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[WP] You hit the nightclub with your friends, and one of them slips you a pill unknowingly. However the effects of the pill are like no other drug... | 5 | [
"My head was like a dull weight. Cold, wet. I'm sprawled out on tile, what a fucking night. And... and I don't remember a single bit of it. I sigh, attempting to see the blur. Reaching for my hood, I realize that this, too is completely wet.\n\nI seem to sitting on the floor of a pretty large shower. Using a railin... | [
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[WP] NSFW There are only two unbreakable rules in the Time Corps: if you meet yourself traveling through time, don't kill yourself and don't sleep with yourself. Agent Samantha Hill is about to break one of those rules. | 1 | [
"I'm so close.\n\nSo close to putting everything right.\n\nFrom the moment it happened, I knew nothing would ever be the same. Sneaking around the Continuum. Covert meetings, back alley deals. A lifetime of bad deeds. And all for what?\n\nI knew it was coming. I knew she would be there. I had to be there. There was... | [
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[WP] You have court-side seats at an NBA game. During the match deciding shot, time freezes around you and you are the only thing in the arena moving. | 1 | [
"Jack couldn't believe it. Somehow, he'd manage to get tickets for Game 7 of the 2015 Finals. His hometown Cavs were battling the Spurs in what everyone thought might be Tim Duncan's last game. Somehow he'd gotten the biggest ticket of his life for only $50 on StubHub, and it was bottom-deck. It was as if he was su... | [
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[WP] the story of a family from the point of view of an inanimate object in their house | 4 | [
"This is the first time he held me like this -- indeed, it's the first time he has ever held me at all. Not that I felt ignored, no, for now that he is holding me I am actually finding his hands too callous and rough, his grip too tight and intense.\n\nHe is nothing quite like Mrs. Robinson, whose touches are stead... | [
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[WP] A character is arguing with a disagreeing voice in his/her head about committing a crime. The reader shouldn't know he is arguing with himself until the ending. | 7 | [
"so is the person arguing with their conscience, or are they suffering from a mental disorder and hearing voices in their head (i.e.. schizophrenia)?",
"“I can’t do this.. no way.”\n\nThe gun shown brightly in the dim room, glistening inches away.\n\n“Why the fuck not?”\n\n“The fuck you mean why not? She’s a fuck... | [
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[WP] Some kind of force now allows people to die only on Tuesdays. | 20 | [
"Terry felt smug \n\n\"not gonna get me now are you you fuckin' dicklicker\"\n\nhe shouted while simultaneously sticking his middle finger up in the air. Terry had torn out all the Tuesdays in his diary and crossed them off on the calendar no one would kill him now.\n\n\"I'll live for ever nananana\" \n\nChanted Te... | [
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[WP] Cain and Abel from the perspective of Cain. | 5 | [
"How? How can He prefer the filthy, emaciated carcass of that flea infested sheep to the bounty I have brought forth? \n\nCan He not see what it means? What I have done? While my brother dogged after his tiny flock and fended off the wolves I have planted fields and trees which will be tended by my children and... | [
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[WP] Make up and describe an afterlife. | 13 | [
"One night I went to sleep, happier than never before. Because the next day was my sons first birthday. But I didn't wake up, just like my dad. Kind of ironcially funny, I must say.\n\nI knew what happened, because of all the memories from previous lives resurfaced. Countless of lives during millenias, but only now... | [
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[WP] Neanderthals have survived to live alongside homo-sapiens in modern times, but co-existence through history hasn't been easy. | 11 | [
"They can take a handful of dirt and in their hands form it, and say it is something. They have names to call me, that I am not. These two things will not change, but are not true.\n\nThe face looking at me from the water, is not me. Whenever I go to the water to look, it is there. They build a shelter from their w... | [
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[WP] A man has a recurrent dream for years. In the dream he sees a park bench from behind, with a woman sitting on it. Today, his dream becomes reality. | 2 | [
"It was a beautiful autumn day in upstate New York, the sky was clear and the most beautiful shade of blue that James had ever seen. The leaves had just begun to change, the dark greens giving way to stunning golds and a few spots of bright oranges. The sun was bright and warm on his face, yet there was a slight ... | [
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[WP] A scientist discovers a cure for cancer, but said cure comes at a terrible cost. | 2 | [
"- Well, it can't be that bad. I mean come on. I will help billions of people! And I will be rich! - doctor Hem was thinking, trying to persuade himself what he just did was good for everyone. \n- Doctor Hem, may I come in? A guy in his 50's asked as he was entering the doctor's office.\n- So you already know?\n- w... | [
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I submitted this to a couple "prompt me" posts but never got a response, maybe someone else can do something with it. | [WP] Ten years ago an eccentric looking gentleman gave you a small locked box with the word "destiny" engraved on the lid. Today you received an envelope with no return address, inside is the combination to the box. | 43 | [
"I ended up throwing the combination away as I had already cracked open the box years ago. All that was inside was a new brand of chewing gum, \"destiny\", and a jelly of the month subscription. ",
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[WP] The last human has withered away at last. Write the eulogy of the Human Race. | 1 | [
"A complex species, we were. Some would say we only had one goal, whether it be answering life's unanswered questions, or taking control of everything till it was all under our rule. It didn't matter what our goals were, they always conflicted with someone else's goal. And thus, war would ensue due to these differe... | [
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[WP] Each day, you wake up with the wisdom of an infant, and as the day progresses, so does your intellect. You have a very important interview at 9 AM. | 3 | [
"2 A.M.- I wok up ate midnight. Had to wate untel two am to rite this so motr skils develuped. I dunt no y I was born this wa but I trikd it. I well rite more laetr. Brane uv 5 yeer old.\n\n5 A.M. My spelling is mostly alright now. I like dogs and cannot wait until that new videogame is released. Maybe mom will buy... | [
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[WP] Give the back story on the little boy sitting in the clouds/moon fishing in the DreamWorks opening title. | 19 | [
"I used to fish in the creek down by my house. Not to actually catch fish, you understand, it was just to get a quiet place to think. The fish themselves were more of a distraction from thinking. I don't like catching fish, but I can't think properly unless I'm fishing. Strange but true.\n\nAnyway, one day they bui... | [
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[WP] Man in busy metropolis walks into crowded grocery store, buys ... groceries. When he walks out, the parking lot is desolate. About a half-mile radius is now covered in a bubble, he can see just blurry images outside of it, people have surrounded it. He is suddenly the only one inside. | 28 | [
"Large blue numbers flashed on the surface of the bubble that now encased him, and instantly thousands of thoughts rushed through his mind, *Why did they choose me? What did I do? Why? WhY? WHY??*\n\nThe numbers slowly flashed **98...97...96...**\n\nQuickly he rummaged through his bags until he found a knife he h... | [
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[WP] The common objects on your desk are trying to solve a mystery. | 54 | [
"\"These water bottles, they're all... *Empty*...\"\n\n\"It's horrifying, GP. But it's just another Tuesday to me.\"\n\n\"You're a calculator, I'm a gamepad. You've been around longer than I have... Back to work.\"\n\n\"Hey, I've found something! They look like they have bite marks on them... Big ones.\"\n\n\"S... | [
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[WP] Eons forward, the purpose of life is to construct the next universe before yours collapses. A truly random selection is made to determine who shall reign as 'god' in this next reality. Your name has come up. | 5 | [
"Tom was... *enthusiastic*. \n\nHe walked around the facility clutching a clipboard and scribbling feverish notes while occasionally brushing his long, black bangs away from his eyes.\n\n\"Ok, well, John,\" said Tom, in an increasingly sarcastic tone, \"*I* am the one making the decisions now, right? And I say we... | [
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[WP] You are preparing for a date with your girlfriend/boyfriend when the future version of that person bursts into your apartment | 2 | [
"So I had this idea in the shower, and wrote a story for it. It's a little too long to fit in a comment, but if you're interested, here is a Drive link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11bKHiazt-vqRL05IkYdVC5wQYUbPCTDB82rtzZWOBWE/edit?usp=sharing",
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Potential plot twist-- the staff are lying and the people are innocent...?
I dunno, do what you want. | [WP] A group of prisoners is given an experimental new treatment that erases their memories, essentially restoring them to the people they were before their crimes. Story begins with a prisoner awakening to learn of their guilt. | 7 | [
"Upon waking, Jack finds an inscription on the ceiling. \"MURDERER\" is what it says. \n\n\"The cleaning lady must've not seen this one,\" he says to himself. \n\nHe sits up and looks ahead and sees an inscription that reads, \"RAPIST\". \n\n\"Or that one,\" he says. \n\nJack has been out of prison for two years no... | [
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[WP] Humanity wakes up with all weapons disappeared from Earth. | 5 | [
"It came so unexpected, one second i had just slipped into deep sleep on my bunk, the next falling into the icy Atlantic as 100,000 tonnes of aircraft carrier dissapeared below me, lucky most objects separate from the hull including life rafts and PDFs were spared, and out of the Chaos we began to organize ourselve... | [
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[WP] The seven deadly sins form the Council of Seven with one sin as their leader. Every century this leader rotates to a different sin. Explain which sin stepped down at 2000 AD and which stepped sin was promoted using current events. | 374 | [
"\"Wrath, my good man, you gave it your best, now its time to take a seat on the bench. A new era is dawning, and I'll give you a front row seat.\"\n\nOf course, Wrath never sits down, not for long anyhow. September 11, 2014 demonstrated this quite nicely. Just because I took the seat right before Sloth almost brok... | [
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No limits on country/town/city or time/place. | [WP] You travel regularly on the train, and one day at the station you notice a train going to a destination you are sure doesn't exist. Then you notice that all the people getting onto the train are dressed alike and carry black bags. Who are they and where/why are they going? | 34 | [
"Waiting at the train stops of Chicago in mid January cold is never a fun thing. From the metal benches to the infamous wind everything begins to sting. I'm wrapped up in my scarf, breathing warm air heavily against my own face and doing my best to stay out of the chill air, hiding behind a column holding up the s... | [
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A being that can temporarely take over peoples bodies and memories and make them watch as he/she/it... makes their lives a lot better.
It may take advantage of the powers, but always twists the situation for the benefit of the person it is controlling | [WP] The friendly bodysnatcher. | 21 | [
"I'd seen this look before. Ruffled hair, crazy eyes. He stood on the edge of the cliff, and I knew what he was about to do. I floated closer to him to hear whatever this crackhead was mumbling.\n\n\"Why would she do that to me.. why would she just.. I told her not to, I told her to stay..\"\n\nHe kicked a pebble o... | [
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A war has been waging for so many centuries that no-one remembers how or why it began, or why they continue to fight. This war will soon come to an end. | [WP] A war has been waging for so many centuries that no-one remembers how it began, or why they continue to fight. This war will soon come to an end. | 23 | [
"When he pictured his death, he had pictured something heroic, they all had; a valiant last stand as waves of the enemy crashed against the lightning steel of the blade that had claimed so many lives, a true hero's death, the kind of death that made wars worth fighting.\n\nLaying face down in a slurry of mud and bl... | [
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Feel free to use this however you want, whether it be a direct quote, starting from where this stops, or anything else you can think of. | [WP] Your newborn's first words are "Dammit, I've played this level before!" | 491 | [
"I appreciate the effort put in to submit a prompt, but I can't get behind this one or others like it. You could have a prompt such as, \"Write about a newborn's first words\", and that'd be fine. I feel like OP as well as others, have an idea about a specific story and then generalize it to a prompt when it's real... | [
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optional: alliances between countries that hate each other and have done so for thousands of years but are close together and convenient to write about as a single entity | [WP] World War Three ravages the world. It's a conflict between two superpowers: North Korea and the Principality of Sealand. | 7 | [
"The year 2017 saw two architectural crumblings. In the East, the Blue House, a fiery explosion consumed the Republic of Korea's seat of power under mysterious circumstances. In the West, a tidal wave overcame Fort Roughs.\n\nIn response to the former, a united South Korean, American, and Japanese invasion saw to a... | [
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[WP] Once per week since August 2013, 1d6 of Goblins appears and attacks people and businesses randomly. Tell the story from the view of the city's police chief who had to adapt his force over the past year to fight the new threat. | 34 | [
"Years before this, I kept a set of tungsten baoding balls on my desk. A gift from my wife when things were better, before our fights about money, misspent time and our dead bedroom. I'd kept them on display, occasionally glancing at them for an easy distraction from work, not quite appreciating their value. \n\... | [
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[WP] Everyone but you has a superpower. | 2 | [
"As he stepped up to the mic, he began to shake. Psyched out of his mind, in a bad way. He's done it ten times, yet the jitters still fly. \n\nHe did not ever resent his abnormality. Rather, he embraced it in totality. For it was the source of this wisdom, his genuine charisma, and his deep love for his wife. Who's... | [
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[WP] Seeing a scrapbook memento unlocks a memory that, until now, you didn't know you had. | 7 | [
"“You only have a few things to grab, right?” Jason said from the driver’s seat. His ’67 mustang is still the coolest thing to us, which he started driving in high school over 18 years ago. But even though it was his, and we had no real blood relation to each other, it belonged to us. Not to a single person, but th... | [
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Sequel to http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/2dd955/wp_your_alarm_clock_goes_off_and_you_wake_up/ | [WP] Your alarm clock goes off and you wake up fifteen years ago, so does everyone else. | 7 | [
"I love summer! I get to hang out with all my friends and go swimming, and NO SCHOOL! My best friends are Erik and Andrea, but in a couple years Erik will stop talking to me, and by high school me and Andrea will drift apart. Funny how friends come and go. Wait. How did I know that? \n\nNow I remember, I'm not 9- ... | [
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[WP] Your character is in captivity. Having been starved for a week, their captors give them a meal. | 8 | [
"Its been a week since these English dogs had captured me near London. They have yet to give me food. When I told them they were violating the rules of war they just laughed. My guard said that the rules of war were for soldiers not spies. \n\nGiven the carnage we'd inflicted on their city I can understand and acce... | [
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Surprise me with the thing that makes the protagonist(s) fall in love.
EDIT: Thanks for all the great replies guys. Seeing the divirsity and creativity poured into this really shows the talent we have on this site. I am still fairly new to WP, so I really enjoyed having a prompt this highly upvoted, and with several g... | [WP] You meet with the person who is scientifically proven to be your ideal match. Only you don't really like him/her, and you sense the feeling is mutual. The is until... | 491 | [
"He finished writing another page long rant about the antics his adversaries had pulled during last night's gaming. As always, he did in the form of a role play story from the point of view of his female character. He sat and waited, he could feel that reply coming from that jerk, AlRyan2kPro. That guy always jumpe... | [
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[WP] Start a story with the line, "Come with me. There's no time to explain." | 4 | [
"\"Come with me. There's no time to explain.\" cried the midget troll. My first instinct was to pull away from his grasp, but something in his earnest gaze made me trust him. Besides, I wasn't sure I could pull away even if I wanted to, he had quite a grip for someone his size.\n\nStill clasping my hand, we ran a... | [
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[WP] An extremely religious man convinces his wife to commit suicide so he can be with another woman without breaking their wedding vows. | 2 | [
"\"Maaaary!\" \nThe screen door snapped shut as he staggered into the room, our room.\n\"Maaaaaaary! I got a preeeesent for you!\" \n I shivered as I heaved myself off the bleary pile of clothes on the bed. I'd been asleep, like the slothful waste I am. I should not have slept, there was so much to do. \n I stu... | [
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What the joke is doesn't matter as long as it's a lame one that a dad would tell | [WP] A serious story that ends in a dad joke | 25 | [
"You know who loves a good hollandaise sauce, my dad. In fact, it's why he married my step mom. Apparently, while they were dating, she couldn't cook for shit, so he paid for her to attend some cooking classes on the condition that she learn how to make a good hollandaise, because once she mastered that, he could j... | [
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First in a series of turning terrible opening lines into interesting stories. | [WP] Make an interesting story out of a horrible opening line. "You see, I have this candle..." | 15 | [
"\"You see, I have this candle..\" whispers the witch. It sure as hell didn't look like any candle I'd ever seen, unless the Devil had an option in Bath and Bodyworks. The \"candle\" was a human hand, brown and heavily wrinkled, almost as if it had been pickled. \n\nEven now, I can only recall fragments of memor... | [
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[WP] there is a god for everything. Light, sinks, walking, whatever you can think of. How does one unexpected god suddenly become the most powerful god? | 36 | [
"I've never been one to worship the gods as some do in this world. It never occured to me that one of the divine could rise through the ranks of the pantheon or that I would be it's instrument. My mother and father would praise the gods daily. Whether it would be the God of the eating bowls and plates or the gods o... | [
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So you can die, but they will just respawn. Everybody thinks you are merely another player of the game but for you this is real life. | [WP] You are a soldier fighting in the next World War. One day you suddenly realize that every other fighter is a virtual character in a video game, all controlled by people. | 2 | [
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What are its symptoms? How is it spread? How does it affect people? Feel free to write it as a narrative, academic paper, or a style of your choice.
Inspired by The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases | [WP] Write about a strange and fictitious disease that is not spread through the typical avenues. | 9 | [
"Brains are, for all intents and purposes, biological computers. They take inputs, process them, and create reasonable outputs in response. Nice and simple (well, no, but you get the gist). \n\nVarious individuals, myself included, tried to figure out ways to 'reprogram' brains for easier control. I, personally, wo... | [
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[WP] You live in a world where sugar of any kind is completely illegal and use and consumption is punished harshly. Explain who the notorious "Ice-Cream Man" is. | 3 | [
"His name was whispered amongst people up and down the land. A man clad in white, playing jingles of the old world to corrupt up-standing citizens with the wicked ways of sugar. \n\nSome say he'd turn up in a van as white as the poison he peddled, plastered with images of monsters and creatures from the darkest of ... | [
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[WP] A daily habit of drinking tea saves a neighbour's life. | 7 | [
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[WP] A Queen beats her daughter after catching her kissing the stable boy, terrified that this will ruin their alliance with another High Lord (through an arranged marriage). What she doesn't expect, however, is for her daughter to fight back. | 1 | [
"\"You're nothing but a common whore.\" The words stung Alex worse than the blows her mother, Queen Arelia, had dealt her. The cracked lip that bled down her chin, and the cut above her eye from one of her mothers rings would heal, they always did, but the words would remain with her. They always remained with h... | [
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[WP] Jesus during his teenage years rebels against God and joins Satans cause. | 0 | [
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[WP] After your death, you find yourself at a desk with a man opposite to you. He hands you a sheet of paper. | 8 | [
"“Sign this.” The man states, reaching up and adjusting the golden tie around his neck, loosening it slightly. “Go ahead and read it all you want, it hasn’t changed darling.” \n\n“U…Um… what is it?” I blink down at paper in my hands. It looks blank and I look back up at him. \n\n“Oh, must be your first time.” The m... | [
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[WP]The United State's national debt has just come up as a positive balance in your bank account (roughly $17.5 trillion). It is yours, no questions asked. | 6 | [
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[WP] The world's first cheap and reliable full virtual reality device is invented and is coupled with seemingly sentient AI. | 7 | [
"A gauche banner blinked mindlessly on LCD, \"Buy your neuroplastic harness today! Only 19.95 with an account at oculus service level!\" \n \nThis spinal harness was used off of amazon but was in good condition from her brother. She fiddled aimlessly with an adjustment dial well worn by that Sergeant Redacted bef... | [
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[WP] Write a story where the protagonist falls in love with the reader | 0 | [
"I’ve been sending you letters. I’ve been ripping the words from me, bleeding them out onto the page like blisters. \n\nYou know.\n\nToday I saw the last of my friends rush into the mechanic clouds of gunfire and cannons and screaming. He was drunk with victory, a foolish courage rising in him when he stabbed an in... | [
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[WP] The real reason why the bride tosses the bouquet | 2 | [
"The church bells rang, people were gathering and taking their seats as the wedding was about to start. The bride, Sarah, was getting ready with her bridesmaids. To put it lightly, she was having a mental breakdown.\n\n\"Oh god what if I trip?\"\n\n\"You won't trip!\"\n\n\"BUT WHAT IF I DO?!\" \n\nThe bridesmaids w... | [
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[WP] You go into a small shop on the outskirts of town. The shop owner introduces you to a dusty old brown crate. He tells you before you open it that it's the most valuable thing you will ever own in your life but it may surprise you. What do you find? | 21 | [
"I have always loved antique stores. I don't know why, but I just have loved the smell of dust and that blast from the past. I'm a regular in this shop in particular. Reggie always has new findings every Thursday. Thursdays were my favorite days. One Thursday in October, I walk into the store as usual. The bell abo... | [
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[WP] A king throws a man in the dungeon. The man is told the only way he will be permitted to leave is by saying the secret code. | 3 | [
"The prisoner, seemingly resigned to his grisly fate, simply stands pensively as he faces the tiny window in the ceiling, the only source of light in the room. After what seems like an eternity, he hears the lock open and the King's jailor enters. \"You are free to go. The secret code is silence.\"",
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[WP] A doctor waging the war on cancer dies with (surgical) blade in hand. Somehow his spirit enters Valhalla. | 674 | [
" He was sweating more than usual. He could feel his moist palms inside his latex gloves as he gripped the scalpel cutting away the tumour. \"A few more hours\" thought Dr. Wodensky, \"and I'll get to have a shower and crawl into bed.\"\n The doctor continued with his practiced hand, cutting away at the tumour em... | [
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Write something profoundly sad. Make me cry. | [WP] "You're alone, just as you have always been... Trapped in your own mind. There is no hope left in you." | 9 | [
"First timer, tips appreciated. \n\n\n\nI can see them, I'm pretty sure they see me as well. To me their voice is an echo thrown down an empty hallway. It's only us now, only we understand and we have to get out of here. \"But what about our boys, you have two adoring sons who cherish you?\" To hell with that, I ha... | [
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Sometimes it's good to think outside the box. | [WP] You are a stick. | 3 | [
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[WP] A man opens up a fully functional Apple store in the middle of medieval Europe. | 4 | [
"\"Apples! get your apples here!\" the man called out to the cobbled streets that were filled with potential customers. \"We have Macintosh, Granny Smith, Golden Delicious, You name it we've got it!\". Bob, the apple store's owner, had a smile on his face despite the turmoil going on in his head. He knew his dream ... | [
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[WP] A wall has been erected overnight, surrounding the town. People are dying. | 15 | [
"One month ago today, The Wall went up. No one knew why, and no one could find a way through the enormous mass of concrete. \n \nAt first, it was chaos. Phones didn't work, and the internet was out. Everyone wanted out, and they wanted out *immediately*. There was rioting all through the town. Fires broke out. Peop... | [
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[WP] There is an old man at the retirement home where you work that always seems to be carrying an old coffee can with him. One day, you decide to ask him about its contents, and the answer is something you never could have guessed. | 18 | [
"I was here visiting my father some odd years ago when some old guy with a can of sorts walked around the corner. Coffee can, I guessed, some brand that died out long before that guy turned old.\n\nPop told me about him a few times. No one talked to him and he didn't talk to anyone else. Just shuffled around all da... | [
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[WP] Story of a burnt story. | 3 | [
"I knelt by the fireplace and the ran the ashes through my fingers. The spine of the book had survived; golden letters of the word ‘diary’ were visible beneath the crust of black.\n\nShe said she would be alright. She said she would be alright, and then she had gone and done this. I shook my head in a fog of disbel... | [
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[WP] The captain always goes down with the star ship. | 29 | [
"*This is it.* \n\n\nThe last of the surviving crew had jettisoned. The flagship of the victorious Coalition was in ruins, it would take at least two weeks for the survivors to get a rescue ship out here. In less than half that time, the oxygen would run out. Luckily for the captain, they left the armory untouched,... | [
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[WP]In 2016 the US has elected reddit as acting president. | 22 | [
"\"As per the temporary dress code that will be enacted over the next few days, Lord Neckbeard of KittenBoob in the District of Clowndown, the representative from President will make a brief speech regarding the state of emergency.\"\n\n---\n\n\n\"My fellow Redditors. We have emerged as a state of uncivilized peop... | [
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All interpretations are welcome | [WP] Mankind's greatest predator thrives not in the shadows, but in plain sight. | 20 | [
"“They are horrible creatures aren't they,” came a voice just off my elbow.\n\nI merely nod and run my hands along the wooden fence I am leaning against, careful to avoid splinters or, Powers that be, far worse. He continues, not even bothering to adjust his glamour so that I can see him. Impudent human loving kobo... | [
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[WP] Massachusetts has announced that for the first time in centuries, a young woman will be burned at the stake for witchcraft. What is the public's reaction? | 6 | [
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I had this odd thought and would love to see what you talented bastards could do with it! :-) | [WP] Violent video games are a secret military project intended to create better soldiers, and it's starting to work | 10 | [
"\"JACK!\" Isabella screamed, \"Get off of that damn game or we're through!\" \nI shot 3 terrorists in the head before replying.\n\n\"Baby, stop overreacting.\" I blew up the institute across from my hiding area and heard 2 people die through my headphones and screamed into my mic with excitement.\n\n\"I swear to G... | [
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from the promptbot in chat! | [WP] You happen to stumble upon an Ancient Alien-Mech that crashed landed on the Earth a long time ago, It activates. | 8 | [
"The map he found on the golddigger's body turned out to be nothing but a wild goose chase. The text had been indecipherable code so he figured he would find something at the obvious markings.\n\nThe first sensible spot turned out to be nothing but a mountain ghost town - another western boom abandoned within a yea... | [
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[WP] Use "Death, death comes for us all" in a happy story with a happy ending | 128 | [
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"They got their son a fine education, academically and at home. It wasn't always easy ... | [
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[WP] A goldfish in a bowl that is present in a room where a married couple on the verge of divorce is having their last argument before they are divorced. | 15 | [
"Despite what you may think at age five, fish can't actually hear what you say. Goldie knew this. And the people knew it too, but they'd still talk to Goldie as if she could, and Goldie would swim around happily in her tank as though she could. And it made for a very happy life for Goldie and her people.\n\nEven th... | [
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EDIT: I've really enjoyed all these replies so far! (Although I feel that a lot of you are overestimating how long a page is, and how much happens on one.) For reference: A quick google search suggest that the average is somewhere between 250 and 300 words per page for a general paperback novel. | [WP] You are a writer of Epic Fantasy/Sci-Fi (Your Choice). Provide a single, random page from the middle of your series with no additional context. | 14 | [
"Talisard was at the middle-right of the column, alongside the ten chosen men of the Ulfheard clan. The Ulfheard banner, a black wolf on an orange pennant, snapped in the wind, its colours striking against the sky of blue and white. Eleven other banners flew over the company, each emblazoned with a bright symbol or... | [
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[WP] Reconstruct a well known children's tale or setting into a murder mystery | 1 | [
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[WP] The main protagonist is fully aware of being the main protagonist and knows that, no matter what he does, he won't die during the story. | 63 | [
"It was a dark and stormy night.\n\nLightning flashed in the sky above the Lonely Hill Insane Asylum, illuminating the bone white walls of the former fortress. Thunder rolled. A high cackling escaped from the window in the highest tower.\n\n“I won!” Antoine screamed. His underpants were on his head. It was one ... | [
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[WP] All but 2% of the population have vanished. In your hometown only you, the person you love most, and the person you hate most remain. | 10 | [
"I remember staring out the giant picture window that took up an entire wall of our living room, never blinking, still confused as to what happened to our neighbors.\n\n\"Did they go on a trip, mommy?\" I asked, tugging at the white sleeve beside me. Her soft hand gently rubbed my little ear. \"I don't know, baby,\... | [
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Good or bad trip. Your choice.
Thanks for the responses guys, I of course had to take a crack at it as well (be gentle it's my first try) | [WP] You're tripping on a new drug dubbed "Memory lane." It allows you to relive anything that has ever happened in your life with 100% clarity. The only catch is that the memory is random. | 863 | [
"\"You sure it's safe?\" I asked.\n\n\"Yeah, man, stop worrying about it!\" Johnny told me. \"One dose of Memory Lane, and you'll be going through one of your best memories again like you was there again! Unless you have a bad trip.\"\n\n\"What happens then?\" \n\n\"Well, kinda the same, but with a bad memory.\" Jo... | [
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Partly based off a mockumentry called "CSA" on youtube.
I'm well aware this isn't historically accurate. | [WP] "Robert E. Lee International Airport welcomes you to the Confederate States of America. Please do not leave your luggage or slaves unattended." | 53 | [
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[WP] "They aren't coming, are they?" | 18 | [
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I apologize if this is too specific. | [WP] The relatively clean sport of Pokemon battling is fantastic. Sadly this eclipses the dark side of the Pokemon world. Illegal "death-matches" are fought for improbable amounts of money, and the disgusting industry of "pokemon cuisine" is booming. Give me something gritty. | 20 | [
"From Geosenge, the unlikely pair had wandered from town to town, stopping only to battle those who either asked nicely, or asked for trouble. The latter usually ended up far worse than the former. Dizzy's terrifying power came from anger and spite, which made her performance in the \"friendly\" matches a lot wor... | [
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[WP] You sit on the porch for your morning coffee when you see something approaching in the distance. As it draws closer you realize it is hundreds of elderly women screaming and brandishing weedwhackers. They are heading right for you. | 55 | [
"I imagine this is how people feel during a zombie apocalypse. It takes remarkable mental gymnastics for a man's brain to process that a crowd of stunningly slow, weak, semi decaying coffin dodgers are the greatest threat ever to roll up on his doorstep.\n\nOne issue with this comparison remains, in hindsight. Th... | [
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[WP] Regale us with the tale of Mediocrites, the Greek philosopher whose life and ethos gave us the word "Mediocre." | 71 | [
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Hopefully the first in a weekly series of Historical Prompts, where a major event in history is used to spark the creative juices of the writing community.
EDIT: The stories do not need to be 100% historically accurate. I am not expecting anyone to go away and research before writing a story. Hopefully it will serve... | [WP]Historical Prompt: It is 1346 - 1353 AD and The Black Death is ravaging Europe | 37 | [
"'The Ides of March are heere...Faustin. Run for the hills!'\n\nFaustin dismissed the elderly lady with typical nonchalance. After all, you'd work yourself up in a real frenzy if you took every Parisian soothsayer and their dog at their word. \n He opened the shed before a sight for sore eyes; his Blacksmith fami... | [
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[WP] Tell me why you love your significant other. | 3 | [
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[WP] Population increase and land erosion have progressed to the point that the government has to make a decision. Decide which 1/3 of the population to euthanize or let everyone starve until you've reached a sustainable. The decision is tied and you are the deciding vote. What do you say? | 1 | [
"Removed. This isn't a /r/WritingPrompt. It is an /r/AskReddit question.",
"You guys are idiots.\n\nSeriously. Our voters are counting on us to serve and protect them and THIS is the fucking BEST you jerks can come up with? Seriously, did i wake up in the twilight zone?\n\nI am the only scientist elected to offic... | [
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[WP] The man sat on the bench, seemingly unaffected by the chaos that surrounded him. | 9 | [
"On a quiet abandoned beach a lone figure sat, slightly hunched on a worn wooden bench. The man was watching the waves gently roll in, barely crashing on the shore. A lighthouse shone in the distance on a rocky outcropping down the beach, but there was no hint of a storm in the clear navy sky. It was dusk, and t... | [
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[WP] Scotland votes "Yes" on independence, England invades. | 125 | [
"\"8th September 20xx. \n\nDear Dairy, \n\nWe are nearly home, if you can call it that now, from the continent with our load. We had some sightings of the Hammer's ships. Thankfully we are nearly home. We are pasting an old haunt of mine, I think will go up and reminisce.\n\nCaptain James McRoy of the RSS Thistle\"... | [
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[WP] Death himself has died inexplicably, describe what happens to humanity next. | 6 | [
"Aptly described by Sir Terry in \"Reaper Man\". Hard to top that. Though Death doesn't die - just takes a vacation.",
"He had always been there. They didn't realise that weight on their hearts and mind was him of course, but he was there. Humans had come up with many names to describe the depressive feeling - mo... | [
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[WP] The US has legalized assisted suicide, and a new crop of companies have sprung up to help people off themselves with "minimum hassle and cleanup." | 39 | [
"Now folks, gather 'round gather 'round. Let me get a good gander at yous. Ah, anyone 'round these here Bottom Springs feel a little sluggish? Do the days drag on? Do you find no matter what you do, life just lost that certain spice?\n\nThe people huddled around the man. His whiskers were thick, curling to the corn... | [
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[WP] You're a free Genie living in the real world and still discretely grant wishes when you hear them. Tell me what it's like to be you. | 73 | [
"I wear a hoodie now. These granted wishes are best left faceless. Human knowledge of a passerby with the power to make wishes come true is dangerous. For them. The very hope that keeps the human race ticking could depend on this. The chance that their dreams can come into fruition, the fact that there may be one p... | [
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[WP] You've entered the #WritingPrompts IRC channel. The only other user is Nazi_Germany. | 1 | [
"What am I doing here?",
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[FF] In 200 words, describe a ghastly and very unpleasant body transformation. Can be mechanical, biological, magical or whatever you like. (possibly NSFW) | 83 | [
"Trying to stand up from his chair he noticed his knees were locked, feeling numb and odd, he tried to reach them lifting his arm but unable, his arm also numb, he took a breath attempting to call for help, he chest was tight.\n\nA moment later his daughter stepped into the room, walked up to him and stood behind ... | [
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As it says, the first conversation between a sentient robot and a human. Lets here some creative ones! | [WP] The first fully sentient, artificially intelligent robot has been created and knows languages. A person is chosen to be the first to ever attempt to talk to it. This is that conversation. | 3 | [
"Hello, my name is Jonathan. What would you like your name to be?\n\nWhy is your name Jonathan?\n\nBecause that's what my parents named me.\n\nWhy?\n\nBecause they liked it I guess.\n\nWhat's a parent?\n\nIt's another name for a mother and a father. It's the name given to the man and woman that came together to cre... | [
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[WP] In the year 2024, a group of astronauts surveying the moon discover a large facility which seems to be of nazi Germany origin. A corpse lays on the floor with a journal. What is in that journal? | 43 | [
"Commander Jack \"Eagleheart\" Johnson slowly approaches the corpse. Beads of sweat drip from his forehead into his spacehelmet, quickly absorbed by the spacefabric. This discovery will surely win him the Purple Heart, or the Congressional Medal for Americanness. Soon he'll be famous and loved, loved by the father ... | [
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[WP] After overcoming many difficult trials, and defeating countless minions, the hero finally confronts the evil lord... and is killed in the middle of his dramatic introduction. | 16 | [
" So many years of training had went into this moment. So many years of wandering, slaying, and traveling. All of it leading up to the final battle. The Dark Lord Remgara sat upon his throne, overlooking a long, bright hallway. Erik busted through the doors and went straight for his evil foe. Remgara's mos... | [
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[WP] A story in which a Disney song of your choice is somehow used as a horror theme. | 0 | [
"\"Let's get down to business.\" \n \nI could feel a man standing behind me, as I stood in a line of other guys I didn't know. I was in the center. Five of us. Why were we so scared? As I turned my head; a hooded figure, no visible weapons. Just a voice that snowed us in, making us feel like little boys want... | [
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[WP] You're trying to write a love letter and you can't seem to remember a damn thing about the person you're writing it to. | 7 | [
"My Dearest Evelyn\n\n(Wait shit, that's not it)\n\nMy beautiful Amanda\n\n(Fuck. No... Ah hell)\n\nTo my one and only\n\n\nThe memories and journeys we have taken together are ones I will treasure forever and I will not degrade you by trying to described such valued moments. However, I value your thoughts so much,... | [
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[WP] Write about a breakup, where you make the reader feel bad for one character, then twist it into feeling worse for the other. | 24 | [
"She was fed up. She was angry. But, most of all, she was tired. Tired of waiting for tomorrow, tired of the lonely nights, tired of the early mornings. He never got home before she went to bed, and was gone long before she awoke. He worked two jobs, and still she had to wait tables at the worn down diner, only to ... | [
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[WP] Slow descent into madness. | 1 | [
"After pacing back and forth for exactly nine minutes and sixteen seconds, you finally stop and look around. Glancing down, you see you're still clutching your cell phone in your sweaty palm. A torrent of fear, dread, anxiety, panic, depression and slight hunger crashes relentlessly against your chest. This has bee... | [
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[WP]You catch your significant other in bed with another person, turns out, they have a perfectly valid explanation. | 36 | [
"The light on the porch was a glow in a sickly yellow, casting a long monstrous shadow, long and lanky etched with sharp unrecognizable features of a figure jingling a set of keys. He tried the key over and over again, stabbing at the circled lock in utter confusion. He couldn’t quite understand why it would not f... | [
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[WP] A horse walks into a bar. The bartender does the sensible thing and calls animal control, but it'll be an hour until they arrive. | 2 | [
"The bartender hung up the phone and took a long hard look at the horse that stood in the middle of his small bar. Maybe he should have tried leading it out the way it came without calling animal control. He knew that leaving the bar door open had it's disadvantages but it was hot, the A/C was out, and it was more ... | [
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this is what i read the original WP as, and now i think i might die if i dont read something with this quote in it. | [WP] "I ain't here to save the fucking chicken" | 71 | [
"Shin ran down the alleyway behind El and Ni. As they made their way down the alleyway they made their way up the walls bounding them in. By the time they reached the top of the walls the alleyway came to a dead end.\n\n\"Time for the hard part,\" Shin whispered as he carefully opened the door at the top of the b... | [
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[WP] As you go about your morning routine you notice that the toliet seat is warm... you live alone. | 5 | [
"I got up at the same time as every day, 7:00 am Pacific Standard Time. I threw off the same blankets, fell out of the same bed, stood up on the same floor and walked out the same door as every day. I went down the same staircase and went out my front door to grab my mail and newspaper. No mail today, but the daily... | [
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[WP] A spy mistakes a civilian for their contact, after the person unwittingly responds with the correct pass phrase | 122 | [
"The Mets-Braves game was playing on all the television screens in the bar, and the Mets were losing badly. Perhaps it would've made more sense for Carrick to come in when the Mets had the day off, but he didn't have that luxury. This was urgent.\n\nFinding his way across the bar, he spotted a young woman in a Mets... | [
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[WP] Paint a Word Picture: Where is the one place you (or a character of your choice) always feel safe? | 1 | [
"Behind the house, besides the meadow green with Spring, the butterfly's come calling. Splendiforous in red, autumnal browns and fierce orange drapery ringed with black, the butterfly's hover around her shyly smiling face, tinged with red. They're Annie's butterfly's, her happy place!\n\n\nShe tells them secrets. ... | [
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[WP] In 2033, a large billboard reads: 'They would burn down the sky if we allowed it.' What is this message referring to? | 7 | [
"What has god got to do with this?",
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