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[WP] You are abducted by scientists to become a lab rat. They force feed you experimental pills and the outcome is not what they expected at all... | [
"Day 50\n\nMy nurse comes in and puts the blue pill on the table. I run over and engulf it. It is better than the alternative of the tube. She puts the yellow pill in front of me. I engulf that as well. The red pill comes out, and I resist this time. She pulls out the tube and places it down my throat. The pill dro... | 1 | |
[WP] You live in a world where "being in the zone" is a superpower. | [
"Amelia stared out of the window, the white fluffy clouds lazily drifting across the sky, envious of all the citizens who had mastered their skills and boosted their great works of art. She was especially annoyed at all the heroes, especially the ones that didn't rely on combat-based skills. \"Flow\", it was called... | 1 | |
[WP]You are a retired superhero,living a quiet life. But when an old enemy shows up once again, you are forced to come out of hiding. Unfortunately all of your teammates are either dead,alcoholics or too lazy to come out of hiding. | [
"I was sitting in my recliner, coffee in hand, watching the news like every other day, until the news xuts to a nearby town being attacked by my sworn enemy: \"Frigeon The Cold\" I had sworn I killed him decades ago with my team, I can only hope to win again with my team.\n\n\nJoe, or \"Tos-thro\" who was the best ... | 1 | |
[WP] One day, every major religious prediction for the apocalypse happens at the same time. However, each of these start fighting each other in an attempt to be the one true apocalypse, saving humanity. | [
"The end did not come as one expected. There was no great man-made atrocity or nuclear winter that wiped out life. What killed us were our own ideas.\n\nOn April 20th, 2020 very major religions doomsday predictions materialized over various religious sites across the globe. Of course, most people didn't understand... | 1 | |
[WP] You spent the last 10 years in a happy relationship with the love of your life and just proposed to them. They confess that they had been married 3 times before, and every time their partner had died shortly after in tragic yet unexplained circumstances. | [
"\"What do you mean, you have been married three times before we met? How is it possible that you've never felt the need to tell me?\" I asked her confused and somewhat angry.\n\n\"Well you need to understand I did not divorce my ex-husbands... They all died in mysterious ways shortly after we married. I didnt tell... | 1 | |
[WP] As someone who grew up in a creationist household, you find the concept of evolution to be incompatible with Christianity. So God decides to make you relive the lives of all your ancestors from the Earth's beginning to the Stone Age. | [
"I just had to reply to this brilliant prompt.\n\n---\n\nKids in our country are thought creationism in kindergarten, possibly because young kids cannot understand the concept of evolution. As a result, I grew up to be a creationist who thought the world was 6,000 years old and that every living thing was designed ... | 1 | |
[WP] You have the ability to create save points during the day. The catch? You have no control when and where the save points are created. | [
"This was a bad one, Jason thought as he rushed down the dark stairwell. He nearly lost his footing, an unfortunate consequence of the fact that his right foot was almost certainly broken. Still, he fought through the pain and pressed on, the sounds of the descending footfalls above pushing him forward. \n\nIf he s... | 1 | |
[WP] It’s been years since you’ve used Chat Roulette. You decide to go back on and the first person you match with is you, from the last time you used Chat Roulette | [
"It was another boring evening alone in my apartment, and I found myself typing \"ChatRoulette\" into the search bar on my laptop browser.\n\nI can't say what drew me to it, exactly. Loneliness, perhaps? Nostalgia? It had been where I'd met her, after all. But I didn't like to think about that.\n\nI peered over the... | 1 | |
[WP] You are abducted by aliens. They take you to their ship and discuss amongst themselves how to feed you while you are under their possession. After much research about the human diet, they bring you something... interesting. | [
"I didn't really blame the Xyrtllians. English is a tough language for Earthers to learn, let alone a bunch of space-hopping weirdos like these guys. They tried very hard to get it, but idiom and metaphor seemed to escape them. Still, when they presented me with an apple for breakfast, I was a little nonplussed. An... | 1 | |
[WP] On your 18th birthday, you decide to visit your brother's gravestone. As you kneel to read his headstone, you hear someone behind you. It is him, wielding a sword. Anxious, he says, "Brother, we need you." | [
"“Where’d you go brother...” I begin to tear up as I kneel before my brother’s gravestone, the words “Missing in Action” engraved below the day he went missing. My older brother, Duncan Jones, was an army soldier and was often deployed to various countries outside of the homeland, his life often hanging in the bala... | 1 | |
[WP] Alien scientists have researched Earth’s intergalactic war history from Reddit and warn their Generals to not attack based upon the thousands of stories of humanities victories. The warning is not headed. Turns out, Humans aren’t that great after all. | [
"\"Well\", Rol'Pi the Great muttered to himself, \"that was far easier than I'd have thought.\" He looked through his ship's viewscreen, which had split itself into a multitude of different video feeds, all of which showed the absolute, and as far as he could tell the total, annihilation of the human race. \n\n\"Se... | 1 | |
Edit: lasts instead of last's obviously. | [WP] "Welcome to Mr. Natas' Unique Pawn Shop! For just 1 human soul, you get a boon for a day. For 5, you get a blessing that last's a lifetime. And for 10, you get powers not from this world! Collect souls, and spend them here. Happy shopping!" | [
"\"Welcome!\" the thin man said from behind the counter. He smiled at the two women that walked in, a tall pale woman wearing a white skirt suit and a shorter woman in a matching black suit. The shorter one carried a small white leather briefcase. \"I don't remember seeing you two lovely ladies in here before, do y... | 1 |
[WP] During conversations, dialogue options appear and are colored to distinguish their importance. White for mostly banal outcomes, orange for things like "Will you go on a date with me?", and red for very critical decisions. During a normal conversation with a friend, a black option appears. | [
"\"Hey man, how you doing?\" \n\nWow my friend can be sneaky when he wants to be. Thank goodness time allows me to consider what I want to say next. The options in front of me now where \"AAA\",\"Arghh\", \"Oh hi\", and the option to say nothing. All white meaning it doesn't really matter which I choose. I think I'... | 1 | |
[WP] Whereas most hunters like to take on big trophy monsters like Dragons, you much more prefer to take on more niche monsters like Manticores or Chimeras, and this newest job is by far the most interesting one yet. | [
"You’ve had your share of strange jobs, like the giant who paid you three chests of oranges to kill a Cyclops, but this is the strangest yet. \n\n“You’re asking me to find a *what*?”\n\n“A Kirin,” The Goblin explained, “ A dragon-horse thing. It has horns too! And it can breath fire! Plus it...” You start tuning he... | 3 | |
[WP] You are an all powerful being who's sole purpose is to devour planets with developing life, the most recent victim known to the local's as 'Earth' was a great snack but a couple days later you realise your starting to not feel so great. | [
"\"UUURRRRRrrrRRRPPPPpPP!!\"\n\nI immediately know something is wrong. The small, juicy morsel I have just eaten should not be giving me this much gas--furthermore, I should not have been able to hear such an expulsion. I stop moving and consider the implications.\n\nIt was a small, rocky morsel--but with liquid ... | 1 | |
[WP] As an apprentice villain, you are about to embark upon your rite of passage to full villainhood, which countless others have embarked on before you. Your task: Attack New York City. | [
"I gritted my teeth as I enacted the last stage of my plan. I knew it would work, because I had an advantage over every other villain out there.\n\nI remembered leaving Villain Headquarter Saloon. Good ol' VHS. We were really going to have to change that name one of these days; more than half of my class had only h... | 1 | |
[WP] You were born on a leap day and both age and mature 4 times slower than everyone else. After 72 years, its finally your 18th birthday. | [
"My mom always said it was a blessing. God made me in his image, and I should be proud. I am. Know that as you read this, I love God and I do not question his judgement. But I do question myself. When I was fourteen, many years after I gave up on grade school, new neighbor's moved in and they had two kids. A son my... | 1 | |
[WP] Every person, just before they die, realize that the impending cause of death has been foreshadowed throughout their lives in various ways. After surviving a near-death experience, one person creates a business to help others suss out their own impending dooms. | [
"I smile as I welcome my next client, they explain their situation, their frequent run ins with alcohol related scuffles, their relationship troubles, bouncing from relationship to relationship.\n\nIt doesn't take long to help this man out, of course I have a process I keep to, to ensure we don't gloss over importa... | 1 | |
[WP] aliens come to earth. They have no intent at war yet like all intelligent life they have bean at war multiple times. What they can’t fathom though is how we humans constantly are at war with our own species. | [
"“Why?” A logical question, even with a derisive tone.\n\n“Why Not?”\n\n“Surely there are not better ways? I can acknowledge conflict can, at times, be inevitable, but at this degree of magnitude?” It, for a given value of it, shook its head. And waited.\n\n“Maybe it hasn’t always been logical, what we have been fi... | 1 | |
[WP] You are immortal and possess the ability to influence forces of nature. You’ve spent eternity living amongst people and used your powers to keep humans from overpopulating (The biblical flood, the black plague, or starting wars). It is 2018 and you decide it’s time to take action again. | [
"\"It's an art you know\" \n\nIt might sound ridiculous but I'm glad I got the last word. Barely slipping through the closing door, these words snapped onto his coat. Don't be fooled, this wasen't the result of uncontrolled frustration. This was a eloquent jab, timed to a closing door so any chance of a response w... | 1 | |
[WP] An alien empire has come to invade the Earth. There's only one problem, they started with Afghanistan. | [
"\"IF THIS ISN'T A GOOD ENOUGH REASON TO NUKE THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST TO SHIT I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS!\" \nThe elderly general screamed louder than I'd ever heard him do before. His face more crimson than the red button in front of every single UN representative. His eyes bulged so much they almost popped out of his sk... | 2 | |
[WP] Whenever you’re hitting against a deadline at work, the last 12 hours before the deadline repeats until you get the job done. | [
"I look at the clock again has another game of solitaire end, 10 past 10pm, 20 more minutes and another jump will happen.\n It's really enjoyable, to me at least, that the boss likes to review all the work that we do before the editing day, if I'd have to deliver it on the morning I wouldn't see the sun light that ... | 1 | |
[WP] You're part of an Antarctic research team. While you are down on the southernmost continent, World War Three breaks out, and the nukes get launched. You lose contact with home, and as far as you know the only humans left alive are the different countries' research teams in Antarctica. | [
"10 Years Ago, in the year 2039, Me and a bunch of Scientists were sent to Antarctica. All they told us was to investigate this Area in the Middle of Antarctica. They gave us a blurry photo of what appears to be a creature... frozen in place. \n\nIt looked kind of like a Velociraptor with green scales and feathers.... | 1 | |
[WP] Sugar has becomed illegal yesterday and it's treated like cocaine by the police. You own a candy factory. | [
"It was only a matter of time. Someone tipped us off that someone tipped the ATF off that we had stores of candy in reserve. If we didn’t escape soon, we’d have to Waco this out.\n\nIt all started at the beginning of the year. Inspired by Michelle Obama, a group of women formed the Organization of Health Conscious ... | 1 | |
[WP] When walking home late at night, a terrified man stumbles into you and slips a strange purple stone into your pocket, begging you to hide it. Soon after you get home, you hear a knock at the door. In your head you hear "Don't open that door or we are both dead." | [
"(WP) The Violet Stone and the Mysterious Man\n\nThe cool night air brushed his cheeks as he strolled home, hood hiding his face and snow crunching under his boots, still lightheaded after indulging in his cups a little bit too much.\n\nHis feet carried him toward home, but he was abruptly startled by a hand in his... | 4 | |
[WP] A mutation of dysentery during pioneer times results in a massive zombie outbreak. You and your group traveling in a covered wagon are the first to realize they can be stopped by destroying the heads, you need to tell as many people as you can before the country is overrun. | [
"Our caravan has been traveling for nearly five weeks now. We’ve lost quite a few people already, and not for reasons one suspects on journeys like these. We have lost people to the elements, to injuries far to infected to treat, and on one gruesome occasion a young boy was taken by a pack of coyotes. Such are the ... | 1 | |
[WP] Death is a deadly epidemic that is passed down genetically from mother to child. Earth is known by other human-populated planets under a different name: ‘The Quarantine Planet’ | [
"I entered the building with a few uneasy steps. I was greeted by the sight of a huge hall decorated in banners with encouraging words printed in a dark purple color. Though I was not in the mood to read what, was certainly written by people, who had never experienced the anything even remotely comparable to what w... | 1 | |
[WP] Your whole life, you've been told that your life only ends when your job is done. Your job is to protect the Ruler of your country, whom you admire greatly, until the peace accords end. There was an attempt to kidnap the ruler, but you fought it off, despite being shot fatally multiple times. | [
"My world fell apart the holes that riddled my steel plate armor finally wrenched me from my bloodlust. The outer garden that I watched over as the young master frolicked was a graveyard. The great fountain that stood in the center snapped the blood from the dead and spouted the red mist into the air.\n\nMany of th... | 2 | |
[WP] you are the world's most famous magician, and the world wants to know your secret. Only problem is that you are also unsure on how your tricks work. | [
"The stage is empty, and the crowd waits with bated breath. An empty stage holds in it the promise that it will soon be filled. Seconds tick by into minutes and there is the absolute silence that only comes with true wonder.\n\nA bright light on stage, a smattering of confetti.\n\nAnd, from the back of the theatre,... | 2 | |
[WP]You write stories in your free time, mostly reality based but occasionally you write other stuff. One day you decide to write some horror shorts. A month later a wounded man opens your door, claims to be from the secret service and begs you to stop writing. Turns out what you write becomes real. | [
"I've been writing for a few years now, and there are instances where I'd dream about the scenarios after writing them. Pretty normal, right? That's because both dreams and written stories are both figments of a person's imagination. But what about if what I write coincidentally happens in real life? I've had that ... | 2 | |
Just dropping some of my unused premises here. | [WP] After weeks of unemployment, the remaining debt on your house is sold off. However, the buyer of the debt is a witch who is willing to forgive your debt, provided you agree to becoming her enchanted companion for 2 years. | [
"**Please let me know what you think!**\n\n\"Forget the name you were told,\" the old woman had said. \"It's not real.\"\n\nFor some reason, that statement had struck me deeply. I hadn't been able to think of her as anything other than, \"the old woman\".\n\nShe didn't look much like a witch, as she claimed to be. ... | 1 |
[WP] you often talk to your friend about your plans to take over the world, going into great detail on everything. There are two things you don’t know however, 1) he’s an undercover CIA agent, 2) he’s taking you seriously | [
"“Hey Todd” you yell as you jog over to him, taking a slight detour to ensure you cross the street at the cross walk. Todd looks up from his phone and waves to you. You’ve known Todd since college. He looks almost completely unremarkable, and if it wasn’t for the bust of a terrorist recruitment cell at the college ... | 3 | |
[WP] You decide to check out that 2018 Spotify playlist you read about. To your confusion, you find a Playlist of 365 very long titles... | [
"It had only been that morning that Anna had discovered the playlist while perusing Reddit. There had been no description, just \"Check out this awesome new playlist, 365 Tracks!\" Curiously, the post had over 10k up-votes, but not one comment. Her interest had been piqued. \n\n*Well, that's strange,* Anna thought ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are immortal. You have outlived the entire human race and all life in the universe. You are cursed to live until the last star dies in 100 trillion years. | [
"Funny thing, many people had all these grand about immortality and what you can do with it, but they never \nstopped to think about the emptiness. Alright, they did think about the *metaphorical* emptiness, but you'd \nthink someone would hypothesis about this scenario. Well, maybe they did, infinite time and a bu... | 1 | |
[WP] Two men walk into a bar. All noise ceases... | [
"A cool autumn wind rattled the trees, and leaves fell from their roosts, settling on the ground as the sun settled beyond the horizon. Shouts and laughter could be heard from a fair distance away, it was an inviting sound, calling road weary travelers in with the promise of a pleasant evening. But, the two newest... | 2 | |
[WP] You've just made a deal with a demon. He agrees to grant any wish at any time but to pay for the wishes he requires your lifespan. The bigger the wish, the more years you trade. Little does he know you are immortal. | [
"There was silence... for a while. Then it was interrupted by the sharp accent of chalk on wood, then silence again, then the tap and scratch of chalk on wood, then silence. The regular intervals almost seemed to block the nothing, making it manageable.\n\nRichard stepped away from the wall. Upon its old timber fac... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a boss monster. You have slain heroes time & time again. But despite killing them in every way possible, for some reason, they keep coming back. A little stronger each time. | [
"It was weird at first.\n\nJared22Xx came back after i flaming-mauled him to death. Weird, but it was not a challenge to defeat him again. \n\nAnd again.\n\n*And again.*\n\nYou see the problem? The protagonist always gets the best. Infinite lives for so-called \"heros\" who killed my entire clan? Yeah, sure. A GOD ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are Charlie from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, except this time instead of keeping the golden ticket, you sold it. | [
"Charlie sat in his chair, finger tips pressed together. He smiled as he looked out of the window of his office. Business is going good.\n\nMany years ago he sold his ticket for millions of dollars to a billionaire looking to get into the famous Wonka Factory. Not just using the money to buy his family a better hom... | 1 | |
[WP] Sixty years ago a Demi-God tasked you with sending anonymous packages to people on the day they were to die. These packages contained random items critical to their survival yet no context. If the recipient figured it out, they could cheat death. Today, you received your very own package. | [
"*Ding Dong.* The doorbell chimes and you grimace, heaving yourself up from your recliner chair. On the third swing you get your legs under you and kick the footrest under and come unsteadily to your feet. As you step away it pops out and catches you in the shins. Cursing, you hobble to the front door and yank it v... | 5 | |
[WP] Aliens finally made contact, but it didn't go as planned. Instead of going to the seats of power, they came to your house. They want to talk to your cat. | [
"Marie was just about to ask her fiancée whether she'd like to go to that Hamilton concert when she stopped drinking her coffee. She never stops until she's done with it.\n\n\"Anne, what's wrong?\"\n\nMarie noticed Anne was looking at the glass doors in the living room that led to the garden. She turned to see them... | 2 | |
[WP]Ever since you were born you have been able to see the exact time and date somebody will die. Only issue? Everyone's time and date has become 3:57 P.M. tomorrow. | [
"So this happened... Too bad I cannot see my own time and date. Since I am an an empty shell of a human I don't really care. I'm just curious if my time will be then too. Not even sure which one is better... all die tomorrow at 3:57 or they all die and I am the sole survivor. I guess there's no point in overthinkin... | 3 | |
[WP] Your investigation into a series of benevolent yet illegal break-ins across the country lead you to a cabin in the woods far from town. The locals confirm that an old man lives there. Rather than being creeped out by him, they all love him. His name is Klaus, but they call him the Toymaker. | [
"The cabin was a run down wreck, hidden along a long disused logging road. I had chases this guys trail from Alabama to Montana and now my car was just a few hundred feet from his front door,I sat in the car for a few minutes wondering what the hell I was going to do now. It didn’t seem like he was violent all he d... | 1 | |
[WP] Humanity has developed a trade off: stay 25 forever but become sterile, or age until you die and be able to have children. | [
"25th December 3018\n\n​\n\nTo whomever will be left to read this.\n\nMaybe in a hundred years we won't even celebrate the birth of Christ but the birth of the last child.\n\nMy name is X and I am one of the potents. Nowadays the number of humans able to have children is in continuing to diminish. Forev... | 2 | |
[WP] The world has been in a complete state of peace for 5 years now, and the Special Forces have become obsolete. You are bored of living the normal life, and in order to see if you've 'still got it', you anonymously hire several of the best hitmen to target you for the next month! | [
"So it begins. Tomorrow is the first day of the new year, and the biggest manhunt of Europe will begin. Hiring guns against myself may seem idiotic, but last month when I almost got killed in a car accident didn't even raise my heart rate. God damn it, I'm a special forces soldier, if I die, I'd like to go down fig... | 2 | |
[WP] You've had enough of not knowing, and this time you've finally managed to sneak down to the kitchen without waking anyone. Tonight you finally find out the secret behind Grandma's amazing cooking, but you were not expecting to see her in such a weird hat, stirring a cauldron over blue flames... | [
"My Granny is the most amazing cook ever. I'm not the only one who thinks so. Whenever we go to a dinner party, her culinary prowess is always profusely complemented. Whenever anyone would ask what her secret it, she would smile knowingly. It was magic, she would claim. I knew she was just joking, but I can't lie, ... | 1 | |
[WP]You live in a world where the Grim Reaper plays a game of chess with you when your time has come and if you lose, you die. | [
"You were ready for this.\n\nBorn to high-ranking parents of the Chessmaster Champions guild, your entire life has been devoted to learning the ways of Chess. Not just learning its ways: mastering them.\n\nAnd master them you have.\n\nSince the failure of the previous Chess Champion ten years ago, you have been at ... | 1 | |
[WP] standing in the broom closet of your work with the lights off. Heavily breathing and empty feeling. Without realizing you struck a match you stare at the orange glow in your hand. As your awareness starts to come back you smell gasoline. You look down and see the trail... | [
"I wake up in a daze. Where am I? What happened? I move over and hit a broom and a door. \n\n“Why I am in a broom closet?” I think to myself.\n\nAll of the sudden I see an orange glow in my hand. I seem to have lit a match. The smell of gasoline permeates the air. I look down and see a trail of gasoline. I follow t... | 1 | |
[WP] A child prays, asking to know the true meaning of Christmas. Odin comes down to teach the child about the holiday's pagan origins. | [
"It all began when Maggie was in her room. She liked her room. Small and snug and safe. It helped during the times when her head hurt and she was confused. It was almost Christmas and her dad was busy with a lot of different decorations. They weren't the ones his friends used--Mister Michael and Missus Charity had ... | 2 | |
[WP] A little kid invites Santa to his birthday party. Touched, Santa decides to show up. | [
"\"Ohmygoodness!\" the woman squeals, clapping both hands over her mouth. \n\nHer husband shakes his head in disbelief, a wry smile on his face as he extends his hand to shake the gloved mitts of the famous figure.\n\n\"Ho ho ho,\" Santa whispers with a chuckle. \"Is he here?\"\n\nThe excited parents nod their head... | 1 | |
[WP] Reproduction has been regulated, and you were an illegal birth. Your parents’ crime was discovered, and they were promptly imprisoned. The hunt for you has begun. | [
"My parents used to joke about this. They knew what they were doing, having me. The third child. We knew the law, and we just didn't care. They would laugh and tell me that Planned Parenthood had a very different meaning 70 years ago.\n\nWhen the bashing started, it was time to put that plan in motion.\n\nMy sister... | 1 | |
[WP] In life, you we’re the greatest conman there was, and even in the end, when your fingers were arthritic and your teeth as fake as your cheques, your wit never dulled. Now you’ve arrived in hell, let’s see you talk your way out of this one. | [
"Charles observed the black gate in silence. Death wasn’t at all what he had expected. His body had taken on a familiar human form, his face smooth and his joints free of pain. There was no doubt where he had ended up. Fortunately for Charles, his entire past life had consisted of successfully navigating from one ... | 1 | |
[WP] "Your city needs you," says the mayor, on bended knees begging for your help. "Please, you're our only hope." Only hope? Did everyone forget that you're the super-villain? | [
"It had only been a year since I retired from my criminal life. Captain Superior had become a rather boring foil to my plans, so I bought a mansion and retired there. The Captain, however, was still in business.\n\nEvery day on the news, minor criminals brutally beaten within an inch of their lives for \"justice\... | 5 | |
[WP] It has been an uncharacteristically hot summer. One day, portals to all manner of mystic realm, from within this universe and without, open on Earth. Masters of the mystic arts flood into the world. They have come for a precious alchemical reagent: the last sunlight of a dying world. | [
" His eyes never left the ground. Most others seemed interested in the sky, gesticulating with its few empty clouds for a word on the matter of time remaining; the days or seconds left before the ember of our sun burned final. But this man cared little of what was happening above him, the noise of it all, devices... | 1 | |
[WP] You are startled awake in the middle of the night. When you open your eyes, there is an unfamiliar face right next to you. They simply whisper, "It's time." | [
"I’d always had vivid dreams, many of which were recurring. The strangest by far, however, was the one with the Man in Black.\n\nThat’s what I called him when I first told my Mom and Dad about the dreams. I was six, and had excitedly reported to my parents that I had been visited by someone in my sleep. He’d tol... | 1 | |
[WP] You are stranded in year 1515 in the middle of Aztec Empire, equipped only with your smartphone that has copy of Wikipedia site. It's still 4 years until Spanish conquest, and it's time for you to rewrite history and prevent the destruction of entire civilization | [
"I struggled to free myself from the soldiers holding me down on top of the stone altar, the sun burning high overhead. I kept screaming \"No! I didn't want to kill them! I didn't know!\" But everyone there ignored me.\n\nThe priest--in colorful, ceremonial garb, took the dagger off the dais beside the altar, a... | 1 | |
[WP] It's an annual tradition for you and your dopplegangers from parallel dimensions to have dinner. Despite coming from the same basic background, you live quite different lives because of your choices. It's your turn to host this year. | [
"I stood at the head of the dining room table, looking at myself. And myself. And myself. Times ten. It was my turn to give the toast, being the host of the year.\n\nI raised my crystal, sparkling champagne toward the ceiling. “To Richard! Thank you Rich, Rick, Dick, Ricky, Dicky, Ricardo, and all of my other guest... | 1 | |
[WP] Challenge: a man slowly falling into insanity in his apartment decides to keep a journal to log his thoughts, but becomes fixated on one object or phrase from the first entry over the course of the story. | [
"Guitar. Guitar. Everyday, he plays his guitar. It's the only way to keep him sane. His sad excuse of a job, an office occupation, keeps him up from 7 to 6. He then comes home, writes in his journal, and then plays his guitar. There is generally a small crowd by the base of his apartment, listening to the Heavenly ... | 3 | |
[WP] an extracurricular civilization from another dimension just visited earth to stop humanity from annihilation | [
"They just wanted to play sports. But zingera was not a sport that could abide by the destruction of its parallel civilization. You see, the sport was played using interdimensional travel. Two teams of 5 would stand within portion of the playing field and use dimensional rift prodders to hit a ball through a rift t... | 1 | |
[WP] Science has officially halted the natural aging process; but death still finds a way. | [
"So yeah I’m the bad guy, well sorta, kinda maybe I have killed a bunch of humans, it’s my job, just because it’s my job doesn’t mean I’m evil, it’s not like I’m a lawyer. I have quotas like anyone else, only mine are number of deaths per month, rather than things sold or anything.\n\nMy job gets harder, first it w... | 1 | |
Humans are seen as a threat/an extremely useful civilization to enslave. | [WP]There are two realms of existence-the physical and the mental. Most intelligent life resides in the latter. Humans are an exception-they live in both,entering the mental world through dreams. Hospitals contain the greatest and most relentless Earth defenders and generals known-comatose patients. | [
"Grace woke with a start with bright lights in her eyes and the smell of cleaning chemicals. She was confused, this is not where she went to bed the night before. As her blurry vision becomes clear she finds she is in a hospital bed, tubes attached to her, and the sound of machines beeping.\n\nHas she looks around ... | 2 |
[WP] “The good always die so young!” You apologise for their loss before turning back to celebrate your 200th birthday. | [
"\"Ive seen many people that deserve the chance to see the times that change and how they could've also changed it. I always keep them in mind with everything I do even the ones I never encountered. Reading about the accidents, things that could be prevented and the decision of others that end the lives of kids, mo... | 1 | |
[WP] the fey have made a claim on ireland and britain. the two nations break out the cold iron. its time for war | [
"\n\n\"It should have been easy. One troll stealing kids, near a major human military base. Why did they bloody not tell us there would be redcaps? Now here I am, upside down in vines, my team dead, with only you three to talk to.\"\n\nThe three in question happened to be fey. Pixies to be exact. Harmless, but with... | 1 | |
[WP] “Santa” is actually a colony of humanoid ants that harvest naughty children for their queen to eat. | [
"Hi u/IAmNotBannedFromWPs, this submission has been removed.\n\n[**No explicitly sexual responses, hate speech, or other harmful content**](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/wiki/rules#wiki_rule_2.3A_no_explicitly_sexual_responses.2C_hate_speech.2C_or_other_harmful_content)\n\n- The mods reserve the right to ... | 1 | |
[WP] You go to bed one night after a pretty normal day. You wake up to find the power is out, a layer of dust coats the room, and flabbergasted archaeologists studying the ancient remains of your living room. | [
"It had been an exhausting day. Typical for the season, but exhausting. You’d think being the boss would make things easier, but you can only delegate so much. On top of it all, I felt like I was coming down with something. A splitting headache had been plaguing me all day and now, after a scorching day in the sun,... | 1 | |
[WP] A time traveler gets absolutely wasted at a party, and goes on a bender across eras. He wakes up in the 15th century next to a dinosaur and Gordon Ramsey. | [
"\"Wake up you fucking lunatic!\"\n\nI hear as I jolt awake. Screams of pain and a familiar sounding yell resonate to the left of me. I see, unmistakably, Gordon Ramsey attempting to wrestle with a small dinosaur, fiercly nipping at him. \n\n\"Well don't just stand around with your thumbs up your arse, bloody kill ... | 3 | |
[WP] you're creeping into someone's room to kill them, unfortunately tonight someone else had the same idea | [
"# Crimson\n\nThe leather gloves on Crimson's hands grumbled as he unclenched his grip from the steering wheel. He straightened his posture, glanced down at his wristwatch, and resumed staring out the windshield at a wealthy property down the road. There was zero activity in this neighborhood past supper. It was an... | 2 | |
[WP] After decades of quantum physical experimentation, Time Travel is a reality. Your choice to save the Great Library of Alexandria concludes in the realization that it consisted of only 14 scrolls, a few biographic tomes and that the meaning of "Great" has changed substantially over the millenia. | [
"The ancient building was huge with not shelves but entire hall rooms per section. I ran looking for anything that should be saved. From the non-fiction section to the lies one I only ended up with 4 scrolls, all of which were doctoral thesis’s required to apply for a philosopher’s loofah… whatever that was. \n\n\n... | 2 | |
[WP] You're about to take a picture of a forest when through the screen you see the trees age and die and strange buildings appear. That's when you realize--whatever you point the camera at will show you the next 100 years of any place, being or object. | [
"\"okay let me see....this pine looks cool..\" I pull out my new camera. Well, new to me, but used. I picked it up at a local thrift shop and it was in perfect working condition. LCD screen, auto focus, all the good stuff for less than $75. \n\nI point the lens at the tall green pine tree, letting the auto focus wo... | 1 | |
[WP] You have the ever useful ability to respawn when you die. Unfortunately, your corpse does not dissapear so you have become a master at hiding your deaths. Unluckily, the latest death of yours was quite well documented. | [
"A scientific achievement unlike any before. I was always told what a gift to science my life was. But to me, my life was a curse. Scienctist have been trying to replicate what they created. But from what I understand they never made another... me. I was genetically, albeit illegally, created. Something to do with ... | 8 | |
[WP] It finally happened, an infectious disease with 100% transmission rate, 89% death rate, no antidote, immune to all current medicines, and no chemical can sterilize. The only way to kill it, temperatures of 300ºF or higher. Your environment suit was just splashed with a study sample... | [
"My chem suit was useless, I knew, since the transmission rate was 100%. My only hope was to undergo the horrific effects, and hope, since there was no known cure, and no chemical that could neutralize it, that I was one of the rare lucky survivors who happened to have an immunity. I mean, this is the one crutch an... | 1 | |
[WP] A crack team of Pokémon GO enthusiasts hatches a plan to catch the last one: on the Moon. | [
"Brock turned to Misty. Their eyes met and they nodded. Then he turned to the rest of the squad. They looked anxious, yet excited. He knew his time had come. He was ready to go. He was ready to finally catch that JigglyPuff.\n\nNow, Brock knew Misty's name wasn't really Misty. And he knew this team of misfits were ... | 2 | |
[WP] Instead of heaven or hell you find yourself in a cubicle. You get to design your new self with points accumulated in your previous life. While reading the instructions you are shocked, what the point system is based on. | [
"“Oh.. My.. God...” YOU’RE SPECIAL\n\nFallout don’t fail me now. Okay, I have 42 points to invest and seven stats to choose from, no stat can be below 1 or above 10. My choices are Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility and Luck; and 5 is average.\n\nI think I’d like to be the luckiest man... | 2 | |
Inspired by this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/a8ft1b/water_water_everywhere_and_every_drop_is_hogs/?st=JPYY8411&sh=b5120d64 | [WP] “Sir, we’re trapped! All the states are lined with thousands of them... I’m just receiving confirmation that we’ve already lost Canada and Mexico.” “Damnit private! We can’t let those swine win! I won’t let us lose, not to the hogs.” | [
"REEEE! the hogs screamed as they tore apart the firebase in the cold alaskan tundra, the soldiers on the ground knew they had no hope of surviving while being persued by the swine. SEND IT! the comander of the base screamed into the radio as his pistol finally ran dry and the pigs set upon him, his screams echoed ... | 1 |
[WP] magic exists except to do anything more than simple stuff you need a college education | [
"The kids sometimes ask me what it was like the day magic started leaking back into the world....\n\nIn some ways it was litterally everything I'd ever dreamed of, in others it shattered all my hopes. \n\nSome kind of ancient seal was broken, Magic flowed back into the world. Animals started turning into magical be... | 1 | |
[WP] there is a train running from New Mexico to Texas that carries millions of dollars to a certain bank every month. No one before has even attempted to rob a train, but you and your gang are going to do it. | [
"Jeff woke up smelling his whiskey exhale and marijuana ashes. He rolled over in his cot and smashed the alarm clock on the floor buried beneath his uncontained dirty laundry. He sat up, hiccuped, and suddenly remembered what day it was: the last day anyone would think he's a loser preschool teacher.\n\nJeff normal... | 1 | |
[WP] The local soothsayer and witch has stolen the love of your life with dark magic. In the past this has been accepted meekly but as the Prince(ss) of the kingdom you decide not to accept this lying down | [
"As the royal guard of the Princess of Willow, I had to tag along with her, and a couple of my men as well. Maybe that witch didn't want a lesbian relationship happening in the royal ranks of Willow, but since that is becoming more and more accepted throughout the kingdom, we couldn't stand for this. \n\nI kept my ... | 2 | |
[WP] Lucifer hears anyone who talks to him directly. He's getting rather annoyed at people saying "not today satan". | [
"You know how when someone has a bad day, there's always someone else around who says \"Well, it could be worse?\" For me, yesterday was the embodiment of the \"Could be worse\" part.\n\nNow to be fair, I do blame a bit on myself. An old flame of mine decided to hit me up again, and while I'm usually forgiving of s... | 1 | |
[WP] A statistician, a policeman and a cat walk into a bar. They look around and realize that an expectant crowd is staring at them, as though waiting for a punchline to a joke. | [
"A statistician, a policeman and a cat walk into a bar.\n\n\"What's everyone staring at?\" asks the Policeman. \"And what's the long queue for?\"\n\n\"We're giving away free fruit punch today. But that's besides the point, they're all staring at the cat\", the bartender said, pointing to a sign on the wall. \"Can't... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a Sheriff’s Deputy in a rural mountain town. You respond to a call of a missing person. Inside the house you are greeted by a distraught Daughter. Everything in the home is stuck to the ceiling or floating mid air. The yard is burnt to a crisp. Citizens reported seeing a UFO that night | [
" It sure was strange to be on the sidelines for once. I turned back around and did what little I could. I stroked through the girl's hair while we sat on the porch. Her eyes were closed. Slammed shut. She hadn't said a word or looked at me since I arrived. I was right here. Right here with the poor lass. But she w... | 1 | |
[WP] You know that you live in a simulated reality and that you are an NPC. You don't know how many players there are but so far there are 5 possible candidates that you have tracked for some time. It's time to enter the game. | [
"I remember the day I achieved awareness. It was a morning like any other, routine chores and occasional sales, until a certain customer appeared. After interrupting everything I tried to say, an adventurer with mismatched armor and spiked blue hair cleaned me out of health potions. It was the third time that we... | 1 | |
[WP] It's Christmas morning. Your family has just begun opening presents. There is a large present behind the tree with no tag, and everyone insists they didn't put it there. Suddenly, the present begins to shake and make loud banging and scraping noises. Something is trying to get out. | [
"Jenna hid behind Mom, watching the box continue to bang and shake. It had gotten more violent, knocking over the tree and scattering the ornaments as it thrashed about. The banging was punctuated by the clang of metal and what she thought to be bells. The lights flickered before turning off and leaving them in the... | 1 | |
[WP] Some time-travellers like to witness famous historical events, some like to marvel as great works of art are created, some just want to experience an era at its apex. You? You like to teach cavemen about music. | [
"The hide stretched itself over the wooden bowls I carved out. Using their sinews, I tied each one taught against the opening. Hands clapped, as my visitors were impressed with my delicate craftsmanship.\n\n\"Play winds!\" one of them cheered, \"I want try thing while you do.\" Curious to what would happen next, I ... | 1 | |
[WP] You have the charisma to start group conversations with any group you find yourself in. You board your transport with beings you thought were merely from tales and myths | [
"\"Kling klang\", the chain on my legs rustles as I enter the armored escort vehicle. *How foolish of me to think that I could get away...*, my train of thought is interrupted as my eyes fall upon the other criminals, already seated in the vehicle.\n\n\"Keep on moving!\" the guard behind my back shouts, while strik... | 1 | |
[WP] The humans from the far future have evolved to almost unrecognisable forms after millions of years of space colonisation and genetic tweaking. They discover time travel and go back to meet their distant ancestors, describe what both sides see. | [
"He didn’t flinch, the whole British empire threw everything at the German line, artillery roared and deafened us but he stood bolt upright marching beside us across the 20 feet between us and them. Barb wire, mud and limbs flew up but he strifes through it all. This was armageddon blood soaked the Somme and he did... | 1 | |
[WP] Once a year, you have the ability to see events that will happen five years in the future. One year, you only see three years in the future. | [
"It must be terminal then, nothing we can do about it now, I saw what happens three years and I’m burying a little white coffin. I had been seeing glimpses of the future as long as I could remember and this is the first time things didn’t get better. Five years and the grass was always greener it kept me going thro... | 1 | |
[WP] You have always been suspicious of monsters under your bed. In an attempt to make peace with "them" you often make friendly hand gestures while dangling your hand off the bed, like a thumbs up. One night you make half of a heart and something completes that heart. | [
"It all started when I was little. My Dad worked for most of the day, so he would try to make up for lost time by reading me stories. It was great. Except for the fact that, when he left, he wouldn’t say something normal like “Goodnight, sleep tight, don’t let the bedbugs bite.” No, he’d say, “Don’t let the monster... | 1 | |
[WP] you have lived your whole life believing that you are somehow special, part of you knows that this is ridiculous the other half believes it. You constantly attempt to use telekinesis and nothing happens. When you finally let go and admit to yourself you are nothing, the object moves. | [
"It just floated there.\n\n​\n\nI smiled, humored at the reaction of the boy. For years he was suspicious, and for months he had been trying to use his mind to lift an apple. The boy had constantly teetered at the edge of sanity, uncertain of his telekinetic powers. He researched sketchy websites and he ... | 1 | |
[WP] Death has always had a random 'favourite', who is given a choice to remain undead until they voluntarily choose to end their life. Most lasted between 200 to 300 years, leaving when all of their loved ones are gone and life is no longer worth it. The current one has just passed the 1000th year | [
"The young man watched Death drift slowly towards the building, he was carrying something with him, some sort of bundle shrouded in darkness, even after all this time he had no clue what it was, Death had a certain tendency to be a bit unpredictable.\n\nHe watched as instead of veering straight up to the top floor... | 6 | |
[WP] After humans came up with the technology to colonize Mars, they could only afford to send you to venture the planet. One day, you return to your base from your daily adventure only to notice a strong aroma present inside. On following the scent, you hear a feminine voice humming an errie tune. | [
"Maybe you should have read the signs. Humanity wasnt in a great shape. Maybe you had read too little into the fake news.. And trusted Elon a little too much..\n\nMaybe you should Have paid more attention to the world you had left.. more attention to your Rabbi in any case..\n\n​\n\nor maybe you should i... | 2 | |
[WP] Aliens, known as the Gray have come to Earth. Bringing knowledge and technology instead of death and enslavement. 5 years later humanity is thriving. Life expectancy has quadrupled and all disease is gone. One day another alien race arrives and warns us that the Gray are not what they seem | [
"„Did you... have a conflict with the greys some time ago?”\n\nThe Alien diplomat went silent.\n\n„Actually yes, they used our trust to turn our planet into pure hell”\n\n„Wait so... the Greys messed with someone.... for shit and giggles?” I asked\n\n„Yes..”\n\n„That’s fine!”\n\n„So that’s why we ne- wait what? Wha... | 2 | |
[WP] You're not sure how long you've been in this room, but all that's changed since you got here is the shape and colour of the stool in the corner. Your author has writer's block again. | [
"(I stuck with the major idea of a self aware book character but didn't use the stool scene.)\n\nI remember the first time I began to suspect something was truly wrong. I was walking home from school, as I did every day, listening to music and watching the sidewalk when I was just... Suddenly inside my house. Not j... | 3 | |
[WP] Your medieval town has a spell barrier around it preventing the undead from entering it. You wander outside of the town one day and fall asleep. When you wake up, you find that you can't get past the spell barrier. | [
"\n“Oh, gods damn it!” I shout kicking the damn thing. I feel no pain but get no closer to moving past the shimmering dome. The guards at the front of the crowd gathering just the edge of the dome stare at me unamused. I’m the first person to end up outside of the dome for more than a handful of hours since the ... | 1 | |
[WP] You’re an immortal, and humanity has died out, due to a epidemic, and only you’re alive but, the disease still effects you, and there is still life, just no humans. | [
"When will it end?\n\nThe suffering... the pain... the sorrow...\n\nWhen I decided to take the experimental immortality vaccine, I had no idea what it was going to cause. It was experimental, sure, but what could possibly go wrong?\n\nThe extinction of the human race, apparently.\n\nThe immortality vaccine had work... | 2 | |
[WP] You acquire a watch that can stop time. It falls and breaks. Everything else is motionless | [
" \"Huh.\" Greg stared at the watch parts scattered on the concrete sidewalk. He looked at the stopped cars in the street; they were driving by at full-speed moments ago. Greg wanted to cross but did not want to wait for the light. He reached into his pocket for the watch. He squeezed the button too hard and the sm... | 1 | |
[WP] Viewpoint of a girl who loves her father, The viewpoint of that fathers love for that girl. She is an A.I in a synthetic body and doesn't know and he is dying. | [
"Today I am twenty five. The same age my pops was when I was born.\n\nWhen I come down the stairs he is in the kitchen. The whir of the fab on the oven buzzes blurs in to the sound of him singing. When I get to the foot of the stairs I see him. He is wearing mom's old apron. Smears of butter stripe its front. ... | 1 | |
[WP]Thousands of years or more ago, ancient beasts roamed the earth. Two such beasts were named 'Behemoth', and 'Leviathon'. They died in their final battle. Now in current times we discover the remnants of these 2 great beast, laying prone in Morocco and surrounding area. | [
"Dr. Jack Jackson cut a swarthy figure in the desert.\n\nHis white cloak billowed behind him majestically as he directed his aids where to clean and where to dig. His supermodel wife sat behind him bikini clad, tanning in the sun. But Mrs. Laura Laurason-Jackson was not just a pretty face, she was also a elite mart... | 2 | |
[WP] You have the opposite of the Midas Touch. Anything not living you touch you turn into, but only for 30 seconds, and only once every hour. But, if anyone touches you whilst you are transformed you stay that way forever. This happened to you, explain how. | [
"a man walks into a bar, and right before he goes in he hears this wonderful piano music. He goes in to see what is making it, and there is this tiny man so perfectly playing the piano. The man asks the bartender \"where did you get that man?\"\n\"There is a genie in the bathroom\"\nthe man is amazed, and instantly... | 1 | |
[WP] After an interstellar war several ships from various species crash on an isolated planet and are lost. A human survey ship rediscovers the plant thousands of years later and encounters a medieval level society where all the species have forgotten they came from other worlds. | [
"I was walking down the corridor to the cockpit, The Readings from the scanners tight in hand, I hurried in, Showing the captain the readings. “Sir, We’ve found small traces of iron in the planet’s crust, But we’ve found many anomalies in sector 37B on the 4th marked continent. Higher amounts of iron on the surface... | 3 | |
[WP]"Thank you, adventurers," the wizard says as he looks around the table and shuffles papers. "The Guild of Games and Chance have asked you to help me, what we call 'playtest', a new game. We call it Dungeons and you are the heroes!!!" | [
"*Snap* *Crack* *Flash!* \n\n\"Welcome Adventurers!\" said an old feeble voice from the end of the room. He paused briefly to take a breath before continuing. \"You have been chosen based on your aptitudes in various skills to play-test our new life simulator. Here on Eden's Coast, We - The Wizards have been given ... | 1 | |
Fun facts!
* [The Victorian Era in England](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_era) dated 1837-1901
* [The Old American Frontier era](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_frontier) ended in 1912
* [The Meiji Restoration period](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiji_period) dated 1868-1912
* [Piracy](https://en.wi... | [WP] A disgraced samurai, an Old West gunslinger, a Victorian gentleman thief, and an elderly French pirate go on an adventure | [
"A man with whiskers, of shiny gray and black, sits a top of the unseeable Indian ocean. His mop like hair sits with hair cutting into each others paths, a firm right hand resting on the eagles nest worn wood, with cuts and sword marks. He swings a bottle of whisky around, his left hand still enough, as it holds th... | 3 |
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