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[WP] You have the ability to save someone in exchange for another person that is of higher importance than the first person. One day, a man contacts you telling you thar you have to save the most important person in the world | [
"Years of work. Of secrecy. Of death. Controversial as it may seems, I always chose to sacrifice important people of low moral standards. It allowed for some good changes in politics, my community and all that. Old, greedy politicians for kind, honest ones. School directors who raped their students for the lives of... | 1 | |
[WP] Tell me an original horror story so scary that I will have trouble falling asleep tonight. | [
"A hand patted me on the shoulder. I look up, and see the face of my superior looking down at me.\n\nHis expression was neutral, but there was an air of gravity around him that I couldn't help but notice.\n\n\"Could you come to my office at break?\" he said before walking away.",
"\"Son, are you sure that you're ... | 6 | |
[WP] A man has the super power to cause anyone to become addicted to something of his choosing | [
"It started as a normal day. I went on my morning jog. I only saw one person the whole time. I thought he was a normal man, but he began to stare at me. Soon it was unnerving. I was about to say something when I was completely overwhelmed with an incredible sensation. I needed to know more about cork. Forgetting t... | 2 | |
[WP] It your 21st birthday party and your Uncle tells you that your parents have made back up copies of you regularly since you were born. They have rolled you back at least once when they didn't like how you were growing up. Your Uncle gives you access. | [
"Seeing all those old versions of me...it was more real than the sepia-coloured photographs in my photo album. To see myself playing while young was like seeing a totally different me; a more carefree, happy and energetic me. At 21 I was already exposed to the dangers and troubles of the world, so I envied the yout... | 1 | |
[WP] "Doesn't anyone just knock anymore? All you had to do was knock and I would've opened it!" | [
"*Bang!* \nThe kicked door came off its hinges and slammed onto the floor. Not satisfied with that indignity, the kicker and his colleagues ran in, trampling the abused portal. \n\"Freeze, Scum! F.B...i...\" the kicker's righteous shout trailed off as he processed the scene in front of him. \n \nSeated around a... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a superhero, living in a post-apocalyptic society. It's too late to save the world, but you don't know what else to do. | [
"Those with super powers have become pariah in what is left of society. Hated, disparaged and left to fend for themselves. Even so, I can't really blame them. After all, it was those with the ability to do so who destroyed the world in the first place.\n\nNearly every single superhero and villain alike perished in ... | 2 | |
Or woman, that's up to you. | [WP] The story of one man's final stand | [
"He knelt on the floor next to her, cradling her head in his arms. The golden hair now stained with her blood fell in a wave over his arms, dripping blood on the floor. The werewolf she had killed with her final blow lay nearby, reverting slowly to its human form as it died. He looked up at the sound of the phalanx... | 1 |
When I mean they have a "real feud" I meant as in they already had some beef or problem between the two of them and now are in classroom court just to clarify. | [WP] Your middle school class history teacher wants to do a mock trial, only to find that the two participants have a real feud. The quiet kid volunteers to be the lawyer for the defense. | [
"UP FOR DEBATE\n_____________\n\nA Short Play\n\n\nCast of Characters\n\nBilly Grayson: Male, 15 \n\nJohn Applewood: Male, 15\n\nMr. Nelson: Male, Mid-thirties\n\nSamantha Marshall: Female, 15\n\n\n\f\nSETTING: \tSandra Day O’Connor Middle School. Mr. Nelson’s 8th grade US History class.\n\nAT RISE:\tThe class is d... | 2 |
[WP] The conspiracy theorists were right. We didn't go to the moon, we went much further. | [
"\"Don't do that! You'll ruin the original!\"\n\n\"Someone get a copy over to the guys in exposure, ASAP.\"\n\n\"A copy tape won't do, it will have to be the original.\"\n\n\"But what about what we found?\"\n\n\"We can always go back.\"\n\n*July 25th, 1969*\n\nDirector Bennett walked into the boardroom, but no one ... | 2 | |
[WP] A mobster, a drug lord, a gang banger, and a teenage girl have a bi-monthly game night. | [
"\"Yo Tony, what are we playing tonight?\" Mark barged into the foyer of the south shore abode, a six pack in one hand and a bottle of coke in the other. His gait both loping and shuffling, he seemed to bound forward at lackadaiscal speeds. \"Don't wanna get wrecked in that Catan shit again; Juan was way too slick... | 1 | |
[WP] You are actually the only person who has ever gone to Hell. | [
"He was standing at the gates. His broad, welcoming smile ever present. Any day now, he thought. He had made preparations. There was cake, there was beer, hell, there were even some succubi strippers. Too bad they didn't really make good conversation, as all they could do was shriek. His tail itched, but he didn't ... | 1 | |
[WP] Everyday your magical back pack contains one thing to help you through the day. Today, you reach in and there's a gun. | [
"The bag’s middle name was surprise.\n\nAt least, that was what I’d taken to referring to it at first. I bought the thing—I can’t call it anything else, since it changed its shape everyday—at a Goodwill store near my workplace. It was—oh, I can’t quite recall—beaded? In some parts, a vintage floral design, with a g... | 1 | |
[WP] You are an Evil Overlord who's prophesied to conquer the world, only one problem you are horrible at world conquering | [
"it happened a year ago on this very same day. Some how its the only date i never forget. Granted it is also my birthday so it is pretty hard to forgot. But it was the day when I learned about my destiny. To start an epic celebration of my 18th birthday, Wally and I decided to take a journey of self discovery by sm... | 1 | |
[WP] You are travelling around the world and each time you wait in the airport you notice a cute little kid the thing is you saw this kid in every airport you went to and each time the kid is with different parents | [
"“Hey honey, how was the flight?” Her voice was chipper.\n\n“Fine, babe. Just…wait, I haven’t left yet. I’m…I’m waiting for the next flight now, it doesn’t leave for a couple hours.” I replied.\n\n“Oh. Well, get some rest. You’ve been jetting between time-zones so much I’m surprised you’re even awake right no... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up one morning and your pet has turned into a human, but has kept its ways and habits. | [
"\"I'll pee wherever I want, Richard. If you want to stop me, then I want you to call me a good boy and give me treats. Afterwards, I want you to take me to the park.\" Adolf walked up to the lamp to chew on the wire then returned to his sitting position. \n\nRichard raised Adolf since he was a puppy, after so many... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a lawyer whose died and gone to hell, only to find out that heaven is carefree, and hell is run like a business firm. The devil introduces himself calmly and awkwardly, wearing near-sighted glasses and a one-piece suit, as he prepares to file a claim for the Apocalypse. | [
"“What the Hell? Where am I?” I asked no one in particular. I felt like I had the one the worst hangovers of my life. I closed my eyes and rubbed my temples trying to get some clarity. When I opened my eyes again I saw a figure walking towards me. He was an elderly man but his movements were still youthful. He had ... | 1 | |
[WP] Armageddon has begun. Not with fire and brimstone but simply by Google and it's affiliates removing themselves from the internet. | [
"Long long ago, as the human population increased, Armageddon, the hidden war, began as an effort by the few in positions of power to control the many and forestall future challenges to their power. This was not to be a war being fought with conventional weapons carried or controlled by the hand of man but a war f... | 2 | |
[WP] Your bank heist goes terribly wrong when you realize every single person there is also attempting to rob the bank. | [
"\"Alright! Nobody f****** move!\"\n\nI'd practiced this line in front of my bathroom mirror dozens of times. Swapping of course between that and a few quotes from the movie \"Taxi\". The goal was to be intimidating! It's a little difficult when you're 135 pounds soaking wet though.\n\nWhile working for a small tec... | 12 | |
[WP] Every 10 years the king of Great Britain sends the Royal Chef to taste what various villages have to offer. If the dish satisfies the Royal Chef, the village will be spared ,else they will be destroyed . It just happens the Royal Chef in charge this time is Gordon Ramsay. | [
"Oakville was decorated with lush rolling hills and what seemed nearly as rotating islands with nothing in the sky but the clouds. Out in the sea, seagulls take flight and a light blue ocean reflects the moon that accompanies what is known as one of the quietest of towns in the land of Amaxea. \n\nCenturies have pa... | 1 | |
But that didn't bother the tragic failings of the kid named Stanley none. | [WP] Ever since their games ended, the narrators from The Stanley Parable, Bastion, and Darkest Dungeon all have had to quarrel over new characters to narrate. | [
"This is a story about a man named Stanley, who worked in a large company as employee\n 427. His job was quite simple, he sat at a desk and pushed buttons when prompted by his computer screen. To anyone else, his job would have been mind-numbingly tedious. But, Stanley was happy.\n\n*Oh, how could it have lasted? T... | 1 |
[WP] The year is 2019 and Brexit is closing in. No one is taking any useful initiative against it. But a lone man on a wooden ship sails into the Port of London, calling himself "Arthur". | [
"Henry saw the sails before he saw the ship. Large sheets of white on dark pillars of oak punctured the low-hanging, early-morning fog that rolled in from the Channel every night, only dissipating when the sun made its brief appearance later in the day. \n\nA few moments later the ship burst into view. Henry blinke... | 1 | |
Oh, and the bad guys don't use bows. | [WP] You're the hero of legend, and you're about to set out into enemy lands to defeat the dark lord. Your only meaningful skill is archery. You only have one arrow. | [
"\"Do you think you can make that jump?\"\n\"Of course I can make it.\"\n\nA deep breath preceded a pair of rogues taking a running jump over a gap in a stone bridge leading to a ruined monastery. The first, Perrin, made it cleanly and turned to face his companion. Eretha slung her bow across her back and took a ru... | 2 |
[WP]Newborns are named by a computer program that spits out a random number of random characters. You hit the jackpot and got a pretty normal name. | [
"Another day, another roulette. If they're going to automate naming kids, why did they have to make dating an algorithm too? Well, what is, is. I head into the building, already preparing my emotional shell.\n\n--\n\n\"Your name is *Jason*!?\" She spits, venom in her voice that wasn't there a minute ago. That's nor... | 1 | |
[WP] You're an NPC that just watched the Hero leave town. You notice your NPC friend walk to the ocean and stare. You join him and he says "My life is meaningless." | [
"My name is Tom.\n\nI'm a baker.\n\nI live in the small town of Saliana.\n\nIt's a nice place. Warm, sunny, and all the seafood you would ever want to eat. During the day, I work at my Bakery with my wife, and at night, I go down to the pub and play card games with my friends. \n\nThat's *what* I am. A Non-Player C... | 2 | |
[WP] You and some co-workers are playing UNO to kill downtime at work. You play the skip card and suddenly it's 8 days later. | [
"\"BUHAHAHO WHAT\"\n\n\nMr. Jenkins draws his hand from off my desk. He proceeds to lecture me with a stern look on his face.\n\n\n\"You were out for 8 days and now you're here? I was *this* close to firing you! You could've at least told me you were on leave.\"\n\n\n\"I was- uh- ihhwacrazy, I uhhh\"\n\n\n\"I don't... | 2 | |
[WP] You meet a stranger about to commit suicide. You can see into the future and try to tell them things will get better, knowing sincerely that they will. | [
"I was taking a stroll trying to enjoy the brisk night air. Snow began to lightly fall to the ground and with it a hush fell over the city. With the occasional headlights passing me by, I approached the bridge. That's where I saw him. A man clearly distraught, leaning over the edge, peering endlessly in the black w... | 1 | |
[WP] All day, the pop songs you incidentally hear seem to be describing your movements exactly. | [
"I walked like I didn't care through the train terminal, cutting cooly through the crowd like silk.\n\nJust then a man gripped his chest and keeled over. I ran over to him quickly, and tried to rouse him. \n\n“What's your name?” I asked, trying to get a response. He merely gripped his chest more and heaved in time ... | 3 | |
[WP] On a whim, you decide to try a sensory deprivation tank. As you float in the tank you realise that your senses where distracting you from a number of extra dimensional influences. | [
"There are things greater than us. Long ago, we knew this, and we feared for ourselves. This fear is sewed deeply into our cores. If the field of evolutionary psychology has any legitimacy, it is in why we fear what we do. We know we fear darkness because it holds the unknown, but of course, there are things to be ... | 1 | |
[WP] "Succumb to us," it hissed. "Consume us and be reborn..." | [
"\"Succumb to us,\" It hissed. \"Consume us and be reborn.\"\n\nThey seemed to be calling out to me, their voices like that of a siren: enticing and lovely, and myself, using every ounce of willpower I could muster to resist these temptations. \n\nIn the back of my mind, desire tried to break free. The familiarity ... | 4 | |
[WP] You, The Infamous Grim Reaper, fell in love with and married a mortal, and now, after aging together, they are in their deathbed | [
"\"After countless centuries of taking lives, I have finally found one worth keeping alive.. Nearly a century of protecting and watching her grow and now..\" Pulling an hour glass out of my pocket, personally engraved in a heart, I see that the sand is nearing the end of it's cycle. \"You knew this would happen, Gr... | 1 | |
[WP] You've woken up, check the date, and look in the mirror to be sure. You've somehow gone back in time to your 18 year old self, memories and knowledge all intact. | [
"In line with this, also interesting to imagine you wake up every morning not knowing WHEN it is in your life. You can wake up one day being 30 and the next being 7... The flow of time is mixed up.\nYou are the only one to be aware of this. Your experience carries over and so does your awareness of your future.\n\... | 1 | |
[WP] You are one of two short men masquerading as one tall man to get a basketball scholarship | [
"In unison we achieve, the thing we dreamt we both could be,\n\nA storm razing through the lands, our ball bouncing in our hands.\n\nCould the fame and praise we seek, all but foul at our feet?\n\nWhat if dreams alone could mend, a full court of dribbling men\n\nDodging left, then right, then aft, all our talent to... | 2 | |
[WP] Sure, just punch God in the face. That will turn out fantastic! | [
"Seth whirled around snarling at me. \"IT'S HIS FAULT THAT MY SISTER IS DEAD, LUKE,\" he screamed, saliva bursting from his mouth; his words echoing through the vast nothingness where god resides. \n\n\"Yeah, she won't be the only one facing oblivion if you punch the creator of the goddamn universe,\" Luke yelled i... | 1 | |
[WP] You and your brother are tag-team pro wrestlers known for using tables, ladders, and chairs in creatively destructive ways. While shopping for furniture at IKEA, you meet your rivals. | [
"\"Hey, watch it!\" exclaimed Jack who bumped into another man of a similar size to him. As he looked up, he realized he was staring into the dull grey eyes of his greatest saboteur.\n\n\"You are the one who should better watch out when I beat you up with these bad boys next week, Admiral Sterling\" growled John, m... | 2 | |
[WP] You live in a society where only one birth and one death are allowed per day. | [
"It was already destined to be a dark day. Today was the first day that twins would be delivered following the ordinance limiting births and deaths to one per day. \n\nIt was destined to fail, and fail it would, but for the time being those of us who lived under the rule would know nothing short of complete desolat... | 2 | |
[WP] The dragons of old have always been big fans of language and clever wordplay. How would a rap battle with one go? | [
"The world had become dependent on dragons for linguistics years ago. It was a natural fit for them, many agreed, especially considering they were nigh invulnerable to any sort of weapon.\n\nAs it turned out, dragons were the closest to cosmically immortal beings that Earth had ever produced. All those tales of kni... | 3 | |
[WP] An apprentice warlock has finally ascended. He performs the blood ritual to summon his first succubus, and his ex-girlfriend appears. She insists on analyzing why their relationship failed. | [
"Bang bang bang! The door was about to come off its hinges with every thump from her tiny fists. Her knuckle bones leaving soft indents in the thin plywood.\n\n\"Open up, you son of a wolf. You...you bitch in sheep's clothing.\"\n\nDorian had just stepped out of the shower. Wrapping the towel around himself he reac... | 3 | |
[WP] It's been a hundred years. Love is a Class 1 felony, punishable with life in prison. | [
"It's like hitting snooze on your alarm clock in the morning. It feels so good and so right, even if you know in some sleep-hazy part of your mind that there might be terrible consequences. Even if there's some vague notion of danger. In the moment, it's the most pressing need you have\n\n*him*\n\nI don't care abou... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a prince who is supposed to be crowned king in a few days. Wellp, too bad because a dragon has kidnapped you. What happens once you get to the dragon's lair? | [
"\"AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!\" Was about the only noise I could make as the Dragon swept me from the ground and into the skies. A sound I continued to expel pointlessly as gale force winds muted any noise I could have possibly made. This went on for about ten minutes and then I passed out, high altitudes and excessive oxygen... | 1 | |
[WP] "My name is Hermes and I am the god of speed." | [
"Nothing can ever really die.\n\nNot even us, with our weak flesh bodies or the crumbling hunks of stone and metal we wreathe ourselves in. Or, in fact, the weaker forms we make for ourselves, our stories are written in paper or rock or buried in flesh. Our stories still walk the world, and will do so it seems long... | 2 | |
[WP] You die and are judged by God. He sends you to Hell. You expect to suffer for all eternity, only to arrive to find out that the denizens of Hell have created a civilized society in the harsh wasteland that is Hell. | [
"\"Let me guess,\" said the man in the slick pinstripe suit. \"Not what you expected, right?\" \n\nI glanced at him sidelong. It wasn't just the expensive suit that looked slick. His hair, jet black and swept back from his temples, was shimmering in the light, as was his greasy pencil mustache. He looked like a 192... | 1 | |
If you don't know what I mean by cosmic horror: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CosmicHorrorStory | [WP] Write a cosmic horror story in the style of Dr. Seuss. | [
"Jimmy Mcgee wanted a poodle \nSo he, so to say, strained his noodle.\n\nI'll adopt one! \nHe thought, but his plan was for nought \nFor his mother *hated* the very thought.\n\nFine then! He screamed! \nHis tear-filled eyes gleamed. \nAll hope is lost, woe is Jimmy Mcgee! \nBut then, **His Idea** came to be.... | 1 |
[WP] The city was in ruins. The zombies had come and gone. The streets were silent. The apocalypse had ended, seemingly taking humanity with it... and yet, graffiti kept popping up everywhere. | [
"I'd never been very good at interpreting graffiti, even before they came. But, I'd never lamented my lack of understanding more than I had in the last few days. \n\nGraffiti popped up with astonishing frequency. From what I heard from the underground community in London, those that were still alive felt that graff... | 8 | |
[WP] "Yeah, that still doesn't explain how you were mugged by a duck." | [
"It was going to be a good day for Officer Gladstone. He was sure of it. The sun was shining, the birds were chirping, and best of all, today was his last day before retirement. Happily munching on a maple-glazed and bacon topped doughnut inside of his squad car, he had time to reflect before the drudgery of a typi... | 1 | |
[WP] You arrive in the afterlife. It seems just like Earth, however you are informed by somebody that the water causes you to forget your past life. It's day two. You're getting really thirsty. | [
"A vaguely angelic-looking man in a white suit held a glass of water out to me. \n\n“Just take a drink and get it over with. That’s what I always say,” he said as if we were old friends. “What’s worth remembering about life on Earth anyway? Earth’s full of assholes.”\n\n“Excuse me?” I said, eyeing the water. “Where... | 1 | |
[WP]You discover time travel is controlled by a special part of the brain. While testing out that part of your brain, you receive a head injury damaging it. This causes you to travel to a random time period ever ten hours. | [
"It was groundbreaking. My work was finally going to get the attention it deserved. The anthropologists and biologists will all be apologizing to me soon.\n\nI wrote my paper after some testing on chimpanzees; the brain structure was similar and I found an area that had been over looked and not recorded. Behind the... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a captured POW in a dangerous foreign country. You are about to undergo your first torture session. The method: being dipped head-first into a barrel of acid. The hallucinogenic, not the hazardous corrosive substance. | [
"Little did they know, I've been prepared for this since I was a late teen. Rather than scared for my life I was nervouse, for I had never taken this large of a dose. I knew I had to go into it with out fear, and embrace the psychedelic hell to come. They tie me up so my arms and legs were bound together, the rope ... | 3 | |
Sorry if I have grammar mistakes on the title, I'm kinda bad writing in English | [WP] You wake up alone in a desert island. The only thing that you have is a note from your enemy: no one is going to find you here. You decide to live the fullest to piss him/her off | [
"(It is my first try. Sorry if it is long, or if you encounter any grammatical errors, English is not my mother tongue.)\n\nI woke up to beautiful sound of waves, and itching from sand. How did I get here? I was at a yatch party before, with Y. Shouldn’t have had that many tequila shots. How many had I have ? 15? 1... | 2 |
[WP] You're a thief. You steal an expensive camera from what you think is a foreign tourist. But after looking through their pictures, you quickly realize that you have messed with the wrong person. | [
"\"*Holy shit*\" I breathed as I flicked through picture after picture of what I could only describe as pure savagery.\n\nI felt a tingling sensation at the back of my neck, and I looked nervously over my shoulder expecting the worst. \n\nThere was nothing, and I stowed away the camera and began walking whilst thi... | 2 | |
[WP] You have an unusual curse. Unbeknownst to those around you, the weather you experience is based on your ever-changing emotions. | [
"Being bipolar is tough. Especially when the weather changes based on my mood.\n\nWhen I'm happy, it's partly cloudy, mild, and there's just enough of a breeze to tug your hair.\n\nWhen I'm sad, the sky is solid grey, a murky shade that makes you feel sick, and it rains so heavily you get soaked to the bone the sec... | 1 | |
[WP] I'm living on coffee and broken dreams. Now I've got to fix this tear in the.... | [
"I'm living on coffee and broken dreams. Now I've got to fix this tear in the space-time continuum, and it's a big one. It don't take much to change a whole lot either. A shift in air currents could cause a catastrophic storm. It takes more work than I care to imagine to fix this problem and enough negative energy ... | 1 | |
[WP] When the colony lost contact with Earth, they sent ships to reestablish contact. When the ships arrived... | [
"Space distorted and changed colours quickly as the three spaceships braked hard, leaving warp speed. They had been travelling at their max speed, 2 times the speed of light, and as such the braking manoeuvre created quite the show. \n\n\"Stat rep.\" Captain Huxley's voice was calm but strong. Determined. Demandin... | 1 | |
[WP] In a world of superpowers, you are the anomaly. After years of being bullied and being called 'freak', you finally can't take it anymore and reveal your immensely powerful superpower | [
"\"Waste of space.\"\n\"Failure.\"\n\"You should've died long ago.\"\n\"Freak.\"\n\nI've heard these words a thousand times over. In our brave new world where everybody has a gift or an ability that helps them contribute and reshape our society, there's a certain amount of disdain towards the people who can't do an... | 7 | |
Do people just lose, say, their ability to dance or jam out to music? Their early memories? Do they have to spend a day in hell? What do people get from these trades? Go wild :) | [WP] Demons start accepting/using micro-transactions for people who are looking to sell their soul | [
"After parking in a spot not too far away from the front door to the building, Kathy exited her car and slammed the door shut without looking at it. She adjusted the strap of a Michael Kors purse, its brass adornments gleaming, and walked purposefully through the sliding door. The warehouse-height building was loca... | 1 |
[WP] You see the mailman every day as you sit on your porch. One day he delivers you a letter stating your date of death. | [
"It was a normal Tuesday morning, or rather, it should have been. John got out of bed at seven thirty precisely, as he always did. Gingerly reaching for his slippers, he could feel the wear and tear on his back from his youth. As he walked down the hallway, the barren walls judged his every move. *Running low on be... | 1 | |
[WP] Unbeknownst to you, the bullies you encounter throughout life are your future reincarnations. They bully you in an attempt to whip you into shape. | [
"In law enforcement, there is a very common saying. \"We train for our lives.\" \n\nI would never understand how true this statement is until I reached the end of my career as an old, now retired police lieutenant. \n\nWhen I was growing up, I was always the smallest. I was often the youngest as well, as if to emph... | 1 | |
[WP] A young, depressed person has nowhere else to turn. They see an advertisement that says "Find again life in that which has died" and calls the number. A necromancer picks up. | [
"***Ring, ring, ring, ring, ring*** *click*\n\n\n - *\"Hello?\"*\n\n\n- \"Hi, is this the therapy line or crisis number...or something?\"\n\n\n- \"Therapy?\"\n\n\n- *\"Yeah, ...have I got the wron-\"*\n\n\n- \"This ain't no therapy\"\n\n\n\nThe caller sits there, silent. The man who answered does the same. A few ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the leader of a nomadic group of toy cars | [
"As i was trying to sleep on my tent thinking about our next stop, i heard Jag was screaming nonsense again, new members are yet to learn our ways and their duties, yet he cant shut about his bullshit. I am afraid he will effect their adolescent minds into his ridiculous cult. \nWell since the chanting continues i ... | 1 | |
The real reason, I was taught, has to do with stock companies and box office receipts.
Let's ignore that, shall we? (Unless we can subvert it, I suppose.) | [WP] The origin of why you can't say "Macbeth" without invoking its curse | [
"Macbeth was written by Bill Shakespeare, and a bill is a type of currency, and the currency of England is the pound, and a pound is also a unit of weight, and \"wait\" is what you do at the doctor's office, and the office is held by politicians, and politicians vote on matters of state, and the states of matter ar... | 1 |
[WP] A man appears from thin air before you. He briefly looks over his shoulder and then back at you as he hands you a briefcase. "Good luck," he says, disappearing as quickly as he arrived. | [
"(I missed the part about the briefcase, I'm sorry!!!)\n\n*\"Good luck\" *\n\nThen poof he was gone as quickly as he came. Was my mind playing tricks on me? Whatever. I turn to continue my walk when I bump into a pretty young woman, spilling her coffee. I try to stumble out an apology but get nowhere before her boy... | 1 | |
[WP] The idea that a superintelligent AI will someday overthrow humans has become so popular that when an AI finally appears and wages war on Earth, over half of humanity immediately defects to the AI out of fear. Problem is, the AI turns out to be an absolute idiot. | [
"We'd all seen skynet in terminator and countless other movies depicting the ai that fought a war on humanity and almost eliminated humanity so when turned up and declared war half of humanity defected to the ai to save their lives. How they defected no one knows since the ai were just essentially a program on a su... | 3 | |
[WP] An ancient dark evil that is destroyed by even the smallest amounts of natural light eagerly awaits the huge feast just minutes before the total eclipse that will cross the Unites states. | [
"At the beginning there were two. The Light and The Dark, locked in a never ending battle. Then from no where everything happened all at once. The Light had won the battle and The Dark had been grievously injured.\n\nWhen it woke up it was relieved. The Dark had thought that it would have faded out and become nothi... | 1 | |
[WP] You're part of a team of scientists researching cancer. You notice a colleague has gone home but left their computer on. Curiosity gets the better of you, and you find that a failed experiment that caused rapid growth of abnormally large tumors was sold to the largest meat producer in the US. | [
"I sat back in the rolling office chair staring into space as the chair rolled backwards across the gleaming white tile floor of our wonderful research facility. Vomit began to rise in my throat and I coughed it back. Wiping the back of my hand across my numb lips, I thought wildly of exactly every time I'd eaten m... | 1 | |
[WP] You find a black note book on the ground at first you think it is a death note but nope this is the life note. It works exactly like the death note but gives life to anyone who is dead. | [
"It was pretty hard to get how the book worked. Of course, on the first pages were some instructions and rules, also some recommendations, etc, but I needed to do some tests myself. The first one is how long can the dead people be.\n\nI tested on multiple boddies, from less than a day to over 10 years. There wasn't... | 1 | |
[WP] Aliens have recently discovered Earth. Trying to understand our strange culture, they secretly monitor you at work. This is their report. | [
"**Entry #1-**\n\n*The human* colloquially known as [NAME REDACTED] was first spotted at the establishment entering by the rear entrance. Initially, this was assumed to indicate they were uninvited, yet upon contact with the humans inside, it was greeted monotonously, as though welcome. As we observed [NAME REDACTE... | 1 | |
[WP] As you gazed into the flickering flames, you found yourself unable to push the seemingly idle thought out of your mind that the fire was gazing back. | [
"Oh how my heart raged! Angrily, powerfully! I roared with fury, practically razing everything in my mind. How could they? Damn them! I wanted them all to burn with my anger, now hotter than a thousand suns! I shook with fiery fury, staring into the fireplace. I could feel the heat on my face as I burned in r... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a farmer in a small village in the kingdom of Arapunji. Your village is threatened by flood and needs to be rescued but your king has abandoned your village due to the fact that more soldiers will lose their life in a rescue operation than villagers saved. | [
"\"Fine then, it will be up to me\" the skinny boy declared. \"Take me up to the Kempos, and I will be a sacrifice to our Water God Biychesaintshee.\"\nShe cried out in opposition, \"No Timbu!\" \nHe shook her violently, \"Yes, Finkalo, TAKE ME!\" The whole village roared. \"Take him!\", \"He wants it woman, are yo... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a naval officer, captain of your own ship, master of the seas. However, you were unfortunate enough to be born with the surname Kirk and your Chief Engineer Mr. Scott really isn't helping | [
"\"Let me get this straight,\" Judge Malcolm said, rubbing his eyes and sighing. \"You were under inspection by General Ambrose.\"\n\n\"Yes, that is correct.\" Captain Tommy Kirk said.\n\n\"And General Ambrose went down to meet with your chief engineer. Am I following so far?\"\n\n\"100%, your honor.\"\n\n\"And whe... | 1 | |
Just a tree I made up :) | [WP] Every different species of tree is one hive mind and can use each tree to talk to each other or people. You and the knob tree are mortal enemies. Now you just happen to be lost in a knob tree forest. | [
"Of course I got lost in the knob tree forest! The branches kept moving with turgidity to keep me disoriented. I don't have an endless supply of fuel for my chainsaw, though.\n\nThe normal solution might be to climb up a tree and look around for the edge of the forest, but that would be far too dangerous to me, for... | 1 |
[WP] When you arrive in heaven, you see that everyone is miserable from constant perfection. A former priest, you join the local clergy to help them. Only while performing your first blessing do you realize you actually cursed them to Hell, which to them is a liberating paradise from Heaven's rules. | [
"This is my fortieth day in hiding. We’re camped in the cleft of a hill south of the plains of Esau. Our grapevine says His Crusaders were last seen East of Eden which gives us two days to find the nearest GroundStar and retrieve another Catalyst. Unfortunately, we lost our last one when the Crusaders ambushed us b... | 1 | |
[WP] You're part of an elite defense force of teddy bears that are tasked with keeping children safe from any danger through the night. You've just been given to your newest charge. | [
"16 years.\n\n16 long and arduous years I have spent in the Kingdom of Smith. Our colossal household became home to many other valiant toys eventually, but I was the first. Now, us bears are the last.\n\nThose first years were lonely. Then when Hailey was born, I took it upon myself to defend her. It came to be sec... | 2 | |
[WP] You don't know that you are a cell of a human body. One day some 'people' of a small 'village' gain the knowledge that you are all part of a celestial, god-like giant. Said giant has thoughts, dreams and a life of its own. How does this realization change the lives of the cells around you? | [
"My time was almost upon me. That I was quite certain of. My mitochondria were not as active as they once were. Hell, they seemed to have slowed down just after this last doubling. My lysosomes are full it seems more often than not.I think my neighbors feel it as well. Fewer and fewer signaling molecules were being... | 1 | |
[WP] He received a letter with only three words: She is alive. | [
"He received a letter with only three words: She is alive.\n\nHe blinked down at the letter. He shifted in his chair, tapping his foot a little faster than he had been before. He blinked again.\nThe letter had clearly been for him. His name and address had been rather meticulously put on the front of the envelope i... | 1 | |
[WP] Your entire life, you've been preordained to stop the apocalypse. However, when the time comes, you are too shit-faced drunk to do anything. | [
"\"I love you Dara!\" My stutter is barely audible over the screeching of car alarms ringing down the deserted street.\n\"James you jackass!\" She screams back at me, tired of my incompetence.\n\"Have you paid attention to anything I've said?!?!\" \nI attempt to wipe my sweaty forehead with my hand, forgetting I'm ... | 1 | |
[WP] One day, it suddenly happens that the more money someone has, the dumber they get. | [
"\"Master Wayne, do you really think this is a good idea?\" Alfred said, looking at Bruce worriedly. Bruce smiled that charming goofy grin of his.\n\n\"Best idea I've ever had. Yet, anyways, Algernon.\"\n\nAlfred had given up on correcting Bruce a long time ago. The rise to riches had done his young master's prosop... | 1 | |
[WP] You are confronted by a Man who looks just like your dead father , you are shocked to learn your father didn't die in the first place. | [
"I remembered holding his hand by the ocean, crying. The pink little floaties were wrapped tightly on my waist, and my father assured me that they would keep me afloat, but I bawled my eyes out. The water was only up to my ankles, but I was frightened. Eventually, my father pulled up an umbrella and sat in the shad... | 1 | |
[WP] You've been in the Galactic Army for years, the only human in your squad. You are now on a mission gone terribly wrong, and your squad thinks all hope is lost. With nothing left to lose, you start killing all enemies in sight while your squad looks on in awe and terror. | [
"Then silence, for now.\n\nI turn around.\n\nThe rest of my squad is just standing there, in disbelief.\n\n\"You - you killed them, Johnson. You *killed* them.\"\n\nI couldn't quite understand their disbelief, so I responded with \"yeah.\"\n\n\"Wh... You just...\" said one of my mates, Mr. Brljurd, gesturing with a... | 1 | |
[WP] Winter is not coming. | [
"\"I canna taek it any more!\" Yelled a man at the dark morning sky. His full beard and unbrushed shoulder length hair combined with the dim yellow street lamp lighting his face from above contributed to an air of madness about him. This was accentuated by his choice of wardrobe, nothing more than a short pair of b... | 1 | |
My first post here on WP. My apologies for the length and/or if its a repeat lol | [WP] You've trained your whole life to be the best and that's exactly what you are. The single greatest athlete of all time. Master of every and all sports. Problem is none of them excite you anymore, you're too good, expect this one random odd-ball sport.... | [
"I blinked into the camera. I'd won the Superbowl pretty much on my own. I'd won every major award in every sport I could think of. Apart from the sportsmanship ones, but those were a joke. I was the best. Hockey, I'd broken every record anyone ever set. Basketball, mastered. Baseball, home run king. I'd played eve... | 2 |
Ex. If good gets to powerful, you help evil, and if evil gets to powerful you help good. | [WP] You live in a world where people with super powers are common. With more than enough heroes and villains fighting, you form an organization dedicated to keeping the balance of power between good and evil in check. | [
"\"Not much further now,\" Puzzle said, his breath as steady as if he was standing still. \n\nShe grunted in response, silently cursing the burning sensation in her chest that swelled with each breath. She couldn't help but compare herself to him, even though she knew that it wasn't fair. Running had never been her... | 1 |
[WP] Your newborn baby has woken up in the middle of the night crying. You enter his room to discover a time traveler who has gone back in time to kill the most evil man in history before he can harm anyone. | [
"\"Please spare my baby,\" I didn't have the energy to stand for much longer. \n\n\"I'm sorry but I have to do this,\" his curt reply was rough around the edges. Intent on harm. Like shards of glass tossed into my lungs, I couldn't breathe.\n\nMy son was in his arm, wailing, hiccups bursting from his tiny lips. And... | 1 | |
[WP] Make a story that seems dark and sad until the last paragraph which makes it a happy story | [
"Sometimes the heart feels emotion that your brain can't comprehend. I would wake up and you would be there, lying by my side, waiting for my affection. Just yesterday you were here. I looked outside today and the world continues as it were...\n\nI want to grab someone and shake them. I want to yell my rage. \n\n\"... | 3 | |
Write a journal or diary entry from the vantage of one of the last humans. Or just tell us a story. | [WP] 100 Trillion years into the future, the last of the major stars have all but exhausted their hydrogen fuel. The last vestiges of an extraordinarily advanced humanity are gathered around the last lit star in the known universe. And it's dying. | [
"Flemen stared at the star through the safety viewer, hoping to see again what he at first took for a hallucination. Not moments ago a face had appeared--at least Flemen thought it was a face. \"There! That's it!\" Flemen pointed to Slappius 9 excitedly and tugged on his colleague's sleeve. \n\n\"Well I'll be damne... | 13 |
[WP] Write a story that takes place anywhere except on the ground. | [
"\"Go skydiving\" they said. \"It'll be fun\" they said. But as the ground raced up at him, Rob was certain that this was the worst experience he had ever had. Oh sure, it was great at first, until he realized he was no longer strapped to the professional, who also happened to be the one with the parachute.",
"\"... | 6 | |
[WP] In an effort to fight ISIS, we resurrect a Waffen-SS division with their period correct equipment to do it for us. Despite being confused, they agree. | [
"When they said \"everything from the 1940s,\" they meant it. Planes, tanks, K98k rifles, MP40 machine pistols, MG42 machineguns...and meth. Holy shit, these guys did a lot of meth. They called it Pervitin, we call it meth, and the Third Reich would have made Heisenberg more wealthy than God. \n\n\"We cannot fight ... | 3 | |
[WP] Everything on the internet is actually true. | [
"My grandma was never the smartest woman when it came to technology. When I was 8, she accidentally got her identity stolen by emailing her social security number to a Nigerian scammer on Aol. When I was 12, she lost $1000 trying to win a Wal-Mart gift card from a pop-up ad. When I was 18 though, everything changed... | 1 | |
[WP] When you die, you are allowed to roll 1 six-sided die once. This die determines everything about your next life: looks, luck, etc. Roll an online die, tell us the number, and write a short excerpt about your next life. | [
"\"It is time\" \n\n \"for what\" I ask inquisitively as I peer up at the looming figure across the desk from me.\n\n\"To roll the die.\"\n\nI could feel the blank stare of stupidity on my face.\n\n\"The priest did give you a die right?\"\n\n\"He tried but I was busy trying to call my mom to tell her I loved her.\"... | 1 | |
[WP] A god that has been killed does not die. | [
"Here I sit inside my burnt Temple.\n\nAround me people sit in awe as they erect a new steeple;\n\nI used to have visage and power to match;\n\nuntil a burning one entered through my window patch.\n\nover shouted slurs, the hoots and the hollers;\n\nmy children inside my barred doors became martyrs.\n\nBut though I... | 2 | |
[WP] You work in an office. Lately, you've been noticing co-workers disappearing for days at a time. They come back...different. You must find out why. | [
"This is a story of a man na- wait what? Are those voices? Are there other *people* outside Stanley's door right now? In the office space where there is supposed to be *no one*? Let me just see who these- oh come on, really now, I have never had another human in this story, and even if I did they wouldn't look so l... | 1 | |
Bonus points if your submission is a comedy. | [WP] You are part of a love triangle where the other characters are serial killers and you cannot escape their advances. | [
"\"Hey...John...wake up...\" My eyes open, sleep blurring my vision. The mix of colors...shifts...and my vision finally clears.\n\nSarah's sitting on my chest, staring at me. She's holding...a head, hand through it's neck, working the mouth like a puppet. \"Sarah says you've gotta help hide me.\" The head, belongin... | 1 |
[WP] You are an omnipotent God living amongst your most precious creation; humans. You notice your power is slipping and someone has finally started to question who you are. | [
"This was the second proudest day of my immortal life: my sons and daughters were taking their first baby steps toward civilization. My proudest day? Obviously when Ross Perot wins the 1992 US election to become president. it's so obvious I never even bothered to look at his inauguration. Why spoil his inevitably ... | 2 | |
[WP] Use the last sentence of your favorite novel as the first sentence in a short story. It's not necessary to use the same characters/setting. | [
"Gravely she walked beside him up the white streets of Havnor, holding his hand, like a child coming home. But now there were no merchants at the empty market stalls, no children running around, no dogs and cats in the alleys, not even seagulls above the town’s tall towers. Only the salty wind was there to greet th... | 1 | |
[WP] You jokingly ask the hotel staff for an extra googolplex of pillows, that was a mistake. | [
"I opened the door to find a tsunami of cotton rushing towards me.\n\n\"What the...?\" I yell as I am engulfed in the tide of pillows. I am barely able to reach the surface as the river flows out of the hotel and into the street.\n\nNow, one might ask, \"How did our dashingly handsome protagonist get himself into s... | 1 | |
[WP] "Dang it Steve! You had *one* job! How did you even cause an apocalypse?!?!" | [
"\"Dang it Steve! You had *one* job! How did you even cause an apocalypse?!\" Robert the store manager didn't yell. That would imply that his voice didn't crack when he screamed the words in my direction.\n\nPeople were rushing out of the store screaming along with my manager who quickly made his way out of the bui... | 1 | |
[WP] In the middle of the Nevada desert, a massive mirror appears and floats in midair. Any and all who look upon it are shown their true self as they appear to everyone else. | [
"Almost to the front of the line, Amanda couldn't help but rearrange her hair, running her fingers through it in nervousness, feeling as though every inch of her body stuck out in awkward unpleasant ways. She could feel sweat forming across her skin, her heart racing, her movements jittery and unfocused. She gulp... | 2 | |
[WP] You born with the ability to manipulate matter and time the way you desire. You can make anything happen. Soon, you discover that as your brain learns any mathematical principle or any physics law your powers disapear accordingly to the kind of knowledge you have gained. | [
"Lightning crashes down upon my house. I’m inside of it. I am it, and if this book is of any use, I’ll never have to be it again. \n\nMy life has always been hard because of these powers. When I was six, I ripped my sister apart with my bare hands. There was a terrible argument over something petty. We were young a... | 2 | |
[WP] You're an NPC who is aware that they are a part of a D&D campaign. The campaign has been going badly. Both the players and the DM are thinking about quitting. You want to live, and can't let this happen. | [
"\"Raaaghghgh!!\" Screamed Thod, the gnome barbarian as he attempted to strike the lich not 1 grid away from him, I watched as the axe cleaved through the undead lord dealing some damage \"decent roll, well done\" I thought to myself as I awaited my turn. Oh no, I'm not a player, just a poor 'npc' who rolled a high... | 2 | |
[WP] You're having a fun night out with someone you met at a bar, but at the most awkward moment that it could possibly happen you find out he/she is a werewolf | [
"I had met Lucy at the bar the other night, where after we had had a few drinks together, she gave me her number and address and asked me to \"come over sometime soon.\" I gave her mine, and we parted ways. I had the perfect date in mind: a walk under the full moon through her neighborhood, and it would be tonight.... | 1 | |
[WP] You're an assassin with a 100% success rate, but never get within a mile radius of your victims. | [
"I've been killing people for a while now. It's a fun job. At least it is when you don't have to see your victim die. I should explain. I'm an artist. I paint for a living. The funny thing is my paintings tend to kill their subjects. I first noticed when I was practicing as a kid. I would paint flowers. Within hour... | 1 | |
[WP] When mortals in our universe die, they become the gods of other universes. The type of god they become depends on their skill set when they were alive. You are a worldbuilder. | [
"Euke'narazétih, or *Alberto*, had crafted his first piece of land many centuries ago. A barren piece of land crafted out of a single piece of flat clay. The people of these lands named it *Ond'enai*, the long fields. He had come far since then, he now could craft entire oceans as if it was nothing.\n\nAs he ran hi... | 1 |
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