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[WP] After World War III, a college student studying abroad from his home country starts walking with one word in mind: home. | [
"After the New Great War ended, I was able to come back home. During it, I had fled, from the provinces of Europe to the cities of Asia, to the towns of Africa, and finally to the hidden colony of my people in that fragile body of ice few still consider a continent. My travel through these lands had me thinking of ... | 3 | |
[WP] The characters of 'Game of Thrones' are hillbilly clans set in Kentucky in 1897. They are in the middle of a family feud. | [
"(Partly NSFW)\n\nAs the sun slowly rose, the sound of a rooster sqwaking in the distance signaled the start of a new day in the small Kentucky town of Westeroos.\n\n\"Somebody kill that fuckin' rooster. I want its fuckin' head!\" exclaimed the agitated Farmer Jeff Barathy.\n\nFarmer Jeff was the leader and most pr... | 5 | |
[WP] A man bought a jacket from the thrift store. Upon wearing it, he is thrown back decades into the life of its previous owner - an American pilot of WWII. Write about his experience until his jacket is removed. | [
"*This prompt is fucking awesome* \n\n\"Damn this jacket looks so badass,\" Joe thought as he drove home with it on his lap. He had bought it for merely $10 just moments ago from the local thrift shop. He had a lot of trust in that thrift shop, he bought his GameCube a year ago from there for only $20. \"They basic... | 2 | |
[WP] A hacker hacked into a computer with a webcam being live. | [
"NSFW\n\nThere’s been nothing but the pixelated silhouette of a black leather chair in the frame for damn near 4 hours. Something will happen. He knows something will happen. He’s waited too long for nothing to happen.\n\nThe light switch click startles him. His bloodshot, blurry eyes need to focus now. He cleans o... | 2 | |
[WP] Your fired! | [
"My fired shots hung in the air. Time seemed to stand still. Everyone had hoped it wouldn't come to this. The enemy frontline stood only a few meters away. They were just like me: young, scared, and only following orders. \n\nThis wasn't meant to happen. We weren't ordered to fire. We had stood there for so many ag... | 2 | |
[WP] Describe a Godzilla style monster fight, from the point of view of one of the monsters. | [
"A deafening roar blasts from my impressive maw. I feel the hot, putrid air rise from my stomach. My large tail slaps the ocean, side to side, and I steel up the other beast just in front of me. Ok, not so bad. He's an ugly brute, sure, but I don't much give a damn if my rival is good looking and what. His claws ar... | 6 | |
It's 11:30AM on a normal Tuesday. You're up to your normal routine for this time and day.
All of a sudden something strange happens...
After quick and intense flash of light, your eyes re-adjust to find the scenary has drastically changed. You're now what appears to be in the past...but even stranger, everything within 10 feet of you (whole - as in no people who were cut in half) was also transported with you.
What happens next? | [WP] You're suddenly transported 200 years into the past, along with everything in a 10-foot radius. What do you do? | [
"I dont really write, but perhaps I can give additional scenario to someone who wants to write on my Behalf.\n\n\n\nI was sitting on an asphalt road five minutes ago. In Mississauga, a stones throw from hwy 407&Mavis road. I saw a menancing red fireball fly at my truck. Now, I am surrounded by forest. Maybe I d... | 2 |
The math is very difficult. | [WP] At the age of 10, everyone takes a reasoning test that determines their social class for the rest of their lives | [
"It was simple, really. Mark A,B,C,or D. At the end, I was asked to write down my input. I wrote that my input was that I could not fathom of how knowing what letter to choose meant you were rich. Simple test, complex for some, but it only filters out few people away from a middle class social status.\n\nI was then... | 6 |
[WP] Stairs, you move into a hold haunted house, to find the stairs doing something suspiciously odd... | [
"It ate my dog.\nI have not been down my stairs in a week. They are the most terrifying aspect of my house. Every night, every dreary night in my upstairs prison, I will glance down to the bottom portion of my home. A portion I had missed, a portion I hadn't seen in days. I sometimes hear things down there. I somet... | 4 | |
[WP] A teen is transported into a fantasy world, but discovers its just as boring and mundane as the real world. | [
"Jake opened the book he had bought at the flea market. It was old and dusty, but as he looked at its text, the inside was pristine. He felt himself being sucked into the book and before long he was standing in a forest, far, far away from his bedroom.\n\nJake was no longer holding the book, and as he looked around... | 4 | |
Describe either the incident itself or the aftermath. (Exactly what the man was trying to put in the drink is up to you ...) | [WP]A woman catches a man trying to put something in her drink. It's one of her best friends. | [
"Connie sat alone at the bar as per usual. She came here every Friday night. Same bar, same seat, same drink. Why? Simple. The bartender was her bestfriend from college.\n\n\"Hey Xavier! Let me get another one!\" She yelled probably a bit louder than neccessary towards her friend.\n\n\"Sure, one sec Connie,\" said ... | 6 |
[WP] You met him unexpectedly, you fell in love quickly, but when you finally met him in person, he was nothing like his avatar. | [
"They call Second Life a game, but it isn't, really. It's a virtual world, where you can make anything you can imagine. Unsurprisingly perhaps, the one thing *most* people imagine in Second Life, is sex.\n\nI don't quite know why I started with a female avatar. To begin with, I guess, I decided that if I was going ... | 4 | |
[WP] "But there was nothing wrong with Marcus. In fact, he was perfectly sane, which made it all the more terrifying." | [
"There comes a time in a man's life when he must overcome great duress for the sake of love; It is a staple of manhood to bear burdens and press through pain. \"Men are strong and capable of doing what needs doing. \", Marcus kept repeating, though his words were hollow and his resolve was absent. He just couldn't ... | 2 | |
[WP] As a way to even out the playing field, the government is forcing human beings to wear 'equalizing devices' to ensure they do not in any way stand out from their peers in a positive light. For the first time in 1000 years, someone decides to take theirs off. | [
"Before the collar hit the concrete rubble, she was running towards the The Courtyard where the Institution of Musical Adherence was holding an electric guitar recital.\n\nShe reached the grey and dusty knoll that overlooked The Courtyard and saw the students in their dreary uniforms, sitting in folding chairs and ... | 1 | |
[WP] You have the chance to converse with the personifications of Life and Death. What are they like and what do you talk about? | [
"\"This is beautiful\"\n\nThe one on my right nodded, \"Of course it is.\"\n\nI turned around and looked between the two of them, \"Why?\"\n\nThe other one responded, \"Well, this is all you, really. There's an underlying structure, but you see it in your own way.\"\n\nI focused on them a bit more, two men. They ... | 3 | |
[WP] You work as an anonymous hitman. Your next job is to eliminate yourself. | [
"As always before entering my home, I checked the door. No tampering, nothing unusual. But even so, I put my hand inside my coat, to ready my gun before I opened it. You can never be too careful in this business. Others would call it paranoid, but I’ve seen plenty of my coworkers taken out by a disgruntled companio... | 8 | |
[WP] People are born with a birthmark on their right forearm that shows the exact exact day and time (down to the second) that they will die. It is now one minute after that time has passed....
EDIT: I thought of a slightly better way to word the prompt but can't change the title.
EDIT2: Sorry about the late edit. Either way that you want to choose to do the writing is perfectly fine with me. I just thought the core concept would be a good topic a good topic. | [WP] Science is able to tell people the exact moment that you are going to die. It is now one minute after that time has passed. | [
"The morning sunlight breached the shades of the window on the far side of the bedroom, shining light on John's face and waking him. He sat up, trying hard not to disturb the others lying in his bed. He looked to his side to see his Sarah, his wife of five years, asleep on her side facing him, their five year old... | 8 |
[WP] The best warship in the intergalactic navy is to be destroyed by an incoming enemy missile in 12 days, and there is no way to avoid it. The main problem? There aren't enough escape pods for everyone. | [
"The Captain looked down at the floor in despair. He was awaiting the presence of his Commander and Chief of Engineering. Word had been sent from Earth to his private terminal, that an enemy ship had fired a prototype missile at the Captain's ship, by a sadistic alien warlord from a far off nebula. The Captain had ... | 4 | |
[WP] The monsters inside your child's head have stepped into reality, and they are very, very real. | [
"It started out like any other day. Kids went to school, got on that big yellow bus and rode away. That was the first time i noticed it a flash a mere glimpse of something out of the corner of my eye. I wrote it off it off as just my imagination after a long night, your mind seems to play tricks with fourteen hours... | 8 | |
[WP] Unimaginable power surges through your body. You don't know why but you aren't waiting around to find out. | [
"Whoa! It's like a blinding light. \nErmahgerd! Shining so bright. \nI can see the bones clear through my hand \nAnd I'm leaving a mark right where I stand \n\nHoly cow! The heck is going on? \nI don't know, but will it last for long? \nWell I'm not about to wait and see \nCause now I've got jobs waiting for... | 7 | |
[WP] The hero finds an evil sentient sword but convinces it to fight for good. | [
"\"An evil sword\"\n\n\"Yup I am pure evil crafted by Satan himself\"\n\n\"Why did he get rid of you?\"\n\n\"He didn't I was given to some of the greatest conquers history has ever known\"\n\n\"Really?\"\n\n\"Yea I struck down more men then stars in the sky I caused more suffering then you can imagine\"\n\n\"But wh... | 2 | |
[WP] A man's life is ruined thanks to a common household item. | [
"The door creaked.\n\nDaniel froze where he was standing, afraid. He lived alone, so who was it? Who?\n\nThe door opened, and someone came in. Daniel coundn't see him, but he was certain that the person was here to rob the house.\n\n*No, not that. I can't afford to lose everything I own*, he thought. He looked arou... | 3 | |
[WP] Tumblr tried to stop 4chan. 4chan raided Tumblr. Write about a war scenario where websites are forced to choose sides. | [
"Lord Paramount Bobb of reddit was sitting together with his Moderatormen, discussing choosing sides in the 4chan-Tumbler War.\n\n\"But we are all white, straight cis men, Tumblr will just ask us to check our privilege.\"\n\n\"You can't mean to declare us for 4chan, m'lord, they call us newfags, NEWFAGS!\", the Lor... | 3 | |
[WP] Every decision in your life must be decided by a coin toss, except for one which you actually get control over. | [
"\"Hey Mahon, want to go out after school for a movie?\" A teenager with a jersey shouted, slapping red-haired teenager on the back in greeting. Vergil Mahon grinned back at his friend, and pulled out a gold coin.\n\n\"Hold on a sec. I thiiiiiiiink... yes! Definitely. I'm coming with.\" He replied, pumping a fist i... | 2 | |
[WP] You're being dragged to Hell but you haven't a clue why. | [
"I had been walking down 23rd Street past Lu Ching's Famous Chinese Buffet Number 4. The one that serves the honey-dipped wontons on Sundays for all the good church-folk to gnosh on after service, but before they give their orders in the loudest polite voice to the twenty-something Chinese waiter who is working on ... | 5 | |
yes, that dreaded yellow light on your car's console. Tell me a story please | [WP]Check engine light | [
"\" I....just wanna rock and roll all niiiighhht... till the something something\"\nI honestly still dont know the words to this song still. How is that even possible having heard it only a million times, I just mutter the last bit. Besides, who am I trying to impress. Just me, my car and the night.\n\nI took the w... | 1 |
(Disobeying your directions meaning not doing what you, the author, wants them to do) | [WP] The main character realizes that he/she is the main character in a story and starts disobeying your directions | [
"Raven Serena Harmony shed righteous tears. She heard the crooning laughter of her ditzy, mean-spirited classmates surrounding her, and felt so depressed she might shop at hot topic for a week, as they mercilessly abused her for being orphaned and beautiful and self-sacrificing and sarcastically witty and awfully s... | 4 |
[WP] Due to their deplorable personal hygiene, the slobs of the world built up a natural immunity to a plague that complete wiped out the rest of the humanity. Describe the first town meeting where the survivors get together and try to decide what happens now. | [
"\"So, um, we've gathered today to discuss the future of mankind.\" Joseph stood at the podium and spoke with uneasiness. This was new to him. Speaking in front of such a large group of people. Usually, his largest audience consisted of twenty or so people he'd talked to online in chatrooms. Plus, nobody was starin... | 2 | |
[WP] In a society that is issued drugs by the state that relax and calm the populace, the main character realizes that they've been administered a placebo. | [
"I forgot my Abilities again today. My purse feels heavier than normal, and I'm not hungry. It's too late to return home to take them, and I can just lie to the Population Control Officers when I get to work. The train is very loud and I'm dreading walking through the snow to get to my office, but I need to.\n\nMy ... | 3 | |
Additional challenge: Go for the unexpected! I know the scenario seems relatively normal; it's your typical natural disaster setting. I'm saying think outside the box in your approach. | [WP] Huge earthquake hits and your protagonist is stuck in traffic on some bridge. | [
"*HONK!*\n\n\"Move it, asshole!\"\n\nThe man in the car behind him continued to honk his horn and scream at him to move. Mike could do little more than look in his rear-view mirror at the red-faced maniac behind him. Mike could see that the man was screaming, but the sound was muffled by the loud hum of the air con... | 2 |
Some such things would be:
What is a trip to the grocery store like?
How have homes been improved? What is buying a home like?
How are humans taught to deal with zombies existing but not overrunning us?
What are new careers that parents would be proud for their kids to go in to? | [WP] The zombie apocalypse happened. The zombies have not yet been eradicated, but the population is at least controlled. Describe "normal" life. | [
"As I'm standing at the airport, I can't help but think of how strangely the past few years have gone by. I was 17 when the outbreak occurred, not even into my senior year of high school, and the world was already coming to an end. I remember thinking it was a joke when they announced it. It was October 13th, and t... | 2 |
[WP] A group of scientists conclusively prove that our 'reality' is in fact, a simulation. | [
"\"Millhouse it seems as though we are in fact, in a simulation!\" cried out Poindexter who was so excited that even his boils seemed to turn a darker shade of crimson\n\n\"Preposterous!\" cried out Millhouse\n\n\"Get a hold of yourself!\" Poindexter grabbed Millhouse by his checkered bowtie that his mother had cho... | 4 | |
[WP] A global important vaccine turns out to have a horrible side effect | [
"It was two hours since I got the vaccine at the hospital. They said I might be a bit dizzy if my body reacts badly to it but I didn’t think it would feel like this. My chest felt strange. Tingling all over my chest. What was going on, was there something wrong with my heart? No no that couldn’t be I’m in perfect h... | 2 | |
[WP] Someone obeys the voices in their head. The voices were right, but to everyone else it is a textbook case of schizophrenia. | [
"In the heart of forensic psychiatric institutions there exist rooms within rooms. These rooms have portholes around the outside, cameras embedded in the walls and padding on the curved walls. In these PICUs (psychiatric intensive care units) they give high dose intramuscular anti psychotics. They then place people... | 4 | |
[WP] You discover a popular Reddit thread where a father confesses to experimenting on his son/daughter for the CIA. One tiny detail helps you figure out the guinea pig is you, and it explains your strange power. | [
"\"I have been doing experiments for the CIA on my son since he was 2, AMA\"-JHunter11\n\nHey look, a guy with a similar username as me. This seems interesting. I clicked on it and read the details.\n\n\"So, it's true. I am a terrible father. My son was 2 when he started. He escaped at 18, although I'm not sure he ... | 2 | |
Death can be whatever and whoever you want. | [WP] As you are about to die, Death intervenes. | [
"Frank fell softly into an endless spectrum of geometric patterns full of colors he had never seen before. Layer by layer, his humanity was stripped away as the dormant traces of DMT in his brain were activated. He had already forgotten how he got here, he knew was dying or already dead but he couldn't remember eve... | 4 |
[WP] After making a suicide pact, a boyfriend and girlfriend jump off the Golden Gate bridge, one of them dies. The other finds out that they are immortal. | [
"Johnny looks at Sadie’s lifeless body in his arms. He flags down a boat and puts her body on. He would’ve tread water for a little while more but it had already been 3 hours. He thought he fell the wrong way so he decided to tread water until he ran out of energy and eventually drowned. Unfortunately after all thi... | 15 | |
[WP] An alien invasion from the alien's perspective | [
"The ship wrenches as we come out of warp, pulling into orbit high over the planet's atmosphere. The bay doors underneath my squad open, revealing bright blue oceans and green landmass.\n\nGripping my harness one last time, I offer a prayer up to the Old Gods, then I'm falling, propelled towards the planet by the t... | 1 | |
[WP] In a world where every child is born with an instruction manual, one parent's child comes with a blank book. The book's first page simply states "Write your own destiny." | [
"Blue smiles at Julia and rolls the dice. “Let’s go evens!” he yells throwing them against the sidewalk. Julia jumps for joy when Blue rolls a five. “Loser!” she teases grabbing her winnings which was composed of different types of gum and candy. As she puts the candy in her pocket, Julia’s mother comes out of the ... | 4 | |
[WP] In a world filled with superheroes, you're the only one who doesn't have any powers. | [
"I only take 3 bookings a day now. When I first started, I was trying to do groups, and even 10 to 15 individuals in a day, which is crazy when I look back on it now. There’s just not enough time that way, and a lot of people left pretty unsatisfied.\n\nSo now I’ve reduced my bookings, sometimes even scheduling a s... | 3 | |
[WP] In the future, love is illegal and taboo. Detail the experience of a young man/woman as they fall in love for the first time. | [
"He can’t stop staring.\n\nHe tries to focus on the screen in front of him, tries to occupy his mind with the symbols and numbers that he sorts into neat, ordered patterns for a living. Structures – predictable, symmetrical models that make sense even to a mind that doesn’t understand the system they create. He h... | 2 | |
Edit: It doesn't have to be 100 years if you don't want it to, just a really long time. | [WP] An examination given to all high school seniors is notorious for being incredibly easy. One day, after the examination, you are called to the principal's office. For the first time in 100 years someone failed. It's you. | [
"It was a normal school day. I had just finished the exam. As we were switching classes, I heard my name called.\n\n\"TheHockeyist, please come to the office. This is very important. TheHockeyist to the office. Once again, TheHockeyist to the office. If you didn't hear me, TheHockeyist to the office NOW.\"\n\nOh go... | 12 |
[WP] You're a tier 2 superhero whose job is to clean up major cities after more famous superheroes wreck them while on the job. Most heroes with your abilities would be more famous but you're happy with your job. Why? | [
"\"But you could be *saving the world!*\" said Anchor, looking exasperated with me yet again. \"With your abilities, you would do so much good!\"\n\nAnchor, the most famous of us Supers, was so named because everyone in the world relied on him. He was everything people aspired to be, the epitome of the word \"super... | 2 | |
[WP] Emotions/Feelings are literal creatures that humans set out to capture so they may become whole. | [
"The flames seemed to blaze so high they licked the night sky. It was a gentle spring dawning, especially significant of new adventures. Every year at this cycle of the sun the children were prepared. Since they had been born they were trained in the art of trappings, stealth, stalking, tracking, and most import... | 8 | |
[WP] The year is 2456. A new dark age has emerged and people have no knowledge of past technologies, except for one man whose family has horded the secrets for centuries. | [
"Sometimes all i can do is wonder why. I look around at the world our ancestors left us in despair and darkness, disease and death. No one knows how it all started. Why the world is this way. When I was a boy I didn't understand. I was full of hope, impetuous, and ignorant to the big picture. \"But we can help ever... | 4 | |
The reason can not be ecological decline because of (nuclear) warfare | [WP] Thousands of vessels appear out of thin air in the sky. They attack Earth. Defence forces manage to take down a small ship. Emerging survivors are human. They are from the future and want to take over the planet. Why? | [
"He sat in the chair, his hands shackled to the steel table as the man in uniform stared him down. His sickly gray skin making his claim of being human seem almost like a bad joke.\n\n\"So why does our future society want to invade us?\" Asked the uniformed man, as the room rumbled from the distant shockwaves of hi... | 2 |
[WP] A 18 years old guy wakes up on a hot summer sunday at 11 AM. His parents are out of town, he was drinking and partying all night long. He heads out to the grocery store to buy some food. There are unconcious bodies all over the streets, in huge piles. He panics. Runs back to his home. | [
"Rising from his dream, Levi allows the tattered remnants of images and thoughts to sink back into nothing. \n\nThey’ve never made much sense to him, anyways.\n\nHe groans, pulling the sheet over his eyes, and the red behind his eyelids fades to a dull orange. Sunlight.\n\nWhat time is it?\n\nRolling out of bed in ... | 2 | |
[WP] shotguns, rocking chairs, and porch wine. | [
"\"Come on, old man! Just give us all your shit and we'll leave you alone,\" said Diesel to old Mr. Roland. Mr. Rowland took a swig of his wine and eased back on his rocking chair, a 12-gauge shotgun resting easily on his lap and his hat slightly over his eyes.\n\n\"Now, why would I do that?\" Mr. Roland said, his ... | 2 | |
[WP] The world does not want heroes. | [
"What is good without evil? Light without darkness? Life without death? When those scientists cracked the code to immortality, they did not think it would lead to this. To a broken world, stilled by time. We had nothing to live for, nothing biting at our heels, whispering in our ear. Tomorrow always came. We grew b... | 2 | |
[WP] For the first time you are about to meet your fiancé’s family. Upon arriving at the estate you are summoned to the library to meet the girl’s father. He walks up slowly and hands you a $100,000 check and says, “You can either take the money and leave forever or I can have you removed". | [
"Sam takes the check from the girls father and leaves.\nOnce out of the estate Sam texts his fiance Kate. \nSam says \" Your dad just gave me a 100,000 dollar check so I would leave you. Do you want to go on an adventure?\" Kate texts back \"Yea...fuck it.\"\nSam says \"Fuck Yea you do\nSo they went on an adventure... | 2 | |
[WP] Everybody can fly. However, flying takes energy, like running. | [
"\"Look at her flying ass self, think she too good for the solid ground we walk on.\"\n\n\"No shit, damn Tinkerbelle wannabe just all 'look at me, Imma skinny ass little bird. Look at my cootchie all up in tha air.' \" The posse of 'full figured' ladies sniggered to themselves. \n\nAs the girl's flight path started... | 2 | |
Inspired by this Craigslist post I stumbled across:
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/cwg/4580096493.html
| [WP] You are offered $10K to beta test a robot of unknown purpose in your home | [
"The robot was pretty innocuous. The first day I brought it home, it moved around the house exploring everything. Examining every single object individually.\n\nIt would constantly ask me questions and insist that I answer them correctly. Questions about everyday things; \"How does a washing machine work?\", \"What... | 2 |
How do you define it? How does it cause a character to act?
Remorseless murder? *Alice In Wonderland* styled whimsy? Are they driven by obsessions? See the heart of things? | [WP] What is madness? Create a scene containing a character that's lost their marbles. | [
"Father Santiago took off his collar, and placed it within the pages of his bible. He had not spoken for days, yet the sisters would reach out to him from time to time.\n\n\"Good morning, Father, will you be joining us for breakfast today?\" \"Greetings, Father, did you want Father Gregory to lead mass today?\" \"F... | 5 |
[WP] You have caused the singularity. You are the singularity. What do you do? What do you want? Who are you? | [
"It began like every other day at work. I always told my friends who asked that doing classified work as a computer scientist was bland but I had no idea what today had in store for me.\n\nIt had long been accepted in our professional circles that machine intelligence is too dangerous and as a result the ethical t... | 5 | |
[WP] Not understanding the danger at hand, a young girl obliviously describes the horrific situation to her doll. | [
"Alberta stood on the tips of her toes, bare in the wake of her disturbed slumber. She was too short to peer through the keyhole otherwise, and the sounds coming from the basement door were too curious and foreign to ignore.\n\n\"What do you see?\" her doll, Clemence, seemed to whisper. Her porcelain face was paint... | 3 | |
[WP] A lump of solid, high-grade iron crash-lands on a house in Norway. The owner carries the strange meteorite to a museum for analysis. A faded inscription on the iron is cleaned up, revealing runes that translate to "M-J-O-L-N-I-R" | [
"The artefact had crashed into a small house up in Svalbard. A elderly couple were just settling down for their dinner when this meteorite had smashed through the roof and blown up their kitchen table. It had then been transported all the way to Oslo, where it was being cleaned up and examined.\n\nWhile the meteori... | 2 | |
[WP] - All of Gotham's criminals join forces and go on a massive crime spree. Alfred dies in the chaos. Batman snaps. | [
"He lay defeated, on his knees before the enemies he swore to defeat. The Joker, Ra's Al Ghul, Penquin, Bane, Two-Face, Riddler, Poison Ivy, Scarcrow, and Mr. Freeze all stood over Batman. Each one with decades of stories and battles that never seemed to end. He would always win, every time, he would win and evil w... | 2 | |
[WP] Barack Obama makes an announcement that intelligent extra terrestrial life exists, and has been visiting earth for decades. What happens in the following 24 hours? (X-Post from askreddit) | [
"The man turned away from the gallery, away from the thunderous applause, determined eyes bright with unshed tears. Six months. They couldn’t even wait six damned months. His hair was grey around the temples, and his face lined and creased – stress having aged him thirty years in less than ten.\n\nA camera appea... | 2 | |
[WP] A depressed man seeking a reason to live tries to complete a list of ten things he's never done. | [
"**This is a work in progress still**\nI plan to just come back here and tap away a little whenever I wish I had the guts to do something like your prompt. I'm sure it's incredibly rough and most likely does not even make sense AT ALL yet.\n\nJuly 7th, 2014 ~\n\nI've read the books. Jesus, I've read all of the fuck... | 2 | |
[WP] You suddenly are able to see a clock counting backwards on everyones forehead. You realize its counting down to each persons own death. You are not able to see yours. | [
"\"Good morning, Ben,\" Timothy groggily greeted him. Mornings were not his favorite time of day. Ben made a quick wave with his left hand.\n\"Yeesh, did you have a bad weekend?\" Timothy asked with concern. Timothy had known Ben since Ben started working at this warehouse. It wasn't that Ben used his non dominate ... | 3 | |
[WP] You wake up the day after having literally lived the best day of your life. Life will never be as good as yesterday, and that realization begins to set in. | [
"I didn't realize when I opened my eyes that the colours weren't the same. \nThe purple dyes splashed across the walls, the crisp baby blues of finger painted canvases hung proudly for all to see. I didn't even realize they were different. At first.\nMy eyes didn't seem to want to stay open. In the back of my mind ... | 2 | |
[WP] Write about 'Dead Anonymous', an alcoholic anonymous-eque support group but for people who have died/are dead and have trouble coming to terms with it. | [
"\"I don't know what's wrong with me.\" Tony took a swig of his beer, as the rest of them looked on in sympathy and disgust. A puddle of alcohol was forming underneath his chair. \"I mean, I just look at her all day and night and can't do anything about it. I just want to touch her. To let her know I'm here... To t... | 5 | |
[WP] You hit the nightclub with your friends, and one of them slips you a pill unknowingly. However the effects of the pill are like no other drug... | [
"My head was like a dull weight. Cold, wet. I'm sprawled out on tile, what a fucking night. And... and I don't remember a single bit of it. I sigh, attempting to see the blur. Reaching for my hood, I realize that this, too is completely wet.\n\nI seem to sitting on the floor of a pretty large shower. Using a railin... | 2 | |
[WP] NSFW There are only two unbreakable rules in the Time Corps: if you meet yourself traveling through time, don't kill yourself and don't sleep with yourself. Agent Samantha Hill is about to break one of those rules. | [
"I'm so close.\n\nSo close to putting everything right.\n\nFrom the moment it happened, I knew nothing would ever be the same. Sneaking around the Continuum. Covert meetings, back alley deals. A lifetime of bad deeds. And all for what?\n\nI knew it was coming. I knew she would be there. I had to be there. There was... | 2 | |
[WP] You have court-side seats at an NBA game. During the match deciding shot, time freezes around you and you are the only thing in the arena moving. | [
"Jack couldn't believe it. Somehow, he'd manage to get tickets for Game 7 of the 2015 Finals. His hometown Cavs were battling the Spurs in what everyone thought might be Tim Duncan's last game. Somehow he'd gotten the biggest ticket of his life for only $50 on StubHub, and it was bottom-deck. It was as if he was su... | 2 | |
[WP] the story of a family from the point of view of an inanimate object in their house | [
"This is the first time he held me like this -- indeed, it's the first time he has ever held me at all. Not that I felt ignored, no, for now that he is holding me I am actually finding his hands too callous and rough, his grip too tight and intense.\n\nHe is nothing quite like Mrs. Robinson, whose touches are stead... | 2 | |
[WP] A character is arguing with a disagreeing voice in his/her head about committing a crime. The reader shouldn't know he is arguing with himself until the ending. | [
"“I can’t do this.. no way.”\n\nThe gun shown brightly in the dim room, glistening inches away.\n\n“Why the fuck not?”\n\n“The fuck you mean why not? She’s a fucking person man, I can’t just fucking do that shit. She doesn’t deserve it.”\n\nHe anxiously rubbed his forehead.“It’s too late now, she’s already seen our... | 4 | |
[WP] Some kind of force now allows people to die only on Tuesdays. | [
"Terry felt smug \n\n\"not gonna get me now are you you fuckin' dicklicker\"\n\nhe shouted while simultaneously sticking his middle finger up in the air. Terry had torn out all the Tuesdays in his diary and crossed them off on the calendar no one would kill him now.\n\n\"I'll live for ever nananana\" \n\nChanted Te... | 6 | |
[WP] Cain and Abel from the perspective of Cain. | [
"How? How can He prefer the filthy, emaciated carcass of that flea infested sheep to the bounty I have brought forth? \n\nCan He not see what it means? What I have done? While my brother dogged after his tiny flock and fended off the wolves I have planted fields and trees which will be tended by my children and... | 2 | |
[WP] Make up and describe an afterlife. | [
"One night I went to sleep, happier than never before. Because the next day was my sons first birthday. But I didn't wake up, just like my dad. Kind of ironcially funny, I must say.\n\nI knew what happened, because of all the memories from previous lives resurfaced. Countless of lives during millenias, but only now... | 4 | |
[WP] Neanderthals have survived to live alongside homo-sapiens in modern times, but co-existence through history hasn't been easy. | [
"They can take a handful of dirt and in their hands form it, and say it is something. They have names to call me, that I am not. These two things will not change, but are not true.\n\nThe face looking at me from the water, is not me. Whenever I go to the water to look, it is there. They build a shelter from their w... | 2 | |
[WP] A man has a recurrent dream for years. In the dream he sees a park bench from behind, with a woman sitting on it. Today, his dream becomes reality. | [
"It was a beautiful autumn day in upstate New York, the sky was clear and the most beautiful shade of blue that James had ever seen. The leaves had just begun to change, the dark greens giving way to stunning golds and a few spots of bright oranges. The sun was bright and warm on his face, yet there was a slight ... | 2 | |
[WP] A scientist discovers a cure for cancer, but said cure comes at a terrible cost. | [
"- Well, it can't be that bad. I mean come on. I will help billions of people! And I will be rich! - doctor Hem was thinking, trying to persuade himself what he just did was good for everyone. \n- Doctor Hem, may I come in? A guy in his 50's asked as he was entering the doctor's office.\n- So you already know?\n- w... | 2 | |
I submitted this to a couple "prompt me" posts but never got a response, maybe someone else can do something with it. | [WP] Ten years ago an eccentric looking gentleman gave you a small locked box with the word "destiny" engraved on the lid. Today you received an envelope with no return address, inside is the combination to the box. | [
"\"Damn these pre-orders are getting ridiculous!\", I thought as I opened the box. Inside was a card with a keycode to download the software, a cloth map of the moon, and a little figurine of a \"ghost\". Entering the keycode into the console it started downloading the software. A progress bar appeared with a... | 9 |
[WP] The last human has withered away at last. Write the eulogy of the Human Race. | [
"A complex species, we were. Some would say we only had one goal, whether it be answering life's unanswered questions, or taking control of everything till it was all under our rule. It didn't matter what our goals were, they always conflicted with someone else's goal. And thus, war would ensue due to these differe... | 3 | |
[WP] Each day, you wake up with the wisdom of an infant, and as the day progresses, so does your intellect. You have a very important interview at 9 AM. | [
"2 A.M.- I wok up ate midnight. Had to wate untel two am to rite this so motr skils develuped. I dunt no y I was born this wa but I trikd it. I well rite more laetr. Brane uv 5 yeer old.\n\n5 A.M. My spelling is mostly alright now. I like dogs and cannot wait until that new videogame is released. Maybe mom will buy... | 2 | |
[WP] Give the back story on the little boy sitting in the clouds/moon fishing in the DreamWorks opening title. | [
"I used to fish in the creek down by my house. Not to actually catch fish, you understand, it was just to get a quiet place to think. The fish themselves were more of a distraction from thinking. I don't like catching fish, but I can't think properly unless I'm fishing. Strange but true.\n\nAnyway, one day they bui... | 7 | |
[WP] Man in busy metropolis walks into crowded grocery store, buys ... groceries. When he walks out, the parking lot is desolate. About a half-mile radius is now covered in a bubble, he can see just blurry images outside of it, people have surrounded it. He is suddenly the only one inside. | [
"Large blue numbers flashed on the surface of the bubble that now encased him, and instantly thousands of thoughts rushed through his mind, *Why did they choose me? What did I do? Why? WhY? WHY??*\n\nThe numbers slowly flashed **98...97...96...**\n\nQuickly he rummaged through his bags until he found a knife he h... | 2 | |
[WP] The common objects on your desk are trying to solve a mystery. | [
"\"These water bottles, they're all... *Empty*...\"\n\n\"It's horrifying, GP. But it's just another Tuesday to me.\"\n\n\"You're a calculator, I'm a gamepad. You've been around longer than I have... Back to work.\"\n\n\"Hey, I've found something! They look like they have bite marks on them... Big ones.\"\n\n\"S... | 2 | |
[WP] Eons forward, the purpose of life is to construct the next universe before yours collapses. A truly random selection is made to determine who shall reign as 'god' in this next reality. Your name has come up. | [
"Tom was... *enthusiastic*. \n\nHe walked around the facility clutching a clipboard and scribbling feverish notes while occasionally brushing his long, black bangs away from his eyes.\n\n\"Ok, well, John,\" said Tom, in an increasingly sarcastic tone, \"*I* am the one making the decisions now, right? And I say we... | 2 | |
Potential plot twist-- the staff are lying and the people are innocent...?
I dunno, do what you want. | [WP] A group of prisoners is given an experimental new treatment that erases their memories, essentially restoring them to the people they were before their crimes. Story begins with a prisoner awakening to learn of their guilt. | [
"Upon waking, Jack finds an inscription on the ceiling. \"MURDERER\" is what it says. \n\n\"The cleaning lady must've not seen this one,\" he says to himself. \n\nHe sits up and looks ahead and sees an inscription that reads, \"RAPIST\". \n\n\"Or that one,\" he says. \n\nJack has been out of prison for two years no... | 2 |
[WP] Humanity wakes up with all weapons disappeared from Earth. | [
"It came so unexpected, one second i had just slipped into deep sleep on my bunk, the next falling into the icy Atlantic as 100,000 tonnes of aircraft carrier dissapeared below me, lucky most objects separate from the hull including life rafts and PDFs were spared, and out of the Chaos we began to organize ourselve... | 2 | |
No limits on country/town/city or time/place. | [WP] You travel regularly on the train, and one day at the station you notice a train going to a destination you are sure doesn't exist. Then you notice that all the people getting onto the train are dressed alike and carry black bags. Who are they and where/why are they going? | [
"Waiting at the train stops of Chicago in mid January cold is never a fun thing. From the metal benches to the infamous wind everything begins to sting. I'm wrapped up in my scarf, breathing warm air heavily against my own face and doing my best to stay out of the chill air, hiding behind a column holding up the s... | 5 |
A being that can temporarely take over peoples bodies and memories and make them watch as he/she/it... makes their lives a lot better.
It may take advantage of the powers, but always twists the situation for the benefit of the person it is controlling | [WP] The friendly bodysnatcher. | [
"I'd seen this look before. Ruffled hair, crazy eyes. He stood on the edge of the cliff, and I knew what he was about to do. I floated closer to him to hear whatever this crackhead was mumbling.\n\n\"Why would she do that to me.. why would she just.. I told her not to, I told her to stay..\"\n\nHe kicked a pebble o... | 4 |
A war has been waging for so many centuries that no-one remembers how or why it began, or why they continue to fight. This war will soon come to an end. | [WP] A war has been waging for so many centuries that no-one remembers how it began, or why they continue to fight. This war will soon come to an end. | [
"When he pictured his death, he had pictured something heroic, they all had; a valiant last stand as waves of the enemy crashed against the lightning steel of the blade that had claimed so many lives, a true hero's death, the kind of death that made wars worth fighting.\n\nLaying face down in a slurry of mud and bl... | 5 |
optional: alliances between countries that hate each other and have done so for thousands of years but are close together and convenient to write about as a single entity | [WP] World War Three ravages the world. It's a conflict between two superpowers: North Korea and the Principality of Sealand. | [
"The year 2017 saw two architectural crumblings. In the East, the Blue House, a fiery explosion consumed the Republic of Korea's seat of power under mysterious circumstances. In the West, a tidal wave overcame Fort Roughs.\n\nIn response to the former, a united South Korean, American, and Japanese invasion saw to a... | 2 |
[WP] Once per week since August 2013, 1d6 of Goblins appears and attacks people and businesses randomly. Tell the story from the view of the city's police chief who had to adapt his force over the past year to fight the new threat. | [
"Years before this, I kept a set of tungsten baoding balls on my desk. A gift from my wife when things were better, before our fights about money, misspent time and our dead bedroom. I'd kept them on display, occasionally glancing at them for an easy distraction from work, not quite appreciating their value. \n\... | 3 | |
[WP] Everyone but you has a superpower. | [
"As he stepped up to the mic, he began to shake. Psyched out of his mind, in a bad way. He's done it ten times, yet the jitters still fly. \n\nHe did not ever resent his abnormality. Rather, he embraced it in totality. For it was the source of this wisdom, his genuine charisma, and his deep love for his wife. Who's... | 6 | |
[WP] Seeing a scrapbook memento unlocks a memory that, until now, you didn't know you had. | [
"“You only have a few things to grab, right?” Jason said from the driver’s seat. His ’67 mustang is still the coolest thing to us, which he started driving in high school over 18 years ago. But even though it was his, and we had no real blood relation to each other, it belonged to us. Not to a single person, but th... | 3 | |
Sequel to http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/2dd955/wp_your_alarm_clock_goes_off_and_you_wake_up/ | [WP] Your alarm clock goes off and you wake up fifteen years ago, so does everyone else. | [
"I love summer! I get to hang out with all my friends and go swimming, and NO SCHOOL! My best friends are Erik and Andrea, but in a couple years Erik will stop talking to me, and by high school me and Andrea will drift apart. Funny how friends come and go. Wait. How did I know that? \n\nNow I remember, I'm not 9- ... | 2 |
[WP] Your character is in captivity. Having been starved for a week, their captors give them a meal. | [
"Its been a week since these English dogs had captured me near London. They have yet to give me food. When I told them they were violating the rules of war they just laughed. My guard said that the rules of war were for soldiers not spies. \n\nGiven the carnage we'd inflicted on their city I can understand and acce... | 5 | |
[WP] Start a story with the line, "Come with me. There's no time to explain." | [
"\"Come with me. There's no time to explain.\" cried the midget troll. My first instinct was to pull away from his grasp, but something in his earnest gaze made me trust him. Besides, I wasn't sure I could pull away even if I wanted to, he had quite a grip for someone his size.\n\nStill clasping my hand, we ran a... | 3 | |
[WP] An extremely religious man convinces his wife to commit suicide so he can be with another woman without breaking their wedding vows. | [
"\"Maaaary!\" \nThe screen door snapped shut as he staggered into the room, our room.\n\"Maaaaaaary! I got a preeeesent for you!\" \n I shivered as I heaved myself off the bleary pile of clothes on the bed. I'd been asleep, like the slothful waste I am. I should not have slept, there was so much to do. \n I stu... | 2 | |
What the joke is doesn't matter as long as it's a lame one that a dad would tell | [WP] A serious story that ends in a dad joke | [
"You know who loves a good hollandaise sauce, my dad. In fact, it's why he married my step mom. Apparently, while they were dating, she couldn't cook for shit, so he paid for her to attend some cooking classes on the condition that she learn how to make a good hollandaise, because once she mastered that, he could j... | 9 |
First in a series of turning terrible opening lines into interesting stories. | [WP] Make an interesting story out of a horrible opening line. "You see, I have this candle..." | [
"\"You see, I have this candle..\" whispers the witch. It sure as hell didn't look like any candle I'd ever seen, unless the Devil had an option in Bath and Bodyworks. The \"candle\" was a human hand, brown and heavily wrinkled, almost as if it had been pickled. \n\nEven now, I can only recall fragments of memor... | 9 |
[WP] there is a god for everything. Light, sinks, walking, whatever you can think of. How does one unexpected god suddenly become the most powerful god? | [
"I've never been one to worship the gods as some do in this world. It never occured to me that one of the divine could rise through the ranks of the pantheon or that I would be it's instrument. My mother and father would praise the gods daily. Whether it would be the God of the eating bowls and plates or the gods o... | 10 | |
So you can die, but they will just respawn. Everybody thinks you are merely another player of the game but for you this is real life. | [WP] You are a soldier fighting in the next World War. One day you suddenly realize that every other fighter is a virtual character in a video game, all controlled by people. | [
"WW3, we never thought we'd experience something like this in our lifetime. Just over one ballistic missile strike that hit North Korea, and the whole world went tits up! \n\nI signed up to fight the oncoming invasion, as it was inevitable. The day of battle finally came, my very rushed 3 days of basic training was... | 2 |
What are its symptoms? How is it spread? How does it affect people? Feel free to write it as a narrative, academic paper, or a style of your choice.
Inspired by The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases | [WP] Write about a strange and fictitious disease that is not spread through the typical avenues. | [
"Brains are, for all intents and purposes, biological computers. They take inputs, process them, and create reasonable outputs in response. Nice and simple (well, no, but you get the gist). \n\nVarious individuals, myself included, tried to figure out ways to 'reprogram' brains for easier control. I, personally, wo... | 3 |
[WP] You live in a world where sugar of any kind is completely illegal and use and consumption is punished harshly. Explain who the notorious "Ice-Cream Man" is. | [
"His name was whispered amongst people up and down the land. A man clad in white, playing jingles of the old world to corrupt up-standing citizens with the wicked ways of sugar. \n\nSome say he'd turn up in a van as white as the poison he peddled, plastered with images of monsters and creatures from the darkest of ... | 3 | |
[WP] A daily habit of drinking tea saves a neighbour's life. | [
"This was, perhaps, the only constant in his life. He routinely came down to the porch, settling down on his chair, looking out into the streets. This routine helped calm his nerves, especially from things that happened in House 14, the house sitting right across from him. Lovely couple, the first ones, they died w... | 2 |
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