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[WP] Aliens invade Earth, but just wanted to say they moved into the planet next door and wanted to introduce themselves to the solar system | [
"Giant purple space ships had screamed into orbit around Mars so fast that the interplanetary scanner, who was intent on a salad dressing stain on the crotch of his pants, wondering and hoping that people would recognize it as such and give him a free pass, completely missed them for 5 minutes. \n\nBy the time the ... | 2 | |
[WP] Heaven and Hell's first ever joint operation. The objective is to make sure you never die. | [
"My first prompt. I know I'm no /u/Luna_Lovewell, but please be gentle.\n\n\nI sat with the revolver in my hand, carefully loading six bullets. This is it. The end. I pulled the trigger, and my vision turned white.\n\n *Is this death?* No. I felt just fine. Well, I guess I'm not dead then. That's a shame.\n\nI star... | 1 | |
[WP] Every eight years a thick fog descends down the mountain and kills all crops in your village. The only way to stop the fog is for someone to enter the cave at the mountain's peak. No one that's entered the cave has ever returned. This year you've been selected... | [
"The dripping of water from an unseen leak in the roof of this dirty cell was the subject of my thoughts. The rats were my only company along with the clangs of my chains as they hit and were dragged along the ground.\n\nI had been chosen to enter the cave at the top of the mountain, escorted to my death by the vil... | 2 | |
[WP] Write the villain's beautiful, poetic speech that they tell the hero before the climax of the story. | [
"\"Why must you persist with this foolishness? Time after time you fight, and yet you fail, don't you ever think of giving up? For you to just... Let go, accept my offer, and live like a King! How could you deny that life? I suppose you can't comprehend it, most people can't, but they're smart enough to accept the ... | 3 | |
[WP] "I won the war, you know. But I lost the battle where it mattered." | [
"Bernos fell to his knees and hands. He was shaking from exhaustion and tears fell to the sand below him. He heard the sea crashing against the shore and the chirping of birds. He undid his belt letting his sword fall to the ground. He threw his helmet to the side. He wept and screamed, hoping something would come ... | 2 | |
[WP] Upon dying, you learn that you can take three lessons you learned to your next life to make it better. | [
"He sits in a pristine white room and looks around at the vast emptiness that seems to embody the minuscule area contained within four walls. He can't remember the last few moments before this but he is sure they were not good.\n\n\"Hello.\"\n\nShe sits across from him with a thick folder, glasses neatly placed ato... | 7 | |
[WP] As the next round of a high stakes Texas hold 'em game starts, the dealer deals you two cards. They are blank. | [
"I had been at the Empire for almost 8 hours solid now. I was exhausted, but driven by a hunger, a desire to prove to myself that I was a good player, that I had an edge, that I could best anyone at the table. I was making all of the right decisions, getting my money in good, but I just could not catch a break.\n\n... | 1 | |
[WP] Virtual reality has been perfected and is now indistinguishable from reality. People can stay for years and experience whatever reality they wish. Write about the last human to live in reality. | [
"So um.... Logs I guess are the y'know thing when your alone.... right?\n\nSo uh LOG 1! I guess..... Oh God how the fuck should I explain this....\n\nSo 5 years ago something called virtual reality started coming into the world and people were attracted to it by the fact they could do anything and be anyone. As a 1... | 3 | |
[WP] Breaking the news to a 20+ year old: Santa Claus isn't real. | [
"**Tears of Christmas**\n\r\nNikita's laughter subsided enough for her to see tears well up in Leo's face. Before he began sobbing in front of the whole restaurant, Leo got up and ran to the bathroom. Suddenly, Nikita's mood fell. Joy became inquiry. *Had he been serious?* she asked herself. *He can't possibly stil... | 1 | |
[WP] Long after humanity has gone extinct, aliens studying our planet discover mount rushmore. | [
"Mission: EARTH6819821\n431 earth rotations, 31 Joff days\n\nEarth is full of surprises. After inhabiting the planet for over a full earth year in an attempt to make a perfect copy of the human body, we Joffian scientists had have our fair share of screw-ups. It took us 62 earth days to discover the olfactory organ... | 2 | |
[WP] You're a vampire, like all of your relatives except for one small problem... You get burned in the moonlight, but sunlight feels just fine. | [
"Rutherford was finally turned by one of his more impulsive grandchildren on his 48th birthday. He was not, of course, ignorant of the family curse. No, rather he just finally got sloppy. Or maybe he loved that darling little moppet too much to think ill of her and for just one fatal minute thought of her as an ord... | 1 | |
From a Facebook post. | [WP] Through the eyes of a dog we must seem like elves who live hundreds of years. | [
"I could smell her and the one before her all over the house. Despite the magic spray the humans put over carpet after she had made a mess, I could still pick up on it. I wondered if that was why she was not around anymore, if she had been a good dog like me, she would still be here and I would not. But my human... | 2 |
[WP] Finally you have the powers to enter your favorite video games, sadly you can't leave until you beat the game. You find out how horrible death is. | [
"I don't dream. \nIn eighth grade, I told one of my friends that. He thought I was fucking with him. Then, he thought there was something wrong with me. We didn't talk much after that. \nWhat I never explained to him, though, is what I do instead. \n \nI locked my door behind me on the way inside, and locked th... | 1 | |
[WP] You are an intergalactic hitman hired to destroy entire planets. Despite always getting the job done, you are infamous for your sadistic creativity. | [
"I truly enjoyed my job, Watching planets be destroyed in numerous ways. Some of my favorite involve destroying one or more of their stars while others involved crashing other planets into them. But this one time hundreds of years ago I came up with the most cleaver idea ever. I was told to destroy a small blue and... | 2 | |
[WP]You're in I.T and it's the night shift. You've been alone for a couple of hours and you're lonely. A ghost haunts the office and instead of being scared you try to become friends with it. The ghost thinks that you are too clingy and it is trying hard to get you to leave it alone. | [
"Ive never liked 3d girls, they never are perfect. a fine gentleman such as myself should be able to accept the flaws of a real woman, but i always preferred anime women. A Spectre isnt a real 3d girl, and they seem perfect.... But perhaps im getting ahead of myself here. \n\nIt all started when my parents demande... | 2 | |
[WP] Santa's job has gotten easier, as he only has to visit houses where the children believe in him. This is not a good thing. | [
"I waited and waited all night for Santa to show up but he never did. I found some presents my parents had bought me and labeled \"From Santa\" but I knew better. I was there with them at Target when they secretly tried to buy my presents. It was that moment I knew, he was not real. A year had gone by and I decided... | 2 | |
[WP] Your grandfather was always a mysterious man. A few years after his death, you move to a far away country. One day, you spot him in the street. | [
"I can't say moving to Portland was ideal. I still feel doubt about whether it was the right move for me. As if anything could be the right move for me. After everything that had happened, I just felt that I needed a change. For me, Portland was that change. A whole new world for me, a born and raided Houstonian. \... | 4 | |
[WP] You're the conductor of the train of thought. You're also in charge of making the train run smoothly. | [
"As soon as the driver calls me into the front I know something's wrong. Her face tells me everything I need to know.\n\n\"Please tell me we're not diverting into World of Warcraft again, Driver,\" I say. \"These thesis chapters have suffered enough and I'm getting pressure from up top to keep on schedule.\"\n\n\"N... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a literal 'Jack of all trades' but also a master of none, and perform remarkably average in every task you try, how do you use this to your advantage? | [
"How does this happen to a person? That an aphorism comes to define their entire being? \n\nGood question. *Great* question. No clue. It's the world we live in, I suppose. That's probably exactly what an average person would say, anyway.\n\nHi. I'm Jack. As in, \"of All Trades\".\n\nThis is my story.\n\nOne of the ... | 1 | |
[WP] Upon your deathbed you see an Angel descending. However they are not excited but rather bored and fidgeting at their fingernails. Write a story about how Heaven really is. | [
"\"One more round,\" I said. My son Stephen, now 48 years old, gave me a cold stare. \"I promise,\" I said, \"this will be the last one.\"\n\nDying didn't have to be boring. Once you get cancer, people seem to think you've morphed into some generic soap opera character. They want you to open up. To cry. To inspire ... | 1 | |
[WP] Every time someone says they want to die, an annoyed Grim Reaper shows up. "Another one. That's the 38571st this week. Well? Any last words?" | [
"Mia banged her bedroom door as she got inside, throwing her backpack to the wall. The scene of that afternoon replayed itself on her head. Mark, her boyfried Mark, kissing Samantha, her best friend, his hands on either side of her head, the smile curling her lips, the besotted look in her eyes. Mia kicked the door... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a story which tracks a conversation in reverse. The beginning is two people having an emotional discussion and the ending is "where are you from?" "what's your name?" | [
"\"He's learned to see you for how truly beautiful you are.\"\n\"What are you saying?\"\n\"Maybe you weren't his first choice, but you're his best. I think beauty is something we learn. It's learning to appreciate someone's 'flaws' to the point where you love every aspect of them. Beauty isn't about symmetry, it's ... | 1 | |
edit: omniscient :(( | [WP] In the 2200s, it's discovered that people above the age of 150 reach a stage of near omnisentience. You, having kept healthy all your life, are the first person to reach this age without severe physical complications. | [
"You ever watched a car crash happen, it all seems to rush forward at once while at the same time your brain slows down trying to process it all. Almost like some crazy transition from an old dead universe to the next. It kind of feels like that when you get omniscience.\n\nA couple of egg heads figure out that a w... | 1 |
[WP] You awake to see a worm hole appear outside your window. | [
"The first time you see a wormhole, you don't really know that it's a wormhole.\n\nYou wipe your eyes. You do a double-take. You assume you're having a seizure.\n\nLight isn't supposed to bend that way. The world isn't supposed to cave in like that.\n\nThe first wormhole I ever saw appeared just outside my dorm roo... | 2 | |
[WP] You wake up in the Middle Ages with all your current knowledge. Problem is: You are a child now, and your parents are having none of your futuristic nonsense. | [
"The last thing I remember is falling asleep on my memory foam mattress with my dog snuggling up close to me for extra heat, simultaneously as my mind drifts away into it's dream state I violently get awoken. \"FIRE, GRAB THE BUCKETS FIRE!\" I open my eyes and attempt to jump out of bed but there's no mattress just... | 2 | |
[WP] What if when the villain captured the hero and made the cliché line "why don't you come work for me", the hero accepted. | [
"\"Why don't you work for me, captain hero?\" A look of pity in his eyes. \n\nA good question. I have been trapped into this universe for the last twenty five years protecting and serving the city of Norespectimen. I have fought creatures beyond anyones wildest dreams. I have suffered under the hands of monste... | 2 | |
[WP] For a few billion, you can buy the ability to stop time, the entire world falls asleep and you can do anything. | [
"\"Sir?.... SIR??.. Master Aiden, Sir?\"\n\n\"Jesus Franklin? What in the hell do you want?! Haven't I told you not to wake me before noon if I'm on the Yacht?\"\n\n\"....Ehrrm uh, yes master Aiden sir.. but I'm afraid its your wife...she's well.. she's having.. a day.. and well as you know.. I just simply. don't ... | 1 | |
For this prompt, think of it like getting a response from customer service or IT support (over the phone, email, etc.). | [WP] One day, while praying to God (or another deity) you get a response...from his help desk. | [
"It was a day like any other. I got back from work at 5:30pm. I’d changed into casual clothes by 5:45. To recharge, I cleaned the house before starting dinner at precisely 6:30. The cooking was finished at 7:05. I sat down to eat, expecting to finish at precisely 7:30. Of course, before I actually began my meal, I ... | 1 |
[wp] you have the ability to travel back in time, but only once a year and for 10 seconds at a time. | [
"I slowly dragged my rocking chair into to front porch. At my age, I could barely walk twenty meters from my house with these old bones, no wonder it's such a struggle. *A back pain is a too small of a price for me to pay*, I thought.\n\nWhen I finally reached the front porch, I pushed it right next to bonsai tree–... | 2 | |
[WP]Every time you have ever dropped your phone and go to pick it up, doing so has saved your life from some catastrophic injury. You just dropped it off a cliff. | [
"I didn't jump. \n\nI stood there, blankly staring into the canyon, waiting for some freak accident to happen, as I would rather take my chances with a madman with a gun than jumping off of the cliff. \n\nBut nothing happened, I even heard the phone hit the bottom, the loud crunch filling my ears, causing me to win... | 2 | |
[WP] You die. Instead of heaven/afterlife, you wake up having a body like an alien/octopus, wearing a VR-headset, and another octopus-like being asks you (in an alien language that you suddenly comprehend): "So, bro.. how's the new game? Pretty cool, eh...?" | [
"\"Seriously dude you lived to nearly 60, on your first run! That's Awesome! Does Roy 2: Dave live up to the hype? says the odd creature \n\n\"I..I what? Where am I? Who are you? What are you? Oh god What am I?I stammer looking in horror at my tentacles realizing I wasn't human. \n\n\"Oh come on aarok, You have ove... | 1 | |
[WP] Every year, Santa Claus must fight to be able to bring gifts to children. Every year, he returns home, defeated. This year will be different. Santa has a plan. | [
"\"Are we on the same page here?\"\n\nThe man across him looked up for the first time in the past ten minutes. He closed the ornate box to hide the exquisite velvet carpet that lined the inside of the box, leading to a trough that cupped its treasure, an egg that illuminated with pulsing light.\n\n\"Dude don't be m... | 1 | |
See prompt. | [WP] It is December 27th. Two days ago Santa did not deliver gifts for the first time in 600 years. Santa's Workshop has gone dark. You are the leader of the SEAL Team tasked with finding out why. This is your story. | [
"Night lasts a long time in the north pole, and the cold can drive a man crazy. It's been more than a day, and I've lost radio contact. I have to remain awake. He sees me when I'm sleeping... knows when I'm awake. He knows I've been bad.\n\nThere were eight of us when this mission started. It's just me now.\n\n San... | 3 |
Based on the popular rumor that Scientology was created as the result of a bar bet between L. Ron Hubbard and Robert Heinlein. | [WP] A sci-fi writer, a satirist, a historian, a children's book author, and the creator of Mad Libs place a wager on who can create the most successful religion. | [
"\"Okay then.\"\n\nIt was only 50 bucks, but it was an important 50 bucks. Each one was wallowing in the lowest depths of poverty and alcoholism, and needed the money. The sci-fi writer, Jacob LeWattes, born in Boston, age 32. The satirist, Douglas H. Vine, age 26. The historian, Wayne Castarbach, age 53. The child... | 2 |
[WP] World War 1 was fought with guns. World War 2 was fought with machines. World War 3 was fought with nukes. World War 4 was fought with sticks and stones. | [
"“It’s here, It’s here. I think I found it sir!” Grunt Hayworth shouts into his comm to inform the surface. 2nd Maester Thomas leans to his second in command and states with severe urgency “get our Cryptarch to that tech now, we need to know what’s in that data if we ever hope to survive this war”. SIC Jennings and... | 1 | |
[WP] You've begun to develop superintelligence. After you've invented countless revolutionary technologies and integrated them into yourself you're about to transcend humanity, but you want to leave one final message behind while people are still even able to comprehend your existence. | [
"OK, wait, give a few seconds of breathing time ok. Lets go.\n\nSkyrim ost starts playing\n\n\"oh shit, not that. Too awesome humans ears, let me tone it down a bit.\"\n\nCanary starts playing\n\n\"yea, thats good. ok lets start\"\n\n\"Hello people. I am your new god. Your Devine savour. That one who has come to sa... | 5 | |
[WP] The singularity doesn't come when we create a self improving AI, but instead when someone makes a computer capable of running Minecraft in Minecraft. | [
"\"Welcome back, SethBling here, and today I want to show you my Minecraft built within Minecraft. If I just type into the chat /gamerule minecraftInMinecraft true, you can see that we get some messages telling us that it's booting up.\"\n\n\"Now, while its doing that, let me tell you how it works. Using armor stan... | 1 | |
[WP] You slay the dragon keeping the princess captive, when you approach her, she is sobbing and is visibly scared of you. She refuses to come with you and appears to be mourning a very recent loss whose blood just stained your blade... | [
"The dragon slumps to the cave floor, my sword sticking out of its neck. My breath comes in quick gasps - slaying a dragon is no easy task, especially when the gaps between its golden scales are so small. I take a few minutes to catch my breath before planting my foot on the dragon's corpse and yanking my sword fre... | 1 | |
[WP] You've turned out to be the greatest space pirate their is in the galaxy. However, there is one person you have not succeeded in order for you to rule the universe. Your boss... | [
"The Admiral makes me wait outside his office. It's a last attempt at a power-play, and one we both know is bullshit. There's nothing in the galaxy more important to him than me and the message I'm carrying, but he delays anyway, just to make me sweat. And it works. Even though I know the only things keeping him ar... | 1 | |
[WP] You die and and welcomed into the afterlife but first you must design the avatar that you use for the rest of eternity. Describe the creation process. | [
"I have to design an avatar. My first thought is to question whether the afterlife will have a similar physical world to the world I believe I came from. Will there be trees? Will there be time? Will I be able to summon fire of absolute entropy in order to destroy anything within perception which I choose to destro... | 2 | |
[WP] WW1 and WW2 never happened. It's 2016, you and your partner are surfing the web and researching your yearly winter vacation trip. | [
"\"Empire of Japan this year, definitely the Empire of Japan.\"\n\n\"We only have three weeks and the voyage there by skimmer is four days each way. We'll only have two weeks there before we'll have to turn around. \"\n\n\"We can do another trip to Quebec? Passports are current and they negotiated the rails back o... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a powerful cleric and a staunch pacifist, only using your abilities for healing. By some mishap of cosmic proportions, you're also the recently anointed servant of the god of war. | [
"\"Just so you know, I don't expect you to like it, but I will still call on your skills from time to time,\" She says before the banquet begins. \"Healing talents are a wonderful thing for the troops; You'll practically be worshiped as I am.\"\n\nYou avoid her eye, looking down at your food. \"I have never wanted ... | 1 | |
[WP] Whilst exploring a lost and abandoned city you find a man claiming to be its king. | [
"My footfalls echoed through the city, the hollow sound ricocheting off crumbling walls and mounds of rubble and ash. The sky was a washed-out grey, the colour of dirty linen, and the silence was winding itself into my brain.\n\nThis place used to be grand, I could tell--mixed in among the detritus were scraps of g... | 5 | |
[WP] You are an elevator. | [
"DING\n\nI've opened up the door.\n\nThis is my life. I'm an elevator. A great invention made by humankind. Smooth metal cage created to safely transfer masses between floors of different height.\n\nTwo people came in. A woman and a man. Both middle aged.\n\n*Door hasn't closed.*\n\nI don't remember how long have I... | 9 | |
[WP] Write a sad story about a past relationship. | [
"A girl dressed up in the dark\n\nset fire to the flowers\n\nat a funeral last week.\n\nI will deny all connection to the crime\n\nbut the sight of cheap carnations burning\n\nis locked tight inside my mind.\n\nYou hated carnations anyway.\n\n\n\nI spend my spare seconds \n\ntying my tongue into knots\n\nand waitin... | 3 | |
[WP] Frank is a vigilante who likes to fight fire with fire literally. The firefighters hate when he arrives on the scene. In spite of his philosophy, his flame thrower almost always makes things worse. | [
"Everything was right. The whole forest was on fire, each tree a part of the wall surrounding Frank. His clothes were humid with his sweat, one hand one his flamethrower the other on his thigh, Jack stumbled again but maintained his balance, the head as high as he could bear it \"You can't go away anymore, it was ... | 6 | |
[WP] To them, its just an urban legend, a story people tell their kids. To you, its your next target. | [
"\"Go to sleep little one or The Wolf will come and eat you all up. One bite and not a bit more\" \n\nI shuddered but kept my eyes cracked open \n\nThose were the last words I heard before the jaws. Snarling, biting, frothing, chomping jaws. Jaws that took me in one bite. Swallowed whole, I continually drowned ... | 1 | |
[WP] Tattoos appear naturally on our skin during key points in our life and it is up to us to figure out what they mean. | [
"You are supposed to get a tattoo before a great change in your life, something full of meaning. Some of the tattoos are more obvious than others, but eventually they become clear. Most people get their first during their teen years. It's the time of your life where the most change takes place in a short amount of ... | 2 | |
[WP] Just as it is foolish to judge a student's performance off one quiz, God deemed it equally foolish to judge a soul's character on one lifetime. | [
"On her death bed June was at peace, she knew she would be in gods arms soon. That his warm embrace would be worth the years of volunteer work she hated, the lifetime of sundays spent in a stuffy church listening to a mundane minister not to mention the 4 awful children she adopted and endured. June knew she wasn't... | 3 | |
[WP] A virus has swept the world killing everyone over the age of 10. Except you. You are now the only adult in a world full of kids. | [
"I didn't mind so much. The only thing I could do was help, there were so many children to take care of. Thinking of the past would only stop this and muddle my mind. First, the eldest and I moved the bodies in our town to one of the corn fields, then I set up a house 'orphanage' in the two story corner bakery. Luc... | 7 | |
[WP] In an alternate universe, dogs keep humans as pets. Alexander Dogson goes to pick out his first human, and he's amazed by the variety. | [
"\"Now remember Alex, you have to feed it and teach it to go *inside* the house,\" said Donna, Alexander's mother.\n\n\"I promise mom, I will!\"\n\nThey walked through the entrance of the building to a carpeted room with designs of roads, bridges, trains, and planes decorating the floor. Penned off were a group of... | 1 | |
[WP] Brewing a potion for a client, you get distracted and taste your cooking | [
"Witching is not an easy job. It's like working as a chemist, but every chemical is volatile. It requires a lot of focus and practice, but it's good work. I myself have had general success in my craft, especially being so relatively young compared to other professional.\n\nI was a vengeance brewer, a witch who spec... | 1 | |
[WP] Take a non-horror, non-thriller story and turn it into a horror / thriller story. | [
"#*Main Terminal:*\n\n*Awaiting Further Selection:*\n\n >\n\n// -- -- -- //\n\n*Government Report: // 12-13-2026 // FIRST CONTACT with ALPHA EVENT Survivor.*\n\n>\n\n// - - - //\n\n----\n\n*ALPHA EVENT: Survivor Status Confirmed // REDACTED // Activity traced: Non-Conforming. Voice recognition confirmed.*\n\n... | 1 | |
[WP] A man is known to have a Freudian slip every five minutes. He's about to go into a job interview for his dream job. | [
"Richard was a cursed man. There were few lays that went by without a slap in the face at best, or a kick to the balls at worst. He had decided to take a different path to avoid these painful interactions. As a writer Richard could shut himself off from the world for days at a time. Though seclusion called to him, ... | 1 | |
[WP] A superhero and their nemesis get drunk in a bar. | [
"Despite the deep wrinkles and silvery hair, I still recognized her. Those eyes of hers were very distinct, a shade of royal purple not found in ordinary humans and very rarely found in metahumans.\n\nMurphy.\n\nHer powers made things go wrong. *Catastrophically* wrong. Along with her partner, a precog, she could s... | 1 | |
[WP] Werewolves and vampires are still around, long after most humans have been enslaved or eliminated by the AI uprising. Now it's time to give those robots something they weren't calculating for. | [
"The once luscious field was now nothing more then a killing field. Massive automatons in the shape of spiders walked through it, treading down on the bodies of the last humans to fight back against the machines. Any corpse that looked like it may still hold life were quickly put down with rapid machine gun fire. A... | 5 | |
[WP] Bill Gates wakes up on the wrong side of the bed, and decides to ruin the world's economy. | [
"He opened his eyes a minute before 4:30 am and waited for the clock. Right on the dot, he swung one leg over and stepped out of bed with a loud grunt. In front of him a window with an unfamiliar view. The glass fogged somehow. \n\nA rumble in the room and a protest in his stomach. He shivered and rubbed his arms a... | 1 | |
Based on a comment chain at https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/5ia99s/this_guard_is_guarding_a_sword_with_a_sword/ | [WP] The swordsman stood guard over the legendary blade, awaiting the one who would be its next wielder. | [
"The blade. To him, it was all that mattered. \"Remember your objective\", he frequently mumbled to himself. \"Soon, it all shall end.\"\n \nBut it didn't.\n\n\nHe held his position for ages, doing what he did best. But all good things must come to an end. As he saw everything around him collapse, as he saw his bra... | 1 |
[WP] "They say any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic. This is neither, but will finish this all the same." | [
"Out of all the races that live in this world humans are by fair the most terrifying.\n\nThey don't have the raw strength of Orcs or the powerful magic of the Elves, or even the hardy bodies of the Dwarfs. \n\nNo what they had was much more terrifying, the power of focused intelligence. not quite the same as the wi... | 1 | |
[WP] As a goof, you gaslight one of your friends by telling them they're in a coma and they need to wake up. They've taken you far too seriously. This is an ordeal now. | [
"\"Jamie, what's wrong? Please don't tell me it's the coma thing again.\" I asked hesitantly. \n\n\"I don't think you understand. I'm not having a good time existentially.\"\n\n\"What do you mean?\" I asked. Over the last few days Jamie had been acting strangely. Whenever we met in person he wouldn't be as talkativ... | 2 | |
[WP] As four people get increasing drunk and silly during a game of D&D, the characters they are playing begin to realise that things are getting ridiculous. | [
"\"Uh, guys, please focus\" that was Carl, from behind his Dungeon Master screen. The session had been going on for 6 hours now. The group normally was rather rowdy, but in a fun way. Their normal pattern was to open a few Mountain Dews alongside a few beers. They'd eat chips and dip, order a few pizzas, and chill ... | 2 | |
[WP] "I... I forget. I forget a lot of things, you know. Names, dates, where I hid the King of Keys..." | [
"Oh. Hello ragtag group of adventurers. Are you the ones that the Guild sent to help me? Yes, I'm Marvin the Elderly, how do you do? \n\nErm... request? I can't quite recall putting in a request. Oh, fiddlesticks, I'm so sorry to trouble you to go so far out of your way. Perhaps I could offer you lovely folks a spo... | 3 | |
[WP] The worst part about the Space Highway isn't the roadside robbers, or the traffic, or even the senior beings who really shouldn't be driving anymore. | [
"It's those godawful hawkers. I know, I know - consumption is the driving force of our civilization. The reason behind the foray into deep space, the conquering of alien planets and all our progressive strides into the beyond. We eat and reproduce and waste like there's no tomorrow. There were a couple of scares a... | 1 | |
[WP] There's chaos on the stage; the mic gets kicked over to you in the violence. Everyone falls silent and stares in horror as you pick it up and start to speak. | [
"What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed force... | 1 | |
[WP] We live in a world where people do not reach the peak of athleticism in their 20's, but rather continue to get stronger, faster, and more focused as they age. | [
"\"I used to understand the gate. As I've grown older and wiser, it's just made less and less sense. When I was young and idealistic, it made sense that we were protected from the horrors outside. But, I've come to understand, it's just a place to throw people away. And as I aged toward my expiration date, I've jus... | 1 | |
[WP]The library is alive and you are trapped. | [
"All I wanted was to study for finals in a library without 100 other kids. I looked around for a smaller library and found one downtown. It was public, but not by the government, donated by some eccentric old man. I got there and discovered it was massive. Like, huge. Tons of books all around, bigger than my univer... | 1 | |
[WP] A human finds out he is just the AI of an advanced alien race that has moved past earthly electronics and developed biological computing. | [
"“Tastes like shit”.\n\nMack crumples the small, cardboard coffee cup and throws it unceremoniously at the passenger side floor where it joins a cluttered assortment of wrappers, cans and refuse. The tractor trailer rocks gently from side to side as it careens down a long, lonely stretch of Kansas interstate, bound... | 3 | |
Could be real, could be speculation, could be an satirical account of how Reeses cups became a thing…go wild | [WP] Write the origin story for a dish or drink | [
"My submission:\n\n---\n\nIn the dead of winter, at the feet of the great alps the centurions huddled around their small fire like so many conspirators, jealously guarding their shared secret, waiting. \n\nWaiting for the Gauls, waiting for day to break, for Aidus to return, anything to interrupt this bitterly cold... | 1 |
[WP] You discover and decode hidden messages in the classifieds in your local newspaper. They are for you, an unaware russian sleeper agent. | [
"\"Morning honey,\" I say as I reach the breakfast table, taking a second to kiss my wonderful wife of five years, Judy.\n\n\"Good morning, handsome,\" she replies, as she does every day. \"Sit down and have some breakfast. I made blueberry waffles!\"\n\nI love blueberry waffles -- she always has something great re... | 1 | |
[WP] You're an A-List actor and a couple has just paid 353,000 USD to eat dinner with you. All you can think to ask is, "Was it worth it?" | [
"\"That depends\" Jim leaned back in his chair, sighed, and leaned back in. \n\n\"Are you going to remake The Mummy, or are you going to sign this contract to get the antidote?\"\n\nTom Cruise's eyes widened. He smashes his fist down on the table. \n\n\"You bastard!\"\n\nAnd in the corner. Brendan Fraser smiles, be... | 2 | |
[WP] Gravity is suddenly inverted. Anyone or anything not inside a solid building at the moment of the gravity switch is falling to their death into the vast hole that once was the sky. | [
"{'There are so many things that would not work in this story.'\nThe prompt did say the sky and not space so if you want to suspend disbelief then you can imagine that gravitational field vectors are being flipped for anything that isn't in a solid phase. Buildings are still standing, so you would probably be fine ... | 3 | |
[WP] A genie grants all of your wishes that you had made under your breath before you met. | [
"*God I wish I had a blackout curtain* I mumbled as I opened my eyes and the sun peered in through the window\n\nI rolled my legs over the side of the bed and hoisted myself up as my feet hit the carpet. \n\n8:50 am\n\n*Great, another day late for work. Somebody needs to just blow that hellhole up so I can actually... | 1 | |
[WP] After years of searching for your sisters killer you find away to go back in time only to find the killer is you. | [
"“Food is ready!” My mom yells from the dinner room.\nI close the photo album and stand up. My thoughts are far away, but I feel I am hungry.\n“I’m sorry, son.” My father put his hand on my shoulder. He knows what I am thinking about. And so does my mom, and my little sister. It has haunted me for years now, and it... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a 15 year old boy who meets a girl at a camp. You fall in love with, but she lives really far away. The two of you slowly start to drift apart over the years. Fast forward 10 years later and you meet again. | [
"\"Aaron?\"\n\nThe crates were stacked against the side of the dacha. Fruits, water, enough to feed a family for a year. I'd sat down for the first time since dawn, desperate to get out of the burning sun, and then she was there. I jumped up, wiping dust from my overalls and casting my eyes to the ground.\n\n\"I'm ... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a romance. No bullshit, no twists, just genuine and entertaining. | [
"\"She's driving me mad! That's insane to be that focused on studies!\" Jack, my friend, said.\n\n\"Why don't you leave her alone then?\" I asked him\n\n\"Well, because I find it entertaining and moreover, I think it's not just about studies now, it's a war and I'm gonna attack her on the field of love. And I think... | 1 | |
[WP] You can now opt to physically fight your personal demons (depression, anxiety, bad memories, etc.). The difficulty of the fight depends on how strong the problem is, but it's always a fight to the death. | [
"I think the biggest shock was the size. After years of being twisted and controlled by it, I had always assumed it would be this massive beast when we faced each other. Not a small animal hiding in the corner.\n\nI hefted my sword, staring as it cowered. For a monster formed from my rage, it seemed so meek and sca... | 11 | |
[WP] The year 2354, the world is a utopia. for 100 years, phones have known your exact time of death, never being wrong. It constantly updates depending on exercise, food, smoking etc. no-one has died from accidents or murder for the last 70 years. until today. You get assigned the case. | [
"\"Time of death, Wednesday 8:15.\" Luis Hunt said still completely shocked at what he was seeing. \n\n\"Did he have any contacts, anyone who might want to harm him?\" Luis called out to his partner, then repeated it again trying to get her attention. He looked up and saw her blindly gazing out the ting whole of a ... | 1 | |
Could be EU, since this is basically Sombra's backstory. I put it as WP just in case someone wants to do otherwise. | [WP] From a young age, she learned that it wasn't just computers that could be easily hacked; people were just as easy to manipulate. | [
"\"Dr. Valleys, please don't judge me, just tell me how to not be so alone all the time.\"\n\n\"Well Anna, in order to help, you need to stop lying. When did you start... picking?\"\n\n\"I've probably been doing it from early on, but the first time I did it consciously, to achieve a goal, was when I was 6 years old... | 1 |
[WP] God giveth and god taketh away. Tired of angsty super-powered teenagers complaining about the burden of their talents, God decides fuck it; if you want to live normal lives so badly, I'll just give your powers to people that actually want them | [
"It was finished, and it was declared to be good. And yet, the world's inhabitants had the gall to reject their maker and ask for more, or less, or different. They were given a perfect world with ample food, pleasant weather, varied scenery, and yet they were not satisfied. \n\nSo God tried to supplicant them with ... | 5 | |
[WP] One evening all of the stars disappear. The only visible objects in the night sky are the ones within our solar system. Nothing but inky blackness beyond. As decades pass life settles into a new world without stars. Then one day as suddenly as the stars disappeared they simply reappear. | [
"Cynthia looked up at the inky blackness, the night sky surrounded her without a single star. At 20 years old she had never seen a star, and at this point never thought she would. Everyone else her age were convinced that stars were something the older adults had made up to perplex their generation, to have a bit o... | 8 | |
[WP] Write about a character that has a "weird soup thing" (just basically despises soup) but seems to attract soup wherever he goes. | [
"\"Would you like to hear our soups of the-\"\n\nMark slammed his fist down on the table. \"*No!\"* he yelled. \"Why does everyone ask me that whenever I go to a restaurant? Since when did McDonald's get soups of the day? *Since when?*\"\n\nThe waitress looked terrified. \"This isn't McDonalds, sir, I'm sorry, but ... | 1 | |
Edit- typo- title should say Your tv/radio/phone *are all dead | [WP] You have just woken up in your third floor apartment to absolute public chaos. Your tv/radio/phone is all dead and you have no idea what's going on. There is screaming in the hallways that suddenly goes silent. Then...a hard knock at your door. | [
"I shoved my head beneath the pillow and pressed my hands over my ears. \n\nBut the knocking only became louder. Until the sound filled the room, rattling the windows and curtains, and even the pillow wrapped tightly around my head became no protection. \n\nI began to wince with every bang, my ears popping with pre... | 5 |
[WP] You're a grown-ass adult. Santa Claus, yes *The* Santa Claus, shows up on your doorstep one December evening and gives you exactly one chance to explain your way out of whatever you did to get yourself on his Naughty List this year. | [
"\"Okay Richie...can I call you Richie? Do you know why you are on the naughty list this year?\"\n\n\"Uh...no?\"\n\n\"Don't lie to me Richie. I am giving you one chance to explain yourself.\"\n\n\"Alright...where do I start? Okay, so it all began when we first met.\"\n\n\"Richie, I said don't lie to me. We have nev... | 1 | |
[WP] Some of the Christmas Elves have freed themselves of their shackles and are carving up a bloody mess to get to the Red Man himself. | [
"\"Hung,\" I said. \"Not hanged.\"\n\n\"What?\" asked Jerome the Happy Musical Elf over the din of the battle that raged beyond the barricade. \"Stockings are hung,\" I explained to him as he scribbled down corrections to the Christmas song he was writing. \"People are hanged.\" A cheaply-made elfin drone wobbl... | 1 | |
[WP] As revealed by a turncoat demon, all weapons that the Vatican has to fight off and exorcise demons were simply red herrings. | [
"A river runs deep below the Vatican, a system of sub-basements and stairs will lead you there. Aside from the Pope and his team of high priests and exorcists, few have ever seen it. Only when they encounter a true possession will they unlock the doors and begin their descent into the caverns underneath.\n\n The po... | 1 | |
[WP] You were rich in your first life, so you had your brain cryogenically frozen to be brought back in the future. You're enjoying the after life, when all of a sudden you wake up. | [
"Joe Bradley was a self-made billionaire. He founded BradleyTech, proprietors of the best selling bradleyPhones and bradleyPads, and began investigating cryogenic freezing. Once he had turned 80, Joe was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer, close to his heart. He decided to freeze himself until there was a reliab... | 1 | |
[WP] In a world where the good die young, you're celebrating your 1000th birthday tomorrow. | [
"His hundreds of clones didn't know the real name of the one who spawned them. But his time was soon approaching...\n\n\"HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO PRIME! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO PRIME! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO PRAIAIIIIIM! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO PRIME!!!!\n\n\"1000 years...we all know that deal was for one more millennia of freedom...but ev... | 11 | |
[WP] Every time a person dies, a demon gets his/her horns. A demon must coerce a man into killing someone to earn their horns. | [
" \"That sounds an awful lot like 'It's a Wonderful Life', with uh, Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed.\"\n \"Did you hear?\"\n \"Yeah, Yeah murder horns. It's a really famous movie, Frank Capra. Clarence, Zou Zou's petals.\"\n \"This is serious.\"\n \"What about White Christmas? Or Miracle on ... | 2 | |
Some possible ideas for the Floridian's exploits and abilities:
-Maybe he was involved in the 2000 election, the rise of Donald Trump, or the 2008 economic crisis. Maybe he actually is Donald Trump.
-He can lure people of all ages to spend time and money, from convincing children and parents to go to Disney World (NY... | [WP] Florida Man is an actual comics supervillain, known as "The Floridian." Write his Wikipedia (or DC/Marvel Wikia) entry. | [
"**The Floridian**, (real name unknown) (d.o.b. unknown) or more commonly referred to as Florida Man is the name of the main super villain protagonist who had his first appearance in hit comic book series *The Floridian*. Florida man is commonly categorized by his ability to do random yet unbelievable things while ... | 1 |
[WP] You're the first person in the modern world that can use magic and it all happened because you couldn't find your lighter... | [
"*Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck* I thought to myself, sweating bullets as I tore up my house. *Where the hell did I place that stupid thing?* It was close to eight, and I only had about half an hour before the fireworks were going to start. I needed that lighter. I searched over and over again, turne... | 1 | |
[WP] You are walking in a crowded downtown plaza when a Facebook notification goes off on your phone: "Are you OK? It looks like you're in the area affected by EMERGENCY PROTOCOL 1016B. Let friends know if you're safe." Confused, you look around to discover you're alone. | [
"The crowd disappeared almost as fast as anxiety took over my mind. I leaned against the side of a damp building to gain my balance. It was just a notification, I told myself. It didn't mean anything. \n\nI closed my eyes, trying to remember the damn safe place my therapist kept telling me to imagine. The crackling... | 1 | |
[WP] We've seen plenty of galactic empires, give me a story about the forming of those empires. | [
"If only people could just stop all the fighting...if only they could understand that one and one make three, then wouldn't the galaxy be better? Wouldn't fewer children be made into orphans, fewer wives turned into widows, fewer families torn apart? If only all these people would just agree, then wouldn't things b... | 1 | |
[WP] You have come so close to dying so many times that you've met Death that many times. So much so, that you've made quite a close relationship with Death. | [
"I mustn't stop now. Cycling harder, I can see a blur of rails along the road. The sharp sting in my thigh has now become a dull pain. Omnipresent, there all the time, going unnoticed. Harder. Harder. My palms are sweating profusely, but my grip on the handlebars increase, the rubber used must've been tested for lo... | 6 | |
[WP] Mordok the Skull-Cruncher learns the true meaning of Christmas, leaving hundreds dead and thousands injured along the way. | [
"Rows of steel glittered in the early morning dawn, their sparkling carapaces a stark contrast to the brownish matte of the scorched earth beneath them. Their occupants were giants of men – the Porchuzzie way of life as marauding pillagers had ensured that only the fittest, strongest specimens survived long enough ... | 1 | |
[WP] This year, instead of coal, Santa outsources his Naughty List to a Mr. Castle, aka The Punisher. | [
"Breathing out slowly Frank stared at the wall of mob hits he had achieved in the year that had passed. \" So Père Noël sent over to his work? That's what you want me to believe and that this... naughty list is something he needs me to take care of hm?\". Muffled sobbing from a bound and gagged elf laying on the gr... | 1 | |
[Where I got the idea from](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5k7jv7/whats_something_about_being_an_adult_that_didnt/dblyt5j/) | [WP] Every adult is forced to watch government-made news broadcasts once a day. | [
"*\"Seth... Mitchell. Informational saturation at... levels... 78% and dropping. Negative... cortex feedback. Dopamine levels... insufficient... for... optimal performance. Adrenal loop... compromised\".*\n\nSeth squirmed in his seat. He squinted at his reflection in the massive glass panel, his window to an array ... | 1 |
[WP] After a long hard night of partying celebrating the new year 2017, you wake up in the morning only to find out it is January 1, 2016 again. | [
"The incendiary round went into the chamber as though it was supposed to be there, fit snugly in front of the firing mechanism. \n\nThe first few years, no one listened to me. No one believed me. It was like Groundhog Day, just so very much worse. January first, the first time, I changed nothing. Nothing could be... | 1 | |
[WP] It is a Utopian future where everyones needs are perfectly met and people are always happy. There is a new street drug people want to take which promises to make people depressed, in pain, and lonely for 2 hours a hit. | [
"Jason stepped out of his 2315 Charger and looked at the scene before him. Nothing out of the ordinary, 1219 Stanley Gault Drive. Typical two story house, standard size for the average working family of four. Typical white paint, two large trees, beautiful plant decorations to outline windows… all standard fare. \n... | 10 | |
[WP] She would invade Hell itself to get them back. | [
"Maybe, in a way, it’s my fault. Maybe I shouldn’t have drunk so much, maybe I shouldn’t have forgotten to pick them up from school, maybe I shouldn’t have missed Grace’s soccer games or Henry’s piano recital. But those are my kids, and I would do anything for them. That’s why it hurt so much when I lost custody of... | 1 | |
[WP] It was a 'show of force'... | [
"Code name: Crystal lake.\n\nI stepped out onto the synthetic light mesh...I actually stepped on it. Not only was I walking on top of a crystalized or hardened mesh that was covering the water, but it was supporting the weight of our military. \n\nI could not comprehend how or why this worked, but I was witness to ... | 1 |
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