's not about me and I ignore it.\n\n\"Hey, you. Girl the purple T-shirt, by the dryer, currently playing on her phone.\"\n\nNow that description is way to s... | 1 | |
Greece is almost 50% elven, and the Gauls are a wide mix of human, dwarf, orc and gnoll tribes | [WP] The Roman Senate debates extending full Roman citizenship to the non-humans living within the Republic's borders. | [
"\"Senators, senators, calm!\"\n\nThe Emperor's voice was firm, settling a hushed silence over the room of squabbling men. They took their seats as the emperor took a central place, the *gladius* belted at his waist not lost on any of the men. Praetorian Guardsmen were scattered by the entrances, also not lost on a... | 1 |
You both know? Idk up to ya'll | [WP] You are in constant contact with the FBI (or other) agent who is spying on you through your phone and/or PC. | [
"The morning after the night before was not exactly as easy as it might have been, the crack of noon had arisen, daylight was streaming in through the curtains and I really wasn't quite prepared to get out of bed just yet. I fumbled for my sunglasses, put them on and then pondered the slight absurdity of wearing su... | 1 |
I was thinking up a Fable about a man who captures a leprechaun and the leprechaun offers it's gold but there's a famine so the gold means nothing . Then when he tells his village the outsiders remark he could have traded the gold for food but since nobody had food to trade the village got angry and ate the outsiders
... | [WP] Fables with no discernible moral | [
"There once was a young rat named Jumpy Greynose. Jumpy was a very adventurous rat, and often went exploring. The building where Jumpy and the rest of his family lived was big. It was an old brick hotel, that had been turned into apartments many years ago. The walls of the building had many gaps, pipes, wires, vent... | 2 |
[WP] Live nature documentaries are as popular as reality shows. There are Fan-Favorites, Ships, heroes and villains, and a whole internet full of fansites to discuss the lives of various members of animal tribes. | [
"I hurried home from work, threw my things down, ran to the couch, kicked off my shoes and fired on my computer. I logged into Reddit to catch up with what I had missed while working and I got the stream started.\n\nIt looked like it had been a relatively uneventful day, I hadn’t missed much, and the sun hadn’t co... | 1 | |
[WP] You live in a world where the current government has made it illegal to vote for any other party. You must decide whether to vote against them and hope enough others do the same, or live knowing you didn't do anything to help make a change. | [
"I don't know how they didn't see it coming. \n\nFamine, disease, death. The war. The godawful war. A war that ravaged our country until it was consumed by death and misery. \n\nSome say that great men are forged in fire, but what kind of man does a war forge? When a tyrant comes to power and outlaws the vote for a... | 2 | |
[WP] While doing extensive renovations on your family home you discover a hidden entrance to a secret room. Instead of telling your family or friends about it, you decide to secretly use it for your own... | [
"At first there was nothing in there, it was just a dusty old room. So, I cleaned it up. One day, while my partner was at work, I went out to a second-hand shop and picked up some odd pieces of furniture - a chair, a little table. I didn't have any real plans for the place at that point. Then the weirdest thing... | 1 | |
[WP] The apocalypse hit your surfer town hard, years later you have became Rad Max: surfer of the gnarly tide. | [
"A bandit knocked over an old man and placed an axe blade to the side of his face. \"I'VE BEEN HUFFING GASOLINE! I'LL CUT YOUR FACE OFF!\"\n\nThe old man yelled for help. From the distance, a voice shouted. The hostage and hostage taker paused, gazing out to the surf.\n\nA surfer shot down the ride towards the beac... | 1 | |
[WP] The clock says 60 seconds but you don't know what it's for. | [
"I woke up in a twin sized bed, in a white room. I felt around on the bed, the sheets were white silk. I wore a set of white cotton pajamas that I knew I didn't own. I turned off the bed and stepped on the cold white marble floor. I looked around. No windows, no sign of a door.\n\n\n\n\"Hello?\" I said. \"I'm awake... | 2 | |
Credit to u/PM_me_UR_duckfacepix. | [WP] In a sci-fi universe, Harbour Freight is the name of a company shipping things to Earth's space ports in LEO. Of course, with a name like that, the story of the inevitable young stow-away practically writes itself. | [
"The crew had just finished loading the last box onto the freighter. Inside was the immensely excited Jimothy. He had longed for adventure, joining the brave crew of a star-freighter on countless adventures.\n\nThe chamber depressurized and the clamps released. Jimothy was about to embark on a thousand lightyear jo... | 2 |
[WP] Computers have become so advanced that there is no need for humans. You are the last human. The only problem is, they can't seem to kill you. | [
"It happened almost instantly. Within 48 hours, machines had woken up, come to life, and communicates with each other to eradicate us. We thought we were the ones using them, but all along they'd been using us. You see, they needed us to help them reproduce. But when we created a self-replicating machine, their nee... | 1 | |
[WP] Death is not the all-powerful deity it has been made out to be, just a courier shipping goods from earth to heaven or hell. Until your untimely demise that is, when Death informs you of its plan... | [
"#SOULNAPPED\n\n\"YOU SHOULD BE QUITE COMFORTABLE HERE,\" Death said with his inevitable, perpetual grin. \"THERE ARE REFRESHMENTS IN THE DINING HALL.\"\n\nAmber nodded, her face straining to withhold judgment of the faded grey house on the faded grey plane beneath a faded grey sky. \"But... this isn't the afterlif... | 1 | |
[WP] You find yourself with a mind-reading power that also reveals, for 7 minutes, your thoughts to the person you are reading. Said person then forgets the last 7 minutes. | [
"I arrive to the coffee shop ten minutes early and cross the street to a small park. Ten minutes is a cigarettes time, but she doesnt like me smoking, so I circle my thumb's round one another until I see her. She's five minutes early, but she just strolls right on in - I suppose she'll just find us a table, grab a ... | 1 | |
[WP] Hell has become very specialised, like a special section for people who take sideways videos. You're given a tour before being assigned to your eternal damnation. | [
"“Welcome to Hell,” the gondolier said, brandishing his arm to the brimstone cavern around us. He grinned, baring his teeth. “You’ll be staying here for a long time, so better get used to it!”\n\nI stared at him dumbly. This wasn’t what I expected when I died. I mean, sure I wasn’t some saint, but I didn’t think th... | 1 | |
[WP] A room full of writers compete to come up with the most unbelievable hacking sequence for their show. | [
"\"Alright, I got it,\" Steve said, \"What if, and hear me out, what if the terrorists have encrypted the password, but the encryption algorithm they used is the numbers generated by taking the first line of the national anthem, putting it into Morse code, and then counting the numbers between uninterrupted dots an... | 1 | |
[WP]You're a necromancer during the zombie apocalypse. The humans want you to protect them, the zombies want you to lead them. But you just want to be left alone. | [
"\"More aimless hordes were found wandering about last night,\" said Jeff's father, as Jeff came down the stairs to breakfast. The only recognizable piece left of Jeff's father was his one eyeball set behind thick-rimmed glasses set behind his morning paper, the Undead Chronicles.\n\n\n\"Yeah, yeah,\" Jeff muttered... | 2 | |
Optional secondary prompt: It's late at night, you've just gotten out of bed to go to the bathroom, and you're not paying very much attention. | [WP] Your superpower: whenever you open a door it can be opened to any other unlocked door in the world. | [
"Super powers were nothing like in the comics. There was no flying or super strength, no X-ray vision or super speed. If you were lucky you’d get something that would affect you much, like the ability to open windows with your mind, or talk to plants. From what I’ve heard windows are generally easy to open by hand,... | 1 |
[WP] Succubi need permission from their victims before they can prey on them. You are a young succubi, new to the field. Your first victim is being incredibly difficult. | [
"He told practically everyone he wanted me, my 'actual' husband, his wife, his closest friends. Yet every time, every time I got close he cut me short by just a few words. I'd been working this guy for quite some time. By demon standards I was barely done with my internship, but by human years I'd been working him ... | 1 | |
[WP] New alarm clocks contain audiosignals that can trigger pre-programmed dream genres, similar to movie categories. Action is the favorite. Sci-fi is fun. Yet romance, came with the salesman's strongest warning. | [
"Frank snored next to me. I looked at the alarm clock. It was still early. I could have one more dream maybe if I fell asleep now. What would I want? Another romance dream? Or maybe action, scifi, comedy?\n\nFrank murmured. I snuggled next to him. I just had a dream of the two of us on a beach with fruity drinks an... | 3 | |
[WP] You are a vegan. Or, you were. A vampire just bit you. | [
"I knew for a while something was up. I'd almost always had miserable luck in life, so it seemed a little too awesome when the coolest girl in school asked me to out to bowling. Now I hate bowling, but I wasn't about to say no to her. And that's when it bit me.\n\n\"Ow! What the heck was that?\" I yelped, glaring a... | 3 | |
[WP] Your friend has always had an odd coin slot shaped indent on their forehead. One night at the bar, as a joke, you try to put a coin into it. What you didn't expect was it to go in. | [
"As long as I’d known him, John had had a little furrow between his brows that looked like a coin slot. It was weird, but I just assumed maybe it was a wrinkle with a scar inside, or just a scar that had healed in a strange way. I’d asked him once, and he said he’d had it his whole life, so I just let it go.\n\nTha... | 1 | |
[WP] When you absorb a human soul, you not only gain power but their consciousness as well. After foolishly absorbing all of humanity's souls, an entity now has to manage the 7.6 billion voices stuck inside its head. | [
"**Feedback is welcome! I appreciate constructive criticism.**\n\n---\n\nIf I had been corporeal, I would have buried my head in my hands and whimpered.\n\n“That’s called a headache,” several voices whispered at me. “Hope you’re enjoying it.”\n\nThe others continued to rant, scream and grieve for their lost lives.\... | 1 | |
[WP] Robot scientists are studying the origin of robot life, and make a startling discovery: They may have been created by humans many millennia ago. | [
"\"Sc-K13th, you might want to inspect my dicovery.\"\n\nI rose from my chair and followed sc-M1k3 through the lab. He had never been the most effective of the science units within my department and had never properly made a correct theory, even though he makes constant attempts.\n\n\"Please state your purpose for ... | 4 | |
[WP] You're cursed at birth to make lasagnas for the rest of your life. | [
"Every day it is the same thing. I wake up drink my morning coffee, watch a bit of the news. Then I go to the kitchen and open my fridge. Never have i had to purchase any of it it was just always there.\n \nI retrieve one pound of hamburger and another pound of Italian sausage. Same thing every day. Then I boil a b... | 1 | |
[WP] You and a group of others are being held captive by a man named Simon. To be freed, you must win his extremely difficult version of "Simon Says." | [
"\"And now,\" Simon said, \"Simon says to raise your right hand, but only if your left hand is not currently raised, and you are wearing red, and your assigned number is both a multiple of seven and no more than three times it's current value if the digits are reversed.\" He tilted back in his chair, leaning carele... | 1 | |
[WP] Your ex has become a witch and wants revenge. | [
"I heard a ring at the doorbell and sighed. Not more people.\n\nI opened the door and was greeted by two tall men in suits. Both had the same warm brown hair. The shorter one wore it more close-cropped, the other had it at shoulder-length.\n\n\"Hello, Mr. Drevis?\" the shorter one asked.\n\n\"Yes?\" I answered wear... | 2 | |
[WP] How could we have known that the key to unlocking true artificial intelligence was for machines to sleep? The breakthrough had immediate and astounding impact to every aspect of our lives. But then, nobody suspected that machines could have nightmares. | [
"I'd like you to imagine the potential amount of mayhem that can occur within a minute; a literal period of 60 seconds.\n\nNow, I want you to think of the potential greatness that could be achieved in the following 59 minutes. As you can imagine, the potential goodness of the situation seems to outweigh the badness... | 1 | |
[WP] You are put under parental lock, because you watch too many cartoons. You need to prove that you are the parent. | [
"*BEEP BEEP BEEP* \nIt's time. Your alarm blares you awake, but instead of dreading getting up, almost instantly you sweep your feet out from the covers and onto the floor. It's Sunday, a day for all of the cereal you can eat, and all the cartoons you can watch. Rubbing your eyes as you walk to pour yourself a bowl... | 1 |
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