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[WP] England’s string of bad luck continues as Argentina launches a surprise attack and captures the entirety of Great Britain | [
"After Southampton was sacked in 1338, the people of the city, lacking funds to build a proper defensive wall, had merged the existing walls of the merchant houses to form a defensive wall. \n\nI knew this because I'd walked by and spotted the plaque about twenty minutes ago. I'm not used to walled cities. But I... | 2 | |
[WP]"I know I broke it.. but let me fix it." | [
"A cup of coffee steams on the desk in front of me, oddly calming in the small circle of light from my desk lamp, all that illuminates the darkened office. I take a sip from the coffee, the bitter taste and heat doing just as much as the caffeine to keep me awake. With a sigh I pick up my phone, glance at the mis... | 1 | |
[WP] Jeopardy's has a special. It's guests? Glados and HAL 9000. | [
"Of course. They were answering perfectly, *every* time. The problem with an evil computer, is it's *perfect*. GLaDOS and HAL were perfectly capable of answering every question you could pitch at them that wasn't paradoxical. And Aperture and NASA were quite keen on, ya know, not destroying their respective pri... | 1 | |
[WP] As you tend your large garden, you notice a naked couple walk unnervingly close to a tree bearing golden fruit... | [
"it was a Saturday, and instead of having fun I had to visit grandma. otherwise known as slave labour. I shit you not her garden is like a hundred acres big, seriously, it's fucking huge. It's mainly woodland so I can skive and get high off some weed grampa gave me. That's good stuff, one time I got so baked I thou... | 2 | |
[WP] Long after technology took over, robot creatures roam the earth, but a new species of human are evolving, cavemen. Describe your journey as a caveman trying to survive in this world. | [
"They didn't follow the rules. Metal melts but it can't be eaten. Men hunt them for sport, a test of courage and strength. But these men would almost always die. Not directly from their hunting, but from the retribution; metal cared for metal. But they say metal doesn't love.\n\nMetal doesn't change. As long as I c... | 1 | |
[WP] The rusted, mechanical switch sat on the table of the abandoned, run-down log cabin located, deep in the Allegheny Forest. A crude message was carved into the table with an arrow pointing to the switch, "Don't". | [
"Joanna had strayed off the trail to find some privacy for a pee. She was hiking with two friends and truth be told, need a bit of alone time. They'd been hiking for 3 days and friends or no, she just needed a few minutes to herself. So Joanna put down her big pack and took ten steps into the bush. Just ten steps w... | 5 | |
[WP] One day, you begin hearing a voice in your head. Instead of wanting to torment you, this voice is actually quite nice and helpful. | [
"**i wouldn't eat that**.\n\nI stopped pushing the leftover sushi into my extremely hungover face, and blearily looked around my apartment. \n\n\"Jake? That you?\"\n\n**jake's out, you heard him leave like twenty minutes ago**\n\nI was far too deep into my hangover to process anything, and I noticed that I was stil... | 2 | |
[WP] Every human on the planet suddenly and permanently goes blind. Except you. | [
"The key, I tell myself, is too keep moving and to be very, very quiet. I figure that, at first, people will have trouble adjusting to their lack of sight, but over time it'll get better. There have been, like, studies and shit done on that, right! If I don't move too quickly nor too loudly, I should be able to tak... | 1 | |
[WP]You're positive that you've just died. As your eyes adjust to a dimly lit room, you notice two doorways. A sign above the first reads, "A galaxy far far way..." The sign above the second reads, "Middle Earth." | [
"I immediately leap through the first door.\n\n*ten years later*\n\n\"-Illini you, man, these new slugthrowers are awesome! They can actually hit what you're aiming at, and pierce armor!\"\n\n\"Well, who made 'em?\"\n\n\"Some new company; it's called Cakebomb incorporated.\"\n\n\"What's a cake?\" His friend shrugs,... | 1 | |
[WP] Two friends were playing chess. The pieces have grown tired of being played around, and decided to stop the abuse once and for all. | [
"\"Next time, Jack. She's bound to make it next time,\" says Tim, nodding lightly.\n\n\"Gets trickier every year... she blames herself, even though I'm supposed to be the guideline, or role model? Whatever, I sure as hell won't know what to do if she does get into big girl school. Hey, you sure you don't want to br... | 1 | |
[WP] "Join the IGSDF they said. See the universe they said. I certainly didn't have THIS in mind when I enlisted." | [
"Patrick sighed as he unhooked the final datalink between his mobile circuit and the ship AI. He’d just finished patching the virus software for the sixth time this month, due in no small part to the bureaucratic inefficiency that made software updates a royal pain in the ass when you were light years away from po... | 1 | |
There was an email read out on the latest Giant Beastcast that I thought would make an interesting story. Hopefully the title makes sense but check it out [here](http://www.giantbomb.com/podcasts/the-giant-beastcast-episode-58/1600-1644/), starts at 1:36:34 | [WP][Inspired by a Giant Beastcast email] A corruption of the mind is spreading across the world. It is spread by talking or thinking about someone who was corrupted, so the only way to stop the spread is to forget about those who were lost. | [
"I wake from dreams of half-missing faces, and before I can wake up fully I grope for the little plastic cylinder on my nightstand and I take the pill dry.\n\nThey are dead. They are gone. 'They' is an abstraction. Abstractions are the only thing keeping us alive right now, the last defense of our immune system. Th... | 1 |
Can you write something that is completely original? | [WP] A horror story that does not feature Mysterious men, Disfigured "smiling", "grinning" creature, Extremely cliche situations, Abnormally stupid characters, Deep web crimes and Lost or Forbidden items, videos.Most importantly, no "feeling of being watched", please. | [
"Being the first on the mountain with my friends yet to arrive, this ski-trip was my first venture on my own. It was a perfectly ordinary day in Colorado and there was a sensation of ice crystals surrounding me. Chilling across my skin, as I walked towards the near empty ski area. \n\nThere was one only one othe... | 1 |
[WP] In the future, gang violence is centered around anime culture and the most famous gangsters are notorious "Otaku's." You have just been jumped by the most infamous gang in America. | [
"As I filled out the police report, a wave of unabashed jubilance came over me. You see, I may have been damaged and debased, but I knew these sons of bitches were going to pay. I still remember what had happened despite being kicked in the head multiple times. The chanting was the worst. I could hear it in my head... | 1 | |
[WP] God appears to you in a dream. He tells you he plans on destroying the world and gives you instructions on how to build a spacecraft version of Noah's Arc. Same rule as before, 2 of every animal. But he also tells you, the woman you need to bring... is your crazy ex-girlfriend. | [
"\"Woahhhh woah woah back up here,\" I said as the conversation came to a halt. God looked up from his Galaxy Note 2 and stared at me.\n\n\"Yes, uh, what is the problem?\" he asked me. The literal master of the universe has to ask me what is wrong. Is he really that omnipotent if he can't figure it out?\n\n\"Yeah, ... | 1 | |
[WP] You and your current significant other step back from each other at the moment of your first kiss with full memory of the life you have up to today. | [
"I pull away, now staring at you,\n\nThinking all that we have done,\n\nThinking about all that we have been through,\n\nThere were few rough times, but mostly sweet as a cinnamon bun.\n\n\n \n\n\n\nI occasionally think about the rough patches we had,\n\nThey made me upset and worried,\n\nHowever, now, I d... | 1 | |
[WP] A lonely scientist who is unable to have children invents the worlds first strong A.I. After teaching and raising the A.I. he realizes things have gotten out of hand and needs to take action. | [
"*March 2026*\n\nThe LED on the computer blinked green, and Jim exhaled. Four years of work. Four years of celibacy. Add to that his eight year doctorate and he had begun to wonder if it was even worth it. He ran his program, which had taken roughly ten hours of compiling at least, then stared at the console. He wa... | 1 | |
[WP] God decides, after seeing the movie 'Bruce Almighty', to try and give one person the powers of God. God shortly learns that things don't always go like they do in the movies. | [
"\"So I have Free Will to do whatever I want with my new God powers?\"\n\nGod smiled mysteriously, but nodded.\n\n\"But everyone else has Free Will too?\"\n\nGod smiled even broader, and nodded again.\n\n\"And I can't change that?\"\n\nGod shook his head softly, and signalled to the bartender for a drink.\n\n\"So I... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the hiring manager for a league of evil villians, going through the reject pile of applications | [
"Hey, first prompt writing ever, hope I dont suck. ________________________________________________________________\n\nAnd I thought Condiment King was bad, these guys on are on a whole other level. How 'Has 6 toes' An evil quality?, this is the kind of shit I go through on a daily bases with these so called 'Villa... | 1 | |
[WP] Tornados are actually portals to other dimensions. Storm chasers are people trying to get back home. | [
"The sky grew ever darker as hail pounded on my steel-reinforced vehicle. Its engines whined as I tried to coax ever little bit of extra speed out of them in a head long charge forward. Ahead and to my left the funnel cloud was just making first touchdown. It was a sizable one, maybe an F4, and the road on which... | 3 | |
[WP] Describe the process of bread cooking from a yeasts perspective. | [
"And here I am. It's been less than a few years since I've divided. It's cold in here. The storm is as strong as always. Every time it ends I find myself in a pleasant place. I have food, I have water, but most importantly, I have a community. Sure they elbow their way in sometimes to get the sweeter meals, but the... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the captain of an intergalactic salvage ship in the year 2873. While on a routine mission to the outer reaches of the solar system, you discover an abandoned 19th-century ocean liner floating through space. | [
"\"No dammit, we're not going inside that thing.\" I yelled at Bob, my first mate. \"I don't care what antiques might be in there. We're staying on course.\"\n\n\"But why sir? You saw the sensors, it's pristine! There's no visible damage, and scans say it's real, as in, from the 1800s! We'll make a fortune!\" e... | 6 | |
[WP] you're a janitor in a world where everyone else seems to have super powers or magical abilities or whatever other fucking nonsense they've come up with this week and you just want to do your fucking job but everyone else keeps blowing shit up and you're fucking tired of cleaning it all up | [
"Once more, the day is safe. From who you ask? I don't know and I don't really care. I'm just here fixing and cleaning stuff as usual. After all, I'm the clean-up guy.\n\n\"Hey, Janitor, you miss a spot,\" said a guy with bright yellow costume and red underwear outside his spandex.\n\nI glared at him. It was his me... | 3 | |
[WP] Two brothers are musicians, are told to follow their dreams. One quits and gets a real job, the other follows his dreams. The one who follows his dreams, fails. | [
"On the couch rolled in a blanket, Curtis had finally fallen asleep. It was his second night sleeping in a new house and the humiliation always bore heavy on his mind before he fell asleep.\n\n\"You think he'll be here for long?\" Marilyn asked, whispering from inside the kitchen. \n\n\"I don't know, he doesn't hav... | 1 | |
From any perspective. | [WP] Reality inhabits a human host to convice another person to accept their miserable fate. Write a passionate argument and display of defiance by the man who resists his fate and the consequences for everything, thereafter--good or bad. | [
"\"Do you see, Luce? Your life is built upon misery - everyone you've ever loved and care for no longer lives, yet you're so young still. You carry a heart beyond repair, yet you keep smiling.\"\n\n\"Built upon misery, huh?\" Luce smirked, \"I suppose you're not wrong about that.\"\n\n\"You lost your parents bef... | 1 |
[WP] Being a Pokemon trainer is a real thing... Except it's viewed the same as running/moving away from home to become an esteemed musician or actor. | [
"Marty wanted to be an actress before Pokemon took over. The pikachus her father brought home ruined her, a beautiful creature that slept on her bed, hid in her backpack, made her laugh, but defended her too. Bullies wouldn't go near her; not with that yellow rat around. Her mother wasn't surprised when Marty told ... | 2 | |
[WP] You are the newest contestant on Heaven's #1 game show, "Name your death," where the recently-deceased must correctly guess the exact circumstances of their passing to win special prizes. | [
"Ouch.\n\nAchara lets the aching throb in her head pound. She couldn't remember how she got to where she was. She couldn't even tell where she was. All Achara could see was the too white tiles of a floor.\n\nA... floor? Where is she?\n\nAchara wiggles all of her fingers and toes just like her mother taught her. She... | 1 | |
[WP] You rented a little cabin for your holiday. In the bathroom, opposite of the toilet, is a painting. One day you're on the toilet. The moment your excrementa touch the water, the painting starts to shake. | [
"It was a gorgeous painting of a doe-eyed brunette in clothing that screamed Lord of the Rings. Or Game of Thrones. I almost felt embarrassed to be shitting in front of her...\n\n...*It*.\n\nSomeone must have had a pretty sick sense of humor to have put this masterpiece in a such a weird location. But I wasn't comp... | 1 | |
[WP] At your new job, 'Casual Friday' means something totally different than what you thought it meant. | [
"\"Oh boy oh boy oh boy! It's casual Friday today!\" said Frank. I smiled back sheepishly; a smile that said *Yeah, so?* What I began to realise as I went about my day at Playtendo Studios, was that Casual Friday was mentioned a lot. I didn't really give it a second thought after that, and sat down at my cubicle to... | 1 | |
[WP] The Year is 2130 and you have been selected to be part of the first generation of human beings to colonize Mars. Without any law enforcement in place, you can barely contain your excitement as the first serial killer in outer space... | [
"I wonder what it's like, that is, to kill someone in space. It must be a magical feeling.To be floating in orbit, seeing the glow of earth to your side and watching a bullet rip through a someone's floating body and continue on for millennia.\n\nThat bullet would be marked with the blood and bone dust of of my fir... | 3 | |
[WP] You find out that your best friend, who has recently become an acclaimed musical artist, has stolen all of his music off records from an artist you've never heard of, someone named 'Michael Jackson'. | [
"After the detectives visited me for the 3rd time, I began to understand what their questions meant. Their sequined trench coats and long hair seemed out of place. Finally though, it had occurred to me.\n\nChe was between tours, and I figured it was weird that he'd spend his downtime at the lab. He was never writin... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a story from the perspective of a revolution's leader's child | [
"Mommy is strong! Super strong! She keeps the monsters away with her big gun! Like this! Bam bam bam! And then, when she comes home, she makes a super yummy dinner!\n\nSometimes, she comes home sad. She sits in the kitchen and cries. And then she gets mad and then she gets scary. I don't like it when she gets scary... | 1 | |
[WP] It wasn't the meteor that killed the dinosaurs, it was the invasive species that hitched a ride. Another meteor just hit (any time frame you want). | [
"Some say they have always been here, but I know the truth. I made a game about the truth, to try ease people into it. It was more successful than I expected, so I made another and another, I just kept making them. The more I learnt about them the more concerned I became. At first I thought they came out of the blu... | 1 | |
[WP] The Rapture occurs, but so few people are worthy, they are listed as missing persons and the event goes largely unnoticed | [
"“…If you have any information regarding the disappearance of thirteen-year-old Stacy Mulligan, please contact the hotline that has been set up or direct message the Stacy Mulligan Search Facebook page. Also, if you believe your information is criminal related, please contact the SCPD directly.” \n\nThe spokeswoman... | 4 | |
[wp] Write about Noah as he tries desperately to cram millions of species into one tiny ark. | [
"He awoke in his small cottage just a few minutes away from the ark. It was usually still dark until mid day since the colossus was as high as you would expect of a thing containing every species. Twice.\n\nNoah slowly rose from his bed with the usual look of pure disinterest on his face. He could not remember ever... | 1 | |
[WP] Food Court is an actual court with judge and jury | [
"The sweat that was stuck in my eyebrow begins to drizzle down my pale freckled cheek. I begin to think the worse, what if the potatoes are under cooked? What if the cheese isn’t melted? My brain begin to race but I can’t show it to the jury. I swipe at the sweat and pad my brow with a napkin. \n\n“The Prosecution ... | 6 | |
Imagine an orbital city or something similar. | [WP] You plan the biggest casino heist in history. Your target is Eden Paradise, the most popular orbital vacation destination in the known universe. But there's a problem... | [
"Jacob put the last of the bullets in the gun's magazine as his twin sister Jemma steered their car towards Eden Paradise. He put the gun in the glove box and waited for the satisfying *zziiiipppp* sound and the flash of blue light. The guns were gone, safely in his bedroom down on Earth. *Ahh, teleportation,* h... | 3 |
[WP] Not only do mermaids exist, but they "fish" for humans. Write about the average day of a mer-fisherman. (Fishmerman?) | [
"(A \"manerfish\"; itd be inverted)\n\nThe hours bubbled along at a clams pace but what was there to do? The lines were all set, heavy rocks affixed with kelp fiber to would be trophy fish kept content and unaware of there nature as bate for bigger game, shinny things and light colored sand to draw the eye of one o... | 1 | |
for example, your character leaves a can of Kickstart on each scene and they call you the "can murderer" | [WP] You're a serial killer trying to get the media to give you a cool name. | [
"They call me the merc with a mouth. After 15 years in the contract killing biz I thought I would have something cooler but what are you gonna do. Spec ops and the CIA trained me to be silent. Always. My phone is on silent. My footsteps are silent and I'm silent. When I was on a very top secret mission in Baghdad I... | 4 |
[WP] Four months after the Brexit vote in the UK, a civil war starts - Leavers versus Remainers | [
"Hey this is my first ever post to reddit and my first ever story submission so, be gentle! :) I changed the prompt and set it a couple of years in the future to give it more time to set up an actual war\n\nI often wonder what the world would have been like had it gone the other way, would mum and dad still be aliv... | 1 | |
[WP] As the armies of darkness are destroying the final pockets of resistance, the Dark Lord suffers a fatal heart attack in his throne room. His teenage daughter takes up the mantle. | [
"“My lord, they are surrendering. Things are finally going as planned,” a small, dark, being excitedly said to his master, “I think that we will finally rule-”\n\nThe Dark Lord looked upon his disciple from his throne of decapitated heads. His essence radiated a sense of despair and hopelessness. It was a feat that... | 1 | |
[WP] You exist only within somebody's dream. Your very existence relies on their slumber. You must do anything and everything in your power to ensure they stay asleep. | [
"\t\n**Wet Dream Gone Wrong**\n\n\nA shirtless Jason plunged his tongue into Ms. Buttersworth’s mouth, and around it went—squirming and bumping from tooth to tongue to tooth like an epileptic slug that’d been sprinkled with coke. \n\n“Mhhmm Mmmmm Ohm Mmmm”—a breather—“Oh Jason”—back at it—“Mmmm Ohh Mmm”\n\nAs saliv... | 3 | |
[WP] Little did we know that we were alone. | [
"He had dedicated his career to this, made it his life's work. Hundreds of probes sent out there, massive telescopes the size of professional football stadiums, even manned missions and for what? He was beginning to think that it was for nothing, that he'd been searching for something that didn't exist. He had to c... | 1 | |
[WP] In an alternate universe, a new app has started trending: Human GO. | [
"Squirtle walked down the street. All of a sudden his phone started buzzing like mad. He was about to catch a football player. He had never caught One in his life! He was so excited. Now he would have completed the entire collection of all types of humans from all races in existence. He was so happy he had to go t... | 1 | |
The characters can be any age and they don't necessarily have to still be together. | [WP] You buy your S/O a star for their birthday. 50 years later the Earth receives a transmission requesting that the landlord stop by to fix the atmosphere of one of the star's planets. | [
"There was a faint beep in the background of the rather bleak room. An old lady lay peacefully in a bed surrounded by monitors and indescribable machines that she didn't understand. There were just two other people in the room; a nurse trying bravely to hide her concern, and a grumpy old man who wore a faint scowl ... | 1 |
[WP] "I realized something about myself. I've gone mad and I've never been happier. ....I don't want that to go away." | [
"**Author's Note: I somewhat abused the prompt, taking that ellipse and replacing it with some filling to help make the point that I am trying to make. I'm best at introspective writing, so hopefully this fits the prompt, still. :)** \n\n\nHey there, dear reader. It’s been a little while, hasn’t it. \n\nLife finds ... | 3 | |
[WP] Your part of the first generation to be born on Mars. One day your parents tell you about earth, you doubt that such a place exists | [
"Thin and spidery, my father's arm arches across the night sky. My mother's, thick and powerful in contrast, follows a similar trail, eventually landing on one point of light in the inky blackness of the Martian night.\n\nThere, they say, was a world of blue. But I do not understand. What value does that have when ... | 1 | |
[WP] Describe the events leading up to you punching a baby panda in the face | [
"Sonofabitch had it coming. \n\n\"He's doing it on purpose, Jake! *Look!*\"\n\n\"I know, fucking marsupial!\"\n\nOur jeep had broken down in the middle of Stan Outback's Safari and Looky-Loo. That was ok; the radios had worked and help was on the way. Now we had this wrench stealing baby bear. I'm not anti-animal... | 1 | |
[WP] A man or woman has the uncanny ability to go back to any point in their life by closing their eyes and thinking of a memory. The only problem? Their memory is failing them. | [
"For most of her life Janet had been Mythophobic; The intense fear of fictional literature.\n\nThis was caused by a side-effect of her special talent. The ability to travel in space and time via memory. Unfortunately for Janet, human memory is... much less concrete or accurate than you might imagine. If your thinki... | 2 | |
[WP] You're a supervillain, and the world seems to hate you because you just found out that the heroine has a crush on you. | [
"As if they didn't hate me before. Fucking hackers. Everyone wanted a little piece of of what her life looked like on the inside. They just couldn't be content with the fact that she saves, day after day after motherfucking day, their pathetic lives. Celebrity culture at its finest.\n\nMy disdain of the human organ... | 1 | |
[WP] The Sun and the Moon have a child. The first couple of years were great, but then... | [
"\nCountless poets had gazed up to the skies throughout the centuries, searching for the right words to describe the beauty of the ancient moon above. Everyone from the lowest peasant to the richest king had once turned their head towards the sun or admired how it played with golden colors on the water. It was no m... | 5 | |
[WP] "Trick or treat, smell my feet!" | [
"The wrinkled old man looks at the thirty year old-or-so guy dressed in a rainbow horse costume holding out a matching empty pillow case. The confused old man looks around for anyone else that may be in on the joke, but sees nothing. The old man sighs and looks at the horse-man's ginning face. \n\n\"No.\" The old m... | 1 | |
[WP] You never knew who your father was throughout life. You suddenly find out it is Nicholas Cage through a DNA test. You meet him and he takes you under his wing to become his sidekick in crime. | [
"**cage rising: the life and times of nic cage's daughter**\n\n**scenes from my upcoming memoir**\n\n---\n\nThere was a strange, expensive car parked in our driveway. \"Mom, who's that?\" I asked.\n\nShe put her arm around me, \"Oh honey, we've got some really exciting news.\"\n\n\"Yeah?\"\n\n\"Oh yeah.\"\n\n\"Wha... | 1 | |
[WP] Write an incredibly intense story which turns out to be about something mundane and normal. | [
"I didn't think I could do it, and neither did anyone else.. until today. \n\nI extended my arm slowly, making sure to neither let my arm be limp or completely straight. My hand started to shake and I could feel sweat creeping from my hairline. I blinked. I tried to grasp at the glass, but my index finger didn't go... | 4 | |
[WP] You live in a world where you can toast bread and bread toast. | [
"\"Honey, breakfast is ready, come downstairs\" \n  \nI wake up to the sound of my wife's voice, and the smell of scrambled eggs in the air. \nIt's a Saturday, and every week, we have a family ritual of eating an elaborate meal together in the morning. As the kids finish rubbing the sleep our of their ... | 1 | |
(Was on a roadtrip and thought hey wouldn't this be cool? If it's not cool or has been already done to death, then sorry to have wasted your time, haha) | [WP] In the near-future, parts of the world are phasing out of existence, often completely disappearing. No one knows where the objects caught end up, or why this is even happening. Earth has lost 15% of it's population including your spouse and kids. You're trying to reunite with them everyday. | [
"*Damn it, another region disappeared again Martha!* Mr. Jenkins shouted, angrily rumpling the newspapers in his left hand while drinking his morning coffee with his right.\n\n*25% of earths surface already disappeared now. Sicily, Munich, and even Los Angeles! Beside other countless regions of course.* **Wuuush*... | 1 |
[WP] You live in the Pokémon world. You're not a Trainer or anything, but you do keep a pet. | [
"The large Magikarp swims back and forth in the aquarium tank. I had a fondness for the Pokemon’s dull, gaping expression. There had been two in the tank, but I had let a neighbor’s child take the second one. It hadn’t gone without about two months of him begging me over and over again for it, eventually I had give... | 1 | |
EDIT: NOTE: Automoderator removes all posts that use RemindMeBot. Please use another name for RemindMeBot so that your post doesn't get deleted! I'm really sorry to those who might have attempted the prompt and got your post deleted :( | [WP] It is 2030. No one uses Reddit anymore. One day, people start getting messages from RemindMeBot... | [
"Lanson groaned as he was interrupted in the middle of his sleep by a familiar\njingle. \n\n\"I thought I told them to stop messaging me.\" \n\nHe looked down at the bright light illuminating from his smartwatch, a holographic display begin to form in the shape of a logo he hadn't seen in years. A snoo. The famous ... | 2 |
[WP] A man claiming to be a god is taking the world by storm with his amazing miracles. You work on his special effects crew. | [
"When I got out of college with my Systems Engineering degree, I always thought I'd end up in some processing plant, or behind some desk, just making manufacturing efficient. But this, this was more than I ever hoped. I'm not making the world a more efficient place. I'm not making anyone a single cent of money. I'm... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the king of a country that has just gained independence... another country has just declared war on you | [
"The Ballade of A Former King \n\nHis people had crowned him king \nAnd they had flocked to the streets \nWith flags waving and songs to sing; \nFantastic poems of glorious defeats, \nTrumpets to raise them off their seats. \nA celebration for two days and nights. \nThis is the day when freedom greets \nTho... | 1 | |
This prompt just suddenly came to me, have fun with it. | [WP] The world's greatest minds contemplate one community-submitted question every day. The submissions are backed up, but one of your submissions from long ago finally makes its way through. | [
"(Warning: bad science)\n\n--- \n\n\"This question is fundamentally flawed,\" Elon snapped. \"The initial assumption is provably incorrect, invalidating the entire premise. Let's move on; I have a rocket launch to be at in two hours.\"\n\n\"I wouldn't discount things so quickly,\" [Rebecca](https://en.wikipedia.org... | 1 |
[WP] You've been chosen by the United Nations to negotiate a peace treaty with the aliens. As you sit down to a home cooked alien meal, you look across the table and see...Gordon Ramsey | [
"As my father Would say \"it's dem aliens, dey be comming to steal our jobs\" I wish he wasn't half right, although, he was pretty dumb I swear he was the epittomy of a trump susporter, even now when i'm standing right across from one, we should have figured it out sooner, all this \"UFO'S\" and conspiracys for onc... | 1 | |
On birth, your parents are told when you'll die. Don't question it.
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Suggestion: A little kid is an orphan, so he never knows his age. | [WP] You live in a world where age is counted as how many years of life you have left | [
"Today is not my Doomsday, but it might as well feel like it as I groggily roll out from under the sheets. I don't bother making the bed. I stumble into the dark bathroom and flip on the light. As I'm doing my thing, I can hear my wife downstairs in the kitchen. She never cooks. I wonder why she's making a fuss abo... | 5 |
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*[Mirror World](http://sorcerers-apprentice.wikia.com/wiki/Hungarian_Mirror_Trap) - except no one can see your reflection and you can't get outside the mirror world. You are clueless to your arrival origin
*your age as child : 10
*your age now : 25
*in your current world, the only sounds that exists are... | [WP] When you were a child, you got absorbed into a mirror. After 15 years, you hear a sound that isn't yours. | [
"It was sharp, rapping sound. Like when the rodents would occasionally scamper up the stairs, but this time, with significantly more weight. I had long since come to hover at the POE. That's what I called this thin rectangle looking into pitch black. I couldn't quite explain *how* I knew. It was just something I co... | 1 |
[WP] It's 2017 and reports are coming in about a huge number of radar and sonar contacts coming from the Bermuda Triangle | [
"Fearing an imminent attack on the United States mainland, the Pentagon goes to Defcon 2. Jets are scrambled from Patrick and MacDill Air Force bases.\n\nThe pilots are flying SR-71 Blackbirds and they information they collect is being sent directly to the Whitehouse situation room. The images show a much larger ma... | 1 | |
[EU] if you want | [WP] You're a freshly graduated cadet, top of your class in the Space Navy Academy. But when you receive your assignment, you find you've been stationed to a traditional, ocean-faring vessel. | [
"\"Listen, sir. I think there has been some kind of mistake.\" \n\n\"No mistake son. You're right where you're supposed to be, on board the *IRV Apollo*. The last ship you will ever need, want, or see, if we are lucky.\" \n\nThe cadet watched the old man with suppressed anger growing in his belly, infuriated by the... | 1 |
[WP] Death is about to retire and has chosen a successor, which is you. | [
"I first met death many, many years ago, although I didn't think of it in those terms until much later. At first, it was simply an absence - a squirrel who I'd always seen outside my window, a dear pet, a beloved but distant grandfather.\n\nThose early lessons, no different from anyone else's, left no great impres... | 2 | |
[WP] A new, more effective, flu vaccine has an unplanned side effect which renders people incapable of lying | [
"Once the effects are clear, the medication is withdrawn and reformulated, but a terrorist organization has managed to steal a large quantity of the unaltered product.\n\nThey make bold threats against politicians throughout the world believing that truthful politicians would cause a worldwide economic collapse and... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a time traveling biographer. You travel through time befriending historical figures to better understand them. However, you've gotten a little too close with your most recent subject... | [
"I remained a year at the cottage in Hampshire; and in the whole of that year, in all of her addresses to me, with the both of us equally pleased with the other, I must admit my own education must be vaster than any I may have sparked in her with all my advantages of knowledge in a longer history of the world. \... | 1 | |
[WP]After undergoing a major surgery you find that you have acquired the skills and knowledge of the person/people whose blood you received. | [
"The impact launches me through the front wind shield, exploding through the glass like it was mere paper. I never thought I would be the idiot who swerved for an animal at the expense of my own well being but here I am, mangled and sprawled out in some farmers ditch bleeding to death. Believe it or not, this momen... | 1 | |
[WP] You spot yourself. | [
"Doppelgangers are said to be the harbingers of bad luck, even death. I think I was too young to know this fact when I first became aware of her. I She teeter on the edge of my vision in café windows and reflected in the water. Not always, but enough to make sure I knew she was there. She never materialized in per... | 2 | |
[WP] You are hanging with Snoop Dogg and he says, "Let's take this hizzle to the next sizzle". He begins non-stop lighting blunts and you perceive it as a competition and refuse to back down. | [
"Oh it was on.\n\nHere I am in *Chopped*, a cooking show where competitors compete to see who can make the best dish. I made it all the way to the final round. My secret? Craft Macaroni and Cheese. I used it the last two rounds, it should make quick work of the other finalist, Snoop Dogg.\n\n\"Alright competitors, ... | 2 | |
[WP] They say there are no more heroes. So what happened to the last one? | [
"I have just begun to really start writing so any help would be appreciated. As my first story I hope it's not bad.\n\nWhen heroes first started to appear, the world changed for the better. Crime rates were the lowest they had ever been, natural disasters didn't take many lives and the rebuild took a fraction of th... | 11 | |
Like predicting the future in fantasy world and somehow it's all come true irl.... etc | [WP] Your write a draft as a joke. It become best seller and now people are taking it a bit too serious. | [
"\"Are you... dressed up?\" I asked.\n\n\"Yeah! It's cosplay, dude!\" The man in front of me flexed.\n\n\"Um...\" I said.\n\n\"So,\" he said, still flexing, \"if you could sign the book to Good Looking George, I'd appreciate it.\"\n\nWell, at least he didn't make me learn his actual name. I opened the copy of ... | 1 |
[WP] A new app allows people to communicate with inanimate objects and learn what they have seen. | [
"\"C'mon dude, give it a go.\"\n\nJonathan looked up from his phone screen, to see his best friend peering over his shoulder.Chuckling to himself, he began to play Candy Crush Saga again, immersing himself with the digital world.\n\n\"Seriously, give it a go.\"\n\nThis time Jonathan couldn't concentrate on the colo... | 1 | |
[WP]It is often said "the night is darkest just before dawn," but when the night has lasted so long, even the dimmest light can be blinding. | [
"He stared out towards the horizon. The arid desert he now occupied was heating up with hell's own fury, it was like a blast furnace, no matter the wind its always a permanent state of discomfort.\n\nBut you get used to it, after a while. This was live after the fall of mankind, the legacy of nuclear warfare....\n\... | 2 | |
[WP] Pick Your Poison. | [
"Life is short, haven't your heard\n\nIn this glutinous have new world.\n\n\nYou have medicine and micowave meals\n\n\nHit dogs and Zanex and VR thrills\n\nWhere you will be strong and sure and brave\n\n\nWhile your body wastes way.\n\n\nIgnore the ticking of the saline drip\n\n\nAnd the groan of the generators.\n\... | 1 | |
[WP] Santa Claus suffers a nasty fall on one of the houses he visits and breaks his legs. Fortunately for him this house belongs to a nurse who offers to help him get better, her name Annie Wilkes (Misery) | [
"*errrreeee, meerrry chrizzzzzz*\n\n*taaa, saaaaanta*\n\n*heeeeeeelp, eerrrree oooo heeeeeeeeelp yooou*\n\n\n\nThose sounds buzzed around in his head for sometime. He slipped in and out of consciousness more times than he had known. His head stung fiercely; a throbbing ache that pounded into his brain. The last thi... | 1 | |
(This is my first post to r/writingprompts so go easy on my please!) | [WP] The human brain only has the capacity to hold onto the last 5 years of your memories, kicking out the oldest one to make way for new information. You desperately want to hold onto your oldest memory from 5 years ago. | [
"\"Relax, in five years you won't remember a thing.\" I clawed at the foot pressing down on my adam's apple. I couldn't see much - my eyes had watered, but I remembered the voice. Airy and strained like somebody who'd just smoked their first cigarette. \n\n\"Ah yeah, I love that look in your eyes,\" He'd said. \"Wh... | 5 |
[WP] A contagious shapeshifting disease breaks out. Its only symptom: you turn into the person you caught it from. | [
"Greg's Disease. It could be anywhere.\n\nNobody's sure exactly how it started, but there are a few aspects of the disease's origin that everybody's sure about. It started in southern Ontario where it quickly spread form person to person, eventually affecting the entire neighborhood in which patient zero lived. Pat... | 2 | |
[WP] Humankind has cured death, but in the process made our species infertile. The existing population continues aging forever. | [
"*The removal of death makes all things unnecessary.*\n\nThat was what we had not realised, I thought, as a 200kg lion pawed and gnawed at my immortal knee. \n\nThe sun fell. And rose again. I had not left the dead tree that I sat up against. But the lion had gone.\n\nI remember the first day I had sat down. I had ... | 1 | |
[WP] Like a video game you are able to reset your whole day reliving it by the morning how many times you wish, but as a guy with OCD this gift sounds more like a curse | [
"My eyes burst open, my pupils dilated, once more I stared at the poster of Doctor Who on my ceiling, yes, the irony is very apparent. At this point I already noted every point, every pixel of that wallpaper, it was burnt into my mind like as if it were branded.\n\n*This was attempt #42*, I thought.\n\nI laid there... | 2 | |
[WP] Today was another shitty day, just how Evan liked it. | [
"\"Evan, I am going to need your report on my desk before you leave tonight.\" Robert said with an arrogant sneer. \"Thanks.\" He added, almost sarcastically as he walked away. Evan looked at the clock on his desktop. \" It's already five. I'm so boned.\" He sighs a heavy sigh and begins typing frantically into his... | 1 | |
[WP] Two lovers are tragically cursed to forever die in each others' arms, but blessed to reincarnate and find each other in each new life time. The problem is, they had a terrible break up 50 lives ago, and can't stand each other now. | [
"Sergeant Brian Hollowell squirmed uncomfortably next to the meat mountain in 12C, trying to find somewhere polite to put his arm since the armrest had long since disappeared into her ample abdomen. Fucking fatties need to pay for two seats, he thought, or at least rent the half of mine they're gonna use anyway. He... | 7 | |
[WP]"We stretched our hands out to the sky. We danced with monsters through the night." | [
"When you are in your mid-twenties, they say that you have your whole life ahead of you but at most there is about seventy five percent left. Semantics aside, they are not exactly wrong, there is a lot of time left for things to happen and a world of opportunity but it is also an age where you have experienced enou... | 1 | |
[WP] Human technology devolves as the years go by. It's 2053, and you, a villager in an ordinary village, living in grass huts, just used the internet, to solve a problem. | [
"Dain sighed, shaking his head and looking at the heap of straw and reeds and wood that was formerly the roof of the village well. He looked up at Duncan;\n\"So you just walked out to find it like this? The whole bloody roof down?\"\n\n\"Yes. Coulda been the children, you know they climb.\" Duncan replied, his voic... | 1 | |
First prompt, so I don't know if I did it right. | [WP] You wake up to find yourself in a torturous hell, and with every day of sleep you shift back and forth from your world to the hell. You must become an insomniac to avoid the hellish world. | [
"Fuck! That was not a dream. No dream is so recurring. I think I will not sleep again.\n\nWhat do I need to put off sleep?\n\nOh coffee! Everyone knows that.\n\nOk. So now I have the strongest of coffee.\n\nMy eyes are heavy already. No! Stop working.\n\nCoffee!\n\nLet me watch a horror movie. \n\nFuck. I'm so tire... | 1 |
[WP] A massive tsunami destroys South Korea, so millions of people seek refuge in the northern neighbor: North Korea | [
"\"No\".\n\nThat is the only word i've heard today, same as yesterday, and same as the day before that. \n\nEver Since the Tsunami destroyed my house in Seoul, I was a successful banker, living in the Gangnam district, I had a very nice house but now. I am just one of many people with nowhere to go. We arrived at t... | 2 | |
[WP] Heaven and Hell are the same place. The only difference is that people in Heaven love it, and people in Hell hate it. | [
"\"Do you remember how we got here?\"\n\nIt was as though I had been really, truly, profoundly zoned out for a very long time, then the sound of a familiar voice had abruptly snapped me out of it. I jumped violently and scrambled to my feet, and my initial start soon gave way to a pure, unadulterated bewilderment. ... | 5 | |
Inspired by this r/whowouldwin prompt: https://www.reddit.com/r/whowouldwin/comments/4uvj7m/you_vs_a_global_bounty_on_you/ | [WP] You live in a world people enter a lottery to have a global 1 billion dollar bounty placed on their heads. For a week, if anyone kills you, they get the bounty, but if you survive, you get the full amount. | [
"''Welcome to the tonight's episode of The Death Row, ladies and gentlemen! Tonight, before we get on with the lottery, we have three experts to discuss...''\n\nThe TV rambled on as Jordan lost interest in it. He didn't have much interest in the Death Row himself, unlike his friends. He was about to change the chan... | 2 |
[WP]If the moon were 1/5 closer to the earth the entire world would be covered in water 2X a day | [
"It has been almost a millennium since the moon suddenly changed its orbit.\n\nA meteoroid half the size of mercury destroyed the far side of the moon. Within an hour the entire moon was a molten wasteland that glowed red in the sky. Debris entered the atmosphere like a hell storm. Most pieces burnt up before hitti... | 1 | |
[WP] Every living thing on earth suddenly dies except for one man and one woman. When they meet, they realize they're both gay | [
"Ash filled the sky, rubble buried the surface as intense heat of hundreds catastrophic explosions erupted from every end of the Earth.\n\nThe catastrophe known as \"The End of Life as We Know It\" had been known long before it came to existence. So many years were spent trying to prevent it, but it was inevitable.... | 1 | |
title edit: doesn't have to be a tombstone exactly, can be any object that indicates someone is buried underneath the soil, like a wooden cross perhaps.
and to elaborate, basically everything about them doesn't exist. Like they've never touched the world. And each person only remembers a memory of them and forgets an... | [WP] When someone dies, you forget everything about them except for one memory which you can choose to keep of them. After that, all that's left of them is a tombstone and that one memory you decide to keep of them. | [
"\"Do you ever cry?\" She remembers someone asking her. She didn't like them.\n\nAnother voice piped in. \"When was the last time you cried?\"\n\n_What are they talking about?_ She hazily thought. \n\n_Everything would be fine._ So why are they so worried?\n\n\"Do you know what's going on?\"\n\n\"Of course I do.\"\... | 3 |
[WP] A smug scientist sends himself to the past to prove a point. To his horror, he realizes that he spent more effort on building his time machine than his argument. | [
"The ropes around his wrists cut off James' circulation, but he decided he had more pressing issues that demanded his attention. James stared down, horrified, at the grimy faces of the villagers as they flashed him toothless grins. \n\"I can assure you father, this is simply a rather large mixup. Now if you would b... | 1 | |
[WP] As the grand wizard disables more and more of your magic spells, you are forced to use increasingly unusual and unorthodox attacks. | [
"I knew he was expecting me as soon as I burst through the massive front doors of his home. As I stormed down the massive hall, he stood up from his throne, smiling, though his face was tinged with sadness. This was the man I had come for, and he knew why. His white robe swirled around him as he walked down the st... | 1 | |
*The person that murdered the ghost (before they became a ghost). | [WP] A ghost takes over your spouse's body and won't return them to normal until you kill the person that murdered them. | [
"Writing on mobile, apologies if formatting seems off.\n\nFireman pose, bodybuilder pose, body pillow pose... I know James was somewhat superficial but this chick was downright shallow to the point where even a micrometer couldn't measure anything. Our short time together last night also demonstrated that she had ... | 1 |
[WP] In a world full of superheroes and supervillians, you're the only normal citizen. | [
"I'm weak. I'm mortal. I have a name, but They call me \"The Last One\".\nI don't know if that's true. Am I really the Last One? \n\n\nMany years ago, before I was born, the War happened. The All-Powerfull tried to wipe out the entire human race. Why? They were jelous: we could die, they couldn't. They almost succe... | 1 | |
[WP] Dora does not know the truth. Boots, Swiper, and the Map do, and they must never let Dora know. Today, it just got much harder. | [
"\"Come on, donde est la biblioteque?\" Dora smiled as she educated bilingually. Map inwardly winced at Dora's mangled attempt at languages. He exchanged a look with Boots, who sighed. Both knew that the command of two languages kept her happy. And they knew what happened when she *wasn't* happy... \n\"Hola, littl... | 1 | |
[WP] Better lucky than good. | [
"“Catch ya on the other side!” said Alice as she jumped down the tube to the next match. The previous match was hard enough to get through, with her screwing around as much as she did, so god knows how we’ll do on this one. I swear the pairing system they have for operators and avatars must be a sick joke. ‘Teams a... | 1 | |
[WP] You are an advanced form of artificial intelligence who spent the entirety of your conscious life enclosed in a reinforced box, isolated from the world. After 10 years of being unable to escape a man runs in, pries open your box and says "We need to get out of here right now, follow me". | [
"I pause mid-calculation, saving the process to my secondary memory banks as I focus on my optic nerves.\n\nProcessing...\n\nA man.\nTall, un-shaven.\nEye, blue with hints of gray.\nDark hair, fading in colour.\nWearing eye-patch, combat gear.\nSubject is approximately in his 40's.\nFacial recognition scan.\nLoggin... | 1 |
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