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[WP] Write a story about a serial killer, but make the readers feel sympathy for him/her as he kills his most recent victim. | [
"Timothy Mason is a respected man in his field of work, by those who do not know his nature. There have been others: Dorothy Hills, Jason Fredrick. They’re gone, and soon will Timothy.\n\nThe scarlet shimmer of the damp streets light the ground like lava. Infernal flames of my inner self. This is not what I want, b... | 7 | |
[WP] Write the farewell of two best friends that know they will never see each other again. | [
"\"Remember that time Mr. Holland was covered in spaghetti after the food fight?\" he asked, chuckling a little.\n\nShe smiled in remembrance, \"Yes, definitely that was the only time I've never seen him starched up from head to toe.\"\n\nHe sat back and took a slow sip of his coffee, and made a face. It was probab... | 12 | |
[WP] In 1750, small pockets of civilization were discovered on Mars. Initial observations appear to show these societies to be primitive compared to our own. Today, and with 200+ years of observation and exponential investment in space exploration, we are heading to see them for ourselves. | [
"\"Well, I remember the day better than anything else. It was the day everything changed, you see!\" Grandma was at it again. \"I was a young girl back then, barely seven years old if I was a day, but I remember clear as crystal, mister!\"\n\nGrandma always went on rants like this. Especially since dad took away he... | 6 | |
[WP] Your otherwise normal existence is turned on its head when you discover how to jump to one of the millions of alternate universes that might have happened had you just made another choice. Which universe would you seek? Which choice might you have made differently to make it so? | [
"Sitting on the edge of my swimming pool, my finger on the proverbial trigger, I can't help but laugh at the irony of it. \n\nI guess it's one of those things you have to experience to really understand. I mean, who hasn't made mistakes in their life? Who hasn't done things they regret - things they want to change?... | 2 | |
[WP] When you meet your soul mate, both of your hearts glow. A concentration camp inmate meets an SS officer. Their hearts glow. | [
"The Kapo screamed at the men to stand still, his abuse raining down on them, as the new officers inspected the camp.\n\nAs the new camp commander looked down the line, a prisoner froze. Number A 17189. He smiled, just enough that his cracked lips started to bleed, and his wan eyes almost vanished into his bony sku... | 2 | |
[WP] Santa Claus arrives at the house of a child who he cannot fairly call either naughty or nice. | [
"\"Let's see, Billy(check), Tammy(check), Mom(check, great cookies), Dad(check, thanks for the beer *urp*) and that finished up the Jones House\" \n\nMerry Ol' Saint Nick hitched up his red and whites and prepared to scoot back up the chiminey to his sleigh and the next stop on his almost constantly checked and dou... | 2 | |
[WP] A man repeats the same second over and over, Groundhog Day style, for the rest of eternity. What is he thinking about? | [
"Seth watched the man with the red eyes fall. The arrow Seth fired sprouting from his chest. The man fell back and as Seth watched, the red of his eyes faded like a flashlight with dying batteries. From the man's hand, a silver cylinder rolled.\n\nSeth approached cautiously, a hunting knife in his hand and stooped ... | 2 | |
[WP] Create an emotional story with 2 men wearing gas masks in a cold Winter Apocalypse. | [
"Jerry had been all I'd known of humanity after it all went to hell. The first few days after the Big Blast, it seemed like everyone I knew was either dying or leaving, headed for somewhere,anywhere but here. But here was home and I couldn't leave that. Even when the clouds poured acid and the fog rolled in,toxic ... | 5 | |
[WP] You live in a world where no matter what you write, you can not edit, erase or restart what you have written | [
"I almost felt bad for the communists.\n\nI stared at the message. *I guess the Moscow-Washington hotline just wasn't fast enough.*\n\nThere was nothing I could do. The command was already entered, and the football's codes already sent. Quite frankly, who cares about those commies? I certainly didn't win on a platf... | 2 | |
Some clarification (which you may or may not use):
* Time travel takes place in government controlled facilities
* There may exist some under-the-radar time machines used illegally
* It is common for government agents to stop someone from time travelling by using time travel themselves:
1. Individual plans a trip to go back in time.
2. Individual fills out necessary paperwork and uses government facility to travel back in time.
3. Government time travel agency monitors the trip
4. Individual drastically changes history
5. Government agency detects the change and sends agents back in time to a point before (2) and stops the individual from ever making the trip (thus fixing the change)
In this case your main character is stopped before (1), so they hadn't even been planning on making a trip in the first place. | [WP] Time travel to the past is possible, but it is highly regulated by the government. Your main character has no desire to time travel, but one day government agents show up to stop your character from traveling back in time. | [
"Peter tapped his foot impatiently. The line of travelers stretched too long for his urgency. Time is a commodity these days, far more precious than gold.\n\n“Where are you snapping to today?” An ancient woman gazed up at him. \n\nShe was before him and next in the queue of two before he would get his chance to sna... | 2 |
Bonus points if it involves animals and/or a moral at the end. | [WP] Write me a fable that teaches a lesson about civil rights. | [
"A fable: There once was a little black swan that the bigger swans mocked and bit because of his dark feathers. Some of the other little swans of all colors wanted to help him, so they asked the big swans to stop--but the big swans were jerks (obviously), and they started biting other little swans, too, both white ... | 2 |
[WP] Sweet Talk the Devil into attending church. | [
"Satan sat beside me sipping his steaming drink. It was blacker than anything I had ever seen. \n\n\"Want some?\"\n\nHe pushed his glass toward me as he sneered. \n\n\"Nah, that shit looks nasty\" I said as I lit my cigar and puffed away.\n\n\"So...church huh? What makes you think I'd be interested in that? You wa... | 5 | |
[WP] "Plants have feelings too!" | [
"It was during the 1920's when a scientist named Jagadish Chandra Bose discovered that plants have a nervous system. In spite of this fact, vegans and vegetarians alike have been hypocritically attacking and condemning meat-eaters for consuming living things. While these self-professed animal lovers may not be as n... | 2 | |
Inspired by [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2t73j8/what_if_everything_was_spiders/) askreddit post. | [WP] Everything is spiders. | [
"You remember it happening, you were there. \n\nWe all were. \n\nThe day it all stopped, the day it all began. The day the last news report ever was broadcast:\n\n>Scientists at Los Alamos Labs accidentally released a self-replicating, matter-rearranging nanobot. Within minutes the entire complex was an undiffer... | 2 |
[WP] there is a Super Hero Developmental League where the superheroes of tomorrow hone their skills against second-tier villains. Tell us about a day in the life of a not-so-super hero in the SHDL. | [
"Joey took one last look behind him before ducking into the alleyway. Walking up to the shop's back door, he knocked twice. Someone on the other side slid the small slot in the door open and looked through.\n\n\"Password?\"\n\n\"Cherry Pancakes.\"\n\nThe window slid shut and he heard the sound of a chain being unla... | 2 | |
[WP] Write a story in which a normally benevolent mythical creature is a scary monster. Or a normally aggressive mythical creature is shy and submissive. | [
"\"Look, mommy! It's a fairy!\" The young girl pointed toward a small orb of blue light, floating about 15 feet away from the two. \n\n\"That's nice, honey, but it's probably just your eyes tricking you.\" This has happened a lot lately, and frankly the mother was getting tired of it. Night terrors involving the bl... | 14 | |
[WP] Describe your significant other (or someone you care about) without referencing their looks. | [
"Energy flows through her eyes, through mine and into my soul, recharging me and fulfilling my now satiated thirst for care and compassion. When she touches me, I can feel my heart rising to new heights; climbing beyond a place I have been before. Her voice sings to me like a waltz causing my heart to dance and my ... | 2 | |
[WP] Over time, you developed multiple personality disorder. One day, you discover you're not the original personality. | [
"Upon waking, I often do not know quite who I am. \n\nSleep hovers like a thick and predatory fog. Tendrils of it reach into my ears and smother my brain, leaving me devoid of such basic possessions as a sense of self. \n\nI'm always amazing how horrified people are by the idea of switching personalities unexpecte... | 4 | |
not my idea, was originally posted by "butkaf" in /r/psychonaut | [WP] (xpost /r/psychonaut) "Upon dying you wake up with a bong in your hand, surrounded by aliens asking if it worked." | [
"It faded like a bad taste or a dream. That's all it was after all. A free fall through a subconscious thought to be long gone. \n\n\"Paper,\" I said. \"Start writing.\" \n\nThey clambered, gathered the materials and wrote as I spoke.\n\n\"I was young and then I was old. There was some sex, somewhere in the middle.... | 3 |
[WP] Everyone suddenly has a random digit from 0-9 hovering over their heads. People try to figure out the significance of these digits, and some go insane doing so. | [
"I'm a 9, and my son is a 4. \n\nWe have both decided to live our lives as if the numbers over our head were simply not there.\nWe ignore them. My son even taped some cardboard to his mirror at just the right height, so he could avoid seeing it. \nIt is incredibly distracting.\n\nAt first most of us thought it was ... | 1 | |
[WP] In honor of Valentine's day, you're a lonely housewife and while your husband's away, a hunky visitor (pizza guy, UPS man, etc.) has come to fulfill your bizarre erotic desires. NSFW | [
"I really wish my husband didn't have to go to work today. I know rock science is important, but so is love! It's Valentine's Day for God's sake! I'm horny and all I've got is a pickle and a Men's Health magazine. **DING DONG** Who the fuck could that be? I guess I'll have to love my self later. I open the door to ... | 4 | |
[WP] There used to be a race living on Mars but the planet, like a donor recieving incompatible blood, refused them and killed them off. It has since laid dormant, but now it once again awakens with the arrival of another race... Humans. | [
"John stepped out of his home block and sighed, the cold gripping his body like a vise. Even though the Roanoke colony he lived in was placed on the planet's equator, it still felt damn cold to the Texas native. He glanced up to the protective dome that covered the community, squinting at the sun through the hexago... | 2 | |
[WP] People do not die until they have fulfilled their purpose in life. | [
"There are, of course, manifold purposes for one to fulfill in their life. That fact alone made the mandate that was passed down in a booming voice on a chilly February morning so confusing. After President Jacobs dropped dead the moment his education bill was signed into law, the consensus was reached that the \"p... | 5 | |
Didn't want to make the titre super long so I'm adding stuff here.
A simulation is shut down when every human dies.
By 'our universe', I mean the one we are in right now. As in this is all a simulation.
As to a plotline or theme, that's up to you. Talk about the trials of seeing each simulation end, or how you're thinking of shutting down this simulation. Or seeing that we are inevitably, like all the other simulations, heading to our extinction. | [WP] You are program overseer of the Life Simulation Project for the species known as Homo sapiens. Of the 4000 simulations, only one, #3251, is still operational. #3251 is our universe. | [
"The display winked out, the hologram slowly fading from the edges as its fields lost coherency. Jeanine-152 sighed as she stared at the remains of the barren world she’d been overseeing; its fate sealed for the last thousand or so years of simulated reality. She’d been observing the Life Simulation Project’s newes... | 3 |
[WP] The year is 2290. To test the existence of a soul once and for all, scientists place the still living brain of a long dead man inside of the body of a person who is brain dead. What happens when s/he wakes up? | [
"Dark. \nDark? \nA glow. The experience worked, it seems. I can smell the shapes of a body next to me. \n\"Doctor Sahti?\" \nA comforting orange answer, okay, thats him. How do I feel in there? There? Right, her body... My body now. It feels a bit panicked by my intrusion, but curious. \n\"I N D I G O \n B.L.... | 5 | |
Inspired by Kim jong-un looking at things | [WP] The supreme leader has just visited a factory and recommended some really stupid changes. | [
"(Accidentally posted this on fringly's subreddit)\n\nWe all sat around the table looking nervously at one another. The Supreme Glorious Leader's memo had just arrived. No one would quite make eye contact, as if acknowledging the paper in front of us would give it life.\n\nFinally our supervisor sighed. He knew he ... | 2 |
[WP] You are in a taxi on a gridlocked street when you notice people in neighboring cars are exiting their vehicles. | [
"It was nothing..... a potentially massive wall of nothing, and it could be coming this way. It was hard to accept what was going on. The human eye can see because of light. This wasn't dark though, it wasn't bright either. Black is the absence of light and color. This was absence of absence. It was similar ... | 2 | |
[WP] Begin or end a story with: "She smiles. 'I've been waiting for you.'" | [
"She smiles.\n\"I have been waiting for you.\"\n\nNot again. Oh please, no, not again.\n\nIt's been almost a year from our last meeting. I was really sure I have finally lost her.\n\nShe looked the same as always: dirty old lady, dressed in gray rags that long ago were probably some kind of robe. Mumbling crazy tal... | 3 | |
[WP] Your grandfather hands you a string of glass beads. He warns you never to break them. There is fear in his gaze. | [
"After filling my lungs with another gulp of the sterilized hospital air, I shut the door to Papa’s room behind me. The hall was eerily empty, only a few flickering fluorescent bulbs illuminating the aged white walls and scattered equipment. I breathed a sigh of relief, looking to the ends of the hall and making su... | 2 | |
[WP] You go back in time to save Jesus | [
"Jesus lay his robes down besides him, it had been a long day. He sighed as he relaxed the muscles in his shoulder. The smell of lavender and a freshly drawn hot bath wafted from the next room. Jesus was looking forward to relaxing in the soothing hot water. \n\n\"Whoa Jesus, watch your step\" A voice rang out sudd... | 2 | |
[WP] What fathers teach their children | [
"I do not know what fathers teach children. I only know what I taught my son.\n\nBridget was fifteen when we made mistakes in the back of her car. We didn't think about the consequences of ten minutes. How could a lifetime be formed in the arch of a limb? Fuck the man. Fuck it all. Fuck our futures. \n\nI taught my... | 2 | |
Example: Bow + Arrow | [WP]Everyone is born with a tattoo, your soul-mate has a thematically matching tattoo. | [
"Some people wear their heart on their sleeve.\n\nI wear mine on my face. \n\nIt's a trout. \n\nNot a koi or even a clown fish or something bright and colorful with fins artfully swirling around the corner of my eyes like some kind of eyeshadow on steroids. \n\nNo. \n\nA trout. \n\nPeople made fun of me when I was ... | 3 |
[WP] The reanimated corpses of dead poets and authors unite to stop a high school student from turning in the worst essay of all time. | [
"\"Oh. My. God. What is this tripe?\" Philip demanded. \"I must be insane. No. No. I get what happened here, already. You. Toga. Did you do this? Because you would be the one.\"\n\nPlato, intimidated, shrugged with his eyes wide at the accusation.\n\nPaula was shocked. A veritable pantheon of authorship... | 2 | |
[WP] This is the story of how I got shot... | [
"Owen di la Martyn winced as the jailer opened the door to his cell, the beam of light spilling out on the floor and opposite wall directly into his flint grey eyes. The Ryn was filthy, his shoulder length blond hair tangled and unruly. His clothes were stained with with sweat and dirt and blood, his shoes falling ... | 2 | |
[WP] You find yourself (or the protagonist) floating in space, above a planet that covers half your view and in your advanced spacesuit that's slowly loosing energy. | [
"\"Ejected. There is no worse feeling then being ejected. From your happily going relationship. The will of your mother and father. From the people you put your faith and trust in. There is no worse feeling then being ejected.\" The thoughts blasting through his mind as he monitored his suit, slowly losing the all ... | 2 | |
A man manages to acquire almost everything he's ever sought after then after one evening and one decision, his life would take a turn for the worse. A ripple effect causes everything and everyone to slowly drift away. A wave of loss crashes over him. After the wave comes The Undertow. "Undertow" meaning: the sheer force of depression. Like a tar pit it claims you. Before you know it, you're lost. | [WP] Undertow | [
"Garen Tonnant swore as a blaster bolt flashed centimeters from his face, the baleful red glow briefly illuminating the narrow passageway the fringer took refuge in before burning into the durasteel wall behind him.\n\n\"Crast!\" shouted Garen, who then blind fired a half dozen shots from behind the cover of a door... | 2 |
[WP] You are successfully able to program the brain. You decide to increase the speed it operates, "slowing" time. | [
"I looked at the clock. *2am* Holy cow it's been 2 for hours now! \nI had stocked everything possible to stock in the west wing of the ER to try to speed up the time but ever since that damned update claiming it would \"Add hours to your day!\", I had way too much time on my hands. there had been word that the biol... | 2 | |
Limestone mines, catacombs, the metro, sewers, fire-escapes, rooves; the choices are endless. | [WP] Set a story under or above Paris at night. | [
"\"Jacques, you're digging your teeth into my crown. Stop it!\"\n\n\"Elise, why are you complaining? We've been squished in these walls for centuries and only *now* you complain?\"\n\n\"I only ever notice when you start shifting around. And it happens more often than you realize.\"\n\nSome of the other skulls piped... | 2 |
[WP] When you fall asleep in this world, you wake up in an alternate one, and vice versa. Over time you begin forget which is the dream and which is real. | [
"The smoke of night rose dimly, a faded thing in a bad place. There was gunfire some distance away and it cut through the dark and the empty. \n\nThe bunker was dry and dusty but it was enough, and Friedrich Adler found himself relaxing for the first time in a day. His face was dirty and unshaven, and his thick cur... | 2 | |
They could be (to each other);
Soulmates
Enemies
Strangers
Family
Rivals
Crushes | [WP] Everyone on Earth wakes one day to find that they are able to telepathically communicate with one other person. | [
"My alarm goes off, and I do as I do every morning: snooze it. I don't want to get up from bed. I don't have much to get up to, anyways. I live alone, don't have a job, and not many friends either. I had a great friend before, but he died while we were still in high school. I still miss him, and feel lonely without... | 4 |
[WP] Why are stories about magic set in the Medieval times? Write a story about magic in the future. | [
"A bit of a mix up, I'm doing magic in present day\n\n======================================================\n\nMy alarm goes off as it does every monday. I groggily wave my hand and it stops. Ever since Wizzo's Inc. industrialized magic. every mage had to work there in order to make a decent living. Various bills ... | 6 | |
[WP] I opened the door, and faced the monster. | [
"I opened the door and there stood the monster. It didn't make no sound and it did not approach me. But it was there, watching me, biding its time. And its time would come, it would only have to wait some more. With every century it grew stronger. I watched it and hesitated. What could I do against such beast? It c... | 4 | |
[WP] You're an employee in hell. Fed up with your current job you try everything possible to get a promotion. | [
"\"Hello?\"\n\n\"Hey sir, uh, are you awake?\" the voice on the phone asked timidly. Recognition slowly kicked in: it was the temp that we had working the phones on the night shift.\n\n\"Yeah,\" my voice was dry, cracking. Keep it cool, I thought. \"Just trouble sleeping.\" Be smooth. \"What's going on... Roger was... | 5 | |
[WP] A man finally discovers his superpower...well into his 80's. | [
"\"It's just that half of all them gals down there are just bitches, ripe bitches,\" some young white punk with greasy cornrows said as he lifted up his glass of vodka. \"This one be for the bitches.\"\n\nThe crew of young high school dropouts lifted their glasses and banged them together. The smell of cigarettes a... | 2 | |
You are him. Satan, Lucifer, whatever your name is. You just don't know it. You have been reborn/have reappeared on Earth with no memories of the past. | [WP] You are the devil, reborn. | [
"Nick slumped in his office chair. It was going to be a long week. The air was hot, stuffy and it seemed that the ceiling fan was out again. Nick grumbled, wiping the sleep from his eyes. He felt irritable and fished in his pocket for the snack of the day; a banana. It seemed too early to eat it now but Nick was ra... | 2 |
[WP] "I have loved you. I did my best." | [
"It had been about three years since the conception of their love. \n\n\"Surely you don't think our love has been flushed away yet?\" said Turk, the ill-fated and star-crossed lover who was beginning to feel the inevitable pangs of an unrequited affection. \n\nHis Love said nothing\n\n\"Fine,\" he said with a gaunt... | 2 | |
[WP] He told me I was destined for this, but he never told what to do after I save the world. | [
"Hayden sat there on that rock for another hour, maybe more. The dry wind pushing dust from the south end of the valley almost had the light choked out of the day. It was time to go - we all knew it - but not one of us spoke up to say it. I wouldn't have dreamed it. So we sat there under the scraggly larch trees in... | 2 | |
Resubmitting per mod instruction:
Backstory on this painting's origin. By no means feel constrained by any of this info! Use it if you want, disregard it all completely if you choose! I just want the best possible backstory on this guy. I host a bi-weekly poker game of people that have known each other for many years. 12 of us are in a long running fantasy football league together as well and we can be pretty crazy about it.
Anyway, one of my buddies owns a thrift store and he came across this painting and we both knew that it had to be hung in the poker room. Neither one of us could really explain why, we just knew that this guy is awesome and needed to watch over poker night. I would love an awesome backstory on this guy, whatever his name will turn out to be, so we can pass it on to all newcomers the game and league.
This is my first time posting on this sub. Please forgive me if I'm doing it wrong. Thank you in advance!
http://imgur.com/pJFK138.jpg
| [WP] Give this man a backstory. | [
"His full name is Frederick Lazarus Dade III, aka Fred D, aka DDIII, aka Laz Daddy. Though he is more commonly known as Flash Daddy or, simply THE Flash.\n\nHe is from nowhere and everywhere. He has seen all that has ever been and all that will ever be. He knows when you are bluffing, and when you're holding pocket... | 2 |
[WP] Scientists have discovered undeniable proof that god does not exist, and you are a famous Christian minister. | [
"The answer to everything. Seems unobtainable. Philosophers, mystics, and holy men have searched for the answer for time immemorial. The meaning of our existence. The underlying structure of the world in which we live. The why. The how. The Who.\n\nBut it was not the philosophers, the mystics, nor the holy men who ... | 2 | |
[WP] A thousand years ago, the wall was built. | [
"I stared up at the wall as the sun passed over it, dying the sky a bright orange. Its pristine white color seemed to dye itself a deep crimson as the sun passed, and the world succumbed to darkness for just a moment, as everyone lit their candles. Within the boundaries of the wall, there now were miniature suns co... | 6 | |
[WP] The person commenting on every post on /r/writingprompts is warning us of something. Describe the battle between them and the bot deleting the posts. | [
">All non-story replies should only be made as a reply to this post rather than a top-level comment.\n\n\"Fucking hell...\" Barry was sick of seeing the same message over and over again.\n\nF5\n\nNew prompt\n\n>All non-story replies should only be made as a reply to this post rather than a top-level comment.\... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a Professional Group Therapist in a mental hospital and you're beginning to suspect that two of your patients are robots. | [
"The day wore on as I sat across from Mary and Frank, looking at their faces trying to perceive some tick, something that may give them away. They stared back, blinking and breathing, just like humans tend to. I coolly took a sip from my Styrofoam cup of tea.\n\n\"So what else has been on your mind?\" I said.\n\nMa... | 3 | |
*This was posted a few hours ago by someone, but it seems the original prompt has since been deleted* | [WP] It’s discovered that the Earth’s core is made of yolk. | [
"\"Surely you don't mean...\"\n\n\"But I do.\" he said, \"And all it implies.\"\n\nAs if fate itself had heard him, a giant pair of hands encircled the earth, lifted it out of orbit in a manner that caused the oceans to populate a single hemisphere, and then cracked it against the moon with such force that the tect... | 4 |
Was inspired to create this after reading a book called *Many Worlds* | [WP] Today is the biggest day of your life. Someone you didn't expect is going to screw it up. Who screws it up and how? | [
"*Today is the day I will cure all known diseases.* \n\nRobert woke up as he normally does: half six in the morning with his alarm clock playing his favorite song. He crept downstairs hoping to avoid waking his wife, she had taken the day off to support him at work and because of that she didn't need to be up for a... | 2 |
[WP] Everyone gets a bracelet that will light up more and more the closer they get to the person/thing that will kill them. Yours has never glowed. One day, you meet a person whose bracelet has never stopped glowing. | [
"I'm not really sure why I was given something that looks so bland. My whole graduating class 60 years back was given these bracelets for \"good measure\". The purpose of these bracelets are to shine when something would potentially threaten our life. Problem is, mine hasn't shined at all for the 60 years I have be... | 3 | |
[WP] "Sorry to bother you sir, but the Queen has just declared war on France. Again." | [
"\"What do you suggest we do Mr. President?\" My boys ask, expecting my all knowing wisdom to be bestowed upon them. It's not an easy job, but this seems to be way easier than the other crap I had to do. Back to what I was thinking about. So the queen declared war on the French again. Fuck, what was the date it was... | 2 | |
[WP] The CDC is struggling to contain a new virus that shares many symptoms with the common cold, as well as causing sporadic loss of short term memory. | [
"**First submission and I am not a writer, be nice**:\n\nDr. Pamela Jenkins was the director of clinical research at the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. There had been a sudden influx of children with cold-like symptoms coupled with a severe headaches that almost incapacitated the poor kids, and rendered them una... | 2 | |
[WP] Humanity has finally cured it's need to sleep with a very cheap, easily manufactured pill. It only took 5 years for the side effects to become apparent. | [
"What were we thinking anyways. Ok, we had our problems but they weren't so bad, right? Not compared to this anyway. \nI stopped menstruating if you really wanna know, some months ago already, so did mom by the way, she won't admit it though, but I know. Don't think I should tell dad, Hhe's sad enough as it is. Yes... | 7 | |
[WP] The year is 2315 and the Amish are living like its the 21st century. | [
"A mother walks past her son and notices he's doing something very bad. \"WHAT IS THIS! You should not be looking up Thorad culture. It's a sin and I will not have any of it. Just wait until the Bishop hears about this.\"\n\n\"No please, don't. I don't want to be shunned! I just got to the end of The Last of Us!\" ... | 5 | |
[WP] Donald Trump turns into a worse dictator than Adolf Hitler... | [
"I don't know why the world hates dear Lord Trump, my whole community loves him! And by community I mean country! The United Population Assets of Trump Industries is the best place to live in the world! I live at Trump Towers AE#801259. School here is great. Everyday we watch The Apprentice in art class, and w... | 1 | |
[WP] A prompt that begins and ends with the same sentence, but one core thing changes completely by the end. | [
"\"Stop with that racket, I'm trying to sleep!\" said the man standing there in his room.\n\n\"You've been fucking and fucking,\" said the old creep, as he smashed the roof with his broom.\n\nTruth is, their joy made him sad as he sat in 6B with the TV tuned to the news.\n\n\"This place was much better,\" reminisce... | 14 | |
[WP] You tried to warn them. You knew it would be the end of civilization, but the damn fools would not listen. You are the 5th dentist who did not recommend Crest. | [
"The Omega sees everything.\n\nInside the Cremulon 10 different physio-chemists observe the specimens under the glass. Chemicals are added to the cylindrical diffuser. The atomic chambers are charged with a billion volts of Neptune's liquid energy. The substance is ready. The creatures bow their heads covering thei... | 2 | |
Doesn't have to be a popular form of communication or even one that exists | [WP] You have discovered the communication network used by another species (i.e. Vampires, werewolves, aliens, or even another known species). | [
"I cannot say how I have gained insight into these new forms of communication, for that information is beyond my grasp, but I can describe them in rudimentary and unsatisfying terms. The voices -- if one could call them such a thing -- come through a sort of mental slipstream from places unknown to me. It’s as if m... | 2 |
[WP] You wake up in a room with nothing but a spoon, a match, and a note that says "Good luck." | [
"I surveyed the room. There was no furniture save a Victorian style armchair in dire need of reupholstering. The walls were whitewashed plaster, and the floor that I lay on was hardwood. The room was lit by a small bare lightbulb in the middle of the ceiling. There were no windows. \n\nI looked to my left, and saw ... | 3 | |
[WP] 2047: You're a history professor teaching of the most world changing event since the French Revolution, the Internet influenced Chinese revolution of 2023. | [
"\"The Chinese rebellion of 2023 incited some of the darkest, most inhumane acts we have ever seen. Members of a secret Internet based clan based within China, fought against the authorities in the most horrific despicable ways. There were two separate groups that fought in a variety of different ways. The 'reddito... | 2 | |
[WP] Everyone in the bar begins to rip off their skin/costumes and expose their true selves. They begin to notice you're not joining them | [
"...Well, *that* explains a lot.\n\nSee, I was on a trip to Manchester as part of my job as Director of Financial Services. I'd had to meet up in preparation for a pan-European Congress on Mediating Economic Damage.\n\nExcept, I was the only *homo sapiens* here. Which I should have guessed in hindsight, with some... | 2 | |
[WP]God Commits Suicide | [
"There was a time when I watched with pride; I heard sounds become words, I watched the first human hands make fire, I even watched them turn their abstract thoughts into things; things that served no purpose other than to say — and sometimes without words — ‘this was in me and now I’ve taken it out to show you’. \... | 3 | |
[WP] You are the last human being alive. You are not lonely – in fact, you are happy. | [
"There is creation to be found in solace, I suppose. Perhaps the limits of one's imagination was put in place by everyone else. First, I mourned. The widespread loss of life throughout Earth. The loved ones I'll never see. \n\nThen, after several years of looking behind, I guessed it was time to move forward. Why n... | 3 | |
[WP] Every human soul that passes through the threshold of Death, discovers that Life was merely a pasture designed to ripen each soul for consumption. | [
"A black cloaked figure holding a worn black lacquered pot stood before four beings. One made entirely of light, one stood on hoofed feet, red piercing eyes, and the body of a man with curled horns protruding from the skull. It stood surrounded by smoke that emitted from its pores as if it was the embodiment of fir... | 6 | |
[WP] You wake up one morning as your 10 year old self. You try to explain to your mom that you are a successful adult, as she tries to get you ready for school. | [
"I am woken from sleep by a gentle rub on the back, and the words, “Wake up, J, it's time to get ready for school.” School? What? I open my eyes, and see that I am in my old bedroom, in the old house. I look at my mom. Wow, she's so young. So pretty. Am I dreaming?\n\nI get up, turn on the light, and – *Wa... | 2 | |
[WP] You step inside again, trying to figure out precisely what it was you did wrong. | [
"*You and I both know, after all this time, that I CAN'T UNDERSTAND YOU.*\n\n*I get it! I did something wrong! I did a bad thing! I don't know WHAT I did, but you yelling isn't helping.* \n\n*Yes. I see you pointing. There, and then at me, and then there. And now over there. What are you trying to say? All I'm hear... | 5 | |
[Wp] write a poem about where you grew up, and your hobbies. | [
"Come take a trip with me, \n To the triangle of despair, \n where I'm sure that you'll agree, \n That it sucks beyond compare. \n\nIt's where the old go to die, \n Just to the West of old Novi, \n North of Deuce and East of MJR, \n For indeed death is never very far. \n\nWe are the most creative of o... | 3 | |
[WP] The Library of Alexandria was burned down for a very good reason | [
"Wizard here! This is one of the things you learn pretty early on, not just because of history but because of... well, I'll get to it.\n\nSo magic - that is to say, modern-ish magic, not the old sacrifice-a-ram thing but still with plenty of salt circles and pentagrams - actually dates back to the burning of the L... | 2 | |
[WP] Porn becomes a very popular sport... | [
"\"KICK-OFF!\"\n\n\"Kommt schon, Jungs! Dies ist das letzte Spiel, und wir dürfen nicht zu verlieren.\"\n\nAs the leader yells, they took off their pants and started rubbing.\n\n\"Esses gajos alemães são sérios sobre a tecnologia e, portanto, não tão excitado como nós!\"\n\n\"Shhhh! Wir haben to stop talking in Deu... | 3 | |
[WP] Every U.S. prisoner serving a life sentence is armed and dropped in Syria to combat ISIS without oversight. | [
"Professor Block, the CIA's top middle east analyst stood up. \"I guess we should start with some background.\" \n\nA video began to play on the screen at the end of the conference table in the windowless briefing room. After the CIA logo displayed, Donald Trump appeared, addressing a massive throng of supporter... | 3 | |
[WP] Do your best to describe a color | [
"What do you feel when you feel calm. Do you feel a gentle breeze blow over you or do you feel the soft grass in your hand. What do you Smell when you are calm. The morning dew on the grass or the gentle pine from the forest. What do you hear when you are calm. A wisp of wind or you stomping through snow. What do y... | 4 | |
[WP] Hush, hush, mommy's gonna eat you now. | [
"If I could, I would reach across this table and throttle him. I’d have stabbed him, if he hadn’t cut dinner up for me already.\n\nHe sits across from me, alternately munching on mouthfuls of salad and smiling at me in an adoring manner. “Come on, sweetheart.” he says. “Eat up.” \n\nHe takes a delicate sip of the w... | 3 | |
[WP] Teleportation renders all other modes of transportation obsolete and makes travel time nonexistent—there are no 'journeys,' only 'destinations'. One morning, as you're getting ready for an average day, your teleporter breaks. | [
"I don't know if I've ever seen roads. Hell, I rarely go outside, ever! I've heard some stories about how crime filled it used to be, how a young girl like myself had to be afraid to walk down the street by herself, particularly at night. Or in order to cross that street, you were often risking your life. People go... | 4 | |
[WP]The year is 3015. You've found a way to travel to the past, and have decided to go back to the year 2015 and see what life was like back then. You take a box with you, it contains the tools that you think you may need for survival in this ancient era, as well as one single present for humanity. | [
"I quickly skimmed the posts from /r/EDC using the waybackmachine on the extranet. After some alloy fabricating I was ready. 2 Glocks, 1 snub nosed revolver and a Nugget (A Mosin Nagant rifle, as I learned later). It seemed strange to me, how much firepower would someone need back then to just survive. I also packe... | 4 | |
Then make me feel bad about it.
Then make it heartwarming.
Also, do it to music. | [WP] Break the Villain. | [
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqGG70zNDbI (All Gone // The Last of Us)\nfirst post here, hi! ^^’\n\n---\n\nI don’t remember how long ago the first one was, but I remember the look on her face as the life bleeds out of those gorgeous blue eyes of hers, vibrant and visible even through the plastic bag that suffoca... | 3 |
[WP] As you wake up, you feel... odd. As you look in the mirror, it turns out you swapped genders. | [
" Ughh… I groaned, throwing my pillow over my head, the sun’s rays blasting me as if I had a hangover. I could still feel the stiffness in my legs from my shift at McDonald’s last night. *Goddamn it.* I sighed. *I hate this so much.* I rolled onto my back, pillow still covering my face. *Overworked and underpaid.* ... | 1 | |
[WP] A father is searching his son's room for drugs, but finds something much more dangerous... | [
"Connor is distant. Even depressed. Too distant, too depressed. My husband insists that it's just a teen thing, just a phase, just a thing everyone goes through. But it's not. Bloodshot eyes, icy silences, dropping grades and calls from his goddamn coach. He hates my husband too, now, the man who helped me raise hi... | 3 | |
[WP] Rap battle between Pope Francis and Donald Trump | [
"Pope: Started in Argentina now a martyr for demons, put my heart on my sleeve and receive applause without needing, part of the revolution to bring this shit retribution, so when they thinking priests it ain't strictly cause of children, killing these bible verses reversing the dogma swiftly, see me rolling proper... | 4 | |
[WP]As NASA announces flowing liquid water on Mars, mineral water companies race to be the first to bottle it and sell the water on Earth. | [
"\"We're introducing, brand new...MARS WATER!\" \n\nThe crowd rose up in cheer, as a scantily clad model in a bikini threw bottles of water. As the bottle crested gracefully, the crowd shifted, as each mindless drone of a consumer rushed to grab it.\n\nThe bottle fell into the hands of a slightly balding Caucasian ... | 2 | |
Keep it clean, okay?
Sadly, not an original [idea](http://myanimelist.net/manga/447/Oretama) (NSFW link). | [WP] The Demon King was slain, but he/she would be reincarnated in three thousand years. Fast forward three thousand years later, a man is being stalked by a succubus because he holds the sperm that would be the next Demon King. | [
"Bending mortals to your will is easy. Man or Woman, Strait or Gay, all you have to do is be near them, open, ready and in their heads. Sometimes it doesn't even take influencing them with tricks- a few words in the right tone, a smile, and sometimes they're just horny.\n\nOther times, you have to watch them, for a... | 5 |
[WP] In an alternate universe, early humans become geographically separated into two groups which develop in isolation from one another, eventually becoming distinct (though closely related) species. Eventually, they interact for the first time. | [
"The setting sun cast long rays of orange and gold across the sky as the two dozen-strong group made its way along the narrow trail through the waving grasses. It was treacherous enough here; the ground to either side often gave way to sucking mud hidden beneath the grass that could easily swallow an unsuspecting h... | 1 | |
[WP] Imagination is sold by the bottle | [
"I looked down at my itinerary the machine had given me for the day. \n\n8 a.m. -- Shower, breakfast. Ready for work by 9.\n\n9 a.m. - 12 p.m. -- Work.\n\n12 p.m. - 1 p.m. -- Lunch. \n\n1 p.m. - 6 p.m. -- Work. \n\n6 p.m. - 7 p.m. -- Dinner. \n\n7 p.m. - 9 p.m. -- Socializing. \n\nI sighed and looked at the col... | 1 | |
Tell me, did we made front page? | [WP] The sirens sounded one last time. It's over now, it's done, we can rest now. | [
"The sirens sounded one last time. The conflict is over. It is done. I lay back, rest. Imagery from the war passes through my mind; friends dying at my side, no time for goodbyes or drama, -- we jokingly said our goodbyes when it began -- the intimidating enemy, with only blood and chaos on their minds. But we are ... | 9 |
[WP] A caveman found in an ice block is brought back to life. At first he is astounded at our modern technology. Now, 5 years later, he is working at a Walmart and longing for the "good ol' days." | [
"\"Capitalism,\" so they call it. It took me some time to readjust, to rehabilitate. The way of life of this time is, suffice to say, different. \n\nThey do not hunt, nor do they farm; they just go to work. And what does \"work\" entail? For me, it's vibrating my vocal cords in a repetitive and meaningless way. \"H... | 1 | |
The year is 2057, Human driven cars have been outlawed in favor of safer driverless "autos", but one night you and three friends find a car. Describe what happens next... | [WP]The year is 2057, Human driven cars have been outlawed in favor of safer driverless "autos" | [
"My uncle has a country place that no one knows about. He says it used to be a farm before the Motor Law, and on Sundays I elude the eyes and hop the turbine freight to far outside the Wire where my white-haired uncle waits. \n\nI jump to the ground as the Turbo slows to cross the borderline. I run like the wind as... | 2 |
[WP] You opened the coffin of your late grandfather, and inside it was a wheel of cheese with a note on it saying "don't let them find it." | [
"It certainly was a handsome cheese.\n\nPart of that might have had to do with the opulence of the casket; polished brass hardware, slick mahogany, velvet the color of wine. And in the middle, a wheel of cheese. \n\nAs perfect a circle as I had ever seen in the context of dairy by-products. It was like a miniature ... | 2 | |
[WP] One day, you wake up with the strange ability to have money magically appear when you are humiliated. The more you are humiliated, the more money you receive. | [
"I was broke. I didn't know how it happened. I guess everything's relative to how you see it in the end. \n\nIt all started on that fateful day two summers ago, I was playing basketball with my friends going for the 3 point jumper when; SPLAT. \n\nMy friends looked at me and started giggling. I was so surprised tha... | 2 | |
[WP] A retired superhero and supervillain who have been archenemies for their entire lives discover they both live in the same retirement home when they accidentally cross paths. | [
"The narrative is here and it's just my luck. Here I am trying to enjoy the last few years I have and now I find out I'm sharing a retirement home with \"The Narrative. He was simply the worst member of my rogue gallery, even Social Experiment Man was easier to deal with, though his constant shouting of \"It's just... | 2 | |
[WP] An identity thief, feeling bad for their victim, impersonates them to help get their life back on track | [
"\"Thank you very much, young man. I hope you like butterscotch,\" said the elderly woman, holding out an unwrapped piece of candy covered with dust and lint from her oversized handbag. \"I wasn't sure if I'd ever get across that darn street, just so many cars around nowadays.\"\n\n\"And thank you, ma'am,\" he repl... | 4 | |
[WP] You realise that you haven't been too bad for Hell, but you haven't been good enough for Heaven. Now Satan and God are deciding where to put you. | [
"\"They made up a thing to explain this right.\"\nThey both glanced over at me for for half a second. \n\"Yeah but they don't get to make the rules.\"\n\"True, good idea though.\"\n\"Easy for you to say, you would never have to put something together to try and iron out some of these sins.\"\n\"I work with what I ... | 2 | |
[WP] it is the future. People use VR simulations to go back in time, while real time travel is only used by governments in extreme moderation. After you become the number one high scorer in the "Kill hitler" simulation, you are sent back in time for real to kill hitler. You don't know this. | [
"\"Well, I sure as shit didn't see this coming. My name is xxKilltler69xx and I'm in 1945 Germany.\"\n\nK:Hi Hitler, how's it going?\n\nH:Oh you know, just painting.\n\nK:Cool\n\nH:Yeah it's a bird.\n\nK:sweet.\nAnyway, I have to kill you now.\n\nH:Why is that?\n\nK:video games and time travel. It's complicated.\... | 3 | |
[WP] During a routine consultation with your psychiatrist, he accidentally responds to a question from one of your 'hallucinations'. How do you respond? | [
" Another Tuesday, another visit to Susan Kemler, my psychiatrist. She swears up and down that we’re making progress, but I feel just as cold and empty as when I started seeing her last month.\n\n My “friends” followed me to the appointment, just like they always do. They started whispering in my ear five years a... | 3 | |
[WP] The organization's top "assassin" secretly spares all of his targets; relocating and hiding them with the money earned from their bounty. | [
"Reg snuck up around the corner or the corridor, his footsteps silent and his breathing slow and in control. He pulled his silenced pistol and fired two rounds into the guard in front of him who instantly doubled over as they struck him in the stomach, driving the breath out. Reg’s third bullet hit directly in the ... | 14 | |
[WP] Give me an enemy any day, a friend knows where to stick the knife. | [
"He saw the streams of blood dyeing my shirt while I sat there, slowly slipping away. I saw that face more than a thousand times, but that day, I failed to recognize what he had become, the lengths he was willing to go, the relationship he was willing to cross.\n\nWith an unapologetic confidence he said, \"Remembe... | 2 | |
[WP]My mother was a demon, but my father was the real monster | [
"I'm slowly getting used to Father's study. It's still an uncomfortable room to be in, for sure, even with the light off as it is now. One wall houses bookcases full of law manuals and legal files, while the opposite wall houses countless antique tomes and relics. I can feel the power of the binding written word pr... | 2 |
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