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[WP] "Your bitter tears will fade quickly. Besides, they technically aren't real." The digital man acted cold, but his words offered a sort of comfort. My body, my life as I knew it, was gone. My mind was accidentally hurled into the computer, and I was about to be shown my new world... | [
"I cannot remember the date I entered. It had been billions of years ago. And even then, time and date was rapidly becoming irrelevant measurements of time. Humans had stopped aging for hundreds of thousands of years before that, but memory had been uploaded to hyperspace for the collective consciousness of humanit... | 1 | |
[WP] Jesus was crucified and Earth became unprotected. An alien empire tried to finally conquer our planet, but then He resurrected. To us, Messiah means "savior". To those aliens, it means "destroyer". For 40 days, He was not f*cking around... | [
"A titanic destroyer circled the small planet, periodically flashing signals to the smaller ships that flittered around it like remora eels clinging to a particularly unkempt shark.\n\nAran, Commander of the Daxin Empire's Invasionary Force rested a sharp talon on the cool side of the glass. His dark eyes stared do... | 1 | |
[WP] You are an Orc. Your kingdom is suffering from overpopulation, hunger and illness. You have been tasked by your King to find land for your tribe to settle in. You find one unused and unoccupied. The human Lord in the nearby town settlement is adamant that you cannot occupy the vacant land. | [
"Grodnik was born to a mother that threw him into a bin with eleven other identical children. He was the only one amongst them who did not cry.\n\nElandriel started life in the finest tower in his town, falling out of his mother into the hands of the most capable doctor money could buy, screaming the whole way.\n\n... | 1 | |
[WP] You're an English longbowman lost in a forest after losing a skirmish -- it's pitch black and the silence pushes against your ears. You suddenly hear French in the distance. | [
"I know no French, but whoever was speaking surely wasn't using my tongue. A torch shined brightly, but its illumination was strangled by the darkness of the night and the thickness of the foilage.\n\nMy unit had been decimated in the recent battle, having been slaughtered in a recent battle by the French. Their cr... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the world's greatest bounty hunter. You decide to take a job that pays a single gold coin. | [
"I saw him pacing about the dirt patch in front of his timbered house when I approached. He looked nervous and on edge, and I heard faint sounds of cursing and anxious muttering to himself from quite far away.\n\nMy legs were tired and aching, predictably so as I had walked tens of miles to the middle of bumfuck no... | 2 | |
[WP] As aliens prepare to invade Earth, their reasearchers find the gameplay trailer for Doom Eternal. They believe it to be a warning of what man is capable of | [
"A group of alien persons were present in a meeting regarding the planning of colonization. The more difficult of planets to colonize was the topic under the assumptions of worse case scenarios. In short, the system of sol was next on the list, specifically the planet of earth. Now, invading a planet from the space... | 2 | |
[WP] Population levels have reached breaking point. You have been put in charge of selecting a large number of humans to be wiped out. | [
"\"Sir, what are your first orders?\"\n\n\"What kind of weaponry do I have access to?\"\n\n\"Everything, sir.\"\n\n\"Even nuclear weapons?\"\n\n\"Y-yes, sir...\"\n\n\n\nAll of my underlings went wide-eyed in horror as I started doing math and placing coordinates in California, Florida, and Maine.\n\n\"Sir you can'... | 2 | |
[WP]You are a high school student who gets straight A's and just won the National Science Fair for building a working time machine. You teleport yourself 30 years into the future, only to find that you are homeless. | [
"*Is homeless because he had been gone for 30 years. Parents died from stress due to child not being found after an accidental usage of his prototype machine. \n\nBank account has been closed, parents funds to keep the house stable for a possible return is finished. Their will is null and void now. Even if he is ba... | 1 | |
[WP] Once a year, the most distinguished author is allowed to introduce one (1) new word into the English language. You’ve been preparing for this your whole life; not for fame, but out of spite. | [
"Merglock smiled an evil smile. She had waited thirty-seven years for this moment. Today was the day. She hoped Mrs. Steffanoffabaum and the whole Dirge Canyon South High School class of 1981 was watching.\n\nMerglock had invested so much of her life into this one moment. She hated writing, truly, she hated grammar... | 1 | |
[WP] After months of intense fighting, drama, and tragedy, the Hero and his party reaches the Dark Lord's fortress. Breaking in, they finally confront him. But in a climactic moment, the Dark Lord takes off his helmet, revealing an older but still recognizable face of the Hero. | [
"Me, Oliver and Brick approached the final stretch in our quest to liberate the realm from the one known as only 'The dark lord'. We stormed his castle in the dead of night. Taking out the guards was easy. The way they made their armor all black also made it heavier and thicker. They can barely hear a thing through... | 4 | |
(I'd like to write a short story with this myself, at some point, but I've got too many stories in the hopper at the moment; so i thought I'd share the ideas around.) | [WP] Books are alive, in their way, and can observe their surroundings, and talk to each other. A book that has spent it's whole life in an expensive private collection is now a public library book. It's not an easy transition. | [
"The were so *loud*!\n\nHow could they possible talk so much? What was there to talk about? I don't care about mathematics or Science Fiction! I don't care about tabloids yelling drama this way and that! I don't care about the never-ending expounding pure *words* from the dictionary shelf.\n\nWhy can't it be quiet!... | 1 |
[WP] You've been keeping a dream journal in order to catalogue and understand your thoughts. Most of what you've dreamt is fairly normal, except there's one character who seems to appear in all of your dreams, watching you from afar... | [
"**May 25th**\n\nI saw him again today.\n\n\nIt started normal enough at first -- well, as normal as any dream ever is, I suppose. It was another one of those climbing dreams. I was in a big car park. It must have been the middle of the day, the sun was bright but cold. Like with all of the other dreams I've been w... | 5 | |
[WP]In order to protect the delicate balance between good and evil the Neutral Paladins were created. They believe in doing both good AND bad deeds in equal measure. | [
"Bondar the Druid bumped into a group of group of paladins who flew a black and white flag. He asked them about their beliefs and purpose in life and left disgusted. \n\nBondar met up with his other druid friends and complained about these 'neutral' paladins that had recently waltzed into town. \n\nBondar: \"The Ch... | 2 | |
[WP] Every hand crafted item contains a tiny spark of magic. This enchantment grows in power the more it is used or the longer it ages. Your party has discovered what appears to be a 1000 year old untouched temple. | [
" \n\n“Gimme some light over here,” Chase asked Leah. She shined a flashlight on the area that Chase indicated. He ran his finger tips up and down the rough stone surface. The light revealed a large etching carved into the wall. Chase stood back to get a better look at all the lines. The groves resembled a “less th... | 1 | |
[WP] Before your grandfather passed, he gave you his mechanical watch. It was always very important to him. One day, as you hear it stop ticking, blood starts dripping from your nose | [
"*'Cool a reminder for when I have the nosebleeds'*. This kid was not clever, it did not matter how many signs he got, he did not understand that the end was near. He would wake up in the morning to eat breakfast. He would prepare toast, eggs and have a glass of hot milk, and be completely oblivious to when the mic... | 1 | |
[WP] You work in the department of typo related magical accidents, covering all issues caused by spells that were misprints, author errors, and the like. | [
"\"Sage Support, How may I assist your spellcrafting today?\" I sat at my desk, idly throwing my quill at the ceeling trying to see if it would stick Instead it came down and hit me in the face again and again.\n\nOur roofing tiles suck.\n\n\"Umm... I'm floating above the ground and I can't seem to land...\" I sigh... | 2 | |
[WP]The Hero steps into the demon lord's throne room, determined to kill him. And with a single blow... the hero is killed instantly. And you are there, watching as another effortlessly wastes their life. As the master who trains these "Heroes". You wonder, if will they ever learn... | [
"Look through any textbook written in any time period and you will find the same phrase, repeated over and over in many different way. 'Demon Lords are evil. They must be destroyed to keep the world safe, and can only be killed by destroying their focus. Only the best of the best should consider fighting one, to... | 1 | |
[WP] You are in the wilderness while you encounter a predator, even though you’re fully aware of its presence, you somehow don’t seem to be alarmed by your natural instincts.. | [
"As a ray of sunshine hits my eye, I groan and stretch. Perhaps I can sleep for just a few more seconds -- \n\n​\n\nA growl pierces the air. I freeze. There are no predators that I know of in the few acres behind my house, where I usually go camping. I turn in my sleeping bag suddenly, when I see the cre... | 1 | |
[WP] You're an unemployed teacher. You stumble across a surprisingly lucrative tutoring position. The catch is you're tutoring a 400-year-old vampire who just woke up. | [
"Fyen laid in bed staring at the ceiling fan spin. Three months had passed since she was terminated from her position as a high school history teacher. Three long months, the severence pay was keeping the rent and utilities up to date but for how long? Her phone chimed with a new email.\n\n'Tutor wanted for adult... | 6 | |
[WP] “Congratulations! With the birth of your son, Earth’s population has reached 10 billion!” You furrow your brow in confusion. “What about the other 2.4 billion?” | [
"\"Whaddya mean?\" she asks.\n\n\"Well, last time I checked, [Earth's current population](http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/) was less than 7.65 billion,\" I point out pedantically. \"How did we suddenly get to *10 billion*?\"\n\nThe nurse forces a grin as she hands me the bag of disposable diapers and ... | 1 | |
[WP] Someone nearby is crying and sobbing, and you seem to be the only person who can hear them. | [
"It was so loud, I couldn't sleep for the first month I heard it.\n\nI was at the market when I first heard it, I assumed it was someone in the next aisle over and tried to ignore it. I tried to go to the next aisle away from the crying but the person seemingly only cried louder. That was also when I noticed that n... | 1 | |
[WP] One bright day in the middle of the night, two dead men got up to fight, back to back they face the other, drew their swords and shot eachother. This is their story | [
"This is how it began. This is how it ended. \n\nThis is how it began again.\n\nOne bright day in the middle of the night, two dead men got up to fight. Back to back they faced the other, drew their swords and shot each other.\n\nOne was fair. One was darkened. One was seething. The other was grieving.\n\n\"Di... | 1 | |
[WP] The door is ajar. | [
"Timmy ran along the overgrown grass, down the slight decline to where the greatest opportunity in the salvage yard lay. His older brother Matt was counting off numbers out loud— he’d been working backwards from twenty, and was now at fifteen. Matt’s voice was fading with each step.\n\nAs Timmy’s eyes scanned left ... | 1 | |
[WP] You start to notice shadows on the ground, but there is nothing around to make those shadows. | [
"It was Chase's first weekday off in a long time and he was just walking around his abandoned neighbourhood casually while everyone else was at work, enjoying the sunlight. A cute little bird fluttered down to the sidewalk to peck at something or other and he followed it with his eyes. What he saw was odd, however.... | 3 | |
[WP] Scientists accidentally send a large city, a good part of the surrounding suburbs, several miles of farmland, and the surrounding area to the Jurassic period. We can’t get them back, but we can look at the fossils to see what happened. | [
"\"Oh.\"\n\n​\n\n\"What Toh? , asked Ajit, Did you found your mother's long-lost dentures?\"\n\n​\n\nI diverted my gaze from the sample and turned towards giggling Ajit, sick of his jokes I simply stated: \"Look at this.\". \n\n​\n\nAjit, sitting on his seat and still partly focused... | 1 | |
[WP]Two cavemen are ambushed by a saber cat, far away from home. The cat is dead moments later, but so is the second caveman. If you don't bury him in your clan graveyard, he will never reach the afterlife. | [
"He remembered being small and being carried.\n\nRain had come to their valley for what the old one said was three passes of the sun. Enough to tear the earth off the mountains and send it hurtling down the slope. By blessing or by luck, their caves had not been covered and all were well when the sun returned. Thre... | 3 | |
[WP] Death finds everyone, except you. You're playing the world's longest game of hide-and-seek. | [
"\"In the death justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate the whereabouts of the last humans are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.\" \n\n\" Here we go again\" one of the de... | 1 | |
[WP] A protagonist becomes aware of his insane plot armor | [
"\"I don't care *what* you're trying to save, kid. You want to buy a pistol, it's $800 and a 72 hour hold after the NICS check clears.\" \n\nAt least in theory, people should have different reactions to a looming threat of global annihilation. Prayer, panic, orgy, or panicked orgy in a chapel. Long story. Not clerk... | 3 | |
[WP] Your partner gets invited to their school reunion and offers for you to come. Only problem is, the school is Hogwarts and you are a muggle. | [
"\"That painting just talked.\" \n\n\"Come on, Daisy, just keep walking I'll fill you in later.\" \n\n\"Dean, that staircase just moved.\" \n\nHe put an arm around my shoulders. \"Just stay the course, the Great Hall is this way...\" \n\nHe led me into an enormous hall, with hundreds of candles floating near the ce... | 1 | |
[WP] Every ten years, we amass enough power to let twenty people break into the Godly Realm and steal the divine secrets. So far noone has made it even a single day in there, since the angels hunt the intruders, but you're about to finish your first week by help of a devil. | [
"\"And... *why* are you helping me again?\" It was the millionth time I had asked, only because the answer never seemed quite satisfactory enough.\n\nShe giggled and rolled her eyes, blowing out an air of mock exasperation. \"I *told* you, handsome. I think you're *cute*.\" \n\nShe reached out to touch my hair, and... | 1 | |
[WP] "I'm going to have to lock you in the tower, princess. For my own safety." | [
"\"... I'm truly sorry about this. You are simply a danger to society, even knowing you mean no harm.\"\n\nThe princess, developing an uncanny social deficit in form of unfathomable anger, was treated as mentally ill by the kingdom and ruled a danger by her own parents. Her brother was the one who had to lock her u... | 3 | |
[WP] An AI bartender does its best while a group of survivors barricades themselves inside its bar. | [
"“What do y’all want to drink pardner?”\n\n“Davis, barricade the windows. Johnson, check out the back. Rico, help me break up some furniture.”\n\n“What do y’all want to drink pardner?”\n\n“Hey, what’s with the tin can?”\n\n“Leave it Rico, it’s just a bartending unit. Can’t help us defend.”\n\n“Breaking the furnitur... | 3 | |
[WP] Instead of having to buy it from the supermarket, you get food when it periodically appears through a portal in the refrigerator. One day, when checking for a snack, you are shocked to see a living person in your fridge. "Help," they croak. | [
"<><><>\nFrom: referrals@amazon.com\nTo: EternalOwen@att.net\n\nOwen,\n\nCongratulations! You have been referred for Amazon’s new service: Prime7! This is a new offering for customers just for you!\n\nThank you for being a loyal customer!\n\n<><><>\n\n“Mittens, do you think this ... | 1 | |
[WP] A young "detective" who usually investigates things like missing pets, stolen homework, and mysteries of what the school custodian does at night is called in by police to help with a series of gruesome murders. | [
"Detective Arnold Haines had an astounding case resolution rate of nine out of ten by his fifth year on the job. His home, Winstrom Falls (population 947, growing slightly each year), was all that safer with his quick wit solving problems left and right. Cases like the mind-bending disappearances of Oscar the terri... | 4 | |
[WP] You failed to reach the top of Everest, and will probably freeze to death soon, before your saviour steps into view. The Abominable Snowman. Holding a mug of cocoa. | [
"I took deep breaths from my oxygen tank. I stopped to rest in the ice yet my energy wasn't returning. There's a subtle panic when you feel the hypothermia set in, I was exhausted but no amount of rest could give me the strength to keep moving. I was so close, about two-thirds of the way up and this was how it was ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are in the hospital recovering from something minor. Now you are just chilling, alone in your room and you hear "Trauma team to room 612! Code Blue!" And you realize, this isn't like the times you've heard that announcement before. YOU are the one in 612. | [
"I sat with my back to the window looking at myself in the bed. Another wild dream from the morphine. My wife said when earlier when she came in my hands were out in front of me my left hand clutching an imaginary pole and my right winding an imaginary reel. She said she'd asked what I was doing and I told her I c... | 1 | |
[WP] There is only one way to break the time loop. You just worked out what it is, but you are not sure you can go through with it. | [
"This is not the story of the begging, but the story of the end. \n\n&#x200B;\n\nIt has been a thousand years since I found myself in the past, and now I made it to the decade where I am born. I now have to wait for my younger self to grow up so that I can move on.\n\nFor all of these years, I have not forgotte... | 2 | |
[WP] You've been fixing your possessions for years. Never accepting that something needs to be replaced you've always repaired things. Now that the world has changed forever, your knowledge is worth it's weight in gold. | [
"Another busted radio. When will they learn there is nothing to listen to?\n\n\"Can you fix it?\" She asked. Her clothes were dirty and mud streaked across her face hiding the scars from the conflagration. Most of them anyway. Honestly, she was lucky to still have her vision.\n\n\"Yes, but when all you hear is stat... | 1 | |
[WP] Mars becomes the Australia of Earth, but instead of criminals, only people who make unbearably bad puns are sent. | [
"The sound of turbines and fusion engines echoed throughout the complex. Craft of all shapes and sizes lifting off and setting down at hundreds of different bays and lading zones. Reminiscent of the old days when Jumbo jets would come and go, carrying passengers all over the globe. A by gone era indeed, no longer d... | 2 | |
[wp] It's Superhero Swap Week where Superheroes battle villains from each other's Rogue's Gallery. You sign up, hoping to rise up from the dredges of C-listers. | [
"“Hey, uh, are you... You’re Captain Kinesis, right?”\n\n\nOf course I stuttered. My first foray into the big leagues, and I mess it up. The shock from being invited to the Superhero Swap at all must not have worn off. Every year, twenty-five heroes and villains are invited to the Hall of Heroes and plan to do batt... | 1 | |
[WP] Everyone will obey any word you say :sarcasm,expression anything and they are fully concious of what they’re doing | [
"At first I was able to get by unnoticed, people were conscious of my commends yes but they Also somewhat convinced them selves that it was just an uncontrollable urge they had to do or a gut feeling, I was caught when I told my teacher to give me an A+ in 5th grade, she noticed me and a day later I was at the eme... | 1 | |
[WP] Ready for entry? Masks on everyone. Remember they're usually very scared and sometimes will attack you with projectile weapons. | [
"The words of the Commander repeated over and over in my mind as the shuttle descended through the atmosphere. The locals were a flighty bunch, being from a timeline where Earth was consumed by endless war between equally wrong nations - after all, there is only the one Truth, and none of them knew it. We expected ... | 2 | |
[WP] You just died from cancer. Instead of passing on your consciousness has migrated and you wake up in another version of you in the multiverse. | [
"*I think this is it*\n\nIt wasn’t a thought of sadness or regret but one of relief. I’d been struggling with this terrible disease for years. It’d taken a hold on my life. Changed me from the person I once was until every decision revolved around it. Any sense of control I’d held had long since vanished for me. W... | 2 | |
[WP] Upon walking into a local barber shop the owner looks up at you and ask “Wonderful weather today isn’t it” you respond “Yes but I got my umbrella wet” and a hidden room opens leading to a super secret spy agency you know nothing of. | [
"\"I, uh, I honestly didn't expect any of you to ever come,\" he said, already reaching out to shake Clyde's hand and ushering him into the room. \"It's been so long, I was worried you'd all died. It's an honor, sir.\"\n\nBy that point, Clyde was seated in a chair, and straps were already belting him in. As soon as... | 1 | |
[WP] One night, at exactly midnight, you see a pop up infront of you that simply states "Would you like to save your progress?" | [
"\"It has been 31 years\n\nsince your last save,\"\n\nthe image says,\n\nbut doesn't go away.\n\nI tilt from left to right,\n\nbut it remains suspended,\n\na floating illusion,\n\na bit of reality upended.\n\nI reach a hand forward;\n\nI cautiously touch \"Yes.\"\n\nA blinking loading screen,\n\nthen life resumes i... | 1 | |
I'm always excited to see what people come up with, y'all think so differently than me! | [WP] After praying for a new life, you wake up in a complete strangers body. You have to take their life on as your own, and fast, because if anyone suspects something is amiss you could be sent back. Forever. | [
"I felt a cold breeze through a window next to my bed. I shivered, and suddenly realized that I wasn’t in a bed at all, I was slumped over a rich mahogany desk littered with papers and folders.\n\n“How did I- what?” I thought to myself.\n\nI lifted my head from a pool of drool that had formed on the corner of my mo... | 1 |
[WP] You wake up in an alien ship. The aliens have been watching humanity for a while now and have decided helping them is a worthwhile endeavor. They have selected you to convince you to be their first ambassador to the human race. | [
"So, they decided to kidnap a biologist that likes reading science fiction, and then try to have him be some sort of fucking ambassador?\n\nKidnap me, an act of war, and then try and say they're here peacefully? Fuck them. I didn't choose this. I'll negotiate alright. Same way the Mongols did.\n\nNow think. I need ... | 2 | |
[WP] Your a closeted kid in a school gang and a fight was going to happen with another over some land. It was agreed no weapons where to be used but someone took a gun and your lover just got shot in the chest and dying and everyone else is either is stunned or has tackled the gun man. | [
"I snap my fingers. Swing my hips a little. I've watched West Side Story, I know the drill. I close my eyes as I feel the music flow from my finger tips. Now is my time to shine. Gracefully, I prance over to my lover. I've got the power. I can heal this wound with the strength of pure love. I sing a little tune, a ... | 1 | |
[WP] Write me a story about you. | [
"It's dark, it's late, it's quiet but for the clock tick tock tick tock in the kitchen. It only bothers me when I start listening, so I try not to. The older cat has rolled over in his sleep and no longer wheezes like the fat man he is.\n\nThis is my space. It's not large, it's not particularily neat, but it's mine... | 4 | |
[WP] The year is 2241, the technology to travel back into the past has been invented. Your job is to hide the irradiated creatures the company you work for creates. Dinosaurs, mythical beasts and monsters of the past are all thanks to you. | [
"1st contribution, please be gentle,\n\n2241, the golden age of scientific development. And at the head of it all is the most advanced company of all time, Contreption Zero, which, coincidentally, is where I work. You see, Contreption Zero's main role in science is speeding up evolution for certain animals, as you ... | 5 | |
[WP] "'You die as a hero, or live long enough to become a villain.' That's how the saying goes." Says the villain. "Heh. I really should have died back then against the villain, but look where I am now, hero." | [
"We always underestimate the complexities that life can bring, the dices just keep rolling behind the curtains, and we, the ignorant bunch, arrogant as we are, think that we know the game we're playing, that somehow we managed to figure it all out and that we have it all just locked tight.\n\n\nThe house always win... | 1 | |
[WP] Heaven really does have pearly gates. You've died, and now you're learning why Heaven needs a border wall. | [
"After my band mates and I died, the first thing we noticed was how pearly the Pearly Gates were. Yeah, sure, they’re called the Pearly Gates—but *seriously,* they are *so freaking shiny.*\n\nThe second thing we noticed was the wall, which was not pearly at all. The massive brick structure was a dreary, stained gra... | 2 | |
[WP] Due to a weird and unique genetic mutation you've developed powers to rival God. God doesn't like this. | [
"\"Look Mac, I don't care anymore ok. Just because you were there for me the last decade doesn't make you my friend. I'm tired of all of this. You were there when my wife died. You were there when protective services took my kids. If you were really my friend you would have stopped supplying me. Now I've lost my jo... | 2 | |
[WP] One day, without reason, dinosaurs suddenly infest New York City. | [
"\"M...Ma..Mario...I don't think we're in Brooklyn any more....\"\n\nA balding man in faced overalls leaned against the greased-over windows of the Flatbrush apartment. Peering skeptically through the murk, he could see the familiar piles of uncollected garbage on the curb three stories below. \"What are ya talkin ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are enjoying a typical Saturday afternoon at your home when there’s a knock at the door. It’s a peddler selling what he claims to be magical and enchanted items. Your first response would have been to laugh if it weren’t for the fact that the peddler was undoubtedly a merchant goblin. | [
"The doorbell rang again. Why did the doorbell keep ringing? Whoever the hell was at the door should just take the hint and go away. Ashley wasn't in the mood. A Saturday morning was also not a normal time to come banging on someone's door, so she just kept wishing that the person would leave. She was not a morning... | 2 | |
[WP] A group of humans discover alien life but decide to lie to mission control about their discovery. | [
"I figured I'd write one for my own prompt.\n\n We’d been orbiting c-217 for the past month. We’d “celebrated” the fifteenth year in space about a week ago. We all knew that going on this mission would mean that more than likely we would never see home again. But we weren't prepared for that reality to set in as ... | 2 | |
[WP] Most Space Australia or Weird Human stories I've found include hyper-rational aliens, so -- Write a story about aliens figuring out/being confused by something about a human, but not in a way that makes them seem ridiculous. | [
"\"Hey... Hey, Giorn.\"\n\n\"What? I'm reading the latest news from the central empire.\"\n\n\"Trust me, this is something you wanna see. You can check the news again later.\"\n\n\"*sigh* Fine. What is i...wait...did that human just...\"\n\n\"Yep.\"\n\n\"But...why? That liquid containment vessel could have been rep... | 1 | |
[WP] The canadian just said go f yourself | [
"It all started when me and my girlfriend went up for a summer getaway in northern Minnesota. Being a bunch of Iowa bumpkins ourselves, we figured a few days on the Superior shore would do us well. We decided to get a nice little lake house near Lutsen, which had extremely scenic views. We were quite happy to just ... | 1 | |
[WP] In a world where every surface is made of black and white squares, and every person is a chess piece, what's it like being a bishop? | [
"There they are.....the enemy army is just ahead of us.....only one side can survive and the enemy pawn is advancing toward me....I hold my ground and think \"Let him come, I'm ready\". He stops in front of me and we glare at each other in the space that separates us and we wait.....and wait.......and wait............ | 2 | |
[WP] The Golden Sword washes up on the shores of the small village of Reed. A young fisherman tries to sell it to the blacksmith, but finds that he cannot release the hilt--and may not set it down until the Lord of the Dead Marsh is slain. | [
"It wasn't a day meant for fishing, not here in Reed's port, but Arland wasn't the type to be deterred by a storm. Bucket, bait, and rod in tow, the young fisherman emerged from his home and set off down the path to the docks. To his left, the village market and the several stores that populated it were closed. Had... | 1 | |
[WP] You’ve been on a hiking trip with a friend for a few days now, absorbing the scenic views of the isolated trails. When looking through your binoculars, you spot a humanoid silhouette. Assuming that it is just another hiker, you brush it off. The next day you spot it again, closer and...wrong. | [
"Jesus that thing’s scary looking. I lowered my binoculars after taking my thousandth look at it. Whatever it was it must be trying to disguise itself as a hiker, what with the backpack and all. So close to human yet something about it...\n\n“Ah fuck Blake, it’s gaining on us.” \n\nHe shot a worried look over his s... | 1 | |
[WP] Your dog is the cutest dog on Earth. No hyperbole. | [
"Bits of rust showered the dry, cracked ground when I shoved open the blackened door. Dark soulless windows flanked either side like sentries. Grim witnesses to the devastation humanity was capable of.\n\n Maybe we’d find something worth carrying. \n\nI closed my eyes as I entered in order to adjust to the shado... | 2 | |
[WP] Your planetary settlement exists in eternal night, never receiving any sunlight. Instead, an array of space mirrors illuminate the colony. One day, the colony is suddenly plunged into darkness. | [
"It was quit in habitation unit 305, dark to. Nothing broke the silence, save for a small ventilation fan in the corner of the room humming away. The unit's lone inhabitant was in a deep and peaceful slumber like any other night on RT-509. \n\nSuddenly a faint ringing sound followed by a dim flashing broke the piec... | 1 | |
[WP] You are sitting on a hill enjoying your lunch. A dragon head lifts out of the grass and you realize you are sitting on it's back. "You going to finish that?" | [
"\"I mean, I was planning to, but I guess I don't have to. Do you want it?\" I hold out the last half of the sandwich.\n\nThe dragon nods aggressively, and almost shakes me from it's still-grassy back. \"Most certainly, I'm quite hungry, I've just woken up.\"\n\nI toss the sandwich into it's steely jaws, it's thous... | 1 | |
If you want to use another color, go for it. | [WP] After being 3 year in a coma due to an experiment gone wrong, you realize you now have the ability to move objects with your mind. The thing is, they must be purple. | [
"Telekinesis has always been a power I’ve desired. Ever since I was a child I always fantasised about it. An ordinary citizen by day, a crime fighting vigilante by night. Hell, I spent half my days in kindergarten drawing comics about it. The gravitronator is what I called myself. Looking back at that now. I realis... | 1 |
[WP] You're a garbage man in Nevada, and every week you have to drive 50 miles into the desert to check a single can. There are no buildings or people within miles of the can. The can is always full. | [
"I checked my side view and rear view mirror for the thousandth time, trying to ensure no one was following me. I was doubtful, given that the road behind and ahead went on and on. For many miles it did so until it came to a single point on the horizon, obscured by hazy vapors on both ends. I did a cocky sniff of m... | 4 | |
[WP] You're a normal guy living in a fantasy world, a group of adventurers blast down your door screaming "quick there's no time! We must recruit this Sentinel to defeat an ancient evil". You reach the end of the adventure only to find out that you're the ancient evil. | [
"I can take these guys. Definitely. \n\n\"THROW THE ANCIENT JAVELIN!\" cries a short man with a wicked long-ass beard. \n\nThey're throwing javelins already?! I dodge the projectile with more lethargy then I was used. \n\n\"Okay, guys look, I'm not evil! I'm a good dude! You went to the wrong castle!\" I cry. \n\nA... | 1 | |
[WP] You’re an astronaut aboard the ISS. During you’re time on there, another astronaut has murdered a crew member, but no one knows who did it. You’re tasked with preventing the other astronauts from getting to each other’s throats, and bring the accused home to justice. | [
"Day 181 aboard the ISS: one of the other astronauts was found stuffed into their suit earlier today I have been assigned the job of finding who did it and stopping them. \nDay 188: Another person has been found in their suit this time it was one Russians. They think that the Americans are sabotaging them. But I th... | 2 | |
[WP] Having saved her from the dragon, the knight returns the princess and, as was promised, has won the honor to ask her hand in marriage. The knight removes her helmet and accepts. To many people’s surprise, there’s about to be two queens. | [
"\"My lady, at least try to seem pleased. It is your wedding day\", Sarah said, fussing over her mistress. The Princess Anthelda stared blankly out her window. \"My lady?\"\n\n\"It's nothing,\" Anthelda said with a sigh. \"It's all nothing.\"\n\nSarah sighed. She knew that absolutely none of this had been Anth... | 1 | |
[WP] A monster is known for tormenting and killing any human who enters their domain. Until a human comes by apathetic in the face of certain death. | [
"\"Halt, what are you doing in my domain?\" The red dragon's voice boomed. Its breath blew my hair back. \"Turn back, or else you die!\"\n\n\"Um, okay,\" my eyes darted around the stone cave. I looked up at the dragon's reptilian face. \"I'm just here cause it's on the way to a friend's party. I didn't want to take... | 1 | |
[WP] Write about what could have been feasibly taking place in the spot where you are at 200 years ago. | [
"Blackness, penetrated only by the beams of pure energy as they bounce off of objects throughout the universe. An asteroid races by, so fast it is barely noticeable. The sun is barely visible as it speeds in this general direction at a speed of about 515,495 mph, along with the smaller objects removing around it. I... | 1 | |
[WP] In the future, artificial intelligence has been perfected and is now integral to the machinations of modern society. You explain the difference between humans and robots to a small child | [
"#A Kid's Guide to Artificial Intelligence!\n^By ^Katherine ^Dias\n\nHey there kids! My name is Katherine Dias, and in this educational film we're going to talk about Artificial Intelligence! Yay!\n\n*display cartoon image of human brain alongside neural network*\n\nSo what *is* artificial intelligence? Can anyone ... | 2 | |
[WP] Usually a Hogwart's Professor is sent to introduce muggleborns to the wizarding world. But sometimes the situation calls for someone with a much lighter touch; a specialist in the area, so to speak. Those are the times they send Marry Poppins. | [
"Marry sadly learned from a young age she wouldn't be able to have children. While at Hogwarts she met Bert, and while the two felt very strongly for each other, Marry felt that the burden of her infertility was hers to bare alone, keeping bert at a steady arms length. One day in his ignorance of her secret, he las... | 1 | |
[WP] You work as a chef who prepares death row inmates' last meals, all of a sudden orders start coming in much faster than usual. | [
"\"Well this is unusual.\" Sam mutters as he passes me the list of meals.\n\n\"Certainly is.\" I mutter absentmindedly as I continue kneading the fifth pan of dough for pigs in a blanket.\n\n\"You think the warden is in on it?\" He mutters writing out the next batch of orders.\n\n\"I suppose he could be, but that d... | 1 | |
[WP] Since 'Lab-Meat' was created, Independent companies have been trying to grow functioning and programmable humans to do their bidding, you are the first conscious experiment to survive the growth process, Today is the first time you wake | [
"I began to gasp for air. Once my lungs filled and exhaled, I felt myself gag uncontrollably as a wave of chills flushed through my body. I heard someone shout \"342 is awake! Someone get that breathing tube out!\" A team of scientists came rushing over to recover me from my synthetic womb. \n\n\"Holy shit, we did ... | 1 | |
[WP] After the aliens came, most of humanity fled underground. Every night you broadcast a reading of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to inspire survivors. The aliens hear it to, and begin wondering why they don't have rights. | [
"“Commander?” Hachibada looked away from her terminal’s screen, painted with a multitude of fuzzy lights that showed very intricate information on local human transmissions from the area. Well, one head looked away. The other two were still deeply focused on a .gif of a cat patting around a ball of yarn.\n\nOne of ... | 1 | |
[WP] Life and Death stand above your body debating your fate. You decide to join the conversation and argue each point they both make. | [
"\"He was hit. Justice must be fulfilled. He is mine.\"\n\n\"But it was not his fault that the other driver was drinking. Please, let us give him another chance. He has a family.\"\n\n\"We always do this, going round and round... Is he listening?\"\n\n\"Yes.\"\n\nI stared at the two figures conversing above me. One... | 1 | |
[WP] The apocalypse has finally come, and you’re all prepared! Unfortunately, you were prepared for the wrong kind of apocalypse. | [
"Finally, she hears the sound that once and for all proves she's not crazy: screams, sweet glorious screams.\n\nThe preacher went silent; as she switched off *The* *Belief channel.* The eager woman kisses her cross necklace and murmurs a prayer over and over again. Grabbing her Bible, the thick book almost slips ou... | 1 | |
[WP] You can predict the future accurately 50% of the time. Whenever you have a vision of something horrible happening, you go through a crisis trying to figure out whether it will really happen or not. | [
"10 minutes left. Only 10 minutes left until she's gone forever. Dammit, she's still not answering her phone. I've warned her over and over again how unsafe it is to use a rolling chair as a step stool. I always joked that one day she was going to fall and break her neck. Jokes over. Fuck! Another goddamn sto... | 1 | |
Inspiration from u/Mutt1223 | [WP] "'Turn on your TV.' 'What channel?' 'Doesn't matter.'" | [
"\"Turn on your TV.\" \n\"What channel?\" \n\"Doesn't matter.\" \n\"... So?\" \n\"Still broken.\" \n\"Turn it off.\" \n\"Ok.\" \n\"... Try it now.\" \n\"What ch-\" \n\"I said it doesn't matter! Just turn it on and tell me if it works!\" \n\"Fine... No need to yell... It's still broken.\" \n\"Dude, I give... | 2 |
[WP] It's been a week since Disney bought out the last media mogul, essentially making a monopoly on entertainment. Everything seemed normal, but then something happened during the scheduled programming. You see the show interrupted by a message on-screen: "Operation: Dead Mouse has now begun". | [
"*Operation Dead Mouse* \n\nThose words were what followed after the sudden cut of noise and the emergency broadcast siren that always seemed to make me jump. I had been watching the late night news, using the noise to lull me to sleep on the couch. The siren made that impossible now. I slowly stood up from my dust... | 1 | |
[WP] The Old One first came to our caves, and then in time to our villages, then our towns. Ageless, and always emerging before times of crisis with wisdom. They are a living legend... the last human. | [
"Lonnie stood at the end of the pier, looking downward on the cracked, imperfect piece of litter that once was called a city. \n\nHer father had once told stories about this place, about a world he never truly experienced himself but felt the need to keep alive through passing the stories on for another generation,... | 4 | |
[WP]You just found out that your wife had the ability to go in past and make changes that only she remembers.you try to talk to her about this but she uses her power to make you forget this, but you did't (this time) . | [
"I could not love her more for it, but at the same time I was in fear and awe of her power. No wonder our marriage seemed straight out of a fairy tale.\n\nThe first change was on the big day itself. I wrote in my journal that the day passed far too quickly, myself being consumed more by fear than love. Fear that pe... | 1 | |
[WP] Anyone you touch forgets everything about you. | [
"**\"Hey! Police! He stole my—!\"**\n\n*poke*\n\n\"...huh. Weird. I was sure I had my wallet with me a moment ago...\"\n\n&nbsp;\n\n---\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\"Hey, what's your name?\"\n\n\"Albert.\"\n\n*poke*\n\n\"Hey Albert!\"\n\n\"...do we know each other? I don't remember meeting you before...\"\n\n&nbsp;\n\... | 2 | |
[WP] A group of survivors from the zombie apocalypse come across Area 51. | [
"\"Seriously?! Not one alien?!\"\n\nThe words rang out and reverberated off the concrete walls of the dark and dusty hallway.\n\n\"Did you really believe there would be?\" Maria murmured in response. I grinned, glancing at her. She smiled back but didn't return the glance. She was leaning against the wall beside me... | 2 | |
[WP] You're a young wizard who just learned the valuable lesson of why you should never practice curse casting techniques in front of a mirror. | [
"The spell backfired and I collapsed to the floor... slowly I began to fade in and out of consciousness before everything went completely black. I awoke days later. Naked, cold and afraid... strangely enough I wasn't hungry at all, in fact I felt too full... and my mouth tasted like blood and bile."
] | 1 | |
[WP] Your spouse used to be the best assassin in the underworld. They gave that all up to marry you. Their enemies found out about you and have kidnapped you. | [
"**Please let me know what you think!**\n\n\"Grab her feet,\" one of my kidnappers snarled at the other, trying to avoid said feet as I aimed for his throat. I might have been held back and unable to fight properly, but the interior of the van was small enough that none of my attackers could get far enough away to ... | 1 | |
[WP] The students of Walkerville Elementary School have all grown up with families of their own, and a certain strange yellow school bus is quietly rusting in the junkyard. But one day, Ms Frizzle gets an emergency call to come out of retirement for one last ride... | [
"* Magic School Bus: \n* \n* His curls had thinned a little,\n* Gone a rusty grey,\n* His glasses, like his belly, \n* Had never gone away,\n* His fears had etched deep lines, \n* Where a smile might have sat, \n* In the dim golden years, \n* He whispered to his cat,\n* \"This was different, once.\" \n*\n* There ha... | 2 | |
[WP] Winston Churchill runs for Prime Minister... In 2017. | [
"'Stuff and nonsense Nigel!' Winston blurted into his iPhone as he strode confidently from his uber to the doors of the LBC studio. \n\n'They've said Brexit, and Brexit they shall have. We will not bend and we will not break. And I'll tell you another thing Nigel, I didn't win the second world war for the world the... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a God, stuck in a human body, for whatever reason. You are getting pretty fed up with the every day requirements of running a human body, and maintaining a human life. | [
" The complexities of maintaining a healthy human body, and all of the many side effects that came with them, was not something I ever imagined myself going through.\n\n I laughed when the Council of Gods sentenced me to live a human life, I thought they had to be joking. I leave my post for a few decades and accid... | 1 | |
[WP] A medusa's only companion in a life of isolation is a hopelessly romantic gargoyle who, being stone already, need not fear her. | [
"\"Hey Medusa, have you given any thought to that idea of mine?\" Greg sat near her, braiding her snakes into a glorious pair of braids.\n\nShe looked up at him, then shook her head. \"I've told you before, you're my best friend. We can't let things get complicated.\"\n\n\"I'm just saying...if you're not with someo... | 2 | |
[WP] Romance in the workplace - a tale of two industrial assembly-line robots. | [
"Everyone has a purpose, at least that's what we have always been told. You are created for a purpose, and you do that purpose, and you enjoying doing that purpose. I was created, on the 21st day of october, in the year 2232. My creator was created a hundred and sixty years before me, for the sole purpose of creati... | 1 | |
[WP] Humans have entered the realm of galactic politics. Good News: We’re cute to almost every species. Bad News: We’re extremely cute to almost every species. | [
"- Somewhere in the Pentagon, where Earths supposed most powerful leaders of the free world rondevu.. \n“ Sir! How did the meeting go” \nGeez General can I walk in my office without some knuckle dragging “ - The president pauses & collects himself .. \n“ we .. ( the pres. Pope’s Ice into a glass that’s been pas... | 6 | |
[WP] You’re walking down a dark street when a short red-bearded man beckons you into an alley. He reaches into his coat and hands you a locket on a long gold chain. Upon opening the locket, you find a four-leaf clover pressed beneath a small glass pane. He whispers "Good luck" and disappears. | [
"Chris walked out the alleyway incredibly confused. Had he really just seen what he thought he'd seen? As he walked back on to the main street he stared down at the intricate design inlaid in the locket and the faded four leaf clover covered by a small simple glass panel. His eyes caught site of something else at t... | 1 | |
[WP] "Hey, dude. Has that planet Earth always had a moon?" "No, i don't think so?" | [
"He has a good point, the earth didn't always have a moon. It is a planet under surveillance by almost all our sectors. The earth has gone through some stages, sometimes the defensive sector wants to study the earth and whether it might be liable for a defense system against other invading civilizations, sometimes ... | 1 | |
[WP] You have been granted immortality. You have spent countless centuries walking the Earth, nations have risen and fallen in your lifetime. Everyone you ever loved and cared about has died long ago, but thats nothing compared to the real consequences of being alive for too long. | [
"The thrill of the chase. An unparalleled feeling. An overwhelming feeling in all honesty, especially when one vows to never feel again. Over the years he had many names, Ra, Jesus, effectively any God that was known. Until he got bored and moved on. The curse of being an immortal being is that you never have ... | 2 | |
[WP] Your soul is the prison of an interdimensional and eldritch horror. You may use its reality-bending powers, at the cost of weakening your hold on the beast the more you use it. You find yourself inside a failing plane, questioning if you should save the passengers at the cost of its freedom. | [
"They all begin to scream as the plane goes into a nose dive. I stay silent panning my view around the plane, maybe I'm trying to make it easier for myself, maybe the plane is mostly elderly or middle-aged. This doesn't work however when I see a mother helping her little girl put on the oxygen mask. That just makes... | 1 | |
[WP] A network of tunnels has just been discovered under the surface of the moon. | [
"At NASA:\n\n\"So what are we going to do?\" The rookie asked.\n\nThe room erupted into laughter. \"Do? What do you mean '*do*'?\"\n\n\"I mean... how are we going to let the people know?\"\n\n\"The people? As in the public?\"\n\n\"Uh...yeah.\"\n\nThe room erupted into laughter again. Someone slapped the confused, y... | 2 | |
[WP] Blacksmithing was a strange hobby for you to take up. Then the zombie invasion happened. You might not have any supplies... but you do have a shitload of weapons. | [
"I sat in my house, surrounded by my makeshift weapons, having just killed a zombie with my makeshift rifle. It was strange, but I always had a love for blacksmithing, even if people judged me. Well, it was year 6 of the zombie apocalypse and I was one of the last survivors in my town, after selling some of my bett... | 2 | |
[WP] You're just an ordinary person, But for some reason every person you interact with ends up being wildly successful. Having no one to compare yourself to but people who have rapidly risen to the top of their fields, you fall into a deep depression. | [
"I'm a listener. An extrovert - nay, perhaps an empath - who sees to the core, reads the breath of the soul in the shape of the eyes and the truth of the heart with every shift of position, speaks the bare thoughts of her companion before they are subverted by his fears. People love being with me because I show t... | 1 |
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