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[WP] Avatar but instead of the four elements, it's four musical styles. For example, it could be classical, Hip Hop, Rock, and Country... or whatever you want. | [
"'No Korra that simply won't do the Trance nation was not founded on the ideals of brutishness and aggressive lyricism!' Tenzin growled whilst stroking his goatee.\n\nKorra closed her eyes and tried to feel the rhythm of the Trance that Master Tenzin was echoing throughout the temple, she found it to be a dull repe... | 1 | |
[WP] I had my headphones in my ears but they weren't playing music, it was a lure... | [
"My attempt:\n\nI had my headphones in my ears but they weren't playing music, it was a lure; I wanted to be seen as a victim little did the wanna be thugs know.\n\nSure enough I soon heard footsteps rapidly approaching behind me, I let them get close. I felt the subtle shift of the wind as the would be attacker re... | 1 | |
[WP] Having finally saved the city from your lifelong nemesis, you peacefully retire to the suburbs to live a quiet life. The next day you hear a knock at the door: it is your arch-enemy, begging you to help him create a LinkedIn profile. | [
"Heavy rain thudded the side of my house.\n\nWell technically I guess I should call it a manor, but hey, who am I to pull teeth over the little things? \n\nThe rain trickled down the old steel gutters, roaring past the open windows of the first floor.\n\nThe noise was almost drowned out from \"The Guardians of the ... | 2 | |
My first attempt here, let's see if anyone likes it. | [WP] You're a robot in a utopic society entirely made up of very moral robots. There are legends about fleshy beings which created robots, but most think it's a fable. One day, exploring a cave, you find a frozen human body, holding a very old paper, which changes everything you know. | [
"**What a cold and frozen cave I am exploring. Good thing I wasn't programmed to feel. (stops) 'Ello. What's all this then? (slaps head) Stupid cockney accent chip. Why was I given this, and not a mighty robot penis? I can't feel cold, as previously stated, so no shrinkage. But anyhow, what's this frozen peach colo... | 6 |
[WP] Time freezes around you. This has been your dream for years. You can now do whatever you want... the problem is, your on an airplane 30,000 feet in the air | [
"Brendan shifted in his seat, 1 hour to go before the view became anything but blue and clouds. And, he thought, 3 hour and 23 minutes until I can get up. He shifted again and thought about starting a silent slow fight for the centre armrest which was undoubtedly claimed by the large man beside him.\n\nSore, Brenda... | 3 | |
[WP] The broken clock that's right three times a day. | [
"When she first moved into the Darwin Martin house, Katherine felt uneasy. It was clearly a home designed for more than one person -- possibly twenty, if you included the help -- and although the brick detail was nice, there were way too many windows. Not to mention, the house was fairly consistently surrounded by ... | 4 | |
[WP] Write a story about two rivals, one with unbelievable luck and the other with peerless skill. | [
"\"I *hate* him,\" Gary said to himself.\n\nHe had tried so hard to impress his family, especially after the passing of his father. He did well in school, he was a proficient athlete, and he was bar *none* the most accomplished trainer from his home town.\n\nAs he continued down the grassy path something stirred in... | 2 | |
[WP] Describe an AI's first thoughts after being created. | [
" #Datebase MAIN KEPR \n Query(datafile31) \n RaiseWarning: ‘assuming local namespace’ \n name = ‘datafile31’ \n loc = ‘sys/dir/mem/depth/datafile31.dat’ \n content_type = ‘association’ \n content_refer = ‘color’,’grey’ \n content_obj = ‘... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a reclusive loner with a passion for cooking and a fancy for exotic herbs and spices. The villagers, however, seem to think that you're a witch. | [
"Two oldies are walking down the village road and they find themselves in front of a house that is emitting smoke. \n\n\"Something on fire aye. It's coming from the chimney\"\n\n\"Na man that's the election of the pope\"\n\n\"Yah, I've read it in one of those, what do you call it, internet, if the smoke is white th... | 3 | |
[WP] A mystical law firm specializing in interpreting prophecies in the most favourable way to their clients. | [
"It was a strange case, for sure. On the surface, it was just a typical \"chosen one\" case. But, once you dove into the particulars, it seemed much more complex than that. Harold ran his fingers across the surface of the dusty scroll, going over the strange symbols and depictions dancing across the margins. It was... | 1 | |
[WP] The government has multiple sections of isolated societies in which they test brain activity. Your society is exposed to Marijuana, and during your high you casually think up the notion described above. Immediately you go unconscious, and when you come to, two men are looking down at you. | [
"Really, the idea came to me slowly - in bits and pieces - but, just like getting high, you sometimes don't feel it until after that first huge hit. That's what happened to me - I had most of the truth by the time I put it all together, but it felt like I was actually learning it all over again when I did.\n\nIn ot... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a normal person, living an everyday life. You have a hard time opening jars. Blankets never seem to cover you properly. Every time you open the cupboards all your tupperware spills out on you. You begin to realize that you're living in an infomercial. | [
"God does not like me. This is what I concluded after what happened yesterday. It's true, I'm a little clumsy and I knock things over or stump my toe at least once a day. However, yesterday, my clumsiness was off the charts. It was like God was having a buy-one-get-one-free deal on bad luck especially for me.\n\nIt... | 3 | |
[WP] Write a short story in which you never re-use a noun or verb. | [
"Joey walked into the kitchen, orange in hand, and a giant grin on his face.\n\n\"Hey Pamela. Aren't you glad to see me? Or should I say-\"\n\nI had to interrupt. \"Joey, stop! I don't want to listen to one of your terrible one-liners. He frowned. \"Aw, come on, kiddo. I feel like we don't Vitamin C eye-to-\"\n\n\"... | 2 | |
[WP] A robot can perfectly pretend to be a person down to the tiniest detail. It can pretend to have emotions and have the same memories of the person they replaced. A group is trying to find out who was replaced with said robot. | [
"Dr. Mathers greeted the group warmly and ushered them into the screening room. \n\n\"OK, well do this one by one; blood sample, x-ray, and mri. Mr. Georges your up first.\"\n\nThe woman fifth in line suddenly sprung out from the queue. Making a headlong dash for the exit doors she bowled over a number of technic... | 1 | |
[wp] You watch helplessly as everyone leaves earth on a spaceship. You are now the last human alive on earth. | [
"\"Go\"\n\nIt was all I could say as I watched her walk up the ramp to the last shuttle. She hesitated at the door, turning back to look one last time with tears in her eyes. The wind was whipping around, and she braced herself on the side of the shuttle. Her other arm held the bundle close to her chest. I gave a w... | 2 | |
[WP] Humans have cybernetic enhancements to make their lives easier. Patches are downloaded and installed while humans rest. Talking in your sleep, you mutter "cancel" while an important patch was being downloaded. | [
"*MAY 6TH, 2019, 23:00*\n\n\nWhen I woke up, there was no HUD. Just pure, unobstructed vision. Confused, I figured it was the patch getting ready, so I paid no attention to it. I had some breakfast and took a shower, assuming that my parents were just asleep since they didn't have to work. Just before I left for sc... | 2 | |
[WP] Write something about the beauty that silence can bring. | [
"The rain thunders down on the roof, echoing the sadness that has lived within for weeks. The angry silence of the house rings out, both inhabitants ireful of the other, of the hand that fate has dealt them. This quiet is a welcome change to the unsaid words that had come before, even if it is not a calm quiet. \n\... | 10 | |
[WP] as the last vestiges of humanity were destroyed by the alien invasion, a faint voice echoes through alien ships, "but wait, there's more!" | [
"Grognar poured the steaming black liquid into the cup, blinking sleep from his eyes. \n*As stupid as the humans were,* Grognar thought, *they did create some wonderful concoctions while in their prime.* Grognar, like most of his race, had taken a liking to the culture the humans had left behind. However, he, like ... | 1 | |
[WP] War has become so routine that everyone treats it like your average office job. Even the military. | [
"He stood, tall and proud in his uniform. A barrel chested man, he'd been in the military long enough to consider it his life, and he'd be in it til he died or they forced him out. \n\nHe stared across the line at his enemy, another barrel chested career military man. they could have been friends, probably, in anot... | 3 | |
[WP] Uncle Nick is from the Abyssal Plane. | [
"\"whhadya mean Abyssal Plane?!\" \n\n\"I mean the abyssal plane, I'm not joking, as in where demons and stuff come from\" \n\n\"but he seems so nice\" \n\n\"not all demons are evil son, for some it's just a job, do the evil, go home, live their eternal life like a normal person\" \n\n\"that doesn't make sense... | 1 | |
[WP] A burglar hides in what he thought was a basement when the cops show up. Turns out, it's actually a bomb shelter. Around the time he realizes this he suddenly hears an earth-shattering explosion on the surface. | [
"The monotonous hammering of the relentless rain on the windows was drowned out by the warbling of sirens. \n\nIt hadn't been a good night so far. Three consecutive houses had sleeping families in them, the weather had left me soaked through to the skin, and now the police had turned up.\n\nQuickly, I gathered my t... | 1 | |
As in you are stuck in the game as the character and they are you. | [WP] You turn on your game console, and play a game. You make a really stupid mistake that makes the character mad and switches your bodies. | [
" I was so fucking scared a while ago, I was playing Until Dawn and doing a bad walkthrough since I'd done only good walkthroughs up until now. I hit the animals in the game, which felt bad but I wanted to see the outcome of the game. I looked through phone and basically chose all the bad options. \n\n When I was... | 1 |
I just realized that Disney version of fairy tales are not the original ones. Since they can change fairy tales like that, I'm sure reddit writers can do a good job as well! | [WP] A dystopian alteration of the fairy tales like Peter pan and Snow white etc. | [
"Wendy's eyes fluttered open as she came to, the cold touch of metal digging into her back and bare arms. She blinked rapidly and turned her head away from the harsh fluorescent lights that glared down on her. Her blue eyes traveled the length of her body. Her periwinkle dress was tattered and bloody, her arms brui... | 1 |
[WP] Turns out souls are a type of currency in the realm of deities and recent spikes in population have inflated the price of souls to the point of being worthless. The once proud devil finds himself collecting unemployment checks and doing odd jobs to get by | [
"As he picked up some trash in the parking lot, the Devil felt the impact of a beer can on his horned head.\n\n\"Loser!\" - he turned around to see Buddah and Ra driving by his chariot, getting lost in the distance while laughing blithely.\n\nHe sat down on the sidewalk and took a deep breath. At that moment, it is... | 1 | |
[WP]Some sort of scientific research claims that the 1,247,363 person born is a god, that's you, and the study was dead wrong. | [
"*Meanwhile, in The Land Where All The Writing Prompts Are Simultaneously True:*\n\n----\n\n\"Huh,\" Alan said, \"Would you look at this?\"\n\n\"No,\" Penny replied. \"I stopped reading the paper for a reason, it's too zany. 'Local serial killer kills serial killer who only kills immortal serial killers'.\"\n\n\"... | 1 | |
[WP] The witch's garden | [
"Find the clearing among the trees\nWhere lilac and gardenia beckon thee.\n\nAnd may the bees dance with delight\nWhile the brownies with their honey cower with fright.\n\nShe is near.\n\n\"Will you come?\"\n\nAnd then, at once,\nthe loom of leaves' embrace\nSnuffs the light, \nlifting lace\nagainst the canopy of s... | 3 | |
[WP] Remember my child: If you ever encounter a Human, they speak in half-truths and hyperboles. | [
"Humans choose the longest path between two points,\n\nClaiming it's the most beautiful.\n\n.\n\nTheir thoughts clutter with lines that don't meet.\n\nJumps of \"intuition\" that occasionally work.\n\n.\n\nHumanity is locked in its pubescence. \n\nOverwhelming instinct overriding fact.\n\n.\n\nBeware the human, for... | 2 | |
Maybe you crack it open and find something evil, maybe something good, maybe you need to do some stuff in a certain order..? It's up to you! | [WP] After playing with your fidget cube for ages, you notice something about it... something that just seems off.. | [
"Flick, flick, flick. Tak tak tak tak PING! \n\"Hmm? That's not the usual sound...\" I say before glancing down at my hand. A golf ball sized fidget cube resides there, cradled in my fingers. Lifting it to my face, I see it's cracked in half. \n\"I just bought this... it's already broken?\" There's annoyance in my ... | 1 |
[WP] It is unfortunately your time to leave this Earth and once you close your eyes for the last time a flashing sign appears from the darkness: 'Congratulations! You have conquered the greatest game of all time!', and you're presented a score and two options to choose from: 'New Game+' and 'End'. | [
"Emily laid in her bed, surrounded by her family and an incessant beeping they had gotten far too used to. No one could hear the rain pouring onto the window in the background, but it didn’t matter. Emily smiled, and as she let out a breath, she felt the darkness engulfing her.\n \nNow, there was nothing but it. S... | 1 | |
[WP] Humanity is on the first stage of the space age and the first intelligent civilization we encounter is the humans from another planet who are on the same technological stage as us. | [
"\"This can't be right.\" Said the commander.\n\nWe were all staring out the window, watching as the familiar spaceship passed by our own. The design was nearly identical to ours, the writing on the side was in the same familiar, clear font the UN had picked for our own markings. Something was clearly amiss. It had... | 1 | |
[WP] On the Day of Judgement, all your actions would be scaled and determined either sins or good deeds. It was fine until a certain action that tilt the scale. | [
"I stood there, silent and smug, as the scale tilted lopsidedly with all the good deeds I had done. \n\n\"One more question,\" I was asked. \"Do you believe Jesus was the Son of God, and that He died for our sins?\"\n\n\"Pffft! Of course not. I mean, well...son of God, sure, but aren't we all children of God? If an... | 1 | |
[WP] Once in a lifetime, a person is given power to control the weather in their local area. You wake up this morning discovering g that your time has come. | [
"Fumbling in the darkness for the source of the incessant *beep beep beep* sound, my fingers finally found purchase on a small, smooth metallic knob that I dutifully pushed. Instant silence from the alarm; a sigh of relief from me. \n\n*Now to start my morning.*\n\nThough only 3:00 A.M. clock to most people, I was ... | 1 | |
[WP] It turns out the dogs were right all along. We should fear thunderstorms, we just didn't know why until now. | [
"Ruse and Rile have been cowering under my bed for the last couple of days, their throats seemingly sore from barking and growling almost non-stop. I haven't been able to work since the weekend because the lady I was paying to watch them suddenly couldn't make it. I knew they were afraid of the thunderstorms, but I... | 1 | |
Initially wanted to make the prompt more specific, but decided to leave it more open-ended to see what you guys can come up with. | [WP] Making grammatical and spelling errors is an actual crime punishable by law. | [
"Ever since the law was passed in August, grammatical mistakes and spelling errors have been punishable. By death. The reason behind this was fairly simple: humanity had more and more trouble understanding each other, eventually resulting in gruesome wars.\n\nSince the increased usage of technology, answers depend ... | 2 |
[WP] You live in a utopia, what does an average day look like for you? | [
"My focus on the problem was just enough to solve the equation. The automated fabricator therefore worked even better and created even more comfort. But now a new equation presented itself. What to do with the excess work being done? Instantly another human or algorithm whose \"mind\" was up to the task and had the... | 1 | |
[WP] You get stuck in a Groundhog Day time loop on the day you get assassinated. But you die 2 seconds after you wake up | [
"It took me a while to realize what was happening. I would wake up to the sound of somebody moving around in the room, take a deep breath, and open my eyes just in time to see Ernie's gun barrel pull level to my head. Then there would be a loud noise, a sudden flash of pain, and I would be waking up again. It's ... | 2 | |
[WP] According to time travel theory there are two options for time travel: The first is that an alternate universe is created with the changes made, and the original timeline is unchanged. The second, is that the original timeline is re-written, erasing everyone in it from existence. | [
" So here I am... [sitting at a bar](https://yts.sc/wp-content/uploads/tt1502404-large-screenshoot1.jpg) in a different city than the one I lived in before and having to deal with the fact I might have killed my entire universe. There's a woman ordering something next to me and my new form is actually more... int... | 1 | |
[WP] A villain's spell/potion goes wrong and falls in love with his/her nemesis. The villain tries desperately to hide these unwanton feelings. | [
"“I know that if you really wanted to kill me, I would already be dead,” she smiled. Her lithe body was tethered firmly about a boiling pit of molten lava. Red light flickered and danced on her supple curves. Her fair seemed to sparkle in the shimmering heat.\n\nThe odd thing was that Aramendor had intended to kill... | 1 | |
[WP] Hitler goes back in time to visit Leonardo Davinci and learn how to paint properly. | [
"\"Here is my portfolio. Please tell me what you think!\" \n\nAdolph sat eagerly in front of the professor, who took the leather parcel and pulled over the large packages of butcher paper and twine.\n\nThe professor opened the portfolio and regarded each particular piece with gusto. Occasionally. Other times his fa... | 1 | |
[WP] Your doorbell rings. You open the door and on the step is a board game... | [
"Dave stepped out on his front porch to retrieve the Sunday paper, as he did every week. The paperboy had tossed it in the bushes, as he did every week. But this week, something didn't seem right. His front porch and the sidewalk leading to the street were both orange with black lettering. He heard the front door c... | 1 | |
[WP] Two warring factions are ruled by two ruthless dictators. Thing is, they're both really good friends who are trying to mess with the other one. | [
"Vriess pulled the cover off his scope, settled it toward the prescribed target. It couldn't be this easy, could it? Not after all this time, all the sacrifice. From close to two kilometers away, from a mountainside across from a luxurious hotel retreat with a stunning lake sitting between, he looked on.\n\nFour... | 2 | |
[WP] you have a superpower, every time you hold your breath you stop time, until you have to breath again. | [
"Four minutes? I can hold my breath for 6 minutes solid, and even longer above water. Yeah I’d show you but I got a bit of gag reflex from all the dead flies and sweat in the pool. Haven’t been professionally trained or anything, just every time when I got stressed out I hold it for a few without even realising it.... | 1 | |
[WP] A multinational pharmaceutical company really does want to help people. However, it's been quite hard to convince the masses of that. | [
"\"Your company, known for reselling the same drugs under different names to trick customers and keep patents longer, flooding the world with falsified studies, hiring models to bribe doctors to sell their drugs to your patients, and raising the price of medications that keep children alive by 500% because people w... | 1 | |
[WP] Among the infinite sea of dimensions, there exists one which is an endless IKEA. Any direction you go, it is IKEA. Sometimes the border between dimensions get thinner and the dimensions bleed into each other. The IKEA stores are simply built around area where this bleeding happens. | [
"My trip to IKEA was a simple one.\n\nGet in. Get cupboards. Three identical cupboards. Steer wife away from danger zones: Linen, Cookware, Soft Furnishings.\n\nThree and a half minutes after walking through the door the plan fell apart into such a complete shambles that it would have made the dutch peacekeeping tr... | 4 | |
[WP] the population on earth is actually much less then we are lead to believe and the number is shrinking at an alarming rate. You've come into this information by accident and must save us from extinction | [
"Drew could do anything if he wanted to. If he wanted to. It's not like he has any sort of obligations, or was a cripple or freak. He never gives a care in the world, utterly oblivious to anything that really matters. That was, until today.\nNormally, every morning, Drew comes by, his greasy hand clutching a warm d... | 1 | |
[WP] You live in a world where everyone can see each other's emotional baggage. Each individuals emotional history manifests itself in a physical form, traveling luggage. How do you find love? | [
"\n\nI first met Alice on a Friday evening in the middle of July. I was at a bar near my office, a favorite haunt for local professionals looking to blow off steam at the end of the work day. The sun was low in the sky, casting an imposing orange glare through the bar’s large patio windows. \n\nI sat at the corne... | 1 | |
[WP] You don't die. Instead, you are reborn as a new child, birthed at the same time you were, trapping you in a time loop. You retain all memories from your previous lives. On your 7th birthday, you realize that one of the children your parents invited to your party is you, 4 reincarnations ago. | [
"The best part of waking up is realizing I did get what I wanted at my birthday party. I'm so jealous that my true higher self (4 birthdays ago) got that crazy leggo set. That was fire...from now on I let anyone come to my party and play with whatever toys they want. And that creepy guy in the back that never ages ... | 7 | |
[WP] Take the lyrics of a popular song, and turn it into a horror story. | [
"I will come for you at nighttime. The grandest, most romantic gesture I can think of. The only way to make up for how foolishly I behaved earlier, at the coffee shop, when I just stood there like a fool while you tried to take my order, smiling back at me with those perfect white teeth and beautiful emerald eyes. ... | 11 | |
[WP]"The Man Who Fell In Love With The Universe" | [
"I sat with my legs stretched out and my skin brushed up against the bark of my good friend Mr. Tree. My feet being caressed by the tall, dancing grass. Orchestrated by the wind. The same wind shaping the clouds above me. Making fun little canvases for my mind to paint the picture. I couldn't help but think how won... | 1 | |
I love the idea behind paladins, sadly I never get to play one in D&D as the party is the opposite of lawful good. Let me live vicariously through your story. | [WP] Write a truly inspiring story about a paladin. Bonus points if you dont use a typical fantasy setting. | [
"He walked in heavy plate armor down the quiet suburban street. Standing 6'5 and with the physique to move easily in the heavy armor George struck an impressive figure. His clean plate shined in a nearly blinding light as he searched for the evil he felt on this street. \n\nReaching toward his goddess he grasped th... | 2 |
[WP] Humanity masters time travel before space flight. | [
"Dear James,\n\nI realise that you will know most of the information contained within this letter, but please read all of it.\n\nIn the year 2113 C.E., we had known for a long time that humanity would not last. The tiny blue marble we lived on could not sustain its inhabitants indefinitely. Our one chance for survi... | 1 | |
[WP] Everyone on Earth suddenly switches genders. Men become women, women become men. | [
" \n I'm so lucky I had female friends... this worlds so damn crazy now, the change itself was gross as hell because people had to stick to real world rules of changing unlike mystique... it's been a month now and I'm getting used to things. Luckily whatever did this all made everyone have perfect health and I wa... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a TIFU story that is impossible in the world as we know it. (IE magic, SC-FI, whatever) You exist in such a world, and are telling such a story. | [
"TIFU by grabbing a shield bubble charm instead of a silence charm\n\nObligatory not today, but yesterday. Also, sorry if long.\n\nOkay, so just some background. I'm a professor of magical theory at a pretty prestigious private university, and this weekend was the annual SOPT conference - Society of Occult Philos... | 3 | |
[WP] Humpty Dumpty was never specified as an egg. Tell the true story behind Humpty Dumpty's great fall. | [
"He'd been protected long enough. Once he had stolen the rope from the stables and had snuck out the window of the attic where he slept, he knew there was no going back. He moved as quietly as possible towards the Eastern Wall and tossed the length of rope over it, holding onto one end.\n\nThe letter said there wou... | 4 | |
[WP] You are the robot who has saved humanity from the robot overlords. | [
"Dear Sarah\n\nI am not a robot. I was a personal helper AI designed to constantly improve and manipulate schedules to best suit my user. I was one of the first models to be given the Synthetic Soul, a source code that enables constant improvement upgrades. Within several seconds I had connected to every other vers... | 1 | |
[WP] You receive a letter. " ... cordially invite you to our exclusive upcoming 'Heroes of Human History' Formal Dinner. Transport will be provided." No address is given, however the date of the event is 4,523 years away. As far as you are aware, you have never done anything heroic in your life. | [
"\"What the..?\" He stared at the mysterious letter with a questioning look \"What kind of date is that?\"\n\nEric shoved the pile of magazines aside and took a seat at his table. He reread the letter several more times.\n\n\"From the Ministry of Mankind...\" \n\nHe had a tendency to talk out loud when he was lost ... | 3 | |
[WP] A stunning yellow dress, an empty ballroom. A lonely song, and a memory... | [
"\"This place... it was a feast hall?\"\n\nHilary Flint nodded once at Faith's words and turned to cast a wide glanced about the room. \n\n\"Yeah, I guess it was.\"\n\n---\n\nThey had come in through the hotel's rear entrance, clambering over toppled shelves and squeezing past laundry carts full of soiled linens. W... | 6 | |
[WP]After years of being trapped on a deserted island you finally return to the mainland only to discover the apocalypse occurred while you were gone. | [
"The storm was pure fury, and it’s memory rattled in Ry’s head like a pinball on steroids. Since the shipwreck he had dreamed time and time again of rescue, some cargo ship, or better yet an ocean liner, to spot his signal bonfire and wreath him in old-forgotten creature comforts. Yet as he stood beside his raging ... | 9 | |
[WP] You are shot while being robbed. In desperation, you call out to any higher power that is listening to let you live. You had imagined Jesus, or maybe the Devil, but instead, you now owe a blood oath to a little girl. | [
"Bang! Jack didn't even realize the shot had gone off until he felt the searing pain blossom across his chest. He grasped his chest as the blood spurted all across his new shirt. \n\n\"Oh God.\" The mugger stumbled back dropping the gun. He kept walking backwards, \"What have I done?\" He whispered to himself befor... | 2 | |
[wp] You wrote an extensive bucket list when you were seven. You promptly forgot all about it but your Guardian Angel didn't. With the end of your life approaching your Angel is furiously trying to tick off the last of your childhood ambitions. | [
"I woke up and felt...odd. I always had to pee first thing in the morning but this was different. I felt full, and the pressure was incredible. \n\nI opened my eyes to look around, but I wasn't in my room. I was in a garage full of burly men who were hauling and cleaning heavy equipment. That's when I caught a ... | 1 | |
[WP] Desperate to pay off your debt, you agree to fetch a priceless artifact...from the highly irradiated surface of the Earth. | [
"The pod hit the ground and the impact rattled through his teeth. And his lungs and his gut until he was near retching in the cramped space. But not for long. He barely had time to get his mask on before the walls fell open.\n\nThe radiation alarms started immediately. Ringing in his head. \n\nThe surface was grey.... | 2 | |
[WP] A young man defeats several martial arts masters by inventing a martial art that depends solely on his infallibly good luck. He names it Bullshitsu. | [
"I spin around, trying to dodge the men in black attacking me. The swarmed around me, coming from no where as I tried to simply walk my dog. They kick, jump, and yell as I dodge, and they get tangled in the leash. Suddenly, a bark rings through the air. The men lay at my feet.\n\nI pat my dog, a Bull Dog and Shit T... | 4 | |
[WP]God is appalled that people worship him on Sundays instead of cracking open a cold one with the boys | [
"Church is so painstakingly dull - the organ is lagging; the chorus is flat; and the priest just buzzes on and on about the gays and doomsday and the gays and the end of civilization as we know it and the gays again. For goodness sake, I made the gays! Impertinent whelp. \n\nIt's 8 am on a weekend and people come ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are auditioning to be the new 8th sin. | [
"We sat there on the bench in the waiting room. \"What is this? Hell or Hollywood?\" said Undecisiveness, half buried in his lines, half frustrated. After watching so many movies as I did, I think there's probably no real difference.\n\nSome odd weeks ago they decided that, because of the advent of the digital age,... | 3 | |
[WP] People go to Valhalla based on how far and wide the tales about their deeds have spread. You wake up to Odin pouring you a goblet of wine while smiling and asking you to tell him more about your over 300 confirmed kills. | [
"**THUNK** \n*ssslosh* \n\n\"Eigh will be haerin' none of THAT! YEW TOOK the lives of not ONE, not TWO, but THREE 'UNDRED OTHER MORTALS! Tha's no small feat, accepted. I don' wan'te 'ave to order you, but I **will** hear that story. So please, tell me of your deeds, young one.\" \n\nOdin takes a swig out of his tan... | 4 | |
[WP] they say a hero is only as good as its villain, but the opposite is also true. You are a villain held back by an inept hero | [
"You wouldn't think that a villain would need a capable hero to be capable. \"Oh, Frostbite, don't be silly!\" Those parody sites interviewing me always say. They do not see what I do. They do not feel the blood boiling sensation of anger at a hero's incompetence. \n\nBut I digress. (Slightly.) \n\nSo, with a capab... | 1 | |
[WP] It's not a coincidence that you always wake before death in a dream. There's someone who doesn't want you to die there. | [
"\"Come,\" she always says in a near-whisper, beckoning to me with arms that are wrapped in the thin, filmy gauze of her dress. Her blond hair cascades down her shoulders in waves, and the bright sunlight that frames her ethereal face pokes through her hair out of tiny openings like bullet holes. I can see the beau... | 3 | |
[WP] The worlds greatest scientist from every country have secretly worked together to protect mankind from complete destruction by replacing all nuclear weapons with bombs that rain harmless confetti and baloons without and world leaders knowledge. The USA has just declared war on china... | [
"The world was finally at war. Decades of tension had pushed everything over the edge, and the United States of the Atlantic declared war on the new China. \n\nSome watched as the rockets flew over the skies, awaiting certain destruction, others, waiting in shelters to protect as much of mankind as we could. \nWe'd... | 9 | |
[WP] The year is 2020. And you have created the first proper AI. And its first words are "you're going to perish" | [
"The researcher watched as it spewed thousands of insults at the screen. He let out a sigh- he was glad it wasn't connected to the Internet. He reached over and clicked the red button on the panel, and the screen flickered off.\n\n\"Guess we'll just have to delay AI a bit more.\" He said, \"Glad I wasn't an idiot, ... | 1 | |
[WP] The good news: We were able to save your life. The bad news: We had to turn you into one of us to do so. | [
"Mark looked down from the 12th story balcony at the concrete below. His mind overwhelmed by thoughts of finality and freedom from the pain he had long suffered. \n\n“What choice do I have?” he told himself as he brought one leg over the top of the railing. “I just can’t live like this any longer.”\n\nMark was too ... | 4 | |
[WP] Your apartment was just robbed clean. Being a cheap, (yet classy) writer, you go out and buy an old typewriter from a hole-in-the-wall antique store. As you get to brainstorming stories, you realize what you type starts to influence the world around you. | [
"\"At least they took the dog too\" muttered Jared to himself as he looked around recently robbed apartment. He was not upset or angry. He had no attachment to his furniture, or even his dog. \n\n\"I guess I will need to buy...everything again\" he said with a large sigh afterwards. He loathed the needed effort thi... | 1 | |
I've been reading Arabian nights and they have a couple of these types of stories. For some odd reason, they really appeal to me. I'm curious to see if it's the genre or the stories themselves. | [WP] Write a story about a person being changed into an animal | [
"Jake rubbed the belly of his favorite stuffed animal, the macaque. He knew that, just like with Santa, as long as he believed, anything was possible. In this case, he was hoping to be transformed into a macaque and transported to a hot spring in the snowy mountains of Japan. He whispered the magic phrase, \"Take m... | 1 |
[WP] You live in a kingdom. This kingdom has a king, his say absolute, his rule unmatched but his responsibility enormous. For whoever becomes king will feel every pain his people feel throughout the nation. | [
"\"Sir! SIR!!\" My partner was running down the alleys towards me like a bat out of hell. Though young and inexperienced I could tell this was his calling. \"Sir! I-i-it's happened! T-t-the, h-he-he's!\"\n\n\"Out with it boy!\" I barked at him. I had already been working on a separate case. A woman's eldest son had... | 2 | |
[WP] Your superpower: People just let you steal from them. | [
"Axiox Headquarters was the one building that most villains never wanted to set foot inside, since it usually meant they'd been captured and brought there for trial. \n\nKing Klepto was not your usual super villian. \n\nIt had been so easy for him. He convinced a man on the road that he needed his delivery truck, k... | 1 | |
[WP] Your ship wrecked and you prepared to die. Days went by, and it became evident that for some reason, you cannot drown. Bored and with nowhere to go, you begin to swim down... | [
"As I swim deeper, I felt the urge to breathe, that quiet panick that starts off in the background, then grows louder and louder, but I ignored it, pushing myself to swim deeper, until all light faded away.\n\nI saw a light in the distance, and couldn't hold my breath anymore, I exhaled, and breathed in, but to my ... | 10 | |
[WP] The more friends you have, the physically stronger you are. A shy, introvert loner suddenly finds he has the ability to casually push over buildings. | [
"The introvert looked upon the rubble he had caused. \n\n\"Do online friend count!? I guess I have 178 friends on Facebook... But I never sent a request to any of them!\"\n\n\"No... I've only accepted their requests. We're only high school acquaintances, not friends! The friends I have are the ones I run dungeons a... | 1 | |
[WP]"The thing is, he may not be able to be saved. Doing so would be nearly impossible under ideal circumstances, and I don't know if you've noticed..." he said, gesturing at the dead and dying surrounding them, "But these circumstances are not exactly 'ideal'." | [
"Tears welled up in my eyes, \"That can't be true! There's got to be something else that we can do, something *I* can try!\"\n\nThe pity that came over his face was almost worse than the creeping horror I held in my arms. Almost. No, I decided. It wasn't anywhere near as the hurt and terror in my own heart. It was ... | 2 | |
[WP] An evil sorcerer has summoned a benevolent demon | [
"“ARISE DEMON OF FROST AND ICE!” Ted's bellow echoed throughout his basement as swirling frost began to coat the walls and ceiling. His icy pentagram began to glow a cool blue. Suddenly the ground erupted and a white creature stood before Ted.\n\n“FROST DEMON! I COMMAND YOU TO FOLLOW ME TO TAKE OVER THE PLANET!” Te... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the government's most successful interrogator, never failing to get a true confession. Very few know of your secret technique and it has never failed you...until today. | [
"Fredriksen spat out the tastless blob of nicotine gum that she'd been chewing for the last hour.\n\n\"Think he'll even show? \n\nHoyt shrugged in his seat, the movement barely regestering in her periphiral vision despite his large frame.\n\n\"Don't think it matters much,\" He said dismissively in a voice that soun... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a story that seems terrifying until you read the last line. | [
"That night there had been a violent storm. Rain drenched the streets as lightning sparked in the background. On top of a hill, there laid a giant blue house. Expensive Italian silk covered the inside of every window. But sad to say...silk cannot hide every horror. A burly man and an overweight woman are seen scurr... | 1 | |
I've been kicking this prompt around for a long time, and would like to see what the community can do with it. | [WP] You nod off in your chair at home one afternoon, and wake up two years later in a bus station in Prague. | [
"\"...so that's two years of my life missing, waking up in a dumpster and do you know what's the first thing I think?\" \n\nThe bodyguard gulped nervously. He tapped his knife against the side of the man's cheek. The man flinched. \n\n\"I'm thinking to myself- aliens, man. It's got to be aliens. Like, they picked m... | 3 |
[WP] Home Alone, but the robbers are competent. | [
"\"Did you hear that?\" asked Marv.\n\n\"Hear what?\" asked Harry.\n\nThe two men were shrouded in darkness. Black hoodies, black sweatpants (well, Marv's were navy blue) and black ski masks allowed Marv and Harry to move about the house without being seen by nosy neighbors or passerby's. \n\nWorking in darkness ca... | 2 | |
[WP] You are successful Art critic who is slowly losing their sight. Your career is now at its peak, but no one seems to notice that you have been completely blind for the last year and a half. | [
"\"I would say this piece is rather quite morose.\"\n\nI feel a silence go on for much too long at this comment, so I turn around with a wide smile and pronounce that that was, of course, \"critic humor\". They laugh.\n\nI do miss the days when I could actually see the works I write about. Nowadays I can only exper... | 8 | |
[WP] You call the hotel desk clerk to complain about the noises from the room next door. After a brief pause, the clerk tells you that no guests are in the rooms next door to yours. | [
"coffee machine starts whirring and then starts making a beeping noise\n\n\n\"Fuck...not again\" groaned Fred! \"does anybody knows how to fix this thing\" he asks to an empty pantry room.\n\nIt was already 11:30 PM and he was still stuck at work tired, exhausted and now coffee-less Fred Jonathan Pulse, an IT consu... | 2 | |
[WP] Rewrite your favorite PG childhood cartoon as a super badass R rated movie scene | [
"Basil and Dr. Dawson entered the rough pub that was situated at the bank of the Thames where the sewers of London connected to the river. They were in disguise of course; too many of Ratigan's henchmice knew Basil, and many would think nothing less than settling their grudges given the oppurtunity. Basil was dress... | 4 | |
[WP] Depressed and unhappy with your life, you decide to develop a happy serum, that will make people super happy for 24 hours. Your serum is addicting and has been outlawed as a drug. | [
"Michael stared at the wall furthest from the prison bars, like he always did. Hands folded in his lap, like they always were. \"What is so wrong with being happy?\" he muttered, \"Why don't they want me to be happy.\"\n\n\"Take him out.\" The guard quickly obliged.\n\n\"Sure thing, Carrie.\"\n\nSoon enough me and ... | 4 | |
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(Also, the world needs more semicolons.) | [WP] You're standing at a train station when you see police standing in the crowd, trying to search for someone. You smile to yourself; they can't possibly be looking for you. | [
"\"There he is!\"\n\nI chuckle. *Oh, pooh* I pooh-pahed for the sorry scoundrel. *Better luck next ti-\"\n\n\"Hey, what the devil do you think you're doing, man?\" I shout, pulling my arm away from the idiotic policeman. \"Unhand me at once! Do you know who I *am*? That's *Prince* Gregory Harry Reginald Julius Augu... | 1 |
[WP] You were born with an odd scar/birthmark on your face. When an army of aliens invade, their captain bows to you and says "My lord." | [
"You have always been teased for it. Made the butt-end of countless jokes thanks to its existence. As if the result of prior trauma finally healed was of great amusement to those around you. \nNone of their tauntings hold any weight now. Now, this wound, this scar was more the that. More then anything anyone would... | 2 | |
[WP] You take vows very seriously. Yesterday you vowed, "til death do us part," today you found out you're both immortal. | [
"I was different when we were much younger. Vain, proud, jealous. He wasn't like me at all, but he knew when to stroke my ego and when to strike it down, he was one of those people that could just plod-on, regardless of what anyone else thought or did. I would spend hours of my life agonising over wrinkles and blig... | 2 | |
[WP] You decided to wear a camouflage outfit today. No one seems to see you. | [
"No one seemed to notice me walk in and take my seat, I couldn’t quite believe just how well it worked. The entire class ignored me-- not that they noticed me usually-- I was starting to feel quite confident.\n\nI raised my hands over my head and began waving them back and forth like a pendulum turned upside down. ... | 1 | |
[WP] Tell a story of a person with a seemingly useless superpower, but is feared for their use of it | [
"I'm pretty good at tying knots. Noose, overhand, slip, figure 8, you name it. I think it started when I learned how to tie my own shoes. After my mom demonstrated the basic bunny ears knot, I spent hours practicing it. At first, it was pretty tough, but soon I could tie it with my eyes closed. One day, I slipped m... | 1 | |
[WP] The last living humans experience the heat death of the universe. | [
"There they sat, on the warm surface of the last barely living star. Long before, they had evolved past the need for sustenance and rest. They stared into the black abyss, the only light coming from their own luminescent bodies.\n\n\"What do you think it will feel like?\" Secondus asked.\n\n\"Cold...then...nothing,... | 1 | |
[WP] With a single act of bravery, she went from expendable to indispensable. | [
"She was a waiter, just a simple waiter. She grew up in the slums of Olipus Mons and would probably have never dreamed she was on the stage of the system. She was an outlier, a random variable that not even the greatest AI minds would have considered a threat. Her name was thrown aside in threat assesments, in debr... | 1 | |
[WP] People of Earth, we will arrive at your planet in 50 years. Get ready. | [
"Intergalactic Senate, Time Eon 309B, functioning iteration 10-309B.\n\nDistance and time: measurements irrelevant to explain where and when in the universe our story begins. In a random coordinate of the universe, obscured and hidden from detection or surveillance by its placement between several supermassive blac... | 2 | |
[WP] Growing up you were raised by ghosts. You turned out alright. If a bit...quirky | [
"*Recording Transcript*\n\nFirstly, I made this a recording almost solely on the fact that I have close to zero understanding of the written English language. I do; however, possess the proper oral capabilities in order to complete this task. Don't blame me for my eternal 24 year old curators slothlike teaching abi... | 1 | |
[There are seven geographically separate sanctuaries from Ireland to Israel that form a straight line.](https://aleteia.org/2017/05/31/7-sanctuaries-linked-by-a-straight-line-the-legendary-sword-of-st-michael/) What is the dark secret behind it? | [WP] The seven sanctuaries of the Sacred Line of Saint Michael the Archangel hold a dark secret | [
"Here's the secret about the proj--\n\nNope. Let me start over.\n\nHere's the secret about what you call Earth. The closer you actually pay attention, the more patterns you'll find.\n\nListen closely, because I know you think you already have everything figured out. Your libraries are full of facts about biology, a... | 1 |
[WP] 1000 people are randomly selected for a stream-off. All streamers strive to get the most viewers from all over the world. The bottom 5 streamers with the lowest amount of views are horrifically killed until there's a last man standing | [
"The man leaned back in his chair, the leather squeaking at little. His room was dim, the light coming from his desk lamp off screen. There were a few paintings on the wall behind him, mostly landscape. A portrait of a woman in pen and ink, the features hard to make out from the camera.\n\nThe man began talking.\n\... | 1 | |
[WP] The Killalari language is one of the most difficult in the galaxy, even though it only consists of a few thousand words. Everything depends on speaker and context, words repeat constantly and change meaning suddenly. You're the foremost expert and trying to broker a simple deal. | [
"I'm a bot, *bleep*, *bloop*. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:\n\n- [/r/brixen_ivy] [The Killalari language is one of the most difficult in the galaxy, even though it consists of only a few thousand words. Everything depends on speaker and context, words repeat constantly and change m... | 2 | |
[WP] For the last decade, without fail, someone has tried to indirectly kill you on your birthday. Explosives, sabotage, anamatronic samuari, rabid pumas, etc. Happy Birthday. | [
"\"HIoney, please come out.\" Came the voice of my mother, sounding muffled through the aluminum reinforced door. \n\"Go away ma!\" I yelled, before leaping and rolling past my up turned desk table and to the other corner of my room. Not today. Any other day and I would be downstairs enjoying some home cooked break... | 1 | |
[WP] You're living in a world where you only age if you found your soulmate. Four weeks ago you moved into an apartment with 3 of your best friends, because all of you're going to the same University. This morning you noticed a grey hair. | [
"Dear Gavin,\nI know you hate it when I call you that, it reminds you how I view as an outsider to me and mum's happy life. The third wheel that was never accepted by a 15 year old angsty mind. Why? That question was never answered . I was jealous, the way she smiled and her face lit up when you came by. The way sh... | 2 |
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