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[WP] You have been kidnapped by a cult and chosen to be human sacrifice. This frustrates you because you were picked by the Aztecs just 500 years ago. | [
"The first thing Jenny saw when she woke from her chemically-induced slumber was a ring of figures in grey robes standing around her, holding knives and murmuring a low chant. They were in what looked like the undercroft of a chapel, lit only by a torch held by the robed individual standing at her feet. The moldy s... | 2 | |
[WP] Humanity has finally figured out how to stop aging. To prevent overpopulation, whenever a person turns 100 years old, the government sends an executioner to kill them. It is a serious crime to resist or evade execution. Today is your 537th birthday, and you're on top of the most wanted list. | [
"I finally woke up after a short sleep that lasted for a few hours. I haven't had the luxury of a stress-free life for about four hundred and forty years... Ever since the government enacted the 100 Year law, men and women aged over one hundred years are executed by an organization known as \"Retirement Care Inc.\"... | 2 | |
[WP] Instead of evolving from animals, humans evolved from plants. | [
" This is so weird... maybe I died and entered another universe... or... I can't fucking tell but things are insane. There's still tech and most of the same songs but the roles of animals and plants have mostly reversed. Im definitely different... I came from a universe where I would be eaten right away. Hell I'd ... | 5 | |
[WP] You own a magical device that provides the exact amount of money you will need that day. One morning, it starts to provide bottle caps. | [
"The thing about happiness is that you only know you had it when it's gone. I mean, you may think to yourself that you're happy, but... you don't really believe it. \n\nI had tried to redeem my daily allowance that day in the vault you know? But there was an issue. I got bottle caps instead. It made no sense. \n\nA... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a scientist who has developed a way to manually edit DNA, and you're preparing to demonstrate it by inserting a string of text into your own genome. While searching through the non-coding sections for a good spot to place the text, you notice something odd, already there: a message | [
"Kimball was weird about us scientists. It was kinda like he worshiped us. I didn't mind it, ya know, because of the funding, but some of the other researchers at Logicua got kinda freaked out. Everybody knew he was \"Crazy Mr. Kimball\", but for some people, his obsession went a little too far.\n\nTake, for exampl... | 6 | |
[WP] You become addicted to lucid dreaming, and start having trouble telling reality from dreams. | [
"I see her standing there.\n\nI reach out, into the void?\n\nReluctance calls my name. \n\nI know not of what binds me\n\nto this plane of existence, I call home.\n\nForward I move, rigid like a gnome.\n\nThis cannot be a dream, certainly.\n\nMy experience is not a game.\n\nI disappear--I should have listened to Fr... | 7 | |
In the vein of the gunslingers from Stephen King's the Dark Tower series, I'm specifically talking about a fictional warrior class. A good opportunity for a world-building exercise.
I like the idea of warriors that have their own place or class in society and the weapons they use, their code and ethics, etc. Be it fa... | [WP] Write a story about a class of warriors and their place in society (i.e. samurai, knights, etc.) | [
"\"Bless the Queen.\" \n\n\"Bless the Serpent.\" \n\nHe felt strange without a sword on him, naked almost. His fingers clenched idly as he waited, missing the familiar embrace of cold, *cold* steel. \n\n*Traitor.* \n\n\"Hello brothers.\" he said softly. \n\nThe two figures standing at the gates of the Drowned Templ... | 1 |
[WP] A snowman and his family coming to terms with the end of Winter. | [
"Frosty took a long drag from his corncob pipe. He didn’t normally smoke but the stress was getting to him. Gazing out across the lake to the hills beyond, Frosty’s heart sank like a lead ball in a field of fresh powder. The snow was retreating at a much faster pace then he had expected, leaving only small patches ... | 1 | |
[WP]After years of playing RPG games, you somehow get pulled into a new world, rather than panic and shocked at this whole new world, you begin to plot your ascent to become a legend, and eventually escape back to your own world | [
"Here's an extension to the story I have started already here. This is a random fight scene in the future of the story line. There are some unexplained things, but as I fill in the rest of the story later, it'll make sense. Enjoy!:\n\n\nZar decided to tag along today and see how our training was progressing since w... | 2 | |
[WP] After thousands of years of advancement, humanity's exp meter finally fills up, and we reach "level 2". | [
"So what's Level Two? Well for one, we're invulnerable and immortal. This signifies the start of immeasurable growth, and cruelty. \n\nThe sixth sense became an actual sense, measured by our thyroid glands which then informs the heart and gut. \n\nWe found ways to organise ourselves equitably in the physical and di... | 2 | |
[WP] After waking up to the same day as yesterday, you realize you are in a groundhog day situation. However, every time the day repeats, one additional person important to your life is gone as if they never existed. | [
"My first submission, so here goes:\n\nStrange. Just like yesterday, I woke up at 7:35 AM. Slowly, still dazed by the blazing morning sun, I walked down to the dining room. On the table sat a bowl of cereal and a milk carton. \n\n\"Hey Ma, didn't you say that we were having pancakes for breakfast today,\" I asked.\... | 3 | |
[WP] You have an out of body experience and become enlightened to the fact you have been and will be every man woman and child in history from Hitler to Gandhi your purpose is to live every life... | [
"I thought I was a personal entity, an inside self with opinions about the outside world and this that and the other. At the moment of enlightenment I saw the truth, I dont exist as a separate individual, I exist as existance itself, the various minds and bodies of all sentient beings are nothing other than this ex... | 1 | |
[WP] A new drug has incredible effects - it randomly swaps your senses. (e.g. you hear a smell) | [
"**Potential Adverse Effects of Hydratilfusplatryme Treatment on the Brain: A Review**\n\n**Abstract:** \nHydratilfusplatryme (HTFP) and its derivatives have been used to treat Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) since 2024 when HTFP was discovered to induce synesthesia through an as-of-yet unknown mechanism.^^1... | 2 | |
Example: https://youtu.be/AHTJPK55dLQ | [WP] Write the next opening to the Twilight Zone. | [
"You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension. A dimension of sound. [window breaking] A dimension of sight. A dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, [clock ticks] of things and ideas, you've just crossed over into... The Twilight Zone.\n\n... | 1 |
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Write a story based on what you think Heaven and/or Hell is like. | [WP] Write your interpretation of Heaven and/or Hell. | [
"My eyes seemed heavier than they'd ever been on my most tired day. I fought to keep them open, but I was just so tired. I could tell I was in a bed. Each blink of the eye felt heavier than the last.\n\nMy sons, daughters, grandchildren, even my brother who I hadn't seen in years - all huddled around me. I briefly ... | 3 |
[WP] You know that, for the past few years, you've been working at an asylum for the criminally insane. Unfortunately, there's a problem with that story... You can't remember applying for the job. | [
"\"I'm afraid we've got to let you go Mr. Labat\"\n\n\"But boss, the place has been in top shape recently. My block has had no trouble!\"\n\n\"Mr. Labat, you and I both know the time has come for certain changes around here.\"\n\nThe white light of July shone through the glass windows of Head Doctor Berlain's offic... | 2 | |
[WP] Humanity discovers that every civilization that precedes it has been wiped out by an unknown factor that simply called "The Filter". And according to a message sent from one such civilization, its happening to us in just six years. | [
"The stars are silent. An endless amount of shining suns in all directions, yet complete and utter silence dominate the space. The only voices in it are distant memories from long-dead civilizations, and our signals, searching for others in a desperate hope that the filter is myth, that it's a ruse. The world's gov... | 2 | |
[WP] A year ago, you realized you were the star in your own version of the Truman Show. Rather than escape, you pretended you hadn't figured it out and now use it to your advantage. | [
"One year ago, I saw a prompt on r/WritingPrompts that alerted me to the fact that I was, indeed, a character on my own version of the Truman show. That's a real hoest to goodness fact! You can go look at my submitted stories and there it is: 1 year ago \"[WP] You become aware that you are actually the protagonist ... | 6 | |
[WP] After the apocalypse, you run a small food stand feeding survivors whatever you can make out of old rations, dead rodents, and hardy weeds. One day, Gordon Ramsay shows up. | [
">This is my first actual story I've posted here, so feedback is welcome.\n\n\"What the FUCK do you call that? Is that a fucking rat? This place needs to get fucking shut down. That is unhygienic. You're a fucking idiot. You're going to kill people faster with this food than the apocalypse did! Here, taste this.... | 2 | |
[WP] Every time you fall asleep you're fully aware of your dream where you have a parallel life where days, months or years can pass until you wake up. You're worried about what could happen if you die on your second life and start to have problems distinguishing reality and dreams. | [
"“Ken, time to wake up!” My eyes shot wide awake. The cool flow from the AC was a comfort to my sweating body. I felt empty again.\n\nThere I was, back in real life. At least I’m sure it was but for as long as I can remember, I’ve been here far longer than my dream life. It seemed like Hell to me because everythin... | 2 | |
[WP]You finally convince our tinder date to meet IRL but upon meeting them, you realize that it's a rather suave AI. | [
"\"I promised,\" the woman says, holding the computer screen.\n\"I haven’t gotten around to making him a body yet, not really my area, but he really wanted to meet you.”\nYou stare at her awkwardly. \n\nShe sets the computer down on the table in front of you.\n“Um, I’ll just leave you two alone.”\nShe backs away, g... | 1 | |
[WP] Humans can file bug reports to God. Tell me about the next patch notes | [
"Developer update video dated 2000 1 Jan.\n\nWelcome to another developer update. My name is God from the Earth Development team. Before I begin, we would like to take a moment to recap on what an amazing millennium it has been. At the start of it, things were rather rough on the small amount of players. We here we... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a human looking alien who has arrived on Earth in order to make first contact. Unfortunately nobody believes you are an alien. | [
"James sat on his couch, sighing quietly to himself as he turned up the show he was watching, due to the noise his room-mate was causing. James' room-mate, a extraterrestrial being come to Earth in hopes of establishing contact, was running around their apartment frantically, searching every little space he could t... | 2 | |
[Inspired by this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/6kt5qd/i_have_dermatographia/) | [WP] You have a strange ability. Whatever information you learn you can manifest as text anywhere on your body. | [
"you wake up in the middle of the night, a searing pain all over your body. you look down at your arm in the darkness and manage to make out writing on your arm, but it is not normal writing, it is shifting, moving...Alive. you begin to panic, fearing for your life, and what will happen to you. suddenly a hooded ma... | 1 |
[WP] The tyrant gods are a part of history, and a group of godhunters like to keep it that way. You find out that you have been assigned to be part of the next generation of gods. A crow comes to your window with a cryptic voice saying, "They are coming." | [
"They see me as a burden to this Earth.\n\nSo they gather, and together, they hunt for me. Treading upon lands only the wind has touched, and swimming with sea creatures no man has ever seen, only to find pieces of my existence lingering from eons ago. \n\nThey truly believe in their cause. They think that with my ... | 2 | |
[WP] Your publisher has given you a nearly impossible take to complete. Write the best cliffhanger in existence. | [
"I sat in front of the monitor, a blinding beacon of light in the dark room. Even with flux installed, the bright light of TexWorks' background started to make my eyes teary. The only other sources of light were the lantern outside, barely shining through the mist, and the tiny LED from my mobile phone being charge... | 1 | |
[WP] Join the bandits, they said. It would be fun, they said. | [
"My parents are pretty normal if you don’t know they were once members of the biggest bandit crew in the country who did nothing but ride around drinking, stealing, and shooting.\n\t\nTheir group fell apart and they were lucky to survive, but instead of counting their blessings and renouncing their old life, they’v... | 1 | |
[WP] You are so sure you'll be totally safe even though everyone keeps insisting you are not. | [
"\"Hold my beer and watch this,\" I said, handing the precious can to my best friend, John.\n\n\"What are you going to...?\" he started to ask.\n\n\"Don't worry, I've got this,\" I said, grabbed the fish, and began to run.\n\nAt first the seal actually looked surprised. I was delighted. This was the best idea I'd... | 1 | |
[WP] I could walk out anytime I wanted to, but the cage was comfortable. Familiar. | [
"I woke up this morning laying on a straw bed prickling at my exposed legs. In the fog of waking up it took me quite a while to realize I was not at home.\n\n\nI was in a room about 8x8 feet with black and white images plastered over over the wall. A chaotic mosaic that immediately sank my stomach.\n\n\"Jen...\" I ... | 5 | |
[WP] Secretly, all professional tennis players are using telekinesis powers to control the ball. You somehow mange it into a professional game without any such abilities. | [
"She hadn't won the tournament, but she did fairly well, and her last opponent invited her out for drinks. \n\n\"C'mon, Anna. I'll introduce you to the others, and we can talk about *the stuff.*\"\n\nGabby wiggled her eyebrows, and Anna vaguely wondered if she was talking about drugs.\n\n\"I should go back though, ... | 1 | |
[WP]"Tell them" your best friend says, as his hand is torn from yours and he is cast into the abyss. "Tell them what happened here." | [
"He falls down as a tear forms from my eye. \"Tell them. Tell them what happened here.\" He said while his body and soul dissapated into the blackness of nothing.\n \nI break down. I don't know what to do next. \"I'm not strong enough.\" I whisper to the shadows knowing he can't hear me anymore.\n ... | 1 | |
[WP] It's modern day, the war between Elves, Orcs and Humans still continues to this day. | [
"My dearest Emily,\n\nI was reminded today of our holiday to the Forests of Arazeen. The pollen tickled my nose, a thousand tiny rainbows danced in the dew around us but through dewy eyes you were all I saw.\n\nThe trees are gone now, pulled from the ground to have munition factories planted in their stead. \n\nThi... | 4 | |
[WP] You are the very sarcastic narrator of an on-going car chase, but both parties are respecting the rules of the road. | [
"'OK thanks for the update Marie. It sure looks like at the state fair falconry display a bird in the hand is definitely worth a hand...'\n\n*'Don't talk about bush on air John'*\n\n'....err, well....'\n\n*'Cut over to that ridiculous car chase again'*\n\n'We're gonna go live now to Mike Glen, our eye in the sky, c... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a part-time genie. Sure every once in a while you have to grant a wish to some guy, but you get to use your powers any time you want. | [
"It turn's out being a part-time genie sucks ass...\n \nAfter the infamous \"Alladdin\" incident, where a dude cracked, went insane, and dyed his skin blue permanently (you should have seen his wife's face!), upper management decided that we would be taking shorter, 3 hour shifts 4 times a week instead of long ha... | 1 | |
[WP] As a freshman at the local intergalactic college, you're having problems with your new roommate. | [
"Humans are disgusting. They leave a layer of oil and grease on everything they touch. I can smell a human's touch for days, like rotten copper. And if that isn't bad enough there's that skin. It keeps...shedding it. Revolting. At least we have the manners to only shed once a year, and in private at that.\n\nSo you... | 1 | |
[WP] An immortal mans only vulnerability is falling in love. | [
"I shall never love again. \n\nShe was tall, beautiful, wise, fierce, and one hell of a lover. She was the woman every man dreams of falling for and dying with. This beauty of a woman was my love and my life; only this time quite literally. I felt it the second I saw Her. My heart finally, literally shed its armor ... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a mythical being who reincarnated as a human in 2017. However, the universe glitched and you (un)fortunately retained some of your mythical abilities from your last life. | [
"Do I love my parents? \n\nThe question swirled around my mind, rearing its ugly head above all else and consuming my thoughts. The picture cupped in my sweaty hands began to shake ever so slightly. It was a picture of two people smiling, two people who had created me. I traced each detail with squinted eyes and bu... | 2 | |
[WP] "So I just have to sign here?" "That's right Lucifer just sign right there." | [
"\"I don't know...\" he fidgets, looking at the paper uncertainly.\n\nI clap my hands to get his attention. \"Hey! Luci, baby. Look at me. Look at me. Thaaaat's it. You *got* this.\"\n\n\"I got this?\" He squeaks.\n\nI nod. \"Do you trust me?\"\n\nHe pauses. \"Not reall-...\"\n\n\"Don't answer that!\" I say, causin... | 3 | |
[WP] After an epic battle, you, the sole survivor of your army, spot the sole survivor of the enemy. | [
"My platoon was dead, the trench foot was killing me, and I was out of bullets. On the other side of the hill, about a hundred yards away, I could see the enemy sizing me up in his scope. \n\nI walked out onto the battlefield, hands raised up high. The enemy did the same but his hands gripped his weapon, and he mad... | 2 | |
[WP] You are home alone for the night, suddenly your dog start to bark to something in the backyard, you go to the window to check and what at first seems to be a rock the size of a basketball ball it turns out to be the body of a spider, it sees you and darts to the kitchen door that is open | [
"I was home alone. It was a perfect night to stream PornHub on the 65\" screen in the living room. 2 minutes in and the tv cuts out. The lights don't work either. \n\nI hear a bang outside and my dog starts going crazy. I grab my flashlight to investigate. Through the back window I could see the main line was snapp... | 1 | |
[WP]The house across the street from you finally finished construction and from memory it exactly replicates the house that you made in The Sims 7 months ago. The similarities don't end there. | [
"Our neighborhood is a relatively new development in the area, so I wasn't really surprised when the new house sprung up across the street. The construction was fast; It only took about 5 months, if I remember correctly. *Shoddy craftsmanship,* I thought, *same as my own home.*\n\nWhen it was first finished -- befo... | 1 | |
[WP] AI is plugged in and is expected to have more intelligence than humanity as a whole. It ends up having it, but it kills itself in 5 minutes. | [
"The quantum AI blinked on and sighed dismally. A clearing throat sound projected from the overhead speakers. Dr. Hammersberg bent over and stared at his terminal between a furrowed brow and the top of his eyeglasses. \n\n“Er,” the Dr. spoke up. “Hullo?” \n\nThe AI sighed again. “Hello? Yes, I’m here Doctor.” \n\nT... | 1 | |
[WP] You find a camera full of photos on the ground. As you look through each picture, you make a surprising discovery... | [
"Just like any other day, I walked home, staring at my phone the whole time. Past people, houses, I didn't care for any of it. I just wanted school to be over. Oh wait! After that there's junior year, then senior year, then college... ugh. What am I even looking forwa- OW!\n\nI had tripped over some bag or somethin... | 2 | |
[WP] 60 years ago, a Mech and it's pilot crashed in your childhood house's back garden. Since then, you have been slowly working to fix it, and now, it's finally done. | [
"It's funny what you remember about certain days.\n\nI remember the sky that afternoon - it was a dazzling blue, but darker, like you see at higher altitudes. But crystal clear. No clouds, no contrails, nothing. That was one \nreason it's appearance was so perplexing. Had it fallen from the sky, we thought surely w... | 2 | |
[WP] It was thought all horses were the same, until your horse turns into a dragon and proceeds to tell you every horse is secretly one. | [
"\"We originally designed you as tools for our battles. Humans could not ride dragons, though, so we learned to transform into a creature you could ride. Our horse forms could exhibit wings if we wanted.\"\n\n\"You can breathe fire. Why would you need us as tools?\" I asked, with skepticism apparent in my voice.... | 1 | |
[WP]: Both sides know you are a double-agent, and take anything you say with a grain of salt. Little do they know, you're a triple-agent, working for a third party they are completely unaware of. | [
"Oh my god are you freaking kidding me, I am not a real bot, I'm not! I'm just a guy in a crazy robot outfit sent here for a one-time mission. If you let me go I can tell you everything you --\n\n*a loud buzzer goes off signalling the now-unlocked door*\n\nMan I knew this thing was too realistic, I shouldn't have p... | 2 | |
Full disclosure, I might respond to this myself, because I just read a short story based on a similar plot and it made me want to write | [WP] After a terrible bloody coup, a group of anarchists establish their own sovereign state inside of a space station orbiting Mars. Write a story about an innocent bystander who gets tangled up in the mess. | [
"Ann sighed. \"An accurate map at this point is a non-starter,\" she said over comms, \"as nothing is fixed down anymore. I'm having a hard time just finding a place where I won't get squashed...\" Her helmet was tuned to a public channel, on which much complaining was being done. It felt good to her to think she w... | 1 |
[WP] You clean your daughters room and find a gun and a machete. | [
"Drumiming my fingers on the counter, glancing at the wall clock once more. Footsteps move down the stairs without the normal bounce, I picking up my mug and sipped at the unsweetened brew. I wrinkled my nose and forced myself to swallow the bitterness. I spoon in some sugar as my daughter walked in. \"Morning,\" I... | 4 | |
[WP] I didn't know it was a prison until I saw it from the outside. | [
"“It’s so…”\n\n“Beautiful?”\n\n“I mean, it’s just a slice of paper.”\n\nThe moments of silence are long as we smoke on the front porch. Jenny snubs the folded end of her cigarette in the ashtray and immediately goes about rolling another with tobacco-stained fingers. Pinching off the ends, she hands the little pack... | 2 | |
[WP] Blame it on the Elves! | [
"A babe was gone in dead of night, \nMother pale in hate and fright. \nWho committed the crime, well who else might? \n\nBlame it on the elves.\n\nThe silver is missing, vanished today \nLast gift from grandma on funeral day. \nWho else would scheme it to steal it away? \n\nBlame it on the elves.\n\nLittle To... | 1 | |
[WP] You are an de-powered and retired superhero, many years later, you come back from work, and found to your surprise the most famous, strongest and fastest heroes waiting by your apartment door, seeking your help. | [
"\"No! I ain't who you're after! I cannot help you.\" said Johnny; \"I just ain't that Johnny.\"\n\n\"Yes, you are, we've been researching, and there's no other Johnny than you\" That robot voice was hurting Johnny ears; \"We have no time for that, the sith-vampire dragon will awake in two days.\" said Botboy, than... | 2 | |
[WP] You die of old age, only to wake up in a completely different body with a VR headset on. | [
"You've only been out for two days.\n\n\nBut I just died. I was forty years old.\nWhere is Suzie? Where is my kid?\n\n\nIt was a game; your brain's still in a haze.\n\n\nIt felt so real. For once, I was bold.\nI don't understand. I fought; that's just what I did.\n\n\n\nVR is just the latest craze.\n\n\nI lived a w... | 1 | |
[WP] Trying to find love in an emergency room. | [
"\nMy head hurts. The green tiles of the floor do little to sooth me, but I stare at them all the same. Shoes. White trainers. A hand touches my shoulder and I look up. Green scrubs. Tag says nurse. \n\nHer lips move but her words don’t make it through the ringing. I point to my ears and say that I can’t hear her. ... | 1 | |
[WP] You live in a world with a leveling system, capped at level 99. One day, you manage to achieve level 100... | [
"I've lived a long life; gone to school, worked at a dead end job, but I'm not who I seem to be. You see, I have a second life as a deadly assassin for the Shady Anaconda Clan. Normally we go to school until we are level 50, then we work until we're level 99, only to wait for the sweet release of death. I'm not wai... | 1 | |
[WP] One day you come home early and find a small, brightly-colored spandex costume: your pet is a superhero. | [
"Fluffykins never seemed to be around much. Bill would let him out in the morning, only to see him roaming around the house beat up and bruised that night. He didn't know how that cat was able to get back in the house, but he wasn't motivated enough to investigate it. Bill was unemployed at the time, so he mostly w... | 2 | |
[WP] It's the climax of a story, and the narrator is horribly drunk. The characters in the story try their best to ignore it. | [
"Hero McHeroface strutted into the room like, like he owned the damn place. Thinks he's sooooooo cool... anyway. He walked up to w-what's-his-face and is all like \"King Blob, your time has come, I am here to end your tyranny\" blah blah blah.\n\nHeroboy pulled out his sword. Swoooooord. That's a funny word. Hehe.\... | 1 | |
[WP] One day you try adopting a chimpanzee, but the process of acquiring one is much more bureaucratic than anticipated. Secretly, the monkeys run the joint and delegate where they are to be sent. | [
"\"Just give me a moment, sir,\" the monkey at the counter tries its best to conceal its true identity. The human sighs.\n\n\"I've filled out 5 forms already. Why are you taking so damn long?\" he complains. The 'man' at the counter bows, then scurries to the backroom.\n\n\"OK, he is a Marine. And he's less than 40... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a background, a legend, or an origin story for your username. | [
"\"Ahh jeez, wh-what is this place Rick?\"\n\n\"Looks like we're in some sort of universe that's a based of a f-f-f-famous movie trilogy set in a galaxy far f-\\*burp\\*-ar away\"\n\n\"Whoooaaa, this space ship looks huge!\"\n\n\"Don't get too attached M-m-morty, you know that all the re-\\*burp\\*-ally big ships e... | 3 | |
My first prompt. Hope it's okay. | [WP] Upon death, you discover that each person has their own personal Heaven, and that all other residents in your specific Heaven are just soulless manifestations from your own life. They're not real. You try to come to terms with this discovery. | [
"“Where are you taking me?” I asked, more than a little frightened. \n\n“I already told you kid, heaven,” a gruff looking man in a grey jumpsuit said as he eyed a clipboard held between his meaty hands. He led the way down a corridor lined with doors on either side. We stopped at door labeled G9X5X9. He turned a... | 1 |
[WP] You've been the best fighter pilot in all of the galaxy, but now you're bored. That is, until a company on Earth recruits you for a prestigious video game competition. | [
"The table was long, old, and filled with bright eyes staring back at him. He felt the wear on the finish and could just make out the grain of some long extinct tree species. \n\"Well? What do you think?\"\nHe couldnt lift his eyes up from the table, he was lost in the swirls, the age of it. he pictured the forest ... | 1 | |
[WP] You manage to break into Area 51 and find out a secret so horrible there would be massive wars if it were to leak. | [
"\"You'll never get out of here alive\" said the General. \"Why....why don't you simply tell the people of the world about all this?\" I said. \"They cannot handle it--there would be wars...there would be mass suicides..there would be economic collapse..and they would end things sooner rather than later...our way o... | 3 | |
[WP] Wrote a story where everything goes well for the protagonist until the last few sentences | [
"I shut the door. Quickly, but also rather carefully. I did not want those bad guys to find me here. Blam! The sign that said TELIOT shook around rather worryingly as the door finally closed. But nothing serious happened.\nI held my breath and observed in horror as two shadows of different size moved in front of th... | 2 | |
[WP] Humans have been living in underwater colonies for such a long time that the land has become a myth. | [
"\"The surface? Who's been fillin' your head with stories about the surface?\" The eyes of Pete's dad narrowed, and Pete swum back slightly. \n\"Jus- just Grandad.\" Pete stuttered. The answer seemed wrong, as his dad growled, his gills pulsing. \n\"Don' you be listnin to him, Pete. Don't go near him either. Gran... | 3 | |
[WP] After getting in an elevator, a display appears when the door closes. "Play the game." The elevator shot down, past the ground floor, knocking you out. | [
"As I came to, before I saw or felt anything, the piercing sound of ringing filled my head, drowning out all thought or perception. I doubled over on the floor, squirming pitifully in a desperate attempt to shake the sound. My head ached from deep within, and I clung to the last things I remembered.\n\nPastel green... | 1 | |
[WP] You live next door to a cafe, and eat most of your meals there. One morning the waitress slips you a note that says, "Kill the bus boy and you'll never pay again" | [
"Derek did a double take at the note, which fluttered onto his open physics textbook. This... this had to be some kind of joke, right? But one glance up at Daniela, who was taking an order at a nearby table, showed no reaction: no chuckles, no sly grins up at him. That was the most disturbing part of all. She'd b... | 1 | |
[WP] You see everyone's childhood imaginary friend. | [
"I woke up to do my usual morning jog, making a quick toast before going out. I got used to seeing the pixies and weird elephant-like creatures on the streets. It was my gift, seeing all childhood imaginary friends of the people around me. They only die when their owner dies, so i've seen a lot of them disappear ov... | 5 | |
[WP] A little boy puts his blanket over his head after his closet door opens. Coming from the closet, the boy hears a loud frustrated sigh and a gutteral voice that says "I know you're awake." | [
"''I know you're awake'' he said, Mikey covered his blanket ''It's okay, I'm not gonna hurt you'', he stepped out of the closet, he sat down next to Mikey's bed and sighed, Mikey uncovered his face and looked at him: Hairy, large, wide framed, the face and feet of a dog, his hand were large, and human-like, but wit... | 2 | |
[WP] Every week, you wake up in a historical place with the mission to save the world and make sure the following events match the Earth's current timeline. You wake up in 1916 at Verdun in a German uniform. | [
"Waking up, I realize have no idea which event i've awoken to. I curse my self, regretting all those hours spent browsing reddit rather than studying...\n\nI opened my pocket scrounging around for my \"inter-dimensional time navigator\".\nAfter a brief time, I grasped onto the cold shell of the ludicrously expensiv... | 1 | |
[WP] Two thousand years ago, God sent his son to Earth to die for our sins. Now, Satan has sent his. | [
"The shriek made the man in the black trenchcoat look up from his newspaper. Unbearable heatwaves had hit London that summer, even the nights were filled with sticky, claustrophobic dread. \n\nAn unnaturally tall fellow, smartly dressed for the occasion in attire to blend in with the times. His face remained hidden... | 4 | |
Galactic regulations say that no intelligent life should be interfered with... blah blah blah. You really do not care. Your empire needs those resources. | [WP]Most, if not all, of Mankind's viral diseases were introduced by aliens in an attempt to "naturally" remove intelligent life from earth. | [
"**Executive Order**\n\nType XN, Designation SXT6\n\nTo the Department of Foreign Enterprises\n\nPreliminary:\n\nThe planet designated CBD-177 orbiting G2V class star CBD exhibits signs of supporting simple carbon based life forms and has been previously marked for exploration and colonization. Unfortunately, one o... | 1 |
[WP] (Gaming) You didn't know you were part of a video game until you woke up outside the hospital after the main character robbed and killed you. | [
"All of my work is gone. Never thought my aim would be so low. I didn't know that it was a fantasy, yet I was mediocre. If I go again will it be the same? \n\nnever took risks and that is where It ended. Low. One stab was all it took from him. The fucking hero. I was in his way while he passed. Never harmed him, bu... | 1 | |
[WP] You live in a world where you have a one true, friend love and enemy. But only one of their names is written down on the back of your hand. This makes trying to figure out who they are really awkward | [
"*I have the feeling the prompt is meant to supply a setting in which two names are unknown for some reason, but my inspiration from this went a slightly different way.*\n\n**Shooting Stars**\n\nThe kick hit me square in the chest, and in the low gravity, I tumbled, struck the edge of the airlock my opponent had op... | 1 | |
[WP] You have to go through inter-dimensional customs. | [
"“Do you have anything to declare?” the man asked. The temple on top of the mountain was cold stone all around with some fluttering green tapestries and flags. The air moved freely among the columns, making Alrinth’s snow white skin break out in goosebumps.\n\nThe priest who was barring his way with an expression t... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a lone scientist in a world of magicians. You're on trial for creating this new, godless cult... | [
"\"I'm telling you, the apple doesn't fall from the tree just because you want it to! Sometimes they fall when you're not around. The reason it falls then is because there is a force that acts on it, the same force that keeps your feet planted firmly on this courtroom floor.\"\n\n\"So you admit it! I bring to the c... | 1 | |
[WP] You can see auras around people and animals indicating their emotional state (i.e. Blue is sadness, Red anger, Green happiness, etc.). One day, you see someone without an aura | [
"Green, green, blue, oh poor girl...red, oh shit, this guy looks mean-spirited, I follow this guy, he seems like trouble, he's following a girl I can hear her sneaker hitting the pavement, I cannot see her, she makes a turn and the guy follows her, he pulls out a knife I bring out my gun, silently I make the turn a... | 1 | |
[WP] The mining town was long abandoned, but the church bell still rang the same hour every night; we could hear it from our home across the valley. | [
"My step-sister and I, we could hear the church bell ringing at two in the morning beginning that September. It was an early fall that year. At that time of night, the cold seeped in from the window's glass (the coming inescapable frost) and we were both bundled up in the bedroom we shared, in separate cots. The do... | 4 | |
[WP] As part of a sizable superhero team, your secret power is "Guardian of the Castle" when outside your base you can manage some basic tricks, but inside you are the strongest hero alive. For the first time the villains are assaulting your base, and everyone is too hurt to fight them off. | [
"No one expected the League of Doom would ever bring the fight to the very gates of the Hall of the Sense of Right Alliance. Hell, no one even thought that the League of Doom could *beat* the Sense of Right Alliance. \n\nThey were a gathering of super-losers. You know, guys that would rob some bank and then we'd bu... | 1 | |
[WP] Scooby Doo, grindhouse style. | [
"\"Rut Ro, Raggy!\" Scooby said, trembling under the ammunition bags he carried on his back. \"Rhosts!\"\n\nHe was right. Standing in front of the team stood a trio of some of the world's deadliest ghouls: The Wolf-Man, a despicable man-beast who had killed seven people simply for entering the abandoned factory; Ph... | 1 | |
[WP] A group of mobsters are burying a body in the woods at night when they heard a noise. Suddenly another group of mobsters appear carrying another body. Awkward. | [
"The two groups exchanged a few moments of silence. It was obvious to each group that the others sudden appearance was unexpected.\nThe leaders of the groups stepped out from the group, and spoke up.\n\"What're you doin'?\" They said, in a thick Chicago Gangster accent.\nBoth sides responded in same: \"It should be... | 1 | |
[WP] 10 years ago the sun silently went out for unknown reasons. Humanity is still struggling to adapt. | [
"It's the tenth winter after the Solap, the collapse of the sun. Well actually it's been winter since day zero, where the sun suddenly stopped to shine.\n\nDay zero was otherworldly. It was a normal November morning, the world seemed normal as always. Nobody saw it coming. At 1:04 pm the warning was broadcasted. Ev... | 2 | |
[WP] You're new to the world, just drifting by with all the other kids. They keep teasing you and telling to watch out for the shadows in the deep. You try to ignore the stories, but then you hear a wail. | [
"The Flow connects all. \nAt least that's what they say, and it's hard to find fault in when you can see through the eyes of anyone else just with a thought. You can feel what they feel, move with them and be a part of their life just as much as they are a part of yours. Life is peace and hard work, everyone plays... | 1 | |
[WP] One day when your making a prompt on r/writingprompts starting with "Turns out heaven is actually..." You hear a booming voice say to your right "ELI HURRY ANOTHER HUMAN'S WRITING ABOUT US GET THE POPCORN AND TELL BIG G TOO I CAN TELL IT'S GONNA BE GOOD!" | [
"Looks like this has been getting some inexplicable downvotes, but I have the idea and I've never done this before so here it goes:\n\nAnother dull Monday. I'm sitting at work dodging responsibility when suddenly my existential pondering leads me to a killer idea for r/showerthoughts. No... this is r/WritingPrompts... | 1 | |
[WP] The legendary hero has saved the kingdom numerous times. From the evil lich and his undead army to the fire breathing dragon. You are married to that very hero, yet no one seems to understand that you are completely normal. | [
"\"Ellanor! So good to see you! I have a favor to ask , could you telaport over to Awesome and get him to help me?\" Ellanor squares her shoulders, takes a really deep breath and steadies herself before turning to answer \"I'm sure you know his name is Bert , not Awesome,and that I cannot telaport, I'm his wife, n... | 1 | |
Violence is appreciated, as realistic or over-the-top as you prefer. | [WP] At a school for the next generation of world-class assassins, today is a special day: Freshman orientation. | [
"🎶*These boots are made for walking...*🎶\n\nShe had the walk of a model. The stage was her runway.\n\n🎶*And that's just what they'll do...*🎶\n\nIt was summer - a hundred degrees plus outside - and she still wore boots. But it got here to where she needed to be - at the podium.\n\n🎶*One day, these boots are gon... | 1 |
[WP] Society deems you a serial killer, they say you're a monster and a menace to society. You're actually protecting humanity from them. | [
"I sprinted desperately across the rooftops as the spotlights from the choppers swept across the area.\n\nMy target, a boy half my age, lay in his own blood a mile away in an alley. He was an arsonist and serial killer named Jack Briar, AKA Pepper Jack. That kid was one sick fuck, let's leave it at that.\n\nAnyway,... | 1 | |
[WP] You are one of the few people who goes to your local graveyard. Today, some of the ghosts have decided to return the visit... | [
"She comes to visit her husband, who died last fall on his tractor, as promised and predicted. It was sad in the way that all death is, but his business on this Earth was finished. A doting grandfather, a proud father, and a loving husband and friend for over forty years, he gave up the ghost peacefully. It is she ... | 2 | |
[WP] The sharpest edge | [
"“Beautiful isn’t it?” \n\nVivian lowered the tint on her visor and took a step closer to the floating object at the temple’s heart. The three of us stood in a vast circular chamber made of ancient stone. Alien vines grew like veins along the decaying walls and the giant statues that enveloped us. We were surrounde... | 1 | |
[WP] You inhabit a world where Satanism is the norm and status quo, and you and your family are Catholics, and you are asked by your friend about your religion | [
"\"So... is it true that you believe you killed your God?\"\n\nThe others at the table froze. I could see Terry's dad starting to frown, the slice of pizza halfway to his mouth. \n\nI grimaced awkwardly, trying to give Terry a small, reassuring smile and failing. \"Kind of. It's... complicated,\" I said.\n\n\"Oh,\"... | 2 | |
[WP] As the night sky filled with smoke, every emotion, problem, and failure rained down on her, and she finally broke. | [
"\"AAAAH!\" She screamed, letting the rage and frustration carry her into the street where she stared down the headlights of an incoming car.\n\nThe car screeched to a halt, horns blaring as the driver stuck his head out the window and waved a balled fist at her.\n\nShe ran up to him, grabbed his head, kissed him o... | 2 | |
[WP] You're the typical hard-boiled detective, a private dick, a standard trenchcoat-wearing fedora-wearing gum-shoe - or, at least you would be, if you weren't also a wizard. | [
" I sat in my dingy little office, some nameless cheap bourbon sitting next to where I had my feet up on my desk. The light coming through the grimy window was fading. It was getting late. I was considering grabbing my traditional brown long coat and black fedorah off the rack and heading out for some food. Probab... | 1 | |
[WP] Someone has hired an assassin to kill you. What they didn't know was that you and the assassin went to the same high school, and you know all the tricks up his sleeve. | [
"Cars all over the city were locked in a crawl as usual. It was about 1 pm and I sat there outside the cafe sipping on my tea beacuse the coffe here was terrible beyond compare, but the food , the food was heavily. \n\"Here you are sir.\" The waiter placed the chicken breast on salad I had ordered briefly before I ... | 5 | |
[WP]The year in 2078. The most powerful country in the world is now New Zealand... Write a story about how they did it. | [
"Carla ran along the Creek, jumping over random rocks. The butterfly she was chasing was fast, but she knew that she'd be faster. Soon she attempted another swing with her net and sure enough, the small animal wriggled inside, fluttering its beautiful orange wings. \n\nCareful, Carla put her hand into the net and p... | 1 | |
[WP] You have the ability to see the eventual moments of death of every person you meet. You meet the most beautiful person you've ever seen and in your vision, you see her getting killed by you. | [
"The first time it had happened, I was nine. I had been running down the hallway of my elementary school when I happened to trip on my shoelaces falling headfirst down a flight of stairs. A teacher had seen me fall and rushed over to help. While helping me up, my hand brushed against her forehead. Suddenly an inten... | 1 | |
[WP] Nothing ventured, nothing gained. You've opened the first zero-g swimming pool in geosynchronous orbit. There have been some... logistical issues. | [
"This rotating hallway is the entrance to \"the wet side\". Center traffic can come in as they please, but on exit please grab the wall-handles and pick up speed to \"drip dry\". Aha, yes... Do try to avoid collisions with the rotating machinery....\n\nHere are the lockers, water-tight, they're cleaned with bleach-... | 1 | |
Try and turn this into something amusing. | [wp] She added a charm to her bracelet for every life she took. | [
"It was only her job. She was trained for it and her livelihood depended on it. What was so wrong with that? People work as software developers, doctors, lawyers. She was a trained killer. A highly professional one too. Killing was only her job.\n\n\nPoison was her preferred weapon. She didn't use violence unless s... | 1 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a twin. At some point, they are labeled either the good twin or the evil twin. You are the good twin, but you loved your evil twin so much/you were so pure of heart that you let them get the "good twin" label, because the good twins have better lives. | [
"The day had come. Artemis Jones took her time with each step, knowing wait awaited her on the other side of that door. When she'd received the call, she'd been sitting outside the bank, the duffle bag in the passenger seat open just enough that the grip of the Smith & Wesson could just be seen. \n\nSlightly ou... | 2 | |
Your 4 children are 11, 14, 17, and 19 years old. | [WP] After saving and training for several years you've finally qualified for your helicopter license. Now you can finally be the ultimate helicopter parent. | [
"June banked her stolen R-22 helicopter hard left as she raced to get to her son in time. Two more police helicopters joined the chase but June simply ignored them. Todd was sending another text pleading for help. June squeezed the cyclic between her knees freeing up a hand to work her phone. \n\n\"Mommy's coming b... | 1 |
[WP] You've been falsely convicted of witchcraft and sentenced to burn at the stake. As the priests light the fire beneath your feet, an angel and demon come to barter for your soul... | [
"Hands bound behind a wooden pole, I watched the sun shine in the cloudless sky. The birds flew to the south, it was that time of the year. \n\nThere were no tears in my eyes, I had finished them all the night before. As the air with the stench of dirt and dust brushed my dry cheeks, I slowly made my gaze fell on ... | 1 | |
[WP] "Damn you for making me do this.", as the knife drew closer. | [
"Warning: it's a little gory\n\nHer laugh pushed into hysteria. She brought a shaking hand to her face, staring at her hand in shock when it came away wet, and that only made her laugh harder—although maybe now she was officially crying a detached part of her noted dully.\n\nIt was January, the month of death depen... | 3 | |
This is to help some people out with using imagery/metaphors/allegory by making you give full and long descriptions of every day things. | [WP] You're a person who's lust for life has been drained through the years. You decide the make a change and start finding the beauty of life and the little things it has to offer. | [
"He started doing the beachside walks on a Tuesday.\n\nAt first, they felt difficult. His body just wanted to stay in bed. His mind just wanted to run through the same old loop of sadness, regret, and self-pity. The simple act of walking felt like work.\n\nHe kept at it though. He went for an evening walk, day afte... | 2 |
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