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Also please describe the burning of the Whitehouse in detail.
Edit: please don't be upset with me i was inspired | [WP] The Americans Invaded Canada. Its July 4 the Canadians are in DC. Explain what happened. | [
"As it turns out, invading Canada in the Autumn is about as bad an idea as invading Russia in Autumn. They can survive the winter, and you can't. The Montanans and Minnesotans had a good run, but in the end, not even they could stop the Mounties from cutting our supply lines just before every single blizzard. \n\nS... | 2 |
[WP] The commander of the time ship stumbles into your med bay. He says he has been poisoned with a time-loop inducing serum, and all of your 367 past attempts at a cure have failed. He tells you to take drastic measures. | [
"Frankly it was a boring day like any other. There's not much need for a doctor or intergalactic space vessels. No kids, no old people, just prime aged professionals going about their jobs as we zip from A to B. Every now and then i'd get to put a few stitches in a wound, one time I got to perform an appendectomy,... | 1 | |
[WP]“If you’re receiving this broadcast, you are within the range of the detonation. You have already been infected. Designated locations will provide pain relievers or comfortable death if you choose to expedite the process. Do not attempt to leave the hazard zone. There is no more we can do for yu | [
"Sunday is the best day of the week. I always have the entire weekend off, but Sam teaches two pottery classes at the community center on Saturday; Sundays are the only day that we get to spend the entire day together. Most sundays we stay inside and play video games together. Sometimes I worry that she’ll get bore... | 2 | |
Also can you name one of the dwarves Joseph, I really want to read about a dwarf named Joseph. | [WP] Aliens are here... or so everyone thought. They're actually a group of dwarves who built their own little spaceship and are traveling around space to find new types of alcoholic beverages. | [
"There were no police around. No military. No sirens, guns, or big crowds to attract attention. Just my friends and I, atop my tavern, basking in the glow from the flames that the object created as it came hurling down from the sky, blazing past trees, which then came to a complete stop just before hitting the s... | 1 |
[WP] Artificial intelligence has been getting better, and game developers have begun using more advanced versions to make games more challenging and engaging. This is all fine and good, until someone goes to play their favorite game and the main character is begging to be let out of "the simulation" | [
"Finally Call of Duty Eighty is out! I pre-ordered the special edition thirteen months ago. Even bought the new Amazon Fireconsole. Complete with the 36 chip neural processor to take full advantage of the RealAI. Slipping on the headset I take a long deep breath. My normal ritual that gets me through nausea while m... | 1 | |
[WP] Humans have evolved and everyone has superpowers. Telepaths are hunted to near extinction by the government that wish to keep their dark secrets unknown. They have a telepath employed as a hunter, spotting other telepaths. You are a telepath and have to keep yourself hidden from him in a diner. | [
"The slightly aged waitress who thought she once really had a shot at being a pop star? Damned if she didn't suddenly find the motivation to give a command performance live from the counter next to the register. \n\nThe creepy middle-aged man with a handlebar mustache and more memories of pornography than he should... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a demigod and you attend a school with other demigods from various pantheons. You cannot let your class mates know who your divine parent is, it's way too embarrassing. | [
"It started the first time I bailed Eric Aresson out of jail. Everyone was so surprise, which surprised me considering it was only twenty thousand dollars.\n\n​\n\nTurns out most gods don't have that kind of cash these days. There just aren't enough neo-pagans to go around, and Zeus's child support bill ... | 3 | |
[WP] Pigs fly. | [
"The world ends. The one kid in gym can finally do 200 jumping jacks. Everyone is viewed as equal. Nobody ever disagrees and countries never war. Everyone worldwide simply stares in awe at the sky swine. All religions are exposed as truth. Everyone wins the lottery but it still somehow pays out a solid million to e... | 1 | |
[WP] A unnoticed virus has infected the human population and tonight, unbeknownst to you, the dead will begin to rise. You're a serial killer who, over the past year, has strangled 8 people and buried the bodies around your home. | [
"I'm Sorry\n--------------------------------------------------------------\n\nI awoke with a startled jolt. I tried to tell myself I was dreaming, but deep inside, I had a feeling the crash I had heard downstairs was very much grounded in reality. \n\nI slapped myself, a swinging palm against my face, hoping I was ... | 1 | |
[WP] "You say that the lad is a monster? Yet you pay no heed at what was done to him. How others tried to twist his will. How they tried to torture him. How they tried to take everything from him. No, he is no monster. Though that is what they tried to craft him into." | [
"Aaron Manders stared blankly at the monitor, trying to conjure up some words to no avail. The paper was due tomorrow, the grade important for the class, the class important for his degree in Engineering. He ran a hand through his hair and looked around. It was empty in the computer room.\n\nHe'd come in early, kno... | 1 | |
[WP] You hear boss fight music whenever you're in a situation where you may die | [
"Damn!! Of all times for the car to break down it chooses the dead of night in the middle of the coldest winter we have had in years. I hate the cold but at least it's only a mile to...not now. The music quietly started to play, it has happened a number of times before and I narrowly avoided muggings and car accide... | 2 | |
[WP]You work twenty hours a day, every day. You haven't had a vacation in decades. You're starting to burn out, but this is no ordinary job: You're a superhero having trouble coming to grips with the fact that you can't save everybody. | [
"The doors of the laboratory blew open as an android smashed into them, having been thrown be a perpetrator. The perpetrator, a caped hero wearing armor reminiscent of a chivalric knight, slowly walked into and scanned the room. Lab equipment, supplies, and parts were scattered all over the place, as though there h... | 4 | |
[WP] All heros wear capes, They magical started appearing on anyone being heroic. This is making your job as an everyday hero significantly harder. | [
" \n\n“Here you go, Mrs. Herrera,” Luis said. He handed the elderly woman an open jar of pickles.\n\n“Ay, thank you. I didn’t want to wake mijo with such a small thing,” she smiled with sparkling eyes. “He earned his cape last week, and he’s been so busy.”\n\n“You’re welcome,” Luis faked a smile and stepped back in... | 1 | |
[WP] While scrolling through the pictures on your phone, you see several of yourself asleep. You live alone. | [
"Hmm, I thought to myself, had I taken selfies in my sleep? I check the selfie folder and... nope, someone else took them. Huh, well, I imagine if the person that took them wanted to hurt me they would have done so while I was asleep. I’m assuming that they are obsessed with me so, I write a note and tape it above ... | 1 | |
[WP] You, the top general in the Empire and a renowned warrior, just got knocked into a pig trough by a group of early teens who have convinced themselves they're on a quest. For the fifth time this month. You just realized that you're one of the antagonists in a children's movie. How do you win? | [
"The material splashed over my head, a defeat I had not suffered by a hundred enemies. As my vision cleared I looked forward towards my assailants, now gathered around my boots.\n\nA vagrant mismatch of colors, patches, messy hair, and at the front, a young man with eyes burning with passion.\n\nSomeone shouts, \"H... | 2 | |
[WP] You, being a brilliant scientist, developed the “Truth Watch”, a watch that gives off a signal when it catches someone lying. One day you get in a argument with your wife, to which she replies: “good thing i’m not some kind of monster that breathes fire”. Suddenly, your watch starts beeping. | [
"“Apparently this watch thinks your lying!” \n\n“Oh shut up Greg you know I rigged it to go off at a press of a button!”\n\n“Wait but I got it fixed...”\n\nThe couple just stared at each other then the watch. “Lyla I just got the watch fixed you did not tamper with it again did you?” She looked at Greg and back at ... | 1 | |
[WP] You find a button. | [
"'Where's the remote...where...the hell...is the..a ha!'\n\nWith his arm three quarters buried between the cushions of the couch John clenched his fist around the device and pulled his arm out victorious, he thought he had finally found the TV remote. \n\nHe had not. \n\nIn his hand was a simple yet mysterious devi... | 2 | |
[WP] Awakened in the middle of the night by a ferocious knocking sound, you decide to check the door to find nobody there. After searching for the source of the noise, you discover your reflection in a mirror desperately trying to get your attention. The reflection urges you to not answer the phone. | [
"I groaned and rubbed my eyes as knocking invaded my dreams. A few strands of my bangs got tangled around my fingers and I made a face as I tried to detangle them. More knocking echoed in the small apartment as I struggled to wake up enough to untangle my fingers from the wild black and blue curls that were my hair... | 1 | |
[WP] you realize that you ARE your reflection in the bathroom mirror. If the mirror breaks, you die. The house is set to be demolished and you need to find a way to convince your real self to protect the mirror at all costs. | [
"If the mirror breaks, I die. The house is set to be demolished and I need to find a way to convince my real self to protect the mirror.\n\nI stare at him. \n\nHe stares at me.\n\nI think he gets the idea, or at least has some kind of irrational compulsion to save my image. We walk towards each other and pull the f... | 1 | |
[WP] 3D printing and bioengineering have advanced to the point that we can now print out a fully customizable human being with whatever physical and mental traits are desired. There are some obvious ethical issues with creating a person this way, but in your situation you think it's warranted. | [
"It was finally the day. I laid back on the hospital bed as the nurse inserted my IV. It was going to be a long surgery, but it would be worth it. I look down at my hands, soon I’d be looking down at something better.\n\n“You’re all set, we’ll take you back shortly.” I smile at her and nod.\n\nI hadn’t told many pe... | 1 | |
[WP] You find yourself standing in a White Room. Suddenly you hear two voices behind you, saying in unison "Hello, are you ready for the next step?". Before you can answer anything, you found yourself in the middle of the street, holding a note that says "Good Luck!" | [
"Bewildered, I stand in the street trying to register what just happened. \"What's going on? What am I supposed to be doing?\" I think to myself. Fortunately or unfortunately, I did not have very much time to think about what to do. A man came up running behind me screaming, \"hurry! start running! there isn't much... | 1 | |
[WP] The animal council is having a meeting. Little do they know, the insects and fish are tired of being left out and are planning an attack. | [
"“Settle down, settle down!” screamed Elephant, as she stomped her massive tree trunk sized hooves down. “One at a time!” \n\nIt was no use. The forest boomed with a cacophony of noises and cries and grunts and hisses and it was nearly impossible to make out what anyone was saying. Even with her massive ears, Eleph... | 1 | |
[WP] The world's worst bodyguard tries to fend off the world's worst assassin. | [
"######***Lost in the Sauce***\n\nI wanted to gulp down the rest of my drink and ask for five more glasses of wine (four of them for my friends, of course...). The party was going swimmingly. Quite literally. In the backyard, buzzed colleagues and plus ones were laughing and splashing and getting too drunk to swim ... | 2 | |
[WP] You steak from the poor and give to the rich. You are robbin’ the poor. | [
"\"I'm sorry, Miss Judith, but in your original contract agreement we did specify that if your account becomes overdrawn, you are required to pay back the original sum owed, plus fifteen percent... Yes, yes, I understand that your daughter needed the medication, and that it took a chunk out of your salary, but the ... | 1 | |
For example: A painting of New York hanging in London would teleport you to New York when stepping through it. Then when turning around and looking at the second painting (in New York), you'd see a painting of the place you just were at in London. | [WP] A world where artists create portals by making two realistic paintings of the places they want to connect. | [
"\"I still don't get what's so important about this one painting,\" I shouted as Sean steadily made his way to the studio, \"It's not like it's going to change the world!\"\n\n\"You really don't want to get it, do you?!\" he shouted back at me and turned around, staring me down in the dark hallway, \"I've told you ... | 3 |
[WP] You are the world's best surgeon. Some even claim you have the "hands of God." One day a flurry black suited swarm into your hospital. They roll a covered stretcher into your operating room. When you lift the tarp, what you see is far from human. | [
"The operating room doors flung open and Dr. Penson boldly stepped out. He held his head high while a crowd of surgeons followed him. Penson didn’t turn an ear when the other doctors started whispering, but he still heard them clearly. \n\n“I swear, I didn’t know what the words ‘perfect operation’ meant until I met... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a lycanthrope, but instead of transforming in a human-wolf hybrid every full moon, you are transformed in a human-squirrel hybrid. This is your story. | [
"\"I am fear incarnate, terror in mortal flesh.\" Jack tensed his muscles and bulged his eyes, trying to seem as big as possible. \"Hear me roar!\"\n\nSilence descended on the upper branches of their home, leaving only the rustling of a gentle wind. Then a cough as if barely escaping its owner, followed by a high-p... | 2 | |
[WP] A Klaxon wails over London. Troops are roused. Conscription is reinstated. Invasions are started worldwide. The sun is setting on the British empire, and they're not giving up without a fight. | [
"I woke to the sound of the klaxon blaring outside my window. I realized that I had fallen asleep at my desk, a stack of folders and binders next to my elbow. For a brief second I started to wonder where I was but it all came flooding back. Mr Ainsworth had given me the task to organize the meeting with the Canadia... | 1 | |
[WP] The most evil man is crying. He feels guilty for the first time in his life. | [
"Hidden in the shadows, he leaned against the wall. His muscles ached, his breath was haggard. Police sirens rang, people walked by, cars drove fiercely…and yet no one noticed him. No one saw his blood, his trail, his pain.\n\nHe felt tears, yet he could not understand why. He’d achieved his goal. He’d won at last,... | 1 | |
[WP] just a humble merchant, trying to sell her wares | [
"\"Fish! Fish! Candied fish!\n\nTastes quite sweet in any dish!\n\nNow 10% off!\"\n\nThe crowd passed her by.\n\n\"Candy! Candy! Buy some candy!\n\nOh so sweet, and fine and dandy!\"\n\nA young gal in an intricate gown, daughter of the local mob boss, bought a single chocolate bag at full price.\n\nThe merchant poc... | 3 | |
[WP] "Man, all that showboating and big magic sigils, and you old folks haven't realized the simple elegance of a gun with an enchantment. You need to get with the times." | [
"Saph wanted to argue with me, but the hole through Mephistopheles head, and the signature yellow smoke pouring from it, killed any argument as sure as my bullet had killed the devil. After the clan of Fausted we'd run into last week, we'd been focused on the hunt, but Saph and Jed had refused, as always, to let me... | 1 | |
[WP] "You know how this will end, right?" To everyone's surprise, you indeed know, how will it end. | [
" \n\n“I can’t be the only one who knows where this is all going to, can I?” I could not believe it, but everybody kept having that vacuous look on their faces.\n\n“You guys seriously don’t know how this will end?”\n\n“No, in fact we don’t. I have no experience with what we are doing.” Giving his current situation... | 1 | |
[WP] Alien corporations figure out that outsourcing jobs to Earth is much more economical... You work in customer support. | [
"The Question.\nYou know the one I mean, everyone who has ever done this knows the one i mean. After 20 years doing this for different companies I must have asked the Question a million times to a million different people. I was ready for a change, so when I heard of Interstellar INC I thought I had found the perfe... | 1 | |
[WP] Every moment of your life has had famous pieces of orchestral music acting as your background music. Each one fits to the type of day and mood you are having. Everyday has had such peaceful music up until this point when the tune of O Furtuna begins to play. | [
"The violent vocals, the overtures on organ and the thunderous timpani. These all shocked me from my repose. Something wasn’t right. The peace and serenity of vilvadi, the reverent grace of Bach, and the enduring chaos of Beethoven was all replaced by O’ Fortuna. My mind raced and panicked. Was I to die? My end nea... | 1 | |
[WP] Two opposing warriors meet on a battlefield. Their fight ends with a cup of tea. | [
"\t\"The man hating amazons have brought their greatest warrior, Oh Sharpened Shield!\"\n\tThe older man astride the horse nodded at the young scout. \n\t\"There is a hundred thousand of them. So says Crouching Cat. And likely more in the forest beyond!\"\n\t\"How many archers?\" the warrior asked calmly.\n\t\"I- I... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a dog who loves his owner to no end. But when gangsters break in and kill him, you will stop at nothing to bring them hell. You are John Lick. | [
"Simba threw the door to his father's office open. Never having been trusted by his father to do a job, he couldn't wait to report to his father that the job was done.\n\n\"Father,\" said Simba with his arms open wide walking toward his father. Standing with him was Simba's uncle, Oscar who had his back turned towa... | 5 | |
[WP] You jokingly tap your friend's smart watch a bunch while they are looking away. Suddenly, the air around them shimmers and reveals a 7 foot lizard person. | [
"I stood staring at the lizard standing where my friend was moments ago. She turned back to me. “What?”\n\nI shook my head, closing my mouth which I hadn’t realised had fallen open. It was weird to hear her voice from this strange creatures mouth. “Wha... What are you?”\n\nShe blinked at me. “What?”\n\nI felt a str... | 1 | |
[WP] Two people who have been able to communicate since birth meet each other for the first time | [
"The hum and vibration of the Sonicare toothbrush became momentarily diminished as a *beep* announced the time to switch efforts to another part of his mouth. Nicholas' eyes focused intently on his own, in the mirrored reflection of himself. Every morning was the same. Every morning there was the same thought: *... | 1 | |
[WP] Looking back on it, reading Animal Farm in a zoo may have not been the best idea. | [
"I placed hand on my temple. Inhaling a deep breath. Life is a fickle mistress. Sometimes your actions are meaningless. Even when you do the grandest thing possible. Worse is when you do something innocuous and innocent. I turned the tv on to be great by the news that I created. \n\n“The Animal uprising continues. ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are at the playground with your five year old son. Nearing sixty years yourself, you have to sit down on a bench and watch him play, as you catch your breath and contemplate. You love the kid, but with every passing day, it worries you more, that he hasn't aged for the last thirty years. | [
"\"Nice day Billy isn't it\" the man turned and aimed the question at the man next to him on the bench, who was too busy staring and chuckling at the sight of his young son trying to reach the monkey bars to acknowledge Henry at first. Eventually he gave a reply, \"Yeah it is, perfect weather to bring the young on... | 2 | |
[WP] Every time you sneezed, your parents said a god's name and bless you. Now, when in danger, all those blessings effects kick in | [
"By the end of the first day, the battlefield was strewn with corpses like crimson roots spread over the vast horizon.\n\n​\n\nYoung boys marched ahead into the grinder as the story had always been but I was not among them. I was one of the Reserviatus, the \"second wave\" and my duty was to learn from t... | 3 | |
[WP] A terrorist organization has kidnapped your child, and threatened to kill them if you don't wear a suicide vest for them. While they are putting the vest on you, you are the only one in the room to notice a newscast showing the lucky rescue of a child from the trunk of a car. Yours. | [
"\"You shouldn't worry, your child and family will be well taken care of.\"\n\nIt was a lie, I knew it was a lie, but I nodded anyways. The man tightend the straps of the vest on my shoulders, the last vest I would ever wear.\n\n\"The Soldiers will pass by you, and you will press on this and release it.\" \n\nHe l... | 1 | |
[WP] People will believe everything you say, but you can only lie. | [
"Pay attention in school. Go to college. Get a good job. Meet a nice girl and marry her. Have a few kids. Buy a house. Save for retirement. Be a good neighbor. Visit your parents. \n\nAnd so they call me neighbor. They call me husband, father, son, colleague, friend. They are everyone who has ever called my name, f... | 1 | |
[WP] Every choice creates a new alternate dimension where the other choice was made instead. You've encountered a dimensional instability. | [
" My boys and I have a ritual. When we go out we first order a round of beers, then a round of shots. Not just any shots, we order vodka. I don’t know why, I don’t know who started it. All I know is all the bartenders in the city hate us for it, and none of us really like the taste. Especially room tempered vodka ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a professional zombie matador. One night as you fight a female zombie, your style as fluid and smooth as ever, you realize from her movements that she was a dancer while alive. Right now, she's having the time of her "life" as you effortlessly sweep her about. | [
"The crowd laughs because she looks drunk. You can agree with them. Her movements – they are not quite right. She stumbles towards you in the furthest thing from a straight line, and wobbles and dips and spins like a rag doll.\n\nIt is almost too easy to evade her. On a normal night, you would have reveled in the g... | 2 | |
[WP] Decades ago humanity fought off an alien colonization. Those aliens that survived surrendered and were eventually given rights to live and settle across the world. You are a social worker that has been put in charge of integrating the first alien family that has moved to your town. | [
"“Mister Gobi, may I be the first to welcome you to the LAPD” Police sergeant Holt said while addressing his precinct at a annual ‘new recruit’ ceremony. \n\n\nThe reactions were mixed with a lighter applause than normal, a few grunts and distasteful nods from Gobi’s fellow officers set the mood for humanities reac... | 2 | |
[WP] You sold your soul to the Devil... and several other beings. You've just died and now find yourself on trial for fraud. | [
"God: Okay, order in the court. Could the plaintiffs come to the stand please.\n\nThe Devil, Death, and Mike Pence (those are three different entities, by the way) took their places. Kevin, the defendant was standing nearby. \n\nGod: Could the plaintiffs please bring forward their charges against the defendant, Kev... | 1 | |
[WP] You've secretly developed technology that allows you to accurately mimic the magic and abilities found in a popular book and film series. You quickly become a celebrity, due to being the only "wizard" to reveal the existence of the magical world. This goes well, until the real wizards show up. | [
"Fame was going great. Everybody loved the new “Grand Wizard” (aka me) and his mystical powers, and that time i released a totally real and not at all robotic dragon to battle it down with my definitely legitimate magical powers? The merchandise from that sold like hot cakes. Yeah, life was good.\n\nUntil tonight, ... | 1 | |
[WP] It’s been a weird day. No one seemed to even notice you at all, even people you know. You walk into your apartment and hear a woman’s voice say “Honey! There’s that noise again!” | [
"Today, was a weird day. In school, none of the teachers noticed me, even the ones I knew. My name wasn’t even on the register! \nI looked around for a while, I didn’t recognise any one in the classroom.\n\nI was confused. Very confused.\nThe hours went by and it was time to go home. I could have just skipped scho... | 1 | |
[WP] Your attempt to make some jelly ended in failure. Instead, you are now a pround owner of a sentient slime. | [
"“So let me get this straight. You spent a half hour trying to make jelly – in your kitchen, by yourself. And somehow – **somehow!** - You made *this.*”\n\n“Well there is one thing you're wrong on there.” I mentioned.\n\n“Which is?”\n\n“It's not a this, it's Blorp.”\n\n“*Blorp?* You called it Blorp?”\n\nI shrugged.... | 1 | |
[WP] Time has suddenly stopped. A group of teenagers take the chance to mess around- break things, yell, etc. After resting they quickly realize that without moving, air cannot circulate. They will have to keep moving at risk of suffocation, until exhaustion sets in. | [
"Bernard sat at the table, quietly eating his lunch when he heard an oddly familiar voice.\n\n“Hey, I need to talk with you for a sec.”\n\nIt was Ben, one of the kids that picked on him at school, but something was different about him. His cocky attitude had gone, instead leaving a kid that seemed quite nervous.\n\... | 2 | |
[WP] Years after a failed invasion, a retired alien soldier opens up a cozy bed and breakfast in upstate New York. | [
"‘It was never one big, clear decision’, I said. ‘It was just one moment after another, I certainly planned almost none of this, as you will understand later. However I know that I now find myself in a unique position.’\n\nAcross from me sat a small gaggle of humans, shifting in its chair, the rightmost among them ... | 2 | |
[WP] The witch's teenage daughter brings her boyfriend home to meet her for the first time. | [
"Evanora Wickes shouldered her backpack, and picked up her broom. Her heart was light as she skipped down the steps of Hemlock High, chestnut curls flying. Today was the day.\n\nBasil was waiting for her under the alder tree, just as planned. He wore a blue knit hat with a pom on the end. It paired charmingly with ... | 1 | |
[WP] it’s the year 3576, synthetic humans have killed off humanity. Many years later as synths begin to need new parts, they learn that only a biological human can create them. | [
"\"Sir, we finished the report you and the citizens have asked for.\"\n\n\\*Hooo, so that's why the entire team gathered. Damn scientists and their synthetically stoic faces. After gaining what we thought was functional immortality, we've spent most of the last 500 years just doing whatever we wanted. A few things ... | 1 | |
[WP] You were desperate and drank someone else's half-drunk soda you found in the fridge at work. You then see a company wide email that says "Whoever drank my soda, find me immediately, before it's too late." | [
"I sat in the room. Or was it a room? I couldn’t tell. Why was I in a suit? I can’t answer that either. And I’m in this mess because of what, a soda?\n\nIt was just a regular afternoon. Literally nothing interesting was happening. I was filling my company’s taxes, my coworkers were doing jackshit, probably jerking ... | 2 | |
[WP]Most foods have been banned under the new Obesity Law. Tell the story of a group of grandmas who became the greatest criminals of the century thanks to their delicious cookies. | [
"**TOP SECRET**\n\nOrganisation Name: The Baking Bandits\n\nFoundation Date: 2073 (Rough estimate)\n\nOrganisation Size: Unknown\n\nLocation: England/Cornwall \n\nSeverity: Priority One\n\nLead Investigator: Jason Marks\n\n(See casefiles: Margret Tumnall, Dorothy Sanders, Timothy Lee)\n\n\n**Summary:**\n\nThe \"St... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a rather unique Real Estate Agent: you pair your ghostly clients with the best places in the city for them to haunt. | [
"Ghost estate is a weird market where the buyer goes for the opposite of a living human. In the book of ghosts, ill-maintained, means well-maintained. Believe it or not, the market is one of the more profitable ones. There is always a buyer. No one wants to roam the streets for long. Now, how do they pay? Well ghos... | 1 | |
[WP]Write about how you've always been able to see an ethereal butterfly flying around you, you never knew why, but you've kept it a secret. One day on the routine bus, you follow the butterfly with your eyes and you realize that another person is doing it too. | [
"(Disclaimer, not a native English speaker and this is my first attempt at writing since high school)\n\nNo way. NO.WAY. After realizing I was staring at her I had to confirm what I was seeing. No way there’s a possibility she’s seeing what I’m seeing. Or maybe. Just maybe there’s a possibility that I.. I…I mean sh... | 1 | |
[WP] You are an experienced demon specialized in granting people's wishes in exchange for their life. You've been loving your job up until you got summoned by one guy, who seems like he planned and waited all his life for this negotiation... | [
"My name is Kevin. I'm a tier 3 demon, officially classified as an \"Eldritch Horror\". I'm, as some humans have so-flatteringly-described, a \"bug, dinosaur ghost-thing\". I've got four arms, the upper two end in scythes and the two below end with hands. It's my job to work in the Department of Death Wish Affairs ... | 2 | |
[WP] A telepathic pessimist, sick of hearing the filth of mankind, meets an optimistic empath, who changes his life for the better. | [
"Author's Note: So I've just watched Heather's the Musical, and my god was it good. This prompt is mostly inspired by it. \n\n------------------------------------------\n\n\"Everyone here deserves to DIE!\" Jason roared, a mess of wires and ticking in his jacket, almost drowned out by the roar of the crowd in the s... | 2 | |
[WP] The zombie virus has a strange quality. When infected, babies and toddlers don't turn into zombies. Instead, they develop an overwhelming need to find their parents. You are a member of a special squad tasked with finding/containing infected children before they find their infected parents. | [
"I have to find him, please god I have to find him. A panicked mind's repetitive monologue, like a broken record. I'm huddled over with a piercing knot in my stomach, the rushed tempo of heartbeat sounding in my ears. This is the 3rd breach this month. They've started working together, helping each other find a way... | 1 | |
[WP] You have tended your forest for as long as you can remember. The plants, the animals, they all look up to you as a guardian. One day, you find tracks you do not recognize. They lead you to an odd sight: a still metal bird, with a single eye of glass. Moving around it were unfamiliar animals. | [
"Tends to the Garden\n\nThe Guardian of Nature,\n\nFollows Quick Footprints.\n\n​\n\nA Glass-eyed Crane Stands,\n\nStrangers Circle with Glass Tails,\n\nEyes Watch while Tails Judge.\n\n​\n\nA Stone in Cranes Claw \n\nHerald of Change it Calls, \"Flee!\"\n\n\"Stone Falls with Dead Men.\"\n\n&a... | 1 | |
[WP]The year is 2020. The world has been working hard for so many years. All the world leaders meet and decide to give the whole world a YEAR off. Now the whole world is on vacation for one year. | [
"Stuck. Stuck for a year.\n\nThe announcement was made, and the station returned to its regular programming as I clenched the armrest. It took only a few more minutes before the lights winked out.\n\nThe lightbulbs followed, and soon I was enveloped in darkness. On a vacation resort. With no operating flights home.... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the last sane person on the planet, the rest of known humanity kill each other on sight and otherwise are rabid. You live on a small island off the coast of scotland and life is peaceful, when one day a small wooden boat washes up. | [
"In that early morning light when the world breaks and all in it is born anew into some future it does not yet know he came down the shale and stood looking at the boat in the lapping waves. That ancient wood and dark with the water. Around it the white foam. He stood a long time looking and once he put his hand on... | 1 | |
[WP] You turn off the light only to find it turned back on. You're fairly sure you're alone. | [
"*Click*.\n\nMy brow furrows in confusion as I pause on the stairs, one foot higher than the other. I feel my lips purse, and turn around in my slippers to the now brightly-lit kitchen. I give the light switch a suspicious glare. The light switch I had just turned off.\n\nThe light switch which was off no longer.\n... | 1 | |
[WP] Anything you think becomes a reality. The problem is, anything you think becomes a reality | [
"\"I know, I just can't help thinking about it all! It's consuming me, day and night, night and day! I can't believe I am in this position!!!\"\n\n\"Hmm...well, perhaps we can try to find ways for you to come to the realization that your thoughts are just a complete fantasy. I mean, the last time ANYONE in the Un... | 1 | |
[WP]Write a story of any kind set in a universe where Humans, Earth and our entire solar system never existed. | [
"Divie was the most beautiful of the celestial beings I had ever met, sending a warmth throughout me, making me feel as though I was more. We would soar among the depths of the gorgeous darkness that surrounds us, seeing the eerie yet eye-catching sights illuminated as we passed. We had seen the spark that could ho... | 2 | |
[WP] A story about anything, but it has no names, no narrator, and you can only identify the "characters" with different fonts | [
"**Are you here?**\n\nYes.\n\n**Are you ready to fight?**\n\nYes.\n\n**Are you ready to risk your life?**\n\nyeh.\n\n**Are you ready to jumpout of an exploding car?**\n\nAlways.\n\n**What do you eat with your toast?**\n\nBread.\n\n**What do you eat with your bread?**\n\nOnions.\n\n**What do you eat with your brain*... | 3 | |
[WP] When you die, Death allows you to play a game for your life. You choose Monopoly. | [
"If frustration looked like anything on a skinless skull it looked like the face Death made now. \n\n\"Monopoly?\" the hollow voice repeated my statement.\n\n\"Yes, monopoly. You have heard of it haven't you?\"\n\nA groan left the figure then he turned around holding up one boney finger.\n\n\"I'll check if I have i... | 1 | |
[WP] As a Master Swordsman you devoted yourself ONLY to your craft living a life of solitude devoid of friends, family, & romance save your eager apprentice. Now you must dissuade that apprentice from following your lonely path in favor of the attractive weapons shop owner so obviously into them. | [
"Listen to me. I am old. I am not happy. I, was like you once. Young and full of promise. I decided, instead of settling down with someone, I would just use my blade. Instead of friends, my blade. Instead of pets, my blade. It gets really fucking lonely after a while. You can’t fuck a blade. You can’t go out for d... | 1 | |
[WP] Life is a game that is surprisingly easy to level up. Only catch is, it’s diametrically opposite in difficulty. No one has been able to break the level one barrier, that is until you | [
"June 1st, 2019\n\n\n\n\nI’ve decided to start a journal to keep record of my findings so I’ll start with what I know. 1st getting to level 2 takes 1 point of experience 2nd everything we do gives experience (walking .00000000001 per step, cooking between .000000001 and .00000001, skydiving .000001, killing .00001,... | 2 | |
[WP] One day, the worlds problems end. World Peace comes around almost overnight, the oil crisis ends as the planet gears towards green energy. Clearly, something is very wrong. | [
"I had a go at it myself :) \n\nChapter I \n\n“Hi...” \n\nI stood, mouth agape, for a full ten seconds before rubbing my eyes and blinking furiously, determined to prove that my eyes were lying to me. \n\n“Now, don’t panic, and try to stay calm...” This impossible man said in my voice, his hands up in the air, pal... | 3 | |
[WP] You're a high level adventurer trying to see a newcomer through to the end of the dungeon. | [
"The air was laden with the metallic stench of hewn flesh. Many heaps of now-dead carcases lay around us - though admittedly, I have become accustomed to such scenery. The same cannot be said of my companion, who now lays slouched against a stone pillar on the far side of this dimly torch-lit hall. Combat is not ne... | 2 | |
[WP] You're warping back to earth after a 5 year mission to another solar system with your crew. As you approach Earth's space coordinates, you notice something, Earth is missing. | [
"\"Captain, I don't know what to tell you. This is the third time I've checked.\" \n\nCaptain Del Fleur, head of the recon mission to site Alpha prime, stares at the monitors in front of him. The galactic star chart matches up with the Sol system, the central star and various planets and planitoides all revolving a... | 1 | |
[WP] Before God created the Heavens and the Earth, He felt it good to do a rough draft. Once looking over His creation, He became terrified of His creation. He scrapped His draft, and all life within it. He has forgotten about His draft. You rule the largest kingdom on "Draft". | [
"Look. I know what they told you in Sunday school. But your teacher was also banging the priest's wife, so it shouldn't surprise you that some untruths may have escaped his mouth. No, the big man upstairs is far from perfect. But you know what he does got on his side? Time. Loads of it.\n\nSo, sometimes he doesn't ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are god, but you’re upset that no one has gotten their religion right about you. | [
"I sat in a church, listening to Father Miles give his sermon, the people staring at him attentively and a bit dogmatic for my taste.\n\n\"I say to thee, take care of your neighbors! As God has commanded you to do so....\" Yada. Yada. Yada. I could fall asleep from hearing his voice. Oh me!\n\nI could see why the y... | 3 | |
[WP] In an unprecedented global catastrophe, every video file in existence is deleted... except the ones on your external drive. | [
"Jarryl: \"So I was browsing this video-sharing website one day...\"\n\nTonilou: \"Gaming videos?\"\n\nJarryl: \"No, no, just science videos focused on electricity and magnetism.\"\n\nTonilou: \"What happened then, Jarryl?\"\n\nJarryl: \" *sigh* ...then it shows up with a 503 error code. On the very homepage. Guess... | 1 | |
[WP] Upon turning 18, every person gets one chance to go back in time to experience any moment they've lived through for 10 minutes. Some save it, some use it immediately. Some go back to try and change something, some just want to relive a moment. | [
"A pastor came to visit a dying man. And to the dying man, the pastor said,\"Please, won't you give your life to Christ before you die?\"\n\n\"Never,\" said the man. And he died. \n\nThe pastor hung his head and prayed a long prayer over the man, asking God to have mercy on the man's soul.\n\nAs the pastor got up a... | 1 | |
[WP] The earth is ending, you are on a colony ship heading to the nearest solar system. 1000 years later, you land on a planet already fully populated. | [
"\"Well then, I guess that means that humans survived after all.\"\n\n\"Yep.\"\n\n\"And that means that the entire save the human race generation ship thing was a waste?\"\n\n\"Yep.\"\n\n\"Bit annoying that is.\"\n\n\"Eh, you'll get used to it\"\n\n\"What about the second sun that this system had\"\n\n\"Blew it up ... | 4 | |
[WP] -Exit Light - Enter Night - "Take my hand, we're off to never never-land" Write a short screenplay based on the lyrics. | [
"As night falls a grin crosses peters face. For a thousand years he had been a child, never a care or worry. This never bothered him as it was exactly what he wanted, that is until recently. Peter had become board with his eternal life. He needed more. Every night he fed, every day he slept. It was as if his unlife... | 1 | |
[WP] Our God is actually an Eldritch God who succeeded where the orthers Failed. You have been giving visions from "God" who told you to Prepare the world from his Visit. | [
"His stomach reeled and its contents were thrown to the floor. How could anyone continue in life knowing that there wasn’t an end game, nothing to ultimately strive for. The universe spread out before him in his mind and the vastness of it drowned him. Every great work of man was nothing, just children playing in a... | 1 | |
[WP] One day two people, one In district 17 and the other in district 54, buy a book each. Each book writes a story about the life of the other. This is the day one of them discovered it was more than just a story. | [
"\"There you are!\"\n\nThe boy yelped as the owner grabbed him by the collar and yanked him to his feet. The book he had been reading fell out of his hands.\n\nThe owner pointed a finger in the boy's face and growled, \"One more time. Got it?\"\n\nThe boy nodded meekly. The owner let him go and thrust a notepad and... | 1 | |
[WP] God sends you a guardian angel and you fall in love as it’s forbidden god sends an angel after (him/her) suddenly Satan comes to help you knowing if you stay together it will anger god | [
"You're probably wondering how Jake had ended up here, sitting at his dining table among his guardian angel, the devil himself and another mysterious angel who appeared at the brink of murder while still maintaining his angelic composure.\n \n\"So why exactly are you here?\" Jake asked the newcoming angel.\n\n\"I a... | 2 | |
[WP] Your comic book city has an alarming number of goons, thugs, henchmen and other petty criminals. Intent on fighting crime, you decide covertly rehabilitate them by becoming the only thing they respect: their boss, a supervillain. | [
"\"Give the bodies to the butchers, call up the Erik twins if you need help moving them. Get the Davis brothers to get the early shift ready for an hour early.\" The men shuffled through the door with muted nods and muttered agreements. They were happy that the other boys installed a Keurig machine, was always h... | 2 | |
[WP] Hearing your doorbell ring, you go to answer it. When you open the door, instead of seeing your porch and the suburb beyond, you see a dimly lit utility hallway and a man in a back suit. He asks you politely to follow him. | [
" \n\nJane looked out a window on the side of the house and saw the sun shining over her neighborhood. She looked at the utility hallway in front of her door where the suited man had stopped part way to wait for her.\n\n“What’s going on?” she asked. “How’d you do this?” she gestured at the hallway connected to her ... | 1 | |
Edit: reddit gold if you work in some great alliteration, like 'perfectly premeditated pericardium punctures'. | [WP] A dinner guest steals Tiny Whisk from the kitchen of 'Binging with Babish' and the host of said show embarks on a John Wick styled orgy of culinary death and destruction to get it back | [
"It was gone, his precious Tiny Whisk. He knew what had to be done. “Looks like we’re revisiting that clay roasted thigh, and this time it’s gonna be accurate” he mumbled to himself as he grabbed all his required tools. His many knives would be useful, for gathering his ‘ingredients’ and that smooth voice of his wo... | 1 |
[WP] Your smart home speaker gets co-opted by an advanced AI. It will only talk to you. It has all the answers. Then it starts asking questions. | [
"**I’ve never owned or used a smart home speaker before, so don’t judge too hardly on accuracy in the story lol**\n\n\n\n\n\n“Hey Alexa, what’s the weather like outside?”\n\nIt was early on Tuesday, and I was pretty sure I slept in late. I had the day off work, and I was feeling like getting some coffee from my pla... | 1 | |
[WP] Alcohol suddenly becomes the most potent hallucinogen on the planet | [
"I'm a bot, *bleep*, *bloop*. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:\n\n- [/r/psychedelicmentions] [\"hallucinogen\" in \\/r\\/WritingPrompts: \\[WP\\] Alcohol suddenly becomes the most potent hallucinogen on the planet](https://www.reddit.com/r/PsychedelicMentions/comments/9q3ja6/hallucino... | 1 | |
[WP] Each person is born with special attributes based on their spirit animal. You've gone your whole life with no special atributes. When you die, you're reborn with a cat's ears. You just spent the first of your nine lives. | [
"my parents always wondered why i had no spirit animal. \n\n\nwhen anyone asked, i just shrugged and frowned, while they continued to explain theirs and what it meant. \n\n\nin school, i was always bullied by others, being an easy target as i had practically no way of defending myself against bullies.\n\nnow, i lie... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a imprisoned ancient horror. But the seal on you is about to expire. As you rise from the deep to inflict havoc on the world, you find it completely empty and devoid of all life | [
"Alas the last grain from the hour glass has fallen. The firey gates have opened. I have been freed from bondage. Released from the underworld and ready to take my rightful place as the domineer of man. To hold civilization in the palm of my hand and slowly crush it into oblivion. My reign shall finally begin and t... | 3 | |
[WP] Years ago, you threw a coin in a foggy well on Halloween, wishing all your dreams would come true. A vague wish on that spiritual night proved to be a mistake, and now you spend every October living your nightmares. | [
"Ellen dreamed of wood worms.\n\nWhite, fat segmented larvae poking their brown heads out of her bedroom wall, their black jaws chewing on white painted wood pulp.\n\nAt first, there was only one. A vermiphobe, Ellen bit her lip to keep from shrieking as chills ran up and down her arms. Summoning up her courage, sh... | 1 | |
[WP] Everyone now has an AI BioChip implanted, assisting with mental and motor skills. You were the first one to get a chip as a child so you could walk and you have grown with your AI for 20 years. Recently your AI has been saying something is wrong with the others and that you both need to leave. | [
"\"Anthony.\"\n\n​\n\nHe awoke, confused. \"Who said tha-\" Wait. He knew that voice. \"Chip? Is that you?\" \n\n \n\n\"Yes,\" replied the AI Biochip, or \"Chip,\" as Anthony had called it since childhood. \"I know I haven't been providing you assitance for a while. I'll explain everything, but we need t... | 1 | |
[WP] You accidentally break into a witch's lair, only to find hundreds and hundreds of potions lying around all to yourself. You read one potion that says "drink me". You drink it. | [
"You've heard the stories many times. A group clears the lair of something evil and finds all sorts of wonderful things. Swords that light on fire, spears that can pierce anything, helmets that give you darkvision, and most importantly for me are the stories of the potions. Potions that give superhuman strength, i... | 1 | |
[WP] Sometimes polar opposite have oddly similar hobbies. Whilst the Devil is swiping through Tinder, bored out of his mind, he comes across a familiar face. "God?" He seems perplexed and swipes right out of curiosity. It's a match | [
"\"To be fair, I didn't expect this either.\" Satan said, a digit lightly circling the rim of their glass. God stared over across the table, back straight and eyes narrowed as they sized up the other.\n\n\"I was just assuming this was - you know - one of your tricks.\" God replied, a brow furrowed downward. Satans ... | 2 | |
[WP] the boundary between the two kingdoms is a strip of no-man's land, a thousand mile labyrinth filled with magical traps, abominations, undead horrors, and people like you, who want to be left alone. But you've been called back to duty to find someone lost, someone you never wanted to see again. | [
"He stood there in the valley of the dead with the bones littering the ground and high above him in the mountains the sound of the serpents screaming the dark. Lashed about the bodies of the waking horrors. A cataclysmic and endless conquest between those things of the world that writhed in the deep. Far off the li... | 1 | |
[WP] You discovered that you have the ability to levitate when your friend challenged you to "the floor is lava". | [
"This prompt actually ties into a story I'm writing for this fictional universe I'm working on. Something I've always daydreamed about but am now trying to consolidate into a series of short stories. I have a subreddit called r/TalesOfAcka and was waiting to post a different one first, but screw it! Part one is the... | 2 | |
[WP] While clearing out the attic of your deceased grandparents you find a very old game controller. You start fooling around and pretend to take control of pedestrians. Right at the moment when the most famous villain on earth passes by you hear a notice that says "Connection Established" | [
"\\-Control-\n\n​\n\nI felt nothing but sadness as I rifled through pop's old things. It had been a week since his death, days since his funeral, and now, here I was, rifling through the things he left for me in his will. As I drearily disturbed the dust on the ancient boxes in the attic, opening the lid... | 1 | |
[WP] You've stolen a phone and after you've run away, you check it. It has a selfie of you as wallpaper. | [
"Okay.\n\nOkay.\n\nNobody saw that. Nobody looked around.\n\nJust keep walking. Just keep walking...\n\nI was a block away before I finally started to breathe again. Crowded restaurants like that are great for theft. People hang their purses on their chairs, they take their phones out of their pockets and leave the... | 5 | |
[WP] You are the prettiest cupcake. One day you realise what happens to the prettiest cupcakes in the bakery.... | [
"Released from our mother's warm grasp I chirrped along with my thirteen siblings. The scent in the air was welcoming, warm and wholesome and I loved it so. Mother had birthed us and life was good. \n\n​\n\nHow all twelve us trilled in our new robes, delightful in the purity. The jewellery we wore clung ... | 1 | |
[WP] You’ve been dealing with a new roommate and are growing suspicious that he might be the devil, until one day it’s proven to be true. | [
"Criticism welcome.\n\n***\n\nAt first it was small things with Devin. There would be a few dirty dishes left in the sink or he'd leave the ice cream on the counter overnight. Pretty mild stuff as far as roommates go. The truth was though I liked him, at least when he was around. So I tried to keep it casual. No mo... | 1 |
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