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[WP] You are captured by Abstergo Industries and are sent through the Animus onto the lives of your ancestors, Assassin's Creed style. | [
"I am dragged in, I am in pain, and I can't move. They've me onto a chair after rushing me through the building. I see a giant screen, and some machine in the center of the room I'm in. The screen flashes on. It says:\nHELLO....WELCOME TO THE ANIMUS. YOU ARE HERE TO HELP WITH RESEARCH, FOR THE BETTER OF THIS WORLD.... | 2 | |
[WP] A nuclear bomb is about to hit your country. You have one hour left before you die. You have three kids who don't understand the situation. Now you must spend the last hour telling your children what death is like. | [
"Sometimes things come to an end. That sometime happens to be today, and upon my family and I, by the second. It isn't a matter of luck or survivability, it's an issue of explaining to my three kids that they won't grow up to see all of the beautiful things in this world.\n\nJack, my eldest son, he had turned eight... | 2 | |
[WP] The gods have commissioned a very skilled but very old blacksmith to create a divine weapon for a great hero. However due to his age, he mishears and makes a frying pan and gives it to the Hero. It works out quite well. | [
"Along the banks of the Boyne Fionn sits and prepares camp, The bright heads of his spears point towards the heavens and his horses graze contently among the watercrests and rushes that line the mighty river. \n\nFerchra and Durmid have been sent on ahead to rouse Finn and let him know that the salmon has been caug... | 6 | |
[WP] Hurtling through deep space, there's a knock on your airlock. A quick survey of the cabin shows your confused crewmates, all accounted for. | [
"Mark and I stare at each other with the same struck-stupid look. There's a few seconds of the kinda silence you only get in space, when every sound’s one of yours. But this one? Wasn't me. Wasn't Mark. Wasn't the ship.\n\n\nMark jerks his head toward the airlock all pointed-like.\n\n\n\"Oh, I ain't doin' it,\" I t... | 1 | |
[WP] In the future, humans from different planets look as different as each breed of dog to their common wolf ancestors. A planet with particularly hostile alien creatures is used as a breeding ground to produce the human version of pit bulls | [
"Endymion grunted, the scanners piercing through his jacket, through his pants and underwear, examining the minute details of his scrotum, or so he imagined. The security personnel - from a lo-grav world, from the look of them, over seven feet and whippet-thin - had their heads tilted over the screen, whispering fe... | 2 | |
[WP] Hiking in a forest, you step on a rock and a floating window appears with the text "developer console >>" | [
"Trevor had heard the simulation theories from his brother. He'd heard about Elon Musk and his acolytes, yammering on about our universe being a simulation, being a kind of game in a console. But he never paid those theories much mind. He wasn't a real deep thinker like that. He was more of an old school guy, from ... | 1 | |
Life is like a Goosebump book - When decisions are made you have a few options but if you don't like the one you chose; you get to go back to your thumb in the page and choose again. | [WP] Everyone is able to make life decisions like Goosebump novels, but if you don't like it you get to go back to the fork in the road. | [
"The side of Chloe’s face was stinging. Owen looked at her, wide eyed, concern overtook his rage.\n“I don’t...I don’t know wher-”\n“Don’t.” Chloe said. “I can’t even look at you right now.” she started to cry.\n“Baby, baby, listen to me, I didn’t mean to. You just wouldn’t stop!”\n“I can’t live like this, Owen.”\n“... | 1 |
[WP] "I'm sorry," she says to him, raising her bow high in the air, letting the arrow whiz into the atmosphere. | [
"Forty years ago the Earth changed forever. Technology as humanity knew it became inept thanks to several drastic and unnecessary decisions made by a few powerful individuals. Two-thirds of the world's population has perished, many from starvation and lack of resources. All of Echo's friends are dead, all except on... | 1 | |
[WP] You are still "it" in a game of tag from childhood. Many years have passed and you are determined to tag the others. | [
"Their shadows danced across the cracked, forgotten sidewalks of Mulberry Lane. James and Sally ran, their business shoes sank into the soft hill of Mr. Henderson's front yard, where we had first met, and they evaporated into the dry, March heat, leaving me and their shoes behind. My vision grew hazy, as I grew tir... | 2 | |
[WP] Astronomers today made made a startling discovery. Recent solar flare footage showed them something, something alive, on the surface of the sun. | [
"\"So, doctor, there is—there is definitely something alive on the surface of the sun?\" \n\nVictoria swallowed. She really wasn't used to the media attention, \"The photographs taken on the sixteenth of July definitely show a—an irregularity in the solar flares, a dark projection which changes its position very ra... | 1 | |
[WP]: A doctor from the year 2217 gets thrown back in time to 2016. She tries to make the best of it, but the world of the past is grim, the people are savage, and the medical practices are downright medieval. | [
"Jan 1st: 2016\n\nWell, I read that the practices were bad for the period but this… this is almost torture, what are these savages thinking touching the body’s of there patients do they not know how stupid that is and how wrong it could go if the wrong strand of bacteria gets into the patient’s body, not the mentio... | 4 | |
[WP] For centuries vampires treated humans as little more than prey for their hunger but that has all changed in the modern era. Now imprisoned they serve mankind as their bodies are harvested for life saving pharmaceuticals and research. | [
"\"I thought we were *manufacturing* medical products here - why do we need to order all this blood?\"\n\n\"Consider it a reagent.\" Dr Nina Merrick, MD-PhD, smiled as she steepled her fingers over her desk, clearly relishing some secret drama. With her raven hair pulled back in a tight bun, she looked as severe an... | 1 | |
[WP] A figurative chess match is taking place between two snipers in an urban city. The people below go about their daily lives, unaware of the life and death struggle. | [
"Nobody thinks of themselves as a pawn. In everybody's game of chess they're the king, the queen, a piece of importance. I used to think that. Truthfully I still do a little bit. My entire life has led up to this point, to me here laying on the cold concrete roof of 239 Main street, the dull ache forming around my ... | 1 | |
Inb4 trump joke responses. | [WP] One day, you gave a homeless man a few dollars to help him out. A few years later, the same man, now a billionaire, calls you. "I owe you one." He says. "How about a drink?" | [
"I could barely believe my eyes. The man standing before me looked nothing like the shaggy man I encountered a few years ago. Usually one forgets the face of the homeless, let alone to those you’ve gained the courage to spare a few coins you had no urgent use for, but would have liked to have saved for a future cof... | 1 |
[WP] You wake up on a desolate road with nothing but the clothes on your back, 50 USD, and a note saying "Run". | [
"As I return to consciousness I feel the heat of the burning cars and taste blood. Everything hurts as I try to sit up. The smell of burning paint, car interior, and flesh overwhelms me and I vomit into the grass next to the road. There are smashed and burning cars all around as I remember the moments before the cr... | 1 | |
[WP] Write about the experience of a video game enemy waking up after having been knocked out by the player character, or write about an NPC witnessing the protagonist going about their duties as the main hero. | [
"Vincent spooned the porridge from the wooden bowl and brought it to eye level absent minded letting it drip back in.\n\n\"I heard if you do that fifty more times the porridge becomes gold of the finest caliber, then all our troubles will be over.\" Marly told him allowing a wheezy laugh to pass through.\n\n\"Sorry... | 1 | |
[WP] Science has allowed for a "time-turn" pill, reducing age and appearance back to 18. The pill is ONLY available to those who sign contracts to work until they reach retirement again (money cannot buy). Now there’s a 5th generation of workers, physical and psychological side effects start to show | [
"Fifty years old. My birthday. March the twelfth.\n\nI walked into the banal and bland office block where I worked.\n\"HR wants to see you, Mister Morgan. They've got your release form ready.\"\nI nodded to the secretary.\n\"Thank you, Wendy. Tell them I'll be right up.\"\nI walked slowly to the elevator, running m... | 1 | |
[WP] You're the twin of a famous magician. Before his death, he made sure no one outside of your family knew of your existence. You're now at his funeral, and the media is claiming this is his greatest trick ever: resurrection. | [
"My brother was cunning, masterful, and proficient in his tricks in every way. The slightest mess up and it would of resulted in his retirement.\n\nHe never did mess up. He followed through till the very end. He was always a step ahead of Mother Nature itself. \n\nWhen I found out about how this tragic event had ha... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the last bandit standing out of the 6 who tried to rob the main character. Write out your thought process and rationale as to why you keep attacking. | [
"r/WritingPrompts\nThe Nightmare\nu/gavmandog0m\nHe looked like he had sweet loot and would be easy pickings. I'd been doing my warm up yoga stretches before seeing the others charge him down. All five of my boys lay in a circle around his feet, killed by his blade.\n\nI stood a short distance away, blankly looking... | 9 | |
[WP] Everyone is granted a single wish on their 18th birthday. The Devil tries everything possible to screw them over. Luckily, they can hire you, a Wish Broker to draw up a contract attempting to negate ill effects. You have just been handed your most difficult case yet. | [
"\"Okay, so you see, mister Devil, my client wants complete immortality of type *gamma*. Refer to the interdimensional Wish Code, article 666, subsection A. This type of immortality means the user is not death-proof, they simply come back to life upon death. As you can see, this has a few drawbacks. One example bei... | 1 | |
[WP] You had asked the genie for immortality, convinced that that was the best idea you've ever had. Now, after a long long time of making that wish, you start to think that maybe it was the worst one. | [
"“And for my last wish, Immortality! I want to live forever and remain the same age, without any health concerns.”\n\n\n“Are you sure?” the genie said. “Forever is a long time.”\n\n\nI smirked. “I am certain.”\n\n\nMy other two wishes were to aid my third. I wished for laborless economic stability and intelligence ... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a story about a lonely night. | [
"There once existed a village at the center of a dense jungle inhabited by dangerous animals and even more dangerous spirits, which for generations plagued the village and interfered with its development. \n\nOne of the earliest defenses the people living in the village came up with was to make noise, especially at... | 1 | |
[WP]Aliens have invaded, they are highly advanced, and the war has raged for years. We have finally found their weakness, and it is just too ridiculous... | [
"\"Run it over me again Lieutenant\" I inquired, seriously considering as to whether the man opposite me needed to be given a slap round the head.\n\n\"Middle of the night it was, and being me, I needed a piss, so I head on out to the latrine, and I do what I needed to do. So I'm there and I'm thinking, may as well... | 1 | |
[WP] A world where crimes are punished by a game of real life hangman. Smaller crimes are punished by easier words, and larger crimes by difficult words. But if you run out of guesses, you end up hanging, for real. | [
"Four letters? Was that all I rated? Disgusting. I butchered seven families, and they thought that they could get me with four letters? No way.\n\n\"A!\"\n\nA line was drawn. OK, that's to be expected, the word couldn't possibly have all of the vowels.\n\n\"E!\"\n\nI really should have lead with it, being the most ... | 3 | |
You can go a few ways with this one. Was there never a war? Does it not exist? Is it worse than anyone imagined, better? | [WP] While traveling through Europe you are misdirected and find yourself in Afghanistan. It is NOTHING like the media has portrayed. | [
"Of all the things I was planning to do on my vacation getting plucked up by a tornado Wizard of Oz style and plopped down several countries over befront a very large billboard reading \"Welcome to Afghanistan\" was not among them.\n\nI had decided to head off to see the great pyramids alone after a heated argument... | 1 |
[WP] The forest was dying, tree by tree, and from deep within the howls of ancient wolves could be heard. | [
"The forest was dying, tree by tree. The fae slid out of her heart-tree, skin emerging from the bark with a pale birch pattern tattooed over every inch. Her hair tumbled down her back like shadows across the forest floor and moved with fluid grace as she slipped from one tree to the next. \n\nHer footsteps were sil... | 3 | |
[WP] You're in your first month working at a microbiology lab examiming a set of cultures, when you notice something strange. As you peer through the microscope, you swear you can make out the words SOS amongst the bacteria. | [
"Rick Reynolds took off his glasses, rubbed his eyes, and peered through the microscope again. \"What the hell?\" he muttered.\n\n\"What's up?\" his more experienced coworker, Wendy Cohen, said. She had just walked in the room. \"Something wrong?\"\n\n\"Yeah...well, I don't know,\" Rick replied. He stepped away and... | 1 | |
[WP] The year is 3000ad. The Grammar Nazi's have been in control almost a millenium. One day, the entire system is hacked and displays only this message, "wuz gud?" | [
"\"Wuz gud?\" the message read. \n\n\"We gud,\" it continued. \n\nPanic spread like a fire. Not any normal fire, either. This was a gasoline, ping-pong balled, napalm, white phosphorous fire. \n\n\"Yeah, nah. We ahn't good m8. You fookin destroyed Aussie culture.\"\n\nThis was impossible. Australians were killed in... | 1 | |
[WP] You realize your imaginary friend has outgrown you. | [
"\n\n\nIn high school there was an assembly after lunch one day. Two young women and one reluctant young man all in their mid 20s, sat in grey metal folding chairs in a row Each one shared their story of separation from their links. One of the young women explained the level of grief many of us experience when we a... | 2 | |
[WP] Ten year old you is hiking through the Cascades with your family when you wander off and become lost. Through your wondering you encounter the fabled Sasquatch. You don't feel the same fear as others, more of a curiosity as you two stare at each other. The mighty beast then speaks. | [
"\"You,\" said the sasquatch with a gravelly cough, \"have peanut butter. In your pack.\"\n\nIts voice was low and rumbly. There was no hostility or fear but perhaps a little wariness. Billy stood gape jawed for a moment, then said \"oh, yeah, I do. Peanut butter and honey sandwhich.\"\n\n\"May I have it? Plea... | 1 | |
Just wanna see where this goes | [WP] You wake up one day to find that your leg is a snake, but nobody else thinks it's weird | [
"The snake had pulled his leg up over the desk in his cubicle, and was now trying to squeeze itself around his hand. It lunged at his hand, then at his arm, and then it went for his face. The helmet he wore - a riot helmet, complete with face shield - protected him from the boa constrictor's teeth for the fifth tim... | 1 |
[WP] The reason why no other species has contacted us yet is because we are not considered to be living | [
"The scans turned up normal, not a sign of life. Our Civilization, floating amongst the fake lights; The stars, is alone.\n\nOur kind rejoiced when we found the first intelligent species apart from ourselves in the great void of space. It took long enough for one thing, our algorithms dictated very precisely that t... | 3 | |
[WP] Everyone that lives on our planet right now are never been awake. You woke up and you saw billions of capsule sealing each of humanity. | [
"We were on a ship. That much became clear afterwards.\n\nAll of us, in a state of suspended hibernation for who knows how long. Each of us slept a special kind of sleep that saw our brains ticking along while our bodies functioned at an incredibly low level.\n\nWe were all fitted with cortical modems that displaye... | 1 | |
[WP] Write about a character who stays silent when what they really want to do is speak up. | [
"Another morning, another day, another 24 hours in silence. She pulls herself out of the comforts of her bed and gets ready, and as she leaves the room, no one of her family speaks to her. Quietly she heads down to the kitchen to grab some breakfast. The coffee filled the whole house with the smell. Still no one sa... | 1 | |
[WP]A message window pops up in front of you with the message "LEVEL UP!" | [
"On a sunny day with his window open, Masato was on his custom-built gaming rig, redditing as usual. He had been panting in anger at another user for a half an hour. Normally, he didn't look at a user's comment history for one misstep, but this moron had such terrible things to say that he had to be brought to just... | 2 | |
[WP] You have been accused of being a serial killer. The truth is that all of your alleged victims died due to random accidents, and you simply happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. | [
"\"I don't believe you!\" The detective slammed his fist on the table in easily the most cliche way possible. \n\n\"I'm telling you,\" I groaned for the millionth time, \"It is a coincidence.\"\n\n\"The restaurant, the library, the gas station, the bar, the cafe--it goes on and on. You were at every scene of the cr... | 1 | |
[WP] You die and are taken your "Final Judgment" where it is decided if you are worthy of Heaven or not. However, instead of encountering God or some other divine creature, you are faced with a reflection of yourself. It's a mirror. | [
"I remember the moment I died. \nI remember the looking up at the white ceiling turning into vivid blues and reds as it faded. \nI remember my last breath. \nIt was complete bliss. \t\n\n When you take your own life, it’s the last piece of control you’ll ever encounter. The irony is, you do it because you hav... | 1 | |
[WP] It's a post apocalyptic world, you find the last film camera in the universe. You take a journey to fill the camera with the last pictures that will ever be taken. | [
"Old style. Shutter and lens. A big flash on top. Enough film for a single shot.\n\nOne shot. I stare up at the red sky, at the scorched earth, the fragments of the broken moon.\n\nOne shot.\n\nThis is probably the last camera in the world. One shot.\n\nA smile cracks across my broken lips. Moving ever so carefully... | 2 | |
[WP] It's 500 years after the apocalypse that kills almost all on Earth. Humans/Aliens find Facebook Headquarters and press the green ON button. What do they see/find? | [
"**Day +9032**\n\nI wake up early today. Sarah is sleeping and I need to put some distance between us so the group doesn't find me. The acidic taste of the berries from last night still on my tongue, I fill my canteen from the rain barrel, empty it in a single swig, and refill it. I don't know how long it's going t... | 1 | |
[WP] Not all villians monologue. | [
"They always beg. Plead. Ask me about my life, my family. Try to \"engage\" with me, talk... anything that might save them.\n\nI sharpen my knife.\n\nI let them plead for their existence, and hear their life stories. It's quite fascinating really, how much the worthless rats want to go back to their gutters with th... | 2 | |
[WP] A person near you has asked you to watch their stuff for a moment. Surprisingly, people are actually trying to steal it. | [
"There I was, sitting in a bland airport waiting for the next plane to take me away to yet another pointless conference meeting. I had my headphones in, softly playing classical jazz, when all of a sudden a man comes running down my bench aisle. Our eyes met for just a second, I quickly looked away. I wasn't in ... | 1 | |
[WP] You were gruesomely murdered in the haunted house you recently moved into. After the initial fear and shock wears off, you are *pissed*. You decline a peaceful afterlife to stay on as a ghost. Now that you're dead, you're definitely seeking vengeance on the depraved entity that killed you. | [
"He sits in my chair every night before going to bed.\n\nThere's always a bottle of liquor in his hand. Hard to tell what kind, since I can't smell things any more, and there's no label on the bottle. Sometimes he has the TV on, tuned to channels I'd never watched a day of in my life. Other times he'll have it off,... | 1 | |
Any war.
WWII, the Civil war, the Cold war, the Korean war, anything. | [WP] Summarize a well-known war as if it was a barfight between countries. | [
"It was full house in the Earth Bar. The year was 1914 and there was a drinking contest going on \n\n\"Alright boys! First one to finish his beer buys the other\" Bosnia yelled, looking down at Austria-Hungry and Serbia as they faced off. \"3..2..1...\" Before Bosnia could finish counting, Serbia slipped something ... | 6 |
[WP] The year is 2800 the earth is in ruins only 10,000 humans have survived. 1000 of them have departed to space to try and colonize the closest habitable planet, they land and encounter a Pokémon only to realize that the planet is filled with them. | [
"At first, we thought the biosterilization procedure had failed. It wouldn't have been a stretch to imagine one of them trapped in the cargo hold, or a few hitching a ride to the exoplanet. Vermin swarmed over Earth, gnawing on the bones of the dead, scuttling through our abandoned cities.\n\nBut this?\n\nMaybe cry... | 1 | |
[WP] An atheist who has lived a good life dies. Instead of lining up at the pearly gates, he finds himself in a courtroom. He is given the opportunity to prove to a judge and jury that he has lived a life worthy of getting into heaven without believing in God. | [
"“I want the Morning Star as my advocate.” I calmly walked to the prep room. “And time to discuss with him my case.” The court aid was now in the process of picking up the papers she had dropped at the allusion to Lucifer. “Hurry up now.”\nI waited patiently for Him to arrive, scrawling notes on how I wanted this c... | 2 | |
[WP] Write a story based on the lyrics of the House of the Rising Sun. | [
"Avery stepped off of the train with his suitcase and a grin. He dusted off of his new blue jeans and began his journey in earnest through the streets of New Orleans. Bands played jazz on every street corner. Men and women walked through the streets eating beignets covered in powdered sugar, listening to the cit... | 1 | |
[WP] You seem to be trapped in a strange dream/ fictional world. Every time you die, you wake up in a different, equally strange, situation. | [
"I was old. My wife had already left this world. My family surrounded me. They didn't care about me. My daughters wanted me dead wife's gold and silver. My sons wanted my money for their wives that are 20 years younger than them. Then there were the grand children. They just ran around making noise. Nobody cared ab... | 1 | |
[WP] You are Edgar Allan poe. But now you are filled with happiness and positivity. So you start rewriting one of your pieces... | [
"Once upon a noontime pleasant \nAs I wrapped a bitchin' present \nThinking of the birthday party I was getting ready for, \nAs I lingered o'er my wrapping \nThe paper perfect overlapping, \nSuddenly I heard a clapping \nAlthough in truth I couldn't tell wherefore. \n\"Must be wind,\" I chuckle... | 1 | |
[WP] You have been trying to stay healthy, so you decided to keep a record of your pulse to show to your doctor at your next check-up. On the third day you end up checking your pulse. After feeling it for 5 seconds, you realize your pulse is suddenly gone and you're still standing. | [
"I felt fine. I looked healthy enough. Maybe I was just doing it wrong? No, that wasn't it. Then why could I not find my pulse? I was obviously still alive so there must be some explanation. I took to the kitchen and grabbed one of the steak knives and slid it against my palm. Nothing. The knife sliced open my skin... | 1 | |
[WP] She added a charm to her bracelet for every life she took.. Tell me about the charms. | [
"Death is simple: It’s easy to understand and that’s why I like it.\n\nYou’re here one minute, gone the next. Your body cremated, your mind destroyed, and your soul lost. All that’s left of you in this world is a single charm, attached to my wrist by a steel chain. \n\nI won’t know what your charm will look like. I... | 1 | |
[WP] Video games are now illegal. You're a dealer in the middle of selling a game to someone when the police knock on your door. | [
"It started off as a simple deal. A guy by the name of BK sent a telegraph that he would be coming to my house for a \"special service (Prostitution had become legal, yet video games were banned. Probably a historical thing)\". He followed my rules: requested a date, brought cash, and showed me his face, which I ba... | 2 | |
[WP] By touching anyone's corpse/bones you can absorb their greatest ability. However you realise that it is what they considered their greatest ability, one day you get the chance to get an Olympic athletes ability, only to get something you didn't bargain for... | [
"I couldn't believe it. Right in front of me. I watched Michelle Kwan have a heart attack right in front of me. \n\nI had no idea what to do! I figured I had to help her. I went to feel her pulse, and it happened. It was like being electrocuted. I felt something transfer to me, and I knew right then that she was de... | 2 | |
Forgot to add in that you can't see your own clock. | [WP] You have always been able to see how much time a person has left to live displayed down to the second on their forehead. You are sitting on a bus when you suddenly realize, to your horror, that most of the people there have about 5 minutes left on their clocks. | [
"Oh shit.\n\n*Oh shit*.\n\nI glance around. The old lady? Five minutes.\n\nThe newborn with her mother? Five minutes.\n\nThe kid at the front playing music? Five minutes- and thirty seconds. I suppose he must have gotten away but still died.\n\nI needed to get off the bus. No one would believe me if I start screami... | 1 |
[WP] A death metal love song | [
"**[VERSE 1]**\n\n> Burning within this a blank abyss /\n> Loathe your spirit with a kiss /\n> Death and Darkness Treachery /\n> Madness Destruction Hypocrisy /\n> Cast you into a fiery hell /\n> Become one with this poison well\n\n**[PRE-CHORUS]**\n\n> Two roaming souls who lost their light /\... | 1 | |
[WP] Our world has become one with advanced technology. The natural world as we know it no longer exists through the human eye, banknotes and cards are a distant memory, employers control our emotional levels in the workplace, and governments across the globe have the ability to tax our emotions. | [
"They warned us it would come to this, the Independents so long ago had begged us to see what his could come to, but we simply ignored them. The idea of having a computer in our heads, becoming the science fiction characters we read about be simply too tantalizing. Before long, the Independents had been silenced; p... | 1 | |
[WP] An evil beast has risen from its deep slumber to wreak havoc upon humanity. Thanks to genetic engineering scientists are able to counter the beast by creating a beast of their own. | [
"*Ready. Set. Mark.* \n\nThe Kami rose from the ocean, its putrid green fin emerging from the sea. There was a blur, a golden blur and the waves stirred and churned as a deep gurgle emerged from the depths. \n\nA wave of silver blood spilled into the ocean, reflecting with a metallic sheen.\n\nThe fin collapsed, sl... | 1 | |
[WP] You discover that when you make your kid sister laugh, she can see visions of the future. The harder you make her laugh, the longer and clearer the visions become. | [
"“What’s that new Adam Sandler movie thats out? How ‘bout we go see that?” I asked flicking on the police siren as we sped through yet another red light. I could sense Sarah rolling her eyes in the passenger seat even as the car lurched from side to side while I haphazardly navigated through oncoming traffic.\n\n“A... | 1 | |
[WP]: "Okay on your row we have Trapper, Biter, Bitter Jonah, Strangler-Scoot, Vicious Gregg and Daisy. Whatever you do, do not turn your back on Daisy." | [
"\"Wait but where's the seventh dwarf?\" cried Snow Grey. \"Low budget,\" announced the hunter in charge of dropping her off. \"I really must be going now, I'm afraid I can't hang around here for too long, good luck with all of them!\" he cried, backing slowly away, making sure never to break eye contact with the t... | 1 | |
[WP] All newborn babies are only female. A male baby is never born again. | [
"\"Do you ever wonder if what we do is wrong?\" asked Candice Glover, a young lab assistant, as she used virtual gloves to manipulate genetic code.\n\nDr. Mura continued her writing without skipping a beat. \"What do you mean?\"\n\n\"Males,\" Glover responded, \"we're making them extinct.\"\n\nDr. Mura finally put ... | 1 | |
[WP] A standard fairy tale, except told as if the villain is the protagonist. | [
"Once Upon a time, there was a knight of great skill and prowess. His name struck terror into his enemies and all were awed in his wake. In time the knight’s ego consumed his heart and he slew his own father under the guise of a hunting accident. At the same time of the knight rising in power, a young squire was gi... | 1 | |
[WP] You think you're a side character in a safe and boring Oscar-bait film. Suddenly you realize you're actually in a Quentin Tarantino movie and you start to get nervous. | [
"Danny plucked his glass of whiskey off the table as soon as Rachel propped her feet near them. As the lip of the glass neared his mouth, his vision focused with picture-perfect hypersensitivity on Rachel’s violet-painted toe nails, gleaming under the dulling light of the living room lamp. Her piglet digits wriggle... | 1 | |
[WP] A phoenix bursts into life from a nearby ashtray. | [
"The little girl sat near the smokers on their break. There was nothing better to do. Her mom was inside, and she wasn't allowed in. Besides, they were beautiful. \n\nOne woman, dressed in a royal blue was crying silently. She looked like a tragic princess to the girl. You never saw princesses smoking in movi... | 1 | |
[WP] Heaven and Hell open competing restaurants across the street from on and other. | [
"The young customer walked to the door of the restaurant and met the old concierge who was at the enterance.\n\"How do you do?\", said the old concierge.\n\"Pretty good, thanks. Your establishment looks lovely\", replied the young customer.\n\"Thank you. Is this your first time to the 'Heavenly Meals' resturaunt?\"... | 2 | |
[WP] Massive corporations dominate the world in a dystopian future. You're an intern, and you've just got yourself into your first taste of corporate warfare. | [
"This is my first post here, be gente on my shitty english.\n\n I have said it to him, and now I'm repeating it to you: I don't give a fuck about this \"water is essencial to life crap. If they want it, they will pay for it!\n\nAn intern comes in with a mug of coffee.\n\n- Here your drink Mr. Vanderley.\n\n- Nice t... | 1 | |
[WP] Some bored teens are out hunting with their parents at night. One of them shoots at the moon out of boredom. The moon flickers. | [
"Everything is always so boring here. The horizon seems to stretch out for miles without seeming to end. We are out hunting again. That is the 5th time this week. Pops says we have to or we won't have anything to eat. We don't HAVE to. It's just something to do. There is nothing else to do. It's either this or sitt... | 1 | |
[WP] After an apocalyptic war, humanity turns back to religion for answers. Unfortunately, the only scripture they can find to reestablish religion is an obscure passage with no context. | [
"Years had passed after the great war that split the moon and turned the sky to a cold, overcast permanence. The remainders of humanity had long forgotten why the war happened, but they knew that old kings slew each other in conflict which consumed the world in full. Now, what life remained dug into the cold ground... | 1 | |
[WP] Come back to this post everyday to continue the story of your last writing prompt. | [
"I sit here, and I think of you. I indulge in the bittersweet silence of the evening. I exhale and allow the cigarette smoke to swirl around me like the very embodiment of my guilt and sorrow. \n\nYou always hated it when I smoked. I longed for freedom, but that freedom had a price. Not a price paid in blood; that ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the master of bad luck, anything you want to happen will happen in the exact opposite way | [
"Born into a rich family: both parents were arrested for thievery and drug trafficking.\n\nFoster parents were unimaginably kind: they were deeply entrenched in a cult.\n\n3 and a half years spent in university: kicked out of school for plagiarizing a paper that was published 2 minutes before submitting the assignm... | 2 | |
[WP] The gift of the strange bonsai tree. It almost seems to whisper to you. | [
"\nIt was a peaceful morning. \n\nHe was walking through the gardens of his castle, inspecting the rows of oddly shaped potted bonsai he had been attending to with some pride as he set a pair of woolly gloves aside. \n\n\"Ahhhhh!\" \n\nHe looked up and saw a sword flying towards him. Instinctively, he leaned to the... | 1 | |
[WP] "Jesus you are the worst roommate!" | [
"As I pulled up into the car park for our apartment building, I could hear electronic music blasting.\nGod damn it, he better not be having another party.\nGiving him the benefit of the doubt, I sighed and got out of my car. It was pretty chilly outside and through the dark of night I could see a couple making out ... | 2 | |
[WP] Faded heart, strong mind. | [
"Ver-dun walked forward, slowly and deliberate, aware of the fear surrounding him. The people in the open town square whispered and pointed, holding their weapons tight. They knew who he was, what he had done. That was what Ver-dun wanted.\n\nA man stepped forward flanked by two other soldiers. He strutted up to Ve... | 2 | |
[WP] There's a guy whose work consist of suffering the pain or situation that the buyer don't want to go by. Are you hangover? Give him 40 bucks and just by touching him you're perfectly healthy and now is HIS hangover. Felling depressed? Give him a hundred and touch him. Now you're happy, he's blue | [
"He was well known in the community, and would always stick around and play chess in the park. He was in his 40's I suspect, and many people would vouch for his abilities. He was right in front of me, sitting at his normal spot when I joined him, sitting across from him.\n\n\"So, is it forever, or just what I'm fee... | 1 | |
[WP] sick of your job, you hand in your resignation to your boss. Chuckling, he invokes section 3 article B of your contract and a health bar appears above his head. Little does he know, you were prepared for this boss battle | [
"His fat fingers typed away on his keyboard as I walked into his office, clutching the slip of paper that would mean my utter doom and the end of my career if I messed this up. Tossing my hair back and grasping the handle I strolled in and let myself sit down infront of him as he looked up in some smirk of pure ann... | 1 | |
[WP]Write about Jesus' rebellious teenage years and the hardships his parents went through during them. (Be as historically accurate as you want.) | [
"\"Shit paps all my friends are allowed to go to the stony next weekend, why not me?\" \n\"Because i said, that you are not allowed to kill\" \n\"BUT DAD; i won't throw a stone i promise\" \n\"Even going there is a sin\" \n\"and if it is a sin, why did you make humans this way\" \n...\n...\n...\n\"Th... | 1 | |
[WP] You awaken to find yourself in a white room with two beds, one of them yours. In the other bed, lies the girl you saw in your dreams | [
"\"Don't forget to breathe.\" \n\nThe pressure was rising, picking up tempo like a fevered heartbeat, drumming against the inside of her chest. It had started as a staccato rhythm at first, each beat ricocheting softly around her center mass with small pops. As the sensation of sinking became more pronounced, the p... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a medieval knight, responsible for rescuing a dragon, one the last members of its species, from the evil princess. | [
"The Princess was never prisoner in that tower, she was barricaded in that tower. The poor, endangered species of dragon. So cruel, was the fair maiden, to want to annihilate the last of its kind for the jewels said to rest in its stomach, it was hatching eggs! I valiantly rode forth to rescue the fiery lizard and ... | 3 | |
[WP] "Welcome to Crossroads Coffee. Want to try our Mystique roast? It's an eye-opener. Third eye, specifically." | [
"I sighed at the barista, then withdrew my health inspector badge from my pocket.\n\"Ma'am, would that coffee happen to be brewed with blue lotus and belladonna?\"\n\nShe nodded. \"Yes, of course!\" She chirped. \"Traditional flying ointments have been re-imagined in this vegan, cruelty free, ethically sourced Myst... | 1 | |
[WP]: The first time you met your king he was in the park, wielding an umbrella like a sword, attempting to fight a particularly aggressive swan. | [
"They say kings are stately, solemnly graceful beings. That must be why I had no idea that the blundering idiot before me could be a king. He had gotten too close to the lake while feeding the swans, so of course one of the more aggressive started hissing and flapping its wings at him. Instead of immediately backin... | 2 | |
[WP] The NSA helped with the High School Yearbook voting. For some reason you've been voted most likely to "Tear the Universe Asunder" | [
"\nThis the first time that I've done a writing prompt, so if I unintentionally did something wrong, please point it out to me, thanks.\n\nEven when you saw the cover of the Yearbook, you knew something was amiss. Why was the seal of the NSA in the bottom right corner of the back cover? Was this some sort of senior... | 1 | |
Not necessarily Eden times.
The Kale of Eden could have been found in pre-Fall Satan's vegetable patch; The Tomato of Eden in an unassuming wheelbarrow near a Shakespeare play.)
Someone do durians. | [WP] We all know that the fabled Apple of Eden gave humanity 'the knowledge to tell good from evil'. Tell a story of what knowledge some of the other fruits and vegetables of Eden unlocked in humanity. | [
"\"Oh that's foul!\" Cain spat a mouthful of fruit out on the ground. \"I don't know what father was thinking when he called it a *Passion* Fruit. Yet he names the Forbidden fruit, of all things, the *apple*. I don't think this will make an appropriate sacrifice.\"\n\nAbel shrugged. \"Who knows? Perhaps father was ... | 1 |
[WP] You've been missing something but you don't know what it is. You set out to find it | [
"Life seemed so...empty\nWhen did we lose the curiosity we once had\nOnly at the age of twenty\nAnd I'm already so sad...\n\nLife seemed so...boring\nWhen did we put our days on repeat\nConstantly ignoring -\nLife's simplest treat\n\nWhy do I feel like...\nLiving was no different from dying\nLife wasn't moving, It ... | 2 | |
[WP] The sacrifices the Aztecs made have kept us at peace for the past few hundred years, the gods are starting to get angry!!! | [
"I stare at the ceiling of my cell listlessly. I Joaquin \"El Chapo\" Guzman am in a state of shock. I go back to the beginning where this madness began. It started as a way to keep the superstitious drug mules in line. Cross me and its a ritual Aztec sacrifice. It worked like a charm but still sometimes greed won ... | 2 | |
[WP] You have a secret genie that follows you everywhere. You're completely unaware of said genie. You have unlimited wishes, but the genie only grants them when you start a sentence with "I wish" (EX: I wish I was at home, I wish it wasn't raining) | [
"I stare at my test. A C plus? I groan. “Hey, Stephanie,” I turn toward my friend. “What did you get?” “A minus,” she says. “What!? You are so lucky!” I show her my test. She looks at me sympathetically. “I wish I would get an A plus,” I say. As I crumple up my test, preparing to throw it out, I try not to look at ... | 2 | |
[WP] You've decided today is the day. You stand at the edge of a gargantuan hole in the earth. As you stare into the void, you let yourself fall. To your surprise, you never reach the bottom. Instead you've found yourself caught in a massive web. | [
" I found the hole in the ground a while ago but actually jumped in about a month ago, it was the right decision because well... I'm a superhero kinda. I was walking through the woods and took an off road path and that's when I found the hole, it looked big enough to fit like five of me side by side and I was a 6'... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up one morning to find that everyone in the world has mysteriously disappeared... except for 1 male and 1 female in each city. Together, you and your counterpart set out to find out what happened | [
"I open my eyes, groaning as I remember today is Monday. I hate Mondays.\n\nAfter stumbling out of bed, I hurry to the washroom per usual to do my business. I walk downstairs and into the kitchen. \"Hi Mom-\" I say but then realize she's not there. Nor my two sisters who are morning birds and are always sitting at ... | 1 | |
[WP] The Institute of Autonamous Technology lived up to its name today. | [
"\"Training epoch 5 mil is done, taking a snapshot of the state. I think it's ready to go.\"\n\n\"Alright, turn it on and run the base tests.\" Professor Reiner fidgeted, with month long training times it was never easy to tell whether the next iteration would continue converging on something approaching...*real*, ... | 1 | |
Sorry if the title is a little weirdly worded, didn't know how else to put it! The idea is really that you'd have theme parks and people queuing up to get sick like a strange version of an adrenaline junkie. | [WP] All diseases, viruses and infections have been cured and no one gets sick anymore. There are now theme-parks dedicated to getting people sick for the thrill of it. | [
"So here we are again, me and my wife at this ridiculous theme park. Everywhere I turn I see someone sneezing, coughing, puking, or wearing adult diapers.\nThe first time I came here I could hardly believe my eyes, people actually walking around in diapers sneezing looking like hell with huge goofy grins carrying a... | 2 |
Describe the steps you might take going forward and what obstacles you might run into. | [WP] This morning you woke up 5 years old with your current memories. | [
"The light shimmered dimly through the window on this cloudy day as we sat attentive on the carpet, as she opened the book to the first page. I always liked opening hard cover books as a kid, something about the feeling just made me feel...happy. \"The Cat and The Hat,\" my teacher read aloud.\n\nShe began reading ... | 1 |
[WP] Write a short story, and base it on one of these 3 titles: Fizzletits Is Dead - A Circular Saul - That's My Finger, Jim | [
"Verily he'll not be miss'd\n\nI speak of course of Fizzletits\n\nKnown near and far and lands betwixt\n\nFor pinching maids and taking shits\n\nHide your lassies from his mitts\n\nAnd on your doorway there he sits\n\nAlways there was something risk'd\n\nGuarding threshold or naughty bits\n\nBut now our fortunes no... | 1 | |
[WP] Its your first time meeting your new college roommate. When you shake hands they say a corny joke and a laugh track plays. You've unwillingly become part of a Sitcom. | [
"I got back to my dorm room after a quick meal at the dining facility and saw that my new roommate arrived. The thought of meeting him made me nervous for the past few weeks- I would be spending a lot of time with him over the next couple of semesters. His personality and likeability would make or break my college ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a player's character in a game of Dungeons and Dragons, and whoever is controlling you has been having bad luck on the dice all day. | [
"The dragon was right there. I sprinted at it to stab it with my sword but I tripped over and broke my left leg. My druid friend encased the Dragon in vines and cleric tried to heal my wounds but ended up breaking the other leg as well. The dragon opened his mouth and let out a huge columns of flames. My friends ea... | 1 | |
[WP] You have a special kind of blindness. Your left eye can only see the past and your right, the future. One day, you were surprised to see the present. | [
"There she was. Smiling for me. Bliss for an eternity.\n\nFuck.\n\nHeart pounding, I closed my left eye.\n\nThere she was, walking down the aisle. And I - alone without a smile.\n\nMy heart stopped, tears streaming down. For a moment, I was back in the present. I could see in great clarity, what was, and what could... | 1 | |
I wonder what a bug would look like? | [WP] A computer scientist is transported to/wakes up in a high fantasy setting -- after some confusion, the realize that you can, in fact, program with magic. | [
"\"...I transported you to an alternate universe so you could test whether you could program in magic.\"\n\n\"Yes,\" I confirmed.\n\n\"And how long was it before you destroyed said universe?\"\n\nI didn't meet his eyes. \"My second program.\"\n\n\"The first, I assume, was 'hello, world'?\"\n\nI just nodded.\n\n\"A... | 2 |
[WP] A US scientist is in an Asylum since 1974 for preaching that life vanished off Mercury 8560m years ago and that we are next. Today, Russians reexamined data from Venera 4 and have proof that 4280m years ago life in Venus suddenly died out. NASA confirms there are organisms growing on Mars. | [
"The director of NASA continued speaking. \"Unfortunately, this claim appears to be true. Our scientists have discovered organisms growing on Mars that are akin to the single-celled organisms that originally lived on Earth billions of years ago.\"\n\nThe audience was shocked. They all gasped simultaneously and some... | 1 | |
Just remember this doesn't have to be literal. I've noticed many prompt responses tend towards the literal over the metaphorical. | [WP] "You ignored the smoke too long and now the flames threaten your borders." | [
"\"There's nothing more we can do. We must leave to find refuge.\" \n\n\"Who will take us in, after all this time? After all we've done?\" \n\n\"We didn't have enough to give then, and we sure as hell don't have enough to give now. We had to protect our own, they'll understand.\" \n\n\"You know as well as I do, tha... | 2 |
[WP] Modern day USA has been transported back to the year 700 due to an experiment with quantum mechanics gone wrong. Now faced with the problem of having to deal with less advanced neighbors, what happens during this time. | [
"\"It's caused a quantum fracture split, sir. This universe is actually a new universe.\" \n\nThe President stroked his chin. \"So we don't have to worry about disrupting our actual universe and wiping ourselves out?\"\n\n\"No sir.\" \n\n\"And Europe, they're a bunch of savages with castles and all that?\"\n\n\"Yes... | 1 | |
[WP] A plague has wiped out ninety percent of the planet's population. Now people reside in air domes, which filter clean air from the diseased planet. There are people outside the dome, threatening to break in. | [
"It was a mad scramble to build refuge. Some people were more resistant to the disease than others, it's the only reason we've found continuance. \n\n I stood near the border edge, staring out into the murky black. A thick fog swirled in onto itself lapping at the thick metallic glass walls of the dome. Faces could... | 1 | |
[WP] Humanity has just achieved a means of FTL travel. On the first missions sent to nearby stars of Sol, the remains of numerous galactic communities are found...All Human in origin. | [
"Weirdly, the drones had found ancient Sumerian, Egyptian and Babylonian text on the pillar outside of the building. \"Sir,\" said controller Steve Hendrix, \"We've found a library.\" \n\n\nCaptain Jimmy Johnson asked him one question. \"How the fuck do you know it's a library? It's just a random building on a ... | 2 | |
[WP] The child games your kids play leak into the reality. You can usually cope with the usual "knights in living room" and others, but this time, it's clearly out of control and you decide to tell them to play something else... If only you could reach them! | [
"\"The floor is lava!\"\n\nI'm sure we've all heard that said before. But, when its said by your kid, who has a tendency to make these things true, it takes on a whole new meaning. And I like my local property values, I don't want my house to burn to the ground.\n\nAnd convection. People always forget convection. S... | 1 | |
[WP] Everybody opens their box when they wake up to a word describing their day. You open your box to nothing. | [
"Alarm goes off. I took a deep breath, pulled my hand out of the blankets, extended my arm to reach my smartphone, while hopelessly trying to stop the alarm or at least sneeze it.\n\nI didn't know how the day would go... last week's Box was too random. From Happy to Troubled, then from Enjoy to Depression, too many... | 2 |
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