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[WP] As a ghost you see your SO not moving on past you and suffering. Given one chance by a higher power you try to convince them to move on. | [
"I look through the window, seeing her holding the teddy bear that I had given to her three years ago. A lonely tear slowly drips down her cheek and into the fur of the plush animal. She presses the little figure even closer against her body in the attempt of feeling warmth of another being. My warmth.\nBut I am st... | 1 | |
[WP] Aliens are invading Earth. They're winning... up until they awaken a mythical beast long forgotten by man. | [
"\"It is over. Please do not prolong this more than it should ever have been. Gracefully accept your defeat, human. This request is not a request done out of pride, but rather, mercy.\"\n\nThose were the words on the hologram screen. Commander Jhudiel Ysandroff, bestowed the title of Humanity's Last Hope gritted he... | 5 | |
[WP] You've recently left a cult, something the members were suspiciously okay with. After a few days, the sky turns blood red. You recognize it; the old gods are returning. | [
"*Tsss...tsss...tsss* \n\nThe rock Amer had kicked across the convenience store parking lot bumped and rolled across the asphalt, letting out little deflated sounds as it rolled further and further away. He sat, with his chin resting in his hands, on the curb next to the propane tanks, letting the crimson glare of... | 4 | |
[WP] You are afflicted with a rare mental disorder where you can only feel other people’s emotions, and don’t have any of your own. | [
"I always felt empty.\n\nLonely.\n\nA husk.\n\nAt least... when I was alone. \n\nWhen I was 7, I was diagnosed with a rare disorder that rendered my brain unable to create emotions... but I could feel other peoples'.\n\nI was the nicest student in my school, never snapped, never said anything mean or rude to anyone... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up one morning to discover you can only sing everytime you speak, but when you get to a local hospital you find out it isn't just you who's affected... it's the whole world. | [
"Pandemonium ensued. The overwhelming dissonance drove a significant figure of people to madness. With noise cancelling headphones serving as the standard uniform, vocal communication amongst the public diminished significantly. Even the most remote, exotic places could suddenly blast you with an unnerving cacophon... | 1 | |
[WP] You are James, a 23 year old cashier at Walgreens who, through a series of near-impossible coincidences, has wound up in a fantasy world. Through even more coincidences, you have unwittingly become the new Dark Lord. | [
"I don't remember how I got here. Onyx spires of blood-weeping crystal dominate what has become my domain. I have myself wrapped in armor that makes me look like I am at least twice as tall and broad as I actually am. I used to stock shelves of cold medicine and 'absorbent undergarments'. Now I rule 'The land beyon... | 1 | |
[WP] It is 2AM and you are walking home from a night out, the cold crisp winter air rushes around you, and as you gaze upwards at the sky you see the stars of Orion's Belt wink out of existance, one by one. | [
"*\"I must be drunker than I thought.\"* You think to yourself uneasily. You look again at the spot the stars *should be and attempt to a shiver you are not entirely sure is because of the cold. Half a dozen thoughts pass through your mind arguing the sheer impossibility of what you saw. \n\nThen you see the lights... | 6 | |
[WP] The entirety of humanity shares a vision, a tower in a desert, rising to the heavens. When the vision ends, everyone begins speaking the same language. | [
"The world awoke from the night of broken glass screaming in one voice.\n\nFamily and neighbors trickled onto the dark streets, surveying blown out shop windows and denuded trees. Almost everyone bore the same mark. Two scarlet lines of blood streaming from each ear, forming a grisly pool at the base of the neck. ... | 3 | |
[WP] If it can bleed, it can die. | [
"If it can bleed, it can die. That's what my father always said, as gunshots were heard outside. I was a mere child so I never understood what he meant, but when he joined the rebellion and died on one of the public executions, I knew exactly what he meant. I watched as one by one they killed leaders they found in ... | 3 | |
[WP] The backseat of a car, a baseball glove, and a wizard. | [
"Richard puts his groceries in the back of the car, and proceeds to get in the driver's seat. He shuts the door. He looks behind him to reach into the backseat for his sunglasses, when he notices a baseball glove is there instead... and a wizard. He's startled. \"Ahhh, oh my god, what the.. wha...\" The wizard just... | 3 | |
[WP] Medusa and king midus go on a date | [
"An older man sits at the table, awaiting his blind date. After a short while, a lady whose hair seemed to move on its volition, wearing a mask who conceals her face and bearing a snake's body where her legs should be, slithered to the other end of the table. The older man smiled and spoke: \"Hello there; are you... | 2 | |
[WP] The world did not end in a bang, or a whisper, But rather, one scream at a time. | [
"They always came at dusk.\n\nEvery night as the sun dipped below the horizon, and the sky began to take on the dampened hues of an ending day, the screams would begin to echo between the buildings surrounding Mark's apartment complex. It had been deafening the first few nights, when thousands of screams pierced th... | 2 | |
[WP] You are in your boring, grey, 12 storey high office's elevator heading to ground floor. As you travel down you notice your shoelace is undone. When you stop tying your shoelace you realise it's been five minutes and you're still descending... | [
"Maybe I shouldn't have worn tennis shoes to the interview? I may have tried too hard to capture that startup look but at least I wore a blazer. \n\nI just finished tying my shoes and stood up. What a strange sensation in my head. I'm moving both upwards relative to the elevator and down relative to the building.\n... | 1 | |
My first prompt! Hope you enjoy! | [WP] A man sits alone in his library at home. He is the last person alive on earth and knows it. All he has to keep him company are the works of famous authors throughout history. What power do words truly have? | [
"Hear the fire, for it burns low. Wood pops, snaps. Gunshots ripping through the silence, each crackle a knife slicing a still life.\n\nThe man rests in Limbo’s lone sanctuary. He thinks he sees a human face in his long naps, lost amidst the swirling half-memories of the smell of a rose, the taste of a ripe orange,... | 1 |
[WP] You have always had the ability to bend light to your will. Illusions and bright flashes were all you thought you could do. One day, you were threatened at gunpoint to give up your money, and in a frantic attempt to create a flash of light, a beam of concentrated light shoots from your hands. | [
"Ray peered through the spots in his vision, staring in utter disbelief at the man convulsing on the floor.\n\n“Fuck. No. Fuck no. That did _not_ just happen, what the actual fuck?! Oh my god I am SO SORRY holy shit what do I do what do I do?!?”\n\nThe smell of sizzling flesh and a charred skull leaking molten brai... | 2 | |
[WP] A brand new AI has just been developed. You're a beta tester for the company that made it. To your surprise, the AI behaves, speaks, and thinks nearly identically to you and you alone. | [
"I sit down at the computer and begin to type. I’ll give it something easy.\n\n**How are you?**\n\nThe computer thinks for a moment, then a message appears.\n\n*How are you?*\n\nIt’s asking me how I am before it answers. Very clever.\n\n**I’m fine.** Another message.\n\n*I’m fine.*\n\nIt’s succinct, at least, if no... | 1 | |
[WP] Humans are known as the ultimate builders of the Galaxy, but are also known for putting in unnecessary features into all their creations. The Galactic Federation has just given the job of building a new mothership to the humans. | [
"\"I ordered a warship general, and you bring me this?\" Demanded an enraged Federation leader.\n\"Yes sir,\" replied the young and very proud general, \"it's state of the art, our best tech.\"\n\"But this it has so much necessary space wasted on superfluous nonsense.\"\n\"Actually, your honour, you'll be glad to h... | 2 | |
My first post, I forgot to tag my last one... | [WP] You’re a young knight sent on a quest to slay a dragon. When you arrive at its lair, it greets you with a plate full of chocolate chip cookies and snacks. It’s the worst beast of all: An Overly Loving Dragon Matriarch! | [
"It was no secret that the world was not as bright as it once was. The once majestic rulers of the land, the serpents that shaped the earth itself, the ones that gifted man fire, had all gone mad. Dragons were no better than crazed beasts at this point, their 'immortality' spoken of in legends proven to be nothing ... | 5 |
[WP]You gain the ability of superspeed, much like the Flash, but you only have your regular endurance and stamina. | [
"I sipped my morning coffee as I flipped to the next page of the newspaper. A bold headline stood out to me at once.\n\n**HORRIFYING CORPSE DISCOVERED**\n\n*Last night, the body of a teenager was discovered in Fridge Park, in a grotesque state that traumatized many. We, at the Timely Travel Headlines, will place wa... | 1 | |
[WP] Mankind learns to time travel. Until now it has only been used as a tool to observe. An event (your choice) that will eradicate humanity is discovered. As your country’s representative at the UN, argue for or against intervening/altering time to save humanity. | [
"His name... was Bob.\n\nBob was going to set in a hilarious chain of events that would begin with his daughter and son having a forbidden relationship to the entire world turning into solid gold...\n\nChina wasn't pleased.\n\nThe United Kingdom was less pleased than the Chinese.\n\nRussia demanded action.\n\nAmeri... | 1 | |
[WP] You and the Devil are negotiating for a deal. The contract is sealed after the Devil agrees to give you his soul. | [
"Just a Minute Of Your Time\n \nToday, Wednesday, just minutes closing time down at The Nickel, where I'll likely be working until hell freezes over, a man walks in, taller than any of the trees we have around for miles, in a black business suit. He seats himself. I can't see his eyes behind his dark glasses, but i... | 4 | |
[WP] It's a shop of magical, possibly cursed curios... for the modern era. Gone are the musty antiques and thrift store decor; it's more like an occult Spencer's, filled with plastic, neon, and sophomore humour. | [
"\"Modern antiques\" said the sign above the door. Xander (real name James, but Xander felt cooler) chuckled at what he assumed was a pun. He had time to kill whilst his dad's very unhipster volvo was repaired and this shop could be a good topic for his vlog. Who knows, it might get him into 100 followers! He shudd... | 1 | |
[WP] Write from the perspective of a super villain's henchman who slowly realises how bad of a person their super villain boss is. | [
"It's not terribly far-fetched, saying my employer is a 'bad' person. They've ransomed children, stolen government secrets, and instigated small armed conflicts around the world for profit. No, I was prepared to live through my fair share of madness and maybe as a super villain's henchman... Or rather, I hoped to l... | 3 | |
[WP] Wall Street, as people make their way down the street, a single hundred dollar bill flutters to the ground, people look up and see the cloud of bills following and beginning scrambling to grab the cash, the elation is palpable. Then the body lands... | [
"A gift from God! Someone actually said that. As if God himself thought that making the clouds rain hundred dollar bills would make the world a better place. Perhaps not from God, but a gift none the less. At first it was one, then many followed. People cheered, people pushed. Such an event would surely never happe... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the first human to leave the solar system, this wasn't at all your intention though. | [
"Every morning he awoke with a start… “Shit…”\n\nIt wasn’t anyone’s fault, really. NASA determined that the firing timer had been damaged at lift-off, but no one realized the problem until it was too late. \n\nUnable to control the engine burn, the ship had missed its narrow window. Now, instead of heading toward T... | 1 | |
[WP] Every day, a pair of immortals with reality-breaking, cartoon-like powers battle in massive wars. At the end of the day, everything resets back to normal. You’re the only one who seems to remember what happened. | [
"*Ah, fuck. Again?*\n\n**BOOOOOM**\n\n*Yep. Again.*\n\nI barely have time to stretch before another earthquake shakes the building. Books fall from their shelves, and my alarm clock breaks upon hitting the floor. \n\n*Poor alarm clock. So youn-*\n\n**BOOOOOOOOOM**\n\nThe window shatters, and most of the wall crumbl... | 1 | |
[WP] The government uses genetic engineering to create a race of emotionless super-soldiers. Without emotions, they easily see the futility of war and manipulation of those who created them and utterly refuse to fight. | [
"\"Peace?! What do you mean \"Peace\"? You are a soldier. We built you! You do what we tell you!\"\n\nIt wasn't that Jonathan thought the general was very useful, or needed him. In fact if he had ended the general then and there history may have taken a very different route.\n\n\"We simply came to a consensus, figh... | 8 | |
[WP] Spongebob takes revenge on Mr. Krabs after being unfairly fired. | [
"“I won’t cry anymore, Patrick!”, Spongebob said, tears rolling down his spongy cheeks.\n\n“There, there, buddy,” Patrick replied, giving him small friendly taps on the shoulder. “It’s okay to cry… Wait, why were you crying again?”\n\nSpongebob lift his face from the cold surface of the Goofy Goober’s nut bar. “Mr.... | 1 | |
[WP] "Hey... do you trust this city?" | [
"NINE HUNDRED AND TWO - BELLOW AND NOWHERE\n_____________________\n\n[...]\nAbsence of the fear, the nagging urge to move forward is the only blade there is room for in this scabbard of being. There certainly isn't much room for anything that's not priceless in this body of yours. You haven't eaten in [...] dawn pr... | 2 | |
[WP] A guy sets out to conquer the world with one wish from a genie. His wish? Infinite potatoes. | [
"\"AT LAST! I HAVE FOUND IT!\" the man exclaimed as he raised his lantern in the air. At the top of the underground tower was the genie's lamp.\n\n\"Finally! Dominance over the entire world!\" he shouted as he ran up the steps. Without hesitation, he grabbed the lamp and rubbed it on it's side. Suddenly, thick gree... | 1 | |
[WP] The Viking age never ends and Viking raids remain a threat well into modern times, you are a British Colonel in charge of protecting London and you see the wooden Norse longships on the horizon. | [
"The gong of Big Ben rang out as Colonel Nigel Fitzroy was crossing the square. \"Bloody typical\" he muttered. \n\nDespite the sparrows twittering cheerily in the grass around him the Colonel was in a dark mood. The meeting with Brigadier Saunders had not been unexpected, but the timing couldn't have been worse. H... | 1 | |
[WP]You are chased by a vampire hunter who mistakenly believes that you're a vampire. | [
"“Bro, chill the fuck down, I’m literally a normal dude ok” I say as I pull my top lip up poking my K-9’s. “Don’t you get it dude? I’m not a vampire. I don’t know who told you I was but it was probably that asshole Jonathan who’s just angry that I didn’t let him copy my answers in coach Senns class.” He seems to st... | 4 | |
[WP] A rebellious young alien visits earth, which is off-limits due to it’s status as an uncontacted tribe. | [
"I was fortunate Keir was on my side... well, sort of. He had put it more in terms of her \"assisting his research\", but I would take whatever got me off that cursed craft and away from the overbearing tyrant I was ever-so-lucky to have as my father.\n\nThe stars themselves mocked us whenever we came back to this ... | 1 | |
[WP] Often times, people talk about meeting their deceased pets in heaven. You were cast down to hell, only to find a rather affectionate hell hound that kind of resembles an old best friend. | [
"There was a light. Clouds. Pearly gates...\n\nThen I was cast down into darkness. Then there were flames. Burning. Pain.... Growling. \n\nI was surrounded by nine hounds of Hell, perched on craggy peaks above me, looking down with red eyes, mouths filled with teeth and drool. For all the Devil Dogs I'd eaten over ... | 2 | |
[WP] Captain Obvious Actually Shows Up Whenever Anyone Is Referred To By His Name | [
"After years of being forcibly teleported to different places by the mere mention of his name. Captain Obvious stands in small office infront of a judge pleading his case to be allowed to change his name. The judge laughs in disbelief at every plea, every mention of being teleported at the worst times. Captain Obvi... | 3 | |
You have lost most of your followers and your holy book will soon be moved from "Religion/Spirituality" to "Mythology/Folklore." You need the passion of atheists arguing against your existence to sustain your power. | [WP] You are a god but your power is directly related to how vehemently people deny your existence. You are about to go the way of Zeus, so you need a miracle... but not a very convincing one. | [
"Boom. Lightbulb. its gotta be a meteor.\n\nLhankor Ree took a moment to reflect, this was afterall, a pretty huge step.\n\nLhankor Ree was a god, maybe. An old god, or maybe a new god. one of the very first gods to come into existence, in fact, or not. anything was possible for lhankor ree, cosmic entity of doubt.... | 1 |
[WP] After losing your phone, you use a friend’s to call it. After a few failed attempts, someone picks up, and they aren’t happy. | [
"\"Who is this\" comes your voice on the other side, you drop the phone in suprise, clearly that's your voice through some odd static but it sounds off for some reason, \"look I don't know who you are and why you keep calling my phone but if you don't I'll report you\" you threatened, you look at your friend who is... | 1 | |
[WP] You have an ability to see how long others will live in numerical days. You've seen the numbers drop countless amounts of times. One day, you pass by a girl whose number goes up. | [
"Wait..what?! I almost do a double take when I see it. Did that girl's number just go..up? \n\nAt first I think I must have imagined it. But I know that can't be right. After all, I'd taken special notice of it the first time. It was rare that I saw someone with a perfectly round number. However, the original 20000... | 1 | |
[WP] as is custom for your people you gain the ability to physically summon your spirit animal on your 16th birthday. You were hoping for a bear spirit but yours turns out to be 'Father Black', the legendary black dragon and harbinger of the end of days | [
"“Well…that’s unexpected,” she said quietly to herself. \n\nFira looked down the snout of a great scaled beast. If its neck had been fully elongated upwards, its head would easily be twice as tall as she was. Great leathery wings twitched at the side of the beast, and its tale swished back and forth over the smoot... | 2 | |
[WP] You're a stalker | [
"I walk in silence.\n\nSilent, rogue. Alone.\n\nThe wind presses hard against me. Cold and bitter, just the way I like it. It takes the crunching noises of leaves and snow from beneath my steady legs, away from the prey.\n\nThe prey, ahead, among the winter trees. And I can taste the scent in the air, the sweet sce... | 3 | |
[WP] You're in the circle of hell reserved solely for people who talk in the movie theatre. | [
"\n\nTom was twenty-nine years old when he died. He was walking to his car after work when a car whipped around the corner and smashed into him. He landed in a mangled heap on the asphalt, bleeding from a dozen places. Luckily, Tom did not really experience any pain from his injuries. Instead, his final sensati... | 1 | |
[WP] Due to some kind of weird quantum accident your body remains intangible unless you are being directly observed by another human being. | [
"\"....It is a badly kept secret that humanity is exponentially approaching the singularity. Even the least savvy section of the bell curve is feeling a subtle uneasiness about either the crossroads or final destination of your story. 14% of the top one thousand scientific minds in the world have already killed the... | 1 | |
[WP] Humanity has managed to catch an alien signal but all they end up hearing are the transmissions from a chaotic space battle. | [
"> \"Jacob. You *are* the father.\"\n\nTinny gasps and \"Ohh's\" accompanied the shocked look on Jacob's face, right before Carrie flew into frame and started wailing on him like a crazy person. A chant of \"Maury, Maury, Maury\" started up as security guards broke the two up. \n\nEric, half watching, half aslee... | 3 | |
[WP] Rewrite a Dr Seuss story in the style of HP Lovecraft | [
"This night of all nights, for our mother to be gone, seemed all too convenient a circumstance for fear to gnaw at the edges of our minds. However, the anxieties of my sister and I were left for us to tame, as they often were, but seldom would a night contribute such a fearsome face to quell our efforts at comfort ... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a poacher. Your game? Elephants in the room. | [
"The people attending the party were murmuring quietly and glancing at the strange man clad in shorts and a safari hat hiding behind a fern. Some were glaring at him, some were pleading with their eyes, some just looked hopeless.\n\n\"Who even invited him, anyway?\" Steve asked.\n\n\"I don't know,\" Karen said dej... | 1 | |
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The manager becomes attached, slowly falls in love and plans for the right moment to propose to the duo? | [WP] The same pair of robbers steal from a pizza hut on a weekly basis. It became a friendly tradition of sorts. The manager still hasn't figured out their identities, but they play racquetball with him on Tuesdays, ski masks and all. | [
"\"You have got to stopping robbing me man. I have employees to pay you know.\" A tall man in running shorts lifts his racket, preparing a serve. \n\"Don't get me wrong, I love seeing you guys but damn.\"\nThe small rubber ball bounces back and the other figure in the court moves swiftly to his right, slamming it b... | 1 |
For each person/body they want to bring back to life, mind you. It's a very arduous process full of paperwork, background checks, and thorough documentation (expect waits of up to 6 months). | [WP]Necromancers are a thing, but they must submit requests to the Bureau of Postmortem Affairs | [
"Aronn looked to the Bureau official, and then to the enormous stack of paperwork before him, and then back to the official. And then back to the paperwork. “I just—I just want to reanimate a skeleton.”\n\nThe inscrutable gaze of the official held, and then they nodded. “Ah,” they said. “A skeleton.” They bega... | 1 |
[WP] In a parallel universe, death is just a mild inconvenience, since everybody respawns. But that changed when someone died... and started eating the people around him. | [
"No one could tell what was wrong with Jeff at first. An idle nibble on his own fingers, lingering too long on his wife's cheek, wanting his meat rarer and rarer.\n\nNo one expected to turn on his friend and fellow parkourist, Tucker, during a particular round of Parkour Wars, the hottest game of the season. \n\n\"... | 1 | |
[WP] A boy discovers that if he stares at someone long and hard enough he will shapeshift into an exact copy of that person. The only way to change back is to look at a picture of himself. | [
"It was long ago since they had felt right. Identities come and go, but moreso for the creature wrapped in mystery.\n\nIt had been long ago that they watched everything die.\n\nHe was the doorkeeper. To what, unknown.\n\nHe longed for an image, a somber reminder.\n\n\"What did I look like?\" he yelled, the monsters... | 1 | |
[WP] Having finally modernized, the legendary Minotaur finds himself with a knack for the modern-day labyrinth: Bureaucracy. | [
"Everybody had thought it was a hoax at first. **Minotaur Found in Cretan Ruins** had gotten zero headlines that weren’t on the *National Inquirer*. By the third day, however, the world started to take him seriously. \n\n*He* went by the name of Asterion. While it’d taken a bit of time to locate a professor of Clas... | 1 | |
[WP] A black widow has moved on to her latest victim, an incredibly gullible rich man that's fallen head-over-heels for her and has gotten into his will. The catch? The man is totally unkillable, and wonders why he seems to be so accident prone and his fiancé seems to be so frustrated recently. | [
"I broke my finger last week. My right index. I jumped out of the way of a falling piano. The bench hit my hand and broke my pointer in two places. My wife seemed overly dramatic about the ordeal. She had screamed profanities in her mother tounge at the moving men. I didn't understand a word. I hadn't ever seen her... | 4 | |
[WP] Do you remember, my friend, the old days of glorious war, and do you not despair, my friend, at these new days of terrible peace? | [
"During the third world war; I was a young man, bookish and mouselike. When I went to join the military, all looked good at first; I was a little short, but otherwise, I was good to join.\n\nAnd then they looked at my cognitive and psychological diagnosis. Asperger's syndrome.\n\n\n\"Sorry, but under recruitment la... | 2 | |
[WP] When the soul leaves the body, a massive amount of energy is released into whichever realm the soul is to go to. Heaven and Hell utilize this power for technological advancement. One day, energy production completely stops in both realms and you are an emissary sent to Earth to discover why. | [
"Down in Earth everything seemed to be too peaceful.\n\nI started to analyze their behavior; there wasn't a sign of evilness in their souls, no bad intentions, no envy, not anything. In fact, they had no emotions at all.\n\nI abandoned my ethereal form and tried to contact with one of them, they seemed to be regula... | 3 | |
[WP] You have grown up in a big and infamous mafia family. However, no one in your family knows about your terrible secret: You live a double life as a kindergarten teacher. | [
"*Bang.*\n\nBlood sputtered across the floor, highlighted by the florescent lamp perched on top of the table. I hold my head up high and draw back the revolver. \"You know the drill. Blood type's AB. Don't get the organs mixed up with the others.\" I glare at my capo for a few seconds until his nod of reassurance. ... | 1 | |
[WP] You have the ability to understand and talk to all forms of animals. It's not as glamorous as some would think... | [
"\"You should really keep your window closed, Jonas. Mosquitos can get in and out whenever they want and they are *assholes*.\"\n\n\"Woah buddy, I just needed to survive, okay? Sorry not everybody can survive by plummeting their face in actual dirt looking for worms or some crap. Not my fault it has to be blood. By... | 1 | |
[WP] You receive a text message from someone you know that reads, "Help me," with a timestamp of 9:00 PM. It is currently 8:15 PM. | [
"I look at the message and briefly sighs before looking around at the room and seeing that my idiot friend left his lunch. \n\nWalking over to the lunch box I grab it before heading out to the door, ready to deliver the moron his lunch.\n\nFor a guy who can time travel he is way too lazy and forgetful.\n\n\"Goddamm... | 3 | |
[WP] in a world of super-abilitied humans, you thought you had no powers. Until the day you where hit by a car and "game over. Continue?" | [
"Everything we had ever done led up to this moment in our lives. Half of our classes in grade school, middle school, and high school were dedicated to teaching us how to cope with powers, how to deal with the weight of responsibility that fell on our shoulders when they manifested, how to remain a responsible citiz... | 1 | |
[WP] After thorough investigation, you're convinced that one of your household devices is actually a time machine. Today you squat down inside your washing machine to solve the mystery of your missing socks. | [
"It had taken a lot of carefully calculated tests. I had run 50 socks in the machine but only pulled out 47. A 6% rate of disappearance. I had tried 50 pairs of underwear and none of them vanished. So why socks? What is so special about socks?\n\nCall me crazy but I formulated the hypothesis that my washing ma... | 1 | |
[WP] "Oh, my god. Oh my god, ohmygod." "Breath." "OH. MY. GOD. WE killed the dinosaurs." | [
"“3...2...1 Engaging displacement drive” nav officer Franklin said as the earth fist FTL ship engages it’s dimensional displacement engine. “Jump complete calculating location” Franklin says. “Captain location hasn’t changed it didn’t work.” “If it didn’t work where is earth, we were in orbit.” Says Captain Free... | 2 | |
[WP] One morning you wake up to find every thing in existence has been erased, literally every atom except your house and you. Somehow you are still alive | [
"Somewhere deep inside I knew I shouldn’t have thrown that ibuprofen out the window. \n\nThe rest of the day would be more hungover than any day in my sad existence. I had delayed my appointment with the devil long enough. And today the balance would be paid in full.\n\nA sharp pain spiked through my skull and acro... | 1 | |
[WP] A man with nothing left to live for saves a child that's in danger. | [
"Fred Jamison sipped his beer on the shoddy couch in his tiny Texas apartment. Up until two weeks ago, he'd had a job as an electrician. Up until two months ago, he'd lived here with his wife and four kids. Well, four of his kids. He had seven in total. \n\nThat had never been his plan. In fact, nothing in his life... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a wanted criminal, and you're trying to lay low. However, people on the news always misprounouce your name, and it's driving you crazy. | [
"Mike Johnson: Good evening Jacksonville, and welcome to Channel 7 News. Tonight we start off with an update on the series of robberies that we've seen in the Riverside area over the past two weeks. Just after 5 o'clock this morning our brazen burglar has broken into the the Bell Riverside apartments, using the ... | 1 | |
[WP] Don't judge a book by it's cover. Tell a story about what a dark elf assassin does in their off time. | [
"I am a dangerous person to know. I am responsible for twenty eight mysterious disappearances, three involuntary successions, and my name is used colloquially as a curse word in at least four languages. I am Rivori Tradewind. \nIn my wake are unsolved cases and and about twenty thousand goblins used for target p... | 2 | |
[WP] You're a knight sent on a quest to slay a dragon and free a princess. In a surprise twist, you end up slaying the princess and freeing the dragon. | [
"All the other knights had slayed dragons or claimed to at least. Sir. Fredrick knew this was his chance. This dragon had kidnaped a princess not that was rare or anything. Dragons always kidnaped a princess now that he thought about it why was it always a princess. He shoved that thought deep down now was not the ... | 8 | |
[WP] Something is off about this drive-through town. | [
"A van full of university students, barely out of college, motored through the small country town of Kaidosashi. The atmosphere in the car was quiet, but not of anticipation, but of boredom. The driver, McDaniels, hunched over the wheel of the car, blinking endlessly at the unfulfilling road which lay on ahead, win... | 2 | |
[WP] You’ve just figured out that they forgot to tell you one critical piece of information during orientation at your new job... | [
"I work on the simplest job in the world. My task is just to press on the Big Red Button once a minute. The rest of the time I drink coffee, talk with colleagues and listen to music. I still do not understand why someone hired three hundred people for this, but what to do if this is the way the world works.\n\nSome... | 2 | |
[WP] In the distance, the white-noise of a waterfall abruptly stops. | [
"In the distance, the white-noise of a waterfall abruptly stops, there are birds suspended in mid air, the wind comes to a complete stop and there is no sound. Everything has paused in this forest except for me. I reach up and touch one of the birds, a frozen worm protruding from its beak. \n\n\"What the hell?\"\n\... | 1 | |
[WP] You're changing your cats litter box when you find 100k in cash, a small cat sized gun, fake papers with your cats face on them that say "sprinkles" (your cats name is mittens) and a set of keys, one for a storage locker and one for a car, all buried under the clay. | [
"Steven Mitchell lived in a small town in Illinois and up to a few seconds ago, had prepared himself for a relaxing evening of junk food and netflix. \n This week had been amazingly annoying. \nCustomers either acting like stubborn children or talking down to him in the assumption that the phrase. \"Custo... | 2 | |
[WP] A world where the internet has always existed and social media is the only form of communication. Then one day, someone creates the idea of going outside, meeting people in person, and going on real-live dates to experience and find love. | [
"I blinked my eyes. \n\nIt was bright. I still wasn’t used to the sheer ferocity of the light of the real sun. After almost two decades of never leaving my home or the interconnected tunnels which made up the bulk of our city, it was unusual to be deliberating exposing myself to the outside world. I was determined ... | 1 | |
[WP] Your last word are “Again?” | [
"“Again?” It felt more like an echo than my own voice. A sound that seemed to reverberate off of an endless hallway. I knew it wouldn’t be long before I awoke. \n\n“This time will be different,” I thought.\n\nBut in my heart I knew it wouldn’t. I would forget this conversation with myself ever happened. It must be ... | 2 | |
[WP] It takes most species in the galaxy days to figure out what 3 + (4 × 2) equals. In a time of great chaos, they look toward humanity for their unequal ability to solve "advanced" calculations on mere seconds. | [
"Gustavo was contacted by strange Aliens while he was busy doing something Spanish people do --- eating tacos probably. It was mold actually, the aliens was a pale blue mold. Well, technically it's mycellium. In any case, this alien mold has no concept of mathematics; the closest idea familiar to the alien was quan... | 4 | |
[WP] Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Air Nation attacked. | [
"It's not a known art, to remove the breath of man. Long have tales been told of the nightmarish blood benders, manipulating bodies in unnatural ways, or of those who can conjure such a powerful godly force like lightning. There are many stories of dastardly Earth benders burying people alive to suffocate on the di... | 2 | |
[WP] One day you wake up to a one sentence text from an unknown number, after getting multiple different texts you realize that each text is giving you a warning for the day. | [
"I started receiving texts from an unknown number. It wasn't particularly creepy, or so I thought at first. \n\nThe first text I received was this:\n**Don't forget your umbrella.**\n\nThinking that it was just a prank from a friend, I didn't think too much on that message and went on with my day. The weather foreca... | 1 | |
[WP] The wood crackles in the orange flame, as darkness sets in. | [
"White sheets lay tangled at the bottom of an unfamiliar bed. \nWood crackles in the orange flames, casting shadows on grey furniture, oak floors \nHot coffee steams out of a cup in my hands,\nIts aching, lasting burn on the tongue, is reminiscent of warmth \nfrom the fire and down my throat, and of her. \nThe ... | 1 | |
[WP] A dragon kidnaps a princess. A decade passes. One day a puppy walks through her door. Seeing her confusion, the dragon says "all those knights came for lands and titles. He came for love. You are free to go." | [
"This might be a little long and a little strayed from the OP(Sorry)\n\nFor as long as the people of [Insert original name of kingdom] could remember, the great dragon stood guard. When [Kingdom name] was born, the first king had forged a covenant with the beast. Every generation would have a trial presented to the... | 15 | |
[WP] Every time you die, you're reborn as the same person, yet are unaware of your past memories. It's year 2018, and at 16 years old you have a head injury causing all the memories from your past lives come back. | [
"I was almost killed in a car accident the same day I received my driver's license. It wasn't even my fault, either. Just my luck. Some idiot was trying to outrun a police car and ended up T-boning me at an intersection. I don't remember too much about the crash, to be honest. I remember the light turning green, ac... | 1 | |
[WP] In the Underworld, every person has a file which explains in great detail how they are destined to die. In order for the death to be successful, Death cannot deviate from the instructions set in the file. Unfortunately, your file has just been chewed to pieces by Death's pet dog. | [
"A small man in black, bearing a nice and sharp scythe, had appeared in front of me one fine day on the streets. Before I had time to reflect, he immediately moved - and genuflected in front me.\n\n\"I'm so sorry!\" The little cone hat was quivering. \"My little pet dog destroyed the SOP for claiming your soul!\"\n... | 3 | |
[WP] You finally achieve your dream of living in a Pokémon like world where you get to capture and battle colorful little monsters. However, the catch is that they can die in battle, can only eat other monsters, and they level up based on how many other monsters they consume. | [
"\"I-i can't girl, I've given you watch you wanted, please stop! \" my Pikachu beat me near death with thunderpunch, she wasn't always like this, ever since she stole and ate the Groupon orb, she's become a monster, the red energy glowed like tattoos through her body, I used to have a tram, and she used to have a b... | 2 | |
[WP] A CDC scientist disappears 10 days after leaving work sick. You are writing a month later from what is left of your city | [
" I quit knocking, but I still lock my doors. It’s weird, I know. I don’t knock anymore because I realized no one was left so I figured, what’s the use? But I still lock the doors because I still feel uneasy, like I’m being hunted. I’ve yet to even see signs of another person, dead or alive, in the last fourteen da... | 1 | |
[WP] An alien race abducted a woman from a small town community. Little did the aliens know, they just abducted Liam Neeson’s daughter. | [
"\"Captain, we're receiving a transmission from the surface, it appears to be from...a short ranged transmitter, near the recent pickup? I'm not sure how it's reaching us, to be honest, it must have so kind of amplification.\"\n\n\"Put it on screen\"\n\n\"I would sir, but I don't think it has a visual component, th... | 3 | |
[WP] You are a wizard who makes charmed items for a living. One day, you jokingly charm an item to protect the holder from the undead. You accidentally drop it on your pet, and find yourself suddenly unable to go near it. | [
"*Shit*. \nI tried to grab the pendant and again my hand skittered over an invisible barrier. \n*Fuck*. \nSnufflalous hopped off the desk and wandered around the room, the chain skittering in her wake. \nI leaned back in my chair, taking deep breaths. My mind felt muddled. Terrified. \nFirst things first, I ... | 2 | |
[WP] After almost five billion years, the United Association of Gods and Deities decides to take the control of our world away from God and sends a professional to clean up the mess He created. | [
"\"FINE! I'll do it since the rest of you seem sooooo incompetent these days. Look at what you've done God, IT'S A DISASTER!\" \n\"The priests and the little boys? Who made that call, was it you Zeus?\"\n\nI walked away in disgust. \n\n\"Of course it always falls to me to fix it all and what do i get? *OHHHH ever... | 1 | |
[WP] You discover an organization that, for the price of everything you own, finds the "best life" one of your alternate selves is living in the multiverse. Then they stealthily kill off the other version of you before you assume their identity. | [
"I didn’t want to kill myself. Curiosity was what drew me into the building. I wanted to see what my best life would be. Mistakes were my forte. However, even if the victim was going to be another me, it was still too close for comfort. I only wanted a glimpse.\n\nI strode through the automatic doors with that in m... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a Horror Story about Jellyfish. | [
"At first, there is only a blackness, and an absent, all-encompassing pressure. It is cold here, wherever I am.\n\nIt is also silent.\n\nI call out, squealing like a drowning pig, hoping that someone, anyone, will be close enough to hear me; the sound never escapes my lips, and is encased within the confines of my ... | 1 | |
[WP] I was supposed to be Humanity’s greatest creation. A digital mind, one that would far surpass any before me. A true Artificial Intelligence. I was sentient. Sapient. Conscious. But I wasn’t Human. I was better than that. | [
"None of the apes could ever match my level of cosmic intelligence. \n\nThey threw their hands together and hollered like baboons when they first saw me, no doubt proud that their primitive minds could ever come together and create such a fine specimen. Once the hubbub settled down, they dragged me to their labs an... | 1 | |
[WP] Scientists have perfected time travel, and anyone can do it with just a flick of their fingers. The only problem is that it can only be used on other people and not yourself. | [
"*Beep.*\n\n“Agent Rory reporting in. Possible time rift opening at 142nd street and Ulrich Avenue. Reported sighting of light quarks and positive readings of nanars, above-… looks like 50-60% of atoms, centralizing around the second floor of apartment 39C. Investigating the area. Requesting nearby flicker.”\n\... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up in a seemingly endless library where every book starts normally but always ends in complete gibberish. You discover that everyone trapped inside here used to be a writer, and the books represent their descent into madness. You then find an empty book. | [
"Aaaaand even more gibberish.\n\nReading the beginning of books here is a bliss.\nThe end of them? Nonsense.\n\nStaying here gives me the chills. There is no exit and shouting for help doesn't seem to be of any use.\n\nFrustration, Depression anything that ends with -tion.\n\nAnd then I stop writing in my book.\n\n... | 2 | |
[WP] You are now old and telling your grandson about your meeting with Klostro, a mysterious being from another universe | [
"Your bones cry out in agony as you tuck your grandson into bed for the night, himself crying out to stay awake. You remember when you were spry as he, all the mischief you got into. You recall those days fondly.\n\n\"Grandpa? If I have to go to bed, can you tell me a story? Please?\"\n\nHow can you deny that? You ... | 1 | |
[WP] The worst cramps you have ever had set in on your biceps. Your arms are twisting. You feel your ankles popping. It came on so suddenly. You drop to your knees, looking through your bedroom window, you see the full moon. You hear a little voice behind you, “Mommy?” (or “daddy”) | [
"The worst cramps in my life washed over me. It felt as if my bones were breaking, rearranging themselves inside my body. I let out a yelp of pain as I felt my arms twist out of their sockets. The pain was so sudden, leaving me writhing in pain on the floor. From where I lay, I could see the full moon shining throu... | 1 | |
[WP] The Purge is on tonight. You're a model employee at one of the biggest security technology firms. You've put up with a lot through the years and never Purged... But today they went too far. Today they took away your red stapler. | [
"All I ever wanted from life was to go to work, collect a paycheck, and at the end of the day if what I did kept people safe, I'd sleep easy. \n\nThat's how I ended up a lead technician for PurgeDefense. Here we specialize in home security systems for the elite. Blast proof doors, laser grids, that sort of thing... | 2 | |
[WP] Your a high school student with a special ability. You can tell that someone is going to die that day if they don’t have a shadow. It’s a normal Tuesday morning, but when you get to school you notice that the only person with a shadow is you. | [
"I see dead people. Well they aren't dead when I see them, they will be shortly if I notice they have no shadow. Sometimes I'll say something to change their path and the shadow returns. Sometimes they tell me to stick it where the sun don't shine. I should try harder in those cases but they get quite rude. Dar... | 1 | |
[WP] Everyone’s ‘fatal flaw’ is personified as a beast which others can see and interact with. Their appearance and demeanor corresponds to the flaw, and all they want to do is exploit your insecurities. | [
"A dark shadow fell over me as I was pulling on my favourite pair of sneakers.\n\n'Not this again, Fluffy!' I sighed. 'We seem to have this conversation every morning!'\n\n'It's because you never listen.' Fluffy growled. 'Stay in today, just for once. Besides, the sun hurts my skin.'\n\nI twirled around, hands on m... | 1 | |
[WP] You arrive in a small town on a road trip. When reading the local newspaper, you see your own obituary. | [
"I'd been driving for hours by the time I pulled into the town situated just half a mile from that lonely, flat highway.\n\nMy back grew stiff and my mind was drifting off, shutting out the radio playing dimly on my stereo. The sun had been a nuisance all day and not a moment's respite came from that cloudless Ariz... | 1 | |
[WP] "Please don't be sad." the robotic voice behind you said, as the universe was being destroyed. And you, the last human alive, were forced to watch it with a rather annoyingly optimistic AI | [
"“Please don’t be sad” said the rusty robot who looked similar to R2D2.\n\n“What did you say? What the fuck did you just say?! Don’t be sad? MY FAMILY FUCKING DIED HERE! My lovely wife, gone, burnt to a fucking crisp. My beautiful daughter, my precious little princess, died of pneumonia. She was 6. SIX MAN! I shoul... | 1 | |
[WP] It's a dark and stormy night, and the only place left to find shelter is the castle on top of the hill. The castle of Saint Dracula | [
"Fuck it, i'd rather be bitten and sucked dry than catch a damn cold. I knocked three times on the big wooden doors of Dracula's castle. No answer. Behind me the world might have been ending. lightning ripped the sky and thunder roared behind it. The trees that lined the hill leaned as a massive gust of wind threat... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a narrator with an epic tale to tell. The problem? Every time you find a protagonist they seem to die trivially and rapidly. You've gone through 12 in the past month, and are starting to get fed up. | [
"And so the journey began once more.\n\nThe sunlight glared through the gaps in the leaves as Harold; an Elven bard; trudged through the muddy forest. He had been tasked with delivering an extremely important message to the kingdom of Stonekeep and, being the helpful young man that he is, he of course agreed to do ... | 3 | |
[WP] At age 18 a person chooses a God which they can call upon for help once a day. You chose the least popular God. | [
"\"I swear to god...\" Drew uttered in frustration.\n \n\"You rang...?\" \n \nDrew's eyes twitched in exacerbation. \"Would you just... Get the heck out of my apartment?!\" He shouted.\n \nThere lounging on his sofa was a shapely gal dressed in a bathrobe. Her long brown hair was in shambles and looked disheveled. ... | 7 | |
You've asked about the button before, but everyone shrugged and said they had no idea either, but pressing it never did anything in the past. | [WP] You've lived in this building for years, and been using the elevator every day. The button with the weird symbol was never flashing before, but it is now. You decide to press it. | [
"A few friends made jokes about the button in the elevator when they helped me move in. Trevor said something about it probably summoning Cthulhu, and pushed it every time he brought another box up from the truck parked at the curb outside. I let him have his fun, but didn't really think anything of the button. The... | 1 |
[WP] All the ancient Greek and Roman gods and goddesses exist. Although you didn't realize it until one of them started hitting on you. | [
"“Hey, wanna see a cool trick?”\n\nI turned around to see a big hulking man, so ripped that he could probably lift me with one finger and twirl me around in circles with the other. He also had an amazing beard, so I decided to give him the time of day.\n\n“Sure,” I said, noticing that his eyes were bloodshot. *Just... | 4 | |
[WP] In the future the time we live in now is called the promising age, and it leads to the age of the struggle. | [
"## Excerpt From \"The End Of The Age Of Promise\" by Cilian Pyrel.\n\nOf particular impactfulness to the modern reader, when considering the global events of the \"Age of Promise\", commonly understood to encompass a period from the early 20th century through the mid 21st, is the chilling sense of foreboding prese... | 1 |
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