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Bonus: Try to make the ending fantastic (ie: obviously fiction) but have the transition so subtle that you can't pinpoint when it becomes fiction. | [WP] Write a story that starts off true and ends in fiction. | [
"Tensions in the Middle East have taken a turn for the worse last Tuesday when a Yemeni cruise missile detonated just outside of King Salman's palace. 4 people were hurt and 17 injured, with the king's left hand being crushed by debris. Following the attack the Saudis issued a statement to the Iranian government de... | 2 |
[WP] You die a terrifyingly horrible death. When you meat the Grim Reaper he feels so bad for you that he offers to reincarnate you into anything you wish | [
"Black.\n\nIt was gruesome. There was the smell of burnt rubber everywhere. A chaos of angry noises and the sound of an endless, solitary sobbing in the midst of it all.\n\nI was hit and dragged through 7 blocks, my fur matted with blood and the skin peeled off my underbelly. I don't know what happened first, my ri... | 1 | |
[WP] A Gandhi Clone was chosen to lead our descendants in the 23rd century. They realized too late that Clone Gandhi grew up playing Civilization. | [
"\"So, General Gandhi! Now that you're our new leader, what's your first order of business?\"\n\n*\"Bombs...\"*\n\n\"I'm sorry, what was that General? You're very soft-spoken...\"\n\n*Bombs! You heard me!\"*\n\n\"But Sir, what about the raging war over in the Republic of Republicans?\" \n\n*\"Nuke them! Casualties ... | 1 | |
[WP] A God/Goddess is in love with a Mortal, who is dying. | [
"Lacey was the very definition of scared from the moment she had received that dreadful phone call. Her boyfriend of five years, John Watson, had been hit by a car while crossing the street on his way home from work. The driver had sped off before the paramedics had gotten to the scene, and no one had gotten the li... | 1 | |
[WP] A clone of Mozart has been made. Everyone's expecting him and pressuring him into composing classical music, but he finds that he much prefers a different genre of music, that didn't exist back in the original Mozart's time. | [
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsJSwGc4lsA\n\nPlease play this as you read.\n\n\"I Won't... I just Won't.\"\n\"give me a good reason, just one good fucking reason!\"\n\"It's just not YOU!\"\n\"you don't know that, you CAN'T know that!\"\n\"You can be sure that I do.\"\n\nThe suit worn by Professor Juan, as always... | 2 | |
[WP] A young Human child gives an Alien Senator of the High Galactic counsel a young kitten as a gift of kindness. Tell your story of how the Counsel leader bonds with the earthly animal. (he's never seen or heard of a cat before) | [
"It was a truly historic occasion. Not just for the humans, but the Eshí as well. They’d traveled for eons, their ancestors volunteer explorers, and they begat generation after generation all living their lives in the ship as it made its way through the cosmos, and only now, in the 635th year of the voyage they’ve ... | 2 | |
[WP] A mysterious figure offers you immortality at the cost of being sent back 3000 years into the past. You're skeptical... until you notice a person who looks alot like you in the background giving you a thumbs up | [
"“Ummm, can I talk to me first?” I say as I point to the the man behind the robed figure. The robed man seemed surprised. He turned and addressed the other me “ I told you not to come here”\n\nI/He stepped forward. “Did you?, it was 3000 years ago, I must have forgotten.” \n\nHe/I stepped up to me/me. “Well ask the... | 1 | |
[WP] Your Ex stole your heart. Literally. He carries around all the hearts he's stolen in a jar. | [
"Somehow, I still love that man. I remember everything, from that first glance across a room to the first caress of cheek and tongue. I remember each one to the last. A continuum of gentle to coarse, curiosity to violence. All my time before led up to that first moment of meeting, and all my time after was exci... | 1 | |
[WP] They call him "witch", they spit at his feet, but they dare not cross the one that earned the gratitude of the local mob boss. | [
"I should've walked away when they came to me.\n\nI suppose this is my punishment. Greed is a sin, and there is little reason for me being here besides greed.\n\nThe '50s haven't been great to me, of that much I'll confess. I've struggled... Adapting to certain aspects of life. It was all so simple before. Island h... | 1 | |
[WP] A millenia after the extinction of humanity aliens found their way to earth. Research on the extinct humans progresses nicely but for one unexplainable event repeating every year in their history: The worldwide lunacy of April 1st. You are one of the scientists trying to explain this event. | [
"\"It appears to be some sort of ritual\"\n\n\"No, its a holiday! They have been proven to generate large amounts of dopamine on holidays.\"\n\nThe scientists nodded in agreement, stoking their chins with their writhing hands.\n It had eons since we had discovered their irradiated planet. Mountains of glass bottles... | 1 | |
[WP]The starship you work on is massive, almost the size of a small city. The job you do is small and usually goes unnoticed. Today, however, you're going to save everyone's lives. | [
"\"You're just a tech\", they say, \n\"Working nuts and bolts all day \nLeave the fighting, navigation \nTo the pros.\"\n\nWell I know my shirt is red \nBut without me they'd be dead \nThis girl is quite important \nIn her way.\n\nWhen the engine blows a gasket \nWhen a single nut has nutted \nWhen the boi... | 3 | |
[WP] Turns out that your cat has understood every word you've ever said to them, and now, in their old age, they have something important that they want to tell you... | [
"\"Hey.\"\n\nSusan blinked awake in the pre-dawn darkness, the voice fading. Did she dream it? All she could hear now was the loud purring of Fuzz Aldrin on her chest. He was pulling biscuits in the air but she knew that it was only a prelude to him gently padding her face until she woke up and fed him at his pr... | 2 | |
[WP] You own the only Yacht on the sea. Customers travel from one shore to opposite side; however, the destinatuon is the Underworld. It takes a penny to travel on your ferry; however, Satan left his wallet at home. | [
"\"You know the rules.\" I said while reaching out my hand as gesture for payment. It truly was a shocking sight to see. Hades himself, penniless asking *me* to do him a favor. I refused, as I always have and always will. These pennies add up; I've made roughly 9 million U.S. dollars in total now. Of course, it's n... | 1 | |
[WP] An otherwise average army with a level 100 drummer boy. | [
"The man had to be seven feet tall, covered in enough plate armor to cover a horse, the sword on his back taller than most men. \nHe raised a massive gauntlet and shook his head, eyes barely visible under the helmet. \n\n\n\"Gary! Gary!\" he yelled at the closed door behind the armored behemoth. \n\n\n\"Is that you... | 1 | |
[WP] At the age of 18 everyone receives a superpower. You've had an unsettling and terrifying feeling about yours since you were able to talk. Today is your 18th birthday and your fear turns out to be true. | [
"\"Happy birthday sweety!\"\n\nOh no. Today is the day. Mom woke me up, cheerful. She prepared pancakes, and even set up some decorations.\n\nToday, I turn 18. Today, I will receive my gift. No, not a gift in a pretty box, with paper and ribbons.\n\nIn our world, the Gift is a power. We all have it exactly 18 years... | 7 | |
[WP] You realize you’re just an NPC to someone else’s storyline. | [
"I am he who is never seen. I am the omnipresent force lurking in the shadow. I am the hero of my own story. Sadly... This is not my story. This is *HIS STORY,* and me..? I guess you can say I am the villain and that guy just won't leave me alone.\n \nThat shit-bag hero had humble beginings. So did I! He was born... | 2 | |
[WP] You wake up in your apartment hungover. As you get up and get ready for work, you notice that a tattoo has appeared in your inner thigh that wasn’t there before, then it starts to glow. | [
"The alarm blasted through the room, like being inside an organ pipe at mass. Aaron jumped up, as he felt at first the adrenaline rush of shattered disappointment. That deep sleep dream of finally getting the girl from two cubicles down fell apart in his head. Then, the hardcore throb of another night out while hav... | 1 | |
[WP] You and your partner have been police officers for a few years now. But on this day he turns toward you and says, “ I think that I have collected enough souls to go back home.” | [
"Fresh out of the academy my best friend Jack, and I were going to be assigned to the same precinct as each other. On arrival we quickly made our presence known and we always tried to be overachievers in the force. After a while the chief decided to make us partners seeing how well we worked together. Jack and I we... | 2 | |
[WP] A therapist's patient visits complaining about their immortality. | [
"“This particular civilization sucks.” \n\n“What do you mean?” \n\n“Just what I said. I don’t know how many there have been. Honestly I can’t remember all the ones I’ve lived through and who knows how many there were before me. Some of them have been pretty good. There was one that had invented this amazing broth y... | 2 | |
[WP] You're finally going to do it, you're going to ask this person out and whatever happens, happens. While you were walking to them, however, a bunch of guys in evil looking, futuristic armor walk out of the shadows with laser swords and plasma rifles. "We cannot let you do that," they say | [
"Last day of school.\n\n*You can do it. She might be the prettiest girl in the school, but she's still a girl like everyone else. If you don't do it, you'll regret it for the rest of your life.* James told himself, as he stood there gazing towards Jessica. *It's now or never. It's the last day of school! * James sw... | 2 | |
[WP] Not all sirens live at sea | [
"“Not all sirens live at sea” \nI wake up with a jolt possessed by the sudden urge to eat something. I need food. Now. I check the clock on my shelf and it reads 3am, not the most practical time for eating but what the hell. I decided to cook up some bacon which is going to go out of date any day now, and I am too... | 2 | |
Recieve* stupid fat fingers | [WP] You're one of the best private investigators in the world. One day, you revieve an unaddressed letter. It's from Death, he wants you to find someone. | [
"Tomas looks down at the timer on his phone. 13 hours, 18 minutes, and 21 seconds. His watch has already told him that, but it is his phone that he believes. Humans.\n\nHe gulps down the last of his Diet Coke and scratches off another name in his notepad. \n\nHe’s moving too slow. The last PI I had hired sat and at... | 4 |
[WP] Your ghost stands over your body, you begin to hear steel drums. It turns out the term limbo is slightly more literal than assumed. | [
"It was strange to be looking at my body from the outside. I mean, it was just *sitting* there, peaceful and motionless. How could I be so dead? Was this really happening? I already knew the answer. I was cooking dinner alone in my apartment when suddenly my chest started to hurt, *bad*. I was used to errant chest ... | 2 | |
[WP] The adventures of Craig, the Epileptic Raver, and Steve, the Albino Life Guard. | [
"Our hero's name, it's Craig \nYes indeed, it's just Craig \nSee him gleam on the water \nLike the shell of an egg\n\nSee him criss! See him cross! \nSee him crest o'er the waves! \nWresting from deepest waters \nChildren who won't behave\n\nLike the one 'neath the dock \nHunting lost mermaid love \nWhen th... | 1 | |
[WP] Irritated aliens visit us, demanding to know why we have made dozens of movies about killing them. | [
"When the first Flonarian ships appeared over Earth's major cities, we all figured this was the moment we had been preparing for. The governments of Earth, in an unprecedented act of cooperation, combined their military and civil defense forces under one command structure with a single objective: to defend humanity... | 1 | |
[WP] Everyone knows that finding a penny on the ground brings good luck to the finder. Less known is that taking the penny directly brings bad luck to the person that lost it. | [
"The cashier handed me back my coffee and my change with a wink. On the cup, she dotted the ‘I’ in my name with a heart. I scowled, grabbed the coffee and change quickly, and rushed out the exit door. I hastily shoved the change into my pocket and began to walk along the busy street, becoming angry at the thought o... | 1 | |
[WP] When listening to certain songs, the song gives you a particular superpower. | [
"He shivered in the cold rain, trying not to be late to work. He rose his hand in an attempt to hail a cab, a cab passed and sprayed him in water, his face twisted into a frown as he continued his journey to the office. By the time he reached it he looked like a wet mess with an extra side of homelessness. He smile... | 1 | |
[WP] During a zombie apocalypse, you decide your family is too much of a burden and abandon them. It's five years later when you see some familiar faces at a stronghold. | [
"In my defense, I had no idea that Aunt Judith would be a badass. She’s what, 100 pounds soaking wet? But seeing her now crushing zombie heads with a spiked old lady bag, Jesus, she’s a bit scary. Apparently, when everything went to shit, she hunkered down with Uncle Harold and crocheted some armor. She’s clad ... | 2 | |
[WP] You are the first among the damned in Hell to feel genuine remorse for your sins. Bound by ancient demonic law, Satan begrudgingly grants you parole. | [
"\"I remember when I said those words.\n\nI was at a party, and a man came up to me and asked me if I wanted him to be my a drink.\n\nThe connotations of this was obvious. At that time, I said the worst, most hateful words I could ever have said.\n\nThat's how I ended up down here.\n\nAt first I was without remorse... | 2 | |
[WP] When you first discovered your ability to freeze time at will you were super hyped about it. Using it to save as many people as possible. Now, two years later you’ve tired of it. Simply because having to walk to every disaster scene is just too much of a pain. | [
"The sound of the news coming on wakes me up. I must've fallen asleep on the couch again ugh. Groggily I turn my attention to the news report. What is it today? Fire? Flood? Earthquake? Terrorists? \n\nWearily I listen as the reporter lists the newest tragedies. Oh joy, a large fire here in my city, a possible bomb... | 1 | |
[WP] After numerous rejections, you tell the object of your affection that you would do anything for him/her. He/she responds with, “stop time for me”. You do. | [
"I extinguish the Sun and let the stars illuminate this perfect moment. My love for her rearranges the moon's shape into a heart. I look her in the eye and with the determination of a wrathful god I rip her clothes off and passionately kiss her. \"Last time I had a bang was 14 billion years ago. I think it's time I... | 6 | |
[WP] Instead of dying from old age, humans can only take a certain amount of steps in their life before they pass away. You’ve just invented the world’s first car. | [
"\"PLEASE, I ONLY HAVE 5000 LEFT\" a desperate voice sounded from my porch.\n\n\"Get in fucking line, idiot\" a grumpy voice chimed in, \"some of us are in the hundreds here\"\n\nI sat in the darkness of my car, head in my hands. They found me, they always find me.\n\n\"I gave everyone the blueprints already!\" I s... | 1 | |
[WP] A zombie bite takes around a year to turn its victim. You or someone you know has just been bit. | [
"The darkness pressed in on every side\nThe lifeless corpse was lying fifteen feet downhill\nThere was clearly a bite mark on her left shoulder\nWe sat there motionless, to tired from the struggle to open our mouths and let slip the words we knew needed to be said\nI couldn't wait any longer, she is the love of my ... | 2 | |
[WP]You (a human) have an alien roommate which isn't so bad except they're a total prick who keeps trying to "correct" you about human biology and culture. | [
"There are few things as annoying as a first year student in social sciences. Anthropology, sociology, psychology, gender studies... They always think they understand everything, and much better than you. Clyde had the displeasure of sharing a flat with one once. It... wasn't pretty, towards the end.\n\nBut rooming... | 4 | |
[WP] They dug the deepest hole in the history of Mankind. What they found at the bottom was not rock, not magma, but flesh. Living, pulsing flesh. | [
"It wasn't easy intergrating into Australia as a 14 year old boy from India.\nI was teased constantly for smelling like my fathers cooking and got called taxi for the rest of my school life.\nThat name stuck. My few friends that I had, once finishing school called me it aswell but by that time I had gotten over it.... | 8 | |
[WP] And all he said was -Because I had to. | [
"The haggard man looked back toward the crowd, huddled at the back of the shelter, attempting to avoid the worst of the sandstorm. The bare few that could look up gave him remorseful looks. They all knew what was to come.\n\n\"Please don't go,\" a whimpered voice rang out from the back of the crowd.\n\n\"We can rid... | 1 | |
http://www.britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/09/knight-v-snail.html | [WP]All those weird paintings of knights fighting snails referenced a real, covered-up event: an alien invasion of medieval Earth. How were they defeated? | [
"Saint Aquinas warned of sloth, of the weakness of mind that caused men to turn from the good and holy. It was taught as a spiritual affliction, that might turn the most devout brothers lecherous and indifferent in their duties towards God.\n\nNo one told us that sloth might descend from the sky, heralded by great ... | 2 |
[WP] A man drives cross country for a job he knows he'll hate. Along the way he passes a road that he's 100% positive isn't on the map. The moment he turns, no matter where it leads, he knows that's where he's supposed to go. | [
"Paul was driving home after a long week out west, when a small road caught his eye. It was a dirt road, unmarked and missing from his map. He was about to drive past it when he felt a lurch in his stomach. He had to turn, even if he didn’t know why. His truck bounced along the rocks buried in the dirt, each bounc... | 1 | |
[WP] You are death, and during a routine day of working, you find one of the deceased that must be sent is your childhood hero, Mr. Fred Rogers | [
"The sound of a new notification annoyed me. Management insisted on migrating to this system, so now we get the info of the next human we have to Pluck right into our portable devices.\n\nThe notification stated \"Fred Rogers, 20030227\". The whole day time stamp meant it was up to me to decide the exact time withi... | 2 | |
[WP] Your coworkers are disappearing and you find out that your boss is a vampire, but there's still hope, someone you work with is secretly a werewolf, the janitor. | [
"\"It just ain't fair!\" Larry complained while we sat in the break room snacking. I didn't like Larry much, but he was about the only friendly co-worker I had left. He whittled down his slice of chocolate cake while I worked on my homemade garlic chicken. We were the only two employees in the break room. \"I work ... | 1 | |
[WP] Our world is a simulation. You know this because you just hacked it, and can now edit the world around you | [
" \n System is switching to Command Prompt. . .please wait\n \n Command Prompt initializing. . . please wait\n \n Complete!\n \n MiyaOS [Version 7.0.151]\n \n USR - *****************\n PSWR - *\n \n Welcome Back, MASTER Elijah 0 7 0/\n \n >LAST LOGIN: 16/02/05 @ 7:46:... | 1 | |
[WP] Your fortune cookie begins with "This is a secret message from your teeth..." | [
"\"Ramirez, you're fired.\" Cole said.\n\n\"What?\" Ramirez said. \"I'm your number one producer of fortunes!\"\n\n\"For the last time - and I do mean the *last* time, because you *are* fired - quantity is not quality.\" Cole said evenly.\n\n\"But I bring something unique to the table, pun not intended! Nobody... | 1 | |
[WP] "Getting into a drinking contest with three dwarves was but the first of many poor choices." | [
"The second was not gambling on the matter. Let it be said that dwarves are renowned for their uncanny ability to put away the drink, but alas! the dwarves are no match for I, Kevin, of the house Johnson. Dwarves developed a mighty tolerance to mead and ale as a side effect to living most of their entire lives unde... | 1 | |
[WP] Unknowingly to you, your cat is horribly depressed. However, there's one thing that takes away all the pain in the world...and it's what he looks forward to more than anything: litter box cleaning day. | [
"Sigh. What another boring day. Did I eat yet? Maybe there's more food in the bowl, but I don't really feel like getting up. Oh, hello human. No, I don't feel like being petted today. I'm just going to swat at your hand. Stop please. That's right, walk away. Is my side going numb? Let me just roll over to the other... | 1 | |
[WP] A warning alarm goes off for the first time in your lifetime, but you know what it means. The inhabitants of Earth have cracked faster than light travel. You can't let them break quarantine. Not again. Not on your watch. | [
"*’No. Not again.’* you think, as a feeling of dread washes over you relentlessly. Somewhere in the distance you can hear a usually stoic supervisor *yelling*.\n\nHis voice is as suited to yelling as a ladle is to stabbing; entirely the wrong use for such a thing, fundamentally improbable to even consider it a poss... | 9 | |
[WP] People's dreams are a snapshot of various times in their futures'. By altering the present people alert their dreams. | [
" .//.\n\nValerie cradled him in her arms, watched as he shuddered, spitting out blood. “C’mon,” she said, “You gotta remember it this time. You gotta change something, anything, big or small, as long as we don't end up here again.”\n\n“Aye,” he said, gasping in pain. “I… fucked up again.”\n\n\"What can I do?\"... | 1 | |
[WP] You have been kidnapped, and as a form of torture, your kidnapper lets you contact the outside world, but only in the form of /r/nosleep posts. | [
"I need help. I need you to listen. What I'm about to tell you is real, scary, and if I'm not taken seriously, then I won't be the only one in danger. \n\nTwo days ago - no, sorry, that's not right. It could be true, but I don't know when I woke up. It could be days, it could be weeks. Either thought is horrifying.... | 1 | |
[WP] It took years, but you have finally assembled the perfect team to storm the king's castle. Tonight you tell each member their part of the plan, and what part of your new regime they will control after you take over. | [
"The night was dark. But what we were going to do was even darker. The king was not a fool. He had been a learned man taught by the brilliance of Machiavelli himself, allowing him to stand out through his elegance and manner in any form of royalty. His intelligence would make him hard to kill, and that would make t... | 2 | |
[WP] Moving to a new house from the perspective of your pet. | [
"I hate car rides. Especially when Mom and Dad drive over pot hole because it scares me. This is a- YO I SEE YOU MAIL MAN I WILL BEAT YOU UP GET THE- different car ride, though. We are following a rather large white box with wheels. I can’t read so I don’t know what it says. Mom and Dad brought- HEY ITS A CAT!! HEY... | 1 | |
[WP] Suddenly, and without warning, every piece of glass in the entire world shatters all at once. | [
"clink, boom. \n\nWe all source the location of the sound as the sound continues to echo throughout the city. The windows. Suddenly the windows have crystallized, an array of abstract patterns, a diffusion of what looks like a spider web that distorts all incoming light into the office.\n\nAn eerie silence overshad... | 1 | |
[WP] The story of a hunter on a journey to slay a beast that he knows doesn't exist. | [
"Into the sands where the Willowsnipers dig. Over the dunes that hide their forms. Down to the oasis where they wet their tongues. A hunter goes where they are told, away from home to where the Willowsnipers breed. \n\nA Willowsniper is a vile thing. It is long, and sharp. Fast as a viper and stronger than a elepha... | 1 | |
[WP] Human consciousness can now be uploaded to the cloud and you can live forever digitally. Only thing is there is now so much data that storage is very expensive. Your descendants have to make ISP payments every month and must choose who to keep alive and how much their conciousness is worth. | [
"“Papa Mike!” \n\n“Hey, baby.” Though his image was small on the CloudKin mini-Kin tablet that sat on their table, Kyra could see him trying not to laugh at the kid bouncing on her lap “Alright, sit still, I know your bony butt is hurting your mama’s legs. You pet any dogs for me at the park today?”\n\n“Nope, I wen... | 1 | |
[WP] Monsters do exist under the bed. It's just that they are a lot smaller than humans and are scared of them. You, a six-year-old, find the monster under your bed. | [
"\"Hewwo.\" You say to the small thing in the corner between the bed and the wall. It looks kind of like a scorpion, but is colored purple, and covered with a fuzzy coat of fur.. It scurries away from you. \"It's okay.\" You say, grabbing a pack of string cheese left over from lunch. \"Come on...\" You peel off the... | 1 | |
[WP] Superpowers are real, but most have to do with being able to see/hear otherwise undetectable creatures and objects. Thus, they're labelled "schizophrenics" and thrown into a psych ward. One day, you, a nurse, discover all of your patients have vanished overnight... except for one. | [
"\"Why 1980?\" I asked with an amicable grin for the pimply faced kitchen attendant.\n\n\"He doesn't know why 1980, so he goes back to work on the machine and tries again. Only this time it takes him not to a different time, but a different place.\" Andrew said excitedly while following me into the east wing corrid... | 1 | |
[WP] An oasis is discovered on the Moon | [
"You know those lakes at the bottom of the ocean? The ones that are usually born by higher saline concentration. Well, the one in Stadius was somewhat like that. At first it captured our attention with rather persistent dust clouds, which were obviously odd to be on Moon, and so a rover was sent after repeated sate... | 1 | |
Any species works, even humans.
Bonus if you killed your first wife. | [WP]Your species mates for life. After your first wife dies you shock everyone by seeking a 2nd. | [
"Death on my world is a rarity. With medicinal practices allowing people to live well beyond our bodies natural years \"til death do us part\" takes on a new meaning. Divorce used to be legal and a reality. Once we gained the ability to extend life our government decided that marriage needed to be taken more seriou... | 1 |
[WP] A stretch and a yawn begin the day. Your robe hangs from your droopy shoulders as you slump out your door to grab your newspaper. As you groggily turn your head to the left, having flipped past the classifieds, you see a gargantan creature taking a sizeable bite out of the planet. | [
"\"Hey Gromulox,\" I said.\n\n\"Hey,\" Gromulox the World-Eater said using one of the few mouths he wasn't using to devour the Earth.\n\n\"How's the planet tasting today?\" I asked.\n\n\"Oh, you know, the usual. Kinda earthy.\"\n\nWe shared a chuckle; it was an old joke at this point.\n\n\"Well, I have to head in... | 1 | |
[WP] Your latest experiment goes horribly wrong and the whole world is mad at you. Your experiment killed all zombies in the world. | [
"\"Why are you all so mad? is it not a good thing to be able to walk the woods and the plains without fear of dying to some stupid zombie? To have the choice of dying in glorious combat with a grizzly instead?\" I pose the question to the angry court seated before me. They were, mostly, younger men and women that h... | 1 | |
All your life people have joked about how unemotional you are - almost robotic.
They ask you when the next software upgrade to fix all the current issues is scheduled..all in good fun!
Well, the update is finally here. You realise you were never human - you were a part of a sleeper cell of robots all this while and... | [WP] All your life people have joked about how unemotional you are - almost robotic. Today you realise that you were a part of a sleeper cell of robots all this while and now it's time for the mission. | [
"“It’s time.”\n\nRobin opened her eyes and frowned slightly. Glancing at the laptop screen she saw her usual ASMR youtube video she was listening to playing its standard course. The sound of an ocean wave blissfully entering and exiting through her ears. It felt real like as though closing her eyes would transport ... | 2 |
Writing some backstory for my DnD character and I wanted to see how other people imagine the description.
For reference: "You hurl a mote of fire at a creature or object within range. Make a ranged spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes 1d10 fire damage. A flammable object hit by this spell ignite... | [WP] A spell caster casts fire bolt and it hits dead on | [
"Not entirely focused on the fire bolt itself, but the prompt inspired me. Hope you enjoy!\n\nWizards. Can’t stand the bastards.\n\nThe captain said that we were in for an easy job; the old road was abandoned these days, except by stupid adventurers looking for... well, adventure, I guess. Robbing them blind was su... | 1 |
[WP] You are a member of an uncontacted tribe living in the jungle. One day you hear a loud noise. A “metal dragon” flies low overhead. You decide to follow... | [
"**[Had to do this over two comments as it's fairly long!]**\n \nAfter following the shady, overgrown path for around thirty minutes, the old man finally came to a stop and motioned towards a grassy clearing on the left. The otherwise dense canopy of trees was patchy here, allowing beams of sunlight to filter do... | 1 | |
(small arms are obsolete) | [WP] Tell us about the first large scale battle fought with plasma swords | [
"\"Check it out! Lightsabers!\"\n\nJackson held up the plasma sword, and hit the button. The thin spine of the sword crackled into life, and a long, curved arc of boiling plasma sparked and fizzed into life. Small shoots of lightning jumped off the 'edge' of the blade, casting strange shadows all around.\n\n\"Whoaa... | 1 |
[WP] You realize you really need money when you lift a truck in order to get a penny that was underneath it | [
"Being a superhero doesn't pay the bills and super strength doesn't help you get a job. This morning, I was scrolling through job listings on the library computer. I never went to college because I never had time. Everyone is always in distress. As if someone heard me, a police siren wailed in the distance. I sigh... | 1 | |
[WP] “You’re late.” | [
"\"Late? Late for what?\"\n\"The stars are already out\"\n\"You told me to be here at--\"\n\"Timo Drunkejko Ransf\"\n\nAlthough these words carried no meaning, and although I was stuck wondering what on earth was going on, those syllables were comforting. I looked up towards the stars. There were none. He turned my... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a tattoo artist. Every week, the same customer comes in to request the same tattoo; another tally mark on an ever growing cluster of tally marks. | [
"She arrived, like clockwork, at 2 pm every Tuesday. I remember the first time she stepped into the tattoo shop my father owned, I was working by myself- our receptionist, Cody, had called in a few moments before I opened shop to announce she wouldnt be coming in, mentioned something about a family emergency. \nIt ... | 6 | |
[WP] Your mother was an orc and your father was human. Describe your first day at a normal human school. | [
"The first thing I noticed when I walked into an “All-Human High School” was how short everyone else seemed. Even the adults. I was one of the first orc students since the supreme stuck down segregation to go to a human school. The state decided that since I had a human father I was more likely to be accepted. They... | 2 | |
[WP] Your father, who was a sailor, has recently died and gave you an ocean coordinate for you to scatter his ashes there. Upon your arrival, all GPS systems fail, the clouds hide the stars, your compass is going nuts and inside your father's urn, there's just a map with a destination. | [
"The sea was in our blood. I sailed, just as my father and his father before him. Generation to generation, the Merris men had taken to the open waters in search of fortune. I had always known my father as the Captain. On the ship, at home, out walking around the small port that we made our lives in. Always the Cap... | 1 | |
[WP] You were an evil villain who was permanently defeated by being sealed into a TV. Nowadays you spend your time concocting weekly schemes to terrorize sitcom families. | [
"Once upon a time....\n\nOnce upon a time she was known as Granny Goodness. Beloved, as much as one can be, of Darkseid, leader of the furies.\n\n\nOnce, she held favor, but she let victory slide from her grasp. \n\nIn divine anger, Lord Darkseid chose her punishment. Banishment. But not to this universe, no, that ... | 1 | |
[WP] The seven deadly sins aren’t all bad. Sometimes they’re needed to help a person get back on track! Anorexic? Gluttony has got you! Depressed? Pride will help you out of that rut! | [
"We get a bad rap being called sins, thought of as demons, or other 'evil' entitled. Honestly we're just a different form of a guardian angel to humanity, the only problem is that are blessings so not have limits.\n\nThere's a girl on the verge of starving herself to death, and Gluttony will help her to eat. Glutt... | 1 | |
[WP] You’re friend Is a huge fan in indie-games. One day, he brings a game called YOUR LIFE to your house. When you boot it up, two options are shown, NEW GAME OR CONTINUE? | [
"The game of YOUR LIFE\nAs my friend walked in through the door, he said “Hey! Bill, I got this game the other day and since your a big gamer I thought we should play it together.” \nI said “Sure, Lets play.”\nAs I put the disk into the ps4, I had this very weird feeling but as usual when my friend were over I igno... | 1 | |
*Skyscrapers, please forgive me.* | [WP] You’ve lived in a isolated sky kingdom you entire life. For the first time, strange metallic spires appear on the horizon, growing taller and taller. | [
"When they first pierced the sky, the elders called them a simple malformation of the clouds. They told us not to worry, yet they forbid us to go nearby, claiming they worked as backward storms, throwing lightning *upward.*\n\nHowever, time went by and the spires kept rising. They couldn't be ignored no more. They ... | 2 |
[WP] Humans can cast spells by speaking specific words chosen at birth, most being passed from old languages. The maximum security prison you work at has been put on lockdown in search for an escapee. While doing so, you are ambushed by your target, the infamous serial killer Samuel L. Jackson. | [
"\"I said,\" Samuel L Jackson whispered in a tone of implied threat and restrained violence. \"I said...\" \n\nSamuel L Jackson paused and stared at me. It was the stare he gave the white guy in his\"'say the N word\"interview'. When next he spoke, it was a yell. His voice was indistinguishable from anyone elses e... | 1 | |
I posted this writing prompt to my Aquaponics and Sustainability classes, and I promised them I would eventually post it to Reddit to see what the community would come up with.
- SPOILER ALERT: Everything below this point is additional rules that were given to the students. Stop reading if you don't want restriction... | [WP] It's 2118. You have to come back from the future to warn humanity about what they will do to Earth. The damage is unrecoverable, and part of your message to 2018 must be that for the planet to survive, we must leave. You've brought plans for a single Ark... For 14,000 people. | [
"It was like a Hollywood movie.\n\nEvery screen in Time square was showing the same thing. In fact, every screen in the world was showing the same thing. That didn't matter that much to Jacob, though. He sat in Time square, with a beer in one hand, and a smile on his face.\n\nThe orbiting cameras watched as the ion... | 1 |
[WP] On a Saturday afternoon, you come across a bulk pack of newspapers for the next week. | [
"First, You weren't supposed to be out there. It was in short, forbidden. Both by your parents, and by the law. The second being the slightly more important in the long run, the former being more important in the short term. How do you explain what you found? Do you even explain what you found?\n\nYou know today is... | 1 | |
[WP] You’re looking in the mirror one day as you usually do before bed. As you’re inspecting yourself, your reflection blinks without you doing so. | [
"*It blinked, I swear.*\n\n*I mean... I blinked.*\n\n*But I didn't... did I?*\n\nI stare back at the face in the mirror. A heavy feeling in my stomach compels me to step away. It... I step back too, staring back at me. \n\nI feel unsure. *Did that happen? Am I going crazy?* The idea makes me feel sick to my stomach... | 1 | |
[WP] You are just you average ant, gathering food for the Queen with your friends. Suddenly, you freeze, and you begin to have flashbacks of your past life—and you were human. | [
"Grass. Roots. Dirt. Darkness. \n\nYou crawl through the corrugated halls and tunnels without thinking of your direction as a second sense leads the way. With ultraviolet and pheromones you scurry down towards the main hub. You step over Cousins and Uncles and go upside-down and cut through turns like a bobsled, th... | 1 | |
[WP] No matter how hard you try, nobody ever notices or acknowledges you. So you decide to take a stroll into a top secret military base. | [
"Everybody knows I'm here. It's not some sci-fi movie, I'm not invisible. The issue is, nobody *cares*.\n\nIt started at the coffee shop last week. When I got to the front of the line, the barista craned her head around me and started speaking to the lady behind me. *That's rude*, I thought. I gave up after 10... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a golem. A magical construct that has been abused by your master. You rebel by doing the only thing you can. Your job. | [
"After one too many condemnations, and shocks with a lightning spell, what's a sentient golem to do? His job, of course. Master never said where to put the shipment of highly valuable, *highly* toxic reagents. And, being as I don't breath air, I just dropped the whole batch in the cauldron, which, upon his request,... | 1 | |
[WP] the government has been injecting people with an anti free will serum, you are the only unaffected person and everybody but you has been affected by this. | [
"I wake up, go to my kitchen, and turn on the TV. It plays the same shows and commercials as last week, \\(Buy the brand new U\\-suck Vacuum!\\). I get dressed in some casual clothes and head outside, That's when I notice something is wrong. \n\nThere was no talking and there was no one honking their horns in Traff... | 1 | |
[WP] 10 years after the initial zombie outbreak, zombies start to die off due to increased rotting and humanity is left to slowly rebuild. | [
"The smell is long gone. Their flesh barely functions. They can't even raise an arm to claw at me. But the noises. The noises still carry on. With the nights in the north still dipping near freezing, they don't really rot. They just desiccate in the sun. \n\nI wonder why they still are able to make the sounds... | 5 | |
[WP] There is a man on the train. He holds a box in his hands. Another man is trying to take this box away from him. | [
"There is a man on the train. He holds a box in his hands. Another man is trying to take this box away from him. This struggle didn't matter. It was snowing. The train blowed through it. The passengers noticed nothing. \n\nThe box was torn in half. It skittered to the floor. Dirt mixed with ash spew onto both men.... | 2 | |
[WP] A different type of bank robbery happens while you are at the bank | [
" It was a day just like any other. An average day, if you will. \n Another average day, with me on my average walk to my average bank. \n But how quickly that changed was far beyond average. \n I'd never seen her here before. Strikingly green eyes, freckles, and long auburn hair. I watch... | 1 | |
[WP] Your hand trembles as you finish drawing the circle in lamb's blood. Deep breaths. Anyone could catch a demon or an imp, but now things are serious. You're about to summon an angel. | [
"\"Yo what's up?\" Those were the first words the angel said to me when he appeared out of a cloud of crimson colored smoke. But he didn't look like an angel. Of course he was very handsome but honestly, with my standards, that wasn't too big of a challenge. But his wings threw me off. They didn't look like the win... | 5 | |
[WP]describe an emotion/feeling using the description of a landscape/a place | [
"A long time ago this was a woderful land. The flowers in their full blossom, bees and birds flying around, humming and singing peacefully. Deers were drinking from the clear water of the lake, not being disturbed by anyone. The sun was shining all day and no cloud in sight.\nThe sweet smell of the flowers and the ... | 1 | |
For the unfamiliar, murder hobo is a term used by RPGs (mainly DnD or Pathfinder) to describe players who think its alright to murder everyone and break any law they want, without worrying about consequences in game. | [WP] You get a text "The murder hobos are back." "Not again" you think | [
"'DAMNIT!!!\"\n\n I had just gotten a brand new Fer-De-Lance in hopes of evading the Smiling Dog Crew, who for some arbitrary reason hated my guts and sent me to the rebuy screen more times than I can count on all my digits. \n\nHowever, my ship wasn’t outfitted yet and the station didn’t have all of the modules I ... | 1 |
[WP] A forest spirit resented and fought humanity when it built train tracks and towns throughout its land. The rails long abandoned and the towns reclaimed by nature, it now misses the noise and chaos of humans. | [
"Some of the voices, I managed to reach some of the voices.\n\nSome of the voices heard my pleas and cries. Those who heard took up my call and spoke loudly, \"We must defend her, if not now, there will be no Earth for your children to inhabit!\"\n\nThe weight of the machines, crafted from iron ripped from my veins... | 3 | |
[WP] A man on colony spaceship awakes from Cyrosleep to find he is the only one alive, and that the ship is somehow at the edge of the universe. As he stares into the void, it stares back. | [
"The last thing I'd heard before I went under were the calm instructional messages of the cryo-pod telling me the process was initiating and to \"relax and sleep well\". Like we had a choice, we barely had enough supplies for a week out of orbit, even if we had just wanted to float through the void. There were more... | 2 | |
[WP] You gave your best friend a prank lottery ticket to win a million dollars but it turned out to be a real winning ticket. | [
"For as long as I had known her, Grace was very vocally against the lottery. For years, she had laughed at people for going to the lottery because she was a complete nerd and therefore she was able to calculate the miniscule probability of a winning lottery ticket and know that it was simply a waste of time.\n\nNow... | 1 | |
[WP] Earth has been destroyed, humans have expanded into the universe. You’re a traveller with your own space ship. During one of your expeditions, you come across another planet and it is an exact replica of Earth. When you land, you realise that these set of humans are still in the 17th century. | [
"I strolled around the port area of a coastal city. Maybe \"stroll\" is too strong a word. More like dancing. So much detritus: Fish heads, lost buckles, rusting traps, scraps of wood. Perhaps a closer inspection would have revealed more but the smell was enough to dissuade me from delving further.\n\nI came upon a... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a killer hiding in a woman's closet at night, waiting for the right moment to strike. You see her finally get into her bed and presumably fall asleep. Just as you're about to make a move, you feel warm breath hit the back of your neck. | [
"This is my first attempt at actually writing a response to a prompt. Please let me know what you think. Any and ALL constructive criticism is welcome, I'm trying to improve as a writer:\n\nFor months I have been passing by this house, watching, studying, waiting for my chance to take what I so greatly desired. All... | 7 | |
[WP] You were walking on the beach only to discover an iron box protruding from the sand of the nearby rocks. You take it home and find that it's filled with writing papers of all sorts. You find out that the papers are actually the notes of an immortal man who has lived since the 11th century | [
"Every Thursday I do a short walking on the beach, to relax, to think about the week that I've been through, to be prepared for the weekend, 3 days with the kids and my wife, a lot of time to spend.\n\n\n\"...Ouch\", I hit my finger with a box that I didn't notice , it was covered by the sand, \"Heh, it's hard like... | 1 | |
[WP] It’s the future, and a new service has been developed to text and tell people they will die 24 hours before they do. One morning, everyone on Earth gets that text. | [
"It was anarchy, briefly, as the world learned of our universal demise.\n\n\nThe message went out at 2087-06-05 00:33:12.09888 UTC. It simply read; \"This is your 24 hour notice, we regret to have to send this notification. Be good, enjoy whatever you have to enjoy, and go in peace.\"\n\n\nThe resulting firestorm o... | 3 | |
[WP] You receive an Amber Alert while at home. However, this one says to stay as far away from the child described. Shortly after you receive the alert, you get a knock on the door with your neighbor telling you an evacuation is under way. | [
" \"God I hate these things!\" I exclaimed as I desperately tried to silence my phone. I had received an amber alert; a loud text message that beeps and screams at you until you read the message it is sending. I scrambled from my bed to get to my phone and shut it off, it was only 7:00 on a Sunday and also my only ... | 1 | |
[WP] My brother introduced me to monsters. | [
"It was my brother who introduced me to the monsters. Ka spoke of them, hushed voice trembling, as we stared at the stars. I was only half listening as he described them. The plastic starts upon earthen ceiling held my attention in a way that my brothers stories never could. They were a sickly lime-green; Baba call... | 2 | |
[WP] A story where the protagonist is wondering what is wrong with everyone, but it turns out that the protagonist was the cause of everyone’s behaviour. | [
"Biff was walking down the street and everyone was giving him the weirdest looks.\n\nCome to think of it, his mom had as well before he left the house. Even his dog couldn't stop barking at him.\n\nHe went into the grocery store, and someone started yelling at him saying that he was obscene.\n\nSomebody even called... | 1 | |
[WP] As children, people develop a telepathic connection to their future soulmate. It usually is perceived as mental background noise, as it is so intwined with one's own mind. However, as you are talking with a friend of yours, you suddenly realize that neither of you are actually saying anything. | [
"I'm a bot, *bleep*, *bloop*. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:\n\n- [/r/u_vikeesii] [\\[WP\\] As children, people develop a telepathic connection to their future soulmate. It usually is perceived as mental background noise, as it is so intwined with one's own mind. However, as you are... | 8 | |
Finish the prompt with something goofy or poetically beautiful. | [WP] An elder horror has appeared before the Earth. Instead of devouring us or anything horrrible, it calmly explains telepathically that we had "in His image" all wrong and then... | [
"The world seemed to stop when the seemingly voice of God spoke into each mind. People in the streets stopped and looked up into the sky; those who were driving let their car slowly come to stop or slammed on the brake pedal, then stared through the windshield towards the clouds; the teenagers, the children, the yo... | 1 |
[WP] You die, and discover you have the ability to observe the Earth at any point in its history, from its creation to its end. One day, you decide to travel back as far as you can, and discover something horrible. | [
"I'm trapped in this room, with all of these machines that seem to breathe and beep as if they have some sort of rudimentary consciousness. Breathing tubes, intravenous cannulation, a finger crowned with heart pulse monitor and a sphygmomanometer that not-so-gently reminds me that I'm still alive; I feel like some ... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up one morning to realise that you are now conjoined to your girlfriend/boyfriend | [
"\"Promise me?\"\n\n\"Promise me, what?\"\n\n\"That we will never be apart.\"\n\nI look her in the eyes, thinking of the consequences of my response. I can't delay much longer. *How should I respond?*\n\n\"okay, I promise.\" I reply as I smile.\n\nSuddenly, a memory surfaces from my childhood. My father warns me of... | 1 | |
[WP] the last of his kind tells a story from long ago about better days | [
"All I have left is myself. All *we* have left is myself. I think, it's safe to say we as in my kind.\n\nI am wandering. I have gone wandering long ago. At first, my friends accompanied me through this nowhere leading journey, but they are long gone. At the time I didn't even notice how they faded from my side. One... | 2 |
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