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[WP] A island that is almost completely gold. A ship filled with nobles arrive on it by accident, and the natives treat the servants as leaders, and ignore the nobility, because to them gold is a sign of poverty | "What a marvelous place." Sebastion purred. "We 'ave found para . . . dise." He drummed his gold laden rings against the rail of the Queen Lat Iffah, his flagship. "Take me to this little people. Bring my chest of baubles.
"My Lord, I believe the island gold?" Akmond breathed. "Solid gold. We'll be rich."
"That thoug... | 15 | 0 | 434 | 14,500 |
[WP] A island that is almost completely gold. A ship filled with nobles arrive on it by accident, and the natives treat the servants as leaders, and ignore the nobility, because to them gold is a sign of poverty | *An | 4 | 0 | 434 | 14,501 |
[WP] A island that is almost completely gold. A ship filled with nobles arrive on it by accident, and the natives treat the servants as leaders, and ignore the nobility, because to them gold is a sign of poverty | John scanned his surroundings for the hundredth time that day. He tried to chew on a fingernail, but it had been gnawed short hours earlier, and his teeth found no purchase. His fingertip had begun to grow red due to the increasing frequency of his vain attempts, and he shook his hand to distract himself from the sor... | 2 | 0 | 434 | 14,502 |
[WP] Its the last day and things will never be the same. What happened? | "I've seen it coming for weeks, months, hell, for years. It's not like I ever expected anything different. But somehow I can't get my head around the concept of retiring.
This morning I got up like every other morning, barley caught my train, as always, and made myself a coffee first thing at the office. What am I goi... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 14,503 |
[WP] Extremists rejoice as God descends from above and declares them right. |
It shook the world when God texted everyone on Earth simultaneously. Just a time and a place. Oh and three kisses. Scientists scoffed. The more liberal of God's followers did too. An elaborate hoax. It was only those who considered themselves truly faithful that answered the call and that was why a Village Hall in Pi... | 3 | 0 | 3 | 14,504 |
[WP] Write a review for the latest book by God "Bible: The newest testament - confusions resolved, mistakes corrected". | After the longest lapse in history between books, the newest entry in the best-selling Bible series hits shelves this June. I've had a chance to get an early look at it, and I have to say, most fans are going to find the wait was completely worth it. Just like previous entries such as Leviticus, there's a never-endin... | 4 | 0 | 6 | 14,505 |
[WP] Sherlock Holmes moves to Gotham and becomes obsessed with discovering the identity of Batman. | [deleted] | 7 | 0 | 45 | 14,506 |
[WP] Sherlock Holmes moves to Gotham and becomes obsessed with discovering the identity of Batman. | "Sherlock, Sherlock, I think I've made an amazing discovery!"
"Watson, what revelation could possibly merit such excitement? We are on a rather tight schedule and I don't have time for trivialities."
"Well, you know that curious Batman character?"
"We live in Gotham, Watson, it would be pretty hard not to."
"Yes, w... | 23 | 0 | 45 | 14,507 |
[WP] Sherlock Holmes moves to Gotham and becomes obsessed with discovering the identity of Batman. | http://i.imgur.com/d8Sjz3U.jpg
For extra inspiration. | 14 | 0 | 45 | 14,508 |
[WP] Sherlock Holmes moves to Gotham and becomes obsessed with discovering the identity of Batman. | Just procrastinated an hour and a half off studying for my orgo test to write my very first prompt! It's a long one
Holmes’ hands glided through his unkempt brown hair grabbing two fist fulls in a tight grip. His tensioned face and a tattered corkboard plastered in various newspaper clippings and dark, blurry photos o... | 7 | 0 | 45 | 14,509 |
[WP] Sherlock Holmes moves to Gotham and becomes obsessed with discovering the identity of Batman. | The Joker pranced about the lab pointing a comically large revolver at a woman in a lab coat. In the corner of this room deep within Gotham university's research department stood a tall metallic pod. Mist filled the interior of the pod. The two watched through the pod's glass door as two figures materialized.
"Oh my ... | 5 | 0 | 45 | 14,510 |
[PM] Prompt me the most ridiculous and far-fetched ideas you can think of | A man is trapped in a port-a john with a viper. The snake can talk. | 5 | 0 | 5 | 14,511 |
[PM] Prompt me the most ridiculous and far-fetched ideas you can think of | There is a special raisin in a random box of Raisin Bran that serves as the portal to another Earth where everyone speaks only in witticisms and the French do not exist. | 8 | 0 | 5 | 14,512 |
[PM] Prompt me the most ridiculous and far-fetched ideas you can think of | michael bay invents time travel and makes a movie with real dinosaurs | 2 | 0 | 5 | 14,513 |
[PM] Prompt me the most ridiculous and far-fetched ideas you can think of | A jazzy banana discovers that the secret to immortality lies in shouting an extremely goofy sentence from an exact location somewhere on the north face of Mount Everest. In order to get there, he recruits his good friends, one of whom is an anthropomorphic yet slightly deflated basketball, the other of whom is a more-t... | 4 | 0 | 5 | 14,514 |
[PM] Prompt me the most ridiculous and far-fetched ideas you can think of | By accident, US foreign policy in the years 1955-1962 was decided by an unremarkable west-african dung beetle living in Sudan. | 2 | 0 | 5 | 14,515 |
[PM] Prompt me the most ridiculous and far-fetched ideas you can think of | Tiny aliens have landed a spacecraft inside somebody's head. While there, they realize they can control that person. However, this person is aware of the aliens' thoughts and this story is from his perspective. | 1 | 0 | 5 | 14,516 |
[PM] Prompt me the most ridiculous and far-fetched ideas you can think of | Two AIs sexting, hiding it from their human overseers. | 1 | 0 | 5 | 14,517 |
[CS] The Internet Court | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 3 | 14,518 |
A man commit suicide bombing. Make the reader sympathize with him. |
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[WP] A disease is causing starfish's legs to crawl away in opposite directions until they tear away from its body spreads to humans. | Conspiracy theorists are the worst. Why, you must ask? They take every coincidence and turn it into a plot. They make you question reality, because you can rarely be one-hundred percent certain that the creator of these theories is crazy. Their questions are always so intriguing, and the answers so elusive. If you read... | 3 | 0 | 4 | 14,520 |
[WP] A coup in the Seelie Court. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 3 | 14,521 |
[WP] A catchy song kills someone if it's stuck in their head for too long | “We keep it under lock and key, of course, Mister President,” the general said, fishing out a set of keys from his suit pocket and inserting one into the lock. The door was massive, solid metal, and intimidating. Still, Saul Barker, now President Barker, could only think to himself how strange that the place still used... | 4 | 0 | 4 | 14,522 |
[WP] A catchy song kills someone if it's stuck in their head for too long | “Let him be,” they said. “He’s not of right mind,” they said. Always defending him. Always making him out to be someone who has no responsibility for his actions because, “he’s got a condition.” Noble, they must think themselves. Standing on pedestals of gold and declaring, “Look at me! I am the picture of humanistic c... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 14,523 |
[WP] Males are only one percent of the world's population. What is earth like? | You ever read that ancient graphic novel Y: the Last Man? If you haven't, quick synopsis. There's only one man left alive and the rest of the world is women. Good read. Now our situation is similar enough to draw comparisons, but the key difference is that Y was a piece of fiction and this is reality. There is 99 women... | 25 | 0 | 18 | 14,524 |
[WP] Males are only one percent of the world's population. What is earth like? | "Grandma, that can't be true." My twin sister, Selse peers at the old woman.
"No, really." My grandmother continues to expertly braid our hair simultaneously. "Before testicular cancer became airborne and highly contagious, there were men everywhere. They were the dominant gender, and the first ones to rule the land... | 13 | 0 | 18 | 14,525 |
[WP] The Oompa-Loompa's communist revolution. | My friends made a short sketch about this a while ago. | 1 | 0 | 7 | 14,526 |
[WP] The Oompa-Loompa's communist revolution. | (Oompa-Loompas)
Oompa Loompa, do-ba-dee-doo,
I’ve got a Marxist vision for you
Oompa Loompa, do-ba-dee-dee,
Give up control of the factory to me.
What do you get when capitalism is unhindered?
The proletariat's rear ends get forcibly fingered.
What are you playing at with unfair wages?
Kept it up too long and a... | 6 | 0 | 7 | 14,527 |
[WP] The Oompa-Loompa's communist revolution. | The Chocolate Factory was a mess. Vats of chocolate were upturned, spilling everywhere. The chocolate river was in a worse state then when Augustus fell in it, and the candy trees around it were toppled over. The experimentation rooms were in disarray, machines left to run on their own, shorting out, some mangled to th... | 1 | 0 | 7 | 14,528 |
[EU] Jules and Vincent decide to go bowling instead of a diner and coincidently Walter, the Dude, and Donny are hanging out close by. | "Over the line!"
It's a perfect strike, and the camera does a sexy wide pan from just above the lane as the pins fall, passes the lights in the ceiling, glides back down to settle on Jules and Vincent in their typical stylish attire. Jules' head is slightly cocked, his sharp wide eyes already leveled on something som... | 3 | 0 | 3 | 14,529 |
[WP] "That's nice, dear." | My book sits there, unappreciated by the woman I wrote it for.
I created *The Neighbor* to help my wife. She says she doesn't understand me, that she can't figure out what I want anymore. This book is my confession; my instruction manual if she would choose to take this broken version of me on as a project.
If my wif... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 14,530 |
[WP] "That's nice, dear." | I spent all this time building Her a statue. Months, cutting away at a huge block of marble, caressing it as if it was Her own skin I was touching, making love to it, dreaming about it, about Her, about the moment I'll show it to Her. I carefully carved every fold of robe, every strand of hair. I forgone sleep, I lost ... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 14,531 |
[WP] "That's nice, dear." | "Does Cassie know?" Andy asked.
"No. I don't think so. I got her mother to take her out shopping. I think she's going to be thrilled. I can't wait to see her face when I show her." I told him.
"Can I see it?" He asked, almost pleading with me. I nodded. I wanted someone to see it. I'd been working on it for over a ye... | 3 | 0 | 4 | 14,532 |
Write a story set in the 1920's about a young homosexual couple struggling to overcome the public's opinion of them. |
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[WP] The comic relief character turns out to be the villain all along | “Mongrel,” the dark wizard calls.
A short beast made of lumps, uneven eyes, and a snaggletooth emerges from the shadows. “YES, M’LORD!” it responds overzealously.
“Calm down, beast!” the wizard commands from beneath his cowl. “Why are you always so excitable? Can’t I just call you without having to deal with your ri... | 10 | 0 | 36 | 14,534 |
[WP] The comic relief character turns out to be the villain all along | This was supposed to be a love story, a story of how I started by hating Nathan, bit then he rescues me from something and I finally admit that I love him and there's a wonderful, happy ending.
As I stand there, watching Nathan's blood drip off the end of Kari's sword, I can't help but feel this has all gone horribly w... | 3 | 0 | 36 | 14,535 |
[WP] The comic relief character turns out to be the villain all along | spoilers
Korra season 2 | 1 | 0 | 36 | 14,536 |
[WP] The comic relief character turns out to be the villain all along | Mr. A and Ms. E sat silently in a dimly lit room, listening to the stirring chorus of a Wagner opera to drown out the dull thuds that occurred every so often above their heads. Mr. A had forgotten precisely which opera this was for some reason, though he greatly admired Wagner - here was a man who was a master of synth... | 1 | 0 | 36 | 14,537 |
[WP] The comic relief character turns out to be the villain all along | Somebody **please** do Jar Jar.
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[OT] Is content posted to /r/WritingPrompts subject to copyright law? | Someone needs to read the new reddit rules.
Any content you post here is immediately the property of reddit and their copyright, they can sell it or profit from it in any way they choose and don't need to ask your permission or consent.
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[OT] Is content posted to /r/WritingPrompts subject to copyright law? | anything you submit here is already your own IP. reddit is based in the US, so i believe you have at least some limited copyright by posting it (not a legal beagle, but i am pretty sure that's how it works).
however, under the reddit ToS, i believe you grant reddit an royalty free license to use whatever content is po... | 4 | 0 | 12 | 14,540 |
[OT] Is content posted to /r/WritingPrompts subject to copyright law? | /u/RayPDaleyCovUK is a little alarmist. You retain your rights over your content, but reddit is allowed to use it as they like. From the reddit user agreement:
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[WP] An entity changes the sex of your protagonist “for 24 hours” to give them a glimpse of life as the opposite sex, but they never show up to undo the change. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 7 | 14,542 |
[WP] An entity changes the sex of your protagonist “for 24 hours” to give them a glimpse of life as the opposite sex, but they never show up to undo the change. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 7 | 14,543 |
[WP] An entity changes the sex of your protagonist “for 24 hours” to give them a glimpse of life as the opposite sex, but they never show up to undo the change. | # Watch Out Who You Piss Off on the Internet
It's no secret that I'm not exactly fond of men. I know lots of men who are okay, but men as a group have a lot to answer for in this world. It's fair to say that I've spent a lot of time on the internet, and on reddit arguing with them, about privilege. I'd hate it when me... | 8 | 0 | 7 | 14,544 |
[WP] A man commit suicide bombing. Make the reader sympathize with him. | The vest is heavy, heavier then it was during the fitting. I want to scratch the places that the exposed wires poke through to skin, but it seems like a bad idea. Strange that at this moment, it isn't my family that I think of; my beautiful wife, or my loving children, even though I will miss them and I know they will ... | 3 | 0 | 2 | 14,545 |
[WP] A man commit suicide bombing. Make the reader sympathize with him. | There, at the head of the parade, stands the man who began all of this. He waves from the car, a smile plastered on his face as he drives through the town where so many of my brothers in arms met their end. Where all who had dared oppose the cruelty of his regime, and all those who were suspected of opposition, were cr... | 1 | 0 | 2 | 14,546 |
[WP] A man commit suicide bombing. Make the reader sympathize with him. | Sami was 10 years old. A child. A child too young for this world.
He wandered through the busy station alone, lost. All the people around him scurried like ants, focused so hard, ignorant to their insignificance; blind to that which was right below them. They ignore the child.
Sami's backpack was heavy - filled with ... | 1 | 0 | 2 | 14,547 |
[WP] A couple cryogenically freeze their baby and continuously postpone unfreezing him because they can't handle his crying. | "Just four more days, right?" Allison took a quick drag from her cigarette. "We'll pick him up Saturday for sure?"
Lewis shook his head. "I dunno Allison," he drawled. "Yeh know I got that appointment on Saturday." Lewis was always having appointments. "Why can't we go sometime next week?"
"They're only open on Satu... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 14,548 |
[WP] It literally starts raining men. | I awoke rather startled on what was supposed to be a rainy Monday to a massive thud on my roof. Surely the landlord wouldnt be working on something so early in the day? A moment later, another loud thud.
I peered out of my window just in time to see a smashed corpse go tumbling over my gutter. I quickly threw on my b... | 4 | 0 | 2 | 14,549 |
[WP] It literally starts raining men. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 2 | 14,550 |
[WP] We think that the purpose of Groundhog Day is to predict the length of winter. Tell me what the groundhogs are really trying to tell us. | We were confused when Phil came out of his burrow four times in 2001. No one connected it to the number of hijacked planes.
We were confused when he did twice in 2013. No one connected it to the number of bombs that went off in Boston.
This year, it's been over an hour since he started. And now we're scared. | 7 | 0 | 13 | 14,551 |
[WP] We think that the purpose of Groundhog Day is to predict the length of winter. Tell me what the groundhogs are really trying to tell us. | Mark popped his head up from the ground. The air, still chilly from the deathly gaze of the winter goddess, blew across his freshly rebuilt fur. It was definitely still cold, but it wasn't unbearable. In fact, the spring breeze was kind of pleasant. With that prospect in his mind, his teeth chewed through the last bit ... | 4 | 0 | 13 | 14,552 |
[WP] We think that the purpose of Groundhog Day is to predict the length of winter. Tell me what the groundhogs are really trying to tell us. | I GOTTA POOP!
I've been in my GOD DAMNED HOLE ALL WINTER and I GOTTA POOP.
Seriously. One day, it's gonna be bad for you all. I will pop out of my burrow, and some jackass is going to pick me up, and i'm going to shit and piss all over him.
So yeah. Why do I go back into my hole sometimes? Honestly? Because I f... | 3 | 0 | 13 | 14,553 |
[WP] We think that the purpose of Groundhog Day is to predict the length of winter. Tell me what the groundhogs are really trying to tell us. | Commander Phil, the 17th rodent to hold the position, ruffled his fur and looked fondly around the temporary burrow. He shuddered, shaking off the attention, and paused to listen for a moment. The celebration outside was loud and festive, even though the crowd wasn’t exactly happy about his “prediction” of a long winte... | 3 | 0 | 13 | 14,554 |
[WP] We think that the purpose of Groundhog Day is to predict the length of winter. Tell me what the groundhogs are really trying to tell us. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 13 | 14,555 |
[WP] We think that the purpose of Groundhog Day is to predict the length of winter. Tell me what the groundhogs are really trying to tell us. | The first time:
'What is that infernal noise?'
'Mfph.'
'Hank?'
'What?'
'What's that noise?'
'What noise?'
'The humans.'
'I dunno, ask them.'
'Go up and see what the ruckus is about.'
'The ruckus is down here.'
'*Hank!*'
'I'm going, I'm going.'
Now:
'We're back!'
'I can't believe I let you take... | 2 | 0 | 13 | 14,556 |
[OT] People who are working on an entry for the February 50K writing contest. How's it going? | I'm going good. Just passed 1.2K words. Got the whole story planned but a few plot-holes I need to sew up still when I cross them. But I'm pretty confident ;) | 1 | 0 | 5 | 14,557 |
[OT] People who are working on an entry for the February 50K writing contest. How's it going? | I'm going pretty good so far. My goal with this story was to write my first idea, and not second-guess myself as I sometimes do. I have about 4 thousand words written atm. Not sure how long its going to be, but I'm trying not to worry about length (another bad habit of mine) as long as its above the minimum. It's been ... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 14,558 |
[OT] People who are working on an entry for the February 50K writing contest. How's it going? | *Done* with the first chapter (no more editing to do on it, yay, it's ready to ship!), which is about 2.5k words. Working on the 2nd which is about halfway done with 500 or so words. So about 3k words overall.
It's planned to be about 14k~16k words overall. Hopefully I can get it done in time. | 1 | 0 | 5 | 14,559 |
[OT] People who are working on an entry for the February 50K writing contest. How's it going? | I burnt everything i had and started from scratch. Now I don't think I'll be able to finish. it's fine though, I'll use what I got for something else if I don't. | 1 | 0 | 5 | 14,560 |
[OT] People who are working on an entry for the February 50K writing contest. How's it going? | It's going well. I have 8.2k and I think it'll be finished soon so I can move into editing it. | 1 | 0 | 5 | 14,561 |
[WP] Two undercover cops pull guns on each other at a drug deal. Neither of them believes the other is a cop. What happens? | "Let me show you my badge." He said.
"Okay, and let me show *you* my badge." The other cop replied.
They showed each other their badges, feeling awfully stupid afterwards. Then they went back to the station and had exactly 5 donuts and some coffee.
The end. | 1 | 0 | 7 | 14,562 |
[WP] Gozer asks Ray if he is a God and he says 'Yes'. What happens next? | Ah, someone else must have been watching Ghostbusters rather than the SuperBowl. | 1 | 0 | 8 | 14,563 |
[WP] Gozer asks Ray if he is a God and he says 'Yes'. What happens next? | A one-on-one match and nuclear Ray wins. | 0 | 0 | 8 | 14,564 |
[WP] The Human Race finds an interstellar probe with recordings and images from an alien world similar to those from our voayger-1 probe. What pictures, information, music and culture related information are stored in it? What are the consequenses? | The Captain looked at the viewscreen expectantly. "Well, what is it?"
"It's a probe."
"One of ours?"
"Out here? Floating cold in space? Maybe, but it doesn't seem likely." Sensor Operator Thurmond pressed a button.
"What does the DBAI say?"
"DBAI here, Captain. Records show no sign of any probes sent out this way... | 14 | 0 | 23 | 14,565 |
[WP] The Human Race finds an interstellar probe with recordings and images from an alien world similar to those from our voayger-1 probe. What pictures, information, music and culture related information are stored in it? What are the consequenses? | "Just tell me when to shoot, captain!"
On the main screen, a small, haphazardly built probe slid silently through space, a large umbrella of savage grey metal at its leading end formed a makeshift shield sheltering a curious cargo, a chunk of rock, with a perfect black monolith cradling something that could conceivabl... | 4 | 0 | 23 | 14,566 |
[WP] The Human Race finds an interstellar probe with recordings and images from an alien world similar to those from our voayger-1 probe. What pictures, information, music and culture related information are stored in it? What are the consequenses? | Engineer Wyatt reigned in the old space vessel, claimed to be a probe by the chief science officer. It's gold and aluminum metals desperately tried to glisten in the soft glow of the cargo hold's lights. As the winch retracted, the probe slowly came to a halt on its cargo platform.
"What do you think, Adam?" The whit... | 6 | 0 | 23 | 14,567 |
[EU] Create one climactic scene that would result in Harry Potter and Hermione Granger being together. | I can't think of a way to write it, but a good scene to start with would be the one in the....sixth? book where Ron first kisses Lavender and Hermione runs off, then Harry finds her and comforts her. | 2 | 0 | 3 | 14,568 |
[WP] Write about a world where time isn't measured (no clocks, watches, star-dates, etc.) and where there is no monetary system. | So I had the idea to try this like someone who experiences all moments simultaneously. Such a person wouldn't really have a conception of time or verbs indicating time, so this is kinda different.
~~~~~
I am awoken, lift the covers off my body. My wife lie in bed next to me.
I am pour milk onto cereal. Coffee ground... | 3 | 0 | 3 | 14,569 |
[WP] You are the mayor of a city that is about to go into bankruptcy. Your advisers are telling you to cut taxes to allow businesses to move into your city. But if you do, you won't have any money to pay your city employees. What do you do? | As the mayor, I am the first city employee who will surrender everything I can to close the financial gap and keep the city solvent. The higher echelons of city government will be the ones to shoulder the most burden, while those increasingly closer to being public facing who do most of the legwork will suffer as littl... | 1 | 0 | 2 | 14,570 |
[CW] A misleading monologue about an occupation | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 2 | 14,571 |
[CW] A misleading monologue about an occupation | I've always found teaching people how to drive very difficult. It requires a level of muscle memory and coordination that they haven't yet developed. Many start at an age that I think is too young, and they're so eager to begin that they often overlook the basics. People have spent hours and hours learning and somebody... | 1 | 0 | 2 | 14,572 |
[CW] A misleading monologue about an occupation | There is an art to this. This is not something anyone can just walk in off the street and do. I take pride in my accomplishments in the workplace. Nothing makes me happier than seeing the client's face when I reveal the finished product, they can never believe it could actually look that good. But then again in thi... | 1 | 0 | 2 | 14,573 |
[WP] A person has a difficult choice to make and begins to argue with themself over what decision to make. | "I'm going to do it." I spoke to myself in the mirror, trying to gain the courage. The mirror reflected myself along with the ceramic sink top, porcelain toilet, and a wall of animals shielding the shower.
"That's what they all say." My mirror spoke back, smiling as if he hadn't seen me in a long time.
"I took my med... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 14,574 |
[WP] A person has a difficult choice to make and begins to argue with themself over what decision to make. | Marcus Weber is pacing the room he's renting in the tavern. It's not the most impressive pacing in the world, the room's barely twelve feet in length and the bed and night stand take up near a third of the space. Still, he makes it work somehow. He is in a state of disarray, his green thread bare jacket is hanging off ... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 14,575 |
[WP] A story about a story which sucks you into it | >I’d heard so much about it. To me, it was akin to the joke in Monty Python’s Funniest Joke in the World sketch. That said, it was a bit more serious. The consequences were equally dire: read it, and you die, but there was no John Cleese or Graham Chapman to humour us about it. This was the real world. There was a s... | 3 | 0 | 7 | 14,576 |
[WP] A story about a story which sucks you into it | "That bitch nurse didn't leave me the remote to the damn TV," Andy Messer grumbled to himself in the darkness of his hospital room. "I told her months ago to just leave the remote right by the bedside, and where is it now? Right under the damn TV."
Andy didn't dare stand up to get it. Not after the episode last night.... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 14,577 |
Tell me a story in 8 plot points using no dialogue. | -I am my own worst enemy.
-I am my own best friend.
-I want to leave.
-I can't leave.
-I try to leave.
-I fail, and it kills me.
-I am my own worst enemy.
-I am my own best friend. | 1 | 0 | 1 | 14,578 |
Tell me a story in 8 plot points using no dialogue. | -Company shuts down, employees all laid off.
-A couple of employees do some investigative Internet searching, a higher-up stood to make a lot of money from the liquidization of the company.
-They both decide that it is in their best interests to rob him.
-While preparing, one of the two are manipulated by the higher... | 2 | 0 | 1 | 14,579 |
[WP] A property company buys the land that your childhood playground sits on. As work starts on the area, secrets start to come to light & the community is altered forever. | Jacob watched the news half-asleep on his anti-gravity couch with a beer between his legs. His mind raced with the thoughts of his unfinished report at his job, of his wife’s trip to New Angeles, of his dog’s recent demise and every other unimportant event in his life. His preferred method of falling asleep was to watc... | 5 | 0 | 12 | 14,580 |
[WP] Ana lost everything that mattered the most for her. Write about how she feels and the decisions she might or might not make because of that. | I lost it all. I know, you may reach out, you may say you’ve been where I’ve been, that you’ve lost as I have lost, but have you really? Have you ever really placed all of your stock in one person, only to watch them hold your heart for what seems now like but a fleeting moment before they let it fall carelessly to the... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 14,581 |
[WP] Ana lost everything that mattered the most for her. Write about how she feels and the decisions she might or might not make because of that. | Can you lose something that never existed? Well, I suppose she did exist, as an idea, an expectation. And more realistically as a little clump of cells growing inside me. After I lost Jacob to another woman, she was all I had left of him, all I had left of anything really. I had uprooted my life and moved across the co... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 14,582 |
[WP] You have angered a witch doctor (spirit, demon, etc.) and been cursed. The curse appears oddly specific and insignificant, but will bite you in the ass in the worst possible moment and way. | "You have trespassed on sacred ground! You must suffer for what you've done!"
Candles flickered around the perimeter of the room.
"Sacred ground?! Your little room down here? I came in here because the neighbors have been complaining about the smell! Which, by the way, is rank! I assume it's that pit!"
On the floor... | 0 | 0 | 28 | 14,583 |
[WP] You have angered a witch doctor (spirit, demon, etc.) and been cursed. The curse appears oddly specific and insignificant, but will bite you in the ass in the worst possible moment and way. | Disclaimer: Long, no editing, no pre-writing idea development. Enjoy?
It had been the better part of six months since I'd returned from Haiti.
The knowledge of all the people I'd helped as a relief worker after the earthquake left me with the greatest peace of mind I had ever known, and my life seemed to be headed in... | 10 | 0 | 28 | 14,584 |
[WP] You have angered a witch doctor (spirit, demon, etc.) and been cursed. The curse appears oddly specific and insignificant, but will bite you in the ass in the worst possible moment and way. | Is this Vanessa Ragland? Half her questions start with 'you've angered a witch...' | 1 | 0 | 28 | 14,585 |
[WP] You have angered a witch doctor (spirit, demon, etc.) and been cursed. The curse appears oddly specific and insignificant, but will bite you in the ass in the worst possible moment and way. | My feet twitched nervously beneath the tablecloth. She smiled at me from across the table, eyes demure as she poked at the mangy remains of her salad. Hushed candles, tinkling music and the genteel murmuring of patrons floated around the dining hall. I licked my lips nervously as I hesitantly asked, "Say. Do you want t... | 6 | 0 | 28 | 14,586 |
[WP] You are a new god and it's time to speak to your first prophet. | “Let all hear of the monotheistic religion Darkoom!” **I** boomed in a thunderous voice.
“Okay. What are the laws of **your** new religion?” **my** prophet is taking notes on her tablet. “What are **your** demands?”
“There are no rules except one: do not be irrational. **My** religion is the religion to end all relig... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 14,587 |
[WP] You are a new god and it's time to speak to your first prophet. | I thought the cult was just some crazy mind game my parents bought into. It had all the makings: doomsday prophecy, required payment, even a freaking stockpile of weaponry.
It was five years ago my parents 'converted' and moved us out to Utah. It was nice at first. So unlike high school, with everyone being so suppor... | 6 | 0 | 6 | 14,588 |
[WP] You are a new god and it's time to speak to your first prophet. | "Do I have to?"
"Yes."
"Come one man, I'm not ready yet, Just another couple hundred years, I swear, I could handle it then."
"No. We're doing this now. I've been cutting you some serious slack and the higher ups are riding my ass to get you on this. Besides, I have lunch with Aphrodite in an hour, and I am... | 1 | 0 | 6 | 14,589 |
[WP] You are a new god and it's time to speak to your first prophet. | I had come into being with a Purpose, one that would be made manifest through the mortal world. Now I had the ability to speak to one. She would be my first prophet, and her words would be as fire in the grass. The world would be forever changed according to My teachings.
There she was, sitting at the top of the hill,... | 1 | 0 | 6 | 14,590 |
[WP] Time travelers arrive in a city of your choice. Plot twist: they are from the past, you choose how to expound upon that. | ##"Come Find Niles"
"Jeanne, that was the fifth guardsman we have tried today!" Elsa said, exasperated, as an irritated cop walked away from a conversation that he didn't understand (and frankly, didn't care to).
"I know, sister," replied Jeanne, "but surely, we will find an Order-affiliated guard around here somewhe... | 2 | 0 | 2 | 14,591 |
[WP] A world where each person needs to laugh at least once a day. Death awaits at midnight if they haven't. | It was common enough to say that giving up was the easiest thing in the world. The people that couldn't handle it anymore needed to do one simple thing. The easiest thing in the world, anybody could give up.
Half an hour to go and the government funded comedies were in full swing. Midnight was statistically the highe... | 7 | 0 | 10 | 14,592 |
[WP] A world where each person needs to laugh at least once a day. Death awaits at midnight if they haven't. | “Number 108, today’s your turn,” a voice rang through my skull as it shook me from sleep. I panicked; throwing off the sheet as I frantically looked around me for my clothes. My hands came into contact with a silky cloth, softer than anything I had touched before. A grimace formed on my face as I touched the sheer d... | 1 | 0 | 10 | 14,593 |
[WP] A world where each person needs to laugh at least once a day. Death awaits at midnight if they haven't. | Raymond Baxter was a fortunate soul. As the only child of Margaret and Henry Baxter, he never had to worry about the Laughing Rule. There was always a joke to spare for their little Ray of sunshine.
His parents provided relief for the people of Sodden Valley. It wasn’t what you’d call traditional aid, but oftentime... | 2 | 0 | 10 | 14,594 |
[WP] Society has to deal with overpopulation and hunger by choosing 1/5 people to be eaten. Canibalism to reduce the size of the current population and to feed those who are left. Write as someone being served a loved one and how they feel. | "It's for our own good" They told us.
They said they had to die so we could live.
Sure the cities were so jammed with people you couldn't step outside.
Sure, the streets were so filthy that a single virus could infect millions in a single day.
But why did it have to be him? Why was he chosen?
We were all entered int... | 1 | 0 | 3 | 14,595 |
[EU] Write a bedtime story that someone would hear in the 1984 universe. | Interesting prompt, but I've never actually read 1984.. I'll come back when I have time. | 1 | 0 | 8 | 14,596 |
[WP] You live in a world where the only way to be respected is to say as little as possible at all times | Everyday, just after 3 in the afternoon, I would hear the kids talk. They would walk out of the school gates and down past my fence, trying their hardest not to be heard, but relishing in the opportunity to speak. They were too little to really understand it, I suppose. Sure, the text-prompters at school would have tol... | 14 | 0 | 14 | 14,597 |
[WP] You live in a world where the only way to be respected is to say as little as possible at all times | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 14 | 14,598 |
[WP] You live in a world where the only way to be respected is to say as little as possible at all times | Lorne had spent years perfecting his speaking habits to come as far as he had. He would have expected more from the others who had risen as far in government as he had. Corruption was always abound in politics. He sat, listening to the lobbyist funded idiocracy occurring in front of him.
“Change is imperative.”
... | 2 | 0 | 14 | 14,599 |
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