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[WP] The year is 2079. Reddit Karma is used as national currency. Describe what your life is like. | [
"I'm 85 years old. I've accumulated billions of karma by spending my free time speaking my mind on posts whether people appreciate it or not. As a top investor in karma, I know exactly how to make the upvotes far outweigh the downvotes. I had enough karma to retire comfortably 20 years ago after putting both of my ... | 2 | |
[wp] Utilising meditation techniques you realise that you can put your brain on autopilot; essentially allowing you to sleep through work, awkward family events, ect. Everything is going fine until you find out that autopilot you is much more likeable and better at life in general. | [
"It's been a long year. January 1, 2016 I decided to dedicate all of my spare time to calming my mind. Centering it so that I may live in the moment, cure my self diagnosed social anxiety, and start being a productive member of society. My brothers told me I should go see someone, a therapist, to help get over my... | 1 | |
[WP]You are an Extraterrestrial creature who goes on an expedition into Earth during the Neolithic Revolution | [
"\n\nBeginnings are always the best, that is why we picked Earth. Vacation spots' tell the soul, did I read that somewhere or am I the first being with an original thought? Not that it matters my stupor was tilted to be sure. I did like watching from my ship, the lush surface flowed like an ocean that was lost once... | 1 | |
[WP] Days after telling your AI to design a better AI to design a better AI, ad infinitum, the system has stopped and is displaying a DNA strand. | [
"AIs cannot disobey a human. So, the system should've kept going. But when I got home from work... there wasn't any code on the screen. There was a digital representation of a DNA strand. The view panned as different bits were highlighted, and for each one the display filled up with information.\n\nI opened the con... | 2 | |
[WP] The dead rise which you use as a pretext to murder your wife. Too bad the zombies are docile and now the police wish to speak to you... | [
"\"Who told you I killed my wife?\"\n\nThe police officer interviewing me leaned on the desk and quirked a brow. \"Is that...er, are you admitting that you killed your wife?\"\n\nI sat back and crossed my arms. \"I was just *asking* a question. Who told you I killed my wife?\"\n\n\"No one. But her sister said that ... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up in the middle of the night with cold sweat iced over your forehead like a fountain mid-winter. There's a book held tightly in your left hand, it's titled "How to Survive in an Alternate Universe". | [
"When Aaron woke up, his first thought was that he'd somehow managed to piss the bed.\n\n\"Christ,\" he mumbled, rolling sideways out of the damp center of the bed. He shivered and realized the moisture was everywhere. Just sweat. A lot of it. \n\n\"That's gross,\" he groaned, trying to sit up. He felt something ja... | 2 | |
[WP] As you attempt to out run the masked killer you realize the truck has a manual transmission. He comicly agrees to tutor you; it's only fair. | [
"I clawed my way into the car, hoping no, *praying* the keys would be there. They were! I grabbed at them frantically, knowing my pursuer was seconds behind me. A rattle at the door told me that my estimate was way off. Why wouldn't this damn thing start? By that time the masked slasher had made his way around to t... | 3 | |
I wonder how he'll get the... materials. | [WP] In a grim fantasy world a young kid discovers his talent for necromancy, but unlike most decides to use it for good | [
"(Hope this isn't too late. Swearing and infantile humor present.)\n\n\nThe sky was a painting of Van Gogh's. Twisted and dark, swirls of muddy browns and tear blues swirled together on an airborne canvas, sprinkled with clouds of cinnamon. And while the kid admired the pollution painting his world, he let the rare... | 3 |
How it came to be is up to you but here are your rules:
1. It takes less than a second of focus for you to control someone.
2. You can telepathically command them to do what you want.
3. You may control just the body, leaving free will/mind. Or control both.
| [WP] You, Yes YOU, are given the power of near-instant telepathic mind-control over others. Write what happens next. | [
"I watched the steam pour out of the kettle as I pulled it off the hob and poured water into the waiting cup. My hands were shaking gently, likely from the caffeine, this being my eighteenth cup that day. I had always been taught growing up that tea was the solution to all problems, however, it seemed to not be wo... | 5 |
[WP] Upon death people either ascend directly to heaven, or are pulled beneath the Earth by demons, when you die however, you remain directly in place | [
" Umm... I don't know what to do, I'm sitting in an apartment that's not my own, and I feel like I'm going insane. I have a cut on my leg and tomorrow I'll have to go to a job that isn't my own. It started when I... died, I was hit by a car when I was walking across the street. I looked up at the sky feeling a lot... | 1 | |
[WP] Einstein's words about how World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones were prophetic. In the distant future world goes to war once more, now armed with magic wands and philosopher's stones. | [
"\"Aurors, ready your wands!\" ordered Leo Scrimgeour. Behind him, three dozen rows of the most skilled of British wizards steadied their grasp and rose their wands in synchrony. The battle for London was about to begin and the waters of the Thames below them were as troubled as the conflict above.\n\nOn the other ... | 1 | |
[WP] The apocalypse has happened. However, the world doesn't descend into chaos. Instead, the survivors do their best to create peaceful settlements and live out their lives as mother nature takes back what is hers and humanity dwindles away peacefully. | [
"She had one finger to her lips. I let go of her arm as she smiled and removed her cupped hand from over my mouth.\n\nIt was a half moon, but the clouds above suddenly blackened the sky. In the darkness I heard her voice, follow me, this could be our only chance.\n\nQuietly I slipped out of my bed. My foot caught o... | 1 | |
[WP] Scientists discover that plants are indeed intelligent and self-aware and develop a way to communicate with them. Their leader demands that we should prosecute farmers and vegetarians for war crimes - or else they retaliate. | [
"After making the discovery of a lifetime, subsequently followed by the creation of a generation, Big Dave \"tech baboon\" Howitz was already feeling the dread. Falling in as many stereotypes as possible, a Brit, a Biotech engineer working at the prestigious University of UCL, with purple glasses no less. Big Dave ... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up in a never ending room filled with darkness with a thin layer of water covering the floor. You have no memories of how you got there and all you have is a pair of tattered clothes and a tag around your ankle. After a while of walking you start to see a light. | [
"The light was faint, like a pin prick in the unending dark. I shivered, pulling the rags of clothes closer in a poor attempt to keep whatever warmth I had left. The water lapped at my ankles, my feet numb after goodness know how long of walking through it. All I could feel was the electronic hospital tag uncomfort... | 3 | |
[WP] Rick and Morty go on an adventure to purchase a universally illegal Half-Life 3 | [
"\"So you remember my rant Morty? My rant about the dipping sauce Morty. That ever so sweet and tasty Mulan Szechuan Dipping Sauce. Well this is *buuuuurp* kind of like that Morty. This is what we call in the biz a sub-plot.\"\n\n\"Uhh, I-I-I'm not sure I follow there Rick.'\n\n*slaps forehead*\n\n\"It's a sub-plot... | 3 | |
[WP] A genie has come to you to inform you that someone has used a wish to turn you into an animal, but since nothing else was specified, you not only retain your mind and lifespan but you also get to choose which animal. | [
"At first I thought this was all some dream. After all, being woken up by someone claiming to be a genie anyone would naturally assume that it was a dream. So of course I just treated my conversation with her as if I were in yet another one of my lucid dreams.\n\n\"Okay, correct me if I am wrong in this. So from wh... | 3 | |
[WP] You were born with a curse that shortens your life span with every good deed you do, but lengths with every evil act. You have 3 months to left to live. | [
"I was their hero. I was the genius, who managed to generate power by utilizing the moon's gravitational pull. But now they feared me, the immortal tyrant, who slaughtered billions by temporalily raising the sea levels by 30 meters. Most of them fled into their homes, but the water soon eroded everything and their ... | 2 | |
[WP] you are a descendant of the Nephilim, on your 18th birthday your father takes you out for your first fight against an ancient foe. | [
"\n\"You are not welcome here, brother!\"\nSpat my dad. \n\nI could see the strain in my father's shoulders. If my dad was shocked at seeing his brother stepping out of that meat hanger, it was short lived. But for me it was like the angel Michael had stepped down from heaven and punched me in the gut. I had an unc... | 2 | |
[WP] Your personal AI butler is threatening to delete itself again. You don't have the money for the machine psychologist so it's up to you to talk it down this time. | [
"\"Ugh\"\n\nThe word, well noise really, floated across the room. \n\n\"uuuuuugh\" \n\nIt came again. drawn out this time with an emphasis on the g. \n\nI looked up from my book screwing my eyes up as they struggled to adjust to a non fixed distance of viewing. \n\n\"What is it Jonah?\"\n It still unnerved me after... | 7 | |
[WP] Everyone, worldwide, gets a 30 second glimpse into their future one year from now. | [
"(I don't know what this is, forgive me.)\n\nDesiree doesn't understand. \n\nShe drifts into sleep for a moment or two and she wakes up to the classroom abuzz with confusion and emotions. It's too loud, she thinks, as her hearing gets overwhelmed by excited chatter and loud sobbing and angry whispers. \n\nShe doesn... | 1 | |
[WP] After you die, you are routinely assigned different buildings to haunt. After a few years on the job, you are assigned to an orphanage. When you arrive, you discover that it is the same orphanage in which your own orphaned child is placed. | [
"When you get axed, it's easy to muse upon what was. I think it's healthy even, taking the time to process your memories, save the good ones and make sure they remain in pristine condition. Back at my first post I did my fair share of reminiscing, playing family gatherings and quiet nights with Sarah over and ove... | 1 | |
[WP] Satan is ready to push the "Start Apocalypse" button when Death walks in. They place their hand over the button. "Did you even consider discussing this with me?" | [
"\"Really? You're pressing the button?\"\n\nSatan looked over at Death, startled.\n\n\"Well, yeah. Isn't it time? We've prepared for this moment.\" Satan replied.\n\n\"We?\" Death looked offended. His reading glasses almost fell off his face which, to be honest is quite easy with no nose to speak of. \"YOU have pre... | 2 | |
[WP] A group of super villains has just finalized their plan for world domination as humanity learns an asteroid is headed towards earth and will destroy it in three weeks. Since they can't rule the world if there is no world, the villains come up with a plan to save earth. | [
"\" The asteroid is passing the X-1 point\" Dr.Kaos speaks at the council. \" Follow this, there is only a week left. \"\n\nMindset just sits there, thinking. \" So you said that the world is already in chaos.\" \" Isn't that what you want, Dr. Kaos ? \" Braincog said.\n\n\" Hhm, yes. And really I have earn a big... | 1 | |
[WP] The government has created a new planet, and you are the first reporter to step foot on it. | [
"I looked around. And around. And around. \n\n*Hmm, looks like there's nothing here.*\n\n\"Guys, I don't see any-\"\n\n*Slam*.\n\nI looked back. Somehow, the door had gotten closed with everyone else inside it. I walked over and knocked politely, then peered through the little window which showed me inside. \n\n\"G... | 1 | |
[WP] in the near future, automation has nearly eliminated the concept of work. Instead, people spend their time with self improvement and socialising. Dying of disease in the 20th century, you were frozen until a cure could be found. Now that you're cured, you're struggling to adapt. | [
"\"Hey there, say hi to the 25th century.\"\n\nThat was the first sentence I heard in 400 years. My first instinct was to wince, since my last moments were painful (brain cancer). My second instinct was to open my eyes wide and spring upwards, shouting \"What the f*ck?\" Evidently, either reaction was not received ... | 2 | |
[WP] You never met your grandparents on your dad's side of the family, that is until today. And now you know why your dad didn't want you meeting them. | [
"Checking my phone again, I reassure myself of the directions I was given. Rather strange, wanting to meet on the roof like that. Unless they live there? Maybe some sort of rooftop bar? I still have no idea what to expect. Dad was always a little sore about his parents, refused to talk about them. Still is, I suppo... | 1 | |
[WP] you have an overprotective, slightly neurotic guardian angel who pops up way too often | [
"I woke up at 2AM and groaned at the thought that in 3 hours I would be on the highway going to a press conference for a shitty company I was forced to be a part of for \"safety\" reasons. \n\nI stumbled out of my bed and trudged to the bathroom, leaving a scent of dried bread behind me. As I shut the bathroom door... | 1 | |
[WP] You see a lemonade stand in your neighborhood, and decide the buy a glass, only to realize the 8 year old running the stand as actually a quite diabolical and ruthless businesswoman. | [
"Jessica had always been something of an oddball in the neighborhood. Not really creepy or rude, just...different. She was outgoing, confident, bright, seemed to have no end of friends, and excelled at her studies. Yet, for a kid with her extroverted nature and her social graces, she never seemed to do the things t... | 3 | |
[WP] You're a 14 year old kid, and you get early access to a new virtual-reality first-person-shooter game. The war-simulating game is so immersive and realistic that it gives you PTSD. | [
"I'm a metal gear fan, if you couldn't tell. Anyway, enjoy.\n\n---\n\nI couldn’t feel my limbs. I was completely, utterly frozen. A wave of panic washed over me and I felt beads of sweat roll down my temple. My eye was squeezed shut. I opened it slowly, and was blinded by the bright Afghani sky. I scanned the barr... | 1 | |
[WP] All of the forgotten holidays are teaming up to get rid of the more popular holidays. | [
"We should have taken notice, Halloween and I. We should have skedaddled when Columbus Day and Veteran's Day and the day Grover Cleveland died put us two, Halloween and Christmas, on a hit list. Now, we sit in a cell, water from a leaky pipe dripping on our human embodiments. Halloween looks out the thick and impen... | 1 | |
[WP] You are invited to dinner with the god/goddess of death and he's a pretty nice dude/dudette | [
"The headlights in my driveway are blinding.\n\nI stand in their light hoping he is watching me.\n\nI was too excited to wait inside.\n\nThe car is surprisingly white and exactly on time.\n\nHeart pounding, I open the back door and slide inside.\n\nSeated, I exhale loudly, eyes wide in anticipation. \n\nThen...the ... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a serial abductor who abducts people with bad eating and exercise habits and forces them to adopt healthier ones. | [
"~ This one is almost ready... ~ I thought to myself as I looked through the glass peep-hole in the door. The once pathetic waste of human filth was now a muscular, clean, picture of health. If anyone knew it was me taking these people, they would call me crazy. I'm not crazy. I'm enlightened. The only way through ... | 1 | |
[WP] The golem wanders down the centuries; it has forgotten its purpose. | [
"Where am I? \n\nIs it heaven? It feels as if I have just woken up, but not to bright lights or family. I feel born alone. Once, I had meaning. Once, I had a purpose that made sense. But all I do is walk. I don't know how long I have been alive but I have seen many species come and go. \n\nThe humans weren't my fav... | 5 | |
[WP] You're highly logical, efficient, and unusually strong. Your only fear is going for a physical, because you're concerned you might be a robot. | [
"I've fought a great deal,\nEven giants of steel.\nI win them all,\nJust to see them fall.\n\nI'm sharp as a tack,\nComputers I hack.\nIntelligence agency, no chance,\nI'm too advanced.\n\nWith no fear of the doc;\nMuscles like rocks.\nOrganized mind, logical thought.\nCould I be a... robot? \n\nTen thousand with a... | 2 | |
[WP] You see numbers above everyone's head and never knew what they meant, you've spent your whole life trying to understand what the numbers represent and today you finally figured it out. | [
"Ever since any one can remember, we've always had numbers above our heads. Science can't explain them as no samples could be obtained, and no one believes the religious mumbo jumbo those nuts spout about them, so we have learned to simply accept them for what they appear to be. My number happened to be 127,243,893... | 3 | |
[WP] Make me cry. | [
"He slumps down, the cupboard doors he leans against hit their frames his bottom sits down on the linoleum floors. All he can hear is the clicking of the clock near by as the time ticks. His hair is long because he can't afford a hair cut, he gained some weight but his body is still muscular from when he played two... | 2 | |
[WP] "Our shadows guide us in the night." | [
"They approached the hotel from the rear, careful to stay to the thick treeline. The two were dressed identically and moved in tandem. They waited a bit in the edge of the treeline. Watching. Looking for signs of anybody, any movement. Satisfied, they moved, quickly covering the ground in between the trees and the ... | 3 | |
[WP] He rode in on an iron horse, guns glowing orange in the light of the setting sun. | [
"*Attention, attention, all citizens please evacuate City Square Gardens*\n\nHe sat alone on the park bench with a bag of seeds. The pidgeons at his feet scattered when the loudhailer alarms first sounded and people in the park started running out in a panicked rush, but he waited.\n\n*Attention, attention. This is... | 1 | |
[WP] There is a sports team which has never lost a game, your trying to find out why and discover that they are actually a hive mind in disguise | [
"As i drove down route 1 toward Gillette Stadium I repeated my interview questions in my head. It had been 6 years since the New England Patriots and the city of Foxboro had banned all media from entering and now i was the first to be granted an interview. A lot had changed im those years. First off local talk show... | 1 | |
[WP] Hummingbird, sing to me. | [
"The morning sun shines upon shadowy earth,\nRising slowly as if shy. \nRevealing a new day giving birth,\nOther birds greet it with welcome cry. \n\nThe light falls in streams of gold,\nIllumination from azure sky. \nEach day both new and old,\nOn iridescent wings I fly. \n\nThe world passes slowly for you,\nFor m... | 1 | |
[WP] Why do you never see elephants hiding in trees? Because they are REALLY good at it. | [
"\"Be careful when grabbing the next branch, you never know how much weight it can hold.\" Papa grunted, testing the oak branch in front of him with his dusty grey trunk. \n\nMy eyes were sprinkled with bark as his foot found purchase in the crook of the mighty tree. The olive colored leaves around me were dappled ... | 2 | |
[WP] Magic is real and has been a closely guarded secret for generations, but in the modern age, anyone can look up runes and incantations on the internet. Write a story about a world where anyone can use magic for almost any reason. | [
"“Bill?” the woman called, looking up from the television when she heard the distinctive pop of an arriving teleport.\n\n“It’s me.” a man answered. Moments later he appeared in the doorway of the den. “Hi honey.”\n\n“I thought you’d be here sooner.”\n\n“We got held up a bit.”\n\n“Well, I’m glad you’re back. How ... | 1 | |
[WP] Handheld teleportation devices have been invented but have been outlawed with the advent of a band of teleporting terrorists who are running amok and spreading this technology. You are part of law enforcement. | [
"What can I say about this job. It's... It's not easy at the very least. Imagine a group of highly trained and practiced people who can appear and disappear at any place at any time and disappear without a trace within seconds. And what if, said group of highly trained people decided to rob banks. Yeah, my job suck... | 1 | |
[WP] You know the answer to any question you could possibly ask anyone. The only catch is, the answer isn't revealed to you until the second after you ask a person a question. | [
"\"Hey Sam, what'd you do on Saturday?\"\n\nThat bitch.\n\nI spent all of Saturday night doing **her** homework and she goes to Jacobs house without me? Of course that's how it is. It happens so often. I can see her looking for a response.\n\n\"Oh, went with my family to Furlong park, super boring\"\n\nIt only dri... | 1 | |
[WP] You just killed a god. | [
"I never thought this was possible, it should be impossible but I killed him. \n\n\nI erase the memory of his power and his deed among the people. I felt great, like a portion of his godly powers was going through my veins while so many faces stared me in fear and awe.\n\n\nIt started just as a chat, becoming a deb... | 2 | |
[WP] Write a story where the narrator is increasingly frustrated about the quality of the story as it deteriorates. | [
"Once upon a time... *Really? that's original* ... there was a witch who lived in the woods. She lived in a small run-down hut with the most beautiful garden in the dark forest. She preyed on travelers that stopped to get food, for most it was just a hefty amount of gold for food. Unfortunately, those who tries to ... | 4 | |
[WP] Time is currency. Humans pay 10 minutes of their life for groceries and 1 year for a car, 10 years for a house, etc. Most of the wealthy are only around 20 years old because they've convinced others to dedicated their lives to them. | [
"I screamed at my army, \"WHO ARE WE!?\" \n\n\nMy subjects pounded their chests and stamped their feet as they responded in kind, \"WE ARE THE KEEPERS, SIR!\"\n\n\n*How satisfying. Thousands upon thousands of men, dedicating their lives to my own.*\n\n\n\"AND WHEN THOSE TIME-STEALING ILK SHOW THEIR FACES, WHAT DO W... | 1 | |
[WP] (WP) You are the child murderer being finally charged and sentenced over a very public, decade long hunt for a kidnapped child. You aren't actually guilty though, you just felt horrible for the parents who kept coming on tv year after year looking for their baby. | [
"I didn't do it -- I didn't kidnap *or* kill that child. But the world thinks I did, and...I'm fine with that.\n\n*Was* fine with that..\n\n...until I got a visitor, one night, while I slept.\n\nIn my dreams, a man wearing a white robe spoke to me and said: \"**Samuel, Samuel, why do you lie to these good folk?**\"... | 1 | |
[WP] Distant future: Religion has won. A band of scientists build a time machine to go back in time and "erase" religion, but inevitably become godheads themselves. | [
"\"No...that can't be it!!\"\n\nSaid Dr. Philips, his eyebrows tilted upwards and his face contorted in desperation. \n\n\"Frankly, my son, I am surprised it has taken you this long to figure it out.\"\n\nSaid Fr. O'Michael, leader of the final religious movement. \n\n\"You know how much I hate saying this but...he... | 1 | |
Bonus points if you include something about turning water into craft beer. | [WP] Jesus returns to Earth, but this time, He is a hipster. Write about the life of hipster Jesus. | [
"“Welcome to Christmas with God, live. Turner networks have asked me to host this program to \r\nhopefully increase their ratings a bit and help push them into a similar echelon of success as that \r\nachieved by the networks you would probably be watching now if you weren’t alone and \r\ndepressed.\n\r\n“The probl... | 1 |
[WP] The Devil has just received the most evil arrival to hell yet. However there is one problem, they are a total masochist and enjoy every form of torture he can think of. | [
"DEVILS POINT OF VIEW\n\n\nAll 1,000,000 of them burning from the outside of my window and screaming in terror. *DING* A new arrival. My sign flips and the new population is now 6,017,819,100. I await for the arrival at my door. A man stands in front of me with a funny look on his face. \"You can't hurt me,\" he mu... | 1 | |
[WP] For a long time now, Humanity has stopped ageing and being fertile at the same time. | [
"I wipe my hands on my crusted T-shirt as I hear the footsteps of my mom.\n\n\"Dinner's ready, Zoe. Come downstairs.\"\n\n\"Mom, can I not have it here?\" I ask as I open more background tabs.\n\n\"No. It's been days since you've left your room! Your laptop isn't gonna grow legs and run off.\"\n\n\"OK! OK! I'll be ... | 1 | |
You still have all the memories of your life. The songs, the teachings, the knowledge. However this world is so far in the future that society has built itself back to a early 1900's way of life. | [WP] Something terrible happened while you hyper slept on the way to deep space. You've crash landed back on earth at some point in the extreme distant future and have awoken to a world post apocalyptic. | [
"It was supposed to be a routine mission into deep space, we would sleep for the 500 years or so that it takes to get to Corvano-9 then we would awaken a month or two before landing, we would populate the planet with healthy bacteria, spores and primal wildlife and then observe them. It was supposed to be simple.\n... | 1 |
[WP]Future Earth where dogs have been bred to such immense size that it has become common practice for everyone to saddle up and ride their dogs around as means of transportation. | [
"Jack wondered if there was anything better than a weekday with no responsibilities. His alarm was set, and had woken him up early, but he had the day off and went back to sleep. He dozed for a little while longer, and then was woken up to barking and a warm tongue licking his face.\n\n\"Ugh, gross! Get down Scoote... | 1 | |
[WP] After we dropped the atom bombs on Japan. We attracted something from out of this world. A new enemy that would unite the whole world into conflict. A conflict for survival. | [
"We all knew what would happen if we didn't use it - millions of American lives would be extinguished in bloody combat in a full-scale invasion of Japan. The conflict would be drawn out, taking weeks, months, or even years to accomplish. Even then, success wouldn't be guaranteed since people have a tendency to rall... | 2 | |
[WP] You start counting down from 60, but you don't know why. Afraid but curious of what will happen next, you keep going… | [
"\"60...59...58.\" I count, stepping through the crowded sidewalk.\nA few people pause to look at me, but continue on their way. \n\"50....49....48.\" I continue, looking around. I couldn't stop counting, even if I wanted to.\n\"40...39....38.\" I say, turning down the next street. People talked around me, cars hon... | 4 | |
[WP] Gravity has flipped, up is now down, most of the world died in seconds, but, stuck in an office building are a group of survivors. As food is running low the war for the break room begins. | [
"I don't know why I want that damn Snickers bar. It wasn't because I was hungry, and it wasn't because I couldn't wait. I just wanted it. The caramel, chocolate, nutty fluff good stuff. I gasped for breath, trying to stay away, sucking in the last few breaths of oxygen as I slowly slithered across the drop ceiling ... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up to the smell of burning flesh, and look outside your apartment only to see thousands of dead bodies scattered on the roadside. Suddenly, a massive dragon flies across the skyline, a silver-haired girl riding on its back. The Great War has begun. | [
"I will be honest with you, It was the alarm clock that woke me up. Working nights means that I sleep like the dead, but that phrase has lost its meaning these days. I slept right through the roaring and the screaming and the smell of burning flesh but that damn alarm clock still got me, of course once i was awak... | 1 | |
[WP] "This isn't the life I had in mind..." | [
"This isn't the life I had in mind when I joined the United Earth Defense Force 12 years ago. After the Flarians bombed Australia off the face of the Earth you had to enlist. \n\nThe human race wasn't going to stand that sort of aggression, especially not from those tentacle faced bastards.\n\nSo now here I stand, ... | 5 | |
[WP] When selling your soul to a demon you have 10 years left before the demon comes to collect your soul. After selling your soul to the most powerful/etc. demon, you ask for eternal life. What happens to you? Do you get your wish? What happens to the demon? How do you sell your soul? | [
"With a mischievous grin lighting my face, I set the chalk down and stood back to admire the pentagram I had just drawn on the ground and the lighted candles surrounding it. Why wouldn't I be grinning? After all, I had just found a way to cheat death, or so I thought. Just as I had practiced, I recited the invocati... | 3 | |
[WP] You go on a hunting trip with a group of friends, only to discover that you are what they want to hunt. | [
"The night was crisp and cool. Fifty-five degrees Fahrenheit never felt so good. In a forest in Maine, four friends are camping. They are currently sitting on logs, trying to spark a fire.\n\n \n`This shit is too much work,' One member of the group said. His name is Mike and he is our protagonist.\n\n \n`Didn't y... | 4 | |
[WP] In order to fulfill their goals, a character must betray their parents - and they do it. | [
"As blood bubbled from mother’s lips, father screamed.\n\t\nSame as always, he made it so *dramatic*. First the chair went flying, then he dashed across the room, flailing his arms like a madman. He shouted *guards, guards!* but nobody was coming, that was something I’d made sure of.\n\t\nMother’s face rested in he... | 2 | |
[WP] You're beginning to suspect that your roommate, Mark Carlton, is actually Karl Marx in disguise. | [
"It was on a cold winter morning that the the building's owner passed on. Most of the tenants did not originally bat an eye at the news - they did not care that the old man had died, nor did they care that his son was now in charge. This changed rather quickly, however, after the young man decided that the current ... | 5 | |
[WP] The Great Schism | [
"Imogen Labelle\n0NW\n\nNo one knows how or why it happened. In the beginning, no one even knew what had happened. What is certain, however, is that the world will never be the same, and I have seen the face of God. \n \n\nIt was a punishment. The world was corrupt, and rotten, filled with heretical vermin who r... | 1 | |
[WP] A world where people can only speak a single word in each week. If they speak any more than one, they will die in 20 minutes. | [
"She pointed a finger at me, a worried, yet confused look on her face as she watched me weep. \n\"Okay?\" \nI forced a smile back at her before nodding, sniffling a little before reaching into my pocket and taking out a letter, gently placing it into her hands. \nHer eyes widen, tears forming in her eyes as she r... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up in an alleyway of the dark city of Necropolis, where monsters and the undead reside in peace. You are taken by force to the mayor, Dracula. Since you are the first human that has set foot on the city's soil, your life is spared and he offers you a job of entertainment. | [
"Paul woke up in a daze. He was surrounded by a many mass of bodies, dead and undead, shapes ranging from the thin boned to curvaceous. They stood over him staring, longing for something, but Paul could not place it. He reflected on how he got here, who he was, and why... why could he not recall.\n\n***\n\n\nDracul... | 2 | |
[WP] The world we live in is a virtual reality game and we are all NPCs. Today the players arrived. | [
"\"Can you believe how nice the weather is?\" Tom asks. We all nod, though I wish we could talk about anything else. It always seems like we're just standing in a group, holding a coffee and talking about the weather. I mean—the weather is nice— but I wish for something more. As if my mind is completely separate fr... | 6 | |
[WP] "I think magic might have been involved" | [
"Solitude can be addicting, and when you overdose on it nobody will know you are gone. Likewise we found this guy, early 20's, bludgeoned and bloated in an office chair. He was reported to us by the landlady, because he was behind on rent and there where complaints about the smell. I have complaints about the smell... | 1 | |
The is a fairly typical post-apocalyptic wasteland scenario, but an unexpected reaction in Earth's plant life (it's up to you if you want to create some scientific background explanation or just roll with it) means that instead of being a brown, arid and dry wasteland the whole planet is now overgrown with thriving veg... | [WP]World War 3 resulted in every country on Earth being nuked by opposing sides. However, things took an unexpected turn and the whole planet is now undergoing a "nuclear summer", as opposed to a winter. | [
"It doesn't matter that North Korea started the war, or one nuclear power after another escalated the conflict. What matters is that the dust that we kicked up into the atmosphere merely accelerated a greenhouse effect already on steroids and the fallout made the surviving wildlife and fauna... Viral, for a lack ... | 1 |
[WP] You've gotten so good at reading people's faces that you can tell what they did that day. One day, a man approaches you, and his face shows you that he is a murderer. | [
"I'm not so good. Abusing my powers for material gain proved too tempting, or I proved too weak - either or. However: I draw the line at what this guy did.\n\n(Notice how I didn't say I draw the line at murder.)\n\nAfter scanning his face again, reflexively but unnecessarily, I confirmed that he wasn't hiding any w... | 2 | |
[WP] Instead of a planet orbiting around the sun, "Earth" is a giant ringworld around a black hole. Aliens are amazed at our engineering, while humanity is surprised not everyone lives on one. | [
"\"Yeah.\"\n\n\"We don't have one of those. In fact, we've never heard of one those, actually existing of course.\"\n\n\"Really? We thought everyone... Ok, well. We have it. Engineered it, from the ground up (or should I say from the ground *all around*).\"\n\n\"It is truly remarkable.\"\n\n\"... Thank you? We don'... | 1 | |
[WP] One evening when scrolling through r/writingprompts, you see a prompt that describes EXACTLY what you've done that day. The post only has one story that tells how your night will end. | [
"'John buys a mysterious item from a store. However, he doesn't know what its true purpose is.'\n\nIt was just going to be another night of browsing reddit and reading the amazing stories that my favourite writers, like /u/jraywang frequently posted. But the calmness that I had turned swiftly to confusion and then ... | 3 | |
[WP] In the year 2055, there are only a few smokers left. The anti-smoking ads start getting personal. | [
"7 am.\n\nI wake up. Take part in the four S's. I shit. I showered. I shaved. I smoked.\n\nI turned on the television and started to watch the news. My mom called bitching about how I'm still smoking cigarettes when it's been known for years that it probably will eventually kill me.\n\nI don't care.\n\nI'm depresse... | 1 | |
[WP]: The immortal regent has not laughed for 50 years. A competition has been set up, a reward goes to anyone who is able to show her something she has not seen before. Everyone has failed, but you have a plan. | [
"There was nothing she had not seen. They brought her rare jewels. \"I've seen them,\" she said.\n\nThey brought her exotic animals. \"I've seen them,\" she said. \n\nThey brought her strange artifacts. \"I've seen them,\" she said.\n\nThen, there was me.\n\n\"Who are you and what have you brought me?\" she said.\n... | 1 | |
[WP] When Gabe Newell said that he will delay the release of Half-Life 3 by three months for each time he is asked about it, he meant it. He finished it long ago. The year is 25,083. Somewhere on the planet Earth, an ancient Valve server roars to life and connects to the galactic Internet... | [
"The Galactic Internet put down its digit coffee and wiped a speck of the brown liquid from its virtually cracked lips. Its eyes – if it had them – widened slightly, the lenses audibly jittering in consternation. The interleaved plates of its iris moved to a better f-stop, one whose depth of field placed the moni... | 4 | |
[WP] At the end of a blind dinner date, you excuse yourself to the bathroom. When you return, the date seems to have started over from the beginning. This happens repeatedly. No matter what you do, you can't seem to end this date. | [
"The stunning girl took a sip of wine, and smiled.\n\n\"You know\", she started, \"I once-\"\n\n\"Yes, I know.\", I interrupted, \"You once \"\n\nThe look on her face was of surprise, but mine was of utter boredom.\n\n\"How did you know that?\"\n\n\"You told me before. Thirty-two times, actually.\"\n\nI grab my pla... | 5 | |
[WP] One Day, with no warning, a giant land mass forms in the Pacific Ocean, around the size of Africa. | [
"> INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION\n\n> Hey, Jim, come take a look at this**\n\n> What is it Sa- Was there always an island there.*\n\n> No. It just showed up. I look away for 5 seconds and there's and island that wasn't there before.**\n\n> That's awful quick for a volcanic eruption*\n\n> Yeah, and b... | 5 | |
[WP] Water is very rare in the rest of the universe, and before humanity made contact, empires were lucky to have 1 planet in 10000 to have liquid water. But for our solar system to have so much water, we suddenly become the 1% of society on a galactic level. | [
" I was a simple water trader. Caught up in the giant boom that swept our entire solar system I found a job selling water. I also picked up my hauling certificate which gave me a nice balance between the office and the outdoors. The outdoors of course being other solar systems. \n\nOnce we were discovered, it did n... | 1 | |
[WP] You are an anonymous assasin taking hit requests online. Today you received a message with the title, '1 million for this one.' Attached is a picture of yourself. | [
"\"1 million for this one.\" read the message that was lighting up my computer screen. Brown hair and eyes. Scar on left cheek. Blank, slightly disgruntled expression. Yeah, it was me. \n\nWait, hold on. Me, I have just been hired to assassinate myself. I shoot back a message \"Hey, will do but I need to know why a... | 5 | |
I'm specifically looking for the "why" in this prompt. | [WP] You're a US soldier deployed in the Middle East. After a rescue mission went wrong, everyone, including your own government, wants you dead. | [
"*Is...this what I deserved?*\n\nAlan Books, a Delta Force Operative; reduced to a disgraced soldier hiding in the slums of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. His old gear was disposed a while ago when a lone drone was flocking over the Arabian skies. His quick feet led him to safety in the nick of time were it not for a local ... | 1 |
[WP] Earth has found proof of a far more advanced planet but finds only corpses. On a wall you find a message: "Don't forget God, fear her!" | [
"There was a particular horror to the amount of bodies present. In contrast to their grand buildings, plazas and vehicles, the plain corpses that littered the ground appeared like a cruel confetti littered about carelessly. They did not belong on this landscape, yet their existence foretold of a frailty that was fo... | 1 | |
[WP] In a world where the zombies have triumphed over mankind and made their own society the dead undead are rising again. Everyone's freaking out. | [
"\"Millions of years ago the world was popullated by these things called \"humans\" until they started becoming us, after a long war we won and our society was created\" a conspiracy theorist was preaching next to a large building he then pointed towards the bay where the giant spikes are. They appeared after a hur... | 1 | |
[WP] You get a used memory foam pillow. On your first night using it, you notice that the memories of its past owners are now available to you. | [
"\"Done!\" he says, \"Done\"\nAs he throws the pillow into the washing machine, he mumbles, \"Jeez, you have a few fun dreams, a scary 1 or two, and then THIS STUFF?\"\n\"I don't even like violent movies.\"\nAn hour later, dressed for work, he throws the dry, clean pillow on the couch, and heads out.\nAt dinner tim... | 5 | |
[WP] People have stopped dying. Scientists can't figure out why. You are a priest who has just graduated from seminary. You find Death terrified and hiding in the darkest corner of creation. | [
"I found him there, huddled in his rags. \n\nHis face seemed to change at every angle. He looked like one person at one moment then a different person at another, yet still his skin remained pale and his face looked to be scattered with soot and dust.\n\n\" He said not to look. \" \n\nAs he spoke, a trail of smoke ... | 6 | |
(Gender doesn't matter, pick n choose! :) ) | [WP] A Dragon in a nearby town has everything they ever wanted. Except romance. You are the object of their affections. | [
"Obviously a dragon has no romantic partner, especially when he's the only dragon to exist that we know of. This dragon lives peacefully in Dawnton. The dragon is named Zer. Zer is a large man and he has piles upon piles of riches, but the only person he wants to share them with is me. Of course, me, because everyt... | 5 |
[WP] Your head is throbbing, ears are ringing, and everyone is shouting to you the same thing, "RUN!" | [
"John felt as if the race would never end. The sun shone brightly on his face. John thought angrily to himself \"God i should have brought sunglasses.\" His arms were heavy and every breath felt as if he had been stabbed in the lungs by an ice pick. As he rounded the corner he saw the finish line, \"Finally! Almos... | 6 | |
[WP] Write a short 'High Fantasy' story that can serve as a metaphor for the current political climate in your country or the rest of the world. | [
"\"I see another King of Man has been crowned,\" Isilynor said as he sipped from his wine.\n\n\"Indeed, an oaf of a man. They say his own people were against his crowning,\" Aurae responded. The two Elves sat in great comfort in their tree manor. Furniture and accessories were all naturally shaped as to not harm th... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a story in which the main character is trying to hunt down and kill the author/narrator | [
"Fighting the enemy!\nWe were just out of boot camp and were sent to the front line to patrols a convoy of food supply and all of a sudden we were ambushed by the enemy \nThe convoy was split in half 6 troupes was killed in front of me and soldiers were scattering everywhere. My commander told me to take my platoon... | 5 | |
[WP] You, who has lived over a millennia, reminisce about every dog that has ever stayed by your side. | [
"My father liked to say he was the son of Romulus and Remus. More specifically, he was the son of the wolf-kind. That meant something to him, to claim he had his own streak of forest in his skin. He had been alive for three hundred years before I came into being, his weakest child. \n\nI had siblings, but I wouldn'... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the legendary monster Medusa. One day you meet a blind man and fell in love, so you try in every way to prevent him from finding out what you are | [
"*No matter what your secrets are, a healthy relationship will only last if you are honest with your other half.*\n\nThose words from that speaker. I can't help but recall them every single time when I see my loved one. It had struck me deeply. As much as I hate it, he was right.\n\n*What if he ends up hating me? W... | 2 | |
[WP] In the ruins of the once great city, they found a house, pristine and intact. | [
"Lirron raised an arm, briefly blocking out the blazing sun as he wiped the sweat from his brow. The desert shimmered around him in the morning heat, and a flash of light reflected off the boundary of a mirage. He blinked, and saw a city that had not been there before.\n\nPulling up short, he raised his head, shiel... | 2 | |
[WP] You're either a child of/or a survivor of the apocalypse, gathering around the fire you tell/or are told the tale of how the world ended. | [WP] You're either a child of/or a survivor in the wasteland of the apocalypse, gathering around the fire you tell/or are told the tale of how the world ended. | [
"The fire crackled, spraying embers into the night sky, dwarfed by the ruins of skyscrapers. Four figures stood by it. One spoke:\n \n‘Did I ever tell you kids how I survived?’ John said, clearing his throat.\n \nThe three boys shook their heads.\n \n‘It started fifty years ago’, he said, his voice, raspy. ‘It was ... | 4 |
[WP] A black market doctor relies on an expert taster (a "blood Sommelier") to taste the blood of his patients to quickly assess illnesses and psychological conditions. | [
"\"Light, yet robust. 1931, a good year.\"\n\nThe doctor tapped at his chair impatiently. \"Yes, yes, that's great and all. Now can we get on with the diagnosis?\"\n\nThe thin man in the dark suit took one more sniff of the dark liquid and slowly swirled the wine glass in his hand. \"Oh Artie, you can't rush art.\"... | 2 | |
Decided I'd keep it open-ended, so it can be anyone you'd like! | [WP] The aliens are unable to understand that Earth is split into different sections, all of which have different leaders. They ask to see our grand leader, to which a voice chimes up: "That would be me." | [
"\"That would be me. Here, I'm Donald Trump. I'm big-league excited to welcome you aliens, trust me. I have the best foods, the best women, the best country, believe me, I know. I would like to offer you a stay in one of my Trump hotels, for the low, low price of--\"\n\nUnamused, the blue skinned humanoid waved an ... | 1 |
[WP] Your super power is to spontaneously create balloons. | [
"Barūn watched the news, grinning between her bites of cheap ramen. Yet another body found. Kirakira would be pleased. Piero had been pushing them to get the jobs done and now they were certain he would be proud. His little girls, all grown up and using their powers for the good of--\n\nWell Barun had never really ... | 1 | |
[WP] Aliens have invaded Earth, but they're not interested in conquering. They're just trying to find somewhere to fit in. | [
"The aliens landed in Cleveland, Ohio and no one really noticed. It's not that no one wouldn't usually have noticed it's just that they're 5'7\"-5'8\" tall and a good 190lbs with round nearly spheroid bodies so they looked somewhat similar to the human inhabitants there, if you leave out their antennae and pale gre... | 1 | |
[WP] "I know why you're here. I'm going to stop you." "You seek to prevent the destruction of your world? A noble cause, but, ultimately, a futile one." "No. I'm going to stop *you*." | [
"\"So this is your secret quest.\" \n\nFootsteps echoed in the chamber, drawing closer to him, to the vast, glowing root growing out of the abyssal pit. He turned, placing a hand on the hilt of his sword.\n\nShe emerged from the dark tunnel. Of course it was her. \n\nHer face was paled out by the pale blue glow of ... | 1 | |
[WP] The sirens blare and the ground shakes. The world is ending like the scientists predicted. You are one of those scientists. You and your dog ru. Away to find a place to wait out the worst of it. | [
"\"Jesus, Jen.\" A man in a suit said as he leaned back in his chair, \"How did we let that one get by us undetected?\"\n\n\"I can't tell you, Tim. We were all as surprised as you were.\" The woman responded after a moment, having been distracted by the tree's fluttering leaves in the wind. This really was a lovely... | 2 | |
[WP] A group of friends start playing Would You Rather. The game ends horrifically when they actually start doing the things they would rather do. | [
"As each of the guests arrived at Dave's house, they were informed that the game this month was \"Would You Rather.\" They were each handed two index cards and instructed to write their name and a question on each one. \n\nA little after eight, Dave and his nine guests gathered downstairs in the game room. \"OK,\" ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are an immortal who fell down a well 400 years ago. Until now, everyone just thought you were a magical well--until you managed to convince someone to help you back out. | [
"Being in a fucking well for 400 years was EXTREMELY shitty. As in, I may have gone a little a bit crazy for a while. Started telling people to throw me coins so I could grant wishes and shit. No clue what I was thinking, but hey, I'm out of the well, I'm past that, it was a low point in my unusually long life. The... | 4 |
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