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[WP] Two women meet in the dead of night. | [
"Queen Malvina leaves the grotto behind her, retracing her path through the caves. Waves of emotion course through her, threatening to overwhelm her composure. In nervousness she strokes her braid of raven hair, running her fingers across the silver thread woven through. Her slippered feet are silent as she walks, ... | 3 | |
[WP] Death is shopping around his cover letter to different employers after sensing a department closure in the near future. This is his cover letter. | [
"Dear Ms. Steel,\n\nI would like to put forward my name for the position of Security Officer that was advertised on the Worklikethedevil website on November 19. \n\nIn my previous experience with a collections agency, I was recognized for my enthusiasm, professionalism and zest. I am proud to say that my services w... | 1 | |
[WP] You die and soon find yourself waking up in some sort of high tech pod, and suddenly remember that you are the first person to test the "life simulator" project. your entire previous lifetime was a simulation, and lasted all in the span of 2 hours in real life. | [
"I'm 80 years old, on my deathbed surrounded by a family of children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Everyone expected me to recover from the fall, but it was just my time. When I died I was able to accept death. I got to say goodbye and died in my sleep.\n\nMy eyes fluttered open and I was could see a hosp... | 8 | |
[WP] Young guy is diagnosed with a rare disease which is fatal and has no cure. He then begins studying medicine to find a cure. | [
"The ink trickled down his wrist and started to pool in a tidy puddle on the hardwood floor. A half-full cup of stale coffee sat lukewarm to the far right of his desk, boxed in by sheets of paper filled with hastily scribbled notes.\n\nStaring blankly into the dense textbook at least a century old, he looked over a... | 2 | |
[WP] A scientist discovers the real reason why humans need to sleep. | [
"May 19th, 2076, Morning:\n\nIt's day 238 of our sleep deprivation study. Three more participants have succumbed to sleep and are receiving medical rehabilitation. Of the remaining five, two more show the same symptoms of severely impaired bodily function. I expect them to fall asleep within the next 48 hours. ... | 4 | |
[WP] One day, you receive a parcel. Upon opening it you discover a letter that says "Your life was all a lie, They are coming." It was from yourself, 32 years ago. You don't remember anything from 32 years ago because you know you're only 23. You hear the sound of Helicopters and Army men coming in. | [
"*Remember.*\n\n*Remember*.\n\n**REMEMBER**\n\nCold sweat covered his body as he came screaming back into the land of the living. It was still dark, the predawn light only hinting at it's promise. \n\n*Why does everything feel so...weird?*\n\nStumbling to the bathroom, he relieves himself, a steady stream of piss t... | 3 | |
[WP] Your best friend invites you over. During your visit, they confess that they are one of the Seven Deadly Sins in human form, and they have been using their power to influence you since the beginning of your friendship. | [
"“Nice try, but even I’m not that gullible!” Jason never took his eyes of the screen. Andy had gotten him a few times before with that trick, but it hadn’t worked in months. The two boys had become inseparable over summer break. They were always over at one or the other’s house, usually playing some video game or a... | 2 | |
The fire is gone. The passion is stale. We've been going thru the motions for months. If I could just remember why we fell in love in the first place. Who I used to love. Maybe we could stand a chance. | [WP] Why are we still together? | [
"*The fire is gone. The passion is stale. We've been going through the motions for months. If I could just remember why we fell in love in the first place. Who I used to love. Maybe we could stand a chance.*\n\nThe words echoed through the increasingly sore channels of Aaron's mind. He'd been having these thoughts ... | 3 |
[WP] Trial by Quest. In this society, the accused are send into a dungeon to clear their name by completing a quest. Today, you and 4 others begin this trial after being accused of crimes. | [
"We stood around the worn wooden table. It spanned from one end of the room to the other stopping just before touching the wall, with a gap big enough for the average person to squeeze. Shields, swords, axes, guns, every weapon imaginable lay on the table. We were allowed to carry two. I couldn't bring myself to ch... | 4 | |
The snow falling around the man on his knees seemed sympathetic to his plight, thought the Captain. It gathered on the tops of his shoulders in drifts that occasionally, like tears, slid down the lapels of his thick jacket. His hands, turning blue-white with the cold and the grip of his interwoven fingers, shook, dislo... | [WP] Wrote this on a couple of post-it notes and felt it deserved more substance. Anyone care to give it a bash? | [
"Well, if it's going to be cold, at least there's snow, thought the man. He could feel flakes landing on his forehead and nose. He blinked some away and looked up. The sun was shining, too, and it was bright. They used to have a word for that when he was growing up. When it snowed with the sun shining. Snow shower?... | 1 |
[WP] A frustrated teenager is repeatedly failing at a video game level; in his mind, though, his thoughts are elsewhere... | [
"*whir whir whir whir whir whir beep beep*\n\nPacman rolled back in on himself again and disappeared.\nA slight grimace crossed his face as the startup music played again. Left, then up, then across, straight into a ghost.\n\n*whir whir whir whir whir whir beep beep*\n\nLuke had been pouring arcade-era amounts of t... | 1 | |
A "sequel" of sorts to this earlier prompt of mine: https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/1sws4j/wp_a_sex_trafficker_is_brutally_killed_by_a/ | [WP] An ISIS fighter is killed in battle. Expecting Paradise, he instead finds himself at the gates of Hell, where a furious angel is ready to toss him inside for eternity. However, the fighter is allowed five minutes to explain his actions in life. What does he say? | [
"\"Oh, it's you,\" the Accuser squealed, \"we've been waiting a long time for you, yes we have. Uh-huh. Hey, Bob. Come here, here's finally here.\" A timid little thing in an oversized brown suit and tie came scampering around the corner.\n\n\"It *is* him,\" Bob exclaimed in excitement \"oh boy, have we got just th... | 4 |
[WP] Write about a character escaping from a book into the physical world. | [
"“Hallo. Call me, James”. \n\n\nThe words of a young man stand out against the mumble of noises in the room. The words sound a bit clunky, perfectly normal but wrong. Like a child in charge of its wardrobe, dressing itself to be perfectly un-matching. The accent must be something foreign. Probably not a James then.... | 1 | |
Try to stray away from words like depressed, lonely, sad.... The picture is titled ["Sargent"](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/John_Singer_Sargent_-_Street_in_Venice_\(NGAi\).jpg) | [WP] Write a short story/poem/description of this picture [Link inside] relating to loneliness. | [
"I married him because of his wealth. Yet I wish I appreciated him more.\n\nI do not feel the passion my associates would bombastically show to the world. They'd raise their heads with pride that matches God's, stand with a dignified posture and talk with such confidence of their man that I'd dare not question thei... | 4 |
[WP] Your door bell rings. It's a person from another universe. They inform you that you are their favorite book character. They know how it ends, and they want to change it. | [
"I'm going to start off this story by saying that if anyone ever throws a pebble against your window, assume they are coming to kill you and don't answer. \n\nK. Well, it was about midnight when the first pebble was thrown against my window. I rolled over and tried to ignore it. Then, there was the second. And the ... | 3 | |
[WP] After a life full of sins, you are being sent to hell. However, God gives you an opportunity to go to heaven if you can justify all of the sins you have performed in your lifetime. | [
"\"Is this a trick question?\" \nI can't see him. All I can see is cloudy, stormy gray. I'm not sure if it's better that way. I feel like I read something somewhere about not being able to look the Lord in the eyes without getting burned alive. Or something along those lines.\nHe doesn't answer, and I don't think I... | 5 | |
If you are wondering this happened to me two days ago. Be as creative as you can and hopefully it will cheer me up. I love you all. | [WP] You just bought an plane ticket to spend Thanks Giving with your long distance relationship girlfriend. When you get there she says she only sees you as a friend. | [
"\"Oh Holly! how do I love thee? Let me count the ways! one- I love your eyes. Two- I love your teeth. three- I love you smile. four I love yo-\"\n\n\"Hey buddy, you want to not talk to yourself anymore? Ok? This is gonna be a long enough flight as it is. There's no way I want to sit here and listen to your love... | 2 |
This will be fun because some of our favorite dinosaurs were present for the Cretaceous era. And don't forget the first bees!
A little research to get you started:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous | [WP] There are no humans, there's no sentient life, in the Lower Cretaceous period, write a landscape of the day the first flower blossomed | [
"In a low valley, on the edge of the river, the ancient Cycad awaits the Sun in the mountain’s shadow.\n\nNear its woody base, between its spreading roots, small furred creatures burrow down into their dens to escape the coming heat. They nestle together around their live birth young, who suckle gently at the moth... | 2 |
[FF] Break my heart in a sentence. | [
"Rafael sprinted after the pass, juking past the final defender and giving the goalie the scare of his life as he approached the rocks that marked the posts, until, with the loudest bang I'd ever heard in my life, Rafael died, and the ball was littered with shrapnel.\n\n\nFor some reason, when the first thing that ... | 4 | |
[WP] A man wakes up in a forest, in a different country, with a different language, on a different continent. He soon finds a town, that is somehow... different. | [
"I woke up to the sounds of the birds chirping right above me. There were trees, Spruce trees, all around me. I pressed down my hand on the ground, only to find out I was sleeping in a mossy stone. The air was fresh, it was peaceful. I got up on my feet and took a look around. It would appear I was in the forest, b... | 2 | |
[WP] It Was Once A Pleasure To Burn | [
"It was once a pleasure to burn.\n\nIt was once a special pleasure to see things blackened and changed.\n\nWith the mask obscuring his stoic face and steel helmet resting on his oily, black hair, he once flicked the trigger and watched as the world changed before him, played to his symphony.\n\nThe sturdy wood crum... | 4 | |
[WP] A disease kills all people of the earth by order of intelligence. You and one other person are the last people alive. | [
"It was mystifying at first. People just seemed to stop coming around. Weird. huh? It took me well into the third or fourth week of this before I figured out what had happened. They were dying.\n\nHow it was happening was beyond me, but people would just start fall over - suddenly. In the middle of the street. In t... | 2 | |
[WP] A horror story/scenario that doesn't involve death or physical torture. | [
"A man falls alseep on an even day, wakes up on an even day.\n\nHis phone vibrates, he reads: *Send a text next time you can't come, we waited for you*\n\nHe calls back to apologise, explains he apparently slept through the whole day. Weird to him, and to his friend, but he was very tired, and he decided he would c... | 4 | |
[WP] Theres something that everyone knows is false but acts like it's true. You're the only one who doesn't know it's false. | [
"\"I'm a real boy, right mother?\" Pinocchio looked up at his mother.\n\nHis face was full of hope that maybe this time the experiment had worked. Nochisia didn't have the heart to tell her precious little boy that it hadn't. They had tried for so many years to return his body to him but nothing had worked. \n\nShe... | 1 | |
You can go anywhere you like in mere moments by your own clock, but if your destination is millions of light years away then millions of years will have passed back home when you arrive.
As someone old enough to have seen the advent of unobtanium, you reflect on the way society has changed, now that the endless possib... | [WP] Unobtanium finally gives mankind the ability to travel the stars. Starships can travel at speeds arbitrarily close to the speed of light, but there is simply no way around the constraints of special relativity. | [
"As civilization had advanced, it turned out that our intrepid spirit had waned. Our explorer ancestors were revered for having an undying thirst for new adventures. In a way, modern society had slaked that thirst, however indirectly. Families made up our core and as such our priorities changed. We explored fro... | 2 |
[WP] Since the day they where born, everyone is given a redo button which is able to reset any event at any given point in time. However, it can only be used once. | [
"This is my first attempt at writing. Sorry if it sucks. \n\n I stood over the bloody body, bludgeoned by the metal baseball bat in my left hand. It all happened so fast. I heard a noise in the middle of the night, thought it was an intruder, and grabbed the bat from my closet. I had always been a nervous perso... | 5 | |
[WP] You've been sucked in to a game world, and must beat the game in order to get back to the real one. Do you stay in the game, or do you go back to your old life? | [
"I never should have rubbed that lamp that appeared on my desk. No matter how much I do there's just more and more added to the list to complete this damn game. Why did it have to be this game of all games. \n\nTo complete this game, the strange man who greeted me in the museum exhibit I fell into gave me a list of... | 4 | |
For instance, the gifting of The Statue of Liberty turns into Johnny giving Susan a gift. | [WP] Retell a major historical event as if they were the events of a kindergarten classroom. | [
"As the first bell rang, Jackie looked at the desk next to hers. It was the second day in a row that the seat had been vacant. *Oh, that's right... he won't be coming back.*\n\nJohn was the class president of Ms. Rica's fourth grade class. He was smart and had a kind smile. He wasn't the most athletic of the boys, ... | 2 |
[WP] The hero finds a gun and shoots a villain with it, only to find that this gun doesn't kill but causes people to spill out their backstories when shot. | [
"After finding a gun in a drawer of his father's, Harry had finally tracked down his mortal enemy and after what seemed like a lifetime of searchingx he had finally found the perfect opportunity to kill her. The woman who had taken his life from him. The woman who had taken a lifetime of wonder and amazement was fi... | 2 | |
[WP] For your entire life, you've had a voice in your head counting down, and it's getting close to zero. | [
"After thousands of numbers. The same voice has spoken One number every day. Counting down. At first, I thought it was about death, although it may as well be.\n\nIt can't remember when was the first time I noticed the number. I just thought I was hearing things. It doesn't matter anyways, day 1 is today. I have ac... | 12 | |
There are a lot of ways to go about answering this, but I'll leave it up to you guys. | [WP] A new surgical procedure has been created that allows a person to run a powerful Wi-Fi network using their own body’s electrical impulses as a power source.FDA has approved human trials, and you are the first recipient. | [
"Chapter 1: \n\nThere has been 5 years since I was the first human subject of the experiment, after 3 months of my \"successful\" intervention there were over 2 thousands solicitudes to participate in the experiment, and in 5 months, 12 thousand more. \n\nThe final connection between man and machine, I belong to th... | 2 |
[WP] Soulmates are paired together by a being called The Matchmaker, who likes to mix things up once in a while by getting drunk on the job. Today is one of those days. | [
"\"no no, now this MUST be a mistake\". I spit out. \"You...? Me...?!\" He adds. \"SOULMATES?\" We both shout. I take a step back. \"Look there must be something gone wrong up there..\" Noah reassures, pointing up at the sky \"It must've. I'm sure... you and I... Did you read your imprint right?\" I ask him frustra... | 3 | |
[WP] The entire Harry Potter series happened all in Harry's mind because he took a huge dose of drugs. He wakes up and... | [
"Tom grunted. He could feel the thumping bass lines of Dean's God-awful music pull at his rib cage. He slowly opened his eyes and struggled to get up from the couch.\n\n\n\"Look at this, seems like the old boy's finally coming 'round!\"\n\n\nTom squinted at the speaker. His gummy contacts fought to arrange themselv... | 2 | |
[WP] The year is 2035. Advances in Science and Technology have allowed humans to tattoo technology discreetly on the skin. | [
"“College GPAs continue to skyrocket today as students utilize the subcutaneous LED screen to cheat on tests. These screens can display information that has been captured by micro cameras stored in the forehead. This information is then relayed through the nervous system to a designated spot on the forearm. A scree... | 2 | |
[WP] All these public celebrity breakdowns are the result of said celebrity uncovering horrific eldritch knowledge not meant for the minds of humans. | [
"\"Oh hey nick... uh it's nice to see you\" \n\"Cage\" \n\"What?\"\n\"Its Cage now\" \n\"oh, uh ok nick... I mean Cage, what are you here for, its 2:26 in the morning\" \n\"You're too damn good heath\" \n\"Thats it, that...\" \n\"don't worry though, I found what I need to get back on top\" \n\"that's good N... | 4 | |
Write any story you like within a world where the United States of America never happened. | [WP] America never ceased to be a British colony and as such the USA never came into being. Cue forward to the modern world where the USA never became a thing. | [
"*channel static*\n\nA heated debate:\n\n\"Prime Minister Clegg needs to take a harder stance on these-\" He makes a grandiose gesture with his hands. \"*American* separatists. They are barbarous animals. Behe-\"\n\n*channel static*\n\nThree football pundits sit at a table as the camera settles on them. \n\n\"I'm E... | 3 |
In a futuristic world, we have flying cars, slower-than-light spaceships, dangerous alien fauna, cybernetics, genetic engineering, androids and robots, AIs, you name it.
You wake up in your apartment and turn on the TV. What commercials are they airing? | [WP] Realistic TV commercials for future world problems | [
"\"...to get up.\" A nauseating digital voice cuts through my slumber and reverberates around my skull. \"Sir, Mr Franklin are you awake?\"\n\"Yes\" I snap back \"Get lost\" \n\"I don't understand.\" replied the CYber720 \"Do you want me to leave the apartment?\"\n\"No don't leave the God damned apartment. Just sto... | 3 |
[WP] On a desert highway you come across a man with bright white skin with strange markings. He wears clothes from the 1800s and tells you he has to wander until the wrongs he has done are forgiven. Tell his story. | [
"Damn car stalled again. \n\nIt wasn't so much the stalled car that I was angry about as much as it was where I was when it happened - on an unfamiliar highway with the stars hanging over me, having taken a wrong turn on a drive out to a girlfriend's house which I had decided too late that I didn't care to visit. I... | 1 | |
[WP] A painter gets trapped in one of his paintings | [
"The water had dried up from the well about a week ago in what was the hottest spring in memory. The neighbours had left some time ago, when the warnings had come out over the low wave radio. Dust storms were coming, blowing in from the tornado belt the girl had read about in her geography books. Was it like this e... | 10 | |
[WP] Ever since you turned 20, every day, you wake up at a different point in your life. You might wake up in your 43 year old self one day, and then your 21 year old self the next. Your days never repeat, and always takes place after your 20th birthday. | [
"I woke up that morning wondering in what timeline of my life I have landed on. I noticed the ceiling to my room was still the same as I rubbed my eyes and yawned. I sat up and faced the mirror that I have placed opposite my bed; making it a habit to check myself in the mirror and guess how old I was that morning. ... | 4 | |
[WP] You hear about lucid dreaming and try to learn it. The first step is to get in the habbit of doing reality-checks, like sealing your nose and trying to breathe. If you can, you are dreaming. You seal your nose and notice that you are able to breathe. | [
"'Lucid dreaming'. The phrase grabs me, for some reason. I stop scrolling, click through the link, skim through a few paragraphs. Then a few pages. The concept starts connecting to all of the others, all of the other ideas I've run into online. Meditation, reincarnation, astral projection, all that shit that grabbe... | 1 | |
[WP] For years, you've woken up every morning to a brief note under your pillow, apparently written by yourself from a day in the future, that tells you what will happen that day. Today, there is no note. | [
"I almost forgot what this was like. My heart thrummed like a hummingbird in my chest.\n\n*knock knock*\n\nThe door opened more quickly than I expected. I flinched.\n\n\"Eric, hey, come in, sit down. I got your call...you...you look pale. Are you okay?\"\n\n\"I love you.\"\n\n\"Huh..did you jus-\"\n\n\"I love you. ... | 6 | |
[WP] A young woman is about to be deployed in Afghanistan. His father, an old Vietnam vet, wants to give her something. | [
"\"Well you see Sally, when I was shot down in Vietnam, in the war, we could hear the Viet Cong coming for us, and we knew that we were going to be captured. My friend, my co pilot, Johhny, he turned to me, he said to me \"Saul, I'm dying Saul\". And he asked me to take this gift for his wife and give it to her whe... | 2 | |
Make me cry plz | [WP] Saddest love story you can write | [
"Peter sat at the opposite end of the cafe watching her as she sat quietly at her booth, alone. Her long blonde hair fell over her bare shoulders in loose curls. Her almond shaped eyes, so kind and caring, and glacier blue scanned the busy room. He secretly hoped that she would make eye contact with him. Instea... | 6 |
Too specific? | [WP] You are a time-traveler stranded before the dawn of human civilization. You survive by integrating with a small clan of hunter gatherers and teaching them language, to craft better tools, farm, etc. | [
"I knew from the instant I smelled smoke, there was no going back. \n\nAtmospheric moisture in this hotter, wetter time is greater than expected. Not that whoever you are reading this will understand 21st century English, let alone the concepts required to manipulate data with electricity, but water is the tech kil... | 1 |
[WP] You are addicted to rehab, you continually show up at different rehab programs and make up stories as to why you're there. | [
"At first I thought it was just a phase. I'd get over it. After all the idea only sparked after watching \"that one movie that I can't talk about \" one too many times. But it's gotten out of control.\n\nTo the alcoholics, I'm Bob Hoskins, recovering alcoholic with an uncontrollable urge to do the 30/30 challenge. ... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a 14 year old only child to parents in their sixties. One day, while going through old boxes, you find a photo taken of your mother and father twenty years ago. Standing in front of them is a teenager who is identical to you in every way. | [
"What the hell is this? Blue eyes, light brown hair, skinny figure, mischievous smile, restless hands. \nIt was me. It had to be me. \nI turned the photo over and saw the writing on the back. I ignored the rest of the text, and focused on the date. 20 years ago. The fading of the photo supported the fact, and livin... | 2 | |
[WP] You are visited by your guardian angel but he/she is an asshole. | [
"\"C'mon, you can do it\" \n\n\"I dare ya!\" \n\n\"It's not that high, you pussy\"\n\nTheir jeering remarks spurred me forth. I stepped closer to the edge, my eyes involuntarily drawn to the drop. The bottom was shrouded by the mist. They said there was a lake at the bottom. I trusted their words, but everything in... | 4 | |
[WP] A stupid fucking mug with my name on it. | [
"Smokey and I had been friends for more than thirty years. I first met Smokey on a trip to Jamaica. I had walked into a small café just off the beach. He stood behind the counter, the badge proclaiming him to be Smokey gleaming on his breast. \"Koffee fo ja ma man?\" he asked in the lilting accent of his culture. \... | 2 | |
[WP] Reincarnation is real, and memories are retained. It is illegal to contact anyone from your old life, but a black market exists for exactly that reason... | [
"Chris sets the remote down as he reaches for his drink just out of reach. Leaning in he barely brushes the side of the can when the bowl on his lap falls to the floor spilling crumbs at his feet. Chris sighs as he picks up the remote to press pause.\n\n[“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to..”] [VIDEO PAUSES... | 10 | |
[WP] Everyone who talks to you disappears from Earth at the end of the conversation. Cops think you're a killer. You're trying to find someone who can cure you. | [
"\"Hello, Jason from *Marfa!* George Noory here, you're on Coast to Coast AM! Go ahead.\"\n\n\"George. I- I don't know what to do, or who else to talk to. I couldn't find a private line so I had to call the show. I've tried everything, doctors, shrinks, I burned through my retirement to get to the friggin' Amazon t... | 1 | |
May be written from either or both perspectives! | [WP] In the near future, every person has a government agent assigned to them to monitor every detail of their lives. One day, you run into the person assigned to you accidentally. | [
"The question that came to Luke most often in his life was a most difficult one to answer. Did he truly know Alice or was it merely an illusion, concocted in his mind from his constant surveillance of her? Whatever the answer, Luke did know that he had never met a person quite like her. She was, to put it simply, u... | 2 |
[WP] Your date accidentally reveals that they're a minor deity. | [
"\"So what's the most interesting thing about you?\" \n\n\"Is this a game show or something?\"\n\n\"What? No no it just that, well I'm not really good at first dates, it's been a while you know.\" Chris said sheepishly while he hurried his face into his hands, trying desperately to hide his shame.\n\nCelest burst o... | 5 | |
[WP] You have been tasked with reintroducing magic to the world after a 6,000 year absence. | [
"There they were, just as the runes had told - the time-worn stairs descending into the Underworld, waiting for me behind a stony crag in the barren, windswept heath. Taking one last look at the cold blue sky, I began to pick my way carefully down the steps, doing my best not to slip on edges softened by ancient fo... | 11 | |
[WP] There isn't anyone in the mirror... | [
" I stood there looking through the glass portal and saw the same familiar scene that normally stared back at me, yet something was missing. The wall behind me was of course the same slightly wet looking eggshell that you would expect to see in a public restroom, save for the odd spackle of god only knew what. The ... | 12 | |
[WP] Finally, I am free. But, what have I become? | [
"I had waited 18 years for this moment. I was ready, finally. The guard opened the small door to put my food into my cell, just like every other day. That is when I struck.\n\nThey were very easy to neutralize. They hadn't ever faced something like me before. My blind rage at what they had done to me, what they had... | 2 | |
[WP] Tell me the middle of a sci-fi epic. No beginning or introduction to the setting or characters, nor any context to what's going on, and no resolution of any kind. | [
"The trip seemed endless, but of course the drugs in my system to avoid the effects of FTL travel might have made my dreams seem more intense and my waking hours a bit foggy. I remember telling the Flozzie loadmaster to disembark any Triskeran that looked too far cromulent to snag with the hold's udderlines, but th... | 35 | |
[WP] You come from a long lineage of "collectors". in secret, the sworn oath is to help collect every specie before extinction. along with the oath, there was also a letter passed down, to be opened in the year 2015, you are the of the generation to open the letter. | [
"-It's time to be collected.\n\nHe looked up from the letter. \n\nWas this a joke? He was supposed to be the collector, not the collected. \n\nHe looked at the man who had just sworn him in.\n\n\"Is this a joke?\"\n\n\"Unfortunately not. Humanity's end has come.\"\n\nGoosebumps rose on the back of his neck.\n",... | 2 | |
[WP] A world where your entire future is determined by the first word you say as a baby. | [
"The nursery was somber, like most were these days. The babies whined and cried, never quite saying words. When they did, we reported it right away.\n\nI looked over the List, as we caretakers called it, and read the most recent entries:\n\n\n*Danny, age 13 months, \"teacher\"*\n\n*Sarah, age 18 months, \"housewife... | 4 | |
[WP] Someone who has been given immortality is looking back over their life as the last star in the universe burns out leaving nothing but a cold dark abyss to stare into for eternity. | [
"The first three billion years were the worst.\n\nThe second three billion years were also the worst.\n\nDuring the fourth three billion years there was a sharp down turn.\n\nAnd things just kind of went downhill from there. \n\nLiterally all of time to think about last words that I would never get to say, and I st... | 7 | |
[WP] The Kepler telescope discovers a massive Earth-like planet not far from out Solar system. The returning images are stunning. Suddenly, the planet's eyes open. | [
"Professor Shikashi smiled brightly as he glanced through the heavens. It was the only time that he felt like himself. Other people would come to visit the Observatory from time to time, especially in a few weeks when the yearly festival was conducted. It was interesting, really. He always challenged that group of ... | 3 | |
...technically, why would Hell celebrate this day when it is said to be the birthday of Christ in some religion? | [WP] Christmas season is approaching. Write how Hell celebrates this day. | [
"“Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way“\n\nThis fucking song. All day. Every day. \n\n*Crack!*\n\nThe whip sliced my back as yet another tally of my disobedience. Even if I could see my own back I’m sure I wouldn’t be able to count the total. As painful as the sting was at least it snapped me back int... | 2 |
[WP]: For the first time ever Santa has the night off Christmas. Because everyone is on the naughty list. | [
"Klaus slumped into his favourite chair, in front of the old radiogram blaring out carols, the fire just a poker's length away. Somewhere down here there should be some brandy... ah, there it was. It was really time he had a break. Not that he'd done nothing all day - he'd cleaned the sleigh and fed the deers just ... | 3 | |
[WP] A small alien craft is discovered to be orbiting very close to the sun at extreme speeds. Once recovered by humans, it is revealed to be an advanced observatory platform taking advantage of time dilation to view our solar system in "fast forward" | [
"Umm...\n\nIf we have a spaceship orbiting at the radius of the sun (695500 km), to get the orbital period short enough for a Lorentz factor of **2** (2x speed, nowhere near what such thin would need), which for we need the speed of .866 c, we need it to be 0.06 seconds. The mass of the ship to get such period woul... | 2 | |
[WP] The year is 2076 and you are an officer at the Department of Assisted Suicide. | [
"*He recognized her as soon as she walked in. Her emerald green eyes darted around the room, they had never missed a thing. Ever. She walked purposefully towards the booths at the end of the hall.*\n\nThe building had been established after the end of the 4th war in 2070, a way for people to get out. It was somethi... | 3 | |
[WP] After a busy morning of work, torture interrogators take a lunch break in the company break room. | [
"My hands are trembling. I take a puff on the cigarette in between bites of my bologna-and-cheese donut sandwich. Donuts make everything taste better. \n\nThe break room is an old converted barracks room. The floor is concrete, stained and cracked. The walls are faded and dull with hints of mold and mildew streaks.... | 2 | |
Do they confront them on the page? Avert conflict with the villain? Surprise us! (and the author too!) | [WP] Our heroic main character realizes the author is sending them on a suicide mission and tries to reason their way out. | [
"As Bradley creeps up to the final door, he sees his life flashing by. His beautiful wife, Ann, with her lovely smile and rosy cheeks. His baby son Jamie, first words \"dada\". His friend and brother Doug. He knew that the fates of all the people back home depended on him to come back alive. And yet he knew that he... | 4 |
[WP] My name is Lucifer, the Defender of Man, and this is my story. | [
"“La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas.\"\n\n(\"The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.\")”\n\n\n# ― Charles Baudelaire\n\nBaudelaire was almost right, almost. The greatest tricks I ever pulled however, you have never even heard of. For instance, tri... | 7 | |
Based on a dream I had. Feel free to tell the story over the course of several days. | [WP] Write a story from the perspective of someone who is only watching the action while he rides the train to work each day. | [
"July 5th, 2013.\n\nI see this house on my commute to work almost every day. It's a typical meth-lab looking place. Windows boarded, shit everywhere in the yard. Hell, if it weren't for the car that disappeared every now and again, I'd think no one could possibly live there.\n\nJuly 15th, 2013.\n\nI see another car... | 2 |
[WP] There is a seashell rumored to contain, not the sound of the sea, but the voice of a god. You are an atheist. When you pick up the shell, you hear a voice. | [
"I heard about the stupid shell first when my friend told me about it , we were both drunk at our favorite bar and I guess he saw something about it on TV.“Duuude” he slurred “Apparently *hic* some crazy jesus freak found a seashell that she said ‘let her communicate with the almighty’”. I knew where he was going w... | 11 | |
[WP] In order to apprehend the most dangerous serial killer ever known to man the FBI must recruit Santa Claus and his infamous naughty list. | [
"With a great crack, Agent Simms kicked down the wooden door of the fat man's abode, shouting for reinforcements all the while. Heavily armed men charged in with their weapons at the ready, laser sights all centered on their flustered target. Santa.\n\n\"Now, boys, what's all this?\" Santa asked, voice raised half ... | 2 | |
Thanks to /u/Negropolis for the suggestion. | [WP] In a world where bread slices can speak, how does the daily struggle go down to get them to jump into the toaster? | [
"\"Get in,\" I calmly implore. \"No thank you,\" said the slice of Nature's Own. This is the struggle I've went through the past week. I wish there were other options, other than this new-fangled bread. \"Anthropomorphic 100% Whole Wheat\" bread sounds interesting, and almost fun at first, but I assure you it is no... | 2 |
one word for each letter from A-Z! heres mine:
A butcherous, certified destroyer eviscerated fleeing goons. He, in June, killed Like my NCO often-not practiced; quietly. Reloading sounds trickled uniformly vast. Xeric yogic zen.
Edit: cleaned up the story a little bit, I wrote this shit at like 2 am. | [WP] write a story using each letter of the alphabet. | [
"Anyone bothered can't do everything for getting his/her instigator justice. Knowing laws' meanings never offered people questions. Really, someone tells unknowing vigilante wannabes X-men's yearly zeal.\n\n(Anyone that is bothered/negatively affected by someone powerful in politics or villain-powerful etc. can't d... | 1 |
You can choose whatever type of tournament you want.
| [WP] Describe a tournament in which the crowd favorite is destroyed by a newcomer. | [
"When Sealand was recognized as a state, people laughed. When people became Sealandish citizens for tax reasons, people laughed. When Sealand built a floating stadium and joined UEFA, people laughed and imagined the scorelines with which they were going to thrash them in the next qualifiers. When they realized how ... | 2 |
Put the evil back in Devil, if you will. | [WP] Satan is often depicted as a tragic hero on this sub. Write a story where he is NOT. | [
"I looked on in disbelief. My grand army lay in shattered heaps on the crimson plain. \n\nI had conquered all those that dared not to bow to my banner. I had swept through the countryside like a dervish, my invinicible army barely slowing to reap the foolish warriors like wheat. My men required no sleep, hungere... | 2 |
[WP] Every metaphor or figure of speech becomes real. | [
"The car finally swerved to the right and slowed to a stop on the side of the road. The flashing blue lights reflecting off the rear view mirror made the driver wince and his headache more intense. After a few minutes an officer came up to his window.\n\n\"License and registration, please.\" The driver gave the req... | 3 | |
[WP] Zeus and the Olympian Greek Gods assemble on Mount Olympus for their first meeting with a new deity, who has recently revealed himself. His name is "Jehovah” and he arrives with his "Angels". | [
"Zeus. The reigning supreme Commander of the Skies, inheritor of all life on Earth and the destroyer of Titans looked solemnly down upon Earth from his outlook on Mount Olympus. This new deity, Jehovah, was already creating ripples throughout the planet. The self-proclaimed “God” was growing in power - fast. He cou... | 2 | |
[WP] You are Death and it's bring your kid to work day. | [
"(Sorry for the third-person omniscient. Blrag.)\n\n“Say hello to your Auntie Vita, sweetie.”\n\nDeath knew all of this could be overwhelming for his daughter, but he also knew she had to understand sooner or later who he was and what he did every day. Part of understanding that was meeting his “sister”, Vita.\n\nA... | 2 | |
[WP] Your best way to describe the process of sneezing | [
"She takes a sudden quick breath in, her perfect button nose twitching with an invisible itch. There is a pause. A moment where the entire world freezes and time no longer exists. Then a slow soft exhale escapes her perfect soft pink lips as if a small sigh of relief as everything falls back into its natural pace... | 2 | |
[WP] A ghost/demon is attempting to possess your body. This is your last-ditch effort to talk them out of it. | [
"...You shouldn't have told me what you wanted.\n\nI could understand wanting a chance to experience life as humans do - a chance to love, to hate, to feel both joy and despair in equal measure. It is a uniquely human experience, the vibrancy of life - and you intend to use my body as a vessel to steal that away fr... | 8 | |
[WP]Hostel alien forces come to Earth to strip it of its natural resources, only to find that everything's almost used up, an now they can't salvage enough materials to leave orbit. | [
"The Nosi used to be very similar to Americans where they would consume natural resources at an unsustainable rate just a few generations ago. Just as renewable resources are developing here and crawling out of their infancy, the Nosi had done that a few hundred Earth years ago. Efficiency was their key to jumpi... | 4 | |
[WP] You command a squadron of three small starships based in a recently-settled solar system on the edge of the galactic empire. A previously-unknown civilization launches a full-scale invasion. Help is at least five years away. | [
"*Captain’s log, 2565.4.27*\n\n\n“Sensors are detecting a vast fleet of unknown vessels currently 5.6 million kilometres from our colony, I’ve ordered the *Hercules* and *Odysseus* to recall all crewmen currently on the surface of the M-Class planet recently settled. Once up to full complement the vessels will be o... | 2 | |
[WP] "You have lost THE Game" | [
"\"You have lost The Game.\" The statement is scorched into the grass. It's too late. You start to vanish, because you thought about The Game. \n\nYou had done it all, you had taken to living in a faroff cave, scraping by in primitive lands. Most of the world's population had vanished years ago. You were saved only... | 2 | |
[WP] "Hey, tell them about that one time you convinced the four horsemen they were being replaced." | [
"Fooling one Horseman is an art, two is a science, but all four requires some serious balls, a dab of idiocy and a whole lot of luck. It just so happened that I had the last three things, which was a mighty fine coincidence because I was fresh out of the first two.\n\nMy little village sat in the valley between two... | 2 | |
[WP] You are in an alternate universe where falling in love is considered a severe mental illness, and you just found your soulmate. | [
"Doctor Stonesman: When did you first start showing symptoms?\n\nPeter: I'm not entirely sure, Doc? It's really strange.\n\nStonesman: I see.. Well when you came in you told the nurse that you were struggling with restlessness and unsettling thoughts, is this correct?\n\nPeter: Yeah, in a way.\n\nStonesman: Could ... | 2 | |
[WP] To your surprise, Figure-of-speech phrases come to life in a literal sense. Describe your wacky day... | [
"I woke up with an achy back again which had been hounding me lately. I let out a groan and rose out of bed to go and brush my teeth. \n\nAs I walked towards the bathroom I heard a few dogs barking somewhere in the near vicinity. I silently remarked that I normally didn't hear any sounds this early in the day, but ... | 3 | |
[WP] In the near future, Google seizes control of the United States government with the intent of world domination for the betterment of mankind. The United States has never seen such prosperity and advancement. Other world powers are not likely to embrace Googles vision so readily... | [
"We were once the greatest nation the Earth had ever seen. We used to dream about hopeless endeavors and we made them real.\n\nThe Wright Brothers dreamed they could fly and they made it so.\n\nIn 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. make the infamous “I have a dream” speech to end racism. We also elected a black presiden... | 2 | |
Where you go with it is up to you. | [WP] You can hear people's heart songs. | [
"I don't know what I would do if I couldn't hear them. All my life I've known the gentle sounds the heart makes. The sweet melodies that play in times of celebration lift the heart and make it sing. The soft swooning of the soul brings a melancholy tune to the ears. It is pure emotion to my old ears, and it is the ... | 3 |
[WP] At the end of days, Death tells of the life He regretted taking the most. | [
"**The Worm Sisyphus**\n\nAs the Earth lies in waste, I come to my revelation. I feel a wave of relief come over my wretched body as I realize that my eternal task is finally complete. The last of all Earth's souls have finally slipped into the void that I have been gatekeeping for the entirety of my existence. \n\... | 21 | |
I just watched a documentary on him. Every time I heard that robot voice, I couldn't help but think that anyone or anything could be talking for him. | [WP] Stephen Hawking doesn't control his voice box. He has been brain dead for years. | [
"Stephen sat in his office, unmoving, silent. His respirator wheezed as it breathed for him. The shut blinds of his windows hid the expert team of theoretical physicists slaving over chalkboards and textbooks. Calculating what he would say next to the world. \n\nStephen Hawking was now a puppet, a very expensive, r... | 3 |
[WP] You're trapped in a room with no windows, doors, vents, or any other ways to escape. There is only a glowing red button on one of the walls that barely illuminates the room. | [
"I woke up after a long rest, I knew that since I felt energized. I felt happy. But that will soon change… I realize that my bed seems to be hard, almost steel hard. I also couldn't find my phone, which I usually place on the table next to my bed, itself missing… then it hit me. I instantly freeze up, horrified b... | 8 | |
Lots of shotguns, bacon, bald eagles, freedom, and everything else American. The kind of story grandad would tell the grandkids while sitting around the fireplace. | [WP] Write the most American story possible. | [
"It was an early afternoon on December 31, 2014, a day before the New Year. I was laying in bed, sheets rolled up to keep me warm from the frigid air outside. My cat jumped up on the blankets and meowed in distress, I could hear the footsteps of intruders downstairs, at this point, there was nothing I could do. I w... | 2 |
[WP] Write a story which will make the reader connect with the narrator, without any knowledge of the character's gender, race, appearance, or age. | [
"I can't believe Rachael unfriended me. That bitch. Well, I guess she's not coming for cocktails after work with the rest of us. But you know what, I hope she does come, because I'm gonna pretend she's not even there. And if she tries to be like, \"Hey, how are you doing?\" with that phony accent of hers, I'm just ... | 2 | |
[WP] You are Buzz Aldrin. You've just landed on the moon. Your return craft has been destroyed. You have oxygen for 2 days. | [
"Well, this is it. No way back. This is the final chapter of the tale of Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr. \n\nI knew it could end like this. Space is hard. So many things can go wrong. The margin of error razor thin. I, of all people, knew this going in. \n\nBut I also understood the reward. Even now, many lessons will be ... | 1 | |
[WP] Nigeria's first manned mission to Mars. | [
"\"Are all systems online and working?\", my friend and co-pilot asked.\n\n\"All is in order, Tafenyu. Calm down!\", I muttered, trying to focus on the shuttle and not mess anything up. I was never one to worry, so to me this was like a ride at a theme park. Tefenyu, however, was always worrying, always pessimistic... | 8 | |
[WP] While in deep meditation, an amateur psychic inadvertently links themselves with a cosmic entity. Their connection seems mutually beneficial, until the entity begins to realize that the psychic is slowly losing touch with reality, and cannot sever the connection. | [
"The concepts of large and small became completely irrelevant at once. To begin, it was apparent to Joseph that there was some kind of a net as he understood. It connected all things perceivable by his five senses. As this thought passed, the constant need for those senses followed shortly. Life lost its original d... | 7 | |
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/10/22/japans-sexual-apathy-is-endangering-the-global-economy/ | [WP] "Japan’s sexual apathy is endangering the global economy", A team is formed to help combat the problem by the world governments.... | [
"\"Prime Minister! Will you be stepping down?\"\n\n\"Prime Minister! How will compensation for victims affect the pension plan?\"\n\n\"Prime Minister! How do you respond to--\"\n\n\"No comment! I have no comment!\" The prime minister's bodyguards closed around him, and he walked briskly from the Diet to his Of... | 2 |
[WP] You are given the chance to choose any 10 minute chunk of your life and do it over. | [
"\"I don't think about it.\" I remembered the lie every day. When I woke up alone. When I drove to work. When I walked to the store. It never left my head. It had been ten years since I said it. Ten years since I saw him. Then one day I saw him again. I was back in the past and he was there just like he was before.... | 3 | |
You can use this as a reference: http://i.imgur.com/YtsPPTK.png | [WP] After summoning a demon, you find yourself unable to make a deal. When you inquire why, the demon informs you that within your body, there is no soul. | [
"I hated the Church.\n\nMy family’s rise to power grew as our victories in war and success in industry began to build a fearsome reputation. The Church saw us as a threat, and the rest was, as some say, history. We refused their orders to conform, our lofty ambitions shrouding any rational thought. Our hubris dared... | 11 |
[WP] A dyslexic Devil-worshiper sells his soul to Santa. | [
"Jimmy looked over the list of necessary items one final time, just to make sure everything was accounted for. \n\nTen black candles, to mark the focal points of the sigil and lead the Dark Lord's way. Okay, they're just birthday candles that he spent an hour coloring in with marker but black is black. \n\nBlood re... | 9 |
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