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...has locked himself in a room with ways to kill himself, he tries to wait until his wife gets home to get help, but finds it hard to resist the temptations before him. (you choose the fate) | [WP] A suicidal man who is considering his last words... (GOLD TO FAVOURITE) | [
"INT. HOUSE - EVENING\n\nRACHEL walks through the house door and sets her keys in a bowl near the door. She is carrying a pizza, balancing it with one hand. She slips off her shoes and walks through the living room.\n\n RACHEL\nHeath? You home? I have dinner.\n\nRachel walks through the living room, peaking at ... | 5 |
[WP] "Who are those guys?" "They are who some call The Mariachis of Death." | [
"My band had been doing well lately, though I personally had doubts about the success of our upcoming album. We had just signed a deal with a small hardcore/punk label based outside Chicago, and to create hype about the new record, we were instructed to hit the road for a long time.\n\nAs a small punk band, this us... | 2 | |
Now we all know alligators and crocodiles are awesome. But we know as well that caimans are not cool, and are the worst thing to enter the crocodilian family of all time.
But why do we as alligators, or crocodiles, hate caimans so much? I'm hoping we can all find out today. Eagerly awaiting your responses.
| [WP] You're an alligator or a crocodile(No Caimans). Describe why you hate those damned Caimans. | [
"\"Because they hate puppies\"\n\n\"I'm serious, Frank, I want a serious answer\"\n\n\"Because they hate FREEDOM!!\"\n\n\"Stop it Frank\"\n\n\"Alright, alright... because a Caiman touched my junk when I was a baby-gator... it feels so good to get that off my chest!!\"\n\n\"Frank!! Grow up. That's not funny!\"\n\n\"... | 2 |
[WP] A 500 year old man is on his deathbed, write the last story he tells his loved ones. | [
"I saw the rise and fall of many great civilizations, peoples, and religions. Humans. A human is simultaneously the devil and a saint. Humans have fomented unspeakable evils. Humans have lead themselves to great scientific achievement. To peace. To prosperity. And to wealth. I saw the rise of Enlightenment. The ris... | 1 | |
Either you can choose how and why this conversation might occur, or you can leave that out. | [WP] Write a sincere conversation between you and one of your actual ancestors. This conversation cannot affect the past, present, or future (i.e., no instructions to assassinate Hitler or make your family rich). | [
"It was the second day of my annual visit to my dad's farm. We were ending our night with our ritual of a few games of cribbage. We were playing on the board my great grandfather had made, and my dad was once again telling me the story of the history of the board. We finished up the last game and I went off to the ... | 3 |
[WP] Tell me how freedom dies. | [
"Freedom dies slowly, and without a sound.\n\nIt dies passively, apathetically, with its eyes glued to a high definition big screen. \n\nIt dies, sugary soft drink in hand as it posts political memes on facebook.\n\n\"We should change this,\" it says. \"We should do something.\"\n\nBut its phone is used to snap pho... | 4 | |
A Rudyard Kipling quote. He said it, you write it... however you like. | [WP] Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind... | [
"In the picture clay shards litter the floor of the cave. Now they are in a different form, the broken pieces are rearranged into tablets. We file by the showcase with orders to keep quite, a thick piece of glass separates us from the artifacts. \n\nThe teachers seem interested, but it is really just a mess of lit... | 2 |
I love the environment, and I see news everyday of environmental destruction that makes me feel so angry and sad and helpless. Sometimes I wonder what drastic measures someone would take to protect something they care about, and I was wondering what your take on it was! Thanks! | [WP] You are an environmental extremist. Write a story of a 'terrorist attack' and justify it. | [
"\"You had everything going for you, man.\"\n\nHe was standing behind his chair, hands on its back.\n\n\"Why did you do it?\"\n\nThe room almost drowned in the silence.\n\n\"Come on. You've gotta talk.\"\n\nI could spot the marks the chair had left on his hand as he released it.\n\n\"Everything you've built up. You... | 5 |
Inspired by a dream I had the other night after seeing all the violence on the news lately | [WP] A supreme deity introduces a new rule for Planet Earth: every time an act of violence is committed, the perpetrator shrinks by a tiny fraction. Violent people gradually become tiny but there are other consequences... | [
"Luckily there was a limit to how small a criminal could actually get. The cartoons were jumping all over how you should brush your teeth to dislodge any cavity crooks who might be in there stealing your enamel. As far as I could tell, this wasn't the case. A lot of shops had to tape over their keyholes at night, a... | 3 |
[WP] Write the most confusing anecdote to prove a really simple point. | [
"\"I can't believe you just asked him that,\" I said, glaring at Karen as we quickly made our way out of the bar. \nShe stared back, clearly confused. \"What in the hell are you taking about?\"\n\"Okay, well, when I was little I always used to watch Sesame Street and I always wanted to become a puppeteer. My whole ... | 2 | |
[WP] An aging superhero and his arch-nemesis have a final confrontation where they both realize that they're too old to continue fighting. | [
"Bones crunched and cracked from the stress of his own breath. Years have made it so they bend and bruise before resetting, and the bruising with stands for much longer then it should. \n\nThe same bloodied shirt sat as pauldrons, ripped from the breast down. One of dozens and dozens he owned, and just one of thous... | 2 | |
[WP]Woman forms addiction to a new drug made from human bone marrow. Desperation forces her to kill her boyfriend/fiancée/husband to make the drug. Write her 911 call after she realizes what she's done. | [
"**CALL RECEIVED**\n\nOPERATOR: 911, what’s your emergency?\n\nCALLER: I…I need someone.\n\nOPERATOR: Are you hurt ma’am? Can you tell me the nature of your emergency?\n\nCALLER: It’s…I…There’s so much blood. I…I didn’t think there would be so much.\n\nOPERATOR: Who’s bleeding ma’am? Are you hurt?\n\nCALLER: I just... | 1 | |
[WP] Make me hungry | [
"Another of yesterdays beef, cooked from tough to tender, with the same vegetables. \n\nA thick pot of bright red soup, next to toast piled high with melted cheese. \n\nChickens, oh the chickens--some rotisseried whole, stuffed with rosemary, thyme, oregano, ginger, and lightly rubbed with oil. Some, cut into piec... | 6 | |
[WP] You are a soul lost in Hell that should be in Heaven. A demon comes along offering a contract to stay in Hell for reasons you cannot refuse... | [
"*Sorry somewhat long, first WP, English is not my first language.*\n\n..\n\nMy death was probably as boring as my life, heart attack. Single income no kids. A couple of short liaisons, sometimes months one time even a year, but I never could hold any relationship for too long. Friends used to say I have too high m... | 3 | |
[WP] A splinter colony that began from deep space exploration has lost contact with all life for the last 10 years. Today they received a message. | [
"My old man would listen to the radio, every day, for hours each evening. Before she died, mom would bring him tea while he listened to the static. She was old fashioned that way. I built a home a few miles away when I married my wives, but would return every few days to visit. Less so when mom died, but often enou... | 6 | |
[WP] As it turns out, when you die, you don't go to heaven, but instead your soul is collected by a celestial garbageman. | [
"\"By the way.... Go dig up the chest full of money I buried... I buried.... Blurgh,\" and with that statement I was dead, now hovering above my body watching my asshole no-good relatives desperately shaking my shoulder, trying to wake up me to figure out what I was talking about. \n\nHa, serves the assholes right.... | 2 | |
[WP] Everybody is suddenly turned to stone. For whatever reason, you and your brother are immune. He also happens to be on the opposite side of the country. | [
"The first day nothing is different. The lights work, the fridge hums in the kitchen. When the ice falls it is startlingly loud. \n\n\n\nWithout the sounds of people the world is still noisy. Birds scream in the tress outside. I'm still in bed. The clock says it's ten after five. I don't know what woke me up. Sun c... | 4 | |
[WP] Every lie you tell spawns a corresponding truth in another universe. One lie in particular has snowballed into something so momentous, that an envoy is sent from that universe to confront you. | [
"\"I've abused a lot of things in my short time being alive. I'm not even a quarter-century old, and I have lied to a lot of people. My self-defense mechanism is to lie. Lie about what I am doing, lie about what I'm going to do, lie about what I've already done. Who will care, who will honestly care that I lied? It... | 10 | |
[WP] Our experiences shape us. We are born into this world as humans, and we change according to our actions and circumstances. Shortly before their death, some one becomes human again. | [
"The screams seemed to come to him from a great distance, muted by the vacuum encompassing the station. Captain Joseph Everett floated gently, his breathing heavy. His back bumped against the window, rebounding softly. Eyes never left the hatch as he fumbled with the communications interface, numb fingers eventuall... | 2 | |
[WP] A group of children find a weapon of mass destruction (a lost nuke buried in the dirt, a crate of nerve gas etc.) and think it is harmless. | [
"The boys had worked hard for the first two weeks of summer, and they were finally on the finishing touches. Jayden was attaching the rope ladder, Hayden was screwing on the base for the telescope, and Hudson was at home getting his dads old porno magazines. Hudson was the only one who really wanted them there, but... | 5 | |
I would prefer something funny, but serious would be cool to. | [WP] Aliens Come to Earth and aren't what we expected. | [
"Marcus gazed down at the fungus growing on his left foot big toe and wondered what the hell happened. No. What the fuck happened!\n\n“Shut up marcus, you’re doing it again.”\n\n“What?....”\n\n“You’re narrating your thoughts, even though they’re not here. This isn’t a goddamn short film featuring the voiced thou... | 3 |
[WP] You are the first person ever to encounter this creature. Tell us about it in an epic poem. | [
"It towered over me like a skyscraper\n\nAll I could see were its feet\n\nThen it crumpled up like a newspaper\n\nTo a level where we could meet.\n\n\n\nI heard it muffle a tweet\n\nSo then I knew it could speak,\n\nI unraveled a stinky heat\n\nIts breath was a foe to defeat. \n\n\n\nA hand stretched out \n\nfrom ... | 4 | |
[WP] Drone lands on Europa, it finds remains of another drone with unfamilar markings, however the front panel states in Aramaic "Go No Further" | [
"\"WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?\" exclaimed Dr. Deutscheberg. \n\n\"It looks like a probe with Aramaic writing on it, we figured it out while you were in the bathroom for 2 hours ...sir.\" a junior technician named Daniel at a nearby computer replied, trying in vane to conceal the condescension in their voice while addre... | 2 | |
[WP] In the future, wars are not physically fought, but decided through video games. | [
"Fashionably late as usual: the United States team strutted onto the stage, surrounded by a multitude of colored lights and giant monitors. The thunderous cheers of the crowd shook the event center. Americans were generally the loudest when their team walked onstage, and this time was no different. \nWhile most co... | 4 | |
[WP] For the appropriate fee, we can Opt You Out of any clause, promise or situation that you've gotten yourself into. What do you wish to abandon today, sir? | [
"She laughed, heartily. \n\nI wouldn't call it a belly laugh, but it was definitely a belly laugh. I just wouldn't call it that because she was really hot and petite. But yeah, definitely a belly laugh, she really thought this was funny.\n\n\"You want me to opt you out of \"Small talk\"? I've got that right? It's i... | 2 | |
[WP] The monster under the bed wants to pursue a different career. | [
"A crash woke him up. \"What was that?\". He reached for the intercom and called down to security. \"Garry, report!\", he said frantic and sleep deprived into the device, \"It's all clear Mr. Joel, no events.\" Embarrassed at his midnight rant with his far too quickly approaching lucidity, he laid back down. \"Must... | 8 | |
Specifically their reaction when the player uses cheat codes. | [WP] Write from the view of an NPC character in the GTA Series when they encounter the main player. | [
"I heard the impact long before I saw it.\nIt is around the corner where the overpass tiptoes over the La Puenta Freeway where the ghostly Elegy RH8 tears 'round the corner, the driver rapidly clicking through the gearbox oblivious to the Albany turning into its path. The sports car cuts onto the sidewalk with micr... | 3 |
[WP] You are a ghost working for the devil, and you get paid by making people move out of the house you are haunting. | [
"*Goddamn shitheads.* \n\nFor the billionth time, Virgil muttered to himself about his predicament.\n\nHe always somehow managed to get the fucked cases.\n\nIf his boss wasn't Lucifer he'd have already killed himself.\n\nVirgils career, or rather, \"get out of Purgatory\" job, was to haunt houses so badly that it m... | 2 | |
[WP] Scientists have developed a working teleporter and the ability to launch it further into space than ever thought possible. It is engineered to only become active when both sides are on a hospitable planet. Nobody ever believes anything will come of it and it is long forgotten until... | [
"Susan rubbed her forehead, trying to massage away the impending headache. Today was getting worse and worse. Her poorly lit office gave her little comfort as she looked around, seeking a distraction from her problems. No luck; she had purposely ensured that there would be as few distractions as possible for exactl... | 6 | |
"I've seen many things. Things you could have never dreamed of... I've seen lives burning, worlds turning... I've seen the end, and the beginning..." | [WP] "I've seen many things." | [
"The cobbles grew in this ally. Resurfaced so frequently steps evolved to slope. Bins beside back entrances where smokers sought solitude. He lived here. \n\nFeral, maybe. To him (if he understood) just another human term for independent. The fact he lived off our waste meant no reliance. If we weren't here, he'd l... | 3 |
[WP] "I'm very certain that I've discovered the secret formula to the creation of synthetic intelligence! I call it... liquid brain!!! Here, take this vial." | [
"\"Thanks man\"\n\"No probs\"\n\nLiquid brain...\nI'm pretty stoned right now. The guy said liquid brain, synthetic intelligence, somesuch shit. I wonder what I feels like. \n\nI have a few syringes left over. I suppose I could use one. Why not right? It says nothing about not injecting. \nHere goes. \n\nAhhh\n\nFu... | 3 | |
[WP] The Grim Reaper of Death by Fire has an argument of jurisdiction with the Grim Reaper of Death by Industrial Accidents. | [
"\"Wait just a minute, this is my one!\"\n\n*What are you talking about? he fell off the scaffolding, he's mine!*\n\n\"He fell off the 8 foot high scaffolding into a fire. He certainly didn't die from the fall\"\n\n*How do you know, he might have hit his head or broken his neck*\n\n\"I know because I'M THE BLOODY G... | 5 | |
[WP] They came and tought us how to use tools. They came and tought us how to use fire. Now they are here again... | [
"A/\nThe plan was proceeding smoothly. We had taught them how to use tools, ignite a fire, and now we'd given them time travel. \"How far along are we, engineer?\" I asked. \"83% synchronicity, and rising\" he replied.\n\nb/\nThe humans of Earth called them \"Greys\". They were bug eyed, dark grey, humanoids. ... | 12 | |
[WP] You were born with an extra set of cones in your eyes allowing you to see another spectrum of colors | [
"\"It's....shiny? I guess, i dunno it's hard to explain. Like how would you tell a blind person what red looked like\" \n\n\"well that's true i suppose, so tell me how did you discover the other colours?\" asked the journalist\n\n\"Went into see a doctor when I was little and they did a colour blind test on me and ... | 2 | |
[WP] Everyone is in school based on their level of maturity and intelligence rather than age. You are the youngest to enter the highest grade, but you are not emotionally ready. | [
"I was shaking in my parent's car. My mom was saying something, but I couldn't really hear her. I kept turning it over and over in my mind. The preliminary testing had gone so well for me, I'd been proud and happy. Then they'd told me I'd been placed at the 9th level. A rational part of my mind pointed out tha... | 1 | |
[WP] At 3 A.M. you wake to the sound of bodies hitting your window. It's your best friend, and they need help getting rid of a pebble. | [
"\"Dude, it's 3 AM. Why the hell are you holding onto that rope dangling from the tree and smashing yourself into my window? You woke up my daughter!\"\n\n\"Yeah man, I need your help! I have a pebble. You gotta help me! I gotta get rid of it! Please?!\"\n\n\"Okay, dude. Answer me one question and if you can answer... | 1 | |
[WP] "You've got a lot of ----ing nerve to show up here after what you pulled, Koko." | [
"The tension was palpable. Neither man would be the first to back down, be the first to show weakness. After a moment of silence Koko finally smiled slyly.\n\n\"It was just a magic trick, Bobo. I don't know what the fuss is all about.\"\n\nKoko's coarse voice scratched the inside of Bobo's ears like sandpaper with ... | 3 | |
They can be enlightened or unenlightened. It could be their first entry or final. It can span several days or one. Anything goes! | [WP] A diary entry of a citizen of a totalitarian regime. | [
"...The shoinul masters have been benevolent on us and as I look at the glorious sky I first pray for..-one for good harvest to bless this land of toil and \n\nhard work created by the lord master engineers -of 2032. Also the lord master engineers of -year 2061. \n\n-two for the peace brought by the intelligent des... | 2 |
(Optional): In your story, the bomb will fall in less than a minute after the protagonist finds out.
| [WP] A nuclear bomb has been dropped into a city and is falling from a very high altitude. You are a random citizen in the city that has just received the news of the impending doom. | [
"The alarm went off. The one we'd all hoped we'd never hear. The nuclear alarm.\n\nFuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck. One minute until our impending doom. Why'd it have to happen while I was grocery shopping?\n\nI pull out my phone to call Brendan, just as he told me to. Out of battery? Fuuuuuck. I frantically run around the ... | 2 |
[WP] All life as we know it is housed within the processes of a super computer. When we die, the best and the brightest of us are chosen to recieve a physical body and join society. | [
"“Well, how do you decide who gets to join your ‘society’?”\n\n“Uh, well, we don’t. The computer decides.”\n\n“Then how does it decide?”\n\n“…We don’t know. We’re not it. We don’t know how it thinks.”\n\n“But you built it! Or your ancestors did. How can you not understand what it thinks?”\n\n“Because it’s smarter t... | 2 | |
[WP] Everyone but you in the world is dead. | [
"I awoke in my hotel room,not so eager to start yet another boring day at the resort.Life had been boring,unimaginative.No super powers,no monsters,no nothing.Today was different.Today,when I went for a stroll,there was nobody there.\n\n\"Hello?Anybody there?\" Why was I panicking?Solitude is the best.\n\nSolitude.... | 7 | |
I submitted this a bit earlier, but there seem to be some issue with comments not showing. :/ | [WP] One of your everyday household item is actually an alien. After studying this planet for a while, it's attempting to initiate first contact. | [
"The kettle boiled in the kitchen. Thomas groaned and pulled himself up off the couch. \n\n“Mom,” he called, “your water is boiling.” \n\n“What?” She yelled from what sounded to be the bathroom. Ignoring her, Tom meandered over to the kitchen and approached the stove. \n\n“What the fuck?” he thought as he reached ... | 2 |
[WP] A regular person refuses to become a superhero because.....? | [
"\"Damnit Jerry, come on! We could save all of them,\" the spandex clad heroine pleaded. \"We could do it together.\"\n\nA smaller woman stood before her, \"Natasha, I can't...\"\n\n\"Can't or wont?\" \n\n\"Can't. You know it, I know, our cat knows it. I've seen how you drained you are when you get back, the hurt i... | 6 | |
[WP] A person undergoes an experimental surgery that allows them to see for the first time in their lives. | [
"And he wondered about the red hat. When he was a very young boy, just before his accident, his father had taken him deer hunting, a mystical adventure that had required awakening before dawn, carrying weapons, and wearing a bright red hat for visibility, one that could be seen from distances of forever. This was M... | 3 | |
[WP] Everybody in the apartment building has a different name for the same Cat that hangs around. | [
"**Room 203**\n\n*\"Lawrence has gone missing!!!\"*\nMartha came running down the hallway, screaming at the top of her lungs. \n\nI had just finished a double shift at the hospital and was looking forward to taking off my shoes and falling asleep to yet another episode of Law and Order. More than just a guilty plea... | 2 | |
[WP] It sat in the back of that old shop for what could have been an eternity. All the time waiting for someone to stumble across it. Someone that could release it's secrets, someone that could release it's power. | [
"My grandfather was a good man, a very good man. He served in World War two on the European front and never fired a single bullet, but instead saved lives on the field as a medic. When he came home he became a mechanic, not a doctor, but a simple mechanic. He loved tinkering with things, seeing how they work, and ... | 2 | |
[WP] Today marks the 10th anniversary of the event and we still don't have a clue. | [
"The crowd was enormous, looking collectively down the street to the south. Everywhere, banners and flags and posters hung proclaiming 10TH ANNIVERSARY! and 10 YEARS! We all looked down the blocked off road, waiting for the parade to make its way towards us. Children eagerly anticipated the throwing of candy for th... | 2 | |
[wp] The apocalypse actually happened during the middle ages. The four horsemen, judgement day, everything, happened, and became known to history as the black death. Centuries later, God returns his attention to his abandoned creation and is surprised by what he finds there. | [
"After tired work he stretched the tendrils of his consciousness throughout the universe, letting them absorb the information he had missed during his time asleep. He was in his heaven and all was right with the world. There were cries from places and realms distant and near. Those beings asking for aide or answers... | 14 | |
Write a story so manly that I grow chest hair. Have at it, boys. | [FF]Write the most testosterone-filled story that you possibly can in 200 words or less. | [
"\"No. Just throw it at me. Better Raw.\" Goliath threw the tyrannosaurus rex leg towards my face like a speeding bullet, I caught it in my mouth and swallowed it in one bite. \n\n\"ROGAGAGAGA ROGAGAGAGA!\" Post meal star chanting, needed them to be bright tonight, many maidens will come.\n\nFirst maiden came. Boom... | 2 |
[WP] "You don't understand, this galaxy isn't even on the map." | [
"\"you dont understand strife, this galaxy.. this place, its not even on a map\"\n\n\"then where is it umi? surely we have to be somewhere.., anywhere..\"\n\n\"you and i both came from earth, just from different time periods. you were at the beginning, and i was at the end. i was... a wanderer.. left behind by the ... | 5 | |
Optional brownie points: do not use christianity | [WP]: A man gets hit by a bus and discovers that there IS an afterlife. It is not the one of the religion he practiced | [
"Timothy gripped the haft of his war-axe, swinging it with gusto into the laughing face of the blond behemoth opposite him.\n\nWell, it wasn't *his* war axe. But when you find yourself in a pitched and neverending battle armed with a stapler, a staple remover, and an outdated HP laptop that should have been replace... | 6 |
[WP] June 14th, 2021, the day Canadians stopped apologizing. | [
"This is the first time I've ever written on a [WP].\n\n================================\nThis was the day. Canada had had enough of the ignorance, bigotry, carelessness, lack of responsibility and overall failures on the world of human's behave. This was the day the Canadian Prime-minister would speak directly to ... | 3 | |
[WP] "Even if the jury finds me guilty, I'm sure they will understand." | [
"As I awaited my fate, likely guilty with a heaping side of jail-time, I reminisced about the situation that got me here. It was a dreary, humid day in New York City; the type of day that makes your skin cry with perspiration and can cause even the greatest of social enthusiasts to become a hermit. Alas, I was ou... | 3 | |
[WP] You hear a knock at the door. You open it only to find that The Devil (or God) is standing there. He says "I would like to apologise for something" | [
"If it were not for the red horns jutting out of his forehead, I would not have guessed who was standing before me as I opened the door. The knock was slightly louder than I was accustomed to, and I thought this strange as the scrawny figure who presented himself did not look the type to knock with such force. I th... | 3 | |
Despite still having all the technical knowledge of how the internet started and retaining all the technological standards of today and hardware of today, no one is able to determine what went wrong, nor how to fix it and for that reason it is also not feasible to simply rebuild anything technically similar.
At 23:59... | [WP] At midnight UTC +14 the 28th of August 2014 all internet connectivity is globally disabled. | [
"Finally after almost two weeks, Google, who has remained oddly quiet about the incident until this point, comes forward to make a public statement that no one could have ever imagined. \n\n\"The rumors are true, we do indeed have an answer as to why the internet is down...\" the representative began, as he scanned... | 2 |
Yes, even Atheists. | [WP] On a normal Wednesday afternoon, everyone of every race, age and faith is suddenly aware that God has just died. | [
"There was no warning whatsoever. All I know is that suddenly, tears are coming out of my eyes. The feeling of abandonment slammed into me, making it hard to breath.\n\nThat's when I knew that God is dead.\n\nIt turns out everyone felt the same way at the same time. I glanced out the window and saw my atheist neigh... | 1 |
[WP] Slowly, but at an increasing rate more and more humans are being born without sentience. Society is forced to question why and what it now means to be human while struggling under the growing influx of "Primal" humans. | [
"It was time, After more than 8 months it was time. I was laying in the hospital gurney with the nurses and doctors all around me. The contractions were getting closer the baby was almost there. I can only see his eyes behind the mask, Charlie my beloved husband, He's holding my hand. \n\n\"Everything is fine honey... | 4 | |
[WP] Make me side with a traitor without establishing the betrayed character(s) as bad or unfavorable. | [
"The ceaseless ticking of a clock in the corner of the room informs me that time has not stopped, other than that fact, I'm not certain I can be certain of anything.\n\nI remember a noise. A ticking, like that of a clock, but while the clock ticks to signal a distant end, this ticking signaled a near one, a painful... | 3 | |
[WP] The world was saved by a twelve year old. It's been twenty years and the danger's never been seen since. What's a former savior to do? | [
" \"What are you seeing now?\" He grunted in her ear, \"tell me.\" Janice tried to mumble but her thoughts were racing as they always did. Her mind flowed over the infinitude of space touching here and there at moments in her life and in the lives of others. Even now she could see into Jake's mind. The swirling th... | 8 | |
Just the words and the order in which they are spoken need to be the same. Inflections, meanings, etc. can vary as wildly as you like. Make the two scenes as different as possible while keeping the dialogue identical. | [WP] Write a short scene with dialogue. Write a second short scene, as different as possible from the first, with the exact same dialogue. | [
"Scene 1\n\n~Knock at the Door~\n\nShe answered to see him standing there, holding 3 huge bags.\n\"Let's go!\" he said, smiling up at her. She, however was still wearing her pajamas and clearly was not ready to go. \"No time like the present!\" he continued, pretending not to see that she was defiantly not ready, a... | 2 |
Edit: thanks for all the prompts
Edit2: this prompt as a horrible idea brb hugging my dog | [WP] Write from the perspective of a dog who thinks he is going to the park but is actually going to be euthanized. | [
"She wants me to get into the car. It's just so hard to walk to the garage. She picks me up. When did she get so much bigger than me? I remember seeing the top of her head when she sat in the backyard stacking twigs and leaves with her tiny hands. Ha ha, I wish I could know what she was doing then.\n\nI bet we're g... | 10 |
[WP] "Damage control report:... Multiple individuals have detected the anomaly your entrance to this time/world/dimension has created. Given the circumstances, you are granted full authority to prevent the spread of information from these individuals using all resources currently available..." | [
"The phosphorus green text glowed on the laptop screen in the back of the room. The computer she had been given was old enough that it wouldn't be noticed by the inhabitants of this strange planet yet hid inside it the intricacies that modern technology brought to her other worldly society. An electronic \"beep\" s... | 2 | |
I've wanted to start a short story like this for years but I'm not very good at writing. Change the name if you'd like but I want the character to observe the universe he/she has made and to be able to see everything from *The Big Bang* to the first intelligent life to the end of the universe all within his lifetime.
... | [WP] And Richard said "Let there be light." as he pressed the big red button, and thus a new miniature universe was born. | [
"Of course, Richard was completely unaware of this. All he had done was grandiosely press a USB hub decorative button, make a joking quote, flex his fingers and then put them to the keyboard.\n\nHe then lifted his fingers off the keyboard to rearrange his notes in the correct order. It'd taken him days to plan th... | 3 |
[WP] After death, a person is reborn as a person s/he had loved. | [
"I let out a gasp as the final bullet struck my chest. My time had been coming, but it was all too sudden. People in my line of work never last long. Couldn’t I apologize, make things better, make amends? \n\nI thought of my girlfriend, our two kids. I loved them, but my business ventures had too often left them al... | 2 | |
[WP] A child in a bad situation finds a Genie in a bottle. What are the child's three wishes? | [
"Taka sat in time out as his mother and father completed their verbal sparring match over the accounting books. How was he supposed to know that ordering 15 bamillion tons of ice cream from the internet was a bad thing?\n\nHe looked at the closest stack of white buckets, filled with sweets he would never get to exp... | 5 | |
[WP] In an alternate reality, all decisions made are based of the results of a Buzzfeed quiz. | [
"\"You don't understand, my favourite drink is actually Pepsi! PEPSI!\"\n\nShe kicked and screamed as two burly men, suited and imposing, dragged her down the hallway. Two lines of people watched her apathetically. I sighed, shuffling the paperwork before slotting it into a file.\n\n\"Next?\"\n\nPeople ask me how I... | 2 | |
[WP] Time stood still. Raid sirens wailed, bombs exploded in the distance. The death march of peace, the anthem of war. | [
"She stood there waiting. Wrinkles and laugh-lines flexed across her skin as she stretched her face. Her hands fumbled through her pockets for a moment before she took out a worn and previously folded piece of paper. The paper was raw and scarred with folds massing the parchment. And then she began folding. Just as... | 4 | |
For example, someone who is afraid of heights and falling has the power to fly, or someone who is afraid of fire can manipulate fires. I'm curious to see what you guys say. | [WP] You have a super power, however you have a fear of what it is. Examples included. | [
"Arista stood frozen on the sand a safe distance from the edge of even the most ambitious wave. Her heart racing as she looked out to the ocean. She willed herself to move forward with every ounce of courage she could muster but her feet remained steadfastly planted. Her childhood friend Todd bobbed in the water mo... | 3 |
It could be your character's personal experience or that of watching a loved one with the disease. | [WP] Becoming a zombie is similar to having cancer. There are four stages. Write the experience of becoming a zombie from stage one-four. | [
"\"It's complicated.\" The doctor ruffled my sleeping son's hair before he sat down at his desk. It was piled with case files, I knew they were case files because I'd helped compile them. We all had to do our part; and since there weren't any legal briefs anymore I spent my days at homebase compiling similar case f... | 2 |
[WP] In the future, a form of time travel exists. You can go back into your past and be a voice in your own head. | [
"I can feel the voice coming again. It always tingles before the voice comes. The medicine does nothing. The doctor says it will help if I keep taking it. He has been saying that for three years.\n\n\"Get out of here. You're not crazy. It's a mistake that you're here.\"\n\n\"No, I'm here because I hear things that ... | 2 | |
[WP] For an hour, everyone is completely honest | [
"The new guy, John, pushed off his desk and let is chair roll back a few feet. He exhaled in exasperation as it swivelled gently. \n\n“What's wrong?” asked Colin.\n\n“I'm just feeling out of my depth, that's all.” replied John.\n\n“You're doing all right so far” said Colin in his best reassuring tone. “What are you... | 3 | |
I am actually stealing this from an old askreddit thread where this was an answer to something like 'what would you wish upon your worst enemy'. I liked the concept, but didn't find any such prompt in this sub's history. I love reading y'all, so here goes. | [WP] On the day of their death, every human gets to have a vision of meeting the man they could have become. | [
"\"Was it her?\" I asked solemnly, my life was coming to a close. Across from my bed a strikingly familiar man stood. My first thoughts were a mirror, but then how would he be standing? I had one question. Why did he emit the sense of success? What went different in his life that changed it all?\n\nHe heard my answ... | 10 |
[WP] You are a brilliant mathematician who is suffering memory loss. You now stand before a classroom of 300 students to teach a one hour of Calculus III and you can't remember a thing... | [
"\"Ah yes,\" I said, glancing back at the board. I'd written something up there moments ago. If only I could remember what it was. *Cal*? What started with cal?\n\nCalcium? Was this a lecture on calcium?\n\nI was holding notes but scrawled on the top sheet was a warning. \"They will fire you if you fuck up.\"\n\nI ... | 3 | |
[WP] A visual story. One that has none or limited dialogue. Anything that is or could be potentially beautiful. | [
"His skin turned to stone with all the cruelty that impaled him through his life. Each jab with crude spears made it harder for him to move, and the few starlit sparkles of kindness did nothing to stem the curse of atrophy. Soon he was bound by rock and mortar forced to watch the world the pedestal of sorrow. He sa... | 5 | |
You note, sadly, that someone has been here before. | [WP] You are a member of a society far into the future. You were just sent in your civilizations first manned exploration of the moon, and you are shocked to see the modern flag and lunar gear from a society far in the past. | [
"A crowd filled the auditorium. Their antennae buzzed with excitement. The Prime Minister of the Galaxy was about to announce the annual award for the Greatest Explorer in the Galaxy.\n\nSuch was the prestige of this award that every man, woman, child, and larvae stopped whatever they were doing to tune in and wi... | 1 |
Depression, schizophrenia, OCD, they're all contagious. Write about whatever your little heart desires. | [WP] Describe to me a world where mental health disorders are contagious. | [
"They are contagious.\n\nLook around you.\n\nAll things related to living are replicating fractals, and notions are no exception.\n\nNeuronal impulse patterns, brain structure, germs of various types.\n\nHumans see the world through the lens of their bodies, and then their bodies craft the world around them in thei... | 2 |
[FF] Write a story about a person late for work as quickly as you can. | [
"As I raced my bicycle across the bridge I couldn't help but fixate on the thought of getting off, throwing the piece of junk down into the greenish brown waters down below. It was a nice mental image. I would watch as the waves fought for the scraps of metal, and then I would follow it. After all, in the worst cas... | 6 | |
Remove the fear of death from the situation and what power do they have over their victim? | [WP] A malevolent supernatural entity's (e.g. slenderman) prospective victim gains immortality and spends the next week belittling and tormenting his would be attacker. | [
"\"Are you hungry, motherfucker?!\"\n\n\"Yes, for the love of God... Just let me get a fix.\"\n\n\"No. Not after what you did to me. I hunted your ass down, found you in the purest form. You bet you was some real China White, some pure Peruvian flake. I've seen what you've done to me and my ancestors. Not anymore.\... | 1 |
[WP] Someone suddenly decides to drop everything and run away from her/his life. | [
"I've had enough. I looked down at the same cup of coffee I drink every morning on the same drive I take every day leaving from the same woman I'm with every night in the same house we've shared for years. I needed an adventure. What better time to start than now? \n\nI took a detour today. A long one, one I may no... | 2 | |
Sometimes we get dark. Show me your dark side
Edit: damnit. Counts over = comes over | [WP] Your 20-something daughter recently moved in with her bf, who you don't like. One day she counts over and wants to see mom. You notice a fresh black eye and split lip. | [
"My dear, I remember that frigid December \nWhen you came to my life -- to both mine and my wife's. \nYour eyes burned so bright, and your lips could ignite \nEvery word ever said as flames danced in your head. \n\n\nYour progression, it seemed, rushed you right through your teens. \nYou grew up much too fast ... | 2 |
[WP] A guy approaches two women at a coffee shop, one is completely disgusted by him while the other falls in love at first sight. Describe each of the women's view of him. | [
"This is the first thing i really have ever written to try to get better at writing. Criticism is appreciated.\n\nI just don't know if I can take another relationship. She sighed taking a sip from decaf .\n\n“You can because you have to,” Jennine said, “ it's the way people live their lives. We get up after we f... | 6 | |
[WP] A man's wife urgently needs a heart transplant, he goes on a murdering rampage to ensure she gets it. | [
"It had only been a few months since I had left the city, at least what was left of it. Ever since the turn, nobody dared to stay in one place for too long. That mistake cost me my son. \n\nI left for the mountains a few days journey south of the city. I found a nice cave hidden in the rock face where I decided to ... | 2 | |
[WP] You are not the main character in the story that you live in. The author is trying to kill you off. What happens? | [
"Ina great cataclysm i understand my place as i come to terms with my eventual fate. Almost as if great enlightenment has struck me, I have found myself under bodhi's leaves. I watch as time is written on its machine and the invisible hand, now visible, writes my fate into place. Who could I have been? Is this what... | 1 | |
[WP] Every time you ask your dad if you can have a cat, he shakes his head and gets this far-off look in his eyes. Then he always says "Cats are vicious." What's the back-story? | [
"Bob never forgot that day, the day they attacked. Bob was walking home from his little league baseball game, when he heard a rustling in the bushes. He looked over as a orange tabby cat stepped out, and meowed at him. \n\n\"Aw, would ya look at that, a kitty cat.\"\n\nThe cat reminded him of his recently deceased ... | 2 | |
[WP] God is on life support powered by human prayers. The last religious man on Earth is on his deathbed. | [
"Silence. \nA moan.\nI shudder as I feel my omnipresence fading.\nCardiac arrest.\nI can feel my presence fading from this Earth. What will happen without me?\n\"God....\", He cries out.\nEven I don't know.\n\"Someone help! Heart Rate rapidly rising! He's in Tachycardia!\"\nEvery heartbeat means one more galaxy uns... | 4 | |
[WP] Back from the dead. | [
"I awoke in a hot flush, memories of my first time with her were running through my mind all night. \nI laughed at the last words I remembered in the dream \"how did you think I did?\" \"Swimmingly.\"\n\nBut let's go back to the start.\n\nIt all began in woodwork, I was the only girl in the entire class, the rest c... | 4 | |
[WP] An asteroid is predicted to collide with the Earth, so a man and woman sit down for their final meal together. | [
"\"No point in using a rubber, you said! We were all going to be annihilated, you said!\" The beautiful woman was furious. The lecherous old scientist just cackled.\n\n\"Heh. Asteroid forecasts, they're just like foreplay and weather-men: Extremely unreliable.\"\n\n\"Joke's on you, Arthur. I have herpes.\"\n\n\"As,... | 3 | |
[WP] The main character is an ancient Native American hero who falls asleep in the year 1015. Write about his reaction as he wakes up 1000 years later, in modern-day Mexico City. | [
"I woke up and the cool breeze blistered my face. It was, at first, traumatizing. It felt like everything I had prior to this moment had been sucked away in a vortex of death and forgotten memories. I saw abnormally tall buildings, which touched the sky in their everlasting glory. I saw people. Many, many people. O... | 2 | |
Keep it SFW.
Don't be disgusting. | [WP] There's a device that has been released which allows people to switch bodies. A 70-year-old man on his death bed and a 4-year-old girl have just switched bodies, write one of their POV. | [
"The device had been my life's work. The second, later half of my life, anyways. Ever since I saw that 'Freaky Friday' movie. The original, not the remake with that Disney slut Lindsay Lohan in it. \n\nI've worked with the human brain for the entirety of my career, and even after they forced me to retire. I s... | 3 |
Try not to make anything too absurd or unlikely happen; I'm honestly looking for a more emotional or social adventure rather than a physical one. | [wp] a character is walking home from the park, you decide what happens next, but he has to get home safely on time | [
"Roy was walking home from his regular nine to five day as a generic worker at an office. He was feeling pretty neutral, because his life had ups and downs. He was walking through the park, which he had mixed feelings about since there were squirrels in the park, and he liked squirrels, but there were also birds an... | 3 |
[WP] The world is bathed in constant light to keep away the shadows. No one goes into the darkness or touches shadows. No one remembers why but they all fear them. | [
"\"For the last time, Mam, Sun lamps don't just 'Go out'. Either you manually shut them down or they stay on.\" This was the third time this lady said that. \"Listen to me. Do I sound like I'm joking? I can't see any light coming from under the doorway anymore.\" After a pause and a heavy sigh, the woman on the... | 3 | |
[FF] Write an exactly 10-line poem on how times where better at some point in the past or will be better at some point in the future. Rhyme Scheme STRONGLY encouraged. | [
"When I was a child, I smiled; I was young and naive, \n\nI knew not what it meant to deceive. \n\nI saw the sun. but not the rain,\n\n I saw the joy, but not the pain. \n\nI thought the world was a happy place, \n\nBut now I know that's not the case. \n\nOn summer afternoons, I'd play in the grass.\n\n I'd have ch... | 3 | |
Warbots, drones, terminators, what have you. The enemy is vanquished, what will they do now that the peace has come? | [WP] What happens to the killing machines when there is no war left to fight? | [
"Jordan walked into the crowded subway station, ignoring the stares from men and shuffling away from women. Straight backed and eyes forward, he stood motionless, yet seemed more capable of rapid movement then anyone there. He was two heads taller then the next and barrel-chested. He felt eyes on his arm. The conve... | 3 |
[WP] A world where the neckbeards are in charge of the world. | [
"At the early hour of four AM, the town is woken up by the sounds of neighing and laughter. I get up and walk towards a bright pink closet in the corner of an otherwise dark and dingy apartment, perfectly clean with not a spec of dust on the large doorway. As I push the doors open, a massive shrine to my assigned ... | 2 | |
[WP] The story of a character known to a select few as The Silencer. | [
"A slap across the face brought him out of his daze. \n\"Wing! Wake the fuck up dude, your not listening! We need to get out of here!\" shouted Bud hysterically. \nEverything started coming back to him, he regained his composure and knew what had to be done. \n\"Let's go Bud, time to be free.\" he replied in a fi... | 5 | |
[WP] A man goes to sleep every night and find he's a different person each day when he wakes up. | [
"Carolyn walked into the coffee shop, hand trembling as she pressed into the clean glass door. A bell above the door DINGED, causing a small yelp to escape her lips. Her heart thumped in her chest and her stomach rose up behind her lungs, but when a kind face poked his head out from behind the register, Carolyn's m... | 5 | |
[WP] A great feast has begun! You, a wandering minstrel, have been hired as entertainment. The guests pound their goblets and bellow for a ballad of great heroes past or a raunchy tune. What shall you perform? | [
"Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris\nItaliam, fato profugus, Laviniaque venit\nlitora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto\nvi superum saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram;\nmulta quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem, 5\ninferretque deos Latio, genus unde Latinum,\nAlbanique patres, atqu... | 4 | |
**Think about the following:**
What does this mean for the world?
Is it a sign of something more to come?
What happened to them after they were last seen?
How do they react to the world now, especially those who have been long presumed to be dead?
What is the government's official statement regarding everyone ... | [WP] All the people who ever went missing inexplicably or without a trace start reappearing in their thousands. When asked about their disappearance, they all utter the same response. | [
"*Found this during the Berkeley job.*\n\n*It's real. Don't go home.*\n\n>**Item #:** SCP-████\n>\n>**Object Class:** Keter\n>\n>**Special Containment Procedures:** Each instance of Item SCP-████-1 is to be locked in an individual cell at least five (5) meters long and wide, and at least two (2) mete... | 2 |
"They Couldn't hit an Elephant at this Dist-" How do you react?
Those are the actual last words of United States [General John Sedgwick](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sedgwick) | [WP] You are a footsoldier in an epic battle between two powerful nations, and your commanding officer has just offered up his ironic last words | [
"\"They Couldn't hit an Elephant at this Dist-\"\n\n\nI blinked rapidly for a few seconds. The general seemed to sway back and forth and then pitch forward and lay still. I, and the rest of my team didn't hesitate to throw ourselves on the ground with the dead man. Better by our own initiative then a sniper's bulle... | 2 |
I always wished I could do this. | [WP] You have a unique way of handling headaches: projecting them into other objects (often destroying them) or other people. Today you happen to have a particularly bad migraine. | [
"This is a tough one. My vision is swimming, the colors shimmering in my peripheral vision. The sound of the shower running hits my nerves like jackhammers raining onto my head. I'm definitely giving this one away. But to whom? Or what?\nI ponder this question on the drive to work. I should have called in sick, but... | 2 |
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