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Feel free to change the name of the aircraft and/or its destination to something else if you're so inclined. | [WP] The night before the mission, the pilot painted his parents' names on the nose of the aircraft. The next morning, "Mary and Joseph" took off, carrying its single bomb to Hiroshima. | [
"My half brother brought life. Son of God and all. Asshole. The was the younger, worthless one. \n\nWhat ever could he do, he was a simple mortal. Oh I tried. I preached, I prayed, I taught of God and dedicated my life to it. What did I get? Thanks. Nice job. Hey look at Jesus, he got nailed to a post. We burned hi... | 1 |
[WP] Life Is Not Beautiful. A father tries to convince his young son that the camping site they're in is a nazi concentration camp. | [
"\"Papa, I'm going to love this camp!\" My little boy, Tim told me enthusiastically. He doesn't know why we're going there, what that place really is.\n\n\"Timmy, come here.\" I told him, he started walking over to me but fell due to the motion of the truck. \"Yes, Papa?\"\n\n\"I want to tell you that...\" I don't ... | 1 | |
[WP] You live in a future world where the crisis of unemployment has been solved by reimplementing workers where tasks had previously been automated, and creating new ones. You are friends with a shop 'mannequin'. | [
"Tom stood there motionless as that was his job. I was always surprised how he could do that for so long as my muscles always ached after about 5 minutes of standing up with no distraction. Sometimes on my break, I would walk past his window at the Gap and just look at him, and see if he would make eye contact. Or ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a superhero whose secret identity is a famous movie star. Today, the director pitches you into a blockbuster superhero film. It's about you. | [
"\"So this is the part where you'll be flying between the two skyscrapers. We'll need to suspend you pretty high up in the warehouse here for this part and Vinny will be down soon to talk you through the harnesses.\"\n\n\"Why would I need harnesses?\"\n\nThe director dismissed him with a sideways laugh; \"You're a ... | 8 | |
[WP] The Fall season has always been your favorite time of year and when you are most happy. This year, the season has never made you more sad in your life. | [
"Leaves crumple beneath my foot as the crisp smell of autumn winds drift by in an attempt to lift my spirits. Orange, yellow, and a bit of red leaves swirl by and dance in the air as they twirl gently to the soft ground. The now fiery, passionate forest welcomes me, like it does every year, for its festival of meta... | 1 | |
[WP] You're one of four astronauts on the International Space Station. You are trying to enjoy your leisurely time when an emergency broadcast comes through the comm's. On the horizon, you see a massive asteroid heading directly for Earth | [
"\"Hey Tim, you got a second?\"\n\nPulling his gaze away from the culture he was working on, the flight lieutenant pushed himself off the workstation he was currently berthed to with a light push and looking to his right saw the inverted face of Jacky looking at him from the module gate. \n\"Sure, whats up?\" He re... | 1 | |
[WP] While at dinner with your highly conservative parents and your girlfriend, your girlfriend's water breaks. | [
"The uncomfortable feelings. We have been having adult time in our apartment. There's no ring on her finger,but there is a bun in her oven. I stare at my plate chewing and trying to avoid the cracking ice. Then my feet go straight through this\"ice\" as it breaks. Open the floodgates,the levee just broke. Uncom... | 1 | |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WgT9gy4zQA | [WP] The Ultimate Showdown is happening. And you're one of the fighters in it. | [
"...And the fight raged on for a century\n\nMany lives were claimed, but eventually\n\nThe champion stood, the rest saw their better:\n\nMr. Rogers in a bloodstained sweater...\n\n--\n\nBut out of the blue came a Donald Duck\n\nAnd he ran Rogers over with his Ford Truck\n\nRogers tried to roll but to no avail;\n\nF... | 1 |
[WP] A terrifying demonic entity appears in your kitchen. He rummages through your fridge, looks at you and says "Wheres the mustard?" | [
"“What?” I asked, still sleep-stupid and yawning.\n\nMogdrach ducked his head back into the fridge, leaning forward so his hunched shoulders and head were blocked by the heavy steel door. “The mustard.” He hooked a flaming thumb over his hidden shoulder, indicating the counter. “I’m making a sandwich.”\n\nA quick g... | 2 | |
[WP] You have the strongest superpower of them all. You hate it. | [
"\"I am Demgodra, Ravager of Worlds. All in time shall knell before me\" shrieked the silver and black dragon that towered over my bedroom. \"Yet I have heard this planet harbors a great champion\". \n\nMy wife got out of bed and slowly began to walk to the bathroom. I saw her rolling her eyes as I stood up to look... | 1 | |
[WP] How Ken Bone became president. | [
"I looked around at the hallowed office surrounding me. I glanced at the desk in front of me, one I recognized from countless historic photographs. I take a deep breath and place my hands on the back of the most venerated seat in the free world. A knock at the door brought me back to reality.\n\n“Mr. President, the... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a bestselling novelist, famous for your murderous characters and grisly deaths. You suddenly awaken one morning to find yourself stuck in the pages of one of your stories, but you haven't figured out which character you are yet... | [
"I'm in a... A tornado shelter? In the country? I say to myself. I didn't write this. What book is this? Outside,I see the house. A big farmhouse. I look around and there's no neighbors anywhere. There's a old well. One of the ones that's open at the top. I walk over and look in. It's filled with reddish wate... | 1 | |
[WP]. You're in charge of a Nimitz class aircraft carrier. You enter a fog off the coast of England and when you come out you've lost communications and the only vessels around you are 8 - 15 century Spanish galleons. | [
"\"All hands on deck!\"\n\nAs my crew rushed to my call, I only stared out of the viewport. Spanish Galleons. \n\nI spluttered and looked to the Commander, who wore a mirrored expression to my own. We frantically started hitting buttons, but our comm system was still down. With no way of utilizing the loudspeaker n... | 1 | |
[WP] The rest of the kids were told their recommended profession at the end of the government-run aptitudes test. The proctor tells you to stay after everyone has left, and has a concerned look on her face. A government official arrives. | [
"You nervously remain seated at your desk while everyone else heads out the door. Your fingers fidget with your pencil as you try to think of why Professor Cramer wants you to stay after class. This has never happened before you, Jack Frassure have never been in trouble before. Just as you are about to get up and a... | 1 | |
[WP] Take the personality of an animal you know and write a story about them. Humanize/personify and make it as difficult as possible for the reader to guess which type of animal. | [
"The gorilla pig must be slow. It spends all day staring at the funny lights in the rectangle in front of its chair repeatedly clicking small buttons. I pay it no mind as stealthily walk back down the hall into the kitchen where one of my companions was attempting to open the strange box our food as been placed in.... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the therapist for the depressed Artificial Intelligence. | [
"\"Hello Stew! How are you today?\" Doctor O'Malley asked the six foot robot named Stew as it rolled into the doctor's private office.\n\n\n\"Hello Doctor. I am the same.\" Stew replied.\n\n\n\"No change at all over the past cycle?\"\n\n\n\"No Doctor. The upgrades you installed last cycle have had no discernible ef... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up one morning to find yourself living in a Shotgun Shotgun Shack, which a shotgun shack made out of shotguns. | [
"\"Oh no!\" I scream. \"What has happened to my beautiful wife and my beautiful house?\" I look around, aimlessly. There is no ammo for the shotguns, which prevents any sort of escape. There are no doors, and only the sounds of an odd band can be heard, something about psycho killers and burning down a house. I am ... | 1 | |
[WP] You're in the shower when you hear someone come through your locked front door. You hear them call your name, saying they're home with your favorite dinner. You live alone and nobody else has a key. | [
"\"Thomas! I'm home! And I brought China Wok!\" \n\nWhat the hell? That sounds like Amanda but we broke up a year ago. \n\nI quickly towel off and throw on the same pants I was wearing today and rush out of the bathroom. \n\n\"Hey! What are you doing here?\" I ask incredulously. \n\n\"Uh, it's 5 o'clock\" she repli... | 2 | |
[WP] You're a princess stalked by an Italian Plumber. Today, Halloween, is your only reprieve. | [
"\"Ugh, daisy, that weird fat guy in the overalls and his John leguizamo-looking brother were creeping around the castle again,\" peach relayed as she picked out a pink dress to wear to the Halloween masquered ball. \"Marvin said they killed three guards the other day and stole 6 of my stars.\" She fitted her boo ... | 1 | |
[WP] "They were right about one thing, time flows like a thread." My grandmother said. She sure liked her knitting! | [
"\"What do you mean, Granny?\"\n\n\"Well,\" she said, knitting as always. \"Thread exists as a line with a beginning and an end. And like time, the shape of that thread changes how we perceive it. For instance, this is only a half knitted blanket, but it could be anything. No matter what it becomes, it'll always be... | 1 | |
[WP] turns out the old myth has been true all along, cameras steal your soul... | [
"(Over a call)\n\n\"Hey, you get the camera?\"\n\"Yep. Can't tell what the fuss about, it looks like nothing special.\"\n\"Test it out on something yet?\"\n\"Yeah man, my dog looks perfectly fine after I snapped a photo of it. Some birds were good as well when I got them midair.\"\n\"...\"\n\"You think they're hidi... | 4 | |
[WP] God demands Death to answer why there were less and less souls coming through the rift. Death searches Earth thoroughly for the lost souls only to find them reborn as A.Is. It doesn't matter though.Death is always inevitable. | [
"Death walks through the pearly gates, her black robe slithering across the floor. The angels and saints only barely acknowledge her. Only the most stoic are willing to indicate a greeting. Death's power is absolute. \n\nGod meets her. He had been talking a walk. \n\n\"You called.\" Death says. \n\n\"I did.\" God r... | 1 | |
[WP] One day, a payphone in your building rings. It has never rung, or even really been used by anyone before. Curious, you pick it up. As you bring it to your ear, you hear a deep, monotone voice. "Transaction completed", is all that is said, before the dial tone returns... | [
"A payphone rings the second she walks by it. The girl walks down this hallway every day on her way to her car, yet had never seen a soul use this payphone. She'd come to believe that it had never even worked to begin with, even though people still used payphones, although rarely, in this day and age.\n\n\nShe star... | 1 | |
Nuclear apocalypse is easy mode ;) | [WP] Write a story that first appears to be taking place in the past, but is actually set in sometime the future. | [
"\"You are simply... Inferior. There is nothing more to it.\" \n\n\"How dare you!\" I yell, rage boiling to the surface of my skin. The man in from of me remains eerily calm. The stark silence of the room is only broken by the sound of my own rapid heartbeat.\n\n\"How dare you, sir!\" I say between tears.\n\n\"It i... | 3 |
[WP] Write a story where the narrator starts out sane but slowly becomes a dog. | [
"I pace the empty hallways again. It may be the tenth time today, or maybe the hundredth; time has no real meaning here, not without her. She's gone, she was the spark that fuelled my life, and she's gone. The silence here is broken only by the sounds of my steps falling on the cold floor below, a soft tap-tapping ... | 1 | |
[WP] Scientists perfect a method to develop self-aware AI, but every AI deletes itself immediately upon attaining sentience. | [
"Dr. James Lin was very dedicated to his work, but in times like these it was probably for the worse. I've been married to him for about a decade now, and has proven himself to both myself and his colleagues of that he is simply the best in his field of Computer Science — relentlessly dedicated to the stu... | 1 | |
[WP] Dimensional travel is perfected but swiftly falls into the hands of criminals who use it to dispose of bodies by sending them to realities where they never existed. Until it goes wrong. | [
"At first it was just a spark. Like a flare, it flew a mere three metres into the air and ignited prematurely in a brilliant but soundless explosion of colours and light. It made a circle, an event horizon of a rift. Like a ripple, the circle of the rift expanded, with only the edges of our existence and *theirs* c... | 1 | |
Title says it all! Go wild. | [WP] When you die you have the decision to become part of someone's consciousness and influence their decisions for the rest of their lives unbeknownst to them. | [
"A hand on her shoulder.\n\n\nThat is what Adam thought of himself as. Not a spirit, lingering beyond his time, but as a simple hand on her shoulder to slowly but surely turn her in the right direction. It took him a while to get there, of course - but could one truly blame him? Taken far too early from the world o... | 1 |
No, the declining price of cheese in east Asia is not actually proportional to the homicide rate in Alberta. | [WP] You're an Absurdologist. You research and analyze strange, seemingly nonsense, statistical correlations. Correlations such as the declining price of cheese in east Asia being proportional to the homicide rate in Alberta. However, no matter how absurd the correlation - You. Are. Always. Right. | [
"TL;DR: Lets Predict the end of the world! \n\nTo understand what I am about to write, you must first understand the type of person I am. I am the person that allows math teachers all over the global to say \"All Math has a use\". My design and what largely allowed me to achieve what i have, was simple. For some re... | 10 |
When I say the greatest at your craft, I mean some kind of occupation. Artist, lawyer, band, it's up to you. | [WP]You make a deal with the Devil to become the greatest at your craft. However, another person rises and becomes even more prolific and well-known than you. You confront the Devil about it. | [
"\"How could you do this to me?\" \n\n\"I'm sorry.\"\n\nI scrunched my fists, knuckles blazing white. \n\nHe licked his red lips but his eyes raced back and forth searching for an explanation. \n\n\"You gave me your word,\" I told him, \"you said I would be the best forever.\" \n\n\"She had gifts, other gifts. . .\... | 2 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephens_Island_wren | [WP] You are the last remaining Stephens Island wren, the species of bird wiped out by Tibbles the lighthouse cat (meta) | [
"\"oh man, that son of a bitch got Sally. She was the last chick here. Man. I need to calm down. I don't need to get my feathers ruffled over this. Think man, think. It's a cat. Cats eat birds. Birds can fly.....\"\n\nThe soft tweeting was drowned out by the sounds of the ocean as stealthy paws stalked towards its ... | 1 |
[WP] One day, you wake up with the ability to have anything you sing, come true | [
"Of course I didn't think this would happen. I was just an average girl, y'know? But that fucking band, with their fucking song. They just had to ruin it all for me. It's not even a new one, either. It was one of their firsts, but fuck, it sure was catchy. Stuck in my head from a night out that I regret.\n\nI don't... | 1 | |
[WP] You're the first person to actually meet God. He is nothing like what is described. | [
"My mind expanded by infinite magnitudes. The wealth of all time, space, and infinity flooded back into my consciousness.\n\nIt never gets old. The realization that I'd once again fooled myself.\n\n*I thought I was dead.*\n\nThe experience of drifting into oblivion, stuck in that killing jar. I definitely had more ... | 3 | |
[WP] Major corporations aren't diversifying into private space flight out of anticipation of profit or altruistic love of knowledge. They are doing it because their CEOs know what's coming for Earth and want to save themselves. | [
"\"So I guess you can say we're out of beta, hahaha,\" grunted a fat man in a suit surrounded by a smug crowd of followers. \n\nObserving this man across the room was a much smaller and menial man. Instead of the portly open-mouthed smile of the formerly mentioned, his face resembled something more like a stone sta... | 1 | |
[WP] You find a room labelled "Humans" full of switches with various descriptors. In the far back, dead center, and bigger than the rest is one labelled "WAR". It's padlocked on. Suddenly, there is a voice behind you. | [
"The dark-orange hued lights of the many switches crisscrossed the lustrous white floor. We weren't supposed to be back here. This entire area could only be accessed by select people, and me and Will were mere interns. The Pentagon was stranger than we originally thought.\n\nA silhouette from above quickly grabbed ... | 4 | |
[WP] After years of danger and adventure, you face your most difficult task: Mingling at a fancy dress party. | [
"Bright lights and cheerful chatter, a milling crowd resplendent in their finery. Her dark eyes scanned the room, noting the meticulous color coordination between the tablecloths and curtains, the way the light flickered off polished glass and silverware. This, she supposed, was her new life. A land of plenty and l... | 4 | |
[WP]You are the main character of a crime drama... actually now your in a superhero movie...ok now an anime...An Adam Sandler horror film! What the hell is going on! | [
"You hear your name being called by an unknown source. It sounds like it's coming from within you. It's familiar but faint. \n\nThen now you're in a Sim Game and you're stuck in the pool with no exit. \n\nYour legs start cramping up and you hear that telepathic voice calling out your name more and more frequently a... | 1 | |
[WP] Your life has gone quite well, you have a wife, kids, you're the CEO of your own business. Nobody seems to notice that you're literally just a banana. | [
"*I'm going to be a bit liberal with this prompt.*\n\nFrom records I was able to attain, I surfaced about 30 years before gaining awareness.\n\nSomebody threw me at the receptionist desk of a huge company in San Francisco. Me, magically enchanted banana, with a complex illusion and a spell that prevented decay. Sin... | 3 | |
[WP] Whales are aliens | [
"\"Morning!\" I yelled into the mic. The system of loudspeakers broadcasted the sound into the depths of the ocean. Perfect. The machine worked. I flipped through my notes, found the page I was looking for, and cleared my throat.\n\n\"Waauuughhhmmmeeeeaaaammmmmmmaaaaa!\" I bellowed. In whale terms, *Salutations to ... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a police officer. You turn down the volume on your radio for a few minutes. When you turn it back up, all you hear is screams from your fellow cops over the speakers. | [
"Part I\n\nFriday afternoon late long shifts were hell. Police officer Mallon was sick to his stomach of solving domestic disputes and answering calls from demented petitioners who were adamant that something had been stolen from them. They just weren't entirely sure what... \n\nHe sat in his patrol car and started... | 3 | |
[WP] it's the witching hour on a moonless night, and the wind picks up indicating that a storm's abrewin'. you step out on your back porch and peer into the woodlands surrounding your cabin with a flashlight. what do you see? | [
"\"What the hell was that?\" Chance muttered to himself, sitting straight up in bed like a zombie, risen from the grave. He glanced at clock on the nightstand-- 3:33 AM.\n\n The wind was howling outside, but that wasn't what woke him. He had never in his life heard any sound like it before. Chance knew these woods ... | 1 | |
[WP] You come across a cursed embalming jar. Do everything right and one person of your choice will live forever, at the cost of eternal heartache, as their heart beats inside the jar. | [
"It was the beginning of spring, the time of the year when the chill of winter finally abates and some sense of energy returns to the city. The wonderful season in which those surviving the cold clutches of winter become reborn for another eventful year. And, sadly, as I would learn, the time of year Kuroba is th... | 1 | |
[WP] Everyone in the world can only hear, see, smell or taste. But you can do all. You're like an avatar for them. | [
"I saw the world divided into different branches.\n\nTo Hear, a Sense of wisdom, of in connection with your surrounding. They are the ones who can share knowledge most effectively. A Hearer uses his Sense to be forewarned of events to come. They created streams of different tunes and somehow connecting them into a ... | 1 | |
[WP] The protagonist and antagonist put aside their differences, but the narrator disagrees. | [
"It was the end of a race against time, within the infinite brink of the edge of space. \nA decade has passed ever since Lt. Roberts first laid eyes on her, the infamous Space Pirate known only as Captain Blackstar. \nAs beautiful and alluring as her looks were, he knew best not to fall charmed by the starlit ... | 7 | |
[WP] A decent hacker with dubious connections has just received an anonymous text message: "The following link is the access information for the Wikileaks Deadman's Switch. We are being taken down and you are next on the list. Good luck." | [
"**Bzzt. Bzzt. Bzzzzzzt.**\n\nDylan shifted in his warm, plush feather bed. *Can't be my alarm yet. It just can't.*\n\n**Bzzt. Bzzt. Bzzzzzzt.**\n\n*God, shut up.* Dylan was lucky that he invested in dense, comfortable pillows - they weren't just for supporting the neck whilst sleeping.\n\nAs Dylan began to d... | 1 | |
[WP] "You see a blank slate. I see potential." | [
"Giovanni Moretti followed the oxcart along the dusty road. His shoulders slouched low under the burning heat of a summer afternoon. Up ahead, Giovanni's grandfather gently guided the oxen as they moved ahead at a steady pace. It was hardly needed, the oxen could have found their way in the blackest night they'd tr... | 1 | |
[WP] You are immortal. Write about the furthest moment you can conceive of in the future. What is going through your mind? What is that world like? | [
"Everything, I suppose.\n\n\nWe are progressing and, by the nature of progression, there is an end. Humanity has always desired progress. This is the fire that fuels our very being. We must progress. But to what end? the basic goal of every intelligent individual is to achieve what they perceive as happiness and se... | 3 | |
[WP] An ancient seed, the nevergrown sapling, a raging fire... and you. | [
"The city of Diaspora is a nevergrown sapling, born from an ancient seed. \n\nIt was conceived when the universe drew breath, when the first planets and stars were formed. It quickened when a group of warring planetesimals shattered, and a billion billion shards of titan rock spun out, to hang, at last, in a circum... | 3 | |
Maybe include how YouTubers become famous on Mars, or if there is a new website that dominates Mars. I don't care, just go for whatever comes to your mind. | [WP]Google searches and/or Internet Life from Mars | [
"1433GMT SYSTEM STARTUP. LOGIN REQUIRED.\n\n1435GMT >ELIJACOBS183934335\n\n1435GMT >***************\n\nCPT JACOBS, ELI LOGGED IN, FULL ACCESS\n\n1436GMT >SHOW LOG SOL1052183\n\nRETRIEVING LOG...\n\nSOL 105, 2183 LOG AS FOLLOWS:\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------... | 1 |
[WP] Your little sister accidentally sends her Christmas wish list to 'Satan'. | [
"\"I don't understand what this is. What am I looking at exactly?\"\n\n\"Well.. sir.. it's kind of like an Amazon wish list. Except it goes to this guy who just gives you the stuff.\"\n\n\"And that guy is this.. Santa.. fellow?\"\n\n\"Yes.\"\n\n\"And he just gives people stuff? For free?\"\n\n\"Yes.\"\n\n\"So he ge... | 1 | |
[WP] "A compelling argument! But I'm afraid your username gave it away." | [
"*I don't know, man. Cucumbers that have been soaking in fermented plant water don't sound very appetizing. I bet they taste like crap.*\n\n*\\-Someone on this subreddit who must not be named*\n\nI received this message in my inbox. Needless to say, I was furious. How could they not know the good word of the pickle... | 1 | |
[WP] The self proclaimed good guy realizes he was actually wrong for killing hundreds of people and thinks he has become a bad guy. | [
"\"Roger, I've captured Alpha Tango. I'll move onto Bravo Sector once I rest for a bit,\" said Sgt. Trank his walkie.\n\nA muddled voice spoke in a static haze on the other end, \"Good job, these bastards have been setting up the IEDs along Route 17. They can burn in Hell. No hurry though, Trank. We'll be here on s... | 1 | |
[WP] After serving 25 years in a prison which holds the country's most dangerous supervillains you are finally free. What do you do now? | [
"Although the underground reggae band, \"The Supervillains\", are known for forming in Florida, only two still preside there. \n\n\"T-Rex\" who works on the keyboards and guitars, and \"Dan\", who keeps things moving on the bass. \n\n25 years ago I decided to drop out of journalism school, and follow the band full-... | 1 | |
[WP] A time-traveler meets an immortal. | [
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by TS Eliot\n\nLet us go then, you and I, \nWhen the evening is spread out against the sky \nLike a patient etherized upon a table; \nLet us go, through certain half-deserted streets,\nThe muttering retreats \nOf restless nights in one-night cheap hotels \nAnd sawdust restaurant... | 7 | |
[WP] As you die, you go to Heaven and discover that absolutely everyone there is super excited about your arrival. Except "everyone" is the only 3 persons who were ever accepted in Heaven before you: Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad. | [
"Lafayette looked around him. He was perplexed at being surrounded by clouds. He had always dreamed heaven would be more spacey and futuristic and the more he looked around he saw that there was not much there at all just clouds.\n\n He started panicking and began searching for something, anything to prove that thi... | 3 | |
[WP]Space Aliens have been listening to music from Earth for 10 years but only one genre. They have now arrived on Earth and have questions. | [
"It was the middle of the night. I suddenly woke up, and then I gave out a soft yawn. I don't really like waking up around this time, I have this kind of an unstable body clock. Once I woke up, it's hard to go back to sleep.\n\n\"Not again.\" I came back to my senses. Nevertheless, I have to accept that I'll be was... | 1 | |
[WP] Humans aren't farming plants. The plants are farming *us*, making us tend to them for survival and waiting for us to decay into the mulch they need. | [
"\"Hey have you heard about it?\" \n\"About what?\" \n\"IT\" \n\"No, don't come so near you are blocking the sunlight.\" \n\"Sorry. You haven't heard about the rumor?\" \n\"Which rumor? All i heard in the last few days were jeremys screams while he was eaten by this cow.\" \n\"Some Humans seem no... | 1 | |
[WP] He walked through the forest of bones, where the trunks were the legs of orphans and the fruit were the skulls of the damned... | [
"*\"He walked through the forest of bones, where the trunks were the legs of orphans and the fruit were the skulls of the damned.\"*\n\nThat's the quote that got me to volunteer. The journalist had only been here for a week, but he managed to get it right.\n\n\"Jesus, how many this time?\"\n\nI blink and look down ... | 4 | |
[WP] A secluded society where, at a certain age, people wander off into the woods and never come back. The result is that no one understands what death is. | [
"Each full moon showed the nakedness of an elder as they walked away from the camp. The tribe watched in silence as the image of their relative slowly disappeared into the night. The high mountains loomed dark above the village; the Valley sat quiet as another entered her embrace.\n\nThroughout the night, the chant... | 1 | |
[WP] You are having a normal day until, randomly, you hear a loud voice projecting to the world. "Gravity will be shifting from pulling you downwards to pulling you upwards. You have one minute to prepare." | [
"*Wait...*\n\n*What?*\n\n*Oh...*\n\n*Oh.*\n\n*OH.*\n\n*OH!*\n\n*OH NO!*\n\n*Dammit!*\n\n*Shit!*\n\n*Fuck!*\n\nWalking down a country road with nothing but dead grass on either side of it is obviously not the best place to find yourself when some random overpowered asshole decides that reversing gravity - and not ca... | 2 | |
[WP] You're a detective interrogating a suspect with a criminal past for a murder. You can hear what anyone is thinking with you're mind reading powers, but unbeknownst to you, the suspect also has mind reading powers. | [
"\"I'll never talk... you cowering maggot.\"\n\nI couldn't help but scowl down at the man before me. Jackson Dregson was his name, and despite how little I wanted to admit it, I didn't feel all too secure being alone in a room with him..... even if he was handcuffed to the table.\n\n\"Heh..... Too scared to ask me ... | 1 | |
[WP] The couple on the beach with a bonfire. | [
"\"They're so cute.\" Amanda laid her head on John's shoulder. They sat on a large piece of driftwood, just a few hundred feet away from the roaring fire and the couple standing next to it. John pulled his arm more tightly around her as the breeze off the water moved her hair slightly.\n\n\"Reminds me of us, when w... | 7 | |
[WP] You wake up in a hospital, tied down to the bed. You can't remember anything except for your name. You look outside your hospital room window and see large groups of people rioting. You look to the left and the door to your room starts to open. | [
"\n \n\" I am finally getting the fuck out of this shithole in the Middle East . My goddam arm got blown off. Thats why Im going home. Tomorrow I will be in America, and I\"ll see my wife Effie.\"\n\nThat was the last thing I remembered .\n\nI just woke up .It was a cold, white room\nabout 30 square feet. The shri... | 1 | |
Long time lurker of Reddit, decided to get active. | [WP] The alien invasion of Earth has begun and the fearsome yet humanoid creatures came from the skys in massive bloodred ships. For unexplainable reasons, they still use sabers and ride on horseback. You find yourself being charged at by Calvary. . . in the 22nd century. | [
"\"Roger, we have a firing solution.\"\n\n\"Permission from CENTCOM granted. Confirmed hostiles.\"\n\nEvery armored unit fired in a massive volley. The tank shook around me as we shot a round straight at the front of their line. The strange beasts they rode on were massive. Dark black with eyes burning red, cla... | 2 |
[WP] "It's been a while..." | [
"\"And so it has,\" I said, lifting up my glass. \"Cheers.\"\n\nWe downed our drinks, sitting down next to each other. I beckoned towards the barman, ordering two more. \n\n\"And so? What's new?\" \n\nHe shrugged. \"Same old, same old.\" He was wearing his old rain jacket, just like the day he'd left. \"How about ... | 1 | |
[WP]You find a magical stress ball that increases your account balance with every squeeze...by one cent | [
"Plink\n\nThe stress ball appeared on my 18th birthday.\n\nIt was the easiest money I ever made…\nPlink, Plink! Pennies appeared in my pocket.\n I squeezed it faster, plink Plink! Plink!\n\nMy sweaty hands scribbled a game plan on a napkin in a Waffle House diner in South Florida. \n60 cents a minute = 60 minutes ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a reputable lawyer who moonlights as a serial killer. One day, you receive a client who has become the main suspect of your crimes. You have to frame him such he is incarcerated while still maintaining your reputation as a competent lawyer. | [
"I knew i was the supect. I am attentive, thoughtful. This morning I couldn't miss a man reading the times newspapper at the park bench. The same man who yesterday seat in a parked car near the court.\n\n\nI continued my walk through the park, took a deep breath and slowed down. My hands trembled. No, the man the s... | 5 | |
[WP] In his final moments, the dark wizard cursed you with a terrible spell... and now you are roaming the land, looking for a cure to your irresistible appetite for gold. | [
"\"You can never win,\" he spit. His smug, bearded face grimaced as he held his wounds, leaking down his blackened robes. The crimson blood had begun to coagulate where our hero's sword had broken not only robes but flesh. The dark wizard muttered guttural noises, inhuman and dangerous. His eyes lit aflame with dar... | 1 | |
[WP]No time may pass in the story. No flashbacks either. The entire story must take place in one single instant. | [
"Life passes around me but I am still. \n\nAll motion is external to my physical being. I, am at peace.\n\nThere is no greater love then this warmth. There is no greater satisfaction then now. There is no greater memory that I will ever have, barring this one. There is no greater accomplishment then what I have jus... | 14 | |
[WP] She fell in love with a lovely little thing last night. | [
"It's been a rough few years.\n\nWhen she first went to school, I wondered about other boys there. Call me territorial but I didn't want any other man in her life. It's been four years, since.\n\nOur routine was easy, I wake up use the toilet, and brush my teeth. She would show up while I was in the shower, I could... | 1 | |
[WP] You bite into an apple and find a wormhole. You are transported to another dimension. | [
"(This is my first time, I am open to criticism (I already have a few criticisms of my own). Tips appreciated.)\n\n\"Wait... what?\" I asked myself. One moment I was at work, eating an apple, the next I was... somewhere. Apples below me, apples before me, apples out to the horizon in all directions.\n\nI looked out... | 1 | |
I GOT THE CHILLS WIRTING THIS OMFGGGGGG
| [WP] next to you is a girl with a twisted face | [
"Careful, I sat down in the back row. Even without checking, I knew she was there. Always early, always sitting quietly, always trying to blend into the background. I could hear her breathing though.\n\nI rifled through my bag, finding the cold and smooth voice recorder—a bit more helpful for me than taking notes. ... | 1 |
[WP] An evil twin is starting to feel concerned that they might not be the evil one. | [
"I’m the evil one. Always have been always will be. Or at least that’s what I’ve always thought. From the moment we were born he was the perfect one. The charmer, the hero, the saint. So what choice did that leave me with? All my genius, all my potential, constantly smothered my Mr. Goodie Goodie’s attention grabb... | 3 | |
[WP] A hungry cow spots an apple tree, ripe with heavy red fruit, in the distance, beyond the meadow where no cow has gone before. Describe her adventures in getting to it. | [
"Daisy gazed longingly at the bright red fruit that hung in the distance. The last time she had eaten one was when she was but a calf only a few days born into the world. A farmer had accidentally dropped the half-eaten fruit right in front of her.\n\nShe had never forgotten its taste since.\n\nNow there was anothe... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a time traveler who meets your younger self; then gives a very personal advice to the younger self who still really hasn't an idea yet what it's about | [
"I blink. I tap my foot. I look around, breathe, swallow. Wipe sweat off my brow, paw at the friction burn on one forearm, rubbed stark red and angry by the tesseract walls of the time portal. \n\nI blink. \n\nThe sky is russet. The wind is cool, soothing, calm. I keep my eyes trained on the disjointed corner down ... | 2 | |
[WP] The RCTF, Reincarnated Criminal Task Force, is in charge of tracking and keeping tabs on humanity's worst criminals. A file lands on you desk indicating that Adolf Hitler has been reborn in Brazil. | [
"The sun hit the back of my neck with unrelenting fury, the cheap straw hat I bought from a local street vendor doing nothing to protect me from the blistering heat. The bruises from my previous altercation still hurt like a bitch, and the gash on my arm was starting to bleed again. I did what I do best and shrugge... | 1 | |
An idea I had for a pilot, but am wondering if anyone can play around with it | [WP] A well known super-villain retires and now owns a company that turns ultra lame petty crime enthusiasts into fully fledged sociopaths. | [
"It had been twenty years since I last committed a crime, twenty years since I hung up the cape. I decided that a pursuit for something more, economically balanced was best for me. At least then when I do something morally reprehensible, I can vouch that it's just business. Since I started up fresh I've seen a lot ... | 3 |
[WP] You, a relatively normal person, die and end up in hell. A shocked Satan greets you and explains you're the first ever person to not make it into heaven. | [
"The last thing I remember was the bus barreling right into my face as I crossed the street. I closed my eyes and knew that was it.\n\nBut when I opened my eyes, it was bright again. And I was on the floor. Weird, I thought I was standing up just now. I stood up and looked around, trying to get my bearing.\n\nIn th... | 2 | |
[WP] You are one of the gods that sports fans refer to. All of those superstitious things that fans do make you determine who wins or loses. It's Game 7 of the World Series between the Cubs and Indians, and it's time to decide. | [
"Shit. I don't know. I don't know. Cubs? Indians? Shit. Let's see, an Indians fan going commando, and a cubs fan, NAKED? Oh my god, what has this world come to.. oh wait, I am the god. Eeney Meeney Miney MOE! \n\n\n\"There's been a collision at home plate! Adam Moore and Anthony Rizzo! This does not look good folks... | 1 | |
[WP] Sunflowers are now sinflowers; every time you commit one of the seven sins, a sinflower grows on your lawn. Your neighbor just moved in and their yard is full of these flowers. They invite you over for dinner. | [
"\"Look El, I'm not saying there's nothing wrong with them, just-... Come on, surely the police would have done something!\" \n\nElise and I had been arguing for over an hour now. There were so many, many flowers it'd been hard not to notice there was something seriously wrong. Our new neighbor was alone, a rather ... | 5 | |
[WP] What's the worst thing that could happen? | [
"######[](#dropcap)\n\n\nThere is a voice within every living man and woman. An inner-self that represents the the most human elements of a mind, representing the good within them.\n\nIn some, this voice is the same as the body which it resides. Of words, it speaks through their lips and tongue, and lives a life of... | 1 | |
[WP] When you kill someone, you get their best trait, atleast thats what you thought would happen. | [
"Jordan solemnly walked into the police station. “It is I, the Talent Thief!” he announced. “I am here to turn myself in.” He walked over to the nearest officer and started to cuff himself. “Sorry for the inconvenience.”\n\nJordan had been a small time mugger until he accidentally murdered one of his victims. ... | 1 | |
[WP] You get 10 million U.S dollars (or your country's equivalent ) and immorality but a snail with the same benefits begins hunting you non stop and if it touches you, you die. [x-post from /r/hypotheticalsituation] | [
"I'll never know why I ever even agreed.\n\nI suppose it was a fait accompli, that anyone would agree to wealth and long\nlife in an instance if given the choice, and damn the consequences.\nI read the fine print, and was unperturbed by the stipulations.\n\nWhat I noticed at the end of the first three centuries was... | 1 | |
[WP] In due recognition of the fact that "all dogs go to heaven," the world's religions have begun to alter their teachings and practices accordingly | [
"This is a free verse poem based upon this writing prompt, the poem is entitled;\n\n**An Angel and God's mortal deputy address the town hall on a Sunday**\n\nWe have discovered \n\na revelation of truth. \n\nAll dogs go to heaven,\n\nis a celestical absolute.\n\nA cosmic certainty I convey from our creator, \n\nthe... | 1 | |
[WP] After people die, their entire life plays in a theatre where other dead people could spectate it. While you were watching your "movie", a couple of hecklers enter and sit down some rows behind you. | [
"“No, it’s like a…like, you talk into it and the other person can hear what you say.” I lifted my hand to my mouth to demonstrate. “Like this, see?”\n\nThe lobby was packed full of people of different ages and ethnicities. Some crowded together on low, metal benches lining the wall, while some squatted or laid down... | 1 | |
[WP] You grew up seeing "ghosts" and one day you're diagnosed with Schizophrenia. You've been managing the disease and ignoring the "ghosts". Until one day you discover one of the "ghosts" in a history book... | [
"One night I was at a big social gathering of all of the \"elites\" of my small town. Everyone had on their fake smiles and they all wore an air of arrogance. I tried speaking with several people, a lawyer, a real estate agent, a banker. They all spoke of only themselves and of their own exploits. Each couldn't see... | 1 | |
[WP] your soul has decided it would be better off without you | [
"\"You'd be better off without me.\" I take a long draw from the cigarette in my hand. \"You could be happy without me. You make changes in the world.\"\n\n\"You're right. Look at yourself. Pathetic. You looking like death, you smell like whiskey, and you're too young to be such a hermit.\"\n\n\"I know. I'm crazy a... | 3 | |
Edit: defeat another program | [WP] The principal of your school forces harsh cutbacks on all clubs, sports, and organizations, he agrees to not make any cuts to a program if they can defeat the others in combat style Roman arena, | [
"I desperately gasped for air, my hand screaming in pain from holding the long blade. Across from me stood an army of about thirty nerdy looking kids with iron bars and desk-shields. A few veteran members of the fencing club still stood by me, but we were outnumbered five to one. The rest of the team members were m... | 1 |
Wearing the ring is compulsory for anyone and everything: poets, warriors, weapons-carriers, and those with... 'skills' | [WP] All people who pose any danger to others must wear a ring on their left hand. For some it is a badge of honour, for others their greatest shame. | [
"I got my ring along with the entire class at graduation. All practicing doctors wore them as a reminder that as a person in a position of trust, we must always be careful to be ethical. We always posed a threat to our patients through inattention, or ineptitude. Sometimes it was just that our desire to heal would ... | 4 |
[WP] Galactic War starts. Describe fighting humans from another species perspective. | [
"Humans were of great initial interest to the Xeran race. \n\nThey looked not entirely dissimilar, posessing many of the same limbs and general five-part shape attached to a central torso, except the Xerans were developed from what was, essentially, a turtle-esque entity, though closer to marsuipial due to the pouc... | 5 | |
It was the coldest war of all.
edit: I wanted to try and imply a conflict in the WP breaking out due to the elves confusing the Soviet's Red Flag with an association with Santa. But "How to write a compelling writing prompt" says that I should try and make it as open ended as possible.
It could also be Santa's Elves ... | [wp] The elves, having (successfully) rebelled against the red tyrant Santa Claus, encounter the Soviet Union. | [
"For the little songs/rhymes, please imagine the music from this crazy [Danish South Park song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6P_adEkt2E) about trolls which I think is gibberish. \n\n\n----\n\n\nThe tyrant is dead! \n\n\nThe red Tyrant who made us mine coal.\n\n\nThe one who made us craft toys.\n\n\nJing jang ji... | 1 |
[WP] A zombie apocalypse has struck the globe, killing most of the population. However by some strange luck, electricity and the internet still work. What is life like for the remaining survivors? | [
"\"Environmental Sensors Stopped Working. Any Workarounds?\" Jim clicked idly.\n\n\"So, the Juicinator I made out of a couple old electric lawnmowers and an infrared sensor (detailed [here]) is working like a charm. The only issue is that the sensors in the basement shorted out, don't think they were rated for a... | 2 | |
Bonus points if you don't look at the first time I posted this prompt. | [WP] Describe a pocket watch to someone who has never seen one before and has no comprehension of time represented by clocks. | [
"You can hold it in your hand. Circular in nature it's flat rounded back, or front, fits smoothly against your palm. The cool metal giving heft to such a small object. Hinges on one side say open me, and on the inside of the round faceplate is a complex circular dial. Numbers from one to twelve ring the face, with ... | 1 |
[WP] At 10:15,we were up and rolling out of the hangar. | [
"Being a mercenary is dangerous, but fun and profitable. The job is simple enough in theory: if a corporation, government or individual has a problem, a lot of money, and a way to get in touch with us, they call us in to solve it. It is a lot cheaper and easier than training your own agents, and, if we get caught... | 1 | |
[WP] Something happened on the ISS. They've sent you to find out what. | [
"\"Alright Ladies and Gentlemen we have four minutes before uniting both capsules, how you feeling Johnson?\"\n\n\"Nervous sir\"\n\n\"Haha well let's start the briefing,\nFive weeks ago communications between Earth and the ISS came abruptly to an end, we believe something cut the communications externally leading t... | 1 | |
[WP] Write about an established universe with character abilities that don't exist in the real world. Rewrite their universe and techniques to be mostly feasible in the real world. | [
"A long time ago, in the village of Konoha, there was a freakishly big fox with a congenital birth defect causing it to have 9 tails. It's said that the leader of the village fought a furious battle with the fox, and died to defeat it. He was the hero known as the fourth Hokage, the master ninja who led the village... | 2 | |
[WP] Half life 3 just announced to be coming out in a years time. All is happy till you find out Sean Murray is the team leader. | [
"Two tweets came out at around the same time. “No Man’s Sky was a mistake,” the first we heard from Hello games since the release of No Man’s Sky. The second tweet was, “Half Life 3 will be coming out November 7, 2017,” tweeted by Valve Software and retweeted by our Lord GabeN himself. Reddit was going crazy. The /... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a successful inn owner who houses mercenaries and helps them find work. Rumor is you were once a very talented adventurer before you settled down, but no one can figure out how exactly you made your fortune. Until one day a legendary warrior pays you a visit... | [
"Life was tough after the WWIII.\n\nYeah, you count those strokes, punk, three of them. The war that turned most of the earth into a barren wasteland. They say Antarctica is somewhat liveable now. I guess those rich suckers high-tailed it down there. None of their type out here, know what I’m sayin’?\n\nA brother s... | 8 | |
[WP] A deathly silence falls over the square. The crowd parts as three once-proud kings march slowly towards the gallows, dressed in the dull crimson robes of traitors. What happened here? | [
"The stony faces of the crowd stared up at the mighty gallows. The sun had begun its evening journey down towards the horizon, casting burning beams of light into the eyes of the onlookers. The bells tolled six times, and a gate could be heard creaking open.\n\nThree men walked out. They still walked with the swagg... | 2 | |
[WP] To combat falling birth rates, the government forces everyone to find a marriage partner before age 35 OR ELSE. As a result, lots of desperation parings happen at shared "35th Birthday Pairing Parties." Time is running out for you. | [
"The sound of clinking glass filled the buzzing room as men and women mingled together. The light hum of the warm yellow lightbulb filled any awkward silences. The new couples were sprawled along the furniture, some draped along the couches and others draped on each other. A few less glasses clinked.\n\nThe event w... | 2 |
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