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[WP] A comet strikes Earth, dealing minimal damage to the planet. Upon investigation, organic material is found on the meteorite. It is a 100% match for human DNA. | [
"\"A lot of commotion here in Minneapolis, as citizens gather outside their homes.\" Sara Jacobson and her cameraman walked down Sloane Street. A family of four looked up at the sky, toward where the father pointed. \"Hi, we're from Fox-9 Minneapolis, can you tell me what you just saw here?\" The mother of the ... | 2 | |
[WP] "There you are. I must have been waiting...what is it...six hundred years?" | [
"\"There you are.\"\n\nI looked behind me. There was no way the large yeti-esque man was speaking to me. Surely, there would be another old and wrinkly individual, with a beard at least half as long as his. But the alley was empty.\n\nI looked at him cautiously. Maybe the dude was high, maybe he was just homeless a... | 9 | |
[WP] The hero and the villain are multiple personalities of the same person. | [
"Touching the brilliant pools \n\nMade private by his blood \n\nMade desperate by her hands \n\n. \n\nI calculate the willow tree's descent \n\nBut forget that I have no leaves \n\nOnly heavy bread weighs me down \n\n. \n\n\"There's just one thing.\" \n\nHow horrifying to be forgotten \n\nHow wondrous to forget \n\... | 4 | |
[WP] Make a mundane moment WAY too over-dramatic. | [
"The dark room stands still, alone, and cold. A door swings open to reveal the light of the outside world. No one knows what's out there. There's a loud click at the door that sends beams of electricity through cold glass and setting wires ablaze like an unstoppable inferno. Then the motors overhead are heard spinn... | 3 | |
[WP] In a distant, apocalyptic future the last two nations on Earth have been at war for centuries. They have forgotten why they are even fighting. | [
"\tThe two soldiers stared solemnly over the Thames, quietly smoking their cigarettes. They had been on watch for over 12hrs now and were waiting for they’re replacements from command. \n\n\t\"That's 12 and a half hours down, you owe me that snickers.\" Roberts said looking up from the cracked face of his watch.\... | 3 | |
[WP] A good-natured but somewhat incompetent fairy grants your wish for a superpower. It's a bit off of what you expected, but you make due with what you got. | [
"I walked through that ever familiar street, surveying the hellish scene unfolding around me. In the distance, two people stood on thin air, yelling and screaming at each other furiously. I looked towards my feet, but saw only a vast sea of black, dotted with pieces of metal and the remains of some ancient creature... | 3 | |
[WP] You are the god of Earth, but the human race think they just disproved your existence... | [
"God No Longer Exists \n\n*In the style of Twitter.*\n\n\n\n\n**GOD** @biggeezus ∙ Feb 7\n\nEli was doing math you guys. #SB50\n\n\n\n\n**GOD** @biggeezus ∙ Feb 8\n\nHappy Chinese New Year\n\n\n\n\n*God Retweeted* \n\n**TWINE** @iamtwine ∙ Feb 9\n\nPlans for today:\n\n\n3pm: get wasted #FatTuesday\n\n\n\n\n**GOD**... | 3 | |
[WP] "So, what's your story?" | [
"It wasn't a dive bar. The stools were clean and the floor, for the most part, wasn't covered in a layer of human waste. Neither was it an upscale snob-ridden winebar with the kind of clientele that had no compunctions dropping a hundred dollars on a bottle but when it came time to pay the bill the tip always came ... | 3 | |
[WP] "Don't you ever get tired of looking up?" | [
"Tartarus be the belly; my grievance be the beast. I am tempted to ponder that shade which blackened-burns cling upon the ceiling, one whose rocky walls of despair hold up as Atlas would have held the Earth. He is not real, for we, the damned, hold up the world above. \n\nKnowing this now, I look up in the directio... | 4 | |
[WP] You're the time traveler who killed Hitler. As punishment for damaging the timeline, you're sentenced to REPLACE Hitler. | [
"\"…Errrr. I, um. I don't know if I *can.*\"\n\n\n\"Sorry, but you've got no choice. You royally fucked up the timeline, so you gotta fix it. Hitler needs to rise to power. World War 2 needs to happen. The fact of the matter is, without everyone killed during Hitler's reign and World War 2, the population soars out... | 7 | |
[WP] You were gifted with a secret power: you cause the opposite sex to orgasm from even the slightest skin-to-skin contact. Tell us about your life. | [
"The maternity wards of most hospitals are noisy, busy spaces; the muffled cries of women in labor are always audible even through thick delivery room doors. On the day of my birth, screams filled the halls, to be sure. Passing doctors coughed nervously and strode a bit quicker past the doors of 105, blushing all t... | 2 | |
[WP]Your father leads you to a room behind his bookshelf. "My son, it is time that you learned our family's secret." | [
"Dad push pushed a hidden button on the bookshelf and shoved it forward. He squeezed himself between the shelf and wall and into the secret room. He yanked a chain and the lone light bulb flashed to life. Dad motioned me into the room and pushed the bookcase back into place.\n\nThe secret room I never knew existed ... | 4 | |
Just a possible idea to jump off from, or motif to add
* most people's necklaces shine in their early to mid teens, college is rather late
| [WP] At birth everybody receives a necklace that will glow when they get near their soulmate/perfect partner. You're a college student studying abroad when suddenly yours starts to shine for the first time. | [
"I have watched over the years as one by one my friends necklaces began to glow. We would then make a game out of if. Racing about town, or wherever we were watching the necklace glow brighter the closer we got to their true love. I used to happily watch, joining in the excitement, watching love blossom when we fo... | 8 |
[WP] You have the ability to recreate reality as you see fit. For all intents and purposes you are a god. The catch: your powers are linked to your polar opposite and you can only make a change if you both agree. | [
"\"I won't permit this,\" Sweet declared. \nOf course she wouldn't. That was what made her Sweet. But I had to try. \n\"Please, look how fast they have progressed.\" I gestured towards our alpha site. \"The Creations are taking upon themselves an unprecedented task. Would you *allow* this self-destruction?\" \... | 3 | |
[WP] Defeating the Grim Reaper allows an individual to remain untouched by Death for all time but soon realises this will not prevent them from ageing into infirmity and beyond. Their only hope of avoiding this rests with challenging Father Time as well and the stakes couldn't be higher than ever. | [
"Stanley was ready to start upon his journey. In his youth, he was told a tale of how defeating the grim reaper would trump death itself. Now middle aged and out of his prime, Stanley thought long and hard to himself about the journey he was about to take. Was it with it? Stanley said nah and decided to try ... | 8 | |
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My skin might be pale as snow
But for my heart, 99% black is too low
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As I guessed, no one understood that this was about white guys who behave like black guys | [WP] Show your true colors and embrace the darkness | [
"Inside of me there is the kind of darkness which is absolute. It is the kind of darkness which was before the universe, the kind of darkness which is at the center of black holes and in every corner and crevice which man has not seen. It is the absence of all reality; an endless void which can never be filled.\n\n... | 2 |
In an effort to preserve history, transcribe this book. | [WP] The year is 3184, inside an ancient artifact, what the people of the time called a "book", is written a historical account of the 3rd world war. | [
"\"What is it?\" General Quinn asked as the strange rectangular object was placed in front of her.\n\n\"According to the markings inside, it is a book.\" An elderly scholar by the name of Eli stepped forward and opened the mysterious object.\n\n\"Is it a weapon?\" General Quinn asked, shielding herself with her ... | 3 |
Please write a story about 2 characters switching roles after living "long enough". | [WP]You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. The reverse is true as well. | [
"The medals hung in projection boxes on my wall, mocking me with their small inscriptions touting my good virtues. Combat was hard on me, hard on all of us; I don't think anyone came back the same.\n\nA soft creak sounded to my right as the door opened to my study, her blonde curls popped around the side a moment l... | 8 |
[WP] You make it to heaven after a long but average life as a white-collar shmuck. God then reveals which career path you SHOULD have taken, to peak as an individual and achieve maximum success. Your immediate reaction is uncontrollable laughter | [
"It wasn’t what I’d imagined. For sure. For certain. \nNo floor made of clouds and harps twinging perfect pitch notes. No crowds of the passed on living circulating through God’s garden of eternity. No pearly gates, no anxiety of waiting to see if you’d be in, and from what I can tell: no hell. \n\nMerely space. \n... | 2 | |
[WP] Just include the sentence: "There's too many of them." | [
"*I can't believe that I spent 40K to go to New York for this shit!*\n\nAglio de Olio, 3 batches\n\nSpaghetti and Meatballs, Brooklyn Style, 2 orders.\n\nMozzarella and Tomatoes, 3 orders.\n\nSquid ink linguini, 3 orders.\n\nRatatouille, 3 orders\n\nPotato Dauphinoise that cuts under 1000 calories, 3 orders\n\nMarg... | 5 | |
[WP] There is a species that is equal to humans in intellect and physical capability, and has always lived on the planet with us. Write about the culture, shared history and how the world looks because of these creatures. | [
"The humans that we know and love always have had an ego issues. In fact, they continue to have such an ego that it doesn't befit this planet to merely contain it's ego. The human's must expand their domain to the outer rims of the planets, soaring into the sky, burrowing down underneath the oceans, soaring rockets... | 3 | |
[WP] Drunk stories that are unfortunately true. | [
"I guess this one would work. I was fucked up when I wrote it, however it is a true story. Forgot I even wrote it til a couple hours ago. Nothing too special though:\n\nabove me from the branches of a tree hangs an array of bottles attached to strings, bottles previously filled with heartfelt laughter and summer ni... | 2 | |
[WP] Fiction is a city, and the districts are genres/writing styles. | [
"I was just a lowly technician born in the sci-fi district. Luckily, my neighborhood was action sci-fi. I had a friend who lived in the dystopian neighborhood, but one night he disappeared. They tend to do that. The sci-fi district was interesting throughout my childhood and most of my adolescence. Every day I coul... | 2 | |
[WP] "You could have been something! You could have changed the world, but you decide to be a fucking piece of broccoli!" | [
"She peered over the edge of the sterile, white linen, eyes weighed down by bags so deep and so dark they may as well have held their own separate bodies covered by their own sterile, white linen. \n\n\"So you're an angel?\" she rasped in his direction, unfazed by the way he had turned the bleak, brick room that ha... | 4 | |
[WP] A man from Canada decides to break into the United States. Tell his daring tale. | [
"The border between Canada and the US was locked down completely. In a daring move President Obama decided to build a huge wall across the 49th parallel to show that Trump's not the only one that can keep illegals out.\n\nBut Steven needed to get to America, he lived the dangerous life of a maple syrup smuggler, de... | 2 | |
10/10: Would be subjugated again. | [WP] The Royal Army has come to liberate previously owned land from "The Dark Forces" after a lengthy occupation. Instead of giving a hero's welcome, however, the civilians tell their liberators that they had been quite pleased on how they had been treated. | [
"\"Fear not citizens, we have come to free you from the Dark Forces!\"\n\n\"Seriously man? That's what you're calling them?\"\n\n\"Well, yeah. They're the bad guys. We're the good guys. It's fairly obvious.\"\n\n\"You realize that's hella racist right?\"\n\n\"What?\"\n\n\"Just cause they're black doesn't make them ... | 2 |
[WP] It is literally always right behind you, but sometimes, if you turn your head really fast, you think you get a glimpse of it in the corner of your eye. | [
"It happened because of a mini habit of mine, where I liked to do things in even numbers. If I spun myself silly in a circle, it wouldn't be over until I spun an equal number in return. I had to balance everything in even numbers, or it would nag at me like a heavy weight pulling on the back of my neck until I rect... | 3 | |
[WP] A man discovers that each time he wakes up, time goes slower and slower for him. | [
"This is my first prompt. Please don't hesitate to roast the fuck out of me and ask clarifying questions so that I can improve my writing style. Thank you!\n\nJuly 4th 2016 6:40 PM\n\nHeading out to Sara's place today. She's hosting a party with Todd. I don't know why she invited me. Fuck Todd. The kids are at thei... | 2 | |
[WP] You visit the zoo and realize all the animals are watching you. | [
"\"Mommy? I'm...I'm a little bit scared. Just a *little* bit, though.\" \n\"You're a brave boy.\" \n\"Mommy, why do we have to be here? This place is scary...am I right? I'm right, aren't I? This place is scary?\" \n\"We'll be just a few minutes. It's OK, it's *OK*. And you can have a treat for being such a good... | 3 | |
[WP] You wake up, and begin your normal morning routine. Although, when you open up the curtains, out your window, all there is is an empty, pitch-black void. | [
"**'Beep, beep, beep...'**\n\nThe sound of the alarm woke Thomas from his dream slowly. The sound invaded softly, like a wet tentacle into his brain. The sound caused panic, a rapid heart beat, and he awoke. He sighed loudly to himself and moved to kick his legs off of the edge of the bed. \n\nLike most mornings, t... | 2 | |
[WP] A futuristic knight is been granted the highest accolade. | [
" \"Surge et videri et cognosci Surgite\" the Magister Sacrorum intoned, his weathered hands holding the Gladius Finis above his head. \n\n The heavy sword swayed in the old priest's grasp, catching the blue lights of the chamber as it wavered in the air. The ancient blade, inscribed with the names of all who had... | 2 | |
[WP] You've just died. You wake up and realize you are now a character in a video game you spent a lot of time playing while you were alive. | [
"I thought I was in Purgatory for the first five minutes or so. \n\nI mean I was sure I was dead, getting rear ended by a 16 wheeler usually do the trick.\n\nI woke up in a hazy airplane surrounded by people that looked like they were from the 1960's, I mean there was a guy smoking on the plane, odds were leaning t... | 12 | |
[WP]In a world where music is a weapon, concerts (nations) use armies (set lists), divided into bands (divisions) to wage sonic warfare. | [
"It’s been twenty eight years since the end of the war. The world has changed dramatically in those short years. Maybe if we had won things would be different.\n\nRed’s parents listened to old records in the middle of the night. They huddled around the old small record player as it whispered out a melody. She w... | 2 | |
[WP] "I never thought salvation would come in the form of an eight-year-old girl." | [
"I never thought salvation would come in the form of an eight-year-old girl. \n\nThere she was: all four feet and seventy odd pounds of her. Not what I expected from the pounding my front door had just received. \n\n\"Can I help y-\"\n\"You gotta help me!\"\n\"Woah, woah. What's the p-\"\n\"NOW!\"\n\nShe whips arou... | 2 | |
[WP] Tell me a story from a world where arranged marriages have made a huge comeback in the west, and is swiftly becoming the most popular way to find a partner | [
"I looked around the office, trying to control the anxiety building up inside my chest. Just breathe, Jake, I told myself. You're just here to find out how it works. You haven't signed anything, haven't agreed to anything yet.\n\nWhoever designed the office, at least, had been well aware of the anxiety that its ... | 3 | |
[WP] A couple brings a baby into a motel room. The baby isn't theirs. | [
"INT. MOTEL - DAY\nDEAN is trying to calm down BOBBY JOHN, who is crying loudly. There is a knock on the door. \n\nMANAGER\nManager! Everything okay in there? \n\nDEAN\nYeah, no, we're fine. Thank you. Good night. \n\nMANAGER\nThere's been complaints. Mind opening the door, sir? \n\nDEAN\nIt's not a good time. Just... | 5 | |
[WP] You just died and have arrived in the afterlife. It is eternal, and you can watch life on Earth. However, humanity activated a drug that has been put into bottled water for years, and causes eternal life. You are the last person to ever die. | [
"Its not entirely unpleasant to be dead, not really. Not exactly what I had in mind, Although I suppose I was overly optimistic when I felt enough faith to convince myself there *was* an afterlife. I can't eat anything, or breath really, or masturbate (or fuck other ghosts, for that matter), but I don't really...wa... | 1 | |
[WP] You make a deal with the devil. However, you incorporate every detail big or small into the contract. | [
"We sat surprisingly close to one another, though at intentionally varied, and thus odd, angles, at the long table. Between us, though closer to him than me, was a stack of surprisingly crisp and white vellum sheets, over which his fingers, shadowed despite the cold light, were poised, spider-like. “So, what do you... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a police sketch artist by day, and expert serial killer by night. But, last night, you made a mistake and left a witness. This morning you are called to the scene of the crime to sketch the person the witness saw. | [
"I don't know what I had expected. I mean, leave a witness, show up the next day and try to pass yourself off as someone else. At first it wasn't going so bad, though. But when we got around to the finer details of facial structure, her gaze became elongated and the eyebrows started to furrow ever so slightly. I re... | 3 | |
Based on a dream I had last night. | [WP] A man awakens without any memory, completely alone, on a hot sunny day on the deck of a mid-sized sloop in the middle of an ocean. On his wrist he sees a simple tattoo bearing the text "REMEMBER: 3112." | [
"The cry of gulls overhead and a gentle rocking is what woke him up. The man groaned in pain, eyes fluttering open and rolled over. Blue skies and a sail greeted him and he sat up in alarm.\n\n\"What the--\"\n\nHe looked around him. How had he ended up on a sailboat in the middle of the ocean? There was no land in ... | 5 |
[WP] God is actually a programmer, and Hell is actually the result of a "glitch" in our universe. | [
"Yahweh looked up from the screen. \"So you're saying there's a memory leak?\"\n\n\"Yes,\" Jay replied, gesturing to a graph on the console. \"Well, sort of. See this? It's climbing really slowly, but faster ever since you implemented the most recent version of humans.\"\n\nYahweh flicked His mouse and enlarged the... | 2 | |
[WP] At magic school graduation everyone's familiar for life is introduced to them. Tigers, snakes, and even foxes. When it is your turn your magic summons moth. | [
"The graduates all stood in a line on the grassy field. We were all wearing our best robes. The sun shone high in the sky. Some of us were nervous, though they tried to hide it to the best of their abilities. Others were merely trying to hold back their excitement. What would happen today would impact the rest of o... | 5 | |
[WP] Rain throwing itself at the ground, and lightning soars across the sky. There's a storm brewing, and just as the clap of thunder roars across the sky, you find out just what lightning really is. | [
"I can smell it, the rain coming. The air has gone dry, the winds beginning to tug at trees. Skies flash and thunder roars, and it reminds me of home.\n\nThey would be preparing the wells now, waiting for the downpour. Storms like this were few and far between and the rain was clean. A good storm would fill the tal... | 1 | |
[WP] You are teleported into a parallel universe. Quickly, you find out you have no skill in the talent you love doing (and are good at), but you are a master of the thing you hate doing most. | [
"\"Dammit!\"\n\nI threw down my pencil in frustration and buried my face in my hands. Beneath my elbows laid my latest drawing. It was meant to be Venus, the goddess of love, drifting nude in an impossible underwater meadow. What was actually on the paper was a lumpy brick with breasts and buck teeth. Around the go... | 2 | |
[WP] The serum for immortality never moved past the animal testing phase. You have just inheritted the family pet and they're over 200 years old. | [
"Felix stirred awake, his head ringing in pain.\n\n\"uuuuuh\"\n\nBlinking slightly, he focused his gaze on the large crystal chandelier elegantly hanging above him, his vision clearing as he woke. Fuck he must have had a lot of shit last night. Brushing a girl's naked leg off his stomach, he left last night's lover... | 4 | |
[WP] After a well-known serial killer killed your spouse, you got a job as a guard at his prison to get revenge, that is, until you met the man. | [
"The prisoner scratched a notch with a long pointed fingernail into the rough concrete wall, shot a shaky thumbs up to the camera in the corner of the cell and reset the handmade chess board in front of him. The monumental effort of reaching out a withered hand while fighting the tremors that threatened to scatter ... | 1 | |
[WP] In a world where everyone lucid dreams, doctors recommend that healthy adults be awake for at least 8 hours every day. | [
"The ninja flicks his katana, the blade tapping my chin. I do not flinch. The pirate captain insisted on having me infiltrate the society and discover the secret to the ninja smoke bombs. Hopefully the pirate scientists(he's the one who knows how to read) could figure out how to make the cannons release smoke too. ... | 1 | |
[WP] You finally resurrect someone. The first thing they say is "Son? Is that you?" | [
"In a cold darkened chamber, deep deep down below,\n\nI poured over my research, my eyes all aglow\n\n*I have finally done it! It is finally time!*\n\n*The secrets of Death have now are finally mine!* \n\nI poured out a beaker, full of foul-smelling goo\n\nThe torches burned brighter, shining over my brew\n\nI call... | 1 | |
[WP] After your doctor is finished checking your heartbeat, he runs for his life. | [
"“Let’s just get this over with”, he muttered in the waiting room under his breath. He never really liked going to the doctor’s office, for whatever reason. He really couldn’t tell you why, it just felt wrong. As if he knew that someday he was bound to run into no good. At the Doctor’s office, of all places.\n\n“Ja... | 3 | |
[WP] You discover that Earth is the control group in an experiment testing whether or not planets need a deity. | [
"Ellie was already standing when she awoke. She was alone in a perfectly white room that did not appear to have edges, only a single door, directly in front of her. She was, inexplicably, fully dressed in her least favorite outfit- the one that made her look like she was on her way to her quinceanera if that quince... | 1 | |
[CW] Cannot end with you realising it was all but a dream. You do not wake up from a coma, but an everyday sleep. | [WP] You're 24 years old, working a job that knows no weekends. On June 29, 2016, you return from a 48 hours working spree and crash staright to bed. Wake up with the 7 a.m. alarm, but on June 30, 2036. | [
"Like every morning, 'A Good Day to be You' by M.C. Honky blasts out my phone alarm, another day grinding real life tasks, but today was my birthday, but never being social at work kept me out of trouble, and it kept me the job I needed, and many people work on their birthday, so I'm no different. June 30th, anothe... | 3 |
[WP] You've found a magic typewriter, and everything you type will come to life. | [
"##The Legacy Box\n\nThe box sits on my kitchen table for two weeks before I can bring myself to open it.\n\nThe cardboard, complete with dented corners and bound around with strapping tape, seems too mundane to contain something as expansive and intangible as a legacy.\n\nThe box smells musty and damp and immediat... | 4 | |
[WP] Some people claim to have invented flying cars, or cold fusion, or engines that run on water and others believe them. You've just made something more absurd... but it actually works! | [
"Principal Stevens leaned in to get a better look. \"Alex, if you want a project that's going to be competitive, you're going to need to be serious. The Science Fair is not a place for... this.\"\n\nI objected: \"But it works!\"\n\nStevens looked at the two other judges, \"I'll be at the next project whenever you... | 1 | |
[WP] We discover an isolated group of "homo-primus" beings who turn out to be the apex species having awesome physical and mental ability but are not technically advanced. They adapt to human culture but are acutely aware of their place. 20 years have passed since the discovery. | [
"\"So, my family is going to be a host for a Primus student next semester.\"\n\nCharlie choked on his soda, \"Primus?\"\n\nI shrugged, \"Yeah. He'll be starting the fall.\"\n\n\"He's not going to be staying with us in here, will he?\" He motioned to the cramped dorm room.\n\n\"First off, *he's* actually a *she*. ... | 1 | |
[WP] Is the pen truly mightier than the sword? A writer and her samurai husband go on a quest to settle the debate once and for all. | [
"A student came to a wise man, and of him he asked, “My teacher, I am told that words hold greater power than any sword. Is this so?”\n\nThe teacher nodded, before proceeding to take a piece of card and a brush. With it, he wrote a single word. “There is a story of a samurai and his betrothed. The samurai took grea... | 3 | |
[WP] God has invited you to the Virgo Supercluster Inter-Universal Science Fair. He wants to demonstrate his "prototype weapon", the human, which has survived thousands of years of tests. | [
"\"Sure.\" I muttered.\nWhat else would I say to god.\n\nThe way there was cool, it was like being dragged by my wrist through a drainage pipe filled with glowstick liquid. I was choking the entire time. I think I remember craving a cigarette.\n\nGod looked like god. That's what I tell myself at least. He told me t... | 7 | |
[WP] After a head injury, a man has an unusual problem: every time he falls asleep, he wakes up ten years in the past. | [
"I open my eyes, still groggy from the blow to my head. I don't know what that guy's problem was, but he could throw a mean right hook. Ok, deep breaths, this headache will have to go away soon. Now, where am I? I glance at my surroundings. Cardboard boxes, a dumpster, and an overwhelming scent of urine. An al... | 2 | |
[WP] Write me a horror story where the last line is "it laughed and laughed with a smile" | [
" It was a normal day nothing out of the ordinary ordinary. However when i was shopping with my girlfriend i saw a cat in an alleyway kind of smiling but with a human smile, i started to panic i went to reach for my girlfriend but she was farther away than i expected, my eyes darted back to the alley and the cat wa... | 1 | |
[WP] Magic exists, but the nature of it is unique to the user, like a fingerprint. | [
"'can we stop for food?' moaned Ghon from the backseat. 'Ghon, i swear to god, i will reach back there and kill the fucking shit out of you' snarled Jerris, riding shotgun. Ghon laughed 'I'd like to see you try, Jerry'. The nickname Ghon called him always got Jerris' nerves, but Jerris refrained, 'I actually cannot... | 2 | |
[WP] Due to a misunderstanding between two groups sharing the same acronym, you end up at the wrong meeting. | [
"\"Ohhh shiiii-\" I turned and sprinted down the hallway after I slammed the door. Almost a dozen chocolate bodies came barreling through the freshly slammed wooden door, all with a wild look of anger and hunger. It was down the hallway making a turn, thank god, before the black people spotted me, but their acceler... | 8 | |
I got the idea from [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4u231i/what_asshole_fact_do_you_know_that_will_ruin_the/d5mb25i) chain of comments and thought it would make a better prompt if the main character could notice that people were dying around him/her rather than in another country.
Do with the idea whatever you want though, I can't wait to see what you all come up with! | [WP] Every time you clap someone random within your vicinity dies | [
"It had been twenty years since I walked those halls. Twenty years is a lot of time. A lot of time, and not a lot of people dead. Now that sounds a bit harsh, but this particular group of people? Oh these sons of bitches totally deserved it.\n\nI took the stage and approached the mic. A nervous tap preceded my coug... | 2 |
[WP] Baseball becomes the most lethal sport in the world. | [
" The pitcher nervously picks up the ball, half expecting it to explode, half hoping it won't. Luckily, it doesn't, and he winds up to pitch. as he throws it, he realizes what a terrible mistake he's made. This specific pitch has doomed everyone not only in the stadium, but the entire city. As the ball begin... | 2 | |
[WP] In the grim cyberpunk future, egregiously bad jokes are punished by imprisonment. Your one chance for freedom is to survive for 90 minutes in an amusement park, pursued by The Comedians. Your every move is televised in the nations's wildly popular TV show, Saturday Night Live. | [
"The klaxon sounded as I raced off into the park, I had a couple of minutes to hide, unfortunately I didn't plan on hiding.\n\nThe issue with this idea of imprisonment, I had concluded weeks earlier, is that it needed fear from the participant. It focused on fear. In order to scare inmates, they would show episodes... | 1 | |
[WP] Little did they know we walked amongst them that night. | [
"\nLittle did they know we walked amongst them that night.\n\nWe only go out in small groups, as we never want to create a stir.\n\nWe disguise ourselves with hats and non-descript trench coats.\n\nThe attire seems overdone, but it always seems to work.\n \nHumans are busy bodies who are on to the next thing. \n\nT... | 2 | |
[WP]You are transported into your favorite video game and you have to beat it if you die in the game you die in real life | [
"Theif pt 1 (don't own Thief square Enix does) \nI feel cold as my eyes open to a dark and firelit alley cobbled with stone as lamps of electricity light the way. Words not of my own enter my mind as a strangely familiar voice enters me. \"So it seems you've taken my place \"x\", a neophyte the in clothes of a mast... | 3 | |
[WP] A house is haunted by spirit that feeds off of fear. The only problem is that the family that lives there keeps finding normal explanations for all of the spirits actions. | [
"\"Look, Bob, I like you, but your haunt quota is just too low. We want you to stick around, but we just can't pass up the offers of the new buried, you know, they have all these ideas of how to knock over chairs and zap open blinds now. If you want to stay on the ground, you have to step it up!\"\n\nI couldn't tak... | 1 | |
[WP] " You feel it, don't you? The hatred, the rage? Embrace it. It will make you strong. They will know your name, and you will become what the monsters fear. You are fury. You are vengeance, and you will annihilate everything that gets in your way. " | [
"I was born to end lives. With just a simple swipe of my hand, entire cities were destroyed, whole populations were completely obliterated. \n\nIn the beginning, I was a monster born and bred for one purpose: destruction. \n\nHatred was my strength.\n\nRage, my power. \n\nAnd soon enough, my master's, my *Father's... | 5 | |
[WP] United states decides to have competition between democrats and Republicans over 16 years. Split 25 states and see who overall does better. | [
"Joe and Jim-Bob sat in their favorite seedy bar, Viva La Alamo, watching their favorite channel, the NFL Network, while waiting for their \"official\" workweek to end. On the front of the door listed a \"Guns Welcome. Assholes Ain't\" sign, next to a pink neon pair of entwined Mars symbols.\n\nYou see, hardworking... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a villain who was really the good guy the entire time,though after it being pointed out,you realize you could have announced your intentions more tactfully. | [
"The cell was cold, and the walls felt like a pocked marked face of a teenage boy. I remember telling them that I just saved the world, and the heat of the fist on my face as he told me to shit the fuck up. \n\nWhen somebody tells you that you can't do something, no matter what, it always feels like they don't kno... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a supervillain with no superpowers, but all the other villains fear and respect you. | [
"So I'm a supervillain. Well, not really, on either parts of that word. I guess I'm a villain in that I do \"bad\" things but it's not my fault that people get hurt sometimes. It's the other guys in the society, really. They're the ones with powers. As an ordinary human, it's really bizarre to be in a *super*villai... | 6 | |
[WP] A gullible superhero misunderstood the phrase "Make love, not war". They attempt to romance villains, to varying degrees of effect. | [
"\"And then he just kissed me, can you believe it?\" \nTarot twisted her long black ponytail in between her fingers while BM counted her cash stacked on the table inbetween them. The pile of which covered the table and flowed on to the floor. They would be stuck here, 'celebrating' aka counting it for at least a co... | 5 | |
[WP] It turns out that all of the junk email sent in the world is solely the work of one person. Tell me their story. | [
"Inside a dank smelling room, a slender creature slinked silently. It was small, scrawny even, hidden in the silouhette of a dirty room illuminated solely by the light of a computer screen. Trash surrounded it as it sipped a 'Valentine's Day' mug filled with flat coca cola. \n\n\"Now, these messages I litter in you... | 1 | |
[WP]Only one thing stopped the eternal war between angels and demons, they pissed mother nature off. | [
"The war was millennia in the making, we knew when it would begin, what we would have to do, and of course, the end result. The last human had died, his character and his life judged and his soul sent for punishment or paradise. I wasn't sure myself, but with Hell's army so overwhelmingly larger than ours, we could... | 1 | |
[WP] You are only able to speak 1000 words over your entire life. No one else knows about your condition. You've rationed carefully for many years, but today ridiculous circumstance has forced you to use more than half of your remaining words. | [
"\"Sir. Do you know why I pulled you over?\"\n\n\".........................\"\n\n\"Sir, I asked you a question\"\n\n\"..................yes.....\"\n\n\"Okay, so you know why I pulled you over?\"\n\n\".........I guess........\"\n\n\"Your left head light is broken\"\n\n\"...........................\"\n\n\"Sir, is the... | 2 | |
[WP]A terrorist cell plans to break into a major manufacturing plant to blow it up. Their target: The Wonka Chocolate Factory. | [
"We'd been watching them for months. Every phone call they made, every journey they took and every meeting they held - all observed, logged and analysed.\n\n*I flick the ash from my cigarette.*\n\nIt had not been difficult to get on their trail. A higher-up of the self-titled 'Diabetic State' had demonstrated the o... | 1 | |
[WP] You're on a blind date, and it's going well. It is interrupted by a highly organized robbery. Your only response is, "Ugh. Not again." | [
"I was sitting on the table, reaching over to a breadstick when my blind date shreaks in terror. I look over, and see a highly organized robbery. Woopeedoo, that's a robbery, I thought. I say out loud \"Ugh, not again\". I finish my breadstick, pull out an AR-15 from my back pocket, and unload on all those fuckers.... | 1 | |
an IT guy* | [WP] In the year 2088 you're a IT guy working on the Immortality Project. A project where humans are uploaded as AIs when they die. You accidentally spill your coffee and crash a server. Killing 3 million people. | [
"Damn it all to hell, you were running super late today. The newborn next door had cried every hour on the hour. This was it's first night home and it cried all night. Weren't newborns relatively quiet until they got a little older? You shook your head, you didn't know as you never had kids of your own. No, you had... | 3 |
Kinda inverse to HFY; humanity, lol wut? | [WP] Aliens arrive, perform a "show" thoroughly mocking us, and then leave | [
"\"Sir? Are you alright?\"\n\n\"Sir?\"\n\nThe president sat still. He had completely drifted off into thought. He did that under moments of stress, which was sometimes very inconvenient. In the middle of meetings, right before speeches - there's been a few such situations. He stared off into space, while the aide w... | 1 |
[WP] With every remake of Red Dawn the country that invades the United States gets progressively more ridiculous. | [
"The Executive shifts uncomfortably in his seat in the screening room, wondering how subtly he can check his watch without ticking anyone off. In the dark around him are the Studio Head, the Original Director, the New \"Oh Shit What Kind of Movie Did We Pay For, Fix This Now\" Director, a handful of Executives with... | 3 | |
[WP] Chickens begin to rapidly develop very advanced intelligence. Realize we're eating their young, and... | [
"\"Listen, Mr.... Uh...\"\n\n\"Mr. Leghorn!\" The rooster shouted back and irritably and fixed his clip on tie.\n\n\"Ah... Yes.\" The lawyer stuttered, wiping sweat from his forehead and fumbling with a paper. \"Mr. Leghorn. Now I know, uh, you and your kind are rightly disgusted with the practices we have concerni... | 1 | |
Illustrate in words the son,g, either the regular or extended versions. Not the remix. | [WP] Avicii's "Hey Brother" | [
"(I like using the extended versions because of the beginning and ending guitar solo's, so that is the version I go with.) \n\n** As the guitar starts strumming, a series of sepia pictures flashes, showing the growth of a young man and his sister, both growing up, playing, swinging and being children. The bo... | 1 |
[WP] Magic and magical creatures used to be real and a part of our world millenia ago, but something caused all magic to disappear and the creatures to become their human counterparts. This year, the magic started to return. | [
"The magic didn’t suddenly descend on the city like summer storm, it wound its way through the streets like smoke, insinuated itself in the minds of the businessmen and the crackheads and the schoolkids tightrope-walking on the kerbs, arms raised parallel as though they had magic at the tips of their fingers. They ... | 1 | |
[WP]: Five ragged strangers appear at your door, bringing a letter from an old friend of yours. It contains only two sentences. "YOU OWE ME. Help them." | [
"The grating blurt of three chirps repeated several time before my hand fumbled around and clacked the snooze button on my alarm clock. Groaning in protest as I buried my face into the warm embrace of my pillows before sighing heavily. I grumbled something incoherent whilst my body railed against the decision to ge... | 1 | |
[WP] The first FTL ship is sent to visit Proxima Centauri but the Artificial Intelligence goes haywire. A long lost sub-light generational ship is still en route and comes to the rescue. | [
"The well lit chamber sloped slightly down the middle, the slight sheen of plastic reflecting the artificial light illuminating the simple table that's bolted to the floor in the centre. Silence engulfed the area as it gets interupted by a puff of air and the mechanincal buzzing of fine machinery. Blue lines of lig... | 1 | |
[WP] A portal opens between two parallel universes; in one is a world in a state of perpetual war, and in the other the same world in a state of perpetual peace. A man from the war-world passes through the portal at the same time as a man from the peace-world, and each is horrified at what he finds. | [
"The man from *War*,\n\nHe entered *Peace*.\n\nShuddered and muttered,\n\nOh God, No Please!\n\n \n> While the Woman of *Peace*,\n\n> Rode to *War*.\n\n> Her calloused feet,\n\n> Its World now wore.\n\n\nThe sights they saw,\n\nEach other's worlds dealt.\n\nThe pain of *Peace*,\n\nAnd the peace within *... | 1 | |
This can be located in the middle of nowhere, a crowded city, or wherever you decide. | [WP] A new medical technology has been developed, allowing emergency responders to predict the location of the next accident before they even occur. Ambulances are now able to typically arrive at the scene very soon or even before the accident occurs. You hear an ambulance siren approaching you. | [
"The ambulance had been following Tom for two minutes now. Sure, it could've been waiting for anyone in this crowded hellhole of a city, but Tom was fairly sure that the ambulance had been shadowing him in particular.\n\n\"Well, fuck.\" He wasn't ready for this. Sure, it was somewhat reassuring that at least emerge... | 3 |
[WP] The Earth is in its death throes. A new "Earth" has just been found and migration is underway. For some reason, you are unwilling to go... | [
"The line was moving swiftly. You'd think that chaos at a time like this would be natural. That everyone would be rushing for the shuttle. Something felt wrong about the whole situation. Maybe everyone here felt it. Despite the whole thing, everyone was calm. But it was an eerie calm in the loading docks.\n\n\"Hey,... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a story inspired by your least favorite song. | [
"**(This is a copypasta of a prompt I did for *favorite* songs, but honestly idk anyone who enjoys Smash Mouth unironically...)**\n\n*The world is gonna roll you. The world is gonna roll you. The world is gonna fucking roll you...*\n\nSteve wasn't what one would call the sharpest tool in the shed. As a matter of fa... | 1 | |
I posted this prompt a while ago, but it's like a bad itch. I find it such a romantic idea that it just needs scratching. | [WP][Althist] The countries of the world have advanced to the space-age without ever traversing the Atlantic ocean, discovering the Americas. The first man in space looks out his capsule window. | [
"He felt weightless. He felt free. He felt liberated.\n\nThe spaceman could not describe how he felt being in the endless void of space. All that seperated him from the universe was an enlargened tin can with windows and buttons. Suddenly, a voice came through his radio. \"Well?\" said the man at Mission Control, \... | 3 |
[WP] What these hands have done | [
"It is almost dark, it's stupid hot, stupid humid, I'm dirty, and everything is just... miserable. I've been on the trail, hiking my way to a better life for about 600 miles now, and my feet have blisters, my mosquito bites have mosquito bites on them, and all that I currently own in the world weighs 22.6 pounds, w... | 1 | |
[WP] We discover the travell to parallels Earths. Ours was the only one doesn't be destroyed by nuclear war on Cold War. | [
"The bar looks pretty tense, eh? This is one of those elections that turns people into evangelists. And for months you have to be real careful saying anything, even up here, for fear someone turns on you and starts proselytizing about the fucking laters taking all our jobs. It's not even our damned election. Oh, lo... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up and find printed close up photos of you while you're sleeping. You live alone. | [
"I woke up to the sound of my alarm clock playing the local radio DJ chattering a line about celebrity couple. Rolling over to silence the horrid sound rousing my tranquil slumber, my arm extended out and letting it's own weight fall onto the snooze button. \"5 more minutes\",\nI say to myself as I roll back to w... | 1 | |
[WP] Humanity has expanded into the stars. All was well, until a colony suddenly wanted to become independent. The government of Earth agrees, on the condition that they will no longer receive aid or supplies from Earth. | [
"The earthlings sat around an oak table in a meeting room. The video feed showed them talking amongst each other. The colonials were in their space station control center, made of cold blue metal. The colonials watched the earthlings on the large video monitor.\n\nEventually, a woman in a suit turned away from the ... | 4 | |
[WP] Lying doesn't exist; everyone tells the truth. Though people are more aggressive and easily upset. | [
"\"Does this dress make me look fat?\" My Wife asked me.\n\n\"Just a little bit, I think the one with a pattern makes you look a bit slimmer.\" I responded truthfully.\n\n\"How could you..I hate you! You insensitive jerk!\" She yelled at me.\n\n\"I'm sorry I offended you but you asked and I honestly responded to y... | 1 | |
[WP] Every night before you sleep, you talk with your reflection in the mirror about your day. Today, your reflection is bloodied and beaten, but you are perfectly fine. | [
"\"Oh MY GOD, what happened to you?!\"\nMy reflection has an expression of pure horror, as he sits opposite me in the mirror, ragged and blood-soaked. As soon as he appears in my mirror and recognises me, he lurches toward the mirror.\n\"HELP! GET ME THROUGH!\" he shouts, clawing at the mirror from the other side, ... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up one morning to find everybody gone without a trace. After days of freaking out, you decide to continue on with life as normal to avoid insanity. You go to school, work, etc. just as you normally would... but it's so different all alone. | [
"There is no one else. Sometimes I am not sure that there ever was. All those people that I knew, were they ever really there? It seems to me that they must not have been, now that they are not here. And if they had been, it wouldn't matter. Life goes on. There are routines, and they must be adhered to. Really, it ... | 1 | |
[WP] Whenever you have to make a decision, you watch numbly as your personified emotions fight over who is in control each time. Today you find yourself on a bridge - you came here with the intent to jump. | [
"\n\n\n\nCharmaine Tower. Broad Street. Up the road. 1st and 9th. Interstate 27. Screeeecccchhh! The bridge. I got out of the car, my hair still damp from my walk from work to the taxi. I felt like that was all my life was anymore. A short walk that everyone could just go without. I looked around, but everything wa... | 2 | |
[WP]Over ten years you and three friends contribute $20 each into a lottery pool every two weeks. One day the guy in charge of money and tickets asks, “How much do you think we’ve spent the past ten years?” Grinning, he raises a bank statement with $20,800 written on it and says “What should we do?” | [
"\"That can't be right,\" I said.\n\n\"Do the math,\" Frank said. \"We contributed $80 total every other week. There's 520 weeks in ten years, which means 260 two-week periods. 260 times 80 is $20,800.\"\n\n\"You realize what this means,\" I said.\n\nFrank nodded grimly.\n\n\"Someone's been skimming off the inte... | 1 | |
[WP] The protagonist and the antagonist fight for the love of the narrator. | [
"Scott looked up into the sky, knowing that everything he said or did was being created by something. A something he wanted to love more, know more of, and actually see it, or her, or him even. Was it a God? He didn't know. It was more like a creator; almost like a writer of the world he currently is seeing. For h... | 3 | |
[WP] "If it was one big joke, it sure felt like hell; if it was hell, it sure felt like one big joke." | [
"\"You know why you're here right?\"\n\nGary sat at the table, and shrugged. His eyes were wide, his heart pounded hard in his thin chest. He faced a man in a white suit, white shirt and blue tie. He had a short white beard, with glasses half-way down his nose.\n\n\"Relax,\" the man continued, waving his hand. \"Th... | 1 |
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