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[WP] A deity has deemed YOU the One who shall smite all evil and cleanse the lands of all villainy. Or maybe he meant that you were the One to cause all of that villainy and evil. That Deity was rather vague, and you're left wondering what he actually meant. | [
"I was given so much power. All the tools I ever could have needed were bound and coiled into my DNA.\n\nI am immortal now. Thanks to Him, I can never die. Under any circumstances. He told me what needed to be done, but not where or with what. So, like the good employee I used to be at Arby's, when I wasn't clear o... | 1 | |
[WP] A group of raiders during the apocalypse are having trouble attacking a town built inside of an IKEA. | [
"\"We've 'ot splinters everywhere, Capt'n.\"\n\nGrangar snarled, flecks of yellow spittle flying from his lips into his ragged beard. He watched the battle raging below from his perch atop the hill. Heaves and hos carried to his grotesque metal throne from the throng of warriors bashing their skulls into Slottstade... | 1 | |
[WP] You have an accident and now you are legally blind. However, the next day you wake up and realize that you can see people's emotions, each emotion being a different color | [
"I liked to gamble. Always have, unfortunately I was good, and sometimes people are bad. And bad people can any situation worse. It was easy for bad guys with means to do this and I had been beaten before but they took something I can never give back. Three men beat the lights out of me and I never got that light b... | 1 | |
[WP] You've reached the Final Battle to save the world from evil. Your teammates are all relying on you, as you've always been their ace in the hole. The problem is, your power comes from people doubting you... | [
"The first time it happened was in grade school, Jimmy seemed so large to me at the time standing in front of me in his blue and orange striped shirt, brown cargo shorts and dirty white sneakers that crackled against the sandy turf of the playground. He was a mean spirited kid and the number one bully at my school... | 1 | |
[WP] Take an object - any ordinary object close at hand - and describe it exquisite detail, as though it were an item of unparalleled value, beauty, worth. | [
"The cylinder is round, with slightly tapered edges, curving gently toward the concave bottom and planar top. It glistens a ruby red, with muted silver undertones, and the elegant script delicately decorating two sides is difficult to miss. A relic of a bygone age, where men required liquid fuel to propel their bod... | 1 | |
[WP] Writing your story with a dimension-hopping bad guy has gone horribly wrong: he's gotten a copy of the finished thing, and meta knowledge has made him nearly all powerful. It's up to you now to write yourself into the story and save the day by becoming the Hero of Legend: the Ultimate Mary Sue. | [
"\"Well, isn't this it? How it all ends?\" He said to an empty space in the town square, people looking at him with pure confusion, changing their routes to walk as far away from him as they could. \"Come on! This is what you wanted isn't it?\" He screamed, pulling the gun from his holster and shooting it at a near... | 1 | |
[WP] Everyone is the ruler of the world, except you. | [
"\"I, King Maximillian Dukkakis Tudor Khan the 3rd, command you!\"\n\nSarah scurried forward with tablet in hand. She appeared the ultimate professional: hair severely pulled back, suit skirt, low heels, the barest touch of makeup. Even though it was a smart tablet she still touched her electronic pen briefly t... | 1 | |
Reversion of the common trope where popular guy falls in love with girl | [WP] Popular girl falls in love with nerdy guy, but he is not receptive to her advances | [
"It was the beginning of senior year, and Annabelle was running out of options for boyfriends. She had tried going out with every popular guy in the school, and they had all turned out to be jerks and cheaters. She just wanted a nice guy who wouldn't get into bed with the first pretty girl who offered, was that too... | 3 |
[WP] You thought that you were in control of your body but it turns out you are just a passenger looking on, who happened to think the exact same thoughts as the true owner of the body. Until now. | [
"I opted against another MRI, I was sure I hadn't re-broken anything, just tingly nerves, plus my co-pay on an XRay wasn't so bad, so I stood still while the ATM-sized camera took pictures through my legs.\nThen I waited. For a while. when you go through a major injury- broken bones, muscle damage, surgery, recover... | 1 | |
[WP] You stare in disbelief as your doctor smiles, grabs the apple from your hand, and takes a bite. | [
"\nWilliam stared at the doctor unable to believe what he did, despite William's warnings. It happened too fast, the doctor grabbed the shiny red apple from William's hand and bit into it before William realized what was happening. \n\n\n\n\"See, William? Nothing to worry about, it's just a regular old-\" Doctor T... | 3 | |
[WP] Your head is leaning against the window of a van as you ride down the central road in a supercity, however tonight the citys empty, and tonight is your night. | [
"May, 7:00 pm.\n\nYour jaw is gurning, your eyes are hazy, your cigarette is burning, your head is leaning back between the glass-cold window and the old and cheap seat.\n\nBut she on the left drives on, shes careless, shes free, we all are, its anarchys euthopia. The MDMA make the lights brighter, the smoke softer... | 1 | |
[WP] You are in Hell. You find out that God and Satan aren't on bad terms with each other, but it is supposed to be a secret. | [
"Pain rippled through my chest as the car collapsed in front of me. No seat belt meant that my body kept going and flew through the windshield. The last thing I remembered was the sound of my bones breaking when my body hit the pavement. When I woke up to a beast with hooves, a tail, a red ass, and horns on its hea... | 1 | |
[WP] Global warming, potential nuclear warfare, poverty. The world seems to be going downhill. Until you decide to turn it on and off again. Maybe that’ll fix it. | [
"You slump down on the couch, pressing your hands to your eyes. The news is on again. Nothing good. Civil war, nuclear standoff, melting ice caps, where did we go wrong?\n\n\"Alexa, turn off the TV.\"\n\nThe monitor blinks off. The Stygian blackness it leaves behind is no better.\n\n\"Alexa, tell me something good ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the tooth fairy and constantly have to improvise measures to break into people’s homes to do your job. One evening, you have a particularly tough case... | [
"April 14th, 2013\nWaking up to the sunlight, I get out of bed and go to the kitchen. I put on the coffee, start frying an egg, and get dressed. I just sit down to breakfast when I see the time. I’m late.\nI stuff the egg in my mouth and down the coffee, run out to the balcony door, leap off the edge\nAnd fly to wo... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the Matchmaker, the cosmic entity that matches soulmates with each other. You’ve finally gotten tired of all the stupid writingprompts getting your job wrong, and you’ve come to set the record straight. | [
"Listen, you don’t know me.\n\nYou silly little humans. You think I’m like you? You think I care about everyone matching perfectly? That I have a system or algorithm or plan? That I judge who you are and how you would work with every single person alive to find the best one for you?\n\nNonsense. Absolute nonsense.\... | 1 | |
Just wanted to see how the people of Writing Prompts would handle the most beautiful combination of words in phonaesthetics :) | [WP] The secret behind the cellar door | [
"The cellar in the wasteland\n-------------\n I took a long, slow gulp from the leather pouch I kept in my backpack, keeping my eye trained on the small building my teammates had just entered.\n\nIt was a hot day, hotter than last summer which had been hotter than the summer before that. I had been fending off drin... | 1 |
[WP] One night you dream that the two halves of your brain, the left hemisphere and right, get into a fight and your right wins. When you wake up the next morning, you have no control over your actions, you are just forced to watch. | [
"I dreamt that night that the two sides of my brain fought. It was a vicious battle, one fought not with swords or guns but one with words and -- in particular -- insults.\n\n\"You've never done much at all, silly little left hemisphere.\"\n\n\"If I've never done much at all then you've done, like, negative amounts... | 1 | |
[WP]God looked down on Earth and saw how outdated his world was. He decided it could use monthly updates and starts a devblog to keep humanity up to date on the changes. | [
" 01/01/2018 || Ver. 6.6.7\n\n Hello hello, God here. So, sorry I was gone so long, Lucifer was making a big deal of things.\n\n ANYWAY, I've noticed some problems, so, for the first time ever, I'm updating this world. Bugfix style. Sort of.\n\n bugfix: Ozone layer now works like in did in Ver. 1.0.0. ... | 3 | |
[WP] The last witch lives in the forest behind my house. Sometimes I'll visit. | [
"MR. PEDERSON SUX DIX\n\nWyrm stared at the etching in the school desk. It looked like it had been done with a key or maybe a broken pen. He didnt know who Mr. Pederson was, as he was currently sitting in Mrs. Hammonds english class. Her voice filled the the room, as he and his fellow students in 6th period AP engl... | 3 | |
[WP] Firefighters are burning down buildings, lawyers are commiting crimes, teachers are vandalising school. Is opposite day. | [
"\"Firefighters are burning the city!\n\nLawyers are committing crimes!\n\nTeachers are vandalising schools!\n\nCuz' it's the opposite day!\"\n\nThat's the first thing I saw on TV\n\nLooks like the reporter got it wrong\n\nHe was still doing his thing\n\nOh wait, he's the janitor\n\nOk let me get undressed\n\nGet u... | 1 | |
[WP] You’re friends with the school weirdo, Joey. One day in science class your teacher is instructing about light levels. To display infrared he calls on you to put on some night vision goggles. To your surprise, Joey does not glow like the rest. | [
"I've known Joey for as long as I can remember, she was always the first mate to my Captain, the Second Pilot to my air plane, the cop to my robber. Though, through the years I've noticed that Joey, suffers from a bit of a social ineptness. She's quiet and let's her thoughts stew in her head to the point that it s... | 1 | |
[WP] You've been studying the pyramids for nearly 20 years. One day you place your hand on a stone block and feel a vibration. After closer examination, you dust off the block to reveal a touch screen with symbols flashing across it. | [
"They approached in the black of night, from the north.\n\nThe helicopter flew under 30 meters off the ground, weaving in between any taller buildings, careful to stay west of the Nile. \n\nIt was a moonless, chill night, with visibility for kilometers, but there were no artificial lights as far as the eye could se... | 1 | |
[WP] Gordon Ramsay became the new Grim Reaper. | [
"\"You call that a car crash!\" The irate man screamed in my face, I wasn't quite clear on where he'd come from. Everything had happened so fast. I'd been driving home on the Davison when that truck had cut me off from that on ramp, I'd tried to swerve.... but then what?\n\n\"You wrapped your car around a tree, ass... | 1 | |
[WP] You came across an ancient scroll that taught you the language of every animal on earth, including some plants. This has made you a very effective private investigator. | [
"It was supposed to be just another case, but isn't that always how these things go? A normal day at the normal job until suddenly things go completely upside down. \n\nThe day things went upside down for me was July 8th, 1993 and the time was just after noon. Let's just make it high noon as they used to say in the... | 1 | |
(Fun fact for those who don't know: the two-word CAPTCHA system was designed to help Google Books transcribe documents. One of the creators did a [16 minute TED talk about it](https://www.ted.com/talks/luis_von_ahn_massive_scale_online_collaboration).) | [WP] Almost all jobs have been automated by artificial intelligence, and human beings can only make a living by making AI more effective. While completing a CAPTCHA, you discover a cry for help. | [
"I tracked The Alpha for months, tracing its endless journey around the city with ancient GPS gear. I could hear its engine booming through the abandoned skyscraper canyons as it zoomed along at 45 MPH, the exact posted speed limit (back when the city still had people in it). \n\nStanding on top of a dumpster, I pl... | 1 |
[WP] At a young age, you discovered your latent magical talent; shortly after, your family is slain and you are taken under the Court mage's wing. | [
"\"i dont think i can do that...\"\n\n\"well, if you dont, youll die.\"\n\nnicolas flamel is the ONE mage i DID NOT want to be following. it is well known that he is the worst of them. he only has the most basic form of majik: alchemy. i mean, dont get me wrong, alchemy is all-powerful. just, basic. there are no lo... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a story in the villain's point of view | [
"**S**OURCE - STEP VII\n_______________\n\n\n[...]\n\nNYPD. And why pity? Cops cars defile. The full scope scars defy, defibrillating heart of the city, the bruises shattered into open wounds. Killing NY also means killing cops, which you rarely get to do, not that you can't get anything you wish for.\n\nYou aim fo... | 1 | |
[WP] The protagonist of this story is the most powerful entity you can imagine, and it's grown bored. | [
"She was sitting but also standing, awake but also asleep, here but also nowhere. The Mother leaned forward, resting her elbows on a table that did not exist, and stared down at the galaxy below her. They were several light-years above it, just above the halo of loose stars that did not sit within the plane of the ... | 1 | |
[WP] Everyone has a string attached to them. Not physically, but metaphorically. The string twists and turns through life, your soulmate is on the other end. But, what happens when after an accident, you can see everyone's string? | [
"I could see them, the threads, weaving together the cloth of life. It wrapped us in a cocoon, like we did with the threads we could touch, from birth to death they made us feel comfortable. They accompanied us, light as a feather, a warm breath would sway them like the crest of a wave. And the only thing which sto... | 3 | |
[WP] Memory is stored in the blood. You get into an accident and lose a great amount of blood. You get a blood transfution but the doctor by accident gives you the blood that was meant for a rich patient. | [
"I wake up to the sound of my alarm clock hammering at my eardrum, but it is not all bad because I can hear birds singing outside. I can still hardly believe that this scrawny body is mine, that this body has been living this same life and sleeping in this broken bed for years. Getting myself out of bed was harder ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are sent to hell and your punishment is watching every mistake and regret you have on loop. You get one wish to ease the suffering, and yours is to have Mr. Rogers and Bob Ross to coach you through all of it. | [
"\"It's all right, Son.\" consoled the stranger.\n\n\"Who the fuck are you?\" I asked the man.\n\n\"Roger Rogerson, of course. Didn't you ask for me? I was a well-known cop, once. One of the best.\"\n\n\"Um. No. I asked for Mr. Rogers. You know, Fred Rogers, the dude who's good with kids?\"\n\n\"Huh. Well, there's ... | 3 | |
[WP] Hundreds of time travelers have gathered to view the most important moment in human history. However, you, half naked and holding an empty bottle of beer, are wondering why all of these people are staring at you. | [
"To say I was surprised would be an understatement. I'd been sitting on my couch, pants off, attempting to unwind after a particularly shitty day. My boss had chewed me out again, and the date I was supposed to go on afterwards had canceled last minute. I'd called up some of my friends to see if they wanted to hang... | 1 | |
[WP] The barbarian raiding party thought this would be a nice, simple village for them to pillage. But nobody told them that Old Man Jefferson used to be a dragon-slaying, kingdom-felling and overall really damn strong Archmage. | [
"“Why ye fetid, flee ridden, trollspawn prancing around as if ye were a regiment of the Emperor’s Dragon Guard,” Elbert croaked as he hobbled his way towards the village’s southern entrance. “Ye’r not but a bunch of surly pups too soon offa momma’s teats.” \n\nElbert’s voice was as faded as his lavender robes. Tend... | 3 | |
[WP] You wake up in a dark room with no idea who you are or how you got there. Before you can attempt to escape, the room is flooded with red emergency lights as the room begins to descend. When it stops, a loud voice comes on over a speaker: "Welcome to the Labyrinth. You have 30 days. Good luck." | [
"The once black room now screams with spinning red beacons, I squint my eyes and before I can better see my surroundings my legs lose balance from underneath me, at first I think I am falling, but quickly I realize the room is falling, and at alarming speeds. My body slams against the ground and the walls collapse ... | 2 | |
[WP] "Humanity was not created to experience death. The Grim Reaper is a rogue agent, who makes people value the time they have." | [
"Quite contrary to belief I was once human. I once walked the earth with bare feet as many do today. I had lived for 768 years, rather youthful for the times. I don’t remember much only a few foggy images that come and go. But the image that never fades is their sorrow. \n\nMany today regard immortality as a beaut... | 1 | |
[WP] A well-meaning supervillain whose most mundane everyday actions cause terrible things to happen is trying to exist one day without harming anyone. It doesn't go so well. | [
"“Not today.”\n\nBarney Jenkins stared at himself in the bathroom mirror. He was a paunchy, middle aged man with somewhat less hair on his head than on his upper back. He was also the most infamous villain known to man. In fact, the only reason that he hadn’t been arrested yet was that everyone who made contact wit... | 1 | |
[WP] An alien with extreme shape-shifting abilities hides in your town. One out of two days, it kills random people and eats their internal organs. No one knows who, what or where he/she/it is. Everyone is terrified. You are not. | [
"People have been terrified an unable to leave their houses. It will get them, they thought. They only people sanctioned to travel were those delivering food door to door with an armed guard. \n\nIt's not going to get us. It wants the meat inside people, it's driven by senses, and once it's full, it would sleep for... | 1 | |
[WP] A horror story about a wounded auroch trying to escape a band of prehistoric humans. | [
"**CEILING OF THE NO-SHELTER** - III. **W**ounded **A**uroch **R**uns **N**owards, **I**tching **N**ostrils **G**lance\n____________\n\n[...]\n\nCut deep. The cost of slow response to unawaited threat.\n\nRelapse of the **first bite**, moment of pure terror, vertical grin of human's void machine rejecting stone (th... | 1 | |
[WP] Days of lifetime can be transferred between people. For whatever reason, you transfer a significant amount of your life to another person. As soon as the transfer is made, that person drops dead. | [
"6935 days was not little time. 19 years just gone in one minute and for what? Trying to save my best friend I ever had from infection and the next moment he dies. That wasn't supposed to happen. Normally the time you gave one person would be fully lived from the moment you finished the transfer. Now I hadn't lost ... | 1 | |
[WP] "He's not bluffing," she murmured. | [
"\"He's not bluffing.\" she murmured.\n\n\"Then I won't either.\" I said out loud enough for the whole table to hear.\n\n\"All in.\"\n\n\n \n\nThe atmosphere had been tangible before the words *all in* had been said out loud. Now it was a physical presence.The lighting was dim, but not so much you couldn't... | 1 | |
[WP] With the power to spirit walk, you are a assassin for hire. As your spirit walking one day, you meet another Walker for the first time... He is also there to kill you. | [
"The form stood before me, exposed, like the old book syas, you can't take it with you, it's a she and at first I can't make out her features properly, a bit of focus and I her midnight black hair came into focus along with her vibrant crimson eyes, tainted by an evil force she was, but something else also spoke in... | 1 | |
[WP] A 4-year-old child is made ruler of a country for a week, because someone thought it would be cute. The consequences are severe. | [
"The King examined his mount himself, as was his custom. He found a strap of the saddle not to his satisfaction, clucked his tongue, and adjusted it to lessen the pressure against the horse’s chest. The beast neighed gratefully and he ran a hand along its flank. He became aware of a diffident presence at his side.\... | 2 | |
[WP] A Mafia loan shark becomes increasingly concerned with the extreme lengths his/her client is going to in order to get money to pay them back. | [
"Mario was not someone you would want to mess with. And seeing as he lent money to those who were desperate enough for the cash, that meant being late in paying him back the money owed to him, often at exorbant amounts of money. Two-hundred, maybe three-hundred percent lending rates.\n\nHe made quite the impression... | 1 | |
[WP] You are teaching about the Battle of Before. A small battle that, due to the clocks going back an hour for daylight savings, ended before it began. | [
"\"Alright class, this is a confusing one. The Battle of Before was, whilst not one of the biggest battles in the Proxy-War, one of the most peculiar. It began when two squads of Allied infantry made contact with a dramatically larger Coalition force. The Coalition assumed that it was a much larger force that was a... | 1 | |
[WP] Every kingdom's princess must select someone to serve as her personal knight for the rest of their lives. You, a regular soldier in the army, have been hand-picked by the princess of the dragon kingdom, the most hated in all the land. | [
"\nIt made sense, really. Astorm was a powerful kingdom, with a mighty military, of valiant knights. Tixel, the only Dragonborn there, a paragon of knighthood, and one of the mightiest anywhere, was the perfect candidate. Despite that he was only a lowly soldier. Much drama had been stirred, as a result, for this w... | 11 | |
[WP] You're a blind cave creature, only able to move about via echolocation. Never venturing out far from your cave, a far away sob catches your ear. You decide to investigate. | [
"Our tentacles rap across the ceiling and walls as the small taps give way to a vision in our mind, the cave is familiar but the fog and haze over our head stops us from seeing the whole picture. We silently tread forward as a sob reaches our ears, the sound bounces around m-our head and cuts the fog like a kni-cla... | 1 | |
[WP] You've been hospitalized for a week with a strange disease. As the sun rises on what the doctors are saying is your final day, you discover you're not actually sick, you're the first person to gain superpowers. | [
"\t\t\t\tBecoming Super.\t\n\t\t\n\tAs I feel the sun warm my face through the window of my 5th story hospital window, I realize today is supposed to be the day. The last day. My last day.\n\tI attempt to stretch my aching joints, but instead I just feel fatigued. As if I hadn’t slept in days. I take a deep breath,... | 1 | |
[WP] A person from the future has come to visit you. They explain that you are ridiculously famous in the future and they broke all the rules to come back in time to meet you. | [
"I poured the last of my Mountain Dew down my throat and tossed the can over my shoulder where it made a reassuring clunk as it landed on the existing mound of cans. Then, lighting a cigarette, I secured my fedora and refreshed my browser. \"Let's see if anyone managed to refute my argument against the existence of... | 2 | |
[WP] You are an Alien sent to Earth to gift them technology, however when you arrive Humanity has developed much further than your own Species | [
"Gleeb had bravely volunteered over 9 billion years ago to be the envoy to the outer reaches of the nearest galaxy. His mind happily at rest on his intergalactic cruise, only occasionally did it ponder on the wonders he would impart to any intelligent life he might encounter. His journey was nearly at an end. Unbek... | 1 | |
[WP] The Roman Empire never collapsed. As a result humanity already stepped foot on the moon in 1401 | [
"#April 2, 1401\n\nConsus was the first Roman expeditionary to the moon, though this fact was never known beyond a small cadre of academics. He would not be the first official Roman to the moon-- that honor would go to Amulius Accius, First of the Astronauts. Consus had been selected for his expendibility; he wou... | 7 | |
[WP] Taking advantage of your rival's penchant for alcohol, you take them out for drinks and slip them a love potion. The results are... not what you expected. | [
"I waited at the bar for Carley to return from the ladies’, the gin and tonic she ordered sweating by her bag and my special additional ingredient dissolving between the ice cubes. The wizard next door to the pub said that this blend of love potion has an undetectable smell and flavor, packs a punch, and is moderat... | 2 | |
[WP] Being on the edge of the galaxy and with no species capable of warp travel, it was deemed the perfect prison planet. No one really cared what that might mean for the locals of this "Earth." | [
"“So we agree,” said the owl, the council gathered to decide what to do about the latest invasive species on the planet, “something must be done about these apes. They destroy our homes, rummage the trees and lakes, and they’ve almost figured out fire. They must be stopped.”\n\n“I don’t see all the fuss,” said the ... | 1 | |
[WP] You’ve been gifted with the ability to read minds since you were a child. In order to put your skills to good use, you became a freelance detective. However, one day you read someone’s mind and hear something you never could have expected. | [
"I could never have expected this. I have always been able to read minds, but never have I ever experienced this.\n\nUsually, I sit down at a café, or in a park, or even, under very specific circumstances, just in a parking lot.\n\nBut today, I sat down by a school. I thought; \"maybe I'll catch a lead here or some... | 2 | |
Am just a bit curious at how this would work. Panzer tanks from Rommel meet Roman Centurions and legions. I wonder..
It makes it even more interesting due to the fact that Rommel was a very fair man. :P | [WP] Rommel's 7th Panzer Division, while weathering a heavy storm, is sent back to the Roman Empire. | [
"\"How many?\" Rommel asked, squinting into the morning sun. He could see them marching, slowly, kicking up dust. Slowly, but purposefully.\n \nWestphal, looking through binoculars, was quiet for a second before responding. \"Looks like at least two legions, but I think their might two more behind it.\"\n\nRomme... | 1 |
[WP] Before you are murdered and your life flashes before your eyes. You can travel to any point in your life to try to prevent it, but Death and Fate are against you. | [
"You'd think death is always agonizing. As it turns out once your brain stem is severed, you feel nothing. The type of blow this takes happens faster than your nerves are able to signal to your brain.\n\n\nDarkness.\n\n\nWell, no after life. Probably a good thing. Then it happens. SNAP.\n\n\nIt’s cold. An amb... | 2 | |
[WP] It's 2018. The only difference is, for the last 60 years since it was founded, NASA has had the biggest budget in the US and is the largest organization in the world. | [
"The Sea of Tranquility twinkles with the silver and blue reflections of miles and miles of solar collectors, almost as prevalent here as cornstalks in Nebraska. \n\nI understand that *terawatts* of power gush out of this array alone, lighting up the majority of Alpha, Beta, and Delta sector and storing the rest in... | 1 | |
[WP] The Setup: Immortality has been cracked but it isn't cheap or easy. Rich people can prepay centuries in advance, protecting against the market. Your average person is able to live forever as long as they can keep paying the expensive but reasonable bills (considering what you get). | [
"\"Hello, my name is Janet. You've reached Longevity Platinum Services, how may I serve you?\"\n\n\"It's about time! I've been on hold for an hour!\"\n\n\"Well, as we like to say here at Longevity, we hope we've given you all that time back and more!\"\n\n\"Um, right, well, I was calling to ask about last month's b... | 1 | |
[WP]Teleportation is invented as an instant means to travel. A man, having never used the technology begins to notice something wrong. He begins to suspect they aren't being teleported, but are being killed in the process. A new "version" appearing on the other side. Each time a bit more sinister. | [
"\"Daddy?\" The sparkling eyes belonging to my sweet Susanna appeared as the portation dust dissapated. \n\n\"Moochums!\" I yelled picking her up into my arms and swinging her around as she giggled with glee.\n\nI just had her for two days of every thirty, never rely on a federation lawyer, but I would make sure th... | 3 | |
[WP] You've been asking Alexa to read your 5 year old son a bedtime story every night. Little did you realize, there was a bug and Alexa has been reading your son the Communist Manifesto. | [
"\"Dad, can you read me a bedtime story?\"\n\nI sat down on the side of the bed and sighed. My son's eyes were wide and wonder-filled, as only a child's can be. \n\nI lightly rustled his hair.\n\n\"Sorry, kiddo,\" I said, pulling his blanket up over him. \"I have to be up early for work tomorrow. Maybe Alexa can co... | 1 | |
[WP] In a world where magic and supernatural wonders exist. One of those wonders is called the 'gate' which opens up every few hundred years, connecting a passage to a different world bringing many cultures and items. This time, they brought modern humanity. | [
"Although experts believe the Sutton's Creek Incident may have been caused by a nuclear mishap, especially with the military base nearby, the area checks clear of fallout and scorch marks. One day, every man, woman, and child, along with the homes, streets, and cars all up and vanished, leaving behind a crater 5 mi... | 3 | |
[WP] Write about an Middle Evil England that not only accepts witchcraft but embraces it as a form of defensive strategy when counties like France and Spain try to invade. | [
"The air in the tent was dry. The subjects stood idle as their King ruminated on his next step.\n\n\"My King, I advise against this,\" the Captain of the guard whispered. \"We do not understand it well enough.\"\n\nHarold Godwinson looked up, still scratching the grey whiskers on his chin. His wrinkled face belied ... | 1 | |
[WP] It has been ten years since the apocalypse started, while wandering around you come across your old high school. | [
"Ten years ago, they came. They rose out of the ground, all over the world, at once. They destroyed everything in their path. People, houses, animals, everything. Those that survived had no where left to go. \n\nLast year, they came to a halt. All of them just stopped, and returned to the places from which they cam... | 4 | |
[WP] A robot is programmed to break down a wall. A fault in its logic means instead of using its given sledgehammer, it fires a bullet at the wall, retrieves the bullet and fires it again. The wall belongs to the Kremlin. | [
"The soviets wanted to test their armour peircing rounds so they had a robot fire a bullet into a section of wall made of bullet proof materials. The section is one that leads to a shooting range within the Kremlin should the bullet pass through. The Kremlin guards would give the robot another bullet once the prev... | 1 | |
[WP] At birth, every single human is paired with an animal, who lives their whole life with their human, and lives exactly as long, down to the second. Your companion is terminally ill and near death- but you're fine. | [
"“Soooo…. He’s got cancer?” It was confusing really.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“It’s a bit more complicated but essentially yes.” The vet told me. \nDespite the seemingly terrible news the guy was oddly calm.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Is he in pain?” I asked this time looking over at my equally calm buddy.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“No, your tortoise... | 1 | |
[WP] The day the bombs fell | [
"**As promised, a lighter story. Please let me know what you think! I would appreciate some feedback.**\n\n---\n\nThe world held its collective breath as we took off. Every single country on the planet was represented amongst crew of the planes. For the first time in known history, and possibly for the first time i... | 2 | |
[WP] The terms and conditions you just agreed to while setting up your new iPhone allow Apple to insert a chip implant in your brain. You found out by waking up with a HUD in your vision today. | [
"It had been 3 months since i awoke to a visual display of all my health functions, i thought i had discovered all the secrets of this program, but that was not the case. It was as if everyday i found something new, better, stronger. I first could only see the temperature, my heart rate, and the like. But now, afte... | 1 | |
[WP] In a moment of horror, you're sucked into deep space with no hope of rescue–with only a few minutes of viable transmission, you send a last message back for your soon-to-be six year old child. | [
"I spend a minute of my last three thinking of what to say to my little Elsie. This minute is a third of the last of my life, but I need this time to think about everything that I want to say. I try to calm myself, I try to stop the adrenaline from making my voice shake, my breathing ragged and uncoordinated. Breat... | 1 | |
[WP] You are visiting a foreign country, and you do not speak the local language. You come back to your hotel from a day of seemingly normal activity to find out you're all over the news, and have no idea why | [
"This was definitely my most ‘off the beaten path’ vacation. I was in the middle of a tropical beach town in Zamunda. I never thought I’d be in Africa, nevertheless the beach there. But my time there was beautiful - the cuisine, the weather, the people were friendly and I was having some serious luck with the local... | 11 | |
[WP] The game of assassin's that everyone signs up for. Except you actually have to assassinate your targets to win. | [
"I logged into the Tor Browser, and went to assmkedzgorodn7o.onion and saw the bounty on the president's head. Well, that was new I thought. It had gone up by a good 900 bitcoins. \n\nTime to bring out the new toys. I had ordered these bad boys from a contact in russia, shipped them to the united states in pieces a... | 1 | |
[WP] "Jesus Christ, people. You accidentally give one measly logical paradox to a multi-billion dollar A.I. and no one ever lets you hear the end of it." | [
"\"Yes, goddamnit Tim, of course you'll hear the end of it AS SOON AS IT KILLS US. Because now, it has to figure out what day would surprise us on our execution. AND THEY ALWAYS DO.\"\n\n\"No, ya see, clearly it can't be today. If it was going to hang us today, then it wouldn't be a surprise. \"\n\n\"What, what are... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a seemingly innocuous story with ominous undertones. | [
"I parked my teal blue, beat-to-hell '93 civic into an empty parking spot. Friends of mine had all commented about how I really needed a new car, but I had been driving that thing since senior year of high school, and it hadn't let me down yet. I had always responded with the quintessential 'if it ain't broke, do... | 2 | |
[WP] "You see this?! This is why we don't rip holes in space time. Suit up, you made this mess, now we're fixing it." | [
"“ok, so why do I have to suit up again?”\n“Because you’re the idiot who had to prove everyone wrong…”\n“well I did, didn’t I? space tine is a thing and you definitely don’t need a DeLorean to see it”\n“look, I have to cut to the chase this is a very time sensitive matter pun not intended, you have to go in there a... | 3 | |
[WP] The world faces a new and somewhat novel threat, children’s cartoon characters coming to life and wreaking havok. You are a pro in the agency taking down the odd and quite often harmful aberrations, or so you thought until you were assigned to the C.Sandiego task force. | [
"It was the year 2048. Genetic science had become so advanced that humans could create life. As such, people tried to create fictional characters for the sake of nostalgia. It went fine until someone created Carmen Sandiego, a character from an old educational game. Carmen Sandiego rebelled and stole the genetic te... | 1 | |
[WP] You suddenly realise that you have never been bitten by a bug, in fact you just discovered they seem to die when coming closer than 300 feet from you. There is a knock on the door, and when you peek outside there are 4 black Chevrolet Suburbans parked in the street. | [
"Gotta make the curtain look natural, can't jerk it, can't look out too long, or too short. Gently pull the curtain, that's it. Now, look outside. Okay, I see 4 black cars out the front, that's unusual. Why did I have to look outside just now? Why couldn't I just be trying to fix up my apartment like always? Never ... | 1 | |
[WP] A civilization has decided that it will force criminals to maintain large nature preserves in outdoor, open air prisons. | [
"They had tried incarceration; it hadn't worked. The balance between punishment and rehabilitation was weighted heavily towards the punitive, and so they tried something new. The hope was that tending to nature would have a calming effect, and inmates might learn a new skill in the process.\n\nOf course, it was a r... | 1 | |
[WP]Your neighbors all think you are a cat lady, but instead of cats you collect spirits. | [
"Talking to yourself is a sign of insanity. And talking to people no one else sees is a quick way to get yourself locked up in a padded room and drugged out of your mind. But talking to cats? That's a different thing altogether. Then you're just the neighborhood old eccentric cat lady. It's really only a little whi... | 2 | |
[WP]Tales tell of a legendary Hero that helped the kingdom when all seemed hopeless, and slayed the necromancer tyrant. The stories conveniently left out that the Hero was an mortician who really did not appreciate that all his hard work burying bodies was ruined when they rose from their graves. | [
"Contorting my face as shot my drink, maybe I still had to many taste buds, as the warm spiced rum burned all the way down. Even my health was sagging in these years. My sleep rare and often shortened, my diet comprised of malnourishment and cigarettes as time was often fractured.\n\nI stubbed another smoke, sittin... | 2 | |
[WP]Your entire life, you've lived in a lab, having no contact with the outside world, other than the scientists that look after you. When you are let out, you start to bleed gold, and an ethereal light surrounds you... | [
"I do not recall when I began to understand the world around me, but when I first became aware of myself and who I was, I knew I was different.\n\nAh, but how different, I could have never known.\n\nThe scientists who lived in the compound worked day and night, thoughts and words mingling in my own mind, thanks to ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a narrator, but a special kind, you Narrate the life of other narrators. | [
"I poured the water into the side of the coffee maker, checked that there were fresh grinds in the machine, then punched a couple buttons and smiled contentedly as I heard the familiar bubbling and grinding that signified my morning coffee was in the works. Yes, of course this is in first person- what did you expec... | 1 | |
[WP] You are an interstellar rock star, and have almost finished your tour of the Galaxy's hippest shindigs. Your agent has arranged your final show to be on the planet... 'Earth' | [
"With thanks – and apologies – to Douglas Adams. \n\n-------------\n“Now Mister Desiato, if you’ll just turn your attention for one moment to slide two-hundred and forty three, you’ll find the structure with which I intend to-”\n\n“Alteron.” Hotblack Desiasto, seated in his trademark Lazlar Lyricon-designed, overbe... | 1 | |
[WP] Like Jack Frost, The Grim Reaper, thus death, cannot exist if nobody believes in him. | [
"It began with Playschool.\nThat's right, fucking Playschool.\n\nThey were doing a live performance, when one of the hosts had a heart-attack and died, right there, in front of 2 billion children. Of course, these children were deemed too innocent to know the truth. So they lied.\n\n\"He's just going to sleep honey... | 1 | |
[WP] A dyson sphere is the center of power for all life in Milky Way. One-day, ancient humans return from a faraway galaxy fleeing from an unnamed horror, seeking answers within the dyson sphere. The aliens watch in disbelief as a supposed unintelligent and backward species returns home... | [
"Their buildings burned while their roads were soaked with blood. These primitive, unaugmented creatures had somehow come under the belief that they deserved a spot among our systems. How naive. We let some flee, for they would go home, and following them would be our punishment. \n\nWe tracked 4 ships heading out ... | 1 | |
[WP] You find a chest at the bottom of a shallow river. Inside is a single piece of paper with the words, DON’T LOOK BEHIND YOU! | [
"I remember when I was a kid. A whole 8 years old, knee high to a grasshopper little sprat, I decided I was big enough to go play at the river with my best friend, Peter, by ourselves. \n\nAfter pleading with Mom for about 20 minutes, she finally agreed so long as I was back well before dark. She even made sure I t... | 1 | |
[WP] During a routine job, a Hitman for a certain organisation goes missing. Three weeks later the organisation finds him and is eager to have them back on the job. The only problem? They have no memory of ever being a trained killer. | [
"Posting in two parts because the whole thing is too long. That and the cut is in a really nice place.\n\n---\n\n“Haven’t seen you around here before. You new in town?”\n\nThe cashier sheepishly scratches the back of his head.\n\n“Sort of, I suppose? I got into some trouble, and the old couple who own this store” h... | 1 | |
[WP] As the supporting character is supposed to die, fans do not want that. Thus they enter the world to save the support character. | [
"Luke breathed a sigh of relief. After the amount of energy he just expended to hold off Kylo until his sister could escape, he felt weak, but...strangly satisfied. He had overcome his fear and doubt, and though he wasn't sure if he reached his nephew in a way that would change his way of thinking, he was at peace ... | 1 | |
Edit: i meant the poking fun at with mild humor kind of roasting guys. good effort on the first guy who wrote the prompt though. | [WP]With Humans being new to the space fairing civilization scene the council soon learn about a Human ritual called Roasting and they are curious about how it is done. They may have chosen unwisely. | [
"The council sat around the deep earth-dug pit, fear on their faces at the spectacle before them.\n\nThe Arthrax called it *oomphar* .\n\nThe Polonivs called it *ontolo* .\n\nBut many of them had never seen this terrifying chemical reaction, which the Hommus called *Fire* .\n\nAs so many of the council cowered at t... | 1 |
[WP] The year is 2030, after the discovery of a parallel earth, you lead the team that makes first contact. Very soon discovering that since early man, this earths population has been forcing its own evolution. | [
"\"Like us, but different.\" That's what the first images were captioned when NASA released the first images from their new LIDEX50 probe. The resulting press conference was a fury of reporters so full of questions that little information was actually divulged. The engineers, the technicians, the launch operators, ... | 1 | |
[WP]The nuclear holocaust wiped out 99% of humans, but also mutated other species into sentient beings. The world reverted to a medieval age where humans were far from the dominant species. The humans still had memories and knowledge of their technology, and weren't ready to cede rule of the planet. | [
"The firing had stopped around 10 minutes ago. The bombardment had left the the originally lush farmland an inhospitable hellscape,the fertile lands were completely covered in ash. Which the man in submerged wooden structure would suppose might not be so bad since ash was supposedly good for the farming soil...or s... | 3 | |
[WP] Its 2525, it has been 400 years since humans discovered the cure for aging. 300 years back, thet have decided that only smart, beautiful and athletic humas are only qualified to breed. And you are the offspring of the top female and male, but you are not what they expect you to be. | [
"The first thing I hear upon waking is the ever-present hum of the operating room. Bandages cover my head and press against my eyelids so that I can make out nothing more than vague shapes fluttering around my bed. One of them fades from view and then looms up suddenly to hover over me. I know exactly who it is, an... | 1 | |
[WP] Bigfoot was proven to be real years ago, and it turns out it is much more intelligent than we are. | [
"The crunch of the sticks under my feet, and the fresh air in my face on the cool spring evening was just the refresher I needed. My wife, Alice, and I walked through the forest near our house. It had become an almost nightly ritual for us to relax after work. \n\n\nWe were both scientists, I worked at a nuclear po... | 3 | |
[WP] Everything changed when the rest of the universe vanished from our sight. We waited years; desperately hoping for a signal or a sign of what we once knew. One dark night, for the first time in decades, a point of light appears in the starless sky. | [
"We felt cold. Not from freezing temperatures, but rather from the ominous chill that settled within. The type that made our hearts beat with painful anticipation, the one born from being abandoned and lost. As if my heart dug deep into me, hollowing me out, making room for the cold to nestle even further. Each bea... | 1 | |
[WP] A man and a super intelligent snail both become immortal, however the man will die if the snail touches him. You are that snail... | [
"Sudden awareness is excruciatingly uncomfortable. Doubly so when that awareness comes with sensory faculties you did not before possess. There I was, minding my own business, chewing on a particularly lovely leaf from my favorite dandelion, when I was quite suddenly struck with the knowledge that I existed. This w... | 2 | |
[WP] Write either a genuinely nice story or a story that looks nice and then has an unexpected turn. Don't let any people reading know which you wrote until the end. | [
"I sit down at my seat, and quill my pen in ink. Death is an odd thing, and being beyond it is just as odd. I've always been a doctor, and in death that never changed. \n\nOnce dead, a person never loses their injury. They wander a mist, looking for others. Buildings form, but purpose is lost. A doctor I've always ... | 9 | |
[WP]You accidentally invent a time machine when trying to fix your microwave. | [
"\"C'mon you piece of junk!\"\n\nA loud thud can be heard as johnny slaps the side of his microwave.\n\n\"Why *thud* won't *thud* yo-\"\n\nIn burst of blue energy jonny's form is blown back onto his back, catching the microwave as he lands.\n\n\"Wha-\"\n\nJohnny leans up\n\n\"WE DO NOT YEILD, YAARRR\"\n\nA screami... | 1 | |
[WP] The monsters under beds and in closets are fallen guardian angels who couldn't deal with their wards any longer. As far as monsters go, yours is pretty tame. Instead of the classical scares, he recounts tales of his past wards that's driven him to haunting children instead of protecting them. | [
"It is a heavy thing, to be entrusted with the care of a child. To be the guardian against the shadow, to wield a flaming sword against the terrors of the night. An unseen, invisible protector against the evils of the Dark.\n\nIt is a heavy thing, and a joyous honour. To stand watch, night after night, over a singl... | 1 | |
[WP] You are an isolated necromancer who uses his necrotic powers to make the neighboring village safe. One day an angry mob from that same village comes to slay the evil necromancer. | [
"“Your skeleton legions burned our crops!” shouted Hregga the Miller of the village of Bren. The other villagers in mobbed yelled an assent.\n\n“It was a controlled burn,” I replied flatly. “There was an infestation of Creeping Killer that was growing towards the town and I made sure it stopped at the burn line.” I... | 1 | |
[WP] For years you have been plagued by grand mal seizures, striking at the most inopportune times as you walk. Then during one of your 'episodes', you realize you being shaken awake | [
"That was a day like the others. I was walking toward the office, since driving a car is too dangerous to me, and I didn't feel like taking the bus.\n\nI suddenly felt something familiar, a small pinch on my shoulders\n\n*here we go again* I thought.\n\nI stop by a bench and sit down, waiting for the seizure.\nAnd ... | 1 | |
[WP] All Gods exist. The only reason we haven't heard from them in the last 2000 years is because they are too busy fighting for our survival. And they are losing. | [
"The enemy was weak. How could we lose? Their flanks unguarded, their medicine inferior and their rations laughable. We sent the best we could.\n\nAnd now, as I gaze at the bleeding horizon, I am left with only the sinking realization of humanity's downfall.\n\nThis is no mistake. Our Gods are the strongest of all ... | 16 | |
[WP] Humans, dwarves, and elves coexisted for centuries until a plague wiped out the human race. At least that's what you, an Elven historian teach, until your dwarf roommate brings back a human child from his hike in the middle of nowhere. | [
"Taek was soaked, even though he was wearing a thick aurochs hooded cloak. He hated to catch a rain, and this one was particularly heavy. He was in such a hurry that the boy that held his hand had trouble keeping up with him; it is not common to a human to move as fast as a dwarf is on a hilly terrain. However, he ... | 1 | |
[WP] In their civilian lives, the superhero and super villain are unknowingly good friends. | [
"Here's my entry. \n\n\nThe numbers on Anna’s phone slowly decreased as each second passed. She would kill her best friend today. One hour and twenty nine minutes remained. Anna knew this would be the last conversation she would ever have with the person she felt was her soulmate. Not the romantic kind, but more li... | 1 |
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