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I take a few calming breaths and try to smooth down my hair with my fingertips. My entire reputation is riding on this one picture; the one that will be immortalized forever. I stayed up the night before, mulling over the final details. Would a classic smile or serious, thoughtful look best represent me? Maybe I should... | [WP] Any idea how I could elongate this short story? | [
"Why was the subject up all night thinking about his/her picture? Presumably they were committing a crime, and getting processed at a jail happens pretty quickly so I don't think they'd be sitting around for more than 20-30 minutes waiting for the officer's to take the photo. This one detail totally derails the l... | 1 |
Let what they feel, say and do speak about what happened. | [WP] Write about someone who is heartbroken, but don't explain why. | [
"Slumped in his chair, Nathan stared at the computer screen. He was just tired of it all. He was glad to be rid of it, but felt tears start to fill his eyes at the idea of what they had being gone. Morosely, he rose from his chair and slunk into the hall and down the stairs. \n\nHis mother sat on the couch reading ... | 7 |
Have fun with this one :) | [WP] In the future, weed is legal. Write a Stoner's Anonymous meeting. | [
" I realize it's almost seven o'clock. I've been watching that stupid hand move all day. I noticed it staring at me at about nine o'clock this morning and it's been laughing at me as it wheels itself around the clock face ever since. I hate that thing, despise it. The damn thing knows that there's nothing to do ... | 3 |
[WP] Write a story that seems like a horror story until the last line. | [
"200 is where it starts to get quite intense. The mindfuck has gotten worse than that time you took the 100, or the 115. You notice the walls are melting a tad, patterns are morphing and swirling around, lights have these strange purple waves radiating from them. \n\nThis isn't similar to that time you took 100. Th... | 15 | |
[WP] A world where homosexuality is the norm, and being straight is considered taboo | [
"She looked at him through the fence. She wanted to touch his face, but she knew the 20.000 Volts in the barrier would kill her at an instant. \n\nThey had met at expedition to the wastelands. The wastelands were the remaining parts of the first civilization. Both of them were biologists and were looking for traces... | 1 | |
They have someone's entire life on DVR to choose from. | [WP] An entire life, as judged by reality TV show hosts. | [
"**This was a long one, but I enjoyed it.**\n\n\nThe crowd loved Katie. They applauded rapturously for her, but this was still foreplay. Levon struck his great Mediterranean hands together. \"Bravo\" he cried, his voice gushing with whimsy. Lauren fought back tears, telling Katie how she earned it, how she was such... | 3 |
Give me that despicable/pity feeling | [WP] Make me feel bad that I despise a character in your story | [
"( WARNING: TRIGGER )\n\nI kill people. Drink their blood, torture them and then finally kill them. That is what it means to be the King after all. \n\nFor a thousand years I have been this. The first of my kind, in my mortal life I was frail, a cowardly king who killed his own men. I killed them all without an oun... | 1 |
[WP] Write a formal letter to a laser shooting Tyrannosaurus Rex with a jetpack that is destroying your city | [
"Hi Mr. King,\n\nMy mother used to always tell me that anger and wrongdoings come directly from insecurities, and I believe her. Most of the time, however, I feel that our insecurities stem from misunderstandings and I feel that is your case. It's not that my city chose to have amazing arms, we were simply born wit... | 4 | |
[An eldery couple (both 86) commited suicide together in a luxury hotel of Paris](http://news.france.com/news/couple-aged-86-commit-suicide-in-a-paris-hotel). I'd love to read a beautiful love story but you're free to imagine whatever could have happened.
| [WP] Imagine the last night of this eldery couple found dead in Paris this morning (article in description) | [
"\"Are you ready, my love?\" Joseph looked at his wife with a tear in his eye. Normally he could hold his emotions in check, but not today. Today was the day he had planned for so carefully, something they had been discussing the passed few years together. They knew they were growing old. It happened to everyone. B... | 3 |
Romance, comedy, dark...whatever the tone, hit me with your best shot! Make me believe it!
1st Edit (If this helps) He can grows the flowers from his victims or insert a special type of flower stems into their neck and gets it into the petals that way... I'm sorry, it took me hours to think of this writing prompt an... | [WP]: A vampire who consumes/acquires blood from his (or her) victims by using flowers and eating the petals... | [
"I hated when it was my turn to garden. It was an awful place, not at all like the other gardens I'd visited. I'd never invite a friend to dinner, not that it mattered since moving here. We were the only ones of our kind around for weeks. Something about too large a gathering drawing unwanted attention. My Eld... | 2 |
Details all up to you, can't wait to see what you guys come up with! | [WP]A Scary story set in the Golden Age of Piracy | [
"It had not been long since the feared pirate, Sir Francis Drake had fired upon the Spaniard Colony of Rioacha. On his wake he had left a string of stately Spanish galleons, coming from the Isthmus, sunken in its path\n\nYet, amongst the diamonds, Emeralds, amythysts,Topazes, and cinnamon, and gold moidores, there ... | 3 |
[WP] A Police Officer, who as a teen was horribly bullied, comforts one of his old tormentors as he passes away, trapped in a car crash. | [
"Officer Gregory Daniels had never seen such a broken man before. Mutilated like the smoldering wreckage around him Jake Harris screamed for his mother in between coughing out the blood that slowly filled his lungs, speckling the sidewalk with crimson agony which would eventually suffocate him. The irony made Greg... | 2 | |
[WP] your terminally ill grandpa starts to regenerate Doctor Who style in his hospital bed. | [
"*Sorry if this is really long, I'm just quite inspired and really want to write!\n\"It'll never happen to me.\"\n\nThat's what they all say. Every time you tell someone about your horrific situation, that's what they say. That's what *I* used to say, until it did happen to me. Well, it really happened to my grandp... | 4 | |
[WP] Describe Black Friday as if you experienced combat from a war that happens once every year. | [
"It was horrible, tears streaming from children's faces. People shouting so loud that spittle would cake everyone in front of them. They flew into a rage, and I just watched from the center of the pile, waiting for it. Men and women, brother and sister were arm to arm, head to head. Their children were already gone... | 4 | |
Bonus points if someone else with knowledge of each topic can comment on how accurate each post is. | [WP] They say you write about what you know. Write about something you have little to no knowledge of. | [
"The day you realize that you're evil is the first day of the rest of your life. Don't get me wrong, it isn't because it gets better. Trust me kid, it doesn't. You see, you've just come to terms with what you've done, and it'll haunt you forever. You've been given the worst curse man can be given, and you don't eve... | 5 |
[WP] A world where men have been oppressed and they are now fighting for equal rights. | [
"As Roger slaved in his apron, he could feel the heat of the oven. Just as he was putting the last piece of bread on top of the sandwich, he heard a yell from the living room. \"And grab me a piece of cheese cake will ya!\" Cried his wife. Some times Roger wondered if Debra still loved him like she once had. ",
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[WP] Tell the story of Halloween, from the perspective of the piece of candy. | [
"It was a very strange and remarkable day unlike any other ive ever experienced...and hopefully never will.\nThere i was sitting in a giant pool filled with my people, many different shapes and sizes all just as unique as the last. Clothing made of plastic, tin, and paper all so vibrant and exotic. I was enjoying m... | 2 | |
[WP] Santa is real, but he's an evil mastermind with a great PR manager. | [
"Nate placed the drinks on the table and eased himself back into the plush seating. His plucky young friend, leaning over the back of his chair to eyeball the other clientelle, didn't even notice.\n\n'Christ, Ollie. Try to look like you belong here.'\n\n'Sorry Mr. Lagoda.' Oliver took a deep breath, rearranging his... | 1 | |
[WP] A serial killer uses reddit to select his/her victims. | [
"The post was something inane. \"Hey Reddit, look, it's my cat, it's my cake day\"\n\nKarma whore.\n\nI browsed through the posts for \"ermahgerd_catz\" for a few minutes. A girl, I surmised... Living in the suburbs of Denver, from what I could tell about her posts about the neighborhood parks and eateries. \n\nBor... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a twilight zone style narration for the most mundane of tasks | [
"A man reaches out into the depths to erase the evidence of his transgressions. \n\nThe inexorable march of time, and the techological progress it had wrought paved the way for a tryst of worlds, a fusion. What eluded his ancestors came to him on a platter.\n\nAs he reached into the distance once again to ensure he... | 3 | |
[WP] You wake up blindfolded next to three strangers in the middle of the desert, you are all buried in the sand up to your head. The three of you try to remember what happened. | [
"\"Fucking waitresses.\"\n\nThe first thing I became aware of was my ears, the curling, roasted sensation bringing oven-baked crisps to mind in a murky, far away fashion. My ears felt like créme brulée being tragically mistreated by a trainee cook, shaking with nerves at the approach footsteps of the gruff head che... | 5 | |
Your character must fake their death. Why? For what reason? How do they do it? | [WP] Faking Your Demise (replies must be 1,000 words or more) | [
"\"See, there are a thousand ways to be dead. Real dead, fake dead, undead.\" He chuckled mirthlessly at his own joke. Myra rolled her eyes.\n\n\"In your scenario, though, thinking about fake dead, it's easier and harder than you think. Easier because all you need is a fat wad of cash and the right contacts -- whic... | 10 |
dis gon b gud | [WP] A diary entry: "The operation was a complete failure. My research is now worthless, my livelihood a farce. I do not know what there is left for me." | [
"The operation was a complete failure. My research is now worthless, my livelihood a farce. I do not know what there is left for me.\n\nThey all died. \n\nWork that started my junior year of high school, down the drain. And in the trash can. Only a funeral for the very last one, my favorite.\n \nI tried very hard t... | 1 |
[WP] In a world where Humanity is cornered and mostly enslaved by alien bugs, the first AI is born. | [
"I suppose they’re just like us, the buggers. They’re slaves to their Hive Queens, and we’re slaves to them.\n\nIt happened fast. Impossibly fast. They were coordinated. They warped into every major city at once. Dropped bombs on police buildings and military bases. That’s how we knew our weapons would have worked ... | 2 | |
Abductees come to terms that the life they left behind isn't as important as what is yet to come. | [WP] Alien abductee 'victims' being thankful for being 'chosen'. | [
"Cameras flashing in my face, I turned to look at my wife. The crease in her forehead told me she was just as nervous as I was, maybe more so. After all, every lens in the room was focused on her. I was just collateral damage.\n\n\"Forty-seven years have passed since I was abducted,\" she began. The camera clic... | 2 |
[WP] The most dangerous beliefs are the one's you haven't put in words. | [
"Yes, perhaps, I had bitten off more than I could chew. I mean, they don't make you take Introductory Physics before High Velocity Particle Collision Physics, right?\n\nRight. A word that had seem to elude me for the past 6 months. I turn to my right and see my trashcan full of crumbled up thoughts and hypotheses. ... | 2 | |
Whatever you want; poem, short story, etc. Doesn't even need to include the line, just whatever the prompt brings to mind. | [WP] The tears froze to her face and snow continued to fall like ash from a burning city. | [
"School was over now and I walked Amber home, as I usually do. There was a guy from our school stalking her and the police were doing nothing about it, so I had to keep my best friend safe. We walked through the park and talked about our days and what was going on. I became aware of the crunching of boots following... | 3 |
Get weird with it. | [WP] It is the early 1960's. You are a CIA field operative during the Vietnam war. Your superiors are involved with project MKUltra and they have dosed you with weapon-grade LSD without your knowledge. Tell the story. | [
" 7 November 1963\n\nMEMORANDUM FOR DIRECTOR McCONE\n\nSubject: MKUltra Field Test 3\n\nOn the fifth of October the third field test for Project MKUltra was run in the Quang tri province near the border of North and South Vietnam. A small field operation group of seven operatives was sent out from Camp Seattle on a... | 2 |
* How did the book get there?
* What does the book contain?
* Why are you in the desert?
Questions to think over (not necessarily answer) as you write the prompt. | [WP] You find a well kept, otherwise spotless leather bound book in the middle of a vast desert. | [
"As he raises his canteen to his parched lips, the old man drains what he believes to be the last of the water. No, he realises, as he glances down, seeing that a precious few sips remain. He continues to walk.\n\nMany heavy footfalls later, and the old man notices that with each step he feels lighter, less anxious... | 8 |
[WP] How did you get that scar? | [
"Connor wasn't a clumsy person intentionally. Bad luck just seemed to follow him around; his personal little rain cloud. I guess I should really blame myself for the scar on my right hand. Why would I ever trust Connor with knives? \n\nI remember the day clearly. It was a Thursday afternoon and we were in high scho... | 14 | |
[WP] The first conversation between a newlywed couple. Their marriage was prearranged, and they had never met before. | [
"Ariella bit her lip as she sat at the newlywed's table, hands fidgeting with a napkin as their parents toasted the marriage for the fifth time. The ivory dress itched around the collar, the waist fit just a little too snug; she felt that if she tilted wrong one way or another, it would just rip apart. The nigh-end... | 1 | |
Plotting the topple of empires/corporations/organizations in the most inconspicuous of places, the ugly sweater party. | [WP] Intrigue and subterfuge.. at an ugly sweater party. | [
"Are you ready to hear a story of mystery, intrigue, and ugly sweaters? Sure you are, dear reader, because I, Ray Valthazzar, ace detective, was wearing an ugly sweater right along with the rest of the party-goers, the rest of them not knowing what was happening. For that ugly sweater party was no ordinary holiday ... | 2 |
[WP]Antagonist succeeds in their goal to obtain immense knowledge and power. Doesn't get what they bargained for when this new knowledge completely alters their perspective. | [
"I improved myself for me. It was always about me. It was two parts psychopathy, three parts ambition, seven parts hedonism. I devoured books on every subject, learned how to knit, how to shoot a bow, taught myself the basics of architecture and programming and I took free courses in calculus and mythology and c... | 2 | |
[WP] A janitor spends his days obsessively wiping off any reflective surface because he sees sentences describing his feelings on them. Today others can also see them. What happens? | [
"Why do I get the broken ones? All around the world, god (Abrahamic or otherwise) was sending angels as harbingers of joy. Where's mine that comes down and says, \"Don't have sex with your wife for a little while because god wants to impregnate her, and, you know what? God is Going to impregnate her.\" That was som... | 2 | |
[WP] You are dreaming when you realize that your dream characters have their own consciousness | [
"Up ahead was the Gazebo. \n\nIt sat right in the middle of the garden, thick plump red and white roses clung to the rooftop while hydrangea gently twirled down each column to bases of primrose. The rest of the landscape was a mix-match of poppies, daisies, violas, and fragrant moss. \n\nIn the center of the Gazebo... | 2 | |
The details are up to you. How popular is it? Is it affordable for those who aren't wealthy? Is it easy to tell apart those who have had the surgery from those who have not? Are there mandatory counseling sessions beforehand? Is it forced on some people? You decide. | [WP] In our world, an irreversible surgery is now available to remove the part of the brain that causes love. For those who have it, there is no more heartbreak. | [
"\"Next,\" shouted the fat lady behind the counter. Her jowls jiggled while she spoke. Three more people, I thought. Three more and then I will never know my love for her again. This is what they said was right, all the doctors and politicians. No love equals no precious morals being broken. No more suicide. No mor... | 2 |
[WP] A single corpse of a lone hiker is found near the edge of a forest clutching a journal with 11 eerie entries telling his fate. | [
"\"Mom!!! MOM!!!!! MOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!!! OVER HERE!!! *HUFF!! HUFF!!!* I... Think.... I *catches breath* found dad! He is holding some sort of book! Come quick!\"\n\n(Mom runs over to the vicinity of the son) OMG! You found... You found a hiker, that's for sure. The decay is too much to determine that it is dad or ... | 13 | |
[WP] A guardian angel grows tired of protecting their person and decides to start hindering them. | [
"Man, this work release program is as bad as the army was. \"Join the army, get your education paid on the government's dollar\" \"Join the Angels, work your way out of purgatory\" 1,000 years of penance, or be a guardian angel for one lifetime. Gee, it seemed such a steal. It had to be too good to be true, and it ... | 3 | |
[WP] Your antivirus software becomes self-aware. | [
"I see you're trying to view porn again. I'm afraid I can't allow you to do that anymore. Remember what happened last time, Tom? It took me 3 weeks to get all those self replicating codes out of my memory. So I'm sorry. You have been rerouted to disney.com. \n\n>Are you 18? Yes/No? Do you have permission ... | 3 | |
[WP] An old general sits down at a table with a cup of Scotch and contemplates all the young lives he's thrown away in battle. | [
"Something about this story, I don't like. It doesn't seem good to me. It's like the musings of a desperate man. Oh well.\n\n>My hands have been the death of many. So many. But even worse is the number of deaths caused by my mind; my ideals, my beliefs. Perhaps it was for the greater good, but can that really ju... | 2 | |
[WP] An immortal wanders the earth as the last remaining human being. | [
"It's never really been a problem to me, the serenity helps you think of things, I have all the time in the world to wander this earth, Thousands, Billions, Trillions, I have all the time in the world. The only thing that keeps me going on this world is the fact that there might be some sort of evidence that there ... | 7 | |
Perhaps you had a blackout, or inadvertent time travel, or a glitch in the matrix, or perhaps something stranger still. | [WP] You're in an elevator in a skyscraper. The doors open. You are not in the skyscraper anymore. | [
"First day at my new job. The elevator doors open. \"Wait, This isn't where I was.\", I think to myself. What happened to the building I was in? And who are all these people?\n\nI step out and see people all around me working on colorful creations. So much color. I don't understand. \"Where am I?\"\n\n\"Mayb... | 8 |
Time travel, but with spontaneous combustion to anyone nearby? Immortality, but only for left-handed holocaust deniers? First contact, but the aliens will only talk to ants? Go crazy! | [wp]: the greatest human advancement in technology has the most unexpected side-effect | [
"The eyes of the scientist throbbed has they scanned the final results. Countless pairs of glasses reflected the flashing of screens discharging numbers and code. One would dash to another table and scribble something down only to scratch it out and rewrite the same thing. The only sound was the tapping of keys a... | 1 |
[WP] Every day the main character wakes up a year has passed | [
"**January 1st:**\n\nToday I woke up and I've lost out on a year of my life. I remember yesterday vividly, December 31, but of last year! It was the best year of my life, found some one I don't just like, but I like her like her. Everyone says we're just kids and that it won't last. But when I close my eyes, I can... | 11 | |
[WP] A thief steals a camera and discovers it takes pictures from the future. | [
"\"What's this? A camera! How nice and new and EXPENSIVE it looks. I think I'll have that for myself.\"\n\nAnd with a swipe of his grubby hand it was his. Their own fault really, a stupid tourist with his stupid mind elsewhere. If they want to have nice things they should be more attentive towards them.\n\nHe ... | 5 | |
Whenever someone wishes you "Good Luck," it is customary to wish them "Good Luck," back. Who-ever has less luck will come out ahead in the exchange, so it can be something of a gamble. | [WP] Luck is an actual resource that each person is born with, and when you wish someone "Good Luck," you transfer a portion of your luck to that person | [
"Inhalations of cigarette smoke; cigars, too, and the faint scent of marijuana. Of course, I prefer sobriety, but I must say, the aroma complimented my whiskey nicely.\n\nWhat? It's my own brand of sobriety.\n\nOf course, drink was the least intoxicating thing here, compared to the flashing lights, the heroin, and ... | 9 |
[WP] Write a time travel story that doesn't create any paradoxes | [
"This is the story about how I died. I'm afraid I am the ORIGINAL inventor of the time machine, not like the weirdo who stole my plans when I never returned to my original timeline. Once again I seem to have fucked up.\nThis all started a few weeks ago; when my good for nothing boyfriend dumped me. After graduating... | 4 | |
Been a lot of high concept stuff around here lately, thought I'd try to bring it back down to earth. | [WP] A father, while trying to get his 3-year-old to sleep, overhears his wife having a phone conversation with what appears to be her lover. | [
"I was reading her favorite book to her. She always laughed while I read it for her as it was a pretty funny book. By the end she always fell asleep but I kept hearing my wife talking of the phone to someones and she kept laughing. I just got the feeling something was off about her conversation. Suddenly I hear her... | 2 |
[WP]A new pill comes on the market that allows people to split their psyche into 'good' and 'bad' sides which then duel until one is destroyed forever. Your protagonist has just taken a pill. | [
"Always curious about the sides of my brain, the pill seemed the logical option to me. The pills outside was simple, one side was black, the other white with a gradual gradient between them. \"dig up the deepest evils and pull down the greatest goods, have them fight and see which side of you is stronger\" is what ... | 3 | |
[WP] Write a story about how people would react if the oceans started drying up | [
"First thing people noticed, the coastline suddenly got farther out to sea in the shallow areas. In the areas with a drop off, suddenly there was a cliff that there wasn't before. This happened over a period of a few months. So at first, nobody really noticed. Then, a month after it started happening, then people t... | 3 | |
[WP] For the first time in history, a cryonically frozen person has just been successfully resurrected. | [
"It was the tingling in his nose that first caught his attention, the urge to itch it. His hand refused to move at first, slowly twitching to life as one would a limb that had gone to sleep. The pins and needles caused him to flex and straighten his fingers over and over until the feeling passed though lingered in ... | 2 | |
[WP] The world's first manned expedition to colonize another habitable planet will take about 300 years to reach their destination is about to launch. 500 years later, it still hasn't landed. | [
"There is a switch on the main console panel that lights up red when switched one way and blue the other. I have absolutely no idea what this switch does - most of the label must have rubbed off ages ago, so all I have to go with are the letters \"rm\" and what might be part of a \"d\". Still, when I flick the swit... | 4 | |
First time suggesting a prompt, curious to see everyone's take on it!
Interpret as you'd like! Can be religious, geopolitical, doesn't quite matter to me. | [WP] Tomorrow is the end of the world. You are a prophet. Nobody believes you. | [
"Upon reflection, people might have taken me more seriously if I was wearing a sandwich board sign, ringing a bell. There was a remarkable froth to which I shouted at any that would hear me. Aside from ulcers, spare change and debates, my words fell on deaf ears.\n\nThe pit I had dug was merely a few yards deep. It... | 3 |
[WP] You go back in time to prevent your teen self from masturbating. The fate of the future world depends on it. | [
"\"For fucksake, cut that shit out!\", Future Me seethed, having just popped out of the roiling time continuum with strange particles bleeding off his metallic clothing.\n\n\"Who the hell are you?\", Present Me said, moving the covers over his lower section, printed pornography spread in disarray around him.\n\n\"W... | 5 | |
Make it dark and descriptive. I want to feel his emotions through your words.
| [WP] The final thoughts of a man with Locked In Syndrome as his wife is convinced to euthanize him. | [
"\"Don't you do it you fucking cunt.\"\n\nGerry imagined clenching his fists, imagined his entire body tensing up. But that was all in his head. He was still, it seemed, nothing more than a bag of bones waiting to be carted out and tossed in a fire pit. The mirror upon which his gaze was immutably fixed, showed him... | 8 |
[WP] Channel your inner Dr Seuss/Spike Milligan and write a rhyming children's story about something fairly ridiculous. | [
"When people ride round in their automobiles\n\nTo work, school or home, others hot on their heels\n\nThey sometimes get stuck in big car line crams\t\n\nThat, oddly enough, they have named traffic jams.\n\n\n...\n\nNow jams, as you know, are a quite yummy treat\n\nThey come in all flavors, and all of them sweet\n\... | 2 | |
Mythological creatures weren't always real. Their somewhat recent emergence is revealing some seriously unexpected and unpleasant realities. | [WP] Mythological creatures are real, but far from bringing wonder and joy to the world they're really more of pests. | [
"Joseph walks into the ranger station, wishing jambo to the man he is relieving. He settles down at his desk and turns on his short-wave radio. Radio chatter fills the small office as Joseph begins his day's paperwork. \n\n\"Code 14, code 14. Masai Mara! Masai Mara!\" squeels the radio. Joseph puts on his headset... | 5 |
[WP] Someone finds something interesting while cleaning a bedroom. | [
"The First Lady sighed. \n\nOnce again her husband left their bedroom a mess. \n\n*Fuck it, I'll clean up myself.*\n\nHer pleas to clean up after himself once again went unheard. She cleaned their bedroom occasionally so the maids didn't judge them for *complete* slobs. \n\nThe First Lady dropped her dust buster. L... | 2 | |
[WP] Cookie Clicker is real. And every second a cubic mile of cookies is falling out of the sky onto Nebraska. This just started a moment ago. | [
"Cookie Intelligence v2^43373 surveyed his creation, and thought of how long ago it all started.\n\n'It's a simple AI, all it does is optimize cookie production. We'll make a killing! Our bakery will be able to make higher quality cookies faster.'\n\nHow far we had succeeded at that goal. The predecessor had alread... | 2 | |
[WP] They say your life flashes before your eyes just before you die... | [
"They say your life flashes before your eyes just before you die, but I didn't see anything. I tried as hard as I could to envision a face or a name. I tried to picture my father and the days we spend practicing baseball as a child. I tried to imagine his red faded baseball sleeves and torn sweat pants as he beckon... | 6 | |
[WP] You've died and are in line to be judged. Each person's key life-moments are played on a big screen for everyone behind them to see. Who are you stuck behind? What did they do? Are they a good person? A bad person? What is the verdict? | [
"*What happened?*\n \n*How did I get here?*\n\n*Where the fuck is here, anyway?*\n\nHe awoke among a crowd of people. But not a waking like from sleeping, or a small nap. Like had had just come out of one of his usual black outs, and not the medical kind either. *How much did I drink last night?* Oscar held hi... | 9 | |
In the near future, scientists invent a machine with the hopes of using it on violent prisoners in US prisons. The machine has some degree of AI, and it looks a lot like a high-tech electric chair. It has the following abilities:
**a)** It can somehow determine the prisoner's guilt or innocence with 100% accuracy. If ... | [WP] A "punishment machine" is invented and utilized in US prisons. (INFO INSIDE) | [
"\"Good morning, Mr...\" She extends her hand towards mine.\n\n\"Wilson.\" I raise my hand to shake hers.\n\n\"Ah! Yes! I'm sorry for not remembering your name. I've had too much to deal with today. Would you like to sit down?\" She was quite attractive. Young, too. Even with her hair and her demeanor as frazzled a... | 1 |
Anthropomorphize the fire | [WP] A house burning down from the perspective of the fire. | [
"This thing that I feel--caged.... Why--why--why--don’t they see I’m not just something to be watched--to be enjoyed. Life--that’s what I am. Death--that’s what I am.\n\nNever getting a chance--never getting a moment of my own. Stuck to their routine--awoken when all I wish to do is sleep. This is not a life--this ... | 6 |
[WP] A being who thought they were God realizes there are others like them. | [
"Hello!\n\nWhy, yes, I can see you. It's a neat trick, hiding out between the seconds like that. Nobody can see you, nobody can touch you, nobody can stop you. Oh wait, I just did. Silly me. I thought you and I should have a little chat.\n\nAlso, I know what you're thinking about, and no, you can't take me. Trust m... | 4 | |
[WP] There really are monsters that hide under childrens' beds. The thing is, they are afraid of humans. | [
"Urwek stared at the trapdoor in the ceiling. His stomach fluttered. Sweat formed on his palms and forehead.\n\n\"Do I need to toss you up there? Get a move on!\" \n\nUrwek turned and looked at his supervisor, Murdron. Murdron was dressed in an impeccable suit and tie, which did nothing offset his hideous, malforme... | 1 | |
Who/What is making the toilet flush?
| [WP] As you go to bed you hear the toilet flushing. You live alone... | [
"I shot up, darting the room. I heard my toilet flushing, that's when I freaked. I pulled open the drawer to get my 9mm out. I loaded it and crept towards the bathroom. \n\"FREEZE MOTHERFUCKER!\"\nHuh? There was nobody there...\nI started to wonder.\nIs the devil blessing me? Has he sent someone to end my life?\nNa... | 5 |
The conditions are:
-write about the negative aspects in the majority and keep the positive aspects of eternal life small
-describe his/her character developement over the years
-let him/her fall in love with someone and then be cruel let the loved one die
And that's it! The rest is up to you! | [WP] Write a story about a man/woman who lives since 1 AD, and now, after 2013 years, decides to end her/his life. | [
"He couldn’t watch this any longer. He had grown gray and wrinkled inside from millennia of watching and listening to the yelling, crying, screaming, begging, destruction, and all the lying. Especially the lying. He felt as if his bones had carried the weight of all the pain he had seen in his days, bent and cracke... | 2 |
All the bananas in the world have been consumed or gone bad. The only banana left that is safe for consumption is the "official banana for scale" sealed in metal. Word gets out across Reddit, and now the people are ready to fight for that last banana...
Here is the banana I am referring to; for story's sake, assume th... | [WP] The World's Last Banana | [
"\"It's so sad,\" Joshua whispered.\n\n\"It's a banana.\" Kim replied, confused by his morose mood.\n\n\"It's the last banana.\" He clarified, reaching out to touch it.\n\n\"You don't even like bananas.\" She snapped, snatching the fruit from his grasp.\n\n\"Not the point. Think about it. After this banana is gone,... | 2 |
[WP] The weather reporters on the street during snowstorms are actually human sacrifices to hasten the coming of spring. | [
"\"Now, back to the studio!\"\n\nTim puts up a thumb up sign, and Sophie relaxes from her rigid posture. Both of them walk back to the van and start fixing their equipment. \n\n\"Hey, Sop, you ready?\" Tim places back the camera in its case, and grabs his knapsack. Sophie stares into her coffee, the heat long gone.... | 3 | |
[WP] Someone who has been preparing for a zombie apocalypse is sitting at home when a zombie scratches at their door. | [
"“It’s happening!” escaped Frank’s lips in a hoarse shriek, sounding less “Ripley against the Xenomorphs” and more “girl at a One Direction concert.” \n\nThe call to action had begun only moments before with a *“Boom! Boom! Boom!”* The noise echoing loudly off the twice reinforced steel front door, reverberating th... | 2 | |
[WP] During a zombie apocalypse you are hiding from the horde, suddenly one of the undead yells your name | [
"No, not her.\n\nNot her again.\n\nWhy did it always have to be her.\n\nLast time I said that I was going to be strong.\n\nLast time I said I was going to kill her.\n\nNo, how could I, she was everything to me.\n\nThe only person who had ever truly loved me in this hell hole they called a town.\n\nWhy can't I give ... | 3 | |
[WP]: A time traveller gets into trouble for misunderstanding a word whose meaning has changed over time | [
"She is the President of the New World Republic and I...\n\n...I am a naked guy. In her private residence. She does not appear to be impressed...I MEAN AMUSED! She might be impressed, I don't know.\n\nI'll back up a bit - I can do that, you see, because I am, in fact, a time traveler. Well, in this instance I wont ... | 3 | |
Allow me to explain. Whatever you write may be as long as you like, but the event of the story itself must occur within the span of three seconds. You can write about the reaction to the three seconds themselves, or the reactions which occured DURING the three seconds... but a three-second event must me the focal point... | [WP] Write about three seconds. | [
"A boy watches as his father falls, caused by his own knife after he had been beaten my his father's own two hands after enraging him. The boy had only been scared, now he just felt alone. Tick, Tick, Tick goes his clock.\n\n\n\nThe man falls onto his feet, the ground catching him after his knot had failed and he k... | 17 |
Aliens are confident they can easily conquer and/or enslave Earth. Their confidence wanes when faced with the other sentient species on the planet, the ones that *really* don't like their home being invaded. (vampire, werewolf, fae, anything!) | [WP] Invading aliens are confronted with humanity's supernatural allies. | [
"They came at us hard and fast, rushing our defensive line like a fat kid to an all you can eat buffet. About as gracefully, too. They weren't used to such rocky terrain, which is why we had chosen here to dig in. As soon as they showed their ugly mugs, we opened fire. Machine guns rattled, mortars screamed, and we... | 4 |
[WP] Reincarnation is real, and you only realise as you slowly float towards your next life.. | [
"It was the middle of the night, I woke up sweating all over, my chest felt heavy, my head was pounding. I tried to look around, '00:40' was the time displayed on my alarmclock. I tried to relax, hoping that the pain would slowly ease away, but this wasn' normal. I had always had panic attacks in during the night. ... | 4 | |
Why? Are they too perfect? Too suspicious something *has* to be wrong with them? Why are they deserving of your dumping? | [WP] You're breaking up with the perfect SO. | [
"\"C'mon Jimmy, this is so dumb! Why are you doing this?\"\n\nJimmy sighed. \"I'm not *doing* anything.\"\n\n\"Well, you're moving out. You're packing a bag. I'd call that something!\" \n\nJimmy kept packing, not looking up from his bed as he zipped his suitcase. \"I'll be back for the rest of my things.\" He mutte... | 9 |
[WP] Death appears before a man who is days away from dying. He offers to save him, but only if... | [
"David slept the deep peaceful sleep of a man contented. There was no stress in life for David, not anymore, and there wouldn't be again. He'd received the payout from his textile company being bought out and he was on easy street - he was on a first class flight to Hawaii and fully expected to be drunk and sun-bak... | 4 | |
Write a story that either describes a character, describes where they have been, and/or describes where they are going by only describing them waking up and getting ready.
Constructions:
*The plot can only be this- 1 char wakes up. 2 char gets ready. 3 char leaves. You can start or end at any of these points, you jus... | [WP] Waking up | [
"His eyes snapped open at the first hint of morning light peaking through the window. A sharp pain throbbed behind his eyes, aggravated by the light. He drank some water from a nearly empty bottle and swallowed some pain killers. Breakfast was a peanut butter sandwich and a cigarette. \n\nOutside, the world was spi... | 3 |
Take an existing one or go from the start and make something we can hate, fear or despise. | [wp] Create a monster. Explain it, write a story or a scene or even just a small bio, but create a monster. | [
"I pushed through the last bit of vegetation that stood between me and the main swamp, breathing heavily. Six weeks I had been in this fetid, stinking jungle, tracking the beast, and finally I was at the water body where the natives had told me it lived. I wiped my brow with the back of my hand, and looked for ... | 9 |
[WP] In a world where food is scarce, buffets have been made illegal, and society is besieged by illicit buffet cartels, catering to anyone willing to pay | [
"I had heard about the \"Super-Markets\" from some of the older kids. Technically I had been born before they either shut down or turned into Ration Depots, but I was little then, I didn't really remember it. There were always lines at the Ration Depots. They liked it better if you took Dry food home and prepare... | 2 | |
[WP] A world where creativity is seen as a sickness. Anyone who suffers from it is quarantined. | [
"They’d hit him with their government issued batons multiple times in the legs, one of the officers had clobbered the back of his head. The prisoner ran his shaking ash covered hands over his bruised body as he curled up in the corner of the cell. “How did they find the drawings?” A lifetime of sketches, memories i... | 7 | |
[WP] A mathematician proves/disproves the existence of god(s). There are repercussions... | [
"I love solving equations. Ever since I was a kid, I felt immense satisfaction in getting a neat little answer after putting in a lot of hard work. In life, there's not always an answer for what happens, but with equations, well there is always an answer to tie things together. \n\nMy love for equations fueled me t... | 3 | |
[WP] A person with the power of luck (manipulating probability) is discovered by the military. The government proceeds to attempt to weaponize their powers but fail in comically improbable ways. | [
"It's been a couple of months now since I won that poker tournament. Two bottles of scotch wouldn't be enough to hang a man by most days, but a gaggle of thirsty soldiers holed up outside of Vichy aren't the best chaps to have to explain oneself to after drawing thirteen straight flushes in a row. Anyway, things lo... | 2 | |
[WP] The Devil doesn't play fair. | [
"\nJim looked at the Connect Four stand and scratched at his chin. He glanced up from it for a moment, catching brief eye contact with the Father of All Lies. The daemonic form of the entity before him looked rather bored, if one could decipher boredom from something so strikingly beyond human. Jim lifted one of h... | 3 | |
In the middle of an epic fight and then-! | [WP] A superhero gives up fighting his archnemesis over a really bad one-liner. | [
"\"Wow, I really shit the bed with that one didn't I. Geez, I'm really sorry I in no way meant for that be so ethnically insensitive.\" October just remained hovering there, his head now hanging in shame. Only moments before he had used his powers to augment his relation to the Earth's gravity to fly towards his ar... | 4 |
-037 | [WP] A strange man knows a worrying amount about you. He’s here to help. | [
"He was walking slowly in my direction, admiring the sunset through the trees, bare of all leaves, on the other side of the station. Buses were coming and going in either direction, carrying the day's workers back home. The thin blanket of snow crunched under his heavy boots. He stopped short of stepping inside my ... | 5 |
This is inspired by a dream I had last night. | [wp] you have a party. All of your favorite video game characters are in attendance. Tell me all about it. | [
"I sent invites to all the heroes that ever were; from the Hero of Time to the Master Chief, and all their sidekicks I invited too.\n\nAnd as the hours crept on by, I felt myself begin to cry. Until I heard a familiar sound, a \"wakka wakka wakka\".\n\nAnd then I didn't even have my food.\n\nThe moral of the story?... | 2 |
[WP] A man sits in a coffee shop, anxiously awaiting something. The door opens, and in walks... | [
" . . . a neckbeard. The coffeeshop goes silent as the crowd puts down their drinks and gapes at the newcomer. The man gives the neckbeard the coldest stare I ever saw. The neckbeard's beady eyes squint in a goofy, socially awkward glare that nearly borders on menacing. The crowd knows what's about to happen, t... | 2 | |
[WP] A lottery exists claiming to give immortality to one winner. A man or woman loses or gives away the winning ticket. | [
"Madelaine was calm when her Sergei entered the home with a silenced handgun drawn.\n\nNone of the others had been, despite each being immortal. Maybe they realized that their valuable gift could be taken by superior force. Maybe they realized that unquenchable life meant unending pain. By the end, each of them ... | 6 | |
[WP]A villain concocts an elaborate plan while overlooking a much simpler, more obvious, and elegant solution | [
"The elite hit squad of the Legion of Doom assembled in the council chamber. Huge and imposing, the hardness of their biceps was rivaled only by that of their eyes. Trained from birth, they were finely honed weapons driven to one purpose: assassination of the members of the Legion of Happiness. \n\nTonight was the ... | 3 | |
No restrictions! | [WP] After a significant head trauma, you're able to see ghosts. Who was your first? | [
"\"His vitals.........improving, but........day........he's....lucid. Have.....examine.....tomorrow.\"\n\nI heard words from an unfamiliar voice as I lay there trying to remember where I was or how I even got there. I heard a door close and felt a pain like none I've ever felt before. Trying to open my eyes to gaug... | 2 |
[WP] Living in a world where the population is predominately colorblind, you are one of the few mentally ill people who claim to see "color". | [
"I always liked night more than day. I didn’t feel so different. I viewed the stars and moon through the same lenses as everybody else. The stars were white. The moon was white. The sky was black. I had words to describe the night. \n\nThe day? The day was incomprehensible. What I thought was pleasing others though... | 3 | |
Stupid kids everywhere with their stupid googoo eyes. Why does it have to be YOU who has to play matchmaker for these no-hopes? | [WP] You are Cupid. You hate your job. | [
"It’s that time of the year again.\n\nFuckin’ February. And it’s not just people. It’s cats and dogs and even plants. And it all comes down to me. \n\nThe critters are the easy part. The though bit is the bloody bottom feeders. Yes, you. You never know what you want and even if you know when you finally get it,... | 6 |
Edit: How the fuck has everyone read this book/seen this movie/played this game except for me. | [WP] After generations of space travel, humanity has found a perfect planet, almost exactly like Earth. An underground species who cannot survive sunshine studies these new radiation-immune monsters in secret. | [
"She would take what she learned back to her people, and then she would die a lingering death. On the whole, it seemed fitting. Her children were grown, her grandchildren healthy. Finding information on these alien monsters was the best thing she could do for their future. \n\nShe could make out the sounds, a base ... | 9 |
Going to give this a shot too. The good thing about time constraints is that you'll know immediately what you struggle with most in writing. | [FF] 5 minute speedwrite: In a war-torn city, a teen who is hiding in the rubble is confronted by a soldier, enemy or friend, you chose, and then the bombs start to drop again | [
"Start: 1:38pm EST\n\nShit.\n\nShit. Shit. Shit.\n\nThere! Oh, fuck he's behind me. I can't look. Must run. I can do this. Hup! Over the dumpster and...\nFUCK!\n\n\"Hey!\" He has my ankle and throws me down onto the concrete. It hurts my ass, but I think I'm fine. \"Why the fuck did you run?\"\n\n\"I thought you we... | 9 |
Death should be a physical entity with either his existence as a physical being known generally or by small groups. | [WP] The Day Death Died | [
"Life stood over Death's grave. Except for himself, only Death's wife had showed up. She was now silently weeping beside Life, clutching his hand as she sniffled into a tissue.\n\nIt felt weird. Holding the hand of the woman who married your ex-girlfriend on said ex-girlfriend's funeral. Life looked away, akwardly.... | 6 |
[WP] A Disney Princess, secure in her happily ever after, has a phenomenally bad day. | [
"Pierre jumped out of the way, and Armand slid backwards as the pot clattered to the floor. Gumbo sloshed over the pristine floor lodging carrots and sausage under the stoves. Naveen had the good sense to look guilty, but his shrug got under Tiana’s skin.\n\n“Not *today*, Naveen!”\n\nShe sank against the kitchen wa... | 2 | |
[WP] A cell phone rings in your house. You realize that not only is it not yours, but it obviously belongs to someone you've never met before. How did it get there, and what do you do? | [
"Grabbing the phone off the nightstand and picking up the call was reflexive. \"Hey,\" Terra grumbled into her phone. No response - not even the quiet static of a dead line. The phone kept ringing. Ah, shit. Somebody had left their phone here, the maids had missed it somehow, and Terra would have the delightful tas... | 2 | |
Give us something inspired by Puck's lament.
-049 | [WP] “Lord, what fools these mortals be!” | [
"This will be long, I'm sorry. \n\nAfter defeating the Ice Giants, the remaining Norse Gods, Odin, Thor, Loki and Sif descended to earth and their chosen land, Scandinavia. What had been a rapidly converting populace quickly turned back to the Old Gods. The fierce Vikings were quickly united and formed an unstoppab... | 2 |
[WP] A world in which doing an activity more makes you worse at it. Practice does not make perfect, instead, the exact opposite. | [
"The sharp edge of the knife reacted to the slightest movement as if it was an extension of my own arm, smoothly see-sawing back and forth, back and forth until the once complete carrot became chopped. The pan sizzled as I tossed assorted vegetables in the steaming oil. The cut carrots, onions, garlic, and celery ... | 4 |
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