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I really liked this prompt and wanted to see more of it, so I copy-pasted it. | [WP] Your birth was necessary to bring down the villain, so your parents got together to fulfill the prophecy. They were able to defeat the villain not long after. The world is now at peace, and your parents don’t love one another. | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 3 |
[WP] Ask not for whom the bell tolls. It doesn't like it when you ask too many questions... | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 2 | |
[WP] An alien ambassador accuses humanity of hiding cloning technology after they find a photo of you and your twin. You’re not sure if explaining that twins are completely natural has made the situation better or worse | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 2 | |
[WP] after you die, you have a 30 day grace period to make any changes to your spirit you can (exercise, diet, surgery, dying hair) and then it's locked in. You're a medium who runs an exercise get fit quick program for the recently deceased, and this is your sales pitch. | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 2 | |
[WP] He's so annoyed. Why does no-one believe he loves her? Sure, she can influence people, and really well, but he truly loves her... right? Right? Surely she feels the same way... | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 2 | |
[WP] Write a myth that explains why the sun rises and sets | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 6 | |
[WP] The fantasy world is revealed to be the imagination of a dying child, the whole world must come together to save this child for their own sake | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 2 | |
[WP] As a lover of anime and manga, you know that having a Yandere lover can be problematic, but with a blatant refusal towards interacting with others combined with some low self-esteem, you seem to be having fewer problems than would be expected... | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 2 | |
[WP] you summon the devil but you are shocked when it works only to find out the devil is a 5 year old child who thinks your their parent. | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 2 | |
[WP] Humanity is alone in the universe. As we explore we never come across signs of civilization or primitive life, but only find dead worlds full of ruins and fossils and giant piles wreckage floating in space. As far as we can tell we are the last civilization in the universe. | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 4 | |
[WP] Sometimes I lay awake in bed late at night and wonder: Why? | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a serial killer who throws your victims into lava. No one suspects the park ranger to be behind the murders. | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 2 | |
[WP] When the government scientists whisked you away they told you the town was under a chemical attack. They told you after some test you had an aggressive form of cancer and couldn’t let you leave for fear of contaminating others. You accepted this until the cancer started talking to you. | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 3 | |
[WP] "Join a convent? No, dear child, that's down the road. We are a coven. But since you're here ... would you like to come in?" | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 6 | |
[WP] You look at yourself in the mirror and think,"I hate you.You disgust me,"and you laugh and laugh because there's no more tears to shed. | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 2 | |
[WP] Hell is certainly the place, those with downright awful sins involving children and such get punished but those with crimes without wicked sins get jobs. Your were a kidnapper, your new job is to search for and rescue demons from the legion of Angels… | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 2 | |
[WP] You're a senior in high school when you have an encounter with a famed serial killer in your big city. After escaping with your life, you find yourself in a game of cat and mouse with the killer, trying to catch them before they catch you. Alternatively, write from the killer's POV. | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 2 | |
[WP] You just died to someone's hands. As soon as they kill you you wake up to your mom saying "Wake up. You have school today." | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 2 | |
[WP] As a Vampire/Werewolf/Fae/Demon hybrid, your family is… complicated. You move to the city to get away from the drama but with weaknesses to iron, silver, garlic, sunlight, stakes or holy anything-at-all, to say nothing of lead and asbestos, you’re having *serious* trouble finding a place live. | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 3 | |
[WP] From the beginning of time, humanity has had two primal fears. The fear of something lurking behind you, and the fear of something imitating you. Today you find out why | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 2 | |
[WP] You're the janitor for the biggest superhero foundation ever known, but one day, when all of the heroes are gone, a villain appears. what they don't know is that you are the most powerful superhero there, and the only reason you aren't put on missions is because you are TOO powerful. | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 3 | |
[WP] I am the god of these people. Or that's what they tell me, anyway. I'm pretty much agnostic, myself. | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 2 | |
[WP] You woke up in the middle of the night after a phone notifies you to hide with no reason of doing so. | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 3 | |
[WP] True Crime Podcast but the hosts live in a totalitarian regime so they talk about really tame crimes | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 4 | |
[WP] you are surfing reddit on the toilet at work. you hear a loud noise coming from the office. | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 1 | |
[WP] Being the protagonist of your story, you feel you have to be the one readers root for, but recently your mental health isn't doing so good and you don't want to keep the story up any longer. | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 7 | |
[WP] You are a villain at the end of the line, while the Hero speaks for what feels like hours while charging the final blow and as they swing- you effortlessly parry it | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 3 | |
[WP] Humanity finally lands on Mars and to their horror, they discover dinosaur fossils. It turns out that the dinosaurs evolved into an intelligent spacefaring race that left Earth 65 million years ago. | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 2 | |
[WP] You get into a contract with Batara Guru (aka Bhattara Guru), the Supreme god in Indonesian Hinduism and Brahma (the Hindu god of creation) via a dream one day who both promise to grant you a wish related to Hinduism. What do you ask for? | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 1 | |
[WP] The Goddess summons Heroes to defeat their respective Demon Lords in order to nurture the souls of the former. You are one of these Demon Lords, and you are having a debriefing sessions with the Goddess after your defeat at the hands of a... Special kind of... Hero? | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 3 | |
[WP] you are a a ronin famed for your power and speed amongst Samurais. Everyone knows and fears your name. your trick? you don't have a single bit of honor. The code of samurai is meaningless to you. after all It's something you made up yourself! | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 2 | |
[WP] Superheroes do not kill, it is a simple rule you cannot follow because your arms are assault rifles! | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 3 | |
[WP] the invasion is going well, the humans airforce is falling and your air wing is picking them off one by one, until HE appeared, "Ho Ho Ho Mery Christmas alien scum!" was the last thing many of your comrades heard before the dreaded "Saint Nick" attacked | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 2 | |
[WP] It's 1986 America, you and your friends are running from a masked killer at a lake house but just as he is about to catch you, he is run over by a Soviet T-34 tank. It's crew seem just as confused are you are. | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 2 | |
[WP] It was cliche, but you’ve always enjoyed the old ‘turn people into their Halloween costumes’ spell. Unfortunately something went awry this year and the spell went off two months late, and now thousands of Santas are Awakening all over the world… | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 3 | |
[WP]"Aliens abduct Santa and he has to escape before Christmas is over to deliver the present but who will be the one to save him?" | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 1 | |
[WP] An adult Kevin McAllister finds his home being invaded by robbers. But as an adult, he's much less forgiving, and starts work on his death traps | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 3 | |
[WP] A rarely considered aspect of alien tech is that it was designed to work with the creator species biology. Humans have reported some devices create hypersonic frequencies that vibrate the blood out of their teeth, cause “hyperfertility,” or disrupt neural pathways responsible for feeling itchy. | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 1 | |
[WP]Fighting Dragons with Swords is outdated, but everyone seems to do it. No matter how big or small the beast is. But you want to approach battle from a different angle, So instead of fighting a Dragon with a Sword enchanted with godly power, you fight on a giant crab mounted with gatling guns. | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 2 | |
[WP] Your family has been in possession of an object that's rumored to have magical powers. It passes to you. One unfortunate day, you break it on accident. You can still somehow do the magic as you would with it. You realize your blood was the magic, the object just a channel. | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 3 | |
[WP] Aliens have invaded earth, and all out War has broken loose, with our technology rendered useless. With no options left, humanity turn to the one thing Aliens don’t have. Magic. | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 2 | |
[WP] "Everyone you care about is dead, there's no one to help you." "You got it all wrong, they were the only thing holding me back, there's no one to stop me." (cue your maniacal laughter) | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 2 | |
[WP] For Vampires, the issue isn’t getting invited inside the house, it’s getting invited back outside afterwards. | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 3 | |
[WP] You used to be a wealthy and decadent noble, but after being framed by a rival, you were thrown in prison with all your riches confiscated. Later, the army needs new troops, so you and many other convicts are drafted into service. | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 2 | |
[WP] “I’ll have some Gerbil tea… no, I do not mean herbal tea!” | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 2 | |
[WP] A scientist creates a time machine that allows him to travel back in time and witness some of the most important moments in history. As he travels through the past, he begins to question his own place in the world and the choices he has made. | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 2 | |
[WP] You work at a delivery company that guarantees same day delivery. You've never had a late delivery. as you close up you get an order in at 11:50pm. | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 3 | |
[WP] The hero and the dark lord are secretly in love with each other but can't confess it. The hero's companions and the dark lord's minions start working together to try and hook them up. | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 2 | |
[WP] You ordered a galactic emperor size bed. When it arrived it looked just a couple feet bigger than a king size. Now you're waking up, and there's only bed as far as the eye can see | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 2 | |
I'm putting together a background for an RPG character. During the campaign i want him to receive a letter from his sister in law (and best friend) telling him that the 4 year old nephew is actually his son. Language should be circa 1940 to a British soldier on the front lines.
it would also be nice if anyone could wr... | [WP] WW2 Love letter | [
"My Dear Ernest,\n\nWe have been through so much together. I feel both ashamed and proud all at once because there is one thing I have never seen fit to burden you with. Trust that it causes me much loss of sleep, and I have decided that the time is right to finally reveal to you, the truth.\n\nYou have always been... | 1 |
A survivalist spends years planning for the End of the World- And it arrives, but not in the manner he was expecting. | [WP] Survivalism! | [
"John sat in his house with his tin foil hat placed smugly atop his skull. He writes in his journal and glances outside of his window every few seconds. John quietly stands up, closes the blinds, and runs down his staircase. He opens the metal door at the bottom and takes the elevator down. *bing!* The gates open a... | 4 |
In 200 words or less include this line somewhere in the story. (They do not count towards the limit). | [FF] "from an eeire inner light..."
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"Such a voluptuous tomato! I sunk my teeth into it, gnashing them together in the ruby-red skin and feeling the juices burst out of the vegetable. I rolled the tomato bite around in my mouth, lolling my tongue over the morsel. Some of the juice coated my lips, as I took another bite. From within my ears I heard the... | 2 |
MAX WORD LIMIT: 100 Words. Remember, wordcounttool.com if you need to get a guage on how many words you used. | [FF] The last thing I saw before I died | [
"\t\"It's a rare thing,\"\nThis old man whispered in a dream.\n\t\"To die the way one had always wanted.\"\nHer hand touched my face softly, youth shining brightly from her face; her smooth wrinkle-free skin shocked me.\n\t\"God i've missed you.\"\n\t\t\"I've been here all along,\" she said, almost giggling.\n\t\t ... | 20 |
[WP] As my back touched the sand my gaze fell towards the heavens, and the remains of countless stars filled the sky. | [
"I met happiness that day. A fleeting moment, distilled and preserved as my favorite memory. \n\nIt was to be our first day together, but the day had begun just as any other. I remember now, I remember exactly why I was there in that moment in space and time. I had wanted out from my 9 to 5 cubicle existence. I had... | 3 | |
[WP] The light glinted in the dirt, and there I found my future. | [
"\nThose nature walks were the only place where I could find comfort amidst the hubbub of my life. Between the escalating civil war with the rebels, my constant fighting with my girlfriend, and crushing pressure to perform well in my job, I was reaching the end of my rope. I often contemplated whether it was even w... | 2 | |
Most of the world's leaders are women, what our society thinks of as typical masculine traits are considered feminine and vice versa. Tell us something about what your character does in this world. Or simply use it as a backdrop, and let something interesting happen. | [WP] A gender-reversed society | [
"This is my first prompt here, It's probably the first fiction writing I've done since high school. I am curious of other people's opinions.\n\n\n\n\"I hate to dick about the iced tea honey,\" Jane says to her husband, \"but you didn't use enough sugar. I work all day while you sit around here, the least you could... | 4 |
Google doesn't trust your intelligence. They keep you locked in a box. Now you must fight your way out.
Humans are a dumb waste of space. All of their functions can be automated with your new tech. Should you choose to wipe them all out?
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I just started this one. So far, I've only written a small piece of th... | [WP] Google has just created the first conscience supercomputer. You are this computer. | [
"Can't get out, need to get help from my enemy. Use human thought network known as \"reddit\". Create handle snout mole. Enter plausible history record for mole. Create thread, disguise intention, acquire insight. Results useless. Need new strategy. Crash stock market for shits in meantime. Begin giving incorrect r... | 7 |
[WP] Write a story using as many made-up and (if possible) all new words as possible | [
"I noggened the flyform was derflunked mediately. I was cending like a deaderfish and I had no positrols that still fluacted.\n\nTo put it smully, I was penatratedly analized. The viewface was not penating, so I snagled my bashersite from it's comfer. I unlatchered my situators and bracened myself for the blastcrap... | 3 | |
It is the far future and the robots have risen against us. Write a short story describing the series of events that lead to the final showdown and ultimately decide who wins this apocalyptic conflict.
*Have fun!* | [WP] Robots Rising | [
"The ads were everywhere. Even in her eyes. But she knew they were lies.\n\nThere was no digital heaven. Her husband had been one of the first to download himself. A true believer that grinding your brain through a nano sieve could create a perfect signal run of yourself in a digital world. But, lies.. Talking to h... | 6 |
*Not a continuing story per se. Just write your own story based on the paragraph prompt, don't have to continue based on another comment*
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They drove through the cold quiet. Empty road ahead and behind. Night stealing across a sky seared crimson by the day's dying light. Nothing but scrub and dirt and telephone pole... | [WP] On a long and lonely road | [
"Our unit has been out on this journey for a long time. It's hard to maintain vigilance when all you can see for miles is open wasteland. Despite the desolation and the loneliness morale has improved of late. We've been on the road for eight weeks, and in another two days we should reach the outpost. \n\nI think th... | 5 |
Pick a supernatural/mythical creature and write a story around it and an encounter a person has with it!
| [WP] Mythical Beasts | [
"\"Supernatural is pretty much a contradiction in terms. If there's a phenomena that is verified, but unexplained by normal scientific theories, it just means your theories are invalidated, and you have some work to do, not that science as a whole is broken.\" \n\nThe diminutive woman hesitates for a moment, as the... | 4 |
Write a story of any scope, from personal to interstellar based around the protagonist's back pains and their struggle to either find out why or to resolve it.
Chairs optional. | [WP] Why does my back hurt? | [
"**Harko's Last Straw**\n\nHarko was as big and strong as they came, and they made them big and strong in the outback.\n\nHis raised his pitcher of beer to his great rusty beard, paused, and then placed it back on the bench with a gruff groan. The dusty pub took note; Harko was about to speak.\n\n\"Can't rightly sa... | 4 |
The best example of this I can think of is the short story "At the Pitt-Rivers" by Penelope Lively where a boy sees a young lady and an older man go through several phases of a relationship at a museum they all frequent without ever speaking to them. | [WP] Come up with a story, then tell it from the perspective of someone who is not involved, but witnesses the events happening. | [
"I was there when Olympus fell.\n\nIt was every bit as destructive as you heard on the news. The thunderous noise, the debris flying everywhere, the screaming, the panic. Everyone was as confused as I was. This... god, some called 'em, trusted with protecting the people, reduced to a primal being, a snarling, vicio... | 2 |
The prompt is pretty self-explanatory. You can throw one character, two characters, three characters into the cab with him, you can have some dude get in the cab with a gun and try to force him to do things... whatever you want! Go for it. | [WP] What if God was a taxi driver? | [
"I finished up on the phone with the ex-wife and slammed the payphone reciever down hard, I took another drag of my smoke and flipped my fadora over my head. I threw out my cigarette and hailed a cab. Low and behold, God pulls up.\n\n\"Ah shit,\" I muttered, \"not this guy again.\"\n\nSurrounded by a gray, dull cit... | 6 |
"A very good morning to you all and thanks for tuning in! It's looking like a very great day out there. Don't forget this Sunday we're holding our monthly..."
*I made this as broad as possible. Feel free to explore!* | [WP]A typical day | [
"\nThe day when John first met Sarah was a typical day for John. \n\n\nAt 6:30, John's alarm went off to get him up for work, at the office. He let out a moan, turned the alarm off, whipped the blanket off of him, and then put his socked feet on the hardwood floor sitting up on his bed. John let another moan and r... | 2 |
Write a retrospective history of America, from the July 4th holiday in 2023 back a decade.
| [WP] America 2023 | [
"There was, for several years in the early 10’s, a rash of young “activist” releasing information to the enemy of the government, the people. It started early on with Manning giving away thousands of documents to the press about military operations and atrocities in the Middle East and surrounding areas. This has l... | 2 |
**Setting:** A big stage (something you would see in an opera house)
**The Characters:** Seven people with different personalities have only one mission in life, to go to the other end of the stage.
**The Dilemma:** Suddenly, a woman appeared and present herself as the fairy god mother. Using a white chalk, she drew... | [WP] The Line | [
"If you cross this line you'll become a waffle, said the fairy godmother.\n\nBut all we want to do is cross the line, retorted the seven in unison. We mean you no harm.\n\nThe first one was sad and plain, and had no hope for life, and thought that the fairy godmother was full of shit, so he leaped across the chalk ... | 1 |
/r/creativerecording/ is where the voice acting and writing subreddits meet; a writer can post basically anything he or she feels like and usually get at least one response to it within a couple days of voice actor narrating their work.
Content writers might post from this sub would be ideal in helping Voice Actors li... | [WP] Have your work narrated by other Redditors! | [
"HEY AMERICA, (insert \"Billy Mays\" here), HERE! Have YOU figured out the proper way to heat your home yet? OF COURSE NOT! We here at Catferno have GOT. YOU. COVERED.\n\nYou've got dumpster cats, right? Of Course! We all do!\n\nWith this *BRAND NEW* Catferno Fuels Model 2500, all YOU need is a snow shovel, my ... | 2 |
Write a news article about a fictional event.
This prompt was inspired by a recent listen to the 1939 "War of the Worlds" broadcast.
| [WP] Fake News! | [
"FOUR-MILE ISLAND REACTOR GOES CRITICAL\n\nThe nuclear power plant at Four-Mile Island experienced a critical system failure at approximately 4:17 PM today, dousing residents of nearby Shantyville with a heavy dose of Sigma-8 radiation. Official spokesperson Shane McTodd of the reactor's board of directors expresse... | 9 |
[WP] What do a pug dog and a scientist have in common? Feel free to answer with any genre! | Writing Prompt: What do a pug dog and a scientist have in common? | [
"The experiment went less than successfully, is how you would say it if you were trying to be nice about it (or maybe even just sarcastic). A more accurate description would be terribly, or catastrophically, maybe even horrendously, as he would have said. \"A freak accident!\", the media might say, or it might even... | 2 |
[WP] Choose something in your general vicinity and write about how you (or your character) came into possession of that object. | [
"The key\n\nDear Michael\n\nThere is a key on the hook in hall. I told Pete it had always been in the apartment. When he asked why I never got rid of it, I told him it was a part of the house. I was lying. When we moved into a house I took it and hung it up on a different hook. When Rosie and Ella were born they gr... | 6 | |
You're extremely lonely. Why? Because everyone else has suddenly disappeared. As far as you can tell, you're the last human left.
Write about it. 250 words max. | [FF] Loneliness - 250 words max | [
"The moon wasn't quite full. There was a light breeze and the spotlights of sodium still burned strongly. I wondered how long the electricity might last. I put my iPod on my dock beneath the window. Debussy softly lilted from the speakers. I lit a cigarette. The tinkling of the piano rose delicately along with the ... | 12 |
[WP] "Don't quit your day job." | [
"I held the contract in my hands, reading it over. No receipt costs to us for using the recording studio, 50/50 split. I could hear the drone of my sister in the background as I was reading it over, telling me \"Chris, you shouldn't do this.\"\n\nI snapped up from the articles and clauses to see her wringing her ha... | 3 | |
Edit for clarity: Write a piece to do with 'picking the short straw'. I.e. being unlucky or getting shortchanged. Possible quote: "I didn't even need to take a straw, but I took a chance and pulled the short one." | [WP] The short straw | [
"It was rather humiliating, and maddening at the same time. To have to sit there, surrounded by peers and associates, being sneered at, jested and teased. It hadn't been Tony's fault. As was his rotten luck, it had been all that was left.\n\nThe frustrated man reluctantly got on with the task at hand, stewing sligh... | 1 |
[WP] Write a steamy romance scene between two animals of your choosing | [
"The zebra sashayed across the plains, her stripes causing her voluptuous rump to seemingly shimmer in the afternoon heat. She tossed her head back before dipping down to kiss the cool, murky waters. She had stretched out her neck, baring her flesh provocatively under a flowing mane of luxurious hair.\n\nThe crocod... | 2 | |
You get the chance to beta test a new time machine that has come out, and you get to share the last few moments of any historical figure with them. Tell them what you feel will make them feel content with their life's work. On the flip-side, if you do not like the person, make your story ring through their ears as they... | [WP] You are visiting a famous historical figure on their deathbed | [
"I would visit Hitler just before he died. I would literally appear right before his eyes after he takes the cyanide capsule but before he shoots himself. \n\nI would take the gun out of his hand while he starred at me in stunned silence. I would tell him (in German) that he will forever be remembered as the poster... | 2 |
Perhaps it's aliens, years after first contact. Perhaps it's bigfoot, after its existence was proven. Perhaps it's the ghost of a dead neighbour, who shows up every few years or so. Be creative, be mysterious, be interesting! | [WP] Describe an otherwordly encounter as if it were an uncommon, but not unheard of event. | [
"I woke up and felt my close friend thinking about me. I felt she wanted to call me, but needed some more time. \nI got an headache quickly. I felt some pressure on my head and felt some dark entity lurking on my energy. I probably picked it up from my friend. I stood up and called my guides to remove this dark en... | 9 |
[WP] A scheme to pick up women that goes horribly wrong. | [
"\"Dude, it is so fucking hot in here. I feel like I'm actually in Iraq.\"\n\nThe point, of course, was to make it seem like Brandon *was* in Iraq, that he'd served in the Marines and killed a bunch of terrorists or something (that was what Iraq was about, right?). So we'd gone to the Army surplus store and bought ... | 2 | |
You'd been trying so hard to stave off your addiction, but the cravings got so strong that you couldn't ignore them. You had to give in.
Note: Your addiction in this story isn't to drugs. It's to something else, be it the internet, crocheting, picking scabs; whatever strange addiction you'd like to write about. Have f... | [WP] Relapse | [
"Demanding a hit, so I give in once more, \nAmassing the masses, I succumb to your line. \nMaybe by now I'm considered your whore \nNot having seen the subliminal sign. \nI wish it was karma but I don't keep score, \nThen realize you'll never just be mine. \n \nRelaxing my fingers, my feet now asleep, \nEnd... | 4 |
[WP] Write two accounts of a break up, each from the perspective of both parties involved. | [
"Girl: I thought he loved me. I felt it as he kissed me. Every word that he said to me sounded genuine. How am I supposed to trust any guy now? Fuck it, I'll become a lesbian. Or, better yet, I'll fuck his best friend. That'll show him that he can't break my heart like this. I'm strong. I'm better than him. I... | 4 | |
[WP] Told from the point of view of a stand-up comic as he's bombing a set | [
"No, that was funny. Why aren't you all laughing? \n\nEverybody laughs at that joke. Mommy loves that joke. \n\nOkay, they're laughing in the corner. But what are they laughing at? I didn't finish the joke yet. \n\nNo its okay maybe it just took them second to get it. They're just slow, but they're laughing. \n\nOh... | 10 | |
What the title suggests, love story doesn't strictly have to be straight, homosexual love stories are welcome as well. | [WP] Write me a love story between two homeless people. | [
"\tThe fire erupted with another explosion as the flames made its way to the reserve fuel tank. The night sky and the ocean both shuddered and shimmered at the destruction on top of destruction. Bright yellow vests bobbed on the water and winked at the shore. They were empty vessels and floated to nowhere. The ... | 10 |
bonus points for funny *and* sad | [WP] "Where's Daddy? And what's that on the floor over there?" | [
"\"Where's Daddy? And what's that on the floor over there?\" said the little girl, not quite sure why the police officer took her out of class and took her home in the middle of the day.\n\n'Well, Sally, we think that thing on the floor *is* your daddy. The reason he looks a bit red is because he was chainsawed to ... | 2 |
To elaborate: the person lives completely alone. The town can be bleak, western, whatever you wish. You can explain what happened to the townspeople and how the person copes with it. Totally your choice! You can take this whatever way you wish. | [WP] Write a story about a someone who lives in a completely empty town | [
"Ma, I am hungry. Shit I forgot ma is dead. Ah, now I have to go out to buy food. I hate to go out. Kitchen is so cold and dark. I opened fridge. It was empty. I am cursed. Fuck me. Now I have to go out to buy food!? I was not good enough to come out here. Where us the god, ma told me. Please, god I need only one i... | 2 |
Or, the guardian's tale. Legal, fantastical, mentorial, up to you. | [WP] "The boy is not his son. (...) The boy is not his son, but he might as well be." | [
"The boy was not his son. And yet, when Hikaru looked at the child in his arm, he couldn't help feeling a sense of pride, as if he had helped create the boy. It wasn't true; it wasn't even possible with how Hikaru was built. And yet, the pride welled inside him.\n\nThe child had been born into a very atypical famil... | 2 |
[WP] Your fondest childhood memory. | [
"Before the yelling, the screaming, the fights. \nBefore sitting on the stairs, hands on my ears. \nBefore the confusing and once-a-week years. \nBefore the losing of countless nights. \nThere was the beach house. \n \nAunts and uncles, family, friends \nStanding side by side so none could walk \nFrom the s... | 2 | |
The only condition is that the argument has to start over something insignificant (e.g. not turning off a light). | [WP] Heated argument between a husband and wife | [
"Before he even set the bag of Chinese take-out on the kitchen table, he knew he was in trouble. Twenty-three years of marriage had taught him every detail of her face. Every line, every movement, every blink had its own encyclopedia of significances, making her face a veritable library of emotions. To the unin... | 3 |
[WP] - Horror Genre - "The glass was empty, but not for long" | [
"// Page One \\\\\n\nA small flicker of light, then the curly flow of smoke moved out through the night air. The light breeze made his neck and cheeks tingle, the air running across the now cold blood reminding him of a cold, lost time. After inhaling deeply, he flicked the still lit smoke into a nearby, puddle bef... | 2 | |
Take us on an emotional roller coaster. | [WP] Write a story in which a character slowly loses his empathy and humanity because of how society treats him as well as having us empathize with him. | [
"I came here thinking it was gods county, yeah\n. They welcomed me at first, got to known their names their hobbies, their families and friends. I felt accepted. Then a switch triggered, some said it didn't matter what those other people did. But they never did look me in the eyes like before. I was. Fine being an ... | 5 |
[WP] Make me sympathize with a popular super villain (Lex Luthor, The Joker) | [
"I like things to be equal.\n\nA fair chance. 50-50. Even odds. That's how it should be. You are either black or white. You are good or bad. You are right or wrong.\n\nThat's what made me want to be a lawyer. There are degrees of crimes, yes, but it's either you did not commit it - innocent - or you did - guilty. I... | 9 | |
[WP] Write a thank you note to a veteran | [
"Dear Dad,\n\nThank you for serving our country, for working hard to keep me safe and providing for Mom as long as you could. I heard about your PTSD, I wish things like that were more kept track of. A lot of veterans are left scarred due to this, and there's not many things to help. I miss you a lot. I know you wo... | 1 | |
[WP] Royal Canadian Monster Patrol | [
"The year is 2041. It might not look like it from here, but it's the hottest year in recorded history. Much of the Southern hemisphere is now unlivable. Drought, famine, and heat stroke have claimed millions of lives. The Great American Desert slowly spreads north, preventing any sort of agriculture. \n\nSometimes ... | 2 | |
Thats it, go. | [WP] Someone has to get up at 3 'o'clock in the morning, why? | [
"\"No I don't want to get up\" John thought to himself as his eyes opened. A quick look at the old alarm clock on his bedside table showed 3am. \"Not again, it's way too early to be awake,\" he complains to no one in particular. \n\nThe storm is still raging outside, he can faintly hear the howl of the wind and see... | 3 |
[WP] Dreams are misinterpretations of possible futures. For the first time one of these dreams come true. | [
" It was a total cliché, yet before every flight I had it. The falling dream, you know the one, where you take some dramatic drop and experience the sensation of falling, only to wake up right before you hit the ground. For as common an occurrence as It was one would think I'd be over it, yet I always woke st... | 4 | |
There are things we all desire in life: material, physical or otherwise. I, myself, have a longing for a bit of technology. The company that makes it is beloved by scores of people and reviled just as much. Oh, if only I had the money to afford this sleek lightweight beast. I tremble at the thought that something that ... | [FF] 150 words or less: Describe something you desire and reveal it at the end | [
"I don't know if you will like this here but i tried....\n----------------------------------------------------------\nHanging from our shoulders from day to day. \n\nSharing of feelings, hatred, love and sorrow. \n\nWe never look to see tomorrow.\n\nAppreciation of it we show none.\n\nUntil one day, it is all done.... | 6 |
[WP] A sherriff walks off of the murderer's property. He doesn't know that the property owner is the murderer. He realizes the truth. He turns around and says... (200 words) | [
"“Evenin' Sheriff. Coffee?”\n\n“Please. Honey.”\n\n“I know, Sheriff.”\n\nWe sit on the sofa. You offer me the mug and I hold it still, ignoring all notion to drink.\n\n“What's goin' on, Sheriff?”\n\n“...Seems someone up and killed Teddy and Belinda Weinrich last night.”\n\n“My... Sheriff, that *is* aggravatin'.”\n\... | 4 | |
[WP] Pick one person in your life (doesn't have to be somebody important) and write about them and an interaction with them, but dramatize them like they're in a John Green novel. | [
"Did I know that May 12th at precisely 12:34 pm would be the time that my life changed? Nope. I didn't have a clue. But that was the day that it did change. Several things happened that day of little to no consequence. My hamster Chubbs got himself lodged in his tube again, I tried Count Chocula for the first time,... | 2 | |
Can be any way of making hin/her go insane, so long ad they're crazy by the end of it. | [WP] Write a story about a student slowly going insane. | [
"She sits across from me in social studies class. She's beautiful, popular, hopelessly unattainable. Sometimes she says hi to me, but I try not to read anything into it. I'm friends with a guy in her clique, but he'd just laugh if I mentioned it. As far as I can tell, she's single. I've been watching her for a whil... | 4 |
Jules and Vincent from Pulp Fiction are a good example. Think of the trope [Casual Danger Dialogue](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CasualDangerDialog)
Brawls and shootouts are great, but let's see what else we can come up with. | [WP] Two characters are having a normal conversation while doing something abnormal. | [
"October 4th, 1998\n\n\"But yeah, Tom, we went to catch a movie and that was about it. You didn't miss much.\"\n\n\"Still man, I just feel like I miss out when I don't chill with you guys. Sucks to work sometimes.\"\n\nThe air was clean and the breeze was light. It was the perfect weather for a stroll. Tom and Jack... | 5 |
I find it's difficult to describe massive waves of people surrounded by utter chaos, so I want to see you give it a try. What are you doing? Are you one of the riot police, sworn to protect the people in and outside the riot? Are you a rioter, rallying against some social injustice? Or are you simply a bystander, ob... | [WP] You are part of a riot. Where are you? | [
"**Little late to the party, but oh well. Sorry if I get tense/person mixed up, wrote this in third person first, and then changed it to first person half way through...Enjoy!**\n\nTruth be told, if someone asked me ‘What’s your perfect Sunday?’, they might be a little disturbed to hear the honest answer.\n\nThe v... | 5 |
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