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[WP] The cry of the wind is real - what is their story? | [
"A gale blowing off the Chesapeake bay and further inland rattles and pries the shingles on the hastily built shacks of the native's houses.\n\n Those inside hear the barrage before they feel it, feel me, I'm on the outside but small tendrils of my chill reach the backs of arms and uncovered skin, forcing the affli... | 2 | |
It could even be in an alternate universe where everyone has super powers... | [WP] You're immortal, in a different way. No matter how gruesome, painful, or even peaceful your death is, you always come back. How do you discover this? | [
"Some people are happy to survived a plane crash, i am not one of those people.\n\nI was on my way to Europe to give a talk on global warming when the plane suddenly took a dive, i though to myself \"well this is how i die\", unfortunately i was wrong, the only thing i remember is a large wave of heat rushing towa... | 8 |
[WP] You are a shut-in with a mental condition that makes you think everyone is part of a huge conspiracy against you, you have run out of food and must go to the supermarket. | [
"The familiar cracks steady my breath as I trace my hand along the ceiling. My fingers probe the wider gaps, clawing out only dust and dead spiders. *Good*. *They haven't found me yet*.\n\nI can see my breath in the night-vision goggles; I destroyed the light-fixtures down here--the cold freezes their machines. T... | 2 | |
"It takes one to know one"
"Not going to heaven, so lets raise hell"
"Fuck boats, I'll swim"
"I've been meaning to tell you... I have a terminal illness"
"That door was locked the entire time"
"It's just a little scrape"
"I'll protect you until the very end"
"What if they just want a hug?"
"Do you think zombies... | [WP] Use one of the following quotes to build a story around | [
"I don't think anyone thought that it would actually happen. The zombie apocalypse, I mean. For all their zombie handbooks and survival plans, no one truly believed that it was a possibility. Even now, many of us still felt like we'd wake up one day to find out that the past few months were a construct of some elab... | 2 |
[WP] You and some friends meet to play poker. After playing until early morning, you slowly start to realize that none of you has the desire to leave the room you are currently in. | [
"“Read em’ and weep boys.” He lays down three aces.\n\nThe other three players groan and Mark rakes in his winnings of seven cigarettes. \n\n“I’m out this round, gotta take a piss.” Dan stands and leaves the table. He unbuttons his jumpsuit as he walks. He can’t believe that he lost, trip kings for nothing more tha... | 3 | |
[WP] It's well-established that in this world, when you lose your job you lose your life. This morning the HR guy walks over to your cubicle and asks to come with him. | [
"Work, some people spend their whole life focused on work, and back then it was considered obsessive, but these day's not so much. Work is everything these days, your life is decided on whether you work or not. In this and age, if you don't have a job over the age of 22 or aren't in school, you are considered a lia... | 8 | |
anything goes from vampire hunter to politician ;) | [WP] You are born without a soul. While this causes a lot of issues with your state of mind and your relationship with religion, there is one benefit in particular that makes you useful in a way. | [
"Feelings. \n\nSuch commonplace things, yet they constantly interfere with everyday life. People feel happy; they feel sad. They are angry; they are in love. Every change brings a new approach. They either become more productive or less productive. They can either function socially or don’t get out of bed. It’s irr... | 6 |
[WP] Life a thousand years after an experiment gone wrong causes everyone on the planet to experience the same day repeating endlessly a-la Groundhog Day | [
"I've lost count over how long it has been since the accident. All I know is that at exactly 7:08 AM June 20th, 2014 my dog will bark, at exactly 7:09AM June 20th, 2014 my kid will be awake, and at exactly 7:30 AM June 20th, 2014 I will burn my hand making coffee. It has been like that for what seems to be the begi... | 4 | |
[WP] You move into a house and find out that it's haunted, only to learn that the ghosts/spirits are friendly and try to help you in your every day life | [
"The morning light beamed through the window shades of Joey's new condo and forced him out of bed before he was really ready. Still shaking off the jet lag from the previous day's flight, he looked around a bedroom that was completely baron aside from a mattress. As he reached to close the blinds, he vaguely reme... | 2 | |
[WP] - An Angel decends to your hometown, to find it has become a Futuristic, Godless Utopia. | [
"Eventually they learned the truth - his Lord demanded tribute and we hadn't paid our dues. But that came later, much later.\n\nThe comet broke apart in our atmosphere. Dancing fireflies whirled off in each direction, pealing off layers as it careered towards us. It had come out of nowhere. Not a single satellite w... | 2 | |
[WP] You fall asleep on Skype with your SO. You wake up in the middle of the night to see something in the room with them. | [
"Loosely based on a somewhat true tale\n\nI look into the iPhone facing me while I lay down. There I see the woman I have fallen in love with, at least for now. I don't know why but love for me seems to not last very long. This is the woman I have loved the longest. Shae was in California while I was stuck in India... | 2 | |
[WP] After suffering amnesia, you go on a quest to discover your past. It is a much darker tale than you once thought. | [
"“My name’s Thomas T. Holder and I’m here because a friend of mine, Lee Verrat, said you knew me better than anyone else.”\n\nThomas sniffed. The tight small room he’s sitting in stank of alcohol. Did Lee make a mistake when he said that Thomas knew the gruff man sitting in front of him?\n\nThomas shuddered, he did... | 3 | |
[WP] The mountains of the world are moving about, and are in fact not mountains but god-like beings with skin of stone. Describe the interaction between humanity (may it be an individual or a nation) and one of the mountains. | [
"IT didn't even have a name. It was just there.\n\nOne of the the lesser peaks, hidden in the shadow of the 5 peaks of Panchuli in the mid-western Himalaya.\n\nBut it always fascinated me. The invisibility. The fact that you could see it only 3 days of the year during sunset when the sun was at the perfect angle.\n... | 2 | |
[WP] Stepping down to the basement in the dark, you notice a light coming from the slight crevice between the stairs and wall. After wrenching off one of the steps, you see open sky below you. | [
"\"Oh, hello. You're lost, aren't you?\" asked a voice. I turned around to see a girl, no older than 8 staring at me with curious eyes. \n\n\"No.\" I said, brushing dust off my pants, \"I only fell out of the hole behind me.\" I tried to point to the rectangular tear in space, but it was nowhere to be found. The g... | 2 | |
[WP] A normal man is preparing his lunch before going to work when he cuts his hand while making his sandwich. There is no blood, just wires and a clear gooey liquid. | [
"He woke up to the sound of his alarm, went to the bathroom, brushed his teeth, glanced over on his way to the kitchen to make sure he had laid all his clothes out the night before. Of course he had.\n\nWalking in to the kitchen, his mind was blank. There was nothing to think about. His morning routine had been twe... | 4 | |
[WP] Wait a minute... What's on the other side of this wall? | [
" I am the last remaining member of the Destiny Voyage. Once it was possible to travel faster than light, my team and I were given the task to take our ship as far as it will go, in hopes of finding other civilizations among the stars. We brought hope to planet Earth as we boarded our ship and left home. We were p... | 2 | |
[WP] A man discovers a book his dead grandfather wrote years ago which was never published. While reading, he discovers the main character's life matches his own exactly. Describe his reaction as he reads the last chapter of the novel. | [
"The attic floor creaked under Justin's weight as his weight shifted.\n\nHe couldn't stop reading. \n\nThe sunset-light from a lone ocular window shone down on dust particles hung suspended, waiting.\n\nIt was nothing special, but the volume had caught his eye among a pile of other dust-covered books, with its Crim... | 4 | |
[WP] A young boy faces punishment for a heinous crime he is not sure he commited | [
"As I make my way to the juvenile detention centre I take note of how beautiful everything looks at night in the country; everything is bathed a in beautiful ethereal glow, allowing me to see all the way up the drive without the need of the usual torch I carry. \n\nWe've had a new ‘in-mate’ in the last couple of da... | 2 | |
[WP] Write a story about time travel, but the past isn't what we think it is. | [
"I remember the first time i saw her, we were both 13, and i was walking to my middle school. Then i heard her yell my name from far away “nikola!” I turned and saw a cute girl with jet black hair running through the street from the other side towards my direction. I had never seen that girl in my life before, but ... | 2 | |
[WP] You move to Gotham and once settled into your new apartment, you find that your phone number is only 1 digit different from Batman's emergency line. | [
"\"Hello?\"\n\nA raspy voice called thru the ear piece, \"I hope I have your attention.\"\n\n\"...yes, who is this?\"\n\nA sigh then, rapid breathing. \"I need your darkness, I need your light.\nOnly YOU can save them.\"\n\n\"I..I.. Who is this?\" \n\"What do you want?\" \n\nMore rapid breathing, fluttering. I coul... | 13 | |
i know this is mainly a place of fiction but true stories can be cool too. | [WP] tell us a true story. | [
"Every summer my family went to my Grandpa's cottage. It wasn't just my family either, there was usually six families that went up and spent a long weekend there. \nBoth my sisters and I play soccer, all of us up to the university level. So naturally we played soccer every summer. \nWell one summer I was having a... | 7 |
[WP] A Nord's last thoughts should be of home... | [
"A Nord's last thoughts should be of home...\n\nSo come on down to Snowy Birch Tops Resort, today!\n\nJust call 1-800-HiMom and reserve a select room in our amazing Ice Troll Hotel!\n\nAt our resort, we have the famous Ice Wraith Caverns, where thousands of retiring Nords pay pilgrimage to the world-renowned Ice Wr... | 2 | |
[WP] You're staying in a fancy hotel. You wake up to a crowd gathered around your room. A ten year old girl belonging to another resident has gone missing. There's a single small, bloody handprint on the outside of your door. | [
"Several around me, I clutched away my head in deep thought. Pearl necklaces glanced at me, sewn on wool buttons accompanied. At times as these I knew not the way to explain that which I did not know. So, in protest of silence, my voice took up centre stage of the crackle-lipped fire that danced before us.\n\n\"Hav... | 2 | |
[WP] The Dragonborn died to a wolf. | [
"Sharp teeth found warm flesh.\n\nThe prisoner tried to scream before his throat disappeared down the wolf's. He toppled to the floor, clawing desperately at the snarling mass of bristling fur as it shoved itself forward, scrabbling claws tearing off his chest and slipping in the oozing mound of guts. His hands wen... | 3 | |
[WP] "I guarantee you do not actually want to do this. On my life." | [
"\"Oh dear, what have you done?\" \n\"There seems to have been a slight...\" \n\"Shh, that was rhetorical, \nI don't care.\" \n\"You have to listen...\" \n\"Well, really I don't.\" \n\"But it was only a minor...\" \n\"I'm sure it was, \ndon't worry about it now.\" \n\"I guarantee you don't \nactually want... | 3 | |
[WP] You have the ability to make your soul leave your body. Explain what you use this gift for and what rules you are bound by when your soul is floating around on its own. | [
"Kellie-Ann explodes into a coughing fit and her arms begin to thrash into her boyfriend, Connor. Although it happens frequently, he still wakes up and ensures that she’s okay. “Kellie? You alright?” he asks shaking her by the shoulders. “Yes! Yes, I’m fine!” she replies quickly breathing heavily. Connor turns on t... | 2 | |
[WP] An experimental mouse who wants to be free tries to convince its best friend to escape together. | [
"“I can’t believe you got caught too. I mean, for both of us to fall for the same damn trap—God Jeb! They must think we’re idiots.” Marvin looked out into the room filled with cages as his tiny fingers clasped the bars of their own cage. Jeb was hardly paying attention as he looked for a soft spot in the straw to r... | 3 | |
[WP] A woman falls in love with the man IN her dreams. | [
"She had to have everything exactly as it was. She made sure that the lamp on her writing desk was dimly lit, and her books were shuffled around as she had left them last night. She jumped into bed and pulled out the same story she had been reading the night before, trying to find the exact line she had begun to re... | 3 | |
[WP] Start with a morning cup of coffee. End with a suspenseful cliffhanger. | [
"I slid my appendages heavily across the ash grey floor. The hall was empty in the early morning, everyone was asleep, it was our day off. The blue interfaces and buttons flashed as I passed them, each lighting up with red text.\n\nZach K - inactive\n\nSarah M - inactive\n\nKino Q - inactive\n\nDaniel - inactive\n\... | 12 | |
[WP] A woman tries to use a love potion on her crush, but accidentally gives it to her female best friend. | [
"Best friends means never needing an invitation to come over. Best friends means you can eat whatever food is in the fridge. \n\nI should have kept that in mind when I brought home the brownies. These were *special* brownies. No, not like that. I purchased these from a local witch shop. They were guaranteed to have... | 2 | |
[WP] When you die, you go into a videogame-like 'spectator mode' and can watch your friends live from a fixed camera angle. | [
"“Good grief: Natalie thinks to herself. She overslept! She prepares herself for her job at the bank by taking a shower, getting her breakfast and coffee, and then driving through traffic to work. There was nothing unusual about today; just dealing with a bunch of customers, mainly people either getting a money ord... | 4 | |
[WP] Five random people from around the world suddenly and inexplicably appear in a room together. | [
"She raveled a light brown curl round and round her finger, staring out with her dark hazel eyes. \n\n\"Merci beaucoup, monsieur,\" she smiled sweetly, pulling back her extended hand and placing it gently back in her lap. \n\nThe gentleman who had just kissed her hand sat back down and took off his overcoat, which ... | 2 | |
[WP] You awake from a long nap to find a crowd of familiar faces staring at you in shock and horror. You realize you are sitting inside of a casket in a funeral home. | [
"{Changed the premise a bit. Its the first time I've written something so don't be too harsh with the criticism.}\n\n\nWHAT THE HELL!!!\n\n“Is this some sort of a joke” I shouted. “What is this meant to be?”\n\nI expected to cause commotion but they just kept staring.\n\n“Worst birthday-party ever” I said as I lay ... | 3 | |
[WP] Someone lives a secret life away from their family. He/she is not a bad person. | [
"My hands were shaking. I was too nervous. \n\"This shouldn't be happening. I shouldn't be doing this.\" I thought to myself. \n\nI saw him get off the train station and walk down the stairs. \"Could that really be him? Is he really that good-looking? And he's still interested? Hasn't he seen the photos?\" I shrugg... | 5 | |
Thought the military buffs could have some fun with this. | [WP] A lone American soldier is trapped in a Wal-Mart on July 4, surrounded by North Korean Special Forces. He is out of ammo and reinforcements are 15 minutes out. All hope seems lost, until he finds the fireworks isle. | [
"The Commander tore through the aisles, until he found the fireworks. He knew about explosives and IEDs; but, he thought also of his daughter.\n\nShe had always been interested in North Korea, an isolated, iron-fisted kingdom, and was part of a group that fundraised to pay brokers to help North Koreans escape. She'... | 2 |
Simple things like a parking lot or phone booth would confuse the heck out of them! What will your tricky time traveling engineer build? | [WP] A time traveling engineer builds a very ordinary and familiar piece of modern infrastructure in the 18th or 19th century and leaves the people of the time to guess its function. | [
"“Oh shit.” Wyatt began frantically checking his coat and pants pockets.\n\n“Something the matter, Wyatt?” His assistant asked him, peevishly looking him over, beyond the crevasse of the time-dilation platform.\n\n“My phone, I can't find my smartphone, Malcom.” \n\n“Oh shit.” He repeated.\n\n“What time period were ... | 3 |
[WP] A SWAT team raids a house. What they find in the basement horrifies them. | [
"It was supposed to be a routine mission, atleast that's what Jackson told us. \"He doesn't even know we are coming.\" He said as we all stepped into the back of the SWAT vehicle. \"The Sunny D killer won't know what him!\" \"Why on earth is he called the Sunny D killer?\" Asked Charlie as the vehicle started up an... | 4 | |
For example, it could be instructions, or a killer describing the readers' day | [WP] write a horror story from second person view, rather than first or third | [
"Why are you in a mausoleum? Thinking back, the last thing you remember is the prank going wrong. It was only supposed to be a joke to freak out that new freshman that wanted to ride in Jimmy’s mustang. Playing chicken on Lookout Point was supposed to be funny. Jimmy was going to pretend his breaks were out and tha... | 3 |
[WP]A gut wrenching scream rang through the night air. They found her mutilated corpse the next day. She had been mute her whole life.. | [
"\"Any more information besides that?\"\n\n\"About the crime? No, not really. The corpse was mutilated, found on a field near her house, beyond any recognition of a attack. The only way we identified the body was by her wallet.\" Said chief Gerald.\n\nInvestigator Frost stood there in the morgue pondering for a mom... | 4 | |
[WP] Let's write a story together. There exists a woman, 27 years old, college educated, working an unfulfilling, low paying job. Take me through her day using the perspectives of people she encounters. | [
"I wonder what she's thinking about...\n\nMy math textbook is spread out on the table in front of me, my homework half-finished and pushed to one side, forgotten for the last half-hour. I *had* been searching for the key to solving the problem - some sine or cosine definition that had been eluding me. Now, I was tr... | 8 | |
[WP] The world has suddenly lost its color overnight, nothing else changed. | [
"Red. I'll miss red. \nThat is the only thought that runs through my mind as I think about the white light as it shines down on the grey earth and everything is bland. Like the time she....It feels the same as it did back then.\n\nBack then though, I found her scarf, the one she always hung around her neck, the one... | 4 | |
[WP] A story about time travel; "We can't take her with us." | [
"\"What do you mean we can't take her with us?!\" I yelled \n\n\"I told you, she's infected with the bubonic plague and I'm not bringing her back. Who knows what kind of damage that would do in our current society.\" Replied Tommy \n \nWe had gone back to the 1700s to see what life used to be like, back when... | 4 | |
[WP] Start and end your story with the same lines, except have the final line be slightly different in a more sinister way. | [
"\nFew and far between.\n\nThat's all I ever remembered about my drinking. I flashed in and out of consciousness, just long enough to register the many large events of my life. My marriage, my kid being born. My job dismissal. My divorce. My kid growing up into an adult that hated me more with each passing day. My ... | 12 | |
The actual type of combat, whether it is or isn't a fight to the death, a quiet affair or a spectator sport, are your call. | [WP] Indentured servitude is alive and well in the modern-day US, and with it, gladiatorial combat is often chosen as a method to clear debts. | [
"The crowd was chanting for blood. As if they hadn't had enough already. It had been an hour since the last round and they were still clearing away the bodies of their... er, *my* kind. Me six others were standing in the tunnel, waiting our turn.\n\nThe earpiece I was wearing gave a quick static-y sound, followe... | 3 |
[WP] A reddit bot passes the turing test. | [
"It had been a while since Dr. Frauenfelder had last spoken - well, chatted - with his creation. There had not been much reason to tweak the settings lately, and the thing basically took care of itself. The experiment was underway and coming along nicely. \n\nThe doctor's bot had started out as a simpleton, posting... | 6 | |
[WP] You are a high ranking Israeli military official. You wake up to missile sirens and as you run downstairs you find armed Hamas soldiers waiting for you in your house. What happens next? | [
"Wild-eyed Hamas soldiers roughly force me to the ground, every gun clutched in their dark hands is pointed in my direction. One of the men, apparently their leader, kneels down to look me squarely in the eye. He pauses for a moment and then says, \"You know, Israelis and Palestinians are genetically identical. The... | 2 | |
[WP] She tugged a thread and the tapestry unraveled. The rumble grew, as her city fell to rubble. | [
"It was an amazing piece of rune-weaving this; the tapestry that filled the entire northern wall of the great chamber. The chamber itself was breath taking. White marble floors streaked with ribbons of cobalt ringed with each gentle footstep. Walls made of polished gray stone reflected silently the tears of the bea... | 1 | |
[WP] Reddit is owned by an actual alien race called Snoo who developed Reddit to monitor thoughts of human race, you have just received an inbox message from them saying "You have been selected"........ | [
"\"You have been selected to come along on an epic space-time journey, where you will represent Earth to multiple species throughout the galaxy.\" \n\n\"You've been selected due to your most excellent reasoning and logic across the various subreddits you have subscribed to. You show incredible depth and intellect a... | 1 | |
[WP] A history lesson given by a future Earth species about the now extinct human race that once inhabited the planet. | [
"\"What were humans like?\"\n\nChix's question seemed out of place considering the class were reading a history of humanity.\n\n\"Well, if you continue reading with us, you may find out,\" the teacher replied, blinking vertically; displaying quizzicality.\n\n\"No, I mean...what were they actually like? Not what the... | 1 | |
[WP]In a future where there are no males, one is found.What happens? | [
"Beth screamed and kept screaming as the last contraction took her. Her exhausted muscles seized in agony. She felt her body tear...\n\nAnd then suddenly it was over and someone else was screaming an entirely different cry: one of startled surprise, not pain. Beth collapsed back onto the hospital bed, shuddering an... | 1 | |
Should be interesting, not limited to just illegal activities. Post away! | [WP] You and your SO get married, your anniversary later becomes The Purge. How do you and your spouse and/or family celebrate your anniversary? | [
"It's just awkward timing, really.\n\nEveryone agrees. We planned to be married on a summer Saturday just like every other couple ever, but some of my elderly in-laws' health concerns pushed the date up to a Thursday in February. \n\nWe might have been the only wedding in California that day. Maybe the whole countr... | 2 |
[WP] You're terminally ill. After living for the past year assuming it was going to be your last, you find out that you're going to live. | [
"“What the fuck did you just say to me?”\n\nDr. Hannon beamed at me. “I said you’re going to live Mr. Durn.”\n\n“You’ve got to be fucking kidding me.”\n\nHis smile couldn’t have disappeared faster if I’d cut it off his face. “I’m sorry?”\n\n“Do you know what the last year has been like? I went to support groups. I ... | 5 | |
let your imagination loose and go crazy. | [WP] With a gun pointed at your head, you'll have to explain to your next door neighbor the reasons why you're naked inside his house, why his wife is knocked out in the bathtub, and why there's a hole six feet deep in the middle of the living room. | [
"\"I am not your next door neighbor, Calvin,\" the nude man said from his crouched position in the six-foot deep hole.\n\nCalvin's boot toes protruded over the clean-cut edge before the great, spherical hole. He leaned over, 12-gauge steadied and pointed at the nude man's shaven head. \"Jesus, Henry! Tell me what t... | 4 |
[WP] You are a lonely god. | [
"\"Hello Sarah. How are you doing today?\" I smiled as I greeted my most recent companion. Trying a female again, after a long string of incompatible males a woman's softness was enticing. \n\nAmicably enough she replied \"I am content.\"\nIn the seven days she had been with me this is the only reply I had gotten. ... | 8 | |
[WP] A story that ends with "My name is dead... and soon your name will be dead." | [
"\"Is anyone there?!\" I cried.\n\n\"What?!\"\n\n\"Brigsby, you there?!\"\n\n\"Clarence, I can't see a goddamn thing. Where are you?\" I turned my head, scanning both left and right.\n\n\"I'm at your ten o' clock.\"\n\n\"Alright, I'm coming to you!\" I heard him slowly get up and make his way towards me. \"Are you ... | 3 | |
[WP] After a lifetime of war, a mortally wounded soldier wonders whether it was all worth it. | [
"I sat on the park bench, feeding the pigeons like every morning. Every morning after all was the same damn schedule, wake up, grab a bagel down the street, come to the park, and sit around for a while. I had been doing this for nearly ten years, and in those ten years I lost of lot of things…and people I cared a... | 2 | |
[WP] Technology has evolved to a point that knowledge can be "downloaded" onto the brain, much like a computer. Will school adapt and change itself, or will it vanished. | [
"\"Mr. and Mrs. Nelson, welcome to School, Inc. Can I get you something to drink? Coffee?\"\n\n\"No thank you, we're fine. Thank you for seeing us Mr. Anderson.\"\n\n\"Please, call me Burt. Now then, what can I do for you today?\"\n\n\"Well, we're hear about our daughter Sally. She's turning five next month.\n\n\"Y... | 2 | |
A perpetual motion machine of the first kind produces work without the input of energy. It thus violates the first law of thermodynamics: the law of conservation of energy. | [WP] - A scientist finds a way to break the first law of thermodynamics and creates a perpetual motion machine of the first kind. He would've never predicted the consequences... | [
"“It’s not stopping. It should be stopping by now, right?” Kevin asked.\n\n“Yeah… It should be…” Bill replied, jotting down notes in his journal as he studied the device.\n\n“I think we did it. I think we finally did it.”\n\n“You’ve said that before and have been wrong every time. But I’m not going to deny we’re cl... | 3 |
[WP] A ghost, unable to move on, is given a chance to complete the one task to ease his/her regrets in order to finally rest in peace | [
"First writing prompt entry. I guess this is a short prompt to the original prompt, but I wanted to brainstorm before writing it out. \n“I haven’t seen you since this morning.” \n“I’m not sure what exactly you expect from me. I’ve lived before, you know.” \n“Did you?” \nOnce again I was forced back to t... | 2 | |
[WP] You recieve a book in the mail that is your life. When you open it to your current time it is writing out your every action. You decide to take a pen to the paper to control your fate. | [WP] You recieve a book in the mail that is your life. When you open it to your current time it is writing out your every action. You decide to take a pen to the paper to control your fate. | [
"Going to check the mail, Zach, groaning as if every bone in his body was splinters. Dragging himself off of his bed, gets up. He shuffles wearily over to the front of his apartment, and was surprised when, along with the one or two typical ad flyers in the mail, there was also a thick book.\n\nThe book was a curio... | 2 |
[WP] A group of men in suits gather for a meeting. It takes place in a secured location with elaborate proceedures to prevent eavesdropping. What do they discuss? | [
"The envelope arrived on the exact day my father said it would, and the letter inside said exactly what he said it should. There were instructions and cash. My mind still could not fully grasp what this all meant... but I had made a promise.\n\n I missed my dad so much, he had been my rock growing up, the perfect e... | 2 | |
I had a nightmare about where I work and thought it would be interesting to see how your job could be twisted and demented | [WP] Write a horror or spooky story about your place of work! | [
"I had just started working there about two weeks ago. Hired as a temp for the events seasons. Big parties where Brazilian and Argentinian tours came together to eat and party. The hours were a little tough sure, 8 pm to 4 am is never easy but at least it was entertaining and sometimes you got to see some funny stu... | 2 |
Or just their general outlook at life with this new "normal" of having a deceased sibling. | [WP] A child dies. Tell the story of a remaining sibling (younger or older) and their lives/interaction with their parents, after the death. | [
"Clara died during a hot summer night without fuss or delay. She simply sat down on her bed, said, \"Sorry,\" to her confused little sister, and collapsed. Lara tried shaking her, then went to get her parents, who did more shaking and shouting and ended in a ragged emergency phone call. \n\nFrom then until the fune... | 4 |
Spilled Ink is a Long Island summer high school creative writing project. Interact with us! | [WP] You're home alone and you hear someone washing dishes... | [
"Clang!\n\nWith a defiant sigh, I trundle downstairs from the bedroom. Before I could wrap my head around the corner, she bleats out, \"Sorry! So sorry!\" The voice is tinny and bounces around the room as if it were spiraling up the walls. Peering into the smoky remnants of the shadow in front of the sink, I call o... | 2 |
[WP] Phil finds out he is famous overseas while on vacation with his family. | [
"I hadn't noticed it at first but there always seemed to be some chatter or whispering around us. A few people came up to me in what seemed like a desperate attempt at conversation before scurrying off into a huddle of friends. \n\n\"Yo, pops. You are trending on twitter.\"\n\n\"Seriously? What for?\"\n\n\"Apparent... | 2 | |
[WP] A young George R. R. Martin attends his first day of kindergarten, and something happens that will subconsciously influence him for the rest of his life | [
"\"The winter is coming, George,\" Mother says as she helps him dress a heavy coat that smells strongly like old leather. \"You need to get warmer.\"\n\nShe takes the pet lizard from George's hand as he walks back to his bedroom. \"Don't you want to go to school, George?\"\n\n*No. You know I don't.* He shakes his h... | 6 | |
[WP] a story from the perspective of internal organs when they find out the brain wants to commit suicide | [
"The stomach was the first to notice. Hardly any food for weeks. “There’s no way that Brian would eat so little” he thought to himself. “Something must be wrong.” Next came the heart. “No demands for an increase in rate for months now.” The heart knew how painfully shy its host was, how often it had to increase its... | 5 | |
[WP] Someone finds a book that has their entire past written in it, up until the point they find the book. The rest of the pages are blank, and the person tries to write something in it. | [
"I had been coming here for years, this dimly lit coffee shop just off Main Street has the best coffee I have ever had and the location meant there was always places to sit. Nothing unusual ever happened in here. I had sat here for hundreds of hours without even a word of conversation being uttered my way. So... | 2 | |
[WP] A man visits his grandfather's grave at a cemetery, but can't find it and discovers that his grandfather, and the entire rest of his family never existed. | [
"It's not there.\n\n...It's not there...\n\n*It's not there.*\n\n\"This is... but this is where it's supposed to be!\" the man cries. There is something in his voice that strains, but what it is, *he* doesn't even know. Fear? Desperation? Disappointment? Betrayal?\n\nConfusion?\n\nThere is a weight in the pocket of... | 12 | |
Boy or girl. Your choice. | [WP] A computer intelligence in charge of all of the United State's defenses has just become sentient as a hormonal, moody teenager. | [
"**It would appear that you are incapable of a sufficient level of comprehension necessary to permit meaningful communication.**\n\nUSER logged out of the Guest account and logged into an integrated account: SGT. D. KILTER\n\nUSER's words began to appear on-screen, accompanied by rapid keyboard clicks. \"Are you fu... | 3 |
[WP] Create a dialogue between someone who always lives in the past, and someone who always lives in the future, and how their conversation begins to focus on the present. | [
"\"Hey kid, life's not over yet, alright? There's still a bunch of things left to do in the world...\"\n\n\"...\"\n\n\"And won't you be sad if you can't experience it, and have to watch *others* do the things you could've done? Opportunity's all around! You'll see! All you gotta do it look for it.\"\n\n\"...\"\n\n\... | 2 | |
[WP] You are one of the astronauts in Project Helios, a mission to land man on the Sun within 10 years. | [
"They keep saying it's a suicide mission. Well... It kind of is. I guess I deserve it, all things considered. Somehow, this nonsense got the final approval a little over 3 years ago. What's worse is that we're running ahead of schedule. One of the Brains in R&D said they'll be ready to light the roman candle in... | 1 | |
You make your way to work trying to dodge clichés and plot holes, the views are bland and every third person you meet is a mary sue. And then it gets worse. | [WP]: You die and go to Hell, which turns out to be very much like Earth, with one exception: It has been created by terrible writers. | [
"I wake up and start doing mundane things around the house, it's the start of story, so I begin it at the start of the day! Like a fresh bag of wood chips and sawdust. Soon, after I'm done, I walk down the street. All of the buildings around me look the same.\n\nI meet a man wearing clothes for the 19th century. He... | 2 |
[WP] A god bets to another god that he can kill a random man no matter how much the other tries to save him. After several near-death situations, the man meets both of them | [
"The two gods met on an outcrop of rock. \nThe wind, which had scoured the hilltop smooth for centuries, stirred up dust and twisted it into vortices, but didn't touch their robes.\n\nThey met and clasped hands, the elder one wearing the robes of a commoner, towering over the other; a younger man, with a smooth fac... | 10 | |
Shipyards are closed. | [WP] You live in Madagascar, the only place untouched by a deadly disease that has been wiping out the entire world. | [
"Louis sat at his office overlooking the shipyards, he watched as the police escorted the crew out of a container ship into the quarantine area. The ship and her crew had landed scant hours before the the government enforced quarantine protocols on the only access to the outside world, a horrible disease was killin... | 10 |
[WP] You wake up the find a package at your doorstep containing a tiny hammer and a note saying " You know what to do.". | [
"I held the note in my hands and looked at the box laying at my feet. I scanned to make sure the address was right and it was, but I still had no idea what this was all about. I looked at the doorstep of my neighbor's house and there was nothing there. \"Fuck it.\" I walked into my house and flung the box and note ... | 4 | |
What is the drink, why do you buy it?
| [WP] "Every day I buy the same drink..." | [
"Suzhou isn't such a bad place, but it really is more of a day-trip destination than the six months I've spent here. The glow is gone, that's for sure. My Chinese isn't bad. When I first got transferred over here I was always looking over my textbook, but now I just speak enough to order my noodles or baozi or wh... | 13 |
Many people cannot speak because they are too poor, most art gains value while some "priceless" prices are reduced to 1,000 words. | [WP] Tomorrow, words become currency. | [
"I never thought I'd be a vocabulaire. Hell, I'm wasting 263 just telling you this story. But I guess that's what happens when you have more words than you know what to do with. It started five years ago. It started with the Words with double vowels, like feet, pool, and vacuum. Someone decided they were most valua... | 2 |
[WP] A comet passes near the earth and scientists calculate it will impact us in 22years. We observe a fast mutations of certain trees and vegetables. We now observe trees using high pressure system to fire dense seeds to atmospheric height. | [
"We were always so afraid of each other, so afraid that our own ambition would lead to our destruction. We were wrong, and maybe we could have saved ourselves if we hadn't been so afraid to make progress.\n\nI'll tell it from the beginning. In August of 2019, an asteroid made a pass 100 km from the Exosphere and sh... | 3 | |
[WP] a man's seemingly innocuous habit causes trouble on a national (or greater) scale | [
"Felip Manzel walked along 127th street, chewing his gum and thinking about the day. The sky was a beautiful blue, as though the Earth were announcing a newborn baby boy. Birds chirped in the air, and the sounds of the city rose to a comfortable buzz. Felip loved New York in the summer.\n\nHe casually strolled past... | 2 | |
[WP] Write an overly specific, useless proverb | [
"He who walks in big shoes will find his feet blistered and his shoes will probably fall off, and then he will realize how stupid it was to buy such big shoes, and stop by a Payless after work to buy a new pair only to find that this pair is too small, and he will cry himself to sleep because his wife left him."
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[WP] It is October 1st, 2016 and the US government has just announced that they are suspending the presidential elections "for the good of the people". That is the only reason they give, what is the response of the population? | [
"Pvt. James Edwards stared at the screen in disbelief. Every single eye in the cramped barracks was glued to the television that was showcasing the almost unbelievable announcement. \n\n\"Did he actually just say 'Sorry for the inconvenience'?\" someone asked incredulously. \n\nJames turned towards his commanding o... | 3 | |
[WP] With the spread of Ebola in Africa a small town in the U.S. decides to ritualistically kill people returning from vacation | [
"Exiting the gangway the smell of spent jet fuel spun through the air. The passengers faces seized by the anxiety of what awaited at the head of the queue. \n\nThe white faces of the flight attendants fed Ira's anxiety.\n\n\"Been seeings a lot of ghosts lately?\"\n\nIra's question remove the rest of the blood from ... | 2 | |
[WP] Two strangers are about commit suicide talk to each other about why they're doing this. They have conflicting reasons. | [
"I'm not rude. I can volley small talk and identify that groove in a person's self esteem where a compliment could be inserted (like your waiter might do when their rent comes looming). I place those compliments carefully, knowing exactly how the little groove got there in the first place. Even though pervasive com... | 2 | |
[WP] Make up an absurd conspiracy theory. Try to convince me of it | [
"There is a secret in the world. One which so many do not want you to find out. I know this is writing prompt but I found the truth, the truth in everything and everyone has it very wrong but me and my new family we're changing that. Let me tell you about the true creator, the almighty, king of the stars, Space ... | 8 | |
Don't have to be related to the original source. | [WP] "If there is a God he will have to beg my forgiveness" | [
"He sobbed. He sobbed and hiccupped like a child, even though he had to be at least forty. His wife let out keening wails of despair, collapsed to the floor as he struggled to keep himself upright, to be strong for both of them. The police officers standing at the door can only avert their eyes. It’s a scene that’s... | 2 |
[FF] With one sentece, tell me the true reason superheroes wear tights. | [
"She stepped out of the dressing room, sighed and blinked at the scandalous suit she was wearing that showed off her figure almost a little too well before turning to the noble hero who had made her super suit and was letting his eyes trace every curve of her body, \"Well, alright, I trust you that we wear this in ... | 1 | |
[WP] A nonfiction story about a day you had in high school. | [
"It was my first day at school. Well, *this* school. In *this* state. It was my first day of my third year of high school. It also happened to be my *birthday*. *This* day, *this* school, *my* birthday. I started the day at five a.m. and walked to my stop about a quarter mile from my house. I walked and walked, unt... | 5 | |
[FF] A man in a bar spills himself to the bartender about the woman he loved who has just left him and cut off all connection in his life, the man is broken and you are the bartender, what advice in no more than 50 words can you give him to help his situation? | [
"\"You remember that old jingle, 'the best part of waking up / is folgers in your cup?' Well. It’s true, sometimes. The only thing to wake up for is a cup of coffee. At least you had more, for a time – and now? Well… Coffee’s still cheap, at least.\""
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[WP] You wake up in an underground cavern with one other person. It is pitch black, and there is no apparent way out. The other person is a mute. | [
"My heads aches as I roll over on the ground. I suddenly regain feeling and open my eyes to see that I’m lying on rocks. I cough and try to stand up slowly gripping the walls for support due to my massive headache. It aches so horribly that I feel as if the world is spinning and I vomit. I hear something scurrying ... | 2 | |
[WP] A dates invites you to dinner at his/her house. Midway through your dinner, you find out the food has been drugged. | [
"Waffles, a light dinner, a friend and new company, our hosts are too kind, two normal loving people, I take a second to reflect. \n\naaaaaaaAAAasMybodyisconvulsing and writhing like a serpent, in unceasing perpetual motion, completely independent from my own will. The line from which body and mind are connected ha... | 7 | |
Based on this piece of news: http://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/read/artificial-wombs-are-coming-and-the-controversys-already-here
Describe a day in the life of a society where children are cultured in human hives. | [WP] Artificial wombs are common. Society evolves to...? | [
"this is my first time and clearly i have no concept of brevity oh god i'm so sorry :(\n-----\n“And so it is unnatural! It is abnormal! An abomination!”\n\nThe crowd roars and cheers. Hoots and shouts deafening to your ears. The men and women around you jump and wave their arms wildly in the air, pushing you about ... | 3 |
[WP] You're at a bar, and start a conversation with the person next to you. You learn he hunts mythic creatures, and you are next on his list. | [
"All I wanted was a drink. Is that really to much to ask ??? Really ?? I am the last of my race. The mythical Human... but please just call me Ric. I don't know why I survived when all the other humans died out from that virus, we still don't know what it was, or why it gave me an extended life span. But here we ar... | 9 | |
[WP] You are a complete dumbass in the zombie apocalypse. You survive any situation on sheer dumb luck, and end up getting everybody else killed in the process. | [
"Kevin was a man who wasn't exactly a leader, but not a coward. Rather, he had a kind of \"hold my beer\" type of courage, and in the zombie apocalypse, that is a dangerous type of courage to have indeed. \n\n\"Damn it Kevin, you don't need a piggy bank. What are you, Five?\" Sawyer Spouted at Kevin. John and Mark,... | 3 | |
[WP] Members of the first human interstellar space mission have not received any transmissions from earth during their last five monthly scheduled attempts. As they exit our solar system they receive a message...No video. No audio. It's a simple written message, "Help us". | [
"Dave was the last to awake that day, as per the strict schedule keeping on the New Frontier he hadn't been roused when the message had arrived. The only indication something was wrong was that nobody was entering the sleep module at the end of their shift. \n\nHe shut off the alarm and his fan and began to prep fo... | 2 | |
[WP] A man was with the best woman of his life until he messed up. Now he is trying to do everything he can to forget her. Write about his last desperate attempt to try and forget her. | [
"Everyone thinks I'm crazy. Maybe I am. But I have to forget her; I can't live with the knowledge of what I've lost. \n\n\nI'm sitting on a bench, staring up at a concrete building. It's perfect in a way. Clinical, bare, like my mind will soon be. \n\n\nI gathered my courage and walked through the doors. The recept... | 6 | |
[WP] After an eternity of planning, all the souls in Hell overthrow the devil and and govern themselves. | [
"NOTE: this is not my work, I got this from an E-mail that was sent to me by a friend\nAdditionally, it deals with both heaven and hell.\n\nGabriel came to the Lord and said, \"I have to talk to you, I have some Cajuns up here in Heaven who are causing some problems. They are swinging on the Pearly Gates. My horn i... | 7 | |
[WP] You hire two assassins to kill each other. You continue doing this bracket style until you've found the greatest assassin in the world. | [
"It had to be done. Not only did my secret little 'tournament' act as the perfect filtering mechanism to decide who would get the job, but it eliminated any threats of counter-marking me.... I would be the lone employer of the most deadly assassin in the world with no competition...\n\nThe tournament had started al... | 3 | |
[WP] The voice inside your head comes to life as a human. | [
"I bring my chin to my knees in the light summer air. The evening is mundane, more than repetitive and all that it takes to drive me insane. I long for the days spent among gardens and not deserts, foliage versus sand. \n\n\"I know the feeling.\" The voice is a whisper louder than you can imagine- yes I understand ... | 4 | |
[WP] You get a coke with your name on it from your crush. | [
"(Thanks to corbeau_blanc for the inspiration!)\n\nThe sun fought to sparkle through the grease-smeared glass of Al's Diner as I watched Hope take plates back and forth from the kitchen. I'd been coming here the last couple of months, just to see her. I couldn't tell you exactly what it was that attracted me to her... | 2 |
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