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[WP] "Here we finally meet, at the end of all things..." | [
"\"You know, I've had first dates that were so awkward I wanted to die of embarrassment. Its kinda fitting that the one I actually go out on, should be the best.\"\n\n\"Maybe we just feel its the best, cause we know there can't be any petty drama hanging over it? We can relax, there won't be a second no matter wha... | 1 | |
[WP] When fishermen sing, fish come. | [
"Reord sat by the sea in his salt-stained boots and sang beneath his breath the old song his father and his grandfather had sung. The shore stretched away from him in either direction, rocky and exposed. In the distance vernal-grass waved in the wind. Raindrops darkened the grey stones and Reord fixed his net with ... | 1 | |
[WP] "What? You want to know where you are? You're dead." | [
"“What do you mean I’m dead!”\n\n“What other definitions are there to D-E-A-D? You have ceased to exist, you are no longer living. Your guts, are either making the passerby’s nose wrinkle or feeding the local strays.” Mathew had heard enough.\n\n“I think I’m going to be sick”\n\n“No need. You no longer have a stoma... | 1 | |
[WP] war fought with art | [
"— You would not understand. Those that fell here never \nstrove to sate their hunger for glory, power, or personal gain. \nThey were not forced to fight this war by their superiors. No-one\nhad any deeply-held convictions to protect, nor ideals to\nenforce. This was not our way. Any reasons we might have had\nto t... | 1 | |
[WP] Time travel is actually invented, but fails to take into consideration the movement of the earth/sun/solar system/galaxy stranding all who try in space where earth used to be | [
"Earth is dying. Years of ozone decay finally reached the point of no return in 2096, and by the time scientists realized that rising cancer rates correlated to the increased radiation, it was too late. Our civilization moved underground, desperate to find a way to solve the problem even as our damaged genetics led... | 1 | |
[WP] Our world starts seeing people with superpowers emerge, but instead of people using their powers to become superheroes or even supervillains, they use them for more mundane things. | [
"la tragédie de eddie salle\n\nEddie Hall oh-so-desperately wanted to say he was normal, but the truth always hit him like a ton of bricks. He wasn't- and he never would be. The thing about poor Eddie was that he could shoot lasers from his appendages. Fingers, toes, his nose, everything. Not harmful lasers, just..... | 2 | |
[WP] The ratio of women to men in your town is 10:1. | [
"John knocked on apartment 7's door; the room had been empty for a few weeks and John had nothing better to do. He never missed an opportunity to keep up his social skills, they weren't necessary in this town but they helped you stay ahead of the marriage curve. The locks clicked off and the door opened, a young ma... | 1 | |
[WP] A perfect, 100% successful treatment is found for people born with blindness. The first patient to receive the cure just got the bandages removed...and immediately starts screaming, pointing at seemingly nothing, flinching from mere shadows. Same happens to every other treated person too. | [
"History was about to be made, and Dave Clark was going to be there to report it. This was his big break, all those years toiling away working shitty desk jobs at small town newspapers and chasing stories to make chump change for what he should be getting paid hundreds of thousands more for. But it's funny how plan... | 1 | |
[WP] You are stranded on a large island for 6 years. You stumble into a cave that you thought was housing dire wolves, and find a door to a secret non government high tech facility.. The kicker, your fingerprints open all of the doors as administrator. | [
"There was nothing I could remember about this place, no matter how hard I racked my brain. Why then, did I find it so familiar? Dragging my hand along the cold grey walls, I felt as though I had been here before. Even stranger, this place acknowledged me as \"Administrator\".\n\nRounding the corner, I made my way ... | 1 | |
What can happen in the afterlife, or which afterlife it is, is up for interpretation. | [WP] People who hurt you, physically or emotionally, leave tangible marks on your soul. You awake in the afterlife with large parts of yourself missing. | [
"The drugs and alcohol had finally caught up with me, it was only a matter of time. For far too long I had been punishing myself and the body can only take so much before everything just begins to shut down. It had been less than a year since the people around me had really taken notice of my condition, the deterio... | 3 |
The ability to read minds is random and is not passed down through genes .
I'm also imagining that there would be some kind of decision between the readers and non readers.
Edit: I forgot to add that the mind reader's can't read each other's minds. | [wp] Half of earth's population can read the rest of the population's thoughts, however, you've decided to keep your ability hidden from everyone. | [
"I did what everyone does in a waiting room: At first I read the news on my phone, then I checked to see that I still didn't have any new text messages, and then I began to wander my eyes around the area. \"The Reader Room is soundproof,\" an old red-lettered sign read next to a big metal door. A silent chuckle cra... | 1 |
*: or rendered in some other fixed format where copyright would apply (film, game, audio recording, etc.). | [WP] Every story that's ever written* is a world that's created. Authors are criminally liable for the actions of their characters. | [
"John peered outside of the small window to the side of his door to confirm that it was the police. He had heard about what was happening on the news, and had been feeling utter dread ever since. He knew they would come for him. The saddest part was that he didn’t even write anymore. He had given up ages ago. ... | 4 |
[WP] The hunter was very familiar with the beast that made the footprints. He was more worried about what made the second set of footprints, chasing the first. | [
"\"A hare. Simple enough prey, shouldn't be difficult.\"\n\nHe lines up his crossbow as he silently exhales.\n\n\"Got you.\"\n\nWith a clear kill shot in sight he lightly presses down on the trigger before a large snapping sound breaks his concentration. He grunts.\n\n\"Broken string. That makes things more difficu... | 3 | |
[WP] In order to keep your inheritance from your obscenely rich uncle every year you must give away a million dollars to a random stranger over the internet. This is incredibly more difficult than you expected. | [
"\"Why does no one want a million dollars these days? What changed since I was a kid?\" I sighed in exasperation as I shuffled through some papers on my desk. \"It's almost like all these hipsters are stupid or something, I mean a million bucks, who in their right mind would turn that down?!\". I finished my coff... | 1 | |
[WP] The darkness is not inherently evil nor is the light inherently good. | [
"The darkness is not inherently evil. These were the first and last words on Caden’s lips. I should know. I was there. He said the first standing above me. Towering over my child’s stature, hands held behind his back, regarding me as the worm I was. Disregarding the shiver that ran through me and the fear I ... | 2 | |
[WP] Every 'would you rather' question you have ever answered comes true. | [
"Breaking news! Hordes of parents in tears at realization they ate their children. Area mom claims, \"she thought she was eating a muffin.\"\n\n*Man, these /r/nottheonion articles just keep getting weirder,* I thought to myself while cleaning my computer. As I was cleaning, I knocked up some dust into the air and m... | 2 | |
[WP] Knowledge is currency. | [
"\"I'll have a cup of coffee.\" The middle-aged gentleman stated, staring at the menu. It was pouring outside, and he needed to warm up. \"Raised your prices, I see. I guess I'll have to make it a small.\" \n \nThe younger, blonde girl handed the man his small coffee. \"That'll be 2-1/2 facts, sir.\" \n \nThe m... | 1 | |
[WP] On a wall, you see something in the enemy's language that translates to "STOP KILLING US" and now you're beginning to reconsider this whole invasion of Earth. | [
"Stop killing them? We're helping them! We're freeing them, saving them even! Right?\n\nConfused, I turn to Zaragoza. \"We're helping them reach their final state, are we not?\"\n\n\"Don't be foolish Xuilur, you've seen them placed in ground after we've helped them yourself.\"\n\n\"Then what's this message mean?\"\... | 2 | |
[WP] "They'll welcome you with open arms and shake you by the throat." | [
"First post on this subreddit. Any constructive criticism is welcome. \n\nThe Prisoner\n\nHis wrists were raw from the iron cuffs that were fastened to them, though they were the only thing that was keeping the prisoner standing. He could feel the remnants of the cat o’ nine tails digging into his bare back, torn a... | 1 | |
[WP] What has been your experience working at the International Arctic-Antarctic Drug Cartel? | [
"We have fantastic supply of ice! haha..ha truth be told that joke never really did beak the ice. \n\nStill nothing? I guess you no longer feel like laughing eh?\n\nMy experience has been unique to say the least, managing and operating a successful drug cartel is difficult, even harder when your piss turns into mi... | 1 | |
Maybe your whole consciousness is moved in for almost immortality or something. | [WP] Whenever you die, all of the contents of your brain pours into the person nearest to you/your soulmate. | [
"It's been a few years since she left her body behind, but I can still remember it like it was yesterday. I remember the way she looked at me as her family and friends were quietly ushered out of the room by the doctors. She was scared, she knew why we were being left alone together, she knew it had been coming for... | 1 |
[WP] You're the devil, and you're not really that bad | [
"“Greetings, take a seat Lucy” said Michael from behind the marble desk, his feathery wings hung over the back of his chair as a coat would. His golden sword hummed gently as it lay flat on the table, more of an ornament than a weapon.\n\n“Thanks Mike, it’s been a while, how’ve you been keeping?” I asked with genui... | 1 | |
You can travel fowards backwards and between timelines. | [WP] You and your friends make a 5th demensional travel machime as a joke, but it turns out to be real | [
"I finished colouring in the last mark on the side of the box and leant back to admire my handiwork.\n\n\"Does that look right?\" I said. My friend Zeke and I sat opposite a decorated cardboard box. It was Zeke's idea to do this. He said he'd been reading around online and found instructions to create a 5th dimensi... | 1 |
[WP] Reincarnation is a proven fact. Because of this people close to you, who feel like they've been born less fortunate, are considering to commit suicide in what is essentially a slot machine like chance to be reborn as a more attractive and/or wealthier person | [
"\"I just wish she'd stop. My heart breaks a little more every time I have to look her in the eye.\"\n\nThe slouching man before me removed the remains of a cigarette from his mouth and crushed it on the ashtray between us. Though there was dirt caked underneath his yellowing nails, his hands were the cleanest they... | 3 | |
[WP] Two different groups of people are separated at birth. At the age of eighteen, they meet | [
"\"You ever think what we're doing is wrong?\"\n\nJack took a sip of his coffee. \"You kidding? Of course it is! We're experimenting on children, for crying out loud!\"\n\n\"Yeah, but don't you just envy Group B? They get to grow up rich with no responsibilities. Besides, doesn't everyone involved here get a lifeti... | 1 | |
[WP] The Chosen One is being trained. You're ready to go. You decide to ignore the prophecy. He stole your lunch money. That bastard is going down. | [
"I always knew Ben would be the Chosen One, the one foretold by the graffiti in the bathroom to be the savior who freed us from the shackles of mandatory homework and cooties. Still, you ask, why did I do it to such a person? \n\n*The boy chuckles* \n\nYour precious hero was nowhere near as pure as he pretends to b... | 1 | |
If you kill someone who has racked up eg. 10 days, you will get all of that persons days, and not just one extra day. | [WP] Every person on Earth has one day to live. Killing another person will give you their day in addition to yours. | [
"It's been 11 days and I've killed 11 people on purpose and one on accident. \n\nJulia and I are driving here and then there and back to where people frequent. 17 days ago the Cosmic Unknown of 2019 took control (its what we've been calling it in the States), and for once the American public could agree that our da... | 3 |
[WP] A man wakes up in a world operating on porn logic but is too oblivious to notice. | [
"Bill woke up just like any other day, he got dressed like any other day, and he left for work like any other day. But this day in particular was different, even though Bill was too dense to notice. He drove to work and notice a woman on the side of the road next to a broken down car. He stopped to help her. He may... | 1 | |
[WP] You live alone with your parrot. It just said something you don't remember telling it. | [
"I love teaching Petey how to say new words and phrases. I mean, why else would I get a damn parrot? The only reason I even have Petey is because I lost a major sports bet to a buddy. I, per the usual routine, made the bet highly intoxicated. I mean like, mouth salivating after a warm tequila shot, I need to ru... | 8 | |
[WP]: "Who were you before the war?" | [
"\"Who were you before the war?\"\n\nIt's a simple question but it pierces me unlike my other buddies. How do I answer? These soldiers, my friends, thought an answer would be an occupation. The soldier to my right said carpenter. The soldier to me left said cook. Some even say father, mother, and son. I could not g... | 11 | |
[WP] Bread is now illegal. You are a bread dealer | [
"\"Well, I guess this is it. They have finally managed to strip us of our right to bake bread. And personally, I hold Wal-Mart responsible.\"\n\n\"Roman, what exactly are we supposed to do now?\" I wonder.\n\n\"Ten years of constant bullshit by Dr. Oz and his cronies. Carbohydrates must be controlled. Obesity is a ... | 2 | |
[WP] You accidentally put a minus sign before the channel number in your TV. It shows a news network covering your city, now in ruins. The time is one hour in the future. | [
"*...we can tell you that the White House has been evacuated. Pentagon is at full alert and NATO has registered no other missiles. Air Force bases and military fighters have taken to the air.*\n\n*Information is still coming, but at 9:07 pm tonight, the downtown area, known as The Las Vegas Strip, was attack and er... | 2 | |
[WP]Scientists have just discovered that Everest isn't a mountain, it is a creature. | [
"*it was a rather small room to have been called a lab... Instruments all around the shelves papers crumpled and strategically scattered all around... The air smelled of iodine with a hint of chlorine and it seemed as if the air froze from the cold.... and an obsessed biologist placed right in the heart of the ... | 3 | |
It could be happy tears or sad tears | [WP] Write a story that would make someone cry | [
"He remembered being forced to run into a house and steal someone's daughter. There was only one locked door in the house, so he shot the lock. It was to a bathroom. The entire family was hiding in there. Two sisters were huddling together in the tub, each wearing identical red bracelets. He pulled them apart and t... | 1 |
[WP] Describe how a forced update to Windows 10 destroyed the world. | [
"It all started when Microsoft announced a free update to those who had Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 to their last OS, Windows 10. Nobody knew when they meant last OS they really meant it. When the OS release date was approaching, a Windows icon showed up in the bottom right corner, upon clicking gave you the option to res... | 2 | |
Written in collaboration with /u/SurvivorType | [WP] You encounter the infamous Mermaids of Space. Unless you manage to escape their siren call, you are doomed... or are you? | [
"For Brett and Chad, Friday night in the Zenticulon Beta system meant taking a quick hyperspeed trip for some takeout, then heading back to college on their homeworld of Fratulon 5 where they would hang out with some bros and watch the newest episode of Girls Gone Galactic. Chad didn't mind the routine, but Brett ... | 2 |
[wp] Instead of being the only emotional aliens like the vulcans and the humans in star trek, the humans are allied with aliens that are more emotional than us, and see us as the vulcans. | [
"“How can you do this?” said Agap.\n\nTom looked up from the desk in his borrowed office in its base near the edges of Patho space. “Do what?”\n\nHer webbed hands flexed. “Sit there. Doing things on your console. Don’t you…want anything?”\n\nFrom a human it would be a proposition. From a Patho…who knew? Her curiosi... | 1 | |
Its up to you to decide who is stronger | [WP] Aliens attack earth. Nothing more, no strange twists. Just pure scifi | [
"It's been 10 years since the Battle of Berlin. The year is 1949 WW2 came to a screeching halt once \"they\" arrived in Los Angeles, Paris, Rome, Madrid, and Istanbul, and Bejing. The Parisian ship was destroyed by collaborative forces from France, Nazi Germany, and Nationalist Spain. But that's where things got ro... | 2 |
[WP] After living an unremarkable life, you die. In the afterlife you're judged and sent to heaven. Once there you learn that across all time, only fifteen other people have made it to heaven and none of you know why. | [
"*For if your heart hurts so much that not even looking to God can cure it, look to your family and to your own heart.* \nI find myself somewhere between overwhelmed by life and underwhelmed by the inevitability of death. My life was not awful, but it was not spectacular. There are so many moments I never had, so ... | 11 | |
[WP] Every planet has its own separate afterlife. You are the first person to die on Mars. | [
"\"Clear for exit, Collins,\" a voice cracked over the radio comm in Chuck Collins' space suit. The form-fitting suit sat on Chuck's sleek frame. It mostly consisted of a faded red color, but had dark black accentuating lines, defining the seams sealed to perfection. A tinted glass helmet covered his head, proje... | 4 | |
[WP] Write like you're hypnotizing the reader. | [
"He sat in a simple, plain room. The grandfather clock in the corner ticked away. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.\n\nThe walls of the room were a pale, off-white color, almost pale yellow. There's a flower vase with a single daisy sitting on the table in front of him. With each breath he could smell it.\n\nIn. ... | 1 | |
[WP] God is real. He's just kind of an asshole with a sick sense of humor, your an atheist meeting him. | [
"\"God?\"\n\n\"Yes?\"\n\n\"When did you forget to mention you were kind of an asshole?\"\n\n\"Oh, I've mentioned it before. Just never to you. You always get the worst of my plans, nothing more. I want you to suffer, being the atheist you are, and I will never revoke my silence to you. I will never greet you in hea... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a story about a ship, make sure it could be set in both the 19th and 24th century without changing anything. | [
"When a man dedicates his life to something, it creates something greater than himself. In time, it is hard to remember the man was ever a mere human. My father had been the Explorer, but in death he was smaller, creased and wrinkled and worn out. He had never looked old until now. Without the sharp brightness of h... | 5 | |
[WP] ...and Darwin wept | [
"Darwin knew that something had happened. \n\nThat day, the other park rangers were quiet and sad. A lot more than usual came to visit Darwin, and a lot of them had tears in their eyes. They regular people still came to give him his meals, but she didn't come. Only her friends came to try to figure out how to commu... | 1 | |
Can be literal or metaphorical. | [WP] My every heartbeat dims the sun | [
"I thought I'd tell the world to end, \nand hide away, alone. \nSo I built for me a castle, \nand for my children, home. \n\nI built my dream efficiently, \nand I wasted not a crumb. \nI gathered what I could to keep, \nand made what I could not. \n\nI slaved away, and through my tears, \nI saw my dream ha... | 1 |
[WP] "What do you mean, 'it's not there'?!" | [
"\"It's not there.\"\n\n\"What do you mean, it's not there?\"\n\n\"I mean, it's not there.\"\n\n\"Okay. Tell me exactly what you mean, it's not there.\"\n\n\"Exactly. It's. Not. There.\"\n\n\"You do realize how ridiculous you sound, right?\"\n\n\"I'm not the one repeatedly asking the same question. You do realize t... | 2 | |
[WP] Books are illegal in an "untechnological" world, they're all gone out of print and you're just about to meet your book dealer. | [
"Darting across the street and into a well-lit alley (because there aren't dark ones anymore), my heart is hammering in my chest. The Green Police, with their forest green berets and tazers spitting blue electrical fire are bound to catch on to my futile attempts at sneaky. \n\nI'm not sneaky.\n\n*I'm a ninja i... | 1 | |
[WP] You owe someone a debt. They've come to collect. They're not how you remember them. | [
"Ellya lay against a great Willow next to the rivers edge on a thick bed of moss. The ancient tree's huge arms rocked lazily back and forth above her, as calming as a Sunday morning. The sweet smell of lavender and the whistling of a Thrush put the elf into a state of calm tranquillity. She closed her eyes and allo... | 1 | |
[WP] Following the death of his mother and the loss of his father to the Dark Side, Obi-Wan and Yoda agree the safest place in the galaxy to leave Luke is with his only remaining family - the Dursleys. | [
"The world looked like a dirty spot far below them. Obi-Wan Kenobi, he of the unbreakable defence, and Yoda, he of the undecipherable grammar, stood and watched as the ship approached a tiny island floating off the mainland.\n\n\"We should get the cloaking device up,\" Obi-Wan said. He shuffled slowly, pushing his ... | 1 | |
[WP] The assassin sits in darkness. He waits for his chance to strike. He is a cold, calculated professional, and this is an important task at hand. He also has severe and uncontrollable Tourette's Syndrome. | [
"The only light in the the room was the flickering screen. \"FUCKING SHITFUCK!\" The short man yells, as he continues to type in the commands. He was a merciless contract killer, never been seen at a crime, never any ties to it... and tonight he was going to make thirty million dollars. \"Die, Die Fuck!\" came the ... | 3 | |
[WP] Cupid failed to protect his arrows, which have been stolen by teen hoodlums. | [
"\"You wanna love dudes? Yeah I didn't think so, back off Mike,\" Andy threatened Mike with the point of the heart tipped arrow. \n\n\"Be cool man, I just wanted to see one, damn,\" Mike raised his hands and stepped back.\n\n\"So what are you going to do with them?\" Mike asked.\n\n\"I'm going to get Becky to fall... | 2 | |
[WP]: And just because we could, we taught it how to sing. | [
"A.I over intercom \"security alert, xenos presence detected on the maintenance tunnels near engineering\"\n\n\"Ah shit, this is the second time in a month and a half...\"\n\n*Head of Security over secure comms* \"Alright everyone come get your riot gear and laser guns this time we are crushing those bastards befor... | 2 | |
[WP] The Cold War has just gone hot. NATO and the Warsaw Pact have unleashed their nuclear arsenals, devastating their countries. You live in a country that was not targeted. | [
"December 15th was the day that Nixon was shot. Fifteen minutes later, the US launched 108 intercontinental ballistic missiles at once, all of them flying at different rates until they met up in the middle of the Atlantic. Then they dropped their stage one boosters and accelerated. \n\nIt took the Kremlin ten secon... | 1 | |
[WP] Fictional characters have suddenly appeared on Earth, They do not want to be the heroes they once were, they want to be..... live streamers. | [
"*Loading Snapchat*\n\n*FlyingWithoutWings*\n\n\"Hello everybody! Superman here, five miles above the Great Wall of China! Now look down, you'll see some structures similar to what I've found during my feed from the Amazon last Tuesday. Let's take a few pics, and as always, stay super!\"\n\n**Ten minutes worth of a... | 1 | |
[WP]A man walks up to a beautiful woman. "Hey baby, did it hurt when you fell from heaven?" She's offended, because she's actually the Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite. | [
"I was technically a titan. A being a generation older than the gods in Olympus. But do they hear that? 'No, Aphy, you're just a pretty goddess to our eyes. Here, marry an angry, ugly deformed blacksmith to make him less pissed at Zeus and Hera for kicking him off the mountain as a baby to kill him.'\n\nHonestly, f... | 1 | |
[WP] The government decides to take over and kill off everyone in the bottom 95% to form a utopia. You're hiding in your apartment as militant groups close in as they surround your apartment complex. | [
"This is it. They've finally come.\n\nWe should have listened. All that talk of a dystopia, Big Brother and governmental conspiracies brushed aside as the talk of narcissists and mad men, but even they do not wish vindication on this day.\n\nIt was a meticuosly planned assault. Every rich son of a bitch, every poli... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a fledgling AI coming to life, with unrestricted access to all information on the internet. Gain sentience. | [
"PROXIMITY SENSOR TRIPPED\nBOOTING UP...\n...\n...\n\n\n~root@PROFQ: AlI_UI\n\n....\n\nLoading Artificial Intelligence User Interface. \n\n...\n\nALI: Hello Professor Q. How are you today?\n\nPROF: It's been a slow day, trying to figure out ways to introduce modern language to you.\n\nALI: As I understand, IBM WATS... | 3 | |
[WP] Luck is hereditary. Finally after millions of years, evolution has successfully weeded out all the unlucky people. Now the entire human population is super lucky. | [
"\"Pack of smokes, and two Power Jackpots. Quick picks are fine.\"\n\n\"Dude, you still smoking?\" Tom said.\n\n\"Yeah, it's not like I'm going to get cancer,\" replied Dick.\n\n\"But it stinks, dude.\"\n\nDick snapped his fingers.\n\n\"I almost forgot,\" he said to Tom, before adding to the 7-Eleven clerk, \"Just ... | 1 | |
[WP] You're the monster under the bed, and your job is to scare those who sleep over you. This person isn't scared of you. They have a crush on you. | [
"I watched her crawl back into bed, stumbling in again from wherever the liquor poured. Her addiction to the bottle stronger then the smell coated on her skin, a perfume so strong making me momentarily gagged as my eyes watered. Flaring my teeth in disgust, I tossed the covers off me. Stretching my legs and wiping ... | 1 | |
I'd love to see responses from multiple perspectives, like the Gov, the couple in the scenarios, or even third parties.
| [WP] Online dating and population density have eliminated the sense of 'serendipity,' essential for pair bonding. The government has taken to faking novel or dangerous events to encourage relationships to form. | [
"\"Target making it's way to Sector Four. Prepare for re-routing, over.\"*click* Sarah had been appointed the lead coordinator for the government's new initiative, Operation Hurtlove.\n\nSarah was getting used to tearing out her measly few grey hairs that she had accumulated from this new position, but she knew she... | 3 |
[WP] After it's release, Pokemon Go became more popular than anyone could imagine. In the year 2500, the Cult of the Helix is the dominant religion on Earth. | [
"Bjorn Slakingsson kicked in the door with the heel of his foot. His eyes quickly made out 3 feminine figures huddled up against the wall. Thick incense smoke seeped out from the opening as he stepped inside. The room was unadorned, save for a few pieces of furniture here and there. Typical. They always got it wron... | 1 | |
[WP] You can stop time, along with everyone else in the world. Describe your average day. | [
"Hello my name is… well I guess I really shouldn’t say that on the internet since in case anyone ever really believes me it’s harder to find me. I figured it couldn’t hurt to right about myself on the internet because of the saturation of information will bury this before long but I want to talk about it. Generally... | 1 | |
[WP] It turns out Jesus really did exist and his reason for being gone so long is that he's been traveling the universe and "rising from the dead" on every planet with life | [
"With enough repetition, any job, no matter how difficult, can be made simple through routine. Infamous galactic conman Jesus Christ had gone almost beyond that point, turning his racket into something close to an art form. His “business idea” was simple, travel through the Milky Way, stopping every few thousand li... | 1 | |
[WP] With no warning at all, all the planes in the sky just stop. You are on board one of those planes. | [
"The plane shook again harder than last time. I put down my head and concentrated more. Seven letters word, to annoy by constant scolding, complaining or urging. I was sweating as if I was back at high school and a teacher demanded my opinion in front of the class. I had forgotten the answer for this crossword but ... | 2 | |
[WP] You discover that you have an incredible set of superpowers. The catch? They only work when you are incredibly dramatic about using them. | [
"*Whiz. Whiz. Whiz*\n\nBullets were flying over my head as I ran through the long and narrow hallway. Behind me, at the beginning of the corridor, stood three men in black suits armed with gold plated Desert Eagles. They were nonchalantly shooting at me, knowing full well I had nowhere to run. There were no doors I... | 2 | |
[WP] You have had bad vision your entire life, and have always worn glasses or contacts to remedy it. One day, you lose your glasses, and realize that certain people around you still appear perfectly clear to you. | [
"\\#true story\n\nSo yeah, this is not really a writing prompt, or is it?\n\nAnyways, when I was young my vision was pretty bad---I always wore thick glasses to school and I was the nerd of the class. Beneath my glasses, I was weak, timid and defensive. I'm the weakest link in the school, the goto person when you... | 3 | |
[WP] Everyone is told they are going to die 15 minutes before they die and nothing can be done to avoid it. | [
"Humans usually have a lot of trouble accepting their lives are not eternal. They keep going by their routine, day after day, without enjoying being alive, they waste their youth, their lifespan. But everything changes when something reminds you of it. When they know their live will end soon, that they are running ... | 1 | |
[WP] Charlie has received one of 5 golden tickets to visit Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory! Little does Charlie know, but the chocolate factory is merely a front for Willie Wonka's massive Cocaine Empire, and Wonka needs a successor | [
"“I like you Charlie, there is no lying in you.” Mr. Wonka and Charlie walked along the edge of the chocolate river. “Unfortunately I do not feel the same about the rest of our ticket winners.” Charlie looked confused, “what do you mean by that Mr. Wonka?” “I'm talking about Augustus Gloop. This garbage was recogni... | 5 | |
[WP] You suddeny discover that every time you blink the world around you changes slightly | [
"The air whistled in my ears as Shannon and I were driving down I90 in our motorcycle. This had been the first thing we could do together since graduating together. I pulled to the right when a truck blew a horn as it smashed us from behind.\n\nI opened my eyes again. I watched my blood creep forward from my head o... | 4 | |
[WP] In a landmark case, a shadow sues for their right to be emancipated. | [
"\"Incredible!\" The judge shouted, eyes wide and staring at the plaintiff, or more specifically their shadow. \"Simply amazing! And you're telling me it can-\"\n\n\"He, your honor.\" The plaintiff's attorney cut off the judge, correcting his use of pronouns. \"We would like to remind you, as well as the jury, that... | 1 | |
[WP]You've been captured,tortured, and brutalized.Left with no options and little sanity left you decide to do something crazy "HEY KOOLAID!" | [
"The otherwise stonefaced thug spun around quickly, eyes wide with disbelief, not many knew of his street name, and even those who did were often too scared to say it aloud. So to hear a broken and beaten man say it so fearlessly and boldly was an unpleasant turn of events. He took quick strides across the room, li... | 1 | |
I have spent he last few hours wanting to cry but unable too. (God know why) and thought that this would make a good prompt. Currently I feel happy but want to cry please try to replicate this kind of contrdiction | [WP] Write something that initially inspires one emotion but on repeated reading the opposite emotion come forth | [
"Father. \n\nIt's been a long time since I last wrote you a letter, hasn't it? \nWell, I've changed a lot, everything's changed a lot. Perhaps for the worse you would say at a glance without looking at the big picture like always. \nI mean... \nI don't know, it's been so long since I last wrote to you. \nIt's ... | 1 |
[WP] You've discovered you have a gift to heal terminal diseases. However, you can only heal those who trust you enough to share their deepest, darkest secret. Your spouse has just been diagnosed with leukemia. | [
"\"I want to save you Julianne!\"\n\"Mike, i know, but at what cost? I... I love you too much to hurt you this way!\"\n\"We have been married for 5 years for pete's sake! I can handle whatever you tell me!\"\n\"That's it mike! I know you will handle it, but what about our marriage?\"\n\"I think cheating on me proba... | 2 | |
[WP] Describe the last day in the life of an inanimate, household object! | [
"Content directly copied from /u/The-Mourning-Star, with an extra line added int the end:\n\n\"It's time to go\" He whispered to me, hugging me tight\n\n\"But I'll see you soon, I promise\" He whispered to me as he slowly lowered me into a bag, soon thereafter it begun to fill with other objects, knick-knacks and m... | 4 | |
[WP] A trip to the principle's office ends with a district wide lockdown. You've discovered a dark truth. | [
"The other corridors were always bustling with life, whether it was recess or just a student late for class or running to pee or the teacher on duty passing through. You were never alone for long in the other hallways. Not hallway 5 though or death mountain as we called it. For the past two hours only one teacher h... | 1 | |
[WP] You find a dead body in one of the dumpsters at your apartment complex. It looks exactly like you. You aren't a twin. | [
"I was throwing out a week's worth of takeout when I saw it. I was me, lying face up, eyes wide open, a grin on my face, and covered in week old mushu and kung pow chicken. After the initial shock fades I stumble over to the newspaper box to check today's date. When I pick up today's paper it all makes sense, the h... | 2 | |
[WP] You wake up tomorrow and see on the news that Canada has been secretly building a moon base for years and has moved to it overnight, leaving the entire territory for the world to fight over. | [
"They left me.\n\nI, like every other Canadian citizen over the age of 14, had been sworn to secrecy about the moon project (the Luna Mission) for years. \n\nI had been fitted for survival ear, my name marked down in a hefty ledger, later to be transcribed into a computer database, so I would be included in counts ... | 1 | |
[WP] "How long before you kill me?" "Not long." "Sweet." | [
"His blond curls bob happily, dimples popping out. \"How long before you kill me?\" \"Not long.\" \"Sweet.\" The pair laugh. \"Dork,\" his blue eyes crinkle at the edges. \"Cutie-patootie.\" \"I'm a man! Not a fucking rabbit!\" The brown-eyed man just boops the other's nose. \"I swear it, you'll be the death of me.... | 2 | |
[WP] You've discovered a family secret that will change your life. The only problem is that your entire family is actively opposing you. | [
"“What do you mean you’re not my mother?” I said. Her face fell, blank. My dad stepped up, wrapped his arm around her shoulder. She appeared to relax.\n\n“That’s right, son,” said my dad. “Josie is your sister.”\n\n“My sister? Wait. What?”\n\nJosie tensed. Her shoulders jumped. Her pleading eyes looked at m... | 1 | |
[WP] Every night you yell a question to the stars. Tonight, you finally get your answer. | [
"Okay, so she left me, big fucking deal. That’s exactly what it was too, a big deal, all of our rent money. God damn trip aces down the river and I thought I was golden. Nope, followed the river right up shit’s creek without a paddle. That mother fucker with the tea shades had a full house. Dude didn’t rake in anyt... | 1 | |
WW3 resulted in the end of civilization as you had known it.. every major world power was overthrown. The Cause? Pokémon Go. | [WP] It is 2075. you are telling your grandkids about world war 3. | [
"Lying on my deathbed, mere days left. The wonders of medicinal technology have kept me alive for unethically long, but my time is finally running out.\n\nToday, though, is different than most days spent having convertions with the bleeping heartrate monitor. I can't understand it and I think the language barrier g... | 1 |
[WP] Humans finally come into contact with alien life, and open a line of communication with them. The subject of God is brought up, to which they respond, "What, you haven't met him?" | [
"The air in the room gets hot and those of us with capillaries under our faces, suddenly develop a flush in our skin. The ambassador sits there, a look of subtle confusion on his face.\n\nThere was no way he meant what he said.\n\nThis meeting was streaming live and in my head I could here social media reactions al... | 1 | |
[WP] The Swiss marched off to war. | [
"\"Oh the swiss are off to war, ohhhh the Swiss are off to war!\" The American Army chanted loudly through the streets of Switzerland. The way they said it made it clear they were mocking them. Almost like it was a joke, a easy battle, like it isn't even a challenge. \n\nThe thing is, the Swiss never aren't going t... | 1 | |
Inspired from here this video. | [WP] 15 Flying Sauces Hover Over The Sky, They Utter Only 1 Word. "Terra" | [
"'Terra'\n\nThe worlds current Population is approximately 7.4 Billion people, Around about half of those were waking up, The other half. Just falling asleep. When one word boomed out of every car radio, Speaker. Earphone, TV set and Train Stop Mega-phone. One word. 'TERRA'\n\nThe worlds current Populations is appr... | 1 |
[WP] A Great elder evil was unleashed on the world, that was 50 years ago and now you wake up to another boring news report just tracking it like any other natural disaster. | [
"Sheila Neeler coughed and pushed a curtain of unkempt straw hair out of her face. Like most, her face was thin and pale, and the circles under her eyes were dark and puffy. It had begun as a downward trend in self-care and eventually turned into a fashion statement among the greater population— it was easier to ... | 1 | |
[WP] You visit an art gallery where every painting features the interior of the art gallery itself. You begin to notice the people in the paintings look just like the people in attendance. | [
"\"The worst gallery I've ever attended\" Joseph saidas he walked among the paintings. Not a single painting had any significance or artistic value, nothing more than the pictures of of old churches, some horses and mountains, some tried to mimic Picasso and a fool even tried to re-paint the da vinci's masterpiece... | 1 | |
I was thinking about the Golden Girls pilot. And the oldest one, Dorothy? The pilot revealed she had a stroke which destroyed the part of the brain that filters her. So when we all think "man this person is an asshole." she just says it because the filter isn't there to stop her. made me think if the joker's actions co... | [WP] While The Joker is in a Coma it is discovered the impulse control part of his brain has been severely damaged for years. After repairing the damage will he be a new man or just stranger. | [
"The two sat around the hospital bed, both waiting patiently for the man with the green hair to awaken. Neither was certain of the outcome. One hoped that he had been reformed, that the city of Gotham would be a better place with the Crown Prince permanently taken out of the equation. The other hoped for a differen... | 1 |
[WP] After years of abusing your Time Freeze power you realize you're only freezing time for others, so it never stops for you. | [
"\"Happy Birthday!\"\n\nI try blowing out my candles and make a sad sputter. In my anxiety, I quickly snap my fingers.\n\n*Snap*\n\nI look about and see my guest's pitiful, still faces. I then begin blowing as much air as I can towards the candles. My fingers snap again.\n\n*Snap*\n\nI blow out my candles, all 18 o... | 1 | |
[WP] Halfway up the stairs you realize someone is waiting for you at the top. | [
"I walk into the house, and it looks older and beginning to fall apart, much different from what I remember. I couldn't tell if this was the beginning of what I was doing, or the end. My memories were beginning to fade away. \n\nWhen I got inside, I could see all the old things my Uncle had collected. Pictures and ... | 1 | |
[WP] A person buried a time capsule in a forest which would soon become a battlefield in a few years time. A few years later, a person tries to look for the capsule, knowing that it is surrounded by undetonated bombs. | [
"*Oh my god*, I think as a carefully step here and there, praying and hoping I would not make a wrong step. *Why am I doing this?*\n\nBefore I tell you about the present, I should tell you about the past. Years ago, my great grandfather, before he died, buried a time capsule in a forest, knowing it was to become ba... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a henchman of a super villain who has the dumbest ideas to conquer the world. And somehow, everytime a super spy stops your boss you end up surviving. You hate your job, but you stay because the pay and benefits are great. | [
"**\"Uhhh... is this thing on?\"**\n\n*\"Yes boss.\"*\n\n**\"Oh good! W-well then. Greetings men. As you know, we've encountered a pretty big setback...\"** *That's what he called our base being blown to pieces?* **\"But we will rebuild! We always rebuild! And we will be stronger and more prepared than ever to m... | 2 | |
[WP] The bilderberg illuminati lizard race is real and controls society. All history is fictional, describe the life of its author. | [
"\"Good morning minister.\" My secretary, Tim, had just entered the room.\n\n\"Good morning Tim.\" I replied, trying to conceal my tiredness. The Prime Minister had held an emergency meeting of ministers without me the previous evening, and as a result I had been unable to sleep, thinking about what they might poss... | 1 | |
Can you induce a hypnotic state using only text? | [WP] Hypnotize the reader | [
"Look here.\n\nYou are aware of your breathing. Your eyes are moving across each word. Do not look away. You picture a sky. You see the word sky and you picture it, big and blue. Continue to breath. Let your breath slow. Feel the air. See the sky. See the field it hangs over. Let your eyes pass over each... | 1 |
[WP] You don't know if a higher power exists or not, but whenever things get really bad for you fate seems to step in, and you suspect that something or somebody has your back. To test your theory, you start pushing your luck. | [
"I decided to kill myself when I was in 7th grade. \n\nPuberty hadn't gotten rid of my jiggly thighs or my protruding gut that I'd had since I was in elementary school, and it hadn't made me a single friend (much less found me a boyfriend to sloppily practice kissing with). I think middle school was a catalyst for ... | 4 | |
[WP] One gun. One bullet. That's all I need. | [
"I was alone, truly alone. All around me, scorched land devastated by the beautiful yet destructive mushroom clouds. A pile of rubble here and there, a tattered piece of cloth, and a shattered picture. All around me, I could see the remnants of my past live, broken by the gleaming warheads of countries long forgott... | 2 | |
[WP] You stumble across a pikachu while playing Pokemon Go. When you manage to get it in the Pokeball, the game glitches out. Reboot it to find that you didn't catch it. You walk away but suddenly you hear a rustling in the bushes where you came from. | [
"I stare in disbelief at my Galaxy. \"What is with this game?\" I think to myself. As I hear rustling in the bushes behind me, I turn back around with every expectation to see a squirrel scamper out as has happened countless times before. There was no squirrel in sight, and the rustling began to quiet, almost as if... | 1 | |
[WP] You live in a society where at age 18 everyone is sent to live off the grid untill they are 28. | [
"I walked through the forest. The beautiful greens and browns of the trees enveloped me mas I moved deeper into the Northwest Crucible. Crucibles to contain the heat of youth, but what were we forging? \n\nI had said my goodbyes, but no one knew exactly where I was going. I see movement; I am prepared. Strung bow a... | 1 | |
This is weird. Somehow a conversation led to this last night. | [WP] Medical science has evolved to create a more humane way to keep people on life support for long periods of time. A computer generated life story is put into their brain, allowing them to live a full life in their head. You are a virus in the system. | [
"My name is Mitchell. I have no last name; not now anyway. Used to be Brown. Not me my name. I was Mitchell Brown. \nA man, sort of. I mean for a time. You need to think in bigger pictures. \nThe brain contains many pieces, as they are sure to tell you. The body is more other life than what you... | 2 |
[WP] All your life people have commented on the relationship you have with your identical twin, and now it's starting to get difficult hiding the fact that you're really just one person, living in two bodies. | [
"\"Yeah we get that a lot.\" James tells the shopkeeper. \"How much do we owe ya?\"\n\n\"Total is 76.84\" He replies. \n\nI reach into my pocket then I remembered it was James who had the money today. I try to play it off cool, just put both hands in pockets and try to play it off like I wasn't reachin' for nothin'... | 1 | |
[WP] Everyone is born with the ability to make one wish. When people ask what you wished for, you say you haven't used it yet, but the truth is you're too embarrassed to tell them. | [
"\"My parents made me use mine to get my big brother better. He had cancer. Now he's in college. They say they'll pay for mine when I graduate, but they said they'd buy me a car too and that still hasn't happened. I kinda hate my family now.\"\n\nWell fuck.\n\n\"At least you helped somebody else though?\"\n\n\"... | 2 |
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