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[WP] Earth is the Australia of our galaxy. Up until recently, other planets would ship their criminals here. | [
"Tom had 999 dialled into his phone, his finger hovered over the green button to call the police. But then he realised that they would think it was a prank call. Christ, even he wouldn't believe it if someone told him about what he was seeing.\n\nIn front of him, was a large, floating, metal... thing. It must be a ... | 5 | |
[WP] Your main character has the power of making a few seconds last some minutes. He/she can do it only one time per year. Describe some of those moments. | [
"He referred to them as his \"five minute freebies.\" \n\n\nWhen he was younger, he spent time worrying over why only he got them. Contemplation and a philosophy course led him to the conclusion that it really didn't matter - whether or not there was a reason, he needed to make the most out of his gift.\n\n \nHe wa... | 3 | |
[WP] An archaeologist uncovers a damaged robotic soldier from a future time period. It partially reactivates and thinks the archaeologist is someone it knows. It then briefly recounts its life and explains the events that lead to it being in it's current situation before deactivating for good. | [
"\"Six weeks... Six freaking weeks and nothing\" Jack thought to himself, as he continued to excavate what felt like the same earth he uncovered just days ago.\n\n A little less than two months ago he was assigned a “high profile” spot. This was going to be his big break, he surged with excitement when he was given... | 2 | |
[WP] "Satan please help me" | [
"\t\t\t\t\t Guardian \n\t\"Satan please help me, \" were the last words it said as its black eyes stared in disbelief at my sword logged deep in its chest. How could I a lowly guardian angel, neither arc nor any such class, have killed him a demon of 333 years? Yet he stood there dyin... | 1 | |
You can write about what an average day at the office is like, or God getting drunk with work buddies, or whatever comes to your mind~! | [WP] God works in an office with other Gods from mythology - his job is to create a new universe every seven days. | [
"\"Goddammit!\" Yelled God as He searched through the filing cabinet. Not caring about the irony of His expletive. Looking out the window, God could see a desolate wasteland covered in a sea of disfigured human forms. The thunder of the endless storm only partially downing out their cries of despair. God thought th... | 2 |
[WP] Someone deaf, a mute, the blind one, love triangle. | [
"I could see what was happening, but I couldn't say anything. I met her at at a monster truck ralley. The first thing I did was to do my usual opening bit: I mouth words and signal that there is a window between us. This does not usually make people laugh at first, they usually just stare until I pull out my notepa... | 1 | |
[WP] While traveling in a plane you saw a dragon flying parallel to the plane. | [
"The CIA agents put Larry in a chair. The darkness concealed the surroundings of the room.\n\n\"Now, please tell us what you saw. Exactly.\" One of them, a woman, said.\n\n\"I don't understand why you guys are involved in this. I-\"\n\n\"Now.\" A deep voice said, coming from the other agent. Larry decided to call h... | 3 | |
[WP] A new species of life is discovered on Earth, with an intelligence on par with our own. Why have we seen no evidence of the species before now, and what is the story of our first encounter with them? | [
"Jake sat on the floor, looking out, filled with a deep sense of peace. Here, in this place, he felt removed from the world of people, removed from having to worry. Here, sitting on the floor of the observation module, all he could see was the dark, dark blue of those final few photons able to make it this deep. If... | 4 | |
[WP] Describe each day of the week as if it was a person. | [
"Mr Monday glared at Miss Saturday, grumbling at her over his mug of coffee. “Put some clothes on, you silly girl. What will people think of you? Back in my day, my sisters were covered from neck to ankle. It’s too early for your shenanigans!” \n\nMiss Saturday just giggled at him and flounced away toward the tequi... | 3 | |
e.g. schizophrenia | [WP] You suffered from a mental illness most of your life. One day you they find a cure for you. You wake up the next morning a normal person. | [
"I opened my eyes to a room full of people - doctors, nurses, people I had no idea who they were.\n\nA teary-eyed woman comes up to hold my hand, calls me Jim, and mutters praises to God. *But I am an atheist.* A man comes up and tells me he finally has the son he's been looking for. *But my father died of lymphoma... | 3 |
This is legit going on in my house. My four year old son has become obsessed with death and he has now lost 2 imaginary friends. He is taking the death from this weekend pretty hard. Go anywhere you want with this, l won't be offended if you make my kid into a serial killer, but l hope you at least write well for such ... | [WP] My child's imaginary friends keep dying... | [
"\"I don't know what to do. Last week I caught him pouring Drano into the bathtub, brandishing a plastic toy knife. I asked him what he was doing. He just kept telling me he wasn't the one doing it.\"\n\nA brief moment of silence hovered through the phone line as Pam's friend, Edna pondered Pam's dilemma.\n\n\"Well... | 5 |
[WP] the worst date ever turns into the apocalypse and the person who helps you survive it is your blind date. | [
"This is the most awkward evening of my entire life. My friends noticed I was a little bit depressed and set me up on a blind date. I'm not going to lie, she is gorgeous. Long black hair, green eyes that look like they could read into my soul, perfect athletic figure. Here's the problem though..my friends neglected... | 4 | |
^ Literally the best writing prompt. | [WP] By some strange power, each sentence using the word "Literally" becomes true. | [
"\"Ooohh my god, I'm literally *dying!*\" Katie laughed. The color from her face dropped, suddenly replaced by deep crimson. Susie's laughter faded. She put her hand on Katie's shoulder, giving her a little shake.\n\n\"You okay, there?\" Susie smirked. Katie just shook her head, her eyeballs seeming to wobble in th... | 3 |
[WP] "No. I'm sorry Mister President, but I can't do that." | [
"\"No. I'm sorry Mister President, but I can't do that\"\n\n\"The payment has already been done, David, you can't turn your back on this now\"\n\n\"I needed it, there was no other way, my family has been fed and sent to a far hide-out somewhere I'm obviously not going to tell, and now you can throw me in jail\"\n\n... | 1 | |
Ever since the loss of the U.S. Civil War, they have been plotting the sequel. | [WP] For the past 150 years, a secret group has been working to revive the Confederate States of America | [
"He always wanted to overthrow the government. The United States was too far gone, too corrupt. Money was leading the government, not the people. Representation had been dead for years.\n\nStill, killing off figureheads would do nothing, so he started doing research. The best tactic would be to behead the source of... | 8 |
[WP] You volunteer to be put in a cryogenic freezer and shot into space in an effort to be found and awoken by other life in order to let them know about Earth. | [
"I awoke suddenly but pleasantly enough. It was always the same emerging from cryo, not really like waking, more like being summoned from some formless void, Johnson once described it as having your soul poured back into yourself. Something was off though, normally I start to feel my extremities pretty soon after w... | 2 | |
[WP] On a little girl's sixth birthday, she gets one of those "Buy-a-Star" certificates. Soon, scientific breakthroughs make interstellar travel readily available. The planets around her star are inhabited by a powerful empire-- a law-abiding empire. Legally, her certificate checks out. | [
"It had been tracked for weeks as it made its way into the solar system, tracing a long arc at unbelievable speed. First it was thought to be a highly eccentric comet from some part of the Oort cloud; but its unprecedented speed convinced most people that it couldn’t be natural. The remaining few were finally con... | 6 | |
[WP] Every living persons shadow suddenly becomes sentient and malicious. Only night time is safe. | [
"Darkness. It's what everyone sees now a-days. It has been years since people saw light and those that did, well they never lived to tell the tale. Scientist have tried to explain what happened, why our shadows turned against us, but none can. I was a young boy when it happened. I just remember glimpses, perhaps th... | 2 | |
[WP] With the final purpose discovered the last of humanity stands in a circle smiling and joyfully waiting for the end. | [
"As we all looked upon the grandoise light beaming from the skies above. I looked around to my fellow comrades.\n\nJohn was in tears. Weiss was still mindblown and Sera was as happy as I first laid my eyes upon her.\n\n\"Ascension commencing\", we heard in a thunderous roar; as we clasped our hands together as a fo... | 2 | |
[WP] NASA has finally sent a manned mission to Mars, but on their way to their destination, the crew comes across a very different planet... | [
"Day 271. The others on the ship are either preparing mentally for the mission , or sleeping. The planet should be within our sites any moment. Some on the ship have become restless with the monotonous life of being trapped in this tin can. Personally, I like the quiet life in space offered. It is part of the ... | 1 | |
[WP] The Mexican Cartel kidnaps you but you think it's your friends that are taking you to your bachelor party. | [
"I hear a loud knock on the door. I turn to look at the time - 5:36am. \"I'll be there in a second!\" I yell back, jumping out of bed heading to the bathroom. \"Open up!\" I hear a female voice call. More knocks. Who would knock on my door at 5- ohhh. That's right. I take a quick glance in the mirror, and make my w... | 3 | |
[WP] You are on death row when you realise that you are immortal. | [
"I had been brought into a tiny, white room with two security guards and a man in a white lab coat with goggles. There was a large window on one of the walls, and beyond that veil the family of the man I killed sat. A father, a mother, and two boys. The mother had an angry look about her with her arms crossed an... | 2 | |
[WP] You go to sleep at 3:31am. You wake up at the same time the next day. You come to realize that the clock doesn't move, and neither does time. | [
"I couldn't breathe. It was as if someone - something - was suffocating me. My eyes were still squeezed shut, as if held in place by an invisible hand. I tried to suck in the elixir of life, but my mouth and nose would not comply. It felt as if my whole chest was being consctricted, much like an anaconda wrapping... | 2 | |
[WP] A sentient species has lived underground their entire existence. One day, the earth quakes and reveals to them the surface world, and they come in contact to humans for the first time. | [
"\"DDDOOOOOOOMMMMMM DROP THE HAMMER!!!!!!\"\n\nThere was so much testosterone in the air it was tangible\n\nSifhl had lived underground his entire life, and after his home had fallen into the glowing death liquid he had come here to live on the surface. and now he had the pleasure of meeting the notorious humans hi... | 7 | |
[WP] The government faked 9/11 in order to distract us from the fake moon landing | [
"\"In the event of an emergency, Gerald will find you and take you down to ground level. This memorial doubles as an elevator into space. We will be very high off the ground. If you have a fear of heights, try another ride.\"\n\nAll of them had a fear of heights. It was a sign of the times. People didn't want to go... | 2 | |
[WP] Two figures stand outside a door. One says to the other, "I think I'll just go in and not mention it." | [
"\"I think I'll just go in and not mention it.\"\n\n\"Wait....really? How can you not?\"\n\n\"I mean, it's not *that* obvious.\"\n\n\"It is.\"\n\n\"No it's not.\"\n\n\"Yes, it is.\"\n\n\"I'm looking at it right now.\"\n\n\"Oh come on, you can barely see it.\"\n\n\"Dude, it is literally staring me in the face.\"\n\n... | 1 | |
[WP] Write about the life of any historical figure you want, but with one slight difference that would change the course of history. | [
"As I looked across the wasteland that was once the city of Orleans, something changed in me. I felt the weight of history sit upon my shoulders as I reflected on the circumstances that led me here. \n\nIt was the years of strife that Great Britain had been going through after the loss of Canada to the upstart Amer... | 1 | |
[WP] A man without hope is a man without fear. | [
"The command staff was gathered around the holographic terrain board, the cool blues and greens detailing saltwater and rainforest respectively. Scattered throughout the forest were small tokens, a larger sum clustered around the major port on the map the icons listing the details of the forces. Hovering above the ... | 2 | |
[WP] Everything is black and white until you meet your soulmate. Additionally, when your soulmate dies, everything goes back to black and white. | [
"The damp dark road slips it's way beneath me in a blur as I groggily speed alone through the night, racing to get home for nothing more than a cheap microwave meal and sleep. Sixteen hour shifts pay the rent, but I pay the price to live here, in this city, the biggest in the world. Never have a I met her, the perf... | 10 | |
Turns out they're useful for something after all. | [WP] Lovecraftian horrors attack the planet, only to find they have to deal with those alien lizard men conspiracy theorists say already rule the world. | [
"Gods. The country was under attack. Congress was a flurry of activity, a cacophony of desperate sounds. Men who for years only cared about the steadiness of their bribery were now struck by a real crisis. How would we all survive? A law would have to be passed. Surely monsters can be banished, if not by God then b... | 3 |
[WP] Of all the intelligent species scattered throughout the universe, humans are the only ones to fail the "Eden Test", choosing knowledge over life. | [WP] Of all the intelligent species scattered throughout the universe, humans are the only ones to fail the "Eden Test", choosing knowledge over life. | [
"The soles of my old feet began to ache until I couldn't take it no more, I stopped in the middle of that busy footpath and took off my wearable sandwich boards for the last time, my message wasn't listened too. My boards could have read the end of the world was near but they still wouldn't have read it because the... | 6 |
Does he gloat? does he cry? Is it an invasion? Are they friendly? Go nuts please. | [WP] The Ancient Aliens guy was right. How does he respond once humanity finds out? | [
"L Ron Hubbard smiled as he was interviewed by the newscaster of Channel Five News, on a cloudy Wednsday evening.\n\n\"Mr. Hubbard. A new breakthrough seems to be accomplished by he finding o ancient fossiles, which presumably could have been the souls of external life, whic has never been seen in such a form on th... | 1 |
Like normal D-Day except axis powers are invading America instead of Normandy | [WP] Write the story of D-Day from the point of the axis powers if they invaded America | [
"\"Landing in sixty seconds!\"\n\nKlaus vomited over the side of the landing craft.\n\n\"Alright men, this is the greatest invasion in the history of warfare,\" the Oberfeldwebel shouted over the roar of the surf. \"The Americans have been on the retreat for the past two years in Africa and Canada. All we need is o... | 4 |
[WP] A million monkeys at million typewriters won't produce Shakespeare, but the modern cubical farm will summon Cthulhu. It's 2:30pm and Donna has just inadvertently finished the ritual. | [
"When the ground began to shake, she felt her face settling into a blank mask of displeasure.\n\nNo.\n\n*No.*\n\nShe was not dealing with this *again*.\n\nDonna had an unopened canister of expensive imported jasmine tea at home and a cat that liked to lie on her chest and purr like he had new batteries and no off s... | 3 | |
[WP] A man near death can suddenly see his spirit animal | [
"Richard stared at the EKG machine by his bedside with a weak smile. The slow, rhythmic beeping had been the soundtrack to his life for the past month, and he could tell the tune would end soon. The 59 year old father of two began to reflect upon his life, accomplishments, and the poor decisions made along the way ... | 7 | |
[WP] There is a god, but no afterlife. Upon death, every human sees a prerecorderd message from god explaining everything. Humans accidently found a drug which unlocks this message. | [
"From: God\nTo: Deceased Human(s)\n\nHello, friends, families, neighbors, and humans! Welcome to the Waiting Room, where its a bit of a pit stop before continuing to your eternal life of: absolutely nothing.\nYou all have been my bitches for quite a while now, and boy have you all fucked up. But, that's beside the ... | 3 | |
[FF] A photo of you is being shared worldwide. Tell me the story why. [<100 words] | [
"It was a scary image. \n\nSplashed across the news headlines, the websites of the news corporations. Heck, even the radio was reporting on it.\n\nA teenager had disappeared in broad daylight, in front of crowds. Without a trace. Except they hadn’t gone anywhere, but they had disappeared. \n\nThey had gotten it wro... | 4 | |
Write a story describing the main character finding out about the horrific truth.
| [WP] There is actually a good reason the US keeps increasing defense spending. They are actually fighting an interplanetary war for the fate of humanity. And they are losing. | [
"\"Dammit!\" John shouted, \"I'm going to check the solution and try again.\" he mumbled into his mic.\n\n\"Negative, I repeat, negative Ghost Two Two. The risk is too high.\" Io command shouted back. But John ignored it. This is how most people get the Medal of Honor, they do something stupid enough to get in trou... | 11 |
[WP] You come across a genie, who grants you three wishes. However, you cannot be the beneficiary of those wishes. | [
"“Hello,” the blue wisp of smoke said to me as it emerged from my lamp. The smoke cycled through the colors of the rainbow as it materialized before my eyes into a human being. “I am Amani.”\n\nI fell backwards into my chair in the living room, surprised that it had actually worked. I really had found a genie. The ... | 3 | |
Some angles:
A large ship which regularly selects tributes from it's crew.
A ship becomes stranded after its designated tribute dies unexpectedly.
People might train themselves for a whole lifetime for this one sacrifice in the name of exploration.
| [WP] A single person's brain can be utilised as a computer to allow interstellar travel, however, their mind is completely burnt out in the process. | [
"Alone with but the stars for company. Yet even they seem poor, for the black between them is so great. A barren world. A dead crew. A ship. Nay, a cruel jape, a god's joke at my expense. To have the key to my escape, to be so close to freedom, yet unable to use it, unable to taste it, gives me the greatest of angu... | 11 |
I posted this idea on a thread in DnD as a sentence to start of a campaign, figured it may give birth to some fun ideas here ^_^ | [WP] Slay the princess! Save the dragon! | [
"Conrad Fenrine had been promised to protect the princess when he was seven. It had been terrifying and formal—he still remembered the itch of his sleeves, the stiffness of his white collar bordered with gold leaf, the way his father told him to stand straighter.\n\nShe had been in front of him, eight years old and... | 6 |
[WP] The year is 2020. Democracy has 'evolved'. Every Government decision, law and court case is decided by the population via a smartphone app. With in app purchases. | [
"I still remember the day I bought \"Democrapp.\"\n\nI registered to vote with the cellular agencies through a new government program linked through the NSA's data banks, tied with information from the IRS, Social Security Agency, and that was the day that I became part of the problem.\n\n\"Socially empowered\" was... | 2 | |
*Statue. Thanks Swiftkey. | [WP] You have discovered an abandoned city and are the first human in thousands of years to enter. You are half a mile in when you notice that every statute and carving has turned and is smiling at you. | [
"I could feel their eyes, something about them was so profoundly malignant it was hard to think about. \nI could feel their smiles, they were so foreign that they contorted the very material they were made of.\nI could feel their pain, they've seen what vacated this city. They know why they're alone. \n\nI remember... | 9 |
[WP] You volunteerly take part in an experiment, you don't have any sensory inputs anymore and will never have them again, you only have your thoughts. | [
"\"So yes, I am ready...hopefully...\" I muttered.\n\n\"Any last words?\" My colleague winked.\n\n\"It sounds as though you are going to kill me...\" I looked at him.\n\n\"In theory, I am going to...\" He smiled.\n\n\"No regrets, my friend. Good luck with your research...Goodbye.\" I grinned.\n\nSo no pain. Silentl... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a ghost following your zombie body at the start of a zombie apocalypse. | [
"Okay, so being the ghost of a dead person must suck. Like, a dead-dead person. Being the ghost of an undead person sucks enough. I tried to get away from it 'cause, you know, that's know how I want to remember myself. Besides, that sucker stinks. Yeah, I can smell. You know how many things people get wrong about g... | 3 | |
[WP] You summon a succubus using a demonic ritual, it turns out to be the girl who works at the bookstore you frequent. | [
"As the final words of the incantation left my lips, a pink cloud of smoke emerged from the symbol on the ground; the most beautiful feminine form I'd ever seen stepped toward me out of the mist.\n\n\"WHO SUMMONS M- David?\"\n\n\"Monica?!\"\n\nI had gotten to know her over the course of some months at my local book... | 1 | |
[WP] We are alone in the universe... now | [
"\"Noone knows when the wars had started. It must've been millions of years ago. Before we even had our colonies in the helix nebula. But we know one thing.\n\nAt first we fought to defend ourselves from the many galactic empires that wanted the planets owned by us. But after winning the wars and combining our tech... | 2 | |
The piece doesn't need to be fully fleshed out, and it can simply be a character or setting description. Be sure to include the title of the song and the artist at the beginning or the end. | [WP] Use a lyric from a song, or even the whole song, to influence your writing (character/setting/conflict). | [
"*And I took you by the hand*\n\n*and we stood tall*\n\n*Remembered our own land*\n\n*What we stood for.* \n\n- [After the Storm - Mumford & Sons](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3RP1VbUaaA) \n\n--- \n\nZandus watched the crows feast. \n\nHe sat atop a small boulder, overlooking the field of strife. How man... | 11 |
Would you try to break this system or perhaps just cope with the changes? | [WP] People are forced into new relationships every 5 years (regardless of whether the previous one was good or bad). | [
"This stupid government \"system\" is fucking crazy. My first girlfriend was at least bearable, but the one that came after her was out of her mind. She followed me to work and, assumed I didn't notice the same fucking car driving behind me every single day. It was one of those old, yellow cars that my grandma used... | 3 |
That means the story being pointless must actually be funny, and not just in a sort of ironic sense like the Terminator films (if the first or second terminators sent back had succeeded, then the T-X, which paradoxically created Skynet, would never have been sent, so Skynet would never have existed in the first place). | [WP] Write a serious adventure story that turns out to be hilariously pointless | [
"“Shields, up!”\n\nThe shields rose above their heads, just in time for the spines to come crashing upon them. Sir Seamus gave another crisp command, at which the shields were lowered so the archers could fire upon the manticore.\n\nEveryone knew that arrows could not harm the manticore. Only a blade belonging to a... | 2 |
Won't or can't?
Can't: bullets bounce off, knives won't penetrate, poison is ineffective, etc...
Won't: Trying to pull a trigger but finger just won't move, punches lose all impetus before landing, etc..
How does the world change? What do all those folks who used to resort to violence do now? | [WP] The world wakes up one morning to discover that humans are no longer able to intentionally inflict harm on one another. | [
"They walk us through the camp, my hand cuffed to his. Just two prisoners this time. It's a straight road for miles, soldiers walking around, seemingly harmless except for the machine guns hung around their chest. This guy smells strangely... Nice. Almost like Chanel or Armani. Last thing I recall is seeing two doo... | 3 |
[WP] Write a story where only on the second reading you realize the main character is insane. | [
"\"Baby, why don't you put your hair up the way I like? We can go to that new bar down the road. It will be the way it used to be, just you and me, crazy and young.\" Martin scrutinised Bella as he held her waist, she stayed stiff and silent with a sad distant look in her eye, a tear sitting in the corner. Somethin... | 2 | |
[WP] You are. Slowly. Turning into. William Shatner. Explain. Your situation. To your doctor. | [
"I ran into the Doctor's office as quickly as I could. I could feel the Shatner taking over my body. Already I was swaying back and forth like I was on the bridge of the Enterprise. I ran to the elevator and got on-board. I was sweating profusely. \n\n\"Sick bay\" I said panting. The woman next to me looked at me f... | 1 | |
[WP] Your best friend is a scientist at DARPA. One day he shows up holding a cape and mask. He tells you he needs your help. | [
"Immediately after I open the door, he gives me a Kramer entrance. I've never seen him move so fast, he's a hefty guy and he runs out of breath easily. I close the door and watch him as he sets up his laptop on my coffee table. \"What's with all the equipment?\"\n\nHe waves me over to him. I sit down across from hi... | 4 | |
[WP] After the impact of a shooting star outside her home, and old woman hears something lumber out of the sea. | [
"It was a quiet night, as so many were since Henry's death, when Wilma stepped out onto her deck and looked out at the sea. She leaned against the wooden railing and watched the waves continue their endless cycle. A bright light appeared in the dark sky, causing Wilma to look up. \n\nThree balls of fire were falli... | 4 | |
[WP] All mankind lives on floating continents that slowly orbit the planet. Continents might come in contact with each other once in hundreds or thousands of years. Contact is about to be made between two very different continents with very different societies. | [
"As Jace lifted his stunned and bruised body from the mass of dust and sharp rocks, he noticed that the cannons were ready to let out their load unto the ether, to cast the spell of destruction onto the bastards that had caused this trainwreck. \n\nSlowly, but surely, he got up. \"Uuurg.\" He let out muffled cries ... | 5 | |
[WP] In a world where children are born with supernatural abilities, a child is born with seemingly no power. It isn't until he grows up that everyone realizes what he can really do. | [
"Can it get any worse?\n\nTurn 12, get your powers. Thats how it's supposed to go. Discover you can fly, talk to animals, generate electricity, something exciting, hopefully. Though I've seen some powers not so exciting. Making spiders dance, speeding up the grass growing, that sort of thing. I'd say that I have it... | 5 | |
[WP] Generations after the end of civilization, surviving human tribes are hunting mechanical horses for solar batteries and spare parts, much like millenia ago they were hunting for meat and bone. | [
"That I knew of, there were three other tribes. And that was the thing - if there were more, we didn't know. Our grandparents would talk of a time of five tribes, and how theirs in turn of a land without tribes at all. And we knew this to be true - their ruins remained, scouring the land, leaving us gifts. The Ance... | 2 | |
[WP] A man wakes in a dark room. After fumbling around, he manages to turn on a light. He is not alone. | [
"A serene sleeper to say the least. He woke without skipping a beat. Without a sound. If something was amiss, he couldn't tell. But he absolutely needed to reach the lights. The only audible noise in the room; the routine exhale of a breath he knew couldn't be his own. His heart slammed against his chest with... | 13 | |
[WP] While traveling you notice that the passenger next to you is, in fact, the Devil himself. How does your ride go? | [
"I always like to have conversations with the people I'm next to on a train. Smooth, comfortable travel with some people you're stuck with for a while, combined with people you're never going to see again. You can have completely open conversations without any reservation, any fear they'll come around and recognize... | 2 | |
[WP] After eating at a restaurant overseas in a remote village you discover that the meal you have just consumed was human flesh. After weeks go by you feel you are finally overcoming this horrible experience when the craving and need for more completely consumes your thoughts. | [
"**Part I**\n\nFrom the beginning, I had been reluctant to agree to a three-week gourmet tour of western China. Usually I’m happy ordering sweet and sour from the Panda Palace once a month, delivered by a Chinese kid on an old bike two sizes too large, so the thought of – what, camel’s feet, rabbit offal? – made me... | 2 | |
[WP] Earth finds itself caught between two warring interplanetary empires, vastly more powerful than humanity can contend with. Both sides have offered an alliance, provided we aid them in fighting their enemy. | [
"\"Hitler or Stalin?\" The Vice President has become, in these times, a surprising voice of cool reason mixed with dry wit.\n\nTheir languages don't translate well into ours, so popular opinion has given them names we can understand. If either side has noticed it they can't be bothered to care. What did the Europea... | 7 | |
[WP] Challenge: Take any unsolved scientific question (e.g., What is dark matter? Why do we sleep?) and explain it in the most fantastical, outrageous, but still logically consistent, manner possible | [
"\"Daddy, why do we need to sleep?\"\n\n\"Well you see Timmy, that's not a very easy question to answer, but there *is* an answer. Are you ready for it?\"\n\n\"Yeah Daddy!\"\n\n\"Okay, so when you sleep, your body starts to relax and your brain--that's the funky stuff inside of your head--starts to organize all of ... | 7 | |
[WP] Every dream you have ever had has come true. You have just awoken from the worst nightmare you have ever had. | [
" A cold sweat settled onto my skin. I sat straight up in a mess of comforters and throw blankets. Oh, it was awful. The worst one yet. Sure, I've had the occasional 'miss the bus and end up late to class in my pajamas', and of course the classic 'oh my god that's a huge spider', but this was terrifying. And wit... | 3 | |
Annoying, but someone posted this writing prompt and immediately took it down before I could post my submission.
Not sure if this is allowed, but I really don't want my efforts to be wasted. | [WP] A loved one recently passed away. Months later, you come obtain a parrot that mimics the last words your deceased loved one spoke to you. | [
"These Surgery Wars are horrible. As in all wars, so many die and more are injured. My lover was among the first, I among the second. That's why I have a parrot grafted to my left shoulder. Our Grand Surgeon was... well, when we got casualties his first order was to confiscate all pets and farm animals. I'm lucky, ... | 2 |
just has to include this line in it somewhere | [WP] "Call me Reagan - not that that's my name." | [
"The peeling, chipped walls of the warehouse were the first thing I saw as the blindfold was ripped off my face. I tried to move, realizing in anguish that I was tied to a chair. \n\n\"Fuck,\" I breathed, twisting my neck to glare around the building.\n\nIt was large and fairly deserted. Decomposing boxes and chair... | 3 |
[WP] everyone has a clock on their wrist that tells how long they have until they die yours states a negative number | [
"I remember the day vividly, I woke up, got something to drink and read the paper. I had recently invested in a new watch. The watch that I had before the government supplied. I had it for my whole life. I had never been payed too much, so this was a big achievement to buy a new watch. It states the time of day and... | 2 | |
[WP] A bomb went off during the Oscars. | [
"It was time. I was about to hear my name on the jumbo speakers. I had been waiting all night. Best Indie Recording artist award was about to happen. The event was so gigantic, sadly the lower popularity artists were at the very back of the packed arena. Most awards had been given out, but it was my time. My favour... | 2 | |
[WP]You're a 20 year old North Korean student when the citizens of North Korea are exposed to the "real" world. | [
"\"Impossible! You will never kill the Glorious Leader! He's invincible!\" I cried out to the stands above. Today, there was a UN sponsored speech. \nA slender man, draped in a white suit, with an even whiter goatee, looked at the crowd, and proclaimed that everything we know is wrong. \"After the Korean War, almos... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a doctor who can save any patient, no matter what the problem is or how far gone they are. The catch: you must take a life in order to save a life that is beyond the reach of conventional medicine. | [
"The Healer:\n\n\nI was exhausted the night the little girl came into my room in the emergency department. She was in a bad way, bleeding from her ears and nose and mouth. I heard on the radio before she arrived her condition and the consensus amongst we nurses and our doctors was that she was short of this world. ... | 2 | |
[WP] Every year during hunting season, deer convene in secret areas of the forest to avoid being shot by hunters. Deer "criminals" are then left to fend for themselves during this time, and you are one of those looking to survive. | [
"Once, there was green everywhere. The world was wreathed in it. The air smelled of it, and the river reflected it. It is still, but if one looks hard enough, one can see that its edges are fraying and blurring grey and black and soot and bone.\n\n*Was his crime so unforgivable. To leave the green and return smelli... | 2 | |
[WP] The world ended in 2012, the past three years have been an elaborate dream constructed by your mind whilst your body heals. You are the first to awaken. | [
"It was painful, at first. Waking up.\nKind of like I wasn't used to it.\n\nMy head hurt like a bitch, and I jerked up into a sitting position, pressing a hand to my forehead and groaning. How much had I drank, last night? I wasn't a huge drinker, but it was a weekend, I was celebrating with my boyfriend and there ... | 3 | |
[WP] You finally return a game you borrowed from your friend five years ago. | [
"Plastic crescents broken \nWishing for more time \nWhat we once were \n. \nWhite blank stare \nGreen lines \nSkittering like spiders \n. \nFingernails clean and crisp \nJust like five years ago \nWhen you cried at the front door \n. \n\"Visiting hours are over\" \nMy ears full of honey and sand \nWar... | 6 | |
Can't use these words: Heart, Sad, Dark, Anger, Cry, Tears, Black. Or any words that are manipulations of those words such as Darkness, Heartbreak, etc. | [WP] Make me cry in 50 words or less, but don't use certain words. | [
"We were playing a plot twist game, each person gets a line. Starts with line one, rest is improv. S is my girlfriend, H is me.\nS: \"He shut the door behind him.\"\nH: \"On the robber's ankle, hearing a loud crack.\"\nS: \"He laughed a sinister laugh.\"\nH: \"He turned around to -\"\nS: \"To find out that it was h... | 3 |
[WP] The fly floating in your drink isn't really a fly at all. | [
"I'm playing dead. I'm floating in someone's drink and playing dead. Why? Because I look like a stupid fly and when this moma's boy sees me he's going to freak out and make a scene. This will lead to series of events that will change everything. It's all part of a plan. \n\n\nSo here's how it's going to unravel. He... | 2 | |
[WP] You meet someone for the first time, and somehow instantly know it's the love of your life. | [
"I saw him first walking through the restaurant, I didnt know he worked there.\nI had only just started, my first day on the job and I couldnt take my eyes off him.\nI heard him telling stories and jokes, the most outrages things I had ever heard but he was funny and I could see he was putting up a front.\nHe had w... | 2 | |
[WP] You are the first human to use a teleporter. | [
"Upon materialization, there's a three second pause prior to consciousness kicking in. The transported hang in suspended animation, eyes rolled into the backs of their heads, waiting for the cosmic snap of the soul to once more find its perch. The longer the distance, the longer the delay, with a maximum calculat... | 2 | |
[WP] And in this last moment of clarity... | [
"I looked up and saw only the cool, unwavering glare of Alan Alda.\n\"Oh god. It all makes sense now. You sick fuck. \" I muttered, as Alan Alda kneeled beside me. \n\"You know, I was in the Aviator!\" Alda responded\n\"P-please. I can find someone, anyone else.\"\n\"Now, Leonardo DiCaprio was a little intimidating... | 2 | |
Explain why or the ramifications of this discovery. | [WP] A way to speak to unborn children is invented. Following this scientific discovery the abortion rate increases 10 fold. | [
"There was a little plus sign on the pregnancy test.\n\n.\n\nImmediately, my wife, Helen, began discussing the \"procedure\", hardly containing herself. \"Talking\" with your unborn child was quickly becoming the latest fad. It had only been legal for a couple weeks, but already, thousands and thousands of \"proc... | 5 |
[WP]"The minute I pressed that button, everything changed. The second I pressed that button, people cheered. The day I pressed that button was the worst day of my life" | [
"It had been done. The struggle was finished. The roads would open; strife would cease; the squares in which men had paraded would be strewn with flowers. And equality was behind us. Our lives’ work was over. \n\nI looked round the room. Every head was bowed around the table, every eye looking without seeing at the... | 7 | |
[WP] An army of main characters go to battle... | [
"Ever hear the phrase, ''Never share a foxhole with a hero?\" I have. Other thing is, I can't help but not do that here. This army's full of 'em. Damn heroes flashing their damned medals like it's a parade or somethin. I'm just trying to survive out here. Name's Stroud by the by. Major, 2-6 RTI. Anyway, here we are... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a space merchant on a way to a nearby system and fly by a star being devoured by a black hole. Your 8-year old son points at the black hole and asks you "Daddy, what is that thing?" | [
"I posted mine on my [blog](http://gloriestostories.blogspot.com)!\n\nJared’s new ship, the venarian swept through space at breakneck speeds, moving from one colony to the next. He was a spare part merchant scavenging for materials on dead planets long abandoned selling parts to whoever would buy. Times were tough,... | 5 | |
[WP] The Statue of Liberty was sent over by France full of soldiers as a Trojan horse type attack and it worked wonders. It's modern day and France is the boss, go! | [
"*October 28th, 1886.*\n\nPresident Cleveland gripped the podium, his speech had been going well. He had been told of the statue's magnificence, but to stand in its shadow was breath-taking. He was awed by the beautiful gesture of friendship from France to the United States. And today, after many years of planning,... | 1 | |
[WP] Your mom calls, she needs her computer wizard. Help your mom defuse a bomb over the phone. | [
"\"Okay, Mom, so do you have your wirecutters?\"\n\n\n\"I don't know, your Dad's toolbox is all messed up. He never puts anything back where he's supposed to.\"\n\n\n\"The long handled ones, Mom. They should have blue, long handles, and end with a sharp miniature pair of scissors.\"\n\n\n\"Oh! The tiny scissors!\"\... | 2 | |
[WP] You wake up to the news that every human on Earth has been transformed into a random animal, including yourself. You realize that your spouse is now the species your own species is programmed to hate and kill. | [
"*First response here! :D Probably not the best one, but hey, I tried.*\n\nI felt a chill run up my naked leg as I stretched my body. The morning was cold, and I could just hear the raindrops fall on my roof. It felt good knowing that I could sleep longer, since it was a weekend and I had no work today. I rolled to... | 2 | |
[WP] "Come find me when you wake up." | [
"\"Come find me when you wake up.\"\n\nThe problem is she wasn't sure if she was awake now or sleeping. The last what she believed to be 48 hours had been a trip through caves dripping with jewels and forests made out of bones. She had stumbled through deserts and swamp through oceans and she was no closer to wakin... | 2 | |
[WP] The person seated at the restaurant does not eat, speak or drink. A closer inspection would reveal they are wearing a realistic mask whose lips are sealed. | [
"I recognized him in less than ten seconds. He was gorgeous, sitting at a table in the far back corner. He had perfect, effortlessly tousled hair, a chiseled jawline that could rival Greek sculpture, and skin that appeared almost like porcelain. He didn’t see me at first, or at least I don’t think he did, he didn’t... | 2 | |
[WP] You are turning 18 tomorrow in a world where the father is killed on the eldest son's 18th birthday. | [
"I never thought that I would be horrified that this day would come. I mean, I've always anticipated this to come, but in my situation right now, I might as well stay a baby forever.\n\nI, Jeffrey Stanford, am turning 18 today. Surely you would be surprised that I fear such a day, but you don't understand.\n\nYou s... | 3 | |
Reverse the genders if necessary.
Just saw this on a soap opera. Bring on the feels. | [WP] A young woman tries to help her amnesiac ex to regain his memory. | [
"\"Bennett?\" \n\nI always knew when no one else was left, I would be the last one there for him. I hadn't even made a cameo at a party in five years, and never once with him, yet there I was, holding his head in my lap, brushing my fingers through his fine blonde hair. \n\n\"Baby, wake up,\" I whispered into his e... | 2 |
[WP] In order to prevent the end of civilisation, you travel back in time. The event you have to prevent from happening at any cost: Leonardo DiCaprio winning an Oscar. | [
"The man deserved it. Hell, he was the only contender for the Oscar that could be considered even *remotely* good. It just made it that much harder to deny him his prize.\n\n...\n\nIt feels strange, typing this on the internet. I mean, I took classes to train in internet operation, but there's really nothing tha... | 11 | |
[WP]: An old man about to die full of regrets tries to strike a deal with Death, but instead of being reborn, he ends up as a voice inside his younger self's head | [
"Aside from hospital staff, nobody had been to visit since Robert was admitted. He desperately wished that someone - anyone - from his past would come to say goodbye. But the last week in the hospital had left him with plenty of time to reflect, and he knew no one would come. \n\nHe drifted off to sleep, hoping tha... | 4 | |
This is a prompt I'm doing as a writing exercise in my own life, but I would love to see what others could write about. I'd prefer to see non-fiction responses (If rules of subreddit allow.) But fiction will be welcome as well. Try to preface your response with [Fiction]/[Non-Fiction] followed by paragraph break.
Edit:... | [WP] I saw something beautiful today..... | [
"I'll post what I've done from my exercise so far, might post the rest when I write them. \n\n[Non-fiction] \n\nEntry 1:\n-----------------------------------\nI saw something beautiful today. I saw a trying soul. Struggling against beliefs trying to find a light. Trying to find a flame, without realizing it burns h... | 6 |
Added Challenge: use only titles of songs, or limit yourself to a single band or album. | [WP] Write a story using only lyrics from songs. | [
"Hello, do you remember, the days? Singing in the rain, counting stars, airplanes -Sidetracked, by the grace of god, hard to explain- You brought me back to life, loved me back to life, Because of you, I am, finally free.\nSo happy together, walking on sunshine, lovin' you, then he kissed me.\n\n\"Hey you beautiful... | 3 |
[WP] A History teacher in the distant future tries to explain to the class what living in a world with human mortality was like. | [
"\"The last human to die involuntarily was Rog'r Masen, on October 17th 2368, of multiple organ failure. Since cell rejuvenation technology was classified as a human right by the World Health Coalition 17 years ago no involuntary deaths have been recorded. It has been found in multiple studies to be a highly effi... | 2 | |
[WP] Instead of Harry Potter being born, a girl who looked exactly like Lily was born. Describe any scene from the books from this perspective | [
"\"Do you remember me telling you we are practicing nonverbal spells, Potter?\"\n\n\"Yes.\"\n\n\"Yes, sir.\"\n\n\"I'd rather be called m'am than sir, professor.\"\n\nThe rest of the class roared in laughter. Ron snorted like a plump summer's pig while Hermione clasped her hands over her mouth, trying to stifle a ga... | 2 | |
[WP]: The entirety of human race is doomed by a drunk man throwing a fork | [
"It was not the first time he threw a fork. Or even used a fork to harm one of them. Just this time he was drunk. And because he was drunk he missed his mark. Sure the others tried to defend the humans and him. Mostly due to their love of him and the media of earth. \n\nBut seriously, throwing a fork at Cthulhu was... | 2 | |
[WP] A world of the living, ruled by the dead. | [
"The closer the singularity drew, the more money the rich threw at achieving it. And achieve it they did. Soon all the functions of society were automated and owned. No manpower behind it. Just machines. Machines owned by the rich. At first it wasn't so bad. Everything was cheap. Everyone lived in luxury, and the r... | 2 | |
I want to see what you guys can do with a nonsensical prompt. I believe in you. | [WP] How many shoes? | [
"Another day of grey skies, broken by lancing shafts of sunlight. \nThe garden was doing much better this year; there had been little snow this summer, only a dusting, and she'd rescued the tomatoes before they'd been nipped by the frost. On good days like this she could sometimes shrug off her layers of coats and... | 3 |
[WP] A man steps into an elevator and pushes the button for the lobby. The elevator begins to descend. Four hours later, it's still desending. | [
"John blew out a breath. It had been four hours, or so his watch said. He half-suspected the thing was running slow, and it had really been twenty-four. \n\nHe sighed. The lights were flickering every few minutes now, and his phone didn't have any signal - yet it's battery was draining, down to sixty-six percent no... | 2 | |
Basically, our current brain is our "soul's brain", and we've never listened to our "body's brain" because we could never hear it/use it. | [WP] It turns out that our soul has a brain and our body has a brain, but we've always used our soul's brain. The body's brain starts to show itself. | [
"\"James, listen to me, it is time we had a little talk,\" something resounded through me, my nerves tingling. \n\n\"Who..who's there?\" I replied, though speaking out loud to address a voice I heard inside of me seemed illogical to me at the time.\n\n\"For a long time I didn't know how to talk to you, and in fact ... | 2 |
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