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At 6:30, my phone erupted in light and sound, just as it did every morning. My eyes creaked open, and were nearly blinded by the phone laying on the sheets a few inches in front of my face. My hand reached out from under the covers, and shut off the alarm. With the awful sound gone and blessed darkness back, I closed m... | 41 | You wake up and realize you are not the same gender you were when you went to bed. (Potentially NSFW) | 48 |
Tensions have been running high, and we've gone over the edge. The television networks have stopped, repeating a synthesised voice. It's inhuman, it's... surreal.
A nuclear attack is inbound, we all knew it was possible but we didn't expect it to happen. Not here, not to us. I, like many others, had daydreams - no, da... | 30 | You are in a large, crowded city on a typical day during the Cold War era. Suddenly the nuclear sirens go off. | 51 |
"The world ended." What a funny phrase, given the circumstances. When I was ten, my mom died when her car was hit by a train. Everything I knew, everything I thought was constant, was suddenly uncertain - the world in which I was safe, happy, and free of worry was gone - it ended. When bombers filled the sky and blaste... | 11 | Most people alive today think the world ended 50 years ago. Well, that's not quite true. What actually happened was... | 29 |
I met my wife a few days after I got diagnosed. Cancer. It doesn't really matter what of, skin, brain, bone. The end result was going to be the same. Death.
She knew it from day one. She knew I would get weaker, my strength would go, my hair would fall out. She knew it from the start and she stayed. Her lovely smile g... | 44 | Make me love a character until the final sentence / last two sentences. | 40 |
That's Evelyn, my significant other. According to her, we are planning a barn wedding for spring, but the oppressively cliched notion of having her walk towards me with flowers in her hair is enough to make me want to stab her in the eye.
She always drags me to these coffee-house events to watch the dozens of talentle... | 47 | Re-write an extract of American Psycho like Patrick Bateman is not a yuppie, but a modern day hipster. | 44 |
It was a dark and stormy night,
And through the Fristle Forest trees,
A manor comes in sight,
Where Walter Watcher lives and sees.
He sees the bloodless bimble smolder,
In his flaming den beneath,
Making warmer days the colder,
Drawing heat to boil children's teeth.
It was there that Wilma Winter went,
Upon th... | 41 | Write a story like if Edgar Alan Poe and Dr. Seuss combined. | 39 |
"E2" was one of the most popular live streams, despite how boring it was.
It was a planet, our planet, just about 60 minutes in the future. It also happened to be light years away. Landforms--same, lights from cities at night--same. They measured the time delta based on weather patterns coming onto the California c... | 50 | An exact replica of Earth, with all of the same inhabitants, is discovered a few light years away. Earth #2 is exactly 60 minutes further in time than Earth #1. | 44 |
""Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" We chanted, like usual, at the start of our 33rd meeting of the Esoteric Order of Dagon.
We weren't really a cult, more like a little group of eccentrics and outcasts. A club more than anything. I had never taken it too seriously, and I didn't think any of the othe... | 141 | A villian who thinks he's a hero realizes he's the villian. What is he thinking? | 171 |
"It's quite disorienting" Lowe said. He wasn't sure if he was sitting in a posh psychiatrist's office or in that playground by his old house, just imagining all of this.
"Retro-active Recall can be quite disorienting." Dr Merck replied. "Any of your memories you recall seem to be happening to you as we speak. Where ar... | 19 | A mental disorder that doesn't exist. | 26 |
**Log Entry 0001-v01**
The first thing you notice is the dust; red, lyophilized, clingy little clods of powder that gets everywhere. It reminds me so much of my training back on the moon, which I’m happy to say is over with… A secondary lock in my block had failed and three folks got a room full of the living hell t... | 11 | Mars has been finally colonized, and prepared for human inhabitation, Write from the perspective of one of the first colonists on Mars. | 17 |
For my entire life I've described myself as the cool, level-headed type. Steel nerves in the face of danger. Laughing at peril's face haughtily.
In hindsight, it was probably only because my scrawny, well-off, 140lb bony ass has never had the pleasure of meeting peril face to face.
So when my normal shortcut to work... | 20 | You are a businessman and you make a turn down a side-alley where a stranger wielding a knife demands your money. Talk the mugger out of mugging you. | 18 |
"Did you know four of the last five US Presidents have been left-handed? A curious anomaly, some have said. A weird coincidence, others have noted. But Satanic? Come on, that's medieval superstition, right? Truth be told, it's a helluva lot more than superstition. Truth be told, it's a helluva lot more than even worshi... | 28 | All left-handers really are the children of Satan, but only the left-handers know it | 78 |
The man approached with a glum look on his face. I had seen him many times before, with his sharp suit and tie, his seemingly perfect hair, but today he was different. His smile was gone and his eyes a mixture of fury and sadness. As he gave his coins to me, I promptly displayed which of my many snacks were in stock. I... | 10 | A day in the life of a vending machine. (Feedback for every response)(500 words or less) | 15 |
My footsteps echoed through the apartment building as I hurried up the deserted staircase. A quick glance at my watch reminded me it was still early, very early, and so I slowed down my ascent in an attempt to not get yelled at by Kent's angry neighbors. Like everyone else, I too would be asleep right now if it weren't... | 76 | A scientist discovers that all inanimate objects are sentient and always have been. | 38 |
Begging, bargaining, pleading with me every day. They hunt me, pursue me, terrorize me every fucking day.
For what? To prolong their lives? To give them prosperity? To solve whatever small problem they believe I have beset upon them?
I haven't left my apartment in days. No food. No sleep. No needs.
They still remai... | 54 | You are the only one in the world who cares, or the only one in the world who doesn't care. | 54 |
"MOMMY! LOOK!"
I jolted awake instantly. It's not just a mother's instinct to sleep with one eye open with a child around, but it's also a mother's instinct to determine whether a "Mommy, look!" is being said with terror or not. There's nothing scarier than being woken up from a nap to witness a horrific accident that... | 11 | You're napping on your couch when your 4-year-old shakes you awake and says "Look! Look what I can do!", then points at an easy chair ... and it rises and hovers two feet off the ground | 26 |
It wasn’t often that Tom did something this extraordinary. In fact, when he came knocking at their doors, most of the other residents of his building hadn’t a clue who he was. By anyone’s standards, Tom was a shut-in. He kept to himself and that didn’t bother the other tenants one bit; their busy lives couldn’t even... | 37 | A man is throwing himself a going away party and secretly plans on killing himself afterwards | 105 |
What the hell is going on? they both thought.
The man in his suit looked at the figure standing across the plain from him. They figure looked back.
"Mike, I thought I was the only one out here." he radioed.
Mike's voice crackled on the other end. "What are you talking about? You are the only one out there."
"I can... | 13 | An alien explorer and a Human astronaut encounter each other on Mars. Both think the other is a halucination. | 48 |
It was the joy on their faces that stuck with him the most. You just don't get that kind of fun with real magic. Sure the wonder, the amazement at its awesome power, but not the sheer joy of the fun of someone thinking he was playing a trick on them and trying to figure it out.
He found the lying... hard. It was ha... | 14 | A magician whose cover is a stage magician | 27 |
They called it Pulchrasituoma when it was first discovered, following the trend of naming shit that kills you after pretty Latin words. Everyone could tell something had changed. People were nicer looking, people were happier. You'd go to a club and there wasn't a homely person in sight. Not that they didn't exist anym... | 26 | a new STD is discovered, which spreads by turning the infected incredibly physically attractive, however shortening their life spans significantly | 26 |
"Dr. Akerman, there's a Code Green in 403B"
*God damn it,* Horace thought.
He put down his sandwich and heaved a sigh as he started to make his way. His shoes clacked down the pristine hallway. On the stairs, the cavalry, two large orderlies, excused themselves as they raced up. One of them really needed to change hi... | 509 | A psycholoist slowly realises that a patient of the mental ward he is working at actually is what they have claimed to be all along | 243 |
"I just want to be happy" Sherry told the devil.
"That's understandable. But you do realize the implications selling your soul will have, right?" Satan pressed.
"Yes, we've been over it a hundred times. I want to sell my soul to be happy the rest of my life." Sherry said this with more gumption than she intended, she... | 47 | a woman sells her soul to the devil, gets what she asked for, but not what she wanted | 26 |
Writing this, I realize I'm in no way Vince Gilligan. We were happy to have such a good writer. It also made me realize that Jesse's really important to the plot.
After Jesse's disappearance Walt is on edge. He knows who is responsible, Tuco Salamanca, but he doesn't know Jesse is dead. The news is revealed during a ... | 10 | How Breaking Bad would have progressed, had Jesse been killed off in the first season as was originally intended. | 40 |
He peered over the edge with a small smile. That was his tradition, mine was pissing off the side. You’ve got to celebrate getting to the top somehow, right?
“When’s the last time you were completely happy? Wasn’t hungry, didn’t need to shit, liked your friends, had a good relationship. All of that. When was it?” he a... | 37 | A scary story with an even scarier twist. | 35 |
**The Great Bland (1300-1899)**
Taking a break from the riveting, violent history of our peoples, the 1300s began a half-millennia of, well, boredom. What was previously a thrilling history, rife with mystery, adventure, discovery, treasure, and excitement, the aptly named “Great Bland Period” (or “The Great Bland”) o... | 39 | Write about 500 years worth of history in a real or made up country/region/planet/whatever | 47 |
It had been thirty years since the last time he had seen her. Thirty long years of hiding from police, trying to get his new life together. When he got the call a few days ago, it was very much a surprise, but somehow also relieving.
Somehow she had tracked him down, something the FBI, CIA, INTERPOL, and every other... | 56 | Two famous villians meet for coffee to catch up | 70 |
Somehow the sirens had never stopped. It seemed impossible really, with the weight of time and decay hanging heavy on everything that this noise from the past should endure. And yet here he was, drawn in by the siren.
The siren had been meant to warn and repel. It had been an almost instinctive reaction of humanity... | 16 | On a post-apocalyptic Earth, a lone survivor discovers an unaffected Nuketown. | 29 |
A bell sounded as the door closed to the coffee shop I visit every Tuesday and Thursday. My first step onto the sidewalk outside the store was welcomed with a howl of wind cutting through the alleyway. The days are getting shorter and the nights are getting colder. It was already dusk. It was time to go home.
I put my... | 99 | A complete stranger asks you for directions to your house. | 95 |
Kafka stared down at the black coffee; he hadn't dared ask the woman at the counter for sugar or cream; he’d almost worked up the courage, but a loud cough from behind had frozen him, hand slightly burning from the heat of the cup he’d just accepted; he whirled, grimacing as a bit of the java sloshed over the lid and b... | 11 | In a quiet little coffee shop in a quiet little town famous people from history can stop by anytime for a drink... | 19 |
30? What the hell? That's not even that far from 28. Maybe she's just holding onto that last bit of youth. I don't blame her, 30 is a big number to say. Dirty Thirty. I'm-an-adult-now thirty. Terrific thirty. If she had said 24 then I would be convinced that she's doing exactly that, keeping age at bay and allowing her... | 45 | - A man finds that his wife has been lying to him about her age. This leads him to wonder what else she's been lying to him about. | 41 |
"That's right, yes. The account is set up in your name... Yes... That's right... In my will as my estranged brother, yes... Don't worry, you'll get the payment after you've done it... I'd prefer I *didn't* see you tonight, actually. Heh." George hung the phone up. He felt cold and nervous like you feel at the top of a ... | 71 | A suicidal man hires a killer to end it instead. | 72 |
I turned it on myself, took aim at my face, and shot.
Then I sent the selfie I took to my girlfriend.
***
(Okay, real answer:)
The door shut behind Carol, and I heard her get in her car and leave. I mumbled under my breath. She'd been leaving without telling me where she was going for the past few days, and it was ... | 10 | Write a story with a happy twist | 21 |
Charlie turned off the TV. He looked at his two young daughters, who stared back at him blankly, obviously not grasping the message that Brian Williams had just passed along to the world. Rita, had just made some stupid comment about "Well you know, I don't trust anything on TV, unless it's on Anderson Cooper. Now *tha... | 35 | Scientists confirm that our universe is a computer simulation. Write about a family who witnesses the announcement live on television. | 80 |
"Four months?"
"Yup."
"Were you scared?"
"Every day. Ever seen what happens to a man when a toothbrush shiv gets pushed through his eye socket."
"I...I can't say I have."
"Neither have I, but it *felt* like I could have when I was in there."
"Oh."
"Yup, the fear was real, John. The fear was real. All of us had t... | 21 | A story with "No soap, radio!" as a legitimate punchline | 34 |
He was my dog.
I'd begged my mother for ages. All I ever wanted was a pet. One day I'd come home and he was there. Terrified. He wouldn't leave the safety of his crate. We goaded him. We bribed him. We begged him. We made progress, inches at a time, but he ran back in at the slightest provocation.
He was my dog.
He... | 25 | Make me sympathize with somebody killing a dog | 19 |
"GUNDERSON!!!!" Shit. Fuck. Oh, shitfuck. This is how I die. This is it. I'm not ready, God. I still haven't learned how to spell 'tomorow' properly. I still haven't gotten that DVD back from Jeremy. I still haven't written that angry letter to the bus company.
"Gunderson, you better have a goddamn explanation!" Chri... | 12 | GUNDERSON!!!!!! | 21 |
"Okay Hugh, this is your last chance". There was no response.
Rocco stood over the bloody and dishevelled man he once would have recognised as his brother-in-law. Hugh's head was bowed, his hands and feet securely bound to an office chair. His hair was matted with thick, maroon blood. After two days of convincing him ... | 35 | A masked vigilante (somebody like the Punisher) accidentally kidnaps, tortures and kills the wrong person | 56 |
The world as it is doesn't bear much resemblance to the old world. In the old days fear and pain ran rampant and, as it turns out, a lot of that was because people were afraid of no one understanding them. Afraid that when the light finally went out of their lives they'd be alone. After the introduction of the finde... | 187 | Every person is born with a timer on their wrist that counts down to when the person meets their soulmate | 165 |
**SPEECH DELIVARED NOVEMBER 16, 2013. PRESIDENT OBAMA AT THE WHITE HOUSE IN RESPONSE TO CLAIMS OF AN EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL ARTIFACT BEING DISCOVERED AT AN ASTEROID IMPACT SITE TWO WEEKS AGO.**
**FULL TRANSCRIPT:**
**PRESIDENT OBAMA:** My fellow Americans, I am here to speak on the recent events in Chicag... | 44 | A world leader (the US President, the UK PM, anybody) is delivering a speech disclosing irrefutable evidence that the world will end in 250 years. Write his/her speech. | 64 |
I had known this man for a while, he was my boss after all, so I knew when he would be leaving. I sat outside the office waiting for him to come out. God, that office. That same office where I spent over 50 hours a fucking week working for this prick, and he couldn't give me a few hours off to watch my daughter Michell... | 52 | Someone murders another person for a motive that sounds extremely petty at first but makes total sense by the end of the excerpt. | 48 |
"And over here," I said, stepping down the hall and gesturing right, "is the bathroom. As you can see, both the toilet and shower have separate doors for privacy. The mirror is very large and can be used without disturbing the privacy of others."
The two followed my movements and gazed at the apartment's convenient ... | 15 | Show the exact moment two people fall out of love, told from the perspective of a third party witness. | 27 |
Achuchi watched from between her mother's legs as the White Men came and set up their camp. As they unloaded their tools and fired up their trucks, Achuchi began to worry. She had seen the White Men before, but only once. A few years ago they came looking for gold. They promised to pay the village if they found any... | 10 | Write a tragedy using a classic rock band name as it's theme | 18 |
God, I am hungry. What's the word I'm looking for? Famished? That sounds about right. I swear, if I could just stop this bullshit for five seconds and just ram a burger down my throat, I'd be so happy.
"Ohhh, yeah baby," she cooed as my hips gently slapped her bare ass.
Ah yes, I thought, just the image of that j... | 352 | a society where sex is public and entirely unstigmatised, but eating is a taboo | 207 |
“Hey there,” he whispered seductively as he kneeled down next to Friedrich Boulevard, an empty road that had caught his eyes. “I know you probably hear this from a lot of guys, but I’ve been looking at you all night. You’re quite something.”
The road didn’t respond.
He slowly traced a finger along its asphalt, feelin... | 86 | Take any idiom literally. Write a short story from it. | 65 |
A tightness raised in his throat that he didn't know how to process. He tried working against it, like he worked against everything, everything that held him back, everything that tried to change him he would strain and fight against it until it buckled to his will and he could continue on, relentless. In the past he h... | 16 | An adult character is literally just experiencing for the first time what it's like to be happy. Avoid thought verbs, avoid clichés. | 29 |
I watched my companion as we walked along towards our destination. He didn't look like a god, but that meant nothing. I looked like an amalgam of all the people he had feelings for. I could feel my face constantly shifting.
"Please. You don't have to do this."
"Oh, but I do. And even if I don't, I'll eventually wake ... | 64 | A character in your dream realizes that when you wake up he/she dies. | 102 |
**World War 3** (*Also known as the War of Asia*)
**Diplomatic Tensions**: In October of 2022, the United States defaulted on its debt. While sending the global economy into a large recession (See entry for the Second Global Depression), it also served to push the confrontation between the US and China, the worlds two... | 12 | Write an encyclopedia style overview / summary of World War 3 | 19 |
The worst part was the sounds. I walked slowly, but calmly, through my ravaged city, the grass growing ever higher, stained in red and littered with countless decaying limbs and parts from the human bodies they once belonged to. "You just need to stay calm", I reminded myself every few seconds.
They were all around me... | 16 | Zombie Apocalypse... HOWEVER, if survivors ignore them and don't freak out when they're nearby, the zombies don't attack. | 41 |
Death swooped in the window and raised his scythe over the baby's crib.
"Wait a moment," a woman said. She was sitting on a rocking chair in the corner of the room, knitting.
"Speak," said Death. "I suppose you want to play a game for the child's life. I warn you, I've had a great deal of practice at every sort of g... | 128 | A mother tries to reason with Death, who has come to claim her terminally ill child | 109 |
I like that you're mentioning your favourite Redditor, because I'm on Reddit right now so it's a funny coincidence. Only if you believe in coincidences though, I means those guys over here say "Everything happens for a reason!" but then there was a comment the other day (on Reddit again, the odds!) that answered this w... | 10 | In honor of one of my favorite redditor's of all time, please, Ramble Off Topic | 15 |
Work today. Again. Showered and shaved, I stroll through the city streets. They are over run. Crowded with hundreds of feckless, ignorant, naive automotons. Cockroaches, all scuttling along, so unaware of the world around them. They don't even notice me. I walk amongst them a giant, invisible to their eyes. I am a wolf... | 52 | Describe a psychopath, characterised through his perspective of the outside world as opposed to our perspective of him | 58 |
WAKE UP BOY. GOOD BOY.
Jack-human pats head. Love Jack-human. Jack-human good.
Jack-human looks sad. Lick his face. Face tastes salty. Tears.
Running through the woods. Fun. Exercise. Caution.
Quiet. Jack-human looks around. Smell birds. High above. No ground critters.
Very far, hear other humans. Not like Jack-hu... | 12 | A zombie apocalypse from a dog's point of view | 22 |
The cold, steel muzzle pushed into the soft flesh under his jaw. His finger strained against the trigger, shaking ever so softly. Just as his finger tensed for the final pull, he abruptly lowered the gun.
*Shit, not now.*
Josh had a Starbucks venti iced coffee that morning, one that had already made its way through... | 48 | A person is about to kill themself, but suddenly gets an incredible urge to use the restroom. | 36 |
So this one morning, I was down at the temple just doing my business. Slow day as usual, until this guys storms in. Starts talking shit about all of us, calls us thieves and eventually have us thrown out of our spots.
Now, I'm all for reforms and I won't be the one complaining if one of us finally have the guts to sta... | 10 | Rewrite A Biblical story from the villains point of view. | 24 |
The less time here the better. I want to sit in the closest seat to the exit so when the bus stops I can get off quickly.
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Lately I've been thinking about they day they took my father away. The look of fear on his face. . . and anger.
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After a certain age, around 7 or 8, most children lose their emotions and are ... | 25 | In a world where almost everyone is an unfeeling psychopath, those who can show emotion are shunned -- being able to display or feel emotion is considered a mental illness. | 68 |
Kunta sharpened the ceremonial kris, showering the room with sparks each time the blade brushed the whetstone.
Off to the side, the calf stared, half confused, half paralyzed with fear, its eyes staring into Kunta's own.
"This is stupid", Kunta exclaimed when Obwe passed into the room.
"Why must we care for an animal... | 11 | You live in a world where any animal you eat must be cared for in the last week of its life and then slaughtered -- by you. | 17 |
First things first, let's just address the elephant in the room.
Everyone hears "Aquaman". Everyone thinks: "Isn't he kind of gay?"
The problem that we have here is not subject matter - it's past image.
Sure, he's not beating the shit out of bad guys in Gotham, and he doesn't have a kick-ass iron suit with lot's of... | 43 | You stand before the executives at Warner Bros. with your job on the line; you have to sell them a film version of "Aquaman." | 50 |
It'd been years since the last aircraft flew. At first, people were frightened. "We're going to be stuck on this rock forever! What if the natural resources run out? What if pollution gets to be too much? What if..." they'd all say. But after a short while, no one really minded aside from a few ornery travelers and bus... | 10 | Write me a tale about trench warfare in a fantasy world's WW1 like setting. | 18 |
"For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root."
*thwack*
"And as the thousand waste their time with the minute issues, only one will attempt to confront the source"
*thwack*
"And when the tree begins to lean, the one at the root will be forgotten behind the cheers of the thous... | 10 | "For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root. " | 18 |
6:08 PM, EST;
8:08 AM, JST
Yumiko: i'm back! the connection in my neighborhood was down a few days with the bombs, but just put back now :)
Susan: and the first thing you did was message me? i'm flattered!
Yumiko: haha
6:09
Yumiko: have you heard from your brother?
Susan: he's supposed to be home next week! dad s... | 10 | If the internet existed in WWII. | 19 |
Mr. Rex,
It has come to my attention that you have recently been engaged in destroying my city. I would like to thank you on behalf of the bureau of urban renewal, the city demolition commission, and our country's enemies, all of whom appreciate your efforts.
I realize that you are very busy frying women and childre... | 15 | Write a formal letter to a laser shooting Tyrannosaurus Rex with a jetpack that is destroying your city | 17 |
WHAT DO YOU MEAN I HAVE TO LOOK AFTER IT?
"I'm really sorry, sir" maggot slimed. "It says so, right here in the contract, that if you take this lady's soul, you have to look after her spawn."
A baby in a crochet blanket was thrust into HIS EMMINENCE THE DARK LORD OF EVIL's lap.
WHAT'S THAT AWFUL SMELL
"Er i belie... | 26 | A powerful, malevolent entity is forced to care for a human child | 16 |
It surprised me how much creamer Death put in his coffee. But then again, what's it going to do? Kill him? He came back to the table and passed me a second cup, black. Taking a sip, I nodded. “I have to say, this isn't how I imagined the afterlife.” Death smiled. Not warmly, but still. “The population of the Afterlife ... | 57 | "It surprised me how much creamer Death put in his coffee." | 126 |
"Greetings! I am general Telesus of the O'Burn clan. For the last few years, we have greatly..."
"Cut to the chase. What do I have to do ? What are the rewards."
I am used to this by now. "Five fox ears. Three silver."
"BRB." He wanders over to General Kalesus standing next to me. They never have time to listen to m... | 38 | An NPC in an MMO realises it's the worst time of all to be active, The weekend. How do they cope? | 26 |
Lee was my brother.
Many of you already know that fact, but that's all you know, that simple fact. It doesn't really tell you much about our relationship. Some brothers get along, some brothers are arch enemies. If its okay, I'd like to explain my relationship with Lee from my own perspective.
I was born about two y... | 18 | A heartfelt, sad and wistful Eulogy being told by a close family member slowly and steadily devolves into an outrageous exposition and ludicrusly frothing angry rant as the family member finally admits that the deceased was a complete and utter bastard. | 20 |
It's really dark inside you.
I'm never quite comfortable exploring the mazes that make up your mind. I try to avoid it at all costs. But sometimes, there's no choice. Sometimes I accidentally slip into it and find myself wandering through the darkness.
It's dark inside you.
Such a stark contrast to the white wall, ... | 13 | It's really dark inside you | 25 |
The oaf next to me kept drumming his fingers on the dashboard. Normally I wouldn't have been annoyed, I'm a fairly patient man, but he was a super and was actually beginning to dent the plastic.
He called himself Strong Arm and that lent to his propensity to make lame jokes, such as referring to our duo as The Strong ... | 26 | Write about a person in law enforcement who works in a city full of superheroes and supervillains. | 69 |
The man kicked Jon to the floor and the pain was brutal. The ropes around his torso were tight and he could only take half breaths. His starved brain wished for unconsciousness but the bucket of cold water brought his sane mind back to the candle light.
"Please..."
The man put a hand up. "Too soon. You have to wait a... | 10 | A remote, peaceful village of vampires is being terrorized by a psychopathic vampire slayer. | 48 |
The hardest thing to deal with was her eyes.
The jagged shard of glass thrust into my chest, the untiring winds ripping through the walls around us, the gleam of hungry fire dancing across the hills far behind her, and yet... all I could see were her eyes.
Watching. Relishing.
Crimson streams pumped through my gras... | 22 | The death of the penultimate human. | 16 |
"Sweet Sixteen, indeed! Come one, come all parents of the world, plan out how you'll raise your child to make the proper Sweet Sixteen request! Don't end up like the parents you hear in the news, forcibly executed because of a poorly timed time-out! You no longer have to fear your big innocent maniacal ball of infinite... | 32 | On every child's 16th birthday, the government grants one request, regardless of what is asked. | 37 |
>“Eight out of nine kids have eaten what we've given them.”
>“So send the last one in to the lunch room.”
>“Is that supposed to be funny?”
>“Just following orders.”
>“I think I've heard that excuse somewhere before.”
>“Are you comparing me to a nazi?”
>“Should I be?”
>“Maybe, but if we do... | 52 | Sometimes scientists need to make mistakes in the name of progress | 21 |
Jesse dug her fingernails into the armrests. Only after a few seconds did she realize that on one side she was accidentally digging into the fingers of the man in the window seat. She quickly moved her hand, and yelped out a 'Sorry'.
The man turned to her and smiled, a calm gentle smile, a smile that did not fit w... | 3,584 | an immortal man who cannot be physically injured is a passenger on a jet that's going to crash. | 1,387 |
I should've seen what was coming.
I should've moved into a commune before it happened, like Stacy and Ethan did.
I should've bought a gun.
The world has descended into chaos, and the little envelope of money that was thrown at my door two weeks ago hasn't changed that.
There had been talk of "re-equalization" befor... | 15 | The worlds wealth is shared out equally and each person receives $6285.71, show how this affects an individuals life and the world around them. | 48 |
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1/1/50
Dear Diary,
Fifty years ago it was announced that, for some unknown reason, fictional characters had begun spilling out of a huge pothole near China, causing major blackouts across Asia. It was expected that the "Imagination Wave", as it was called, would hit this country by Tuesday.
Of course, you might thi... | 16 | Everything was normal in this world. But today marks the 50th anniversary of the day every fictional character miraculously appeared on the Earth. You are a normal person writing about how everything has changed since then. | 23 |
I enter the room.
"Huh," I say.
"Weird," I respond.
I cough.
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" I ask.
"You mean whether or not this counts as schizophrenia?" I answer.
"No. I was- oh, ha! Talking to myself. I get it."
"Haha, yeah. I mean, I know that's not exactly schizophrenia, but-"
"No, no, I know. It's... | 20 | You and your duplicate clone enter the same room at the same time from separate doors. You're both surprised to see each other. | 15 |
"Now that the charges have been read to you, how do you plead?"
"Guilty."
The audience in the long wooden courtroom all drew simultaneous, hushed gasps. It rushed through the room like the very air itself was in awe. This was Sebastian, a boy who had used this building as a school for eighteen years. The same boy ... | 17 | Someone tried for being a witch/werewolf in the middle ages turns out to actually be one. | 15 |
She was wearing that bandana. That *fucking* pink bandana.
Looking at it now, it's hard to believe I ever *didn't* hate it. Hell, I actually *bought* it for her on our third date, at a fair. It had some ridiculous cartoon mascot printed on it, a cheap souvenir. Completely forgot about it until she moved in with me. Fo... | 22 | Write about a character who finds a little thing unbearably annoying. | 19 |
The bar was brightly lit. There were pockets of shadows for those more inclined to remain unseen. I took a bracelet off the hook. I was a regular, so they had a bracelet setup specifically for me, engraved in some alien metal provided by one of the more ... exotic customers.
I sat at my regular spot at the end of the ... | 32 | A neutral zone where Superheroes and Villains meet and just hang out. | 34 |
"Strange don't you think?"
"What is?"
An engineer stood leaning over a workbench covered in bits of machinery, a spotlight illuminating a soft pulsing device. He was holding a small tube of adhesive in hand. His friend continued from behind him, leaning on a cluttered desk.
"That we here are acting very much in defi... | 22 | For millions of years, robots have evolved from tiny, unaware programmatic errors in the code of the universe to a civilized sentient society. To perform menial tasks, the lead scientist creates and engineers the first carbon-based life form known as a Human. | 40 |
*Tick, Tock.*
*Tick, Tock.*
I looked down at my machine. It was a curoius little thing, just sitting there in my chest. It had to be there, becuse it was who I was, who I am today. I was wondering what it was, what it's made of, and what its purpose was. I can only answer one of those questions.
It brings people to... | 38 | Use this fun trick to write a story | 95 |
It's his birthday today.
Seven thousand, six hundred and sixty-four days. Seven thousand, six hundred and sixty-four murders. Each one taking a little piece of myself with it. Well, whatever was left after the accident.
I don't remember much about that night. We were coming home from Josh's basketball game. Josh wa... | 32 | Every day you travel one day further back in someone's life, killing them over and over again as an act of revenge. | 39 |
"Oh look, a lump of cheese on a small metal plate. How lucky. I will eat so well today. . .
You *really* expect me to fall for that? Sure some have, but we can *learn* when a litter-mate or offspring turns up dead next to very same piece of cheese.
Did you know we don't even like cheese? Makes us *sick*! Turns out ra... | 17 | A misanthropic rant from a nonhuman to a human. | 24 |
Moral absolutes are always hard to deal with. They say it's clear cut, alway black and white. Here it's just black.
"Thou shalt not steal, lie, kill or injure." Hands over hearts, every day before attendance was called. The Four Absolutes. There's no sympathy for the girl with broken fingernails and no shoes who wa... | 121 | "Gray is a beautiful thing to someone who lives in a black world." | 117 |
I'd always been told I was things that I wasn't. In sports, people always told me how quick I was, how fast I was, how smart I was. Truth is, *physically*, I was only ever slightly above average at best. I did find out what was different about me until I played video games with a friend. It was one of those shooter... | 54 | A man attains a menial superpower, and his world is turned upside down | 39 |
She came home in a panic. Burst through the door with tears streaming down her face. She had called the day-care centre and they didn't have Ben. I held her as she sobbed and promised her that we would look for him together. Something inside me told me that I shouldn't have said that, but I just wanted to make her happ... | 28 | A man's baby son dies. His wife continues to act like he exists... | 24 |
It was 1915 and we were in Belgium. I'd always wanted to visit Belgium, but not like this - not in these trenches. Here, but not now.
Believe it or not, living in stretching concaves in the Earth with no personal space breeds a special sort of relationship among the inhabitants. Funneled like rats - with rats - throug... | 28 | An immortal couple have been seen throughout recorded history, write an account of them in any time period you wish. Bonus points if you match the writing style of the time period | 64 |
First there was darkness, or light. The pieces drew together and moved apart and suddenly, in millions of years, there was life. The sun blinked around the earth and there was a bed made in Tennessee, sheets bought in Cincinnati with that girl you liked the first week of freshman year when things were cloudy all the t... | 65 | Make me cry realizing how awesome the world is. | 53 |
"Regiomontanus" was his last word.
When it slipped from his lips, it was more of a curse than a remembrance. Domenico Maria Novara was not one to mince words, especially about his old teacher, Johannes Müller von Königsberg, who had been assigned that regal, Latin-sounding nickname by some fool.
His protégé listened... | 11 | On his death bed a famous scientist reveals how his discovery or invention was not his. | 21 |
Alright Sarah, I'm coming after you. Just wait for me a little longer...
I jumped. I wasn't scared though. To be fair, I was only 6 feet off the ground, and the rope wrapped around my neck kept me from falling and hurting myself.
In fact, I didn't feel anything. Wasn't strangulation supposed to be just a little bit pa... | 15 | A ghost has yet to realize it's dead but keeps trying to commit suicide and wonders why nothing he tries works. | 17 |
"Ma," I sighed. "Get out of bed once in a while. You can't just lie there."
But she just looked at me with sad droopy eyes.
"Look, we're only selling the house so we can get you around the clock care." Great now she's crying.
I stormed out of the room and into the kitchen where my sister Sarah was packing pots and ... | 13 | A person realises that someone else is living in their house. | 26 |
He took another step, and another. Here he was, this was the end. All he had to do was jump and it was over, all of the pain, boredom and suffering. All those nights crying himself to sleep with bleeding wrists, all those times waking up in hospital getting his stomach pumped. It could all be over with a simple decisio... | 25 | Suicide changes mind mid-fall. | 36 |
edit: Typos.
I saw the concept and it kind of got away with me. On the plus side, I haven't written this much in ever, so thanks for that!
They called it a worm when it first appeared as an innocuous link in the footers of major websites in 2016.
Reports first positioned it as the misfired failure of a clever but ... | 11 | A website appears containing every digital photo ever taken | 19 |
[08/08/09]
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[08/14/09]
SLEP
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FF
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SLEEPS
[09/01/09]
IM STILL ME NOT INSN
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CAN'T WHEN H
[09/04/09]
CAN ONLY WRITE WHEN HE'S ASLEEP TRIED TO WRITE NOTE FOR HELP TODAY DIDN'T WORK, COULD ONLY SCRIB
[10/21/09]
NOT INSANE I'M NOT INSANE I'M STILL ME HE CALLS HIMSLF... | 28 | Going back through your journal over the past few years, you find the entries don't match what actually happened in your life nor do you recall writing them.. | 70 |
It was advertised as a vaccine. Get your child vaccinated today, combat the epidemic of teenage depression and suicide. It was even brought to developing nations. There was an effort to cleanse the world of this emotion, following the example of the Polio vaccine.
The advertising targeted infants. Protective mothers b... | 23 | The Gov't is giving everyone a shot that prevents them from feeling sadness. | 19 |
Douglas was so sullen. James could remember a time when he and Doug were both in college, drinking and singing along to The Beatles on the radio at their favorite bar. James wanted to see his friend so badly since they had left college, but seeing Douglas in such a sad state just made him upset.
"Hey, do you remember ... | 30 | A man goes to see an old friend he hasn't seen for 50 years. There's a twist at the end. | 24 |
He stared at me as I stared at him and he took off his backpack.
"There's no need for that," I called.
The backpack stayed on the ground but he shook his head. "You're in our territory."
This had grown less common but every so often you found someone who went by the book.
"We don't have to do this," I said. "We c... | 37 | the world's armies no longer use guns or explosives. describe a soldier's routine | 25 |
(NSFW)
I suppose I should have realised back when my mum told me that I didn't have a dad.
I just thought he had left when I was born, done the usual runner and left my mum to raise me by herself. But now here I am, standing at a public water fountain with my hand in the water dispenser, dressed in a bed sheet and le... | 138 | An alcoholic man (for whatever reasons) realizes he is the Second Coming of Christ when he turns water into wine. | 167 |
The Great Canadian Conspiracy.
You've probably thought that the Americans, the Illuminati or the Jews, or maybe the Reptilian's run the world. You may have even thought that global relations aren't "run" by any one group but are really just a huge number of people interacting in many different and complex ways, with e... | 39 | Think up the most ridiculous conspiracy theory you can come up with. Sell me on it. | 28 |
People never really noticed until I complimented their clothes.
"I love those orange pants!"
"They're red actually.. but thanks."
That's how they usually found out. And once they did it was always the same. "What color is my shirt?" "Do you know what a rainbow is?" "Can you even have a favorite color?" Of course I ca... | 18 | "It was the most beautiful colour I'd ever seen." | 23 |
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