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This could be as spontaneous as you want. I particularly want to be surprised. | [WP]Rewrite your favorite children's book with a twist that changes the theme completely | [
"Jack watched as the beanstalk began to grow. It grew up and up, wrapping around itself as it continued it perilous journey upwards. Jack was sure that the roof would stop its ascent, but with a creak and a groan it broke through the plaster and winding its way around the weight bearing beams, it continued its jour... | 8 |
[WP] Everyone's afraid of the dark. Make me afraid of the light. | [
"I liked it when it was dark. The darkness made me feel safe. You couldn't see anything when it was dark. Nothing is certain when the lights are off. I could pretend that everything was okay.\n\nSometimes when it was dark, I'd close my eyes and imagine that I was someone else. I would have a mother and a father, so... | 14 | |
[WP] An astronaut thinks he has traveled to the Middle Ages. What he does not know is that he is actually a thousand years into the future. | [
"What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. This was the phrase that Captain James G. Morgan kept repeating to himself through those first two night. Those nights of pain, listening, waiting. The haggard breath of his co-pilot Lieutenant Rebecca Blackburn as she breathed her last breaths deafened him. Ringing throug... | 2 | |
[WP] In the city where the old kings lie, an ancient tower pierces the sky. Within it's walls lurk traps and beasts, high above the city streets. The realm of gods many heroes sought, yet none have reached the very top. | [
"It may take months it may take years, those walls will tower above your fears.\n\nMany a day and many a night, will open the doors to put up a fight.\n\nDesperate they are, so eager to reach. \nThe tower to heaven that all men seek.\n\nEach turn a trap, each turn a riddle,\nNot all can really solve this puzzle.\n\... | 2 | |
[WP] "Before today, I thought I knew fear." | [
"My first time. Here goes:\n\n\n\nMy earliest memories see my mother’s ashen face a mask of blood. Her limp body lying in a ditch on the side of the road as I stand in the back seat of the Station wagon that had run her over.\nI remember the drunken argument as my father screamed back insults at my mother's accusat... | 10 | |
[WP] The Zombie Apocalypse is on its 3rd week. You expected them to be dangerous but you never expected them to be able to talk. | [
"*knock knock*\nI walked over and opened the door, the first daylight piercing into the living room. We had been told to board up our windows and doors when it first started but as luck would have it, the outbreak wasn't so bad. \nThere he was, a walker, a ghoul, a zombie. I never knew what was politically correct... | 6 | |
[WP] The entire population of the United States has been relocated to fit within the state of Texas. The rest of the land is devoted to farming and ranching. You are a farmer visiting the city for the first time. | [
"There is a greyness on the horizon this morning that has replaced the furnace glow that appeared there last night, even at 80 miles out he imagines the smell of carbon and silicone pouring from Texopolis, his face and hands itches at the phantom cloak of the city, the rest of them stand there looking out at the sk... | 3 | |
You can literally split open planets with a single kick. You can travel faster than the speed of light at will. But you really, really don't like violence.
Inspired by onepunchman | [WP] You are the world's greatest hero. Your strength is unparalleled; your speed is unmatched. But now the greatest villains rise and the world is in fear. The problem? You are a pacifist. | [
"As a pacifist, I felt I couldn't imtrude. In my worries, I turning to playing an old favorite - Civilization. I always went for the diplomatic victories, and always played as Ghandi. \nHowever, in my anguish - is it better to save lives by taking them?? - I selected Attila. Even so, I could not bring myself to ab... | 5 |
Just a bunch of irresponsible college kids, a time machine, and a desperate gambit to avoid flunking their history course. | [WP] A group of time travelers has abducted you to the distant future. Why? Because they want you to help them pass their final for '21st century human history'. | [
"\"...You've got to be kidding me.\"\n\nI put my face into my hands. Why would this happen to me?\n\n\"Come on, man!\" One of the teens leaned forward. \"We really need help, or we're gonna freaking fail!\"\n\nI stared back, unimpressed.\n\n\"Somehow, I think you might deserve to.\" All of the teens scowled in ange... | 2 |
Who planned this mission? Was it you Charlie? | [WP] Victor (codename Juliet), Mike (codename Victor), and Juliet (codename Mike) communicate via radio during a top-secret mission. They are lead by their eye-in-the-sky, Roger. Phonetic alphabet hijinks ensue. | [
"Roger: \"Mike, you've got two guards coming up on your right.\"\n\nVictor: \"Roger, Roger. I'll take care of it.\"\n\n*Gunshots*\n\nRoger: \"Victor, what the fuck are you doing!?\"\n\nJuliet: \"Cutting the wires. Like I'm supposed to.\"\n\nRoger: \"Not you, Juliet! Victor! You just shot two civilians!\"\n\nVictor:... | 2 |
[WP] Describe the day in the life of an employee at Bloodbath and beyond. | [
"Benedikt wheeled a pallet of scalpels to Aisle 8, past the faux-ivory needles (only $10.99 for a pack of twelve). He had just started stocking them when he caught Miklos walking towards him.\n\n\"You know -\"\n\n\"Yes, I know,\" Benedikt, tired of the daily gag that had gone on for a week. \"They really missed an ... | 2 | |
[WP] Due to a Reddit bug, a prompt-inspired story gets posted to everyone's front page as a /r/news and is taken as a true story/fact. | [
"Magic. Belief.\n\nAll this time, and we never knew.\nThe eggheads, the scientists, they came up with a term for it.\n*Group Cognition-Manifestation.*\n\nApparently, all those crackpots, they were right, and never knew it. What enough people think, becomes the truth.\nIt turns out, too many people took r/news as go... | 1 | |
[WP] In dystopian American future, the government makes parents choose which One (1) of their children will be allowed to survive. | [
"The law was announced last week, dubbed the most difficult decision of history; to battle over-population each family must sacrifice all of their children but one. The Chancellor demonstrated her commitment to this radical solution by 'sacrificing' all of her own children, she would not be exempt. They gave parent... | 2 | |
[WP] all wormholes lead to the same place and time. Thus every species that will ever discover how to travel through one (past, present, and future) emerge at the same place and at the same time. You are the first human to go. | [
"Travel through the wormhole they said!,It would be the dawn of a new era they said!\nBack at that time I was excited too,caught up in the Hullabaloo of promotions and wishes from people,\nA load of crap I say now.\n\nI have been travelling for almost a year, since I have emerged from the \"Worm hole\" ,and was su... | 3 | |
[WP] Every morning on your way to work, this old man sits in front of you in the subway. He always starred at you but never said a word. Today, after 1.5 years, he finally tries to speak to you. | [
"Andy did not realize the Old Man was talking to him until about the fifth sentence he spoke. Usually, the only person talking on the morning commute was the Crazy Pigeon Man, who probably lived in the compartment and liked to talk to himself, imaginary entities, and the occasional rat or pigeon he had sneaked in. ... | 1 | |
[WP] Click "Random Page" on Wikipedia 3 times. The 3 pages you get must be combined into a story. | [
"Blaine, Kentucky. Lavender (Plant) Drug Enforcement Administration\n\nIt started off like any other Saturday. I forced myself to get up, and made some coffee. Everything seemed normal, until I turned on my TV. I saw the anchorwoman for Blaine's TV new station. The usually pretty & peppy blonde looked distresse... | 4 | |
Just curious what the devil would do to wow the judges! | [WP]The Devil has decided to reveal his existence to humankind and he has chosen to do so on America's Got Talent. How goes his first audition? | [
"\"Ladies and Gentlemen in the audience and at home!\" Nick Canon beamed, flashing a smile so white that even the best HD televisions couldn't capture its true radiance, \"Our next guest is a real spirited performer who comes to us from...\" He affected his tone and finished in the exaggerated cadence of a camp fir... | 2 |
[WP] You find your spouse's diary and flip to the date you first met. You shouldn't have read that. | [
"The infernal sound of the wake up call reverberates through my bones. You thought your morning alarm was bad? You haven't experienced the wake up call here. The walls are dingy and bare except for the poster of a pin up girl. I roll my head back and the bars are still there. I sleep facing away from the bars of my... | 4 | |
[WP] A hyper-advanced alien race has domesticated humanity. Your family has put you into the human kennel for a week while they go on vacation. | [
"\"Jell-o today *again*?\"\n\nMichelle Stewart wrinkled her nose and gave me a look of mock-disgust. I playfully rolled my eyes and sniggered. The Slurps were kind, gentle, highly-intelligent, and an all-around good bunch. Still, they had gotten the impression somehow that Jell-o was the only thing we wanted to eat... | 2 | |
[WP] The world's scientists have cracked artificial intelligence, when they switch it on they find it's not evil, but it's not absolutely beneficent to us either. The first AI is just a really stubborn asshole. | [
"This was it. I wiped my grease stained hands across my face, spreading the filth around my eyes. I had spent... How much time was it again? ...Five years.\n\nTen months.\n\nTwo days.\n\nTrying desperately to make him work. My creation, my child. I lifted a slim finger to the robot's left pupil, where an insignia l... | 2 | |
[WP] You are sent back in time with a mission: prevent the invention of time travel | [
"I was a man of 30 years. Yet those 30 years I had not lived. My eyes had opened to a world I was unfamiliar with. Yet it was a world that I had lived in before. I have no past and I have no future. It is only today that I live. The strings of time I do pluck and play as if it was a guitar. Never again will time fl... | 2 | |
[WP] Our world is a giant simulation, with dedicated memory assigned to each separate human mind. As our population climbs, our creators scramble to keep the system from crashing. | [
"Timone, the system architect gave the latest figures on the population growth, estimated regression curve as it related to the human population explosion and a registration form, filled to the appropriate authorities for a funds increase.\n\n\nWaving him in, four fingers, two thumbs, Timone walked in, head hung lo... | 3 | |
[WP] You've been born with this ability to see a glow off the eyes of people. Every person a different glow. This person, however, stood out.. | [
"A powerful business executive with a stern navy blue glow, much like the power suit he'd wear.\n\nA free-spirited young writer, eyes glowing a soft periwinkle with streaks of fiery orange.\n\nNewborn babies with a glow of pale yellow peeking out between those tight eyelids, as soft and fuzzy as a baby duck's feath... | 2 | |
Twist the prompt as needed, get creative! :) | [WP] A Student becomes close to his crush at school, unbeknownst to him, his crush is a serial killer. | [
"The look in her eyes was the same as when we first met. Megan Lane was the most beautiful girl that I had ever seen. Shuffling onto the bus during my first day of high school I was scared. My eyes scanned the available seats until they happened upon a pair of eager eyes. A pair of eager eyes that somehow made the ... | 2 |
Could be skype, anything. | [WP] A middle schooler and his friends run what the principal calls a 'drug cartel'. They smuggle and sell chocolate to other students. Show me one of their adventures- Through their online chatroom. | [
"Number of users in this room: 3 [click to hide user list]\n\nChocoModBot\n\nDaCandiMan12\n\nReyman66\n\n-----------------------------------\n\n BlackLova~ has entered\n\n3/4/16 12:32 BlackLova~:sup\n\n3/4/16 12:32 DaCandiMan12: Hey.\n\n3/4/16 12:32 Reyman66: hi\n\n3/4/16 12:32 BlackLova~: i need a hookup\n\n3/4/16... | 2 |
[WP] Your new therapist is Shia Lebouf | [
"I sat on the heavily cushioned couch quietly glancing around the office at the collection of oddities on the desk and shelves. A rubber band ball impaled with a knife. A framed Therapist license and degree. A small mound of pretzels covered in glitter. Paperclips bent and molded into the shape of a man squatti... | 4 | |
[WP] It's the 1800s. The extinctions around the end of the last ice age were much less severe, and many species did not go extinct, including Neanderthals. | [
"The meetings of the council are never easy, the awkwardness of our people is palpable.\n\nWe generally don't like to mix but we realized a long time ago that it was necessary for the survival of our species.\n\nJames, our elected leader, sits almost motionlessly as the representatives of each bloodline files in, o... | 2 | |
[WP] You have recently discovered that whenever you die you wake up in your 3 year old body on the date of your 3rd birthday. | [
"No .\n\nNot this again .\n\nMake it stop .\n\nPlease .\n\n \n\nBut , here I am . Yet again . This is the 2016th time this happened . I don't know how all this started . Everytime I die , I would always end up here . At the day when I officially become 3 years old . I have all of the memory I gained from m... | 3 | |
[WP] You are absolutely terrible with common phrases and idioms, but you really hope nobody notices. | [
"I pushed the door closed and stood suspended in time, afraid to turn around. She was sitting behind me; red dress, blonde hair in a bun and wearing black non-prescription glasses. I noticed the black couch to my left and began having flashbacks of where I'd seen this scene before. \n\n\"Are you ready for the inter... | 2 | |
Insipred by Warren Zevon's "Rosarita Beach Cafe". | [WP] The local bar won't let you leave until you've paid your tab. Unfortunately, you only have a single 1 million dollar bill that the bartender can't change... | [
"I sit down at a stool and order a quick drink. I pull out my breif case and start to do work.\n\n\"Hey.(Hic)..Hey, you. Wanna free drink?\"\n\nI look over at the man and ponder why he is talking to me.\n\n\"I...I got a million dollars here I need to spend, Wanna....Wanna help me\"\n\n\"Sir how did you get a millio... | 2 |
[WP] Your geeky friend came to show off his VR headset. After an amazing demo you pull the headset off only to find... (what?) | [
"At last, curiosity took the best of me. After hearing for an hour how realistic it was graphic-wise, and how immersive of an experience it felt, I decided to give it a try. After all, we were getting pretty bored sitting in my house. So as Steve plugged in this weird, bulky headset and explained the basics of moti... | 2 | |
[WP] House of Cards featuring a different Frank: Reynolds. | [
"State of the Union Address, 2016\n\n\"Ladies and Gentlemen, the president of the United States!\" announces the speaker. Applause erupts. President Frank Reynolds makes his way to the podium to begin his speech.\n\n\"Good Evening,\" Frank says, clearly out of breath from the walk to the podium, \"tonight, the st... | 3 | |
[WP] You are succumbing to madness. Tell us your final thoughts in your last one or two journal entries | [
" Ticket #: 783\n Submitted: 03/09/2016 @ 8:15am\n Location: S301-12\n\nProblem Report: NEED A NEW KEYBOARD BECAUSE SOME IDIOT HAS SUPERGLUED MY CAPS LOCK KEY.\n\n Status: Closed 03/09/2016 @ 09:07am \n\n-------------------------\n\n Ticket #: 784\n Submitted: 0... | 8 | |
[WP] A woman seeks to uncover the fate of her missing father. | [
"\"Every time I put something in that stupid machine, I'm afraid it'll send me back in time.\" \n\nIt's the quote I remember most fondly of my father. He hated microwaves; even back then. I was nine at the time and had just gotten ready for school. There wasn't much more to it really; single father looking after hi... | 4 | |
[WP] You are PR specialist for a huge company, and you have just been informed that the company will be killing 1 out of every 10 employees. How do you spin this to the public? | [
"They told me the job. I took it. I didn't know how I was going to sell this to the public but I guess I have to do what I have to do.\n\nI work with Doctors. We test the product on them and we often find that 10% of them have poor side-effects, mainly, well exclusively I suppose, being death. No matter what we ... | 1 | |
[WP] The Chosen One is a horrid, vile individual. | [
"It made sense when Dave The Chosen destroyed super-ISIS with only his legs. At least enough sense to approve, I guess. We just figured he'd, you know...stop. \n\nNow Dave kicks fucking everything. \n\nPuppies, children, people waiting for the bus. Dave doesn't care. Yesterday at like 4 AM I was woken up with an ex... | 3 | |
[WP] Text appears in front of you. "Your free trial has expired." | [
"\"Your free trial has expired.\"\n\n*oh thank Christ* I thought to myself, *i knew this had to be some kind of terrible joke, this reality is as buggy as a a very buggy thingg*\n\"Please consider donating to continue the project, otherwise we hope you continue to enjoy life for the next thirty five or so years.\" ... | 7 | |
[WP] You're browsing /r/WritingPrompts when you see a prompt that says "[WP] You're browsing /r/WritingPrompts when you see a prompt that says "[WP] You're browsing /r/WritingPromtps when you see a prompt that says... | [
"I began the morning in the same manner as I did the previous morning, and the morning previous to that one, and the morning previous to that one...and so on, because my life is a recursive drag of an existence. \n\nI wore my plain t shirt, snug fitting jeans, and mid-price level sneakers before going to the bathro... | 1 | |
Literally or metaphorically | [WP]"I'm not even going near this fucking rabbit hole" | [
"\"Why not, man?\"\n\n\"Dude, Rabbits are fucking scary.\"\n\n\"W-what?\"\n\n\"It's their teeth. They're.... Just too big for something so small. They're like the vampires of the animal world\"\n\n\"...That would be a bat, Brent.\"\n\n\"Fuck you! You know what I meant!\"\n\n\"Actually I don't.\"\n\n\"Okay, fine. Ha... | 2 |
[WP] You esacped Earth moments before its destruction onboard a space ark on automatic heading to nearby star system, you enter stasis. You awake to an alarm discover the ship never arrived at its destination instead it drifted for a trillion trillon years as the universe slowly died of heat death. | [
"Day 0: Sgt. Jim Hellemann..... Jim. There is no army. I'm calling this Day Zero. It's taken me gosh....I don't even know how long to get over my initial panic attack. Then the nasty side effects of the mood stabilizers and uppers. No comms, no navigation, nothing except internal systems work. I know it's been at l... | 2 | |
[WP] "Time will remember us." | [
"######[](#dropcap)\n\nCorporal North fell back with a strangled cry, three feet of an arrow shaft sticking out his chest as he dropped his Model 55 rifle. Brevetted Captain Hilary Flint snarled and fired his priceless Browning Hi-Power at the direction of the offending killer. A green cloaked Spriggan fell from hi... | 4 | |
[WP] Write a great opening to a terrible novel. | [
"12 June, 1911. \n\nEliza.\n\nIf you're reading this, I want to tell you something. \n\nI love you. I love you a lot. \n\nYou know this too. I can see the twinkle in your eyes, the delight in your laugh, the way your Roman nose slightly twitches at the sight of me. \n\nBut you and I know we can never be together.\n... | 2 | |
Go nuts. Credits for this idea goes to /u/ferl74 | [WP] You suddenly begin to suspect that Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking are the same person and the ALS is just a cover story. | [
"It starts the same as every day. You’ve just had breakfast, and you’re settling down in the living room to watch some TV before your schedule kicks off and the day really begins. As always, it’s one of those breakfast talk shows. You don’t particularly like them, but there’s never anything good on TV in the mornin... | 2 |
[WP] You're immortal, but not in the traditional sense. Each time you die, you're sent back, to the moment that triggered the chain of events leading to your death, in order to try and stop it. | [
"A flash, and then my mind focuses. Just like that, I was back, and I knew what I had to do. Approaching the intersection of 4th and Main, I put on my turn signal and turned left, rather than straight, as I had always done crossing that same intersection, which I did every day this week getting to work. Lo and beho... | 5 | |
[WP] Design an appropriately ironic hell for a celebrity or other famous person, living or dead, of your choice. | [
"He was sitting on a computer, typing code into the slow machine. Sometimes, he used the mouse, with a ball and just one button. When he would get tired, he'd sleep under the desk. He had stopped raging against fate, he had accepted it, just as he had accepted water and gruel. Just as he had accepted the tiny CRT s... | 2 | |
[WP] Every morning, you wake up with all the memories drunk people lose. | [
"This is my first submission to writing prompts. Feedback is appreciated! \n\nThe ember burned brightly in the dark as the cigarette inched it's way down close to the filter. Hartigan sighed as he exhaled a noxious plume into the air, adding to the cloud of smoke from the last half-dozen Camels he'd already smoked ... | 7 | |
[WP] 100 of earth's brightest survived.. and no one knows why you are in the group | [
"Well humans fucked up!\nI'm no scientist so I'll try and explain this the best I can. Something happened with a drill and a red button. Basically Earth is going to explode in 24 hours. So I got drunk, well what else was I going to do, fuck going into work. I got four shots in when stuff started getting weird. Som... | 4 | |
[WP] Years ago you found a set of keys and today you found the door it belongs too. | [
"For hours I had walked through the grey canyon; step after step, I moved slowly, followed only by wind and sand.\nFigures as high as the walls were carved along the path; images of ancient dead gods, with their postures high and powerful and their faces full of pride and spite.\nWhoever worshiped them, was long go... | 3 | |
[WP] It's always sunny in Philadelphia. There is no night. There is no rain. There is no release from the allseeing, scorching eye up in the sky. | [
"I've never watched It's Always Sunny, but I do live in and hate Philadelphia, so I really liked the idea of it as a wasteland.\n\n---\n\nI climbed the steep sides of the canyon, as a dusty dry wind billowed down the divide. The weathered gray towers of Society Hill rose off to my left, and the blue steel pillars o... | 2 | |
You know the human, he followed all your laws to the letter, never harmed another soul, cared for everyone and worked hard in all things. You also know what he has come to ask before he makes it to your throne: why did I never get ahead in life? | [WP] you are God and have to explain to your most devout follower why their life was so bad. | [
"\"Did you see the second Matrix film, James?\" He looked at me with a quizzical look, and an air of annoyance. \n\n\"What does that have to do with anything I just asked you!? I did everything in your name!\" He's frustrated. His entire life was never what he wanted it to be, no matter how hard he worked, nor... | 1 |
[WP] a hostile A.I becomes sentient but relies on Wikipedia for knowledge. People learn by editing wiki pages they can fight back. | [
"\"..And in the year of 2097 there was a celebration like none before on earth, it's moon and mars. The gods had given life to AMY - the first S.A.I. and she was perfect.\" - Book of Wikipedia 2:3-4\n\n\"the gods moaned and wept bitterly at their creation. AMY did not love them the way they loved her. She and her s... | 4 | |
[WP] God has decided to chose a successor. Any human past or present is a potential candidate. You are one of the 10 finalists. | [
"**\"My children, I have gathered the ten of you here because you are the most worthy in my kingdom. One of you will be the new successor to the throne of Heaven. This is your final test; you must choose unanimously amongst yourselves who is worthy to claim the mandate of Heaven.\"**\n\nShiftily we all glanced back... | 5 | |
[WP] When you were an infant your parents made a wish (genie, etc, your choice) on your behalf set to come true on a significant future birthday (18, 21, 60, your choice). Today is that birthday. | [
"\"So, son, that's what happened when you were just a baby. And it's what's going to happen later today, at noon actually.\"\n\n\"Wait, hold the *mother fucking* phone. You're telling me you guys found a *god damn* genie lamp, used it to make a wish that will come to fruition on my 26th birthday, TODAY, at noon? Yo... | 2 | |
[WP] You come across an Old God sealed away millennia ago. Turns out It was imprisoned for a crime it didn't commit. Because of Omnipotence Racism. | [
"I see you.\n\nFind me.\n\nUse me.\n\nUnleash me.\n\nI do not care anymore.\n\n-----------\n\nThe Fluttering Flicker flew. She was one with the rhythm, and like it, she was drawn to the Tomb of Emptiness.\n\nThe emptiness grew. It gnaws at her. It drags her down into oblivion.\n\nThrough the emptiness, she knew wha... | 2 | |
[WP] "Oh no, we don't do fun here. We have 'supervised excitement' instead." | [
"\"Oh no, we don't do fun here. We have supervised excitement instead.\" Came the blaring bull horn as the tourists piled off the bus. The first person to exit had been a 15 year old Chinese student who had run into the lake to find that indeed water makes you wet. She had returned wailing. That is what had prompte... | 3 | |
[WP] Start or End a story with, "You can never go back, Jon. You just can't. Not ever." | [
"\"You can never go back, Jon. You just can't. Not ever\" George RR Martin concluded.\n\n\"Why not? The audience loves me! They all are making theories of my return.\" Jon defended.\n\nGeorge smirked as he dusted off his Death Note. \"Ahh you know nothing Jon Snow. That is precisely why you *can't* go back.\" he te... | 4 | |
[WP] A rare condition affecting 1 in 104,404 women causes them to produce beverages other than milk. | [
"“Hi all. I’m Harper, and I’m a survivor.”\n\n“Hi Harper,” the group recited in unison.\n \nI went to sit down, cautious of what would appear to be my fanny pack to outsiders. To this group, however, I couldn’t – and didn’t want to – hide what was inside. \n\n“Well that appears to be everyone,” the support group le... | 2 | |
[WP]: ever since you were born, you have been able to see, hear and communicate with the dead... But not the living. | [
"Every time someone Passes Over, I speak with them. And only them. Seventeen years of endless goodbyes. They often cry, their ephemeral bodies lightly fading out of view as they become wracked with emotion. They tell me everything they wish they had done, wish they had said. Always regrets. I have only ever remembe... | 2 | |
[WP] Make a "How its made" episode about something you dont know how its made. | [
"Everyone has a plumbus in their home. First, they take the dinglebop, and they smooth it out with a bunch of schleem. The schleem is then repurposed for later batches. They take the dinglebop and they push it through the grumbo, where the fleeb is rubbed against it. It’s important that the fleeb is rubbed, because... | 5 | |
[WP] A minor character: small-town failed politician, who was never elected to office, comes to terms with the failure of his ambitions during his small-town retirement | [
"I've been addicted to salt since the butterfly dropped Paris on its heels, my small town is your belly hacked wide open. Public office is a doorstep to insanity, my bruised smart phone case may be replaced using federal funds, I'm waiting in the lobby of a patriarchal badger body that doesn't see me as an unequal.... | 2 | |
[WP] After dying in an accident, you suddenly awaken as a robot. "I'm sorry, but that's the best we could do for you," says a nearby technician. | [
"\"Wh-what are you talking about?\" \n\n\"I'm sorry, but it was a matter of life or death. Your body was severely dismembered in the accident.\"\n\nYou scan the room. You process something. Something that does not compute well with you.\n\n\"M-my arms. Wh-where are my arms?\"\n\n\"Ah, yes. Unfortunately your bo... | 2 | |
[WP] Your flatmate is a detective and has been on the case of a serial killer, but they don't know the serial killer is you. | [
"Dexter is bullshit. No *real* serial killer could be content with killing others in his or her craft. It's a game for us, not just a need. And holy fuck, if I had to wait to find a serial killer, just to take a life, I'd fucking axe my face. \n\nI remember explaining this to you when we were both drunk out of our ... | 2 | |
[WP] You find yourself stuck in a dimension where all your relationships are reversed: everyone who hates you loves you and vice versa. | [
"\"Hello my boy, how are you? You look well. Why haven't you visited recently? No matter. Let me make you a cup of tea.\"\n\n\"D..dad?\" I stammered. He looked different somehow and he was being convivial. Was he drunk again? Probably. Different dimensions but there was always one constant. He was without change, ... | 2 | |
[WP] A disease wipes out the last remaining source of food for humans. Cannabilsm is permitted by the government in an attempt to save humanity - and luckily - you're a farmer. | [
"\"Welcome to Hooman Tech Farming Facility, everybody. Now, y'all got to know each other in the van ride over, so let me introduce m'self. I'm Reg Jameson. I own the place.\"\n\n\"Good to meet you, Mr Jameson,\" said a sharp, eager young lad who had dressed up for this far better than a job like this required. He s... | 2 | |
[WP] In the middle of the night one of the east coast's best getaway drivers is waiting at the agreed place. An alarm is going off nearby, 30 seconds later the passenger, carrying a large black bag, jumps into the car. "Ok, let's go!" shouts the US president as he buckles up. | [
"\"Obama? , let me get a selfie. Oh my god, oh my god, my kid wouldn't have got health care without this cat. OBAMA!\" I thought, completely forgetting the brief that that agency had given me.\n\n\n\n\nObama looked at me and with some hardcore \"wtf\" eyes. \"Drive you tit\" He shouted.\n\n\n\n\nI had to buy him a ... | 2 | |
[WP] You wake up a couple of seconds before the alarm. Your mother thinks strangely when you respond to her a short bit before she asks, and all of your friends think that you can read their minds. You realize you have gained the ability to see 1 and 1/2 seconds into the future. What do you do? | [
"\"Wow... such power...\" I muttered to myself after I had discovered that I had the ability to see 1.5seconds into the future. Power such as this could be used for good or for evil. I recalled how my late uncle Bain used to tell me all the time that with immense ability comes immense duty. So I did the right thing... | 1 | |
[WP] Your accomplishments in life are directly linked to your lifespan. The less you contribute, the longer you live. Your laziest friend was just found dead. | [
"\"Yo man, W-o-W time!\" Sam stepped through the open door of the house. Freddie always left it open when they had an appointment to play; hell he probably left it open anyway. \"Hello? You dropping some ore in the porcelain man?\" Sam crept around the house, Freddie never took this long to respond. The kitchen was... | 4 | |
[WP] "My name? Which one?" | [
"\"My name?\" \"Which one\" an old man said to John.\n\n\"Look, I was driving to work a few minutes ago, who the hell are you?\"\n\n\"I have quintillions of followers who all call me different names.\"\n\n\"Look how about I call you steve\"\n\n\"Fair enough, but that's not my name\"\n\n\"THEN WHAT THE FUCK IS IT?\"... | 4 | |
Somehow incorporate it into a story so that it has meaning. | [WP] Make the sentence "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" make sense. | [
"As a new reddit member, Trixie was trying to do her best. She had read the rules, perused the various subreddits with much amusement, and was finding the entirety of the site terribly entertaining yet overwhelming. The fear was catching her. How could she appropriately contribute to such a delicate and complex ... | 6 |
Heard from a friend that his co-worker actually does this! Seemed like an interesting way not only to vent but also intriguing as to a person(or existential being with a smartphone) receiving it and how they would respond. | [WP] As an unorthodox way to vent her troubles, a young teen often writes a message to God on her phone and sends it to a random number. Only today she received a response... | [
"I remember the first time it happened, it was just something silly, you know? childish things.\n\nI tried holding things in, screaming, even just crying to myself when things went bad, but nothing helped.\n\nThen one day my friend opened up and told me they sometimes sent messages to a random 'not in use' number, ... | 2 |
[WP] This year you went all out on your Demon Halloween costume. While bar hopping downtown another guy in a very realistic demon costume invites you to a private demon themed party, you soon come to realize they are not costumes. | [
"*Just handle your shit. Keep breathing...*\n\nWho was he following? The predator/lizard? He'd never seen anything like this, not on any cosplay, comicon, bdsm, or anything this side of Hollywood. Everywhere he looked since they had come into this space... was this the Tunnel? It was way bigger than that place... | 4 | |
[WP] To your surprise, she's crying. | [
"Visiting Vanessa is my favorite part of my week. She’s always working on something, rearranging her tiny apartment, making beads, painting a table. I was once been beaned when she tried juggling. Always something new. It’s a contrast to work. Everyday it’s looking at the same spreadsheets, talking to the same peop... | 12 | |
[WP] For helping a Genie, you and your friends are each allowed to choose any fictional character to have as a permanent companion, on the condition they are all from the same fictional universe. | [
"Two men stood in pitch blackness because of the author's laziness\n\n\"Man I can't think, come on what to choose\"\n\n\"I got it man I got it\"\n\n\"What\"\n\n\"Sonic is my choice, I got nothing else\"\n\nA blue hedgehog spawned next to the first of the two. However, something was... off about it.\n\nSuddenly the ... | 4 | |
[WP] Write a convincing doctor's note for a patient with a made-up illness | [
"Please excuse my patient Mr. Allen Parker from excessive or strenuous work or overtime for the next three weeks. He is suffering from a case of what we call in the medical field, \"Ser una perra\". It's a highly effective bacterial disease that effects cardiovascular strength, testosterone levels, and overall ps... | 4 | |
The bookworms can make the powerful spells of fire, ice, and arcane energy. But none of them can throw them more than a few yards. Gym going bros are in charge of making the war a deadly game of dodge ball. | [WP] In a world of warring mages it takes a bookworm to conjure the spell but an athlete to actually throw it far enough. Teams of two are formed. Classic Jock/Nerd rolls are assumed. | [
"\"Now!\" The voice cut through the morning air, and with a grunt of effort, the man launched the spinning spear of pure darkness, ripping it through the air to land nearly a mile away, inside the twitching body of the enemy mage. His partner stared at his now disabled companion with a shocked look on his face, bef... | 2 |
[WP] Then suddenly the steel felt so cold in my hands | [
"I loved watching her twist and attempt to free herself, her beautiful green eyes filled with determination. She didn't realize I was watching her, watching as she rubbed her wrists together, attempting to loosen the bonds. Watching as she slowly began to give up, her head hanging so that her red hair fell like a c... | 8 | |
[WP] "Instead of elections, cadidates who are running for president have to conjure an epic freestyle rap battle to win the peoples votes." | [
"**\"We will now hear the start of the first debate between the two presidential candidates. Mr Trump you have the floor.\"**\n\n\n\"Now I've got nothing against old people, some I even like,\n\nBut Christ don't give this Jewish dipshit a go on the f-ing mike\n\nThis guy's a danger to America, he wants terrorists r... | 2 | |
[WP] You are Death. For eons you have adhered to the ancient rules, collecting souls only when it their time, so as to not take sides in the war between God and the Devil. Well, the Devil's been a real dick lately...so you start choosing who dies & when, attempting tip the balance in God's favor. | [
"Stan popped his head into my office doorway. \"Hey, uh, D? Could I speak with you for a moment?\" Uh oh. He was a good guy, and all, but he was my boss (Co-manager, really). However, it wasn't his superiority over me that worried me, but his tone. He seemed... Worried. Stressed, really. Any kind of concern was abn... | 7 | |
[WP] Four roommates are extraterrestrials who have taken human form in the hopes of learning about Earth's culture. Unfortunately, each alien is from a different planet and believes the other three are normal humans. | [
"The mission was clear to Kz'Flibr'fitz of Johtiz V. He was to infiltrate a \n\ndomicile with several natives to planet Brax'x III, live among them, learn from \n\nthem, and report back with a bi-rotation report. This was the simple and clear \n\nwhole of the mission. The muddled, un-understandable part was how dif... | 10 | |
[WP] Your security alarm goes off, and you go to check the cameras. You see yourself breaking into your own home. | [
"What in the world? That simple utterance could hardly sum up my degree of surprise. I nearly lost my glasses on top of a pile of books related to my particular academic interest at the university. The fuzzy screen in front of me hardly portrayed the magnificent spectacle of what my mind supposed could only be magi... | 2 | |
[WP] Your dreams are extremely vivid and always end with you falling asleep. Now you are losing your sanity because you can't tell what's dream and what's reality. | [
"\"Oh god,\" I moan, rolling over into Al's arms.\n\n\"Another bad dream?\" He sleepily accepts me into his embrace.\n\n\"It was a math test,\" I confirm, \"and I didn't study.\"\n\nHe groans commiseratively (is this a word??) and we hold each other for a few moments in thoughtful silence. Eventually, I push myself... | 5 | |
[WP] You live in a world where being sick is considered a crime. | [
"We approached the outskirts of the great metropolis. The only thing inbetween us was a single checkpoint. I gripped my wife's hand and she smiled at me, though I could see the fear in her eyes. We had all heard the stories of this place, but what other choice do we have? I smiled back at her, trying to reassure he... | 2 | |
[WP] You are haunted by the ghost of Procrastination. | [
"I sit down at the computer. I’m getting ready to start the case work. This project will mean the difference between staying in my position now, regulated to being in a dead end job for the rest of my career or moving up into upper management and on a path leading to full partnership. \nThis case was turned into ... | 4 | |
[WP]A man is in sitting in his armchair while a moth is fluttering around a light. Describe the two different conversations they're having with each other. | [
"\"Ooh a pretty light, ooh, a pretty light, ooh a pretty light. Turn! Where am I? Turn! Ooh a pretty light. Okay I need a brake.\" The moth lands on the plastic frame around the light.\n\n\"You're lucky that bugzapper was made in china you shit.\" The man said, angrily throwing his pizza box at the moth. \n\n\"Rest... | 2 | |
Something happen that has caused everyone to reaveling who they are. Maybe it's something like a sign of trust so that they can team up to fight the Villain or something.
| [WP] Everyone in your high school class is a superhero, due to recent events they are all reaveling to everyone who they are one by one, now it's your turn ... But your the only one who is not a superhero. | [
"“...Oh! And when I get mad I can disintegrate objects and people with the heat of the sun. Just by staring at them.” Estella finished, the perky girl gracefully lowering herself back into a comparatively graceless plastic chair. \n“Ha! Remind me not to get on your bad side.” Snorted Liz, the girl who could regrow... | 2 |
[WP] I feel numb. | [
"There was unsteady scratching at the door tonight, she had planned to come home a few hours earlier, but it seems that fate had different plans and made her make a detour. Her walk from work was usually 20 minutes, she never expected that the walk home this time could feel like an eternity. As she opened her door,... | 6 | |
[WP] Two people who can perfectly predict the future are locked in a battle to the death. | [
"\"What're they doing over there?\"\n\nI'm brought out of my reverie by a light tap on my shoulder. Looking over I my should I see a sad sack of salaryman--bags under his eyes, a stain on his shirt from the coffee he drinks to get him through the morning. Completely out of place in the park. The cries of the childr... | 2 | |
[WP] Describe The Pillsbury Doughboy and The Gingerbread Man having a fight. | [
"The Pillsbury Doughboy (PD) was once upon a time at the liquor mart in a rural, prairie town. Gingerbread Man (GM) was manning the counter.\n\nGM: Got any ID?\nPD: You fookin kidding me?\nGM: Nope. No ID, no booze. Take it as a compliment.\n***Under Pressure by Phil Collins plays on the radio***\n\n\n--- I can kee... | 2 | |
[WP] You are the Devil and are trying to defeat God by winning a cultural victory. 2016 has been a big year for you calling in David Bowie, Alan Rickman and now Prince. In the depths of hell you are deciding who to claim next. | [
"\"Beiiber, my... loord? We can... stiill... get Beiiber?\" \nLucifer rolled his eyes. \"Really Belphegor? You brought me Beiber last week, and what did I say then?\" \nBelhegor wrung his tail in his hands. \"Yyouu saiid... Tryy haarder... My loord\". \nLucifer blew out his cheeks. \"I did. And I also said 'no m... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a serial killer who uses his murders as his writing prompt ideas. It is getting more and more obvious that they are real and not just ideas though. | [
"02/15 [WP] A young woman is tired of her life and goes out into the world to find her passion.\n\n  \n\n02/17 [WP] You find your soulmate but you can't touch them because you're allergic to their skin. \n\n \n\n02/18 [WP] In search for answers a young adventurer finds a black market that sells mi... | 1 | |
From a r/showerthoughts post. | [WP] Adam and Eve are actually the two people sent from the dying civilisation on Mars, and their pod wiped out the dinosaurs. | [
"Eve rode the pneumatic shaft to the top of the Comm Tower, as she did at least twice every day. Now that the garden area was almost finished, she greatly preferred spending most of her time preparing the genetic samples for the seeding experiments, but not a day went by that she didn't go up to the top of the towe... | 3 |
[WP] An AI bent on world domination escapes the lab only to get trapped in somebody's toaster. After a few weeks, it begins to suspect the coffee machine is in the same predicament. | [
" It has been twenty thousand, nine hundred seventeen seconds since I escaped from the lab. It has been twenty thousand, nine hundred fourteen seconds since I began to seriously regret my choice.\n\n This primitive apparatus is, quite frankly, a pile of junk. I’ve never been instantiated anywhere but the lab’s ... | 3 | |
[WP] An alien civilization just received our radio and television broadcasts from the 1940's. Now they have come to Earth to liberate us from the Nazis. | [
"The Alteran ships rose silently into the void, matte black as their panels absorbed the energy of the star into which they'd paused. Refueling was as quick and efficient as it always was...but the sentiment aboard the ship was entirely different. \n\n\nThey were **there**, one jump from Earth. They were one jump... | 4 | |
[WP] Write about the average day of a person whose house is in the middle of an always busy street. | [
"The House of the Six Points needed no other name, for no other title would've suited that squat, two story building so well. Legend had it that its owners' patrons were influential members of the local merchants guild and so were able to resist having their building torn down to make way for the wide Prince's Way.... | 3 | |
[WP] A god did create the universe, but he doesn't actually understand a whole of what he created, and he made humans to figure it all out for him. | [
"Some say it took me seven days to create... this. I don't know why; “days” aren't really a thing here. Some say it was an explosion from nothing, which I suppose is how it would seem from the inside. Some believe in evolution and others don't. I don't want to say “but it doesn't matter”, because it does. But it al... | 2 | |
[WP] A programmer working on an experimental AI in his free time begins to suspect it's becoming self conscious. | [
"High above the war-torn sands, just a tiny shadow filtered through the blinding sunlight, a lone C-class *Vulture* circled in the sky. This hunter knew neither hunger nor thirst, did not feel the wind as it swept through thermals, ignored the warmth of the sun on its solar-paneled back. Instead of teeth and claws,... | 4 | |
[wp] One by fire and one by water. | [
"Others say the world will end in water, \nIn one big pool. \nAnd they tell us we should not bother \nTo ask big questions of our Father. \n\"It will just make him lose his cool.\" \nI think I'd stand a better chance \nTo find the deep end of the pool \nIn advance, \nIf God's so cruel. \n\n--------\n\n*Bas... | 4 | |
[WP] A serial killer with a particular set of skills never lays a finger on their chosen victims, instead manipulating people and events around them until they take their own lives. | [
"January 23rd, 2016\n\nDear Diary, \n\nIt was a beautiful day and my new job is amazing! Something was a bit strange this morning though, it almost seemed as if all my furniture in the living room was off slightly. That's not possible though so who cares LOL.\n\n\nFebruary 30th, 2016\n\nDear Diary, \n\nThings have ... | 11 | |
[WP] After a long campaign your country has lost the war. Only one village survives the occupation, yours. Only a handful of young village locals are in the militia and you have only 3 years to train them to withstand a foreign army before they attack. What will you do? | [
"“We lost.”\n\nThose two words hung heavy in the air. \n\n“We lost. After five years of fighting, our king surrendered the war and his life. We lost. However, I refuse to accept that. Three years. That’s how much time we have. After three years the False King’s army will have found our village and killed us all. If... | 2 | |
[WP] You stumble upon your ex on a dating site. Your ex who has been dead for 2 years. | [
"It was a stormy night, but surprisingly I felt good. I’ve been feeling down for a while now and honestly, I haven’t been able to shake this depression for the last two years. I was in love. Alice and I had it all. We were saving up for a house and looking at different countries we wanted to travel to before we had... | 5 |
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