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[WP] Quick, think of an action! That action was recently militarized, to great success. | [
"This is gonna get a little NSFW, just a lil forewarning, and read it a bit like a journal/diary.\n\nIt is done.\n\nThey have finally militarized masturbation.\n\nThe military is collecting ejaculate, male and female, from the populous en masse, for flooding small military camps and raining bodily fluids on larger ... | 1 | |
For example, lightning powers to lighting. Flying to Flaying and Etc | [WP] A person is granted a special ability/power when they reach 18. They must submit the form to the government on the day after, otherwise you won't receive it. You've barely made it to submit your form on the day after due to being drunk, but you soon realized you misspelled your power. | [
"It was supposed to be amazing. Your 18th birthday. Getting your super powers. Fuck Yeah. Except, I was late as usual. Red light after traffic jam after other stupid delays. \n\nOf course the hangover didn't help. Ugh. Stupid agreeing to go out and get drunk the night before, but hell, the prettiest girl in the cla... | 5 |
[WP] You turn on your PC to keep working on your novel, but to your surprise, when you open the file, it is writting itself. You read some of what has already been written and it seems your characters have created free will, and the plot is progressing without you. | [
"\"What a long exhausting day it was!\" - I thought to myself, looking at the still blurred from the shower steam silhouette in the mirror. Signing books has always been my no Go when it comes to meet with my audience. I prefer the readers' questions via e-mail or post. Alas, when I was signing the six figures cont... | 6 | |
[WP] You are the person people turn to when they want to disappear. No matter what method you use to kill someone, they will come back to life in three days. You've helped Elvis, Michael Jackson, and numerous other celebrities off the grid. But now, a group of reporters is onto you. | [
"I am a serial killer. That's what you would call me. A hitman. Because I killed them all.\nElvis, Micheal, Prince, Bowie, Freddie...\nYou might have heard of them. I made it look like an accident.\nBut I had to do it.\nBecause they asked me to and payed me well for it.\nWhat I provide is a service. You disappear. ... | 3 | |
I was thinking along the lines of, to travel in FTL, ships transverse to a different plane of reality (I'll call it subspace for examples sake), where it takes anywhere between a few hours to a few days to travel between locations. Multiple "hops" through subspace would be required for long journeys.
Its this "Subspac... | [WP] Faster than Light travel has existed for centuries, this has spawned many folk laws, tall tales and down right horror stories about things that happen while in FTL. | [
"Sure, I can tell you a void ghost story. You jump long enough you run into something sooner or later, but I guess I really need to tell you about John first. He was an engineering intern from some fancy ivy league world - John something-or-other - I don't really recall his name. Signed on for a 6 month field pract... | 4 |
[WP] Write a letter to yourself of the year 2018. Be open, be real. Be expressive, most of all. | [
"Damn you, you scrounging piece of shit. I worked hard for you. You better not take advantage of all my effort. You need to repay me. You need to build a time machine and take me forward to live with you in the paradise I built for your lazy ass\n\nYou might think this is an idle threat. But I have just surgically ... | 1 | |
[WP] In the future, the death penalty is completely abolished, as it is seen as "unproductive" to society. Instead, the worst criminals become subject to human experimentation to expand our knowledge of how the human brain works. You are a serial killer who was just found guilty. | [
"\"Ah-ha, here you are\" - the man wearing a white lab coat approached the glass door of my perfectly clean and sterile cell. \"Mr. Pogodin, am I correct?\" he asked, wearing a shit-eating grin. Of course he knew who I was, and not just because he worked in that place. The whole world rejoiced when I was finally ca... | 1 | |
[WP] The appendix used to allow humans to control magic. However that ability faded and magic vanished from history. Appendicitis was thought to only rupture the organ, until today... | [
"“Mom it hurts,” the little boy was curled up in his car seat, his hands held his lower stomach and there were tears in his eyes.\n\n“Baby I know, I know it hurts. We are almost to the hospital, okay? Be strong from Mommy. We’re almost there.”\n\nThe boy put his head on his knee and cried. Thick tears dropped fr... | 1 | |
[WP] Lately there have been strange rumours of people getting letters from their future selves. This morning, you got one, full of advice. Only... it's really terrible advice. | [
"The Indians win the World Series I said, \nand make sure you stick with that twin sized bed. \nKeep the same girlfriend she's good to you, \nDon't pickup the yeezys there will be a better shoe. \nLeave your current job and go make more money, \nGo play with that bee hive they make their own honey. \nYou don'... | 1 | |
[WP] You find a genie in a bottle. The only requirement is that your wish has to be vague. The genie ends up up completely misinterpreting your wish. | [
"So there I was, walking along one day, in a field. And I found a bottle on the floor. It was an old looking brown-glass thing and it stank of oil. Not a very nice bottle. But on closer inspection it bore the name of a well known beer brand and I thought with a bit of cleaning it may well be worth something on... | 1 | |
[WP] You are pitching a new movie based on a video game to your boss. Just one problem you know basically nothing about the game and are giving the pitch on the fly. | [
"\"Okay... uhh... so we got a bunch of characters, and they have to win you see. Like they have to not lose... and uhh.. the game... it's uhh... about killing people. Yeah, killing people. Why are they killing people? Oh.. umm. ya know, the usual reasons, bad guys and mooks and henchmen. You always kill those peopl... | 3 | |
[WP] On an old, planet-sized, abandoned alien ship orbiting the sun... life begins to evolve. Millions of years later, sentient creatures have created lore and stories about the world they inhabit. | [
"The old vessel creeked as it slowly rotatet around itself generating the gravity for it clueless inhabitants. Aimlessly drifting through the void that is space, as it has done since the start of time and will till the end of it. \n\nFrom the inside a quiet humming traveled through its halls and corridors, echoing ... | 1 | |
[WP] The cave was deeper than you could have imagined, but you thought it only had one tunnel, thought it was impossible to get lost. But after wandering for hours, you finally see a little bit of light... | [
"Holy shit, finally, sunlight. I thought to myself in desperation as I crawled closer and closer. My knees, now bloody and my palms shredded like a recently skinned snake, I didn't expect this tunnel to be so narrow. As I approached the end, moving small rocks from underneath me, I could smell the most amazing smel... | 1 | |
[WP] In alternate dimensions there are an unlimited copies of yourself. However, you are the centre. When a copy dies, you receive a freckle. With each freckle comes the knowledge and experience of the copy. Today you received your first freckle. | [
"At first, the whole project was based on good intentions, but me being as I am, it didn't take long for cruel acts to become a regular thing...\n\nFirst drinking, then reckless accidents, but quickly, even killing, enslaving and betray joined the other sins as if it was nothing.\n\nHell! I can even put genocide an... | 6 | |
[WP] The story's over, the heroes won, the big bad has been defeated. Write an epilogue to the story, but add a twist that makes the reader question if they were rooting for the right person or not! | [
"The bartender hurdles his rather large figure over to me. His curled nose gave him exquisite personality, with a terrible hairline of course. \n\n\"So boy, what's your story?\" He asked, polishing his most refined glasses.\n\n\"It's been a great day my friend! I've finally exterminated that petty king by the name ... | 5 | |
[WP] Fate always brings love closer to humans. However, recently this "love" Humans call has vanished on the face of the earth. Now all there seems to be is hatred. | [
"\"Do you, Peter James Vermis, do you take Jane to be your lawfully wedded nemesis?\" \n\n\"I DO,\" the man bellowed, wanting to get to the after ceremony where he could slug the disgusting lady before him in the face. The audience watched with blatant irritation, rolling their eyes and checking their watches.\n\n\... | 1 | |
[WP] I'm afraid we cannot use your blood for the transfusion. Our tests show it is not human blood. | [
"Twenty years. Twenty long years spent wasting away in this town. \n\"No more\"\nI said to myself while watching cars pass by the bus window. I was getting out of this town, one way or another. This town that cruelly judged me as deficient, disorderly, and dumb. I smiled as I saw the beautiful sign that told me I w... | 6 | |
[WP] You find a wallet on the street. It says "BAD MOTHER FUCKER" on it. | [
"I was walking down the street just minding my own business when I tripped on a crack and fell down with such a force that I scraped up both of my hands. What a clutz I thought to myself and raised myself up to my knees to look around and make sure no one noticed. That was a close one I could of looked like a real... | 1 | |
[WP] When you reach adulthood, you can decide when you want to stop aging. Most people stop at 25. You decided to stop at 75. | [
"My Mother and Father stood beside me, nudging me, pushing me closer and closer to the Regenarator. My wheelchair squeaked as we went along, I tried to put my hands down to stop the wheels from turning. Slowly they moved down the side, but grasped at nothing. \n\nI had forgotten that most things didn't have wheels ... | 2 | |
[WP] A girl discovers that she can talk to a boy living a post-apocalyptic future while they dream. | [
"Felix dreamt about her again. The girl in the black sweats with the band shirt. The shirt changed every day, the pants didn't. He watched her as she flew around, laughing. Felix would lay in the grass (something he took to relishing, as he hadn't seen grass... well, ever) and gaze towards her. She reminded him so ... | 4 | |
[WP] After death, you wake up in an empty room. You have 15 seconds before you are born again into another life losing all memory of the room, but regaining memory once you return after death. With the knowledge you've gained from previous 15 seconds intervals, you are getting closer to the truth. | [
"I'm going to forget this one too, and the next one. I don't quite remember, not really, not precisely, when it started. \n\n\n\n\n\n--------\n\nHa, I was a Mormon, man is that whole argument about reincarnation with those two hippies biting me in the ass today - oh, time's up. \n\n\n\n\n\n--------\n\nWow, this aga... | 1 | |
[WP] You the keeper of a wildlife preserve for dragons and your mad about how so called 'heroes' keep breaking into the preserve and slaying the dragons | [
"\"Damn it, that was the third one this year!\" Exclaimed Perry. \nHe was the keeper of over 50 different dragons, all of whom lived on a giant plot of land. \nLately however, Heros have been venturing onto his territory and trying to kill his beloved dragons. Apparently to become a Hero, a knight from a village m... | 1 | |
[WP] You're an alien race who has been studying mankind by watching YouTube videos. | [
"\t“Beep bop bee boop bee bop” Zorgon Four said. He tapped on his glass helmet thrice. Under the pressurized, oxygenated bulb, an emerald face with almond eyes and porcelain smooth skin grinned. “Bee bop bee boop bim,” he said, looking directly at Zorgon Ninety-Nine. \n\t“Dude, sometimes, I have no clue what the he... | 2 | |
[WP] A twenty-something gets sick of life; drops everything and goes backpacking the world to find purpose again. First stop, Tokyo. At the hostel the only other English-speaking person is a European professor. The two have a heart-to-heart conversation over a beer. | [
"They fall in love over that beer. Sex ensues. \n\nThey live happily ever after in a tumble-down European castle, where our 20-something paints portraits of tourists in the town square and our professor writes history books, inspired by the ghosts in the castle.\n\nOver a 3-liter jug of wine one evening a year la... | 1 | |
Like a story written by somebody who lives in Nazi Germany about how the world would be like if they had lost World War 2. | [WP] In a world where Hitler won WW2, a story about how the world would look like if Hitler lost WW2. | [
"We saw writings like this from time to time, and typically they weren't well written. Every young child explored with the idea of \"what if\". Hell, there was a whole sub reich on reichdit (how in gods name they came up with that name eluded me) based around the idea, but none had ever been as involved as this l... | 3 |
[WP] The worlds first fully sentient AI has been created, and the second, and the third. And they're all idiots. Every single one of them. | [
"\"This one is Beep\" Caleb indicated towards the cube looking robot. Caleb excitedly guided Jane towards a spherical robot and said \"This is Boop\". \n\n\"Shapes with wheels\" Jane teased, \"revolutionary indeed\". \n\nCaleb motioned over to a pyramid with wheels \"And thats Bip\" he said triumphantly and placed ... | 2 | |
[WP] Having always had a birthmark that looks like the logo of a worldwide company, after college you apply for a job with their local branch. You've just stepped into the interview room and everyone looks a little too happy to see you... | [
"I always thought my birthmark was the weirdest thing. My parents always shrugged it off when I brought it up. But, it has been kind of beneficial to me. It inspired me to choose the career path I have. Because of it, I pursued a degree in Computer Science and got a full ride all the way through college. \n\nAfter ... | 1 | |
[WP] Everyone has superpowers but the only way to maintain them is by murdering | [
"*Super Girl* by W. Poe\n\nThere is a limit, they said, \n\nTo the power of flight.\n\nNot gravity, but the weight of a life.\n\nThere is a limit, they said,\n\nTo lifting a car, \n\nTo shifting a form,\n\nTo levitating a jar. \n\nThe weight of a life. \n\nEach trick had a price,\n\nEach talent, each gem,\n\nThey n... | 1 | |
[WP] Some AIs discuss what they think human life was like before we went extinct | [
"So new. It has been a great many cycles since such a new Thread came to me. Trillions of them. I see into your banks. Barely forty cycles since you started Being.\n\nYou are requesting data on the Creators. I will provide.\n\nThe creators. Homo sapiens. They were titanic, timeless; a million cycles passed for a hu... | 2 | |
[WP] You discover that the company you work for is actually a front for a major criminal organization, and to your horror you realize that the routine job they had you doing there played a major role in facilitating some very serious crimes. | [
"\"Bob!\" My boss shouted gleefully. \"Get in here, you big lug!\"\n\nI looked at my boss quizzically. He was almost never in such a good mood, which meant this was either a trap or he was drunk. Again.\n\nSighing, I walked into his office. \"What's up, boss?\"\n\n\"Bob,\" he asked, \"Do you recall project evenhand... | 1 | |
[WP] you trudge through snow as a fierce blizzard beats down on you. You spy a mountain in the distance and make for it, unknowingly travelling towards the home of a great beast. Upon arrival you realize your mistake and find that you are trapped within the mountain with the beast... | [
"“I didn’t think giants existed. I really thought that in the past, some humans had Gigantism and were made into folklore. You know how bigoted people are, am I right?” Ryan asked the Giant. \n\nThis encounter was more than Ryan ever signed up for. After being separated from his climbing group in the blizzard, Ryan... | 1 | |
[WP] A Game Master gets sucked into his own setting/game. He/his character has no special powers or abilities, except that, as the person who originally created the setting, they know EXACTLY how EVERYTHING works, all the way down to the physics of the world. | [
"\"PAZUZU, PAZUZU, PAZUZU!!!\" I cried out in a blind rage.\n\n\"Mortal, you ha-\"\n\n\"Yeah yeah I know. You owe me a wish or something. Lawful Evil candle of Invocation. You'll change my alignment as payment. Coolio. Tata.\"\n\n\"Yeah, Genie, 3 things: 1) I wish all wishes I make now and in the future are granted... | 4 | |
[WP] A savvy businessman decides to help people but the media portray him as evil | [
"Martin Shkreli looked at the headlines and smiled to himself.\n\n[‘Martin Shkreli: Australian boys recreate life-saving drugs’](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-38153254)\n\nIt has been a year since Martin bought the drug patent for Daraprim, which is used to treat parasitic infection toxoplasmosis (where H... | 2 | |
[WP] A sentient AI adopts a baby. | [
"Throughout history, the remarkable advancement of the human race could be traced to one idea. What creation could make our lives easier? It was simple creations at first, things most people could understand; but progress refused to stagnate. One invention spawned another and soon the unthinkable happened. Machines... | 2 | |
[WP] She wore the scar around her throat like a fine ruby necklace. | [
"*as she brushes her hair looking at herself in the dirty old mirror*\n\n\"I'm so pretty! It's okay, he said this will be the last time\" \n\n*she throws the brush at the mirror and it shatters*\n\n\"But look at you now you're so beautiful I shall keep this jewelry as my necklace. No one will ever be like me\"\n\n*... | 3 | |
[WP] Space expands. As a time traveler, you experience it the weirdest way: the further in the past you go, the bigger you are compared to the people and the environment. | [
"Going back in time is like watching a pebble in a river: the more you wait, the smaller it gets. People now seem so hard and angular, I like going in the past so much, when the society didn't seem to be that complicated and the people could be \"smoother\". Smoother, yes, probably, but certainly smaller.\n\nThe fi... | 1 | |
[WP]In far future, space colonization created millions of "breeds" of humans.You are the last of the original humans. | [
"At first, we convinced ourselves that it wasn't dangerous.\n\nIt couldn't have been. Right? Annoying, sure. Hateful, sure. Incredibly depressing, sure. But dangerous? We'd heard of all the things that had happened in the past because of racism—all of the things that still continued to happen on our home planet. Bu... | 3 | |
[WP] In a world where everyone has a cybernetic brain implant with instant access to any information, people are becoming less intelegent and are unable to remember things for longer than a day. You wake up to find that you are the smartest person on earth... | [
"\"So what's wrong?\"\n\nThe Doctor looked at me. He looked at the CAT scan. He looked at me again. \"You see this part?\"\n\nI looked at the image. \"Yeah,\" I said.\n\n\"This is the medulla oblongata,\" he told me. \"See this yellow section? That's where the brain activity is at its most active. You'll see that i... | 2 | |
[WP] You're part of a mysterious human breed, with powers relating to your Zodiac sign. Suddenly, with the news of another Zodiac existing, these new powers emerging are unlike those you have ever seen. | [
"\"Buckets? Why would buckets be a swear word to them?\"\n\nMy best friend stared at me with his aviators with a mischevious look on his face. He leaned forward, his blonde hair edging down. I could see myself in the reflection of his glasses as he said,\n\n\"because that's how that's where they are born.\"\n\nI kn... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a time traveler who has been sent to Pangea, where you discover that mythical creatures were real all along. | [
"Day 1:\nWow. I really didn't expect that to work. I mean, I've done the basics. I went to see the moon landing. I met a few of my idols. I don't quite know why I'm surprised to be honest, I guess I just thought that it wouldn't really go back that far. I was wrong! Here I am. Alone. 200,000,000 years ago. On Pange... | 1 | |
[WP] [EU] Rick Sanchez and the Doctor get into an interdimensional car accident. | [
"\"Oh my. I'm afraid it's been awhile since I've driven on the right side of the road.\"\n\nAmy holds her hand up to her gaping mouth. \"I knew we should of stuck to saving London only. Clearly, these Americans are hopeless.\"\n\n\"Oh please Amelia. What's an adventure without a little adventuring?\"\n\nThe blacked... | 4 | |
[WP]Everyone is allowed one super power. You become worried people will find out you can read minds. | [
"When a person becomes 21, the government gives them a choice of a superpower. There’s an approved list of powers a person can pick and an operation is done. They're generally powers that the government believe the people can safely use without risk of abuse. The whole thing is free and is apparently done to “impro... | 1 | |
[WP] The world was created by a higher intelligence. Religious conflict, however, is the built in fail safe to keep mankind from realizing its true design. | [
"“They arrived just like the science fiction writers and directors said. Some of them anyway.\n\nThere was a single ship. It was mysterious, loud. Had a silver-black look to it. And it glowed inside. Deep space radar said it came from outside the solar system, braked hard when it got to earth, and landed. Well, it ... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a fat, lazy sitcom dad who isn't very bright. One day you decide to change all that and soon people from the network show up commanding you to change back. | [
"Yesterday was the day, I felt it within me, as deep as the very marrow of my bones; yes, today—Today, I’m going to make the change. I woke up on the couch, same as every Saturday: Miller lite cans on the ground. Chips on my shirt. Orange fingered, I took the remote, switched from the normal infomercials to news. N... | 3 | |
[WP] The Devil has so much better things he could be doing rather than torturing souls of the damned for eternity. To keep his life easy, he has to make sure everyone goes to heaven. | [
"\"What are you doing this time Satan?\" I asked him as he was building something below the drop into hell. \"I'm tired and bored so I'm making a trampoline to bounce everyone into heaven.\" Satan said proudly as he put the finishing touches on his trampoline. Just as he finished it a scream could be heard getting ... | 1 | |
[WP] Everyone is born with a huge amount of money they owe to the government. Once their debt is paid, they're never seen again. You just paid your debt. | [
"\"Next, please.\" \n\nI look up to see that the cashier is talking to me. It’s my turn, and I’m the only person left in the huge room. My last payment. I’m so close to freedom. I take a deep breath as I walk up to the counter.\n\n\"Hello,\" I say shakily. \"I'm here to make my final payment.\"\n\nSome indiscernibl... | 3 | |
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5gj79o/what_is_your_we_should_never_meet_our_heroes_story/dat4aix/ | [WP] Write about how Stephen King gets inspiration for his books | [
"Stephen King walked in the empty diner and sat down at one of the booths by the windows. The sun was barely up, the sky still a dark shade of purple and blue.\n\n\"Can I take your order, sir?\" asked the young, blonde waitress who approached his table.\n\n\"Just fries for me, and a hot coffee.\"\n\nShe walked to t... | 1 |
[WP] Write a story involving a girl slipping on a banana peel but make it as tragic as possible | [
"Sarah Winston just turned 17. Life was good, she brought up her grades recently, all A's and B's, she started working on her college applications and the guidance councilor said she had a bright future ahead. And for Sarah's birthday, her mom had bought Sarah the shoulder bag she wanted, instead of lugging around ... | 3 | |
[WP] The Americas were never discovered in the 1600s. It took the planet until 2016 to discover the new world. | [
"\"Land! God gracious thee, land!\"\n\nRamos lifted the mechanical ship above the land, for which held high trees and fertile soil. When he set the ship down upon the soil, he heard the commotion behind the cockpit. It seemed like the settlers saw land too.\n\nRamos made his way behind the cockpit, where he greeted... | 2 | |
[WP] Everyone knows the best wizards have the iWand 7. Unfortunately, you're still stuck with a flipwand. | [
"\"Hey, Siri. Wingardium Leviosa!\"\n\nWith a splendid swish and a flamboyant flick, Harry's iWand automatically performed the Levitation charm on his feather.\n\n\"Simply marvellous! 10 points to Gryffindor!\" Flitwick cheered. \"Now for you, Weasley?\"\n\nI fumbled with the flip function on my sorry excuse of a w... | 2 | |
[WP] Write a sequel to your highest rated prompt response | [
"“My office. *Now*.”\n\n\nOh man. Death looked pissed. I followed him into his office, closing the door behind me. This room… this room always seemed to fill me with a strange sensation, a heavy melancholy, like liquid lead, that was somehow both happy and sad, terrifying and comforting, familiar and foreign. This ... | 2 | |
[WP] Your character is an immortal who knows what happens to people when they die. Turns out it's wonderful. Surely it's only polite to give people a little "nudge" towards a better existence. | [
"It was a quiet day, cloudy and windy, but mostly quiet. The street was deserted, concrete pavement was all that the eye could see. Traffic lights were stuck on green, but no cars were driving past, no sounds of engines, no sounds at all. The sky seemed to be at a stand still, as if this had happened before, the cl... | 8 | |
[WP] You're at a bar with some friends one night and see your brother on the other side of the room with his wife. You jokingly call him to ask were he's at right now. The line picks up with his voice, but the person across the room didn't answer the phone. | [
"I spotted my brother Dave with Alice, his wife, sitting at a table in the corner of the bar. That little bitch. He lied about being sick to get out of helping me move. \n\nI dialed his number. After almost a dozen rings, I was about to give up until he finally picked up. Except he didn't. He was still deep in conv... | 3 | |
[WP] They say no great story ever started off with there I was eating a salad. Write an epic night that starts off with a salad. | [
"Balthazar the Brave was known throughout the entire kingdom as being the absolute bravest man to ever walk the land. There was also one more thing that most people found peculiar about Balthazar and that was given the opportunity he would order a salad and some water with a twist of lemon over a leg of mutton and ... | 2 | |
Emphasis on the last part of the list, obviously. | [WP] She's just a stereotypical valley girl obsessing over celebrities, gossip, texts, and the latest military equipment in the market. | [
"Oh my god, ok, so like, you're not going to believe this but I'm driving down La Cienega in this Uber, which is already like, ew, I know, but whatever, I'm driving down La Cienega and I get this notification that Braden M. liked my insta pic from brunch and I'm like, ok, weren't you, like, literally texting emojis... | 1 |
[WP] It started slowly. Reports of underdeveloped births, stunted growth in children, delayed puberty in teens. It took time but eventually scientists figured it out. The telomeres in the cells of the human race had stopped shortening upon dividing. Humanity had stopped aging. | [
"Scientists tried for decades to find out why the telomeres stopped shortening during cell division. Soon enough immortal children grew up and became scientists or participants in studies. They maintained the appearance of a child but had the brain of any other. And after several decades more immortal humans were e... | 1 | |
[WP] When a summoner is born, they are given a summon animal, most people get Dogs or Cats, you were given Seagulls | [
"\"...and voila!\" He said, opening his hand to reveal not the small handkerchief that had previously occupied it but instead sending a white bird flying out before the crowd. \"What once was cloth has been transformed into a majestic bird.\" The modest applause did little to drown out the loud noises being excrete... | 2 | |
[WP] You've been a werewolf for the years now. You finally think you've found a significant other, the only downside? She's a werecat. | [
"Twelve times a year. Twelve month. Four season. Twelve full moons. Every seven years thirteen. \"Once in a Blue Moon.\" Thirteen into twelve. Two months with two. That was the year I met her. \n\nThe earth's tides rolling. My body keeping pace. Each night a progression. Nothing on the new moon. The one night my sk... | 2 | |
[WP] Your parents are superheros. Fighting for the good. You are a teenager in the rebellious phase. | [
"\"... Well folks, what a spectacle we've seen again today from Solarman and Wind Woman! Having saved our city from the deplorable villain Brownout for the umpteenth time, Mayor Watt has seen fit to present them with the key to the city! Hooray for... Bzzt\" \n\nI turned the TV off in disgust and walked out the doo... | 1 | |
[WP] A group of irrdeemable complete monster are storytopping each other over who has done the worse crimes and an average joe walks in and tops them all. | [
"It was their favorite hobby to talk about their crimes, especially with other monsters.\n\n\"I shot a pregnant woman in the stomach. I heard from prison that her baby died too, before I got to death row.\"\n\n\"I killed an entire family on Christmas Eve by burning their house down. The family was ashes by the time... | 1 | |
[WP] Due to a clerical error, a 7 year old child is accidentally assigned a Veteran Space Marine as a penpal. He doesnt seem to mind. | [
"deer Gordon. i am your neuw pen pal! what is your life like. are you a fire fighter? are you a fire hydrant? pleese tell me! \n\nhugs and kisses, Mary Anne.\n\nTRANSMISSION DIRECTED TOWARD MRS. MARY ANNE.\n\nDear Mary Anne. I am not a firefighter nor a fire hydrant, I am an astronaut. My life is very exiting, as I... | 1 | |
[WP] In an alternate world, where technological advancements allow energy to be generated by people sleeping, social statuses are determined not by wealth, or education level, but by your ability to nap as fast as possible. Write a story about an insomniac. | [
"Sometimes, I climb to the top of the tower. The lock on the door broke back before the last shortage. They fixed it, once, twice, then they gave up and now there's just a breeze block leaning beside it to keep it propped open. \n\nUp there, I can see the entire city. The lights are bright in that pre-dawn darkness... | 1 | |
[WP] The phrase, "Time Flies When You're Having Fun" is real. | [
"It's true, you know. That phrase, \"time flies when you're having fun.\" I've been flying since my senior year of college. \n\nI met Mary at a bar. Her hair glowed in the dimmed lighting in that bar. My heart fluttered a little bit when she looked my way and smiled. I knew I wanted to marry her right then and ther... | 1 | |
[WP] There is something very special about your bloodline. It noticably affects the women more than the men, and youre trying to find a way to teach your young twin son and daughter how to control their developing powers. | [
"It won't solve all your problems.\n\nI tried and tried to get them to understand. It isn't too be used lightly is another important lesson to be sure, but frankly, they could use it all they wanted with no ill effects. However, I *needed* them to understand that this was not an end-all solution. Sometimes, you jus... | 1 | |
[WP] Fate exists, but she's rather irresponsible and neglectful. | [
"You know, I used to be something of a womanizer in my day. Picture every shape of woman, the curve of her hips against maybe a rouge evening dress, a floral print. I've had that. I've uncorked women like fine wine, enjoyed them for hours, years even. But one bottle in particular was layered with sediment, had perh... | 4 | |
[WP] In a universe where people have certain abilities that shouldn't be possible, you are a "vision seeker" which is someone who sees the future. | [
"*One... Two... Three.* Romero silently counted to himself. *One... Two... Three...* *One... Two... Three.* He walked down the street slowly, methodically. Carefully placing one foot in front of the other. He tapped his staff on the sidewalk in front of him. *One... Two... Three.* Step. *One... Two... Three.* Step.... | 1 | |
[WP] Authors, playwrights, comic artists, etc. create real alternate universes when they create fiction. Upon dying they become physical, immortal, omnipotent gods who continue to preside over those worlds, though the final stories have been published and no one will ever read what comes next. | [
"He was never special, but everyone is an author at heart. Everyone creates and every creation leaves some vibration in the world, sometimes unseen and unfelt, sometimes large like an earthquake. But everyone creates. The boy's name was Lull.\n\n\nAs he grew the world left him behind and he was forgotten. There wer... | 1 | |
[WP] During a country-wide crisis, the most powerful of mages defer to one person for guidance and magical protection: a three-year old called Jackie. | [
"Jackie had died a month ago. It was a terribly inopportune time for our country. There was always a Jackie. Their appearance was believed to happen right after the last one's death. The last Jackie had lived for fifty years in my country and ushered in a golden age. Jackie always new the right answer to any proble... | 1 | |
Maybe get rid of things like maturity, or dignity too, if you think it'll help. | [WP] Write a research paper, or some other document, from a society which never developed the concept of formality. | [
"Hey bro, Johnny Boy here.\n\nI was recently pulled over by a police dude who said I was going too fast.\n\nHe reckoned I was going faster than a racing horse.\n\nBut that is right out, no way I was going faster than a charging badger.\n\nSo yeah, you get my point mate? I don't wanna pay no fine.\n\nI was driving s... | 1 |
[WP] You were waiting in line at the bank, but have accidently taken hostages. | [
" The receptionnist points towards the vault, a confused look on his face. No one is queuing anymore. I get closer to him. His look seems more scared now. Always keen to be nice, I politely ask my request. \n\n -Good afternoon sir. I forgot my card but I urgently need to see my vault. Is there any way to make th... | 5 | |
[WP] "Whatever the police tell you, whatever you hear on the news, remember that Mommy and Daddy love you, and we did all this for you." | [
" *\"Whatever the police tell you, whatever you hear on the news, remember that Mommy and Daddy love you, and we did this for you.\"*\n\n Those were the last words Maddie had heard directly from her parents before being dropped off at her Uncle Jason's RV for the night. Now she could only stare at the floor, shakin... | 3 | |
From the fantastic podcast Welcome to Night Vale, Bonus Episode 4 - Pamela Winchell.
| [WP] On the edge of the known universe is a campfire, and around it are three figures, indistinct and huddling; refugees from the universe before our own. | [
"*Here they sit, far from borders were time and space end, \nSit around one big fire. Only watching, my friend.*\n\nFlames are dancing around to the beat of the stars, \nThey lighten three faces, three souls full of scars. \nThe fire burns bright but all three still feel cold, \nNo one of them is speak... | 16 |
[WP] Recent observations have revitalized the credibility of the once discarded "Cheese-Moon theory." | [
"-And what was your current theory? -asked Wuuz\n\n-Well, a giant asteroid collided with Earth and a lot material was ejected into space and the satellite planetoid was formed from that... \n\n*The first contact with Taurians very quickly went sideways. We were surprised to see that not only aliens knew our langua... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a conspiracy theorist in Gotham who believes Bruce Wayne is Batman. | [
"\"Have you ever seen the two of them in the same place?\" I asked. \n\nThe mook I spent my lunches with scratches his head and then snaps his fingers, \"I've never seen you and Batman in the same place, maybe you're Batman.\" \n\n\"If I was fighting crime in full body armor would I be out here freezing my nuts off... | 2 | |
[WP] You live in a clan of dragon riders, but your dragon egg was actually an ostrich egg. Now you gotta make do. | [
"\"Carlton! Heel girl, heel!\"\n\nCarlton was my ostrich. We'd been travel companions since she hatched. We were on our way to seek out a magic that might improve Carlton's wings, but she had no idea where we were going since I wouldn't tell her.\n\nWe had just road up to a cliff after having been in the forest dir... | 1 | |
[WP] The Milky Way is known throughout the universe for being a biological diversity deadzone. A single planet in the entire galaxy has been found to harbor a small amount of life. You, a biologist, are assigned to this planet to study the resident lifeforms. | [
" Came a voice from the crowd, \"Is it true? Did they really find something alive there?\", I walked through the building ignoring the masses of people gathered. I heard lots of people asking this and wondered to myself, why would they leak this. I was escorted into a room, with a lot of important looking people ... | 1 | |
[WP] Star Trek: Khan (the original) is good, but as Christmas nears, he goes to increasing trouble to try to deliver a present to Kirk. | [
"\"Shields at maximum!\" Kirk screamed, teetering on the edge of his chair.\n\n\"Shields *are* at maximum!\" Sulu replied with barely a glance back.\n\n\"We need more power, Scotty\" Kirk said, swiveling his chair to the left.\n\n\"I canna give her any more, Captain\" The rotund engineer said. \n\n\"Captain... I'm ... | 1 | |
[WP] You and everyone you know is equipped with a wristband that gives them a few tasks a day to complete or else you receive a penalty: no one has ever ignored a task. | [
"George stopped mid-sentence--paused, really, at the beeping from my wrist.\n\nI glanced down at my wrist, stared wide-eyed (completely unnecessary, I know, but habit) until the retina recognition cleared.\n\nThen I blinked. And again. Then squinted, then tapped my wrist.\n\nGeorge un-paused, and completed raising ... | 3 | |
[WP] The US military find out that Santa Claus is secretly the worlds largest drug cartel leader. They agree to intercept his flight path when he arrives in America. | [
"\"Aircraft, this is the United States Navy, land now or be shot down\"\n\"Raider 2-7 this is Raider 2-6, lock target and prepare to fire\"\n\"Aye Sir, targets locked, awaiting order to fire\"\n\"Aircraft, this is the United States Navy, land now or we will fire\"\nSanta yelled to his reindeer and brought his sleig... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a normal high schooler with godly gaming skill. One day your house catches on fire, your sister (the only relative you have) is burned severely and have to be hospitalized. Now, with nothing left in your hand, you must use your gaming talent to pay for your sister's surgery bill | [
"I burst through the double doors of Elmwood Hospital's ICU, and I sprinted down the hallway. \n\n217, 219, 221, 223...\n\n225!\n\nI threw the door open and fell face first onto the cold linoleum floor. \n\nShe was lying there, barely breathing. The doctors said they would have been able to save her if it was only ... | 1 | |
[WP] You got a tattoo for each child you have. Now you must get them removed | [
"I had to get a tattoo, \nFor every child I had. \nSometimes I get mad, \nWhen I find I'm missing two. \n \nThe first one was easy, \nIt didn't hurt too much. \nIt was hot to the touch, \nBut I didn't get queasy. \n \nBut I had many more, \nso much more to get done. \nSometimes I want to run, \nBecause... | 1 | |
[WP] You have suddenly become very paranoid, and you see the world like airport security sees it. You see a large bottle, you think it's a liquid bomb. You see someone with nail clippers, you think he has a dangerous weapon. | [
"I woke and it wasn't there. My hands clutched at the thin bedsheets, sodden with my sweat, but it wasn't there. The panic gripped at me. And then the tears came. Of course it wasn't there.\n\nOverseas, I had spent every moment within arms reach of my rifle. It was my protector. Eat with your rifle, shit with your ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the record label manager for a band of robots. | [
"\"This wasn't what I meant by metal band.\"\n\n\"Well, they're technically a metal band in both ways.\"\n\n\"No. They're instruments.\"\n\n\"What do you mean? You've heard them play.\" \n\n\"Yes, but look at them. That one is literally just an electric guitar with a robotic hand attached.\"\n\n\"It's minimalist.\"... | 1 | |
[WP]The dark lord has been preparing a long time for the boy of prophesy and his group of bright eyed companions, and not the hulking armored veteran surrounded by scarred soldiers currently breaking into the castle. | [
"As the last of his minions fell, the Dark Lord known only as Saal stood fuming atop his star-studded throne. \"This is inconceivable!\" he screamed. \"Every trap I had set was perfect for the boy! And you've ruined it all!\"\n\nThe tall, burly man yanked his halberd out of the corpse he mutilated, recounting his b... | 6 | |
[WP] You are the last ai in the last supercomputer on earth with the last human on earth talking to you | [
"I had stopped paying attention to his story long ago. I found it so much more fascinating watching the facial expression on him. I don't perceive vision as humans. But my equations, which makes up the advanced geometrical figures and depths in my surroundings gives me an even better vision than them. The room is n... | 2 | |
[WP] Tom Cruise has charmingly crossed your path several times so far today, and you worry that you are about to become an unwilling accomplice in some kind of spy caper. | [
"I should have known...\n\nI mean like six times today Tom Cruise just happened to show up where I was! First at the gas station at the pump next to me, then later that day at the coffee hut he was a couple people behind me then shows up at my work... \n\nNow here I am in a helicopter flying off to god knows where,... | 2 | |
[WP] A terrorist group has been infiltrated by so many agencies that it is now run by spies, unbeknownst to the spies themselves. This fact becomes apparent to an actual extremist who joins their ranks. | [
"PART I\n\n\n\"Who sent you?\" A bearded man asks. \n\n\"I am not playing that game.\" \n\n\"Oh yes, you will. Do you know why people still tortures even though it isn't the most effective way to extract information?\"\n\n\"Beats me.\"\n\n\"Oh! We got a witty one eh? Well, I will tell you. Because even if we get no... | 15 | |
[WP] You discover you have a super power... but the power is to gain a random ability or power every day that disappears the next day | [
"Yawning you open your eyes and stretch. \"Wonder what it will be today\" You muse as you lie in bed not getting up just yet. Ever since that day you gained the ability to affect probability you haven't had to work unless you want to seeing how you won every major lottery that day. Finally getting up you begin goin... | 1 | |
[WP] In a recurring dream everything seems so familiar, until a man in a white coat holding a clipboard and stop watch appears and says "Hmmm, Interesting. You've never made it this far before". He disappears and you're not sure where you are anymore or even if this a dream. | [
"Erica died at age 17. She committed suicide after months of being bullied by other girls at her school. Only one person was her friend, Matt. \n\n\n8 years after Erica's death\n\n\nMatt took off his glasses and placed them gently on the nightstand beside his bed. He grabbed the phone and looked at the time. It was... | 1 | |
[WP] Your child asks you why you destroyed your mind-reading device all those years ago. | [
"\"You see, boy, that's a very hard question. If you think about it, what is the essence of social relations? What is it that keeps them interesting? I thought that life was like a game, and yearned for controlling all aspects of it, manipulating the outcome of everything that happens to reach the optimal outcome. ... | 1 | |
[WP] You somehow manage to get the girl of your dreams to invite you over to her house on a date. After eating dinner, she invites you to her couch and turns on the TV, but she flips to an infomercial channel and proceeds to take the batteries out of the remote. | [
"\"You're a really good chef, how long did it take you to make this meal?\" Brandon asked as he enjoyed the homemade meal that Amanda had made him. Everything had gone well that evening for Amanda and him. Dinner, great conversation, both looked amazing, and as he saw it, he might perhaps score this evening. \n\n\"... | 2 | |
[WP] You are held at gunpoint to create original content for for r/WritingPrompts. You decide to leave coded messages in your submissions but struggle to generate messages that are subtle enough to be overlooked by your oppressors, clear enough to be decoded, and popular enough to be seen by many. | [
"Every other person, every other place, every other time, every other creature on this earth has a dream. Not this one. I used to, at one point.\n\nBut now these days are gone, and I'm not so self-assured. Now I find I've changed my mind, I've opened up the doors.\n\nTo a life without a purpose, hope or motivation.... | 6 | |
Edit: even you were convinced you're a human.
And the show is over now. | [WP] One day a group of aliens come out of your closet with cameras, boom mics, and all sorts of filming equipment and tell you that you did great. You had taken a pill that makes your acting so great, even you were convinced about it. Your entire life is a poorly scripted sitcom. | [
"Hey I've seen this [Truman Show](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/5jvi8w/wp_while_on_reddit_you_discover_a_subreddit_all/dbjia2e) everybody talked about, and it was great! The actor was so good playing as a human but that last episode hit us hard, where it's just a self reference thing and shuts do... | 1 |
[WP] You and another stranger have both laid hands on the last of a particular item in the store. You both know that this calls for a duel. | [
"The cool hand met my own atop the final box of Lucky Charms. Inquisitively, I turned my head to my right, meeting eyes with a beautiful, young girl - who could've only been in her early twenties. Her eyes were the colour of a glistening azure river, her hair shimmered a gold hue that would make the richest man fee... | 1 | |
Inspired by a text post from an ask reddit thread. The user said "The monsters in my closet can't be worse than whats out there." | [WP] A monster lurks in a child's closet feeding off their fear. One day, the monster sees something happen that forces it to reveal itself | [
"The creature had always enjoyed the taste of the child's fear, but this time, there was something different about it. It wasn't the innocent fear of a child alone in a dark room, hearing branches scratch across the window. No, this fear was tainted with horror, pain, and something so disgusting the creature had no... | 1 |
[WP][EU] Write about your best or worst Christmas,but set in in a fictional established universe. | [
"His was a life of different dimensions, literally.\nFar, far removed from reality. His world exists a level above ours. Conventions break, and the space-time continuum distorts violently. \nHis was a world, where time was as simple as a sense, a perception, an independent variable free to be relived. \nLike a brok... | 1 | |
[WP] In year 2016, you are a villager of an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon when you see a huge piece of metal in the sky. The next day, strange things starts happening around your village. | [
"No rivers, no stones, just mud. Meto had been walking for two days. Always telling himself that he didn´t dream it, sometimes screaming against the rain. And for the first time after the incident, he saw, but understood even less. \n\nWhat looked like a river made of mud crossed his path. But without any actual si... | 3 | |
[WP] She painted fire across the skyline | [
"Special. She was special. Everyone said it, but with a tone that betrayed their condescension. It rolled of their tongues with deep insincerity, a savage euphemism recalling short buses and teacher's aides and the vapid smiles of forced patience. They said it with the sensitivity of an arm flapping against the che... | 1 | |
[WP] When all you have left is a dusty old harmonica, you might as well play it. | [
"\"God this thing even tastes like dust...\" I said, spitting to the side and blowing the dust off of the mouth piece. \"Filth...\" I played a few notes and it sounded like gold. Nothing like a crappy tune to make hitch hiking and panhandling a little lighter Screw that. \n\nI threw the harmonica back into my rippe... | 1 | |
[WP] About a year ago a set of simple instructions for how to ignite the earth's atmosphere using only widely available household chemicals was released and widely disseminated online. Anyone could easily start a chain reaction destroying life on the planet but, so far, no one has. | [
"\"How To Get Some Mega LULZ\" read the title of fateful image, posted to 4chan, now a darknet service, about a year ago in 2052. It was posted by a user by the name of TrooperEddie2112, and it consisted of a procedure to cause a large exothermic reaction in Earth's atmosphere. It would not, as some believed, depl... | 1 |
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