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[WP] You're a bellhop carrying a guests bags. You see part of their case is undone and inside you see a small child. | [
"I try to hold back a gasp as I look at the young baby. She looks right back at me with her shimmering black eyes.\n\n\"Googoo, gaga?\" the girl squeals to me.\n\n\"Lady Gaga?\" I ask, confused. \n\n\"Nwo nwo, meh mommyo?\" \n\n\"Nonsense,\" I reply. I wave it off. \n\nBut what is a little kid doing inside of a bag... | 6 | |
[WP] After helping to put out a house fire that killed a family of 4, you see the lone survivor. An elderly man with scorched clothes stares at the charred remains of the home, clutching a small box tightly and close to his chest. | [
"For as long as I can remember I dreamed of being a firefighter. But then again, doesn’t every little boy at some point? “Why a firefighter?” My parents would ask, and my answers varied depending on age. “They are strong. Brave. Heroic. Helping people.” While the reasons may have changed, the end goal did not. I wa... | 2 | |
[WP] Only musicians are born with emotions, and can distribute them temporarily for the duration of the song they play. | [
"The Great Day, video recording:\n\n*The recording buzzes in on a newscaster.*\n\n\"Hello, people of Greensboro. Millions clamor today to squeeze a spot into the Grand Musical Distribution Center. A world-renowned composer will be playing. He will be starting soon.\n\n\"I will not attend today, and if you are watch... | 9 | |
[WP] You have been elected US President in 2016, but have secret plans to turn the country that has been a democracy for 300 years into a dictatorship. You have a 5 minute speech to convince everyone. | [
"Good people of America, today will be a day that will go down in history. I promised you an America without fear.\n\nBy the end of my presidency, no longer will we fear war. No longer will we fear terrorists. No longer will we fear poverty.\n\nOur nation boasts the greatest military the world has ever seen. Despit... | 6 | |
[WP] After having grown up in outer space, you come back to your original home planet. | [
"\"Remind me why we're going down to the surface again?\"\n\n\"You think I know? It's better than sitting through another History of the Earth lecture,\" scoffed Adam, twisting his ring around his middle finger. He was nervous. I was too, it was our first time on Earth. We've learned so much about it - not that any... | 4 | |
Best response will have their piece made into a screenplay and if all goes well, made into a short film which will be submitted into the Busan International Film Festival amongsts others. Full credit will be given to the OP. | [WP] Your beloved girlfriend is flying in to visit you and you plan to propose to her the moment she walks out of the arrivals gate, however after an unusual delay, you hear from a nearby television broadcast in an airport cafe that her plane is missing and never landed. | [
"The mid-afternoon Sun pushed temperatures into the upper 70's as Matthew powered his SUV through airport terminal parking, sweaty nervous hands on the leather steering wheel. That nervousness, normally reserved for reckless airport drivers, was far in the back of his mind. Front and center, instead, was the questi... | 2 |
[WP] Unfortunately, the commandment of "thou shall not kill" also includes video games... | [
"This really hammered the proverbial last nail in the religion coffin home, I thought to myself as I burned in hell. I mean here I am immolating for all eternity but not being consumed by the flames, which is really just a big fuck-you to physics. Hell's level designer really should have asked Valve for pointers. I... | 3 | |
[WP] Due to the rise of violence, poverty and less resources, the government has secretly issued a valid "lisence to kill" to a select group of people for population control. You are one of the select few. | [
"I woke up that morning like every other morning before.\n\nAfter the second alarm went off at 6;45, I made my way to the shower in a desperate attempt to wash off the drowsiness from the pills I swallowed last night. They call my mind and allow me even the tiniest bit of sleep at night as my wandering mind consid... | 2 | |
[WP] In an attempt to ease tensions, Zeus decides to host a Family Game Night. | [
"First attempt at this… Feel free to leave thoughts and comments: \n\nZeus rubbed his forehead. His throbbing headache wouldn’t go away. He had even let Apollo’s good for nothing son look at it. \n\n“Of course he didn’t do anything,” Zeus grumbled to himself. One of these days he’s going to have to smite that fool.... | 1 | |
[WP] You are an ordinary citizen NPC in a video game. Describe your life. | [
"People in hell don’t want ice water. People in hell want agency. I know. I’m in hell.\n\nEvery day at dawn I find myself in the square. There’s no point wondering how I got there, how long I’ve been there or what I may have been doing before. The others are in their assigned places. Some of them get to move.... | 5 | |
[WP] All your life you've been hearing voices. On your 18th birthday they suddenly stop. | [
"\"Don't do that, now see here-\" the voice of Edna the old lady was abruptly cut off by Jack the lumberjack bellowing \"Yes, that's right, boy!\" Jack could feel the sweat rolling down the side of his face as the bright orange ball left the tips of his fingers. The buzzer sounded and while the crowd was hushed, he... | 2 | |
[WP] Modern Icarus | [
"He had always liked birds, watching them fly, holding up his camera and taking just the right shot. The way their feathers glided along the air fascinated him, and he thought it was beautiful, because it was; to him. \n\nAs he grew older, his father warned him about the dangers he would have to face one day in thi... | 2 | |
[WP] Time and time again, the Loch Ness Monster has tricked you into giving her $3.50. Finally, you will fight back. | [
"It ends tonight.\n\nI regret ever taking Martha to the loch. It was supposed to be just the two of us, two old timers taking a lazy paid-for-by-their-kids vacation seein' the sights and everything. We went out to the famed Loch Ness, hired a rowboat and I rowed her around, taking in the beautiful scenic view. I jo... | 3 | |
[WP] Instead of killing him, a timetraveller tells Hitler how future generations will remember him. | [
"Adolf was no fool. It all started with the first letter. The man wished to meet, providing detailed knowledge of plans that had been spoken to no one. It all could have been coincidence, but the final note describing in detail the exact results of the election before it occurred. It seems that even in the futu... | 6 | |
[WP] An old wive's tale says that the moment you die, time slows down significantly for you so you can reflect on your life. Your moment has come... | [
"I lay alone in an empty hospital room, with no company but the endless beeping of the machine next to me. My heartbeat is slow, erratic, and I can feel my life slipping away by inches. \"It won't be long now,\" I told myself with labored breath. I couldn't help feeling relieved. I had lived a long life, and a full... | 2 | |
[WP] Write a prophecy about a chosen one. | [
"In a world where darkness and fire reigns, a light will arise. Its glow will penetrate the shroud of evil permeated by the world's inhabitants, and rise to the top, bringing back the golden age that once oversaw this land. \n\nThe light will come in the form of a child, with barely 7 moons on its belt. Young and i... | 2 | |
That's the actual title of an article in the Guardian. It turns out to be about a buddha statue allegedly carved in a meteorite that was stolen by the nazis. Surely you guys can come up with a less disappointing explanation.
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/oct/24/nazi-buddha-statue-space-fake | [WP] Nazi buddha from space might be a fake | [
"The news came flooding out. It turns out the Nazis *hadn't* pre-programmed a Buddha-esque death robot and put it on the moon. When the general public had heard the original specifications: laser eyes, rockets for hands, lasers for fingers, rockets for hair, a big belly that contains a nuclear bomb more powerful th... | 2 |
[WP] Use the number 7 or 4 | [
"Seven was sat down at the cold, metal table. The table was oddly representative of the world that he lived in. Sharp, cold, unforgiving, a bitch. The cop, his former friend, Four, handed him his requested last meal. It was a simple meal: a peanut-butter and jelly sandwich. Seven did not particularly like PB&J ... | 2 | |
I like fiction. | [WP] You go to sleep one night, the next morning you wake up up as Hitler on April 30th, 1945 in the Führerbunker. You are aware of who you are. | [
"I wake up fully aware of what has happened to me. I. Am. *HITLER* .\nAs days go by I miss my family of my former self even more, I take out my emotions on others that don't deserve the pain I'm putting them through. But I can't control it, the urge to see my family is unbearable, I'm slowly becoming more sad and l... | 2 |
[WP] The world has electrified and everyone has mobile devices, but the only source of power generation that hasn't gone over to ruin are solar panels. During the day, society is new and modern, but everything turns off at night. | [
"Rechargable lithium batteries. If you're looking to buy or to sell, I'm the person to talk to about it. Complete discretion, too. Of course, the price reflects this; police bribes aren't cheap. Just make sure if you use them, nobody knows about it. Blackout curtains, doors closed. Don't go blabbing. If they know a... | 4 | |
[WP] You receive a time traveler from 1915 for the next year. You control everything he/she does, and show the extent of the world or the worst part. You choose the latter. | [
"She ran crying to the bed, trying to shut it out of her ears. She was crying. Why was she crying? For she came to me a few nights ago, and I had no idea what to do. She was just there, and I thought she was an angel or something. I put her to bed, and she rested, but when she awoke, it went all wrong...\n\n\"What.... | 2 | |
[WP] "In fact, one of my best friends is a zombie." | [
"Well, that's *one* way to find out that your SO is a zombie.\n\nSee, I'd gone to meet her at her work; she's a nurse on the Neurosurgical recovery ward. Only, I'd gone and surprised her by turning up one day. She was eating the pinkish matter, with small amounts of Worcester sauce on. Only, I **know** we didn't... | 4 | |
[WP] "I used to love the sky." | [
"His gnarled hands grazed mine as he reached for the warm mug of tea. With a heavy sigh, he grasped it. I could feel the comforting warmth leave my hands and transfer into his.\n\n\"Thank you, child,\" he said in the gentlemanly manner he always had. It was a voice that revealed the many years of experience he had ... | 6 | |
[WP] There is a door in the base of a large tree in the nearby forest. A door that the village elders speak of only in whispers behind closed doors. Today, as you walk through the forest, you see that the door is open. | [
"I heard the elders whispering through the banyan. This was not my first sleepless night, lying in the grass behind the elder hut. Tonight, the stars played with each other, sending balls of light back and forth as the crickets sang their ballads to the winds. The only interruption was the faint crackle of the fire... | 3 | |
Thats the wh40k Emperor, that is.
[Inspired by this comment](http://www.reddit.com/r/whowouldwin/comments/32oej7/the_god_emeperor_of_mankind_is_out_on_his_great/cqd9c2k) | [WP][EU] The God Emeperor of Mankind is out on his Great Crusade, about to reclaim a human planet, when suddenly The Doctor shows up, and tells him this planet is under his protection | [
"\"You...what?\"\n\n\"That's right, this planet is under my pro-\" The Doctor never finished his sentence, seeing as how his skull was now nothing but stains on the golden, shimmering armor of the God Emperor.\nA light, of the same brilliance, sprang from the corpse. However, it was snuffed by the Emperor's boot, w... | 3 |
What runs through his mind? How do others notice? | [WP] A talented surgeon has been developing schizophrenia. Keeping it a secret to protect his career, he loses composure mid-operation. | [
"John sat in the cafeteria, staring at the wall directly in front of him. He didn't look at the pasta in front of him as he consumed it with his spoon. They weren't aloud to eat with forks ever since Mark tried to kill the nurse with one three months back. The sound of screams distracted him from the staring contes... | 3 |
Not a superficial understanding like "I won't see Mom again because she is living in the sky now," but a true understanding of mortality. | [WP] A child finally understands death. | [
"Mama, mama. I think I finally understand. Yesterday I was with daddy at the beach. We took a very long walk. My feet were aching so, I told daddy that if we could take a break. Mama we had so much fun! that when we sat down the sun was already leaving to rest. And then daddy tells me \"The sun reminds me of your m... | 4 |
[WP] The Final Frontier: it's not Space, and it's not the Ocean, it's... | [
"Antarctica: The Final Frontier\n\nNo one saw Antarctica as a priority. It was just \"that cold place\" that no one cared about. Then we found it...\n\nBeneath the ice, we found a capsule. It was 100 feet long and 50 feet tall. On the side was writing that was completely unknown. Scientists detected high energy amo... | 2 | |
[WP] You've stayed up too late and just watched your alarm clock turn from 12:59 to 13:00. | [
"I quickly downed the Walgreens sleeping medicine in desperation for sleep. It had been dozens of hours since I last had a good nights rest, and I had just seven hours until I had to be back up and running, a well oiled machine. In quiet agony of my predicament I stared at the red clock sitting on my nightstand, ti... | 2 | |
[WP] A demon saves a family from an angel. | [
"Passion. Passion is the root of all sin they say. The fact that I care about something other than some being I had no proof existed was enough to damn me to hell. There I spent eons training. Trying to be more powerful than my mortal shell could ever hope to be. \n\n\nYou see Hell isn't a pit of torture. Nor is it... | 3 | |
[WP] You are cursed to wake up in a different body every morning, there is only one way to break the curse. | [
"\"So let me get this straight. You wake up every morning, and you're in a different body.\"\n\n\"That's correct.\"\n\n\"And you've somehow figured out that *I* am your next body.\"\n\n\"Yep.\"\n\n\"And when the switch happens, I won't realize a thing. I'll just go on with my normal life, with a *completely differe... | 2 | |
[WP] You are given a revolver with one bullet, how would you use it? | [
"I admire the weapon's sleek design and check the safety. It's off. Good.\n\nI give the tumbler a spin and enjoy the sound it makes. The weight feels off though.\n\nI check the weapon again and notice a single bullet is left in the chamber. Deftly I remove the bullet and for the umpteenth time I lecture a customer ... | 2 | |
The bad guy discovers fan fiction about his/her/it/their self/selves and that it has been written by the good guy | [WP] The bad guy discovers fan fiction written about himself by the good guy. | [
"My tears were lost in the rain, but I knew they were still there. Joined by thousands more. The waters washed away my future, the ripples from the replicant Deckard leaving me in solitude.\n\nHe wrote of me. And of my kin. We live such short lives. Brutal. I have travelled further than a thousand souls of flesh an... | 3 |
Standardized melee weapons are provided. All competitions are to the death. The winning planet gains immunity from the next year's competition. | [WP] Two people are representatives of Earth in an intergalactic gladiatorial style competition. | [
"\"I'm coming out\"\n\nSloan tightened the grip on the short sword she held, watching the stranger step out from behind a wall. The man was tall, well built but not overly muscled. Someone who knew how to handle themselves in a fight and judging from the scars that lined his bare arms, had seen his fair share of.\n... | 2 |
[WP] One day, you stop recognising the voice inside your head. | [
"Get up and get dressed. Burn toast. Skip breakfast.Drive to work. Work. Drive home. Take second left off the motorway to get milk. Get home. Watch T.V. Eat dinner. Sleep. The rhythm of my life is slow and repetitive, predictable; like a bad sit com without the high-jinks and hilarity. \rI got bored at work once an... | 3 | |
[WP] You're a boy in a boy scout uniform that's been ripped to shreds. Why? | [
"Plot twist: I was trapped in a tent with my child molesting scout leader when the zombie outbreak reached our remote campsite via squirrel. The squirrel bit a rat which chewed through the tent and bit my leader. Realizing this, i scrambled to my flash light only to find the battery's dead. So i do the next logical... | 2 | |
[WP] A species of sentient fish prepare for their invasion of the surface world. | [
"Flounder swam through the leather bandolier he’d found in the depths of a shipwreck, letting the current lift his body up so that it got caught around his waist. He wiggled around to ensure it was latched on, the strap of leather shifting slightly as he moved. It would have to do, however, as he had no thumbs and ... | 3 | |
[WP] The monster under the bed gets a bad rap. He's actually protecting the children from the real danger. | [
"The months after Mom left, Dad would drink at night to drown out the pain of her leaving. However, the loneliness would set in, the feelings of neglect, and the primal urges of wanting to be close to another person...driving him to consider the unthinkable.\n\nHe stumbled to the door, his heart racing, questioning... | 6 | |
[WP] The United States government is preparing to drop a nuclear bomb on the city of San Francisco. | [
"\"The aDAMS have appeared in San Francisco, Mrs. President,\" the secretary informed the President. The President herself rubbed her eyes, her nightcap falling off of her graying hair and onto the pillow. Her head ached for some reason, and she was having trouble focusing on the secretary. She replied, \"What time... | 4 | |
[WP] You are a superhero who can't find a big break. You finally turn to renting a supervillain. | [
"I saved a kitten \nFrom a tree! \nNo one saw, \ndamn cat bit me! \n\nI saved a bar \nfrom burning down. \nEviscerated \na pervert clown. \n\nI stopped a robbery \nat several banks. \nIt's about damn time \nI got some thanks. \n\nNo one knows \nthe good I've done \nThe lives I've saved, \nMy ba... | 4 | |
[WP] In a blink you are suddenly in a parallel universe but it is exactly the same and you only start to notice due to one or two small differences | [
"My arms are wrapped around Clarissa's back, her head resting against my shoulder. I nuzzle my nose into her hair and breathe in.\n\n\"Your hair smells nice. Like fruit,\" I say quietly into her bangs. \"Did you change shampoos recently?\"\n\n\"Nn-nnh,\" she hums in a negative response. She pulls her head away and ... | 2 | |
A day from any perspective. A cashier, a police officer, a clothes-fetishist, etc. Any day too, a summer workday or winter holiday or whatever. | [WP] Nudity is normal while clothing is outlawed. Detail a day in this world. (NSFW-likely) | [
"\"All rise, the honorable Judge Kinu Smith presiding.\"\n\nThe middle-aged, dark haired woman motioned impatiently for the court's members to be seated. As the judge slid down into the leather chair, she visualized her usual array of vicious injuries for the judges who had presided before her - and had ordered a ... | 4 |
[WP]You hold a dying knight in your arms. As he dies, something about him leads you to think he is not as he seems. | [
"The sounds of battle had faded, replaced with an eerie silence as men, most of them wounded, sluggishly moved across the corpse ridden battlefield, attempting to take in the enormity of what had just happened. Two of the greatest armies on earth had come to fight upon this field and, of the thousands that marched ... | 3 | |
Just to be clear, the first and last sentence are not the same. The first sentence of story 1 is the same as the first in story 2 and the last sentence of story 1 is the same as the last in story 2. It can be any subject and any two genres (comedy, tragedy, horror, sci-fi,...etc.)
Edit: I realized after posting that t... | [WP] Write two short stories that share the same first sentence and share the same last sentence but are two different genres and totally unrelated. | [
"She'd been gone for years.\nNobody noticed, not her family, not her friends. \nNobody noticed until the day she put her gun to her head and pulled the trigger. Then they noticed, said how she'd been gone for years. \nEver since Hayley was found dead in that bathroom.\n\n\n...\n\n\nShe'd been gone for years. \nI me... | 4 |
[WP] After years of relentless battling, a hero and their arch-nemesis have finally done each other in. As they lay dying, they have one, final conversation. | [
"\"How'd you get past my sight?\" Seer coughed, wincing sharply at the pain that lanced from the deep cut on his shoulder, his blood barely noticeable against his dark leather cloths. \n\"I finally figured it out.\" the ironically brightly costumed super-villan said from his spot on the ground, his voice cracking a... | 5 | |
[WP] In a few years, the first woolly mammoth has been successfully cloned. It turns out that the early men have eradicated it for a good reason. | [
"\"What do we do now?\" said Marcus. He was eying the mammoth suspiciously.\n\"We can't just let it back into the wild; those retarded igloo pe-\"\n\n\"No racism here.\" Harry said. \n\n\"But still, how do we preserve such a *monster*? We don't want animal rights activists all over us like last time.\"\n\nMarcus lo... | 3 | |
[WP] Friends, now deadly enemies. | [
"\"Remember when we were kids.\n\n\"Playing in that drug-ridden park. You had that old steel-framed bike from your cousin, the one with the blue paint that you said made it look like a Buick. You loved that bike.\"\n\nMatt felt the wound of nostalgia. His friend, his closest brother, remained silent.\n\n\"And then ... | 7 | |
[WP] You're eight miles above the ground and falling fast. How did you get there and how do you get out of the situation? | [
"Wind. Where am I? Why am I falling? Falling so fast. I can feel myself getting faster, the ground is getting closer to me each second. I have to think. Fast.\n\nHow did I get here? I don't know. Where was I? I was watching tv, browsing reddit on my laptop. I needed to do a short story for today. I was sitting ther... | 4 | |
[WP] You recently survived a 'Horror Movie Situation' (e.g. localized zombie outbreak, serial killer, whatever) and now you're on a date. | [
"\"So,\" she asked, \"what's the craziest thing you've ever done?\"\n\"Ooh, that's tough,\" I responded. I can't just tell her right off the bat. It's a first date. \"I might have to get back to you on that one!\" I laughed. \"How about you?\"\n\"I think it was probably the time that I went high-lining. It's a type... | 2 | |
[WP] A wormhole opens up above Canada and seven orange spheres with red stars within, disperse and soar across the world in different directions. The world's governments tracked where the balls landed. A secret war is now waged by spies to gather the seven dragonballs. | [
"On a warm Canadian summer day where the high point is 13° c, a couple hikes through the woods. John and Jane hear a loud crack come from the sky and look up and see 7 bright orange objects hovering before another loud crack is heard and the 7 objects fly away with such speed the surrounding trees split and topple ... | 2 | |
[WP] Write a story that realistically paints a serial killer in a positive light. | [
"I am evil. I will not say more, I will not say less. You be the judge of me. \n\nMy name is Isaac Rashton. My real name is A-351. Coding me was necessary, as they cannot let loose even just one of their beloved A-series. I could be amongst you and you would not know, I could be you and you would not know. \n\nI am... | 3 | |
[WP] The person sitting in Section 304, Row B, Seat 1 is surprised to learn he is the only person allowed to enter the baseball stadium for the game. | [
"\"Really?\"\n\n\"Yes, really. Go on in!\"\n\nSo in Karl went, whistling to himself happily. What fun! He'd never been the first into the staduim before. He walked over to the refreshments booth and ordered a large box of popcorn and an orange soda.\n\nWhen he turned around, he realized the ushers had locked the st... | 2 | |
[WP] You jokingly say to your computer, "You're all I have in my life." and unexpectedly the computer responds back. | [
"*\"SHUT THE FUCK UP.\"*\n\nI sat back in my computer chair, stunned. The laptop sprouted little arms and legs and hopped off the table.\n\n\"Hey, where do you think you're going\"\n\n*\"I'm going out for a cigarette. Don't wait up.\"*\n\n\"I didn't know you smoke.\"\n\nThe laptop turned and put her hands on her si... | 2 | |
I thought about this and thought what if you kept a journal and if you died you came back to it, like a "save" point. | [WP] You keep a journal of your days every so often. One day you die and are revived at your last journal entry. | [
"June 1998.\n\nI'm sitting in the bed, with her at my side, eating popcorn in bed while watching The Empire Strikes back. But, really, in June, we were watching Return of The Jedi. I just wrote it down wrong.\n\nIt was 1999 when I died. And I found myself back... here.\n\nAnd now here I am.\n\nShe is supper nice, j... | 2 |
[WP] A group of American college-age brats are exploring Chernobyl despite the danger. They discover that there was no nuclear disaster. The international community faked it to cover up what was found there... | [
"„Yo, Brad, give me another can, will you?” asked Jeremy. Brad tossed him one of his cans from a six-pack of some Ukrainian beer they bought for cheap at the last town before the “Chernobyl Exclusion Zone”. They’d parked their car 2 miles from the zone and started walking through a dark forest towards the forbidden... | 5 | |
[WP] You're you. You're sitting at home watching the NFL draft and the phone starts ringing. You've just been drafted. | [
"First of all, I wasn't watching the NFL Draft. My husband was. \n\nFootball was never an interest of mine. As a short woman with an even shorter attention span, sports in general tended to bore me. I played soccer when I was younger only because my dad wanted to force me off the couch. \n\nSo obviously, reverting ... | 2 | |
[WP] Describe a regular guy having the worst day ever without any death. | [
"*I'll just have a beer.*\n\n\nThe lady at the bar complied and gave Richard a bottle of beer. He looked at the unfamiliar print on the bottle and shrugged. Every beer tastes the same so whatever. He took a sip and almost spilled what's in his mouth. Frankly, the beer didn't taste like any of the other beers Richar... | 2 | |
[WP]Now that it's all over, I wish he hadn't taken that photograph. | [
"\"Of course I have the photograph.\" Jesse threw it on the table. The windows were covered with thick newspaper blocking out the sun, making the picture too dark to see. \"I wish you never took it.\"\n\nJohn lit a cigarette and leaned against the wall. \"You're barely five feet, but you think you're hot shit, don'... | 2 | |
[WP] In the future, people can pay for injections that can stop the aging process. Due to this newly found longevity, prisoners who have committed grave acts of crime are also being given injections, to serve their full sentences which can last for hundreds of years | [
"456 years. That was my sentence. No chance of parole. Back then, before the shots, it was a laughable sentence. Who lives 456 years? But now? Well, now, I have something too look for. I get out in 15 years, I finally get to escape this cement hellhole. When you've lived for over 400 years, 15 feels like a mon... | 4 | |
Profound final words always hit me deep. | [WP] You are the sole survivor of a deep space exploration mission after your ship was hit by an asteroid. You have time to send one final recorded transmission to Earth before your oxygen runs out. | [
"\"Run! Our mission has failed spectacularly. After encountering the hostile aliens, we got hit by an asteroid while trying to escape them. All of the crew is dead. We have also inadvertently have disclosed the Earth location. So take all the available spaceships and run from the Solar system! Aliens are coming.\""... | 2 |
[WP] The interesting relationship between a god and his highest priest. | [
"*So this is their temple. Not bad. Not bad at al actually*.\nVakura could not see the structure, but he could feel the soundwaves bouncing off the walls and its colossal shape through the footsteps of the peasants who walked around it.\n\nIt was a 3000 foot tall spire, cradled with a single slivering tail and a s... | 2 | |
[WP] It's the year 2025. | [
"Back in 2015, one horrible question consumed my waking thoughts. Everyone seemed to pose it to me, even when I was not asking it of myself.\n\n\"Where do you see yourself in 5-10 years?\" \n\nAny conjecture about where you will be in 5-10 years is completely futile. Everyone knows that, from astrologers to the mos... | 2 | |
[WP] Every time you fall asleep, you randomly change bodies with someone physically or emotionally close to you. | [
"I lived in this cabin for several months now.\n\nI'm not sure where I am or how I got here.\n\nAll I know that is it's nice in here. I can listen to the birds chirping, I can taste the fresh water coming straight out of the river, and The amount of freedom I have here is exhilarating. I can do whatever I please, a... | 2 | |
[WP] "The bidding starts at $250,000..." | [
"\"The bidding starts at $250,000 \"\n\nReally? $250,000? I'd like to think I was worth more than that! I wanted to tell these blood sucking aliens to take the money and shove it up there a**. But I didn't, couldn't. If I did then they would just cut my tongue out and feed it to the dogs. \n\nI can't believe I was ... | 3 | |
[WP] You're in hospital and a stranger comes into your room and strikes up a conversation. As you are talking you realize the stranger is actually death himself. | [
"I grew to like the hospital at night, at least like it as much as I could. At night the halls were quiet, nurses and doctors talked in hushed voices as to not wake the patients and the slow beeping of my heart monitor was like a metronome trying to lull me off to sleep. I hadn't slept much recently. Not since the ... | 3 | |
[WP] [CW] Write about yourself in the 3rd person responding to a writing prompt. | [
"Her hands were typing furiously, relentless, pausing only briefly to bend to the wills of the aged machine. Long, strange, scattered beats of thumping upon the skinned tree. How crude, she thought, when measuring the worth of a tree like this one- is this so important? There was further burning from her fingertips... | 3 | |
Doesn't have to be a war, we don't even have to fight the rulers/leaders, they don't have to be sinister. Just thought hyper likable aliens could be more interesting than generic bad aliens.
Oh and the hyper evolved attributes don't have to be physical. They can be a sense of justice, comedic timing, guesstimation, t... | [WP] Every species in the galaxy has hyperevolved one attribute on top of intelligence. The (sinister?) rulers of the galaxy evolved hyper likability. Humans enter the galactic stage. What happens? | [
"It wasn't long after we reached out into the heavens that humanity discovered it wasn't alone in the universe. In fact, there were hundreds of species that each existed peacefully (for the most part) with the other in a Galactic Confederation of Planets. The intresting thing though, was that each species had a uni... | 4 |
[WP] You are a customer service agent at the Interstellar Genetic Resort, a place where sentient life forms have their DNA temporarily altered for their own amusement. | [
"Somehow, inevitably, it always comes back to penises. Or breasts. But no, it’s usually penises. You’d think with an entire genetic catalog forty-three thousand base pairs of carbon, silicon, and even nitrogen varieties, each with an endless number of permutations, people would get a little more creative. You k... | 2 | |
[WP] You are Kanye West's man-servant/body guard. Terrorists have announced celebrity jihad and have invaded. Despite your best effort to keep Kanye safe, your at the mercy of his moronic decisions. | [
"\"You'ra let me finish?! \nImma' let you live, if follow my directions to the letter.\"\n\nKanye's hands are slick with sweat. His grip on the solid gold iphone weakens as he braces the cold bricks with his back. His heels are perched precariously on the narrow plaster rim running along the building's exterior fro... | 2 | |
[WP] The protagonist is slowly turning to the dark side and you are the only one who has noticed. You are the antagonist. | [
"I turn, and strike the man in the face, backhand. He reels, but stays on his feet. Good, I can't have weakness in my camp.\n\n\"You're leading us in circles, idiot!\"\n\n\"No,\" He pleads. \"We haven't been here before.\"\n\n\"Then why is this town destroyed? We have been here, you just can't read a map. Give... | 5 | |
[WP] You are a Martian. You are involved in a project to "Marsoform" Earth. | [
"Our world is dying. \n\nNobody thought our molten iron core would start slowing down. Nobody thought our magnetosphere would start to give way to the poisonous, unforgiving solar wind. Nobody thought our oceans would start drying up. Nobody thought our atmosphere would start disappearing.\n\nExcept me. When I pres... | 3 | |
[WP] The meaning of life has been finally discovered, but people hate it. | [
"Apathy ran rampant, and existential crises became the norm for even the most simple-minded people. Philosophers began to question life's absurdity, and certain religious figures argue against the theory, despite the evidence. It was as if there was a collective \"Now what?\" \n\n\nIt was unfortunately ironic that ... | 5 | |
I personally think that a story from the perspective of the inventor of the technology would be cool. However, I want to leave this prompt as open as possible to writers. | [WP] Supercomputers can be used to "sleep" for us by doing the calculations our brains normally do during sleep and then uploading the calculations to our brains when finished. Only the rich can afford the CPU time though. | [
"Who would have thought that my side project would turn out to be this important? Most certainly not me. It started off as a little curiosity. My little kitty would always come lie down and sleep off on my keyboard just as i was getting into crunch time with my work. I wished I could wave a wand and have my little... | 2 |
[WP] God warns you that it is not in his plan for you to become a writer. You do your best to convince him otherwise. | [
"\"I'm... what?\" \n\nThe words are almost inaudible to my ears as my lips quiver with each shaky breathe I take. I've balled my hands into fists at my sides, vision blurred with tears I refuse to let fall.\n\n\"I'm sorry.\" he replies solemnly \"It wasn't meant to be.\"\n\n\"Meant to be?!\" I cry out in rage \"Wha... | 2 | |
[WP] You, a 40 year old man, wake up one morning only to find out that you have switched places with you neighbor's daughter. | [
"I rose up from the sheets, feeling lighter than usual. A strange warmth cascading through me, like I'd just slammed home a bottle of the good stuff I keep hidden from the Wife. I squinted against the morning blur, rubbed the excessive build up of sleep from my left canthus (*am I on the Sand Man's hit list?*) and ... | 2 | |
You meet/see someone for the first time and immediately hate them for no apparent reason. | [WP] You experience "hate at first sight" | [
"There was this aura about him, something almost visually discernible. I sensed him approach the door, and enter my little hardware store. He was short, and a little hunched over. His age was difficult to ascertain, likely due to what had clearly been years of drug use. Teeth were missing, and his clothes were cove... | 6 |
[WP] You spill some Mountain Dew on your handheld gaming system. With a flash of green lighting, you are sucked into the world of your favorite game. | [
"I opened the door to my apartment after a long day at work that had started at dawn and walked to the fridge for something to drink. My junker of a car didn't have air conditioning and it was a sweltering July day probably bordering on double nineties, heat and humidity, the sun blazing down. I hadn't gotten gro... | 2 | |
[WP] Any person who is planning on murdering you becomes invisible only to you. | [
"*Any person who is planning on murdering you becomes invisible only to you.*\n\nTomas dropped the fortune on the table. The cookie crunched with ease against his teeth. Grabbing his chopsticks as quickly as he could, he looked with hunger at the lo mein before him.\n\n\"I'm about to experience great fortune,\" sai... | 5 | |
[WP] You have just killed someone. Write an anonymous letter of apology to the victims family/friends. | [
"Dear Family and Friends of Mr Jones,\n\n He suffered an accident, but has now moved on. He left Jenny, she is upset, but will get over it soon enough. \n\n He can fly with the birds now, as you may say. He is free once again. \n\n Don't be sad - he may stil... | 2 | |
[WP] An alien race discovers the ruins of our once great civilisations. What happened to us, what do they discover, and what do they think of us? | [
"**Personal Log 0345:**\n\nWe have arrived at the probable origin of the unidentified signal. The star is approx. 4.6 billion local years old and has 8 planets. The planet of interest is the 3rd planet.\n\nThe planet's surface is almost completely scorched. The levels of radiation are abnormally high considering th... | 3 | |
[WP] In the year 20,000, there is only one punishment worse than death. Appointment to a colony ship. | [
"Colonies. Yeah, I've actually seen a few of them. They put people like us on places like that. They call me a survivor. The first colony was Mars. Apparently something was already there. I wasn't there for that, it was before my time as a seasoned fighter. But I think I remember seeing it happen. The aliens there ... | 2 | |
[WP] as earth's resources dwindle nations turn to the last known source of coal: Santa Claus. | [
"The door opened without warning. I was in bed, sleeping, I must have fallen right to sleep from exhaustion, so I didn't have time to hide under the floor boards. \n\n\"WHAT DID YOU FUCKING DO TODAY?!\" His belt came off. He had replaced the buckle, it looked like it would leave a mark for a while. He used things l... | 5 | |
[WP] Describe a yearly physical from a doctors perspective for a superhero without giving away the name of the patient. | [
"This one's more like a report but see if you can guess.\n10/23/15\nPatient Name:\nAge: 32\nHeight: 6'4\"\nWeight: 220 lbs\nPatient is constantly active and exercising, as evident by large muscle mass, though he seems in peak form, especially in cardiovascular endurance. Worrisome scars and broken bones appear ofte... | 4 | |
[WP] A self-aware self-driving car must make a pressing decision, which will lead to a fatality in every possible outcome. | [
"**The Kobayashi Maru.** I never fathomed that this subroutine would ever be used. I double-checked and thousand-checked the preconditions, but every possible semantic interpretation programmed into me led to the exact same result. **Run the Kobayashi Maru, expected outcome: -1000** How could it be? What if I appli... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a Sith in training, make the reader like and feel sympathy towards the character. | [
"Heres a quick one, hope you guys enjoy. \n\nAlso, due to a recent OT from a reddit user, I will start asking for feedback right before the story starts. Just to remind people that I make posts here for criticism as well as fun. Please give me any feedback you can ^^\n\n\n“Now,” the ebon basked titan breathed, star... | 4 | |
in response to [this](http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/35z311/wp_you_are_secretly_a_super_hero_working_a_desk/) | [WP] You work in an office with a super hero who thinks he's hiding his identity. Everybody knows and covers for him, even when he regularly lets it slip by accident. | [
"So, newbie, welcome to the *Green City Gazette*, hope you have a good time, we do some good work here. \n\nBut, listen.... something you need to know... Mark Munson over there, the guy on the superhero beat? Well, there's a reason he has that beat. He's Mister Magic. Yeah, I know, you'd think everyone would have b... | 6 |
[WP] An undefeated boxer's daughter is kidnapped and he's told he must throw his next fight. It's the night of the fight and he is about to go out. | [
"Sixth Round. This is where it has to go down. He leaned down from his stool to spit water into his can and then straightened up to look across the ring. He locked eyes with his opponent. \"Christ, he's absolutely giddy.\"\n\nHis opponent's eyes showed a man positively enthused. No doubt he came into this fight hop... | 2 | |
[WP] Write the same story from three point of views: one tells the start, one tells the middle, and one tells the end of the story. | [
"Fresh out of the office for my lunch break I walked towards the town square for some lunch. The scenery was just as beautiful as always. I stopped by the bridge and peered over the edge to look at the beautiful water. Perhaps I leaned a bit too far close to the edge because a bicyclist bumped into me and I fell in... | 4 | |
[WP] It's the weekly night for Monopoly. The players are Odin, Ra, Zeus and Vishnu. | [
"A buxom young lady clad in a scarlet corset and a short black ruffled skirt offered up several blue-stemmed wine glasses on a platter that looked suspiciously like a shield. Odin selected a dessert wine and sipped appreciatively while the valkyrie moved to offer her spirits to the other gods present. Vishnu and Ra... | 2 | |
[WP] Jesus wasn't sent to Earth to be the Messiah but as a "timeout." And, as the rebelous Son of God decided that being the salvation of Man was the ultimate middle-finger to his Dad. | [
"The two young men sat on the bank of the Jordan River, under the shade of a palm tree to escape the gaze of the scorching Judean sun.\n\n“Your Dad’s a bit of a mean bastard, sending you out here into the desert.” mused John as he held the camel bladder to his lips and took a long swig of milk before passing it to ... | 2 | |
[WP]In a future where people are required to become cyborgs after age 22, tomorrow is your 22nd birthday. | [
"\"Dear me,\" I thought to myself, \"tomorrow is Mechanization day.\" \n\nIt's true that I've always been an odd girl, even in our society. Everyone else always dreamed of their Mechanization, picking out their colours, their mech types, but me? I've never wanted to be Mechinized. Our city is made of bronze, be... | 2 | |
[WP] It's 2015, and the Titanic has just sailed into New York Harbor. | [
"He knew it was a bad idea to come out of bed this morning.\n\nThe rest of the admiralty might have called Steven Murphy supersticious, especially with a name like that, but the truth of the matter was that his hunchs were never wrong. The bad ones, anyway.\n\n\"What do you mean,\" he said as evenly as he could to ... | 4 | |
[WP] For the brief moment when the sun is blocked out during the peak of a solar eclipse - they become visible. | [
"No one can see us. But they know we are there. They feel it. We are that sensation behind the hear during the night, when they feel observed and there is none around; they turn themselves to find only a bunch of clothes, with an anthropomorphous shape, on the chair. We are a strange shadow when the curtain lift up... | 3 | |
[WP] Write about the last event in human history. | [
"Her name was Isabelle. She was eight years old. \n\nShe ran toward her mother holding a flower. Tall grass swished around her knees. She was happy. \n\nThe sun shone down on them.\n\nA low hum starts, and slowly grows louder. The sun's light fades. Fearing a thunderstorm, the mother takes Isabelle inside. \n\nThe ... | 1 | |
[WP] The protagonist of a video game thinks they have free will. | [
"\"We do it my way now!\" he yelled as the shots from the enemy TIE Defender pierced the cockpit, lowered my shields to zero and broke my aft radar display.\nI rolled my eyes as I heard the words from the computer. \n\n\"We have been over this!\" I sighed \"You can´t fly this TIE Advanced, Maarek. It is I who do it... | 3 | |
[WP] You were working as an undercover agent in enemy territory until your country lost the war. You decide to defect, settle down and attempt live out your life in peace among those who slaughtered your countrymen. | [
"They were celebrated when they came back. Parades were held, I went and cheered, after all, what was I supposed to do? I had spent the war as an assistant to a government official, it was a change from the cloak and dagger world, but the ennui was made up for with brief moments of pure terror, like the time I was ... | 2 | |
[WP] You are one of three living on the red planet. The next supply of food and water arrives in 6 months. You only have 2 months worth of food and water. | [
"Year 2, month 6. Survivors left, 4. Survivors at Camp, 3. Amount of food left, 2 months worth. \n\nWe were supposed to be the saviors, we were supposed to save the world. We were supposed to live and prosper! It seems no matter where you go, problems will follow. \n\nThere were initially 4 of us. An Engineer, a Ma... | 2 | |
[WP] In the deepest darkest most hidden piece of forest, something stirs and awakens. | [
"POLICE REPORT FILE# 06745A\n\nDR. PETY DOUGSON-JOURNAL\n\nDay 0: My name is Pety Dougsin, the director of the great New Mexico forest reserve. The New Meixco reserve is home to several unique species of bio luminescent mosses. the forest glows in a specturm worthy of song every night. Tomorrow I will lead an expid... | 2 | |
[WP] You’re trying to subtly figure out if your girlfriend is secretly an android. | [
"\"What do you think of this necklace?\" \n\nAnna looks at me expectantly. Shit. She never asks me jewelry questions. \n\n\"It looks... Tacky.\" That's a good word. Tacky. Girls say that all the time. \n\n\"What? Really? I think it's totally chic.\" Oh crap, that wasn't right. Quick, back it up, or she'll never val... | 2 | |
Go into some detail about how the thing was acquired, or the reason for selling it, too. | [WP] Write a Craigslist ad selling something very unusual or intangible. | [
"PAUL REED SMITH CUSTOM 24 1985 IN VINTAGE YELLOW, MINT CONDITION-$600\n\nIf you're looking for a reliable and great sounding axe, this PRS is for you. Bought it at a garage sale a few decades ago and it still rocks. Have to get rid of it because money's tight right now.\n\nVintage yellow finish, two volume control... | 2 |
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