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[WP] It's the second coming, and Jesus is back. He tells us everything in the Bible was meant to be taken literally. | [
"- You fools ..What boss or manager gives out orders and commands and expects the servant or employees to take it out of context and do something other than What he commanded?. I get it my prophecies were a little difficult to understand, but come on..really? What was so hard to understand that it was like I made ... | 3 | |
Maybe some moons change our gravity, or time flows backwards for a few months. Think outside the box. | [WP] Invent a new season and how it effects the world. | [
"There is a terrible beauty to each season. With spring comes vibrant blossoms and verdant green, but so too comes stinging insects and poisonous foliage. Summer brings energy and sunlight, but also scorching heat and fatigue. With Autumn comes the fresh air and incredible changing colors- but it also marks the end... | 9 |
I haven't seen a prompt like this in a while, where the OP gives you a quote or sentence and you write a story based around it, but it's worth a try. | [WP] "For a moment... it felt... I felt like I was alive." | [
"Awake. My eyes opened up, staring at the cold, white ceiling. I shifted in my bed, trying not to wake my wife who lay asleep next to me. Too late, she's a light sleeper.\n\n\"You're thinking again, aren't you?\"\n\n\"I could be. Does it matter?\"\n\n\"You know it's not good for you. The psychiatrist said so.\... | 4 |
[WP] Pluto has become a brothel planet, due it's large heart-shaped crater. | [
"Space truckers Ollie and Emile ditched their cargo on Europa and were making their way to the very outer rim of the solar system. It didn't matter how far away they put the largest brothel in the galaxy, not since faster than light travel was mastered. The maneuvering thrusters of the tractor slowed she ship wit... | 2 | |
[WP] A couple accepts the offer to be the first humans to live and die on Mars. On Mars, they have a child, who learns about Earth, then promptly plans his escape from the red planet. | [
"I'm not allowed to play outside. In fact, I'm not allowed outside my house. It's too hot outside. Sometimes it's too cold. The red planet which I live on is harsh. My dad always tells me it's too harsh for a young boy like me, but I know it's not. I have lived my whole life in my small house, and only been outside... | 2 | |
[WP] Earth's time capsule launched into space returns with an ominous message. | [
"\"I don't care what it says. Double check the NAV system. That's fucking impossible.\"\n\nDr. Vokaris stared blankly at the capsule in the containment room below him. It's body worn like something passed nervously between fingers too many times.\n\nHe was just a boy when they launched it. 2049. A hundred years of ... | 4 | |
[WP] Four friends witness a murder. None of them can seem to agree on what they should do. | [
"\nThe four of them collapsed into the quiet corner cafe with wide eyed faces as white as the cloths on the empty tables. The old languid grey-haired waitress turned her bunned head at all the commotion.\n\n\"Quickly! Just sit here!\" said Patricia quickly but quietly. The rest followed her panicking antics and sat... | 2 | |
[WP] A tale of jealousy and revenge as a cosmic event grants super human abilities to every human on the planet.... well, everyone except for you... | [
"Human intrinsic nature and knowledge has never been the same after the Great Calamity. Every human evolved some form of super human power, heck my mother could render anything in the vicinity of her hearing completely void of noise. The vibrations still existed atomically, scientists said, but it was as if the min... | 2 | |
[WP] You come to a fork in the road with a sign. The arrow pointing right says “Nothing is left,” and the arrow to the left says “Nothing is right.” | [
" - Shit. \n\n Wes cried. \n\n - This kid goes fucking poetic now. \n\n I just nodded without an answer, arms crossed, trying to be hinted by the details. Type and the color of the letters were the same as the previous signs.\n\n - So, is it saying nothing will be left if we go right? Guess we just go left the... | 13 | |
/u/Poem_for_your_sprog, I'm looking at you...
But all submissions are welcome! And may the odds be ever in your favor! | [WP] Write me a poem about a serial killer performing his final kill before retirement (or possible capture). | [
"The girl woke up with a hazy groan, unaware she wasn't alone.\nIn the shadows I watched as she finally came to, my palms became sweaty as my excitement grew.\nShe was strapped to a table by her ankles and wrists, she struggled and thrashed, her hands balled into fists.\n \"There's no use in trying. It's futile, ... | 3 |
Feel free to write from any perspective, not necessarily the recently deceased's. | [WP] After you die, you are "reincarnated" in the imagination of a child. | [
"Loneliness.\n\nIs this the feeling of death?\n\nOnce, I was a brave soldier, fighting the war in the air. \n\nThen I was spiralling down, deep into the darkness of death.\n\nWhen you have 70 years in eternal darkness, you have lots of time to get philosophical.\n\nThen it was bright, and I was looking out a child'... | 4 |
[WP] You are dangerous. Not because you kill, but because you don't. | [
"Atlantic Ocean- 1692\n\nA child with long, snowy white hair stared at the fleet. The group of merchant ships stuck roughly together as she approached. Crewmate's cries could be heard up the chain of command; from the big, billowing masts of the \"Lavender Crown\" to the tiny schooner affectionately called \"Tugg's... | 4 | |
[WP] Take the most horrific/traumatic/saddest event in your life, turn it into a comedy. | [
"My feet padded on the soft carpet that unbeknownst to me betrayed my mother and fathers current financial status. I was called into their room as was my sister and we tumbled in as we did everywhere. The metal bed frame twisted toward the ceiling that my sister and I thought we would never be able to reach. Her be... | 4 | |
[WP] In the year 2055, people have become so apathetic they no longer care to experience complex emotion. Emotions are now mass distributed in the form of medicinal capsules. You just got your first bottle, complete with all emotions. | [
"Dear mom\n\nKnow that I write this to tell you that I'm safe, I'm sorry, and I love you with all my heart.\n\nBy the time you get this, I'll be out of the country with good company. I'll be headed towards the central hub of America, I have a future there. Mother, I hope you find it in your heart to forgive me some... | 2 | |
To clarify better: that pesky 12 year old that wrote "penis" on the door of a toilet stall might be an actual 12 year old, or an immature 25 year old | [WP] You live in a world where looks aren't determined by physical age, but by the age on which you act | [
"Could you imagine if everyone matured at the same time? It's been on my mind for the past couple days, something I've been doing to entertain myself in between these silly blind dates. One of my younger friends recommended I do this, so I'm not sure if I've got a little more hair than usual today. But anyway, I'm ... | 2 |
[WP] Write me a love story between diet coke and Mentos. You can make it a comedy, romance, etc. Have Fun! | [
"This is a story of lust. This is the story between Mentos, the compact rigid male, not the biggest in size, but what he lacks in size he makes up for in sheer delight, in the flavour of his insides, in the way he gets up all in your mouth and leaves you tasting him on the outsides of your upper teeth for hours. A ... | 3 | |
[WP]You are a shape-shifting alien living on earth, taking the former of a human to hide. One day, a young girl sees straight through your disguise. | [
"I thought I had hidden myself pretty well behind the convenience store, but evidently I hadn't.\n\n\"I saw you do it, you changed and I saw it happen.\"\n\n*Shit*, I thought to myself, *not again*.\n\n\"And I'm going to tell my parents and the police. You know you aren't supposed to be here.\"\n\nShe was smart for... | 2 | |
[WP] A terminally ill man is in desperate need of a liver transplant. His only hope for a donation is a terminally ill woman who is in desperate need of his heart. | [
"“We could trade, maybe,” a deceptively optimistic voice penetrated an awkward silence.\n\n“Are-are you serious?” A feminine voice rang out sharply. “How the hell did you stay alive for *this* long with that kind of thinking? Trade defective organs? Are you broken in the head, too?”\n\nShe instantly regretted her o... | 2 | |
[WP] "What seperates you and death is this piece of paper." | [
"There he lay, on what would be his final resting place, his days were numbered. His hands tightly grasping on to a crumpled piece of yellowed paper. He had been silent throughout the entire day, probably contemplating on how his life had led to this point, but somehow he managed to gather enough strength to mutter... | 10 | |
[WP] A man is sentenced to two-hundred years in prison. Thanks to medical progress, he lives to serve out his term. | [
"His brow was heavily wrinkled, his hair an off-white halo.\n\nThe sun seemed too bright on his face, and he shielded himself from it. He made a motion to turn around, but the guards turned him around again. \n\nFreedom. Something he had dreamt of for so long, but now that it was hear it was more horrible than his ... | 2 | |
[WP] You have a very unique power. People are not able to remember your face, even not after spending weeks or years together in school. How are you using this ability? And how is it affecting your social life? | [
"Most people would love to have a superpower. They think it would make them special because they are different. Well what if your power was to be so completely ordinary that it was impossible for anyone to remember what you look like. What if having that power meant that nobody knows who you are unless you tell the... | 3 | |
Inspired by the AskReddit thread that I can't link right now, as I'm working and on mobile. | [WP] You are the next victim of a famous serial killer who only kills with different tools and traps utilizing grapes. | [
"The newspaper I had been reading left me feeling nauseous, a serial killer was on the loose and he was targeting girls with dark hair, glasses, and a little pudgy, 3 things that described me perfectly. The sick part was that he was in my area, I quickly got off the bus and entered my house, when I opened the door ... | 3 |
"What now?" | [WP] You are a high level character in a fantasy world. You defeated your enemies, become pretty much immortal and are now the most powerful being ever, so much that you can be mistaken for a god. After a while enjoying your power over others, you are now bored since nothing is difficult anymore. | [
"Mister Power then realized that by being able to kill anyone, he could apply those skills somehow to make money.\nThen he made some money.\nAnd he already had the power.\nSo he got himself some women.\n\nAnd a case of beer.\nRather than the prompt, the aftermath:\n\nIt was pretty rad and totally what all-powerful ... | 15 |
[WP] You are a Vegan who, one day, wakes up to find yourself with the ability to read the thoughts and feelings of Plants. | [
"\"Woah there Oakie keep your roots to yourself!\" Tammy always woke up to talk radio. It was a relic, sure, but nothing scared you awake like old men yelling about the new generation. She rubbed her face and stretched her legs up, cracking at least half her spine.\n\n\"Great...another day without meat.\" Tammy fli... | 6 | |
[WP] Terrorists/freedom-fighters hijack a head of state's plane and crash it. Two people survive: the world leader and a hijacker. | [
"Air Force One slammed into North Korea at the speed of sound. Of course, it wasn't meant to travel that fast, but gravity is quite strong.\n\nAll of the Secret Service has died, and all rescue attempts are off - I am surrounded by hundreds of tanks, RPGs, and assault rifles. One small move, and they'll have to giv... | 2 | |
[WP] You go to the ATM to withdraw cash and find an extra 10 million dollars in your account. You then get a phone call. | [
"\"Hh-hello?\"\nMy voice crackled as I answered. I was still in a state of awe. \n\nMost people don't randomly find $10,000,000 in their checking accounts overnight. \n\nLuck was something that I never really had; considering that I was born with cerebral palsy. It took me a while to realize that being handicap is ... | 4 | |
[WP] He had no arms or legs. He couldn't hear, see, or speak. This is how he led a nation. | [
"The lands were dark, and the people poor. Slavery bought the world, the rich ruling the poor. Wars erupted, blood bathing every inch of the nation. People lost hope, gave in, leaving the throne open. Through this open throne, they suffered. \n\nThrough this open throne, he was born. \n\nHe grew, his kindness unlik... | 1 | |
I'm at a loss at what a seven year old might like (and my bookshelf trends towards heavy reading), so I thought maybe Writing Prompts could write some short ones. Prompt is intentionally vague to let the imagination run wild. Bonus if you create characters I can give interesting voices to.
Edit: Oh my this got more at... | [WP] The greatest bed time story ever told | [
"Once there was an exceptionally foul-tempered dragon named Skilsgark who lived in a cave pretty far up a mountain. The mountain overlooked a small village of hard working folk who put in their 9 to 5 and liked to relax in the evenings with chocolate milk. Unfortunately they had trouble relaxing because this was no... | 7 |
[WP] Give the reader a tour of your mind. | [
"\"Welcome to the tour of my mind. This recording is was originally made in the year 1970 and has been updated on five year intervals. If, during the course of the tour, you notice discrepancies between what you seen and what you hear, please make a note of it in the log book at the end of the tour. The manageme... | 9 | |
[WP] You've just been given the chance to see when and how you die. You took it. | [
"i have just realised that i\nhave more in common than i thought , with a pie\nbecause i cut said pie , with my butchers knife\nwhilst looking , at my beautiful wife\nonly to realise that i \nhad actually slaughtered everyone in my life\nand would now be baked with forty blackbirds in a pie.",
"I mean, it coul... | 3 | |
clash of rebellions? | [WP] Multiple coups d'état attempt to overthrow a kingdom at the same time | [
"The king gazed out the window, watching his kingdom burn without the slightest hint of unease. Unlike what the common people thought, he was not entirely a fool.\n\nHis army had deserted him. The nobles had refused him. The peasants had rebelled against him.\n\nHe turned from the macabre sight laid out before him.... | 3 |
[WP] They have to choose who to eat. they are starving. | [
"\"There is literally an apple tree right there. Why the aren't we eating those?\"\n\n\"Really Dave? Really? Come on, let's be real here.\"\n\n\"Uhhh, Jenny. I think that's a good idea. We've been walking for days without eating. Why wouldn't we eat app-\"\n\n\"Fuck you Michelle, no one asked you!\"\n\n\"Mich... | 4 | |
A twisted redux of /u/PersonalMeditations 's prompt "At 10:32pm you die. Seconds later you wake up"
| [WP] After a valiant attempt at survival, you're overtaken and fed on...and awaken as a zombie with limited memory. Through context clues, describe how you must've spent your last living moments. | [
"His injuries, the aches of his wounds, all of it faded away, and the gnawing pain of hunger grew in him. It grew and grew until everything else was just numbness. The only thing that awoke inside him was the unquenchable starvation. It was a raw desire that drove him. He needed to satisfy the hunger that consumed ... | 2 |
Hope to see a lot of fun responses! | [WP] You're a mortal superhero with plenty of normal weaknesses, but you also have a very secret and silly phobia. Your archenemy just accidentally stumbled upon it. | [
"\"Do you want to know true power? Fear. Fear is a little itch in the back of your head that never goes away. A germ. A pathogen. I just harnessed it.\"\n\nHe wasn't wrong. This thing I have become. This batman- they call me. The Batman. It's all stemmed from fear. One of the last memories I hold on to, of my fathe... | 2 |
Edit: messed up and put he when it wasn't needed | [WP] In his old age Superman he faces issues associated with aging such as: hearing loss, worsening eyesight, memory problems, etc. despite these issues he refuses to hang up his cape. | [
"The Mayor sat at his desk, eyes closed, fingers gently massaging the bridge of his nose. His headache was getting worse.\n\n\"Sir...?\" asked his autoattendant tentatively, standing in the doorway to the mayors office. \"Sir, I said the commissioner of the transportation department is holding for vidcon, and he's... | 3 |
[WP] Marvel introduces a new superhero: The Redditor. | [
"I stare at the screen, and know this is my call of duty.\nCat pictures and funny videos, my treasure, my booty.\nHere I am adored, I am a bringer of love.\nI am invincible, no fights nor push nor shove. \n\nI scan my favorite subs to see what people have posted,\n'REPOST!' \n'REPOST!'\nand 'Justin Bieber getting r... | 2 | |
You may use any of the first five (5) suggested words. You may add punctuation at any time; it does not have to be suggested. | [WP] On mobile, create a narrative using ONLY suggested words. | [
"I am going to be in the future of the intended recipient. He said he would be happy to help me with any other information. The only thing I can do to help you out with a friend of mine, is a great weekend. The information contained in this message is strictly forbidden.",
"I'm not sure how to make it. The only ... | 5 |
[WP] "There should have been a bang." | [
"The sergeants stomach felt as though he had swallowed a tiny black hole and his entire body was collapsing in upon itself. He felt an intense heat flush his skin while his body let loose every ounce of sweat it could muster. He did his best to claw at the mirror in the testing room, behind which he knew quiet men... | 2 | |
[WP] TIL that Earth used to have a moon. | [
"Yo yo yo like watup u no earth gotta moon? Well like, it used to have a moon. Just read it on Wikipedia.com. Guess it was like pretty big rock that used to go around earth. Stoop used to think it was chee hahaha. But that was in the old day, lotta stoop back then. Now we all get at it on tha Wikipedia.com u no? Lo... | 24 | |
[WP] You are the only person who can stop the next world war. What do you do? | [
"The moment was drawing near. John-7, known as the Agent Omega, the last and best of his unit, placed his hand on his chest and felt his heart pumping like a broken engine. Irregular rhythms of lubs and dubs was unusual of John-7. Even when a plutonium bullet pierced right through his ribs, his heart kept a steady ... | 2 | |
He could be excited or in disbelief or hate your guts for proposing an atheist front on his Christian God. Either way, you must convince him that he will be taught to high school students for generations to come. | [WP] You are a time traveler sent back to make sure Issac Newton discovers his three laws, calculus, etc. | [
"The tavern was damp and thick with smoke, and the genius at the corner of the bar was well in his cups.\n\n\"'Tis an elegant formula, for which I am sure we have only to thank Nature itself,\" he was saying to a colleague at his right. \"Testosterone over cortisol, times social status squared, equals female-to-mal... | 1 |
[WP] Oxygen is scarce. The US government has imposed a curfew; you don't want to be stuck outside after dark. | [
"*Deep breath*, I thought before putting my hand on the door handle. \n\nSarah's house was right across the street, but the thought of holding my breath that long was already giving me a headache. I pressed my nose to the glass pane, leaving a small circle of fog where my mouth should be. \n\n*You've done this plen... | 2 | |
Your call what smarter entails. There's a lot of different metrics for intelligence. | [WP] You get smarter as you get angrier. | [
"Anger entails emotion. \nEmotion elicits your humanity. \nI'm not sure that humanity, nor emotion can describe my current station in life. \n\nYes, I am MAD. Anger does not seem to be a broad enough lingual apparatus to adequately describe my current feelings. \nTime and time again, over and over... The effort pu... | 3 |
The title is a quote from /r/depression a few days ago, but I can't find the post anymore. I thought it would be a great writing prompt though. | [WP] Hello darkness, my old friend. | [
"I remember the old days well. I get reminded almost everyday by fans and admirers. \n\nI was the glorious hero of the age. The kings first choice in defending the kingdom or leading an army. \n\nI was good at it too, better than good. Naturally I've made enemies, I killed most of them soon after they took a dis... | 2 |
Alternatively: Superheroes... other countries responses?
Plenty of directions to go with this one. | [WP] Japan is allowed to have its own military, announces army of 5,000,000 super-advanced robots and plans to dominate the world. America has no choice but to reveal the hidden secrets of Area-51, mutated alien soldiers are just the beginning. | [
"Graven smelled the smoke puffing from his General's cigar. The group of soldiers stood looking over the horizon in the bay, waiting the coming storm. A lumbering man approached Graven and General Zodd, and visibly sniffed the air noticing Zodd's cigar.\n\n\"Thats cuban, aint that shit illegal?\" The lumbering man'... | 4 |
[WP] Mankind has headed for the nearest earth-like planet on a multi-generational trip. You are fifth-generation on a ship with a population that has forgotten its original purpose. You, then, rediscover it. | [
"My uncle died of dysentary. That was a weird thought, but I've lived on this ship my entire life, and illness was a fact of this life.\n\nMy sister had scurvy, which also was really odd. In the data banks, that type of shit only happened to fucking pirates. I clenched my teeth so much, waiting for something import... | 2 | |
[WP] An angel gets wrongfully accused of having commited a horrible sin and therefore banished to hell. As a new demon the fallen angel can only survive by tricking humans into signing horrible contracts. | [
"\"Above quota again! Aren't you the little go-getter\" the imp sneered at me.\n\n\nI ignored him as usual.\n\n\n\"I suppose still you aren't willing to share your secrets with the rest of us mere demons?\"\n\n\n\"Get ye behind me, devil\"\n\n\n\"Fuck you too, lady.\"\n\n\nI was doing what I had to do. In order t... | 2 | |
[WP] One day you wake up in the wilderness near a city in the 1500s. You open up your phone and check the WiFi to see there's a connection. | [
" being from the 2700 I was pretty familiar with things being weird. we all had some sort of fancy hair do, girls wore these crazy outfits, and men too. our civilization had ended up all over the universe, we had mated with all kinds of species. its hard to believe that we came so far in just 700 years. in 700 yea... | 2 | |
[WP] That's the simplest and most complex answer I can give | [
"\"The fact of the matter is you have misunderstood the issue good sir. If you wish to discuss the matter further you simply must reach me at a more opportune time. However I answer this way not out of a need for brevity but simply because I do not grasp the complexities of your topic myself. Much like with a autom... | 2 | |
[WP] You can't prove it, but you think your father might be a time-traveler. | [
"The pain of dying isn't what they said it would be. It's easy to hide my grimace from my children, clustered around me, their whimpers almost taking me back to a shared childhood, and that thought makes me smile through the pain.\n\nI can feel my heart clenching inside me, a fist held too tightly, and I can feel ... | 1 | |
[WP] A superhero meets a henchman that actually doesn't suck | [
"It was already the end of the line for General Rick Vileman, his photon bomb had already been disassembled and the majority of his henchman were either unconscious or had too many bones broken to accomplish anything.\n\n\"Well here we are again General\" said Captain Fantasimo\n\nThe general shuttered, Fantasimo w... | 2 | |
To clarify: By short distances I envision a few feet, not several yards or miles | [WP] Humans can teleport themselves over short distances. It's a skill that can be trained. There's a tournament each year to see who can teleport the furthest through solid matter | [
"Jumping through space from here to there, \nI could go most anywhere. \nI can't go far, but it's far enough. \nNow I'm a contender, it's gonna be rough. \nI breath in deep, I feel the shift \nas people watch my body lift. \nThe cheering crowd's sounds suddenly die, \nfor on the ground, my gym shorts lie. "... | 4 |
[WP]Describe the pitiful life of a medieval bishop who can only move in diagonal directions... | [
"(TN = translation)\n\nWell, it had been a good run.\n\nThe enemy King huddled behind Queen.\n\nActually, it hadn’t even been close. \nEveryone was in the wrong place.\n\n“You *dare* try to check me? To restrict *royalty?*”, King squealed.\n\nIn the distance, Bishop could see Rook glowering at the enemy king.\nBish... | 2 | |
[WP] You have just murdered your young son or daughter. Make me understand. | [
"It was mid afternoon when they came to talk about Joshua. The same pair, a woman in a business suit and a man in a uniform knocked on the door. I invited them in.\n\nJoshua was not there that day, but I was willing to talk to them myself. They sat on the sofa, with their backs to the fireplace. I sat in the armcha... | 3 | |
[WP] the government has developed a new programme, which inputs everyone's genes and runs a simulation to find mating partners who will produce extraordinary offspring. Today you've been matched. You're told your child will be the greatest person to ever live, if you comply. | [
"Ophion Industries. Massive white block letter stood above the towering building that was home to the greatest minds chance gifted to humanity. But to say chance had anything to do with Ophion Industries would be absurd. The new evolution of mankind pioneered right in the massive labs. There is power and resources ... | 4 | |
Originally was going to be last painting, but I think this makes it more useful. | [WP] An artists last piece before their death. | [
"The Painting was a secret whose existence had been laboriously kept from even the other paintings in the room. They filled the grand space, dashes of crimson among seas of green strategically placed upon the canvas boards and stacked haphazardly along the walls or on easels. The room was a rainbow of color save fo... | 2 |
[WP] You're starting a new life in a new town. After buying a centuries-old, abandoned house, you spend days digging through the attic. You find a worn leather pouch buried under a mound of junk. In it are yellowed, dry letters. They are quite clearly addressed to you. | [
"Dear Marty,\n\nIf my calculations are correct, you will receive this letter immediately after you saw the DeLorean struck by lightning. First, let me assure you that I am alive and well. I've been living happily these past eight months in the year 1885. The lightning bolt that hit the DeLorean caused a gigawatt ov... | 3 | |
[WP] You're Single, in your mid forties and work a part time job. Your cats have decided not to "play dumb" anymore and have staged an intervention. | [
"Sheryl puts her feet up on the recliner shortly after she brushes her cat, Fluffy, off of the seat. Stupid cat, always taking the seat she's about to sit in. He never uses the damn cat bed she spent thirty dollars on.\n\n\"Sheryl, I will ignore the fact that you didn't say excuse me.\" Fluffy, a thick-haired white... | 2 | |
[WP] You didn't want the job, but they needed someone experienced. | [
"This was the curse of being so lazy. It was probably genetic, his great great great grandfather probably started the whole muddle when he slept through church and was cursed by the vengeful priest. Sam still shouldn't have slept on his job, during church, through his whole wedding, and when his parents died, aka... | 4 | |
[WP] Somehow, in evolution, instead of 'intelligence' being the dominant trait that was passed on in humans, 'stupidity' was. Miraculously, humans have survived thus far. Write about the typical day of a person in the 21st century. | [
"\"They are hardly sentient,\" D Prime observed. \"I don't believe I understand your interest in them.\" The group of humans, who had already lost interest in the beings present before them, returned to foraging in the bushes with long, dirt-encrusted fingers.\n\n\"You misunderstand,\" protested P sub One. \"It is ... | 2 | |
[WP] A conversation between God, the last man alive and a supercomputer. | [
"**The Elevator**\n\nA blinding white light, a rising feeling, and something else. \n\n“…Elevator music?” \n\nI open my eyes and see that I’ve just asked thousands of copies of myself, reflected in the elevator’s walls. Mirrored with me is a small black box in the corner. It fills the, what would otherwise be an or... | 9 | |
[WP] The police decide to "go green" by using paper-made bullets. Paper-cuts galore. | [
"The Serif looked just over the tail of his gun to see the results of his bold move. The criminal folded in half, then fell on top of his arm in the snow, black on white. As he saw the life drip out of the inkblack eye his superior stepped into the bowl of the park.\n\n\"You told me you used to be a regular office ... | 2 | |
[WP] An alien species was planning to eradicate all life on Earth - until us humans discover that, for some reason, the aliens automatically obey every order we give them. | [
"It was almost the end for the Earthlings. All of the weapons were in place for destruction, just needing to initiate the laser sequence to make it all over. Commander Jux Kxagh of ship 498-93 was so close now he could make out signs held by the earthlings on their high towers. He couldn't read the earth languag... | 2 | |
[WP] When you get married, your emotions and feelings become linked with your partner. One day, while at work, you can no longer feel anything coming from your partner. | [
"I guess I got married for all the right reasons. We were in love. We wanted a life with a house and a family. But somewhere along the way I lost a part of myself. I don't even think I would recognize the man I see today in the mirror 10 years ago.\n\nWe have our problems - she distant, I'm needy. I get that. ... | 2 | |
[WP] At the age of 18 everyone gets a "character select screen" and can change anything about themselves | [
"*My birthday is tomorrow! I can't wait!* I'm laying down in bed, but can't sleep. I'm too anxious. My eighteenth birthday is tomorrow, and I can change anything about myself that I want. I definitely have an idea of who I want to be. Anything except my age, of course. Otherwise people could break the system. I'm t... | 3 | |
[WP] Coins, cash, and credit are worthless. Blood is the new currency of the world. | [
"The artificial window proclaimed it to be a brisk November morning as Demetrius Blair (number 101920001) shuffled his way from his recuperation pod into the stark light of the Blood donation clinic. \nThe irony of the name had never been lost to him but over time it had shifted from a sense of bemused dejection to... | 4 | |
[WP] Write about a fictional world changing event told by the people that survived it 80 years after it happen | [
"Rose sat in the rocking chair that creaked endlessly as she tilted back and forth. Her family hated the noise, but being over ninety years old, her hearing had faded quite some time ago, and the chair was a comforting noise barely audible to her.\n\n\"Grandma! Grandma!\" Peter, Rose's youngest grandson, ran up to ... | 2 | |
[WP] You unexpectedly discover your SO, who you love and who truly loves you back, is not human. | [
"It started with a feather. \n\nI'd thought that my pillow was coming apart, but that feather was too big to be from something like that. It was too perfect to belong to some bird, too white and unruffled. \n\nI'd found it because I came home from work early, thinking I'd surprise my love, and found it waiting for ... | 2 | |
[WP] OP jokingly makes a post to /r/IllegalTorrents requesting nuclear launch codes. He gets an answer. | [
"After a few beers /u/Butch_Johnson say down and decided to catch up on some of the American Dad that he'd just downloaded. Nothing seemed funnier to him than when he realized the Chinese spy shared his username, hoping someone would get the reference he quickly posted into /r/illegaltorrents and quickly racked up ... | 1 | |
[WP] You were on a plane when suddenly, it started going down. Everybody is screaming, crying, and praying for dear life. This has been going on for 16 hours straight, what in the world is going on? | [
"The nose of the plane began to tilt wildly in all directions, and everybody simultaneously began to scream. I joined in with them, because that is what happens when the jetliner that you are on begins to fly erratically. All around me, people were holding onto each other, religious folk were praying to their chose... | 2 | |
[WP] At a crowded high school party, you get dragged into a Spin The Bottle game by a friend. You aren't paying much attention, until suddenly the bottle points at you, and the other end points at your ex-GF. Your current GF looks at you in horror, but rules are rules. | [
"\"You know the rules, Mark,\" Sophia said, tapping a thin finger against her red lips. \"For old time's sake?\" \n\nI had broken up with her three months ago, after I found her in bed with my best friend. \n\nI shared a look with Amelia. She was watching in horror, a little fear, that I might actually do it. Ameli... | 2 | |
[WP] Because of a bunch of random islands Britain still owns the sun has still technically never set on the British empire. You are public servant and today you learn why the sun MUST NEVER set on the British empire! | [
"They said it was going to be fun working in the FCO historian's office. More job security than academia, an interesting, challenging environment in the foreign ministry of one of the world's most powerful nations. The pay wasn't bad either.\n\nNow you realized you just spent the last two years of your life making ... | 4 | |
Expand it as you will. | [WP] Go listen to a favorite piece of music. Write down the imagery that came to mind. | [
"I listened to [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RelbbYG7H8A), (1968 - The Turnpike Troubadours) then wrote a poem of how that song made me feel. Kinda what you said, but not really.\n\n\nI held my love's hand in the my own \nThinking about all the love that she has shown \nHow then now, can she be so stone ... | 8 |
[WP] The genie frowned. "Immortal? I thought you said Immoral." | [
"Immortality, a lifetime, well infinite lifetimes to do whatever strikes my fancy. That'd be grand thought Lee. \"Okay, so my first wish Mr Genie is imperatality, pure and simple \"\n\n\"Firstly its pronounced Djinn, or Raznar the Magnificent\", the Djinni sighed, technically it was Jack, but nobody wants a Cockney... | 4 | |
[WP] Expert food critique Guy Fieri comes home after traveling the world eating 5 star meals to a disappointing Thanksgiving dinner by his mom. This is his passive aggressive reaction. | [
"(**Wipes mouth, puts napkin down**)\n\n(Well, mom…)\n\nYour homemade turkey is, tbh fam,\n\nA little lackluster, just a little bland\n\nHave you tried cooking it? I heard that it's nice\n\nInstead of handing me a bird that’s made of ice\n\nArticuno in this bitch, trick, you swing and then you miss this\n\nAnd by t... | 2 | |
[WP] Your job is to prevent technology from advancing too quickly. When you discover a ground-breaking invention you must act quickly to contain it so its benefits can be metered out slowly over the course of several decades. | [
"You think it's a coincidence we could send information packets across the country in the 60s but the internet only became commercial in the 90s? These things don't happen by accident. We could have had the whole thing up and running in '74. But it wouldn't have been ready, and in fact, I suspect we rushed that one... | 2 | |
[WP] Researchers discover depths of the ocean almost 3x deeper than the Mariana Trench, marine biologists decide to plunge down to the bottom for the first time. Write about the contents of what they discover. | [
"Ian contemplated the hatch on his submersible for a moment. A stiff sea breeze blew across the hull of his boat. It was a beautiful day for a dive. The birds sailed overhead in the warm currents swept up by the sun’s rays. The water was only a little choppy, and he knew that once he got below the surface, they’d h... | 2 | |
[WP] You almost committed suicide. | [
"The day started like any other, same bullshit, same result. It was what I overheard later that set it off. It was something that to anyone else would be minor, maybe even laughable but to me, it was a soul crushing blow straight to the gut.\n\nI crawled back into my room in a daze. For years I was down but I could... | 4 | |
[WP] You discover you have some crazy ultimate power, but you are trying as hard as possible to ignore your destiny as hero of the world. | [
"\"GO AWAY YASMHA-ADDU, I DON'T CARE IF AN ASTEROID IS HEADING TOWARDS MEXICO CITY, I WANT TO GET SOME SLEEP!\" I yelled at the apparition in front of me while stuffing my face into my pillow.\n\nYou're confused right? Let's rewind time a bit...get it? Time? Eh, you'll get it in a moment.\n\nIt all started about th... | 2 | |
[WP] You're out for a night at the clubs when you meet the most beautiful woman you've ever seen. Much to your surprise she invites you back to her place. In the morning you realize you've made a big mistake. | [
"Her eyes landed on mine as her lips lightly touched her glass. She smirked, like it was an amusing circumstance and turned back to the bar. That was all she had to do to get me hooked. My eyes lingered on her though she had turned away, legs that went on for ages, firm ass, wide hips, slim waist, a supple pair of ... | 2 | |
A quote by r.m.drake | [wp] "She slept with wolves without fear, for the wolves knew a lion was among them." | [
"They huddle around her, a knotted mess,\n\nStrung together in the heat of the snow,\n\nOne or two resting softly on her chest,\n\nTrem-bling from her power, not from the cold.\n\n\nRuling over the pack of gray-furred beasts,\n\nA golden tuft flutters in ice-cold wind,\n\nWith indifferent gaze, she watches them sle... | 4 |
[WP] Long, continuous vibrations are being felt all over the world. As the days pass, they worsen. | [
"\"First time I noticed, old Tom handed me a pint and it shook in his hand. Thought the poor lad had Parkinson's or something! But it happened again. Round about every Sunday when I was in the pub. More or less every time, I'd be taking a sip and I'd spill it everywhere.\"\n\n\"The wife complains to me nearly every... | 2 | |
[WP] "I wasn't looking for a relationship either but then I met you." | [
"I rest my head on his chest, closing my eyes and feeling comfort in his breathing, his chest rising and falling. I could feel the rays of sunlight on my face, warming certain parts of my body and his, the warm beams shooting through the blinds. \n\nI open my eyes as I feel him shift under me, his arm swinging arou... | 2 | |
[WP] You believe you are one of the last people alive on earth after an apocalypse. You have taken refuge in a building with a radio tower and have been broadcasting daily, imploring any survivors to come to you, and just talking. Your supplies have run out, and you broadcast one last time. | [
"**[12:30pm]** Well I've been busting my ass for the last... you know what? I don't even know how fucking long it has been!! The last movie I remembered watching was that piece of shot GI Joe movie, you know? The one with Cha... mmm Chad? Chading? Channing! Yeah with that guy. If only I had know that the world was ... | 14 | |
[WP] "I know it's impossible, but these tunnels look man made." | [
"\"Why'd it be impussible if they're resemblins' man-made tunnel-hulls?\" said the Goblin who literally just finished building the underground tunnel system of the silver mine.\n\nThe head investor of the refinery company adjacent to the mountain, just shrugged his shoulders.\n\n\"I don't know. I mean, it just seem... | 5 | |
[WP] She still continued to knock on my window even as the blizzard struck the city. "Please let me in dear, it's cold outside." | [
" Note : The child speaks in italics. \n\n---------\n\nShe knocked on the window in the middle of the night,\n\n Saying, \"Darling let me in - its all right!\"\n\n I've got clothes for you and a nice warm bed,\"\n\n \"*Yes but I don't want you making it off with my head*!\"\n\n She laughed and laughed as the bitte... | 4 | |
[WP] Someone has been using /r/WritingPrompts to get people to do their English homework. | [
"''Mr. Colton please stay after class''\nJohn Greymound was the english teacher at the South houston Highschool since summer last year and found himself angered and somewhat surprised when he read Daniel Colton's assignment.\n''Everyone else can leave, don't forget homework this time. Yes, Jimmy, i'm talking to you... | 2 | |
[WP]: Everyone knows the expression "to open a can of whoopass". And somewhere out there lives a family who cans whoopass for a living. | [
"Whuvass trees only grow in a few parts of the world, and the missus's family farm is one of them. They're gorgeous, almost as pretty as she is, with long curvy branches, sturdy ramrod straight trunks, and the nastiest fruit you ever did taste. Kind of looks like a banana, but the peel is the only remotely edible... | 4 | |
[WP] While cleaning up your school's computer science club room, you find an old computer from the 70's that's still running. There is a label on the computer that reads "Do NOT turn off: world will end" | [
"What a shitty job.\n\nHave you ever seen a programmer in their element? Not during the day time, when they've started a new project and almost seem like a normal human being, but when they're *really* in the zone. Trapped between mountains of snack food and notes and soda and notes stained by snack food and soda, ... | 5 | |
[WP] You are an imaginary friend. However, the child who created you is getting too old to believe in you any longer, which means you will disappear very soon. You desperately try to avoid your 'death' by any means. | [
"“Blue!”\n\nI looked up before I could help myself. It wasn't my name of course, but it sounded so similar. I'd hoped to see Timmy smiling up at me like he used to, thrusting another scribbled picture under my nose. But instead he was turned away from me, facing the front of the class room and shouting out colors w... | 6 | |
[WP] Computer viruses and antiviruses are now self-aware AI. Write a tragic love story between a virus and an antivirus. | [
"He was everything I was meant to destroy, to purge. My strong cousins, twin sisters and I had a duty, to protect everyone from the likes of him. My particular task was to find ones like him and then call my cousins. Without me, they could hide and my sisters would never find them. Yet, there was something differen... | 3 | |
Looking out the window of the space station, Angelov realised the true vastness of the never ending, pitch black Universe. In the empty vacuum of space, only the stars lit up the backdrop. The stars were scattered unevenly across the sky as far as the eye could see.
From up here the Earth and everything on it seemed i... | [WP] You are an astronaut who takes their first glance back at the Earth after leaving its atmosphere | [
"I wasn't going to look. I refused to look. I had my pleasant vistas, amber waves of grain bowing under the gentle light of the sun. I didn't want this to be my last memory. But no matter how forcefully I repeated this mantra to myself, no matter what tone my mental voice used, I could feel my neck slowly rotating ... | 2 |
[WP] You are dead, and after walking towards the light at the end of the tunnel, instead of finding heaven, you instead find God, Satan, and a couple angles and demons around a table playing poker. Satan looks up and nods at the empty seat between him and god. | [
"\"Ah, Dave, you're finally here\".\n\nDave didn't remember getting into 20 by 20 room with a poker table and all sorts of creatures around. The largest guy around was an aging man with brown hair and a gray freckled beard. Besides him sat a warrior with shining white armor on the left and a less impressive angel o... | 2 | |
[WP] Google calls for a press conference and then announces it will end the world in 2017. | [
"\"Don't be evil. This is a value we have lived by for two decades. And we plan to continue living by it. At Google, we have done everything in our collective powers to not be evil, but good. We have made information publicly available like never before in history. We practically reinvented email. We have built the... | 2 | |
[WP] Satan and Santa Switch jobs for a year due to a contract mistake. | [
"“There’s no way in hell I am going through with this!”\n\nA white haired, heavily bearded, pleasantly rotund fellow smiled. “Cute.”\n\nSatan was ablaze with fury. Who had been entrusted with drawing up the contracts this year? He rose and stole round the corner of his desk. A forked tongue darted forth, wetting h... | 6 | |
[WP] We fought to the bitter beginning. | [
"It was the day Rebmeced 13th -13,000,000,000 B(efore).T(ime).E(xisted).\n\nJacob and Caleb were having an argument in Valhalla. ASt hey usually do.The Minotaur twins were talking about life. Bantering on loneliness. They budded heads over and over until the magical powers within their horns caused enough friction ... | 3 | |
The zombies' intelligence should be higher than in the classic zombie stories. Or maybe not. Write as you like. | [WP] Write a zombie apocalypse story from the view of the zombies | [
"Simon awoke, light searing his eyes as he squinted and pushed himself onto an elbow. \nBlearily, he shook his head and tried to regain his faculties. \nHe remembered running, sprinting away from something terrifying...\nIt came back to him in a rush. The zombie horde, the screaming crowds, the chaos. \nHe'd been b... | 4 |
[WP] A serial killer finds his victims by looking at their car's bumper stickers. | [
"\"JET FUEL CAN'T MELT STEEL BEAMS\" what an odd sticker, Jeremiah questioned himself. Not indecipherable though. Jeremiah was many things, but he was sure not a quitter.\n\nJeremiah had to claim this sticker as a trophy, after all it belonged to the ass-hat that stole his parking spot a few years ago, he thought a... | 2 | |
[WP] Zombies start appearing around the world and begin protesting for their undead rights. | [
"They were here again. \n\nMoaning, shuffling, their limbs stiff and eyes blank. The foetid stench of decay started to seep in through the windows; insidious, cloying, thick. \n\nAndy Burram surreptitiously held his breath against the rancid smell and stood as still as he could, frozen against the wall. His heart b... | 1 | |
An Isis soldier is wearing a camera PoV style that can live stream to the Internet, with enough power to run it for a month. He encounters an undead Iraqi soldier who turns the Isis fighter into a zombie. What happens next? | [WP] Zombie invasion begins in Syria/Iraq and is live streamed to the world by a zombie Isis fighter | [
"The world looked on in shock. The stream should've ended 5 minutes ago. Making if all the more popular. Everyone loved a live screwup. It was common knowledge that the camera life was relative to that of the wearer. The heartbeat had stopped, but his neural firing was still going.\n\nIt was a good thing most viewe... | 2 |
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