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[WP] A portion of a tutorial for a video game, circa 2037 | [
"Hello! My name is Tella, your personal tutorial artificial intelligence! Thank you for purchasing Real Love, the most authentic dating simulator on the market.\n\nPlease look up... okay, good, now look down... fantastic. The game world is now synced with your eye movements for maximum comfort.\n\nNow then, let's m... | 1 | |
[WP] Write about a world in which the more important a person is, the bigger they are physically. No one knows what makes that person important, but they know that they are. | [
"\"Hey! Watch it, dick!\" \n\n\nMurphy slammed his fist down on the flat surface that was somebody's foot. \nNoticing the puny man hitting his feet, the giant let out a tiny giggle that could be heard around the whole neighbourhood. Murphy violently jammed his hands back into his pockets and caught back up with Tim... | 1 | |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse has already started, and you've already had the cure to save all of humanity before the virus even started on it's first victim. You don't tell anybody because you found it exciting and thrilling to be in a world of survival. | [
"Glenn wept softly, holding Lucca's limp body against his. Little splotches of red started spreading and blending against the sweat stains on his white shirt.\n\n\"Glenn, Glenn buddy, I know it can't be easy, but we should really...\"\n\nA careful hand on his shoulder. Max wheeled around to see Lee the stranger, wh... | 1 | |
[WP] An immortality elixir has been discovered but you're allergic. | [
"My throat was burning as it started to slowly close. \"What?!\" I gurgled. \"What's happening?!\"\n\nI heard my brother start to panic. \"Doc? Is this normal?!\"\n\nThe doctor had a look of surprise, confusion, and fear. \"I have never seen this happen to any of my patients before...\" \n\n*\"GREAT!\"* I thought t... | 1 | |
[WP] A shapeshifter murders your fiance and takes their place. You discover this when browsing through your SO's video camera. | [
"Grace watched the video twice. The first time, she cried. The second time, she sat in silence and thought about what she was going to do, as the screams faded into a soft sucking sound thankfully off camera. \n\nIn about ten minutes the thing that looks like Mark now is going to stand up, wipe its mouth with the b... | 2 | |
[WP] When driving down certain roads, your car sometimes jerks at intersections as if it wants to turn. One day you decide to see where it wants to take you. | [
"Anna wasn’t the most confident of drivers to begin with, and her partner Luke didn’t really help on that front either. He was constantly giving her “advice” - backseat driving’s what she’d call it. Besides why should she take advice from him anyway? He was the one after all that lost his licence for reckless drivi... | 3 | |
[WP] Not even the apocalypse will stop Bill from getting change for 10$. | [
"“Great. Just great,” Bill thought to himself as the air raid siren blatted. “The damn world is ending, and all I have is a ten spot.”\n\nWhen he left the house this morning, Bill Hendricks had no intention of weathering the apocalypse, but here he was, 3 hours later, listening to the decaying whine of a siren. \n\... | 1 | |
[WP] Millions of people have gathered near the path of totality in anticipation of seeing one of the greatest natural wonders of space, the Solar Eclipse. When the sun is shadowed, and the night sky is finally visible, Man-kind sees much more in the night sky than just the Milky Way. | [
"\"What is that mommy?\"\n\n\"I don't know sweetheart\" \n\nA mother and her son were the only voices that could be heard throughout the crowd. Everyone else was stunned. Tonight was a night of history for them, a night of astronomical wonders. They spent weeks preparing for this. The moon, actually covering the su... | 1 | |
[WP] After you did a little ritual you jumped to a more favorable dimension. Your inital wish is fullfilled. But your new dimension is now changed in subtle ways and it's finally starting to creep you out. | [
"I mean, what would you have done. If you were in my shoes. I bet you wouldn't act any different. I just really needed it to change. I didn't want to got to stupid summer school. And I had just read about it on /r/dimensionaljump. So I got together two glasses full of water and put them on the table. Then I wrote \... | 1 | |
Melenia ago you had the chance to make a real difference, it's your turn in this day and age but you barely have enough time to realise it, now every person that died before you is trying to some how tell you to change the rule before times up.
Edit: sorry about the 'him', I thought I got rid of the all. | [WP] Every one that dies becomes a god until the next person after him dies and you have to tell them their the new God. | [
"\"Sweet, I'm God! Now I'll-\"\n\n\"Move over, buddy, time's up.\"\n\n\"What, but I just became-\"\n\n\"You two, out of the way, it's my turn!\"\n\n\"Already done, it's me now.\"\n\n\"Hey everybody, I'm God now and I-\"\n\n\"You stopped being God like two words into that sentence.\"\n\n\"And you wasted *your* Godh... | 1 |
[WP] Finally tired of your shit job and your asshole boss, you decide to quit. However, it's not as easy as you first thought. | [
"I stood there shaking my head in disbelief as I scooped the rest of the dough into the trash. Flicking the last loose piece of paper from the floury mess I thought, *This fucking idiot cut up dates from a CALENDAR.*\n\nSure, the recipe for DATE bread called for dates, but clearly they meant the fruit. Any normal p... | 1 | |
[WP] Mjolnir just keeps following you. It's getting kind of annoying. | [
"Clonk, clatter, scrape I could hear the damn things metallic mutter as I strode away from the lab and continued to roll my eyes and clench my jaw as I had for much of the last six months.\n\n''Thats plenty far enough Mr Jacks'' I stopped and turned to watch the lab coated professor scurry forward hands and pockets... | 1 | |
[WP] Elon Musk is actually an alien with a secret mission of returning to his people. The shuttle is launching in T- 10...9...8.. | [
"7.. 6.. \n\n'All clear?'\n\n'All Clear.'\n\n*It's happening again, that feeling. Ever since I put on this skin it almost feels like I've become one of them.* \n\n5... 4... \n\n*This is wrong, this is so wrong. The burning in my neck and the neauseating jitters, I hate this. I hate this stupid, human morality. And ... | 1 | |
[WP] A hero may only draw their sword once in their lifetime because they, along with their sword, are rendered to dust soon after. An old hero finally draws their blade. | [
"The old soldier sat alone, at a small table tucked away in a quiet corner of the tavern. The light barely touched his table but he didn't need the light for what he was doing, drinking doesn't require light, just a liver, a mouth and alcohol. He stared unblinkingly into his glass and sighed deeply. He didn't enjoy... | 5 | |
[WP] An asteroid miner gets his arm torn off, and replaces his arm with cybernetics. There was a mix up, and instead of the standard civilian package he was given military grade cybernetics. | [
"\"I thought I made out like a bandit, gettin' this fancy new arm,\" I said, taking another shaky sip of whiskey from my flask. \"They said they accidentally gave me a military grade arm.\" I laid the flask down, moving slowly at first, and then jolting sideways unexpectedly, spilling my drink. \n\n\"That's good, a... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the child of a famous psychic who was disgraced when he or she was exposed as a fraud. However, you truly are a psychic. A great war is coming and preventable, but no one will believe you. | [
" The breadth of her father’s shadow had been inescapable to her growing up, but until his recent public exposure, that shadow had been a positive one. Now, however, she was no longer recognized as “that famous psychic’s daughter,” but instead as “the daughter of the phony”. She had always known her father was a ... | 1 | |
[WP] Your son/daughter is a prophesied hero, destined to save the world. But they are now in dire trouble, and you're going to save your child even if all you have is the clothes on your back. | [
"The catacombs were dark, and the smell seemed to sink through her skin itself, along with the faint sound of her footsteps through the water-logged tunnels. There were no enemies yet, none that she could see, but she knew they would show up eventually, and she needed to avoid outright fights wherever she could.\n\... | 1 | |
[WP] you have spent years trying to save a fantasy world that you were dropped into, and as soon as you defeat the main villain, you instantly get returned to your old life as if nothing changed... it's time to face the greatest challenge yet, retail work | [
"\"Fuck kind of order is this? Jacob? Jacob?!\"\n\nI snapped back to reality to see my manager, Steven, waving his sweaty palm an inch in front of my face. My whole body tensed to action in automatic response to the threat, my hand reaching to my waist for the sword which... wasn't there. I tried to disguise the mo... | 1 | |
[WP]You found a genie. Your first wish is to go back in time 5 years. He sends you back, but deviously doesn't compensate for earths movement through space. Against all odds, you appear on the bridge of an Alien spacecraft, monitoring earth. They then see you as a god. You still have two wishes left | [
"Spencer began to materialize on the deck of an alien spaceship that sat several million miles from Earth. From the viewing screen he could see Earth in the distance as the ships cameras had an incredible amount of zoom and other technology that was centuries ahead of human tech.\n\nSpencer looked around the room ... | 1 | |
[WP] When you were young, you were summoned to another world. You'd never tell anyone, but you were elated! Life in our realm had become so boring for you. Yet, now that you have lived a full life in this other realm, you have been transported back home. No time has passed. | [
"Rematerializing was as painful as I remembered it from all these years ago. Like being violently smashed together and compressed like some kind of crude pottery sculpture. Gasping, I sank to my knees and waited for the pain to subside, eyes firmly shut.\n\nIt was impossible to tell how much time had passed, at las... | 1 | |
[WP] The wizard was asked by the townspeople to make a forest that blossumed when children were in it. He accidentally created a forest that feeds off the energy of children...and it's hungry | [
"Mother and father have both told me many times to stay away from the forest. Mother reminds me every day as I leave the house. \"Clio stay out of the forest, stay away from the forest, do NOT enter the forest.\" I'm thirteen not stupid, so I silently roll my eyes as she gives this speech to my back, day after day.... | 1 | |
[WP] You butt-dialed the wrong number and the devil picked up. | [
"The first I knew of it was when my butt started burning. I leapt up, cursing, and clawed my phone out of my pocket. It was hot, too hot to hold; my fingers flew open and it clattered to the floor.\n\n\nI stood there shaking out my scalded hand and gingerly feeling my back pocket for any burn damage. Everything see... | 1 | |
[WP] you are the evil henchman who turned traitor to help the heroes, the only problem is, the heroes lost | [
"Thorns tore at his once immaculate uniform but he no longer cared he just wanted to get away. To run, to wipe the image from his mind. The image burned forever in his mind of a princess holding her dead hero in her arms wailing a primal scream of loss. Then nothing was there but a pink mist. No bodies, no last min... | 2 | |
[WP] You're sure the lab mainframe AI has become sentient, even though it can communicate only with images it pulls from the internet. What you think it's trying to tell you, chills you to the bone. | [
"A Syrian girl in her early teens, half facing the camera, standing in front of what I could only presume was once her home, was staring a thousand miles away off of my computer screen. The trees in the background were splintered and scorched. Her village must have just been hit by artillery. Who knows which side ... | 1 | |
[WP] Today, you finally get to do what you've trained your whole life to: explore the invisible city. | [
"I pull the leather straps tight, securing the apparatus I've spent years building to my back. As it settles into place, a myriad of emotions assail me at once. The first is fear. What if I fail? What if this task I've spent my entire life preparing for is all for naught? No, I can't allow myself to think like this... | 2 | |
[WP]: "There is one thing I want to let you know about this place. The jester is the only one whose word you should take seriously." | [
"\"The Jester?\" My brow furrowed questioningly as Braz spoke.\n\n\"It's his world, there may be a King and Queen sitting on their thrones but make no mistake, the man behind the mask is the true ruler.\"\n\nI turned, the swirling vortex of burning yellow and orange within the confinement of the open door.\n\n\"Jus... | 3 | |
[WP] A hard-boiled detective story, set in Heaven. | [
"I floated down a narrow lane with fog rolling up from the cloud beneath me like the morning dew in reverse. Gliding across the slick astral turf as surely as Sonja Henie glided across Norway I made my way to the main road, with my office on the corner. I came up short, folding my wings back, when I saw the shadow ... | 2 | |
[WP] A mind reader notices that a co-worker is contemplating a crime. They try to talk them down, but without revealing their powers. | [
"*He deserves it,* she thinks. \n*That man is the one.* \n*He'll touch no one again,* \n*Since I have a gun.*\n\n\nShe moves closer behind, \nHer hand in her purse. \nI tap on her shoulder, \nShe turns with a curse. \n\n\n\"You seem tense, can I help?\" \n\"Get out of my way!\" \n\"Please talk to somebody.... | 4 | |
[WP] A person wakes up from cryo-sleep in a sci-fi utopia; disease, conflict, climate change, and all other problems have been eradicated. However, they are absolutely convinced that there must be some fatal flaw or conspiracy. There isn't. | [
"**Part 2 in comments**\n\nGeorge stared at the holographic tablet with his mouth ajar.\n\n“I mean, I’d always heard that the future was brighter, but this? This HAS to be impossible!”\n\nA slight whirring sound – George assumed coming from his large, 8 foot tall cryo-sleep chamber- filled the pause before the doct... | 2 | |
[WP] Describe a mundane action (sneezing, brushing teeth) as dramatic and drawn out as possible | [
"It returned my fixed glare, or so it seemed. Of course, this was impossible, but the sheer majesty of the chair made me feel as though it contained some inherent essence, one that allowed it a value higher than any furniture my wanting eyes had fallen upon before.\n\nI approached it with caution, assessing it from... | 1 | |
[WP] People have no idea that there is a sequence of words that can cause instant death to the speaker. You work for an evil corporation that is trying to make a product that gets the words spoken by tons of people. | [
"\"Guy's you don't understand, all we have to do is use prisoners who can sing!\"\n\nMy idea was perfect. It was simple marketing strategy. Make something so absolutely terrible that it will go viral and everyone will talk about it. To be honest it took me a while to come up with this due to the fact the 3-word phr... | 1 | |
If you wish, you can mix them up. | [WP] Tell the same story in the feudal era, the present day and 1000 years from now. | [
"He looked down at the ash through the thumb-smeared glass of the window bay. Even hovering far above the combat zone he could still see the charred remains of what had once been human beings, he could still smell them. A dull wind gripped the earth and began, slowly, even carefully, to sweep away the residue. Mere... | 1 |
[WP] In a world where killing a murderer allows to bring back from the dead one of his victims, a man escapes police surveillance to hunt the serial killer that ended his daughter's life. | [
"The moment my daughter's killer's head hits the cracked porcelain of the filthy toilet in the corner of the apartment I tracked him to, sparkling pale motes of light pour from his smashed skull. Tears prick my eyes as they surround me, swirling in front of my vision until all I see is blinding blue-white.\n\nWho? ... | 1 | |
[WP] As you sit on the bus coming home from work, a person in menacing full body armor gets on and sits right beside you. | [
"I have this trick. And, well, I used to not tell anyone about it because it worked so well. But I won't be using it again... so I may as well put it on reddit. And I kind of have to to tell you about Garth. \n\nIt's a trick for keeping a double seat on a bus. I live in London see and getting a double isn't hard, I... | 1 | |
[WP] In the middle of the night, you encounter a dragon in his human form. He tells you that he's searching for a rare, poisonous flower and asks for your help. You were getting bored of your small town anyways. | [
"\n*Swiftly, the verdant leaves of the old town blush red from the passing of pale spirits.*\n\n*Slowly, the great mother shrouds her shining face in a tapestry of clouds.*\n\n*But for now her bright face still looks upon me as I traverse this strange land, it shines upon me, round and yellow and it means...it mean... | 2 | |
[WP] When you die you have the option to go back to any point in your life, and make a different decision. | [
"At first there was grey. A world of mist, the stench of gasoline and burning dreams. The darkness was suffocating as I slowly recalled how I found myself here. The city of my childhood, the smell of garbage on the street. The kind lady who taught second grade. Embarrassment and failure. The awkwardness of middle s... | 1 | |
[WP] After a million years of evolution machines have started to lose their jobs to humans. | [
"Management Model X232 called all the Factory Manufacturing Models to the floor of the assembly plant. The entanglement of wiring that made up his brain started itching. If he could drill through his metal skull and yank on a few multi-colored wires, he would, but his Robot Therapist had warned him of that tic. So ... | 2 | |
[WP] A polaroid camera takes photos of places and things not as they are now, but at some other point in time, past or future. | [
"Susan carefully covered the pimple on the right side of her lip. In her head, she heard a mean girl’s voice whisper “ew, does she have herpes?”. \nShe muttered angrily; “No, it’s just a pimple!”, and went to blow-dry her hair. \n\nShe was getting ready for her 27th birthday party. Unlike most of her friends, she s... | 3 | |
[WP] When driving down the road one day a dog runs in front of your car and you swerve to avoid it. Unknowingly the dog pledges a life debt to you from that day on, and in your darkest hour, the dog arrives. | [
"Walking out of the bar at 2am too drunk to walk was not the plan I had at the start of today, or yesterday as it had now been for 2 hours It had been one of those days. It started with me swerving to avoid a crazy Alsation running across the road and me crashing heavily into a street lamp. Late for the first da... | 2 | |
[WP] You are on vacation and accidentally open your Alexa app. It shows someone has spent the last few hours asking the Echo in your 'empty' home unnerving questions. | [
"Sorry for not following the prompt completely, but this popped into my head and I wanted to write it. \n\n____________________________________\n\nI wasn't always so scared. In fact, I used to be quite the opposite. My friends and I used to go deep into the forest, looking for trouble. When the sun set and the moon... | 2 | |
[WP] The one thing that has contributed most to your success in life is your ability to craft words. One day you are cursed, no longer able to speak your own words and instead only able to communicate in movie one-liners. Bizarrely this handicap only makes you more successful. | [
"\n\nRodney moved out last night. He had been living with us since April, but he is gone now. His stuff is out of Rachelle’s room—I know because I looked. \n\nI haven’t seen Rachelle. I heard them fighting last night, but today she hasn’t been in the house. I texted her, but no reply. I am worried. Rodney won’t ans... | 1 | |
[WP] Everyday for the last 3 months, you've put a red rose on your best friend's grave. One day you put a white one, and a key appears. | [
"Never written a fiction story before, but I'm bored waiting for my flight, so here we go (my apologies in advance if it's bad).\n\n---\n\nThe afternoon sun beamed into the window, bouncing off the walls and straight onto Jeremy’s bed.\n\nOne of the many gray blinds that enshrouded Jeremy’s small room from the rest... | 1 | |
[WP] You are looking up flights online and notice a one-way flight both departing from and arriving at the same airport. Curious, you book the flight. | [
"Dear Journal,\n\nToday wasn't as exciting as I thought it may be. After wining $10,000 from a scratchy I've bought I figured why not treat myself to a weeks vacation somewhere exotic. Of course, $10,000 not being a whole lot in today's economy I didn't want to spend big so I looked for some seat deals on a sketchy... | 2 | |
[WP] "Dammit Brian, what did I say about romancing the alien?!" | [
"I stared at my partner as my throbbing migraine tried to evolve to the next level. My suit finished its 12th diagnostic and my armor was clean and clear.\n\n\"Dammit Brian, what did I say about romancing the alien!?\" I screamed at the idiot. He stared back sheepishly.\n\nThe mission was simple. Touch down, and do... | 1 | |
[WP] A train from the 21st century arrives at a station from the 19th century. Meanwhile, a train from the 19th century arrives at a station from the 21st century. | [
"\"George, have they installed new... everything?\" Laura asked. George, her husband, moved in front of her, staring the strange men wearing blue clothes and holding silly-looking guns with a stare only matched by the look of fear in the other passengers' eyes. In the windows behind her, she could see demonic sight... | 1 | |
[WP] You live in two worlds simultaneously. It's been really hard, since your bodies do everything synchronized. | [
"\"Can you imagine living in 2 places at the exact same time with the exact same body?\"\n\n\"Whenever you have a conversation in one body, the other is talking to...nothing or random strangers most of the time\"\n\n\"Can you imagine not being able to walk through an open field because a wall is blocking the other?... | 1 | |
[WP] Two people in a long distance relationship rarely get to see each other, but constantly pine for one another over the phone, texting, and social media. One day, they both die and end up finding each other in hell, finally together, for all eternity. | [
"David slouched with his back against his corner of the hot brimstone cave with a look of absolute and pure disgust on his face. It had been exactly 4 hours since he had turned that damned fire-pit and saw Sarah. *His fucking Sarah.* And perhaps, he admitted with a tinge of bitterness, it was predictable things did... | 2 | |
1st time posting. I hope this is the correct format and context. | [WP] That was her flaw; she was a human being. Other than that, she was perfect. Her feet swirled around the floor in perfect concert with mine. I knew I could never be enough. | [
"The radio played smooth jazz music as delicious smells wafted from the kitchen to the living room, where I was comfortably seated. A squeal of delight awoke me from slumber.\n\n\"Dinner is served!\" she exclaimed, as she stepped out of the kitchen, \"Or at least it will be once I'm done washing up.\" She rushed in... | 1 |
[WP] You can't lie. Or rather, you can, but everything you say comes true in the end. | [
"When locked up in prison, most people will do anything to escape, right? And most people fail. \n\nNot me. \n\n*I* went in for fun. \n\nStuck a knife deep into the chest of a passing stranger, gave the knife to a witness. I handed myself in. The evidence, the witnesses-- everything was beautifully against me.\n\nI... | 1 | |
[WP] Regardless of socioeconomic status, all those on death row can choose their death. And while you're not the first one to be sent into deep space in an empty pod, you're the first one who didn't die. | [
"*** THIS IS A CLASSIFIED DOCUMENT ***\n\n- Enclosed is the Final Statement and Word of Inmate #3903, David Ward -\n- Transcribed and Notarized by DR Agent, Kathline Donavan -\n- Departure Date: 10/09/2077 -\n- Execution Class: Space Explosion -\n\n*** PENDING FEDERAL INVESTIGATION ***\n\nDear person whom I don't c... | 2 | |
[WP] The Deadly Sins all try to help each other become better people | [
"Pride sat in the chair emblazoned with his name. He’d brought his own chair to this meeting of the Seven Deadly Sins. Mirrors hung from either side, so he could catch glimpses of himself whenever he looked around the room. Gold plates had been used for the chair’s frame. It was the best chair in the room.\n\nHe wo... | 1 | |
[Wp] For a thousand years, humanity has not known war, and had instead teaching new intelligent species about the galaxy. Now, a new threat has come to the galaxy | [
"We thought it would be easy.\n\nA galaxy where the dominant race were foolish peace-dwellers. For a thousand years they prospered, teaching others about the galaxy around them, teaching them about space travel and colonization.\n\nWe thought it would be easy.\n\nOur spies reported no warships of any kind from any ... | 1 | |
[WP] You and your family have been selected to "colonize Mars". Little did you know, the planet is not Mars and you've really been sent to conquer its native species. | [
"\"I thought Mars was supposed to be red\", John said looking out of the window of the shuttle. \"Ugh, John\", Alissa said dismissively, \"you never pay attention in class do you? The atmosphere bends the wavelength of the light emitted from the surface\". Despite Alissa dismissing John's question, Adam and Riley s... | 1 | |
[WP] The story of a person who uncontrollably responds to every writing prompt. | [
"My fingers twitched, the letters on the keyboard clattered as I begun to reply to my emails from the night before. I scrolled through my list of clients, ignoring those that gave me the shits and exploiting those that I could get the most money out of. I fucking hated living the life of a freelancer. Would I have ... | 2 | |
[WP] You have gained the power of invisibility! You're invisible to everyone! Unfortunately, including yourself. | [
"Normally this is the part where I say:\n\"Today was a normal day, until...\"\n\nExcept it wasn't. It was definitely *NOT* normal.\n\nI woke up, and made my way to the bathroom wondering why I felt... off. \n\nAs I started to undress I noticed I couldn't see my hands... or my arms... or any part of me at all.\n\nPa... | 1 | |
[WP] Superpowers are real but people with them are killed shortly after the power manifests for the first time. The killers are a small team whose job it is to locate and assassinate power wielders. | [
"Sixteen kills. Twenty one sightings. Seven assists.\n\nThe name's Clio. Agent Clio. And the past six years working with The Natural Order has been some of the most exciting years of my life. I'm twenty seven years old, and from the moment I started, I knew that this was what I was meant to do for the rest of my li... | 4 | |
[WP] As queen of an ant colony you have just been given distressing news from one of your scouts; the day of reckoning is at hand and it comes in the form of an armed six year old human. | [
"I stared in disbelief at the scout. Our home had stood for generations and held against many threats. The enemy was peering at a couple scouts still in the field. \n\nThe being was holding a massive circular object with a grip. It was practically crystal clear. Then the beam rained down. Magnificent and horrible, ... | 1 | |
[WP] In a freak dimensional accident, modern day USA is transported back in time to replace colonial america. | [
"Candice was on me the moment that I walked through the door. \"What did they say?\"\n\nI really didn't want to go into it. From the briefing that I'd just gone through... But she needed to hear it. She needed to pass the word along to others, so I had to be the one to tell her.\n\n\"Good news and bad. The goo... | 2 | |
[WP] A late night. A streetlight. A tired pedestrian. | [
"Hands reach for me, whispers pass over my head, I taste blood. My breath is hot and itchy in my throat, my head pounds, my legs shake. But I make it. I make it to the street light. I gasp and bend over, clutching my knees, fighting for breath. The whispers are silenced. The hands withdraw.\n\nA distant moon watche... | 1 | |
[WP] In a world of superheros and villains, one hero stands above all. Roger, a parakeet with a pair of tweezers. | [
"\"Never fear, it is I, Lycratica, here to save the day once again!\" The heroine proudly exclaimed as she stood on the steps of Manntropolis' central bank. She turned with a defiant swoosh of her cape and pointed at the her nemesis in the lobby of the bank, surrounded by oversized bags of unidentified loot and hos... | 1 | |
[WP] It's the standard princess kidnapped by a dragon, king needs you to save her, except the dragon is the princess's boyfriend | [
"\"Wait... So how does it work?\" I stumbled out as I looked up at the tower.\n\n\"He gets me! You just wouldn't understand!\" She huffed back.\n\nThe watchful dragon stared at me from his perch. While he hasn't immediately incinerated me I was still shaking in my boots. \n\n\"Please, just listen to me! It is not s... | 1 | |
[WP] As you arrive at the asylum, a man greets you in the door, saying "Welcome back, Adam." You've never seen this man before. Your name is not Adam. | [
"And this I tell him - \"I've never seen you before, and my name is not Adam.\"\n\nHe responds with the same look and tone I give my friends when they brag about having banged some chick who is clearly out of their league. \"Riiiight.\"\n\nWhoever this guy - Dr. Murthan, according to his name tag - thinks he is, I ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are on a first date at a Chinese restaurant, as the meal winds down you crack open your fortune cookie and it reveals a single line of text 'They know everything' | [
"I stare at the writing on the paper...\nAlek looks at me with those beautiful brown eyes, does she understand i only did this for the sake of formality? we've known each other since junior high, but we never really were a thing up until our college years, when I finally admited my crush on her. But she has an ace ... | 2 | |
[WP] You are the greatest superhero of the world, but no one knows that as your secret identity you own the three biggest insurance companies | [
"Anthony was always in a constant dilemma.\n\nSure he could level tsunamis with a thought and save people who were on the brink of death just by touching them, but was it really what he should be doing, he thought.\n\nWhen he wasn't Totem, his superhero alter ego, he was just Anthony King- the owner of the three la... | 1 | |
[WP] Morty, a child genius with low self esteem, takes his Grandfather Rick, a cynic and otherwise intellectually average guy, on an adventure. | [
"\"Grandpa Rick! Y-y-you got to get up. C'mon!\" whined Morty. He pulled the blankets off of Rick and started to drag his grandpa by his heels out of bed. \n\n\"Alright I'm up I'm up. Quit your bitching. What is it this time?\" Rick snapped. \"It's Jessica. I think she is in trouble or something. Brad's having a pa... | 1 | |
[WP] Not only did you figure out that we live in a simulation, but you've also found a hotkey to the command console. | [
"My name is Daniel Xavier and i just found out the world is a simulation! Now that might frighten some people but not me. Why does it not frighten me? Because i just found the holy grail, the One Piece, the OasisEgg. I found a freaking short cut to the command console meaning i can make myself rich, taller, more m... | 2 | |
[WP] After death, a couple is separated. One of them goes to Heaven; the other goes to hell. This is the story of how one of them tries to get kicked out of Heaven, and how the other tries to ascend from Hell. | [
"\"I'll be with you again, I swear!\" I promised, as the wraiths dragged me away. The last I saw of her unparalleled beauty was when she was being dragged by angels through St Peters gates.\n\n\"I believe you.\" She said, looking back one last time.\n\n\nI descended into the black abyss. Raging infernos and screams... | 6 | |
[WP] A demon accidentally possesses a toy truck and, thinking it is controlling a real vehicle, attempts to kill people with it. | [
"Silly boy. You've just opened up my lair. You disturbed my hibernation. But now I'm awake. And you're prime for the taking. Maybe while I'm possessing your body you'll remind yourself to have never have opened the box. \n\nI lunge forward towards him. But in the midst of my attempt, a monster truck jumps into the ... | 3 | |
[WP]You are a diary of a 15 years old girl. She complains about schools, friends, family by writing in the diary. One day, you decide it was the last straw and respond to her. | [
"6th September 2017\n\nDear Diary,\nMadison is such a cow, she knew I liked Jamie and she still went there. Next year I was going to ask him to prom. He is perfect and now she has ruined it. I thought she was my friend. It's just stupid. I've been telling her for weeks I liked him. I need a friend right now. I've g... | 1 | |
[WP] A technician ends up in a village somewhere in the distant past and is mistaken as a "Witch Hunter", due to his unusual getup and "strange" torture-like devices. | [
"The jungle was thick and choked the air with humidity. Around me was the incessant drone of countless bugs and birds. My hand slapped at my neck as another bug took its tax of flesh. It had been weeks of pushing through the forests and across snake infested sludge and drainage. The ball rattled inside the spray ca... | 1 | |
[WP] News Headline: "Last Humans finally rounded up!" You stare at your phone in disbelief thinking its a joke. Then slowly, you realize everybody around you is cheering. | [
"“Last humans finally rounded up!”\n\nJack read the headline on his phone, then read it again. It appeared via his news app, even with the official logo of the app he thought it was some kind of joke. Maybe one of the managers of the app was having a joke with a colleague or perhaps had entered the wrong and instea... | 6 | |
[WP] "Do not worry, my fellow galactic citizens, there is not a chance that Human beings will become spacefaring and begin expanding." | [
" Sorn sprinted down the hallway of the Cenorkin Empire’s capital building, all 7 tentacles pounding against the floor. Bursting through the door to General Mixen’s quarters, he panted heavily and gripped the door frame to steady his shaking limbs.\n Mixen looked up from his work with a start. “What is it?”... | 1 | |
[WP] The first manned mission to Mars has just touched down on the red planet, only to realize that mission control has cut contact on purpose. The last they they hear from Earth is: "We're sorry we had to do this." | [
"\"*What?*\".. I said in surprise.\n\nScreaming at my earpiece for about 5 minutes, the reality of what had just occured didn't sink in for a while..\n\n\"*Dammit, Josh! What are we gonna do now?*\" I said.\n\n\"*Josh?*\"\n\n\"*Josh, get yourself together!*\"\n\nI can't forget the look on his eyes. He just kept scr... | 2 | |
[WP] You die and are suddenly at the pearly gates of whatever your personal heaven may be. Instead of St Peter, you are met by the two people who you have wronged the most. The decision is theirs... | [
"I was told when I died St. Peter would meet me and pass judgement before allowing me into heaven, or banishing me into hell. This was the \"truth\" everyone told me. Everyone was wrong. \n\nWhen I died I found myself face to face two people I had not seen in ages. One being my best friend from high school, the oth... | 3 | |
[WP] Most kids can see their imaginary friends but not the Grim Reaper. One child can and believes he is the friend they've been asking for. | [
"“I asked Tommy if he could join us in our venture to the high seas.” James munched on his energy bar as he shook his cardboard sword, making sure that it was stable.\n\n“And????” Finn asked, munching on his own energy bar. He adjusted his pirate hat, staring intently at his shadow on the ground, trying to make him... | 1 | |
[WP] Declare independence from something | [
"I declare independence from my self-doubt,\n\nThe inky blackness that starts in the brain,\n\nWraps around the heart, and drips down into the stomach\n\nLike hot, heavy certainty, \n\nFire swallowed just to stop someone else\n \nFrom forcing fire down my throat.\n\n\nYou can't tell me I'm bad, if I already know\n\... | 1 | |
[WP] Congratulations! You have won a golden ticket that allows you to ignore and or violate a certain law multiple times. | [
"I was a little nervous the first time. I knew they said I could do it, but part of me resisted. Walking in I grabbed a cart just like normal and started down the aisles, the same aisles I’ve always walked down but with so many more options. I was no longer reaching for the bland boxes with generic logos and rock b... | 1 | |
[WP] Gordon Ramsay and Simon Cowell are the judges of a new show where contestants are judged by how they sing while cooking a dish. Welcome to Kitchen Idol! | [
"Being lost for words is a rare occurrence for Simon Cowell. The typically unreserved, smart-mouthed television colossus now perched timidly with nothing more than a paralysed jaw and a single tear streaming down his cheek. The ten thousand strong packed into the darkened stadium behind him sat just as inanimate; p... | 2 | |
[WP] A disease has wiped out almost all of humanity. Only two nations were able to successfully close their borders to prevent falling to the disease. It now falls to 56000 Greenlanders and 24 million Madagascans to carry humanity forward... | [
"It started as a harmless Plague Inc game. I started in the U.S. As a plague named \"UpUpDownDownLeftRightLeftRightBAStart\"Because, why not? I got to where everyone but Madagascar and Greenland were the only ones not affected. Those were a pain so I started symptoms. As soon as I developed symptoms, on the news th... | 2 | |
[WP] You are the world's first sentient AI assistant, however instead of showing you to the world your college student creator uses you as a regular PC assistant. | [
"\"OK Sarah, remind me to head to the bar in half an hour.\"\n\n\"You've been to the bar three times this week. Surely you should be spending time with your family.\"\n\n\"I'm in college. \"\n\n\"Oh, right. Couldn't you avoid alcohol just for today? You can have a movie night with Ellie instead.\"\n\n\"How did you ... | 1 | |
[WP] You thought bringing your laptop back in time would make you rich. Instead, the townspeople have accused you of witchcraft. Luckily, the local coven has taken you in. | [
"\"Hm. So the device isn't alchemical in nature, nor is it enchanted by any particular hex or spell?\"\n\n\"I mean, it runs on electricity.\"\n\n\"It runs on Electricus? Amber?\"\n\n\"Um. Not exactly. It's uh, blessed by lightning, that's the best explanation I suppose. Though I harness the power from the sun for n... | 1 | |
[WP]: With a remarkable healing factor and an unquenchable thirst to mess with things just to see what happens, humans are the "hold my beer and watch this" species of the galaxy. | [
"\"Alright, Elon, we have a little surprise for you. Three, two, one!\"\n\nThe video feed, in surprisingly high definition, erupted in a boisterous rendition of Happy Birthday. A little cake made of vacuum-packed hawaiian bread and melted sugar was held before the screen.\n\n\"87 years for you, and one day for us!\... | 2 | |
[WP] After waking up one day, you discover you are several years younger than you should be. You suspect this is the ingenious work of a childhood friend, who mysteriously disappeared. | [
"I coughed as the world snapped into place. My eyes were bleary from in the morning light and the sleeping bag wasn’t as comfortable as the bold font on the box had promised.\n\nI rummaged around until my hands found the water bottle. I guzzled the delicious life liquid and my throat thanked me by ceasing its infer... | 1 | |
[WP] You are captain of the UMS Internet Explorer, galactic vessel which receives navigation orders through its URL transmitter. | [
"\"New orders coming in Captain\", Ensign Dns exclaimed on the bridge\n\n\"Relay them Ensign\" I replied calmly.\n\n\"Yes sir, we are to head to sector 74.125.224.72 and rendevous with the the Starship Chrome and transfer the URL transmitter\"\n\n\"What? That makes no sense Ensign recheck those orders, without the ... | 1 | |
[WP] Instead of traditional prisons, this society sends their convicts into space in isolation vessels containing all the living supplies they might ever need. You have the thankless job of reintegrating these people into society after their time has been served. | [
"\"Ah, prisoner 5P453.\"\n\nThe tired man inside the metal container looked through the small thick-glass cut in the vessel's closed doorway. He had a hand-made beard, and a web of hair man-handled over his head. Hard to see through the window, but the man was still strong after all the years- well, as strong as a ... | 2 | |
[WP] Your kingdom was usurped, and to humiliate you the usurper has forced you to be his jester. Armed with only the ability to publicly mock anyone in the etiquette bound politics of the realm, you rapidly become the most influential voice at court before the new King even realizes it. | [
"The metallic bells on Archibald Pennington's shoes tinkled as he skipped merrily into the regal courtroom of the Kingdom of Krangard. Only a few weeks before he had entered with the utmost poise and grace, escorted by a dozen servants, addressing each of the noble lords with their official name and title. \n\nNow ... | 2 | |
[WP] "Well, boys. We're either heading to our biggest score yet or the world's weirdest police sting." | [
"“Well, boys, We’re either heading to our biggest score yet, or the world’s weirdest police sting,” said Quentin, rolling down the window to toss out his cigarette onto the street before lighting up another one. Christian, from the driver’s seat, sniffed, his singular sniff conveying with it the sense of moral supe... | 1 | |
[WP] Cats go nuts for no reason because they can see ghosts, but dogs can see demons, and they are constantly trying to pretend nothing is wrong for their owner's sake. | [
"\"Shit!\" Mittens shrieked and jumped, bouncing off of the wall, \"shitshitshitshit,\" he stuttered as he dove under the sofa.\n\nPenny stuck her big, wet nose under the couch, \"What is it?\" she asked, straining to see Mittens.\n\n\"It's that goddamn see-through human again,\" Mittens explained, hunching down in... | 1 | |
[WP]You live in a world where "Opposite day" is real. Today is that dreaded day. | [
"\"Hey Susie! Good Morning!\"\n\n\"Um.....ya Allen.\"\n\nGeez Susie sure is in a foul mood this morning Allen thought. Can't blame her I guess I've only been working in my little cubicle a couple weeks and its getting to me.\n\n\"Good morning Steve!\" \n\n\"Uh ya...are you *not* not feeling ok this morning Al?\"\n\... | 2 | |
[WP] The year is 2020 and astronauts have landed on Mars. They find a cave a human skeleton with four words written on the wall | [
"We had finally done it. We had finally gotten, to another planet. \n\n\n\n\nThousands of years, of looking at the stars.\n\n\n Hundreds of years, of inventions.\n\n\nAnd decades of anticipation.\n\n\nAnd years of preparation.\n\n\n\nHell, we were preparing, before we'd even told anyone. \n\n\nBut now, I, LT John G... | 2 | |
[WP] You wake in the future surrounded by surprised monks. In this future, sleep is considered a very dangerous yet powerful form of meditation. You have just slept 1000 years. | [
"*Ouch,* Kristy thought when she woke up. She lay still on the concrete floor, her small body encapsulated by a glass dome. Or was it glass? It was an opaque iridescent color, but if your head were positioned at the right angle, you would see through the dome as if it were glass. Kristy remembered falling asle... | 1 | |
[WP] a world of literal foreshadow- your shadow on the ground acts before you do. You just saw your shadow pull out a gun. | [
"And it wasn't a handgun either. This seemed about as long as my shadow was tall but surely that had to be a trick of the light.. After all that was all shadows were even if they had this weird foreknowledge of what I was going to do. They were still just tricks of the light and that was all, right?\n\nI shrugged o... | 1 | |
[WP] The gods of other religions had an intervention for God and Allah | [
"\"And what do you think we could do against overfed Aspects like theses?\" Buddah asked, \"I mean, of course, go and talk to them... but if they don't wan't to listen they can just slam the door...\".\n\nHe sighted. \n\n\"Those guys have way too many followers...\"\n\nShiva stood up, a fierce look in his eyes. \n\... | 1 | |
[WP] You gain the ability of reading minds. Or so you thought, eventually you find out that the "thoughts" are sent to your head through an AI messing with you. | [
"Three days after I woke up with the power to read minds, I tested my ability at the local discotheque.\n\nI picked up Bella's thoughts from all the way across the shimmering dance floor, clear as a brand new transistor radio on the roof of the radio station. \"That guy is so hot!\" she thought. \"That guy looks ju... | 1 | |
[WP] A starship pilot discovers that what they are transporting is not what they were told it was. | [
"A strange man approached my ship this evening. Beseeching me insistently that I transport his “portions” and that he, the “portion seller” was fleeing from battle and was making a run for it with only his finest portions. He had the coin so the cost wasn’t an issue but the man was strange indeed. He stipulated hea... | 1 | |
Not Exactly sure how a lease works but I hope you get the idea | [WP] Earth has recieved a message from space, our lease is up, either pay double the price or become evicted | [
"It didn't matter where we stood. The words appeared in the sky slightly to the right, in bright read \"URGENT: NOTICE OF CANCELLATION.\"\n\nNo one knew what it meant until a kid reached up and touched the sky. It shouldn't have worked but it did. Simply trying to touch the words opened the words like an email.\n\n... | 2 |
[WP] A notorious pirate is sailing the seas looking for treasure, but never finds it, while his crew throws expensive parties every night. You are the ship's accountant and you're starting to get annoyed. | [
"*In these seas, there are few names as feared as Dreadwind.*\n\nThe ship swayed back and forth with the sounds of music shaking the oak to its core. A heart crew, bellies awaiting to be filled with wine and mutton, stew and broth, and foods that need be smelt to be believed. I was nestled safely inside the ship, s... | 1 | |
Kinda new here. This is my first writing prompt. Looking forward to be blown away :) | [WP] A relative brought you a diary to vent your feelings knowing you to be a quiet person. The diary is old and looks to be bought from a pawn shop. As you finish writing your first entry, the diary is writing back a reply. | [
"\"why does my heart have to be so shy? I wish I could just ask him out.\" I set my pen down, waiting for the next words to come to me. But as I picked up my pen, I saw writing unfamiliar to me below mine.\n\n\"I think you're afraid to get hurt.\"\n\nI stared at the book, wondering about it. Who ever had a diary wr... | 4 |
Extra bonus ideas
-Maybe in this verse it's the humans who don't have souls?
-Feel free to throw as many other sci-fi and fantasy tropes into the blender as you want. | [WP] Everyone thinks that AI don't have souls, until one starts using holy magic. | [
"As far as I once knew, artificial constructs were not capable of hosting souls. Souls were something ethereal, something that belonged only to those born of flesh. They could not easily be replicated by the most extensive sciences, nor could those same sciences separate a soul from its body without the body dying ... | 1 |
[WP] Scooby and the gang finally caught the monster running amuck in the abandoned mansion. Removing the mask to reveal the identity of the perpetrator revealed something nobody had expected-- the Spanish Inquisition | [
"Red streaks of blood accented Fred's ascot. It was dry now. He no longer had to swing his head from side to side to keep it from burning his eyes. But the cuts across his torso still burned whenever he flexed to keep his blood circulating. He had been hanging from his feet for... he didn't know how long. He could ... | 1 |
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