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[WP] It's a post apocalypse, but the people in this suburb still have block parties, hang out, borrow sugar from one another, etc. | [
"The walls they built were sound. They knew what was coming. Instead of retreating into their own homes, the good people decided to be better together. The underground pantry system works well, people take what they are allotted weekly. There are groups that hunt in the surrounding areas for the animals that made i... | 2 | |
[WP]Instead of trying to kill Harry as a baby, Voldemort just killed his parents and abducted him. Tell me the story of Harry raised by Voldemort. | [
"\"You have lost, bow before me and you will be spared\" Lord Voldemort exclaimed triumphantly in front of Hogwarts' courtyard. \n\nMost of the defenders stood, defiantly, still with hopes of victory. Dumbledore has died assassinated by the basilisk in the chamber of secrets, the order of the Phoenix were hunted do... | 4 | |
[WP] Vincent Van Gogh and Edgar Allan Poe meet you at the Pearly Gates. Poe says, "You're invited to the Too Late club, for people who only became famous after their death. And by the way, it totally sucks." | [
"The line set me back, reeling in disbelief. \n \n*What did I do?* \n \nI thought back to my life. It had seemed like such a tiny, unimportant thing. Standing in front of two men I had admired beginning in Middle School and having them say that my life had been remembered at all was flattering. \n\n\"But what for?... | 2 | |
[WP] The heat is regularly above 100°F in the U.S now, and the phrase 'to sweat bullets' is now a real thing. In a worldwide crisis of an AK47 ammo shortage, the US decides to cut down on obesity by drafting large men to do nothing but physical exercise to produce the bullets to aid the soldiers. | [
"“**JOHNSTON**! We need **more ammo!**”\n\nBlake was under heavy fire, shouting at Brody from across the clearing. Brody had sprinted ahead during a lull in the crossfire, but there was no way Brody could keep up. \n\nBrody had to do it though. As an elite member of the 12th Ground Squad it was his duty to sweat en... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a superhero with a power so incredibly destructive that there is no way you can use it without obliterating yourself and our planet. Tell me about the time you finally decide to use it. | [
"The first time I noticed I was different was on July 16, 1945.\n\nMy name was Adam.\n\nI was walking the hills outside my home town of Alamagordo New Mexico, early in the morning. Unable to sleep I roamed the hills looking for a way to quiet the bees in my head. \n\nThe War was on. My mother had given all her stoc... | 2 | |
[WP] She's a sexy Werewolf secret agent with a secretive past. He's works part time at the local pizza joint and is studying to be a dentist. Together, they tackle who's turn it is buy coffee. | [
"\"and that's game\" he declared loudly as he threw down his hand of cards face up winking at Claudia and finishing his coffee. Claudia squinted her eyes the rules in place, the objective cards and every placed keeper and creeper. That toothy bastard had pulled it off with panache. \"you motherfucker, you sneaky sn... | 1 | |
[WP] Jaxarians are widely considered to be the dumbest sentient species in the galaxy, as they've never talked, even when subjected to the worst ridicule. However, today someone has done something so incredibly stupid that a Jaxarid has broken its species 10,000 year long vow of silence. | [
"Jaxarid. They are rumored to be mute, saying nothing, not even in times of life-and-death danger. They all stand two meters tall and are generally slender, faceless, well-dressed, mysterious, humanoid things, harkening back to an old human horror video game from times long, long ago. Whether they are a hive mind o... | 2 | |
Write about tracking down and capturing illegal time travelers who attempt to implant themselves into alternate timelines.
Or not, write whatever calls to you from the void of your inner muse. | [WP] You work for the Temporal Immigration Agency, which tracks and monitors time travelers who move between different timelines. | [
"A young man ran frantically down the street, desperately avoiding the gunshots that exploded around his head. He ducked and dodged as he made his way around a corner, desperately clutching a metal briefcase to his side. When he felt he had a moment of safety, he cracked it open and peeked inside, giving a sigh of ... | 4 |
[WP] It turns out that reincarnation is the true religion! You have died and find yourself reincarnated as an animal cracker. | [
"\"Oh, shit. I'm an Animal Cracker.\" I tried to wiggle my legs. I think I was an elephant. \"How did this happen?\"\n\n\"Howdy,\" said a donkey. \"You were reincarnated.\"\n\n\"Wow. You can be reincarnated as an Animal Cracker?\"\n\n\"Yep. We'll be eaten and our souls stapled to the wheel of life and death, to be ... | 1 | |
[WP] Humans can spontaneously gain abilities from their last social media post. Your last post? "Danny DeVito is my spirit animal" | [
"On Sunday morning, my hair began to fall out. \nNot that this was anything new, I periodically lose hair from stress which is terribly inconvenient for a woman. This time was different though as instead of just a small patch of hair being bare and able to be covered, it came out in fist-full clumps. \nMonday mor... | 1 | |
[WP] Your psychiatrist refuses to treat you, because you are hopelessly repressed. You should stay this way as long as possible, because beneath the surface you are an untreatable monster. | [
"At nights I wake up sweaty, awoken by nightmares and atrocities commited by a person I can't see. And now every day I walk around haunted by images I can't *un*see - panic stricken pale faces in wide eyed fear of whoever -*what*ever- it is that is coming towards them...\n\n~~~\n\n\"Hi.\" My smile is as fake as th... | 1 | |
Idk if this has been done yet but I thought it would be a cool concept | [WP] You realized that after a freak accident you have the ability to freeze time, but it's been several hours and you don't know how to change it back. | [
"DAY 1:\n\nI almost got killed, who gets drunk and drive a truck? This son of a bitch in front of me.\n\nI was really close, time froze when the truck touched my butt, maybe I have a magic butt? I almost died from a heart attack when I looked back and saw a fucking truck so close.\n\nI punched him, do you think it ... | 4 |
[WP] When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade, right? You've been receiving lemons for four years and it's becoming tiresome. | [
"Day 1: Dear Diary\n\nToday was pretty shitty, but in a surprising twist I came home to a basket of lemons! I decided to make a lemon cheesecake in order to celebrate me and my girlfriend's 3 month anniversary.\n\nGood night!\n\nDay 7: I got lemons again today. For the seventh time this week. My girlfriend was weir... | 1 | |
[WP] "Due to technical difficulties, fire has been temporarily disabled. We apologize for the inconvenience. - God" | [
"\"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU LOST THE FILE?\"\n\n\"Well I... uh... um\"\n\n\"This is your last chance, Stewart. The updated version up and running by tomorrow morning or you can say buh-bye to your job.\" God stood back, gave him another glare for good measure and stomped out of the door. Stewart pushed up his glasses, ... | 2 | |
[WP] Dragons have always been a part of society. Humans and dragons co-dominate the planet as the higher species. Your roommate is a stoner dragon with no career prospects. You want to help them change that. | [
"\"Dude, what are you still *doing* here today? Go out and, I dunno. Fly around? Eat something? Find a hobby?\"\n\nI asked the question, but I really didn't expect a response. I wasn't disappointed. A puff of smoke wafted its way over to me, from where he sat curled into his nook, glaring at me from lidded ey... | 1 | |
[WP] You frowned suspiciously. This was not what the Regime told you to expect when you found the rebel leader. | [
"Four men entered a long white corridor that seemed to grow larger in size as they went further in. One of them was a short, stout man. He looked like more of a barrel than a human. Next to him stood his opposite, a giant so large he wore pieces of armor taken from artillery and tanks like a suit of armor. The man ... | 1 | |
[WP]You walk in an abandoned castle, and then the floor breaks under you and you fall 30 feet. You see a skeleton and sword beside you, then you hear a growl. | [
"No matter which part of my body hit the ground, that drop should have guaranteed me a dead man. \n\nBut it didn’t. \n\nIt still left me disoriented however. My face pressed against a cold cobblestone floor. The flickering of a torch was audible to my right, which should have been a blessing at first. That was un... | 2 | |
[WP] You found a real world "Mug of Many Things." Whenever you drink from it, what liquid you needed most was in it. Coffee for that boost in being awake, water for the parched, even a little liquor for killing cowardice. Today you taste something truly unexpected. | [
"The old man came around to this bar every day for a few months. He’d sit in the corner lookin’ all frail with sunken eyes and missin’ teeth, holdin’ onto that peculiar mug of his with his right hand and spinning some kind of coin on the table with his left. He was always lookin’ down at that mug – mutterin’ quiet ... | 11 | |
[WP] Describe an Apple. | [
"I saw her abstract shape, sitting in a plain fruit bowl on my mom's counter top. Wide curves at the top of her, slimming down to a crown made of arcs at the bottom. I smirked, and she blushed a dark shade of red, a perfect rose color. She had a glossy shine, a reflection of the chandelier hanging above us. The whi... | 1 | |
[WP] You're the chosen one. Everyone's told you this all your life. The problem is nobody knows what you're chosen for. | [
"The way my mother looks at me. Dilated pupils fixated upon me, hazel irises cracking with anticipation. A distant sadness. It's the same way a lot of people look at me. Strangers. People I've never met before, their eyes bright just where the light is reflected, dim everywhere else. The President--the Commander In... | 2 | |
[WP] Companies are people too. Literally. When a company is founded, it's avatar appears in the real world. The avatar evolves as the company grows. | [
"My first WP, typing on my phone. \n\nThe sun was setting, flecks of red and gold painted the sky. It had been a hot and tiresome day. John had been stuck in traffic for almost an hour. \nOn the horizon, a hulking blue creature sat still on the highway. \nJohn flicked on the radio, a mellow voice recited the traffi... | 2 | |
[WP] While enjoying your morning cup of coffee you read, like every morning, the minds of the people walking by. Until you are interupted by a female voice in your head who tells you to knock it off. 'All of your talent is wasted if you continue to live as careless as this' she says. | [
"*When will he text me back?* \n\n*My paycheck comes today.*\n\n*God, she's hot.* \n\nI looked around the small, quaint coffee shop and matched the voices to the face. It was a little game I had developed, just to make mornings a little more fun. When I first realized I could hear people's thoughts, I was pretty ex... | 2 | |
[WP] After months of searching, rescuers finally find the wreckage of a lost plane deep in wilderness. Surprisingly, the passengers and crew are unharmed. Even more surprisingly, All of the survivors adamantly refuse to be rescued. | [
"Back to reality which is more brutal than ever. \nWish we could all go back up to neverland and dream together. \nI thought life was great and that it couldn't get better. \nUntil I went to neverland and felt more love than I could ask for. \nBack to reality, they're trying to save us just to hold us captive. \nDo... | 1 | |
Meet* | [WP]You're a dreamwalker, you help children go to sleep by interacting with them in their dreams. There are cases where you have to revisit some of them. Until you met a child whose dream keeps coming back, each time, scarier. | [
"They come to me in the same way every time. A parent, sometimes two (but usually just one), looking nervous, will drag along a sullen, sunken-eyed child. There is always a story--meaningless background, apologetic deference, pleading. The years may change, but they always offer money--coin, paper, trinkets, the li... | 1 |
[WP] You look up "murders near me" on the internet, it tells you the current location of 7 killers. One of them is behind you. | [
"\"Oh shit...\"\n\nThat was all I could mutter before turning around and seeing my friend, Jack, right behind me, knife in hand. I grabbed his arm and looked him in the eye, trying to be as serious as I could possibly get across.\n\n\"It's been a week, the cops know, and they know you're here. I'm fucked now, you'r... | 3 | |
[WP] “Sir, you’ve just been mugged. We think they stole some memories, is there anything you can’t remember?” | [
"\"Sir? Sir? Can you hear me?\"\n\nIt was as if someone squeezed by brain between two cymbals clanging together again and again. A high-pitch wail assaulted my ears. My eyes felt coated in sand. I squeezed them tighter. I was on the cold sidewalk. How did I get here?\n\n\"Oh my God, oh my God.\" It was a man's voic... | 4 | |
[WP] You are given a chance to alter history and save your four best friends who each died in a different tragic manner , but you can only choose one | [
"Jennifer wouldn't survive the overdose. And honestly, my best friend... As good a friend as she was, I don't know that any change I make could save her from herself. I can't save her. \n\nKyle hung himself. He couldn't handle it, and he made his decision. Even if I saved him, he'd never be happy, never be the sa... | 1 | |
[WP] The year is 1998, and a race of colossal robots land on Earth. They aren't here to invade, but to defend us from their creators. | [
"…They stood like a pantheon of twisted steel gods, towering in a humbling perfection that had been crafted by forges and smiths beyond the furthest stars. We had only just laid eyes upon their visage and we had already resigned to annihilation. We could not hope to resist against such beings, so bafflingly beyond ... | 2 | |
[WP] A lone explorer is wandering the galaxy, cataloging distant worlds. Tell me his story... | [
"The explorer had wandered endlessly, ceaselessly, for so many years that he had long since forgotten when or where his journey began.\n\nBut he remembered that he had a family. Brothers that he would never meet, young and old alike. And a mother that held no semblance of love for any of her children.\n\nHe took a ... | 2 | |
[WP] A scientific experiment gone wrong causes a worldwide effect of ghostly afterimages of events that happened several months prior being seen playing out in realtime. Law enforcement quickly realises their opportunity to uncover the truth in a number of unsolved cases - but criminals do as well. | [
"As I sat in the shade of the oak tree, sipping a cold beer, I began to feel the first touch of doubt. Maybe he wouldn't be coming.\n\nI pushed the thought aside. He would be here... they always showed up. The experiment made sure of that.\n\n10 years ago, a scientific experiment had taken place at a covert laborat... | 1 | |
[WP] She was making breakfast when it happened. One minute nobody was in the kitchen except her then with a flash, three armed men appeared. | [
"\"Valerie Stephens.\" \n\nA low moan escapes her lips. She tries turning her head, but the linoleum floor pressing against her cheekbone prevents it. Why is the floor there? \n\n\"Valerie Stephens.\" \n\nA hobnailed boot heel smashes against her hand, driving white-hot pain up her forearm and a breathless gasp ... | 2 | |
Inspired by [this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/6x1egl/a_chunk_of_dirt_that_was_struck_by_lightning_and/dmcgdmj/) by /u/casualsax! | [WP] Imagine a younger species of man, one that didn't have their parents repeatedly tell them "Don't play with fire." How did the world end up? | [
"A man stood near a flame. It yelled and roared with heat and light. Courage overtook the man, and he challenged the fire, screeched at it, waved his hands about; the man plunged towards the fire, stopping just before it.\n\nThe heat overwhelmed the man and he stepped back. Sweat formed on his forehead; beads began... | 5 |
[WP] A story about any two lyrics from Don McLean's song American Pie. | [
"Aaron felt a sharp pain in his chest as he pulled out his bandleader outfit for the last time. It didn’t help that the wounds of Mr. Halvern’s termination were still fresh. \n\nHe had come into class the day before dressed in drab browns and grays instead of his usual checkered button ups, smelling vaguely of spic... | 2 | |
[WP] While camping, you're awakened by a girls crying. Having made your way thru heavy brush you come to a clearing. A young girl has her face in her hands. You approach, she looks up and extends her hand. Placing your hand in hers she stops crying and says, "You shouldn't have done that." | [
"\"What?\" I asked as I tilted my head, not having understood a word the young girl said.\n\nWhat I didn't expect was her sudden recoil and frantic yelling in a language I couldn't make heads or tails of. It was clearly a language-- not psychotic yammering --but I'd never heard it before, which was saying something... | 1 | |
[WP] Each night for years you lucid dream your fantasy world you have created for yourself. You have interactions with people, but you know it isn't real. Slowly, you realize someone behaves outside your control. | [
"Joshua slumped down on the couch, letting out a heavy sigh. For a moment that felt like forever, he just sat there, eyes half-closed as he let his breathing settle into an even rhythm. He wanted desperately to go to sleep, to dream away the day. He wanted to go home, to a home that felt more real than this drea... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a child's history report on batman 50 years after batman disappeared. | [
"*The Batman was an important figure in modern American history. He was first spotted in Gotham City in the year 1939, but quickly rose to fame after that. Some say he was an American version of Robin Hood, a british tale about a robber with a heart of gold. Others say he was more than that, he was the one true ... | 2 | |
[WP] You wake up to a world void of music. | [
"You wake up to an alarm. Radio people. Chattering. *Hm? Odd*, you think, stretching your arms above your head, hearing those satisfying cracks in your shoulders. \n\nYou land your bare feet out of bed. The floor is cold. Shivers climb up your body. You change the channel of the radio automatically without a though... | 1 | |
[WP] A family member passes away but gets revived miraculously by defibrillators a week later. You get five minutes to ask them any question you want about the time after death/how it was dying. | [
"\"*Only* six minutes?\"\n\n\"Five now.\" The doctor looked at his watch to confirm. \"Yeah, five minutes. I'll go ahead and leave you two to it.\"\n\nThe doctor stepped out of the room.\n\nThe young man sighed as he pulled up a chair right next to the woman laying down in the hospital bed. Her eyes were just barel... | 1 | |
[WP] A time traveler is permitted to make one change in the timeline. The caveat is that another change of equal severity and outside of the traveler's control will take place. | [
"LIFE IN THE VOID\n\nI pondered the consequences of whatever decision I might make. I was faced with likely the most important decision ever to be made.\n\nI could kill Adolf Hitler when he was a child, then potentially resurrect Ghangus Kahn. I could cause myself to never be faced with this decision, then lose my ... | 1 | |
Think of it as mad max with flowers :D | [WP] In the middle of the Wasteland, There is a flower that is said can grant people's wishes no matter how big or small it is. Many of the Greedy and the Hungry try to do what it takes to find it. Meanwhile on the front of your shack lies the flower blooming. | [
"\"HEY, FUCKER!\"\n\nI smashed my head on the ceiling as I awoke with a start. I grabbed my knife and rolled off the bed. Even with my vision still foggy, I could tell there wasn't anyone in my shack. Standing up, I tried to figure out where the voice came from. It was deep, like the howl of the night, eerie too. T... | 1 |
[WP] Every story in this prompt takes place in the same universe. | [
"**Blog entry 1.0, 01-29-2043**\n\nLiving on planet earth still has its perks despite polluted water and bigotry. It has my favorite superhero, Earthling.\n\nHe’s always on the news eliminating the threat and saving cats stuck in trees.\nDressed in brown spandex coupled with a hooded green cape, you wonder who is ... | 1 | |
[WP] You're not always sad, but when you are, the whole world is here for you. | [
"I sat down on my bed. I couldn't believe the events that unfolded today. I loved her so much, and I never got the chance to tell her. I set my head down, and cried my heart out. I must have cried for a whole hour when all of a sudden, the notifications on my phone were going crazy. Millions of unknown numbers text... | 2 | |
[WP] You pick-up a hitchhiker and ask where to; they say they were told by angels to hitchhike and that they are now going wherever you are headed. | [
"I was about due for a nutbag, but this is terribly inconvenient timing.\n\nPeople who hitch rides are some of the most interesting people I’ve met. Even if they’re not in the middle of an extreme circumstance, or on some life-changing journey, most of them can at least hold a decent conversation. The majority of t... | 1 | |
[WP] Your sentenced to death for a crime you did not commit. On the lethal injection gurney, you say your last words, but then a fiery pentagram appears on the floor.... | [
"'Hello, Jack,' the voice said in the near-silent room.\n\nI turned to see the thing before me. That was the only real way to describe the one standing above me, his silver hair slicked back and reaching to just above his back, his leathery, tight skin over a fit and muscular frame. His smile was oddly welcoming, a... | 1 | |
[WP] extroverts get their energy from the people around them, introverts get their energy from within. Extroverts have started to farm introverts and harvest their energy, and you've just been put in charge. | [
"It had taken months of planning. I fought hard to get to the top, took their energy and did whatever I felt like. The look in the poor introverts faces as they met me, their new master, Little did they realize... For decades they had been used to power the political elite of Earth, and now no more. I had discovere... | 7 | |
[WP] You are a potato and one faithful day, you got picked up. | [
"There existed a fat Irish spud\nWhom, from Sol, was the color of blood\nFateful day is today\nSo the spud shouts \"hooray\"\nThat he gets to be plucked up from the mud. \n\nNow, that same old Irish potato\nWho got sunburnt and appeared a tomato\nHad a day that was fated\nFor hash browns to be grated\nAnd then set ... | 1 | |
[WP] When a person dies, they get a final phone call from the afterlife to one person who is still living. Most of the deceased will call their close family or friends. One day, you’re called by a stranger. | [
"The phone is ringing, unknown number, puzzled i pick up the call.\n\n\"Hi, who's talking?\"\n\"Hi, is Seymour there? Last name Butz\"\n\"Oh man that one is from the simpson, I already heard that one..\"\n\"Damn, sorry pal it was my last and only prank call.. wanted to try it...\"\n\"Oh... so sorry, wanna try again... | 18 | |
[WP] Moses returns to Earth with an important message: The Commandment said "Thou Shalt Not Kill Spiders" | [
"It was with with a surprised happiness that Ethan faced Moses in the alleyway next to a brothel. \"Moses, don't tell me that even you've fallen to such lows?\" \n\n\"No, no,\" Moses shook his head, hippie hair animated with each shake. \"I-\" \n\n\"I know you parted the sea man, here to part legs now?\" Ethan's ... | 1 | |
[WP] Neanderthals didn't go extinct, rather, they achieved space flight far before Homo sapiens and took to the stars before recorded history. They watch humanity, waiting for a time to return. That time is now. | [
"The material making up the ship was made up of carbon nanotubes pulled into a thread and then woven into a cloth, the cloth was then sealed with resin to make it airtight. It was then stretched along supports in the keraveno ship yard, orbiting zereph.\n\nFalpan had worked for 22 hours and 15 minutes straight with... | 2 | |
[WP] Every 30 minuets a demon is summoned from a pentagram, your job is to kill it. You are a Demon Spawn Camper. | [
"I glance at the clock its now 15 past the hour. \nWhy did I eat from a convenience store? I was hungry and I had to put gasoline in the tank. With limited time before work it seemed like a choice that benefited my attendance with minor effort. None of the choices seemed like a good idea now in hindsight. From ... | 4 | |
[WP] For the past few years you told everyone you were going to college, but you were actually doing something far, far more important. | [
"I hugged my mother and father as we exchanged our final goodbyes before I turned around and started towards the van parked in the driveway. As I stepped in, the realization began to set in that this neighborhood, which had watched me grow from a rambunctious child into a mature diligent adult, I would not see agai... | 1 | |
[WP] First contact happens when you are in your barn milking cows. The alien begins attacking Dolly, your best milk cow. Using redneck ingenuity you must defend your cows. | [
"\"What in da hell is that Betty?\" Johnny calls out.\n\n\"I don know Jimmy, must be one of those space aliens from the movies, Imma go get the shotgun. \" Betty responds as she gets up from the utters and sneaks off.\n\n\"Hey you... Mr.Alien what in the world are ya doin to my Dolly?\" Jimmy yells at the top of hi... | 1 | |
[WP] Life and Death show up to the same hospital room. | [
"\"What's it now Janet?\" I heard a grumpy voice beside me. I looked to it and saw a hooded figure, scythe on his left hand, looking ready to swipe me to non-existence. This must be my death, as I am euthanised. \n\n\"It will be fun this time Kammy.\" Another voice spoke from my right. Is death actually two people?... | 4 | |
[WP] US soldier dies and goes to asguard | [
"''*A feast*,\" a deep voice thundered. \"*A feast! And ale, and mirth! For we have a new brother to welcome to the hall!*\"\n\n\nThe young Marine looked around nervously, unsure of just what the hell was going on. One moment, he'd been screaming and thrashing in the godawful powdery moon dust of southern Afgha... | 2 | |
[WP] Humanity has finally joined the galactic community. Turns out, we've always had terrifying magic, we just never knew it. We are the equivalent of Orks and the universe is about to witness its first WAAAGH! | [
"The beginning to our end was simple. Few heard the death knell until it was beyond our ability to stop.\n\nHumans were such simple creatures. They had weapons of destruction that terrified our intellectual elite.\n\nNot for the power they produced, though that was terrifying in its own right. \n\nIt was because of... | 2 | |
[WP] "Every night, she sleeps like the dead. The living dead." | [
"\"Oh, dear, please stop shifting around so much.\"\n\n\"Muuhhhhh...\"\n\n\"No, dear, come back. No no no, not outside. Oh for the love of christ, come back!\"\n\n\"Muuuhhhhhh?\"\n\n\"Yes, come back to bed. I know you want flesh etc. Etc. But you'll have to wait till the morning for that. It's 3 AM, lets go back to... | 1 | |
[WP] You're actively outspoken about a company's ownership of your biometric & fingerprint security, AI assistant and voice recognition data coupled with their recent experiments into prosthesis and robotics. A loud knock on your door reveals a perfect robotic replica of you standing on your porch | [
"\"Look Bio-Dave, I just want you to sit down and we can talk this out over a nice cup of chamomile. It's our favorite!\" It said calmly. \n\nIt has my face. It looks exactly like me. Those bastards. I knew it would come to this once they starting collecting our search history. Better tailoring your shopping exper... | 1 | |
[WP] Human belief creates our own Gods. You created a fake religion in order to capitalise on your followers blind faith for your own gain but now you must face an actual deity of your own creation. | [
"It all seemed so simple when it started. We didn't know. I didn't know. I just wanted to be caught up on my rent and thought it would be funny. We put the app together in 5 hours. Basically nothing more than a donate button and that stupid little line, \"$1 will grant you blessings of the golden dragon\". People b... | 2 | |
[WP] The good news: you're doing "Groundhog Day" of your favourite day. The bad news: one detail is permanently changed every day you relive it. The worse news: it's been so long that you recognise nothing of the original day. | [
"I began sighing as I rolled out of bed, turning to see the calendar still showing June 18th.\n\n\nWhich it had done for oh, twelve maybe thirteen years in a row now, I stopped bothering to count after the first decade.\n\nScratching myself I drew back the curtains to see the familiar scene of the early morning str... | 1 | |
[WP] It's just me and myself. I'm missing. | [
"\"Is that really you, Sei?\"\n\nHe glanced up at the sound of a familiar voice. He couldn't see very well in the light of the corridor beyond, not after days in the darkness of this chamber. \n\nThere was a familiar *scent* in the air. \n\n\"Koharu,\" he identified after a moment. He chuckled, \"It's me. All that'... | 1 | |
[WP] In a world where your supernatural abilities are decided by your surname, the Cosmic family are known as the most powerful people until a mysterious man arrives. | [
"*Excerpt from the journal of Mr. Elias Wood, butler to the prestigious Cosmic family*\n\nAugust 10th, 1921\n\n6:42 PM\n\n\nShortly after supper, there was a knocking at the front door. Naturally, I started towards it to answer, but Master Tobias protested: \"I will answer the door personally, Elias. An old frien... | 3 | |
[WP] "Look, even the paranormal society thinks investigating that place is a bad idea. Why is it so important to you anyway?" | [
"\"I don't care.\"\n\n\"But--\"\n\n\"But nothing, Tim! I hunt ghosts like the animals they are, and Arkham Asylum is the most haunted place in America! You do the math, *Robin*!\"\n\nThe elderly man sank into his wheelchair, defeated.\n\nI sighed and pinched the bridge of my nose. \"What *I* don't get is why you're... | 6 | |
[WP] You're in extreme danger, but no one can say from whom or what... | [
"Mr. Ollivander: Curious... very curious...\n\nHarry: Sorry, but what's curious?\n\nMr. Ollivander: I remember every wand I've ever sold, Mr. Potter. It so happens that the phoenix whose tailfeather resides in your wand gave another feather... just one other. It is curious that you should be destined for this wand ... | 1 | |
[WP] You, an up-and-coming super hero, are less than pleased with the super hero name the press has given you... | [
"It's been a year since I first got my powers, and it seems like I've barely made any progress. I've saved numerous people, saved many a cat from many a tree, stopped several villains, but this, this has to be the worst yet.\n\nI scrunch the newspaper up and chuck in into the fireplace. I watch as it burns away, th... | 1 | |
[WP] A pretty face and a rotten heart | [
"A Pretty Face, a Rotten Heart.\n\tBy *Jacob Dela*\n****\n\n“Angela, Angela, Angela.” He kept saying her name, saying it like he was trying so hard **not** to forget it. “Angela!” His voice spiked with anger as his body jerks left then right, in his hands were a pipe as he beat down on a desk, his face was frothing... | 1 | |
[WP] In a shadow war between opposing groups within the US Deep State, you are a special forces operator tasked with infiltrating a top secret facility in the Nevada Desert | [
"\"Aten-Hut!\". The colonel strode into a small dark room illuminated by a single lantern on the table. Fourteen men, garbed in black, were at attention before him. \n\n\"At ease\" the colonel said. The silent men took a seat, but their laser like focus and calm demeanor did not change. The colonel wondered as he g... | 1 | |
[WP] Alien scientists debate over whether us humans should be considered sentient or not. | [
"“Welcome Arbiter, the court thanks you for your service.”\n\nGalen Wynn placed his right hand flat on his chest, presumably the equivalent of a bow in his society and returned to his seat beside Jacob. Galen’s arguments, from what Jacob could ascertain, were going quite well, though his grasp on the proceedings w... | 1 | |
[WP] Every Sunday for the last year, you've walked to the end of your driveway and found the paper for next week. You've predicted events and avoided mishaps with perfect accuracy. Today, it's not there. | [
"It wasn't there. I checked all over the driveway. Looked through every bush. Turned over ever rock. But it was nowhere to be found. I groaned, slumping into the crevices of my couch. What was I going to do? That newspaper was my Bible. I’d been following every word of it for the past year, and been reaping the ... | 1 | |
I used a baker for the title, but any mundane job will do really :) | [WP] "A former assassin seeks a quiet life as a baker but is agitated when he discovers that this is a cover for another assassin agency" | [
"I walked through the main street that morning. It was only a few minutes past nine and the village had begun to wake up. Two children rushed past me, avidly spotting the ice everyone else avoided so they could slide away (until one of them invariably fell on his behind). An old woman who'd come at her window, appe... | 1 |
[WP] I have fallen only for the best of you, yet I know I'll love even the worst of you. I want to bring out the best in you, like saturation does to hue. | [
"... \nI want to give you the best of me, \nBut I'm afraid you'll hate the worst of me. \nI want to show the best of me, \nLike contrast shows luminosity.\n\nMy lingering glances longer stay, \nFaultering lines what I wished to say. \nWill you know only time can tell, \nFor now I'll sit by the ... | 2 | |
First post. Please say if I've done anything wrong :p | [WP] You are a druid, watching upon the forest that you have protected your whole life, as it is cut down by the king's men. How will you exact revenge? | [
"I sat upon the carved tree stump, my hands running through my twig-braided hair as I heard the *RSH* of an axe into a tree, the sound of the wood roaring as it gave way and toppled. The king and I had had an agreement when he first claimed this land. He respected my ways and I created a sanctuary for his people. *... | 2 |
[WP] You live in a world were laughter means instant death, you, a seasoned police officer, have been sent to detain the most notorious mass murderer of the century. | [
"A series of multiple homicides have been plaguing our city for the past quarter century. There were never any survivors or witnesses to speak of what truly happened. Forensic technologies are difficult to develop for these types of deaths. All we know is that the string deaths started with a specific family aft... | 3 | |
[WP] You are a super hero with the power to control bananas. | [
"banana babies! — RISE!!\n\n>bananas swell at his feet. attaching themselves to him in a megazord-like fashion.\n\ngood. now, we fly!\n\n>racing through the city streets, BANANA-MAN, \"Dole-s\" out banana justice from above\n\nYou! How dare you?! When was the last time YOU CALLED YOUR MOTHERR?!!\n\n>He sai... | 1 | |
[WP] As part of an April Fools joke, the government announces that something common and mundane has been "outlawed" country-wide. The police force in one town didn't get the memo and decide to start cracking down. | [
"Day two, doesn't seem like these civilians understand the concept, fidget spinners are not allowed anymore. I don't care if you got ADHD, LSAT, or even MSNBC, we cannot allow it. We were driving past, on the look out for fidget felons, and lo and behold if I don't see some snot nosed kid spinning that illegal gadg... | 5 | |
[WP] Your job is to resolve dying people's biggest regrets. They are usually simple requests, but this request is much more bizarre. | [
"\"He's in Room 5B, Peter Linkin 67 years old, Brain Tumor.\" \n\nPeter laid there staring at a rerun of Judge Judy, I cleared my throat and made my entrance. \"Peter, my name's Thomas. The nurse must have already briefed you on what I do. I'll be taking care of your final requests.\" He looked wide eyed, \"Like a ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are an Urban Druid. Your power lies in the moss in the cracks, the rats in the alleys, and the flowers and grasses that bravely breach the pavement. | [
"People often come to me for help. I've been called a witch, which isn't entirely inaccurate, but in this day and age, burning people alive is frowned upon, and science is regarded as the greatest truth. The ones who do believe, though, know I would do no harm. They ask me for things; sometimes knowledge, sometimes... | 2 | |
Inspired by the ELI5 from earlier today | [WP] Patches of grass that have been cut by a lawn mower release a certain smell to warn other grass of the oncoming danger. You are a piece of grass who has just received this call to arms. Describe your experience. | [
"It was a day like any other day. The sun was shining, the birds were chirping and Wesley (a blade of grass) was swaying in the cool summer breeze.\n\n\"Doo tee doo tee doo! What a wonderful day here on the lawn.\" said Wesley as he swayed back and forth. He was a fresh sod just like the rest of his patch and he wa... | 1 |
[WP] Mankind is extinct but one of their creations, a lone robot still remains to tell visitors about the strange race that was humanity. | [
" After 435 million years I have far outlived my projected life expectancy of 350 million. The trick to longevity was taking things slow, much like the Mars rovers who moved 1cm/minute. The last visitors to earth were kind enough to upgrade my power source. Tragically, they weren't much company, self replicators ra... | 3 | |
[WP] 6 Asian kids in suits walk in to a Pizza Hut | [
"“Hello there. How many?”\n\n\n“Six please.”\n\n\n“Right this way, sir.”\n\n\n“Go ahead, I’m going to use the restroom.”\n\n\n“Right. Good luck, stay safe in there.”\n\n\n“Really funny, Kara. Just wait until you pass out from a nosebleed in a restroom. It changes you.”\n\n\n“Come on guys. Don’t be too long, Yo, we ... | 1 | |
[WP] One day the sun doesn't come up. | [
"People of all around the world expected the first trace of daylight on the horizon to begin their daily lives, but it seemed that the celestial body decided not to shine upon our skies again. It took everyone by suprise, of course. The early hypotesis consisted basically on it being the product of an eclipse obstr... | 1 | |
[WP] In a galactic community of ever changing space borders and space conquest, earth and humanity remain relatively untouched, not form superior firepower, but our mastery of the Horror genre. | [
"Over the course of galactic historie, might always made right. Those who had the bigger guns always squashed the ones with the smaller guns. Or sometimes, those with many smaller guns succeeded in pushing back the one with few big guns. \n\nWe humans neither have especially large nor especially many guns. Above av... | 1 | |
[WP] Soldiers stationed in North Africa during WW2 whisper among themselves about a submarine of the desert that takes no sides and no prisoners. | [
"The Sahara desert really is amazing, once the mirages set in. Crystalline blue ponds of water, thick-trunked palm trees rife with ripened coconuts. Of course, there's also bone-dry heat hotter than a Texas summer. Sand. More sand. Did I mention sand? They teach you in the Army to do as you're told, just keep movin... | 1 | |
[WP] It's almost Halloween! People say that it's Satan's birthday and crazy rumors like that. Well, they aren't wrong and, unfortunately for you, you're working at the Cafe planning Satan's party. | [
"*\"Oh dear, this just won't do. Try it* again *will you, Bran?\"* \n\nThat devilish condemnation again. \n\nBran made a face as the cup in front of him was swept away lightning fast by a gloved hand. Another cup was replaced just as quickly before him and he picked up the teapot again to give it another go.\n\n*Th... | 1 | |
Something like 'trespassers will be prostituted' etc. | [WP]You ignore a seemingly mis-spelt sign but later realise to your horror that there was no mistake made. | [
"The only sound I can hear is the one rickety wheel of the gurney, screeching away. The pain in my, well, everything, is blinding, and that high pitched scratching is the only thing I can focus on. The feet are too sporadic, and the words probably wouldn't mean anything even if I could hear them. There are a lot of... | 6 |
[WP] Arthur Weasley discovers what the Internet is. | [
"It was a good thing she had the house to herself today, Hermione mused, poring over a lengthy parchment. She had a veritable avalanche of paperwork to get through. Distractions, even ones as dear as her husband, were not what she needed. She was finally making headway with the Department for the Control and Regula... | 2 | |
[WP] With no strength left, you can but watch as the archer lets loose his arrow, and you feel a strange calm settling. The next thing you know, you are looking at a back you remember so well, that lovely familiar scent, with the arrowhead sticking out of it. A chill travels through you. | [
"Sweet. Maybe a little metallic. It’s heavy, thick even. Your mind recognizes it and kicks adrenaline in. The scent of blood is enough to heighten the senses of any man. It’s one thing to have a nose bleed and experience the smell. It’s a whole other experience to see hundreds of corpses bathing it in all around yo... | 1 | |
[WP] Write the best mystery story you can write, from the perspective of Grant. A third grader, trying to figure out who stole his pencil. | [
"Taking a seat at my desk, I drew a deep breath. I already knew what had happened. The paper was there, the singular yellow crayon with it’s wrapping, sticker thing, was partly torn, but it was missing. \n\nI closed my eyes, I didn’t want to have to go back to that life. I was done with it. Last recess I’d promised... | 2 | |
[WP] "You insulted the shark. Now apologize." | [
"\"Right now, apologize!\" the tour guide nearly yelling at me said.\n\n\"I'm sorry I said that about all of your teeth, Clarence, I think you're really cool\" I said, staring at the shark hovering in the water beyond the layered glass tank window.\n\n\"Think nothing of it, human, we are of a different species, of ... | 1 | |
[WP] The earth resets to a far past, the only thing that lacks there is that time's humanity, and the only thing that persisted is us, the 7 billion humans from 2017. | [
"So 10 months ago the earth ressetted yet all 7 million people stayed on earth. \n\nAt first people tried to stay calm but that didn't work for long. \n\nI was put into a forest with all my friends in the car with me during the reset. \n\nThey tried to kill me because I pissed them off so I ran. \n\nTwo days after ... | 1 | |
[WP] One day you discover your middle name is Danger | [
"\"You're saying that your mother had the last name of 'Danger' and you never knew about it?\"\nChris, in his spider undies, said as he prepared a pot of coffee.\n\n\"For 24 years, I've never thought to ask what was her last name was.\" I nodded as I was accepting the cup of joe. We sat in silence listening to the ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are an elder god. While drifting through the curtain of reason, you swerve to avoid a human. Unknown to you, the human pledges a life debt to you. In your darkest hour, the human arrives. | [
"*Existence is a tricky thing.*\n\n*For the mortals, drifting through their almost imperceptibly short lives on their material plane, it is a test of will and faith.*\n\n\n*They are faced with something most immortals have never considered, let alone confronted with only a stalwart stare and sturdy heart as their w... | 1 | |
[WP] Everyone is convinced that the universe is a simulation, you think otherwise. You go on a walk to prove to yourself that everything is real and there's no way that all of this is a simulation. While thinking, off in the distance, you see a dead pixel. | [
"Lloyd stormed down the street, laughter still echoing behind him. \n\nFuck all of them, thinking they were so enlightened and that they had the entire world, no, the entire universe, figured out. How could they be so arrogant? So conceited beyond belief? \n\n\"They're all just dissatisfied with their own lives\" L... | 1 | |
[WP] Musicals have replaced essays in education to "bridge curriculums." It's finals season, and you haven't gotten a musical bone in your body. | [
"The sweat begins to fall from my brow. Picture me, Kevin Jance. 18, going on 19, a 3.8 student. A 4.0 student if you remove my *B* from my criminal justice class. I don't care how close I was to a 4.0, you will not get me to participate in *A dancin' with a Manson: An original play by Charles Heshlon*. And yes, th... | 1 | |
[WP] Every night you wipe all of your memories from your brain. Every morning you realise your amnesia was intentional. Everyday you find out why | [
"When consciousness returned, there was originally little to differentiate it from what came before. Black bled into black, and all my senses struggled against that void for nought. Touch returned first, as the rough sheets upon the bed I realized I must be laying in rasped against my fingers. Though I certainly kn... | 4 | |
[WP] " In other news, a superhero failed to look both ways before crossing the street, and was hit by a speeding truck. The truck driver died upon impact..." | [
"*-flashes of light-*\n\n*-pain, throbbing pulsing flashing strobing light-*\n\n*-sound, bright and loud and screeching-*\n\nThe green of my HUD greets me as I groggily claw my way back to conscious thought. I squeeze my right fist together and a pulse of my suit's G-12 injector surges through my veins, pushing awa... | 1 | |
[WP] Each Leader is magically bound to the nature of the land, a harsh ruler results in barren lands, a kind results in bountiful lands. | [
"**As my Father Before**\n\n\n\nFor as long as I could remember our land has always been desolate.\n\nFrom that of my father to that of my grandfather and his father before him we lived in blight.\n\nWind like whips blind sight and senses in storms the fury of the gods common and lethal. Soil like ash takes flight ... | 3 | |
[WP] After taking out all the crime bosses in Gotham you come face to face with the last 2 leaders of Gotham's biggest crime family who have alluded you for years. They are your parents who faked their murder to avoid arrest. | [
"For years, the Gambino family had dropped hints about Scatman, the hero of the city of Gotham who had vexed all evil doers for years. Almost all, anyway.\n\nCharles and Cynthia Gambino, or The Duo, as they became known, had chiseled out a small sector of the city that was rampant with lawlessness. They employed a ... | 1 | |
[WP] While preparing for a wedding a man attempts to tie his necktie with an Eldredge Knot, he accidently ties an Eldritch Knot. | [
"\"Damn, I can't get this knot to work for the life of me.\" It's true. He's been working at it for a solid ten minutes, diagrams laid out in front of him, and it still doesn't look even slightly like the pictures.\n\nHarry, twenty-three and nearly bald, looks up from his phone. \"You're doing it wrong. You... I do... | 2 | |
[WP] "I think I hear him coming, should we run, or hide?" | [
"Quick hide!!!\n\nOh my God did he see us? \n\nNo, i don’t think so. Just stay behind the couch, we should be ok.\n\nJenny holds her younger sisters hand assuring her they hadn’t been spotted.\n\n“Emma it’s ok, he didn’t see us”\n\n“I’m so nervous, my heart is beating a mile a minute Jen”\n\n“I know, I know but you... | 2 | |
[WP] You made a promise to your childhood best friend to never cause them pain. Unfortunately, you can't break this promise, and they have taken over the world as a super-villain. You're the only vigilante left, so you have to resort to causing them minor inconveniences until they snap. | [
"\"And then, after I beat all the strongest heroes, we'll take over the world!\" said Iceman. His name was Desmond, but ever since third grade, he'd asked me to call him by his supervillain alter ego. He seemed to enjoy it, and I was indifferent. It didn't seem to be causing any harm—at least, not at the time.\n\n\... | 1 |
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