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Normally I would never conduct business in a coffee shop. In fact, I always joke about the people on their laptops. This was different.
I was on my way home from work when I got the call. I was trying to close this deal for weeks, and the client decided now was finally the time to come to terms. I knew the final n... | 19 | Build a narrative over something I just saw in a coffee shop | 23 |
> An elf providing career counseling for a reliable lizard monkey.
That was probably the most absurd one, but this one really struck me for some reason:
> A basketball player contemplating the Theory of Relativity with an old desk lamp.
This is just such a sweet, but comical image to me:
Michael Jordan pulle... | 15 | "A tap-dancer laying siege to the castle of a sentient Jedi Knight." | 81 |
[Written fairly quickly with *very* minimal editing, so please forgive the haphazard storytelling]
"Once you see it there is no turning back. You'll always see it after that. You can't escape it. It will hurt you......it will blind you."
He had shown up in a new room finally. Room number five for him in fact. A smal... | 20 | The act of briefly leaving the virtual world to glance at the largely forgotten real world. The Peek is not encouraged. | 44 |
The Joker is free again. This time, he killed six guards in his escape. Six more victims of his insanity. Tonight, I begin hunting him. Each time he escapes, he becomes more difficult to track. I know that the body count will rise before I am able to find him.
When Alfred heard about the breakout, he couldn't e... | 11 | Batman Monologue | 19 |
We sit at the edge of a moldy table. I figure a man who declares himself a pacifistic monk in the world we live in deserves at least an attempt to convert me. I can only picture some of the things that this pale, shadowy man has been through. The scars and bloodstains scattered all about his frail body leave pretty lit... | 11 | A single drop never feels responsible for the flood. | 38 |
Knuckles met teeth and the earth rushed up at me, the sidewalk making a harsh bed. The mugger had come around the corner, hand in his pocket, head down and face low.
No time to think about that now. I try to get up, try desperately to find several precious seconds of freedom so that I can grasp what is actually happe... | 10 | I know, and I'm sorry. | 15 |
It was time to finish what they’d all started. The sound of the crowd around him was rising, threatening to match the thunder of the storm outside, but even the roar of Mother Nature could not permanently mask their voices from those who would see them silenced. Thomas knew they had to reach a decision soon, both to st... | 13 | Pick a random book, and use it's last sentence as your first sentence. | 61 |
Daniel Wright slapped the Snooze button on the alarm clock as the radio advertisement was cut off by a breaking news item. His face remained buried in his pillow while his right arm reached for an empty half of the bed. Amber left six months prior, but his tired body hadn’t yet let that fact sink in. His eyelids slowly... | 23 | It's the end of the world, and I feel fine. | 26 |
For fuck’s sake, it seems like every cunt I meet has something to say about the way I talk. I meet some guy, we talk a little bit, but not more than a minute later the fucker is saying “Do you have to swear in every sentence you say?” Well GUESS WHAT motherfucker, I’ve got the goddamned brain damage so yeah I guess I f... | 12 | So apparently, I swear a ****ing lot. | 16 |
*I altered the line very slightly to make it fit into my story. Hope it still works in context!*
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It was always quiet on his porch.
That was the odd thing about Mr. Jacobs' house, and maybe a beautiful thing. No matter what noises the outside world threw at him, that screened-off area was an isolated patch of ... | 13 | And as the old man lit his cigarette, he looked at me and said... | 24 |
“I love you.”
“I love you, too.”
I whispered gently, my voice barely audible above the hum of the ceiling fan. I reached down and put my hand on her head. Her head was resting on my lap as she read her book. It was our favorite position when simply relaxing next to each other.
I thought about the last few months; I ... | 16 | "Love stories are boring. Plus, they're all the same" | 26 |
There's someone at the door!
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"Shut up you mangy mutt!"
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"I swear to god if you don't be quiet..."
That is strange the person left. I want to go outside and learn that persons smell.
Skritch skritch skritch skritch ... | 11 | A /r/nosleep story written from the perspective of a dog. | 21 |
**April 26th, 2325**
The ship is not a total loss. The crash took out the main drive, but I might be able to get the other systems back online to allow for atmospheric flight. She'll never be space-worthy again, but she still has life in her.
I discovered that the air here is breathable. Lucky break for me, I guess. ... | 13 | Describe a unique world (IN COLLABORATION WITH /r/SKETCHDAILY) | 33 |
Long ago, when mankind had only just begun its journey, the world was ruled by dragons. The men worshiped a fire God and thought the Dragons to be angels, the messengers of their God of Fire.
The dragons were proud creatures at took this as an insult. They had lived there for thousands of years before mankind arrived... | 45 | A story written in the style of old legends and myths | 23 |
The knocking grew louder and more intense as I crept toward the door with a knife in hand. I looked through the peephole and a pantsless middle aged balding man continued to knock harder and louder. Out of sheer stupidity and knife-infused courage, I opened the door.
"What?" I asked.
"I need peanuts," he stated.
"Go... | 26 | Use primarily dialogue. | 34 |
(Random, hypothetical Archer episode I threw together about a month ago about the NSA)
"As long as I get to fire the RPG," Archer said as he and Lana drove through the streets of Manhattan.
"You're not firing that RPG," Lana replied, trying to cut around traffic.
"I absolutely am!" he yelled. "Even if firepower of t... | 28 | Write a scene/episode/arc from your favorite TV show | 20 |
Ladies and Gentlemen; my fellow U.S Citizens.
Not four hours ago a conference was held following a series of papers published over the past few months. I'm well aware that no one is here to be bored stiff with political dogma, so I shall summarise. Those papers were on the topic of the perception of the United States ... | 36 | The (unnamed) U.S. president has become bored and has decided to declare war against Hawaii. Write the dead serious speech with which he declares war. Include how he justifies the war (not with terrorism). | 45 |
The moment this boy entered the lab I knew he was different. I suppose he was really a man, he must have been thirty at least, but something about the way his eyes flickered across the room and his hand never going two seconds without wiping the sweat off his brow gave me the impression that he was a scared little boy,... | 47 | The One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge | 18 |
You come home after a rather trying day; the burden of retail and customer service weighs heavy on your heart and your head throbs from the incessant looping of the same three songs over the PA system. But you're home now...only, something is amiss. You can't quite put your finger on it, then it hits you. The smell, su... | 17 | Make something mundane sexual | 17 |
*The title caught my imagination, but the rest of the prompt felt a bit too restrictive for me- sorry! I already had something similar in mind when I read the title, so here is what I wrote just off that one line. Forgive me for any errors by the way, I'm not familiar with how the american police force works with recru... | 11 | Game Over. Would you like to play again? | 39 |
It is funny how time seems to move so differently here. In the *before* the days felt so short but those seconds between 8am and 4pm had just dragged on and on and on, till it seemed like the clock never moved. In the *after* time seems to move even slower. A constant grey mist hovers at the windows, windows that seeme... | 12 | An American high school suddenly loses all contact with the outside world in the middle of a school day. Nobody can get out, or talk to anybody outside of it by any means, and vice versa. | 19 |
It was the worst salad I've ever had.
The lettuce was soggy, there were onions on it, (a faux pas for a proper Caesar salad), and the dressing tasted days past expiration. I voiced my objections to my waiter, who promised to have the chef retry.
The second attempt was nearly the same. I would have assumed the chef ... | 54 | Prove the saying "alcohol, because no good story started with a salad" wrong. | 57 |
Dear Phillip,
I want to formally introduce myself. My name is Julie Peters, and we have never met in person. I have known you for one year, three months, and approximately twelve days. I had no intention of contacting you originally, but since Helen left, I felt that you may need someone to talk to. I just can't fath... | 12 | NSA employee writes a creepy love letter to someone he/she selected using the agency's surveillance infrastructure, but has never met. | 47 |
“Spare some change?”
The man ignores the grasping hand of the street bum, unconsciously brushing away imaginary filth from his jacket. His thoughts are on his twelve o-clock lunch meeting, the unopened bills on his kitchen table, the cold shoulder of his wife as they lay in bed after a night of fighting. Anywhere but ... | 19 | A man is asked a favor by a stranger | 17 |
John loved her, he never realised it until that day. He and his best friend were invited to the party, his girlfriend came along too. He saw her in the light of the bonfire the party had, the light danced off her face like a angel's. He realised he loved her at that moment. He woke up the next morning, slightly hung ov... | 14 | You fall in love with your best friend who is already in a relationship, but they reveal feelings for you out of the blue | 15 |
He held the knife to his mother’s throat, pinning her to the ground by her hair. She twisted, tears welling in her eyes as they met his.
“If you kill me, then you really will be as evil as they said you were.”
*The knife fell.*
He held the knife to his father's throat, one knee in the small of his back, his other ha... | 54 | "If you kill me, there will be no one left to judge you." | 25 |
"IS THAT OKAY?"
I rolled my eyes. Somehow, as soon as people figured out that I couldn't speak, they assumed I couldn't hear. I wanted to inform him that my ears weren't influenced my lack of vocal cords, but obviously I couldn't. Instead, I nodded, putting on my best fake smile
I got a lot of sympathy for not being ... | 49 | Inner monologue of someone who can't speak | 32 |
"Mom," Leslie said, "Calm down."
She was crying, now. If she had screamed at her, or berated her, or slapped her across the face, Leslie could have handled it. But watching her mother broken to pieces like that-- it made her feel sick.
"Tell me," Leslie's mother pleaded. "Where did I go so wrong with you?"
"You d... | 23 | A world in which work has the same status prostitution now has | 19 |
He was drunker than usual. Ordinarily, she would feel relief when he collapsed onto the couch by the TV. That meant he was too drunk to yell and fight. Tonight, she felt no relief. All she could do was watch him from the doorway, hoping he would drink the poisoned whiskey she had just poured him.
A lump sat in her... | 6,089 | A wife kills her husband. Make me sympathize with both characters. | 3,306 |
Sunburns.
That's what we used to call them. That's all they were, back then. But now, everything is different. Now we shun the outdoors.
It started out innocuously enough. The sunburns got worse. They hurt more, and lasted longer. They developed faster. It got to the point that just the barest hint of sunlight... | 49 | Write a horror story which takes place in broad daylight or an otherwise well lit setting | 42 |
Like clockwork, she comes over to my desk. It's every goddamn morning. She'll perch there outside my cubicle like some fucking spider, waiting for me to move, waiting for me to disturb the sticky web that she carries around her.
Three minutes pass of her standing there, leering at my computer screen over my shoulder... | 12 | Sarcastic Little Shit | 23 |
"Mack, look at this lobster! See how the reproductive pleopods are simplified in structure versus the Cambarid crayfish which are dissimilar entirely? This is why lobsters belong to Nephropoidea and our crayfish belong to Astacoidea! Oh and also because lobsters live in saltwater and not in freshwter... Mack, are yo... | 17 | Awkward geeky teenage boy asks out hottest girl in his class. | 21 |
A few months back, I was minding my own business... that is to say I don't have a business and I don't work from home, but that I was keeping to myself. My wife called from the bathroom. She sounded, strange. She said "Ryan, can you come in here?" Being that she was on the porcelain throne, I approached with great caut... | 18 | Your wife calls you in to the bathroom to kill a spider. Write a horror story about it. | 33 |
She walked into the kitchen after a long day of work. She spied an envelope with “Susie” written on the front in her husband’s still childlike handwriting. Inside the note read: “Susie, I have a surprise waiting for you! But first you must find all of the clues!” On the back of the note was a crudely drawn picture of ... | 344 | An adult Calvin who has never revealed his relationship with Hobbes to his wife of 10 years walks into his bedroom 5 min after she discovers an old, battered, stuffed tiger in the back of his closet. | 326 |
I met her the year I turned thirteen. Sally was her name. She had long red hair and the most beautiful gray eyes I’d ever seen. I loved her then. I never told her, but I’m sure she knew. She would catch me staring sometimes. I was always too shy to say anything, but the look she gave me told me words weren’t neede... | 18 | A teenage boy yearning for a girl that doesn't like him, and ends up being in a relationship with her. | 17 |
Gavin woke up, and reached for the cane on the side of his bed. He felt his way to the bathroom. He had lost his sight as a child. Idiopathic blindness they had called it. In other words, we don't know why but your child is blind.
He had long since gotten used to it, but the memory of actually seeing things had never... | 35 | A blind man suddenly/inexplicably regains his vision, describe the first thing he sees | 47 |
He was the most beautiful thing she'd ever seen. Ever since the day her nephew was born, she swore with her heart that she will do everything in her power to make him happy. She smiled at the baby in her arms, softly cooing to him as his eyelids grew heavy. The silence between them allowed her mind to wander, exploring... | 141 | Make me fall in love with a character, only to end up hating said character with ONE sentence at the end | 87 |
Twenty years, a hundred missions. Every time Chan would throw himself into the work, his heart, body, and mind were the personification of Ninja. He could have retired years earlier, the pay he collected for his work was substantial enough that hw could have bought the entire village he grew up in and lived in peace am... | 43 | A ninja can't find it in himself to kill anymore. Make the reason really sad. | 30 |
July 8th, 2015:
The skies have been real quiet lately. I like it.. but it does make me curious. There used to be at least a few airplanes in the sky every now and again but now... there's none.
Every now and again a hiker would come by the road but now there's never a soul in sight.
That's weird. It gives me a lo... | 45 | Write about someone who lives off the grid, who doesn't know the world is ending. | 49 |
'Angela, hi!'
Jared leapt into the one open elevator just in time; the tall woman with the brown pony tail turned around and gave him an odd look.
'Oh, sorry, I had you confused there.'
Simultaneously they made to hit the number four on the lit panel.
'Oh, accounts? You wouldn’t be the new girl?'
The woman looked ... | 15 | Story that takes place in an elevator (500W) | 24 |
Passed down to me from my father, and to him from his father, and so on - as far as I can tell - to the beginning of our family line. I couldn't tell you where or when it began, just that it has existed as far back as my family history follows.
Some people call it mental illness, but that can't be true. If that were ... | 12 | Write a story where the main character dies and the killer becomes the main character. | 27 |
Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!
Gering-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!
Gering-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!
The bell for 3rd period rang.
The instant she walked into the classroom, she noticed the words "Pop Quiz" on the dusty chalkboard.
"Hurry up!" The instructor urged. "Take your seat so we can start the quiz... | 121 | Write a story based on a verse from a song. (300 Word) | 35 |
Murphy's law was in full effect. No intel, no environmental specs, no prior knowledge of Rivem's indigenous threats or non-threats. Crash landing will do that to you.
My squad was solid though. Corporal Wilkin's stoicism could keep any group with enough training intact and Sgt Lighthand's eye for terrain meant we wer... | 12 | You are a gunner marine on an unknown planet, fighting an unknown alien enemy, you are with two other gunners in a cold and dark bunker, the enemy is charging, you have ammo and the high ground, you light up a cigar and | 17 |
There were three men on a boat: one was wearing a red coat, one a blue coat, and the other no coat; in fact, he had no shirt at all! That day the winds grew cold and the water got frosty. So frosty that all the fish swam away, but the three men did not know that. The men all thought it no problem, they laughed, they sw... | 12 | Write a bedtime story that's engaging enough for children, but complex enough for adults. | 59 |
“Do you think we’ll get to see it?”
“Hm?”
“I mean, do you think we’ll get to really see it before it kills us?”
“The sun, you mean?”
“The sunrise. I want to see a sunrise.”
“Is that why you’re doing this?”
“You know why I’m doing this.”
“I do. But why not tomorrow?”
“Because we should have done this yesterday.”... | 28 | Two vampers stand in the middle of a deserted highway waiting for the sunrise to commit suicide. What's their conversation? | 26 |
I stood at his door for probably an hour. I had no idea what to say, so I dared not knock. I started to consider turning and leaving, when his door opened. I froze in fear. He was surprised to find someone standing on his porch step, but as his eyes came up to meet me, his face turned to shock, then anger and disgust. ... | 448 | Someone is followed by the person who ruined their life, who has since won the world's biggest lottery jackpot and is trying to use the money to make amends | 70 |
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I am from the future. I've come to warn the lot of you: They didn't tell us that there would be a downside to 3D food printers, but there was. It starts in earnest with NASA's funding of the project. Then, a major breakthrough. They figure out a way to make it cheap and mass produceable. These were the good times. Then... | 50 | A fantastic invention from the future has some unforeseen downsides | 19 |
"So, how was your day, Claire?" Randy asked his wife. He snuck a hand under the table and tickled his daughter who erupted with laughter, spraying food across the table.
"Stop it!" She pleaded while she and Randy laughed. Eventually Randy noticed that his wife was not laughing with him, but rather was staring coldly a... | 60 | Make me sypathize with a mythical creature slaughtering innocents | 19 |
My mind raced as I realized what was happening. "Look," I started, "I'm sorry, but I can't give you any advice."
"What?" He was already annoyed. Just like I would have been five years ago. "Why the fuck not? You know all the goddamn answers!"
"Because if I tell you what's coming you're going to try to change it."
"S... | 14 | you pick up the phone to call a friend and realize that you are on the line with yourself 5 years ago. Write about the conversation that ensues. | 17 |
Humans are a very... interesting race. We've been observing them for several centuries now and when we initially discovered them the first thing we noticed was their incredibly short life spans. Most live not even for a single century. They die within 7 or 8 decades a lot of the time. Because of this limitation we ... | 72 | first contact between Humans and Aliens, writen from the perspective of the aliens, who are scholars. | 93 |
The defense rose to give their final remarks, arguing for life in prison. Not an easy task when the whole world wants to see Hitler's neck snapped by the weight of his own body at the end of a noose.
Winthrop, in a case for life, not necessarily Hitler's, felt pride in the job he was doing even though he was certain ... | 27 | Hitler did not commit suicide. He was captured and put on trial in an international court. Write about the trial. | 52 |
"Come on. This is the real deal. You want in the gang? You do this."
They led him into the abandoned grocery store that sat on the far side of town. He'd heard about them talking about it before but was told that only members of the gang were able to go in there.
He'd led a rough childhood. He was always gett... | 24 | As a gang initiation, the protagonist must execute an innocent man. | 48 |
She killed me. She held me down and allowed me to be raped. She sliced my throat all while crying and saying, "I'm sorry..." over and over again.
There was no emotion in her eyes when she did it. But I can tell that there was emotion involved in her actions.
I was kept prisoner in her husband's basement for two ... | 28 | Make me side with a serial killer from the perspective of one of his victims. | 18 |
**All Dogs**
"Yep! Yep! Yep!" Judith chirped in the vocal booth, her energy bouncing her bangs and sometimes even her whole body on the stool. Even if the director asked for another take, and Mr. Bluth would, she would flash a smile and take his direction like an actress twice her age.
"Once more, Judith, but lift i... | 12 | Tell a sad story that will make me smile | 16 |
Spongy. That's the only way to describe the field rations that we had in storage. I shouldn't complain, I guess. Spongy kah' rek in a vacuum bag is better than trying to breathe in the vacuum of space. That's what life has become; a trite series of hierarchical observations about better and worse.
Grey water showers ... | 10 | A starship named the "Slipdagger" is stranded in space, write from the pov of a crewmember NOT the captain. | 19 |
My bladder was stubborn. And full. Stubborn and full, but mostly just full. I pretended to still be asleep. Kept my eyes closed and didn't moved. Pretended I wasn't about to burst from the need to piss.
Fucking drinking. I needed water- bad. It wasn't until I reached my arm out to my bedside table for a glass of water... | 35 | You wake up in a bar full of yourself from different dimensions, slightly hung over and no idea how you got there. what happens? | 53 |
Note: My first attempt at one of these. Go easy.
Six years ago, we battled. It began in my lungs, but the treatment was only meant to delay the inevitable. The darkness is growing.
Six months ago, I discovered my wife with another man. Whether it be grief from my illness, her selfishness, or a mix of both. I kn... | 10 | the darkness is growing | 16 |
It wasn't often Satan saw fit to come up during the last moments of a man's life, but then again it was even less often that the Big Man asked him for a favor. *I'm sure He'd love for me to mess up again, just so He can blame me for another of His mistakes* sighed Lucifer as he finished his ascendance. It didn't real... | 46 | Satan convinces a man to not kill himself. | 50 |
*I... I don't understand.*
My brows furrowed in as I studied the small metal clasps and chain, turning it over and over in my hand. I looked around to see if the rest of my crew was watching, expectantly waiting for their moment to chuckle.
Matthew was fifty or so feet away, intently analyzing a clump of dirt that ke... | 61 | a photo you took ten minutes ago. | 193 |
"You seem distracted this week." She broke from the routine trying to seem interested in him.
"How do you mean?"
"I'm your psychiatrist, Peter, but I don't need a degree to notice you smiling like a high school girl walking by the quarterback in the hallway every time you stare at your phone."
"I... I know maybe I ... | 34 | An NSA agent becomes inappropriately (or appropriately, I don't care, this is a writing prompt not a dictatorship) fascinated with whoever he's spying on. | 88 |
Waking up to the sound of a cough felt normal already. High crime rate neighborhoods were always like this. He stayed in bed with his eyes closed, feeling the most horrible hangover without having drunk anything for years. The fever had not been that bad this last night. This gave him courage to go to the window. The g... | 17 | Crimes are punished by illness/disease, not prison/fines. | 37 |
He doesn't need to know the truth. He *can't*. Not if he's to do what must be done.
I've watched over him for years now. He's very much a young boy still; looking up to the sky, wondering what other worlds are like. And one day, he's going to know. One way or another. His aunt and uncle can't stop him. Goodness... | 18 | Show a Darker Side of a Well-Known Fictional Hero or Mentor Figure | 28 |
Harold hated getting old. He hated that his body ached. He hated that his current "fast" was slower than his old "slow." He hated that the world, once so vivid and bursting with endless possibilities, seemed to be passing him by. At an age when TV stars seemed to be hitting their prime, Harold's back was shot, his kne... | 21 | The story of a man gaining superpowers and realizing he must use them for good... at the age of 50. | 22 |
The sun shone through the bedroom window a little bit too early this morning and the alarm went off a little bit too loudly. The dreams and visions of niceties gave way to the cold, harsh reality of a Monday morning. The sun appeared to be battling the cold air for extreme supremacy of the small ecosystem outside of my... | 14 | Pick a simple, everyday act and dramatize it | 26 |
I hate the bus. Every morning at 7:18, the number 14 bus pulls up to my stop and I am forced to bear the burden of my "gift". As the bus pulls up to my stop, an old classmate Randy opens the door and asks "Long time no see! Today the day Ted?" I laugh him off with a lighthearted "Not yet Randy, but may want to lay off ... | 245 | The commute of a man who can see how people will die. | 142 |
His seventeenth birthday was coming soon. That meant it was almost the tenth anniversary of his first day in the mine. He was seven the first time he plunged into the darkness. The company needed small bodies that could crawl into tiny compartments and plant dynamite. The boy would do this for six years. Malfunctioning... | 456 | Write a story that ends with the luckiest character dying. | 62 |
Date: March 17 (18th?), 3087
Weather: Apocalypse
Mood: See 'Weather'
I wish I was better with times. I was never any good at waking up in the morning. I set my alarm of course, but apparently there are only so many buses to the New World and when you expect there to be a cushion for those who are usually late to thi... | 28 | The first diary entry of a person who has been accidentally forgotten and left on Earth when everyone else has ascended to a higher plane. | 26 |
*3 more minutes*
I can almost smell the crispiness of the leaves as they scuttle and dance around my feet. They smell the way Autumn feels, like a warm cup of spiced cider when you curl up on the couch, as a pumpkin candle crackles on the coffee table. I'll never get to smell this again after today. Oh well.
I wis... | 43 | Write from the perspective of a terrorist who is performing a suicide bombing but does not believe in the cause. | 22 |
It was his eighth time being chosen. At this point it had clearly stopped being random. He had friends who had never been picked, however, in the two years since the program had started he had been selected eight times. He knew why. He was good looking, and in the uniform they made him wear when he pressed the buttons ... | 3,488 | Like Jury Duty, citizens can be called to perform their civic duty of performing an execution. What is the toll this has on a man? | 1,298 |
"Sir, he's coming round us."
Coming round? What could that possibly accomplish?
"Rotate starboard, 60 degrees. Bring aft cannons online," he said. A cautionary measure, what with how hard they had hit the enemy lasers, but it never hurt to be careful.
The deck shook like an earthquake as something large collided with... | 10 | A hero has lead a valliant struggle in space against an enemy fleet, both fleets are decimated. More ships arrive and it turns out that the head of the backup fleet is the Hero's younger brother. | 22 |
Emily was paralyzed. She'd heard the monster under her bed scraping its claws against the floor. She'd seen its disgusting tail flick out from under the bed. She'd sensed its anticipation -- she would be its next meal.
Oh, yes, there was a monster under her bed, but had not expected it to strike tonight.
As Emily had... | 21 | Take something that seems innocent or harmless, and make it scary. | 29 |
I feel foreign within my own skin. I feel undeserving of love, yet deserving of these bruises. They patch my skin, the result of a vicious fight a few hours earlier. Hoarse from the screaming, I feebly place my mouth against the faucet and feel the cold swigs of water slither down my throat. Cold droplets sting against... | 11 | A Story about an abusive relationship where you find out it is the man being abused at the end | 18 |
Tuva, it was always Tuva.
Imagine my surprise when the world's biggest manhunt ever was for a Tuva Malhatra. Not a name that anyone had ever hear before, but it soon became a word on everyone's lips. Her parents were wealthy, aristrocrats with a dash of hippy in them. Her mother had made the name up herself, a name fo... | 95 | A world where the name of your future spouse is ingrained in your mind from birth, and what happens when someone goes against that. | 142 |
"That looks like Al-wait, no, its not. Same hair. Sort of. She'd never wear that jacket though. Shit. Shit. Look out the window. Hate when this happens. Shit"
"I'm really fucking hungry. If someone gave me a sandwich right now 'd probably marry the fucker. Fucking hell its already quarter past. Might as well stay on t... | 31 | The inner monologues of two strangers on a bus as they watch each other. | 32 |
"The Breaker, break, breaker, break, whoopti lopsi ohhhhHHhh,
It's like the....BEAR NECESSITIES, the duh duh nah nah nuh nuhuh,"
His voice sounded like the old records his mom used to play in the living room, he didn't remember most songs, but he remembered how to sing. He sang whatever words came to mind, small fragm... | 26 | A man thinks he is the last human in the world, and finds out he's not. | 27 |
"Ugh. Why did musician's block have to come right NOW? When I need a new song for *Discovery*."
Thomas Bangalter was driving through the countryside, his car winding through the recently paved roads in the 1999 countryside. However, his most recent conversation with Guy-Manuel on his mind.
"Hey, Tom. Homework's be... | 11 | Earth received a Voyager-like probe from another planet | 22 |
"Hey there buddy, where you headed?" Bill looked down out of his truck cab at the kid, looked like he was not a day older than 25. Real clean cut for a guy on the side of the road at this hour. "West," is all he said. A smile came across the kid's face and his deep blue eyes reflected the dash light. *This could be a f... | 436 | A serial killer picks up a long-distance hitchhiker who also happens to be a serial killer. They attempt to direct each other to stop for the night at a motel owned by a serial killer. | 555 |
Ben sat at the kitchen table, his eyes fixed on the wall.
"I wish you'd stop that." Nataley said and removed the bag from her cup of tea.
Only just now did Ben realize he had been biting his nails, he always did when he was nervous. "Sorry", he muttered and let his hands drop.
Nataley sat down and sipped her tea. "S... | 48 | A young couple are the epitome of love, but they hold a dark secret...He is a registered sex offender and is much older than her. Make me sympathize with him. | 24 |
A man named Peter glanced down at his wrist watch. The time read 7:23 PM. Silently he waited for his business associates to arrive. Peter was one of four "District Managers" in the immediate area. However, Peter was a man of ambition, and was simply not satisfied with managing his lone district. If there was money bein... | 23 | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are Mafia bosses sitting in a room together having a conversation. | 38 |
"So what do you say?" the man asks. His toothy grin beckons an answer.
After spending a lifetime of taking orders from suits, the head job is mine for the taking. I've already killed once for the opportunity, but there's something not quite right about this one. I wipe a bead of sweat from my temple.
"You look thirst... | 107 | You've died and gone to Hell, and the Devil has asked you if you'd like to take over his job. As fitting, 666 words or less. | 111 |
Gabriel woke up feeling a bit sick. No fucking way, he thought. He didn't want to be sick on the day of his sixteenth birthday party. Who would? This would ruin all of his plans, to use the term loosely. Hopes might be more accurate. Fantasies. The ones that had been keeping him up at night, lying in bed with a box of ... | 14 | At some point between age 3 and age 21, every person undergoes a magical gender change that lasts for a year. Write about a person undergoing the change at their birthday party. | 16 |
I hated mirrors.
It's hard to really explain why I hated them, or rather, why I began to hate them. Ever since I was a kid, I just never really liked being around them. They made me feel strange, like I was being watched by someone, my whole life on display.
I felt judged. That was the worst part, the judgement. Whe... | 13 | A man realises that the figure in his mirror is the original, and he is simply a reflection. | 25 |
When I first saw Llewellyn, he looked like his face was about to rip at its wrinkly seams. Smiling like I was an old friend or a favourite lost dog, he came down to greet me on his front yard.
Now, it had been a hot summer and on account of that every single blade of grass had been dried up into golden needles. Those... | 11 | Your Character Has Traveled to the Rural South (United States) to Engage in a Pugilistic Challenge With a Man Rumored to Be Unbeatable Because He Had Sold His Soul to the Devil | 28 |
The first breath of the day brought an old scent to Marcus' nose. His first instinct was to open his eyes, to fling his head to the side and make sure the woman he believed to be beside him actually was. Instead, the young male kept still, and inhaled once more. The scent was entirely familiar to him, implanted in his ... | 89 | Your character wakes up in the past, when they were still with a lover who would later on break their heart. How do they handle this? | 102 |
The end is upon me. In mere minutes they'll take me from my cell, I'll be strapped to that table, and they'll stick a needle in my arm. I know how much you hate shots. But this one won't be so bad. I hear there's a chill, but I won't feel it much. The guard tells me it's nothing more than a nap. A long, unending nap. I... | 27 | A man on death row writes a final letter to his wife hours before his execution. | 31 |
(I decided to write a date report [based on this Apollo 11 mission report](http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11mr_NoMissingPages_19700008096.pdf)... I don't see how I can describe a whole relationship. This is hard enough as it is!)
#1.0 **ED'S REPORT**
#1.1 PREDATE ACTIVITIES
All predate operations and checks (showe... | 27 | Describe an ongoing and successful relationship in the style of a NASA mission report. | 38 |
[WP] Shameless redditor posts a terrible writing prompt to get karma. His plan backfires horribly.
It would be the perfect karma conspiracy. The prompt would be about the plan, the plan would be a prompt about the plan, and the karma could be reaped by a sleeper comment he had already written under an alternate acco... | 25 | Shameless redditor posts a terrible writing prompt to get karma. His plan backfires horribly. | 47 |
Peter took one last draw from his flavoured cigarette, and headed back inside. His office job sucked the life away from him, and nicotine was the only thing safekeeping his sanity.
Once he crossed the door, everyone stopped and stared at him. The men at the water fountain dropped their cups, heads peeked over the cubi... | 24 | You finish your cigarrete break at the office. When you walk inside everything is silent, and you notice that everyone is staring at you. | 25 |
"There isn't any money in fighting overseas anymore."
That's how the pitch had started. And it was met with a deafening silence around the room.
The conference had been called after years of heavy losses in the arms industry. CEOs and executive leadership from all the major arms companies were present. A few represen... | 34 | The Second American Civil War. What started it, and who are the two sides? | 60 |
Today is my last day of patrol. Two years, three hundred and sixty four days, twenty hours, forty-one minutes and fifteen seconds ago I was brutally awaken by my predecessor.
"You're up. You know what to do, or you'll figure it out."
He could barely get the words out fast enough before rushing back to his pod. And s... | 31 | they will sleep forever until an external source wakes them. | 28 |
*4:45 AM*
By the time the last of the residents of Elm Drive had left his house in his bathrobe to join the hubbub in the street, the first of them to run outside yelling and dialing emergency services was unsure why exactly she'd felt it necessary to wake up at such an ungodly hour.
"It's the funniest thing," Mrs. R... | 45 | The U.S. gets hit by an unclear bomb. (Yes, unclear) | 44 |
It was a while before I noticed my inability to speak. After all, I live alone and I don't make it a habit to talk to myself. It was halfway through my morning commute that I realized. Stuck in traffic, I had switched the radio from the dull talk station I had on, to something more musical. My favorite song came on, an... | 30 | You wake up unable to say a word, but can all of a sudden write the most amazing music. | 62 |
[I focused more on 'myself' and my mentality than on the mailman.]
***=Lunatic.=***
Everything seemed different, and I didn't like how my routines were voided by the absence of the sound of the mailman.
I was late riser, always was. Didn't surface until eleven that morning; nothing out of the ordinary. Waited ar... | 15 | A suicidal mailman elects your house as his final resting place. | 31 |
Christopher's stomach dropped.
He had heard that cliche before, but this was the first time he had encountered the actual feeling. There was a metaphorical brick dragging his guts and intestines down, pulling his emotions with them into the depths of regret. He had been excited the entire morning--queasy, but excited... | 12 | The moment when you realize you have made the wrong decision. | 15 |
Suddenly I'm in a car. How did I get here? Where was I last? The car is moving....I am not the one driving. Where am I going. It is dark, I am in the passenger seat. I am _bound_ to the passenger seat.
So many questions.
First: Who is this woman driving? I don't know her.
Cautiously I look toward her; my muscles a... | 35 | On a late night drive and you just realized someone else is in the car with you. | 36 |
We don't go into orbit anymore. Orbit belongs to them.
Astronauts had always laughed at the proscription on masturbation in space. It seemed relatively harmless, in all honesty. A little bit of protein in zero g. NASA, however, held an unholy terror of the idea, so much so that one of the lesser known parts of a... | 16 | In zero gravity, sperm can survive and mature without having to fertilize an egg. An astronaut jerks off on the ISS, what happens? | 20 |
It was another day and another failed report to the Intergalactic Étoile Council. Rita Clara was tired of having to report to the IEC with bad news.
It had been nearly one full century since Rita was charged with the responsibility of inviting earth to have a representative on the council and so far she was having no... | 39 | Write a role reversed Power Rangers story where the aliens are the good guys trying to bring Earth into galactic civilization, and the Rangers are soldiers of paranoid, xenophobic governments trying to kill the aliens. | 191 |
She didn't remember her dream. She always remembered her dreams, she recorded of them in a small notebook by her bed, but this one, she didn't remember. It was blurry, hard to make out. A shadow clouding her mind. The more she tried to remember what it was, the harder she found it. She just couldn't remember.
It was c... | 19 | A person (male or female) wakes up not knowing who they are. They are the incarnation of Death. Explain how they find out, why they were chosen to be Death, and what they do with the information. | 26 |
I did it because I loved him.
Funny, right? A succubus falling in love?
He's *monogamous*. The word itself is like acid on my tongue. It burns worse than the fires of hell those Catholics associate with me. They misunderstand me and when 2014 comes for them, their perception of time distorted by their linear thinking... | 12 | A succubus decides to become monogamous | 19 |
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