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[WP] You have the ability to see through man-made objects and only man-made objects. You don’t like unintentionally spying on people but you can’t turn it off. You are walking around and then you spot something. It seems to be a room, and you can’t see into it. | [
"\"Having x-ray vision sucks. My parents learned pretty early on that I was \"special\" - a lot of kids my generation were developing \"superpowers\" and governments were doing \"testing\" and blah blah blah.\n\nTruth is, I hate it. I can't see man-made things. Of any kind. As a result, I've been living in the wood... | 2 | |
I'm trying to explore the idea of magic existing within the constraints of science | [WP] You wake up with magic powers, you can create anything. But this matter, being neither created or destroyed, must come from somewhere. | [
"I stand in front of the filthy water as the village’s inhabitants surround me, looking simultaneously weary and hopeful. They talk in a language I don’t understand more than a couple words of but all the noise fades out when I reach for that strange, warm energy I could feel shifting through me and twisting around... | 1 |
[WP] You are stuck in a life or death situation where the only thing that determines whether you live or not is one question. "Where is the Iberian Peninsula?" | [
"\"Ummmmm...\" I know this. I bloody well know this. Of all the times for my brain to freeze, this is the _worst_ one.\n\nI've always been a fan of quiz shows. _Who Wants To Be A Millionaire_ with Chris Tarrant as a kid, right up to _Tipping Point_ and _The Chase_ as an adult. Questions about this place have surely... | 1 | |
[WP] A woman discovers her love for writing prompts. She begins writing every day. Eventually her 9 yo daughter begins writing with her. They work together on story after story. They begin writing an autobiography. Then one day the woman wakes up and realizes she never had any children. | [
"Thirty five. It took thirty five query letters before I found an agent to represent me. Now, in the grand scheme of things, this is actually pretty reasonable. Macy, my novelist friend I met online, submitted 127 before she got a response for her first book. So in that way I'm lucky. But today I realized I'm in ov... | 1 | |
[WP] The village idiot likes to sing with his head underwater to "sing to the mermaids". The village ridicules him for it. One day, the village idiot is swept out in a riptide, and no one is willing to come to his aid—no one from the village, that is. | [
"Nobody was surprised when the ocean reached out and swept Gregor under. After all, it had been a windy day, and the man was a certifiable dolt. That's what you get for singing to the \"mermaids\", right? All the villagers stood and gawked for a moment, but everyone knew that Gregor couldn't swim. That was that, th... | 1 | |
[WP] Sometimes, you get glimpses of the future. If you act quickly enough, you can change these events. Today, you saw a vision that your best friend would die in a freak car accident. You must save them, but there's just one problem - you are a dog, and your best friend is your owner. | [
"I walk to my car, thinking about the day ahead. I have a lead for a new story and, if I succeed, I could get a promotion. I unlock the car and step inside when my small brown-furred dog runs out of the house. \n\nHe had done this a lot and each time I had had to stop and calm him down. Strangely, each time I had d... | 5 | |
[WP] You wake up to find a small cube with a button on your desk. Seconds before you press it, you hear a knock on your door. | [
"My head is swimming as i wake up. reaching for the sheets i find once more i have tossed so much in my sleep that they fell to the floor. i sit up quickly looking around the edge of my bed. for any hint of where they had fallen. after a moment my brain finally kicks in telling me i can't see. i lean over my marb... | 1 | |
So I’ve had this idea for a while of a horror movie or book set during the day as a way of subverting the whole idea of making it through the night to the safety of the day, and thought it would be interesting to see what other people do with the idea! Also sorry if this isn’t the correct flare, I wasn’t too sure which one was right :) | [WP] Horror short set during the day. | [
" \n\nThe sun halted in the sky gazing upon this scorched land. My blood had long been boiling in this hellish heat. Now with the sun at its zenith, my sweat ceased. The moisture was ripped from my skin and offered to the world. I stiffened my legs and cocked my head. I looked out to a ridge I hoped was just beyon... | 3 |
[WP]Santa comes down the chimney only to be greeted by a swat team with assault rifles pointed at him | [
"Normally, when Santa visits your house, he is welcomed with a dimly lit Christmas tree, some hot milk, and a plate of chocolate chip. But not this year. This year is going to be different.\n\n\"GET DOWN\"\n\nShocked, Santa squeezed down the chimney, only to be welcomed by a squad of geared up soldiers with their w... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a love letter from Death to Life, or vice versa. | [
"I get that you love me so much you keep trying ro send all those supposed pretty little lights to me, but everytime you do they're all ready flickered out\n\nI know you want me to see the light, even just the once, but it just isn't possible. I appreciate them all the same, I cherish them and I'll keep them close ... | 3 | |
[WP] It’s been years since the world was brought to its knees by aliens, however they didn’t destroy earth, in fact it became a paradise. | [
"The sun was shining, the grass was green, birds were in the air, but Captain Garglanx was trudging down his street.\n\n\"Good morning, captain!\" said Mrs. Franklin, with a wave and a smile from across the way. She was watering the flowers in her yard. Some native to the region, some interplanetary. \n\n\"Pleasant... | 1 | |
[This post and comment thread inspired me, hopefully I inspire you.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/a1gawz/gionee_on_verge_of_bankruptcy_as_chairman_loses/eapn02q/) | [WP] You're working your way up in the (maybe not terribly legitimate) business world and your boss tells you to take some funds and "lose" them at a casino to pay the mob. | [
" You're working your way up in the (maybe not terribly legitimate) business world and your boss tells you to take some funds and \"lose\" them at a casino to pay the mob.\n\n Feeling a little anxious Beth walks into the casino. As she looks around she feels like everyone knows why she is there. Expecting the po... | 1 |
[WP] Your tattoo was completely original; it was drawn and seen by you only until the day of tattooing. Weeks later, after it has healed, a man notices your arm, and pulls up his sleeve. It is the same exact tattoo. He winks, taps his nose twice, pulls his sleeve down, and walks away. | [
"What was his point?\n\nWas it to answer a world famous paradox? What if the universe just...stopped, right then and there? Did he know it wouldn't?\n\nI know I should replace HE with I, but even in seeing an older version of myself its hard to believe.\n\nMaybe I was just loosing my shit, but why, or how?\n\nI ha... | 1 | |
[WP] Your best friend, whom is a incredibly kind and decent person, has went through several assassination attempts this past month. These assassinators are all from different points in the future, the earliest being only a year from now. | [
"You recognize the bright blue eyes as the same ones that stare at you from the mirror, he looks like you, but in a doppelgänger kind of way. The gray at the temples is different, his face is more weary, but his body is more... lean.\n\n\n\nWhen he takes a knife and runs towards Lisa you step in, and as you touch h... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up after a night out drinking with your best friend, and Instagram notifications arriving nonstop. You see that last night you uploaded a selfie on a white background, captioned "I did it!". It has two hundred thousand likes. | [
"My eyes focus on the screen. Prongs of fire biting into my head. I toss my phone to my side. I did *what*?. I stand up, slowly, then try to still my head for a moment. Making my way too the kitchen, the full gravity of the situation begins to bear itself down on me. 217,908 people?! 5 times the population of Monac... | 1 | |
[WP] Everytime anything gets hit by a truck it gets sent to a parallel universe. | [
"The last thing I heard was the blaring of a horn. Then there was a loud crunch, and finally darkness. \n\n\nI open my eyes with a start, my heart racing. Well that's good news, at least it is still beating. That is already better than I was expecting. It must have just been a dream, a very vivid and shockingly pai... | 1 | |
[WP] It's the year 2130 and you are in a blizzard, in the middle of summer. Europe and US attempt to send some of their elite citizens to Mars. You receive a ticket and an encoded message ordering you to board a ship and stop it from reaching Mars. | [
"She looked up from the tablet’s screen. Her eyes gazed upon me, moving up and down, unsure of what I was doing there. I knew that look, I had seen it countless times before. It was a look I deserved, too many broken promises down memory lane.\n\n“What exactly is it this time, Jim?”, she asked as she swiped through... | 1 | |
[WP] You died years ago and chose to work as a Reaper for eternity in the afterlife. The job is little more than a bureaucrat processing the recently deceased. Then one day you’re called to a scene where you meet a loved one and you have to process them. | [
"\"Another one\"\n\ni mutter. Even with all of eternity at your disposal, one can still be pretty lazy. I pick up my scythe, skeleton mask and dark cloak and head out of my office. Yeah, thats right, im a Reaper. You think i would be pretty busy with the hundred of thousands of people dying everyday right? Well, yo... | 1 | |
[WP] The British SAS have a mission briefing to discuss a new threat that has been found in Britain. The commanding officer walks in and slaps a file on the table, labeled “Hogwarts”. | [
"Deep in the heart of London, in a undisclosed location, me, Havers, Smith and Travis, where talking about the threats from China. It was quite a slow day, it was very cloudy, very cold and just miserable outside. Some Chinese businessmen were buying houses in Leicester which we thought were very strange and needed... | 1 | |
[WP] When people die they get the chance to know how they died and who is responsible for their death. When you finally get to the clerk at the reception she looks you up and heads to the back. After a while she comes back with someone else, it's the manager. They tell you there's no record for you. | [
" I open my eyes and find myself in a waiting room. Confused I look at the people around me. All of them are quiet, sad even. “Number 423,” calls a soft voice. A young boy stands up and makes his way over to the woman. “Come on, sweetie, I will guide,” I hear her say as she closes the door behind her. \n\n \n I... | 9 | |
[WP] When a person dies, their soul is transferred to a new born. Trouble is, overpopulation means we've just run out of souls. | [
"The chair I'm sitting on is cold but I'm sweating. Much more than I should, If I'm being honest. I can see and feel the sweat patches growing underneath my shirt but I ignore it. My attention is primarily directed to the panel of questioners sitting on a raised platform, all looking down on me. Raised heads, flare... | 1 | |
[WP] The hero is bleeding from their gut. The villain has a gash across their neck. Together, in their final moments, they reminisce of the times before they became the super powered beings they are now | [
"\"Braith...\" Aldous's voice was shallow and raspy as he tried calling out to the slumped figure a few feet from him. \"Braith?\"\n\nHe clutched at his stomach, gritting against the pain, and dragged himself bodily towards her. She hadn't moved since she got hit. He'd seen her walk away from some pretty serious in... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a D&D character favored by your player. After many campaigns and adventures you fatefully roll a natural 20 in perception and become self aware and learn your world is pen and paper. You’re abilities to effect the real world are unknown but you know you must escape your parchment prison | [
"I was sitting around the campfire with the rest of my party, reminiscing all our past adventures. The steady winds of the fields of Amphisbaena blew bristly through our camp site with a cold chill, an ever constant reminder of the unforgiving nature of these Realms. Of the unforgiving nature of the Tyrant. This wo... | 3 | |
[WP]make a hero who is a lone wolf. the catch? Their only power is to give other people powers | [
"Another day, another town needing saving. It seemed everything out here was either running out of money or getting run over by bandits. There was little else that actually tourbled them. This town seemed as though it was dealing with bandits, so fixing them up wouldn't be too hard. As I made my way into the town s... | 2 | |
[WP] You’re 15 and after a day in school, went to sleep. As you wake up, you are shocked to realise that you’re not in your house. A middle-age woman walks into the room and says, “honey, you’re awake!” You ran to hide in the toilet and saw a middle-age man in the reflection of the mirror. | [
" \nThe sleep. \nFriday night, I went to the pub with the lads from work, I might have had a couple too many. I got home and fell into bed, not bothering to get undressed, I did kick my shoes off. \nIt seemed like I had just closed my eyes when I felt a body land onto the bed beside me. My eyes flew open, there... | 1 | |
[WP] You're an experimental ship AI commanding a ship to attack space pirates. Your crew, however, doesn't approve of your methods, despite them being phenomenally efficient. | [
"Red alert sirens blare throughout the ship set off automatically to warn of imminent collisions. Well, I assume they blared since the spec sheet says they're very loud, but no one thought to install microphones for me to hear what's going on. What I do know is that people are scurrying around inside me trying to b... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a debt collector acting on behalf of witches and warlocks when their "customers" default on making repayments on magical good and services they have been provided with. Most of the time you are successful in convincing debtors to make good but sometimes repossession is your only option. | [
"\"Dammit\" I shouted in frustration and wiped the blood from my face. I threw the stone bowl across the room spilling its contents, powdered bone, across the blood covered floor of my garage. Now I'm usually a calm person but if a squirrel exploded in your face you would probably be unhappy too.\n\n\nI stood from ... | 3 | |
[WP] Your friend always seemed a bit off, but when he gives you his old computer for christmas you were certain. Your friend is a demon. | [
" \n\nStart at the beginning…um…okay, but to be honest I’m not really sure where that is. It’s kinda a long story. I knew Jeffery for so long you know.\n\n​\n\nJeff was always a bit awkward. It’s a quality of his I’d just gotten used to. When he stopped by to give me his computer last week, I thought it... | 1 | |
[WP] The doctor just sent you, an intern, to get some x-rays from across the hospital you work the night shift at. On your way back, you take a look at the thin plastic printouts to pass the time. There's something else inside that patient. Something alive. You hear a commotion in the hallways. | [
"\"It's in the middle of my upper back, Doc.\" The patient collapsed onto all fours. He wriggled around the floor for a moment barely holding in his agony.\n\nScreaming out in pain, \"Right fucking here, Doc!\" He pointed to his spine's C2-C3 area.\n\nThe doctor looked to a nurse holding a giant needle and syringe.... | 1 | |
[WP] Red lights flash as the door of your classroom automatically locks. Your teacher closes metal bars over the vents and windows in a panic. "They're here." | [
"(WP) Hair of the Dog\n\nShe was sitting in history, her least favorite class in school, when it happened. \n\nSomeone got up to go to the bathroom and reached for the knob, but the moment his fingers met the metal, she heard the lock click closed, and red lights began to flash, washing the room in bloody light.\n\... | 1 | |
[WP] Firetrucks, police cars, and ambulances are no longer on the same team. | [
"Incident Report:\nDate: \n12/25/19\n\nResponding Officer:\nRandy Preacher\n\nSummary: \nDispatch sent myself and three other units, 3514, and K9 Unit 4881, and 6630 to a reported altercation between two groups of about 10 - 15 on the 3500 Block of South Wyndham. Shots were fired before we were called out. As we ar... | 1 | |
[WP] The first recorded audio from Mars is transmitted to earth. With video recording a baron wasteland experts expect to hear nothing but wind. But there is a voice in the emptiness. | [
"No soul alive could place the sounds we heard that day. Once NASA posted the footage of the Mars rover it only took a few hours for the world to explode with questions. Conspiracy theorists called it a hoax, and linguists from the four corners of the globe each confirmed one by one that the dialog spoken matched n... | 1 | |
[WP] After living a life full of crime, killings and theft, you die from a bullet to your heart during one of your bank heists. You arrive at the gates of hell, and to your surprise it is you standing on the other side smiling at you. | [
"“How is this possible?”\n\n“How is *what* possible?” The man in front of me gestured vaguely around him. “That you died? Well, you were shot in the heart.”\n\n“Or do you mean, how is it possible that you’re in Hell? Well, that’s easy. You’re a piece of shit. You can’t murder and steal and end up anywhere else.”\n\... | 1 | |
[WP] In a world where everybody has superpowers, the power to control strings had always been pretty lame. One day you come to study string theory, and become a god. | [
"\"So, Let me get this straight.\" I spoke, on the edge of my seat. \n\n\"You think that the entire world is actually made up of little strings?\"\n\n \"Yep!\" He replied.\n\n \"It explains so many of the cosmic coincidences.\"\n\n \"So then I can... You know, Control it?\"\n\n\"Let's see!\"\n\nI reach out, graspin... | 1 | |
[WP] You only wanted the drought to end. You never thought things would turn out this way. | [
"Our feet patter against the scorched, dusty earth. We march towards the only source of water in a neat line. Perhaps from above, our bodies would merge together, appearing as just another fracture in the parched landscape.\n\n​\n\nWe move as a single entity with a common goal. I can only see the worker ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are an operator of emergency helpline 119 which caters to supernatural creatures in need of assistance. Today you get a rather unexpected call. | [
"\"This is one-one-nine. What is your emergency?\"\n\nSusie loved the call center. She got to help people while never even seeing them, which was very important for a gorgon. the only person she really had to deal with Algoramon, and he was a Golem! \n\nSusie and her snakes typed away at the keyboard while she list... | 1 | |
[WP] You're watching the Online World Population Clock, but after some time, the numbers start to drop. First by the hundreds, then thousands, millions, until it settles on two. The world is eerily quiet around you. You decide to investigate. | [
"The computer screen and the lights immediately shut down. That's when I felt something was wrong. I got up from my seat and walked to the window. No one was on the streets. I went to the elevators, but the elevators weren't working. I decided to go down by the stairwell, and when I reached the first floor, the lib... | 1 | |
[WP] You've accidentally opened a portal to mirror world. Everything seems the same except your double is the opposite gender and somehow more successful. Oddly enough, your mirror double thinks you're the more successful one. | [
"This is my first reply to a writting prompts so all kinds of feedback are welcomed. Please, enjoy the story and let me know what you thought of it :)\n\n\\----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------... | 2 | |
[WP] As Voyager II leaves the solar system, scientists are flabbergasted to discover that the probe simply appears in Nasa's HQ. In its memory banks is a single phrase, "**** Has Left the Playable area, and has been returned to spawn." | [
"everyone was silenced by this phrase. it wasn't possible to comprehend. words were floating through their minds, but none loud enough to be heard. After a long second that felt like an hour people started to react. some laughed, some cried, there was something else out there. there were skeptics of course, people ... | 2 | |
[WP] Today has been a little different. As an example: You are currently watching ice melt fire. | [
"Feckless Sam sat upon the outcrop and watched the rain rise from the lake. It fell straight up until they were whipped into a plume of mist that stretched away like a string of wild stallions, corralled by the mountains at the western edge of the highlands. Over the waters was a gauzy bowl of mist, but he could st... | 1 | |
[WP] It turns out that Earth culture is unique in the galaxy for its food. Everywhere else food is just nourishment, but on Earth it is an art form. As a result Earth has become a huge tourist destination for aliens looking to experience good cooking for the first time. | [
" A raucous party-mobile whizzed past overhead as Byron walked on the wet alleys, his shoes clicking on the space-age metal cobbles. Click, click, click, as he thought about the end of his destination. As every step brought him closer to the underbelly of the human experience. He brought his cigarette to his mouth,... | 4 | |
[WP] You know every secret ever. Be it government, historical, or any individual. You know which conspiracy is true and which one is false. Write a story on how you'd destroy the world with all this information. | [
"I sent out the email to every email on earth from the President's email address. It contained one word, June. The subject line was: Get Ready. The body copy contained June. Following the mass confusion I sat back and remained waiting patiently at an undisclosed location. 3 days pass. I log back into the President... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a demon that is sick of getting summoned by edgy teens and the likes. The majority of your clients use your powers for "boring" tasks. So you concoct a plan to establish the infamy of demons in hopes of getting nice and demonic tasks once again. | [
"\"We need a Harry Potter.\"\n\n\"What?\" \n\nGelikek stared with all six eyes as Kaernoka paced back and forth on the cracked brimstone of the temple mount. Above them the skies burned in an eternal firestorm, below them the great ocean of lava twisted and cracked and bled its incendiary blood.\n\n\"A revolution o... | 1 | |
[WP] Pennywise is feeling a little bored during the holidays, seeing how kids don’t venture outside during blizzards. He decides to pick out a house at random and pick a child living in it. Unluckily for him, Kevin McCallister hates clowns and will do all he can to stop his attacker. | [
"The snow outside fell in picturesque crystals—the flakes, lit by the last, golden embers of dying sunlight, twirled and settled over the world like gossamer thread. Any other person would have been in awe of nature’s ability to morph - even the suburbs of Illinois - into something only the most gifted poets could ... | 6 | |
[WP] You're a demon tasked with making a human fall in love with you, but when it comes time to kill them, you realize you've fallen in love with them | [
"\n\n**Some NSFW language used.** \n\n\n\t\n He left his socks out in the hallway again. Right smack dab in the middle of the entry way rug where he kicks off his shoes when he gets home. I swear that this is the time that I am actually going to kill him. \n\t\n\n \"Hey babe! Dinner's ready!\" I hear from further d... | 1 | |
[WP] "Apologies, miss, but your father insists you attend the local institution. He doesn't want the authorities questioning why his daughter isn't going to school. Now, who would you like to bring along as your bodyguard?" "Ugh. Very well... I'll bring the werewolf boy. He'll blend in the easiest." | [
"Elsbith sits at her desk. Her gaze burning into my soul, or so it feels. She summoned me to attend her and so I do. I would do anything for her, so I sit and wait intently for her to make her demands of me. “Apparently I’m to attend…” Her voice trails off in a sigh. She clears her throat again before continuing, “... | 4 | |
[WP] You were able to hold your beautiful, healthy, newborn daughter for but a moment before you passed on. Upon reaching the afterlife, you beg and scream to be allowed to see her again. Eventually, you feel yourself being lifted up. A young girl smiles down at you. "A new puppy?!" she yelps | [
"I'm a bot, *bleep*, *bloop*. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:\n\n- [/r/u_monkhtsetseg] [\\[WP\\] You were able to hold your beautiful, healthy, newborn daughter for but a moment before you passed on. Upon reaching the afterlife, you beg and scream to be allowed to see her again. Even... | 6 | |
[WP] The year is 2074, and an Ancient God emerges from the ocean and chooses you as its host. You gain all its powers, allies and a neat extra voice in your head that tells you what to do sometimes. What it doesn’t tell you is that its Ancient enemy has risen as well and taken your sister as host. | [
"\"What are you waiting for? You've seen the proof. I've helped you figure it out. She's right here. Right under your nose. I have fought for millenia, nearly been beaten dozens of times and nearly succeeded dozens more. But there has never been a better chance than this. All of my power, all of my skill and master... | 5 | |
[WP] Scientists have created a drug which makes you forget the last 24 hours, to help people who have had traumatic experiences and such. You have woken up with cuts and bruises, but with no memory of the previous day. You want to know what happened. | [
"On each other occasion I had awoken in a strange place with no memory of what had made me take the pill. Once I came slowly back to consciousness in the deep shadow under a bridge, lying in shallow water, wedged in where the concrete of the ground met the concrete of the arch. Another time I awoke in a filthy bed ... | 3 | |
[WP] your eyes fly open. You rest on a metal table, with a thin white blanket rested over you. Not a person is in sight. You wonder through the hospital like building until eventually finding the exit. You look around and see a flyer on a nearby mailbox. “MISSING”. below, is a picture of your face. | [
"There was a room, small and clean, walls of metal that reflected the sharp light of the desk lamp that leaned ominously over the table. There was a low droning sound in her ears that seemed almost to resonate with her jaw, teeth rattling like bowling pins in an earthquake. There was a door, a faint outline against... | 1 | |
[WP] Your supervillain business isn't very profitable and you go bankrupt. Your nemesis has no idea how to react. | [
"I really wanted to kill that bastard, spent years and billions of dollars on it, didn’t see my kids for weeks on end and when I was at my lowest he just twisted the knife deeper. I was bankrupt after building all of them lasers and doom carrots then failing 59 times to kill him the bank told me to fuck off and get... | 1 | |
[WP] A major error in the postal service has lead to a decades long backlog of letters now suddenly arriving daily at your house, you read them and begin to unravel the story of the previous owner. What you start to piece together is horrifying. | [
"The wintry air outside breathed against the snow-kissed windows. I sat by myself, the lone lamp harshly illuminating my desk. The chair, the desk, the house was comfortable, though not too comfortable – everything had an edge to it that was subtle but perceptible.\n\nThis house was old. The walls turning beige gav... | 4 | |
[WP] The Moon turns out not to be barren after all. Gems foreign to Earth can be found beneath the crust. Demand for these jewels back on Earth makes them the most valuable objects. Countries all send their miners, soldiers, and equipment to conquer — then, naturally, war on the Moon breaks out. | [
"I still remember looking from down the ground into the glistening night sky, listening to stories of how once upon a time the Moon was whole and unreachable. Stories that seemed impossible when the moon broke apart years before my birth and fantastical stories of silver chariots turned into metallic drones orbitin... | 1 | |
[WP] Virtual reality and artificial intelligence means you can date a digital replica of anyone, but for legal reasons you need a waiver from the person in question. You've sat down with someone to have that difficult conversation. | [
"“Jebediah? Please come in, make yourself at home.”\n“What is it, Gene? I’m needed over at R&D, there’s a new design that V...”\n“We need your consent to make a digital copy of your brain. \nYou’re our best Pilot and, frankly, I think you’re too important for the Program to be sending you off on untested techno... | 4 | |
[WP] After wandering for about a decade, a travelling mage returns to his favorite occult bookstore, only to find it having moved away from actual magic to homeopathic remedies. | [
"\"What do you mean, you have no iron dust? I have an upcoming visit to the fae realms and I need as much of it as I can carry!\" \n\nThe bejeweled, long-haired woman before him simply shrugged. \n\n\"Iunno what to tell you, man. We've mostly got crystals'n stuff.\" \n\n\"Yes and this... Slightly dirty water--Pleas... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a horror story where everybody makes sane, rational decisions, but still end up killed anyway. | [
"“The most important thing is that we don’t split up. Agreed?”\n\nThe others all nodded in approval at Ron’s suggestion. They had all seen at least one horror movie, and they knew the rookie mistakes.\n\n“Right, let’s try and do things in the right order,” Ron was evidently stressed, but he was keeping it together.... | 2 | |
[WP] A wish you made when you were a child unexpectedly comes true. However, you are now in your early thirties. | [
"Im go to the local sainsbury's grab some milk and- All of a sudden, Im on the floor, I feel a great pain, I black out.\n\nI wake up to fine myself in A&E, in a room, doctors confused. My vision is weird, I have a compas marking out locations nearby and, a weird blue bar in the left of my vision. I get up, look... | 1 | |
[WP] Blood-drinking vampires do exist, but there is a lesser known subspecies that are vegetarians. You are one of these vegetarian vampires, living in a castle near a small peasant village that is not aware that you do not have the same diet as your cousins. A young human just entered your lair. | [
"You are in the kitchen, making a nice salad, when. You go to grab you're favourite ingredient, garlic. Due to blood drinking vampires's diets, they are intolerant to garlic, but, you're a vegetarian. You place your salad down onto the table and grab a strawberry milkshake when... *creeaaakkk* \\*GAPS\\* A little g... | 3 | |
[WP] In a distant future, humans have gone extinct. The mythical "first civilization" is revered by the new inhabitants of the Earth. The archeologists find something that sheds light on the previous culture. They are utterly disappointed. | [
"They come upon a shaft, one that has no connections to anything nor the place for anything else to attach. They scan it for radiation magnetic, microwave, nuclear. None ! They are completely dumbfounded by this discovery and are yet to understand its use and name. \n\n\nNear the same place where they found the sha... | 4 | |
[WP] Ages ago, A dark wizard called "Santa Claus" enslaved the elves of the north pole. Their distant relatives, the High Elves, finally have assembled a liberation force and are ready to set them free. | [
" The drums beat in all directions. The elves had come, in force and error. Beard white as snow and cheeks like rose petals, Sinterklass, St Nicholas, Santa Claus. Many names, one man. If even still a man, the white wizard whose fortress is the snow itself. \n\nHe nibbled a cookie. The children of the new age had ... | 1 | |
[WP] You're an evil alien life form who took over the body of a human-spaceship's captain. Problem is, every crewmates already wanted to gut the captain. | [
"Captain Aardvark/\n1st mate Bacon/\n2nd mate Cake/\nEngineer Dapper/\nSteward Eagle/\nSurgeon Fax/\nGunner Gauss/\nPowder monkey Handle/\nAlien morph Zoidberg\n\nAardvark: What a fine day. [looks out window] Ermm, night. [sees massive blob smack window] \"Screams\"\n\nZoidberg[dramatically]: It is I, Zoidberg!\n\n... | 1 | |
[WP] You should have listened when your boy told you something was under his bed, but you didn't. That 'something' has taken your son, and you've crawled into the darkness under his bed to chase after it. You've been crawling for a long time now... | [
"The darkness was broken by a singular shining light far off in the distance, it didn’t ever dim or move just constantly shining faintly drawing me forward. I can hear his voice, he’s terrified, alone and it’s killing me to hear that, every step I’ve taken and his voice never gets closer and the light,still dim.\n\... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up on an alien dissection table. You seem to be unharmed, but now an alien wants you to pay the massive bill for whatever procedure they performed. | [
"I suppose the phrase \"death and taxes\" even applies to the extraterrestrial. They'd put me to work in this sort of alien garden since they healed me from the 3rd degree burns. Fuckin' motorcycle was too much trouble for what is was worth, but I suppose these blue bastards gave me another chance, having somehow r... | 4 | |
First Time poster, I hope this prompt is alright. | [WP] Because of your purity, Death returns you to your body fully healed after you die. The condition: You are now a harbinger of Death. You must slay any mortal Death marks as too corrupt to be saved. After several years of this you find a mark on someone you love. | [
"They always say abusers like to take advantage of the nicest people. People who are too forgiving to call them out on their behavior. People who are likely to deny abuse even happening at all. Maybe it was my fault he was angry all the time. Maybe I should have done better and the relationship would have improved.... | 1 |
[WP] You are a super hero and you have always held back your full strength when fighting your arch nemesis because you are childhood friends and you hoped he would give up the life if you beat him enough. Today he crossed a line and you won’t hold back anymore... | [
"On mobile, apologies for formatting.\n\n“Well look who finally showed up!”\n\n“Dale...”\n\n“Paragon!”\n\nThat should’ve been my first clue that he was too far gone, referring to me by my “hero” name. He sneered at me as I hovered slightly above him. He held a detonator in his hand, standing by the entrance of the... | 1 | |
[WP] Deep in the Australian Outback, an army is gathering. 100 years after the Great Emu War, the Emu's are planning a counterattack. | [
"Glintfeather stared across the open plains, her brethren gathering in the pale morning light, sunrise not yet a glimmer on the horizon. The cold fog hangs low to the ground, the frost imparting its frozen kiss to the few trees that dot the landscape. A diminutive chick, [still striped](https://en.wikipedia.org/wik... | 1 | |
[WP] The year is 20XX, fox populations are on the rise and there is a fear that they’ll take over the earth. Your only hope is a very hungry box | [
"Bentley looked at the street below,\n\nHundreds of foxes chasing a doe,\n\nIn twenty-twelve the end we had dread,\n\nBut the rise of Vulpes Vulpes happened instead,\n\n \n\nThey started small, just looking cute,\n\nSix years later and they began to loot,\n\nRiot and plunder and snarl and fight,\n\nHarassi... | 1 | |
[WP] The aliens have come to destroy Earth because they saw how bad it is, but they gave us a choice. If a random person can prove that Earth can still be saved, they'll leave. And they randomly chose you. They just don't know that you don't like this world AT ALL. | [
"I typed this up in a slightly better form, and then it vanished before I could hit post so I had to try and recreate it from memory, so sorry for any typos. This is my first prompt I've ever written to, so hopefully it's not *too* bad.\n\n\\--------------------------------------------------------------------------... | 2 | |
[WP] Your brother died last year. It's been a tough grieving process and you've spent a lot of time looking through messages and photos from him. As you look through his messages today he suddenly comes online. And starts typing... | [
"I had fallen asleep without even packing my brother’s things back into the cardboard box. It was dark out when I fell asleep, and when I woke up there still was no light to shine in through my window. I rolled onto my side and gazed toward my alarm clock, though it took me a minute to understand the symbols that s... | 3 | |
[WP] Feeling as you have nothing left to lose, you decide to try summoning a demon. However, the demon takes pity on you and decides to try getting your life back on track. | [
"\"Fuck it,\" I muttered in my dazed and drunken state. I pulled myself off the floor and stumbled through the mess of empty bottles and food containers of the last few days. I fell into the shelf with a bit of a thump but steadied myself. I took a second to find what I was looking for. Then I settled on it: the ol... | 1 | |
[WP] After someone dies, the book of their life appears on their grave. One day you're at the graveyard and you pick up a book, you read it all the way through and at the end it says "to be continued...". | [
"\"To be continued...\" Trent said. \"What does that mean?\"\n\nTrent Lancaster leafed back through the pages of the black leather-bound book. He had taken it out of a protected shelf within a tombstone. \n\nThe tombstone was gigantic, with four pillars on the corners and a giant pigeon on top. \n\nTrent craned his... | 1 | |
[WP] As an adult who still believes in Santa Claus, you are outraged that your child, who has been very good, didn't get anything for Christmas! | [
"“Well, Ron, you know money’s a little tight this year. And Jamie wanted that new Switch console.”\n\n“What the hell does that have to do with anything, Sharon?! I was good all year. The only reason we’re even in this hole is because I turned down that promotion so Jon could have it. I knew he needed the money, and... | 2 | |
[WP] One day you are having a normal life, the next day you find out your stillborn twin brother has been climbing the 9 layers of hell and gaining power to try and kill you and take over your life. | [
"I had first gotten the idea when, after a succession of depressingly normal occurences of a depressingly normal and mediocre daily life, I thought to myself: \"I could be so much better. I could achieve such brilliant accomplishments. If only I ran away and focused solely on improving myself...\". Then, one day, a... | 3 | |
[WP] You live alone in your small apartment, except for a cat who finds his way in from time to time. Only you can hear him talk. He walks around judging outfits and decor in the sassiest manor. | [
"\"You're going to wear that?\" Simon hissed. \n\n\"What's wrong with it?\" I called back, fixing my floral pattern button-up in the mirror. \n\n\"Oh darling, no. You look like a bag of catnip!\"\n\nMeet Simon, the stray cat currently licking his balls on my bed whilst he criticises my sartorial elegance. I can't a... | 1 | |
[WP] Your dentist has been warning you for years but you didn’t listen. Now the end of the world has come...all because you didn’t floss. | [
"I never really thought much of Prime Minister Kamenov. He seemed to be a mild mannered man who unlike his predecessor, Dubinsky, always listened to reason. It also probably helped that in his life before he ran for public office, he'd been a dentist in Smolensk. One of the best apparently, and well known for his g... | 2 | |
[WP] Everyone has one thing they are impervious to. You don't discover yours until the situation arises at the most opportune moment. | [
" Brad.\n\nHeckin’ Brad. \n\nIt’s always a Brad, isn’t it? Or Ryan, or Mark, or some retro-inspired name like Biff or Butch or Bulk. Whatever name they were given in those first few precious moments of life when they may have actually been good people, they all shared a name which they later earned: bully. \n\nThe ... | 1 | |
[WP] In the multiverse there's one version of each thing in each universe and, outside the constrains of any one universe, there is a council that gathers the best version of each being. You are brought to the Council not because you are the best version of youself, but because you are the only one. | [
"They sat in cotton robes with wise and withered and often secretive looks on their faces. All of them were gathered around a great bean shaped table that hovered. Brent who had previously been in his living room playing mario kart on his own, now found himself in front of them all. Brent would have liked to finish... | 2 | |
[WP] The world ran out of color. What now? | [
"He approaches you. \"It was always like this. You're just one of the few people to notice the reality of existence. \"\n\n\"I don't understand\" you exclaim as you cross your legs and sit in front of him.\n\nPlacing the fingers of his right hand gently on the earth he whispers.. \"light travels in frequencies no... | 1 | |
[WP] Immortality is granted to those who achieve greatness with the purest of intentions. Mister Death must have made a mistake though, you just lived through the most thrilling bar fight you’ve ever started... | [
"Here I am, covered in blood, booze, and broken glass. Whole bar went to hell and I'm the only one who came out unscathed.\n\nWas flirting with this chick at the bar. Had her wrapped around my finger when her boyfriend looks over. Grabbed my hand out of her pants and smashed a bottle against my head.\n\nLike a napa... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a gunfighter in the Old West hired to protect miners from claim jumpers. Everything is going smoothly until one day when the miners are attacked by something from WITHIN the mine. | [
"It wasn't uncommon for the miners to brawl. In fact, I'd say it was expected; at least that's what I'd come to learn from watching the men. To be honest, I can't say I blame them. The working conditions are shit; dark tunnels and cold stone. Depending on your shift, you might find yourself heading into the mine ri... | 1 | |
[WP] The last thing you remember is falling asleep in front of CNN, just as the first photos of Ultima Thule from NASA's New Horizons probe were being received. You just woke up: your phone has 12 missed EMERGENCY ALERTs and through a gap in the curtains you can see several rocket trails in the sky. | [
"It was around 6:00 pm when i went to sleep so of course i woke up a few times during the night to a odd noise but like normal i just wrote it off and went back to sleep then i woke up the next morning and saw my phone and read the words \"This is a emergency alert, please stay ins...\" 12 times, so out of curiosit... | 4 | |
[WP] Nearly every abused retail worker knows of the Messiah - the one prophesied to save them all from minimum wage. You’re a new retail worker who doesn’t know what the fuck is going on. | [
"On Sunday morning at Southwest Airlines check-in counter, Rachelle was praying to Customer Service Jesus to deliver her from the evil thoughts that kept coming to her head about all these fussy travelers.\n\n\\*\\*No, you can’t buy a ticket for an already full flight. No, I am not trying to ruin your family vacati... | 2 | |
To simplify, lets say the knowledge of your power is a well known secret. Nobody says it out loud, but they know. If they catch you, they will use you. So be quick and be cunning. | [WP] Woops, you are magic now. If somebody says a certain phrase or captures you, you must now grant their wishes. You cannot grant your own wishes. Tell us about your day. | [
"I am standing in the rain. I have my favourite t-shirt on with a bulky black coat. I lean against the sign for the bus stop and get out my phone. I start scrolling through my social media, Instagram, Reddit, Twitter. The bus is meant to be here at 1:10AM and it's only half past midnight.\n\nI catch something in th... | 1 |
[WP]: Every birthday, people have to battle a monster to survive another year. As you enter the coliseum, the audience roars to witness your 100th birthday. | [
"\nThe scent of rot and old sweat assailed Keira’s nose. Looking up from the small book open on her lap, she saw a Shambler was approaching. The piteous creature—a cobbled-together porridge of human parts joined with silicon and plastic—limped towards her. Its beady, too-bright eyes in depthless... | 1 | |
[WP] The apocalypse as it turns out was not a singular event, but all the end days from all religions, media and myths coming true at once, the only reason you are still alive is the fact that the warring gods and demons keep unintentionally cancelling out each other's apocalypse. | [
"Where do I begin? The last few days were quite ridiculous but now its just plain funny. The world feels like a book full of bad cliches, the only difference is that almost no one got hurt in the \"apocalypse\". Here is a quick recap of yesterday: one of the gods decided to end the world with a biblical genocide, n... | 1 | |
Alternatively, your case may be in defense of Santa. | [WP] You've gathered the facts and evidence, and now it's time. Your case against Santa Clause for violating countless patents and trademarks begins. | [
"\"We've got him this time.\" Mickey said to the other brands sitting on the many *many* benches in the court room \"That sick sonofabitch is finally going to get what's coming to him. Ah! The man of the hour! Mr. Dick how are you? Is everything in order?\"\n\n​\n\n\"Please, call me Tracy, and yes everyt... | 2 |
[WP] A lone man in your post apocalyptical waste, talks into a portable radio to try and keep his sanity, and finally the radio PTT chirps. After an time, our hero still doubts his frame of mind and it chirps again, just in time - that there is definitely someone there, listening... helping.. | [
"“There’s not gonna be any problem with him , he found me in the wasteland - he helps, I help, and he keeps his mouth shut”\n\nThey stared in doubt - and the look infuriated him.\n\n“I met him five years ago - he follows me, but never close, he doesn’t bug anybody and nobody bugs him”\n\nThey weren’t listening, and... | 2 | |
[WP] Humans become a Type-3 civilization before they find aliens, so they decide to make their own. | [
" Two possibilities exist: **Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not**. Both are equally terrifying. \n\n\\-Arthur C. Clarke\n\n\\---\n\n​\n\nFor eons, human kind has searched for life outside our own. Extinct microbes, barren rocks, endless voids are all we ever found in the *Milky Way*, and s... | 2 | |
[WP]In a fantasy world where levels and even evolutions are granted by killing strong opponents you were born as one of the weakest monsters. Then one day a powerful adventurer trips and falls on your weapon. | [
"The Pink fell onto the stones, making a weak squeal as I pulled my spear from its side. \n\nI hadn’t expected to meet an outsider here. This was our temple. But there he’d been, wide-eyed in the hall, bleeding from our labyrinth of traps, muttering in a strange, long-winded language.\n\nAk’ha leaned against me,... | 6 | |
[WP] You've gone to bed on the last day of 2018, promising 'a new year, a new me' for 2019. When you wake up, you're a different person in every way. | [
"Birdsong flitted through the open window and sunshine seeped from the pale blue curtains that gently swayed in the wind. The clock on the dresser was digital, and difficult to read without my glasses. \n\nGlasses. \n\nWell, that’s weird.\n\nI rubbed my eyes and squinted at the clock again. 10:23. Just in time to ... | 1 | |
[WP] The Roman God Janus welcomes in 2019. | [
"*Those lights are beautiful tonight. Don't we agree?*\n\n*Yes, us. Those humans are very crafty. Shame we no longer have Helios to see it.*\n\n*We agree. It is a tragedy, but it's only reasonable we keep watching, even without our old friend. We are Janus after all; the two-faced god of choices, doorways, beginnin... | 1 | |
[WP] Sitting outside a local coffee shop you hear a loud meow come from the ground. Looking down, you see half a dozen black cats- all staring up at you. | [
"“Awe, these cats are so cute!” I say, picking one up and starting to pet it. “Aren’t you guys just so adorable, yes you are!” I continue to coo over them, silently wondering where their owners were. Maybe they were street cats? I quickly checked each cat for a collar but found none. \n\nAfter multitasking between ... | 1 | |
[WP] You finally kill that spider that's been lurking in your house for months. As it dies, you hear a faint jingle and an ethereal voice shouts joyously, "Level up!" | [
"(Caution: this was composed by an individual with English as a second language! Apologies for any mistakes that I might have created)\n\nConfused you look around, not really able to grasp what just happened. As you want to make sense of the situation , you feel your body starting to tremble. Your extremities are s... | 3 | |
[WP] You're an archaeologist studying Roman ruins. You discover something weird- a cache of weathered old AK-47s. | [
"“Sir, we’ve discovered an odd case in section L4, might I suggest you head down there and take a look for yourself?”\n\nYeah, that’s what my assistant researcher told me. Yes, once I had arrived in L4, I did notice the strange shape of the ancient crate. It was black and ovular. It looked incredibly smooth, but... | 1 | |
[WP] Now that you have defeated the great evil of this realm, you may do what you truly desire: becoming a small business owner. | [
"\"...Is this serious, my Lord?\" asked the mayor of the little town of Pantera. To his shocked eyes, the humble middle-aged man watched as the nearby earth, wood and metal were bent to the desires of the younger man at his side. To say that the attire of said youngster was particular was quite the understatement; ... | 1 | |
[WP] The demon lord has infiltrated the hero's party for a few years now to try to learn all of their secrets and weaknesses. Funnily enough he has learnt to enjoy the adventuring life, though invading his own strongholds is still a bit awkward. | [
"I felt my form ripple as I worked on the double doors. “Get the doors!” Mig shouted over the sound of his sword striking and glancing off something armored. I turn my head to look, fingers still fiddling with the door’s massive lock. It was well crafted, if I do say so myself. Mig and Sandra were engaged by the ar... | 4 | |
[WP] You have been asked to write a script for a new movie. You have been given the options of fantasy, action, and horror. As you sit and start to write, you notice that what you are writing has started to happen in the real world. | [
"~~Okay, here goes...~~\n\nSo I was approached by a small movie studio to write a new action movie for them. I have been writing novels in my spare time for years, and haven't been too successful with them, so this is my first major gig. At least in my eyes.\n\nUnfortunately, my laptop is being repaired right now, ... | 2 | |
[WP]You are a tattoo artist. Twice a year you take off for a week and come home with weird, antique treasure; like tarnished silver candlesticks. Everyone thinks you're a really lucky hobbyist treasure hunter. Your secret? These things are payment from the mermaids you are tattooing. | [
"I’d never tell anyone that little secret. I loved being around mermaids. They were all so curious about the land. Their questions were amusing. Band yes, the treasure was great too. The best piece came from a mermaid who asked for a flower, like the ones I had in hanging baskets on my houseboat, on her shoulder. I... | 3 | |
[WP] You are an extremely friendly person, everyone you know considers you among their closest friends. Turns out all your friends are demons, and they are unsure whether to drag you to hell to chill forever or let you go to heaven to enjoy eternal bliss as a thank-you gift. | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 3 | |
[WP] You had been the fat kid in high school, you knew it and everyone else did too. Skip along to your graduating class' 10 Year Reunion party, you enter, but no one quite recognises you. | [
"**Welcome to the Prompt!** All top-level comments must be a story or poem. Reply here for other comments.\n\n**Reminders**:\n\n>* Stories at least 100 words. Poems, 30 but include \"[Poem]\"\n>* Responses don't have to fulfill every detail\n>* See [Reality Fiction](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts... | 2 |
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