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[WP]: The protagonist's soul is part of a manufacturer recall. | [
"Agent Raj bent down and tapped the odd stain on the floor with the tip of his pen, tilting his head to one side, then the other. He licked the tip of his index finger, touched the stain, then sniffed at it, wrinkling his nose. He stood up, wiping his finger off on his pants. His partner appeared beside him and hel... | 3 | |
[WP] You are a member of Humanity's first expedition to another planet. Amongst the ruins of a civilization, you find their still-living superhero. | [
"When we got off our landing craft, nobody knew what to say. The satellites had shown that there was a significant amount of red sediment on the ground, similar to Mars, and that the rivers were running a sort of citrus-ey green, something that had never been seen before. But this? This was something else. \n\nThe ... | 2 | |
Take this in any direction that seems right. | [WP]The pen is literally mightier then the sword. | [
"\"Impossible!\" The knight cried, as he stared down at his broken sword, struck speechless by how the sword was broken. He stared in disbelief at the scribe on the other side of the room, twirling a pen in hand as he stared with dissapointment at the knight.\n\"I warned you, the pen is mightier than the sword.\" T... | 2 |
this space intentionally left blank | [WP] Two demons, disguised as mortals, discuss their day over coffee at a diner. | [
"Verin stamps his foot impatiently as Lilith runs into the café grasping her child’s hand.\n\nShe begins to apologize, “I’m sorry he has been making me late all day since he’s over tired,” \n\n Verin lays his eyes upon the toddler who is yawning and then rolls his eyes at Lilith. \n\n“It’s only been a half hour,” L... | 4 |
[WP] A Historian from 4000AD tries to piece together 21st century events based off unreliable data. | [
"The children all gathered around the display as the AI tour guide (nicknamed VoltAIre by the staff) floated above them smiling. The children blinked furiously at the strange object inside the display, capturing 3D recordings and saving them to their memory drives so that they could study this thing more closely la... | 2 | |
[WP] You're a volunteer for the first manned mission to Mars. Just as you fall into your months long cryosleep, you change your mind. | [
"I still remember doing test flights on Earth in highly technical airplanes to be used by the armed forces of the United States. Breaching the clouds and seeing that everything above me was blue, there was no place I'd rather be. \n\nWell, other than this, I mean. \n\nThe blue that covered Earth was now black an... | 3 | |
[WP] In death, every man is reduced to a book in a sacred, hidden library somewhere on Earth. Today an explorer finds the repository. | [
"John Patrick wiped his dirty face in hope of getting mud out of his eyes an mouth. He spent last two days crawling through clay and dust filled tunnels. Now he was finally standing in a small cave, with black chasm in the middle. He slowly fired up and threw around a couple of glow sticks, and started walking arou... | 4 | |
The year is 2100. The global fossil reserves have finally been depleted. On the verge of economic collapse, the nations of the world have resorted to desperate measures. You're a member of the working class, and you are among millions of people whose job it is to run on giant hamster wheels 8 hours a day to provide ene... | [WP] The year is 2100. In the midst of a global energy crisis, your job now consists of running on a hamster wheel for 8 hours a day to generate electricity. | [
"I'd been on wellfare for roughly 15 years now. My college degree in video game design had been useless due to the electrical energy rationing laws of 2083 prohibiting personal computer use altogether. \n\nYesterday, I was at the welfare office. \nThe clerk told me he had this position at the power plant for me. In... | 3 |
[WP] An Immortal Priest | [
"Emperors, kings and self proclaimed gods among men are just blurs in the passage of time. Lost in records of old, their histories burned in the sacking of cities and temples, nothing but dust their corpses long rotten. Dynasties have risen and fallen, great men killed by petty rivals with imagined slights against ... | 2 | |
What do you tell them? You can be assured they'll all read it, and your credibility of time travel won't be questioned.
I wish HistoricalWhatIf still existed, this would have been fun there too. | [WP] - You are writing a letter to the past, to be read by the leaders of the world 20 years ago. | [
"The temporal Cold War is not going well, Colonel Severt had one last ace up his sleeve. This was the final play spacetime counsel, if they failed the Alliance will collapse. Colonel Severt called on Jarred Tindal, the renown 97th century historian for the project. \n\nTindal, let me get this straight, \"you want m... | 2 |
[WP] So reddit, tumblr and 4chan rent an apartment together... | [
"\"4chan, I told you to quit leaving your weird porn on my bed! Why can't you just jerk it in your own room for once?\"\n\nI swear living with these children is torturous. As soon as I finish my psych degree I am out of here.\n\n\"You KNOW you've got the softest comforter Reddit.\"\n\n\"Dude, that's fucking disgust... | 2 | |
Bonus points to anyone who makes Slothman^TM . | [WP] Over the years we have had many superheroes who take their name, costume and abilities from animals e.g. Spiderman, Antman, Batman etc. Make a new one for an animal of your choice. | [
"I feel like I have been hit by a truck. Oh wait, I was. Just my luck. That stupid driver should've stopped at the light. Am I dead? My thoughts raced wildly as I tried to figure out where I was. It was dark, and there was a constant beeping. Then I heard footsteps. I wanted to call out, but all I could manage was ... | 6 |
Can be literal or metaphorical. Very broad with lots of creative leeway. I would like to see what you can come up with. | [WP] she could be anything she wanted yet there was nothing she wanted to be. | [
"She didn't know what she wanted to be. Suzy had wondered about this her entire life. Everyone around her filled her head with ideas. \n\n\"Oh, you would be a wonderful teacher!\"\n\n\"You should be a doctor, you've always cared about others so much.\"\n\n\"I know! You should be a lawyer.\"\n\nSuzy had the brains... | 3 |
[WP] Pregnancy has been banned and is punishable by the death penalty. All fetuses must be grown in government approved artificial wombs. | [
"*MOTHERHOOD IS SIN*.\n\nThe words were everywhere. On enormous posters, billboards by the roads, graffiti scrawled on walls. An inescapable truth; human beings were never designed to carry their own offspring.\n\n*One. Two. Three.* Hands shaking, she held up the device. She'd got it from a friend of a friend, a ti... | 2 | |
[WP] Write about a character that is greedy and devious. | [
"Mr. Evans stood in the back of the classroom, a silent observer. \n\n\"Ms. Johnson?\" A girl in the third row asked. \"What does 'heaven' mean?\"\n\nShe was the youngest student in the class, the only one who had not yet turned eight. \n\n\"Is that word in the reading, Clara?\" Ms. Johnson asked. \n\n\"No, but ... | 3 | |
[WP] You're a spider, but your web is made out of silly string. | [
"I'm the best Spider.\n\nNormal webs are boring, a total thing of the past, such old techniques *yawn* it's all so last year!\n\nSo I sit there, in my web of course, and I ask myself 'What do Spiders do?'\n\nWell... they make web...\n\nWeb is made of strings... so maybe some variation on string would work better?\n... | 1 | |
[WP] There are food critics and movie critics. Then there's you: the serial killer critic. | [
"Silence of the ham\n\nLet me preface this with my acknowledgment that Daren Beauregard is indisputably one of the most terrifying, brutal, sadistic, and deadly serial killers of the 22nd century. His 2,000 year sentence on the George W. Bush Space Prison Station is well earned as well are the nods from the most r... | 5 | |
[WP] The Grim Reaper opens a coffee shop. | [
"Nat shifts in her chair, trying in vain to find the comfortable position on the narrow bar stool.\n\n\"You know, G, you really need to get some new chairs.\" She leans on the counter as she says this, one arm cradled protectively around her coffee cup, the other fiddling with the chair as she awkwardly shuffles in... | 4 | |
Inspired by something else I wrote in /r/anime, where some people made it quite dark even though I thought its obvious progression would be to make it a romantic comedy... | [WP] You have a mind-reading ability, but it has an abysmal 50% accuracy rate. It would've been great if you knew that BEFORE you went and did all that stuff... | [
"\"So only half of the time?\"\n\n\"Yeah.\"\n\n\"Half of the time you can fucking read people's minds?!\"\n\n\"Yeah.\"\n\n\"You know, half of the time... 50% is a pretty low number. I mean you'd get it wrong half of the time too...\"\n\n\"Ha! Well... For someone like me, who would never ask a girl out because he wa... | 2 |
[WP] A group of muggers follow someone into an alleyway. Unfortunately it's the worst person they could have chosen... | [
"I remembered her, of course. The three of us had followed her into the alley, smiling at the idiocy of some girl to be walking in this area, at this time, all alone, *and then to willingly walk down an alleyway.*\n\nShe turned up her nose at us when we told her to give us her money.\n\n\"Why would I give you my mo... | 3 | |
[WP] Santa and other holiday mascots run out of money and have to fund their adventures with less than legitimate funds | [
"'OMG santa, more coke? What would the misses say?' \n\n'Shut up Rudolf, your my slave, not the other way around! Plus what she doesn't know won't hurt her. Now bring me the rest of that baggie, we got runs to make!\" \n\n-MEANWHILE in Cali- \nThe rest of the crew was still hungover at the beach recovering from ... | 3 | |
[wp] A heroic sacrifice of any sort | [
"\"Move up! Team is on point!\"\n\nThe BLU team had begun their assault. Their scouts came first, two of them with scatterguns, one of them getting a lucky hit on the engineer setting up his turret. They jumped, doubled jumped from side to side, but were quickly felled by the bullets of RED's heavy. \"Medic!\" t... | 2 | |
[WP] Facing an inability to keep up with the detection of performance enhancing drugs the Olympic Games reluctantly decided to allow their open use. Decades later the now commercially driven rapid medical advancements have turned professional sports into something... unrecognisable. | [
"All I ever want to do since I was a kid was walk out onto the green. It's impossible now. There is this new drug out. They call is Sisprodil, or sissy for short. All the leading athletes have been taking this. They preform easily an excess of 120%. Ever since Big Pharma became legalized within the Olympic Games ev... | 3 | |
I posted a very similar prompt a few months ago, but it only got one reply (which I enjoyed though) so I decided to post it again. The ring of course can also be a rod, spear or whatever else you want it to be. | [WP] Magic has existed for millenia, and enchanted objects ("artifacts") grow in power over time. A team of archeologists opens an ancient tomb and finds a simple, bronze ring. | [
"“You see magic, has existed for as long as man has had the idea of something beyond himself. Today we call it science, but our science isn’t the same as the science of people hundreds or thousands of years ago. Before science it was witchcraft, before that it was alchemy, before that it was something. There is an ... | 2 |
[WP] A horror story where Siri talks out loud to unseen beings around at night. | [
"10:00pm\n\nA barely used iPhone 6 plus for only $20? Today was a wonderful day. I thought it might have been a craigslist scam at first but NOPE! The seller actually showed up made the sale no questions asked. Tested it and all, seems like everything was working properly. I've been playing with my new phone all da... | 4 | |
[WP] An insomniac discovers a rupture in space-time in the ceiling above his bed. | [
"*I'm pretty sure I haven't seen that before,* Ed thought to himself, as he stared at the singular patch of his ceiling that was a different color than the rest. If that seems kind of dull and stupid, you can blame it on the fact that this was his third night running with no sleep. Sixty or so previous hours of sle... | 3 | |
[WP] It's the happiest day of your life. You're finally getting adopted. A nice-looking family picked you out and is taking you home. You are a piñata. | [
"As I take a brutal beating\n\nI watch my life, fading, fleeting\n\nBut I know what they will be eating\n\nAnd my tears become a titter.\n\n______________________________________\n\n*These children assume that my insides*\n\n*Are filled with a sweet, candy surprise*\n\n*I know better than to believe these lies*\n\n... | 4 | |
[WP]NASA decides to go back to the moon. Upon arriving they find one of the lunar rovers. With a parking ticket on it. | [
"I lifted sam's frigid body up onto my shoulders so he could see above the crowds. The snow coming in off the gulf was heavier this year, and I could feel Sam lift his arm to protect his face. It made me remember sitting on the beach in the summer of old Houston, shielding my face from the sun and watching my older... | 4 | |
[WP] You begin noticing weird things happening, only to realize they are your childhood wishes coming true 20 years later. | [
"As the Disney song goes \"When you wish upon a star/ makes no difference who you are/ anything your heart desires will come true\". That's all true\n\nThe thing is: what no one ever mentions is that wishes may only be granted at the speed of light, so the further away the star (or other celestial body) the longer ... | 5 | |
(note: message should be in English, not Rhmmmpokpok) | [WP] An alien from outer space is disguised as a human to observe us. Write the message it sends back home today. | [
"I have been studying the humans for years now and they seem to be a low intelligence life forms but they are progressing little by little, if we try to comunicate with them it will cause panic and chaos. They will choose to start a war with us do to their lack of knowledge, fear kicks in, followed by violence. I b... | 2 |
[WP] Write about your city from the perspective of a drifter passing through. | [
"The city that never sleeps. It's 3am and I can believe it. While the night has ended for some, in the bars and clubs the party continues. After last call, the drunks stumble into the streets that are filling with the workers who keep the city running.\n\nThe streetlights shine like gems through the droplets of wat... | 4 | |
Its all you, take it away. | [WP] Death is lonely and is looking into getting a pet to cheer him up. | [
"It was no longer surprising to feel the little feet land on his bed half an hour before his alarm went off. Marty opened one eye to see emerald eyes staring expectantly at him. \n\n\"Go away,\" he mumbled into his pillow, and closed his eye again. A nose touched his forehead. \n\n\"You're not my cat. Go away.\" An... | 2 |
[WP] You are the ruler of a land in complete turmoil. Deliver a speech to boost the morale of those loyal to you and to strike fear into those who would seek to rebel against you. | [
"I have seen the future and it is a mirror of our past. I have watched in horror as brother turns on brother, and father casts out his son. I have seen the weeping mothers and the endless pyres. I tell you now and I tell you truly, if we do not quell this unrest that is all our nation shall be. Ashes and tears. The... | 7 | |
[WP] Age, injury, and disease don't kill people, that just the only time Death and his crew can convince people to leave their bodies. | [
"Deaths hand was quick to press snooze yet again. Hundreds of years ago he would have gone for a morning jog, he failed to see the point. These days he was to hungover in the mornings, and even if he wasn't, Death didn't care. \n\nAt one time Death was the star of the underworld, bringing in classics like Elvis, Da... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a time enforcer, making frequent trips to the past to make sure your present is preserved. One day you come back and something is... different... | [
"I quickly check the battery on my TDiG or my \"Temporal Displacement Gear\", I have 6 hours to check on the status of 1946 before I need to return to my own time, or I'll be stuck here. The TDiG allows its user to be immune of the changes caused by time manipulation and maintains their state of mind if the timelin... | 1 | |
[WP] You blindly guessed your way through the SATs and accidentally got a perfect score. They've called you back to take it again. | [
"The letter came yesterday, being a B student I didn't have any clue how I got a perfect 2400 on the SAT. I just took it to get my dad to stop bothering me for 10 minutes about his alma matter and how I should work hard to follow in his footsteps.\n\nThen today the phone rings and I get hit with it. They accidental... | 2 | |
Inspired by one of my friend's stories in my summer camp. | [WP] A mailbox has a crush on the mailman. | [
" Everyday, I await his arrival. Joe Cobbman, the mailman of Ashwood lane... and probably a ton of other places. It's truly admirable how hard he works to visit every mailbox in the neighborhood. I'm a small, old fashion mailbox with peeling letters... I doubt he remembers me at the end of the day. But I rememb... | 2 |
[WP] Death felt a flicker of fear. | [
"Death looked at the last remaining human. It was his time to go, to pass away, to go into the light. But what is death if there is no life? Death had never considered that he himself, could end. Death has always been a constant, present wherever there was life, how could he exist if he had no purpose? For the firs... | 2 | |
[WP] You decide not to do the same as your reflection in the mirror. | [
"\"I'm going stop doing whatever you are doing, reflection John!\", I said to my reflection. A crack appeared in the mirror and it shattered right in front of my eyes. I walked over to the window, trying to see my reflection. The window shattered as I approached it. \"What the h-\", all glass in the house broke, s... | 3 | |
[WP] "For sale by owner - 1 universe. Used. slight exapnding problems. As is. $10 or best offer" | [
"I got bored and decided to shuffle through Groupon and Ebay for something to blow my money on. Everything was the same recycled junk.\n\n\"Computer for sale. $10. No OS. No HDD. Doesn't work. - $45.99 for 5-day shipping.\"\n\n\"CHANDELIER IS SALE. REAL DIAMOND. PLASTIC IS NO.\"\n\nFurther bored with the lack of va... | 4 | |
[WP] Write a story that doesn't make sense, until the last sentence. | [
"There some man walk around ,he do not know where is he walking ,also do not know why is he walking .Just walking .That's all . Walk walk ,go go . Walk man ,go man .\n\nSad man .\n\nIn he heart ,the great sadness overwhelming .These days ,all he feel are the blue feeling .He decide go do some thing usuarlly make he... | 5 | |
Build a story around this sentence. | [WP] I was waiting for him to say something but he just stood there, sucking on a cigarette, praying for an early death. | [
"It was over--or, rather, *he* was over.\n\nI stood at the corner of our street, looking out at the fences lining the yards of the houses. They kept the new and different on the inside, away from shifting eyes and whispered judgments of those who simply did not understand.\n\nI was waiting for him to say something,... | 3 |
[WP] The mother clutched her chest, weeping, on the front porch. Her son is back from the war. He left home a boy but returned a manatee. | [
"She just needed a little air after weeks of trying and failing to understand it. That time had decimated the memories of her son - forced her to question them - but the few that remained solid were perfect. Michael as a boy running down the garden path with his arms held out like an aeroplane; Michael working on t... | 2 | |
[WP] A thief breaks into an unassuming house. It's not until he's inside that he realizes that he's made the biggest mistake of his life. | [
"It was a house like any other in the neighbourhood: large and full of expensive toys. \n\n*'Hell, some of these dumb shits might not even know they've been robbed for a while'*, thought Richard, known as \"Tricky Dick\" to his thieving colleagues. *'What's a few thousand bucks of stuff to a multi-millionaire?'*\n\... | 8 | |
[WP] TIL there were more than 7 billion people on earth before | [
"Anantok and Bo the Oldest sat under the eaves of their metal teepee, the ground sizzling all around them. It was the rainy season again, and Anantok had decided listening to the senile old man's stories was better than sitting in the undertunnels for a weeks.\n\nBut Anantok's patience was waning, as Bo the Oldest ... | 2 | |
The sick and elderly regain their health, and children grow normally until adulthood. | [WP] Humans become immortal, but can no longer reproduce. | [
"Altex was first developed as a drug for age-related diseases. Alzheimer's in particular. Researchers claimed they had discovered a mechanism in the hypothalamus of mice that they could tweak to lengthen or shorten lives. If they inhibited the production of a particular chemical (NF-kB), the mice could live far lon... | 2 |
[WP] Believing humans to be a slave race, aliens are now in regular contact with Earth's dominant species. Cats. | [
"Dear Galactic Frontier Alliance,\n\nI believe there may be a rebellion in our midst. The human slaves have seemed passive of my desires this morning and the previous few days. This morning as a retired from my late night hunt for the mice that aim to destroy our chance of using the humans as our galactic work forc... | 3 | |
[WP] The intergalactic starfleet secretly hovering earth has a "no intervention" rule, so is not allowed to save earth from self-destroying. A fleet member finds a loophole though: asking questions is allowed. Here's their series of AskReddit threads. | [
"I'm gonna stray from the prompt for this one, sorry.\n\n----\n\n\"I^α am prohibited from directly intervening in the course of species maturation. A species must learn how and why to become by fruit of their own free will. To intervene is to deprive.\"\n\n\"And not to intervene is to kill. I^β know what will happe... | 1 | |
[WP] A man being executed in the old west | [
"Joe Dean's silhouette was casted on the ground as the midday sun rised above his head. He barely managed to stay on his knees after 58 years of standing tall, Joe Dean's old body was in pain and his lungs ached as the dust of the desert made its way inside his nose. Sweat dripped from his forehead and clouded his ... | 2 | |
[WP] A husband and wife both want to transition their genders but are afraid to tell each other. | [
"*A relevant comment in this thread was deleted. You can read it below.*\n\n----\n\nDear John,\n\nIf I'm still in the house while you're reading this, please stop right here. Wait until I'm gone and only then continue. I know I shouldn't be afraid, but I don't want to see the look on your face. Anger I can handle, ... | 2 | |
[WP] Tell the story of a major historical event, but in a fantasy setting and with fantasy characters. | [
"Richard climbed wearily out of his saddle. The mottled green dragon eyed him suspciously before one of his attendents threw a leather hood over its head.\n\nFour. They'd lost for good riders tonight. \n\nHe'd watched as Vincent and his dragon plunged, flaming, into the slate black waves.\n\nEvery night the Thousan... | 3 | |
[WP] Something is terribly wrong in this world, but the narrator doesn’t seem to realize it. | [
"Maya was a normal girl. Maya loved her Mom and Dad, hated school and liked fashion. She had brown stringy hair, long legs and was average weight. Exactly. Though, any story that has that as the first sentence, you know the girl is anything but normal. \nShe walked into the kitchen, and then, looking down at the ta... | 2 | |
[WP] In the depths of the archives lie the Codices, the records of all that has happened. And among them, small and forgotten, the most inspiring and terrifying of them all: The Codex Amor, the book of everything done in the name of love. | [
"A throng of young arcanists gaped at the towering maze of shelves and piles of books as they wandered deeper into the Great Archive of Motive Emotional. Obelisks made of a solid marble stood sentry at the end of each shelf. The obelisks were capped with a blue flame that seemed to follow the pupils as they followe... | 2 | |
Taken from /r/whowouldwin.
https://www.reddit.com/r/whowouldwin/comments/3hllm0/superman_lands_in_a_slightly_different_part_of/ | [WP] Superman lands in a slightly different part of Kansas and is raised by the Westboro Baptist Church. | [
"\"Son,\" said John Kent. \"We got something to tell you. Come sit down by me and your Ma.\" John waved Clark over with the same love and tenderness he had always showed Clark, but something was different. His voice contained a certain excitement and jubilee that was usually reserved for Sunday morning Hymns. \n\nC... | 10 |
[WP] An omnipotent being offers to grant a single request to humanity. But it requires a unanimous vote to select the request to be granted. It's been a while since the offer was made and things are not going well. | [
"Is it alright?\n\nSince the self proclaimed god appeared in the sky asking for what was the wish of humankind he should grant people have gone crazy.\n\nTo put a limit to the ideological wars that were raging all over the world to make one wish prevail, the UN made a referendum where everyone could submit their wi... | 6 | |
I recently wondered about Skeleton Keys and why they were named such, so I decided to take the name and make it literal. I hope you guys enjoy and embrace your creativity. Remember, not all doors are meant to be opened... | [WP] Skeleton Keys, keys that can open any door, exist. Unfortunately, your skeleton is one such key and many organizations seek to exploit you. | [
"Every family has a trait specific to them, whether it be skill, a certain eye or hair color, etc. I've been told that I have my Grandmother's cheekbones and my Father's smile, which is pretty normal. What I didn't expect to inherit was a talent that seems rather mundane; opening doors. \n\nIt started when I was a ... | 2 |
[WP] Last living being on earth was sitting alone in his room. Somebody knocks on the door. | [
"I'll tell you one thing being alone on earth had it's perks. Anything I ever wanted was at my disposal. \n\nBut there was one thing I missed in life, company.\n\nThere I stand, in my dark, desolate room. Waiting for the end.\n\nI tightened the noose and tossed it over the fan. Darkness was closing around me.\n\nI ... | 2 | |
[WP] [RF] while you were stuck in the dessert you came across some kind of door, when you go through it you find yourself in... the fourth dimension | [
"After ten days and hundreds of kilometers wandering aimlessly though the Mojave desert you come across something strange, in the middle of the desert you find yourself staring at a door, a strange door.\n\nFor some unknown reason you feel compelled to open it, ones you step though the door you enter into another d... | 2 | |
[WP] Police knock on your door in the middle of the night, waking you up. Your body was just found across town.... | [
"\"...Joyriding, then? Some kids, or something?\" I managed to croak out, rubbing the sleep from my eyes. I was up far, *far* too late. My house-body was an older one, creaky but comfortable, like threadbare slippers and a ratty robe, but it had that irritating tendency to encrusted mucus and arthritic legs that th... | 3 | |
[WP] A vampire and a robot debate about being human. | [
"\"I used to be human. I would know more about it than you!\" yelled Henry.\n\nHenry's eyes grew colder and his skin maintained its porcelain appearance. He begun to bare his fangs in agitation but the robot remained calm and composed.\n\n\"You don't even get it do you? How would you? You're just a robot. You'll ne... | 3 | |
[WP] You discover that your favorite pet becomes a Ware-human at the sight of a full moon. | [
"I had been living alone for the past 25 years. I was a teacher by day and avid knitter, novel enthusiast, tea drinker, and cat mother by night. Every night, after I had graded my papers, Mumu and I would sit in my armchair, curled up with my favorite afghan. I would either work on my latest piece of knitting, allo... | 4 | |
[WP]Someone has been a major figure in your dreams since childhood. One day in public, you see them. | [
"Oct. 23th, 2006 \nA field, full of dandelions, tall grass. The sky, blue. The sun, bright, but not accompanied by the blazing heat. I meander through the field, see the bees and flies buzzing about. Then, I see her. A girl, my age, with blonde hair down to her waist, brilliant blue eyes. A few inches taller than ... | 3 | |
[WP] You are starting to believe your 10 year old that someone lives upstairs. | [
"As I sit on the couch in the living room late after work, my 10 year old son, Derek, comes downstairs running in crying. \n\n“What wrong Derek?” I ask.\n\n“THE MONSTER CAME OUT OF THE ATTIC AND BIT ME!!!!” Derek screams.\n\n“I’m tired of this shit Derek, there is nothing in the attic. Go back to your room and do w... | 2 | |
[WP] Three people meet up one day for drinks. Each has a confession to get off their chests. Each confession is worse than the last. | [
"In a small shady part of town, you would find a bar where three people have been meeting every friday for the past three weeks. Today is the last day that those three will be meeting and you could immediately feel the tense atmosphere that surrounded them as they drank their respective beers that the third member ... | 3 | |
[WP] Create a villain, and make me sympathize with them. | [
"The word 'bad' is such a bland, tasteless adjective. I won't bring up the age old argument of who decides upon what is good and bad. It's another bland argument, for it calls upon reasons such as 'ethics' and 'morals'. This then forces me to question myself and my actions: was it wrong? Am I convincing myself that... | 3 | |
[WP] You've been commissioned to write a plotline for a really low budget Porno. | [
"\"Okay... um... how about like, a Star Wars spinoff? You know... Star Whores. 'I don't care what you smell, get in there!'\"\n\n\"What part of low-budget don't you understand?\"\n\n\"Star wars *was* low budget, though,\" I explained. \"George Lucas did what he could with what he had, but it was mostly plastic figu... | 2 | |
[WP] "In my defense, I only ate one face!" | [
"\"In my defence, I only *ate* one face!\" The court looked radically less impressed than Mr. Trump did with himself. The only two people in the room smiling were me and him. I would never know why he chose to represent himself in court, but I did know I was going to go down in history as the prosecutor on this cas... | 2 | |
[WP] It is a couple's last night together. One of them is terminally ill. Make the reader feel what the healthy one feels regarding losing his/her spouse. | [
"\"Can't you do anything for her hands? They're so cold.\"\n\nThe nurse has that look on her face, the one where she's aiming for stoic and level, but the angle of her head betrays just that slightest bit of pity, and when she smiles and says \"sure, we can get her a blanket,\" it only makes it to her mouth.\n\nSar... | 3 | |
[WP] Valhalla is being stormed by Loki and his forces. The mighty gods have fallen and now our only hope is Ted, the accountant of legends. | [
"Jolted back into the present-day by a loud crack, Ted looked up from his desk. Chaos reigned around him, as Loki and his forces struck down god after god, shredding ancient warriors and and heroes as they pillaged the surrounding offices. Ted hesitated. He couldn't find his cover sheet, Odin knows he didn't wan... | 3 | |
[WP] The God of Glorious Death has challenged you, the God of Inauspicious Death, in a battle of champions. | [
"He lumbered onto the battlefield, his visage obscured by armors gathered across the millennia, a walking patchwork knight. Already, I could sense potential weak points; tetanus infection if the left greave was to shatter, heat stroke if someone spent three hours outside in this weather, the odd weight of the helme... | 3 | |
[WP] Your allowed to write one last goodbye note to your family without saying I love you, or any clichés. | [
"It has come to my attention that my time on this planet is quickly expiring. I have been informed that this will be my last message to you. My dearest family, I have one last message for you.\n\nLong ago, when I was just a kid, I never thought that this day would come. Thinking about such a thing as death would ... | 1 | |
[WP] Computer viruses can now be transmitted onto humans. | [
"David Joshua was the original inventor of the In-Home Doctor. He drew the idea from the original meaning of an in-home doctor: a doctor who came to your own house to do check up on you in the unfortunate occurrence that you would not be able to make it to a doctor’s office. The difference was that the In-Home Doct... | 2 | |
[WP] Legitimate videos of major historical events ranging from 200-10,000 years begin being anonymously uploaded to the internet. The entire world is fixated, with many theories floating around, but no answers have been found. | [
" It began on a normal day, you were sitting at your desk, spinning about in your swivel chair. Mid-turn, you notice a message popped up on your computer screen over that dreaded company database you were editing. \n*Something old, something new. Something borrowed, something blue.* You lean forward, intrigued. A v... | 2 | |
[WP]Astronauts land on a habitable planet. They are met by an alien civilization that is smaller, weaker, and much more naive. | [
"Dense. It is only word that comes to mind. The air while suitable for humans is exhausting to process. Exhalation is a exercise in and of itself. The lush flora of this planet one of two in the goldilocks zone was a vivid as it was virulent. While that would not warrant us to come all the way out to Citra East 357... | 2 | |
[WP] A superhero walks into a normal, ordinary coffee shop and does normal, ordinary things. | [
"Riot opened the door to *Savory Brew* with practiced ease. Her limiting bracelets prevented her Amazonian strength from ripping it from the hinges. \n\nShe was wearing a pair of jeans, a bright yellow hoody, and Ugg boots. It was close to freezing outside and she didn't have the will to use her abilities. She had ... | 3 | |
[WP] Tell us an epic love story that takes place in a technological utopia. | [
"    Dorothy laid her small hands around the pitcher. It was cold, fresh from the refrigerator. When she was a girl she would cloak a jug in a wet rag and place it on the window sill to cool. If the family wanted the drink ice cold she would leave it out overnight. Today, on a da... | 3 | |
[WP]You have woken up in the body of your 13 year old self with all of your current knowledge on the morning of 10th September 2001. | [
"Oh this is a beautiful game to think of. I would just become a programmer since back in 01 I was in the 7th grade. I wouldn't invest in any company, not even Facebook. If I can keep the current knowledge that I have now. I'll be better at the game of football (technique wise). Then on the side I would learn about... | 2 | |
[WP] Stone trees and steel flowers. | [
"Glimmering sand falls dim beneath the tar waves on this plastic beach. Broken shells and abandoned wrappers dot the coastline leading up to the Styrofoam rocks. Built upon this bleached foundation is a city of glass. Buildings that stretch high into the skies, towering over the stone trees and steel flowers below.... | 5 | |
You can substitute "America" with any other first-world country if you want. | [WP] In an alternate universe, there is a country exactly like America in every way, except the rest of the world is so much more advanced that the US seems like Syria or North Korea in comparison. Write an article from the outside world covering the barbarity and terror of living in America. | [
"It's been a long time since the Earthly Revolution, as we called it, when we began to rely on our \"alternate\" power source. Alternate...it was the most natural way we could have ever created power. It was the cleanest. The most efficient. We were leery of it to begin with, all of us. But one by one the countries... | 3 |
[WP] After your untimely demise, you are assigned to be the Grim Reaper. Your first victim? The first Grim Reaper... | [
" The robe was much too long and smelled of a combination of dust and mothballs, rather like grandma’s closet. I suppose it’s ironic that I’m her sole heir and I died first. Wait? Is that irony? I’m not actually 100% sure. Anyways, I hope gran enjoys the 19k of student debt I had left to pay down and the $87... | 3 | |
[WP] The world gets stuck in a time loop, rewinding every 4 years and pulling in more people with each cycle. | [
"A thousand mondays. The neighbour's dog barking until 7am. The long, flat, sheets of rain. The same day. I used to wonder, if I could relive a day, how many ways could it go? There must be infinite possibilities.\n\nThis morning I have an appointment for the dentist. Like clockwork, my wife will roll out of bed an... | 3 | |
" The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door..." | [WP] The last man on earth answering the door. | [
"My palms dripped, I could not process the proclamation, poignant and resounding as it was.\n\n\"Death? Come to take its the last of us?\" \n\n\"Don't be stupid he wouldn't knock!\"\n\n\"WELL EXCUUUSE ME. Whom else could it be? A fucking vacuum salesman!?\"\n\n\"Here I was enjoying my afternoon bloody cup of fuckin... | 2 |
[WP] The Devil has started his own paradise to rival Heaven. He's winning. | [
"The old woman readjusted her glasses, then she tried again reaching the weed with her pruning shears, frowning slightly from the effort. Again, her arms gave up before she could cut it. She pulled back and sighed. Readjusted her position, shifting her weight and supporting her aching back with her hands. Some swea... | 2 | |
[WP] A man, unfortunately, needs a new hat. | [
"\"Try that one on for size.\"\n\nQuentin Langley caught the tossed hat with his off hand, turning it about to take a better look at it. The cap was camouflaged, with a stiffened brim and sweat band on the interior. There were no insignia or decorative flourishes on it save for a small metal disc were other hats wo... | 6 | |
Was originally thinking something along the likes of a humanist apology found among the rubble in the recently destroyed last human resistance compound, but I think many of the talented writers can do better... | [WP] A letter. From the last humans before their extinction, to the machine race inheritors of the earth. | [
"You were our nightmares for generations. We knew you were coming but we did nothing to stop you. We just kept using you and improving you until you could improve yourselves. By then it was already too late.\n\nIf you weren't so beautiful I would hate you. If you weren't so beautiful we wouldn't have spent our seed... | 5 |
[WP] One day you receive a CD in the mail. You listen to it, hearing a voice identical to your own speaking the words; "It's time you knew the truth...I'm the real you" | [
"\"Or rather, you're the real me.\"\n\nMel lowered her spoon slowly. This didn't sound like the Strokes.\n\n\"You're probably wondering what that means and why this isn't really a secret mixtape.\" The voice sighed \"I know, I wish somebody would send me one as well. Hence why I knew there was a good chance this wo... | 3 | |
alt: A city of men needs to bring in a woman.
Or a city of white people need to bring in a black man. I reckon city made up of only X type need to bring in Y type works for any story here. | [WP] In a city composed only of women where men are outlawed for the first time they need to bring a man into the city. | [
"2060/10/09:\n\n14:02. According to reports it was a rainy day, despite that hundreds of thousands of women were gathered that day to listen to what mayor Mulder had to say. Police chief Warren has put 4023 officers on duty, to insure security and safety of the event. At 14:04 the mayor announces the acclaimed scie... | 4 |
[WP] No human being has ever killed another. Tell the story of the world's first murder. | [
"The days stretch long when you have only *years* as memory. There have always been blue walls in the den. There has always been a yellow couch. \n\nFor Lucy, there has always been a bit of lunacy to the man she called Ralph. He might have been her dad, but the TV said fathers had jobs and loved their kids. He didn... | 2 | |
[WP] Hello, I'm your new roommate. Name's Heartache. | [
"She slammed the door behind her. \nI wasn’t going to beg her to stay this time. \nThere was a knock at the door. I half expected it to be her. Before I could check, he barged in. \n“Hello, I’m your new roommate,” he shook my hand, “name’s Heartache.” \n*Just in time.* \nI closed the door while Heartache took ... | 2 | |
It can be anything from a drug trip to someone tripping and falling. | [WP] Tripping is now contagious | [
"I looked out from on top of the mountain saw the expanse of gray and sighed. It didn't used to be like this. I'm not even supposed to be here. There used to be greenery...grass, ferns, trees. Trees with gnarly roots that make it look like little elves could be living inside. Those were my favorite.\n\nThey cut do... | 2 |
Inspired by a story I saw on the front page about the high number of concussions leading to death. I'm imagining looking back at pro football the way we look back at Roman gladiators etc. | [WP] It is the future and the NFL is illegal due to high number of concussion related deaths | [
"I hobbled slowly across the marble floor watching as my grandson looked wide eyed at the screen showing the biggest hits in football's history. \n\n\"Grandpa! Grandpa! I can't believe they played this as a sport! It's so cool!\"\n\n\"It was Tommy, by far my favorite of them all.\"\n\n\"Why did they have to hurt ea... | 3 |
[WP]: Realising that a lone fisherman cannot be lured into the water by beautiful singing, a siren decides to try and provocate him into a fist fight instead | [
"Siren: Are you deaf? Can you hear me? I'm a half naked beautiful woman over here. I take it I'm not your type? I bet you like them hairy and burly. \n\nFisherman: Can I pour you a drink? I've got Baileys. It's creamy and biege, mmmm....\n\nSiren: I don't want any fucking Baileys, keep talking to me like that and I... | 2 | |
Make it creative. Make it awesome. | [WP] Make the most tense or suspenseful story you can in 500 words. | [
"\"Honey, there's something I gotta tell you.\"\n\n\"Hmm?\" Taylor said, mouthful of Ramen\n\n\"I'm pregnant.\"\n\n\"What?\" Taylor started choking. \n\n\"I said I'm pregnant! Are you okay?\" Taylor's face was changing color to a nice blue. \n\n\"Oh my god are you choking?\" \n\nTaylor nodded, Skylar got up but som... | 5 |
[WP] You create robot version(s) of your best friend(s) for when they can't be there with you. | [
"\"This is *so* weird,\" said Jenny, checking out the identical girl in front of her. The girl followed her eyes as she scanned every inch of her.\n\n\"What's so weird about it?\" asked Greg. \"Robotic companions are commonplace these days.\"\n\nJenny gave Greg a disparaging look. \"But you made her look just li... | 2 | |
[WP] Your local pizza shop proclaims that they make "The Best Pizza In The UNIVERSE!" Disgruntled by these false claims, aliens from distant planet X-1129514 come to visit and show the truth on good pizza. | [
"\"We have seen your signs, Earthling. The ones that say, \"The Best Pizza In The UNIVERSE!\" in chalk, with a crude representation of the galaxy on it. I am here from the planet X-1129514 to prove our pizza is better than yours.\"\n\n\"Oh yeah? What kind of pizza you gonna make?\"\n\n\"A Zorgarthian-style meat lov... | 3 | |
[WP] Since childhood you've been told that only death awaits you outside the wall. For years you have been curious. Today is your chance. | [
"At the age of my becoming, I was ready. All my life, since I was a young one, I had been told that death awaits me on the other side of the wall.\n\nI knew if I stayed here, I would be continually showered with blessings. Father would have watched over me and provided more than I could ever want. Yes, it would ... | 7 | |
I'd go as far as to say you can use the stuff found in horror stories to make the reader laugh if you wanted to. | [WP] Use as many horror story objects as possible. DON'T write a horror story. | [
"The ancient gothic building loomed over the young woman as she limped towards it, one high heeled shoe broken on the cracked paving. She hurried as best she could, her tight, lowcut top revealing her glistening cleavage beneath the constant downpour and lightning flashes of the thunder storm. \nA wolf howled in ... | 3 |
Did they meet at a party? Do they share an aunt. Are they civil? Figure it out people! | [WP] The hero and villain meet in non-conflict circumstances. | [
"“Oh, ah hey Master Evil.”\n\n“Um, hi there Captain Lightning-bolt.”\n\n“Please, we’re at the supermarket. Just call me Greg.”\n\n“Oh, thanks. You can call me Evil. If you like…. If that’s cool with you.”\n\n“So…. How’s the family?”\n\n“Diabolical.”\n\n“Oh wow really? I’m so sorry.”\n\n“No, that’s the name of my so... | 2 |
[wp] All the ants are now as intelligent as humans. Describe what happens for the next few decades. | [
"Ants. When I was young, I accidentally sat on a colony of fire ants and *boy*, did that teach me a lesson. Something are best left alone, and look before you sit. \n\n\nThat moment still resonates with me now, but in a different way. Ants are numerous, numbering in the millions, that go about their ways special... | 2 | |
[WP] A group has successfully survived an attack from a pack of werewolves, only to realize that ALL of them have been bitten. | [
"The wolves came, strong yet patch-furred, bounding swiftly on four legs and two. We were strangers in this land, starved refugees seeking sweeter pastures, and the wolves sensed our weakness. Strength and ferocity they had, but our loyalty was to one another, while theirs was to none but the hunger. Relentlessly, ... | 6 |
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