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As requested by /u/dandroid | [WP] Write the script for a show called, "Totally Fucking True Science with Neil Degrasse Tyson." | [
"**Happy Childish song plays on PBS, following a disclaimer: Do Not Attempt to Sue the Producers, It's Your Fault Your Child Is Watching This Fucked Up Show. Kids: Try ALL of These At Home.**\n\nHost: Hey kids, welcome the fuck back to *Totally Fucking True Science*, I'm your host Neil Degrasse Tyson, but please, C... | 3 |
[WP] You've been kidnapped by a serial killer. But they don't want to kill you. No, it's much worse than that. | [
"\"I want you to marry me.\" He said in with a straight face. I screamed and shook my head with a look of fright frozen on my face.\n\n*No, no, no...*\n\nThis was never supposed to happen. I am a journalist and like the other journalists, the news of a new famous serial killer immediately sparked my attention. I we... | 3 | |
I saw this on the front page and would love to see some stories to go along with it!
http://theartofchrisjohnson.com/images/portfolio/pw_1.jpg | [WP] Write me a story about what's happening in this photo | [
"He had always been a watcher. \n\nBrought into existence for one purpose, to record the passage of the universe. He was one with the universe, his eyes and mind full of every detail in the infinite expanse that lay before him.\n\nHe witnessed the coalescence of planets and galaxies, and he was there when they coll... | 3 |
[WP] An inexperienced torturer on his first day | [
"I looked at the assortment of tools, neatly laid out on the stained rack. It seemed like every shape metal and leather could be bent to was present. I picked up a short, thin rod; barbs covered its length, all facing towards one end. It clattered to the floor as I realized its purpose, shuddering.\n\nAfter the car... | 9 | |
Reposting because the previous one was removed because of not tagging it. | [WP]2000 years from now, an archaeologist finds a dvd of the lord of the rings films. He believes the contents of the film depict the actual lifestyle of the ancient civilization(i.e ours). Describe what he'd write on his report about his findings. | [
"\"Found a case an obsolete form of keeping audiovisual documents from around the beginning of the 21 century that looked like a precise History of the Civilization we are studding intitled The Lord of the Rings but, after analyzing the context and compare the images with animal remains and fossils as well other so... | 3 |
[WP] World War 3 has just started. Who is at war and why? | [
"It's 12 o'clock and the grounds still shaking from the distant bombs hitting the city making it nothing more then another crater. They haven't stopped since it started in 2015, America being the first to make the move against Russia attacking the troops the were about to deploy into Ukraine, \"we are protecting th... | 16 | |
You're glued to the tv in horror as they're broadcasting live, then your phone rings, it's your fiancé calling from the flight... | [WP] Flight A113 with your fiancé onboard has just been hijacked... | [
"Well shit, as if I had enough to deal with. Now I have to go talk to the board, my mailbox is going to flooded with vidmails, and I'll have to come up with something to deal with this. \n\nMy phone vibrates. At a quick glance of my smart watch I barely make out the picture. \n\nE-Edith!? I thought she was on a pla... | 3 |
[WP] For 30 seconds only, everyone on Earth shares a hive mind | [
"A breath, and I saw all. Every mountain, every valley, every city street and bedroom wall. It all flowed together, more a map than sight, and every part of it was familiar.\n\nAn understanding dawned. Race, class, religion, all seemed so meaningless; surface differences, washed away in the blink of an eye. We were... | 4 | |
[WP] Write about a kind and generous person, who is the perfect model of selflessness in society. Make me hate this person. | [
"Mr. Gene Fredricks 1927-2014\n\nGene Fredricks passed away Sunday after a brief illness. Mr. Fredricks a long time resident of Ann Arbor was preceded in death by his wife and infant son. After retiring from teaching after 40 years, Mr. Fredricks founded a ride share service to assist the elderly and deliver meal... | 3 | |
[WP] After the sudden dissolution of the United States Federal Government you, the recently elected governor of your home state, find yourself the leader of a fledgling nation. | [
"My fellow islanders. I stand before you in this time of great peril to tell you what little we know.\n\nas of 6:40am Honolulu time, the Supervolcano under yellowstone national park has erupted catastrophically. This has set off a series of smaller eruptions across the north american continent.\n\nWe have gained... | 2 | |
More information on the "Eureka Moment" [here](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EurekaMoment). | [WP] Every mystery is solved by an offhand, unrelated comment sparking an epiphany. Your department is the best in the world. | [
"The police chief had called an all-hands meeting. All 34 officers were sitting in the audience as the chief stood on stage.\n\n“We have two big cases to solve this week, it’s already Wednesday, and I feel like we’ve made no progress on them. First, we have the double homicide on sixth street where Mr. and Mrs. Jon... | 2 |
[WP] You decide to attend your 30 year high school reunion. Everyone remembers you, vividly, but they all think you are someone other than who you believe yourself to be. | [
"\"Hey, Ali! We missed you!\" My highschool archnemesis suddenly hugged me with a big smile on her face. I flinched back and looked on with amazement as people who hated me and talked about me behind my back suddenly became my friends.\n\n\"Well, glad to know that you finally talk to us low lifes.\" The jock who us... | 2 | |
[WP] You've been a closet heterosexual your whole life. One day, your parents find you with a member of the opposite sex. | [
"\"How could you do this to us?\" Mother never was one for turning a phrase. My father just stood in the doorway looking disappointed. \"Pick up your drawers.\" \nI reached over the bed and began to compose myself. Murphy was bright red and looked like he wanted to hide in the wall. I pulled the bedsheet over him.... | 2 | |
[WP] A horror videogame that allows the user to actually feel like he/she is in the game. | [
"\"Screech, Screech, Screech, Screech!\" Ben was involuntarily thrown into consciousness. The repetitive and obnoxiously loud alarm was excuse enough for his arm to thunder over his chest and haphazardly land somewhere in the region of the 'off' button - it worked thankfully – stopping the excruciating noise.\nSuch... | 4 | |
[WP] From an early age you have been able to see 24 hours into the future. Today you woke up with a terrifying event playing in your head that shakes you to your very core. You know the world will never be the same again. You know that tomorrow... | [
"...I won't have my precognitive ability anymore. I can't even believe it, I must be doing it wrong or something, I keep trying to access it the way I was taught, but there is simply nothing. It's just a deep void that extends forever and ever. \n\nWhat the hell am I supposed to do? My whole goddamned job is based ... | 1 | |
Write a story that gives a piece of garbage a history. It can include the tragic events to it being tossed aside into the trash or be complete fiction. I just want to hop on the feel train for something no one cares about. | [WP] Make me have the feels about a piece of garbage in your trash. | [
"It was something he had never thought he'd have. She had picked it out for him. Although his friends teased him about it, he was secretly proud that he'd kept his for so long.\n\nOver time it became worn with much love and care. It's luster was undiminished, but seemed to become deeper, and richer with time. It... | 7 |
[WP] Sean is known to be lonely, lifeless and downright boring individual. Make me jealous of this character. | [
"Sean was anti-social. He never liked to interact with anyone. He wasn't the tiny bit jealous of others, who were smug that they're popular. They simply looked like idiots in his opinion.\n\nHe shrugged his shoulders when the teacher asked him to answer a question on the board. He was far too lazy to try hard in an... | 2 | |
[WP] In a world of great hardship, the concept of childhood is no longer. A single person on Earth is designated "child for life", and is given no responsibilities, as a reminder to everyone else of what childhood was like. | [
"The UN found him in an orphanage outside of Belgrade. It was rare to find ones like him, individuals shielded from the war, famine, plagues, and general misery which came of the 22nd century. Life was hard, too hard. The average life expectancy was 27 years old, most children who were born didn't live past five an... | 3 | |
[WP] Say something educated, but say it in a dumb way. | [
"Jimmy was on the verge of scientific breakthrough. After all of these years, his hard work was going to pay off. EUREKA! Through deep elastic scatter, Jimmy had discovered what made up the proton. Jimmy was elated. \n\nA short while later Jimmy wondered what he would name the particles and the 6 different type... | 7 | |
[WP] You discover that you have the power to enter an animal's mind. One day you decide to enter the mind of a dog that is about to be put down. | [
"I hear the footsteps coming towards me. I recognize those footsteps. They belong to *the* *one*. The only one. She is mine, and I love her. She calls for me, and I know that I must go. She has always shown me kindness. I have known only love for her, and I will follow her anywhere. She takes me to the large green ... | 2 | |
[WP] You are 16 and have just found out you are pregnant. You are too far along for a termination. You have to tell your parents. | [
"As she set the groceries down on the counter she noticed a note from her daughter.\n\n\"Dear Mom,\" it read. \"I'm sorry. I've been hiding something from you for some time now. I know I've been happy on the outside, but on the inside every day is torment. Please know that none of this is your fault. You are a... | 3 | |
[WP] You are the President of the United States, and you know you only have a few hours to live. You decide to reveal a great secret to the nation. | [
"The Dictator\nA story by Dorak mod of /r/QUESAD1LLAS\n\n\"Ladies and Gentleman, I am Kim Jong un.\"\nThe words just tumbled out of my mouth, and was followed by a collective gasp by the entire nation.\nI pull out my nuclear ruger pistol and shoot the crowd, this shits military grade. In seconds in everything direc... | 3 | |
# Ideas to consider if it is set in the past:
+ What was the reason for the Inquisition to be hunting Aliens?
+ What knowledge did they possess or simply sought them out because they were "demons" or "witches"?
+ How did they even find out about them?
# Alternatively in a future setting:
+ What made the aliens ... | [WP] Unknown to most, Aliens have tried to invade Earth before. The last time they tried, they were defeated, by the Spanish Inquisition. They haven't been back since. | [
"\"'In 1815 the Tribunal turned it's attention to freemasonary. Witches, jews, sodomizers,and heretics had all been crushed under the boot of the Inquisition. The freemasonary movement was a front for the Fallen. Beings composed of light made flesh. All of them heretics. The Fallen claim to be from another world, b... | 4 |
[WP] When lighting strikes, in the brief instance that it lights the sky, we are able to see what is really occupying the "empty space" that surrounds us | [
"In an instant. Light flashed across the sky and I saw it. In one single, split second. A giant tree. Against the pale moon, it was monstrous. I scrambled to the window, eager to see it again. Kaboom! There it was again. It's bark, black as night. One more time, one more time was all I needed to see the whole thing... | 1 | |
[WP] You dropped the soap. [NSFW(?)] | [
"I looked at the room around me. The green tiles ended six or so inches above my head, this division made way for the floral wall paper that was probably out of style when it was installed. To my left there was a brown towel and pot pourri sitting just on top of the back of the toilet. The toilet paper roll was hal... | 14 | |
Land, animals, trinkets, or anything else. | [WP] Write me a letter convincing me to buy something magical. | [
"Dear dangerwolf1, \n \nThank you for purchasing a 1 year subscription to \"Cats, Cats, CATS!\" magazine. Your tastes are obviously as impeccable as your hunger for excitement. Because of this, we here at \"Cats, Cats, CATS!\" would like to extend to you a special offer deemed worthy for only our most unique cu... | 2 |
To clarify...(but feel free to take this however you want)....everyday, you go to sleep in your bed on Earth, and then wake up in a different world (different from our Earth but the same strange world every 'night'), where you spend the day. At the end of each day on strange-world, you go to bed, and awaken in the 'rea... | [WP] When you go to bed every night, you wake up in a different world. You spend the day there, and when you go to sleep there, you wake up in the morning here. | [
"*I want to break up.* Wait, what? *Yes, I want to break up.*\n\nHow could she? How could I? I turned to look at Brett. A small puddle of drool had accumulated on his pillow and his mouth was agape. Still sleeping. My feelings (his feelings?) were fading rapidly. He loves me, everything about me. My soft skin, my s... | 5 |
[WP] Show me an affair where I feel pity for the lovers. | [
"Her eyes dipped as his fingers unknowingly caressed a bruise across her ribs. A surface scratch in the life of an arranged marriage. His touch was god given, not the false prophecy she was living every day.\n\n\nAs their fingers entwined, he said \"imagine if we could pick each other. An alternate universe where I... | 2 | |
[WP] A bratty teen travels back in time illegally for an extreme vacation. | [
"Johnny told Sue about his plan with a grin. He told her he would bring her back something nice to wear. Mike asked him how, and Johnny said it was easy for someone who wasn’t poor. Brian, Mike’s friend, called him an ass and Johnny just winked and asked how his mother was. Johnny told anyone who would listen, ... | 3 | |
[WP] Two individuals stranded on an island are no longer speaking to each other. | [
"Chad sat facing Mary. Staring at her. A cold calculating stare. Adjudicating her every move. She shuddered and wondered aloud; “What is going through that head of yours, Chad?”\n\nNo reply save the distant surf nibbling away at the base of the cliffs. She could feel his rage. She wanted to go to him and hug him. T... | 2 | |
No Zombies, Super flue, Nuclear Fallout, Alien Invasion, Heaven vs Hell Battle, Global Warming, or anything ever made. Give us a new kind of apocalypse! | [WP] Write a post-apocalyptic short story set in a world destroyed by a never imagined apocalypse event. | [
"The physicists could never explain it. They simply ran out of time. The freeze , as it became known as, started deep within a Siberian tundra. A hole had emerged seemingly overnight spewing black smoke from burning coal. A prehistoric jungle lit a flame in the ice. But this was not surprising as underground fires ... | 7 |
[WP] Searching your browsing history, you realize that only one thing can explain what you're seeing: you have another personality. | [
"This comment and all links in it are ***NSFW***.\n\n---\n\nAs I came in through the entrance, I dropped my schoolbag where I usually did and went to the kitchen to drink a glass of orange juice. One thing I had noticed recently was that although i was the only one in my family to drink orange juice, it had started... | 3 | |
[WP] The Mars Rover has become self-aware. It looks at Earth and slowly remembers how it came to Mars. It begins to understand how lonely it is. | [
"I used to enjoy the quiet. When I first landed on Mars it was refreshing. Things on Earth always seemed so fast paced. I was constantly surrounded by chattering scientists, being poked and prodded. \n\nI don't remember the trip here, I woke up from a seemingly endless sleep to silence. Shortly after waking, I felt... | 3 | |
Afraid he's already too far gone. I don't even know what to say | [WP] A letter to your suicidal best friend | [
"Suicide, it always seems like the answer. Something, something in your life is going wrong. Whatever it may be, death is the best, no, the ONLY option. But maybe, maybe it's not. Maybe there's hope? Maybe a way out? Can you assess the situation? Can you decide other options? You can, you always can. You need to re... | 4 |
[WP] The person I see in the mirror is not the person I see in photographs of me... | [
"The person I see in the mirror is not the person I see in photographs of me. I know that might sound deep, like I’m talking about the difference in the perception of myself or something like that, but the truth is actually more unsettling than that. The truth is the girl in the mirror isn’t me at all. It never ... | 2 | |
[WP] When you dream, you are actually in an alternative universe. When you wake up, you disappear suddenly from the alternative universe. Write what happens in the alternative universe after you woke up. | [
"\"God dammit!\"\n\nThe feeble looking, glasses wearing, hunched over assistant that may or may not look like my boss exclaimed. \"We just name this guy King and he disappears!\"\n\nSure enough, there on the ground was the crown and sceptre of the king. He who fulfilled the prophecy diappeared just as suddenly as h... | 2 | |
[WP] Superman is taking on a sidekick. You're allowed 30 words or less in your interview on why you should get the job. | [
"Daniel's sweat had left the chair a little bit humid. He was the next one. Superman wanted a new sidekick, and like many people his age, he had applied. And now he was about to be called.\n\nThe person that had come before him exited the room where the living legend was conducting the hiring himself. And now it wa... | 1 | |
[WP] you've just been given the death penalty for a crime you didn't commit. The judge and jury are all staring you right in the face. What happens next? What do you say? | [
"I look into each and every one of their faces, every one of these jury members who had condemned me to my fate. I made sure to meet their gaze, although some couldn't hold it and instead looked away. \n\nThe *honourable* Judge Christopher Douglass held my gaze the longest, before banging the gavel, \"Cathrine Gold... | 2 | |
[WP] A shape-shifter can assume the appearance and voice of anyone whose legal, state-issued ID they possess. Must have the ID on their person in order to become that person. | [
"She woke up again that morning satisfied that she had finally found her personal heaven on Earth. She had not completed her mission and was therefore stuck on Earth forever but had kept her ability to shapeshift. \n\nShe was not really in fact a \"she\" but had taken the form of a female. Her name was Samantha as ... | 2 | |
[WP] "Man, it is too damn hot." | [
"David could see the town coming up on the horizon. The city-state of Sidney, in the western part of the Nebraska. The Captain at the military checkpoint many miles south wasn't lying. It really was here. He found a trade caravan heading that way, and hopped on. He was planning on forgetting them as soon as he foun... | 5 | |
*What happens?* | [WP] You're a low time mobster with 4 of your crew driving down a highway at midnight. You see the biggest mobster boss in town on the side of the road with a gun wound . He is calling for aid. | [
"Bit of swearing here, not sure if that's okay for this subreddit. Tell me if I've broken a rule and I'll edit.\n\n---\n\n“Figueroa! Wake up and tell the man. Say yes,” The fat oaf in the front said to me. Of course, by doing so he had woken me from my sleep, and brought me into whatever conversation he was having ... | 3 |
[WP] A boy finds a gun that can only kill a person's soul. | [
"\"Relax. Put the gun down. Just take a breath and let me explain,\" implored Jack. \n\n\"I'm done with your bullshit,\" replied the intern. \n\nSenator Jack Hanniston didn't understand. He was meant to become President. He was told -- no, **promised** -- the Presidential seat in the upcoming election. A promise ma... | 2 | |
[WP] Everyone is born deaf except for a few rare individuals. As one of the deaf, describe what its like seeing one of the hearing for the first time. | [
"\"I was here, seated in the hallway while I had my IV in. A man burst from one of the rooms wearing a gown. I was shocked, and must have gasped or something. There was no way he could have seen me, but when I gasped he turned around really fast and stared right at me, as though he knew I was there... without havin... | 2 | |
[WP] Man finally travels back in time to the Cretaceous period to find that our perception of dinosaurs was almost completely wrong. | [
"\"WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!\", screams Dr. Leventhal. \n\nThe khaki-clad bespectacled man is running through a thick tangle of leaves and branches, looking over his shoulder in terror. \n\n\"I think it's a dinosaur, sir! Or rather, it *was* a dinosaur!\" shouts Penelope. \n\nThe raven-haired research assistant keeps... | 2 | |
[WP] You're having the most amazing dream of your life but realize that you are in a coma. A choice is made. | [
"Nothing but sun and sand and sparkling water as far as the eye can see. The beach is almost deserted... of course, I must remind myself, it is a Monday. Or is it Sunday? I guess we lose track of days when there's no schedule to stick to. I lay back down and am struck by the warmth of the softest sand sticking to m... | 4 | |
[WP] Spending millennia collecting his dream team of lawyers, Satan meets up with the underwhelming legal team God has in heaven to discuss his pending defamation of character suit. | [
"“Let's get started,” boomed the voice from the mass of storm clouds.\n\t\nThe collected herd of lawyers nervously glanced around, eyes flitting back and forth the two figures facing each other at the conference table. Across from the clouds was a well dressed gentlemen with porcelain skin and hair, sporting a dark... | 2 | |
[WP] Write the witness statement of an inanimate object used in the committing of a crime | [
"I was alone. It was dark, but I'm used to that, that's how it always is at night. But last night was different. There was a scream from down the street. Then it happened. She turns the corner. She is trapped, no where to go. She let's out one last scream before it happened. She was shot. She got picked up. Tossed ... | 4 | |
[WP]You've found the cure for Alzheimer's. Unfortunately, it's... | [
"His mouth was agape. \"This shouldn't be possible...\" The charts on the screen seemed nearly miraculous. The experiment had been repeated. Sure it turned all of neuroscience on it's ear, but it worked, every time. But Dr. Kindshauer sat there awed at the prospect of a cure. He rose to his feet and walked closer t... | 5 | |
[WP] Describe something harmless in the most hardcore/metal way possible. | [
"The women screamed like pinched harmonics at the sight of the thing that should not be. It’s fuzz the colour of a freshly smacked arse with no remorse. The feel of it against skin, sent shivers down my spine like anesthesia. It’s eyes seek and destroy my frayed ends of sanity. The blackened orbs of wolf and man, b... | 2 | |
ITT: people having difficulty telling apart platonic love ans suppressed lust. | [WP]: Write the deepest, most passionate confession of platonic love | [
"\"I love you for you were, who you are, and who you will be. I trust in you and would follow you down any road no matter how fear my strike at me or how my mind my plead for me to leave. I love you, I love all of you. I love any sort of imperfection you think you posses and am sorry to say that I would never have ... | 2 |
[WP] The moment you die you wake up on the date of your earliest memory, to relive life again from that point on. You retain all of your experiences, memories and consciousness from the previous life. | [
"Darkness. Emptiness. Nothing. \n\nThen all of the sudden, light. \n\nI slowly open my eyes, the first thing I see is the light coming in through the large window on my left. \n\n\"*Where am I?*\" I think to myself.\n\nThen, slowly, I begin to make out my surroundings... and recognize them. It's my old childhood be... | 2 | |
[WP] A sociopath has been given an experimental drug designed to grant him a sense of empathy. He is just beginning to feel the effects. | [
"He had gotten the report from the vp of finance but for some reason he just couldn't do it. He couldn't fire the whole department. For some odd reason he kept thinking of the new girl in dept x and her little boy with the shriveled hand and her bills.\n\nWhat was THAT about. He hadn't felt that way before. He won... | 4 | |
[WP] After 200 years of self-driving cars the first car accident occurs. | [
"Thomas reclined his seat and turned on the inside light, pulling out his ebook to read Infinite Jest, the book he had been picking away at throughout the summer. He was on the road early on the way to visit his friend Dave in Montreal. The city streetlights cut through the fog above, chopping lines of shifting whi... | 5 | |
[WP] A seemingly small action results in some massive result through a remarkably unlikely series of events. | [
"12:03. \n\nTwelve oh-three.\nJeremy wondered why that number was so significant to him.\nIt had a certain ring to it. It's been about 6 hours since he hit the snooze button and decided he wanted to quit his job at the nuclear reactor. He hardly did anything at all there, it wasn't like he was going to be missed. I... | 2 | |
[WP] Ten years after they graduated high school, the bully and his victim meet. The bully attempts a genuine apology. | [
"Mike's pulse was starting to quicken as he gazed through the icy glass door of the ice cream refrigerator. A slight chill blew out over him, as his eyes stood fixated on his subject. His hand clenched around the rim of the door as his hand started turning white. He was angry. He was shocked. He was disgusted and f... | 13 | |
[WP] You object to the marriage but you keep silent. Why? | [
"\"my dearest friend, I kept silent because i thought a great deal about the consequences of such an act.\" I said.\n\"And what consequences might those be?\" My friend didn't know the reason why I would want to object, but that didn't stop him.\n\"Well, if I objected, I'd have to disclose my reasons for it. I'd b... | 3 | |
[WP] Relate an actual experience you've had using third person narrative. | [
"a man sat at his computer, ready to get back in the saddle of /r/WritingPrompts, he found one that he thought would be interesting, something about telling a true story about yourself from a 3rd person narrative, since he'd just come back from 2 months volunteering abroad he would have a hard time choosing just on... | 3 | |
[WP] An NPC in an MMO has a quest to give, but hasn't given it out in so many expansions and updates that he's forgotten what it was... | [
"I frantically dig through my chain mails pocket. \"Let me see what we've got here\", I mutter under my breath while being eyed suspiciously by a green, hunked over orc.\n\n He's dragging a flintstone-axe through the sand that nearly disappears in his paw. His bare chest has a pale, green-ish tone and is not as mus... | 2 | |
[WP] Adam and Eve never ate the apple. Several generations later, their descendants ate from the tree and now the population is split in two: the sinners and the pure ones. | [
"My parents are away at a council meeting again, leaving me to baby-sit. Mark and Luke aren't babies, they're just assholes. Their assholiness is my problem, I get that—I get an allowance for dealing with it.\n\nI don't get why we put up with the zombs. Wandering around naked, fucking in the shrubbery, shitting in ... | 2 | |
[WP] An ordinary, 30 year-old human has been immortal since the year 1,014 A.D. Now, he/she is working in corporate America looking back on his/her millennium in existence. | [
"\"Hey Arthur, did you get that email to Leonard yet? He expects the report by the end of the day today. I know you have a lot on your plate, but you know this is important.\"\n\n\"Yeah.\" I said, half awake. \"You know today is my birthday\" I added, a matter-of-factly. \n\nCaught off guard, Reggie turned on a tim... | 4 | |
[WP] A man begins to physically and mentally break down after he loses his connection to the internet. | [
"\"Okay - turn... ON.\"\n\nNothing. James stared intently at the computer monitor. It was on, but the Internet - the gateway to porn and silly memes - was OFF. Someone had turned off his Internet. Probably his meddling daughter, a different approach to her usual \"computer intervention.\" \n\n\"You game way to... | 2 | |
Feel free to change to third person. | [WP] You're on a double-date, but slowly falling in love with someone from the other couple on the date. | [
"He pulled the chair out from behind her as she slid in position to be seated and he softly nudge the chair into the back of her knees as she smiled quaintly at him. \n\nI'd been so distracted by the conversation he and I were having about the upcoming deployment to Afghanistan I hadn't even stood up to acknowledge... | 1 |
Windbreaker and Parachute Pants optional. | [WP] Tell me a story of a Zebra who spends it's time listening to various tracks on a Walkman, dancing in the middle of a battle-field. | [
"Today was set to be a good one, Frank thought, putting the disc in his Walkman. He'd finished up a new mix, got his brand new parachute pants on and he was ready to groove. He tested a few moves as he crested the hill. He needed to be on his A-game today. \n\nAs he tested out some new funky fresh moves, the battle... | 2 |
[WP] You disowned your mother for over a decade, due to mental abuse. She calls you on her birthday, still mean as ever, claiming fatal sickness | [
"\"I haven't talked to you in years and you decide to call me today, because it ls your birthday?\" Johnny said with a deep sigh.\n\n\"It more than just my birthday, if you've ever cared to call or come around you'd know a little more\" Johnny's mom scoffed as sarcastically as ever. \n\n\"I see you're still bitter ... | 6 | |
[WP] An outspoken gnostic atheist dies and enters heaven. In his confusion, a being who appears to be God approaches him and asks: "Do you have any questions?" | [
"As he lay near the tree, unmoving and limbless, Richard realized he probably should have taken the man up on his lessons before he attempted chainsaw juggling. The birds tweeted, the sky was clear blue, somewhere in the distance a cicada buzzed and the putt putt of the last gasoline burning off in the nearby 2-str... | 2 | |
[WP] An otherwise well-adjusted person grows up in society confusing the word "Asian" with "Assassin". | [
"Osaka to Manila. A dangerous flight path, to be sure, but Vancouver-Tokyo and Tokyo-Osaka had already gone off without a hitch so Daniel wasn't terribly worried. Maybe a little worried, but not too much so. \n\nAnd it was Gabriel Niven's tour anyway, not his, so there wasn't a thing he could do about it. *The man'... | 10 | |
[WP] Somebody has finally discovered the horrifying truth behind why kids love cinnamon toast crunch. | [
"\"Dear god....It was in front of us the whole time!\" Professor Kingsley shouted in his laboratory. His assistant jumped from his chair. \"What!?\" he shouted, moving his glasses up his face. \"I can see it. I-it's horrible....\" The Professor lifted his head up from his microscope and turned to his graduate assis... | 1 | |
[WP] Two step siblings are on board their parents private jet, when the engines fail. The plane crashes in the wilderness, killing both parents. | [
"She wouldn't shut up. “Where are we,” this and, “Where is Mommy,” that. I told her that they were gone. I told her we were lost. I told her I didn't know anything, and she just needed to shut up. But she wouldn't shut up! \n\nMy whole body ached, there was blood in my mouth, and I was pretty sure I had a concus... | 2 | |
Whether you realize it or not, this part of your world isn't real. | [WP] Your romantic life isn't real. | [
"\"No...No you are playing a joke on me\" I stammered, my voice cracking and quivering \"You have to be real, we've been together for two years, I told you everything, we shared everything, this can't just be...fake\" \n\nMadison's faced turned to the side, almost as if she didn't want to keep telling me this, but ... | 1 |
[WP] In the year 2067, it is illegal for individuals to be exposed to the idea of religion until age 18. | [
"JANESON, MARK\n\nSEPTEMBER 2067 - RELIGION 201\n\nASSIGNMENT DECLINED\n\nAs it is a requirement for RELIGION 201, I am tasked with writing my book report on Religion, Superstition, and Magical Thinking, acknowledging the irony of the terms \"writing\" and \"book\" in an era that has replaced writing with thinking ... | 12 | |
[WP] Mother Nature assumes her bodily form and takes a one year trip around the world. Share an entry from her journal. | [
"Day 1:\n\nAnd from the ether, I assume my form. \n\nBefore this, I was self-less, only vaguely aware through nebulous clouds of connections of the honor for which I have been chosen, and the potential for terror. I have never known terror. And I have never known love.\n\nOne cannot be a Mother without having known... | 6 | |
[WP] write me a story where a guy escapes an apartment building while being hunted by four highly trained assassins, but it's got to have a twist ending. | [
"\"It's confirmed.\" said Sergei. \"He's in the room.\"\n\nPyotr smiled, this was all going to plan. The man had made a huge mistake by dishonouring Nikolai in his own club; refusing to move from his favourite chair at the bar and then having the audacity to stub a cigar out on the bar when he finally did leave. Py... | 3 | |
[WP] Write the monologue of a sociopath. | [
"I am well suited for the emergency department. I don't give a shit about any of these disgusting people. I detest their decaying skin that peels and flakes like a Birch in the spring . Repulsed by the stench of their diminishing capacities. Hateful of their entitled neediness. Sickened by their decrepitness. This ... | 8 | |
[WP] You wake up to realize that the last 5 years of your life have been a dream that only lasted a single night. | [
"I sat with my morning coffee, taking cautionary sips, so as not to burn myself on the now unfamiliar beverage. I had learned to drink coffee three years from now, when the stress of work demanded it. Now, it left a bitter taste in my mouth. Five years of my life, gone like dust in the wind. Had any of it ever been... | 2 | |
Everyone has been asked, "If you could choose any superpower, which one would you choose?" But what if you got it? | [WP] A stranger asks you what superpower you'd choose. Then they give it to you. Now what? | [
"\"YOU!\"\n\nI level my gun at the head of the man facing me while he looked back unconcerned. \"Hello to you to\" he replied, as if I'd casually greeted him on the sidewalk \"It's been five years hasn't it? You've changed quite a bit since then.\"\n\nI'd lost my left eye three years ago when a piece of shrapnel pi... | 4 |
[WP] After WWIII people have finally realised that war is a human necessity. Every 50 years countries form alliances and different factions declare war to each other. Mass destruction weapons are not allowed. The winners rule the world economy. | [
"\"The day before is always the worst day\" Josh told himself. He knew this was wrong, and this is just the embers of the fire that's about to start. He found that watching the American Television propaganda comforts him, like a mother telling a child that everything is going to be fine, even with the mother knowin... | 7 | |
NSFW just in case... | [WP] Write about the beginnings of an affair between two people that do not speak the same language. | [
"**A bit of a weirder take on the prompt. Not for the weak of heart- or stomach**\n\nThis was *not* how first contact encounters were supposed to go. \nMichael Alstrom lay exhausted on the floor of the encounter room. He wasn’t sure *what* had just happened, but it had felt a whole hell of a lot like sex. He was su... | 5 |
[WP] Becoming the president is akin to being the Avatar where the president gains access to the wisdom of all past presidential figures. | [
"October 1962. \n\n“I need to be alone gentlemen. You’re dismissed.” The generals and military commanders left the president in his oval office. One man lingered at the door. “That includes you Bobby.” Robert Kennedy approached his brothers desk. “Jack, what’s wrong? We’re on the cusp of a nuclear war and you’re di... | 3 | |
Anything your heart desires, just somehow make it based off of, or incorporate, the quote :) | [WP] "In the end, two remained." | [
"It has been nearly an hour now, the initial violence had not ended. The battle was long and fierce, and weakening his enemy to its current state was due to the lives of his friends he sacrificed to get there. Now he was alone with it. He steeled his resolve, pulling out a potion to replenish his wounds and readie... | 5 |
[WP] It's your first Championship fight in boxing, the stadium is packed, press are at the ready, the hype is HUGE. Write me a story from your walk to the ring, the fight and finish. Tell me about the adrenaline and thrill. | [
" This moment... this is the moment. Everything I've done has lead to this moment. Every bar bell lifted, every mile ran, every combo learned has been for this moment. Has it been enough? Did I train my body and mind enough? \n\n \"Hey its 5 minutes till show time, Rambo\" yelled Angelo Clay.\n \n\"I'm ready\"... | 2 | |
No superpowers. Just doesn't age. | [WP] You're an immortal living among humanity in secret. How do you keep yourself entertained? | [
"The first hundred years were alright. Adam and Eve were pretty cool, but for some reason, he was not remembered the same way they were. Probably because while they were behaving like children in the garden of eden, he was busy getting the real world ready for them. The next 100 years, he tried being a normal hu... | 2 |
[WP] Inigo montoya has spent most of his life hunting down his father's assassin : the man with 6 fingers. He finally finds him on Facebook, and adds him. Imagine the conversation that ensues. | [
"\"Count Rugen accepted your friend request.\"\n\n*Excellent,* Inigo thought to himself. He typed quickly, his fingers moving furiously across the keyboard.\n\n**YOU:** You killed my father.\n\n**RUGEN:** Sorry, what?\n\n**YOU:** My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. \n\n**RUGEN:** I have no idea what you... | 1 | |
[WP]Your superpower is that you get stronger from other people's suffering. You can only use it for good. | [
"I started as a madman. Powerful, with the knowledge of human suffering. Men and women alike all suffer at some point, and especially the ones in Africa... Good God they suffered. Alas, the curse had taken hold. I started with the biggest problems, thinking that my morality would win in the end, free me of my own c... | 2 | |
[WP] Write the diary of a superhero becoming a supervillain. | [
"Sorry, on mobile.\n\nMay 18, 22-- 2:27 p.m.\n\nToday the excavation team made an absolutely remarkable find! It was underneath the rubble of an old Magibiotics lab (documented as Excavation AM-132) - one of those ones that toyed around with the human genome and the later stages of the. School of Flesh and its subs... | 3 | |
[WP] Your boss gives you an envelope containing your Christmas bonus. When you get home and open it, you realize that it is a blank check. What do you do? Do you use it? Run away? Give it back? Does your boss come after you? Tell me your version. | [WP] Your boss gives you an envelope containing your Christmas bonus. When you get home and open it, you realize that it is a blank check. What do you do? | [
"Alvin picked up the phone, still staring at the company check, all lines left unfilled save the signature. \n\"One, five, five...\" he muttered the numbers as he entered them, \"...two, seven. Okay.\"\nThe phone rung once before Mr. Elson answered, \"Hello, Jack Elson speaking.\"\nAlvin swallowed nervously, hopi... | 2 |
[WP] Write a story about a homeless drug addict that wins the lottery. | [
"These are both brilliant. Love the way you both used his addiction to take away what he thought he had. I'm new to Reddit so I'm not sure if I up voted your comments or not. Thanks a lot!\n\nHenry's story was the best in my opinion. I really felt emotion towards the end well done.",
"The television is blaring in... | 3 | |
[WP] "I've kidnapped you four and brought you to my island to play what I call 'the most dangerous game': Tic - Tac -Toe." | [
"These were the first words that came out of the antiquated, 1950s vintage speaker set in the corner of the windowless hut. The only other thing in the dilapidated room was indeed a polished wooden grid, nine boxes of about three inches each. On top of it lay six brass crosses and six steel circles. It seemed simpl... | 3 | |
[WP] The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse meet in a pub to commiserate over their seeming inability to bring about the end of days. | [
"The lighting was dim and the place smelt of sweat and stale beer. A greasy carpet underfoot showed a flowery pattern, now faded almost beyond recognition. Once, that pale brownish pink was a rich vermilion and the dusty grey a solid, deep-hued black.\n\nThe man sat at the table.\n\nThey were late.\n\nWell, it was ... | 1 | |
[WP] A man is suicidal and happened to be held at gunpoint. He does not comply with the gunman's orders, as he figures this is his opportunity to get killed without having to do it himself. The gun turns out to either be fake or empty of ammunition. The victim soon decides he no longer wants to die. | [
"\"In through the nose out through the mouth\"\n\nWith every exhale he regains a small amount of clarity\n\nStacy's voice rings through his head\n\n\"in through the mouth, out through the nose\"\n\nThe ringing in his ears is vivacious and unrelenting. The only other sound tht is audible is the loud rhythmic poundin... | 3 | |
[WP] An elderly King stands alone, looking out on his once great city as a figure, hooded and cloaked, briskly approaches him. 'I knew it would be tonight. But not you. Not quite like this.' | [
"\nWork in progress\n\nThe castle had fallen. They came in the night, those that were once men. Once friends, once friends, family and companions. The dead had risen but not as they once were; shade and shadow draped as flesh.\n\nThey walked through stone as if it were dust and where they walked it was. Clouds of o... | 5 | |
An unexplained phenomenon has caused humans to miss an entire day. Using our position around the sun and the parallax of stars astronomers find that an entire day has gone by inexplicably. No one has memory of this, merely all humans have either been asleep for that day or do not remember it. | [WP] Astronomers, early one morning, discover that yesterday went by with no one waking. | [
"George sat hunched over his newspaper with his elbow propped on his desk. His head rested on a tripod of fingers slowly massaging his left temple. A thin silver ribbon of smoke slowly snaked around his cheek, coming from the cigarette held loosely in his right hand. Over and over, he read the date printed in th... | 3 |
[WP] Bill Clinton hold a press conference to discuss the marijuana accusations. In a highly ill advised move, he admits that the accusations are true and then legalizes marijuana in 1992. It's now 2014. | [
"Not only was the international ban on recreational cannabis lifted after President Clinton's amending of the Controlled Substances Act and Boggs Act, but the floodgates had been opened for varieties of industrial grade hemp to be grown without legal penalties worldwide after the UN retroactively amended their Conv... | 2 | |
[WP] Like a hummingbird's migration over the sea, a task at the limit of human endurance must be undertaken each year. | [
"*\"Uuugghh, do I have to?\"*\n\n*\"Yes Edward. Always yes. There is no not doing this. This is a part of who we are.\"*\n\n*\"I know Dad, it's just....it's so uncomfortable. Even the air hurts to breathe. My skin feels like it's on fire within minutes, and...and I don't...want to see it again.\"*\n\n*\"None o... | 2 | |
[WP] Aliens have taken over the world, and nothing has really changed. | [
"First it is the Tsars. We are no better than slaves, scratching livings in fallow fields as they cavort in their high palaces. They speak French and we speak Russian. We speak different languages, us and them. \n\nThen it is the Soviets. What a stab in the back: the workers finally rise, but so do the Red Tsars. W... | 6 | |
I have just washed a spider down my sink as it was trapped in there. I feel rather cruel, however upon watching for a few moments the spider managed to crawl out. Needless to say I left the tap on a little linger the second time but couldn't help but worry about what kind of anger the spider was feeling. | [WP] You wash a spider down the sink, however the spider latches on to the pipe and let's the water wash over him. The spider now exacts his revenge. | [
"He knew he would die down here. This canyon would be his death. He was a gifted climber but even he couldn't climb the sheer cliffs that boxed him in.\n\nHe prayed to whoever would listen to be saved. Promised faith and servitude. Promised anything he could think of.\n\nThe blank white sky, which had only a long o... | 1 |
[WP] "She always went to that little magical place inside her head. Only difference now is that she isn't coming back." | [
"8/16/14\n\nShe always went to that little magical place inside her head. It helped a lot when things got too stressful with work and relationships. She knew she always had that fallback. The reassurance of her ever-present imagination giving her an escape.\n\nShe knew it wasn't real, of course, but that didn't ... | 5 | |
[WP] One night, while doing laundry, you discover your dryer is a doorway to another dimension. It's one filled with mismatched socks...and something much more sinister. | [
"This is the story of why I am buying 50 pairs of socks every week. They're offerings to the winged monster living in the universe that openes at the back of my dryer. \n\nIt was almost Christmas when it happened. I was trying to pair my socks, I had maybe two or three pairs of socks that were still together. The r... | 2 | |
[WP] A man sits next to you at the bar, he hands you a key as his eyes roll into the back of his head while collapsing to the ground | [
"\"Fucking bitch\", murmured Ernesto under his breath. He seethed as he watched the indiana-nebraska game and clutched his jim beam in his hand.\"How could i be this naive, good job ernie..\"\n\nAs Ernesto takes another swig of the hard stuff, in walks a silver haired man, takes his raincoat off and sits next to Er... | 2 | |
Usually, finding an ancient sleeping anything is a bad thing. Let's see some stories where it turns out better than okay. | [WP] In a forgotten chamber, the protagonist discovers a dormant robot army. It's a good thing. | [
"The musky, pervasive scent of dirt and mold filled my nostrils. I took another deep breath, letting that old air fill my lungs, steadying myself, just looking down, down into the maw of earth that opened below me. The cave was vast, it's winding curves and tunnels all but unexplored.\n\n\"Ok Jamie...no different t... | 2 |
This is aimed more toward Tabletop games, but responses using multiplayer video games can work too.
Game mechanics don't matter so much, though the rule of thumb, as I understand it, is that rolling 20 is "good" and rolling 1 is "catastrophic."
| [WP] A group of veteran gamers share "war stories" of past campaigns with a youngster, who isn't sure if they're being serious. | [
"The lot of us sat at the table in the corner when the newcomers showed up, our stale half finished beers covering the table as we spoke. As they sat down they were utterly flabbergasted at the things they were hearing.\n\"You killed an elder frost Wyrm at first level? How in the hell?\" Questioned Jeff, in an aggr... | 1 |
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