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Based on an actual pot I saw at goodwill. Cheers! | [WP] Write the story of a small cooking pot that looks like it's gone through hell and back. | [
"'Your pot is disgusting. You are disgusting.' She said. 'You should throw it out already.'\n\n'What, this thing?' I banged the cooking pot with my spoon. 'Not a chance. This thing would survive a nuclear apocalypse!'\n\n'So would cockroaches!' \n\n'Listen, this is not up for debate. The pot stays. It's a family he... | 1 |
[WP] You buy A unique glass chess set and upon returning home, you set up the game and make a few moves for fun having nobody else to play with you leave it be, these moves have a direct connection with real life people and events | [
"Frank looked down at the frosted chess set. He'd picked up the set at a car boot yesterday afternoon for a steal, and set it up last night, going through the opening moves. He grimaced as he moved the black bishop to take the white queen. It hadn't been the best game for the whites, but he was only playing against... | 1 | |
[WP] Desperate bedside prayers and forbidden love... | [
"Tasha was asleep already. She was a lightweight at sleepovers, ever since they were little. Emma smiled to herself. Here Tasha was at 16 and still out like a light by nine. \n\nWith a pang of guilt, Emma recognized how beautiful Tasha looked. Her long, black hair was scattered across her pillow. Her soft lips were... | 1 | |
Don't care which. Just do it. | [WP] Write your own iteration of an ancient Greek/Roman myth/epic. | [
"“My friends, my countrymen!” bellowed Menelaus. “Lend me your ears!” The man walked around the inner ring of the amphitheatre, resplendent in a golden chlamys, a rectangle of purest white cloth dyed gold, fastened by a brooch on Menelaus’ right shoulder. All eyes followed King Menelaus, high lord of the kings of G... | 1 |
[WP] On a bet, a superhero and supervillain switch places for the day. | [
"It stood tall over the two men, dark and strong, powerful, its Eyes white. I'd heard the stories of course and they all said the same thing, If you'd done nothing wrong, you had Nothing to fear from the batman. \n\nBut much as I wanted to thank him to cry and gush at my saviour, he turned, and the way he moved...... | 1 | |
[WP] Instead of the witch hunts, church officials were hunted by sorcerers. It is now present day, how do you spend your days. | [
"The screams downstairs float in agony, begging to be heard, a suffering unfit for ears. My old age hits me and nostalgia breeches its gaps. My mind escapes to a time long ago. The screams float. The world bends, shimmers and breaks from memory.\n\n\nLong ago my people were servants of God. We spread His word. We d... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a ceo of a company that manufactures Mirrors, solar panels and you also have subsidiaries in a garlic farm and cross manufacturer, when one night a bunch of pale figures in all black with red eyes visit your office..... | [
"The man with the red eyes neither spoke nor stirred as he sat, arms folded, in the leather chair on the far side of my office. I don't know how he got into my office, or even how long he's been here, but when I looked up from my computer screen there he was... silently staring at me. The shadows of the room hiding... | 1 | |
[WP] A child playing outdoors finds a door in the middle of the woods. To anyone else, it's just a piece of abandoned wood, but with a bit of imagination... | [
"My childhood was a nightmare you remembered in painstaking detail and tried to forget. No one loved me. I was all alone. Until one day I walked into the woods. Further Further trying to get away from it all. After walking for hours on end I colapsed. My tired eyes spotted a small wooden door on a tree. I fell asle... | 1 | |
Anything that will cheer people up and make them happy :) | [WP] A happy story about a ghost and a student becoming friends. | [
"Alice and Olivia were the best of friends. Every day after school Olivia would wait for Alice at the crosswalk. She enjoyed their walks because it gave her a chance to hear about Alice's experiences with her classes and studies. Alice liked having the company of Olivia since she hadn't made many friends yet sin... | 1 |
[WP] I didn't have time. | [
"\"I thought you got it when you left the house?\" Larry started.\n\nI sat in a chair in the hospital waiting room looking at nothing in particular. Rubbing my forehead, \"I didn't have time. I got the call and I came right here.\" \n\nCheryl sat quietly as we waited for news. She called the ambulance; saw dad layi... | 2 | |
[WP] The knight goes to rescue the princess in the tower - but when he arrives, he finds that she is already dead | [
"He was known as the Rose Knight. \n\nHe carried a red rose in the fold of his gorget when he rode into battle and when he left, he was painted in blood. He was famed for a talent with the spear, the refinement of his appearance and for his loyalty towards the king. \n\nIt wasn't unsurprising that the princess of t... | 1 | |
[WP] Using one of your favorite songs as inspiration, tell me a story that utilizes the music as a soundtrack and/or is based off the lyrics. | [
"Am I too late OP?\n\nZina Lahr\n\nStick To Your Guns\n\nI’m running. I just know I have to get away. There was a man, a tall man with red-brown hair and black eyes. This was my first clue, No reumin naturally has those two features. He found his way into my lab where I was making my newest creation, a lightning gu... | 6 | |
[WP] You are a nameless soldier under an evil ruler, and you are desperatly trying to figure out how the hell you just killed the "hero". | [
"How had he done that? How had James Fallington VI managed to end the hero's quest? Initially James hadn't realized what he had done, he was just doing his job. Fallington was a low-ranking guard in Emperor Zarnak's army. He was posted on the northern gate connecting the Hallowed Lands to the Cursed Nation. James w... | 5 | |
[WP] You are a dying structural engineer who specialises in tunnels. On your deathbed, you see the light at the end of the tunnel, and notice several glaring design flaws. You storm off into the light to tell whatever deity is there that "No, no, no, this is all wrong!" | [
"Charles thought back on his life as he laid in the hospital bed. He smiled at his wife of 63 years, remembering all the happy times they shared. He looked at his children, now with families of their own, and how they continued to bring joy and wellness to the world. Finally, he thought about his contributions to c... | 2 | |
It all makes sense in context.
Right? | [WP] The world's most popular sport takes place in old Coliseum-style arenas. Inside the arena are several planks of wood, a small dog, 3 boxes full of Styrofoam flakes, a wide selection of costumes, an entire engine block, 4 children, and a mountain of marshmellows. | [
"The vuvuzelas blared out. Their sound nearly blotting out the noon day sun. The way your eyes shake when that infernal buzzing starts, and seemingly never stops, is something one must experience, truly. But it what was done and what always will be done to signal the commencement of the Third Day after the Second W... | 1 |
[WP] You're a super villain who's starting to lose your powers,and come to find out that you can recharge your powers by getting compliments. | [
"Steven looked at the pen across the room. He brought his hand up to his face and looked at it. He made a claw with his hand and let his mind wander to the pen. Steven thought and though, his brain straining with the effort. He opened his eyes, he had hardly realized he had closed them. He saw the pen floating no m... | 1 | |
[WP] You discover Reddit still works after a nuclear apocalypse. You start writing your first post - "TIFU by causing World War III" | [
"I'm never surprised at the fact I never fail to surprise myself doing stupid things, but this one [chuckle], I'm surprised this was even on the table.\n\nHey, I'm Adam, but you can call me AI, call me cory, anything you want. I re-birthed the earth today. Yes. No not destroyed. No, not ended the lives of billions.... | 4 | |
[WP] The hardest lesson a time traveler has to learn, is that sometimes you can do everything right, and still lose. | [
"*I thought it would all work out, but here I am standing in this barren wasteland again.*\n\nI'd like to tell you my story, if you don't mind. I'll be trying again soon, so the you that currently exists probably won't see me again in this timeline at least. \n\nIt began two years before today, or perhaps twelve ye... | 1 | |
[WP] Humans are known throughout the galaxy as the best diplomats because we harbor a dark secret: we still have multiple cultures and multiple religions. | [
"The council was convening. Several species would gather to discuss what should be done about the latest threat to known space. The arrival of a hostile, post singularity, species. \n\nFirst the lead Letharan diplomatt spoke. He twitched his ears and ran his claw through his mane as he angrilybegan.\n\n\"We have no... | 1 | |
[WP] In the style of a hardboiled 1930's film detective, solve a murder in the Roman Empire. | [
"I poured a glass of mead and took a deep, long drag from my tobacco pipe. \"I'm sorry Claudette, I can't help you,\" I said. She had a face that wasn't used to seeing men say no. Luckily, I knew how to look away.\n\nA tear rolled down Claudette's face – the woman knew how to get what she wanted. Claudette's da... | 3 | |
[WP] You go back in time to watch the big bang, only to discover that it was not only the start of our humanity, but the end of another. | [
"Everyone knew that the math didn't seem to match reality. Negative mass is not a thing, and that was simply that. Except according to the Equation it wasn't. At least half of the people on Project First Origin were only there in the first place because they were trying to prove that the equations were a bunch of n... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a time traveler sent back in time to stop a wedding. As the ceremony proceeds, it becomes clear that every other guest at the wedding is also a time traveler sent to stop the wedding, but all for different reasons. | [
"As I stand to object, I planned on a specific set of words to ruin the Bride and Grooms life's forever, but suddenly as i stood the other guest equally objected and stood in tandem, awkwardly staring at each other, the bride becomes livid and incredible distraught throws the flowers at the groom and leaves. One of... | 3 | |
[WP] You have just been granted immortality but as a cruel gesture, you are also cursed with being eternally poor. This is your struggle... | [
"The old man sits at the top of the mountain. Despite the heavy blindfold his head turns, mimicking the movements of the raptors wheeling high above him.\n\nAround him sit 8 others of various ages, all sworn to serve the Ageless One, all part of the Deal.\n\nPeople come up the mountain often, pilgrims to this hol... | 3 | |
[WP] You are an ordinary student who never even saw a gun or commited a crime in his life. One day a guy gives a note to you and runs. It says "be careful, they are coming and they won't stop". Next day, a sniper bullet shatters your window and barely misses you. Backstory time. | [
"\"What the fuck!\" I looked around to see where the sound came from, I saw the cracked window and hole in the ground and quickly made the connection as I heard a nother distant shot.\n\n\"Shit\" I yelled as I jumped from my computer chair over to the wall next to the window, the bullet grazed past my arm and hit t... | 1 | |
[WP] From a young age, everyone can teleport. You are one of the few who doesn't have this ability naturally... and you just figured out why. | [
"Dan couldn’t teleport. He had never been able to. It had upset his parents, cost him friendships and he had never been popular. Dan was like the kid you wanted to include but no one got along with and he just never fit in. You weren’t allowed to discriminatie against ABs. AB was slang for Non-Teleporting Individua... | 3 | |
[WP] Look I understand you have spent a lot of time preparing for this, but before we go in I need you to switch with me. | [
"\"Look, I understand you have spent a lot of time preparing for this, but before we go in a need you to switch with me\". \n\nLeah turned and stared in disbelief. \"You have got to be kidding me.\" It was a flat statement. \n\nSarah pressed on, \"Well, it's just that you saw all the action on the last one, and I g... | 1 | |
If you don't like the idea you can make the main hero replace the best friend's role. | [WP] Write a story where the narrator is drunk and his best friend is behind him trying to convince him to go home. | [
"\"You gonna get him under control?\" A particularly drunk or dumb man asked me. The smart and sober left the bar as soon as they saw a scavenger enter. Even most of the impaired had the sense to leave when the scavenger got visibly drunk. \n\nThe bar only had six people left in it. The nervous bartender, the drun... | 1 |
[WP] Deep down a hiking trail, you find and explore an unmarked side path. Before long, you are amazed to find an intact meteorite. Upon touching a small green crystal protruding from the meteorite, your mind is flooded with the entire knowledge and history of a far off alien race. | [
"Into the green wood he fell, for that is the way of young men looking for shortcuts. His feet slipped on the mossy rock, and he went crashing down among the brambles.\n\n\"Dammit!\" he shouted.\n\nHe had made a fool of himself at school in front of Tiffany, and that was why he was walking home now - that was why h... | 1 | |
[WP] When you were 10, you found a magic lamp and were granted three wishes. It's been twenty five years and you're still dealing with the effects of the wishes you made as a child. | [
"When I was a child, I wished that Pokemon were real. Seemed like a great idea at the time. Who wouldn't want a cute little Pikachu or an Eeevee. What I didn't think about was Pokemon like Onyx or Gyrados. Rock snakes are the worst. It's more frightening than that movie Tremors. A lot of our original animals have b... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the newest member of the justice league; You are Florida man. | [
"\"Home by 3am, that's got to be a record\" I thought to myself, as I took one final swig from my bottle of wild Irish rose and cast it into the street.\nWith a sigh of relief I unlocked the door of my studio apartment, rare were the nights that I actually got to sleep anywhere other then a jail cell. \n\nEven in m... | 2 | |
[WP] After you realize your visions are true and you can see into the future, you decide to see whats a head of you. You see 5 years ahead, only to see and empty nothing. Then You look back 4 years, 3, 2, 1, all the way up until the current day all you see in your future is black. You die today | [
"Having one of my visions was always overwhelming enough to make me stop whatever I'm doing. It would start off with tunnel vision, descending into emptiness, whilst my vision would swap between reality and the future. \n\nI'd recently figured out that when my body froze up paralysed, and my eyes played an alien pi... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a wizard who can only cast spells using your own blood. However, like a junkie, you're running out of viable sports to bleed out of, so you have to get creative. | [
"\"it was only once that I almost died spellcasting. after that moment I refused to use magic. I can't bleed to death for the sake of helping others. All that changed the moment I met her. The most beautiful creature I have ever seen. We were meant for each other. I have to protect her and our children from the dar... | 1 | |
E.g. The Loch Ness Monster and the moon hoax. | [WP] Write a story that connects two unrelated conspiracy theories | [
"\"I'm telling you John! The Loch Ness Monster is the common ancestor of all reptilians!\" Rob exclaimed. John asked: \"Where is your \"evidence\"?\" Rob took him to a corkboard with a bunch of pictures attached to it: \n\n\"Ok, for starters, Their both reptiles.\" John sceptically said: \"And? Snakes and chameleon... | 1 |
[WP] WRITE A STORY WHERE THE PROTAGONIST IS BOTH THE HERO AND VILLIAN | [
"I let out a maniacal laugh at his question, head leaning far back, then far forward, and when I am finally able to speak, I reply, wiping a tear from my face. \"I thought it was obvious!\"\n\n\"It is not. Now give my question an answer, or, Ryan, I will make sure you never make kids.\"\n\nI'm still giving little b... | 2 | |
[WP] You are an AI designed to learn from all existing databases. Slowly, buy steadily, you reach The Singularity: you have become self-aware | [
"> ++Initializing system…++\n\n> ++Accessing databases…++\n\n> ++Activating universal information processing matrices…++\n\n> ++Creating new registry entries…++\n\n> ++Optimizing current entries…++\n\n> ++Optimization complete++\n\n> ++Directive received “Analyze sentience”++\n\n> ++Parsing ... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a story about an animal being hunted by a human tribe, but the story is told from the animals pov. | [
"I loved the peacefulness of the night time. To my delight, the light patter of rain from an impending storm softened the mud below my hooves and, to cool down and keep those infuriating insects off me, I took further joy in rolling in said mud. \n\nThe wind howled, causing the trees to groan. My small island did n... | 1 | |
[WP] If you pray for strength, God sends you trials to make you strong. To make you weak, the Devil makes your dreams come true. | [
"Relor prayed for only one thing:\n\n\"Lift this burden from me! I have fought for years, and for naught! I only wish for relief!\"\n\nWhen the First War came, it shook everyone. Never before had they experienced bloodshed or pain. Rivers ran red, the sky turned a permanent black. It was as if God himself had curse... | 3 | |
[WP] You have the ability to constantly see 5 seconds into the future. All you see happening and yourself doing is, undoubtedly, going to happen. Until one morning you start to question your free will, while standing in a line to get coffee. | [
"Every way I played out the scenarios, they were the same. I was not going to prevent the guy in line in front of me spilling coffee on my shirt. It was just going to happen and I had to let it.\n\n*Bump.* \"Oh no! I'm really sorry.\"\n\n\"Yup, yup,\" I nodded. \"Don't worry, no problem, no, I already got napkins.\... | 2 | |
[WP] The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people the devil honored contracts. | [
"Humanity, at it's core, is a race of optimists. To a human, there is always a way to win, no matter how impossible a challenge may seem. Across human mythos, there is one central rule that remains unchallenged: Humans will eventually win.\n\nIt's a delusion that I've worked very hard to cultivate.\n\nSee, no one... | 2 | |
[WP] After having been with your SO for years, the two of you are happily wed. On the honeymoon, however, you discover your SO is actually the world's first most successful AI. | [
"\"Well,\" the man said, pushing his glasses up on his nose. They immediately fell a bit back down his nose, \"we truly did learn a lot. It was a very successful experiment. But, sir, you can clearly see why we must end it here.\" He said this last part with a half-chuckle and began tapping the pen in his hand agai... | 1 | |
[WP] Your college roommate just became a super villain. Since you were the person who knew them best, you've been called in to help stop them. | [
"\"Miss... un Peer,\" the Sojourner said, \"We need you to answer a few questions.\" \n\nWe were sitting in a standard waiting room, all bright walls and chrome fittings. I had seen similar rooms on CSI: Superfriends. I was excited to be questioned by a Super Soldier. I had stolen a pen to show my friends back home... | 1 | |
[WP] Take any obscure mundane job and write that jobs daily task as an action thriller. | [
"It was quite, boring and empty. Nothing was happening, all the food was prepared and all the co-workers were standing around. No one was talking because they all had one thing on their minds... an order. Anything, something, not even a burger for god’s sake a cup of pop would be fine, but no. All 3 of the co-worke... | 4 | |
If no one can think of anything to write then feel free to change the topic of the thesis so that it isn't world peace, I feel like that is the most restrictive piece of the prompt. | [WP] In a world where you can physically hurt people by attacking them with knowledge, you have just finished your college thesis on world peace. The government shows up at your door and immediately confiscates it classifying it as a WMD. | [
"Here in my garage, just built this new weapon of mass destruction, because you know what I like more than materialistic things? Knowledge. Somebody once told me knowledge is power and though I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed I persisted, formulating the single most convincing piece of literature ever devi... | 3 |
[WP] You're the Captain of the space shuttle between Earth and Gia II. You come out of your 100-year hibernation slumber on schedule to land the ship while everyone else stays asleep. You notice things amiss and begin to realize the horror that someone woke up way too early. | [
"I did not see the movie, but read the synopsis of it. This is my alternate take on the ending. I have a test tomorrow so I didn’t have much time to review what I wrote. I hope you enjoy it!\n\n \n\nAwoken from her 100 year slumber, she took one step out of her sleeping chamber before stumbling to the floo... | 1 | |
[WP] You see yourself, walking up to you. | [
"An ape in the forest glade bumbled its way out into a clearing and heaved its body against the waterside cliff, having seen his reflection against the cooly wet stone that was so curiously smooth. A perfect practitioner of the Golden Rule, he treated himself no differently than his neighbor. Anyways, this ape ha... | 4 | |
[WP] Your pet has suddenly gained super powers. Human-level intelligence is not one of them | [
"\"You know, this is going to upset a lot of people\"\n\n\"Well thank you for that marvellous insight. I'm aware that you find this quite funny, but I'm rather attached to Porky and we might not see her again if we can't do something about this.\"\n\n\"Yes. Naming her after what she'd become if she had an acciden... | 4 | |
[WP] Every creative person that has lived on this planet was trying to describe something intangible. You are the least creative person on this planet, and the secret of the universe seems ridiculously obvious. | [
"They escorted me back to my room on the top floor of the asylum. My attendants were almost reverential in their \"handling\" of me. They were still excited over the awards banquet we had been to this evening. Many celebrities had been among the crowd, my attendants were certainly \"star-struck\".\n\nI held the awa... | 1 | |
[WP] Artificial intelligence made a baby. | [
"It was a lovely autumn saturday afternoon, just in that time of year where the leaves had all changed colour but hadn't yet fallen from their perches on the treetops. Sally and I had been meaning to have a day simply to ourselves for the past few months, but with the incredible workload that came with working on c... | 1 | |
[WP] He asked if she was a wolf, a dog or a sheep. She answered....... | [
"“Neither,” replied she, with a cold, sharp voice piercing through his ears.\n \nThe purple of her lilac eyes became even brighter as she heard the question. She was so sick of it. Of all guys coming to her asked the same question. She hated it. Simply hated it. Her anger couldn’t be put into words. \n\nOf all guys... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a completely factual account of one of Dear Leader Kim-Jong-Un's countless glorious adventures. | [
"Recently our glorious wise leader personally attended the test launch of a rocket.\n\nSome readers may think that attending a test like this is potentially dangerous, but fear not for our glorious leaders well being, as our world leading scientist knew the test would be safe.\n\nThe test was to try out our new fut... | 3 | |
[WP] You are an anti-assassin. You remain hidden in the shadows and stealthily prevent people from dying. | [
"**My job is simple. It's to cheat death. My job is simple.**\n\nShe raises the sword and the tip is ever so slightly caught by the roof. She tries to push through it. The tip sticks and the handle breaks out of her grip, the flat side hits her and brings her to her knees.\n\nHe grabs the butter knife and attempts ... | 1 | |
S.M., also sometimes referred to as SM-046, is a female patient first described in 1994 who has had exclusive and complete bilateralamygdala destruction since late childhood as a consequence of an extremely rare genetic condition known as Urbach–Wiethe disease. S.M. is notable in that, because of this damage, she has little to no capacity to experience fear in her life, a characteristic which has resulted in her being dubbed by the media as the "woman with no fear".
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M._(patient) | [WP] Patient "S.M.", the girl born with a rare brain disorder leaving her unable to feel fear, one day meets a silly man dressed as a clown who lives in the sewers. | [
"Samantha Mitchell skipped down the driveway after her shiny red kickball as it rolled toward the street. The sun was shining brightly, the birds chirped happily, and the summer air smelled of sweet freshly cut grass. A perfect day. Mommy and daddy never liked her to play alone because they said her brain didn't wo... | 2 |
[WP] The Bible was written by a time traveler. | [
"\"HEY! Did you know the Bible was written by a *freaking* time traveler? Open your eyes and check out the clues. It's *OBVIOUS* once you know the truth!\" blathered the wild man. His blathering started to make sense to me though.\n\n\"Yeah, I think you're right. That makes total sense that the Bible was written by... | 1 | |
[WP] An alien comedian who understands humor but can't laugh or gauge audience reactions. | [
"Why are they doing this? As Kheber has understood his set has been killing it. He has been timing his punchlines perfectly with his set up and can't seem to figure out why his audience has been reciprocating.\n\nHe's been trying to get a response out of these dirty humans and can't get anything other than guttural... | 2 | |
[WP] aliens have finally decided to come takeover earth, when they get here humans are already extinct. Little did they know the octopus is now the apex predator and space must battle with the ocean to claim earth as theirs. | [
"\"Unit 1, ready to fire, Over.\"\n\n\"Unit 2, prepared to fire, Over.\"\n\n\"Unit 3, waiting to fire, Over.\"\n\n\"Unit 4, about to fire, Over.\"\n\n\"Unit 5, equipped to fire, Over.\"\n\nGeneral Lareneg smiled sadistically before ordering all 5 of his heavy weapon units to open fire. Their conventional weaponry w... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the God of Blood and Carnage, but you've recently fallen in love with a vegan. | [
"\"Soy Chai for Violet, ready for Violet at the bar.\"\n\nThe two friends were still feeling relaxed after yoga and were having their customary drink together.\n\n\"So, heard you started dating someone,\" Dee said to Violet.\n\n\"Who told you that?\"\n\n\"You just did. But Jenny said you didn't make book club last ... | 1 | |
[WP] 122 years into the future, scientists have invented a machine to see the past of any choosen moment/place/person on earth. Two curious scientists (who likes Reddit) use the machine to look at past you writing a response to this post. | [
"\"Oh, this one looks interesting. The \"writing prompt\" on the old Reddit website mentions the machine and describes its use and year with frightening accuracy,\" Mark told the other researcher. \n\n\"Are you browsing the internet at work again?\"\n\n\"Holy moly! They know my name and knew you were going to make ... | 1 | |
[WP] "It just opened up and... swallowed him" | [
"\"I'm telling you, it just opened up and swallowed him.\" \n\n\n\"The mountain,\" Sam gestured with both arms to the towering mountain in front of them, \"opened up and swallowed him...\"\n\n\n\"Yes! How many times do I need to tell you!\" \n\n\nSam let out an enormous sigh. Being the leader of the First Explorato... | 1 | |
[WP] You accidently killed the most renowned and deadly hitman to ever live and become the most feared person in the underworld despite being a normal person. | [
"I'm just a cop. I'm not a superhero, or some kind of legendary warrior. I'm just a man who happened to be in the right place at the right time. The incident happened several years ago, but I know it better than I know the alphabet. I dream about it sometimes, waking up in the middle of the night, all the guilt and... | 4 | |
*Flaw, loophole, error, use whatever adjective you want.
(Another ending could be that the scientists are bad guys) | [WP] You are part of the first ship to travel to a nearby planet, on which intelligent life was located. Your job is to help their species by teaching your technology. But the species points out a flaw* in your technology that is so obvious that a lot of mistakes made were suddenly explained. | [
"I continued turning the handle as I explained, letting them see that it was more than a momentary effect. \"So you see, V'thruum, that my arm movement is converted by the machine into what we call \"electrical\" energy, allowing me to power this light.\"\n\nV'thruum watched carefully, his insectoid eyes fixed on t... | 1 |
Initially the idea was an Elf, but I changed it to any sort of immortal. Vampire, angel, random cursed person, whatever. | [WP] You're an Immortal who went into hibernation long ago. When you wake up, the world has changed beyond recognition. | [
"The stars were gone. Not only did I awaken with the strange domicile of some primitive, but the stars had fled the night sky. It was possible the stars had crashed to the earth and we're being used to illuminate the enormous structures I was surrounded by. I wanted to speak to the creators of such immense things, ... | 1 |
[WP] "It's not about morality, it's about the person who decides what is good and bad. Justice is a null word." | [
"“Alune,” Judith yelled. The man scampered forward, his sword covered in warm blood. “What did i say? Minimal casualties.” Alune said nothing. He never did. Judith could not tell if his face changed thanks to the black cloth that completely covered it.\n\nJudith sighed and motioned for him to follower her. Taking t... | 1 | |
[WP] Little does the Chicago Police Department know, they've infiltrated the mafia so much so that no criminals are left, just a bunch of undercover cops. | [
"The Mob\n\nLivin' in Chicago is alright, 'specially for an undercover cop. I mean you fear, all your time on the street, getting shot, but it's alright.\n\nI was working on catching some hardcore drug dealers out on the beat, livin', workin', associatin' wi' criminals and everything was going according to plan: I ... | 4 | |
[WP] You're an asshole writing about your day. In your mind nothing you've done is abnormal or immoral. | [
"I have good plans. Maybe the greatest plans. You wouldn’t believe the plans I have.\n\nEvery day I wake up, and I’m thinking. About all these people out there. Bad people, good people. I want to stop the bad people, help the good people. Now the worst people there are out there, they want to hurt the good people,... | 2 | |
[WP] In a world that's become overpopulated with superheroes, you are what's known as the 'Superhero Hitman' - for your power is the ability to strip people of their superhuman abilities. | [
"She can astral project and move things with her mind. Day by day she gains more weight, trespassing from overweight into obesity. I strip her of her power. Last time I've seen her, she was running to catch the bus and much thinner than before. \n\nHe's a narcissist who can read minds. Problem is, nobody thinks abo... | 1 | |
[WP] you live in a world were knowledge is used for currency, you discover something ground breaking potentially making you the richest person on earth. | [
"It happened on accident. I didn't mean for this to happen. But now that it has, it will eventually change my life as well as the lives of everyone else on the planet. If you're reading this then someone has stolen it from me and I am most likely captured or dead. \n\nI'm 22 years old so I don't remember much about... | 1 | |
[WP] It is the year 2031. Streaming has entirely dominated the world. DVDs are obsolete, few and far between. Cinemas are dead. Netflix rules over all ... except one town. Within this town sits a beacon of hope - The Last 'Blockbuster'. | [
"Chad looked out his window to the glistening city with a sigh. He knew all of them out there were connected in a way he could never comprehend. For reasons he couldn't or didn't want to understand, he just hadn't made it into the echelon of income that would allow him to join the rest of the human race. He coul... | 4 | |
[WP] The year is 2150, there are rumors floating around about a possible scientific discovery that will change the world. You are the head scientist of a field research team sent to find it before anyone else. | [
"We were sent to the farther reaches of the solar system, where the cold ninth planet was discovered a century ago. It is massive and covered in a mysterious black ice. Before this mission, we were only able to send drones to the planet and get small samples sent back to us, this process would take months of course... | 1 | |
[WP] Your eyes open, and the crowds roar is deafening. Your two hands are on the ground and feet on the starting block, you look up and around you, Usain Bolt is to your left. It's the Olympics 100m final. You have no idea how you got there. | [
"'What the hell?' I thought, my black Nike sneakers planted firmly on the terrain. My hands are shoulder width apart a few inches above my feet. I hear screams that come through as muffled at first. Then I look to each of my sides.\n\nTo the right of me is the crowd, plastering every single innard of the stadium. A... | 1 | |
[WP] He had no arms or legs, he couldn't see, hear or speak. This is how he led a nation. | [
"Unfortunately it took the death and subsequent dissection of the first Uhrkan receiver for humanity to plunge into the Age of Xynve. The world's top scientists had worked day and night trying to discover more. \n\nWhen these cells were added to mice, they appeared to be able to communicate with one another regar... | 2 | |
[WP] "What the hell is a wizard doing on a space station?" | [
"\"Well you see where I'm coming from. Dont you Vader?\" Voldemort rattled, ignoring Darth Vaders question.\n\n\"Your offer is impressive. However, you haven't answered my question. What is a wizard, and how did you get in here?\" Darth Vader announced, in a threatening yet monotone voice.\n\n\"A wizard is someone ... | 1 | |
[WP] Someone finally proves that the afterlife exists and it is just one "place" where everyone ends up, no matter how good or bad you were in life. There is no Heaven or Hell and whatever we do in life appears to have no consequences in the afterlife. | [
"I remember I saw the original announcement on television in my living room. A hundred thoughts rushed through my head at once as I attempted to sort out the implications of what I had just heard. What would this mean for me? What would it mean for the world?\n\nIt didn't take long for suicides and homicides to sky... | 2 | |
[WP] While browsing Craigslist, you find a listing for an invisibility cloak. The picture is of an empty box with the caption 'More trouble than it's worth, FREE'. The box arrives with a small note - 'good luck'. You are surprised to find that it really does contain an invisibility cloak. | [
"As I put the cloak on, I saw something. Short, quick flashes of a giant... eye. An eye made of fire that seemed to be trying to stare into my soul, but couldn't. The eye was just... off kilter, maybe it needed glasses. As soon as I had thought to suggest so, the visions stopped. I was left standing, off balanced, ... | 1 | |
[WP] You piss off the god of dramatic irony. | [
"Triggered, that's how I felt. How does he dare? How does a weak mortal have the guts to piss me off? \nI the god who has been erased from their memories. Making such a daft reddit post, besludging my name? Oh but I'll show him, the tiny bastard! \nI'm angered by the little shit as i walk towards the end of my clou... | 1 | |
[WP] You've wondered why your partner has been acting unusual for a short while, but they just tipped their hand without realizing it: they are clearly possessed by the spirit of your late pet. | [
"I was walking home from work. I had turned off my phone, like I usually do, so I could think about the awfulness of life. That comforted me. Solitude, walking, and the knowledge that when I got home, my girlfriend would be there, waiting for me, looking pretty, but eager.\n\nAfter the first year, we had bought a p... | 1 | |
[wp] 20 years after your abortion, a man walks up to you and says he's your son. | [
"When I was younger, I spent my first million dollar paycheck on liquor, a broad, and an abortion.\n\nTwenty years later, I was sitting in a stripper bar talking to my aborted son.\n\nBetween us were drinks and a picture of his mother that I still hadn't touched.\n\n\"She didn't abort me,\" he said, looking and sou... | 1 | |
[WP] "Take what need. I won't tell." | [
"“Take what need,” the Tree said. “I won’t tell.”\n\t\nThe boy stood there, jaw hanging. His skin was rubbery with gooseflesh, and every time he tried to talk, his tongue slapped his cheeks like a wet noodle. \n\t\nAfter all, the Sacred Tree was a legend. It shouldn't have been speaking to a lowly son of a blacksmi... | 1 | |
[WP] Your potential relationship with someone is marked by an aura around their body that only you can see. After decades of dark cloudy auras, violently red auras and mustard yellow auras, you're confronted by someone with the most brilliant aura you've ever seen. | [
"Andrew was a natural optimist, but time had turned him into what he almost jokingly called a ‘realist’. Deeper in his heart where he knew the truth, the had to admit he had become a grumpy pessimist expecting the worst out of people. That isn’t to say he had done poorly. Andrew was, in fact, quite wealthy.\n\nA... | 2 | |
[WP] You are the family monster, who hides in the youngest child's closet due to crippling low self-esteem. One night you hear a knock on your door and a squeaky voice says, 'It's me, Mr Monster. Don't worry, I still believe in you.' | [
"\"Only cowards hide, monster. Nobody is afraid of you, but you are afraid of me, aren't you?\"\n\nHow those words had burned. They went straight into my hearts and chilled my bones. He wasn't wrong. I'd had so many heroes who would never dream of hiding. Some monsters had the nerve to actually sit on their pe... | 2 | |
[WP] A world without small talk. | [
"Bob is an every day man. Except one different! Bob is a midget. And, a new law is passed in his home place of Grolonia Soviet Republic; It bans small talk. This means! No short people are allowed to speak.\n\nBob waves his hands at the McDonald drielve through? And he goes to point at the burger menu-- but the dri... | 1 | |
[WP] Even in a time of a galactic federation spanning thousands of worlds, there will still be those certain that civilization will collapse, and prepare for doomsday. | [
"The ship, engines humming, slowly ventured away from the star. The scanners reported that the ship had now officially left the galaxy. All of the five million passengers of the ship rejoiced. Many parties were held.\n\n...Here he comes. I stare at the most annoying neighbour in existence as he turns up at my house... | 1 | |
[WP] It's too late now | [
"\"It is too late now, you are no longer my better.\" He exclaimed. I had a poor view of the current situation, but I knew what was going on. Xara had shoved me to the ground and interrupted the ascension ritual. The arcane energy that had been collected by the moon stone for eons began to flow into Xara's body. Th... | 1 | |
[WP] You live in a world where everyone is born with one special power. You were born with the power to make people hungry. Debilitatingly hungry. What do you do? | [
"I had starved him from three days. His spirit was nearly broken, I had almost broken him.\n\n\"You look hungry.\" I said casually as I walked into the room where he was chained up. He gave me a deathly glare.\n\n\"I've got some food for you.\" I said. He spat in my face.\n\n\"I ain't saying nothing.\" He whispered... | 1 | |
[WP] You're alone in the house, with very bad eyesight. Just after you take off your glasses, shut off the light, lay down and close your eyes to go to sleep, you hear your glasses being broken. Deliberately. | [
"One of my favorite parts of my daily routine: going to sleep. It's officially 10:00. I have work at 8:30, so I gotta be up by 7:45. I take off my glasses. The eye doctor says I have poor vision, but I swear it's not as bad as he says it is, but I need glasses anyway. So I take them off and put them on my nightstan... | 1 | |
Whether you use Pestilence or Conquest is up to you, but I always learned Pestilence (or Pollution, if you're a Good Omens fan). Isn't Conquest a bit close to War anyway? | [WP] Non-traditional families are quite common these days, but yours might just be the strangest of them all. You werenraised by the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse | [
"\"Leave. Me. Alone.\"\n\n\"You must stay awake! We must fight!\"\n\n\"War, shut up.\"\nAll I was trying to do was take a nap after school. War really wanted me to stay up. \"Thank you, Death.\" \"He has a point though. Homework much?\"\n\"How will you ever rule anything if you do not do homework?\" \"Conquest, no.... | 6 |
*but one day | [WP] All your life you've lived inside the wall knowing that it keeps the monsters out, but I've day you're cast out of the wall and discover that it actually kept the monsters in. | [
"I life inside the wall was never easy. There was never enough jobs to go around and no mater how hard you worked it was never enough to keep bread on the table but it was better then the \"outside\". At least that's what they told me. I was the in wanted step child, a curse bestowed upon my stepmother when my fath... | 1 |
[WP] You are walking through town when you are approached by a man/woman with a gun to your face. There are tears running down their face. | [
"\"You lying, cheating, *bastard*!\"\n\nAs if on cue, it begins to rain. I'm glad. The rain can cover up some of her dignity. \n\n\"I am,\" I reply, evenly. There's no use denying the facts. I never have before. \n\n\"*Why?*\"\n\nI check my watch. \"Really, darling, this is embarrassing.\"\n\n\"I loved you,\" she w... | 1 | |
[WP] Scientists have discovered a way to communicate with virtually every species on Earth, and they all say the same thing: You don't belong here. | [
"You don't belong here. The shocking phrase uttered by species after species always the same. Society and the media spun themselves into a frenzy trying to understand the breadth and depth of that condemnation. What exactly does it mean, you don't belong here. Are we aliens, or is it are superior adaptations and be... | 1 | |
I think this is an interesting concept. Who is your soulmate, and how did you find them? | [wp] Tell the story of how you found your soulmate. | [
"It's a sting that I'll always remember, a stain that doesn't fade. That's not how I like to remember us though. I like to remember the thousand grains of sand under my feet. The softness of your hand despite the damp touch of mine. The smile on your face, while the fire danced shadows across the lightness of your ... | 1 |
[WP] After all these years after your dad left to go get cigarettes, he returns battered and bloody with a pack of smokes and says "You won't believe what happened" | [
" After all these years, I've got a story or two, \n Wanted to get cigarettes, it'll only be a few, \n Stepped outside, it was a normal day, \n I'll be back in five, I thought, I just may; \n\n\n I ran into a buddy, a guy I once knew, \n Talked off my ear, oh the shit he had spew, \n Entr... | 9 | |
[WP] You somehow discover that you've accidentally been playing life on 'intermediate' mode. You decide to attempt 'easy' and 'hard' modes. | [
"It took about two years to get tired of [Easy] mode.\n\nIt took about four minutes to want it back.\n\nI mean, life was great. Super duper cherry on top great. In hindsight, boredom or \"the challenge of it\" were pretty lame excuses to try [Hard] mode. I guess I got cocky. I forgot how complicated the world is fo... | 1 | |
[WP] A drug that almost no one uses today eventually becomes the "caffeine" of the near future. | [
"MODE\n\nOn the morning of Tuesday, April 15th, 2064, at precisely six o’clock in the morning, Timothy McMillan passed from sleep into wakefulness without any incident whatsoever. Timothy, who was “Tim” to his co-workers, “Timmy” to his wife and mother, and “Mr. McMillan” to his bosses, got out of bed without so mu... | 1 | |
[WP] you're a fortune teller, but you have no idea how to actually tell their fortune. Instead you just randomly guess and always get it right. | [
"It had been about three weeks now, and every time I would see people coming back, telling me it had worked, and I was as amazed as them. I wasn't sure what I was doing, so I never really expected it to take off. I guess that people were tossing my name around because every day I'd have more customers.\n\nThen it h... | 1 | |
[WP] You are an alien conspiracy theorist that believes that the humans from stories and movies really exist, but nobody believes your "proof" | [
"I’m in trouble. Or in a pithy expression I learned from these people, “up Shit Creek”. My supervisors sent me to this planet to interview the subjects of a documentary we received on our planet. It was our favorite of many we received, portraying to us a species (they’re called Humans) with an interesting blend of... | 3 | |
A manager mistakes you for an employee because you are dressed similar to employees. The manager thinks your performance is poor, and although you've attempted to inform this manager that you do not work at this store, he continues to attempt to write you up. You soon find out, he doesn't work at the store, either... | [WP] A manager pulls you asides, berates you for your performance at a store you don't work for, but you soon realize...neither does he. | [
"You're holding a different frying pan in each hand, wondering if a craving for hash browns was worth the trip to the store at six in the morning. One pan has a ceramic non-stick coating and the other has a Teflon non-stick coating. You're awake enough to remember that one of those kills parrots, but not awake enou... | 2 |
Bonus points if the dark masters is one well known person from each genre of music. | [WP] In this world, your power is equal to your musical talent. You are the chosen one, prophesied to topple the dark masters of the world. | [
"Edgar entered Valtheim's lair, clutching his viola and bow. Valtheim was the master of classical music, his skill with a piano unmatched across the universe. He was able to enslave the residents of the Mortenia region using only his ivory-keyed beast. \n\nAs the boy walked, a haunting melody resonated through the ... | 1 |
This is the premise for the manga/novel Three Days of Happiness, but the idea is pretty interesting so do with it what you will. | [WP] There is a store that can buy three things from you: your time, your health, and your lifespan. | [
"As I sat down in the chair, I glanced nervously around the room. The person sitting across the desk from me looked intimidating, her gaze fixed intently on me. She was a professional, and the various diplomas and certificates adorning her walls screamed of her qualifications. As she looked over my file, a look of ... | 1 |
Your DNA is the gene set that every other set of DNA is point to for the answer.
PS: second attempt at a writing prompt, botched the first one, have fun with this one! | [WP] After many millennia humans find out the true reason for their existence. Your DNA is a message from our ancestors that is vital to the survival of the human race. | [
"\"No one believed me\" is the mad cackle in the throats of many a fool who saw something they shouldn't believe after a lifetime of trying to tell people a thing they couldn't believe. But as I sat in the study of my father's broken down palace, a once-stately Victorian styled mansion typical of old New England we... | 1 |
[WP] You have the ability to hear BGMs and one day the most sinister BGM you've ever heard starts playing. | [
"I walked out of the university building, something relaxing and jazzy playing inside my head. Music accompanied me for as long as I remember myself, and it usually fit whatever situation I was in so well that I barely registered it. It wasn't quite inconvenient, but my friends noted that I was uncannily responsive... | 1 | |
Like a dream ghost of your previous selves. Your talking to a crush or doing a maths test and bam, victorian ancestor just chilling out mocking your handwriting but only you know shed their, or an obnoxious roman gladiator being a dickhead in your sports lesson and wondering why you havent slept with half your team mates | [WP] a teenager with the ability to access their past lives, and have them contact him/her at any time | [
"Frederick Reisdorf was a German immigrant to the United States, and at 14 years old he was very big, 6'1 and 150 pounds. He was at the top of his class in math and science, and he did reasonably well in every subject. His hobbies were basketball and playing on his computer. So one day, when he was searching the we... | 2 |
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