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[WP] An old man approaches you in a tavern and says "Take heed, young one. Take heed." He then hands you a tiny fluffy kitten and runs away. The kitten looks up at you and says "Hi! I'm Heed!" | [
"As I make my way towards the tavern's exit, Heed purring in my arms, I glance around to see if anyone had noticed any of what just happened. Not a single head had lifted.\n\n\"When did this place become so seedy\" I ask myself. Every corner looks like it is hiding a dark secret, the wooden floorboards stained dark... | 2 | |
[WP] Your family has routinely told you to set the table before 6 o'clock and you have always complied. It is 6 and your grandmother is screaming "The ritual must be completed!" as blood starts streaming down her face. | [
"\"Quickly! The Dark Lord commands its, sonny!\" She was in the kitchen, wearing an apron, and she was slowly floating off of the floor.\n\nJake scrambled to his feet from his spot on the rug in front of the TV. Terror had never had such a grip on him, and an accident was on the verge of happening in his pants. A c... | 3 | |
[WP] You wake up in Heaven and find that everything is the same except the only emotion people emit is happiness. You slowly finding out hell is planning an invasion but no one believes you. | [
"I was new to heaven, from what I could remember anyways my neighbors had all settled down before me, days had passed and each one was more perfect than the last. The memories of my old life had faded, bits and pieces had remained; my first bar of chocolate, my first dog, the day I had meet my wife, our wedding… ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are walking your dog one night when a barefoot man approaches you with a bulging trash bag. He pulls out a knife and demands that you place your socks into the bag. As you open the bag you realize it's entirely full of used socks. With your socks in the bag he then runs off into the night. | [
"“C’mon, Chester, just pee already.”\n\nMy dog looked up at me, indignation sparkling in his wet brown eyes. He turned away, as if expressing annoyance in my rushing, and then went back to sniffing the ground.\n\nI shook my head. I’d slipped on a pair of flipflops in a rush earlier when Chester whined at the door, ... | 2 | |
[WP] You have a tendency to trip and stumble constantly. You are not clumsy. The Earth is trying to get your attention. | [
"Ouch! Damnit I *know* that branch wasn't there before, but somehow I hit. I do not know what's going on, but this whole vacation has been like this. Constantly tripping, dropping things, and now I think I half broke my wrist on a branch that was not there when I started swinging my arm.\n\nI really hoped this vaca... | 2 | |
You can choose to further develop the backstory or continue the story at the moment of battle. | [WP] Two twin brothers who are part of the royal family used to be best palls but after a fight over a girl they never talked again. Now the brothers have each conquered half of the country and are ready for battle. | [
"King Ivan tried to sit proudly on his white steed, even though his heart was filled with sorrow. He was riding to the last negotiation with his twin brother, and although he knew he had to defeat and kill him to end this war, he found no joy in it. He would be a kinslayer or a dead man, this battle would have no v... | 1 |
[WP] Yesterday a supervolcano erupted, you witnessed the end of human civilisation and felt your skin burn away as you died. This morning you woke up and everything is fine apart from a patch of burnt skin on your foot | [
"The man sat up gasping from your bed in a cold sweat. \"A super volcano? Man, that Mexican food you ate last night must have been laced with some *serious* shit.\" he thought . It was so real he could have sworn he felt your skin burning away. Man, what a trip. All this dying-but-really-not has left you thirsty.\n... | 2 | |
[WP] You wake up early one morning and head over to your favorite Coffee Shop for a drink. After waiting in line and placing your order, you quickly head to the restroom. When you return, it is night time and the shop is empty. | [
"His name is Tom. And just like his name he is a very simple man. Tom likes to live in routine, but he doesn't get frustrated with change. Tom is easy going but never goes easy. \nYou see there is something about Tom that he thinks nobody knows about... but everyone who knows Tom knows, and those who have not met T... | 2 | |
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Are you living alone? Is there a message the next day, too? Who or what wrote it? | [WP] After taking a shower and taking a glance at the steamy mirror you see that there's a message written on it. | [
"9 a.m. I know it’s 9 because that damned alarm clock buzzes in the same high pitched tone it always does. The sound cuts through my skull and sears my brain. I jump out of bed and rip it from the wall. In my anger I throw it across the room, careful to have it land in a pile suspect clothes. I’m angry, not stupid.... | 1 |
[WP] You and your crew are about to murder a prison snitch, when he reveals a secret that changes everything. | [
"I'm not a good man, never have been. Grew up in south kentucky with those fields flat and dusty, my Ma always told me I was like that dust. Movin', shiftin' as the cars drive past. Always tryin' to grasp something that I can never be, until I fall back down with nothin' to show for it until the next car drives on ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the first to make contact with aliens. Their culture is similar to ours, but they don't have theater/movies/tv and the concept of acting baffles them. They've watched several of our science fiction films and the first thing they ask you is "How did you get this footage of our enemies?" | [
"\"Footage of...your enemies? You mean the Daleks, right?\"\n\n\"Yes, them. None of our technology can observe them, as they scramble all cameras and observation equipment.\"\n\n\"...You do realize that that footage is from a fiction series, right? Doctor Who. I'm not sure if it's some major coincidence that they r... | 1 | |
[WP] You realize you're the star of the Truman Show, but instead of escaping, you act like you have no idea and decide to mess with the audience instead | [
"Today is the day I choose about my future. Sixteen years of the same fake routine, tirelessly going to school with overly attentive children. For as long as I can remember, I've known I was special. I was watched like no other, both by poorly hidden gazes and badly camouflaged cameras.\n\nToday, my decision is off... | 4 | |
[WP] You're a narcoleptic superhero | [
"My favourite animal's the dolphin, because they're cute and they spend a lot of the time with their brain half asleep. I can relate to one of those. Hint: in Grade Five, I overheard my teacher on a coffee-break, \"I could take every other kid in my class, stick their face into a wafflemaker, and every one of them ... | 1 | |
[WP] You walk up your stairs and count as you go along, you've done this many times before. One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six... Seven? | [
"I walk up my stairs. My lovely lovely stairs.\n\nGoing up from the room with tables and chairs.\n\nI count them each time. It's fun, and not a chore.\n\nThese six stairs I've gone up many times before.\n\nAs I count, I feel a prick'ling on my hairs.\n\nLike when I see another kid put on airs.\n\nI count to six an... | 2 | |
[WP]The Night was oddly bright. A object had just entered Low Titan Orbit. The Methane rain beats across your rover, the sky starts to glow brighter as it gets closer. | [
"\"Hey, Scott, do you see that? Something big just arrived. We read a big object in low orbit, and it looks like it is going to come down on the next pass. I'll link you to the tracking station, can you please try to follow it and get some pictures from its atmosphere entry?\"\n\nScott sighed as he left his desktop... | 1 | |
[WP] Every day since you've gotten your new watch, you've noticed it's run slow and you've had to reset the time. You've taken it apart, checked the battery and nothing seems wrong with it. Today, as you're staring at the hands, you slowly become aware that everything around you is speeding up. | [
"I rush home at an unbelievable pace, excitement bounding out of every step. I am in such euphoria the whole world recedes to a slow blur. I have found it. After years of searching I have found the perfect watch. I found it strapped to an ornate watch winder, purveyed by an oriental man who exuded an almost offensi... | 1 | |
[WP] Scene: Doctor's Office, Genre: Western, Object to include: Pickle | [
"*THUD* \nhis body was slammed unceremoniously onto the doctors counter, while the doctor himself cowered under said counter, hiding from the shower of badly aimed bullets the laid waste to his surgery.\n\"DOC...DOC YOU HERE?\" Jesse shouts.\nDoctor Bartlett raised his head over the counter a fraction to see Young ... | 1 | |
Like human trafficking, but the slaves have super powers. | [WP] Superhuman Trafficking | [
"Welcome to the slave pits of New Italy. On your left, you'll find corrals and collared men, the soldiers of every war to come bound and gagged like common animals, fed gruel and insults, surviving off of rage and desperation. To the right, you'll find the women, treated much the same, only... Worse. Don't pretend ... | 1 |
[WP]Alien explorers come across Earth, see what humans are doing with our oil rigs, mines, and power plants and think we are an alien scavenger race that came here to strip earth of its resources. | [
"Cha'arnassi stepped into the room to a sea of life forms. 'Humans', they were called. Over two hundred of them sitting in this meeting, and one by one, each turned their head to face her as the rustling and murmurs grew louder about the hall. Their faces contorted into expressions she couldn't understand. Many gre... | 2 | |
[WP] The angel on your shoulder just killed your devil. | [
"I felt a warmth wash over my shoulder, all the way through my shirt sleeve, and start to stick to the skin beneath it. I sighed.\n\nIt was nine thirty. Nine-in-the-goddamn-morning thirty. I had no time for this right now. I had a portfolio session with my professor in an hour, a date with Summer at noon, and my bu... | 5 | |
[WP] You are born a psychic and can enter people's minds. One day you enter someone's mind and they're waiting for you. | [
"\"Hello Pasyla.\"\n\ncrap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap. Did I mention crap?\n\nThings were going swimmingly up until then, I had successfully figured out who was really governi... | 3 | |
[WP] "We were, all of us, at one time young men poised and ready to change the world." | [
"I rolled over in my bed after yet another long day of work, hopes crushed by the worst job I could imagine. I couldn't handle the stress of the work, far too much for what I was being paid. I looked at my clock, just past midnight. It didn't help the workload when I couldn't sleep.\n\nI grabbed my phone and began ... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a superhero high school/colleges equivalent of Batman. Everyone either fears/ respects you but you mostly keep your head down. That doesn't mean you won't step in when needed, however. Today is one of those days. | [
"\"You try Mighty Man.\" \n\nThe imposing, 6'5\" hulk of man stepped out from the crowd, grasped the handle of the hatch, and began to turn. The veins on his neck bulged, his giant muscled arms corded, but the handle did not move. \n\nNightwind looked on curiously. He had personally seen Mighty Man flip a loaded tr... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a story involving supermodels, trains and a monkey. | [
"While waiting for the train to arrive at the Paris-Gare de Lyon, Kendall Jenner saw a man with a pet monkey. She approached the man and asked if she could take a selfie with them. He said it was alright and so they did. Kendall uploaded the photo on instagram where it received 2 million likes in less than a day.",... | 2 | |
[WP] You were abandoned at birth, and were neglected throughout life. While contemplating the unfairness of life, an emergency broadcast appears on your T.V, which calls for a national manhunt on one individual: you. | [
"-Interrumpimos su programación habitual para informarles que se ha declarado estado de enmergencia mundial y se ha decretado necesaria la búsqueda y captura de un individuo altamente peligroso mostrado en la imagen posterior, se compensará generosamente a aquellos que contribuyan con información que derive a su ca... | 5 | |
[WP] kids playing call of duty and CS:GO were sent onto a real battlefield | [
"As part of the new ordinance against simulated violence, Executive order 1337 was put into effect. In order to curve the ongoing violent anarchic outburst resulting from the misuse, or overuse in some cases, of the illegal Stimpadz used in VR and AR enhancement The Coalition of Allied States (CAS) has enacted a vi... | 3 | |
[WP] You know that World War III will break out in 11 days, and the end of the world will soon follow. You try to convince people this, but they just dismiss you as a conspiracy theorist. | [
"\"Are you alright there, miss?\" Officer Johnson had made his way to the young lady yelling at people in front of a particularly busy rail station. He was sent over due to multiple complaints - one of which suggested a forceful subdued trip to a mental health centre. The dispatcher had jokingly wished him some goo... | 1 | |
You know, one of those stories that you want to finish but never actually got to finish and you've only finished the first part. | [WP] Write the beginning of any story that you want to do but don't finish it. | [
"Helm clasped in hand, sight focused right on target, Ophelia stepped forward without betraying silence and slipped behind one of her brother's attackers.\n\nThe guard heard only the gentle breeze swirling through the great oak trees. He was studying the sight of a calm castle, unraided and peaceful under the golde... | 4 |
[WP] Stephen Hawking's voice was hacked to push an evil agenda. | [
"“You’re divorcing me?” Jane asked aghast. For five years she had lived with this man: supporting him during his disablement, loving him, even changing his diapers. And just like that, nothing. She felt betrayed. \n\nStephen Hawking wanted to jump up, embrace his wife, and scream that he loved her and would never l... | 1 | |
[WP] The store you work at is haunted by a poltergeist hellbent on driving you crazy. However, you are a retail worker, and lack the ability to care about anything it does. You've seen worse. | [
"Growing up with horror-junkies for parents instilled within me the assumption that any spirits or demons I'd come across would be only the finest provocateurs of terror and fear. Not once was I ever prepared for the possibility of a bona-fide haunting akin to the sex-life of an acne-ridden 16-year old. Completely ... | 5 | |
[WP] Tell a story but from two people's POV's. But in each story make it look like the person telling the story is the good guy and the other is the bad guy. | [
"\"Alright, alright! Lemme start from the beginning!\" \n\nThe Jailer was visibly annoyed with the two. Stories didn't match. Bickering over every detail. He was asking himself how the hell did the two even manage to find the Temple. \"God damn humans,\" - he thought to himself, \"one of these days they'll find us ... | 3 | |
[WP] As the newest supervillain in town, you want to make a name for yourself. You decide to ensure that everyone's food is a little too salty for them. | [
"I was the newest super-villain to arrive at Central City. Sure, there had been plenty of other villains before me. Swamp Man, Fire Man, Chain Man. They were well known for their mastery of the elements, and weaponry.\n\nBut I was determined to make a name for myself.\n\nAs Salt Man, the salt dumper, dumper of all ... | 2 | |
[WP] Scientists have discovered an alien satellite in orbit of the Earth, carrying a final message from a long-dead civilization hundreds of light years away. | [
"I lead my two friends through the hallway into a conference room.\n\n\"This room is called the John Glenn Conference room. In this very room Apollo scientists...\" \n\n\"Ugh!\" Jeremy interrupted me.\n\n\"We did not come here for a tour of conference rooms. When do we get to see Mission Control?\" Troy asked.\n\nI... | 2 | |
[WP] You wake one day, and every single person you talk to falls in love with you, you remember that curse you read last week on the internet for fun and that was probably it, now you have to live with the consequences. | [
"\"Awesome. I wish this bullshit was real.\" I remember thinking when I first read the curse online. I remember thinking about how much I could use it to abuse to get whatever girl I wanted. The reality was different though. It never occurred to me that there are other types of love then purely romantic or sexual. ... | 1 | |
[WP] An Alien-esque horror story starring a criminal in the Judge Dredd setting! | [
"The Judge's pistol was fading in colour after many years of use. Being in a metropolis, or rather necropolis, this place had become was starting to wear thin his patience. He had been a Judge for so long he knew nothing else. The siren from the cruiser filled his ears while his partner attempted to brief him.\n\nI... | 1 | |
[WP] Every person famous enough to get into the history book, or will one day be in the history book, is trapped in a "hunger games" type of arena. You are chosen with them. | [
"The first thing I notice is that the girl to my right is totally a hottie.\n\nThe second thing I notice is that we're on a beach. *Nice, nice* I think. *So good, so far.*\n\nThe third thing I notice is that the beach is completely empty, except for a line of kids and teenagers standing shoulder-to-shoulder. \n\n\"... | 1 | |
[WP] It's 2100. Antarctica's ice has melted, and you discover something that will change the world. | [
"\"Katara!\" My brother screamed my name.\n\n\"No Sokka! I'm not done yet!\"\n\n\"But your crazy water magic is-\"\n\n\"It's not magic!\" I roared, flinging my arms back.\n\nA sharp crack made me whip around and see the ice behind me begin to crack and and fall apart.\n\n\"Did I do that?\"\n\n\"Yes!\" my brother sa... | 3 | |
*Know | [WP] The hero and villain are roommates, but they don't the other one's secret identity. They're always trying to explain away the bruises and scrapes. | [
"Scott came through the apartment door at 2AM. Harry was sitting in his armchair sipping whiskey. \"Harry what the hell are you up for?\" Scott asked, hanging up his black coat. Harry shrugged, and took a sip, \"What the hell were you doing out?\" . Scott paused for half a seccond and began fiddling with his shoes... | 1 |
[WP] You have woken up in a mental asylum. You believe yourself to be sane. | [
"Hi, my name is Derek, I've been living here in the Las Angeles mental health clinic for the past three months and I'm a recovering alcoholic. I'm not really sure how I ended up here... But I've been told that I'm not at liberty to check myself out. So I've just sort of been trying to fit in around here as best can... | 7 | |
[WP] Write a story about how you think humankind will die out. | [
"Beings of flesh, beings of bone and blood and gore. Wrapped around a fragile mind that hums faster than silicon. We a wonders, we are marvels, we are things that tear ourselves down. Within our eyes is a sea of stars, bound within our fingers the weapons of war or the tales of endless peace. Angels that flung our ... | 1 | |
[WP] It's the year 50,000 and the human race has populated much of the Milky Way. Earth has become nothing but a legend, a Myth to tell your children about. Until one day someone sets out to find The Blue Marble. | [
"Part II\n\nThe professor told them enough to peak their interest and without missing a beat, they replied yes. Petrov jumped out of his chair and got the twins to follow him further into his lab. There was an elevator that took them down, when it opened, an elongated star ship was in front of them. Small for FTL t... | 3 | |
[wp] The four horsemen, having failed to bring about the end of the world, are set to retire. We welcome the new destructors; Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Google. | [
"We weren't ready for them. They had become too powerful before we were able to even figure out what they were doing to us. All this... distribution of products, social interacting, smart phones and internet browsing... no one could've ever believed that they could actually end the world. Amazon, Facebook, Apple, G... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a C-Rank superhero that is dating an S-Rank super-villain. You discovered your partner true identity by accident. | [
"\"Honey, could you get us some more popcorn? You ate the last of it.\" I frown at her. \"I only ate a few handfuls.\" She smiles at me, a pleading look in her eye. \"Please? I'll pause the movie.\" Damn...she's giving me the puppy-dog eyes...so...cute...\"Okay. Fine. Don't play it until I get back.\"\n\nI walk int... | 1 | |
[WP]In an alternate history WWII, the Nazis have created powerful combat robots. With their metallic soldiers, the tide of the war begins to turn in Germany's favor - but the rapidly evolving AI of the robots begin to doubt the morality of their masters' actions. | [
"*From the desk of Dr. Wilfried Sacher, Chief of Eisensoldat Development.*\n\nMein Fürher,\n\nMy worst fears have proven true. When I first showed you Sigmund, the first prototype of the Eisensoldat Program, I remember that you laughed with joy. \"This,\" you said, \"this is the chariot that will carry the Aryan ra... | 4 | |
[WP] A Superhero with extreme regeneration abilities becomes increasingly negligent of their own health. | [
"'How did it come to this?' the mayor asked him. There was pity in the man's voice. He spoke softly so the gathered crowd could not hear. 'You were our hero. We all looked up to you. I looked up to you'. \n\nBen closed his eyes. It was all he could do to avoid the mayor's stare. They had roped him to the stake in t... | 2 | |
[WP] You are one of the few non super powered people in the world, all the superheros and villians fight over the chance to get time with you. | [
"In the distance, a car alarm went off, followed by a crazed cackle. We stopped, immediately recognizing exactly whose it was. \n\n\"Well,\" I huffed, rolling my eyes. \"We *almost* made it another 24 hours before she chucked my car at some loser agai--Fred?\" My head snapped to the right as a breeze blew past my s... | 5 | |
[WP] You begin to notice increasingly desperate attempts to get you to drink alcohol before your 21st birthday. | [
"Would you like a drink Jasper?\n\nJasper looked down at his glass and saw a flaming shot of something, clearly alcohol.\n\n\"No.\"\n\n\"Come on, Jasper, I swear, just one and you'll thank me.\"\n\nJasper left and moved from the bar with the cute waitress to the booth by his lonesome. His friend joined him.\n\n\"Wh... | 1 | |
[WP] You open your eyes only to find a car crash before you. Next to the car is your own mangled and broken body. | [
"I was three and in the street,\n\nPlaying hopscotch with karma,\n\nThe next number was my own.\n\nI jumped--*jumped*--and I was a little girl,\n\nAll empty gums and horrified eyes,\n\nAll screams and wet diapers. \n\n.\n\nI was filled with teeth, all grimace and game,\n\nI was standing at the edge of the pool,\n\n... | 1 | |
[WP] You live in a world in which everyone literally keeps their emotions bottled up, tucking away feelings they don't want and letting out the ones they do. You wake up one day feeling almost no emotion, and your bottle is nowhere to be found. | [
"I wake up from a nightmare, the worst of I've had I a while. I was so alone and frightened. I look around my room, checking each corner for a sign of what shouldn't be there but everything seems to be how it was when I feel asleep. \n\nI can't seem to shake the fear from the dream, I don't even want to close m... | 2 | |
[WP] An unlikely group of people bands together to go out and forage during winter in an 1870s Montana. Amidst knee high snow and towering pines they discover something, that will change their lives forever. | [
"“We’re looking for everything that could help keep our bellies full and our bodies warm.”, Mr. Hatshild said to the circle of people on the clearing behind the house. The carpet of snow was less thick here, in the wake of the snowbound buildings and trees. The light albeit steady fall of tiny snowflakes would turn... | 3 | |
[WP] You are the God of destruction bent on destroying all life, But in the words of Jeff Goldblum Life keeps finding a way. | [
"> Baal; God of Death and Destruction, Herald of the End Times and Scourge of Worlds sat upon his mighty throne made of skulls from a trillion alien species crushed beneath his jet black sabatons.\n \n> He sat there looking dreadfully imposing yet incredibly tired, his massive armoured silhouette... | 1 | |
[WP] In the future, cosmetic surgery is so quick and affordable that anybody can look however they choose. You stand out for never having a procedure done. | [
"When I was 7. I saw myself for the first time. Of course I had seen my own reflection before. But not like this. Never this real. \nIn that instant my conciousness poured into me. \nI knew who I was.\n\nNow as I gazed at the corner. Past my beaming partner's proffered hand. I was empty. He was presenting. This mac... | 3 | |
[WP] In a world full of superheroes and villains, you own a small, but popular company... that writes both villain and hero monologues | [
"\"Thank you for calling Super's Emporium. Please listen to our menu because choices could have changed recently.\"\n\n\"Damn, automated answering services...\"\n\n\"For our monologue department, press 1. For our Super's legal department, press 2. For costumes, press 3. For marketing, press 4. Press pound at any ti... | 2 | |
[WP] During a lengthy siege, a soldier outside the castle and a young royal trapped inside begin conversing nightly through a crack in the wall. | [
"'You smoke?' asked the veteran. There was the click of flint and tinder, and the faintest of lights could be seen through the deep crack in the wall. \n\n'No.' Came the voice of the young man, aristocratic judgement weakly masking anxiety in his voice. \n\n'Would ye like to?' Asked the veteran. \n\nThere was a lon... | 2 | |
[WP] Many people say they are "immortal" but you are there to prove them wrong. | [
"I pulled on my jacket, picking out a broad-brimmed hat from the shelf in my suit room, sliding two long-barreled revolvers into holsters on my hips, picking up a viscous spike and letting it slither into its sheath. \n\nI walked through the cold streets, grimacing at the frightened faces, the faces turned toward t... | 1 | |
At least, they think they know your face from somewhere. They just don't know how they know you. Even blind people recognize your face. | [WP] everybody knows you. | [
"One day, I go up to my boss and say to him, \"You know, I know everybody there is to know. And everybody knows me. Just name someone, anyone, and I guarantee I know them.\"\n\n\"Fine, Colin\" my boss said, fed up with my bragging. \"Tom Cruise.\"\n\nSo we fly to Hollywood and knock on Tom Cruise's door. Sure enoug... | 1 |
[WP] You just unknowingly slighted a Wizard by forgetting to punch the last hole on his coffee club card. The curse he bestows upon you is that every statement you say ends in a "choose your own adventure" choice, that alters your reality. | [
"\"The man in red swam across the ocean and the Marshmallow Man of Kuipsar 6 followed.\"\n\n\"That is roight mentahll.\" The Cornish peacock responded to me. I knew they wouldn't believe me after 70 years since that day. I was living in a jigsaw puzzle of regrets stained by my immaturity. However a job making subma... | 2 | |
[WP] Time revolves around your meals. The sun doesn't rise until you eat breakfast, it snaps to the zenith when you go for lunch and sets once you eat dinner. | [
"I sigh as my food heats up. I'll need to eat it in a rush.\n\nNeed to have my at the exact same time, every day. It's goddamn annoying.\n\nI can't have a gourmet meal unless I calculate the exact amount of time it will take to cook (impossible) and restaurants are out of the question.\n\nBut if I stopped, Ophelia ... | 4 | |
Inspired by this text: http://danielmarin.naukas.com/2017/08/01/el-acrilonitrilo-y-las-posibles-formas-de-vida-basadas-en-el-metano-de-titan/
Where is stated that possible energy sources for life could feed themselves by substances that fall from the sky. | [WP] Humans discover a inhabited planet where food falls from the sky. | [
"The Bortells Moth begins its life as a larvae, floating on the clouds dense with moisture swirling above the northern hemisphere of the planet Bortellus. Discovered in the second half of the 57th century of humankind, Bortellus provides a dying species of humans with the haven they need.\n\nThe heavenly atmospher... | 1 |
[WP] Space miners are extracting materials from a distant location. They are low on fuel and may not make it home, but are aware of a nearby wormhole that Could send them home. | [
"\"so.... Fuel leak?\"\n\n\"yeah.\"\n\nThe words from both miners were spoken with the absolute certainty of one who knows they are up a particular foul smelling creak without a means of propulsion. \n\nA fuel leak in the drive. \n\nSpaceflight had gone under a series of radical changes. Efficiency had gone up way ... | 1 | |
[WP] In the future, dreams are created in studios and bought and sold just like movies. You fall asleep one night and have the first natural dream in hundreds of years. | [
"Collin awoke in excitement, immediately rushing to the phone as quickly as he could.\n\n\"Kelly! Are you busy?” he gasped as he attempted to catch his breath. “I have to tell you about something, and it is too much to explain over the phone.\"\n\n\"Woah. Well, hello Collin! It sounds as though you are doing better... | 1 | |
[WP] After avoiding it for years, you decide to create a social media account so people stop bothering you about it. You add your close family, friends, and even your favorite celebrity. Within minutes, he/she sends a message: "I've been waiting many lifetimes to find you..." | [
"I sat there stunned to see the message come in. \n\nMark Hamil - I have been waiting many lifetimes to find you.\n\n\"What do I do?\" I ask to no one. The fear of actually talking to my hero had me scared. \n\nRobert Shpadoinklevich - I love your movies sir. Especially time runner.\n\n\"Oh god I hope he likes me.\... | 1 | |
[WP] "That's not how you reanimate a corpse! It needs more ... pizzazz!" | [
"*[Lincoln, Nebraska. Night of the Great American Eclipse. Clear sky, save for what's about to happen.]*\n\nL: \"I've got a large pepperoni and two medium feta and spinach pies.\"\n\nA: \"Shit, dude you forgot the pineapple!\"\n\nL: \"I'm sorry.\"\n\nA: \"Fuck, HOW are we supposed to raise the dead without pineappl... | 1 | |
[WP] One day you notice your best friend has giant wings on their back. When questioned about them they look at you with widened eyes and gasp, "You aren't the chosen one". | [
"\"I'm not the who now?\" as Timmy asked confusingly.\n\n\"I can't believe it, I was lead to believe that you were the one, the one in the scrolls...I can't..\" still in disbelief upon realizing Timmy was not the chosen one.\n\n\"Again buddy, you are confusing and scaring me. Also **WHAT THE HELL ARE THOSE??!** as ... | 2 | |
[WP] Sick of having to wait for people to die in order to find some competition, Death takes some time off to participate in a chess tournament, with unexpected consequences. | [
"Being a few moves ahead of everyone was Death's forte. He always won. Death was the perfect strategist, a true genius. Playing the role of Grim Reaper was below him and after a few thousand years Death believed he owed it to himself to show his mastery to the world. Death would become a grandmaster of chess. His o... | 1 | |
As an example, I'll do a quote:
# "Grond will break it."
*Bolg,* The Return of the King (Extended Edition)
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Everything has a weakness. Whether it's the nigh-unbreakable gates of Minas Tirith, the Death Star, or the spirit of a nation, everything breaks. Everything has a Grond.
What's your Grond? It could be a d... | [WP] Write the moral lesson behind any quote from a book, movie, television series, or video game. | [
"**\"Can't deny that view though.\"**\n\n*Ellie*, The Last of Us, *Playstation Game*.\n\n\nLife presents itself as a relentless stream of events big and small, carrying us away on its strong currents. We are unwilling passengers on its waves, struggling to stay afloat while trying to convince ourselves and each oth... | 1 |
[WP] Nearly ever species of animal have their own civilizations with similar technologies, however they all simultaneously believe every other species to be animalistic and unintelligent. Today, two species accidentally found out about each other. | [
"\"Look at those dirty sons of whores. They are actually walking on two legs!\"\n\n\"你們看看這群髒兮兮的野人. 居然還懂得穿衣服!\"\n-----\n\"Uh Captain I don't think they look too friendly.\"\n\n\"隊長小心點. 這傢伙眼神不對.\"\n-----\n\"I bet they aren't. Let me try some simple words. **DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I AM SAYING?**\"\n\n\"別怕我有準備. 讓我試試. ~... | 1 | |
[WP] In an alternate reality, many Mesozoic animals never went extinct. You are a park ranger in Yellowstone National Park, where Triceratops herds wander freely, and signs say "Do not feed the Edmontosaurus". | [
"\"Alright, folks. Lets go over some ground rules.\"\n\nA group of fourteen people sat on the bench in front of me. Three generations from what I assumed was the same family, all trying and failing to hide their nerves.\n\n\"First off - and this should be obvious - stay on the path no matter what. Nature has come t... | 1 | |
More info: The world of the Gods is considered a paradise, a Utopia of sorts. | [WP] Everyone in the world has a doppelganger and if you make physical contact with them, you merge into one and pass on into the world of the gods as a new person. You and your spouse are on vacation in another country and while your spouse is distracted, you spot their doppelganger. | [
"The cold night air whipped around Irene as she leant over the edge of the railing, her husband's firm hand on her back and the other gently tucking her hair behind her ear, perhaps it was the soft shudder of the ocean under her feet that gave her a whirr of unease but something wasn't right.\n\nThis had been their... | 4 |
[WP] As a five-year-old, you wrote a very compelling letter to God, asking for certain favors. 30 years later, God finally gets around to reading your letter and granting your wishes. The results are horrifying. | [
"(I took some liberties with the prompt, changing the year requirements)\n\n**Wednesday, October 12th 1988,**\n\nPatrick 9 years old prepares himself for another school day. Or rather, his mom wakes him up, washes his face, prepares his breakfast and sends him off. But right before being sent off, Patrick asks his ... | 6 | |
[WP] In the year 2138 every new born gets bond to another new born. They share a link which lets them communicate and feel each other starting some time between age 16 and 18. When your link started you realize you are not bond to a human. | [
"(Part 2; as requested)\n\nI stare, perplexed, at the youngling human. Bonds are supposed to be between members of the same species; in all of my previous lives, never have I heard of two different species being linked.\n\nA Phoenix is, of course, a little special, as there exists only one in all the world, but all... | 2 | |
[WP] Without any assistance, the Doomsday clock advances to 30 seconds until midnight. Tired of living on the brink, you move the minute hand to 12. The devil appears, bows, and hands you his pitchfork. | [
"\"Well, I'm glad that's over\" said the goat bearded devil as he loosens his cape and stretches his wings. \"What? Hey! I don't want this\" you reply. \"Well throw it away then. Do you have any idea what you've done? Do you, pathetic last of the worms living on decay understand with any capacity what you just did... | 1 | |
[WP] After living in a bunker for the past five generations, a new cult has begun to arise. | [
"They had been right about one thing. \n\nOnly a few short years after the Cult of the Phoenix locked themselves deep down in their remote mountain bunker, the Day of the Flash--despite all the protestations, all the soothing assurances of the political elite, who said it would not happen, would never happen--the D... | 1 | |
[WP] Your house becomes infested with an endangered species of cockroach, which is so rare that it's illegal to harm in any way. | [
"A Novel for OP\n\nIt was from a blissful sleep that Samson Gregory was abruptly awakened to the puzzling sound of loud knocking on his bedroom door. He lived alone, didn't he? Gazing down over his flabby white abdomen he saw where all those successful years in his fathers business now rested. \"Sam! Samson Gr... | 1 | |
[WP] Everything doesn't happen for a reason. Write a character's journey in accepting that not all things need reasons. Some things are better left unknown or unsaid. | [
"\"Flight attendants, please prepare for departure.\"\n\nThe lights in the small plane dimmed, making the glare of the sunset outside seem even more harsh. Alicia sat in her seat, letting her head rest against the window, and watched as the grey structures and palm trees sped by. Soon they lifted off and she saw th... | 1 | |
[WP] You had given up all hope of inheriting your fathers abilities, and then it happened. | [
"It had broken her heart because she could still hear him in her head. Clear as the day she first heard it. And yet she could never even come close. No matter how many times she practiced, through bleeding fingers and arms ready to fall off, she just wasn't good enough. \n\nSo she stopped, no more blood, no more te... | 1 | |
[WP]Things that can jokingly be used as another object, you can use as that object. (ie: You can use a banana as a phone...or a gun) | [
"My first WP attempt, probably bad\n*****\n\n\"What the hell Susan!?\"\n\n\"I don't know how it happened, I...\"\n\n\"How can you keep lying!?\"\n\nIt had been a turbulent year for Susan. The world had gone completely topsy turvey and her husband hadn't been around much since the sudden upshoot of patients at the h... | 1 | |
[WP] Throughout history, people have been afraid of the Dark, and with good reason. The Dark, however, rather likes people that enjoy it. | [
"**Darkness of the Night**\n\n \n\nIn the dark there are creatures.\nLurking, dangerous creatures.\nWho beckon and call their victims,\nIn the darkness of the night.\n\n \n\nIn the dark there are terrors.\nUnspeakable, countless terrors.\nThat panic and frighten,\nIn the darkness of the night.\n\n... | 1 | |
[WP] "I've never felt more lost than when I watched her walk away." | [
"I felt safe, secure and loved when she was around. She held my hand. She guided me. She cared for me. I've never felt more lost than when I watched her walk away. The face was familiar, but her name always escaped me.\n\nHer bright colours faded into a blur the further she went. Something inside me told me she wou... | 3 | |
I am still new to this whole "writing prompt" writing, so please be nice to me! | [WP] Your about to tell your best friend, that you've know pretty much your entire life, that you love them. Before you have the chance though, your worst enemy confesses their love to your best friend. And it turns out your best friend loves them too. | [
"I came out to my best friend years ago. I still remember the way Aaron laughed, the smile on his face. God, he could power the city on that smile. I had faltered, had asked why he laughed. \"You finally trusted me enough to come out to me!\" He said. \"I figured it out ages ago!\"\n\nI couldn't tell him everything... | 1 |
[WP] A bunch of stereotypical teenagers visit a lonely cabin in the mountains despite warnings of a crazed killer and/or monsters running loose. However, the teens are not entirely human themselves. | [
"\"You're a bit young for this, but...Seriously, you're going to regret going up there\" an old farmer says, in his hand a shotgun.\n\n\"Oh come on, old man! We just wanna have fun! You gonna let us do that, aren't you\" pretty girl Naomi inquires in her thick Brooklyn accent, batting her eyelashes at the man.\n\n\... | 3 | |
[WP] You are immortal. Life has been eradicated by something that even you don't remember. As the last living being on earth, you wander the planet aimlessly, thinking about your past achievements. Hope all but lost, you look up to the sky and notice an alien ship coming your way. | [
"It was all so long ago. The scorched earth beneath my feet crunched as I walked through what once was Lake Huron. There was nothing left; no people, no plants, no animals, not even clouds. All the water had evaporated to make Earth a dustball.\n\nI don't remember how or why it all happened. It was all so long ago... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a crime fighter with a "no kill" rule... but you also work to injure your foes in the most expensive way possible since your day job is CEO of the city's only hospital. | [
"\nRainforest greens, Cozumel blues and lightning reds danced across the screen a few feet from me as a grim grey haired doctor engaged in frantic conversation with a nurse next to him. Both figures studiously ignored the bandaged figure making an attempt to writhe in agony a few feet away.\n\nI bit down a small sm... | 7 | |
[WP] A detective with Multiple Personality Disorder who is also a serial killer | [
"I could tell the bastard was clever. Grotesque in imagination, villainous in cunning, surgeonlike in execution. He was the cleverest mouse against whom I had played cat in my long career as a detective. He seemed to know exactly what a guy like me would look for at the scenes of his crimes, and so would clear away... | 1 | |
[WP] A seaside diner. A table for two. A single patron. | [
"From her spot behind the bar, Sophie regarded the man sitting at the corner table with a little bit of pity. The guy was clearly waiting for someone who hadn't shown up, he looked a bit sad, yet hopeful.\n\nHe was staring out at sea through the window, poking his steak while he was clearly lost in thought. He wasn... | 2 | |
[WP] You have a rare kind of synesthesia. Instead of seeing colors with music, you can see the Math the universe uses to dictate everything. You always considered it a nuisance, until the day you use it to save someone's life... | [
"I can't throw for beans. Seriously, the Little League coach told me to stop coming. Today he'd probably get sued for it, but I've got a bit of grey in my hair, so that's not how it works out.\n\nWhich is too bad, because I can tell you exactly how many newtons of force it would take, at which angle and azimuth, to... | 5 | |
[WP] "Where else would I put them?" | [
"\"Where else would I put them?\" She said with a frown, \nAll the people hid their faces and looked down. \nThe tapes showed all that needed to be said, \nher husband and new lover - dead on their bed. \nThe people asked why she did such a crime, \nher only response that it was finally the time.\n\nHer husban... | 1 | |
[WP] "Something is coming, it's coming fast, and it's coming for you." said the old man | [
"“Something is coming, it’s coming fast, and it’s coming for you.” said the old man.\n“Yes, grandpa, but don’t worry. I will be careful.” The young man, early in his twenties, assures his grandfather as he takes an old wrinkled hand in his young hands. \n“So like I said before, I am not gonna visit you this Sunday ... | 4 | |
If you think this is hard somebody wrote a whole book with no Es.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby_(novel)
| [WP] Write a story about anything but you can't use the letter E anywhere. | [
"I skip toward a patch of crops on Mountain road. \"I don't...\" \n\n\"What is it, Ruth?\" asks Ian. \n\n\"I don't fit in! You know it! I know it! I want out. \" \n\nI shoot a nasty look at Ian. I turn, my mascara-lavish vision fur holding upward and around in orbit, and I sigh with frustration, my roving foot dart... | 6 |
[WP] You are taking the metro home from work. The tunnels are pitch black and the train shows no sign of slowing down, but you are certain that the next stop should now have come about two minutes ago. | [
"The train lights flicker as a grimly wait for my stop on my commute back to work. Dead eyed and dreary, I'm surrounded by a mob of equally intolerable strangers taking up a selfish amount of space on the train. I check my watch again. \n\n9:47\n\nMy train arrived at 9:30 as usually, but usually stops at 9:45. I th... | 1 | |
[WP] Souls in the afterlife "die" when nobody on the mortal world remembers them anymore. You died alone and friendless, yet you have endured in the afterlife for centuries. | [
"All my life I've worked. \n\nIn backyards and front yards as a child. In classrooms after school as an incompetent teacher. In isolation, once I could afford it. \n\nI wrote and I painted and entire worlds of loves and hates, intimacy of lives and afterlives kept me company. My imagination kept me sane. \n\nI drif... | 2 | |
[WP] You knock a plate off a table causing a chain reaction of events leading to the end of the world. | [
"It’s always the same. Squirt, wipe, polish, squirt, wipe, polish again and again until the table looks practically doused in oil. Yes, because everyone loves the scent of eating in the middle of a chemical lab.\nWould you like more cleaning agent with your drink? Or perhaps you could just open wide and i’ll pour t... | 14 | |
[WP] Any update to Wikipedia that goes unchallenged for 30 days has the power to rewrite the past. You and your friends find a page nobody pays any attention to. | [
"You might have a question, why i have Erwin Rommel in my backyard with tank tracks instead of legs talking in tank noises... well... i and my friends kind of made... him?\n\nYou see, we read this internet myth in an abandoned reddit post, that noone paid attention to, that certain wikipedia articles have special p... | 1 | |
[WP] Normally you can see five minutes in the future. You try looking ahead, but all you see is darkness. | [
"\"I can't see anything\" I blurted out, immediately covering my mouth.\nI got a few weird looks, but no one really seemed to have either noticed it, or they simply didn't care. I retreated into the next ally. \n\"Don't worry, that can mean anything\" I said to myself, trying to calm the panic.\n\nI fealt something... | 1 | |
[WP] North Korea has been hiding their futuristic, advanced underground metropolis, and the cities above the ground were all fake. | [
"They called it Hwarang, which at one time, much too long ago, meant \"flowering youth.\" I stumbled upon Hwarang in my most recent travels. I am a fledgling journalist working for an organization called *redacted*. I had been working on assignment in Seoul for the last two weeks... but then the missiles began to f... | 1 | |
[WP] As part of an experiment, you and a complete stranger have been fused into a single body. Your aim is to pass as a normal person for a week. | [
"It isn't the kind of experiment that you volunteer for. It was the kind of experiment which is presented as an option: death or death to advance science. They called it science.\n\nThe other prisoner and I had never met. He came from a different barracks, but he looked just like everyone else. Shaven head, empty e... | 1 | |
[WP] You find a vial of blue liquid in your grandfather's trunk. Greedily, you drink it. Just enough for one last spell. | [
"A shallow burp bellowed from his throat. As bright wisps of blueish white light began to swirl around him, he thought, \"this time they will see my true power\". His eyes narrowed to keen slits, focused on his upturned palms. Needles of white light began forming and converging into a sphere there. The fragments o... | 2 | |
[WP] A getaway driver is hired by four different criminals. They do their respective heists on the same day. | [
"Dennis bolted out of the bank as the alarm blared behind him. The rain thudded against his porcelain mask as he ran to the car his driver Wayne was waiting in. His shoulders ached at the weight of the money bags on them, but he didn't care. He turned into the alley where he found Wayne waiting, the trunk already o... | 6 | |
[WP] A man walks into a bar and stabs another person in the throat with a spoon. Surprisingly, no one minds this. | [
"It was your first day. After leaving the hotel and getting your assignment you finally realised that life was not a game anymore. The real test begins now. \n\nAfter slowly unwinding the red twine that bound your envelope shut you scanned the documents and began planning your mission. Your very first \"hit\" was t... | 1 | |
[WP] All the world's weapons have completely disappeared, and when someone makes a mundane item a weapon, it also disappears. | [
"A man with no arms and no legs rolls into a bar.\n\n\"Get into a fight?\" The bartender asks.\n\n\"Yes,\" the man says, \"but you should see the other guy.\"\n\nThe bartender, curious as to how the man could have possibly won the fight, asks: \"Really?\"\n\n\"Oh yeah,\" the man says, \"he tried to headbutt me.\""... | 1 |
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