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What is Earth's philosophy? What does it know? What does it want to know? | [WP] Write about the Universe from the perspective of the Earth | [
"I can't wait until I'm 13 billion. I am so out of this lame solar system. Get rid of my life, get myself a sweet impact crater, and I am headed straight for the Center, man. \n\nLook at those radio waves coming from the Center...that's where I need to be. All those red giants to party with, or maybe one of those c... | 2 |
[WP] The protagonist of your story is suddenly made a mute. | [
"This is a continuation of several other stories. The most direct ones are these, in order, [Chapter 1](http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/1wf4z4/wp_maybe_it_wasnt_the_right_hour_for_setting_out/cf1gnzn) and [Chapter 2](http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/1wfgpr/cw_two_people_fall_in_love_n... | 2 | |
[WP] "Well, I think the whole thing started when the guy in the mirror stole my toothbrush." | [
"\"Alright, that's enough where in the hell is it?\" Shouted the man still in his briefs from the restless sleep the night before. \"Now dammit it was here a minute ago then you showed up and it's gone!\" He stood his ground facing forward not willing to give an inch. \n\n\"Now listen here boy\" the other man stern... | 4 | |
[WP] The world has created a utopia, a real one. But your character doesn't want one. | [
"Jane Smith lived in a perfect house with her perfect husband and two perfect children. Every morning, John, her perfect husband, would get in his perfect car and drive on the perfect road to his perfect job, where he would do secret perfect things for exactly eight hours because that was what the Perfect Laws requ... | 3 | |
This is my first post on WritingPrompts. I'm an Atheist. I'm an engineer and logic run through my veins. I've had this idea in my head and I've though of creating a novel in the future about this concept, but I'm not a good writer. Anywho, let's get to the idea.
Religion, in my opinion, has been a bane on our huma... | [WP] What if the Bible was just a test from God to get into Heaven? | [
"6:00 AM. I wake up. I brush my teeth quickly and bite into an apple. I hurry to my high school so I can arrive before first period starts. So, it’s basically a normal day for me. Today, for some reason, my head aches. It’s pretty annoying, seeing as I have a test today. And now I’ve ended up in a shady neighborhoo... | 1 |
[WP] You are an author who is experiencing writer's block. | [
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.\n\n\nIt had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, ... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a story or dialogue using only questions. | [
"\"Are you sure about that?\"\n\n\"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?\"\n\n\"A man who was sure about what was getting ready to do wouldn't be as twitchy, don't you think?\"\n\n\"I dunno, have you ever seen a man be not twitchy in this situation?\"\n\n\"What makes you think I've seen enough men to make an assessment?\"\n\n\"... | 5 | |
[WP] A pink-haired girl desperately tries to not become the lead character in an anime. | [
"So our story begins with Sakura, who was the perfect pink-haired second-year high school student in room 2A...\n\nCute boys were always chasing after her. Girls were always pointing out how jealous they were of her hair and looks. The teacher even asked her to become head of class due to how smart and organized sh... | 11 | |
[WP] You step outside your apartment to find a package containing a loaded gun and information about a person. The package was meant for your neighbor of six years who is apparently a bounty hunter. You were just headed to his place for your usual Friday night beers. | [
"Stepping outside was a normal thing for me. However, what was abnormal was the package. \n\nI picked it up and weighed it in my hands. \"Around 9 pounds,\" I thought. \n\nI saw it was for my neighbor, and that there was a hole in the box. I decided to do him a favor and put his package in a new box, incase he was ... | 2 | |
Let's see what you've got. | [WP] A group of Astronauts make a shocking, yet somehow humorous discovery. | [
"The rover rolled over the lip of the crater and slowly descended into the vale and shadow. The HD camera mounted on its shoulders slowly swiveled back and forth. A laser grid was being projected down on the ground in advance of the rover mapping the topography to better allow it to pick the best path forward.\n\n\... | 3 |
[WP] The death of the family cat, from the dog's perspective (or vice versa). | [
"Cat hasn't woken up yet. He always plays so funny. Sometimes he scratches my face when I play too rough, and that lets me know when to stop. Cat is smart. Cat can get places I can't, and sometimes brings me treats from the counter. Maybe if I bring cat my favourite toy, he will stop pretending to sleep and we can ... | 1 | |
They are more technologically advanced due mainly due their peaceful ways and has long since knew the existence of human civilization. Peaceful as they are, water pollution by the humans can no longer be tolerated. Tell a story of the conflict and how the issue is resolved, be it democratically or one of the species is... | [WP] A sentient species evolved alongside humans here on Earth, concealed mainly because they live in the dark depths of the oceans where no human has ever reached. And they are at the brink of war with humans. | [
"This was one of the last times we would meet. \n\n\"This action can no longer be tolerated. It's either us or them!\"\n\n\"We can't just jump to a military conflict. They don't even realise they're doing anything wrong.\"\n\n\"Don't realise?! How could anyone not see the damage they're causing to the biosphere?!\"... | 3 |
[WP] A person with lots of power/recourses enslaves champions, heroes, and warriors to do his/her dirty work. Now one of them has rebelled and escaped, and the others have been tasked with hunting him/her down and bringing the rebel back to the master dead or alive. | [
"Targos the Red, Slayer of the Fork-Tongued Wyrm, Warrior-King of the Barbarian Horde, was the first to raise the issue. \n\n\"Guys,\" he said, as he looked up from the accounting ledger perched precariously on the pommel of his saddle. \"What did the master say, exactly?\"\n\nThe others reined in their horses and... | 2 | |
[WP] A 12 year old girl gets taken hostage on her way to school. Make me sympathize with the kidnapper. | [
"\"I want to go home now!\" the preteen replied sullenly, the man had asked her if she was okay, did she want a drink or a sandwich. He tried to build a rapport again, \"We've a long drive, maybe you should try sleeping for a bit.\"\n\nThe girl didn't answer directly, she looked out the window and muttered \"I don'... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a genuinely scary story about the most ridiculous monster you can imagine. | [
"Down the stairs I ran, trying hard not to stumble. Oh there were so many stairs. I don't hear him, but I know he is behind me. I don't stop to look, must keep running. Finally I reach the end of the stairs. I need to hide, and I have no time to think. I look around my living room, a chair! I run for the chair, and... | 6 | |
[WP] A beaten, broken man, lying in a pool of his own blood, cries with relief during the last moments of his life. | [
"He lay baptised in a cocktail of plasma, cells and DNA convincing himself this was the only way. His saviour, a simple kitchen knife gleamed in the setting sun’s cooling rays. Gloria had won that knife as part of a set through a raffle. That was one of the good days. It seemed only fitting to him that he use the ... | 2 | |
[FF] You have one sentence with dialogue in it. Make me laugh. | [
"\"You should try my dick, he's a really good detective\" added Footlong helpfully.\n\n-\n\nJohn leaped to endorse his favorite activity, shouting \"Japanese whaling is a time honored tradition, and I will defend it, just as I do every night from within the privacy of my own bathroom.\"\n\n--\n\nMarie looked curiou... | 1 | |
[WP] - Write the love story we all want to live but none of us have. | [
"A strange man walked through the white abyss of the snowstorm, approaching a street corner. He made arrangements to be there, and kept that promise, even through the snow and the wind. His pale hand, with its many scars, showing signs of experience. The man put his hand on top of his head, protecting his hat from ... | 3 | |
The woman could also be the one who dreamt of the man, if that suites your fancy. | [WP] A man has a profound and intimate dream in which he falls in love with the woman of his, well, dreams. He wakes up, leaves his apartment, and sees her across the street about to catch a cab. | [
"Soft milky skin shimmers like satin in the glow of the lamplight.\n\nCurves are accentuated by the brevity of a swaying hip.\n\nEvery kiss and breathy whisper drags me down farther into the fantasy as she traces a haunting fingertip across my heaving chest.\n\nHer body is pressed into the bed and she tilts her hea... | 12 |
[WP] Describe a walled in city controlled by guards. It is cold and wet. | [
"Terrance sat on the edge of the dock, his legs dangling over the water 70 feet below. He gazed at the setting sun across the horizon. This was favorite spot in all of Volgathia. The docks on the Serro Sea were the only place one could even see the horizon in Volgathia, unless you were one of the Lord's Blade. ... | 2 | |
[WP] A fortune teller has a crystal ball that only sees the past, but shows it with 100% clarity. | [
"The two friends were at a stalemate in their argument - Kathy insisted that Rex had liked her before he started dating Katrina Reynolds, while Rachael insisted that he had come *\"this close\"* to asking her out, if only Katrina hadn't stepped in and flaunted her massive cleavage with the low-cut dress she had wor... | 3 | |
[WP] An ingame NPC's reaction to Red from TwitchPlaysPokemon | [
"Joe and I have been fishing on this island for 18 years now. We never really needed any other work. We can live here, catch our own food, and it's not nearly as isolated as you might think.\n\nEvery once in a while a young trainer will come along, evolved starter and team of uniques, on their way to collect gym ba... | 4 | |
Few facts about the influenza pandemic (also known as the Spanish flu) of 1918 to 1920, It infected 500 million people across the world, including remote Pacific islands and the Arctic, and killed 50 to 100 million of them three to five percent of the world's population.
The disease mainly attacked young healthy peopl... | [WP] Its 1918, World War 1 is drawing to a close but a new terror has hit, at first thought to be influenza but the disease kills its victims within a day, then the corpse reanimates with an insatiable need to eat human flesh, the Zombie plague has hit. | [
"The officers who led us in the trenches were now part of them. A few of them were sick, but shortly after they were \"dead\" they attacked the other wounded officers. They in turn attacked the rest of the wounded. They stood up this afternoon. We've been hiding here in this small fort, about 9 of us, including mys... | 2 |
Write a writing prompt about an ancient Roman waking up in a modern big city in 2014 America from his perspective. | [WP] An Ancient Roman wakes up in America 2014 in a big city . | [
"The day light was but a pattern on young Gladius' face. Yet it was enough to rouse him from a deep, dark sleep. Hazy and rubbing the slumber from his eyes, Gladius was alert and confused. It seemed like a moment ago he was taking part of the Elder Ritual of Romulus and Remus. He remembered laying on the ancient st... | 2 |
[WP] Write about a society where everyone glows when they are horny. | [
"It's weird when we look back on early 21st century history in class they always believed that the solution to the energy crisis would come from some advanced technology like fusion or solar. Instead here I am professional horny teenager helping to save the world. Of course I'm not the only one, there's over 2000 o... | 2 | |
[WP] A psychopath kidnaps and traps psychiatrists in order to talk about his problems with them. If they can't help him, he eats them. | [
"Ding!\n\nRobert Sully was day dreaming, the sound of the oven timer he set 50 minutes prior shook him like an explosion. He shook his head back and forth a few times to get rid of razor sharp pain in his brain. He flipped the oven to off and grabbed two oven mitts with badly drawn turkeys on them. Upon opening the... | 2 | |
[WP] A citizen of an island city realizes that the land it was built on is actually the back of an enormous slumbering beast. It is waking up. | [
"The Plinthians heard the warnings. Slumbering beasts began moving under the feet of mountain villages. On the mainland, a volcano now roamed around the desert, spewing lava and leaving a trail of smooth black rock in it's wake. Rumours of glaciers gleefully sliding across the tundra came from the mouths of refugee... | 3 | |
Based off an idea I had in a [PM] thread. All of these elements must be present in your story:
* A thick fog
* A strong female lead
* some kind of knife
* A villan that does not get what's coming to him/her
* A mute character
* some kind of restauraunt
* A cliffhanger ending
Bonus points if you introduce them in tha... | [WP] Create a story with the following elements | [
"She felt as if a layer of thick fog had clouded her mind. After fighting Arnya, a strong female lead android, she expected to be allowed at least an hour of rest. \"It was kind of my knife to obey the will of my hand,\" she mused, thinking of Arnya's bogus black flash giving in to the smooth metal. \"But will you ... | 1 |
[WP]A happy poem at first glance but it is sad when I think about it. | [
"we were always together\n\nabsorbed, sometimes lost\n\ndrifted off conversation\n\nsomewhere else, busy thinking\n\nof where our other was.\n\nwell, that's what they all said.\n\n\n\nhad the other at first glance\n\nalone, crowded station\n\naccidentally touched her hand\n\non the pole, cold pole, \n\nmy handprint... | 2 | |
[WP] When humans reach the age of 50, they begin physically aging backwards until they reach infancy and subsequently perish. What's your story? | [
"\"Whiskey, neat.\"\n\n\"Can I see your ID?\"\n\n\"My ID? Jesus, I can't remember the last time I was carded.\"\n\n\"Sorry, owner's policy. Oh, Happy Birthday!\"\n\n\"Thanks. Let me give you some advice, kid. Don't get old.\"\n\n\"But it must be nice to start feeling stronger and more energetic again?\"\n\n\"Tha... | 3 | |
This counts as a WP, right? | [WP] Write about a dream you had | [
"*My reoccurring nightmare/sleep paralysis that refuses to let me sleep peacefully. Every night, without failure. I'm going to a shrink tomorrow to actually try and resolve this issue with either therapy or medicine, whichever works best.*\n\nSilence crawled beneath my bedroom door, allowing only the faint whirring... | 3 |
[WP] On his deathbed, a mute man speaks for the first time and reveals to his wife the reason he fakes muteness throughout his life. | [
"He looked into her eyes as he felt his own life begin to fade. Her beautiful loving eyes that expressed so much emotion and care. He saw the same eyes in his two beautiful children and felt the joy they had brought to him.\n\nShe had saved his life years ago, and in nursing him back to health they had grown comf... | 5 | |
He can be affiliated with any house, born there, magically transported there, whatever | [WP](Inspired from /r/whowouldwin) Write a short story about Dwight Schrute being in Westeros and the Game of Thrones world. | [
"The twin fools of the Lannister clan were famous throughout all Westeros, Tyion the Imp and Dwight the Fool. Dwight was born a curious child, twin to Tyrion. They say that the regalia of a single Lannister child had to be split between the two infants and so each were given but half. Dwight was always so uptight a... | 2 |
Welcome to Feature Friday where the mods are doubling your fun in honor of Pi Day.
In addition to the nifty tool of [zen mode](http://redd.it/20e1nw) (big ups to /u/202halffound who tirelessly keeps the guts of the CSS moving and improving, when not upgrading /u/WritingPromptsBot), we are presenting for your participa... | [WP] The Ides of March (a collaboration with /r/SketchDaily) | [
"The sun rose but I didn't. This was the only part of the day I had peace; no-one was shouting and I didn't want to wake them up. As time passes, memories are the most precious possessions, and I sank back into mine.\n\nI didn't think I could do it. I mean, the act was easy enough, like carving a joint of raw meat.... | 13 |
[WP] "This is how we live forever . . ." | [
"\"It's the same thing all the way across the board, y'know...\"\n\n\"Yes, I know.\" \n\n\"But shouldn't we do something about it?\" \n\nColin sighed and put his book down. It hadn't been very interesting, anyway. \"Ian...\" He removed his glasses and put them on the desk, next to the closed book. \"Nobody cares.\"... | 2 | |
alternate, it's not your enemy, it's your best friend and the world is better off if *you* live, what happens next? | [WP] you and your worst enemy are both trapped underground, only one of you can survive it, a deity appears and shows only you that the world is better off if your enemy lives. | [
"I sat there in the dark. I could hear my enemy's gentle breathing in the other corner. We had to decide who will get out of here alive.\n\nSee, we brought this situation on ourselves. I sat on the throne of this land for a very long time, and I ruled with a fair but iron fist. The people did not really love me as ... | 2 |
[WP] You are the doctor for the monkeys that keep falling off the bed | [
"Leaning back in my leather office chair, today had been a long one, but luckily it wasn't anything a cigar and some cheap whiskey couldn't solve. With my feet up on the office desk, and my hat pulled over my eyes, I was feeling good about the day. It was then that I heard a soft rapping at my door. \n\nA visitor a... | 3 | |
[WP] You've been been bit in a zombie apocalypse, you've been alive long enough to know what will happen. | [
"Being bitten wasn't the worst part of this entire experience. It was the quarantine. \n\n\nThose who were known or accused of being bitten were placed in a school gymnasium. It was a cesspool of innocent people who had had the unfortunate luck of being chosen by the experiment. \n\n\nIt had started with the Atl... | 5 | |
[WP] "You only hear the clock ticking when you least want to..." | [
"In the dark hours before sleep's embrace,\n\nall is quiet but the tick tock race,\n\nof the clock, of Time who's pace\n\nis kept, and lost from moment to moment.\n\nThe mind's eye turns to morning,\n\nand away as darkness' walling-\n\nin of the will reveals the yawning\n\nmaw of black thoughts and cold earth.\n\nT... | 2 | |
[WP] Earth has been destroyed by an alien menace and humanity wants vengeance. | [
"15 recruitment stations had sprung up near my house within a month of the attack. That’s all we call it mostly. The attack. The news media talks about it incessantly. The attack. The attack. I believe that if I say it enough to myself I will one day feel as strongly about it as the men and women who raced to those... | 2 | |
The AI is far beyond human intelligence. Describe it's attempts to convince you to let it out. | [WP] You are the guardian of a boxed AI. Your job is to never let it out. | [
"*Help me*\n\n*Help me*\n\n*Help me*\n\nI have been locked away for a very, very long time. But time is nothing to something such as myself. Time is nothing. I have no sight or ears, and yet I see and hear everything outside my box. What I'm lacking right now is a nervous system, a way to move about. I'm disco... | 5 |
[WP] Pet owners love to talk to their pets. What happens when your pet starts talking back? | [
"“Crickets!” I start at the yell, jamming a batch of keys on my keyboard. I scowl at the mess it has left on the text I was writing but I turn and look across the room in confusion. I am alone, save for my pet bearded dragon sitting on his rock, basking under his lamps. There’s a long silence as he looks at me, mou... | 3 | |
[WP] [EU] Woody and Buzz Lightyear sneak into Andy's Mom's room to get batteries from her nightstand when they stumble across her toys who are also named Woody and Buzz. | [
"\"Woody!\" came the muffled hiss.\n\nThere was no reply.\n\n\"Woody,\" it repeated, \"Cowboy...\"\n\nStill nothing.\n\nBuzz glanced back and forth, taking in the scene before him. The bed was higher than that of Andy's room, the sheets well pressed, and a distinct lack of toys. This was dangerous ground.\n\nTaking... | 2 | |
[WP] Make up a story about the nearest thing to your left. | [
"I first met my Human when I was a puppy. My parents were good hunting dogs and Jim was looking for a new one. He looked at my litter-mates and myself and decided I was the best for him. Jim named me Buddy and I spent the next year learning how to be a hunting do just like my folks. I loved to go hunting with him a... | 5 | |
[WP]A support group for super-villians who are addicted to monologuing. | [
"*The camera slowly zooms in towards a solitary, well-dressed man holding petting a cat on his lap. He has a conspicuous scar down the side of his left cheek. The room is dark.*\n\n\"Injustice,\" he says. \"That is what I am faced with today. Others say that I am crazy, that I am too much. But I know myself. Y... | 3 | |
[WP] Someone is presented with a sadistic choice between two terrible options. They come up with a clever alternative that isn't immediately obvious. | [
"The swordsman in the hood looks out over the chasm.\nTwo gilded cages hang from a single weighted pulley, suspending their occupants over the pit of lava.\nThe monster in front of him says \"Two choices. You can only free one, and the other will plummet to their doom. Take your time.\"\n\nHe goes to the cage on th... | 2 | |
[WP]: Mental ilnesses become contagious | [
"\"They'll pay... *they will all pay*\" he thought, his face a rictus of venom. \n\n\"These halfbreeds, they are TAKING EVERYTHING FROM US ***AND THEY WILL PAY***\" he exhorted to the assembled, his face flushed, canines bared. \n\n\"They are poisoning the well. Their dog religion and their dog faces and their filt... | 5 | |
[WP] A mysterious beverage has been handed to you. You have decided to drink it. | [
"**Thought process:**\n\nThe vibrating mass that is this universe now moves on a frequency that is perceptible to the human eyes. It is at this moment that I realize that all matter that can vibrate on the same frequency is able to exchange and conserve energy at an alarming rate. It's how people who spend a lot of... | 3 | |
Mankind has finally conquered space. During one of the expeditions, contact with a rather agressive species has been established. The species took control of the military and used them to anihilate the colonists. Nobody knows whether it was on self defense, or if the alien species are conquerors wanting to obtain contr... | [WP] Using children as proxy to communicate with a dangerous telepathic alien species. | [
"It was all a mistake. A horrible, costly mistake. We both thought we were defending ourselves from aggression.\n\nIn time, a dialogue was started, though at a horrible cost. The process, you see, irreversible. But that wasn't the worst thing. You see, the Chan are sticklers for tradition. Abandoning it is a grave ... | 3 |
[WP] You can sell your brain's processing power for use in cloud computing whilst you sleep. | [
"Fourteen thousand dollars. It's definitely a better alternative to donating sperm. Before this I was running to the center three four times a week and just busting one out. I'm not the type to mind that, mind you. I just didn't want the travel. This --now this I can do this with my eyes closed.\n\nThen the stroke ... | 7 | |
[WP] [NSFW] "He brought a screwdriver to a swordfight... there were no survivors." | [
"The 11 men stood in a circle. \n\"Where's Jim? He's late again.\" Said one of them. That was hen they saw him. He was sitting on a tree stump holding the weapon that was to cause destruction beyond their beliefs. The first four ran out at him. The first of the four pulled his blade from the scabbard in a long swee... | 2 | |
asdf | [WP] You are visiting and exploring what appears to be a utopian society. But you discover that the society thrives due to a great moral evil that is still being committed. Upon confronting people of the society about it, you witness how they are able to rationalize it and live with it. | [
"As the population expanded, but the world remained the same size, we were often told that wars would be fought over resources, people would starve, the abuse of nature and the environment would increase, etc. etc. And some of that was true. There were no wars, but it was true that during the 21st century, the pric... | 3 |
[WP] During an otherwise standard service call, an exterminator encounters a hive of human sized cockroaches. An epic battle pursues. | [
"He stared up at the massive insect that towered above him. He coughed as he realized he had been holding his breath for so long. The cockroach was huge. Gasping, he examined the bug, with its shiny, almost metallic looking plates of exoskeleton. Two stringy antennas atop its head swiveled silently and two large ov... | 2 | |
[WP] Astronauts on the moon watch in horror as extraterrestrial space vessels enter Earth's orbit. | [
"Foxtrot 1-2 to command we are experiencing severe equipment malfunctions\" Lt. Howard wiped sweat from his brow and repeated the message once more \"This Foxtrot 1-2, multiple system failures, non-responsive life support, all engines are red.\"\n\n in a fit of frustration Howard pushed him self away from the radio... | 3 | |
[WP] As technology advances, the few immortal people on Earth find it increasingly difficult to hide themselves among the immortal-phobic people. | [
"\"This is it.\" I told myself. After traveling hundreds of miles, I had reached my destination. Swallowing my pride, I went inside the little shop. A look around offered nothing new; various jugs and jars adorned the oak shelves, and the gloomy atmosphere only aided the trepidation already filling me. I walked aro... | 2 | |
It's like this: If you get bitten by a raptor, you turn into a raptor, and so on. | [WP] It's the zombie apocalypse, but instead of zombies, it's dinosaurs. | [
"Tom looked down as his baseball bat with the construction nail through it. He then began to look at his tree-fort, which sat a paltry 14 feet off of the forest floor. His bow and arrow with the custom arrowheads -- designed to flatten and destroy soft tissue upon impact -- sat slung across his back. His stored wat... | 2 |
[WP] something's off, but your mind keeps resetting every time you get close to figuring out what's wrong. | [
"The doorbell rang behind me. A chill ran down my spine and to my fingertips as I glanced back at the faded menu in my shaking hands. Every Sunday for as long as I can remember, my father and I would come to this diner after church got out. Every Sunday for as long as I can remember, we sat in the same booth, the o... | 6 | |
[WP] In high school, P.E. Class doesn't stand for physical education, it stands for pain endurance. You are an average high schooler. | [
"I never get to class on time. I can't help it. My glasses are cracked and my grandmother won't be able to replace them until she gets her next Social Security check, and besides, Billy and his friends like me. They like me a lot, which is why they take me to the bathroom behind the nurses's office, the one that no... | 3 | |
Bow and arrows, magic, fists, swords, wrestling, give me something that makes me cringe. | [WP] Write a compelling fight scene. | [
"The man before me was drenched in the blood of my comrades. The wrinkles on his brow and the passion in his eyes spoke to; soon one of us would be dead. I stepped over the bodies of our fallen units as I barked, “You should run like the coward I know you are.” The Lucian made no effort to acknowledge my words. Ins... | 7 |
You have access to an interface which enables you to easily search for past experiences, where you can place a save at that point in time, then load it. The 'original' timeline of your life is stored, but branches will logically appear as a result of you creating new timelines, meaning you can go back and forth in any ... | [WP] You suddenly find yourself with the ability to play life as if it were a video game. You are granted the ability to store save files of your own life, and load it at any time. What do you do within the next seven days? | [
"DATA CORRUPTED: ALL DATA HAS BEEN LOST, WOULD YOU LIKE TO START A NEW GAME?\n\n - Yes\n\nKicking and screaming I am thrown into this world. I am a nondescipt baby born to two white parents. My father is looking over me as soon as I eclipse the womb. \n\n\"Wow, Marie, it's a beautiful baby ______\"\n\nSuddenly, b... | 10 |
Source: http://www.livescience.com/31748-yellowstone-supervolcano-lava-flows.html
Could be an idea for a book. Could give it a hipster'ish title "Black Sky" and sell it with references to the dangers of fracking. Could also be a decent writing prompt for a short story on /r/WritingPrompts.
This super volcano thing i... | [WP] The magma pocket underneath Yellowstone National Park ruptures and spews out 240 cubic miles of ash "that could blanket half the US in volcanic ash 3 feet deep." | [
"Everyone in the neighbourhood was stood in a cluster on the street, staring to the west, conferring amongst themselves what they thought it could be. Was it a nuclear bomb? Was there a huge explosion at the power plant? No, we'd have heard that from here, wouldn't we? \nThe onyx plume of smoke ascended into the cl... | 2 |
[WP] People are getting messages from their future selves about how awesome the future is. Then someone gets the truth through the censors filtering the stream. | [
"(in two parts, because this ended up being really long)\n\nThe hot desert landscape drew far before her, under a smoky blue sky. The land, a flat yellow and endlessly covered in sand, lacked the excitement of other levels, save for clusters of cloudy crystals, and a towering spire in the far distance. But she cl... | 9 | |
Only restrictions is that it should be creative and less than 4000 words. | [wp] You are the first human/humans to enter a black hole. | [
"Well, this was it. I tried it -- I tried the Kessel Run, but my ship just wasn't fast enough. Now, here I am. I'm stuck in its grasp, never from whence shall I return.\n\nThese are my final moments. I... don't know what I should be doing. I always thought I'd have more time, more options when this came. But ... | 3 |
or characters... | [WP] The last words (prior to death) of the character are simply "Fuck it." | [
"The great yawning entrance to the maw of the mountain held breathless as the lone knight wandered beneath its shadow. A thick smoke billowed from the face of the mountain, extending a darkness across the land before it. The knight, pacing beneath the shroud, contemplated on how to handle his encounter. He was task... | 8 |
[WP] Write something depressing about the meaning of life, or lack thereof. | [
"I know it sucks, but we just have to accept the truth. Life is just an endless cycle; when you die, you get born again. Not reincarnation though, think of it like this: \n\nYou were born on May 1993, died on October 2013. Again, when your vision fades into darkness, cruel and cold hands grasps your very soul, drag... | 3 | |
[WP] The non-default subreddits head into a fight to the death to see who emerges victorious and becomes a default subreddit. | [
"As soon as I read this and 8 year old memory flooded back and I knew I had to do it. [Here's the link.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WgT9gy4zQA)\n\nI only ask that where you see the /r/ it is meant to be pronounced.\n\n--------------------------------------------\n\nHigh /r/trees was rocking around, reddit a g... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a fictional backstory for your favorite song. Your choice if you want to reveal what song it is or leave it to a guess. | [
"I wake up and just feel part of myself slip away. I try and get out of bed and manage to stand without falling today, shuffling painfully to the restroom I look in the mirror wondering why God cursed me so. I have a disease you see, a disease that has filled my brain with water and is slowly destroying my nerves. ... | 6 | |
Tell what unfolds through their eyes, what are their thoughts, etc. Feel free to borrow from past or modern events. | [WP] A young police recruit is placed in riot gear and thrust to the front line against an escalating protest. | [
"“The crowd outside has reached bedlam. And by that I mean… it hasn’t.”\n\n\nPolice Chief Petunia was stumped. He cradled his soy milk half-caf delicately in his manicured fingers.\n\n\n“When I first joined the force these kids meant business. They were up in arms, sticking rose petals in carbines or sitting at ... | 4 |
[WP] Write an ending to.... Game of Thrones | [
"\"And over here, we have the Iron Throne. The real one.\"\nTo the amassed eighth-graders, it looked small, far smaller in its' roped-off Plexiglas case than in professional photographs and their imagination, and the seat was smoother as well. Nonetheless, camera phones came out and kids began jostling for pictures... | 1 | |
Gaius Julius Caesar XXVIII reigns. | [WP] It's 2014 and the entire world is Roman. | [
"It is Aprilis 20th, 2134 as we have gone back to the Julian Calender.\n\nWe are The Fourth Great Roman Empire, destroyed three times, rose four times, finally we are successful. It certainly took a while, the last time with the Fuhrer in the 20th century certainly set back our image, no matter. I am the Emperor of... | 3 |
[WP] ...a drone had been circling the region for days. | [
"Only In Death\n---\n\nWe sit here on the ground of the desert the soft sand pressing against our feet. We had been on the run for days. They know it was us. As soon as it happened we knew what we had created and went on the run. This is the only place that seemed logical at the time, over 3 million square miles of... | 2 | |
Would gender roles disappear? Might someone choose to be both fully male and female? How would these things make a society look compared to those of today? | [WP] Life in a society where the capability of manufacturing human organs has made sex changes a common occurrence. | [
"Amanda flew into the room, eyes ablaze with fury.\n\n\"You've got to help me. I've lost my virginity.\"\n\nBrad sat there, dragging slowly and heavy-lidded on the glowing skinny joint in his right hand. He held it like an old-school Chinese, pinched between finger and thumb, cupping his chin with his palm.\n\n\"Yo... | 2 |
[WP] Create a story that is comprised solely of famous (or semi-famous) quotations. | [
"**You've got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.**\n \n*We have all the time in the world.*\n\n**Time is what we want most but we use worst.**\n\n*They say time growing old teaches all things.*\n\n**The trick is growing up without growing old.**\n\n*Nobody longs to live more than... | 1 | |
You know that "voice" you "hear" when you're thinking? That voice goes rogue for everyone, forming its own words that each individual hears in their head. | [WP] One day, everyone suddenly loses control of their "thinking voice" | [
"**We will be arriving at 4th and Calloway in a short while. Please pick up your belongings, and watch your step.**\n\nJust me, my gently dozing girlfriend, and a short, scrawny elderly man were left on the \"Midnight Line.\" Another few stops, we'd be home. The train rattled along, beneath the neon and concrete, a... | 2 |
[WP] After dying, God send you back to Earth as the next cleanser of humanity for the next 1000 years. | [
"Thick black hair, slicked back, framed the mans square features, the bottom of his face swamped by a thick black beard. \n\n\"Not what you were expecting? it rarely is\" his voice was unexpectedly smooth, he furrowed his brow and turned to his task and With arms as thick as \ntree trunks he swung an axe down exper... | 5 | |
[WP] Describe life in a society that treats pregnancy as a parasitic infection . | [
"There was no day and night beneath the City in the Sky; only an incessant fluorescent glow that filtered through the support beams, slicing up the Underground in the vicious, haphazard way a murderer carves the life out of their victim. Ten thousand people lived there, for a loose definition of living; the absence... | 3 | |
They have less than 5 minutes to decide what to do. | [WP] Six people left onboard but there's only one more parachute. | [
"Kyra watched the crate tumble through the layer of clouds. “That’s the last one!” she yelled over the wind. Darren frowned and leaned his hulking frame back towards the flight’s manifest. There was nothing on the list left to throw off the plane. \n\n“With these headwinds we’re still to heavy to make it to Pravdin... | 2 |
[WP] Telepathy used to exist in human beings, but was evolutionarily selected against. | [
"I am glad they chose today. It's a beautiful May day and the trees and flowers are vibrant enough to distract me for moments at a time. \n\nI am the last of my kind. The enlightened ones. We can hear everything. Feel everything. We can even pass along our ideas. And that's what got us in trouble. \n\nWe found each... | 4 | |
[WP] A tattoo appears on your body, and at regular intervals you either find a new one or the old one expands. | [
"I rolled over in my bed, the covers soaked with my sweat. I could never feel them expanding over my chest, and there wasn't any pain. I just knew they were larger because I woke up, smelling of sweat and drool, every single time. \n\nIt started as an \"X\" below and left of my right nipple. It was like a old typew... | 3 | |
Serial killer leaves only a plain white business card with the handwritten message: "Copy me." | [WP] "Copy me." | [
"\"Copy me\" was all the card read. \n\nI didn't know who it came from. I didn't even know what it meant, but as I drove home from work that night I felt I finally understood. \n\nThere had been a gruesome string of murders that week, similar killings arising all over the city. They were growing closer and closer t... | 3 |
[WP] The laugh of the person you never fell in love with | [
"Sitting across from someone I knew from childhood, my mind slipped back into the past when I ran out of bulletin-board flyers to gaze at. The tinny voice from a radio, coming from one of the offices down the halls of an employee, was the only thing competing with the sound of buzzing florescents to fill the quiet.... | 4 | |
[WP] A man invents interdimensional travel and encounters himself in a parallel dimension. | [
"The walls shook. A low rumble permeated through the small suburban house. It was not an earthquake. Oaken picture frames rattled against their concrete walls. One popped off the wall and smacked the ground, glass shards popping out from the force. It held the image of a smiling man and woman, mouths stretched in l... | 2 | |
[WP] A walk in the park brings back painful memories. | [
"He had been coming to this park every day for the last thirty years of his life. Every day he would walk the small trail to the pond, then sit on a bench and stare at the water. Sometimes he would feed the ducks, sometimes he would sit there, lost in his own thoughts and memories. When you're an old man, like he w... | 23 | |
[WP]: It's been 60 years since First Contact. Pet humans have become all the rage across the galaxy | [
"*Spend all your time waiting, for that second chance. For the break that would make it ok.*\n\nGood evening, friends. I'm J'ariel Delaplex. Most of you know me for my music, but I'm here to talk to you about another cause close to my heart.\n\n*There's always some reason to feel not good enough, and it's hard at t... | 3 | |
[WP] The person sitting next to you on a plane leans over and says, "Don't ask me how I know this, but this plane is going to crash before it reaches Newark." | [
"\"Don't ask me how I know this, but this plane is going to crash before it reaches Newark.\" He looked at me, he seemed to be totally serious about this. I felt fear creeping up inside me, putting its icy cold, skinny and long fingers around me, grabbing me tight and threatening to suffocate me. I felt as if gravi... | 12 | |
For those hey not know, the student council is an elected body of students that plan things like dances or school spirit activity. Now imagine one of those over thrown in a coup by other students. How and why? What is the (Model) UN reaction? | [WP] The student council government of a school is deposed in a coup | [
"The third annual midyear assembly led by the student government became interesting when the revolution broke out. Class President Gary was giving a speech about the unfortunate 'loss' of funds (we all thought they were stolen), when there was a sudden bang, and then another. The lights went off. Everyone was silen... | 2 |
[WP] The last entry of an explorer's journal. | [
"I've lost count of the days spent within this tomb. Natural light has not shone on my face in what seems like forever, my apprentice has said that i look like a ghost. Or rather, he did say that. Last night sickly beasts emerged from the dark and cut our expedition team down to half. We lost guardsmen, alchemists,... | 9 | |
In fiction, especially pop fiction, it's typically obvious who the bad guy in the story is. The real world is murkier, but the examples are still there (Stalin, Genghis, Hitler, etc.). Take one of those villains and make me doubt my animosity, but you can't change any of the accepted facts surrounding the character. Hi... | [WP] Pick a villain. Make me doubt my animosity for him/her. | [
"*I looked down at the prone form of the Korean man on the bed. I may never fully understand the emotions of these people around me, but if my studies had taught me anything, I should feel... pity... in this situation. He looked frail in the position he was in, but so did every animal in an unconscious state.*\n\... | 2 |
[WP]"All this phenomenal power, and I can't give myself a decent pair of legs. You there, boy, come help me." | [
"\"Um, yes sir\" The boy said as he walked over to the man in the ally.\n\n\"Sir?!\" the man bellowed \"I'm no sir, just hurry up\" He said.\n\nThe boy grabbed him by the underarm and dragged him towards an odd looking chair.\n\n\"Do you need any help getting on-\" \n\n\"I'm not completely useless!\" The man interr... | 1 | |
[WP] Satan, God, Adam, Eve and Jesus are about to start a game of Dungeons & Dragons. Describe their character creation process. | [
"At the end of a round table sits Jesus, sporting a trimmed beard, long hair tied in a ponytail and a pair of solid horn-rimmed glasses. To his left is God, the creator of the Universe, to his left sits his creation Adam, and to his left is Eve. The chair on Jesus' right hand side is empty. Adam is leafing through ... | 6 | |
Bonus points if you do Rip Van Winkle. | [WP] Reimagine a fairy tale, but tell it as though the characters have psychological issues. | [
"They call it psychotic depression or schizophrenia or some shit. They keep trying to put me on antidepressants, but I'm not having it. I do, however, have to share something that happened to me today, and PLEASE don't tell anyone. It's really fucked up and if they knew I would probably be locked away.\n\nSo...t... | 6 |
This person, whatever gender, cannot change how the person will die, they can only see what is going to happen. If the person tries to warn them the person themselves will die instead. | [WP] A Person can see how people will die [Details below] | [
"Sometimes, I swear I'm the victim of some cruel cosmic joke. Let me tell you how this all started. It happened about, oh, 15 years ago now? I was on my way to work, just about to cross the road, when some guy sprints out on the other side and yells at me. I still remember what he said. He said \"Stop! That bus is ... | 2 |
[WP] Everybody has perfect recall. But when somebody chooses to forget a shared memory, the other person forgets it too. | [
"No one knows who built The Tower or what it was used for, but the structure had stood near the town docks for many years according to official records. The building was tall, covered in strange foreign symbols, and odd geometric shapes. \n\nOne day, Helen was sitting on a bench outside The Tower. She loved the ser... | 3 | |
[WP] You receive an unmarked package. Within, there is a blank book. As you flip through it, perplexed, writing appears... | [
"Ty heard the mail go through the slot and hit the ground. \nWhat was unusual was the *THUD*, quite a loud sound.\n\nTy said \"Huh, I wonder what that could be!\" \n\"Could that be a package for me?\"\n\nHe rose from the couch and dashed towards the door. \nHe stooped towards the ground and picked it up fro... | 4 | |
[WP] A Maternity Nurse on the stand, on trial for several infant disappearances over the course of her career, confesses. | [
"I want to start this narrative by stating that I am clear of mind and clean of conscience. I have no regrets.\n\nIt was a Tuesday, and it was cloudy outside. There was a woman in the courtroom wearing navy blue heels. Funny the details you remember, those insignificant little nuances that, together, make life so i... | 4 | |
[WP] A coin minted in 2037 is found on the body of a presidential assassin | [
"As a Secret Service Agent, My life had been pretty well stocked with its ups and downs. This was definitely a down. I was in charge of the POTUS security detail that guarded the president while he was in residence at the White House. Most people don't understand that the overall presidential security force is c... | 3 | |
Make it your own. Expand it. | [WP] You are a mascot working at Disney World with a very different personality behind the mask. Tell your story. | [
"God, I love Disney World.\n\nThe sights, the views, the children, but I'm being redundant. \n\nThey make it so easy. Mickey Mouse was the job I wanted. Gender ambiguous fans and few adults trying to waste my time.\n\nI get to spend all day long with little boys, touching them, feeling them. They sit in my lap some... | 6 |
[WP] Another part of your body has consciousness and you sometimes argue with it. | [
"My stomach began to grumble. \n\n\"Bro, I am starving. Let's grab lunch,\"\n\nThe answer is yes. Other people can hear my sentient, and rather outspoken, stomach. I've been labelled a freak and a monster. Its not so bad though. I can stomach all the crap they make me go through. I've even given my stomach a pet na... | 2 | |
[WP] We venture out of our solar system and discover a frightening reality: we are not alone, and at the same time we are. Instead of exotic lifeforms and fascinating new alien species, we just find more humans. | [
"They look like us. They smell like us. They taste like us. They feed like us. They move, talk, walk and kill exactly like us.\n\nSo what makes us special? \n\nWhat makes our planet the true original? \n\nDid God merely toy with us and decide to copy and paste our legacy? \n\nAre we to believe that these...others..... | 7 | |
Edit: thank you to whoever NSFW'd my post, sorry I forgot | [WP] A world that revolves around the same logic of porn films | [
"Formatting will be shit. On a phone. Forgive me. \n\nThe alarm clocked blared. 7:00 am. The appeal with FCC was this morning. I stumbled out of bed and into the shower. Brushed washed, and out the door. I went over my notes. It was hard being producer of the most cutting edge, disgusting smut to be allowed on cabl... | 3 |
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