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[WP] FTL travel is ludicrously simple. The only reason humans haven’t discovered it yet is because it doesn’t work within 1000 light years of earth | [
"Get past the barrier\n\n My eyes, crusted shut, slowly began to open albiet with some difficulty. I tried to lean forward lifting my head off the side of the bathtub, but a shot of pain shot through my neck, and a tired groan came out of my mouth. My hand came up to massage my neck as I resumed getting up ... | 2 | |
[WP]: You aren't used to having a permanent name. "Call me whatever" is how you have introduced yourself for decades. But one name haunts you. | [
"“Call me Marlie,” said I, dressed in layers of pristine white cotton fibers, on the day I first met the love of my long life. My audience was one man, dressed in old, dirty brown cloth, his hands prematurely wrinkled from a short lifetime of hard and unrewarding labor. With one look in his eyes I knew that this ... | 1 | |
[WP] In hell, worlds most evil people are forced to play DnD forever. Their torturer/DM: Gandhi | [
"The creak of iron hinges echoes across the chasm, four pairs of feet shuffling in to the dimly lit room. Silently they make their way through the sparsely furnished area to a lone table with five chairs, each with a named placard at the place setting. \nHitler is the first to take his seat, reaching into a small ... | 1 | |
[WP] Your nemesis has just revealed him/herself. To your surprise, your nemesis declares you as the evil one. | [
"Now hold up.\n\nThat's not right.\n\nThat's not right at all.\n\nThis fool doesn't have the slightest clue what he's talking about.\n\nHe's an idiot.\n\nJust a real idiot.\n\nI mean, me? The bad guy? \n\nIt's laughable!\n\nSure, okay. I raided the military base.\n\nAnd maybe some innocent soldiers died.\n\nAnd may... | 1 | |
[WP] Tonight, the most popular dive bar in the galaxy will close its doors. You are the bartender on duty when all of its most interesting patrons stop by to say good bye. | [
"The shift started out like most others, the small in number; but vast in reputation and stories, regulars began to saunter in around midday. I'd learnt a lot working my shifts at the bar and heard just about every story there was to hear, even if only one in ten were true then these folks had lived some serious li... | 1 | |
Should we answer? or not? What would be their interest? | [WP]The Cosmic Phone is Ringing | [
"\"Can you see it?\" He whispered on the wind, gracing the ear of every individual in the crowd of thousands in front of him, all humbled into an ambiguous silence, all waiting on the spaces between his words for something they weren't entirely sure they were ever sincerely promised, something intangible at its cor... | 1 |
[WP] Your split personalities learned how to form their own bodies and left you one day. You've recently begun to suspect that one of them is back and is trying to steal your significant other from you. | [
"\"Leave, just get out,\" the man named Ed tells me.\n\nI know who he is. It isn't that he looks like me - he doesn't really, even though he is me - but I can tell by the way he speaks that he is the Ed who seeks dark thrills at night, makes me hate myself when I really think about it, makes me sick on work morning... | 1 | |
[WP] You travel back in time, through history, and decide to go to the Big Bang. Once there you witness the event, but then you keep going, only to come upon the previous universe. You travel to Earth to greet people worried about a black hole nearby that is growing. You have both good and bad news. | [
"My time machine phased me onto the past Earth with a low hum and a flash. I stepped out of my glass orb to find a city swirling in chaos. To my left, a grocery store was being raided by seemingly normal people with an unfamiliar primal look in their eyes. On my right, a massive screen shone on the side of a skysc... | 1 | |
[WP]As the ice began to recede around the edges of Antarctica, small ancient buildings had been revealed. | [
"Throughout history, a special type of being has been talked about. Some call them Gods, most recently we've started calling them Superheroes. Their stories are as old at time itself and they come from all over; the Vikings had tales of Gods of War and of Light, Christians have the Holy Trinity, and Marvel has Apoc... | 4 | |
[WP] You're delivering Pizza one night. When you get to the door of a large Victorian house in the woods, a nervous woman answers the door without opening it all the way. She mouths something to you. | [
"\"Excuse me?\" The boy asked the woman behind the door, slightly frustrated at her insistent attempts at mute conversation.\n\n“Did *it* call you here too?” The woman asked, her voice the choked whisper of a beaten child\n\n“If *it* is whoever ordered a pizza to this address, then yeah. *It* did call me here,” he ... | 3 | |
Other concepts within this:
The draft goes in order of who lost the most territory the previous year, similar to a sports draft.
Drafting a particular prodigy student after they graduate can cause great upheaval in the war and allow for one of the smaller nation states to rapidly increase their standing and territory. There are several cases of this happening.
Refusing to work or fight for the nation state you are drafted by can have you be exiled beyond the realms of civilization. | [WP] You attend one of several schools that exist in the world, which lead to a global draft of the best and brightest students, furthering an endless gentleman's war between several nation states. | [
"The trick is the pinky. You have to keep it straight out, and *hold* it - the less tremors the better. \n\nIt sounds much easier than it actually is. Try it for yourself. Pretend you're about to sip a cup of tea, grip the imaginary cup by the handle and stick your pinky out as straight as possible, while making su... | 1 |
[WP] The universe we live in was actually built by universe-building contractors. You are an intern and you've been assigned to create a boring lifeless world named Earth... | [
"I couldn't help myself. I knew I was disobeying direct orders, but could you blame me?\n\nOMN1 had sat us all down on day one and explained what an internship with T3RR4 would mean for all of us. The application and acceptance into the program was only step one in the rest of our careers, the rest of our lives. Af... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the God that oversee's Earth. Your boss instructs other Gods to give their planets standard dramatic fates, but tells you to end Earth in comedic fashion. | [
"It was that time. I sighed deeply as I sat on my cloud. I got an email from my boss. “You know what day it is. But all of these executions have been... how do I put this? Boring. No flash, no color, no fun. If you could, try to make it enjoyable. You might even get a raise.” I clicked off the email and brainstorme... | 2 | |
Saw this as a title of an Imgur post, thought it might make an interesting WP | [WP] At first, nothing happened. Then, after a few seconds, nothing continued to happen. | [
"She cut the wire. The lights on the panel flickered and went out. She heard a small click as the electronic lock disengaged. Now for the physical. She pulled the pin in her hair which stayed in place due to her skintight suit. This was the easy part. With a slight flick of her wrist, she popped the door open.\n\nT... | 9 |
[WP] You are a creature, describe your first interaction with a human being. | [
"It stared at me.\n\nI stared back.\n\nHow peculiar. It has soft hair on the top of his head and around, what I only can assume is, it's mouth in great volume but everywhere else it's sparse. How will it stay warm on this planet's winters?\n\nIt breathes heavily. Is it perhaps frightened of me? It flinches at the t... | 3 | |
[WP] In the far future, teleporters have become the mainstream way of travel. Suddenly, two years after the worldwide release of the teleporter, more and more users begin to go missing. You are one of them. | [
"I opened my eyes and stepped off onto what should've been the junction between New York and London. Instead I stepped out into a long hallway that was cold. I shivered and rubbed my arms to get warm. \nI wander down the singular hallway and I see a corner. I walk up and turn and its another Teleporter. Bit old fas... | 1 | |
[WP] She didn't care even if he was a god. She was going to slap him. He deserved that much anyway. | [
"Alison wished she had never meant Donald Blake. He was a total jackass. At first, he seemed like an ok guy who certainly had the best looks on a guy she had seen for a while. She had meant him on a night out, in some seedy club that her friends had dragged her into. The music was loud and the drinks were cheap. Th... | 3 | |
[WP] Thousands of years after humans have gone extinct, dogs evolve human like intelligence. They're obsessed with us and don't know why. | [
"\"Listen to what you're saying, Ruffins! These humans were supposedly as intelligent as us, had opposable digits, two free limbs to use them, *and* lived six times longer than we do. It's absurd! The amount of resources wasted researching these childish fantasies - \"\n\nThe Shepherd couldn't contain himself. \"Do... | 6 | |
[WP] A knight is cursed with resurrective immortality--he/she can die but can't stay dead. | [
"Sir Galan opened his eyes. Not fully though, just a tiny bit to assess his situation. \"Damn\", he thought, \"they hold a service for me.\"\n\nHe laid in an open casket in front of the altar of the town's church. The local priest addressed his community with stern words about heaven and hell, reminding everyone of... | 3 | |
[WP] You are the last known Human to abstain from Cybernetic Enhancement. You wake one morning to learn of a growing digital pandemic which is spreading amongst the enhanced. | [
"They called us Purists. It was a demeaning nickname always spoken in a voice dripping with pity. We, on the whole, preferred the term 'conscientious objectors', a term from the old days which referred to soldiers who refused to fight when *compulsory recruitment* was the law.\n\nOf course it's hard to adequately d... | 1 | |
[WP] You have voices in your head. Only thing is, they're talking to each other and not to you. You can do nothing but eavesdrop onto their conversations. | [
"“You know what Janet? No one fucking cares, like really your life is so mundane you have to post about anything that happens to you 24/7” \n\n“Well at least I have a life, all you do is work, come home, and sleep. You never even look at me anymore.” \n\n“Pleease just shut up” I pleaded through my thoughts, but I k... | 3 | |
Optional: You thought you would be at the bottom since you were a terrible person.Someone explained why you're at the top | [WP] Once you die,you get a overall score which is higher the better person you were.After you died,you went to see the high scores.You're at the top.Below you,Jesus Christ. | [
"(sorry about formatting, mobile, also first time writing here, don't judge)\n\nWhoops. I died. Apparently you should tie your shoes before setting a building on fire. You light it up, you trip, the floor collapses beneath you, you die. Next thing you know, you wake up in heaven. \"Congratulations! High score!\" Th... | 2 |
[WP] You jobs as the newest acolyte to the temple are simple: 1) rise at dawn for prayer and cleaning work, 2) obedience and obeisance to the deities, priests, and priestesses, 3) tend to the trees in the sacred groves. The angry, screeching trees in the sacred groves. | [
"I watched as my breath frosted above me. Breathing in and out again and again. The frost forming a cloud above me. \n\n“What have I gotten myself into,” I said to the cold morning air.\n\nThe rough wool blanket scratched again at my bare chest. It had been doing that all night. The smooth wooden bunk dug at my bac... | 3 | |
[WP] The sword Excalibur exists in this world (the one from King Arthur legend of the sword powers included) but the Pendragon bloodline died out centuries age and the sword was embedded in stone ever since, it's now a tourist attraction and you just pulled the sword from the stone. | [
"I was on holiday in Britain, London to be exact. I turn on the tv in the hotel room, just as the bbc app displays a notification that that famous sword in the stone, from the legend of king arthur had been discovered! It was only a couple blocks from where I was staying, so i decided to go and check it out. I gue... | 7 | |
[WP] Sol system is actually surrounded by a huge shield that the humans have just discovered. You are an alien engineer in a control room enjoying a bowl of soup, and see a small, forgotten red light pulsing under the monitor showing a breach in the shield. | [
"The control room was what they called it, but Maih called it prison. She was just one, lonely woman working at a lousy engineering job whilst her family got to enjoy what little luxuries they could afford in the Central System from her meagre wages. Still. Although the work didn't pay well, and mainly revolving ar... | 3 | |
[WP] You've just graduated from University with honors and a degree in the field of your dreams. While attending your class celebration, a man approaches and introduces himself as your conscience. | [
"“Are you really the embodiment of my conscience?” I asked in amazement. He was dressed like everyone else so if he didn’t say who he was, I would of assumed he was just another student celebrating. \n\n“Yes I am,” he responded with a smile. “And I’m here to tell you that you need to wake up soon or else you will b... | 1 | |
[WP] In the future, everyone receives a letter on their 18th birthday. In this letter you are told your death-date. You just opened yours, it says 10:03am, April 3rd, 33AD... | [
"\"Well that's... odd.\"\n\nThe date on the letter appears to be wrong. It's the year 2064, and it's a Monday. Monday the 17th March, to be precise. It's grey out, with not a single spot of rain to fall yet, and the sun is yet to make an appearance in the day.\n\nYou go over the letter once more.\n\n'Dear Joshua,\n... | 1 | |
[WP] A demon offers a depressed person the opportunity to erase their existence from history, but not before taking them on a journey to bear witness to all of the good they've done. | [
"\"Why am I just seeing us, right now?\" I asked.\n\nThe demon's reflection stared back, the gruesome twin of the monster beside me. The mirror standing between us was faded and cracked with a dulled patina of millennia past.\n\n\"This is it. All of it.\" It said.\n\n\"My wife, job... my children?\"\n\n\"I only sho... | 7 | |
[WP] The technology finally exists to reanimate and transplant cryogenically frozen heads. Walt Disney is the first to be brought back, but something doesn't seem right.. | [
"the team holds their breath in anticipation. its the first time any of them performs the procedure and they are all fascinated at the technology used. a loud beeping noise indicates that the lifesigns read that of a normal living person. the team is speechless, they stare at the monitor for a second, paralyzed. th... | 1 | |
Not my own words, duh. | [WP] Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste. I've been around for a long, long year, stole many a man's soul to waste. Won't you have some sympathy for me? | [
"We are the men and women of Earth, human-kind and its glorious birth \nGive us a moment to please speak free, a few things should be said so we hope you hear \nSympathy is for the deserving and for you we wouldn't shed a tear \nLove for you is the sign of an absent mind, like trying to give glasses to the... | 1 |
[WP] You go on a first date with a beautiful woman. Only she knows almost everything about you. You begin to wonder if she is a stalker. | [
"She's just my type. Tall as hell on her long legs, black hair all the way down her back, and just enough of last night's makeup framing those bright minty eyes to make me wonder just what or who she got into last night. Honestly, she's 20,000 leagues out of mine, so when she wrote her number under her name, Casey ... | 1 | |
[WP]Alien species are driven by some cultural or genetic factor each unique to them. Some are driven by duty, others by a lust for knowledge, but humans are the only ones driven by the pursuit of happiness. | [
"Excerpt taken from *A Guide to Lesser Bipedals* \"Chapter 11: Humans of the Sol System\"\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n...As we have just learned, humans have the standard evolutionary history of most bipedal creatures in the galaxy. Of this, they are not special... | 1 | |
[WP] In a world where people develop superpowes based on their birth name, you've been given the privilege to carry one of the greatest names that possess the strongest superpower. However, when registering your name, your father made a small spelling mistake. | [
"The room is dark except for a single desk lamp lit in the corner, a boy sits in a padded office chair, his back hunched, his face shallow and eyes indented from the tears that fell on the cover of the book before him. With a flick of his wrist, he grabs his pen and flings open the cover to a new page. His back str... | 3 | |
[WP] Earth is invaded by several competing alien empires. Rather than uniting under the common threat, humanity decided to divide itself even further, with countries allying themselves with different alien forces and going to war with each other. | [
"Lak Mortumee was kaidon of his family. They went to Earth as heretics seeking refuge from covenant armada- while his family either supported him or labeled their warriors cowards worthy of arbiter status, neither side had expected to encounter the military might of the multiple races that had converged on earth. L... | 1 | |
[WP] Crimes can only be committed in the dark. People always keep their lights on for protection. One night, a power outage occurs. | [
"Alleria was a beautiful place. Sunny during the day, brightly lit at night. It was a peaceful place, and the crime rate had been at an all time low. In fact, there had been no crime at all. Alleria boasted its ideal, futuristic strategies in making itself the best city in the world.\n\nSome people say that the cit... | 2 | |
[WP] On your flight, the guy sitting next to you starts telling you stories from the time he could fly. | [
"Eli instinctivly rubbed the scar on his right hand. Flying always made him nervous. It wasn’t the actual flying part, but all the extra baggage. The crowds, the food, the suffocating lack of personal space. As of now, the window seat next to him was empty, and he hoped it would remain that way. He yawned, it was a... | 1 | |
[WP] You seem to have accidentally boarded the wrong flight, and it’s the modern equivalent of the Ancient Greek ferry to the Underworld. You are the only living person on a plane full of damned souls. | [
"Looking at the eyes of the people sitting in the plane they stair into the empty space in front of them as the doors of the flight are slowly closing. I panic and run towards the doors but I am stopped and being dragged to my seat by two large men. I close my eyes and open them and imagine myself that this could b... | 1 | |
[WP] In a world where everyone thinks the world is flat write the story of a “conspiracy theorist”. | [
"Everybody knows the world is flat. \nBut they can only think inside the square. \nI think this is false, simple minded at that. \nThere's so much to learn, but they don't even care. \n\nI look up at the moon, the stars in the sky\nIt doesn't make sense to accept a blind truth\nEverything they know, what they tell ... | 1 | |
[WP] The world is still under the rule of the greek gods. But now, they walk among us disguised as humans: politicians, celebrities, businessmen, etc. | [
"\"Pick him up. C'mon.\" He pulled a stream of smoke into his mouth and tapped the cigarette ash away. The two men grabbed his chair and pulled him back up. \"Now listen kid, I told you when you stepped outta that hole how it was gonna work. We don't know you, we ain't gotta grudge against you, stay outta our affai... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a story where the last line changes the hero into a villain. | [
"I was blessed with intelligence and desire to save the world. My weapon was science. With it, I was able to save the lives of infants that would have otherwise died a decade earlier. I waged a war against virulent diseases that were once a death sentence. Through my skills in chemistry, biology and medicine, I was... | 4 | |
[WP] You've been dead for centuries and been absolutely loving it, so the revelation came as a bit of a shock. "What do you mean this is Hell?" | [
"Rudely. Rude. Defined as offensive. Impolite. Ill-mannered. Perhaps even disreputable. The man towering over me with a phone receiver, lingering for a moment too long without saying anything, twirling the pencil moustache against his skin was simply just *rude*.\n\n\nI picked the received up to listen to a voice... | 2 | |
[as opposed to, "Every man dies, not every man truly lives" - attributed to *William Wallace*] | [WP] What does the world/life look like if the Truism is actually "Every Man Lives, but Not Every Man Truly Dies" | [
"The year is 5440. Humanity has long since moved on to other planets, other star systems. Earth has been declared a dead planet. Its only inhabitants now are outlaws and scavengers, who pick the bones clean of resources. Except for one group.\n\nThey call themselves The Timekeepers, a monastic order devoted to pres... | 2 |
[WP] You were one of the first volunteers for a Synaptic Implant, which would provide a 'digitally enhanced reality'. When the implant malfunctions, you spend nearly a decade in a coma and awaken to a digital dystopia. You soon realise you're not part of the System - yet. | [
"Light.\nBrightness.\nIt's all I can see as I finally breathe in the surprisingly musty air of my hospital bed. Wait.. . hospital? I remembered vaguely being rushed to one, but it seemed covered somehow, filmed over by time or trauma. I pushed harder and my head repelled me, reeling back in the mother of all head p... | 1 | |
[WP] [TT] A literal version of the phrase, "Home is where the heart is." | [
"Jax opened the makeshift door to his palace. At least, that’s what it seemed to him. The Colossus lay on its side, half buried by centuries of overgrowth. Its head rested about thirty yards away, obviously torn from the body before it collapsed. Jax wasn’t interested in the head. No, what he loved about it lay fur... | 3 | |
[WP] "Steaks," he said quietly, shaking his head. "Why did it have to be steaks?" | [
"\"I can't believe Jason missed that word on the menu when he took it to the printers!\"\n\nJason. He had done this.\n\n\"Who is going to order 10 ounces of steal cooked to perfection?\" \n\n\"It's not so bad.\" She twirled the glass in her hand. Two hours every night shining glasses and silverware to perfection.\n... | 1 | |
[WP] The death of a dream. | [
"My eyes fixated on the image projected onto the wall opposite me as a torrent of sound began to engulf the room. A sea of a hundred thousand people stretched to the horizon, awash in the glow of the setting sun, their arms pressed together, mouths opening to cheer as anticipation mounted beyond any hope of contai... | 2 | |
[WP] The corpses of Prisoners who die before their sentence is up are held for the remainder. As a recently transferred guard, you find out why those guarding the dead are paid more | [
"\"They... *what?*\" I asked in disbelief.\n\n\"Don't worry about it, just don't get too close.\" The older guard reassured me.\n\n\"But-- No! I'm heading back to ask for a shift change!\"\n\n\"Good luck with that, this place is locked down all week until the next food supply comes down.\"\n\nI stared at the guard,... | 1 | |
[WP] After the great magic War, the common people are afraid that the returning veterans would be health potion addicts. Tell the perspective of a common class citizen and that of a mage coming home. | [
"A new energy burst forth from all within the kingdom. None knew what caused the anomaly nor what kept it going. The only apparent result of the anomaly being that seemingly all humans, now have magical talents. The ability to tame the forces of nature and use them in concert with the mind to produce dazzling effec... | 1 | |
[WP] You, a mage has just created a new magical weapon dubbed the "Railgun." | [
"The door to the laboratory swung open on lazy hinges, an odor of various concoctions clashing with dust and decay. There was barely any room for him to stand, so packed was the fairly sizeable room with strange mechanical constructions and alchemical ingredients. It was a mess. Figures.\n\n\"Liv?\" He called into ... | 1 | |
[WP] A man appears out of thin air and begins telling you about a reality tv show in which people meet other versions of themselves from the multiverse. This year they are introducing the most successful version of a person to the least successful. He wants you to participate. | [
"A knock on the door. I drop what I am writing and head towards the door. \n\n\nIt has to be my friend, I thought to myself, and opened the door. \n\n\n“Hello?” I said… I take a closer look at whoever was behind that door. It was a man and he was wearing a suit and tie.\n\n\n“Who are you?” I ask again. \n\n\n“An an... | 3 | |
[WP] Earth is a long forgotten alien species reserve. Our keepers have returned to find the dinosaurs extinct, and humankind at the top of the food chain. | [
"\"No, no, the atmosphere is all wrong, and these geological readings are just as screwed up. Take this back to the science department and get them to redo it, there is no way these numbers are correct!\" \nCrew scattered from the bridge. The interstellar conservationist starship is making it's next scheduled chec... | 2 | |
[WP] In the early 1980's, the US comes to the conclusion that nuclear war is inevitable. After the preemptive strike, the American population is awaiting soviet retaliation in their nuclear vaults. This retaliation never comes. | [
"“General Secretary, we have found the source: an American double agent.”\n\n“Excellent, Comrade. What is his name?”\n\n“Her name, General Secretary.”\n\n“A woman?! They entrusted the task to a woman?”\n\n“Who did we least suspect?”\n\n“*Da*, you have a point, Comrade. Apparently the FBI teaches *rak*’s to whistle.... | 1 | |
[WP] You've always wanted to be a superhero and help people. One day you finally get superpowers... when you're 80 years old. | [
"I grew up in a world of superheroes after my last few generations of ancestors figured themselves out in the wake of uncommon human gene mutations slowly becoming more and more prevelant. Scientists described it as a similar event to infects getting their wings in such a short number of years. The best people coul... | 1 | |
[WP] The sun suddenly goes out, plunging the earth into darkness and a freezing cold. Civilisations die and almost all life as we know it ceases to exist, save you and your friends. Then, when the end finally seems to be upon you, the sun comes back. | [
"When the sun went out....we weren't prepared. We'd prepared for the opposite; heat death of the universe, even accelerated just in case. But we couldn't have prepared for what happened. Not like that. My favorite movie used to be The Day After Tomorrow. Now I'm essentially living it.\n\nMost people imagine that if... | 3 | |
[WP] “There’s only one way out of here, and I don’t think you’re gonna like it.” | [
"I shuddered, knowing exactly what Thomas was referring to. \nThe portal that killed Jake. \nHe summoned it within seconds, and there it was; taunting me once again with its warped glow.\n\"No way man.. are you insane?! There's got to be another way..\", I replied; eyes darting from wall to wall in hope to find a h... | 1 | |
[WP] You’re an alien, disguised as a human, working at NASA and trying to destroy all evidence and data on aliens. | [
"\"Hey Robert!\"\nI jerk around so quickly that the masks tears a little just below the left ear. Will stands in the door. He carries a pile of books in his arms. \n\"What are you doing here?\" he asks suspiciously. \n\"Nothing\" I reply quickly and step away from the computer \"Wheeler wanted me to go over the lat... | 3 | |
[WP] As a mystical world advances so too does it's technology, as rocket science comes about, so to does a realization. This is the mission to launch every cursed artifact of history into the sun, forever keeping them from the hands of dark mystics. | [
"Salazar stood, at the edge of the lighthouse, the pale glow off the faerie fire behind him lost amid the clouds, watching as the stars seemed to be swallowed, one by one, each snuffing out quietly. He started at the sound of a footfall. \"You'd better get the shutters up, it won't be long before dawn.\" He nodded,... | 2 | |
Edit: OMG, this is my first original post ever, and it's amazing how many of you actually responded! Thank you!!! | [WP] Your brand new smartphone falls from the desk and is on route for collision with the floor. Desperately, you reach out with your hand and the phone stops mid air, wobbling. The whole classroom was your witness. | [
"Lips pursed in the first syllable of a curse bitten off quickly, Tyrell holds his hand out to his phone, feeling like the world has stopped. Instead, though, only his phone had.\n\nFlipping as it fell, his brand new all-glass phone floats, turned in a way that nothing could organically balance like that.\n\nLookin... | 4 |
[WP] You are a time traveler in 1928. You unintentionally make a friend, and when they mention the Great Depression, you realize that they too are a time traveler. | [
"I used a fake name while talking to hin to go hide my identity. As soon as he mentions the great depression.. I freeze. Completely in fear. Thinking that he came to my time to stop me. Maybe he was me from the future future. However he knew exactly what was going through my head the moment he said that. From the l... | 3 | |
[WP] Troy doesn't fall, and as the Greeks spend their strength against its walls, barbarians from the north start to invade your lands. With Agamemnon refusing to leave until the city falls, you, Odysseus, must journey home to defend your lands | [
"you're in luck; I fucking *love* the Iliad. you get the laziest, unrhymed, unmetered narrative poem in HISTORY\n\n***\n\nThe Achaens, death-hungry and war-mad, \nstayed long after the food had dwindled \nand they had no wine left for their gods. \nTheir boats hungered for sea, \nthe men for home and all ... | 1 | |
[WP] You've always been a fan of fiction books, with a particular passion for a specific author and the intricate creatures in his books. The discovery of a new deep sea species was just announced, and from the description you've read, it's eerily similar to one of the authors creatures. | [
"Sort of a sequel to [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/7of64w/wp_you_are_one_of_the_the_few_people_with_a/) earlier thing I did? Same main guy at least. It's the audio log one, pretty badly made - but I was experimenting. \n\n---\n\n---\n\n>Warning! This subject's personal accounts are to b... | 1 | |
[WP] You are an official World Record Adjudicator; this is your strangest assignment yet. | [
"'Guinness World Records Hotline, how can I help you today?'\n\n'*Cough.* Yeah, hi. I was wondering if I could get some clarification on some of your physical records. Do you, uh... disqualify steroid usage?'\n\n'You mean you've completed a feat that is only possible by use of anabolic steroids?'\n\n'Sort of,' he a... | 1 | |
[WP] The hardest thing about pretending to be human is trying to only walk forward all damn time. | [
"*Excerpt from Questioning 001 of Paul J. Greenwich* \n\n*All formalities already taken*\n\n\n**Start Transmission**\n\nAgent Coleslaw: \"Paul, when did you first suspect Peter was an alien?\"\n\nSubject Greenwich: \"Well, I've already told everyone who's asked the story about how I met him. He was the new hire tha... | 1 | |
[WP] Most people say that teleportation kills you and makes an exact copy in a different location. You're about to find out what teleportation actually does to a person. | [
"Skin, flaking off the back of her hand, spinning through the air. Once it's gone, she can see the muscles twining in her forearm, the tendons stitching them to the white brilliance of her bone. The joints in her wrists are oddly shaped, like malformed dice with too many sides. \n\nHair burning from the bottom up l... | 2 | |
[WP] You've lived a good life up and until you just got sent to max security prison for a first offense. You don't expect to last but for the most unusual reason you are now king of the cell block. | [
"“—considered banned and lost,the court hereby declares you as heretic and cancels your right of your body.”\n\nThe voice rings out from the high iron table,as the three lifeless eyes of the judge declares my sentence.\n\nIt feels like a iron ball is in my stomach. I can’t move,I can’t think.\n\nThe moment the chai... | 1 | |
[WP] You've fallen in love with a girl, only problem is, you are a statue | [
"*I'm a statue.*\n\n*Always have been,always will be.*\n\n*I've fallen in love with a girl.She sits opposite me,feeding the birds.*\n\n*Trouble is,as I mentioned,I'm a statue.*\n\n*I wish I could show my affection for her.*\n\nSam sighed,looking up at the statue across from her.\n\n\"Sadly,that'll never be real,no ... | 6 | |
[WP] Hell - and not a romanticized version of it. | [
"The first thing they would start with would be the fingers. The three large male orderlies twisted my left arm in a painful V and cuffed it to the gurney. The bed they put me on had brown splotches from the last patient. It, along with the furniture, was made of cast plastic molding, in various colors. As I would ... | 1 | |
[WP] It turns out all religions were once true, just not at the same time. God went through enough phases while growing up to put any angsty teenager to shame. | [
"Inner-monologue:\nI love this. It’s a little glitchy and the UI can get a little repetitive, but what can you do when there are billions of individuals that perceive they are so different. Developers can only do so much...\nI mean, look at all the possibilities for NPC and environmental creation!!! It inspires so ... | 7 | |
[WP] You've been kidnapped by some criminals that have been robbing stores on a crime spree, and they've demanded you act as getaway driver for them. They don't suspect that you're the most dangerous one in the vehicle. | [
"Klide Zimmer was having a real shitty day. The coffee he had this morning tasted like dirt, later he had to outrun the cops due to a slight...misunderstanding...and now he was face down on the pavement with a massive headache. \n\nHearing the yelling of multiple people, he groggily looked over and saw a few thugs ... | 1 | |
[WP] “Huh, the trees don’t scream in this dimension.” “I know this world is... wait, what?” | [
"I stared at the man who'd just come through the dimensional gate I'd built in the woods. When I'd turned the portal on, I hadn't expected it to work, and yet here he stood, a traveler from another dimension, dressed in a gray jumpsuit and goggles. \n\nHe looked around at the trees, my machinery, and basket of snac... | 2 | |
[WP] 'Do you not fear death?' She asked, with a surprised smile. | [
"Penance\n\n\"No.\" He grunted through gritted teeth. His bright brown eyes sparkled with welling tears as the pain surged through his body. I have to be strong, he though. \"She's coming.\"\n\nThey had strapped his naked body on to what felt like a metal table and administered the poison through his calf. The b... | 3 | |
[WP] All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. And you just broke the fourth wall. | [
"“Hey, stick to the script” Robert whispered to me. I looked back, confused. \n“Dude, what are you talking about?”. My friend and I had just been bullshitting, throwing out ridiculous rhetorical questions at each other. \n“I’m serious,” he whispered, “The audience is starting to notice…” \nStill confused, I asked “... | 1 | |
[WP] As I think back on the first time I died... | [
"... as I wonder alone in the land of Nod. It’s a dreadful existence really, the only thing to keep me company is the memory of my brother. He was the over-achieving type, the kind that always wanted to be best; but he honored those around him and showed respect where respect was due. I miss him so, but I really ha... | 1 | |
[WP] You were accidentally transported to a parallel universe where you committed a crime and were sentenced to death in the arena. The executioners of this world are the nightmarish creations from your favorite kids TV shows as a child. | [
"“WHAT IS GOING ON? WHERE AM I?” I shouted repeatedly to everyone and no one in particular.\n\nSomehow, I am in the middle of an arena, the kind of arena I have only seen in movies where there have also been gladiators. The crowd is filled with barbaric people shouting angrily in a language I don’t understand. They... | 1 | |
...whoever deals the final blow is doomed to take the villain's place.
(My dad's interesting idea, thought I would put it out there to see what other people make of it.) | [WP] You and the hero are about to defeat the villain. The saga is about to end. But the riddle that the oracle gave the both of you still bothers you. Just before the hero ends it all, you realize the riddle's grim meaning... | [
"As the Corruption overloaded the containment unit, all of the trophies and trinkets in the room were faded to ash. The lightning from the chamber as the Arbiter screamed blasted red hot, fringing the walls, floor and ceiling, until the whole thing shut down. The glass behind which the hidden figure of the Arbiter ... | 1 |
[WP] Your friends constantly talk about how soon Mars will become the new home for humanity. You are the only one who knows that Earth is our third attempt at relocating. | [
"I cough a bit, feeling something caught back in my throat. My friends look over, wondering if I was alright.\n\n\"Just a little bug I've had for the past few weeks, go on.\" I reply to their curious gazes.\n\n\"Well, I was just saying that how AWESOME it'll be to finally colonize the moon! My dad says that I even ... | 7 | |
[WP] The princess returned, wearing armor and carrying a sword and the dragon's head. | [
"Responding to my own prompt because no one else will and I felt like writing today.\n\nMy father was an old fool, tied to tradition. That was his defining trait, and his second greatest weakness. His reliance on one ancient artifact to protect him was his greatest weakness. Our kingdom had no army, because King Ho... | 1 | |
[WP] “I’m a solid 50% sure I’m a wizard, okay?” “What’s the other 50%?” “...Witch.” (Story about a genderfluid magician, which can be taken many ways!) | [
"I had seen my share of transformations. \nI have taught many aspiring young wizards and witches. \nWe usually begin simple, turning beetles into buttons, teapots into garden gnomes, and the most pleasant lessons are when my pupils turn cutlery into wildflowers. \nThe more advanced lessons cover more challengin... | 2 | |
[wp] you can make anybody around you smell whatever fragrance they deeply desire and only they can smell it. | [
"The park.\n\nA man and a litte girl.\n\nHe's holding her hand. \n\nShe's holding a dripping cone of ice cream. She hasn't taken a single lick. It's running over her hand.\n\nThe sun is out. The sky is blue. The grass is green. A brown dog happily leaps into the air and catches a red frisbee.\n\nShe looks, but she ... | 1 | |
[WP] Only the carrier of the [Item] may rule the land, and it will burn everyone that tries touching it, except for a select few. You, on the other hand, are immune to fire. | [
"The Crown of Fire, as it was aptly named by the first king, was the birthright of our kingdom. Whoever wore it was granted the power to rule, and could use it's flames to incinerate their enemies or those who opposed them. However, the crown had a mind of it's own; if someone whom the crown considered unworthy to ... | 1 | |
[WP] You really, really don't want to visit your significant other's family. | [
"\"Do we really have to go visit your family?\"\n\n\"My sister just had a baby. Yes, we really have to go visit her\", Scott replied with an irritated sigh.\n\n\"It's just that I really don't want to.\"\n\nScott's irritation began to increase. \"What is your problem with my sister, anyway?\"\n\n\"Oh, I like your si... | 1 | |
[WP] [EU] A DnD Fantasy world, where magic talent is so commonplace, its taken for granted. Even everyday citizens are possessed with a small talent. But the physically strong have to struggle: Warriors are the outcasts, building their worth the hard way. | [
"Ah jeez, this is a bad response as it's not WP - HOWEVER, there's an actual book series about this. I forget the name, I read it about.. 16 years ago. I remember the books followed a small caste of warriors who start fighting... I think it was 4 \"houses\" (for each 'type' of magic) after they witness a slaughter ... | 2 | |
[WP] Write a ' Pixar short' styled story where the concepts of life and death are personified. | [
"The time on the clock on the wall was 7:05.\n\nSweat hit the cold tile of the hospital as a woman screamed from her position prone on the gurney. \n\nHer husband allowed his hand to be clenched as she breathed heavily, cursing him on her breaths out as she pushed, pushed and pushed. \n\n—-\nThe clock ticked slowly... | 2 | |
[WP] You return home one day and find an extra couch. There is no explanation for it's appearance. The next day, a second couch appears.You fear this pattern will continue. | [
"Randall stared at it. He had spent most of the morning idly staring at it. And it, the unwelcome couch, seemed somewhat to be sternly staring back. Which gave Randall an overwhelming uneasy feeling. Still he sat, staring, sipping coffee and wondering how this unexpected over bearing couch had the audacity to even ... | 4 | |
[WP] The old seven deadly Sins have retired. You are one of the new Seven, chosen to help spread your sin across the globe and to ensure it never dies. This is one of your days as one of the new deadly sins of humanity. | [
"I had never honestly expected to get the part, after all, I had only even tried because I thought it would be fun. I faintly remember the Trials which makes sense because I had to smoke a bowl to help kill off the hangover from the night before. The bowl doesn't really eradicate the pain, but rather stops me from ... | 1 | |
[WP] It is often noted how heroes have "plot armor" as a superpower, but not you... You have found your success through using "plot holes". | [
"\"Your time ends here, Holy Plotter!\" Dr. Death seemed proud of himself.\n\n\"One thing you forgot,\" I said.\n\nDr. Death seemed... uncertain. \"What?\"\n\n\"You forgot... That the writer never said why my time ends here!\" I shouted.\n\nDr. Death gasped. \"No! He must have! How could he just start his story on ... | 1 | |
[Inspired by this thread] (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7ya7i0/if_there_was_worldwide_game_of_hide_and_seek/) | [WP] You are the seeker in a worldwide game of hide and seek. | [
"The task was simple, Hide and Seek. We started with 49 hiders spread across the world about eight thousand years ago. All cursed by The Coven till the last is found. I, the unlucky seaker, was also denied the right that \"those found shall also seak\" instead finding them caused rapid aging. These people turned to... | 2 |
Slight repost but different look, whatever :/ | [WP] Due to a very impressive accident, you’re the only parent to an unruly teenage dragon. Said Dragon just fell for the school nerd who plays DnD | [
"Dad:\n>Now son I just want you to remember one thing.\nYou might not be like all the other children, but if she is someone special, follow your heart.\nShe might even become a good domi----ungeon master someday, so when if you guys end up together, just protect her treasures and never let anyone raid her dungeo... | 2 |
[WP] You're the very first person to die and be sent to hell. You design the eternal punishments. | [
"\"Sooooo....\"\n\n\"Yeah?\"\n\n\"So when we gave you an unlimited budget and infinite time to design the worst suffering imaginable, we were a bit surprised by the drawings. Nevertheless, we were told that you were 'the guy' so we let you carry on. And now I'm told none of the other demons or demigods understand w... | 2 | |
[WP] It turns out man does have a natural predator, the Collective, and it destroys all the planets humans live on. This is why man has always wanted to fly and go fast—to escape. Now, the Collective is coming to earth. | [
"Pollution in the air and in the water. Global warming. School shootings. Increasing rates of abortions. Cellphones. \n\nI told the world from my little corner walk soap box, but no one would listen.\n\nI felt like Noah telling the people that the world was coming to an end.\n\nBut they didn't listen to Noah. They... | 1 | |
[WP] Automated alien mining vessels land on our Moon and throughout our solar system and begin strip mining them of anything of worth. They avoid only Earth and Europa while ignoring any attempt at communication. | [
"The halls were as silent as the space that surrounded the station. The dim lights that flickered as the generators cycled were all that interrupted the stillness of Gagarin Station. The Mess and Crew Quarters were left bereft since the first signals were received from the Charon relay. All that remained was a skel... | 1 | |
[WP] A weary man walks home from work. He arrives to see a hooded figure standing at his front door. The hooded figure hands the man a handgun and small photograph of a young woman and tells the man he has 24 hours to kill her. | [
"Did it matter that I was retired? No. Working the life I had done so well in rebuilding, a piece of mushy-wet scum waited in the rain at my front door. I noticed him like a black blur in the corner of my eye when driving up to the annoying sound of my windshield wipers squidgy and squeaking. Parking up on my drive... | 2 | |
[WP] It’s the heist of the millennium. Location: a small nearby planet. The goods: the planet itself. | [
"*Kettleblack Station, orbiting Sentell III*\n\n\"You know what the problem with Johan's Planet is?\" Johan asked.\n\n\"The fact that it's actually named 'Sentell III' and not 'Johan's Planet'?\" Helen suggested.\n\n\"No,\" Johan said. \"Well, yes, that too. But the problem with Sentell III is that it's way the... | 1 | |
[WP] You've been tortured by an illusionist for years. You never know what's illusion and what's reality. | [
"*\"Rise and shine, flower.\"*\n\nThe words rang through her mind, bringing with them the imaginary image of a sickly-sweet smile set upon bright, bloody lips. She started awake with the usual shaking, abruptly rising from the sweat-stained pillow that grabbed hold of her tangled hair with gentle thorns, trying to ... | 2 | |
[WP] When an angel attacks your school/work you find out that your the child of a demon lord and that your best friend is your butler/bodyguard and you must return to hell. | [
"I stared at the hauntingly beautiful angel lying on my desk, staring blankly at my ceiling, a dagger in her chest. The blood was starting to spill on my carpet, but that was the least of my problems. I shot an accusing glare at the man who I thought was my best friend minutes ago, and he just let out his usual boy... | 1 | |
[WP] You find a magic debit/credit card with your name on it. It hasn't infinite money, but it has enough to fulfill all your current expenses and a little extra for fun. It refills itself monthly. After a while, you quit your job. Suddenly, after 10 years it stops working. | [
"There was no way this could be true, Carl thought about what his neighbor Cathy had told him. There was no monthly in her account, and apparently there had been none in that of her upstairs neighbor either this morning. He strolled down the street, taking long slow drags off his cigarette; still high from a sess... | 1 | |
[WP] A scientist finds out that when people die they are reincarnated as another person but they lose their memories of their previous life, he has just found out a way to get those memories back. | [
"\"I'm telling you, I'm Abraham Lincoln. Or, well... I was.\" Arthur Bingley was in high spirits today and wasn't going to be dissuaded by the laughter and the polite coughs from the town hall crowd. \n\nThe host politician, who Arthur had less than twenty four hours prior thought to be a no-name nobody, was lookin... | 1 | |
[WP] While on a high school field trip the school bus collides with a radioactive tanker. The liquid pours onto all of the students, killing some and giving the rest powers. Describe the events that take place following the 15 or so students and teachers newly gifted with superpowers. | [
"The atmosphere around the school after the accident was a mix of sadness, fear, and jealousy. There was 30 people on the bus that day, twelve students, one teacher and the driver were all killed. Everyone else walked away the ability to move things with their minds. The two teachers both left the school, nobody h... | 1 | |
[WP] Your physics professor is 20 minutes late to class, and counting. Everyone is packing up, but when the first student tries to open the door, it's locked. Your professor's voice comes from the speakers. "It's time to see how well you've learned." | [
"I'm sick and tired of waiting for my professor to show up. He's twenty minutes late, and I'm the only one who showed up for class. For the first five minutes, I figured maybe there was some freak delay in traffic or something, and after ten minutes, I figured I'd make a few brownie points for being the only one in... | 7 | |
[WP] Telling a dog they're a 'good boy' resets their short fuse for destructive behavior. | [
"I got home from work to find the contents of the dustbin scatted across the kitchen, a sofa shredded into pieces and the fridge door hanging off. The kids had made a nest of what was left of the cushions and were sat in front of the telly watching Spongebob, with Rufus the family Labrador sat between them, watchin... | 2 |
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