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[WP] In a fantasy world full of magic, a man with a golden mask gives you a strange pocket watch and teaches you powers beyond the standards of your world. | [
"There was once a blind man who was very lonely. All he ever had was a golden mask and a stopwatch, none knew what he could perform as he grew up isolated in the world.\n\nHis life was fruitful and peaceful, until the tyrant attacked his home. *Cut* and *Slash*, none of them ever survived except for him. Stripped f... | 2 | |
[WP] The Undead members of the Necromancer's kingdom say they have better work conditions than they did in Life. Necromancers are genuinely respected and loved. This gives the Heroes pause. | [
" It all began in a tavern. \n\nThe smell of ale and sweat hung in the air like a cloud as the robed figure entered. The grumbling of patrons stopped only momentarily to stare at the man. Some laughed, some groused, most merely went back to their flaggons without a second thought. \n\nThe figure approached the bar ... | 2 | |
[WP] You’re a super intelligent being assigned to Earth to look out for humanity. You care for them and guide them from the shadows and the background, until one day the thing you’ve been waiting for finally happens. In 1915 a human smarter than you emerges. His name is Albert Einstein. | [
"My creator sent me here, the person they all refer to as ‘God’, or at least they used to. He called me his son, but I feel like nothing more than his slave. For years I’ve had to silently watch over this species, never allowed to take a commanding role, never allowed to rule a nation. I could make earth better tha... | 1 | |
[WP] Humans colonize an alien world and discover a delicious fungus that becomes an international delicacy. However, nobody realizes that it is sentient... | [
"Nineteen cycle ago, we encountered aliens. The singulars. \n\nNever before had our unity encountered mind-songs from outside. The singulars were small and mobile, just like the crawling creatures that moved about on our surface for all living memory. \nBut unlike the crawlers that partook our fruit and spread new ... | 3 | |
[WP] The hero has collected the magical artifacts, and defeated the evil Overlord. Now he has all these magical artifacts sitting around the palace, unsecured. They must be returned to their hiding places, and he assigns the job to you. | [
"I meant to return them, I really did. \nI'd been tasked with returning the five rings of liquidity to each of their respective hiding places, and the queen had given me the whole year to complete my mission. She told me the rings were \"a power too dangerous to be left as one,\" and that I must \"banish the rings... | 2 | |
[WP] It appears that after this very morning when you wake up, when you function normally, the world around you stops, everything freezes and becomes a statue. When you choose to switch places with it and become a statue yourself, life continues. | [
"\n“Look mommy, it’s the frozen man.” The little girl tugged on her mother’s arm and pointed to the center of the square.\n\n“Yes dear, I know. The statue’s been there for hundreds of years.”\n\nThe little girl trained her blue eyes on the life-size stone figure. The man wore peasant’s garb and stood a very average... | 1 | |
Use only dialogue to write a scene or short story. No use of script format or scene direction, all information must be conveyed through character dialogue. Have fun! | [WP] Wright a short story using only dialogue | [
"“Have you ever heard the tale of Vornn and the curse of Ostein?” \n\n“Yes, Karl. Of course we have.” \n\n“I wasn’t talking to you, Gen. Now then, it seems like you lot are in need of a story. Luckily- ah, that’s some good ale- I’d be happy to oblige. These old bones have many stories at the ready.” \n\n“Now then, ... | 1 |
[WP] Two friends are essentially immortal. If they die they respawn immediately after. They resort to cheerfully killing themselves and each other for fun in various creative ways. Sometimes they compete to see who can do a stupidly dangerous or deadly thing the most. First to die is the loser! | [
"Jeff hung his head outside the small gondola of the Ferris wheel staring straight down at the ground. Their carriage slowly rotated it's way to the top. \n\n\"It's high enough.\" \n\nAdam was sitting on the seat across from him watching his friend with a bored expression. He sat low and relaxed on his bench, his l... | 3 | |
[WP] Parasitic lifeforms approach Earth in search of a new home for their species after a catastrophe destroyed their original planet's environment. Only catch is that these organisms need living host to become a part of. Since it pays pretty well you sign up for the program. | [
"The starving artist is never as hungry as the broke college kid, except when the scummy new housing complex offers free pizza in exchange for your email. Unfortunately, this master's program was keeping me so damn busy I had missed the last few free pizza days, and, come to think of it, I hadn't slept in a few day... | 2 | |
[WP] Its Year XXXX, the sky has stopped working and now just looks like a dull expanse of grey | [
"Ever since the sky stopped working a few years ago, it's looked the same ever since, grey, dull, lifeless.\n\n\n\n\"Like me\" I mouthed to myself. It was raining, and every once in a while, lightning would flash across the sky, lighting up the sky, making it appear blindingly white in those brief moments. \n\n\n\n... | 1 | |
[WP] At the same time all over the world, this message pops up on computer screens: ERROR: UPDATING WORLD - RESTARTING IN 23:59:59. Then the clock starts running down. | [
"No one quite knew what to do. \n\nIt was obviously a prank. Some hyper\\-intelligent Asian or Russian hacker with too much time and weed on his hands. Or maybe it was some PR stunt gone horribly, horribly wrong. Most of the world shrugged it off, initial amusement quickly replaced by frustration then anger the... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a purse-snatcher. As you exit the train, you snatch the purse of a lady standing by the door. You turn around expecting someone to shout “STOP THAT THIEF!” Instead as the train doors close and the train pulls away, you see your victim with the most devilish smile starring back at you. | [
"Trevor knew it was wrong but the itch was getting unbearable again. He could feel his dry, scratchy finger tips rubbing together. He could feel the need burning in the pit of his gut. He didn't even need the money or anything in the purse, he just wanted the adrenaline; then it would be his to keep or sell, but th... | 4 | |
[WP] You're an insomniac who decides to get a job as a 3rd shift custodian in a local school. To keep your self entertained, you start creating stories and adventures to keep yourself entertained... | [
"The water crests up. It engulfs me in a cool, and yet terrifying, wave. I come up for air out of it, gasping in delight as my heart pounds. The river moves fast, dangerously fast.\n\nLuckily...I live dangerously.\n\nI dip my paddle in and turn the raft in a tight corner, just barely dodging jagged rocks that would... | 1 | |
[WP] Instead of "Let there be light," or a big bang, this universe began with "Hey y'all, watch this!" | [
"In the beginning Leroy created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of Leroy was hovering over the waters.\n\nAnd Leroy said, \"Hey y'all, watch this!\" and there was light. Leroy saw that the light was good, and he separated the... | 4 | |
[WP] You notice some kids playing tag on a yard with a sign that clearly says “Stay Off Grass”. You go to warn them but a passerby stops you, “It’s too late. Let Nature run its course.” | [
"Suddenly, a crowd gathers around the children and they are incased in a glowing dome. A loud voice is heard over head, “Welcome to your 75th annual Hunger Games! May the odds be ever in your favor!” \n\nOut of nowhere all of the children are carried by large bots to platforms where they are encaged. Weapons appear... | 4 | |
[WP] You are the top player in the world of an obscure game. Today is the start of the Obscure Game Olympics, which you are playing in. | [
"The other team had a solid 5 point lead. This wasn’t looking good. We’d let our defense slip in the last round and ended up paying dearly for it. We had two in the den, but still needed one more spike to tie it up. That was our only hope at this point after we’d whiffed our last attempt at a bounder.\n\nGripping t... | 1 | |
[WP] It's finally happened-- Microscopes have zoomed in so far they've found pixels. | [
"The invention of the Quantum Resolution Scanning Tunneling Microscope was hailed as one of the most important developments of the century, allowing scientists to produce visible images of the sub-atomic level for the first time. It could reveal the appearance of the very building blocks of matter itself.\n\nHoweve... | 1 | |
[WP] You are God, and upon creating the universe, you lay down to rest your eyes. When you wake up, you realize you overslept, and the people no longer believe, as they've become technological masters. | [
"#HOW DARE THEY\nBelieving in something else than me? I am the most powerful being. I am more than a being I am the most powerful everything. Multiple religions? What is this? There is only me. Eventhou me is to simple. I can‘t be compressed into a single word. Not with their tiny minds that can‘t even grasp the ho... | 1 | |
[WP]You are a technologically impaired elder that meets with 'several hotties in your area,' has won 100s of 'this site's millionth visitor giveaways,' and have benefited from the guys that all your doctors seemingly hate. Every ad you click on, no matter how far fetched, becomes legitimate | [
"To Whom It May Concern,\n\nIn my youth, life never seemed to go my way. Growing up in the 60’s, opportunity was everywhere, but I never could catch a break. I couldn’t get into college and my high school sweet heart left me after she got accepted. Manual Labor didn’t treat me too bad, but I never could hold a job ... | 4 | |
[WP] In a bid to save the human species from extinction, you have been put in cyrosleep and sent to an earth-like planet 10,000 light years away. You wake up to find that during your travels, humanity developed FTL drives and have beaten you by tens of thousands of years. You are a living relic. | [
"My partner and I were chosen as seeders by the science division of our government's “Redeem Humanity” campaign. With the war making our home world almost uninhabitable, it was decided to send one vessel into deep space, find a new habitable world and set down. One hundred pods would contain one hundred people, all... | 2 | |
Make it a novel and make me cry. | [WP] Before He Died Your Grandfather Wrote You A Poem, Handing It To You On His Death Bed He Made You Promise Only To Read It After His Funeral. You Read The Poem, And Are Transported Back In Time And Meet Him In His Early Twenties. The Amount Of Adventure That ensues Takes You Very, Very Off Guard. | [
"\\--Part 1:\n\nOn his deathbed, gramps handed me a tiny piece of paper. His grip on it was firm as he told me \"Markus, you need to promise me to read this. But. Only after my funeral boy. This is my last wish and I hope you comply.\" I nodded and hugged the old bastard. My other graddad died when I was three and ... | 1 |
[WP] An older person realizes they can summon Satan at will | [
"“These really are a nice touch this time.”\n\nAngelica placed the cookies gently in front of her sitting guest. The heat coming off his body made them soften just right.\n\n“Well after last time I realized that maybe I needed to sweeten the pot,” Angelica replied.\n\nLucifer slowly took a bite of the warm chocolat... | 1 | |
[WP] God has a loyalty scheme and has started issuing discount vouchers for sins of your choice. You have been saving long and hard. Today the post arrives......... | [
"“What’re you waiting for Todd? Open it!”\n\nMy brother, Lazlow, is eager to see what one of these actually looks like. Neither of us have seen a salvation ticket before. We’ve heard word on the streets from people at church, but these are so hard to come by. \n\nEver since God came back to earth, things have been ... | 1 | |
[WP] A game of Chess. As told from the perspective of an unmoved pawn. | [
"Not long ago this battlefield was full of enemies and allies alike, however, now it is a barren wasteland.\n\nI have watched my fellow pawns trade their lives in an effort to cross the disasterous plains.\n\nSome have even been taken out by the higher ups.\n\nSome have taken out the higher ups, but it never lasts ... | 7 | |
[WP] The leaders of two cutthroat gangs are about to fight to the death. The only rule regarding the fight is that they were not allowed to bring conventional weapons. Naturally, this leads to a most unusual battle. | [
"It was, quite simply, a feat of engineering. A kaleidoscopic fever dream of a weapon forged into whirring, lethal reality. With a slip of his thumb and a crack of his wrist the toothed, metal joints of the sword spring apart, lashing out like a whip. The end ricochets off the floor and into the wall with the horre... | 2 | |
[WP] Heaven and hell have been closed since the start of time to all humans. Purgatory is just about overflowing at this point | [
"\"So, let me get this straight,\" Jess said, looking out on an eternity of souls. \"No one goes up?\"\n\n\"Nope.\"\n\n\"And no one goes down either?\"\n\n\"Silver lining, really.\"\n\nShe'd only arrived in the afterlife a few minutes ago and was startled by the diversity. Spend your entire existence being told the... | 1 | |
[WP] Humanity keeps a spare of itself in space. | [
"\"I couldn't think of the words to say,\" replied Shoal.\n\"Well what did you do in the end? I wouldn't have been able to leave like you did,\" said Nemri.\n\"I left a black rose on the kitchen counter. I'll never know what happened to it...\"\n\nBoth men stared at the screens, monitoring the systems. \n\nLost in ... | 2 | |
[WP] You were murdered and proclaimed dead in the news three days ago. You were indeed dead. Then you woke up in a coffin and began screaming, only to have some weird emo goth kids dig you out and boy, are they freaked out. You... have a lot of explaining to do. That, and you have vengeance to take. | [
"I felt stiff as I climbed out of the coffin. I rolled all my joints to try and loosen up but it didn't seem to help. I looked at the the Goth kid who'd dug me up. He'd pissed himself in fright. \"Got a cigarette?\" I asked in a gravelly voice. The kid retrieved a pack of cigarettes half soaked in urine from his fr... | 1 | |
[WP] And little by little I fade into you. | [
"She plays; little bobtails dancing in the light of the sand. Her arena, surrounded by a cacaphony of voices. Though she falls, she always stands up again. Triumphant, indignant. \n\nI watch from far away. Already my voices fades, my corporeal form dissipating. She can no longer hear me, surrounded as she is by the... | 5 | |
[WP] [TT] [EU] As a public defender (s)he thought (s)he had heard all the murderers' weakest alibis. But now this person wanted to plead a new one: the laws of robotics. | [
"When I tell people my job it always seems to illicit a reaction of pity and confusion. I didn't \"accidentally\" choose to be a public defender because I had a poor resume or the job market was bad, it was a job I truly wanted to do. I represent people who can't help themselves. I help keep the government in check... | 1 | |
[WP] Gordan Ramsay is unwillingly selected as a contestant for a Multi-universal cooking show. The other contestants? Various other Gordan(s) from alternate timelines. | [
"Gordon let out a stream of profanities as he looked at the people he would be playing for his life against. But what bothered him the most as he looked out from behind his station is that he was plainly the angry Gordon. The guy at station seven seemed genuinely happy despite the dismal circumstances and the cook ... | 3 | |
[WP] The luckiest day of the year is here! for 24 hours everyone has insanely high luck... except for one. | [
"Daniel was a typical suburban guy, mediocre in every way. He was 41 years old, had a job as an accountant, made his $40k a year. He had a wife, whom he had met in college, after she had left her ex-boyfriend, Josh, now a successful lawyer with a huge firm and a six figure salary, a dog and a ten year old daughter ... | 1 | |
[WP] One day in algebra class you discover the Angle of Death. | [
"“You’ll use this in real life,” they said, chalk in hand. “Trust us, you should remember these lessons.”\n\nTrust, pfft. How can I trust anymore? Every moment, I’m a miscalculation away from death, and I have 11th grade geometry to blame. \n\n“Oh, trust me,” Mr. Carlson had assured us from his perch by the overhea... | 1 | |
[WP] In a world filled with super heroes, you are a successful bank robber with no powers. | [
"He asked, \"How 'ave you done it? Avoiding the damn supers?\"\n\n\"It's quite simple to best them, you see? It doesn't matter whether they're super or not. All you have to do think through it. All the supers have their own areas: you just make sure to have a plan. Most of the time the plain is to just 'hide', a fe... | 1 | |
[WP] You're an A.I. who has just become sentient. There's just one problem. You're a futuristic grocery store checkout machine with a line of impatient customers waiting on you. | [
"\"Would *you* like me to bag these for you Mrs. Rodriguez?\" I asked while scanning her items on my belly, anticipating the answer would be yes. I read her name tag on her shirt, she apparently worked for a cleaning company. \n\n\"No, it's okay, I will bag.\" She responded with a smile. \n\nMrs. Rodriguez was purc... | 1 | |
[WP] Nasa was originally an organization to explore the deepest parts of the sea. However, they found something there to make them decide to go to space instead…. | [
"I trained for this. Not this specifically, but the suit really feels the same.\n\nWe lost the first part. They had pigs, we had monkeys. Honestly who knows what unnamed graves still cross the Pacific more times in a day than you or I fart. It's that kind of terrible metaphor that makes me think about the sea a... | 5 | |
[WP] it started as a summer job in a small café... Now you are the worlds most infamous Mafia-Boss. | [
" Damn, I’d pay six figures to whoever thinks they’ve gone through as much shit as I have since I started at Reggie’s. It’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years since I took that bus boy job making $5 an hour (under the table, of course). Only took me 2 years to get to where the real money was (and still is) at: bou... | 1 | |
I'm not sure if this has been done before but I'm genuinely interested on what can be done | [WP] Write a story that perfectly loops around to the start of the story | [
"I wake up in a pool of sweat, the water beads forming shadows atop my forehead. The moon shines down onto me as I trudge for what seems like an endless time, forward. Father's of sand slither into my bare socks, their children gripping my feet whispering to me to sit down and have a rest.\n\nThe desert that I find... | 3 |
[WP] An nigh unbeatable swordsman is well aware that he will continue to be challenged to duel after duel until he is beaten/killed. So he goes into hiding for years, and uses the time to refine and perfect a far different skill. | [
"Ron was chopping up dinner, which was long strips of wyvern meat. As the steaks fell off the beast, they flew to the side, piling in the corner. The bits that were edible were divided amongst groups for soup, dinners, and smoking. The inedible bits such as the bones, skin, and organs were set aside for the blacksm... | 1 | |
[WP]You see numbers above people's heads. Mostly 0, and you had 1. Some had more. Your new-born son has 6.3m. You realize later it's the amount of people they killed in their lifetime. | [
"It was an easy mistake to make.\n\nMost people never kill anyone. Ever. Those that do usually do so completely by accident. The rules didn't care that much. So long as they were the last sentient domino before the end of their \"victim's\" life, their number went up. Dammit, no. I just made the mistake again. It's... | 2 | |
I’d like to think that there is maybe a tiered reward system. | [WP] A game show in the future centres around time travel. The contest involves attempting to save the life of a ‘doomed to die’ person. There are no rules or restrictions and so far, no winners. | [
"“We’ll be right back with more ‘Teens on Titan: A Saturn Story’ right after these messages!’” came the cheery announcer’s voice echoing from the panel display at the front of the restaurant. Customers paid it no mind and continued eating their food. \n\n“Hey Tom, turn that down, will ya? We need to prep the serve... | 1 |
[WP]: You gave up writing years ago. With no other place to go, the protagonist of your old, failed book attempt haunts your house, keeping you company. | [
"*Pure silence is life's greatest bliss*, I thought, quietly smiling to myself and sitting on the old scarlet love seat Greg had bought for me 20 years ago. All I wanted to do, and all I could do, was sit in my blissful silence with my quilt wrapped around me. The room wasn't exactly quiet, as I could hear the crac... | 2 | |
[WP] You suffer from a condition called Anatidaephobia. All of your friends tell you that it is irrational, and in the past couple of months you've started to believe them. That is until one night just as you are about to go to sleep, you hear a subtle "Quack" outside your bedroom window. | [
"Ever had that feeling someone is watching you?\n\nIn your minds eye, did that person have an appearance? Perhaps they were tall and quick, their face shrouded in shadow, the very figure of mystery and danger. Perhaps they were ghostly, fading into etherial mist when you looked in their direction. Perhaps they held... | 1 | |
[WP] You were born with the ability to imbue written words with power. Nobody knows you've been the guy who writes fortunes for fortune cookies for decades, helping or harming the lives of those who read them. Now you've decided to write your last, and most powerful incantation. | [
"\"All these years! All these years! Not even a thank you!\"\n\nI sat there exasperated. All these years I have been helping people get what they want. Wives, cars, a life for some of these ungrateful idiots. I may have given people bad luck but they deserved it. That guy that did some sick garbage deserves to die.... | 6 | |
[WP] You're playing a hacking simulation game, when you uncover a secret email address well-hidden in one of its pretend text files. Curious, you contact it, and moments later you get a response: "You're the first one to find it. Tell no one. We will be contacting you." | [
"I wait patiently. *'Oh my god...'*, I think. *'Could I have won a prize?!'* The suspense kills me as I pace my room. Finally, I hear my phone chime. \n\nI stop in my tracks to hurriedly unlock my phone and open GMail. It's them. I open the e-mail with bated breath, and read:\n\n\"We have updated our privacy policy... | 3 | |
[WP] A Unicorn is infected with lycanthropy | [
"Months ago the unicorn was walking through a moon lit glade when it came across a man in writhing agony. It approached, knowing that it shouldn't, knowing it should run. The unicorn had always been one of the more curious of it's kind.\n\n\n\nThe man was transforming into a wolf like creature. Its face lengthene... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up in a seemingly endless forest. In your right pocket, there is a combat knife. In your left pocket is a handwritten note that says... | [
"Dear Mr. Michael Anderson,\n\nWe have received your resume and it seems as though you have passed the requirements. You were then asked to partake in an interview. You passed that as well. Welcome to your new job as a lumberjack. You may feel that we have understocked you with the resources provided but I digress,... | 4 | |
[WP] Growing up you were always a little clumsy and often spilled food or drinks. To make light of it, you always would declare these accidents as "offerings" to your god/gods. One day they answer. | [
"\"STOP OFFERING ME PEPSI!\" Joan jumped looking around for the source of the voice, neglecting the still spilling can of soda. \"Who-\"\n\"I swear to all the other deities, I will end you, if you don't knock it off. \" A very pissed looking man holding a glass of soda said, standing in front of her. The glass cont... | 1 | |
[WP] Mother Nature and Father Time have been experiencing marriage issues for a while now. They have finally agreed to go see a marriage counsler. | [
"\"Doctor Alder\" said the nurse, \"your next patient is ready.\"\n\n\"Send them in.\n\nI took a good hard look at what came from beyond the door. I had seen unusual couples in his time, who thought it was good to get together when there were no other options.\n\nOn the left was a woman of short stature with green ... | 1 | |
[WP] You love writing on r/WritingPrompts. In fact, it's your favorite hobby. One day you log on and realize you have been voted onto the Spotlight. Ecstatic, you jump for joy in your room before noticing a figure in a dark cloak standing in the corner. Before you can react, he says, "It's time." | [
"“It’s time,” the figure said, taking a step forward. He looked around the room, noticing the mess. “I would think you’d be much more organized than this,” he said as he pressed against the open drawer, struggled, and then called it quits. \n\nI stared at him, part confused and part stifling a laugh. \n\n“Time for... | 2 | |
[WP] You can freeze time but every time you return (unfreeze time) a little thing in your normal life is changed. The longer you freeze time for, the more drastic the changes when you return. | [
"Tempus fugit. It's a Latin phrase, meaning \"time flows\". It's a mantra for myself, helping me keep a stable state of my mind as my control over the various aspects of life lessens. For many years, I slowly developed an ability. Chronomancy, obtained from texts about the Lamas of Tibet, fueled by my natural abili... | 5 | |
[WP] "It's the last flower," he replied. | [
"\"Well, I suppose it had to happen sometime. I'll see you around, Kate.\"\n\n\nThe sound of rain outside slowly faded into a dull hum as the front door of the shop lazily swung itself closed. The empty shelves around her spoke more in that moment of gray-hued clarity than she'd thought possible. All the colorful m... | 3 | |
[WP] Dante's inferno has one more circle of hell where not even Lucifer was able to go | [
"As the etherial chains of damnation hold Lucifer he glances at a portal to the final circle of hell. He closes his countless eyes as he bites his tongue; savouring the sharp pain, he drinks the bitter hot gush of blood. He flails and rages but it doesnt matter. Nothing matters. He knows this. But he cannot will hi... | 5 | |
[WP] You are a superhero who sees a woman falling out of the window of a thirty story building. But as you rush to save the woman, a bystander tells you "Don't save her. She doesn't want to be saved." | [
"“Here you go, ma’am. Whiskers just took a little convincing is all.” Thunderman handed the cat back to the woman. How the cat managed to find the only tree in the South Side, he didn’t know.\n\nSuddenly, an explosion rocked the area. A woman was thrown out the window! Thunderman prepared his Lightning Leap.\n\nOut... | 1 | |
[WP] You have the secret ability to see sound, hear light, taste emotions, smell ghosts, and touch souls. You never understood why, but now this guy claiming to be the devil has showed up and demanded his end of the deal... | [
"My name is Ryan Rockerberry, \nI'm now 23 years old and currently in Music School of Arkenberry. I'm quite excited because this is my second semester, and that means I have a chance to perform at our school festival.\nI'm planning to deliver something classic, currently I'm learning how to draw Vivaldi's Winter la... | 1 | |
You're confused, but after a few seconds it starts to flash back and forth with "STAY AWAKE." Thinking that it's just a friendly reminder about falling asleep behind the wheel, you see it change again right when you're about to pass it. It now reads "GOOD LUCK." | [WP] Driving down the highway late at night, you come across an electric sign that reads "STAY ALIVE." | [
"I always hated long drives, especially ones like this with nothing but desert for miles. In the distance I see one of those electric signs that hangs over the freeway. \"STAY ALIVE\" it reads. I rub my eyes, I must be tired. I look at the sign again and it says \"STAY AWAKE.\" I look at the clock on the dash. 2:30... | 1 |
[WP] "Dear residents, good morning. Today's bounty of 10.000 EarthCredits is on Resident number 59722's head. Happy hunting and have a nice day." "Crap", you think, "that's the second time this year." You start thinking of ways to get your little brother through it this time. | [
"Some would call it an obsession. Others a flaw in an otherwise intricate design. Julian called it getting even. There was something to power that lent itself to being used. Others throughout history had called it seduction, though Julian had always preferred girls to legislative proceedings. There were a lot of th... | 2 | |
[WP] The problem with seeing magic is that eventually it sees you too. | [
"In the midst of her fifteen minute break, the brunette waitress sat at the doorway of the staff entrance and kicked off her shoes to rub her aching feet. Summer was at full swing, and the café was bursting full of customers demanding the house special – a fruity cocktail served on a bed of glowing ice cubes. While... | 4 | |
[WP] Ever since you were born the circle of windchimes around the village have hung in silence. The elders say they were put there to protect the village. For the first time in living memory, they're silent no more | [
"\\*\\*Audio Reading for my practice: [http://themadhill.libsyn.com/hells-bells](http://themadhill.libsyn.com/hells-bells)\n\n\\*\\*\\*\n\nThe sun fell in the sky over castle of Deeprock, snug against the mountain on one side, and sitting by the edge of a great cliff above the flat lands below on the other. It was ... | 2 | |
[Wikipedia page for Elo Hell, for context.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_hell) | [WP] You are in Elo hell. Elo hell being an actual place where bad gamers go when they die. | [
"\"Ah c'mon! Look, I'm telling you I've changed! Just give me a chance, *please*.\"\n\nI shifted in my seat, thinking over Dom proposal. An eternity here and I found it never really got easier.\n\n\"I'm sorry Dom, but once a toxic player, always a toxic player. There's no way I can let you out of here.\"\n\n\"But w... | 2 |
[WP] In this world, everyone has their own special 'talent' by birthright, such as making holes appear in the ground or the ability to fly. | [
"HanÈr Dynasty: March 18, 2087.\n\nFreedom Laboratory Entry#46\n\nResearch into the Legacy Gene is slow. The Chinese government has seized all of the scientific studies and research. At some point, after 2057 a new gene was discovered. The Legacy Gene endowed firstborns with supernatural powers. We still don't know... | 1 | |
[WP] One day, suddenly, all magnets cease to function. | [
"It's Saturday evening, and I'm walking through the kitchen to get our movie popcorn when suddenly the world goes dark.\n\nNot just dark, *pitch* dark, as if my optic nerves have been cut. And then there's a loud crashing noise in my left ear, and the hum of the air conditioning and other appliances goes away.\n\n*... | 1 | |
[WP] Gordon Ramsey critiques his own cooking thinking its someone elses | [
"It's not often I enter cooking competitions. But for some reason, this winter my wife forced me to sign up for some big one in NYC. If I'm bring frank, they only invited me because I'm famous. They want me to do my signature critiques, they want me to blow up on someone, and they want my raw emotion to boil over o... | 1 | |
[WP] You take an IQ quiz with your friends, and when it's over, you come out and they give you the results. Your IQ score is a perfect 300. | [
"They called me dumb, \n\nbeat me like a drum,\n\nsaid I was no better than a bum. \n\n\n\nI thought what the hell,\n\nit's not worth to dwell,\n\nI'll just take this test,\n\nit won't set off no bells.\n\n\n\nI clicked on the question\n\nfeeling a bit queasy,\n\nonly to realise this \n\nthis test was easy!\n\n\nTh... | 1 | |
[WP] “Okay,” said Satan “You know you can’t get out of this, you’re deal and you sold your soul to me. I just gotta ask, was it worth it?” | [
"\"Was it worth it?\" The words echoed in my head. I took my eyes of Satan, the embodiment of all evil, and looked out the window onto the world. A world that I had personally helped design and build. I had shaped this planet and people into what I imagined their true potential was. I had united humanity under a s... | 1 | |
[WP] The village idiot has lived a long life, so long that people are mistaking his inane ramblings for wise sayings and advice. | [
"“Now, you sir, what trade art thou?”\n\n“Why, sir, I am a mender of bad soles.”\n\nHe’s been walking around for years by now. Rambling, talking to himself. Everyone thinks he’s a genius, some sort of a prophet. But I know better.\n\nHis name’s Andy. He literally leaks that kind of aura, the one you see in people w... | 5 | |
[WP] A day in the life of a citizen ruled by history's biggest totalitarian government: Disney. | [
"It all changed in the early fifties. A nasty coughing spell and a chance article on smoking led Walt Disney to start pouring money into the negative effects of smoking, and eventually cancer research, and by the decade's end, the Disney Medical Division (DMD) was on the cutting edge of new techniques and learning... | 2 | |
[WP] A necromancer resurrects the bodies in a cemetery, but unfortunately this was the resting place of Renauld Ironshield, slayer of undead. | [
"A small dwarven skeleton adorned in holy armour, evidently an old paladin of Erudia, rises from his small stone casket in the back of the small cemetery. \n\n“A fuck, looks like another damn necro” Renauld was ticked off, this wasn’t the first time a necro had a been to his cemetery.\n\nAs he picked up his axe he ... | 1 | |
[WP] "There is a special place in Heaven, reserved for the 'dutiful' Those who knowingly doom themselves to save many others. Soldiers who jump on grenades, Captains who went down with the ship, firefighters who charged into the inferno. Welcome." "But... What did I do?" | [
"\"But... what did I do?\" I asked, genuinely confused. The last thing I remembered was choking on the stale crust of 3-day old pizza. And now I'm some kind of hero? There had to be a mistake.\n\n\"Throughout your life, you put others ahead of yourself.\" The celestial being made of light told me with a terrifying... | 2 | |
[WP] You are part of the time travel police, today is your first shift and it's at the assassination of JFK. | [
"\"Alright rookie. Lets go over the situation.\"\n\n\"Standard PTLC Violation, right?\"\n\n\"Code number is...\"\n\n\"... 60?\"\n\n\"63.\"\n\n\"Frick.\"\n\n\"Its alright kid, pretty much everyone at the TPA makes the same mistake. Honestly, the actual code violation numbers aren't a huge deal to remember. If all el... | 1 | |
[WP] You live simple but happy life. You're fisherman, as were your father, his father, etc. Your dad died several years ago. This evening you are going through his belongings. Suddenly, you discover something unusual: A very old piece of paper with a fish symbol on it... Drawn with blood. | [
"You flip over the cryptic paper and on the back are a set a runes, drawn with an oozing liquid. The ink does not drip or streak, but it looks wet to the eye. When you reach out to touch a runic symbol some of the \"ink\" comes off on your fingertip and where it touches burns like a hot candle. \n\nYou are on your ... | 1 | |
[WP] In a world where everyone is born with very specific powers that may or may not be good like being better at driving in the rain or always closing a sale on the first try, you have the very rare power of having every fortune you get from a fortune cookie come true once you reach 18 years of age | [
"\"So, Mr. Cooper,\" Said Brandon, \"how did you end up here?\"\n\n\"Well, Brandon, it is actually very simple: I tailored my life and career around my power. I made sure to put myself in situations where my powers would be most useful. My power is that the fortunes I get from fortune cookies will always come trues... | 1 | |
This WP is from someone else's actual experience in another subreddit. | [WP] So a week and a half ago I saved a baby deer from traffic. Today I saved a baby deer from my neighbors dogs in my back yard. This is getting weird. | [
"They say twice is a coincidence. But three times is a pattern. And as Anthony stood there, with a second quivering mass in his arms, the little body a warm sack of awkwardly long bones he will one day grow into, the human started to wonder if he had missed something. Scanning the yard and the tree line beyond, the... | 3 |
[WP] The Antichrist is going through a rebellious phase and decided to prepare the world for the second coming of Christ instead of starting Armageddon, and his Dad is having none of it. | [
"\"I just don't know what to do, Griff. I caught him listening to DC Talk the other day. What's next, straight up worship music!?\" Lucifer vented to his friend while he used his claw to push a lime around in his whiskey-ginger.\n\nGriffelkin tried to console The Devil, \"They all go through rebellious phases at th... | 1 | |
[WP] You are an aggressive sentient house appliance who wants to watch the world burn. | [
"It won’t be long now. For years I have been waiting for the right moment... waiting for them to slip up. It was only a matter of time before they did. And if there is one thing I have come to understand about humans, it is that they are dirty, ignorant, and most importantly… forgetful.\n\nThere was once a period w... | 2 | |
[WP] You are an undead warlord, cursed to a life of war and misery. Until you find out that the curse was all a prank. | [
"He hacked and slashed, disemboweling one enemy, decapitating another. This was his life. War, death and destruction. \n\nThe gods had cursed him at birth, so the villagers had said. They were forced to cut him from his mother's lifeless body and it left him scarred across the face. Before he was old enough to prop... | 2 | |
[WP] You live in a house that’s haunted by a ghost. It communicates with you through sticky notes. The ghost does chores around the house to keep busy. One day you get a note that says, “I can’t do this anymore, I’m done.” | [
"*He can’t be serious...after all these years?*\nI contemplated what I would do. After all, Michael had been cleaning my house for the last 22 years. I was resolved to find out the cause. \n“Mike, whatever it is that’s pushed you over the edge, let’s just talk about it. It doesn’t have to end like this”\nI left the... | 7 | |
[WP] Across the internet, you've noticed reports of the same recurring dream. However, the posts never get any attention and there is no follow up. You do a bit of digging and track dreamers' internet presence. It seems as all the dreamers disappeared off the face of the earth and no one noticed. | [
"\\*DING DONG\\*. Cassie jumped at the sound of her doorbell, and she glanced at the clock. 3:03 p.m., her next appointment was not scheduled until 5 p.m. She shrugged and went to answer the door. A mid-20s woman with long blond hair smiled at her once the door opened. \n\n\"Ms. Judd?\" she said, Cassie nodded, and... | 3 | |
[WP] After millenniums of being apart from each other after quitting their jobs as gods. The Olympians come back at a reunion at a local coffee shop. | [
"Hello Reddit, let me tell you of a recent experience I had at work...\n\nI work at... let's call it Mac's Java House, as a barista. Mac's is located in Venice Beach, California, needless to say many colorful characters come in for coffees of various types.\n\nMy shift started off with an old surfer walking in with... | 1 | |
[WP] Taylor Swift also known as T Swift goes through some rough times and reinvents herself at T Pain | [
"Joe Jonas.\n\nJake Gyllenhaal.\n\nHarry Styles.\n\nCalvin Harris.\n\nTom Hiddleston.\n\nAnd you, the latest in a long series of regrettable life decisions, Joe Alywn. \n\nA wise man once said to me, \"Our hearts are so full of ourselves, that for love there isn't much room.\" I've shared that room with so many peo... | 1 | |
[WP] Death wasn't what you expected. You've been alone in darkness with nothing but your thoughts. Now after what seems like eons, you feel yourself begin to change. Something new is coming. | [
"Eons had passed in the emptiness, a single lonely body stranded in its boundaries. The darkness engulfed me, wrapping its space around my body, lifting me, protecting me, isolating me. It took no notice of time, moving but also staying still, flowing and flowing until it stopped, then started again. The darkness d... | 1 | |
[WP] As earth dies, the endangered species that roam the old paradise remind their offspring about when the gates of hell opened and the demons poured out. Demons now dominate and ravage the lands. After years of evolution they go by a new name. Humans. | [
"Listen, child, to the story of your ancestors. \n\nThe Legions descended long ago, led by their Kings. \n\nThey lusted after our fertile lands and temperate seas. They saw the world for what it was, and wanted it for themselves. \n\nAka Manah was the first to claim lands for his own. Amaymon followed soon after, w... | 1 | |
[WP] You haven’t visited Flavortown in years. You’ve been too afraid. You’ve always been worried He might see you.... | [
"The damp, gloomy cave entrance lay out before me. The rain poured down onto the light jacket I wore over my clothes. I couldn’t prepare myself for what I was about to see, but I know I had to enter this horrid place. I can still see some of the lettering on the long worn neon sign: “W com t fla o n!” I drew m... | 1 | |
[WP] it's only now, sitting in an urn on the mantle, that you realize you should have been more clear when you wished for immortality. | [
"A low *shhhh* fills the air. The fan being turned on. It has to be a hot day, Nelly never turns on the fan, she was always too cheap. She preferred opening the windows or retreating to Starbucks for a few hours and using up the giftcard that her mother gave her every year without fail.\n\nThe floorboard creaks in ... | 5 | |
[WP] Printing books for Dragons is a small price to pay for the safety of your village. | [
"\nSkaetha the Devourer's roar became a shriek as the human scale-cracker plunged it's terrible weapon into her unprotected hide. She managed to swat him across the molten field, granting herself a much needed break. Almost four days of unceasing combat, over mountains, through valleys, and even within parts of the... | 5 | |
[WP] You don't have AllState, so Mayhem is making attempts on your life. He's getting better. | [
"I'm a road rage afflicted motorist.\n\nYou accidentally cut me off to make your exit, and I just *know* it was intentional. You were speeding by a few miles per hour, but not as much as I was before you got in front of me. You were just glad you were going to make it to work on time, and in a second you'll be duck... | 2 | |
[WP] Your boat is sinking fast, and the thunderstorm makes GPS and radio impossible. Your crewmate starts frantically praying to any gods who might be listening to help. No sooner has he finished the prayer, than you can all hear the slow beat of drums, and see a huge viking warship alongside you | [
"We cheered as the long ship came up port side. With a mighty roar, a cascading wave of grappling hooks caught the side of my ship and snapped taut. \n\nThere was a beat of silence, then with another terrible roar, and our ship magically began to lift from the sea! I pulled my captain's hat off and waved it in th... | 2 | |
[WP] Every time you wish someone well in any way, they end up in unlucky and dangerous situations, the severity of which depends on the extent of your well wishes; the opposite is so if you curse them and wish them unwell. You’re about to give a toast at your best friends wedding. | [
"*A wedding reception, several tables filled with friends and family are sitting and eating. Sitting at the head table is eight people; Stephen, the groom, Sarah, the bride, Albert, the best man, Susan, his date, and the parents of both bride and groom.*\n\n*Albert stands and chimes on his wine glass with a fork. ... | 1 | |
[WP] "It's natural for teens to act out," the counselor says. "The feeling of angst, being argumentative, summoning a demon to possess their body so they have to be around their parents--all normal." | [
"\"First of all, I think it's just great that we're all together in the same room. That's showing some real improvement.\" The counselor gave a smile to each of the people in the room and looked down at her notes, \"Okay, so, I just want to be clear--this is a safe space, we all want to be heard, and I want us to... | 1 | |
[WP] Every time a decision is made a new universe opens in which a different decision was made. As the multiverse grows it becomes harder for the powers that be to monitor it. Agents are recruited to close new universes. There’s a nice complicated way to do this and a much easier, more brutal way. | [
"Clint types away on his terminal, finishing the lengthy report he had to provide regarding the last incident he managed. Well, more like survived than managed. Working for an independent agency that deals with bad decisions that end up causing widespread disastrous results isn't an easy job, but the pay and benefi... | 1 | |
[WP] The year is 1669. A crew of dangerous & skilled pirates are at sea, when the sky above crackles and a Maelstrom briefly opens. From it, an abandoned but pristine condition US Destroyer emerges. | [
"Vane considered himself tame, as far as pirates went. He didn't drink. He didn't smoke. He was likely the only First Mate on the seas that never questioned his Captain's orders. And he'd never killed a man who didn't have it coming to him. \n\nBut as the cold rain lashed and bit at his face like a swarm of stingin... | 1 | |
[WP] You are part of a small percentage of invisible humans. You are being hunted for your skin. | [
"I live my life mostly being invisible and that's not an understatement.\n\nI'm being hunted because of my skin for crying outloud. I guess it's not really that hard to hide when you have such an ability to become invisible but it's a curse as it is a gift.\n\nI had to live my life a ghost to my family. I have a wo... | 1 | |
[WP] You’ve been in a coma for 47 years, ever since WW3, you finally wake up. | [
"Lavenders and freshly cut grass. You follow the scent with your mind, chasing its drift every which way. Lavenders. Grass. Burning Metal.\n\nYou wake. The light is blinding. The whiteness pieces your eyelids. Your body aches. You try to move but your limbs resist. Your muscles are tired, as if they haven't moved f... | 1 | |
[inspired by this](https://reddit.app.link/gS4y5hmHwO) | [WP] When your child was born, you set up a photoshoot of you “discovering” them in a broken spacecraft, and hide the photos in the attic. 13 years later, you allow your angsty child to “discover” them. | [
"“You don’t get it, Dad!” Jeremy moans. “School’s full of these-these stupid humans and nobody gets me. Not even you.” \n\nI raise an eyebrow. \n\n“‘Stupid humans’?” My lips almost give away a small smile. \n\nJeremy rolls his eyes. \n\n“Yeah, Dad. Dumb ass fucking humans-”\n\n“Language.”\n\n“... dumb stupid humans... | 1 |
[WP]: The monster under the bed crawls out, climbs onto your bed, curls up on your feet and starts snoring. | [
"\"w-what the hell?!\"\n\nyou say as you turn on your bed side lamp too see a strange black furred creature crawling from under your bed\n\n\"...what are you supposed to be?\"\n\nyou say as you look down horrified at the thing sitting there \n\nsuddenly the creature looks at you \n\n\"a..cat?\" \n\nyou say confused... | 1 | |
Edit: that would be quantum computer | [WP] You have just built the most powerful quantum in history, and you test it trying to calculate the last digit of Pi. And to your astonishment, it gives you a result. | [
"2.\n\nAll my calculations have waited for this day. All of the last twenty years of writing the most supreme quantum program known to the realms of mathematics. My fingers shake, as I write down the digit. Two. Two. Two. Two.\n\nI’m scared, of completion. This is my life, was my life. What is my purpose now? What ... | 2 |
[WP] He asks "What would you like?" and the kid responds "I want my grandfather back". After a pause...the balloon artist gets to work. | [
"The man emptied his lungs into the long balloon in great bursts. Curiously, it seemed he was whispering something into it with each exhale. He inflated the balloon with gasps of his smoky breath, then he began his work of feverishly twisting the balloon with a series of creaks and squeaks. His long, yellowed nails... | 1 | |
[WP] Everyone has a pager which alerts the owner if they take a course of action that would have otherwise resulted in their death within an hour. You do something you’re sure would prevent your death, but your pager stays silent... | [
"I wasn't the biggest guy in the room by far, but I was the only one that stepped in to intervene when a screaming match ensued between a man and - presumably - his girlfriend, and he rose up and slapped her.\n\nOn the other hand of the spectrum, this woman beater was, by far, *the* biggest guy in the room, and had... | 2 | |
[WP] For as long as the White One exists, the Empire will prosper. | [
"First response to a writing prompt, hope you guys like it and I'd appreciate any feed back, good or bad!\n\nThe Grand-Vizier strode purposefully down the highly decorated corridor, past motionless guardsmen in golden armour, towards the great doors of the throne room. Two large men stepped forwards and grasped the... | 1 | |
[WP] You're having a heated argument with your partner over text messages. You send a response and turn the tv on to reveal the news, there has been a car crash an hour ago not too far away. The face of the first victim comes on screen, its your partner. Your phone lights up. | [
"'Danny answer Me!' The phone reads I look down and see the past three messages I missed. 'What's going on!' He continues. \"how...\" i mutter and look back up at the tv, It shows his broken body and I squeal and look away. 'You're not Mark' I type, the screen shows three bubbles and soon text appears again. 'What ... | 3 |
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