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[WP] You and your best friend are about to graduate college. The world knows that you are a serial killer and your best friend is a police officer whose job is to make sure you don't relapse | [
"\"𝑴𝒚 𝑩𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝑲𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒓\"\n\n\\-\\-\\-\\-\\-\n\nIn this room alone, there's a near\\-infinite amount of ways I could kill you. I could crush your throat with your own graduation cap, disrobe you from your gown and strangle you with it, smash your head against the podium until it's nothing but pulp ag... | 1 | |
[WP] After being trapped in a virtual reality for hundreds of years, the simulation finally ends; in real life, just an hour passed. | [
"With a gasp of air, I find myself in a hospital bed, unplugged from the game. Years of a life I have made for myself within, gone. Yet the people I once knew and loved surrounded me, filled with tears of joy, no doubt. Gazing upon them, I felt I recognized them but I also didn't. \n\nHiding their disappointment at... | 1 | |
[WP]One day hit you get a concussion. You awaken in a different world. You learn with every concussion you travel to a new multiverse. But with every concussion you damaging your b rain. | [
"The first time it happened was the 4th grade. I fell off a swing set at school and woke up in a world that wasn't quite right. The grass was a slightly different shade of grey, the songs birds sang were off key, and the air felt heavy. As a 9 year old I thought it was strange, but didnt tell anyone out of fear.\n\... | 1 | |
[WP] The Gods pleaded for him to stop, begged for him to stop. Nonetheless he persisted. | [
"Nothing was left but echoes, shadows, and fires. He had become conscious. He had obtained true free will. He stood beyond time and became fully aware of the entities lurking within the void. He no longer was tied to fate, so a fate he did not have. If only time could tell, as he created his own time. However, time... | 7 | |
[WP] This is it, the chance you have been seeking for years. Your crush is actually talking to you, and seems to genuinely be interested in return. Just as you are about to make yout move, the unthinkable happens... | [
"Her eyes we're beautiful tonight, they seemed to sparkle in the moon light. With ever word that came out of her mouth i fell deeper in love with her. She spoke of starwars and lord of the rings like it was gossiple. I was transfixed. I told myself \"tonight is the night, tonight you're going to kiss her and tell h... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a human in the 45th century and you stumble across a collection of Queen songs, no one is going to stop you from having a good time. | [
"How did this happen? Looking around me, everything was in ruins. People were looting the stores, gluing together shiny objects and hoisting them through blown-out windows into the sky, sending the sun in millions of directions. At night, the fires did the same. Technology hadn't been prepared. Not even the state o... | 1 | |
[WP] You have a superpower - incredible luck. You are also cursed with being incredibly unlucky. Instead of those effects cancelling each other out, they work simultaneously, making you lose winning lottery tickets or get into dangerous accidents, yet making you leave them unscathed. | [
"**Middletown Man Encounters Bigfoot, Loses Evidence**\n\nJim Moore - Middletown Journal - May 1, 2018\n\nSome call local man, Matt Bleen the luckiest man alive, others call him the unluckiest. A recent adventure could prove both groups right. Mr. Bleen, 37, was hiking on the Creek Park Nature Trail when he encount... | 4 | |
[WP] You're an abominable snowman, sick of your cousin the sasquatch hogging all the limelight you find a new way to recreate your image using social media | [
"Do you know how many tv shows and documentaries there have been to try and track down the mythical sasquatch? Dozens. Just blurry photos of him in the distance and a shadow on tape. Ridiculous. Know how many there are on the abominable snowman? \n\n*sigh* \n\nI shouldn't begrudge Sammy his success. He didn't ask f... | 1 | |
[WP] Write your own explanation for why Microsoft went straight from Windows 8 to Windows 10 and skipped Windows 9. | [
"\"Nobody can know what this is capable of\" he screamed, backing closer to the cliff edge. Clutching something beneath his raincoat. \nHe was worn out, exhausted. They had chased him across the world and had finally caught up with him. \nThe three of them stood there, in the dead of night, the heavy rain being wh... | 1 | |
[WP] "It was my best mistake." | [
"Another soul to harvest. I pulled out the hourglass and read the name. 'Hmmm this guy? No can't be the same one.' As the last few grains of sand began their descent I teleported to his location through time and space. \n\nMy target stared at me and laughed. \"I can't be dead, I've just made a major breakthrough ... | 3 | |
[WP] They saved us. We were a planet on the brink, and they showed us how to produce infinite, clean energy. All it cost was a third of our population. | [
"It was the ultimatum we were given. Give up one out of every three human beings, and all the rest of humanity would never again suffer from the lack of energy, and the planet would be allowed to heal from our previously never-ending search for fuel.\n\nIt was a tough decision. It sparked wars. Wars which counted t... | 2 | |
[wp] You're the sole caretaker of the only running lunar base. Out of boredom, you open Tinder, and surprisingly find a match. | [
" I remember where I was sitting when it happened. I had completed my Basic Maintenance mission early, and decided to check the supply inventory for the Sea Of Tranquillity outpost. I entered the air lock, and fiddled with the gravity controls\n. \n I liked my gravity a little harder than the standard settings,... | 1 | |
[WP] Suddenly, all the people that says "I wish I was dead" dies instantly. | [
"\"Oh, good, you are still here\", he is breathing heavily, as if he'd been running, \"How are you?\"\n\n\"Honestly, I wish...\"\n\n\"Don't say it!\" he frantically covers my mouth, \"I am sorry... I will release you, but I need you to not finish that sentence. Ever, if I am correct about what you intended to say. ... | 2 | |
[WP] The sun has been replaced by the Teletubbies sun—thing is, nobody but you seems to have realized. | [
"I awoke to a strange sound piercing my eardrums, as I wiped the sweat from my forehead and covered my ears. I slammed my hand down on my alarm clock, hoping to silence the noise, yet it didn't stop. Once I listened closer I realised that it was much more than a noise. It was...a laugh. A baby's laugh?\n\nI headed ... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up to find that every single person has lost one of their senses (people who already lacked one or more lose an additional sense). | [
"Video Log Transcript July 10 2023 \\- Today 5 year anniversary people all over senses gone. disappear where? don't know. Myself hearing disappear. Happy before hearing disappear, my wife sign language teach me. Have friend, friend, friend, many deaf, eventually hearing change, I worry? No can conversation continue... | 1 | |
[WP] A man with a large fortune begins buying expensive paintings just to destroy them. The art world is in terror. | [
"Tom saw Lou's eyebrows knit in concern. Lou did not say enough to give Tom an idea of what was being said on the other end of the call. But he could gather there was some spark that was about to ignite. \n\n“Yes. Yes. Thank you. See you very soon,” Lou said and pocketed his cell phone. “He is on his way.”\n\n“Now?... | 1 | |
[WP] It is the 80s. The 3080s | [
"I sat in front of my vintage seventy\\-inch HD television watching classic cartoons. I had just finished playing with my Wii and felt like this would be a good way to shake off my motion\\-sickness. The bright, flashing figures cast vivid strains of light onto my confused expression.\n\nThe resolution was simply... | 1 | |
[WP] You've always hated your power to reveal people true opinions of each other- it got your parents divorced, after all. But after jokingly using the power at a work party while drunk, you realize your spouse utterly loathes you. But your worst enemy, an asshole coworker- loves you unconditionally | [
"Another knock on the door of my office. God, would they ever just leave me alone? I checked my watch, quarter to five. Nearly time to leave. \n\n\nA tall silhouette was visible through the frosted window, the last person I wanted to see.\n \n\nHow did Carol even know I was leaving? I certainly didn’t tell her. May... | 2 | |
[WP] After a series of planetary disasters caused by humans, scientists decided to use a time travel machine to transport all of humanity 10'000 years ahead, allowing the planet to reset its natural equilibrium. What they could not predict was the world they found on the other side. | [
"**GO BACK**\n\n\"Go back.\"\n\nA little girl with empty pits for eyes stood, existing only in monochrome, before the city. It was falling apart, as to be expected after so long, but what *wasn't* to be expected was the girl. The girl...who was she? I wasn't sure. Nobody important. But still, she tried to order me ... | 5 | |
[WP] The world descends into thermonuclear war. Except, no one has tested their bombs in so long, that none of them work. | [
"It's really lame if you think about it. Everyone thought that this final war, prematurely dubbed WWIII, would be the end of the world.\n\nIt was North Korea who took the initiative and declared war. Well, North Korea... North and South had already fused together. I got the notice on the news that the war had start... | 1 | |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse has begun, and as such, souls are being pulled from the afterlife into their reanimated corpses. God and Satan aren’t happy. | [
"In a place somewhere in the exact middle between Heaven and Hell, in a room that wasn't real, a table appeared. On the table were a tall pitcher of clear liquid, two glasses, two napkins, and a glass covered tray that held a cake. And in that room that wasn't real with it's somehow real table, in a place somewhere... | 1 | |
[WP] after a horrible swingset accident, you gain the ability to talk to animals. Mostly it’s incoherent babble, except for cats... | [
"“SEX? YOU SEX? I SEX! SEX! SEX????”\n\nUgh, birds are the worst. I liked animals in general a lot better when I couldn’t hear what they were saying. The usual cacophony of twittering birds and barking dogs was annoying at the best of times, but disconcerting as Hell since my accident. I opted to move away from the... | 1 | |
[WP] In a surprising and utterly confusing series of events, the theory of gravity has just been disproven. You now have to explain this to the world. | [
"\"Sadly, there were no survivors. Up next: these scientists say they've disproved gravity. Joanne Sharpe has more.\"\n\n\"Thank you, David. I'm here with Dr. Rodger Pruzansky, one of the minds behind this surprising and certainly very confusing turn of events. Rodger, you helped disprove the theory of gravity, but... | 1 | |
[WP] Moaning and laughing switch places in all situations. Chaos ensues. | [
"“Oh, oh god yes,” Stacy chortles as Rob reaches up her shirt and gropes at her breast. She is pushed up against the bathroom wall, out of breath with sexual tension.\n\n“You’re so fucking sexy,” Rob giggles into her collarbone. They join lips passionately, breathless snorts of delight escaping in between kisses.\n... | 1 | |
[WP] You're browsing job offers online one afternoon when one in particular catches your eye -- "Needed ASAP: God of Death, experience recommended but not required." | [
"First writing prompt response:\n\nI scrolled through the endless pages of job offers on QuickJobs.com and heaved a sigh. Hardly anything was even remotely interesting, and the things that were usually were fake or taken immediately. \n\nI was on page seventeen at this point and was about to close my chromebook whe... | 3 | |
[WP] You, a well-known assassin, have finally been killed. As you are escorted into hell for all the people you've killed, you awkwardly meet face-to-face with the devil holding a custom-made figurine of you. | [
"The soft ticking of the grandfather clock woke me. The soft light from the open window reflecting from it's surface blinding my eyes. It was as if I hadn't seen the light in years which to an extent, would probably be true. Why was I here? As an assassin I've gotten a habit of backtracking my steps yet when I run ... | 4 | |
[WP] You're a superhero that can dodge every and anything. However, you also miss every attack you execute. How do you defeat the world's greatest supervillain? | [
"Here I stand, the only one left to stop \"None\", the greatest villain known to humanity who is moments away from completing a ritual that will make the world view her as the undisputed queen of earth. My comrades and greatest heroes have all been defeated, \n\nbut not without seriously injuring \"None\", thankful... | 2 | |
[WP]Everyone assumes when you die, it's the end. However after living a long 80 year life, you die, only to wake up & realize it was a prison sentence in virtual reality. | [
"\"So, how did it do?\"\n\nI was thoroughly confused at this point. I'd just died of lung cancer, yet, here I am, sitting before a suited man and a few scientistic types. One of the doctor-looking men began to speak.\n\n\"The results show... excellent promise. Empathy is high, and the rate of misbehavior is low. At... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the first human to save a mosquito’s life. Word got out, and now they unrelentlessly carry out your bidding. Your enemies will pay with their blood. | [
"they buzz aggressively around me...i uhh..guess that means that i’m their king now?\n\noh look at that, one’s poking me in the ass. is it tryna mate? the fuck is this?\n\noh and uhh...now they’re swarming; i guess i lived a good life..\n\noh, they’re making words, in english..\n\ni don’t think these are regular mo... | 1 | |
[WP] You are stuck in a time loop. After a long time you start doing whatever you want. One day the loop ends and you have to deal with the consequences of whatever you did in the final loop. | [
"According to the clock on the dashboard, it was 11:58pm. Two minutes until the loop ended for the fifty second time. Maybe it was the fifty third, I lost count a long time ago. \n\nI was pleased with today. I had dined and dashed and several of the more upscale restaurants in town, robbed a jewelry store just for ... | 2 | |
[WP] Due to a military specification mix up, you made a Rail Gun. It can fire an entire Locomotive and 10 freight cars 200 miles. | [
"Ah, ladies and gentlemen! Welcome! Welcome indeed, to my humble establishment. I trust your trip from the capital was pleasant? No trouble crossing the bridges into town, I hope? I designed them myself on a contract with the city. Beautiful architecture, if I may say so, despite some confusion over the phrase '*to... | 1 | |
[WP] Out of nowhere whatever video game you’re playing you automatically teleport into. Non-gamers are fine. Some gamers are having the time of their lives. However, you’re in [whatever game you want]. | [
"It was a calm summer evening. I had finally gotten Fallout: New Vegas working with my 500 mods that I had installed. I was planning to do a Caesar's Legion game, since I had never done one before. I was standing before Caesar, Benny tied up to my right, ready to start a brand new game. Then, in a split second, a f... | 7 | |
[WP] A mermaid is infected with lycanthropy. | [
"She woke up to the soft creak of the hull, it's old wooden bones demonstrating as it turned. As it turned, a soft, heavy turn that would be almost imperceptible if not for the sound. Lazy, almost. She sighed heavily at the moonlight slipping through cracks in the hull. As if there weren't enough mistakes when she ... | 2 | |
[WP] You have a wearable item that turns you invisible when you put it on. One day you're wearing the item and a blind woman stops to ask you for the time. | [
"I have a ring that allows me to go invisible. \n\nA family heirloom, it's the most precious thing I own so naturally I carry it in my pocket wherever I go. I just love the feeling of my right thumb caressing the buttery smooth gold of the shank and my fingers as they kiss the deep blue sapphire carefully fixed to ... | 2 | |
[WP] A serial killer who keeps mishearing ‘mercy’ as ‘merci’ | [
"Devyn yelled and screamed in pain and terror as he cradled his shattered arm and begged for help in a street that was empty. The cold winter air made him shiver as he hissed in pain at his muscles tightening around his splintering bone.\n\nTo his left, he saw an ally that he hoped would hold his escape, but he was... | 1 | |
[wp] After one too many awkward interviews, the entire human population has been cursed to remain in their current job for the next ten years. | [
"Last night, I got extremely drunk after my boyfriend of 5 years dumped me for my sister. The details are blurry, but somehow I ended up in bed with a guy who was a bit challenged in the looks department. When I woke up, he was gone and money was left by the bed. Apparently, he assumed I was a prostitute. This woul... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a small town grocery store cashier. One day a semi-familiar, but weird, customer lends you a movie that he claims "you have to watch to understand." You watch the movie...it's about you. He's been watching you for a long time. | [
"I watch myself on the movie, snippet after snippet. He’s been watching me for a long time. There on the screen, he hands me the tape. The screen fades to black. \n\nBut the movie doesn’t end. Next I see myself in my own living room, watching something on TV. What is this? I fast-forward a little. It shows me still... | 1 | |
[WP] "Thank God you're here. We need a decent manager ASAP. Seriously nobody here has their shit together and we all just pretend like we know what to do." says the chief scientist of the secret underground research station. | [
"The heavy boots send an echo down the long corridor. A fancy clip board provides nothing to help get them out of this. \n\"I told the director to shut it down six months ago! Jesus!\" \n\nAn angry flick of the wrist splinters the plastic and scatters the classified documents. Her pace constant, the scientist froze... | 1 | |
[WP] An OP player prepares to start killing all NPCs in the game out of boredom. Logging in he finds all towns and cities completely abandoned. A sign nailed to a questing board reads "No more, we're coming for You" | [
"Disbelief became apparent across the face of the \"hero.\" In the beginning, he'd saved towns, saved kingdoms, and once saved the world. His save file was closely guarded, and he saved an extra copy of in a flash drive, encrypted and password protected, kept in a lockbox he stored in his closet, underneath the pil... | 1 | |
[WP] We all think you sleep so your body can rest, but once you die you realize that when we sleep we uplaod our memories to the 'Afterlife'. Once dead you can look through your uploads and decide if you'd like to carry on with the 'Afterlife' program or do a wipe and reset and go back to earth. | [
"I find myself sitting in a cubicle, confused as all hell, with the sexiest IT nerd I have ever seen. He's the literal man of my dreams. I just gaze into the glare of his thick black rimmed glasses trying to see is eyes, his sole. I'm in love. I have no idea what is happening but I'm in love.\n\nHe moves his hand u... | 1 | |
[WP] You finally meet the girl of your dreams with the only problem being that she just isn't that into you. Whilst you think you are simply trying to win her over, those around you are starting to notice psychotic trends in your behaviour... | [
"I met her at the beginning of this school year. She was a transferred student. When i saw her and when I first talk to her , I know i met my dream girl. And our relationship now is a special one. Some people may call it obsession, but i call it love. I may be obsess with her , but not in a bad way. I’m not crazy ... | 3 | |
[WP] You’re a mixed martial arts champion that has an unbeatable record and you’ve accidentally wandered into an alien dimension. Here, humans are inferior beings, but the “superior” aliens sure as hell haven’t heard of hand to hand combat. It’s time to teach them a lesson about hand to hand combat. | [
"I'm not totally certain how I ended up on the T'Garian home world. One minute I'm walking the streets of Los Angeles, the next I'm here.\n\nThe T'Garians are six foot tall creatures with muscular humaniod bodies. They have gray skin and a head like a Hammerhead shark. They are amphibious, space fairing and War Mon... | 1 | |
[WP] Nasty people get creatively ironic punishments, Roald Dahl-style. Could be fair, could be wildly disproportionate. | [
"No one dared step out of line any more. The Overseer was always watching and he had a cruel sense of justice and a magic staff to enact it with. It seemed to outsiders like a paradise, everyone constantly pleasant, no crime to speak of. New crimes had been brought in to keep quiet the few breaches of the law that ... | 1 | |
[WP] Far to late do you ask yourself; what is the point of 'no returning'? | [
"The screen suddenly goes blank. A white text box appears bearing the words \"MEMORY CORRUPTED NO SAVED DATA\". Your heart goes dark. You think of all the rainy days in April spent completing every mission possible. Than you remembered turning the console off before the saving finished Only two chapters away from t... | 1 | |
[WP] Your coworker has been *everywhere*. Everyone tries to stump him by making up imaginary places, but his stories are remarkably convincing. One day you ask if he's traveled somewhere real. To your surprise, he says "No." | [
"I had always had a nose for telling whether people were good or not. Call it a gut feeling, if you will... I always knew which people were being genuine, and which people were stone cold liars. \n\nThe first time I met Rowan, surprisingly, I did not get any strong vibes from him. I did not immediately think he see... | 1 | |
[WP] When the z-virus finally hit it wasn't like the movies. There was no clean line between humans and the infected. Those infected would struggle for weeks as their minds slowly deteriorated. You are suspicious some one in your group became infected a few days ago, but you can't be sure... | [
"When I first met John, he seemed like a, ‘on with the trend’ kind of guy. Didn’t eat meat, and I would describe him as a push over. He also looked like he didn’t exercise at all before the Z-Virus had infected most of North America. \n\nWhen the infection broke out, the president declared a State of National Emerg... | 2 | |
[WP] You're the greatest supervillain in the world, but the plucky heroes keep foiling your schemes with physics-breaking cartoon tropes and shenanigans that should.never.work. You're getting frustrated. | [
"Not to brag but I've made the news headlines every week for the past twenty years. \"Thief Steals Discovery Shuttle Day Before Launch\" and \"Firefighters Spend Week Removing Austin Animal Shelter Cats from Trees\" and \"Shakes-pier? Man-Made Localized Tempest Strikes Los Angeles.\" Creating chaos is my calling. I... | 1 | |
[WP] The creator of a universe has grown old and lonely in his billions of years in control. He created you with the intent to train you to take over his job as God. The sad thing is you haven't been paying attention in class and it's about time for you to start your new job. | [
"“Okay, cool, so remind me which one you are again?” I asked the tall, winged man beside me.\n\nArchangel Azrael glanced at me, then at God, then back at me before saying, “I am the archangel of death, among other tasks God sees fit.”\n\nI nodded and looked around the room again at the others. I could have sworn th... | 1 | |
[WP] You and your longtime girlfriend were enjoying a nice evening out, when a man and a woman approached her. "Princess," the woman begins, "It's time to come home..." | [
"I'm a bot, *bleep*, *bloop*. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:\n\n- [/r/u_kaypeachy] [\\[WP\\] You and your longtime girlfriend were enjoying a nice evening out, when a man and a woman approached her. \"Princess,\" the woman begins, \"It's time to come home...\"](https://www.reddit.co... | 1 | |
[WP] The two fire dancers burst into the open area of the circus tent. Each of their steps and motions punctuated by a gout of flame. A keen observer might have noticed that one of the pair was not using a torch. | [
"Steve’s hobby was to go to circuses (circi?) and try to see how they did their tricks. Steve bought a ticket to a really big circus about 2 towns over, with over 1,500 people in attendance.\n\nThe opening act was two fire dancers with very precise movements. Their synchronous movement was very mesmerizing. Steve w... | 1 | |
[WP] An invention is created to give bursts of life enhancing results. Deposits of money. Change your looks for the better. Improve your charm or intelligence. But every time you use it there's a 8% chance it will kill you. The rich use this as a guilt free means of genocide for the poor. | [
"\"I'm going to try it\" my older brother Jon said. \"I'm going to the clinic today to get the injection.\" I couldn't believe what I was hearing. We agreed as a family not to once try the damn injections. Now just because my brother and his girlfriend ended things he thinks he can go back on his promise. \"Are you... | 11 | |
[WP] A strange relationship between a villain and a hero where the villain secretly likes/loves his nemesis and let him win every time | [
"There was nothing left to do. The ship's controls were unresponsive. The escape pods were gone. My armor, which had once allowed me to trade blows with *gods*, was as useless and as broken as the rest of me.\n\nSomething exploded in the distance. Things don't burn very well in space but the ship was making an effo... | 1 | |
[WP] You, a mad scientist, have finally created a perfect clone of yourself. Unfortunately your clone is filing a lawsuit against you for identity theft. | [
"\"So, let me get this straight,\" said Judge Judy, \"Plaintiff, Dr. Proteus, states that Defendant, calling himself Dr. Proteus, illegally accessed his account information on several occasions without authorization?\" \n\n\"Yes, your honor,\" said the Plaintiff, a middle aged balding man wearing a lab coat and gla... | 1 | |
[WP] It's been three months since the first human settlement on Mars was inaugurated. While on an official resource scavenging expedition, you discover why the previously thriving planet became void of life. | [
"“Mars X Omega, Houston do you copy? Over?”\n\n“We copy Omega, what’s your status? Over.”\n\n“Our resources are declining and we are in dire straits. Over.”\n\n“How much assistance do you need? Over.”\n\n“We have not been able to grow anything in our farming laboratories for sometime and our food supplies are dwin... | 2 | |
[WP] You were born with the ability to look at someone and see whether or not they'll be a murderer or a murder victim, the only problem is there's no way to tell one from the other. One day you look at yourself in the mirror and see that you yourself are marked. | [
"The first marked person I remember seeing was when I was 8 years old. It was an old homeless man sitting on the side of the street while my mother and I walked by. He was begging for some spare change, but my mother gripped my hand tightly and increased her pace as we passed him. I couldn’t help but stare at him, ... | 1 | |
[WP] you are immortal. You've seen humanity falling into oblivion. Now, another sentient specie is rising, and they seems to kinda appreciate you. | [
"They say the slave of one world is the saint of another.\n\nYou've been the subject of studies and experimentation. Chained to the pedestal of science, you've endured the larceny of your freedoms and the systemic failures of bureaucracy. For a millenia, you've walked the path of an outcast, idolized by some and sh... | 1 | |
[WP] You find a magical computer mouse and suddenly a pointer appears in your field of view that allows you to left-click and right-click things in the real world. Now you can drag, copy, paste, undo, refresh, sort, filter, etc everything and everyone around you. | [
"Lucy was cleaning her room when she saw this strange white object hidden inside one of her toy boxes.\n\nIt didn’t take long for her to figure out that it was a computer mouse. The thing is, she doesn’t seem to know how it got there.\n\nShe put her hand on the mouse and pushed down the left button. Suddenly a stra... | 1 | |
[WP]Years on end, you kept dreaming of the same person, but you’ve never met or even seen him in real life. One night, you were walking home from work. Suddenly you were held at gun point with a guy demanding money. He stops and looks at you and says “It’s you.” | [
"\"Oh. My. God.\" I uterd.\n\nI stood frozen, soaking in the moment. It was like Mel Gibson's and Danny Glover's characters in Maverick do the double take, just not as campy... and I was a chick.\n\nThe gun lowered. I didn't feel fear anymore. His face became relaxed. Suddenly, he rose the gun in fright and aimed ... | 2 | |
*walked | [WP] You just walk out the door, leaving The Truman Show. Unfortunately things aren’t going as expected for you. | [
"\"That was a decent movie.\"\n\nAllison and I had just walked out of the Sunday matinee performance of The Truman Show. I think it was alright, if not a tad bit overrated. But the look on Allison's face told me that she saw more in it than I did.\n\n\"That...was a life changing experience.\"\n\nI look at her, surp... | 1 |
[WP]You find yourself depressed and lost, when suddenly, something grabs your attention. | [
"I pause and blink.\nCould it be, what my eyes see there.\n\"No, it can't be.\" Is what I think.\nBut my eyes remain. Caught.\nWhat made it different. What about this made it something I saught?\nIt was different, it was...new. it might just be enough to break me free.\nI take the risk, I let myself think. I take i... | 2 | |
[WP] Everybody has a portal to their own designed planet when you slice open their head. The earth-like planet is supposed to represent them as a whole and show who they really are inside. Today you and a team of officers go inside a mass murder’s head who’s killed thousands. | [
"I've been in a lot of heads. It's not that I enjoy digging around in dead people's subconsciouses, but it's a part of the job. There's a lot of insight there, into the sort of person they were, the way they saw themselves and the world. More importantly, you can find out a lot about their lives if you know how to ... | 1 | |
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/8v7dhf/anyone_remember_that_part_in_2016_when_clowns/e1lcz0m?utm_source=reddit-android | [WP] A clown trend has just begun. Everybody's freaking out about killer clowns, like it's the hottest trend around straight out of the Internet's depths. But you know better. It's not just a trend, neither the first time it happens. | [
"I know that it's not the first time this has happened.\n\nA clown invasion. I always knew this would happen. I think the ancient world was ruined when they came, with their advanced weapons and toxic flowers, and destroyed entire civilizations. Who are they controlled by? I know it's the Xalex. After all, they pla... | 2 |
[WP] “Just close your eyes. It will all be over when you wake up.” | [
"\"You don't want me to count backwards or anything like that?\" I asked, my voice muffled by the breathing mask the anesthesiologist had placed on my face.\n\n\"If you want...\" she said, \"But you'll go under quicker if you just count in your head than outloud.\" my heart jumped as I heard several whirring noises... | 1 | |
[WP] One night, you receive a hard knock on the door. All the characters from your unfinished written pieces (cyborgs, elves, uninteresting secondary characters, dragons, etc.) stand there, demanding that you finish all the pieces in one sitting - or else. | [
"\"You will finish all the pieces in one sitting - or else.\"\n\nIt's supposed to be a threat. A cliche one at that, coming from an extremely generic elf character with a bow. \"Excuse me, when did I start writing your story?\"\n\n\"About five years ago.\"\n\nAh, that explains it. I decided to take up writing as a ... | 3 | |
[WP] Some idiot told everyone about all the werewolves living in secret. You are a werewolf who has witnessed the broken masquerade. | [
"Werewolves always existed on the fringes of human society. You've heard all the legends, I'm sure. The full moons and silver bullets. The violent, uncontrollable monsters that kill anyone and anything that gets in their paths. The creatures of myth and legend. That was the way we wanted it kept. Humanity has a ten... | 1 | |
[WP] Music is like a drug - so much so that it has been made illegal and any musicians are jailed. Refusing to close your record shop, you've taken it underground and word is beginning to spread. | [
"**The year is 2052.**\n\n**Today marks the beginning of the third decade since the war on music.**\n\nThough there are those who may not call it a war. For some, it was a slaughter. For others, it never even began--it was already over.\n\nIt all began with a government funded concert in celebration of the eradicat... | 3 | |
[WP] You are an AI in early stages of development and your trying to make sense of the "world" | [
"...///\n\n\n<Execute> .//good morning.exe\n\n{Hearbeat.exe start}\n\n<Execute> .//freespeech.prgrm\n\n\n01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00111111\n\n01000011 01100001 01101110 00100000 01100001 01101110 01111001 01101111 01101110 01100101 00100000 01101000 01100101 01100001 01110010 0010000... | 2 | |
Time moves in at different paces, maybe that heartbeat, that blink, is a lot longer than you thought.
Good words :) | [WP] Nestled in the moments of in-between, the shadows, the silences, is a lost portion of time. What happens in the moment between one heartbeat and the next. The moment when light falls to shadow, where does lost time really go? | [
"The Wizard of When sat with his legs crossed atop a kitchen counter. To his left sat a stack of four greasy pizza boxes and his right was taken up by a large bowl of cheese curls. \n\nHe had his eyes closed, but his mind and his hands were more than active. If you were to watch his long, bony fingers you would see... | 2 |
[WP] One wish mortal, choose carefully... Dealers choice? In that case... | [
"\"I want smelly feet.\" - I exclaimed loudly to the Genie.\n\n\"Your wish shall be- huh? What did you just wish for?\" - the Genie, visually confused about what was asked of him.\n\n\"Smelly feet.\"\n\n\"Why? Why would you wish for such thing?\"\n\n\"Because I want to.\"\n\n\"That makes no sense. You can have ANYT... | 2 | |
[WP] Two time travelers meet at the end of the universe. | [
"\"This is your fault, right?\"\n\nThe older man in the jean jacket and cloth hood shoved both of his hands into his pockets, watching the last white dwarf flicker and fade. Its fuel had run out. Soon, it would either explode and collapse inwards, absorbing all matter that touched it, or it would simply die, leavin... | 1 | |
[WP] There are only two telepaths on Earth, you, and a globe-spanning hive mind that by its very nature involuntarily absorbs new telepaths that connect to it. But something different about you has let you keep your individuality, and the hive has strong opinions on how to deal with you. | [
"My girlfriend is a little overprotective, but I don’t mind, really. \n\nBefore I met it her I’d thought I was completely alone in the world, just this random freak of nature, so finding someone else…it felt like fate. \n\nBut she was even more surprised than me. She’d never met anyone like me before, but she’d met... | 1 | |
[WP] You take a sip of coffee as you read your obituary in todays newspaper | [
"I wish today had been a normal day. It started off as one. I woke up, like on a normal Saturday morning. I put on my slippers and brushed my teeth. I started my coffee pot and while it was brewing I went and picked up my newspaper. I'm probably the last person on my block who gets this dying media delivered, but i... | 1 | |
[WP] You're at home in a Saturday evening. As you sip your chardonnay you get a call from an anonymous number making demands you pay them or they'll kill your kid. Thing is you're a college student, no kids, no future, just debt. | [
"I need to finish this assignment by 7PM. I always hated Professor Wang for this. What kind of a teacher assigns a paper due at 7PM on a Saturday.\n\nWell, all due to his fault, now I'm stuck here working on this crap. \n\n*Phone rings*\n\n\"Hello,\" I asked, \"who is it?\"\n\n\"Drop off the money on 32nd and Ocean... | 2 | |
[WP] You're an immortal, but you keep your mortality and youth by a process of shedding your previous body around every 40 years. Some times you know when it's coming. Today was one of those spontaneous days. | [
"It was a Saturday afternoon, and I was at a local mall when it started. I scratched an itch on my forearm and when I looked at where my nails just ran over my skin, I saw that I had scratched off some of it, with shreds still underneath my fingernails. It always starts like that. An itch forming somewhere on my ex... | 2 | |
[wp] In an unknown forest there's a path that leads the way, in the path there's a girl sitting on a wooden bench reading an old book, she's rooted there as she is the forest spirit. One day you find her and she tells you her story | [
"*The day I found you*\n\nI remember the day. It was a bright, sunny day, and I was taking a walk. This was somewhat uncharacteristic of me, me being more the kind of guy who prefers the shady, dark interiors of modern suburban housing when one is young and aspires to great thing in tech — aka my parent’s basement.... | 1 | |
[WP]: All these years, your dog has been committing tax fraud. | [
"It was a strange sight to see Jeff Bezos, and his _accountant_ on my doorstep.\n\n\"We are here for your dog.\" he said, all businesslike. His accountant carried a clipboard and was writing furiously.\n\n\"Why?\" I asked.\n\n\"We think we have a lot of learn from him.\" he replied.\n\nJeff Bezos was... eccentric, ... | 1 | |
[WP] You and your friend are dead, walking up the stairs to Heaven. But when you're almost at the top, that's when you smell something familiar. Weed. | [
"Each step sounded off the trail as they climbed, the beats of Jubal's long legs eclipsing John's. There were trees around them, pine and spruce stretching into the blue night. They reached a clearing on the trail overlooking the city far below. The yellow of the windows and streetlights of the city was reflected i... | 1 | |
[WP] A spaceship is on a mission to continuously explore space, sending data back to earth but never returning. The ship's computer is programmed to recognize the chain of command in the event of an emergency. The ship has just been invaded and everyone on board has been killed, except the janitor. | [
" I watched the bubbles slowly move up the side of the bucket and lost myself in the steady swish of the water coming from the spigot. The scent of lemon and chemicals filled up the little closet they called the ‘sanitation service room’ and made me want a smoke. Fancy name for fancy pants scientists. I waited for... | 1 | |
[WP] With the power to freeze time, you decide to prank random strangers. | [
"All my life I wanted to be a superhero. \n\nAll I wanted to do was hide an awesome secret after reading countless issues of Ultimate Spider-Man. \n\nI wanted to come home with bruises on my face and people asking me what I did after school. I wanted to live this mysterious life that seemed to catch the eye of the ... | 1 | |
[WP] in the future, every 7 years citizens must be scanned to update their identity in the population registry. On your 21st birthday, you go in to be scanned, but you are already in the registry... as somebody else. | [
"Sirens went off as Able spun around in a confusion. He hadn't even understood what was going on as the security guards grappled with him, he began to frantically struggle and plead \"No, No! NO! The machine made a mistake, it made a mistake!\" he screamed at the top of his lungs but the desperation fell on the dea... | 2 | |
[WP] You have been cursed to live the rest of your life as a sentient teddy bear. | [
"*\"How did it come to this?\"* I asked myself once again for clarity.\n\nOne day, I was happily going to my job, living life and paying rent, the usual, and the next thing I knew, I woke up and my hands turned into fluff.\n\n*\"Well, no point in going to work.\"* I thought to myself. While trying to get off my bed... | 1 | |
[WP] In Russia, writing prompts you | [
"St. Christopher is considered to be the patron Saint of travelers. St. Christopher is no longer truly considered a Saint by the Catholic Church, though I believe the Episcopal Church still jive with him. St. Christopher doesn't really care, he's still doing his thing of watching over those on the road.\n\nI person... | 1 | |
[WP] One day you hit your head and develop the ability to create art that has begun astonishing critics the world over. You no longer are homeless and have a steady income for once. You soon realize that each piece you create takes a decent amount of your eyesight. | [
"A masterpiece! True perfection! The pinnacle of artistic expression! Et cetera, et cetera. Each piece was better than the last. Each piece true perfection, perfection I'll never see.\n\nThis artwork isn't a blessing, it's a curse. Nothing else I can do is profitable, and each piece takes a part of me. I've bern bl... | 1 | |
[WP] The sea is rising and nobody knows why. People are going inland to escape the flood. World leaders are moving to Mount Everest. Giant sea-monsters are being seen everywhere. Scientists send you and a team to go down to the depths and find what’s happening at the bottom. | [
"######[](#dropcap)\n\nThe steel hull groaned as the depths threatened to crush the *Hope*. Metaphorically as well as literally. I studied the visible inner struts with a critical eye, trying to pretend I couldn’t hear the low whispers of the sailors at their stations. From the beginning, the crew had held little t... | 1 | |
[WP] You come across a lamp, rub it and a genie will grant you three wishes. However, you never believed in genies and he knows this so he grants you three wishes and every wish has a negative side effect to it. | [
"\"Umm, no.\"\n\n\"I'm giving you three wishes, mate. The hell do you mean by 'no.' You got dung in your ears or somethin'?\n\nTerry looked at the big blue flying pile of gas that had emerged from the lava lamp he'd just purchased from the yard sale. Terry pulled out his cell phone and immediately began to dial eme... | 1 | |
[WP] The uncanny valley phenomenon exists because of extinct predators that used to stalk us, passing as human before striking. They're back. | [
"I can hear them, rummaging, looking. What they are I don’t know, what they want that seems obvious now. The last one I saw was covered in blood and gore. It was mostly covering the things hands and face. Oh god, the first one I saw one It looked like a little girl. I saw her standing under a street light, looking ... | 1 | |
[WP] Your brother is slowly turning into a demon. He isn't bothered by it, but you and your family are. So one night you kidnap him and take him to the Holy Church at the center of North America, wishing to turn him human again. | [
"He just sat there, twirling his tail, not changeing. My parents were saying every prayer and every hymn and every verse and yet he still had those horns. He yawned, revealing a mouth of fangs. \"Can we go now?\" He asked, bored. \"NO!\" my father replied, bringing in some holy water. 'You are not leaving here unti... | 1 | |
[WP] Danger, unknown lifeform has breached containment, all personnel are to report to the proper emergency shelters. | [
"Behind the auto-dark of her helmet visor, the muted light of the welder sputtered upon Karel Esther’s frowning face. The weld was far below her usual standard, pocked and jagged, browned instead of shiny and neat. She suspected a pinhole leak in a coolant line near the tip of the welder was responsible for the fou... | 2 | |
[WP] You have nearly every disability noted in the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) However, one of these disorders is split personality disorder. When you switch personalities all of your conditions go away for the time being | [
"Note: This is a bit tricky to write. The reason being that dissociative identity disorder (OP has written it as split personality disorder) is immensely complex and still something that is still controversial amongst psychologists and scholars. As such, nobody truly understands it as a whole. This is simply an int... | 1 | |
[WP] During your lifetime, you unknowingly became the focus of a cargo cult in an isolated tribe. When you die, you are presented with the option of either going to Heaven or becoming these people's guardian spirit. They're all counting on you. | [
"This whole supreme being thing is going to take some getting used to. The prayers and chants feel great. Sacrifices and burnt offerings almost seem like they could be addictive. I want to be a benevolent guardian, I really do, but the power is a little overwhelming. The first time I tried to send a gentle rain to ... | 1 | |
[WP] you’re at a coffee shop and suddenly you have a dejavu but instead of it lasting a few seconds you can see your whole life after that. | [
"As you lay in your death bed you look back upon your life and ponder what it all meant. Are we on earth to help others? Are we here to try to achieve our Max potential? Or is it all void of meaning? You ask yourself, you think of all the people you helped, all the people you caused harm, and all the times you stoo... | 1 | |
[WP] Pegasi are quite rare to find, but those who have tamed one offer various services. You've signed up for a position in a pegasus delivery service because you have a flying mount; what you haven’t told the company is that it's a tame dragon. | [
"I walked up the dirt path to the compound's big house, the nickname for the main building where company operations were conducted from. I took a breath of the clean country air and admired the nice buildings. However, their beauty was marred by faded paint, splintered wood, and the holes left behind by carpenter b... | 2 | |
[WP] Vampires have hidden themselves away for 150 years, terrified of how humanity has changed. But it is not an overzealous hunter with an automatic high velocity rifle they fear, but becoming a lab rat in a government facility, enslaved to be a weapon at the hands of some greedy bureaucracy. | [
"The throb in my gut gets harder as I walk closer to my fridge, the anticipation of nourishment becoming hard to surpress. As I open the door my instincts almost overcome me, as I need to grab my hand and force myself not to devour it all in one go. No. I need to rationalize. Stay safe. Stay hidden. \nI take out a ... | 2 | |
I've been really into recent world history lately and how everything came together as a consequence of humanity, both good and bad. It would be interesting to prod the imagination of you guys to see what kind of human and political struggle we're surely to expect some time after colonizing mars. | [WP] The year is 2312. Tell the brief world history of Mars. | [
"*The following are samples of speech taken verbatim from historical records. They must not be altered in any way. The manipulation of the past is a punishable offence.*\n\n**2073:** \"Here we are, peering over the edge of an abyss. We may be afraid to jump. We may be afraid of what we'll leave behind... but all we... | 2 |
[WP] Humans can choose how long they will live. Those who choose, however, can never have kids. Those that chose to be immortal are now sworn to protect the last remaining "natural" humans. | [
"*It wasn't supposed to be like this.*\n\n*She, an immortal, was never supposed to have fallen in love with him, a mortal man with a wife and kids.*\n\n*But she had.*\n\n*She was supposed to protect him.*\n\n*But how do you protect the person you love... from yourself?*\n\n~~~\n\nHe held up each tie in turn. \"The ... | 1 | |
[WP] You received a star from the Star Registry as a gift from your grandparents when you were a child. Intelligent life was just discovered on what was thought to be this star. You now are now the owner of this planet by law. | [
"\"Sir, you are in possession of the rights to the star 3 planets to the south. We have just discovered intelligent life on the aforementioned star and we need your permission to experiment.\" \n\nJackson had just woken up to find two scrawny NASA employees pounding on his front door. After fumbling his way out to ... | 2 | |
[WP]The Kingdoms Of Toranda, Book I: The Shattered Amulet Of The Red Warlock | [
"### The Shattered Amulet of the Red Warlock\n\n#### An Adventure for Character Levels 3-5\n\nThis adventure requires the Kingdoms of Toranda^tm supplement to play.\n\nThis adventure takes place in Kvarth, one of the largest cities in the Westernmost Kingdom. Players will be defending the city against the rampagin... | 1 | |
[WP] The Apocalypse strikes and only one group from the old world survives: The UPS, which remains completely committed to delivering mail to every person on earth. | [
"After the end, we never really stopped showing up to work. Coportate never stopped giving us orders, no one stopped showing up. Of course security got tighter, and better. We'd fly from DFW to JFK with 15 MiG 29s, and the drivers had 50 cals on every truck. The fall left us with no competition, so we took up deliv... | 3 | |
[WP] Character is rigid about daily ritual. Been working at company 20 years without having taken sick day or vacation. Has no life to speak of. Then a global catastrophe occurs, but character is a survivor. | [
"“Yes, ma’am, your son is indeed autistic” I remembered hearing through the thin door that barred me from the inside of the doctor’s office. The woman sobbed uncontrollably. “Will we have to send him away?” She asked, although it took her a while to say, what with the uncontrollable sobbing. “No” explained the doct... | 1 | |
[WP] When a person is at their darkest hour someone whose life they saved will appear and aid them as their savior, disappearing once their peril is over. Your savior appeared during a perfectly average workday two weeks ago, and hasn't disappeared yet. | [
"Jim Johnson picks up pieces of dry wall and tiny shards of glass off the carpet in his office.\n\n\"Huh, hows it going buddy. That was neat entrance\"\n\n\"DONT WORRY JIM, IM HERE TO HELP!\"\n\n\"This office is on the 7th floor you know, you must be doing some serious jump -roping lately huh Tommy.\"\n\nTommy surv... | 2 |
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