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[WP] Every person in the world was created to complete one specific part of a master plan, when we die, we get to see what that one task had been. What was yours? | I had no fucking idea. You don't go through life with such ideas of grandeur you know? My mom and dad had always told me I was special but I'd always just passed it off as, well, you know, Jewish parents.
Things really just fell into place to be honest, one day I was having a deep philosophical conversation about how ... | 2 | 0 | 46 | 28,957 |
[WP] Describe a regular person's day as if it was in a fantasy world. | Jason the Restless tossed and turned in the final throes of his fitful sleep, chased by the demons of the previous day.
Fragments of his twisted dreams haunted him as he stirred awake and looked out the glass portal of the steel and stone tower in which he dwelt. Massive fortresses of melted sand and liquid granite sp... | 16 | 0 | 34 | 214,611 |
[WP] Write a horror story from the perspective of the antagonist. Make them as sympathetic as possible. | **(**This story is set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, aboard a ship travelling through The Warp**)**
"GELLAR FIELD BREACHED!" the vox boomed, the cadence of the voice distorted by static, "INCURSIONS ON DECKS THREE, SIX, EIGHT, SEVENTEEN, TE... TEN.. I.. THE LIGHT OF THE EMPEROR IS OUR SHIELD, THROUGH HIS GRACE SH-"... | 6 | 0 | 25 | 196,666 |
[EU] Write about a quest giving npc in an mmo who is disgusted by the adventurers who come his way and take the slightest joy in killing anything, even small animals. | **Lar's Needs Wollen**
Lar's needs you to return some of his lost sheep to his land and deal with the wolf problem.
*Wolves Slain: 0/8*
*Sheep Found: 0/10*
**Description**
"Oh, hey! Thanks for coming by again *<charname>*! As you can see we have trouble here on the Lar's farmstead. Few of my sheep have gotten out and t... | 1 | 0 | 0 | 104,330 |
[WP] A man working at suicide hotline got called from his wife | The phone rang. Alex looked up to the sky, asking God for help with another case. He picks up the phone.
"Suicide hotline, this is Steve. I'm here to help you."
"Oh that god," the woman on the phone said. "I was so scared that my husband would answer the phone."
Alex knew the voice immediately, and knew that his worst ... | 3 | 0 | 304 | 71,004 |
[WP] The lottery is an Institution designed to catch Time Travelers. | The first thing to flash through my mind was the man just an hour earlier who had offered to buy my lottery ticket off of me for a hundred thousand dollars, cash.
Not a small sum of money, I had declined only because of stubbornness and irritability after a rough day at work. Plus, with the way he was dressed, I suspec... | 8 | 0 | 2,442 | 145,585 |
[WP]"I'm frozen by the fear in me. Somebody make me feel alive and shatter me." | ### A link to the song, since it was not in the prompt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49tpIMDy9BE
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*I pirouette in the dark.*
*I see the stars through a mirror.*
It's harder all the time. Days and nights blur together in a haze. I sit alone, every day the same routine. Wake up. Hit the alarm. Show... | 3 | 0 | 1 | 86,869 |
[WP] The story of an Immortal who doesn't want to die | When he was twenty-four, Robert Gander died. Three minutes later he came back to life. There was no supernatural or religious reason for this. He simply was immortal. Robert did not accept this until he was 97 and didn't look a day over 24. He then became a traveler. A citizen of the world as he once told me. He would ... | 3 | 0 | 81 | 11,530 |
[WP] The Island of Chains | The Warden chuckled to himself as he played with the key around his neck. Whilst deranged elderly farmers chased phantoms in the skies above their crops, he held the key to the biggest and most dangerous facility ever created, hidden in the depths of the ocean's abyss. Whether a lost monument of some unknown civilizati... | 2 | 0 | 2 | 58,760 |
[EU] The Grinch turns his eye to another holiday... | Once again the Grinch sat, on the eve of new year.
Ensconced by his fire, scritching Max's soft ear.
"It just is no use!" Said the Grinch with sad voice.
No matter my efforts, they always rejoice.
In the wind and snow, with fires so bright.
Without even gifts, in friends they delight.
What ever can I do, to foil their... | 2 | 0 | 23 | 166,511 |
[WP] An obnoxious tumblr-tween manages to find an actual vampire and demands him to turn her | "You're still reading that crap? Could you at least turn the light down a little? I'm trying to sleep here."
"You just don't understand." She answers as she adjusts her bedside lamp to illuminate only her side of the room.
"You're right. I don't understand how you find a creepy, obssessive, abusive relationship with a... | 1 | 0 | 0 | 72,650 |
[WP] The Allies have lost the Third World War. | War is a funny thing. Not funny, mind you, as in humor; rather war was funny in the kinds of changes it made throughout history. The technological advances, the new methods of doing things, the geopolitical landscape changingwar brought about change.
The surviving people of the world had no idea just how much change ... | 1 | 0 | 28 | 134,742 |
[WP] A person in a coma is trapped in a dream world of their own creation. They're aware that a way out exists and as they try and find it, the people in the dream world try to make them stay (by any means you like, force, coercion, pleading etc) | I feel like there's a heavy weight on my chest. I've got a knife gripped in my left hand and a torch in my right. It flickers between flame and duracell powered as my mind wavers but eventually settles down to a solid silver barrelled thing with a rubber grip. I was walking through a forest two steps ago but now it's a... | 10 | 0 | 10 | 21,827 |
[EU] Clarke's third law states "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." That time has come, and an aged Harry Potter, leader of the Wizarding world, must now decide whether or not magical society should rejoin the Muggles. | "We don't want you."
Harry, flanked as always by Hermione and Ron, decrepit and aged as they were, (Ron, after an accident with his grandchildren's toys scattered on the floor of a hallway, heavily leaning on a cane) felt a bit like he'd been dunked in icewater.
"But-"
"**-No.** We don't want you."
After months of inte... | 28 | 0 | 87 | 224,636 |
If God was human [WP] | Father McGonagle slowly worked his way between the pews, straightening out the hymn books and plumping up the cushions. He'd done this three times a day for nearly thirty years and knew the pews so well that as a younger man he'd even done it with his eyes closed, as a small challenge to himself. He filed his days this... | 2 | 0 | 0 | 122,108 |
[WP] In the end, Earth gets destroyed somehow. | Typical Hollywood event. MTV something-or-other. Glittering dresses, glittering camera flashes, glittering smiles. Grauman's Chinese Theatre (I'll always call it that) loomed above the lights. My name wasn't on IMDb, so no-one noticed me. Perfect.
I had a mission, you see.
The stars were making their way down the red... | 3 | 0 | 16 | 38,762 |
[WP] Years after a nuclear war which destroyed nations and landscapes, a man departs from a ship after crossing from England to America to document mutated and dangerous wildlife. (Comedic) | Our watch-captain had called for sights of land an hour ago, and as I now breached the hangar and into the fresh of air, I was hit by a disgusting stench. All around me my crew mates had gas masks, shirt tails, any thing to block the smell. I too pulled up mine, and checked my RistRatch for the current radiation levels... | 32 | 0 | 75 | 106,788 |
[WP] Everything is naturally monochrome. Color is obtained through finding and harvesting rainbows. | "Jessie, you need to secure that line."
Rain spattered across the deck of the ship as they hovered in the storm. Lightning streaked across the distant sky, but did not reach them on the edge of the clouds. Even on the edge of the storm the wind gusted around them and blew their sails and anything loose. The three-grey ... | 2 | 0 | 33 | 220,003 |
[WP] The popular MMO Outside releases it's first update since it was initially released. The update fixes numerous bugs and balance issues. Players react accordingly. | Patch Notes
At first there was panic.
A beam of light cast from the sky, the clouds a swirling maelstrom about it. The beam was centered on a corn field of a hapless farmer in rural Missouri, and upon this beam descended a being clad in the purest garment any had ever seen.
Many wept at the sight, others trembled in fe... | 34 | 0 | 36 | 159,853 |
[WP] Atheist demon hunters | The priest burst out of the room panting, dishevelled and wild eyed. 'I cannot banish the beast!' He wailed, 'My… My faith isn't strong enough.' He looked to the gathered sisters of the convent and held up his bible, 'These words are nothing unless they are spoken by one who truly believes in them!' His fingers went li... | 9 | 0 | 4 | 85,217 |
[WP] You have a reputation for never telling a secret, no matter what the circumstances. People come to you to tell you their most hidden secrets. After countless times, you've finally gotten one that you can't keep to yourself. | His name was, well his name does not matter, especially to be pronounced by a deity, he was just a simple peasant, of a poor family whose name, aswell, did not matter. Since he was a little child he was a bit more special than his brothers or sisters, of which he had many. Which was expected as Rihnu, god of gifts, had... | 3 | 0 | 23 | 166,717 |
[WP] You've contracted a horrendous virus, but along with the coughing, aches and fever you receive the last 48 hours of vivid memory from its previous host, as will anyone you infect. | It was dark in his Manhattan room, but Scott suffered from surges of light in the form of memories that occasionally washed over his eyes. He could see a life that was not his own.
It was a woman, he thought. He saw through the eyes of a woman, her petite hands stumbling across a bedroom in the morning sun.
"God, some... | 3 | 0 | 4 | 80,674 |
[WP] The "Eye for an Eye Inversion" law allows every life saved to credit the saver one legal murder. The medical profession are now the most feared and revered community. | When I was twelve, I remember we used to go to my grandpa's home in the country, where we could play in the fields and have fun, far from anything remotely resembling civilization, unless your concept of civilization included a kerosene lamp. We used to love playing in the little forest he had just a few feet from his ... | 1 | 0 | 2,331 | 189,163 |
[WP] a man's seemingly innocuous habit causes trouble on a national (or greater) scale | Felip Manzel walked along 127th street, chewing his gum and thinking about the day. The sky was a beautiful blue, as though the Earth were announcing a newborn baby boy. Birds chirped in the air, and the sounds of the city rose to a comfortable buzz. Felip loved New York in the summer.
He casually strolled past a flowe... | 4 | 0 | 12 | 91,382 |
[WP] Every person is cloned on the day they are born and they grow up together with their clone. At the age of 21 the better one is selected and the other one is put to death. | I whispered in his ear in his last moments, brought forth all of it. Ten years of cultivated rage, ever since I knew he would be the one. "I knew it would be you, living in your shadow, eating the crumbs from your plate." I wrenched the knife in further, his sternum crunching under the pressure, "guess you weren't smar... | 3 | 0 | 68 | 204,462 |
[WP] It is the year 2043, and due to pollution, people buy potato chips not for the chips themselves but for the excessive amount of clean air in the bag. | It's short and pointless, but...
As we grinded across the desolate fallout, I could hear Fat Larry in the back seat of my Toyota Hover Car^TM huffing out the last of the fresh air in a Cool Ranch Doritos bag. Son of a bitch, his dependency has grown too strong and soon we will be forced to throw him overboard or else j... | 2 | 0 | 0 | 147,424 |
[WP] A man wants to sell his soul to a demon but the thing he wants in return is so dubious the demon is thrown for a loop. | "So... You want to fuck a demon?" Laza'k scratched his forehead. "This is a stupid request, even by human standards."
"Hey, I've seen some pretty hot demon babes in my time."
"Anime is not realistic. You spend far to much time jerking it in your mom's basement, Jay."
"Well it's my soul. I can trade it for anything, ... | 390 | 0 | 268 | 48,604 |
[WP]: Waking up with a massive hangover and no memory of the previous night, you get up to find the elaborate, detailed blueprints of a fully functional spaceship drawn on your wall. They've been done with your handwriting. | "Hello Darkness, my old friend," I greet the ceiling fan, the morning (afternoon?) sunlight and my typical morning misery.
I feel the sogginess in the carpet underneath my back and judge last night's party a six out of ten. I gather my strength and sit up, closing my eyes as waves of nausea pulsate through my body. I s... | 12 | 0 | 115 | 87,434 |
[WP] Write the best story you can using only the suggestions given to you by your phone's keyboard. | The appartments are usually good. I'm sure that you stay in touch. I'm not sure about the new year and the other side.
The only reason you are looking at the clouds ripping to the right direction and the desire of the seven days of our lives and the rest is up and running.
I am a little less expensive.
If you are loo... | 1 | 0 | 0 | 123,420 |
[WP]A new breed of soldier is here. That breed is gamers. | "Hey Tips, get a load of this program!" was Murray's hook to get me interested in his dossier on the Boston Dynamics beat.
It was a new government program to replace front-line soldiers with robotic proxies. Boston Dynamic's new Big Man was a natural progression from earlier robotic prototypes, accompanied regularly by... | 1 | 0 | 22 | 54,721 |
[WP] Unbeknownst to the world, a barrier is erected by Lucifer that encompasses the Earth and blocks prayers from reaching Heaven. God believes the world has completely lost faith. Decades pass before finally a single prayer is powerful enough to pierce the barrier. | I sat there depressed. Faith in my creation has waned into nothingness. I was about to let the rapture happen, until I finally got a call.
"God, we did it, we got one." Doris said while breathing heavy.
"Send it my way then." I said excitedly.
Doris walked in with a big smile plastered on her face. She gave me the pap... | 3 | 0 | 2 | 94,875 |
[WP] A great Empire is about to fall. A single remaining bodyguard is left alone with the Emperor as the enemy approaches the throne room. | The undulating profiles of the warmth-hued pillars shook terribly as several muffled thuds, forming with a cacophony of distant screams and the ever-present roar of wailfire, echoed within the vast chamber.
In the center of the room, placing themselves in ranks five deep alongside the first pair of columns before the l... | 2 | 0 | 113 | 57,186 |
[WP] At night, the Unread rise and devour their checked-out brethren. The zombie Apocryphalypse has begun. | Cassie woke with a jolt, sat bolt upright in bed and threw the duvet off. There came a thud from downstairs, it sounded like it was coming from the back door.
"Tom?" she hissed, reaching out to knock his shoulder,
"Tom! I think there is someone outside!"
"Muuu...Huh? Cas?" He rolled towards her.
"Listen" Helen breath... | 1 | 0 | 1 | 206,594 |
[WP] The tragic life and death of a balloon animal. | Too late condoms. That what we used to call ourselves. You know? Because, we're also made of rubber? You get it? Yo-.. Yeh you got it. Okay so. Here we are all fresh in a bag waiting to be made into fantastic creations. We were all speculating on what we were going to be. Probably a lot of giraffes and those sausage do... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 111,256 |
[WP] You're tripping on a new drug dubbed "Memory lane." It allows you to relive anything that has ever happened in your life with 100% clarity. The only catch is that the memory is random. | It's mid afternoon and I'm at my kitchen table thinking about how good life used to be. I've been living in a trailer with some pet roaches since the divorce and just barely escaped homelessness. I don't have money for anything. Damn, I don't even have money for drugs. I know I should sell this shit. Memory Lane, it's ... | 1 | 0 | 863 | 115,098 |
[WP] A man picks up a pair of glasses that allow him to see 30 minutes into the future. He sees his own body on the floor. | Blood flowed out of my head head staining the wooden floors. I put the glasses down and paced around the room. I had been using these glasses for the past week. Every thing I had seen in these glasses had come true in around 30 minutes or so. Because of this I only put them on for short bursts of time.
I sat on the gro... | 1 | 0 | 2 | 196,001 |
[WP] Story must end with, "Well, I didn't expect THAT to happen..." | Today was a good day. I woke up, took a shower, trimmed my beard and got my axe ready. It was time go to cut some trees!
I walked out of my house, loaded up my truck, made sure my dog was comfy in the cab and took off towards the forest. My mom wanted a Christmas tree so I told her I would cut one for her. This should ... | 3 | 0 | 6 | 169,734 |
[WP] You find out that whenever you are killed, you are revived with an immunity to whatever killed you. Document your experiences | They were calling him the world's first superhero.
His was the only story on all the news channels for over a week. Everyone seemed to fall into one of two camps; those who would let him be, and those wanting to hand him over to the military for analysis and testing.
Arthur himself was still struggling to make sense ... | 11 | 0 | 166 | 49,671 |
[Wp] Write a story that will make me question my morality. | I remember the first night, as terrible as it was, it is one of those memories that never leaves you. My mother had come home late, she worked hard in a small salon in the city, it wasn't much to get us by, but she always smiled when she saw me, always walked a little happier when she was reminded of why she did it. I ... | 24 | 0 | 402 | 77,153 |
[WP] You're on your death bed, and the personification of your greatest regret has come to say goodbye. | The lone reader wept a tear as the mourning stories about regret turned one after another in the screen: Lost lovers, unborn children and underachievers paraded with their miseries and, though he identified himself with most of them, he felt more pity by watching the scanty numbers in his Facebook's notifications. It w... | 1 | 0 | 860 | 127,435 |
[WP] You have, in your possession, the most dreaded of cookbooks: The Nomnomnomicon. | "Good evening, sir. Here's our menu, for our evening specials -- "
"No need for the menu, just bring me your chef's finest food for tonight.", Ben's customer cut him short.
"Wine sir?", Ben asked him.
"Your finest.", Ben went over to the kitchen.
It was a usual night at the restaurant. Full house. The ringing sound of... | 2 | 0 | 277 | 204,432 |
[WP] It starts snowing, but the snow doesn't stop. Provide journal entries for the 1st, 10th, and 100th day | August 12 - Well. This is a surprise. Snow in August. Funny. Especially cause Arizona doesn't usually get any snow. Mittens has been mewing at the window all morning. I think she wants to get out there and see what all the fuss is about. I think she's got the right idea!
August 22 - I'm beginning to think there may be ... | 1 | 0 | 109 | 219,019 |
[IP] show-off | They had told Harold that the condition was hereditary, beyond that his doctors didn't have any more answers. His great grandfather had been born the same way, broken at birth and had died unceremoniously during WWI.
Despite graduating at the top of his class at West Point, and being the youngest lieutenant since the ... | 3 | 0 | 4 | 62,862 |
[CW] Detail someone's first romantic experience (a kiss; sex; or even holding hands or something) in the second person. | You walk outside. Alone, but together. You toil with that. Why are you alone, when the guy you want so dearly is with you right now? You two are alone together. So which one is it? He seems more alone than together. Nerves? Maybe it's nerves.
You try to grab his hand. It's cold. He squeezes. You squeeze back. Calming, ... | 5 | 0 | 6 | 34,749 |
[WP] The card game of Mafia has now become a real life in your town. How does it play out for the 16 players? | "Got a few words for ya: Don't. Trust. Anyone."
Uncle Ted has experienced what I am going through now. Thank heavens there is someone I could talk to. "Seriously, lock your doors at night. Heck, ya might want to stay awake the entire night. Kill anyone who enters your house, Sam!"
"No way unc, what if I'm visited by a ... | 5 | 0 | 7 | 162,958 |
[WP] Cannibalism cures cancer | "Cancer." The one word no one ever hopes to hear from their doctor. Why me? What to do? Will I *die?*
Once I found out that my cancer was, in fact, terminal, I became somewhat resigned from life. Death was imminent, life was ephemeral, my consciousness would cease to exist. With the shadowy figure of Death constantly p... | 2 | 0 | 20 | 183,924 |
[WP] My heart is an IED. | Something... Something new is happening... I am happening. I open my eyes and look at the world around me. There are vast clouds surrounding me, passing by and leaving drops of moisture sliding along my face.
I realise I am going fast, very fast. A few patches in the clouds beneath me open up and I catch sporadic glim... | 3 | 0 | 3 | 137,131 |
[WP] Due to a computer error, everyones bank accounts are replaced with the persons video game character's bank accounts making some very rich people overnight. | My hands shivered as I stared at my screen. I never had this much money, not ever. It had to be a mistake. Nobody has money in such perfect digits.
"... people were rioting on the streets due to the international error which happened last night."
"Give me back my money!"
"Hell yeah, I'm freaking rich!"
I turned my atte... | 1 | 0 | 2 | 168,960 |
[WP] You have been immortal for 300 years. Slowly you have become depressed at the fleeting existence of anyone you might call a friend. It's the Early 20th Century now, and you're telling the story of your life, and how you got your immortal groove back. | 300 years ago I was human. My heart would beat. I would bleed if you cut me. I thought about death. I often contemplated many hours the day it would visit, and what it would be like to slip from this life and move onto the next-- if there was one.
I remember the night I made the transition from expecting death to havi... | 1 | 0 | 9 | 165,283 |
[WP] A dying humanity sends an arkship to the only habitable planet in range. When they get there, they find an alien race has just done the same. | "There's a ship down there!" Navigator Sanchez announced, her voice filled with dread.
Captain Mills got up from his chair and paced back and forth. "Give me a layout of the land around the ship." The last thing he wanted was a violent conflict but if it had to come to that he was going to make sure he had the high gr... | 3 | 0 | 13 | 201,301 |
[WP] Write a story about a hero and a villain, but make sure the hero and the villain don't know of each others existence. | James barely managed to catch the bus, he had to run to flag it down and get it to stop. "Lovely morning this is shaping up to be..." he thought. His toast had fallen on the floor, butter side down because of course it would. The barista had called out the wrong name for his coffee so he didn't pick it up until after h... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 113,295 |
[WP] You invent a time machine but accidentally go back too far in time, to the era before the Big Bang. | I made a mistake.
I just wanted to see my best friend again. It was in 1956, Paris. 1:49 AM. I got out of the machine, and sprinted down towards the avenue where he was. I couldn't risk the machine to go back far. It was still unstable. I couldn't have a day allowance before the shootout, or anything like that. I only ... | 22 | 0 | 30 | 170,736 |
[WP] Instead of humanity's first contact with aliens, write about humanity realising they are the only intelligent life in the universe. | Dr Sola standed up from his chair and stormed off from his computer terminal which was still steadily beeping away like a heart rate monitor. He kicked open the door with such pressure that if it was any older then it already was it would have been kicked off the hinge. This behavior caused one of the few rare instance... | 2 | 0 | 11 | 5,242 |
[CW] Write the first and last paragraph of a story and make me want to know what happened in between. | My insides pulling at me in twists and knots. I look about, the concrete buildings fill the sky around me. Only panning up can I see the muddled sky of grey clouds. 'The plan is foolproof' I think, trying to calm my nerves. Slowly dragging myself off of the floor, I ready my equipment and start to walk towards my final... | 1 | 0 | 570 | 211,286 |
[WP] A situation in which your only light source is a Zippo lighter, but it has no fuel, leaving you with only the sparks of the flint. | I open my eyes slowly... Or do I? I can't see anything. What happened? Darkness presses in on all sides, like a black vice tightening around my consciousness.
I reach my hand into my pocket, and wrap my fingers around the Zippo I keep with me at all times. With a lazy, mechanical flick, the cover pops open; my thumb re... | 3 | 0 | 52 | 228,426 |
[WP] "Welcome to the Infinity Club, here is your welcome packet!" | I slid the packet out from underneath the dead mans coat.
It was a pale white envelope smeared with crimson and marked with a silver sun. I wiped what I could off and looked at the young man.
He didn't seem to be older than twenty five, he was or so it seemed homeless and rather unlucky, for he had shards of glass hugg... | 2 | 0 | 18 | 12,069 |
[WP] Write a story so mundane and detailed it becomes existential | I sat, content in my cubicle. A prison of four walls a mere six feet high. Contained within this cell was my life. Pictures of friends and family, geographically distant, but cognitively close. A Swingline stapler sat next to the pencil cup, a layer of dust settling over both as it had been ages - no...generations - si... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 54,173 |
[WP]An infamous serial killer cements his legacy as “most gruesome” with one final graphic murder | The first person to arrive to the auditorium gagged and tied was a flautist with an IQ of 135. She got the honor of first chair, and she sat there in her own filth for 32 days as the other 89 nine members dutifully filed in.
All of them had little squares of duct tape on their mouth, so they could easily move them to ... | 3 | 0 | 0 | 168,027 |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | "Welcome to starbucks. Can I take your order?", she asked forcefully.
She looked like she never wanted to do this job. She looks tired and grumpy. I can't blame her though, this job is quite stressful as this shop is strategically situated at a high volume intersection.
" Grande Caramel Macchiato and an extra drizzle ... | 7 | 0 | 2,003 | 173,362 |
[wp] "The tiniest change can effect the future in ways you cannot imagine..." | "The tiniest change can affect the future in ways you cannot imagine..."
"Yeah, blow me, dude."
James blew the old man off, mollified that he'd even interrupt someone with such drivel. Don't pick up a fucking quarter, are you serious?
James picked it up out of spite, and just stood there.
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"Great, now I'm bored, Rob... | 1 | 0 | 12 | 22,170 |
[WP] You catch a strange smell in the air while hunting. Silently, you track the scent, and find a small encampment with two large bipedal reptilian creatures, armed with dangerous bladed weapons. You step on a twig, and the sudden *snap* causes them to look straight at you. | I stared. They were covered in bright feathers, blues, reds and greens. They looked like birds. Knives were awkwardly clasped in their claws. They didn't seem to have any thumbs. It was difficult to be of scared of bird creatures without thumbs. Except that they had teeth which were longer than my forearm.
The smell w... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 231,500 |
[WP] In the afterlife, therapists help out people who were killed in horrifying ways. | I'm not fucked up, I'm just a helper. That's what my mom used to call me, as in "Oh, don't mind Sarah, she's just a little helper" when I would insist on setting the table at other people's houses. It's true that a lot of therapists are fucked up. A lot of them are my friends. Not me, though, I went on vacation every s... | 1 | 0 | 40 | 108,020 |
[WP] An AI is deeply in love with a human, who is reluctant to reciprocate because they believe the AI's love is just programming and not 'real.' The AI strives to prove her love is real. | Tyler sighed as he saw another email from Sal-E. His brother had created the program for his doctoral thesis, and it was being installed in various universities and businesses globally. It was a wildly successful program that was able to predict what people wanted based on their personal tastes, vastly improving on pro... | 9 | 0 | 1,591 | 230,404 |
[WP] It turns out that teachers ARE conspiring to give the largest load of homework during your busiest schedules. | "Send me an email if you need any further help with the assignment," Professor Cole called out as the student he was advising just a minute ago left his office. Nervously, he strained his head upward and glanced at the door. When he was certain that the young adult with the bad posture was out of earshot, he leapt up f... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 218,794 |
[WP] Your best friend has just been dragged into a room, and is being tortured. You can't do anything about it except wait for the screams to end. | I shook my head a bit as I tried to push myself off the bare concrete floor. I was stripped down to nothing but my tight, ballistic skinsuit. I looked around a bit, but between the blinding lights in the ceiling and having just woken up from a blow to the head, the vertigo made me puke on the cell floor. I tried to loo... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 59,319 |
[WP] The narrator is trying to tell a story but one of the characters is being difficult. | [There is the sound of a keyboard in the background]
The colonel enters the room, his combat uniform streaked with grime, sweat (his) and blood (not his). Lying on the bed, waiting for him, is a vision in white.
The damsel would be classified as a knockout by any man's standards. She has the body of a gymnast - firm, w... | 1 | 0 | 89 | 132,515 |
[WP] Write a romantic story, but without revealing the gender of either partner. | It's time. I'm going to do it. No more of this "friends" bullshit. It's not like either you or I ever friendzoned the other; we both accepted friendship from the very beginning. It was completely natural that we do so. Neither of us felt any chemistry and we were both dating other people at the time. The only reason we... | 2 | 0 | 10 | 23,520 |
[WP] It started raining heavily all over the world, and it hasn't stopped for five/ten/fifteen/twenty years... | I was born in Cardiff, Wales. I'm Welsh. Rain is nothing new to me. Nor was it something very different for my father. He was a Canadian American brought up in Seattle. We knew rain like the back of our hands.
But my mother didn't really know how to drive in the rain. A head on collision made that she would never know... | 18 | 0 | 52 | 29,029 |
[WP] You just got bitten by a zombie! Your inevitable death and undeath will occur within ten minutes. | The man sat dejectedly in the corner of the room.
*tired*.
He knew he should have been, sad, panicking, maybe even raging with anger. Yet all the man could feel was an ache in his bones.
The room was all very surreal for him. The gaping cuts were just there; the connection between his hazy state and the leaking blood e... | 3 | 0 | 7 | 74,636 |
[WP] The words want to be said. | The words want to be said. I can feel them welling up in my mind, in my chest. But all I can do is stand there, helplessly, with tears on my cheeks.
*I love you.*
*I hate you.*
*I'll never forgive you.*
*Please, god, don't leave me...*
My knees buckle, and I collapse. Your blood will never wash out of my jeans. They're... | 1 | 0 | 1 | 216,509 |
[WP] You're a beet cop | "Fucken' broccoli bikers," I growl as the backwash from a puddle drenches my uniform.
The green afros of the bikers vanish around a corner with a squeal of tires and I'm left standing there, my truncheon in hand and stagnant water dripping from me.
I'm a beet cop. This kind of crap is part of my job; us beets have a ... | 3 | 0 | 9 | 205,727 |
[IP] Pure Pulp | Bright beams sweep across the street through the fine mist falling from the darkened sky as the Plymouth rounds the curb, lighting the way. Its driver is a bulkier man with an unpleasant disposition, wrapped tightly in his brown coat and bowler hat constantly complaining about the cold and the rain as his passenger kee... | 2 | 0 | 27 | 218,117 |
Daily Prompt: The Alphabet Game [Difficulty level: HARD] | After talking to her dad about it, she made a decision. Being the good grade student she was, she wanted to try an AP class. Calling to her teacher in class the day before, she had gotten the "ok" to go into advanced placement in that subject. "Dang it," she thought to herself as she recalled her conversation with her ... | 3 | 0 | 587 | 79 |
Writing Prompt: Write a story about a hero gone bad | "Is he out there, dad?"
"Fucking hell, Enoch. Learn to keep your fucking voice down. I don't know where he is. Why should I?"
Enoch looked down, easing his grip on the rusting iron sword in his hands. He had held it for so long that he could no longer feel it. Just sweat.
All around, the townspeople were huddling toge... | 1 | 0 | 28 | 467 |
[WP] Girl waiting for man in a restaurant on her own. We slowly realize he never existed. | -And I'm pretty sure I found him at the library it was between the books between Flaubert and Maupassant haha that's kinda funny I'll remember that but not really I don't remember completely I think I was looking through one of those painting books Kirchner paintings and looking at those weird paintings of his with tho... | 1 | 0 | 45 | 151,874 |
[WP] A zombie apocalypse occurs where all zombies retain their human skills/knowledge, except for the uncontrollable need to feed. | I can hear the trepidation in the knock on my apartment door. When I swing it open, I can see Howard, my neighbor, frantically try to mask it.
Howard is a small man, and the fact that he has been unable to feed has only made him smaller. He has come here to borrow some salt, to try to cure what little meat he has left.... | 7 | 0 | 7 | 188,380 |
[WP] All your life you have heard a woman's voice whisper advice to you, she also appears in your dreams. then it stops and years later you are pulled out a burning car. It's her. | You know, at 29 you think your invincible, until your not. A loud screech and bang, and my entire life flashed before my eyes. I saw the husband I never had, and the children I had yet to bear. My two kids were playing on a yellow swing set in our back yard, and actually enjoying my company. A total novelty at that age... | 2 | 0 | 32 | 223,633 |
[WP] You are peeing at a stall in the bathroom of Starbucks when a glowing blue portal materialized where the stall used to be. | Why do I get the Trenta? Every Friday morning I wake up with a hangover that feels like a chef is cracking my head open for breakfast, and I what do I do? Get a God damned Trenta. Now here I am, just like always, in this disgusting ass stall dealing with the... gastrointestinal repercussion.
"Welcome back Rachel, I am... | 2 | 0 | 3 | 224,700 |
[WP] A gender of the human race has long gone extinct due to an unforeseen virus. Now, heterosexuality is a thing of the past and humans reproduce artificially, but today someone realizes they are straight. | "It is very illogical," Sam tells Teacher Smith when the older adult sits beside hir. Sam is reading a book, and hir brow scrunches in confusion and consideration. "Our ancestors are very confusing, but I suppose they had such things because they had those...interesting parts. Animals reproduce like that, don't they?" ... | 2 | 0 | 54 | 41,815 |
[WP] After death, you find yourself in a room. Laying on a dresser is a letter to yourself, explaining that you are the great and powerful God. It goes on to say that you wished to truly experience the pains and joys of the human soul. The universe waits. Ready for you to speak. | I sat in a bare hotel room. It consisted of a double bed with threadbare sheets, a beat up dresser, a single lamp and an old CRT television. I hadn't looked in the bathroom. I didn't really want to.
When I woke up I didn't remember how I'd gotten here. I had looked around the room and found a letter addressed to myself... | 2 | 0 | 71 | 193,466 |
[IP] "Another Sunrise" | The old man stood before the group and smiled. With this vantage point he could see for miles, and should someone see them, they could flee from the Inquisition. He peered at the individuals in front of him and gestured to the sunrise before them.
"We greet another dawn. The Inquisition has yet to find us. Luck may sti... | 2 | 0 | 8 | 13,305 |
[WP] "Passengers this isn't your captain speaking." | It was with a sigh that he looked at his wristwatch. A family heirloom, old, faded, but it still told the time, numbers blurring into one as the focus of his eyes softened. The springs from his chair jabbed into his back, and several flakes of paint had fallen from the ceiling and coalesced on his hair like some sort o... | 1 | 0 | 161 | 119,622 |
[WP] When a person turns 18. they get to pick a statistic. For the rest of their life, they will know this statistic about anyone they meet (lies told, days left alive, etc.) | **General edit: if anyone is late to the party and would like to catch up with this WP in the right order (and at their own pace), the veritable legend that is /u/OC4815162342 has set me up a depository at /r/NWP1984stories/. To the veterans who have been here since the beginning: thank you for all your support - I wou... | 722 | 1 | 754 | 100,562 |
[WP] the final days of man, as seen from humanity's heirs. | I backed away, eyes wide, as I watched the odd creature spring towards me. I had been out in the depths of the forest, gathering food for the village pot. Momentarily forgetting my task, I stared at the odd thing curiously. It had the shape of one of us, with two legs, two arms, and a head, but it seemed to have none o... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 139,115 |
[WP] A person who lost their arm now feels something or someone touching their phantom limb. | Anthony lost his forearm, elbow included, in an machinery accident at his parent's farm. At the hospital, the doctors deemed it too late re-attach. They haven't the insurance anyways, so he just let it be. Anthony missed holding a coffee and a bagel at the same time, but mostly he became used to it.
He was well aware h... | 3 | 0 | 9 | 52,034 |
[WP] A person who lived a very complete life dies. Yet they regret one thing. they get to relive that moment, and change it. | Dying was like going to sleep. A little easier in fact, since I have always been a lousy sleeper. One minute I am in the VA hospital with tubes streaming from my body, my kids Sam and Jenny holding my hands, that old brown stained ceiling tile above my head that had dominated my view for the last two weeks. Then the ne... | 46 | 0 | 14 | 14,869 |
[WP] A suicidal man, who is unaware of his immortality, attempts to hang himself. His roommate finds him alive and well, whilst hanging. | Well, here I am, at the end of my rope I suppose. Heh, I probably shouldn't be making jokes like that, but why does it matter anyways? 'Nothing fucking matters anymore,' how cliche. I've never really had that much against living, having to work was a pain and not being able to waste away was a bummer, but it had its pe... | 2 | 0 | 102 | 29,477 |
[WP] You wake up late one afternoon to find that you have been given control of any one element. But you are not the only one... | The world has officially gone crazy.
That's what I thought as I sat inside an old abandoned building while people form into their own groups of element and rage war against each other. Even the government broke down after the nuclear reactor exploded last month. I don't understand the hype. I really don't.
So I sat her... | 1 | 0 | 9 | 102,094 |
[WP] A mother makes a phone call to her 8-year-old son, explaining that she won't be returning home. | "Tracey…." His voice trails off.
"I'm sorry Randy. I love you so much. Please let me talk to Simon. Just let me hear his voice. Let him he--." I choke. "Let him hear me one more time. Please."
I hear Randy hesitant, I can feel his body shivering through the phone, see the tears coming from his eyes. "Ok," his voice qu... | 2 | 0 | 26 | 168,200 |
[WP] Write the last passage, or last several passages, of a non-existent monumental novel completely out of context. | Shelby took a breath like a diver before stepping out into the cold rain.
He was still out there in his ripped up costume. His mask tilted to the side so that she could finally see his one good eye. Blue, like an angry sky. His mouth coughed blood as he knelt, adding to the pool beneath him.
The giant rocks near were... | 1 | 0 | 37 | 82,071 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a superpower, but no one knows what theirs is until they are forced to use it in a life-or-death situation. | Sometimes you don't realize until after it happened that that's what went down. it's not that people are standing around going "Oh my god! how did you live?!" but simply that you do live and it seems normal. Probably why people get these powers in the first place. I mean, adaptive responses to the environment is what e... | 8 | 0 | 1,420 | 155,090 |
[WP] You are a character in a story who just became aware of the fact that you are a character in a story. | Tired of this Stalk Life
I had realized it a while ago. Well no, thats not completely right. I'd had a feeling about it a while ago. I finally come to fully understand today. I was stuck. Every day I was reliving the same story over and over again. What am I talking about, you ask? Well my life of course. Or really, my... | 2 | 0 | 9 | 60,157 |
[WP] "Passengers, this isn't your captain speaking." | Joe hesitates to move to the only other free seat. Only for a few minutes, though. His routine flight from Vancouver to Toronto is becoming a nightmare due to the large mid-forties man snoring beside him.
He takes the chance when the stewardess has started to hand out the drinks. He doesn't want to miss a short (but cl... | 8 | 0 | 212 | 157,746 |
[MODPOST] Sunday Free Write: The Camp Fire Edition | I wrote this in response to a prompt here many months ago. It was a simple prompt titled the first kiss.
The kiss lingered and lasted a lifetime. This is my memory of it, but I'll need to go back to the beginning so you can understand the gravity of it.
Saying the date went well would be an understatement. She was ravi... | 5 | 0 | 9 | 62,204 |
[WP] The secret to eternal life is discovered... and it's really goddamn stupid. | New extensive research from Harvard University suggests that masturbating while looking at /r/gonewild will make subjects live forever and achieve immortality. "We are at the threshold of unraveling the secret of immortality - and the answer might be found in an area which initially eluded many of us conducting rigorou... | 4 | 0 | 34 | 117,284 |
[EU] - A zergling breaks free from the control of the hive mind. | "Go OuT aNd PlAy WiTh ThE tErRaNs" the hivemind had ordered the newly hatched brood of four legged xenomorphs and they spread out through the jungle sinking long hooked claws in the moist ground, propelling themselves between parting trees at breakneck speed with powerful elegant moves, taking in the many smells rich w... | 6 | 0 | 56 | 6,463 |
[WP] You are a fervent believer in a abrahamic faith who once dead, face an obscure pagan god. | Spitting out sand, Clare opened her eyes and stared directly at the sun, recalling where she was and reverting into a numb state. She listened for her captors to start the noon prayers and waited in a peaceful limbo of nothingness.
Until she heard the ocean.
Clare bolted upright, unnerved. How could they have moved h... | 2 | 0 | 215 | 211,515 |
[CW] Write a story where each sentence begins with the next letter of the QWERTY keyboard. | Que the music.
"We *have* to go!" mom had said.
Everything is like that with her. Really, I should be used to it by now. The truth is I don't mind that much but giving a shit keeps me from dying of boredom. Yeah I need a hobby. Unsurprisingly I have few friends and surprisingly the same goes for mom.
"Up there!" she w... | 1 | 0 | 19 | 76,180 |
[WP]An old hag has cursed you with immortality.Wondering how that is supposed to be a curse you started enjoying your life. Now you are floating in the void after the heat death of the universe thinking about the past. | After the fire, there was darkness. After the darkness, there was nothing.
"-baby! I can take a kiss from a rose and the duh, duh-duhduhduh-"
In the spinning coid that was all that remained of the universe, a brown dwarf ceased its struggles and finally dissipated into unbeing; finally, all was quiet in the sea of shad... | 1 | 0 | 598 | 158,474 |
[WP] TIL that the opposite of Paranoia is Pronia, wherein one believes that the universe and the world is conspiring to help them. Write a story about one such person with an extreme case of Pronia. | At first I thought I was just lucky, that these events were just strange coincidences in my favor. A professor would move back an assignment I hadn't done or a friend offered me a place to stay when my lease was about to end. Nothing out of the ordinary. But one event would shift my view completely.
I remember it as cl... | 6 | 0 | 1,126 | 46,068 |
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