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[WP] The greatest mistake they made was stealing your heart. You are the Tin Man, and Oz is under attack. | [
"The lion's battle roar had turned to a half-hearted, distant chuckle.\n\nThe scarecrow's strategies and observations had dimmed to submission.\n\nThe girl and her dog no longer sought after a place called home, wandering, attached to neither place nor persons.\n\nThey had all haphazardly gathered, guarded by mysel... | 3 | |
[wp] When humanity's primary team of supers are destroyed, its up to you, the 'indiscreet' affairs children of your super powered parents to take up the mantle. | [
"\"Bastards - Circlejerk!\" Lance Jordon called. He fished around his front pocket through several receipts, paper scraps, and loose change to find his green cockring. He reached down his pants and jimmied it on. Immediately, his crotch glowed green.\n\n\"That is so foul,\" Sparkle Prince said. She swatted her ... | 1 | |
[WP] no creature has ever needed to sleep. What is the average day for a person in this reality? | [
"There is no start to Thomas's day, there is no day at all. Thomas lives in cycles, one for work and one for school and little bits of eating in-between. When I say on cycle I don't mean to imply Thomas only has one job, he has three. The Fair Labor Standard dictates no person can work more than ten hours in a stan... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a colonist on humanity's first colony starship. After a 13-year near-lightspeed journey, you arrive at Tau Ceti. You look out the window of the ship. You're horrified. Screams are heard across the ship. | [
"Every passenger had doubts about the trip and the risks they were taking. Many woke up at night from nightmares about being alien sushi or arriving at their new home and finding that it had been devastated by a nuclear war but on balance, anything must be better than the crass commercialism they had left at home.\... | 1 | |
[WP] You're at a party where you don't really know anyone, so you decide to explore the house. You disrupt an insane situation with every room you walk into, each crazier than the last. | [
"Kevin didn't recognise a single face in the sloshing crowd. Wasn't he supposed to be meeting Samantha Cauley here? A chance with her was the whole reason he'd come after all. Instead he had found himself filling the role of That One Sad Loser, sulking in the corner, occasionally taking a hit of whatever shit was d... | 1 | |
[WP] A normal dinner date. (With abnormal events occurring in parentheses.) | [
"\"So, you studied Physics?\"\n\"Yeah, it only took me five years.\" She laughs. \n\"I'm glad we came here, I heard the food is supposed to be amazing.\"\n\"Me too!\"\n(A server with entirely blue skin walks past their table)\n\"Where did you go to school?\"\n(The couple next to them starts pouring their glasses of... | 2 | |
[WP] You father was a superhero. Your mother is a villain. She's not the bad one. | [
"It's interesting how things turn out, isn't it? One thing, mom and dad are warring in the skies of the city, next they're getting married in a church and consummating the same night. That's how I was born.\n\nYeah, I got some of their powers. Dad's frost breath and Mom's pyromancy was really a weird-ass combo. On ... | 1 | |
[WP] We thought Mars was empty. When we arrived, we discovered it Was still populated - by whispering ghosts of the planet's former inhabitants. | [
"It was the beginning of my second week beneath the creaking dome on that hellish red planet. Budget cuts had reduced the amount of concrete available for constructing our Martian habitat. Every creak, pop, and hiss made by the dome sent me into a state of mind shattering terror. Fear is all I've known since I arri... | 1 | |
[WP] You can freeze time only if you're holding your breath. You were halfway across the busy intersection when you spotted it: A bullet, aimed at her chest, about to impact the windscreen. | [
"Sorry for changing it up boys but I liked the prompt\n\nJeremy was halfway across the street when he noticed the bullet. He hadn't even heard the shot yet. He held his breath to buy time. \nJeremy's ability to freeze time gave him an unusual attentiveness to his surroundings, although nothing this big had ever com... | 4 | |
[WP] In a world of superheroes and super villains, you are known and revered for being able to fulfil a role that no other being is capable of; Tech Support. | [
"\"Sorry, what was name again, sir?\" I enquire, holding the phone between my ear and my shoulder as I fumble for the lightswitch. It's 3AM and someone has just called my emergency support number.\n\n\"Doctor Destructo\" came the answer. He seemed a polite and well mannered chap who spoke the Queen's English.\n\n\"... | 1 | |
[WP] Before you were captured by the SCP Foundation you were Bob Boberson, literally just an average guy with a kinda weird name. Now you are the leader of the largest prison break the Foundation has ever known. | [
"*A Jack of All Trade is a master of none, but often times better than a master of one.*\n\nItem #: SCP - 111117\n\nObject Class: Keter\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: \n\nSCP - 111117 is to be kept in a Standard Humanoid Containment Cell (Type-M) modified to account for the anomalous properties of SCP - 111117... | 1 | |
[WP] This is it. My wild manhunt across this piece of shit country was over. I have, at last, found the assassin that killed my partner. He suggested a compromise, and you know what? I just might take it. | [
"I’m running on three hours of sleep, a pot of black coffee, and an upper I picked up from an old acquaintance of mine. My skin feels like fire, the hairs on my arms are standing on end. Six months of work, five counties, four dead assets, three bullet wounds, two shoot outs, and a partridge in a fucking pear tree.... | 2 | |
Just go wild with this one, I guess. I can’t come up with a better title. | [WP] When a person reincarnates, they grow more resistant to whatever killed them in their previous lives. | [
"I stepped out of the subway into the gloomy night, the Enochian glyphs on my arm pulling me forward towards my duty. I considered the demons my responsibility - likely as not, my once-husband Antony and I had been their gateway here. Centuries ago, when my name had been Catherine, Antony had introduced me to John ... | 10 |
Modern Fantasy!
The character doesn't have to be a cleric if you don't want them to be. It just seemed like the obvious choice to me. | [WP] A typical Dungeons and Dragons setting progresses into the "modern times". As such the internet is worshipped as a God. "The Great Spider that spreads their web all over the world". Write a story from the perspective of a D&D cleric that worships the Internet God. | [
"I raised one hand to my face, shielding my eyes against the sun. I kept my other hand resting lightly against the railing, for stability, as I made my way down the narrow stairs. \n\nLike all of Blue Star's passenger vessels, the airship was not truly designed for ground landings. But this far inland, there was si... | 2 |
Alternately use another period of time of historical value. | [WP] You are an agent of the Temporal Intervention Agency, charged with preventing disturbances in the timeline by other time travellers. Your new responsibility is considered by many in the agency to be the most challenging to manage: the month of September 2001. | [
"Hi, I’m Special agent [REDACTED]. I manage the month of September 2001, making sure no time travellers try and stop 9/11 from happening. Little do they know that by stopping 9/11, Donald Trump never became president and so Kim Jong Un was never assassinated by American agents. This would cause Kim to launch nukes ... | 1 |
[WP] A telepath and an empath are both sitting in a busy bar. One of them plans to kill someone there and the other intends to stop them. A third unrelated person is getting up the nerve to start up a brawl just for fun. | [
"Buck's bar was a quaint drinking spot off the corner of a popular touristy street. It's harsh interior greatly contrasted the softly lit exterior; walls cracked with specks of mold seeping out, seats with the padding half missing, lights that barely lit up the large space. Its occupants were none the more lavish, ... | 1 | |
[WP] Everyone prepared for a zombie apocalypse; the werewolf apocalypse caught people by surprise. | [
"Zombies had permeated popular culture. Everyone who followed it had their own plan as to what to do in the event of the rise of the living dead with thoughts of secluded homesteads, shopping malls or secure military outposts being seen as possible refuges. People argued ideal weaponry for dealing with the shamblin... | 3 | |
[wp] As a teenage girl in the dystopia, all the attractove, important guys are throwing themselves at you. It's starting to get irritating. | [
"“Ever since we met,” Jaymes-with-a-y was saying, “I’ve felt… different. The moment I saw you at the Survival Test to place us into the System, I knew that you weren’t like other girls.” \n\n“Mm-hmm,” the girl said, and kept playing ChocolateSmother on her PersonalHologramPad™.\n\nJaymes-with-a-y kept talking. “Oth... | 1 | |
[WP] Set in the future - Decades ago, scientists discovered the source of consciousness, prompting medicine to devote an entire field to reawakening the consciousness after (kind) deaths. The procedure has become a hot trend among the social elite, some of the richest coming back 5 and 6 times. | [
"\nIn a world full of so many pleasures, It’s becoming harder for me to feel any pleasure at all. I‘m lucky enough to exist beyond the working class. I could want for nothing, yet I feel myself wanting something my soul had no name for. The world bustles with adventure and abundance, yet I feel trapped and alone. J... | 1 | |
[WP] Tired from your daily grind, you commute home. You fall asleep at a stoplight and when you wake you do not recognize anything. | [
"I took the last bus home, nodding to Marc, the old driver who always had the last bus as I pushed my quarters into the coin slot. Marc nodded back, looking as tired as I felt. He was kind enough to wake me up at the my stop with a weary smile, the end of the line, whenever I rode his bus.\n\nThere were five other ... | 2 | |
[WP] The house you live in is a gateway to different planes of existence. Your fridge sends you to a s desolate tundra while your oven sends you to a fiery hellscape. You wonder where your Pepsi bottle will lead you. | [
"What could you expect to find inside a bottle of coke?\n\nThere was a boat. A lighthouse on a rocky island. Churning waters. \nThe sea foamed at its mouth as the golden beam pierced the night.\nCold, in more than one way. Above me the light of distant stars, dying and alive, glimmered, in many more colours than I ... | 1 | |
[WP] You lead a support group for virtuous werewolves that try to avoid their impulses on a full moon. | [
"I looked around the dimly lit gymnasium, at the half dozen exhausted individuals clinging desperately to their lives despite their condition. No one had said anything yet as the sharply-ticking clock had not yet reached 9:00 PM. \n\nI cleared my throat as the second hand approached the 12.\n\n\"Alright, folks, I'm... | 1 | |
[WP] A heavenly choir follows your chubby cat everywhere. | [
"She sat opposite me, a sceptical look plastered across her face. I knew how I sounded, I’d thought about how I sounded for weeks, but this was something that needed to be addressed. \n\n“Can we at least both acknowledge that something is clearly wrong here?” I implored, holding my hands out exasperatedly.\n \n“I t... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up to a large hooded figure in your bedroom. Death has appeared, but instead of taking your soul he wants something else,for you to be his apprentice... | [
"I was drifting at the edge of consciousness—so close to blissful sleep—when I was brought back by the sound of rustling and a soft tap on my shoulder. “What the…” I mumbled groggily. No. No, no, no! It's impossible! He was a figment of my imagination—something I made up as a kid to cope with my grandpa’s death. He... | 1 | |
[WP] You've just realized something terrible. You are stuck in a groundhog day loop. | [
"It started like every normal, shitty day since I don’t even remember how many years. \n\n7 AM. \nThe alarm buzz. \nCried a little. \nBrushed my teeth. \nSuited up for work. \nWent to the subway station. \nSeen always the same faces. \nThe same sad, meaningless expressions. \nThought about that old Bill Mu... | 1 | |
[WP] After death, you appear before the gates of Heaven. Beyond the gates, you see nothing but a barren wasteland. | [
"I awoke on the ground in a place I was unfamiliar of. It was a white all over the sky, and the ground was hard. At least, from what I could feel. I arose from the ground and noticed a large staircase in front of me. Like the rest of the place, it was white. White like a science laboratory. This frightened me.\n\nI... | 3 | |
[WP] Contrary to current belief, the Devil goes through a vigorous screening process of the requester before he accepts their deal. | [
"Look, I get it, man. You’ve been a worshipper of the Devil all your life. You sacrificed children to his glory. And now that you’re in hell, bathing in his dark horrible glory, you’re probably wondering why the Devil never answered any of your calls, never took any of your deals.\n\nWell, the first thing that you ... | 3 | |
[WP] You go to sleep in your bed, then wake up on the streets of a Cyberpunk city with an empty needle in your arm. | [
"Fear quickly gave way to curiosity and excitement. It’s OK, I told myself, this is what you’ve always wanted! Daydreaming, rather than fitting in, has always been my guiding light in life and now here I was, in a world of wonder and possibilities, one I’d only ever been able to explore through books, films, and ga... | 1 | |
[WP] With a sudden flash of inspiration, a character realizes they're in a work of fiction. Knowing this, they realize their best chance at survival is becoming a protagonist/main character as soon as possible. | [
"Evely continued to comb through her hair furiously, curls snagging repeatedly, but she couldn’t be assed to care. She’d just come to a startling realization. She was in Anne Hart’s love story. Anne Hart, a pallid, plain, determined young soul, was her chambermaid. Evelyn, with her pristine, tawny complexion and im... | 2 | |
If the wording is confusing I'm sorry. I'm very tired but had this idea come to me. | [WP] Everytime you go to sleep, you rule a fantasy kingdom. Time moves faster there so every night you return a century has passed. | [
"At this point, I’m not sure which is reality.\n\nMy eyes fluttered opened, only to be greeted by darkness. My throat was parched. It always is whenever I awaken here. Grabbing the sides of my resting chamber, I pulled myself up.\n\nHungry...so hungry. Every time I’m living the “other” life, I convince myself that ... | 3 |
[WP] In the year 2040, humanity lands on Mars for the first time. When leaving the shuttle, and to their shock, the astronauts find a familiar red and gold flag planted on the surface. "SPQR" | [
"There were legions. Stretched as far as the eye could see.\n\nThe armor was familiar, with shapes and motifs pulled from the past and perverted into the present. \n\nThe blades were short, with edges that blurred and vibrated.\n\nThe man at its head wore a wreath of olive leaves, and an air of command. A man who c... | 2 | |
[WP] A global virus has caused 90% of the population to gradually become mute and invisible. Now you're showing signs of infection, slowly losing your identity and voice. | [
" Nobody could figure out the origin of where it came from or the rapidity with which it consumed the population. Large clusters of people suddenly lost the ability to speak. The healthcare system of every nation was under immense strain trying to combat this muteness that was cast over the globe. \n\n Around the s... | 2 | |
[WP] Society severely frowns upon violence, each infraction resulting in a lined tattoo on your face. You awake with amnesia, and are restrained. A man timidly approaches, and he has more lines than you can count, but he's looking at you with a level of fear you've never seen. | [
"OOC - This is a dark story. It does not portray my views on anything, it is purely a work of fiction and should not be imitated. Enjoy!\n\n\nI woke up after a long night of partying, driving through the town while wasted and doing general stupid drunk stuff. My head hurt, so I looked to my side. Oh look, whiskey! ... | 2 | |
[WP] You’re an assassin who’s been hired to eliminate a target in their suburban home. Upon arrival, you find the target’s house already broken into... | [
"Protocols, this is why I write them. But curiosity is an overriding emotion, while the quiet peace of a suburban setting seems a simple enough task my job always finds a way to make me pause. \n\nMy policy would be to walk away, standing in the dark alley, black cloth laden, a small ruck sack, and soft body armour... | 2 | |
[WP] - God actually wrote a 3rd Testament. But it didn’t sell very well... This is the synopsis on the inside cover: | [
"**The Newer, Shinier Testament**\n\nHereforth lays the account of the Last and Final words and acts of the Lord God to His creations, as spoken through his second, less favorite Son, Bradley.\n\nBradley, fathered by a used wagon salesman, whose only sin was selling wagons so cheap it was practically theft, and mot... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a serial killer sentenced to 671 years in prison. A hundred years in you realize that you are immortal. Today is the end of the 671. year of your sentence. | [
"I hoist my duffel bag over my shoulder and stand outside for the first time in 671 years. \n\nThere's no one waiting for me on the other side. Well... technically, they *are*. But at the same time, they're not.\n\nA bit of sadness creeps into me as I give the guard a nod and begin my descent into society.\n\nA hun... | 1 | |
[WP] "Humans may look frightening, but you shouldn't worry. They can only sense you if you materialize." | [
"The hairless creature has yet to detect me. I almost wish it would.\n\nI'd heard about what they do to the unnamed races that visit their world. The devastation they can bring, the horrors they will commit just to sate their curiosity.\n\nThat would be a welcome relief from my current situation. But without my ... | 2 | |
[WP] You can talk to plants. | [
"“Rise and shine!” The familiar wake up call cut through my slumber and my eyes flitted open. \n\n“Morning, Glory.” I sat up and turned to the purple flowers sitting on the window sill. The potted morning glory stared out the window at the sun. \n\n“Rise and shine!” It repeated. Being able to talk to plants had its... | 2 | |
[WP] You finally did it, after years of perseverance and pain, you have defeated the evil overlord and brought peace to the world. As you stare at his dead body, you begin to wonder, "Now what?" | [
"\"You think you have won? You will soon see the true misery!\" swore the overlord, as I was holding a sword in my hand, ready to pierce his colossal mask and what was behind it. I just smiled and let the sword go. The overlord stopped moving.\n\n\"And the world is saved! Yeah, woohoo! Alright!\" I screamed as loud... | 2 | |
[WP] You receive a strange visitor carrying a book. It turns out that your life is a bestselling novel in an alternate reality | [
"November 24th, Black Friday. 6:56 AM.\n\nBest Buy.\n\nI gave a huge yawn, then took a small sip of my coffee. It had long gone cold. The caffeine was the only thing keeping me going at this point. With 5 hours still left on my shift, it would be a miracle if I made it though the day at all.\n\nI was an evening gu... | 1 | |
[WP] You and three others have suddenly been each been given the power to control one of the four fundamental forces of the universe (gravity, weak force, strong force, and electromagnetism). Describe your four-way duel. | [
"Four gods was three too many, something had to be done. I'm not interested in being called a god, but I still can't let these false gods roam free.\n\nGravity and Magnetism where the first to arrive. I found them arguing about who's force was better while conspicuously using their respective abilities in the showi... | 1 | |
[WP] You’ve arrived in heaven after a horrible yet comedic death only to discover you’re the star of Heaven’s Funniest home videos and God wants you to come onto the show. | [
"Nobody believed me, but I knew the truth. And so did my peers. But people would ridicule us for not buying in to their \"science\". I'm going to prove it to all of them. \n\nMy name is Mike Hughes and I'm about to launch my homemade rocket into space. I will prove once and for all that the earth is flat.\n\n-----... | 1 | |
[WP] When you die, you appear in a white space with nothing but an abacus, a stack of sheet metal, and two pairs of wooden clogs. After twenty years, you finally figure it out. | [
"\"The voices. They know nothing, all they want is numbers. But they can't get it. nooo they will never get it. Never. My castle will protect me, protect and shimmer in all its glory for millennia! And when the men come they will SEE! They'll see my- WHO ARE YOU!? YOU THINK YOU KNOW NUMBERS? YOU KNOW NOT OF NUMBERS... | 2 | |
[WP] It's 3am. Groaning in frustration, you moan "I would do *anything* to get out of writing this paper" and smash your head into the desk. "Anything?" says the voice behind you. | [
"I sigh heavily. \n\nI remember watching Freddy Kruger when i was a kid and it scared the hell out of me. I don't know how common it is, but i have a long history of falling asleep with my dreams picking up where reality left off. As a result i worked on lucid dreaming so i could learn to wake myself up and get on ... | 4 | |
[WP] While at the dinner table, your wife suddenly screams "Bob, you have to wake up. We don't know in what form you will recieve this message but you have to wake up" and then act like notthing happened. | [
"\"So yeah, looks like we're gonna have some more work to do,\" I joke. Jane smiles back at me and starts to say something, but suddenly starts to shake. I stand up as she screams, \"Bob, you have to wake up. Please, honey. I don't know how this will get to you, but please. Wake up!\"\n\nI stare at her, mouth open.... | 2 | |
[WP] Your superpower is making people see basic common sense. You've turned many supervillains from crime and world conquest to happier, if less eventful lives. The real trouble began when you used your power on the greatest superhero in the world. | [
" Although his three pound engine works it's hardest up there, he isn't as smart as he is strong. It all suddenly clicks though. \n He realizes that he's wasted his life helping mankind all of these years when in reality, he could have taken over the planet. Men aren't even grateful as much as they are... | 1 | |
[WP] "I'm on a Mac! I can't get viruses!" says the person who just got the (flu, common cold, etc) virus for the first time in their lives. | [
"I coughed.\n\nIt felt weird. Like a cold. But that was impossible and had never happened before. Why, you may ask? Because a cold is a virus. And well, I'm on a Mac.\n\nThroughout my day, people told me that I was sick and that I should probably go home. And I felt terrible. But I definitely did not have a virus. ... | 1 | |
[WP] One night you fall asleep in your bed and the next morning you wake up on Mars. | [
"Dear Diary,\n\n \n\nIt happened again. I got drunk with my friends from college and I got blackout drunk. God, why do I do this to myself? I could launch into a whole narrative of all the bad decisions I've made in life, how my marriage fell apart because of my drinking...and the cheating. Of course, I don't ... | 1 | |
[WP] You have been selected to be the first human being to be "insta-cloned". At the lab you enter the chamber and 5 seconds later you wake up on the clone's side. You see everyone celebrating as you realise all your memories are fake. You have just been created. | [
"Of all those that volunteered, I had been the one to be chosen for the cloning experiment. Apparently, I had the most suitable genome, something about avoiding growth defects in the clone the scientists told me. If I had been quite excited about being selected, but the time had come to take the last step and I had... | 1 | |
[WP] You see a man running side by side with your car. You’re doing 60mph. | [
"Ellie swore loudly and slammed on the brakes as the man reached for her car's door handle. He shot past her, the brakes fighting her car's momentum more successfully than the man could fight his own. She scrabbled for the blade in her glove compartment, all too aware of the man turning back towards her. The silver... | 3 | |
[WP] The first manned moon-base was abandoned, leaving a lone janitor to upkeep the base. | [
"George wandered the halls aimlessly. He had swept, mopped, waxed, dusted, polished, and shined. There was nothing left to do, but he was tired of just finishing his tasks and going back to sleep. \n\nRacket-ball was little fun by ones self, but it was better than nothing. You could do more here than on Earth. Grav... | 1 | |
Want CC or feedback? Just ask. | [WP] A child of a single parent has decided to become an assassin to help pay the bills. Unfortunately, it looks like mom/dad is home early from work. | [
"My phone buzzes. I wipe my hands off on Mr. Baker's pressed white shirt and pick it up. It's from Dad.\n\n\"Be homme in 5! Lovve u!\"\n\nShit. SHIT. I forgot he was taking a half day today. I glance at the dead man spread-eagled on my floor. Shhhiiiiiit. Gotta buy some time...a text should do it.\n\n\"Hey daddy! C... | 2 |
Basically, write a story about an infohazardous entity, where knowing or conveying information about the entity is dangerous in some way. | [WP] Do not talk about █████. Do not write about █████. Do not refer to █████ using any name. The more you know about █████, the more █████ knows about you. | [
"\"Hello,\" the man on the screen said, \"I want you to pay very close attention. This could be your only warning, I don't know if anyone else will be able to get the message out. I don't know if anyone else is even still alive. This is very, very important. Don't look at *it,* don't listen to *it,* don't even thin... | 9 |
[WP] The real reason why alien's are afraid of humanity is because of our super power. Imagination. | [
"Simpgu, a stoic, thin alien wearing loose, shiny clothing looked at the blue, marble planet through a large view screen. With ryhthmic clacking, he asked his second in command, Kyunk why the earthlings are always at war with themselves. \n\n\"Because they are exercising their imaginations.\" Kyunk answered. \"They... | 1 | |
Thought about this when wondering how much everything is preserved these days, from every tweet every written to the simplest recipes. In the past, these would disappear forever, but now they'll be around forever unless someone intervenes and keeps the natural progression of time alive | [WP] The past is meant to slowly fade into oblivion, but in the age of preservation, the cosmic entity in charge of this vital part of life has to work harder than ever. | [
"My job used to be so simple. Go down there, break a few stone tablets, bury some bones. Leave humanity alone for a few centuries, and it's like it never happened. Remember that time George Washington conquered Hawaii? Exactly. I got a commendation for that. But it hasn't been easy these past few millennia. Humans ... | 1 |
[WP] You live two lives. Literally. When you go to sleep as one, you wake as the other. One is rich, famous, and beloved by all. One doesn't have a penny to his name and scrounges through dumpsters to survive. Whenever you wake as one, the other's memories are there, but vague, hazy, and dreamlike. | [
"I look at the small vial sitting on the edge of the room. It tempted me in a way, despite its appearance. It was just a small vial of clear liquid, but it meant so much more to me. A way of escape, a way of relief, a way of getting away from all of this boring trivial stuff. When the man approached me with the via... | 4 | |
[WP] Following an experimental medical procedure, you discover you gained superpowers as a side effect. However, given the embarrassing nature of your surgery, you have some reservations about your newfound ability. | [
"Hi, \nThis is my story how i change my life. \nI was a student at American Scientist University when i applied for a new experimental medical program which was leaded by a group of the greatest NASA scientists experimenting with the change of the eyes color. So i was chosen and well my life change in a way that i ... | 2 | |
[WP] A rhyming childrens story about a bear who hates hibernation. | [
"The first snowflakes of winter began to fall to the forest floor \nIt was time to Hibernate, but sleeping was such a bore \n \nBilly the bear was getting tired from all the food he ate \nHe had to stay awake, this winter had to be great! \n\nHe was going to climb trees and eat honey \nMaybe make friends with... | 1 | |
[WP] Earth is being invaded by aliens, but underneath the thick armor, the aliens are humans from the earths future | [
"God watched as the once-blue globe he'd spent a quaint couple of days making had become a brown bulbous ball of poison and alien raduation.\n\nThe deity tosses his food onto the nearest patch of ground. \n\n\"Dammit, not again! Metatron! Metatron!\"\n\nBefore the deity appears a blonde humanoid with lightly-feath... | 1 | |
[WP] You awaken in a large ovular room. On either side of the room was a door, one with a window that revealed pitch black, the other with lights like a nebula. Above you is a hatch with a digital timer counting down from 30 minutes. At your feet is a piece a paper, which reads: "You must choose." | [
"Marguerite was amazed by what she was seeing. A bright white ovular room with 2 windows. One revealed blackness, the other light of nebulas. A clock was timing her. Timing her decision, but she didn’t know that yet. \n\nShe walked in in a circle to view the whole room. After making a full 360 she noticed a small p... | 2 | |
[WP] In an old cave, you find a game controller. On the back, a scratched out note; "Control the victim to your every whim" | [
"Outside it was cold, but the cave emits a heat, a warmth that feels ancient and unworldly. Something just seems different here, a little off. I survey my surroundings and my eyes rest on a small ledge hewn out of the stone. Nestled gently lies what seems to be a game controller. How intriguing. Overcome with curio... | 2 | |
[WP] Rome never fell as it did in our timeline, but became even stronger, and it now approaches what we would know as the year 2018. | [
"“As Senior Consul, I call this session into order!” The bright room had filled, and it was time to begin. Those sitting on either side bank of the senate had been itching to debate. Flavian then lowers his right hand, his ceremonial white robes shifting, as the soft speaking from across the room died out. The purp... | 4 | |
*First expected. | [WP] When you turn 18, a deceased soul narrates the rest of your life. You get a soft spoken, dry humored, witty former golf commentator. Its better than you expected at first. | [
"**I somehow missed the golf commentator, and did a different kind of soft spoken, dry humored, witty commentator. Oops!** Also kinda NSFW.\n\nEdits: I am just really bad at reddit formatting.\n\n> Human Nature\n\nI toss the end of my cigarette in front of me, and grind it soggily into the pavement with my heel ... | 3 |
[WP] You have until midnight to choose an inanimate object to become sentient. The action cannot be reversed and you and the object must live with your decision for the rest of your life. | [
"Zhan O'ben was dazed. Perhaps even stunned. Light curled outward from the flat edges of the reflective stone like a sunflower. *What is this?* His face twisted in a whirl of confusion and wonder. His mouth became a hollow enclave, where echoes would reverberate eternally. And His eyes glowed but for the small dark... | 1 | |
[WP] Your superpower is being super strong, but only at the most embarrassing or inadequate situations | [
"I normally have pretty average strength. Normally. For some reason I got this great superpower of super strength. Great right? If it would always be \"on\" then it would be. Instead, I get super strength when I try to open my apartment door, or when FIFA just goes wrong and I throw my controller. One time when I w... | 1 | |
[WP] Your pet begins speaking your language fluently. It explains that it only feels comfortable speaking to you, and that it will never speak to anybody else. | [
"Adam sighed, running his fingers through his already sloppy hair. The orange tabby cat atop his desk timply tilted its head, as if to silently ask him about his troubles.\n\n“Please stop.” Adam muttered.\n\n“I’m not doing anything.” The feline responded, bluntly.\n\n“No, I mean that silent pet shit. It’s not cu... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a story from an EU without name dropping or hinting at what the EU is in such a way that we can try to guess at it | [
"There was a creak in the floor. A girl shot up sword in hand. She glanced toward the furthest dark corner at the side of the tavern room she had checked out, it was empty; she had a feeling no one was watching her. Silently she made her way to the door, carefully she slid it open. She slid out the door. Down in th... | 1 | |
[WP] You and your archenemies have fought to the death and reincarnated hundreds of times. | [
"I was thinking what if they were reborn each time? Completely different looking each time? It’d add an interesting element to finding your arch enemy. Or what if there were factions? Initially millions of ‘timeless warriors’ dwindling down overtime from the third faction consuming their entire being? The two facti... | 3 | |
[WP] Tell the story of the first gift Santa ever gave | [
"The winds rose again as the cold cut deep through me like a knife. Shivering I breath into my hands and rub them, pulling the torn and fragmented scraps of cloth around me tight. The red and yellow lights of the city blurred as my eyes squinted due to the chill. \"Th-ree, thr-ee more months until winter is done.\"... | 1 | |
[WP] In Heaven, people who died as infants are marginalised by the fact that they never lived a life on earth as good people. Not all of them grow up to be good people and run the criminal elements of Heaven. | [
"If all of our lots are predetermined, then it matters little *when* we die. Each action we ever could have or would have taken had already been made and who we would become was already engraved in stone. But the same logic holds that we would never grow old. We never grew up. There was no future selves which made ... | 1 | |
[WP] A team of selfless superheroes that have traditionally villainous powers and motifs. | [
"The Stormwatcher, ruler of the great storms that scourged this city, now serves it in law. His dark, hooded shirt with rips on the back to allow his dragon-like wings and impish tail to come out hid his face, the blue glow of his eyes pierced the darkness.\n\nThe Night Queen, vampire master of darkness, watching f... | 2 | |
[WP] Tell the origin story of Frosty the Snowman's hat and why it brought him to life. | [
"One day in the Gilded Age, a rich millionaire by the name of Eugene Falowitz was in his mansion hanging out with some brothels that seemed like was sourced from an entire neighborhood. It was a week before Christmas, with snow drizzling outside while Falowitz had a human shield surrounding him that seemed if he st... | 1 | |
[WP] You live in a world where the currency is the amount of tears you've cried. | [
"It's manly to cry.\n\nThat's why I can't.\n\nThe richest men cry the most tears. No such thing as \"tear theft\" or \"tear extracting.\" It's only your own tears that matter to anything.\n\nAnd that's why women can't cry. It would make us rich, give us power to do as we please.\n\nBut we're not allowed to.\n\nOur ... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up to see an oddly dressed man with a gun. He reveals he's the one who was sent to stop the one who was sent to stop the one who was sent to save your life. | [
"\"I'm sorry mister...\"\n\n\"Snake,\" the man said with a cigar in his mouth and his pistol pointed at the sky.\n\n\"Can you just run it by me one more time? Please?\"\n\n\"The first guy who you met with, Pliskin, was here to save your life Danny.\"\n\n\"Okay,\" he replied after a long pause.\n\n\"There was one gu... | 1 | |
[WP] You've recently become a werewolf. You slowly start to realise that you are being hunted. | [
"The wolf moon was nearing its peak - I looked out the window while drinking my mug of gin. For a split second I felt a jolt fear as I found someone staring right back at me - upon further reflection it was only mine.\n\n\"Damn werewolf nerves\" I sputtered.\n\nIt was only recently that I became a werewolf. Normall... | 3 | |
[WP] You know the drill. Aliens invade Earth, get destroyed thanks to a stupid oversight on their part. Problem is, they actually come up with the solution and try again. | [
"\"It's Them alright. Full stop! Purple alert!\" - said Captain Wilkins. The big purple button was pressed, and all power was cut to all systems, screens went black, radio chatter seized. It got quiet on deck for a bit, as ship came to a still and everyone eyes were glued to the sky, where a familiar shape was desc... | 1 | |
[WP] Two powerful and ageless wizards are true equals in sorcery, strategy, and subterfuge; their bitter rivalry has been locked in a generations-old stalemate. Seeking new battlefields, they meet once again in the town square to engage in the only form of mental contest they haven't yet mastered. | [
"The permeating silence of a winter's night was broken only by the gentle hiss of the falling snow. Even those few late wanderers brave enough to dare the bitter cold spoke in hushed, careful tones as though the sanctity of the evening. Belthegor however, stood wrapped in the glow of a nearby shop loudly huffing an... | 2 | |
[WP] From the beginning of puberty until around the age of 20, everyone is completely physically and biologically invincible. | [
"Karen made a mistake.\nA big one.\nThe ringing of her Watch sounded in time with the thud of the stubber, and her last thought before the rubber projectile obliterated her skull was how she could've been a whole month off.\n\nIt was common knowledge that when you turned twelve, you got the Watch. It was the single... | 2 | |
[WP] "No witnesses" said Santa, as his two helper elves nudge you onto the sleigh with their candy canes. On it, you found several children in their PJs sitting in the back seat. | [
"I'm sitting with the other kids, and we can't believe this is happening. We've been chosen, hand picked by Santa himself! We exchange high fives but stop when one of the elves glare at us. They don't look as cute as I'd imagined. Kind of like kids, maybe a bit older than Steve. Steve is my brother. He's nice. \n\n... | 1 | |
[WP] One day, a strange metal object crash-lands in your backyard. Engraved on the object, written in a strange language, reads “Voyager One”. | [
"\"Emma!\" I yell. Damn girl is never on time.\n\nI can hear steps from someone running down the stairs. Damn kid would have given me grey hair if there was any hair left to grey. She comes running out into the garden, the spitting image of her mother at that age. A short, but mercifully brief, pain shoots through ... | 3 | |
[WP] For decades we've watched other alien species practically tear themselves and reality apart in order to stop a threat we can't see. Bu when it arrives on our doorstep, its form is... unexpected. | [
"The aliens tried everything they could in order to stop them. The threat was imminent, and as far as we could tell; very, very dangerous. So dangerous, in fact, that these aliens we had been observing via interstellar scout ships have tried almost everything to prevent 'The Awakening'.\n\nWe couldn't see the threa... | 1 | |
[WP] Ordinary objects come together in an extraordinary way. | [
"This story begins a little... differently. It doesn't begin with our protagonist. It doesn't begin with a prophecy. It hardly begins with an introduction.\n\nThis story begins with a screw.\n\nIt was an ordinary Phillips-head screw, well-used and slightly rusty. It, along with it's partner, held a windshield wiper... | 1 | |
[WP] Locked in a cycle of death and rebirth. You are forced to watch your partner die every few years, just as they do with you. One day everything changes. There is another life stirring within your partner. | [
"This is actually very similar to a dream I had a long time ago. Your WP made me think if it, hence the change from *years* to *days*. Enjoy *Eden*\n\n_______________\nI don’t know how much time had actually passed that my lab partner and I had been trapped in this alternate reality. I’d stopped counting after the ... | 1 | |
[WP] You're on your deathbed. Your wife is beside you, fighting back tears. You reach up to stroke her cheeks one last time, but then you notice a loose strand of hair. You pull on it only to come away with a thin strand of material. She has a transparent tear around her face the size of a pixel. | [
"The air trickling in through your nose and lips scrape against the insides of your throat. The strand of hair falls from between your fingers. You had wanted to hold on.\n\nDidn't matter.\n\nYou couldn't.\n\nYour hand falls. Your eyes feel loose in their sockets.\n\n\"Wait,\" she says, and she cups your cheek in h... | 1 | |
[WP] In the year 2020, you are frozen to be awakened in the future. Hundreds of years later you are awoken by an alien species who start cloning you to resurrect the human race. | [
"The fact I was the last human alive wasn't what bothered me most, the fact that everyone that I loved was dead and that I was never going to see them wasn't what bothered me most. \n\nNo, what bothered me most is the fact that, due to them not nicknaming any of the clones, literally everyone is named Chad. And sin... | 2 | |
[WP] Unbeknownst to the hero, a super villain spends his time offering subtle set-ups to cool, punny, or heroic lines. Unfortunately, the hero consistently misses the mark. | [
"True villainy is an art. It's hard to understand what constitutes \"Good\" villains, even for the greats. But, if there was one villain the other thugs could look up too it was 'King Clam-ity'. Also known as 'The Bivalvian Brute' or 'The Sinister soft-shelled sunderer'. He was truly a master villain but even he ha... | 2 | |
[WP] You lost your mobile and you use landline phone to find it. It rings from inside a closet and then an overly nice sounding old lady answers. | [
"“Hello dear! Sorry, your old gran got stuck in the cupboard again. I was using your phone for it’s odd torch feature to find my nice frilly coat.”\n\nI had to make this nice one up because the prompt originally creeped me out... this is my way of dealing with things okay?"
] | 1 | |
A story about the unlisted list; children that are not on the nice or naughty list. | [WP] Everyone has heard of Santa's naughty and nice lists. But one list is never talked about. The Unlisted List | [
"Terry Pritchett had tried to be good this year. He really had. Being good didn't come easy to him though. He was a bully through and through, pushing kids into lockers, stealing toys other kids had, the list of offenses went on and on. He was known as a demon by his classmates, a troublemaker by his teachers, and ... | 1 |
[WP] As you lay in a hospital bed, with your last dying breath you say "I love you"... "CUT! Okay everybody that's a wrap!", you hear as the walls of the hospital pull away revealing a film studio... | [
"This is it. I can feel it: my heart struggles to keep on beating, my lungs fight to keep the air flowing in and out, my eyelids feel like 10 pound weights. I turn to the love of my life, Anna. We met in high school. She was one of my closest friends then, and I never saw her as anything else. I never thought I wou... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a recruiter for a huge tech company, and you just interviewed the perfect candidate. When you Google her name as part of a mandatory background check, you find out that her body was found brutally murdered and dumped in some backwoods halfway across the country a year ago. | [
"\"Did you google her?\"\n\n\"Did I what?\"\n\n\"Frank, come on.\" Mark said walking around the desk. \"It's the year two thousand and seventeen. We google prospects. Every single one.\"\n\n\"Why, I don't understand.\" \n\n\"It's like a social background check.\"\n\n\"Social background check.\"\n\n\"Yes. Social bac... | 1 | |
[WP] Earth terraformed Mars by detonating thousands of nuclear explosions at the poles. Radioactivity and freezing conditions make it uninhabitable. However, to some criminals, the Winterzone is their only choice. | [
"25 million. \n\nNothing shines, nothing jingles. Mask on, HUD up, Pierce green, Goule green, I’m green.\n\n25 million.\n\nApproaching low and fast, stealth up, 2 miles and zero visibility. White snow buffets the black night of the display, radiation buffets the hull, and chemicals flood my brain. My blood is hot a... | 3 | |
[WP] You and your lab partner have been working for years studying Visions. Today is the day your testing your device to passively stimulate that piece of your brain. When you do you get a vision of you standing over the body of your partner. You snap out of it and your partner asks "how did it go?" | [
"Don opened the frosted glass door to his lab at 8AM on the dot, and before seeing her, greeted *\"Good morning Lizette. You're here already?\"*\n\nLizette gave a cheery but mechanically rehearsed, *\"Until they give me tenure.\"* It was Tuesday and she saw that--like clockwork--he had his **#1 scientist** mug.\n\n... | 1 | |
It could be temporary, permanent, or unknown. | [WP] You realized that you do not require oxygen anymore. | [
"Pounding on the door as I screamed for help, I had to move to my coffee table as the water rose higher. I got on my tippy tip toes and and frantically knocked on the ceiling, still screaming “HELP! HELP my apartment is flooding!” The water was rising quicker than I thought, so I jumped from my table to the top of ... | 3 |
[WP]You live in a remote rural home. There's a fresh snowfall one night. When you wake up the next day, thousands of footprints are in the snow around your home. | [
"It was usually so quiet. Peaceful, far away from that ever accelerating, frantic world. Just a few sustanance errands to run every day, allowing myself to simply enjoy time and life as they passed. \n\nThen came the night of the snowfall. Not overwhelming, but accompanied by a deep, thundering bass that shook the ... | 3 | |
"thot begone" | [WP] Thoth, Egyptian god of scribes, got fed up with the internet wanting him "begone", so he did. But he took the written word with him. | [
".-- .... . -. / - .... --- - .... / .-.. . ..-. - --..-- / . ...- . .-. -.-- -... --- -.. -.-- / .-- .- ... / .. -. / .- / ..-. .-. . -. --.. -.-- .-.-.- / - .... . / .-- --- .-. .-.. -.. / ..-. . .-.. .-.. / .. -. - --- / -.-. .... .- --- ... --..-- / -.. --- -.-. ..- -- . -. - ... --..-- / .-- .. -.- .. .--. . -... | 1 |
[WP] Peace Talks had never before involved a dragon, a knight, and a dwarf. | [
"I rubbed my temples one more time, careful to avoid scattering the papers on my desk. My office, packed to the brim with stacks of legal documents and ancient tomes, was really starting to feel like a prison. I took a deep breath, counted to ten, and exhaled. Okay, I was ready. Grasping my quill, I asked, “Alrigh... | 1 | |
[WP] You move to a new school and hear news of the popular kid, How cool, handsome, and nice he is, You meet him but he doesn’t even speak. The reason is unclear, But you are given a startling warning after the encounter | [
" The cold sharp December air was apparent in the early morning before school. Cars quickly dropped children off and sped away quicker. Old friends met and formed together in clusters, but me, I was alone. After all it was my first day if school what did you expect?\n\n I slip past a large cluster of what I vie... | 1 | |
[WP] A teen brother and a teen sister, ones a superhero and the other is a supervillian respectively. Known for their fierce rivalry, their battles are chaotic though thankfully no one gets hurt until one day, one of their battles ended up killing their third younger kid brother. | [
"It was so unreal. He was just lying there. So serene. So...at peace. Like he was asleep and could wake up at any moment. Except he never would.\n\nWe bore his casket through the church to the carrier. Loaded it on the rails, slid him in. Closed the door, applauded him as the car left. Up until then, the funeral ha... | 3 | |
The woman knows he had his memory erased and plans to exact revenge on him. | [WP] In the far future, a man has killed a woman's entire family and is caught by the police shortly after. The authorities erase all of his memories and release him back into society where one day, he stumbles upon the woman whose family he had murdered. | [
"I'm on the train, sitting on one of the small seats near the front of the carriage - the one that can only fit two people - as I pretend to be asleep so I won't be forced out of some innate societal obligation to give up my seat to an elderly person or a woman with kids. \n\nEventually, I fall asleep. I drift in a... | 1 |
[WP] Write a letter that works if sent to both Santa and Satan. | [
"Dear [Santa/Satan],\n\nWell, I did it – I kept all the promises I made to you! Johnny the bully got what he really needed and you should have seen the look on my teacher’s face. All the kids will be looking at me differently from next year.\n\nI’ll never tell mummy this, but I wish I had spent more time on our pup... | 1 |
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