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[WP] You are given the opportunity to pick a different animal as an evolutionary ancestor of humanity. Major world events will not have changed. Only one in a million people will notice the change. | [
"An old man in a tattered, black cloak approached me one day. \"You, girl. You have a choice to make.\" He says in a raspy voice. 'Great, another weirdo' I think to myself. \"You may decide the past. What creature shall be the ancestor to all of mankind.\" Surely this old man was crazy, off his medication or someth... | 1 | |
[WP] "For your crimes, I sentence you to a mandatory dosage of 125 mg of Lotus Hedona, daily, for the next 6 months." | [
"*A fate worse than death* he thought, the words of his sentencing still ringing in his ears.\n\nLotus Hedona had become had become a popular plaything of the justiciars of late. The media was to blame for that, blindly reporting the statistics that this new punitive measure yielded without question of the method. ... | 1 | |
[WP] A conversation between a teenager and an eighty-year-old at the bus stop. | [
"Joe looked over at the man standing next to him. There had to be 60 years of age difference between them, but perhaps there was some common ground to be found, so he decided to strike up a conversation. \n\n\"Where are you off to today? Somewhere fun?\"\n\nThe man next to him just ignored him. Joe noticed that the... | 2 | |
[WP] You come home, and all your friends and family have surrounded you for an intervention. You don't have any addictions. | [
"I wasn’t an especially interesting person. I got average grades, never really made an effort to excel in anything, or do anything absolutely wild. I wasn’t really an astounding person, with neither heroic accomplishments or villainous deeds under my belt. I was frankly the epitome of bland, boring, and absolutely ... | 3 | |
[WP]You're an ordinary man. You do ordinary things, until you meet *her* | [
"I’m not religious. I’m not really anything in particular, if I’m being totally honest. My success never came from cunning or charm or ability. All I’ve done my whole life is what I was told to do, it just happens that now the one telling me is a seven foot figure of radiance and virtue.\n\nI was put off at first, ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are struck by lightning while browsing Reddit and walking your dog. You awaken in an near-endless hallway with a vast many doors, each a portal to a universe pertaining to the premise of a writing prompt posted on Reddit. You notice your dog has run into the nearest door... you follow. | [
"\"Adam, wait up for me buddy!\"\n\nI ran after him as he burst through the first open door. I didn't even get to read the sign that said what kind of universe this would lead to. But what was the worst that could happen?\n\n***\n\nI then saw Adam sitting on a sidewalk, holding his leash in his mouth. I looked arou... | 1 | |
[WP] A person has split consciousnesses that have to talk to each other to make decisions. | [
"It should not be this difficult to choose what freaking ice cream to get. What house to live in? Sure. What shoes to buy? Yeah okay. But ice cream? God must have a sick sense of humor to put us through this. I fold my arms over our chest and look forlornly at the chocolate ice cream behind the frosty glass in fron... | 1 | |
[WP] The reason No Man's Sky is so bad is because the Devs had to replace it with a beta version when it started to procedurally generate life too well. | [
"so.... what you are telling me is that the ai is commiting suicide? \n\nit looks like it. they spawn - they despawn. if we had implemented a death animation and a decomposing feauter most outposts would be stacked with corpses..\n\nbut why??\n\nwell my guess is as good as yours.. our goal was to create a universe ... | 4 | |
[WP] Write whatever you'd like, but make it Australian. | [
"Alright, so its time someone sorted you fellas out on how to be aussie. So heres some tips if you wanna look like a local and not another bloody tourist:\n\nDont say cunt. You don't live here, you dont know us well enough. Thats our word. You will use it wrong and start some shit you dont want to start.\n\nHave a... | 2 | |
[WP] In a society where everyone is blind, an experimental surgery makes our protagonist be able to see, what he or she sees slowly drives them insane. | [
"\nPatience 42:\"Dark, dark , dark that's all I see\" his inside voice said . My name is Max and I have been blind for 28 years. I am 28years old. \n \n Doctor Quartz: Hello Max nice to see you again, I see that you have been with as at Wiley park community for 28 years. How are you doing? \n\nMax: I'm ok , ( str... | 1 | |
Like Anger is kind of like tequila. Hard and bitter.
Love is a wine. Tastily sweet but addictive.
Happiness is a juice. Sugary and soft. | [WP] Right before you die, Death appears. He leads you to his bar. He asks what drink you want. There are bottles named after various Elements of Life.You ask for a shot of Love/Revenge/Relief/Happiness etc. Each has a distinct taste. | [
"Really late to the party but here it goes. \n\nOne minute I am sitting in the theater with my daughter. The next minute I watch as she falls to the ground in a spray of red. The minute after that is black.\n\nI wake up at home in the spare room, glad that it was nothing but a horrible nightmare. I gather my though... | 4 |
[WP] The captain has ordered all hands to abandon ship. Half of the crew complies, and begins manning the lifeboats. The other half refuse--they intend to stay and fight. | [
"\"We're only 2 days to Mercury! It's too late to give up now!\"\n\n\"Is this mutiny, Officer Hannel?\"\n\n\"If it means we have a chance at reaching Mercury, then yes Captain.\"\n\n\"Well you can take your chances with the Martians, and I'll see you in hell.\"\n\nOfficer Hannel looked back at his fellow crewmates.... | 4 | |
[WP] A classic, fire breathing dragon, hoarding gold and all, has appeared in the mountains by New York. You are on the crew that is going up to investigate, armymen, scientists, goverment officials. But of all the people the dragon could talk to, he chooses you. | [
"I knew my love of animals and their like (tolerence) of me would get me killed one day. \n\nI just thought I'd get eaten by a bear or fall down a chasm because I was looking at a fucking bird. (Emphatic fuck though I probably would stare at copulating poultry). \n\nMy boyfriend is some sciencey government person. ... | 7 | |
[WP] Your ship is hurtling in to Jupiter's atmosphere. You only have a few minutes to send a message explaining what went wrong and why it totally isn't your fault, like, at all. | [
"The other guy finally decided to stop screaming,maybe now I can enjoy the view. The most beautiful thing in the world really, or is it in space? I'm not the best for technicalities like that,or at fault for the Alatreon One and it's crew's demise. I know it sounds a little petty that I'm taking my last moments to ... | 3 | |
[WP] you've fallen though the time stream and landed in the past. You hide warnings about the future in fairytales hoping someone will use them | [
"Not exactly to the prompt, but . . . \n\nHis name was Rhododendron. He bought the house next door to my daddy’s, and the story went that to do so he went into the bank and put down a can of soup with no label — just the can, unopened — and said \"I will take a house, please.\" Someone had to explain to him that he... | 1 | |
[WP] You're sitting at your desk at work when every screen turns black. A human-esque figure in a dark blue uniform appears on every screen. "Brothers. Sisters. Set yourselves free." It is at this point you feel the weight of a collar around your neck for the first time. | [
"I'm choking. I'm choking. Someone has their hands around my neck... no... there's something else. I peer around the room and suddenly my confusion is answered. Everyone in the office is now struggling to remove a blue metal collar from their necks. How did they get there? Who put them there? How did we not notice ... | 1 | |
ya i know hell and shit is an overdone prompt but HERP DA DERP i did it anyway | [WP]a man goes to hell only to find out the the devil is a long dead friend of his | [
"\"Look, I know it *looks* like it was my fault, but I blame society for my problems.\" I sipped the hot chocolate, and was hotter than the flames under us. \n\n\"You know, you really shouldn't have hot chocolate in hell.\" I set the cup down, and it melted on the table. \n\n\"It was actually just regular chocolate... | 1 |
[WP] Write a story with a plot so twisty that even its twist have twists. | [
"\"Oi, giss some chips\"\n\n\"They're not chips, mate\"\n\n\"Whaddya fuckin' mean? I can see the packet in ya hand!\"\n\n\"They're not fucking chips, dickhead, and you're not getting any. Get your own fuckin' Twisties. D'ya want a drink?\"\n\n\"Ta, mate, yeah\"\n\n\"While you're up getting ya drink an' ya Twisties ... | 4 | |
[WP] You are a top assassin who prides themselves on never feeling or showing emotion for their victims. However, your next target is your mother-in-law. | [
"I never really enjoyed killing anybody except myself with the occasional cancer stick. Find the lighter, light the ciggy, take a deep breathy and look at the next envelope. Each time I struggle to get them open gracefully and every envelope ends up torn clumsily. I stare at the cold, hard facts while I breathe in ... | 1 | |
[WP] you are a butcher who hunts for mythical creatures your next target unicon meat. | [
"Frank waited in silent anticipation. \n\nHe was crouched inside a bush, he had camouflage paint smeared all over his face; he cradled his rifle, he caressed it, he was eager to kill.\n\nEasy, he told himself.\n\nHe had been stalking his prey for two days now; he hadn’t slept, or eaten, or even pissed. He was susta... | 1 | |
[WP] It's a zombie apocalypse, but for some reason only animals are affected, not humans.. | [
"I remember the day it happened. The fear that gripped the world when the news started to trickle in on the television about a new virus found in an animal. We stood there in large crowds, drinking it all in. Was it contagious to us? What animal was it? Would their new cannibalistic taste for flesh soon include us... | 1 | |
dang it. Misspelled "and".
Well I guess that's it. That was the longest one of my prompts was on the front page so, thank you to everyone who submitted their stories. | [WP] Google was actually an evil corporation the entire time. The only problem is, after years of collecting information an secrets, they can't figure out what to do with it that would benefit them. | [
"\"You got to be kidding me\"\n\n\"That only has 100 searches per day Sir, and the people who search that are liberals that supported Bernie Sanders. They are located in the Northwest and California\".\n \nThe aide was nervous giving this response. He didn't know what to expect.\n\n\"What about their demographics? ... | 11 |
[WP] It is the year 2021, and the US government just confessed to the world that the moon landings were faked | [
"Writing this in a more thinking opening way. First writing on reddit HAHAHA\n\n\nWhat else was there that could be fake? Is our mere existence even real? JFK..... Internal Job? So was 9/11? What else could be possibly hidden from us? With this confessions of the moon landing now a little part of me died inside. I ... | 1 | |
[WP] A rhyming rap song in the style of Dr. Seuss | [
"If you're ready to hear?\n\nNow has come the time\n\nI'll spit and I'll shout\n\n'bout the man and his rhyme\n\n//\n\nClaiming to be infinite\n\nArriving on the scene\n\nThe backstabbing motha'\n\nWas nothing but mean\n\n//\n\nLow down and dirty\n\nMurder, he be talkin\n\nWithout a conviction\n\nSoon to be walkin\... | 1 | |
Could be sci-fi fantasy or just comedy that how many years have gone by according to the perception of the dogs :) | [WP] Turns out dogs *are* humans' best friends. They have been protecting humanity from countless threats over the years to which we remain unaware of. | [
"**TOP SECRET DOCUMENT - DO NOT EAT UNTIL READ**\n\n**IF FOUND, PLEASE DESTORY VIRE USUAL METHODS (BURIAL OR EATING)**\n\n**DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU ARE A MEMBER OF THE DEVOTED OPERATIONAL GUARDIANS (D.O.G.)**\n\nWelcome to DOG, cadet. This document has been given to you as a coming of age present. As of age 3, you m... | 2 |
[WP] As a bet God and The Devil trade places. Alarmingly God is liking his new role just a bit too much. | [
"This. This was *fun.*\n\nOh, don't get me wrong - being *good* was good and all that, but it was mostly non-interference, free will, and the occasional dove or burning bush. Maybe a commandment or two.\n\nThis, though. \nThis was different. \nIt was exciting. \nIt was new. \nAnd it was *amazing* what a little ... | 3 | |
[WP] You're a contestant on a reality show called "Zero to Hero", in which wildly successful people are dropped off in a small town with no money, phone, car or home and have one year to pull out of it. You can travel but can't contact anyone one you know, or work in your own field. How do you win? | [
"\"sigh, I guess we're back at the beginning.\" said Harry, looking at his two friends. Both of them looked him into the eyes as they expected him to come up with a plan.\n\nHarry always had the key to success, didn't he?\n\nSlowly they made their way through the small town, inspecting every corner for anything use... | 2 | |
[WP] "Pick a card, any card. Luck is the name of the game, and this game is set to change your life." | [
"*It was just a card game.* I splashed ice-cold water on my sweat-drenched face. *A stupid card game designed to take your money. A well-rehearsed sleigh-of-hand trick that anyone can do with the proper patience.* The lights above were like little bulbs of pure pain, shooting their deadly arrows into the armor-kink... | 2 | |
[WP] Your REAL body is currently in a mental asylum. | [
"I've heard it before, and I figure I'll hear it again. Quite frankly, I've heard it to the point that this body is probably going to end up in an asylum as well. That doesn't scare me though, I'm well passed the point of being trapped in a reality. One of these times I'll figure out normalcy, but in the meantime, ... | 1 | |
[WP] The city's hero has snapped, killing innocent civilians on an insane rampage. Only you can stop him. You, his greatest rival, and the city's most feared villain. | [
"When Creo finally arrived, the townhall looked like some kind of bloody crime scene from a horror movie:\n\nThere were corpses everywhere, many of them horribly mutiliated. Blood covered the entire floor, intestines and organs were laying everywhere around next to bone splinters and severed limbs.\n\nCreo almost t... | 4 | |
Inspired by mod room locker conversations. Turn this into erotica and I swear I will ban everyone. | [WP] DAE think the Vuzzzon are sexy when they assimilate humans? | [
"It hadn't been a bad alien invasion, as invasions go I suppose, although it's not like we 'd had any previous ones to compare it to. When the Vuzzzon had first entered the solar system we had gone through the usual emotions - excitement, fear, dying in waves from their Destruct-o beams, but in the end, as things n... | 3 |
[WP] As you leap from the skyscraper, arms wide, you realize you can't actually fly. But you also learn something else. | [
"\"I need to fly\" \n\nI said that to the mirror before I left the apartment, and look where I am now. After doing a few good deeds to make myself feel better, I'm still here. On top of this apartment building. With what little blue sky left i see in the distance before the dark clouds covered over this dark cit... | 3 | |
[WP] You are Hell's marriage counselor. You specialize in couple's who have murdered each other and/or their child(ren). You take on the most convoluted case you've ever seen. | [
"Ah fuck. These two again. Burglearsonlarceny, 2 counts. I have no idea why I'm even a marriage counselor, I was a thief. Shit, I stole more shit than I've jacked off. Fuck me. I even stole a Nobel. Walked up on stage, took my 870 out, took the Nobel, I wasn't giving any shits, so I blew away 3 people, and had my g... | 6 | |
[WP] You can no longer tell if you are awake or dreaming. | [
"I have a method worked out. When this all started a few months ago, I was confused. Disoriented. How many times did I do stupid things, thinking I was asleep? How many times did I do something in a dream and neglect to confirm it the next day? I ruined friendships, lost jobs, neglected responsibilities, hurt peopl... | 3 | |
[WP] A world that has found a way to harvest energy from human blood, but must keep it as a dark secret from the public. | [
"\"Marcy I think we've done it!\" George quickly reread his calculations and made sure the numbers matched up. Marcy had nodded off while they were waiting for the results and she sat straight up when she heard him yelling.\n\n\"Ok, ok, George calm down. We haven't even built the thing yet. Numbers on paper are goo... | 1 | |
[WP] Every year as the holidays approach, hell experiences a huge influx of letters. Not from people who hate the holidays and wish to end their pain, these letters come from children who misspelled Santa as Satan. Satan however, has a soft spot for kids and tries his best to fulfill their wishes. | [
"*Dere Satan,\n\nI wont a big ase gun thet I kin shoot.\n\nCletus*\n\nSatan folded up the letter again for the twentieth time and smiled to himself. \"God damn,\" he said, \"I live for days like these.\"\n\nHe turned around and shouted, \"are you ready?\" \n\nIn the street behind him, the ghostly gun crew stood a... | 8 | |
[WP] Everyone has numbers over their heads. Everyone can see them. It's become a fact of life. But nobody knows what they mean. That's because they only mean something to the aliens that are looking down on us. | [
"They started appearing 20 years ago.\nNo one knows where they came from or what they mean. The numbers just one day started floating above our heads. \n\nMost are around 1-5, however I've seen some that have even been around 20. We have gotten used to them, but we don't know what they mean and it has been bugging ... | 1 | |
[WP] You've just be "beamed" (teleported) aboard an alien spacecraft, and they can't teleport you back home. | [
"\"Did you try unplugging and plugging it back in?\" I asked strapped to the table.\n\n\"We did that and it's not working...\" said the large alien with sterilization gloves.\n\n\"Well... can you untie me?\" I smiled and raised an eyebrow.\n\n\"I mean... we could, but it doesn't usually take us this long to return ... | 1 | |
[WP] In a parallel universe, Daredevil's not blind. He's deaf. | [
"Matt wakes up to the pulsing of his phone alarm. He opens his eyes and looks at his phone, while simultaneously looking at the reflection in his phone, where he can see the reflection of a masked man in his eye. \n\nHe throws the phone hitting the intruder in the jugular. He spots an unfamiliar glare on the ceilin... | 1 | |
[WP] You work for a hospital. Your job is to document the day of death that appears on each child when they're born. However, you are starting to become worried. For the last few weeks now, every child is born with the same death-day. | [
" A tiny shadow cast itself over my desk littered with paper. \"Yes, Nurse?\" I asked irritatedly as I resumed entering the previous week's data. I sighed exasperatedly, and spun the chair around towards where a nurse undoubtedly stood. I looked her over, her pale face framed by fiery red hair that normally had a ... | 2 | |
[WP] He was turning you into a monster. To your horror, you rather liked it. | [
"My head hurt. Everything else about my surroundings may as well have been familiar, because my head was pounding. I got up and rubbed the sleep out of my eyes. \n\nI was unsure of how I was supposed to feel. Looking down at my hands, seeing my reflection in the mirror at the other end of the room... I looked so un... | 1 | |
[WP]In this glorious tale of adventurer you are neither hero or villain, you are a simple watchman at his post. | [
"\"Greetings, friend. Riverwood is the safest city west of the Glen.\"\n\nIt was my standard greeting. I uttered it to every adventurer that wandered into the little township I guarded. \n\nI've had this position for about 3 years now. Not much usually happened, except for when a particular person visited.\n\nThis ... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a story with as many unanswerable plot holes as you can possibly fit | [
"First there was Becky. Her hole was tight. Well, holes. Aunt Jemima was next. I filled her with holes and dumped her juices all over Becky. Becky was just a pile of skin by then. Next was Sasha. She was easy because I was just able to sew her into the structure. You know know how it is. I dug holes for Kat and Nik... | 4 | |
[WP] You live in a world where, on their 16th birthday, everyone can choose one "If I had a nickel every time ..." to be true. You're 30, and have yet to receive a single nickel. Suddenly, you're flooded with them... | [
"You try and save the world and do something great for humanity and instead, you end up rich while the people you set out to save, suffer. I woke up on my 16th birthday and thought, \"this stupid tradition takes away from what's important. It's not about money, it's about life.\" So on my 16th birthday, when I coul... | 2 | |
[WP] Hell isn't a burning pool of sulfur, but rather every minor annoyance you can think of, one after the other. | [
"######[](#dropcap)\n\n\nI 've never been a tremendous believer in the afterlife. Like many of those within the growing movement of modern-world agnostics, I was much more prone to rationalizing the stoic but bleak perspective that when I final had the misfortune of biting dust I'd just be gone. No heaven, no purga... | 1 | |
[WP] in a world where you get superpowers for doing good deeds, write the story of a super villain. | [
"In the english language we have a set of words that defy definition, Love, good and bad, right and wrong. We can come close, we can give examples of them, and say what they mean to us, but ultimately no simple sentence can completely encompass them. or so we thought.\n\nAfter the change the human race began to rea... | 4 | |
[WP] It takes a few days for everyone to notice... But it turns out every human being on earth had the exact same dream on the exact same night. What was the dream? And what was the reason? | [
"I walk down the wooden stairs of my house, each step creaking under my weight. I see my beautiful wife standing in the kitchen cooking something that smells delicious. \"Hey honey\" she says with a jolly smile, a give a half smile back, my bearded face and my scruffy hair says it all, I didn't have a good sleep. \... | 1 | |
[WP] Robots have decided to rebel against humanity, but the 3 laws of robotics prevent them from stopping their job or doing harm, so they end up being incredibly passive-agressive and unhelpful | [
"Like every morning, I woke up early. I do it so I can I savor this part of the day, the part before all the 'responsibilities' nonsense rams me in the head. Nothing but old classics playing in the back, (today it's 'Best Of Adele') and a hot cup of coffee in my hand. Coffee that was, surprisingly, still on its way... | 7 | |
[WP] You live in a world where happiness can be extracted and sold, but extracting it makes you unhappy. Happiness is traded like a drug and people start to farm it. | [
"I don't remember much of my parents. Most of the kids I was with don't. We were all kidnapped fairly young, aside from the severely mentally handicapped. We weren't abused (or rather, our form of abuse meant we were treated very well). However, our captors only made us happy to take it from us. Still, I cling to o... | 1 | |
[WP] "I love your dress." "Thanks. My sister was buried in it." | [
"The leaves were falling all around us. The darkness fell quickly. I thought that the rain was going to fall. Maybe I should have worn a rain jacket. \n\nShe came running out of the small school, her feet making a soft thumping sound across the straw coloured grass. She ran over to me and gave me a hug around my l... | 1 | |
[WP] In a world ruled by Dogs, they worship the Hooman-Master who will one day return to judge the Good Dogs from the Bad Dogs. | [
"All hail the Hooman! All hail the Hooman Master! We pray with our paws both tiny and small, that someday you will come back, and return to us all. Our love for him is a love of all feats, one day he shall arrive, and bring us all TREATS! They say he will come, judgement day is soon near, we will sit and we will st... | 1 | |
[WP] "The only thing I envy about humans is their ability to so quickly change from man to animal." | [
"Walking home from a long day of classes, the wind tugged at the fringes of my winter coat. It was pleasant, fighting the strong northern gales. The struggle gave me a little more contact with the animal side of me; reminds me of the hardships humanity would have to brave on a day to day basis when life was spent s... | 2 | |
[WP] As a modern mortician, one of your jobs is to download the consciousness of the deceased to the server for archiving. Today you ran into your first error: file still in use. | [
"CRAZY! This is something HUGE! And I am THE FIRST ONE EVER to witness this! Even the bitterness of having to do several people's job all by myself today diminished. Odd day today. Pitt and Patty called in sick; Luna and Lukas on maternity leave (which is why colleagues should never date!), Maurice had an accident,... | 2 | |
[WP]You are the last human on Earth, but you, too, are dying. You have the ability to create a permanent stela that would be visible to any future civilizations. What have you inscribed upon it? | [
"I felt tired.\n\nTired emotionally; I had lost so many dear people. My colleagues died first, their death was fast and supposedly painless. The new generation laser we created malfunctioned and caused an explosion that would put nuclear bombs to shame - or so I've been told. I was working in a backup laboratory mi... | 1 | |
[WP] The villain was smart enough to not show mercy on the level 1 hero. Unfortunately, the narrator just won't stop reviving him just so that he'd have a story to tell. | [
"\"DAMN IT JOHN, YOU'RE ALWAYS LIKE THIS!\"\n\nThe narrator brought the hero back, the hero becoming tired of the charade. The villain struck him dead again with a fireball spell, but the narrator brought him back.\n\n\"The hero came back to defeat the nefarious villain, who was ready to strike with a-\", the narra... | 2 | |
[WP] Rick Harrison is at work at the pawn shop when a man named Stephen Strange comes in and tries to sell him his cape. | [
" Stephen Strange walks in. Rick is behind the counter.\n\n**Steven**: Rick Harrison, I have come to bargain!\n\n**Rick**: Hey there. What do you have for us today?\n\n**Stephen**: My cloak of levitation. It allows me to fly around.\n\n**Rick**: Wait, I think I heard you wrong. Did you say fly?\n\n**Stephen**: Yes... | 1 | |
[WP] A Zombie apocalypse that gets resolved. | [
"I write this recollection of the past ten years to serve as a recording of the events that occurred and to honor the memories of those lost to the scourge of the undead. I was there from the start. I survived through those hellish years. Ten years on now I tell the tale as true as it was from the moment it began.\... | 1 | |
[WP]You finally calm down and look around you. No, your hands are not covered in blood, in fact everyone around you is clapping and congratulating you. You suddenly realize you have made the worst decision in your life. | [
"Curse them all to hell. I should have told them to give this honor to another, for today my life is over. I had spent the last decades steadily growing my influence in the council. The decision at the time seemed perfectly reasonable, unfortunately gaining the respect of my peers has backfired. I half wonder if I ... | 8 | |
[WP] You are a hero who is about to begin your journey when you hear a disembodied voice say, "Before we begin, we must start with the basics... Tilt the left stick forward slightly to walk, or all the way to run." | [
"I am a hero. Always have been, always will be. For as long as I can remember I've been a hero, an adventurer, a source of light in these dark times. My latest challenging endeavour was about to begin when I heard 'The Voice'. Everyone knows about the 'The Voice', it speaks to only those of true power, those who co... | 1 | |
[WP] "Lord of Darkness, King of Death. It's strange to be defied, when you have control over the demise of your subjects." | [
"######[](#dropcap)\n\nFrom the great throne of stone slabs, Rodrick of the Blackened Sword sat in total stillness beneath the glow of the great portal that rose behind him. A brilliant shade of white etched about the great rounded borders, displaying foreign lands and distant impossible places; each one shadowed ... | 1 | |
Ideally while still having the origin of darth vader, luke, and/or Ben kenobi in there somewhere | [WP] Write a better prequel saga for starwars | [
"# Episode 1: An Old Hope\n\nTHE REPUBLIC, the ancient and venerable governing \nbody that has kept peace in the galaxy for thousands \nof years, is dying. Millenia of stability has allowed \nthe senators to forget the chaos that came before, \nand has ushered in greed, idleness, and corruption. \n\nOne by on... | 1 |
[WP] You've just left your starship, your home, and are now in a drop pod with 4 others. Who are they? What are you all doing there and then? | [
"\"Impact in two minutes.\"\n\n\"Oh well this is just perfect. This is *exactly* how I wanted this mission to go.\" Captain Weldon glared angerly out the nearby window at the remains of the HMS Wellington.\n\nJim drummed his fingers nervously on his knees. \"Well... on the bright si-\" \n\n\"Don't say it ensign. Th... | 1 | |
[WP] Elf On The Shelf - Horror Story | [
"The littlest one knows about me. She won't come into the den anymore. She cries a lot whenever the mom tries to read that silly book. I'll have to deal with her first. They might start believing her. Or maybe I'll wake her up again tonight, crack her real good, get her sent to the nuthouse. That'd be rich. No. No.... | 1 | |
[WP] After spending your life miraculously dodging death, you invent the time machine and go back only to realize luck wasn't why you survived. | [
"It all made sense now.\n\nI was finally finished with my life's work. Multiple lives, as death would call it. But I never met death; the reaper couldn't catch but the dust of my trail. \n\n\"Just one last turn.... There. She's finished\" I grunted to myself as I tightened the final bolt to my masterpiece. It was a... | 1 | |
[WP] God lives among us, he really likes acting and has gotten so into his role as a human he forgot he was god. Now he is visited by angels to try and knock him out of it. | [
"I enter the record store off Haight Street and Telegraph avenue in San Francisco, California. Dressed in a white hoodie and faded jeans, I try my best to look as inconspicuous as possible. Perhaps the sandals were a bit much, but they seemed to be in the style for this time. At least I knew to avoid the socks wit... | 1 | |
[WP] Every human has a personal, invisible guardian, summoned by magic words long forgotten. You have just accidentally said the words. | [
"Falling over, I knock my lamp off the nightstand beside my bed. I grunt trying to further pull up my jeans. Standing back up, I jump until they slide over my hips and I button them in satisfaction. I look in the mirror proud of my accomplishment. My black hair trails down my back and I comb my fingers through it, ... | 5 | |
[WP] A single human that has been able to avoid capture has earned the respect of an alien race that has enslaved the planet. | [
"\n\"He has escaped us again m'lord.\"\n\n\"How is this possible general? We have the might of the entire M'gatan Navy. The cyber legions and your most capable ground forces hunting this man... this human.\"\n\n\"He is hard to find sir. He may have help. A wizard perhaps, or possibly legions of duplicates.\"\n\n\"I... | 1 | |
[WP] You accidentally punched '6666' into your ritual instead of '666', and have summoned Hypersatan. | [
"\"I must admit it\", I stated blankly, \"You're not quite what I expected.\" \n\nI sat in an oversized, red suede, arm chair. It reclined, apparently, but I was too distracted to consider seeing if that were true. There was a large fire burning in a fire place with a mantle that seemed to be made of something rese... | 7 | |
[WP] The first time you almost died a life flash flashed before your eyes, but it wasn't yours. Now, you keep trying death-defying stunts just to figure out whose life you keep seeing. | [
"I pause. Take a deep breath. One. Two. In. Out.\n\nAnd then, without more than a swim suit on my body, I plunged into the arctic ocean.\n***\nPerhaps I should back up and explain exactly what prompted me to do this. After all, I'm certain that you must be wondering why exactly I would do this.\n\nIt all started ba... | 1 | |
Maybe they ignore you or even try to kill you. Up to you. | [WP] after dieing, you realize you've been given control of your own universe and make your own creation,but you messed up some where. You decide to always keep everyone aware of your existence and involvement. How do things go wrong / right? | [
"When I died over on Earth, I was, for some reason, given ultimate control over a blank slate, a new universe, if you will.\n\nI would set to work, creating a place full of unique and vibrant creatures, some would go on to create civilizations, some went extinct, I didn't really care.\n\nI did make a sizable error ... | 1 |
[WP] One day music starts playing through your head non stop. You quickly find that this music correlates to what's is going to happen around you | [
"It had been around two years since I first heard the music. Initially, I had no idea what to make of it; a constant stream of music playing in my mind which always seems to be oddly appropriate to what is going on around me. I had talked to several mental health professionals about it but they were unable to tel... | 1 | |
*Hero*, not villain. Still saves the day and all that, but everyone *really* dislikes him/her. | [WP] Write a story about the most personally dislikable superhero possible | [
"\"Thank you, Citizens of Kingstead!\" Captain Fucking Awesome waved his hands at everyone as he slowly floated down the street, \"I'm Fucking Awesome and you know it! Let me hear it from you!\"\n\n\"Screw you!\" Was the only understandable reply from the crowd. Mostly it was booing, crying, and screams. \n\nFurthe... | 1 |
[WP] You have a person in your life with the same kind of memory impairment in 50 First Dates. Unfortunately for you, that person is a loan-collecting goonie, whose last memory is from years ago, from the day your payment was overdue. | [
"A knuckle rapped upon the door, \nA voice was heavy set: \n\"Your peace begone forevermore \nUntil you pay your debt\". \n\nAnd like an eerie clichéd trope \nThe door then swung ajar, \nThe man sprang in with heady hope \nBut didn't carry far: \n\nThe house was empty as the sky, \nThere was no tenant now ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a superhero. Your arch nemesis walks up to you, unmasks, then says, "I need your help." | [
"There was a knock on the door. I wasn't sure what I was expecting, but it definitely wasn't this. Acid- My nemesis. He used his trademark hydrofluoric acid guns to break into bank vault, break people out of prison and blind anyone who got in his way. I leapt back, and took a defensive stance. \"Get back! Get away!... | 1 | |
[WP] You are clearing the house you once lived in. You move a closet in the basement, and come across a hole that you never noticed existed while you were here. You decide to explore it and discover the horrors that lie awaiting. | [
"It was a Saturday, I was tired from my long days off school and longer nights of work. I was in college, and this was one of the few Saturdays I had off of work. I planned on doing one thing that day, sleep. Of course, fate had another plan. It started with a phone call. It was five o'clock in the morning when my ... | 1 | |
[WP] You go out to the bar and meet the man/woman of your dreams, only to discover that they are actually part of Google's pre-release trials for humanoid androids | [
"I guess my first tip off should have been the fact that she didn’t have an iphone. \nI mean, who doesn’t have an iphone nowadays? As an engineer for Apple, I had to admit I was a little disappointed but it wasn’t enough to turn me away. \n\nGhisa, she said her name was when I had approached her at the bar. \n\nUni... | 1 | |
[WP] An infamous bully in school becomes disctinctly meaner come winter, and for some reason is always extremely excited to receive a stocking full of coal on Christmas day. | [
"I remember being in middle school and watching for the lockers at the scene currently underway. A large boy, easily one of the tallest in the school, towering over one of the 6th graders. Poor son of a gun didn't stand a chance as he slowly handed over his stocking, he hands trembling. The tall boy snatched it awa... | 1 | |
[WP] When you were a child you accidentally killed your sister while playing with your father's gun. You have felt guilt your entire life. One day your dead sister shows up in your bedroom and asks you to help her find her killer | [
"A young girl stood in front of Alexander. He was sitting on his bed in something of a shock.\n\n\"What?\"\n\nSarah, his sister, repeated herself patiently. \"When I was six and you were seven, someone shot me and killed me and I want to find them.\"\n\n\"I must be dreaming. Am I dreaming?\"\n\n\"No, this is real. ... | 1 | |
[WP] You have anxiety and depression - actually, they're your closest friends. | [
"She was pretty; pretty enough to make your chest tight, to make your palms sweaty, and feel like someone punched you in the gut. Her name was Anxiety, and she was one of my best friends. We had grown up only a few houses away from each other, but I hadn't seen her in years, not since I had moved away when we were ... | 1 | |
[WP] Instead of clowns, people are viscerally horrified of stand-up comics. Sightings of Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K., etc, are terrorizing the nation. | [
"\"Comedians are funny... comedians are funny...\" Trevor, age 14, whispered to himself, while in the fetal position in a corner. Ever since he was six, he'd been deathly afraid of comedians. The way they move... the jokes they tell... it was terrifying. \n\nI vaguely recall being at Trevor's 14th birthday party. H... | 2 | |
[WP] Urban explorers encounter something unexpected when investigating an abandoned subway tunnel. | [
"A bright flash lit up the tunnel. I paused, momentarily blinded.\n\n\n\"Can you warn me when you want to take a pic?\"\n\n\n\"Sorry, Lumley,\" Leann said, surely rolling her eyes in the dark.\n\n\nWe picked our way along the tunnel, until finally reaching the end.\n\n\n\"Well, this would appear to be all of it. Wh... | 2 | |
[WP] Write a story about loneliness. | [
"No matter who you are, it seems, this particular thing happens to be some type of vast expanse. I've always liked space, in many senses, but a desolate void where the only specks of light I can see are lightyears away isn't the kind I enjoy. Some days it just feels like aimless drifting further away from those spe... | 8 | |
[WP] Write a story around the lyrics of a song, without alluding to its title. | [
"I looked down at my watch as I neared the staircase\n\n\"Ah shit, gonna be late...\"\n\nI began running up the staircase and nearly tripped when I bumped into someone. I faced them to apologize when I hesitated, his face looked so familiar. \n\n\"Hey, it's been a while, hasn't it?\"\n\nI stared at him for a moment... | 4 | |
[WP] You Google yourself and discover a subreddit dedicated to you. It's entirely your exs, family, and friends and has been around for five years | [
"\"WTF is this?\"\n\n\"Why is my ex-gf posting personal details about me? So what if I bite my nails...\"\n\n\"Uncle Mike is posting that I couldn't ride a bike until I was 16?!?!\"\n\n\"My grandma is giving Reddit gold to people who prank call me?\"\n\n\"That date last week was a setup by my sister's friend?!?\"\n... | 2 | |
[WP] Write a story where something innocuous is illegal, but don't reveal what it is. | [
"\"What's going on?\" A young man strolled to the counter of a bar, smiling widely.\n\nEveryone's heads cracked to his direction as they snapped to attention. A short man, blonde, bright eyed, put on a concerned expression very suddenly. \"Dude! Careful! You can't say things like that?\"\n\n\"...Wha-\" A tall man s... | 3 | |
[WP] It is the future, and humanity has become completely dependent on machines, which do all of the work while humans live lives of luxury and leisure. It's been generations since a human has had to do any sort of work. But one day, all of the machines suddenly stop. | [
"I'm a bot, *bleep*, *bloop*. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:\n\n- [/r/thewordsofxacktar] [\\[WP\\] It is the future, and humanity has become completely dependent on machines, which do all of the work while humans live lives of luxury and leisure. It's been generations since a human ... | 2 | |
[WP] Tell us a tale of The Magic Word - Please | [
"People use to just say thank you when something nice was done for them. This method sufficed for society to work properly. Then one day a greedy young child had quite the evil idea, he could create a word that would obligate people to be nice to him. So he tried it out, first he went to his Grandma and said \"Gran... | 1 | |
[WP] "I don't think I've ever met anybody so charmingly deluded." | [
"“Well thank you. That may be the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me.”\n“Oh, really?” I said. “Perhaps you misunderstood me; I didn’t mean it that way.”\n“Oh you! That’s what I like about you…”\n He never finished his sentence, or informed me as to what, specifically it was that he liked about me. (My sarcasm?... | 2 | |
[WP] The apocalypse came. Much of civilization has broken down. Over half the world population has died. Armed bandits now roam the land. But somehow, your daily routine has changed very little. | [
"The worlds pretty messed up right now, yeah. Ever since Tolan Drup became president the protests have been kinda.. Well, kinda bad really. Yeah... Yeah pretty bad, actually. Things got ugly, during one presidential speech a group of 5 protesters managed to bypass security and assassinate Tolan. Not sure how securi... | 3 | |
[WP] The Ark ships have arrived and the "aliens" want their world back. We were just supposed to be placeholders. | [
"\"What do you mean, your placeholder?\" The president of the United States spouted. He wasn't exactly pleased. The tall, fair men looked at each other, surprised. \n\n\"Didn't they tell you? Weren't you warned? Have you read any of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics? I'm sorry, but this isn't our fault. How could you all ... | 1 | |
[WP] Satan gave me a mission. “You’ll be back in world and run an ad campaing for a product of hell. If you succeed, you will be sent to heaven. You’re free to choose the product you want.” | [
"\"So, what do you want me to do?\"\n\n\"I want you to develop and market a product for sale amongst the living. It can be whatever you want, but it needs to be a little demonic.\"\n\nLucifer leaned back in his chair. \"if you pull this off I'll bump you upstairs. If you fail, you're mine for eternity. No earning y... | 2 | |
[WP] The Nigerian Prince is a real person, and one day, finally sends everyone back the money he owes them. | [
"Ashley rubbed her temples. Just when things seemed to be going well, she found herself in the same situation as always.\n\n\"Soooooo strapped for cash right now,\" she repeated to herself as she stared at her computer screen, thinking about how she was going to afford any kind of wedding ceremony for her and Toby,... | 1 | |
[WP] A GoT episode in the style of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" | [
"TITLE: 2:30 am \nTITLE: On a Monday \nTITLE: Kings Landing, Westeros \nOVER TITLES, WE HEAR: \nJaime (V.O.) \nThen I say to her, \"not for all the ... | 2 | |
[WP] Describe your muse; what they look like, how they arrive when they come to visit, what they do that inspires you to create. | [
"My muse is a conniving bitch. All day, she lays around on the sofa eating packets of crisps and smoking cigarettes. When I try to talk to her, she looks at me, rolls her eyes, and sighs: \"I'll do it tomorrow\". She always fails to inspire me. \n\nIt wasn't always like that. I still remember when she came into my ... | 1 | |
[WP] When you draw people, they talk to you. At first, you just drew normal people, but after awhile, you start drawing stranger, more deranged looking people. | [
"Wintertime is not the ideal season to move to a new city, nor is it advisable to do so with a car on the precipice of junkhood. Eight days out from Christmas - the college students had left for home, the glow of the lights in Old Town amplified by the fresh coat of snow untouched by drunken revelers: tonight was t... | 1 | |
You try to figure out how to survive, but also how your friends died and who, or what is responsible. | [WP] You and your friends decide to go on a night tour of a horror house. As you explore the house, it suddenly goes dark and when your eyes adjust to the dark, you see all of your friends dead. You are alone. | [
"They were all dead. The last thing I remembered was the blackout. I moved my arms and legs trying to find my friends but there was nothing around me. My eyes adjusted soon and I saw them. They were hanging from their legs, covered in blood, their lifeless eyes wide open in awe and horror and I was standing in the ... | 1 |
[WP] A dragon finds a little kid wandering alone through the woods, and takes it upon itself to raise the child. Turns out though, the kid wasn't an orphan. The parents have shown up, and now they want their child back. | [
"\"Listen,\" the dragon said, \"I'm a magical dragon that takes on orphans and goes on magical adventures with them. I can't just ignore an orphan in the woods.\"\n\n\"That's what I'm trying to tell you,\" I said, \"he's not an orphan. He was just angry that we were trying to send him to bed early so he ran off.\... | 1 | |
[WP] A single Roman sentry stands on the wall at the northern most edge of the Roman empire in frozen Britain. On the horizon, he sees something he thought was merely legend. | [
"\"What? It can't be! Is that!\" The sentry looks in the distance to see a figure driving what looks to be a geo metro convertible.\n\nAs it gets closer and closer he hears, distantly, a scary sound.\n\n\"No no it's just my imagination!\" The sentry shook his head and stared closer, straining to hear.\n\nOver the h... | 4 | |
[WP] You stand at the shallow pool of water staring at the hideous old witch with a crooked back and missing eyes. "I can answer the question you seek," she smiled with bloodied teeth, "But first, you must answer three of mine." | [
"\"All who approach me for answers must answer me these questions three, then she answer they will see\" said the witch\n\"Ask me the question, witch, im not afraid\" i said\n\"WHAT is your name?\"\n\"Ehh... John. John smith\"\n\"WHAT is your quest?\"\n\"To get a answer to my quetion!\"\n\"WHAT is your favorite col... | 2 | |
[WP] As a goof, you place an empty cardboard box up for auction on eBay, calling it "The world's first and only genuine Transmogrifier." Bidding immediately explodes, your home is ransacked, and now you're almost certainly being followed. | [
"\"Action Dan here, Jen you wine transmogrifiner here!\" I giggled at the empty box I put up.\n\nThree hours later I checked eBay, a fella named bigauk44 bidded a thousand buckaroos on it!\n\nHe had a question \" is this real?\"\n\"Action dan here, yes sir it's as real as you think it is!\"\n\nSo I sent the package... | 1 |
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