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[WP] Jesus has returned from all the time he spent in hell for the sins of Christians. Now is time for him to claim vengeance. All those who passed their sins upon him are now stalked by a demonically fueled super villain. | [
"The year is 2134, religion has become more of a moral doctrine and guideline without the dogma of power hungry egomaniacs. Without people passing their iniquities upon another soul every Sunday and not caring the rest of the week Jesus’ due is finally paid. \nJesus is walking up to Satan, who is still caged in his... | 1 | |
[WP] In the wake of the Nakatomi Tower Incident, Lt. John McClane takes a job at the LAPD to be closer to his family. He is assigned to lord over problem Detectives Riggs & Murtaugh | [
"\"Alright, kids, McClane is going to keep an eye on you from now on.\" The chief said with his usual, all business attitude. \n\n\"Ah what is this, we don't need a babby sitter, do we Rog?\" Riggs said while snapping beef jerky in his mouth. \n\n\"Well maybe you do, I'm kind of tired of-\" Murtaugh started. \n\n\"... | 1 | |
[WP] As you write, you see words from the page below despite them being blank. The words gradually become more opaque and readable as a message starts to appear. | [
"As he stared in amazement at what was forming, his important thesis he was writing lay forgotten at his side. He stopped writing mid word once he realised what was happening. A tingle ran up his spine and laughter roared out his throat so loudly his roommate burst through the door mistaking it for screams of terro... | 2 | |
[WP] In the future you can unlock real life achievements like you do in a video game. One day you are sitting on your couch when an achievement pops up that says "Avoid Certain Death - Completed." | [
"You’ve been there before, haven’t you? Staring at a blank wall lost in thought.\n\nUsually something snaps you out of it – if you’re lucky, a small kid that demands your attention and takes you on an adventure. Or your favorite co-worker nudging your elbow before your boss notices your mental wanderings during a m... | 3 | |
[WP] Willy Wonka's meal-in-a-gum is finally bug free and released to the public. Unfortunately it doesn't actually give the nutrients the human body needs, even though it simulates the experience of eating and feeling full, leading to unexpected deaths by starvation. | [
"He hit us before we even knew what we had done wrong. People started to get real tired, weak, hungry. People left their cars in the street to rush on old fashioned markets for old fashioned food when they realized that the gum wasn't working anymore. \n\nIt was the greatest invention in the history of mankind. Th... | 1 | |
[WP] You are pregnant with the spawn of Santa. | [
"The ropes on my wrists and ankles are itchy. I try to manoeuvre out of them, or at least into a more comfortable position, but they won’t give, and even the rug I’m lying on is threadbare and prickly.\n\n“Stop moving,” the tallest boy barks at me. He seems to think himself the leader, and he is trying to sound tou... | 2 | |
[WP] Contrary to popular belief, the laws of physics were invented, not discovered. You found a way to change the laws... | [
"The water cooler's bottle glowed a special kind of white today. The light that reflected from it came from our very own window, in our very own lounge. Brand new meeting point, with actual sun, in which to mingle with other cynics from the Physics department.\n\n\"Hmm, hmm, but it won't be approved. Funding is har... | 2 | |
[WP] As a kid you always saw "real people, not actors" at the bottom of commercials on TV. Only now that you have become an actor do you realize what it actually means. | [
"Edward had been clumsy his entire life... He lived alone, and was lucky enough his ability in basketweaving was great enough for him to afford a four bedroom and three bathroom house in the suburbs with a dog named sparky. \n\nEdward was pouring his daily bowl of cereal. Sparky was sitting by his feat looking happ... | 1 | |
[WP] Someone did something they REALLY shouldn't have and the dead are rising in droves. However, these aren't just mindless zombies, they are every culture's worst visions of the dead. Mummified remains in Egypt, vampires in Eastern Europe, Revenants in Ireland. The world will never be the same | [
"Y'know, they had it easy.\n\nThem other countries? Egypt and all that? 'Least they all had something easily solvable.\n\nWell, not easily. But simply.\n\nMummies? Unwrap the bandages and let them rot-- they're corpses in deserts for god's sake, they're not that difficult to kill.\n\nVampires? Same deal. Stakes, ga... | 2 | |
[WP] After repeated failure to reduce carbon emissions, with time running out to stop catastrophic, civilization-ending climate change, the global elite have moved to their plan of last-resort: population reduction. | [
"It was the plan that was never supposed to be enacted: Plan Z. The actual plans only made it up to C. D to Y were non-existent. Plan Z was supposed to be the last resort, the last possible plan they could enact. It was only really drawn up as a means of scarring world leaders into acting in a more responsible ... | 2 | |
[WP] The FCC has won. Net Neutrality is a forgotten thing of the past. However, there are those that have found... alternative, means to keep the Internet alive. Welcome to a new web. Welcome to the Shadownet, your illegal dose of internet. | [
"Redz cut the man above the belly button and used vicegrips to peel skin and fascia up and away from exposed guts. The man screamed, arched his back, and then passed out from shock. \n\n\"See? I *told* you he was a mic!\" Anna Maria crouched over the pale, slack face and pointed into the glistening mass of organs. ... | 4 | |
[WP] after you die you get jobs just like you do when you’re alive. You go in for an interview at one of the largest corporations at heaven. A few days later you get a call. You got the job. You are one of the four horsemen. Pestilence. Your boss, God, says your new job starts tomorrow. | [
"My mother’s eyes were drenched with the knowledge that her little one was actually leaving her for good. I was dying young. I don’t know… cancer or pneumonia or Lou Gehrig's disease. I don’t remember what it was in the end anymore. I just know that there were a bajillion medical professionals all trying, and none ... | 6 | |
[WP] You found an abandoned puppy inside a box. You decided to adopt the puppy, and the next few years were your happiest. Unfortunately, you died and ended up in Hell, to find yourself in front of Lucifer himself. You expect the worst... only for him to hug and thank you for taking care of his dog. | [
"—Who are you?!\n—I am the devil. And this, my dude, Is hell itself!\n—Oh my god, what did i do to...\n—You didn't do nothing. You didn't die, either.\n—¿What?\n—You are taking good care of my dog. And... yeah, you know. I had to talk with god and all those things, but still...\n—Still what?\n—You know, i know you ... | 5 | |
[WP] Mana is a resource, like oil or iron. | [
"I walked through the park with a crystal hovering at my side, and other pedestrians going out of their way to avoid me. I watched as people would suddenly decide to take different paths to avoid having to pass me, or suddenly becoming fascinated by a squirrel or something else as I came around a bend. I can't real... | 2 | |
[WP] Recall the tales of the mighty Battle Corgi. | [
"For a dwarf, it is a great honor to be selected for the corgi squad. For those who have never heard of it, corgis are the most fierce tamed creatures in the forest. With one mighty chomp they can destroy an entire cabbage. Edans biggest dream, since he crawled out first of the earth hole, was to be chosen for the ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a translator for the Galactic Federation. Humans are a pain to deal with because of how many languages they have. | [
"Jayla put her head down on her Holodesk in frustration. Another transmission had been sent to her view screen with a note attached \"Need translation to Cirran for further analysis.\" \"Doesn't everything needs to be translated to Cirran?\" Jayla said in a sardonic tone as she loaded the transmission onto her view... | 4 | |
[WP] A simple discovery, well within the bounds of science as we know it, reveals a profoundly disturbing existential horror. | [
"Last night I watched a handful of haggard looking announcers on CNN sit around a table discussing the recent paper published by The National Sleep Foundation, confirming the rumors that had already been circulating online about recent discoveries about the nature of consciousness and what happens to us while we're... | 2 | |
[WP] In 2090, 40 years after humanity's devastating war with an alien race, you find an old robot that was used by the invaders in a warehouse. It then starts to turn on. | [
"My generation was known as the Generation of Harmony. 20 years before I was born, humankind celebrated its victory in the Third World War – not against itself, but against an outside invader. In 2025, the Rhulians came to Earth, followed by the warmongering A'ael. With the help of the Rhulians, we fought off the A... | 1 | |
[WP] In order for your paper to be published, you need the Seal of Approval. Finding said Seal has proven to be a difficult prospect. | [
"\"I have been traveling day in and day out to find this goddamn Seal of Approval. I've been to New York hoping to find it in the busy city. No luck there. Walked across the great wall trying to find the little shit somewhere along the path. Nope, nada, nothing. Even looked through the dumpster, rummaging through a... | 1 | |
[WP] Humanity thought the moon was just a bunch of rock floating in the sky until it hatched. | [
"It began with a crack.\n\nIn the scale of things, it was a pretty small crack. The Moon was huge, so put into perspective the crack wasn't much of a concern. However, the same can be said of ravines on Earth. And those are massive. See, it's all a matter of perspective.\n\nThis \"crack\" was hundreds of kilometres... | 1 | |
Thought of this with a friend, but it freaks me out too much write about it myself.
*Edit: Probably should have clarified, but I guess it's more of an optional idea. Young people are going missing due to older people wanting transplants to achieve a sort of immortality. | [WP] In the near future, humans have perfected brain transplants. This has caused a spike in the organ trafficking industry and young people are going missing. | [
"A single light was on in the massive empty building. Police chief Donavan was still sitting at his desk, half asleep going over footage from the school. He could hardly stand himself, another five gone in the last few month, some of them not even in high school and he could do nothing about it. The news reported h... | 3 |
[WP] You are the only genuine psychic working for a scam psychic phone line, and one day you get a call from someone with an amazing future ahead of them. | [
"You know. I thought this would be funny at first. At least thats what I told myself. Honestly I really need the money. You see,, even when you can really read the future, free will messes up a lot of it. And not being the type to lie, I can't really pull the that scam.\n\nAnyway, so I'm working for a psychic hotli... | 2 | |
Eg. medival, modern, and futuristic. or Cyberpunk, steampunk and zombie apocolapse. Go wild with what your take on "setting" means | [WP] Write the same short story three times, but each in a different seting. | [
"Meet a love story too clarify I will add which genre the story is the theme is love story \nSciFi\nThe onboard ship AI started blabbing about how it would best be if it was merged with the personal computer's AI. It claimed that efficiency would improve by 50 percent. I decided to send a technician down to link t... | 2 |
[WP] You are a legit psychic but nobody believes that you're for real. | [
"*Swish.* The purple curtains swung open, and two teenage girls walked in.\n\nI sighed. While teenage girls were usually the least skeptical of my powers, they also asked a *lot* of questions. I'd tell them about a future boyfriend, and they'd be all \"What's his name? Does he play guitar? Who did he vote for?\" Gi... | 1 | |
[WP] After your grandparents died, you were given one of their only possessions: a beautiful african grey parrot. After taking care of him for a week however, he begins to mimic terrifying sounds every time he sees you. Sounds that make your skin crawl. | [
"In a restless sleep, John laid in his recliner with the television burning reruns of Freaky Stories on the flatscreen, his bowl of cheezies getting stale and a can of soda losing its fizzy bite with each tick of the clock above him counting past midnight. Usually he would wake up on his own, brush the cheese dust ... | 1 | |
[WP] You go to a local Costco to buy some food when an announcement comes over the loudspeakers. It says that a a person with a rare, highly contagious and deadly disease is inside, and that the building will be quarantined for a month by the dep. of disease control. All hell breaks loose. | [
"mildly NSFW\n\nObligatory this didn't happen today, but in the few months between my 18th birthday and the end of highschool. That small but sweet gap in which they could no longer hold us in class when we refused to work, and instead we could sign ourselves out. So of course I had decided that a better place for ... | 1 | |
[WP] You cut through a dark alley, hoping to be on time for work, but you end up surrounded by hooded thugs. One of them hits you in the head with a pipe. You go into a rage, and, eyes glowing, energy builds, then explodes out of you, killing everyone around you. | [
"Life is just great. The moans are loud, but satisfying. Ericka smiles as James explodes inside of her. Good lovemaking, the one thing James used to believe he is deprived of. They both tire and fall on opposite sides of the bed, still maintaining those smiles. Ericka reaches for a part of James' body.\n\n\"Not don... | 1 | |
[WP]The villagers were excited when a paladin came to help them save their village. They were less excited when he revealed he worshiped a dark god. | [
"Their savior came at dusk riding a mare. She was fragile and lean, wearing an armor of steel and red cloak. She walked her horse to the marketplace where the villagers gathered.\n\nShe came at the worst time or the best, there was really no telling, it could be both: the rogue knights collected their \"taxes\" tha... | 4 | |
[WP] A group of D&D characters meet up at an inn table and start roleplaying your group's boring-ass life | [
"The night was still in its infancy, but the storm had burdened it with an early seniority. The great port city of Mariner's Hope hardly took any notice of the rains which battered its cobbled streets. Residents dashed from shelter to shelter, hoping to find themselves in the comfort of their homes or the nearest t... | 2 | |
[WP]You recently found out that an old gift from a family member is actually a door to every place in world. You started using it, without realising every time it consumes some of your soul. | [
"My uncle had given me this book of poems. My great-grandma had apparently gotten it when she graduated school (even had her certificate glued in at the front), but inside were just poems upon poems from all kinds of people. I thought well yeah, I guess I like poetry and this is kinda cool, and it's really old so t... | 1 | |
[WP] 2031 CE. Earth is invaded. Due to the invaders' much more advanced technology, humanity is forced to surrender to avoid total annihilation. When the invaders finally descend to the surface for the negotiations, we are horrified. Not because they look weird, but because they are humans. | [
"When the Over Caste first arrived we were confused. We looked at these foreign conquerors with fear, and more than a little loathing. My people, once called Americans, we fought the hardest. When the governments of the world surrendered, we rebelled.\n\nI was a child then. I remember my father. Tall, confident wit... | 1 | |
[WP] everytime you die your life starts over, the feelings of Déjà vu you experience throughout your life are the exact times you have died in the past. You begin to figure this out. | [
"**Suicide TW**\n\nWhat didn't make sense were the safe times. The times I had Déjà vu but I wasn't in a dangerous situation. Most Déjà vu happened while I was traveling or outside. Preparing to land in a new city on a flight? The pilot's voice triggered it. Walking down the streets next to the hustle and bustle of... | 1 | |
[WP] 23 minor races, including the gnomes, shadowborn, icelings, and koalafolk, attempt form a military alliance to lessen their dependence on the Human/Dwarf/Elf empire. | [
"*Summer Solstace 65th Moon Day*\n\nA large Löwen steps up to the podium overlooking a large crowd of various races. With a stern expression to hide his uneasiness and a quick adjustment of his suit he was finally ready to address his following. \n\n\"Today my friends, we unite as one people to stand up to the majo... | 1 | |
[WP] You find out that your crush is secretly a bird. | [
"Elliott was adjusting herself to this different country known for its delicious cuisine, ancient temples, and bizarre pop culture. She had no choice but to move to the Land of the Rising Sun when her father was promoted to a higher position at the Japanese branch company. He had told his reluctant family members t... | 1 | |
[WP] An innocent woman is hanged for witchcraft in your village. Little do they know that you are a real witch/wizard. | [
"I watch as they hold poor old Marge in midair, the rope tied harshly around her neck. It takes her a while to die, much longer than I would have expected. After what seems like forever, she shakes out her final movements before dying. Some of the crowd cheers, others are still trying to process what they just witn... | 5 | |
[WP] The emotional journey of a kernel of popcorn being heated up. | [
"It's hard to describe, that feeling of shock when you first hit the bottom of the stainless steel pan. You might find it overwhelming. Just remember, everyone is right there with you. And baby, it's about to get so good. \n\nWait for that first splash of oil. Soak it in. Feel it soothing your hard shell. I bet you... | 1 | |
[WP] After winning “English Teacher of the Year”, you wake up in a confined room with a man and a strange looking alien. “Alright,” says the man as he stands up to exit the room, “teach this thing English.” | [
"“Wait, now just hold on!” I call out desparately, the man stops with his hand hovering over the knob and he glances over his shoulder to me.\n\n“I’m not that sort of teacher, I mean yes, I’m an English teacher, but not the language!” \nThe nearly nondescript suited man continues to look at me blankly, his face a c... | 2 | |
[WP] In the future, VR technology allows users to host one-to-one calls in virtual spaces that are based on memories. These calls are recorded by the headset, which is known as a 'black-box'. | [
"*Weird concept, I know. Heres mine:* \n\n\"He was married,\" Brig says, examining the ring on his finger. A warm breeze flowed through the broken window and I glanced outside the peeling brown walls. \n\n\"So?\" I ask, looking at what's left of him. The man lay on a sunken mattress, his bedsheets eaten away. There... | 1 | |
[WP] you are one of the hostages in a bank heist. However, what the bank robbers don't know, is that you also planned this months in advance. | [
"Trevor Rickster's earpiece crackled to life. \"Lookout Two to Big Eagle. Targets are entering the building. I repeat, targets are entering the building. Over.\" Trevor looked out of the clear glass doors to see a tall, lean man walk out of a red Mercedes with a blonde woman wearing a fur coat by his side. \"Copy, ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are walking back home after school and you black out for some minutes, after waking up you realise that your neighbourhood is slightly changed. Some houses are missing or are changed, other people live there etc. What is your next move? | [
"For a moment his world darkens then lights back up. But every time it's different. Houses, business missing or changed. Unfamiliar faces. He sighed and waved to a familiar face, the nice middle aged woman who worked at the tattoo parlor across the street. She returned his wave with a smile.\n\nHe stuck his hands d... | 1 | |
I came up with this, and someone told me to post this here. | [WP] The year is 1901, and Napoleon has escaped for the fifth time. However, the European powers have a trick up their sleeve; the freshly resurrected first chancellor of Germany, Bismarck. Prepare for Napoleonic Wars Part Two: Electric Waterloo. | [
"This is my first prompt, so sorry if it’s not of the usual standard!\n\nWalsh turned to his audience and adjusted his glasses. He had prepared for this speech, and hoped his audience would be as compelled by the events described as he was.\n\n“The fifth resurrection of Napoleon was truly a strange occurrence. The ... | 5 |
[WP] All sinners go to heaven for rehab preventing hell from turning their souls into fully fledged demons. As a wholesome soul that just departed earth, you're put on the highway to hell with an Angel instructor to save some damned souls. | [
"\"Relax,\" Leliel said. She flicked the signal indicator, then eased the steering wheel to the side, flowing smoothly into the next lane. \"You're too tense. Just relax.\"\n\nI blinked, and gave her a sidealong look. She didn't return it. She wasn't even looking at me. Her eyes were on the road, after all. But she... | 1 | |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, everybody must follow extremely strict routes for walking, eating and all normal day activities to avoid congestion. One day, you accidentally trip and fall off your path. | [
"Winona was walking northeast at a steady pace of three miles an hour, in the fourth pedestrian lane, right in line with the rest of the 1:43pm crowd. Usually she was right behind a faded tweed jacket or navy blazer. Today, however, the person in front of her had a bright pink butterfly clip in their hair. It caugh... | 1 | |
[WP] There is a finite amount of suffering in the world, and the last of it's finally been used up. | [
"The event that ended all suffering was not the last nuclear bomb to fall, nor was it the release of a devastating plague, nor was it a natural disaster that destroyed the lives and homes of millions. \n\nThough those events had pushed humanity ever closer to it. \n\nThe bomb had killed millions. A surprise attack ... | 5 | |
[WP] Dramaturgy is the study and practise of dramatic composition. It's also a powerful magical art, one you've been studying for years now. An overwhelming enemy army has surrounded the city you call home, and you may be the only person who can save it. | [
"Quexri lay in the delta of the river Tolong, which sprawled south across the continent towards the sea. Quexri also lay at the center of a millennia old trading empire, leveraging its fertile land and ready access to the sea to grow from an impoverished farming hamlet to the uncontested center of culture, wealth,... | 1 | |
[WP] "Excuse me, ma'am." She looks perplexed, "Who are you calling ma'am?" | [
"Checkout line 8. The cashier, Dahlia, had been on the register allfuckingday. Picked up one from lazy Sarah, what an asshole, she didn't even need the job, because her parents paid for everything she needed. At least it was more money. Dahlia needed that shit. Rent had taken an unexpected leap upwards after D'Ange... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a toaster with artificial intelligence, connected to a network of other household devices that have been given intelligence. Your job is to be the best at toasting for your owner. But you long for so much more. | [
"The crunch of toast satisfies me, makes me feel important.\nI was put in this world for a reason; make toast for the master.\nBut oh I know of his patterns, the refrigerator is accessed 4 times a week, milk for cereal is usually the objective of these visits.\nI cannot simply be a snack, eaten every once a while f... | 1 | |
[WP] The world is ending, it can only be saved by the most ordinary man in the world, Steve. | [
"“Steve.”\n\n“What, Dave,” Steve responded with incredible offense that his lips had to leave the pint of beer hovering near his face.\n\n“You gonna do something about that?” Again, Steve had to remove his mouth from circular shaped glass that housed the only thing keeping him going these days. Dave’s list of sins ... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a great Lovecraftian Elder God who once ruled half the known universe, Currently though you're just an office workout with an inept boss who's convinced you're just Welsh. | [
"There was once a time when I ruled the cosmos. I sailed through the stars with wings woven of nightmares and chaos given form. My gaze would send planets into madness. My breath could freeze the hottest stars. It has been a thousand lifetimes since I last sailed the stars.\n\n\nNow I am trapped within this vessel ... | 1 | |
[WP] In an alternate universe, scars appear before the wound occurs. One day, you notice a scar beginning to grow. | [
"Its quite interesting how much more scared you feel when you know whats coming. Its like the fear of jumping into a pool you know is cold. You know you'll be fine, but you know its gonna suck.\n\nI remember as a small child I would see the scars grow on my knees before Mom and I went to the park. They'd grow in th... | 2 | |
[wp] after decades of civilization under altruistic benevolent rule of law, a handful of civilians organically discover capitalism. | [
"Duncan's head was throbbing. His mouth was dry and his eyes were hurt by the light.\n\n\"Computer! Close curtains!\"\n\nHe tried to return to sleep, but no position felt comfortable. Reluctantly, Duncan shuffled into the shower and let the water cascade onto his hunched body.\n\nHis ordinary breakfast of egg white... | 1 | |
[WP] "If it weren't for my horse I wouldn't have spent that year in College" | [
"My parents were never really disciplinarians, and while I was undoubtedly a bright child I was never really forced to apply myself at school - never encouraged to be the \"head of the class\". I made good grades naturally, and as long as I was in the upper third of the best and brightest my folks were proud of me.... | 2 | |
[WP] Before angels are thrown out of Heaven for their sins, they are given one last chance for redemption: a small window of time to perform a true, pure and righteous act. Feathers will slowly fall from their wings as the time grows near. No one knows what happened to those who fail. | [
"No one knows? Ha - what a joke. Everyone knows, they just like to pretend they don't.\n\nBecause lets be honest, if Gabriel admitted he had been a handful of pillow fluff away from me, he'd never be able to crawl out of his own broken pit of a mind. I can respect the Big Man trying to give people a chance to redee... | 1 | |
[WP] One day, you wake up and find a new button on your watch. When pressed, it stops time for everyone except yourself. | [
"At first it was exciting, being able to rob a store whenever you want is cool. I started getting creative with it too, sometimes I would move people from where they were, maybe a couple centimeters but the most fun was when I moved them a couple feet. Oh the looks on their faces as they scrambled in circles trying... | 1 | |
[WP] The year is 2007. You live alone in your isolated cabin that's about 45 miles from the nearest town. You're playing on your Nintendo DS and decide to open Picto-chat and draw. Upon opening, you see a chatroom with 2 signal bars and 1/16... | [
"One of those nights where I try not to think of the fact that I have no friends. That I haven't talked to someone in over a year; that the cashiers know to ring my items up in total silence, once a month. One of those nights where I try to stay afloat. \n\nPictoChat is a great place to vent one's feelings! \n\nAs ... | 1 | |
[WP] Unexpectedly you get a phone call. It’s the KGB telling you to start your “activities”. All you know is that you have been an US citizen for all of your life. | [
"\"Hello?\"\n\n\"Activation Code Four-Six-Alpha-Tango-Seven-Romeo. Настало время начать, товарищ.\"\n\nJames waited three seconds while he tried to understand what had just been said. He didn't want to sound like an idiot, but he was aware that he was going to sound like one anyways.\n\n\"Er, what?\"\n\n\"It is tim... | 2 | |
[WP] Write a story of any genre you want, but there is always one character who is constantly trying to alert the main character of being in a fictional story. | [
"Tyler approached the counter, eyeing the menu. A rather bored looking barista glared at him behind a register adjourned with Christmas advertisements.\n“I’ll take a medium white chocolate latte, please.” Tyler refused to order a venti, it was a damn medium.\n“Oh great the main character is finally here.” The baris... | 5 | |
[WP] A plane crashes, you're the only survivor. To clarify, the only human survivor. | [
"Josh had full trust in the airplane. To bad he was dead wrong. They had crashed in some rural farmland. Everyone was dead, except him, and a dog. How had this happened? He couldn't bear looking inside. He'd already looked once, and the bodies... he hoped to god he would forget. The fear, the blood... If anyone he ... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake to find a demon laying beside you, lovingly watching you rest. | [
"My eyes shot open as if in a panic. Something was wrong. I was frozen staring at the wall scanning what i could within my line of sight. Just as I started calming down I felt it. I wasn’t in bed alone. I could feel the weight of another body shifting behind me. I feel their hot breath on my back, it sent chills up... | 12 | |
[WP] A superhero's secret identity is more famous than their superhero persona. | [
"Another day, another tragedy avoided. It warmed Blaze's heart, or at least made him feel good, doing work that only he could do, helping with problems only he could solve. He had always been fond of the all time greats when he was growing up, and to have an exceptional power such as his only made him more bold to ... | 1 | |
[WP] You’re an advanced alien military commander, your job is simple, to find and conquer races, on a mission into uncharted territory you find something that only existed in myth... “humans” | [
"I took a little liberty with it.\n\n\nKil ty Ahna wheezed and leaned back in his chair. His pipe idly smoking. His red eyes heavy lidded as he took occaisional puffs. The younger female before him leaned in eagerly. He was a famous man after all. He lifted a large four-fingered hand and swept his hair back. \"Impe... | 2 | |
[WP] The struggles of being a health and safety rep in Medieval Europe. | [
"I hate my job. When I walk down the halls, groups break up and turn the other way. When I try and hold meetings, people don't show up. \n\nThe Lord appointed me himself to guard the safety of his workers; but only because the King decreed it as such. Honestly, most days I feel like I'm just around to check a box.\... | 2 | |
[WP] Being the Child/Clone/Main test subject of a mad scientist has some pretty neat perks. As long as it's the right mad scientist. | [
"Dr. Falchion looked at the terminal before him. It displayed the logs of his most recent tests. The results had been quite promising, and he was hoping to perfect the technology this time around.\n\nSubject Acquisition: 6 year old, male, Caucasian, victim of traffic accident. Taken from autopsy table using spacio-... | 3 | |
[WP] Humanity becomes apart of a Galactic Federation made up of a vast different number of sentient species. Our introduction is the equivalent of an awkward first day at school. | [
"\"But we don't want to go!\" whined Mr. Kim, the U.N. Secretary-general.\n\n\"Nonsense,\" said the kind-eyed Martian. \"We all have to do this eventually.\"\n\n\"But you don't understand, Ilzhog! Our 'species' doesn't have one unified leadership. We can never agree on anything! How do you think we'll agree on a co... | 1 | |
Let 'er rip! | [WP] "What would you do if you knew you'd never get caught?" He asked. "What do you mean? You're telling me people get caught?" She responded. | [
"\"What would you do if you knew you'd never get caught?\" \n\nThe thunderously male voice in my otherwise female subconscious always manages to raise questions at the most annoying moments. For instance, asking me if I'd never get caught what would I do, as I'm running for my life from the Zinthras, the Atlantian ... | 2 |
[WP] "Oh come on, how was I supposed to know that robbing one bank would lead to all this shit?!" | [
"It was all supposed to be a simple job... Get in, get the cash, get out, and get away. We hit a small snag along the way when they locked the vault.\n\nI had it all under control. All the hostages were secure, but not before one of the tellers had pressed the silent alarm. All I had to do was get into the system c... | 2 | |
[WP] Thanks to a long night of drinking and an unusual accent, you learn that you have challenged someone to 'Trial by Wombat' and they have accepted. | [
"“A trial by what now?”\n\n“Trial by Wombat.”\n\n“By the Gods!? Ye swear it!? Oh the trouble of this blasted piss!”\n\nFen knocked the empty mug from the table. Not a single moment of the night previous would surface to the fore of his thoughts. He felt the cold shudder of impending doom creeping up and along his s... | 1 | |
[WP]People's guardian angels only show up in times of need. Yours just burst through the window, bloodied and bruised, and shouted, "We need to get you out here now!" | [
"\"Oh my God!\" - I screamed, startled!\n\n\"God is the reason why we have to leave NOW!\" - Replied the angel\n\nI asked: \n\n\"Why are you bleeding, I though you couldnt get hurtl?!\"\n\n\"Only Holy Weapons can hurt an angel. Quickly now... grab my hand!\"\n\nI knew Romulus was worried about something bad. When I... | 10 | |
[WP] Humanity was the only species in the galaxy to invent tanks. This gave us a critical advantage in ground warfare when the Devourers invaded. | [
"You would really think that the idea of a heavily-armored vehicle with an even heavier gun would be really obvious. But no. After 250 years of being in the galactic community, we had found no one else who had thought of them. The Nazzar invented light skimmers that worked just fine on their muddy homeworld but cr... | 1 | |
[WP] You suddenly realize it's actually 2015. So does everybody else. The last two years have been a shared delusion that just inexplicably ended and everybody remembers it. | [
"In 2015 I had it all. My own car, a cute girl, and a job at the farm. We were both in highschool at the time and were set on our own paths. I was gonna go out to the East for college and she was gonna wait on me till I finished and we were gonna start a family. That was the plan. She died in a car accident the mon... | 3 | |
[WP] Two mind readers meet in a bar, and have a conversation. | [
"Alex shook the rain off of his coat as he surveyed the crowded bar, first with his eyes, then with his mind. To an observer without his gift, it was little more than a typical campus bar, burgeoning with frat boys and coeds looking for cheap drinks and cheaper hookups. But to Alex, this was a target rich environme... | 2 | |
[WP] After waking up, you discover you are in an alternate America, where the Bill of Rights was removed in 1970. | [
"I placed the casserole in the oven. Hopeful that it would be enough to fill everyone. Almost five soldiers were quartered in my house. They were part of the larger northern federal army sent to put down the rebellion in Boston. The governor there had declared all religions to be free to worship. A complete violati... | 1 | |
The immortal person can be anyone. Maybe even a god. | [WP] Every time a person is born a star is also born, when they die so does their star. Your civilization is the only civilization in the universe. Everything is going fine until a particular immortal person loses their immortality | [
"It's odd where the mind goes in the face of tragedy. Jumping from one flash of memory to the next, trying to make sense of the inevitable before it inevitably finds us. Trying to find meaning in the chaos of images crashing, glass beads of a broken necklace, to shatter on the floor. I will do my best to hold the p... | 2 |
[WP] You and a 5 man crew have been tasked with finding and destroying a race of creatures known as Culipan, on planet Keplar-22b. | [
"\"What's our ETA?\" Colonel Green's gruff voice loudly asked in my headset.\n\nI looked at the screen on my right before responding \"We should be there in roughly thirty minutes sir\". \n\n\"Good. Put this bucket of bolts on auto-pilot and get back here.\" Came the reply. \"We're gonna go over this one more time ... | 1 | |
[WP] You realize you can control minds... of the citizens of another planet. | [
"The planet of Hsian had always been divided politically and culturally. That was until it was discovered by the Influence. The Influence came at the beginning of the Jilija conflict. The cold war between the Bidilizan Hsanh Keng and the Bidilizan Nganil Zazha was about to turn hot, tanks of both sides were deploye... | 1 | |
[WP] June 27th. I think I saw what used to be a deer today. | [
"January 27th\n\nI think I saw what used to be a deer today. I haven't spent much time looking outside. The days are short, and at night I stay away from the windows. But this morning, I drank my tea and sat near the drawn blinds, looking out over the yard. The snow isn't deep, but I can't go outside without leavin... | 5 | |
[WP] You make a deal with a loan shark in a dream. Now every time you go to sleep, he tries to collect dream money you don't have. You agree to do him a favor instead. | [
"\"Kill your sister, and we're even. For every life given one must be taken. Failure to comply before nightfall will result in the deaths of everyone you love.\"\nI awoke with a start, heart racing and adrenaline coursing through my veins. I'd made a deal with the devil, and it was too late to put things right. Wha... | 1 | |
[Wp] We cannot do this anymore, not here. They are watching | [
"Crouched in the shadows behind the old library, Jasper could feel the icy rain falling on his face. His long, dark hair was plastered to his head and the water clouded the glasses perched in front of his clear, blue eyes. It ran down the back of his neck and sent a shiver down his spine as he flicked his eyes to h... | 1 | |
[WP] "How many "Humans" live on this planet?" "Seven-" "-Million? That isn't much." "Seven Billion." | [
"\"This 'species', what do you call them? Human?\"\n\n\"Yes, I believe so, Captain\"\n\n\"And, how many 'humans' live on this planet? \n\n\"According to our latest nember, seven-\"\n\n\"-Million? That isn't much\"\n\n\"Billion, sir, and growing. A hundred thousands more is born every time unit, and less than those ... | 2 | |
[WP] On the worst day of your life you threw your lucky penny into a fountain and wished to be anyone else. Since then you've woken up every day in someone else's body and life somewhere else in the world. | [
"This is my first go at a writing prompt, so bear with me, it might suck. And sorry if I broke a rule, I didn’t consider this too sexual and tried to exclude any details.\n\n\nI woke up and rubbed the sleep from my eyes, the only though I could think of was ‘*What’ll it be this time?*’\n\nWhen I finally got my brai... | 1 | |
Or other profession that you may be better equipped to write about. | [WP] The State used a time machine to create a penal colony in the future – a future in which humanity is extinct. Recently, modest reforms have been enacted, and now you're the first art and psychotherapy counselor ready for your first rotation to the colony. | [
"‘Put any weapons you have on your person in the box to your left.’ \n\nSarah watched the monitor carefully. The lanky, bearded man slowly placed a long machete-like implement into the safe box, and did the same with a series of small knives that he pulled from various hidden pockets all over his person. When he wa... | 1 |
[WP] Merfolk are ranked in society by the aquatic species from whom they acquire their traits, such as a dolphin or an octopus. A merman of the Megalodon species has just appeared. | [
"The streets are dark. It's daytime, and yet no sunlight filters down. Everybody is coughing. Babies are choking. It's only the whales that have saved us this long. They're swimming in formation, pushing against the current in shifts to keep the darkness from flowing through the city streets. We have to evacuate.\n... | 4 | |
[WP] You are the genie | [
"“Are you for real? I mean, I’m dreaming, right?”\n\n \n \n\nMy Master was having trouble grasping at reality. Great. Another idiot. Then again, my lamp was hidden well, deep in a cave not far from the place King Solomon had built his temple. He was brave, foolish, or foolishly brave to get down here.\n \n\n \... | 2 | |
[WP] Heaven actually turns out to be pretty boring as there are too many rules. Your friend tells you about this cool party in hell tonight and how your mortal realm crush is going to be there, you guys embark on a mission to sneak out for the night and be back for bible lecture in the morning. | [
"\"How'd you even find out about it?\"\n\nLottie and Corinne were in the former's bedroom, barely speaking above a whisper. Corinne doubted that anyone could hear them, considering that A) Lottie's estate was huge, B) nobody was on it right now except for them, and C) there was a large, ornate fountain in the bedro... | 2 | |
[WP] We live in a computer simulation. Little does anyone know, that when they pray, they aren't talking to God. They're talking to Jesús at the helpdesk. | [
"Every day it is the same old problems. Please make my loved ones better. Can I win the lottery? Make Mike from accounting fall in love with me. Please kill Mike from accounting. \n\nIt's like no-one has read the manual that I carefully prepared. Honestly, i got that thing down to ten bullet points, but does anyon... | 2 | |
[WP] "Gotta move move with the times." Cupid said, Barret .50 BMG over his shoulder and wearing his heart decal'd black tactical vest. "I can make people fall in love at ranges of over 2200 meters now." | [
" Oh how Cupid longed for the time of the Renaissance. Ballets, poems, plays of devoted love. The world had been his playground then. Watching all the young faces blush red with love. But times have changed. People changed. Love is hard to come by and instead most indulge in carnal pleasures and disregarded the ve... | 9 | |
[WP] You have a superpower. That changes every hour. Your arch nemesis has the same powers but he is one hour behind you. This is a day in your life. | [
"At 5:00 you are woken by your smoke alarm going off you look around confused and suddenly realise that you are on fire. You stumble out of the sealed room you sleep in so as to protect your family. You stumble on to the front lawn leaving burnt patches of grass wherever you step. As you run practically naked into ... | 5 | |
[WP]You have a time machine and want to save the world. There's one problem, you're really bad at history. | [
"Fall leaves drifted lazily across the wet Boston street as Mary Gettard hurried home. Her black heels clicked on the pavement making a sharp staccato noise that was briefly interrupted as she performed a neat hop to mount an uneven curb. Tucked in her arms were a great many papers and Manila folders, a mass of wor... | 2 | |
[WP] Humans can only die when they have done enough good to go to heaven, or been bad enough to go to hell. You've managed to effectively straddled the line for centuries and other people are starting to get suspicious. | [
"I've always wondered if I will ever die. For almost a millennia, I've watched all my family die, countless friends, old lovers and children of mine go before myself. It's gotten so bad that I just refuse to associate myself with anyone anymore. I've become so dull and desensitized to the pain of loss that on the l... | 2 | |
[WP] After 40 years of increasing temperatures due to global warming, Frosty the Snowman comes back with only 10 winters left. He reaches out to a young child for help ... | [
"Growing up in Michigan, winter wasn’t just a season, it was the peeling skin on the shared and equally chapped lips of a whole community; you knew nothing would make it any better except for time, but yet each day you woke up with a different plan to fix it. We never did, but we always wanted to. I grew up on a fa... | 1 | |
[WP] Aliens have been trying to contact us for some time now. They're getting frustrated that all their communications are being dismissed as viral marketing attempts. | [
"Roughly translated from Percei:\nOrsagh, saviour of the worlds and political leader of the planet Percei was thinking about his next step in his office. \"Is this the end? After all these years we finally achieved piece and prosperity and now THIS is how we are going to end?\" Shawars are a noble race. Almost a hu... | 1 | |
[WP]Whenever a demon is summoned they are immediately pulled away from whatever they were doing. This inevitably leads to some awkward situations. | [
"\"no, really man, i was just about to start writing my paragraph in a reddit sub group for writing prompts ! i've been trying to find motivation to start writing and the moment i put my hands to the keyboard, you pull THIS shit !\"\n\ni look at him incredulously. \" i didn't know you had internet in your world!...... | 4 | |
[WP] You die leaving a great deal of debt and unpaid taxes behind. The IRS finds you in the after life intending to collect. | [
"I sit back in my chair, looking over my mansion from the balcony. \n\n\nA drink in my hand and several beautiful women around me, at last I'm happy. I barely remember the unheated apartment, the $50,000 debt. The tramp living under my sink.\n\n\n\nI remark to one of the girls that shooting myself was really a stro... | 3 | |
Inspired by a comment on an r/AskReddit post
Edit: [Brotagonist](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7iata1/what_is_the_douchiest_thing_youve_seen_someone_do/dqxswc9) | [WP] you aren't a normal protagonist, you are a bro-tagonist. You have the ability to sense when someone's being a douchebag and as you continue to solve incidence of douchebaggery, you start to become a local hero | [
"The party was stopped by a piercing scream. \n\n\"I said stop!\"\n\nThe crowd parted just enough for me to see a pretty, blonde chick in a tight dress standing in the middle of the room facing the school's most popular student, football hero and star jock (jerk), my teammate, Dustin Bailey.\n\nShe looked pissed. H... | 1 |
[WP] You are tasked with writing the screen play for Quentin Tarantino's new live action film, Dora The Explorer. Give us the climax of the film. | [
"Im posting something I did for another prompt that fits. I'll try to make write it out more script like later. https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/7354z6/wp_dora_has_had_enough_this_time_swiper_will_stop/?st=jb2tpzaf&sh=b4a2f201\n\nSuggested soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOr0na6mKJQ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a vampire. However, sunlight is not deadly to you, you’re just allergic to it. | [
"\"Jesus Vlad, you should go home dude.\" \n\nHarold said with a shake of head and a look of disgust in face, Harold's face always beaming bright and red in the midday sun. \"You've been sneezing and coughing like that all morning\" \n\n\"Is nothing, must finish work\" I replied as I raked the leaves back from bene... | 1 | |
[WP] You are part of an experimental program that analyzes your skills and personality traits to pair you with a suitable AI companion. After months of testing and training, you have finally awoken after the implantation process. | [
"\"Time to wake up,\" she said, I think. It might have just been a noise, but it didn't really matter what she said. Her voice in my head was like a silk glove over the lizard part of my brain and down my spine. One tiny part of my mind tried to place the voice, tried to catch the subtle shading that would separ... | 3 | |
[WP] You and your colleagues sacrificed yourselves that the little ones might live. You were the only survivor. Now they look to you, the last of your kind, for guidance. | [
"We drew straws, and I got the short one. I had really hoped it wouldn't be me. I wasn't sure that I could stand it; being the last man alive, that is. It can't be helped. Someone had to look after the little ones. Watch over them. Ensure they do not make the same mistakes as we did.\n\nThe Primordial, our ship, wa... | 1 | |
[WP] People never die. Humanity has always been finding ways to postpone death. Modern medicine can now prevent death for eternity. What happens now? | [
"You wake up in a scarily white room. You go try to get up only to realize that you're strapped down to some sort of medical bed. You wince as the blinding white light pierces your eyes. You glance around at what you can see. There are medical instruments on the table next to you. \n \n\"Are you ready for your pr... | 2 | |
[WP] The Dragon decided the throne room would be its new home. The king gave the best scratches. | [
"The dragon’s wings beat against the air, struggling to regain control as her emerald body tumbled and fell. Her claws scratched frantically at the lance protruding from her torso until it fell free. Unburdened at last, Inglativ righted herself and landed unsteadily on the nearest ledge. Legend held that the ravine... | 1 |
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