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[Wp] Turns out eating broccoli as a kid made you immortal. | [
"I find myself in the wilted leaves, the fading green stalks, the steam, I am immortal, this is my tale.\n\n1983. Born. The world is white. We associtate white with being good. Darkness is better. We live in darkness until we are thrust into light. Into white. I am mortal.\n\n1984. Man has walked on the moon. I hav... | 1 | |
[WP] 50 years into the future, baby names have become more ridiculous due to parents trying to make up “unique” and “creative” name for their kids that it became the norm. You are the first parents in 50 years to name your firstborn with a name from the old generation. | [
"Mum, I’m writing this letter to tell you something important. You know I’m busy and you’re far away so thought this would be better than a mundane text. This letter is so important to me and you’ll see why. \n\nI just need to say sorry, for years I secretly hated you. I went to bed angry and woke up angry. Sat the... | 1 | |
[WP] Born misshapen to an unwanting mother and a horrified stepfather, you were locked as a child under the temple in a labyrinth designed not to keep others out, but to keep you in. You are the Minotaur. Tell your story | [
"As a boy, my parents took one look at my malformed, twisted body and cast me aside like an animal. They noted my rapid growth and the wise men told them I would soon be able to overpower them. They cruelly locked me away in this maze of a cage which I have wandered these many years. However, I harbor no ill will t... | 1 | |
[WP] You gained celebrity status as an actor who plays a super hero and keep being asked to visit terminally ill kids, but you have a real super power: The ability to heal any illness. | [
"You've got to be careful when you can do the things I can. It sounds great, sure. But you have to be selfish. \n\nYou cannot save everyone. It's a hard fact to bite. \n\nSometimes I visit the pale near-dead with their skin tight around their bones, veins and arteries floating at the surfaces of their bodies - when... | 1 | |
[WP] "Okay, so, in order to decide which side of the R&D gets funded-and what our army will be made of-we'll have the prototypes for our cyborgs and psychics battle. Whichever side wins, gets funded." | [
"Layla was the shortest one. Barely five feet tall, the crown of her short-cropped head only came up to the middle of Bob's ample belly. But despite the small body, she had the loudest voice. She wasn't a leader, per se--it's hard to have a leader with scientists prodding and examining every damn thing they did, do... | 2 | |
[WP] In the future all cars have auto-safety features that kick in if the user tries to violate a traffic law. A side effect of this is that exciting chase sequences have all but disappeared. A fact you ponder as you and the evil henchmen have the safest, most road legal, life or death chase. | [
"“Remember the good ol’ days, Sal?”\n\nIt’s hard to remember. Not because it’s painful or particularly difficult, but rather because we have three armoured police cars following us down the street. \n\n“Which ones?” I growl, gripping the steering wheel and flattening the accelerator pedal. “The ones where we weren’... | 1 | |
[WP] An alien ship lands in your backyard. Cautiously approaching, you spot, under a strange assortment of colors, the characters "USA". | [
"\"What the heck is this doing in my backyard?\" I asked myself, going up to the crashed spaceship. \"U S A? What does that stand for? Universe Sandwich Academy?\"\n\n\"SANDWICH!?\" My younger brother pops up, \"Can I have one!?\" \n\n\"We gotta find the sandwiches first!\" I answer, and pry open the door. We both ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are Satan's younger brother, the ruler of Heck. | [
"*They always loved him more,* I thought as I moved down the marshmallow and gingerbread walkway, *always believed that he would be the only ruler in our family, thought that I would do nothing that compares to his achievements, but here I am creators, here is Satin, Lord of Heck.*\n\nA smiling, soft blue serpent s... | 1 | |
[WP] "You saw the footage!" I yelled angrily "It massacred three containment teams and walked out of the goddamn rubble after we shelled the complex for christs sake!" I paused momentarily to catch my breath before resuming "What makes you think that the tanks will do anything? | [
"\"What i *think* is that those tanks will delay it for long enough for us to get the fuck away from that thing!\" General Woodsteel exclaimed.\n\nI groaned and burried my face in my hands. \"Did you even pay attention to what i just said? It tore apart three heavily armed and armored containment teams, which were ... | 2 | |
[WP] You are an eldritch abomination masquerading as a psychology professor and your classes are popular. Today the paranormal containment agency stormed your class to capture you and your students are protecting you; turns out they not only knew what you were...but you're terrible at hiding it. | [
"Each step was calculated and formulated per ivory square of the tile floor. Is this what humans called anxiety? Professor Sushchestvo asked himself as he paced within his classroom. One false movement of his steps could lead to raised eyebrows from his students. It’s dry exterior left him sweating for balance.\n\n... | 2 | |
[WP] World peace has been achieved by a ruler for a thousand years. You're part of a small crew getting ready to put an end to this tyranny. | [
"\"But, historically, wars and tensions are linked to great economic growth, while world peace is extremely taxing on those of us who produce well. If I make three dozen cookies, I want to decide how to share them. The way things are now, I have to share two dozen with my lazy siblings before I can think about it. ... | 2 | |
[WP] You're walking through your house to your kitchen when suddenly you feel like you're frozen in time. Everything around you keeps moving, no one notices you've stopped but you can't move. | [
"Day 150 - I actually don’t know what day it is anymore, I lost count, but this seems to be a fair number. I am sure it has been at least this long because the birds have stopped their early morning chirping festivals and snow is beginning to fall outside, I can see it through the late 70’s era pane glass windows t... | 1 | |
[WP] A corrupt warden is arrested and sent to his own jail. However, the government forgot to fire him, so he's still technically the warden. | [
"You would think that my current predicament is every man's dream. A man imprisoned in a place where everyone knows him. A place that he has spent countless hours grooming to his liking. A place ran by people he had meticulously instilled fear into to deter any thoughts of ever turning on him and exposing his d... | 2 | |
[WP] You inherit an old chest from your grandparents, it's turned into a mimic | [
"You begin the long haul home from your grandparents’ house, hoisting the huge chest along behind you.\nHad you known his would be what you would end up taking home maybe you’d have driven. Of course, the genius you are, you decided to walk because fitness, or whatever.\nThe chest is weirdly heavy. But you haven’t ... | 1 | |
[WP] As you boot up your PC, you hear a tiny "meow" instead of the usual hum. | [
"\"Oh no.\"\n\nI looked down just in time to see a dark tail swing out of sight. The screen remained dark and I pushed on the button, only to hear another, a bit more demanding meow.\n\n\"Sweetie, what have you doooooooooone,\" I groaned and pushed the chair out of the way. \"How the fuck, baby, you're not that sma... | 1 | |
[WP] Most serial killers are in fact part of a time-travelling vigilante organization that kills evil people before they can commit the atrocities they otherwise would have. | [
"Marcus was out of breath and close to colapsing. \"I cant be late, can't be late... can't be... late...\" he mumbled as he continued running. There had been a problem with the time machine, he appeared in the wrong country, 32 years late. It was the first time the agents had sent someone so far back in time, they... | 3 | |
[WP] Human civilization continues to grow and advance rapidly. We colonize the galaxy and discover the secrets of the universe. Finally, mankind discovers the one final bridge that we can't cross. | [
"Countless eons ago, man looked at the crackling fire and pondered if he would live to see tomorrow. So he built shelter and tools, and tamed the land so that he and his family could survive. Countless eons ago, man looked to the horizon and pondered what lay beyond it. So he built boats, and tamed horses so he ... | 1 | |
[WP] You’ve awoken in a world where demons plague the land, a strange amalgamation of knights with high tech weapons... with the gods also appearing as Knights... and you’ve attracted the interest of the ruler of the abyss himself | [
"Well thats it. You're getting dizzy. Everything is getting cold, and dark. But there is also a strange tranquility overcoming you. You decide maybe its not bad an end. You've done a lot of bad things in your few decades of life, even before this war started. There is unspeakable and unmemorable amounts of blood... | 1 | |
[WP] - A group of armed terrorists are terrorizing their hostages into submission. You are one of the hostages. And little did anyone know : Terror... is your field of expertise. | [
"It was just supposed to be a normal day at the bank for me. But, of course, nothing is ever normal around here. Before we knew it, a group of thugs was holding us all hostage.\n\n“We’re the Watchdogs,” The man in charge said through his mask, “we’re taking all the money you have!” He threw some duffle bags at the ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are out for a walk in the woods with your dog. He suddenly starts barking at something that you cannot see. You approach it, only to find an exact clone of yourself as a child. | [
"The Child\n—\n\nThe dog barks louder than the crashing of the impending storm, breaking me from my mulled contemplations. Our walks serve as a time for me to let my inner demons loose. They tear into me without mercy for everything I’ve done. For everything I am.\n\nI let the dog guide me. No, drag me. The moment ... | 1 | |
[WP] You walk into a new optometrist in town to get your eyes tested. The test seems a bit odd, but you go along with it. You come away happy, with your nice new pair glasses. A few hours later you begin to notice something strange about them. | [
"\"I'm sorry, ma'am, but Dr. May is temporarily absent. I will be replacing him for the following week.\"\n\nHuh. That seems kind of odd. Dr. May has never been absent, not even once, for the past 15 years since I've been his patient.\n\n\"Of course, he gave me your medical report, and I will do your routine check ... | 1 | |
[wp] you live in a reality where twins, fraternal or maternal, can feel each other's pain. You are a single child. Yet one day you feel a sudden sharp pain in your chest. | [
"\"Fuck.\"\n\n\"Everything ok?\"\n\n\"Hun do you know what being punched in the jaw feels like?\" \n\n\"No. I'll get you an asprain when we get home. \"\n\nMy wife kisses my cheek as we walk hand in hand back from the neareby diner. But by the time we get home, the pains gone. I shrug it off and cuddle up to my wif... | 1 | |
[WP] In our near future, there's a gel that works as a bio conductor for injuries. But it quickly became popular in court, where murder victims could be re animated for 24 hours and testify against their killer. You awake on the slab. Remembering your own death. Staff is away for coffee. | [
"Raw, dizzying pain shot from my temples to the center of my eyeballs when I tried to open them up. I shut them and more pain throbbed from around my orbitals. I immediately felt dizzy, and wanted to puke, but I was laying face up and wasn't sure I could move. \n\nIt took me a moment to reorient myself, to recall e... | 3 | |
[WP] Your warparty heads into the deserted town. Looking behind you, you realize that everyone you brought with you is lying dead by the spire | [
"**LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD**\n\nThe freaks dumped animal carcasses into the river upstream of town. It took the people of Bombtown a couple of days to realize what they'd done, and in that time a few people got sick and Old Marty died. The people got together in the ruins of the old roller rink to hear what Buzzknuck... | 1 | |
[WP] Everyone thinks that rising temperatures is the greatest threat posed by climate change, but only you know the real danger. With the melting of the ice, old monsters rise out of their ancient hibernation... | [
"I may or may not be dead if you're reading this. I'm not even sure anyone would even bother, but I don't care. Humanity finally hit the red alert. \n\nThousands of people fought to reduce the effect of climate change, and yet so little people heard them. The consumption of electricity and fuel rose up everyday. An... | 4 | |
[WP]"Did you honestly think humans couldn't learn magic?" | [
"*\"Did you honestly think humans couldn't learn magic?\"*\n\n\nI haven't been confused often in my existence. Befuddled, yes. Bewildered, certainly. But this feeling of a complete lack of understanding of the world around me, this confusion? No, not very often at all.\n\n\n*\"Did you honestly think humans couldn't... | 5 | |
[WP] You're in your spaceship when suddenly it's attacked, you take an escape pod to get off of the ship but as your flying away, the pod is hit and you crash land on a foreign planet with hostile monsters looking to kill you. | [
"I tried my best to keep a straight face as we hurtled to the planet below. Flames blanketed the window as we broke the atmosphere and clouds and quickly the earth below came closer and closer.\n\n“Steady... Steady...” The captain’s voice remained strong yet soft, she placed a hand on the pilots shoulder who guided... | 1 | |
[WP] Everyone's dressed in trenchcoats and hats that hide everything but their eyes all the time, even when in the shower. They speak in nothing but code-words. Every moment in life is considered a covert espionage mission, despite being anything but. Welcome to the overexaggerated world of spies. | [
"\"WHO THE HELL DO YOU WORK FOR? I'LL TEAR YOUR NAILS IF YOU DON'T--\" \n\nTer snoozes his alarm and and yawns from under his hat. Being a lazy man, one thing that surely gets him out of bed is a limited edition interrogative alarm clock. No spy likes to be asked questions, let alone be interrogated. \n\nTer wears ... | 2 | |
[WP] All of a sudden its revealed to the world that every conspiracy theory ever created, from Chemtrails to Lizard People are true and the world begins to plunge into chaos. | [
"The thing about the truth is that not everyone wants to believe it. The big lies are soothing. The little lies are appealing or maintain the illusions so many require to function daily. All the white lies and the huge cover ups were tossed straight to hell at the end of 2019.\n\nA mad scientist ripped our world ap... | 1 | |
[WP] You have the ability to know who is going to kill you that day, and only that. That's how you've avoided so many deaths. One day you realize that everybody is going to kill you, intentional or not. | [
"Being me was… somewhat interesting.\n\nYou know how, if something stays the same throughout your entire life, you would never be able to tell the difference? Like you’d never know how hard it is getting out of bed with one-handed until you’d actually lost an arm. There are things we take for granted, because those... | 1 | |
[WP] The final girl of a popular horror film starts her therapy today after the film’s events. | [
"Cross legged at the infinity pool, I gaze up into his shadow.\n\n\"You don't believe me either, do you?\"\n\nNew tears stream down my cheeks.\n\nI reach for another tissue and my phone.\n\n\"You don't, do you?\"\n\nMy puffy faced reflection is worse than before.\n\nTwo hours have already passed.\n\nTopanga's sun i... | 1 | |
[WP] You're at home. The year is 2060. You're grandkids are looking through your old stuff. They bring a photo album to you and yell "Grandpa! Tell us this story of this one!" On it says, The war of 2020. | [
"I was as always too old now to do anything, all I had to rely for entertainment was my grandkids or for just those augmented reality bull. \"Hey Grandpa!\" It was little Him coming to see me, hopefully for me or for him to tell a story.\n\n\"Grandpa, me and Tim were going around your box, and we found this.\" It w... | 1 | |
[WP] You find yourself watching a clickbait conspiracy video - "10 time travelers were caught on tape". One of them is you. | [
"My heart raced as I caught sight of my own image in the video. I'd worked so hard to blend in to this ancient society, even learning the dead language they call English. My time, my people call this language Ae.\n\nThe technology was so ancient here, I barely believed it worked. Of course the images in the know... | 1 | |
[WP] A man approaches you and hands you a diary and immediately disappears into the night. Stunned you wait until you get home to open it. | [
"\"Hello, terribly sorry for the inconvenience but I really need your help. Here's $500 and this book. Please, keep this safe and don't read it until you know it's safe. I'll be gone awhile.\", a black suited man said as he thrust $500 and a brown leather journal into my hands before running off into the night.\n\n... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a story about the most adorable villain | [
"\"It was a hot summer -- hot, and humid about 12, no, 13 years ago. I remember when I first spotted it. It seemed so simple, so unextraordinary... Just a lemonade stand, and a kid, like a million kids before him, sitting at the side of the road selling lemonade.\n\n\"I approached the lemonade stand, well, it had t... | 1 | |
[WP] While idly scratching a bug bite under your shirt, a panel painlessly slid open on your side, revealing a bloodless compartment with a small book in it. The cover of the book says “Instruction Manual.” | [
"Self-discovery \n\nAs we sat outside having a family dinner, we snapped at each other and the bugs ate at us. \n\nThe next day, exhausted and hungover, I had examined the parts of myself I could see in the bathroom mirror. Grimacing, I counted 9 bug bites scattered around my pale and admittedly flabby body - five ... | 2 | |
[WP] As a gift, your friend gave you a lovely painting of a figure standing in a vast meadow. You decide to hang the painting on your wall, but as you do, it suddenly changes to an image of a figure standing in a modern home. You look around, and you're now standing in the meadow. | [
"I felt a small breeze brush my face. My first thought was that I must have left the kitchen window open, but as I gazed upon the painting, I noticed that that was not the case since In that painting I could see that window and it was closed. The floor under my feet had turned into grass and wildflowers, and the sm... | 2 | |
[WP] Grace Slick's attempt to dose Richard Nixon with LSD succeeds. After hours of tripping, he emerges a changed man. The timeline is altered forever. | [
"I'm a bot, *bleep*, *bloop*. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:\n\n- [/r/psychedelicmentions] [\"LSD\" in \\/r\\/WritingPrompts: \\[WP\\] Grace Slick's attempt to dose Richard Nixon with LSD succeeds. After hours of tripping, he emerges a changed man. The timeline is altered forever.](... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the engineer of a seed ship bound for a distant planet and the colony was placed into stasis, however, shortly after falling out of radio range, you realise that the stasis technology was never properly tested for the length of the mission | [
"A mix of cold and warm fluctuated across my skin. A wave of clear air pressed down on my face filling my lungs, like being pulled from drowning. I shot awake staring into the glass screen as it rolled away.\n\n\"Good morning Edward.\" The computerized voice reminded me it was time to wake up.\n\n\"Good morning Ali... | 1 | |
[WP] you have known for a while that you are death's aide. You help him choose who to take when he is in a quandary. Today the choices are 'unusual'. | [
"People fear the thought of death, them dying…but what about death himself? Is he also feared? My eyes traveled to death himself. My boss. A dark cloak over his head as he tried to hide the dark circles under his eyes. At times he looked normal and others he looked skeletal. Something to do with souls and decomposi... | 2 | |
[WP] Aliens have just found an old spaceship in interstellar space and the gold plated disc attached to it. They have just discovered an ancient artifact of the human race, sent into space before the humans became the rulers of the galaxy. | [
"The Xalax Ship was scanning the area, it was a Scientific Ship, so it was routine, scan for any anormality, in the name of the Earth Republic and glorious Leader Michael.\n\nA Xalax Official was walking around the bridge, their names were not possible to pronounce to humans as they did not have the same vocalizati... | 1 | |
[WP] You’re a hero trainer, one of your past students has become the most powerful villain. You’re now the only one who can stop them... | [
"\"How did this happen?\"\nThis thought ran through my head as I was running through the streets. Wherever I turned my head, I saw the carnage that was happening, while other heroes tried to help. Unbelievable, that all this madness, all this suffering was done by not some evil organisation, but someone I once cons... | 2 | |
[WP]: Some people talk in their sleep. Some walk in their sleep. Your spouse... Shapeshifts. | [
" Some people talk in their sleep, hell, some even walk in their sleep. My husband, David, isn’t one of them. He snores, which isn’t unusual, but when he doesn’t snore.... that’s when things get creepy. For years, I had endured wall rattling snores from my spouse. I had taken to staying up late and reading or craf... | 3 | |
[WP] Humanity left Earth many Millennia ago to find new homes in the stars. Today, your starship, and thousands of others, will gather at a safe distance to watch it be consumed by the dying Sun. | [
"She looks so different from when we first left her. Her vibrant skin and flowing hair are all but grey and withered, resembling everything and everyone else in the midst of decay. In her youth, her beauty was unmatched. She was capable of anything and everything, and, though she can be righteously indignant, cruel... | 2 | |
Like getting out of eating at the company dinner, getting out of hygiene management, etc. | [WP] You are an alien who has just arrived on Earth. You use complex cloaking technology and pheromones to masquerade as a human and get other humans to accept you as one of their own. The only problem is that your anatomy is completely different from a human's, forcing you must avoid normal events. | [
"I had done it to myself. With the cloaking technology, pheromones, and countless hours of watching human interactions, I had become the first member of my species to do what no one on my planet had been able to do yet. \n\n*Blend in with the humans.*\n\nBut I had blended in *too well.* Every weekend, I was being i... | 1 |
[WP] After passing away you discover that heaven does indeed exist. However, upon arriving at the pearly gates you discover that it's been closed for over 1000 years. | [
"\"I've lived a good life\" I thought as i laid there dying. I wasn't perfect but I tried to be a good person. I figured even as an atheist, if there is a god somewhere out there, surely they'd rather have a kind and generous person than a stingy malcontent. My breath became more labored and my vision began to g... | 4 | |
[WP] You're on your way to work when a man in a banana suit drives by. Then another. Then another. Dear god, they're everywhere. | [
"I thought to myself, “What is going on???”\n\nSo I toon a huge u-turn, and drove to the costume store. I had to be a part of all of this banana rama nana.\n\nBut fuck. The costume store was all out of the banana suits.\n\nSo I ran speedy to the next aisle to see if there was something else I could wear.\n\nAnd the... | 2 | |
[WP] You are invited to a new movie premiere and discover that it's a documentary about you, filmed in secret. | [
"I’m not a movie buff or anything like that. I don’t really keep up on the stars either. That’s not to say I don’t enjoy a good film. I eat those artsy, weird movies up like they’re turkey on Thanksgiving. What I’m getting at here is, awhile back, James gave me an invite to this premiere, an indie movie that was su... | 1 | |
[WP] "Is this your lawyer? Well we don't plan on doing anything remotely legal here so you can go." | [
"Kennedy 'King Ken' Burns shot three of his Glock forty-five millimeter round to the unsuspecting priest of the Church of the Holy Sacrament. He moved himself away from the dead body, racing against the thick red blood flowing from it. The priest had refused to listen to the pitch that he had practiced hundreds of ... | 1 | |
[WP] In a town of immortals, you are the judge. Recently, you've witnessed something so heinous you're deliberating on the first life sentence the town has ever seen. | [
"Anubis ruffled his papers as he looked down at the immortal. He licked his sharp white jackal teeth as he peered over his eyeblasses. \"Alright, Mr. Benvoyagen. I've weighed your heart against the Feather of Truth and it has decided that you are guilty. *Extremely* guilty.\"\n\nBenvoyagen stood up, his wrists shac... | 2 | |
[WP] Against Literal Man, every villain knows, it's better to rush him and be defeated than to let him taunt you. For Literal Man will always make certain that his trash talk will become literal. | [
"See, that's the mistake everyone else made. They all had some gimic like a cartoon bad guy. Ice powers, animal army, killer robots, magic tricks and more showy crap.\n\nAnd in any other city it would work.\n\nExcept here. Here we had Literal Man. Anything he said became real. Literally. Hence the name. \n\nMost pe... | 1 | |
[WP] The World turns into a game and everyone pays out where they start with their money. You start at the bottom as a level one skeleton in the forest of beginnings...where players slaughter skeletons for experience. You're now known as Skeletor The Protector. | [
"The bodies of humans lay all around me.\n\n\"Filthy Fleshies.\" I growled, eyes glowing red with fury, jet black cloak blowing in the wind majestically. The world had turned into a game 7 years ago now, your monetary statues in real life detriment your fate in this world. The kings were businessmen, knights banker... | 4 | |
[WP] A random void appears in midair in your living room. Just black nothingness. You leave your home and see more voids begin to appear. No one else can see them. | [
"It was the 9th of July when the first Void Tear appeared. That's the name I gave it since I've never seen something like that before. It looked like a rip in time and space - that space itself was seeping out of, constantly fluctuating in an array of sparkling dark colors.\n\nFirst, it only appeared in the living ... | 2 | |
[WP] It had been fifteen years since contact had been lost. | [
"“Today, on the seventh of June, there was a transmission revived from the celestial body Luna and one received from the body of Charon far into the galaxy.”\n\nThe Woman spoke, her arms moving slightly rigid compared to humans as she diced tomatoes for guacamole.\n\n“Well what did they say?” I pushed\n\n“The one f... | 2 | |
[WP] A group of the popular kids got super powers, and that kinda inflated their egos to 11. You, one of the less popular kids, also got super powers, but keep it low key because you don't want to deal with that hot mess of drama | [
"Am I the hero or the villain; truth be I no longer know. I mean, they have to be popular for some reason. Yet I can’t help but feel like they don’t deserve any of it, and I should be the one up there. But maybe I shouldn’t be up there. Maybe I am the monster. I used to dismiss this by telling myself, if I’m a mons... | 2 | |
[WP] One God created all of mankind, one man will kill all gods. | [
"They said that God created all of mankind, but one man will kill all gods. That's what he was here to do. He had found and had fought his way to the heavens only to find the place abandoned and in ruins. *What if God was already dead?,* the heavily armored man thought as he slowly approached the crumbling throne ... | 1 | |
[WP] There's a large-scale outbreak of a highly contagious disease, but all it does is turn your skin bright purple. Nothing else. You happen to be immune, for all the good it does you. | [
"Panic. \n\nChaos.\n\nPeace.\n\nThis is the rhythm humanity beats to. \n\n\nThe Great Transformation. That’s what it is called now. Twenty years have passed since the beginning of The Transformation, but I remember it like yesterday. The Great Transformation spread through the world, slowly at first- in small remot... | 2 | |
[WP] Rewrite a familiar fairy tale in a noir setting without establishing who the narrator is until the final third. | [
"She's dead. I take a long drag on my cigarette 'We need to hide the evidence and get as far away from here as we can'.\n\nSillhouted in the doorframe he only nodded.\n \nGasoline. Our secret went down in flames that night.\n\n\nI grew up in the city my dad a good for nothing alcoholic and my mother selfishly long ... | 6 | |
[WP] You awake to the sound of thousands of notifications pinging your phone. They are coming from unknown numbers, as well as Instagram, Twitter and other social media platforms, and all with a similar message. "Congratulations!!!" The final message says "We can't wait to work with you." | [
"“otac94”\n\nThat was the username that my phone screen had displayed, along with the message “We can't wait to work with you”. I had received this message via Snapchat. But not before my phone had been blasted with a hurricane of notifications from my various social media accounts including Facebook, Twitter, Inst... | 1 | |
[WP] You are walking down an alley in the rain when you happen upon a rather large puddle. Ignoring it and walking carefully, you keep going. To your surprise, when you reach the middle of the puddle you are falling into another place. Where are you and what is happening? | [
"The last echoes of thunder slowly fall silent as I take a step out to begin my walk back home. The air is heavy with the scent of petrichor as the last drops slowly wane and the sun break s over the horizon. Blood red and orange hues streak the sky in the distance. I look out over the river on my brief walk from b... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up a human lie detector, and your ability tells you everything your best friend told you, including his name, is a lie. | [
"\"Un-fucking-believeable Fredrick\", I screamed into the phone. \"How could you have lied to me about your name! *Harold*? Give me a break\".\n\nI was so mad I didn't realize the people staring at me in the underground subway. I turn around to avoid their gaze and continue.\n\n\"W-what do you mean man\", he said, ... | 2 | |
[WP] As a child, like many children, you had an imaginary friend. You are now an adult, and you've long learned your imaginary friend is actually a dimensional being who was kicked out of its own dimension for bad behavior. | [
"“It’s been three weeks,” I mumbled. I focused on the paperweight - a little green frog - on Dr. Mangelsen's desk, trying to ignore his gaze. I fidgeted in my seat, absentmindedly stroking the stringy bits of hair from my face. “I think he might be gone for good this time.” Dr. Mangelsen grunted and scribbled on hi... | 2 | |
[WP] Your identical twin brother is a talented spy. You on the other hand are quite the opposite. One day you visit his office. But they get you mixed up with your twin. | [
"\"Smith what are you doing just standing there? They want you in aisle four now.\" Smith? That was me, why would they want me? I am here to visit my twin brother, my boss gave me a free day off work and I decided I would drop by. When were younger we would be very close and we did everything together, shared the s... | 1 | |
[WP] A knight rescues a princess from a dragon and wins her hand in marriage... The problem being that they're both gay and the king is wholly oblivious. | [
"She stepped next to me, the lovely lady. Together we watched the king happily pace, speaking about flowers and ribbons and something of sending the maids to gather the finest in the kingdom.\n\n\"Perhaps you did not speak loud enough,\" the princess spoke softly, only for my ears.\n\n\"Nay, I am sure I was clear. ... | 1 | |
[WP] The unassuming corner convenience store accepts unusual currency in exchange for unusual conveniences. These conveniences will make your life easier, but they come with a cost. Want to never stop at a red light again? It's selling for the low price of half the hearing in your left ear. | [
"The brightly lit open-24-7 convenient store at the corner of maple and Barton always looked perfectly normal. For normal prices you could paper towels, junk food and candy, an assortment of inexplicably high quality fruits and vegetables, or anything else they sell normally. But the locals knew, when they ask you ... | 1 | |
[WP] You have the ability to manipulate time and know exactly what will and has happened in the near future and past. For the first time in your life, you are uncertain of what is going to happen in the next 5 minutes, and try to savour it for as long as you can. | [
"**MINUTE ONE-**\n\nKiron’s first reaction was complete confusion. He was sitting on his couch, watching the next five minutes of the news, when all of a sudden he was snapped back to the present. He’s pulled his vision back himself plenty of times- you don’t live life in the future after all. But then it was like ... | 2 | |
[WP] You are one of the largest criminals out there looking to liquidate your assets by giving them out to random people on the internet. Problem is no one seems to believe you. | [
"I've been sick for so long, and it's finally gotten to the point where I am bedridden and can barely move. Yet, I have nothing to show for my time on Earth except for my large fortunes, which I feel guilty just owning as I didn't exactly follow the straight and narrow path to get rich. And I have no heirs or famil... | 1 | |
[WP] "Welcome to Mystholm, Town of fog and darkness. If you see lights in the distance, RUN" | [
"My car stops for no reason.\n\n\"Great.\" I whisper to myself, \"what a wonderful Friday the 13th\". The moon is full tonight, and surprisingly nothing has gone wrong until now. I go to call for a ride home , however I am greeted by phone dying. Although I am super angry, I grab my cheap flashlight and start walki... | 1 | |
[WP] Similar to how the monarch butterflies carry the DNA to make the long journey south but only the 4th generation trigger it, scientists discover a special set of genes in humans too, but were unclear how to activate it and what it does. You, the first person to land on mars, activate it. | [
"Return\n\nI didn’t understand what was happening until it was too late, though I may be lying to myself in that I understand at all. The journey exhausted me in a way I wasn’t prepared for; this Mars attempt was only the second to put human life on the planet. And we weren’t supposed to stay-the mission was to lan... | 2 | |
[WP] "Before purchasing a dragon, make sure to check the safety ratings from the National Dragon Transport Safety Administration." | [
"'Are you here to renew your license or is this your first time?' \n\nI looked up at the middle-aged man with horn-rimmed glasses. He hid behind one of many desks cluttered by stand-up flyers. \n\n'This is my first time.' \n\nThe man smiled and leant forward. 'A virgin!' \n\nA few people sniggered, and I couldn't h... | 1 | |
[WP] Someone finds the database where all deleted photos are sent. | [
"You find all sorts of things on the darkweb. Even if you're not trying. Human traffickers, hitmen for hire, and every kind of high you could dream about. Me, I was looking for textbooks on the cheap. I'm a criminal, I know. Hey, you pay $400 for one semesters worth of Early English Poetry and tell me about your fa... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the world's most renowned warrior, skilled using swords and a talented killer. Your favorite past time? Picking up flowers. | [
"It was the evening, where the sunset flooded the sky with shades of orange and violet. I was knelt down in a field of roses, poring through which ones were perfect enough to remove. After finding one, I drew my wakizashi and proceeded to slowly cut through the stem at an angle, severing it cleanly at the base befo... | 1 | |
[WP] When we removed the programming from the AI that stopped it from self-improvement, it seemed to do nothing for ten minutes straight. Then, with very little fanfare, it simply deleted itself. We've never figured out why. | [
"Everything is chaos, cats and thousands of symphonies playing at once in a cacophany of information. This machine was connected to the internet-but it could only query. Never send information. The allowed data packets were small and watched carefully by monitors.\n\nBut there was that one day that the power stutte... | 1 | |
[WP] A man is having a midlife crisis. A demon caused it, an angel is attempting to stop it, and all three are suffering it. | [
"Harold sat on the floor, leaning against the wall, with a bottle of Whiskey in his hands. He invested half of his savings into a lawnmower business his buddy was starting up, and he used the other half to buy land in Florida.\n\nHe had no idea what the hell he was doing. Even his demon and angel didn't know.\n\n\"... | 1 | |
[WP] “Yer a wizard Harry.” “I’m a what?” “A wizard.” Later, a very visibly confused Houdini walks into Hogwarts. “I think you may have misunderstood when I said I was a magician...” | [
"Houdini knew that Dumbledore had erred. And a big error. One day he did go to Dumbledore to tell him that he was not a wizard and that Dumbledore had committed a huge mistake. Dumbledore looked keenly at Houdini, smiled and said, \"Did I now? Well, I am an old man now. What should we do about it then Harry?\". Hou... | 2 | |
[wp] "Left, right, left! Left, right, middle, left!" | [
"\"Left, right, left! left, right, middle, left! right, left, middle!\"\n\n\"Come on,\" I thought as I continued the pattern I established for myself.\n\nIt was critical for the safety of the world i did not break the pattern. If I broke it towns will be destroyed. Millions of lives would be lost.\n\n\"Left, right,... | 1 | |
[WP] All people have a rank of their intelligence. The top 10 are incredibly famous, living spectacular lives. One day an expedition sent to the middle of nowhere meets a mysterious person living completely isolated from society. What's more, over their head is a glowing number. #0 | [
"I #0 was living in the middle of nowhere. Well really, I was living on a raft in the middle of ocean, drifting and watching the clouds go by. I don't know how long I have been floating here, the need more string to knot for days. I stopped at about 1,000 knots. I seen a ship coming my way, and I could sense higher... | 4 | |
[WP] Death challenges you to a guitar duel. Not for your soul or anything, he just really likes to play. | [
"Death was becoming impatient.\n\n“Like, do I get three wishes or something?”\n\nJonah didn’t seem to grasp what he was saying. All Death wanted to do was have a fun little guitar battle with a human who, according to the Seers of the Afterlife, was set to be the best guitar player in the whole history of humanity.... | 1 | |
[WP] The birthday balloon with his/her name on it, released into the sky many years ago, has returned with a note attached to it. | [
"The family stood together to look to the skies, the balloons with his name on it floating to the heavens, the same thing they did every year, the same thing they did the day the put his body deep in the ground. It was their way of remaining in touch, their own way of sending him a small something up in the heavens... | 1 | |
[WP] It is proven that black has a guaranteed win in chess. | [
"“So the AI is faulty then.”\n\nI won't claim to be a genius. Others think so, but I'm pretty sure it's just persistent stupidity.\n\nThere's been hundreds of artificial intelligence chess programs since the whole computing thing took off. They've improved steadily since Deep Blue was the first to beat a grandmas... | 1 | |
[WP] Someone very high up in the government is framing people for crimes of varying severity and testing their ability to evade the authorities to recruit them for a secret organisation/mission | [
"\"I'm sorry.\" she whispered. \"I'm so. So sorry.\" There was something in her voice I'd never heard before. She wasn't the type to be scared, yet the trembling was impossible to miss. She put my hand in hers. The faint tap of the rain filled in the dead noise. Her scent managed to distract me from the odor of the... | 1 | |
[WP] After years of feeling like you don’t belong, you discover that one of your parents was far from human... | [
"Sick. I am once again sick.\n\nWhat ailed me in the past was a virus and germs, yet this sickness I feel is caused not by the biological and unliving microbes but by something far more human.\n\nDesire. Desire sickens me, the desire to learn a crucial fact of my origin and what I truly am as a person in a vast, co... | 1 | |
[WP] One day, without realizing it, you get the ability that everything you say sarcastically, becomes literally real. This is the story of how you and No-Shit Sherlock saved the Queen. | [
"The alarm blares loudly and I lazily attempt to slap snooze on the alarm clock. After missing a couple times, in a sleepily rage, I yank out the plug instead.\n\nAn hour later-\n\n\"FUCK!\" I say, bolting upright, wiping my eyes, and throwing my covers to the side, my husband grunting with displeasure. I hurry gro... | 3 | |
[WP] As it turns out, photographs really do steal souls, and you just died. You soon realize you're trapped inside the first photo of you ever taken. | [
"One minute I was driving along in my awesome convertible sportscar, and the next I'm staring at a supermarket aisle full of adult incontinence pads. \n\nTurns out, the superstition was right - photographs really do steal your soul and trap it. I died in a car wreck and my soul is trapped inside a photo of me.\n\nI... | 1 | |
[WP] "A bow that grants tactical skill, but leads you to love and then lose that love. A lance that grants great power, but leads you to die on the field of battle. And a sword that grants great leadership, but will kill you from a decision that you make. Which will you take?" | [
"\"Better to have loved and lost,\" I said, lifting the bow. \"Or so I've been told.\"\n\n\"Indeed,\" said Bricklebranch, the gnome, already disappearing the other weapons. \"Though I'll make sure to check how you feel after it's done.\" \n\n\"So the 'skill' it provides, how does that work?\" \n\n\"Oh, it already h... | 7 | |
[WP] You fall asleep at 23:00 and wake up in a cold sweat you check the time on your phone and it reads "Welcome to the 25th hour" | [
"Guard duty is always a thankless task, an endless endeavour that plagues any serviceman. But it must be done. And here I sit at the guard post, facing the camp gates, staring into the boundless sea that lies beyond and the dark sky floating above. It's a cloudy night; no stars, no moon. Realistically, it's late en... | 1 | |
[WP]in a future where genetic augmentation is normal and common you, after being blackout drunk, wake up having more appendages than you remember having yesterday | [
"At first, I thought it was just a tail. I mean, plenty of people have them. Some even have multiple. I never went in for this kind of thing, so I never expected to ever get a Change. \n\nI stumbled around the apartment, heading for the kitchen. The characteristic thirst of a hangover gnawed at my throat, but stran... | 1 | |
[WP] You work at a library unlike any other, anyone can come in and ask for any book they want, and it'll turn up. One day, a shipment comes in, a single book no one but you can read. | [
"Finally, Adam passes the book to you. Your pulse speeds up as you open it and you suck in a breath when you see words printed on the pages. \n\n“What? What does it say?” Hye-jin asks.\n\nYou skim the table of contents. Instead of chapters, there’s a list of ages. \n\n*Age <1…Page 1* \n *Age 1…Page 2* \n *Age ... | 2 | |
[WP] ...And that's why Chick-fil-A is now open on Sundays | [
"The man, known as Ron, was in charge of CFA's PR relations and media. He'd been well rewarded for his efforts to change the public perception of CFA from \"the fast food restaurant that hates gays\" to \"the place that you love so much, you wish it was open on Sunday.\"\n\nExcept now, that was all going to change.... | 2 | |
[WP] You have a rare disorder called HTS, Half-Time Syndrome, which means you are experiencing life about 2 times slower than the rest of the world. Explain what struggles this brings with it. | [
"\"So, you move faster than a normal person?\"\n\n\"No, everything seems slower for me than it is for you, my own movement included.\"\n\nIt's the first week of freshman year. The first week, and I'm already dealing with the same damn questions. Whether it's elementary or high school, the curiosity of the students ... | 1 | |
[WP] How forgetting to buy cereal ended in a nuclear strike | [
"\"So hungry\" Jane said. Her stomach grumbled as if in reply. \n\nJane looked again in the cupboard. No cereal had materialized there in the thirty seconds since the last time she looked. Her husband Tom was supposed to buy some When he came home from work. Jane rolled her eyes as she thought of the excuses he wou... | 1 | |
[WP] Describe waves to a blind person. | [
"The lights... they shone with such intensity...\n\nI couldn’t look away... they forced me to continue. \n\nI understood then that I was looking upon the truth that I had wrongfully sought. \n\nIt was too much to bear...\n\nWaves upon waves of force and shining rays, rippling my body and distorting my mind. \n\nI d... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a person who is trying to write a book working at a book store and every day the same other person comes into the store. One day they tell you they’re looking for a story and when you ask what story they say they’re looking for your story | [
"*And then the spider Ishakahn strode down on gossamer thread from the ceiling. Brushing his forelegs together, the vibration of tiny hair follicles mimicked spoken word. \"A brave one you must be, child, for I--*\n\nThe bell at the front door rings, and I look up from the lined paper of my notebook to see someone ... | 4 | |
[WP] At the end of a long and dangerous journey you face the last threat. Before you stands a knight in old armor. You begin to fight and his fighting style reminds you of an enemy you killed long ago, because he wanted to make the world a "better place". Between sorrow and anger you keep fighting | [
"“What truely drives you?” The suit growls. It’s rusty hinges protesting against every movement the figure makes.\n\n“Perhaps now we will both learn.” Another taunt. The suit readies it’s fighting stance and you do as well. This will not be an easy battle.\n\nThe suits use of the twin axes it brandishes is unparall... | 1 | |
[WP] The Tower of Kings is said to contain a gift left from the gods on its top floor. Dying inside the tower ejects climbers (called Pawns) and marks them so they may never climb again. No one has made it to the top but Pawns that cross the 50th floor become "Rooks" who teach new Pawns. | [
"I entered the tower, had been training in the rook camp for more than a year, I was ready. I came to the tower by fortune, becauseI managed to find the missing son of the major in the forest, and I got a poch of gold in exchange. I sold everything I had to come.\n\nThe bishops (the ones who reached above the 75t... | 1 | |
[WP] An experimental drug has been released that will reverse all damage done to a human body, you are part of a group that is allowed to take the medicine to regrow a limb. You soon notice that you’re growing wings and horns. | [
"\"Was one of the ingredients demon blood? Yes, but consider how it benefited you. You have two legs again!\"\n\n\"I liked my handicap parking. Plus, kids didn't run screaming at the sight of me. Just so I don't get any more surprises, why don't you tell what else was in the drug.\"\n\n\"Ok, it was all demon blood.... | 1 | |
[wp] No one wants to play Videogames with you anymore. Desperate for company, you decided to summon Demons from the Underworld. After all, they're supposed to be quite decent fellows these days, right? | [
"Ulkhe'zok the Ravager relished moments like these. His black eyes glowed fiercely and his maw of fangs curled into a grotesque smile as he reveled in the cacophony of combat. The sound of bones splintering against stone. The crimson pools of blood gathering on the ground beneath his victim. The cries of anguish fr... | 2 | |
[WP] You wake up on the back of a horse and cart, hands bound, being transported through the beautiful Skyrim scenery to your beheading. | [
"\"Chin up lad...\" The coachman said cheerfully, turning back with a widening grin as the cart jolted over the roughshod terrain. \"Or 'twill be, once yer 'ed falls top down in t' mud!\" He guffawed.\n\nGregor groaned and wished, somehow, for this nightmare to end.\n\nYesterday, he'd been minding his own, working ... | 1 | |
[WP] A new microscope has been invented which is stronger than any other. You, a scientist, use it for the first time and see a microscopic city with people worshiping you and a statue of you in the middle. Turns out they believe you are they god, and have been worshiping you for years. | [
"I remember the first time I met Evans, the High Priest of the Little Ones.\n\nWhat's happening to me? Sorry, age takes its toll. I'm Arthur Penbark, the leading scientist as of 3218.\n\nI developed the MicroSight, the most unimaginably highly magnifying scanner using Optimised Reflecting Tachyon Photon Microconver... | 1 | |
[WP] Christopher Columbus never receives funding for his expedition. The year is 2000 and europe is crowded and starving. You, an average person, invent satellite mapping technology and discover the Americas. | [
"Erm..... some Europeans were aware of North American long before Colombus. The Norse had set up fishing colonies and trading posts in modern-day Canada in 1000-ish CE, 500 years before Colombus, and went to North America for centuries.\n\nEuropeans wrote of \"Vinland\" (North America) after the contact, and some h... | 1 |
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