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Takes a lot to move the prince of darkness to tears... | [WP] It was just another pact with the Devil, but this time Lucifer wept. | [
"\"Are you sure you want to do this?\"\n\nIt has been almost an eternity since I saw Lucifer. He has changed little. With the same charming smile, that row of clean, white teeth. Those piercing red eyes. I nodded my head, with a smile of my own. There was no need to utter any words.\n\n\"You do know your act is alm... | 1 |
[WP] After getting lost trying to get to your job interview, you find a drinking fountain and take a break there. Turns out that that was the Fountain of Youth, and now you are 16. Catch is, you can't age anymore. | [
"After spending over an hour beneath a hot sun, sweating through the new blouse I had bought for the interview, the drinking fountain had been a blessing in the midst of a terrible afternoon. The water was cool and refreshing, but there was nothing ethereal about it. It didn't taste magical, or sticky-sweet like ho... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a black cat. People are superstitious around you. They don't know that you're only trying to warn them about impending misfortune. | [
"Sunday, 5pm. If I bask in the right side of the porch, the setting sun hits me just right and I can achieve maximum satisfaction via laziness, snuffling discretely to myself as I run through the afternoon agenda. I channel my inner loaf, tucking my limbs away with unrivalled fluency. \"You're the best of the best,... | 1 | |
[WP] Time Travel is finally deemed possible. You are chosen to be sent back in time to understand exactly how the Egyptian pyramids were built. What you end up seeing is far beyond what anyone could have imagined. | [
"######**Clark and the Time Machine**\n\nIt was only a matter of time before we could figure out what the matter was with time travel. And that time came. Timely, matter of fact. We had a functioning time machine before the elusive flying car. Go figure.\n\nAfter we had the time machine running, we tested it with s... | 1 | |
[WP] No matter how hard you try, you just can't lose | [
"I am so tired of killing. \n\nThis \"game\" had been going on for 10 years and I had been the reigning champion for the past 6. It had all started when the Redius Corporation bought every prison in the US, then pit them against each other. Think of Death Race or The Condemned, we had all seen those movies growing ... | 1 | |
[WP] A botched laser eye surgery gives you a very unecpected attribute. For you, looks can indeed kill. Your country needs you. | [
"It all started rather simply - I was as blind as a cave fish. Astigmatism for both eyes, 20/400 vision. On a good day, and with my glasses, I could get 20/20 vision. Minus the glasses, I could see shapes and colors. That's about it.\n\nThe only option I had was laser eye surgery. I was tired of soda-bottle gl... | 2 | |
[WP] Did you forget about me? Did you think I'd forget about you? I didn't. | [
"Eternity was a long time. \n\nSitting at the edge of the void, They watched the grey-black-red-blue-yellow mist hush and foam, buildings being created and destroyed without rhyme or reason in the turbulence. A sad shadow reflecting the strides of Human. \n\nThey existed on the edge of reality. Outside of the tick-... | 2 | |
[WP] Near a Veterans memorial you meet an elderly man in a tattered old uniform. After asking him which war he fought in, he smiles and replies "all of 'em" | [
"I stood under the awning waiting for the rain to stop, or at least let up a little bit. If it did not do so soon, then I would miss the anniversary of his death. I stepped back inside and bought a cheap umbrella. The rain wasn’t stopping, just as life didn’t stop when he died. I tilt the umbrella forward to provid... | 2 | |
Imagine that every Florida Man story has involved the same person in each story. Describe his typical day. | [WP] Florida Man is a real individual person. Describe a day in his life. | [
"Some call him the sasquatch of the swamps. Others, a missing link in redneck royalty. But most know of him and speak of him in awed whispers and in comment sections on videos involving booze and poor decision making with wildlife or trucks. \n\nHe is.... The Florida Man.\n\n... Who has been kind enough to allow us... | 1 |
[WP]: Over half of the space junk circulating Earth disappears overnight. Someone - or something - is going through our trash | [
"A single fleck of paint chipped off of an ancient Russian second-stage orbiting the earth is effectively a bullet. As the number of rocket launches happening per month began it's exponential climb, humans did as was there want and completely ignored the problem. When the number of launches per day was equivalent t... | 1 | |
Take it as you will. | [WP] When you close your eyes, there's no guarantee that what you see when you open them will be the same. | [
"I'm walking down the street. There's a small pebble in the way, and I trip.\n\nI close my eyes.\n\nWhen I open my eyes, I'm still falling...but from the top of the stairs.\n\nI close my eyes \n\nWhen I open my eyes, I'm still falling..but off a cliff.\n\nI close my eyes.\n\nStill falling...off a skyscraper.\n\nClo... | 1 |
[WP] An odd number of Tiger sightings have been reported in the area. Today, you found a box with "Transmogifier" and "Tiger" written on the side. | [
"\"Joggers have reported sightings of a possible tiger in the woods on the edge of town, with several sightings throughout the day-\" I switched off the TV that had been left blaring. I wasn't sure where my wife was, but found her in the kitchen a few minutes later. I got her attention and pecked her cheek. She was... | 1 | |
[WP] You are an imortal, after an unimaginably long life you begin to forget who you are. | [
"*OT: Doh! I thought your prompt was about an immortal losing your memory. Well, I'll post part of my story. Let me know if you want the rest.*\n\nI forgot her face. Shortly after she was born, I touched her soft, smooth skin. I smelled the pungent flowers that her mother used to wear. But now I could not see her e... | 2 | |
[WP] Humans are masters of psychological warfare. Their propaganda is the best weapon ever produced in the universe. | [
"An explosion rocked the structure of Kartilmens temple, servants and guards fleeing in every direction. The Grand Visar himself was among those running through the massive ornate halls as he tried to find a way out. He glanced around and at once saw a heavy door to the study and thought he could wait it out by loc... | 2 | |
[WP] In a dystopian future, comic books are considered sacred chronicles of the past. You are an adherent of the Church of Marvology, in a Holy War against the DCanist infidels. On your way to reclaim the Holy Land of New York City, you run into an unsavory group of Gothamite Cultists... | [
"\"Brothers, let us pray...\"\n\nWe all joined hands in a circle as I recited our ancient prayer.\n\n\"We call on the great Avengers to bless us this day. May the Incredible Hulk give us strength, may the Mighty Thor give us swiftness, may Captain America give us integrity, and may the Invincible Iron Man give us b... | 1 | |
Link to the song, or let us guess. | [WP] Write a story based off one of your favourite songs. | [
"`Thirty seconds, Dave.`\n\nHe barely heard a word. Here he was, backstage at yet another open mic night, the sound of the crowd roaring overwhelming his senses. *Don’t freeze up like last time. You know what to say and do.* He couldn’t figure out why he yet again allowed his brother-in-law to convince him to do th... | 2 |
[WP] After Death, everyone can resurrect on one condition: They reincarnate into a random animal, and if they get any human to say their full name, they will get resurrected. You just died, and you’ve been reincarnated into a fly. | [
"I only have a day... just one day. The new body took some getting used to. I experimented, contracting my muscles until I had found out what each one does. I began to fly. It was easier than I thought it would be. The world around me was a beautiful sight. Everything seemed massive. I flew into the hallway. Across... | 1 | |
[WP] A cult thinks you are a god. | [
" “Dave was simply having a bowl of cornflakes, reading the paper, and enjoying the day off when the doorbell rang. Dave was a pretty normal guy, one who went to a job from 9-5, monday through friday, who enjoyed watching football with a few friends on sundays, classic americana. In fact if anything, Dave was a f... | 1 | |
[WP] When the IT-guy took out a knife and a goat you knew your problem was more severe than initially thought. | [
"\"We need to make a blood sacrifice.\"\n\nThat sentence repeated in my head over and over again while I used a sharpie marker to draw a pentagram on the floor with my work computer in its center. How did we get here? Today started out pretty normal, I had my coffee, checked my emails, updated my software next thin... | 10 | |
[WP] Magic is real and it's easy to learn powerful spells, but almost no one uses magic because the rituals are extremely embarassing and humiliating to perform. | [
"I blew the dust off the tome's cover. It was exactly where the old man said it would be. Don't get me wrong, I'm no chosen one or anything. I don't get wizards seeking me out to give me quests on a regular basis. I'm just... well, gullible. I was walking near the canal with some friends when we saw a tramp, sleepi... | 1 | |
[WP] You and your partner have been dating for a long time and plan on getting married. The day before you go to sign your wedding license, your partner wins the lottery and runs away, cutting all contact with you. | [
"It seems like just yesterday when my life took a sharp turn. The pain still lingers like a pest that just won’t leave you alone. \n\nIt was five years ago, I fell in love with a magnificent woman named Ella. I never thought of myself as a sexual person until I met her. I saw her at the corner of the bar in my home... | 1 | |
[WP] A retired super villain is in the bank with their child when a new crew of super villains comes in to rob the place. | [
"This should have been an easy run. Nothing big, just a little gig for the team getting used to each other. Simple practice. They were vastly overpowered for raiding a simple bank, but lasers don't come cheap and cash is always nice.\n\nIronus was damn near indestructible and strong enough to lift an SUV with ease.... | 9 | |
[WP] The bad news: your house is haunted. The worse news: it’s the ghost of an emo teenager. | [
"The worst news? My daughter idolizes it.\n\nOh don't worry, the ghost isn't a monster, it's not giving an eight-year-old girl an existential crisis or telling her to self-harm. No, it's just turning her into the most annoying child to ever exist.\n\n\"Mommy mommy I want long hair just like Kelly!\" Sweetie, you al... | 2 | |
[WP] In a galaxy of socialist and fascist species, the first capitalist species has reached the stars. | [
"As 2946-t-2 toiled away graciously at the burning guts of the *Murdoch*, he stopped (not physically ofcourse, he couldn't dream of doing such heresy), and thought of how generous his beloved corporate master allowed him an internship upon this vessel. A weekly payment of 5 kochs a week, a short 16 hour shift a day... | 1 | |
[WP] It is the shadows that hide from you. | [
"Ever since I was a kid I never cast a shadow. It was never really anything people noticed. A shadow is such a passive thing, most people don't give it a second though unless their measuring our distance from the sun or some other scholarly pursuit. Naturally though I noticed my lack of a shadow. I asked my mom why... | 1 | |
[WP] Every night the old man is out in the street, trying to collect moonlight in a plastic bucket. Tonight, you decide to try to help him. | [
"Sir Barksly picked up his pace as we rounded the last corner of our nightly walk. He didn't do this because we were almost home, he did this because he saw the next door neighbor. \"Ah cripes, I was hoping we wouldn't see Buckets.\" (\"Buckets\" is the nickname of my next door neighbor, he earned it from the other... | 5 | |
[WP] Every human on the planet suddenly becomes capable of telepathy. A powerful telepathic communication to all inhabitants of the earth (from an unknown source) announces that The Internet was designed to be the training wheels for humanity prior to their mass telepathy activation. | [
"Have you ever had that experience where you're in a conversation and the two of you just can't quite seem to understand each other? Like, you each understand the individual meaning of each single word used, the grammar seems to work out fine, but in the end neither of you can derive a coherent thought from the str... | 2 | |
[WP] The day has finally come for the birth of your first child. You accompany your wife as she gives birth, but you faint right as the baby is born. During your blackout, all you see is a character creation screen. | [
"‘Honey, I’m going into labor’. My mind recalled these words and the excitement I felt when I heard them as I peer around the white void around me. A minute ago I was watching my beautiful wife, Sasha, give birth to our first born child but then I must have blacked out...or something. The next thing I know, I’m sta... | 6 | |
[WP]Every time you go to sleep something escapes your dreams and ends up in real life. Last night you had a nightmare. | [
"I rolled out of bed just in time to dodge the blade whizzing through the air. The sword embedded deep into my mattress, eliciting a groan from the attacker.\n\n*It could have been a zombie. I could have dealt with a zombie, but noooo. I had to go and dream about a ninja zombie. Nice job, genius.*\n\nAll traces of ... | 1 | |
[WP] Every child is born with powers that develop with their age, usually increasing in power rapidly when they're younger and capping when they become adults. You, however, have not capped for some reason, and your power is only continuing to increase. | [
"“Jacob”, I thought.\n“That is my name but it is not who I am.”, I repeated to myself in earnest.\n\nThe whispering was always there, though it first started as a low grumble. At least for me it did. The adults explained it as the “Call of Power”. To us kids, it was an annoying little flit of noise that we had to t... | 3 | |
[WP] Wishing wells really do grant wishes, we just haven't thrown the right thing in. | [
"\"I wish that I got an unlimited supply of candy.\"\n\nSure, it wasn't a serious wish but I still threw a coin into the well with some sliver of hope that I can satisfy my sweet tooth. However, just like any other wish I wanted, it probably won't happen. Still, I pull out my wallet to try again because it wouldn't... | 2 | |
[WP] A man finds himself trapped in a room controlled by the author. He has to find a way to outsmart the author to escape. | [
"Tom sat smugly in a room. The room had no windows and no doors. No walls nor ceiling either. Let's assume that Tom existed in an infinite plane that was completely barren except for the ground, which consisted solely of off white middle school hallway linoleum. \n\nFor fun, lets say Tom had no tongue. Poof, disapp... | 1 | |
[WP] You are at the point of reincarnation and completely remember your past life. You are offered the choices of an incredibly endangered species, a brand new mutation of a germ cell, a yet undiscovered deep sea creature, or a random alien life form on planet far, far away. | [
"I heard a voice - no, that wasn't right, there was no sound. I *felt* a voice, more like, echoing through my mind as I simply **was**, disoriented and perplexed.\n\n\"**Choose**,\" it said, as four images rushed into my mind. They lingered for a bit, and I felt a mounting pressure as I suddenly knew what they were... | 2 | |
[WP] The diary entries of a character with multiple personality disorder but the two identities live different lives and have different memories of the same events. | [
"*Diary,*\n\n*I've never been happier than today. Today, I was able to start working at the Pokemon Center in Aspertia City and it was wonderful. It made me so joyful to see all the new trainers running in to show us the new Pokemon they caught, especially when they've bonded so close to their Pokemon so quickly. M... | 1 | |
[WP] Humans are the only species on the Galactic Council that feel pain. Many races consider them delicate and weak for that, until a race of telepaths join the Council. | [
"They spoke so strangely. All these creatures. No, I shouldn’t call them creatures they will probably take offense to that and we don’t know what they do when they take offense to something. Whatever, I’ll just wait for the ceremonies to begin. I stood behind one of the diplomats from Sukkiunsc, I think. We waited ... | 7 | |
[WP] Write a story about a squirrel crossing a busy street--but from the squirrel's perspective. | [
"The road.\n\nTo be avoided at all cost. Many squirrels meet their ends on its hard dark surface. Making matters worse, the sun is high, the great metal rollers are marching in force. \n\nAm I fated to be next?\n\nThis acorn is the greatest acorn I've gathered since the previous one. I must cross now or risk anothe... | 4 | |
[WP] Thousands of years in the future after humanity has colonized the stars, a UFO is spotted floating in space. Upon inspection, hoping to find aliens, it's a Tesla Roadster. | [
"It was captured and retrieved, brought back to what we knew as earth then..\n\nOnce on the ground it was inspected, looked at, and enjoyed by all. But under the hood there was a curious note with a green button beside it with a small logo. \n\n\"Sent from Elon Musk, but that's just the pseudonym I used to stay hid... | 1 | |
[WP]You dreamed of having a chat with your close friend and recommended them to go to the doctor. The morning after you received a text message from her, but that wasn’t possible.. she died from cancer 4 years ago. | [
"Another opportunity to link my previous ongoing story into this idea. \nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/7u04a5/wp_humanity_finally_figures_out_faster_than_light/dtgldhk/\n\n\nI ran that invitation through my head again. Welcome to our home? They believed that my gun was a walking stick? While I wa... | 2 | |
[WP] Sometimes you have to get well and truly lost in order to find your way | [
"Firelord Zuko knelt by his uncle’s grave. It had been five years since his death, but Zuko still felt it like it was yesterday. He often came here when he needed advice, as though Iroh’s spirit was still around, serving tea and speaking in metaphors.\n\n“There was something I always meant to ask you when you were ... | 2 | |
[WP] Samantha Warner is 21, fresh out of college and works retail to make ends meet. She is also possessed by the ghost of Hector Bronzeblade, the greatest and strongest barbarian the world has ever known and he is very vocal about it. Write a day in Samantha's life. | [
"\"And have a wonderful rest of your day!\"\n\n \n\n\"*HECTOR WISHES TO RIP YOU LIMB FROM LIMB FOR YOUR INSOLENCE!*\"\n\n \n\n\".....Excuse me?\"\n\n \n\nSamantha Warner sighed heavily as her hair settled back around her shoulders. *Of course* he took offense to the rude woman she had ju... | 1 | |
[WP] Moments before a person dies, they say a single phrase that predicts a future event. For a whole 24 hours, all the dying people of the world have been saying the same phrase; "The ducks are coming." | [
"When the first one went, muttering those words we brushed it off. Maybe he was out of it and didn’t mean anything by it. Then another said it to a sad family crowded around the bed. Suddenly all around the world people were uttering this hesitant phrase, but what did it mean? All continents across the globe, every... | 21 | |
[WP] Humans have finally reached Mars and are excited to build a new world from scratch only to find a mysterious red, metal container has brought something before you and your crew | [
"The main quarters of the ship were certainly cramped, but that was a small price to pay to be the first humans to land on Mars. As we began our descent onto the surface, our belongings began to float in the air. A framed picture of Mark’s grandmother floated by, followed by Jess and Ryan’s children, James and Laur... | 1 | |
[WP] You have died and are now in the afterlife. As a boxing fan, you are glad that dead boxers from different eras box to really settle who is the best of all . To your surprise, the reigning champion is a nobody amateur boxer with a record of only 1 win and 9 losses when he was still alive. | [
"\"They never gave me a chance!\" Tom said, as he wandered over the the chalk board to add to his win total. It was getting repetitive to even walk over to the ring to watch Tom fight someone. Most of his fights wouldn't make to round two. \n\nTom was a small town man who would travel to New York when he could affo... | 1 | |
[WP] You have twenty-five sentences to make a coherent story. | [
"She'd jettisoned her cousin's body out the airlock three days prior, and was now alone on what remained of her family's business, a cargo space ship. They'd been hit by an asteroid and lost main power two months ago, and as their rations had run out she'd watched her family starve to death, one by one. \n\nThere w... | 3 | |
[WP] One day everyone in the world has the worst thing they’ve ever done written on their foreheads permanently. | [
"Yeah, Yeah \nThat's what they say, right? \nYeah? Nah. \nNo. \nNo. \nNo siree.\n\nLucy was so good, see, \nHoodsy rich girl with a \nTushy like a cushion; \nShoulda seen, like make believe. \nFruity teen with her need for speed. \nGuzzled enough whiskey to blow an Oh-Twenty-Three. \nAugust fifteenth, sh... | 1 | |
[WP] Gods kill other gods to inherit their followers for their own religion. And you, the god of clumsiness, accidently killed Zues | [
"The agony was unbearable. Where the talons sliced me, my flesh burned with an unnatural fire. I would have welcomed death, even if it meant serving Hades for a dozen eternities. \n\nBut I cannot die. More accurately, he doesn't allow me to. I am far too useful as an example.\n\nThe eagles withdrew. They screamed t... | 1 | |
As it is. You can select whatever idiom or expression you want. | [WP] A new law was voted in that forces everyone to take what people say literally or they get the death penalty. You accidentally say an idiom. | [
"\"...and then she pointed out that my fly was down during the entire thirty-minute speech and apparently people had even taken some pictures of the event. Boy was my face red.\"\n\nJeff stared at me, aghast.\n\n\"I mean,\" I said hurriedly, \"I was embarrassed! Blushing! Thus my face turned red!\"\n\n\"Those pi... | 1 |
[WP] You are a 1940's journalist and you, by some twist of fate, wind up in 2018 | [
"My temporal debriefer was a chubby dame with light-brown skin. Couldn't place if she was Italian or mulatto, but she seemed to be determined to wear the pants...and actually was wearing a pair even though we were in an office. \n\nLife is confusing when you step out of time.\n\n\"So that's what people do now - j... | 1 | |
[WP] You went to sleep. In your dream, you meet someone you never knew before. later in that dream that someone is trying to call you. You wake up from your phone ringtone. You answer the phone only to hear the same voice of the person in your dream. | [
"I reached for the phone, which for some reason looked like one I owned thirteen years earlier, and flipped it open. \n\n\"Jack, wake up.\" A voice said. It was the voice of the woman I had just been talking to in the alley. \n\nSuddenly I woke up in my own bed, and my phone was ringing. \n\n\"Jack, we are out of t... | 1 | |
[WP] Everybody at school is talking about the new kid, "Norg". You've never seen him, but when you ask your friends about him, they all provide *wildly different* descriptions of what is supposed to be the same person. A scheduling mishap finally causes the two of you to meet.. | [
"\"I drummed my fingers,waiting for Norg to arrive.\n\nWhen he did,he wasn't like anything that my friends had described.\n\nHe had blue hair and green eyes,bordering on weird. He had a kind of 'rebel' look about him.\n\n\"Afternoon,Norg.\"\n\n\"Afternoon.\" He murmured back to the head master in a raspy voice.\n\n... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a serial killer with OCD. Your victim isn't being the victim you want her to be and it's very annoying. | [
"She opens her eyes and looks mildly surprised. Maybe she doesn’t understand what’s going on. I lean in to her face and wave my knife. She tests the ropes, like they always do. Good, good. Good scripted start. Then she smiles.\n\n“Oh, thank God,” she says, a look of relief spreading across her face. I frown. That w... | 1 | |
[WP] You're slowly turning into a tree. | [
"Is this happening to me? Am I condemned to this?\nI am frightened of breaking, thus allowing to bend\nthe set of logs which will become branches still, reaching out\nthe various ways, the many roads, indecisions of formation\nin the pursuit of nurture, not grasping to aprehention\nAlways shaking, if you catch the ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the paladin of a seasoned adventuring party, who has been hunting an artifact for months. You just witnessed one of your fellow party members outright hand this incredibly powerful artifact right to the villain with a smile on their face. | [
"> \"I give the artifact to the Dark Sovereign\" said John. \n> \"You're doing what?\" asked Marlin, nonplussed. Similar questions are being asked by the rest of his friends. They had been playing their favorite RPG, Caves and Centaurs, and were nearing the end of the campaign. \n\n> \"I give the artifa... | 1 | |
[WP] You've been trying desperately to have a warrior's death for a long time now, and it just. Won't. Happen. | [
"I could feel it. Today was the day. \n\nFrancis Ramsay, general of the 52nd division, veteran of 132 battles and 23 fights in the pub, will finally have his warrior's death. \n\nMy friends found it funny. My wife found it infuriating. \n\n\"Don't you come back dead, Frank.\"\n\n\"Not just any death, Mary. A warrio... | 1 | |
[WP]: The tradition is simple. People propose by giving their loved one a rose, and once a rose has been given, the proposed will have to either marry or murder the giver. A man gave you a rose ten years ago. You haven't decided yet. | [
"She was watching him again... He could feel her eyes on him before he had even fully awoken. Sometimes he wondered why he had thought it a good idea to stay in the same house with her for so long. How had she still not decided? Aye, they had been young when he had given her the rose, but surely ten, almost eleven,... | 1 | |
[WP]You find a blank book. Whatever you write in it becomes true. One day it goes missing and all hell breaks loose. | [
"At first, I wasn't concerned. \nSure, I thought $200 million dollars going missing from the bank here was a little strange, but not worthy of concern. \nAnd when Selena Gomez broke up with Justin Bieber (again), that wasn't at all unexpected. \nBut, it was when I noticed the huge castle in the middle of Times Squa... | 2 | |
[WP] Thursday, March 26th, 1931. New York City. Residents celebrate the 150th anniversary of Great Britain winning the American Revolutionary War. | [
"*This is a report from BBC Radio New York.*\n\nThe royal visit of King George V has been reason for celebration among the population of New York City, capital of the province of New York. Crowd of thousands turned up to salute his Majesty on his path through the City Centre, where he met Prime Minister Hoover, mem... | 1 | |
[WP] I don't want to be an anime protagonist! | [
"“Well I do” I exasperatedly remind my younger fraternal twin sister. “But if you get into some weird plot you’ll drag me into it too!” I sigh and walk over to my overstuffed bookshelf and grab a stack of mangas. “Look at these. Very rarely does a magical girl’s sibling get roped into her adventures.” Emma looks gl... | 1 | |
[WP] You are haunted by a ghost one night. Instead of doing spooky things, though, they just want to hang out with you. | [
"\"So you were murdered, huh?\"\n\n\"Yup.\" It was entertaining to watch the smoke from the bong fill the ethereal figure for a moment before slowly filtering itself out of him. Miranda had always been in tune with the supernatural so, when her parents had found the cheap house and heard the back story, she had eas... | 1 | |
[WP] Gordon Ramsay has actually existed all throughout history, yelling at people for different things. | [
"\"Were they fucking serious? My mother-in-law could've worked out a better solution. Bloody Kansas, to hell with states rights. And that Calhoun...\"\n\nIn typical fashion, my reincarnation was as simple as opening my eyes. How my new corporeal form manifested was beyond me. Yet here I sat, in a dingy compartment ... | 1 | |
[WP] The aliens quickly dominate most of Earth by feeding off of human souls. The only ones left to fight back are a motley assortment of individuals who already sold their souls to the Devil. | [
"\"Why a basement? We can literally meet wherever we want to!\"\n\n\"Because we need to be able to hear each other, and there's still the problem of collateral damage.\" \n\nThe arguments are...frustrating. It's been going on like this for a while. Of course, I've discovered I have a new tolerance for frustration t... | 5 | |
[WP] create a dark story that ends with "It's almost harvesting season," | [
"Neena looked at the sign that was being hung between the street lights and bore the cartoonish words “Harvest Festival” and turned away with an audible sigh. Things had changed so much since she had been a child.\n\nA once beautiful, and appropriately small ancient ceremony had been tainted by modern ideas...thing... | 2 | |
[WP] And lo, they were a force of nature, for no prison could hold them, not even the gilded bars of Heaven itself. | [
"They crested the hill not far from the town of Yarnistan. Their commander surveyed the surrounding area, keeping watch for any would be dissenters from the town below. But their were naught. For the town of Yarnistan, lay still and silent in the moonlight. Only the soft padded feet of the commanders army behind hi... | 2 | |
[WP]One morning you wake up and find an identical clone of yourself lying next to you, and neither of you knows who is the original. | [
"“Kate?” Two women were lying in a room with twelve beds. Their two beds were closest to the door. They were small and efficient, more like cots than anywhere to stretch out and relax. The back half of the room containing the other ten beds was rendered in low-resolution. The pixels were visible.\n\n“Kate,” the sec... | 3 | |
[WP] In an alternate universe, dragons and dragon-riding are commonplace. It was horses that are the mythical beings of legend. | [
"Sir Thibault had kept a tight grip on his strap, he was nervous. A chill ran down his back as he looked to the sky to see multiple flying creatures streak across the sky. He prayed that the thick forest would keep him hidden from these infernal beasts. He trekked through the forest, always making sure to freeze wh... | 1 | |
[WP] Your new prosthetic hand seems to have a mind of its own, and it's systematically tearing your life apart. | [
"The line had seemed interminably long, but I had finally reached the counter. I knew the process by heart, venti caramel macchiato with three extra shots of espresso, confirm that yes I did want that many additional shots. Slide card. Try to avoid meeting the stares of the people who could see that one of my arms ... | 1 | |
The “What If” genie doesn’t grant wishes, but you can ask it to show you what your life would be like now if you had bought this house, if you married her instead, if you didn’t crash... | [WP] You rub the lamp you just found, and a “What If” genie pops up. | [
"Tibet\n\n\nI sat on the couch in my lonley, dimly-lit trailer home. I would call it a living room I was sitting in, but it's not. The whole trailer is really just one big room. It's all i could afford after my spouse died and honestly, it was fitting for how i felt. Small, cold, cheap and empty. Well, not totally ... | 1 |
[WP] You live in a universe where if you say something grammatically incorrect you instantly die. | [
"There's an internal computer deep underground somewhere that is connected to every human's brain.\n\nIt was designed by a few elite politicians as they make money off of their campaign for population control, and thus they will do anything to keep it running.\n\nWhen a common man finds out the truth, he must run a... | 2 | |
[WP] You discover a plot hole in reality. | [
"Max frowned. Those numbers couldn’t be right.\n\nMax was working in the campus library. It was about three a.m. Finals were approaching, and her sleep patterns had been destroyed. She knew most of the library cleaners by name now. \n\nMax was a history major. She knew she wanted her final project to have something... | 1 | |
[WP] You've been living a lie. You belong in another dimension, the one you were taken out of as a young child. | [
"I was trapped, my alter self and child are stuck in the u.s.a universe, while I'm stuck in the U.N.A (united nations of America) that tyrant of this world laid dead, he was the only genius left alive in this world to build a bridged to another, he held a paper in his hand, it had my name finely inscribed on it, th... | 1 | |
[WP] Describe a day at your job if it worked more like pro wrestling. | [
"Xavier was sitting bored at his desk, just having finished his math exercises for the hour. Like always, the teacher had decided he had earned a \"break\", which meant she didn't want to put in the effort to give him extra work. He didn't really complain about that. He had gotten used to use this \"break\" to poli... | 2 | |
[WP]A local bridge is known for cursing people who cross it with an untimely and unusual death, You decide to end your life by willingly walking across the bridge, but things don't go quite as planned. | [
"Ever since I was a young girl, I've always had a fascination with the paranormal, occult, and killers. While most my age were playing games or wit toys, I was reading. By the time I was in 6th grade, I had fed my mind with every scrap of information I could get my hands on. And the more I read, the more infatuated... | 2 | |
[WP] Please don’t write anything. | [
"I saw a post that intrigues me. It says «[WP] Please don't write anything»\n\n\"Yeah right.\" I started typing the first word that comes to my head....\n\n*words reaching up to fifty paragraphs just for the heck of it*\n\nAnd as I continued to reach the end of this prompt the first paragraph began to disappear let... | 2 | |
[WP] "Do you know the muffin man?" She asked, tugging on his thumbnail with the pliers. | [
"“Do you know the muffin man?” She sings while tugging at my left thumb nail with a pair of pliers. The pain I’m feeling now isn’t too bad, the part that’s really messing with me is how someone as pretty as her is able to think of such inhuman things.\n\n“What do you mean?” I ask wondering what’s she is going on ab... | 1 | |
[WP] All humans bond with a symbiote at birth. How the symbiote bonds with you determines your place in society. | [
"Symbiotes...are a strange thing. Developing in the womb alongside the baby, they bond with it at birth in various ways. Some symbiotes take the form of a second head, and as they say, two heads are better than one, making these infants some of the most prestigious students and brainiacs, shaping the future of the ... | 3 | |
[WP] Give me a sense of how much a mother loves her children. | [
"**AUTOMATIC PERFORMING of LOCAL C-C-LIKE MACHINE - RUNNING THANKS TO REALITÉ**\n\n____________\n\n**RESPONDING TO USER'S COMMAND** [*Give me a sense of how much a mother loves her children.*](/agl)\n\napplying built-in ['lighthouse'](/agl) safeguard from intender ['Une_Realité'](/agl) **(disclosed to user)** **FAI... | 2 | |
[WP] You were bitten by a radioactive human, and now, you are a superhero. You are Humanman. | [
"FAQ with Humanman:\n\nI'm guessing that you are used to every superhero having a rather interesting backstory, well don't worry I am here to dispel that myth. \n\n---\n\nNow I get this question all the time - *Humanman how did you get your powers?*\n\nMy parents and I were leaving the theatre, by a dodgy back exit... | 1 | |
[WP]A Death Sentence is actually a series of words that kills you when your executioner whispers into your ears. | [
"Evangeline watched the procession down the main avenue to the Council Plaza. The single black robbed figure stood in the center. Gold embroidery along robes created an image of binding shackles across the body. When she had first come to Lothia, knowing little about Enlightened culture, she would have assumed ... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a time traveler tasked with pinpointing the exact date of Betty White’s death. However, no matter what year you travel to, she is there, alive and well | [
"“Your mission and if you choose to accept it is to travel throughout time and figure out when Betty White’s death...” the commander spoke on the screen. \n\nMost of my missions were easy, things like preventing another world war..killing people...saving people...easy stuff, but never in my force has anyone been as... | 4 | |
[WP] It was my last chance and I seized it. | [
"I raised my kids mostly alone. No, I wasn't a single mom. It's just, my boyfriend also had a wife. \n\nWe met in a club. I was a bit of a party girl back then. He told me he had a wife at home. A daughter. I told him I didn't care. \n\nAnd I didn't, really. Until I found out I was pregnant. \n\nWhen I told him, he... | 1 | |
[WP] A lighthearted, gentle person is given a terrible and gruesome power. Then, they are forced to use it. | [
"He had always been the big-lovable teddy bear kid. Didn’t have a mean bone in his body, always saw him with a smile on his face. But after the shards fell, he was one of the very few who gained a power.\n\nYou wouldn’t think ‘patterns’ would be such an incredibly powerful, or terrible ability... but when he uses i... | 1 | |
[WP] Aliens come to Earth. As a gesture of good faith, they have prepared exquisite dishes from beyond the stars. To sample these foods, the government calls in Gordon Ramsey... | [
"“OH. MY. FUCKING. GOD!” \n\nThe alien chefs jerked, frightfully looking at the human who had came to sample their foods. At first they thought they knew better, that their foods would shock these earthlings.\n\nBut they were wrong.\n\n“Izax, is this cooked by you?” Izax, slowly crept out of the crowd of chefs. Swe... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a short thriller piece featuring a sniper. | [
"Mr Red, briefcase in hand, adjusted his jacket as he got out of the SUV, scanning his eye quickly along the ridges of sand dunes as he always did. In his line of the work there was always someone out to get him. He walked up to the brick building that he jokingly called the office, unlocking the door with a pass ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a Dragon, living in a world of ice and the only source of heat and fire to the last ragtag group of humans. You suddenly remember what caused the cataclysm and how to stop it. | [
"**Got a multi-parter because I don't know how to keep it short. So this is part 1 of 3!**\n\nI have a particular fondness for the humans. I know, as a dragon one is typically only expected to have a fondness for gold and kidnapping damsels, but that is merely legend. Mostly, I preferred to slumber, to expand my ma... | 1 | |
[WP] Through pure chance, you obtain the only dose of actual truth serum ever to exist. So, you set up a camera and a mirror, and inject the only person you want the full truth from: yourself. | [
"**\"Who am I?\"** \n\nJake asked as he was starring himself in the mirror. Maybe it was a stupid idea. Maybe it was a complete waste of the most powerful drug known, and unknown to the humanity. But if this truth serum is real, if there was only one chance to find out an absolute truth about someone, wouldn't you ... | 1 | |
[WP] You fall asleep during a math test. You wake up to see the test completed. Every answer is correct. | [
"Proof Geometry. What a weird class to take. Yet, most every tenth grader (and math-wiz seventh grader) had to take it. The geometry aspect of the class is important, I'll give ya' that. But the proofs? Who writes like this? Mathematicians, sure, but it's not like we need to follow strict diets in P.E. because that... | 1 | |
[WP] The poor kid was being bullied, he just had to be saved. Biggest mistake of your life... | [
"The bully fled. I helped the boy up.\n\n\"Thank you so much,\" the boy gushed.\n\n\"Don't mention it.\" \n\nI felt an arm grab me as I turned to go. \"Hey, do you wanna...I don't know,\" he dug the toe of his shoe into the dirt, \"play or something?\"\n\n\"Mmm, maybe later. I have to get to class. Bye!\" I waved a... | 1 | |
[WP] You’re a professional assassin, and today a much anticipated mobile app has finally been released. It’s called MurderMatch and now you can swipe left or right for those you won’t or will kill. | [
"Everyone knew it was coming. \n\nThe very day homicide became \"legal,\" mobile developers instantly saw the potential for what they believed would be the next big thing. \n\nI should like to clarify something: murder was still technically illegal. If someone were to look up the laws of individual nations, they wo... | 1 | |
[WP] Your kicked out of hell for being a bad influence | [
"I'm Jim *Clap Trap Voice*, currently I'm somewhere between dead or alive, I'm not sure why I was kicked out of hell, but if I were a betting man (and I am), I'd wager bringing cheer, joy and happiness by helping to build basic necessities, allowing the humans to live a happy and carefree life. whatever I did, I wa... | 1 | |
[WP] It is the year 2459, and you and a group of scientists have created the worlds strongest particle accelerator but something goes wrong and you know have 30 hours to save the world. Why? Because one explosion will create another Big Bang restarting the universe | [
"“... thirty hours?”\n\nAir still, tensions high, and not a peep could be heard from the twenty or so generals and scientists huddled around in a small bunker. A weary looking man who’s suit was practically his skin pinched his nose and rubbed his eyes, waiting for a reply.\n\n“Uh... yes, Prime Minister.”\n\n“Thirt... | 1 | |
[WP] One day, you accidentally break the screen on the tv. To your surprise, you hear screams coming from inside. | [
"Motherfucker! It’s a 23 yard field goal to win the Super Bowl and you shank it. Son of a bitch! The Browns can never do anything right.\n\nI can’t take it anymore. I throw my bottle at the tv and watch it shatter. Fuck. Stupid accident...then I hear it. \n\nScreaming. What? How? Fuck that. I pull the cord, I don’t... | 1 | |
[WP] In an interesting turn of events, a dragon is kidnapped by a princess... | [
"*I know you are there.*\n\nThe Dragon cast about with its mind, trying to find the hidden thief. The Princess lined up her shot and squeezed the trigger. The crossbow bolt embedded itself in the Dragon’s belly, the only part of its body not covered with scales. As the Dragon unfurled its wings and roared with pain... | 1 | |
[WP] You’re a time traveler, trying to prove your theory that changes to the past don’t impact the future, kill Genghis Khan and someone else will conquer Asia. You were right but for the wrong reason—actually, History is sentient, cleaning up after your mess, and pissed. | [
"I sat behind the desk, pouring over the updated textbooks. I was correct. No longer was Genghis Khan the world conquerer, but a man named Hasar. Also from The Step. I chuckled with dry humor. Of course. That gene was thick with the desire to conquer. After a few more minutes I closed the books and stacked them nea... | 3 | |
[WP] The misadventures of someone whose unique sleep condition presented in their early twenties, causing them not to age while asleep, and to wake for only one day every ten years. | [
"\"I have been living in my parent's old house ever since I got my condition two hundred years ago and even if the decor is a bit outdated the house is still standing where my parents first built it and it's showing no signs of falling apart. This day is a special day because today I'm going to spend most of my tim... | 1 | |
[WP] You have been blessed/cursed with the anti-Midas touch. Everything you touch turns to rubble. Make it work. | [
"It has always been, to say the least, an unusual power to have. It never was one people were happy to see coming their way. More than once I remember overhearing my sainted mother (God rest her soul) defending me to her catty friends who all thought I would turn out to be a supervillain, just you wait and see.\n\n... | 1 | |
[WP] All religions are real, when you die your religion determines which celestial company gets your data file. | [
"“She’s got so many things written in here!”\n“I know, I know, but we have to send it off *somewhere.”*\n“Ugh. Why couldn’t she have just been an atheist?” \n\nThere is a drawn out sigh from the desk at The Hub. It was not too often they received a file like this, but once in a blue moon a soul would come through w... | 1 | |
Inspire by [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/tumblr/comments/80c9hq/hes_been_where_no_one_has_been_before/) | [WP] You're in a dark office. Reality feels stretched, and the only source of illumination is a fish tank. A fish looks at you, and grinning with human-looking teeth says "You've been here a while; better wake up before you forget how to." | [
"I looked the fish dead in the eye \\- it could only stare me down with one.\n\n"This is a dream," I announced calmly to the fish.\n\n"Yes, technically it's all flashes of thought inside that noggin of yours," the fish returned evenly. He spoke in a voice that was undeniably fish... | 1 |
[WP] Someone who can’t be seen. It’s not that she isn’t there, or that she’s invisible, but you can only really notice her if you’re looking for her. | [
"\"The thing I hate the most about popular culture these days are all the high-profile 'spies' that are wandering around. Yea, like anyone's going to ignore the tall British man wearing a tuxedo at 2:30pm on a friggin Tuesday in the middle of Detroit. Or the leather cat-suit wearing bimbo that does flashy martial a... | 1 | |
[WP] Every Monday morning just before you wake up, you get a 3-minute trailer-style preview of your week ahead. The genre changes depending on what happens during the coming days. This week's trailer is different than the ones before. | [
"Oh boy all the \"surprises\" i was gonna get from my parents were ruined by these trailers. Yet again, it saved me from so many unnecessary situations i could have gotten into.\n\nTypical ones i had my whole life was all about school and how sad and boring my life was. A loophole, felt like bloody groundhog day bu... | 3 | |
[WP] Two super-villains, in a struggle for control over humans, one kills the other. This leaves the survivor with the one thing he never wanted: he is now a hero in the eyes of the humans. He never wanted to be a hero and despises them. | [
"The cloaked man stood over his old nemesis, proud of his final victory. \nHe slowly sat on the ground and looked up, at the sky. He could see the same stars he saw when he was 6 years old. That time, when he was still in that dirty, rusting hell. Kids used to beat him up, now they would grovel at his feet. Those ... | 1 |
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