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[WP] Systems Check: Clear. External battery: Check. Wireless Connection: Failed. Mobile Units: None. HAL-385 was an AI supercomputer fully prepared to quietly take over the human race, unfortunately, HAL had been sent back to 1892, not 1982. | [
"The sphere lies on its side, smooth and stone-grey, rubber tubing spilling out of an open hole and snaking across the cool desert dust like black intestines. Its wires have been cut short, their sparkling ends having set fire to a cluster of bushes. In the red, flickering glow of the flames, a seam cracks open on ... | 1 | |
[WP] "Do you trust me?" | [
"\"Not really.\"\n\n\nFurrowing his brows, his flabs of fat around his double chin began to pale. \"Why not?\"\n\n\nRaising an eyebrow, she replied with a motherly tone scolding a child. \"For one, you're holding up the store with a shotgun.\"\n\n\nLooking down, he sighed. \"Secondly, you have literally no self ... | 7 | |
[WP] Show me the relationship between two people who are constantly trying to murder each other. | [
"Paul rushed out the backdoor, his hand gripping the knife with all the adrenaline he could muster. \n\n\"Lenny, you piece of shit, do you think I'm a damn fool? You honestly didn't think I would notice the random bomb planted under my dining table?\", Paul said, his voice trailing into the darkened woods behind ... | 1 | |
[WP] You have the power of creating tornadoes at will. After Sharknado, people ask you to create some strange tornadoes. | [
"\"Pleeeease?\" My little cousin begged me. \n\"No, I really shouldn't. My mom told me not to use my power anymore. It's dangerous.\"\n\"Just a little one?\" Karen pleaded with her big brown eyes staring up at me.\nI could feel myself cracking under her pleading. She was so sweet. What could one little tornado do? ... | 1 | |
[WP] Overnight the world's graphite is mysteriously converted into diamond. Prisoners are now armed with sharpened diamond pencils. | [
"\"Governments around the world are investigating the mysterious case of what appears to be diamond replacing every piece of graphite.\" The news anchor switches to a scientist giving an interview. I stopped watching the TV as my wife came downstairs. \"Hey sweetheart. Did you here?\" she said. \"Yes, graphite now ... | 1 | |
[WP] As time goes on, more and more people are publically declaring to have just escaped a Groundhog Day type time loop. | [
"Hundreds of people stumbled confusedly through the crowd. They were talking to anyone who would listen, asking them if they were having deja vu, if this had happened before, or if they were just crazy. I chuckled to myself. Had they really only remembered one other time?\nI remembered living this day so many times... | 1 | |
Like if they slipped on a banana peel and fell off a cliff. | [WP] Write a mistake in a movie/game that lead to a character's death in the form of a TIFU. | [
"TIFU\n\nI work for a company helping to build better worlds and I made a bad call.\n\nNot too long ago, a deep salvage team came across the life boat from a mining ship that was set to self-destruct, which somehow drifted right through the core systems fifty-seven years ago, and the last survivor, a female warrant... | 1 |
[WP] You are God. You just came back from the bathroom to continue your video game "Earth". The only problem is that you forgot to hit pause. | [
"You grab the controller with sweaty palms. You're shaking. Oh no... Please. Is this game permadeath?, Can I reset? These are the questions that run through your head. \"I guess they're without their god now\", you think as you watch the news about Trump finally being voted into office for his 5th term. \n\nMaybe I... | 1 | |
[WP] You are an astronaut on the ISS, one week away from your scheduled return to Earth. Before going to bed, you take a look at the Earth, and see mushroom clouds emerge on all visible continents. | [
"Dear Anna and Christopher\n\n\nI’ve tried so hard these past few days to start this letter, only to break down in tears or start screaming in rage. It’s all I’ve been able to do not to unseal the hatch, too, but Machiko looked like she was contemplating the same thing so Gennady and I had to subdue and trank her. ... | 2 | |
[WP] We make first contact with aliens. Turns out they are a hyper-intelligent plant species and are horrified to learn about vegetarian/vegas who not eat only plants, but very often eat their young and unborn as well. | [
"The Scout Seed entered a wide orbit around the star. Among many dead worlds, it found two with life. The cold moon was however not suitable for photosynthetics. The warm third world was already advanced to the point of photosynthesis. \n\nThe scout seed quickly moved into orbit of the third planet. The parasi... | 1 | |
[WP] Turns out that God and Satan, and demons and angels are only paid to hate each other. Write a conversation between them in their brief spare time. | [
"\"I'm getting tired of losing all of the big battles,\" said Satan, before taking a big swig of Keystone Light. He was wearing an old flannel shirt and loose jeans. \n\n\"You've won plenty, bud. Plus, without a bad guy, what fun is the show?\" Asked God, who waved two fingers to the bartender who appeared to be ig... | 1 | |
This was a dream I had some years ago that I think about from time to time. It's my first time posting so I hope I didn't break any rules by being too vague or restrictive. I'm curious to see what you all come up with. Godspeed! | [WP] You wake up in the middle of the night to find your mother sobbing uncontrollably in the living room. Looking out the back window you notice that the sky is glowing a dull red, creating a strange Crimson 'daylight'. | [
"\"Mom?\" She only sobbed louder in response, wailing unintelligibly between breaths. It terrified me. But I was fourteen and a half, so I knew I had to figure out what had upset her so I could keep her safe. I went to the hallway and leaned out, glancing one way then the other. No bad guys or monsters in sight.\n\... | 2 |
[WP] You go back in time to stop a major catastrophe. It doesn't take long to realize the catastrophe is needed. | [
"Some people say crime is needed to acknowledge the problems existing in society. Maybe catastrophe is needed to end the current humanity and rebuild a fresh, new society from thereupon. Like Noah's ark.\n\nBut the problem is, no one is willing to die, and everyone wants to be Noah. Noah has the sole power who's go... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a superhero. Your nemesis is bent on conquering the world and has you in his grips. As he explains his plans for world domination and his plans after, you begin to realize, he might actually be onto something... | [
"\"Want help?\" I smile, knowing the interruption will catch him off guard. Indeed it does, sending him whirling towards me. \n\n\"What did you just say?\" He nearly stammered, trying so desperately to keep his poise.\n\n\"I wasn't aware you were deaf, but I asked if you wanted help.\"\n\n\" is... this a joke?\" He... | 2 | |
I've always wondered what the description of human beings would be from someone who has no idea what we are. | [WP] You are an alien documenting planet life. You come across a small planet called Earth, inhabited by primitive carbon-based life forms, of whom one species seem to be the most advanced. You need to describe it and it's relation to other species. | [
"*Camera shows a Water Park*\n\nNarrator: \"It seems their most advanced species has domesticated others for it'S amusement and to provide food.\"\n\n*Dolphins chitter*\n\nNarrator: \"Also they are very courteous always thanking their pi-pedal land-dwelling servants for the fresh fish\"\n\n*Camera cuts to NYC*\n\n... | 2 |
[WP] When you turn 21, the way you see yourself becomes reality. i.e. you daydream about being a vampire hunter or you live your favorite video game | [
"The world is a will and representation. Schopenhauer's ideas came true. At the age of 21, your reality changes to what you want it to be. Some people choose to become vampire hunters or mighty warriors. Other choose to life a long and beautiful live, just like the ones from fairytales. It said, that when the time ... | 1 | |
[WP] Using stuffed animals and children's toys as characters, write a post-apocalyptic story. | [
"The wind blew strongly against Woody's arms, as he slowly made his way across the desolate highway. Cars laid abandoned around him, their paint already stripped away by the radioactive wind, leaving only their frame. Behind him, another figure followed closely. The name Buzz Lightyear was emblazoned across his dir... | 1 | |
[WP] The totally consensual union between the Dark Lord and the Goddess of Fertility was supposed to produce a being of immense power. Instead, he got..... this. | [
"The birth was the event of the year. Anyone who was everyone was there: powerful magic-users, gods and goddesses, elemental forces of nature. It was done at the finest magical birthing ward in the Celestial Hospital. The Goddess of Birth was there, as was the Goddess of Medicine, to assist with the labor. A gaggle... | 4 | |
[WP] In a world where future time is bought and sold, people repeat the same day until they've earned enough to purchase tomorrow. | [
"Wake up and turn the alarm clock off; rub my eyes and get out of bed; go to the bathroom and brush my teeth; *frozen in time, why do we live?*; eat the breakfast I always do; public transit, go to work; *the cost to advance, $400, it's the reality we all must face*; the monotonous job we always do; only making the... | 4 | |
[WP] In a world where robots have achieved artificial intelligence and are sentient, there are only so many good jobs left. You are a Robot Therapist | [
"Robots kept getting more complex. It wasn't just the way they looked, the human ones with their synthetic stretchy, self repairing skin complete with blemishes and wrinkles, realistic artificial hair, lifelike movement and expressions, or those of all possible shapes and sizes covered with everything from metal t... | 2 | |
[WP] You are the owner of a large garbage company by day, world's greatest blackmail artist by night. | [
"My dad left me everything. His death was not unexpected, but the transfer of power was. His guys don’t know what to make of this, and honestly, neither do I. Walking around his office I pick up the invoices and files on his desk. I look intently at a few, tracing my fingers over the dollar amounts. Extra lawn clip... | 1 | |
[WP]Can I just get a good horror from the villain perspective? | [
"I smile softly to myself as I watch her enter her Prius, unaware of the great Blessing that would be upon her soon. They never quite understand at first; they get scared, and why wouldn't they? Transformation is a frightening concept. But it is my duty, as the Chosen, to help them Transform.\n\nI wait until her... | 1 | |
+ Optional: You accidentally drop one and a person appears when it shatters | [WP] You find a box full of glass balls with names on them | [
"You hear the blaring of your alarm clock as you wake up, and groggily reach over to silence it. As you fight to open your eyes, you look to the time displayed on the red digital screen. You already know what time it is, but you just want something to focus on while you prepare yourself for the task of getting out ... | 2 |
[WP] Surfing around, you find an auction webpage for items that sound a lot like SCPs. | [
"The lazy Sunday afternoon. Filled with boredom. The sun rays shined into a golden hue keep at bay with the darkness in Jim's house. He wanted to sleep more just to forget his daily routine he had to go back to tomorrow. The covers sprawled across his bed barely covering his body his pillow suck between the wall an... | 1 | |
[WP] Despite the horror stories online, you've reluctantly decided to become a landlord. You have been invited to a meeting of local landlords to be taught the dos and don'ts. This job is not what it first seemed like. | [
"The voice boomed from the pulpits tiny PA system: \"Alright, everyone, settle down, settle down. I'd like to...yes, they are pretty good, aren't they? Susie? Susie Morris, where are...Dan wants to know what you put in these brownies, they are...yes, they're fantastic. A round of applause for Susie's brownies, ever... | 1 | |
[WP] Each droplet that fell from the sky was glittering like a diamond, pure and clean. | [
"Each droplet that fell from the sky was glittering like a diamond, pure and clean.\n\nVery much like the thoughts that visited Jim's head - wholesome, wonderful ideas that would sometimes come in a downpour of exquisite clarity about life and purpose. But he knew it never lasted, never for long aside from those mo... | 4 | |
[WP]A nuclear apocalypse has started and the new currency is plastic bags. Thank god you stored so many in your house. | [
"All this time I thought my parents had such flawed logic when they insisted on keeping all of our plastic bags. They obviously tried to convince me it was to protect the environment, but why wouldn't we have just used reusable bags then? Something never seemed quite right about their arguments, but now I'm really ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the subject of the world's first successful cryogenic experiment, and you wake up to a world ruled by... | [
"part two? yes? no? maybe?\n\"He's still glassed!\"\n\"well un-glass him, dumbass.\"\n\"right. Reheating pod, reforming extracellular matrix, revitalizing inter organs, applying electrochem-\"\n\"I think we got it, dumbass.\"\nI wake up with a jolt. Quite literally, I can feel every neuron fire, every synapse light... | 8 | |
(If you want to say what the song was, tell us as a reply to your story!) | [WP] Your prompt is the first line of the last song you heard. | [
"The rain made a pattering sound on Bethany's umbrella. She had to hold it with a certain grip she had never used in conjunction with an umbrella, as the wind made an annoying low moan when it ungracefully passed her ears. *shitty day shitty weather* Bethany made a quick left into the coffee shop, mostly to get out... | 2 |
[WP] Hatred is a poison. | [
"\"Hatred is a poison. A very virulent one at that\"\n\nThe Apothecary placed a small vial of strange substance. Sometimes green, as the color of envy, scarlet as the color of blood, and at times the murkiest of black. It constantly bubbled and hissed inside it's glass phial with a cork and red was seal, stamped wi... | 1 | |
[WP] Four years ago a mystic told you that you'd die when you heard a certain song. You've successfully avoided it by eliminating all radio, MP3s, and CDs. It's your senior prom and you're with the prettiest date you could imagine. The song comes on for the final slow dance. | [
"It was drastic, and pathetic.\n\n2 years ago i was warned that if i ever heard a specific song, it would be the day i die.\n\nSo when i took charlene's hand for the last dance and heard it start i took action to save my self and in doing so ended up causing my own death.\n\nI thought every copy of that song had be... | 1 | |
[WP] The stork really brings babies to people; the only form of birth control is to fight the stork, but the stork knows every form of fighting there is. | [
"“So you’ve come” Mary had her back to the visitor.\n“There are consequences to any action and in your case. I’ve come to deliver” \t\nA glint of a knife and Mary was at the storks throat. The stork executed a neosque dodge and swept Mary off her feet\n“You should have thought of this before you decided to…copul... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a love story in a world where humans are only sexually attracted to each other between May and July, the way bears are. | [
"I hated Spring; \"The Golden Gay Time\" people called it, but this period of time between May and July was truly a dumb season filled with dumb people. Not that the other seasons were filled with any less dumb people, but Spring made people absolutely unbearable. Businesses would shut down, utilities would stop, h... | 3 | |
[WP] You are a wizard whose power comes from using correct grammar. | [
"\"I am a wizard. I am a wizard. I am a wizard.\" I repted or and or. I nod it'd be all I sayed for the rest of me life and I woned if it'd drive me craze or if I alr'd was. \"I am a wizard. I am a wizard. I am a wizard.\" I usd cast speels at I ad to perfet word; stuff like \"I lift my hand up and take aim. I summ... | 1 | |
[WP] Not too far in the future, students attend school for 14 hours per day. They learn everything from the government, including moral lessons and taxes. The change isn't because of some government conspiracy, it's because parents voted to relieve their parental duties to the school system | [
"I couldn't understand it at first. Why, if you decided to have a child, would you want them to spend the majority of their time stuck in a classroom being spoon fed information by the government? It didn't really sit well with me. \n\nI still remember the referendum. It happened around five years ago now. It all s... | 1 | |
[WP] "You know I've never been one to dance around the point, honey. You need to stop the necromancy." | [
"Look. We need to talk. \n\nI just want, before we start, to lay some ground-rules for the discussion. Like the counsellor said. \n\nWell, one good one would be that we should only talk about the main topic. No bringing up stuff from the past. \n\nYes, like my secretary.\n\nNothing happened. \n\nI've told you a tho... | 1 | |
[WP] Children shows are actually different worlds that exist in the same universe. For the first time, they are gearing for war. | [
"It happened on March 5th, 1999.\n\nA bomb exploded in Lakewood Elementary, killing hundreds. \n\nA terrorist group named \"Clubhouse\" claimed responsibility for the attack, and their country Disney were behind the funding.\n\nPBS allied with CW, who already hated Disney for years.\n\nDisney called in Cartoon Netw... | 1 | |
[WP] All life on earth came from bacteria that was deposited by an alien filling up his water bottle. One day he realises he left his wallet there. | [
"Zarthan cursed, and cursed again, searching his ship for the wallet he was certain he had had in his possession just a few days ago before stopping at a small, rocky planet that was starting to stabilise geologically around a yellow star.\nNo use. It was gone. He started to think this sightseeing trip was going to... | 2 | |
[WP] The water poacher has come to Bitterwater Ranch. | [
"Hannah's eyes struggled against the intense light. The equipment and walls were painted white, amplifying the already harsh adjustment. She had been hiding out in a disused storage area, but enough time had passed since she heard any footfalls that she assumed it must be safe.\n\nAn old Camelbak was strapped to he... | 1 | |
[WP] After quite some time in the game Sims, you make a scary discovery. What happens to your sims, happens in real life. | [
"My favorite game as a kid was the Sims. I always made my favorite characters and made ships sail. When I grew up and got in a relationship and made friends, I always made us and built us a cute house. But usually I'd end up giving up and not play through to watch us actually interact. \n\nThen one day, I made my c... | 1 | |
[WP] You're the grim reaper... but for cats. | [
"\"BIRD!\" the kitten shouted as he launched himself from where he'd been hiding in the bushes. He didn't really want to catch the bird, but scaring them was fun.\n\nThe bird took to the air, unable to gain altitude quickly enough and Mittens thought he might actually be able to grab a tail feather or two. That'd... | 1 | |
[WP] Humanity makes pills that make it so no one has to sleep. After forgetting to take your pills, you are the first person to doze off in several hundred years. | [
"It's a weird feeling; seeing your own body laying there lifelessly on the floor. I should have known this would happen, that one day I would forget and it would be too late. I knew something was wrong when I was sitting there on my couch and at first i didnt realize it, i mean how does one realize they are feeling... | 1 | |
[WP] "Names are made to be spoken." | [
"My mother is still at work, but my father is at the table. He leans in his chair like a kid my age and his hazel eyes rest on the pages of a small paperback book that reclines in the slope of his left hand. The San Francisco sun tints the tablecloth a golden hue as the afternoon draws into the evening. \n\nI promp... | 2 | |
[WP] Two different alien races have picked Earth as the place where they will make first contact with each other. Humans are told to stay out of Kansas. | [
"\"And now Graham gets ready to shoot, and..... it goes in! IT GOES IN! THE JAYHAWKS WIN!\"\n\nThe crowd at Hilton Coliseum in Ames Iowa was a stunned, but Joe Hammel was happy. Joe and his son Cody had driven up to meet some friends in Des Moines for the weekend and headed up to Ames to watch their beloved Kansas ... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a cyborg in a high school trying to blend in. Only problem is some of your implants start acting up at bad times. | [
"TS81A was an S class cyborg designed to be the perfect high school student so that he could use his influence to spread government propaganda into the malleable minds of the younger generation. Equipped with lightning fast reflexes, extraordinary intelligence, and unparalleled physical aptitude it would be easy fo... | 1 | |
[WP] "I gave up my sadness, so I don't feel sad anymore." | [
"I found her in the woods. The woman with the ethereal cloak and translucent skin. The pale face that wore no melancholy, yet had the very aesthetic of a distant longing.\n\nWhere else would I have found her? This is not the sort of thing--person you would find under a streetlight or leaning through the doorway of ... | 1 | |
[WP] It was quite the spectacle, really. | [
"Blue. That's all he saw. Her eyes were blue. \n\nEven as the world crumbled around them. Even as tongues of smoke and flames filled the skies as the dragon kept at bay by the large mountain roared it's revenge, it's ultimatum, they were calm. Smiling. \n\nHe roared. The dragon. The man reminisced in fallen sands a... | 1 | |
[WP] The year is 3126, and mankind has scouted across hundreds of thousands of light years in search of similar sentient life forms, only to discover that they may truly be alone in their universe and all others. That is, until they come across a guy named Tim. | [
"We left our home world when we discovered how our ignorance of our planet affected our lives. It was not a course of action to save the planet, but rather\nourselves. The first to leave were high authority figures. Presidents, prime ministers, kings and queens. I remember so vividly seeing the first;\nmy eyes draw... | 3 | |
[WP] You wake up the day after a bachelor party. You are on the moon. | [
"“Uh, Houston, we have a problem.” \n\n“What is it this time Armstrong? Did Buzz take your dessert again?”\n\n“More serious than that Houston. Uh, it looks like the Russians beat us to the moon after all.”\n\n“Sorry Armstrong, repeat that. It just sounded like you said there’s something on the moon.”\n\n“Houston, s... | 4 | |
EDIT: *One dragon finally wonders why. Stupid typo
I think this might be an interesting take on the dragon/knight/princess story. | [WP] Since time immemorial, dragons have been kidnapping princesses. On dragon finally wonders why. | [
"'Grandad, why do we kidnap princess's?'\n\nGrimclaw opened his large reptilian eye, the saucer sized pupil expanding and contracting as it adjusted to the bright noon day sun. Taking in a deep breath, the sunlight shimmering brilliantly off the emerald green scales of his expanding torso, he exhaled slowly. \n\n'A... | 2 |
[WP] The second coming of Jesus happens during rush hour in Manhattan, everyone is annoyed. | [
"It was bad enough that I was already late. Traffic was backed up all the way across the Brooklyn Bridge. I wasn't even halfway across it when the clock struck eight thirty. And when I finally made it across, the heavens opened and shat out a beam of light, which landed some forty feet from my car.\n\nAnd then came... | 1 | |
[WP] The future is here! And it's convenient and affordable! | [
"\"Welcome to McDonald's!\"\n\nThe line disappears from my retina display.\n\n\"Would you like to set a calorie limit for today's eat-in?\"\n\nYes.\n\n\"How much?\"\n\n900 calories, please.\n\n\"Thank you! Based on your previous dining experiences, these are your recommended options.\"\n\nOption 2.\n\n\"Thank you f... | 1 | |
[WP] Magic exists. It's just quite subtle. | [
"John blows out a sigh while we are playing DnD.\n\n\" It is not supposed to be like this. \" He said, following after with my confusing face.\n\n\" What ? \"\n\n\" Magic. \" \" It is not supposed to be like this. \"\n\nJohn Krauger, an anthropologist, also a secret cult member and a half-of-an-ass mage, saying som... | 1 | |
[WP] Time has forgotten music, Then one day someone stumbles across The Beatles: Abbey Road. | [
"“John pissed his bed again, sheets are in the wash,” I said, buttoning my shirt. Marilyn's acknowledging half smile weighed heavier on me this morning – another sizzling coal within. “Alright,” I nodded, “off to work now.”\n\nI spent my commute imaging the reprimand I’d receive for my third tardy this week. The... | 1 | |
[WP] If you have depression you live in the past, if you have anxiety you live in the future. What happens when you have both? | [
"I could feel new hearts starting to develop in my chest, each beating a second after the last and looping, \"I shouldn't exist, I shouldn't be alive. What's going to happen now?\" I asked nervously to a government agent across the table who was questioning me. \"Ma'am, it's not as uncommon as you think. It just do... | 1 | |
[WP]: The first time you met your father, you were twenty years old and he was stuck in a bird cage in your mentor's office. "I can explain", he said, and tried. | [
"\"But sir,\" I said, sidestepping the greatsword coming down toward my head. \"When do I find out what my destiny is?\"\n\n\"The purpose to which a Chosen One is called is revealed at the exact moment it is supposed to be, and not a minute sooner,\" Oraf answered, dislodging his over-sized sword from the patch of ... | 1 | |
[WP]: Your band has written a new song, playing it live has summoned someone, or something. | [
"It was just a sound. It was an accident really. We were playing our usual set. Trying to get it right. I made this sound with my guitar. Half playing. Half grazing the strings. The sound gave me a sudden burst of energy. We all felt it. A gust of wind ran through us. \n\nWe were in the garage. \n\nThe windows were... | 1 | |
[WP] You've lived on an island all by yourself for over a year. You decide to venture to the other side, and are surprised by what you find. | [
"9:37 am, April 16 2018\nAnother tally another day, it's been about 497 days since I've been stuck on this shit mound of on island. I have finally found enough resources to venture further perhaps even to the other side. I pack up the items I've salvaged from the plane and food I've found from the forest and head o... | 8 | |
I have to admit I got chills just thinking of this prompt. | [WP] You are on your return flight after a business trip when one of the engines explode and tears off a wing. Tell the story of your decent. | [
"“Good afternoon. Welcome to Flight 654 to Little Rock, Arkansas. Today’s flight will be three hours long. Please pay attention…” The flight attendant continued on with her speech with a tone that was just absolutely drenched with fake happiness but I stopped paying attention, shoving earbuds in. Dani California fl... | 1 |
[WP] "I thought I lost you once. I won't let it happen a second time..." | [
"She stood there, waiting, watching the motionless form lying in the bed in front of her. The soft beep of a heart monitor intruding her every thought. She wondered how things got to this point. What he did to deserve this? The events leading up to this were a whirlwind of unfortunately happenings, and recalling... | 1 | |
[WP] You are an inventor and have finally created a device that can bring people back from the dead. | [
"A man stood on the stage. He would later win many awards, including a Nobel. At the moment though, he just had to convince his audience that he wasn't crazy. He began to speak.\n\n\"Anyone who knows a bit of physics knows that the laws of physics are reversible. If you know the present state of the world, not only... | 1 | |
[WP] A Disney princess who can't sing. Her attempts sound like a dying walrus. But halfway through the story she discovers she raps like hell. | [
" ‘I won’t lie to you, Pamela: you can’t sing. At all. Not a bit,’ her father said. \n\n‘But Daddy… I’m a princess… I *have* to sing,’ she responded.\n\n‘Well…’ he said. ‘Perhaps we can… find something *else* for you to do? Wouldn’t that be fun? Doing something else? Literally *anything* else?’\n\n‘But I want to si... | 3 | |
[WP] You are a cryptid hunter in Oregon during the 1800s, hunting the illusive Hide-Behind through the treacherous forests. | [
"March 9th, 1859.\n\nIt's wet, that's all I have to say about the weather. It's raining, it's going to rain some more, and after that it's going to rain again. The forest pine trees don't give much cover either, but Papa says it'll be all worth it. \n\nPapa says he's figured it out, that he's finally going to be ab... | 1 | |
[WP] A man has a magic pocket from which he can get anything he wants. One day he makes a mistake and pulls death from his pocket. | [
"Here I am, in the last corner in the Earth that hasn't been touched by the plague. Yet. I can see it through the window, the clouds, the shadows, death itself. Well, at least I won't have to deal with my miserable self anymore. I had lost my job and my hobbies have no purpose now. Life is hard for a retired reaper... | 4 | |
Wait how is a kid going to kill a dragon? | [WP] “Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.” ― G.K. Chesterton | [
"Wings, flying, fire for breath. Kids love dragons. They lived on beds of gold and jewels. No homework, no rules, just juice boxes, video games and beating up fancy adults in armor. Total role reversal. It was like being an airplane but better. \n\nMy youngest squared up against the family dog. He held his fingers ... | 3 |
[WP] You're an alien tasked with establishing first contact with the dominant species of Earth. Unfortunately, you're mistaken as to whom the dominant species is. | [
"\"Commander, the required 100 years of observation have passed. What is your suggested method of action towards the dominant species of Earth, now that we are permitted to act?\"\n\n\nThe commander turned to his subordinate, barely feeling the weight of his 436 years. He was old by now, he knew, but there was stil... | 2 | |
[WP] Write about an apocalypse that's actually kinda pleasant. | [
"\"Good afternoon, Mr. Fawkes,\" said the pale man in an impeccably tailored coat. \"We need to talk.\"\n\nRoland Fawkes blinked incredulously at the sudden arrival on his doorstep. \"Who're you?\" He asked after a few moments of confusion.\n\n\"It's a long story, Mr. Fawkes. May I come in?\"\n\nRoland scrutinized ... | 3 | |
[WP] Please write a fantasy story that explains it's magic/creatures/phenomena from a scientific perspective. Scientific magical world building is the best thing. | [
"*Author's Note: Not sure if this fits the prompt exactly, but saw this as an opportunity to play around with a setting for a story I'm working on.*\n\nThe old man walked alongside the large huntsman, somehow keeping pace despite his old age. Eldgrim watched the staff the man carried. He was too far away to make th... | 2 | |
[WP] You've always known you were adopted, but you've recently learned your parents are actually alien fugitives hiding out on Earth. | [
"*Two ways to interpret this; I chose this one.*\n\n---\n\nMy parents are very cool people. Not my bios - they kind of ditched me, you know? Not very nice of them, but hey, I understand. Shit happens.\n\nNo, my parents were pretty rad. Part of that, of course, was that they used the word 'rad' all the time. They wo... | 2 | |
[WP] You have been teleported back in time to the Middle Ages. All you brought with you was a printed out version of Wikipedia in its entirety. Who are you, where are you, what do you do and why? | [
"Boxes upon boxes upon boxes. On last estimate, before the teleportation, there were 3000 volumes, stacked ten to a box. Three hundred cardboard boxes filled with the entirety of the contents of Wikipedia. In the middle of the woods. At least I'd landed at a crossroads. A wooden sign posted at the fork in the road... | 1 | |
[WP]You haven't cleaned your room & your mother is pissed, slapping you literally into next week. You discover you can time travel forward into the future but only through physical violence inflicted upon yourself by others. One day you decide to kill yourself. | [
"After being successfully murdered by myself I open my eyes and find myself floating in nothing. I look around and it's nothing but dark. I try moving around, and although I feel myself moving but I seem to be going nowhere. \nSuddenly, I realise that I have no body!\nWhat is happening? Is this a dream? Soon I sta... | 2 | |
[A comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/5xbrn7/i_was_in_a_locked_in_a_saudi_jail_for_four_days/deh5jod/) I made in another thread, submitted as suggested by /u/buddyupinatree. Have fun. | [WP] Look who's never been to the sovereign island nation of Pleasure Murderland. You really must go. Well I mean you should pay to go; it's not as fun for those who must go. | [
"Prince Hubert Sylas von Duskwater, simply Sylas as he preferred, or Princess Sylian to those outside the palace walls until his birthday, had not been expecting to be taken to the sovereign nation of Pleasure Murderland. \n\nForcefully. \n\nHe'd been looking forward to going when he was twenty-one next year, a tri... | 1 |
[WP] A world destroying, interstellar serial killer makes first contact with an unsuspecting Earth. Their method is to "test" intelligent life: sending no communications except blueprints for a device that will destroy the planet if heedlessly created by a tech-hungry species. | [
"The planet hovered serenely in front of my starship. Clouds swiftly cruised over its surface, which was filled with various continents and oceans. It harbored a bonanza of life, which just so happened to include intelligent life. It had built sprawling cities, filled with advanced technology, for their time at lea... | 2 | |
[WP] It's been a month since your parents were killed in a car accident. You receive an envelope with a key to a safety deposit box. When you open the box, you find a letter, a tiny bottle of pixie dust, three gold coins, and a strange birth certificate with your name on it. | [
"Michael studied the golden wax seal placed perfectly in the center of the envelope. It displayed what he also saw in front of him: three thick golden coins surrounding a tiny bottle. Michael scratched his head and looked towards the portly gentleman who had guided him to the box. \"Are you sure this is the right o... | 1 | |
[WP] "Poor guy, he went from predator to victim in the span of thirty seconds," remarked the detective as he lit another cigarette. | [
"The detective's phone buzzed on the desk. He picked it up and stared at it. Coroner. Again. He flicked the phone open and said a clipped \"hello.\"\n\"Can you come over? I know it's --\"\n\"The time is irrelevant, sir.\" His voice was like sandpaper. \"I'll be there.\" He poured a whiskey, lukewarm, and downed it.... | 1 | |
[WP] Part of this world, part of another | [
"He was loading the rest of the vessel with various boxes, crates of all sorts and sizes. Most of the other longshoremen weren't wondering what he was doing out in the sea alone, they had seen enough of them. \"Two crates toothpaste, half crate brush, another three crates candy bars.\" The hired help raised his e... | 3 | |
[WP]In a world ruled by sentient cats the Nyaakuza has begun encroaching on Meowfia territory. | [
"Tony liked basements.\n\nThey were usually small. Low ceilings. Lots of smells. Kinda place that a cat could take a nap, if one were so inclined, or just eat the head off a mouse and play with the body.\n\nBut this basement had other cats in it. One was a foreign cat, with pointy ears and a long neck. And Tony did... | 1 | |
[WP] humans are completely average. They are not exceptional at anything in particular, and they're pretty much on par with all the other species in the galaxy. | [
"\"We have your ship surrounded,\" Captain Darrell said to the four-armed alien standing opposite her. Salva, its name was. Commander Salva.\n\n\"I am aware,\" it replied. \"You have won this battle.\"\n\nDarrell was startled by the statement. Gryphians were known to be the second most stubborn race, first place go... | 1 | |
I realize this sounds like an /r/AskReddit question, but write a story about the worst day of your (character's) life. | [WP] "What happened on the worst day of your life?" | [
"Somewhere in the back of my mind, I knew everything was just absolutely fucked.\n\nNot just regular \"*Oh, this sure is getting pretty bad*\" or \"*I think I smell something burning.*\" \n\nNo, this was worse. In the back of my mind there was no avoiding it. I had all the pieces of the puzzle, I'd solved it and de... | 1 |
[WP] A note is slipped under your door; your closet door. | [
"I don't know what they are.\n\nWhen you think of monsters, you imagine the familiar - werewolves, zombies, or maybe vampires. The kind of monsters you see in movies and games. It's a natural reaction. Not many people can imagine the really uncomfortable or frightening kind, nor do they want to. I certainly couldn'... | 4 | |
[WP] The devil tries to convince God why humans need Mortality. | [
"\"Theyre not like you.\"\n\n\"What's that supposed to mean?\"\n\n\"Your peace is a product of omnipitence. When you see and know everything, you come to understand the objective order of the universe. You know every rule and every limitation. Nothing can catch you off guard and therefore nothing can make you quest... | 1 | |
[WP] A ship floats through space with only the ship's AI and a service droid on board. It begins receiving cryptic messages. | [
"*not really sure how I ended up responding to this*\n\n---\n\nThe Cycle runs.\n\nOne, two, three- three thousand steps, three hundred thousand, and it is complete. \n\nThe Cycle is satisfied. Not in the way a sentient being might be satisfied, with a sensation of warmth slowly tingling through or a feeling of elat... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a character based on a real person, but don't make it obvious and we (me and other commenters) will try to guess it! Describe their appearance, personality, and other traits. | [
"This character has been embodied countless roles in his lifetime. He has been on ships that never reached their destination, a slave trader in the south. This character often has spent time wandering around others dreams for profit. He has been a diagnosed psychopath as well as a self made millionaire. He was once... | 1 | |
[WP] You find yourself face to face with none other than yourself then everything goes black. You wake up to the sound of a knife sharpening and then there was a deafening silence, an ominous, nerve-wracking stillness where you could hear your own blood flowing through your veins. | [
"\"This is payback\" a voice says \n\nI'm thrown over the table, knocking over my half eaten take out, and hit the wall. As my opponent releases an uncontrolled cough.\n\n\"I was gonna eat that when I was done with you damn it.\" I say\n\nThe hooded figure stands above me as I make out a familiar smirk on his face.... | 1 | |
[WP] "What's the status? Your ship is cursed, your crew is insane, and everyone out there wants us dead." | [
"I awoke groaning, my body throbbing with the motion of the ocean. \"What the hell happened?\"\n\n\"What's the status? Your ship is cursed, your crew is insane, and everyone out there wants us dead.\"\n\nWhere did that voice come from?\n\n\"Open this blasted drawer!\" a voice boomed. It sounded vaguely like my firs... | 1 | |
[WP] NASA brodcasts pi (π) to space to prove that we are a smart and intelligent species. After a while, a giant humongous perfect circle disc was hovering over the Earth.Humans were sent in to investigate. What they have found was friendly Type 2 Civilization FTL capable alien species. | [
"For millennia they turned their ears to the black silence above. When they invented telescopes, they looked up. When they invented antennae, they listened farther. Spurred by hope that they were not alone, they searched through every corner of the sky for evidence that something, somewhere was alive.\n\n\nWhen the... | 1 | |
[WP] Your dog runs away for a week. He comes back with a note attached to his collar. | [
"He ran off at nine, \nHe was gone for an hour. \nHe focused his mind and he summoned the power \n\nTo pick up a pen \nUsing only his paws \nAnd he turned up again with a note at my door: \n\n\"You'll double the walks, \nAnd you'll triple the grub, \nYou'll quadruple the time that my belly gets rubbed.\" \... | 1 | |
[WP]There are two groups of people. Those who know the elixir of youth and those who think it's a deadly poison. | [
"“We've got everything ready now!” yells a young boy to the small group of compatriots gathered with him on the floor of the kitchen. He raises the glass jug off the ground and into the air, its deep red contents sloshing wildly towards the open mouth. “We have our elixir of youth!”\n\nThe boy struggles to pour the... | 1 | |
Based on a corridor digital video. | [WP] A wizard overdoses on potions. Now his vomit is magic. | [
"“Why couldn’t you have been a hero, like your brother?”\n\nPith pushed the nagging voice out of his head. Now is not the time, mom. He wiped the sweat, grime, and fluorescent spittle from his forehead, and tried to focus on the slack-jawed face in front of him.\n\n“C’mon buddy, we need to know what you took.”\n\... | 1 |
[WP] One day you find glasses which enable you to see all wavelengths of light. | [
"It happened by accident, honestly. \n\nIt was Thursday. I was out in the park, walking my dog and minding my screen. A crack in the pavement caused me to trip. I managed to catch myself on my knee, but my glasses went flying into the pavement. I heard the crack of glass and the dread of the situation set in. I did... | 1 | |
[WP] You're an angry poltergeist, but instead of throwing things, you can only leave passive aggressive notes. | [
"Day 1: Perfect house in Philadelphia, old Victorian, Homer told me this would be a good place to haunt for my first day, as it's got that \"eerie\" look about it. Will update soon.\n\nDay 3: New couple moved in, Laura and John. Newlyweds who married at 24, that's cute. Will start leaving notes soon and update.\n\n... | 1 | |
Also, pineapples. | [WP] In a world where everyone has superpowers, your superpower is to have a superpower that's so ridiculously complicated that it's completely pointless to even attempt to explain it, though everyone expects you to try anyways. | [
"\"I flip quarks.\" I said, but the glazed look in Merid's eyes said the explanation wasn't enough. It was *never* enough. So I added: \"And that makes things happen.\"\n\n\"But how does it make things happen?\" Merid demanded. \n\nMerid was the curious type it turned out. I set my jaw and let my head fall back aga... | 1 |
[WP] Who won? | [
"\"Captain! Captain, are you there?\" Eron stepped carefully as the others followed, each mindful of the blood and gore which soaked the ground. About the outpost, hundreds of green corpses lay in scattered conditions, some with arrows protruding chests and limbs, others with gashes or wounds, and others still with... | 1 | |
[WP]There are many gods and beings nobody has ever heard of lost in time and there are no myths about them. Write A Myth about them. | [
"(Bearing in mind, this is from my phone) \n\nFrom the God of war, to the God of the sky, i've always assumed these Gods to be the epicentre of humanity; from primitive beginnings to an unexpected awakening... but they forgot about me. I've always been there to show them the path, but I'm too slow; it's little to w... | 3 | |
[WP] Write a road trip story from three perspectives. The driver, the hitchhiker, and the person tied up in the trunk. | [
"Driver - Jack\n ----------------------------------------------\nI blinked, taking a left onto Albury Lane. I felt horrible, having to tie up one of my best friends- and admittedly my crush- in the trunk. But it was for his own good, after all, I couldn't fit him in the back. I knew he... | 2 | |
[WP] In your mailbox every night, insects of all kind perform a Satanic ritual. One night, you come home late from a party and remember that you forgot to take out today's mail. | [
"\"Thanks guys! See you later, thanks for the ride back!\" I slurred. I was most definitely drunk, and not fully prepared for what was ahead. What happened due to these creatures, however small they were, should not have been classified as a small occurrence by whatever Orkin \"professional exterminator\" the landl... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a minor enemy in a video game. The protagonist reaches your level and is taking out colleagues around you, but misses you before moving on. | [
"I visited the Butcher's after the Mountain Hall fell. The king had been slain by a Paladin of the highest rank, leaving a stench that rivalled the backside of an Ork Warboss. Gobsmacka was in \"surjery,\" so I looked around for other gobbo guards. Matz, Knivz and Teeni were all that was left of the few goblins ... | 1 | |
[WP] The year is 1969. Aliens are headed to Mars to look for humans, but make a stop on the moon to have a picnic. Apollo 11 lands, and we don't know who is more confused. | [
"One lovely Sunday afternoon in the pitch black Moon.\n\nA team of three young earthly astronauts land a strange object. Everything around them is in the most secretly loud silence.\n\nTwo days go by and finally two of them get out of the ship. They set foot on the moon in a innocuous fashion with some strange and ... | 3 | |
wow I'm stupid, meant to put that there a murderer with you lol | [WP] You're trapped in a Toys r Us from midnight to 8AM and you can only protect yourself using what's in the store. | [
"Unicorns are fucking dangerous. No, not the supposedly real kind, but the plastic figures that you occasionally give to children before pulling it out of their hands before they try to eat it. The plastic horns on those things are sharp, especially those from the \"Wondertainment\" brand. Being locked in a Toys R'... | 2 |
[WP] Your only superpower is to inherently know precisely what superpowers and skills other people have. | [
"If the girl across the study area was trying to be subtle, she wasn’t doing a very good job. Lisa had noticed her since she entered the university library. The girl kept stealing glances over the magazine she was reading and she even switched seats when someone else had sat in her line of view of Lisa. Lisa ranked... | 2 |
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