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[WP] Humanity rose through the ranks of the Galactic Council faster than any species that came before them. Their secret? Science Fiction. Literature, movies, TV shows, video games pretty much made made anything thrown at humanity, predictable. | [
"\"It's coming into view, Space Admiral.\"\n\nI took a look at the monitor, wondering if I could get \"Captain\" added to my title if I kept winning these battles. I'd chosen the title, in part, because the situation was so surreal (the other part was because I could, and because it's awesome). Two years ago, I was... | 2 | |
Is he too clumsy to be allowed near your precious equipment?
Is he trying to impress a girl?
Does he have the attention span of a lemon? | [WP] Your mate asks you to show him how to make a proper cup of coffee. | [
"I don't know myself, but I will teach you how I think it should be. There is really no trick to it, you will need water. Don't ask me where you can get the water from or how water was made, or how much of it is there. Just find some and heat it with fire. Use a match to start the fire, don't try and make it with t... | 3 |
[WP] You see the world and how sensitive everyone has become and decide to become a super villain to try and start world war three that way people will see how good they had it. | [
"It's done. \nI walk down the Main Street and wait for the blast.\n It's pitiful it's come to this. \nAcross the street another group of people are screaming charging down the street waving their signs. To think we couldn't find solutions to our problems of such insignificant nature\nThere will be peace\nThe explos... | 2 | |
[WP] Write a fable based around a foolish moral of the story. | [
"There was once a very strong cat who lived in a village of cats. He was stronger than all the other cats, and loved to show off his great abilities. He could climb up to where the other cats could not. He could lift great rocks. And most importantly, he could beat any other cat in a fight. He ruled over the other ... | 4 | |
The three laws of robotics are:
-A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
-A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
-A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not ... | [WP] Humanity has successfully invented AI, embedded with the three laws of robotics. We now live in a utopia free of hunger, sickness, and death. But when the first human decides he's had enough and wants to die, he realizes a terrible truth... | [
"Will probably continue as I already am enjoying writing this story. Subreddit is /r/Mollyu. I'm getting back into writing after a 4 1/2 year break so please critique. Just FYI this goes slightly off of the prompt. Edit: Holy run on paragraph and grammar errors.\n\n\nI looked around my bedroom, hoping to find some ... | 3 |
Let's turn this well-used concept around, people. Bonus points for awkward gods! | [WP] You receive a boon from an ancient god. Sadly, this boon is downright annoying in modern times. | [
"Some time after I got married, I got a maid from some rich woman who called herself Hera. My first impression of the maid was that she looked like a robot or something, well, in terms of her face and her mannerisms, that is. She was made of human flesh and blood, and she was actually forced to act like a robot. Th... | 5 |
[WP] As a necromancer, you don't get as many girls/guys in your magic school as the charming flowermancer. How do you win over your crush? | [
"Mikhael ran through the quad, dodging the the fireballs and sliding under a low-flying griffon as he hurried to class. The man made his way to the cheekily-named \"Bones Hall,\" the home of the Faculty of Necromantic Studies and the majority of lecture halls and labs that dealt with his program's black studies. Th... | 6 | |
[WP] You are smuggling space-nukes and/or space-drugs in your space-car across interstellar borders. You just got pulled over by a space-cop. | [
"Its morning in the universe –going by the Standard Universal Time followed by almost everyone- and the AI Overseers and their civilizations are seated cozily in their sub-Sectors, calefaction turned on and the matter-generators cooking some breakfast. In most sectors, the pan-dimensional tv show of preference is s... | 2 | |
[WP] Demons are tasked by Lucifer to bring misery to humans on earth. Angels are tasked to bring joy. Both are invisible to humans, but not to each other. You're a sarcastic demon who hates his job and decided to perform an act of kindness. An Angel witnesses this and falls for you. | [
"\"Go away!\"\n\"No! You just did something amazing! How can you, a demon just not care after that?!\"\n\"Easily!\"\n\"You saved a human child!\" \n\"YOU'RE MAKING ME REGRET IT!\"\n-Let's Pause A Moment-\nHi, I'm Shitsuren, I'm a 200 year old demoness. A succubus actually. As a demon it's my duty to torment humans.... | 2 | |
[WP]You're hiring for new assistants in HR, but during the interviews you realize you misspelled "assistants" as "assassins." | [
"John Sighed. This was already a long day and it was only ten in the morning. Pulling up the next application he skimmed over it as his assistant went to grab the next person to interview for the HR job. So far he had gone through and dismissed two candidates for the job. First off they all seemed to not fit the no... | 1 | |
[WP] Three people who bitterly hate each other are imprisoned and must survive the night in a house that breaks down as they argue and fight. | [
"It has never been done, my friends said to me. \nTwo is OK, but just two and not three! \nAnd said I to them, oh yes I can! I can certainly do three! \nAnd then they look at me and they said, \"We'll see!\" \n\nSo the lot of us cast lots \nAnd the wagers all made \nAnd they picked the three that we brough... | 2 | |
As in, a class that teaches exorcisms rather than exercises | [WP] An overweight demon accidentally signs up for an exorcising class | [
"\"*Soulmates!*\", Moudu swore, trying to keep up with the pack of teenagers. They'd just disappeared around the corner of the building again - running away, but not in the right direction.\n\n\"*Angel-breath!*\" He huffed, sucking in the chilled night air as he jogged. Suddenly, he stepped on a plastic bucket that... | 2 |
[WP] You can read minds! The problem? You're blind, so you're not 100% sure when someone is speaking something or thinking it. Describe a typical day as you attempt to (successfully or not) conceal your power. | [
"\"Do you know why I'm here, Michael?\"\n\n*Is this guy blind? Jesus. He doesn't know shit. Don't say a f@cking word. You can do this.* \n\"I don't have the money yet. It takes time. I told Luiz it's going to take some time.\" \n*God I hope he buys it.*\n\n\"I don't buy it. You owe a hundred and fifty grand. Where ... | 2 | |
[WP] A person in the ancient world begins having short, random glimpses of modern civilization. | [
"The large White candle melted down to the bottom of its holder before guttering out. the vision had been contained though much like the others it showed another world, a world of men much like now but with wondrous device and artifice.\n\nthey had tram carriages not drawn by horse but by some method incomprehensib... | 5 | |
Or *was* it? | [WP] It was a dark and stormy night, all that day and well into the following afternoon... | [
"Characters, names, descriptions, and plot come from seventhsanctum.com, a remarkable resource for randomly-generated writing content. Highly recommended!\n\nIt was a dark and stormy night, all that day and well into the following afternoon...\n\nMist Spiritcaster, the swift and beautiful elven archer, stared moodi... | 7 |
[WP] You've sold many souls to the devil. It can't figure out how you have so many. | [
"The Devil stood before me. As per standard, thick, black smoked billowed around him like a cloak. Like his horns, it was the colour of midnight.\n\n\"I don't remember summoning you.\" I said, pressing the mute button on my TV remote.\n\n\"You didn't. I am here of my own accord.\" He responded, his voice seeming to... | 1 | |
[WP] An eight year old girl-scout, a smiling unicorn pony, and a kitten with a bow on it. We've narrowed down the faulty stealth-murderbot to one of these. | [
"\"How could you not know what form it's taken?\" Mr. Hamburg said, red with anger. He was walking so quickly I had to jog to keep up.\n\n\"That's the whole point of a stealth assassin robot,\" I stammered. \"It's going to take the form of something you least expect.\"\n\nWe hurried past a group of medics, who were... | 2 | |
[WP] Write a chilling horror story that suddenly takes a turn for the comedic. | [
"Ever since her parents had moved to a new state in the middle of her freshman year, Karen dreaded going home for college breaks. It was so boring. There was nothing to do, because all her friends were either people she knew from college or were in her hometown, two time zones away. \n\nOn top of all that, a ser... | 2 | |
[WP] It was a gorgeous early summer day. The sun was shining brightly, the birds were singing, and there was a warm gentle breeze. | [
"It was a gorgeous summer day. The sun was shining brightly, the birds were singing, and there was a warm gentle breeze. I gazed into that beautiful summer day; I wasn't and could never be apart of it. The sun rays danced over my skin rather than sinking deep into my soul as they used to. With the bird's voices soa... | 8 | |
[WP] The axis forces won WWII. Turns out, it's not as bad as people would imagine. | [
"Hitler died near the end of World War 2 from \"natural causes\", the history books say. Lies, with the amount of drugs he used to take it must have been accidental overdose. Germany fractured after that and couldn't keep control of occupied USSR territory, which I've since emigrated to as the new \"Fuhrers\" are i... | 1 | |
[WP] You find someone, unconscious and injured. After tending to their immediate wounds, you're about to call an ambulance when they wake up. Soon, you begin to wonder if they were the victim in whatever happened to them... | [
"The boys brought her in, placed her on the couch and proceeded to crowd around. Under normal circumstances, I would have yelled to back off, but at this point, I needed the help. It 2 AM, I’ve been up all day and night, and I’m pretty crabby as is. I haven’t felt this crappy since Kuwait, back when I was 22.\n\n“D... | 1 | |
[WP] Hit me with your ultimate Anti-fairy tale | [
"I remember when Dr. Hadley first discovered the Aether. We all did. The broadcast interrupted all regularly-scheduled programming to present the groundbreaking announcement. Finally, proof that a second, parallel dimension existed right beside our own. Scientists flocked to the discovery, pouring endless hours int... | 1 | |
[WP] You are attempting to break up with your dog because you'd rather be with a cat | [
"Hey Spud, can we talk? Why so excited? Oh! Sorry, I said “talk” – T-A-L-K, not \"walk\". So can you drop the ball? This is kind of serious. Um. Well, I’ve been thinking for a while…I mean, maybe you have too? I have been kind of a shitty owner. You could do better. You could find someone who really loves you, appr... | 1 | |
[WP] Before someone dies, Death challenges them to an impossible task for their soul. You are the first person to succeed. | [
"I was strolling through the supermarket, gathering every box of cereal I found in my oversized shopping cart. Someone had done a very bad job of putting them away, so that there were several in the fruit section and a few in the egg fridge. Worse, none of the labels were legible. Eric insisted that Sunday was omel... | 2 | |
[WP] You have just been given permission to go "outside" | [
"Life had always been a glum, devestating time of work and effort but nothing to show for it. With each stroke of the pen or each click of the key, a piece of me slowly dissipated leaving a holo shell of a wasted endeavour. \n\nGrowing up in a rich family had always seemed like the childhood dream. I had the new to... | 3 | |
[WP] You are tasked to kill the president with the last weapon you used in a video game. | [
"As president Trump was being sworn into office an evil glint appeared in his eye and as soon as he stood behind the podium he let his true identity slip. He was a snake, his orange tint started to glow as his body took its true form. At which point he slithered off the stage and started eating people in the crowd.... | 1 | |
[WP] The words you speak are tattooed on your body as you speak. The young have very few words on their body, the old have many, and they often blur together. One day in school/work someone walks in with a completely blank body. | [
"I loved the font on this new girl, but she was thin. Not thin with curves, or thin waisted. When I wrapped my thumb and middle finger around her upper arm, the tips touched. \"You see this?\"\n\nShe nodded, and bit her lip nervously. They were dark and red, painted to hide whatever was written there. The stylist h... | 4 | |
[WP] An enormous crocodile must be near you at all times in order for your superpowers to work. Saving the world thus presents some unique challenges. | [
"There are two things I hate in this world: kidnappers and crocodiles. Unfortunately, the two go hand-in-hand. Take last night, for instance. \n\n\"Hey, Jas', Starkey reports an incoming,\" Smee said, sliding his portly body down the stair railing. He thumped the wall with his foot at least three times, and all of ... | 1 | |
[WP] Earth develops lightspeed travel and sends colony ships to uninhabited worlds. You are one of the colonists. Surprisingly, due to relativistic time dilation, your ship arrives to a planet already heavily colonized by Humans who developed much faster travel 25 years after you left. | [
"All of the sudden, consciousness returned, and Matt attempted to take his first breath in twenty-five years. Almost immediately he began to retch the lungfuls of stasis fluid all over his chest, and began to scramble towards the side of the chamber in an effort to keep the mucus-like substance off of himself. As h... | 5 | |
I am actually colourblind and was given these glasses. Thought it could make a cool prompt. | [WP] You are colourblind. You have been given a pair of corrective glasses, and can now see what everyone else does. But you can see something else too. | [
"Everything was glowing.\n\nFirst they had given me the glasses I could see normally just like them,but something was wrong. I could see a new light, nobody else could. It came from all electrical devices, even if a normal person put on the glasses they couldn't see them, nobody believed me. it got progressively wo... | 4 |
[WP] You and your small crew are tasked with exploring our new moon, only to find it that humans already inhabit the satellite, and they have a dark secret. | [
"Since I was a little boy I always dreamt of space travel. I sacrificed my childhood in devotion to studying, friends didn't matter, girlfriends had no meaning to me, even my time with my own parents was minimal. To me, the only thing that would ever matter lay waiting for me outside of this planet. I had an unquen... | 1 | |
[WP] Take the premise of some other work, and write your own story from it | [
"\"You know what I don't understand?\" Derrick asked as he loaded weapons into his belt. \n\nThey had everything they needed ready to go. Their knives were strapped into the belt, their steles hung at their hips, and their seraph blades were held tightly in their hands. \n\n\"What?\" Replied Samantha, swinging her ... | 3 | |
[WP] [CW] Write a "fish story": A braggadocious tale of hunter versus prey. Leave a contradiction or error in the story so that it is provably false. | [
"I had only been on my boat for about four hours but the sun was starting to drain me physically and mentally. I took another drag from my cigar, enjoying the midday sun and hoping that a Marlin would take my bait soon. \nI finally had one hooked, a good thirteen footer, and had fought him for about an hour before ... | 2 | |
Write about the events that lead up to your air being shut off. | [WP] Our government has reached a point where they can control everything, and everything costs money including the air that we breathe. | [
"It was the night after a Hedd convention, so most of the brutes stumbling in were local magistrates, middling little bureaucrats with touchy little security details and even touchier little egos. They got the thumb same as the froth puffers: ‘You breathe, you buy.'\n\nStill, seemed these types, with their frilly b... | 5 |
[WP] This one time, at mime camp... | [
"Terry had himself in a box again. He was always getting mad at me about something or rather. And then he'd put himself in his box and ignore me, padding his hands against invisible walls and shooting me livid sideways glances. \n\nI wasn't like other mimes. I went to camp of course, but I didn't wear the face pain... | 1 | |
[WP] The rapture happens, and angels descend from heaven to transport the believers. Humanity sees this as an alien/demon/what-have-you invasion, and fights back. | [
"Hiding behind the walls Glenn watched as the lights flickered. \n\nBeing a born again christian didn't help it when it came to aliens. The creatures strange lights flickered around the outside of his house and deep in his gut Glenn knew who they were here for, him.\n\nHe had grabbed the shotgun out of its hiding s... | 4 | |
[WP] After being oppressed for centuries by an interstellar empire, your people decide to settle in a faraway desert world. | [
"I woke up 2 hours ago, and I'm now having breakfast as I write this, I decided to document the days before we arrive to our new home, I have been wanting to begin ever since the big announcement, but I hadn't dedicated time to it until now.\n\n5 months ago, the leaders of the HABS decided we would land in a planet... | 1 | |
[WP] You buy a farm and yet nothing seems to grow in the soil. One day you cut your hand in the field and grass shoots up every place the droplets touch the ground. | [
"His footsteps pressed into my flesh, not feeling the bones below his feet - my own, buried deep, and those who came before him, not so deep. For me, it was no more pressure than the rain and snow that came with the changes of the seasons. But when the rich, salty blood dripped down to me, I awoke.\n\nIn years pa... | 4 | |
[WP]Sean Bean was cast as the personification of Death in a new film/ show. | [
"Episode 1: PILOT\n\nThe Hellenic gods, major and minor, are gathered upon Mount Olympus.\n\n'Why have you summoned us, Lord Zeus?', Hermes angrily asked.\n\n'I have summoned you all here because Lord Hades, my brother, has encountered a problem in his realm,' Zeus said, his voice booming like thunder. He gestured ... | 1 | |
[WP] The moment before you die, you see your possible future. Continue? Y/N | [
"**Continue?**\n\n**10**\n\n**9**\n\n**8**\n\nIt was like an old arcade game. The numbers flashed in front of me, and I looked down at where the steering wheel was just a moment ago to see two buttons on the machine's base. One was red, with big letters \"START\" underneath it, and the other was yellow, and it was ... | 1 | |
[WP] Kitchen Nightmares: Krusty Krab edition | [
"Intro Guy: Tonight, on Kitchen Nightmares...\n\n[Cut to Spongebob running around the kitchen before slipping on ground beef]\n\n[Cut to Gordon Ramsay screaming and throwing around fish heads]\n\nGordon: IT'S FUCKING ROTTEN!\n\n[Cut to Sandy Cheeks covering her face and crying]\n\n[Calm music, and cut to a wide sho... | 1 | |
[WP] You work alone in a retail store, as you are about to close up, you hear an unsuspecting thump coming from the storage room. | [
"I turned my head to where the thump sounded from. I made it about halfway to the door until my curiosity got the best of me.\n\nI made my way to the storage room, shuffling my keys for the storage key. I unlocked the door and peered inside. \n\nThe change of temperature was startling as I felt chilled to the bone.... | 1 | |
[WP] And one day, the angels started dying. | [
"Michael found the angel in the back alley of the pawn shop, sat up against the wall with his arm across his stomach. It was hard to miss the dark red that covered his shirt front and spread outward. There was not much time left.\n\n\"Brother,\" he said, dropping down to be at eye level with him. He placed his hand... | 3 | |
[WP] One day, you wake up in an alternate universe that is exactly like ours except for one difference: it is illegal to say the word "it." | [
"I woke up one day to find everything perfectly normal.\n\nWell, maybe 'normal' is a bit of an exaggeration. Everything started when I greeted a friend with 'Nice weather we're having, isn't it?'\n\nWell, that really set everyone off. \"Aaaaugh! Aaaugh!\", they cried, and my friend told me, \"Don't say that word.\"... | 1 | |
[WP] "I dunno....let's push the button and find out..." | [
"Fred and Jim woke up to another day in the shelter, the lights were dim, the halls were dark and dreary. Next to the men's bunk bed was a small bedside table with an alarm clock. The time was 5 o'clock a.m. and the alarm was sounding, ripping them violently from their dreams. \n\nFred, a short, stocky man who alwa... | 1 | |
[WP] A Korean man, who has been in his room playing video games for 20 years, decides it's time to leave his room. For some reason, he treats everything like it's in a video game. | [
"As I left my dwelling after stoking the fire and feeding my hound I set out like any other day. The sun was up and the heat of the morn was on my face. The town was fuller than usual and hundreds of thousands of people strolled past me. Some looked at me strange as I didn't have the correct armour on, I suppose. \... | 1 | |
[WP] "You know what I like best about the past?" s/he said. "It's over." | [
"\"That's what you think,\" she snarled. \"My past may be over, but it's what defines me. Soon, it'll be what defines you...\"\n\n\"Yeah, yeah, you're batshit insane, woman. Guards, please toss this woman out.\"\n\nThe two massive men standing besides him moved forward. One of the hulking brutes raised his arm. \"M... | 1 | |
[WP] Take an innocent everyday task and give it a Lovecraft like spin to it. | [
"She whirled in a void of apathy, churning the offerings in her porous mouth without thought or consent. \n\nI stood at the edge of insanity, the slow rumbling of my dread princess turning into a high pitch whine as I covered my ears and wept. She finished her tantrum with a sigh, and gently oh so gently I eased he... | 1 | |
[WP] You were born with the most important superpower of the modern age, the ability to manipulate the global temperature. But, the ability is keyed to your moods. | [
"At 6 AM, a mighty thud shook my house, cutting short the nice dream I was having in which some higher-order being was the one responsible for the temperature. I had dropped to the floor and scrambled fully beneath my bed before realizing it wasn't an earthquake: it was even worse. Damnit, how had they found me aga... | 1 | |
[WP] You're in school, the class is noisy as always. Then all of the side everything stops. Confused, you look up to find everyone frozen like a statue. | [
"I looked around. No one moved.\n\nI waved my hands in front of the boy next to me. No one responded.\n\nI looked up. I could see the dust motes, lit by the sunlight through the window, suspended in the air.\n\nOn a hunch, I looked out the window to the field below.\n\nI nodded to myself. It had to happen eventuall... | 1 | |
[WP] In the afterlife you are given a job by God to answer the questions of people using Ouija boards. | [
"The small silver bell on his desk began to chime. Markus rubbed his temples and tapped the flashing accept button on the digital display built into the cherry wood desk. A digital Ouija board materialized in front of him. He sat in silence and patiently waited for each letter to slowly be selected by the person... | 2 | |
[WP] In an alternate universe, a symbol appears on a person's forearm when they come in physical contact with their soulmate. After a long night of partying you wake up alone in your own bed with very little memory of the night before and a symbol etched into your skin. | [
"I think I spent an hour staring at it when I first woke up. This curious, marvelous, joy-inducing sigil. The skin around it was smooth, the symbol a softly luminous green. A year ago, I had railed against the idea that I would be a green, much to the amusement of my classmates. But here, now... I smiled. I smiled,... | 2 | |
[WP] "You know if you kill me, I'll just come back again. You Will Not Win." | [
"Joyce the Defender swung his great-sword mightily above his head and then rapidly downward. The demon managed to move its head to avoid the blow, but its arms was not so lucky, and the monumental blade cleaved through its shoulder, Before the wretched creature could react, Joyce planted his armored foot square the... | 1 | |
I imagine there are a few ways one might approach this prompt. I hope to see some interesting things :-) | [WP]A time traveller warns the Trojans that the giant wooden horse outside their gate is in fact a deceptive trap. | [
"The Trojans stood at the gate, wondering what to do with the lovely offering presented by the Greeks. As they were about to bring it inside the city, a strange man suddenly appeared out of nowhere in a flash.\n\n\"STOP!\" he yelled. \"THE HORSE IS A TRAP!\"\n\n\"Who is this man?\" the Trojans began to murmur. \"He... | 1 |
[WP] Physicists finally complete the Theory of Everything, uniting the quantum world with general relativity. However, the master equation hints at something greater and higher than science itself. | [
"\"So they were right,\" one of the physicists remarked.\n\n\"Who were right?\" His research partner said as he walked over to look at the stack of papers that the physicist was reading.\n\n\"The String Theorists, sort of.\"\n\n\"Sort of?\"\n\n\"There's more than four dimensions, but they aren't 'curled up' and hid... | 1 | |
[WP] The Goddess of Hate reacts to a more tolerant world. | [
"Erida's eyes fluttered in the darkness as she awoke at last. Stretching, she shrugged off the rusty, shattered remains of the shackles of ages. She sat up, memory returning slowly. A big grin slowly returned to her face, exposing her rows and rows of needle-like teeth. \"The time has come... let us see what this w... | 1 | |
[WP] In the aftermath of a bet to see who can achieve blackout drunk first. You wake up face down with your friends holding a scythe and covered in bottles, also not to mention that Death is at the door demanding his scythe and his keys back. | [
"I held my head in my hand as I slowly shrugged off the raging hang over, I pulled myself up, grasping my bed. The other unfortunate bastards had collapsed, Dave was literally covered in single malt bruichladdich whisky which I may have had a hand in.\n\nThere was a loud knock at the door, and it took me a second t... | 1 | |
[WP] Dungeons across the world are labeled from 1-100 and have biannual checks by the Monster Association to make sure they stay that way. Reports from adventurers about unfair play have made it to the president of the company, and he sends the dungeon inspector, you, to investigate. | [
"It's Wednesday afternoon and I am getting ready to go home when the boss calls me into his office. The boss starts off slow as is his style and then works himself into a lather over the number of complaints that have been flooding his desk. \"I gave that good for nothing 3 chances, Az you are my witness, have I ev... | 6 | |
[WP] You, one of the planet's top scientists, have discovered a new planet teeming with intelligent life! These natives call themselves 'humans', and their planet 'Earth'. | [
"I've been trying to persuade the council to see these \"Humans\" as a potential ally to our own race, They are not too far away from our own system which makes it difficult to understand why we never noticed them before today but they have been around for a lot longer than we have in the galaxy. So far everything ... | 1 | |
[WP] The Grim Reaper sat down and rested his scythe on his lap. "What purpose does suffering serve," he inquired, "if you can tell me I will renew your life." | [
"The knight lay gasping on the battlefield. The many sword wounds he had gained ached. He shifted slightly, broken arrows grinding against the ground. \n\nHe squinted up at the sky, trying to remember who he was. Eventually, it came to him. \n\n\"Canis\" he breathed. Footsteps echoed in the distance. The world bega... | 2 | |
[WP] Your ancestors have been fighting an evil Lich for generations, with the task passed down to each member of the family. It's the year 2016, you are an office worker, and the Lich is your boss. | [
"\"And this is your manager, Ted the Undying.\"\n\nI started. The 'man' before me, if he could be called such, was probably seven feet tall. I say 'probably' because he was levitating over the floor. He was dressed in the rotten robes and finery that all his kind seemed to wear, and he was holding the infamous S... | 1 | |
[WP] You find the fountain of youth! The natives welcome you, but warn you to never drink of the fountain. | [
"*An excerpt from the journal of Alexander Rookwood:*\n\n...and so we've followed the map given to us, despite the warnings. The journey itself took several days, wherein Mr Stone discovered a new type of gecko. \n\nThe fountain itself is unimpressive. It could be any other spring, were it not for the map. \n\nDesp... | 5 | |
[WP] A man visits a psychiatrist regularly following the murder of his daughter. Days before finishing his prescription, the patient discovers that the person who caused him so much pain has been right in front of him the whole time. | [
"*In...out. In...out*\n\nI focused on my breath as I left the therapist. She told me it would help steady me. She said it would keep me from thinking about painful things. My daughter. My girl. My happiness. \n\n*In...out. In..out*\n\nI tried my best to relax. They--my therapist and psychiatrist--told me it wasn't ... | 2 | |
[WP]: There are three things whose destructive power you should never underestimate: an avalanche, a cornered wolf, and a small engineer with a pair of pliers | [
"I've never feared much, I suppose that's why people call me stupid, because nothing makes us human besides our fears. People claim otherwise but they are just feeding another fear. I go out of my way to avoid all three of my fears; some would call them phobias (damn shrinks), but really it is nothing but common se... | 1 | |
[wp] You are an entry level employee at PermaCorp, a multinational finance firm. The catch is if you kill an employee at PermaCorp, you can take their job. Describe your first day at the firm. | [
"Leaning on the immaculate wall of the elevator that lead to PermaCorp's offices, Jackie went through her notes one more time. *PermaCorp encourages competition and outside the box thinking. Therefor, eliminating your coworker gives you the opportunity to take their status.* Kill or be killed, she loved it. The wea... | 3 | |
[WP] To make sure no one can alter the past without permission, one traveler is made the Archangel - the guy that hunts time travel terrorism. | [
"1977.The corner of Broadway and Central, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. That was the first time I saw the archangel. He was waiting to cross the street, a tall blonde man with a square-faced jaw, dressed in a stripe woven shirt and corduroy jeans, his stunner draped around his neck in the form of a black and gold, ... | 2 | |
[WP] In your lucid dream, where you have power over everything, you try to bring something back to the real world with you. | [
"George couldn't manage it the first time he tried, or the second, or the twelve-and-something time after that. It is a mad idea to begin with. Absolute bonker. The line of thought that only a sleep-deprived, drug-aided, exhausted delusional desperate sick twisted brain could cook up and if spoken out loud would ma... | 1 | |
If it hadn't happened she would have died. | [WP] If it hadn't happened I would still be sane. | [
"A simple truth of life is that we’re all riding on a slow descent to madness. Caught in a whirlpool, circling the drain, waiting for some cold, boney hand to pull us down into the deep. Maybe I’d be able to keep my head up better if it hadn’t happened. But the worst things can’t be forgotten. They can’t be uns... | 1 |
[WP] In a world where wasting water is the worst of all crimes, you are the most wanted criminal in the world. | [
"\"I'm not sure why the siren's followed us. We were just a few teenagers, looking for thrills from way back when. We didn't kill or rape or anything just good old fashion fun. Cops didn't see it that way, though,\" Jaime tucked a lock of her moonless night black hair behind her ear. There were three piercings on i... | 3 | |
[WP] You are a young misunderstood hedgehog. To escape your problems you write stories about your human OC on deviantart | [
"Sweet bliss.\nThe school bell rings and I spin myself home faster than any of the bullies. Good thing I've exceeded their scum level. \nAt least in their eyes. They still can't see that I wield the power of an amazing digital artist. They'll know one day.\nSitting at my computer, I open up my account page and I se... | 2 | |
First submission! | [WP] You live a long, fulfilling life and die of natural causes. Everything goes dark and the words "Simulation Terminated" appear. | [
"Through the darkness ... muffled ... on the right. Enemy? Contact? \n\"Doctor, her heart rate is already climbing. Brain pattern spiking...\" \nA mans voice ... to the left ... a hunter model?! \n\"Begin another round immediately\" \nTo the right ... \n\"Program?\" \nLeft ... \n\"Kitten.\" \nAn ambush ... ... | 8 |
[WP] You are a bodybuilder who lives in the near future, where all forms of exercise have been made illegal. All gyms and stadiums have been closed but some are operating illegally | [
"I never thought it would come to this. What we do to improve ourselves hurts nobody. But this is the world we live in now. Adapt or... you know. I've chosen the latter today.\n\nI spent years training my body to its peak, only to wake one day as a criminal. Seems someone doesn't want a populace that can flex their... | 3 | |
[WP] You have become President of the United States, and you now are introduced to a book where every President has written one piece of advice for you. | [
"I opened the book to find only the front page with any writing on it.\n\n\n\"To the New guy, Don't fuck it up.\"\n\nSincerely,\nGeorge Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, John Tyler (Signing for William Henry Harrison), James K... | 8 | |
[WP] You live in a world where everything is perfectly in sync. The birds chirp at the same time, the bus is always on time perfectly. Today you are late for work. | [
"I checked my watch right as I finished buttoning my suit up. 8:32!? I was two minutes late for the bus. I had never been late for the bus. \n\nI ran out of my house and started to run as fast as I could to the bus stop. I risked checking my watch. 8:33. When I got to the bus stop the bus was turning the corner jus... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a D-class personnel in the SCP foundation. One of the Keter monsters have gotten out, and now you must survive. | [
"Times were tough and the economy had really taken a turn for the worse so when a mysterious figure in a suit and smelling of disinfectant came and offered me a job I couldn’t exactly say no. After all with my criminal record I’d be lucky to get a job cleaning up shit off the dumpster behind a mcdonalds let alone 5... | 7 | |
[WP] A writer struggling with their novel has reverted back to the exercise "Write what happened today." What they don't realize is that what's happening in their daily life is a better story than any they could write. | [
"I’ve sat here staring at the little blinking black bar for over an hour. Words just cannot seem to come today. My super exciting novel about a fictional biography of a poor farmer and his extended family had been coming along fine up until yesterday when I’d seemed to hit some kind of mental block. An old trick th... | 1 | |
Whether or not there *is* a backup is up to you. | [WP] "Damn it, you just erased half of the universe! Don't stare at me - load the backup before they notice!" | [
"I absentmindedly mashed some keys to make it look like I was working as soon as I felt the gust of wind signalling that the boss had just walked in the door.\n\n\"What are you working on there, acolyte 443?\"\n\n\"Guh the long range surveillance of the super-mass in sector nine of this galaxy?\" I stammered, hopin... | 4 |
[WP] The real treasure lies deep within his/her heart. Literally. | [
"When I was young, I was a sickly child, though as a child I could not realize this. I would run through the tall grass with my friends until the simple exertion of play left me wheezing, my breath rattling wetly through the hollow cage of my chest. Then I would squat on my heels, my breaths gradually slowing as my... | 1 | |
[WP] You and your family move into a haunted house. The wraith turns out to be really cool about it. | [
"High school was hard enough as it was before they moved. There were the pimples, PE, extra-curriculars, cute girls giggling at Zak didn’t know what. At school he had to navigate the ever-changing social climate, keeping track of the cool kids, the kids so fashionably uncool they made the cool kids look lame, and t... | 5 | |
[WP]: She now has the chance to fix her ruined life by going back to the decision that caused it. For some reason that moment was when she was asked "What flavour do you want?" at Baskin Robbins. | [
"\"What do you mean by that?\" Molly responds.\n\n\"The cake mam,\" says Josh the baker, \"What flavor would you like the cake to be?\"\n\n\"Uh, crap! I did not think of that!\" Molly cries out.\n\n\"Well I love Love LOVE chocolate but what if he doesn't like chocolate but what if he doesn't like vanilla because he... | 6 | |
[WP] Years after the colonization of Mars, the residents are able to sustain life without aid from Earth. After Mars population increases, a civil war begins. | [
"In the year 2052 the orbits of Earth and Mars began their fifteen year separation. During this time the planets were simply too far from each other to reliably communicate and send supplies. At it's peak, around year 7, we would be on opposite sides of the sun. And initially those of us on Mars were concerned.\n\n... | 3 | |
[WP] A coming of age story featuring three boys, one girl, and the thing they found in that creek-side cave. | [
"\"C'mon,\" said Geoff. His hair hung shaggy over his eyes and he brushed it back with a flick of his head. \"What'd you think would happen, you coming down here with the three of us?\" \n\nNancy shook her head as she backed away, her sneakers squelching in the damp ground. She bumped against the cave wall, her fin... | 1 | |
t i t l e | [WP] Write a story about someone that has to decide whether or not to pull the trigger. | [
"A sudden jolt of a bitter sensation engulfed my tongue. It was for just a second but it lingered. My heart was throbbing and my eyes wide, trying to make sense of it all. \n\nThere was warmth all over me. It felt like a bath where the pleasant tickling warm water was starting to cool. There was a stillness though,... | 3 |
[WP]Matt Damon is sick of these missions that keep needing him to be rescued. Your job is to get him to take on his most dangerous mission yet and convince him that this time it will be different. | [
"\"No,\" He walked past me, \"No, no, no, no, no!\" \n\n\"Oh, c'mon Matt, this time will be different,\" He ducked underneath a truss, sparks flying from the welders overhead. Matt Damon was the best 'jack-of-all-trades' actor in the world, having served in a few military missions as well as a few missions in space... | 1 | |
[WP] humans have achieved a manned Mission to the sun and you are the captain. Your team discovers that the sun is sending and receiving signals to and from other stars much like neurons in a brain. The universe is conscious. | [
"\"Is it?\" I asked myself. \n\n\"Is hypothesis really correct? I mean like it could just be the electromagnetic waves messing up the system!\" I futilely explained to the crew, trying to make sense of the whole scenario.\n\n\n\"But it is too consistent! Neither can it be the system fault. George ran system test mu... | 1 | |
[WP] Your teacher asks you to write about the 2016 election. The year is 2096. | [
"I hate writing essays about the past. It's not like I need to do much. I ask Amber, our house assistant, to do some searches on a topic while I sleep. I dictate a few sentences in the morning, from which she generates a few paragraphs that are uploaded to the teacher a few minutes later.\n\nThis time, we have to a... | 2 | |
Edit: accidentally typed two WP brackets | [WP] [WP] You are the Prince who rescues Rapunzel from her imprisonment in the tower; however, you neglected to ask why she was locked away in the first place... | [
"I regarded my silk blouson in dismay. Both underarms were ripped at the seams. No doubt caused by my strenuous ascent to rescue the flaxen-haired maiden before me. I’m sure Larry could repair it. Or Ivona the Enchantress. Larry *was* the greatest tailor throughout the land, but the garments of Derek the Magnificen... | 1 |
First time submitting a prompt; be gentle. :) | [WP] You're not sure where you are or how you got here. The person in front of you says "Hi?" You gradually realize that you're at home, looking at your bathroom mirror. | [
"\"Ready to face the world?\" It said.\n\n\"...no, But its not like I have a choice, right?\"\n\n\"You heard what he said, one more late day and he canning you.\"\n\n\"I know, I just...\"\n\n\"Want to go to bed? Should have thought of that before you stayed up till 3 AM playing Counter Strike. Let me repeat myself,... | 1 |
[WP] You've lost an object you need, but don't reveal what it is until the last sentence | [
"My new second lieutenant gripped the whistle with a strength that he should be saving for the attack to come. \n\nNot that it would help, as I learned from my first foray over the top. Sixty of us in First Platoon, A Company, the Second Sussex Regiment went over the top that first time led by Lieutenant Robert B... | 4 | |
[WP] Overnight a resource humanity had always taken for granted due to its abundance disappears. Describe how the world adapts to the new circumstances. | [
"The world was still when she woke. An abnormal quiet, it jostled her awake with the sense of something slightly amiss. Even so, it took her by surprise several hours later when the news reports began to filter in. The wind had stopped. Worldwide, people had noticed the deathly still, the lack of a cooling breeze, ... | 2 | |
[WP] With only days to live, you inherited an unexpected fortune. | [
"It turns out the fortune was sent to me from the future by my great grandkids. In their time period the world uses a different type of currency. They'd found out about my savings account and because it was no use to them they decided since it belonged to me anyway, I should get it. "
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[WP] While waiting on your SO to arrive, a beggar asks you for money. When you refuse, he places a curse on you saying "from this point on, once a person leaves your site you will never see them again" you quickly realize it's true. As the beggar walks away from you, you see your SO approach. | [
" It has to be true! This old, drunk beggar who I've never seen before in my life placed a \"curse\" on me, I mean, I have no reason to believe a single word out of his mouth, but it has to be true! Damn, what a predicament! If I look away from my girlfriend, I'll never see the love of my life again! \n\n\"Are you ... | 1 | |
[WP] Before every Rated G Pixar film, there is a digital short. Write a digital short that will be fitting to run before the very R rated: "Sausage Party". | [
"It's a digital short about the mother nature \"Earth\" evolvig to life. It evolves and evolves. Cut to man taking over the earth. Cut to building huts and adobe homes to modern homes and buildings. Through the whole thing the earth is watching it's living earth fuck, and it wants to jerk off to that. The rubbing i... | 1 | |
Only the quiet murmurs of the townsfolk and the rustling of the fallen auburn leaves could be heard that day. At the farmer's market, locally grown fruits and vegetables were being sold and bought. The sellers were speaking out to the crowd to buy their goods at the perfect time when a 'lifetime offer' was taking place... | [WP] The day was normal in the small, peaceful village of Taichima. No largely eventful activities except for a small congregation at a local farmer's market. Otherwise, everything was normal and hush. Group story continues in description. | [
"Everyone in the marketplace young and old stopped, gasps holding within their throats. They watched as a giant, gilded bell crafted from fine silver rolled along the street, a large fissure along one of its sides. It smashed into a few houses, spraying bricks everywhere, and then finally passed by like a turnip in... | 1 |
[WP] True love's kiss breaks the spell. Problem is, both the main characters were raised conservatively and have no idea what kissing is. | [
"\"How do you not know how to kiss?\" Marrianne exclaimed. \"You never kissed your parents? Your parents never kissed you goodnight?\" She fluttered around the cramped tower chamber, waving her wand in the air. \"You never saw them kissing each other?\" \n\nPrince Charming blushed again, scuffing his boot on the ba... | 1 | |
[WP] An apple a day actually does keep the doctor away. Doctors and apple farmers are now locked in a battle for dominance over the American health care system. | [
"Dr. Grimhilde taps her long pink-lacquered nails on the keyboard while the system buffers. Standing up, her white lab coat swishes gracefully around her. She wears it like a beaver fur coat instead of protective equipment, like it's the height of classical fashion.\n\nShe pipettes one last milliliter of hydrofluor... | 6 | |
[WP] The world is going to end in 60 years. The cause is unstoppable. You're an alien observing the last days of Earth society. | [
" Log Date: 21st Eble, 1512 P.S.\n\n Local Date: Exact date unknown, 600 million and 3 C.E. (By standard Teron Gregorian Calendar)\n\n File: Lakta Vojo, Sunsistemo, Tero\n\n Log Writer: Fermi Vivo, Teron Observatory Chief\n\nAs stated in the last log, approximately three Teron years ago, this system... | 1 | |
The Romans and the Reenactors think the other guys are legit.
The Romans and the Reenactors can understand each other | [WP] A group of Roman Legionnaires accidentally travel forward in time, Their destination? A Roman Reenactment Festival | [
" Lucius Siccius Dentatus; a roman centurion sent on a suicide mission into the enemy camp by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, prepared his Centuria. At his command the cornicen blew their horns and signaled the Centuria to march towards the camp. \n\n Upon sight of the feared centurion, the Aequians fled in terro... | 2 |
[WP] I was around before the invention of fun. | [
"Before \"fun\" existed, I was there. I was there before most things, actually, fun among them. So it's boring to just focus on fun, though I think the word \"fun\" encapsulates...what we'll be discussing going forward. \n\nSo fun didn't exist, no. Nor did happy, or sad, or pain, or anger, or anything really tha... | 5 | |
[WP] Death offered you immortality. In exchange, you have to be his friend. You agree, but quickly come to realize Death is kind of a dick. | [
"\"Duuude, you're never gonna believe what I just did,\" Death began, his skeletal face stretched into a grin I had grown to loathe over the last several hundred years. \n\n\"Let me guess, you killed some old lady's husband and her poodle in one shot...again\"\n\n\"BRO FIST!\" He cackles, holding out a gnarled fist... | 1 |
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