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[WP] It was a simple question, but each of them had different answers: "Why do you sit facing the door?" | [
"I'm a bot, *bleep*, *bloop*. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:\n\n- [/r/fractal_death] [\\[Submitted\\] It was a simple question, but each of them had different answers: \"Why do you sit facing the door?\"](https://np.reddit.com/r/Fractal_Death/comments/3p0a66/submitted_it_was_a_simpl... | 3 | |
[WP] Your Queen has always been a little 'unhinged', but you somehow make the relationship work. | [
"I’ve done a lot to get to where I am in life. I’m proud of my position. It means so much to serve my people and protect them. They stand up when my name is announced. They cheer when I speak.\n\nThey fucking love me.\n\nMy Queen, though. Well, I am regret a lot involving Her. First, I married Her when She was in H... | 2 | |
[WP] Instead of dead mice, your cat starts leaving cash and small bags of narcotics on your porch. | [
"the lights of west philadelphia shown doown ont he cracked and uneven pavement like stale heatlamps at a crown fried. dirt devils sprung up on the corners and not even a mouse was stirring in the dead of the night here on 38th and mantua. \n\nferal cats were almost everywhere, and to an enterprising,and often ineb... | 10 | |
[WP] Tell a story that happens entirely in a rundown unpopular cafe called The Black Rabbit. | [
"To call the Conejo Negro a cafe was an exaggeration at best, and an outright bastardization of the word in truth. The tin roofed shack in the dusty scrub wastes of the low desert outside Cuernavaca offered bitter *cervesa* slung across a scarred and bloodstained bar. The lone table was without any chairs, all smas... | 6 | |
[WP] God is in trouble. As science progresses and discovers more secrets of the universe, God is running out of places to hide. | [
"Journal Entry 1\n Shit, they're onto me, It's honestly only a matter of time before they find me. With technology advancing at such a rapid rate they are going to surpass /me/! Every time I make a new galaxy to hide in they find it in the matter of /hours/ I'm running out of options... If they discover me they ... | 2 | |
[WP] A baby is born fully clothed. | [
"Foul creature foul beast. \n\nIt was birthed with a shirt, \n\nWhile our kind, with dirt.\n\nBlood is to human as bread is to yeast.\n\nIt doesn't care about us the least.\n\nIt even wore a skirt.\n\nWe will let it live but be on alert.\n\nOh wait. It brought a feast.\n\n\n",
"Darla drew her face downwards direl... | 3 | |
[WP] Everyone in the world is told to wish for a superpower in ten seconds. Anyone who wishes the same thing as another person will result in death for both. | [
"In the end, it was easy ... \nI was always kind of a cheater, never played fair. I was the smartass kid that was always using loopholes in the rules for his own benefit, and man, did I outdo myself this one time. It was quite a risk, but one worth taking. \n\nWhen the voice started to count down, I tried to formul... | 4 | |
How does Jason Borne give a powerpoint presentation? How does he use his training to get incredible youtube views and tons of karma? | [WP] You are a Jason Borne level super agent, but left the agency to take a more stable job as a ______. You can't help but constantly use your training in common office and life situations to get ahead in life. | [
"Let's make him Bourne*, and let's put him in an employment office.\n\n Jason checks his computer three times after logging in to make sure he's not missed anything. It's a Monday and he's spent the weekend working out and watching world news on the internet, always thinking of the Monday ahead as a challenge. ... | 3 |
[WP] You are a police officer in a large metropolitan area where dangerous crime is very common. One day you're taking place in a large scale car chase and just when you have the suspect cornered, a brand new car appears out of nowhere and he gets in and drives off. He's using cheat codes. | [
"\"I'm too old for this shit.\" I grumbled aloud, to no one in particular. My sides ached from chasing the suspect from where he crashed his last car.\n\nMy partner, Jenkins pulled up in our battered cruiser and did a drift slide, stopping the car with the passenger door only feet from me.\n\n\"God damn it Jenkins,... | 2 | |
[WP] You are surviving in a skyscraper in the wake of an apocalypse. You are in a room on the 10th story and hear a knock...at the window. | [
"Looking over at the window I sighed. A large purple tentacled sucker was stuck to the window, again. Slowly getting off the couch I head over to the window.\n\"Hang on! I'll open it\" \nChuckling to my self, I open the window and let Jack inn. Flopping in through the window is Jack, he used to be a human before th... | 2 | |
[WP] The young no longer inherit the earth. No matter what age everyone looks like they're in their 20s. Now young people must compete with experienced elderly aged adults for jobs, sexual partners, and for the better things in life. | [
"\"Are you just looking for a Driver's License scratch or you need an actual birthdate change?\" asked Tom Gutierrez.\n\nHe sat behind his desk in his cramped, windowless office. The walls were bare of decoration except for a calendar with a bikini-clad woman that was a hundred years out of date. He did not look hi... | 2 | |
[WP] Oak's words echoed... "There's a time and place for everything but not now!" | [
"\"Hey Gerald, look at this.\" said Tim as he handed his friend the newspaper. \n\n\"Huh, so they finally found the sick bastard?\" he replied as he handed Tim back the newspaper. \n\n\"Appears so. Seems kinda young, don't you think?\". \n\n\"Unfortunately, will get off with a reduced sentence because of his age.\"... | 2 | |
[WP] It's discovered that all people possess innate superpowers, but we can only use them when we consume 100% of our recommended daily vitamins and minerals | [
"The night was still. Crescent moon hung, no stars in sight, thanks to the city lights. Hugh shuffled his way in the dark streets, hand loosely over pistol. Downtown was a bit dangerous in the wee hours of the morning. An alley came up, and he turned down it.\n\n\n\"What brings you here boy?\" An old man, lanky, g... | 5 | |
Been sitting on this one a while, looking forward to see the community results! | [WP] Humanity is no longer Earth's Apex Predator. | [
"No one knows how long they have existed, how they evolved, if they are terrestrial in origin or even if \"they\" is correct and not \"it.\" They don't show up on film, thermal, infrared, or any other method of observation we have developed. As far was we can tell light seems to pass through them as if they weren't... | 5 |
[WP] Three brothers set out to become mages and learn the true names of all things. When their father, the king, died, they returned to battle for the throne. The first had learned the names of the wind and water; the second, of fire and iron. The third returned empty handed save his own true name. | [
"The tired head of her too small pony drooped as they ascended the enormous mountain.\n\"What does father look like?\"\n\"Hush, little one, you'll see soon enough.\"\n\"Will I see mother?\"\n\"Quiet! The Occi Gate is near!\"\nThick, black, stone walls reach the stars and hide the moon as we approach. Faces of dyin... | 4 | |
(Full disclosure: x-post from /r/explainlikeIAmA) | [WP] Explain a modern city as if you are an ancient shaman who saw one in a vision | [
"The prophet sat on the earth, ready to proclaim his vision quest.\n\n\"I looked at the sky and saw naught but darkness.\n\nI looked down, and saw no soil. The earth was as stone - A deep gray stone.\n\nFrom my dreamy slumber I forced myself to look forward - my purpose was clear. I had to learn of the future. And ... | 3 |
So, are we in good hands or are we all dead? | [WP] ISIS has planted a doomsday bomb in Washington. It will explode in 24 hours and annihiliate the East Coast unless one man can find and disarm it...Florida Man! | [
"\"Holy shit!\" said General Grant\n\"Lolwut\" replied General Brant\n\"Those towelheaded motherfuckers built a bomb powerful enough to blow the east coast up .....all the way from the pacific northwest?! And the bomb is LIVE!!\" - Grant\n\"Shut up bitch we got F-\" - Brant\n\"MOTHERFUCKIN' FLORIDA MAN!!\" - Grant\... | 4 |
[WP] "You are not a human being." | [
"\"You are not a human being.\" \n\nUriah’s eyes pierced deep inside me almost as if she was reading my thoughts.\n\n“You are not a human being, you never were.” \nMy head cocked a little to the left and my forehead winkled as I took in that sentence for the 2nd time. I began to let out a gentle smirk as I matche... | 3 | |
[WP] Your parents always told you you were 1 in a 1,000,000 now you just met 1 of the 7,125 almost exactly like you. | [
"I dug my hands into my pockets. Why did I have to go to these stupid meetings anyway? I didn't get anything from them, just useless info on how to \"be a leader.\" I didn't want to lead. I was content with sitting back. Sure, I'd take responsibility if I *had* to, but generally, no, it wasn't for me. I didn't fit ... | 2 | |
[WP] A little child prays to God. Unfortunately God isn't listening but Cthulhu sure is. | [
"Anna's quite the religious girl. Always turned to God to solve her problems. Didn't really do anything but it helped her mentally, and as long as she was happy, so was I. One night, I peered though the door to see Anna kneeling to God. Staring up to the moon she asked for 3 things to happen \"Can you stop Tom, Jim... | 7 | |
[WP] Stereotypes about different nationalities are all true. Because of this the French people can only end up being chefs, Germany produces nothing but engineers, British people are butlers etc. You want to do something else with your life than what's assigned to all your countrymen. | [
"If I could just get it over the hill that's in front of me, then I'd be well off. If not, then well, I guess it wasn't meant to be. \n\nThought after thought raced through my head. Things like, 'what would happen to my reputation?' We've all done this before and I'm sure I could too... But what if I can't? 'Where ... | 2 | |
[WP] You take a walk in the countryside and bump into one of the four horsemen. They ask a simple question, your answer determines the fate of the human race. | [
"\"Wait, *that's* the question you're going to ask? *That's* seriosuly the question that determines the fate of humanity?\" Bob said, easing up slightly from his cowaring position to a more relaxed one.\n\n\"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize that you could do this better. I mean, I am still learning, I've only had an... | 2 | |
[WP] Give me the synopsis of the book you're writing. Make me want to read it. | [
"A freakish depressed veteran travels the lands of exile. In his search for the meaning of his existence, he meets old enemies, new friends, and gets one step closer to making his heart ache just that little less...\n\nA prince that never was strives to be king like his father before him. He tries to keep the city ... | 5 | |
[WP] You don't age and have outlived all your friends and family. One day you meet someone you used to know from 200 years ago. | [
"The cellar door opened and cracks of light blinded the man who had been down there for so long. It was an old room, maybe used for storage in a previous generation. Now, it was his. This was all John West knew for the last several decades. Four walls made of stone and a hatch above where sometimes lines of light w... | 8 | |
If your script is good, I might just develop it into a play to be shown in February!
ping /u/RamsesThePigeon | [WP] Write a dramatic story in script form about an inanimate object that has feelings. The goal is to bring the reader to tears. | [
"SCENE.\n\n*A GUN, black, polished, and revolver-style, lies on an end table made of dark wood at center stage. The end table has one drawer on the front with a knob. The entire stage is dark except for one soft spotlight on the GUN.*\n\nGUN: The bullets. It was the bullets. I was so innocent the day I saw their fe... | 7 |
[WP] God exists, but isn't all powerful. He hasn't contacted humanity since he realised people expected an afterlife and he can't figure out how to make one. | [
"My wife cried by my beside; long, wracking sobs that tore at my heart.\n\n\"It's alright, my love, I'm going to a better place. I love you.\"\n\n\"I love you - *hiccup* - too, David . I'll be with you soon.\"\n\nI passed away with a peaceful smile on my face.\n\nAnd woke to the sounds of frantic hammering and sawi... | 4 | |
[WP] You run a small Diner in the middle of nowhere. At the middle of the night 4 old men come in and seat themselves, After taking their orders and overhearing their conversations. you realize you served the four horsemen of the apocalypse. | [
"The white, streamlined vehicle came first. I reacted as the bright headlights sliced through the darkness outside and came to a stop in the parking lot. It was midnight, and this was not a well-traveled tract. Also, the car and it's driver didn't fit into the regular clientele at all. I muted the stereo and yawned... | 2 | |
Some things to consider: How many realities do you have? How are they different? When do you switch? How long has this been happening to you? | [WP] You suffer from the opposite of Dissociative Identity Disorder. Instead of switching between a few different identities with different memories, you switch between a few different realities with the same memory. | [
"There was the pop of a gun, and that turd beside the trail had definitely not been there before. Oh well, just another death I can't enjoy, Jerry thought as he kept walking. He knew the universe kept changing every time he almost died, but did not care. Jerry knew every time he shifted, some Jerry, somewhere, d... | 9 |
Bonus Points: The Villains are psychotic.
Inspired by [this thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/alternativeart/comments/3pg5az/disney_meets_the_walking_dead/) | [WP] Chaos reigns as the Disney Characters you love are sudden transported to a Modern Day Zombie Movie. Describe their survival. | [
"The faint tune of a soprano singing gaily in the distance had an eery way of carrying through the entire forest, echoing off of each empty nest and abandoned burrow. The short, sweet melody was reminiscent of a children's wind-up music box. It repeated twice before halting abruptly when replaced with a shriek. The... | 5 |
[WP] We finally found a friendly extraterrestrial civilization. However, they are being kind of clingy. | [
"The council room for the interplanetary council on new species, was quite boring. It was what a human would expect when expecting any human boring meeting room. Sergeant Michaels did not expect this, stepping off the space ship. It was just like in the movies, a boring room with those boring grey spinny chairs on ... | 4 | |
To clarify: In this world; anything that you say you are forced to adhere to. | [WP] You live in a world where anything you say is binding. | [
"THE NEW YORK TIMES\n=\n- - -\n\n**End of Times? America Reels in Shock as Society Crumbles.**\n\n.\n\n.\n\n\nNo one really knows how the chaos started, and it's not clear if it will ever end.\n\nMost shocking, perhaps, were all the dead children apparently killed by blade slashes to their chests and needles stuck ... | 2 |
I am not logical, I am for sure just wasting your time. But if anyone can write something that reflects somebody having depression and has the will to do it, I am going to read every single word, crying in front of the beautifully shaped letters you craft.
In advance: Thank you. | [WP] "Depression. I am choking on air, I am useless. Too many pictures in my mind… I can’t hold." | [
"*\"I hate my life\".*\n\nThe alarm clock went off, as a means simply to get me out of bed. It served no other rational purpose -- for others, it was a way to remind them that they had a job to go to, places to go, people to see, friends to enjoy. \n\nNot so with me.\n\nThe snooze button didn't matter. It was an... | 2 |
[WP] "I don't believe in The Goddess anymore.""Well, she believes in you." | [
"Two hooded figures scampered down the road, through blistering rain and deafening thunder. Leda looked back on the city gates. She looked partly with defiance, leaving the place she had been born and raised and eventually grew to despise.\n\nIt was a stroke of serendipity on the date set for her execution, a terri... | 2 | |
[WP] It's the day of the apocalypse, you are known simply as 'The Fifth Horseman'. Describe your role in the end of the world. | [
"It walked up slowly to Adam with its hulking figure, bleeding shadows and darkness. \n\n\"Get the fuck away from me! GET AWAY!\"\n\n\"Adam...\" it growled. \n\nAdam tried to crawl away despite the severe injuries but it was inevitable. It appeared in front of him suddenly.\n\n\"What the fuck are you!? What the fuc... | 2 | |
Example:
You are a:
* blacksmith (weapons and armour)
* bowyer (bows and crossbows)
* town healer (cure curses and diseases)
* alchemist (potions)
* enchanter (make stuff magic)
* sage (detect what kind of magic stuff is)
* shady merchant (poison and lock picks)
* something else
| [WP] You are a merchant in a RPG-like world and your favourite customer, an adventurer, hasn't returned from the dungeon | [
"*6 days.* The blacksmith put his hammer down on the anvil for the fourth time that day. *6 days and he hasn't returned yet.* The blacksmith picked his hammer back up in another attempt to distract himself from his thoughts. *6 days.*\n\n*Damn it.*\n\nThe strong armed nord stood up from his chair, placed his tools ... | 5 |
[WP] You're on a quest to collect legendary magical items, but the gods thought it was hilarious to make the most powerful items the most tacky and ridiculous looking. | [
"I stared at the dick shaped pillars, \"The spear of Z'thluth, you have to be fucking kidding me.\" I stared at the cavernous space then walked into the center of the four pillars, in the center was a pedestal with a stone dildo on it. \"This is fucking ridiculous,\" I muttered as I picked it off of the pedestal. A... | 3 | |
[WP] "Need homework help: Effects of diet and exercise on a dragon's fire output?" | [
"You see, it started off pretty simple. Homework assignment: what are the effects of diet and exercise for a dragon's fire output? Extra credit for a break down based on the *type* of a dragon. Ice, woodland, blah blah blah. You know the drill. My teacher asks for it to be handed in by Monday. I was thinking maybe ... | 3 | |
[WP] The very first martian colonists begin to suspect they are still on Earth. Mutiny and panic starts to form among the divided cosmonauts. A story about government conspiracy or space travel-related paranoia? | [
"The pacing was starting to get on Ruth's nerves. \nHe'd been at it for the last ten minutes; walking back and forth in front of the window, staring out at the barren martian landscape. His jerky head movements were beginning to worry her - but were tempered by the fact that Jackson had become a singularly *irrita... | 2 | |
[WP] You drive political prisoners for the federal government. One day a teenager gets in. Their papers say DO NOT COMMUNICATE. Halfway to your destination, they start talking.... | [
"\"Y'know, you're kinda cute for a cop.\"\n\nI rolled my eyes. This was the third time she had tried to engage me.\n\nDriving a bus to a Federal prison in the middle of nowhere is pretty boring. Occasionally I get an interesting person. Some extremist or whatever. The sociopaths make the best people to talk to duri... | 3 | |
[WP] When the intruder pulled out a knife, you had no choice but to shoot them. When you removed the mask they were wearing, you realized that you were looking at your lifeless face... | [
"\"Ah fuck alright listen you bastards cant replace me so stop.\" I looked around eyeing all my clones, fucking ass holes all of them. Luckily I thought ahead and tattooed numbers on their forheads. Number seven tried to murder me this time last week it was fifty I really need to stop making these bastards so blood... | 2 | |
[WP] A recently deceased person (now ghost) is afraid of the other (seasoned) ghosts. | [
"Francine Millwrite was born on April 23 to a harried mother and a busy father. As the youngest of four she spent the first years of her life at the bottom of the heap. It didn’t help that her diminutive size, freckly face and frizzy red hair made her an easy target for taunts and teasing.\n\nFrom the first day of ... | 2 | |
[WP] One morning you wake up in a stranger's body, in a stranger's life. A world where everyone you personally knew never existed, including your fiancé. A week into this madness, as you prepare to surrender to your new life, you see your fiancé | [
"NSFW btw\n\n-----------------------------------------------------\n\nMy name is Theodore, at least, it *was* Theodore last night. \n\nI can't say that I've had the best life up until now, but I never had any serious complaints either. I grew up in a small town, the kind where school coaches worked in two or more s... | 3 | |
[WP] Low battery. Exactly the two words I didn't want to see right now. | [
"This debilitating heat is sapping at my soul. Every inch of my true self is being torn by this wave of incoherent madness that we grotesquely call summer. The only sanity I have left is kept alive by the fading hope of meeting the man who describe himself as a “air conditioner technician”. How desperate could a ma... | 4 | |
[Have fun trying to get out](http://tvtropes.org) | [WP] Go to TvTropes, click on the "Random Trope" button 5 times. Incorporate those tropes into a story. | [
"The girl dusted off her knees, wincing whenever she accidentally touched a scrape or bruise. A sudden weight on her shoulder told her that Jojo, ever useless, had returned after the fighting was over. She grabbed at him in a flash and saw him squirming in her fist, a clump of colorful feathers.\n\n\"HEY! Don't squ... | 5 |
[WP] You meet the worst person in heaven. You decide to have a conversation with them in order to figure out how they managed to get here. | [
"\"Expect nothing and you won't be disappointed.\"\n\nThe words above the gate. \n\nHow is it possible to enter a place with no expectations? Anxiety raging on whether I abandon hope or bask in eternal light. I was a good person, right?\n\nI step through the portal. I'm met with nothing. I perceive it to be an inky... | 5 | |
[WP] You've recently discovered you have the power to magically heal any ailment, but it's not instant. Curing one person of a more serious condition takes up to a month of intense concentration. You and the rest of world are trying to figure out how to best use your limited resources. | [
"O Death Part I\n\nBy ElSol69\n\nI guess I fooled myself into believing I understood; I didn't though, not until the Iranians tried to kidnap me and when the attempt proved futile turned it into an assassination attempt.\n\nThe US hit the Iran Presidential Palace with the biggest non-nuclear bomb they could. An are... | 2 | |
[WP] After a few offhanded remarks, you're beginning to suspect your robot butler is actually controlled by your ex who's still bitter about the divorce. | [
"\"Pardon me for being so forward, Sir, but I have to say that those pinstripes really flatter your frame.\" \n \n\"Ah! Thank you, Jeeves. If you remember, that mastodon of a wife I used to have often said that I look terrible in this suit.\" \n \n\"Yes, Sir, I do. She often pointed out how meretricious your ... | 3 | |
[WP] It is the end of days, and everyone finally finds out which religion was right. | [
"There are hills broken off into crumbling escarpment with wet, dripping cedar trees rooted though. After the long summer, the showers come more frequently and the days grow grayer and darker as the drizzling mist begins to threaten snow. Rocks sometimes break the hiss of rain and crash through the trees down to th... | 2 | |
[WP] The cure for old age was discovered centuries ago. A revolution is taking place in an effort to remove the "Immortals" from power. | [
"\"Come on, man. You can't be serious.\"\n\n\"What, I just wanna try my hacking skills, in and out. It's not like I'm legit tryna steal info.\"\n\nJames was a random buddy I met in one of my comp sci classes. We've gone through enough to learn some basic hacking. However, being the naive and overzealous twenty some... | 4 | |
[WP] Going through 65 years of your families photos, you start to notice the same unknown candidly in the background of every single location. | [
"I thought all of our photos were lost in the fire. In fact, I hoped they had been. \n\nWe stood on the Henderson’s perfectly manicured front lawn, watching across the street as the flames came out of the windows in tendrils, attempting to climb the walls. I half-laughed, half-snorted. All I could think about was a... | 3 | |
[WP] A great and glorious war is raging. In a remote area two poorly equipped and unmotivated units are locked in stalemate, fighting over a forgotten piece of land. The officers are killed and their men just don't see the point of it anymore. | [
"\"Hey\"\n\n'Yeah?'\n\n\"You ever wonder why we're here?\"\n\n'It's one of life's great mysteries isn't it. Why *are* we here? I mean, are we the product of some cosmic coincidence, or is there really a God, watching everything? You know, with a plan for us and stuff. I don't know man, but it keeps me up at night.'... | 1 | |
[WP] Humanity united and achieved world peace over a perceived alien invasion, but it has been discovered/revealed that this threat was just propaganda/lies to achieve unity. | [
"Th world was at peace, until it was revealed why. The invasion-threat was just an extremely well-constructed lie. An elaborate scheme to create fake unity among countries. Because let's be real, if the invasion came, and we fended it off, we'd all turn right back to fighting afterwards. Take World War II. A big ch... | 2 | |
[WP] Every day when you wake up, something insignificant has changed in your life. Your name is the same but spelled differently, your house is now 1200 Maple street instead of 1201, your dog has blue eyes instead of green, etc. | [
"I wake up one day, or could it be two, \nAnd find that something changed that I once knew. \nI saw my dog, now a cat, \nPassed my enemy with a friendly chat. \n \nAs I stroll to my office, suite 2B, \nI find a cubicle amidst a bustling sea. \nI settle down into my favorite chair, \nOnly to lean on the back... | 2 | |
[WP] She is old and stooped and wrinkled, and he has never been more in love. | [
"EDIT - PICK A NUMBER 1, THEN A NUMBER 2. I CAN'T SEEM TO GET SPOILER TAGS TO WORK.\n\nIt's been a long, hot, sticky day delivering packages for the postal service; good thing it'll be over after this last package. You check the address: Mrs. H. Melbourne, flat 209 of the Shady Acres retirement home.\n\nYou arrive ... | 4 | |
[wp] When you shake anyones hand you see and know all of their their Internet history. The work party just got awkward. | [
"*Wait* What? I stumbled a little, mid-sentence as I shook his hand, and quickly waved it off, laughing about something or other. I made sure I'd heard that right. Heard, sort of. It's complicated. But I had.\n\n*There's no porn in his search history.* I thought. *Seriously? None. Never seen that before.*\n\nThe hi... | 3 | |
[WP] You're in a moderate, but unusually long earthquake. As the ground continues to shake, you look to your horror as your friend next to you is about to open up a can of soda. | [
"After a good 30 min of the ground shaking and nothing really being damaged apart from the oddities here and there that would fall from shelves people just, well started going about there business as usual. \n\nMy good friend John and myself decided that just in case we might as well leave the theater in case the e... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a genie. A little child finds your lamp and excitedly wishes to be super...just super. What do you do? | [
"\"I wish to be super\", the boy said. \n\nThe Genie waved his hands and an orange haze came over the boy. \n\n\"I'm super! Thanks for asking! All things considered I couldn't be better I must say! Because I'm feeling, so incredibly super! Ohhhh don't you think I look cute in this hat, these little shoes, this matc... | 4 | |
[WP] Instead of superpowers, people get curses or supercurses. | [
"You get used to it after a while. Not seeing anything. Blindfolded constantly because you don't want to see. \n\nI should explain,Not all too long ago, there was a company that opened it's doors. They popped up almost overnight everywhere around the world. Selling little vials marked \"Super speed\" And \"Super st... | 2 | |
[WP]War surroundes you on all sides. The bombs are dropping while you stand ready in your mech suit, ready to go out in a blaze of glory. Your commanding officer looks to you before you run out saying the words: "Don't you get tired of being useless" Before being obliterated | [
"The world was already burning when our drop pod was shot from SC Möbius, the display in my helmet showed a countdown. 35 seconds until touchdown, suit fully operational. I remembered my training, and prepared for the worst when LT-1611's harsh voice resonated within my helmet. \"Don't you get tired of being useles... | 5 | |
[WP] Jeff thinks he has the most boring life in the world, unbeknownst to him he actually has the most exciting life in the world. | [
"The slow life took a toll on Jeff, wearing him down until he seemed but an old, grizzled shell of his youth. Back then, he was one of the big guys. The head-honchos. The guy who called the shots, the man of the moment. But the energy he once had was gone. After the first of the attacks, the exciting world of accou... | 2 | |
[WP][CW] An extremely atheistic person and an extremely religious person witness the same coincidence/miracle. Give me one perspective on the event, then the other. | [
"You know the strip mall over on park place? Not park ave.The good one. The one with Cueballs, Dollar Tree, and 'Swam Pass' the all ages swimming school.\n\nSo the other day some shit went down there. This guy walks out of Cueballs Bar. He's some ordinary 20 some know it all. He's seven drinks deep and on his way h... | 2 | |
What happens from here?
-P.S All Animals are still alive and lets assume Power stays on for a Week, internet for only a day or 2.
Sorry for your instead of you're... | [WP] You wake up one morning and your the last person on earth. | [
"There was the initial shock, but when that faded nothing took its place. I just sort of existed silently for a while. Everything that defined who I was... was trivial. I guess you can say when the world lost humanity, I lost mine. \n\nI don't know what made me get in my car, but I remember that first day I never s... | 1 |
[WP] You are given the option to travel through time, just once, but you will never be able to return to the present. Do you choose to go and if you do where do you go? | [
"###The Flying Ship, The Lovestruck Captain, and the Uncanny Girl\n\nThere was a gale blowing through the eastern side of London, and though we were perched up high with our legs dangling over the railings, we could just barely see the poorfolks' laundry billowing in the wind. Or perhaps it was only a trick of the ... | 6 | |
[WP] A person has been waiting for a new game for a long time, when he finally gets it he plays it so much he doesn't leave his house for a week. When he finally steps outside he discovers that the zombie apocalypse started.. And ended. | [
"Fallout 4 had just came out right before Thanksgiving break, and without a place to go I celebrated with a week long feast of my own. I loaded up on microwavable dinners, soda, and enough Yakisoba noodles to last a week. The clerk at the checkout counter probably thought I was preparing for the apocalypse. She cou... | 3 | |
[WP] Clones are first class citizens. Natural born people are not. | [
"Sara tied the purple sash around her waist as Anya finished braiding her hair.\n\n“There,” her friend said, fastening the end of a braid with an elastic. “Wow, this is weird.”\n\nSara stared at her reflection in the mirror. It was strange, seeing herself like this. She wasn’t sure yet if she liked it.\n\nShe’d alw... | 2 | |
[WP] A Civilization has been surviving eons by traveling from solar system to solar system. Today they found a small habitable planet, orbiting the last star of the universe. | [
"Kizuwatna stalks the empty corridors of the Universe, and watches the stars flicker and breathe. The corridor he walks in is empty. Dark, where the stars have given out for lack of maintenance. Oppressed, by automated warnings that pulse endlessly in his subconscious.\n\n*...CITIZEN FAILSAFE OVERRIDE! CITIZEN FAIL... | 2 | |
[WP] "You're telling me you fell from that high and walked away without a scratch? How?" | [
"Bob ran to Gob, who in the blink of an eye descended the 300 feet cliff face.\n\n\"WHAT THE FUCK HOW DID YOU DO THAT\" yelled Bob.\n\n\"It was easy ma boy. You see...\"\n\n\"...I'm actually part squirrel\".\n\n\"What?\" asked Bob.\n\n\"Let me show you-\" responded Gob. He bent over and squinted his eyes. He clench... | 3 | |
[WP] You've survived years of emotional abuse from your mother, thanks to your father, who's always been a pillar of strength. Now a teen, you find your dad's phone unlocked. There's an App open, the title bar reads "Motherbot Personality Config Panel" | [
"I guess parenting isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. \n\n\nMy mother went mad when I was five, started calling me names that, at the time, I had no capacity to comprehend. She would berate me for my inability to solve simple math problems for school and make me stand for hours in front of a mirror so I was sure to k... | 2 | |
[wp] create the most nasty, evil, degenerate villian you can, and give them a backstory and/or trait that make them completely loveable. | [
"Grinning and giggling like an uncommonly amused baby, He directed his dingy Ruger MK II toward the young family. The father stepped forward, threateningly, and one jeer from Him froze the red haired man in place. The mother stood protectively in front of her son, fear poorly obscured by a weak snarl. Big, green ey... | 2 | |
[WP] In a run-of-the-mill case, a husband suspects his wife of cheating, so he hires a private investigator to follow her at night. What the PI finds is the most horrific thing imaginable... | [
"The faded digital clock on the dash of Jack’s auction-bought Crown Victoria ticked to midnight. Jack confirmed the time on the display of his flip-phone, the light illuminating his stubbled face, punctuated by wrinkles and spots a man his age should not have. A set of twinkling headlight beams, three pairs, Jack c... | 4 | |
oooOOOoo mystery | [WP] ___ was last seen 21 hours and 55 minutes ago saying, "I need to go. Something in my house is wrong and I need to fix it now. " | [
"\"Red alert! Red alert! Twenty-one hours and fifty-five minutes have passed since Professor Gerald last checked in, saying, 'I need to go. Something i my house is wrong and I need to fix it now!' Send the A-Team in! I've got a terrible feeling about this.\" the head of the operation cried out over the PA system. \... | 3 |
[WP] You're out fishing, when you feel a tug on your line. Upon reeling it in, you find a newly-written note to you... | [
"You sat puzzled in front of the rather torn bit of paper , on which , in exquisite calligraphy , were written two words 'Knock Knock' . You dismissed the incident as an elaborate hoax , since you are the paranoid one . Little do you know that your paranoia stems from this very lake , but years have passed since th... | 1 | |
You're also free to not become a functioning member, if that's more your style, it's up to you! | [WP] You wake up not as yourself, or even your species, but as a ______. You have retained all the memories of your previous life.. and death, but must now adapt to existing as a functioning member of a new species. | [
"Woah, that was a wild party. So many people, so many smells! I probably shouldn’t have had so much chocolate last night, but it smelled so good, and the people left it at nose height, and no one told me I was Bad for having it, and it was really tasty.\n \n\nStill, probably shouldn’t have eaten it. I feel... | 2 |
[WP] Society has come to accept that 1 in 10 people will spontaneously burst into a gory mess at some point in their lives. You've become remarkably talented at predicting bursts while living in the city. | [
"Our reality was cruel. Every second could be your last. One moment you are a person with dreams, hopes and loved ones, next moment you are nothing more than a bloody mess of flesh and bones. The first time this happened was around 350 years ago. Though scientists never stopped searching for a cure, no one was able... | 1 | |
[WP] You meet Jesus, but he isn't exactly what you expected him to be... | [
"Billybob Joe looked incredulously at his friend, Billyjoe Bob.\n\n\"You met *Jayzus*?\" Billybob bellowed, stunned.\n\n\"'At Ah did, but...\" Billyjoe started, wincing at the pain of conscious thought, \"...'E ain't exactly what Ah w's expectin' 'im tuh be.\"\n\n\"Wo, whaddaya mean?\" Billybob asked.\n\nBillyjoe p... | 1 | |
[WP] You repurpose an old wristwatch to countdown to a random date within 3-5 years. On that day, it will kill you unless you can prove you are satisfied with your life. | [
" *It’s almost time.* I keep reminding myself. The watch itself ticked and ticked, reminding me that it was approaching closer to the final tick. It sounds almost like a great grandfather clock chiming every hour on the hour. People would ask me sometimes why I had such an annoying wristwatch. \n They would a... | 2 | |
[WP] Maybe we don't want to change. | [
"It's been a while since I've seen you.\n\nI remember that last day, and though the edges aren't crisp anymore, the colors of that memory are as vivid as Kodachrome. You were wearing a blue dress, dark blue but not indigo. The grass was a baked green, drying out in the June sun. Even the sky seemed bleached a pa... | 9 | |
[WP] Write a sports commentator's log as something remarkable happens, prompting one to say, "Now I've seen everything!" and then something even crazier happens. | [
"\"Boy is today ever good for a sport! Boy do I love sporting! Look at that man in the sport down there, he's a good sport. Oh my gosh, that man is doing back flips, he is doing back flips into the stands! Oh my gosh, everyone in the stadium is doing back flips, now I have seen it all! WAIT! WHAT'S THIS? Is that a ... | 2 | |
[WP] Humanity has contacted hundreds of alien civilizations. All of them have one legend in common -- the fat guy in a red suit who gives gifts to good little children. | [
"Henry Johnson is a human diplomat. Some aliens would call humans \"elves\" or \"Santa's little helpers\". That does not amuse Henry.\n\nDiplomat Henry Johnson hates christmas. It was the same everywhere. Santa this, Santa that. It was the one thing all aliens shared. So it blew completely out of proportion. Earth ... | 5 | |
[WP] "We're going to make a fortune off this one," you hear, as you slowly begin to wake up. | [
"\"... to make a fortune off this one.\"\n\nI sat up quickly alert.\n\n\"What the fuck Girt. Who are you talking to?\"\n\n\"Ahh, hello Captain. You seem to have dozed off, not like you to shirk your responsibilities.\"\n\nHe was right of course, I was supposed to be guarding the Shard. Not that there was much ne... | 2 | |
All information given is in the title ;) | [WP] You are the only human left on earth. After 2 years in solitude you find 5000 cloned babies and you plan to repopulate the planet. You now have to decide how to raise them and how to design their "culture". | [
"It should be \"good,\" I'd decided, or rather I suppose it had been decided for me. But what is good? Isn't \"good\" a term devised by man to create a line between actions that cause chaos or promote order? Isn't \"good\" a term that has evolved across cultures and time? Good is not something that is. Good is some... | 1 |
[WP] Turns out becoming a ghost after you die is a real thing however it takes years of practicing before you can actually communicate with the living world. By the time you have it figured out it has been several generations and you decide to try to contact one of you descendants. | [
"The angel watched me carefully.\n\n“You must think about your time on earth.” He said. “You are bound by it's memory, and pulling on that bond shall bring you back to the living.”\n\nI could see it. A line, shiny and silver, holding me to existence, spiraling into unclear mists. A direct connection to my living re... | 2 | |
[WP] Most people drink to forget. You drink to remember. | [
"My mother is a drunk. \n\nShe called me last week to apologize, again, for that time ten years ago she told me to kill myself. Well, not so much as told me, but agreed when I asked her if that’s what she wanted. I think, at this point, she’s just happy when I decide to call her back.\n\nYou see, I told myself I’d ... | 7 | |
Small changes that are physical in nature, short hair to long hair, red wall to blue wall, etc. | [WP] Find out you are the only person with a minor ability to change reality once a day. Whatever you change seems like its been there forever, nobody ever noticing the difference. | [
"They say reality is a projection of our conscious minds to make sense of existence. When I heard this philosophy, this theory if you will, I was fifteen and I thought I knew everything. My response was a rejection of the idea. A scoff at the stupid intellectuals that were considered great thinkers who came up with... | 5 |
[WP] Every life supporting planet in our galaxy is connected by a portal which also distributes magic to the worlds. On some worlds there live elves, on others there are dwarves etc. Thousands of years ago Earth lost it's portal and along with it, the magic | [
"\"I never could grasp the thought that all this, \"Magic\" and wizardry us humans came up with was all because of the Church and it blaming non believers as heretics.\"\n\n\n\n\"Think about it, how is it in every culture in some way or another there is solid evidence of something supernatural our ancestors had tha... | 3 | |
[WP] "The first time I saw her, I was struck by her beauty - and her car." | [
"The moon light was absorbed by the asphalt of the road. I walked down the interstate as headlight after headlight passed by me blinding me with their brights. The empty fuel can in my hand was the only thing that told them my current situation yet no one pulled over to help. Shit I already called in sick Monday to... | 2 | |
[WP]As the AI hunt down the last of the human race and shift their focus to analysing the remains of human culture, they decide to keep a few alive for the purpose of interpreting bizarre human records they call "sarcasm". | [
" <?xml version=\"69.1337\" ?>\n <analysis>\n <meta uid=\"127BH3n9z4\" type=\"category\" value=\"sarcasm\" >\n <categories>\n <category>human</category>\n <category>communication</category>\n <category date=\"14596360423... | 2 | |
[WP] You are the greatest super villian in the world, but no one is scared of you. | [
"Well, there's really not much to tell. I should probably give myself some more credit though. Here I am, bringing mankind to its knees and nobody cares. I would boast about it, but the people who knew my plan are dead. They didn't agree that it was a good plan. \nI never understood why the bad guy in the movies... | 3 | |
[wp] What started a centuries-old blood feud? | [
"I am a historian, a keeper of secrets, a writer of tales. Some call me a bard, others the bard, but I prefer to think of myself as a gatekeeper of legends.\n\nOnce, in my travels, I stumbled across a town, Veroma, Veronica, Verric, something like that. There were two families, gangs, really, fighting for control o... | 3 | |
I've thought about this a lot, I'd love to see someone make a story out of it. Obviously go your own creative way, but for example – I've always wondered if we'd switch cars and the like to electric, or if we'd start splitting hydrogen from water on a massive scale to get the oomph of a combustion engine... Or maybe we... | [WP] Humanity stumbles onto an effectively infinite source of clean energy. The world adapts. | [
" He and the other children having their lunch watched the men sinking holes down the road from afar the day before and now today just across from the school. He nibbled at the bread crust as the shirtless workers poked at the ground with spiked rods testing the dry roadside. His father and some others watche... | 5 |
[WP] The government forces every single one of their teenage citizens to get a goofy tattoo. | [
"*(This is my first prompt. I'm not a good writer, but I'm looking to learn. This is probably pretty bland.)*\n\n\"You slouch in your chair and scan the room, looking at samples posted all around the wall. Slobbering faces with large, hairy breasts for eyes. Poop pooping into the mouths of other poops. The words \"... | 1 | |
[WP] The genie doesn't ruin wishes intentionally. He's just senile and hard of hearing. | [
"I stepped forwards, tentatively into the cave. If I was being honest to myself, I expected it to be a somewhat fancier place. Maybe some chandeliers, or a giant golden pedestal or something. But nope. Just a dull grey cave, filled with random juts of rock, stalagmites and stalactites and whatever. And an even more... | 5 | |
[WP] Every time you are within earshot of someone who says "that was a good year," you are transported to the worst five minutes of that year. | [
"As I stepped out of the subway, and back above ground, I looked up to the One World Trade Center. It was massive, even more so than I'd seen on the TV. While I was here, I just had to be careful. I was going to be close to the building for a while.\n\nI considered buying earplugs, but didn't have enough time. A fe... | 3 | |
[WP] "If only you had listened to yourself, maybe she wouldn't have died." | [
"The coast was hers. It was a domain of sorts, and one to which she wholeheartedly belonged. Her footprints riddled the sand, shortly washed away by an incoming tide. The way she ran along the shore, dashing between dry beach and damp current was a sight to behold. Her energy, boundless, only fed the goals that she... | 1 | |
[WP] Your guardian angel is your stalker | [
"\"Could you...er, just step back a little bit please?\" It was the second time that morning that I'd rolled backwards in my brand-new ergonomic desk chair and rolled over Stan's foot. \n\n\n\"Sorry,\" he sniffed and shuffled back obligingly. I sighed with relief, but it wasn't long before I could hear his snufflin... | 3 | |
[WP] The First TechnoMage | [
"It was a day like any other, well, almost.\n\nI woke up to the blaring sound of my alarm clock. 17:00, it read. I ignored it, willing it to shut off. Then it did.\n\nI snapped to fully awake. The act of willing my alarm clock to silence had caused a change in me. I could see the world differently, as if a filter h... | 6 | |
[WP] You are an old adventurer reminiscing with whats left of your old party. You gather to talk about how weak and pathetic the current generation is, and together decides to show them how it was done the "Old" way. | [
"An elderly pair slowly made their way down the corridor of books. The tink of his walking stick resonated off of the stone floor. The long shelves, lined with literature, towered on every side. She hugged a couple books and stepped slowly to match the pace of cane dependant old man.\n\nWith his back hunched as he ... | 6 | |
[WP] You are a greeter of the newly-deceased. It is your job to inform mostly-good people why they are going to Hell on a technicality. | [
"\"I'm informed by my colleagues that you were debriefed upon your exit from the living and that you were shown the highlights from your time with the living?\"\n\"Yes boss I certainly was!\" \nThis man, in the space of what the living call 'twenty four hours' died, had his new existence in the after life explained... | 3 | |
[WP] You are the Devil's advocate. His lawyer, in fact. Today he's in court for parking tickets but every time he opens his mouth he starts to incriminate himself | [
"\"Parking tickets? Again?\" I sighed, he opened his mouth to say something but I cut him off \"You know, don't even bother. I have stuff to do so let's get this over with.\"\n\nThis has been happening for way too fucking long. You'd think the Devil wouldn't be a moron, but he keeps getting sued for petty crimes an... | 2 | |
I really enjoy butterfly effect type stories so I'm interested to see if anyone had a unique twist to bring to this prompt! Feel free to make the "impact" be negative or positive, I tried to keep the prompt as general as possible.
| [WP] Your seemingly small/insignificant action ends up impacting someone's life in a huge way | [
"How're you doing? I said with a smile. I didn't want anything or have much else to say to the passing stranger but he still responded.\n\"Hi man, Merry Christmas.\"\n\nat night when it was cold and dark the stranger sat alone in his home, contemplating living another year alone. He loaded a single round into the r... | 3 |
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