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[WP] Two spies, dead-set on killing each other, keep having to save the other spy in order to preserve their own life. | [
"\"Truce?\" \n\n\"Don't you fucking-\" \n\nI took a deep breath, trying to catch my temper, while he snickered. \n\n\"This does seem to keep happening, doesn't it?\" he mused. \"I'm starting to think you don't really want to kill me at all.\" \n\n\"Oh, I definitely want to kill you.\" \n\nHe didn't reply, only smir... | 2 | |
[WP] You break into a home while the family sleeps,only to be trapped with them by the malicious entity residing there. | [
"Craig was scared out of his ten year old mind. He had to get that pokemon card back or his brother would kill him. He shouldn't have traded it, but he was high on the excitement of the other children and made a mistake. He crept up to the sleeping house, his heart pounding. There was the key - right under the door... | 3 | |
[WP] The dryer take another sock as its prisoner, but the sock is not complacent to stay as a prisoner. | [
"We were thrown into the dark, all in a bunch. I was on top of warm, soiled fabric, and felt the others piling up on me. Too many, for a weary body. And my wife among them, if only I could see her. \n\nThis was not my first time on trial. I had known these dark halls many times, and ridden the whirlpool, and each t... | 2 | |
[WP] You're the only person ever born with the sense of smell. The military utilizes this. | [
"\"You there\" Lieutenant Dick Burn stared at me with his one eye, his stance erect \"smell my finger!\".\nI hesitated, \"Hurry up, smell it!\".\nI obliged, the smell was putrid and I almost threw up.\nI had to do it quickly as he is the type of guy who could blow at any second and wouldn't hesitate to whack me of... | 2 | |
[WP] - "If everyone has a superpower, no one is special." | [
"The harsh wind rips the sand up from the ground and carries it along with it, carving through an unforgiving land of bare rock and ruined skyscrapers. Dust weaving in and out through twisted and charred metal, setting at the feet of a lone walker. His hulking figure casting a lengthy shadow as walks with purpose d... | 3 | |
[WP] you are an employee in a happiness factory. | [
"I woke up at 6am for work, and it was hell getting out of bed. I only work three days a week, so the rest of the time I wake up much later. I've never been able to get used to waking up so early, but the job is pretty easy and it pays very well. You can sacrifice sleeping in if it means living in financial comfort... | 6 | |
[WP] The year is 2142. Mars has officially been terraformed and is in the middle of a violent war with Earth. Describe the everyday life of a Martian soldier. | [
"\"Y'see, down there, beneath the trees.\"\n\nI pitched my phone sideways, utilizing the zoom to get a clearer picture. The dirt path wound along the edge of a steep gulley, so cheaply made that no one had bothered about safety rails or tarmacing. The only way to describe it would be quintessentially Martian- red s... | 5 | |
[WP] Alien invasion, humanity has only a single ship against hundreds of equally strong enemy ships | [
"The hull shook.\n\nSirens. Always the fucking sirens. Like every god damn person on this god dammed ship didn't already know when we were re-entering engagement. The whole of humanity is locked in one giant titanium re-inforced space coffin that begins to shake like it's been put to by a giant fucking space jack h... | 2 | |
[WP] There is a buzzfeed online that literally blows peoples brains. People are refrain using social media in fear of viewing the information and dying. | [
"I knew those guys were just a scam to generate more ad revenue from serving up lists as a collection of different pages. I hated that site, even though I clicked through from time to time.\n\nI'm also a fan of Monty Python, specifically the killer joke. It was so over the top ridiculous that it made me laugh every... | 2 | |
[WP] A new god is born, and he promises you his support in exchange for you making his religion known. | [
"You can't be serious?\n\nOf course I can.\n\nI mean... fine... okay I'll start your chruch... do I at least get a power as a disciple or something? Some way to spread your good... er... your word?\n\nI suppose you want wings or something... hmmmm... you can now tell if someone is lying to you and are able to show ... | 5 | |
[WP] Scientists accidentally discover Aogen, a chemical which turns all oxygen it's in contact with into more Aogen. | [
"\"This... It's amazing.\"\n\n\"Uhh, how exactly does it work?\"\n\n\"No idea - but if we could adapt the transforming capabilities of Aeogen to say, steel, or maybe more advanced things like medicine... The possibilities. There would be no scarcity. The world would become utopia in no time.\"\n\n\"I'll get some eq... | 2 | |
Basically, write a story that surprises the reader -- but the first line *should* have given it away, if the reader knew what to look for. Of course now we're all looking for that detail, so it's going to be twice as hard to pull it off -- are you up for it?
(or if the prompt gives you some other idea for what to write, go with that!) | [WP] If I had paid attention to the first sentence properly, the ending wouldn't have surprised me. | [
"\"Look, you have to give it up, the simulation has run on far too long, we'll have to start again, they just haven't learnt. It's time to end it, it'll be quick, just turn it off. We've failed.\" It wasn't right to do this, he could feel it, but he was the only one who could stop this failure. He had started it al... | 13 |
[WP] Describe an Antique dealer or Archeologist 1000 years from now examining something utterly mundane from the present day as if some rarity. | [
"NOTES FOR *STUFF FROM THE LATEST DARK AGES: EARLY TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY ANTIQUES* CATALOG ENTRY\n\nItem Kappa-eleven\n\nBiodegradable white chalice with green design, waxed interior, est. 2001-2015 CE. Minor dent in base.\n\nThis once-common chalice was mass-produced using a lost process wherin fibrous plants would... | 2 | |
[WP]"Dude, what happened last night?" | [
"Dude, what happened last night?\n\nThe same things that happen every night.\n\nThe planet turned, and the stars did burn, and splay their shapes across the sky. And while they did, some people lived and while others quietly die.\n\nAs the light went down we went to town, to eat and drink, and drink and flirt and d... | 2 | |
[WP] While travelling abroad, you meet a copy of yourself | [
"“There. Where are you?”\n\n“?”\n\nThe messages had been sent five minutes ago. I slid my phone back into my pocket as the metro slowed into the station.\n“Bastille”.\nThe automated voice echoed through the station, partially drowned in the hiss of the breaks, the mechanical clank of the door latches opening and th... | 1 | |
[WP] Describe a villain who has the desire to rule the world, but is considered too cute to be taken seriously. | [
"Honestly, smash them all or forget the whole fucking thing. I am sitting on the curb holding the hammer. It’s Summer, so I don’t have school and the sun is beading down on me like my au pair’s nagging voice.\n\nSmash. Smash. Smash. Die you fucking Lady Bugs. With a hammer large enough and some time, you can rule t... | 2 | |
**Descending**
Sentence # | Words
:-: | :-:
1 | 10 words
2 | 9 words
3 | 8 words
4 | 7 words
5 | 6 words
6 | 5 words
7 | 4 words
8 | 3 words
9 | 2 words
10 | 1 word
Alternatively, you can go in the opposite order, with the first sentence having 1 word and the final sentence having 10 words.
Good luck! | [FF] Create a story in descending (or ascending) sentence (details inside) | [
"Damn!\n\nShe saw.\n\n\"Wait,\" I said.\n\nShe turned and left.\n\nGerry touched my shoulder sympathetically.\n\nI sighed and shook my head.\n\n\"It's over,\" I told him, \"we're done.\"\n\n\"Don't say that,\" Gerry implored; \"I love you.\"\n\nI loved Gerry too, but I couldn't say it.\n\n\"I'm sorry, sweetie, but ... | 6 |
[WP] Convince me you deserve the last piece of my birthday cake. | [
"Sir/Madam/Mr. President, \n\nYou don't know me.\nI am a stranger to you, and because of that I could be anything.\n\nI could be a liar, a thief, a republican, a communist, a slow driver, a midget or any other manner of detestable scoundrel.\nExactly the kind of person you would never dare want to eat any piece of ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a teacher at a daycare. One day, Homeland Security arrives at your door, asking for your help. | [
"She knew pretty much immediately who they were after the moment they walked in. She may have gone to state college but she could dress herself each morning and had done well for 24 years in not choking on her tongue in her sleep. There were 27 children under her care, one egg, and she hadn't noticed any baby geni... | 2 | |
[WP] A chest is recovered from a treasure hunting expedition. On the bumpy carriage ride out the two magic lamps inside rub together releasing two Genies each owing the other 3 wishes. | [
"The two lamps collided in midair as the cart jostled on the bumpy cobblestone road. The merchant had fallen asleep at the wheel, drunk on an exotic brew of fermented fruit matter.\n\n\"AT LAST, MORTAL, I HAVE AWAKENED... I am Thron, the Mighty. Quake before the might of the Djinn!\"\n\n\"The might of gin, perhaps.... | 4 | |
or 'RA' | [WP] Your first time at Redditholics Anonymous. | [
"\"It's like nothing else in the world. It satisfies me. It entertains me. I feel needed. I can't stop.\" I stand up and say at my first Redditholics Anonymous meeting.\n\n\"I know what you mean.\" A small voice peeps from the circle. A young girl about 18 with long blond hair and small frame says. She clears her t... | 1 |
Yes I know its technically 'furry' but dumb animals couldn't feel horror/realize, and it seems like such an interesting prompt take on 'you are what you eat'. | [WP] You are what you eat: across the world, humans turn into humanoid versions of the animals they loved to eat the most. To everyone's horror, some stayed human. | [
"Beth had *changed*. There was no better word to describe it. She had sprouted wings behind her arms and a bright orange beak now stood in place of her mouth. I was horrified. Breathing hard, I pinched myself. Hard. Multiple times. My mind racing, I remembered that luicd dreams often had unreadable clocks. Practica... | 10 |
[WP] Satan is going through a mid-life crisis. | [
"\"Sir?\" Azazel timidly popped his horned head into the lush, polished office. Satan took notice and looked up from his coloring book. \n\n\"Yes Azazel?\"\n\n\"Oh, uh, mamm?\"\n\n\"Please Azazel, one is not so formal with a child...\"\n\nAzazel's cloven feet clopped nervously has he shifted his weight. Satan had r... | 2 | |
[WP] Adolf Hitler rises from the dead to interrupt a Holocaust deniers meeting. | [
"Hitler felt he'd calmed a little in death. His fervent passion had settled in the slow drift through the void. The war had faded out. His country had rehabilitated itself while he'd been gone. It wasn't the empire he'd been hoping for, but he could stand the reality of things now. Temperance was important, he'd le... | 14 | |
[WP] You're a mute. You've communicated through paintings your whole life. You're on your death bed, and your pencil breaks. | [
"*Scratch scratch scratch*. He kept on scratching on that piece of paper. A Masterpiece was blossoming. A depiction of all the life time achievements. A chronological order of all memorable events, from the first time he tied his shoe lace all by himself, up until he held his grandson in his arms. All the thanks gi... | 6 | |
When you're bored time literally slows down and when you're having fun times flies, how do you notice and utilise this? | [WP] Your perception of time affects the progression of time | [
"Dancing on the grass, the mottled pattern was an infinity of interest. The sound of the wind was a strange symphony that had stretched unknown distances to be there around him. Everything encased him within its fascination. The bark of the tree was pressing on his back, but he couldn't quite read its patterns; lac... | 4 |
[WP] There is a serial killer on the loose, but instead of killing people, he kills egos. Kanye West is his next target. | [
"“You know,” Shia Labeouf bowed his head and spoke into the microphone, his voice low. “I think some of you might be right. I’m not that talented, and I can be kind of an asshole sometimes.” He paused, swallowing. “I think the only reason I got famous in the first place was my looks. I don’t deserve it, not really.... | 3 | |
I did a short story on this exact idea and would love to hear some unique spins on it! | [WP] The year is 2064 and you're about to knock on the door of your next "assignment." The door opens and you're heart drops - it's a six year old girl. This is the first time the government has assigned you a child to kill for population control. | [
"\"Hello Little Girl, Whats your name?\"\n\nI already know is Jane the report had mentioned it but had left out the age probably just a clerical error it still happens now and then\n\n\"My name is J..\"\n\nHer sentence is cut short but a short popping sound and her head snaps back as the kinetic force breaks her ne... | 18 |
[WP] You are an inanimate object that has just become sentient, write about your awakening without explicitly stating what you are. | [
"I never believed in reincarnation, heaven or hell. Sometimes I'm not sure which of these I'm in even if that's what this is. It's been six months so far *living* this way because it's occasionally agonizing.\n\nThe snow outside piles up against the windows, doors and walls. The fireplace keeps me warm but it's hyp... | 4 | |
Or another set of four elements, if you prefer. Just make it different from the usual. | [WP] The four elements change as the world does. In the far future, Earth, Air, Fire and Water have become Metal, Smoke, Lightning, and Oil. | [
"My eyes dimmed in and out of consciousness. My breath was ragged on the floor of the brig. It was pre-fabricated steel, powerful, sturdy. The coldness of the sea was conducted through it and chilled me to the bone. A dim light lit the room, flickering every now and then. It was freezing in here. A double knock and... | 6 |
[WP] Write a poem that captures your current mood. | [
"*Boom Boom Hiss*\n---\n\nI cannot stop,\n\nthe desire,\n\nto feel your glass lips\n\nupon my own.\n\nI want to drown\n\nin the brown gaze, \n\nwhen I look into your depths,\n\nno clarity for days. \n\nI can swallow only so much,\n\nthe flavor makes me pause, \n\nUntil inside the thunder rumbles, \n\nand my hands b... | 3 | |
[WP] Write a story from the perspective of a handgun with a suicidal owner. | [
"When I was made, I always thought I would be use in a war zone like my grandfather (wait, do I have a grandfather?). Maybe as a drug lord's side arm, even that gun under his pillow would be nice. You know what? Even a cop gun would work. I use to have dreams! Now I'm in this cowards hand, pressed against his oily ... | 2 | |
Started as a [Shower Thought](http://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/) but quickly turned to a [Writing Prompt](http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/). Can't wait to see where people take this.. | [WP] You wake up with the newfound ability to communicate with your internal organs. They have asked for a meeting. | [
"I woke up sharply, it feels like my nose is is being stabbed. Opening my eyes I see pink and black. Then two green eyes open up its my cat letting me know she is out of food. Rubbing the sleep out of my eyes I slowly creak out of bed as my back pops and complains. Once there is food in her bowl again she promptly ... | 15 |
[WP] Human experiments are now allowed to be tested on death row inmates. A serial killer gets superhuman powers from a test. | [
"He's still in the prison, of all places. I land just outside the blown out wall, where just a few hours before nearly a hundred super powered baddies, and three times that many run of the mill criminals, had escaped, scattering to the four winds. The Wardens and the other do-gooder types have their hands full deal... | 3 | |
[WP] A divine being visits an atheist. By the end of the conversation, the atheist is a believer, and the divine being is an atheist. | [
"\"So you're telling me that it's all true. The bright lights, the pearly gates, all of it.\"\n\n\"Yes,\" the being exclaimed. \"All that you could ever want is there for you. The dog that died when you were ten is curled up waiting for you. Every piece of entertainment is before you and you have eternity to enjoy ... | 5 | |
[WP] You suddenly realize your existence. | [
"Du, du du du... here, there, up, down, left, right , everywhere.\nJust... there. Always been that way, always will, probably.\n\nNothing changes. Ever. It is eternal.\n\n\nDu, du du du... here, there, up, down, left, right.\nJust... there. Always been that way, always will, probably.\n\nWhat.... is here?\n\n\nDu, ... | 2 | |
[WP]God has tasked an angel to guard someone in a way that can always be attributed to random chance. Shortly after, every criminal overlord puts a massive price on that person's head. | [
"The room buzzed with chatter and laughter as several men sat around a table playing cards, arguing in their thick Italian accents. They wore dress shirts and shoulder holsters, and were halfway through a good bottle of Scotch. Cigarette smoke wafted up to the ceiling, and their good-natured ribbing was punctuated ... | 2 | |
[WP] Kids in your culture have been shielded from witnessing or knowing about the existence of romantic relationships while growing up. You have never heard of sex (or any kind of romantic/sexual physical touch). You and another person begin to fall in love for the first time. | [
"The word \"friend\" somehow doesn't seem to be enough. \n\n\"Can somebody be more than a friend?\" I ask my guardian. \"Someone who isn't family, I mean.\" \n\nShe peers at me from the other side of the breakfast table, brows furrowed. \"Well, you can have a best friend.\"\n\n\"That's not what I mean. It's like...... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a trailer for a documentary on humans done by an alien species | [
"Humans and You!\n\nThis award winning documentary covers everything you need to know about the hairless apes of Urf. Their strange bipedal gait, their proclivity for for putting wheels beneath them, and all of their weird and wonderful ways of describing the universe. *See that cloud? It's an all knowing deity tha... | 2 | |
Inspiration:
http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/2x4wjc/first_human_head_transplant_could_happen_in_two/ | [WP] Near future. Rich, fat, vain people have started abducting gym rats/fit people to steal their bodies. | [
"It doesn't work very well, to be honest. \n\nI mean, they can get the van right up next to you, but even then they have to take a minute to get their breath back after opening the doors.\n\nI once had a guy try to launch himself from the side of a van, apparently aiming to land on top of me. It probably would hav... | 2 |
[WP] Set in a fantasy world, in a pub, and at midnight. | [
"\"LAST CALL\" yells the bartender at the top of his lungs. There is only one other person in the bar. Sitting in the backmost seat, Lix looks over the empty pint glasses on the table. There are seven of them. This is confirmation enough that it is indeed midnight but he checks his watch for further confirmation. Y... | 2 | |
[WP] Through some sort of accident, a human becomes a God. All other Gods became such in the same manner. | [
"“Gods? I like to think that gods are ideas un-incarnate.” My Grandfather stared at me, as if this short explanation was enough— slowly grinding his teeth— a habit which always made his jaw seem mechanical, like he was the tin man. My Gramps could be gnomic sometimes; it was through no lack of knowledge or patience... | 2 | |
[WP] You are marooned on an island. Desperate to be rescued you put a message seeking help into a bottle and late at night as the tide is going out you hurl it into the ocean. You wake up the next morning to find one hundred thousands bottles, each holding there own message washed up on the shore. | [
"Plop. Plop.\n\nThe red drops slowly oozed together until they formed a pool in the rock large enough for Alex to dip his reed into. He winced with each sound; the pain from the open cut had passed an hour ago but the sound was enough to cause him mental anguish. Knowing that each drop took with it a bit of his lif... | 9 | |
[WP] A telemarketer calls and offers you something oddly specific to your current situation. | [
"\"Move your leg\"\n\"No, not there, further back\"\n\"Fuck, stop, stop, STOP! Your pulling out my hair\"\n\nAfter well over a year without so much as heavy petting I had finally gotten a girl into bed, Sarah, and she was divine. Bright red hair and the most kissable face. I could barely believe it when she asked m... | 2 | |
What do you discover? How? | [WP] Sleeping is an abnormal behavior. You are the first to break the cycle. | [
"“Day, night, the sun nor the moon hold meaning or relevance in our society.” Daniel began, “Each day is exactly the same, if you could even consider them days anymore, without a sunrise or sunset there's no way to tell the difference.” He chuckles quietly to himself as he runs a nervous hand across his face and ne... | 2 |
[WP] You go back in time to be the leader of the cavemen but most of them are still smarter than you. | [
"\"Who are you and what are you doing on my lawn?\"\n\nThe man asking this had just witnessed me appear in a time machine, from twenty thousand years in the future. The force of my arrival had caused a shockwave that uprooted an oak outside his cave. And I stepped out wearing a pliable titanium stillsuit. And this ... | 2 | |
[WP] You get an Amber Alert on your cell phone and find out it's you. | [
"\"Well that's odd.\" I thought to myself. \n\nClearly i wasn't in distress and I wasn't missing, at least not to me. I clicked my cellphone and called mom.\n\n\"Mom?\" I asked.\n\n\"Oh son! you're okay! Where are you?\" My mom exclaimed hysterically.\n\n\"I'm at the mall, like i told you.\"\n\n\"You are? I forgot,... | 2 | |
[WP] A married couple secretly invent time travel. They travel back to 50 BC, but the portal takes them to different locations on earth. This is the story of how they found each other. | [
"Yep, there she is. Five feet away from me. I feared the trip might dump us off in the exact same physical space and all our bits would explode from the solidifying into one another. But she came up with the buffer and the dilation matrix. Always good with the details compared to my big picture thinking.\n\nI'm fid... | 6 | |
[WP] You've just been admitted to the Pennsylvania State Penitentiary. They say you have 24 hours til your execution. What do you want the world to know before you die? | [
"I could feel it building up in my chest, sitting in the white-ish grey room as the man with the moustache stared at me intently, the two detectives in the corner nodding to each other and writing on their clipboards.\n\n\"I...\" All eyes in the room fixated on mine.\n\n\"I don't need anyone to believe me. Honestly... | 3 | |
[WP] You awaken to a phone call from your spouse who has been dead for months. Half-asleep, you pick up the phone and drowsily begin a normal, casual conversation. Slowly, your brain comes into focus as you realize what you're doing. | [
"(Part 1)\nIt had been months since Nick had passed away. One would think that after a while it wouldn’t hurt as much, right? How I wished that was the case for me but even now, months later, it still hurt as badly as the day that I found out. Killed in action and I couldn’t even see my husband’s body for the last ... | 2 | |
What is this "hotmail.com"? Will you ever see your friend again? Now that you think about it, you know very little about your friend's past. | [WP] It's the early 1930s, and a good friend of yours is moving away. To keep in touch, your friend gives you their contact details: ******@hotmail.com. | [
"*March 3, 1932*\n\n*I met with Maria for the last time before she moves to Paris today. We went to lunch at the cafe downtown, and we talked about her move. She's a little nervous about her French skills, as she's had very little chance to practice, but I assured her that she'll adjust very quickly.*\n\n*She'll be... | 2 |
Let this be a key moment in your story. It can be about anything :)
| [WP]It was not what I had pictured | [
"I had expected more panic. Something like adrenaline coursing through my system, fight or flight responses going haywire at the sight of the ground swiftly getting closer. But instead, contrary to how I felt before I jumped, I was at peace. Was this what people with terminal illnesses felt, before they died? A cal... | 3 |
[WP] In the future, anyone can now sign up for a procedure that will selectively erase memories, so that they can relive anything they want to for the "first time". All is well until the bizarre side effects of altering memory begin to manifest... | [
"The first thing you have to understand, of course, is that we couldn't achieve a full wipe.\n\nThe mind doesn't work that way, apparently - there will always be ghosting, there'll be fragments and pieces left over. Like overwriting an old tape too many times, wiped memories sometimes bleed through.\n\nWe know that... | 4 | |
[WP]A person finds a running stop watch and stops it. | [
"\"Hm.\" I picked up the watch. It was a dinky little thing, cheap yellow plastic but clearly well-loved - although the strap had broken, it had been repaired with string.\n\nI noticed that the stop watch function was running. Didn't that run down the battery faster? I should probably stop it before I turned it in ... | 3 | |
[WP] A man decided to have his favorite cereal for breakfast. What happened next will fill you with horror. | [
"In went the cereal. Lifting the milk up so that it fell into the bowl just like in the ads. John couldn't wait, The bowl contained the sweet taste of childhood and it was all his. His kids were not around to bury their faces in the bowl or nag for a refill. He had the place to himself for the next few days.\n\nThe... | 2 | |
[WP] Two sidekicks (one good, the other evil) find common ground in a shared hobby. | [
"The door shut behind me before I could catch it and let it close silently. I wince as it slams. Normally there are a few people in. Not *loads*, but still, a few. More than this, anyway.\n\nIt's just me and him now. \n\n*I shouldn't have come in late*, I think. I watch as his cape swishes around and he looks at me... | 2 | |
[WP] You discover the meaning of life | [
"I just stood there, in the middle of the road - lost - although I could clearly see the directions above me.\n\nThis morning I got up and readied for school, and then I woke up out here. I can't even imagine how I got here! It's nowhere near home, do i even have a home anymore?\n\nI felt sick. Imagining how horrib... | 2 | |
[wp] Love can now be harnessed as powerful, clean energy source, but it's used up and can't be replaced. Write a story about a mother selling her love to save her child. | [
"\"It's ok, sweetheart,\" the pleasant nurse said, as I squirmed in my seat. It was just a preliminary test, I knew, but I was still nervous. I mean what would I be like without it? How would I change?\n\n\"Now imagine,\" she said, her voice gentle and soothing, \"something that you love.\"\n\n I pictured my son, B... | 5 | |
Inspired by [this] ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brad-meltzer/the-presidents-greatest-s_b_807547.html ) post on TIL (not sure how to link reddit posts on mobile so just linking the article).
| [WP] As is custom, President Obama leaves a letter in the oval office for the next President, who then proceeds to destroy it. What does it say? | [
"\"Honey i just couldn't believe it.\" The president said to his wife at dinner.\n\n\"Oh you're just being a baby. I thought it was funny.\" The president scoffed. \"Have something to say dear?\" He immediately looked down.\n\n\"No, I just got something caught in my throat.\" He shoved some more spaghetti in his mo... | 2 |
[WP]The sky is purple today, that's what the people wanted. | [
"\"Huh. Purple today.\"\n\nJacob lived off the grid, out in the woods. Away from them.\n\nHe could escape the lottery, and the pop singer contests, and the murderball matches. The popularity contest pseudo-politics, celebutante trivia, and 24/7 soap-opera-cum-reality-shows didn't reach this far out.\n\nNeither d... | 1 | |
Do you go full Crusoe? Do you die dramatically? Do you survive and escape? Do you get eaten by sharks? Why are you there? Is John Donne wrong about no man being an island? | [WP] You find yourself stranded on a deserted island | [
"When my life raft washed up on the island, I had recognized the place. Henderson Island, UNESCO world heritage site. Shit. This was bad.\n\nFortunately I had equipped my life-raft kit with a hatchet, bow saw, knife, and thousand foot spool of para-cord. A flint and striker, and the inflatable de-salinator were ... | 2 |
Your piece should have two (or more) characters walking through the same place (like a corridor, or a garden) describing what they experience in the first person, giving insight into what sort of a person they are. | [WP] Describe two characters through their reactions to the same event | [
"Today was cloudy, the kind where it seems like the heavens will burst at the seams with a torrential downpour. Everyone in the Shacks seemed to take notice. They all crowded under awnings or the cover of buildings, casting wary glances upwards every few moments. Their mouths remained in taut lines, lips white.\n\n... | 5 |
[WP] Everyone knows a single bite from a zombie means infection and death. Describe the harrowing moment when a biter latches its teeth on you in the middle of a fight. | [
"I felt the shrill of fear before I felt the pain. But first, I saw it. The thing had been a child once. It had pierced my right shin with the pointy teeth of a toddler. From the moment I saw it to the moment I realized what had happened an eternity seemed to pass. And during that eternity, all I had the time to th... | 4 | |
[WP] Ages ago the super advanced human race left Earth for the stars, we are the ones deemed not good enough to go with. | [
"I poke through the rubble tiredly. I had been traveling for days looking for any food that might be left over. It was a futile effort, as most of the resources had been taken when the others left. I continued forward, getting more and more hopeless at each passing minute. Finally, I stumbled into a garden. I looke... | 5 | |
[WP] You are the sole human who can freeze time at will, however, every time you do it, there is a 1% chance of it killing you slowly over 24 hours. This time that you use your ability, the 1% chance is not on your side. | [
"The clock ticked sharply in the corner of the silent room.\n\nIt's an ambient noise that I have learned to pay close attention to over my years. It signifies that we are all in movement, careening towards some unknown end, but all at the same pace. Most would think that the incessant ticking of a clock among silen... | 1 | |
[WP] Describe a day in the life of the Other Devil, who rules over Hell's less extreme counterpart, Heck. | [
"\"Miss Betty Rae is outside again sir.\"\n\n\"You've got to be kidding me. Show her in, then move my eight-thirty to... Never mind big in her mother in three minutes.\"\n\n\"Miss Betty. How horribly predictable of you.\"\n\n\"Why must you be so rude? My lord. I'm just here to clear up this mistake -\"\n\n\"You've ... | 4 | |
I saw this line in a recent Askreddit thread, thought it could make for a range of scenarios. I also like the one sentence style of writing prompts. | [WP] "It was fourteen years ago, and I still dream about him sometimes." | [
" Air filled my lungs as I woke from yet another nightmare. Sweat trickled down my neck as the orchestra in my chest came to a slow. \n\n*Fuck... I can’t take this anymore.*\n\n I made my way over to the keyboard next to my bed. The ground was littered with meal supplement bars. I don’t care about what I eat an... | 3 |
130 years ago aliens detected large amounts of free oxygen molecules in our atmosphere through their new extrasolar telescope. This being a strong indication of life they sent a probe to earth carrying several autonomous drones to explore our planet and search for intelligent life. | [WP] First contact with aliens that are not much more advanced than we are. | [
"1200 hrs. CET. \"Samokhod 2\" made it's third orbital fly-over around Bgd-156, a rocky planet in the proverbial Goldilocks zone in our Milky Way galaxy. From its initial data, we could safely deduce that the planet was, in fact, populated. The alien life-forms were still illusive in our scans, but energy signature... | 4 |
[WP] All around the world, people begin to disappear in droves, reducing our population to a scant and sparse few. 500 years later, we discover where they went. | [
"\"I'm sorry\" she giggled \"But we just couldn't help ourselves!\" Like the rest of her kind, she had the body of a porn-star and the face of an angel. Her gorgeous body was draped with the same amount of material as a handkerchief but she pulled the look off as demurely as Audrey Hepburn at the monaco regatta.\n\... | 4 | |
[WP] Write a short story using as MANY clichés as you can. | [
"Once upon a time.\n\nThere was a beautiful woman locked away in a horrible castle. The castle was on top of highest mountain, guarded by a fire breathing dragon, and a magical spell that caused her never to age. \n\nThis legend was told as a bedtime story to boys and girls for generations. Most of them thought it ... | 3 | |
Your choice... | [WP] Make something sound worse and worse, sentence by sentence, until in the last sentence, it seems fine. Or vice versa. | [
"First, they are snatched from their homes. Mothers, sons, fathers, daughters, brothers and sisters are split up. Families are disintegrated in the blink of an eye. Then, while awaiting their fate, they are left in the scorching heat for weeks, their skin shrivelling, beaten daily to ensure compliance. Their skin i... | 1 |
[wp] Tell a zombie sorry from the perspective of the zombie. | [
"The silent drip of the bursted pipe splashed upon my nose, so white\nI haven't seen the sun in years the darkness no longer holds my fear.\n\nThe rancid stench of scattered flesh penetrated deep inside my chest. \nThe days were nights and the nights were days in this cavern of malaise\n\nA bang was heard from up a... | 1 | |
[WP] The price was set at eight bags of gold, twelve bags of silver, and twenty fine horses. | [
"Against the din of the Mystic Traveling Gwama Band in the center of it all, it was hard to make out every word leaving the worn tin megaphone of Leighton Otalman, The Story Bard of Caldertown. \n\n\"...And so the price was set at eight bags of gold, twelve bags of silver, and twenty-four fine horses to the man who... | 2 | |
[WP] You are immortal, except for one odd weakness. | [
"It was morning again. I only remembered the year of my birth now: 1784. \n\nI picked up my favorite \"Obama is a reptile\" sign and walked out to the street corner to rant for another day.\n\nIt was tough faking mental illness, but as far as I could tell, I only aged on days when people took me seriously.",
"\"B... | 2 | |
[WP] Scientists have designed a spacesuit that never runs out of oxygen. You are wearing one of these suits, and through some event, are now drifting through space helplessly. | [
"Have you ever tried punching yourself to death through an almost impenetrable helmet with padded fists? I have, I've had a lot of time to try a lot of things. That particular experiment didn't result in any noteworthy conclusions, my hands were coddled by their ample padding and my head safe in this stupid smart-p... | 2 | |
[WP] The hero can't figure out how to stop the villain. The solution seems obvious to you, an innocent bystander. | [
"Gazelle Man was looking at the TV hanging just above the warehouse door we just entered. A live feed of the Puzzler's face, hidden mostly by shadow, was playing on it. Inside the warehouse was several raised platforms, seemingly set up with a different difficult device that Gazelle Man would no doubt have to solve... | 8 | |
[WP]Despite thousands of sapient species in the universe, only humans can comprehend the idea of "war." This fact, and Earth being the only planet without severe overpopulation because of it, makes humans "exotic." You're an alien tour guide, trying to sell tours to Earth. | [
"*Beep Beep Beep*\r\rThe indicator pinged away as the ship made an attempt to flee this damned planet's atmosphere. All these years Gorkak came, he was never detected. Many didn't understand what was going on, the tourists in the back quizzically looked about as they asked me a dozen questions.\r\rI was sweating fr... | 2 | |
i.e. Job interviews and school | [WP] In the future, everyone is genetically enhanced to be perfect. How does everyday competition to get ahead in the world go down? | [
"Dorsa stood in front of her mirror wall, stark naked. Glowing lines appeared around her body through the mirror as calculations began flitting across the screen at a rapid pace. Lines grew and shrank as they measured her limbs, took note of her joints, and predicted her outfit of the day. The calculations weren't ... | 3 |
[WP] You discover that the rule "I can't see you you can't see me" actually applies to you. What do you do? | [
"My big toe encountered a dining room chair, and I crumpled to the ground. The pain almost made me open my eyes. It would have been a critical mistake. \n\nThe first rule of home invasion is this: don't be seen. \n\nThe second of home invasion was unique to me, as far as I knew: keep your eyes closed.\n\nIf I c... | 5 | |
[WP] You are about to evaluate a patient at a mental hospital. When you open the door to the patient's room, you see that the patient sitting and waiting to be evaluated is you. | [
"\"Hey there twin! Long time no see... like... since birth. How have you been?\"\n\nI was trying to keep calm, and I told the funniest thing I could think of, with a face looking like that thing my kid calls \"bad pokerface\". He said, \"Wow, that's so accurate that it's creepy\", with the exact same creeped-out ba... | 3 | |
It only sends messages to the past. It's not possible to send information into the future, silly. | [WP] You've finally managed to build it-- a machine that sends messages to the past. You power it up and immediately begin getting message from your future self. | [
"Ngugi,\n\nI will be brief, Ngugi. This is a message from you, from your future self. As proof I am who I say I am - our imaginary friend, in our little house all those years ago, was a tiger, and his name was Solomon.\n\nTime being what it is, I already recieved this message from myself, and know that you won't be... | 3 |
[WP] The Nazis won WW2 in 1952 when they nuked Washington DC and New York city, they now control the entire planet, describe the day for an average citizen in 2015 | [
"my only problem with this is that Hitler lost that war the moment he dragged Russia into it, Russia did more damage to Nazi Germany than the U.S. ever did. it wasn't a question of who would win the war more a question of how much land he would take in the process",
"Good thing the resistance eliminated the Third... | 9 | |
[WP]A man approaches you and says "You have been given a great gift, a 'super power' if you will. I cannot tell you what it is, but when the time comes, you will know your gift, and how to use it." Today, that day has come | [
"I've had beatings before, but this one is the worse by far. The blows kept coming from up above like a slow jackhammer. I kept my forearm up and most of the blows are glancing, but I'm wearing out and he's getting more and more accurate. I can only turtle up so much with this guy on my chest. The weight on my ... | 4 | |
[WP] You find a book in a library, it details everything that you will and have done | [
"I always liked the library, the smell of books and the soft sound of pages turning. I came to research my English project, reading a book called Metro 2033 or something. Rows of books were high and long, with all the colours of the spectrum. I searched high and low for this book that my English teacher suggested f... | 3 | |
[WP] You wake up in a dungeon with a note on a corpse next to you. | [
"I am aching all over, I dont know where I am or how I got here.\nIt smells of mold and something rotten, I think im going to be sick.\nI must open my eyes, but they are so heavy, maybe ive been drugged. Maybe not! I can feel warm sticky blood on my head. \nWhat the hell happened last night?\nI manage to slowly ope... | 3 | |
[WP] Every person has a clock that counts down the time to their deaths. You see that your time is running out and you prepare to leave this world. At the final moment the clock stops at 0:01. | [
"Tick tock, tick tock. We all had one, a timepiece that is! I received my countdown October 5th 2054 on my 18th Birthday. I was terrified to learn my death date and like most people I initially hid it away, well until my curiosity got the better of me. The US government issued them to everyone when they became an a... | 2 | |
[WP] The reason earth has never been contacted by intelligent alien life is that it has been under a longstanding quarantine. Today the quarantine is lifted, you learn why... | [
"I already posted one, but I had a short, funny idea:\n\nI awoke with the worst hangover of my life. \"Rumplemintz. Never again,\" I muttered to myself. I never remembered my room being this bright. I couldn't see a damned thing. \"Your kind has been cut off from all other sentient beings for too long,\" sung an an... | 7 | |
[WP] You wake up to find that every time you walk through a door, it takes you back to your bedroom. | [
"\"This can't be right,\"\n\nMr. Higgins was still rubbing the crust out of the edges of his eyes with his knuckles in the early morning. He was on his way to the bathroom when he realized he really wasn't on his way. He opened and walked out of the bedroom door again, only to stumble back into a view of his bedroo... | 2 | |
[WP] A big wave of suicides happens all around the world. You end up realizing that they were all astronomers and you just bought your first telescope. | [
"\"No matter what happens, I promise it will be okay.\"\n\nSarah hasn't looked yet. I brought the telescope down to her house so she could see. I looked. And now I can't take it back. I will soon kill myself, like the rest. The clock is ticking.\n\nI called Sarah and told her, \"I don't have much time left, I'm goi... | 8 | |
[WP] In the middle of the night, a teenager leaves the safety of her parents' home to go exploring. She finds something that makes her glad she did | [
"A crystal.\n\nWhen one's parents are a little bit... 1960s, hippy, doolally in the head, New Age, and so on...\nAnd you have a passing interest in science...\nYou know your geology.\n\nAnd you know this is unlike anything you have ever seen before.\n\nYou pick it up, of course, and stuff it into your jeans pocket.... | 3 | |
I left the "surprising result" up to you. | [WP] Scientists discover an algorithm for predicting a person's date of death with 95% confidence. When you finally decide to enter your parameters into the algorithm you see a surprising result. | [
"\"I'm nervous..\" she said, anxiously pushing up the bridge of her glasses with her index finger in quick, short jabs. \"Don't be. I think this stuff is full of nonsense anyway..\" I shoved my hands deep in my pockets, sighing softy as we walked towards the center. \"So, you're not scared at all? What if it says t... | 4 |
[WP] Humanity isn't an intelligent race, or an intuitive race, or a fast race, or even a violent race. But it is the longest lasting race in the galaxy. | [
"Cockroaches... Humanity is the galaxy's cockroach. They spread like a plague and are blasted difficult to eradicate. Not because human populations are uniquely tough in any way. Humans in fact are the weakest of all race. But, in the time it takes to eradicate a solar system you can be certain another dozen worlds... | 3 | |
[WP] God Sends Jesus back to Earth not to end all humnity but to present his new book: The Bible 21st Century Edition. | [
"Jay lay against the wall and tried to drone out the inane chatter of the people walking by him, it was the height of summer on London's busiest high street. he could barely make out the dial tone as he keyed the numbers into his phone. \n\"Alan!\" Jay screamed into his phone, like a man screaming at dog on his la... | 5 | |
[WP] You have an imaginary friend. But your imaginary friend thinks you are its imaginary friend. Which one is real? | [
"“Imol shh, mom will find us!” a child’s whispered voice “If she catches us we lose the game”\nImol looks over “I know that Sam! Don’t forget it was your fault last time.” Imol watches as Sam peeks out of the closet “The coast is clear quick lets change hiding spots before she catches us” The girls sneak out of the... | 2 | |
[WP] 50 years from now the Earth is in a synchronous rotation around the Sun, resulting in all of Earth's inhabitants populating one half of the Earth. This story is about the brave people who dared enter the Dark side of the Earth... | [
"A drop of sweat dripped onto the rusted and dented metal casing of the generator Daryl was packing. Sweat was going to be the only wash anything was going to get anymore, since the water dried up. \n\nGetting way too hot, thought Daryl as he continued to prepare the group's equipment for their exodus. It was def... | 3 | |
[WP] You're an astrobiologist on Ganymede, and you can't ignore the data any more: the third planet from the sun looks more and more likely to support life. | [
"“Look at these numbers. What do you think? Can the planet support life?!” I asked with excitement. The professor looked at the screen thoughtfully.\nI had been working on this for months. My Doctoral Advisor, Dr. Harklight had told me that it was a dead end. He said that the carbon dioxide levels were too high to ... | 2 | |
[WP] Aliens arrive on earth and give us clear indications that they aren't here to invade but instead are here to help our race survive. | [
"The cloaked saucer landed in the center of the Pentagon before uncloaking. Hands raised, they departed their ship holding a white flag. Behind safe walls, they spoke to Congress about how their scientists analyzed the trajectory of Earth's atmosphere and recognized dangerous toxins polluting the air. Toxins that e... | 2 | |
[WP] You try to make a deal with the Devil, he refuses your soul as payment. | [
"Being a religious person was particularly hard for me. I never really understood the meaning behind the teachings of God. I always took the teachings as literal interpretations and so had a hard time figuring out *how* it all worked rather than *why* it all happened. So early in life I gave up on being a religious... | 5 | |
[WP] Describe an obstacle in your life that you had to overcome. How did it go? Were you changed at all? | [
"True story. \n\nOn November 8th, 2007 I was scheduled to undergo a routine arthroscopic surgery on my left knee. During the surgery, I woke up, and was awake for thirty out of forty-five minutes. It was very scary, and as you can imagine, left me with emotional scars, and sleep problems. For a coupleof years after... | 4 | |
[WP] The Titanic is stuck in a time loop, hitting the iceberg and sinking over and over...forever. And only one person on board is aware of the day repeating | [
"**I open my eyes as the sun comes up. It begins again.**\n\nAll of my efforts to avert the looming disaster have been in vain. I've staged armed takeovers of the wheelhouse and executed full-scale sabotage in the engine room! Attempts at altering the ships course or mitigating its forward progress are fruitless. I... | 3 |
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