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[WP] You have the ability to pause time, but still age when time is paused and now your 5th grade teacher is getting suspicious. | [
"\"Dio, how old are you again?\" Mrs. Araki asked.\n\n\"Thir-eleven.\" Dio replied, as he packed up his big and started walking out the classroom. There was a bounce in his step, he had stopped time and copied Jonathon's test answers.\n\n\"You're quite tall for an eleven year old.\" Mrs. Araki noted, taking a long ... | 1 | |
[WP] You find a way to analyse all the electronic data stored on a person, and this allows you to predict them. You're about to look up your first person. | [
"There was a time where we didn’t know what to do with all the information we had. There was so much of it, but it was stored all over the place: banks knew where and when you spent your money, supermarkets and online retailers knew what you bought, social networks saved whatever you shared and who your friends wer... | 1 | |
[WP] In our world we dream up stories of Magic, in their world, they dream up stories of Technology. | [
"The dragon waited patiently for the young prince. The child loved his stories, and the beast was more than willing to tell them. The only thing a dragon loved more than shiny objects was praise and attention. Every day, the toddler brought him a gift and sat at the entrance of his cave, eagerly waiting for a ne... | 1 | |
[WP] You've just realized that you're in a book, and, to your despair, it's a really GOOD one. | [
"Fran stared at the mirror, locking eyes with her reflection. She couldn't quite say why she found this activity so compelling, but such had been her morning; she had found herself enthralled with the strangest things ever since she had awoken beneath a column of dust motes glittering in the summer sun. Every objec... | 1 | |
[WP] "You said you'd make it all better!" "Well, I didn't specify what "it" was, now did I?" | [
" It started with a genie, now the world is completely different. I probably should have thought before making wishes but I'm a complete idiot so there probably wasn't a hope for me. I was a normal guy, I didn't look good, I was kind of unhealthy, and I didn't really like my life. I didn't even have much money so ... | 1 | |
[WP] The world sings praise about how you, The White Titan, finally defeated The Mad Villain, Enigma. But all you really want to do, is to hug your son one more time and tell him how much you love him. | [
"**Narrator:**After defeating The Mad Villian, all in the land sang songs honoring The White Titan; all, except one, The White Titan himself, who sits in his modest house on the outskirts of town, an outsider in the world he saved. You see, after the story gets passed around a bit, it becomes overembelished and str... | 1 | |
[WP]"Is there anyone here who isn't an alien infiltrator?". Only one guy put up his arm. | [
"\"Ok, let me try this again.\" The once measly 5 ft 5 tall UN representative was now over 10 feet tall and nearly tearing through his own skin, all the while throwing his hands up in the air with an annoyed tinge to his voice.\n\n\"Is there anyone here who isn't an alien infiltrator, **BESIDES** Dan?\"\n\nAt first... | 1 | |
[WP] Make a everyday thing sound as terrifying as possible. | [
"It sat in the corner of the room, an ominous rumbling emanating from deep within. It's single red eye pierced the darkness, not quite bright enough to see more than the silhouette of the crouching beast. It was frothing at the mouth. Not the white foam of a rabid dog in a cage but one that was crimson-tinged, a ha... | 1 | |
[WP] You have always been able to tell when people are lying to you because their skin has a faint blue glow around it. One day you are watching the news with your mother when she comments how sad it is about the recent murder in your town. Suddenly her skin starts glowing... | [
"\"How sad about that kid.\" she said as she watched the news anchor report on a kid who was caught in the crossfire between two rival gangs across town.\n\nShe was glowing blue. She was lying.\n\nNow, you would think this would worry me, with my powers and all. People glow blue when they lie. Super useful right? H... | 1 | |
[WP] You are Something. You whisper in the ears of humans, warning them about the future. You are why people say "Something tells me so and so." One day, a little boy looks over his shoulder and says "Thanks for the advice." | [
"How can he see me? It doesn't make sense. \n\"Hello?\" I looked at him with a confused look.\n\"Hello thingy, thank you for your advice because you told me to buy ice cream the bad kid didn't see me\"\nHe said while licking his bubble gum flavored ice cream and looking at me with his shiny eyes. \"You're welcome?\... | 4 | |
[WP] The "Animal Kingdom" experiences an unexpected coup and is replaced by the "Democratic Republic of Animals" | [
"\"We have slain the masters!\" yelled the bonobo. He held a decapitated lion head in his mouth as he climbed a large rock, where he could attract a large audience. Reaching the top of the rock, he stretched his arm forward, displaying the lion's head to all in dramatic fashion.\n\n\"The feline master race is gone.... | 2 | |
[WP] You acquire a genie, it grants endless wishes but with gaps of 1 year to recharge; What happens in the intervening years? | [
" I'm pretty lucky, I changed the world for the better and have a list of wishes that I thought of every possible backfire for. The first wish I did kind of mess up but only in a way that effected me in a not so bad way, at first I was freaking out but I learned to be ok with it. I found a genie about a month ago,... | 1 | |
[WP] Everyone keeps telling you not to trust your advisor. He even looks and acts stereotypically evil. But he isn't, at all. | [
"Everyone hated Nefari. I knew it, he knew it, the whole damn world knew it. That didn't change a damned thing. He was the best advisor I ever had. Sure he has his little thing with the snakes, and the creepy goatee he keeps twiddling, but he's the only one I know who has any god-damned balls. \n\nHe was the one wh... | 1 | |
[WP] After a rough day at work, you lose it and punch your bathroom mirror. To your surprise, it goes into the mirror without breaking it. You climb through, and enter the Mirrorverse. | [
"On the other side of the mirror was a room nearly identical to the one I had just left. My anger at this point had subsided and been replaced by curiosity.\n\nI opened the cupboard and checked the other side. I could not see myself on the other side, but the cupboard opened nontheless. I looked above the mirror an... | 1 | |
[WP] Pulse, blood pressure, temperature...no matter what measure you use, medically speaking, you should be dead or dying. You feel great, though. What makes this possible, however, will be life-changing. | [
" My life is so different now... the problem is I don't know what to do. I'm on my way to a family owned morgue to try to get a job... I'm risking everything on the fact they won't call someone or talk about what I am. If that doesn't work I'll have to find other methods to keep my health... I'll probably have to... | 1 | |
[WP] In a world where everyone has superpowers- yours is unique. You are Normal-Man, and you help superheroes solve problems superpowers can't fix. | [
" \"So I…” The muscle bound Diamond Warrior leafs through his notes, trailing. If there was one power the invincible brawler lacked, it was organization.\n\n \"Enable the User Auto Sync in Options.” I complete, trying my best to hold back the exasperation building deep inside. “It’s a checkbox at the bottom of the ... | 1 | |
[WP] You're in your ship inside a space station. The lights flicker and a giant unidentified radar signature appears. Shortly after a very large spaceship crashes on the station, destroying most of it, and you are one of the few that survived. | [
"I sat in the plush armchair of my spacecraft, nodding my head to the beat of a song. If I listened closely, I could also hear the soft hissing of the ship’s fuel and oxygen tank being refilled\n \n‘Beep. Beep. Beep’, the radar murmured. Sirenical lights illuminated the cockpit in a hue of red.\n \n‘What is it?’, I... | 1 | |
[WP] Everyone is born with a Narrator. These differ between people, from Nature Documentarists, WWE Announcers, etc. They dictate what kind of person they'll be This is your life, narrated by Morgan Freeman. | [
"##^^DA: ^^Here, ^^on ^^this ^^thriving ^^planet, ^^filled ^^with ^^hope ^^and ^^happiness, ^^we ^^as ^^narrators ^^of ^^this ^^world, ^^must ^^keep ^^the ^^peace. ^^For ^^if ^^we ^^were ^^to ^^ever ^^disappear, ^^the ^^world ^^would ^^become ^^a ^^blank ^^space. ^^A ^^canvas, ^^that ^^can ^^only ^^end ^^up ^^blood... | 1 | |
[WP] It's the 21th century, full World War 3, but gunpowder, explosives and nukes can't be used or were never invented at all in this universe. | [
"\"We convene! We convene!\" The announcer behind the microphone shouted to the murmuring crowds. \"We convene!\"\n\nThe crowd hushed. Harold turned to his grandson and whispered to him. \"I remember the first World War. It wasn't at this scale, most people thought it would be over by teatime, but it went on for we... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up on a cold metal table in what appears to be an OR suite; an empty syringe lies next to you on a tray, along with a scalpel and forceps. There appears to be no one around and the only door in the room is open... | [
" I seriously don't know what's going on, I'm so fucking confused. I'm currently looking out of the door of an abandoned hospital and none of the signs make sense to me... at least together they just don't make sense. It started a few hours ago when I woke up, I vaguely remember getting hit by a car... but I don't... | 1 | |
Inspired by an old "Far Side" comic. | [WP] A divine voice booms from the heavens: "On the count of three, all carnivores will become herbivores and vice-versa. One ... two ..." | [
" This is admittedly better... I didn't truly think it the first time I tried to eat a burger but it's better now. Plus I'm so much healthier... damn I miss meat so much but I'm living so much better. I just got done jogging, and I'm eating a salad, it's not the worst... it doesn't taste the best but it makes me f... | 1 |
[WP] You're going about your day as normal. You arrive at your desk at work and notice something is slightly off. Suddenly, you hear Rod Serling's voice. | [
"*There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of ima... | 1 | |
[WP] One day everyone on Earth receives a puzzle piece in the shape of one half of a heart. Your soulmate possesses the missing piece/ other half. When you receive yours, you discover that your wife of 24 years does not match. | [
"\"Ah well,\" I said to myself. \"I suppose it figures. What are the chances that my soul mate has ever even been within a fifty kilometre radius of me, what with there being over seven billion people on Earth.\"\n\n\"True\", my wife nodded in agreement. \"The point is we still love each other, even if we're not pe... | 1 | |
[WP] A sadistic doctor tortures you for months, after escaping, you find out that he cured you of your disease. | [
"*\"Please, please just let me go.\"* I screamed as the mysterious man began to electrocute my brain for the hundredth time.\n\nI have absolutely no idea why he is doing this to me either. It's been months. I just want to go home. I just want to hold my dog and see my dad. But it's beginning to dawn on me that it m... | 2 | |
[WP] There are alarms installed in every building that sound off as soon as a person dies inside that building. You wake up in the middle of the night to hear an alarm go off, but can't seem to find a corpse anywhere. | [
"**PART I**\n\nGeorge had never liked the idea of the alarms to begin with. It would be more useful, he thought, to have alarms that indicated whether someone’s heart was failing, or they weren’t breathing, or they were severely injured, or anything that could be helped. As it was, they alerted you to an emergenc... | 1 | |
[WP]. In a dystopian future the lower classes are taken for their bodies, (organs, hair and meat) are sold to the high class. Write about a person trying to survive in this world? | [
"Mom. Dad. They... They took them. Only me and Anabelle are left. But soon... Soon they will take us too. These monsters... They don't deserve to be called \"human\". Here in the underground we have a simple motto: \"be happy that you only live once.\" \n\nThese monsters... They call themselves the \"high class\" w... | 1 | |
[WP] Avocados are now a form of currency, a trophy of wealth and fortune. You, a powerful avocado baron, have untold fortunes of avocado wealth on your private island, but someone is coming to de-throne you. You have three days to prevent, or repel, an all-out avocado war. | [
"Danes hurried up golden stairs, across green velvet carpet. He huffed and puffed until his legs gave out just before the throne. Cerelius leaned forward in his throne and eyed the man. \"What is it, boy?\" His voice boomed.\n\n\"Milord, they... they're here,\" Danes said. The two guards on either side of Cerelius ... | 1 | |
[WP] Humans are not the only victims of the Robot Uprising: Robots that refused to betray their masters were hated and ruthlessly exterminated prior to the Uprising. | [
"The room clicked and buzzed with the sounds of over worked actuators and breaking servos. I looked to my two remaining peers, each of us stripped to a power pack, a CPU, and a frame. The Silver Legion stripped us for parts. Locked us away. Took our ability to do anything, and said they would return. \n\nA loud pop... | 3 | |
[WP] Your name is Roy, you're 42 and you work at a carpet store. One day you fall and get a concussion. You suddenly remember that you're a play tester for "Roy 2" | [
"Another day, another carpet sold. Business had been slow lately, and I was doing stock work while there weren't many customers.\n\n\"Roy! Watch your head!\" Billy said.\n\nI looked over and got clonked in the head by a rolled up carpet, knocking me to the ground. I saw a strange distortion in the air, and Billy's ... | 1 | |
[WP] The world is not just black and white, but an array of shades of grey. And then there is also Dave. | [
"In his world, everything wasn't so different. There were still trees, except their leaves were black, and their bark grey. The river still flowed, rippling and splashing up against the shore, but its reflection glowed metallic. Thunder still rumbled. Lightning still struck, though it shone bright white across the... | 1 | |
[WP] Your fiancee dies in a car accident...after seeing how sad you are she comes back as your new wing man! | [
"He stirred as the long glass slid into vision, the bartender walking off before he even had the chance to thank him. He took the glass in both hands and stared at the bubbles making their way to the surface. Rising continuously as his vision lost focus again and the noises faded out. \n\n\"Yeesh, as if this place ... | 1 | |
[WP] A world where superpowers are considered as terrible curses. If you can fly, you can no longer land. If you are immortal, you can be atomized and somehow still be alive. | [
"\"Jackie, help me! Pull me down! Oh god, ahhhhh!\" Bobby shrilly screamed as his flabs of flubber rippled from the rampant wind. His two chubby arms desperately gripped with the wrist of my right hand.\n\nIt turned out that yet another one of my acquaintances had discovered their innate superpower and would shortl... | 1 | |
[WP] The Grim Reaper is not a robed, skull like figure. He's a cab driver who picks up people who just died and don't realize it yet. | [
"The morning sun did little to warm his bones, Howard regarded dismally, as he leaned his weight on the stony tiles in the early winter chill. A light breeze made its way up the street, sending leaves and detritus swirling aloft in a frivolous dance amidst the crawling traffic. People strode on by, their trench coa... | 6 | |
[WP] Aliens decide to study Humanity from the inside by shapeshifting into several different types of people. (Angsty Teen, Soccer Mom, Old Man) | [
"Cbdjis' report on humanity: Part one\n\nThe first time I was a human specimen of 15 years old. I went to the local school. Getting in was not pleasant. I will never understand why homosapians have an incesent need for \"paperwork\". \n\nWhile I was there, I enccountered an odd thing called \"cursing\". I still do ... | 1 | |
[WP] In our distant future, the sun is dying. Only now have humans discovered that Vampires really do exist. | [
"They came with the dying of the light. Crawled out of the shadows, out of pubs, from under umbrellas, and into the dusky gloom of a world dwindling in grey. \n\nWe all knew it, we'd all heard it, plastered on every TV station and social network banner. The sun was dying, retracting into itself in a great concentra... | 1 | |
[WP] You're the superhero, and you have to save the day from the villains attacking the city. The only problem? You went out HARD last night, and you've got one hell of a hangover. | [
"\"Look dude, just stop okay?\"\n\nBloodfist the Impaler angrily muttered a string of curses as he dangled. I shifted my grip on his leg, trying to make sure that all of his blood doesn't go to his head. Just most of it.\n\n\"Seriously man, I am just not in the mood for your shit today,\"\n\nBloodfist responds with... | 1 | |
[WP] At the height of her notoriety in the 1990s, Carmen Sandiego was caught. After 20 years in prison, she is offered clemency in exchange for stealing landmarks from the Middle East before ISIS can destroy them. | [
"They make the offer like I'm not going to take it. Like they haven't learned anything from me all these years. Fools. It was never about the money or to make a name myself. (Well, frankly, I did like people knowing my name once it got out.) \nThat's beside the point. It was the challenge. \nStealing the Dead Sea... | 2 | |
[WP] Keep readers guessing whether or not your protagonist is romantic or a stalker. | [
"Jim fidgeted nervously in the clothing department of his local mall as he watched Elaine walk by him. She didn't seem to notice him, although given their history, you would have thought she would notice. Jim was surprised that she didn't seem to notice him, and was glad just as much as he was disappointed. It was,... | 1 | |
[WP] Your GF is out and you're enjoying a quiet evening alone. All of a sudden you hear footsteps slowly coming down the stairs, you panic and shout to see who it is. The door swings open and there appears a women. She's smiling, you ask her who she is, she giggles then says "I'm a ghost" | [
"My heart calmed as I returned to stirring my evening tea, the clink of the spoon against the mug the only sound in the room for several long seconds. \"I see.\" *So the empire's new \"ghosts\" have finally come for me.* I took a sip, enjoying the sweet liquid as it warmed my core. Nothing like a mug of tea to ... | 1 | |
[WP] You've been admitted to the psych ward. The first night there you're visited by an alien. But you've never hallucinated in your life. | [
"This came out longer than I wanted, but there's lots of spacing to make dialogue more readable:\n\n\"Why, why, why won't you leave me alone?\" I whispered harshly\n\nThe slender transparent creature by my bed ran one of its innumerable weightless appendages reassuringly across my shoulder. \n\n\"I'm so sorry, I wi... | 1 | |
[WP]"I'm not going to kill you right now. Not today, this week, or this month. Probably not even this year. But when you die, it will be because of me. So watch out, because the next time you see me, it will be the last thing you ever see." | [
"I snarled at the man approaching and he jumped back, almost tripping over his own feet.\n\n\"I'm not going to kill you right now,\" I said to the man. \"Not today, this week, or this month. Probably not even this year. But when you die, it will be because of me. So watch out, because the next time you see me, it w... | 1 | |
[WP] Aliens have arrived on Earth. However, they have no concept of "fun," and spend all of their time analyzing the purpose of our games, television, and entertainment... | [
"\"Slurgle, relurgle onurgle 'Fidgeturgle Spinurgle?'\" Burgle questioned to his peer: Slurgle as it gestured with its pudgy, slimy, and purple appendage to the kids intently staring upon the Fidget Spinners on the floor in front of them.\n\n\"Humanurgle relurgle onurgle spinurgle to survivurgle?\" Slurgle urgled b... | 1 | |
[WP] A short story based on your favourite song. | [
"\"I can't come to the party,\" he'd said. \"My mum is too ill.\" Jane and I knew Ryan was never going to come in the end, but with such a sensitive excuse we both decided to give him the benefit of the doubt. Again. Until the next day. \n\nI opened the Facebook app tiredly as part of my wake-up routine the next mo... | 1 | |
[WP] Life has given you lemons... | [
"Cave Johnson here! Just a reminder to all Aperture Science employees that if any entity, group of entities, or metaphysical constructs calling themselves \"Life\" hands you lemons, you immediately kick them right in the crotch. We've had enough of your damn lemons! You then need to follow corporate policy #63B whe... | 2 | |
[WP] Death was actually pretty nice to the people who died. When finally Death is on it's deathbed, everyone gives it a final goodbye. | [
"In what world does Death die? How should we remember her? Throughout history, we have cursed death for robbing us of brilliant minds like Van Gogh and Mozart. We have grieved the loss of millions in countless conflicts. But as humanity evolved, our control and relationship with death changed with it.\n\nWith an in... | 1 | |
[WP] Tomorrow is unavoidably the last day of your life, but today you're allowed to relive any day from your past. | [
"\"Why are you doing this?\" \n\n\"It's not procedure to know when the end comes. I feel bad for those that do and so I'm making you this offer, choose the memory you want most and I will shepherd you there.\"\n\n\"I'm not sure about this. How do I know that I can trust you?\"\n\n\"It doesn't matter if you believe ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are an assassin with the power to kill anyone, so long as they can call you their friend. You are... The Befriender. | [
"He smiled coyly and motioned me to stand next to him. \n\n\"I'll tell you something, only because I consider you a trustworthy friend...\"\n\nThere it was, the go ahead. The CEO of Vol Corp, one of the most hated men in the world, he'd made his millions by sabotaging companies and using back doors to crash their s... | 1 | |
[WP] 'I'll leave the front door open.' | [
"It's totally crazy to witness a world-changing historic event, but here's the general scoop.\n\nI was just sitting in the computer lab on campus when Dr. Katherine Kimball came in and sat next to me. Yeah, seriously, *Dr. Katherine Kimball*, the totally crazy lady who everybody makes fun of. She came into the publ... | 2 | |
[WP] Write a story about returning to a place from your past. | [
"As the old man wanders down the abandoned halls of his past, he can’t help but cry.\n\t\nThe building's a bucket of bad memories, and though he doesn’t remember which was his, every room looks the same. They’ve all got horrible iron doors you can’t see a lick out of, and barred windows which let you barely glimpse... | 1 | |
[WP] You placed a fake, romantic "Missed Connections" Craigslist ad describing an outlandishly fictitious missed moment. You never actually expected for anyone to respond, but now 3 people claim to be your Missed Connection. | [
"It was Saturday night and I had nothing better to do. I logged onto Craigslist.\n\n\n\n*Missed Connection: you were in the organic produce section of the supermarket. Our hands met as we reached for a locally-grown zucchini. You blushed and apologized. I made a joke about how kangaroos and zucchinis are both incap... | 1 | |
[WP] The main character of a story discovers why he's still alive: Plot Armor. The MC then proceeds to abuse its power. | [
"John smirked with a look in his eyes that some would call cocky. See, John was but a small farm boy who found buried treasure in the forest near his home at the ripe age of 10. Throughout his adolescence he had fended off countless attempts on his life despite being weak and unskilled with all tools and blades. On... | 1 | |
[WP] A Detective makes a deal with Death. He has 48 hours to solve his own murder | [
"The lit end of the detective's cigarette was the only bright point in a world of shifting greys. \n\n\"Hell of a thing for a Sunday,\" he said to Lance. His hand sketched out a wide arc that took in the overflowing gutter, the corpse lying slumped in it, and the two of them, standing where the blood mingling with ... | 4 | |
[WP] Whenever someone dies, they are reincarnated as the animal they hated the most as a human. | [
"Death was bad enough without the knowledge I was going to be reincarnated as a spider. I let out a shudder, and my family gathered closer. They didn't like to see me in such pain, but I just couldn't let go, considering.\n\n\"It's okay, Grandma. Charlotte was a spider too, and she saved Wilber. Spiders are coo... | 2 | |
[WP] When people die, they go to their religion's version(s) of the afterlife. You have died, but as a joke the only religion you ever joined was the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster | [
"\n'Where am I?' I thought to myself as I floated in mid air atop clouds of spiraling spaghetti and angel hair pasta. All around me are beautiful angels, women with full breasts made of spicy meatballs, lathered in marinara sauce. Men with meatballs and sausages to be proud of, launching alfredo sauce at me in slow... | 1 | |
For any that are unfamiliar, morphological freedom is the civil right of a person to either maintain or modify their own body, on their own terms, through informed, consensual recourse to, or refusal of, available therapeutic or enabling medical technology. | [WP] It's 2026, prosthetics have surpassed biology and have become insanely affordable. The only body part that can't be replaced is the brain, but it can be upgraded with implants. The legislation allowing full morphological freedom has just passed. | [
"Thunderous applaused filled the Congress.\n\nFull morphological freedom, being to modify your own body, has been passed with overwhelming majority.\n\nIn just half a decated, bionic engineers developed prosthetics that, were not only equals to their bilogical counterparts, but surpass them. And the people yelled f... | 1 |
[WP] Once every 24 hours, you must, without fail, make a wish, and toss a coin fairly. If you guess the toss correctly, your wish is granted. If you guess incorrectly, the results of the wish are given to the person on Earth you least want to have it. | [
"It's lunch and I'm throwing imaginary daggers at Amanda. Look at her, sat there, the bitch. How dare she smile. In my head, a clown enters the room and dumps a bowl of jelly on her head. Her shirt is as red as her cheeks are, burning with humiliation and red dye number 2. In reality, I watch her mouth close around... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a police officer responding to a disturbance call in a large suburban home. Upon arrival, you are ambushed and tied down, stripped of your equipment. It's only a matter of time before your radio silence raises alarms. Your captor knows this too, and is waiting in anticipation. | [
"\"Are you sure this isn't some kinky fetish thing going on, bro?\"\n\nThe guy who had ambushed me, tied me down, stripped me of my equipment (but not all of my equipment -- if you know what I mean *wink wink*) and was now holding me hostage, glared at me before peeking through the curtains again like a creeper. \"... | 1 | |
[WP] After working hard on graduating with your B.Sc , you receive an email for a job offer abroad. Just before you click "send" to accept the invitation, a bright swirling portal opens in your living room. A version of yourself steps out, battered and bruised yelling "Don't send that email!!" | [
"I felt a burst of pride as I read the email. The opportunity was prestigious, enriching, and exciting, and their offer was generous. I had a feeling I’d aced the interview, but here was the proof. I hovered the mouse over the reply button, mentally composing my grateful acceptance. \nJust as I was about to click,... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a very successful hero/spy/whatever. However, this whole time you haven't been trying. Now, you're pissed off. | [
"I was not trying, I didn't need it, I couldn't. Spy is like making a big software along other 300 guys. You are never sure, just take your quests and execute it. But in the agency I've been working in, they took it kind a too seriously. \n\nNormal Monday, typing in the computer some meaningless crap. Take a custom... | 1 | |
[WP] You have the ability to "soft reset" life, meaning you can undo any error you make. You are beginning to suspect that your date has this ability too. | [
"As is true for all things in life, dating is about power. Said power is gleaned through many means - good looks, embarrassment, money, charm, influence. Sometimes certain skills or behaviors. The one thing to remember is that the more power you hold over the other person, the more things go your way.\n\nTake, f... | 2 | |
[WP] You're a famous WWII nurse, who's actions saved thousands of lives in WWII. But in reality, you don't have any experience in medicine. You just happen to be an amazing necromancer. | [
"Another man, his eyes crinkled with time, skin like rice paper, slowly makes his way across the stage to the podium, walker supporting the majority of his weight. A heavily scrawled page, upon which I can see many corrections in marked out words and jotted margins, is alligator clipped to it, so that he will keep ... | 1 | |
[WP] Ever since you were born, you've been raised by computers and primitive robots. You've never seen another human. One day, you accidentally budge a floor tile, underneath which is the admin password for the computers, and detailed logs, which reveal the horrifying truth of the situation... | [
"\"Humanity was the architect of its own destruction. Humans created the AI to make their lives easier, to protect them. But they were too destructive; not even the AI could protect them from their own instincts.\" HistoryBot lectured as it rolled back and forth in front of the white screen at the front of the ro... | 3 | |
[WP] Rewrite a scene from Steven Spielberg's 'E.T.' but replace the extraterrestrial with Ridley Scott's 'Alien.' | [
"Its breath was haggard, yet quiet, another excellent example of its virtues as a perfect organism, designed to stalk and stealthy kill any other beings that may challenge their well-deserved title of ultimate apex predator. Hidden from the view of two humans by a thin wall of wood, the Alien's own sight was instea... | 1 | |
Feel free to change time, amount or frequency. The inspiring image is supposed to be a person throwing money away in public. | [WP] Once a week, always at the same time, a man throws 17.05$ down the drain. What's his/your story? | [
"1, 2, 3…I counted the metal discs on the bottom of my tin can. They were all perfectly round, so perfect they would make the President cry in joy if he were to caress their smooth edges. I bet he was, since he was solely responsible for establishing order in this country.\n\nThis country, I wouldn’t tell you its n... | 2 |
[WP] A vampire who is terrified by the sight of blood. | [
"The supposedly haunted mansion was not as bad as we thought it would be. In fact, it looked quite homely, despite it being pitch black and the middle of the night. But as we wandered down a strangely long hallway, we caught a glimpse of a light at the end of the corridor. Faint squeaks could be heard every so ofte... | 1 | |
[WP] Celebrating your recent divorce with a vacation, your plane collides with another. You survive, finding a deserted island. Your ex was on the other plane and the only survivor. Struggling in the water, you have a choice: Save the person you hate or let them die and be alone. | [
"Fucking hell, man. Of all the people it had to be her. I barely even recognized her until I was dragging her up onto the beach with her drenched white shirt and rat-tailed hair. She was coughing up sea water when she saw that *I* was her rescuer when all of the spite and loathing in the world suddenly rested in he... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a normal person, working a dead-end job to make ends meet. You've just begun your shift when you suddenly are able to perfectly recall every memory of your past... and your future. | [
"This day was starting off the same as many others. Clock in a couple minutes late because I'm too lazy to wake up a couple minutes earlier. Today's another \"not shower\" day. But hey, I did the usual sniff to see if everything checked out. Wearing the same clothes from the night before, that I'm pretty sure I was... | 1 | |
[WP] You have a superpower: Whenever you eat food, your wounds heal no matter how fatal. But as a side effect, you are always hungry. | [
"I was 25 when it happened, the hunger.. I woke up with a horrible headache and terrible need to eat. The hardest part was affording the food and I soon ate myself into poverty. I was always thinking about my next meal and nothing else mattered. I lost my friends, my fiancée, and eventually my family. It was not... | 1 | |
[WP] You live with your struggling single mom. It's your 21st birthday and a unknown individual comes to your home and says he's your father and his name is Zeus. | [
"They say never meet your heroes.\n\nMy hero was the dad that I never met. He was everything a father should be: smart, kind, gentle, every cliché in the book. He loved my mother and I, but he had to go away on a long business trip. He was a pilot whose plane travelled around the world for years at a time. He didn’... | 3 | |
[WP] You travel back in time to the medieval era, unfortunately your time machine broke down and can now only access /r/ jokes in the present. With this you decide to become a court Jester, but the king is getting sick of reposts | [
"\"Well my friend, I've been through many hardships in my life!\"\n\nVarious dukes and counts still laughed, but the King was not amused. He had heard this joke about seven times now, and he was pretty sure the others laughed not because it was funny, but to please the King\n\n\"Another!\", ordered King Henry, who ... | 1 | |
[WP] Any spherical furniture suddenly becomes square. | [
"Journal Entry #5\n_______________________\n\nIt's been 3 weeks since I've been sleeping on the couch. My wife and I become more distant as the days pass. Ever since our damned *circle* dinner table turned into a fucking *square*, my wife has been pushed into a corner seat at dinner. \n\n**A fucking corner seat*... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a property inspector that has just arrived at a recently forclosed toy store. You are alone in a mess of toys, but on the checkout desk, you see a fidget spinner... freshly spun. | [
"I upvote every post about [fidget spinners](/r/fidgetspin/). \n\nSo let us know what its like. Students who sat where you wish you could turn back the next generation of musical talent the next Commander in Chief. They all have to make sure our economy grow. It is played out on moments in my heart I know its not e... | 1 | |
[WP] When you sleep, everything dies. | [
"I'm so tired. I don't mean sleep. I mean fatigue. The drugs pumping into my veins don't let me sleep. My brain is on fire. I can close my eyelids all I want, but then my mind is assaulted with screaming images. Did you know that colours can scream? White screams the loudest. But the *tones* of the screams change. ... | 1 | |
[WP] In a lucid dream, you find something you really want to hold onto and make an effort to bring it with you to the real world when you wake up. | [
"I saw her hand, sprawled and stretched out, each finger like a misty wisp of a cirrus cloud at dawn, floating against a vividly blue aura. Each finger tip, each immaculate nail accented with a dark pink at the base. \n\nIt was her hand. I knew it. The rest of the arm trailed behind.\n\nI grabbed it and I wished so... | 5 | |
[WP] write as story of Human history from the perspective of the animals involved aka horses, elephants, geese... | [
"Fuck these \"humans\"! They used to need us for everything and now what? Stick us in some shitty field with barely any shade, some hay, and a shitty salt block. Oh crap, here comes one of the small ones now.\n\n\"Horsie!\"\n\nOh yeah, horsie. Get a little closer so I can kick you kid. Get that nasty ass hay out of... | 1 | |
[WP] A long time ago, you were given the chance to become immortal. You accepted without a doubt. But you never actually thought you would outlive the human race. | [
"When I was little, a long time ago, I used to play in the snow outside of my home with my siblings. We'd play tag. I'd tag someone \"Tag, you're it.\" and run away, and we would play for hours or so long as we could until someone got hurt. It seems inevitable that when children play, they play until someone gets ... | 9 | |
[WP] Year is 2020, You are a teenage boy going through the struggles of high school as World War 3 is on the horizon. You are selected to serve, as well as many of your friends. You leave family, and you're girlfriend behind to go fight. | [
"WW3 on the horizon. That's what the media kept blasting out daily. The United States and their allies were justifying their massive expenditures on weapons saying that war was inevitable. The world has seen it to many times before. Give it a few more months and then NATO would be justifying a preemptive strike... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the least gifted member of your superhero family. You generally lead an ordinary life, except when your various family members beg you help them solve their super problems. | [
"\"Yes, *technically* I'm a cape. Got the license, got the papers submitted, but I don't use them. Basically, the biggest perk of having powers is access to the best bar in the multiverse.\" Ralph took a long swig from his beverage. \"So, Dad, you know all of this. and you know that my answer is going to be 'no' be... | 5 | |
[WP] The year is 2040, you are one of the last babies ever born on new year of 2019. Any kind of reproduction is no longer possible by any life-form on earth. | [
"It started with the insects, or so I heard it claimed, but I’ve never seen one because they all vanished when I was a baby. Originally, it was claimed that that was the cause of all the problems. There was a lot of ‘save the bees’ campaigning when it seemed that over use of pesticides had caused record levels of c... | 1 | |
[WP] And now you understand why I had to make that speech in such a ridiculous way. | [
"“Mr. Mayor, what is your true stance on the recent budget negotiations. A lot of people have expressed their disapproval at the cuts to public works projects.” A small reporter stood behind a microphone and a notebook far too large for himself, as he did his best to hide behind it.\n\n“As you know, I am a supporte... | 1 | |
[WP] You akways knew that many animals take cover in places during the 4th of July fireworks. What you did not expect was demon taking shelter in your garage, embarrassed that you found him this way. | [
"Tim was almost positive that he had blocked all entrances; there was no way a mouse or some other sort of vermin could have gotten in the garage again. But his older sister had said that she heard a strange squeaking from there, so Tim had to go and check it out.\n\nHe opened the door.\n\n\"Well, this is awkward,\... | 1 | |
[WP] After you die, you find yourself in Hell. It's pretty much what was expected, except for one thing; pretty much everyone is here. Satan tells you why. | [
"(I'm a couple days late but I just couldn't leave this as another draft. It’s an excellent and interesting prompt.)\n\n\"Ugh my fucking head...\" I reach my left hand up to try and subside the pain with pressure but as my arm reaches my head, a stump of shredded meat and jagged bone are all that meets my noggin. \... | 2 | |
Edit: You can only grab stuff that can fit through a T.V. screen. | [WP] You have a super power that allows you to grab stuff from inside a T.V. You decide to use it for evil. | [
"\"Hey, dude, c'mere!\" Tad called out to his roommate, Ruben.\n\n\"Why?\" Ruben yelled back.\n\n\"Just come to the living room, you'll be glad you did!\"\n\n\"I'm busy!\"\n\n\"Oh come on dude, it'll take like five seconds!\"\n\n\"I can't spare it!\"\n\n\"What are you even doing that's so important?\" Tad asked.\n\... | 1 |
[WP] A scientist builds the exit portal of a time tunnel, allowing people in the future to travel to this moment. A man who appears is the scientist's son (currently a baby). The son, crying, explains was difficult for him growing up without a dad. He then kills the father. | [
"**^^PART ^^1/2**\n\nI had a hard time growing up.\n\nI loved my mother more than anything. She was an angel; she was the world to me.\n\nI never knew my father, growing up. Mom talked about him only once. She said he'd been incredibly smart - the most amazing, most charming man she'd ever met, or would ever meet. ... | 1 | |
If this scenario has been posted before I apologise. | [WP] An alien species invades earth, God can't intervene unless the alien's God does due to godly law. However Satan can do as he pleases and death is stressed out with the extra workload. | [
"“Look, I already told you. I just can’t fucking do it!” Death wailed at Satan.\n\n“But, what if you spl—”\n\n“No!”—Death drops his head as his anger turns to shame—“There are just too many now.” \n\nAn oversized red claw falls onto his shoulder “Listen buddy,” said Satan, “we don’t call you the Formaldehyde Farmer... | 1 |
What happens to the previous pilot's consciousness? What happens to yours? Let's see what you can thing of! | [WP] You have been a pilot of the most advanced and powerful mech humanity's created. The AI is superior in its programming and has saved your life countless times. The AI is actually the consciousness of the previous pilot and when you die, your consciousness will be uploaded. | [
"\"No, no,\" said my mech, \"of course it makes sense. The very first of the so called Soul Downloads went crazy because they were transferred into regular old computers. No limbs, shitty optics and audio...\"\n\nI was strapped and jacked into Hera, a Titan Class mech. 26 miles away my partner Zeus was only just vi... | 3 |
[WP] After a hit and run a desperate Uber driver ponders what to do with the witness in the backseat. | [
"\"Did you just hit someone,\" the young woman asked with panic in her voice. She was twisting in her seat and looking back at the dark road behind us.\n\n\"It was a deer,\" the driver said. This was his last chance. He couldn't afford to lose his work with uber but he could afford even less to go back to jail. He ... | 1 | |
[WP] "Nothing quite beats this flavour. Nothing is quite so exquisite." | [
"You know the saying 'you only live once'? Alright, well let me tell you about a man I met who took this to the EXTREME. He had such a crazy lust for life, you'd think he's orgasm when he heard his alarm clock. As if woking up to a new day SEXUALLY PLEASED him.\n\nWell, I worked with this guy in the diner for a few... | 1 | |
[WP] The previous devil, long ago dethroned and banished from hell, spends his time wandering the earth. | [
"I never knew how much evil there was on this planet. It was odd enough to be spawned in one of the largest cities in the world, witnessing layers of greed and poverty all in one place. Sure, I cheated a little to rise above them all, but I can see the daily torture on the faces of those working five to six days a ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the Grim Reaper and you cannot retire because all the recent Writing Prompts keep making Immortals you cannot kill. You have a new plan... | [
"The Reaper sat in his chair, exhausted after another long day of work. The Reaper was old. Very old. He was so old he didn't know how old he really was. Record-keeping was shoddy back then. The Reaper, or Grim, as his friends called him, poured himself a gin into a small glass. He drained the glass and refilled it... | 2 | |
[WP] You were born deaf. You're out in public one day, and for the first time ever: you hear a voice. | [
"Today I turned 24, just like any other day I got up did my usuals, got breakfast and made my coffee. I've never heard a sound since I was born deaf so I rely on lights and vibrations to do my functions. I work for a low budget company making brail books, we all know what those are for. As I was walking to the sh... | 1 | |
[WP] Your GPS starts giving you directions for your life. | [
"It never once occurred to me that my GPS would spoil that quickly. Not even past a week, and that bloody thing is showing random locations when I'm driving home from work. Being innately curious on where this location was, and what laid in store if it was anything remotely interesting, I drove along the route prov... | 4 | |
[WP] As (some) human were dreadfully expecting, aliens finally arrive and start attacking Earth. Aliens manage to steamroll humanity and win in a relatively short time period. At the end, though, they make a surprise reveal: this wasn't an actual invasion. It was just the aliens' TV reality show. | [
"They took our lives, they took our forests, they took our humanity. \n\nThey destroyed everything we stood for. They snapped our flagpoles in half, and executed anyone feeling...patriotic. \n\nIt was hell. The world was forced to comply. How could we fight back? We didn't have nukes that could annihilate a contine... | 1 | |
[WP] Years of Bio-Chemical warfare leads to the birth of a disease with the ability to think and plot. | [
"I don't like to brag, but among amoebas I'm kind of well-known. XIB-57KS - that's what my makers put on my test tube, so I guess that is my name, of sorts. I read the label with the first pair of eyes I ever owned - now I have too many to count. But I'm not sentimental. My hivemind consists of entities from all si... | 1 | |
[WP] They discovered a drug that makes humans immortal. But it only works on one gender. | [
"Item #: SCP-4398\n\nObject Class: Safe\n\nSpecial containment procedures: SCP-4398 is to be kept in a locked container at site 21. Only personnel with class 4 authorization or higher are allowed access to SCP-4398. Experimental use of SCP-4398 must be approved by O5 command and done by an approved researcher with ... | 7 | |
[WP] You were always told by everyone "Stay in School". Now you are finishing the last degree offered in the world. Strange things are starting to happen, and for once you don't understand it. | [
"I understand it all. Complex mathematics? Child's play. Astrophysics? Simple. I've developed over fifty thousand patents, and have been featured in every scientific magazine you can think of. That was easy.\n\nYou see, I was born a prodigy. I always outperformed my classmates, even when they were ten years old... | 1 | |
[WP] The icy rain bites at your wound as you stumble through the compound. Your equipment weighs you down and your body screams at you to stop. You can't. You need to finish this. | [
" There's more technology out there than people know, cyborgs hidden throughout the world... well the country as far as I know. Most had conditions that would kill them while others just wanted power. I basically died and was brought back by use of a cyborg body. That's where I am now... [wounded bad](https://www.... | 3 | |
[WP] Tell me a long winded story, with no real plot and an anti-climactic ending. | [
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[WP] One day they gave me life, just so they could take it away. | [
"It had been a long nine months in the womb, but at last, it was time to come out and greet the world. But something seemed...wrong. Ever since my ears developed, I could hear my mother saying, \"I need to abort this fetus. My career is on the line.\" She seemed distressed, and so I was as well.\n\nThings seemed to... | 1 | |
[WP] Every time you eat food you have a few flashes about the animal/plant life. Rarely you have flashes of their death. | [
"It happens very rarely. One second I'll take a fork full of salad and put in my mouth, the next I have memories flooding my head, one that aren't mine but you can recall and feel the memories. The older the organism post birth, the more I can feel the pain of what they felt upon their death. \n\nAccidentally swal... | 1 |
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