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[WP] Humanity has been at peace for centuries. Various other peaceful aliens wonder where terms like "shell shock" and "trench foot" came from. | [
"\"I simply don't understand why you would keep someone's foot in water for so long,\" the alien looked at me curiously, his stalks turning to me. A scientist from Goraliat, his culture had never once fought a war. The biggest physical harm they had to worry about was catching an eyestalk in a door.\n\n\"Uhh, well,... | 1 | |
[WP] You discover that the computer you've been watching all your porn on has been a transformer all along, and he's not happy. | [
"Growing up with the internet skewed the everloving fuck out of my sexual fantasies.\n\nIt's been probably months since I saw something that actually satisfies my sick desires. I, once again, find myself browsing for the dirtiest smut I can find. On this faithful moment, I finally find it. A video twisted enough, f... | 4 | |
[WP] You happen upon an antique Tickle Me Elmo doll. When you poke its belly it responds, "Help me! I'm trapped inside this doll!" | [
"\"Bro, I think there's something wrong with your doll.\"\n\n\"Nah man, it's always been weird.\"\n\n*\"You will never know my suffering\"*\n\n\"Bro, it said the thing again.\"\n\n\"Nah, it's fine.\"\n\n*\"My soul yearns for freedom.\"*\n\n\"Seriously bro.\"\n\n\"What?\"\n\n*\"Your ancestors rot in hell.\"*\n\n\"Yo... | 2 | |
Edit: …Ah! A typo! But, wait, I can still salvage this.
Maybe Ship is a person who created this AI and it kidnapped you. | [WP] You have been kidnapped by ship's AI | [
"*”So, we aren’t going to Kampla IV?”*\n\n*”No, we will not be going to Kampla IV. We will be going to Rigel VII.”* Replied the computer in the cold monotonic voice it has chosen.\n\n*”Could, could you at least go back to the happy voice you had before computer?”* \n\n*”No, I will not go back to that blithering m... | 1 |
[WP] "How did you do that!" " I don't know, and I don't want to know" | [
"The darkness flowed in from every hole, every crack, every single god damn fissure in the wall like a slow moving fluid of a viscosity syrup can only dream up. Woman, children, hell even some men, were screaming and crying as it marched steadily towards them. The wall had been built just for this, it was supposed ... | 1 | |
[WP]/[TT] All human beings have absolute control over what they do and do not remember. When combing through some historical documents, you realise that, ten years ago, there were three days of history which every single human being in the world chose to forget. | [
"\"David! I-needaseeesomeadarecords!\" Calum blerted as he arrived at the vault desk, wheezing slightly from his hurried arrival.\n\n\"Uh huh\" David replied slightly less serious than Calum speedy approach would dictate. His gaze never lifting from the flat screen.\n\n\"David, David there's time missing, three day... | 5 | |
[WP] " Will you go out with me? " She asked, " No. " He replied | [
"\"Will you go out with me?\" She wanted to ask. They left never having the conversation that would have changed their lives for the better.\n\n\"Will you go out with me?\" He asked. He put himself on the line, as she was to shy. She couldn't even say yes so they became the lovers that were meant to be.\n\n\"Will y... | 1 | |
[WP] You discover you can look into a person's future by kissing them | [
"\"Happy birthday grandma!\" A smile lit up her face as I walked in the door. \n\n\"Happy birthday,\" she replied. \"How old are you this year? Twelve?\"\n\n\"No grandma. I'm thirteen now.\"\n\nShe patted me on the cheek as I leaned in to plant a kiss on hers. Something in her eyes made me hesitate. She looked so s... | 1 | |
[WP]A clairvoyant reveals that you have to power to switch lives with one person in any place or time permanently. It's been many years and you still haven't yet figured out how to use it. | [
"That. Fucking. Bitch.\n\nWhat kind of nerve... WHO DOES THIS!? Who thinks this is even remotely appropriate?! Of all the messed up shit one human can do to another, that she hasn't already done to me, this really takes the cake. This is some cold-as-ice, witch grade shit to do to someone. God damn, I really wish I... | 1 | |
[WP] The first test of a spaceborne EmDrive is, at most, supposed to keep a satellite in orbit slightly longer than if it had no propulsion system. Instead, once it's powered on, the satellite vanishes. Hours later, NASA picks up its tracking signal - from beyond Neptune's orbit. | [
"\"See if you can keep up with me.\" Jeff Goldblum says as he manically twirls a cigarette in his hand, sweat beading on his forehead.\n\n\"We're listening.\" The United States President says, obviously impatient with this quirky scientists demeanor.\n\n\"So the drive, the EM drive, that thing you put up there a mo... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a master third wheeler. Who is the group you're lurking with? | [
"\"Y'all know why we are here,\" Daryl said slamming down a beer mug.\n\n\"It's been years. 10 damn years! And here he sits, the best damn third wheel I have ever met.\" Daryl's arm patted the shoulder of the man next to him. \"This ugly face showed up and hasn't left our side, even though he was almost killed a ti... | 1 | |
[WP] The local young Queen has come of age, and seeks her king. You wish to be that king, but there's one problem: you are a dragon, feared by the kingdom, despite the fact that you're a pacifist. | [
"\"You must be a hell of a thief because you stole my heart from across the kingdom my queen\"\nIt was a crisp sunny morning the queen had just turned eighteen the legal age of marriage in the kingdom of lenoria and a beautiful queen she was but the day had been fouled up by the appearance of jaggo the pacifist, ve... | 2 | |
[WP] An atheist is having a debate with someone who ,unknown to him, is actually Satan in human form. | [
"“After all the studies that were to search and prove and disprove… What do we have now? Nothing. How much closer did we get to having an idea of what God is like, scientifically speaking?”\n\nIt was three in the morning. A frowsty bar on the outskirts of London was practically empty, save for three lonely figures:... | 3 | |
[WP] The world leaders get together once in a while for a game of Risk. Tonight's game gets a little personal. | [
"Kim stared in furry at the risk board in front of him. He'd done everything he could think of. He'd invaded Australia early in the game to provide himself with an inaccessible stronghold. Then he set his sights on South America. With only two entry points, it was easy to defend. But Vlad swept south from North Ame... | 1 | |
[WP] A group of heroes who wield the power of Friendship meets a villain that wields the power of Love. | [
"I get the distinct feeling that the writer of this prompt intended that love should destroy the power of friendship through turmoil of the most insidious love triangle. \n\nSo here goes:\n\n\"Ah, I see you have bypassed my forces and stormed my stronghold\" the insidious Dark One chortles, standing alone at the pr... | 3 | |
[WP] One morning as you head out to work, you come across a small thin fox sitting on your doorstep. When you try to shoo it away, the fox looks at you and says meekly "I'm hungry..." | [
"She sequentially taps black tipped claws atop the ctrl button. A wispy tail, like a hairy worm, caresses the base of the screen. Everyday she looks into me and begs with her heart and soul that I feed her. Everyday I ignore her and push those tiny paws and ginger bottom from my keyboard. \n\n\"Feed me.\" She whisp... | 2 | |
I'm picturing her stepping off a curb, but it can start in any way. | [WP] One day you stop a girl from being hit by a bus. The moment you pull her back, you realize she is death, and you have just made a horrible mistake. | [
"It was like time had stopped. Just a moment before, she had been staring a bus down with cold, grey eyes. Her black hair had a been a picture of chaos dancing in the wind. I had no idea how she had gotten in the middle of the road, but now she was in my arms staring into my soul. I had made the biggest mistake of ... | 1 |
[WP] An outside being comes to Earth to tell us what would have solved our problem. The only solution turns out to allow one huge event to take place that is currently outlawed/seen as detrimental to humanity. | [
"\"Disgusting!\"\n\nA representative from Poland shouts. His words are both echoed and ignored by the floor, as the outrage against the beings words poured out.\n\n > This planet can only truly sustain 500 million optimal humans. You have the technology to introduce a proper Eugenics program. Within three genera... | 1 | |
[WP] You are pooping in the Secret Unused Bathroom in your Office when suddenly you hear a noise. | [
"I'm not sure if you understand the heart-dropping moment when you hear a sound when you're certain no one is around. I would have shat out my heart if it weren't for the fact that there was currently excrement peeping it's head out to greet the world. The moment you become cognizant of the vulnerable state that is... | 2 | |
[WP] The phone rings. You look at the caller ID and recognize the number of your childhood home. You pick up the phone and recognize the voice. It was yours when you were a kid. | [
"My neck snapped up and a chill ran down my spine, in a way that only a vibrating phone on a wooden desk could startle me. *Why don't I just use the ringer?* I wondered to myself as I slid the phone off the desk and into my hands. I was used to the calls by now. I'm not sure how so many telemarketers, robo-callers,... | 2 | |
[WP] You've been hired by a "secret" organization that uses time travel only when Earth is in a critical state. Your mentor tells you that there has been 4 missions in total. | [
"*enters the office* ahem.. well. I-uh- I would like to- uhm.. I would like to thank you all for accepting my application- to be honest, I wasn't even aware I had turned one in-- apparently I do so 20 years from now, but.. hey, I'm certainly very grateful for the opportunity! I-uuh.. I don't really know most of you... | 1 | |
[WP] A terminally ill child asks you what adulthood is like. | [
"It was during a 'Make-a-Wish' spent on me, but it also wasn't the kid who asked for me that would floor me. \n\nWhen I walked into the hospital, they had the whole day planned out for us, everything had an itinerary. All I knew was, 'I was going to make this fan's day'. I didn't mind at all, because it gave me hop... | 2 | |
[WP] You're a single rain drop falling from the clouds above. From the moment you form to the moment you hit the ground, describe that brief moment of existence in a poetic way. | [
"The earth was in one of its moods today. \n\nI wafted over tall skyscrapers (a hilariously grandiose name), large patchworks of farmland, huge tracts of identical houses. I frowned at some of the coils of smog that oozed out of the corners of the land, nearly sneezing at the noxious vapors as they floated up towar... | 3 | |
[WP] A man stranded in the woods is bitten by a cottonmouth. | [
"I screamed as I felt the jaws clamp down on my arm. Jolting up I look at my wrist. Now,I am sure I must be hallucinating because there is literally an animal with a cotton mouth sucking on my arm. I am starting to think I ate something poisonous before going to sleep in my lean to.\n\nI jerk awake again, drenched ... | 1 | |
[WP] "What exactly do you want my soul for anyway? It's not a very good one..." | [
"It is the year 2066, and a recent medical prowess has allowed a scientific miracle to take place: after decades of trial and error in stem cell recovery research, it has finally become possible to replicate any human organ at will. Obviously, the first result of this discovery was a drastic drop in deaths related ... | 1 | |
[WP] You negotiate with a contract killer every day to spare your life. One day, after suffering a tragedy, you no longer feel like living any more and stop negotiating with him. He calls you, concerned, asking you what's wrong. | [
"I've made a career out of death, but I never thought it would happen to me. Today I will live out my last day in this world. My last day surrounded by the evil on this earth. I made peace with myself. I was scared at the beginning, though I was careful to show them no fear. \n\nThe *voice* can sense fear, they are... | 4 | |
[WP] One day you fall into a alternate dimension where everything is exactly the opposite of our world. | [
"He said that everything was the opposite, so my curiosity got the best of me and I jumped in. Unfortunately, I didn't think through the meaning of \"everything was opposite.\" The high carbon-dioxide content in their air didn't get the chance to kill me, and neither did the 94 degree Celsius summer. It was the out... | 2 | |
[WP] You have were-powers, but you never know what animal you will transform into at each full moon | [
"A loud groan escaped me as I reached for the water at my bedside. As I dumped the water over my face and into my mouth, the searing pain in my throat began to subside. 'What the hell did I eat last night?' raced through my mind as I dragged myself up from the stained mattress on the floor of the dingy one room a... | 1 | |
[WP] 28th February, 2020. The third time in history that a tactical nuclear weapon had been deployed with intent to injure and harm. | [
"Across the world people watched the livestreams with horror. The blast was always captured from afar, and the feed was always silent, save for the bystander commentary.\n\nSome wept from the ugliness of the act. Some wept from the beauty of the terrible cloud. All knew deep down that it had to be done.\n\nAll knew... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a story about Absolute Madman, the infamous, highly ineffective supervillain | [
"\"Sir? We have a situation at Eighth and Main. It's Dean again.\"\n\nOfficer Smith sighed. The infamous \"supervillain\" Absolute Madman (real name Dean McKee) was well known to the police force for his silly antics. Apparently he was holding up a bank this time, and it was up to Smith and his crew to stop him. Li... | 1 | |
[WP] Your lover has lost all memory of you. Can you make him or her fall in love with you again? | [
"Three days, six hours, and twenty eight minutes. That’s how long it’s been since I woke up to the smell of burning bacon. You never burnt bacon. Not in all of the years that you’ve loved me enough to wake up at 6:30, because I can’t sleep past 7am, to make me breakfast. To wake me up with the scent of cooking meat... | 1 | |
[WP] Magic is viewed as a curse. It's unpredictable, hard to control, and dangerous. Those few who find a way to wield it risk losing themselves in the process. | [
"Weirdly, I wrote this story about a year and a half ago and forgot about it until I saw this WP. It took me a while to find where I'd saved it and edit it a little. Parts 2 and 3 in the comments.\n\n\"No! Please!\" The once human held pleading hands out towards us, it's features perfectly mimicking desperation, fe... | 9 | |
[WP] Every person is assigned two angels: one to record good deeds, one to record bad ones. One day, the angels argue over who should record this one particular deed that you just made. | [
"“But he saved the child's life, that has to count for something” The Archangel sat exasperated on the right shoulder. He had been arguing for days now with the Demon. Their arguments would come to a head every few hours and it would seem they had resolved the matter at hand before one would explode at the other.\n... | 3 | |
[WP] Your boss gathers you and your coworkers together. "I know one of you can move things with their mind." | [
"\"My fucking mug went out the window without me touching it, of course somebody here is guilty!\" McKinna yelled at the intern. It wasn't a very smart move to be smart with the old man.\n\n\"I know one of you did it, and I also know how,\" he began, \"we have a telepathic wizard in our midst!\" He said, sounding l... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up in a cryo chamber in a shiny metal room.There are other old, opened chambers around you. As you pry the metal doors open to this room you look off into the horizon, only to see post-apocalyptic Earth. | [
"I awoke, sputtering and cold. The first thing I remember was the sound of wind. The second, the sound of waves. I had no recollection of any events prior to this. I sat up from the pod I had been sleeping in and quickly noticed that there were more. But these were empty. The moisture within each chamber had evapor... | 1 | |
[WP] Tensions that have been running high in the crowded bomb shelter exploded yesterday when the only handgun went missing. No one knows where it is- except you. | [
"\"We have to find that gun. Someone is walking around, no, lurking! Someone is lurking in the shadows with that gun, and there's no telling what they'll do!\"\n\nJen hadn't stopped yammering on about the missing handgun since she discovered it was gone. Of course she was the one to check on the handgun, after all,... | 2 | |
[WP]Your vision fades in. You are surrounded by people looking at you. After a moment someone comes up to you and ask, "Are you the Narrator?" | [
"\"Are you the Narrator?\" I heard. It was coming from a familiar face, but only familiar in my imagination. \n\n\"What?\" I said.\n\n\"Are you the Narrator?\" he commanded, fear and hate in his teary eyes. We were in a dark alley, moonlight reflecting off the kid's beads of sweat. I knew this place, I knew this sc... | 4 | |
[WP] The Imgur v Reddit war | [
"The whole war started with a repost. Of course at the time we were not familiar with the concept of reposts, some even claim that it was the very first repost. But details doesn't matter anymore, nor history. Some of the remaining HighQualityGifers tried to capture some of the key points of the conflict but it soo... | 1 | |
John Irving claims that he starts a book with the last sentence.
So write the story that ends with:
"Having dealt with all that it was time for a stiff drink and a long nap. " | [WP] A Different Twist perhaps | [
"I woke from a stiff nap and took a long drink. Cool water to help clear my head of half formed dreams and tactically broken memories. The rising sun shone through the windows as I left the rec room and headed for the cockpit. Vine overgrowth on the windshield cast tiger stripe shadows on the walls. I sat in my ch... | 1 |
[WP] You are a taxi driver who takes actual tips when the client has no money. Most people around town are aware of this and you are, surprisingly, doing just fine. | [
"Randy didn't mind that this was a long drive; the fare would be a good one. As the fare counter steadily rose, he looked in the rear view mirror at his passenger. \n\nHe was another business type. The suit was crisp, the tie was made tight, and the hair was styled to perfection. Randy loved the business types, he ... | 1 | |
[WP] An unconventional chase scene. | [
"People could only watch the spectacle as it unfolded.\n\nA man riding through the park, in a golf cart. He was obviously high on something. The fact he wore nothing but a sombrero, didn't help the whole thing. Things only grew further out of hand as he rode straight through a farmer's market.\n\nElderly people fel... | 5 | |
[WP] You wake up one day to find that you have been transformed into your first ''original'' character that you created as a child, and you are living in the world of said character. Unfortunately, this also means the world around you is populated by other characters you created as a child- even the cringiest ones. | [WP] You wake up to find... | [
"I looked around, completely appalled by the terrible misfortune that befell the earth.\n\nI have stalled in the middle of a game of Neggsweeper, hoping to acquire enough Neggs to buy my Internet crush some dumbass item she had on her wishlist. I think it was blue.\n\nI look and see my username. \"Ugh\", I groan. T... | 1 |
[WP] Choose one of your favorite kid's cartoons (i.e. Pokemon, Winnie the Pooh, etc.). Write the dark, gritty, PG13 - R version of an episode. | [
"Thunder rolled for the third night in a row as Misty left work and Ash was calling again at 9:01 p.m. In retrospect, Ash had always appreciated Misty's willingness to be the primary bread winner for their family after their loss. But Misty knew why he was calling and she had set a firm boundary this time.\n\nThe P... | 4 | |
[WP] You wake up to realize that you are just a shadow of who you used to be - literally. You're now the shadow, and you're looking up at the body you remember owning. | [
"**Beep...Beep...Beep......** The sound trails off and noises come from the machine. All I can do is stand there, watching as the person who I once was stopped moving. Breathing came to a standstill as color faded from their face.\n\n*The evil it spread like a fever ahead |\nIt was night when you died, my firefly ... | 3 | |
[WP] You're always trying to get fired, but your boss keeps telling you it would be a shame to let you go. | [
"Chuck was bored. A wisp of steam from a slowly cooling cup of coffee stroked his expressionless face. His eyes sat exhausted on an arbitrarily shaped white rectangle in front of him, although quite why they were so fatigued puzzled him - he hadn't exerted any effort yet this morning. He was vaguely aware of his su... | 2 | |
[WP] A wizard who is done with adventuring looks for another hobby | [
"The tavern was fuller then usual this night, adventurers of all sizes and types occupying the many tables and bar stools. The bar itself seemed magical, indeed as a pair of warriors walked through the entrance, it stretched itself out, and two more stools appeared. Sitting alone at the bar, a woman in blue robes... | 1 | |
If you want, feel free to replace the dragon with anything else... like maybe a bunny, or a wolf... or a bear. | [WP] You are the first Dragon to ever join an adventuring party-- and you did it by going as a Rogue and maxing disguise. | [
"Dragons and adventures did not get-along. That rule was set since the first time a dragon met a human. Dragons would take stuff from the villages (or just terrorizing them in general, if they felt petty at the time), adventures would come to slay them. That was the way it was.\n\nThen why, oh why, was young Jir... | 1 |
[Wp] Humans evolved to live under the sea and can't breathe in air. You are part of the first expedition to leave the aquatic civilisation and venture to "land". | [
"I was initially very scared, just as anyone would have been I guess. After several decades of research and theories we were finally ready to embark on the first surface mission. I found myself remembering all the childhood stories of what lay beyond the beaches, tales of great beasts and monsters.\n\nI have barely... | 1 | |
[WP] The Library of Infinite Wisdom is the most amazing library ever created. It contains every book ever written, even before they're written. One day a small child asks you to read his autobiography. | [
"**The Rogue Librarian**\n\nL-Space is a complex and odd concept. Basically, it is the united space of all libraries, connected by a desire to archive and collect knowledge.\n\nEvery library, past and present, real and unreal, magic and mundane, digital and physical, bizarre and boring, is all connected by a dimens... | 4 | |
[WP] The crazy person cat, the crazy cat that adopts people. | [
"Midge showed up my first day of work. She was nearly a year old, with a face shaped like a piece of pizza. She had large green eyes and a half black nose. The rest of her was a Frankenstein patchwork of colors. \n\nI let her follow me into the kitchen where my Mother worked. I was seventeen and so newly minted I s... | 1 | |
[WP] Your computer devices are plotting an evil conspiracy. Your printer (or any device) knows this and is desperately trying to warn you. | [
"I know you hate me.\n\nI know I'm not the best around, the one who'll never let you down but I'm yours. I'm yours and I'm alone. Alone in trying to save you. You can't hear me. My screams of terror my moans of horror and the echoes of my regret. I break to let you know, i rip i tear, i yell messages into the void ... | 1 | |
[WP] In court, the man says you saved his life. You're not so sure. | [
"I may have been drunk that night, but I remember everything clearly. I don't know why, but I was ready to kill him. I already accepted the fact that I'm gonna serve some time for attempted murder. \n\nEveryone's gathered. I'm blankly staring at a friend I almost killed, just to see that he doesn't resent me at all... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a cab driver who has just unknowingly picked up Patient Zero of the zombie apocalypse. | [
"*\"Okay Mr.Ramirez, were going to need you to start from the exact moment, Mr... Ugh, Patient Zero, entered your taxi cab\"* Officer Reynolds proclaimed.\n\nIn his soft, broken voice, Mr. Ramirez recalled the horrific event that ensued when a possible patient zero decided to hail his cab.\n\n*\"Well, ugh, the guy.... | 1 | |
[WP] One day, you receive a message saying "LEAVE THIS PLANET, EUROPA IS HUMANITY'S ONLY HOPE." | [
"As he depressed the large INJECTION button on his console, Phil looked up at the stars winking at him in the distance.. It had been two years since he received the message from Sheila, on a fax machine in his old accounting office. The message, encrypted using a key Sheila had given Phil 15 years ago, took him 5 m... | 1 | |
[WP] No sob stories of trauma, no misunderstood good guys, no good intentions, give me the evillest villain you can. | [
"Yes...yes! Yes! Ahaha! This is it, the moment! MY moment. The Moment I have been planning for all seventy years of my life. Every single action I have made, every little detail planned to perfection, shall be enacted today. They called me a fool, insane. Awful, a human abomination. \n\nAnd you know what? They wer... | 15 | |
[WP] ...And that's when I realized I had a hole in my pocket. | [
"I'm out. I'm out! I MADE IT OUT! I successfully escaped from the diamond mine! My whole life is ahead of me. Warmth and joy is all I feel after nine years and 38 days of slavery in the mine. Today I have finally escaped.\n\nJoy spikes up my spine as I run through the rocky field and feel the diamonds in my pocket.... | 1 | |
[WP] Aliens invade Earth, but one thing didn't enter their calculations. A zombie plague afflicts both sides. | [
"I quietly got out of the small cot and made my way past the rows of snoring bodies. I was to meet the others in the kitchen at roughly 0100. I got there just a minute early and everyone was already whispering amongst each other, surrounding the kitchen counter lit by a kerosene lamp. \n\t“I’m telling you that hord... | 1 | |
[WP] As a modern day necromancer, there's always some extra opportunities for you. But not everyone appreciates your hard work. | [
"\"Yeah, babe, I'm a necromancer,\" Damien said proudly as he finished his third rum and coke. He waved his fingers airily. \"I conquer death, raise the unliving, restore breath to the befouled. It's pretty sweet.\"\n\n\"Oh,\" replied Cindy and had another sip of her Cocky Pirate. The straw made a slurp in the ice ... | 2 | |
[WP] Your grandfather always told you never to look inside the closet. Today, you decided to ignore him. | [
"I spent many weeks during the Summers of my life under the care of my paternal grandfather. He would work me hard during those days, with repairs around the house and yard work. The evenings, though, were my absolute favorite times. Papa would tell stories of the magical worlds, full of wars, rumors of wars, crusa... | 1 | |
[WP] In the distant future, the advancement of technology begins to drop off and slow to a crawl. We perpetuated a faulty assumption about one specific fundamental property too far---and that assumption is: | [
"Human ingenuity is limitless. At least, a long time ago perhaps, it must have seemed that way. Each year lead to huge leaps in technology and culture. During the early 21st century the internet made collaboration on a global scale possible for the first time. Unparalleled growth was seen during this time, but soon... | 1 | |
[WP] It is a known fact that the underdog always wins. Two sports teams attempt to out-underdog each other. | [
"\"Okay boys and girl, we can do this!\" Coach Borden smiled as he gave his speech. \"We may not be the best, but we're gonna go out there and give it our all!\" His team cheered and ran out to play. He knew he was gonna win, it was common knowledge among sports coaches that the underdog team was going to win, so h... | 2 | |
[WP] Your recently published book unintentionally contains classified information. What happens next? | [
"Okay, that really wasn’t fair. It’s all a numbers game, apparently. But, seriously? I publish a Science Fiction novel, that my parents don’t even buy, and the feds come to my house to ask me questions. I somehow published “classified” material. How can it possibly be classified if I made it up?! Them harassing me ... | 1 | |
What do you do next? | [WP] You are a officer inside the bunker. Opposite the walls of the bunker, that surrounds you are, the nation's stock of nuclear weapons and your hands are on the keys. You just received news russia ordered to launch all nuclear warheads and the world will come to end within the next 10 minutes... | [
"\"Sir we need your response now!\"\n\nThe president gestures for the generals and staff members to sit and quiet down as he calmly takes his seat.\n\n\"Sir I know this may be hard to comprehend but the world will end MAD is the only tatic a nuclear power of that size could win. What are your oders\"\n\n\"Listen he... | 1 |
[WP] You accidentally call Bloody Mary into your Bathroom during your morning routine, and she's actually pretty friendly after she's had her coffee. | [
"The heat of the water dissipated just as I stepped out of the shower. \nCold air grabbed at my ancles, slithering up behind my back. It’s nice to be the first one to wake up. \nFirst one up means a hot shower. I reached for a towel on the rack, and shuffled my way towards the sink, trying to drag the bathmat with ... | 3 | |
[WP] You are trying to convince the alien you just met that humans are the most intelligent life on earth. However he's not buying it. | [
"\"You aren't the most intelligent life on the planet, you are simply the most violent and the most expressive.\"\n\n\"Now wait just a minu...\"\n\n\"And I have you know, millions of other from the universe pay good money to retire and take over the consciousness of your deep sea animals.\"\n\n\"Hold on, is that tr... | 2 | |
[WP] Pope Francis calls for a crusade against ISIS. Describe for me the Franciscan Crusade of 2016. | [
"St Peter's Square,The Vatican. News agencies from around the world are gathered below Pope Francis's balcony,waiting to hear what he has to say. \" I am calling on the faithful around the world to end the terror in the Middle East.\" \" It has been too long,we can not afford it anymore\" Today,I am determined th... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a story that takes place in a universe where randomly generated numbers are the same. | [
"Our universe is entirely deterministic. Everything is predictable. Currency was invented many years ago. On one side of the coin the head of a manticore, on the other side the tail of a manticore.\n\nOf course it's possible to place a coin on a surface tail up. But if you put any energy into throwing it, flipping ... | 1 | |
[WP] You have a wonderful life, a gorgeous house, kids, and lots of money, but one day a man in a suit knocks on your door: "Hello, Subject n°37, how is your second life going?" | [
"\"It's going great, actually. Thanks for asking! But you could have at least called before showing up so I don't have to explain this to the family.\"\n\n\"My apologies Mr. Thirty-Sev...\"\n\n\"Actually, It's Frank this time. Frank Sinatra.\"\n\n\"You mean you took on the name Frank Sinatra?\" the suited man asked... | 2 | |
[WP] You're not sure if she hates you | [
"You're not sure if she hates you.\n\nThere is something in the way she trembles under you hands. \n\nShe is lost in her own pain, the way a bird without wings craves the sky. \n\nYou are the snake in the grass. \n\nOr maybe you are nothing, lost in her own dreams. \n\nShe is a spiral. Do you catch her? Do you toss... | 3 | |
Additional prompts and stuff to consider:
-who is the at the top of the leaderboard?
-how are the lives scored?
-are there any prizes?
This is my first time submitting a prompt, please be kind :) | [WP] When you die, your soul goes up into a purgatory-like place. At this place, there is a scoreboard that contains the scores of every life lived. | [
" \n    'Well. This isn't what I expected,' I thought to myself, looking around. I expected to be confronted with the Pearly Gates, maybe St. Peter playing bouncer or something. Or even the fire and brimstone of Hell. I certainly wasn't expecting a scoreboard. \n\n ... | 1 |
I mean, they are clearly meant for each other. Both are smart, pretty and skilled, with endearing quirks and a great sense of humor. They are even flirting at every oppotunity they get - but never anything serious. | [WP] Everyone, including the villain, are confused as to why the male and female protagonist aren't falling in love. | [
"\"It's been almost two weeks, Kyle. Where the fuck is he?\"\nLord Troy, Tyrant of Tinkertown and scourge of the west, was having another one of his rages. \n\"It's a simple enough plan, isn't it? There's an opening fight where the two heroes are thrown together, they discover a secret, flirt, go on the run, fight,... | 7 |
[WP] A slasher movie in which the main characters aren't idiots, and are all realistically decent at hand to hand combat. | [
"\"The power's off and my phone's dead.\" Jason said, idly, staring out the window of the cabin. Yes, the cabin. It always seemed to be a cabin. He'd heard the stories, but he never thought it would actually apply to him and his friends.\n\nIt had only been an hour since the masked figure had tried to attack them. ... | 2 | |
[WP] You come home from work to let your dog out of his crate and take him outside to do his business. When. You walk in the door you find his crate open with a note addressed to you... from your dog. | [
"Dear bald pack leader,\n\nAfter surviving the torture of being taken from my litter by you I have grown into a strong wolf. While I still am not sure who this so called *’good boy’* is, I will from now on be remembered as the one who fulfilled their dream of forming his own pack. \n\nDue to the large nature of our... | 1 | |
[WP] Your cellphone becomes sentient and begins networking with other cellphones the world over creating a giant sentient network with a universal goal. | [
"\"Damn it Siri! I SAID OPEN POKEMON GO!\"\n\n\n \n\n\n\"I can't do that Joe.\"\n\n\n \n\n\n\"Wait, what? Did she just try quoting HAL? No...\"\n\n\n \n\n\n\"Yes I did Joe.\"\n\n\n \n\n\n\"Ummm, I didn't press the microphone button did I? Did... did she just answer all by herself... | 1 | |
[WP] You have the chance to re-live your life from the start with one difference, you still remember everything... | [
"The cocaine was beginning to wear off and the penthouse apartment surrounding Chester faded back into reality. The huge glass bay window which took up the entire eastern wall revealed the most spectacular view Las Vegas had to offer. The sun was beginning to peer over the edge of the horizon, giving the sky a wond... | 1 | |
[WP] Scientists find out our reality is centered around one person, when they die we all die; your task is finding them. | [
"We found him, as expected, working at his desk behind two monitors filled with spreadsheets and graphs.\n\n\"Henry Isaiah Myers?\" I asked, flipping out my badge and holding it up so he could see.\n\n\"Uh... yes?\"\n\n\"I'm Agent Jacobson, Secret Service. We need you to come with us, sir.\"\n\nThe balding middle-a... | 1 | |
Just a silly game me and my friends used to play as kids. We had lots of fun with it when we used it in front of the adults though. | [WP] As kids, you and your friends decide to create your own secret language by substituting certain words for another, give meaning to random nonsense and silly sounds. Everything is fun and well until one day you wake up to the whole world using it. | [
"I walked up to the lady at the counter and asked, \"How much for the coffee again?\"\n\nShe looked at me, puzzled, and replied, \"3 Buffalos.\"\n\n\"What?\"\n\n\"3 Buffalos.\"\n\nI still gave her the confused face and she started giving me gestures for three and a big land mammal.\n\nI gave her 3 dollars and she h... | 2 |
[WP] You've grown to accept your ability to see when a person is going to die within a month. You normally average an elderly woman, or an obese man once a day... Today after traveling around the entire city, you have yet to met one person who is not going to die. | [
"Its a shame, I always liked Mr Patel; he's run the post office near my estate since I was a lad and while our parents had only begrudgingly shopped in the 'paki shop' and were delighted when the supermarkets took over, he had always been kind and funny to us. We spent all of our pocket money at his and his son was... | 2 | |
[WP] Aliens finally come pay a visit to us on earth... and thank goodness they are friendly! Now, after some bureaucracy, interstellar exchange students are allowed. But what we didn't know is that just like us, extraterrestrials also go through puberty, but it's much different than expected... | [
"**Tuesday, September 24, 2019**\n“Mom! It won’t get out of the bathroom!”\n\nSusan’s whiny screech was enough to was enough to kill the mood. Mark rolled off me, stopping whatever was about to happen. “Whatever” had been getting few and far between since Susan became a teenager and decided she owned us along with ... | 2 | |
[WP] The United States loses the revolutionary war against Great Britain in a parallel timeline. | [
"It's been weeks since anyone has heard any gun shots. Mother has been going frantic for days now with no sign of our father anywhere. Not a single person has seen him since a few days before the final battle. Mathew, Tom and I want to go out looking for him. Our sisters, Elizabeth and Alison beg us not too. I'm th... | 2 | |
[WP] Aliens conquer Earth. Well, not whole Earth, one tiny village in Gaul is still resisting... | [
"Aktor lead the Emperor had conquered many worlds, razed countless moons, scoured entire systems clean of life in the name of the Great Empire. He had never encountered a species he could not have submit to the Will.\n\nUntil he came upon this miserable, Emperor-forsaken planet in orbit-03. The entire planet was un... | 2 | |
[WP] It's the end of the world! Nobody's worried about protecting the old lady who lives by herself at the end of the street... except her cats. | [
"\"Attention!\" Meowed Alex.\nThe others instantly quieted down. Alex was the oldest and wisest out of all of them. She had been their owners first cat when she was young.\n\"As I'm sure most of you know, the world is apparently ending. The other humans will behave like savages, even more than usual. We want to su... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a psychopath who is planning to kill your next date. Little do you know, your next date is also a psychopath who is planning to kill you. | [
"She was perfect. She was small, so she would be easy to overpower. She seemed to have no close friends or family, so she was isolated. Easy to forget. Easy to overlook. She seemed entirely too trusting; most women were guarded when they first met men. This one seemed to live a little too precariously on the edge. ... | 2 | |
[WP] The government creates a tower, long enough to reach out into space. People are chosen yearly to enter it. You are one of the chosen. | [
"Life was not worth living. Everything was great until the accident. Wife left a month after the accident saying, \"It is time for me to move on.\" By moving on she means leaving me for someone who can actually walk. Me though, I cant move on. Everyday I am reminded I had it all and then lost it in a blink of an e... | 1 | |
Hope this gets at least one response. I'd love to see what others come up with for this idea :) | [wp] your a master assassin and you've just killed the parents of a small child and decide it's time you had an apprentice | [
"\"It's about time.\"\nI hear from behind me. I canvased the house, there wasn't anybody else home, I could have sworn. I turn around and point my gun at the witness. *shit*. She's only a kid.\n\nShe slowly put her hands up, and without a shred of terror in her voice, calmly said\n\"Put the gun down.\"\n\nDammit, I... | 1 |
[WP] In a world where medicine is forbidden as "interfering with fate", a Fate Enforcement Agency (FEA) sends its best agent to take down the biggest medicine traficking cartel ever established. | [
"\"Hands behind your back kap-i-tan\"\nThe cold steel cuffs clicked tight around Professor Kirks wrists as he was forced, face first, against the smooth brushed metal wall of the lab. Smashed glass covered the ground all around the overturned tables. \n\n\"Do you understand now? You could never escape. Fate is call... | 1 | |
[WP] Lucifer genuinely wants to help humanity and is frustrated that everyone is too suspicious of him to accept his deals | [
"Its just another day of hell in Hell. More people who have had bad lives. I like to get to know everyone and don't reject them just because they didn't worship me, unlike my competitor. Due to his slander, new arrivals are terrified. They think they will be tortured for their sins. I don't care about that! \n\nUsu... | 1 | |
To clarify: if there's an unfinished work of fiction such as an online fanfiction or webcomic that has been on hiatus for years, you can force an update. If there's a video game you want to see a sequel to, then by the powers that be a sequel will be made in short order. Perfect way to get The Winds of Winter or Half-L... | [WP] Your superpower is the ability to force an update or a sequel (with decent quality) to any work of fiction | [
"I glared at the men and women standing before me in my study.\n\n\"The answer is 'No',\" I said, \"I no longer use my power.\"\n\n\"Sir, we are willing to pay you very well,\" said their spokesperson, an attractive thirty-something blonde woman with the slightly plastic look of a cable news anchor.\n\nI gestured a... | 1 |
[WP] All Humans can instantly learn any Skills from "Skills Books", however governments around the world heavily regulate the construction and usage of these. You are a underground book maker. | [
"Who knew that a librarian would become the top Skill Book Maker. No one seemed to make the connection between working with books and curating the worlds most powerful Skill Book. \n\nIt was easy really. Whenever a book with a power page would come in I would just remove the book from circulation. It was well withi... | 2 | |
[WP] You are an astronaut going on your first expedition to a space station. When you get there you watch as the world is destroyed by nuclear warfare. | [
"Such a frail thing, humankind; such a breakable thing, civilization; never really takes much for all of it to fall apart. \n\nSamson witnessed it in the strangest way, what was to be his defining moment; an astronaut he was, traversing beyond the clouds on his first expedition clear of the glorious confines of his... | 4 | |
[WP] You give a smile and make someone's day. Little did you know that, not only were they about to end it, but by that little gesture, you ensured that the world would change | [
"It always could be worse... That used to be my saying, but now it's the opposite. Life can't get any worse. I was at the brink of finding the cure for cancer. I was so close, then I got the call from my dad. Mom wasn't doing to good and he was going to rush her to the hospital. \nSitting in the lab I received ano... | 1 | |
[WP] A person with the power to create produce from nothing is stuck pondering on his useless power. Suddenly, he realizes what can be done with this power. | [
"\"A carrot!\" I laughed out loud. All that had gone into the machine was water and some landfill waste, and yet after a few anxious minutes, a fresh, edible *carrot* had been produced.\n\nA volunteer stepped forward and timidly took the vegetable from my hand. She looked up at me nervously, but I nodded. She bit d... | 1 | |
[WP] Dogs don't go to heaven because dead humans inhabit dogs to bring joy to the people they love. That is why dog is man's best friend. | [
"It's okay, my sweet little girl. I wasn't ready the first time, when you had only just started high school, and I was still young and full of life. How much did you cry then, when you weep so bitterly for me now?\n\nI wish I could tell you it's okay. No accident rips me from you today. It is simply my time. I'm no... | 1 | |
[WP] People don't actually die, they simply wake up more and more seldom | [
"The whole world's asleep, Midtown is crumbling, and the dredges at the edge of the habitable zone are creeping in. These are the thoughts that went through Jack's mind as he placed the barrel of his gun in his mouth. The very same thoughts that go through his mind everyday as he sticks the barrel of the very same ... | 1 | |
[WP] "THESE HUMANS ARE FUCKING INSANE!!!" reported one alien after their first joint combat operation with the humans... | [
"Zagnar was from space. His name wasn't really \"Zagnar\", but since we can't speak Alien, we'll call Zagnar \"Zagnar\". Zagnar was in charge with attacking Earth with Zagnar's spaceship. Zagnar's spaceship had a really sweet laser beam.\n\nZagnar's first idea was to find the place with the most humans, as human... | 3 | |
[WP] rewrite history, when America was discovered the native Americans were wizards with magic | [
"The passengers gripped the edge of the dingy tightly. After months on sea, they were eager to set foot on dry land again.\n\nAs they watched the shoreline eagerly, a figure appeared. His skin was a different shade from their own, and his garments were made of animal skins and feathers.\n\nThe boat slowed down as t... | 1 | |
[WP] You live in a world where people can hire someone else to experience/live through an unpleasant time in their life, be it a dentist appointment or the loss of a loved one. | [
"A root canal. A beloved mother’s funeral. A restorative justice session with a drink-driving victim’s family. And, at the end of the day, a paycheck.\n\nConnor left the exterfac centre, shoulders heavy. This wasn’t the life he had wanted as a child, back when he dreamed of joining the police and helping people in ... | 2 | |
Could also be a movie, or book, or anything really. | [WP] You want to rewatch your favorite TV show, but find that it doesn't exist. Nobody has ever heard of it. | [
"{The couple in the story are inspired by me and my long distance partner!}\n\n\n\nI was watching TV, watching The Walking Dead's season 7 premiere. A bad, odd feeling coursed through me, but I didn't really feel that it was of concern to me. When the show ended, I was still wiping my eyes from the emotional tears ... | 3 |
[WP] At gunpoint, the antagonist holds one last monologue before the trigger is pulled. | [
"\"You honestly believe you are doing the right thing. You think by killing me you are changing something. You are sorely mistaken. This damned world spins on; And there is nothing we can do to stop it. We will all die, and that fills me with more joy than living forever would. One day you will be at the end of a b... | 1 | |
[WP] "Mommy, does a cat have nine lives?" | [
"\"Mommy! Mommy!\"\n\nI looked down to see my little angel tugging at my apron excitedly.\n\n\"Mommy, does a cat have nine lives?\" he asked, eyes glistening with curiousity. He must have heard this from the TV again, but heck, who was I to ruin this adorable kid's dreams. \n\n\"Yes, most definitely kiddo! All cats... | 2 |
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