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[WP] You are an ant whose anthill has just been smashed by an angry schoolchild. You and the other few ants who survived track the child down to avenge your fallen comrades. | [
"We looked at each other, our faces stern and rugged. No more words were needed between us survivors.\n\nWe had survived the march into this cruel world of stone were only they lived. We avoided their rolling steel mountains, climbed their walls, and walked distances we would have not thought possible.\n\nAnd we ha... | 2 | |
[WP] A muggle buys a magic shop from a wizard and must now cater the magic and non magic customers who come by, without completely understanding how everything works | [
"\"Don't you have anything more *interesting* than these parlor tricks?\"\n\nI looked at my customer. He looked a little young to be a wizard, but he had the bearing of one. Stage magicians could be rather uptight as well, though. I tried to probe a little more. \"Do you mean interesting magic tricks, or, you k... | 2 | |
[WP] Your entire super hero career has been to help people, often with unconventional methods and the people are never on your side. Today a new "hero" shows up and says you've been the villain all along. | [
"\"What? Come again?\"\n\n\"You're the villian,\" he said matter-of-factly. The arrogance of it all. Him, in his silver suit with red cap, flying above the rubble. Judging me!\n\n\"That's impossible, I save lives!\"\n\n\"How so?\" he asked me.\n\n\"Like, last week, for example. I blasted that whole hospital fu... | 2 | |
[WP] A criminal is caught and sentenced to death but lives. Authorities redo the execution and once again it fails. | [
"He was a nobody, his crime: being in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was walking to the gas station to pick up some cigarettes. He ended up walking in on a robbery.\n\nAs he walked to the chair for the second time he though about the solitude of his death. With his parents gone, no siblings to speak of, and ... | 2 | |
[WP] A voice from the sky booms, "PLOT TWIST." The world changes dramatically. | [
"I steadily applied the brakes as I rolled up to the stop light.\n\nMuffled by the window glass, I heard a cry. Louder than a gunshot, \"New meta! New meta!\"\n\nThe car hunkered down on its suspension as 2-inch steel plate armor spread over the body. The wheel grew an array of buttons for dispatching missiles, tri... | 6 | |
[WP] As the CERN LHC is turned up to it's highest power level ever, a message spells itself out on the particle detector. "Go no further, or else..." | [
"\"Ok, the data from the other detectors has been analysed. They're seeing the same thing as us at 12.97 TeV. It's five sigma now, no doubt. There's a signal there.\"\n\nJerry sat back in his chair, exhaling deeply, staring out of the window of the conference room at the mountains outside. He took a moment to think... | 2 | |
[WP] Profess your love for someone without professing your love | [
"I enjoy that I can awaken with the smell of you on the sheets, and reach out for you, less than an arm's length away. Of course, I do not wake you. I would be content to watch you dream, and wait for you to join me in the waking world.\n\nI know your favorite kind of coffee, the exact amount of milk ingrained in... | 2 | |
[WP] It's the most heated football game in all time. Team Asgard vs Team Olympus | [
"\"Okay, gentlemen, we're here in the Abrahamic Heaven, and this is Gary Lineker, Titan of Knowledge Prometheus, Goddess of Love Lofi, and me, your host, Gareth Barry. Gary, why is it just ex-Everton players in the human commentary?\"\n\n\"To be honest, Gareth, we've had word from the Muses that the cosmic writer o... | 2 | |
It is a challenge to make something like that interesting... SO CHALLENGE! GOOD LUCK YA'LL! | [WP] Write a story with uber simple sentinces. (Like see spot run, ect.) | [
"Mr.O works in a factory. It is an old building. Its walls are made entirely of gray stone. Many things are made in Mr.O's factory.\n\nMany things that are bought by many people. People who live out their lives beyond its walls. People who work at the factory. Even people that make the things inside. The things tha... | 4 |
[WP] Write about the metamorphosis of a human to....anything, whether it be another human, animal, or even object. | [
"(Based off Elder Scrolls Lore) \n\nI performed the rituals I saw in my visions. Hircine. The God of the Hunt. His voice resonated like a grizzled howl in a distant valley. The words commanding me to his service. He offered me a choice not many others were given. Hunt by his side for the rest of eternity in the Hun... | 2 | |
[WP] Scientist create a medication that allows you to remember all your dreams. We find out why we want to forget them | [
"As someone who frequently woke up in the night to sweats and an elevated heart rate, I’d been working on lucid dreaming for years. It’s a tough process, learning to control your dreams, and it takes a lot of time investment as well as more than a little luck at first. The first time you succeed it doesn’t last lon... | 2 | |
Inspired by an AskReddit post. | [WP] You are a member of a secret-society, founded to protect a mysterious cube. Under your care, it vanishes. | [
"I glance around.\n\nI close my eyes, open them, and look around again. No... come on, this is...\n\nI'm hallucinating. That's the only explanation. There must be... must be some kind of solar event rearranging the molecules in my brain, or something. There is an explanation. There has to be.\n\nI flex my hands, fe... | 2 |
Some suggestions (not requirements):
* You know people who can edit records to match the new memory you have created.
* You can control any person or thing in the memory besides the patient.
* You generally try to only change what you need to get the job done. | [WP] You are a therapist who helps people forget events by entering and interacting with the memory to change it to something else. | [
"Mrs. M walks into my office holding a drowsy blond girl by the hand. \"Are you sure you want your child here?\" I ask, somewhat suspicious. \nShe nods. \"Yes, I need her for support.\" I close the door. \n\"Well, she won't be able to be in the room with us--\" \nShe sighs loudly and sits the girl down. \"Actually,... | 3 |
[WP] You are an intergalactic hunter, you go from planet to planet hunting rare aliens and bringing back the various wares collected from their corpses | [
"I slip through the alley ways of the slums of Briggtoren, the self sustaining city on the third moon of Horfoe. The holographic sun, with its artificial sunlight, is setting on the massive dome screen that covers the city from the cold dead planet.\n\nI always loved the idea of this city, built for the sole purpos... | 4 | |
[WP] As food got scarcer and harder to grow, a large fleet of viking ships sail west in hopes of finding new farmland. After months of sailing, they come across a landmass where they eventually settled in. 500 years later, Columbus makes landfall, and comes in contact with the Great Norse empire. | [
"*Memoirs of a Sailor*\n\nThey said it couldn't be done. Whispers went around, susurrations about it. It can't be possible. It wasn't possible. But what choice did we have? \n\nThe country was hungry. The king and queen were hungry. Most importantly, *I* was hungry. What did you expect? You can't just grow food inf... | 2 | |
[WP] You sit in the darkest cell of one of the worst prisons in the world, accused of a crime you didn't commit. This is unbearable. Then one night, you see it in the corner of your eye. The vent nearby is loose and the guards haven't yet arrived to lock your cell for the night. Hope. | [
"Carrington had dropped him in it. Five years running ops for the man so dark they made a black hole look like a fucking christmas tree. And after Bolivia? Just a life sentence and his augs ripped out of his skin.\n\nIf this place had a name it was more redacted than his own. No one knew he had been taken, his own ... | 2 | |
Looking forward to see what people do with this prompt. | [WP] You discover you have the power to reverse time for up to a few minutes before the present. You decide to use this for good, and become a silent hero. One day you discover your nemesis has the same power you do. | [
"It came as quite a surprise.\n\nThere's a cute girl sitting the park bench just twenty feet behind me sketching a tree. I'm walking over, hoping to introduce myself, when my latte decides to take a dive right onto her sketchbook. *Fuck* I think to myself, *wish I could do that again*\n\nAnd bam! I'm twenty feet be... | 2 |
[WP] Write a story about loneliness. | [
"\"Dude! Your here! Bill's here!\"\n\nOkay, time to socialize.... \"Do you really need to announce it to everyone?\"\n\n\"Duh! You brought the beer!\"\n\n\"Here you go, and drink responsibly young man!\" Was that good? I hope I didn't sound weird.\n\n\"Yes grandpa~~ Anyways come in enjoy the party, Emma brought s... | 5 | |
[WP] You've been surviving for years on the wasteland following the earth's destruction. One day, you spot someone carrying a sign. It reads "The Beginning is Nigh". | [
"The sign was wide, thick, and nailed to a large fencing post. The man carrying it looked like a dried oak limb, twisted and bent with sun charred skin. Struggling under the weight he managed to stand it up and slouch against it. ‘The beginning is nigh!’ it read. Strange, I thought.\n\n“So I’ve found you.” He said ... | 2 | |
All credit to the top (and awesome) answer to this thread earlier:
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/36r5hl/you_have_to_kill_10_of_the_worlds_human/
The full prompt...
With resources growing more and more scarce on Earth each year, the leaders of the world have agreed on a pact to curb the population: a yea... | [WP] Yearly population control via a worldwide game of Musical Chairs, and the music just started... | [
"(I wrote this in response to a similar prompt that was deleted because it was too similar to this one. I figure I'd at least share it here)\n\nI'm writing this as an apology. If this doesn't work, I don't know what will. It seemed like such a good idea at the time, a way that no one would die anymore. I know this ... | 2 |
[WP] Write a gritty tale of a children's game (tag, hide and seek, British bulldog, etc) | [
"They didn't know...how could they? I've been here for years. Silently waiting, patiently even....for them to return. \n\nThey knew....they must know what I am for they avoid it like they avoided the vegetables on their plates. But why? Why did I deserve to be pushed aside, to be shunned while they played their glo... | 5 | |
[WP] After dying, you arrive in hell only to find that you are the Devils reject. | [
"You know it's a funny thing, death. Everyone wants to believe in some sort of higher (or lower) power to make themselves feel superior in the timeline of a human life, doing many things within the parameters of their own morality to stay on the \"good side\" of things. When you reach the end of your trip however, ... | 2 | |
[WP] Earth as a galactic prison colony. The earth's gravitation as the bars of the cage. | [
"We whisper to our children the old tales, just as our fathers and mothers did for us. When the deep of night hides us away from **their** prying eyes, we tell of the times before. \nBefore the fall, in the time of glory we flew unfettered, unrestrained. But we were foolish and arrogant. We miss-used our great gift... | 2 | |
[WP] A satire on how to be yourself. | [
"''So people, how are you all tonight? Had a fantastic drive over here, through the delicious winter cold? Do you still have all your toes people? Fantastic! Great to hear. Even you in the front, sir? What, you crashed into a tree on the way over here? The roads were frozen? But are you all alright? Ah, good to hea... | 8 | |
[WP]A serial killer is perturbed when their victim doesn't care. | [
"*\"So it's you that's been on the news.\"*\n\n\"Yeah.\"\n\nShe smiles, a sad curl of hot pink. *\"Marie was convinced you were with other women all those nights you said you were working the graveyard shift.\"*\n\n\"I wouldn't.\"\n\n*\"But you would do this? Help me make sense of that, Richard.\"*\n\n\"You shouldn... | 2 | |
[WP] The thoughts of a man right before he threw a flashbang into a babies crib | [
"It's funny how, when it gets really crazy, time slows down. \n\nI mean, not sci-fi. Just how your perception kicks into high gear. Like it is now, as I watch the canister leave my hand. \n\nIt looks almost artistically serene, slowly tumbling end over end. I can clearly read the manufacturer's tracking number stam... | 1 | |
[WP] A soldier is tasked with taking care of a kid, in the midst of war. Although the kid's scared, a father-son/daughter bond begins developing. | [
"The child was shivering, crouched beneath a twisted hunk of metal. Aria got down low, on eye level with him. He shrank back against the rubble, eyes showing too much white.\n\n\"It's alright,\" Aria reached out a hand slowly. \"I'm here to get you out of here.\" For a long moment, neither of them moved. Only the d... | 3 | |
[WP] Write your final moments after watching a TV broadcast that says an asteroid the size of the moon will impact the earth in five minutes. | [
"\nI'm already dead.\n\n\nI died days ago, as gravitational effects of the sudden arrival had torn my coastal region asunder with affected tides and cataclysmic waves. There are handfuls of survivors clawing at each other, raping and burning what's left of civilization, and there are the few that hold onto hope tha... | 2 | |
For example, an anime which shall renamed unnamed tells of an alien species where the male:female ratio is 1:30. Show me how this is actually kind of messed up, in whatever way you feel. | [WP] Take the basic premise of any lighthearted story, and twist it around into darkness. Use any detail you want to show us that this story is very wrong. | [
"\"Rapunzel, let down your hair!\" Said the brave hero as he latched his glove wearing fingers onto the blond's hair, but as he pulled, Rapunzel was pulled out her stone tower and onto the cold stone ground below, mutilated and broken from the fall. \"Huh... I guess hair isn't a reliable thing to climb on.\" said t... | 2 |
[WP] A school teacher returns to their workplace late one night to retrieve something important - only to find their students using their classroom to perform a satanic ritual | [
"“Ms. Trout, c’mon now, are you telling us you really didn’t know? That you had no inking of what your classroom was being used for? Isn’t there something that should have tipped you off? As a professional did you observe strange behaviors, perhaps? You must have seen something,” said the policeman towering over a ... | 3 | |
[WP] You play an online game in which you repeatedly kill and flame and harass another player in the enemy team. That player is a leader of a country and he declares a war on your country giving an official public statement that you and your actions are the reason for the war. | [
"*n00b*\n\n*lol*\n\n*boom boom mthfckr*\n\nI laughed and giggled like a little girl. It's been a while since i last enjoyed playing a game, maybe it is a good choice to join the International server. I always think of my self as a nice person, but this time i lost control of my self. That enemy, \"freedomfighter\" ... | 4 | |
[WP] You die and are reincarnated as a carrot. | [
"\"I was surrounded by my family. Everyone I loved. It was my time to go. The last things I heard were the beeping machines, the crying relatives, the nurses and doctors all yelling at each other. It seemed chaotic. Hectic. But I was at peace. This was my time to go. I said one last goodbye and that was it. ... | 2 | |
[WP] You're one of 5 photographers around the world allowed to capture 1 photo of the most evil tyrant the world has seen. You're stripped of everything besides a camera provided by the ruler himself. Heavily armed guards are everywhere. You have 3 minutes to kill him and leave completely unnoticed. | [
"How much is one life worth, really?\nWe all die eventually. Some earlier than others. But no one evades death forever. \nI wanted mine to mean something. Even if no one knew, I would know my death would have helped those that the world had forgotten. At the end of the day, we live and die for ourselves. My death w... | 2 | |
[WP] Modern science has found a "Cure" to aging. Unfortunately, there are a few drawbacks, such as the requirement to ingest large quantities of human blood. | [
"\"Your medicine is on the table whenever you are ready sir\" \n\nI dismiss her with a wave. She's loyal, more so then the last one, but I learned long ago not to develop attachments to them-or anyone for that matter. The only constant companion over these past years has been my own mind. Some of... lesser constitu... | 2 | |
[WP] It's 5pm. You're at your desk and have to write an essay for noon tomorrow that you know will only take a couple hours. Write out your thoughts as you procrastinate. | [
"They say that to start is half of the work... I started. So that's already half done. \"Games and Their Influence on Society\"... nice title. I'd better play some games to get my creative juices flowing.\n\n*Two hours later*\n\nMan, that's enough gaming for today... now I'm hungry. I can always quickly write up wh... | 2 | |
[WP] A world where people can only take a fixed number of steps | [
"George checked his pedometer. *43800702*. He cursed under his breath and turned to survey the surrounding area. The attack on the lab had forced him to go way past his daily allotment. *Doc is gonna kill me,* thought George. He spotted a Nelson Corp segway handlebar sticking out of the rubble. It sat about sixty f... | 2 | |
[WP] You and your friends have developed a time machine in your garage for your senior project. You take it for a test drive to 200 years ago.. Only almost everything looks the same | [
"We got out of the time machine and looked around but everything was the same, the house, the yard, the lawn mower, every object was at the same spot from when we left. Everything was the same except one thing, we were the only ones there, we searched almost every building in a 10 mile radius and no one was found. ... | 3 | |
[WP] You are an assassin that just received your next target. When you arrive at your targets location, he/she is waiting for you, and says "I always knew it would be you, make it quick." | [
"He opened the door and entered the hallway and then let the door slam shut. The hallway was dark and cold and dusty. On each side were two closed doors, but on the opposite end stood a single open door. He walked slowly towards it, the floorboard creaking under his heavy boots. From the open door came a soft murmu... | 3 | |
[WP] You are a surgeon about to begin a simple procedure. Just before you start, you see Death standing by in scrubs. | [
"\"Stephanie, let Dr. Walker know i'll be in surgery - room three.\" \"Right away, Dr. Conrad.\" Dr. Wilson Conrad leaned into the heavy wooden door, its brass hinges, once gleaning for every new patient that came down these halls to see, now dull - lifeless. They groaned in protest, Wilson alike, groaned too. 22 h... | 2 | |
[WP] In an alternant universe, "Earth" forms as two smaller planets, perfectly locked in orbit with each other; their distance similar to that of the Moon and our Earth. Regale us with the epics of this strange land. | [
"Gerard woke to the sound of the hair dryer falling off to top of the wardrobe, and glancing off Claire's left temple. \"*Third time this week\"* he thought, \"*we're doing better than normal*\". For once he was glad to be woken up early. He threw off the covers letting the cool morning air make contact with his ba... | 4 | |
[WP] Start with a tragedy - and then tell me how it is actually a happy ending. | [
"Sam looked down at Jeremiah's fresh corpse lying in the tobacco field. \n\nThe hot sun beat down on the dead man's forehead, which had begun to burn and pinken. \n\nHe'd been a simple farmer, with two kids. His wife, Caroline, had been his sweetheart since he was a boy. They'd sit under an oak tree near the swamp ... | 2 | |
[WP] The Odyssey takes place entirely in IKEA | [
"Odysseus' son, Telemachus, had just defeated the Hydra. After weeks of searching for his father, he was nearly lunch for this most foul beast. He was just ready to head on to his next journey when suddenly a massive, horrible giant came and destroyed his ship. He drew his weapon and was about to slice off its head... | 2 | |
An Infinity Room? | [WP] When you die, you're put in control of a universe right from the "start". You're assigned a room with your universe, and it's right next to the guy who's running your previous life's one. | [
"\"It's just down this hall and to the right,\" the secretary says. \n\n\"I'm still trying to grasp the part when you said I'm dead,\" you say.\n\n\"There's nothing to grasp,\" she says, eyeing you suspiciously. After her comment, you have a difficult time not staring at her curvy behi-- *Stop that, you idiot,* you... | 1 |
[WP] Researchers trekking deep into the rainforest stumble upon a group of chimpanzees that seem to have discovered how to make fire. | [
"\"By god, look at the scale of this one,\" said the surveyor to the scientist. The painting was quite massive, sprawling on the face of the oak, detailing it with colored depictions of panthers, apes, even snakes. \"Shame it won't preserve for more than a few decades.\"\n\nSuddenly the guide interrupted, \"You bet... | 2 | |
[WP] Everyone has always told you how irrational your fear is. Today, however, it proves completely rational after all. | [
"Mostly, it's in the way they scuttle. That's the only word I can use to explain it- the unnatural this-way and that-way movement of their nightmarishly jointed legs. It's not a crawl, because babies crawl, and babies are innocent and gentle. It's not a walk, because dogs walk, and dogs bring laughter and joy to pe... | 3 | |
[WP] A time traveller takes a walk through a forest. Suddenly, he stumbles upon his/her own dead body. | [
"“I didn't know where I was. Honestly, it didn't matter. I was just having fun. A Hobo in Space-Time. Spiraling through history, no place to go, no place to stay. Meeting and greeting people like Bon Jovi, George Washington, and Hitler... \n\t\nActually, Hitler wasn't that bad of a guy, if you ignore the whole geno... | 3 | |
[WP]"So you went to the kitchen, made some toast, poured some coffee...and now there's an inter-dimensional portal??" | [
"At first, I thought it was just the garbage disposal acting up again.\n\nI smacked the bottom of the sink with my mug, lightly, but the faint sound of whirring did not stop.\n\nIn fact, it only grew louder. Into an almost kind of growl that made me afraid it would wake Betty.\n\nI bent down closer when the first g... | 3 | |
Bonus points for thousand year evolved technology. | [WP] The first murder happens after a thousand year golden age of peace on Earth. | [
"He looked down at his hands, the blood had barely started to dry. It pooled up in his palms, streaking down the shallow trough-like creases on his fingers. In them, he saw only despair. He had done a terrible thing, such a terrible thing that the word for it was all but lost.\n\t\n\nFor over a thousand years, huma... | 4 |
I just want to see what kind of weird shit goes through your head when you sleep.
*edit: The real reason I made this post was because I'm not sure if I'm still dreaming. | [WP] Write down your last dream no matter how incoherent. | [
"I had been walking out of a bar with a slight drizzle from the sky. I was confused and felt disoriented as the street seemed to twist and move like a wave. For some reason I heard what sounded like Hawaiian music in the background, like the soft strumming of a uke. As I continued on down the road I seemed to feel ... | 9 |
[WP]:The robot revolution has made mankind slaves to their robot masters. You are a former computer science student turned 'computer medic'. | [
"Buzzzzzzz, the door slides open. click, click , click faster and faster like the approaching drop on a roller coaster incline. Clunk, pssshht the air brake is set. \n*Robot #98723 reporting for repairs* over the speaker\nWhat the hell happened to this one, bruised, scraped, cut and bleeding hydraulic fluid everywh... | 4 | |
[WP] "I am the last human" | [
"--First story, wrote on mobile, be nice--\n\"Come to bed, Peter\" \nI felt the tender caress of a three-fingered hand on my shoulder.\n\"I'll be there in a second, Zorba\" \nI respond roboticly as I stare at the floating mass of rock out the window: an infinitesimal group of asteroids in the infinite universe. I f... | 5 | |
[WP] You wake up with a supermodel in an alien zoo where you are one of the exhibits. One day a door is left open. | [
"It had been a long day. I had been working OT all week and the implementation was finally done. Being a mechanical engineer was mind grueling work and I hadn't been to the gym since the project began. I peeled off the work clothes and collapsed on my bed grateful to sleep in all weekend. I slept hard, so hard I di... | 4 | |
[WP] Employers won't hire you unless you have total conscious control over your genome. | [
"Waiting rooms used to be Warm places meant to make you feel at ease, or at the very least, comfortable. Somewhere along the way though, Some fad or another instilled a sense of sterility and purity in the Megacorps and now everything was chrome and bright white, like every inch of the room and its furniture is sim... | 2 | |
[WP] Environmentalist extremists release a virus that elevates cows to 75 IQ average. | [
"My farm was a humble one, none of that modern automation shit, just me, a tractor, and animals. But it changed.\n\nA man broke into my farm last night. I saw him inject something into one of my cows. I immediately grabbed my rifle and shot at him. He ran away and I called a vet about this. Inspection found nothing... | 2 | |
[WP] Write a short story that starts with an air raid siren going off. | [
"\"An air raid siren!? are you fucking kidding me steve. a fucking air raid siren!\"\n\n\"no steve, im not having that in the house.\"\n\n\"i couldnt give a shit if its an antique, youre not bring that in here\"\n\n\"goddamn it! planes are not going to attack our shitty little flat in the arse end of nowhere, now p... | 2 | |
[WP] You're deemed to be at risk of developing a psychotic mental illness when you grow up and are sent to "sanity school", a secretive therapy center that promises to prevent the illness before it manifests. | [
"Probably not what you were looking for at all but here you go anyway.\n\n----------------------------------------------------\n\n*It'll be good for you.*\n\nThe last words my parents said to me to Claremont's Reformatory School for the at Risk Youth. I wasn't so much hurt that the last thing my parents said to me ... | 2 | |
[WP] Two wizards work out a room mate agreement. | [
"“So, necromancy, is it?” Jic asked.\n\n\"Yup,\" replied Meh.\n\n\"Your...\" Jic paused, searching for the correct term. \"... reanimated deceased... do they smell?\"\n\n\"It really depends.\" Meh scratched his head. \"If the corpse hasn't started decomposing, no smell. If it has only started to decompose for a day... | 3 | |
A bit general but interested | [WP] You are in love with someone who gives theirs to everyone. | [
"You're making a big mistake. You're going to regret this night for the rest of your life. You really don't have to do this, you already have someone that loves every inch of you. Why isn't that enough? The rest of them don't matter. Love isn't measured in quantity, it's measured in quality. \n\nYou walk around wi... | 2 |
[WP] A family is on vacation in the mountains when the mother and daughter are kidnapped while the father goes into the small town to get some things. The kidnappers call to deliver their ransom demands but they are all in an area where cell phone reception is terrible. | [
"A short melody indicated that Troy's phone was in roaming as he called his mark's cell from the abandoned cabin. He thought of how he should have bought more money for his TracFone, then how little money his wife Tiffany and he had after losing their house. He peered out of the cloudy panes of the front porch wind... | 2 | |
[WP] Albert Einstein once said, "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with....Super Soakers?" | [
"Chilly was the earth\n\nthough the lands there was darkness\n\nwar once again rang.\n\nNo longer fleshy\n\nwith a core flame they evolved\n\nto survive the cold.\n\nTheir weapons were drawn\n\nworkers melting ice to water\n\nassembling their guns.\n\nOn the battlefield\n\nonce boys, phony brave, men\n\nturn heel, ... | 1 | |
[WP] Here, the flowers need fire to grow. So the dragons are gardeners, you see? | [
"The gardener gently breathed over the flower and watched in satisfaction as it grew a little more, before moving onto the next flower, and then the next and the next, until what had been grassland with tiny plants barely poking out through the soil had become a wild meadow full of grasses and bright, colourful flo... | 2 | |
[WP] A group of individuals decides to kill God and the Devil. Unfortunately for them, they succeed. | [
"I sneaked past Heaven and Hell Lounge's security.\nThere they were.\nGod and the fucking Devil.\nSitting together with drinks in their hands.\nSmirks on their faces, happy.\nFucking pricks. \nThought God was supposed to be merciful.\nAin't no goddam mercy when my Anna was raped and murdered.\nAnd they think the wo... | 2 | |
[WP] You've stumbled into a huge conspiracy. A secret organization that quietly controls... the most insignificant thing possible. | [
"Try as I might, I couldn't get my arms free.\n\nI'd finally regained consciousness in a darkened room, tied and bound to a small wooden chair. The light was so low, I could barely make out the desk in front of me. I shuddered. Who knows how long I'd been asleep. The syringe going into my neck was the faintest of m... | 2 | |
[WP] Technology has been invented that allows people to edit their actual physical appearance through a Photoshop like interface. This has spawned a new industry of emergency "rescue artists" for when people don't get it right. One such artist encounters something he has never seen before. | [
"I quit today. There's just some things a man should never have to see. \n\nAt first, the job with Adobe Skinshop had been pretty cool. The customers were usually hot and always rich (at 50k a pop, the process was no joke) and just needed some help smoothing out a wrinkle there, adjusting the curve of a tit here, o... | 11 | |
[WP] Everyone has a different superpower, but it can only be used 3 times in your entire life. What is your power, and how did you spend your uses? | [
"I wanted it so bad. I craved and hungered for it so much I cried. Why couldn't I reach it? Then it happened, I was suddenly eye level with what I desired. My feet dangling 6 feet in the air. I grabbed the jar with mixed feelings of joy and confusion. I landed with a soft thud, and I think to myself! 'I can fl... | 2 | |
Make it descriptive as possible! | [WP] You die, and are sent to a place of your own creation. Describe your personal heaven. | [
"The other car was mere centimeters away and closing in towards me by the second. Time slowed and the car kept going, instant by instant. No matter what I did, no matter what way I turned the wheel, no matter what pedals I held down, it was inevitable. The little blood that had not rushed from my face soon will. Fo... | 4 |
[WP] You post a Writing Prompt which garners thousands of upvotes, but not one single story. With just hours before the post slides off the front page and into obscurity, you submit your tale. | [
"I'd been attempting to raise the bar in Writing Prompts, by submitting not just prompts that would be popular, but prompts that would *challenge* the writers. I wanted to create prompts that made the denizens of writing prompts *think* and *extend* themselves beyond lazy comedy and obvious plot twists. \nMy first... | 1 | |
Trying to keep it open enough for creativity :) Look forward to reading them. | [WP] You live in a world where at age 18 onwards, any blood that touches your skin is permanently stained and cannot be washed off. | [
"We all had blood stains; from falling, accidents, or just hangnails. I always thought that doctors had it the worst. Even with their gloves and protective gear, it always found a way. I wasn't so sure anymore.\n\nI saw him that night, sitting in front of a shop. At first I didn't think him human. Few of us have so... | 2 |
[WP] For thousands of years, the alphabet has lived in peace under the rule of the vowels. One day the consonants decide to rebel. Write about this civil war. | [
"Our war has been long, it has been bloody, it has been destructive, but it has been worth it. For thousands of years we have lived under their rule, we have agreed to their terms and their rules, but in reality, we have always had the power. It was only until recently that we figured it all out.\n\nThe vowels domi... | 3 | |
[WP] A young man has the ability to receive messages from his future-self. One day he receives a message that just says "Kill yourself." | [
"It doesn't make sense. Then again, none of it makes sense. \n\n\"Kill yourself\". Justin reads his latest message one more time. He gathered his thoughts and then goes through the messages he has received from himself on his phone.\n\nHis life has changed since he first discovered that he could receive messages on... | 1 | |
[WP] Different versions of yourself, from every alternate reality, have been summoned together. And you are the most boring "you" there. | [
"The breaking point fractured outward, like geometric ripples in a pond. The rift grew ever more complex, forming mesmerizing patterns. I could have spent eternity locked in a gaze with the shattered mirror, but mere moments passed before my entire existence forcefully shattered, displacing each piece into a bubble... | 2 | |
[WP] World War III is here and it's not in the way many expected. How did it happen? | [
"{4/12/12} {2:41PM} \n\nI didn't think we would make it this far. Ever since the shelling started, we've just been scattered all about trying to make it to a safe place. They just won't stop. Most of my friends are deaf now. Never to hear anything again, thanks to those god damn shells. You know, I fucking watched ... | 2 | |
Had to delete and resubmit because my tired brain messed up. | [WP] You unknowingly stop aging and become immortal at 20 years old. 50 years later you're finally getting suspicious that you aren't normal. | [
"\"Well he always was a bit dense.\" Said Kathy.\n\n\"A bit dense! HA! A 70 year old man somehow still in the prime of his youth and just now he wonders about it? A bit dense...that's a very kind way to put it. Somebody with a brain should have his fortune, there would be no limit to the good they could do. Why do ... | 3 |
[WP] "This isn't your ordinary magic, dear boy." | [
"\"Fuck off old man I don't have any money.\"\n\nI turn on my heels and shoulder my way through the crowd, pulling my jacket tight around me as another gust whips through the busy streets of New York City. Watching as newspapers begin to fly away from nearby stands, I reach in my pocket and grab hold of the coins ... | 4 | |
Not too long, curious on the writers of this subbredits take on it | [WP] what it means to be an American | [
"The class had mentioned the usual stereotypes about being American, \"land of the free\" etc., now the teacher asked one of the students who stayed quiet during the entire class to say what *she* thinks it means to be American. The student stands up, looks around, moves her black hair out of her face and speaks: \... | 3 |
[WP] You secretly become an assassin by trade, keeping your real identity hidden from others. Things go smoothly until you receive a fateful contract-to kill your own self. | [
"It was the first of January when I received the letter. A smooth, white envelope containing death itself. Another name. Another fatherless child. Another grieving widow. For eleven years now I have served as an angel of death. You'll have many questions that I'll not be around to answer and you must accept this. I... | 2 | |
[WP] You are cursed with immortality. Write about your life. | [
"Let me tell you a story. One-thousand, nine-hundred years ago, I was born. One-thousand, eight-hundred and eighty-one years ago, I was granted immortality. But let's stop for a second. A thing a lot of people seem to mix-up is that immortality is invulnerability. That isn't true. If I really wanted to, I could kil... | 6 | |
[WP] A down on her luck witch is having a garage sale. | [
"\"Half off...\" The cute witch tried to sound cheerful. \n\nThe key word was try. \n\n\"Please buy the things...\" The cute witch had a dark cloud over her head.\n\nBut no one stopped to buy the things. \n\n*CRACKLE*\n\nThe cloud hovering over the witch's head burst open and rain fell down on her. \n\nShe hung he... | 2 | |
[WP] A conversation between two people, where each has forgotten how they know the other. | [
"As it started to rain the two people waiting for the bus sought shelter under the kiosk. \n\"Good day for a soak, isn't it?\" asked the man.\nThe woman merely nodded, swiping at her phone.\nThe man took out his own phone and stared at the Google home page. He was eager to get on the bus when it arrived, but let th... | 3 | |
[WP] In another universe, expired food is dangerous, not because it is rotten, but because it turns into monsters that eat people. You are one of the chosen, who must eat surplus food before it expires. | [
"\"It is up to you to save our great Nation from the rottens!\" General Howard bellowed to the small crowd of worn-looking men who managed to come to the scheduled gathering. They were becoming smaller as he traveled from town to town. His brow furrowed with concentration as he recited the mandated speech. \"These ... | 2 | |
There was a great fire in london during 1666. | [WP] Your pet dragon smells of alcohol. (Year 1666, London) | [
"\"Why don't you smell like marijuana? Have you been hitting the booze cabinet?\" asked Randalf the Great to his dragon.\n\nThe dragon felt deep shame inside for he loved to get drunk. His master smacked him on the head for drinking too much. The dragon cowered in fear and his nostrils enflamed. He thought about us... | 2 |
[WP] Through a time travelling accident, you have become the legal guardian of your 10 year old self. Describe the experience of looking after him/her. | [
"*The First Day*\n\nI fumble with the keys to my apartment, sweaty hands making the task more difficult than it otherwise would have been. I can't stop looking at her... me. Was I ever really that little? \n\n\"Why is it so clean?\" Her voice rung out dripping with disdain. \n\n\"Because you won't always be content... | 2 | |
[WP] Adam and Eve didn't eat the forbidden fruit, humanity lives in a perfect world, its only problem is keeping the forbidden fruit guarded | [
"It is an unnatural thing for an angel to die. To be an angel is to relinquish death and live eternal, free of doubt, worry loss fear and hate. Humanity has only known of two angels in it's short span. The two sentinels below the tree.\n\nOn the last day of our freedom, well their freedom. Moments before the first ... | 6 | |
[WP] You discover that you can communicate with one species of wild animal and they will follow your command. Tell about your quest to conquer the world. | [
"They laughed at me. They all laughed. It was to the point where I had gone to the news and let the world know that it was going to meet it's new leader: me. I was bashed and teased and bullied to no end. They thought I was some sort of joke. They stopped thinking that when the Corgis attacked. ",
"\"Goddamn ants... | 2 | |
[WP] After 3 years working nights at a local fast food place, your manager says you'll be taking the day shift. You're confused and slightly annoyed, because he knows good and well you're a vampire. | [
"I had to do a double take at my shift on the wall. It was a typo. It had to be a typo. Steve just got AM and PM mixed up. A simple talk would settle this. \"Hey Steve, it seems you have a typo on my shift. I work overnight, and you have me on the day shift.\"\n\nSteve shook his head. \"No, I did that on pur... | 7 | |
[WP] The halls of Asgard, once solely occupied by fearless warriors charging into battle, is becoming more and more filed with drone pilots, hackers, and others who have never personally seen bloodshed. Describe the culture shift from any perspective. | [
"\"More mountain dew for my brothers! Doritos for everyone!\" A young chubby man says, attracting the gaze of the entire hall.\n\n\n\"What manner of warriors are you!?!? How can a such a plump body be any use in war other than a shield?\" One of the older warriors asks, standing up and walking towards the loud youn... | 3 | |
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheFairFolk A little inspiration for you guys. | [WP] Write a story about faeries. Not the Disney ones, but the kind that are anything but human. | [
"Sharp earthy smells were always suspect. She shifted her eyes, and retraced her submerged steps in the creek, realizing the glint she saw in the bank was not her way home but most likely a fairy trap, as they always laid them near their returns. \n\nSuddenly three quick clicks enter her ear and she turned to see ... | 4 |
[WP] You wake up in an inn to the sound of His Grace Robert Baratheon's caravan arriving in Winterfell. You stumble out into the sunlight and run directly into Lord Eddard Stark. You're read the first 5 books in the ASOIAF series. | [
"I realize almost immediately that everyone is staring at me. I'm fairly certain the cause of this attention is the fact that I'm dressed in my Spiderman NighTime Onesie. Everyone else seems to be dressed in leather and animal skins and the like.\n\nLord Eddard Stark is looking down on me. He looks a lot like Sean ... | 2 | |
[WP]It is the year 650 B.C. Your kingdom is at war when suddenly, a modern military from 3000 A.D. materialises and interferes. Write from any perspective. | [
"I am Mentuemhat, servant of Amun and the lord of light Wah-Ib-Re, Psamtik.\n\nI, humble servant of the gods that I am, am one of the few who have been chosen of the light to survive and tell you this tale.\n\nI, Mentuemhat, have lain eyes on the very gods themselves and this is my witness.\n\nWhen I was a young ma... | 2 | |
This was a thought I had in the shower but figured it could go further than a mere showerthought. I kind of pictured it as metaphor for the rapture with colony ships leaving a dying planet, but it could happen in so many ways. | [WP] The rapture begins, the people who ascend are those who tried to save the planet from global warming, the rest get to stay on Earth. | [
"Judgement day had come and gone.\n\nJesus had returned and said that he would save all who had truly tried to prevent global warming.\n\nWhat was so strange is that only primative people had been taken. Jesus took none of the christians, none of the moslems, and none of the jews. He took none of the republicans,... | 2 |
No poems, please. | [WP] Give me an adrenaline-pumping battle scene! | [
"The bombs went first. Booming around me and left my ears ringing and I heard the sergeant yell move. I ran across French farm to a delicate wooden farmhouse. I caught my breath as the blood pumped in my body at an alarming rate. I checked my gun and noticed the magazine of Thomson automatic was empty. I threw it o... | 5 |
I feel like Writing Prompts have become addicted to the subversions and reversals of classic themes. How about we instead try focussing on quality over being special.
Prove that you don't need to have the Princess suddenly turn out to be the antagonist, or the Knight turn out to only be after her for the money to writ... | [WP] Write a classic fairy tale where the Knight saves the Princess. No strange twists or subversions. Just focus on telling a good story. | [
"This isnt a story so much but my buddies lyrics is a story meeting your criteria. Uno momento, must copy paste.\n\nWell the dragons, they breed. Skies overpopulated, \nAnd nobody notices, patches of shaded. \nGrasses and bricks, that form castles that stand \nas a false testament to the triumph of man. \nWhen did ... | 11 |
How are they dealt with whether it's a cure or jail time. | [WP] write a story where zombies are about as common and annoying as the cold. | [
"*Thump*\n\n\"No...\"\n\n*Thump*\n\n\"No no no...\"\n\n*Thump*\n\n\"Aw godDAMN it!\" I threw the covers off my bed and groggily rose out of bed, the occasional *thump*ing stirring me from a good night's sleep. \"Ugh...I'm gonna feel this at work.\" I muttered as my palms massaged my eyes. I didn't get enough sleep ... | 2 |
[wp] Aliens land on earth, everyone is nervous. But the aliens completely ignore us and only have eye for one thing: strawberries. | [
"\"Luscious red hearts.\"\n\nThat was the message that pervaded all of our devices before they came. \n\nPeople panicked, of course. They left the cities in droves, hoping to hide themselves under trees and mountains. Hoping that if they could not be spotted from above, then the aliens would not know they existe... | 2 | |
[WP] Describe losing your virginity as a movie review. You are one of the most highly regarded, and harshest film critics ever. | [
"When sexual experiences are brought to my attention my enthusiasm about reviewing them follows a fair trend. When they are very good, such as the 11 PM-3AM session following I love you Starring Janet Monnigan Directed by Cesar Campos I am very Enthusiastic. When they are Okay but not great I am usually fairly bore... | 4 | |
[WP] An old, gnarled man is whistling quietly as he walks on the plains, carrying a sack full of mysterious items. Describe in the third person his journey and role in the world. | [
"The old gnarled man walked the plains, whistling a tune to himself. His skin was leathery, baked--forged from years in the harsh sun. He had walked these plains for what felt like an eternity. Yet still he pushed forward. With each footstep, his knapsack of mementos pierced the air with a clamor of noises. He felt... | 3 | |
[WP] A Gardner grows increasingly desperate in his fight against rabbits. | [
"The gardner hunkered down behind the overturned wheel chair panting and clutching his shotgun.\n\n\"How did it come to this? How did it come to this?\"\n\nBehind him his garden burned. He could feel the heat on the back of his neck. Beside him shadows danced in light of the fire.\n\nThen he saw it. The shadow of a... | 3 | |
[WP] You are an astronaut on Apollo 0. All the later missions were a desperate attempt to undo what you did. | [
"I made it. This is it. I'm about to make something of my life. I'm an astronaut! Honestly I don't know how I got here... Part of the first moon landing! Sweet deal. Not that anyone will ever know. Seems kind of sad that our country won't share in the legitimate first landing. But I totally understand. Can't have s... | 4 | |
You've had the day from hell. A flat tire caused a car accident so you spent the day on the side of the road and at the hospital. You are fine, but you have missed almost all of your daily routine.
By the time you make it home, you walk in to find everything you own neatly packed for moving. On your now plastic covere... | [WP] You find a suicide note on your desk signed with your name. You didn't write it and don't want to commit suicide. | [
"*^(Rain drops keep falling on my head... )*\n\n\nThe line from the song keeps repeating itself over and over in my head. Sure, its raining outside. But I feel a storm brewing up inside me as well. \n\n\nI've had a rough day. First a flat tire, then an accident. Then a trip to the ER. Ten stitches. And a $2500 bill... | 3 |
[WP] Write something that uses the following sentence: "In a fit of sanity, _____" | [
"Grundr ran through the brush, blades of grass towering over him. This fool had no idea what he was getting himself into, he was trapped and didn’t even know it yet. They had pulled this bait and switch twice this sliver moon. Grundr dropped and huddled. Two boot thuds on the mother and he felt the boot in his back... | 5 |
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