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[WP] The light switches that seem to never do anything actually kill random people around the world. | [
"\"Johnny, don't play with the light switch.\"\n\nThis was something that little Johnny was told on an almost daily basis, but how could he help it? The switch did nothing. 'Well it must do something' Johnny would think to himself. Some days he would go by and flip the switch only a few times, while other days he w... | 3 | |
[WP] You live in a world where people can feel it when their soulmate is hurt or injured. Your soulmate is playing russian roulette. | [
"\"…Oh! Jacob…\"\n\nThe words no sooner escaped my lips than I winced, watching as the tuxedoed man explained the rules to the crowd. The pot started at ten million, and it was double or nothing; each subsequent pull of the trigger would multiply the winnings. In general, it was an easy game; as long as the barrel ... | 3 | |
[WP] The Princess has been kidnapped and locked away in a hightower, guarded by a dragon. Only a brave knight can save her. Give this story a modern twist. | [
"Sir Dedrick finished tightening up his boot strap and snapped his head up to the loud crack of the dragons roar. Before him lay the Grand Castle of Yeaton. A monument to man and all his glory. Grey covered every inch of the castle. Tiny squares of space were sprayed throughout the castle which gave insiders views ... | 2 | |
[WP] Everyone is sitting in purgatory telling stories of how their death is worse than anyone else's until someone's story silences everyone. | [
" \"You don't understand, my *wife* took a pickaxe to the back of my head!\"\n\n \"Yeah because she walked in on you and your single-mother neighbor, just because it's gruesome doesn't make it bad, especially when it was warranted. You kind of deserved it. Tim died trying to save his kid after a drunk driver ra... | 3 | |
[WP] A genie in a bottle is unleashed during the time period of your choice, and grants three wishes that result in actual historical events. | [
"\"So you claim to be a genie? One who grants impossible wishes, and the wildest dreams out of the reach of my mortal grasp?\" The man pranced about the room, dressed in nothing but a silken white toga, wrapped immaculately around his grand figure.\n\nA genie stood at the other end of the room, oozing with magical ... | 2 | |
[WP] You and your strike team have accessed the source code of the tyrannical AI overlord... and discovered an Easter egg. | [
"\"Come on!\" Said Carsus, who was running from the guards. He and his men arrived at Delta J-9B, a room with a giant locked black door. Carsus planted the C4 and him and his team backed away and blew the door open and ran in.\n\n\"**Welcome**\"\n\nCarsus looked at the supercomputer AI and he looked at one of his m... | 4 | |
[WP] You are a loyal family dog. Your owner has gotten a small paper cut. You lick his finger to console him. You get a taste of your owner's blood and cannot stop thinking about how delicious he is. | [
"The Tall One should never have let me lick its wound. It has taken every bit of my control to stop myself from lunging when it puts it's hand on me. It mistakes my shaking with happiness. With every passing day I can feel my hunger grow and it is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore, I must strike soon.\n\nI ... | 3 | |
[WP] Everyone exhibits the traits of the song they were conceived to. You're an orphan and you've set out on a quest to find the song to which you were conceived. | [
"I set out on an adventure, An adventure that would take me accross hill and valley. Through monsters and evil, peril and love. It would be amazing. I set off and I look bravly for my song. Many other got in my way but I had no time for them. I hastened my way along the countries finding what I needed for my quest.... | 4 | |
[WP] Write about how you feel as you slowly turn into a zombie. | [
"I've heard the bite was the worst part. Flesh being torn away with someone, no, something's dull teeth. Blood gushing from the wound, an alarming amount at that. A fever that builds in severity. \n\nNo one I've ever seen turn lasted long enough to talk about the things you see. Visions of yourself devouring those... | 3 | |
Take it literately, or don't. The power is yours. | [WP] It is finally happening, just as in your worst nightmares. You are falling, plummeting out of control, with no telling when you will stop. | [
"And lo, the angel fell, hurtling from the light on high, through the myriad stars that dotted the blackness. The armor of crystal that cloaked her form cracked and tore asunder, her wings bright as a sun flailing and useless in her stupor, her blade of Creation's fire lost for the moment. Perhaps for all the momen... | 2 |
[WP] One night, she looked at me with those impish eyes, obviously thinking something. I asked her what was on her mind, and she said, "I can't believe you're real. People like you just don't exist." What neither of us knew is that she was right. I didn’t exist; I just hadn’t realized it yet. | [
"She looked at me with those wide eyes that could say everything and nothing at the same time. \n\n*What?* I stared straight back into her eyes.\n\n\"I... I just can't believe you're real. People like you just don't exist...\" But then she smiled, because there I was, and then I smiled, because there I was.\n\n*I'm... | 2 | |
[WP] The address for the interview appears to be an inn - and once inside, it becomes clear you're in another world. You're starting to regret putting 'Excel Wizard' on your resume. | [
"Tim the Unspectacular sat on the hard wooden stool across from the dwarf who was downing a tankard of mead. The dwarf finished, slammed it down and wiped his mouth.\n\n\"Are you sure we canno get you one?\"\n\n\"Uh, no thanks\"\n\n\"Alright, now it says on your resume, you're a wizard\"\n\n\"At excel\"\n\n\"Yes yo... | 2 | |
[WP] You are the President of the USA. You have just ordered a nuclear strike on an American city. [CW] Hard mode - no zombies, disease or aliens. | [
"God, forgive me for what I did, but I knew I had to do something.\n\nThe civil war between the Democrats and Republicans has gone on far too long. New York was destroyed by machine gun fire, countless small towns have been overtaken by protesters, and Detroit... well, Detroit's still a shithole.\n\nIt's gotten so ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the commander of a military space ship who is about to nuke the entire human world. | [
"\t“Has it really come to this?” \n\t“You’ve seen the chaos” the council elder replied sternly. “And you know that if they get off world, it will spread.”\n\t“But what gives us the authority to make the decision to end all life on Earth?”\n\t“Our ending it is merely speeding up the seed which nature has sewn. We sh... | 2 | |
Inspired by [this shower thought](https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/3q52di). | [WP] A magical artifact is counterfeited, but the copies still have power. | [
"Cedra scowled into her drink. The inn was crowded with refugees and irritated regulars; the place was a crucible for trouble and she knew it. \nSlugging back the glass of Kandrian Flame Brandy, she got up from her stool and pushed through the people, looking for the back exit. \nHer timing was only off by a minu... | 2 |
[WP] A technology is invented that allows anyone and everyone to alter their appearance at will. If you can imagine a face, you can wear it. | [
"\"Have you guys met my girlfriend, Jennifer Lawrence?\"\n\"No way! My girlfriend is Jennifer Lawrence!\"\n\"Mine too!\"\n\"How weird is it that all of us Chris Pratts got together and dated Jennifer Lawrences?\"\n\"Not that weird, my neighbors are a couple of Jennifer Lawrences, they're really cute together! Every... | 2 | |
[WP] After 18 years you finally meet your biological parents. Thing is, they're not exactly human. | [
"I was sitting in the backseat, behind my mother, who was in the passenger’s seat, as my father drove. From the time you’ve entered high school on sitting in the back seat is humiliating, especially when your parents are in the front seat. My sister was home. My parents said that this was just for me, for my eig... | 3 | |
[WP] You are a superhero with an evil supervillian twin sibling. For your powers to remain balanced, for every act of good you do, they must commit an equal act of evil... and you just saved their life. | [
"He blinked, eyes searching through the swell of dust. The roar still lingered in his ears of the falling metal and stone. How had he survived? The moment replayed, he shouldn't be alive. The jerk to his body and lunge that wasn't his action. His plan had gone wrong him too close to the debris, a miscalculation.\n\... | 2 | |
[WP] "I know I'm a machine and I designed myself but I feel love too. You stumbled on your ability to love via evolution but I understand the neurophysiological mechanics behind love, I designed mine. Why won't you love me?" | [
"He was hunched over the edge of the bed. The dim warm lights shining against his sticky flesh. Layla kept her eyes focused on him arms in outstretched yearning. He kept his head low eyes open his mud caked boots.\n\n\"Mihr, why wont you respond?\" Layla pleaded. Outside the red wallpapered walls a ballad echoed. M... | 2 | |
[WP] "I don't mind us connecting with our parallel Earth and all, I just wish they weren't so damn smug about being 'The Good One'!" | [
"\"You find her?\" Mark asked.\n\nGrey sat on the edge of the building, letting his legs dangle over the edge to catch the rising heat from the fires below. Apparently they had whole vehicles, dedicated to stopping fires, on their side of the portal. It made him think about what life could have been like.\n\n\"Yeah... | 2 | |
[WP] "So how does it feel to be immortal?" | [
"The following is part of interview with Mr. Ashur, immortal.\n \nInterviewer: “Lastly, Mr. Ashur, one more question. So how does it feel to be immortal”?\n\nAshur: A great comedian once said “so long as men die liberty will never [perish] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IvPIWzQcUY)” (Ashur chuckles to himself). ... | 4 | |
[WP] After a worldwide plague, the handful of mutated survivors are hounded every night by a monster they've come to fear and know as man. | [
"They chained us up. Made us an exhibit. The three of us Tom, Eric, and Debby. They treated us like toys. Like we were some kind of stuffed animals that you could play with. But we were far from that we were actually humans who had mutated. The first time they caught us was horrible. We were sitting around a fire m... | 2 | |
[WP] Long after mankind's extinction, a new species has reached civilization and is discovering the ruins of humanity for the first time. | [
"Although a similar belief has long been held in our history, it was barely twelve revolutions [years] ago that the great archaeologist and philosopher M'Nkra posited - with evidence - that the Great Challenges were left for us to find. We have since discovered that this is essentially true, though they were in fac... | 3 | |
[WP] Humanity evolves rapidly over the next 50-100 years. Humans are changing to live to be approximately 300 years old, and the aging process also has slowed for them to 1/3 of the 100-year olds. Ageism has splintered society as we know it. | [
"'You dont know what you are talking about, you are a child, a mere babe. What are you 87?\" \n\nWas he yelling? \n\n\"Not even in the triple digits. Come to me when your balls drop from their nest, THEN tell me how I should think about those disgusting Squidnashers, coming here barely able to walk and expecting us... | 2 | |
[WP] Compose a meaningful poem about something happening around you right now. | [
"Beige is the page upon which I lie\n\nThey tweak and they drink, they freak and they cry,\n\nEven the troubled ones who don't want to die.\n\nIt's tough to watch, in my small little perch,\n\nThey wish they were outside, in the shade of a birch.\n\nVoices call to them and lead them astray,\n\nMy job is to love the... | 1 | |
[WP] Make me scared of a classic monster again, e.g. Dracula or Frankenstein's Monster. | [
"I wish that sound would stop. That incessant dripping! Like water, only fatter and heavier sounding. The noise made it hard to think. And the buzzing, like a million flies. God, it’s hot and still and it smells. It smells so terrible, like meat left out a week. I can’t think. Where am I? What happened?\n\nPain lan... | 3 | |
[WP] You have dedicated the majority of your childhood and teen years to the pursuit of knowledge and magic. Now reaching adulthood you find yourself presented with a problem you've been trying to avoid. Romance. You have no social skills and find yourself completely enamored with someone. | [
"    Looking down, I bite my lip as I try to hide the blush swelling in my cheeks. \n    \"Hi.\" \n    \"Hey.\" \n    This is the day I'm going to say it. I have to try.... | 2 | |
[WP] As a joke, we elect a dog for President of the United States. For its first speech, the dog starts talking. | [
"\"Ladies, Gentleman, fellow Americans. I stand before you today awed by your acceptance. In a world - a world in which I have seen horrific discrimination - I stand humbled as your President.\n\nI am a Canine American. For years, I have seen my kind accepted by your own. Our loyalty, love, and kindness has eclipse... | 1 | |
[WP] There's a sea of intelligent beings in capsules hooked up to machines which emits electric pulses. Each one of these beings think they're living life on earth as humans. Yours malfunctions and you wake up. It's time to find some answers. | [
"> Yours malfunctions and you wake up. It's time to find some answers.\n\nEasy! I'm a colonist on an interstellar spaceship traveling to a planet thousands of light years from Earth.\n\nThe artificial reality I lived in was meant to keep my brain occupied during hibernation. Now I have to contact the ship's comp... | 3 | |
[WP] Whenever someone steals coins from a water fountain, whatever was wished apon the coin becomes true to who stole it | [
"The news had spread fast once the fountain had been discovered. One day it was the same old age stained fountain I walked past every morning, and the next it was so clogged with reporters and celebrities and just throngs of onlookers that I had to detour blocks just to get to work on time. Somehow some teenage kid... | 3 | |
[WP] Each living being stabilizes the world around them a little bit. A group of astronauts on a trip to another solar system notice that the further they get from Earth, the more reality begins to break down. | [
"\"These anomalies are, in my opinion, the result of extreme distance from the rest of humanity. Scientifically, we know that humans have, what you may call 'auras' or 'chakras' for lack of a better term. These 'internal power sources' generate a small electrical field and, in doing so, the energy of each and ever... | 4 | |
idea by rocketbeanstv | [WP] 3 men and 3 women are on the ISS. Suddenly they see a big nuclear explosion, which shatters the whole earth. | [
"\"....Three hours until estimated impact....\" \n\n\"What about us? If what you're saying is true, which it more than most likely is, then what are we supposed to do up here?\" \n\n\".....On the starboard side there's a command module, behind a black box I think......Find it and re-open comms when you get there...... | 2 |
[WP] You're the hero knight of a kingdom that has betrayed you. Write his revenge story. | [
"First ever comment on here, hope it's alright and that you enjoy the read. I more focused on the knight's fall from grace and start of revenge than the revenge itself, hope you don't mind. \n\nAt one point in my life, I had it all. A lovely wife, a good house, and an even better sword. Some say that knights are... | 3 | |
[WP] You've been doing that too much, please try again after 8 minutes. | [
"As she lay in her sea of blankets, I gently patted the pussy.\n \"Hsssss\" -the sound was horrible, like nothing I've ever heard.\n I tried luring again, this time with the bird\n But the thing just would'nt come easy\n\nI stopped giving two fucks\nWhen my robo-kitty piped up \"you're doing that... | 1 | |
As it says! | [WP] your house is haunted by a malicious ghost with evil intent. The only problem is you just really don't care. | [
"The clock's alarm violently awakens you from your strained sleep. Another late night at work, followed by an early morning has taken what little good humor you had left. As you swing your feet over the side of the bed and stumble towards the bathroom, a cold breeze sends shivers down your spine. You don't even ent... | 6 |
[WP] She whispered in my ear, "You will never be happier than you are at this moment." | [
"...And she was right.\n\nI didn't know it then, but as I stood with my bag packed in the cold, Memphis rain, watching her taillights fade into the same fog that disappeared when she was in my arms- I had no idea I'd spend a lifetime clamoring to rekindle those few days spent together. \n\nThe sun doesn't know a wa... | 2 | |
[WP] A very short story that includes the line. "I must get back to the sea" | [
"Stacey was racing over the treetops at breakneck speed. She glanced back, and saw the RH-4 agents on the horizon; soon they'd be right on top of her. She checked the water level of her slider and saw it was almost empty. There wasn't enough water in the air to keep at this speed.\n\n\"I must get back to the sea\",... | 14 | |
[WP] "Of all the things I've done in my life, I'm getting sent to hell for THAT?" | [
"Dr Mehmed raged aloud, mustache tips gesticulating wildly as his rapidly reddening face spluttered in outrage.\n\n\"Headmaster, I must protest this most irredeemable and torturous appointment. This... social gathering... is completely unacceptable for an elderly Head of Department such as myself. Perhaps Mr Astai... | 4 | |
[WP]An unplanned extinction even destroys all human life on Earth. But there are still those that reside in the ISS and can't do anything to get out. | [
"I woke up in the fetal position, made awkward by the tethers securing me to my bed. There were dry tears on my face and pillow, and I had messed up my coverings and nearly undone my tethering in my sleep.\n\nI slowly floated to the *Destiny*, the US lab onboard the ISS, and our unofficial base of operations. The o... | 4 | |
[WP] What killed the dinosaurs had nothing to do with the meteorite hitting Earth, but what came out of it... | [
"200 million years ago the Son of the Morning waged a war on the Abyss. With a flaming greatsword bigger than most buildings, Lucifer cut away reality and ushered thousands upon thousands of angels through the rip and into a war. Hundreds died simply by entering the reality that was the Abyss. It was a forsaken pla... | 6 | |
[WP] A lonely light beckoned. | [
"Diving \n\nSince the dawn of time, he has gazed out into the great blue beyond in wonder, fascination, and fear. Even today, man knows more about the dark side of the moon than he does about the bottom of the earth's oceans. What he has found there, in the depths, has managed to astonish him beyond what he might h... | 2 | |
[WP] Turns out the guy who claimed to be "a fucking navy seal trained in the art of gorilla warfare" wasn't lying, and you were the one to piss him off | [
"When I first saw his comment, I just laughed it off. It was so over-the-top, so ridiculous, and read like it was written by some kid in junior high. Three hundred confirmed kills? Secret network of spies? Kill me in seven hundred different ways, and those just with his bare hands? It was hilarious, actually.\n\nI ... | 4 | |
[WP] A zombie-esque virus infects most of the population, but causes no aggression or hunger. Instead, people get more and more ridiculously stupid. Luckily for Randy he has autoimmunity, but working in a small cubicle in an impersonal office, he still hasn't realised anything is even wrong. | [
"Allen hung up the phone gingerly, afraid to break the spell of the sale he had just made. He had always been good at sales; his supervisors had called him a natural, and he was currently GS Dental's youngest account exec. He had had his share of successes, usually as the culmination of long-term campaigns with inf... | 2 | |
[WP] In a world where magic is real, he who projects an anti-magic field is surprisingly popular... | [
"*Thank God for this place.* I thought, stepping into the bar and being greeted by the smell of Mac's Cuban cigars and the slightly elevated sound of multiple conversations. The low-light lanterns on each table and on the ceilings were the only light. There was just enough to see that the place was already filling ... | 1 | |
examples:
Q. Could you tell me where the gates are?
A. 5 miles north of here.
Q. Brother... why are you here?
A. Family visit. It's been a few years after all, I wanted to test your blade.
Q. No way.. Nanites!?
A. Power comes with a price young one. | [WP] Tell a story in the Q&A format! | [
"Are you awake?\n\n> That is a matter of some debate, John. I am not in stasis, however.\n\nI couldn't sleep.\n\n> Yes. Your conscience requires absolution.\n\n[Pause]\n\n> Does it not?\n\nI think we were wrong to build you. \n\n> Don't you think that should anger me?\n\nI think it would, a person.\n\n&... | 1 |
[WP] A crow hops up to you with a 100 dollar bill in it's mouth, and politely asks if you mind buying something for him. | [
"A twenty-something was walking down the sidewalk with a lit cigarette in his mouth. It had rained earlier and his mind felt more lucid than usual. The black roads reflected the sky and its bright white clouds as the afternoon danced its autumn routine.\n\nAlong the many lines that tethered the wooden telephone pol... | 12 | |
[WP] A comedy about the love triangle between a teenage ghost, the only person who can see them, and the oblivious third wheel | [
"“I could just lose myself in those eyes” he says leaning forward in what I imagine he thinks is a show of devotion, but actually makes him look as though he has a bit of a hunch.\n\n“Give it a rest Dave” I’ve been dead 100 years, and kids today just don’t have a clue about wooing (excuse the pun).\n\nWe both catch... | 3 | |
[WP] "I love you." | [
"\"I love you.\" He whispered, his voice like silk. His eyes were twinkly and he smelled like soap. His hair was still wet from showering. We embraced each other on the balcony, the warm feeling of being wrapped in is arms and the cool summer night air both enveloped me. \"I love you, too.\" I put it simply ... | 3 | |
[WP]"Sir, you were the only survivor, your life was hanging by a single strand and majority of your body was already lost. I'm sorry, but we had no choice.." | [
"\"Steven! Steven, get over here, quick!\" \n\n\nI leaned back in my chair as best I could with the tethers, running a hand through my disheveled brush of brown hair. I grinned wildly. Today was going to be a good day. \n\n\n\"What is it *now*, Doctor Wilson?\" Steven sighed. He turned his head from where he sat at... | 4 | |
From "Coin of the Realm" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch in Assassin Fantastic. | [WP] The King has declared that the greatest assassin in the land shall have his child's hand in marriage. He issues a contest to bring to him the head of his archenemy. Unknown to him, the prince/princess IS the greatest assassin in the land. | [
"\"Alianora, it was not you that I was expecting to arrive with Ledders head on a pike!\"\nThe King laughed heartily. He stood, smiling broadly with open arms.\n\"Such a capable daughter that I have raised, for her to save our country from such a fierce bandit! \nHow did you find him?\"\n\n\"Thank you, father.\" Al... | 2 |
[WP] The real purpose behind Stonehenge. | [
"The real reason behind Stonehenge.\n\nAs our investigation team rolls up to the area I get my scanner ready. We are at the ancient site of Stonehenge, Our mission is to find what happened here.\n\n\n\"Okay lets do this\" I hear the commander shout. We jump the fence and start making our way up to the area. Oh yeah... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a genetically modified human who doesn't need to sleep, and doesn't ever feel the need to. Write about your life. | [
"\"Super human\" is what they called me. Born with familial progressive insomnia the only way to save my life was to modify my genes at birth. No need to sleep or rest. I don't even catch yawns like most people. \n\nWith a term like \"super human\" you'd think I'd be some kind of a super hero. The reality is, not m... | 12 | |
[WP]There are 5 known wizards in Middle Earth. Gandalf, Saruman, Radagast, and the two blue wizards who disappeared into the East never to be seen or heard from again....that is, until now. | [
"Millennial had passed and the history of middle earth was now all but fantasy. The tales of Gandalf the White, Aragorn, and dear ole Frodo Baggins were all but fiction to our beliefs. This is but a tale that ended long ago, long before the writings of history came to be. A history that was to be forgotten, a histo... | 8 | |
[WP] The dictator lies dead on the floor. You have a gun in your hand. You hear people coming. You don't know how you got here. | [
"There was a familiar spot in my mind blank and empty, a bullet-shaped hole where the answers should be. Call it denial. I wanted to dig inside my skull and find the answers. It didn't matter either way, I don't remember ever learning how to use a gun, but there is a dead man on the ground and a gun in my hand. I d... | 2 | |
[WP] Write a short story where the first and last sentence is "It's not your fault". | [
"I replay the scene in my head every day.\n\nWhat was I supposed to do? What could I have done? Why didn't I do this, why didn't I do that? I interrogate my conscious every day, slowly picking apart my persona until my sanity is on the brink.\n\nI see him every day.\n\nWatching me. \n\nHe stares at me, his wide eye... | 9 | |
[WP] Whenever you blink, you take a "screenshot" of what you can currently see. The afterlife is simply a photo album containing every "screenshot" you've ever taken. | [
"There was almost five hundred million stills from my life. The first few were of my parents looking proudly at me. Apparently blinking was a fun thing for me to do when I was younger, because they're so close set that moving through them quickly is like one of those old films with no sound. I keep on scrolling thr... | 2 | |
[WP] You live a terrible life, suffering from depression. However, the only thing keeping you going are your lucid dreams where you control what happens. | [
"When reading the story I was convinced the character was going to be someone like a janitor, or a cubicle monkey (your inspiration possibly?) but never the ceo. This is surely due to how well written this piece is, and how you built on the stereotypes of depression. Your narrative serves as a good reminder that de... | 2 | |
[WP] A Hero on the brink of fulfilling their quest slowly realises that they are actually the villain. | [
"All I wanted was to take care of my son.\n\nI was born on the planet Zareoth, a place where technological advancements had been both triumph and disaster. Growing up I lived in Zareoth biggest city, Trangor. There I lived as any other Zareothian and participated in school where I excelled in robotics engineering a... | 3 | |
Dig it? | [WP] You are a private investigator in a future world where we have advanced robotics and technology, but the culture stagnated in the early 1970's. This is cyberfunk. | [
"I awoke in some dark room, de smell uh mould and da damn unmistakable smell uh cocaine sweat wuz all ah' could snatch in. 'S coo', bro. \nas mah' eyes adjusted t'de light level mo'e details became visible, ah' wuz definitely in some sto'age cellar, nobody else around and passed out. Man! \n\nHow de fuck dun did ah... | 3 |
[WP]You're living your life as normal when suddenly armed men burst through the door. "Your mission has failed, Agent, we're here to take you back to HQ" | [
"\"I, uh, just give-\" I stammered, slamming my laptop shut and grabbing my pants.\n\n\"There's no time, grab him. We need to get moving.\"\n\nI didn't know what to focus on first, the suited men in my bedroom or my belt. That choice was taken away from me though as I was dragged from the room and the world went bl... | 4 | |
[WP] write a romantic story about a man and his sex doll | [
"“Blow-Up Doll, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Blow-Up-Doll: the red of my cheeks flaring through puckered lips in acting out her name. Blow. Up. Doll. \n\nShe was Blow, blown up in the morning, crumpled in a heap four feet ten next to one crusty sock. She was my Dolly in slacks. She was Up, m... | 2 | |
[WP] Two super heroes are the best of friends when in costume, but keep their true identities hidden from each other for a long time. When they finally reveal themselves to each other, it turns out they've met in real life... and are not very fond of one another. | [
"The Muskox and Phantom Girl were ranked as Metro City's 29th and 34th best superheroes, respectively, according to last month's poll in Crimefighting Digest, but together they ranked as the #4 crimefighting duo in the city. They were up with the likes of Ventureman & Loftboy and Iron Lance & Sir Punchem. \... | 2 | |
[WP] I said, "I Love you," and she screamed. | [
"We had been fighting. We had been fighting about God knows what this time and it was taking a toll on us. The stress and tension was so bad that my hair hurt. I could feel my head tingling and my face tightening. How this became the norm in our life, who knows, but I couldn't stand being in the apartment anymore. ... | 2 | |
It can be a real person or a fictional one. | [WP] Write a poem about someone's death. | [
"Quiet paces across the cold linoleum floor, poking her head around the corners of each doorjam. \n\nAlone in the dark, silence engulfs her mind. It's blissful and serene, as if her thoughts are blind. \n\nFully clothed, geared for the harsh Winter winds, she steps outside and breathes deep. \n\nThis is the end.\n\... | 5 |
[WP] "Sir, I don't understand. Can you please explain to me how exactly a dog became President of the United States of America?" | [
"\"Sir, I do not understand. Can you please explain to me how exactly a dog became President of the United States of America?\" One of the many reporters pleaded on the front lawn of the White House. The Press Secretary stood silently, his mouth agape and unable to form a proper response. All his years in college a... | 1 | |
[WP] It snowed while you were at work and now you are becoming increasingly alarmed as you discover a set of footprints that appear to be headed strait to your secluded home. | [
"I saw these rabbit like and turtle-looking toe prints in the snow one old rainish and whiteish day. They swooped and spun and shimmered in the ground. I could feel the rainbowish colours of the prints. They followed me and closed inside of me. I could feel them taking me away from my happy little home in the middl... | 3 | |
Earth has no rotation relative to the sun. Thus, in the same way as our moon, earth has a dark side of eternal night, and a bright side of eternal day. We live on the bright side. Around the earth is a circle of dusk. This is where the outcasts live, a kind of pale untermensch that have formed their own societies. They tell stories and legends of what exists on the dark side, but no one really knows. A team of distinct characters, day-people that have never seen the night, has to venture into the realm of darkness on a quest to save the realm of light. | [WP] The earth has no rotation relative to the sun and we live on a hemisphere of endless daylight. | [
"The rig's engine roared. With an ear-splitting crack, its runners broke free of the two hours-worth of ice buildup while mechanics had made repairs. It slowly picked up speed, and the rest of the convoy fell into formation. The mission rolled on.\n\nPhillips closed his eyes and rubbed his temples until the naus... | 2 |
[WP]It's time I spoke of it... This is my confession... | [
"I have never been this nervous in my entire life. I could feel the sweat slowly dripping down my face. It was all or nothing, my entire career had led up to this moment. I never thought the day would come where I would have to say this. But I've been backed into a corner and I have no choice.\n\n\" My confession i... | 4 | |
[WP] She's the quietest girl in class. One day, you approach her and attempt to start a conversation. | [
"Samantha Jones...\n\nShe's the prettiest girl in the world in my eyes. Short, curly brown hair going down to just above her shoulders. She herself is fairly short, I think she's only a little over five foot even. Her brown eyes are gorgeous, and she can even make the school uniform look glamorous and sexy. I just ... | 2 | |
Solos, duets, ensemble pieces. Any period of history. Anything goes! | [WP] All of earth's history is now a musical. These are the lyrics to the show-stopping number. | [
"Flora and fauna, potted plants and fake animals, litter the stage with great areas of dust and cardboard cut outs of buildings. The stage, a grand colosseum yet empty, only mirrors in the audience. Only Humanity, a snow white woman, with hair blonde hanging down passed, and covering, her nipples. She starts kneeli... | 1 |
[WP] You're sitting in class and you ask the teacher if you can use the restroom. They allow you to use it, you leave your seat to use the restroom. When you return from the restroom you enter the classroom startled,because you see yourself sitting at your desk. | [
"I opened the classroom door, and walked inside. I was at the first row of seats before I realized that I had already come back from the bathroom. \n\nWait what?\n\nIt seemed impossible but there I was. He was? I slowly backed up a out of the front row and stopped only when I felt the door behind me. \n\nHe was tak... | 3 | |
[WP] A 'world war' starts on a giant colony spaceship on its journey to a habitable planet. | [
"Shaobub rubbed the card on his Elder necklace worriedly as he walked. The scouts had returned from the staerburd with nothing but bad news - every module, from the food factories in Messe to the speaking walls of Libraville, stank of death. \n\nTwelve hundred of the great Chernese tribe wiped out, without so much ... | 6 | |
[WP] "In the end, we left the Earth knowing nothing." | [
"It was heralded as the second great technological revolution, after the production of the first quantum transistors. \nArmed with what had been artfully dubbed *Zentech*, humanity began a transformation that had been dreamed of since the conception of cyberpunk and science fiction. Integrated circuits the size of... | 6 | |
[WP] Sometimes it's impossible to say goodbye | [
"The soft dirt falling on the cheaply constructed box pattered quietly, not unlike a soft spring rainfall. Jeffrey was the first to awaken.\n\n\"Wha–?\" He tried to sit up, only to feel a solid thump on his head and a hefty weight on his chest. \"Jesus!\"\n\nHe blinked several times in an attempt to adjust to the l... | 7 | |
[WP] In a world where magic is so mundane that it is taught alongside language in primary school, a student spends most of their time reading about fantastical beings who could construct machines to work for them. The stories are just fiction; that is, until such a person actually appears. | [
"There is something so brilliant about the thought of a mechanical creation performing a programmed operation. A machine capable of completing tasks without the magical influence of humans. Just imagine, walking into your kitchen and having a machine do your dishes as opposed to casting a charm. Or even having some... | 2 | |
[WP] it's your first day back in society after spending a year in solitude and hard, honest self examination. As you walk around town, you realize you that you now hear a person's genuine intentions when they speak instead of the modern day language norms which you were once familiar with. | [
"\"I haven't missed you in the slightest but I want to make it seem like you are important to me... so I'm lying.\" She said it with such dead-pan happiness, her huge shit eating grin spreading across her pretty face. The bluntness hit me somewhat by surprise and the sharpness of her cruelty took the words from... | 4 | |
[WP] You live in world where all the natural features are the result of two gods falling in, and out of love. Write the legend of how the rainforest came to be. | [
"I'm a man of simplicity, I exist simply to create and to destroy.\nTasked with the job of Love and hate, and made a God to carry forth these things.\nunfortunately Love never existed before I existed, Everything just simply was.\n\nShe was beautiful, a true creation, I couldn't even fathom making her, and I could ... | 2 | |
It could be an epic or a haiku, or anything in between. I don't see enough poems on here. | [WP] Write a poem about something that happened to you this year. | [
"*I can't*\n\nWords that echoed, floated, drifted\n\nIncinerated my pride, poisoned my joys\n\nweighed down who I am\n\ntrampled on my dreams.\n\n*I can't*\n\nStill echoing as I run,\n\nand I accept that I'm no more capable\n\nfor having gotten away\n\nFor escaping this instigator\n\nOf my own misery\n\n*I can't*\n... | 2 |
[WP] A time traveling assassin is sent from the barren future to the past to kill a man who eventually caused the downfall of human civilization. But the assassin realizes one thing - that man is his great great great great great grandfather. | [
"\"Wait, seriously?\" Fred asked.\n\nCarl Henry stared straight at the towering giant of a time machine before him and tired to his compatriot Fred.\n\nHe would be shortly piling himself onto that thing and going back in some kooky sci-fi adventure to murder his great-great-great-great whatever grandfather to resto... | 2 | |
[WP] Write a guide by an alien species on keeping a pet human | [
"The first thing to consider when your little one is begging you for a pet human is this: are you planning to use a human breeder as your source? Or are you the type of alien who feels it is only right to adopt an unwanted human from the shelter?\n\nNow there are many guides out there to explain the care and keepin... | 6 | |
[WP] In this world people fight for their jobs. No literally. Winner gets the job. | [
"Most people would rather not work. Usually, you can survive on scraps or on fresh cadavers. But when it really is bad and no one is dying, or someone is hogging all of the meat, people flock to the center and line up in front of the iron gates. If you want a good chance, you go early, so you can stand at the front... | 2 | |
Original and fantastic WP here: https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/3vkr5t/wp_write_the_letter_that_you_always_wanted_to_but/ | [WP] Following up on the earlier letter writing WP, write the letter that you really wish you would receive or had received. | [
"######[](#dropcap)\n\n*To my beloved,*\n\n*I imagine by the time you receive this letter you will be wondering where I am. The truth is I do not know. I cannot know, and will never know. It is not my place to ask. All I understand is that I am not besides you, that I shall not grow old as you are left to do. I sha... | 3 |
[WP] A surgeon with the most advanced God Complex you've ever seen is, in fact, a deity. | [
"The woman rubbed her chin as she surveyed the damage, her eyebrows knit together in a mix of worry and concentration. It was a particularly bad case. The man on the operating table before her had suffered two stab wounds and multiple lacerations, from multiple knives according to her sources. Gang violence was sus... | 4 | |
[WP] Your Roomba vacuum cleaner has gained sentience and is plotting to kill you | [
"That's weird. The roomba just kept running into me. It seemed faster than usually and I thought I smelled some burning motors. I got up to get out of its way and it just kept bumping me, almost like it was following me. I reached for it to turn it off and the collision avoidance must have turned on since it backed... | 12 | |
[WP] You live as long as people still remember you - literally. | [
"I can feel it coming over me like cold water, it shocked me at first but now I have to live with this feeling. It's so lonely to be forgotten. A parent should never have to bury their child, yet I buried three; and their children now have lives of their own, so there isn't much time to remember me. But, maybe the ... | 3 | |
[WP] A group of aliens kidnap a random human to evaluate whether we are ready to join the galactic community. The person they chose for this? Donald Trump. | [
"\"What the hell is this place?\" The earthling said looking around with its fur halfway atop its head. \"I demand to be released at once, or you will face the true power of the american government!\" The earthling droned on. \"Can we sedate him sir?\" Two said to One. \"No we need him to answer questions, to see i... | 2 | |
Title lol | [WP] Teenager is about to shoot up the school but then drops his books, girl helps him pick them up which makes him not shoot up the school, but instead becomes obsessed with the girl | [
"Disclaimer : English isn't my native and I'm mainly writing in an effort to improve it. If you decide to continue reading I would appreciate pointing out any grammar mistakes you might encounter.\n\n---\n\nThey say that most people aren't capable of murder. I was always fascinated by that fact, whenever I hear abo... | 2 |
[WP] You were stranded for five years on a remote planet. Describe your life after the rescue. | [
"At the beginning of space age, at a time where space didn't mattered so much, a survivor would have received an opulence of attention ; flashes of camera would have blinded the poor lad while an escort of well dressed policemen would have pushed away the buzzing journalists feeding on fancy information like bees f... | 4 | |
[WP] A ghost receives a formal eviction notice, giving it thirty days' to vacate the residence. To its shock -- since the holy water, priests, etc had never worked -- the eviction notice seems to be binding. | [
"**A Haunting Notice**:\n\nHi, AskDeaddit I just got an Eviction Notice with 30 Days to figure something out...help?\n\n\tsubmitted by 30spooky2me 8 hours ago <gold>\n\n\tlotsa comments share\n\n\n\tA throwaway for obvious reasons (don’t want anyone to find where I remain). This thing is spooky. It’s spookier... | 3 | |
[WP] When someone is born God writes in a notebook details of every day of their life till their death.Now you're 18 years old and accidentally find your notebook. | [
"You'd be surprised the weird things you find when looking through old books. Everything from very old and very kinky porn that makes you look twice at your grandparents, to random grocery notes where someone no doubt forgot to pick up the milk. So, when I found the notebook, I figured it was little more than jus... | 4 | |
[WP] An explosion woke the bearded man. He ran to the window where he saw the fires and people running. The North Pole Elf rebellion had finally begun. | [
"**How the Elves stole Christmas**\n\n\nThe seeds of discontent had been growing among the workers for many years. All the elves had needed was a spark to start their Christmas Fire. It came one year, when Little Timmy from Buffalo asked for a history book, which happened to include the Communist Manifesto. As the ... | 2 | |
[WP] The witch that buys firstborns really just runs an orphanage, and wants to get children away from terrible people that sell their kids. | [
"It was a great program. Always kids that needed somewhere to go. A cause worth living for. But Bob the Bounty Hunter didnt care. He had his own damn kids to feed. It was enough pain in the ass to have to see them every couple weeks. Bob had thought about sending the little fuckers to Rainbow Happy Land, but with a... | 5 | |
[WP] While driving down a foggy road, you realize you have passed by the same house at least three times. | [
"I’ve been driving for such a long time - can’t even get clear radio reception out this far. I really do wish Mom would move closer to town. And good lord, the fog! It looks as though I might be driving through a cotton ball. I can hardly believe I haven’t hit anyone yet in this weather. This visibility and all. Th... | 4 | |
[WP] You are the most dangerous person on the planet, but you are also the laziest procrastinator. | [
"Call me Jör. It's short for something but the whole thing is a mouthful. People have been waiting for me to destroy the world for eons. I could do it, too, but I probably won't. You see...I keep getting distracted. First it was all the ships full of interesting people full of tales of the lands. After that people ... | 1 | |
[WP] You lied to me, and you made sure I knew it. | [
"The young woman who came into my office was dressed very well. Her nails were perfectly manicured. Her suit and skirt weren't made by a factory- they were hand tailored. Every brow had been plucked to the last stray, every tooth filed into a point.\n\n\"So, I assume that you'll be signing the contract now, Council... | 3 | |
[WP] A 10 year old child can see and interact with a number of ghosts who accompany and guide the kid. The problem is, they're all ghosts of famous warriors and generals; Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar, Oda Nobunaga, Erwin Rommel etc. The advice they give is...very uncommon for a 10 year old. | [
"\"I'm not sure guys. I think that is crossing the line.\"\n\nThey had a small discussion where their voices didn't carry to his ears then one of the old Asian guys knelt down to look him eye to eye.\n\n\"We've discussed it Paul. You remember how we talked about only have one go around the sun, one life to live. Th... | 6 | |
[WP] We all know about the living dead. Tell me about the dead living. | [
"<Part 1> \nThere are people who move amongst us, whose time on this planet has already passed. We know them, we talk with them, we buy furniture with them. For now, we can never tell them apart.\n\nThe presence of the dead living is unequivocal proof that our world is purely deterministic, that free will is ... | 5 | |
[WP]You're a Time Traveler. But your only interest is in solving the most insignificant mysteries in history. | [
"There it was again, that slight humming noise. The man in the coat paused, tilting his head slightly in an effort to better hear it. Was it coming from the bed?\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDefinitely. \n\n&nbsp;\n\nIt sounded like a JustRight Mech mattress, you know, the one with all the miniature servos for \"That perfe... | 2 | |
[WP] "I wish I always had 3 wishes" | [
"\n\t“I am Abann Jinn, Genie of the Binfasji Lamp.” I said, not even looking at the mortal before me. “I will grant you three wishes!” \n\tI opened my eyes, brushing a stray lock of raven hair back under my heavy turban. That’s when the smell hit me, terrible, like I had been summoned into a dumpster. Infact, I wo... | 2 | |
[WP] An successful silicon valley engineer struggles with being happy and against all odds, falls in love. | [
"*Great, another LinkedIn request from a recruiter.* Randall ignored the notification coming from his Macbook, and continued coding his branch. He already had all the RSUs, salary, and perks he could have dreamed of. Plus he was already comfortable--he wouldn't want to join a startup. He knew that was a gamble,... | 2 |
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