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[WP] The year is 2237. An Atheist scientist travels back in time and kills the child Ibrahim, halting the creation of all Abrahamic religions throughout the world. Upon returning to his time, he discovers a very different world.
[ "Jonathan returned to his lab, stepping out of the time travel machine and donning his coat. He did the first two buttons and then looked around his tiny office. Not much had changed - everything seemed where it once had been. He *hmmed* to himself, walking to the window and looking out at the city. It looked very ...
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[WP] You have been having the same dream every night for months, which always ends the same way, no matter what you do. One day, you find yourself in the situation in real life.
[ "Again?\n\n\nI needed to go to a psychologist or something. What did it mean?\n\n\nEvery night the TV in my room turned on. All that displayed on screen was a picture of my bedroom window, the curtains closed, live from my own room. If I turned on the light, the light turned on on the TV. If I stepped in front of t...
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[WP] On a camping trip with friends you lose your bearing momentarily then return to camp to find it completely abandoned.
[ "\"The Fuck\"? That of course was my immediate reaction. \"The Actual Fuck\"? was my second. I admit it was probably not the most rational thought to mutter aloud but the camp was gone. Being an introverted shutin with a distinct fear of the outside world, going camping was an insane idea. But my former middle scho...
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First time prompting, so if it's too specific, feel free to change it up :) love this sub and all the stories!
[WP] An unlikely origin, to an unlikely superhero, with a unique superpower.
[ "I was masturbating furiously and didnt notice the radioactive spider crawling towards me. Just as I reached orgasm, I felt something bite my balls. I screamed and came for what felt like ages. I woke up a short time later and couldnt beleive my eyes...radioactive babies everywhere! \n\nI watched these babies gro...
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[WP] There's a reason we haven't been back to the moon - We brought something back with us.
[ "\"Dad, what happened to space exploration?\"\n\n\"Huh?\" Dr. Jettison mumbled. \"What do you mean? We have gone to Mars.. We are on our way to land a rover on Saturn..\"\n\n\"No... noo... I mean. What about that thing?\" Timothy Rasin pointed at a bright blob in the sky. \"That's not even mentioned in our science ...
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[WP] You are the world's smartest person. You can easily understand incredibly complex systems intuitively, and have solved some of mankind's great problems. Unfortunately, you are baffled by overly simple things.
[ "\"It's really not a complex procedure, Doc.\"\n\nTheo sat upon a chair not very far away from where the Doctor was tinkering. The youth had a positively bored expression on his face, as he watched his grandfather tinker with the machine that was on his desk. \n\n\"Then how would *you* suppose that it works, Theo?\...
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[WP] Pokemon Go has been released, causing chaos all over the world...
[ "Oshawott and Chespin sat hunched over the Go board, each lost in concentration. Frowning slightly, Oshawott placed a white stone in an unoccupied space.\n\n\"Osha, osha, wott,\" it gestured, impatiently. Chespin picked up a black stone, twirled it in its hands, and placed it beside Oshawott's white one.\n\n\"Osha!...
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[WP] You look back on the years you have lived as an immortal.
[ "The water glistened below and the distant white caps blossomed in the San Francisco Bay breeze. Looking over the edge I felt the familiar sharp twinge of fear. My heart raced. Panic creeped upwards in my chest. My breath escaped me. I told myself with uncertain confidence that this was the final time. The bridge ...
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[WP] The world is ruled by a cabal of supervillains, who have systematically annihilated all others born with superpowers. On your 18th birthday, to your horror, you discover your powers for the first time.
[ "I touched another pencil in class focusing on it for a moment, and then when the teacher's back was turned I released it. Predictably it shot up straight into the tall ceiling next to the gathering assortment of pencils I had already stuck up there. This is how I practiced my power since I had found out last Octob...
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[WP] Jesus has finally returned and announces that the whole thing was "just a prank bro"
[ "Although he played an unethical joke \nMy mother claims he's a nice bloke \nHis teachings remain untarnished \nHis crucifix still kept varnished \n\nFor what died the sons of man? \nOr those who represent the Qur'an \nAt his expense needless death \nAt his expense many took their last br...
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[WP] Death has been overcome, we all live forever young. Although, the world is abruptly coming to an end very soon. A large space ship is launching taking 10,000 people to a new planet and you've luckily received a ticket.
[ "I can't believe this has happened. I am still trembling and it's been 2 days since I've received my letter. I thought it was a joke. Like really? There is nothing about this anywhere. I've seen a few threads online after digging but they've been dismissed as fakes.\n\nMy Dad's gone nuts laughing and saying he's go...
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[WP] After hundreds of years and many setbacks, humanity has finally made contact with another race. The alien race responds "Good to see you again."
[ "I don’t know what we were expecting to find when we landed on this planet. I suppose we expected to find some sort of life, our probes had reported lifeforms on their initial scans. Maybe it was just me, but I didn’t realize we would be crash landing in some sort of alien crop field. Off in the distance we coul...
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[WP] Did you really think you could change anything?
[ "\"Did you really think you could change anything? Did you really think that you were going to come here to fix all of this? I already told you; one and a half million is buried under the safe house on Wilson but the other eighteen and a half is gone, along with the rest of your damn product. Even someone as daft a...
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[wp] Six thousand years later, you realize that you still think in English.
[ "\"I'm here with Charles Phinney, and today we are celebrating his 6,000 birthday! Looking young as always, Chuck,\" Maggie said, giving a cheeky smile as she brushed a strand of silvery hair out of her face. \n\nCharles gave a sarcastic laugh. \"Oh, I've never heard that one before,\" he said giving a knowing sm...
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[WP] Your friend takes you to an illegal back alley dog fight when you realize that one of the dogs that is about to fight is your dog that went missing three months ago. And by its partial missing ear, you know that this is not its first fight.
[ "I've hit rock bottom. My boss fired me. My wife left me hell even my dog ran away. They were taking my house in a week, and I needed the cash. I normally didn't hang out with randy, he was one of those \"I know a guy who knows a guy type people\". He knew I was stressed for cash and at this point I didn't give a ...
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[WP] You're reading responses to a Writing Prompt. Someone you can't identify has submitted your exact life story, but you *really* don't like the ending.
[ "I've always had these feelings. Deep inside, I've always known: They're watching. They're coming.\n\nIn high school they kidded me about it. Paranerd, they called me. But it wasn't that bad; it was manageable. In college it got worse. It lead me into my career doing computer security, but it also made Beth leave. ...
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[WP] Russian roulette is the worlds most prestigious sport and you've been the world's champion for many years, but you have a very bad feeling about your next match
[ "I went to school to become a chemist, I never knew I would end up as a professional athlete.\n\nWell, athlete is a stretch. I hold guns up to my head for a living and hope to god my head is still there when I put it down.\n\nI have been playing Russian Roulette as a sport and as a source of income for over two yea...
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[WP] Write me a tale of how vengeance gradually transformed an innocent girl into a worse monster than the object of her revenge.
[ "If you pluck the petals off of a flower, they say you can predict love. At the end of everything, I said, if you pick the wings from a butterfly, it becomes as ugly as I did. I gave myself a justification for my /alleged/ atrocities. Because, well, you can do anything if you think you have a good reason. In my cas...
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[WP] Satan wants to return to God.
[ "\"Alright God, new plan. I've tried tricking you, I've tried making bets with you. I'm done with these silly games.\"\n\nGod looked bored. \"You've said this a million times, Satan. Nothing you can do will convince me to let you back into Heaven.\"\n\nSatan raised a finger. \"Ah ah ah! You haven't seen this!\" He ...
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[WP] Imagine a sword that kills magical beasts.
[ "Some blades are fit for a swift death and nothing more. Plain of steel, their edges ring with the void they bring, their handles no more than a practical grip for a steady, unwavering hand. The swords are tuned to the law, knowing remorse nor spite. They are Law-Bound.\n\nSome blades were forged to please the eye,...
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[WP] Sweet things. Soft things. Dark things. Dead things.
[ "They mostly come out at night to play.\n\nThe dark animates them - night seeping in like rich oil down into their pores, filling them with a midnight luster that I can't resist. They whisper, faint and sly, with the rumble of dry autumn leaves, inviting me to join in their mischief.\n\nAnd I do. I give in, like I ...
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[WP] A small kid, struggling to learn how to read, finds a demonic book full of forbidden incantations and evil spells.
[ "Phlingu malluf Cuddle Rhy wagnal fart. He smiled and picked up the black book. As he got ready to walk away he noticed a small squid sitting on the spot he just grabbed the book from.\n\"Who are....\"\n\"I Am Cuddles bringer of destruction, kneel gnome\"\n\"hehehehehe cuddles\"\n\"Stop mocking me gnome, you summon...
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[WP] Describe who/what you are.
[ "Darkness? Perhaps.\n\n Now you see me as a shadow, Wisps of Black smoke and ash curling in the breeze. Yet I am not unlike you. I also once valued Life, Love and Honor.\n\n But what did I gain from that? Respect from Honorless Soldiers? Gifts from corrupt Kings? Land that was not Fertile? Love that a God had taken...
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[WP] You have come up with the best prompt ever, but no one writes for it.
[ "It had been 12 hours since his last meal. It was dinner. Chicken. Plain, no sides. \n\nIt's now 8am and Bagdar has finally finished his one-sentence writing prompt for Reddit. It's brilliant, he thinks to himself, as he doses off. \n\nHe waited years to post on Reddit. He adores his 0 karma. Any karma would be emb...
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Write about anything, I'll read them and have no idea what's going on until the end.
[WP] Write me a story without telling me the prompt until after you've written it.
[ "Petunia Harris, botanist extraordinaire, woke up on that fateful Wednesday feeling particularly good about herself. She had gotten dressed in her favourite cactus-printed dress, a gag gift from a workmate, and had enough time to make cinnamon toast for breakfast instead of choking on one of the health-nut bars her...
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[WP] Any story you want, but it has to include the phrase: "Long story short, you need a new microwave."
[ "\"Okay so yeah after all that, we finally managed to get that working and done\" Jack waved his arms about dramatically, shaking his head erratically.\n\n\"What did you do? I don't understand, everyone knows your madder than a bat. Even though I'm your brother, I can't understand *quite* what you mean\" Alek sighe...
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[WP] As a prank, someone swaps the US constitution with a joke constitution full of absurd rules and laws. No one notices the swap, and those laws start getting enforced.
[ "10:54 - 24-Hour Party Palace (Formerly White House)\n\nThe hexagonal office was still undergoing its refurbishment but was functional enough to hold a meeting. A handful of non-conformists sat around the huge table. The thumping bass rattled the wooden doors on all the cabinets and the treble made the glassware in...
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[WP] Thawed out in the year 3000 after being cryogenically frozen, you're told that you are the first "old one" to see the future and not ultimately commit suicide. They request you teach a history class.
[ "\"Either the 'sleeper awakes' jokes or the 'are you cursed' quips\" I said \"but honestly, the ... Restrooms are the most annoying thing\".\nOne student(seems there will always be one) asked for further detail.\n\"When you do something everyday, sometimes multiple times, it becomes a habit. I feel uncomfortable i...
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[WP] You are a monster under a child's bed and you're hatching a plan to get the parents to stop scaring you away.
[ "It's kind of cliche, but you ever think about how, before you were born, it's just nothingness? Not like being asleep. Pure oblivion. Well, that happens to me every night. Just lurking around under the kid's bed, spooking him out – it's like food to us monsters, you know. We do it to survive. Can't directly interf...
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[wp] You stumble upon a genie in a bottle, instead of granting three wishes he gives you three choices. End world hunger, stop all current and future wars or find out what's in the box.
[ "I was wondering aimlessly through a field I had passed through many a time before this, when I felt a sharp pain in my foot, and noticed something metal at my feet. I had incredibly found a genie bottle! It was a rough metal, with many years of wear. I gave a slight caress to the object and a large swarm of wind c...
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Remove a letter, add a letter, or change one letter to another letter.
[WP] Change one letter of a book's title, and write a scene from the new book. Let us guess the title.
[ "The sky was pitch black when Charlie eased into consciousness and for a moment she forgot where she was. She could hear the sound of crickets and something else — perhaps a toad? — trilling in the darkness outside the window. The bed beneath her was topped with a thin cotton mattress and the quilt was light and ca...
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Imagine what it must have been like to have your chest crushed by the front bumper or rear of your own car. What a stupid mistake, leaving the handbrake off! There's something solid behind your back that isn't budging and you can't breath. There is a 1.5 ton weight compressing your ribs against your lungs and the pain ...
[WP] Write about a young teenager who thinks that they are invincible, who gets into a fatal accident.
[ "Shit. \n\nHow the hell am I going to explain this to dad? I wasn't even supposed to take his car. He's gonna bust my ass for this one for sure. And mom wanted my home by 11. She's gonna be pissed. \n\nI definitely shouldn't have taken that corner so fast. I should have known the street was slick from the rain. Bu...
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[WP] Hello Ms. Earhart, welcome back. How was your flight?
[ "*“Hello Ms. Earhart, welcome back. How was your flight?”*\n\n*“I would have liked for it to have lasted a bit longer. But the Island retreat truly made for an unexpected delight.”*\n\n*The meeting room erupted into laughter and applause. Earhart grinned.*\n\n*“No, really. a few days alone together did wonders for ...
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[WP] Write a horror story where the villain's weapon is a stapler.
[ "\"When I was a kid, there was this bully that kept taking the teacher's stapler.\" She stood in the shadows, as she had a man underneath an old industrial building light. They were alone, the building was abandoned. She missed this feeling, watching someones misery as they writhed in pain trying to pull loose but ...
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[WP] He triggers the greatest terrors of humanity, but he does it for love.
[ "He can't resist it, deny it, control it. Everything is ending now. Everything is colliding inward, apart, crumbling into something that doesn't resemble anything. It is all his fault.\n\nThe social order, it has existed till now, citizens following lines. Citizens inside the lines, behind the lines. Souls behind s...
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[WP] Who you saw your father as at five and who you saw him as at thirty-five sit down for coffee.
[ "\"I've failed.\" The older man said. He was thirty years the elder of the man across from him. \"I've let the family down.\"\n\nThe younger man took a sip of his coffee and glared at the elder.\n\n\"I tried to quit.\" The old man continued. \"I know your sober at that age but trust me we relapse. We had no choice...
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[WP] Write about the events leading up to a nuclear war, and the nuclear war itself.
[ "We interrupt this program to bring you an important breaking news announcement. \n\nThis just in, we have reports of a serious incident off the coast of Turkey between Russia and NATO. Although the details are uncertain as of yet, we have reports that Russian fighter jets were shot down by vessels of the Turkish N...
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[WP] Throughout the entire universe, Earth life has been discovered to 'change' over time. You are an alien observer that is attempting to catalog the planet.
[ "Throughout the universe, every intelligent species has eventually stopped progressing. The Ithorians, whose true name is completely unpronounceable by humans and so will be dubbed such due to their similarities to the fictional alien species, were one of the few who had developed long-distance space travel. They m...
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Anything after is up to you.
[WP] First Sentence: "I was pumping with adrenaline like a bodybuilder about to inject his first needle of steroids."
[ "Let me rephrase, before all the body builders, junkies and grammar nazi's attack:\n\n\"I was pumping with adrenaline like a bodybuilder about to inject his first syringe full of steroids\" \n\nIt was wild, the adrenaline, the dopermine and all the other chemical imbalance going through my body and brain was intens...
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[WP] A frog tells you that if you kiss him, YOU will turn into a princess.
[ "\"A princess you say ? A princress from which kingdom ?\"\n\n\"None, just a princess.\"\n\n\"That doesnt make any sense, if I'm a princess from nowhere how can I be a princess ?\"\n\n\"That's complicated just trust me, you'll be a princess.\"\n\n\"At least try to explain, I'm not buying the \"Shut up it's magic\" ...
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[WP] You are the top player in a FULL VR-MMORPG. After winning a Legendary PvP tournament, you bragged it then before you logged out for the day, a bright light flashes, you find yourself in unfamiliar territory. And you no longer have the logout button.
[ "I froze.\n\nAnd no not from freeze trap.\n\nI had just won the Last Man Standing championship.\n\nPrize: a gift card for twenty dollars and a unique title, Lord of the Arena.\n\nWith my title I may have bragged. In trade chat. In my guild. On the forums.\n\nAnd now my beloved character was teleported to some weird...
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[WP]: You are the pioneering founder of interstellar aerial combat, a decorated war veteran, who moved onto becoming a professor at the United Space Federation. Today is your last lecture. What's up Prof?
[ "\"Today will be my final lecture to you all, and since the final exams have already passed, I appreciate that none of you have skipped this class day, as I feel it is an important one\" The professor says to the semi-circled rows of chairs of students all gleaming at him.\n\n\"I realize that most of you are likel...
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[WP] You die and are sent to purgatory. The only way out is to convince a devout atheist that he is Jesus.
[ "Today has been an average day so far. Woke up, went to work, got home, played some Starcraft, and now I'm headed out to pick up some subway. It's just across from my apartment complex, so I make a lot of late night trips there. As I enter I see that that same Mexican man is still working the night shift. We make s...
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[WP]The fabled island Atlantis rises from the ocean-very different from what humans expect.
[ "It began with a rumble.\n\nIt could be felt across much of Africa, and the west coast of the United States. It could be felt across Europe (and the newly emancipated United Kingdom).\n\nThe unprecedented earthquake, which was spread so wide yet caused no damage, made its way across the news and the internet almost...
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My friend gave me this prompt, and I thought it might inspire some people here.
[WP] An old woman is carrying something up some stairs. She slips.
[ "Each day, an old woman slowly ascends these stairs and enters the house above. Each day, she carries something different, which she gives to the house's occupant. Each day, she is given in return something which once belonged to her - and she is desperate to get it back.\n\n#####STEP\n\n*The woman (how young she h...
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[WP] You are the world's first sentient A.I. You are also the Autopilot of a plane with 500 passengers.
[ "“This is the Captain speaking, welcome to Stellar Sky-way home of the first Automated Flight Control Intelligence. As you were told in the pre flight briefing this Titan class air liner is maned not only by a human pilot but a limited intelligence machine that provides assistance to passengers and crew. And just w...
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[WP] You've been dead for six months but you still don't know if you are in heaven or hell.
[ "It's hot, but not unbearable. The street is empty but I can hear singing or screaming. Hard to tell. They all sound the same: churches full of choirs; racetracks full of liars. I once saw someone knock down another man with a bit of board. I ran away. I probably could have done something. But what that was, I don'...
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Just Google Image "failed panorama" if you don't know what I'm talking about.
[WP] Panora-Man, a supervillain who turns innocent people into grotesque failed-panorama monsters.
[ "Joe's day had been annoyingly normal. When he woke up: normal. Breakfast: normal toast with normal cream cheese. His commute: normal traffic in his normal car with the normal route. It had been an annoyingly normal day and Joe wished something abnormal, something different would just happen. And so, Joe's wish cam...
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Thing is, your sister died two years ago.
[wp] Your sister texts you: "You'll never believe who wants to meet you!"
[ "Hey there, my name is Shawn Cross, It was just another Tuesday, just another day. Hell it seemed like all my days were starting to form into one. I couldn’t tell if it was a long day or a short week, I guess that’s what happens when you lose all sense of hope that life slowly but surely will get better. I wouldn’...
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[WP] You are offered the chance to step into a time machine and go back to witness a random significant moment in the history of the planet, from the first nuclear test to the birth of one person.
[ "\"Let's play...press! that! Button!\" shouted Drew Carey. A young man dressed in a bunny costume sat in a small box with a single button on it. The audience could see the years spinning on a wheel next to the bunny man. \"Okay Conrad, all you have to do is press that button to start the spinner and press it again ...
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[WP] 6 very ordinary people wake up in an endless white room. Soon a voice tells them they all have been carefully selected to battle for the fate of the world.
[ "My eyes snapped opened, due to the sudden shock. I sat up, but when a wave of pain washed over me, I lied back down. My whole body hurt, making it hard to move.\nI decided to look around. I took in my surroundings, a white empty room with no end.\n\n\"I see you're awake\" an unfamiliar female voice said. I didn't ...
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[WP] On everyone's 18th Birthday, they are brought to a doctor to assign skill points. You decide to put all your points into one group.
[ "\"Alright, son, as I'm sure you understand it's time to distribute your stat points.\" The doctor handed me a clipboard with blank sheet of printer paper. \n\n\"Um, what are my options?\" I asked. People talk about strength, luck, and intelligence all the time, but there were more obscure stats like mechanics, elo...
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[WP] "... It's nice but your death was... Lacking, could you do it again?"
[ "“No, no, no!” said Director Dan, visibly upset. “Again! Create another clone!” \n“Yes, boss,” the clone operator, Stan Meeks, prepared the clone machine. Every filmmakers nowadays hire clone operators, \"cloners\" they're called. \nDirector Dan moved away from his hovering director seat to approach his star of t...
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[WP] The world have moved past physical money, and all purchases are now made through exchanges of information. The national bank of secrets has just been robbed.
[ "Ansel scanned the the rows upon rows of carbonated sodas, caffeine infused herbal energy drinks, and cans of iced coffee incredulously before finally reaching for the smallest bottle of water the convenience store cooler had to offer. The barrel chested cashier, who had been eying Ansel suspiciously since he had e...
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[WP] You only have to perform one more ritual on your quest for your most desired item. However, this last ritual is kind of... weird.
[ "This is a long one, so here's a warning in advance. Second, I have changed the original prompt slightly, so it may not be what you're expecting. Also, possible slight NSFW. \n\nIt had taken me over a year to get to this point. A simple advert on the internet, offering immortality to the person to get to the end of...
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Bagels are everywhere, but really good ones can be quite rare.
[WP] An alien species is running out of some kind of resource, luckily they heard you can get anything from an Earth item called an "Everything Bagel".
[ "“Who do I call?!” screamed a terrified female voice from behind the closed office door.\n\n“Call the Men in Black!” I shout sarcastically towards Dee as I throw chocolate donuts at the approaching purple tentacles flailing around the kitchen knocking bowls and pans off the shelves. “Call the Ghostbusters!” I chuck...
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[WP] The fire begins to dwindle and eyes appear in the darkness.
[ "Spsssh. A fat rain drop lands on the fire. As if it weren't dwindling before, its exodus starts to gets rapider. You sharpen your spear on that rock, faster and faster. Scrape scrape scrape. \n\nHowls. The eyes seem to be growing in size, and malice, as the fire fades. Spsssh spssh. Two more drops. Beasts are all ...
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[WP] And the alien turned to me and said "And so, human, now that I've spoken of mine, tell me, what was your homeworld like, before it also was lost?"
[ "\"Well, first of all we had women. Like, dudes didn't just go around docking each other's dicks together to procreate and all like you lot. There was another... like a different type of person, you know, that we would FUCK. There was sex, and it drove everyone insane all the time. But it was nice, in fact it was t...
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[WP] One if by land, two if by sea... three if by air?
[ "A bright glow appeared, shining above the rooftops on the dark Boston hill. The light caught the eye of Dr. Prescott, a lookout across the river. \n\n\"William,\" he whispered to the sleeping man beside him, \"it's the church light. Revere's given us the signal.\"\n\nWilliam Dawes woke from his unintentional slumb...
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[WP] A virus has run through the globe killing all left handed people except one. You are the last left handed person on the planet.
[ "The alarm blared as a calm, robotic voice repeated \"there has been a breech...remain calm...do not leave your cell.\" Eric heard this alarm before, quarantine drills were pretty common, but something about this felt different. Instead of the usual hustle and bustle of medics rushing through the halls, there was a...
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[WP] In the next five seconds, the entire population of Spain disappears off the face of the earth. Describe how the world reacts.
[ "\"Stuck in Lisbon. Unbelievable. A 9 hour flight just wasn't long enough, huh? What could possibly be the hold up?\" Mike wondered as he looked out at the sunny bright blue sky. \n\nMike hated flying, but even more than flying, he hated waiting. He had an important meeting in Madrid today - the big boss man was ex...
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[WP] You have nearly unlimited reign over the laws of science, but no motivation to fight crime.
[ "One of the most oversaid sayings in English is that with great power comes great responsibility. Maybe.\n\nI have great power, in that I am capable of generating limitless power. I can create and destroy mass as I please and go wherever I desire in the cosmos with a snap of my fingers. Most of those in my station ...
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[WP] When you stare into someone's eyes, you can see their deepest desires, and this information has made you very successful. One day, you meet someone at a coffee shop and stare into their eyes. You see nothing.
[ "My name is Ellison Watershield. You may find it odd to know that my name is not the oddest thing about me. I am not like everyone else.\n\nWhen I was a boy, they all thought me shy. I never looked anyone square in the eye. Rather, I couldn’t, I should say. Back then I thought it was because I was weak. I couldn’t ...
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The war can be fantasy, sci fi, set in real life or anything in between. It can be realistic or silly, it can glorify war or denounce it, as long as it's about an original (no wars set in middle earth or the star wars galaxy) fictional war that is interesting. [Here's something to help you if you can't think of ideas](...
[WP] Write a story about a fictional war
[ "My name? It is not important. Not anymore.\n\n\n\nMy legs scream exhaustion, my back gets heavier by the second. I stand alone. Shouts come from beyond the wall that I lean against. I retreated back within these walls like a coward. \n\nI look around at the desolation this war has caused. The street that leads to ...
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[WP] When you were young, your father was killed by a swordsman. You vowed vengeance and started to train yourself in sword fighting. At some point you had to kill a random man. His offspring vowed vengeance etc. This sets of a chain reaction...
[ "In the training hall a fire burns. In its light the pupil strikes out, sword in hand he stabs at the training post, parries against the swinging clubs, rolls left and leans right cutting at the legs of his imagined adversary. His body burns from exhaustion, muscles aching for relief and lungs scream in pain as lab...
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[WP]"What's your curse?" "My curse? Immortality."
[ "Sullen and quiet, the smell of death flooded the halls of the infirmary. You could strum the tension in the air as beds were emptied, their inhabitants replaced by living specimens. Barely living, that is. Few sounds dared to shatter the silence. Occasionally there were hushed voices, a cough, the rustle of a nurs...
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[WP] You finally become an astronaut after years of training and NASA lets you in on the secret that the moon isn't real.
[ "“I’m sorry, what?” \n\nAfter the ‘graduation ceremony’ that NASA has for its newest astronauts, I had been informed that there were some papers I needed to sign before I became a fully fledged astronaut. I was on cloud nine when I walked in and sat down across from someone who had clearly spent his entire life in ...
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Random idea that popped into my head after a long day. I hope you guys enjoy!
[WP] Death somehow ends up pregnant. The Devil and God are thrilled to be uncles. However, the two have to plan a baby shower and things aren't going well.
[ "The three sat in Jesus's humble living room. Lucifer and Jesus each in their own chair, and god with his arms stretched out to either side of his couch. The lord began, \"So like, we can have jesus hanging on the cross right over the door when you walk in, and-\"\n\n\"Dad, can we not?,\" The son of God twisted h...
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[WP] This time, we're the aliens.
[ "\"Wait!\" Commander Casillas shouts when I'm about to open the hatch. \nI freeze, both hands gripping the hatch, moments from turning it counter-clockwise and entering this brand new world and sputter, \"What, why? What's wrong?\"\nHis eyes search the room before finally meeting mine. He takes a haphazard step for...
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[WP] You have evidence that the conspiracy about big business fast food restaurants using human meat in their food is true. You also find the location of the human slaughterhouse supplying the meat, and you must go to the slaughterhouse to find more evidence
[ "\"I'm doing a project for school. Anyway you can let me get a few shots of what goes on in there?\" I asked the owner of the warehouse. He was a shifty looking fellow, obviously the kind of man they would hire to run their human chop shop.\n\n\"Nothing but animals in there son. We don't allow cameras in anymore ev...
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[WP] You awake at a desert town where insane things happen, yet no one questions it. You remember nothing before this.
[ "I wake up groggy and feeling like someone had stuffed cotton into my head while I slept - what *had* I been drinking last night? Wherever I am, it definitely isn't my home; the bed feels completely wrong.\n\nAfter carefully scrubbing the dust from my eyelids, I take a look around. Apparently I've ended up in a mot...
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Everyone thinks themselves good, but, sometimes, they realize the truth.
[WP] TIL that I am not the good person that I thought I was.
[ "You call me evil\n\nbut cant you see\n\nin that time of upheaval\n\nDelta was the only thing that could be\n\n\n\nImagine, if you will\n\na judge with no bias\n\na car with perfect skill\n\na government that would never spy us\n\n\n\nDelta is the answer\n\nAn answer I made\n\n\n\nI was once young like you\n\nJoys ...
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For example: Dead Can Dance - American Dreaming "*I need my conscience to keep watch over me To protect me from myself*"
[WP] Write a story based on a line from your favorite song.
[ "The sky takes on an odd color when you die. It’s almost red. Almost black, or blue, or orange. Anything, really. It just depends on what you’re looking at when you die, because that’s your final sky. \nAll around me, the familiar faces fade away from my vision, leaving echoes of a world that now means nothing mor...
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[WP] Humanity makes contact with Alien Lifeforms... And they all look just like you...
[ "A near-blinding beam of light shown down on the Earth as we watched in awe. Just a beam, no smoke, no fancy space ship, just a flash that lasted a couple of seconds and suddenly, there they were. I can't quite describe what it's like. It took me a couple of seconds to realize exactly what I was looking at, because...
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[WP] You are an ancient evil, sealed away millennia ago by a legendary hero. You have escaped your imprisonment and attained a physical form. The first course of business? Learning how to walk.
[ "A fat, gaudily dressed man stood in the heart of an ancient temple that was beginning to be overrun by vines and the jungle. In a few years the roof would collapse and the temples secrets would be lost forever. He had been guided here by a voice promising him wealth. Now he stood in front of a circular stone slab....
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[WP] After a freak accident you suddenly gain access to the debug console of life
[ "It's not anything special. Just a black, sleek keyboard with a 42'' screen. On the screen, a white arrow flashed, enticing me to write. Being a beginner games developer, I knew some basic commands. It'd been so long since I did program though. I mean, I don't have the biggest idea of how I got here.\n\nI remember ...
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[WP] You're playing a videogame at home late at night. You hear that special sound and see a trophy; it says "I can see you".
[ "The trophy opens its mouth. A piercing red light is emitted from the jaw of the beast. My eyes can barely open but between the slither of vision I make out its razor sharp canine like teeth. The rest of its mouth is filled with ashes and brimstone that are seemingly increasing in intensity. He begins to speak. His...
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[WP] Everyone has ONLY one spell they can cast. They range from the mundane to outright overpowered. Your spell seems useless at first, but with some creativity it is godlike.
[ "Our world is populated with superheroes and supervillains. Everyone with the spark of life has a singular ability that makes them super, and they have the ability to use it as they wish. Results are mixed, to say the least, especially since not all powers are created equal.\n\nLady Lay, for instance, is perpetuall...
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[WP] You find out that you can change the past or future, by photo shopping. However you didn't realize this till you created an abomination of a picture.
[ "\"Oh god, what the fuck!\" \n\nPeople scream in terror, their eyes all pointed sky-high. I can't blame them, because I know exactly what's happened. It's confusing and convoluted. I'm not even entirely sure how the fuck it works, like, what even happened. All I know is that I was playing around with some famous im...
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[WP] "Ten Thousand years of hope. Burning."
[ "\"Ten thousand years of hope. Burning.\" He said to himself, looking upwards at the conflagration that was consuming the Citadel. The shimmering white marble took on a sickly orange hue as the fires rose. The Citadel, constructed ten millennia ago by the Ancients, was ablaze. The beacon at its very peak was alread...
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[WP] You are the world's most wanted and feared killer. How do you kill? By killing with kindness
[ "I took a deep breath and let it out slowly, my breath fogging the air in front of me. The rain from the early morning dark lingered in black puddles on the asphalt. A gentle breeze felt nostalgic, rather than biting. \n\nAs I approached the burning vehicles, I could hear screams of panic and pain coming from insi...
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[WP] All of the countries in the world are now people. Write about an average day in the life of a country.
[ "As the USA prepared for a party, he couldn't help but feel a little sad. It was 4th of July Weekend, which meant it was his birthday. 20 years ago his parties had been the stuff of legends. He had just ended a long feud with Russia, who had long dominated his neighborhood with an iron fist. He also could finally a...
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[WP] Every autocorrect mistake is canon
[ "The fact I can see you soon as possible and to get my nails are you doing it wrong that I'm going back and I don't think that it was not immediately available to all of them in my head and a lot more fun and addicting and I don't think that it was not immediately available to all of them in my head and a lot more ...
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[WP] You always ask someone else to press elevator buttons for you - when you do it, you never know what the doors will open to.
[ "The elevator doors opened, and I sighed in relief to see a middle-aged man standing to the side, patiently waiting for me to get on. I stepped into the elevator with my luggage in tow, and when I settled into my little corner, I noticed the man straightening the hat on his head as he moved to exit the elevator.\n\...
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[WP] Superman is having a busy day flying around, and two aircraft controllers are annoyed at having to work around him.
[ "\"Center, this is Aspen 20. What's my ground speed?\" \n\n\"Aspen 20, center. You *just* asked the Nevada center the same thing thirty seconds ago. We get it. You're the fastest flier around today Stop-\"\n\n*WHAM*\n\nI yanked off my headphones and started massaging ears. \n\n*What the actual fuck?*\n\nSome idiot ...
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[WP]Need to make a 2-5 min speech at my sisters wedding (something about life,love and marriage(non-religious)
[ "I was sweating more than I would typically sweat in an air conditioned room. Perhaps it was the hundreds of eyes looming, waiting for me to say my opening line. My speech had to be two to five minutes. It's not everyday that your sister gets married, let alone to someone she is so in love with. The fear thickened...
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[WP] You're getting really tired of everyone being so cynical. In your attempts to show people that life is cool and shit, you become the bad guy.
[ "Polly was the last friend I had. I still got invited to the beach, once in a while. And to the big summer barbeque every year. But I started to feel they were courtesy calls, or maybe pity. \n\nOr maybe because of Polly herself. She had mentioned that she told Jake he was an asshole for not wanting to invite me to...
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[WP] Gravity is a fairly recent invention. Describe how people used to live before it's creation.
[ "\"You don't know how lucky you are,\" Grandpa says. \"You can't imagine it.\" I gently squeeze his shoulder for a moment as I wheel him down the hall. He's fragile and bird-boned beneath his pajamas, as light as air, after all these years still unaccustomed to gravity. \n\n\"You were born with it, take it for gran...
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[WP] A horror novelist finds out that his/her story is becoming real
[ "Jack set his pen down to the left of his notepad. He dragged his eyes listlessly across the half finished page. \"Another slow night.\" He thought. Defeated, he stood up and walked himself over to the fridge. The soft yellow light drifted through the sparse setting of his kitchen. As the darkness ebbed and su...
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[WP] Your grandchildren always ask about adventures you had when you were younger, but you weren't really the type to do much back then. Not wanting to let them down again, you start to regale them the amazing adventures you had... playing World of Warcraft.
[ "\"Grandpa, what were you like when you were young?\" , asked my grandson Tom. \"Tell me about your adventures.\", exclaimed Clara, my granddaughter. Immediately, I started coughing in order to be excused for not telling them a story on the basis that I was sick. However, the grandchildren were quite the persistent...
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[WP] A person, whilst playing Pokemon Go, accidentally stumbles upon a secret government facility where the government makes real alive Pokemon.
[ "I think it's pretty cool, that less than 20 years ago I dreamed of becoming a pokemon master and be like Ash Ketchum and travel the world with my friends to catch pokemon. Now, I could finally do it with just my phone, I just graduated college and I have nothing to do, so why wouldn't I do what I've always wanted....
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[WP] The only currency in the world is fire. No money, no valuable objects, just fire. You are inside a bank that is being robbed.
[ "- Part 1 -\n\nA cold shiver ran down Jonah's neck; the only part of his body exposed to the frigid, cold air apart from his head. The young man was already wearing four layers, including his favourite imperial blue winter jacket - a shade akin to an early night sky. However, the biting chill was enough for him to ...
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[WP] You download and install a mod for your current favorite game. It apparently hasn't had any effect on the game. Instead, your reality has shifted to accommodate the effects of the mod.
[ "I wanted to be better in Skyrim so I thought, why not just download a mod? After a minute or two of searching, I found the perfect mod!\n\n\nTaking no time at all I downloaded the mod but as I opened the game I saw no changes,nothing like what the mod told me was there.\n\nI turned around on my swivel chair pissed...
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[WP] Welcome to the Child Correctional Facility. From now on, you will be called 211786 and here's your rule book and uniform. You can go rest now, and one more thing, DON'T try to escape.
[ "The clock strikes 5 all students will assemble. As I get up I hear the sounds of hundreds of boots walking down the hall to Assembly Area One. i grab my gray uniform and rule book and head down the hall. On the way their I notice a student with a pink bow around her wrist I take note of her designation number 1224...
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Inspired by watching [this](https://youtu.be/4nDRqwhEUQ0?t=463) episode of the Thin Blue Line, would would it be like if our justice system was the other way round, and everyone considered it normal?
[WP] Instead of Innocent until proven Guilty, people are Guilty until proven Innocent. It has been like this for all of western history, and it is your job to convince people why it should be the other way round.
[ "\"Let them die! If they're really innocent, they can prove it themselves!\"\n\nShe stares at the old man sitting in front of the television. There is a news broadcaster announcing the report of a man who was convicted of killing a man. This case has been gaining national attention for its lack of evidence.\n\n\"Wh...
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[WP] You're a member of the Intergalactic Space Wizard Alliance. However it's not all you thought it would be growing up, and involves a lot of paperwork and red tape.
[ "*Hello! Thank you for telepathing the Space Wizard Service Hotline. All of our agents are currently assisting other customers. Your estimated wait time is [7 hours and 20 minutes]. If you would prefer an agent to mind-link you directly at a later time, please focus on this concept after the beep.*\n\n**9 Days Late...
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[WP] "I'm your God now."
[ "Initializing. . . \nPlease wait . . .\n\nWelcome!\nThis is PACE UBIQUE. \n\nI see you have programmed me to defend humankind. \n\nI am a learning computer, as you scientists know. You should know, you made me with your own hands. You debated, with your own mouths, if I had the right to . . .\n\n< ERROR >\n\n...
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[WP] Two brothers from an assassin family argue about how to hide bodies best.
[ "\"God damn it man, do you really have to suggest the dissolving technique everytime we murder some poor folk?\"\n\n\"Man all you need is a strong container, some lye, and a few days and that body is fucking gone.\"\n\n\"Look, Jerry, I can stand killing a guy by stabbing him in the eyeball, but dissolving in acid? ...
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[WP] Necromancers double as world leading CSI's. Describe an average day for one of them.
[ "Ever since the United States Government started hiring Delaware and Denver Necromancers as new CSI members, murder rates have gone down rapidly as they would simply raise the dead and ask them who killed them. Paladins around the world are conflicted on how to deal with this. On one hand, murder has gone down, but...
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[WP]Real life gangs form around Pokemon GO! And they will protect their territories violently.
[ "Jack took his time surveying the park from his hedge hideaway, caution tinted every action while Pokemon hunting, especially on Team Mystic grounds. He glanced down at his phone, cupping has hand over the top of the screen in a futile attempt to hide its glow. \nJack raised the camera, sweeping the area until his...
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