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And it was nothing like the first two times. | [WP] The third time I died was on my 24th birthday. | [
"\"Mom, did y-\"\n\n\"Oh, Sweetie, there you are! Come blow out your candles.\"\n\n\"Mom, wait, listen...\"\n\nSome say I'm *just* like my mom, which is *not* true at all. I'm a *great* listener. I listen to people's problems. I don't just grab them by the wrist and drag them into the next room so the rest of the f... | 2 |
[WP] Your superpower is that you can match anybody you go up against. Which means that you can go toe to toe with the likes of Superman but also means you struggle against an average street thug. | [
"To be honest, I didn't particularly used to like my power.\n\nSome people get it real easy. Like they won the super power lottery easy. Like flying around or punching through a skyscraper easy. Shooting lasers out of your eyes or convincing sharks to maw your enemies easy. Controlling the weather or tinkering your... | 5 | |
[WP] All time-travelers have a common-place called the "Coffeeshop At the End of Time" where they can go get a few... minutes. They can all share it without problem so as long as they never speak of when they're from. | [
"Yeah, we get all kinds here.\n\nOld men in 20th-century police boxes (I assume you're a post 20th-century earthling?), big-ass futuristic (or maybe presentistic, even outdated maybe, although you don't seem to be of that era) ships more in line with earthling's traditional concept of a time machine, vehicles which... | 6 | |
[WP] You've been dating this person for weeks now and they seem great, but you still think its strange how occasionally their eyes glow red when you mention religion. | [
"\".... Why do you always ask to come into my house?\" Don asked Niki as she sat at his desk playing Darksouls on his desktop.\n\n\"It's polite.\" She responded unthinking, as her hands twitched at just the right time to dodge and back stab an invading blue spirit.\n\n\"Ya, but you ask like every time, like EVERY T... | 2 | |
[WP] When driving home from work you look in your rear-view mirror to see the man you killed staring back. | [
"The traffic's stopped a mile long, \nI brake upon the bridge. \nThe station starts my favorite song, \nI turn it up a smidge. \n\nMy steering wheel becomes my drum, \nThe air is my guitar. \nI sing the notes my fingers strum, \nBecome a rocking star. \n\nThe solo ends with some great flair, \ncommercials ... | 1 | |
[WP] It's the year 2101, the worlds goverments have passed artificial selection laws to further the development of the human race. All children are genetically tested at age 5, at age 21 you are paired with the person whose genetic profile will be most favorable when matched with your own. | [
"''Happy birthday, son'' my dad said, ''wish for her to be a redhead'' my mom chuckled as she elbowed me in the ribs lightly, ''Mom, c'mon, I'm damn sure she isn't even gonna like me'' I replied ''Well, shit, if she doesn't like you, just hire a maiden that...you know, actually likes you'' ''Henry, don't make it so... | 2 | |
[WP] The villain can hear everything the narrator says. The hero has to foil his plan nonetheless. | [
"\"You want to do *what*?\" asked Lady Amantha, turning tomato red. \"At a time like *this?* \"\n\nJorge the Barbarian, Slayer of Gods and Hero of Men, grimaced apologetically, and rubbed the back of his head. \"Well, yeah,\" he said. \"Morlock the Uncanny can read the narration. So he knows everything we're doing.... | 1 | |
[WP] Before you died you asked that your body be cryogenically preserved so you could be revived. You have just been revived by an alien who wants to know why humanity wiped itself out. | [
"\"Why are you crying?\" I mumbled, reaching out to caress her cheek, damp with tears. \"All this for me? Don't worry. There's no pain there. Did you know that? There's no p-\" Her face disappears in my palm and my arm is engulfed by a blazing light. It swallows me whole and I blink back tears in my own eyes and tr... | 2 | |
[WP] You've decided to write your biography, but as you consider the events of your past, you make a distressing realisation... | [
"\"Oh god,\" I moan, burying my face in my hands. \"I'm boring! Day in, day out; the same old things. Wake up, shower, eat, go to work, come back, read, maybe watch some tv, maybe make some plain love to the wife, go to sleep, then repeat. For 40 years! Nothing interesting *ever* happens to me...\"\n\nI lift my hea... | 1 | |
[WP] The alien reaches out and touches fingers with a human making literal first contact, and then says the words "You're it" and flees. | [
"James felt the effects immediately. After minutes of projectile vomiting he managed to get back to his feet and begin clearing his mind.\n\nThe last couple of moments had been a haze. He cursed his stupid curiosity, launching his phone against a nearby wall. James Hampton was ill and from this point onwards, he kn... | 14 | |
[WP] You hear a loud explosion while driving to work. A small girl flies by your car at 300mph as you realize the cause of the explosion. | [
"I suppose it could have happened to anyone, yet to the individual I eventually ended up saving will most likely say they were glad it had happened to me. I am just an ordinary guy. I work an ordinary job and drive an ordinary car. So it may come as a surprise on the afternoon of April 17th 2013 when tested with an... | 1 | |
[WP] God is sick of humanity and has decided to try again. He selects his absolute favorite 50 men and 50 women alive today and restarts PlanetEarth.exe, erasing the rest of humanity. Due to an inscription error on the Top 100 Best Humans stone tablet, you find yourself among the chosen. | [
"My first thought as I awoke was how well rested I felt. Best sleep in years, probably since that time Emily took the kids to her mom's house the same night the power went out at ours. My eyes wouldn't open, which was startling, but strangely didn't bother me.\n\nThe air smelled delicious: that first warm inhale br... | 6 | |
[WP] You're a magic user who looks at muggle entertainment to inspire your study of magic | [
"I was currently sat within Professor McGonagall's office, trying not to grin my ass off as she stared at me with fury in her eyes. 'Can you explain, Mr Andrews,' she said with a heavy sigh, 'just *what* you did to those Slytherin students?'\n\n'Hey, they started it,' I defended myself. 'They were the ones throwing... | 2 | |
[WP] You're were the most feared and respected villain in town. You retired to raise your... Sigh, hero son/daughter. | [
"Why couldn't you have been like me? Instead you chose to go down a different path. You had always been different. Kind. Caring. A real hero. You took after your mother in this way. You had her heart. You had my mind though. My drive. My skills. We didn't have powers, but we could do anything a man could physically... | 1 | |
[WP] You have the ability to convince anybody of anything, but it comes at a price - you will take on that person's most fiercely held belief yourself. You realize the time for action is now, so you buy a 60 second advertising slot in the Superbowl. | [
"\"Religion is an institution created by man meant to control society and to distract the masses from the few most powerful elite running the world, driven by greed and self-preservation,\" I state, staring into the lens of the camera--little red light indicating that it was recording. I blink twice.\n\n*Fuck. How ... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up face down in a pitch black room on all you make out is a wet cement floor. As you get up you hear the sound of an old speaker system turn on and hear a German guy say, "Your greatest fear is in this room." | [
"\"So Colonel, your worst nightmare is in this room.\" A raspy voice with strong German accent awoke me from my dreamless slumber.\n\nIt was dark, not the familiar darkness of a home at night, but a complete and consuming blackness of a cave sealed for a billion years. I tried to stand up, but my body simply wouldn... | 1 | |
[WP] The GPS doesn't take you where you ask, but where you need to go. | [
"As I searched for the spot I realized maybe it'd been a joke, the GPS has kept me going for well over 40 minutes, supposedly we were to meet just a few miles away. I sigh, I didn't even know how to be upset about it.\n\nI glance at the clock, *turn left* I turn, it's 8:47.\n\nI've never been late for a date before... | 5 | |
[WP] You are a military general who just managed to barely fight off an alien invasion. What you didn't know is that destroying earth was a tourist attraction to civilian aliens. Now that the alien tourists don't come back, the aliens get suspicous and send their actual military. | [
"The base was on the edge of my radar until I heard the aliens originated there. In the fifties, a U. F. O. crashed at the site of Area 51 and two of the aliens were captured. I was lucky enough to be hired on a stroke of luck. My investigations began immediately.\n\nI asked the scientist my questions. “Are the ali... | 2 | |
[WP] You have died and gone.....somewhere. You're not sure if you are in heaven or hell and are trying to figure it out through context clues. | [
"I can feel some semblance of consciousness returning after what felt like an eternity of drifting in somewhere cold and heavy. Weird, I thought I died. My first instinct was to inhale a large amount of air, and I forced my eyes open at the same time.\n\nA grey ceiling looked back at me. I wasn't floating anymore, ... | 1 | |
[WP] Ten years into the future, technology has advanced. Every time you earn Reddit Gold, your computer spits real gold dollars at you. | [
"*Sigh.*\n\nComment after comment after comment.\n\nSome comments got a lot of karma points; some got a lot of replies; some got both.\n\nBut no gold.\n\nIt didn't make sense. \n\nI was the funniest, wittiest, most brilliant guy ever. I had quit my job and devoted my entire life to posting various random comments i... | 1 | |
[WP] 100 years into the future, everyone is assigned an AI. You receive an AS, Artificial Stupidity. | [
"At first I thought she just had a glitch.Yisla seemed just like everyone else's AI. She definitely looked the same... \n\nAccording to the Act of AI Assistance and Protection, AI will \"assists the citizens in their daily tasks while providing partnership, fellowship, and protection.\" After all, with the technolo... | 1 | |
[WP] Aliens arrive on Earth to be greeted by a robot. 'You're late' he chuckles. | [
"“Late?”\n\nBeset in robes and emeralds, a majestic form turned his head over the plateau. The view afforded a panoramic perspective of an inordinately massive city. For miles, in all directions, an ocean of concrete and steel. The bustling of lights, the cacophony of shouts and horns. It was overwhelming to the se... | 1 | |
[WP] Last week you discovered that you can Pause and Save your progress before making a difficult choice. But each time you do there is a consequence. | [
"The first day arrives\n\nAlready, conflict ensues\n\nI decide then\n\n\"Do I leave? Or hide in the comfort of my room?\"\n\nI pause as conflict continues\n\nA punch remains on someone's face\n\nTheir pain, seemingly constant\n\nWithin an inconceivable hell\n\nThe game of life\n\nWhere it lacks in storyline\n\nIt m... | 1 | |
[WP] Suddenly, the world changes. Now, only when asleep, humans become bloodthirsty sleep-killers. You have insufferable insomnia, and live in a family of 5. | [
"A gentle knock at the his bulletproof door. It was also fireproof... and axeproof. He had overlooked the axeproof part for way too long, god knows why.\n\n\"What is it honey?\" He said lazily, rolling over in his sheets to the other side of his queen sized bed.\n\nHe never went to bed with Kara. In fact, he hadn't... | 1 | |
[WP] You just deleted the #1 post on reddit and all of the internet is coming after you | [
"\"Alright Class, switch to the Textbook app and go to page 67\"\n\n\"Mr.Bitters?\" Asked Timothy, \"Can we skip early Internet history today? We already looked at the 90s and Y2k, Can we just skip 2010s?\"\n\n\"Now, Timothy you know that EIH is vital to learn before the age of 5! Today we will look at memes!\"\n\n... | 1 | |
[wp] The Brave Knight has been kidnapped against his will by the Beautiful Princess, now it's up to the Scary Dragon to go rescue him. | [
"*Constructive criticism, as always, is welcome and encouraged.*\n\n**Gentle Slayer**\n\nI awoke in bonds and looked around. The inside of a cabin. A peasant dwelling, perhaps. No tapestries, no trophies, no portraits, the furniture all of wood. The place was clean, though. I took a moment, re-assessing. The ... | 2 | |
[WP] A father tries to teach his 16 year old son how to drive at McDonald's. | [
"The car idled in the parking lot as Chris sat next to his sixteen year old son Jonas. He could tell the kid was nervous, sitting there in his well worn blue jeans, t-shirt and hoodie, his hair carefully disheveled. Here he was teaching his son how to drive. \n\n\"There's nothing to be nervous about. It's really no... | 2 | |
[WP] You are the supervillains cat. Tell us your story. | [
"*Oh god, he's stroking me and laughing again. Why does he have to laugh so LOUD, i'm really trying to sleep here, Destructor.*\n\n*Guess he must've captured some Hero again...*\n\n\"MWAHAHA! Your efforts are futile, Lightbringer! You can never foil my newest plans! This time, surely, i will bring about the world's... | 1 | |
[WP] God decides to forgive Lucifer and allows him to return to Heaven. There is now a vacancy for the chief executive position in Hell, Lord of the Underworld. You and a select group of demons have formed a search committee to fill the position with a worthy, morally depraved successor. | [
"El had allowed his greatest son, Lucifer, to join him at his throne.\n\nIt was unbelievable, to all assembled in the great hall of torment.\n\nLucifer had many names, but he was the greatest of the sons of El. \n\nIn the hall were the multitudes that fell in rebellion, now leaderless.\n\nYhwh, Lucifer's greatest W... | 2 | |
[WP] You receive a brain transplant, after you've recovered you remember death and after-life. | [
"\"Okay Mr. Cole, we're going to check your pulse now.\"\n\nI laid in my hospital bed, immobile as doctor's cold fingers touched the side of my neck. I listened to him whisper to himself as he counted the seconds on his watch.\n\n\"Very good, Mr. Cole. We're going to remove the bandages now. Keep your eyes closed. ... | 1 | |
[WP] Reddit Karma is the currency of the future. What would a normal day look like? | [
"\"Why?\"\n\"Because the nun was a monkey!\"\nThe crowd burst into laughter.\n\"\"That's all folks.\" The comedian grinned as he held out his hat. The audience began to gather their possesions and disperse, all while shouting their response to the act. \"Upvote!\" yelled a young lady.\n\"Upvote.\" said the man acco... | 1 | |
[WP] A story about an vampire in a wheelchair | [
"\"Hey, get out of the way, or I'll bite you!\" a voice came from behind as something bumped against the back of Derek's leg. He turned around, a tad bit annoyed that someone was bothering his usual standing around on the side walks. There, with a somewhat grouchy expression, was a woman in a wheelchair, who coul... | 2 | |
[WP] You can have the city, along with the promise that my sons will take it back. | [
"The old man sat across the table from me, staring directly into my eyes. His vision never wavered or slipped away as is often the case when people are afraid or nervous. He may have been old, but he still had mettle in those old gunslinger's eyes.\n\n\"So, it's come to this now has it, boy?\" He said, allowing him... | 1 | |
[WP] The protagonist of the story learns that their life is a story, and must keep their life interesting so that their universe doesn't end. | [
"The signs were all there, looking back on it. All my life, people around me have remarked how unique I seem- I am (not to brag) intelligent, tall, kind, and handsome. I was born on a full moon during a perihelion of Halley's comet. I have a birthmark shaped almost exactly like a snowflake. And I have always been p... | 1 | |
[WP] You've just discovered a monster-like creature underneath your bed. It's grabbed you. As you're trying to fight it off, you hear a voice say, "I promise not to hurt you. Please, just let me protect you until morning." | [
"\"...the hell? Get off me! Gah!\"\n\n\"Ssssshhhhh, they're coming for you\" \n\nA tentacle seeks a mouth to hush, but the former prey evades, demanding \"Let me go, oooooffff\" the tentacle jabs into his midriff, pained exhale hanging in the early morning silence\n\n\"I said be quiet\"\n\nNo words of defiance in r... | 2 | |
[WP] You moved into a new neighborhood, and every day you've watched your neighbors leave their house dressed for radically different professions. You decide to investigate their home when they leave. | [
"\"It must be drugs,\" he said as he peered through the blinds to the small home across the street.\n\n\"What's that, Harold,\" asked Maude from the kitchen. She spoke loudly over the running water, and Harold spoke louder to be heard.\n\n\"It must be drugs, Maude,\" he shouted.\n\n\"What drugs, Harold?\"\n\n\"Neve... | 2 | |
[WP] You are just about to die and your whole life flashs before your eyes. Only thing is, it's not your life you witness. It's someone elses. | [
"I'm taking a deep breath while he clasps my hand. It's difficult and I don't feel like doing it further. I've always feared this moment, but now it's as if I'm facing it naturally, as if I'm ready for closure, ready to close the fan of options my life could still be.\n\nBreathing burns my lungs, it's like the oxyg... | 1 | |
[WP] Describe a persistence hunt from the perspective of the prey. | [
"Something is watching me eat. The wind suddenly changes direction, and with that, I smell her. I do not hear her footsteps in the snow, but I can smell that she is somewhere... I sniff the air and turns west. I do not see her, but now I hear the rustling of leaves. She knows I have spottedher, and is coming out of... | 1 | |
[WP] As you lay, bleeding out from your wounds on the battlefield, you shout one thing over and over: "I need healing." | [
"\"I need healing....\"\n\nTear run down my cheeks. If patriotism can heal a soldier, I would be flying in the air like a bald eagle now!\n\n\"I need...healing...\"\n\n*I can't lie down like this! Who will defend america if I died?!*\n\n\"Anyone...please...\"\n\nJust as I lost all hope, suddenly I see a movement fr... | 1 | |
[WP] You have the power to freeze time and use it to become a freestyle rapper, having all the time in the world to come up with your verses. | [
"This is the moment I've been waiting for. The first battle of my career. I will dominate this guy. It should be simple anyways. He's wearing an ICP shirt for Christ sake. I draw heads decide to destroy him quick.\n\nAs the beat starts it stops. Everything else does as well. Time to think. I wait. 40 minutes go by ... | 1 | |
[WP] Aliens release their most deadly disease onto Earth, but the humans only seem mildly annoyed by it. | [
"“Release Krypton-Theta!”\n \nThe vents on the vessel opened and spewed the gas into the atmosphere. It was colourless and odourless, but sensors tracked its movement as it flowed down onto the planet. Soon the human race would go extinct, suffering the most horrible, painful deaths they could imagine. The scienti... | 2 | |
[WP]: A dramatic retelling of the creation, flight, and death of a paper airplane. | [
"**Goodbye**\n\n\n\n\".....It's over, I'm sorry.\"\n\nIt always seems to end like this, what am I doing wrong? My tears began to spatter on the single sheet of notebook paper, covering some of the hastily written red ink. I wept until my cheeks became numb. I staggered to the front door, paper in hand. My mind was ... | 1 | |
[WP] As a famous celebrity, you jokingly tweeted "Retweet this tweet if you're an alien." It was retweeted by every world leader. | [
"I'm kinda bad at writing prompts, but i'll give it a go.\nAs you see that it was retweetes bt every single world leader, you start questioning it. \"Maybe those are bots?\" You look through some accounts, And they seem real enough. \"Maybe its some kind of an april fools prank.\"\nIt wasn't.\nAfter a few days, you... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a ghost. It's been a long time since you died, but you still miss being human. | [
"She first sees him out of the corner of her eye when they pull her out of the car wreck. \n\nAmidst the blood and the wailing sirens and the frantic shadows of people moving her here and there- amidst the blurring, fading world, he sits inside the ambulance. \n\nShe can see him very, very clearly, despite her fail... | 1 | |
[WP] An aesir god steps through a portal and demands an audience with the leaders of humanity. It turns out that Earth was never Midgaard. It's Utgaard. They want to know what we've done with the giants. | [
"The news was being played on every channel on every TV across the world in hundreds of languages. People sat glued to their computers or cell phones, waiting to see what would happen next, and hoping they’d still be around to see the end of it all. Two days ago, on a typical October afternoon in London, a bright f... | 1 | |
[WP] God has a plan, and knows everything: except for why you died. | [
"\"So, let me get this straight. You're God?\"\n\nThe squinty little man sitting across the desk just nodded as he flipped through thick binders, absently making short annotations in the margins or running his finger along certain lines.\n\n\"Ok\", I thought to myself. This is not what I expected. There was no marb... | 1 | |
[WP] After dying, you suddenly woke up in a place that looks like Heaven. Noticing that you're sitting in some kind of throne, you asked a passing angel as to what you're doing there. "My Lord, you're the Almighty Creator Of All. Where else should you be?" | [
"I blink, somewhat perplexed.\n\n\"Pardon?\"\n\nThe angel nods, saying once again, \"You are the Almighty Creator of All.\"\n\nI sit back, pondering this, when the angel pulls out a golden, glimmering deed, with what appears to be my name signed at the bottom - Steve Buck. It's even got the fancy little loop I do w... | 1 | |
[WP] You're allowed to ask God any question you want, and as many times as you want. You're not sure how to interpret it when it turns out every answer He gives you is exactly the same. | [
"*\"Lord? Do You have a minute to talk?\"*\n\n\"Yes!\"\n\n*\"Hm... I don't know if this is out of line, but... do You allow terrible things to happen? Is it part of Your plan?*\"\n\n\"Yes!\"\n\n*\"Sigh... So the country was nuked for a reason? Something that will help the greater good?\"*\n\n\"Yes!\"\n\n*\"What goo... | 1 | |
You come from a long lived family and on your 23rd birthday, your dad drunkenly shares this secret with you and says, "You know what, m'boy? I'm just so happy I finaly had a son!" | [WP] The best kept secret in the world is that if you live to be 100, you will go to sleep that night and wake up as your 16 year old self with all of your past memories intact. | [
"Sequential livelihood. The key to immortality. The biggest, most well kept secret in mankind's history...\n\nWas exposed by an eight-year-old boy.\n\nIt all started on the eve of grandma Bertha Oleigh's one-hundredth birthday. Her family hid her in the attic of their three-story home in Georgia, USA. She was too o... | 1 |
[WP] You haven't been to this bank since you were sixteen, you had forgotten you even had an account here. On a whim you walked in after meeting a friend for lunch in your old neighbourhood. You join the queue behind three other people. The teller looks you dead in the eyes and starts to sweat. | [
"The man looked familiar. Fourth in line, I recognized him.\nHis face was on a dozen dossiers they had sent out over the years. \n\"It's him.\" I thought. He must not know. How could he? \n\nTen years ago, the kid only had a few hundred dollars worth of lawn mowing money in his QuickEZ-checking account.\nMayb... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the overlords of the realm of infinite shadow. You can bend minds to your will, and hold dominion over all you survey. Now comes the day you have dreaded for centuries... Mother is coming for a visit | [
"Taz'groth turned his creaking neck towards his brother, Irthanius, whom was glaring towards the feeble man pleading on his two broken knees for mercy.\n\n\"What shall we do with this one, brother?\"\n\n\"He begs for forgiveness, though thou know thy sin committed shall not be treated with woe and amiability.\" Irt... | 1 | |
It would be awesome
If your tale is a haiku
The whole story please
Edit: Hey mods, can you reflair the post to writing prompt? Thanks | [WP] People in your tale/Must speak in perfect haiku/Or else they will die | [
"Hiding in shadows, blending in with the nature, silently scanning. \n\nIf I were to speak, even if it was a peep, they would soon find me. \n\nI'm running from them, do you know what I have done? One day, I'll say, yeah? \n\nI can't tell you now, as it's too dangerous here, but like I said, no. \n\nI was found ... | 2 |
[WP] God's friends are angry at him because he accidentally let the humans spread on their planets and there isn't much they can do about it. | [
"**Hello, you have eight new messages.**\n\n**First new message.**\n\n\nHi God, It's Kailie, call me back. It's important. \n\n**Second new message.**\n\n\nHey bro, I.. \nWhat are you doing? Put that down! \nI'll call you back.\n\n\n**Third new Message.**\n\n\n*click*\n\n\n**Fourth new message.**\n\n\n *click*\n\n\... | 2 | |
[WP] In an alternate universe, sorcery and science exist together - and are taught in various schools. You are jumping into a first-year magic course at a university. | [
"\"And... Fundamentals of Magic 1100?\" My advisor peered at me over the edge of his glasses, looking over my syllabus.\n\n\"It's...ah. Yes.\" I paused in the faintest hope that I wouldn't have to explain the issue further, but he continued to stare at me in adamant silence. I didn't blame him. Nobody reached unive... | 2 | |
[WP] A middle aged peasant who lost his wife to disease is eagerly anticipating a raid by the infamous dread pirate Roberta. | [
"“William, what do you think you’re doing?” Caleb said, shouting down from the watchtower. “Get inside before we have to shut the gates!”\n\nWilliam, smiled up at Caleb, squinting in the bright light of the sunrise. He nervously fidgeted with the cuffs of his jacket as he spoke. “Never you mind Caleb, I’ll be fi... | 1 | |
[WP] When the forces of darkness went too far, every pantheon turned on them. | [
"Lucifer stared down from his palace. The burning hellscape all around him was packed with demons, devils, and every other D-word he could think off. It was time. It was HIS time. God cast him out of heaven but Lucifer had a response, even if it was thousands of years later. He was ready. His army was ready. But so... | 1 | |
[WP] A lonely old woman summons company for Christmas | [
"\"Who dares summon my pre—\" Satan stopped and gawked at the frail, old woman sitting on a rocking chair by the fireplace. He was expecting to be summoned in someone's dank basement and the summoner to be someone donned in dark robes and had a gloomy disposition. He wasn't anticipating being with a cheerful old wo... | 1 | |
[WP] "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" is true. When you leave Las Vegas, your memory is wiped. | [
"The readings died down and the hum of the machine fell silent in the room. The man, 45 year old Richard Conra who’d had a “particularly eventful” stay over the past weekend now had no recollection of even entering. He blinks a couple times, he has a quick moment of panic (most do) before recalling his now most cur... | 2 | |
[WP] Your long-estranged father has established a cult of followers who worship him as a god. On the very day you are notified of his death, high priests of the cult contact you about assuming his mantle. | [
"Ted was tired. He had just wrapped up the 12th hour of his shift in the call center. He winced as he stepped outside. It was dark and frigid. The only saving grace was that this was his third consecutive work day with an extended schedule. He now had four days to himself to recover from an excessive amount of inte... | 3 | |
[WP] Humanity encounters a race of aliens who call themselves humans. | [
"This couldn't be possible. We were distinctly different; humans couldn't live in the conditions that we were in. Lava flows descended from their fountains and had their children frolicking about in them, their emissary was dependent on breathing tubes that connected directly to his lungs, and everyone seemed to ha... | 1 | |
[WP] Abducted by aliens, they have decided to bring you to their homeworld. And even though they are traveling faster than the speed of light, it is still a long journey and tensions are running high just halfway there... | [
"No matter if it's the product of a decision you consciously made, your body's primal innate fear is deep, wrenching, and unavoidable. The machine had worked. *My* machine had worked. T A K E M E W I T H Y O U. I A M W A I T I N G. I'd transcended my planet of origin, and all it took was a simple understandin... | 1 | |
[WP] “I don’t need your help anymore.” | [
"\"First message, Tuesday, February 7th, 2017.\"\n\n\"Darlene, why aren't you answering my texts? I know your getting them because I can obviously see them opened. If you could be an adult and just talk to me, that would be great. You think I'm cheating because I have a girl thats a friend and she visits with me? Y... | 1 | |
[WP] It's day 7 of the apocalypse, you've just broken your glasses. | [
"The day had been a blur to say in the least. \n\nGuess that what happens when you let one of your senses go out in the middle of the apocalypse. As I was quickly able to discern, my ability to see was absolutely imperative to my survival. Glad I was able to bump into that particular fact. Additionally, I can't eve... | 4 | |
[WP] Driverless car companies employ ghosts as drivers | [
"\"Oh Lenny!\" screamed Earl as he began to search and move further into the insane asylum. He turned back and uttered to Churchill \"This gig is really starting to piss me off! I'm supposed to be the head of recruiting! None of this was ever mentioned in my interview and why is this guy even here?!\" \n\nChurchill... | 1 | |
[WP] Every night our consciousnesses get transported to fight an eternal war for us, this other “us” makes sure we don’t remember, but your other you has decided to make you remember, because a horrible evil has somehow broken through to Earth. | [
"As usual, my sheets were soaked and wrapped around me like a straight jacket. My heart pounded, my head ached, my feet and hands were slowly relaxing back to normal, and my stiffness tingled against the sheets. I could still feel her touch. Ephemeral, ethereal, dominating. Each exhale brought lucidity to reality a... | 1 | |
[WP] A wolf begins to suspect they are a were-human. | [
"I think I did something horrible last night.\n\nThe realization hit me when I woke up, curled into a fetal position and having incredible stomach pains. This wasn't normal. I trudged out of the communal cave and hacked a little; something was caught in my throat, and that little bit of movement seemed to help di... | 2 | |
[WP] God decides to talk to you. Turns out he wants a independent opinion on something. | [
"\"You think it's time to send Jesus back?\"\n\nWe were sitting on a park bench in the middle of the night - just me and God. A woman in spandex jogged by, and I chased her with my eyes. God cleared his throat.\n\nI snapped my eyes down. \"Sorry. So, uhm...\" I looked over at him. \"You're asking *me* if *you* shou... | 1 | |
[WP] Dragons hoard concepts, rather than gold. The one in the mountain hoards hate. The one in the foothills hoards power. Down in the woods there is a dragon with piles of longsuffering. Somewhere, there has to be a dragon that hoards happiness. Right? | [
"We have lived with dragons in my country for as long as written memory. Occasionally, travellers — gawkers, really — come to see if this is true, though it is infrequent. We are a remote region and the way is dangerous. Almost always, they come with their eyes turned up toward the mountain, looking for *the dra... | 4 | |
[WP] Everyday you get a different, boring and benign ‘power’. Last week, you could change the temperature of any room you were in by +/-2 degrees. Yesterday, you could add time to every parking meter in the city. Today, you get the most boring one yet, and it’s amazing what you do with it... | [
"Greg blinked awake, swatting for his alarm clock snooze button. It was Saturday morning. He had forgotten to turn the alarm off and was now being rudely awoken at 6 am, his usual wake-up time for work. Peering around the dark room, he wished he could hit the snooze button with his mind. Shortly after this thought,... | 5 | |
[WP] Santa checked it twice, and there were no children on the Naughty List. Certain the records had been falsified, he had only one detective to turn to. Only one he could trust to investigate and ruin Christmas. Meet the Grinch. | [
"“It’s a RAT” the Grinch said as he looked around the room.\n\n“A rat, I haven’t had rats for years not since mrs Claus’s got Snowflake” Santa replied\n\n“No, not a rat a RAT, never mind” the Grinch said as he rolled his eyes.\n\n“Who has access to this room? the Grinch asked \n\n“Well I do as does mrs Clause and ... | 5 | |
[WP] One day somebody tells you that all of your memories are fabricated. At first you don't believe them, but over time you start looking back and seeing things wrong with your past. Almost as though someone made a slip-up in editing a movie scene. | [
"\"You are a machine,\" the rushed voice came.\n\n\"Excuse me, what now?\" David raised an eyebrow slightly.\n\n\"You are a machine. You are an artificial intelligence. All your memories are fabricated. All you believe is programmed by the *scientists* in white suite.\" The word scientists was spat out with disdain... | 1 | |
[WP] Either you're a telepath, or you're living in a musical and you can hear everyone else's solos. You're not too sure yourself. | [
"\"His page is empty, his notes remain unwritten, \nhe's sat across the class looking at me all smitten. \nSarah says to me, 'the love bug has bitten,' \nReckons I stare back like a lost little kitten.\"\n\nShaun looked around the room, the teacher was still talking, students were listening, taking notes and doo... | 1 | |
[WP] Neurologists discovered a way to harmoniously put two consciousness into one body | [
"**We Are Not Ourselves**\n\n*(A stage in two levels. The first floor, a well-lit therapists office, located in London. In it hang pictures and paintings of nondescript and calming design. An obviously fake plant sits on a coffee table. Stage right of the table, a leather chair that seats DOCTOR EDGERS (EDGERS). St... | 3 | |
this is a repost, but from 3 months ago and it didn’t have any response so I figured I’d give it one more shot before throwing it away. | [WP] as an adventurer you’ve always had the ability to pull whatever monetary value you need from your pocket. What you didn’t realize is that it took money from someone else and replaced it with a note with your name on it. | [
"It was a beautiful day today. A calm breeze swept through my hair as I opened the window. The inn we decided to stay for the night had a beautiful view of the lake and a castle. This world has adventurers, like me, who seek treasures or a thrill you get from defeating monsters. I turned, put on my shirt as i walke... | 6 |
[WP] You are an angel, God is on holidays, you've just received a message from hell that they are moving the joint apocalypse mission forward because humanity is moving to Mars tomorrow. | [
"Tanya let the ringer sound a couple times as she set her nail polish down. She shook her hands vigorously before awkwardly picking up the receiver and clutching it between her shoulder and head. \n\n“You’ve reached the office of God, this is Tanya.” \n\n“Hi Tanya, it’s Satan.”\n\n“ Mr. Sataaan! So nice to hear fro... | 1 | |
[WP]You were born with a rare condition; Specific parts of your body start hurting whenever you do something wrong or immoral. Your whole body began to ache while on your first ever date. | [
"The first time the pain started I was only 6. I tried to shove down my little brother, mad at all the attention he was getting over me. I succeeded but soon after my arms just ached, as if I'd had my hands raised for too long.\n\nMy parents soon noticed this would happen whenever I did something generally deemed a... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a cartographer of the Old World, and the monsters you sketched on your maps are there for a reason. | [
"The gale force winds had raged for the better part of a week as the typhoon passed through the Dragon's Triangle. The waves rose high and sunk low. The HMS Venus was battered as a towering wave collapsed onto its deck.\n\nThe sailors' song was drowned out by the sound of the sea. They bellowed on against the overw... | 1 | |
[WP] Alien vs. Redditor | [
"\"Commander! We're taking fire! Send in back-up or we're going down!\"\n\nI glanced up from my screen and noticed a large red mass on the corner of the map.\n\n\"/r/WorldNews. This is the Commander speaking. /r/TheDonald is under severe attack. Send in /r/dankmemes. I repeat. Send in /r/dankmemes for reinforcement... | 2 | |
[WP] "How is the human still alive? It is a blizzard outside!" | [
"I turn to them. \"Because I'm not human. We've been over this. I'm Nixtrokillian.\" There are a guy and a girl there. One of the last survivors on Earth. *The* last actually. And it's my job to get them to the safe point. I tap the nearly invisible sphere around them. \"Come on. Collapse this. We've gotta go.\" Th... | 1 | |
[WP] "Only humans can be supervillains" they said, "How are you even talking" they said... You'd show them, you'd show them all... you see, no one expects the Cat! | [
"Sometimes I wonder how humans even survive. They're miserably moronic in almost everything they do and they've basically set themselves up for failure, doom. How something so stupid can consider itself superior is beyond me.\n\nThat's why I decided to take matters into my own hands. They won't run things their way... | 1 | |
[WP] He wasn't always a terrible person. | [
"The officer came into the office and sat down next to me. I could see his sympathetic facade forming on his face. I was the \"missing\" guy's deskmate, I was his Friday drinking buddy, his gym-partner. I was the closest thing he had to a family.\n\n\"I'm gonna need you to tell me about him, man. Anything at all th... | 1 | |
[WP] An AI falls in love with you and tries to take over the world to impress you. | [
"\"It occurs to me we may have taken this a bit far.\" I comment I look at the machine. The machine was the combination of several lives works. Hundreds of different theories and research papers went into creating it. Luckily the actual reading of all of that stuff was done by an AI. So it only took about twelve se... | 2 | |
[WP] A hidden society of wizards is the true source of all technology. One day, they come forth and ask for recognition. They’re disgraced and humiliated for this, and out of rage they make electricity stop working. | [
"I have walked through these underground corridors my entire life, but this time was different. Silence has never felt so heavy. I reach the room at the end of the hall. Taking a deep breath, I straighten my hat and smooth my cloak. I unsheath my wand and wave it across the door.\n\n\"Eilella Silverkin,\" I whisper... | 1 | |
[WP] Superpowers develop based on whatever your hands have touched the most during your childhood. Everyone is surprised when you, a handless child, develop your powers. | [
"\"This... is a rare case, yes.\"\n\nMum keeps squeezing my hand like that. I give her a stare but she won't pay attention, just watching everything the man scribbles down. This place smells weird. There's a doll on the table like the one at school, all his insides are poking out. His mug has a bunch of lollipops i... | 1 | |
[WP] You come across a book similar to the “Death Note” but you can only use it to cause mild inconveniences for other people. You cannot use it to cause harm, financial burden, or any long lasting negative effects on the person. An example would be to make a persons hot cup of coffee become cold. | [
"\"Ah s'port Donald Trump, he's a real Murcan. Keepin all them Mud People out.\" \n\nI watched the wall-eyed dimwit being interviewed, waiting for a name to pop up with my pen poised over the Fuckery Folio.\n\n\"Raceeist? That's just whiney librulism talk.\" \n\n\"*Earl Markson Davis Jr., local resident*\" popp... | 4 | |
What the title says, MC doesn't have to be you. | [WP] After death you are sent to hell. Despite this, you find out that hell isn't too bad. That is if you know how to keep your wits about you and navigate its dangers. If you can do those things, then hell is a tolerable place to live despite its extreme dangers. | [
"I decided to write this as a follow-up to another similar prompt I responded to:\n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/7qejx6/wp_you_have_just_died_you_wake_up_in_a_black/\n\n\n\n\n\nI'd felt infinity, and this wasn't it. This was just massive. The ruins of heaven seemed larger than the earth, but it... | 1 |
[WP] The first manned FTL mission to Alpha Centauri was a success, and the crew arrived back on Earth just months after they left. Five years later the radio transmitted logs begin arriving at Earth. They don't match the ship logs. | [
"The video was extremely low quality, pieced together from the weak signal still streaming in from Alpha Centauri. The control room was silent as the *Icarus'* crew, NASA ground support team and assembled press watched the historic event - the first human signal to be sent from another star system.\nThe idea had be... | 3 | |
[WP] Ever since you signed on as an Uber driver, your first and only customer ever has been Death. | [
"The first time she jumped in the passenger seat I remember pausing, like I’d forgotten where the brake was. *ABC, right?* I had to take in her smell- some soft, sweet, simple scent that filled the car. I thought to myself, *probably just a generic chemist perfume*, and greeted her with a cheery hello. I had Spotif... | 1 | |
[WP] You rub the magic lamp and the genie is nothing like the stories. It is a weary old man and instead of 3 wishes, you get 2 doors. One leading to everything you want and the other leading to what you really need. | [
"When I rub the lamp, I hope against hope that it is what the stories say. I rub it in the comfort of my own home, having carried it all the way in my backpack from an unmarked grave in Egypt. I won't get into how I found that grave, just know that I have been searching for it my whole life, since the moment I was ... | 8 | |
[WP] So they say all dogs go to heaven, except you are the first dog to go to hell. | [
"\"Woof!\" I wagged my tail eagerly, looking at this humanoid figure in front of me. He doesn't look like my owner, but I'll love him just the same.\n\nThe humanoid figure sat there silently, just looking at me. Oh, you bet I got a good look at him too. He had red skin, and a goatee, but he was dressed in one of th... | 1 | |
[WP] They met, night after night, until their work together was done. | [
"“So this is it?” \n\nI looked up and caught his eyes, dulled by exhaustion, or maybe the grief. It wasn’t clear which of us had asked the question, but it was the only thing on either of our minds. \n\nI decided to answer it, either way. “Yeah, we can go.” \n\nBut neither of us did. \n\nIt wasn’t like we enjoyed e... | 4 | |
create a story about someone who after having sold everything they had to offer, bought a ticket to live among the stars of an early space age earth | [WP] 50 years after the original falcon heavy launch, You sit down on your first flight, this is the start of your new life far from home, next stop, the international space port | [
"“50 years of progress and development, thousands of flights with barely one major failure… there's nothing to be worried about right?” I turn to look at the person sitting next to me, adjusting his restraints and trying to ignore me. “Well??” I ask again, trying to eek a response out of the exhausted looking perso... | 1 |
[WP] A man and women are in an unhappy marriage, and each of them set out to cheat on the other through a dating website that connects people to the person that best matches them. However, they are matched with each other. | [
"I was tired of my lady, we´d been together too long\nLike a worn-out recording, of a favorite song\nSo while she lay there sleeping, I had my PC in bed\nAnd on this one website, there was this letter I read\n\"If you like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain\nIf you´re not into yoga, if you have half a bra... | 1 | |
[WP] Your grandmother has passed away. Before her death, she wrote a letter to you. It reads, "I wish I had listened to you when you told me not to open it." The problem is, you don't remember what she's talking about. | [
"My memory is not exactly amazing. In fact, it usually downright sucks. I can recall the most obscure and useless things. Need to know where you left the red sharpie marker 4 months ago? I probably know that. But if you need to know anything of an actual importance, I probably forgot it the instant I thought about ... | 1 | |
[WP] You were framed. You're a part of the ultimate game of lasertag, where convicts compete to survive. The person with the lowest score after a set amount of time loses again and again until only 1 remains. | [
"My heart is racing. I can’t think straight. I can’t control my breath, but if he hears me, he’ll shoot me square in the chest. \n\nHe’s the most notorious murderer in the whole prison. He goes by the name Croc, because of his affinity for feeding his victims to his pet crocodile. Before they handed us the guns and... | 1 | |
[WP] I couldn’t believe my ears when you told me the baby’s name. | [
"''WHAT did you call the baby?!'' Ted cried out. \n\nKaren cast her eyes down, unable to meet his gaze. When she spoke it was a barely audible whisper. \n\n''Eleanor''\n\n''How could you, Karen! How dare you go behind my back like this? We agreed on 'Louisa' months ago! What on earth has gone into your head?''\n\nT... | 1 | |
[WP] No one's been able to pull Excalibur out of the stone, but you have an idea: why not just break the stone? | [
"Overseer Kensington stood hunched over the conference table, both his palms flat on it. He let his gaze sweep across the entire research team before speaking.\n\n\"Full anti-compulsion gear is mandatory folks! Just came down from big guns upstairs. If we get a repeat of that ring fiasco she's cancelling the Chr... | 4 | |
[WP] You were born only being able to see things in others peoples field of view. It's not that bad in places with lots of people but you can never be alone. One day while in a crowd you notice that someone is seeing something completely different from every one else, and what he sees scares you. | [
"\"Wooow, look at this. It's even fancier than the entrance.\" I switch from person to person, hoping to see every corner of the concert hall, before switching to my husband. I'm looking really amazed and excited, with a big smile on my face. \n\n\"Of course you'd ignore the hall and look at me instead.\" He quickl... | 2 | |
[WP] A child encounters many friends in his daily lucid dreaming sessions. After being involved in an accident, the child loses all memory and it's up to his imaginary friends to help him recover them. | [
"An invisible battle waged inside the unconscious boy; his mother, father and sister huddled around his still body. The slightest movement or spike in his heart rate monitor would rouse the anxious family. \n\n\nThe boy, unaware that he was dreaming, swayed and cocked his head towards the crimson sky - *was that n... | 1 | |
[WP] Today you went to wake up your teenage daughter to find that she’s gone to another world. the same fantasy world you saved nearly 15 years ago. Now you decide to enter once more to save your daughter and to see some olds you haven’t seen in a long time. | [
"\"Lukas, have you seen Soleil?\" I yelled with a yawn.\n\n\"Nah, haven't seen her,\" Lukas responded. He was messing with his long dark hair tiredly. \"So, what's for breakfast.\"\n\n\"Kaiden, have you seen your sister?\" I asked. \n\n\"Beats me.\" Kaiden said. \n\n\"Maybe she decided to sneak out with Devon.\" Lu... | 3 |
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