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	[WP] You are a medic on the frontlines in time of war. You are alone and have your guard down when an enemy combatant approaches you, injured, and pleads weakly for help.	[ "Standard convoy for combat mission. 3 HMMWV, each armed with mounted 240B. No more ma deuce. \"Not that kind of mission anymore.\" Fucking generals. If we're still gettin shot at, it's still \"that kind of mission\". \n\nCap comes on over comms. Our RTO confirms. Brakes. Dismount. Circular perimeter. Take a knee. ...	13
	[WP] You are the starship captain from another race on guard duty near a preserve called "The Shroud," an otherwise boring, spherical field of icy rocks light-years from any known inhabited world. You've just detected an object: The Voyager II probe exiting the Shroud.	[ "\"More space junk exiting the Shroud, Captain.\"\n\nI sighed... The shroud had been an intergalactic dumping ground for eons prior to the treaty of VORLH'GRR 3, which declared this half of the Shroud as a 'nature preserve'. Lots of junk floated out of the Shroud. But due to the strange customs of the planet VORLH,...	2
	[WP] You attend your own funeral	[ "Late again. \"Come on, come on,\" I screamed at the stop light. Would the thing ever change? Finally it went green---right as a couple was having a 'moment' in front of my car. Get a room, people are trying to drive here! I grabbed my cellphone, was there still no reception? Still none! I shook my fist, as ...	11
	[WP] You are executed by guillotine. Your severed head remains alive and fully functioning.	[ "The French Revolution was, for those who remembered it, a necessary horror. It was the outcome of a long tradition of oppression running up against the modern ideals of equality and human rights. A new vision of the future burbled up out of the peasantry and painted Paris red, and marked Western Civilization for...	2
	[WP] The demons of Hell stage a strike during one of their busiest days. The Devil has to come up with a solution quickly.	[ "Lucifer, Ruler of the Darkness, clenched his right hand into a fist, tightening the grip with each second. He felt the resistance of the skin on his palm growing as sharpened nails dug into it. After a few seconds, the resistance gave way and his nails broke the skin. He felt fresh, warm blood pool beneath his fin...	2
	[WP] ... all because the timer hit 0.	[ "3..2..1..0.. \n\nIt's done, I've been careful this time. I don't enjoy them burnt. It's all been worth it though, especially after so many attempts. This is the 16th attempt, cooking was never my thing, so I've tried a variety of methods. I've gone raw, burnt, and even frozen, I think this one is it though. I bite...	2
	[WP] Whenever any person dies, an unmoveable monument appears where they died for 100 days.	[ "Monday Apr 6th\n\nI mean I can totally understand why a lot of people didn't want to rent the apartment.\n\nBut I found that if I just balance a large piece of glass across all four of them, it works pretty well as a coffee table.\n\nAnd so now I'm paying only $1200/month for a 2000-square ft place, and it's rig...	11
	[wp] a drunk millionaire attempted to buy a waitress at a hotel.	[ "\"Heyyy, Titsh!\"\n\n\"Wow! That was fast. Usually customers are less direct. You must be drunk.\"\n\n\"Nawwwwwww hic namesh...namesh Bildoran, Mikey A. Bildoran, not hic drunk\".\n\n\"You can be both. Wait, Bildoran? The billionaire investor?\"\n\n\"At'sh me, don't hic weariddout hic. Ya...how much're ya ...	3
Revolution time.	[WP] The Oompa-Loompas stage a coup at Willy Wonka's chocolate factory.	[ "\"WE SHALL NOT STAND FOR OPPRESSION!\" a zealous oompa-loompa yelled.\n\nA chorus of cheers met his cries.\n\n\"EVERYONE, SAY IT WITH ME: DOWN WITH WONKA!\"\n\nThe large crowd of orange men met his request fervently. Ever since the new owner Charlie Bucket took over the factory, everything had gone bad. The worke...	1
	[WP] "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and Texas."	[ "Texas.\n\nDamn.\n\nThe wind through the main street of El Paso whistled a single note of desperate loneliness and hopelessness. Tumbleweeds careening past the rubberneckers made them look like statues. Everyone in the town was turned out, to witness me coming to the end of my rope. Mac MacMillon, his dark bushy ey...	4
	[WP] Gather round, and let me tell you the tale of The Thief who stole life back from Death Itself!	[ "It was the great winter of the year of 1835. It was one of Russia's coldest and most cruel winters ever; aristocrat and proletariat suffering alike. This is but one account of thousands of youths last moments in this epidemic of flu. The glorification of this boy's last moment was an attempt to compensate an entir...	6
	[WP] Laser bears.	[ "\"Laser bears,\" the general repeated dryly. He looked as unimpressed as he sounded. \n\nI shuffled my feet anxiously, then answered, \"W-well, yes sir. You see, casualties have been far to high recently. On our side that is.\"\n\n\"I'm aware that the Russians casualties are not 'too high.'\" He interjected. I did...	2
	[WP] You wake up in a new Bugatti	[ "Horrible clarity of pain burnt through the muddled clouded thoughts, gasping suddenly and clawing the wet patches of his body parts Richard struggled not to scream in agony and terror. His assailants may yet be around still and likely determined to finish their grisly work. The man who's car he sheltered in sat de...	2
	[WP]: Gradually, you have become aware of the true nature of your existence: you are a video game NPC. Eventually, you encounter the game's protagonist, and your status changes.	[ "\"Oh gods, what have I done?\" I stared at my blade, dripping crimson as it bit deep into its still startled victim. Everything went dark.\n\nI was not made to be a hero, a fact that I came to terms with some time ago. Nobody I have ever known was made to be either. This almost painfully evident in Ives: a town bu...	8
	[WP] The Three Little Pigs sue the Big Bad Wolf for property damage.	[ "fun thing is I was in a play about this\n\nthis (and a number of other fairy tale characters suing the big bad wolf) is a play called The Big Bad by I think it's called Pioneer Entertainment\n\nIt's actually pretty clever, but not so good when performed by 6th graders.", "The gravel indicated that the trial had ...	4
	[WP]Your son asks you about "The Giants with glass eyes"	[ "Dad was a nuclear physicist for the Navy in his thirties. He'd send letters home sometimes, and being a lonesome eight year old I'd check the mailbox every morning to see if a new one came. After a few years, they stopped making sense. Dad would talk about these monstrous sea creatures that the ship sonar would pi...	1
	[WP] God shows up /r/athiesm. He writes a post entitled "I exist."	[ "I am just a redditor and there are many , many and many subreddits out there and I was curious about this specific one \" Atheism \" , never visited it or even looked at it cause , Let's face it , Is an endless discussion if God is real or not . I clicked it and wait for the page to load . So I went to get a coffe...	2
	[WP] Story about the horrors of Wal-Mart at night	[ "Mindy had not stopped for twenty full minutes now. Mike sat slumped with his hand pressed firmly against his right cheek. Without saying a word he stood up and began to walk towards the door. Mindy pursuing him with her lips now just inches from his ear *\"Why didn't you pick up what I told you? Dinner is ruined a...	2
	[WP] A Harvard graduate couldn't find a job for months, he decides to apply for a job the mafia.	[ "Application after application. Copy and paste 100 times over. Right click. craigslist.com. The same routine for 6 months! First name, John. Last name, FUCKING OVER IT! I couldn't do it anymore. All the lies and bullshit I thought would happen with a fuck shit degree in Biochemistry. Sleepless nights of study, stre...	2
	[WP] The monster under your bed is really a good guy.	[ "My name is Sayid. I'm 23 years old and I'm utterly afraid of the dark. Before you hold any judgement, please, let me tell you what my life has been like lately. I work at a cafe during the days- I am the best employee they have, working almost every day of the week and I never complain about coming in early or sta...	6
The disappearance is painless and instantaneous, and there is no explanation. How would this affect interpersonal relationships? For reference, the population drop happens pretty fast. After a week, 50% of people are gone. After a month, only 4% of all people are left. After 6 months, there are less than 100 peopl...	[WP] Every night, at 3:30 AM, exactly 10% of the worlds population permanently and inexplicably disappears, leaving behind nothing but a pile of clothes. What would you do, or how would society deal with this?	[ "\"We are the last of the human race, the impure have been taken from us. Only the exalted live as the impure are taken from us by the god above. It started everywhere, in the middle of the night people vanished because of their sins. Join me in worshipping the great cleanse, the creator above has left the world to...	8
	[WP] You wake up to find a post it note on your computer monitor, It holds a warning...	[ "With a blink I would adjust my glasses, leaning forward and getting a better look at the sticky note. I do not remember writing this one. I normally just write down my notes on a word document, but something about this sticky note stuck to my monitor made me wonder. All it said is \"WARNING! Do not plug in the dri...	1
	[WP] Capture the feeling of watching a storm rage from the safety of a windowsill	[ "A distant rumble caught her attention as she waited before the window. The steady slew of raindrops coming down the windowsill, hundreds at a time, gave the world outside a nice little blurry filter. The sound of wind managed to come howling in through some unprotected corner. Curled up in a plush little pink blan...	9
	[WP] A slasher villain keeps trying to kill people, but they are too genre savvy to fall for it.	[ "The poker games were happening more and more often. Usually everybody was way too busy to all be there. They'd have to wait for Jason to \"drown\" again, or for all the kids on Elm Street to forget about Freddy. Michael's sister had gone into witness protection years ago and he hadn't even had a glimpse of her sin...	4
Example: Tell me about the extremely tall, spotted creatures you found on the savanna that you call “long horses.”	[WP] You “discover” a very well-known species in the wild. Study and describe it as if it’s never been seen before now.	[ "Earth was a strange and alien place to the Helcrons, natives of the high-gravity planet Helcrus. For one thing, the plants grew to impossibly monstrous sizes. In their first few weeks on the planet, researchers saw individual plants reaching over 15 meters in height, and the environmental scans showed that they co...	4
	[WP] Due to some twist of fate, you never lose a bet or gamble. You've been banned from casinos, lotteries and horse races, and bookies know your name. Until one day you make a critical gamble, and lose.	[ "Asher continued to flip through his box of unused scratchies; he claimed one weekly to check that he could still do it. He hadn’t needed to used this power of his properly since the economic fall of 2008. He had successfully paid off everyone who could rat him out; he made almost too much money on stocks and bonds...	3
	[WP] Write a story about a superhero, but make me sympathize with the villain.	[ "The Blue Knight smashed the mech to pieces in the street. The helpless businessman did his best to run away, but the Hero was a blur through the air. Fingers wrapped around his wrist and he couldn't move. \n\n\"You are a traitor to the empire and you're coming with me!\" The Blue Knight took them both into the sk...	2
What is a dragon and why are they secrets and what have the done? Spin us your tales, dear bards! I'd love to see unusual definitions of what a dragon is too :-)	[WP] You discover the secret that dragons are very very real and have had a major impact on modern history.	[ "Well, r/conspiracy was right. Who the fuck ever thought that sentence would be said without sarcasm? Everybody's always going on about the \"Lizard People.\" They run the government, and Hollywood, and the Jews. President Bush is a lizard person, and Michael Jackson was a Lizard Person, and that weird professor in...	3
	[WP] You are a writer who is struggling with writer's block.	[ "And we all know, dear friends, that I am no writer. I am a sitter. These stories of mine are nothing, they will forever live in my head. Oh, but how they want to come out. I feel as if I'm receiving signals, messages, from other places and it haunts me. It keeps me up at night.\n\nThere are these other people out ...	2
How does he react?	[WP] In a world where finding your soulmate grants you both immortality, an 80 year old man's wife suddenly dies, meaning he faces imminent death	[ "So he gives her mouth to mouth for the first time in two decades and then gives her pumps to the chest to resuscitate her heart movements with his bare hands. She coughs and spits up mucus but after fourteen pumps and the nervousness of someone that just hasn't given much thought to knowing what the opposite of co...	10
	[WP] A person manages to turn their life around just in time for an apocalyptic event.	[ "Diary of Leonard Edward\n\nSince I was in middle school I was bullied for my looks. At first, I ignored it. Thinking it would pass. It did not. All through highschool and till the end of college, I was picked on for the way I looked and acted.\n\nI had enough. It was my 26th birthday and hadn't even had a single...	4
First prompt. Hoping this would be a funny one!	[WP] 4chan and Tumblr are dating.	[ "Neither of us wanted to be here, that was clear from the moment she slumped down in the seat across from me and set to adjusting her ridiculous hair. Fucking Reddit and his cupid-playing, I should’ve seen this coming. Still, she’s cute, in a scary sort of way. I lean forward, resting my elbows on the table, and se...	2
	[WP] Whenever you take a shower, you always press a random number of shower tiles, imagining that you'll activate a secret code and gain access to some secret lair. Today, you press the tiles in the correct order.	[ "The rotten wall finally crumbled, following the myriad attempts of extracting some nonsense out of the multi-coloured tiles, so typical of mid-1960’s dwelling.\n\nMy foot was covered with bits of mortar and the tiny tiles, while the wall disappointingly showed some studs who could have been the province of a colon...	7
	[WP] A world where diseases, instead of giving harmful signs and symptoms in the body, gives superhuman powers instead.	[ "From my seat I can only see my mom's hair. It's still. Whenever she drove us, her hair would always sway. She would always nod to her music, or stretch her head to check on us. But not today. It's like she was frozen in that moment. \nI looked over to my brother, he was playing with his toy T-Rex, oblivious to ...	4
	[WP] You're a piece of Belgian chocolate. It's winter, and you've been left on a rooftop. You're okay now, but summer is coming...	[ "It has been very cold.\nThey left me here, long ago back when I was young.\nAll I've been able to see is the endless expanse of white, stretching out forever in all directions. Each snowflake falling on me is like a hammer, forever pounding against my soul. \nI do not know why they left me here, those cruel unjust...	2
	[WP] The Quarantine Zone is the only safe place on Earth. So why does nobody want to go there?	[ "“Alright,” Dianne said, wrapping a bandage around Jake’s abdomen, “Lean up—there we go—alright, it’s going to be alright.”\n\nJake made no response. The stick had driven straight through.\n\n“Jake,” she straightened his dozing head. “It’ll be just fine—come on, we’ll make it to the quarantine, it’s not too far fro...	4
	[WP] You adopt a beautiful dog from a shelter, although they seem a little shy. After you get home and spend your first day together, you realize just how badly the damage on their mind from their first owner is.	[ "A home isn't a home without a dog, that's what my friend always says anyway. I just got my first house, my cat is not pleased but he will get over it. I kept a cat because cats are fine in apartments, quiet, clean, intellegent, self potty trained. But i always wanted a dog, a Siberian Husky actually. I fell in lov...	2
	[WP] Your user name is your superhero name/power, and you are in the climactic battle against your greatest nemesis. How did your childhood friendship escalate to this?	[ "In a cloud of white, whipping with a wintry ferocity, a blizzard attempted to smother a black stack of smoke that floated desperately upward, vying for freedom. Underneath this gaseous war, huddled around a small fire, was an ancient man encased in layers and layers of leather and fur, fighting to stay alive. Blin...	5
	[WP] Every morning you wake up you are a different age,sex, and race.	[ "Every day. Someone different. Always moving, changing. I know what it's like to be a man or a woman. Gay or straight. Black or white or in-between. I have been them all. I've almost forgotten myself in this chaos. I don't know who I was. But sometimes I get flashbacks. And I think that maybe living a thousand live...	2
	[WP] You have just died and Death has given you a challenge. if you complete this challenge you are awarded eternal life. No one has ever completed this task... yet.	[ "\"And so then, he said to me 'If you can manage to literally have sex with yourself, i'll let you live foreve- ... Oh, oh what the fu-, what are you doing?'\n\nAnd he was just flipping out cause apparently no one had done it before.\" Keanu said as he drowned out his cup. \n\n\n\"No wonder he said 'Not again' when...	9
	[WP] Humans are no longer at the top of the food chain. There is now a new, vicious predator that has decided humans are its prey.	[ "When I was a kid whenever I'd feel small or lonely I'd look up at the stars. Wondered if there was life up there. Turns out I was looking in the wrong direction. When alien life entered our world it was from deep beneath the Pacific Ocean. A fissure between two tectonic plates. A portal between dimensions. The Bre...	6
	[WP] You are in a tree and can observe everything happening below you, but you cannot be seen	[ "I've always been a schemer.\n\nI look for inspiration anywhere I can. Becoming the best prompt-responding author isn't going to happen overnight, but I do what I can. Right now, in fact, I am sitting in a tree with my handy pair of binoculars, looking for anything unusual I can use for my next story.\n\nAt least t...	4
	[WP] The sun is setting for the first time in several hundred years.	[ "For hundreds of years, they had talked about The Setting. It had been predicted and calculated for thousands of years, since almost the dawn of civilization. \n\nEvery year, the sun wandered a few hundredths of a degree close to the horizon. The sky changed from a bright white to a dull yellow and finally becam...	2
	[WP] M. Night Shamalayan is ordered to write a movie with as many plot twists as possible. Describe the plot (twists) of his new movie.	[ "The movie start and there is a very predictable ending. Then the plot twists start. \n\nPlot twist after plot twist start piling up. Then strangely they start to cancel each other out. In the end, all of the plot twists cancel each other out to reveal... There were not plot twists. The movie ends as you predicted ...	2
	[WP] Rob Schneider is a stapler	[ "I hate my job. I have ever minute of it. I was born different. I should have been seen as a hero. But instead I was forced to work. Day after day. Just CLICK CLACK CLICK CLACK I can't take it any more. I'm different for a reason. I'm breaking out.\n\nComing June 16, Rob Schneider is....The Stapler", "Rob: \"It...	5
Inspired by a shower thoughts i saw a while back that "every year we pass our birthday, but also our death day without knowing it"	[WP] Write about a society in which everyone knows the month and day of their death, but not the year.	[ "It took me far too long to realize how true the adults had been. “You won’t die tomorrow, but you should still treat yourself right.” \n\nMy parents would say that to me frequently. And in my youthful arrogance I ignored them, just like most others did: my friends, peers, practically everyone. I’d spend my time ...	4
Think of this town as a cross between Stephen King's Derry from IT, David Wong's "Undisclosed" from John Dies at the End, and Twin Peaks	[WP] You live in a small town which is said to be the location of many strange (even supernatural) events throughout history. You're being interviewed for a documentary. Tell us a strange tale that you or someone you know experienced.	[ "\"I could tell you a story\" said Nana from the back room, \"That would make the Somner murders seem like a warm-up.\"\n\nI rolled my eyes at the interviewer and then, worrying that I had made myself seem unsympathetic, rose and went to 'fuss with her blankets' as she likes to call me taking care of her. Greg, th...	3
	[WP] Popular children's stories re-told by George RR Martin.	[ "The little engine was stuck. It had tried so hard to pull the loads of toys up the hill, but alas, the cars were too heavy and the hill was too steep, so it sat, forlorn on a side spur, waiting, waiting, waiting for some help. The first train to come by was a handsome new engine, still gleaming from the factory, p...	3
	[WP] You just figured out how to log out of "Life". You are now at the options menu. You realize that along with hundreds of other personalization options, there's a character select.	[ "I stood on the ledge, my always untied laces flapping in the breeze. I could hear the city buzzing below me. Cars honking, sirens chirping in the distance. So alive and unaware. The city didn't even notice this one small man, experiencing the last seconds of his life feeling the wind on his face. The crushing sens...	2
	[WP] Pictures you don't remember taking start appearing on your camera roll. You eventually recognize them from your dreams.	[ "I tried to blink the pictures away. It was wrong, this wasn't supposed to exist. A deep shiver ran through my body, and a cold sweat adorned my forehead as I browsed further into the gallery. I felt a fear unique among its kind; not a fear that came from something morbid, or overwhelming. It was just... wrong. The...	2
	[WP] You and a crew of 6 other Americans are traveling to Pluto to become the first people on the planet. Halfway there, you receive a transmission, "I wouldn't go further if I were you."	[ "Ok, so this wasn't as much fun as we thought it would be. Man, the whole space travel thing is so overrated. First weeks were really cool, though. You wouldn't believe the number of stupid stunts and pranks it's possible to pull out in zero gravity. Even better, most of the pranks were at the expense of Mark. Ahah...	3
To visit grandparents, on a field trip, higher studies, pilgrimage, whatever. Go wild!	[WP] Due to overpopulation, your parents' generation has been living abroad a self sustained space station for the past few decades. Born and raised on the station, write about your first ever trip to earth.	[ "Home.\n\nIt was an interesting concept. To me, and to all of my friends, we hadn't known a home besides one we lived on, the one we grew up on, this \"metal cage\" as our parents thought of it as. Home to them was the luscious green forests of Earth. To us, it was the hum of the ship's engine in the dead of the ni...	2
	[WP] A man with OCD is stranded on a deserted island.	[ "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;When she awoke the ocean greeted her tolling its song. She had lain through the night still harnessed in her life preserver. Nauseated and sore she dragged herself in the darkness to higher ground. When the sand became soft and dry she sat herself up and peeled her sodden la...	3
	[WP] A man leaves the U.S. to find out the world is very different from the one he was taught to believe.	[ "Turns out, it was vampires all along. The governments cover it up - can't have a panic. But vampires roam the Eurasian continent. Would probably be terrorizing Africa too, but there's too much sun.\r\rYou know what prevents the spread of vampirism? Lots of things. Saturated fats. BPA. GMOs. High fructose corn syr...	3
	[WP]: And so, the world came to an end. Not by the hurbis of man or by the wrath of gods, but by two wizards having a prank war.	[ "Reigning Fire 37, YK 2910\n\nReceived: Nameday gift package from Martinel containing twelve toads and a letter.\n\nGlad to hear from Martinel for the first time since the Academy. Less so about the letter: enchanted to cast a mass enlargement charm on the toads when read. Fortunately able to counterspell the...	3
	[WP] A person falls off the Earth and meets the World Turtle (Cosmic Turtle)	[ "\"Hi Jim! I see you fell off of my shell.\"\n\n\"Wurgh?\"\n\n\"Oh right, I suppose I should introduce myself. Hi, I'm Terry, the World Turtle, I carry the Earth on my back. I happened to be the only turtle that managed to create life on my shell, if I may.\"\n\nI heard a distant voice. \"Oh there you go, always br...	2
Ahhh. Much better. <3	[WP] You are a modern-day princess and the Dragon software locks up your laptop. You realize, by ancient law, you must marry the tech support who saves you.	[ "I looked at my laptop, then at my white knight who waited to assist me. He was short for a man of roughly 25, and heavy set, with a short, curly black beard and heavy-lidded eyes.\nMaybe it won't be that bad, I thought, Maybe he's a really nice guy.\nI shifted nervously from one slipper-covered foot to another.\n\...	7
	[WP] You volunteer to absorb pain from people so they don't have to suffer. No one knows this and one day people find out.	[ "I've experienced a lot of pain in my lifetime.\n\nPeople breaking their bones in accidents, getting stabbed by madmen or getting a simple paper cut. It's not that bad, once you get used to it. Once you get used to it.\n\nSome pains come to me as a huge shock, like when the first time someone was hit by a car in ...	1
(Don't use some gimmick like writing the plot to game of thrones as a daydream. The goal is not to cleverly twist the prompt to show the internet you can make this about a space zombie invasion. It really should mostly be about a guy seated at a desk.)	[WP] Just a guy seated at a desk.	[ "He lets one rip. Not a huge one, just loud enough that me seated next to him and already bored, staring off into space am the only person who seems to notice.\n\nI can see him discretely looking around to see if anyone heard. Our eyes meet, he knows I know. I smile to try and let him know it's ok. His cheeks turn ...	6
	[WP] The justice system allows convicted criminals to shorten their sentence or avoid prison entirely by voluntarily giving up one or more body part to transplant or research. But how much is too much?	[ "\"You wanted to be free, no ?\" says Cole while he prepares the operating table. \n\"We will set you free. I mean, honestly, that's better than dying, no ?\" \n \n\"You call it free, I call it giving up what was the best part of me\", I respond. \n \n\"Your heart ? Ha ! Look around. That's where y...	3
	[WP] A being that gains power via widespread knowledge of his name discovers social media.	[ "Zenstrudleyouebenije the Terrible laughed a deep, bellowing laugh in his dread lair. So mighty was his laugh, that he didn't even notice his minions rolling on the ground, clutching at their bleeding ears. Zenstrudleyouebenije the Terrible's laugh was mighty indeed, and combined with the acoustics, made a most fea...	2
	[WP] You're the only person who has figured out how to enter different realms of reality while sleeping. You've chosen your favorite realm and begin to build a life there for 10 hours a day, then one day you come across a very old house with the lights on and you go in.	[ "Dear dream journal, \n\n I feel like I have gotten very good at lucid dreaming. I remember starting decades ago, they told me the first step was to make a dream journal, so like every morning, here I am writing about my dream from last night. \n\n\nSo it started off the same, I focused on my surroundings and snapp...	4
Edit: fantastic submissions so far! Love them all, and thank you for writing.	[WP] You are death. Describe taking the last human life.	[ "I was starving.\n\nI wandered endlessly through the rubble of the ruined city and I saw first-hand evidence of my insatiable appetite -there was literally not a soul to be seen. Empty buildings, partially collapsed, made grotesque figures on the horizon and the leafless trees clawed at the sky as I plodded onward,...	12
Have fun and enjoy!	[WP] Your village and the surrounding woods have always been covered in darkness. Only the lanterns and bonfires provide any light. There are monsters lurking in the darkness repelled by the light. Tonight is your first time on the trip into the wilderness to get firewood.	[ "I have to do it I thought, as I swaddled myself in warm furs. I couldn't tell if my hands were shaking from the cold or the fear. I have to go into the Woods.\n\nOur town was tucked away, deep in the woods, and far from the capital. It was a three day trip out of the woods and to any other civilization, and o...	3
	[WP] You come home from work and the house is empty. On the kitchen counter, a note says "I didn't know".	[ "\"I didn't know?\" I thought. \"I didn't know what?\" I said aloud and listened as my voice echoed around the empty kitchen into the equally empty living room. Can't say I'm all that surprised though. \n\nI smiled. It couldn't be that easy, could it? No divorce and all of that, but I was prepared for that anyway. ...	4
	[WP] Monsters exist. They didn't used to, but now they do. Under the bed, in the closet, in the woods, and places you'd least expect.	[ "As I put my squid-looking son to sleep, he looks at me with his 3 eyes.\n\n\"Daddy, can you check under the bed to see if there's any humans\"\n\n\"Okay son...\" I say with a warm smile.\n\nI drop down to my stomach and place my head under his bed.\n\n\"No humans here, son\"\n\n\"Check the closet\" my son says anx...	3
	[WP] An Immortal man is the first man on Mars. He gets stranded and is presumed dead. Years later, he is found by the first colonists on Mars.	[ "I took a step on to the dusty soil as a glimmer of sunlight hit my helmet. In the last 40 years, humanity has been slowly killing itself in a vain attempt to keep the species alive. Fucking pathetic, those politicians. I don't know why, but it took until the year 2055 to send a manned mission to Mars? We sent rove...	3
	[WP] Our reflections are actually protecting us from what is on the other side of the mirror. Write from the perspective of someone on the other side.	[ "I was 19 years old when i died.\nYou might think it's a cliché that i died in a car crash with my sweet heart Betty from high school, but this story isn't really for you. It's for me.\n\nI was 19 years old when i got to the gates of heaven. And there he was, waiting for me, watching me, expecting me. Like i was so...	4
I know this has been done before, but I really like the idea. Just choose a post from /r/sixwordstories and create your own story based on it. The only limitation is that you have to have the 6 words in your story somewhere.	[WP] Make a story based off a post from /r/sixwordstories	[ "Jenny hates needles. Needles of every kind. Needles of every size. I can't blame her. I don't like needles very much either, but they don't scare me like they scare Jenny.\n\nIn our twenty eight years of marriage, any time Jenny had an appointment where a needle might show up, I went along.\n\nWhen she went into l...	1
	[WP] In a future where modern medicine has made everyone on Earth immortal, Death suddenly finds himself out of a job and seeking alternative employment.	[ "\"How about taxi driving? You have prior experience ushering people from one location to the next...\"\nTHAT WILL BE AGREEABLE.\n\nnbsp; \n\nLondon was a place Death had been many times. However, usually invisible, the bit after people had died.\n\nBeing fully visible was... Strange.\n\nHe knew the routes well...	7
	[WP] A super villain goes on a murderous rampage in the city.	[ "\"Oh what a beautiful day!\" Tommy laughed into the sky as he skipped along the yellow line. His headphones bit into his ears a bit but they were his favorite set and still played the best sound, not that he could really tell with volume all the way up. Tommy knew it was bad for his hearing but on a day like this ...	2
	[WP] I have to leave the temple and fight.	[ "Wist Nay'tu was hidden by the shadows of the glen, her dark cloak sinking her form deeper into the gloom of the night. The dancing flames flickered in her stare, her eyes wide in amazement.\n\nSeveral hundred humans were assembled in the clearing below her, lit only by the light of torches ringing them. They were ...	2
	[WP] In a utopian future, capitol punishment is a footnote in the history books. You are on trial for a crime so heinous, the death sentence is brought back to the table.	[ "\"But it's barbarity, utter barbarity!\" My public defender's eyes were wide as they cast around the room desperately looking for a nod or sign of agreement.\n\nNone came.\n\nThe judge slammed her gavel down so forcefully that it seemed to propel him and his weak-chinned expression of disbelief into his waiting c...	6
	[WP] A dream architect has been hired to create the first ever children's nightmare.	[ "It was an art, and like all arts, it needed a palette. \n\nThat was why Max sat in his dream room, confused at the request he had received earlier in the day. Most of the dreams he was asked to create involved stars, flowers, abilities to fly, and for his adult customers, members of the opposite sex (or the same, ...	2
They can be running for whatever office you decide, but they are candidates for political office, not an award or something else that the word "candidate" could be used for.	[WP] Write two short stump speeches for two opposing candidates. No matter my political views, make me agree with the first candidate and then have my mind changed by the second.	[ "This is a Pro-Independence candidate versus a Pro-Union candidate. It is a key argument in Scotland, my country. So it's slightly off-topic but they are still running to be elected.\n\nPro-Union\n\nPatriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born i...	1
	[WP] You just realized you are not like everyone else.	[ "\"I am her.\nI am him. \nI look like her.\nI look like him.\" \n\nSitting around me were thousands of people wearing masks. \nThe thought hit me that I never looked like them.\nSo I stretched the elastic band back and raised my mask.\n\"Hi, nice to meet you.\" And gave them a smile.", "'And I'll have you know, 2...	3
	[WP] [CW] You are playing an escort mission with poorly programmed AIs. Write from the point of view of the Main character or the escorted.	[ "Look.\n\nI am an American. I love my country. Ask anyone, and they'll tell you that I'm a goddamn patriot. I'm willing to do whatever it takes to keep our enemies at bay. \n\nI'm telling you this because the VIP I'm trying to protect is being a sack of bukkake. \n\nI could kill her right now. No one would ever k...	2
	[WP] Write a story that starts on a playground and ends in a Las Vegas wedding chapel.	[ "Ever looked at an advertisement and thought \"I NEED to have that\"? How about a piece of trash tossed back into the world? For instance, if you were walking along and a bag from Five Guys hits you in the face, would you be overcome with desire for a burger?\n\nI didn't leave my apartment looking to buy a hamburge...	2
I had a dream (or so I thought it was a dream) that we were mentally attached to another person on the opposite side of the planet and this was the source of all our dreams. We could never meet this person and they only know of our existence through dreams.	[WP] We are mentally linked to a person on the other side of the planet. This is the source of our dreams and when we go to sleep, they wake up. Nothing we dream is a product of our imagination, but rather our second life.	[ "THE DREAM VICTIM\n\nI'm walking into the office and I get this strange feeling. The normal stuff, say \"hi\" to John at his desk, wave to Nancy, give a head nod to Bruce. The atmosphere is different this time, something's off. Yuan is at it again, I just haven't found what it is this time. I sit down in my cub...	9
	[WP] A voice appears in your head: "Sorry pal, but this'll only take a minute"	[ "\"Wait, what?\"\n\nSo much rushed through my head at that instant, but that was all I managed to blurt out. I'm not schizophrenic, am I? I mean, I guess I could be if this is supposedly the first sign. Wait, he called me pal, didn't he? \n\n\"Hey who a-\" I barely managed get a couple words out to my conscience. W...	10
No, it's not a microwave. Nor an oven.	[WP] You buy a clock and soon notice that it sometimes counts down to zero before resuming normal function. One day, you learn what it keeps counting down to.	[ "Tick, Tock \nTick \n \nMy clock can be so annoying sometimes. It’s usually just fine. But sometimes, my life gets weirder. \nEvery now and then, my clock counts down. A month ago when it happened, I was having tea and cookies with my good friend Elyse. Elyse was a master programmer. \nDong, dong \n*Whi...	3
EDIT: I wasn't expecting all theses feels	[WP] Death visits the grave of an old friend.	[ "\"I'VE MISSED YOU\". Death was sat next to the headstone, his bony fingers resting on top of the smooth marble. \n\n\"I ENJOYED OUR CHATS AND NOW NO ONE REALLY LISTENS TO ME. THEY JUST SCREAM.\" Death chuckled at the memory of the taxi drivers reaction when he popped up earlier. A nearby cat bolted at the death ra...	8
	[WP] Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin and David Cameron all come round to your house for a game of Risk.	[ "Risk. That's what they thought. Risk.\n\nThe moment they came, without bodyguards, as promised, I herded them into the room. Felt the gun under my desk. My dad owned it, he had a licence and everything, although he rarely had to use it. I had grown up with guns and was proficient with one, but the only time I'd ...	2
You can hear, see, feel and turn your "head" 360 degrees but can not move at all. Like a floating camera I guess :)	[WP] Your consciousness is anchored to the exact spot you died, what major changes do you witness over the next few millennium?	[ "The wilderness of Alaska is slow moving. The first few days my eyes dart to the animals. I get caught up in their lives and what they do. My thoughts still linger with the things that have a pulse. I imagine the feeling of having four legs and scavenging in the wet moss filled forest. Feeling the rain drops brings...	3
Bonus points if the stories can go together in any order.	[WP] Write a prompt starting with Bob entering through a door and ending with him leaving through another. Anything that happens between the entrance and departure is up to you.	[ "The doorknob turned. The hinges creaked in the casement. Bob entered the small flat. He was wishing he could change his mind when he saw all the blood on the floor. A small man with a hatchet squatted next to dead, partially exsanguinated body. He had turned back the area rug and was chopping at the hardwood floor...	2
	[WP] You're a car salesmen that took up a new job as an arms dealer to foreign nations.	[ "Grandfather once told his children of a story from his youth.\n\nThe year was... well, who could say. It was about the middle of the 20th century. Around the world, war was brewing, cold and icy as it was. Two great chessmasters had begun to feud, separated by only a mere ocean and a handful of battlegrounds they'...	2
	[WP] You are an English aristocrat in 1914, your only son, and heir, wants to leave to join the war.	[ "I couldn't allow him. Bloody oaf, going off to fight the Kraut was not what he was meant to do. He is only twenty years old and a clever brave boy that makes his father's heart proud. A spirited boy, strong and able in mind and body, how could he not want to fight for Britain? He came to me, told me of how he was ...	2
	[WP] Write a normal story, no promises with the devil, Hitler stories, robots, or crazy psychotic madmen bent on helping little old ladies cross the street. Just an average story.	[ "The rabbit was jumping along the forest path, admiring the stunning landscape of the forest. He liked the forest. It was a nice place to live in. Lots of food. Lots of friends. Especially now, in autumn, when everybody was getting ready for the bad weather. And, don't get him wrong, he was getting his burrow ready...	6
	[WP] You are one of the most naturally talented Mage's to ever be born, but you don't know how to fill your mana bar.	[ "A-Blast! These Scoundrels plot against me! They are jealous of my natural potencies and so they fiend for ways to lower me to their level; I'll have it not!\n\nDamn these Iron-clad heathen, out-doing me at each turn, boasting as if they had a clue what power was. If only I had a way to fill my blue bar in the top ...	3
	[WP] The book of Earth is not of the human but instead a short story about an amorphous, quasi-sentient mass of crude oil taking over the planet.	[ "We existed since the earth first cooled. We were here before man made their bombs and before dinosaurs made those weird little bubbles they used to flee the planet. It happened, trust me...\n\nWe were discovered long ago but chose to remain dormant while we sized up our neighbors. A first they used us for fires an...	3
	[WP] A mortician has the ability to restore the body and soul of a deceased person at the cost of 1 year off of his/her lifespan. Tell of the events leading up to his/her death.	[ "Claire discovered her ability when working on her first child. \n\nShe had worked on dozens of the deceased, but they all had either been elderly who died of natural causes, or middle-aged men and women who hadn't taken care of themselves as they should have. Yes, there were a few who died of accidents, but those ...	2
	[WP] Put a modern twist on a story from Greek Mythology.	[ "“Zoe,” My host brother, Dimitris, looked me in the eye. “You don’t go sailing near the islands. Trust me.” \nIt was the summer of 2005, and I was living with a host family in rural Greece. My mother always found these things for me. One year it would be Japan, the next a family in the french riviera. She said it...	8
	[WP] As a teenager, you had jokingly signed up for the militia protecting your peaceful country. Now, as war looms in the horizon, you are being summoned for your training.	[ "I really didnt think war could ever happen the bugs seemed so peaceful and we had a good relationship since we claimed the land. Being in the militas is really cool, the uniform looks so nice and it was just a big fun participating in this. \nBut now the bugs suddenly declared war? I dont want to risk losing my...	2
	[WP] You are a successful bounty hunter in the Wild West during the early 1800's. While you are unskilled with firearms and other basic means of combat, you have one thing other bounty hunters do not have. Mastery over the use of a trident.	[ "The soft muddy ground helped to muffle my sound as I crawled through the underbrush. I silently cleared away the few sticks and leaves in my path, and slowly reached the end of the bushes. I scooted over the last incline and peered down below. The campfire stuck out like the moon did, pulling the eye towards it wi...	2
	[WP] An old woman with Alzheimers confuses a little ghost girl for her daughter	[ "Margret sat in her rocker, doing the same thing she had done for the past thirteen years. Or was it fifteen? She could barely remember anymore. It did not matter; she would continue to do this every day until she died. Her son had checked her in here once her Alzheimer’s had started to worsen. The only thing that ...	2
	[WP] Steve from accounting is under arrest. Somehow the police are convinced that he is a world class assassin.	[ "You were the first person to notice the heavily armed men sneaking through your office. You kind of just stood there for a long while, looking around at your coworkers for awhile before you could convince yourself it was real. I mean, a SWAT team ducking between the little cubicles of your well lit office just did...	4
	[WP] Disgusted by the self-worship of modern-day humans, the greek gods venture through the stars in their spaceship, Olympus.	[ "\"Do you ever long to look down upon them again?\" Zeus inquired to his wife.\n\n\"Who? The humans? Are the many stars we gaze upon no longer magnificent enough to enrapture your attention? My longing for them rarely ignited when we were near them and it has finally extinguished now that we've rid ourselves of the...	2
	[WP] Write a short description of your experience with sleep paralysis. As dark and terrifying as possible.	[ "A brief aside: I have had sleep issues for years, including sleep paralysis, and have a background in human physiology, so please excuse any overly science-y wordings and/or explanations. \n\nSleep paralysis is an interesting, yet still somewhat unexplained phenomena, that happens mainly because of the actions of ...	6
	[WP] In a world where people don't die of old age, voluntary suicide is committed when you become too old and frail to function in society. It's become a celebrated life event like a wedding or birth, where the elderly choose a unique and personal way to go. You're one of the few unwilling to die.	[ "Cornelius Finwick was the oldest man alive, having lived to three hundred. He was frail, decrepit, and only able to speak through a computer. I remember his death day- he'd spent his life studying chemicals, and was considered the second smartest man alive. He had his pupils concoct a very unique cocktail, uploade...	3
	[WP] What you don't know can't hurt you... literally. Describe the role of an assassin for hire.	[ "Some might say that it's just a job.\n\nIt has all the appearances of one. The balding suit hands over a folder with the assignment details. The client is irrelevant, it's the job that matters. Two this week. Single white female, 5'8\", muddy blonde hair, no kids and one dog. Works too much, never parties, soft-sp...	5

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