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	[WP] The stranger sitting next to you waiting for the bus asks, "So- what's REALLY bothering you"?	[ "\"Good question\" I replied. \"You see, I have been riding this same bus to work for 8 years, and the traffic gets worse every year. What used to be a 35 minute ride now takes close to an hour. I wish that some of these people would find somewhere else to live, or maybe take the train or something instead.\". ...	3
	[WP] A man can stop time at will. One day he freezes time but sees someone else moving.	[ "It was a wisp in the corner of my eye. Just a flicker. That sort of thing where it's normally a fleck of dust passing by but you think it's a person, or a shifting shadow to the wind. A trick of refracting light. But you see, that's the thing.\n\nWhen time's stopped, there are no shifting shadows.\n\nI'll be hones...	2
	[WP]Everytime a man kills someone, he saves the lives of ten others.	[ "The morality of the Church of the Greater Good was a controversy amongst modern society. The leader of the group was Father Foster. A man who had preached consequential philosophies for his entire life, but only after a recent display has gained equal levels of praise and criticism. Some call it a hoax but the maj...	3
	[WP] Where do the gods go when they die?	[ "My aeons in this plane cease. I leave this body & my endless dominion for a greater task. It is true that I, Ruler of the Void & the Stars, lay dying. The one you called Horus is to fault. In the coming Age, I will emerge. My presence will go unfelt by the masses as I return the Void That Was, the formless...	3
	[WP] It's the future. After brain-machine interfaces, came brain-to-brain interfaces, and true hive minds began to appear and permeate society. 99.9% of them are completely harmless. But every few years, an anomaly occurs...	[ "Unofficially they were known as ‘Stutter-Bugs’ since they were a glitch, like a stutter, in the collective that would cause it to blow the fuses in the brain, shutting everything down. This lead to one of two possible scenarios: everyone went unconscious, or everything devolved into some sort of cannibal love-fest...	2
	[WP] The only way to survive is break your morals or personal values, what do you do?	[ "“As soon as it turns dark, we’ll strike.” Like a military captain I bark orders to my soldiers, my tired younger brother and my sleepy little sister. “You” I loudly whispered while pointing to my sister, “Gather any empty pots, pans, and jugs you can find.” “You unscrew and unravel our garden snake green hose,” I ...	3
	[WP] You live in a society where there is no crime, and doors are left unlocked. Constant monitoring, CCTV, and swift prosecution makes successful crime impossible. Until the day you forget to pay for something at the store, and nobody notices except for you...	[ " I stumbled into the nearest corner store I could find, disoriented from a lack of sleep caused by the pressure of school finals, I hear the small \"ding\" of the bell greet me as I passed through the door and kept my head down when I passed by the automated store clerk. I knew I wasn't guilty of anything, but wh...	2
	[WP] You're grades are failing and the only way you can pass the class is by cheating on the final. However, the school you attend is renowned to be the school where no cheater has ever gotten away.	[ "11:58. He had been staring at the white, prison-like clock hanging above the whiteboard for a while now. His leg was shaking - a nervous twitch he had. The instructor was having a final look at his papers, nodding her head as if she was pleased with the work she was about to hand out. Slowly, the clock was ticking...	3
	[WP] Scientists can bring back from the dead one person per year who died in the last 500 years. The choice is made by public vote and almost always predictable... until now.	[ "After fifteen years of rejuvenation technology hitting its peak, many of the obvious candidates were already rebirthed. George Washington was already six years old, Ghandhi was beginning puberty, and Nikolai Tesla was teething. Everything was working well, and people were more optimistic than ever before about the...	2
	[WP] Modern day Soldiers are on the front-lines of first contact for an alien invasion of Earth. Many soldiers don't know what they are facing. When, through the fog of war, a battalion of Storm-troopers appear.	[ "When the ships appeared in the sky we had no warning. It wasn't quite like the movies. They didn't just attack the United States, or go after the landmarks like Big Ben and the Eiffel tower. They went after New york yeah, but only because of its size. In fact they targeted based on largest populations, so the firs...	2
	[WP] A philanthropic alien gives an Ironman-like suit to a potential hero... but it has a finite power source. Write the story of the hero who has to say, "No" a lot so he can help when it really matters.	[ "It was December 22nd. It was a snowy evening, nearing night. I had been driving through the plains of the Midwest, to visit my family at their farm, and was pleasantly surprised to find it lightly snowing. I had bent to turn on my windshield wipers, when I saw it on the edge of my vision - a streak of light, brigh...	2
	[WP] A large force finally attacks the U.S., but they make one major mistake, they begin in the South, who just ain't gonna be puttin up with none a' this.	[ " Orval ran to his basement as fast as he could. He was not going to be the last person the shoot a Russian that day. What the hell possessed them to invade the most heavily armed civilian population in the world with only assault rifles and light armored vehicles, he had no idea. All he knew was he would finall...	5
How bad the Earth is ruined and where/who/how many are imprisoned is up to you, as well what the rest of humanity is up to.	[WP] Humanity has spread out into the solar system via means of quick, sub-light speed travel. Whats left of the shattered, toxic ruins of Earth have become a penal colony. Write a story about the colony.	[ "His chews are obnoxious, with every crunch and swallow grating on my ears. He's oblivious to this, of course, and stares out the window once again.\n\nI continue reading. I don't know what the book is called. The cover's been torn off along with the publication pages. It's about a bunch of people hunting this thi...	2
	[WP] Tell me the story of the death of the last human.	[ "Day 289: The female has succumb to her mental state, taking her own life in the night. She scratched her hands against the wall until she was rubbing bone on brick. It was using her ensuing compound fractures in her hands that she that she sliced her throat with. Clean up was a hassle but required if we need to ke...	5
	[WP] You have won the planet Earth in the 265th annual Inter-Galactic lottery. You have studied Earth's customs for the last 5 years, and today you must address the Earthen leaders and explain why you now own their planet.	[ "The gray Honda Civic weaved in and out of traffic and came screeching to a halt in front of the United Nations Building in New York City. I hopped out of the car and raced up the steps to the front door of the building, tightly clutching a piece of paper in my left hand. I was dressed in a black suit and had on a ...	3
	[WP]Staring at the night sky, you notice an oddly twinkling star. It's like it's trying to say something to you	[ "There I lay upon the ground,\n\nLooking up onto the sky,\n\nListening as I hear a sound,\n\nA star asking me if I can fly.\n\nI rest my beer next to me,\n\nAs I think I may be smashed,\n\nThere are no people around whom I can see,\n\nFuck it, I must be trashed.\n\nThen I hear this voice again,\n\...	2
I've always loved the idea of being able to stop time. It's not time travel but you can do whatever you want for however long you want and you won't lose any time.	[WP] A person that has been able to stop time and do whatever he wants while everyone is frozen does so again while he is sitting on a park bench but the person next to him does not freeze.	[ "Alex was starting to feel hungry. The bagel he had for lunch didn’t quite fill him up and he decided he wanted something more, something a little sweeter. But what? He scanned around the park for options. From where he sat he could see a crepe stall, a hot dog stall and an ice cream van. Ice cream! Perfect! An ice...	3
	[WP] NASA astronomers have confirmed that an asteroid is going to impact the earth in less than 24 hours. You are a Fox News anchor covering the story.	[ " \"Good evening ladies and gentleman and welcome to fox news, in tonight's top story: Will Taylor Swift co-star in the new movie about spousal abuse?\n\nHere's the story with our lead anchor Bill Whitey:\"\n\n \"Bill Whitey here, and yes, rumors seem to be circulating around the web about Taylor Swifts possible ro...	2
	[WP] What if every night you have a dream about the events that will happen the following day.	[ "The car flew through the window and out to the street below. The beautiful brunette with emerald earrings reached under the steering wheel and pulled out a grenade. She pulled the pin and handed it to me.\"Make it count, babe!\" \n\"A grenade? What the heck am I sup--\" A huge roar erupted from behind us. I poked ...	2
Or alternatively, the person who killed your husband.	[WP] Your relationship with the person who killed your father.	[ "Would you call it a relationship? I used to think so. I often imagined if things were different. If we'd had our chance encounter in a coffee shop instead, our eyes meeting for the first time over the display cases filled with sweets, appraising each other like two predators. He's always the lion to my lioness in ...	3
	[WP] You have a gun that makes everyone's deepest, darkest fears real. You walk into a mental institution.	[ "You still remember, don't you, when they put me in your head? Panting, sweating, clammy hands. And the screaming.\n\nGod, the screaming was the worst. Not your screaming, no. When they were in the room with you, you knew what was happening and you could deal with it, but not knowing... not knowing what was next wa...	13
[Pic from /r/funny front page](http://i.imgur.com/ljVB5L5.jpg)	[WP] The year is 2242 all computer systems have been corrupted by an alien introduced virus. Man kind's last hope is a floppy disk with windows 3.1 on it.	[ "I carefully remove the disk from the holder then ponder...what exactly is a floppy drive? \n\nEight hours later, the replicator completes the new 360K drive and I try to insert the floppy into the slot. This is a much smaller floppy. Eight hours later, the replicator completes the new 720K drive and I insert th...	2
	[WP] Karma is real, but reversed; when you do good, bad things happen to you and vice versa.	[ "I watched her struggle across the road. I was frozen. I could so easily help, but was it worth it? I winced as I considered the possibilities. \n\nShe tripped.\n\nA threshold was overcome, a barrier breached. It was too much to keep me back any longer. I rushed forward, offering a hand.\n\n\"Please let me help you...	2
It can be anger, happiness, sorrow, etc. Something meaningful.	[WP] Write something that will make me feel an emotion.	[ "Hey OP. I think I may have come off a bit rude before. I just wanted to let you know that, whatever I may have said about the prompt, I think it is actually profoundly interesting. It asks us to make you feel \"an emotion\". An emotion.\n\nYou've asked us to distill a story to a pure center. A singular emotion...	2
	[WP] Two men are pointing their guns at you, while a third man is pointing his gun at a hostage. You only have two bullets left.	[ "\"It wasn't supposed to end like this!\"\n\nI stare at Desi's pleading amber eyes, brimming with tears of fright. She is too smart to think that I will scheme our way out of this one, but no one is beyond hope. For a second, her gaze brings me back to a more pleasant time, when we shared the glow of the dawn. Her ...	1
	[WP] Tell me of a time that an unstoppable force met an immovable object.	[ "His first nickname was Dr. J. Then the kids heard about Julius Erving. Their parents were old enough to remember. So there was already a Dr. J and everyone knows the coolest nicknames can only belong to one. This one needed the coolest nickname ever and I happened to agree.\n\nThey considered the other options. Fo...	2
	[WP] A rare coma experience allowed one man to think for "a million years", though only one day passed on earth. He just woke up.	[ "My name is James Stanley.\n\nDo you know what it's like, to face the darkness? Have you ever stood in the depths of a cave, light extinguished, and held your breath? For a brief moment, it feels like you don't exist at all.\n\nAnd yet, somehow, it continues. \n\nWhat happened to me? How did I get here? I try to th...	9
	[WP] Humanity finally creates the first time machine. The moment the last piece is set in place, the door opens and someone who wasn't in there a moment ago steps out.	[ "Police Chief Wells rubbed her temples with her hands, unsuccessfully trying to massage away the throbbing pain. \"Give me the rundown on the Moinet murder,\" she heard herself say. She'd tried to read it herself but it gave her a headache. It was too late on a Friday to deal with this.\n\nThe detective gave his t...	3
This one is inspired by a TIL I came across today. I thought it would make one hell of a writing prompt.	[WP] There is a radio signal that has been broadcasting a repeating buzzing sound. One day you're listening and you hear: "Command 135 initiated"	[ "You are this cia agent listening to Russia broadcast radio over the years, for those years you just hear buzzing sound then one day you hear a \"Command 135 initiated\" then things become different people started acting weird, you call your friend and they weren't answering, as it turns out it was an activation co...	2
	[WP] You are sailing in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and discover something that should not be there.	[ "Harold and Patty had bought the sailboat from the Masons down the street. Harold drove by it every day on his way to and from work, buried under a tarp and plunked in the driveway like a pile of garbage. They lived nowhere near the water and Patty called it an eyesore, but Harold fantasized about painting it up an...	3
	[WP] A professional hitman is training an apprentice who recently failed at his one true passion, being a stand up comedian.	[ "\"Okay, watch,\" said the hitman as he steadied his rifle and put the target in the center.\n\n\"Looks like you got him! Go for it!\" Greg said. The excitement in his voice was palpable. Here finally is a job he could do, and no one could heckle him off the stage.\n\n\"Not yet,\" was all the hitman whispered witho...	2
	[WP] Tell us about how you encountered a lovecraftian horror at work today	[ "Something history doesn't tell you: Sneezing in just the right way opens a portal to hell. \n\nJust takes a little pepper, a cesear salad, and that little gasping moment of excitement when your wife tell you she's pregnant over dinner. \n\nI feel like that needs a little more story to it. Okay, so, it was dinner...	6
	[WP] In 2019, massive unrest sweeps across America. Its 2038, you're a history teacher...tasked with teaching the 2nd American Civil War.	[ "\"Alright class, quiet down.\"\n\nMr. Davis stands in the middle of the room, wearing Roman armour for one of his other classes. Kids finish their gossip and make their ways to open seats. Mr. Davis pulls a Trivial Pursuit card out of the card holder.\n\n\"Oh, how fitting,\" he mutters. \"Who was the President of ...	7
	[WP] In the middle of the night, you are woken by a tapping at your window: branches. You turn to go back to sleep, then remember: there is no tree there.	[ "A shovel in my hands. There was darkness. A dirt wall in front of me. I was only able to see a pin of light from up above shinning in front of me into the dirt wall surrounding me. I couldn't talk like my mouth was filled with water. My hands moved without my control. Even my thoughts floated in the air like my bo...	5
Either with other lifeforms or just humans. Be creative!	[WP] Write about a Sherlock Holmes adventure. But in space!	[ "It had been another dreary day on Baker Street, with the incessant rain so familiar to Londoners showing no sign of letting up. Holmes, of course, was putting in many hours of practice on his violin, as he claimed that the humidity levels were just right for a day of Shubert. He was in the midst of his fourth rend...	2
The Q fucked up and sent an Imperial Star Destroyer with Darth Vader in command (Instead of the Borg) to the Alpha Quadrant. How does Picard & the Enterprise deal with this new threat to galactic peace? This was inspired by this pic (http://www.dailyfailcenter.com/331050) I've read allot of the replies, and some of the technical comparisons, it's basically a David versus Goliath situation. The Star Destroyer is many times the size, and has vastly more armaments, power and sub-light top speed. Packed full of Fighters, Bombers and probably a expeditionary force of Strom Troopers, it's a frightening sight in Federation Space. The Enterprise is vastly more maneuverable, capable of employing short range defensive and offensive warp jumps, with longer range and far more accurate and advanced weapon systems. I'm curious to see what your minds can turn out in terms of an entertaining story. So many un-answered questions, can't wait to hear your take on it.	[WP] Imperial Star Destroyer battles USS Enterprise	[ "Here is some of the technical comparisons I was linked to from that picture in the original post. Have no way of verifying his numbers, but if the power output of the turbolasers is even half what he claims, Enterprise will feel those burns.....when they hit, won't be often with imperial troops behind the guns. It...	2
	[WP] Hitler is getting tired of time travellers coming to assassinate him, so he travels forward in time to kill the inventor of the time machine, who travels back in time to kill Hitler.	[ "Why do I drink? I drink because Hitler killed my father.\n\nNo no no I understand that Hitler offed himself over 300 years ago, it doesn't change the fact that he killed my dad last month.\n\nYou see my dad invented time travel, or at least he thought he did. He raved about it since I was a kid, worked on it every...	4
	[WP] You sit there and judge us? What the fuck could we have done any differently? You would have done the same thing.	[ "\"You sit there and judge us? God mom you would of smoked weed too if it was offered by Conor, like he's so hot. What the fuck mom!? I could of been like 'No my mom would be so mad at me if she found out.' Then he would of thought that I was not his type! You would of done the same thing, or maybe you wouldn't of...	3
	[WP] Waiting for your train, a homeless man is trying to desperately tell you something very important, but all he says sounds like total gibberish.	[ "You will meet a woman, \n\nCast in smoke, \n\nVeiled in dust.\n\nShe will tell you how to live,\n\nHow to die, \n\nHow to rust. \n\nWe will all rust, \n\nwe are machines of mother earth.\n\nWe will all die one day,\n\nWe will all rust. \n\n\nBret turned from the homeless man,\n\nStepped onto his train,\n\nDidn't u...	6
	[WP] One night, monsters start spawning Minecraft style in your neighborhood. Thing is, their behavior is exactly the same as the game AI. Describe the night.	[ "I look at my daughter nervously. \n\"What's going on, Dad?\" she asks. \n\"Nothing, hon,\" I reply.\nOutside, I see a sight that chills my blood. Creepers. Hundreds of them, milling about. Minecraft had been my obsession for many months, and I knew what creepers did. I knew what creepers were capable of. I didn't ...	2
	[WP] Trial by combat has been reinstated. The strength of your opponent is decided by the severity of your crime.	[ "They caught me stealing a pencil. Not a big crime. Nowadays we use trial by combat to settle everything; the strength of my opponent is decided by the severity of the crime. Since it wasn't a big crime, they put in a baby to be my opponent. \n\nFor trial by combat.\n\nAs I slew it, I wondered:\n\nWhat the hell d...	2
	[WP] A man in dirty robes enters the hall and rather harshly asks the king to uphold his promise. As his advisor you ask the stranger who he thinks he is to command a king. To your surprise you are interrupted by a very pale looking king.	[ "\"That's it you rat tailed piece of garbage. I upheld my end of the bargain- I let the people think you were calling the shots for four years. Now you can pay up.\"\n\nWho the hell did this man think he was? Certainly no peasant should be addressing the King in such a way. Dirty, tattered robes, greasy hair - This...	2
	[WP] - A new drug appears on the black market. It dilates time in the physical world so that a minute feels like an hour, but users process thoughts at normal speed.	[ "It was easy, really.\n\nI popped a pill in my mouth, and just began hitting each chapter taking notes as I read through. The pill really is as good as they say it is; everything sort of slows down, and the world takes on a new clarity.\n\nMy handwriting movements were a bit sluggish to respond to my thoughts, but ...	2
	[WP] Tell me how it feels to fall in love.	[ "\"I saw her in the distance, a sweet and charming girl,\n\nI saw her in the distance, her hair in raven curls.\n\nShe smiled as she saw me, and not a word said she,\n\nShe smiled as she left me, no longer was I free.\n\nMy heart no longer did I own, likewise my memory,\n\nAnd just as well my earthly needs, farewel...	9
That's not too confusing, is it?	[WP] Before one dies, they feel a patter of rain upon their head. You're out with friends with rays of sunshine upon your faces when a friend asks if anyone felt the rain just now.	[ "It was hot, far too hot to continue gardening in the summer heat like she always did in the morning. This heat was a sweltering breezeless heat and there wasn't much to be done about it. Aunt Nora sat by the window in her long calf length skirt and house shirt, tilting her head at the feel of any kind of relief. \...	4
	[WP] You've led a pretty normal life, but recent inconsistencies in your daily routine make you wonder if you're a Sim.	[ "For some reason, I just got up and got a drink. I wasn't thirsty, and I definitely didn't need a drink, so I don't know why I got up. I went to go sit back down, but then I went and baked a cake. I didn't know I could bake, and I wasn't hungry.\n\nI went to go sit down with my family, but all my family were outsid...	2
No detailed writing prompt here. I'm not going to write a story for you to flesh out. Let's see what's in your mind! In this one, let your anger flow through you.	[WP] Anger	[ "My first post! I've been lurking and finally I sat down. I want to do one prompt a week for a year (oh lord a tall order). I hope I can keep up. I'm practicing to write a novel, get the juices flowing. Constructive criticism is appreciated!\n\n\nMy anger now flows distinctively from a pill. The side-effects are su...	3
	[WP] 60 years in the future you're able to transfer your consciousness into a storage device waiting for technology to advance enough to have a medium to put it into. You regain consciousness to find yourself in a robotic unit set out at war against the Humans.	[ "Time has no meaning for the dead. \n\nThis is also true of the lifeless. Once the former, I suppose I am now the latter. I once was a man, and lived a normal man's life; was born, grew up, married and had children, grew old, and died. \n\nBetween the last two stages of my former life, I agreed to a procedure that ...	10
	[WP] Write a humorous story with the punch line: "Rectum? Damn near killed him!"	[ "\"Remember that prank with the screwdriver and the cantaloupe?\"\n\n\"A yes that was a great prank, Harry couldn't sit for a month after that.\"\n\n\"Well Linda and mike forgave him, but did Harry ever find out?\"\n\n\"Ye, he was pissed, it was all over the papers, Harry Rectum damn near killed him!\"", "The was...	3
	[WP] An old wizard explains to a young wizard why you can't just wear a magic ring on every finger. Include as much magic jargon as you can while still bei,g understandable.	[ "\"No, you fool! Your conflux is all wrong!\" The old wizard cleared his throat as he fumbled around with Arthur's rings, sliding them off one finger, on to another and re-arranging their positions, turning some upside-down.\n\n\"M... my... conflux?\" Arthur's puzzled look said more than his words could. He barely ...	4
	[WP] Killing people is an everyday thing. "Look mom, my first kill!"	[ "We were judges but more like teachers. Each kill needed a justification. Imagine a world of anarchy, we were the fine line between that. We sat at every murder, we sat behind mirrors knowing our next convict could be our murderer or victim. We were each predators but keepers of the peace. \n\n\"Stand forward, Citi...	4
	[WP] The monster is insisting that it's your future self	[ "What a tiring day it was today.\n\nThis was only the second time in my entire career as a police officer that I have gotten involved in an all-out car chase. Those thugs were tough. They put up a really good fight. I could have died in like 6 different instances today, but thank goodness I'm still alive. \n\nIt's ...	3
Write about how you decide to use these powers until your time eventually runs out.	[WP] You are diagnosed with lung cancer, with one year left to live. As you sulk alone, you somehow discover that it has given you superhuman abilities.	[ "I turned famous shortly in these few months, as I was the first and the only one who received super human strength when I was diagnosed with terminal illness, cancer, with one year left to live, and like everyone, I decide to spent it good, with my new found abilities that time.\n\nIt was an immensely satisfying e...	2
	[WP] Write a story that ends with a seemingly unsolvable situation. Let a commenter write the ending.	[ "I woke up. \n\nSeveral thousand feet above the ground. \n\nDammit, that's the last time I fall asleep in-flight. I searched frantically for a parachute pack, but nothing. Not even a wingsuit. There weren't other falling passengers to grab onto in an attempt to slow our descent. Heck, I didn't even have a giant b...	3
	[WP] Scientist have discovered a way to send people back in time. Unfortunately there is no way to return and the time period you'll be sent to is unknown. You have just volunteered to be the first human trial.	[ "The night I turned 18 was July 8th, 2015. Today, in a manner of speaking. My mom took me out to eat at Taco Bell. For most of our meal she maintained a solemn aloofness I couldnt quite identify from her menagerie of facial melancholia. Was this the one that meant I was in trouble? Was this the one that meant she w...	2
	[WP] In life, you sold your soul to as many entities as possible so that when you died they would have to fight each other for it.	[ "Dying takes forever.\n\nDon't get me wrong, all the farewells were touching--hell, some of them were even sincere. But when you've had cancer for as long as I've had, people just expect you to hurry up and go, so they can get on with their lives.\n\nFinally, the pain stopped. I sat up, stood out of bed, and turned...	2
	[WP] You're a veteran pro-wrestler facing off against new meat. The other guy suddenly veers wildly off script.	[ "\"Marty, good news. You're the main event tonight.\" My manager Paul said as he walked up beside me while I was working out at the gym.\n\nI turned off the treadmill, stepped down, and faced him. \"Main event...? Haha. What year is it? 2005?\"\n\nOh good old 2005...\n\nHere's the thing. I have been a professional ...	2
	[WP] An incessantly lucky person experiences misfortune for the first time	[ "I discovered my luck when I was eight years old. That is too early to figure out there’s something special about you. It gets you cocky. I wasn’t special in any measurable sense, but everyone who knew me understood what it was. I did too. Everyone called me lucky. I called myself lucky. It’s just how things went. ...	1
A quote from my own work, but just curious what stories others think of when they hear it without context.	[WP] "It was unsettling to know that they had been watching me the whole time, but I felt foolish for ever thinking that they weren’t."	[ "Why would they be watching me? Do they have a fetish for this type of thing? I sat there and pulled my phone out - best to ignore them. As I browsed reddit, I thought about the way my life had turned out. Overall it wasn't bad - little bedsit, enough money to live on if not go out much. No woman in my life, b...	4
	[WP] MCing. DJing. B-boying. Graffiti. Only the Avatar can master all four elements and bring balance to hip hop.	[ "\"What the fuck are we doin' here? The city is 20 miles back that way. You ain't goin' to find a B-boy master out in the boonies!\" D-Lish continued to yell over the wind from the Motorcycle's Sidecar. \n\n\"Do you see the guy on the right in the newspaper photo?\" D-Lish picked up the newspaper from the floor a...	3
	[WP]How did the crazy cat lady become the crazy cat lady?	[ "NOTE: Sorry if there's some spelling and grammatical errors, wanted to get this out before I left for the day.\n\nThe Cat Lady\n\nHe passed five years ago to the day, a stop and frisk gone wrong. Events aren't clear what transpired after the initial stop, but the end result was my baby on the ground, blood spurti...	3
Driving around picking up people for a living has it's perks. For example you work on your own time and you work for yourself. I don't have anybody telling me what to do, where to be and how I should behave during the day (or the night for that matter). The only exception to this is that I get instructed as to where to go. All my returns are a direct result of the hours I make myself to be available and the number of people I collect during the day. My client I just picked up is going to the airport: OR Tambo International. She was travelling to the USA, New York City on a business venture. How very exciting I get to interact with people from all different walks of life for my job! This particular woman however seemed unique in her own way. Travelling alone, with the intention to meet up with people attending an international event for entrepreneurs starting up startups, she was ambitious and enthusiastic. Wearing smart casual attire, formal enough to say “I mean business” to those she would be meeting but casual to the point that would convey “I'm also here to enjoy my trip overseas.” Her name was Sarah as the title displayed itself on my Uber screen. Being an Uber cab the transaction was efficient and hassle-free as most exchanges with my clients go. I helped her store and remove her one-piece luggage (travelling light was a good indication of her time being spent abroad and her affinity towards the nature of things to be simple and sweet), her choice of transport was aligned with her general aura.	[WP] You're a cab driver. Tell me about the person you just picked up.	[ "\"Don't worry Miss, I'm just taking a short-cut.\" I breathed out the words and loosened my collar button as I took a snow-white tissue paper out of a black box, and wiped the sweat on my neck -- in spite of the fact that the air-condition was chillingly cold. Fortunately, my dear passenger failed to notice my wav...	2
	[WP] Why must the drums never fall silent?	[ "I am an Inuvian, a drummer. Our race has many jobs, but the drummers are the closest things to Gods that we have, and now I am one. It is not just the highest honor because we are a society based on music and dancing, but because the drums must never, ever stop. \n\nThey'll come in the night, and make us stop danc...	2
	[WP] An explorer gets stranded in a place where anything edible is both intelligent and friendly.	[ "Sez could not see any ending in sight, just mountains and mountains around him and they all look the same. He's confident he's been going in circles for a good time now, he can see his own footprints. \nThe sun has disappeared behind the mountains, and the night started to creep from the other side, he needs to ca...	3
	[WP] A wood elf leaves the ancient forests of the north and finds himself in a modern day town with no knowledge of humans, their tongue, their ways, or their abilities.	[ "It was an average day for me and my friends today. Eat some pizza, skate around town, be complete goofballs... you know, the usual. We all got tired after a long session in the skatepark, so we decided to go home by the time the sun was already setting.\n\n\"Whoa! Guys! Check that guy out!\" Paul called for our at...	2
	[WP] Scientists have created the first artificial intelligence. However, the A.I. is that of an animal, not a human. Describe its "life".	[ "Dr. Brugger stares at the automaton. He holds a clipboard in his hand and writes down an occasional note regarding the behavior of the machine.\n\n\"Herr Brugger, It isn't responding to our stimuli like we expected.\" Another doctor says. \"Have we failed?\" Brugger peers up from his clipboard. His glasses reflect...	2
	[WP]Humans are evacuating planet Earth. Every One is boarded on the ship. You are the only one left behind because you somehow missed it. You are the last person on Earth as you watch mankind leave you behind. You have enough recourses to get you through your lifetime. What is your initial reaction?	[ "We all raced around, flies on a piece of rotting meat, eager to leave our mark. Or eat our fill. I dunno why flies do that. I'm not good with metaphors.\n\nAnyway, I guess somewhere along the line the meat got so spoilt even we couldn't stand it. So our great bug overlords set their crazy compound eyes on new hori...	5
	[WP] You're aboard the ISS conducting experiments on plant life, you decide to look out one of the windows to realize earth has just been hit with a 3 mile wide meteoroid.	[ "I provide no warranty as to the scientific and geographical accuracy of this post. The Hamspeak should mostly be correct however. See [this guide](http://www.amateur-radio-wiki.net/index.php?title=Codes_and_Alphabets) to help understand.\n\nThe crew of the ISS had been trained to handle disasters, but nothing of...	2
	[WP] The tree had been a sapling when you'd been here last.	[ "\"What the shit, why hasn't it grown yet?\"\n\n\"Because it's been, like, three days. You idiot.\" \n\n\"What part of 'miraculous growth' don't you understand?\"\n\n\"The part where you wasted twenty bucks on a dead twig.\"\n\nPaul leaned over and looked down at the small patch of dirt in his backyard. He'd read u...	4
	[WP]"Thank you for storing your mind with HeadSpace™!"	[ "> Thank you for storing your mind with HeadSpace! Thank you for storing your mind with storing your mind with storing your mind with only ten monthly payments of HeadSpace! Headsppppzzzzroat with heaaaaaaaaaaaa-\n\nThe turn of the century began with a speech, on a clean podium to a clean crowd living in a clean...	2
	[WP] You can unsubscribe from people, like you can unsubscribe from subreddits.	[ "Some people love me. Some despise me. Others are somewhere in between. But to everybody I say this:\n\nFuck you.\n\nThis is my life, and I don't need any of you. You're trying to scrape by a miserable existence but I, I am God! I am the master of creation and creativity! I am an artist and a genius! One day yo...	4
	[WP] You ran it a thousand times, all data confirms it. In 24 hours, an undetected asteroid will collide with the Earth. You just destroyed the evidence.	[ "May 4, 2018\n\nThe distant sound of the bombs creates a constant rhythm top harmonize with beeps and rings of my machines. With the large cooling fans making a constant whrr adding to the cacophony, it almost reminds me of the house jams I used to listen to. I used to go every weekend to the bars and raves t...	5
	[WP] My name is Adam. I have just woken from a nightmare that I cannot remember. Tell me what I dreamt.	[ "You dreamt that the world was cruel and unforgiving. \n\nYou dreamt that every day, thousands of people die needlessly.\n\nYou dreamt that countries fought each other for resources, resulting in the death of innocent people.\n\nYou dreamt of a world where children were forced to choose a job they would carry for t...	3
	[WP] - Something has been tailor made just for you, bring us through the moment and emotions experienced when you receive your completely custom item.	[ "already had something like this saved, never shared it though! :)\n\n\"Are you ready Cadet?\" \n\n\"Sir, I am Major, Sir\" Standing at attention, a slight grin comes to my lips... I can hardly contain the anticipation. Little does my commanding Major know; I've been waiting for this moment for a long time, my ...	4
	[WP] It is your first time in Las Vegas and first time gambling. To your surprise gambling is actually really easy. You haven't lost and you've been playing for a whole day.	[ "I couldn't believe my luck! Neither could the people around me. The dealer had begun to watch me for minutes at a time. I was sure that I would be asked to leave any second. I new I should cash out but this money was much needed. I haven't been in many Casinos and I had no idea how much money I had made. I think i...	4
	[WP] The entire world is infected with a virus that causes death on sleeping. Tell me about the coffee trade.	[ "Humanity had 100 years left. Tops. Death by sleep meant that there would be no new generations. Simply couldn't stop babies from sleeping. \n\nEven then, you could only stay up so long. Eventually you would simply wear out. Most people accepted it. Fell asleep in the arms of a loved one. It was peaceful. Not a bad...	2
	[WP] 5 years ago Atlantis remerged in the atlantic ocean with all it's citizens still alive. Today Poseiden attends his first UN meeting on behalf of Atlantis	[ "People thought the beginning was chaos. That was not chaos, merely talk! Military was there almost as soon as it popped up, UN thought itself in chaos an hour later; regular people found out soon enough. \nThe real chaos began when the roof was torn off and bright sunshine poured over the assembled leaders and se...	3
[info on his military career](http://www.military.com/veteran-jobs/career-advice/military-transition/famous-veteran-bob-ross.html)	[WP] Bob Ross snaps, and dips back into his old military training to deal with the problem.	[ "It was time for his first deployment. Having grown tired of his painting, Robert decided to re-enlist in the military and go back to the world which inspired him to paint in the first place. He clutched the grip of his rifle as he and his squadron advanced on the enemy, crouching in the shadows so that they wouldn...	2
	[WP] "You go to heaven for the climate, but you go to hell for the company."	[ "You didn't know exactly how to describe it, but the ritual of waking up every Sunday morning, instead of suffering the hangover your friends endured, had finally come to fruition. You tried to sway them from their ways, but they were convinced, with absolute volition, that you were following a fairy tale. \n\nHere...	1
	[WP] There is a place where the worst of humanity are kept. 4 miles down, 5000 guards, 500 prisoners, 1 way in, 1 way out. Welcome to Facility V, codename "Hell".	[ "When news finally reached my department it was already too late. At some point during the previous shift, certain areas had begun to lose power to their security systems, specifically levels Seven, Eight, and Nine. We were all assured that it was a technical malfunction, and to continue our shifts as normal. I'm n...	5
	[WP] A group of scientists accidentally discover that all humans are infected with a never before seen parasite. Killing the parasites causes unexpected results.	[ "\"And this should just about... do it, yes!\" The miscroscopic laser scalpel deactivated, and the miniscule worm's central nervous system showed signs of shutting down. Of course, this was only visible because of extremely advanced medical equipment that had recently been invented.\n\nThe surgery was highly cont...	2
	[WP] The Grim Reaper is put on trial for his hand in the death of 100+ billion humans	[ "\"100 billion deaths. Really? Your record keeping is inept as always.\" Then it chuckled, as it sat back in the chair. The form of this being was a mass of clouds that took on a shape of a being and its position now: a being that could care less as it sat back, one leg hanging over the arm rest another propped on ...	9
	[WP]Make me hate Harry Potter and support He Who Shall Not Be Named	[ "First, there was nothing but pain, blinding, searing pain.\nThen came the darkness - and with it an agony so terrible it seemed to tear at his very soul. All time was lost, and all that could be remembered was a green flash of light, and before it, someone who had been - but was no longer. Weak, powerless, feeble....	2
	[WP] Tomorrow is Sunday	[ "I'm trying to write my story, a history of my living, but all the words come out wrong. Blood is on my fingertips; I can't evade its presence. I mean, I guess- I was a little rude to a few sad kids yesterday, but really its all their fault. Really it could have just been anyone. Cause you see the real problem- the...	2
	[WP] A day in the life of someone who lives in the cursed black and white world of infomercials where everything goes wrong all of the time.	[ "I awake with a jump, glancing over at my alarm clock to see how late I'm running since that alarm I set never went off. Heaving a heavy sigh, I sit up and attempt to get out of bed, becoming tangled in the sheets and falling to the floor crumpled up in the ball of bed spread. I untangle myself, wrenching my limbs ...	4
Feel free to do whatever with the human's decisions, enslave everyone, colonize, disaster relief, etc. I look forward to your posts!	[WP] Humanity is not alone in the universe, but they are "Late to the party", arriving at the waning end of an intergalactic war leaving the galaxy in ruins.	[ "Captain Grear watched the reports streaming in from the probes with a defeated look. Another dead planet. Humanity had finally broken free of the solar system and now looked for new worlds to colonize but all they could find were dead ones. The worlds scarred by large craters, presumed to be from anti-matter warhe...	9
	[WP] Start a story with "We have to kill the boy!"	[ "“We have to kill the boy!” Mark declared in exasperation, pacing the room and occasionally returning my glare. The rest of the survivors looked down at their laps, or pretended to be otherwise occupied. Everyone wanted to watch this scene pan out, but no one wanted to play a part. Not a single person would hold my...	4
	[WP] As long as you can remember, you've had a small 49 tattooed on the back of your shoulder. Today you learned why.	[ "As the door of my cell opened and the light poured in, I prepared myself to die. They had kept me there for weeks, giving me just enough food to survive. They didn't kill me, although now I wish that They did. I was muzzled and hauled into another pitch black room with 99 other people. It was hours before They fin...	2
	[WP] Hitler slips past security and sneaks into Heaven. Everything goes into lock-down and God assembles his security advisers.	[ "'Jesuuuuusss!'\n\n'Yes....dd..aa...dd', mumbled Jesus in reply. He hadn't seen his father so angry since he snuck out for a night on earth and had ended up being captured by the Romans and nailed to a cross. \nGod's eyes narrowed as he struggled to compose himself. 'Did I, or did I not put you in charge of securit...	2
	[WP] After spending years in college studying to get your law degree, you are now a brand new lawyer and you've been hired by Satan himself to be his defense attorney. You are now, quite literally, the devil's advocate.	[ "\"This is Satan?\" \n\n\"Yes, Mr. Ronalds.\"\n\n\"Then I quit.\" \n\n\"You cannot do that.\" \n\n\"Yes I can. I quit. I have a right to quit.\"\n\n\"If you win, Douglas, then you will be rich. You will have won against God. Or the Mouthpiece of--\" \n\n\"You think I care, Emily? I practice family law. I wanted to ...	3
	[WP] Humanity has left the earth but their gods cannot	[ "Today I descend from my lofty pedestal and venture out into a world I care deeply for, yet but distantly recall. Past events have afforded me this luxury, as before my children had left me, I could not traverse this land I created so long ago. Although limited, the constant devotion, undying and sincere, was enou...	1
	[WP] One night, a man drinks alone on a rooftop, and see another person walk to the edge.	[ "I enjoyed being on the roof of my apartment building. No one ever seemed to come up here making it the perfect place to escape from the hustle and bustle of city life. Plus, the breeze up here actually smelled fresh unlike the streets did, saturated with the sweat of workers and the stench of industry gone bad. \n...	2
	[WP] As you begin to leave the basement, someone says "No, wait, don't leave me here..."	[ "\"No, wait, don't leave me here...\"\n\nI knew it. I turned around and spoke:\n\n\"But I have to, it's the only way.\"\n\n\"Why?\"\n\n\"You know why. There's people in there, and if I let you out, they'll know. And I can't let that happen.\"\n\nIt hasn't changed in years down here. Just boxes. most of them unopene...	2
	[WP] A story that gets darker and more intense each time you read it.	[ "It began with a prompt. A simple writing prompt designed with the intent to scare or frighten the reader. Harmless enough right? So I began. I wrote a tale of some hapless reader coming along and reading through comments on such a prompt hoping for something that might actually reach out to them and touch them...	4
	[WP] Almost all of humanity has suddenly gained superpowers due to reasons unknown. You're one of the few exceptions, and have remained powerless.	[ "The sun shined in through the opening of the tent. I turned over in my bed roll and heard a radio news station playing faintly in the background. On the other side of the tent I found the other bed rolls empty.\n\nI suppose now would be a good time to get up.\n\nOutside the tent my younger brother Jason, his girlf...	2
	[WP] In the city of Tirus, September is always a month of 30 days of heavy nonstop rain. Write a story about preparations made in August.	[ "Tirus had begun as a city of refugees and malcontents. Uncertain populations wary of the ever blurring lines between man and machine, longing for past days lived in the mundane reality outside of cyber space, seeking an end to eugenics, wanting a return to the spirit of exploration before mankind drew itself back ...	3
	[WP] A lifetime of discipline forsaken in a single moment.	[ "\"Gather around my little dragons.\"\n\nNing Wu watched his brothers and sisters take seats upon the cushions in front of their instructor, Magister Loodrumm. He was old, very old, perhaps as old as the Emperor himself. That is what the other children said at least. Ning Wu looked at the other children, he was ...	2
	[WP] She doesn't know you're talking about her	[ "I can’t believe I left the head phones and food behind. I was in a rush, but that’s no excuse. I don’t know which I was more upset about; a two hour train ride without music or a movie? That’s horrible. But I was damn hungry, too. I’d been working all day feeding others, with no time to feed myself. Strange how th...	3
	[WP] The universe shatters leaving you the only human survivor amongst (mostly) dead ruins of countless worlds.	[ "I look around seeing a destroyed universe, countless have died in the aftermath.\n\nI look around to see no one else, just me. I get a sense of loneliness. \n\nI was born and raised by 2 good people, I didn't go to school but I heard horror stories of that place. My parents taught me how to read and write and the ...	1
	[WP] Write a story that ends with "And then I died.".	[ "Alright, 5 years ahead, I got a phone call and it was a deep voice saying not to go outside. I did and I found a box, so I opened it. In the box, there was a peice of paper from the Death Note that had my name on it. And then I died.", "It all started one particularly brutal winter. The whole town was frozen sol...	6

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