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[WP] The soul is treated like any other human organ. You're on the list for a transplant. | [
"\"Relax,\" Papa said. \"It's not going to hurt.\"\n\nBeside him, a girl with long lanky hair appeared. It was Majorie, my sister.\n\n\"She won't,\" Marjorie chipped in. \"She's too much of a scaredy cat.\"\n\nI flushed. Majorie was being mean as usual but she was also right. I AM a scaredy cat but all that would c... | 3 | |
[WP] You meet Death in the most unlikely of places. | [
"I wrote mine and posted it on my [blog](http://gloriestostories.blogspot.com)! I do a story in 15-20 minutes every day, look it over quick and post it. thanks for the great prompt! :)\n\nHarold slashed and stabbed at the mighty beasts within his dream. He had been a hero in many, defeating all forms of villains an... | 5 | |
This prompt is based on a dream I had last night. I know how my version of events turned out, but it would be interesting to see other people's perspectives on the ethics of the situation. | [WP] In the year 2100, you are a professor doing social science research by using a supercomputer to simulate societies. Since you have finite computational resources, the simulation isn't perfect, and one day one of the societies proves they are in a simulation, and attempt to contact you. | [
"\"Sir are you sure that this is only a cult? they seem to make up the majority of the simulated population now.\"\n\n\"Most people believe in a god of sorts. Why is it surprising that they would too?\"\n\n\"Well they are expressly stating that it's a computer simulation. Apparently one of they is about to demonstr... | 2 |
[WP] In a world where Adolf Hitler finished art school... | [
"The old man sat in the comfy armchair, a pipe lazily throwing up puffs of smoke up every now and then. A newspaper was spread across his lap, held by both hands. Reading glasses helped him decipher the letters. He was getting up there, age-wise, and it started to show. In his vision, at least - his spirit was as c... | 3 | |
You could either describe history to today, or describe a major war, or do anything you want. I just want to read a story like this. | [WP] The Roman Empire never fell, and is a still major world superpower today. | [
"I dragged my finger across the tablet, erasing the words and numbers I had written upon it. I looked up to my teacher, she stood in front of the blackboard and seemed to sigh from seeing my tablet again clean of characters.\n\n\n\"Augustus,\" she looked down upon me with a mix of annoyance and yet favour. \"What *... | 2 |
[WP] Using a Universe and Currency of your choosing, write about the one truly incorruptible person. | [
"The man walked into the restaurant. He stopped at the waiters podium and scanned the room. There were couples eating romantically in the corners of the room, business men having suspicious looking exchanges of briefcases at the far end of the room and there was a few solo eaters sitting near the exit so that the w... | 2 | |
[WP] Write a prompt so bad you feel ashamed just sharing it, and a response so great that you'll consider continuing the story... | [
"\"Oh god,\" General Timothy Dong moaned sensually. \"It's coming! It's coming!\" He screamed as the fiery soup exited his asshole, a chorus of toots and churcles spilling out of his sloppy gapehole and onto the field of battle.\nHe knew that he shouldn't have served his troops the expired beans rations the night b... | 1 | |
[FF] Can you write a story that chills me to the bone in less than 150 words? | [
"Why does she always come in covered in mud? I understand why she wants to come home, but just once can she clean herself before she came in the house?\n\"Come find me daddy!\" Her voice cries up form upstairs.\nI have too much work to do to deal with her today.\n\"Honey I don't have time to play you need to go bac... | 14 | |
[WP] A quiet and humble atheist discovers definite proof that God exists. He/she tries to decide whether or not to share his discovery with world. | [
"I finally understand. We've learned a great deal about the universe by simply observing it, but there are things you just can't see from the outside. If it gets too big, or too small, the rules change. We've seen this, we can demonstrate it, but we can't figure out why until just now.\n\nIf a tree falls in the for... | 2 | |
[WP] The story involves Jesus getting arrested, you, the company van, Satan loaning you his burglary tools and getting the Pope drunk. | [
"You groan. It is another boring day working with the police. You might say that you are in the police, but you are only infiltrating them with the intention of robbing them later. Everyone talks to someone else, though you are bored, as you are new and have no one to talk to. The police van stops and everyone gets... | 2 | |
I look forward to your stories. | [WP] In the cradle of humanity, an archaeologist discovers an ancient alien-looking vehicle. Among the remains, they find the ship's log. | [
" L.E.G.A.C.Y. launch. \n \n Cryogenic state OK\n Sail state OK\n Monitoring Sys state OK\n \n Sail course START\n \n Monitoring Sys tested with result NEG. Resume sail course. \n Monitoring Sys tested with result NEG. Resume sail course. \n Monitoring Sys tested with result NEG. Resu... | 2 |
[WP] Tim Cook realizes Apple isn't what Steve Jobs envisioned anymore and shuts the company down. This shut down immediately turns off all the world's Iphones, Ipads and Macs reducing them to a black screen never to turn on again. Describe how this impacts the world. | [
"The phone blinked off. Jon tapped at the screen a few times, frowned, and then held the power button. Nothing happened. \n\n\"Huh,\" he said. He looked up at the other people on the train, half of whom were doing the same. He made eye contact with a few, who nodded or smiled. For a brief moment, he felt a rush of ... | 2 | |
[WP] A woman wakes in a bathtub of ice, finding that her whole body is covered in stitches. | [
"She awoke slowly, feeling returning in little fits and tremors. Eventually, she opened her eyes. Looking down, seeing her body, brought waves of emotion over her. She closed her eyes and let the tears fall down her cheeks, dripping into the icy water.\n\nWell, she assumed it was icy. There was still some actual ic... | 3 | |
[WP] You are a photographer diagnosed with a condition that will take your eyesight within a year. In your last consultation, the doctor says your eyesight will only last three more days. You try to absorb as much beauty as you can before everything turns dark. | [
"They always told me \"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder\", and I could think of no better place to observe the things I found beautiful than here. \n\nI wasn't invited, I didn't know anyone else, but that didn't matter. I didn't feel right bringing my cameras with, they're sitting in the trunk of my car. I was ... | 5 | |
Two worlds combine into one crazy adventure. Star Trek x Star Wars. Amaze me! | [WP] The USS Enterprise is deployed to investigate the Death Star blowing up Alderaan | [
"Captain's log. Star Date: 1423.9.\n\nWe are in a distant corner of our universe. Lands, into which no man has gone before. This galaxy, home of a religious cult of fanatics, stands opposite ours. \n\nWe have never interfered before, but...Mr. Spock informs me that something almost unthinkable has ocurred. An earth... | 2 |
[WP] The Last War Story. | [
"*Jim-724 and Phil-999931 are having coffee inside a fashionable cafe. Before them, on the table, is the last absolutely true war story, chronologically speaking. Jim-724 had just finished reading it, and set on the table before him.*\n\nJim: So... I don't want you taking this the wrong way.\n\nPhil: What?\n\nJim: ... | 2 | |
[WP] You wake up one day to find that you can only tell lies. You're an honest person, so you try to tell the truth through lies. | [
"It's a quiet morning, grey and cool. The TV's on in the other room. Across the kitchen, Beth's standing and staring at the coffee pot as it brews. She does that these days before work. Maybe it makes the mornings seem longer before she has to go to her shift. I wouldn't blame her.\n\nI've known since nearly three ... | 4 | |
[WP] You're trapped in a room with everyone you've ever slept with, with the date of the last time you were together printed on their shirts. | [
"This can't be real. \n\nI say that in my mind over and over again, scrambling for some evidence that this is a hallucination or a dream or a near death experience like a drowning man scrambling for driftwood. \n\n*Really?* my subconscious interrupts. \n\n*You'd rather be almost dead than in this room like this? Th... | 1 | |
Why? What happened? And where are you? Who knows?
>Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time. -H.P. Lovecraft | [WP] Today is the last day the ocean will have waves. | [
"She gave me a big smile over her shoulder, running towards the waves with her arms flapping at her sides. She always did that when she was excited, even if it did get really irritating sometimes. Especially whenever I was busy, she'd come up to me, flap her little hands and beg me to play with her – or something s... | 3 |
[WP] Our Sun explodes flinging the Earth in small pieces across the galaxy. Years later, on a distant planet, an intelligent life form observes something peculiar falling from the sky. | [
"It had been a night like any other. Ildar sat atop his roof preening himself with his mate Nyara. There was a meteor shower expected tonight. They had brought the brood-lings upstairs to watch. Orbital defense were already having their way with the dangerously large pieces. The bright flashes had been visible even... | 2 | |
[WP] The first faster-than-light engine test inadvertently vaporizes an entire city. Soon after, Earth receives a transmission from it's surviving inhabitants; the city is floating in deep space. | [
"Mao Ye fulfilled his community service hours working as a postman on the tented city Tau3\\. It was the most boring work that one could imagine, and it basically implied driving around the city in a small blue empty van. Nobody sent letters or parcels anymore, so the postal services were maintained as a kind of an... | 4 | |
[WP] The mind consists of two seperate and independent consciousnesses: The conscious mind and the subconscious mind. When a person is close to dying it is the only time they can ever communicate directly. | [
"*Greetings*\n\nEh, hello? Who are you and why can't I see you?\n\n*Well, it's complicated. Let us start with your second question. You can't see me since this conversation is taking place inside your head.*\n\nYou mean to tell me you are some kind of psychic invading my mind? If that's the case, get out!\n\n*Jez, ... | 4 | |
[WP] You are sitting in a crowded coffee shop with writer's block when you think you overhear the people at the table next to you conspiring to commit a murder. | [
"\"I wonder if they'll let me write about it. Is that too crazy? A writer following a murderer? I wouldn't follow them the whole time either! Just a little until I really understand how it feels. That's not conspiring is it? I mean I had no part in it I'm just trying to write a story here. And I could write a damn ... | 6 | |
[WP] Your child is born with monochromatic colour blindness, one day they ask you to help them understand what seeing colour is like. | [
"You know, the best way to describe it is probably to use the example of your other senses. You have a huge sweet tooth, right? You love caramel tart, and caramel icecream and caramel slice, but they all have slightly different taste and texture because of how they're prepared. That's similar to seeing colours. The... | 2 | |
[WP] ISIS overruns a US installation in Afghanistan and forces its mcdonalds to serve its breakfast menu at night. This has grave repercussions as Mcdonalds doesn't serve its breakfast menu after 10:30 for a very good reason. | [
"(Disclaimer: this is light hearted humour - no offence is intended)\n\nAnd the Lord said “Let there be breakfast, a meal eaten in the morning, in order to break the fast. And no, I don’t mean the fasting which the funny brown people do in the summer, but the fasting of the night. And there was breakfast. Not to be... | 5 | |
[WP] Take something that's usually mundane and insignificant, and make it as emotional and dramatic as possible. | [
"He's coming closer. Oh no, nonononono...\n\nI look around in my hiding spot for anything. Anything at all.\n\nThere. It's beautiful. A long plastic cylinder, narrow, with two thick cotton ends. I've never been so happy to see a piece of clutter.\n\nIt's clean, fresh, virginal. The man's footsteps no longer concern... | 12 | |
[WP] Everyones political allegiance is decided by the colour of their hair. | [
"\"Today, here, as we stand, is the day that all will unravel. Nothing in America will ever be the same. Today, April 1st, 2131, is the day that I proclaim the change of the 131st amendment, which states that one must affiliate with the party whose leader has the color of your own hair. My name is President Cordick... | 2 | |
[WP] This wasn't the first time I'd found myself staring down the barrel of a gun, but a rocket launcher seemed a little excessive... | [
"This wasn't the first time I'd woken up staring down the barrel of a gun, but a rocket launcher seemed a little excessive. It's always fuzzy, what I was thinking in the last few hours; surely I'd been overreacting a bit. Maybe the death of a grandchild. Those did tend to set me off. \n\nI stood up in the blackened... | 5 | |
[WP] "I love this war. Combat is the best thing that has ever happened to me." | [
"3/15\nHow do I even start a journal? \n\nI bet that stupid book we had to have for English class could tell me. Do I just, like, talk to this thing? I can do that.\n\n3/17\nThe Padre suggested this might help me. He called it meditative. Heh, being all 'meditative' is why I'm writing this in the first place. It al... | 3 | |
[WP] 5% of the world's humans have begun sprouting wings capable of flight. One detective is given the order to interview the first child in the world to become a victim of the wing-sprouting phenomenon. | [
"\"You realize this isn't in my job description, right? And what do you mean, 'victim?'\"\n\nHe locks the door behind me, so I turn and bang on the metal. I hear him walk away. \"Of all the rotten things.\" I run my hand through my hair. *I need a haircut.*\n\nSo now I'm staring at this girl. Australian, eight year... | 2 | |
[WP] Describe a kind of character that metaphorically both angels and demons would respect. | [
"He was not an imposing figure. He stood at average height, average weight. He completely blended into crowds due to his average appearance... People could not describe him in detail, only being able to remember that he had skin colored skin, hair colored hair, and eye colored eyes. His nose was nose shaped. He wor... | 2 | |
[WP] Your personality is entirely dependent on the clothes you wear. Today you feel like trying something new. | [
"I wanted to try something new. I was hesitant at first. I mean, come on, changing the very core of you are? It's a big step to take. Sometimes, it doesn't work out. \n\nI mean, just the other day, a nice, respected teacher decided he'd try something new. Ripped jeans, offensive t-shirt, the whole getup. Well, he's... | 2 | |
[WP] This is a story with multiple narrators! All are trying to convince our hero to take their path... | [
"The small house that once stood as a tool-shed for a now dead baron was unnaturally quiet. \n\n\"He won't do it.\" A woman said. \"I spoke with him last night, but he said he wouldn't do it.\" \n\n\"He wants to take care of us.\" A man's voice followed hers, speaking softly and sadly. \"He knows I can't tend the... | 2 | |
Primer to childrens to teens to young adult to adult to senior | [WP] Write a story designed for people who grow, live and die within a span of minutes, hitting every target group in sequence. | [
"B. The Ball was Blue. A Blue, Bouncy, Ball. The blue bouncy ball bounded busily beside all its buddies. But one day, when the Ball rose from its slumber in Spheretopia, it discovered it had lost it's bounce. Not only that, but all bounces everywhere were gone. Word had it that the bounces had been stolen in the ni... | 2 |
This should be fun to read, good luck! | [WP] Come up with the craziest conspiracy theory you can think of. Now try and convince me of it, and I'll tell you if I'm convinced. | [
"Hunger Games\n\n*Katniss is/was intended to be intersexed*\n\nIt's all in the name. Katniss.\n\nLet's break this down..\n\nKat is a respelling of cat. Cat is a term some people use to refer to vaginas, aka 'pussy' which is itself another word for cat (i.e. pussycat).\n\nNiss is phonetically identical to the 'nis' ... | 2 |
[WP] You work at Area 51 | [
"I could shut my eyes right now and still know exactly how it goes. The door opens and the big three walk out. Donovan Lacey pulls his lab coat off and straightens his tie. In my three years at the facility, he's never once looked at me when he's left the Operating Room. Kim Yuan sometimes looks, usually a glance, ... | 1 | |
[WP]-One day the Sun rises in the west and sets in the east. | [
"He didn't even know why he did it anymore. 6 months of unemployment had squashed any hope and meaning out of Javed's life. Subsisting on his meager government handout didn't really leave much room for recreational expenses. Deprived of his self-worth he had began to withdraw socially as well and gradually but stea... | 2 | |
[WP] After death you are destined to remain in purgatory (it's a train station) until nobody on earth remembers you, at which time you are allowed to board the train to Paradise. Since the advent of the global communication, however, the train station has gotten uncomfortably crowded. | [
"Wren found himself at the top of the steps to his usual metro line that lead him back to his apartment complex. Instead of towering structures looking over him, he instead found the staircase underground in the midst of an endless, flat, white field. With no other choice, Wren trotted down the stairs to find none ... | 5 | |
[WP] You are Doctor Darkness, Master of the Endless Void, Destroyer of Light, and Enemy of Good. As an evil mastermind, how do you promote gender equality in the workplace? | [
"As the Master of the Endless Void Destroyer of light and Enemy of Good I have a PHD in Darkness\n\nSome call me evil but that is just a perspective of people who don't understand that Good and Evil don't exist. It's just as easy to prove good and evil as a social construct doesn't exist but finding people who agre... | 4 | |
[WP] Your family is visiting your grandparents house. While exploring in the attic, you discover a dusty old wooden box, that once opened leads you on an adventure. | [
"Ellie hopped up the rickety wooden stairs leading to the ancient wooden attic door. This wood stuff was everywhere in Grandpa Russ's house! In the floors, the walls, it was crazy how many trees they used back in Gramps's day.\n\nDust motes fluttered lazily in the bright white light gleaming from the single window.... | 2 | |
[WP] A man lost in a seemingly never-ending maze has just gone through the last of his supplies. | [
"He chose a direction and walked around the corner, brushing his shoulder against the cleanly clipped edge of the tower of hedges that had become more commonplace lately.. In the early days of this there was some kind of variation, as if the designer was excited about their project then. Lately, there was less dive... | 2 | |
[WP]In an alternate world, every individual is born with a scar from an injury that hasn't happened yet. Once it does happen, the scar goes away, but no one knows how long it'll be. Where is the scar? What does it say about the person? How do they end up getting it? | [
" Everyone pitied him, the boy in class with the long horizontal scar across his neck. A few were born with their marks in fatal areas. It was considered a handicap; a clear message to society around them that this person was probably not worth investing much in, for who know when that fatal action would occur whic... | 3 | |
[WP] A child has been obsessed with being perfect all her life. One day, she realizes that perfection is impossible. | [
"I used all my youth,\n\nI never knew the truth.\n\nI've always been so stupid,\n\nI thought I could be a cupid.\n\nI wanted to help matchmake,\n\nI wanted to be smart.\n\nI thought I could stay pretty too,\n\nBut everything along is untrue.\n\nI can't be perfect,\n\nI don't have any special effect. \n\nI'm just no... | 2 | |
[WP] It's the year 2115, you are one of the first people who's signed up for cybernetic limbs. Today is the big day, but you've realized you didn't fully read the fine print. | [
"Well, here goes my first try at writing fiction. Feedback is appreciated. I'm not a native speaker, but writing seems like a good way to become more eloquent.\n\n________________________________________________________________\n\n“But this is not what I wanted!”\n\nIf it had still been physically possible, my voic... | 2 | |
[WP] You are the official food taster for a tyrant of a king. You just took the first bite and are sure the food you are eating is poisoned. In a split second decision, you decide to hide the fact as long as you can so the king will eat the food too. | [
"\"Food sucks bro.\" \n\nI said to the emissary as i tossed the rest of whatever the fuck it was back onto the silver platter. The man looked as angry as was possible to for a human as he was forcefully escorted from the kings hall. Well a human/dog. These strange people from the north were so... uncultured.\n\n\"N... | 7 | |
[WP] He just won't give up. Your worst enemy lay beneath you, laughing. Your fist are bloody from his face. He says, "I'm not done..." | [
"\"I'm not done...I never will be until you kill me\"\nHe looked up smiling with a full set of yellow and cracked teeth green hair falling into his hollow eyes,mingling with his chalk white face\n\"We're one in the same two sides of a coin you and I ...we're both insane\"\n\"You and your self righteous crusade on a... | 5 | |
[WP] Your character is on the subway having a conversation. They start to slowly realize that the subway should have stopped a while ago. | [
"The train shuddered and bumbled beneath me. I sat near the front in one of the many plastic buckets, and dotted around the rest of the car were a handful of strangers, some of which I recognized. A foot away, a snappily-dressed, corporate big-wig type stood proudly. I always noticed when he was on board, he contra... | 7 | |
[WP] Describe a regular day in modern times through the perspective of a 20th century cyberpunk nut. | [
"This got weird. I don't know where I was going with it, but I'll post it anyway. I realized too late that it was supposed to be a \"regular day\", but whatevs.\n\n\nData flows around me, delivering \"encrypted\" messages between thousands of people, saying \"Hey. Read me.\". I pluck messages out of the air and get... | 4 | |
[WP] As a child, your best friend was a tree and you learned how to communicate with it. Now, years later, trees everywhere talk to you all the time, and try to get you to solve their problems. | [
"My wife had asked if we could go for a short walk in the forest. I knew it was a bad idea, they would talk to me. I have managed to try to ignore them in the city, one or two here or there. Most of them didn't even know I could here them. I never told her about my *hearing*, and now I regret it.\n\nShe convinced m... | 4 | |
[WP] Michael Bay tries his hand at historical fiction. | [
"\"CUT! CUT!\" Michael Bay shouted over the megaphone. The Actors and all crew paused as Michael walked up to the set.\n\n\"What?\" Arnold Schwarzenegger asked in his heavy Austrian accent. \"It was going perfect.\"\n\n\"It isn't, though.\" Bay replied. \"We need something... we need... *explosions*\"\n\nThe actors... | 2 | |
Swords, daggers, fists, broken glass, guns, sabers, hammers, claws, nails, teeth. Write a fight scene, set anywhere, anytime, with as many characters as you'd like, for any reason at all. Flex your creative muscles and show us your flair for violence. | [WP] Write an extended fight scene! | [
"The enemy stood atop a small hillock, their shield wall anchored on either side by scrub forest. Sheep grazed placidly on the front slope of the hill, scattered about amidst boulders and coarse nettles. The morning air was chill and damp. The dew glittered on the grass. And all was still.\n\nThe sergeant barked an... | 10 |
Pretty straightforward. Describe happiness. Bonus: describe any other emotion of your choosing. | [WP] You meet a new race of emotionless beings, and are asked to describe happiness. | [
"\"I would, but I don't know what happiness is.\"\n\n\"???\"\n\n\"I have an illness in my mind, as our minds are as vulnerable as out bodies. Wounding one's eyes blinds them, so they can no longer see. My head has been wounded - I know not how, or by whom - so I feel no happiness or joy as a blind one sees no light... | 2 |
Specifics can obviously be changed around at will. | [WP] Shortly after a colony on mars was established, a massive solar wind hit earth. It has been 30 years and there has been no sign of life from earth. | [
"He could still remember the day the Earth had died. The colony had been founded only a few years before and the colonists numbered only a thousand or so. The solar flare had come as a surprise. I remember the haunting beauty of it. It shimmered and burned across the Martian sky. The Earth was only a dot in the sky... | 2 |
[WP] One day, an e-mail shows up in every single inbox on the planet (translated into appropriate languages, of course.) What does it say? What happens next? | [
"Dear reader,\n\nYou don't know me, but I died yesterday. I was 15. Heart disease, if you must know. They never found a donor for me. But I don't want to dwell on this. I have more important things to put in this message, and I want to be as brief as possible. I don't want to waste too much of your time.\n\nYou see... | 5 | |
[WP] You wake up to find dead pixels in your vision. | [
"\"Give it to me straight doc. How bad is it?\" I asked.\n\nI kept glancing at the eye-test pattern of grids and circles the optometrist had put on the wall. The spots were still there, following my sight and surrounded by distorted halos of whatever i was looking it.\n\n\"I'm sorry to say sir, it's permanent, you ... | 3 | |
Major changes to our world are more noticeable when you look at the tiny details of everyday life. Take us on a voyage that encounters trends like global warming, hyperconnectivity, long distance travel, 99% vs. 1%, cultural sprawl, globalization, social isolation, and population growth through the tedious minutae of 2... | [WP] Dystopia is now. | [
"**Iceland: Hotel Wi-Fi**\n\nFrom the long balcony I have a dreary panorama around the entire sweep of the harbour, across to the puffin colony on the island of Engey. Glowing dimly, far over the water, under cloud, I can just make out the peninsula of Akranes, where yesterday I watched blacksmiths forging intricat... | 2 |
[WP] In the future, a drug is invented that makes you feel as though more time is passing. E.g. you can go on vacation for what feels like a month, but it actually only takes a week. One man overdoses. | [
"I felt it flow through me. Time was slowing, yes, I'd finally done I had created a drug which could slow time!\nMore, I needed more. I push another syringe through my skin. It was soooo satisfying to feels the laws of time flex and blend around you. Time was slow enough for me to take in every detail around me... ... | 6 | |
What happens? Does he decide to take her and show her the world, or is she simply disgusted by him? You decide. | [WP] All mistakes made in a person's life leave them with a scar to forever remind them. Today, a man covered head-to-toe in scars meets a woman with flawless skin. | [
"*You can do it* I told myself reassuringly. *All you've got to do is muster up some courage and just talk to her. That's all.*\n\nI quickly inhaled air to calm myself down, and looked at her - she was beautiful, with no scars on her flawless skin and attractive, luxuriant loose hair. I, on the other hand, was cove... | 2 |
[WP] The villain wins, takes over the country, and makes significant improvements to government, bureaucracy and the general Quality of life of the citizens. After 5 years of intense training, the hero returns for a rematch. | [
"I was ready to take him on again,after my crippling defeat I retreated but now it's time to save my people!\nI flew over land and sea to get to my city and when I got there the arcane destruction formed a lump in my throat...\nWait what ... No , how . The city just looked ...normally but that was impossible I lost... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a person in a world where everyone must partake in a lottery in which he or she draws a random number between 1 and 100 and a plural noun. You are given what you draw. How do you fare? | [
"Those who control the lottery have no chance to choose,\nif the people don't work together they will all loose.\n\nWith 100 houses but only 50 horses \nit takes a village, to join forces!\n\nSuffer the greedy, \nfor they will eventually become the needy,\nsuffer the selfish,\nfor compassion will be their final wis... | 2 | |
[WP] A sweet old lady is sitting in her garden, drinking her tea and reminiscing about her youthful exploits. | [
"My finger joints hurt. They've hurt for years. Wrapping them around the dainty handle of this chipped tea cup makes me grimace. I know the lines they make, the criss-cross mask of pain I've worn for a long time. I should open that porcelain tea cup set, the one that is sixty years old. A wedding gift. The painted ... | 4 | |
[WP] You discover you have an ability, you can change anything in the universe at a cost, for every positive thing you do a equally negitive thing happens to a random person, after a few minor changes you decide to change the outcome of a major event in history. | [
"As I grew up, I slowly noticed that I was able to change bad things into something better. At first it wasn’t something big, maybe a dropped icecream that I reverted or making my parents forget that they caught me as I was getting one off, but I never knew that my gift had a downside nor how strong it actually was... | 4 | |
an Idea that came to me watching 'Unfriended' | [WP] A wrathful spirit has just killed a few people, but now those people are spirits themselves and out to hurt the spirit that killed them for eternity. | [
"They say your life flashes before your eyes, only parts of it in my case. It was this night. The one where I died.\n\nMe and some friends decided to go on a road trip. we were miles away from home and a few days in. we got lost when we found... oh god it was horrible.\n\nI could feel her hands, cold and dead on my... | 2 |
[WP] "... And that's how I met your mother." | [
"A bunch of Mexican immigrants showed up in a van they all walked out. A security guard was sleeping in the back of the truck. I like donuts. I went to Duncan Donuts and they had good donuts. I saw a good looking woman sitting down near some donuts. I left the store. I met up with my girlfriend who dumped me when s... | 4 | |
[WP] Lucifer loves "The Divine Comedy" so much that he renovates Hell to be exactly as described in the book. He decides to bring Dante to Hell to show him. | [
"Dante turns to Lucifer and is like, \"Thanks brah, for totally toasting all the people in history I hate. Everyone is experiencing exactly the never-ending pain and torture I wrote for them.\" Except he says this in beautiful flowing Italian. Then not much else happens because Dante already wrote all about it. \n\... | 5 | |
[WP] An old man is sitting in the park reminiscing about the past and a teenager comes and sits next to him. | [
"Teenager reached in his pocket to take out a good looking expensive smartphones & ear buds and then proceeded to connect them together and to his ears for listening songs oblivious of anyone sitting around him or anything happening around him. In any way, he had to wait out on that bench for a while for his fr... | 3 | |
[WP] the story starts with someone saying "There's no time to explain" and ends with "and to this day I have no idea what was going on" | [
"\"There's no time to explain,\" Carol wrapped her arms around my neck. \"Just go with it.\" The words exited her mouth as her tongue entered mine. \n\nThe taste of her saliva was unlike any other; It was sour, like lemon. Made me wonder what she ate for dinner. However, I didn't resist. Carol may not have been the... | 1 | |
[WP] You have a crippling addiction to something totally mundane. | [
"I can see it. I am staring at it now. I can visualize my hand slowly reaching for it. My friends all around me, I know I cannot do this here. Not right now, please God not right now. I think about it over and over again, analyzing the pros and cons. What will they think of me? What kind of disgusting animal would ... | 6 | |
[WP] A tree must try to survive a bad windstorm while supporting a treehouse. | [
"There's a reputation.\n\nIt means well. \n\nThose people mean well. \n\nBut sometimes, we do our best when we advocate for ourselves.\n\nThe McKenzie family developed this property some time ago. The notion of property ownership is somewhat lost on us, but I suppose it isn't unlike a dog suddenly becoming warm to ... | 1 | |
[WP] You die and go to heaven only to be told you have "unfinished business" and are sent back to the moment 10 minutes before your fatal heart attack to finish it. You have no idea what this "business" is. | [
"\"Hello Doctor Joshua Florian\"\n\n\"Umm hello? Where am I, I can't see anything out here, it's too bright.\" I replied.\n\n\"Joshua, my name is Gabriel. I am the gate keeper for Heaven but I cannot allow you in yet, you must finish what you started.\"\n\n\"What I started? Do you mean my research? Was I close to a... | 6 | |
I really enjoyed the responses I got [here](http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/3396ag/wp_a_father_or_mother_write_a_letter_once_a_year/) with letters and thought this would create some interesting stories as well. | [WP] Tell a story using only voicemail messages. | [
"(I'm formatting this so that the voicemails are going back and forth, like they each keep calling each other back but not answering)\n\n> Hey, it's Catherine. I really hope you are just asleep and not outside right now. Call me back and I'll explain.\n \n.\n\n>Catherine, It's Robert. I'm in the gas station r... | 3 |
[WP] You are mother nature. After some of your apes started loosing their hair and climbing ability, you became discouraged and decided to hibernate for several thousand years to see how the other obviously superior animals would fare. | [
"I don't feel so good, something's wrong. It's hot, the air tastes bad, the waters are gross, and the ground is mutilated. What could have done this much damage?\n\nAre you fucking kidding me? Homo sapiens did this, they should have died a long time ago. There is no reason they should even be alive, they are thin s... | 5 | |
Thanks to /u/hanselpremium in [this](http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/33jejv/til_that_the_north_american_lottery_system_is_a/cqli4d6) comment for the idea. | [WP] Lotteries have a secret purpose, to catch time travelers. | [
"It was the perfect strategy. My time travel medallion was in my pocket, and I'd already seen the winning numbers from yesterday. Adrenaline coursed through my veins as I picked up a ticket. The numbers were written on a scrap of paper, and I copied them onto the ticket. \n\nThe cashier was an attractive woman ... | 2 |
[WP] A simulation of a universe, our universe, ends abruptly with nuclear destruction. In the higher level universe, a man says, "I told you, it never ends any other way." | [
"\"This game is stupid\" said James, \"What's the point of trying to teach them anything if they always fuck it up in the end anyway?\"\n\"I told you it never ends any other way. You can't get a predatory species past a type 1 civilization. They're just too aggressive\"\n\"Well fuck dude, can you crucify a guy for ... | 3 | |
[WP] The worst possible way to find out you have superpowers | [
"The nurse handed me the soft bundle of blankets. Our hopes and dreams after years of trying. I pulled her close to my chest and felt the warmth well up in my chest. The world vanished. It was only the two of us standing there. The warmth seemed to spread fluidly down my chest and my heart raced. I only saw red.",
... | 3 | |
What would your last text messages look like? Would you confess love or try to comfort another? Maybe you would simply send your goodbyes? While that is what this prompt is about feel free to tell someone else' story, like Bob or Jane's.
P.S.: You may use any kind of apocalypse you like funny or serious, so go wild. | [WP]/[CW] Ten Text Messages from the edge of The Apocalypse | [
"Me : The network is completely non functional. I've been trying to reach you for hours, I've sent this message a countless times. We are at the safehouse with a lot of food/water with the children. I just hope you are fine, we are waiting for you. I love you. [Received 13:53]\n\nHer : I'm alive ! I've been through... | 3 |
[WP] There is no shame. There is no morality. There is only survival. | [
"(I tend to use Legolas a lot, so just be prepared to see him very soon.) Faelwen rushed through the forest, trying to hide before someone else found her. Survival was not easy for a blind girl, and it was a wonder that she had lived to see fourteen. Suddenly, she heard the sound of someone crying. She ran towards ... | 2 | |
[WP] You have a special Rubik's Cube that, upon solving, allows you to unlock the secret of someone's mind. Thing is, you can't let them see you solving it. | [
"**First time I'm writing anything, constructive criticism very welcome. Only did a background to it, let me know if you'd like me to continue. Thank you!**\n\nShe was always a mystery. The enigma that kept my life interesting, and the girl that kept me at an arms length. Distant. Painfully distant. Desperate attem... | 2 | |
[WP] One player has been useless for most of the game, but ends up the hero of their D&D party in the end. | [
"The party desperate for a 4th member, foolishly brought a wizard into a dungeon where all of the creatures were highly resilient to magic. The poor wizard's magic damage was so low against these enemies that his only aid to the party was being a distraction. It took many hours to reach this normally easy dungeons ... | 2 | |
[WP] Moments ago, you escaped from the highest security prison on the planet. | [
"I wipe some dirt from my eyes, my face having been pressed to the earth moments ago as the guards walked among the bodies. Playing dead is more than an action, it's a state of mind. Nothingness, absolute zero. For what it felt like, I may have actually died for those few seconds. I sure as hell didn't breath.\... | 4 | |
[WP] Retell a favorite fairy tale with one of the main characters having a story-changing super power. | [
"Sleeping beauty had long awaited her true loves kiss, but she wasn't just cursed with never ending sleep, she was also born with the ability to kill whoever she touched. \n\nShe was very kind so few feared her, but when she needed to be kissed, every man in the kingdom avoided her like the plague. Finally a prince... | 3 | |
[WP] "I... need more words. I speak.... stolen words. Give me your words!" | [
"\"I... need words. I speak... Stolen words. Give me your words!\" The politician finally sputters out, spitting heavily into the microphone.\n\nA voice from the audience screams \"what do you mean?\"\n\n\"My writer... He left... I... I'm nothing but the mechanism. What do you want from me?\" The terrified politici... | 2 | |
[WP] The man time waited for. | [
"With a cough His breath halts in front of him; a small cloud frozen still filled with droplets of blood and spit. Time unmoving can only slow him enough that normal biological functions need not be acknowledged, so the tumor is also calmer there is more time, albeit still very limited.\nThere is only alone time, g... | 6 | |
[WP] You're on a solo hike along a local trail and end up finding a damaged helmet with a GoPro attached to it. Examining it, you find that the SD card is fully intact. You take it home and watch what's on it | [
"The Camera\n-\nI woke up, thinking it would be another cloudy and cold day, but when I got out of my tent, the sun was shining and the usual wind was gone. It was strange feeling the bright sun warming my body up as I admired the lush pines all around me. The clearing I had set up camp in was almost perfectly circ... | 3 | |
[WP] You're in a public bathroom stall. Someone enters, walks down the row of stalls, and stops just outside the door. A handgun is dropped and slid under the stall door with a heavy clatter. "Here, you're going to need it," you hear as they exit. | [
"“Here you go you’re going to need it.” He had said. \n\nI had always been one of the people that knew a lot about things. I could tell you that an Audi S5 had 349 horsepower, or that the deepest part of the Challenger Deep was 36,200 feet. I could explain to you the physics behind the air pressure of an airplane, ... | 25 | |
Write a short story from the perspective of one or more of the occupants of the dorm with the red door.
Back story to the prompt: [Edit: The stories posted by /u/confuseacatlmtd/ and /u/lunasolaris/ far exceed the back story to the prompt. Beyond my expectations, writers. Thank you.] | [WP] We painted all of the front doors white except for one door, which was painted red. | [
"The world didn't end with a bang. No, it ended slowly and painfully. Life wasn't ended in a blink. No, it ended slowly and painfully. \n\nEach section of the city had its remaining occupants who hadn't died from the illness. The plague. It wasn't some zombie epidemic that people had touted or the rapture that was ... | 2 |
The Divine Grace God intended for you? Or the Complete Wisdom Lucifer tempted Adam and Eve? | [WP] War erupts between Heaven and Hell, earth caught in the crossfire- Humans choose sides to join, you are of the few left in the world to choose your allegiance. | [
"Demons, angels, no matter what they tell you I at least don't see a difference. Both sides fight a brutal fight, both sides spare no mercy for the other. Their treatment of humans is different sure, the Angels may talk big about being our saving grace, but when it comes down to it, they are all talk. Sure a demon ... | 3 |
[WP] NASA Discovers Faster-Than-Light travel and sends a probe to Alpha Centauri. Upon the activation of the probe's warp drive, something goes horribly, horribly wrong. | [
"\t\nIt wasn’t like he thought it would be.\n\t\nHe remembered the hushed awe, the silence of mission controllers at the spectacle before them, 30,100 kilo-Newtons of pure thrust. That was the Saturn V. This is now.\n\t\nAnd now included many sounds, none of them being as jaw dropping as the Saturn’s launch. Sof... | 3 | |
Can be any kind of being. Space robot, vampire, werewolf, fairy, alien, anything. | [WP] Your best friend accidentally reveals themselves as a mythical/magical being. | [
"\"Hey, Clio, looking forward to going canoeing up by the bay?\" I asked. We met back in a freshman biology lab and became fast friends when the professor was offering extra credit for catching the most frogs and we'd tied. We both loved going outside and exploring, going places, just being out in nature.\n\n\"Ye... | 3 |
[WP] a zombie apocalypse occurs, the weak and inadequate are killed, but 500 years later the natural selection of the apocalypse leaves only the strongest and brightest to breed and rebuild. Everyone is the best of the best. | [
"If you didn't know the details, you'd think it was a good thing. A small number of survivors using strength and ingenuity overcame the zombie apocalypse and rebuilt civilization. \n\nYou'd think that only if you didn't know what a zombie apocalypse was really like. \n\nThe man who comforts his changing daughter wi... | 2 | |
[WP] Write a love note, any/all circumstances allowed (loved one going to war, anniversary, etc) | [
"**AN UNSENT LETTER TO MY BEST FRIEND**\n\nIf you're reading this, congratulations on finally destroying your \"stress reduction kit!\"\n\nOn another note, maybe I shouldn't have gotten you that. I wouldn't want to know the things you did to break it. I think it would scare me more than I already am.\n\nLook, I kno... | 6 | |
[WP] A man who has been terrified of death his entire life realizes that he is going to die in the next few minutes. | [
"Here I am.\nI know what is about to happen because I studied it.\nI fear it more than God.\nI fear it more ever since I lost faith, because if God was real, I know I'd be with him and the friends I lost years ago. But no, I've been frozen in this house, knowing this day would come, that my friends were not made fr... | 2 | |
[WP] You wake up one day and notice that your life is being narrated. | [
"\"You awaken from a daydream and realize your life is being narrated. You scratch your scalp idly, staring at the back of your teacher's head as he writes on the whiteboard. You wonder absently where that thought came from; you've never been one to narrate in the second person.\"\n\n\"Your teacher asks you a quest... | 7 | |
[WP] Your child is a super-genius. Over time love turns into resentment. | [
"'Babe, should he really be cooking us dinner. I mean he's only three years old.' I said, nodding my head. My wife, with a mischievous grin replied, 'But he makes the best food, he's taking after Bobby Flay and all the things he learned while browsing YouTube last year.' She was right, he did make the best food but... | 3 | |
[WP] The U.S. Secret Service receives an emergency call. The caller claims to be POTUS. Security authorization is old, but it validates the caller. The President claims that he was removed a mere 13 months into his first term and that someone, or something, has succeeded in taking over the country. | [
"\"Funny, fuck you too buddy.\" \nI hung up the phone, it was early, too early for a prank call at five in the morning on a Sunday. \nI did my daily routine of pouring some Raisin Oats into my bowl and sitting down staring at whatever was on. \nThe image on screen was distorted, moving in waves diagonally across... | 2 | |
[WP] The story gets so bleak, the reader steps in to fix it. | [
"As I got on that bus to leave him forever, I couldn't help but feel I was making a mistake. We were so different but so similiar... \n\nHe made me happy. I made him happy. \n\nBut there he was, standing in the rain watching me leave for new york with his eyes teary. \n\nThe bus engine hummed to life. I head to the... | 2 | |
[WP] Inside a research facility for artificial intelligence a group of scientists is desperately trying to prevent the planned test-run of the pain-receptor modules, because the AI achieved self-awareness ahead of schedule. | [
"\"I'm telling you, sir, we have to shut it down. Please!\" she said emphatically. \n\n\"Listen, Karen. You know I can't do that,\" George replied calmly. He could see she was acting out of character.\n\nKaren noticed his alarm and decided to take a different approach. \"Dr. Gray. We've known each other a long time... | 2 | |
[WP] An assassin is monitoring a room waiting for someone who never shows up. | [
"The man in the black robe waited in the room, hiding in a dark shadow. He's mastered the art of sneaking to a point. He could practically hide in the dead of daylight and it was most likely everyday people wouldn't bother to notice him. He's also tried his hand at the art of patience, but he still needed work at t... | 4 | |
I'm trying to write currently too, so I'm just spitballing ideas. I stumbled upon this subreddit and reading other people's writing is always refreshing for me, so I decided to throw this out here. | [WP]Walking home one night, you notice a person following you. Not close enough to be obvious, but just noticeable enough to attract your attention. You pause, weighing your options. | [
"I'm walking down 3rd Avenue. Not the fancy side of town with the pretty mailboxes and manicured lawns. The shitty part of town. You know, the area of town that makes 3rd Avenue well, 3rd Ave. Where every yard has a rabid dog barking at you through the cracks of the dried-out, wooden slat fences, and where you will... | 2 |
[WP] You accidentally ran over a cat while driving. You are now haunted by said kitty. | [
"“Meow, Meow” Mr Thibault, the ghost cat, droned in my ear, “Meow… Meow…”\n\n\n“You can keep whining at me, I still won’t be able to feed you.” I don’t know why I bothered saying anything to the cat, it’s not like it would change his behavior anyway. Steadily the hum of the car’s engine droned on. Outside the wi... | 1 |
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