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or 'RA' | [WP] Your first time at Redditholics Anonymous. | 2 | [
"\"It's like nothing else in the world. It satisfies me. It entertains me. I feel needed. I can't stop.\" I stand up and say at my first Redditholics Anonymous meeting.\n\n\"I know what you mean.\" A small voice peeps from the circle. A young girl about 18 with long blond hair and small frame says. She clears her t... | [
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Yes I know its technically 'furry' but dumb animals couldn't feel horror/realize, and it seems like such an interesting prompt take on 'you are what you eat'. | [WP] You are what you eat: across the world, humans turn into humanoid versions of the animals they loved to eat the most. To everyone's horror, some stayed human. | 234 | [
"Worldwide everyone was shocked and saddened that the vegans had been proven correct. ",
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"Beth had *changed*. There was no better word to describe it. She had sprouted wings behind her arms and a bright orange beak now stood in place of her mouth. I was horrified. Breathing hard, I pinched myself... | [
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[WP] Satan is going through a mid-life crisis. | 12 | [
"\"Sir?\" Azazel timidly popped his horned head into the lush, polished office. Satan took notice and looked up from his coloring book. \n\n\"Yes Azazel?\"\n\n\"Oh, uh, mamm?\"\n\n\"Please Azazel, one is not so formal with a child...\"\n\nAzazel's cloven feet clopped nervously has he shifted his weight. Satan had r... | [
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[WP] Adolf Hitler rises from the dead to interrupt a Holocaust deniers meeting. | 340 | [
"Hitler felt he'd calmed a little in death. His fervent passion had settled in the slow drift through the void. The war had faded out. His country had rehabilitated itself while he'd been gone. It wasn't the empire he'd been hoping for, but he could stand the reality of things now. Temperance was important, he'd le... | [
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[WP] You're a mute. You've communicated through paintings your whole life. You're on your death bed, and your pencil breaks. | 17 | [
"*Scratch scratch scratch*. He kept on scratching on that piece of paper. A Masterpiece was blossoming. A depiction of all the life time achievements. A chronological order of all memorable events, from the first time he tied his shoe lace all by himself, up until he held his grandson in his arms. All the thanks gi... | [
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When you're bored time literally slows down and when you're having fun times flies, how do you notice and utilise this? | [WP] Your perception of time affects the progression of time | 14 | [
"Dancing on the grass, the mottled pattern was an infinity of interest. The sound of the wind was a strange symphony that had stretched unknown distances to be there around him. Everything encased him within its fascination. The bark of the tree was pressing on his back, but he couldn't quite read its patterns; lac... | [
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[WP] There is a serial killer on the loose, but instead of killing people, he kills egos. Kanye West is his next target. | 77 | [
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"“You know,” Shia Labeouf bowed his head and spoke into the microphone, his voice low. “I think some of you might be right. I’m not that talented, and I can be kind of an asshole sometimes.” He paused, swallowing. “I think the only reason I got famous in the first place was my looks. I don’t deserve ... | [
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I did a short story on this exact idea and would love to hear some unique spins on it! | [WP] The year is 2064 and you're about to knock on the door of your next "assignment." The door opens and you're heart drops - it's a six year old girl. This is the first time the government has assigned you a child to kill for population control. | 95 | [
"\"Hello Little Girl, Whats your name?\"\n\nI already know is Jane the report had mentioned it but had left out the age probably just a clerical error it still happens now and then\n\n\"My name is J..\"\n\nHer sentence is cut short but a short popping sound and her head snaps back as the kinetic force breaks her ne... | [
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[WP] You are an inanimate object that has just become sentient, write about your awakening without explicitly stating what you are. | 23 | [
"I never believed in reincarnation, heaven or hell. Sometimes I'm not sure which of these I'm in even if that's what this is. It's been six months so far *living* this way because it's occasionally agonizing.\n\nThe snow outside piles up against the windows, doors and walls. The fireplace keeps me warm but it's hyp... | [
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Or another set of four elements, if you prefer. Just make it different from the usual. | [WP] The four elements change as the world does. In the far future, Earth, Air, Fire and Water have become Metal, Smoke, Lightning, and Oil. | 264 | [
"My eyes dimmed in and out of consciousness. My breath was ragged on the floor of the brig. It was pre-fabricated steel, powerful, sturdy. The coldness of the sea was conducted through it and chilled me to the bone. A dim light lit the room, flickering every now and then. It was freezing in here. A double knock and... | [
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[WP] Write a poem that captures your current mood. | 11 | [
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"Eyes feel like lead, half drunk maybe half dead, watching a X-men movie, I can't tell witch one, they all seem to blend, the clocks ticking two but I'm far from zen. ",
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[WP] Poof! Suddenly there's a one inch tall woman standing on your desk! She explains she's from the future and that objects shrink when traveling back in time and grow when going forward. She asks you to come with her to the future! | 2 | [
"You immediately follow her forward in time but alas, you are crushed under the weight of your own enormity.\n\n\"Oh my god that one was BRUTAL\" announced the now regular sized woman to the stadium audience. \"Who's ready for another!?\"",
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[WP] Write a story from the perspective of a handgun with a suicidal owner. | 2 | [
"When I was made, I always thought I would be use in a war zone like my grandfather (wait, do I have a grandfather?). Maybe as a drug lord's side arm, even that gun under his pillow would be nice. You know what? Even a cop gun would work. I use to have dreams! Now I'm in this cowards hand, pressed against his oily ... | [
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[WP] 21st Century Hero | 1 | [
"Rule 5 on the sidebar, no homework assignments allowed.",
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Started as a [Shower Thought](http://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/) but quickly turned to a [Writing Prompt](http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/). Can't wait to see where people take this.. | [WP] You wake up with the newfound ability to communicate with your internal organs. They have asked for a meeting. | 229 | [
"I woke up sharply, it feels like my nose is is being stabbed. Opening my eyes I see pink and black. Then two green eyes open up its my cat letting me know she is out of food. Rubbing the sleep out of my eyes I slowly creak out of bed as my back pops and complains. Once there is food in her bowl again she promptly ... | [
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[WP] Human experiments are now allowed to be tested on death row inmates. A serial killer gets superhuman powers from a test. | 30 | [
"He's still in the prison, of all places. I land just outside the blown out wall, where just a few hours before nearly a hundred super powered baddies, and three times that many run of the mill criminals, had escaped, scattering to the four winds. The Wardens and the other do-gooder types have their hands full deal... | [
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[WP] Overestimating a common criminal he believes to be a mastermind, a detective with a spotless record connects clues that aren't there, uncovering something he shouldn't have. | 121 | [
"“This is it, Fitzroy.” Detective Ray Abbott leveled the barrel of his gun at the man’s head. “End of the line.”\n\nFitzroy had his hands up and was teetering perilously close to where the floor stopped. The building was under construction and it was one hell of a fall into the spare beams below. “Dude, I give, I g... | [
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[WP] A divine being visits an atheist. By the end of the conversation, the atheist is a believer, and the divine being is an atheist. | 102 | [
"\"So you're telling me that it's all true. The bright lights, the pearly gates, all of it.\"\n\n\"Yes,\" the being exclaimed. \"All that you could ever want is there for you. The dog that died when you were ten is curled up waiting for you. Every piece of entertainment is before you and you have eternity to enjoy ... | [
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[WP] You suddenly realize your existence. | 11 | [
"Du, du du du... here, there, up, down, left, right , everywhere.\nJust... there. Always been that way, always will, probably.\n\nNothing changes. Ever. It is eternal.\n\n\nDu, du du du... here, there, up, down, left, right.\nJust... there. Always been that way, always will, probably.\n\nWhat.... is here?\n\n\nDu, ... | [
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[WP]God has tasked an angel to guard someone in a way that can always be attributed to random chance. Shortly after, every criminal overlord puts a massive price on that person's head. | 35 | [
"There once was a thug named Joe; \nHis boss said, \"Time to go \nGet it done \nWhile he's young \nBefore he'd even know.\" \n\nSo back in time Joe went \nWith a bullet and cold temperament. \nBy random chance, \nOff the wall it glanced, \nAnd slew Bruce Wayne's parents. ",
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[WP] Kids in your culture have been shielded from witnessing or knowing about the existence of romantic relationships while growing up. You have never heard of sex (or any kind of romantic/sexual physical touch). You and another person begin to fall in love for the first time. | 2 | [
"Wow this kind of got away from me. This is also my first post to the sub. Enjoy!\n\nPART ONE:\n\nI am eight years old. The wind greets my face as we step out into the field. My dress is too long and I tie the tresses in a slapdash knot at my side, revealing the true self underneath the frills and hazy corn-coloure... | [
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[WP] Write a trailer for a documentary on humans done by an alien species | 3 | [
"We remember them as violent, barbaric warmongers. \nBringers of death that spread like a virulent plague.\n\nOur history will forever be blemished with the memory of their existence.\n\nBut were they truly the monsters that history has described?\n\nFor the first time, we take an in depth look at the dangerous sp... | [
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Inspiration:
http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/2x4wjc/first_human_head_transplant_could_happen_in_two/ | [WP] Near future. Rich, fat, vain people have started abducting gym rats/fit people to steal their bodies. | 5 | [
"It doesn't work very well, to be honest. \n\nI mean, they can get the van right up next to you, but even then they have to take a minute to get their breath back after opening the doors.\n\nI once had a guy try to launch himself from the side of a van, apparently aiming to land on top of me. It probably would hav... | [
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[WP] Set in a fantasy world, in a pub, and at midnight. | 2 | [
"\"LAST CALL\" yells the bartender at the top of his lungs. There is only one other person in the bar. Sitting in the backmost seat, Lix looks over the empty pint glasses on the table. There are seven of them. This is confirmation enough that it is indeed midnight but he checks his watch for further confirmation. Y... | [
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[WP] Through some sort of accident, a human becomes a God. All other Gods became such in the same manner. | 28 | [
"“Gods? I like to think that gods are ideas un-incarnate.” My Grandfather stared at me, as if this short explanation was enough— slowly grinding his teeth— a habit which always made his jaw seem mechanical, like he was the tin man. My Gramps could be gnomic sometimes; it was through no lack of knowledge or patience... | [
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[WP] You are marooned on an island. Desperate to be rescued you put a message seeking help into a bottle and late at night as the tide is going out you hurl it into the ocean. You wake up the next morning to find one hundred thousands bottles, each holding there own message washed up on the shore. | 127 | [
"Plop. Plop.\n\nThe red drops slowly oozed together until they formed a pool in the rock large enough for Alex to dip his reed into. He winced with each sound; the pain from the open cut had passed an hour ago but the sound was enough to cause him mental anguish. Knowing that each drop took with it a bit of his lif... | [
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[WP] A telemarketer calls and offers you something oddly specific to your current situation. | 5 | [
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What do you discover? How? | [WP] Sleeping is an abnormal behavior. You are the first to break the cycle. | 9 | [
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I recently had the idea that it would be really fun to turn really bad TV shows/movies/books into something awesome. "What could have been" type tales.
I'm new to writing for pleasure in general, so after coming across this subreddit I was wondering if some of you wouldn't mind giving me a completely random and proba... | [WP] New to this, looking for completely random prompts (more details inside) | 2 | [
"It's Gettysburg, July 1st, 1863. Thousands of Union and Confederates are about to do battle. Meanwhile, you've discovered something that could decide the outcome of the battle.",
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[WP] You go back in time to be the leader of the cavemen but most of them are still smarter than you. | 16 | [
"\"Who are you and what are you doing on my lawn?\"\n\nThe man asking this had just witnessed me appear in a time machine, from twenty thousand years in the future. The force of my arrival had caused a shockwave that uprooted an oak outside his cave. And I stepped out wearing a pliable titanium stillsuit. And this ... | [
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[WP] You get an Amber Alert on your cell phone and find out it's you. | 1 | [
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[WP] A married couple secretly invent time travel. They travel back to 50 BC, but the portal takes them to different locations on earth. This is the story of how they found each other. | 115 | [
"Yep, there she is. Five feet away from me. I feared the trip might dump us off in the exact same physical space and all our bits would explode from the solidifying into one another. But she came up with the buffer and the dilation matrix. Always good with the details compared to my big picture thinking.\n\nI'm fid... | [
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[WP] You've just been admitted to the Pennsylvania State Penitentiary. They say you have 24 hours til your execution. What do you want the world to know before you die? | 3 | [
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[WP] You awaken to a phone call from your spouse who has been dead for months. Half-asleep, you pick up the phone and drowsily begin a normal, casual conversation. Slowly, your brain comes into focus as you realize what you're doing. | 5 | [
"(Part 1)\nIt had been months since Nick had passed away. One would think that after a while it wouldn’t hurt as much, right? How I wished that was the case for me but even now, months later, it still hurt as badly as the day that I found out. Killed in action and I couldn’t even see my husband’s body for the last ... | [
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What is this "hotmail.com"? Will you ever see your friend again? Now that you think about it, you know very little about your friend's past. | [WP] It's the early 1930s, and a good friend of yours is moving away. To keep in touch, your friend gives you their contact details: ******@hotmail.com. | 2 | [
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Let this be a key moment in your story. It can be about anything :)
| [WP]It was not what I had pictured | 3 | [
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[WP] In the future, anyone can now sign up for a procedure that will selectively erase memories, so that they can relive anything they want to for the "first time". All is well until the bizarre side effects of altering memory begin to manifest... | 25 | [
"The first thing you have to understand, of course, is that we couldn't achieve a full wipe.\n\nThe mind doesn't work that way, apparently - there will always be ghosting, there'll be fragments and pieces left over. Like overwriting an old tape too many times, wiped memories sometimes bleed through.\n\nWe know that... | [
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[WP]A person finds a running stop watch and stops it. | 15 | [
"\"Hm.\" I picked up the watch. It was a dinky little thing, cheap yellow plastic but clearly well-loved - although the strap had broken, it had been repaired with string.\n\nI noticed that the stop watch function was running. Didn't that run down the battery faster? I should probably stop it before I turned it in ... | [
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[WP] A man decided to have his favorite cereal for breakfast. What happened next will fill you with horror. | 3 | [
"In went the cereal. Lifting the milk up so that it fell into the bowl just like in the ads. John couldn't wait, The bowl contained the sweet taste of childhood and it was all his. His kids were not around to bury their faces in the bowl or nag for a refill. He had the place to himself for the next few days.\n\nThe... | [
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[WP] Two sidekicks (one good, the other evil) find common ground in a shared hobby. | 30 | [
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[WP] You discover the meaning of life | 1 | [
"I just stood there, in the middle of the road - lost - although I could clearly see the directions above me.\n\nThis morning I got up and readied for school, and then I woke up out here. I can't even imagine how I got here! It's nowhere near home, do i even have a home anymore?\n\nI felt sick. Imagining how horrib... | [
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[wp] Love can now be harnessed as powerful, clean energy source, but it's used up and can't be replaced. Write a story about a mother selling her love to save her child. | 31 | [
"\"It's ok, sweetheart,\" the pleasant nurse said, as I squirmed in my seat. It was just a preliminary test, I knew, but I was still nervous. I mean what would I be like without it? How would I change?\n\n\"Now imagine,\" she said, her voice gentle and soothing, \"something that you love.\"\n\n I pictured my son, B... | [
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Inspired by [this] ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brad-meltzer/the-presidents-greatest-s_b_807547.html ) post on TIL (not sure how to link reddit posts on mobile so just linking the article).
| [WP] As is custom, President Obama leaves a letter in the oval office for the next President, who then proceeds to destroy it. What does it say? | 6 | [
"You can conquer heights unknown to the likes of men.\n\nYou can go where no man has gone before.\n\nYou can be the savior of our future. \n\nBut you must be willing to give up everything.",
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[WP]The sky is purple today, that's what the people wanted. | 4 | [
"\"Huh. Purple today.\"\n\nJacob lived off the grid, out in the woods. Away from them.\n\nHe could escape the lottery, and the pop singer contests, and the murderball matches. The popularity contest pseudo-politics, celebutante trivia, and 24/7 soap-opera-cum-reality-shows didn't reach this far out.\n\nNeither d... | [
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Do you go full Crusoe? Do you die dramatically? Do you survive and escape? Do you get eaten by sharks? Why are you there? Is John Donne wrong about no man being an island? | [WP] You find yourself stranded on a deserted island | 0 | [
"When my life raft washed up on the island, I had recognized the place. Henderson Island, UNESCO world heritage site. Shit. This was bad.\n\nFortunately I had equipped my life-raft kit with a hatchet, bow saw, knife, and thousand foot spool of para-cord. A flint and striker, and the inflatable de-salinator were ... | [
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Your piece should have two (or more) characters walking through the same place (like a corridor, or a garden) describing what they experience in the first person, giving insight into what sort of a person they are. | [WP] Describe two characters through their reactions to the same event | 13 | [
"Today was cloudy, the kind where it seems like the heavens will burst at the seams with a torrential downpour. Everyone in the Shacks seemed to take notice. They all crowded under awnings or the cover of buildings, casting wary glances upwards every few moments. Their mouths remained in taut lines, lips white.\n\n... | [
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[WP] Everyone knows a single bite from a zombie means infection and death. Describe the harrowing moment when a biter latches its teeth on you in the middle of a fight. | 6 | [
"I felt the shrill of fear before I felt the pain. But first, I saw it. The thing had been a child once. It had pierced my right shin with the pointy teeth of a toddler. From the moment I saw it to the moment I realized what had happened an eternity seemed to pass. And during that eternity, all I had the time to th... | [
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[WP] Ages ago the super advanced human race left Earth for the stars, we are the ones deemed not good enough to go with. | 8 | [
"I poke through the rubble tiredly. I had been traveling for days looking for any food that might be left over. It was a futile effort, as most of the resources had been taken when the others left. I continued forward, getting more and more hopeless at each passing minute. Finally, I stumbled into a garden. I looke... | [
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[WP] You are the sole human who can freeze time at will, however, every time you do it, there is a 1% chance of it killing you slowly over 24 hours. This time that you use your ability, the 1% chance is not on your side. | 6 | [
"The clock ticked.\n\nI didn't resist.\n\nI was ready.\n\nEverything became steady.\n\nNothing moved.\n\nI fell and rolled.\n\nI was very cold.\n______________________\nThat sucks but it's my first poem. Critics please!",
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[WP] Describe a day in the life of the Other Devil, who rules over Hell's less extreme counterpart, Heck. | 77 | [
"\"Miss Betty Rae is outside again sir.\"\n\n\"You've got to be kidding me. Show her in, then move my eight-thirty to... Never mind big in her mother in three minutes.\"\n\n\"Miss Betty. How horribly predictable of you.\"\n\n\"Why must you be so rude? My lord. I'm just here to clear up this mistake -\"\n\n\"You've ... | [
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[WP] A spaceship is passing by our solar system. It is so large that earth is merely the size of a dime. We can't make enough ruckus to get noticed until one day, someone has the perfect idea. | 163 | [
"\"A nuclear bombardment.\"\n\n\"What in the actual fuck?\"\n\n The current president of the United States has been collaborating these past few weeks trying to grab the attention of a nearby spaceship. However, the spaceship simply stalks the solar system has all of Earth's governments do pretentious acts. Some of... | [
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I saw this line in a recent Askreddit thread, thought it could make for a range of scenarios. I also like the one sentence style of writing prompts. | [WP] "It was fourteen years ago, and I still dream about him sometimes." | 8 | [
" Air filled my lungs as I woke from yet another nightmare. Sweat trickled down my neck as the orchestra in my chest came to a slow. \n\n*Fuck... I can’t take this anymore.*\n\n I made my way over to the keyboard next to my bed. The ground was littered with meal supplement bars. I don’t care about what I eat an... | [
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130 years ago aliens detected large amounts of free oxygen molecules in our atmosphere through their new extrasolar telescope. This being a strong indication of life they sent a probe to earth carrying several autonomous drones to explore our planet and search for intelligent life. | [WP] First contact with aliens that are not much more advanced than we are. | 27 | [
"1200 hrs. CET. \"Samokhod 2\" made it's third orbital fly-over around Bgd-156, a rocky planet in the proverbial Goldilocks zone in our Milky Way galaxy. From its initial data, we could safely deduce that the planet was, in fact, populated. The alien life-forms were still illusive in our scans, but energy signature... | [
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[WP] All around the world, people begin to disappear in droves, reducing our population to a scant and sparse few. 500 years later, we discover where they went. | 12 | [
"\"I'm sorry\" she giggled \"But we just couldn't help ourselves!\" Like the rest of her kind, she had the body of a porn-star and the face of an angel. Her gorgeous body was draped with the same amount of material as a handkerchief but she pulled the look off as demurely as Audrey Hepburn at the monaco regatta.\n\... | [
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[WP] Write a short story using as MANY clichés as you can. | 20 | [
"Once upon a time.\n\nThere was a beautiful woman locked away in a horrible castle. The castle was on top of highest mountain, guarded by a fire breathing dragon, and a magical spell that caused her never to age. \n\nThis legend was told as a bedtime story to boys and girls for generations. Most of them thought it ... | [
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Your choice... | [WP] Make something sound worse and worse, sentence by sentence, until in the last sentence, it seems fine. Or vice versa. | 2 | [
"A hundred people stood in solemn silence while the priest spoke. When he finished some shed tears while others simply began talking amongst themselves. It seemed strange to me in that moment that we could all be talking to one another so casually while a corpse lay exposed not twenty feet from me. I think my grea... | [
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[wp] Tell a zombie sorry from the perspective of the zombie. | 0 | [
"Post removed, it's a copy-cat of this prompt from 5 days ago:\n\nhttp://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/2y6ley/wp_zombie_apocalypse_from_the_perspective_of_the/",
"The silent drip of the bursted pipe splashed upon my nose, so white\nI haven't seen the sun in years the darkness no longer holds my fear.\n... | [
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. | [WP] Tell a murder through the killers POV. | 2 | [
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[WP] The price was set at eight bags of gold, twelve bags of silver, and twenty fine horses. | 6 | [
"Against the din of the Mystic Traveling Gwama Band in the center of it all, it was hard to make out every word leaving the worn tin megaphone of Leighton Otalman, The Story Bard of Caldertown. \n\n\"...And so the price was set at eight bags of gold, twelve bags of silver, and twenty-four fine horses to the man who... | [
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Haikus about you
True or false is fine with us
It's just a poem
| [FF] Haiku You | 4 | [
"I love reading books \nHaiku is pretentious \nWhat am I doing?",
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"Lazy is not me\n\nWhat is personality?\n\nDo I have a choice?\n",
"Day in, and day out\n\nAlone with my Xbox One\n\nMaster Chief is here",
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[WP] You are immortal, except for one odd weakness. | 8 | [
"It was morning again. I only remembered the year of my birth now: 1784. \n\nI picked up my favorite \"Obama is a reptile\" sign and walked out to the street corner to rant for another day.\n\nIt was tough faking mental illness, but as far as I could tell, I only aged on days when people took me seriously.",
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**EDIT:** Well I really thought this would get some great stories but it looks like its starting to fall to the wayside. I'm not sure what the policy is on re-posting WP's but I think I'll give it a while and re-post in a few weeks to see if we can get some more stories out of this.
Big shout out to /u/missmaia for th... | [WP] For as long as you can remember you've worn eye glasses. Your parents always made sure you had them on and you formed the habit. One day you forget them and you realize you can see something no one else can. | 50 | [
"\"Still 30-40 vision, Jacob. No change.\"\n\nDoctor Collins smiled sheepishly at Jacob. This was the third time that Jacob had been to the eye doctor. He kept insisting to his parents that his eyesight was getting better, and that the doctor would tell him that he didn't need glasses anymore. He had been eating ca... | [
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[WP] Scientists have designed a spacesuit that never runs out of oxygen. You are wearing one of these suits, and through some event, are now drifting through space helplessly. | 9 | [
"Have you ever tried punching yourself to death through an almost impenetrable helmet with padded fists? I have, I've had a lot of time to try a lot of things. That particular experiment didn't result in any noteworthy conclusions, my hands were coddled by their ample padding and my head safe in this stupid smart-p... | [
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[WP] The hero can't figure out how to stop the villain. The solution seems obvious to you, an innocent bystander. | 163 | [
"Gazelle Man was looking at the TV hanging just above the warehouse door we just entered. A live feed of the Puzzler's face, hidden mostly by shadow, was playing on it. Inside the warehouse was several raised platforms, seemingly set up with a different difficult device that Gazelle Man would no doubt have to solve... | [
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[WP]Despite thousands of sapient species in the universe, only humans can comprehend the idea of "war." This fact, and Earth being the only planet without severe overpopulation because of it, makes humans "exotic." You're an alien tour guide, trying to sell tours to Earth. | 75 | [
"*Beep Beep Beep*\r\rThe indicator pinged away as the ship made an attempt to flee this damned planet's atmosphere. All these years Gorkak came, he was never detected. Many didn't understand what was going on, the tourists in the back quizzically looked about as they asked me a dozen questions.\r\rI was sweating fr... | [
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[WP] The zombie outbreak starts, but the first (and only) zombie is an overweight man that can't catch anyone. | 454 | [
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i.e. Job interviews and school | [WP] In the future, everyone is genetically enhanced to be perfect. How does everyday competition to get ahead in the world go down? | 7 | [
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[WP] You discover that the rule "I can't see you you can't see me" actually applies to you. What do you do? | 11 | [
"My big toe encountered a dining room chair, and I crumpled to the ground. The pain almost made me open my eyes. It would have been a critical mistake. \n\nThe first rule of home invasion is this: don't be seen. \n\nThe second of home invasion was unique to me, as far as I knew: keep your eyes closed.\n\nIf I c... | [
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[WP] You are about to evaluate a patient at a mental hospital. When you open the door to the patient's room, you see that the patient sitting and waiting to be evaluated is you. | 24 | [
"\"Hey there twin! Long time no see... like... since birth. How have you been?\"\n\nI was trying to keep calm, and I told the funniest thing I could think of, with a face looking like that thing my kid calls \"bad pokerface\". He said, \"Wow, that's so accurate that it's creepy\", with the exact same creeped-out ba... | [
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It only sends messages to the past. It's not possible to send information into the future, silly. | [WP] You've finally managed to build it-- a machine that sends messages to the past. You power it up and immediately begin getting message from your future self. | 29 | [
"You are sixteen, \n\nI am thirty.\n\nI have seen such wondrous things, \n\nDragons in the skin of man,\n\nBattles for a dead king. \n\nYou don't understand right now, \n\nYou won't want to hear the truth,\n\nThat the greatest moments in your life,\n\nWon't be your youth.",
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[WP] The Nazis won WW2 in 1952 when they nuked Washington DC and New York city, they now control the entire planet, describe the day for an average citizen in 2015 | 213 | [
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[WP]A man approaches you and says "You have been given a great gift, a 'super power' if you will. I cannot tell you what it is, but when the time comes, you will know your gift, and how to use it." Today, that day has come | 55 | [
"I've had beatings before, but this one is the worse by far. The blows kept coming from up above like a slow jackhammer. I kept my forearm up and most of the blows are glancing, but I'm wearing out and he's getting more and more accurate. I can only turtle up so much with this guy on my chest. The weight on my ... | [
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[WP] You find a book in a library, it details everything that you will and have done | 1 | [
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[WP] You wake up in a dungeon with a note on a corpse next to you. | 5 | [
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Today I saw a goose. Thought of the game, then thought of Reddit. | [WP] Write about the most high stakes game of "Duck, Duck, Goose" ever played. | 94 | [
"\"All right men, we're going to *play a game*.\" Men. It was sarcasm; we all knew he saw us as animals. \"I assume you all know *Duck, Duck, Goose*? You must have played when you were *kiddies*.\" We all sat, eyes on the ground. He forced us into a circle. \"Well,\" he pulled out a gun, and stroked it, eyes cold. ... | [
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[WP] Every person has a clock that counts down the time to their deaths. You see that your time is running out and you prepare to leave this world. At the final moment the clock stops at 0:01. | 12 | [
"Tick tock, tick tock. We all had one, a timepiece that is! I received my countdown October 5th 2054 on my 18th Birthday. I was terrified to learn my death date and like most people I initially hid it away, well until my curiosity got the better of me. The US government issued them to everyone when they became an a... | [
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[WP] The reason earth has never been contacted by intelligent alien life is that it has been under a longstanding quarantine. Today the quarantine is lifted, you learn why... | 429 | [
"I already posted one, but I had a short, funny idea:\n\nI awoke with the worst hangover of my life. \"Rumplemintz. Never again,\" I muttered to myself. I never remembered my room being this bright. I couldn't see a damned thing. \"Your kind has been cut off from all other sentient beings for too long,\" sung an an... | [
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Yeah | [WP] Genetic scientists accidentally create an actual Boogeyman. It has escaped. | 11 | [
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[WP] You wake up to find that every time you walk through a door, it takes you back to your bedroom. | 3 | [
"\"This can't be right,\"\n\nMr. Higgins was still rubbing the crust out of the edges of his eyes with his knuckles in the early morning. He was on his way to the bathroom when he realized he really wasn't on his way. He opened and walked out of the bedroom door again, only to stumble back into a view of his bedroo... | [
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[WP] A big wave of suicides happens all around the world. You end up realizing that they were all astronomers and you just bought your first telescope. | 109 | [
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[WP] In the middle of the night, a teenager leaves the safety of her parents' home to go exploring. She finds something that makes her glad she did | 10 | [
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I left the "surprising result" up to you. | [WP] Scientists discover an algorithm for predicting a person's date of death with 95% confidence. When you finally decide to enter your parameters into the algorithm you see a surprising result. | 4 | [
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[WP] Humanity isn't an intelligent race, or an intuitive race, or a fast race, or even a violent race. But it is the longest lasting race in the galaxy. | 27 | [
"Cockroaches... Humanity is the galaxy's cockroach. They spread like a plague and are blasted difficult to eradicate. Not because human populations are uniquely tough in any way. Humans in fact are the weakest of all race. But, in the time it takes to eradicate a solar system you can be certain another dozen worlds... | [
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[WP] God Sends Jesus back to Earth not to end all humnity but to present his new book: The Bible 21st Century Edition. | 28 | [
"Jay lay against the wall and tried to drone out the inane chatter of the people walking by him, it was the height of summer on London's busiest high street. he could barely make out the dial tone as he keyed the numbers into his phone. \n\"Alan!\" Jay screamed into his phone, like a man screaming at dog on his la... | [
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[WP] You have an imaginary friend. But your imaginary friend thinks you are its imaginary friend. Which one is real? | 15 | [
"“Imol shh, mom will find us!” a child’s whispered voice “If she catches us we lose the game”\nImol looks over “I know that Sam! Don’t forget it was your fault last time.” Imol watches as Sam peeks out of the closet “The coast is clear quick lets change hiding spots before she catches us” The girls sneak out of the... | [
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[WP] 50 years from now the Earth is in a synchronous rotation around the Sun, resulting in all of Earth's inhabitants populating one half of the Earth. This story is about the brave people who dared enter the Dark side of the Earth... | 77 | [
"A drop of sweat dripped onto the rusted and dented metal casing of the generator Daryl was packing. Sweat was going to be the only wash anything was going to get anymore, since the water dried up. \n\nGetting way too hot, thought Daryl as he continued to prepare the group's equipment for their exodus. It was def... | [
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[WP] You're an astrobiologist on Ganymede, and you can't ignore the data any more: the third planet from the sun looks more and more likely to support life. | 56 | [
"“Look at these numbers. What do you think? Can the planet support life?!” I asked with excitement. The professor looked at the screen thoughtfully.\nI had been working on this for months. My Doctoral Advisor, Dr. Harklight had told me that it was a dead end. He said that the carbon dioxide levels were too high to ... | [
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[WP] Your an evil genius bent on world domination. However your evil organisation is crippled by general, mundane office drama/problems. | 47 | [
"You've gone over the plans. The instructions are quite simple, and written in a way that children can comprehend them. Recordings were made, and dispersed to the lot of them. Probably not the smartest idea you've had, but who could imagine that these types of problems would be common among career criminals. Th... | [
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[WP] Aliens arrive on earth and give us clear indications that they aren't here to invade but instead are here to help our race survive. | 5 | [
"The cloaked saucer landed in the center of the Pentagon before uncloaking. Hands raised, they departed their ship holding a white flag. Behind safe walls, they spoke to Congress about how their scientists analyzed the trajectory of Earth's atmosphere and recognized dangerous toxins polluting the air. Toxins that e... | [
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6
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[WP] A comedian must convince a court that a joke he told was funny. | 230 | [
"\"Don't move mister Andrews. Don't move! And not a word\". \"Your honor, this is a misunderstanding. I'm innocent. I swear. I haven't done anything wrong, I'm being framed. Help me!\" I tried to prove my innocence. No one understands. I didn't tell any joke. I stopped by this small town and I was in a store buying... | [
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[WP] You try to make a deal with the Devil, he refuses your soul as payment. | 14 | [
"Being a religious person was particularly hard for me. I never really understood the meaning behind the teachings of God. I always took the teachings as literal interpretations and so had a hard time figuring out *how* it all worked rather than *why* it all happened. So early in life I gave up on being a religious... | [
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5,
13
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[WP] Describe an obstacle in your life that you had to overcome. How did it go? Were you changed at all? | 6 | [
"True story. \n\nOn November 8th, 2007 I was scheduled to undergo a routine arthroscopic surgery on my left knee. During the surgery, I woke up, and was awake for thirty out of forty-five minutes. It was very scary, and as you can imagine, left me with emotional scars, and sleep problems. For a coupleof years after... | [
1,
2,
2,
5
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[WP] The Titanic is stuck in a time loop, hitting the iceberg and sinking over and over...forever. And only one person on board is aware of the day repeating | 11 | [
"I woke up on the Titanic after the first sinking, inform the captain of the impending disaster, then live a long life to be able to say here that this idea is unoriginal, stupid, and a ripoff of Furious 7. ",
"**I open my eyes as the sun comes up. It begins again.**\n\nAll of my efforts to avert the looming disa... | [
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3,
5
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Think a kind of 'Into the Woods'. Try and include as many as possible! | [WP] Write a short story whilst including as many fairy tales as you can. | 5 | [
"Lighting struck upon a stormy shore lighting up the crumbing mansion at the edge of the beach line. \n\nUpon the door was a rusting silver plate. *Macabre Labyrinth and Robert Skellington : Tale Chaser*. It read.\n \nInside was a study, packed floor to ceiling with tattered sheets of paper and dogeared books. Ther... | [
1,
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[WP] The deadliest serial killer in history has been reduced to a wheelchair-ridden vegetable for the last couple decades. | 3 | [
"The room was dimly lit and the padding on the walls was stained and aged. I had been waiting for this moment for too long and suddenly all the emotions leading up to it compiled into one rising ball in my throat. I swallowed, hoping to remain composed enough to see the woman who killed my sister. \n\nThey had fina... | [
1,
2
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[WP] Upon death, the word, "Continue?" appears in front of you with a timer counting down from ten. | 2 | [
"I press continue possibly thinking I'll start over from a previous \"checkpoint\" or in other words a memory. If I had 2-3 choices as in 2 or 3 \"checkpoints\" or \"saved games\" if you will I'd choose to be reborn and start over from when I was 14-15 because that was the turning point in my life. I could have def... | [
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[WP] Make a children's story into a horror story | 5 | [
"Oops😬",
" Many of you have probably heard of the children's story *The Boy Who Cried Wolf*. Parents assume it is a story designed to teach children about lying and playing tricks on people. Few realize the truth behind the story.\n\n It starts off in a small village. Because the people constantly must worry abo... | [
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2,
2
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or any of the most hated figures in history | [WP] A romantic comedy starring Adolf Hitler | 1 | [
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[WP] You're shopping for antiques and you come across a mirror that doesn't seem to be reflecting things quite right. | 6 | [
"Another day of following the wife through another antique shop.\n\n\"Look, that one looks about the right size!\" She ran off towards a tall mirror hung on one of the shop's walls. We were searching for that 'perfect' mirror to hang in our new dining room. Twenty different antique stores across at least a hundr... | [
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First time making a prompt, sorry if I messed it up. | [WP] When you die, you meet the person who was designated to control your life. | 3 | [
"I heard the staccato pop of clapping. It made no sense since the last thing I saw before that was the flood waters. I tried to recall my last minutes, and I remembered running back into the hotel as I heard kids screaming. I couldn’t live with myself without trying.\n\n“Get the kids to safety.” I shouted at my wif... | [
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