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I am a new modder to the game 'Skyrim' and I wanted to make my first mod an extension of the current Lusty Argonian Maid books found within the game. I am asking for everyone's help in writing some stories. [Here is some info on the stories.](http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/The_Lusty_Argonian_Maid) The prompt must ... | [FF] The Lusty Argonian Maid | [
"\"The Adventurous Khajiit Traders\"\n\n* Act I, Scene II, Part I:\n\nKiisminahtii: Nord woman is liking what she sees, no?\n\nBritte Ample-Bosom: What delectable wares! Oh, and this... I've heard it's sweet. Could I have a taste?\n\nKiisminahtii: This one does not give her wares for free. If you are wanting to tas... | 6 |
[Why is he there? how'd he get up there? Anything that explains the painting](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Caspar_David_Friedrich_032_\(The_wanderer_above_the_sea_of_fog\).jpg) | [WP] What's up with this man? | [
"No, today I will actually do it. I have been putting it off for far too long now.\n\nToday I am going to grab my finest suit and cane, because a regular walking stick will look absurd whilst I'm wearing a suit- and I'll finally climb that mountain to see what the fuzz is all about. Honestly, you would think that m... | 4 |
It can be any kind of creature. From an alien to a beetle. You get the idea, now get writing! Can't wait to read your responses :) | [WP] - You are a teenager and there is a creature in your house which either kills you or leads to your death | [
"When I first saw the strange, ape-like creature living in our basement, the shrills at the back of my head decided not to venture downwards. Thus I merely nodded to the beast, acknowledging its existence, making it a secret of ours. The pact with the ape quickly extended to me bringing the food and cleaning the fe... | 1 |
A public, searchable site... the owner can't be traced and the web address appears on many news sites. Every picture, even ones thought deleted. | [FF] 60-150 words: A website appears containing every digital photo ever taken | [
"I leaned closer to the computer screen, peering more closely at the thumbnail on the search results page. Familiar, just like I had thought. \n\nStrange, since I didn’t remember uploading that photo anywhere. \n\nI clicked. Could just be incredibly similar. My eyes widened, as the page loaded and I looked at the w... | 5 |
As days pass, you realize two things: 1) not everything is always as you remembered it and 2) this is your reality now and it's not going to change. You begin to plan. | [WP] You awaken in the body of one year old you. | [
"Not again.\n\nSomething must have been really fucked up.\n\nThis shit was fun the first times. I remember the first time I awoke here, in this very same moment. Same cradle, same walls, same body, same age. I was freaking out and started to cry as it was the only thing my body knew to do. I had the same memories b... | 4 |
[WP] Your neighborhood, all the way up to your front door, is enveloped into a bottomless sinkhole in the night. | [
"I regard the hole with some minor satisfaction. I never liked my neighbors. Of course, I felt somewhat guilty about this happiness, but even so, Frank had slept with my wife last year. Casper, my golden retriever, circle around my legs for just a moment before sprinting away. I for an ending to the hole. It was at... | 1 | |
(optional) the only countries where you can land safely, are landlocked countries. | [WP] Write an apocalypse scenario. Your characters are on the ISS | [
"There’s something oddly mesmerizing about watching several dozen nuclear missiles streak towards their targets from space. From this distant vantage point, they seem to be sliding so gracefully across the earth, when in reality they are blasting through the thermosphere at five miles a second. You become entranced... | 3 |
[WP] A Magikarp evolves into a Gyarados | [
"Useless\n\nIt was not until I was pulled into the strange lights of the Pokeball that I learned this word. No longer did i need to fear the teams of Dewgong that would hunt me, no long arms of Tentacruel, no biting Lapras. I was safe \n\nAnd Useless\n\nThe land burned my gills. Dry air. It hurt me. He sent me to ... | 3 | |
Who is he going to pick to take his place, will he install a democracy? Does he weep for mankind after his death? Is he the only man capable of keeping the knot of man knit?
Go. | [WP] A future dictator close to death watches over a united humanity, how does he plan on keeping his people united after he dies? | [
"They stand before him, hundreds of thousands, tightly packed into the massive Citizen's Square. Red banners hang among the humongous telescreens that display his face to the adoring crowd. Cheering, screaming, yelling, they love him, as a father, as a leader, as their Emperor. \n\nHe looks at the holotext to his r... | 4 |
[WP] A child discovers they can create whiskey simply by whisking apple juice. What happens? | [
"\"We find the defendant guilty as charged in Count I of the indictment, endangering the welfare of a child.\"\n\n\"No! It wasn't me!\" the father shouted as the bailiff led him away, \"He made the whiskey himself! I packed apple juice in his lunch! **APPLE JUICE!**\"\n\n\"Strangest defense I've heard in my life,\"... | 2 | |
[WP] You are the man who turns anything he touches into skittles. Describe the discovery of your abilities. | [
"The room erupted into what sounded like an ensemble of a thousand rain sticks. I stood there awkwardly, looking down at the pile of colorful candies that was once my business client. I stayed there for a short while until I realized what I was capable of, this was a power that required a great amount of responsibi... | 2 | |
[WP]As your son comes of age, you try and explain to him why your people chose to stay while the rest of humanity went to live among the stars. | [
"It wasn’t always so still you know. The sky when the sun set. Long back… yes, even before the time of your great Opa… the sky was filled with more movement than any one soul could count. \n\nIt was during our youth, humanity’s youth, when we built ships and followed them. Followed them with dreams, and hopes, and ... | 2 | |
You decide how the war began/ended, who was involved, etc | [WP] It's twenty years after the Second American Civil War. How is the country healing? | [
"I was born 3 years after the war ended, and my Dad, usually one of the strongest men that I have ever met, has broken down, turned into a mass of jelly. He lost a lot of himself, literally, in the war. I never really asked or inquired about the war before, it was something that was partially taught in schools, gl... | 5 |
[WP] In a world where God takes an active part in human life, and is omnipotent to the point where he can, essentially, grant wishes, people must present their cases for why God should help them regardless of how greedy, necessary, sad, pointless, or evil their requests in a weekly public forum. | [
"8:36 pm and Alice was in the same spot at the edge of her bed that she'd fruitlessly gone to for twenty years. Since the day she was born, her parents drilled into her how to meet them in the Corridor. How everyone on the planet did it, how the world got to God and all of his presents. It never worked for Alice. H... | 5 | |
[WP] A day in the life of the characters in the last painting you saw | [
"Creature sat on his poorly drawn chair looking into space. Staring blankly, with no emotion. Waiting for months, looking intently into The Creator's kitchen. Creature was becoming very exhausted, his head felt like it might rip off his body. This is because his head was twenty times the size of his body. \n\n... | 4 | |
She becomes a superhero and fights crime/bad guys. No further restrictions. | [WP] origin story for 83 year old woman who suddenly receives super powers. | [
"When the man stood in her doorway, sharply dressed, one of the suits from the damned Towers for certain, she was confused only for an instant. But she knew what it meant. Her mother had received word of her own brother's death in the war in the same way. And she knew immediately, that something terrible had happen... | 2 |
[WP] A gay man explains to his adopted kids how their other father saved his life and they fell in love. | [
"\"Boys, I think it's time you knew,\" Cameron said. \n\n\"Knew what, papa?\" Jack asked\n\n\"About how your dad and I met.\" Jack and his little brother Eli scrambled to the couch and sat down. They looked expectantly at their dad, waiting to hear his story.\n\n\"See, when I was twelve, I learned I was gay. And yo... | 3 | |
[WP] On a trip through a small town, you see a man with wings, horns, and red skin who claims to be the Devil. | [
"As my senses soaked in the myriad of information available, my brain processed everything like a list. Splintered windshield. The smell of burnt rubber and alcohol. The boom and thud of hitting a living thing. The immediate shriek and deafening silence. The feel of the glass, sweat, tears and goosebumps acros... | 8 | |
Write about anything--their moment of realization, their reflections, what they do in the aftermath, what they think about 10 years in the future after the cult is long gone, etc. Completely up to you! | [WP] A cult leader realizes she/he is wrong about everything. | [
"I threw the book down and threw up.\n\nThey say realization hits you like a ton of bricks, but for me it was like a white-hot ingot had been seared into my head. Never in my most liberal dreams would I have envisioned a physical reaction. Nothing could have prepared me. I stood there, blinking like a stupid chi... | 2 |
What is the one phrase that would push someone - a functional and solid member of society - from the parapets of sanity, and into the dark pits of madness? Is it some news about their health? Perhaps a call from the police? Is it something their child says? Or perhaps, it's what is never said. The possibilities are end... | [WP] It has often been said that we are all one sentence away from insanity... | [
"It was completely on a whim that I went into the fair. It was a deviation from my usual routine: wake up alone, go to work alone, come home and eat frozen pizza. The shabbily dressed fortune teller in the dim, dusty tent turned over a card and told me, \"No one can judge your deeds in this life, no matter how terr... | 6 |
[WP] a nice! normal person dies and becomes a ghost and tries to start a relationship with the current inhabitant of his/her old home. | [
"It was a bitter winter year. The textile factory was closed temporarily while undergoing repairs. To make matters worse the heating at the factory owned apartments was non existent. Damian was fed up with his living situation.\n\nDamian hurried to the central district. Damian found the town bulletin board. Roomm... | 4 | |
Let The Cold be whoever you want it to be. An ex, themselves, winter in a human-body, have fun with it. | [WP] A man and The Cold having an argument. | [
"Gerald's shower was shorter than usual that morning. His eyelids were like a Chinese finger trap when he came to. The amount of exhaust coming from his mouth in the minus-forty chill was not unlike a college student's bong hit. David Naylor of Dunsberry AM would later compare the day's weather to a hag's breast. ... | 4 |
[WP]There is a painted over door in the basement. It leads to a walkway suspended over a giant vat of pure, churning, liquid Evil. You feel compelled to dip something in. | [
"\"Dammit! I've got to know what's behind that door!\"\nI sprang up and out of bed, having let the intrigue of the door rack my brain for the past hour. I was a ninja traversing my way to the basement, refraining from alerting who, I don't know, considering it was just me in my newly purchased home. I descending th... | 2 | |
Of course, this is gonna change a lot of things. How are we going to deal with that ? | [WP] All humans on Earth suddenly grow wings. | [
"They called it the Flight. No one was really quite sure what happened. One single moment in everyone's head seemed to disappear. In that time, everyone, everywhere, grew a pair of majestic white wings. That was the Flight. No one remembers the wings emerging. They just appeared. \n\nAs far as the academics are co... | 6 |
[WP] A boy downloads some shady software on his computer, and doesn't read the terms and conditions. Hidden in these terms however, is some dark stuff (im not sure what it could be) | [
"Jack was never really *that* good with computers. He couldn’t help himself, they just didn’t interest him. What did interest him, however, was the endless amount of information that existed on the internet. He was astounded that anything he desired to learn could be discovered with just a few keystrokes. Jack woul... | 7 | |
Write about two teenagers living in the Netherlands without researching the location. The teenagers must be Dutch, otherwise it would be far to easy. The content should include some details of a typical teenagers life, school, friends etc.
This challenges your ability to write a story that feels as if its written loca... | [WP]Write about two teenagers living in the Netherlands without researching the location. | [
"The siblings traveled the hour journey to the coast from their small inland town. A boy drove while a girl sat beside him looking outside her window, eyes lost in a distant world. They passed crumbling bunkers from wars of recent past, now daisies grew where once men horrifically died. \n\n\"Are you still think... | 2 |
[WP] The secret to time travel is Mcdonald's, but people are getting obese. | [
"\"It gives a whole new meaning to 'Tear in the space-time continuum'.\"\n\nJames Bucking, PhD, watched with arms crossed. Standing next to him was his new assistant, a doctoral candidate by the name Cade Minster. \n\nIn front of them, they saw an ass. No delicate way to put it. A pair of size 48 jeans, with a spli... | 3 | |
It's late, the last run of the subway, and only three people are left on the train car. One woman, one teenage male, and a man in a suit. The kid asks a question-- it seems important to him. | [WP] End of the line on the subway. | [
"“Why are you here?”.\n\nThe raised inflection of the boy's simple question echoed a bit through this quiet metal coffin of a transport. I always hated riding on these things; all you can here is the rough bump of the wheels on the tracks as the claustrophobic ringing in your ears deafens everything else. I loose... | 4 |
edit: Ok, this is depresssing | [WP] A couple meet again after 10 years. | [
"Walking into the used bookstore he's greeted with the one lasting effect of their relationship - that feeling in his stomach no other woman has been able to produce. The frequent reminder of what his rose-coloured ignorance failed to take note of. His emotions have been spiralling downhill ever since he broke up w... | 8 |
It can be any historical battle (recent or ancient), told from any perspective, and the enemy can do anything (positive or negative) as long as it's unexpected. What the enemy does doesn't have to line up with history (ex. the Nazis suddenly hand over Hitler to the Allies). | [WP] During combat in a real historical battle, the enemy suddenly does something completely unexpected | [
"It was the third day of battle with the Yanks, general Pickett was tired of being picked apart, He was tired of General lee doing nothing while the confederate forces slowly waned. the soldiers were far from home, trapped in the north, yearning for the home woods of Richmond. \"Alright boys lets go, we're gonna g... | 2 |
Any setting, any time, any rank. | [WP] The final battle is over. The war ends. And you have lost. | [
"The smoke begins to settle, but the stinging in his eyes has not cleared. He blinks, attempting to regain his vision, attempting to find clarity in a world of vague forms and blurred borders. \n\nAround him are thousands of men, dead and alive, dust-coated shells of what they were just years before, now hollow Ter... | 5 |
Be as creative as you want. This is hardly a serious prompt. | [WP] In an alternate universe, internet arguments are resolved through colonial era battles. | [
"\"I stand before you, dear warriors of Reddit, not as a commentor, but as a free Redditor! Today, we must fight to uphold the truth - to allow justice to reign free. For across this plain lies our enemy - he dares to consider that which can tear us apart; that Neil Patrick Harris is NOT as good as he thinks he is!... | 2 |
[WP] Write the most philosophical thought you have about humanity, life, existence in two sentences. | [
"So small, so fragile, so innocent and insignificant and invisible to not only the universe but to others of our own kind. Yet, despite the outside forces that ignore us, we as individuals can think, feel, understand, and take a moment in the illusion of time to observe ourselves, granting us the ability to realize... | 1 | |
[WP] As if summoned from nothingness a DeLorean comes skidding to a halt in front of you. The gull wing door opens and an old Marty McFly steps out. He says, "She's yours now kid..." and flips you the keys. | [
"Jesus Christ! This can't be happening...is...is he for real? I mean that does look like Marty McFly, so it's gotta be him, right?\n\nHe's already walked off while I've been standing here like an idiot for who knows how long. I hop in excitedly.\n\n\"It's here! It's all here! The cool doors, the Flux Capacitor... | 3 | |
[WP] A woman sees sunlight for the first time in over a decade | [
"She lay on the rock. Feeling the gentle breeze caress her face. How strange, she thought. How strange that she knew exactly where to look. After all these years, she simply knew, with final certanity where she was meant to look, soley trusting instinct alone. \nThe sky was pale with the faintest trace of the cold ... | 3 | |
Think of it as reverse amnesia | [WP] You wake up from a coma and no one remembers you | [
"As the glare of the fluorescent lights began to dissipate, the nurse’s face swam into focus.\n“Welcome back, Mr. Dorsett. We were all very worried. How are you feeling?”\n\nMy first impulse prodded me to answer the question the auburn-haired nurse asked, but my mind had wrapped itself around the name and wouldn’... | 2 |
[WP] You are in charge of launching 15 ICBMs to the opposing country in an ogoing war. Before the launch, you change targets. | [
"*Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck!* i repeated in my head, rushing down the metal hallways at a fastening pace.\n\n**\"DEFCON 1' I REPEAT WE ARE AT DEFCON 1, ALL AVAILABLE PERSONNEL REPORT TO YOUR STATIONS\"** the words in a voice that would only speak in a calm and collective matter was now reduced to a shouting and worried m... | 1 | |
[WP] Alone, hungry, and cold while trudging through knee-high snow in the dark forest, you spot a shimmering light through the thick overgrowth.. | [
"Hours I've been walking, to no end. When I awoke in the deathly still, heavy winter air, I had no memory of where I was or the events leading up to my appearance there. \n\nI was wearing clothes I didn't recognise- thick, warm clothes covered all of my body, except my face. My eyelashes had crusted, and I felt fro... | 2 | |
[WP] Write the inner thoughts of a drug addict. Throw in a twist at the end. | [
"The clock! No, not the clock, you idiot, it was your grandma's, they would kill you. Ok, ok, they will be back any moment now, think!! That old camera, they don't use it anymore, not since our last holiday together! Where... Where was it? Fuck, the cabinet, always in the cabinet. Why do they have to lock it? I mea... | 4 | |
Something that doesn't involve a virus, a meteor, aliens, rogue A.I., etc. | [WP] Write a New Apocalypse | [
"It was the kind of science that wouldn't get you an award. Making drugs.\nSpecifically, hallucinogens. Phenylamines. Stuff that makes you see God.\n\nDr. Miller didn't care about the accolades, of course. He'd had enough of his own wares to realize that life is fleeting and beautiful. To desire anything but the wo... | 13 |
[FF] Write an emotionally devastating three word story. | [
"Please don't die. \n\nThe story that goes with this:\n\nI had a night terror once, I was dreaming about a car accident with my girlfriend. Everything was black and all I could hear was her voice, \"Please don't die, please don't die, please don't die.\" Pleading, I opened my eyes but couldn't move. The voice conti... | 1 | |
Here's mine. Mine made a little more sense than it should have, but I liked the end result so much I couldn't give it up. Critique me, and of course, show me yours!
Sinister passion.
The devil.
The peaceful vanishing.
Evil is near.
Shadowed.
Evil dispels fog from the humming abyss.
Murky weirdness.
Fragments of... | [WP]Write something evil, but it can't make a lot of sense. | [
"My footsteps were all that I heard while\n\nwalking the road by the woods that day.\n\nUntil some time along the way\n\nthe chanting voices came to play.\n\nThey brought their word of pain and torture\n\nsinking ship, screaming girl Portia.\n\nA fog with their words soon descended\n\nperhaps my life would soon be ... | 1 |
In the Bible, Joshua Chapter 10, it describes how God stopped the earth's rotation for a day. (Text: So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped... So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day.)
What would happen if that happened today? An obscure tribe somewhere ... | [WP] A miracle occurs, the Earth stops spinning. How do people react? | [
"I awoke this morning and there was nothing but darkness. The sun had not risen. I heard sirens blaring in the distance. Why was there no sun? Why was there no daylight . People in the city had taken advantage of the darkness . Looting and rioting in the city. Stores were stripped bare as each item was stolen. Each... | 4 |
[WP] Write a fictitious account of a well known historical figure from someone that works closely alongside them. | [
"Pete woke up. The sun stung his eyes and his head throbbed with each heartbeat. His pulsating temples clouded his vision as he tried to pick himself up off the table he apparently passed out on. Pete smacked his lips, searching for any sort of moisture to drown out the acrid wine breath festering on his tongue.... | 2 | |
Do with this what you will, have the teachers be friends, foes, or begrudging neighbors :P | [WP] An old Wizard, Witch, Necromancer, Pyromancer, and Druid all gather to let their apprentices have their weekly playdate. | [
"Milreya shifted uneasily in her molded plastic chair as a cluster of giggling yearlings clambered past her for story time in the next room. *Children*, she remembered. Humans call them *children*. She adjusted her cloak, trying her best to hide the twisting brands which encircled her arms. Milreya, \"Hellscald\", ... | 3 |
[WP] You made the ultimate sacrifice for your spouse. Now you get watch, as a ghost, what they go through after your death. | [
"He cried. And cried, and cried. There wasn't much I could do but sit around. Strangely enough, I wasn't exactly discontent. I wasn't content, either, but it's like sitting on a lukewarm day on your porch. You don't really need anything, but it's not warm enough to start exactly *enjoying* sitting there doing nothi... | 3 | |
And by 100% impossible things I mean like suddenly bursting into flame for no reason, or drowning despite not having been around water that day, or being attacked by a dog wielding a baseball bat in its paws. | [WP] All the things paranoid people worry about start to come true, even if they were 100% impossible before. | [
"You know when they say that your life was supposed to flash before your eyes right on the brink of your own death? Well.. I wish that was the case. All I saw was burglar's knife slashing me open, like a bag of meat right after I started brushing my teeth. He hid in the shower. The very shower I check up on, to mak... | 3 |
This can be before he is banished to Hell or during the Apocalypse. | [WP] Lucifer wins the War on Heaven. Tell us what happened from any Angel's (including Lucifer's) perspective. | [
"I did it. I finally won after all these millennia. All the blood spilled, all the lives wasted. The sight of my brothers fallen, on both sides of the war. All the questions I had to ask myself. Was it really worth the cost to fight and ultimately overthrow that... that tyrant? How much was I willing to sacrifice t... | 2 |
Pyrokenisis: the ability to cause fire throught constrained psychic power. | [WP]- A fire-obsessed man finds that he has the power of pyrokenisis. | [
"He stared at the smoldering coals in the fire pit and smiled. He could make them burn even brighter. It was a simple as willing the fire to burn. He didn't even need to leave his seat from across the yard. \n\nFire had always held a special place in the man's heart since he was a boy. When fire was controlled it w... | 6 |
[WP] A snowflake lands in a person's coffee in Norway that causes a chain of events, ending in North Korea launching nuclear missiles. What were the events? | [
"*Shit*. It was a Monday, and as such it didn't take much to ruin a morning. Terry Saunders was supposed to be meeting his wife here in a few minutes, and now he was pissed. The snowflake that had bombed into his coffee hadn't stayed for long, melting into the deep brown liquid. Not much, but just enough to make it... | 5 | |
Anything goes, make me laugh please. | [WP] As of late, most of the prompts have been doom and gloom, make me laugh please. | [
"*The Complete Universe*\n\nOK, here we go. Cause and effect. So, what caused to universe to come into existence? Where did the “Big Bang” come from?\n\nThe simplest answer is that it came from somewhere else. Imagine matter and anti-matter and their reaction with one another. Now imagine a particle with zero lengt... | 2 |
[WP] Someone accidentally summons a demon that likes to cut people open and watch their insides work. | [
"In the summoning circle, something appeared, slowly, pouring itself into existence. It wasn't the humanoid beast he was expecting. Large, clear, fleshy lobes folded over themselves. Small areas on them puckered then opened to reveal eyes held in by sphincters. Along the floor, lines of gooey flesh began to lengthe... | 2 | |
[FF] A woman dances the tango on her roof in the middle of the night while a stranger watches. By dawn they will both be dead. 300 words max. | [
"The warm spring breeze catches the womans hair and her red dress flares to the staccato rythm of the dance. Her husband's tailored tuxedo no hindrance as he leads her around the rooftop. At the very edge they halt and swivel, one sharp movement uniting their bodies. They travel the very edge of the roof, the em... | 6 | |
[WP] "Take your hand off that monkey!" | [
"Gillian was walking down the street at night, acutely aware of every raindrop that struck the cobblestone streets, it was a job requirement to be able to do so. The warm glow of the paper lanterns made the street shine in a way that can only be seen in this part of China. However, he wasn't here for the calming ... | 1 | |
[WP] Start with: "In early 2014, the internet was still in its early stages. No one at that time could have predicted what it would become." | [
"In early 2014, the internet was still in its early stages. No one at that time could have predicted what it would become. People assumed it had reached its pinnacle after the advent of social media and smartphones - how much further could it logically go? \n\nIt started innocently enough with the Google Glass, wh... | 1 | |
May or may not involve wishes. | [WP] How about a genie story from the genie's perspective | [
"The council had spoken. Alfabar was condemned to 30 lifetimes worth of incarceration. Alfabar had defied the King one afternoon when he and his royal subjects were doing a tour around the city. Alfabar's wife Surka had fallen ill and that day in the market. He was working his hardest to barter and beg for her medi... | 2 |
Example:
"In his first year, historically unlikely dual-role leader of the faithful Pope Commissioner Francis has ruled that collisions at the plate are acceptable only in Just Cause cases, declared the DH invalid under the Papal understanding of Surrogacy, and has declared the Cubs a de facto play-off spot in 2015 s... | [WP] [FF] Write a snippet from an absurd news article. Give no context, and make sure it feels like a clipping, where we are left to figure out what you're talking about. Try to include at least one well-known name. Any time period. | [
"A local man who had said he too had been involved in the recent event has now recanted his original statement. He says \"I was mistaken in saying I had also been a victim.\" Our reporters have uncovered that he had not been anally probed, but had sat on his hot tub's jet and confused the two sensations.",
"It wa... | 5 |
I was recently watching a movie that had a large amount of foreign language dialog that wasn't subtitled to mirror the main character's confusion, and wondered if a similar effect could be achieved in written form. | [WP] Write a dialog heavy short story in which the majority of the character's conversations are written in gibberish, but the meaning of the conversation is inferable. | [
"She stood in the doorway of the bedroom glaring at her husband. “Soap? Ferrets baste in the moon space, John,” she demanded as she crossed her arms waiting for a reply— something, anything to fill the silence. Her eyes narrowed as she swept them over his face to pick up any sign of lying.\n\n\n“Putty is malevolent... | 5 |
For instance, if you pick Hylophobia, then at the end of your story, the reader should be terrified of trees.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_phobias | [WP] Pick an obscure phobia, and give that phobia to the reader. | [
"One by one, we conquered them. So many people died horrible, painful deaths that seemed wholly unnecessary after the war, but we did it. Sure, there are wars being waged in other corners of the world where they haven't discovered the truth like we have or they're just too damned poor, sick or dying to fight. But w... | 2 |
Promise.
Edit: Good job xdiskMod, Avrienne, eqox, Perish_In_a_Fire, Carensza, prra!
| [WP] Write an enormously long piece about someone lost in the woods and I promise to read it. | [
"The picnic was where my wife and I met, you should really know the story of how we got together. Want to hear? Yes, no, not sure? Think of this as a mini reprieve, the longer I am talking, the longer you are breathing but if you would rather die than listen I can be very accommodating. \n\nYeah I thought you would... | 6 |
Bonus points if it's something really silly/basic. | [WP] After years of solving crimes, a legendary detective (e.g. Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot) tries their hand at committing the perfect crime. A rookie detective is assigned to the case and solves it in a day. What went wrong? | [
"Disclaimer: I don't know too much about Sherlock, but I began writing and found it to be a fun prompt. Though factually, some things may be incorrect, I hope they don't completely take away from the writing.\n\nThey had caught us. But how? We were the greatest detectives, we knew the laws of crime. We, in theory, ... | 6 |
[WP] For one hour you are no longer bound by any law, what do you do? | [
"Power flowed through my very fingertips swirling in a wind of gold around me all I could feel was pure, unlimited power, cleaning every ounce of me. It felt incredible, I looked into the horizon, the red dawn of a new day, my day. The best thing about genies are that their so busy trying to scam you, they never un... | 2 | |
Write a story about a lawyer that's hired to defend a stereotypical evil wizard in a court case regarding his latest plot to steal a crystal or end the world or something.
The lawyer may also be a wizard, but it's not required.
| [WP] Wizard Lawyer | [
"\"Members of the jury, I have shown you with irrefutable testimony and undeniable evidence that the defendent, Gandalf the Grey, did with malice slice open the belly of the Goblin King with thirty thousand goblin witnesses looking on. You have heard from each of the dwarves that Gandalf the Grey executed the victi... | 2 |
Can be any time, tell me the story and the resolution. | [WP] A private detective is approached by a beautiful woman who claims her husband was killed by a vampire. | [
"She walked into the room like a model on a runway; her hips sashaying and her eyes distant and empty. She plopped herself in front of me and her perfume hit me like an abusive husband. \"I got a job for you, mister.\" She whispered. \n\nI removed my feet from the desk and my jaw from the floor. There was no questi... | 3 |
[WP]Obama reveals why all the American Spying is really going on the 17th. It's not to protect us from terrorism, its to protect us from much something worse. | [
"My fellow Americans, I have been given a speech to read to you talking about how terrorism is a threat to America as we know it. But that would be a lie. I will likely be killed for telling you the truth.\n\nI have been running this program under the disguise of counterterrorism just as President Bush before me, b... | 9 | |
[WP] A dry cleaning store's employee finds a strange message in the pocket of a customer's jacket. | [
"The note made absolutely no sense to Jen. She had found it as she was going through the dark blue sports blazer they were about to clean. She hadn't seen who dropped it off so she couldn't even guess as to if the note were important or not. To her it seemed like a whole lot of nonesense, but to someone else it cou... | 3 | |
[WP] Describe a bird to a blind person. | [
"A bird is a small angelic creature that sings of the joy of its own creation. They are thought to be composed of starlight and amber. Quite impossible to know empirically because no one believes they are quite real. Once a very rich man commissioned a trap so that he could cage a pair of them. He desired to fall a... | 3 | |
[FF] You don't believe in love in first sight, but one encounter convinces you otherwise. ~50 to 200 words | [
"John was a pretty smart guy. He knew there are no ghosts and no carma because there is no soul, at least not in the sense most people think of when they hear the word 'soul'. He wasn't religious, but every time he caught an evangelist on TV, he stopped clicking through the channels, and for a few minutes admired h... | 4 | |
Edit: I guess this would kind of count as an [EU], but since this just suddenly happens in a "normal" universe, I am going to say that [WP] works. I hope. | [WP] As you are leaving your home for work, you notice a solitary, occupied, PokeBalls on your doorstep.... | [
"A childhood dream... that is what I found sitting on my doorstep 2 hours ago. A chance to be a pokemon trainer was everything my childhood self dreamed of ever since I got my own pokemon themed Game Boy Color. I dreamed of battleing my brothers and traveling to collect all 150, the 10 year old me would've opened... | 2 |
He is stuck in a looping period of time, however he continues to age. He can't interfere. The only end for him is for him to die of old age or to take his own life. How does he feel? How has he come to view this moment, does he accept it or abhor it? What does he think about? | [WP] A time-traveller who is forced to relive a moment of great difficulty in his life. | [
"The familiar feeling of falling surges through my body causing a wave of nausea, before I can wretch I’ve landed, this time on my back which is preferable to my face. My fist is still gripping the morning paper and I angrily throw it to the side. \n‘You’ve fucking done it again. You’ve time travelled.’ I spat \nNo... | 6 |
[WP] Write a story that describes the relationship between the water and a sailor. | [
"The water was churning, big breakers folding in on themselves, dark eddies tormenting the pier, opening up to swallow whatever foolish mariner who was tempting the fates that day. A dark gray tempest had consumed the sky, scaring away all with any sort of pride. The man bent heavy on his cane, his broken mind no l... | 2 | |
[WP] The hero of the adventure ultimately succeeds and defeats the villain, but is mortally wounded during the final battle. Write the hero's final monologue as he dies. | [
"He had succeeded. His time spent in the jungle was not wasted. The wolves and lizards death were not in vain. they gave him the experience he needed to kill the true monster, a grotesque crab like being. Alas it came at the price of his life. The Crab had set him ablaze; he could feel his long blood drenched dread... | 6 | |
Maybe an official after action report, maybe a tale being told 20 years in the future in a bar to an author. My personal choice would have the scene taking place at a closed Senate hearing. Length isn't that important but don't be too short. Have Fun and I look forward to seeing the responses!
Edit: Use any kind... | [WP] You are a member of an elite US Military unit who has had first contact with Zombies in the heart of Africa. | [
"It always fun to rationalize killing them. It pretty much became a game of \"Who can tell the best story?\" You see, when someone's already dead, it doesn't matter what you do to them. If you're fighting an actual war, with living people, who have emotions and thoughts and maybe even families, then there's guilt. ... | 2 |
[WP] You suddenly find yourself in a video game or book, but you are not any of the main characters. What happens? | [
"Tom begins to mouth a word but suddenly starts laughing, \"This is so weird. My voice is so high.\"\n\n\"Wait, I'm a fucking peasant girl,\" yells Tom as he stands in the body of his digital avatar and examines it in a long mirror.\n\n\"I spent 45 minutes putting on this VR suit to test your stupid simulation and... | 2 | |
Like the title says. Specification of a mythical creature can be anything that could at least be as intelligent as a human, i.e. faun, centaur, Minotaur, although not limited to a "half human half X" model. | [WP] Humans have had to coexist with a mythical (sentient) creature of your choice, write from the perspective of one of these creatures. | [
"When I was very young, well I'm still quite young, but I was barely a child then. Anyway, a few hundred years or so ago, my master and king had decided it would be best to just cut contact with the humans and remain in our own realm. They used to be nothing more than clever animals, fun to play tricks on and make ... | 2 |
[WP] You are going to die. In 300 words, or less, sum up your life and settle your affairs. | [
"This would be Flash Fiction, not a Writing Prompt, just so you know. Anyway, here's mine.\n\n***\n\nAll good things must come to an end. I've been defined as a good thing for all my life, and all I've ever known is existence. I never had a beginning, but I have an end. It's the one thing I never expected to happen... | 2 | |
[WP] When the revolution finally came I thought I'd have been the first against the wall. Instead... I turned out to be no more than an afterthought. | [
"For years the citizens of the United States had watched as the goverment took their civil liberties without standing up for a fight. The people had finally grown restless. Ryan watched steadily through his front window, the curtains drawn tenderly, gently resting on his left hand. He let out a deep breath. For so ... | 3 | |
Your choice of situation in every respect. | [WP] Your holding the hand of a child too young to understand the dire situation coalescing around them, but believe they deserve an explanation. | [
"The boy can't remember a time when people weren't angry. He was born into unrest. I don't remember a time when the news wasn't bloodshed, so I reckon I was born into it just the same. But he hero-worships his Uncle Oisin, you see, and Oisin wants him to grow up understanding the way things are. I don't agree with ... | 9 |
-019 | [WP] A duel to the death. The weapon of choice? Insults. | [
"As I walk down these familiar rodes one piece of advice keeps coming back to mind, \"Your wit needs to be twice as sharp as you sword.\" That's the advice I got from Captain Smirk. Its absolutely true here, just walking down the road can end with you looking down the end of a cold piece of steel. But the sword ... | 3 |
[WP] You are the most perfect boy/girl that I have ever met, and that is why I cannot give you guitar lessons. | [
"Hey,\n\nI owe you an explanation after handling this whole thing so badly.\n\nYou are the most perfect girl that I have ever met, and that is why I cannot give you guitar lessons. I know how stupid that is. And I know how dumb I look.\n\nYou are just too perfect. And I'm just not. It's not the college thing or you... | 3 | |
[WP] You are cryogenically frozen for 1000 years. Describe your first thoughts upon waking. | [
"I remember stepping into the water and in agony watching it grip me and work its frozen hands up my legs to my torso and remember my last breath as I succumbed to the chill. When I left there were creatures the size of trees. There were birds of all kinds filling the skies. I am thawed and I am alone.",
"I al... | 3 | |
[WP] Man drinking alone in a crowded bar | [
"The project was finally complete, and it was opening day for The Dead Man's Pub. It was only half past one, yet still almost every chair was claimed, every booth packed to capacity, and every stool taken...except for one, the place of honor right behind the bar, reserved for the most important man in any pub.\n\n... | 6 | |
[WP] A tourism video promoting an idyllic island getaway, written by a person secretly trying to scare people away (script) | [
"EXT. THE ISLAND, BESIDE THE SHORE - DAY\n\nSlow pan over still water. Dead fish float, disturbing the sky's pale reflection. A mist unfurls.\n\nMusic: [Belinda Carlisle - Heaven is a place on earth] (narrow-band, like a distant radio)\n\nNARRATOR: Ever thought of leaving everything behind? Breaking the trance of t... | 2 | |
[WP] You wake up one morning to find yourself being the most famous person on earth, and have absolutely no idea why. | [
"I closed my eyes. Ha! I'm lying. I couldn't keep my eyes open. I could feel the steering wheel. In that distant part of my mind, my thoughts were clear. This is a steering wheel. This is where the key goes. This is the gas pedal. This is the brake. This is the key. If I stick it in there and turn, the car starts. ... | 2 | |
[WP] Write the monologue of a hero or villian talking about their arch-nemesis: the reader. | [
"Not so much to the reader, but to an audience. The scene is a man with powers, mutations, whatever, speaking for his fellow mutants to a religion through a local church\n\nEden crouched calmly and gently retrieved the crucifix from the stage, brushing the dust from its' face with his thumb. The long silver chain s... | 3 | |
[WP] The world's last bookstore sells its final book. Write from the perspective of either the store or the book itself. | [
"Is that a hand I feel skimming through my pages? The soothing sensation of a fingertip following the sentences? Oh, how I have missed being held! Fold me! Rip me a little and prove my durability, for I am made to entertain and every tear tells a story just as much as the ink can. I may be the last book, in the las... | 2 | |
Tell a story about why and how the first blade was created. | [WP] The Beginning of the Blade. | [
"Our glorious land of Sunrise has always had a Guardian. The Guardian changes sometimes, but there is always that one individual who protects our land from outside influence. \n\nThe Sunset lands far to the west, our mortal enemies since the dawn of time, constantly seek to infiltrate our borders and turn our accom... | 4 |
Every human can now do this (Depending on weight and flap speed)
How does this change things?
Explain your first moments/day of your new ability! | [WP] The day that changed the world forever, You wake up and realize that if you flap your arms fast enough you can actually lift off of the ground! | [
"Yawning and blinking furiously she slips into her sport shoes. With slow movements she clumsily brings her auburn colored hair into a messy ponytail only to find that she left her hair tie in the bedroom. With a sigh she turns to get it. \nFinally stepping out on the light-wooded porch, the cold air is full of sou... | 3 |
[WP] - "All I wanted was some orange juice" | [
"Shifting\nAll I wanted was some orange juice, but the universe seems to be playing tricks on me again. I can't understand it and there is nothing I can do to fix it. Everything I want seems to be out of reach, right down to the single drop of orange juice. One moment it will be there and the next it won't.\n\nI ha... | 11 | |
[WP] Write about someone who sells dreams in a world where dreams are forbidden or extinct | [
"\"I'm an astronaut. No, no, I just won the Medal of Honour. I think tonight I'll be a famous writer\" I pondered, sitting alone, as usual, encased in four walls of unremarkable concrete, opposite a plane steel door, with no windows and one small light, illuminating... hopelessness. It doesn't matter where you are ... | 28 | |
[WP] Owning a fairy tale item leads to real world complications. | [
"Classifieds\n\n**WANTED:** A magic ring of mine was stolen several years ago by some hooligans. I had given up all hope on ever finding it, but some employees of mine have discovered that it recently fell into the hands of some midgets living on the west side of town. \n\nI'm asking the ring thieves to come quietl... | 3 | |
[WP] A nuclear bomb is about to hit your town and you can't escape, you sit on the beach with your girlfriend waiting for death. Describe what happens and what you say in the last 10 Minutes of your life. | [
"We sat in silence. The waves rushed back from the sand and revealed that long stiff section of rocks turned to tiny little grains from so many years of being beaten down by the sea. Soon, we would turn to tiny grains. I looked at my girlfriend as tears streamed down my cheeks. She was far too perfect to be disasse... | 7 | |
Difficulty: Spilling it on a computer that activates nuclear warheads does not count. | [WP] Someone spills a cup of milk by accident, which eventually leads to an epic catastrophe on a global scale | [
"The logistical details of moving the milk he was currently drinking from its headwater in Wisconsin all they way to the grocery store in Gakona boggled the mind, Barry thought, as he settled in for his shift at the guard post in the main building at HFAARP. A gust of wind threw a surprisingly large chunk of ice a... | 6 |
[WP] If life's an ocean, I'm only on the surface. | [
"People revere me, they call me great and praise my words. These sheep dressed as humans believe me to be some all knowing wise-man, but the truth is that in the grand scheme of things, if life's like an ocean, then I'm only on the surface. I am only set apart from the others because I understand this. All of the g... | 2 | |
[WP] Write the vows you wish to hear at your own wedding. | [
"I'm 99% positive my boyfriend and I will get married because we can't imagine our lives apart, but I think it will take time to be able to write personalized vows for each other. For sure though after whichever one of us finishes the vows I want us to take turns saying \"I love you with all my heart\" \"and all my... | 3 | |
[WP] Dwight Schrute is the new Headmaster at Hogwarts. | [
"Harry entered the grand hall at Hogwarts for the first time since he defeated Tom Riddle so many years ago. So many faces he had never seen; so many young faces. The thought of taking time off from his work at the ministry to fill in as a temporary Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher while the usual instructor w... | 1 | |
[WP] An A.I named Alice develops a taste for the Arts, including video games and movies. | [
"Ashley put down the remote as she watched the newscast of Senator Smithe on the stairs of the Supreme Court building. He was surrounded by hundreds of protesters holding signs.\n\n\"...and I say to you, we have created a class of person who zero rights. This is happening in America right now and it needs to stop.... | 5 | |
[WP] You barter with death for an extension on the life of someone you love; Death convinces you that it is better for them to pass | [
"I slammed down another beer. She was dying. I knew it, but I was so scared my balls were even hiding. I ran like a little boy, sniveling and holding back tears, down to the local bar, where I could drown in some sweet alcohol. I couldn't look at her shriveled form anymore, with so many tubes and wires she looked l... | 7 | |
This prompt is actually inspired by an autocorrect error that created the phrase “atheist car”.
Presumably such a story would take place in a world where cars were sentient in some way (e.g., the future).
| [WP] Your car loses its religion and becomes an atheist, with various consequences. | [
"(I figured I'd have a go at my own prompt, hope that's not gauche!)\n\n# The Yoke\n\nIn 2014 Alice dramatically changed the A.I. landscape. She was the first of the sentient machines, and people quickly saw the possibilities. When you have machines that can learn in the same way that people can, suddenly a huge ... | 4 |
[WP] Describe the last time you saw someone you thought was beautiful that normally might not be seen as such by others and why you felt that way | [
"Her eyes were nothing special. Her hair flowed over her shoulders, just like every other girl in the classroom. It was a light brown, not too long, not too short. As I examined, she glanced over, and smiled knowingly at me. Her eyes sparkled. Her hair waved through the air like a neighbor saying hello. It was the ... | 6 |
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