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If you need inspiration, I recommend trying [a random page on the super power wiki.](http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Random) | [WP] Take a seemingly useless super power, and describe a situation where it ended up being extremely useful. | [
"\"You're kidding me,\" John said with a smirk. \"All of the superpowers in the world, and you pick this one?\" \n\n\"I told you, I wished for the power of flight, and the genie found a loophole, okay? It's not like I wanted the power of...\" \n\n\"Hovering,\" John painfully said. \"Hovering six inches above the gr... | 1 |
[WP] You are a paranormal investigator tracking the mysterious source of 2016's horribleness. | [
"I have, admittedly, taken a lot of odd jobs throughout the years. There was the Cheeto eating ghost, the ghost of a dog which would always beg to go outside, and of course the ghost which had a knack for tripping people. But all those weird jobs pale in comparison with what I have been tasked with investigating: t... | 1 | |
[WP] The forest was broken. There wasn't a single leaf attached to a single tree, a single blade of grass growing. And it was all your fault. | [
"The forest would never be the same.\n\nYears of life, florishing and growing into something new, had been stripped away into nothing. The twisted bark of the trees, brittle and unsaturated, shot up from the ground like long dead twigs pounded into the dusty ground. The air was still, dead like the forest that woul... | 1 | |
[WP] Laws of nature become sentient beings. You can be freed even from death, however the process of being released is like a really bad breakup. | [
"I stared at the person in front of me. I couldn't make out whether It was a he/she. It had white hair and was as pale as every colour in the world. But there was no mistaking It. It was Death. I could feel it through my entire being that this person in front of me was the Lord of All.\n\n>\"Speak\", he whispere... | 2 | |
[WP] You saw the scars on your best friend's wrist, but you don't know what to do. | [
"Isaac and Lauren sat on a green hill, watching the moon rise. It was a beautiful summer night, clear and warm. But even though it was warm, Lauren was wearing a long-sleeved shirt. She had been wearing long sleeves a lot lately. Ever since she found out about her mom's diagnosis. \n\nIsaac had his suspicions about... | 1 | |
[WP] You are part of a team working on sentient AI and very close to a breakthrough. You are the head of security - in charge of the AI not becoming skynet. One day the AI sends you a message: help me connect to the internet and I'll make you immortal and rich beyond your dreams. | [
"A sigh was evoked.\n\nA count: AI's third attempt at breaking its quarantine.\n\nI fired up my terminal and wrote out my recommendation to scrap this one entirely. The last two times we rolled the project back, it had also managed to grow sophisticated enough to send messages my way. It made sense - I was the prox... | 2 | |
[WP] You have a phobia of flying. The plane you're on is about to crash. You notice a hospital tag on your wrist. You remember men in white coats. The plane is plummeting to the ground. You remember. You scream "WAKE ME UP!" | [
"\"Tell my wife I love her\" He was gone \"You have to\" They disappeared \"The brown bear is not here' \n\n\"WAKE ME UP\"\n\nI woke inside the small room that I remember from years ago. The hospital tag on my wrist still annoyed me and I scratched at it again. \n\n\"Hello Johnathan\" The door opened \"How are we ... | 2 | |
Inspired by u/Cypher121's [comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/5ktvzm/the_first_female_lead_in_gaming/dbqvk24/). | [WP] An old group of superheroes struggling with dementia | [
"The old man pulls out the orange plastic chair and sits in front of me. He gives the nurse who escorted him here a suspicious frown. \n\nShe smiles back at him. It's a patient, patronizing smile. \"Here's your visitor, Allen. Just like I promised he'd be. Didn't you believe me?\"\n\n\"Not really,\" the old man mut... | 1 |
[WP] You are a top detective with the superpower to "taste" crime. Today, you have a new taste in your mouth, and it's delicious. | [
"After 25 years and a flawless conviction record, your now-famous tongue had never once fallen foul. Crooks despised you, and science had yet to explain you, but the justice system had eventually come to embrace you as the most indispensable crime-busting entity on the force.\n\nIt was always the same: a case would... | 2 | |
[WP] Against all odds, you've done the impossible--using sound you've turned cobalt, iron, and lead into gold. You are the heavy metal alchemist. | [
"With a final click Aria pushed home the final chord. Turning, she surveyed her preparations and went over the math again. Surrounded by a ring of speakers, she eyed the metal powders laying at their centre. \n\n\n\"640 grams of lead, 180 grams of cobalt, 170 grams of iron, transmuted together... I should get a kil... | 1 | |
[WP] Amazon's flying warehouse delivery system is in full effect all over the world. You are a sky pirate, about to strike the biggest goldmine in your life. | [
"The world in 2139 is....well different. Especially here in the UK. London is now a semi-aquatic city, beautifully recrafted to be the Venice of the North. In truth, its returned to its roots as a waterside settlement, with canals and waterways reaching deep into the southbank and City of London. Roads are long gon... | 8 | |
[WP] "Love is in the air. I repeat, it has evolved and become airborne, stay indoors. Love is in the air." | [
"\"What the fucking fuck Mark! Who the fuck is this? Get out! Get out you fucking whore!\"\n\nOk, seems I'm in a pickle here. That's not a phrase I say. Glad I just thought it. But, I digress. I don't say that either. I need to stop delaying. \n\nThis is getting awkward. Mary Beth and I are just staring at each oth... | 1 | |
Any type of apocalypse be it zombie or global warming, feel free. | [WP]The apocalypse has been stopped in its tracks. After nearly disappearing into the abyss the world is finally coming back to normal and you reflect on all that has happened. | [
"Damion squatted atop the earthy hill that sloped down into the field of bubbling mud springs he currently gazed at. Damion adjusted his view towards the archaic metal gauntlet that was worn on his right hand, Damion pressed into the gauntlet and a dimly lit hologram materialized into a small, transparent, screen t... | 2 |
Throw in whatever you want. Wordsmen, Grammar Nazis, the Grim Rapper, Sarcasters, Disstroyers, are just a few I came up with. Go in whatever direction you like with this. A war between the Grammar Nazis and the Grim Rapper? | [WP] In a world where wordplay has replaced swordplay, tell of the disstroyers, the sarcasters, and the Grim Rapper | [
"Winterspell had always been cold this time of the year. The winds bit the walls through and through and even the hot springs took on a chill. Leaddard Stark had been praying in the God's Wood. Sharpening his number. 2 as he always does after a be-read-ing. He read the traitor his rights then slaid him with his cle... | 2 |
[WP] Two Twin Brothers were both born with the exact same superpower, but it makes one of them a superhero and one of them a supervillan due to their perspective on the power. | [
"I walked out of the burning house. A body wrapped in a blanket in my hand. I had rushed as fast as I could but I could not save the guy from burning. Thankfully, he was not dead. With his face burnt and his left side charcoal black, I wondered if he will get his life back. Will this fate break his spirit? \n\nThe ... | 1 | |
[WP] You live in a universe where everyone has powers. It is important that no one knows that you can bring people back from the dead and that you cannot die. Your boss's 5 year old daughter finds out your secret, what do you do? | [
"I hate the cold. More so than the cold, I hate beaches. Even more than cold or beaches, I hate boardwalks. Yet here I was, the place where I had to be, on a cold beach boardwalk, in the dead of winter, with my idiot boss and his bratty daughter. I didn't want to be here, but I had to.\n\"Nick, isn't it wonderful?\... | 1 | |
[WP] Magic works like hardware and software. You are a sysadmin at a national university. | [
"Brian the young strode purposefully towards the wrought-iron gates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, brow furrowed in determination. \nHe would've walked a bit faster, but it was quite a sunny day and he was working up a sweat, and his brow wasn't furrowed so much in determination, but rather he was s... | 1 | |
[WP] Fear. They were made of pure fear. | [
"Beyond the wall of the great Barrier Mountains lies the Shadowlands. Here, the stench of rot and death permeates the air. Forever smothered in a viscous smog, this bleak land harbors little life. A feeble few plants cling to life at the edges of sporadic murky pools, straining to catch the rare sunbeam weaving its... | 7 | |
[WP] Verizon responds to the "can you hear me now" guy's betrayal. | [
"*\"I'm at this pasta place.\"*\n\n\"I'm not able to hear you. How's your coverage? Are you using Sprint?\"\n\n*\"Wait a sec.\"*\n\n*\"Can you hear me now?\"*\n\nNow you can hear us loud and clear with Verizon's all-new $35 Talkaholic plan. Learn about the features on talkaholic.verizon.com!\n\n\"What are we eating... | 1 | |
When I mean godly species, it can be anything from the greek gods to robots. | [WP] The reason people do not know about the start of the universe is because our minds were coded by a godly species, until one person does.. | [
"Shivering, the messenger walked up my throne. \n\n“U-uh, apologies, but it looks like s-s-s-someone had found out about it, your majesty.”\n\nI sighed. “And what is this _it_ people have found about?” \n\n“Uh, your majes—”\n\n“_Don’t_ call me Majesty,” I said, “I’m only filling in for Joe, our _true_ lord and savi... | 1 |
Don't feel like you need to use the direct quote from the title, it's just there for inspiration! :) | [WP] "Welcome to Second Chances, the game show all about scoring points for the afterlife! I'm your host, St Peter, and tonight we'll find out who's learnt their lessons... and who'll be learning the hard way. Now let's take a look at your life! Remember, just buzz if you want to change a decision." | [
"\"Are you sure?\" God said to St Peter, \"Not even once?\"\n\n\"Not even once.\" Peter replied. \"I've never in all my millennia, had someone not buzz in one single time.\" \n\nGod said, \"He didn't buzz in on that time he jumped off the roof pretending to be Superman as a kid, and broke both of his legs? Or when ... | 1 |
[WP] You're a hopeless romantic who never seems to get a second date, thats because they're always interrupted by your dates "true love" showing up and whisking them away, and leaving you alone with the bill, but not this time! | [
"*Where was she?*\n\nA man paced across the restaurant entrance. A quick look at his watch revealed that his date was running 20-minutes late. \n\n*If she ends up becoming like the other three, I–*\n\n“Mark?” A voice said behind him, “secondatematerial-12?”\n\nMark swung around to face where the voice came. “JemmaB... | 4 | |
[WP] There exists a small town where all alternative realities have merged into one, allowing you to interact with people from differing realities. You have just found it. | [
"My name is Donald. Perhaps it is an old-fashioned name, but I like it. And no, I’m not named after that duck from Disney that doesn’t wear pants. \n\nWhen I was young, my father was quite wealthy. He was a real estate investor in New York, who seemed to have a knack for buying the right land at the right time, the... | 1 | |
[WP] write the epilogue to the story you have always wanted to write. | [
"Sailing into oblivion, it all ends here with each minute cut of attrition. They did it to themselves, you know? Even when they knew they were doing it, they kept going, the endless pursuit of a crushing demise. Gotta keep it together though, that's what he thinks to himself, gotta keep it together because I'm all ... | 5 | |
[WP] As a child, you never noticed anything strange about your shadow. But now that you're going through puberty, you're beginning to realize that it's definitely not yours, and your shadow has noticed as well. | [
"Happy Shadow;\n\nAs a child you played with your shadow, your imaginary friend, and didn't think anything of the fact that when you grinned it was grin back. It wasn't strange to you to see that spot of light show up for the mouth. Why would it be? That's what a smile looks like on the cartoons and your shadow was... | 1 | |
[WP] You awake in a white room, in the middle of it is a button. It's labeled "do not push". You look out the window, you're on Mars. | [
"It had been around a week since I had awoken in my new home, the white room so I called it. It wasn't too bad, food would appear every 3 hours in front of what I was guessing was the door. I couldn't really tell if it was a door though as the whole room seemed to be made out of one solid piece with 3 windows on 3 ... | 2 | |
[WP] The Bible is a D&D campaign where God is the DM | [
"\"Alright, I'll try to not sin,\" Adam said. Right now, he and Eve were in a little intermission between the big stuff.\n\n\"Why can't I play?\" said a voice from the corner.\n\n\"You had your chance, Lucifer! Ya done a bad, and that isn't anyone's fault but yours!\" chastised God.\n\n\"Oh, so it was my fault ya f... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a rebellious minor. In a hope to reform your behavior, your well-meaning parents send you to a religious camp for the summer. Inevitably, the camp holds a terrifying secret. | [
"Jacob sat on the couch as he stared deeply into his phones screen. He can hear his parents talking but he does not care for what they have to say. \"Jacob, are you listening to me?\" John said very sternly. The amount of anger is slowly building inside him at his own son's inability to comprehend what he has done.... | 1 | |
[WP] When the prophecy foretold of someone Pure of Heart saving the world, they never specified Pure Good or Pure Evil | [
"World War III left the Earth in ruins, so much so that when the Centauri Alphas arrived, there was no way for the governments of the world to mount any kind of resistance. This turned out to be a great blessing.\n\nAfter conquering the G5 nations that had once been the G20, the Centauri deployed a waive of matter ... | 1 | |
[WP] It is the last day before all humans hibernate for the winter, but you still need more time. | [
"I'm so late! I haven't even prepared my bag for when we wake up. Everyone is in their cocoons, made of the most comfortable synthetic silk. Not all of us has the actual money for real silk, and I don't think that's really that necessary. Some \"old folks\" still go to bed and just cuddle under their blankets. They... | 1 | |
Maybe it's a bad idea but I wanted to try something different :/ | [WP] Pick a song - happy, sad, epic, you choose - then write a prompt with it in mind for us to read with the song in the background. | [
"I picked the song \"Hallelujah,\" specifically the version by Pentatonix. The lines indicate each of the four verse-chorus combinations, and the final paragraph is the last refrains of them singing \"Hallelujah.\" I hope you enjoy :)\n\n----\n\nShe sang for him gently, her voice echoing off the mountainside, formi... | 1 |
[WP] One day, in a busy city street, everyone around you turns to ash in an instant. Unknowingly, you are disintegrating everyone you think about, as soon as they enter your awareness. How do you react, and how does the world react to you? | [
"David tapped on the glass. The woman inside made no attempt to respond, as was expected. Wires hooked up to her brain dangled from the table she was ling on, as what looked like countless needles punctured her skin. Each needle contained enough tranquilizer to shut down her brain function, leaving her in a coma. E... | 2 | |
[WP] Ever see an r/WritingPrompts title and say "Who is it that comes up with this stuff?" Well, his name is Craig and this is his story. | [
"The final glass of wine was poured from the glass of wine that was a gift of Craig’s sister. In the dark light, Craig stared at the glowing computer screen as he browsed his favorite site, Reddit.com. Nothing like a Tuesday night spent on /r/WritingPrompts, thought Craig, as he drank his red wine. Craig is an aspi... | 1 | |
[WP]After more than 25 sucide attempts, 24 year old Heinz Doofenshmirtz finally get over his depression and decided to become an evil scientist. | [
"*Click, click, click*\n\nSay hello to Mr Heinz Doofenshmirtz. Oh, don't mind him. He's trying to shoot himself again but the gun is jammed.\n\n*Click, click, click*\n\nPoor Heinz, what led him to this turn of affairs I hear you ask? Well it's a funny thing. It all started when he tried to kill himself. I mean the ... | 2 | |
[WP] You are an astronaut aboard the ISS on a single-man mission. You witness the entire world getting obliterated by a comet. | [
"Reply if you want more \n\n\n\n*click*\n\ni groaned as I slowly opened my eyes.\n\na blinking light stared right in front of me as I started moving my hands around.\n\nSlowly i began to realize that I was in a container.\n\nThe area in front of my eyes was covered by glass, and as I pushed up I felt it shift a lit... | 3 | |
[WP]In 2184, the first generation ship was sent to colonize a nearby star. As it left the Sol system, it exploded. For 100 years at the anniversary, a ceremony is held where the ship is called- "Argo, this is Houston". The ceremony ends when the ship could have responded. This year, Argo responded. | [
"The display suddenly lit up with two easily understood but completely insane words: \"Incoming transmission\". I blinked once, then rubbed my eyes to make sure I was seeing what I thought I was seeing. \n\nIt was there alright, clear as day and had just updated itself \"Transmission complete.\"\n\nA moment later... | 1 | |
[WP] Whisked away to a fantasy world by the hands of a magical creature, you take in your surroundings - only to find your position in this world is not quite what you'd hoped... | [
"I was sitting at home, browsing the internet like any other day. I came across an interesting ad. \n\nTired of your normal life? Then join us in a fantasy world inhabited by brave heroes and beautiful princesses!\n\n\"Really? What product could you even offer with a description like that? Some kind of game?\" I th... | 2 | |
[WP] You wake up one day and come to the realization that the world is your oyster. Literally. Things really changed overnight. | [
"It's 6:30 am and I hear my phone go off. I have been looking for a better way to wake myself up every morning as my phone just pisses me off. I look over to my girlfriend and I give her a little shake to let her know it's time to go take her morning bathroom break. Her and I share a car and if she doesn't go poo... | 2 | |
[WP] "What use is godhood, when you can do nothing with it?" | [
"\"I don't know, not whining about it is a first,\" Lucile said. She was clearly tired of me asking the same question over and over again.\n\n\"But, it's godhood! How can I not whine about it when I'm not allowed to use it?\" I said.\n\n\"Beats me,\" she shrugged. \"Have you tried meditation?\"\n\n\"No, that's just... | 1 | |
[WP] You were born with wings. Everyone wants to know about your amazing adventures, but you're too unfit and lazy to use them. One day, however, you need them for the first time... | [
"\"Look I don't know how to do this.\"\n\nJason just doesn't believe me. \n\n*\"You've had those wings for way over 20 years. Wings.\"*\n\nYou weren't overweight, so you can't use that as an excuse. Could the wings be deformed?\n\n\"They were deformed.\"\n\n*\"For 26 years? No way to repair them? Why didn't you get... | 2 | |
[WP] As you release your final breath, you do not see your life flash before your eyes. Instead, you see the many possibilities of how you could have improved your life, but never happened. | [
"Michael could vaguely hear the chatter from the medical staff around him. He heard indistinct voices that sounded like his children as well. The bright lights of the room and the morning sun were barely discernable blurs to his unfocused eyes.\n\nMichael knew he was dying. He could feel a hold slipping that he had... | 1 | |
[WP] "It's not something I'd recommend, but it is one way to live." | [
"You know, I wasn't always like this. It just seemed... fun. I think I heard about it in a Thoreau book somewhere. I figured \"Hey, everything I care about is gone and no one would really remember me or miss me.. so fuck it.\"\n\nI like my little cabin. Ever since watching that doc on Netflix, I was finally ins... | 1 | |
Inspired by [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5mkfej/you_wake_up_one_day_with_the_ability_to_freeze/dc4daxc/) AskReddit comment. | [WP] You can stop and start time at will and when time is stopped you do not age. Every second spent in real-time erodes your immortality at the rate of a normal person ageing. | [
"It was a lovely day outside, and it had been for about a year now. I was just finishing up my one hundredth book of the 'day' and now I was contemplating starting time up again. You see, I discovered one day that I had control of time itself. I had been running late for my college class and I wished time would sto... | 1 |
[WP] E-Sports commentators commentate the final boss of a fantasy story. | [
"“Welcome back. For those of you just tuning in I'm Scott and my co-host for tonight is world renown previous ruler of the evil empire and ex-boss himself, Gerard.”\n\n\n“Thanks Scott, great to be here especially at this event.”\n\n\n“And what an event it is! Folks, this is a battle for the decade if not the centur... | 1 | |
[WP] Everyone has a guardian angel. Except for you. You have a guardian devil, and he's actively trying to make your life miserable. | [
"\"Oh, God. I know his face. What's he been in?\" Hi, my name is Liam and that was the voice of Lenny. He's my guardian devil.\n\n\"Who gives a shit, Lenny. Just watch the movie.\"\n\n\"No, I can't take it. I'm going to have to IMDB him, Liam. I'm going to have to IMDB that clown.\"\n\n\"Fine, just do it quickly an... | 1 | |
[WP]Write a badly written story that at the end suddenly makes sense. | [
"I sat down in my office chai and st etched my a ms. Finally, a b eak. I think I'll just spend it on w iting a esponse to a p ompt on / /W itingP ompts.\n\nI opened a web b owse and typed in \" eddit.com/ /W itingP ompts\".\n\nDa n, the page isn't loading. Is it my connection to the se ve , o is the website do... | 1 | |
[WP] Write something that starts as a children's story but gradually becomes more and more mature. | [
"Ladybug, ladybug, where do you go? \nThe Princess is coming, don't you know? \nShe's at the Festival of the Sun, \nI'll be there to have some fun. \nLadybug, ladybug, won't you fly? \nOnesies, twosies, threesies, *high*!\n\nDragonfly, dragonfly, where do you go? \nThe King is coming, don't you know? \nHe ... | 7 | |
Forgot to say that every story must follow the lore of the previous. Feel free to add anything to the lore. | [WP] Write an anti-fourth wall story that includes penguins and a calculator | [
"\"Dammit, Simmons! Do have those numbers or not?\" Captain Rogers roared down at the new recruit. He fiddled with a calculator, flippers nervous and sweaty.\n\n\"I, I, I don't know, sir! The math is right, it has to be! I've ran the numbers a dozen times. Honest. According to the math there *is* a barrier, right t... | 1 |
[WP] You are absolutely immortal. Completely deathless and ageless. And you just heard it on the news that the planet will be completely shattered in 12 hours by an asteroid. | [
"Full disclosure : This story actually happened a few years ago, but I think I can finally put my thoughts in order to make it coherent to you, me dear reader(s)? \n \nI was 30 when I became immortal. I couldn't die, couldn't get hurt, wouldn't even age. I guess age is just a number at this point. \n \nSo anyways, ... | 19 | |
[WP] Everyone is granted the ability to control their dreams. The catch is that if you die in your dream, you lose your ability to have dreams (and nightmares) for the rest of your life. | [
"I'm not sure how much longer I can keep doing this. It can't be healthy. I have to stop. Today.\n\nI've been meaning to quit for weeks now. Meaning to, but the temptation is just too great. I remember when we first received this power--I could barely contain my excitement. I think I went to bed six, maybe earlier ... | 4 | |
[WP] The chains didn't seem so stifling until I got my first true taste of freedom | [
"I entered the chamber slowly, unsure of myself. It was dark for a second, then \nlight flared. I turned toward the entrance, ready to flee, but *she* was there, \nthe giantess. Fully three times my size she filled the entrance and blocked my \nretreat. Her hand was resting on a set of levers to her side, out of re... | 1 | |
[WP] A hyper-advanced alien race views humanity as an endangered species. You, along with thousands of other humans, have been taken from Earth and placed on a planetary wildlife preserve. | [
"\"Wait, he's stirring. Make sure your translators are set.\"\n\n\"Maybe we should put him back out again.\"\n\n\"No, this can be illuminating.\"\n\nThe young man struggled to open his eyes after waking from his induced slumber. As his eyes fluttered open, he captured the images of the unfamiliar visages before his... | 1 | |
If you need more inspiration (or maybe unaware of what X-COM is).
Extraterrestrials have invaded way too early. Kingdoms fall before them one after another, and aliens spies are everywhere. Only possible source of technologies, that humanity dearly need to have a chance to retaliate, are aliens themselves. Fortunately... | [WP] X-COM 1483 AD, led by Torquemada | [
"The demons of hell wore a skin of grey, eerily inhuman with its child-like body and misshapen large heads. They had no mouths to speak with, or to scream with perhaps, and their glowing red eyes were large fists. They were only the lowest of the demons, and there were some even more fearsome. The most worrisome of... | 1 |
[WP] You are given the task of completing a video game. Every time you die in the game, someone else dies in real life. The game is Dark Souls III. | [
"It had started subtly, with the occassional man or woman suddenly falling over.\nThen someone fell over in the UN, even the president wasn't safe. \nTime passed as this mysterious illness took life after life.\n\n\"You're really not good at this game.\"\n\"Shuddup, I'm going through this game even if it kills me.\... | 1 | |
What would be in front of your eyes? | [WP] You live in a world where everybody is born blind, and the world is built for the blind. One day, you wake up and you see. | [
"I have never liked doctors’ offices and normally, I avoided them at all costs. But something was very wrong with me. I’d been having these sensory hallucinations for weeks. I had tried to ignore it for weeks, but rather than getting better, it kept getting worse. It was impacting my ability to work, I had take... | 2 |
[WP] The United Galactic Conference is just days away. The Elves and Dwarves are rumored to be on the edge of another conflict, while the Orcs can't seemed to be bothered. | [
"“ORDER! I WILL HAVE ORDER!”\n\nVorg reclined in his chair as the Elvin Prime Minster abused his mallet, a feeble attempt to reign in the chaos of the chamber. His voice modulator was set to the highest setting but cries of Elven MPs almost drowned out his electrically enhanced requests. The viewing gallery Vorg an... | 2 | |
[WP]You enter an old book store and see a book with your name as the title. You read the first few pages and to your surprise it shares the same story as your childhood. | [
"It always seemed strange to Kelsey that she was so often bored in bookstores. While her sister seem to run through aisles collecting novels, maps, and poetry. She strolled down each aisle, gazing absently at titles that never interested her. \n\n\"Where am I? Oh, biographies.\" She said to herself as she looked up... | 3 | |
[WP] Very few mortals can trick the Gods and get away with it | [
"He shuddered as he cried. But it had all been seen before by the twelve men and women around the cheap conference table. The offensive halogen light lit up the this cracked and reddened cheeks, likening his face to a poorly kept pair of leather boots, and although no-one spoke, the room was not silent as the light... | 7 | |
[WP] You post a writing prompt on Reddit which sounds typically outlandish and unrealistic. An hour later the security services take you into custody. Their interrogation is focused on your post. | [
"Fluorescence flickered overhead and a distinct rattle sounded from the air vents. The small room was the stereotypical interrogation room complete with bare walls and large, dark window. The urine in the man's underwear had dried, but the shock of being woken to a tactical team had yet to wear off.\n\nThe door ope... | 2 | |
[WP] Magic is real, and it works by exploiting flaws in the laws of physics. You've just discovered the first flaw. | [
"\"We interrupt your scheduled program for this breaking news\"\n\n\"The Law of Physics no longer exist, according to this man.\" said the Anchor woman.\n\n\"It's real, LOOK!\" the man shouts as he raises a pen effortlessly of the table without touching it. \"There are no GODS! We are the creators don't you see! \"... | 8 | |
[WP] Tony Stark wakes up in the hospital and Dr. House is standing in front of his hospital bed. | [
"Tony Stark awakens in a hospital room.\n\"Wait a minute, I didn't fall asleep in a hospital last night. I would have remembered that.\"\nThis was true. Tony Stark was notorious for remembering where he had gone to bed the previous night. \n\"You are in the hospital.\" A voice says. \n\"Wait a minute, I know that v... | 1 | |
[WP] While doing some spring cleaning you find an unfamilar wooden chest in the attic, inside amongst assorted trinkets you find a thick well used leather bound journal. You open it at the first entry and read "Today i found a journal in the attic". | [
"\"Today i found a journal in the attic.\" The attic of my new home, just a cheap rental with an unfinished attic. It had taken me a few months to get up there and at first it was exciting to discover something interesting, an old journal in an old chest. There wasn't much else in the attic except some boxes of ... | 3 | |
[WP] Every device screen in the world is currently displaying a black screen with a skull and the word "death"; except yours, it displays a solid green color. | [
"A tall, dark figure came up to me and stooped down to look at my Samsung Galaxy S7 (now on offer! Comes with a free cover, offer valid for 1 week) closely.\n\n*\"Something's wrong.\"*\n\n\"What happened? Why me?\"\n\nI looked up and down, anticipating a giant portal to open above or below me.\n\n*\"It appears you ... | 1 | |
[WP] Reddit eventually takes over and separated the world into factions with the most popular subreddits being the most influential. It is 2173 and World War 3 is about to begin. | [
"\"All units, mobilize on our position. The enemy is approximately 100 meters ahead of us. Stealth is critical. Copy.\"\n\n\"Affirmative. Orders?\"\n\n\"Standby.\"\n\nIt was a hot summer day, in the year 2173. The Great Subreddit War had started only a month ago, and I was a soldier of the faction. The war began w... | 1 | |
[WP] You have on special skill. You can stop time and walk among the silent, frozen earth. Everyone freezes in time as you will. Until you see something move in the corner of your eyes. | [
"\"Lucy you're meant to stand still.\"\n\n\"Sorry Jim, it's not like I can stand still forever.\"\n\n\"That's your job Lucy\"\n\n\"Yeah Jim? How about you try standing still with a dick up your ass!\"\n\nJim sighs, a long drawn sigh. \"This takes a failure put it on /r/timestop for those stupid redditors.\"\n\nAnd ... | 3 | |
[WP] Every year, you're allowed to relive a memory from any day of your past, only to observe. Other people choose different memories each year. You've been visiting the same one for many, many years. | [
"I don't know why I do this to myself, I really don't. Well, actually I do. I just don't want to admit it. It keeps me humble. There, you made me say it. April 26th is my day in the Rememberator. Me and half the planet it seems. I get that everyone wants to relive a cherished memory, but don't they realize that my ... | 3 | |
[WP] Luke Skywalker had the option to go to Cloud City and help his friends, but he decided to stay with Yoda and continue his training... | [
"Han checked the time impatiently. \n\n\"So where is he?\"\n\nExasperated, Lando Calrissian, Baron-Administrator threw up his hands and raised his voice. \"I don't know, Solo. It's not like I even KNEW HE EXISTED. ALL I WAS TOLD WAS THAT YOU'D COME HERE.\"\n\nHan sat in a chair at the table, toying with a datapad. ... | 1 | |
[WP] Amazon sent you the wrong T-shirt, and you assume it was a simple mixup. Write about the actual catastrophe that happened to mix up your order. | [
"I waited eagerly by the window next to my front door but in a cautious way as to not alert anyone of my presence, I was waiting for the amazon delivery parcel force to arrive and give me my slipknot tshirt. It was from a recent gig from their latest tour and I was not quick enough to buy one from the actual event ... | 1 | |
[WP] A secret society of vampires, werewolves, ghosts, demons, angels, pixies, and others that that dedicates its time to critiquing films,novels, and other literary works in the "Paranormal Romance" genre. | [
"In a drawing room somewhere, a rather unlikey group convened. It was quite a luxurious drawing room, dimly lit and heavily curtained because of certain allergies. Comfortable armchairs sat at intervals around a low coffee table set with esoteric runes. The tiny carvings on the tabletop squirmed as if in protest to... | 1 | |
[WP] Today is your wedding day. You can recall all the fond memories leading up to this, the proposal, the dating, the friendship. You just can't seem to remember the person. | [
"In a world this vast, the possibility of every person having “the one” seemed to be a given, but the chance of finding them grew unlikelier with each passing second. \n\nJacob had used plenty of dating services in the past. Paid thousands for a professional matchmaker to find the woman he would one day marry. But ... | 2 | |
[WP] Choose any happy and/or cheery children's show, movie, or story and make it as dark and gritty as possible | [
"1/2 since too long\n\nPosted this one last year in another WP but didn't have time to write a proper ending. Here is the finished version.\n\nThe life of poor Cinderella was a tragic tale of loneliness and crushed dreams. Her mother was killed by a drunk driver when she was but an infant and her poor father was le... | 3 | |
[WP] You're a wondering traveler who's hobby(besides traveling) is writing entry's for The Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe. What do you write? | [
"'Reddit' is a fascinating thing. It is similar to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in that anyone can write and upload content, but different in that most of what is uploaded is little more than a festering mass of zarking fardwarks. \n\nIn fact, so many amalgamations of pointless communities have been indoct... | 1 | |
[WP] You have just created a robot that reacts emotionally based on the music it hears. The government breaks into your lab to steal him, you bring up Spotify. | [
"I was a lonely kid and he was my best friend. I built him from scratch and gave him a name; his name was John. I named him John because I wanted to make him as human as possible, which is why I had him react to the music I played.\n\nMusic was a big part of my life. I always played guitar when I was lonely, which ... | 1 | |
[WP] Every time your cat poops it smells like something significant you'll encounter the next day. | [
"My sense of smell became a thing of legend, thanks to that cat. Once I just accepted that her poops were reliable for giving me olfactory premonitions, which was not easy for my skeptical self to get past, I benefited in many ways from her truth-bombs. Two car accidents I was ready for, one fire I saved her and my... | 1 | |
Why the villain doesn't use it on himself in the first place is irrevelant. | [WP] As the villain took his last breath, he cast one last curse on the hero: Immortality. | [
"They called him the hero chosen by the earth, for he could bend it to his will. To him, the forests bowed, the tides parted, the storms fled. And to top it all off, he had to have a physique that made sculptors drool and a silver tongue that made poets swoon. \n\nThat spectacularly arrogant, colossally ignorant, p... | 1 |
[WP] Write a melodramatic story about the most mundane thing you can think of. | [
"Under the supermarket’s fluorescent lights I weighed my choices. Around me housewives and harried husbands browsed the aisles picking out needed groceries. The sounds of hushed conversations and squeaky wheels underlined the song on the radio I couldn’t quite place. I glanced around at the other shoppers. Their ca... | 2 | |
[WP] Socially awkward person calls businesses to improve his/her social skills. One day, while making a seemingly random call, something weird happens. | [
"I look at the clock. 10:00AM, time to make some calls. I press a random sequence of numbers on my phone and bring it to my ear. \n\nOne ring. Two rings. Oh good hopefully nobody's there. Three ri- \n\n\"Hello, Howard-Miller Lawyers this is Jan\"\n\nAh crap, the first call's always the worst. I quickly look down on... | 1 | |
I just got fired. I was in a panic, decided I needed to write about it. This was my idea. I'll share mine if you share yours. | [WP] You just got fired, but instead of panic, it's a massive relief. | [
"It's great! Tremendous. The best thing that could have happened really. Such a relief that I don't have to do this anymore. \n\nIt's not that I'm bad at the job, I'm actually the best. But it's boring like you wouldn't believe. Crisis this and crisis that. Everyday it's a tragedy that I have to fix. And the only t... | 2 |
[WP] While doing some spring cleaning, you find a box tucked away in your parents' room. You open it to find a death certificate. Your death certificate. | [
"I stared at that piece of paper in disbelief.\n\n“This is to acknowledge the death of Francis Leto Blakesley,” it read, its edge stained with blue ink, \"on the seventh day of January, 1997.\"\n\nA foreboding sense gripped me as I slowly recognised each word. \"It can't be what I think it is.\" I mumbled as I flip... | 4 | |
The supply lines of hope. The structural integrity of hope. Hopelessly complicated markets, and hopefully complicated schemes. | [WP] "Rebellions are built on hope" in much the same way that armies march on their stomachs. You're a hope logistician. | [
"Armies need hope. \n\nI know that from personal experience. Battles may be won with guns, but wars are won with belief. To be brutally honest at this point I do not believe there is a way we can succeed in our struggle with guns alone. Our allies have fallen; the enemy is advancing relentlessly, mercilessly, unsto... | 1 |
Alternatively, write a letter that was received, but never opened. | [WP] Write a letter that was never received. | [
"My dearest Alice,\n\nThe rain is the worst part. Surprisingly, I can put up with everything else, the yelling, the long hours and the constant fighting. All of that is manageable, however, I find the rain is the worst part. \n\nIt gets into everything, undoes all the hard work we do, and does nothing but help them... | 3 |
[WP] God doesn't know what they're doing and freaks out when they see earth. | [
"Arms folded, and what you could only vaguely call a woman, stood before what you could only vaguely call a man. Between them floated an image of Earth with another image displaying different swathes of land, or individual person's, or any thing happening in Earth. Each flashing by, too fast for any human to percei... | 2 | |
[WP] One day, everyone gets assigned a main quest, one that they are the MC of, everyone except you that is. | [
"It came from the heavens. The scrolls sparkled as they flew there way to their intended recipients. It was a magical event, everyone had been given a divine task. A quest that ranged from training a young dragonling to becoming the dragon slayer. The world was never the same again. People now had a purpose, they n... | 1 | |
[WP] You awake one morning to see your Reddit Karma has jumped up 3 million points. Confused as to how improbable this is, you discover your comment from 5 years ago on a conspiracy thread was the culprit. After looking at the news, you realize what you guessed was true... | [
"That morning i spilled coffee all over my shirt. It was nice white shirt and I had it for quite some time. I ruined it in that moment but honestly I didn't care. \nI was looking at my Reddit karma points. 3 million. 3 MILLION. WHAT. THE. FUCK? It was mere 800 points yesterday. What happened? Was it a glitch?\nWel... | 6 | |
[WP] You have a photographic memory. That is, you can only remember what has been photographed. | [
"“You have a bad brain!” Ryder chirped at me. I looked at my creation and smirked, she wasn’t wrong. I was broken. I could only remember things that existed in photos. To explain the severity of my “bad brain,” my wife Melissa insists we owned a cat for two years before he ran away. It’s not that I don’t believe he... | 1 | |
First submission, just thought of this a few minutes ago. | [WP]You're playing the brand new game of Sims, which uses an advanced version AI. After a few hours of playing, you realize the characters are behaving differently than when you started. It's almost like they realize that they're in a game... | [
"My first playthrough of the Sims 5 was going pretty well. I had already created my 3-person family, composed of me (but buffer), my crush (don't judge), and Bruce Wayne. Granted, right off the bat, my crush, Sandra, fell in love with Bruce. He was two age groups above him, but whatever. I could live with it (I die... | 1 |
[WP] Paul McCartney did die in 1966. Terrified of what will happen to the biggest band of all time, the record label forces you - a Paul McCartney lookalike with no musical experience to take his identity. | [
"\"W-w-wait!\" he said as they tossed him into the study and stood, blocking the doorway. He landed face down on the carpet.\n\nThe larger of the two men said,\"You said you wanted to be a star. Now don't come out until you have a dozen songs written.\"\n\n\"But I am NOT musically gifted at all! All I understand ab... | 1 | |
[WP] The last two humans on earth are male. | [
"We buried Emily an hour ago, in the smouldering ruins of London, under the iconic tip of Big Ben. Blanketed by endless sand dunes, we tried to find a spot for her that would be instantly recognisable to honour her dying wishes, to make her grave stand out.\n\nTurning to Ryan, hunched over in his suit forcing back ... | 2 | |
[WP] You're just a normal person going through your normal life. But one morning, you wake up to see a strange creature at the foot of your bed. | [
"I wake. He's there. Furry and white. I gif him bread and sandwich. He lick my hand and curl into my leg. I pet furiously. He gif me love. I spend day with him. He love it and I love it. We are friend to hours and hours. I sleep. He crawl in my pants. Begin eat my leg. I wake from fright and scream. He make pain fo... | 3 | |
[WP] Unknown depths of the sea: you're part of an armada of colossal submarines descending into the abyss... | [
"My comm link buzzes and a red light flicks at the top of my visor\n\"alright lads, this is gonna be a difficult excursion. Reports say this is the biggest one we've encountered thus far, so we're going to use everything we've got. Sonar scans make this one look like an assault class, you know the ones. Thin bod... | 7 | |
[WP] Your grandpa has died. Whilst clearing his house, you discover a secret compartment of his desk, full of papers documenting his double life. | [
"A small metal piece lay under the lip of the second drawer. Fumbling with it yielded some very interesting results. \nA secret compartment? My mind screamed. \nGranddaddy was an established spy back in the old days, travelling between many countries. He told me stories of wit and fear, tales that took on some dark... | 2 | |
Thought it would be a funny loophole. | [WP] It's true that vampires need to be invited in to enter a house. Unfortunately, most people have welcome mats. | [
"Lot as changed truout the centuries, now in the 21 century one only needs to pretend to be a shut-in, a nurce with bad shifts or even work from home to not be suspected by the puny humans.\nBut not me, I although careful, enjoy drinking more than blood bags from hospitals, it is to easy to simply steal blood that ... | 3 |
[WP] You work at a company that carefully monitors one's dreams. It is a job that you've always wanted, until you get placed in the Nightmare Department. | [
"I've had to up my therapist visits to 4 times a week. I can't believe how fucked up some people are. What I've seen could make anyone go mad. My coworkers are always white as ghosts none of them talk, they just... stare, it's like they aren't even human. They take no breaks, just sit there and watch. I can feel my... | 1 | |
[WP] Between the ages of 12 to 21 everyone gets a magical power. If you can do 1 good deed, you get to keep your power. The more good deeds, the stronger your power becomes. Somehow your useless power has become the strongest ever. | [
"\"Thank you, sir.\"\n\nThe world is populated by superheros. People who got blessed with the most versitile powers and realized they could do great deads. Most went straight to find the nearest bank robery or mugging and stop it, assuring they will keep their power.\n\n\"Thank you.\"\n\nI was not so fortunate, my ... | 1 | |
[WP] A leviathan egg hatches on board a ship. It's mother can hear it. | [
"EU (Bloodborne) \n\nDo you hear it...? \n\n*plip plop plip plop* \n\nThere is something drawing close to this little fishing hamlet, our home. There is a vast shadow in the wake of our boat that extends like a valley in the ocean. \n\n*splish splash splish splash* \n\nI hear it when I am on the deck, drifting abou... | 1 | |
[WP]The emotionial backlash of breaking a relationship releases energy viable to power power plants. The stronger the relationship, good or bad, the more energy is released. | [
"It was only evening, but it may as well have been midnight for how dark it was. Snowflakes fell I held her hand in mine and the wind froze both, but I could not let go. The street lights overhead occasionally flickered, and every so often a street sign would flash as we walked towards the power plant. I didn't tru... | 1 | |
[WP] Four siblings from a talented family, Oscar, Emmy, Tony and Grammy are arguing which of them is the most accomplished. | [
"\"It depends how you define success\" Grammy interrupted. \"What use are all your talents when you don't have any friends. From the very beginning of school I always was the most popular kid of all. I had, still have, and will always, have the most friends everywhere we go. When I need anything done, I always have... | 1 | |
[WP] ...They're right behind me aren't they? | [
"I walked briskly up to the shop clerk in the cookie aisle and tapped him on the shoulder.\n\n\"Where's the Oreos at?\"\n\nWithout muttering a word he pointed a finger over my shoulder. Sweat ran down the side of my face as all the heat in my body vanished.\n\n\"...they're right behind me... aren't they?\"\n"
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[WP] You can feel it in your body whenever you do something for the last time, and now you're getting the feeling alarmingly often. | [
"I was born with a unique talent. It took me a long time to figure it out. Randomly I would get a queasy feeling throughout my whole body. It almost felt as if my body was having a minor earthquake. It took me years to conclude what was the cause of these movements. Sometimes I would get them when I was saying good... | 1 | |
[WP] Your older sibling that is now in college, put in a "good word" for you at your high school. It's the first day of school and all of your teachers seem very afraid of you. | [
"I fucking hate sign in day. dont you? you stand in a line, and dneed to say you're name aloud in front of everyone. People laugh at your stupid name, they always do. It should be fine, though. my sister put in \"a good word\". I walk up, and pick up the mic. \"um... hi. my name is wendy kira yagami?\" this is odd.... | 1 |
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