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[WP]The main villain has figured out how to stop the Prophecy: ignoring the Chosen One altogether. | [
"Emperor Cardinal yawns as he stretches backwards, coincidentally dodging the sword slash of the chosen one. \n\n\"Hey! Stop dodging!\"\n\nEmperor Cardinal then tilts his head and dodges a punch which sends the chosen one sprawling to the floor.\n\n\"Stop ignoring me!\"\n\nEmperor Cardinal walks out the door and pu... | 3 | |
[WP] While scrolling through your contacts you accidentally call yourself. The call is picked up and the person on the other side greets you with your voice. | [
"\"Hello? oh my god\" The voice boomed in my head. A few seconds ago I was gonna call my sister. I heard some movement on the other line. \"H-hello?\" I said, shaky breath. \"Oh my god I knew this would happen.\" The man on the other side seemed to expect this would happen.\n \"Listen, you're not the first of us to... | 3 | |
[WP] The local mob has ordered a hit, carried out successfully. You, a local party magician, are mistakenly called to make this body "disappear". | [
"I was stunned at what I saw. To me it was a 50 something balding man with nothing to his name. From what I was told while blindfolded being driven to who knows whose house, to the mob he was a con man who screwed the wrong mob boss and turned into one hell of a carpet cleaning bill for his landlord.\n\n\"You know ... | 1 | |
[WP] A known supervillain has shuffled off the mortal coil, and his nemesis has been invited to the will reading. Once there, the executor reveals that the villain has bequeathed his entire empire to the hero that always thwarted him. | [
"Henry looked down at the antique creaking wooden floor and slowly massaged his temples with both hands. The discourse between lawyers in the background faded to a low rumble as Henry teetered on the edge of sleep.\n\nIt had been a long week. The news broke five days earlier that the infamous Mr. Mischief had, at l... | 1 | |
[WP] A giant timer appears in the sky. Nobody knows what it's for.. until it reaches zero. | [
"\"I formed a branch of an apocalyptic cult because of a toothpaste ad.\"\n\n\"Well, to be fair, The Timer was quite impressive. - I said, trying to console Dave a bit. Not, it is to be said, before laughing for fifteen minutes straight. - Who knew an ad company could manage to hack its way into everyone's Augmente... | 1 | |
[WP] It is far in the future and time travel has been created. To stop people from traveling through time unsupervised and at the same time sate the hunger for it, a company arises. "Time Tours". A time travel company. You are one of the tour guides and someone from the group has gone missing | [
"I wonder if I’ll be fired or if they’ll just kill me. I’m not speaking hyperbolically; I think they are well within their rights to murder me.\n\nTime Tours, *the* chrono-tourism company, has prided itself on being the most respected and safest method of time travel today. Sure, some are more fun or cheaper, but t... | 2 | |
I always find this trope is really drawn out for the viewer of the story since the alternative is almost always worse. Would you rather this giant robot killed the entire city instead? | [WP] A monster is destroying the city, but the Hero doesn't want to risk being sued or punished for the property damage that will happen while fighting it. | [
"A scream cuts through the air.\n\n\"Help us Ultraman!\"\n\nI wince, but keep running with the normal folk. Perhaps after a few city blocks dissapear they'll all be more willing to accept my help. Last week it was a giant lizard. The week before that, my arch-nemesis Gorillatron. And every single time, after everyo... | 3 |
[WP] For centuries the Devil has been challenged by the world's most gifted people (artists/musicians/warriors/etc.) in epic showdowns for their souls. In that time he's never been beaten. You believe you are the master of the one useless talent that the Devil hasn't prepared for. | [
"\"My child? Dead? NOOOOO!!!!! How I wish she were not dead! I would would sell my soul to bring her back!\"\n\n\"Pleased to meet you. What was that you were saying?\"\n\n\"I just found out that my child died in a tragic car accident. I don't know what to do.\"\n\n\"I have a proposition for you. If you can beat m... | 1 | |
This prompt was inspired by a r/nosleep post made by u/IgnusAurumProbat19 | [WP] Raised in a Christian household, you only ever worshipped one God. One day you learn about mythology of the past and in an act of childhood pity, you pray to the forgotten Gods of the past | [
"Floating\n\nIt was cold, yet I felt no discomfort, it felt almost good\n\nIt was dark, but any fool could tell the feeling of deep water. Somehow, I was able to suck in the water as if it was air.\n\nThen there was a voice, sounding from everywhere at once. Repeating the same word over and over\n\n\"Tiamat... Tiam... | 1 |
I don't want to put any hard rules on this. You may age, you may not in frozen time. Please play with it. | [WP] You have tried to train yourself to sleep with your eyes open; time freezes when you close them... | [
"Am I dead? Asleep?\n\nI closed my eyes and everything became quiet. I opened them and the world was dark. The strange part is that my perception of light didn't change from when my eyes were closed - it still felt like sunlight coming through my eyelids, even though my eyes were open. \n\nI can move. I know that m... | 1 |
[WP] Everyone in the world can find their soul mate by looking them in the eye. You've just looked into the eyes of an alien shock trooper. | [
"The battle of the Gatling Glade was no place for the weak of heart. Each day we clashed against our enemies and each day the bodies fell like so many flies.\n\nMy battalion formed the vanguard for our offensive, we were disposable in every sense of the word and that was our lot in life. War, disease, chaos and an ... | 2 | |
[WP] A person with two broken legs has his life changed by the advice, "Have you tried just not having broken legs?" | [
"The clack of buttons drowned out the world, for me. Head down, I focused on the game, jumping, slashing and rolling at the right times. The game did everything I asked of it. If I pressed the jump button, the guy jumped. It always worked.\n\nBesides, I didn't like the view in the hospital. Even in the waiting area... | 2 | |
[WP] Whenever someone personality changes a little bit, their face changes with them. | [
"As I step into my room I catch sight of the wall of pictures and sigh, walking over I grab a photograph of my current face and pin it in an open space.\n\n\"I'm running out of space for my faces,\" I sigh and tiredly rub my face.\n\nLooking at the mirror I sigh in relief when I find my face hasn't changed, althoug... | 2 | |
[WP] Write a tragic backstory of a character, but leave it ambiguous until the end whether this is a main protagonist origin story, or a side character death flag. | [
"I hate them, the vile King and his men.\n\nThey took everything from me and I absolutely hate them for it.\n\nThe burned my home, they killed my father and mother then they turned my big sister into a mindless puppet for their cause. They've tried to make me and my friends their sacrifice for their twisted schemes... | 1 | |
Essentially, the world goes to sleep on Wednesday and wakes up on Friday rather than Thursday. (the actual days don't matter) | [WP] The world wakes up tomorrow missing a day. All the clocks, both digital and analog show a day ahead of what the entire world's population remembers. | [
"The White House has announced that time had in fact, not skipped ahead a day and that aliens were not, in any sense of the word, present on Earth. The official quote was that \"swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus that temporarily interfered with a sec... | 1 |
Different rates for different people apply.
Done without the consent of the "Possessed." | [WP]"For a cheap price, you can live someone else's life for a while." | [
"\"For a cheap price, you can live someone else's life for a while\"... That was the company slogan... Of course they wouldn't just let you live *anyone's* life by paying their standard rates ; imagine paying $500 to jump into Bill Gate's life. That would be insane. But anyone who's net worth was less than $150,000... | 1 |
[WP] You are an experienced wizard, have mastered the arts of alchemy, magic, the summoning of beasts and many other arcane schools. But now you have a problem you can't deal with: Your young apprentice isn't focused, and she seems to have a crush on you. | [
"\nAvarella had gone through many students in her teachings as an arch wizard, but Preconia was certainly the strangest. It wasn’t that Preconia was particularly unusual, lazy, or even remarkably intelligent compared to others. In fact, she was a good student by all accounts. Always on time, turned in her work earl... | 7 | |
The setting is obviously adaptable to your own imagination.
Already posted this in the past, but thought it was still an interesting prompt, despite the lack of responses. | [WP] You're packing, ready to move out. Your parents offer you some of their older possessions to start off your new life. As you're deciding on what to keep, and about to throw away an unlabelled old box of theirs, you suddenly hear a booming voice in your head : "Cannot discard quest item." | [
"I blink slowly and let out a slow breath, I have a feeling I might know what it is.\n\nOur grandpa tells us these stories you see, both of them.\n\nMy parent's don't exactly want them telling us this story but they know it's no use preventing them.\n\nI thought they were kidding you know.\n\nI took the two swords ... | 4 |
Or that your British friend is American. Or something like that.
Have fun! | [WP] You begin to suspect that your "American" friend is actually British. | [
"After kmocking twice, I walked into Craig's room. He made a quick, startled movement, throwing something under his bed. There were crumbs on his face, very similar to a sort of savory cake.\n\n\"Oh, uh... hey, Jon! What's up?\" he stammered.\n\nI shot him a strange look. \"Well, I found this under the couch, and I... | 1 |
[WP] You discover you have the power to create a pocket dimension, and bring other people with you. While in the pocket dimension, time stops everywhere outside. Inside, anything is possible. When you return to reality, everything is exactly the same except for your memory and age. | [
"I smile coldly and grip tighter on the throat of the large man before me, I do not heed his words it's is not important.\n\nI am a God, no one can stop me. \n\nI chuckle and look around at the sea of corpses around me, I sweep my hands through my hair staining it with the blood on my finger tips.\n\nI pause for a ... | 1 | |
[WP] The year is 2384. Aliens have wiped out all humans on Earth. They arrive on the planet and decide the check out a PC. They open the internet browser, and click on a bookmark labeled "Reddit". | [
"Zandark let out a low whistle.\n\n\"Klorm, come take a look at this.\"\n\n\"Hang on a sec, I think I got this thing figured out,\" Klorm hollered from the other room.\n\n\"Put that down, you idiot,\" Zandark snapped. \"That's what passes for a weapon on this planet, but it kills the users almost as much as the tar... | 1 | |
[WP] A timid powerless man will go through a transformation that will turn him into a notorious serial killer | [
"I do not like people.\n\nIt is not that people are bad, it is just me. \n\nI have never found social situations enjoyable - I avoid them as much as possible because people want to talk to me and I am just not good at conversation. The things I am interested in do not relate to what other people are interested in. ... | 1 | |
[Relevent XKCD](https://what-if.xkcd.com/48/) | [WP] The Crown guards a dark secret. Passed down the royal line for centuries, it was what drove the need to form a global empire. And through the ages - exploration, political change, societal turmoil, it has been guarded against....until today. For the sun has finally set, on the British Empire | [
"How will we be remembered?\n\nAs explorers?\n\nAs philosophers?\n\nAs musicians, or artists, or painters?\n\nNo. There’s only one appropriate moniker for a species this doomed and folly-ridden. We’ll only be remembered as substandard record-keepers. \n\nHere we are, confined to a planet made of water, yet we spend... | 1 |
[WP] Everything people do in their lives is dictated by a sheldule. Every moment a planned out and calculated by the government. One day you never receive your schedule and you need to act like you know what you're doing. | [
"I sit on my well made bed and look at the wall, with my hands in my lap.\nI've never made a decision in my life and I am frozen. It would be a shame to waste this gift.\nI think of the flowers in the park that I walk past on the way home that I never get to smell, (1min 43 sec from work to my domicile).\nOr the sp... | 1 | |
[WP] After 267 years you finally learn the truth about your immortality... | [
"\"I can be killed\".\n\nThat thought has been shadowing my every moment since I first learned about this one year ago. It was a cold winter that had just passed but the echoes still shadowed the street and the tears of the ones that have lost a loved one due to the harsh condition struck my heart. Maybe, I wasn't ... | 3 | |
[WP]You're the "cleaner" at King's Cross. Your job is to clean the mess created by the fanatical Harry Potter fans who run headfirst into the pillar between platforms 9 and 10. One day, you see another fan running at it but this time he went through. | [
"I'd just finished mopping up from the last one when I heard the footsteps.\n\nI turned around to face the platform, and shouted, \"Oh God, don't, please!\" but it was too late. Unlike the others, this one, though, went straight through the pillar.\n\nThe station shook. The massive green man, absurdly dressed in a ... | 4 | |
[WP] You and some friends find a previously undiscovered cave system. After exploring for a couple hours you realize you have become lost and the batteries in your flashlight are dying. As the light flickers, you hear someone speaking in a nearby tunnel. | [
"Spelunking. I only agreed to go caving because Jonny called it Spelunking. I liked the sound of the word. I had gotten carried away for just a moment, fueled by beer and shots and bar talk, when you will agree to do anything because you’re in a good mood, and the girls you are talking to are attractive, and you wa... | 1 | |
[WP] A spirit, growing bored with centuries of scaring the daylights out of the living, decides to sit and talk with the next living being it meets. | [
"\"Hello, mortal!\" I said, looking down at the small girl lying in front of me. She had the look of an imbecile about her, with some sort of rice-filled stick in her mouth, and she smelled faintly of feces.\n\n\"Tell me of how the world has passed in my time spent as that which lurks in the night! NOW!\"\n\nStill,... | 2 | |
[WP] A boy and a girl on a first date take it in turn to reveal, or not, information about themselves to one another. | [
"\"I had a crush on you since third grade,\" he confessed.\n\nShe giggled. \"I didn't even go to this school in third grade.\"\n\n\"You were in my dreams.\"\n\nShe blushed. \"Okay, okay, my turn. Uhm, let's see...my favorite color is purple.\"\n\n\"I already know that,\" he said, shifting to get more comfortable. \... | 1 | |
[WP] What else can be said about Harold McDreedson? Despite everything we all thought about him, he wasn't crazy at all. | [
"\"The Alien Overlords are going to withdraw their funding from Youtube!\" Harold McDreedson had said, flailing his arms. \"There will be no one left to expose them. Do you think the mainstream media's going to do it? They already *own* the mainstream media. They own the news and they own the advertising that h... | 1 | |
It's Tinder, for space civs.
And the rest of the galaxy is not ready for us, and our impressive, swipe left, swipe right but don't actually mean either, ways... | [WP] Just before we make "natural" first contact, a masked intergalactic agency stops us. It seems that all new first contacts must match up with other similar stellar civilisations, attempting to promote community and discourage wars. We, as a species, are very familiar with process... | [
"A: Swipe right on all of them. We can look at profiles after we match.\n\nB: We should get to know them first. We don't want to give the wrong idea.\n\nA: The wrong idea? We just want to have diplomatic relations with these planets. We're not looking to cohabitate with them.\n\nB: But what if the right planet come... | 1 |
Your trying to make it to your grandmothers 100th birthday across country when you cross a bridge that you've never crossed before. It's the hardest riddle you have ever faced. | [WP]Everytime you cross a bridge you have to solve a riddle that gets harder and harder the more times you cross a particular bridge. | [
"**Building Bridges**\n\n\"There are fourteen doors,\" the troll said. \"The first and second each have one guard. The third has two. The fourth, three; the fifth, five; the sixth, eight--\"\n\n\"Fibonacci?\" I asked.\n\n\"Yes,\" the tiny wretch answered, his voice the scratching of hay across wet stone. \"Final do... | 1 |
[WP] A comedian decides to take to the stage one last time on a plane as it plummets to the ground, only to be heckled | [
"\"Why do they call the surge of adrenaline into your body having 'butterflies in your stomach'? I've never felt what a butterfly feels like, and certainly not inside of me! It's like, hello, maybe we need a term a little more dramatic for when the gravity inside a plane is shifting as we crash! And, I mean, who... | 1 | |
[WP] Every house has a thriving community of brownies, imps, borrowers, pixies and the like. Write about the ones that live in your house. | [
"\"You're playing that game again?\" The pixie asked, a bored expression on her face. \n\n\"What? It's fun.\" I said defensively, moving my avatar forward on the PC.\n\nA nearby imp chuckled, jumping up to try to mess with the keyboard. \n\n\"Nice try, John.\" I sighed, brushing him off gently. He slid onto the tab... | 1 | |
[WP] "No one is truly dead until their name is last spoken" has been said for ages. You have just died and appear in the limbo waiting room of people who are waiting for people to stop talking about them. | [
"I awoke slowly, feeling the soft, crisp sheets against my back, and my eyes began to open. I didn't remember coming home last night. I remembered driving along the dark highway, drinking my cold coffee, and changing the song every thirty seconds, trying to stay awake. The rest was a blur.\n\nI reached for my phone... | 2 | |
[WP] Start a story with this sentence: "This wasn't the first time an immortal being had slapped me." | [
"This wasn't the first time an immortal being had slapped me. No, it had happened many times before but this one particularly stung. If I had to guess, I would attribute the added sting to the fact that he was the god of strength. It seemed their favorite reaction when I told them I had come to end their existence.... | 1 | |
[WP] The Pastafarians have declared a holy war against all gluten-free advocates. | [
"The meeting, just like all other meetings conducted by the Church, happened in a bar. Several of the congregation were drunk, and some were passed out. Unfortunately, one of the comatose members was none other than the Prophet himself, leaving a particularly sober designated driver as the Acting Prophet. The drive... | 1 | |
Your main prey item is in short supply. Now what? | [WP] You're a vampire/werewolf living through a zombie apocalypse | [
"Love and Bloodlust in the Time of Cholera\n\nThe big man sullenly kicked at the gravel as they walked. The tiny woman next to him had been hearing a frustrated rumble coming from the back of his throat for the last ten minutes. She was pretty sure he wasn’t aware of it, and she knew what was coming next.\n\nHe s... | 2 |
[WP] The Kelloggs movie universe debuts with a gritty cop drama featuring Tony the Tiger as a hardboiled detective with a dirty past, fighting a crimewave triggered by a new lethal drug nicknamed "Frosted Flakes". | [
"The streets were tough enough without a new drug. Every gang owned some piece of turf, which they fought over everyday. Prostitution, human trafficking and arms dealing ran rampant. \n\nThe police force was underfunded and corrupt. Only a few cops were clean, and the rest were dirty as shit. As I walked up those s... | 2 | |
Edit: Props to u/NorweigenOx for inspiring this prompt | [WP] Whoever has the biggest rock is king | [
"Gok climbed.\n\n*\"Hahaha! I am ruler now! My rock bigger than Hurk's!*\n\nGok replayed the last few weeks in his- admittedly dim- mind, giving him a purpose, driving him to keep going.\n\n*\"Haha! Trub's rock puny compared to my rock! My rock the size of head!\"*\n\nIt was fun at first, he would admit that. Gok w... | 3 |
[WP] In the near-future, an AI goes rogue. However, instead of destroying the world or ending humanity, it resolves to win every single argument on the internet. | [
"It started well enough. Able to access and process the whole of human knowledge in mere moments, and with humans providing contradictory facts and assessments on every subject, the AI was able generate masters-thesis level rebuttals to anything a human wrote. On the rare occasion where a human was an expert in th... | 1 | |
[WP] Write something that is Sci-fi in the beginning and slowly turns full Fantasy, but ends up a mystery. | [
"The explosion rattled the windows as dust fell from the ceiling, coating the two of us that sat on the floor in wait. Our guns were in our hands, but they had been switched to safety for days. When the first contact happened no one thought war was to erupt, but once the first rain of plasma fell from the silent, s... | 1 | |
[WP] You are an important public figure, no stranger to assassination attempts. Your latest would-be assassin is so incompetent that you've started messing with him. | [
"And no phone calls right now please I want to be alone ... He couldn't help but chuckle to himself as the door slammed shut behind him. On his way to his office he had seen a very visibly over weight man stuff into an ill fitting ninja costume heaving a grappling hook up the side of the building. He only had a f... | 4 | |
[WP] In a world where "finders keepers" is the law, you are professional "Hider." | [
"I've been hiding now for 25 years - I'm the best in the biz'. I see these youngins coming around every couple years but they never last, they go on findin' after a bit. I don't blame them though, findin' gives you that rush. Not for me though, I'm a hider. \n\nMy operation is still a humble one; I use the same one... | 1 | |
[WP] They didn't come here to conquer, they came to consume | [
"Shelby sipped her morning tea, decaf with a hint of lemon. Blowing softy into the cup, whirls of steam danced around her lips. The tea slightly burned, rushing down her throat tingling each membrane. Shelby let out a soft sigh, closing her eyes as she felt the early morning breeze on her face. Autumn was her favor... | 1 | |
English is not my first languange | [WP]The lowest level of hell is actually a bar run by the devil, here the worst villains in human history reflect on how stupid their evil plans were. You are a newcomer, which seems relatively normal, so everyone now wants to know your story. | [
"Attila took a long drag from his cigarette, releasing a puff of smoke into the stale, already-cloudy air. In the background, Eddie Money's \"Two Tickets to Paradise\" played softly over the dive bar's speakers. Same tune as every night. He sighed, picking up his handful of darts once again.\n\n\"Your go,\" he said... | 1 |
[WP] The experience of a hitman who is hired to kill a vampire. | [
"The summer sun began to set behind me as I scanned the apartment building across from mine. I quickly identified the correct window near one of the top floors. Unfortunately the curtains for the bedroom were closed, preventing a clear shot. \n\nHowever, my research shows that he works a night shift at the morgue. ... | 2 | |
[WP] You love your current girlfriend and you hate you ex. What you don't know is that they are one and the same. | [
"Oh, man, where to begin. You know how they say everybody has a \"type\" of person that they're attracted to? Well, I had met Teresa on one of these dating sites. She seemed like my type, you know? Six years younger than me, but when you hit your thirties, no one cares about that. Kinda smart, but not nerdy smart. ... | 1 | |
[WP] A prophecy is foretold about the fall of the dark lord but the only one who has it is the dark lord himself. | [
"A belabored laugh gurgled out of the Archduke as he laid splayed across the floor, blood running like a river out of his stomach. His skin was paling, and his body was failing, yet he seemed alive as ever. Looming over him was the hero, catching his breath, leaning heavily on his broadsword. \n\n*Fate's a funny th... | 1 | |
[WP]Some say humanity can only see beauty because they are mortal. | [
"He stood by the door, observing the entrails decorating his bedspread. \n\nHe sighed. \n\nHe was tired. It had been a whole thing this morning- preparing the corpses for dissection at the leisure of the Dean, cleaning out the cellar, transporting remains to the furnace. And the students- the young fae were still t... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up one morning to discover you've gained superpowers, but that they don't work when anyone is watching | [
"I heard the bus before i saw it.\n\nMy own fault really, I should have looked before i crossed the street but I wasn't paying attention.\n\nWhen I went to sleep last night I was just a normal person getting one with his life, and then this morning i rip the door of my refrigerator, crush my toothbrush, and smashed... | 1 | |
[WP] You are born in a world where people have superpowers. You have the ability to freeze time, although you have morally decided not to use this ability. It turns out, to your horror, that only a few decades later these superpowers have created serious physical side effects. | [
"Twenty years ago was the first time Jonathan made the world stand still, today would be the last time.\n\nJonathan discovered his power when he was eight years old, at first he didn't believe what was happening in front of him. Rain droplets suspended perfectly still all around him. He was one of a lucky few in th... | 1 | |
[WP] A man is buying food at a mall. The narrator/narrators tell the story as if he/they were sport commenter(s). | [
"“Good afternoon to all, I am Richard Johnson and joining me is John Richards. Welcome to the 2017 world championship grocery buying. In just a few seconds our very own Bob Smith will start his first run.”\n\n“Indeed Richard, I would like to remind all of you who are not familiar with the sport that Smith will hav... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a genetically modified mishap. Your height every day is the day of the year, for example December 1st you are 12 foot 1 inch. Today is December 31st. | [
"\"Does it hurt?\"\n\nThe giant man smiled softly. The tiny notebook in his weathered hands fluttered in the wind. It was hard to read the messy words; his glasses didn't fit him during the Long Months. But, the giant man understood. She always wrote this the same question at first. He delicately wrote back, being ... | 1 | |
[WP] "If early day or late at night, its not my problem. I'll be alright, No cause you name is worth the fight. However if im bored, then yeah, I might" Tell me the story of the Grey Lanterns | [
"*If early day, or late at night. It's not my problem; I'll be alright.*\n\nThere was the sound of the flicking flint on a lighter, followed by a \"Goddammit.\"\n\n*No cause you name is worth the fight. But if I'm bored then yeah, I might.*\n\nJosh thought to himself as a semi-transparent magnifying glass got betwe... | 1 | |
[WP] Garfield was never the same after John died... | [
"\"I *suuuuure* hate Mondays!\"\n\n> *laugh track*\n\nOdie stares blankly at the pile in the bed.\n\n\"Only a fresh lasagna could get me to leave *these* covers!\"\n\nNo reaction from Odie.\n\n> *laugh track*\n\n\"I just woke up and I'm ALREADY tired again!\"\n\nGarfield's hand emerges from the blankets to sh... | 1 | |
Edit: What i meant with the staring was that the eyes are still adjusting and thus you can't actually *see* the monster right away. | [WP] Walking back into your room from a midnight pee you decide to stand in the doorway to let your eyes adjust to the darkness. The monster that was planning on scaring you is getting freaked out at your willingness to stare at it. | [
"Jimmy flushed the toilet and headed down the darkened corridor. His head was foggy from sleep while his eyelids barely managed to stay open. As he dragged his feet down the carpeted floor he felt his foot get tangled up in something. His heart began to race and his eyes, which had previously been droopy, now opene... | 6 |
[WP] Last Week At Lunch With Co-Workers, You All Told Each Other Your Thoughts On The Worst Ways To Die. All Your Co-Workers Died In Their Worst Ways And You're The Last One Standing. | [
"They were all dead.\n\nI kept on repeating the mantra while I stared at the ceiling of my cramped room with the moonlight as the only source of illumination; a foul odor lingered in my nose as a result of poor hygiene due to the days of my confinement and withdrawal from society. \n\nRemembering the scene from las... | 1 | |
[WP] Describe something boring and plain in a way that makes it feel extreme and exotic. | [
"You may have tried inhaling helium, nitrogen, or even carbon dioxide, but have you tried oxygen? That's right, oxygen, made with only the finest of international trees. Combine it with nitrogen and trace amounts of argon and you can have a throat full of delicious air. But wait, you're thirsty instead? No problem!... | 1 | |
[WP] You fell, smashing your head and blacking out, but you swear everything went blue just before losing consciousness. Now that you're awake again, there's this thin black line in your field of view that just won't go away. | [
" The icy wind buffeted their half-covered faces and numbed their fingers and toes. They didn't mind, though; it was the same as every day. Jason, finally reaching the very top of the old, dead oak tree, surveyed the world as it was before him. He could see his house, a small blob of green at the foot of the h... | 1 | |
[WP] You are an astronaut on a lone journey to the Moon. As you set foot on it, you turn around and see a little girl waving back at you. | [
"\"Hey, command,\" I chuckle, \"are you seeing this? Over.\" I ask as I wave back to the little girl clutching a doll; she looks a lot like my daughter.\n\n\n\"Seeing what? Over.\" A voice cracks over the radio, \"and what were you waving at?\"\n\n\n\"What do you mean? There's a girl up here with me and.\" A loud b... | 1 | |
[WP] When you press it, the year resets. On December 31st, she dies. This year, you've decided not to press it. Today is the last day. | [
"With this golden Meade I do declare! Or is it I so for swear? At any rate I have a confession that I must confess. With this bottle I swear no duress. I suck at this rhyme but I'm a grand resetter of time. Resetter is not a real word. My third grade teacher would say. Fuck you Mrs. Benson you were mean to me. \n\... | 4 | |
[wp]Man finds out he can rewind time. Saves a train from derailing by using E/brakes. Shady man tells him he has to kill anyone he saves within 7 days or the world ends. He saves ppl & comes for them in 7 days, so they can say goodbyes & live to the fullest. One day, he saves a Villain/ Superhero. | [
"I’d been ready to die when the train crashed.\nIn truth, I’d been ready for a while. \n\nMy wife killed herself two years ago. She stepped in front of a train. This train. In the note, she said I drove her to it. She said she wanted me to suffer. She told me that was why she took our baby with her.\n\nTwo years of... | 1 | |
[WP] As you cut into an onion, you find that it's not making you cry this time. Instead, the onion has started crying. | [
"I put the knife down slowly. Very slowly. I could still hear the quiet sobs. I took a few steps backward from the table, convinced I had finally gone and lost my damn mind.\nPurple pooled on the table around the sharp edge of the blade. The thin scratch marks on the cutting board were lightly stained. I stood... | 2 | |
[WP] Some anonymous person on the other side of the planet makes a poorly-worded wish. Now, you and everyone else on the world must live with the effects. | [
" \"I'm ready to make my last wish genie\" the British man said then continued after thinking of it \"I wish everyone had the perfect body according to themselves\" and everything everywhere went black for a second as everyone passed out.\n\n............................................................................ | 1 | |
[WP] Write a story in which the hero has to choose between saving the girl or saving the world. | [
"I'm dutch so please excuse my mistakes when it comes to english.\n\n\" I've come to destroy this world, but you I might spare you. \"This was the first thing she ever said to me. I had been standing next to stoplight when a girl approached me. She had been pale, almost greyish like the moon and really red lipstick... | 1 | |
[WP] The world is full of jerks. One day you get sick of it... | [
"Same time same place. We're they retarded or something? Corner behind the school where the school sports equipment shed was. Only reason Jack saw this was because he had soccer practice after schools for the past few weeks, and he usually stayed some time after to clean up. So when he was returning the pylons to t... | 1 | |
[WP] When you die you meet God and he judges you not on your sins but on something you didn't expect. | [
"\"Christopher, my Son, it is good to see you,\" God beamed his radiance upon Christopher Hayes. Hayes was sitting on the cloudy floor, he felt for his balance and stood up. \n\n\"What's going on?\" He looked around. \"Who are you? Where am I?\"\n\n\"I Am that I Am, and you Are where you Are.. Just kidding, you're ... | 2 | |
[WP] There is an armed robber roaming the streets of San Francisco. Their weapons: Musical Instruments | [
"He heaved the grand piano onto his shoulders, he strode forward to his victim. The women screamed one last time before the piano came down, the sound of her spine ripped through the alley. \n\nThe man bent down and began to rifle through her pockets, \"ah, damn, a bust.\" he muttered. He wiped the blood off his in... | 1 | |
[WP] A telephone engineer secretly dreams of becoming a superhero. Each time he enters a phonebooth to fix it, he wishes to receive a call to adventure. One day, he does and saves the world. | [
"*\"The middle generation between 40-years-and-a-pension, and gig-economy-millennials sucks,\"* Louis confessed to the F-150's steering wheel. He often wondered if his father had done him any favors, getting Louis a job at Pa Bell, with enough job security to keep food on the table, but in a dying trade that would ... | 3 | |
[WP] Due to a gypsy curse, when you make bodily contact with somebody you are granted a brief glimpse into a random point in their future. You have just held your newborn child for the first time and saw absolutely nothing, not even a grave. | [
"\"Just hold her already!\" Mia furrowed her brow. Her frustration overtook her exhaustion.\n\nEli hestated. He hated this part. It was the stone dropping in the pit of his stomach. It was the sweat on his palms. It was the weight of the future, an undebatable truth, which gave him a headache.\n\nWith Mia he saw s... | 3 | |
[WP] "...But if anyone asks, tell them we're fine." | [
"\"...but if anyone asks, tell them we´re fine.\"\n\n\"We *are* fine.\"\n\n\"That's the spirit.\"\n\nI sighed. I love Joe, dense as he may be he's still my brother. But sometimes I just want to punch his throat. Yeah, we are in a town in the middle of nowhere, and the timing for us blowing a tire seems a bit off. W... | 2 | |
[WP] A day in the life of a dog | [
"Arf! Arf arf arf! Bow wow, grr? Yip! Roof, roof. Roof.\n\nJust yanking your chain. My name's Tony, labrador retriever from San Francisco city. You might not know it, but that's where *All Dogs go to Heaven* took place. Here's me wishing they would show more than still pictures of it. Oh yeah, it sounds like a goo... | 2 | |
[WP]You meet the first person you've ever truly hated in your entire life. You have one free pass. | [
"I gazed at him with the decades of despair which brewed inside of my conscience. I knew that today was my day. The moment i had replayed in my minds eye over and over again. I crouched over just as i planned, my pantaloons resting at my ankles, I'm glad i wore sweatpants today. I pushed with all the force my body... | 1 | |
Elements of the periodic table btw | [WP] The world is split into 4 nations. Earth, Fire, Water and Air. You seem to be the only one who can bend all 118. | [
"Chapter 1: Chlorine\n\nAurora and Kahl were raised by their grandmother in the water tribe. When Aurora was 2 years old their parents went into the war. Kahl was 7, so her grandmother had to raise both of them.\n\nKahl used to play a lot with his friends in the village and he spend most of the day outside, but Aur... | 11 |
[WP] Describe a day in the life of the old hermit Ben Kenobi | [
"Kenobi woke screaming in his small rickety bed. Another nightmare this one where it was the gruelling battle between himself Anakin but except he was the one jumping And laying on the lava bed, becoming the monster that he sees on the holo feeds. Getting up slowly his back wet sweats, he wandered over to the wate... | 1 | |
[WP] Help! I'm trapped in this room and can only access writing prompts! | [
"I should have replied to some other plot. People are going to think I'm doing this just to fit the prompt. I might have been down voted or banned if I had replied to another prompt though. I guess this is my best chance of getting my message seen. This is not me trying to be meta though, and me saying 'This is not... | 1 | |
[WP] You jokingly try to use a Jedi mind trick to get out of your Spanish final. It works. | [
"William stood frozen at the door to his Spanish Professor’s Office. He cleared his throat while wiping his sweating palms across his jeans. Professor Moore signaled William through the doorway. William walked in hesitantly while locking eyes onto the Professor. Professor Moore sat sternly, her dark hair tied back ... | 1 | |
[WP] As the students leave the lecture theater the doors seemed stuck. After finally getting them open an oppressive silence swallows the room. Thick mists roll across the campus and not a single living soul can be heard or seen. | [
"*Clang* The door finally opens, forty students gathered around cheering me on like I was their savior. Even though normally the most I'd get was a thinly veiled snicker or a biting glance. But today? Today was my day. Twenty minutes had passed since the end of the Lecture, with Mr. Baumgartner leaving out the... | 1 | |
No, that's not a typo. | [WP] Your job is to exercise demons. | [
"\"Oh no Father, I do agree, it's a truly truly evil thing a demonic presence, but this one isn't like the rest; it's a sweet little thing\".\n\nI looked at Mrs McDonnall, her age was etched onto her skin and mentioning of an exorcism seemed to invoke a deep sorrow in her eyes.\n\n\"What do you mean it's a 'sweet l... | 4 |
[WP] A Massive alien warship lands in the in rural America. A six year old girl was the first one to discover and make contact with the aliens. As a result they only respond to her and take commands from her. | [
"The forgiveness weighs you down up here. Maybe that's why I always go higher and higher. The thin wisps of cloud grow thick in the night. Those stars above shiver above this dying world. I go up and up. The forgiveness weighs me down. Is it really forgiveness then?\n\n\nI still think of you Alicia. I even talk to ... | 1 | |
[WP] You and your crew are sailing a rocky trade route. All is fine, but you begin to hear the infamous song of a siren from nearby... | [
"The melody reached my ears before it reached anyone else. I stood near the front of the ship, watching the for any sign of storms. Through the powerful winds that were buffeting the sails, I heard their song. A soft melody, that seemed to pull me to them. I turned my head and tried to shout, but I realized I was t... | 1 | |
[WP] Humanity has been merged into a single consciousness and now lives in a time of unprecedented cooperation. The sole human left out is precious because he/she is the only one capable of writing unpredictable fiction. | [
"Stephen's day began as normal as any day did. After spending a couple of minutes staring at the new painting on his bedroom wall to wake himself up, he spent another couple of minutes deciding what to wear for the day. He spent an uncertain amount of time in the bathroom, and who knows how long it took him to make... | 1 | |
First time I've posted here after lurking reading everyone's great work. I am horrible with sentence structure and paragraphing but I still love to write. Sorry if someone has posted something like this before. Just a random thought I had tonight. Look forward to reading something awesome! **EDIT:** These are great! Th... | [WP]You're immortal by accident and lack basic life skills. You sell your organs that can regenerate on the black market to pay rent. | [
"The future wasn't that great. In 1643 I had died, except I hadn't. Stabbed forty-three times. The first seven had been an attempt to murder me over some indiscretion while gambling. The rest had been kind of confused frenzy when I hadn't died. I'd been too drunk to do anything about it. But healing from being stab... | 6 |
[WP] You are in love with a werewolf. Since you’ve started dating, you’ve learned that werewolves transform every night on the week of a full moon. While picking up some last minute items for the upcoming week, the cashier leans in and says, "That time of the month, huh?" | [
"I shift my eyes from the heaps of assorted meats on the cashier's conveyor belts to the cashier himself. Even this small movement feels delayed, like the bags that I know must be under my eyes by now are weighing them down. I blink once, trying to bring my gaze into focus, but it's pointless. I lost my glasses la... | 4 | |
[WP] You are taking a box of toys to the dumpster when you hear behind you someone ask "Why?" | [
"\"Why?\" The word ran out like a gun shot in the darkened parking lot. I had been lost in thought and hadn't, noticed the child slink up behind me. A tear welled up in my ear but I held it back.\n\n\n\"Sometimes.... life doesn't work out how you like.\" I said to the child. He looked to be around 4 with short blon... | 1 | |
[WP] The police in your town are so impressed with your skills as a house burglar that the commissioner decides to put you to work planting evidence in the homes of other criminals. Tonight, your target is someone you never would've expected... | [
"NSFW (Cursing)\n\nLike the sound of a turn signal in an old truck, pulling the rake across the pins soothes me. I think it’s because the sound is so familiar, and although the sound foreshadows the possible threat of conflict, it puts me at ease. Subtle, like Marci’s delicate voice as she speaks to me as to not wa... | 1 | |
[WP] The Grim Reaper has a list where names pop up when their life is at risk due to a decision or action they made. The same name keeps popping up on the list and the Reaper decides to look into it. | [
"The name popped up again and the Grim Reaper stared at it, and then marked off another tick under the human’s name before pausing to count up the tallies. Nine. All dated today. \n\nA quick shuffle through It’s papers revealed a trend- as many as thirty in a single day- rarely less than five- tallies all under the... | 3 | |
[WP] You live a normal life, in a normal world when all of the sudden an unknown cosmic event causes probability to switch. The least likely things are now the most likely to happen and vice versa. The life of an "Average Joe" has completely changed. | [
"This is shitty. I've never written here or anywhere before. Yolo swag, all that jazz.\n\n\nRecently I had taken off work to go party in vegas with a couple of my friends from college. Over the past few months when we were planning I had amassed a savings of about 3k which was to be used as funds for the upcoming l... | 1 | |
[WP] The world is silent. Playing music attracts monsters to your location. One day, you decide you don't care; you just want to hear a melody again. | [
"If there was one thing worse than the loneliness of the wasteland, it was the silence. In the survivor's group nestled in Whyrem, people were executed for simply having a Walkman on their person. Paranoia and fear was what dictated the community; if anybody ran the risk of attracting the monsters, it was their col... | 2 | |
[WP] "Your loved ones would not have wanted this!" The hero yelled desperately to someone once considered a friend. "Oh, but they did" | [
"\"But they did,\" I sobbed, \"and I am nothing if not the dutiful son!\" \nRichard's eyes widened. \"No, your mother told me that she wanted a normal life for you, not the life she had!\" \nI whipped out my phone. \"Richard for our years of friendship I will give you 30 seconds to explain this text before we f... | 1 | |
[WP] Your loved one just returned from a epic fantasy journey after randomly disappearing one night. Now you must come to terms with their new self. | [
"Diane's mother didn't know where she was, her brother and sister hadn't heard from her in days, and none of her coworkers had any idea where she could be.\n\nAs you could imagine, I was more than a little distraught.\n\nNo note, no missing car, and no hastily packed clothes. I simply woke up, and she wasn't there.... | 1 | |
[WP] Due to years of aggressive demilitarization, all countries no longer produce weapons. All armies are now cyber armies. World war three has since broken out and today is D-Day. Welcome to the front lines. God Speed. | [
"“Jenkins, let’s go man! You coming or what?”\n\nStephen grabbed me by my wrist and pulled me from my cubicle chair. \n\n“Everyone’s already in the conference room, Jenkins, we’re late!” \n\nStephen seemed desperate, but I found it hard to be alarmed, he was the kind of person who hyperventilated when being forc... | 2 | |
[WP] Write the most horribly clichè-d character you can. | [
"Brent was a failure. A failure as a father, estranged and forgetful. A failure as a husband, twice divorced and emotionally detached. A failure as a human being, his permanently cold apartment littered with empty whiskey bottles and congealed take out boxes filling with cigarette butts. \n\nThe curtains were still... | 1 | |
[WP] Aliens have arrived on Earth. They're serene, peaceful, and always play calm music. You're deaf and feel like something is horribly wrong. Can you convince the rest of humanity? | [
"She was drowned out in a crowd probably about to do something, but it's too loud for me to stop them. They were like zombies, willingly powerless to the hypnotist aliens. It was like crowd mentality, but with a second and more obvious catalyst. It wasn't like they were enslaved and obviously sleep walking awake. T... | 1 | |
[WP] You wanted a new look. Your visit to the salon takes an unexpected turn. | [
"\"This style just won't do, will it?\" The gentleman standing next to Arcasdia shuffles a little further down the subway, pressing into a fat man. \"Well, I asked you a question! Will it?\" The gentleman is out of fat men to press in to and lets out a meek \"no.\"\n\n\"Some help you are, fluh!\"\n\nArcasdia exits ... | 2 | |
[WP] the universe has a end date: the point at which it achieves maximum entropy. The purpose of all life is to combat entropy. You dare to finally end that fight. | [
"Mounted to the table was a single computer. *It's our only hope* I thought. The computer's only function was to see if entropy could be reversed. If successful digitally, the government would grant needed funds for a mechanical, industrial one. Tentatively, I pushed execute. Pixels flashed on the screen, and in ev... | 1 | |
[WP] You have done what almost everybody has dreamed. You finally figured out how to go back into time and to do everything over as a child, while retaining all you have learned as an adult. However, as you build your ideal life, you learn that every successful person in history has done the same. | [
"Take a closer look at your magazine cut-outs, the celebrities and the geniuses, the rich and the powerful. They share more than a sleep number. \n\nEvery famous man and woman on this earth possesses it. Across all languages, the word translates back to *cycles.* The amount of times someone has relived their life. ... | 3 | |
[WP] You are a very ill-prepared spy. | [
"Alexandr Nikovich (surname changed to protect his identity) has been in America for six years. He sits in the living room of a one-bedroom apartment in an up-and-coming neighborhood in Brooklyn, sipping a 20 oz. bottle of Arrogant Bastard Ale. Nikovich is 35, 5'10\", and looks like one out of the million middle-cl... | 1 | |
[WP] Years after their retirement, a bunch of the old superheroes and supervillains decide to host a reunion and reminisce about the "good old days." | [
"Christopher sat there quietly at the table, sipping his drink as the music blared from the speaker in the corner. \"May I join you?\" a long-haired fellow asked him, pointing to the chair.\n\nChris nodded and leaned back in his chair, opening himself up for conversation, as the man sat down at the chair next to hi... | 3 |
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