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[WP] "I don't care if it's an eldrich being from another dimension, I love him" | [
"\"Today on, 'Matchmaker', the only game show where one of the bachelors is an eldritch god in disguise, we are down to the final 7 contestants for Juliana's heart. Rumours have been flying in the house about who the Eldritch being is, and Juliana is hearing accusations from every one of the guys. Why don't we chec... | 2 | |
[WP] A zombie virus breaks out in a middle-school, forcing a nerd, a jock, a cheerleader, and a goth to band together and fight the zombie threat. | [
"\"What do you mean it's not working?\" Brad was bracing himself against the door as the pounding of fists, heads and potentially other malicious extremities were heard coming from the other side of the door.\n\n\n\"Hypothetically, this should work! If I can connect these wires, we can use the phones to call for h... | 2 | |
[WP] A character has 4th-wall awareness and is jealous that the main character is mentioned in the story more than him. | [
"Jon sat there tapping his fingers on the table as Mark ran around and gathered his stuff. Mark was due at a party in ten minutes and was going to be late-late and not just fashionably late if he didn't leave soon. Kelsey was already there and texting him to hurry up.\n\nMark grabbed his shoes but decided to be l... | 3 | |
I didn't want to ruin the flow of the title, but gender-neutral responses allowed and encouraged. | [WP] From one border, to the next, to the next, they call him a Hero. If you asked him, he'd say he was just scared, clever, and very, very lucky. | [
"\"Why?\" was all my son asked, and it broke my heart to hear the pain inhisvoice, as it grew louder. \"Why would you do that?\" He was nearly yelling, as I tried to explain.\n\n\"Kerr... I'm sorry. I had no choice.\" I looked him in the eye, even through my on shame. \"People were dying. Something had to be done.\... | 2 |
[WP] People are born covered in tattoos that describe major life events that they will have, your child is born with "disturbing" tatoos | [
"It was as if these markings were windows into the future. The symbols etched into our skin like dark ink told a story of our lives. Mine was a simple one showing childhood happiness, a career studying the stars, marriage, and even the birth of our son.\n\n\nWhat I did not expect was the markings I would discover o... | 2 | |
[WP]You are cheating on your wife with Susan. Susan is one of your wife's multiple personalities. Susan wants you to leave your wife and run away with her. | [
"######[](#dropcap)\n\n\"Let's... let's talk about this tomorrow. I need some time to process this.\"\n\n\"No!\" Susan threw her arms around Oscar's neck. She pulled his collar fiercely, drawing him in for yet another passionate kiss. He knew it was wrong, knew he had a wife who was very sick and needed his attenti... | 3 | |
[WP] You are God. How do you destroy the world? | [
"An idea. \"Free will\" is trying to change the mind of a desperate man on a drunken tirade. They feel what they can see. Light is extinguished not with darkness, but with words. \n\nI first gave man the ability to speak; and he perfected it.\n\nI then gave man the ability learn; and he perfected it.\n\nMan gave hi... | 1 | |
[wp] Batman discovers that The Joker has know his secret identity for years and has never exploited it. | [
"The batmobile roared as all cylinders fired. Like a demon from hell, it tore through the streets of gotham. It had driven down this path many times before, however this time it seemed to race with an extra sense of urgency. Waiting ahead was one of gotham's most notorious of institutions... Arkham Asylum. Batman i... | 3 | |
[WP] The bullied are ready to fight back against their childhood bullies that plagued their past. | [
"Hate only brings hate. \n\nI'd heard the expression in an obscure French film once, but it had never reached me like it did now. I looked down at my hands. \n\nBlood everywhere. \n\nI dropped the baton. This isn't what I'd wanted. I looked over at the chair, where only moments ago, my childhood tormentor was beggi... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a villain - you always win because you don't play fair. The riddle never reveals the password, they'll never find the right key because it's not in with the decoys, and you don't even live in your volcano lair - instead, a modest house. The heroes trying to defeat you are clueless. | [
"Sunday mornings never quite felt as relaxing as they should have, not for Jim. He was always up around five AM, before the kids started to stir. Before the neighbors packed their brood into that awful maroon minivan and hauled them off to church. Sundays were workdays for Jim, the only day when his double lives wo... | 4 | |
[WP] You're a lizard. | [
"It was 5:13 in the morning, assuming that the digital clock that was blaring the obnoxious alarm could be trusted. I used my long green scaled tail to reach around and hit the snooze buttu- OH MY GOD WHAT THE FUCK I HAVE A TAIL!? WHAT THE FUCK!? WHEN DID I GET A TAIL? HOLY SHIT!\n\n**Narrator Runs to mirror**\n\nH... | 1 | |
[WP] In a post apocalyptic future after a nuclear war, people split into tribes based off of their musical tastes,(Metal, Rock, Rap, Country etc.) | [
"\"You kids get off of my lawn!\" The codger yelled, brandishing his cane at the mohawked teens camped out in front of his outpost.\n\n\"Yeah, or what?\" They hooted back, waving their weapons - mostly sawed off shotguns - threateningly in his direction.\n\n\"Or *else* what? Didn't anybody teach you punks proper gr... | 4 | |
[WP] An immortal man has been alive the last 4,000 years with his loved one. She isn't immortal; she is reincarnated every 50 years. One day, a man in a bar tells the Immortal that this is her last cycle - make it count. | [
"\"She walks in beauty like the night\" Joe chuckled to himself as he listened to the kid read from the shiny covered,just bought poetry book. Joe felt bad for the kid,the girl he read to barely looked up from her phone. \"Nice try kid,but night should sound almost desperate,pleading and and you're reading to a blo... | 6 | |
[WP] After killing the Nemean lion, Hercules created and wore a crown with its hair which boosted his powers. In 1971, a young man found that crown and decided to wear it. His name is Donald. | [
"\"This is quite unusual\", the tour guide said. Donald and his friends were on a guided African Safari. Large groups of animals seem to be waiting for their Jeep to go by. Instead of minding their own business, the animals are all looking at the Jeep but not coming close to it. Donald and his friends didn't think ... | 2 | |
[WP] Wolves have been attacking your tribe for years, and they've only grown more aggressive. Your people are on the verge of extinction, but you have an idea so crazy it might just work. You are history's first dog breeder. | [
"The human, cloaked in various furs, brought his hands in front of him whilst the fire raged. \n\"Now that I've told you the plan, what do you think?\" he asked. \nA group of 3 other humans stared at the man, wide eyed. \"You expect us to believe you can control them?...\" one of them asked, completely blown... | 3 | |
[WP]Monsters go on a annual "Human Hunt" that last until the next dawn. | [
"The Human Hunt started at sundown on December 21st. As you could imagine, there were worse places to be than Minnesota but not many. The sun goes down at 4:22PM and doesn't rise until 7:50AM. People had tried to wait it out in their homes in the past, hoping the monsters would forage on those foolish enough to wan... | 3 | |
[WP] You're a mob hit man who has been laying low for a while but they found you. You finally tell your significant other but your SO doesn't believe you. You have to convince your SO to believe you without putting them in danger. | [
"I wrapped my hands around the warm coffee cup, staving off the brisk chill of autumn. Across from me, Ben sipped his own brew, watching the busy city streets with interest. Ben's favorite little coffee shop was abuzz, pedestrians moving in and out to fetch their own drinks before work. I watched them all, listened... | 2 | |
[WP] Tell, in your own weird way, how the world/universe was created] | [
"In a beginning, there was light. No one knows where the light came from, but we do know that it existed before the darkness. Light creates energy. For a time, that’s all the universe was. Light from an unknown source, and waves of energy. It started suddenly. A spark here, a twist of the light there, and suddenly,... | 1 | |
[WP] Humanity is faced with incontrovertible evidence that an afterlife is real, it holds an eternal paradise beyond any worldly pleasure, and admission is guaranteed to everyone without discrimination for their actions while alive. | [
"By the time they called his name, Jamal was dead on his feet. A double shift and a broken coffee machine would do that to you. Then there was the code blue right before he could clock out. It’s like these fuckers know when I’m going off shift to try to kick the bucket on me, he thought. Then when that was o... | 2 | |
[WP] Make me want the Zombies to win | [
"After all, these few were all that was left of humanity. The zombies had come on like a nightmare and never let up. Justin Bieber, Rebecca Black, and the Kardashian sisters are all that remains of humanity. When the zombies arrived, their fans had protected them. Rebecca Black just wished it were Friday and Bieber... | 4 | |
[WP] Describe the first use of superhuman soldiers in open combat. | [
"\"I can't take it. I need out. Give me a grenade. Get me out.\"\n\nThe smack sent Ramirez sprawling to the hard wooden floor of the small church. He tasted blood and looked up at the sergeant who'd backhanded him.\n\n\"Another word out of you, and I'll send you out their in your boots. Just your boots.\"\n\n\"Sarg... | 5 | |
[WP] The Pope Calls for a Crusade against ISIS. 130,000 Catholics from around the world answer his call in a month and storms Syria by force. Write about the build up, the battles and the global aftermath. | [
"\"I, or rather the Lord, beseech you as Christ's heralds to publish this everywhere and to perse all people of whatever rank, foot-soldiers and knights, poor and rich, to carry aid promptly to those Christians and to destroy that vile race from the lands of our friends. I say this to those who are present, it is m... | 15 | |
[WP] "This is the shittiest suicide note I've ever read." | [
"\"Iv'e been listening to Adams song by Blink 182 and found the lyrics so deep and meaningful. I too spilled apple juice in the hall so I know where they are coming from. I recently saw a Youtube video about kirilian photography where they like ripped off part of a leaf and where it was ripped off you could still s... | 7 | |
What would you want to teach every inbound college freshman that you think would benefit them more than any traditional course offered in universities? | [WP] If you could make a course mandatory for all college students | [
"\"Welcome to Intro to Adulthood 1011! Before we begin, could everyone please close your laptops and put away your copies of the syllabus?\" \n \nThere was a second of silence before a disorganized symphony of laptop cases clacking and backpacks being unzipped filled the lecture hall. Thirty years of teaching imp... | 1 |
[WP] You have been obscenely rich for your entire life. You have now lost everything and today is the first time you enter a homeless shelter. | [
"It would have to work. There was no alternative. Well...I guess there is an alternative but with the temperatures reaching to well below freezing it would seem to be a terminal alternative. I can see Dansby's stupid smirk so damn clearly in my head. \"Quite a quiffle you've gotten yourself into now lad,\" he would... | 3 | |
[WP] You work the suicide hotline in hell, which tries to make people kill themselves | [
"**A Call for Help**\n\n***\n\nBzzt, Bzzt. Bzzt, Bzzt. Clack, rattle.\n\n\"Your Eternal Soul, Suicide Hotline. We're in it to win it!\"\n\n\"I don't know who else to call, I need some help.\"\n\n\"Well, sir, I'm sure we can help. My name is Lillith and yours is?\"\n\n\"Bob.\" \n\n\"Ok, Bob, our legal department req... | 2 | |
[wp] it is the end of the world, and, to annoy everyone, God appears to each person in the form they least expect or like (e.g. as a woman to a fundamentalist, as a black person to a racist, as a foreigner to a Japanese) | [
"I stared at the strange man standing in my living room. A strong-looking old geezer with wrinkly skin, white hair and a matching beard. He wore nothing but a white robe, and he was clearly senile.\n\n“For the last time, get out of my house before I call the cops.” I admonished the man, house phone in hand. “I mean... | 2 | |
[WP] A king was branded a coward by his enemies and even his own people. Until a massive war happened, and only the cowardly king's kingdom remained standing. | [
"King Corvenus walked calmly out of his city to the field where a great host waited. Seeing them he smiled thousands of soldiers, all in gleaming mail. Would be a shame to render it useless he thought to himself. \"Ah the cowardly king has come at last, where is your army or are you surendering? \"Lord Sampson laug... | 2 | |
[WP] This city has a bloody history. Don't become a part of it. | [
"\"How do you think this place was built ? Make a well educated guess. No, not just blood. The walls tell of a time just before that. Pillars dug into the ground to hold up a small inn. A crossroads of sorts, where travellers could stay the night. It expanded and expanded, and as usual, our people didn't respond we... | 4 | |
[WP] Today you've discovered that you have super powers, and they are entirely dependent on the music you are listening to at any given moment. | [
"It was a normal day. Just like any other. I had planned quite literally to just go to class, come home, do homework, and then maybe catch a movie with my girlfriend, or perhaps go longboard or something to take a load off.\n\nI was walking to class, my headphones playing one of my favorite Drum and Bass songs: Lau... | 2 | |
[WP] Describe a pre-teen's fight against his pimples as a dramatic recollection of a large-scale war. | [
"It wasn't that Gary had no capacity to be brave. He was just exceptionally good at being pragmatic about his abilities. When his older brother had gone to fight in Afghanistan he was assaulted by two competing emotions. In one sense he was proud of his brother and wanted to be just like him in every way. In an... | 2 | |
[WP] You awake up from a strange dream and get ready for work. While eating breakfast, you hear them discussing your dream on the morning news. | [
"My eyes blinked open as the alarm crowed out it's blaring tone. I reached an arm over to find the opposite side of the bed already vacated; rumpled where he had lay. I buried my face deep in the pillow and wished for Sunday morning and full coffee cups whilst we watched childrens cartoons, immersing ourselves in c... | 9 | |
[WP] You are on the international space station and you witness planet earth destroyed. | [
"There was a slight vibration and the clouds over the Pacific split like something blasted through them. A red blurry line appears under the ocean and the water moved away in enormous waves... then the Earth split in half as a burning wave turns the ocean into vapors and the atmosphere disperses into space\n\nThe c... | 2 | |
[WP] A professor's opening lecture for Asshole 101 | [
"\"Congratulations everyone. You are easily the fattest class I have ever taught. On second thought, I guess my real congratulations should go out to the chairs that you're sitting in. Can any of you even bring your hands together at this point.\" Somewhat stunned, the students sat silently, likely starting to won... | 3 | |
Inspired by [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXfltmzRG-g) short film. | [WP] Life is narrated, the problem is the voice tells everyone things people would rather not have known | [
"Steve packed up his bags after class and started heading for the parking lot so he could drive home in the dingy old car his dad gave him so he could excuse buying a better car for himself. His dear childhood friend Ashley, whom he had countless fantasies about in the dead of night, was walking closely behind him ... | 2 |
[WP] The best doctor in the world has no idea what he is doing | [
"\"Oh man.\" Dr. Restillik leaned back in his office chair and happily crushed up some mushrooms in a large cereal bowl, \"So this guy had the cancer stuff, right? It was pretty gross. Huge old ball of fleshy tumor stuff on his head.\"\n\nDoc paused a moment to dip his finger in the crushed mushrooms and lick it. H... | 3 | |
[WP] You live in a time where people upload their minds into computers and stay conscient forever on permanent bodies, you stop and wonder about those who came before and how death is a unfamiliar concern for your generation. | [
"It's been almost a millennia since then. Death is such an odd phenomenon. Historians love to research it. Authors love to write about it. Religious folk love to fear it. But what is it to the average person? Why is it that people still choose to die? We can live theoretically forever. But why? Why do people still ... | 3 | |
One man will take the sins of many | [WP] When someone commits suicide, their soul burns in hell for all eternity. You're a man who kills people right before they attempt suicide so they don't go to hell | [
"\"And you're positive?\"\n\"Yes, very.\"\n\"How can you be so sure?\"\n\"Well... You see...\"\nAnd this was it. The pause. Only the real cases made the pause. The woman sitting across from me in the dimly lit living room awkwardly struggled with the invisible hands around her throat.\n\"It started when I noticed m... | 2 |
[WP] For years, you, the right hand of the Dark Lord, have been plotting to kill your master and gain control of their vast empire. On the day your plans unfold, your unsuspecting master tells you, "My friend, were it not my curse to bear, you are the only one to whom I would entrust this empire." | [
"We were friends. Glorious friends. I could remember the battles we won. The demons we destroyed. The kingdoms we conquered. I remember it all and thus because of my remembrance I know I must my destroy my blood brother.\n\nWe started out as just lowly adventurers looking to pass the time. We discovered ancient lai... | 3 | |
[WP] Sent away from your dying planet you must hide your identity from the aliens on your new home. Hard part is they are all supermen and you have no powers. | [
"His eyes glow softly in the dark alleyway, and I know he sees me through the night, through the mist. One of those, then. And strength. He took the man on the alley floor apart with his hands in the seconds it took for me to arrive after hearing the gunshot.\n\n\"This is Family business. Walk away.\" His voice is ... | 3 | |
[WP] 3 million years after we created AI and it subsequently wiped out the human race, the machines are creating something far more dangerous. | [
"The year is q683 of Kasparr's. An odd fellow with a lab coat and thin rimmed glasses approaches, mechanical rumbling and whirring of in voice is remniscient of models outdated or no longer in function. A lithe model with simple, clean, outer plates perks up at the crumbling ancient advancement.\n\n\"Dr. Calvin, wh... | 3 | |
[WP]You've just died. The word 'RESPAWN' and a countdown appear in front of you. | [
"The knight stumbled back as the bullet hit his armor, but he didn't fall. Instead he bursts forward one more time in anger, cutting me down the same way he had the rest of my tank crew. I saw the same thing I always did when we lost, an overview of the ever changing island and the words \"RESPAWN IN SEVEN DAYS\" s... | 1 | |
[WP] Overnight, clouds have suddenly become solid. | [
"Planes began falling from the sky at 3:30 a.m. on Monday over the East coast of North America.\n\nNew Yorkers thought the city was being bombed. In Atlanta just minutes later, fighter jets from Dobbins were scrambled to counter the unknown threat. They met their end soon after take off.\n\nThe clouds solidified in... | 2 | |
[WP] One day, you accidentally discover that your stay-at-home wife has been secretly and successfully taking over the world. | [
"It's the little things that tip you off. You know, the odd late night phone call, a few Hitler quotes during sleep, nuclear launch codes on a post-it note -- the type of things that would slip right past people that lack the analytical prowess that I possess.\n\nBut fear not. It is highly unlikely that you will go... | 2 | |
[WP] An RPG is created, and it's main selling poiny is actual AI that gets activated the first time you beat the game. You just beat the final boss. | [
"\"Please plug in Keyboard.\" The words lit up. Weird, the entire game used a joystick, and I had spent countless hours getting to know the games learning curve. I was the first to face Brittanull on max defense with no modules. No one had done it, and afterwards, there was nothing left to do.\n\nI plugged in a key... | 1 | |
[WP] Your spaceship is nearly out of fuel. You have enough to reach a strange planet mysteriously not listed in the database. Headquarters forbids you from landing there but it's your only choice. So you go and land on Earth, only to discover the horror that drove mankind away millennia ago. | [
"There are some things in life that you can rely on like clockwork. The feds will find a way to tax anything. You'll never feel good after a visit to the whores. And if something is too good to be true, buddy is sure fucking isn't true. That's why I'm wondering why I'm sitting here, drifting along with only eno... | 2 | |
Credit to /u/conitation for this shamelessly stolen prompt idea. | [WP] Home is where the heart is... and it wants yours. | [
"For the heart, life is simple: it beats for as long as it can. Then it stops.* But long before, in the early years, it beats vigorously - almost breaking the ribcage in excitement. There is no place like home, it thumps, ignited by a familiar smell or a crackling fireplace. \n\nThe thrill fades of course. And the ... | 1 |
[WP] You're a border guard on the only crossing between two countries that hate each other. As you stare across a no-man's land full of razor wire and mines every day at the same group of their border guards, you realize you're becoming extremely infatuated with one of them. | [
"\"Ah, fuck\" I muttered.\n\nThe guards on the other end of the No-Mans Land where changing shifts.\n\nIt was 9 A.M. and I had been on duty for only an hour. It really bothered me that the guards on the other side had eight hour shifts compared to my twelve. Not that twelve was that bad, but it was disturbing whene... | 2 | |
[WP] Your day started just like most other days, but that quickly changed when several of your potential children started appearing from the future, all of them trying to hook you up with their respective mother to ensure that they get born. | [
"Terrence woke, groaned loudly as the light hit eyes and pain shot through his head. He had a pounding head ache and found that not only was he holding a bottle in one hand, but that he had fallen asleep on the couch in his apartment. He was having a hard time remembering why had had gone to sleep drunk and drank a... | 4 | |
[WP] You are a mob hitman who has been contracted to kill Santa Claus. | [
"I'm Reg. I'm the unlucky guy contracted with taking out Santa. Not only was I unhappy I would be the one to bring sadness to the children of the world, but, until yesterday, I didn't even know Santa was real.\n\nTequias is the godfather. He has been for 20 years and has never had a problem with anyone from other c... | 2 | |
[WP] Music is so amazing to humans since it was used to control us when we were created | [
"\"*Hissss,* but you shall not surely die if you eat the apple,\" the serpent said, coiling completely around a thick branch of the apple tree. Its head hung down at eye-level with Eve. \"In reality, the taste of knowledge will set your *s-s-s-s*-soul free.\"\n\nAt the crest of her lips, when her teeth pierced the ... | 2 | |
[WP] In an effort to retain Intellectual Property for as long as possible, Disney operates a secret agency to keep content creators like George Lucas and Stan Lee out of harms way and alive for as long as possible. | [
" Lucas' mouth dropped when he saw the figure he was being offered. He expected a large sum of cash, but Lucas did not even think that *Star Wars* was worth that much. Wide-eyed, Lucas recounted all of the zeros and, once he knew he was not mistaken, looked up at the well-dressed executive. The Disney representati... | 2 | |
[WP] Two astronauts drifting off in space find each other and fall in love. | [
"Earth year 2544/ Starship Hope Year 1\n\nDear Adrianna, due to the nature of Faster than light travel, messages sent from earth will never reach me, so these letters will be one way. I hope they find you well. I wish we could have gone on the same mission, but you're too young and inexperienced, and this journey t... | 2 | |
[WP] make me feel sad about a happy story. | [
"I'm so Happy for my daughter. She's got great friends, learning to do what she loves, and It looks like she has a great Boyfriend. Things are tough, but she loves doing what she did. Who knew that after all those years being so poor and struggling so hard she would make it, not just through school but so much furt... | 2 | |
[WP]Earth's military has had its organic soldiers all but completely lost or killed in a war with an invading alien threat. In desperation it has begun to conscript top RTS and FPS gamers to pilot and command vast fleets of remote controlled combat drones and robots. | [
"\"Wait, you want ME to fight off an alien invasion?\" I ask.\n\n\"Yup.\"\n\n\"Well, why me? Surely there has to be someone more qualified to fight off aliens, right?!\"\n\n\"When the aliens first arrived, that was their first target. Eliminate anyone or anything that seemed like it would be an issue. As it stands,... | 2 | |
[WP] Each person's life, health, and well-being is tied to a tree and vise versa. | [
"I quietly creep downstairs, careful to skip the last two creaky steps. At the front door, I slip on my Chucks and a grey pullover hoodie. The deadbolt thumps as I turn the handle and grasp the worn copper doorknob below. The hinges are rusting, and I cringe as the door groans open. I wait, count to to ten. There's... | 3 | |
[WP] You have a rare condition that makes it so that you can only speak in snappy one liners and comebacks. | [
"Alright, tonight's the big night. God, how did this even get arranged, is it usual for your therapist to set you up on a date? Just another exercise Dr Rosan likes to pull about once every year. I'm making progress though, at least that's what she said. Stop. Got to avoid falling into think-liners, remember? OK, y... | 2 | |
[WP]The damn sandwich ruined the heist. | [
"\"Hey, Eric!\" I yelled \n\n\"What now!?\" Eric seemed angry, he isn't coping too well with life in prison \n\n\"I couldn't help but keep thinking about what happened that day...\" \n\n\"Have you ever heard about the butterfly effect?\"\n\n\"Wait, is this one of your stupid conspiracy theories again?!\"\n\n\"Come... | 4 | |
Criminal could be he/she. God-like entity could be anyone/anything, known/or made up.
In the words of Liam Neeson "Good Luck" | [WP] An atheist is on death row for a crime he didn't commit. The priest who comes to read him his last rights reveals himself to actually be a God-like entity in disguise.. And he's got a proposition for him... | [
"I'm a bad man. That's why I didn't bother getting all teary over the prospect of my imminent lethal injection.\n\nTruth is, I was in that lab to rob it blind of petri dish specimens. What did my employer want with a few microscopic critters? Why would I care. The price was good, and the mark was almost begging me ... | 2 |
[WP] the new usurpers of the world used magic to do so, and anyone who does not use magic is taken away and never seen or heard from again. You can't use magic. | [
"They say that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Naturally, the many agree with this sentiment. But that doesn't matter when the Few of this world have the power to destroy the many, with just a flick of the wrist, or a series of combined utterances.\n\nIt all started with the 75^th arrival of Ha... | 2 | |
And I done gon' and doofed the title. It's your daily(hourly?) God vs. devil writing prompt! The devil is the good guy! Cause we haven't seen that before amirite!? | [WP] When God unleashed the Flood upon the universe there was only one person to stand against him. Lucifer is the only being tell God that he's wrong. | [
"He watches through the orb as the God's next disaster occurs. First it was life, then it was man, then it was sin, and now it is this flood.\nThousands perish before their eyes, his and His. In a futile and quite selfish attempt at ridding his creation of sin, the God had decided to kill everything and everyone on... | 2 |
[WP] A serial killer uses and incites the internet mob to do his/her kills for him/her | [
"I feel sorry for my colleagues, the other killers. Still following the archaic form of *killing*. Toiling under the sun, stalking their victim, risking their neck to carry out the deed - all that is in the past.\n\nThe world is full of haters and madmen. All it takes is a little push. This is the information age a... | 2 | |
[WP] Archangel Michael is preparing for battle against Satan... | [
"Magdalene knocked. “Honey, we’re closing soon.” It was her third round knocking on this particular door, trying to get her girls moving. Most had nowhere to go. She brushed her dark red hair back. It was shot with streaks of grey, but she still had it. Walking off to give him a bit more time, the door opened behin... | 2 | |
As in, whenever bad weather happens, the weatherperson is to blame. | [WP] The weather forecaster doesn't predict the weather. They cause it. | [
"\"A good morning to you all! This is Brodrick McKenna, and welcome to the daily national weather forecast!\"\n\nBrodrick paused for a moment before reaching deep into his jacket pocket, revealing a new script he had typed just minutes before the cameras started rolling.\n\n\"Ladies and gentlemen if you live in Col... | 3 |
[WP] Humanity has achieved a utopia with absolutely no nasty surprises (Such as everyone being dead or brainwashed). Write a story about how it came about and/or an average day in said utopia. | [
"The Irish coffee was strong and earthy, fragrant as well; faint hints of cinnamon and musky tobacco wending through the bass notes. \nPigeons strutted proudly around the front of the café, rainbowed shimmers in the oiled neck feathers as they bobbed about, fat and replete with crumbs. There was no need to shoo th... | 4 | |
[WP] Listening to the radio on your morning commute, you realize what you're hearing is from several months or years into the future. | [
"\"*Breaking News : 120 people dead in terrorist attack near Qwerty Bank*\"\n\n\"It never stops. Everyday people die.\", I said to myself.\n\n\"You can't stop it. Children dying, old people dying, all ages basically. Because when you die, whoever kills you doesn't care if you're a nobody or if you're the president,... | 2 | |
Angry, Sad, Happy, Distraught; Use any emotion or feeling to tell a story. | [WP] Today, you visit a grave... | [
"Here lies a man who lived a lie. The very foundation of his life, his family, his friends, his job; it was all a big, fat lie. A husband to a lovely wife. A father to three beautiful children. I always thought he cared about me. Even though he went on a very different path then me, I always thought he loved me. Th... | 7 |
[WP] Write the lyrics for the theme song that begins each episode of the TV show about your life. | [
"In West Denver, born and raised; \nJust drinking a beer while my friends all get blazed; \nChillin' out, slackin', til about noon; \nAnnoyed by the lack of good Saturday morning cartoons; \nWhen a couple thousand guys, they were looking for bud; \nStarted raising rent in my neighborhood; \nI got... | 1 | |
[wp] You wake up in a room with no windows and a single locked door. Describe the last thing you remember and the moments following. | [
"When I woke up everything was fuzzy. What happened last night? This is not my room. I look around I notice the room is empty, the splintered hardwood floors, the yellowish walls that I assume where white at some point, the water stained ceiling that said there was a leak somewhere, and the door is all there is to ... | 2 | |
[WP] In the future humans have colonized hundreds of planets and your family settled on an especially harsh desert world. Suddenly the interstellar human-empire collapses and colonists are left to fend for themselves. Over several millennia, how have the humans evolved? | [
" We are human. We have not forgotten where we have came from, as far as Earth may be. Eevn though they must have forgotten us, we have not, it has been at least 20000 years since last contact was made. But, we still send radio signals into the starry sky.\n\n This is our home now, some of us have started to consid... | 3 | |
Awe me. | [WP] A warrior reminisces with his trusty steed after it suffers a mortal wound. The warrior is a office worker who battles traffic everyday in his 1992 Buick Century. | [
"A mount of steel if there ever was, a reliable old girl,\n\n\nWith a coat of glassy chestnut, and a front of foggy pearl,\n\n\nShe bore me steady and brought me quickly to wherever I might need,\n\n\nShe never wavered, never faltered, a truly worthy steed.\n\n\nAs a young lad she was gifted from my father down to ... | 2 |
This may or may not be based on the showerthoughts post. | [WP] The best male wingman on earth tries to help his friend score with a hot lady. Meanwhile, the best female winggirl on earth tries to make sure her friend (the hot lady) goes home alone. | [
"They all met in a bar. It was a nice bar. Not too quiet. Not too loud. Just enough people to feel like you're not a social outcast, but not enough to make it a major target for a possible suicide bombing.\n\nIt was a decent bar. A nice bar.\n\nIt was in this bar that World War III began between a wingman and a win... | 3 |
[WP] You have the ability of forgetting information. | [
"I think it started with a wish. I recall finding an object, I recall an entity explaining the terms of my reward for his release. Three wishes. Whatever I wanted, interpreted any way it wanted. So I was careful with the wish. \"I wish for the ability to, voluntarily and meticulously, choose and delete my memories.... | 5 | |
Finish the sentence, finish the prompt. | [WP] She never gave up. Even after her death, she still ______. | [
"\nThe din of the shifting branches tapping what was left of the roof surrounded the two figures. The wind, forging its way into the old barn was chilling, but only one of them could feel it. The faint smell of damp and decaying wood, mixed with the odour of animal waste was joined by a new smell. Faint, but there,... | 1 |
[WP] God isn't good, and the Devil isn't evil. History is just written by the winners. Hell isn't where the damned go, but where God's unwanted end up. | [
"Never think about death? I certainly didn't. All I ever did was sit down at my day job from 9:00am to 5:00pm mashing away keys, delivering papers to the boss and co-workers, spending time on Reddit... And after a boring day I would go home and indulge myself in a wonderful video game. A perfect, alternate, virtual... | 4 | |
[WP] It's not every day that you wake up with a knife to your throat... Well, for normal people, at least. For me it's pretty standard. | [
"It’s not every day you wake up to a knife to your throat. Unless of course you’re me, Michael Greenman. I had lived a pretty standard life up until recently really. Went to school, got good grades, had both my parents, had some friends. You know, normal. That was, until I had been in the wrong place at the wrong t... | 4 | |
Human has colonized planets far from Earth for hundreds of years. The Earth has largely been forgotten as people move on to other planets with more resources . A retired man sets his mind on a journey to Earth, to spend the remainder of his life there. | [WP] The long way home. | [
"Lost in the depths of human expanse and exploration is a sense of true discovery. For years the galaxy's every exoplanet and celestial constituent had been probed, mined, and squatted on by leagues upon leagues of prospective enterprisers and explorers. Just about every planet had been settled, only some more than... | 2 |
[WP] A man is turned into a vampire, then incarcerated. He needs to find out how he will survive on the inside. | [
"\"I hereby sentence you to six years in prison.\"\n\n*Shit.*\n\nMidas squinted at his lawyer through thick, mirrored sunglasses. \"If I had known I was paying someone to just sit on their ass the entire time I would have hired my brother,\" he hissed.\n\nThe stout man sighed. \"You didn't give me much to work with... | 2 | |
[WP] In an alternate universe, Batman's parents were never killed. Describe a day in the life of Bruce Wayne | [
"Bruce - \"Lex I don't think I'm going to go to that party tonight.\"\n\nLex makes a face indicating his contempt at the decision.\n\nHe replies - \"Man you are top of your class in mechanical engineering and you are graduating this year. I don't think you have anything else to prove.\"\n\n\"You know that i don't l... | 6 | |
[WP]: Someone hands you a paper, stating that you only have 10 days left to live. | [
"I got the paper - ten days to live, it said. Eat shit and die why don't they? Maybe I'd be better off offing myself on the 9th day, just to show them I'm still in charge. I'm the captain of this ship! I rule this vessel! \n\nBut it's all going to end no matter what I do... the paper said 10 days. \n\nThe paper sai... | 4 | |
[WP] Aliens have come to earth with the intent to conquer it, but when they arrive, they realize that, due to random chance or otherwise, they are biologically indistinguishable from humans. | [
"Rossian stared at the clock, it was glowing. It had been glowing all night. It had been another sleepless night and he liked to look at his glow in the dark clock, liked to hear the ticking noise it made , barely audible during the day , but now it seemed to come to life. It was like it was trying to tell him some... | 5 | |
[WP] You have become a god. It's a bit embarrasing, really. | [
"I used to play this game when I was at work. It was an office job for some shitty company who made staples. Not staplers. Just staples. Which was always quite ironic because we always had an abundance of staplers laying around and never any staples.\n\nAnyway, the game. I would go to the toilet and think of storie... | 3 | |
[WP] You are tasked with writing the final episode of The Simpsons. How would you have the show end? | [
"Seeing as the show is crap nowadays... Maybe Homer strangles Bart long enough he actually kills him. Homer goes on trial and there's jury and courtroom with all the lovable characters from past years/episodes telling their own story of a time they had to deal with The Simpson Family. Like a Seinfeld finale. ",
"... | 2 | |
[WP] Tell us the story of how the French stole Christmas. | [
"\"Grab a torch, Jeanette, Isabella!\" you shout.\n\nAffirmative comments from both of them.\n\n\"Do you have your little drum Guillaume?\" you ask.\n\n\"Of course I do. Even though I don't quite know what this is used for,\" he was hesitant.\n\n\"Distracting them when they are between the ox and the grey ass. We j... | 2 | |
[WP] Keep me guessing, keep me terrified. | [
" \n Overcoming Fear\n \n\nAs a child, death was something that I would often think about. It was a scary thought. Thinking about taking last breath before becoming an unkown pile of dust, was a debilitating idea. I pondered about the kind of pain and emotion I would feel for the last time on t... | 2 | |
[WP] The narrator unknowingly is narrating the story of his own murder. | [
"When the metallic screeching of the train gets unbearably close, Dan stands up and pulls the mask over his face. The cold and heavy gun presses against his lower back. As the train approaches, its headlights light up the misty October night. Dan hears the rattling of the monorail, and he is hit by a gust of wind, ... | 3 | |
Make it tragic, but end on a heartwarming note.
Or don't.
I guess I can't really tell you what to do. | [WP] "I can't fix it, but I sure as hell can make it better!" | [
" \n\"So your Ford finally kicked the bucket huh? Why'd you disgrace our family like this Todd?\" Rob asked Todd, leaning under the hood,\nhis dark oily hands bracing against the radiator while he peered at the disgrace that passed for a motor before him. The twisted\ndesign and use of cheap parts making his stomac... | 2 |
[WP] A nasty divorce leaves you spending your childhood living with your abusive, neglectful mother. You have a good relationship with your father, although you only see him once every other weekend. You come home from a normal day of school and...are surprised to see your dads car in the drive way. You walk through yo... | [WP] You open your door to see your father dragging your mother's lifeless body across the kitchen floor. He looks at you and without hesitation says, "get over here and help me get rid of your mother." | [
"I looked at him, forehead creasing with annoyance. The gray pallor of my mother's skin matched my mood as I opened my mouth. Sympathy lined my voice however. \n\n\"Not again Dad, your powers just aren't strong enough to bring her back,\". I hoisted her legs over my shoulder and followed his lead, down into the bas... | 2 |
[WP] You are trapped in a prison with no bars... but its security is much more frightening. | [
"I am interned in a cell with no bars, no chains, no cuffs, or wires. How does one confine a man without restraints? Fear. Not a fear of the unknown, but the fear of certainty. The certainty of the agony that awaits the man foolish enough to step out into the halls. There have been attempts. Oh so many attempts to ... | 2 | |
Parents think they're the ones who select their kid's gift and assume Santa doesn't exist, but Santa's already done all the hard thinking for them. In return, the threat of Santa knowing when kids are bad makes all the children behave. | [WP]Santa exists and he's telepathic. Instead of delivering each gift himself, he 'plants' children's wishes into their parents' minds. | [
"Santa held his palm to the s shaped security pad. Scanning his print, biometric signature and sugar content, the pad agreed that this was indeed Santa and unlocked the door. A steel rectum relaxed, allowing Santa to enter the huge empty dome, tightening behind him.\n“Squigies,” the man in red spoke into a red an... | 2 |
[WP] "Please, run" "why?" "Because I don't want to hurt you" | [
"\"Please John, run.\"\n\n\"But why? Ive finally found you after all these years.\" he said.\n\n\"It's not the same, I can't do this anymore. It's killing me..to kill you. I don't want to hurt you John. You know what they've done to me. Im not the same anymore, Im not who I once was. I don't love who I once lo... | 2 | |
[WP] Turns out Santa is a slave owner forcing the elves to work in his workshop. You are an elf who just escaped and now must tell the world the truth. | [
"From April to September the Arctic Research Base housed over a thousand research scientists, engineers and support staff, but in the depths of winter, when the temperature dropped to forty below zero outside, only a skeleton staff remained to maintain research projects and keep the base active. \n\nIt had been nea... | 3 | |
[WP] Humans weren't the only creatures to eat fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil | [
"The humans... They think they know it so well. That they are the smartest of the animals. I pity those fools, those apes with their main character complex. They do not know, they cannot see the truth.\n\nThat *we* are the Main Characters.\n\nWe know all that they know, and we know more. We have surpassed this dime... | 2 | |
[WP] Milton, storyteller of Paradise Lost, was in fact a seer. Though blind to our realm he could see into theirs. Tell the story behind the story. | [
"\"Oh sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beems.\" \nThe lines as spoke by Satan speak the more \nFor Milton's loss of sight and regained dreams \nOf lost, forgotten myths of Christian lore. \n\nWhole worlds populated with unseen gods \nRevealed themselves to Milton's purblind eyes. \nAs paranoid delusions fille... | 2 | |
Inspired from https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/1zsyz2/on_july_1954_a_man_arrives_at_tokyo_airport_in/ | [WP] You are on a foreign trip when you are informed that you passport isn't valid, the country you claim to be from doesn't exist. | [
"Chatter was loud throughout the airport. I stood in line casually, staring at my phone screen waiting for the time to pass by. Everyone around me was speaking either English or French. The English seemed a bit off but I shrugged it off as you moved up in line.\n\nAs I got closer to the front I got a bad feeling. Y... | 3 |
Fun little project we did in my Creative Writing class earlier this week.
Example:
Vehement, voracious vagrants vacate the valley of all life,
feeding on our great times and often-occurred strife.
How I wish I was there to see the end, not only to try and stop the genocide,
but also to die, alongside.
It hadn't be... | [WP] Write a 78 word story, on anything | [
"The romance was a whirlwind, worthy of a novel or movie. \n\nLong waves of chestnut hair and deep pools masquerading as eyes were only the beginning. It was her kindness and smarts that made me fall and for the first time, fortune broke for me; she loved something in me, as well.\n \nMere days before the wedding, ... | 5 |
[WP] A human with the power of invincibility is also the most unluckiest person in the world. | [
"\"Dread everyday, for everyday is a drag from that which was the cigar of life; always pleasant at first, till you wish puke and stop your breath. Had my life been one of limits, I may have had that pleasure, that pleasure of one last breath. But no, as gifted and accursed as I am, both in bliss and torture, I can... | 9 | |
Your post should simply be the ending to a novel or other piece of literature you've been dreaming up. It should not include your thoughts or experiences on writing a novel. For example, the [last lines](http://justpaste.it/pn1h) of Joseph Heller's *Catch 22* would be an appropriate post. (Naturally, the link contains ... | [WP] The last few paragraph of a novel you haven't yet written. | [
"He fell into the same old sleepless dream. It was familiar, like a reunion with old friends, or returning to a place you hadn't been for a while, yet remained just around the corner the whole time. The dance of ages marched on, the voices, as always, a silent roar.\n\nIn the shadowed shadows, where nothing blended... | 9 |
Beginning, middle, end - doesn't matter. | [WP] Write the one part of your story you always wanted to write. | [
"With each swing of his great hammer, the Giant felled another soldier. Left, right, back, and forth. Crushing their breast plates, cleaving their chests.\n\nAnd so Michael charged spear-first into the throng. The men cheering as their warrior king thrust forward, the fate of their kingdom at the tip of his blade.\... | 4 |
[WP] You are a singer/songwriter that writes completely nonsensical songs that often are just sounds that dont even go together. You are a hit. Why? You have no idea. | [
"It started as a joke. I would write dumb songs to sing, just for shits and giggles. Complete bullshit, like songs about flying ballsacks and giant pastrami monsters, but I got really drunk one night at a bar with my friends, and someone recorded me singing one of my songs. I woke up the next morning to 3 million v... | 3 |
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