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[WP] A world where the only currency is Reddit Karma... | [
"\"Bro, I'm running low on some cash, what the hell are we gonna do?\"\n\n\"Dude, don't worry, Weird Al is trending hella right now, just find some pics of him and shit. Post that, let's title it \"Still one of my favorite musicians of all time\". Think that'll work?\"\n\n\"Holy shit bro, you're a genius. Looks ... | 2 | |
And it's not Mac day. | [WP] A man jumps off a building. He's not suicidal, and he knows what he's doing. | [
"I didn't see it coming but it happened. There on the rooftop across the street, I see a man stepping up to the edge. He takes one swift step and then he jumps. He jumps off the building. I do not know why he is doing this. I am close enough to see the expression on his face and it is a look of determination n... | 4 |
[WP] Stories must end with "It was Valentine's Day." | [
"I've sailed the seven seas. I've seen war after war after war. I've been to the chopping block, I've been electrocuted, I've been injected with chemical after chemical after chemical. Yet, after all these stories, all the attempts, all these horrible things that would kill men fifty times my size, that one memory ... | 4 | |
[WP] You've been having bizarre (strange or terrible) dreams for a month. You started writing them down and found a pattern. Whatever the dreams were leading to happens today. | [
"Tolbert’s heart slams in his chest, sending shockwaves through his body. Pain radiates from his ribcage and tingles in his fingers as they clutch and twist. He thrashes as fire dances around him and the world pulls back. Tolbert watches horrified as the flames rage around him.\n\nThis dream is different, backwards... | 3 | |
[WP] An unknown group or nation sets off simultaneous nuclear attacks destroying Rome, Jerusalem, and Mecca. | [
"**0.05 Hours After Incident | Somewhere on Chang'An Avenue, Beijing**\n\n\"Fuck your mom!\" \n\nMajor General Xu Feitong seethed with anger as one of Beijing's Hyundai Elantra taxis cut off his black Audi A8. He leaned forwards, shaking his fist in anger and spewing expletives. That cuckold bastard had almost swun... | 1 | |
[WP] You accidentally cross paths with the one person you ever felt you truly loved, your teenage sweetheart. Now, both in your 40s, you find out she is terminally ill. Write your thought process when you first see her, and the conversation that follows. | [
"Success. Fame. Glory. Stocks. Oh the stocks. Money continued to roll into my pockets. My story? I'm a self made billionaire. Master of the markets. All of my money I used to influence the course of American politics for 20 years. I crafted the world I dreamed of as a boy. I lived in luxury. Anything I wanted I got... | 6 | |
[WP] The moon landing was not a hoax, but the true goal of the mission was highly classified. Only super soldiers Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin know the full story. | [
"It was quite some time ago that the United States began to produce more money than they could back. It was the sort of thing which we couldn't just choose to do anything about, there was nothing to do. To think that so close by would lie the answer to our problems boggles my mind. To think of how close we came to ... | 6 | |
Trying to get away from all of the first person writing prompts, but if you feel your interpretation would be best in it, go for it. | [WP] After a strangely vivid dream of being a successful criminal, a man receives a text from a colleague before walking into his workplace saying "don't come in, there are two officers at your desk". | [
"**First writing attempt since high school (graduated 2004). Go hard on critiques please.** \n\n\"Guh!\" Viktor awoke, sitting upright in his bed. He had been dreaming - in the opening of his dream an unseen voice spoke to him. \"The lollipop is bitter\". It was just after sunset, and he was seated at a round... | 2 |
[WP] A psychologist slowly realizes that he is actually a patient in the mental hospital. | [
"\"Nurse, there appears to be trouble in 32D.\" He said into the mic while looking over the monitors. The man in the monitor had begun bashing his head into the wall. \n\n\"I'LL MAKE THE VOICE STOP!!\" He laughingly screamed as blood gushed from his forehead.\n\nMedical aid burst through the door and quickly sedate... | 4 | |
[WP] You've volunteered to become the first recipient of a vaccine against religion. | [
"I've always supported this research. Religion was the plague of humanity, and we would be the first to heal it. Naturally I volunteered to be first. They were wary, after all, I was an atheist, so how would they know if it worked? Plus, since I would be the first human (first organism, in fact) to have this vaccin... | 1 | |
[WP] A person from the Dark Ages is pulled forward in time and dumped into the middle of a heavy metal concert. | [
"This man drops to his knees and evacuates his bowels and bladder within the first five seconds. He closes his eyes, clutches his ears and prays fastidiously with the hope that he'll wake from this nightmare at any moment. Once the shock subsides, he grabs the first sharp thing he can find on his person and starts ... | 10 | |
[WP] In the future, five mega corporations have risen to power and now collectively control the whole of the world (and possibly beyond). The Five are: Google, Virgin, Publix, Disney, and a fifth nobody expected. What is the fifth corporation and how did it rise to such significance? | [
"It's been three years since the rebellion. At that time, the system that the Four Great Ones imposed on us weighted too much on us to longer endure. Work hours never stopped to increase while our wages went down and down again. So, before we found ourselves with no money to feed our children, we took arms and foug... | 7 | |
Write about your life together after this procedure.
A donor body is promised to be supplied... eventually
EDIT: after several responses to the topic - yes I am now aware that Karl Pilkington wrote something like this, and no I didn't know about it before I made this prompt. Can we get on with the writing and discus... | [WP] Your SO is dying, but you agree to an experimental treatment to save his/her life - a mind transfer. As your SO's mind is being transplanted into your brain, his/her heart finally stops, leaving you as two minds in one body. | [
"\"All is not lost, my son.\"\n\n\"What do you mean?\"\n\n\"There is experimental technology now. We can fuse two minds together.\"\n\n\"Really? So I could keep her memories?\"\n\n\"More than that. She will be you. Her entire conscience will be your own. You will hear her voice, feel her touch, see her face. She c... | 13 |
[WP] You are a successful musician. While backstage before a show, the Devil appears and accuses you of stealing his songs. He demands payment in one form or another. | [
"I was in the bathroom at the back of the bar after I just got finished with my show. I never made much doing this shit, but seeing people's eyes sometimes light up when i spew nonsense that I had no idea where it came from somehow brought me some level of satisfaction in my pathetic life. I washed the sweat off of... | 2 | |
None of them are crazy, all have reasonably sound minds and healthy bodies.
The house has all the amenities of modern society except contact with the outside world. Whatever basic needs and entertainment is needed is provided.
Any of them may leave at any time, for any reason, losing only their chance at their priz... | [WP] Seven adults volunteer to spend a year in a sealed house with the promise of ten-million dollars each if they can make it to the end. Describe the day they all go in or the day the winner(s) come out. (Details in comments.) | [
"Nan did not believe in air conditioning, and that is what saved her life. \n\nWhile the carbon dioxide poisoned the rest of them in their sleep, she made it through. She left the corpses in their respective rooms, and opened every window in the house. \n\nOf course in the winter she had to stay bundled up\n\nAfte... | 2 |
You are sent from Hell, to Earth to actively seek out souls. This is your first time away from hell, and all you have to go on is what the more experienced demons saw fit to share with you. Will you succeed? Will you go public and become the first "out" demon to bring in people by the multitudes, or will you lurk in th... | [WP] possibly [NSFW] You are a demon sent to Earth... | [
"\"Kill one-thousand mortals and you will be permanently removed from this cell you've called your home for the last ten thousand years\".\nThat was the last thing they told me before sending me to earth to kill, murder, and traumatize humans. Why'd they pick me? I don't know. Was it my power? I'm sure I'm not the ... | 7 |
[WP] One (or all) of the seven virtues falls and becomes one of the seven sins. | [
"Chasity who have kept herself pure for years turned to wrath when she discovered no one wanted her past her prime. \n\nTemperance beamed with pride as she alone remained untainted by the non-necessaries of life. \n\nDiligence, whose hard work brought many luxuries, was seduced by greed as he refused to spare anyth... | 2 | |
Go Wild Guys. | [WP] A Person Inadvertently Enters Different Worlds/Universes Every Time they Fall Asleep, and Can Only Wake up When he/she Completes a Bizarrely Specific Task that they Normally Complete on Accident. | [
"Lawrence awoke with a start. He immediately began to gather himself. He looked around. Bright light. It was daytime. Blue sky. Good sign, it meant he was on Earth again this time. The rest of the planets never seemed to have blue skies. He looked next to him. No girl, or other being, in his bed. Good, way... | 3 |
[WP] Write an alternate history from the perspective of someone with a mundane, everyday job. | [
"Business is mundane as usual. Pens are scattered thoughtlessly on my cheap wooden desk, while the dim light from my computer's monitor flickers in a dance of reflection against the lens of my thick-rimmed glasses.\n\n\nWork is always boring, but the highlight of my every night, my every day, is the knowledge that ... | 2 | |
What are your biggest fears? Would you be able to get along with your partner? What made everyone disappear? | [WP] Everyone has disappeared on Earth, except for you and the classmate/coworker that you absolutely hate. In order to return the world back to normal, you must help each other conquer their greatest fear. | [
"I stare across the office at my coworker. He was always such a prick. But then again, I didn't really like anyone. I mean I hated him more than most, but still, I didn't like people in general.\n\nNow everyone in the world has disappeared. It's only me and him. Some mysterious message that popped up on all the com... | 1 |
[WP] Make me want to eat the orange that is sitting on my desk. Maybe it's the most delicious orange in the universe, maybe it killed my father and raped my mother, just give me a reason to devour it. | [
"*Ok so this idea is kinda NSFW, but I tried to make it as SFW as possible.*\n\nCleopatra had slipped past the guards and gone for a stroll in the cool desert night. Her thoughts were of Marc Antony: his eyes, his lips, his hands. She sat, leaning against a palm tree, and let her thoughts, and her fingers, wander. ... | 1 | |
[WP] A high tier Illuminati and an ordinary civilian fall in love.. | [
"Thomas was overcome with sadness. As he lay on his bed he realized he had everything he could want... except her. His whole life he had been told what would happen next and never really had to \"think\" for himself. He didn't know how to win her because clearly money didn't matter to her. Hell it didn't matter to ... | 2 | |
[WP] Describe a queen bee's final thoughts. | [
"*trying out a sort of \"stream of consciousness\" stlye*\n\nI'm so tired I thought to myself. Glancing around at my kingdom I was impressed, look at all who I ruled. My bees, my workers. Mine! I thought they would be mine forever by I guess not. My time has come, I have sensed it now for a few suns now. My sight g... | 2 | |
Go where you will with this one. Expand, bring ideas, conclude, make a joke, write poetry, whatever. The thought came to me at work - not of the actual idea but the idea of posting a prompt for it. | [WP] In death we all go to the afterlife we believe in. You find this out as you die; living a life trying to argue that one doesnt exist. | [
"In that instant I felt dread. Dread and pure unadulterated terror. \n\nBelief in nothing had defined me, made me who I was. In life I had chosen to decry the filth of religion. I would not be some puppet on a string bending my knee to a figment of the imagination conjured up thousands of years ago. \n\nThat mo... | 5 |
I imagined this scenario being played out in a college dorm, since there's so much social interaction, but take it however you wish. | [WP] A paranoid man sets up a live feed of his girlfriend's webcam. Expecting to see her cheating on him, he ends up finding much more. | [
"Alice is acting very strange lately. She must be cheating. She barely returns my calls and when I visited her dorm last night, she was not there. I'm not proud of myself but in my paranoia, I planted a camera in her dorm room.\n\nNow, I sit here waiting with the tension stretching my nerves. Finally, about past tw... | 4 |
[WP] Into the future and as far as science has taken us, it is determined there is one final discovery to be made. Its announcement is being broadcast world wide. | [
"\"This is Galactic News Anchor Sinaquil 6 bringing you a special report from the ISA.\" \n\nThe holoscreen shimmered to show a wizened old man, easily over a thousand years old, onto the screen. \n\n\"Hello, I am Haroldo G6, most of you know me as the Chief Administrator for the Intergalactic Science Administratio... | 3 | |
[WP] A future in which common citizens have access to faster-than-light self-sustaining spaceships. The new age of exploration begins. | [
"\"30 seconds.\" My navigator yelled. across the bridge to everyone.\n\n\"What's the status of the shields and weapons systems?\" I asked my ChEng.\n\n\"Shields up. Two laser batteries are still offline, but the rest are all up.\" The damage to the ship was hampering efforts. We needed supplies bad.\n\nI turned on ... | 6 | |
[WP] A clandestine organisation knowingly sponsors a major Hollywood movie that exposes their secrets as "fiction" to give themselves plausible deniability should the real truth ever come out. | [
"\"Beep boop beep,\" the robot exclaimed, waving its manipulator arms at another nearby mechanical. It jabbed one pointy metal claw at the small screen in front of it as the other robot floated over.\n\nThe two robots watched as a man in sunglasses held up an old coppertop battery. A few more moments, and the robot... | 5 | |
[WP] After his wildly successful AMA, President Obama secretly joins reddit as a normal user. | [
"Barack sighed to himself.\n\nIt had been nearly 2 years since he had first heard of Reddit, his favorite website. Whenever the stress of being Commander in Chief got to him, he would simply log on and read the thousands of comments praising him. \"Socialist super star!\" they said \"This dude is on our side you gu... | 3 | |
[WP] Since you turned 12, a stranger gave you a birthday present each year, each more mysterious than the previous one. Now, on your 25th birthday, his present is a single piece of paper with a simple message: "It is time." | [
"On my 12th birthday is when it all began. I had struggled with asthma since childhood but An anonymous benefactor left me a gift that said simply, \"Swallow this and be cured of your asthma.\". While it might have been crazy I swallowed it and to my shock it was a real cure. On my thirteenth birthday it happened... | 5 | |
[WP] Celebrities start disappearing in droves all across the world. | [
"In local news, Entertainment Tonight has just went bankrupt this evening for reasons that might surprise Americans everywhere: across the United States, celebrities like Kim Kardashian, Alex Jones, and some unidentified boo bear gremlin have all been found dead on the same day as each other. The autopsy hasn't bee... | 2 | |
[WP] Another species on earth starts building basic mechanisms using their organic surroundings, and then their technology only keeps evolving.. | [
"They excelled by leaps and bounds where we were met with derision and entrenched reliance. Our lifeless creations drew strength and power from the resources of the living world around us, open pit mines and refuse choked estuaries marking their wombs. But theirs, they grew along with the natural world. They fed ba... | 2 | |
[WP] The energy of children can be extracted as a renewable source of fuel. | [
"Petyr huddled in the basement. His body protected the children, his hands silencing them. Their shivers sent cold running down his spine as the heavy boots stamped over his head.\n\nHe looked into their eyes. Valeriya was the eldest. Barely six, she was old enough to understand what was going on. Old enough to be ... | 2 | |
[WP] There was actually a very powerful force user who was working behind the scenes in the events described in Return of the Jedi. He is solely responsible for victory. He is also an extremely clumsy, sarcastic asshole. | [
"This is my first time doing a writing prompt, so any formatting help or critiques would be appreciated. \n\n\"The Tragical History of Tendar Sen.\"\n\nFor the first few years of his life, Tendar Sen was told he was special. His earliest memory was of a man in a brown robe explaining to his mother the importance of... | 2 | |
Inspired by this post:
http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/2dcf16/even_after_telling_him_sir_thats_not_where_gas/
| [WP] As the man poured fuel all over his engine, he thought about how his life had led him up to this point... | [
"Ridley missed his son, Grant. \n\nThe one thing Ridley knew that would always bring a smile to Grant's face was a long road trip. When he was healthier, they would drive past the woods, into the mountains and camp under the stars, telling ghost stories all night until the sun rose. The weekend was never enough, bu... | 3 |
[WP] Your pet turns out to be an alien god/goddess sent to learn about human society. Not only have they gone native, but they've grown rather close to you since you first got them. | [
"Day 1\n\nI bought this journal at a local book store, it looks too cute to not buy it. Besides it only cost me 2 bucks.\n\nDay 10\n\nI overheard mummy telling daddy about someone called Fluffy? No idea who that is.\n\nDay 25\n\nMy birthday is coming soon! What is mummy going to get me? Hope she remembers I wanted ... | 6 | |
[WP] In a world where everybody has some kind of superpower, there is a world war. Two soldiers meet on the battlefield, and... | [
"War raged and screams were heard across the battlefield as blood ran across the field with the gore and bodies. I hosed down my bloody uniform with the water from inside without noticing another officer in blue (with red stains) playing with fire and burning my fellows.\n\n\"Water? Huh, seems nice. You won't die f... | 7 | |
[WP] Instead of dying, people now leave Earth and go to Hell if they get voted out in a similar style to reality shows. Today's the death ceremony, and you're on the block. | [
"Jeff finally finishes reading the last of the votes. Another for me, placing me at 7 and *her* at 6. What complete and utter bullshit that is. Dying by one vote...it was probably that ass Ronaldo, he's always hated me. Jesus, one joke about his name and suddenly I become the anti-christ. Whatever. I can deal with ... | 2 | |
[WP]You have undeniable proof who 'Jack the Ripper' is, the community is rich with fear and anticipation you will catch the madman. This is your first public testimony; GO! | [
"\"People of the Court, and citizens of London, and England. I,Reginald von Forsooth, have irrefutable proof of the Identity of the Notorius Jack The Ripper!!!\"\n\nThe nation held it's Breath, as this mysterious man, whom nobody new, appeared in the Court of London, and began.\n\n\"Jack The Ripper, is a man whom y... | 2 | |
[WP]Someone found the fountain of youth but after all the hype no one dares to get in | [
"The weary pirate crew stood, dumbstruck looking upon the fabled pool that they had been questing for for six years. These men that had searched and worked, died and lost on their journey now stood shuffling and uncomfortable as they stood atop the hill looking into the pool.\n\n\"We have travelled through Desert, ... | 8 | |
Or your character's*
What are the moderators' goals? What is the purpose of the society? Are all of the subreddits in on it, or are there divergent intents?
| [WP] The moderators for larger subreddits actually operate as secret societies, complete with their own codes and traditions. Today is your first day moderating over at /r/_______. | [
"\"Can I introduce him this time? I love doing the introductions!\"\n\n\"No. We've been over this. *I'm* the leader. I do the introductions.\"\n\n\"Hmph, fine. Not like I have more Karma then you or anything.\"\n\nA whirlwind of chatter surrounded me, although I could not see who was saying such things. Bags over y... | 2 |
[wp] It's someone's 40th birthday and today and they're casually reflecting on their life | [
"It was just yesterday, I held my 1 and only Stella in my arms, I muzzled her teeny nose and pinched her chubby cheeks. In 2 flashes, she called me dada. 3 years later, I yelled at her to put on her pants, and there I was arguing with a 4 year old. In 10 blinks I watched her grow into a fine young woman. At the str... | 4 | |
Where does it take you?
What do you do there? | [WP] There is a ladder in your lawn, and it reaches into the clouds. Climb it. | [
"I reach for it.\n\nThe first rung.\n\nI feel the weight of my body.\n\nMy mind races with what will wait for me.\n\nThe next rung.\n\nMy nervousness grows.\n\nThe next rung.\n\nI ponder for a moment to call for wife to join me.\n\nI decide it is better for me to check the journey first.\n\nThe next rung. \n\nA smi... | 5 |
I'm asking this because I need inspiration for my collection of short stories about a similar situation, plus it's nice to see other people's opinion on this somewhat overused idea. | [WP] A person from the modern world is teleported to a seemingly typical fantasy world. Write about their (mis)adventures. | [
"My head is throbbing. I can't tell what I am laying on, but it sure as hell isn't a pillow. Goddamn, I shouldn't have mixed my liquors last night. \n\nWhatever's poking into the back of my skull is hard, and pointed. I struggle to my feet, eyes opening slowly.\n\nWhat the actual fuck? Not sure why I'm outside, or ... | 1 |
[WP] year 2095, people no longer buy wardrobes, instead they wear a reprogramable nanowear. | [
"A shiver as a cool breeze made her nipples harden caused a mid step stumble, she blinked her HUD up to check the settings on her reactiveware. \n All that came up was base mesh, not the Elvenware feather vine pattern she had spent so much time customising. \n Her hands flew to her face as she realised she was ... | 2 | |
....but the event helps him anyway. It's just not the conveniently relevant passage in it. | [WP] Facing a moral dilemma, the hero finds a random passage in a random book. It's absolutely no relevance to the dilemma. | [
"I stood before the ceo, hands shaking behind my back as the aid opened my carefully designed powerpoint. With a two hour presentation on what would become the future of our company, the men before me wanted an immediate answer to the crisis we were facing, and a reliable method to mitigate the damages and continue... | 2 |
[WP] After a series of natural disasters kills hundreds of millions, Death decides to have a talk with God. | [
"Death: So why can't I kill the fools who keep renewing *Supernatural*?\n\nGod: Hey, they were amazing until like, the last 10 seconds of season 5. I have to watch them die their slow, natural death... its like I owe them that much.\n\n*Turns on season 13*\n\nDean: SAM!\n\nSam: DEAN!\n\nDean: Sammey! Don't sacrific... | 4 | |
[WP] You're a man who just woke up in a woman's body...today is the day she gives birth. | [
"\"I can't be pregnant!\" I screamed, but it fell on deaf ears.\n\nI was surrounded by them, I was their chariot of truth, finally a man would know how it truly feels. A vehicle to deliver the message and foster sympathy among my own gender when I return. When I return...?\n\n\"OK just tell me, this is all a cruel ... | 2 | |
[WP] In a post-apocalyptic future where humanity has been stripped of most scientific knowledge, internet culture of old has become the basis for myths, religion, and other supernatural beliefs. | [
"On the fields of Old Boston, thousands of men and women laid dead and dying. Some were still gripping their blades, others were climbing into the flaming wrecks of mangled vehicles. Blood trickled and pooled, settling into streams and ponds which reflected the light of the setting sun. \n\nThe army of Tysonites, c... | 2 | |
[WP]Write about a Great War between Emus and Kangaroos | [
"The federal government had yet to make a statement. The damage was still being assessed and remnants of the trouble were causing problems on the outskirts of town yet to be fully contained. News of the event had been patchy at best and farcical the rest of the time. This is what is known for sure.\r\r\rDuring earl... | 2 | |
[WP] You deliver a pizza to a strange house at the edge of town. A cult answers the door and they believe you are their sacred cult leader. What do you do? | [
"\"AT LAST, HE HAS COME!\"\n\nIt was the first time I'd ever seen anyone so excited to find a pizza delivery guy at the door. And let me tell you, we get orders from a *lot* of stoners with the munchies.\n\n\"Yeah, I've got your extra-large with pepperoni and sausages-\"\n\nThe big, balding guy in the weird bathrob... | 2 | |
[WP] on a distant alien planet where to brandish a tattoo means great victory in intergalactic battle is observing earth before the invasion, a planet they thought had barely mastered space travel | [
"65% of Pepli's lifespan spent at the Space Wizard academy. After the fourty struggles, the refinement crucible, the seventeen grinders, and the nine ways of the world, he was ultimately a washout of the Battle Mage programs. He had enough of a knack to avoid becoming paste but lacked subtle mastery for most positi... | 2 | |
[WP] You're walking home from work it's 11pm and you encounter a little girl no older than 7 clutching a worn leather book. She is wearing a dirtied white gown and is missing a slipper. She is standing in the middle of the street. Her Demeanour oddly calm as she stares right at you. | [
"10:30 and I was finally off work for the weekend. The meeting times are getting ridiculous because of the outsourcing. Sometimes I have to speak with a client on a 12 hour time difference and that is definitely not good for keeping my sleep cycle healthy. I grabbed my rain jacket and sprinted out of the door. \n ... | 2 | |
[WP] People automatically, instantly cry when a loved one dies. Your character is going about their day as usual, when they begin to cry. | [
"My family has always been...well you could say...well off, financially. In a very poor city. The class system is so drastic and good people are few and far between. This city has corruption running through it's veins to it's very core. You look out for one thing and one thing only. Yourself. I learned this the har... | 3 | |
[WP]In a society where everyone's exact date and time of death are known from the moment they're born, one's "deathday" is looked forward to and prepared for the same way one would for a birthday | [
"They all look ahead, counting down, crossing dates. Counting down. Every minute, every second, knowing that the time crawls near. People used to be unaware of their demise, but now they grow ever so closed as their death draws near. \n\nIt made me wonder, is it worth it? Dreading it, giving up in the last few days... | 4 | |
[WP] In the very far future, humanity has finally achieved literal godhood through technology. They've conquered all of the universe and all dimensions except one, Heaven. | [
"He looked through the glastophere, the artifact glimmered and showed the last place not under his control. The pearly gates shinned with a white like angelic light. There stood just one man, no doubt Saint Paul and his book that allowed those in. None had dared attack Heaven, but why they hadn't was still a myster... | 3 | |
[WP] Kind, sheltered and naive, the tyrant's daughter is horrified when she learns of the cruelty her father inflicts on the people. | [
"The fat-faced boy managed to slap the back of her head twice, but when Cherrie chose a seat with two other children behind her, the boy could no longer follow. Settled into her seat, Cherrie whipped her head behind her shoulder and spotted the fat-faced boy still seated, staring back. She noticed then the other ch... | 2 | |
[WP] What is the one question that must never be answered? | [
"The other interns and I stood in a line, our heads tilted down as the Manager stomped past us with his classic Grumpy Bulldog expression. \"WHICH ONE OF YOU DID IT? IF I FOUND OUT WHO DID THIS I WILL HANG HIM BY HIS DICK AND WHIP HIM UNTIL THE ELEPHANT MAN WOULDN'T TALK TO YOU!\"\nHe was right to be angry of cours... | 3 | |
I see a lot of prompts that are more specific versions of this, so let's see what happens. | [WP] Trick me into thinking you're describing something, then reveal it's actually something else! | [
"You eyed me like a piece of meat.\n\nI laid there, unable to move or scream. You took my measurements. \n\nYou caressed my arms. Then, you took your axe and cut them off. \n\nYou mutilated me and chopped me into a dozen pieces. You hid me at the back of your truck, concealed by a thick, white sheet. You drove. \n\... | 3 |
In script form please. | [FF] A sniper watches from a hotel room on the 75th floor of the building he is in, through his scope he watches as his target enters a penthouse suite in the adjacent building, tell me what goes through the snipers mind as he watches his target. | [
"The wind was bitingly cold, and the suited man knew he didn't have long before hotel staff noticed the lock on the door was broken. It was almost time, and the man switched on his thermal scope. The snipers 50 calibres would be more than enough to cross the street and go through the glass that made up the penthous... | 2 |
[WP] As humanity burns in hell, a number of sinners decide to stage a coup and overthrow the devil. | [
"**Minutes 08/30/2014**\n\nPresent: TR, RLL, EG, PC, M. Chairman: RLL. Minutes typist: TR.\n\n\nRLL: All present?\n\nTR: WW and TS not present, both busy in the Third Circle.\n\nRLL: Winning over the gluttons? Still?\n\nTR: Still.\n\nRLL: Well, I suppose if they’ve been caught we would have heard about it. \n\nEG: ... | 2 | |
(ideas for those new to writing)
think about the time it is now, is it dark outside? or unnaturally bright?
Is there another figure? does this person have family?
(apologies if any grammar or spelling mistakes occur) | [WP] A man or woman has a terrible nightmare, in which they are told they have been given 24 hours left to live, then they wake up. | [
"Some letters came through the slot at some point. I didn't hear them falling through, they were just there. I flicked through them, judging their contents. Bill, bill, spam, spam, bill...\n\nAnd a plain white envelope. White, apart from my initials printed in block capitals. Something about it is just...off. No st... | 2 |
[WP] Humanity has cured old age. You were a friend of the last person to die of natural causes. | [
"\"On October 22, 2044, Louis Irvin died at age 85. I remember visiting him once before he passed, and he told me that he \"wished he could have just one more year.\" The cruel thing was that he only would have needed a day- on October 23, 2044, Google X released the FOYAC: the Fountain of Youth Age Cure. That was ... | 8 | |
[WP] The world's most optimistic person and the world's most pessimistic person are best friends. | [
"Two friends were sitting out on a porch on a hot summer day, debating on how to spend their day. The two friends were Alex Jackson and Taylor Williams. They were both 19 years old and just finished their freshman year of college. Alex is 5 foot 11 inches, well-built, lightly tan, with black hair and light blue ey... | 3 | |
[WP] Give someone a mask and they'll show their true face... | [
"I've heard \na tribe would speak into the fire \nto ease their pain \nI've heard \nthe remembering of ancestors \na way to \nanchor one in place \ndelineate where one is in the story of things \nI've heard \nof things \nguided by something greater than the capacity to do so \nI've watched \nhistory \n... | 2 | |
[WP] Write a psychological thriller short story where the majority of the plot makes little to no sense at all. Then the last sentence reveals what the story is about. | [
"It was around 2AM when Eva realized that she had maybe a few too many drinks. It wasn’t like she was a lush or anything, or that she made it some sort of common occurrence to go out to the bars on a Tuesday night. It was just that her boyfriend of six months had dumped her, and she felt a little put-out. She had w... | 2 | |
[WP] The number-one killer of Americans annually is heart disease; the number-two killer is cancer. Number three is Mrs. Esther G. Waters, aged 78, of Spokane, WA. Tell us about her. | [
"When she was younger it had made sense, for the good of the society, the economy, everybody. Now she knew it was almost over. Her commanders had changed several times, becoming more skeptical each time they met her, code name \"mercy\" It was hard to find someone to do this job.\n\nIn her younger days it had been ... | 3 | |
[WP] Someone is having a bad day, until they notice that all the turn blinkers in their lane are synchronized. | [
"Round five. His suit had half a bar of energy left. The hookshot had six shots. Blasters depleted, no lightnades, stunsprayer lost back on the colony round. Didn't even get a refresher medkit at the waystation. \n\nThe klaxons drowned out the sound of the announcer. The hydraulic hiss of the doors settling. He he... | 1 | |
[WP] You somehow found out that you and the world were born 5 minutes ago and your memories have been implanted. | [
"\"God is not real.\" A voice in my memories whispered in hush tones. I blinked my eyes and the people around me continued motion as they had every day before. I walked by this small fruit stand every day for the past 10 years on my way to the press office down on third and main. I had went to journalism school and... | 2 | |
"Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Poetry is difficult,
Potato stew" | [WP] Write a 'roses are red, violets are blue' poem. | [
"roses are red \nviolets are blue\nwhat do you expect\nan \"I love you\"?\n\nroses are red\nviolets are blue\ni'm quite tired of\nbeing scared of you\n\nroses are red\nviolets are blue\nsometimes i wish \ni could kill you\n\n((Now I feel sort of stupid because everything here isn't very serious :/))"
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[WP] Earth is doomed. The last man born on Earth watches as he and the last remaining survivors board the spaceship "Endeavor" as they leave to search for an inhabitable world. Write what the man is thinking as he leaves his dying planet, looking for it for the last time. | [
"The sky above was a deep shade of navy, the stars twinkling above where the navy melted into blue, then red and finally a warm colour of orange that you couldn't find anywhere else. The colour was a darker orange, but yet would still wake you up when you saw it. Despite the differences that humans had, it was a co... | 3 | |
[WP] Your dad suffers from memory loss. On a rare lucid day, you tell him some stories about things he's done and people he's known. Maybe you take a little creative license. | [
"Dad looked smaller in his bed every time I came back. In a perfect world…well, maybe just a perfect me…I would stay there with him around the clock to make sure he didn’t just vanish into nothing while my back was turned.\n\n“John,” he wheezed, and smiled with yellow teeth. “How are you today?”\n\n“Feeling fine, D... | 3 | |
[WP] You are placed under arrest for a short story you wrote. Under interrogation, they suspect you are a leak in a very tightly held classified secret- based on the accuracy of your story. | [
"I really liked this, I wrote a story sometime back about a deep cover KGB spy in modern America still hunting his target.\r\rThe man sat across from the steel table, his hands resting on the stack of papers, while the second rested his head in the palms of his hands. I was quickly whisked away from my workplace in... | 1 | |
[WP] Your a CIA agent known for his unique interrogation method. Describe an interrogation between you and a criminal mastermind. | [
"What my associates have not told you, Sir, is that I am Canadian. You WILL talk, otherwise you will be injected with 880 micrograms of Lysergic Acid Diethelymide-25 and I shall then subject you to the music of Justin Bieber, Bryan Adams, Celine Dion, Snow and Nickelback.\n \nYou will talk now, or you WILL talk l... | 3 | |
[WP] You start to notice video-game-style glitches occuring around you in real life. Your reality gets increasingly glitchy and you desperately search for safety as the world around you gets progressively worse, on it's way to an all out crash. | [
"The sun's rays blaze through my window, scorching everything in sight. My arm sits in the sun, slowly turning red as the heat scorches my skin. The window seems to be dropping, almost as if it's melting from the heat. Good god it's never been this hot. It feels as if someone turned up the temperature level on the ... | 8 | |
[WP] Make an interesting story out of a horrible opening line. "Math has always been my favourite subject, for a few different reasons." | [
"Math has always been my favorite subject for a few different reasons.\n\nFirst off, I am what you would call a \"South Pole Elf.\" This means that all the time I spend in Satan's Workshop goes to waste if we can't inventory the lost souls we take in. When we take over a soul we classify it based on a few charact... | 2 | |
[WP] Humans are capable of magic, we just don't have mana. You have just learnt the secret to obtaining mana. | [
"Magic is... difficult to explain.\n\nI've only been working with it for about three months. Half of the time, I barely have a clue as to what it is I'm even trying to do. The other half of the time, I don't know anything whatsoever and I'm basically just winging it. There isn't exactly a body of knowledge about ma... | 2 | |
Its up to you to decide whether the drugs are legal or illegal. | [WP] In place of activities, you can now purchase an injection that simulates the feeling and emotion felt during said activity (with more expensive "activities" having a better high and lasting longer). You're addicted. | [
"Walking down the aisles of the pharmacy was a fairly quiet affair. That's not to say it was an empty store. By all means, the place was more packed than a can of sardines. But nobody spoke. Nobody made eye contact, whether due to lack of caring, shame, or respect for those who felt shamed. \n \nIt's my first tim... | 2 |
[WP] An alternate history where dogs are wild animals and sea life has been domesticated. | [
" Jeremy nestled himself down in the grass by his favorite tree, rod in hand, ready to be cast. His turtle slowly lolloped over to him, and instead of sitting down, seemed to fall on the ground, causing a small earthquake. \n\n\n Jeremy chuckled a tad. He and Count Galapagos were friends as long as he could rem... | 3 | |
[WP] She stumbled backward in terror as she watched her boyfriend become a beastly aberration, barely human. | [
"\"P-please...\" she managed as she stepped back, cornering herself. He cocked his head, his eyes menacing slits. \"Stay the fuck back.\" He whispered with a bestial rumble. With the merest flick of his hand he upset the table, scattering it's contents wildly. He stretched his broad shoulders, and back, and shook ... | 4 | |
[WP] Alexander Graham Bell makes the first phone call. The voice on the other line says "You have the wrong number, but I'm glad you called. There has been a problem." | [
"\"Thomas? Is this some kind of joke?\"\n\nHis assistant called out from the other room. \"What's that, Alex? I don't think it's working. I can't hear anything...\"\n\nMeanwhile, the voice in his ear spoke again, \"I assure you, Mr. Bell, this is no joke. Please, listen to--\" Alexander slammed the receiver o... | 2 | |
This would be the early stages of a post-apocalyptic setting of some sort.
Job could be anything that would fit having the character usually up before dawn. | [WP] A man usually up before the sun for work learns the world he once knew is gone when he arrives for work. | [
"Not post-apocalyptic but here it goes.\n\nFour A.M. Wake up, shower. Breakfast is eggs, sausage, bran flakes and milk. Then throw the robe back on the hook in the bathroom, put on socks and boxers, black pants, uniform shirt, belt, black shoes, hat. Grab keys, wallet, and nowadays, a phone. Pat down pockets to be ... | 2 |
[WP] God finds Jesus's porn stash. | [
"\"Honestly, my boy! Pornography? It's bad enough that you died for their sins, but now you keep their creations around as well!? What do you have to say for yourself?\"\n\nJesus was silent. Not that he was ashamed, or caught off guard by his father, but that his attention was elsewhere. He had bet that Luis Suarez... | 3 | |
[WP] Amanda Waller finds a way to get The Joker on Suicide squad. | [
"Task Force X, Waller's most prized team. She had taken kindly to it being dubbed the \"Suicide Squad\", further reinforcing her ruthlessness. It was true, she didn't care for the scum she had at her disposal, this was a world of freaks, all of them mere pawns. \n It was desperate times in the world, vigilantism wa... | 1 | |
[WP] Light takes 8 minutes to travel from the Sun to Earth. The Sun all of a sudden stops putting out light forever. Write me what is going on in the last 8 minutes that everyone knows they have of sunlight. | [
"Xiu Waichun woke suddenly and completely, as if his dreams had transitioned to reality without interruption. A persistent glow through the window panel urged him into action, all lingering thoughts of laziness erased. Absentmindedly munching the last piece of naturally produced bread he would ever eat, drinking th... | 1 | |
[WP] After centuries of boredom, the guardian of a forgotten treasure gives up on its ancient duty and steals it to start a new life. | [
"Sir Henry sighed and flipped a gold coin into the Holy Grail almost without looking. It clanged directly in the middle... just like his last four thousand flips.\n\nA thought occurred to him, was that even the Grail? It's probably that small cup over there. No wait, maybe that gold one... Well screw it, like it ev... | 4 | |
[WP] A man becomes deeply disturbed by his physical and emotional fixation he has towards a painting of a woman from the 1800c. | [
"\"When did you say it was painted?\"\n\n\"Mid-to-late 1800th century, we believe.\"\n\nGorblax was in love. The way the painting captured the play of light on her cyber mantle, the coy laugh traced in lines around her hazard breather. She was beyond beautiful, calling to him across the centuries, and he damned the... | 2 | |
[WP] Someone on reddit comes up with a legitimate, reasonable writing prompt. Everyone is shocked and amazed | [
"\"You know, F. Scott Fitzgerald said that nothing was truly original. That everything ever created was just a copy of something else,\" said Tre as he copy and pasted passages from Wikipedia into his essay on pre-Renaissance Italian art.\n\n\"I think you're making that up,\" said Avery without looking up from her ... | 2 | |
[WP] A line of code algorithmically generates every pixel color permutation of a computer monitor. What do you find in this data? | [
"I called it the `magical code`. J called it `The code from hell`. But, that was mostly because I asked him to review it. And help me write tests. And manage the sourcing software. I can never quite get sourcing right. It was supposed to be part of my thesis project. It was supposed to be the last bit of my thesis ... | 2 | |
Tell your twist of a supposed villain that was in reality a good guy but was misunderstood, chose to be a villain, etc. | [WP] Tell the last thoughts of a villain who turned out to be a good guy | [
"I laid in bed, full and lethargic from my most recent meal. My bedclothes felt as if they would burst at the seams. Ugh, why did I have that dessert as well? As bad as I felt I knew why, I had to rid my mouth of that awful taste. I gagged reflexively at even the memory, mothballs and sour leather were brought ... | 3 |
[WP]Two men are linked, when one is asleep the other is awake. If one dies so does the other. One is the source of all evil, the other is the source of all good. | [
"The brightest light makes the darkest shadow.\n\nToday I had done some of the greatest deeds of my life, so I feared nightfall, and the darkness it would bring. I have tried many times to stay awake, but it has never worked. Today I knew a way that it would work. But was it worth it?\n\nHours passed until midnight... | 3 | |
[WP] A psychiatrist is about to commit suicide in his office. His latest client makes a surprise visit, just in time to say something to him. | [
"Dr. Jackson checked his watch. It was half-past one, and he could hear his colleagues trickling back into work after lunch. He hadn’t eaten. For weeks now food seemed to have lost its flavor. He had lost weight from the simple fact that it wasn’t worth eating. There was no enjoyment from it and just now sustenance... | 4 | |
[WP] In the distant future, humanity has amassed all scientific knowledge. As the last few dozens of immortal humans congregate near the barren Earth to resign themselves to premeditated extinction, one of them decides to engineer a eulogy that will preserve humanity's legacy on a cosmic scale. | [
"We were each plucked from the abyss for reasons that had seemed entirely arbitrary at the time. The real - the noumenon - had to be introduced to us slowly in order to keep some remnant of our individuality, thereby fulfilling our purpose.\n\nFin had used a child's toy that I had recollected from a past life.\n\n... | 3 | |
Invisibility makes you blind whenever you use it, super strength making you crush those you love. X-ray vision giving people cancer like instantly. Basically the evil genie interprets somebodies wish for a super power in the most shitty way possible. | [WP] Give someone a cool superpower and make me pity them for having it. | [
"Chaos. What an absurd concept.\n\nEvery physical law has a well defined resolution and every interaction has a well defined outcome. I built a machine that could predict any event. Any disaster that would befall humanity.\n\nTo my discredit, I was too busy with humanity and failed to predict the disaster that woul... | 8 |
[WP] An inventor creates a device that can detect consciousness. The device reveals that this inventor is actually the only conscious being. | [
"DETECTION COMPLETE\n\nThe doctor held his hands tight holding his breath as the machine he had spent the last three years of his life working on ran its initial program. The last few times the machine had needed more power each time and the circuit breaker always broke before the machine was finished. The doctor d... | 3 | |
[WP] What happened to the other key? | [
"Barnaby built a an underground bunker, knowing that one day, zombies, aliens, robots, or a combination thereof would attempt to enslave and/or eat humanity.\n\nAnd he was right.\n\nOn September 25, 2014, the whole world woke up to hear the Undead-Extraterrestrial-Robot Coalition knocking on their door.\n\n“Who is ... | 2 | |
[WP] The date is November the twenty-third, 2035. A global week has been established to serve as a "prank week," and you are assigned to an elite branch of MI6 dedicate to outpranking rival organisations this week. You have a blank check and diplomatic immunity. | [
"Its like Christmas!\n\n*No shit sherlock! Bet Mr. Cole would never have seen us doing this!*\n\nYou'll never amount to anything, bollocks!\n\n*From stink bombs to IEDs. Brillant!*\n\nSee here, they come!\n\n*Oooh! Look to the right!*\n\nThe national guard is here!\n\n*Wheres Bryce?*\n\nI can see him now! Look over... | 6 | |
[WP]For the first time ever the Pope that is elected is not human. | [
"\"Mama mia, how could this a-happen?\" Bishop Marco Franzetti paced anxiously about the marble hallway, back and forth, his steps echoing within the vast space.\n\n\"WOOF,\" exclaimed Dog Pope, upset at the reaction of his subordinate.\n\n\"Dog Pope, forgive me. I don't a-mean to offend.\"\n\n\"WOOF!\"\n\n\"No, I ... | 2 | |
I submitted this to /r/sixwordstories earlier today and the more I think about it, the more perfect it is for a writing prompt. It's just enough information to go any direction you wish to take it. Hope this sparks your imagination. | [WP] Halfway to the funeral, she confesses | [
"I always thought it rained at funerals. That’s what you see in the movies, right? Rain at funerals, it’s one of those things you think is a universal constant, a fundamental law. Someone dies, it rains. Simple as that. Turns out it’s another big lie, just like when you think you’re gonna win the big game on a last... | 2 |
[WP] Aliens visit Earth and offer a gift- immortality- but only for one human being. Earth debates who should receive this treasure. | [
"\nThe promise of immortality to a single individual was no *gift*, and they knew that. When they had proposed the offering, we must have both startled and dismayed them with the lottery. Sure it was only open to a select few, but those few were some of Earth’s greatest minds; renowned scientists and exceptional m... | 3 |
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