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Hey! In less than 300 words. I'll be filming a video about this topic, and wanted an interesting concept. I'm really interested to see what I can come up with this prompt, so I decided to share it with everyone.
I'll use this text to do a voice over for the project I'm doing (purely creative work for my own enjoyment)... | [WP] Explain alcoholism as if it was your lover | [
"We were young. And knew not (initially) the effect we would have on one another. Every great love story ended with ‘happily ever ’, and, possessing such naïveté, I was certain as we touched for the first time, this is the only partner with whom I would reach the ‘after’. We would remain through jubilation, lame... | 6 |
[WP] "The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy." | [
"\"I, am the chief executive officer in charge of officers of the bureaucracy.\" said the tiny bespectacled man. \"I don't believe in formalities however, and thus you may address me as Mr Pickle.\" \n\nMr Pickle always introduced himself this way, despite everyone on staff being well aware of who he was. His speec... | 3 | |
And it's far worse than you could have imagined. In fact, you pity them for it. However, you could use this new-found knowledge to help them. Or you could use it to destroy their life. What do you do? | [WP] You've discovered your worst enemy's darkest secret. | [
"The day's final flowers had been sold, the register had been emptied and the flowers' worth stacked on Mr. Montgomery's table. Behind the table, the undulating mass of a man snoring in front of a small TV set failed to notice his wealth, the wealth I'd earned for HIM. \"Mr. Monty,\" I said in a hush, trying to be ... | 3 |
[WP]: a new STD is discovered, which spreads by turning the infected incredibly physically attractive, however shortening their life spans significantly | [
"\"...and that was how the human's 3 day plague wiped their entire population out, leaving us and the others with all the tasty fish. That's when the water near land also became cleaner and more alive.\" , the Dolphin matriarch explained to her identical twin grandchildren, whom both completed their pre-medicine ... | 6 | |
Feel free to embellish a little, but don't go overboard. You can discuss whatever kind of fear you like, and whether or not you overcame it.
Happy writing! | [WP] Let's do something different: Write about a personal experience. When in your life have you felt most afraid? Why? | [
"I lay there, drifting of into a reverie. I was waiting for my body to be ready, so I could join the silent sleepers that lay in the damp earth. I heard a commotion coming from the hallway, loud voices, quite sobs and heavy boots approaching. I felt a tear escaping my eye, burning my cheeks but the cold of the wood... | 11 |
[WP] A person finds hope for a new life in their toothbrush. | [
"Mack dragged his legs along the floor. His father had always chided him when he did that. But that was a long time ago, and his father was too dead to care.\n\nMack crept further down the hallway. It was as if his legs weighed a hundred kilos each. At one stage, they did weigh that much -- when Mack was morbidly o... | 9 | |
For whatever reason (perhaps you made a joke along the lines of, "Man, I'd sell my soul for a ________."), you realize that you have in fact sold your soul to the devil. Try to buy it back, or persuade the devil to simply give it back. | [WP] Attempt to buy your soul back from the devil. | [
"\"Look, um, Sir? I am feeling pretty freaked out right now about this whole situation, and to be completely honest with you I'm about to shit my pants. Is there another way we can do this? Where you don't look so. Um. Devilish?\"\n\nThe Devil slips smoothly from his horrifying eight-foot horned form into George Cl... | 2 |
[WP] The world's most optimistic person and most pessimistic person are roommates and smoking a joint while friendly but rather insistent Martians are petitioning the United Nations to be allowed to take over the world's casinos. Tell me how the roommates take all this in. | [
"\"Are you listening to this? Are you *listening* to this? I thought Mars was dead. Since when the fuck were there people on Mars? They're fucking beautiful. Do you know what this means? If life happens twice right in our little solar system - I mean, how many stars are there just in the galaxy? Like, a bill... | 2 | |
[WP] On a farm, the animals worship humanity as gods. Among the turkeys, being chosen for Thanksgiving dinner is seen as the highest possible honor. Write from the perspective of a male turkey who is jealous of his sister, who has been selected to be slaughtered. | [
"\"Bitch,\" he gobbled from his place inside the pen. He watched with angry eyes as one of the gods, the one with the coveralls--selected his sister for this years tribute. He, like the others, had run around offering to be this years tribute, but the wrinkled God with the axe ignored him. He wasn't angry at the Go... | 4 | |
[WP] The most love-filled, adoring, and caring declaration of hate. | [
"When she spoke I could have sworn I could hear pearls falling some where;I guess when you love someone you do tend to go crazy.She and I had the same classes for an altogether of 3 years.Never could I gather up enough courage to ask her out and as a crestfallen warrior returns home I would return to my room wonder... | 3 | |
Write a story, the world, your family, everyone you love has volunteered you for this task. | [WP] The world is ending, you must sacrifice yourself. | [
"\"Why me?\"\n\nThis question ran through your head over and over as you sat on your bed, tears streaming down your face.\n\nYour family, friends, everyone you knew, decided that you weren't worthy of continuing your life. They decided that they were worth more than you were. You are nothing to them. You let out a ... | 1 |
Write about the conversation. The agent is there to dissuade you from a decision you're making that detrimental to the organization they are apart of. What are you thoughts? What do you do? | [WP] The NSA (or other shadow organization) sends a representative to talk with you. | [
"Wake up, get ready to go to work, wait for the bus, see the girl at the coffee shop, say nothing to her, sit in front of my computer at a job I know well that it is a job with a dead end. \n\n\"Mr. Monroe..\"\n\nStartled from what seemed like a year long day dream.\n\n\".. I'm agent Roberts and this is agent Circu... | 12 |
It can be physical pain, or emotional pain. Whichever, or both, humanity can no longer feel it. How do they respond? How does the government(s) respond? How are the laws rewritten to handle this? | [WP] Humanity has suddenly lost the ability to feel pain. How do they respond? | [
"I could hear their gasps of shock. It barely registered, like so much, now. \n\nThe cacti were so pretty this early, little drops of moisture glistening on the tips of their spines. I strolled among them, skin enjoying the breeze. All of my skin.\n\nPeople stood on the pathway, whispering and pointing. Their littl... | 2 |
[WP] A Zombie outbreak at a Walmart on Black Friday | [
"At first, no-one noticed. \n\n\nPatient Zero had been caught up in the crush when the doors opened to the store in the early hours of the morning. People intent on grabbing the best deal and saving the most money, just to show off their 'loot' on Facebook, streamed into the store. Waiting outside they were so busy... | 6 | |
It can be about anything, but it must have a twist at the end! | [WP] A limerick with a twist | [
"There once was a lad from Japan\r\rWhose poetry, they never would scan\r\rWhen I asked him why\r\rHe said with a sigh\r\rI don't know maybe it's because I always cram as many syllables into the last line as I possibly, possibly can.\r\r*(I can't remember where I heard this, but I definitely didn't write it myself.... | 1 |
[WP] Write as Santa Claus. | [
"Jolly Old St. Nick looked at his last list. There was only one name on the colossal parchment. Three small black letters written in cursive by the careful hands of Mrs. Claus. A tiny spec of ink on an endless white scroll.\n\n*Amy*\n\nSanta checked his mail. Perhaps Amy had sent him a letter detailing what she... | 3 | |
[WP] "How much of a hero are you, if all you've managed to save is yourself?" | [
"I swear a lot in this one. Please don't read if you're easily offended.\n*****\n\"What the fuck?\" was the best I could muster to break the uncomfortable silence, as the wind blew behind me. \n\"You've only ever saved yourself!\" she cried from the other end of the roof. \"We lost fifteen guys less than a MONTH a... | 8 | |
[WP] You accepted a job as the lone watcher for a lighthouse on a barren rock days away from anywhere. A big storm is coming... | [
"7 billion people. Out of all of them, it was me who was chosen.\n\nI had to lookout that week, when I should've been with my family. In July I didn't know my Dad had been diagnosed in November, or that we had got a dog. The company gave me a last minute thing, and they kinda forced me to do it. Giving warnings to ... | 6 | |
This is my first prompt. Just wanna see what this awesome community of writers can come up with.
Story can take place anywhere and if you wanna deviate hugely from the prompt go for it just make it interesting and exciting. All the best guys and girls. | [WP] You witness a lone cop brutally slay a kneeling person. Why and what happens next? | [
"He was smiling when he fell. She caught her breath and looked at the corpse- what was left of his life was fading fast. His breaths were short and strained. He looked up. His smile was fading. She remained expressionless. Her riot gear smeared with his blood. Her trigger finger twitching. \n\nWe all felt that. It ... | 2 |
[WP] The last thoughts of a death row inmate before his execution. | [
"It's funny that my heart's beating so fast. I guess it's trying to get in as many as it can before it stops. I admire the dedication.\n\nI wish more people would admire my dedication. I have a lot of it, truly. You'd think once they found it was me who killed all of them, they'd sit back in awe. \"All of them?\" t... | 2 | |
[WP] In a world where athletes, scientists, soldiers and more are put out of work by superhumans, one person makes a stand against obsolescence. | [
"\"My blood is red, my heart beats strong, and my brain contains the spark of life that has been passed down from my earliest ancestors. I have loved and lost. I have work my hands to the bone and fallen victim to sloth. I have been full of hope and hollow with ringing despair. I am afflicted with the human conditi... | 7 | |
[WP] You're walking through a forest when you come across a lone door standing in a field. You open it, and you're shocked to see what's on the other side. | [
"\nI paused on the familiar trail that wound through the Greenbelt. Something was different, something had changed. It took me a moment while standing perfectly still to register what it was. The birds had all fallen silent. \n\nI continued down the trail towards Hawk Creek, wondering what might be the cause. The w... | 4 | |
[FF] Three sentences max: Failure to communicate. | [
"\"Sit, Ubu, sit!\", said the man with the grey shirt.\n\nI wished I could tell him how demeaning it was to be treated such; to have my intellect discounted and my rational mind ignored as his repeated commands wore down my resistance. I wished there was some way to clarify my agonizing frustration to my captor, b... | 3 | |
[WP] The deaf beauty. | [
"It's not fair. But then, I guess I can't complain. It's only that I can hear every word they say.\n\nThey all laugh at me. They shouldn't. Saying your 's' sounds right isn't everything. \n\nAt least I know what I want to do with my life. While they're screwing around in class, I pay attention. (Have to get a good ... | 4 | |
Try to give immediate and long term affects | [WP] Everyone over the age of 40 drops dead | [
"I was napping in the car when I heard the smash.\n\nMy seatbelt caught me. The car swerved and buckled.\n\nMy nan sat next to me in the seat. \"Nan?\" I cried. \"Nan! Mum, nan's not breathing? Mum! Oh god, mum.\"\n\nMum was impaled on the steering wheel. The emotion dropped off my face. I screamed and screamed.\n\... | 3 |
[WP] A Jewish man in a concentration camp has stolen a pistol, but it has only one round. | [
"The gas starts to creep into the room as the man kisses the end of the barrel. Tendrils of white creep around legs as those closest to the vents start to choke. A man holding his crying child spots the man with the gun. His eyes plead as he looks from the gun to the child. The man with the gun mouths the word, \"s... | 8 | |
It's exactly what you wanted. | [WP] It's Christmas morning, and everyone is gone. | [
"'Twas the morning of Christmas when all through the house, \nNot a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. \nTimmy was walking down the staircase with care \nKnowing that the Old One soon would be there. \n\nThe plates were still set from the previous evening, \nwhen all had been well and his paren... | 1 |
[WP] You are telling your grandchildren the story of how the doge meme took over every aspect of contemporary life, and maybe what it was like before that. | [
"\"You keep making that dog dance in front of that camera,\" Grandpa said to Albert. \"It's the only way we can talk normally.\"\n\nThe dog, obviously, did not like what Albert was doing, and started voicing his displeasure with high-pitched whines. A long-forgotten Justin Bieber song was playing on the scavenged C... | 2 | |
[WP] - A Suicide Hotline Operator slowly realizes the man who called is Death. | [
"Jenny looks at the pink slip in her hands over and over. Flipping it, folding it, unfolding it, re-reading it. The look on her face is one of shock and surprise as her supervisor looks on.\n\n\"Sorry Jen, but you're a liability. Almost every call you've taken has ended in a suicide. I know you're a good person, b... | 6 | |
[WP] Someone sees world wide news reports detailing that the world will end within the next day. Explain the worlds reaction from one persons view | [
"It has been exactly sixteen hours since I heard the news. I don’t typically watch the news. In fact, I try to avoid it as much as possible though in the office I work the AM Radio station often gives off brief news casts and traffic updates. Usually I have my headphones in listening to my own music just to escape ... | 3 | |
What have I done?
You just killed another human being.
But why? Why did they make me do that!?
They were going to kill you, so you had to strike first. *And you liked it.* | [WP] A Pacifist kills someone in self defense, then must fight against the temptation of more violence. | [
"Blood slowly trickled down his chin. Flowing into a puddle on the very tip, forming into drops and pattered against my forehead.\n\nPat, pat, pat. I couldn't move. It felt warm against my skin, it was running down my forehead, scattering through my eyebrows and going for my eyes. \nI manage close them just in time... | 3 |
What does it say? How long has it been there? Does everyone have it? How is it decoded? Go for it! | [WP] A message is found encoded in our own DNA. | [
" Was I really to Jacob? I had yet to find out. I had never known who my biological father had been, for I only lived with my mom. IF so, I would have a father by the name of Rick. I'm sitting in the doctors lounge, waiting as usual. It's been longer than it should usually take, so I have no clue why its taking so... | 3 |
[WP] The king of a xenophobic and isolated kingdom makes the decision to send out scouts and envoys. | [
"“Tell me, Hillman XXIII,” said King Gloren LVI, “do you believe there to be a kingdom as glorious as ours?”\n\nHillman was an advisor to King Gloren, and bowed his head slightly as he said, “Oh King Gloren LVI, could another kingdom match our glorious blue skin, our banners of purple, and this fortress which has l... | 5 | |
Make me never want to go in the ocean again. | [WP] You are a part of a team of scientists who's mission it is to explore the deepest and darkest depths of the ocean. Horrify me with what you find. | [
"\"So, this is the thermocline conveyor. It is between the surface, starting a few hundred meters lower, all the way to approximately 1,000 meters.\", James pointed with a small laser pen, coherent light scattering on the projector surface in faint rings.\n\n\"We're trying to study the effects of this process, by s... | 2 |
[WP] The last surviving member of a once prestigious warrior clan is getting ready to die. | [
"The mountain loomed ahead as the flood of humanity that was the endless army filled the valley. Created by a lake long dry in some ancient age and surrounded by towering peaks on three sides, it was the gateway to the north for the Great Empire, the last line of natural defence for the barbarian tribes. Snow cappe... | 7 | |
Does your character feel pain, or have they lived their entire life without realizing that they don't? Is your character indestructible or squishy and weak just like the rest of us? Can your character escape, or must they wait for emergency response? | [WP] An otherwise normal person discovers that they cannot die after being involved in a major car crash. | [
"I can faintly hear the scrambling of doctors and nurses coming in and out of my room. I can't see. I can slightly move my head around, and I can make quiet grunting noises. I still can't see. One of the nurses noticed that I was starting to wake up and called attention over to one of the doctors. My whole bod... | 3 |
In case anyone is unclear on what an adult escort service is, it's basically *technically* legal prostitution. | [WP] A person really wants a certain kind of car, and finds that they can afford it if they get an advertisement paint job. When the car arrives, it has an advertisement for an adult escort service. Hijinks ensue. | [
"Kevin wasn't even counting down the days. He was counting down the minutes. The paperwork was signed, the I's dotted, the T's crossed. He was finally going to get it. The deal was incredible, too. There was no way Kevin could afford the car, not even with his dad's help. After weeks of research, though, he came up... | 3 |
[WP] It's 300 years after a nuclear war and a survivor finds something out of place... | [
"Wearily I opened my eyes. Something clicked and a sudden flash of pain ran through me as the bright light bombarded my eyes. \n\nTime becomes a drift at suddent pain.\n\nWhat is going on? Can't think straight. My head is clouded with cobwebs.\n\nA smack somewhere close and an infant begins to scream.\n\nMy eyes be... | 7 | |
[WP] Frank thought everyone wanted to steal his recipe for the perfect cookie. He was right. | [
"Bringing the tin of biscuits into a nightclub was a mistake.\n\nI was young and naive then, a poor student in the first week of university term, just a skinny chemical engineer, comical glasses, a mop of slightly-too-long hair, lanky, who got in with a scholarship. All I had to do at interview was give the admissi... | 4 | |
[WP] A girl is depressed about her life even though she has a boyfriend, good grades, friends, and everything else that makes her happy. She contemplates suicide. Write her thought process of why she should or shouldn't do it. | [
"\"It's all so boring,\" she scribbled in her journal, \"I have never tasted fear. I have lived in this bubble of comfort and progression my entire life, but not once do I feel like I have really lived,\" she stretched her hand to let the muscles relax. She was writing with more intent then she'd realized.\n\n\"I b... | 2 | |
[WP] You figure out how to stop time for everyone but yourself. You don't know how to start it again. | [
"-006\n\n---\n\nIf you are reading this, then time managed to unfreeze its self. I don't know how it did that, but praise God for it. When I froze time, I was not a religious man, nor am I now, but only a deity could have fixed this.\n\nThe truth is, I stopped time, and I have no idea how to fix it.\n\nI'm not writ... | 5 | |
[WP] What is your idea of beauty? | [
"The warmth of her, the radiance of her bare shoulder next to mine as we watched some scene unfolding on the street below. It was late, one or two in the morning I guess. I don’t remember what exactly was happening down there; it was mostly over before she came into the front room where I was sleeping. Still, we we... | 6 | |
[WP] Shortly after the 25th Anniversary of the Terraforming & Colonization of Mars, Earth is destroyed by an unknown force. | [
"**Sorry for deviating a bit from the \"unknown force\" aspect, but I got kind of carried away**\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------------\nThey say that The Fourth Great War started and ended within 2 days of the UN’s Global Intervention Networked Array becoming Akasha. \n\nGINA was... | 3 | |
Feel free to choose the war (past, present, future...), the place of isolation (the mountains, the jungle, outer space...), and anything else.
Lets write some humanity, and have fun (: | [WP] Two isolated enemy soldiers talk to each other by radio. | [
"http://oswegowriter.blogspot.com/2014/01/island-115-008.html\n\n\"Is anyone out there? I've become separated, over.\" Sandor picked up the radio from the dead soldier's hip.\n\n\"Who is this?\" he asked. \"This is supposed to be a secure channel. Over.\" He frowned, peering into the dark jungle around him. It was ... | 11 |
Did something catastrophic happen while this person was asleep for so many years? (Probably.) Let's hear 'em! | [WP] Someone in cryosleep wakes up to find the laboratory derelict and abandoned. | [
"The liquid drains from the container holding you, waking up in a panic as you look around. According to the automated voice, you were stored here for 20 years. No.\n\nnonononononononononononONONONONONONONONONO\n\nTHIS WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN. You were supposed to be stored there forever, left to cyrosleep tilll ... | 6 |
Inspired by [this comment](http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1utc3a/i_know_im_one_behind_but_im_still_excited/celpedw) and the resulting child comments | [WP] Write about a modern video game/movie/book as if it were a Greek myth or an epic poem | [
"Gather round children, for I must tell you the tale of a great man, as we remember him from the scriptures of old. Now we know much about the life of this man, and we know that he was for a long time, an ordinary man like all of you will grow up to be. He had a wonderful family, a challenging profession, but most ... | 3 |
I would like it to be something horror-esque! | [WP] It's night. The fog is thick. You're alone, on foot. The city is oddly silent. You feel a shiver down your spine. What's going on? | [
"*\"I'll take your hand and then your worries too.\"*\n\nAt 7 in the afternoon all stores were closed. The gates and doors locked tight. The city was shut down. \n\nAs if the inhabitants of Innsmouth weren't well aware of the fact that there are some things locks and chains can't keep out. \n\n\"Shit\" David kept c... | 11 |
[WP] You are in a post-apocalyptic, 1920's Paris, France. You and other survivors are forced to live and travel largely underground to avoid capture from the world government that controls what is left of society. You have gathered with a few other like-minded clans to discuss mounting a resistance. | [
"\"Ladies and gentlemen\" The barrel chested speaker began, addressing the patrons gathered in the hotel bar late after closing.\n\n\"We face a grave decision today. Take up arms or live in peace. We all remember the ugliness of that last damned affair. I do not begrudge your reluctance to do it all again. Our new ... | 2 | |
[WP]A strange love that ends in heartbreak. | [
"He didn't care what people would say, Axle knew that he would have to tell of his love to others even if they thought it was odd. He had only known his love for a few minutes but he had a hard time thinking about what life would be without it. Over the past few minutes he had been struggling to bring his love out ... | 2 | |
This was an idea I had for a short story in my english class, but I ended up changing it. I would love to see what you can do with this.
Edit: Grammar | [WP] After a patient dies when a young surgeon is operating on him, the surgeon feels the urge to kill again. | [
"I killed him. His family is crying as I tell them. People are trying to tell me it's not my fault; saying things like “Everybody makes mistakes.” The only thing is I didn't make mistakes, and it is my fault. The best part is how good it feels to me.\n\nThe truth is I nicked that artery on purpose. I wanted to... | 2 |
You can be a soldier, a military medic, or a civilian. The aliens can know your language or not. You can be injured or unharmed. You can already have known about the aliens or be taken by surprise. It's up to you. | [WP] You are taken prisoner in an alien invasion of Earth. | [
"-017\n\nI had never expected to be taken prisoner in the war. It's not like I was expecting we would win every battle, or no one would die, but I never thought that they would take prisoners. I was fully prepared for the possibility of my death before going to fight, and had accepted the terms of my contract knowi... | 3 |
[WP] Airline companies now offer trips into the past. | [
"Welcome to---Oh, Mr. Winston welcome! same as usual? \"yes\" very well, for 20 years Mr. Winston has taken the exact same trip to the exact same time December 25th, 1985 7:00 am, his house, he does it twice a year sometimes more, he always goes back to see her. You can only travel to the past as an spectator, whic... | 3 | |
this includes: the, a, and, but, ect.
title is small example | [WP] write anything you want, but do NOT use the same word twice, see how long it can go. | [
"I was walking up East Hastings before Dave’s show started. Cold seeped through my well-worn coat. It reminded me of that night we walked to your house after a heavy snowfall. Our hands gripped tight and unsteady feet tripped, both tumbling down together. Powder white flakes didn’t melt under us, but cushioned the ... | 8 |
[WP] There's been a tear in the fabric of the universe, the only way to fix it is to sew it up. | [
"A really different take. As soon as a read the prompt, I thought of a simplistic rocket ship shaped as a needle, trailing a red thread through the universe in preparation to stitch it up. If I end up drawing it, I'll post if if there is any interest.\n\nTeddy was ready. \nHis helmet was tightly screwed into the he... | 7 | |
[WP] He was smoking a cigar he swore would be his last. | [
"I h have everything set up. My will is on the desk, underneath my NCAA trophy. I have my 45 caliber 1911 service pistol. And of course, my cigar. This will be the last cigar I ever get to savor.\n\nI knew this is how it had to be. Margaret is gone. Breast cancer took her from me last year. A drunk named Bill Howar... | 9 | |
[WP] what is a soul as explained to a 5 year old | [
"\"Daddy, what's a soul?\" Billy asked.\n\nI picked up a paint brush, dipped in green paint and whipped it at the wall. \"That is your nose smelling things.\" I dipped the brush in blue and whipped it at the wall. \"That is fingers and skin touching stuff.\" I dipped it in red and whipped it at the wall. \"Red is t... | 2 | |
The prophecy ends with a pure and absolute prohibition against directly revealing this fact to anyone. What happens next? | [WP] Our protagonist has just been gifted with a divine vision: precisely one year from now, if there are fewer than 100,000 people still keeping their butter in the refrigerator, all humanity will be saved. Otherwise, all humanity shall suddenly and violently perish. | [
"**re·frig·er·a·tor** [ri- frij- uh -rey-ter] \n\n\nnoun\n\n\n~~1. a box, room, or cabinet in which food, drink, etc., are kept cool by\nmeans of ice or mechanical refrigeration~~\n\n\n\n**2.** the part of a distilling apparatus that cools the volatile material,\ncausing it to condense; condenser; rectifier.\n\n\nI... | 3 |
[WP] Write a love poem in slam format. | [
"You, with your Man hands, \n\nGrasping my attention, my arms, my anything \n\n(You cannot touch me)\n\n\nFumbled words out of your mind, \n\noff of that bland tongue - flip flop mouth \n\nAnd, yes, perhaps I laugh \n\nThese antics don't amuse me \n\nI'd crumble you up if I took the time\n\n\nGo on thinking that...... | 3 | |
[WP] "This is no place for a girl like you" | [
"\"This is no place for a girl like you.\" They think they know me. They think they know what goes on behind those deep blue eyes. They think they know about the dancing images that fill my mind. They don't know shit. They don't know about the pain that exists and the yearning to fix it. To rid it out of my f... | 7 | |
[WP] A dying soldier realizes that soon he is going to be part of a statistic. | [
"I'd heard friends say \"that was some mean bush\". They didn't know shit. The new maw where my sternum used to be slowly opened and closed as my lungs struggled to fill themselves, at once both agreeing with the assessment and laughing at the fact that a third-gen army brat was now the last of the last generation.... | 10 | |
I'd like to see your ideas before you check this out, but here's [my inspiration](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1vw6e3/if_you_woke_up_one_morning_and_everyone_else_in/cewfnue) for this prompt. | [WP] Everyone on Earth has inexplicably and suddenly perished. Except for one person. This person somehow manages to single-handedly repopulate our planet. Make up a religion or write some lore that revolves around this person 5,000 years after the incident. | [
"List ye, little ones, list to Mother, list the Tale as told true by the Last One, the last of the First Ones, list and member and go forth and tell. The First Ones spurned the Gift, they Awoke and the Wakening burned them from within, for they feared the Sleep and fled from It, and though that the Seeing burned th... | 12 |
[FF] I received the most unusual phone call this morning... (300 to 500 words) | [
"Given its nature and no other choice, the phone rang, as it normally does. There isn't much reason to answer the land line anymore, only old people and telemarketers call it. So imagine the sense of adventure that welled up in me as I thought, \"fuck it\" and picked up the receiver.\n\n\"DON'T HANG UP! PLEASE!\"\n... | 2 | |
Bonus points if the kids experienced the same thing. | [WP] Two kids stay in an abandoned house overnight. In the morning, one believes in the supernatural while the other doesn't. | [
"-025 \n(Part 1)\n\n\"We're going to see ghost,\" Samuel whispered excitedly. He shifted the back pack on his shoulder, shrugging the strap into a better spot. \n\n\"No such thing.\" Randy fired back. \"We're going to have it out once and for all. If we don't see a ghost tonight, you're not ever going to talk abou... | 4 |
[WP] Write about an extremely ordinary situation (walking down a hall, or eating lunch) where nothing extraordinary happens, but the writing style makes it interesting. | [
"I turned into the hall, just like I always have. The top halves of the walls were designed with a dark green wallpaper with a classical flower pattern strewn across it. The bottom halves of the all walls consisted of beautifully handcrafted mahogany boards with delicately sculpted trees every few feet. Every plug ... | 7 | |
The first interstellar ship to leave the solar system has just crossed the final boundary, when it is approached by a craft much larger and more powerful than itself. The vessel transmits something to the effect of "This system is quarantined - Leave or you will be destroyed" | [WP]Our first interstellar ship exits the solar system, only to be confronted by a border-guard (more inside) | [
"His name was Thalax. His voice appeared in our minds eye. The ship rocked, sailing forward against waves of gravity pushing us back within our tidepool of discovery. Waiting for the next big one to push it back to zero. \n\nIt'd been our nighttime hours, correlating with New Ginsburg, Eastern Standard time. We cou... | 7 |
Can be realistic or supernatural, comedy or horror. | [WP] You work in an office. A group is gathered around the watercooler. Their leader calls you over. Something sinister is afoot. | [
"\"Fuck you, Barb.\"\n\n\n\"Fuck you, Tom.\"\n\n\nShe winked, which was my cue to head on over to the bathroom in five minutes and give her what she was begging for because god knew her fiancé wouldn't. I was just helping a coworker out, but if it meant her putting in a good word to the boss when she passed off our... | 2 |
...whichever one is the more interesting story to you. | [WP] There exists a phone line that will correctly answer any question asked to it. Write about either someone calling the line, or the person answering the question... | [
"Reese only started to hang out at the abandoned factory about 3 weeks ago. He turned off his electronic cigarette and started walking to get his stash of money of questionable source he put there yesterday inside the factory.\n\nAs he walked past the looming stacks of 30 year old firewood his footfalls made quiet ... | 8 |
[WP] Everyone leaves a different coloured line that only they can see that shows where they have been. | [
"Tomari smiled as she put yet another pin into the world map she had posted on her wall. It was a terribly out-of-date map, as it had been up for twenty years, but it didn't matter. She tied a piece of green yarn connecting the new pin to the starting pin on the East coast of the US. Three colors were represented o... | 1 | |
[WP] After years of work, his machine was finally complete. | [
"##EDIT:\n\nI might try to revise this heavily. I really don't like how I executed the concept.\n\n##\"The Universe's Multi-Layered Memory\"\n\n...I leave this log for you, and I hope that you will succeed where I failed.\n\nCONFIRMED: STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS IS BEING ECHOED TO THE SPECIFIED FILES.\n\nGood. We are ... | 1 | |
"Well he certainly won't now that you went and hurt his feelings" | [WP] Let's make a joke! I'll give you a punchline, and you make any joke you can think of | [
"An elderly dentist came home one day and sat at the dinner table, obviously stressed.\n\n\"How was work today?\" Asked the wife, concerned.\n\n\"The Anderson's boy has been a lifelong patient of mine. I know exactly the amount of Novacaine to use, know exactly which teeth are likely to have cavities, and can tell ... | 1 |
http://thinkzone.wlonk.com/PoemGen/PoemGen.htm (no affiliation!)
Generate a poem (without toggling the settings!) and use the first sentence OR last sentence for your poem (example if the generated poem's first sentence is "Merrily the fish does float", that will be your first sentence of your own poem) Try and make i... | [WP] Frankensteined poetry! Write a short poem that includes the first OR last sentence given to you by a poem generator. | [
"The warm mast calmly pulls the moon\n\nCloser\n\nHigher and higher up\n\nthe larger it seems\n\nhanging in the night\n\nimmune to age \n\nnothing penetrates \n\nnot even the dark of the deep\n\n\n\nThe warm mast calmly pulls the moon \n\ndown to earth\n\ncloser\n\nand closer\n\nto roll more\n\nthe waves splash\n\n... | 4 |
You spent all that work on it. Hours a day, for months.
And now she won't even look at it, won't acknowledge it. All she'll say is "That's nice, dear."
Tell us more about it. What happens afterward. | [WP] "That's nice, dear." | [
"My book sits there, unappreciated by the woman I wrote it for.\n\nI created *The Neighbor* to help my wife. She says she doesn't understand me, that she can't figure out what I want anymore. This book is my confession; my instruction manual if she would choose to take this broken version of me on as a project.\n\n... | 3 |
Keep it short, but have fun. Let's say under 500 words. | [FF] "Satan luxuriated in the bubble bath as Gabriel sat down." | [
"Lucifer luxuriated in the bubble bath as Gabriel sat down. \n“Brother,” he drawled, and handed him a loofah sponge. “Care to get my back?” \nGabriel turned the sponge over in his hands, sighed and gestured with a wave of his fingers. The sponge obediently floated the space between them and began to scru... | 3 |
[WP] Dave is always right, TOO right. In fact, it seems like Dave has a way of seeing things happen before they actually occur. His paranoid friend Matt starts to suspect he is a time-traveler. | [
"\"Don't play dumb with me Dave!\"\n\nDave smiled at Matt. He was staring at him the way he stared at a computer screen that didn't do just what it was supposed to do. Like he was pressing all the buttons that were meant to be pressed and nothing was happening. The screen merely repeating an error message over and ... | 3 | |
[WP] You are an alien on the run from the authorities, hiding out on planet Earth. | [
"‘ello cuz’, fancy seeing you down here!\n\n‘ey ‘ey ‘ey, calm down, ‘kay? Dun’ wann’ make a scene-- easy now, I’m a friend, see? We cool? We cool.\n\nMethinks, you and I ought go for a walk, real casual like. Dun’ wanna draw attentions, do we now? Sorry for the arm cuz’, but gotta keep up appearances. See? The loca... | 1 | |
I thought it would be more entertaining to explore this through forensic process rather than heated debate/askreddit. Give us what you got :)
edit - These are really entertaining guys. I'm quite impressed. I'm new to the sub and just exploring things here...so upvotes for everyone on your hard (or effortless) work.... | [WP] An atheist's effort to console a dying Christian child. | [
"The lobby, smelling of the antiseptic.\n\n\"Doctors say they've got this great experimental drug to fix you up, you're coming home soon.\"\n\nElevator door closing.\n\n\"Doctors say they've got this great experimental drug to fix you up, you're coming home soon.\"\n\nBeige room door.\n\n\"Doctors say they've got t... | 8 |
[WP] Time Doesn't exist. | [
"I will lie, am lying, and have lied in a field of wild grass looking up at the stars and will find, am finding, and have found myself irrevocably and equivocally bored. I am keenly aware of my existence, of my entire life. I have seen it all, front to back, back to front. I will live, am living and have lived ever... | 3 | |
William H. Johnsen once said "If it is to be, it is up to me." Can you do better?
NOTE: Repeating "buffalo" ad infinitum is an invalid submission. While technically grammatically correct, it is not coherent. | [FF] Write the longest coherent sentence you can where all words are the same length. | [
"Ann had her job, and the job was big and not fun—hug, tie, gag, tug, cut, gut, fur, fry and eat her old big cat, “Ten Ton Mog”, who had one ear, one eye, and one leg (yes, her cat had but one leg, now) — his one sad eye did see her cut him and cry for him and for her — and you may say “Woe, rue the day, her cat di... | 1 |
Choose a Sherlock at will. | [WP] Sherlock Holmes in room 101 (from Orwell's 1984). | [
"There was silence after the door clanged shut. Judging from the sound the locks made, there was no point in trying to pick them. There was no point in trying anything now. He closed his eyes and let his mind wander the thoughts of Goldstein.\n\nHe had memorized them all. Ever since he had discovered the book, care... | 1 |
Doesn't need to be long, and if anything start in the middle of the action. | [WP] Write a scary story about a giant spider stalking your lone protagonist throughout a massive burrow of tunnels and catacombs, armed with only a box of matches, with no foreseeable exit. | [
"The creature could only survive in this forest. It was the only area that could conceal it if it needed to surface and the only area where its holes would go completely unnoticed, until today. Young Mr. Thatcher had stumbled into one of the creature's tunnels after a drunken night. However, he was incredibly sober... | 4 |
[WP] A woman (or man!) approaches you and asks for your hand in marriage. You answer, taking into careful consideration the wings on her back. | [
"Muriel proposed today. To me. _Me_. A Dominion. A former commander of the Divine Host. Proposing to mere, lowly _me_.\n\nI feel disgusted. No-- not by her! Never by her. By my silence. By my eyes going towards her wings. I did not lie when I said I need time to think, and though she hid it well, I know it cost her... | 2 | |
This has to be the last line of the story. Also, I really hope that someone takes the KurtjMac road. | [WP] "Indeed", he/she says, as he/she pulls the trigger. | [
"The high pitched wailing of the little girl was drilling into her head like an ice pick on the end of a jackhammer\n\"just shut the fuck up before i beat you to death with a two-by-four.\" She mumbled under her breath. The room was dark and junk was piled in the corner. A teddy bear on the top of the pile was hold... | 4 |
[WP] a shapeshifter has been walking among humans for thousands of years. write about him finally getting discovered, by a small child. | [
"Her name was Ellie. \n\nAn unassuming creature, seven years old by declaration, six years, three hundred sixty days, twenty-three hours, twelve minutes with a handful of seconds and counting by calculation. He could ascertain the age of any living thing he came into contact with but himself, of course; after ove... | 2 | |
My girlfriend just gave me this idea. She said what if all women had to wear clothes that completely hid them, so men would fall in love with their personality. Then every year of their marriage they got to wear clothes that revealed a new part of them. What if the girl was ugly? How would the husband react? | [WP] Females wear body-concealing clothes, and only after each year of marriage are they allowed to show one new body part | [
"\"So, third anniversary, eh? Worried?\"\n\nRon gripped his fifth beer of the night, knuckles ashen and arms lightly trembling.\n\n\"No,\" Ron grunted, \"I know why I love her, and not even our third will change that.\"\n\nDan grinned. \"Yeah? You've met Tony's wife, haven't you? He was never the same after he saw ... | 2 |
Happy, uplifting, depressing, dark humor, see what you can make out of it! | [WP] A suicidal man who works day in and day out as a suicide hotline operator. | [
"He felt tired. So very tired.\n\nIt had been six months now he'd been doing this, just three months after things started going downhill. It had all started when he lost his job and the bank took his, no, their house. That was before she had left him. And she had taken Mel with her.\n\nAnd then, when things couldn'... | 3 |
Not sure which category this type of prompt falls under, so I'd just post it under the WP and MP tag.
This idea is inspired by a George Carlin's routine called "Two-Minute Warning". Here's an excerpt:
"Now, you might be wondering why I would even suggest that someone can affect the manner and style of his death. Wel... | [WP] & [MP] Prior to their death, everyone receives a two-minute warning. | [
" \n\n\nThere is a faint buzzing in my ear, it culminates in that feeling of dread, the one that keeps you from getting on the train, or stops you from crossing the street as a car careens through the intersection. But this was more tangible. I can feel the imminence in it. This is the warning. This is the end,... | 2 |
-055 | [WP] An abomination of magic and dead flesh | [
"One small thing, one tiny event or action, can completely turn the world upside down. They didn’t know it yet--how could they?--but by simply following their own impulses and curiosities they had doomed themselves and others. What would happen if those two seekers had followed the rules of their order and had dis... | 3 |
[WP] Make me deliriously hungry; then disgusted by eating. | [
"My parents were poor, so growing up I did not have much variety to eat. The wedding changed that. We walked into a massive church, and immediately I smelled the aroma of freshly baked brownies and fettuccine as I walked in. Without hesitation, I abandoned my parents in search for the source.\n\nThe buffet table wa... | 2 | |
[WP] In an effort to increase revenue, the Hell Department of Tourism has begun advertising. Write an advertisement for vacationing in Hell that actually would make me want to go. | [
"Come to Hell, a fully realized Libertarian dream! \nGovernment is small and unobtrusive, and limits itself to (over)policing the locals and making sure visitors can safely do ANYTHING! \nAll the fun celebrities and party animals are here and have full-time jobs catering to every personal whim of their fans! \nT... | 6 | |
[WP] A man makes a sandwich but realizes he is out of cheese | [
"Harold Proctor's daily routine had been carved in stone for nearly a decade. Wake up, shower, put in the dentures, grab the brown bag, kiss Edna goodbye, head off to the work site. Supervise. Shoot the breeze with Dave and Mack, whistle at the little bombshells walking past. At lunch, unwrap the brown bag, take ou... | 2 | |
[WP] Your protagonist becomes aware that he/she is a character being written into a story that will likely end in his/her death. As your character pleads for his/her life, will you still kill them? | [
"I carved another line into the wall, and spent the first hour of the new sunlight counting the tally. 632. Had anybody else been counting? Probably not. I am a forgotten woman now. \n\n\nOn the night of my arrest, I had been a queen. We had taken a Government stronghold, and I had been at the helm. We had freed th... | 2 | |
Interpret however you wish. | [WP] A character attempts to solve a riddle | [
"Billy had never been any good at solving riddles. He;d never been any good at using his head. His brother, Bobby, could sit there for hours riddling Billy, and laughing at the stupid answers Billy would say.\n\n\"What has teeth but no mouth?\"\n\"A Badger\"\n\nBilly still wasn't any good at solving riddles.\nYet h... | 3 |
Have this be the second or third line in your story | [WP] meanwhile in a parallel universe | [
"John took his final drag of a cigarette before nodding at the men in front of him. \"Go on, then...\" \n\nThe officer held up his sabre and yelled. \"Fire!\" \n\nMeanwhile, in a parallel universe, John whirled and punched his prisoner in the gut. He crouched and looked his prisoner in the eyes. \"They've left you ... | 2 |
where did you go through the wormhole? how did it change you? what did you do to survive? and when you got back to earth what was your reaction to this changed earth? | [WP] you fall through a wormhole during the 70's, you end up in a horrific place galaxies away from earth, 6 years later you fall through another wormhole and come out at earth in 2014. | [
"So there I was mindin' my own business when BAM! I'm in this god forsaken metal world with some backward-ass things straight out of The War of the Worlds. I've been here for nearly five and-a-half years already and see no way of getting back. I figured what the hell, since I'm gonna die here, might as well tell my... | 1 |
I'm talking "Voldemort impregnates Harry" disgusting | [WP] Write the most disgusting, cringe-y, fanboy/girl-y fan fiction that you can. | [
"omfg, I hate fanfics/fangirling/cringey shit. I was... I was *born* for this. Recently I was introduced to SuperWhoLock. Despite not having watching Supernatural or Sherlock - like the fangirls themselves - I will not let any gross ignorance get in the way. Ahem, here we go.\n\n_____\n\nDean watched the angel Cast... | 4 |
If there's no antagonist/the antagonist isn't present for the scene/you feel like it, you can use any character who isn't the protagonist. Just try to get it from someone else's point of view! | [WP] Everyone's got that one story they've always meant to write. Write a key scene from yours, but from the antagonist's point of view. | [
"It was him, I could feel him coming towards me. Finally, we would meet. The man who stole my sister from me would finally pay. I would be able to bring her home, and we would be a family again. And finally, I would be able to rest. I've been chasing after her for so long...\n\nMy sister wasn't with him. Perfect, h... | 4 |
[WP] You're sitting in an auditorium for your high school graduation. Everyone's favorite teacher, the one that tells cool stories and great jokes is speaking. A man runs in and claims the teacher as an impostor. | [
"This is my first time posting here. \n\n\n “THAT MAN IS AN IMPOSTOR”. The color drains from Mr. Miller’s face. “What is this guy talking about, he’s crazy!” Mr Miller retorts in a shade of confusion covering fear. “That man up there, behind that podium...he’s not who you think he is!”. A buzz of conversation fill... | 2 | |
cheetah -- spots or speed
zebra -- strips
etc. | [WP] Tell me the story of how an animal got a defining characteristic. | [
"Once there was a little lizard living in a deep, rocky canyon under a mesquite tree. The little lizard had much to fear in this place. Deer and buffalo could easily trample him. Hawks, and coyotes, and people wanted to eat him. In fact, most things in the canyon wanted to eat the little lizard. \n\nOne day, when c... | 2 |
* [P-38G Lightning](https://www.google.com/search?q=p38g+lightning&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=66cYU52VL8S00QG_6YCoBA&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1224&bih=779).
The pilot was found mummified inside of the cockpit, holding a picture of a woman and a young child. A journal was found on th... | [WP] A WWII, P-38G Lightning was discovered, crashed on the moon... | [
"*Excerpt from the official broadcast of Apollo 11's moon landing.*\n\n\"What the fuck.\"\n\n\"Umm... Buzz, that last message got garbled. Could you repeat? We are broadcasting on national television and radio.\"\n\nAffirmative Houston. Repeating transmission. What the fuck. Over.\n\n\"Buzz, what's going on up ther... | 1 |
[WP] Astronaut on space station receives final distress signal and then stops receiving transmissions from Earth. | [
"They were completely helpless. There were five astronauts in space. Two women and three men. They gathered around the windows of the space station, staring blankly, numbly at the Earth below. \n\nThey had received a bone-chilling message from Earth about five hours previously. \n\n\"Get as far away as you can\" wa... | 4 |
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