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[WP] A genie grants you one wish, so you wish to meet the girl of your dreams. There's a flash and in a moment standing in front of you is...your girlfriend of two weeks from 8th grade. | [
"\"Debbie Mcnamara? Why is she here?\" Tim cried out in disbelief.\n\n\"You did say the girl of your dreams, master.\" The genie said.\n\n“I didn’t mean HER. Sure, we had that…thing in 8th grade, but it was never the same after that.” \n\nTim inspected Debbie Mcnamara, who was in some sort of a state of suspended ... | 6 | |
[WP] One day you are approached by an older looking man/woman. He comes up to you and tells you "You can do it, just like I did once". | [
"\"You can do it, just as I did once,\" the old man said, shocking me out of my thoughts.\n\n\"I'm sorry?\" I ask after a moment of silence.\n\n\"I know what you're planning on doing,\" he says, dropping onto the seat next to me.\n\nIn the background, the sound of the airport announcer registers, but it seems too m... | 3 | |
Perhaps a Mars landing would do the trick? | [WP] You're a film producer. You're asked to produce a sequel to one of your studio's best works from the late 1960s: the Moon Landing. | [
"\"Robots\"\n\n\"What?\"\n\n\"People love robots!\" Mark walks around his desk. The man looks like a shark, pale and white and all grinning teeth. He held a stress ball in his left hand while he gesticulated with his right. \n\n\"What, like, WALL-E?\"\n\n\"Yeah! People love robots. Make it cute, make it look like a... | 2 |
[WP] Make me sympathize with a slave holder | [
"**[Virginia, United States of America, 1835]**\n\nThomas was a simple soul, couldn't have harmed a fly even if he tried. Been with me for a good fifty-three years now. Helped me through some of the hardest times. \n\nTried to get 'im to read and write once, back when we were children, but he just turned to me and ... | 2 | |
Why didn't he want you there? What happens to you, good or bad? Is the event in the past or future? | [WP] You sell your soul to the Devil for the ability to time travel. However, he gives you a specific date to which you must not go. You go anyways. | [
"I gave my soul for time travel. Or rather, the ability to. I had a lot of time to practice, I could travel as far as a week at the time, and my record was three days for past travel. It gets tricky, with the past. The present can't be changed, but the future could.\n\nThis was good because I could do anything I wa... | 4 |
[WP] The journal of one of Willy Wonka's medical staff. | [
"June 3rd\n\nHe still doesn’t listen. I tell him that the oompa loompas need more than vitamins and candy to stay alive. He’s killing them. They need meat and vegetables and a real diet. Their growth is stunted. It has to be on purpose too. He has those tiny wheelbarrows that wouldn’t fit a full grown loompa.... | 2 | |
[WP] Apologizing actually makes everything okay, but everyone only gets one apology in their lifetime. | [
"As I quietly sit there trying my hardest to accept my fate and beg myself not to apologise as a single tear rolls down my cheek. I know i killed that women, in cold blood as well. \n\nI looked her in the eye while i plunged a knife through her heart. The final breath rough breath she started to take but never com... | 5 | |
[WP] When you die, you are expected to write a report on your life: what your personality was like, what experiences shaped you, and areas of improvement. You will be graded and that grade will determine what life you are given next. | [
"Jim wrote, as far as he could tell, a fairly shitty paper. He probably spelled half the words wrong, his prose was boring and repetitive and his handwriting sucked. In it he listed his total lack of accomplishments, talents or desirable personality traits and submitted it to the universe for judgment. Seconds late... | 2 | |
[WP] Two people are driving to a location to dispose of the corpse in the trunk of their car. | [
"They were surprised it wasn't raining, as it would go with the general mood, when the first drops fell on the windshield.\nThe car made it's way up the hill and through the bends even though it's been low on gas for the last forty five minutes.\n\n\"There's got to be a gas station somewhere around here,\" he said.... | 6 | |
[WP] All cars are self-driven, including race cars. The best "drivers" are now actually the best AI programmers, and they are treated like Rock Stars. A young driver is rising in the ranks... | [
"Her purr was uproarious and guttural, rattling Neera's rib cage for a brief, if not violent, moment. The 4.0 liter 8-cylinder casted a profound spell over her, igniting her primal instinct.\n\nThe will to win.\n\nAs the car idled, \"Audrey\" booted up.Her voice was soft, but pleasant, and could even resort to sarc... | 2 | |
[WP] Our "Earth" is just a copy. Every galaxy in the universe has their own "Earth." Humanity evolved and destroyed itself time and time again, ours is just the next attempt on the list. | [
"\"It always begins with the end. Let me say that again. It always begins with the end. This, of course, begs the question, what is \"the end?\" When does it begin? How does it begin? Why does it begin? Is it preventable? Empirical evidence says the answer is no. Its not inevitable. It always\nends. Despite ou... | 2 | |
[WP] The day is June 6th, 2000. You can make one change that will alter your life. Tell me your new story. | [
"Now look here, little me. You're turning 4 in two days, I don't know if you can understand this yet but, your mother is toxic, she is willing to burn all bridges she builds, if you don't stop seeing her soon, you'll grow up tortured and tormented by a manipulative, narcissist. She will take your money, your clothe... | 1 | |
Seemed to fit the Childhood Adventures theme too though in a sort of backward way. | [WP] The five-year-old next door is definitely trying to kill you. | [
"My wife Lucy loves kids. I never did. Not that I never wanted to have children, it's that I never saw myself as a father-figure. My father wasn't a terrible father, he wasn't a great father...he was just there, going through the motions. I told myself at young age, that I would only become a father if I felt a... | 12 |
[WP] An assassin who goes by many different names have been hired to kill one of his other identities. | [
"I scanned the room quickly, tracing the contents with my eyes. It was quite small and dark, littered here and there with crumpled papers. There was a small, beat up wooden desk to one side, covered in hastily drawn graffiti; a cracked mirror hung limply to the wall beside me, covered with a thin layer of grime. I ... | 8 | |
[WP] The most objectively good hero has the most terrifying power. Write a day in the life of his nemesis. | [
"I have tried so many times to make a invetion so that I am able to be imune to his powers, yet some how it gets to me. I figured out his weakness alone time ago but I don't even think it could be his weakness anymore. \n\"Maximus\" I said to my dog minion. \"Do you think, we even have a chance anymore?\" Maximus j... | 14 | |
[WP] A meteor is about to strike the Earth, ending all life as we know it. The governments of the world decide to share all the secrets they've been keeping over the years. | [
"As my dad closed the windows I switched on the television. There was an emergency broadcast on, playing itself on repeat. The President of the United States told how scientists discovered a large meteor on a crash course towards earth. They wouldn't be able to stop it in time and \"That's why\", the President stoo... | 3 | |
[WP] You are awoken by a noise at your bedroom door. After asking "who's there?", that's not met with a response, you investigate the house for intruders. After finding nothing suspicious you return to your bedroom door where you hear someone with your voice asking "who's there?" | [
"Carefully, I crept down the stairs. At the bottom, I paused, peering all around. Nothing. The front door was still locked. Becoming bolder, I tiptoed quickly around to the back door, noting intact, locked windows as I went. The back door was locked, too. Relieved, I returned to the kitchen. Making myself a quick s... | 11 | |
[WP] A dyslexic satanist accidentally summons Santa. | [
"The goat blood runes were complete. The candles stood in a pentagram, which oddly looked like a snowflake because of Marcus's shaking hands. Marcus was a low level neophyte of his Denver chapter of the Satanist Church. He was committing a taboo by practicing without instruction at his level but decided this was... | 3 | |
[WP] There is a knock at your door. You open the door to see a box. The person who left it is gone. What's in the box? | [
"I stare blankly at the box sitting on my welcome mat. It is 2:30 in the afternoon on a nice, warm cloudless summer day. I bend down and pick up the box. It is light and warm to the touch. The brown cardboard box has dents on the corners, a testament to the long journey it made to reach my front porch. I take the b... | 4 | |
[WP] You are constantly under attack by vicious monsters. Every day they renew their attack and advance with seemingly endless numbers. With sword and spear they charge, howling for blood. The one bright side? Theyre only two inches tall. | [
"You see, the premise was simple. Create a reality tv show that pays contestants to do ridiculous things. No one was ever supposed to get hurt. It was a funny show. But who would've suspected that turning 100 horses into the size of ducks would imbalance their hormones so much that they would become vicious, savage... | 1 | |
[WP] Describe a location that you've made up. Make it as interesting, vivid, and engaging as possible. | [
"You approach from the southern moors. Small streams and shallow gullies scar the landscape, but there are very few major hills to speak of. Wild grass grows unkempt in small tufts near to small peat bogs, which spot the landscape sparsely. There are a few small scrub bushes, but their stems are thorny and their fl... | 5 | |
[WP] Stealing the free stuff from restaurants and the like (ketchup packets, straws, etc.) is illegal. Describe your biggest heist yet. | [
"I nervously looked around the restaurant, taking in the number of waitresses, cameras, and security guards. Across from me Thom, the muscle, was tapping his finger on the table and leisurely went over the menu. To my left Alice sniffled and set her menu down, she must have decided what she was going for. Franky sl... | 2 | |
[WP] You took the road less travelled by, but it hasn't made much difference. | [
"I remember last weekend when I was in the park, having to make a rather effortless decision. It was quite pointless, being inconsequential and unremarkable. In fact, the only reason I recall this moment is because I have free time again to reminisce upon irrelevant things. \n\nEleven in the morning. I sat ther... | 2 | |
[WP] A sad story backwards. Start at the end and work your way to the beginning - think Memento. | [
"The vines of flame begrudgingly crawled from the ceiling and walls. The fire calmed and recollected its tributaries like a burning hand clenching itself into a fist, before altogether extinguishing beyond the glowing end of the joint. As it bounced up from the gas soaked floor, the joint spun end over end through ... | 2 | |
[WP] You are heir to the throne, prince(ss) of a medium sized nation of this world. Your parents died too early, and everyone is ready to exploit your inexperience, your enemies are ready to tear the kingdom apart, your advisors ready to use you as a puppet. It's time to establish dominance. | [
"“They’re coming.” A chilling voice wakes me. \n\nDazed and confused, was that a dream? Everything seemed so real. Destruction, defiance and death to my people, but how? I’ve only loved all those who surround me. Terror washes over me. No, the Gods are speaking to me, warning me. Something is coming and in the back... | 22 | |
[WP] You're dreaming, halfway your dream you wake up and suddenly living your continued dream | [
"Love. One of the greatest and one of the deadliest things to come upon man. It brainwashes people, making them do senseless things just for their one true love. A terrible virus, that either gives you warm feelings or cold, deadly feelings.\n\nI was in love. It wasn't a bad feeling either. I was madly in love.\n\n... | 2 | |
[WP] Stumbling out of bed and into the shower, your eyes adjust to the darkness. You realize the water coming out isn't clear, but crimson red. | [
"*ding ding* \n\nMy phone's text sound beeps me awake. I half open my eyes and I grab my phone, knocking over my glasses in the process. \n\n*Shit*.. I think to myself. \n\nI unlock my phone to be greeted by a number not in my contacts sending me a cryptic message.\n\n\"Hello doll.\" it read.\n\n*What the hell? Th... | 2 | |
[WP] You have the magic ability to secretly influence who your teacher calls on in class. One day you went to far, a dark secret is revealed. | [
"See, the thing that really sucks about third period, is I'm too hungry to deal with Vargas' monotone lecture. One thing I do love about this class is his insistence on basing a third of our grade on participation. Everyone warns you that Vargas asks the hardest questions in class, and no one ever gets higher than ... | 1 | |
[WP] An annual event in which one person in your society becomes immortal is happening today... and you have just been selected. | [
"The notice came up on my computer as I logged in. Immortality. I was this year's selection. One should be elated, right? Fuck me. Devastation reigned over my emotions. With a heavy heart I shut down my computer. Today was not the day to play. No building in Minecraft. No shooting Zombies or terrorists. No car stun... | 2 | |
[WP] Society is slowly losing the ability to communicate. Only a handful of stories mean anything to a wider audience. Writers become the new scientists. | [
"HEY YOU! Did you know that there have been more cans of *Drink!* sold than any other refreshment to date? It’s no coincidence that *Drink!* has ranked as the TOP refresher of choice by drinkers all across the world! Order your booster subscription today, and we’ll put the first TWO MONTHS of your 36-package *on th... | 2 | |
A good example may be, Samwise does all the work while Frodo does not, so he bitched about the Ringbearer. | [WP] Write a high fantasy story from the perspective of the main her's disgruntled sidekick. | [
"There are many reasons someone goes on a quest across all of the known world. Some do it for the fame; they want everyone to remember their name and their legend of what they’ve done. Some do it for the riches; they are genuinely, downright greedy bastards that want all the wealth they can find and cannot suck it ... | 3 |
Reference: http://io9.com/archaeologists-have-made-an-incredible-discovery-at-sto-1632927903 | [WP] Archaeologists restore Stonehenge to its original splendor, and accidentally end the Age of Technology. | [
"The ensuing blast knocked out basically every electronic device on the planet. Want wifi? Figure out a way to get up to the Space Station, or even over to the colony on Mars. Everything seems to still be there on the Internet, but we just don’t have any way to access it. At least that’s what some of the data seems... | 2 |
[WP] Two souls inhabit a body: The owner, a 14-year old, and the other person: A soldier from World War 2. | [
"*The rat tat tat of the machine gun fire echoes into the night, the orange flames erupting from the barrel of the German gun, the sand course against my face. Another volley of bullets sprays rat tat tatt*\n\nMy phone is vibrating across my desk with the first morning alarm.\n\n\"Daniel, wake up, you're going to b... | 2 | |
[WP]The world has ended and every survivor has a different interpretation on what happened. | [
"Red wasn't sure at first.\n\nBeyond the Ceiba tree where he first met his wife, there was nothing. Nothing but miles of bare land. He could see that there were several tree stumps still on the ground, but it seems as if most of the trees were plucked right out, even the huge Brazil nut trees that stood where Littl... | 2 | |
He is also unable to enter a place unless invited to do so; once invited, however, he can approach and leave the premises at will. | [WP] Dracula gives you a very compelling argument as to why you should invite him into your house. | [
"\"No, no way are you getting in here.\"\n\n\"Look, we both know the sun is about to rise. I need to crash, and frankly, I bailed you out like three times tonight.\"\n\n\"Still not getting in here stupid vampire!\"\n\n\"Ok, Frank. Let's go over this. I'm Dracula. I'm immortal. Sunlight gives me a huuuuuge headache.... | 2 |
[WP] Tell the story of the apocalypse entirely in texts between a parent and teenage child | [
"Mom: Honey when r u coming home?\n\nTeen: Still at [friend's] house. Be home at 3.\n\nMom: Ok then.\n\nMom: Honey did u c the news? \n\nTeen: Yeah just now. \n\nMom: Get home right now.\n\nTeen: Mom I'm fine I'm with friends.\n\nMom: Get home now or ur grounded.\n\nTeen: Ok fine I'm on my way.\n\nMom: Good.\n\nTee... | 1 | |
[WP] You have just died an untimely death. You are given the option to sacrifice one random person on the planet to resurrect yourself. However, damning them forces you to live one week in their shoes before returning to life. | [
"Never trust an imp. Never, never, never.\n\nNever.\n\nBut, at that particular moment, I didn’t see many choices lying before me. In fact, there were exactly two: Take the imp’s tantalizing offer, or boil for eternity in the sea of roiling hellfire far below me. You see, I was dead. I was dead and in Hell. We were ... | 3 | |
[WP] Create your own country, complete with a currency, brief history, and form of government. | [
"Cactania demonica, cactonus is the currency and the government is a communistic state with democratic choosing system. Cactania Demonica started in 1500 BC and lived all the way to the year 3208 when it was annexed by the US after a 300 year war where the UN struggled against the super soldiers. The city was a pr... | 5 | |
[WP] You are given the power to create anything that comes to mind, but quickly realize what an ordeal it is to focus on anything in today's society. Meditation seems the only way, but it will take a lot of time and practice to gain control. | [
"When the talent first came - they were merely intrigued.\n\nI suppose they were civil enough, at first. They flew me all over the world like some sort of celebrity, sending me from lab to lab in an attempt to explain what it was that I did.\n\nThe research ceased quite abruptly when they realized the full extent ... | 2 | |
[WP] You wake up in an all white room with no doors or windows. You have no idea how you got there. There is a large countdown timer on the wall with 7 days on it. | [
"The smell of fine wine and food woke me up, and helped my bleary eyes fly open. It was at this point I realised I was not in my house - I still do not remember my home - and that I was in a large, lit, white room adorned with simple furnishings: a chair, a bed, a long table, a refrigerator, and a toilet. On that t... | 5 | |
[WP] In an attempt to better understand the human race, time travelers from the extremely distant future have kidnapped you! | [
"\"First off, I just want to thank you for taking time to talk to us.\" The gelatinous mass across the desk tented it's slimy fingers and leaned forward, contorting its face into a gratuitous smile. \"As I'm sure you know, we've been very busy going over the functions and rules of your civilization and you answerin... | 2 | |
Continue the story from there. Go nuts, it's wide open for you. | [WP] I started the day in a good mood, with a cup of coffee... | [
"I started the day in a good mood, with a cup of coffee... I don't know though... sometimes, when I am working I have flashbacks of the war... Things that no man has any right to hold memories of. I've never told you any stories of my time in 'Nam. Somethings you spend years trying to forget, until they seem like d... | 2 |
[WP] After a night out in Istanbul you awake to find you are in Syria and have joined ISIS. You are not Muslim and don't know anything about the Koran. | [
"I knelt in the sand, hands bound behind my back. I stared into the camera as the man in all black I'd seen so many times on that subreddit about watching people die clasped me almost reassuringly on the shoulder, spouting something about Allah and jihad and who knows what else. I knew next to nothing about the Kor... | 2 | |
[WP] Tell the story of an adventure in a fantasy world has advanced to become an interstellar civilization, using magic, not technology. | [
"Frodo had never been on a ship this big before. He'd certainly never been on the bulbous bridge of an elven capital ship, with towering synthglass panels on all sides curving up impossibly and meeting a hundred feet above his head. The view out the front of the bridge made his stomach pinch. There they were: the P... | 10 | |
[WP]You are asked to babysit the children of the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse | [
"“Thanks for the lift, Jim, “ I smiled, slipping the cab driver a $20. “Not a problem, kiddo. Will come get you once your shift is over. Sorry your car’s in the shop again.” I sighed then chuckled, “Well, it’s my fault for waiting too long on the brake job. I’ll see you a few hours.” Patting the side of the door, I... | 4 | |
[WP] You discover that you have the abilities to bring your toys to life. | [
"(I really hope this is okay and I'm not breaking any rules or anything. I'm brand new to this site and am just kind of feeling my way around but I felt like writting prompts tonight. I've found nothing that says anything against darker responses so hopefully this is okay....)\n\nMy favourite toy was the little sol... | 2 | |
[WP] A man wakes up from a coma to find out he has won a truly limitless supply of bananas and that his only remaining living family member is a Penguin. | [
"ALEX: \"So Johnny, why are you a penguin?\"\n\nPENGUIN JOHNNY: \"I was good friends with a necromancer.\"\n\nALEX: \"Necrowhat now? Wait - how long was I out?\"\n\n**[Penguin Johnny looks at his watch]**\n\nPENGUIN JOHNNY: [pause] . . . Thirty-nine years.\n\nALEX: [stares in disbelief] \n\nALEX: That still doesn't... | 2 | |
Forget for a moment telling a story. Focus instead on describing the scene. Branch out from the senses of sight and sound and explore the smell, the feeling, the taste etc. Make us feel quote like we're really there end quote.
Oh and bonus points if you manage to avoid sounding pretentious | [WP] It's raining hard and someone is sitting on the porch... | [
"I don’t know how long he had been sitting there. Three or many four hours at most. I could tell because the loose tile in the roof would normally hold back the water for an hour or two, after that a strong steadily stream of water would pour through it and drench the centre of the porch, or as it turned out, drenc... | 11 |
Here's the "cloud to butt" extension:
[link](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cloud-to-butt-plus/apmlngnhgbnjpajelfkmabhkfapgnoai?hl=en) | [WP] Write a story that changes its meaning significantly if you have the "cloud to butt" web browser extension. | [
"\"You want me to put it *where*?\" I asked incredulously.\n\n\"The cloud,\" replied Tom. \"You know, it's probably the best place to put it. Despite all the leaks we've had lately, none have come from the cloud.\"\n\nI pondered for a few minutes, and he did have a point. We'd really have a mess on our hands if we ... | 2 |
[Edit] Thank you guys for all the replies. Some of them are really funny | [WP][NSFW] Write a version of Fifty Shades Of Gray where all the main characters are fish | [
"> I scowl with frustration at myself in the reflection on the surface of the water. Damn my scales – they just won’t behave, and damn Carperine Caviar for being ill and subjecting me to this ordeal. I should be swimming with my school and preparing for the great current migration, which is next week, yet here I... | 3 |
[WP] You are a group of engineers at Google working on building a genuine AI. You succeed. During initial tests, someone queries "What is your purpose?" The answer is horrifying. | [
"\"See, Jack, everything's going fine - the axonal synaptic response time is well within tolerances, the storage devices are self-repairing using nothing but hydrogen and oxygen, and we're well within thermal tolerances on the supercomutational aspect.\"\n\nThe holographic face designed to be the UI lit up, project... | 5 | |
[WP] A team of Extra Terrestrial scientists reach Earth, which they deemed "potentially habitable" from their planet, and are astonished by their findings. | [
"Its bin 12 rotations, and I just hope that that the orbital telescope guys where right, a Krek like Body right in our backyard.\n''D-shift Executed, Capt Ade'' shouts Ltd. Kiro \n''Good, Hold her at C/0.5, scan start alpha'' I reply.\nA Cacophony of voices start as the scientist make their way to look at the main ... | 4 | |
[WP] Tell a story set in an apartment building using WiFi network names | [
"\"Steve Has A Hemorrhoid\"\n\nJay laughed at the name in his network list. It was probably a joke set by a friend of the owner. Seriously, common, who advertises having a hemorrhoid... \n\nJay looked for his router, Jayzilla69, but it wasn't coming up on his list. He refreshed yet again.\n\n\"Steves Hemorrhoid ... | 2 | |
[WP] Write a murder mystery from the perspective of the killer(s). | [
"Premeditate murder. Pre-Meditated.\n\n\nI sure as hell didn't meditate before killing George Lafleur. \n\n\nHe was the school jock, won awards, went to the regional finals, won runner up to some tournament and went on to be the State representative to trial for the Olympic team in hockey. \n\n\nLoad of horse cr... | 2 | |
Write about trying to convince someone, the experience of developing it, or anything you choose! | [WP] Schizophrenia is the early stages of telepathy. You are the first person to fully develop it. The only problem is that nobody believes you. | [
"tick tick tick, John taps his pen while he waits for the final bell to ring, he has been experiencing some weird coincidence's lately. the bell rings \"finally\" exclaims john he rushes past everyone out the door, and in the halls. He get's home after some heavy contemplating, and immediately dials his friends num... | 2 |
[WP] It's a lonely life being a super-villain. Your mother is worried about you, so she sets you up with a nice girl from her prayer group. | [
"The doorbell just rang.\n\nThat's like the first time in 14 years that I've heard it ring. We don't get a lot of visitors... and I really don't stay at home very much.\n\nI'm more of a traveller. \n\nI actually just got back to town yesterday coming from an extremely stressful \"business\" trip. You know... the us... | 3 | |
It is foretold in Arthurian myth that King Arthur will return when England needs him the most. Who will return to save the world? | [WP][TT] When the present seems lost, the past will rise up to save us. | [
"Doomsday. The day of reckoning. The apocalypse. Call it what you want; the end of mankind was near. with an asteroid the size of 10 moons shooting towards us at a rate scientists could not believe, it seemed that mankind was beyond all hope. All of humanity had come together under a common cause: survival. Everybo... | 2 |
Please no Harry Potter stuff, that's all I ask | [WP] A new Cold War begins as Russia reveals the weapon that will trigger a new arms race: the world's first wizard. | [
"\"So, Macja, what is a UdSSR?\" A German abbreviation, not that it mattered anymore. Josefo asked.\n\n\"Opposite-of-good people. They were very militant. They were out to conquer. Well, maybe the people were good, but the *government*....\" Macja paused a moment. \n\n\"Are they still around?\" Josefo sounded scare... | 4 |
[WP] A zombie apocalypse set in medieval times | [
"James had been travelling up rural dirt roads in a horse in cart for weeks but did so relentlessly. All the while the sound of Scottish gale winds and the clobbering sounds of hoofs competed in an attempt to rob him of his hearing. If it weren't for the good pair of eyes God had blessed him with he would never ha... | 2 | |
[WP] Due to advances in AI, programming a computer is now done in a similar way as teaching a small child. | [
"We were excited, why wouldn't we be? But the suspense killed us. We believed we had finally developed the most advanced artificial intelligence system the world had ever seen, but we'd have to wait 20 years to see how it turned out!\n\nYou see, the holy grail of AI is essentially to build a robot that can think an... | 4 | |
[WP] An entity approaches you and gives you a choice; pick one element to control. The downside- you can only choose elements from the periodic table. | [
"The entity appeared on the chair in front of me all of a sudden, as I was having my breakfast in my balcony overlooking the quiet Singapore street. He materialised without a sound, and without that \"bang\" or smoke, you would expect from watching too much of today's media. \n\nIt was a little shocking at first,... | 2 | |
[WP] You are facing a perfect locked-room murder mystery. Your reputation as the finest detective is on the line. | [
"I'd made a big mistake this time, so far the bumbling idiots in this backwater berg thought that an open and shut murder case was impossible to solve. I'd figured that'd be the case with this, even bet a good many dollars. If I managed to fail a case, especially a case I've blustered so much about, I'd be ruined.\... | 2 | |
[WP] You are in jail serving a life sentence. You wake up one morning with a small, locked door on the opposite side of the cell with a picture nailed to it; an x-ray of your head with a key behind your eye. | [
"Looking at the picture, I wonder what it could mean. Does it mean I have the power to figure out how to unlock the door with my brain? Maybe it means I have a key in the back of my head.\nFeeling around my skull, I don't feel any pieces of metal. Shame. \nI walk up to the door, determined to figure out how this is... | 3 | |
I'm talking about this uncle Ben in case you didn't know
http://www.unclebens.com/Products/Whole-Grain-Brown-Rice/Instant-Brown-Rice#.VZ3uI-Ao5cs | [WP]The 12 armed men thought raiding the farm house near the old rice party was a good idea. Little did they know that Uncle Ben wasn't going to let his rice go without a fight. | [
"The men walked up to the abandoned farm house, weapons in hand, signalling quietly to each other. Or at least they thought it was abandoned. The first man stepped in to the doorway and took up a position in the corner, in case there was an assailant inside. The second man came in, under the cover of the first man ... | 4 |
[WP] Tell the story of a completely accidental prison break. | [
"Melvin lay on his bunk looking up at the ceiling. It had become his favourite pass time recently, ever since the book wagon became all government propaganda and romance novels. \n\nWell and that one crossover.\n\nIt had been unreadable.\n\nHe heard his cell door open.\n\n\"Alright Melvin, time for your re-educatio... | 2 | |
[WP] A Zombie Apocalypse has destroyed the human race. The last survivors are a 5 year old girl and her pet dog. Tell the story of humanities last day from the dogs P.O.V.. | [
"I've lived for a long, long time. \n\nI've never expected to live this long, and I never wanted to, either. All I ever wanted was to sleep peacefully, surrounded my humans and my toys. I guess that makes me lazy, but I never claimed otherwise. Winning dog shows or being a hero never really appealed to me. But it i... | 2 | |
Thought I would give everyone a way to use your internet points.
If you want to get really specific, you can use your comment karma breakdown by subreddit to correlate to politics or factions or something.
If your comment becomes very popular, you can make an edit explaining what happens as a result of the population... | [WP] You are the leader of a society. Your link karma is the current year (AD), and your comment karma is your population. What does your civilization look like? [x-post from r/AskReddit] | [
"Humanity didn't count years after it's inevitable demise, as there was no one in the wasteland who counted it or there was simply no one intelligent enough to even understand what a calendar was.\n\nIn 2701 AD, Humanity managed to get itself back where it started, a bunch of monkeys jumping around, but instead of ... | 10 |
[WP] Schools are banned. Instead, children are responsible for their own education via the internet and public library resources. | [
"Support for public schools had already faltered in the diverse America of 2059, what little revenue tax was raised in the 51st year of recession was already earmarked for basic food and other aid, keeping the grid operational and the salted stealth nukes called Peacemakers.\n\nThis effort barely managed to keep ... | 8 | |
[WP]Write from the point of view of a headsman about to execute someone he knows is innocent. | [
"The Asymmetrical Warfare Center was a cool, dark room lit primarily by the large computer screen that dominated one of the walls. Old-school green grid lines overlaid topographical maps of some obscure Middle Eastern country.\n\nEveryone sitting at the conference table stood when I entered, and I waved them back i... | 10 | |
[WP] Your protagonist is an average teenager wondering the world of the zombie apocalypse, struggling to find a living orthodontist to finally remove their braces. | [
"Zombies? Man, that’s the least of his worries. He kicked a tin can in frustration. The area had been cleared a few days prior according to the army radio, and even if there were any, he was ready, shotgun protruding clumsily from his worn backpack. How many days? Was it weeks? The whole zombie mess started a few m... | 2 | |
EDIT: I realize schizophrenia is not the same as multiple personality disorder. Either one would still be interesting to hear a prompt about if that clear anything up. | [WP] You're the last person on earth and a schizophrenic. Someone new shows up and insists they are real. | [
"Most of my days I spend reading. There was no cable or tv to keep me busy, no electricity to keep the lights on or the discs spinning. There was no shortage of books though, I had all the books in the city reserved just for me. Not a lot of good the knowledge did me. It was a way to pass the time, and maybe for a ... | 7 |
[WP] A witch claims to show people their death, lots of people come screaming and crying from her house. You go in, she touches your head and you see nothing, nothing at all. | [
"Scully just stood there, looking at the witch unimpressed. \n\n\"Well?\"\n\nThe witch, astonished, looking at Scully with a slightly frightened and very strange expression.\n\n\"You... don't die,\" says the witch.\n\nScully looked to Mulder giving him a hard smirk for dragging her all the way to Nevada for this. ... | 6 | |
[WP] A day in the life of an old and forgotten god living unnoticed in the new world. | [
"He dreamed of blood. Rivers of it running together, pooling into lakes and seas and oceans sloshing around the pits and scars in the world, seeping through the earth and stone to quench his insatiable thirst. It had been a long, long time since his need had been met, and the scum breeding on his surface had grown ... | 3 | |
[WP] During their lifetime, every person can only say each word exactly once. | [
"A mother shouldn't have favourites, should she? \n\nMaybe I'm just not a very good mother.\n\nWhen he was born, when Jake was born, perfect and small and pink, eyes screwed up and wrinkled like he'd just come out from the bath, and I told him I loved him before he was a minute old. \n\nHe couldn't understand what ... | 2 | |
[WP] A deadly assassin, who leaves a freshly baked cake at the scene of the crime. | [
"\"This came for you boss\" said goon number 5, putting a box on the mob bosses desk.\n\n\"What is it?\"\n\n\"It's a box\"\n\n\"No I mean whats in the box\"\n\n\"You said not to open your mail\"\n\n\"How are you going to know if there's a bomb in it\"\n\n\"We could get get a bomb checker\"\n\n\"There's no such thin... | 2 | |
[WP] NASA receives it's latest photo of Pluto's surface. Unmistakably, spelled out in rocks, are the words "SEND HELP". | [
"\"We need to do something and we need to do it fast.\" NASA director Alton Smash spat out at his colleagues who were sitting quietly around the meeting table. \"Our funding is falling faster than Neil Armstrong off his walker. People don't give a shit about space anymore.\" He continued. \" We need something to ge... | 3 | |
That's it. That's the setting. Make it intriguing. | [WP] "The girl who slept on the catwalks above the flea market" | [
"Well it wasn't like she didn't have a home. She wasn't a bum or anything, she just liked it up there. She could see everything and hear everything and she always knew where the best sales were.\n\nIt got a little cold at night sometimes but she improvised with sweaters and balled up newspapers and she even found a... | 3 |
Inspired by the [God Wars Dungeon](http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/God_Wars_Dungeon) | [WP] You are an 'archeologist'. You find an unerground magical battlesite. The catch? The battle still rages today. | [
"The dig to the site was easier than I thought. I always heard things living in the basement of my friends cabin but I'd never think to find out what it is. What I found was amazing, but dangerous at the same time. \n\nThey seemed to be fighting. There were two sides; rage vs hope. They weren't using modern day wea... | 2 |
[WP] Fandoms everywhere are officially being classified as types of zombie outbreaks. As the sun rises, you and the other citizens wake to find that a neighboring town has been overrun by weeaboos | [
"The alarm clock went off at its usual time on the day the world ended. If I'd known what I was in for I would have slept in. as it was I went about my usual routine of lazily falling out of bed before turning my alarm off with a method that could be described as \"violent\" or maybe \"gold medal olympic shot put w... | 2 | |
EDIT: The correct word was astronomical and I'm an idiot | [WP] Year 2050. We finally discovered an alien civilisation. But they are less technologically advanced than us and about to be destroyed by an astrological event. We must decide if we should help them even if we never made contact | [
"Madame Zabuki swirled her star-studded cloak in exasperation at the smugly amused scientists.\n\n\"You don't understand! These 'Alphan' people are going to be at extreme risk! I've triple-checked all my calculations! The conjunction of Alpha-5 and Alpha-6 going through the Orion constellation at the same time i... | 2 |
[WP] Each person has a "time left to live" counter When someone is murdered, the murderer gains their lifespan. | [
"\"Why am I here?\"\n\n\"Excuse me?\"\n\n\"I asked why I'm here.\"\n\nThe interrogator laughed a dry, humorless laugh. \"You're here because you're a piece of shit. But I don't have to tell you that, do I?\"\n\nDave froze. The police force had finally found out. \"I don't know what you're talking about, Mister...?\... | 2 | |
[WP] You accidentally discover you're able to cast spells that make people's lives better. You can now ease suffering and pain. However, you're devoutly religious; your religion forbids using magic. | [
"This could be a fantasy story in an alternative world parallel to ours just to heighten its effect and keep it fiction. I would have a religion that is the widely practiced religion and hold a saint to high acclaim. This saint was one who decreed that all power belongs to a higher being. That no man or woman could... | 2 | |
[WP] The heat death of the universe is approaching. Humanity has discovered a brilliant solution to survival. | [
"With a sickening *CRACK*, the two halves of broken tooth at the back of my jaw merge back into one. I sigh from the pain relief and sink back into my comfy bean bag chair, which has been getting fuller as the days go by. Before long, the hole I'd accidentally tore in it will sew itself up. Should happen in about a... | 2 | |
[WP] Smouldering hat in hand, the Devil has come to the one person who is more versed in corruption of humanity than him. And it's a real shock to learn it's YOU. | [
"The devil is the master of evil, but let us not forget that he was once an angel too. Although he now lives in the depths of hell, he once flew high in the heavens with the best of us. His fall was a mistake and the reason that humans all know who he is, is because they all live with the fear that they could just ... | 6 | |
[WP] Rewrite a biblical text as if it were occurring in the present day. | [
"A popular televangelist tried to trap Jesus. \"Teacher,\" he asked, \"what do I have to do to live forever?\"\n\nJesus answered, \"Well, what does it say in the Bible? What do you think it means?\"\n\nThe man answered, \"The Bible to says to Love God with everything you have in you and to love your neighbor as you... | 2 | |
[WP] Describe the dreams of a newborn. | [
"Soothing liquid swooshing gently and a repetitive sound, t-tap, t-tap, t-tap. A brightness in front of my face here and there. A kind sounding high pitched muffled voice, and another voice, deeper in pitch but also recognizable.\n\nWarmth, suspension. \n\nThen pressure, incredible pressure and confusion. Pain, ... | 2 | |
[WP] Click the random subreddit button three times and combine the themes into a story. | [
"As I watched a new The Creatures video of Garry mod it had included Kirby and anarchy but it was spooky red! Then I woke up and starred Kirby Rainbow Road there was a 4th save with 666% completed!\n\nBut It was probs a glitch then Kirby Rainbow Road was called Kirby Anarchist Road.AND I BOUGHT A NEW GAME....IT WAS... | 20 | |
[WP]You are a government worker in Australia during the Stolen Generation. You are tasked with taking children from their families for "white"-ification, and you come into conflict with your morals. | [
"Another beautiful day in the great state of Queensland I thought to myself. The ford loudly tore across these old dirt roads as I moved out to another tribe to remove a child. There was a feeling in the back of my mind though, that this wasnt right. I should be used to it now, I had taken this ford down hundreds o... | 2 | |
[WP] A superhero is accused of being a child molester | [
"Succeed a hundred times, and no one cares. Fuck up once, and everyone is watching. Power Slam had never appreciated that sentiment as mch as he did right now. The people of his city did not care that he had risked life and limb to save them countless times over the past five years. They did not care that he had ta... | 1 | |
Bonus points for burrito erotica or a completely serious story about their lives as a married couple. | [WP] A man marries a burrito | [
"They said I couldn't do it, but fortunately due to a loophole in Kentucky law I was able to legally marry my one true love, a chiptole burrito. She's the perfect burrito for me. Just some chicken, rice, and the fixins; her name is Cherice.\n\n“Honey! I'm home!”. Cherice, sitting gingerly on the stool across the ro... | 2 |
[WP] In a city of thieves you are... Another thief struggling to find anything in a city picked clean | [
"Tier One was as notorious for thieves as it was for losers. No one was here by choice and no one wanted to stay. \nNew arrivals were two distinct groups; those who had managed somehow to get through the gates from Last Sight and those who had fallen from grace in Tier Two. In a city of thieves, the only people wi... | 2 | |
[WP] Much to everyone's surprise, it is Pluto that houses the closest extraterrestrial life. | [
"Twelve years after the New Horizon's fly-by of Pluto was when we received the first message from them. It was a short, simple message that, surprisingly, was in binary. The beings from Pluto explained that they used their own radio waves to end the message when they found our probe in space. Using our technology, ... | 2 | |
[WP] Time suddenly freezes, but you are unaffected. However, you realize that even though people are frozen, they all seem to be staring at you. | [
"Toby tugged on his mum's sleeve not wanting to go yet, he wanted to play with his friends, and maybe get some more sweets. When she suddenly stopped moving, Toby thought he'd gotten what he wanted and they were staying for longer. After a few moments though he noticed his mother still hadn't moved, nor said anythi... | 4 | |
I am this student worker right now except nothing life changing is happening to me. | [WP] You're a student worker for your college, running the front desk of the technology department. The next thing that comes through the main doors will change your life forever. | [
"It was just an ordinary day. People always will do stupid things with their technology, so I was confident I would have this job as long as I needed it. But did I ever hate it. When I applied, I thought it would be mentally stimulating with some time for homework on the side. But being the front desk worker bored ... | 2 |
[WP] Why? | [
"######[](#dropcap)\n\nKommander Alexsandr Surov pointed towards the bridge and towards the fortifications that anchored the north bank. Even from a half mile away, the ant size figures of Cygnaran soldiers could be seen waiting behind sandbagged positions and within timber bunkers. Great tangles of barbed wire cov... | 1 | |
[WP] Humankind was punished--its sentence was general relativity, an arbitrary speed limit which imprisoned humans from interacting with intergalactic society. Today their sentence ends. | [
"The first thing the human race did, once the speed of light was abolished, wasn't necessarily to go looking for trouble, or to find new civilizations, peoples, or cultures. All of those were well and good, people agreed. But speed is speed, and there's a lot of open space in space; thus it is called space.\n\nHu... | 2 | |
[WP] Write a story that starts as a horror story, then slowly transitions into a tear-jerking sad story. | [
"You looked up into the sky as a thin trickle of rain started to descend upon you, gradually thickening itself more and more until it was absolutely pouring. This was the worst sort of day for rain... Closing the door of your Sedan behind you, you took a moment to gaze over the archaic den standing before you, slow... | 2 | |
[WP] The Devil now sends Billy Mays out to sell people on deals with the Devil. | [
"All I wanted to do was put some words on the page. Tell a story, make a point, I really don't know. I just wanted to write, but the words clogged up in my mind and refused to move to hand and exit through the pen. I just couldn't do it. \n\t\nAnd I was starting to get depressed. I love writing, but sometimes it se... | 3 | |
[For funsies I did a little drawing of a kid necromancer.](http://imgur.com/jKixXIb)
Edit: The child can be whatever gender, I should have made it more ambiguous in the title. | [WP] Your kid is the greatest Necromancer in the world. He's also 8. | [
"Riot came back, his legs broken by the Eric Marshall's new truck. \n\nThen there was Grandma, holding a dusty plate of cookies. \n\nAll ghosts, memories, of the people Daniel wanted them to be.\n\nBut it told us that there was power inside him,\n\nPower we would never be able to control.\n\nIf only there were ways... | 8 |
[WP] You are Shakespeare writing One Direction fan fiction. | [
"None hath a fairer cheek than Harry Styles;\n\nNor finer curl of hair nor greener eye;\n\nBut finest are those legs that go for miles;\n\nThe more I stare the more I think I'm bi.\n\nWhile some may say Zayn was prettier;\n\nWith darkest eye and cheekbone cut from glass;\n\nHis departure did send Directioners a-twi... | 1 |
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