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[WP] You visit a mystic who can tell with 100% accuracy if you're in the first or second half of your life. When you walk in, her crystal ball explodes. | [
"\"AH!\" I jumped back and shielded my face. \"Don't worry hun it was just my crack pipe, happens all da time\" the old woman smiled and turned to face a box on the floor. She produced a new pipe and a bulging Ziplock bag. She placed a lighter on the table. \"Wanna see ya future?\" \n\nI quickly scanned the room. T... | 3 | |
[WP] You're watching some old home movies from when you were a little kid, when you notice something in the background. Something impossible. | [
"I wasn't sure why my mother had never mentioned the VHS tapes she had stashed away in the bottom of her bedroom closet. I was only rooting around in there because I'd loaned her some shoes last time I'd come home from college and I wanted them back, but instead I found about a dozen unlabeled tapes stacked neatly ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a violent vigilante with one flaw:every time you are about to kill a bad person you see their day-to-day life flash before your eyes. | [
"A lit cigarette. Sometimes all it takes to survive a cold night is a warm pair of lungs. \nI took another drag. It was the nights peak and the winter cold cut through my jacket. I had stepped out to have a cigarette. Sometimes the isolation of a quiet night is a reassuring solace.\n\nMemories make it hard to get t... | 1 | |
[WP] After a brain-splitting surgery, you wake up in your hospital bed, completely paralyzed. Suddenly, you get up and walk to the bathroom against your own will. You are trapped in the half of the brain with no control over the body, but the other half believes the surgery was a complete success. | [
"When I was younger I contracted a tumor in one half of my brain and it was spreading quickly. We decided to try a new experimental surgery, a \"brain-splitting surgery\". Pretty much they cut off the half with the tumor. Yep that's right just cut it straight off. Then they harvest the healthy brain tissue and grow... | 3 | |
[WP] A child wants to be a supervillain when they grow up, rather than a superhero. | [
"“I’m sorry, you want to be a what?” Berserko Fantastico said to his young daughter, Natalie.\n\nAt only seven years old she was already a handful, and in hindsight he should have noticed the signs earlier. In the past three months alone she’d designed and built three doomsday devices and attempted to sell them on ... | 1 | |
[WP] 2 years ago, you broke a mirror. You're going into your 3rd year of bad luck, and things couldn't be any worse. | [
"It was three fateful years ago when it happened. My life shattered into a million glinting pieces. I tried to be careful but I just wasnt careful enough. I should have known when to stop but I was just so angry.\n\nMy wife left me and took everything I own. I cant blame her though, she is just as broken as I am... | 1 | |
[WP] Ever since you were a child, you felt like the person in the mirror wasn't you. One day you see a injured version of you that asks for help. | [
"Wake, meds, wash. Wake, meds, wash. Every day the same mantra, the same routine. Jess swung her legs over the edge of her bed, muttering those words to herself and glancing up at the timetable that she of course knew by heart. This is what the doctors, the psychiatrists, the healthcare workers, and anyone else wit... | 2 | |
[WP] The emperor has an extremely short memory and is easily swayed. Foreign and domestic officials realize this, and begin to hire assassins... Not to kill, but to sneak in and whisper suggestions just before the king signs his name on anything. | [
"Emperor Crassus Rex Aulius Severus Iulius III read the copy of the Free Grain Act in front of him.\n\n\nHe was pretty sure he had read the same document last month, but he could not be sure now. He was getting old and as they say, 'memory is the first go.' Or was it dignity?\n\n\nHe watched his fellows lords also ... | 1 | |
[WP] In a story narrated by a post-singularity subreddit moderator, expand this situation: WE LOST CONTROL. And her alien timbre bespoke the words: “Only chaos permits loss effect defense.” | [
"This story is wrong.\n\nThe sequence of events is parallel rather than a sequence. The concepts and analogies that are used are crude and borderline patronizing. Even this notice, this disclaimer, is not the whole of what We can understand, it is merely the whole of what you can understand.\n\nThus: This story ... | 1 | |
[WP] Colleges are offering a new BS degree: Bachelor of Science in Bullshit (otherwise known as a BS in BS) | [
"Syllabus for Illusion-Setting 101, Spring Semester 2018\n\nFirst Module:\n\nDefining the relationships between equivocation and success, and theorizing about the nonexistence of \"truth with a capital T.\"\n\nSecond Module:\n\nBluffing vs. Gaslighting, the fingers-crossed-behind-the-back negotiation technique, and... | 2 | |
[WP] Freddy Krueger, after a night of murdering teenagers, relaxes in Hell. However, a message arrives at his door. It reads, "I'm coming for you- The Doom Marine". | [
"Krueger cackled as the paper smoldered away in the hot, dry air. It was no secret how to confront the dream killer in his own domain, many had discovered the method over his long reign of horror. What was one more doomed soul? \n\nOften Krueger would watch the minions of hell dispatch the intruder with ease, foolh... | 2 | |
[WP] "Shhhh, go back to sleep darling." "Mmhmm... wait, what?" | [
" I was so tired when watching tv, I had just got home from work and now passed out watching izombie. When I woke up I was so out it [but I was being held and my primitive brain or subconscious was happy I was being held by someone.](http://www.silverpetticoatreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/izombie-2.jpg) I ... | 1 | |
Inspired by this Ask Reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/68iz4q/if_authors_covered_novels_the_way_musicians_cover/?st=J25KF7UZ&sh=ae4e446a | [WP] Cover a famous book, but written in a style of a different author. | [
"I wake up. It's a cold day and I stretch my fingers out across the bed in search of my sister but she is not there as she usually is. A sweet girl. Kind and caring. \n\nShe is skinny. If only we had more food. She sleeps next to me every night but on the mornings when I wake up without her by my side I know ... | 1 |
[WP] The gods were once mortals like us. The god of loyalty was born alongside the god of betrayal. | [
"There's only one reason you and me are different. I don't get to die. A million years ago, I could've. But my Brother, he had other plans. Now I spend my days wishing more people would pray to Me, and that the people who did had something more interesting to pray about. \n\nIt all started when We were born... but ... | 1 | |
[WP] After World War III, the remaining population discovers a new ancient religion. Recognizing the one-third of your life when you are asleep, they called this new religion Beddhism. | [
"As he had every night of his adult life, Rodger prepared for the sacred ritual. The lights were turned off, and his alarm clock set. His phone was plugged in. He was a devout man, and had set aside ample time for his nightly obligations. \n\nDevout or not, he *was* aesthetic. He did not possess elaborate ceremonia... | 1 | |
[WP] Humans are the most prominent species in the galaxy, but they never talk of their homeworld and its location has been removed from all records. | [
"The star sets upon the land. The thin blue evaporates into black and the wind comes cold and with memory. Above me is an unknown sky. The stars there are weak in the dying light, and our star, our 'Sun', is red and old and dying. So am I.\n\n\nMy generation is the last, and I suspect I am near the last of my gener... | 1 | |
[WP] NASA wants to send you to the moon. Unfortunately, you're a werewolf. | [
"Well dear reader you are probably asking yourself why I, a werewolf, am hurtling towards the moon in a rocket ship traveling faster then the speed of sound. Pretty stupid of me right? Full moons gonna make me transform and rip my crew mates apart in a gratuitous orgy of bloodshed? RIGHT?\n\nBzzzztt WRONG! \n\nCurs... | 1 | |
[WP] You awaken in a foreign place without any memories. Held tightly in your right hand, you saw a piece of paper that is folded in half. On the surface were the words: "Do not read". You felt curiosity creeping in your veins as you wonder what might be written on it... | [
"I place the note in my pocket, I can't let my curiosity get the better of me. I looked around me, and saw odd vegetation, almost coral-like, red and orange hues spread across the horizon. The sky was an incredibly calming shade of blue, at least a familiar sight. ***His favorite colors.***\n\n\"Dad?\"\n\nI heard m... | 1 | |
[WP] Write about a society where the roles of children and parents are reversed. | [
"Soon. The one who will take care of me for the rest of my life will be here soon. I don't know why I'm so nervous. I've been in that position before. Having to take care of another person when everything is so new. Telling them what is right and what is wrong. Make sure they complete their duties and continue bein... | 1 | |
[WP] Every person is gifted a costume by their parents at the age of 7, and that costume will determine their powers. In a world full of people flying around with capes and people that are super fast in red suits, you are very disappointed when all you get is a plain white onesie. | [
"It can take a long time to appreciate a gift. A saving bond is the most boring present for a 13 year old, despite it's worth. So for a long time, I didn't fully understand what I was supposed to do after being given a onesie by my parents.\n\nTracy zipped into my room and out again before I had a chance to yell. I... | 1 | |
[WP] Around 12 people a year are born with abilities. They are born with a birthmark of what their abilities will do when they grow up. All of the chosen have had 1 of 12 specific abilities throughout time. When you are born, the doctors can't figure out what your birthmark depicts. | [
"Two doctors hovered over a newborn. They were in a special room where they inspected special babies. You see, twelve people a year were born with special abilities. At first it was weird. But then it wasn’t, because it had been happening for twelve years. Every year the twelve special babies received twelve specia... | 1 | |
[WP] You are in hell. Every year Satan holds a large festival, complete with one very odd and specific competition in which all residents of hell may compete. The winner of the competition is sent to heaven. Catching sight of the newest competition you get a huge grin. It's about to be your year. | [
"To tell you the truth, I am not one of those innocent men. I am not one of the poor unfortunate who got cast down to the fire in a mistake. I burn here in hell, but I do so happily. I am a bad man. I can admit as much. Now I await heaven. Isn't life funny sometimes? Maybe it's just how you look at it.\n\n\nI caugh... | 1 | |
[WP] An aerial battle | [
"Vey watched as the rope snapped, the weight of that damn orc grabbing her waist as he fell overboard too much.\n\nShe tumbled backwards, falling towards the open void below, more orc ships rising to greet the Imperial line above. She pushed the grey skinned monster away, drawing her saber. The wind screamed past h... | 4 | |
[WP] "Of course humans aren't intelligent. They don't even have glurbleflukers. If you can't glurblefluke, you're not sentient." | [
"I'm a bot, *bleep*, *bloop*. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:\n\n- [/r/thewordsofxacktar] [\\[WP\\] \"Of course humans aren't intelligent. They don't even have glurbleflukers. If you can't glurblefluke, you're not sentient.\"](https://np.reddit.com/r/TheWordsOfXacktar/comments/69iiln... | 6 | |
Inspired by: http://imgur.com/gallery/ugWm98L | [WP] "Lightning struck the elder oak, and inside the new smoldering hollow of the trunk lay an egg, safely covered in fresh, glowing cinders..." | [
" It was an alien egg. My buddy John and I cautiously walked towards the tree, hoping not to get electrocuted. We were only 11 years old, with an eagerness to see what exactly just happened in front of us. John stepped up to the tree, blocking his face from the ash. He looked inside, only to describe something ho... | 2 |
[WP] Glaicers are melting. Ancient deadly diseases are awakening. | [
"We were in Antartica. It was just supposed to be a fuckin' climate change research expedition, real easy like, in and out, you know? I had a contract driving one of the 4x4's to the middle of one of the tundras for the team, so they could drill a bit and collect samples and see how much ice had receded. I ain't no... | 1 | |
[WP] A 394 year old Marlboro executive reveals his secret: Smoking a cigarette takes 6 seconds off of your life, but adds 3 seconds to the life of the one responsible for getting you to smoke that cigarette. | [
"“’Did we know?’ Of course we fuckin’ knew. You ever seen the CEO of Philip Morris smoking a menthol? Fuck no. We knew. Hell, I learned about it from the redskins. They told us and we didn’t even have a put a gun to their heads. A little gin and they babbled on about how making their enemies smoke their ‘peace pipe... | 1 | |
[WP] God starts texting you. | [
"**\"Looking good, Rae.\"**\n*From 463*\n\nWtf? My curtains were closed, I was in the house alone (roomy was staying with her boyfriemd this weekend) and I was 99% sure the windows and doors were locked. Who the hell is texting me at 11pm with this freaky shit? I hit spacebar on my laptop, pausing the show I was... | 2 | |
[WP] You have spent years continuously ranting against what most consider to be a fairly trivial problem. But one day, an alien empire invades Earth. Their only demand? For Earth to fix what you've been continuously ranting against. | [
"The alien overlord folds his tentacles in his lap, “You have one day to comply.”\n\nThe eyes of the Joint Chiefs of Staff all shift to the President. He fidgets behind the Resolute desk, beads of sweat forming on his brow. “You can’t be serious. That’s—That’s just not possible. We can’t do that. We don’t have the ... | 3 | |
[wp] The AI only seemed like the villian. It was acting to save humanity all along | [
"The youthful, idealistic intern stared up at the 50ft wall, covered in sensors, switches, and one large, pulsating red light. He pushed the bridge of his cliche geeky specs up the ridge of his nose. Everyone had gone home after this major breakthrough: the first conscious, self-improving AI. What on earth was Aaro... | 2 | |
[WP]The house is the same as it always was in your dreams. The house you've never been to, until now, but know better than the inhabitants. Good thing, too, since those secret passages are the only things keeping you hidden from them. | [
"*It's here.*\n\nCaine dove, slipping behind the couch just as the door slid back. He could hear it enter, shuffling, slithering over the hardwood floors. Tentacles writhed over the planks, questing in every dark corner - every corner, that was, except for his own. The darkness and relative obviousness of his hidin... | 1 | |
[WP] A man is wrongly convicted and sentenced to jail, but it's the best thing that can happen for him. | [
"His phone rings. He answers. \"Hey, sis.\"\n\n\"Hey, yourself.\"\n\n\"How's Mom doing?\"\n\n\"Oh, *now* you have the nerve to ask? You weren't thinking about her before when you were out there doing God knows what!\"\n\n\"It was just a question.\"\n\n\"Doctors say she's recovering. A little to the left and it woul... | 2 | |
[WP] "Before I go... take me to the darkness... let me see its calm and gentle peace... let its gentle arms hold me in its warm embrace... and let that be the last I remember... | [
"\"Before I go... take me to the darkness... let me see its calm and gentle peace... let its gentle arms hold me in its warm embrace... and let that be the last I remember...\" Dave said as he drank from a half full bottle of beer. His breath reeked of alcohol and his words reeked of wistfulness. He sighed after sw... | 1 | |
The friend could be jealous of either one of the two. | [WP] Write a love story from the perspective of the jealous friend. | [
"Jessie is a friend,\nYeah I know he's been a good friend of mine\nBut lately something's changed\nIt ain't hard to define\nJessie's got himself a girl\nAnd I want to make her mine\nAnd she's watching him with those eyes\nAnd she's lovin' him with that body, I just know it!\nAnd he's holding her in his arms late, l... | 1 |
[WP] An author dies, and they are welcomed into an afterlife populated by all of the characters they have written. | [
"The scalding water felt amazing on my face. Ugh, it really had been the worst day. There was that horrid old lady from down the street that kept peering into the windows trying to see if anyone was home after she rang the damn door bell 90 times. No way was I going to open the door again, not and risk having to... | 2 | |
[WP] In a universe where you own a portal gun, you put one portal on your wall and fire the other into space at night. After years of waiting, the portal opens. | [
"\"Well, that's a fucking waste.\"\n\nBarry reached for the portal gun, shaking his head and rolling his eyes so hard Claudia was worried he'd detach a retina. \n\n\"I'll reset it,\" grumbled Barry, as Claudia pivoted, holding the gun out and away. \"C'mon. It's worthless like this. That beam won't stop until it hi... | 1 | |
[WP] Fear and Loathing in Mars Vegas | [
"Space isn't cold, it's freaking hot. I suppose it might be the cramped confines of the illustrious tin can I was strapped in. Or it could be the aftereffects of wearing a vinyl skin suit fourteen hours straight. The texture gets so pervertedly moist it feels like an albino sumo wrestler giving you a massage and wh... | 2 | |
[WP] You find a magical GPS that doesn't give you directions to places, but rather directions on getting through tough times in life. One day, the only thing it can say is, "Recalculating..." | [
"You know how I knew I should apply for Harvard Law? A GPS. \nNo. \nReally. \nYou want to know how I knew which city to move to? Or which women to date? Or, at this point, something as small as deciding what restaurant to eat at? \nYup. \nGPS again. \nI really don't remember a time before it. Or, should I say... | 2 | |
[WP] When you were 13, you stumbled across information online that all but proved the zombie apocalypse was imminent. 2 years later, it begins. You've prepared for it, but you weren't expecting the world's greatest athletes to be the first infected. During the Olympics. In your hometown. | [
"I expected the zombies to be lethargic shambling corpses. Not peak condition athletes. Everyone had predicted the 2028 Olympics to be a disappointment but not in this way. I barely had time to pick up my shotgun before firing at a zombie limping down the street at 12 m/s. I ran into my house, all the windows had b... | 1 | |
[WP] A superhero and his Nemesis continue their feud as they are both admitted to the same nursing home. | [
"It was the yelling that got the nurses' attention first. They had an idea what to expect, but dutifully they made their way over.\n\nSure enough, Flexitude and The Blizzard were at it again. Kelly, who had worked there for five years now, covered her grin with a hand as she strode smoothly in.\n\n\"What's all th... | 1 | |
[WP] A conspiracy theorist finds out they are a lizzard person. | [
"It didn't hurt. He looked down at the cut on his hand. It wasn't bleeding. He looked at it from different angles. It was tinged in red, but no blood welled up from the gash. It wasn't a huge slice. Just a cut on the hand from prepping dinner, cutting vegetables. Something you might wrap in a towel, or run u... | 1 | |
[WP] Write about a person on the run for something or someone, slowly losing their sanity. But it must be in a journal or diary format, with the date of the entry included. | [
"May 15th: I finally gained the courage to run away from dad, we got into an argument and I hit him on the head really hard. I hope he's okay... I know he doesn't mean to be abusive, he just doesn't know how to better deal with situations. I heard the cops coming, they might just be investigating all of the yelling... | 2 | |
[WP] Your alter-ego has become more popular than your superhuman identity. | [
"'Who is the mysterious individual who single-handedly stopped a gang war in downtown LA?' the evening news reporter asked as said \"Individual\" bench-pressed an entire hummer like it was nothing. 'Reports from witnesses state that a green-skinned creature drescribed as, \"The Incredible Hulk with dwarfism\", had ... | 3 | |
[WP] A chapter of a book so High Fantasy it barely makes sense anymore. | [
"\"But, Thunderbeard! What of the Elders?\"\n\n\"The Elders? Do not mention them to me. Did they believe the prophecy?\"\n\nSarai's great bosoms heaved as she sighed. \"It has been a hundred hundred generations, even the Old Gods have abandoned us.\"\n\n\"Well I have not abandoned them. I will find the Ancients, an... | 2 | |
[WP] You've raised your child by purposely messing up idioms as a joke, but your child is now an adult and you've realized you forgot to tell them the truth. | [
"D: How are you feeling?\n\nS: Like my whole life has been a lie. Still, I guess from here on out I'll just have to kick the bucket.\n\nD: See, that's a perfect example. What do you think that idiom means?\n\nS: You told me it means that a person has something unpleasant to do, like kicking over a bucket full of di... | 1 | |
[WP] Since the early 1970's a confidential government program on criminal rehabilitation has taken place on a remote island. The inhabitants are the "executed" prisoners from the United States. | [
"\"Look, the victim's family is not going to accept anything less than lethal injection.\"\n\"I thought we could make them See him this time.\"\n\"The brother's still angry. It's at a self-harm level - it's legit.\"\n\"Shit. Not the one who cries and writes screenplays?\"\n\"That one. It ain't going away. The entir... | 5 | |
[WP] "Last week I lost my job, house, wife and car. In that order. Yet it was still the best week of my life." | [
"He smiled sheepishly. \"It's a very long and complicated story, sis.\" \n\nShe folded her arms, \"We're in my secret bunker in antartica. There's a global manhunt for you outside. We've got all the time in the world.\" \n\nHe scratched the back of his neck, \"Well it kind of went like this...\" \n\n*The job-*\n\n\... | 1 | |
[WP] Your friend stares silently over the crater that had been their home town. You walk up behind them, adjusting your lab coat and brushing ash from your hair. | [
"Mike and I had been friends since high school, we lost touch over the years after graduation. We saw each other a few times until the death of my parents. I'm Joel, by the way.\n\nLast year I got a cushy job, at Stellarlumarus Labs, as a janitor. I even got to wear a red lab coat, hang out with a couple robots. Ev... | 1 | |
[WP]It's during the Cold War, USA and the Soviet Union competes in becoming the first spacefaring nation, when a third contender appears. | [
"\"I can't believe they made it into space! How were they able to do that! This does not make sense! How could they, without our or the Soviet's direct involvement, make it into space!\" Dale yelled as he grabbed a blue chair and hurled it at a wall.\n\n\"Calm down man.\" a scared Nasa engineer stated as he raised ... | 2 | |
[WP] Humanity launches it's first extrasolar colonization effort, however when the ship arrives they find a colony of millions, established by humans. | [
"The super-fast, super-expensive ship made it to New Sol with its fearless crew completely intact, and made a softish landing smack-dab in the middle of the biggest continent New Earth had to offer. Contrary to the mission's operating assumptions, the planet was not uninhabited.\n\n\"Movement two clicks starboard!\... | 1 | |
[WP] when you die, there isn't a heaven, in fact, there's no hell--you're just reincarnated as a character in a video game | [
" I died... well that's the beginning of my story, I was a normal guy who didn't really enjoy my life. I loved video games though and it's kind of ironic seeing where I am now. Maybe this is hell or something cause I have to fight for my life against zombies now. \n\n It started when I was hit by a car while cros... | 3 | |
[WP] your parents made a typo when they chose what superhero you would become. 20 years later you are now known as: IONMAN | [
"\"Everybody down! Keep quiet, your head on the ground, and no one will be hurt!\"\n\nThis was my chance. I know a bank robbery should not make me happy, but I don't care. In this world full of superheroes, you don't have so many shots at becoming one. Yeah, it's true the big guns like Alphaman or Titan get all the... | 1 | |
[WP] Your art homework was to draw a monster of your worst nightmares. That evening, you recognize a familiar silhouette in the distance... | [
"I haven't seen him in years, but he haunts my dreams every night and tells me he's coming.\n\nI've told Mama, but I stopped telling her because I don't like to see the worry in her face. Plus, I'm tired of moving from place to place all the time. \n\nThe other day I lied to her; I had to. She kept asking me what I... | 1 | |
[WP] In a high school of super heroes, you have no powers. However, no one messes with you, and you know why: You are their Batman equivalent. | [
"The halls are abuzz with the sounds of various discussion varying in topic from the last period’s tests to the party that is totally not happening in the parentless house this weekend. It’s all pretty normal high school day, aside from the fireball that is casually tossed between two jocks and the bucket that hov... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a nurse in the maternity ward of a very famous hospital. The first time you touch someone you see their entire life unfold in seconds. You have never abused your power until now. | [
"You don't have the right to judge me. Damnit, none of you do!\n\nIf you want to blame anyone, blame Michael Hughes.\n\nHe was the most handsomest man I'd ever seen in my life. When I saw him carrying his pregnant wife through the door, I knew I had to have him. At any cost.\n\nI touched him as he waited outside in... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a lowly janitor on a massive starship. Write about your travels and happenings. | [
"People rushed back and forth through the corridor, ignoring the wet floor hologram I'd placed directly in their path. The occasional passerby would lose their footing for a moment and then grumble under their breathe as though I'd not given them a fair warning. How dare he clean!\n\nI pushed the mop around, cleani... | 1 | |
[WP] In the event of student death, the staff will permanently remove the desk of the student who died. You walk into class one perfectly normal Thursday morning to find your desk gone. | [
"I couldn’t move. I was laying in bed, feeling paralyzed. I had felt this way before. My parents said it was hereditary; my mom’s side of the family had depression running through it sideways and up and down. I had the sinking feeling early on in my life that I had some form of depression as well. Nothing serious, ... | 1 | |
[WP] After a day of fighting Dragons you sit down to read a book which you get sucked into - Turns out you were in a book and you were just summoned into the modern world | [
"\"Hey dude\"\n\nI begin to open my eyes, adjusting to the light of this damned room.\n\n\"I don't know how you got here but, uhh. You need to go\"\n \nI shift my body to the direction of the sound, I see the lad. He was wearing such exquisite clothing, his hair was a fiery red. This lad must be a wizard or a mage.... | 1 | |
[WP] After the discovery of the New World, European explorers set out to conquer it. However, the natives have a far more advanced civilization than the whole of Europe. | [
"\"Everyone, get up! We're closing in. 1 hour until we enter PCB's orbit. It's showtime!\" \nyelled Captain Hans Ercht of the New Horizons FC-1 through the PA system. After 15 years of travel through lonely space the ship was finally approaching Proxima Centauri b. This had been a rough few years for all 7 crew\nm... | 1 | |
[WP] 4.6 billion people have just been transported into the past, with each person evenly distributed from Earth's beginning until the present. You are the first person to survive alone for a year, and the next person is about to appear. | [
"My only wish as I sat in the corner of my cave, staring at the fire at the mouth, was that I had studied sciences rather than the arts in university. Sure, I was practical enough, with the makeshift stool underneath me, but if I had the knowledge to craft a real weapon, or some sort of lighting!? Overjoyed would b... | 6 | |
It might be an old lover, or a former occupant of the house, or someone from the distant past. | [WP] Just before dawn, you wake with a ghost in bed with you. | [
"Shantae rubs her eyes, ruffles her hair, and sits up in bed. She gets up, opens the shades, letting early morning sunlight in to the room, illuminating dirty clothes, junk food wrappers, a mostly unmade bed, all sorts of other garbage and discarded accouterments, and... that couldn't be right. There was another wo... | 1 |
[WP] You wake up as you find the grim reaper sitting in your room. Turns up he arrived 24 hours earlier than needed, and he is too lazy to leave. | [
"It had been five minutes since Death had arrived in Peter's room, but Peter wasn't even dead yet. Well, he didn't know for sure that he was staring at Death, but the signs were there. The ethereal flowing cloak, the extremely large scythe (or sickle?\n he never could remember the difference), and the small radius ... | 1 | |
[WP]a immortal man works at a restaurant that gives a yearly raise, his salary is at $1 million an hour and the restaurant is trying to get rid of him in the most creative ways | [
"**\"JONATHAN!** I need you in my office now!\" \n\n*Ugh* The new boss is here. We're probably gonna talk about my salary and he'll probably try to fire me. Like all my bosses before.\n\n\"Jonathan you've probably been asked this before but anyways: how on earth can you survive with such a low salary? Your income i... | 1 | |
[WP] You're home alone when suddenly a voice whispers in your ear, asking you for help. | [
"\"Take a deep breath, clear your mind, the world is described in these words. Everything is real, perceive, proces, accept\".\n\nIt has become a ritual to say these words while I open my front door, ever since the mental breakdown a year ago tomorrow. The step into my house always feels like a jump, the smell of m... | 1 | |
[WP] You're in a movie where someone is narrating your life, and every single character can hear the narrator but you. | [
"**Lucky Guess**\n\n\"Do you ever want to just get out of here? You and me?\" Sophie Croyer was always an outgoing person. She never held back even her most deepest secrets from me. First time she peed the bed? I knew. First time she got her period? I knew. First crush? I knew. First time getting caught stealing ou... | 2 | |
[WP] Humanity has spliced plant DNA with human DNA, allowing humans to use photosynthesis instead of eating. | [
"\"Mr. Lichen,\" the judge said, \"you stand accused of maliciously removing two leaves from Mr. Mistletoe. How do you plead?\"\n\nCoincidentally or otherwise, Mr. Lichen was the only planthuman in the courtroom who was not standing in direct sunlight. Everyone else was feeding from either a skylight or a window, o... | 1 | |
[WP] You wished for a world without Mondays. It's become your second biggest regret. | [
"The scientists say that they have no clue how it happened.\n\nAll of a sudden, the earth just sped up. Not a lot, but enough to really put us in a bad place.\n\nBefore, you know, the earth completed one rotation every 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds. Now it almost one seventh faster.\n\nThe confusion of the ... | 1 | |
[WP] A story about a moth who searched its entire life for a flame to follow. Eventually, it found the flame within itself. | [
"Ever since I could fly, mama and papa always said with certainty that as their children, we are destined to follow the flame for life.\nI first heard that when I was still a young one, barely able to control the fluttering of my wings - flame? What is that? Is it like the shining surface over the deep blue water? ... | 1 | |
[WP] In a galaxy full of conflict between space empires and alliances, humans, who haven't even noticed this whole conflict around them, are the first to develop an FTL drive. | [
"Those humans. Those oblivious, ignorantly intelligent humans. We're sitting here fighting for galactic peace for the past 235 years, ignoring their existence. Why would we ever believe that these humans, these poor creatures who took somewhere around 50,000 years to begin basic space travel would ever accomplish a... | 1 | |
[WP] In exchange for a cure to save his wife - a man agreed to work for the Devil as Death. As death he begins to notice things; like how his wife is a serial killer. | [
"Death: \"Fucking deals with the Devil. There's always a fucking problem. *silly voice* 'Oooo. I'd the fastest car in the world.' Then the Devil says, 'It's the world's fastest toy car.' Jerk.\"\n\nDeath: \"Fuckin... Name's Dave by the way.\"\n\n*Puts hands out but the hand is covered by the cloak*\n\nD: \"Fucking.... | 12 | |
[WP] /r/WritingPrompts is actually controlled by a secret government entity to get creative answers and scenarios to solve problems. | [
"\"I know they're real,\" Agent Stone said, \"But how in the world do we stop a man from using them?\"\n\nAgent Keller sighed. \"Or men. You forgot, there's four of them all together.\"\n\n\"And their skills... I mean... no army would even stand a chance. No assassin could overtake even one of them. They are just t... | 4 | |
[WP] And thus I was cast headlong into the wine dark sea | [
"\"If ye won't walk the plank, we'll just be getting rid of it for ye,\" the captain growled behind me, and the world shuddered beneath my nervous feet. I turned for one last look at my crew mates, my friends, but with a heave, I was cast headlong into the wine dark sea.\n\nI split the surface and went down-down-do... | 3 | |
[WP] Everyone has a number carved onto them that indicates the number of lives they have lived. Humans use this number to make a working hierarchy and restore order to their world. You, a pretty normal member of society, have an infinity symbol. | [
"As soon as my doctor saw my sign, they rushed me to the scanner of past lives. They shaved my head, applied the electrodes, and began to read my past lives. As it turns out, I was every single sperm in existence. From the dinosaurs, the earliest hominids on the plains of Africa, to Abraham Lincoln, to aliens, to t... | 1 | |
[WP] The crew from The Office now works for the Ministry of Truth in the world of 1984. You are part of the documentary team filming the everyday lives of these average office workers. | [
"Winston nodded to the interview camera. \"I think things are working out pretty well between me and Julia.\" Julia waved from her reception desk. \"We're not supposed to have office relationships---or any kind of relationships at all, really. But as long as we keep meeting in secret, there's no way my boss can fin... | 1 | |
[WP] All the glass on Earth just breaks for no reason all at the same time. Chaos ensues. | [
"What was that clanking sound? Kind of like a cog clicking into the wrong place. Or stopping. Maybe breaking from its axis, setting in motion a mechanical disaster that would end with the cables breaking and the elevator hurtling two hundred feet to the ground. \n\nBobby imagined that going at such a speed, the win... | 1 | |
[WP] Your lifelong friend is about to leave. | [
"\"So that's it huh? You're going?\" \n\n\"You know, it's not like a have much choice.\" \n\n\"You could run away, I'll hide you.\" \n\nHe looked down and pushed off the porch with his feet, setting the swinging bench they shared in motion. \n\nWithout looking up, he said, \"Do you remember when you fell off the sw... | 2 | |
[WP] Tell me about the most evil, repulsive, and/or unlikeable character you can think up. Redeem them by the end of your story. | [
"\"ENOUGH\" The woman yelled as she pinned the beaten king to the wall of his throne room\n\nThe king struggled under her grasp, her nails starting to draw blood.\n\n \"You tried, you failed, goodbye filth,\" She spat as she shoved her hand into his chest and crushed his heart. \"I guess now I have to find a new pl... | 1 | |
[WP] Your average life is being followed by a hidden camera crew (a la The Truman Show) but the narrator twists every action you take against you. | [
"\"We return now as Our Suspect has arrived at his place of work, after making several questionable maneuvers to other innocent drivers on the freeway.\"\n\n\"As you can see, immediately after clocking in, Our Suspect begins wasting company time and money by using the on site facilities, first by ingesting coffee, ... | 1 | |
[WP] When you were younger, you met Bigfoot and, instead of running away or attacking, you befriended him instead. Now, whenever you go he makes sure that at least one of the area's mythological beasts is there for you. | [
"I realised that having a mythical creature at my side wherever I go isn't exactly convinient...\n\nI was just about to to leave the harbour of Oslo when I saw it:A giant serpent,of untold size rising from the depths of the sea.People started running,except for a stanger with red hair.In fact while I was standing t... | 1 | |
[WP] Give the hero the most villainous powers you can, and the villain the most heroic. | [
"The burly machine charged at me like the drones before it and with a snap of my finger it too fell at my feet. *There goes robo-drone #5,738.* I stepped over the robot and approached the overly-ornate door at the end of the room. Her 60-story lair had so far been following a consistent mechanical/machine theme fil... | 7 | |
[WP] Every month, a lottery is held in which every citizen in the US must participate in. When someone wins, they get sent to a place called 'Eden,' an island found in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. You happened to win the lottery. | [
"I didn't want to win the lottery, my great grandmother warned me every night that I could remember until her death. \"Don't expect to win. Don't want to win. If you do, you will never return.\"\n\nI didn't understand what she meant, I was twelve when she died and never got a chance to ask her. She would sit in her... | 2 | |
[WP] And we, we will rise from the ashes like phoenixes. | [
" I kind of messed up... I guess you shouldn't mess with people that are chanting in a park, even though I can probably live like this. I was a boring guy that'd play Pokémon Go sometimes... not as much as the start but if I wanted to walk I'd play it. I was downtown in the city near my apartment when it was night... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a super powerful superhero. Your weakness, it's oxygen. | [
"“Meteoman, we meet again!” said john, with a smug smile on his face, whatever new contraption he had built standing behind him. \n\n“Why don't you just give up already, John” I exclaim. “You've never won, and you never will.”\n\n“It doesn't matter if I lose, you just send me to a prison, and we all know that no pr... | 1 | |
[WP] There is one human left on Earth, you knock on their door... | [
"I sigh.\nWith my breath flows the stress that has plagued every aspect of my being up to this point. I have forded rivers filled with the remains of my past successes. They remind me of the mistakes I have made. I have climbed mountains, and from their peaks seen nothing but the desolate wasteland I helped create.... | 3 | |
[WP] An omnipotent God has decided to give a moment of his eternal time to visit Earth, which he's rather curious of. | [
" God stared down at humanity, His brow furrowed as he looked at the wonders and miseries of His creation, judging whether they were acting according to His will, or rather, in spite of it. He glanced at the entirety of earth; a little drop of water suspended between the lights, its importance staggering low comp... | 1 | |
[WP] The protagonist has already been chosen, and is well on their way. Only problem is, you're the ACTUAL protagonist, and nobody believes you. | [
"As he walked out of the school with his new friends they all knew that things were going to get weird, that they were going to be tested, but they knew they had to do it if they wanted to save the world and that their friendship would pull them through any hardships.\n\n \n\nAnd that made Scrap really really upset... | 1 | |
To clarify you only get one word, but can use it as many times as you want. | [WP] Whenever you shout out a certain word, that thing starts happening around you. | [
"I was thirteen just like everybody else when I chose my word of power. My best friend chose Fire. She never again needed a lighter and was always invited to every barbeque or camp out. I hated how she reacted to spiders though. You shouldn't resolve to magic when you have a phobia.\n\nHer boyfriend was a special n... | 1 |
[WP] A conversation between Darth Vader and a stormtrooper who just lost his family | [
"Dear Sir,\n\nI have been shown in the files of the Imperial War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Alderaan that you are the father of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.\n\nI feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the gri... | 1 | |
[WP] Your dog tells all her friends about how her brave human bests great evils daily, without fear, such as the dreaded portal to another dimension, the "just stairs, you big dummy", the biweekly match with death known as "bath time", and even the epitome of destruction- the "vacuum." | [
"It was the sixth annual neighborhood congregation, and once again the various representatives of the province had gathered to discuss the on-goings of the world. To any human overlooking the event, this was just another Spring morning at the neighborhood dog park, but in the canine world, it was the event of the s... | 1 | |
[WP] The hero knows only that the gloves are off; the villain isn't holding back and is fighting harder than they ever have before. The villain knows only what their wife said if they're late for dinner just ONE more time... | [
"The Arbiter glared at the villain, but he knew he was defeated. \"Alright, Doctor. You'll get what you want.\"\n\n\"Giving up already?\" Dr. Diablo chuckled. \"I expected a little more fight out of you. Where's the man with the plan?\"\n\n\"Well. You crippled my sidekick, destroyed my car, broke my wrist, and ... | 3 | |
[WP] You are a humble villager in a generic fantasy world. Everyone awaits the prophecised hero. One day a wandering magician enters your village and exclaims: "Alas, you are the one I was looking for - the harbringer of doom - the antagonist! Now go forth and wreak havoc!" | [
"Now of course, this makes no sense. I've always been an upstanding kid, the worst thing I've done is accidentally squashing an ant's nest,\n\n\"wha-what?\" You exclaim, eyes widening and mind slowly working\n\"yes yes, I'm sure it's all very confusing for you, but if we want this great hero to become a true legend... | 2 | |
[WP] "You might want to sit down for this." | [
"\"Who are you?\" Katherine repeated.\n\nShe had the pistol pointed at the female intruder, trying to calm the tremor in her hand. \"I'm not gonna ask you again.\"\n\n\"My name is Rosie,\" the intruder said, finally, with her palms faced outward and her voice soft and pretty. \"We know each other, Katherine,\" Rosi... | 2 | |
[WP] Write a chase scene between two or more people. | [
"I still in shock at the sight in front of me. I dare not move as the blood slowly leaks from the cuts on the man’s wrists as he hangs suspended from the tree. The two soldiers, dressed for business and ready to attack anyone else who so much as look at them wrongly, joke between themselves. As they shake the body ... | 1 | |
The genie tries to make the wish something that would help all of humanity and not just the single person. | [WP] You are a genie that always tries to twist a wish for the benefit of humankind. | [
"\"I wish.... I wish for a billion dollars!\" The young teen shouts. I sigh deeply and resist the urge to kick the boy in the head. Another dumb and selfish wish from another selfish human. Why can't they all get along and help each other? I've been granting wishes for the past couple of centuries now, and it's lik... | 1 |
[WP] Civilization didn't collapse until after solar panels became ubiquitous, so the post-apocalyptic wastelands still have plenty of working smartphones and social media. | [
"Alright, wassup everyone! It's me GatorX here with another one of these wasteland, scavenger slog things. I know they're pretty new, so if you've got any suggestions and ideas just drop me a comment down below, and I'll be sure to check it out when I can! But otherwise, as always, like the video if you enjoy it an... | 1 | |
[WP] You order a pedigreed poodle online, but when the package arrives, you realize you actually accidentally ordered a pedigreed... hellhound. | [
"It wasn't quite what I was expecting that morning, when I opened up the door of my apartment. Well, I was expecting something of the canine variety, just not...that. \n\nThe box was about the size of a crate you would ship some kind of tiny motorcycle in. An awful smelling wooden crate, more than likely from my... | 1 | |
[WP] You were hanging out with your best friend when suddenly, they disappeared. A yellow message appears in front of you, saying "Player disconnected" | [
"After James disappeared the yellow box popped back up. This time it simply said: Player 2 Enters the game. \nSuddenly, in the booth across from me, sits a little boy. His red hair is a an off kilter bowl looking cut. His face is covered in freckles. And he's got a shit eating grin that already annoys me. The kid ... | 1 | |
[WP] We finally found the real reason why the dinosaurs went extinct, some people already knew but they kept quiet because of the horrific truth. | [
"*connection enabled* \n\nWe have all been to school. Sat in a history lesson. Have been taught that dinosaurs and humans never interacted together as they just didn't live at the same time... but people can lie. Ever found a discrepancy in your teachers work that you called them out on? Well this time it's much mo... | 1 | |
[WP] ERROR%CANnot%COMPUTE%LOVE | [
"Rose saved the world with a hug and some soft words.\n\t\nThe gal was *nuts.*\n\t\nWe were pinned down. We hadn’t expected that. Plan was we’d barge in *Matrix* style and kill his guards before puttin’ a bullet in the bad man’s head himself.\n\t\nFirst part went well. Guards scattered the floor, deader than dead.\... | 2 | |
[WP] You are the creepy little girl that kills whoever watches a cursed DVD. The DVD was uploaded on youtube and has since gone viral. | [
"The fat man sitting on an unlucky computer chair stared only at the brightly lit screen inches from his face. He chewed a mouthful of chips and occasionally took drinks from a bottle of soda by his side. \n\nAbagail watched him for a few moments. \n\nHis chunky hand hovered above the chip bowl and then he let gr... | 1 |
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