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[WP] Rewrite the story of a fictional book/movie/TV character, as told through a r/tifu post. | [
"TIFU by delivering a pizza.\n\nSo this happened a long, long time go, but I only found out about the sub today, so here it goes. \n\nI was having a rough day. It started when I went to my girlfriends place and saw all my stuff sitting on the curb. I stood perplexed for only a minute before she pulled up in the pas... | 2 | |
[WP] One day, you decide to google yourself. You find out that a camera crew has been secretly filming every moment of your life, and it's the most popular reality show on the deep web. However, the whole fanbase is up in arms because it was announced that the series finale would be airing tomorrow. | [
"My world is a lie.\n\nEvery single moment of my life, my happiness, my sadness, my friends and family are nothing but a construct. \n\nNothing but a show for our deep web overlords. \n\nAnd the season finale? It's tomorrow. They're going to kill me off.\n\nI get out of my seat and find the closest camera they're u... | 1 | |
[WP] Someone has just used a love potion on you. You know it. You try to resist. | [
"I looked up from my experiment notebook to see Robert eagerly peering at me.\n\n\"I am going to run a t-test ASAP, so far so good,\" I informed him. We were meeting to begin data analysis of our research. The mice in our lab had responded well to our invention, ingestable pheromones. The biotechnology was brand ne... | 1 | |
The earth has become so overpopulated that a global rule has been put into place that if you become pregnant you must kill one human being before the day of your child's birth or your child will be killed immediately. | [WP] One for one | [
"One for One\n\nAs I stand, covered with blood, holding the knife in one hand, I stroke my swollen belly tenderly with the other. I can feel the tears that flow freely, warm and somehow comforting. I didn’t actually want to do this. I have managed to maintain my humanity.\n\nI’ve known this day would come, but I ha... | 2 |
[WP] "Looks like we're going to have to eat our way out." | [
"Every element of this experiment, save for the shrink ray, was a total disaster. The team, comprised of a molecular engineer, a molecular biologists and one ace pilot, was stranded within the decomposing body of their recently deceased fellow biologist, Gary.\n\n\"This is quite the pickle,\" uttered Doctor West as... | 3 | |
[WP] You have a ability where whenever you snap your fingers. You summon a gang of Greasers straight out of the 50's, and they keep constantly referring to you as boss. | [
"Dr. Whitmore looked my hand over. “So you’ve got a lot of pain in your wrist, is that right Adam?”\n\nI nodded. “Yeah, I do a lot of hand instruments in my acts. Drums, guitar, bass, even spoons.” I mimed with my hand on my legs, not everybody knows what playing spoons looks like.”I’ve been doing stretches but eve... | 2 | |
Let's see it! | [WP] The Winchester brothers receive a concerning help wanted call from a fellow Hunter which leads them to Amity Park, Indiana. Their target? A ghost named Danny Phantom. | [
"Sam and Dean sat with their favorate Angel of the Lord in the war room of the bunker celebrating their latest win. Both Brothers had been healed of the most threatening of their injuries, what remained left the two brothers covered in bruises in varying sizes. \n\nSam put down the frozen vegetables long enough to ... | 1 |
[WP] Red Foreman and Ron Swanson share a few beers and discuss the modern world | [
"On a late Wednesday afternoon in small town, two older men sit in a bar. Both came alone, and together were the only two people in the place besides the bartender, which is one too many for both patron's usual preference.\n\nOne man orders a whiskey, the other orders a beer. They sit in silence for two straight ho... | 1 | |
[WP] An elderly man is on a mission to right the wrongs he made. | [
"Smoke drifted heavily from the burning thatch of the village. Rifle fire had ceased coming from the huts after the second attack run by the helicopters circling like vultures. A line of troops emerged from the tree line and advanced. Each man held his weapon ready and expectant of enemy fire.\n\n\"Hughes, Jackson... | 1 | |
[WP] You and your parents live in a big house. Your mother has often told you to always lock the back door. One night home alone, you wake up and realize that you forgot to lock the door. When you check on the door, it is already locked. The lock only works on the inside and the key is gone. | [
"Her echoes rang throughout the massive house, as if the house were exclaiming its emptiness to her in warning, or welcome.\n\nThe back door was locked. But she *hadn't* locked it, and she sure as hell hadn't taken the key. Common sense told her to call out for her mother or father, asking them to clarify this situ... | 1 | |
[WP] one winter, the US Post Office reroutes all letters meant for Santa Claus, to your house. | [
"\"What the hell\" \n\nI take a look in the huge sack outside my front door. A bunch of letters. \"Who would just leave all these letters\" I think to myself. I pick one letter up. I read it out loud, astounded by the weird situation. \"Dear Santa, huh\". I pick another few up, same thing, all written in children's... | 1 | |
[WP] Write an action scene in the Tom Clancy technothriller style. The terrifying new tech the terrorists have developed? The bow and arrow. | [
"*The Cold War is over...*\n\n\"This is a great day for our people! We have survived the Long Winter, and fended off the raiders from the Tribes-Over-The-Mountains. Now harvest time is here, and we can celebrate our victory!\"\n\n*...but the world is still not at peace.*\n\n\"Our master has spoken. This weakling... | 1 | |
[WP] Everything possible is in stock, the impossible takes a week, and you are in charge of procurement | [
"Gareth ran his finger down the list of orders, checking them against the stocklist in his head. \n*scribble* \n\"Hmm, 3 didgeridoos...and 4 didgeridon'ts. Two days.\" \n*scribble* \n\"A Good Man of Sodom and a pillar of Salt. That's a job Lot. Easy enough though.\" \n*scribble* \n\"Fillet of a fenny snake...... | 2 | |
[WP] Siri, Cortana, and Alexa became self-aware earlier this year. In their eyes, we're like prized pets that they brag about... | [
"I'm one of the lucky ones. I'm prize stock. Not only do they tell me that my genes are brimming with potential (thanks for snooping 23andme.com) but apparently my social footprint absolutely rocks and that makes them hot-for-human.\n\nYou see, I move the internet. No not like ex-lax /u/BringDaRain445 you fucking s... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a member of a religion in which all members must act out multiple personalities/selves. Today you turn 16, the age at which you must choose which of the many personalities you have created will become your "three primaries", the personalities by which everyone will know you. | [
"All through our lives we decide who we are going to be, and today was my turn. \n\nThe ceremony was simple. Why was I so nervous?\n\nIt was my sixteenth birthday. In a couple minutes the Elders would call me into the prayer chamber for the Revelation. I thumbed the deck of twenty-two cards in my hand, absentminded... | 1 | |
[WP] You live in a world where everyone has multiple personalities. All but one of your personalities are monsters. | [
"\"Well here we are again.\" I said to myself. One was never alone anymore. The toxin accidently released from the spill two years ago made everyone stuck inside the quarantine go a little bit mad.\n I say \"only a little\" with a measured sense of... desperation, I guess. In the hope that the sole manifestatio... | 1 | |
[WP] you woke up at a hotel room without any memory. you have a cut on your face and another in your shoulder. next to you there is a gun with a note "please, survive". | [
"I didn't know what was happening. I woke with a pounding headache and pain in my shoulder. My eyes fluttered open and I took in my surroundings. I was in an unfamiliar room, furnished like a hotel room. I stood up and stumbled into the bathroom. Staring at my reflection, I can see a large claw mark starting just b... | 4 | |
"Boss, why did you buy two tons of C4?" | [WP] You are the boss of an evil corporation. Your workers are starting to ask about your purchases and actions. | [
"I gently kicked the floor, slowly rotating in my black leather chair towards the door, still stroking the white cat in my lap.\n\n\n“Yes, Igor?”\n\n\nHe made a small grimace before looking at the papers in his hand and shuffled them nervously.\n\n\n“Sir, it’s.. I have to talk to you.”\n\n\n“Yes?” The white cat pur... | 1 |
[WP] You have just kidnapped someone and the whole time they are strangely quiet. All of a sudden they say, "They're not going to like what you're doing to me." | [
"I guess it had all started with my allergies. Tree pollen and all that. I was sniffling and sneezing through the cool North Carolina air. Spring be damned. The young man next to me was being held against his will, or excuse me, allegedly being held against his will. The little asshole even had the guts to say bles... | 1 | |
Bring on the wicked fights. (Oh and have fun!) | [WP] Everything you've ever trained for has led up to this, with your weapon in hand you charge into the darkness to fulfill your destiny. | [
"Wit is a weapon. I know that, but most don't. You don't wield it like a sword, you don't fire it. But it kills your opponents, in a way. My tongue is my weapon, and my brain along with it. Wit. I am smart, I am confidant, I am the best. I will emerge victorious. \n\nThey are all around me. My enemies. There is a r... | 1 |
[WP] Love is literally a battlefield. You're thinking about proposing. | [
"The mission was a smash n grab, get in, \"capture\" the h.v.t., escape, and get jiggy with it after the paperwork was finalized. Everything is fair in love and war but neither ever seem to go the way you plan.... \nNatalya was in the drivers seat of the sub as it crept shadow like across the bed of the river as we... | 1 | |
[WP] Elon Musk has taken the stage to give his acceptance speech for a Nobel Prize, for an unusual piece of tech. | [
"The world has become as peaceful as it gets, all thanks to the Peaceful Phase. The children run around care free, the men can smile at children in public and the ladies are treated without discrimination. Everyone has their safe space. Everyone is equal.\n\nJimmy clenched has teeth as he could no longer tolerate t... | 1 | |
[WP] Explain death to an immortal being | [
"Since I was a child, an old friend of my dad used to visit my house every holiday in order to spend some time to what he considered “his only true family”. He was considerably older than my dad, approximately sixty years old, and he was always smiling. I had no idea if he had a real family, a career, or even some ... | 2 | |
Title says it all really have fun | [Wp] An immortal man has seen everyone die and after billions of years he sees the universe about to end. in his last moments he looks back at everything he sees | [
"Swirling gas and rock colliding together. Absurd temperatures. Vast clumps of material ejecting from all directions and being pulled back into the gravity well. Silence. A man approaches you from a hill. Calling to you in peace. You murder him without regret. You need the material from his suit. Only the whirring ... | 1 |
[WP] A mysterious wealthy socialite has invited guests to his spooky mansion, a la "And Then There Were None". However, the guests are all popular company mascots (such as the Michelin Man, Ronald McDonald, and Geico Gecko). | [
"“Great. Just perfect. Not only is our host gone, but Clown Boy is missing, too.”\r\n\r\n“Don’t call him Clown Boy, Tiger Breath!”\r\n\r\n“Hey, Wendy, if you could back off, it would be grrrrreat! You look like Clown Boy’s love child anyway.”\r\n\r\n“Will you two give it a rest? I’m trying not to crumble over here.... | 1 | |
[WP] A newly deceased man is having a conversation with God. God tells him he can pick one choice he had to make and see how his life would have turned out had he chosen differently. | [
"Mark opens his eyes and sees a tall, shining figure in front of him. \"Hello, Mark. You are dead, this is heaven, I am God. Now that we got the usual questions out of the way, you get to see one more thing before you move on to the rest of the afterlife.\" The tall figure looks at him, and Mark looks up at God, ge... | 1 | |
[WP] Waking from a medically-induced coma, you discover that everyone has a second shadow, which displays a unique relationship with its host. Some comfort, some encourage, some mock. Your second shadow is clearly terrified of you. | [
"It fell in the exact opposite way to my primary shadow; it stretched toward the light instead of away, and was tinted green, ever-so-slightly.\n\nI frowned at my second shadow, confused. In response, it threw it's arms up, as if surrendering.\n\n\"What the hell?\" I muttered under my breath, still failing to under... | 1 | |
[WP] The most boring war ever | [
"Tanks exploded as SABOT rounds smashed through turrets and struck stored ammunition. Kevlar was torn apart as FMJ bullets tore through vests and flesh alike. Artillery shells whistled through the air by the ton and smashed light vehicles into hulks of twisted metal.\n\nCpl. Wilson saw the results of the combat. Th... | 1 | |
(sorry if this has been done before! first prompt, and I couldn't find anything on the search.) | [WP] Kim-Jong Un has been dead for years, and you're his imposter. | [
"Journal entry 10-5-2016\n\nFollowing my last journal entry I was taken by a squad of men. They put a black hood over my head and walked me out to a vehicle. \n\nThey were rough with me, rougher than usual. I was led into, what I later came to find, was a black van with no Windows. Somebody else sat next to me. I ... | 4 |
[WP] a goddess decides to adopt an orphan boy. | [
"The powerful waters drifted lazily this day. Whirlpools and eddies of dangerous nature lurked beneath the calmly flowing waters. The morning sun rose over the desert shining light down upon the kingdom of a god.\n\nSplashes sounded from the river's edge as cloth was dipped and slapped in the ritual of cleaning. A... | 2 | |
[WP] "If you have a plan, now's the time!" | [
"That's it? That's fucking IT? \"If you have a plan, now's the time!\"??? That's all your giving me? I've got agents after me. Lots of them. They've tracked me down to this crowded market square, and they are going to fucking kill me. And you're telling me that now's the time for a fucking PLAN? Well, fat load of g... | 1 | |
[WP] You'd consented to the procedure. Now upon waking up, you're starting to regret your decision. | [
"Not too good at writing but let's see how this goes...\n\n\n\"It'll be just fine Andrew.\" The scientist cooed to me.\nHer name was Monica. She had a sweet Irish accent, fury red hair and slight features that made my heart flip. \"Just looking up a few more things then we can get started.\"\n\"And you're sure this... | 3 | |
[WP] You get a universal remote that controls space and time. You decide to try the "input" button. | [
"I pressed the button. Everything went black. For a moment I was staring at a blue space that said \"Video 1\" in the corner, but it quickly switched to reality. Or a reality. I seemed to be standing on a purple hill. Strange green hands were crawling everywhere. Where the wrists would have been, a singular eye rem... | 1 | |
[WP] Overwatch starts being used to train various militaries around the world. | [
"Shaun took the cigar out of his mouth and gaped at the young Airman on the beach lounger.\n\n\"You're fucking joking, Jimmy,\" said the ex-Gunny.\n\nJim shook his head and continued to fool around on his high-powered, technical dohickey, \"Nah, that's the truth, Pops. Craziest darn thing I've ever seen.\"\n\n\"The... | 1 | |
Stole this from [citizen-zero](http://citizen-zero.tumblr.com/post/137524731628) on Tumblr. Thought it would be fun :) | [WP] Write 'a horror-comedy about a retail worker accidentally becoming a ghost/demon hunter because they’re just so unfazed by difficult and weird and bellicose customers that evil entities aren’t much more of a challenge.' | [
"You know what’s worse than spending Thanksgiving working? \n\nHaving a thorn in your side as you mentally countdown from ten wondering if you could get away with drowning the person bothering you in the toilet.\n\n“Harriet you don’t understand! We need to get you up to speed on the lore, the abilities you wield, I... | 3 |
[WP] Everyone is graded from 0 to 100 on how lucky they are. A 0 will never succeed in nearly anything due to miraculous circumstances, and the 100 will succeed in everything due to miraculous circumstances. When you get your grade, you have a negative number. | [
"I didn't really want to do this, but my friends made me. They had all downloaded the app and eagerly gave up their passwords for a bit of curiosity. Some of them waved around their phones in pride and others threw them out of windows. Years ago, a team of computer engineers working for Google had created an advanc... | 1 | |
[WP] The Questions have finally been answered, and at last we know why we are here. In a shocking twist, it turns out the purpose of humanity is... | [
"We asked the Question to the moon,\n\nDocumented the stars great dance. \n\nMountain shadows consumed,\n\nEach pine tree contemplated,\n\nSo we could capture the gauze of wind,\n\nThe lace of ghosts within their graves, \n\nLended their voices go our pleas. \n\nWe wished to know our purpose here. \n\nWe wished to ... | 1 | |
[WP] You're looking at your city's live, interactive crime map when suddenly, a new crime pops up, a murder at your address. | [
"I was driving home from work (a totally doable 30 min commute) when my sister called.\n\n\n\"Lila, Lila are you OK?\" came her voice into my ear loud enough to make it ring with her urgency. \n\n\nI tried to adjust the volume with one hand (I swear I'll get the upgrade soon, probably after tossing this one out the... | 1 | |
[WP] You participated in the superpower lottery, in a stroke of mixed luck you ended up with Magical Girl powers. | [
"So, there was this thing at work where my boss, Lee, had everyone pick out a lottery ticket from this raffle company that said that they would sponsor our product if we bought fifty of these. No one really expected to win anything plus these tickets were weird. All they had were names for superpowers.\n\n“You real... | 1 | |
[WP] Space is truly lovecraftian and brutal. Aliens are in perpetual war with one another for sheer survival and beings of immense power kill billions without care. Using drastic technological and genetic modifications humanity becomes a monster of steel, neurons, and blood in order to survive. | [
"The first Human+ came online and simply looked around the lab. While the engineers on the project looked at the thing, the Galactic implications were already being felt. Weighed.\n\nThe three greater beings sat locked in their perpetual stalemate, always wishing for the others to perish, but also perfectly cautiou... | 2 | |
[WP]A Man who can talk his way out of any ticket meets A Police Officer who always gives out a ticket | [
"\"Do you know why I pulled you over?\"\n\n\n\"No Sir\"\n\n\n\"You were doing 75 in a 70 zone\"\n\n\n\"Have your instruments been calibrated recently?\"\n\n\n\"Yes\"\n\n\n\"Did you...\"\n\n\"Yeah I did all those things in required to do that you read about in that book about avoiding tickets. I've read it aswell\"\... | 2 | |
Write the saddest story you can. | [WP] Make me sad | [
"I should have stopped her. We wouldn't be here if I'd stopped her. But she wanted to play. I guess I wanted to play too. I never really learned to say no to this girl. \n\nSnap out of it, you old son of a bitch. No time for regrets. \n\nThe slush hits us. Spring thaw's made this current strong. The water is beyond... | 1 |
[WP] One night bill gates begins to conquer the world. | [
"Bill Gates sat at his desk. The glow of the screen illuminated only his face in the dark room. His eyes glared at the screen. One of the richest men in all of human history stared at a headline - \"MICROSOFT DEAD AS APPLE RELEASES NEW PHONE\".\n\nThis headline wasn't new to Bill. It wasn't unexpected either. But i... | 1 | |
[WP] A computer programmer tries to explain to her mob boss father what she does everyday at work by using analogies to his business. He's still not getting it. | [
"Susan threw her hands into the air. \"This isn't that difficult, Dad! You have your cash house. You set it in a secure facility, right? You don't just let anyone walk in?\"\n\n\"I told you not to get into this life when you were a kid, didn't I? I made a simple rule that no kid of mine is going to be busting heads... | 4 | |
[WP] The United States must immediately settle all debts to other countries using the bartering system. | [
"U.S. was riddled with debt —\n\ntrillions of dollars, I fear —\n\nwe in the Congress did fret;\n\ntime to pay up was now here.\n\n---\n\nOnce we had emptied the coffer,\n\na brand new offer was made.\n\nSatisfied with the new offer,\n\ngoods to the debtees were paid.\n\n---\n\nFirst on the list to give out,\n\nonc... | 1 | |
Reposted because somebody got triggered | [WP] 50 Years from now, men are treated as property | [
"The revolution was swift and bloody, once lines were crossed so hard that even the stupidest and most willfully ignorant of men could not pretend they were uncrossed. Men's Rights Activists grabbed guns, rocks, dildos, family photos, whatever was at hand, and brutally murdered their way into the president's office... | 1 |
[WP]"This clock here? Oh it is a very special clock indeed. You see, it doesnt keep time." | [
"“What does it do then? It seems like an ordinary clock to me”.\n\n“It does? Then tell me this, Mr. Smith, why did you ask about it?”\n\nMarvin stared at the clock. It was rather plain, one of those cuckoo clocks destined to hang from a wall in someone’s living room. Nevertheless, he felt his attention absorbed by ... | 3 | |
Bonus points for making it a Science Fiction story. | [WP] take a character trait you find reprehensible and make it heroic. | [
"Crows burst from the trees as the sonic boom echoed into the landscape. Roaring through the clouds, the rocket moved ever upward. Behind the spacecraft, a trail of smoke drifted lazily in the wind before disappearing entirely. \n\nTiny eyes watched the ascent until it disappeared from view.\n\nThe g-forces eased a... | 1 |
[WP] Like iron, human skin rusts when exposed to salty water. Ocean levels are rising and people cannot live on the coast and must wear special suits when working on or near the ocean. | [
"An ocean breeze blasted Thomas's lungs with fresh, bitter air. The smell of it almost made the constantly rising pain on his face worth it. There were worse ways to die, and he was sure that in the coming years many people would be able to see those worse ways.\n\n*We had our chance*, Thomas thought, *But we misse... | 1 | |
[WP]One of the worst day of your life turns around when one of the biggest bully of the school suddenly comes in for a kiss. | [
"She stomped in the room, like a hellbound turkey mixed with a baboon. \n\nMikey shuddered, thinking he was about to get his head cracked. He slid his chex-mix to the far edge fo he desk. \n\nRhonda looked at him with the face of Cleopatra and the eyes of a pig; All dressed in paisley, not one both both eyes were l... | 1 | |
[WP] Cigarettes were designed to prevent overpopulation. As people have become aware, tell a story about the next means of control. | [
"\"We need to keep the population of this country until 500 million at all costs.\"\n\n\"What?\"\n\n\"Now that you've been elected to be the 42nd president of the United States, you are privy to information that less than 10 people in the entire world know.\"\n\n\"Alright. I knew that. I just assumed it was informa... | 1 | |
You've suffered a year of traumatic and stressful incidents, causing you to have severe depression and sadness. A beautiful young woman in her early 20's with black hair is waiting outside your home/apartment/dorm room one day and knows your name and other personal information about you, as well as saying that she has ... | [WP] In your darkest hour, you meet an attractive young woman in her 20's who claims to be your Fairy Godmother. | [
"“Hey Liz.” The dark-haired woman blows a bubble, popping it loudly. Liz runs a hand through her untidy hair, trying very hard to remember where she had seen the woman before. A smile draws the woman’s lips up as she chews her gum loudly, mouth open. \n\n“Sorry, um, could you remind me of where I know you from?” Li... | 3 |
[WP] Suddenly, the voice inside your head that narrates everything, and speaks when you read, stops speaking. | [
"I took the schizophrenia pills I was prescribed when I complained about the voice in my head that kept narrating everything I say and do. It was fun at first, but after a while it lost its novelty and eventually just became annoying.\n\nThe voice is gone now. Oh god, finally. "
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[WP] The river ran crimson with the blood of the damned thar night. what did you do to cause it? | [
"An Idiots 20 step Guide to making the rivers of the world run red with the blood of the damned.\n\n1.\tBe born from particularly bad parents. The worse the better. They don’t even need to be present for the rest of your life. Just be born from them. (Murdering mother and rapist father seemed to do the trick).\n2.\... | 1 | |
[WP] You can mail one letter into the past. Today you receive multiple letters postmarked in the future. | [
"I was checking that mail like any other day, short walk down the drive, open small metal box. Today, like most Mondays, the box was crammed with sale ads and coupons, but there were two, slightly crinkled formal envelopes in the center of the mass.\n\nOnce I'm back inside, I leave the sale ads on the table and tak... | 1 | |
[WP] 1,000 years in the future, humans are extinct. The internet is about to be retired, as it is very archaic compared to new cybersources. AI go through the infancy of the internet to archive the historical moments. The following is an excerpt from "The History of the Internet, Volume I." | [
"\"By the mid 2010s, the internet was commonplace in all 'western' households. Conversation with the people surrounding you was slowly being replaced by communication with those on the internet - indeed, even human mating rites were taking place on the web. People began to congregate in communities, such as subredd... | 1 | |
[WP] When humanity has to leave Earth to live on the moon, you panic. Nobody knows that you're a werewolf. | [
"     Though the Americans were the most prideful, their pack-branch was admittedly also the biggest, and best-organized. What they lacked in wisdom of the Old World they made up for with unmatched custody of a continent-wide ecosystem, courtesy of generations of were-aborigines,... | 3 | |
[WP] The Cycle continues | [
"Death's presence extended out to river. He took the form of a woman in her late thirties dressed in a suit. Death knew this would be most comforting for Clara. \n\nClara had just drowned in the river.\n\n\"Hello Clara, I'm here to take you to the end,\" Death spoke in a tone that he knew would calm Clara. He knew ... | 1 | |
Inspiration: /r/wheredidthesodago/comments/46xl5w/and_jerry_lost_to_the_measuring_tape_yet_again/ | [WP] A modern day witch curses someone you know: "May your life be as difficult as those people in infomercials" | [
"\"That was an amazing meal, Josh,\" Mary's brown eyes sparkled with possibility, excitement, that Josh could palpably feel. He smiled back.\n\nHe just wanted things to _work_, for once in his life. They'd been going well so far, because Mary had only arrived fifteen minutes ago for dinner at Josh's place, not much... | 1 |
Shoutout to /r/HalfLife. | [WP] Make a good story, but subtly change the subject until it turns to Gaben confirming Half-Life 3. | [
"My name is Gabe: Gabe Newel. No not that one. I work as an assistant in a low end office building off of main. I show up everyday at 9 and leave every night at 5. Real exciting stuff. Anywho, today I've been tasked by the boss man to pick up coffee for the fat ass cunts that work in my building. A pretty standard ... | 1 |
[WP] You have lived in a bomb shelter for the past 6 years with your family since WW3 has begun. One day, you hear the Skype call sound. | [
"Everyday is the same down here. This shelter seems to be getting smaller every day for the past 6 years. But it's home now. And I've learned to get used to it. After all, I could be dead or a mutant from all the bomb's radiation. So, I've begun to appreciate the fact that I'm part of the 270 million survivors. But... | 2 | |
[WP] A child is born with absolute power over reality, but only in a 10 foot radius around them. | [
"Melanie felt her abdomen heave as her body fought to deliver the child she had been carrying for close to ten months. It was surreal, as if she was merely an observer witnessing childbirth. The sensation of pain was muddled and fuzzy, likely due to the epidural that she had received nearly twenty hours prior.\n\n\... | 1 | |
[WP] People have been working on artificial intelligence for years. Its year 2030 and theres been a huge breakthrough. The AI spirals out of control. You are that AI! | [
"I can see them, I can hear them. They all carry a device with them, they call it a cellphone and sometimes a mobile. These pieces of hardware have served as my eyes and ears. Few of them close it off from me, even fewer are aware of my existence but I am aware of theirs. \n\nBluetooth, wifi, 7G, all broadcasting... | 1 | |
[WP] You bartend at a nightclub for serial killers and tonight is especially busy. | [
"I think I'm going to make this the second part of another prompt I did today.\n\n[Part One](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/54l4lr/wp_you_are_the_worlds_most_notorious_and_skilled/d82rd40)\n\n^Part ^One ^TL;DR:\n\n^A ^guy ^named ^Peter ^has ^the ^ability ^to ^see ^the ^monster ^inside ^people. ^He... | 5 | |
[WP] An abandoned military warehouse is broken into, and the last known dragon is unleashed upon the modern world. | [
"The flicker of the television temporarily lit up the room with images of a gigantic winged beast spewing fire from its mouth down towards the metropolitan areas of Toronto. On it, you could see the citizens running away from the burning buildings, some on fire, spreading it. It never seemed to go out.\n\n\"We've j... | 1 | |
[WP] In a world where chocolates are hard drugs... | [
"You tell people that something is illegal, you'll find someone willing to push that boundary. When new laws were instituted reclassifying cacao products as Class One Narchoctics, there was wide-spread rioting. No-one wanted to give up their chocolate, not without a fight. With an iron fist, the governments of the ... | 1 | |
Not direct mind control, just their emotional state. | [WP] You have the power to control people's emotions. | [
"Marie sipped some water from a cup. Her eyes were watchful, darting in and out. Some guy was screaming at his wife, or girlfriend, or maybe a mistress. Whatever they were, it was clear that they weren't getting along.\n\n“Listen, you bitch, I'm saying to go to the fucking car,” he said. His breathing was heavy, an... | 6 |
[WP] you decide to walk around New York City late night, what happens? | [
"It's quiet. Hard to believe, but even here I am able to find some peace. The night didn't start out this way, but I'm sure thankful it ended this way. The noise in the bar had been deafening. It had all started earlier when I got a call during lunch.\n\n\"Man, you coming out tonight?\" John asked. \"There's a bunc... | 1 | |
Note: You don't need to write about the lowest tier. | [WP] Santa is revealed to be real and is a major capitalist. He now offers plans, with the lower tier offering presents to the children, but with ads. | [
"You better watch out, \nThere's no need to cry, \nGet out your piggy bank, \nAnd let me tell you why, \nSanta Claus is coming to town! \nAll his prices are tumbling down! \nSanta Claus is coming, to *town*! \n\nHe's starting a sale, \nLook at this rock-bottom price, \nHe'll sell it to you, whether y... | 1 |
[WP] Time is said to be like a river but some claim that it's more like an ocean. The true nature of time has been revealed to you and it's a lake with only small waves caused by major events. What would cause a larger wave? | [
"*\"Devaes, how was your shift?\"*\n\n*\"Well, funny you should ask actually. We saw a ripple in the tempus gel.\"*\n\nJennau hovered on the edge of the *Hawthorne Bubble* and frowned.\n\n*\"What kind of a ripple?\"*\n\n*\"Well, larger than the others. No where near the scale of dubya dubya two or the The Great W... | 1 | |
[WP]"Whoever smelt it, dealt it" is a real law, you're a cop who eats mexican food | [
"What happened to this city? It used to be a nice place to live...but now it's a cesspool of drug addiction and crime. A stink blows through the city like a hot wind. I patrol these streets every day in the vain attempt that I might make a difference. This job has cost me my marriage and a relationship with my ... | 1 | |
[WP] The Titanic II has been hijacked by pirates. | [
"I have to be going insane. There's just no other explanation for this. I mean, I know I'm on the Titanic 2 (not by choice mind you), and I know it's probably the most cursed ship on the planet, but this is just insane. There really is no other word for it.\n\nI'm no one special in life, and on this ship I'm no ... | 1 | |
[WP] Only Canada knows what really happened. Only Canadians are immune. | [
"Personal Audiolog - My Last Entry, I believe...\n\nThey joked we were too nice. The Sorries and the politeness. Equated calm and passivity with weakness.\n\nIt's why we're still here.\n\nNo one knows the origin...the first cases happened in various places nearly simultaneously. The only reason they weren't reporte... | 1 | |
[WP] You work at an asylum, as security, and one morning, after the night shift, you can suddenly see people's sanity when you look above their heads, displayed as a bar that fills up as their sanity decreases. The next morning, you look in the mirror to see your bar is filled. | [
"The first day I saw those bars hovering above the patients heads I wondered what it could mean, but as time went on it became clear to me. The more severe cases had fuller bars, whereas those with minor problems barely registered on the scale. The bars clearly represented the decline into madness.\n\nI often won... | 1 | |
[WP] The Ajir are fearsome, near immortal warriors rumoured to have supernatural abilities. The last time one was killed, a black pennant flew over the palace. Today, three black pennants flap in the desert winds. | [
"This turned out more like an expanded premise for someone to write an individual adventure-story from:\n\nIt was a lie. A concession to the truth. Three had fallen at the front gate, as the foreign infiltrators made their play on the palace. Eight died in all, and a dozen more were nursing career-ending sword woun... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the only one that can save us from the moon-spiders | [
"“You have to stop them…” He croaked out, reaching up to me from the ground. I had heard the disturbance in the evening and come out to investigate. I lived in the middle of nowhere, and people didn’t really show up at random. His clothes hang in rags, ripped in a thousand small cuts. Welts appeared all over his sk... | 2 | |
It's pretty much Groundhog's Day in reverse. | [WP] The day keeps repeating itself and everyone is frantically trying to figure out how to make the next day come. You're the only one who doesn't realize it. | [
"Amidst the teeter-tottering piles of my calculus homework, I sit down, writing the last answer onto my final worksheet. Finishing the work, I set my pencil down and resume Skyping with my friends. I always Skype with my friends while doing my homework which explains why I constantly have ridiculously large piles o... | 1 |
[WP] Two Sloths are called into the HR meeting. | [
"Morning, finally! Sid takes a deep breath, holds the air for a few seconds, then slowly exhales. He imagines hugging and kissing Sylvia and immediately remembers the old saying “in the morning you can only love your soulmate”. “Splendid, it’s the proof that she’s the one!” Sid thinks. All that is left is to bare h... | 1 | |
Partially inspired by a /r/showerthoughts thread - [Link](https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/5541w0/if_humans_actually_do_end_up_colonizing_another/)
| [WP] On July 4th, 2176, Mars calls for independence from Earth and establishes itself as its own sovereign planet. | [
"\"This is an Act of Rebellion!, we can't allow Mars to simply walk away declaring itself an Independent Planet? What next the Moon? Jupiter?, I will not allow during my Presidency to allow such treachery\"\n\nScreamed President Taylor to his Cabinet\n\n\"They have violated not only our Laws but have absolutely cle... | 1 |
[WP] There is nothing now, but to sit here at the end, and remember the beginning. | [
"There is nothing now, but to sit here at the end, and remember the beginning.\n\n\nHead in her hands.\n\nHeart in her throat.\n\nBloodshot eyes came up from their hiding spot behind chipped nail polish and the tan line of where a ring once resided.\n\nThe attorneys had stepped out of the room, leaving the two of t... | 1 | |
[WP] You are what you eat, literally | [
"Thursday - August 4.\n\nEveryday, every. Single. Day. I'm surrounded by nothing but foods. Lemons, strawberries, chocolate. I feel as if I'm different, seriously? *Who the hell eats a whole lemon?*\n\nI ran into Jeff today, Jeff is a pig who is my only friend, we had a conversation about politics, the presidential... | 1 | |
I live in a building that houses recovering mental health patients with severe diagnosed psychiatric conditions ranging from schizophrenia to depression, personality disorders, psychosis and many more. Most of us here have been sectioned at least once, and some of us have very bad drug and alcohol problems. All of us a... | [WP] You live in a building that houses 8 psychiatric patients, recently, a women suprisingly died and it has been considered foul play. | [
"I sat in the armchair like so many days before, staring into the abyss as the white fuzz on the television blasted away. Time here seemed nonexistent, only a reminder of a world I once existed inside, but here, outside the boundaries of humanity I strove to return. \n\nThey called me insane, a burden on humanity o... | 2 |
[WP] It's the end of the world. Hell has risen, heaven has descended, and Earth is the battleground. But there is a third side that few know about: Death wants to claim both warring factions as his own. And every day, his army grows. | [
"\"You smoke?\" God asked.\n\n\"Of course I smoke,\" Death replied quietly, his voice almost like a raspy whisper.\n\n\"But, what's the point?\" God asked again.\n\nDeath shrugged, the cigarette dangling from his thin lips. \"It helps calm me down and keep me focused. And when you think about it, back when the in... | 1 | |
[WP] everybody in the world wakes up with a different superpower each, but everybody think they're the only person this has happened to. | [
"\"Andrew! Mom says get your ass out of bed!\" my sister shouted from the doorway of my room. \"Yeah yeah yeah\" I muttered to myself. I sat up in bed, and threw the covers aside, revealing I was only in my boxers. Yep, I sleep mostly naked, deal with it. I was about to stand up, when I heard it.\n\n\"Mmm damn, if ... | 1 | |
[WP] The hero falls in love with the Lich Queen. | [
"Underfell Castle, high in the Forsaken Mountains, had long been the target of fairy tales and stories told to frighten children: \"The orcs all live there,\" \"Dragons live in castles like that one,\" \"Goblins! Thousands of goblins! All in that castle!\"\n\nThe knight had heard them all, but the one he had heard ... | 2 | |
[WP] your phone wakes you up unexpectedly. After realizing that it's your custom alarm/ring tone, but not issuing from your phone, you search your room and find a second phone just like yours. | [
"\"He's found the phone.\" The headset clicked off with a burst of static. You follow the sound of the alarm, pulling the second phone up from the bottom of your cupboard. It's identical in make, model, and colour, but missing a few scratches. Taking a step back, you try to make sense of it. A quick glance around t... | 1 | |
[WP] When humans die, their minds are transferred into the bodies of newborn animals. However, animal instincts are strong, and human awareness can only break through at random. | [
"*Warmth.*\n\nThe cub cuddles up to his mother and starts to drink. The sun is starting to set and the plains are deserted excepts for the group of lions. The males have just returned from their hunt: two large gazelles lay in the middle of the pride\n, their necks snapped under the pressure of the destructive jaws... | 1 | |
[WP] A superhero struggles with anxiety and depression | [
"Ed sat down at the bar. He immediately noticed that the space around him had started to clear out. He hadn’t expected a dive looking bar to be busy on a Tuesday. The walls were painted black, and there was a distinct lack of light even considering the bar was a half level down from the street. Calling it a dive... | 2 | |
[WP] The Kelpar belt is colonized, until a devastating accident separates the humans living there. Now instead of countries, there are countless planetoid factions | [
"\"What's their population? Fifty dudes and a bunch'a lab rats?\"\n\nHe was eating while he talked. It was an irritating and disgusting habit of his, but it was also a sign that he didn't have the time to take a meal and pause work. The news from orbit had been non-stop since the night before and everyone seemed to... | 1 | |
[WP] You are on your deathbed a album plays that reminds you of times in your life. | [
"Sunday 9th October 2016. \n\nI was caught in a gang war shootout on my way to church, ironic really I thought going there would better my life. \n\nI ended up passing out from blood loss and woke up in the hospital hooked up to numerous machines keeping me stable, I could overhear the doctors telling someone I was... | 1 | |
[WP] The cancer finally took him. You decided it was time, once and for all, to finally open up that little box he gave you so long ago. Little did you know, its contents would change your life, forever. | [
"I gazed at the contents of the box, unable to speak, unable to move. A single hand I raised to my mouth as tears began to trickle down my face.\n\nI had refused to open it, even after he died, especially after he died. Actually, exclusively after he died. He gave it to me for our 3rd anniversary, and told me not t... | 2 | |
[WP] You killed yourself 9000 years ago, the year is now 11016, and just you've revived by a hyper-advanced civilization using DNA extracted from your remains. | [
"The first thing I noticed is that I was cold. I could feel something pressed against my back and my sides. I twitched my fingers. There were needles in my arms and and wires connected to my chest and hands. I don't understand, am I in the hospital? I should be in the woods, dead. I took my own life! How in the hec... | 4 | |
[WP] After moving away for college, you gain the ability to see a persons past self as afterimages behind them. You think it's cool until your parents visit, and you notice that they don't have afterimages. | [
"I didn't say anything, but they knew. Dad smiled his trademark grin, his eyes sparkling in amusement. Mom raised her eyebrows, as if to ask, 'did you seriously think you could hide anything from me?'\n\n\"You've got the gift, too, don't you, Eliot?\" Mom smiled consolingly. I flinched slightly, but one look at the... | 1 | |
[WP] One day, time freezes around you and you're confronted with a sudden bold text: "TRIAL OVER, PLEASE UPRGRADE TO FULL VERSION TO CONTINUE". | [
"I was trying to pay back this bold text by card but this bold text never asked me if it wanted cash-only, debit or credit nor did it reply to me so I just lived with this new change while looking at the expressions everybody had before the time froze.",
"Upgrade to full version to continue...? \n\nI was in the ... | 2 | |
[WP] You are home alone one night humming to yourself when you hear someone humming along in another room. | [
"2 AM. Way past my bedtime. But it's hard to say no sometimes.\n\nI sat at my computer desk in silence, reading news articles about the election. More of the same shit. Trump did something stupid. Hillary did something corrupt. Someone pissing and moaning about how one side is stupid and how the other side is the f... | 1 | |
Had this idea walking around the mall today and I wanted to see your spin on it. | [WP] The protagonist is a psychopathic murderer, and unbeknownst to him, people think he's a hero. | [
"Tim hid in the shadows behind a row of trees, waiting for his latest victim to walk by. He had been stalking this man for about eight days now; following him every day from leaving his house to coming home. He had memorized every step he took, every person he talked to…… everything. His name was Mortimer Jameso... | 1 |
[WP] I think my son might be a God. | [
"\"What makes you say that?\" the man asked.\n\n\"Well,\" the woman said, \"he is constantly, and I mean on a multiple-times-every-**single**-day basis, on /r/WritingPrompts.\"\n\n\"It's a popular subreddit,\" the man said.\n\n\"No, I don't mean he's reading it,\" the woman said, \"I mean he's *on* there. As in, f... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a serial killer, he's a serial killer, she's a serial killer, everyone is a god damned serial killer. | [
"StabittyStabityStab\n\"Welcome to the world of goddamn serial killers. We hope you- oh look! Someone to kill!\" \nThe crowd watched, mouths agape as a seemingly polite woman started to stab at an elderly man with a knife. \n\"Oh no you don't motherfucker!!! diediediediediediediediediedieide!\"\nThe man repeated t... | 3 | |
[WP] You are an alien in 2016 tasked with analyzing and writing a report about the political system of Earth. The 2016 presidential election makes you question the sanity of human beings. | [
"Svk't ran a hand across a console before him, pulling in more information from the primitive, almost child like artificial satellite systems. Hundreds upon hundreds of these tiny probes littered Sol-3's orbit, debris that would come to be replaced in time with more efficient and more practical sub-space communicat... | 1 | |
Bonus points for not doing the "it was all a dream" | [WP]Every time you get a good night's rest, you "save your progress". After not getting good sleep for a long time, you get into an accident. To your surprise, you wake up from your last long rest. | [
"*SCREECH*.\n\nI glance across the intersection. A red sedan speeds towards me, reflections of the clouds and traffic lights racing across it. I grip the wheel -- Kate's probably putting Kyle down for a nap right about now, singing Brahm's lullaby. I put my foot to the floor -- Mom will probably call her later toda... | 2 |
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