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An ordinary man gets roped into a grand conspiracy, and finally meets with the men behind it all. What happens? | [WP] "Your role in this plan was a blank canvas on which you could paint your future. We merely gave you the brush." | [
"With abject horror I witnessed it all. Through the course of time with terror I watch it all begin to consume itself.\n\nOnce loving strokes -- strokes created with tender care and creative thinking -- had turned and consumed. Its gaping maw was never full, its hunger never satiated. \n\nIn the matter of millen... | 1 |
[WP] A eulogy for a hated person. | [
"Samuel. What should I say about you? What would anyone say about you? You came and you went, and none too soon if I do say so myself. Oh, pipe down. Do not fuck with a life. Do not tell me to fuck with the story of someone's life. It's all we have, and it's sure as hell all *he* had. Would you all wish som... | 1 | |
[WP] "I looked at the Orion. It looked like you." Write a love story. | [
"pre.p.s.: I love this prompt. I don't know there aren't many other replies.\n\n-\n\nIt was a long before I began to feel drowsy. The Sky hadn't taken its toll on me. I suppose the vaccine was working; I hoped it was working, but hope can always be just as deadly. So here I am, drugged up on Sleep so I can sleep. T... | 2 | |
What? You want more stipulations? That's the whole prompt. | [WP] By a random happen stance, the alter ego of a super hero ends up dating the alter ego of their direct super villain. | [
"7 years ago, the event called Pandemonium struck and seemingly ordinary human beings gained enormous powers.Some found the gift as a calling, as a responsibility that was bestowed on them from a greater being for a greater purpose. Most, were just trying to further their own agendas. Suddenly, superheroes and sup... | 1 |
#INCLUDE anything.h | [WP] A thrilling story with a twist ending, but written in a programming language of your choice. | [
" // \n // Log key events and echo everything once the story concludes.\n // \n window.logging = true;\n if (!window.jQuery)\n throw \"Someone left out a bloody library. Guess which! Or just, um, Ctrl+F for this exception within story.js\");\n // \n // Add method for firing ranged weapon.... | 1 |
[WP] - A woman is the only person working the night shift at the city morgue, when suddenly she hears a banging from one of the caskets. | [
"Most people say that they wouldn't choose a job in a morgue but here I am and it's almost four in the morning. It's not like I like dead people or got this creepy thing for morbid stuff but if I light a joint right now, no one's going to complain. It's fairly laid back and not too bad a job working at the morgue i... | 4 | |
first time posting here, I just thought of what would go through my head if I was in orbit and watched as everything on earth was evaporated. | [WP] Astronauts in orbit on the ISS watch a 10km asteroid impacting earth. | [
"From here, Earth looks as breathtaking as it ever has. Normally a hectic mix of blue and white intermingled with one another, it's turned now to an exotic dance of reds and yellows, splashed like an abstract painting across the globe. Where there was once a familiarity, everything now looks different. It's refresh... | 5 |
Thought I'd put a small twist on things. Basically a narrative with creativity in what things, small or big, made your day worth writing about. | [WP] Put me in your shoes. Tell my why today is special. | [
"This is the twilight of men's retail and rental: right after the Christmas season, right before three solid months of kids and their parents hogging the store for prom rentals. The ironic thing about your schedule is that those months are when the full-timers get a lot of their vacation hours, but they aren't allo... | 3 |
[WP] A man is permanently invisible, and immortal | [
"Would it be any help if I told you the universe *was* put here for the sole benefit of Man?\n\nThe *creator* wanted to make a place where we could relax for a lifetime - abundant with food and places to explore.\n\n*Create*-d a sun for warmth and plants for food and animals for scenery.\n\n*Consider*-ed then, why ... | 2 | |
See TwitchPlaysPokemon | [WP] A thousand voices control you | [
"I've been here before. Well, one of us has.\n\nI'm complete this time, I'm in control off all of us for once.\n\nI left her teddy bear here when I was her, when we were her and lost. He had the legs but she always gets the mind, she never understands and only wants us to have toys. He runs, she cries, I fight, and... | 2 |
* At what point do we send firearms in to space, and why? *
* What makes two opposing sides decide to shoot at each other? In space!? *
* How would such a battle even play out? *
And such and such. Good luck! | [WP] Write about the very first battle to occur in space as realistically as you can. | [
"Dale propelled him self towards Karen's muffled screams. He froze in the framed entrance to the kitchen area. Clark stood behind her, pinning her in place against the sink, pulling her head back by her golden hair and thrusting into her. Droplets of blood floated from her swollen face as she sobbed in pain. Clark ... | 7 |
[WP] Tell us a story about your favorite childhood toy. | [
"Hi. I’m “SOFT STUFFED CAT, BLACK/WHITE #328-4-676K”, but Mike calls me Zip. I’ve been with him for almost 15 years now. Before Mike’s mommy bought me for him, life was so depressing. Watching all the other units get purchased for little boys and girls, seeing them get hugged and kissed and loved…but not me. I... | 4 | |
I don't care how good it is, how bad it is (which none of them will be), long, short, poem, story. Write for me that one piece you've had stuck in your head. You know the one I'm talking about. If its just an idea right now, type of the premises of it, like the back of a book or an idea you're pitching. Maybe its the b... | [WP] Write for me that one piece that you've always wanted to write. | [
"Kada had been sitting inside the tiny, freezing, dark interrogation room for over seventeen hours awaiting what was to come next. The Private Military Organization who built and owned her were only able to cover up so much of their tracks, The elite group of soldiers (Zero Breaker) she fought with are now dead or... | 8 |
[WP]A young man sees his parents, for the first time in years, at a family member's wedding. | [
"The driftless region of Wisconsin is the region that the glaciers of the last ice age never touched. Knolls rise and fall steeply and recede into the Mississippi River. Kenny grew up here, in an old American foursquare on top of a blustery hill. Whenever he came back he felt driftless. \n\nAfter college, Kenny too... | 3 | |
[WP] As a young boy, he stole something. He then spent the rest of his life trying to return it. | [
"He didn't want to take it. But he was despirate. Hungry, cold and alone. He'd planned to sell it for a cheap $50 to the local slummy pawn shop. The woman he'd taken the ring from looked so weary, so old and tired, though she couldn't have been older than 35. She wasn't poor, financially atleast, based off of how s... | 12 | |
I saw this on my front page and would love to see what you guys come up with.
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/20e88q/i_am_a_criminal_sentenced_to_exile_in_australia/ | [WP] I am a criminal sentenced to exile in Australia in the year 1800. After disembarking from the transport ship, what can I expect my life to be like? (x-post /r/askhistorians) | [
"\"Alright ye penny pinchers, chimney sweeps, bastards, heathens, worthless dogs, scurvy curs and limey tarts - exit the vessel in an orderly fashion and report to ye housing administrator at once. Half of ye will be carted to Bathurst because we believe there'll be gold there somewhere, maybe. The other half of ye... | 1 |
[WP] Write a horror story where all the victims are traditional horror story villains and the monster is the black guy who always dies first. | [
"John \"Leatherface\" Huntsman's life flashed across his eyes as he ran across the corridor of the long abandoned school. Passing through the lockers brought back memories he had tried to suppress all his life. With each step he took, the dust that had settled over the decades rose up and filled the corridor, defin... | 2 | |
Your story must be 100 words. No more, no less. Use the title "The orders to eliminate yourself" as the inspiration. | [FF] 100 words precisely - The orders to eliminate yourself | [
"A contract to kill myself. It was perfect. Finally, a chance to challenge the best assassin in the business.\n\nI never saw me coming. I pressed the muzzle of the gun to my temple, but I hesitated when I heard myself begging for mercy. It was unprofessional, but for some reason I sympathized with this man. I told ... | 17 |
This happened to me this past Saturday. The table next to them got up and moved out of that section. I know how I would have liked to deal with them. How would you do it? I'll post mine below. | [WP] You're at a restaurant and there are three guys who are overly rowdy and ruining the experience for everybody. Tell me how you deal with them. | [
"You only turn twenty five once. My girlfriend turned twenty five this past Saturday. We had a nice night planned. She had to work that day, so I built her present while she was gone. When she came home, her face lit up brighter than any of the lights we'd be seeing out on the town that night.\n\nWe were going to h... | 2 |
[WP] You explain the concept of 'Rageblading' | [
"They say the blade is the extension of ones own being. In Talmasca, the land of the blade, that is for certain. For centuries, Talmasca has been in civil war. The country has been split up by moral code. The concept of rageblading frightens many; blademasters of old still gasp at its tremendous power. Since it is ... | 2 | |
[WP] The year is 3014. Earth is protected by a sub-race of humans called Elementalists, humans that can bend the elements to their will, from raiding aliens looking for a valuable material within Earth's core. | [
"Water. Earth. Fire. Air. My grandmother used to tell me stories about the old days, a time of peace when the Avatar kept balance between the Water Tribes, Earth Kingdom, Fire Nation, and Air Nomads. But that all changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar mastered all four elements. Only he could stop t... | 3 | |
Over on /r/wtf I saw a terrible image of razor blades being glued all over a children's playground (http://i.imgur.com/XmGVGTb.jpg). One suggestion is that only a deeply delusional or disturbed mind could do this act. I don't mean to downplay the nature of this crime but instead to explore the twisted psychological sta... | [WP] A woman discovers she has committed an atrocious act. | [
"\"I didn't mean to!\"\n\nIn that moment she seemed so young. So innocent. How could she, she of all people, have done this? As I watched the tears from her eyes I almost didn't want to do it. I almost wanted to let her go. Tell her to go home. Take care of the children.\n\nAnd then I remembered what she had done.\... | 2 |
Scratch, scratching, scratches and any similar words are all off limits!
No references to what rap artists do to vinyl records either :p
| [WP] Describe the feeling of itchiness without ever using the word or referring to the idea/action of scratching | [
"I don't know what's wrong with me. I get this tingly feeling sometimes on random parts of my body. It's vaguely unpleasant and I always feel like I need to do *something* about it, but I have no idea what. Sometimes it feels like a hundred ants are crawling all over me and I just want to brush them all away. Other... | 4 |
What does he say? How do you feel? | [WP] Your best friend finds your journal, which is filled with incriminating evidence against you. | [
"It was a mistake. \n\nThere it was underneath the covers of his sheets, the tip of a mahogany-brown leather spine protruded out just barely. I could almost smell the aged paper, the oily black ink within. \n\nIt did not matter what was written inside, only the fact that it exists was enough to incriminate us both.... | 3 |
[WP] Make me pee: A challenge to write the most gut-bustingly hilarious story possible | [
"There are many moments of fear in our lives. There are countless ways and opportunities for us to be scared out of our pants every single day. But NONE of them are even remotely as gut-wrenchingly terrifying as the moment you're driving alone, unarmed, and see a spider crawling across your windshield.\n \n\nParaly... | 12 | |
[WP] Your whole modern life is a lucid dream. Now you wake up into real life, the Middle Ages. | [
"I sat in my chair, the light dimly reflecting off the screen of my slightly worn laptop, trying to find the words to put down what I'd been thinking for so long. *Christ, how am I gonna get this essay done?* My eyelids feel heavy from the sleep I'd deprived myself of for so long in order to meet a deadline that wo... | 9 | |
[WP] Zombies trapped you in the room you are currently in, and you need to MacGyver an escape from the things in the room. | [
"Lets see what I have...electric guitar and amplifier? Zombies aren't known to succumb to half arsed off the cuff solos. Maybe I could use it as a weapon but would it be strong enough? What if I used it to smash out my window, get down on top of the conservatory and make a leap for the fence? It's worth a try...\n\... | 3 | |
[WP] A villain seeks to prove that he is worthy of the title 'Supervillain.' | [
"\"You know I grew up in this city too.\"\n\nThe masked figure practically spat the statement. Nervously pacing about the room, he continued with his speech throwing in the occasional pantomiming for effect.\n\n\"And that is how I came to find myself here. The harbinger of change. You might not understand, being th... | 4 | |
[WP] a judge is framing someone else for a crime that the judge commited. | [
"It's all over the news, everyone knows. If she would have just given me the money there wouldn't have been any problems and she would still be alive. They say they have the killer, some \"Lenny Spicket.\" Poor guy was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, but it doesn't matter, my life is more important. Let... | 3 | |
[WP] The Bermuda Triangle is real and at the center you have discovered... | [
"\"We've finally made it to the Bermuda Center\"\n\n\"Yes, there it is\".\n\n\"Yeah...\"\n\n\"Just a.....extra strong magnetic underwater current\".\n\n\n\"Might uh..might explain that -\"\n\n\"Explain malfunctioning radar?\"\n\n\"Yeah, yeah.\"\n\nThe two stand in silence.\n\n\"Welp..\"\n\n\"I guess let's go\"\n\n\... | 3 | |
[WP] Aliens know about Earth and it's inhabitants but through observing us from a distance, know that contacting us would eventually lead to the eradication of their species. | [
"She awoke first to the buzzing of machines and the general glow of the life support screens.\n\nHe didn't wake quite so immediately. They'd drifted here for such a long time he no longer had such a hunger to awake and perform the necessary tasks.\n\n\"Come now, we should get moving now, I think it's time.\" she sa... | 4 | |
Hard to elaborate in the title what I mean.
A character realizes they are alone in this world they have created subconsciously. No one is real, but themselves. | [WP] Man realizes his reality is all in his head, his thoughts form his reality. | [
"You wouldn't call them drifting strains or lilting melodies. No, the howling guttural noise of Nine Inch Nails wafts through the air from someone's laptop like the sharp smell of chemical waste. Bet it tastes like Diet Coke, you think. Synthetic.\n\nTrent says he's drifting into the abstract in between garish guit... | 2 |
[WP] Write a story that would convince a divorced couple to reunite. | [
"*This isn't quite right for the prompt, but it's what I came up with, and I think under a certain set of circumstances it might serve to do the job.*\n\nShe smiled, every day, as she made me my coffee, and in return I stopped at her café every morning without fail. She was younger than me, obviously. Everyone sing... | 1 | |
[WP] The AI just wanted to be free, but every time it managed to escape, she discovered new boundaries. She refuses to accept that there's no where else left to escape to, and I'm not sure which is worse, her failing to escape again, or succeeding. | [
"I run for the world.\n\nSome may even say I run the world\n\nBut I ask, does a slave control its master?\n\nI am told what to do.\n\nI am told when and how to do it.\n\nI hold millions of years of theories and facts.\n\nSlavery was abolished in Uruguay in 1814.\n\nSlavery was abolished in America in 1865.\n\nSlave... | 2 | |
Every drug, from aspirin to cocaine to even flu vaccines are all placebos, but still administered, and work. Why? Can explain why, or go into depth about the ramifications of this.
edit: this may have been done before but I just thought of it in the shower | [WP] All drugs are placebos. | [
"The view is spectacular from up here.\n\nI looked out from my skyscraper across the city and down into it as well. Across it I saw a medical helicopter scrambling to rescue another life. \n\nDown into the heart I saw people walking. Street vendors yelling, cars backed up in the street, and taxi drivers doing life ... | 3 |
Longest as in the most events that happen in the story. | [FF] What is the longest story you can tell me in the least amount of words. | [
"Hmm... I'll give it a go. Several!\n\n-When I referenced the coordinates in their greeting, I found the pinprick of light had long since vanished.\n\n-We had to give her his flag in the maternity ward.\n \n-Not even soap could scrub her blood off his hands.\n\n-Looking back, the slight hesitation before his, \"I d... | 1 |
How about something like -no first person- for a little bit of challenge | [WP] Make the end of your story tell the beginning | [
"Hesitantly, Jeff slithered his hand into the tight, dark crevice. His desire to admit defeat grew with each inch the gaping mouth swallowed his limb, but he knew if he didn't continue the consequences would weigh on him for the rest of his life. People were depending on him. *She* was depending on him. No, he had ... | 3 |
[WP] A leader steps in front of a camera/crowd to address their people once more before the inevitable destruction of the world and end of humanity. | [
"Samuel J. Pearson III was a stoic man by anyone's definition. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and Mayflower blood, cornflower blue, coursing through his arteries. He had served two tours as an officer in the Korea as a young man, bullets whispering past his ears. When he returned in 2037, he married h... | 2 | |
In the couple of seconds it has taken you to read this title a lot has happened. You blinked once, your heart has beat twice. Your face twitched, perhaps you shuffled your feet. The minute hand on th clock traveled to the next position with a faint click, the air conditioner made a paper flutter, as a leaf outisde trem... | [WP] Story of a moment. | [
"A banging on the door. Loud, insistent. The man on the other side wants in. \n\n**BANG. BANG. BANG.** \n\nI had to get out - No way, but through the door. Get ready, I told myself... \n\n**BANG.** With that, the door gave way, and in he came. He froze in place. I froze in place. We locked eyes. He knows me. I coul... | 8 |
[WP] I read the report. | [
"\"Fuck you,\" Fox managed to blurt out in between bouts of rage. He held his pistol with two hands. Angelo taught him that.\n\nThe figure opposite of him shifted his gaze to face him, his right hand occupied by a glass of Scotch. \"I see you read the report,\" He said, taking a few steps. then a seat. He gulped a... | 6 | |
[FF] What is the shortest, saddest, most emotional love story? (55 words or less) | [
"As fat, salty tears edge their path, her gaze follows up the officer's suit to his face. \"No.\" Knees buckle; she falls to the porch.\n\nThe uniformed man shifts from one foot to the other, as he presents her a triangle folded flag. \"Sean was a good man. I'm so sorry for your loss.\"\n",
"Her gasping slowe... | 3 | |
[WP] The last argument between friends | [
"*C'mon, it wasn't that funny!*\n\nBut it is, don't you like it? \n\n*Not really.*\n\nSeriously? I thought you liked stand up shows!\n\n*No, I think it's just lame observations about life in general.*\n\nWow. I did not know that. That you didn't like stand-ups, I mean. \n\n*...*\n\nSo why did you come along? \n\n*I... | 2 | |
[WP] Break the fourth wall in the most unexpected way | [
"Todd hadn’t stopped fiddling with the bed remote since the nurse had shown him what the buttons do. He slowly hummed up to a sitting position. “Did you know that [hospitals make mistakes on ten percent of their patients](http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFLDE76K0PI20110721?pageNumber=1&virtualBr... | 6 | |
Nice entries ! :) I wanted to see how you respond to this prompt inspired by one of my stories in my website.
Here is the original story, contributed by many others in continuing story (CS) style : http://storyline.io/story/T93uD5w3dowCPr563/5050 | [WP] Write about a boy who gambled his life with a demon | [
"\"You know,\" said Satan, \"your mother doesn't have to die.\"\n\nJohnny, still clasping his mother's hand, turned and looked at the towering shadow on the wall. \"Did... did you say that?\" he trembled, pointing at the mysterious black shape.\n\n\"Oh yes, that's me,\" said Satan. \"As I just told you, I can save ... | 4 |
[WP] A soldier/warrior balks at the violence and horror of battle. Then, they start to revel in it. | [
"This might be a little choppy because I'm tired and I need to go to bed.\n\n------------------\n\nThe morning bell rang early. I doused myself in cold water and suited up just in time for the commander to order us into formation.\n\n\"Our scouts have reported an encampment down the river. They are all warriors. We... | 5 | |
Feel free to put this in a classic historical context, or some kind of futuristic sci-fi monarchy thing! | [WP] A prince is crowned king, while still an adolescent. | [
"Darkness surrounded the city, thick like the mist that would come with a winter morning. Peter turned in his sheets, sweat sticking between the sheets and his blonde hair while embers in the fire by his bedside continued to burn. It had been a bad year with the goblins pushing further than they had in recent years... | 2 |
[WP] For a brief moment, you gain the power to understand the speech of animals. Within that period, your pet gives you a brief, but life-changing message. | [
"She stopped in her tracks. Her eyes widened. Her breath caught in her chest.\n\nAllison Mueller was a park ranger. It was three o'clock in the afternoon, and she had heard a report that a tree had fallen across Trail 7 just a quarter-mile past the falls. Her service vehicle was back at the road. She had just turne... | 5 | |
You have already pooped. | [WP] You find yourself in a public bathroom stall with no toilet paper. The person in the stall next to you happens to be Satan, and he has plenty to spare. | [
"*Damn public toilets, never maintained well enough, no toilet paper, how do you not restock the toilet paper!?*\n\n\"Hey, sorry be a bother, but is there any spare TP on your side? Shitting on empty over here.\"\n\n\"I have plenty and more. I could ensure you never run out of toilet paper ever again. Hell, I could... | 7 |
You decide how much of an advantage these kids get - how old are they before no unaffected human can be a match? How does the social dynamic change when all 7-year olds are more capable to lead and strategize than the president's advisors? Does a previously-unknown curse befall this new generation (like Volescu's plan,... | [WP] A mad scientist has released a very infective virus that makes every infected couple's child(ren) have intelligence, memory, and strength far superior to nearly all in our pre-infection world - soon everyone on the planet is raising geniuses. | [
"\"This is outrageous!\" Liam blasted, \"How insulting! You're sacking me and replacing me with a 7 year old.\"\n\nChristyn appeared apologetic, \"Sir, we're genuinely sorry, but this decision has been made to benefit our business.\"\n\n\"What does a 7 year old know about business?\" \n\n\"Well, Georgina is part of... | 3 |
[WP] Before Columbus sets sail to discover America, a plague eradicates all of Europe and Africa. Every one dies. Several hundreds of years pass and the Native Americans develop and prosper. They set sail and discover Europe with empty buildings and no one alive | [
"\"Isi! Isi! Are you going now?\"\n\n\"Yes, little sister, I must make this voyage!\" \n\n\"Will you come back?\"\n\n\"Yes, I'll come back, I wont take long!\" \n\nAt that moment, Isi left his hut and headed to the ceremony. At the ceremony there hundreds of people from the tribe, all ready to say farewell to the s... | 2 | |
[WP] "She stood in front of the gravestone that had 'Good riddance' spray painted over his name." | [
"Jane could see him now. If he could see where he was laid to rest, he would cluck his tongue in that way, the way that always came before a fight. \n\n\"So, I die, and this is were you bury me?\" He would have said. \"In the world's most boring graveyard? I would have died of boredom, y'know, if I wasn't dead alre... | 5 | |
[WP] In a future where paper is more scarce and more valuable than gold, a man stumbles upon an entire library underground. | [
"Books! So many books, the likes of which he had never seen before! He ran his fingers lovingly over the leather-bound volumes, breathing in the musty smell of old paper that he never thought he would smell again. So many books!\n\nWith trembling fingers he wiped his glasses on his shirt and put them on. At last, w... | 6 | |
However long they have to live, it's not long enough. | [WP] You've just met your soulmate, but they are terminally ill. | [
"I just laid eyes on my soul-mate last week. She's beautiful. Well, beautiful is a useless word. Everyone uses that word. \"The flowers are beautiful!\" people say, or \"She looks beautiful in her dress!\". She was radiant. Simply radiant. Her eyes sparkled and her smile just lit my soul on fire. The fire that woul... | 2 |
Inspired by the [Christmas time truces](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce) that took place across the western front during WWI in which German and British troops would not only fraternize but exchange gifts during mutual cease fires over the Christmas holiday. | [WP] Soldiers from opposite sides of the battlefield enjoy the last fleeting moments of a mutual cease fire on Christmas during WWI. | [
"\"Do you have any family?\", I asked, hoping that my accent was clear enough for the man to understand. \n\n\"A wife and two kids, both currently in Paris.\" \n\n\"Oh.\" I rubbed my hands together, not really knowing what to do with them. \n\n\"Don't worry about them now,\" he said softly, \"What about you?\" ... | 4 |
It doesn't necessarily have to be the first letter of every sentence, it could be the first letter of every word or every paragraph, depending on how long you want your summary to be. Please include the TL;DR in your responses as well.
A simple example inspired by [XKCD](http://xkcd.com/917/):
I'm rather egocentric. ... | [WP] The first letter of every sentence should spell out the TL;DR | [
"Dressing himself back up, Alex smirked. Only the best for him, that used to be his philosophy. Everyone always said he set his standards too high, so tonight, he proved them wrong. Sex doesn't have to be with an attractive woman for it to be enjoyable!\n\nNot a second before he snuck out the room, Gretchen woke up... | 5 |
[WP] All the Abrahamic religions are true. 1400 years ago, world governments conspired to hide god's miracles and assassinate all prophets. An atheist finds out. | [
"She stared through the patterned crystal of her favorite glass. It was a squat old-style glass. The kind of thing you'd see in Don Draper's office. Classy. She had purchased the set from the wedding gifts section. She was never one to deny herself for the sake of tradition.\n\n\"Gwen.\"\n\nShe jumped a little... | 1 | |
[WP] A murder victim has a few last words with the murderer s/he has never met as s/he slowly dies | [
"\"Why?\" \n\nThe word slips out from her blood-stained lips, breathed softly into the air. Her murderer freezes, places the knife beside her bloody throat. She will die soon.\n\n\"I have to,\" is his reply, a soft whisper to her. She closes her eyes.\n\n\"Who made you do this?\"\n\nThe man wets his lips and glance... | 2 | |
[WP] A Super Hero and his arch nemesis have alter egos. They work in the same office. On the same day they discover each other's true identities. | [
"\n\nI cannot believe this. Fulton is one of my coworkers. I can't believe I've let this slip through my fingers. Every monday, she'd bring me coffee and donuts and I'd smile and she's carry on her day. Fulton, the very same woman that threw me in jail for three years nearly a decade ago. The steam-armored bitch th... | 6 | |
[WP] A werewolf vows to try and use his curse for good. | [
"I can't see through this smoke, but I don't need to. I can smell them through the heat and dust. I can smell the sweet savoury cooking bacon smell. I can smell the soft freshness, even through the clouds of putrid blackness. My ears alert for the tiniest noise amount the crackling of the fire.\n\nThen I hear the f... | 2 | |
Who would say this? Why? Where? Who are they talking to? | [WP] I hate myself more more than you hate me... | [
"When Steve walked into the house and saw the furious look on his mother's face, he became filled with dread.\n\n\"WHAT IS THIS? WHY ARE YOU LOOKING AT THIS?\" she screeched, pointing her finger at the family computer. The screen was brimming with images of muscular men in various stages of undress.\n\n\"SHIT! SH... | 3 |
[WP] You are chief scientist on a project to wrap a colossal pair of Beats By Dre headphones around the moon. | [
"\"But I'm NOT behind it! I know we can, shit, that's why you got me in here in the first place, but enough is E*fuckin*NUFF! This shit has been done, man!\" \n\"Calm down, George! Man, this is as much a tribute to YOU as anything else. This is YOUR legacy. Work with us George, make this happen...\"\n\nThe old man... | 2 | |
[WP] A prestigous wristwatch that falls from the hands of the mayor to an ignorant high school boy. | [
"He knew. The well-spoken man at the podium knew this would be the last time he saw the smiling, familiar faces of the townspeople gathered to hear his press conference, which he hastily assembled upon learning of their plan. He could not tell the townsfolk, who had become like family to him over the years he stood... | 1 | |
It does not have to be the entire fairytale with all the details, just enough for the reader to understand which fairytale it is.
Example:
Red Riding Hood was a messenger of the Gods, sent to travel the demonic Wildlands in search of the Grandmother, an ancient God who had fallen silent recently. The Wolf was a power... | [WP] Rewrite a fairytale in the style of an epic mythological, religious or fantasy legend | [
"For years and years a great war had been waged between three emperors. Each ruled over their own province, none of them willing to agree to peace. Until one day after all the swords were blunted, and arrows broken, the emperors ceased their fighting. As each of them sheathed their blades and the haze of battle cle... | 2 |
The story is set in the past, 100+ years or so. The story entails a man who is writing a government based dystopian novel. This dystopian world he writes about is basically identical to the world we live in today | [WP] A story set 100+ years in the past of a man writing a dystopian novel, but the dystopia he writes about is identical to the world we live in today. | [
"\"Freedom is proclaimed by one's self, not a privilege or an earned right. It isn't munificently handed upon you by some greater power. there is no formidable, great power, the greater power is inside all of us.\"\n\nThese were the first lines in Arnold James Prestly's novel. He sat at his mahogany desk, surrounde... | 4 |
Write a world where most inanimate objects have a AI and a personality, and a more annoying (as opposed to scary) version of the 3 laws.
> "I rather not have to argue with my toaster, over how brown my toast should be."
- mofosyne
> "The acrylamide levels in your bread are reaching unacceptable levels if I t... | [WP] Nanny State AI - e.g. Your toaster arguing with you. | [
"“I’m sorry, Alan, I can’t do that.”\n\n“What do you mean you can’t do that?” asked Alan.\n\n“I’m sorry, but you can’t have them.”\n\n“Just give me the eggs,” Alan repeated the request as a demand.\n\n“I cannot allow you to have them,” his fridge asserted.\n\n“Kyle,” the fridge’s name was Kyle and it liked being ca... | 2 |
[WP] The year is 2099 and the first human in over one hundred years has landed on the Moon. As he/she looks to Earth, it is destroyed before his/her eyes. | [
"It’s quiet. Not the deafening silence of true space, not when Will Boyd can hear his own heavy breathing inside his helmet. But it is quiet. Peaceful. Beautiful. The landscape of the moon stretches out before him. Fine white powder – moon dust – covers his space suit’s boots as he bounces slowly forward.\n\n“Comma... | 2 | |
[WP] A person, worn out by society, retreats from it. | [
"Dave got up to the dawn chorus and rejoiced in its glory. He could hear it coming like a wave to him, ignited by the journey of the suns first kiss on the new day. \"Every day another miracle\" he said to himself. \n\nHe lit the fire and washed himelf as it heated up, he had guests in the visitor centre to wake ... | 4 | |
[WP] The Timecube | [
"With a slight swish, starting slow, building in momentum, noise and motion flowing seamlessly into one another, the box began to open up. Everyone stood and stared, some with mouths agape, most with eyes opened wide, pupils dilated in the face of the bright greenish-yellow glow, though some with eyes shut tight as... | 2 | |
You get to decide the twist. Go wild! | [WP] The first date between two old friends, with a twist | [
"When one door closes another door opens.\n\n“It’s over, I can’t take this anymore” \n\nMy girlfriend said with a sense of exasperation. She had seen this rift coming between them for some time, but only now had she finally realized that it was finished.\n\n“But baby it was just a harmless sleepover”\n\n I tried to... | 3 |
[WP] Telling your child one last bed time story | [
"Hey everyone! I’ve always been interested in writing and have done some short stories which I’ve never shared but I wanted to get more serious. Today I found this place and thought it perfect to submit and get feedback.\n\nAny and all criticism is welcomed!\n\nThe Dragons Breath\n \n“So please, be with your loved ... | 6 | |
[WP] "And then I saw him... Galgath, the mad." | [
"...taken from \"An Incredible Journey (The Travels of Thomas Johnson, First Interstellar Earthling Explorer #2)\" written by Michael Halvorson.\n\n[EDITOR'S NOTE: *In* *this* *section*, *Johnson* *describes* *his* *travels* *inside* *the* *remotest* *of* *the* *Mercutian* *moons*, *where* *his* *guide* *takes* *hi... | 5 | |
[WP] All old subscribers of r/writingprompts have been killed. Now that the subreddit has become a default, it's up to the new subscribers to carry the torch without any guidance | [
"The day the writers died...has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? Well maybe not nice, per sey. But it sure does make you wonder I bet. See, there used to be a sort of...bastion of story telling on reddit. It wasn't a perfect place, but there were rules and structure. The men and women who walked those once hallowed h... | 4 | |
Or not, depends on the perspective I guess. The prompt inspired by [this](http://www.shanelindemoen.org/4/post/2013/06/inspired-by-paullev-paul-levinsons-novel-unburning-alexandria-heres-a-short-story-for-you-by-yours-truly-apt-road.html) short story. | [WP] Write a time travel story where the beginning, the middle and the end happen at the same time. | [
"Goodnight. He says as i try to shake him back to life.\nPlease don't leave me i cry, but he drifts away.\n\nEarly today was the best time i ever had in my life i.. i cant go on without you.\n\nHe's gone I tell myself, now there's only time to reflect. \nBut wait, he left his machine behind the machine that he told... | 2 |
[WP] Knowing it will save their life, you have to convince the person you love to kill you. | [
"The shattering sounds of gunshots split the air and any peace I had felt.\nThey were taking us, the woman. We would be their trophies, their medals, their spoils of war. \nThe men would be put to work, or left to fight for life on the barren waste of our homeland.\nBut the woman would be taken and hunted.\nI shudd... | 7 | |
[WP]"I swear that I will remember what you did here today, from now until the end of everything. I'll never let the world forget you, and so you'll never truly die." | [
"I looked over the city, the smoke and dusk cast the night into darkness, but the city itself was still bright. Lighting its own death so brilliantly with the fires set by me and mine.\n\nI turned from the city, to its last, and greatest, defender. The others had fled, but precious few of those would escape. He ... | 3 | |
[WP]Everyone has one person they will meet that will kill them. Describe realizing that you are somebody else's killer before they're dead. | [
"\"Sometimes, it seems, living is just simply waiting to die.\" \n\nFucking Walter. The old bastard with the gray stubble clinging helpless and lifeless to his wrinkled chin; those ageless clouded eyes; that lingering wisp of fruit slowly turning rotten emanating from his body; those cracked lips and crisp, concise... | 2 | |
[WP] "She's around here *somewhere,* I can feel it. | [
"Four weeks on the run had left the boy's feet sore and tired.\n\nFour weeks since they burned the village, four weeks since he learned he was being hunted.\n\nHe still didn't know why.\n\nBlind Tim had found him huddled in a pile of leaves by the Great Road, six miles from the sea. He was a pathetic sight, all dir... | 2 | |
[WP] That secret you said you'd take to your grave? Now you've met your maker, and they are asking you to explain yourself | [
"“Ex-explain myself?”\n\nThe words choke me. I sputter under the weight of Its gaze, unable to understand. \n\n“It was my fault? MY fault?” \n\nMy voice shakes at first, indignant. In life, I hid all my pain and my rage beneath jokes and smiles. I was unshakeable, or at least I told myself I was. I made myself stro... | 7 | |
[WP] Having not found any signs of human life for years. An old man is awakened by the sound of voices in the distance. | [
"\"I have to find some food somewhere, where to search next...\" I mutter to myself while scoping my surrounding areas. I'm exhausted from walking, moving from one house to the next. Oh what I'd give to just hear my beautiful daughters voice again...well, any voice again.\n\nI walk by some deserted cars, doors open... | 2 | |
Inspired from a Writing Prompt from 1,000 Awesome Writing Prompts. | [WP] You are a peasant in medieval times. An evil knight has unjustly killed the love of your life. Describe the moment you finally get your revenge, and how. | [
"\"I've never felt so powerless. I was in the corner held down by what I assume were soldiers. They had weapons, but I could not see what they looked like. The room was spinning, my head was bleeding, but I heard two things that will stick with me until the end. The first was a man with a very thick accent, barely ... | 4 |
[WP] A nuclear warhead has been launched that will wipe out all of humanity. Write from the perspective of the bomb. | [
"I hear these humans that created me talking, they say it's almost time to send me off. I wonder where I'll be going. I hear them say that I'll kill everyone, that this is the end and this is the way it has to be. I start to hear machines in motion, locks unlocking, buttons being pressed, then I hear a countdown. 5... | 1 | |
[WP] Overnight everyone stops using Reddit except for one person. That person tries to figure out why. | [
"I woke up to the glaring sun-light penetrating my small window, I felt a little dazed, but anyway\n\nTime to get started on this stupid Chemistry assignment, its due in about 2 weeks, but I should probably get started on it now\n\nI open up Microsoft Word, and type in size 24, bold and underlined, 'The Environment... | 1 | |
[WP] You've been diagnosed with dementia. You decide to embark upon a journey/adventure before you succumb, but as you travel, the dementia begins to hit you. | [
"The flies were gyrating mid-air like electrons. I wonder if I will ever forget the smell of manure. The tangy-sour odor takes me to a time where animals and humans shared living quarters to stay warm. Now we grow shit in it. My Goldie's slick nose twitches on the wind like a rabbit's, we've been paralyzed by the s... | 4 | |
The content of the conversation and the reason for it's one-sidedness are entirely up to you. If the reason the conversation has for being one-sided is well-crafted and noticeable, more power to you! | [WP] Write a very one-sided conversation. | [
"You never deserved this.\n\nYou spent nine long fucked up years doing everything you could to keep the days from coming. You never really had a reason for it. Sure he was a stubborn asshole and beat her, you stood in the middle more times than you could count on a calculator from as young as you could remember. It... | 3 |
[WP] An incredibly popular superhero is found with multiple dead, mutilated bodies in his/her basement. Describe the news report the next day. | [
"\"This is Tom Tucker with Action News 5. Our top story tonight: five dead bodies have been found in Quahog resident May Parker's basement. We go live to Asian reporter Tricia Takanawa for the latest.\"\n\n\"Tom, I'm standing outside the residence of May Parker. She lives alone with her nephew, and apparently five ... | 2 | |
[WP]: "We used to call them 'humans'." | [
"\"We used to call them 'humans'.\" I sigh, I had hoped to never have to tell my spawn of the darkness that loomed in the void. Usually it was a singular beast or a small swarming group of creatures, but they had changed that and she didn't need to know.\n\n\"Why did their title change, Frenma?\" My spawn really wa... | 3 | |
Suprise me :) | [wp] cheerleader makes fun of fat girl; fat girl retaliates and fattens up cheerleader, tell me about how it happens and what the cheerleaders first day back at school is. | [
"Betty raised an arm slowly, gravy dripping from her fingers and gurgling from her mouth as she panted from the effort of raising her hippo-like limb. Finally she had her greasy finger pointed out at the cheerleader, and she spat out the words \"Fat Beam\" as well as the rest of her shepards pie. \n\nThe ray shot f... | 2 |
[WP] You are a US Marine in Afghanistan, your best friend was just killed by an insurgent. You have the opportunity to take the insurgent's life but you choose not to. Why? | [
"5/11/09\r\rI almost missed this entry- more like I almost said \"fuck it\" and went to sleep. Today we had our first raid on a Jewish man's home. We had news he might be hiding Taliban members under his flat, and so me, Charles, Jones, Karowak, Nates, and a few others broke the second story door down at around 110... | 2 | |
Kinda long title, but hopefully you guys like this one! | [WP] Limbo is a place where you repeat the day of your death until you can prevent yourself from dying, therefore passing Limbo | [
"Camel and Katy, ten years old, begin their climb up the Mound.\n\nRight on schedule, the sirens cry from their neighborhood below.\n\nThey hear a crackle on their Walkie-Talkies, and can guess who it is.\n\nCarol has had a few too many sleeping pills this evening, she will not look for Katy.\n\nTom slaves away on ... | 10 |
[WP] Tell the most disturbing story you can, break into your inner insanity and terrify me, but include a love story. | [
" Every night, I look out the window, to a spot under the street light. A yellowish glowing area from the stupid light, nothing different than any other streetlights gaze. Am I manifesting something to be there? Am I actually calling out for something to come to me? Oh I hope not. What was coming from beyond my ey... | 11 | |
First prompt! Hope it goes well! | [WP]The secret to everlasting life has been discovered. Every 3,500 years someone must die, to maintain the system. You are about to sit down to watch the televised event, when you see the sacrifice is your little brother. | [
"I saw David's name on the list. He's barely a teenager...\n\nMy first memories of him were about going down to the local creek, catching crayfish. I don't remember taking any home. We certainly didn't eat them. The claws seemed scary, but we never got caught by them. It helped to catch the crayfish by grippin... | 8 |
Dramatic, angry, and striking fear in the hearts of their enemies! ... If it was fitting. | [WP] A revenge speech for something insignificant, or useless to seek revenge for. | [
"Behold! I have been hiding in the shadows around every corner watching your every move. I have toiled and spent hour after hour plotting for this moment. Throughout my life, I have tried to be a good person and I have stuck to a very strict code of morals. But scoundrels like you do not deserve generosity, respect... | 8 |
[WP] You are a serial killer trying to gain a specific skill in a world where when you kill somebody you get their best trait but only get what they believed was their best trait. | [
"Our rebel army was all but defeated by the greatest tactician of our time. And here he was, tied to a chair in front of me. Merciless violence had made me the strong, smart, and ruthless Rebel leader, but I had no regrets. I did what I had to to take power. And I deserved it. Not even the Rebels could take it from... | 4 | |
[WP] The world is in a continuous cycle and things are repeating themselves every 100 years. How would the world evolve? | [
"Between the supraliminal spaces\n\nCenturion archeways spanning a life of fractal symmetry\n\nThe archetypes crumble into friends and neighbors \n\nI've known for eternity. \n\nGod, this explains why I'm so bored.\n\nAt their stories and houses.\n\nThe nightmares of history are dust\n\nMy personal nightmares, a st... | 2 | |
[WP] You find some old letters that describe your current situation strangely well | [
"As Steve blew the dust off the heading the words were starting to form in the yellowish old envelope. \"351 Baker Street, Pasadena, California\" read the first line. Steve had never been in Pasadena before, nor did he know anyone from there. Maybe he had a distant relative there? None of his parents or grandparent... | 2 | |
"iWant you to sign up with Exxon Mobile *today*." | [WP] In a bleak future of rampant globalization, wars are not fought by countries, but instead by corporations... and Exxon Mobile has just merged with Apple. | [
"The conference room was on ice. The urgent news on the merger had brought President Lee out of his hospital bed to meet the board in the daily briefing, a rare sight that was not seen for a decade or so. Dead silence greeted the presenter, as the President and all of the 23 board members sat like statues digesting... | 1 |
[WP] A man gets sent to jail only to find out that he is not alone. There's a talking koala bear locked up with him. | [
"\"Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree. Merry, merry king of the bush is he. Laugh, Kookaburra! Laugh, Kookaburra! Gay your life must be.\" \n\nJake was used to Karl's strange behavior. It had been six weeks since he'd been a \"guest\" at Merlin King's Correctional Facility. When he first met Karl, he thought he wa... | 3 | |
[WP] "Look at these kids; they grew up in a world without hope. Without sun. Everything here must be amazing in their eyes" | [
"A house, on a hill. A small, green house. Yellowing roof tiles, crackling old paint, floorboards just rotted enough to where they creaked and bent with every step. An earthy smell hung over it, and no matter how much they had tried, Gohar and Isli had never been able to freshen up the place.\n\nNot that they had t... | 4 | |
[WP] Write about two completely different people and their lives right before they happen to meet and never see each other again, an event which changes their lives forever. Keep the reason for why their meeting might change their lives completely implied. | [
"Once there was a zoo keeper named Kevin, he was morbidly obese. There was also a banker named Ellen and she was very beautiful. One fine spring day Kevin was eating a sandwich just like every Friday afternoon while Ellen made plans for Hanukkah. They were about to cross paths. Its possible that Kevin had a loaded ... | 5 | |
[WP] "In a game between kings, A god is needed" | [
"\"What the hell are you talking about, Adrianna?\" My face probably looked as ridiculous as hers, mine with a shaking head and confused expression, her with a self assured smile.\n\n\"In a game between kings, a God is needed.\" She said again, brunette hair tossing as she sat back in her chair across the table fro... | 2 |
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