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[WP] Write a story about Winnie the Pooh and his friends surviving in the aftermath of a nuclear war. | [
"100 Acre Wood is not safe anymore. So Tigger, Rabbit, Piglet, Donkey and I have been on a journey to the capital.\nWe thought that perhaps there was some amenities left that we could salvage. So we could survive. \n\nI had lost all hope of ever finding any edible honey based on what was left of my stock piles. \n\... | 2 | |
[WP] You are the worlds most charismatic person, you can convince anyone to do anything with a few words; the catch? You're incredibly awkward and have no idea why people listen to you. | [
"I don't know how long I've had this power. Did I have it since I was born? Was this something I gained in my teen years? Maybe I really only noticed it as I got older. In any case, it's served me well in life.\n\nI can say anything at all. People love me. They always have. I have many friends who would put their l... | 2 | |
[WP] While on a road trip, you stop at a diner. You are about to go in when you notice the patrons inside. Not only do you see The Grim Reaper but Santa Muerte, Hades, Osiris, Azrael, Hel, Yama and every other figure of Death. And they see you. Now you have to fake being a Death god or else... | [
"\"Ah, a new guy?.\"\n\nYou look around, confused. \" I was just...\" driving, you finish in your head. You look around again, thinking that another pass with the same eyes will help you understand.\n\n\"No. Really, I was just ...\" driving, again but more clearly this time. You were driving and.. \n\n\"Give it a... | 1 | |
[WP] Everyone has a guardian angel that protects them. Usually, they are elegant, wise, and powerful. Your's is a drunk with a 12 gauge. | [
"Oktober 2016. The month He revealed himself. You might think: 'why do we still have conflicts over religion then, if He revealed himself?'. Well, the answer is quite simple, people want to interpret things differently. Disagree with eachother. They discuss what He said, with what religion it fits best. But that st... | 3 | |
[WP] You were born and lived out your entire life with a severely debilitating mental disability. You die and find out that there are no diseases or disabilities in death and begin to reflect on the life you lived for the first time. | [
"Eternity stretches out before me and I'm left with a thought:\n\nEternity isn't going to be nearly as interesting as life had been...\n\nSchizophrenia can be a debilitating disease to onlookers who don't have it. I guess you can say it is debilitating, but then I guess it's all about how you look at it.\n\nGrowing... | 5 | |
[WP] After years of searching, you manage to find your long lost brother who went missing 20 years ago. The only problem is that he now has a gun pointed directly at you. | [
"(I had ton of fun and got carried away! 2 parts! Here's part 1.) \n  \n\nDevin and I had never ever really gotten along. When our parents brought me home from the hospital as newborn, he decided right then and there that I was competition and a threat. He tried to push me down some stairs when I was... | 2 | |
[WP] You have the ability to read minds, but for every minute spent reading someone's mind, you lose 1 year of life expectancy. | [
"The desk had a pitiful handful of personal artifacts, most were left over from the previous polygraph to work Knowledge Processing. For me, after four months there was little to show: a pocket watch, a card, and a frame of me and my friend Dale Cullen, graduating the academy; just before I became a polygraph. I wa... | 1 | |
[WP] "You seem like a good man. I pray we do not meet again." | [
"\"Why let me live?\" I pulled myself up against the wall of the warehouse to a sort of sitting posture. The hole in my left calf oozed blood and shot pain each time I shifted, but I wanted to at least make myself as upright as possible. \"Got some bullshit to spout off at me before you kill me?\"\n\n\"The next tim... | 1 | |
[WP] You discover a book that you don't remember buying lying under your bed. You open it and start reading and discover it's a journal...written by your dog. | [
"I am at the point in my life where everything seems to be going so slow, yet going so fast. I am already 42 years old, my semi-serious girlfriend is away traveling studying some migratory sea lard, and i am home alone tending to the house. Few things seem to keep me entertained these days, but i currently have the... | 1 | |
[WP] You have been evicted from your home, but rather than live on the street you go to Ikea. At night you hide in the bathroom until the janitor leaves, then you exit the bathroom. | [
"11:00 P.M.: the large team of janitors have finally cleaning up the six floors of the IKEA store, two hours after closing time. The bathrooms are the first areas to cleaned, and the janitors usually don’t enter an area they cleaned already, so it’s safe to hide out there immediately after until they leave. I waite... | 1 | |
Taken from a comment by /u/Reservoir_cat ([permalink]( https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4hu6w2/lawyers_of_reddit_what_is_the_most_outrageous/d2smww5)) in response to [a story about exactly this]( https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4hu6w2/lawyers_of_reddit_what_is_the_most_outrageous/d2shvfy) by /u/S... | [WP] A lawyer fights the supernatural with the power of the law | [
"I looked at my secretary wide-eyed, my coffee slowly slipping out of my hands. \"Let me get this straight. We're being paid a ludicrous amount to take a ghost to court?\" He nodded, shuffling papers like it was no big deal. \"Great, just great,\" I muttered to myself. \n\nShuffle forward a few months and I stood a... | 1 |
[WP] Breaking all forms of story structure, the hero decides to simply attack the villain halfway through their monologue. | [
"The small, supposed to be luxurious, analog clock below the dashboard displays a small hand pointing at the III and its longer counterpart pointing slightly to the left of the I. The slightly overweight teenage boy takes two seconds to process the information as he is so used to digital displays of time. In one qu... | 1 | |
[WP] One day almost everyone gets powers. At lunch your co-workers brag about their new found abilities and realize that you never said anything about yours. When asked, you lie that you don't have any when in reality it is quite terrifying. And you love it. | [
"Well i had to lie. who wouldn't when gifted with such a strong power. Who wouldn't lie when gifted with the power to be immortal. The same day everybody got their powers i also got mine, I got the power to be immortal. the exact same day i was attempting suicide. but needless to say, i failed. Since then i have be... | 2 | |
[WP] Kevin joins the army, and is placed in the front lines. Miraculously he survives every suicide mission the army gives him. | [
"“He knows too much,” The Venerated General James Worthington said to his small cabinet in the military base in Seoul South Korea.\n“I’m sorry general,” responded commander Morris, “We didn’t expect him to make it out of the Chinese embassy. We thought he wouldn’t make it back with any information about the killing... | 3 | |
[WP] Inspired by Batman, a new vigilante appears in Gotham City with the goal of getting justice against white collar corporate criminals. | [
"Finally... there would be justice. A scant amount of balance between the haves and the have-nots. Someone to give *hope* back to the people starving in the streets and sleeping under bridges. A symbol for people to look toward; a beacon for those who would otherwise end their lives due to megacorporations downsizi... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a crazed teenage girl obsessed with a boy at your school who happens to already have a lady friend. You manage to get your hands on some chloroform and decide to take care of the girl, but the only problem is chloroform doesn't work as well as it does in the movies... | [
"\"This stuff had better work,\" I thought to myself. I've seen it done a million times. Soak the rag in this stuff, sneak up behind the person, and cover their face. Boom! Passed out. \n\n\"There's no way that I'm going to miss her today. She has the same morning routine,\" my mind raced with anticipation. Suddenl... | 1 | |
Inspired by the front page post today | [WP] You are from an alien civilization many light years away from earth. Your space program's lack of funding has convinced your species that they are the only intelligent life in the universe. | [
"Anamel looked through the ultrascope once again. He could not believe what he was seeing, after all those years. He must share this with someone, Anyone!\nHe grabbed his papers reciting his detailed hypothesis and downloaded the image from his stolen ultrascope and sprinted out of the door running through the skyw... | 1 |
[WP] You are a brain surgeon. Every time you perform a surgery, you have the ability to see memories of the patient you are operating on. | [
"Those people in the waiting area, the ones gnawing on their lips, rubbing their hands on their thighs, staring at the phones in their unsteady hands, they’re thinking of me holding a surgical knife to their heads and blood on the operating room floor. They twirl and pull their hair to remember one last time what i... | 7 | |
[WP] The MLB has consisted of 3 leagues since 1913. The National and American leagues are the same as ever, but the Federal League teams have always been a bit... Different. | [
"*OK, OK, OK...deep breath.* Deep *breath.*\n\n*Breathe...and hold.....*\n\n*Breathe...and hold.....*\n\n*This is it. This is it. This is* it!\n\nShe shook her head quickly, scooped up her helmet - so little protection on the field but better than nothing - and jogged out to the field, one player among many. The li... | 1 | |
[WP] Your "friend Ryan turns out to be a shapeshifter. He thinks you don't notice every time he presents himself as a "new" person , but you're just play along with his bit to be nice. | [
"\"George!\" I heard a voice call from a distance.\n\nFrank, Perry and I turned to see who was chasing after me. Of course, I knew it was Ryan, but Frank and Perry only saw a sexy girl jogging over, breasts barely being contained by Ryan's sister's bra and the shortest skirt that can legally be worn in public.\n\nP... | 1 | |
[WP] As the villain is simply too powerful for the league of heroes, our champions unveil their secret weapon: they call his mother. | [
"Very, very few men and women have the clearance to stand in this room, and they're all here, lined around a huge oaken table, staring intently in the screens. There are no experts, no drone operators, no eager assistants with clipboards.\n\nThere are, however, cold pots of coffee and half eaten plates of food. Th... | 5 | |
[WP] You wake up in an abandoned club with no memory. The tvs are playing a 10 second loop of the same advert and there is a trail of blood leading to the door. | [
"The first thing I notice is that my face hurts.\n\nIt's pressed against the wooden floorboards, my eyes open and pain shoots through my cheek and neck. I try to move my head but my neck denies that.\n\nSlowly I manage to roll myself over and face the ceiling. Well, my body faces the ceiling and my head still looks... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a police officer in the GTA universe, having to deal with the protagonist's crap | [
"Officer Malone walked between the many cubicles that housed his fellow staff of the Los Santos Police Department. He felt eyes on him, but didn't bother to meet them. \n\n\"Hey Rick, you ok?\" Jenny, a fresh faced recruit, asked gently as Malone slowly passed her. He smiled vaguely and nodded, but kept on.\n\nAt t... | 4 | |
[WP] Being the customizable RPG character you are, you've found out that you can get away with wearing anything at any time. | [
"The internal screaming has begun, nothing will ever cause as much pain as the six a.m alarm clock. I begrudgingly hit snooze just one more time, the biggest lie any teenager has ever told themselves.\n\n*Beep. Beep. Beep.* Okay, one more time. *Silence* I lay there in perfect harmony as I allow myself to fall into... | 1 | |
You leave work and step outside into 122 degree temperatures. As you walk toward your vehicle, the wind picks up, blowing in excess of 80 mph then suddenly stops. Clouds roll in and the temperature plummets to 47 degrees...
...then it starts to hail... The size of basketballs. | [WP] The date is 8/13/2027, Friday; 5:05pm. | [
" It was 13 years after the fateful election of Trump. The world was in flames and death. The gods of media, celebrity, and cringe was no more. We worshipped the lords of heat amd sands and pledged our lives for cooler temperature and more dihydrogen monoxide.\n\nThe one day, on the fifteenth of August, we got what... | 1 |
[WP] Unbeknown to humans, there is a single TV channel's frequency which happens to be special and travel accross a much larger distance, reaching far into the galaxy. Soon, a hostile alien species plans their attack on Earth based on the information they have gathered about us from this channel... | [
"On the cold surface of Pluto an alien scouting beacon began to stir to life as the perfect frequency, provided by the fox movie channel, washed over it. At that moment it started broadcasting the information instantly to its home world through quantum computing. The aliens watched for the weaknesses of the human r... | 2 | |
[WP] A hero saved the world from a major cataclysm that almost wiped humanity. Now 20 years later, you, a journalist, decide to interview him. You find him in a bar depressed and drinking. Describe the interview. | [
"I spotted him at the bar drinking. \n\nIt was twenty years later, but the man was unmistakable. He was famous the world over for saving all of us from certain disaster. He still had the same lank, sandy blonde hair and the dark blue eyes. Many years ago the hair was kept out of his face, pinned behind his ears. To... | 2 | |
[WP] With all his strength, he got to one knee and placed the last piece of his cracked shell on his scarred body, making him whole again. With eyes full of anger, Humpty whispered, Never again. | [
"The words fell from his mouth and landed in serif font on the boundless white page beneath him. These pages were always empty by design of the creator, maker and publisher of his story. Famous yes, but at a cost he never imagined.\n\nCountless times,that cosmic roll of fiber plowed a new layer beneath him bringing... | 1 | |
[WP] Many of our adventures start at the nearest inn, this one never left | [
"“After getting kicked out of a nearby town for harassing it women, your group find themselves holed up in a nearby inn. There are only a few people in the inn, a mysterious man in a long black shroud sits at the bar, the bartender, and you three.”\n\n“Why were we harassing the women?” asked Ed.\n\n“What?\n\n“Why w... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a fern, tell me about your dramatic day. | [
"The crescent moon hangs low in the sky and you can see it through the branches of the canopy. Stars twinkle through the dense cloud cover tonight. You can sense a rainfall soon. The air is thick a moist and the atmosphere is dreamlike and heavy. A strange sound calls through the night and you tremble a tiny bit in... | 1 | |
[WP] An alien race conquers it's enemies by slowly driving them to commit suicide. When they turn their eyes to Humanity they expected an easy conquest, however whatever they do tends to not drive us to suicide but rather benefit us. | [
"United, we watched the first talks between our world leaders and the Korlavians. We waited for months as human and Korlavians linguists worked on translators. We spent months on the edge of our seats, growing more hopeful by the second. Every day they didn't attack, our hopes only grew. Finally, the talks, streame... | 2 | |
[WP] You agreed to donate your body to science after you die. You were clinically dead for 10 minutes and now they are coming for you | [
"If a loyalist need, a loyalist heed, and if need be, a loyalist bleed. Fanny thought herself a loyalist indeed, but as the motto of the AllThought Allegience rumbled around her reawakened synapses, she began to have doubts. She sat upright in the medical bed, sipping from a canned egg creme, clacking her fingers a... | 1 | |
[WP] "And so we walked off, to look for America." | [
"\"And so we walked off, to look for America. Sadly, after walking for thousands of miles we gave up on ever finding this dreamlike place. Little did we know it was already beneath our feet, we merely had to look down. But we had spent our whole journey looking forward, to the horizon. America, no more.\""
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[WP]Every human is fitted with a hard drive in the back of the neck at birth. You can pay to relive memories, pay to install knowledge on subjects like math and science, or delete memories and such. But as of late, the software has been failing, deleting an entire lifesworth of cognitive development | [
"\"Hehe, hmm? Ya!\"\n\"Dad?!\"\n\nAshley stood beside her father bewildered by his appearance. He was naked and nibbling on an unpeeled banana, arms flailing.\n\n\"I didn't think it would happen to you.\"\n\nShe felt at her neural interfacing device, its comforting coolness, the burden it carried for humanity. It h... | 1 | |
Write about whatever intrigues you the most about the prompt! could be the story of the other planets or the implications for earth or whatever you want to make up! | [WP] NASA discovers that humans once existed on every planet and were also the cause of them becoming uninhabitable. | [
"Mike kicked away a few cigarette stubs that littered the edge of the path he was standing on. Up here, on the top of a rock face, with the sea breeze lapping to and fro over him, he felt wonderful. This was his safe refuge, the place where he felt truly human, and yet, he paused feeling a rush of anger pulse throu... | 2 |
[WP] Your soul was born to two bodies. Usually you can keep track on what both are doing but it's caused you to be aloof. Your relationships have suffered, but that's not the only thing that's suffered. You have one secret you can't tell anyone. | [
"\"Salut, meuf,\" I said to my best friend, Becks. She was eating her vegetable intake for the year. It was rare to find her eating a salad. \n\n\"Salut? What the hell? Girl, it's Spanish class next. You haven't even taken French!\" she laughed, chucking a hunk of peach at me. An almond that was tagging along, sepa... | 1 | |
[WP] Climate change has made most land too hot for cities. Those who could afford it moved to city-ships that are constantly on the move avoiding summer. | [
"With a solid splash, an upper body burst from the water, the dark blue of the wetsuit’s nylon camouflaging the diver against the near-blackness of the water. Of course, the horizon itself was not dark; from the small dive boat holding the hunter’s line, five carriers could be seen giving off their constant glow, a... | 1 | |
[WP] Scientists have found out that LSD temporarily transports you to a different universe. | [
"Just a moment ago I was on the trip of my life, skateboarding around Saturn and apologizing to Pluto, but now I'm trudging up the arc of an endless rainbow. I'm tired. LSD isn't what it used to be, by God. I never knew Hell would be so colorful.\n\nSomething compels me to keep pushing up this, the orange band, tho... | 1 | |
[WP] Anything you paint becomes real, unfortunately, you're a terrible artist. | [
"\"Gimme the money or I'll blow your head off!\" the bank robber says, him and his gang looking out, one of them shouts \"Look out! there's a giant retarded dog with a helmet!\"\n\nI kick the door down, wearing my armor of many uneven lines that constricts me seriously on the right side and barely even stays on my ... | 5 | |
[WP] The Earth is flat, and scientists have been fooling us for centuries. You finally graduate with your Ph.D and after the ceremony, you are taken to the real ceremony and told the truth about how and why they've done it | [
"It was all a blur: The graduation, the stranger who came up to congratulate me, leaving the ceremony and being taken into an old, unused room where I was met with a group of people. I knew none of them, and demanded that someone explain what was going on. I had worked too hard to miss my graduation ceremony!\n\... | 1 | |
[WP] You have the ability to stop time for a period of six hours, the only catch is that it requires you to take a human life each time. Today the government has taken interest. | [
"I didn't know.\n\nI *swear* I didn't know. If I had known the price, I never would have stopped time. I would have just forgotten about it, and moved on with my life. But I was selfish.\n\nThe first time it happened was in a parking lot the night after Christmas. I was putting away groceries, when out of nowhe... | 2 | |
[WP] After happy and fulfilling 40 years, you retire and set out to complete your bucket list. Which is a hit list. | [
"I am a simple man. No truly I am. I wake up every morning, I pour my coffee, I pour my wife's coffee and I read the newspaper. I get dressed, same suit and tie every day, give the dog a pet on the head and drive the same route to work everyday. 45 years doing the same thing every day, Monday to Friday. Was my life... | 1 | |
[WP] After growing up with an "imaginary friend" you discover that it is actually a creature from another dimension. | [
"***\n*Janks*\n***\n\nWe've all had an imaginary friend, or least a real friend ... I hope. How many of those imaginary friends were real? That is the thought that keeps me up at night. I know it shouldn't, but something about *Janks* nagged at the back of my mind. I'm thirty-four, which, if you hadn't guessed, is ... | 1 | |
[WP] The story behind how that one random shoe is lying in the road. | [
" \n\n\nThe story behind how that one random shoe is lying in the road.\n\n\nThey ran from the Demigod-Devil of Astra-Han until they could run no more, and then they ran some more still. His armies were nearly upon them, just behind The Pass of Mount Eromh-Sur. Killnark The Wizard lost his staf... | 5 | |
[WP] You've found a cure for cancer by sheer dumb luck while in the lab! Sadly, you've accidentally dropped the only sample of the cure into a tray filled with samples of poison which, inconveniently, are the exact same size, shape, and color as the cure. What now? | [
"\"Oh! Fiddle-sticks!\" Yelled Dale. The vial of his only sample landed in the tray marked \"Poison! Do Not Handle!\" He stuck his hand between the vials and slowly began to pull his sample up. If the room were not so cold, he would have been dripping with sweat. He held the vial in his hand and wondered who had le... | 1 | |
[WP] You walk through your bedroom door in the morning, just to notice that it doesn't lead where it should. In fact all the doors suddenly lead somewhere else. | [
"8.01am. The Earth glitch occured. Programmers were baffled, hunting meticulously through the binary that made up what earthlings referred to as \"the universe\".\n\nOf course, the Earth inhabitants were none the wiser. The results of this disaster could range from hilarious to worrying. The programmers were well a... | 2 | |
[WP] One man's heaven is another man's hell. Write about an instance of this from both men's perspective. | [
"\"Wow... I thought that...\" Steven was cut off.\n\n\"Every time... I said figs, FIGS!\" Jesus sighed. \"Besides, didn't you specifically change that term so this wouldn't happen ever again?\"\n\n\"Kinda? It isn't as widespread yet I guess.\" Steven laughed, relieved. \"I don't even know how it translated like tha... | 1 | |
[WP]A modern drone is being flown in a storm in an abandoned TI instruments parking lot. Suddenly it vanished. In 1982 an engineer sees it suddenly appear and fall out of the sky on to his car. | [
"No one worked later than Steve. It wasn't that he was the most competent. Far from it. But he liked to stay behind to restock the pens and read the older TI manuals in the archives.\n\n\"I don't know why you read that stuff.\" said Maria from development when she caught him one night. \"It's all just legends and s... | 1 | |
[WP] Because the hardest thing is never to repent for someone else, it's letting people in. | [
"*If you love someone, you will share your innermost thoughts with them.*\n\nYeah. Bullshit. You know what? Every hope you share with your lover? Every dream, every fear, every desire you harbor in the deepest recesses of your heart, the ones that even *you* weren't sure existed until you found them late at night, ... | 1 | |
[WP] Your officemates tell you your workspace is haunted. During a particularly stressful day, in a fit of frustration you jokingly perform an impromptu summoning ritual asking the ghosts for aid. A moment later, a cold hand touches your shoulder and a voice asks "How can we help you?" | [
"\"Right in between the eyes! I swear to God!\" Jake said as he hit himself between the eyes with the pen he had been twirling in his fingers. \n\n\"You're telling me the last guy quit because a ghost slammed a staple between his eyes?\" I said mildly chuckling. All of my coworkers have been on this silly joke of t... | 1 | |
[WP] It becomes a societal norm for men and women to marry their same sex best friends for tax benefits, yet they still have outside sexual partners. | [
"**Thud! Thud! Thud!** The repetitive drumming caused by the headboard banging against the wall echoed throughout the apartment, occasionally accompanied by a grunt or groan. \n\n\"Hey! Todd! Can you keep it quiet?\" I yell across the apartment. \"I'm trying to work on my term paper!\" I turn around to face back to... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a superhero who eats through your hands. Your nemesis is a millionaire with a rags-to-riches background. | [
"So throughout the course of my life, I've learned that you need to be careful what you wish for. You see, when I was young, I liked to eat with my hands. Forks scared me because I once stabbed my tongue with a fork and it bled a lot. One day, I was eating with my hands and even though my mother repeatedly told me ... | 1 | |
[WP] Humanity has developed a condition causing them to lose half their IQ everytime they sneeze. Fortunately, sneezing is extremely uncommon, unfortunately, humanity just discovered the common flu. | [
"“What happens when someone’s IQ gets to 0? You think they die?” asked the curious 10-year-old boy, Jacob.\n\n“Well,” replied his father, “We don’t really know. After all, since your IQ only can divide in half when you sneeze, you’ll never actually get to 0. Your IQ will get lower and lower but you’ll always have s... | 1 | |
[WP] A Kingdom is well known for its benevolent Rulers. Little does everyone know, however, this is because a mysterious being appears at the King's bedside at night. It provides advice and guidance as it sees fit, but also uses violence and intimidation when necessary. | [
"The crowds cheer me as I wave from the balcony. How I have dreamed of leaping from this very spot. Of feeling the wind rushing past as the cobblestones hurry to me up with me. But I cannot. I would not leave my son, not yet a man, to deal with this curse. I will endure. I must endure. For myself, my son, and my ki... | 1 | |
[WP] At the closing ceremony of the Olympics, security measures fail and all hell breaks loose. | [
"At the closing ceremony of the Olympics, the security measures failed and all hell broke loose. They didn't listen to us. The damned International Olympic Committee, hosting the Games at a place which they knew was woefully unprepared to host such an event. Our protests were just bees buzzing to their willfully ig... | 1 | |
[WP] Demons hide in brain crevices, the more intelligent you are, the more prone to possessions you become. You are the captain of a special anti-demon squad consisting of dumbest people alive during a demon invasion. | [
"*We're fighting a war.*\n\nThe words echoed in my head as I stuffed the cross back into my pack and pulled out the gun. The handle was was big, I could just barely fit my hand around it, but the bigger it was, the better it'd work, right? It had to work, 'cause this was a war. My dad always said that, whenever ... | 6 | |
[WP] Write a story in which the main character doesn't feel like participating. | [
"It was June 7, 2009. \n\nEverything was great, but Kyle thought the opposite. Reason was..\n\nHe was stuck in the internet.\nNo, not just metaphorically surfing the web. He was **literally** surfing in the web with an ASKII surf-board. He could do anything at his will, and if he wans something.. He puts himself in... | 7 | |
[WP] Every morning you wake up as the opposite gender that you were the day before. However, this particular morning... | [
"I woke up feeling strange, today I was Mary not Mark, i knew that, but there was definitely something off... I had Marks cock still.\n\nWhile I was Mark I was larger, fit and the cock was a nice size, but not massive by any means, Mary was much more petite weighing 30 pounds less and being 4 1/2 inches shorter... ... | 1 | |
[WP] A hick from a small town is highly hated, his only love and passion is raising his cows. Till one day his cows, and himself, get abducted by 10 ft tall, broccoli looking, aliens. Now it's up to him to bring down the spaceship, and save his cows. | [
"They came crowdin toward me the moment they saw me, my 4 Angus cows: Dolly, Pie, Moose, and Sherb (the calf). Today, like any day, I opened their gate and push'em back a little, flip my bucket upside down, take my seat oneet, and think about my Judge Judy shows as I toss out some feed and talk to my cows. \n\n\... | 1 | |
[WP] The year is 2050. The disparity between the rich and poor has grown to an almost unfathomable polarity. One day, the Gods decide to turn the tables; the elite become destitute and the masses of woefully impoverished are now swimming in riches. | [
"My name is Michael Render and before I begin my tale of where I am I must first tell you where I've been...\n\nEverything started ten years after my birth in the year AD 2016. A year I will never forget. The first woman was elected president amid rumors of deception and deceit. No one wanted her. Yet, she fought a... | 1 | |
[WP] The "Pics or It Didn't Happen" rule is real, and you must provide pictures of whatever event you claimed happened or else the event will be erased from history. | [
"Gone. Gone in an instant. The gavel struck the podium as the flash from a news camera captured the moment for all eternity. Just like that, thousands of years, tens of thousands of years even, were struck from human memory. In fact, everything before 1826 when Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took the world's first photogr... | 1 | |
[WP] A fantasy world with your stereotypical fantasy elements (adventures, elves, dwarves, Wizards, etc.) only it takes place in a modern society with modern technology (phones, cars, guns, etc.) | [
"\"Slay the iron dragon, and bring back my daughter. If you can free my people from its reign of terror, I will grant you any reward you desire.\"\n\n\"It will be done. We set out for his lair at dawn!\"\n\n\"Be careful, brave knight. Many bold warriors have fallen in battle against this beast! It is as cunning... | 2 | |
[WP] In a world of zero-sum luck shared with your partner, write the bittersweet story of having the best or worst day of your life. | [
"Daniel woke up to the smell of warm coffee, his alarm blaring the start of the new day. The right-side of the bed was empty, as it always was on Fridays. He got up, eyes squinting as he fumbled around for his glasses, only to pick up her note. \"I love you\" , a childish heart on top of the I, as it always was on ... | 1 | |
[WP] Once every year, a child is born that will live a full lifetime within the span of one year. | [
"Every Monday is Charlie's birthday.\n\nIn a world where everyone is special, Charlie is extraordinary. He is the only one this year that will be a baby, toddler, child, teenager, adolescent, adult, middle-aged, and finally a senior within 365 days. \n\nAt first Charlie's parents didn't know what to do. His mom cri... | 1 | |
As requested here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/shittysuperpowers/comments/4z4ymf/the_ability_to_summon_a_tiny_man_named_cletus_who/ | [WP] You have the ability to summon a tiny man named Cletus who lives his own life independent of your own and vehemently dislikes you. | [
"It’s a curious thing, watching a small man fly across the sky. Quite graceful in a way, like a tiny flower being blown by a gentle breeze. What was even more curious was despite the spectacular somersaults, his eyes never left mine. Like an oddly shaped windmill he had somehow managed to find the time to stretch h... | 1 |
[WP] The day you have long feared has arrived. The Cows have come home. | [
"Gordon Kane looked out over his sprawling farmland and sighed. The sun was rising, and it was already beginning to get humid. Still, life was life, and Gordon was happy. The crops had enjoyed the warmer weather, although he hadn't.\n\nGordon wiped the first bead of sweat from his forehead and and opened the porch ... | 4 | |
[WP] Stories are never final. Authors retain the ability to go back and re-write published works, even hugely popular ones. Re-write the opening scene of your favorite book as if the author has just had a very public meltdown and is ruining their greatest work out of spite. | [
"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the\nelbow. When it healed, and Jem’s fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury. His left arm was somewhat shorter than his right; when he stood or walked, the back of his hand was ... | 2 | |
This is sort of Buddhist/Hindu inspired because of the karma concept. To give a religious perspective, you can gain or lose karma based on what you do in your lifetime. When you die, you either 1) spend time in hell if your karma is really low, 2) get reincarnated if your karma didn't change much, or 3) spend time in h... | [WP] You are a member of the Divine Court, where you judge humans with a good deed/evil deed system called Karma. Each person's afterlife is decided based on the karma they had accrued in their lifetime. The Court is thrown into chaos one day as one soul shows up with -9999 karma. | [
"Everybody was panicking. Everybody was surprised. No one had ever seen someone this evil, someone who had surpassed the previous record holder in negative Karma points by three thousand and fifty-seven. This was ground breaking, a once in a lifetime experience. \"Order in the court!\" The judge said as the room fe... | 3 |
[WP] You are a demon who was chosen to blend in with humanity and collect souls. What you don't know is you specifically were chosen because you aren't very good at being a demon and Hell didn't want to deal with you anymore. You room with a necromancer who goes by the name Dave. He is annoying. | [
"I stare at him across the breakfast table. He was eating granola again. He chewed with his mouth open - his gaping maw and smacking lips reminding me of a barnyard animal. I tap my claw on the table and stare at him. I'm not very good with conflict, which is why I ended up here. Dave is oblivious to my hatred. He ... | 3 | |
[WP] "I can't hit him. He's a priest!" "He's turned. He's a zombie!" "But he's still a priest!" | [
"\"Do you fear death?\" asked the man in the gray robe.\n\nOitur slowly gulped, keeping his eyes closed. His knees seemed to soak up the cold of the temple floor.\n\n\"Your shaking is visible. Why not ask that god of yours for help? If he is as powerful as you seem to believe, wouldn't it be a simple matter for him... | 1 | |
[WP] In the distant future, nobody is named Gary. Nobody, that is, except for you. You are..."The Last Gary". | [
"\"May I see your ID sir?\"\nThe woman at the desk reached for my identification tag, I hesitated.\n\"Sir, I need to scan your identification tag before we can continue\" I extended my wrist toward her and she scanned my tag. My info popped up on the holoscreen between us. \"Gary Waze Androidius the Fourth?\" She s... | 1 | |
[WP] As it turns out, the Illuminati are real. However, their plans are much less evil than people actually think. | [
"The room was dark. Men clad in dark red robes stood around an enormous mahogany table, chanting in Enochian dialects the ancient prayers that called upon the Higher Power to dispel chaos and bring Order to the room. The High Priest raised his hands high and called for the chanting to cease, and the men were immedi... | 1 | |
[WP] A man with blood shot eyes and a horrified look on his face stumbles up to you in the middle of the street. He looks positively terrified as he places a cell phone in your hand, whispers 'I'm so sorry', and walks away; you're standing there in bewildered shock when the phone begins to ring. | [
"A car drove by, illuminating the rest of the street—the guy, nowhere to be found. The ringing started to eat away at me, compelling my attention. \"Hello?\" \n\n\"What the hell Tom?! Where's the package?!\" Behind me, another car drove by, it's engine registering against the piece. \"And where the fuck are ya?!\"\... | 9 | |
[WP] Alcohol gives you super strength. Leading you to try and fight crime extremely drunk. | [
"\"Hey, bad...fucker! You! Yeah....you.\" \n He lifts his night vision goggles to snap back to reality, because surely this ain't it. The drunk scrawny man yelling at him is wearing a trench coat that's some kind of online knockoff from one of The Matrix movies. No time for this; he has a 6 man team to finish dire... | 1 | |
[WP] The reason alien movies normally depict scary, invasive aliens is because humankind would wipe out any civilizations they encounter in outer space. | [
"The world known to its inhabitants as ‘Agget’ was the forth planet from the star in this system. A lush fertile world, covered in green forests, deserts, deep blue oceans and rich in rare resources. The insect like race ‘Aggetons’ were an early space fairing race and their limited fleet of a dozen ships had been b... | 1 | |
[WP] You are summoned before God and the Devil. They demand you resolve their argument. | [
"They say near death experiences are a lot like having a dream. You may remember a light or complete darkness. It may also be possible to see your life pass before your eyes, but for me, I saw something completely strange. I've never been very religious and I rarely ever went to church in all of my years. It just w... | 1 | |
[WP] tell the story of a good person who is slowly becoming evil. | [
"I work at a grocery store called Lucky's, right off Oakdale Ave and 14th, across from the old Laundromat with Mr. Wu and his family. I mostly worked in the evening shift, when I got off school. When I graduated, I still worked there from 9-5 all summer long. It was right when I was about to leave for college when ... | 1 | |
[WP] I made a deal with Death. An exchange of another's soul for 50 more years. It's been Ten Thousand Years... | [
"\"Alright, but only 50 years,\" Death leaned back in his chair and puffed on his cigar.\n\nI had died, but due to a contractual agreement made by one of my ancestors, my family has the right to negotiate the terms of their afterlife. I've just convinced death to extend my lifespan.\n\n\"So, you'll just take someo... | 1 | |
[WP] Everyone is born with the name of their soulmate around their wrist. You shake hands with someone and notice the name on her wrist is that of your recently departed best friend. | [
"The world was but a distant whisper as I sat there, staring at his grave. I'd known him since we were just wee lads. I'd never even considered what life would be like without him and now I've got to live without him for the rest of my life. He was always there for me but I wasn't for him when he needed me most and... | 2 | |
[WP] Every time you touch someone, you get access to all of their memories, it's nice, and it allows you to understand people, but some aren't so pleasant. | [
" I look up pleadingly, one arm raised in defense as the man above me whipped my face with a belt, the searing pain as the leather snaps across my skin brings tears to my eyes but I will not make a sound, and give him the pleasure. He tears my hand away and kicks my face, blood erupting from my nose and a small gas... | 2 | |
[WP] You see the job offer "Superhero search motivated sidekick". You get an interview... | [
"\"Hey, Regan, right? I figured you wanted this job since you're the only one that took it seriously. You sounded competent enough to handle yourself on the phone, at least. Look, if you want it still, come to Fairway Lanes and knock on the back door around 11:30 tonight?\" I pulled the receiver away from my ear an... | 1 | |
[WP] Your kid is going through a dinosaur phase. You're letting them dig around in the yard when you notice they've actually found something, and it's not a dinosaur bone. | [
"Simon had been playing for about an hour in the front yard, digging small holes, crowing about worms he found. \"look daddy, a wormosaurus\". Typical kid stuff.\n\nI'd only stepped into the kitchen to make some coffee, and didn't notice he'd moved to the front yard.\n\n\"Daddy, Daddy, look what I found....I think... | 2 | |
[WP] Your best friend is a demon. Great guy, really cool and everything, just kinda pushy about the whole sacrificing the innocent thing and such. | [
"I met Carter all the way back in high school, back in 10th grade to be precise. He'd just moved over from Ireland. \n\nHis first day of school was something else. It began with him arriving at school late, his introduction was a disaster. The Irish bastard could barely be understood with how hard he was breathing ... | 1 | |
[WP] A post millenial super heroine who gets superhuman strength by channelling her crippling anxiety and drinking massive amounts of coffee | [
"The cops found themselves staring at three bank robbers, who had all been tied up to a lamp post. There was note pinned to one of their shirts, but the writing was illegible. The masked hero wrote too fast to make her words out clearly. Ten blocks down the road, our heroine was in pursuit of the two remaining from... | 1 | |
[WP] Her mother is still grieving. You volunteer to empty her room. | [
"We never worked out. We should have. The proof was in the hours of discussion on top five movies of all time, often broken in genre or director. It was in our love of small fluffy animals and our disdain of tiny loud humans. Our first date was five hours long, only ending when the wait staff kicked us out. \n... | 1 | |
[WP] Moral Kombat. | [
"“Augh! Can't you at least get the hair right?! This vest does NOT work with these pants! I've been sitting here for over an hour and I'm still not ready. Kintaro was out and ready to go in 20 minutes! And he's on after me! I've got less than 10 minutes before I need to be in front of the Portal. The last th... | 3 | |
[WP] A world-renowned hitman gets his latest assignment: himself. | [
"At two in the morning William built himself up to finally do it. His nightmares had been getting worse, alongside his depression. It's stress induced, he swore. It's all the messages. It's all *his* fault. Tonight was going to be the night he solved all his problems. The man who made his life misery was going to s... | 1 | |
[WP] Scientists invent a device that measures people's hope in life and their will to live from a scale of 1 to 100. Your number is 0. | [
"“Two weeks is a long time.”\n\nThat was always her catch phrase. What she had always said to him. Even now, two weeks later, he could still hear her voice saying it to him. She’d say it for any number of reasons. The times he would lament about the last two weeks of summer vacation before classes started. The time... | 2 | |
[WP] You've just received this: "No time to explain. This is you from the future. Will lead you to safety. RUN RIGHT NOW! More texts will come. RUN RUN RUN!!!" | [
"I wake up at my desk, my phone vibrating next to me. I must have dozed off. I check my message, and it says:\n\n**Run! NOW!**\n\nWell, it's either a prank, or a wrong number. I text back: \n\n**Wrong number, bud.** \n\nIt takes only a moment for my phone to vibrate again. \n\n**Its not a wrong number. It's you. Fr... | 1 | |
As opposed to the oh-so-infamous "It's not just a phase, mom!" | [WP] "It's only a phase, mom!" | [
"I paused, standing in the doorway and looking at my mother's paling face at the sight of me. \"What?\"\n\n\"What in the name of all things holy *are you wearing*?\" My mother hissed out between clenched teeth.\n\nI looked down at myself, though fully aware of what I had just put on for my attire to school that day... | 1 |
[WP] You do indeed have the power of time travel, but you are forced to see past events as a bystander unable to intervene. | [
"Countless times, I've heard people wax poetically about fate. The strings that tie us together. The will of the universe. God's plan. \n\nI used to think it was all nonsense, especially the whole bit about God. I mean, if there was an almighty power out there running the show behind the curtain, you'd think he'd w... | 1 | |
[WP] Everyone in the world is actually D&D characters rolled by god-like entities playing a campaign. | [
"Gregory stood at the lectern, sweat beading on his forehead. Well, he shouldn't think of himself as just Gregory now; He was Professor Niles now, but he just couldn't find the confidence inside of himself to stand tall.\n\n\nThe classroom bustled with energy, although none of it was directed at the professor. Greg... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a child's teddy bear. Every night the child takes you to bed to protect it from monsters. What the child doesn't know is that you actually fight monsters every night to keep the child safe. Write about one of your fights. | [
"It's a good thing I don't feel pain. Otherwise, the huge rip in my arm would be a drag. Donny's mom considered hiring psychiatrist because she suspects her son is a psychopath-in-the-making who tortures his teddy bear, but patches me up all the same. Donny's dad thinks Donny is covering for the dog, and that was g... | 10 | |
[WP]"Oh bother" grumbled Pooh, as he loaded another cartridge into the gun. | [
"(I haven't written in a while and I've never written anything on Reddit. Please forgive my lack of expertise. I find the premise interesting and have written a terribly gorey and uncharacteristically violent, vulgar piece.)\n\n\n\n\"Oh, bother\" grumbled Pooh, as he loaded another cartridge into the gun.\n\"I hate... | 5 | |
[WP] reality and fantasy switch.. the first thing to go is the electricity, and the first to come is magic... | [
"The TV shut off, and the lights dimmed, leaving the house in near total darkness.\n\n\"Power outage\" dad muttered\n\nHe walked to the window and looked outside.\n\n\"Must have taken out the whole block.\" He sighed \"I'll get the candles\"\n\nI went upstairs to look out my bedroom window. Our house sat on top of ... | 2 | |
[WP] The Olympic athletes are chosen like jury duty. They recieve a random letter in the mail telling them they have 4 years to train for an event. | [
"\"Next for Team USA is Enrico Palatzo!\" The crowd's cheer faded as a medical bed was wheeled out by a surly looking nurse. The nurse glared at the judged who looked elsewhere and the bed was shoved toward the balance beam. The nurse lifted up Enrico and placed him onto the balance beam. Enrico's uniform full of s... | 7 | |
[WP] Organized assassinry is legalized in the United States. In less than a decade it's become a $9 billion industry, utterly destroyed unemployment, and ushered in a true democracy: the will of the knife | [
"I passed one of the protestors again today. \"DOWN WITH OLIGARCHY!\" read the sign. Idiots. Just because the rich could hire better assassins than most people didn't mean we lived in an oligarchy. Anybody could be an assassin if they worked hard enough. Hell, if they thought the system was so bad, why didn't ... | 1 | |
[WP] You invent a time machine. Instead of being able to transport anywhere in time, you can only go anywhere in time when this invention has been created. | [
"The pieces for time travel had assembled perfectly. Everything had fallen into place: the equations, the logic, the ancient time artifacts; it had been like one big jigsaw puzzle. Of course, that wasn't what the media was going to hear. The interviews played out in my mind: it had taken a visionary of my caliber t... | 1 | |
[WP] Monsters trying to break stereotypes about their races. | [
"I have a dream! I have a dream that one day in our underworld the sons of Skinwalkers and Wraiths can sit at the table of Monsterhood and eat humans in peace. I have a dream that even in the Lake of Fire, a place with the sweltering heat of justice, a place with the sweltering heat of 9 layers of torture, will be ... | 1 | |
I suck at writing, and maybe this is a stupid/narrow prompt with no plot to develop, but I've had it in my head for years, so when I discovered this reddit I decided to post it.
P.S. - This is my first time posting here, so please tell me if I did something horribly wrong before banishing me into the abyss forever. | [WP] Year 2098. You live in a closed city that nobody is allowed to leave. Every crime is punishable by death, including questioning what lies beyond the heavily guarded border. One day, a brief "glitch" in the sky appears, showing ruins spanning to the horizon. You're the only one that notices. | [
"Tick. He unfastened his watch straps. Tick. He adjusted the time.\n\nThe gears stopped. \n\n“Odd”, Felix thought. He continued to play around with the mechanism while he walked home. The scent of gunpowder filled the air as he walked across the main plaza. Other than the few drones that patched up bullet holes in ... | 3 |
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