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[WP] Christmas, 2100. Santa knew this day would come... he must deliver presents to first children born on Mars. | [
"*Christmas eve, 2100. Santa is preparing for his flight.*\n\nSled rockets: *Check.* \nAfterburners: *Check.* \nSpacesuit pressure: *Pressurized.* \nDammit. I need to deliver presents to all kids, and that *one* kid on mars. Six months away. I need to cut that down to 15 minutes both ways. \"Jingle, get the expe... | 8 | |
[WP] The North Pole is flaming ruins following a U.S. military strike aimed at stealing the most important intelligence document on Earth, The Naughty List. As the leader of elite commando unit Elf Team Six, you've just parachuted onto the roof in a mission to retrieve it. | [
"The operation was not going according to plan. It was supposed to be a simple search and retrieve mission, to be done under the cover of the Artic night. But someone had leaked the details of our operation, and as soon as we entered the airspace of Santa's enormous workshops, we were bombarded with relentless anti... | 1 | |
[WP] A PhD student discovers the cure for procrastination. She wakes up. Her life was a research program. For the discovery of the cure, she gets a Nobel Prize. After procrastination’s extinction, she and others cure cancer, eradicate violence, and solve all problems, but | [
"this one poor student, for all her wealth of knowledge, was unable to solve the simple problem of bilocation. She solved all things but this. Why, oh why was she unable to be in two places at once. This would make everything else more fun. She had already removed the world's problems, now all she needed to do was ... | 1 | |
[WP] The year is 2250. A dictator has taken absolute control of a nation and uses advanced technology to read people's thoughts, crushing all rebellions in their infancy. "What makes you different than the others?" asks a voice in the crowd below as you take a deep breath and prepare to answer | [
"\"What makes me different? I'm obstinate.\"\n\n\"You don't have sex?\"\n\nThe dictator frowned. \"Also, I don't use microphones. But, here's the thing: how do you think I prevent every coup? How do you believe I know what all of you are thinking right now?\"\n\nNobody dared answer. They tried to protect their thou... | 7 | |
[WP] "Mother, Father, we need to talk. This is going to be hard for you the hear. I need to come clean. I've been living a lie. I'm...I'm Undead" | [
"“Mom, Dad?” My hands were sweaty. I knew this was going to be hard for them to hear, but I knew I had to tell them.\n\n“Sweetheart! You’re all red! Have a seat, what’s wrong?” My mother’s eyes were kind, strong. They shimmered like the sand against the endless dunes. What child wants to break his mother’s heart?\n... | 1 | |
[WP] You are asleep. You hear a voice say, "She's been out for a long time, now. She probably still thinks humans are the only intelligent race..." And then you wake up. | [
"It's a strange feeling. I fell asleep in my overpriced, downtrodden Manhattan apartment and woke up in a clean, spotless, and pure white room with a massive light shining in my eye. My first thought is that I was dreaming, but I was in an awful lot of pain, and I still felt tired. Then I heard a voice. \"She's bee... | 1 | |
[WP] When Colombus sets sail for America, he finds it has been occupied by refugees from the west Roman Empire, who have survived over the course of a millennium and turned the Americas into a vast and thriving empire. | [
"\"Ship Ho!\" came the call from the crow's nest. \"Ship Ho!\"\n\nColumbus ran out of his cabin to the prow of the ship. \"Telescope,\" he said with the same calm that he had radiated over the entire journey, even with his internal panic over the dwindling food and the length of the journey. He held up the teles... | 1 | |
[WP] A teenage boy caught between his parents brutal and bitter divorce must choose which parent to live with. | [
"The judge stared at fifteen-year-old Tony, who only stared back at the judge. The silence that filled the courtroom was maddening to the young boy’s parents, as they waited, on the edges of their seats, not wanting to miss the boy’s response. The boy and judge continued to stare, minutes crawling by, neither speak... | 1 | |
[WP] Santa's suit wasn't always red | [
"The thwack of high-velocity Full Metal Jacket rounds impacting flesh echoed off the confines of the red brick chimney. Several further thumps, then a high-pitched squeal abruptly cut short. Silence.\nA sudden calm, awful after the violence, restored itself. A restless quiet once again reigned through the remote Sw... | 1 | |
[WP] When you are born you are given 20 years to live. The only way to gain more life is to kill another person and steal away their life. | [
"I wake up to the cockadoodledoo of my alarm clock. I think it's ironic, with me being out in the country and all. A farmer such as I would be expected to live simply, yet it's an electronic clock, but plays the sound to which a more primitive farmer would wake up, anyway. Okay well screw you, at least I'm laughing... | 1 | |
[WP] You thought to know how dèja vu's worked. But lately, things have been becoming a bit too coincidental... | [
"*I always choose the worst times to get lunch.* The line in this hospital’s cafeteria would make you think the food is actually edible. I must have been waiting for at least 10 minutes, and I’m just barely halfway to the front.* I knew I should’ve visited my daughter first. There was no way fast food would actuall... | 1 | |
[WP] All of your muscles use %100 of their strength for every action, your alarm clock just went off. | [
"*Bzzt. Bzzt. Bzzt.*\n\nThe droning buzz of the clock radio penetrated what had been, up to that point, quite an enjoyable dream. I hate when that happens; no sooner was my slumber roused than all details of the dream were lost, the only remnant being a general feeling of contentedness. In contrast, the cacophony o... | 2 | |
Life was just a race to see which species could reproduce the most. Humans know this now, after they lost to an unexpected opponent. Now they must face the consequences. | [WP] There never was a meaning to life | [
"\"Get him on the ground!\" came the screams.\n\nA man behind Francisco grabbed his shoulder and kicked his knee in, driving Francisco kneeling into the ground. The man threw Francisco face-first into the dirt with vigor, unflinching at his own careless brutality. Two more men came to grip Francisco's twitching bod... | 1 |
[WP] Despite the world having superpowers, you weren't gifted. Turns out you were, but it requires incredible circumstances to draw it out. | [
"\nTwenty years ago, when the entire human race woke up one day to discover they developed superpowers, I was the only one in my class who had to walk to school instead of flying. I would make excuses to fit in, most often saying my ability was death activated or that it worked on wavelengths most people couldn’t s... | 1 | |
[WP] You're being let go from your job and replaced by cheaper human labor. | [
"\"Running systems analysis.\" RTB-0456 ceased all functions momentarily. Two seconds later, it resumed its tasks. \"Analysis complete. All functions performing at 96% efficiency as per Standard 45643-056743. No errors detected.\"\n\n\"It's not about the efficiency or flaws RTB,\" The plant manager said. \"It's abo... | 1 | |
[WP] You called out for help... But nobody came. | [
"The cell has begun to smell like rot...\n\nThere is a plague in the air. All who breathe it come to know true suffering. Death feels impossible, a never-ending quest. Death is the final step, but we're too tired to even drag ourselves up to it.\n\nI looked over to Redorick, who passed away 2 nights ago. They scarc... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up on a dirty floor, in a pitch black area. When you start to stand up, you hear a deep chant start somewhere nearby. | [
" A sharp pain in my left cheekbone slowly brought me out of my state of slumber. My head began spinning as I slowly sat up from, well, I'm not really sure. From what I could feel, the ground below me was a grimy concrete floor. I wiggled my toes and stood up, dusting myself off. As I patted my limbs to examine my ... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a murder mystery story where the evidence is blatantly obvious to the reader but the detective is completely oblivious. | [
"\"Mr. Penningswitch, what can I do for your estate today?\" I said, shuffling into the office. This was my fifth case for a well-to-do businessman this month, and I wasn't about to beat around the bush over tea and a story.\n\n\"Doctor Aberforth! Goodness sakes, do you know how long I've been waiting to have your ... | 1 | |
[WP] Christmas in the Wasteland. | [
"Christmas carols blared through people's radios and Pip-Boys. DJ Three Dog had a fondness for Christmas music, though the original songs were lost to time. As such, they made their own.\n\nOf course, the residents of Megaton threw a wonderful Christmas party (such that the Children of Atom did not approve). They d... | 1 | |
[WP] The black slime moves quickly, coating the walls as you run. You are cornered, turning around to come face to face with a wall of the corrosive goo. A single eye opens in its center, followed by thousands more as tendrils slowly slither towards you | [
"The tendrils slide slowly, ever so slowly, as her breath quickens. Her eyes never leave the writhing mass, watching the drips fall off onto the floor, hissing onto the wood.\n\nThe eye stares at her and she stares at it. Time slows down for her as the appendages approach, each blink agonizingly slow, each blink br... | 3 | |
[WP]You are a genius inventor, however every time you are about to publish your work someone else does it before you leaving you with no credit. Suddenly, you have the idea to invent a time machine and go back in time to steal your own finished work before others do. | [
"I am an *inventor*. No, not a scientist, an *inventor*. I invent stuff. The stuff they're advertising on the streets, on television or simply in the papers, i made it.\n\nBy now you'd think im pretty rich, huh. Quite the contrary, actually. I'm penniless, and probably drowning in debt, i cant confirm. After all, i... | 7 | |
[WP] After inventing a portal gun device you point it into the stars and fire. An hour later the portal opens, oxygen readings are the first thing you notice. | [
"The portal gun was 10 tonnes of shining engineering marvel, hidden in a lab on the outskirts of crisis-torn Guayana City. While the good people of Venezuela toiled outside struggling to get the basic necessities, we have instantaneously travelled to the Moon and Mars, and even ruined a perfectly good containment c... | 2 | |
[WP] The AMA of a Time Traveler | [
"He entered the room with big bag of chips in his hands. In front of him sat 6 people, 3 girls and 3 guys. He opened the bag of chips and grabbed a hand full. \"Welcome to time Time Travel Academy. TTA for short. \n\nCan anyone tell me the first rule of time travel?\"\n\nA nerdy looking girl with big glasses raised... | 1 | |
[WP] You enter the room next to yours in a hotel by mistake. Inside, four men in black suits and one says to you "Finally you've arrived, we were waiting an eternity". | [
"It was the intensity of their straight-faced expressions and several long seconds of holding-seriousness in their eyes which led me, mostly a comic, to figure they were merely going along with the guy who'd spoken.\n\nThinking I'd earn accolades of some sort from perfect strangers, I answered in somber congruence ... | 1 | |
[WP] You find a genie who will grant you three wishes, but he has really bad hearing | [
" \"What's that?\"\n My archaeological team stared at me with amazement and curiosity with what I found.\n \"It's some sort of cast bronze\", I said. \"Maybe if we brush it up, we could see what it really is. John, the brush, please.\"\n John gave me the brush, and I gave the artifact a brushing. Su... | 3 | |
[WP] "Bir Tawil" the only spot on the Earth left unclaimed by any country. After the long journey to claim it for yourself, you discover the real reason no country has dared to claim it. | [
"\"I claim this land for...\" I try to stick the flagpole into the ground. \"I claim this land for..\" I try again. Nothing. Solid. I look around, looking to put my flag *somewhere*. Spotting what looks like a negotiable mountainside, I put the flagpole under my arm and being to climb. \n\nGetting a foothold was ea... | 2 | |
[WP] You're the first person to ever record yourself climbing Mount Everest solo. But, it appears you have company; all the corpses that never made it are now making their undead ascent. | [
"At first, I thought I was hallucinating; they were figures in the distance - never close enough to distinguish any features. A figment of my imagination to cope with the barrenness of the mountain. That was until I met Bob. I call him that because of the way his head bobs side to side when he walks. The others wal... | 1 | |
[Wp] When a rat is more than just a rat, call Magic Pest Control | [
"They don't call me for the little jobs. No one phones me because they've got termites in the attic, or a mousehole in the skirting board. No one calls me because their house has unexplained scratching noises in the wall, or because there are droppings in the pantry. In fact, homeowners don't call me much at all. \... | 1 | |
Assume nothing interferes with the duel. Pull the feelings and emotions of both of you. | [WP] The Force and Lightsabers exist in Modern Day Earth. You and your friend have perfected it, but to your surprise s/he falls to the dark side and you enter a duel. | [
"It all started at comic con during a promotional competition. The Star Wars cast and team allowed you to do poses for photos with them, and for fun they had a competition where you could actually win a million dollars and a real lightsaber if you could draw a toy lightsaber to you using only the force. Me and my f... | 1 |
[WP] Carved from solid stone, it represented all they stood for. | [
"\"What is it, grandfather?\"\n\nThe child looked up in awe at the great obelisk before them. \n\n\"It's a monument. The elders say it was a tribute to some sort of old God worshipped by our ancestors in the Shining Age. Oaxhin-Tan, I believe, was the name of the God.\"\n\nThe child pondered this revelation for a ... | 2 | |
[WP] It's not like the warning signs weren't there. People just refused to look. | [
"“It's not like the warning signs weren't there, people just refused to look!“ Aerian snarled as she readjusted her burden. She was neither right nor wrong in her analysis. The warning signs had indeed been there; the sky had gone dark promptly at noon every day for a week, the ponds in the Gardens of An’Shet turne... | 2 | |
[WP] You have two hobbies: playing the violin, and shooting crossbows. One day during a performance you mix the two activities up. | [
"\"Do your best\" Mom whispers to me as i say my goodbyes. \n\n\" Come on Mom, this is my 5th preformance. Theres really no need to worry.\" I reply with, tired of her overprotection, and, before she can say anything, i shut the door and quickly hurry down the street, and into the subway\n entrance. \n\n*90 minutes... | 1 | |
[WP] You've grown to accept your ability to see when a person is going to die soon. It's normally an elderly woman struggling across the street, or an obese man eating fried foods... Today after traveling around the entire city, you have yet to meet one person who is not going to die. | [
"I don't understand.\n\nI keep rushing from place to place trying to find someone who's gonna die.\n\nRun by hospitals and look in the doors.\n\nDrive pass an old folks home.\n\nI can't confide in anybody because he said that if I tell anybody I'll lose my ability.\n\nThat's why didn't use it to prevent death.\n\nI... | 2 | |
[WP] You have premonition, and are willingly approaching your certain doom. | [
"Muffled cries fill the room. Strong lights that shone brightly upon the individual resting on the bed made it hard to make out the person lying there. \"Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep\", a machine steadily sounded. From a glass separation, a woman peered into the room, watching as a pair of gloved hands lifted a sma... | 1 | |
[WP] After being sentenced, you were sprung from prison by the FBI. They wish to make use of your skills. However, what they asked to do is far worse than what you were doing before. | [
"Since middle school I loved to steal. It was like an addiction for me. It started off small in 7th grade, like I'd steal a lighter from Walmart if I lost my old one. Eventually it turned into more difficult tasks. If I stayed at a friends house, when everyone was asleep I'd slide into his parents room and steal ca... | 1 | |
[WP] The Princess is a murderous psychopath and no one actually wants to save her from the poor Dragon. | [
"\"So let me get this straight. You want me to go into a giant tower that may or may not topple perilously into the gorge it happens to be by, that's surrounded by undead warriors summoned by an ancient gnomish necromancer, that just so happens to be filled to the brim with traps designed to bring any fool who ente... | 1 | |
[Wp] 20 uses left... | [
"“They just kept coming–it seemed like it would never end.”\n\nThe Committee stared at him as he attempted to explain himself. Small beads of sweat began to form on his forehead. \n\n“I looked to the hill on my left and saw a group of them–maybe ten, twelve–rushing toward me,” he continued, “so I threw down a cover... | 2 | |
[WP] Aliens arrive and offer humans the chance to join their federation but, some of the rules aren't compatible with humans. | [
" It wasn't obvious at first, initially they were kind and helpful, which at the time just seemed like common decency. When they first arrived they immediately offered human kind membership in their \"Grand Federation\", if accepted we would receive protection and technology beyond anything in the realm of our ... | 1 | |
[WP] You've returned from an Xmas vacation to find every house on your street destroyed... except yours. | [
"As the taxi sped up through the carnage, I looked out to see many people standing, and finding what was left through the wreckage. The air was gloomy and the faces were bleak as I got closer to my destination. I guess I was lucky, partying while also signing the jolliest of songs while at the same time hell broke ... | 3 | |
[WP] Aliens have reached Earth. But we're long dead. | [
"They had a thriving civilization, with small-scale spacefaring abilities. \n\nWe were an ancient species millions of light years away. \n\nThey had sent so many transmissions in such a short time period, and it was obvious that their advancement was not stopping or slowing down.\n\n\nWe heard of their science, the... | 7 | |
[WP] There exists a riddle that when solved supposedly will open the door to utopia. You know the answer, but refuse to solve it. | [
"\"What do you want?\"\n\nThus seemingly simple question has gone unanswered for years, though humanity as a whole solved it on the first day we heard it.\n\nTo answer this question is to give up the very humanity that allowed us to answer it. Without struggle there is no progress, with no progress there is no life... | 2 | |
[WP] Excited to try out the facial recognition functionality on her new photo app, a young girl discovers a man has been present at every key moment in her life | [
"First time Poster :)\n\n____________________________________________________________________________________________\nKat twiddled a pencil between her fingers as the first year earth science teacher, Mr. Su, tried gallantly to make sediment layers interesting to the adolescent mind. He was failing. Kat's mind wan... | 1 | |
[WP] An evil scientist has been collecting stray hairs wherever he can find them and using them to clone an army. You are called to the front lines of battle and come face to face with yourself. | [
"Putting my hair in a ponytail was a lost cause. It was falling out at a rapid pace from all the surgeries and special diets and medicines I had to be on. Being conditioned and trained as a “super trooper”--as they so lovingly called us--was not easy, but it was necessary.\n\nInstead, I allowed my hair to fall flat... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a supervillain who has just defeated the hero. But as you search through the ruins of his hideout, you discover that he thought you were a distraction from a far greater enemy... | [
"Will the look in his eyes right before he passed out haunt me until the end of my days? No… It’ll probably pop up when I’m on the john and I forgot my phone. I'll get a chuckle out of it. It wasn’t anger or fear, but confusion. I know that I tossed him around a bit before trapping him in a ball of water, but I don... | 1 | |
[WP]One day, you and four people come across a stone, that connects all of your souls. Every hurt one of you feel, the rest feel; every good thing affects all the rest. How does that affect you all over the years? | [
"It's all my fault. They were real people once. They were once my friends. We used to play in the woods that neighboured our small town, catching frogs and digging for treasure. Then one day, we found some. It looked like a beautiful shell to me, irridescent with fractal patterns. To Michael it was a small bear mad... | 2 | |
[WP] Dreams are actually visions of people's deaths, however you can never tell who the person is because you dream as the victim. You've just dreamt of someone getting murder by your 6 year old son. | [
"It happened again last night. I’ve been trying for six months since it started to keep these dreams from happening, but I don’t have control over it. I’ve given up trying to find out why this is happening to me. All I know is that time and time again I am getting killed. It started with the dream that I was delive... | 1 | |
[WP] The vet discovered a strange object in your cat's neck: It's a bugging device. | [
"I awoke with a start, knowing something was wrong. I looked outside, and the neighbour's dog was outside again. Like every morning. Listening. This time, probably to the hum of the air conditioner. It's amazing what you can find out with a properly trained dog. \n\nOf course I was being more cautious these days. T... | 2 | |
[WP] You can hear the Banshee crying. It lets you know when someone is seconds from death. One day while walking, you get close to a person and you hear the Banshee. But this time, She has a maniacal laughter. | [
"I'm new and also I'm no story writer so it's probably shit. :) Plz correct me where it's a bit weird or tense is wrong.\n\nThe banshee's cry, a sound so horrific and shrilled that it would chill anyone to the bone... except me. For me it's almost a daily occurrence. Usually I hear it in hospitals but also sometim... | 1 | |
[WP] The sweet old Wal-Mart greeter is secretly a ... | [
"Reluctantly, I pull into the Walmart parking lot. Target’s so much nicer, you know? Well, except for that one cashier… the one who tells stories that are uncomfortably personal and tries to guilt me into opening a REDcard every time I’m there. The problem is that, well, it’s 5:30 in the morning, I’m out of tampons... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up in a different person's body every morning as a modern day Cupid, and are given a 'target' to make fall in love with you before the day ends. | [
"I'm waiting for him outside the bar now. This time around I'm a busty twenty something college student, sitting perched outside on a bench while flipping through my phone. Well, it's not really my phone I suppose, it's Sarahs. \n\nI've done some pretty fucked up things in the name of this job throughout history. W... | 3 | |
thanks to my shower for this one | [WP] Humans are awarded points daily for physical health, mental well-being, intellect, endurance, will power, good deeds, etc. Everyone is ranked globally and stats are tracked religiously. | [
"Luke rolled out of the bed and rubbed his eyes, his watch dinged. Luke jumped at the ding looking down he saw he had way too many notifications on it. Groggy and concerned he opened the first notification:\nWELCOME TO THE TOP 10!!! \n\nLuke was very confused when he had went to bed the night before he had barely a... | 1 |
[WP] Reborn into the modern world, Jesus and the Antichrist have fallen in love and are getting married. God and the Devil are not happy. | [
"\"What do you mean 'in love'?\" \n\"I mean in love, Michael, have you forgotten the concept? Need I remind you of the several nephilim who to this day wander the Earth bearing a striking resemblance to you?\" I swear, sometimes the higher ups play dumb just to make things difficult for the average working angel. ... | 1 | |
[WP] After years of complaining that the world is out to get you, the world sues for defamation of character. Since all lawyers are a part of the world, you have to defend yourself in court. | [
"''Is it true that you have told people on multiple different occasions that the world is out to get you?''\nI sighed. ''Yes.'' I said. I knew that if I said no, the prosecutor would just bring forth another witness.\n''How many people have you told these lies to?'' he asked.\nIt are moments like these that I'm gla... | 1 | |
[WP] A MOBA (DOTA or League) match in the perspective of the minions/creeps | [
"*Welcome to summoners rift* \n \n**YOU HEAR THAT? GET READY FOR THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE SOLDIERS!** \n \nThe minions stand in line inside the spacious room of the Nexus, it is their first day as soldiers and they are proud to serve their king. \n \n**I WILL GET YOU TRAINER AND STRONGER WITH EVERY MINUTE Y... | 4 | |
[WP] There is a demon inside of you, but most of the time, you don't even notice. Every time you fall asleep, however, it gains just a little more influence. | [
"*I'm tired. So very tired. But I can't sleep, because if I sleep it's all over. If I sleep he wins.*\n\nThere is a demon inside of me, a creature of pure hate and malice that sits inside my soul and calls it his home. It started off so small, so weak and lacking in influence that I myself never noticed but, every ... | 3 | |
[WP]A crazed fan rushes the stage, knocking you off of it. You are left hovering 5 feet above the entire crowd. Camera flashes follow. | [
"\"I think we're done here,\" Marcus Wells rapped his knuckles on his mahogany desk. My lawyer was a clever, loyal man and my accomplice. He'd helped me hide my abilities for over a decade. \"Irrefutable evidence,\" he went on. \"We can't deny that this happened.\"\n\n\"Look,\" I stared around the office. \"It coul... | 1 | |
[WP] "Wait a second... Is anyone here NOT an undercover cop?" | [
"Gil heard loud hip-hop music coming from inside what he suspected to be a crackhouse. The hot sun beat down on his back, his bullet-proof vest only drawing more sweat from his body. Pulling his handgun from it's holster, he held it close to him as he put his hand on the doorknob. He turned his wrist and pushed the... | 2 | |
[WP] On your 18th birthday, an angel appears and says, "Your free trial is over. Please purchase a subscription to continue with Life." | [
"Simeon winced as The Angel peeled off the simulator from his sweaty brow. She stood over him menacingly with a crooked smile and her tablet at the ready. \n\n\"Did you enjoy your experience, sir?\" Her breath reeked of endless void and some sort of melon. He tried to think back before the memories faded.\n\nThis ... | 1 | |
[WP] Cats are said to have 9 lives and now, humans do too. When a human dies, they retain the knowledge they learned in their previous life, becoming more and more skilled/knowledgeable with each passing life. You're a person on their 7th life, consoling someone who has just "died" for the 1st time. | [
"\"don't worry , you have second puberty to look forward to. Second puberty is the best! You're just as acne prone and gross but you got wheels for days. Not only are you going to get Susan's raisins through charm alone, you are going to be Hella cool already having a life time knowledge of coolness to back you up.... | 8 | |
[WP] You are a psychopath that wakes up one day after a fever/brain injury/new drug/whatever and you are no longer a psychopath | [
"Dag opened his eyes. He was lying on the floor of his kitchen. Why had he suddenly collapsed? And how long had he been out?\n\nHe glanced down at his phone. Only 10 minutes had passed since he had lost consciousness. There was one new text from his classmate Jess. \n\nIt read, “Hey asshole, I know you stole my nec... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the super villain explaining your evil plan to the super hero that you are about to kill. | [
"Titan Dynamo struggled against the chains that held him to the wall. He was one of the strongest super humans in the world but before he could stop the mad man's plan he was hit with a blast from a delta wave weapon. His powers gone for the moment the super hero was powerless against a set of run of the mill iron ... | 3 | |
I suppose the 2nd part of the prompt is optional. Perhaps there is also an underground, black market for cheating, which demands a high price for its services. | [WP] You live in a society where students who fail high school are executed. Your finals are next week and you aren't well prepared. | [
"All my life, I was well aware that my life depended on my ability to pass academic exams or not. Especially after seeing my sister getting killed by the Academic Department (AD) for not making out from high school, I was desperately in the need to pull myself out of this hellhole. I could not imagine myself gettin... | 1 |
[WP]: Inmate #6, Vaughan Breeks. 5'6, 18 years old, about 120 pounds. Nicknamed Kitten. The most feared man in the colony. | [
" Psychological assessments have pointed to no accepted diagnosis. Brain scans display an absence of structural abnormalities. Still, all the consulted experts on hominid behavior agree that he is potentially dangerous, and requires close supervision. \n\n Initial observations of the behavior of Inmate #6 showed... | 3 | |
[WP] Galaxies away, a young scientist argues that contact should be made with Earth. | [
"It was the year 2066 when a pivotal conversation occurred in a bizarre intergalactic language. The emperor of this galaxy, unbeknownst to earthlings, spoke to his finest servant with one goal in mind; to colonize Planet Earth, and mutate the entire human race into worker drones, capable of withstanding long-term ... | 1 | |
[WP] People no longer die and as a result, Death is forced to find a new job. | [
"The plump office manager scratched his scruff with even plumper fingers. His white shirt glinted with an off-yellow hue, the effect of several hours of sweating and minimal hours of washing. He smelled like a tub of unrefrigerated grease, and looked like it too. It seemed that only the idea of death could cure hum... | 1 | |
[WP] You discover you are a player-controlled character in a video game. | [
"I felt the itch to go forward into the next area. But I refused to take another step. I stopped.\n\n\"Know what? Fuck you!\" I finally yelled. I screamed it with vigor and shot an arrow at the screen.\n\n\"What the hell. Is this a scripted event?\" said the idiot playing.\n\n\"No dumbass. I'm actually here. In the... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a love story between two lonely ship capitans whose only means of communication is Morse code | [
"\"Captain Loomis never talked much of his personal life, and if all his interactions are as bizarre as those long months at sea, I think he had good reason not to.\n\nIt began on a particularly muddy night, fog so thick you had to paddle through it. It was slow going. Then, it was only me, Arty, and Loomis on the ... | 2 | |
[WP] You live an ordinary, mundane life but when you sleep, your conscience seemingly goes off to another world where you partake in adventures. Each time you sleep you continue where you left off. Your family is worried you are suffering from a medical condition since you are sleeping all the time. | [
"\"Where the hell is Clark now!\" Mrs. Flagston yelled as she walked out of her office. The other workers looked around to see Clark's cubicle empty. One of the workers shrugged.\n\n\"Most likely in his other office taking his mid morning nap!\" he teased. The older woman grumbled.\n\n\"Someone find him and tell hi... | 2 | |
[WP] Everyday you wake up with a new random Super power that affects your daily life but the power you had the day before disappears. You can't keep your powers long enough to master them so you try to live everyday life as normal as possible. | [
"My eyes open to a void of black silence. I swing my legs over my bed and stand. In two strides I reach the light and flick it on. My room is identical to the night before. My sigh of relief is expelled unconsciously. I've gotten use to clean up after myself, since last week I woke up being able to bend water. I fl... | 1 | |
Kind of a classic premise, but its an opportunity to improve your imaginative writing concerning dreams. | [WP] You're in a shared dream with your friend and your arch enemy and need to kill him in the dream | [
"I was in school, like any other regular day. The teacher asked me to present my project, I hadn't even started it. I walked to the front of class and discovered I wasn't wearing any clothes. I smiled. This was a dream... but this was also not the sort of dream I would dream. \n \nI looked around and discovered m... | 1 |
[WP] Earth was never meant to habitable. It was meant to be a prison for the worst creatures in the universe. Today, the jailers have landed to inspect their prison. | [
"\"Tunnel ends in 3...2...1... and we're out.\"\n\n\"Diagnostics, report.\"\n\n\"The lifeforms are progressing at the expected pace, Warden. They have either pacified or exterminated all prisoners.\"\n\n\"good, set their space programs back, and we'll head home. Can't let those humans sterilize our world.\"\n\n\"th... | 8 | |
[WP] "I don't care for what you've done with the place..." | [
"“Just get it done.” *click*\n\nI set the phone down and grabbed my shoes. Robert didn’t seem to be willing to budge on his plan for the afternoon, not that I had expected him to do so of course. It’s just what he proposed was a little over the top in my opinion, and rather expensive as well. But that wasn’t any of... | 2 | |
[WP] you are a god that is able to manipulate time and space, how do you use this power, you do insane magic tricks on the street. | [
"*Ooooh*\n\n\n\nA murmur of interest rippled through the crowd as Begun pullet yet *another* handkerchief from his ear. He found they particularly liked the bright yellow ones which even had the stern fatherly faces smiling knowingly behind their enraptured children. The small little animals' brains were churning a... | 1 | |
[WP] In the distant future, the entire galaxy is connected to the Internet. What would GalaNet be like? | [
"The article was innocent enough ... \n\n\"Planetary President of Earth causes diplomatic incident.\"\n\nBut the comment section was a warzone.\n\nSuperHuman123 - Fk u, human masterrace, Tivaks can gtfo!\n\nNeutralObserver - @SuperHuman123 This one believes your opinion to be invalid, Tivakian trade is vital to the... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a story where you wake up and cant fall asleep for 24 hours. The next day you fall asleep after 23 hours. By 22 hours you've realized that you're going to run out of time | [
"Dimly, she realized it'd been almost a full day since she'd last slept. She drained the last dregs from her mug, left a few last strokes on the paper, and decided to call it a night. \n\nSunlight. It seemed to leak through the blinds, golden rays spilling out into the room. \n\nAh, hell. She probably wouldn't be a... | 1 | |
[WP]At the age of 13 everyone gets a familiar like a cat or a wolf that they are bonded too for life. You ended up getting a blue whale. | [
"We stood looking down into the tank, the bleachers empty behind us. \n\n\"It really said whale, did it?\" \n\nI looked sideways at the man in the blue jacket, who was flipping through his clipboard.\n\n\"Yeah, it says 'Blue Whale,'\" he replied without looking up. He pulled a pen out of his shirt pocket and rotate... | 3 | |
[WP]You go out for food and when you return you open the door only to meet yourself standing in your living room looking confused back at you. What is happening? | [
"I thought I was hallucinating.\n\nI just left the living room to get me some chips and a cup of coffee from kitchen and as I got back and was about to open the door, I heard rustling inside. The sounds unnerved me, given the fact that the large French windows of the room were open by this time of the day.\n\nSomeo... | 1 | |
Somewhat inspired by The Catcher in the Rye :) | [WP] You're a curious duck that decides to stay in NYC during the winter time instead of flying with the flock | [
"Dear diary,\nDay 12.It's getting colder. The hoomans are putting on these giant pieces of feathers. One of them looked like cousin Tim fit right in there? I don't know. I also don't know how much longer I can handle this. Every so often there is this white, slow rain. When it comes, it makes everything it lands on... | 2 |
[WP] Write a story that follows a new character with each interaction, ending with the original character. | [
"\"Another stupid day\", thought Matt as he entered the old building. Matt felt like high school sucked, his parents sucked, and the world was just depressing. That is, until he saw Lena. Lena was everything the world wasn't. She was kind, she was generous, and she was beautiful. Matt saw her standing with the popu... | 1 | |
[WP] Troops marching through Europe during WWII come across the old cabin from Hansel and Gretel lore. | [
"\"If you do not say your prayers, a witch will eat you up.\" his grandmother used to say. \n\nHe wondered if she was still alive. It was difficult to imagine her, sitting in her lonely apartment in Berlin. He stared across the barren, winter landscape and wondered if her face was the same colour as the pallid sky,... | 1 | |
[WP] In the future, anyone who escapes prison is absconded of all charges. You're dead set on breaking out of Guantanamo Bay. | [
"I've been here five years. Much longer than anticipated. But that time has given me all the information necessary. The locks they use I had not seen before, but that was overcome by a bit of luck. Thin strips of aluminum, stolen from a guards soda can, glued together to form the thickness of a key. Inserted into a... | 1 | |
[WP] Punk is dead. All other genres of music come together for the funeral. | [
"It was, appropriately, anarchy. It only took four words for everything to collapse and become chaos.\n\nAll the genres crowded into the procession. They looked at Punk's scarred face, the band pins and patches all over its funeral garb. Alternative rock looked at all the bands and declared \"Green Day isn't punk!\... | 3 | |
I'm fond of quote prompts. | [WP] "As long as you hold it true, and as long as you don't let it die out, that light won't let you die either." | [
"She walked amongst the trees. One step at a time, she carried on the path. The wind blew hard, like it always does in the Summerlands. A comfy wool cloak, fleece breeches, leather gauntlets and a scarf made of silk were enough to keep the cold away, though. Mostly.\n\n*So much for that warmth.* \n\nSavoring the ir... | 4 |
The Earth and other less developed planets are monitored by a more advanced alien species, or coalition of many of them, to guide developing life toward not royally fucking up the universe and attempts to help them avoid common pitfalls and past mistakes others species' have made. Humanity is one of these developing sp... | [WP] "Oh man, they're learning." - the extraterrestrial species monitoring Earth | [
"First contact was made outside of Cairo, and made many historians feel very silly: A logical consequence of watching alien ships land on \"man made\" pyramids. They came in peace, but brought neither technology nor medicine. Indeed, they barely even brought themselves, with their first delegation consisting of no ... | 1 |
Take it any way you wish | [WP] A silent film star must act in her first sound movie | [
"This was supposed to be easy. Look handsome, prance around a few sets in different costumes and go home at the end of the day to do it all over again for another few weeks until production wrapped up. A really simple gig. I mean it was, until a few minutes ago when my manager came into my dressing room with career... | 1 |
[WP] It turns out that "Big brother" is actually owned by your big brother | [
"A young, tall man is pacing along the almost deserted platform. Turning around whenever he feels like it. Ten steps one way, twenty the other, turning, 5 steps.\nHe looks at the sign, as he is watching the glowing 4 is replaced by a bright 3. He turns his head, averting his gaze.\n\nA couple is leaning against the... | 1 | |
[WP] The closer you pay attention to what your teacher actually teaches, the more you get the feeling that he actually wants to convince his students to join a pyramid scheme. | [
"My father switched off the radio. \n\n“This HerbaLife documentary on the radio…informative isn’t, it?” my father said as he unlocked my side of the door.\n\n“Be on the lookout, kiddo. I don’t know if I should tell you to not talk to strangers, but one thing I know you shouldn’t trust anything until you are not a s... | 2 | |
[WP] Your doppelganger shows up at your house in the middle of the night and wants to take over your life. | [
"The man seated in front of me could have been me. He had my mannerisms, my voice - everything a Hollywood biopic would want. But he had more than that. Somehow, he also had my face. \n\n\"I didn't expect you to so be comfortable with this.\" My impostor said.\n\nThey casually flipped through my mail, their face fo... | 1 | |
The effect is binary: either you punched them in the face, and they experienced revelation and/or progress, or their destiny wasn't changed for having encountered you. 'Two for flinching' shouldn't reincarnate buddha or anything.. probably. Assume immunity to your own power. Stop hitting yourself. | [WP] You (or a friend) possess a unique power: everyone you physically strike becomes a better person. | [
"I leant further backwards into the wall, staring down the big man in front of me with my arms crossed. \"What?\" He spat, stepping closer. \"You think you can take me?\"\n\n\"What, with all these guards around?\" I gestured towards the various prison guards, watching the gathering crowd intently. \"I don't think I... | 1 |
[WP] Fallacies argue over which of them is the worst. | [
"\"You're the stupidest kind of argument I've ever seen,\" said *Ad Hominem*. \"You stink, you smell like garbage, so everything you say is invalid. Also you're ugly and no one likes you. Therefore you're definitively invalid.\"\n\n\"My dad likes me,\" said Appeal to Authority. \"And he also thinks *you're* a stupi... | 1 | |
You can be benevolent, malevolent, chaotic, lawful, whatever. You can orchestrate any event you may like. For the sake of spice, you can even say that after a few years of meddling you are discovered and a massive media controversy erupts. Other 1%ers may try to wrest 'God-hood' of that planet from you, etc. Go wild. | [WP] It is thousands of years in the future, you are wealthy beyond limits, and your own personal space probe has found a planet almost identical to Earth. The Humans there are still living in their version of the Dark Ages. You decide to play God using your advanced technology. | [
"They were like frightened children, scurrying into the safety of their shadows as I arrived, landing on a large hill that was in plain sight of the surrounding kingdoms.\n\nI stepped out of my ship, sat under a tree and waited.\n\nThey came before nightfall, their fear of the unknown overcoming their fear that the... | 1 |
[WP] The forces of Hell arrive on Earth not as invaders, but as refugees | [
"I am still in shock, we demons that fought in the angelic wars versus the angels, now we where on massive crisis, what hold me in the trenchs is the memorys of the post angelic wars and now we will go to plane where the unwanted childs live, humans. How could have this happen?\n\nIs simple hell is in an massive ci... | 6 | |
[WP] You're beginning to suspect that the rather crappy day-spa you're at might just be a front for something far more sinister... | [
"The smoke of the cigar mixed seamlessly with the steam of the sauna. Sweat ran down the man's shoulders and steam condensed on the cool metal of his augmentations. The sauna was always a day ending ritual of Detective Ambros. Michael Ambros was a seasoned vet of the CPD Homicide Unit and a frequent visitor of the ... | 1 | |
[WP] A terminally ill man obsessed with dying goes to war, no matter what he does he never seems to die. | [
"He lay in the trench as the artillery roared over him. Splashes of dirt rained down upon his position, once filled with the laughter of his comrades. Now deserted, he called an airstrike on his position to stall the mechanized infantry that loomed closer each second. His vision was blurring, the blood loss final... | 3 | |
[WP] You just summoned a demon, the problem? You have no idea how you did it, and neither does the demon. | [
"> \"You know, this usually doesn't happen.\" I said, looking at the puny human boy in front of me.\nI had taken the form of a tall girl, dark slightly curly hair, a pair of black eyes, a skintight undergarment for decency, and a red and black cloth wrapped around like a dress, complimented by a pair of black wi... | 15 | |
[WP] You have a telescope that, instead of making far-away objects look larger, makes ugly things appear beautiful, prose like poetry, nonsense scribbles like artistic masterpieces, meaningless chaos like order. That is, until you make the mistake of looking through it backwards. | [
"It was nine thirty. I lay, sprawled on the sofa, mouth hanging open, slightly ajar, staring at the crack on the wall through my telescope. That little crack, the result of an unfortunate attempt to put up some artwork, became a ravine, the walls of plaster cascading down into the valley below. The web of minute sq... | 1 | |
[WP] On your way to work, a downtrodden man sitting on a bench calls out to you and says, "I'm not well. I could use a friend right now if you have the time to listen." | [
"Every morning, I cross though the park to get to the little commuter rail stop for work, but even as I write this, I can't differentiate one day from another. Every morning was, and is, exactly the same, barring the weather, even so, I'm always sweating in my suit. It looks nice, and I like it, but I can't handle ... | 3 | |
[WP] You've had an amazing fiscal quarter, and it's time for your annual review at your company. As you enter your Boss's office and sit down, he has his back turned. "Well," He says, "let's get this started." He turns and puts a revolver on the desk between the two of you. | [
"I said nothing. The CEO stood still, eyeing me, waiting for me to make a move or exclaim something. He carefully sat after a moment, coughing gently, scooting his chair forward and tenting his fingers. The gun sat there like a dead fish, cold and scaly. \n\n\"Did you hear me?\" he said abruptly, jolting me from ... | 2 | |
Something a little more lighthearted about living forever. | [WP] Write a story that focuses more on the positive aspects of immortality. | [
"I saw the tree I planted in 1665 grow, change with the seasons, and get cut down. I got to see the world change and blossom. I was the creator of the first meme. The world has changed so much since 1656. That was the year I was born. I saw the Extra-Terrestrial Peace Exchange back in 2158. I was there when people ... | 2 |
[WP] You awake in a cornfield in the middle of the night. A flashlight is on the ground in front of you. A note lies underneath the flashlight. It simply states: "You are being hunted". | [
"Immediately she shut off the flashlight her mind reeling with what she had just read. \"What the hell!\" She tried to think how she arrived here and more importantly where this was. \"RUN\", everything inside her screamed, but where and to what end? Her heart was pounding, her hair was matted with blood, the sweat... | 7 |
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