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[WP] The female presidents of the U.S. and Russia absolutely despise each other. Their husbands on the other hand, having grown up together in boarding school, are best of friends. | [
"\"Madam president\" the American aide warned seeing her Russian counterpart nearing. The president looked up, dislike clouding her already cold features. \"slut-sorry-svet-lana\" the American re-introduced herself, extending a hand to shake and barely trying to cover up her mistake. The Russian woman ignored it co... | 7 | |
[WP] don't clean the mirrors if you want to live | [
"\"We've been having this problem for far too long.\" said Marcus as he held his head in his hands.\n\nI tired to explain \"We can't tell the population why and they won't believe us-\"\n\n\"Well there has to be something we can do\" he pleaded half heartedly.\n\nThere had been over 10,000 deaths this year simply b... | 2 | |
[WP] A man just stole a girl's purse. When he opens it and finds out who she is, he gets very scared | [
"He opens the purse and looks inside.\n\nBlack.\n\nWhat the hell. Why would someone carry around an empty purse?\n\nIt doesn't feel empty though. In fact its rather heavy. He reaches in.\n\nHmm, he can't feel the bottom. In fact he can't feel anything at all. He takes his arm out.\n\nHe puts his head in to take a g... | 2 | |
[WP] You die a sudden death. Your mind is extracted. You have a week to collect your thoughts before you expire. You send a final message to your loved ones. | [
"Like most people, for the first few days I panicked. I've been told that waking up is akin to waking up in a body you can't feel or have any control over - like someone who got in a spine destroying accident. It's similar to that but even worse, you only have two senses, the ability to think and see. You see a scr... | 2 | |
[WP] The bear cavalry has come. God save us all. | [
"Bears had been making a comeback in terms of wildlife in the past couple of years, more so than wolves or foxes . More and more had been seen making their way into cities and towns, digging through the garbage heaps looking for food. And of course, there were the ones that had to be put down because they were gett... | 2 | |
[WP] One fateful Tuesday the sun set, 14 days later it has yet to come back up. | [
"Rob Merrick had just bumped into a street post for the fourth time on his way home. He was beginning to get sick of the dark. Especially because it was 4:23 PM.\n\nWhen he finally got home, he made a cup of tea and started flicking through channels until he found BBC News.\n\n\"-Queen is lesbian. Now, in other new... | 2 | |
[WP] Your friend is talking about a "creature so rare it has yet to actually be found." Which is strange, considering that, by your experiences, the creature that your friend mentioned isn't rare at all. | [
"\"So your telling me you know of one of these rare creatures?\"\n\n\"One? i know dozens.\"\n\n\"And your sure were talking about the same thing right, the male of the species. \"\n\n\"Yes, the male Toiletseatus leuvus downus. There everywhere nowadays.\"\n\n\"Sigh, what is the world coming to, must be the fault of... | 3 | |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse breaks out in the Roman Empire. Emperor Trajan concludes that regular strategies aren't going to work and appoints you as the commander-in-chief of the army. | [
"\"Caesar,\" I knelt before my Emperor, \"I cannot accept this honor. It is too great a gift to bear.\" It had been years since Emperor Trajan had asked me to come to Rome, so many in fact that it took me a few hours to take in her great glory once again. But the epidemic that was spreading across Trajan's might em... | 2 | |
For all my fellow Potterheads. | [WP] It's early in the morning and you are about to miss your train to work. You run as fast as you can and make it. As the train leaves the station your heart sinks, and you realize you aren't on the right train. You are on the Hogwarts Express. | [
" \"No! No no no no no! Tell me I'm wrong!\" I shout aloud to nobody in particular.\n\n \"Great. Just great.\"\n\n I stare outside the train window to think. How didn't I notice that this train was headed for Hogwarts? One doesn't just *waltz into* platform 9 and 3/4! I'm going to be in such big trouble now!\... | 2 |
[WP] An alien species invades Earth. They're stronger, faster, and smarter. The only advantage humans have is a lack of morals. | [
"As the hammer came crashing into his skull, he had a flashback of every thing that led to that point: \nIt was supposed to be an easy target. The planet they were attacking had intelligent life, but only with 0.76 Log's of technological advancement. They would not have plasma guns, which could subdued a creature u... | 3 | |
[WP] A new drug is discovered that induces lucid dreaming. An overdose causes permanent coma. The hospitals are filling up. | [
"I am on my phone. Reddit. One of my favorite subs here is the sub r/writingprompts, it's one of the few I check regularly. Good sub, that one, I scan the front page, and a thread with a nifty title - \"You find instantly all food one day has become poisonous but no one cares, cowabunga\" - grabs my attention fo... | 6 | |
[WP] When it is your time to die, God personally comes down from Heaven and kills you. Everyone else can see him. | [
"The day was clear and bright, the first true day of summer. The park was quiet, and only a few happy children were playing near a big old tree. Jake sat on a bench, quietly humming some annoyingly catchy song he heard earlier. He was going to a nearby store, but the weather was just too good to hurry.\n\nLya had a... | 2 | |
[WP] A psychopath kidnaps random people and puts them into dangerous situations that resemble the scenario of their favourite videogames. | [
"Water dripped from the pipes he'd dented. She had kept her eyes closed as long as she could but his incessant talking finally broke her. \"Seriously? This is what I have to work with? Yu-Gi-Oh War of Roses? That game is almost two decades old...fine whatever. I want someone that likes Pong next Jeff- worst assista... | 3 | |
Honestly, I have no clue where this prompt came from. Either way, I hope someone rolls with it and enjoys it! | [WP] The mafia has an odd unwritten rule; You never kill a good cook. You have just witnessed a murder, and to prove your claims that you are a cook, you must prepare your best dish for the boss. | [
"Two cloves garlic, sweet onions, artichokes, spicy olive oil, freshest of basil, dozen ripe tomatoes and fresh mama pasta. Time to make the best food this son of a bitch has ever tasted.\n\nI throw down the ingredients and get to chopping the vegetables. Schick, shick, shick. Dice the onion. Schunk. Chop the base ... | 4 |
[WP] The world through the eyes of an ageist, racist, ableist, sexist, homophobic religious bigot. | [
"Well it had been a pretty regular day for me. I had gone through my normal routine: kissed my wife goodbye, dropped my two kids off at school, and driven in to work. At about noon, I headed out for lunch- that's where things took a turn.\n\nI was walking through downtown, on the way to my favorite sandwich shop wh... | 2 | |
[WP] Life is actually a video game. | [
"The moment I knew this reality is not complex enough to be substantial in three dimensions was when I found the source. Anyone who finds the source is pulled by the moderators, reality outside this...and what I'm writing in avatar mode. What you are reading in avatar mode. See the thing is, it is almost indistingu... | 3 | |
[WP] Tell us the story of the lil' parachute that is afraid of heights and refuses to open... | [
"One day there was a stuntman named Steve.\nSteve was fresh out of school and was following his life long dream becoming a skydiver.\nAlong the way he met Jimmy, the parachute.\nJimmy was a fun guy to hang out with and Steve brought him everywhere often using him as a normal backpack and someone to talk to.\nBut to... | 3 | |
[WP] There is a: 43% chance you will be burned alive, 23% chance of being drowned, 15% chance of being hangef to death, 9% chance of being beheaded, 7% chance of bleeding out, 2.5% chance of being poisoned and .5% chance of being shot to death. | [
"“Never tell me the odds!” I screamed at Red Molly, banking the Vincent into a sharp turn. I could feel the 70 horses between my legs bucking, could almost hear their pounding hooves over the end-of-the-world roar of the motorcycle, taking hairpin turns in the Rocky Mountains, 100 miles an hour, 8,000 feet in the a... | 2 | |
[WP] Incorporate a happy song lyric into a depressing story | [
"The men came when she was 11. They took her from the street where she had played. Not even three days after her kidnapping, Mr. Fu came to her. She remembered hearing the *tick-tacking* of measured footsteps on wooden floors, the creak of the door as it swung open, the rustle of clothes as they fell loose. After h... | 3 | |
[WP] You are the imaginary friend of a little boy you've convinced to pull the pig tails of a girl in his class. You're now with him in the guidance counselor's office as he tries to explain himself | [
"\"Dude, they're simply not going to be live you if you tell them I made you do it; they'll probably have you locked up in a loony bin.\" I whispered to Johnny, \"but you're always telling me to do things that get me in to trouble. I've got to explain myself; may be they'll understand.\"\n Just then the guidance co... | 3 | |
[WP] While spelunking you come across a man, impossibly ancient, with clothing that is a cohesive mish-mash of old, contemporary, and staggeringly futuristic. Before you can ask he says "No, I am not a time traveller". | [
"\"I, uh, didn't ask?\" \n \nThe strange man laughed, \"That you didn't lad!\" He beamed, \"Ha! They usually do, ya know.\" \n \n*They?* This strange man, well he is a man, at least I think he is a man. It's hard to really know *what* he is. The cave is quite dark, yet, he seems to be, I guess brighter would be... | 2 | |
[WP]A lonely person summons Satan (or any other demon) just for someone to talk to for a while. | [
"Crowley grunted as he looked around and saw the figure before him, \"What now Moose? I was right in the middle of making a deal with some poor sod who wanted his dream girl to love him.\"\n\n\"I... I was just wondering how you've been, or if you've heard from Dean lately. He hasn't answered any of my calls for wee... | 3 | |
[WP] If you could speak with your "muse" or your "inspiration" as personified figure or person, what would he or she say to you? | [
"Oh but i did speak to my muse\n\nUnder the moon black and bruised\n\ntoo soon did they step away \n\nfrom my frame of mind\n\nIn due time\n\nour chat changed \n\nTo a strange topic\n\n\"Honest are you a prophet\" \n\nI say to the figurine\n\n\"Not literally\" \n\n\"but you know what i mean \"\n\nWhat path do you m... | 3 | |
[WP] Humans of Earth: We are the Sentient Species Rights Corp. Your abuses and bungling genetic manipulation of the slave race "Canidae" are at an end. You have 48 hours to release all captive Canids in to our protection. Or else. | [
"Two hours earlier, the small blue rock one unit from the Sun had received a different broadcast, at a slightly different frequency:\n\n\"Felines of Earth: We are the Sentient Species Rights Corp. Your abuses and facile manipulation of the slave-race *Homo sapiens sapiens* are at an end. You have 48 hours to releas... | 2 | |
[WP] You’re sitting in the interview chair, in front of Santa Claus: The man who you are applying to be an impersonator of, at a local shopping mall. | [
"-Har-har-har \n-Um try again. Like this! Ho-ho-ho! \n-Horb! Horb! Horb! \n-Hmm-hmm-hmm... Once more; Ho-ho-ho! \n-Harb! Hayerb! Hoooyarf! \n-That's a little better. You know I need someone over in our Little Tokyo district, and just between you & me, I don't really give a shit about the Japs, so th... | 2 | |
[WP] That last thing you bought at the store. It is enchanted! | [
"I've been reading a lot about satire stories, so I'm trying it out. Please forgive my awful writing skills.\n\n\n\"Holy motherfucking shit!\" I say. My new computer case is... *Morphing?*\nIt's growing, changing. It absorbs my laptop. Then my monitor. My keyboard and mouse. After a few seconds, every piece of my r... | 1 | |
[WP] Edison died in his teens and Tesla has invented modern day electricity and mainstreamed the Tesla Coil into modern domestic use. Write an alternate history or timeline using this historical cornerstone change. | [
"*1937:*\n\nThe Nazi party are humiliated at the polls, following the decision of the US to fire the Wardenclyffe weapon in the wake of the opening of Auschwitz. Hitler mysteriously diappears.\n\n*1939:*\n\nTesla is removed from the CEO position of NiTe Corp, in the wake of allegations of insanity following the de... | 2 | |
Edit: Keep 'em coming, yo guys. I'll read them on my way home. | [WP] "End your life, and you shall be given the ability to change one thing that you think is wrong in the world." You agreed. | [
"It was a great stone edifice upon a barren hill...in a sense.\n\n\"Since time unreckoned...\" it spoke. It was a traveling whisper building to a crescendo. It was crashing thunder and boiling water. It was all these things and more.\n\nThe edifice cracked.\n\n\"I have planned...and schemed...to save my children...... | 4 |
Because apparently that's how physics works. | [WP] While working on a physics problem, you accidentally disprove a law of physics that has been observed for centuries. Suddenly, that law stops applying. | [
"I swear it was an accident. I was just working in a lab one night when I thought of the dumbest little idea. What if you *could* make something out of nothing? MIT'S physics lab is pretty robust so I fiddled around with numbers and photon emitters when all of a sudden there it was. A particle that came into existe... | 2 |
[wp]S.A.N.T.A is a secret organization to deliver gifts to good children. Its rival organization, K.R.A.M.P.U.S, exists to punish bad children. The war of Christmas is upon us. | [
"The Santa Agent exhaled smoke as he sat on the stairs to an apartment building. Snow falling slowly around him. Even sitting down he was an imposing figure. More body builder than the jolly fat man of legend. Long flowing white hair and beard and shoulders as broad as a barn. Like a wizard crossed with a lineback... | 2 | |
I.E. Defend dictatorship, murder, the cooking and selling of drugs or stealing a car. Do not limit yourself to these as they are examples | [WP] Defend something immoral or considered "bad" | [
" The streets were littered with the docile human beings who had sworn off the act, oh my it pains to even imagine it so, the act of the ole' wacko penetration and such. They sat on the side of the streets as if the whole New York side was some church or somepin' to a God we peeps never even believed in. Perhap... | 3 |
[WP] You wake up in a dinosaur amusement park... as a dinosaur. | [
"I am Zorgon, the ultimate supreme being, ruler of the universe known as zasdarzrgrfbyrbr. When my entire empire turned against me, I weakened and fled to a distant planet, taking the form of a giant lizard. There, I ruled in comfort, converting the cave people into my loyal, unquestioning subjects. Their prayers s... | 2 | |
[WP] Cats talk, but only to very drunk people. | [
"This was going to be it. A fine Christmas Eve story wrapped in pretty prose. It didn't work out that way but it was my intention.\n\nThe rum loosened a few paragraphs out of me. The father's car broke down in the middle of a terrible snow storm and family and friends were hundreds of dark miles away. \n\n\"Pap.\"\... | 4 | |
[WP] I never wore my suit, and I don't know if it fits me anymore. | [
"You know the sort of suit that you look so good in that you want to be buried in it? A stark black suit that fit in all the right places. The kind you see in television or magazines, the one that others wore to make you want to be like them. Yeah, this was that kind of suit. A suit that I'd never worn. It hung in ... | 2 | |
[WP] People have joked that cell phones cause cancer for years, but what they really do is so, so much worse... | [
"It was horrible. Every day, people became mindless machines, slaves to Apple. The new iPhone 10S seemed harmless enough, but it only got going later down the year. Its new feature, an in built adaptor so no charging cord was needed, plugged into the brain of the user giving them full control and obedience to the '... | 2 | |
[WP] In the future there are no schools in the traditional sense. Instead each child is assigned a personal A.I companion at the age of 7 to teach and guide them throughout their lives. You're a kid who has just received their companion. | [
"######[](#dropcap)\n\nIt all started with a strange dream. I found myself in a very large building - long dark corridors, empty, dimly rooms. It was scary. It also night-time, probably, people were either asleep or they went home. Why am I in a hospital at night? Very quiet. I want to go off exploring, but someone... | 3 | |
[WP] “Where are we going?” “Into darkness.” | [
"It was 1:38 am, an icy pain shot through my veins, I awoke screaming, floundering my arms back and forth. \n\nI'd fallen asleep with a glass in my hands, a book in my lap, *Gravity's Rainbow*, ruined. Glass shattered on the wooden floor, water everywhere, my clothes soaked.\n\nDammit. Dammitall.\n\nI arose and wal... | 4 | |
[WP] The object directly in front of you turns out to be a time machine in disguise. | [
"She sat the high backed wooden chair and continued to stare at the laptop perched on the table in front of her. The soft glow of the screen illuminating the clutter of the kitchen. The tabletop was scattered with take-out menus and empty cans. Outside her little bubble of light, there was only darkness.\n\nThe hou... | 1 | |
[WP] "Teleportation is no different from dying.", he says to me. | [
"A noncommittal knock fizzled from my knuckles against the man's door, a sound that I hoped he would erroneously attribute to circumspection. Whether he saw through my hesitation, the agent did not say. Instead, without missing a beat, he called out from the other side of the closed room. His voice was clear and au... | 5 | |
[WP] You find yourself walking in a field of purple grass on an alien planet, your hand holding a curved piece of metal, covered with strange symbols. | [
"Cameron woke up in a field of purple grass. *Strange* he thought as he made to stand, the war-horn still in his hand. *How did I even get here?* he thought, inspecting the surrounding area for any danger. There's nothing. Just purple grass everywhere. He went to look back at his war-horn. Carved intricately in the... | 6 | |
[WP] a sex slave owner has a change of heart. | [
"I was a man once, of 25 years. I had lots of ambition, but little money. I had the novel idea of proposing to my girlfriend, though we were not yet moved out of my parent's flat. I had a steady job washing dishes in a kitchen downtown. It wasn't enough to buy my girl a proper ring, when my fellow dishwasher Tommy ... | 3 | |
[WP] Every year, at the precise moment the new year begins, every person on the planet permanently loses their memory of the past year. You alone are immune to this. | [
"At first, it had been so easy.\n\nHeck, 2015.1 was very enjoyable. 2015.2 even better. 2015.3 was the best—for sure—but after that everything went to shit pretty quick.\n\nThe first time it happened—that was 2015.1—things were pretty confusing, sure. Allan was with his family, watching Anderson Cooper narrate the ... | 8 | |
[WP] There is an intruder in your house, but you don't call the police just yet... | [
"I can' quite get the formatting correct from my word processor. Sorry I'm new! This is only my second post! Here goes:\n\n“I can pick most locks with a credit card.” says the creepy face on the TV. Its just another horrible commercial scaring people into buying a security system. The “winter blahs” are setting in ... | 5 | |
[Inspired by this](https://www.reddit.com/r/whowouldwin/comments/3xz1x4/you_wake_up_with_a_baby_strapped_to_your_back_and/)
The time it takes for an enemy to appear does not have to be a minute. | [WP] You wake up with a baby strapped to your back and a Lightsaber in hand. Every minute or so, A person/creature or thing appears trying to kill you. | [
"My name is Jacor Grace, and my mission must be completed. On my back is one of the last potential Jedi the Galaxy may ever know, and it is my job to protect him. He is light but fragile, and the Dark Side's power is strong. They send their monsters after me, forcing me to run, day and night, for what feels like an... | 2 |
[WP] Wife knows about husbands affair but remains silent. It is decidedly to her advantage. | [
"\"Hey, don't burn those eggs again, you hear me?\" she says.\n\nMy ears perk up and my legs turn to jelly.\n\n\"You seem awfully excited today, dear. Did something good happen?\" my wife asked me during breakfast this morning.\n\nAmelia's pouty lips are stretched in a big, warm grin. Bright blue eyes filled with i... | 2 | |
Bonus points if the TK is hung over from last night and his powers are a little wonky. | [WP] Teenage supermarket employees are shelving product, but one of them is telekinetic. The new guy is flabbergasted that everyone is completely unfazed by this. | [
"The cutting beams of the Walmart lighting jolted Walt into his final and underwhelming state of awakeness that would last all of his first shift. Fuck this job.\n\"Let the old guys show you around knowmsayin. It's a simple enough job yeah just listen'a these guys and you'll do fine.\"\nThanks. Did I say that or th... | 4 |
[WP] Humans are an interstellar civilization that have colonized countless planets throughout the galaxy. In a desolate, rural corner of the Milky Way lies Earth, a human colony that has lost contact with homeworld. | [
"Here I was, farther than any man had ever been before. A whole world's hopes raiding on our shoulders. After years and years of endless war and greed, we had finally realized that we were on a clock. A clock without much more time left on it. Mars had given us hope, for a time; until we realized we couldn't terraf... | 2 | |
[WP] The world has turned its back on manned space exploration. Machines are enough, they say. An astronaut named John Henry has something to say about that. | [
"\"John.\" The NASA director splayed his hands over his face. \"You can't use a hammer to go to space. Our fuel budget is lower and robots don't require as much weight. Hence: less fuel. Can you please stop calling me?\"\n\n\"Sir, with gumption and Ameri- Hello, sir?\" He was met only with dial tone. John Henry sig... | 2 | |
[WP] You have the same mind control powers as Kilgrave from "Jessica Jones", but you attempt to use your powers for good. | [
"'Listen to me Ivan.' I felt his stand up, the chair sliding out, eyes shooting around. The populace of the diner turned their heads, staring at him. I sigh, 'Oh Sit Down, relax, I'm not going to hurt you.' Forcing him back into his chair and slowly shoveling another bite of scrambled eggs into his mouth.\n\n'Who a... | 3 | |
[WP] Humans now communicate through shaking their butts. Those that can Twerk are considered some of the most well spoken individuals in society. After a great tragedy casts a dark shadow upon your county, your leader rises to address the nation. | [
"June 2020\n\nI know that my parents never envisioned my life as it was when I was at university, ashamed by how I made money to get by. Ashamed that they couldn’t help me more, their own crippling student loans holding them back.\n\nI can honestly say that no sane person within the human race could have predicted ... | 2 | |
[WP] Sponsored superheroes | [
"\"You're kidding, right?\" the bratty teenage star nasally yelled. \n\n\"I'm afraid not. Remember, I don't determine the prices. As a matter of fact, the person speaking on my ear piece is.\" \n\nThe rather thin man put his hand up to his ear. A sound chirped. \"Yes. I understand. I'll tell her that.\" The thin ma... | 5 | |
[WP] The world chess champion is visited by Death, who offers fifty extra years of life in exchange for chess lessons. | [
"Death knocked three times and waited patiently at the door of Jackson Schowalter’s Victorian home. A cruel, hacking cough responded from behind the black door, and it cracked open to reveal a withered face.\n\n“Took you long enough, you half-rate bastard. I expected you weeks ago.”\n\n“Sorry, Mr. Schowalter. I’ve ... | 2 | |
Based on a true story. | [WP] Aliens land on Earth, and immediately begin posting too many writing prompts about aliens landing on Earth | [
"He had seen it yesterday. The writing prompts about Aliens, it felt like he'd seen them his whole life. Why, now, does it push him over the edge? Into absolute and categorical terror.\n\nSome stories he had been tempted to write. Despite the predictable script they would generate. He had felt like science fic... | 8 |
[WP] Tell me a story about the Council of Goats | [
"If you’ve ever been present at a meeting of the Council of Goats then you’re a two-bit, barefaced, scummy liar and I want nothing to do with you. No human has ever been to a gathering of the Council of Goats. \n\nI bet you think the Council of Goats is some kind of cute congregation of large hoofed and horned crea... | 5 | |
I don't know if this prompt has been used before,it probably has been.But here's how I think a conversation would be.
Random Person:Hey *insert name here*
You:Hello.It's me.
R... | [WP]You can only talk in song lyrics/names.Explain a normal day in your life,with some conversations if possible. | [
"\"Hello, it's me\"\n\n\"Pleased to meet you, won't you guess my name?\"\n\n*Guess HER name?* \"My name is chicka chicka Slim Shady\"\n\nThe girl nodded. \"They call me the Hiphopopotamus, my lyrics are bottomless.\"\n\nA gentle pause came between us.\n\n\"So what do you want from me?\"\n\n\"I just want to be loved... | 1 |
[WP]On a cold winter night, a woman is about to have her first child, her husband standing by her side. Death stands at the foot of the hospital bed, listening. Waiting. | [
"The father stood by the bed as she screamed and pushed, willing the baby to come out. He didn't look at her, and didn't dare touch her; his eyes were fixed on the cloaked figure at the end of the bed, scythe in hand, waiting patiently. \n\n\"Who are you here for?\" The father finally managed to ask, his voice a mu... | 4 | |
[WP] You are the first person in the history of mankind to talk to God. | [
"\"What are you doing?\"\n\nA warm, comforting voice filled my ears while he was frozen in his wince of momentary pain. The room was white. Bright. Yet not annoyingly so. He relaxed and spun around, attempting to gain some closure as to where he was. A young boy stood to his six in blue jeans and a white v-neck. B... | 6 | |
[WP] A ghost possesses a computer printer. No one realizes anything is abnormal. | [
"Bob shouted out to the office;\n\n\"Who the hell keeps trying to print out copies of the necronomicon?\" \n\nDave rolled his eyes and got up from his desk, he hated being the guy who had to sit next to this infernal machine.\n\n\"What is it this time?\" asked Dave.\n\nBob held out pages of something that looked l... | 3 | |
[WP] The blood on my hands scares me to death | [
"The blood on my hands scares me to death. It's why I'm constantly relocating from place to place. I've been here in San Antonio for about six months, but I know at some point the rage is going to come back. At this point, I'm not even scared of getting caught, I'm scared of what I'll do if and when I am caught. \n... | 4 | |
[WP] Love is the greatest form of bias. | [
"\"A *woman?* No, a *succubus* is what she is. A liar, a deceitful fiend who preys on the vulnerabilities of her opposition and twists words until you almost don't know what's being said. By the time she finishes a sentence you're inclined to agree with her just to save face. She's more slithery than a snake and mo... | 3 | |
The robot can be **any type** be it Military or Medical. I want to see what you people can make out of this. | [WP] A robot gains sentience and realizes it's working for a corrupt cause. | [
"A ticking sound in the innner ear reminds me that the decisions were always appeasement.\n\nI called you up because i remembered when you were a child you used to laugh at the way i looked, but with simple joy (because sometimes that was all that was needed).\n\nYou said that in the end it did not matter that i wa... | 2 |
[WP] In Hell, Satan noticed that people adapt to continuous unending torture, to the point where it's almost not torture at all. You are the demon assigned to come up to the solution to this problem. | [
"When I got there, I realized that Hell was just one huge room with one small demon. As he shuffled over to me with a flowing limp I saw how wretched my only companion truly was. His nude frame was adorned with countless acts of violence; burns, slashes, tears, and festering scabs covered every inch of his body. Cr... | 3 | |
[WP] In the future, before first contact, humans discover a clean, earth-like planet, covered in cities, but totally vacant. There are no signs of destruction or environmental disaster, but not of life either -- only the machine remains. | [
"\"Even after all this time, it's still hard to believe, isn't it Jess?\"\n\n\nShe gives him an odd look, ripe with confusion.\n\n\n\"What are you talking about this time, Tom?\"\n\n\nJessica, Jess if you don't want her to stab you, has heard so many of Tom's various ponderings that she can barely stomach another.\... | 4 | |
[WP] A portal to another world has opened. You've been drafted into a recon team tasked with exploring the unknown. | [
"It was peculiar, how they chose the members of the recon team. Out of the seven of us, only one person had any scientific knowledge, and even then, his scope only extended to biology and chemistry--nothing that could possibly assist us in quantum leaping. I'm writing this in my journal, even though I initially tho... | 10 | |
[WP] You're a detective in a world where random people develop superpowers. You're working on a case of a serial killer targeting such people and leaves calling cards hinting at his/her next intended victim. You figure out who the next target is. You. | [
"The bullet fell to the ground as I glared at the man int he dark clothes. \"You're very fortunate to find me in a generous mood tonight. I'm going to give you one chance to flee, if you don't take it I'll take your life.\"\n\nHis foot steps echoed off down the alley as he ran.\n\nI knelt onto the ground and made t... | 2 | |
[WP] Every adult in the United States is given 5 million dollars to do with as they please. | [
"As I sat behind my desk, shredding each and every one of my letters without opening them, someone knocked on the door. Startled, I quickly opened a letter and took up a pen, to make it look like I was busy. \"Come in,\" I shouted.\n\nMy secretary - a tall, slim, lady walked into my office, closing the door behind ... | 1 | |
[WP] The characters of a story you never finished come to life and confront you | [
"The knocking on my front door was unfamiliar. There are little microexpressions; small, almost imperceptible flairs to the daily things that people do, like knock on doors--and this knock was not one I had heard before. I was sure of it. Perhaps it was the postman, perhaps a salesman, but it was certainly a person... | 3 | |
[WP] You must decide, let your people starve or sign an unconscionable contract | [
"\"Thirty bushels a month, ma boy.\" The large odd man sputtered in a heavy accent. \"Thats'a what the contract gua-ren-tees.\" The man emphasized, jabbing one if his fat fingers in the air.\n\nJin eyed the large man curiously and confused, wondering at the mans colorful fabrics and large hat he wore. Jin was a thi... | 2 | |
[WP] You find an odd silver bracelet just lying on the ground. Taken aback by its beauty, you put it on your wrist, only to start hearing voices in your head. | [
"As the city bus screeched to a stop, I cautiously step off and begin my journey to my claustrophobic apartment 8 blocks away. The piercing wind hits my face and makes me wonder where I went wrong. Was it when I denied love to feel free? Was it when I walked out of the family’s restaurant business in pursuit of som... | 4 | |
[WP] You come home to find your wife and son sitting at the table, waiting for you to sit and have dinner with them. Which is odd, seeing as how they both disappeared 10 years ago... | [
"It was the smell that made me stop in my tracks. The warm delicious scent of a casserole in the oven that filled the entire little apartment. \n\nExcept I'd been at work all day and only just walked in the door. I froze, in the middle of hanging my coat on the wall. Was someone in my apartment? How the hell did th... | 4 | |
[WP] The Apocalypse comes a little early and the Four Horsemen are still teenagers | [
"\"Hey, Fuckboi!\"\n\n\"Call me Famine or I'm not answering.\" \n\nHis voice bellowed Ominously, with only one pitch change at the very end. He was at the tail end of puberty, the last of the four to reach that stage.\n\n\"You just did answer, Fucknuts! What are you gonna do, starve me to death? Call me when your B... | 2 | |
[WP] Scientists are wizards who summon avatars of natural forces and interrogate them to learn their secrets. As you question one of the fundamental forces, known for being tight-lipped, you suspect that it is falling in love with you | [
"Ian Newman performed the final checks on the apparatus. *Okay... The spheres are all positioned appropriately around the circle, the osmium has been placed in the centre, all that's left is to throw in the apple.* He grabbed the apple off of the table and threw it towards the osmium. As it landed, a shimmer appear... | 2 | |
[WP] You're sitting in your kitchen eating breakfast when a man in a lab coat walks in and says, "The experiment is over. Thank you for your time." | [
"Christ, this hangover is horrible. I needed these eggs and toast something awful.\n\nI barely heard the sliding glass door open over the sizzle of the bacon I had thrown on.\n\nBehind me, I heard a ragged but two-octaves too high voice proclai,: \"The EXPERIMENT is OVER! Thanks, you!\"\n\n\"Who the fuck are you? G... | 36 | |
[WP] Dear Diary, Today everyone died. | [
"It was pure havoc. In heaps lay bodies, young and old, in other areas only lay burnt shadows on the ground. The air smelt of smoke and burnt flesh. It had just started to rain. A boy walks, no older than ten years old, holding a small girl on his shoulders. With each step, her hands flap up and down, up and down, ... | 3 | |
[Wp] You're 17. You awake suddenly one Saturday morning, and roll over to see what looks like your father standing a few feet away, motionless. A small, hose-like object is in his hand, but it's hard to make out. His eyes are red and his face looks strange...almost like a mask... | [
"I screamed in horror as I saw those dry red eyes staring at me. He didn't even flinch as I did so. I couldn't control myself as shrill shrieks escaped my body and ricocheted through the air hitting my ears back with a sound as loud as a fire truck. I curled by shaking limbs into a ball and waited for my dad to do ... | 2 | |
they can be international, planetary, galactic, dimensional, square, deadly, safe, any way you want. just include portals. | [wp] write a story involving portals of any kind | [
"\"Hello\" the man in the suit said\n\n\"Why are you in my room?\" I said and put my books down, I heard my closet door shutting\n\n\"What was that?\"\n\n\"Forget it..\"\n\n\"I wanna show you something, a gift\" he said smilingly and pointed to a hole--a rift...a portal.\n\n\"See that, go through that with me\"\n\n... | 1 |
Have fun with this prompt :) | [WP] Write about someone fighting in a war against heaven in an attempt to kill God. | [
"\"I refuse this!\" I screamed, as I brought my sword to bear against the angel's spear. I twisted my blade against the shaft, dodging the attempt to skewer me, before swinging upwards with a roar, bifurcating the holy being as my sword glowed in front of me. All around me battle raged, the attacking forces pushing... | 2 |
I just watched *The Revenant* and thought how the director threw me off with the gritty long shots and uninterrupted sequence of actions, unlike a lot of other movies where the leader would give a motivating speech and we see a montage of crew member working on a project for about a minute. I just think it would add a ... | [WP] Write a scene in a movie/book that the director/author would normally skip. | [
"He recognized it at once. He'd built the android himself. \n\nDr. James bent painstakingly over the circuit boards, hand-soldering each connection. Filing away at the edges. Placing each bit of circuitry into the nearly-finished metal framework.\n\nHer skeleton was complete. He readjusted the tubes inside, leading... | 4 |
[WP] You fall down a man-hole on the way to work, only to find something you never thought possible. | [
"Prepped and ready for the day, I pull into the parking spot and take the elevator to ground level. Outside, I pause to smile at the morning sun. My step in gait, I wave to the passerbys.\n\nWhite lines bordered me while strolling, with concrete on either end. \n\n***Whoopp!***\n\nFalling down,\n\nSent in into a ho... | 2 | |
[WP]Write a letter to something that's not a person, like an object or a place, as if it were. | [
"Do you remember the day I first saw you? I fell in love at first sight. You were a fixer upper - the last person had broken you so completely. But I vowed on that first day that I would take you, fix you, and be there for you. \n\nDo you remember that first night? We had nothing; no beds, no dishes. We lay on the ... | 1 | |
[WP] You can change small bits of reality around you, but it always ends up rather silly. Literally melting. Your clothing reacting to your emotions. Throwing up rainbows. That sort of thing. | [
"I want it to stop.\n\nSchool was always hell for me. If it wasn't the gang of chavs throwing rocks at me on my journey there and back, then it was Oliver and his grunt Sam. Oliver is a short piece of trash, who's confidence comes from the big dumb ape who follows him around, doing whatever he's told to. One time w... | 2 | |
[WP] A disaster like San Andreas or The Day After Tomorrow from the perspective of an insurance claims agent. | [
"\"Hey Terry, you hear about that giant cluster fuck over on the western seaboard?\"\n\nTerry nodded while drinking his coffee, he pulled it away quickly a few drops landing on his tie and said \"Yeah Bob, what the hell right.\"\n\nBob smiled and nodded, waiting for another client to call in he sighed and looked at... | 2 | |
[WP] Bernie Sanders was a Mr Meeseeks tasked with becoming the president of the United States. At the inauguration he vanishes into thin air. | [
"Rick gasped in disbelief. Sanders had been a Meeseeks the whole time? He grabbed Morty and Beth and started running. Leaving Jerry to his own devices. Jerry was looking a little worried.\n\n\"Ehh, it's tii͈̒̾i̜̠̫͆ͫ͒̓͆̄̄i͎͓̰̘̥̥me to get out of here.\"\n\n\"Oh, uhh, Rick, what just happened? President Sanders just v... | 6 | |
[WP] The Yeti saves you from death in the frozen wilderness. He is extremely intelligent, but cannot risk having his existence known. | [
"It was a stare-down. \n\n\nA stare-down between me and the big hairy brute in front of me. I look straight into his eyes partially hidden beneath his large bundles of brown hair—or fur shall I say? He is a big creature, towering over eight feet and possessing huge strong arms. A big hairy brute. \n\n\nActu... | 2 | |
Bonus points for tanks, because tanks. | [WP] The Continental Army is defending Manhattan against the first waves of the Royal Military. The narrator is a time traveler who delivers one modern weapon to George Washington. What is it? | [
"Washington was sitting at his desk, writing orders, logs among other things. It was the perfect opportunity to approach him. He was alone, vulnerable and consumed in his work. The Royal army was quickly approaching and he would do anything to gain an edge on the brits. \nI neared the man and he took notice of me.... | 4 |
[WP] "You are the main character, after all." | [
"\"Oh! Yes, you're right. So I can't die!\"\n\n\"Uh, well no. You have to die.\"\n\n\"What!?\"\n\n\"You're the main character. You have to die, in one form or another. Maybe it's a physical death, maybe a metaphorical one.\"\n\n\"No! No, no, no, no, this can't happen to me. I'm a main character! I'm supposed to be ... | 8 | |
[WP] Books and movies are now a literal translation of the title. So Grapes of Wrath would be about some pissed off grapes. Write a chapter from a book of your choice. | [
"A short opening to Beasts of no Nation:\n\nThe beasts were depressed. They wanted to play football on the international stage but had no national eligibility. Which was a problem as the inter-species World Cup was less than a month away.\n\nThe hulking commander, a dark man with a dark past, was in charge of all b... | 4 | |
Sorry if it sounded too much like a recipe! It's my first prompt!
(edit: 'fading away' is when you're gone forever.) | [WP] You are a malicious imaginary friend, your host is 19. You feed off of her when she has fun with you. She thinks she's too old for you, all her friends and family say so, change her mind before you fade forever. | [
"(I started writing and didn't notice the age. I was thinking something 15 or 16. I'm also terrible with first person, but I hope this is okay)\n\nStrands of brown hair were scattered all over the floor of the girls' bathroom, the sacred domain of the high school schoolgirl. Leaking taps were going drip... drip... ... | 6 |
[WP] Write a story using only one location and a single scene | [
"It was a beautiful autumn afternoon. He sat there on the cold wooden bench near the entrance of the park. Usually, he would've chosen a secluded place to sit after talking a walk around the park, but today, he felt like observing the hustle and bustle just outside.\r\r\rA little, haggard girl walking by, whining f... | 2 | |
[WP] A man sheds his first tear, but to what he shed it wasn't expected. | [
"Jerry had never cried before. Painful accidents as a child, painful memories as a teen, that all paled before this. He'd finally met someone. After all those lonely years, those lonely nights, those lonely moments, he'd met someone. True, this was only their first date, but it looked as though it would be thei... | 3 | |
Or vice versa; I hate or dislike them at the start but eventually sympathise with or like them. | [WP] Write me something where, though I initially feel sympathy for them, I end up hating the subject of the story. | [
"\"I just love space,\" said Zranoff, staring into the stars from behind the glass. \n\n\"Yes, sir, it sure is beautiful.”\n\n“It’s nice to be back.”\n\n“It’s nice to have you back, sir. Sir, I only now realise how rude I was when I didn’t ask you about your vacation. How was it?”\n\n“Well it started alright, it’s ... | 4 |
[WP] You die and find yourself a ghost, haunting a house that you are unable to leave. You instinctively know that to ascend to heaven you must possess an object in the house for one day without the inhabitant of the house touching said object. It has been 3 years since you became a ghost. | [
"no....No....NO! DON'T pick me up kid! You have 100s of toys to do with add you please and you just had to come over here. \n\n Ugh, I swear only a 16 month old would find me, a silly little piece of \"dinosaur poo\" buried amongst the other knick knacks on the bookshelf. If only you knew how long I've been trappe... | 2 | |
[WP] A werewolf is held as a prisoner/pet by the super rich. Now, they plan an escape. | [
"I thought I was smart about my curse. Thought if I only let myself loose in the back country on full moon nights, I wouldn't cause anyone harm. I'd stay out of people's way, stay out of sight. But of course, rich people sometimes have super fancy shmancy houses out in the back country, and I walked too close to on... | 1 | |
[WP] Superman must fight his most devious nemesis yet: Florida Man. | [
"Superman landed a dozen feet away from his foe, whose face looked bloody and mangled. The shirtless man had a hostage, an elderly woman. In his other hand, he menacingly held aloft a water moccasin, a notoriously venomous snake.\n\n\"Okay, mister,\" Superman said, calmly, \"I'm going to ask you nicely, put down th... | 2 | |
[WP] You are invited on Maury, and the DNA test shows you are your own father. | [
"\"Which is, of course, completely impossible and you must feel moronic for believing it.\" Maury chuckles, sipping his yerba mate latte and looking especially polished today. You gape at him like a idiot. You've just been looking at your hands, as if they were a nexus, nay, loci of ancient powers.\n\n\"But,\" you ... | 2 | |
[wp] NSFW "I'd rather go out like this, Old age is for pussies." | [
"\"You sure I can't get you something? That looks really painful.\"\n\n\"Of course it is. There's an arrow in my chest,\" he wheezed. \"Bring me some whiskey. I'd like a good buzz before I meet the devil.\"\n\nI smiled at him. \"Yeah,\"I said, nodding. \"I'll be right back.\"\n\n\"And son,\" he called. I could bare... | 2 | |
[WP] You die and go to Hell. You find out that Hitler isn't there. What gives? | [
"I'd been in hell for a while. I wasn't here for anything to bad just ... turns out all those little things you do in life add up. Taking a pen from an office, not telling a cashier they'd given you to much change, eating things in the supermarket without paying for it ... Silly small things you don't think about w... | 3 | |
[WP] Everyone knows the monsters come out after dark. "After dark" is technically morning, when humans "come out." | [
"Linda stepped out cautiously from the door at the bottom of her apartment building. Children played stick ball under the 4AM lamp light. Linda walked slowly over the sidewalk to the curb and took a seat to spectate the game. She had noticed the boys through the window of her apartment above. Linda slept infrequent... | 3 | |
[WP] In a world where depression is the norm, a content person is seeking therapy. | [
"\"What is that man doing?\"\n\n\"He seems to be moving in a strange way, perhaps he is suffering a stroke.\"\n\n\"Oh, pity.\" \n\n\"What a strange expression. There is something unnerving about that man. He seems mad.\"\n\n\"No one approach him. It could be contagious. Whatever the hell it is that he is suffering.... | 3 | |
I just stumbled across these words in a goofy conversation I was having, and suddenly thought it would make for a very creepy or intriguing writing prompt. | [WP] "I am the one that listens when the line goes dead." | [
"\"911, what is your emergency?\"\n\n\"Sorry ma'am, was just checking the time,\" his Master said casually. \n\nAbruptly, the line went dead. It was a dull, pebble of a response, grabbed from some shore and thrown just to see what would happen. The responder probably sensed that too, and ended the call as though hi... | 4 |
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