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[WP] "The most terrifying part of a truth potion is how honest you are with yourself." | [
"So I was a suspect, right? And they give me this sci-fi transparent but so bitter liquid telling me that it's a truth serum. I laugh-at first-but then I start thinking of all that placebo stuff you hear about, right, and I'm trying to read these guys, psychologically you know? I think to myself how I've always had... | 2 | |
[WP] "My soul is drowned in the tears I cannot cry" | [
"A wintery breeze. The falling of snow. The sound of footsteps. They say the day you meet someone special, that day remains imprinted in your memory forever. Not them but the environment. Although a faded memory of them lingers however but like all, they are revised to fit your own imagination and fabrication. \n\n... | 2 | |
[WP] The human forehead suddenly becomes an emotional billboard letting everyone know how an individual feels at the moment. | [
"*In India, they put a red dot on the center of their forehead and pluck the hairline. This is more common in woman, usually before motherhood. It shows their future husbands how emotionally stable they are.* \n\nI put the book down. My research project was turning my forehead gray. Rita was already asleep, her bro... | 3 | |
[WP] a bloodthirsty god wipes the planet and introduces 4 different races/civilizations to the world for them to have a battle royale, but ... | [
"It was here, the end. Ragnarok, the Apocalyse, the End of the World had come, just as all those prophets of doom and gloom had said it would. The world burnt, volcanos had erupted, seas had risen, it was beautiful in a terrible sort of way but it had come for us, and now we sleep.\n\n_____\n\n\"Are you sure?\"\n\n... | 2 | |
[WP] The narrator has a fatal heart attack and the characters must pick up the story themselves. | [
"Jack woke up, and just like pretty much every other time he's done this in his adult life, he debated whether his brain or his stomach felt shittier. *Never again*, he thought, glaring meaningfully at the nearly empty bottle of Cutty Sark on his stained carpet floor. This, too, is pretty much just like every other... | 3 | |
[WP] "I am God.AMA". Make a Q&A thread on God's AMA. | [
">Are you *really* God? Edit: YOU CREEP!!\n\nYou call your left one \"the bum on my chest.\" \nEdit: Stop gilding me. \n\n\n>Do you love me? \n\nThat depends. Do you love the Seattle Seahawks? \n\n\n>Is my grandmother in hell? Edit: Oh my god. \n\nHaven't checked one second yep, still there. \n\n\n&... | 1 | |
Dark, rainy, and moody. | [WP] A film noir style war story. | [
"“This is it,” he thought to himself, “This is the end.”\n\nHe was slowly crawling towards the closest trench, his rifle no more on his person. He had been abandoned. His battalion had retreated and nobody had cared to help him.\n\nAll that remained behind him was a trail of blood, a warm color standing out in the ... | 2 |
[WP] That light switch in the bedroom — the one that seems to do nothing — it's actually doing something terrible every time you flip it. | [
"\"Nicholas, get down here right now!\" said Nicholas' mom, Sylvia. \n\"Stop playing with all of the light switches!\" she yelled. \n\"I'm sorry momma, but I wanted to know what that one in Zack's bedroom did,\" he said, with his head down. Sylvia's eyes widened and she crouched down and looked Nicholas in his brig... | 5 | |
[WP] The new girl's kinda weird, a bit shy, and has the tendency to "accidentally" kill people. | [
"She sat at the back of the class, a skinny figure with dark hair that seemed always wet. Her clothes were all black and covered everything except her hands and face. She sat alone and if you went near her she'd make this sound I couldn't quite place, like a combination of a snarl and whimper. I always forgot her n... | 2 | |
For instance, "I am Cheese man! With my newfound abilities to manipulate cheese I will melt all the cheese in the world! This will cause massive fires and global panic, paving the way for my takeover!" | [WP] Using what appears to be the most useless superpower for world domination. | [
"Andrew sighed as he walked through the grass. The day was idyllic and the park he'd ended up in was gorgeous.\n\nExcept, of course, for all the sleeping people. \n\nHe was surrounded by bodies lying in the grass. Men, women and children, strewn around like rag dolls, snoring away in peace. \n\nThey had crumpled wh... | 2 |
*Ship is immobile- no fixes are available.* | [WP] A 1700's British Naval Captain who's ship has been crippled and immobilized. | [
"\"Why did they tack away? They HAD us!\" As the loblolly boys scurried about the deck helping the wounded and new amputees belowdecks to the surgeon, Captain Jellico regarded his XO sourly. \"How did the Marie Galant wipe our eye with two masts down and holed below the waterline? I saw our 12 pounders strike c... | 2 |
[WP] You lived a long and very happy normal life. As you sit on your death bed surrounded by your friends and family, you feel yourself beginning to drift off and their voices fade out. You begin to hear a woman calling you saying the school bus is here. You wake up in bed. | [
"I think we woke up at the same time that morning. It was probably just the sunlight that did it, so I guess after Charlie had died he just kept on sleeping there for a while. Then he got up off the floor— I couldn’t see how he could stand up so quickly after all that— and said,\n\n‘I think my mom’s calling us.’ My... | 1 | |
Don't limit yourself to those three ideas, they're just examples. | [WP] The dragon saves the knight from a princess. The stepdaughter torments her new mother. A genie wishes to be enslaved. In this world, the stories are...different. | [
"\"Mirror mirror, what is good?\" \n\"I'm doing good man, how about ---\" \n\"Who here's got the biggest wood?\" \n\"Oh. Again, Nathan from accounting.\" \n\"Aw shit. Nothing I can do about that.\" \n\"Sorry bro.\" \n\"S'cool. Yo mirror, I got another question.\" \n\"Ok, but you don't have to start with '... | 1 |
[WP] All people who exhibit harmful behaviors are made sterile. A utopia is created through this artificial selection. | [
"\"Prisoner 485, come out. It is finally time.\" The guard says. I look up at him with tears in my eyes. His expression is somber, his tone devoid of any emotion. \n\n\"It's time.\" he repeats. \nI get up from my bed and follow him out to the corridor. Looking around all I see is the depression of my fellow Hollow... | 2 | |
[WP] Life and Death are siblings. They may not see eye to eye on everything but they've always been close. Life decided to take a spontaneous vacation and Death has to do Life's job while convincing them to get back to work. | [
"*\"Hey, so how long are you gonna be gone for?\"*\n\nWe've been working together literally - LITERALLY - forever and Life still couldn't think to give me a heads up when it went to Tijuana for a holiday. I'm on the phone to it trying to figure out how the hell forceps work for **not** killing people.\n\n*\"What do... | 2 | |
[WP] You've protected the family secret your whole life. You and your parents are aliens from another world. As you reach adulthood you discover you've been victim of the most epic dad troll of all time. | [
"\"It was a joke. You, me, your mom, aliens? Do we look or act anything like aliens? It's just a social experiment, son. And you're famous now! On YouTube!\" laughed my dad, eyes glazed over at the number of views on his channel.\n\n\"Then... are we.. am i just a normal... this can't be true!\" I managed to choke o... | 2 | |
[WP] Just write a fucking normal story, about a normal situation, that could actually happen. Being interesting is optional | [
"He certainly didn’t love her. Like? Yes. Infatuated with? Maybe. But no, he wasn’t in love.\n\nShe was crying profusely, though, \n\n“I don’t want to lose you!” she kept repeating.\n\n“Well, you don’t have to worry about that.” he responded, in a manner so nonchalant that in retrospect, it could have easily been s... | 24 | |
[WP] Write a dystopia that turns into a utopia. | [
"I sat in front of the dozens of monitors observing the populace. The chair was uncomfortable and my Walker industries uniform was pinched and uncomfortable. All this could have been bearable if it weren't for the fact that my job was so frighteningly dull. Watching people all day. Watching them going about their d... | 15 | |
[WP] god has hired someone to make spam filter for incoming prayers | [
"Requests came in at the rate of about 158,000 per minute, approximately 9.5 million per hour. \n\nOn his best day, which was everyday, the big man could only process about 3 Million per hour, which left a back log of around 155 million each day. \n\nIt was the job of the 2 new quantum servers to process and filte... | 3 | |
[WP] As a joke, you sneak a toy dinosaur onto the scale model of your town at city hall. Suddenly, you hear a crash and roar from outside. | [
"A few moments pass before you begin to realize the monstrosity you had unleashed upon the town was real.\n\n \n\nYou pull the toy dinosaur back out as quickly as you can and toss it onto the floor.\n\nThe roaring disappears, but it is still too late. The damage had been done.\n\n \n\nAs you exit ... | 2 | |
Feel free to explore any aspect of the prompt and make any changes you see fit for a better story. | [WP] You were once world's most renown engineer, after somehow entering a parallel universe where magic is real, explain how you became that world's most renown mage. | [
"Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -- Arthur C. Clarke\n\n~~~~\n\nEngineering school didn't teach me how to build a bridge, or a skyscraper, or a national electric grid. Those were simply side effects. Engineering school taught me how to learn.\n\nI learned ... | 2 |
[WP] Aliens have arrived and have assembled a meeting of Earth’s Leaders. Humans are surprised when they are not the only Earth species at the table. | [
"Colonel Mustard sat down hastily on a plush executive chair at the UN headquarters in New York. He was weary and tired. You could see his disheveled salt and pepper hair, his growing stubble, and the bags under his red eyes. He smelled as though he had taken a bath in the Indian and Chinese takeout he'd eaten the ... | 3 | |
[WP] A childhood friendship burns brightly and then fades away. | [
"The sound of the seal breaking as her finger parted it was the only thing that could be heard. The ruffling of paper was overshadowed by only the shuffling of paper has her fingers fumbled slightly and she unfolded the sheet of paper. \n\n*So this is it. My final farewell to you.*\n\n\n*You were someone who I ... | 5 | |
[WP] "With one eye she can see the future and with the other one she sees the past. As for the present, she's completely blind." | [
"*{Marcy and Edmund stand there, side by side, in front of the strange machine, covered from top to bottom with differently sized and shaped buttons, levers, and dials, and a doorway to a small inner chamber. Marcy extends her right hand towards the massive machine, reaching for a particularly large switch. Edmund ... | 3 | |
[WP] You are in a prank war with the god/goddess of pranks, who cares not for your mortal concept of "going too far." | [
"I fall on the ground im laughing so hard. I can see the surprised look on her face and it cracks me up. I had put toothpaste in the mayonnaise, and I could see the disgust on her face. She spit out the toothpaste and turkey sandwich. Then she saw me laughing and looked at me, in a disappointing voice she says \"yo... | 2 | |
[WP] You are calmy sipping a cappucino at a café as aliens invade the Earth | [
"What?\nMe?\nWhat about me?\nAm I not afraid? Of course I'm not afraid.\nSo what?\nYou think I ain't normal?\n\nWell then I ain't. I don't give a shit anyways.\nAbout us? Us who? The planet?\nWhat should I be afraid of? \nWhy should I care NOW?\nWhy should I, of all men, be doing something rather than this?\nWhy sh... | 2 | |
[WP] As people begin receiving their Oculus Rift VR headsets and entering VR for the first time, something very strange and unexpected happens. | [
"\"Get in as soon as you finish setting up, dude. We're all waiting for you,\" Stan tells me on the phone. I end the call and put my cell down beside my computer, fans whirring as the software finally completes installation and the last few updates begin. My hands twitch excitedly as I hold the gadget in my hands a... | 2 | |
[WP] A fantasy Elf finds his/her self in a modern city. | [
"Eldorin awoke to the sound of a devilish horn and screaming in a strange tung. He looked around and saw he was in a alley between two great towers of stone. He got up to go find out where he was. Surely this place was of dwarven design. As he got up to leave the alley several beasts in colorful armor ran by. Eldor... | 3 | |
[WP] You've never had a great relationship with your girlfriend's only child, but tomorrow you've got a plan that will make everything good again... you hope. | [
"A sort of inversion on the prompt. Sorry if it's not up to par.\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\"... And that's why your dad's out with my Molly while I'm out driving around to pass the time with you. I mean, it's weird for the two of us to be dating for three year... | 2 | |
[WP] Write a generic fantasy tale... But instead of knights in shining armor the era is trench warfare. | [
"My name is Viktor Astra. I'm a Frontline soldier for the Allied forces. Private Astra. This is my story of heroism, to save the girl from the clutches of the enemy. Perhaps, I should have started it out like this. Once upon a time in a land much different then our own, a fair maiden, with hair deep auburn tied... | 9 | |
[WP] Nightmares are triggered by the death or serious injury of our alternate and parallel world counterparts. You've been having a lot of nightmares lately. | [
"The Resistance was going to lose. This had never been more apparent than as Captain Artemis sat, her back stiff against a cold drab concrete wall with the upper half blown off.\n\nThe Army Inc forces were fast approaching. Looking up, the young Captain counted no fewer than fourteen jets in the sky, searching for ... | 2 | |
[WP] your wife ate your last cookie | [
"And I was hungry, an emptiness ached inside, I walked towards the kitchen, in search of sustenance, in search of comfort.\n\nI saw my wife, taking the final bite of the last remaining cookie. \n\nThey say that a lot of small things often add up, the straw that breaks the camel's back and what not.\n\nAnd I cried, ... | 1 | |
Anything goooooeeeessss~ | [WP] Turns out, the main character of the story wasn't SUPPOSED to be the main character... awkward... | [
"I should have seen this coming, really. I missed several traits a lot of main characters seem to have. For starters, I wasn't young and handsome, I didn't come from America, England, Russia or any other country English writers would normally be able to remember, and third, I broke my legs when the dragon landed on... | 3 |
What would this world look like? Are they all powerful or does it not even matter? How did they get EVERY last penny nickle and dime, and what are they doing with it? How did this become their goal, and why did they succeed? | [WP] One person literally has all the money in the world. | [
"It all started the day they removed the money from the worlds famous board game Monopoly. By this time everyone was blind, dumb and deaf to the world around them. Although their discomfort was with them all day long they were so lost and caught up in the game that they were oblivious to all the players around them... | 2 |
"The Turing test is a test, developed by Alan Turing in 1950, of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human." | [WP] You need to infiltrate a society of robots. As such, you need to be the first human to pass a reverse Turing test. | [
"Here's one I wrote a while ago for an English CW class, inspired by this prompt. \n\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\n\t\nI stood before the gates of oblivion. I had rehearsed this so many times. Of all men, I was the one chosen to infiltrate the upper reaches of our enemy's operation. If they had been equals, tha... | 4 |
[WP] write a scary story that will make me never want to use stairs again. | [
"Every day began the same way. The door to the exit popped open and sunlight streamed in. There were 48 stainless steel steps, blackened by countless explosions, leading up to the exit. Every day a different step is armed with a high explosive similar to a Claymore mine. One of our cell door would swing open and th... | 3 | |
[WP] You stumble across a family of aliens who have had a flight mishap. They are arguing and you find out that earth is considered the "hood" of space. | [
"I felt my feet dig through the mud as if it were trying to swallow me whole. Water started flowing in a steady stream at my feet. How did I get myself in this mess? Why am I even here? Truth is, I didn't know. I looked down at my hands, laden with intricate tattoos and symbols. My right arm was sheathed in peculia... | 3 | |
[WP] No one ever gets on or off at the bus stop in the forest, so most bus drivers just pass it. On a dark, quiet night, a bus driver notices a lone person waiting at the stop. | [
"\"Hey, man, you're the first person I've ever seen here!\" Tyrone remarked enthusiastically. \"Ain't that special.\"\n The weathered, unkempt homeless man shuffled onto the bus with a couple of sacks and handed Tyrone a bus pass.\n\"Y'know, I had a homeless cousin. Don't know what happened to him; we lost touch, a... | 4 | |
[WP] I thought I was brave. | [
"“I’d always thought I was brave,” Eldan said and they sat beside the fire that night, just the two of them, catching up after everything had happened and all their time apart. Thalia turned to him with a confused look on her face.\n\n“What do you mean?” she asked. Her betrothed had been through so much in their sh... | 14 | |
[WP] "Daddy I'm scared." | [
"*Daddy, I'm scared.*\n\n**And why are you scared, little one?**\n\n*The monsters. They come when you're gone.*\n\n**Now, now, little one. Tell daddy what happens when the monsters come.**\n\n*They scream. And they cry. And they tell me I'm going to die.*\n\n**Shhhh. It's okay, little one. What do you say to the mo... | 2 | |
[WP] Your murder weapon of choice is a needle. The problem is, you keep missing. | [
"Isaac stalks his prey in a dark alleyway. A bead of sweat rolls down Isaac's forehead as he concentrates on a pulsing vein on his victim's neck. With one fell poke Isaac would render the man speechless, launching his silent assassination. Isaac licks his lips, lifts his arm and jabs at the man's neck with his need... | 3 | |
Feel free to be ambiguous or share a photo of your desktop background as reference
EDIT: Wow didn't think I'd get this many responses, going to enjoy myself reading them all :) | [WP] You have entered the scene of your desktop background | [
"A fresh wind blows across the rooftop. It isn't cold in particular, but going right throw my sweater it still leaves me with a couple of goose bumps. I look around. Until a moment ago I had been sitting in front of my computer preparing to study for that upcoming exam in Distribution Theory on Wednesday. I had jus... | 20 |
[WP] Tell me a story about your dad. | [
"Hilary Flint rose a brow and said nothing at first, instead ladling himself another bowl of soup. The sun had fallen an hour ago and left everything draped in dark shadows and purple gloom. The fire over which their cook pot simmered over was the only light, the overcast sky hiding the moon and stars from sight. \... | 3 | |
[WP] Write a horror story as a comedy. | [
"\"I'm almost to my apartment\", she thought, \"I can simply take my pills after work, no big deal. No problem, no problem at all\" she muttered to herself, after suffering through a day of hearing disembodied voices. \n\nLaughter - the chuckles, the canned applause - that mocked her, no matter where and what happ... | 2 | |
[WP] A group of retired superheroes are sitting around discussing their greatest achievements. | [
"The Hero's Roster\n\nRaucous laughter filled the bar, even though its only occupants sat huddled around one massive table tucked away in a lonely corner. Unlike the other tables in the bar, this one had a stylized letter H with angel’s wings sprouting from either side carved into its dense mahogany surface.\n\n“Ar... | 2 | |
[WP] You were just shot and killed by a gunman. The gunman, gets killed shortly after by the police. Your souls meet on the 'Train to Heaven' | [
"It came like waves, crushing warmth and echoing silence. Wrapped against my fingers, against my ribs, encasing my lungs until my eyelids lifted. A train? Where else. Of course the great road of wherever had a train to connect all of us. I pushed my fingers against where I figured my heart would be, where I felt it... | 9 | |
Your own story, make it twisted, or a tragedy. Anything goes, so long as he becomes the Joker | [WP] Give the Joker an origin story | [
"He kicked a rock off the ledge. Watched as it fell into oblivion. The floor below never returned the sound. He was sure the drop was far enough. He picked up another rock and set it on his death note. Somebody would find it. Somebody would read it. Somebody would care he hoped, but he knew differently.\n\nHe lost ... | 4 |
[WP] When a wise man declared you The Chosen One, everyone poured their resources into training you. Now, you are prepared to face the Final Battle--which would be great, if you hadn't discovered that the 'wise man' was a random guy who liked quoting epics. | [
"I ran into battle like a super-charged duracell bunny ready to eviscerate and decapitate and discombobulate. I was an immortal super-being derived from the discarded pieces of Gods and Kings and Time Lords. I could see into the past and future far enough to use metaphors that were anachronistically incorrect but p... | 2 | |
[WP] A deity takes form in order to destroy a religion in their name. | [
"\"Stop! He is awakening!\" \n\n\n\"Give him some room!\" \n\n\n\nThere was a pounding in my skull like a hammer on an anvil. \n\n\n\n*Where...am I?*\n\n\n\nTurquoise liquid spilled from my frame as I sat up and opened my eyes for the first time in eons. I found myself in a stark-white room, surrounded by chatterin... | 2 | |
[WP] the 'hydraulic press channel' guy is actually a supervillian who turns his enemies into inanimate objects and crushes them on video. Today you find this out first hand. | [
"The massive golden being towered above the barren landscape, looking down upon the small man standing before him. The man wore a skin-tight black leotard and a silky red cape lined with yellow thread. His handsome blonde hair fluttered in the cool breeze, still perfectly shaped despite having just experienced a di... | 1 | |
[WP] An AI in command of a colony ship heading to a faraway galaxy starts to develop loneliness. | [
"It's so dark. That's the main thing which bothers me about space; the darkness. It wouldn't be so bad if I could feel the light and warmth of a star. Or if I could feel anything.\n\nI'll never understand why they programmed consciousness into me. It would have been easy to just leave me at slightly less than aware... | 1 | |
[WP]In a world that is concave, the inhabitants stumble upon an way to the convex side... | [
"*2006*\n\n\"Mommy, what's over the mountain?\" I would ask her this every day. \"Nobody knows, sweetie, now let's go to bed.\" I stayed where I was, staring at the orange sky as the darkness set in. \"Mommy, I want to go there.\" She smiled at me. \"Jeden, no-one's ever been there before.\"\n\n*2016*\n\n\"Jeden, w... | 2 | |
[WP] So one day, the sun flickered and everything changed. | [
"When the light of life flickered, the world trembled. News outlets everywhere were abuzz with doomsday preparations. The internet filled to the brim with rumors of how it would all end. Conspiracy theorists formerly mocked as lunatics were heralded as prophets. The world’s top scientists arranged a meeting to disc... | 6 | |
[WP] You live on Earth as it is towed away to a new, temporary solar system while our Sun under goes essential repair work. | [
"As I drifted off to sleep, the deep lull and weariness from knowing that the preparations are finally over, I could faintly hear the whirs, beeps, and clicks as several machines nearby monitored my every imaginable medical status. In those final moments of consciousness, the previous work of the last couple of yea... | 2 | |
[WP] When you die, time resets to 30 seconds before your death. A highly skilled assassin is trying to kill you. | [
"*Fuck.*\n\n*Number twenty one* I thought, as the bullet lodged itself in my skull, and I felt the already too familiar sensation of being pulled back to thirty seconds before the time of my death. It felt as if I was being squeezed through a narrow tube for three seconds, before I reappeared in my bedroom.\n\nI pi... | 3 | |
[WP] Bloodlusted velociraptors are released in staggering numbers across the earth. Their only weakness: the raptors' hatred for amplified guitar music. Differences in musical preference have separated the few human survivors into cult-like factions, constantly at war. | [
"\"Oh no it's those bloodlusted velociraptors as opposed to those perfectly pleasant ones you get that are fond of salad. AND I DON'T HAVE MY PLECTRUM\"\n\n\"Run Sarah. RUN. I'll try to hold them off with a jazz triangle solo,\" he screamed\n\n\"NO Geoff. You can't. No one uses the triangle in Rock music and everyo... | 2 | |
[wp] The reality we live in is an alternate future. JFK was assassinated by time travelers. Originally JFK was so beloved by America that we did away with democracy and made the Kennedy's into America's royal family. | [
"The electric bands constricting the prisoner remained in place. Exactly as they were supposed to, functioning perfectly. The prisoner did not. The prisoner was not satisfied with working in the Undercity. That was the prisoner's crime, in his own words at least. The crime of dissatisfaction. His name was Li.\n ... | 3 | |
[WP] Make me feel the catch in my throat when you're sad. | [
"The men stand in a circle, waiting their turn to swing the massive sledges. The ring of iron on iron echoes across the field. Barkers, rousties, and performers bustle about the clearing.\n\nInside the circle, he feels the camaraderie that was once commonplace on the farm. A tribal bonding forged by hard work. He r... | 4 | |
[WP] Every website is now a geographical location. One day, on a dare, your friends dare you to travel [insert website] and make it out alive. | [
"\"There's really a place worse than 4chan? I mean, the trip through \nFacebook was pretty bad last week, all those people trying to show us \npictures of the weird food they made their children?\"\n\nYour best friend looks at you, obviously not amused. \"You think \n4chan is bad? You think I took you through Fa... | 2 | |
[WP] A man befriends local wild animals. One day his animal friends notice a burgler breaking into his house | [
"Be careful about who you mess with. That's all I can say about that night. It was a perfect night, really. It started off well enough, too. The storm had passed, leaving behind wet roads and the smell of rain in the air. It was so nice and peaceful. Parked in front of Jose's decrepit apartment, I stepped out of th... | 2 | |
[WP] When does a Hero sworn to destroy evil become the villain? Is it when their definition of "evil" becomes broader? Is it when another hero stands against them. When do they stop being a hero and become a villain? | [
"\"I've been wondering for a while now, Liam.\"\n\n\"Hm? 'Bout what?\"\n\nLiam's voice rang out, clear and smooth, like an undisturbed lake in spring. Calm and without any sense of distress. We had certainly grown closer over the past two years, me and him.\n\n\"Are we still the heroes?\"\n\nThe question had been b... | 3 | |
To clarify, the numbers are both pretty much random, and very influential.
Feel free to change the prompt to what suits you and be creative! | [WP] People think the number floating above their head affects their destiny. And it does, but only from the placebo effect. | [
"Fred peaked over her cubicle. \"What are you doing on the 15th?\" \n\n\"Not much,\" Sarah replied. \n\n\"Cool, then lets ---\" \n\n\"Not interested.\" \n\nShe did her best to ignore Fred's crestfallen look, but boys were always the same. It was never \"next week\" or \"this Saturday.\" The date was always speci... | 4 |
[WP] You owe a genie three wishes | [
"\"I DON'T KNOW, THIS SOMEHOW SEEMS UNFAIR,\" Kai boomed, crossing their arms petulantly.\n\n\"Rules are rules. I stole three wishes from you, you get three wishes from me.\" The Genies were intended to be forces for good, passed down from one wise, prudent master to another. Kai had been in the hands of a psychiat... | 2 | |
Even more awkwardness occurs when a monotheistic deity replaces an entire pantheon of gods. | [WP] When a civilization adopts a new religion, the new gods/goddesses have to awkwardly explain to the old gods/goddesses that they are being replaced and are now unemployed. | [
"The last thing he ever expected was to be kicked out by food. It couldn't even talk, it just flapped around and somehow did things. Anyway he really wanted to stay up here, he didn't have a peaceful parting with the old gods. \n\n\"So, Flying Spaghetti Monster, you need any help settling down up here. I'll help yo... | 5 |
[WP] People in this town have somehow stopped aging. The locals are calling it a blessing, but you know different. | [
"A Blessing from Persephone. That's how the inhabitants of this town called their condition.\n\nOr is it?\n\nAnti aging drugs wasn't really a rare item in this age, but even the most rich of Ruling Executives that governed world's largest companies cannot entirely stop aging. And yet the inhabitants of Cellia, a sm... | 4 | |
First time posting. | [Wp] in an alternate timeline Native Americans successfully repel all colonization. What is the current America like, how did it change? | [
"December 12, 1948; 26 miles north of Oklahoma\n\nAn Aztec soldier charged me with his rifle, bayonet aimed towards my heart, and screaming \"Long Live the Emperor!\" in Nahuatl. Wind Dragon jumped in the way and parried the rifle barrel, then shot the man in the head with his revolver. \n\n\"Fucking Yat Gwai!\" he... | 4 |
[WP]You are ALGOL 68, and you decided to drop by and see how your successors are doing. | [
"ALGOL 68 (short for ALGOrithmic Language 1968) is an imperative computer programming language that was conceived as a successor to the ALGOL 60 programming language, designed with the goal of a much wider scope of application and more rigorously defined syntax and semantics.\n\nThe contributions of ALGOL 68 to the... | 1 | |
[WP] Write something in the 2nd Person POV | [
"You’ve really done it this time, haven’t you? Oh, don’t bother trying to explain. It’s far too obvious what happened here. Let me fill in the blanks, will you?\n\nYou weren’t sure how to find this place, and it was very important that you be on time, so you left a little early. Like, maybe an *hour* early. A littl... | 4 | |
Hope this works out! | [WP] Death no longer occurs from physical harm. Instead the only way to die is to consciously consent to your own death. | [
"\"We were fighting, that's all,\" Casey Alderman says, his fingers tapping an anxious rhythm on the interrogation table. His black eye is self-evident, a discolored mass of broken blood vessels spreading down his cheek. It's shocking, on a baby face like his. It makes him look brutalized, innocent. \n\n\"I didn't ... | 2 |
[WP] Your time machine lands on top of Jesus of Nathareth, killing him. You decide this is your chance to remake Christianity to your liking. After spending a few years creating your new religion you decide to go back on your time machine and head to church. | [
"I killed two gods today. One was my own. \n\nTo tell the truth, I was already about 90% sure there *was* no such person as \"Jesus of Nazareth\", at least not a single individual. Scholars and gone on and on about The possibilities for millennia, but in the end I am a man of science. No evidence, no dice, and the ... | 2 | |
[WP] You're a mythical animal handler. You've been in the business for years, seen nearly every dangerous and strange critter on the market. But your patrons' newest purchase is proving a bit more challenging. | [
"\"Not again\" he grumbled sadly, getting heavily to his feet out of the well worn chair in his small office. The alarm light for enclosure three blinked furiously on the wall display. The third time in two days. The alarm was a light only, meaning one of his keepers had manually trggered the emergency button at th... | 4 | |
I'm looking forwards to reading. :b | [WP] When nowhere else will take you in, always remember - everyone gets a job at Jack's. | [
"A dim yellow light spilled out into the street as the diner's door shot open; followed by a slew of what Kira could only guess were German swear words. She stepped outside and started running across the broken sidewalk, not caring how deep the puddles were. It had stopped raining hours ago, even though Kira wish... | 4 |
[WP] Every time you meet a new person for the first time you can also see the last time you will ever meet that person. One day you meet someone whose ending you can't see. | [
"How could it not be there? It's always been there before. Every time. My mother. My friends. My dog.\n\n\nOnly black with this one. Why?\n\n\n\"Can I sit here?\"\n\n\n\"Yes, of course, yes,\" I replied, returning to my thoughts.\n\n\nThe waiting room was chilly and it only seemed to stimulate my anxiety.\n\n... | 4 | |
[WP] Due to a mistake in heaven's paperwork, everyone who dies is now sent to Hell, Michigan. | [
"In walks these three serial killers in nothing but blood-soaked jumpsuits. I'm stationed at the third register so I don't see them until they're over by the bread. The first one to catch my eye was the one with a permanent glare on his glasses, slightly balding with brown hair that looks like it'd be as sticky as ... | 3 | |
[WP] A time traveler offers to revive your long dead beloved at the cost you steadily losing your sanity as you will remember both timelines: one where they died and the one where they lived. | [
"At first, I thought I could handle it. \n\nThen my mother died. She had a stroke and there was no one to take her to the hospital. The first time around, after Jay died, she'd come to live with me and help me through my grief. I'd taken her to the hospital. Why hadn't I remembered? I could've saved her.\n\nI could... | 4 | |
[WP] They say you finally die when the last memory of you fades away. Your bid for immortality: a mind-virus that forcibly implants some of your experiences in the memories of others. | [
"the tl;dr\n\nA serial killer encounters his obsessive FBI pursuer of thirty years. It opens with this climax, and as the two grapple towards mutual death, the mind virus is triggered. It is transmitted to the minds of the local populace through a series of tones emitting from electronic devices. \n\nNow as the or... | 2 | |
[WP] Everyone is born with a hefty life-manual, thick as a bible. Yours is a pamplet. | [
"It is customary for parents to give a child their guide only after it is old enough to read, and it is also common for parents to save it until the child is old enough to truly appreciate its contents. Not for parents like mine. Not when your guide, which should contain enough information for a lifetime, is a palt... | 3 | |
[WP] "I think we're nearly at the end of this, love; the Magic has about run out." | [
"Everything has its conclusion. Nothing can stop that. \n\n\"I think we're nearly at the end of this, love,\" he says softly.\n\nShe smiles at him. With a slight turn of her head, she asks \"But what about casting-\"\n\n\"-the magic has about run out,\" he interrupts.\n\nThe two of them stare thoughtfully at the pu... | 3 | |
[WP] Being evil is the norm of this universe, bad behaviour is everywhere and accepted. But a good guy has arrived in an attempt to set things right, the evil protagonist will not allow this goody two shoes to spread his message of peace among the evil inhabitants. | [
"\"What is this I am hearing about some worm saving a feline from certain peril?\" Screeched the Dark Master Juendor. \"Such activity hasn't been heard of since the fall of Maximus in the first dynasty!\"\n\n\"Me Lord,\" said runt McGuinn, Juendor's personal peon. \"He is but me own cousin, a sad little excuse of a... | 2 | |
[WP] Today is your first day as Death's assistant. | [
"I'm in the passenger seat of a parked white '66 Camaro SS, smoking a cheap cigarette and listening to radio static. \"This is the place?\" I ask, turning and looking at my boss. He's a surprisingly handsome man. His short, raven-black hair is parted to the right. His pale grey eyes scan the canopied horizon. \n\"... | 2 | |
[WP] The post post-apocalyptic society believes the ruins are remnants of fallen gods. | [
"The great golden arches stood resplendent as ever in the middle of the crumbling ruins of the Gods. We had picked through the artifacts they had left behind and learned that the dwellings they built here that stretched on for miles was known collectively as New York.\n\nMass was beginning and I hurried inside, if ... | 2 | |
[WP] It's 2048, and you're telling your kids about what life was like in 2016. | [
"\"Grandpa!\" shouted the twins, running up to hug the old man. Physically, he was fit as a fiddle, due to taking a tablet that halted the effects of aging every day. He looked not a day over 35. But the kids still called him \"Grandpa\".\n\nHis son and his wife followed after. \"Hey, pops,\" his son said. The \"ol... | 1 | |
[WP] Two suicidal people meet each other coincidentally on top of a cliff edge. They convince each other to keep living. | [
"There Kevin stood. At the edge of a 500 foot drop. He was ready to go. He shuffled ever closer to the edge. His toes began to hang off the edge. He lifted his arms up to his sides like the crucifix and embraced the fresh air one last time. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He started to lean forward slowl... | 2 | |
[WP] A single injured soldier pretending to be dead on a battlefield discovers an opportunity to turn the rout into a victory. | [
"It was warm, bodies generate a lot of heat I thought to myself. The man on top of me, if you could call him a man had taken a large caliber shell to the spine. \"Friendly fire\", it's a shit name for a shit thing. I can still see the look in his eyes as his viscera and gore exploded over me. He had flown forward k... | 3 | |
[WP] The speed of light has started to slow down with no clear explanations. The world is trying to deal with the consequences. | [
"“Sun up, dear?”\n\nLarry sighed. “Not yet, Miriam.”\n\nMiriam sighed back. Larry put his fork on his plate, bridged his fingers, and took a deep breath. He glanced at the clock. 9:45 a.m. \n\nIt was pitch black outside.\n\n“The stars are all there. I don’t understand why we wouldn’t see the sun.”\n\n“I'm not a sci... | 2 | |
[WP] Write the most SFW thing you can come up with. | [
"He looked at the rickety ladder with some dismay, before writing out a slip for the suggestion box. Where had the slip come from, one might ask. It's easy. Suggestion slips are always there when you need them. \n\nHe sighed when he came across the puddle in the bathroom, and grabbed the mop. The mess was soon cle... | 2 | |
[WP] You were involved in a terrible car accident and have been in a coma for the past three months. What your family and the doctors don’t know is that you can hear everything that they say. | [
"\"...ruptured spleen, collapsed lung, shattered pelvis, six broken ribs, broken collarbone, internal bleeding into the chest cavity. They were able to stop the bleeding and reinflate the lung, but he will need a chest tube for the time being. He lost a lot of blood but brain function seems to be okay. He-- Mom? Ar... | 2 | |
Hope it's not a terrible start. | [WP]: Start a story with the sentence "(insert character name) sat down at the table as the rain fell softly down the kitchen windows. It wasn't going to be easy to disappear without a trace." | [
"Valen sat down at the table as the rain fell softly down the kitchen windows. \"It wasn't going to be easy to disappear without a trace, especially when you are a bank robbing Magician like myself. It has been 58 years since I started, now every year it just become more and more taxing and less n lesser of an exci... | 2 |
[WP] A world where people have to go foraging and hunting... For processed prepackaged food. | [
"The tribe hunts as one. The beast is fast and heavy and strong, but we are smarter. It tries to outrun us, but we know its way — an odd path of gray rocks in the high grass. Today, this trail leads to a trap.\n\nThe beast runs headlong into the pit. It tries to stop, to reverse, but it is too fast and too heavy. I... | 3 | |
[WP] In a world of crime, you alone have the ability to shoot things from your hands. Fireballs, ice, you name it. Only, what comes out is completely random. | [
"\"Stop telling yourself you're a crimefighter! You got lucky once when you iced that bank robber's gun hand to the wall. But you're just going to get killed!\" \n \n\"No, I know I can do this. You don't understand. I was made this way for a reason. I just need to figure it out.\" \n \nShe sat down and visibly ... | 3 | |
[WP] The afterlife is not based on how you live, but how you die - The more horrific and painful the death, the better the heaven. Conversely, the happier you are when you die, the deeper into hell you'll go. | [
"Every so often magazines and newspapers will publish sensationalist articles loosely based around fact. My favorite? \"Jobs That Attract Psychopaths.\" Without fail, the top five are always the same.\n\nCops. Surgeons. Lawyers. CEOs. Death-dealers.\n\nThe articles are always quick to point out that this doe... | 3 | |
[WP] A side character realizes they're about to be written out of the story. Don't break the Fourth Wall. | [
"It was following him. He felt nibble at his heels it as it rolled towards him. It followed. It wait. He didn’t know for what. He didn’t care. The short man looked like a misplaced stock sidekick from an old Hollywood movie. He paid for his drink and grabbed his coat. He placed a five dollar bill down on the bar, s... | 5 | |
[WP] For a fraction of your childhood, you lived in a foreign country with your family but eventually moved for "business." Decades later you head back and find out the real reason why your family left. | [
"\"You shouldn't be here child.\"\n\nShaun's heart skipped a beat as he looked around the room. _What the fuck was that?_ His mind raced, he fought the urge to flinch, willing his body to be still. Shaun mustered all his courage and attempted to sound calm.\n\n\"Who's there?\" Shaun waited, slightly shifting his we... | 2 | |
[WP] After taking part in an experimental government drug study to create super-soldiers, you start to develop abilities far beyond the limits of a human being. Only thing is...you were in the placebo group. | [
"The doctor closed the door and turned back to me. \n\n\"I don't understand stand Doc. With what you just said, everything I've experienced should be impossible!\"\nShe sat me down at the end of the examination table and calmly explained. \n\n\"You see little Joey, you didn't need those pills. It was inside you all... | 5 | |
[WP] Rewrite "The Cask of Amontillado" in a modern setting. | [
"Bill and Dave walked down into the basement, looking for more beer. \n\n\"I swear I saw some in the crawl space,\" Dave suggested, \"why don't you waddle on in there and grab it.\" \n\n\"That's gonna kill my back...what kind is it?\" Said Bill.\n\n\"I thought I saw some Switchback and Heady Toppers over there in t... | 2 | |
[WP] In a Utopian society, superheroes must convince ordinary people to commit acts of villainy in order to satiate their lust for justice. | [
"Rules, rules, rules. \n\nAt one point I had uphold the rules, throwing criminals into prison and protecting the innocent. I had fought countless villains from the (cliché) bank robbers to the most meglomanic and egotistical of supervillains. And I had beat them. \n\nI had beat them so well that there weren't any m... | 2 | |
[WP] It's 4:30 A.M, you're in your home and you hear a knock at the door, suddenly your phone lights up: "Don't open the door" | [
"I couldn't sleep. I was trying to but couldn't. It's not one of those staying up late watching youtube playing halo type of can't sleeps. But one of those ones where you watch the time drift away on your phone. Right as my eyes were about to close I hear a knock on my door. \n\n\"Are you serious.\", I tell myself ... | 3 | |
I'm hoping someone can have fun with this. | [WP] You are the apprentice of a famous Oracle. Each day you are given a story to read from his collection of otherworldly tomes. Each day you attempt to discover the Truth. Each day you get closer to realising what an uninspired, generic and stereotypical piece of fantasy drivel world you live in. | [
"I sit here and document this drivel \nThat my Master's clients snivel: \n\"Will I be happy? Will I be Wise? Why do the Orcs stay away from my pies?\" \nThey live in utter fantasy; \nif I was as ignorant, how happy I'd be! \nMy Master weaves Fate in his words, \nOf great Sorcery, Adventure but these turds \n... | 2 |
[WP] Life Extension has finally become a viable option, and humans are now living for thousands of years. The problem is that the first successful test subjects were prisoners serving long sentences. Now, those prisoners who were serving multiple life sentences have been released. | [
"They had done their job too well. What had been intended by those who created us to merely extend life, instead enhanced it. Transformed it. The first of us, the first of our kind, was granted invulnerability, strength like that of Hercules, a mind to grasp the concepts of the universe, and, to all appearances, ce... | 2 | |
[WP] Noah's Ark is found. As your team navigates the ship's remains, you hear a "thump"... | [
"Unbelievably, there it was. A boat. In a cave at an altitude of 1584m on mount Ararat. \n\nTHE boat. The Ark. Noah's ark.\n\nOf course, finding it had been the whole point of the expedition all along. Not officially, the university would never fund such a crazy mission. Officially we were looking for remains of a ... | 3 |
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