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[WP] A man faked his insanity to get inside a mental institution. One day, a nurse realizes he is actually sane. | In a way I've always been a bit envious of some of my patients. In the grand scheme of things it was deeply saddening that they were doomed to spend their short stays on Earth in such an awful place, every day the same as the last, going nowhere. On the other hand, they were content, endlessly entertained by strange in... | 1 | 0 | 90 | 86,229 |
[WP]- A fully-equipped, highly trained modern SWAT Team performs a raid on a Warlock's tower. | The brave Sir Robin stood alone in the ancient cathedral hall. Sir Robin lifted his face plate, breathing in the stale musty air of the long abandoned temple. The room was massive, Robin was flanked by an array of crumbling massive pillars, on the walls around him where ornate stain glass windows. Robin raised his swor... | 1 | 0 | 3 | 31,110 |
[WP] The last human on Earth had the gun in their mouth ready to pull the trigger, when suddenly there was a knock at the door. | If it were not for his ability to sense imminent death, Charles would be a perfectly ordinary man. But he could sense death. When it was near, he felt it. His skin crawled and tingled with an unpleasant sensation, like he was neck deep in icy water while electric eels circled all around. The air would become thick with... | 2 | 0 | 11 | 46,291 |
[IP] Ten horrifying images to choose from! | Preface Illustration:
Me and my dog Pip were exploring an abandoned house after school a few years back, when we came across something really weird. The house was an old prefab about to be torn down to make room for an expanding freeway. It had some amazing graffiti on the outside, all swirls and shapes in psychedelic ... | 2 | 0 | 319 | 142,691 |
[WP] A soldier on the front dies in the middle of writing a letter home. It is finished and sent by the man who killed him. | Dear Mother,
Today has been good to me. Supplies are being brought in as I write this letter home. Rations, smokes, and ammunitions galore! I have yet to see the men more excited. The front rarely gets supplies I have heard and it is a special treat when it does. A special treat indeed! The crews coming in have also se... | 1 | 0 | 2,413 | 206,498 |
[WP] In the future, everything has ads. Everything. | Total Amarco: We Are Always Together flashed across the screen above a sitting child. On a bright and clear January day, top level marketing agents marched through the streets in search of enforcement. They searched for the able-bodied and clean. Gone were the days of four minute commercials and picturesque models in s... | 3 | 0 | 25 | 7,133 |
A man about commit suicide is being talked down by a cop to whom he is unwittingly connected. | I admittedly only read the title before writing this. I looked at the description only after spending about an hour on this. Downvote if you like, but I figure I might as well leave it anyway.
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Three years. Three years of promises to himself. To his family. To his friends. Three y... | 3 | 0 | 10 | 17,677 |
[OT] Can we set apart a day for where Writing Prompts that include 'god/devil/angel/demon; zombie/ghost/vampire; aliens/AI/robots' are banned? Just for that day, at least... | >These themes are not only overly represented in this sub (and stale, imo), they don't reflect the human condition.
How don't they reflect on the human condition? George Romero's Living Dead movies used what we call zombies as a way to reflect upon the human condition, talking about consumerism, nuclear weaponry, etc. ... | 5 | 0 | 1,053 | 115,596 |
[WP] You volunteer to be the first human to test time travel, only going an hour forward in time. When you leave the travel pod, however, all humans on earth are gone. | Cheryl leaned down at eye level to John. "Hey. You ready?"
John sighed and clenched his teeth.
The sight alone seemed to have answered her question.
But who could blame him? Doing something that would write you down in the history books for millennia to come was a giant burden to carry.
Not because he'd be the first ... | 1 | 0 | 656 | 160,589 |
[WP]in the search for the perfect kill, an assassin makes an ordinary person immortal. then the hunt begins... | Kendall woke up in the dark. The surroundings unfamiliar. She had been on a flight with her fiance, Harry, for a vacation in Fiji. Franticly she lifted the blanket off but her headache pounded and she could barely sit up. She called out, "Harry? Where am I? My head hurts, can you bring me some water?"
A speaker's stati... | 1 | 0 | 1 | 78,060 |
[WP] In the future, immortality is discovered. You are a history teacher having to explain death to students who have no clue what it is. | "Okay class" the teacher said "as you all know today is the anniversary when we discovered how to live forever and you know there used to be something else that existed before it was discovered.
"What was it" the class responded with the utmost curiosity.
"Well it was called dying and it was quite sad"
"Really well h... | 3 | 0 | 6 | 176,548 |
[WP] Write a creation myth. | He sits at a keyboard and begins to type, words slowly stumbling from his fingers. Hesitantly, He searches for a story, inspiration, anything. Dozens of half started ideas die on the page as fragmented sentences and ill phrased prose. The landscape of the page shifts as the spires of paragraphs transform into monolithi... | 2 | 0 | 96 | 202,880 |
[WP] Your family is actually guardians (unknown to yourselves) of a portal in your ancestral house that connect to a universe occupied by demi-gods. Recently, there's been weird activities from the portal... | When Michael Baker left Chicago with his wife Betty, they took three horses-two to ride, and one to pack. What the packhorse couldn't carry, they didn't bring.
Michael packed a little food for the trip, his gun, and a spare set of clothes.His mother's teacups went in one bag, and his baptismal gown in another. Tools a... | 2 | 0 | 1 | 107,072 |
[WP] One day, you wake up to see that every other human in the world as disappeared. After some time surviving alone, you wake up to see that they have all returned and all behave as if nothing happened. | It's been about 3 years since I became the last man on Earth. For the first 4 months I would just cry until I couldn't stay awake anymore. There wasn't a day that went by I didn't think of my family...my girlfriend; I loved a lot of people. I used to live in my old house just to cling onto the memories of my mom and da... | 2 | 0 | 717 | 175,418 |
[IP] "Speak the truth even if your voice shakes" | 'How could this happen to me?'
That was the only thought running through Eric's mind as he ran up to his room and locked the door behind him. He shivered in need as he sprinted to his desk and threw down his latest buy. His hands shook as he poured the delicious white powder in the spoon he always kept with him and lig... | 6 | 0 | 16 | 8,785 |
[WP] You are an incompetent superhero with a ridiculous power, however you are mankind's last hope for survival. | It was another average day in Sea City and Rick Yeager was driving his bus back to the depot to clock out. "Hope the wife is making beef stew tonight". Rick was so absorbed with thoughts of steamy beef, he barely noticed the road ahead of him splitting in half. "What the hell is this?" Rick jammed on his brakes, turnin... | 74 | 0 | 65 | 55,400 |
[WP] You have been kidnapped by a cult that holds a famous novel as its sacred text. The cult's leader explains what lies in store for you. | I refused their offer multiple times when asked if I would be apart of their game but they just got so damn annoying at some point I decided I was suddenly interested in my 12 year old brothers game.
I walked up the staircase basically crawling because it was so hot in this house. I vaguely remember there being an ai... | 1 | 0 | 2 | 76,451 |
[WP] Headline: A unicorn was arrested today for slaying the last dragon. Outraged protesters cry "Xenocide". | Freddy's body was buoyed along in the crowd. Each glimpse he caught of a face showed unspeakable, animal rage. The mob was making their way up the mountain. Finally, he saw a face that he recognized, twisted in anger, mouth agape in mid scream.
Both Freddy and the woman had taken shelter in the caves along with the oth... | 3 | 1 | 7 | 64,796 |
[WP] You wake up and find you have suddenly been teleported to the last video game you played, and must survive for the next 72 hours. | "This is the story of a man named Stanley."
*Wha? Who's talking? Who's Stanley? It's 6AM.*
"Stanley tried to roll over and go back to sleep but found that he could not due to the arms on his chair."
*There's that voice again… what chair I'm—*
"Stanley woke up with a start from his short nap to find that it was all just... | 4 | 0 | 39 | 197,233 |
[WP] Earth is crippled by a planet-wide disease. Two uninfected humans, one male and one female, are chosen to be sent into space towards a worm hole in a last ditch effort to either re-establish life on the other side or come back with a cure, if they can even make it through. | It would have to be option two. Still, it wasn't like they were actually going to find a cure in Gliese for a disease that originated on earth. That's just what was told to a desperate public to hold them together long enough to construct and launch the mission. Still, she drank some of the kool-aid too and now she wou... | 3 | 0 | 21 | 99,998 |
[WP] You are a serial killer that was sentenced to 120 years in a maximum security prison. You actually managed to live that long, and are now set free. | The news vans followed him to the apartment and screeched to a stop, reporters calling out his name as he made his way from the cab to the entrance door of the building. From a distance the reaction of the news media and those standing around clamoring for a picture would lead you to believe some Hollywood star had mov... | 8 | 0 | 116 | 30,412 |
[WP] a love story that ends with the words "and I hate her" | She reached out and grasped without my permission, took hold of my thoughts and pulled from remission.
She put on my blinders and opened my eyes, she showed me a sunset, called it a sunrise.
She promised me hope, she baited with joy. She knew me unknowing, too trusting, a toy.
She put on an act, such panache, such prid... | 10 | 0 | 281 | 158,919 |
[WP] Write about the most unlikely super hero, who their super villain would be, and a battle between them... | "You can't tell me what to say"
But I'm writing you.
"You know I'm not controlled by you. If I were, why would be having this conversation?"
I... Really, I don't know. Is writing supposed to be like this?
"Writing is whatever it wants to be."
I can't tell if that makes sense.
"But you wrote it."
Just because I wrote it... | 1 | 0 | 11 | 106,362 |
[CW]: you guide people through a dangerous obstacle course but can only instruct them through songs. | Follow me now, those brave and courageous, through the path both long and dangerous. If you hope to succeed and prevail, do as I say or you shall fail. With strength and might and determination, together we all can reach our destination, to that distant flag you see there waving, and remember, obstacle corp does not to... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 152,708 |
[WP] A boy is born, and as he grows older his parents realize he can only speak the truth. | Dear Tyler,
You had to have seen this coming. You promised to take care of me, to take care of everything. You said you would remove every obstacle that came our way. You lied Tyler. I remember all the not subtle hints, all the begging. This wasn't my plan. This was not the life I wanted to life. Every single day is ... | 6 | 0 | 48 | 153,103 |
[WP] The Seinfeld Prompt | Shit. I stand staring at graffiti engraved on what was once white tile as I listen to the familiar pitter-patter on porcelain next to me. The psychological boundary is much more impassable than the physical one. Sure, the doctors said the enlarged (cancer-free) prostate might make it hard to pee, but that has nothing t... | 2 | 0 | 16 | 1,345 |
[WP] Stephen Hawking says he 'held a party for time travellers...but none came.' However, someone did and he's forced to keep it a secret. | "Hello Stephen". A pale woman appears from the shadows of the door.
From the corner of the room I have been spotted. I recognize her voice immediately. "I keep telling you. You're not welcome here".
The woman steps forth. Same red dress as last year. Same whiff from her perfume. Same bounce off her hair. She once spo... | 2 | 0 | 356 | 215,018 |
[WP] Death usually separates people. But in this case, Death got them together. | I saw her across lawns lush with life. Flowers and grass bloomed with replendant colour all about, as growth rampantly flourished in this most dampened of atmosphere's.
Dressed in black she stood, face sombre, nonetheless she was beautiful; a lily of perfection amidst a sea of despair, floating on top of the waves with... | 5 | 0 | 5 | 166,034 |
[WP] A man walks in to a bar, wearing a space suit, helmet in his hand. "A beer please. I've had a rough day at work, you're not gonna believe this..." | Space helmet still in hands, Daryl made his way out of the rain and into the red and blue neon ocean that was Pool's Bar.
"A beer please", he coughed to the barman. I've had a hard day at work, you're not gonna believe this..."
"What's wrong, sir?"
"Fucking NASA, that's what's wrong."
"NASA, sir?" The metallic voice re... | 24 | 0 | 43 | 159,413 |
[WP] Aliens have taken over the world, and nothing has really changed. | "Another day another dollar eh Tom?"
"Uhh.. what now? Sorry I wasn't following you"
"Never mind, just keep at it.."
His boss walked away leaving Tom to his work and only the sound of papers shuffling and occasional coughs. It was another long day at the Immigration and Naturalization Service, a Tuesday, free doughnut ... | 11 | 0 | 69 | 129,465 |
[IP] The Dragon Rider | The wind whistled through my hair as I hung tight to Aldyn, my chosen dragon. Today we were making a rather large delivery to a trading outpost on the edge of the desert, and the load weighed heavy on Aldyn. He had struggled to even get aloft, the weight was so great. "Damned salt crystals" I muttered to myself. I wasn... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 73,748 |
[WP] After ten years of sobriety, you take your first drink | "You promised that you would never drink again, Marty."
He could hear the disappointment in her voice.
"I know I did." he thought as he drained the last few ounces of vodka from the bottle into the back of his throat. "I made a lot of promises that I haven't been able to keep in the last ten years."
He tossed the bottl... | 1 | 0 | 17 | 35,374 |
[WP] After a night of intense drinking, you stumble upon a genie. He grants you one wish and, in your drunken state, you decide to wish for the most ridiculous super power you can think of. This time NSFW version!! | "NO! PLEASE! LEAVE ME ALONE!"
The street thugs circled ever closer. Steel glinted in their hands. "Give up the purse, Granny, and no one gets hurt"
They had blocked all exit from the alley. Ol' Granny Smith slowly walked backwards down the alley, until she felt the cold brick wall behind her. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
A figur... | 3 | 0 | 9 | 29,512 |
[WP] In a world where the most intelligent of humans cannot match the computation power of machines... Humanity struggles to find a meaning for being | Hershaffander Reynolds walked down 6th street at 6:00pm as he had every day for the past 20 years. All around him he saw people trying to be different, learning obscure skills, singing, fighting, doing whatever pathetic attempts they could to be different. To somehow justify their existence. Hershaffander had been arou... | 2 | 0 | 22 | 182,201 |
[WP] Arctic oil driller contracts 30,000-year-old virus. | Sam Walcott knew he'd die like all the stupid people in his family. His Uncle fell from the Church tower polishing the bells at night. His father drowned in the lake collecting skipping stones. When his brother died choking on a piece of honeydew at the funeral, he knew he'd be next.
He quickly transferred all $1,403 ... | 8 | 0 | 57 | 23,235 |
[WP] You've been granted god-like powers under the condition that you must do as much evil as you do good. | (Across an inscrutable trans-dimensional divide, two vast intelligences observe the tragic puerility perpetuated by a third.)
*Technically it abides by the rules.*
**Agreed. Frustration. Risk of Unjust Misdirection.**
*Allow me my detached restatement of the obvious: at a sufficiently close level of comparative c... | 5 | 0 | 84 | 57,291 |
[WP] Choose either: The last human being in the world stood alone in a room; there was a knock on the door. -OR- The last human being in the world stood alone in a room; there was a lock on the door. | When the knock came he rushed to the door, scrambled with the locks, then stopped at the last one. His hand shook as he held the lock. He took in a deep breath and let it out slowly, allowing his shoulders to drop and his head to lean against the door.
"Frank, it's me, open the door!" she said, hurried and hushed.
He s... | 2 | 0 | 54 | 104,196 |
[EU] Batman is replaced by an evil doppelganger and the only one who has figured it out is the Joker. | He couldn't understand it. How couldn't they see? These lofty citizens of Gotham had let their guards down. And now look – a snake in the grass, a bat in the birdcage. But no, *no*! Not a bat. It's not Batsy at all!
Only he knew, you see. As always, it was only he who saw the clear truth.
*Batman is not Batman.*
On the... | 800 | 0 | 2,132 | 225,674 |
[WP] "Relax," she said. A scornful look filled her eyes. "You have nothing to fear. Turds float." | "Relax," she said. A scornful look filled her eyes. "You have nothing to fear. Turds float."
Dannika was all business punk, with short hair, a strong jaw and a wide gauge zip up the side of her pencil skirt. The way she talked to me, you wouldn't know I was her boss.
I looked out over the city, the fires glowing like... | 1 | 0 | 1 | 185,805 |
[FF] "Well this is a bloody mess." the first voice says. | "Well, this is a bloody mess," the first voice says.
Silence.
"I saw this coming," the second replies.
"Like hell you did," the first retorts.
The rubber sole of one of their shoes squeaks as they slip on the tile.
"Watch out, Floyd," the second warns.
Not Floyd. Number two.
"That would've been a nightmare," the first ... | 3 | 0 | 0 | 82,875 |
[WP] A man dies and finds out that he is getting reincarnated. He sees the light in the tunnel and he sits down instead of going past and being born. Tell us why. | I'm not done yet.
That was my last thought as I died and my first thought waking up afterward. The afterlife was suitably mysterious. Large wheels, blatant symbolism, beatific men and women proclaiming ancient and deep wisdom that is truer than mere truth. No gods, or God. Either would have been hard to deal with. Ther... | 1 | 0 | 19 | 8,271 |
[WP] Tell a war story, through the eyes of an animal. | He stands by the aged, wooden table in the kitchen, facing the door. He hears them outside, making loud sounds that he doesn't like, makes the fur on his spine rise in irritation. His friend, she stands hovering in the kitchen doorway, half clothed in shadow. He cannot see her face, but he could sense her nerves, could... | 6 | 0 | 57 | 145,472 |
[WP] Every night the forces of good and evil fight over a child's soul, at a stalemate thus far. A third party has joined the fight. | Evil stood outside the home, and the sun dipped below the horizon. Dusk faded faster than what should be natural, but her gaze never left the small home; indistinct from any other, on the corner of the street. Soon, it was full night.
She began her customary glide towards the dwelling. The air sat still on this warm ni... | 2 | 0 | 0 | 218,866 |
[WP] Fabricate a detailed back story of what is happening in your favorite video game that doesn't have a story. | Brewer walked into the office sweating profusely from the effort of walking into the building. Years of late nights and too much overtime had taken its toll; he was only 50 but looked like late 60s. He grunted the barest of acknowledgements to his secretary, Carol, as he walked into his office. She tried to catch his a... | 6 | 0 | 22 | 153,971 |
[WP] A man goes to the top of the building he works at to commit suicide over a depression caused by a harsh workplace. He looks down and sees that his boss has noticed him preparing to jump, and rather than informing anyone, has casually sat down on a bench to watch. | Ted Buckland was a miserable, sad, pathetic excuse for a man and he knew it.
It was lunchtime, a cool day in mid-April, and Ted was spending his lunch in the usual place. And the "usual place" was the well worn, very slight indent on the edge of the roof. He looked down at the parking lot below, and for the one-hundred... | 15 | 0 | 83 | 29,682 |
[OT] Be Read: Reply with the best story you've written this year to date. I and others will read each and every one of them and offer a comment. | I'll be reading through as many of these as I can and giving my thoughts (even if it takes a while).
Here's mine:
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It wasn't a long trip to the bottom, but it wasn't a short one either. If he'd had to guess, Callum would have said it was so... | 9 | 0 | 17 | 127,023 |
[WP] Man finds out his girlfreind is cheating and kills himself, only to wake up in the body of her lover. | Violet and I lived together for years, even before we started dating. It was an odd living situation, where I was a software engineer with a spare room, and she was an artist willing to pay rent. We complemented each other quite well. After a year of living together, I finally decided to ask for a date or two. Nothing ... | 5 | 0 | 7 | 148,557 |
[WP] Airport authorities don’t recognize your passport because the country that issued it doesn’t exist. You are confused. You’re thinking: “What? I was born there! I’ve lived there all my life!” | I don't know why I don't remember her name.
"Mam, would you please come with me," I asked, after I saw the origin of her passport; I didn't even have to put it on the scanner. I neither looked up at her, nor did I return the passport to her. I've done this a hundred times before, but this time it was different. I was e... | 7 | 0 | 750 | 158,384 |
[WP] You are about to commit suicide when your phone gets a text "Don't do it" from an unknown number. No one knows you are committing suicide. | I stood there in the darkness of the kitchen, solemnly making dinner, chopping up the carrots and potato's. It was suppose to lead to a date I had been looking forward to all week, the girl whom I have had a crush on at work for the past year, I had asked her on a date last minute Sunday before she left, and she had, t... | 1 | 0 | 34 | 227,113 |
[WP] During your midnight walk back home, you briefly look up towards the stars to entrance yourself with the beauty of space. During your gaze you notice a bright star, blinking rapidly in the sky, and once you look back down around you, the entire block becomes desolate and abandoned. | I don't know when I started the walks, but they where a good stress relief from parents and school. I always left after I was sure everyone in my house was asleep, just another thing they would yell at me for if I got caught.
My path would change but the destination didn't. A small hilly park, a great stargazing spot ... | 3 | 0 | 6 | 210,802 |
[WP] Write something not ridiculously romanticized or fantasy in topic. No aliens, no crazy outer space or magic or dragons, just normal. Make it mind-blowing. | He smacked his lips as if thirsty and took a drag. He watched the toxic cloud disperse from his mouth through half-closed eyes. Something was wrong. He looked left to an unoccupied desk he was told wasn't his but never met whose it was. He looked right to a bookshelf stacked with the same book over and over as if each ... | 1 | 0 | 27 | 106,708 |
[WP] Our heroic main character realizes the author is sending them on a suicide mission and tries to reason their way out. | And our hero, Jonathan, hatched a plan: He would walk into the nest of giant ants and detonate the bomb strapped to his chest to save the day... once and for all.
"Come on, man!" Jonathan shouted at the author
Wait, what?
"Just... come on, man! That plan doesn't even make sense, why can't I just leave the bomb in the n... | 13 | 0 | 12 | 176,013 |
[WP] The world as we know it is a case study, and the panel of scientists in charge are debating wether or not to end it. | [Lead Scientist] Ladies and gentlemen, present your findings please.
[Scientist 1] Distinguished colleges, the experiment designated Terra Sol 3 is entering critical mass. The recent massive glacial calving has effectively lowered the temperature of the northern oceans. The calving is due to gigantic new ice floes form... | 2 | 0 | 2 | 15,959 |
[WP] You volunteer to be the first human to test time travel, only going an hour forward in time. When you leave the travel pod, however, all humans on earth are gone. | The first thing I did was check my watch. It read 14:34, as I had expected it to, seeing as I left at 13:34.
It was odd, though, that there was no one in the room. I had expected the physicists to greet me into the future. They knew this was happening. I figured it was some sort of loophole and maybe there was a disag... | 2 | 0 | 656 | 160,592 |
[WP] You are an indigenous tribesman. You have never left the forest or come into contact with any advanced society. You climb a mountain, searching for glory, and you come across a modern city, the likes of which you have never seem before. Describe the city from your perspective | Chief had always told me that this forest was our home; the forest is our mother, cradling us from the time that we are born, and welcoming us to it's roots when we pass. The people within it, for generation after generation, chief after chief, have been the same. We, the Abenago, have always been the protectors of thi... | 2 | 0 | 1 | 53,711 |
[WP] Our discoveries have lead us to believe that the asteroid belt contains the remnants of a planet similar to Earth. That planet's civilization sacrificed itself to protect a developing Earth. Their legacy is passed down in a love song that all Earthlings inherently understand. | It was one of the last classrooms on Earth and I suppose, by association, Professor Hubbard was one of the last professors.
I don't think that is a bad thing. It sounds quite awful, but it's not when it lives in the context of what our world has become. And that sounds quite awful as well. But I assure you, it is not. ... | 3 | 0 | 30 | 162,581 |
[WP] Science has advanced far enough now that you can implant skills directly into your brain while you sleep. After a few sleeps you can now master whatever skill you desire. What would a society be like where people are the best at whatever they choose? | "You'll want the standard package then, Mr. Bannister?"
"Of course, of course. Wouldn't be prudent not to." Lincoln couldn't quite suppress a slouch and a sigh. No matter how straight of a spine the surgeons installed, the weight of the world somehow still managed to inflict most every young man with a posture-ruining ... | 2 | 0 | 1 | 49,036 |
[EU] Bilbo never thought to give Frodo his mithril armour. When the cave troll stabs Frodo in Moria, Frodo dies, and Gandalf, wracked with guilt, takes the ring with the intent to destroy it | There was no time to mourn in the tomb of Balin. After all the orcs were slayed, the remaining members of the Fellowship took a moment to collect themselves. The other hobbits were inconsolable, but after hearing the deep guttural growls in the deep and the growing heat, they knew, as everyone else, they had to continu... | 56 | 0 | 241 | 76,046 |
[WP] You are an android who has been posing as a human and living undetected for a very long town. Suddenly, something goes wrong, and everything changes. | {[Artificial Intelligence Thought Synthesis Log :: Aa309ee7]}
I really shouldn't have stuck my nose into it. [Subprocess 18: Nose? What nose? We don't have a nose.] Come *on,* Jack, you've been doing this for thirty years [Subprocess 173: When'd you stop using cycles as a unit of time?] and you've seen enough house fir... | 4 | 0 | 16 | 7,502 |
[WP] You are an Alien arriving on earth, only to find that all of civilization is either in shambles or destroyed. Write about your findings and conclusions as to what the human civilization was like. | [Journal translated into Basic for interspecies use]
ENTRY ONE: LANDING
I have never seen such destruction. Merely seconds after entering the atmosphere of Terra-249, I could sense the lifelessness of the planet. Even the perpetual wars of the tribes of Terra-48 didn't cause this much destruction. Although I realized q... | 1 | 0 | 1 | 74,311 |
[WP] Describe the last mintue of Earth | A light breeze stirred the sun-baked dust, weaving it between the nooks and crannies of the desolate, rock strewn landscape. That was the only movement, just as it had been for thousands of years. Life did not exist here anymore. As the sun began to shine brighter and brighter, the children had realized they could not ... | 1 | 0 | 8 | 74,208 |
[WP] Write a locked room mystery involving a theft or murder. | My gaze danced from player to player. I posited 9-1 odds on Haley holding an ace and and some kind of unimpressive kicker. She always puckered her cherry red lips when she was unsure of something. A plume of Horowitz's cheap cigar smoke floated through the dim light above the green felt table and irritated my eye. I le... | 3 | 0 | 3 | 146,496 |
[WP] Becoming a Synth | A plethora of shacks and lean-tos clustered on the walls like honeycombs, circulating the square in tight cloisters of poverty. Water dripped off the nearest shanty in rivulets and I pulled up my collar against the falling rain. Nothing, however, would block out the pounding din of the downpour on the corrugated tin ro... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 11,891 |
[WP] You live in a statistically perfect world. Eg, if you roll a die 6 times, you will get all 6 numbers once. Write about daily life and some of the more dangerous aspects of this universe (car crash chances, violence statistics, etc). | This was the worst part of the job. "I'm so sorry," I said.
The woman cried heart wrenching sobs as the man held her tight. He rubbed her back and kissed the top of her head. "Is there anything we can do?" he said.
I shook my head. "I'm afraid not."
"How could this happen? Everything looked fine. There was no indicatio... | 716 | 0 | 985 | 189,863 |
[EU] Self Esteem | We're the girls who know what it's like to wipe dried, streaky tears from our glasses the next morning, the girls whose breath catches every time they see a white Ford Ranger drive by, who have avoided their favorite pizza place ever since because it was his favorite, too. We're the girls who search in vain for helmets... | 3 | 0 | 3 | 124,321 |
[WP] You have a special power that allows you to turn yourself into a liquid. Your life is mundane until a criminal gang recruits you for a job. | "Of course it works"
"Then prove it to us. This is a significant investment for us."
"Why do you need me in the first place?"
"I can't tell you yet, we need to know that you can actually do this"
"No. I need to know, or else I won't work. If you're coming to me, then you're undeniably out of options"
The large man in t... | 20 | 0 | 16 | 138,879 |
[IP] The City | "Orange shirt?"
The sharp crackle of a voice emanating from a walkie-talkie fizzled into the man's ear.
"Yup, orange shirt."
A tall figure walking in the streets titled his head towards the smaller frame of a girl wearing a mandarin-tinted tanktop. Nodding towards the direction of a car that was parked not too far away... | 1 | 0 | 13 | 108,710 |
[WP] Two strangers are travelling down the elevator to hell after dying when the elevators gets stuck. | Saint Peter issued God's judgement on Rick and Alan in an authoritative tone. They would be going to hell. Despite the popular phrase, they would be going down in an elevator, not a handbasket.
Rick and Alan entered the line for the descent into hell. The queue for the elevator was horrendous, but for some reason they ... | 3 | 0 | 66 | 86,253 |
[WP] In the universe of your choice, write about life after a major event 20 years in the future. | I'm going to do mine, because I've been thinking about it lately. Mine is "Second Son", Good Karma ending.
***
Smashed glass lies on the floor, smoke rises up from holes in the walls and a large, light blue sword is stuck in the middle of the living room. I call out for my mom, dad, my brother, feeling my gut wrenching... | 1 | 0 | 1 | 149,591 |
[WP] Everytime you wake, you're somewhere you've never been. Could be a different country, could be a differnt world. Tell me how you survive. | "Where am I?"
"You're home. I'm your wife. Your short term memory is shit. Always has been. Please don't freak out and break anything. I just replaced all the stuff you broke yesterday. I'll make coffee."
His heart rate increased. He looked around. None of it familiar.
"Lies." The cadence in his chest grew faster. Nau... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 231,091 |
[WP] A man hands you a credit card, pulls out a pistol, and shoots himself. You look down just in time to see the name on the card change to yours. | **Monday Evening**
I'd always been a fickle being, notwithstanding thousands of years of ends; and not mentioning civilizations past in other places not unlike this one. Personal is such a human word, as I scratch this note out I become aware of it more, being that I want this to read well when read by a human. I don't... | 3 | 0 | 1,627 | 124,589 |
[WP] Women suddenly stop getting their periods. Men suddenly start. | She stared at the little stick for the entire processing time. It slowly showed -- one line, not pregnant. *What in the hell?* she thought. Her period was over a week late. This was her second test and she was trying not to worry, but still...it can take a while for the positives to register.
She didn't want to mentio... | 4 | 0 | 74 | 172,709 |
[CW] I'm a singing genie: I'll grant you one wish if you make it using rhyme. | "Be careful what you wish for," the singing genie said
I told him, "You underestimate the thing inside my head,"
He said, "Something I'll grant you if you make it using rhyme,
But hurry for I'm running out of time."
So I decided to post this comment,
But quickly I found reason to lament.
For I'd not a single clue of a ... | 1 | 0 | 18 | 86,747 |
[WP] 4 out of 5 dentists are tired of the 5th. | Carl's a dick. He's always been a dick, ever since he opened his new practise down the road from us.
It started when he stole our clients. People who'd been coming to us for years; he enticed them away with his pretty secretary and low prices.
"He's a professional," Mrs MacCreedy said I met her in the street. She manag... | 2 | 0 | 20 | 226,145 |
[WP] The evil villain is in charge of putting a stop to the heroes plans. | "But why, mom?"
"Because that's the way it is! Now quit whining and get out there!"
"I don't want to! Why do I always have to be the one to ruin the day. I hate my job. Why can't I ever do what *I* want to do. Why do I always have to run after these... these... *do gooders*! My life is *pointless*!"
The evil villa... | 1 | 0 | 0 | 168,720 |
[WP] Two arctic explorers fell into an ice crevasse and are now suspended by a rope, the one on top can survive but he can't climb because of the weight of the other, a decision ensues. | "Shit, how fucked are we Joe" I yell.
"Very" he screams back "I don't think we are going to make it out of this one"
We were trekking some glaciers just the two of us, and for some reason we tied a safety line. From the rock to Joe's harness, and His to mine. We were walking for not even five steps, when Joe, the Idiot... | 2 | 0 | 1 | 123,042 |
[WP] I am, but for a time I wasn't. | I live at the edge of a ballpoint, and in the wake of a blinking cursor. I've always been here, waiting for you. You can hear my voice now, and it's exciting for me, because my voice is so different in your mind. Trust me, I sound great.
Am I a metaphor? Probably not. Metaphors are for the boring and those who use thei... | 3 | 0 | 1 | 113,604 |
[WP] All of the major organs in your body are sentient beings. Every morning they have a council meeting to discuss the previous day and make new plans. The Brain presides as leader. | "As you are all well aware, yesterday was a disaster. However, I have been brainstorming ideas and believe we can turn this around."
The brain loved to talk about "brainstorming". He would bring it up several times every meeting just to show it off. This power that set him above the others. We all had our unique abilit... | 1 | 0 | 363 | 40,123 |
[WP] A man approaches you in a supermarket. "Don't go home today," he says. "No time to explain, but I can't let them keep doing this to you." He sprints toward the exit as a nearby shopper bolts after him, hand touching her earpiece. You realize the shopper chasing him is a good friend of yours. | A chill came over me. I couldn't move. All I could do was watch as that man ran from me, Nora hot on his tail. I wondered, briefly, what Nora was doing at the Supermarket--she said she'd taken time off work to explore the Bahamas with her husband. Some second honeymoon bullshit.
But it was her, unmistakably her.
"Ali... | 19 | 0 | 312 | 65,385 |
[WP] You have dishonored your family and you must commit Sudoku. | Midsummer crickets hum and haw outside the counsel chambers. Inside, a line of stone faced monks sit in bronze and mulberry robes and watch me disrobe. One arm out. The other. Time slips away, seconds I'd often ignored slipping away like precious gemstones through my hands.
My Chamberlain carries my robe behind the mo... | 5 | 0 | 1,183 | 185,544 |
[WP] You got a job interview with the Illuminati - now you've got to convince them that you are perfect for their everyday conspiracy needs. | As I walk into the dark damped basement, I find nothing there but candles on the floor lighting a bookshelf in the back and wooden table in the center with 3 men sitting behind it.
"Sit down Mr. Burke, we are very, eager, to begin." one of them said, though I couldn't tell who, for they were all hooded, and none of the... | 7 | 0 | 3 | 176,109 |
[WP] The first to fall asleep will be brutally killed. | Second prompt here, critique is requested, thanks!
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In a second, the darkness dominating my vision that I had almost become used to was gone. It was now that I was finally allowed to take in my surroundings. I was in an incredibly well lit room. There were four white walls, no windows, one door, and too many godda... | 3 | 0 | 62 | 34,816 |
[WP] NonSensical WP: There's a giant hole in your kitchen, your toothbrush is missing, and for some reason you have a machete. | I woke up with a machete on my side table. I have no idea how it got there, but it was there, and it was covered in something sticky. I didn't really register it as I had just woken up and all, so it kind of just stayed where it was.
As I walked out of my room and into the bathroom I smelled something. 'Must be Soph ma... | 2 | 0 | 10 | 136,227 |
[WP] A girl is having her first kiss. An old man is holding his wifes hand as she passes away. A teen parent is losing their child, while a man is getting married. Four different lives, one day - make them connect. | "That was great", said Sara, "I'd love to go on but I actually have to see my grandma." she walked backwards and waved goodbye to him.
The machine was still beeping when Sara entered the room. There she witnesses her grandfather sobbing his eyes out as he tightly grasps his wife's hand. The doctor just sat there sympat... | 1 | 0 | 912 | 135,766 |
[WP] Write a murder mystery using lyrics from your favourite songs | {{Wasn't sure if OP wanted a story peppered with lyrics or story told using only lyrics. I decided to only use lyrics.}}
*I know it's not helping to hear me say.... I wish it was me in the car that day. Where the hell's my hope? And why I can't I just try? You know I've lost a lot, but I won't let this die!*
**Lay your... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 230,160 |
[WP] Two suicidal people happen to meet on the same bridge to jump. Rather than joining together, they each try to convince the other not to jump while justifying why they themselves should jump. | It was a warm, almost comforting night, and as I stood on the bridge I was contemplating jumping off of my last thoughts ran through my mind: I just have to jump; it's not that hard. It's a sin to kill yourself, right? I think so… but then again I'm pretty sure it's also a sin to molest children, and I had no problem d... | 1 | 0 | 2,634 | 201,453 |
[WP] Use the pieces of unfinished stories you wrote/started to write a new story. Bonus points if they are from this subreddit. | A continuation of [this chapter.](http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/2hhlh8/cw_me_myself_and_i/ckstx4b)
Dieter draws his blade, the basket-hilted broadsword reflecting the moonlight off its steel. Pointing the razor tip at the two doppelgangers, he edges backwards, only stopping when his back hits the wate... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 126,865 |
[WP] You deliver a pizza to a strange house at the edge of town. A cult answers the door and they believe you are their sacred cult leader. What do you do? | Rick approached the gates of the large manor house. It was rare to get a pizza order for this estate, let alone for about 7 meat feats at about 2 in the morning. He gingerly pressed the gate buzzer, balancing the tower of boxes in his hand.
'*Yeeeeeeeeeees?*' a voice groaned, similar to air escaping from a punctured ti... | 3 | 0 | 2 | 105,713 |
[WP] Death is an actual person that comes by when someone dies. | This is a continuation of [this story](http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/23spnq/wp_on_their_16th_birthday_humans_are_given_a_box/ch096mw) from the recent Heartseed prompt
"I'm in the middle of a god damned movie!"
The voice was young, jaded, and impatient, not what the old man had expected. The valet offe... | 5 | 0 | 48 | 37,875 |
[WP] A lone Spanish soldier lost in the deep jungles of South America stumbles upon the fountain of youth, but it's very different than anyone ever imagined. | Nobility.
Grace.
Good looks.
He had them all. But she strips it all away. Time is a cruel mistress he thought to himself. But all that will change. He pushed the strands of long grey hair away. His aquamarine eyes focused on the well water which gushed to the surfaced. The gaze which once transfixed women had dulled... | 1 | 0 | 158 | 116,485 |
[WP] Write about what it is like to be an extremely desirable prostitute. | People think that I need to be saved. They think that I was forced into this business, that I am a "sex slave."
They're wrong. I don't need to be saved. I wouldn't be doing what I do if I didn't want to.
Every night the games are a little different. Some men just want a good fuck; and they usually don't last more than ... | 6 | 0 | 13 | 5,778 |
[MODPOST] Sunday Free Write - March Is Almost Over Edition | *My father passed away a couple of weeks ago. I had the urge to write this last night. Far from perfect but I can't bring myself to revisit and improve it.*
Two weeks ago I saw my father for the last time. In fact, I might as well say for the last three times, for no matter how hard I tried, I can't shake or forget th... | 2 | 0 | 16 | 30,589 |
[WP] This is an actual study question for an evolution course I am in. I want to see who can think of the most creative response. | "They are injecting eel sperm into their veins?" Judge Malorn leaned back in his chair, looking over both of the lawyers in front of him. They were standing side by side, waiting for him to reach a decision. The problem was, the case they were presenting him with was absurd.
"Yes indeed." The lawyer to the judge's le... | 3 | 0 | 11 | 13,267 |
[WP] A formidable alien warlord travels across the galaxy to Earth for a single purpose. What is that purpose? | High general Frod looked over the small blue-green planet as the legions moved in. The war would be over before a full planetary rotation. A small underling with thick rolling skin skittered across the room towards the High General.
"Your excellency, I am unworthy, but why exactly are we invading this planet? Records ... | 2 | 0 | 2 | 140,926 |
[WP] A well known, liked, world saving superhero neglects telling people his powers are based upon eating human flesh. | The coroner had always performed his duties with pride, but examining the remains of a serial killer tested the typical respect he held for a corpse. This was the second cadaver he had seen that was killed by the city's notorious masked superhero. It appeared the vigilante hadn't had much respect for these men either. ... | 5 | 0 | 89 | 32,914 |
[WP] The year is 2050. The Mars colony has been thriving for years now. The first firearm on the planet has been 3d-printed. | Oh man, the guys over at the club are going to love this, they better, I worked too damn hard for this. Just getting the old 3d printer up and running took forever, but the new replicator-bots had safeties against anything that even looks like a gun, I couldn't even fix my hand-drill with them
But now, it was almost do... | 1 | 0 | 13 | 177,771 |
[WP] "The elevator had an extra button, but instead of a number, it was only labeled with a question mark." | A man walked into the elevator of a very tall building. He dressed in a business suit, early for a meeting of course. Though he didn't work in this building, he did work for the company. This was the first business meeting they had set in this particular building.
This man entered the elevator alone, and he pressed the... | 1 | 0 | 57 | 139,565 |
[WP] Two best friends are each smoking a cigarette, knowing that when they are finished, they will never see each other again. What do they talk about? | Plumes of smoke rose from the crimson end of a cigerette. The cold air whipped it away like sprites stealing prayers from the air. A lone figure kneeled over a cold body in a field long since abandoned, his friend.
Tears streaked his young face, still not a scar after all that fighting, at least none aesthetically.
"... | 2 | 0 | 321 | 27,769 |
[WP] Write a story of an interesting man/woman with an interesting life, but bore me too | It's always the same start. The first thing I hear is screaming, the wails of terror mixed with grief, It's the same feeling I get with a bad hangover. I can't imagine the other members not feeling this same level of monotony. Sure, we have the best technology, we can do things that literally seem like magic, and I'm n... | 1 | 0 | 2 | 114,108 |
[WP] A Caladrius is a mythical, white bird that looks away from the sick who are destined to die, but looks toward those who are destined to live and takes away their illness. Sitting in a hospital on day, you see one. | I had been in the hospital for nearly two months before I first saw the bird. For all intents and purposes, it appeared like an ordinary pigeon, albeit its plumage was much lighter. However, its eyes belied an intelligence that no other bird had possessed. It peered into my room before gingerly stepping in and perching... | 3 | 0 | 81 | 155,552 |
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