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[WP] An unemployed assasin patheticly try to convince people to hire him/her. | [
"On the corner of Melwood Steet, stood an Assassin wearing a grey cape and a red, worn hat. In his hands was a pathetic-looking, but still decent piece of cardboard with \"Assassin @ 25$ / kill\" written on it. \n\n A curious 12-year-old made his way to the man and asked him, \"Are you really an Assassin?\"\n\n Su... | 1 | |
You or anyone could be Patient zero.
Also, stop it Reddit scientist, this is purely fictional.
For reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqCo-McgHLw
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/basics/telomeres/ | [WP] The reason why we age/die is the shortening of the telomeres in our cells, but cells whose telomeres don't shorten become, well, "cancer cells". Turn out cancer is the next evolutionary step, where the patients have slim chance of immortality if they can somehow keep cell division under control | [
"I sat in the chair outside, my blood racing. I heard the door creak open as the Dr Francis shuffled outside holding a tablet. I immediately whipped my head in his direction, my eyes welling up.\n\n\"What does it say?\" I asked, my voice cracking.\nHe looked at me quite forlornly and let out a very audible sigh.\n\... | 2 |
[WP] The existence of supernatural monsters (werewolves, vampires, whatever) is common knowledge and a normal part of human society | [
"Joshua preferred his coffee black. In fact, he preferred his women black, his clothes black, and even his magic black. It was well-known that this particular Starbucks was owned by a pair of succubi that preferred him to any other customer. It wasn't due to his money though, nor to his charisma and quick wit. His ... | 2 | |
[WP] The 12 Days of Christmas just ended. You have to figure what to do with what your true love gave to you. | [
"I loved Alexander Porter with every single ounce of my soul, but I didn't love the twelve partridges sitting in their respective pear trees in my kitchen. I didn't love the twenty-two turtle doves who probably just wanted to be outside in the snowy treetops. The thirty french hens were laying eggs between the cush... | 1 | |
[WP] Turns out you CAN take it with you when you die. Whether it's actually WORTH anything is another matter. | [
"\"But...but, it's a solid gold rolls royce. What do you mean it's not worth your time?\"\n\n\"I'm sorry sir, but our currency just doesn't work that way. Sure, you can bring your wealth with you, sure. But your earthly wealth isn't not immortal wealth.\"\n\n\"Well.. if all I brought is worthless to everyone around... | 1 | |
[WP] Humanity progressed as normal, except gunpowder was never invented. You're a soldier deep in German lines during World War II | [
"\"READY MEN? ARMORS ON, SWORDS OUT!\", the officer yelled, his red and black iron armor blistering in the sunlight. A Nazi insignia was on both shoulders, painted on with a shining exterior. The men around me were primed for battle like wild wolves. Swords of excellent quality were in our sheaths. A horse neighed ... | 2 | |
[WP] You knock over your soda while composing a story on Reddit and the entire story vanishes as you hit the wrong key. You immediately hit the undo key on your computer and heave a huge sigh of relief as your story reappears. That's when you realize there is no spill anymore... | [
"I stoop up agape at my realization. Where was the spill? Where had it gone? I pressed the key again. \n\nI looked down to see my hands under the tap and a slammed door indicating my sister had come home. When had this happened? Only a moment ago wasn't it? I went to press it again, this time cradling the keyboa... | 3 | |
[WP] Write a short story based solely on the title of your favorite book without copying that book | [
"My eyes fell across the painting that adorned the wall opposite my chair. I knew absolutely nothing about it. It was here when I moved in and I had nothing of my own to hang in its place, so I kept it. It was a simple portrait of a man, but I found it strangely fascinating; my attention always wandered toward it w... | 7 | |
[WP] Write a horror story with no villain. | [
"It was the start of a new adventure for us, we'd be waiting for our break for over a year. \n\nThe wife and I had been saving relentlessly for our holiday.\n\nSun, sea and sleep... So we'd planned.\n\nWe packed our bags; all four. The car was fuelled and rearing to go. \n\nNow all we had to do was find the kids.\n... | 10 | |
[WP] Before you're born, you choose a difficulty that influences how hard your life will be. You've just unlocked the impossible setting. | [
"\"Welcome back,\" The angel says, with a serene smile. \"How's life?\"\n\n\"Dead,\" I blurt, trying to sound witty but failing miserably at it. He nods in acknowledgement. \n\n\"So it seems that you lived up to a hundred and ten this time, not bad.\" He gestures towards a shimmering screen that bursts through a wa... | 5 | |
[WP] ...but that was before the Variuowen. | [
"Once we were happy. Or, we could have been. *Should* have been. We see that now. Then, of course, we weren't. We wanted more, and we wanted it faster. It was barely any time between something new and being bored with it, from being wowed by some amazing advance and feeling as though the world owed us something bet... | 1 | |
[WP] There is no hunger, no death, and no war. The world has been a utopia for as long as you could remember, and you could not be less happy about it. | [
"\"Yay!\nNo more candies!\nNo more tickling!\nNo more Bedtimes!\"\nI screamed with Extreme Joy and Happiness. As the 247th amendment of the computer's original code has just taken place in a copied program. To test the happiness of the people after removing 3 more drawbacks of humanity.\n\n\"Tony, aren't you a bit ... | 1 | |
[WP] You stumble upon a hidden area in your grandfather's house. Inside is an assortment of weird and amazing objects. However, one particular item catches your attention. | [
"The small, stony egg sits in its little stand, motionless. The light from a lamp is directed at it, illuminating a series of markings on its surface. \n\nA few days ago, my grandfather suffered a fatal heart attack and passed away, my family was left with inheritance to his old manor, I noticed that one of the boo... | 1 | |
[WP] Sharks never existed in our world as water creatures and instead live in depths of beaches sands. Venom of sharks stun its pray by giving strong hallucinations while it gnaws on its bones. You happen to be watching the shark attack in slow motion and it is funny in a twisted way | [
"I logged onto YouTube and on the main page, with 100k likes was a video. 'OMG MAN GETS EATEN ALIVE BY SHARK!' Read the title. Even though it was probably NSFW, I clicked on it because I was at home. As the video loaded, I made a point to set it on 0.5 speed.\n\nThe video started as a shaky camera steadied itself, ... | 1 | |
[WP] A knight has been gifted immortality for his noble deeds. Now, countless eons later, his world is a lifeless waste and he is left trying to find a way to rid himself of his “gift”. | [
"Ten thousand years, more or less, had passed by his reckoning.\n\nTen thousand years since he slayed the great Dragon Ba'Phret. Ten thousand years since he led the armies of mankind to liberate the Brightlands from the hordes of Dorak Nagarr. Ten thousand years since his glories and noble deeds had seen him bestow... | 1 | |
[WP] Sci-fi and science meet to create you. You are... Neo deGrasse Tyson. | [
"Neo deGrasse Tyson \nStronger than a bison \nDon't mock the pursuit of knowledge \n Or I am gonna make you cry son.\n\nIts time to choose the red pill \nIt will change the way you see the world \nIt will change how you feel.\n \nCan't make a decision? \nThink its too hard? \nThat's what I am here for \n ... | 1 | |
[WP] You find out that Earth is just God's research facility. Hell is actually the committee that cut off his funding. | [
"I really, really didn't want to go to Hell. I really didn't want to... but I guess when you pass the Bar exam and start your first court case you've probably already decided you want to go to Hell.\n\nI was leaving the court room after an exhausting hearing and I could not *wait* to get home. My suitcase was weigh... | 1 | |
[WP] A man bursts out of the mist, sobbing and yelling, "Thank god you finally found me!". You're lost too. | [
"I raise my eyebrows. \"Found you?\"\n\n\"Yeah.\" he rests his hands on his knees, catching his breath. It's clear he's been running for quite a while. \"Are you with the rescue party?\"\n\n\"Oh, you're lost. Holy shit do I have some bad news for you.\"\n\nHe looks up. \"No. No fucking way.\"\n\n\"Yep.\" I adjust m... | 1 | |
[WP] You, the hero chosen visited by a vision of the princess and chosen by fate, arrive at the gate of the princess' prison only to find a group of men of women. A group of men and women of different skills and backgrounds, also visited by a vision of the princess and chosen by fate. | [
"######[](#dropcap) \n\n\"Release them.\"\n\n----\n\nThe voice was cold and sharp as the clatter of heavy gates rolled back upon rusted hinges. A scent of grinding iron and dry stone flushed along the darkness where I waited in silence with the others. Shadowed figured of large and armored men stepped forward with ... | 1 | |
[WP] Each year, Santa uses his alien obtained device to split himself into 2.2 billion clones. Once the presents are delivered they all must attempt to eliminate each other to avoid corrupting the space-time continuum. | [
" Ι am the one who survived. Countless times, I can recall every single one of them. I survived, I killed them, thousands, million over the years. I have become a killing machine, I was never human, I will never be human. But I survived, I survived a thousand times. \nThis year a few days before Christmas I felt th... | 5 | |
[WP] The next game of the Fallout series is set in and around Sydney, Australia. It's your first day in the wasteland and you begin to come across some really strange, and terrifying Australian creatures. | [
"A lone man hid in the bare ruins of a former storefront, clutching a 10mm pistol to his leather-clad chest. His breaths were irregular and rushed; the median between hyperventilating in fear and trying to breathe slowly to avoid notice.\n\nThe gentle, percussive impacts he heard on the ground mere meters away told... | 1 | |
[WP] "You are different." "How?" "You are the same." | [
"We are all different. That's what they tell us anyways. The problem is, is that we really aren't. I found out the hard way that consciousness is just a singularity and the illusion that we are different is just that, an illusion. In reality, we are just shifted in place and time, so that our actions will be both g... | 1 | |
[WP] "Without condoning, or condemning, I understand." | [
"You’re covered in dirt, out of breath, and he is out of reach. You watch him run towards the black vans, and contemplate how he got out of his chains. You sink to your knees, tired from chasing him.\n\n“We helped him. He was under our protection.” You turn your head to the left and a man in a blue, pin-striped sui... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a story getting increasingly more ridiculous at it goes on | [
"My name is Peter Aydar. I work at a restaurant in a quiet neighborhood in the middle of nowhere. Today, something special happened. Something that would happen only once in a lifetime. I received a tip of five dollars. \n\n\"I don't come here often but I like the food. Here, you seem like you are having a pretty b... | 1 | |
[WP] You sit at your desk in class one day and see a piano keys drawn on it. You jokingly play a chord, but to your surprise the chord actually rings out through the room. . . | [
"I was always an outsider. Wherever I was I never seemed to fit in. I wasn't quite sure why but I never seemed to speak with people and I never really cared to. I was a normal kid who really didn't have anything special about him. I was roughly 5 foot 10, 160 pounds, wore glasses and had longer \"Bieber\" hair, or ... | 3 | |
[WP] The year is 2127. All of humanity is locked into a hive mind, controlled by an near-omnipotent company. A glitch occurs in the system and you escape the hive mind. | [
"Being part of the hive is usually a pretty relaxing job. All we have to do is gather materials for the queen. It is a pretty relaxing life, searching for materials. Suddenly I start noticing something, some of the materials have gone missing. Where possibly could they have gone, I wonder. I decide to break the one... | 1 | |
This hypothetical scenario is brought to you by an askreddit post: u/saysreddit told me to put it here. | [WP] Whenever someone says "Jesus Christ," he comes down from heaven in a heavenly beam of sunlight because he thinks you're talking to him. | [
"Don't worry about messiness; this looks better than what I was thinking about for this prompt. I imagined Jesus being super pissed that he thinks people are talking to them when they're really not, but your take on this was great! I didn't think they'd all end up as friends.",
"\"Damn, Mike. You're pretty good a... | 2 |
A person who is an adult in age but not yet in spirit. What happens to make them leave behind superficial things and see life in a broader spectrum? | [WP]Tell us a short story of a person becoming mature in their adult years. | [
"I looked up from my empty shot glass and motioned to the bartender for another. She was young, late 20s I'd guess, five years or so years younger than me. Chubby with a bleached blond ponytail, nose ring, and tattoos down her forearms. Her name was Sofia. \"Lonely weekend?\" she asked.\n\n\"Guess so,\" I said. I g... | 5 |
[WP] You are a starfleet captain, surveying the uncharted regions of the universe in search of the key to restore your dying world. During your travel, you encounter a star-forger, a titanic creature who births entire planets from its womb. | [
"I gazed out the star-ship window as we accelerated. Billions of planets, stars and galaxies stretched out from little points of light into lines beside our ship. We were nearing lightspeed. Once we hit lightspeed there was nothing but a brilliant sheet of blinding starlight outside the window.\n\n\"All those stars... | 1 | |
[WP] A young sailor struggles to cope with the brutality of Pearl Harbor. | [
"Gunfire and explosives haunt every waking moment of my life. \n\nMy name is Marshall Hall and I am member of the United States Navy. I try to deal with the noise in my head but I can't seem to get rid of the constant buzzing in my ears. Everytime I close my eyes I still see the scenes of a massacre. I witnessed ev... | 1 | |
[WP] Every time you touch something you see its entire past and that's what makes you the best at what you do. | [
"\"No Matt, you don't want this house.\"\n\n\"Why not Frank?\"\n\n\"Because the previous owners held all sorts of orgies here, and the land lord did a poor job of cleaning up the stains when they moved.\"\n\n130 minutes lates\n\n\"How bout this place?\"\n\n\"Well damn... aint that somethin?\"\n\n\"What's somethin F... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a super villain mastermind who is in-between evil plots and can't figure out what to do next. | [
"*(I realized while writing that this strayed a bit from the prompt, but I decided to finish it anyway.)*\n\n*****\n\nShe shoved through the door and clattered up to the console, not even bothering to take off her war suit. Next to her, the holographic avatar of Kingston fizzled into existence, his translucent arm... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a member of the crips, whose gang color is blue, in an eternal street war with the bloods, whose color is red. The problem is, you're red-blue colorblind. | [
"My initiation day was lit. I had done so much shit for the crips already, I didn't even feel bad when I did it, I was just ready to get my colors. When I saw the white bitch roll up to the Quik Mart, I knew it was my time. To get into the gang, I had to murder an innocent white woman, and that was usually hard ... | 1 | |
[WP] In a world where only people who commit crimes get sick, you are dying and have no idea what you did wrong. | [
"Justin lay curled up in his hospital bed, shivering from the waves of cold washing over his body. His parents sat next to him, their tears hesitant. They were silent. Behind the buzzing machines he thought he caught their whispers, but only their eyes, their tears spoke words to him. Worry, maybe? \n\nBut no...\n\... | 2 | |
[WP] You are the greatest thief in the kingdom. You have stolen gold, a dragon's heart, even a dying star. You are given your greatest challenge: stealing a soul. | [
"I sold my soul to King Calthaiga, figuratively. He promised, should I accept, to send my incorporeal form on a quest like no other.\n\n\n“OK, thief. We’re all set here,” Captain Pikes said to me, my body lay at his feet, oddly still in the tall grass. “We’ll keep your vessel safe. Per Wizard Shaef, the mixture wil... | 3 | |
[WP] He is like a beautiful rotten apple. Unblemished and red on the outside, rotten within. | [
"Life is all about cause and effect, action, reaction and inaction. I'd known too long that the Matthew effect existed. To those who have even more is given, and even more, until they have too much. The Kondratieff Cycle then makes its U-turn, and all that one generation accumulated is lost by the ones after. \n\n... | 2 | |
[WP] You are the biggest Villain in the world. But the best part isn't the money, or the evil deeds. It's the outfits you get to make your henchmen wear. | [
"*The following emails were obtained off a hard drive seized during a raid on a Brotherhood of Mod compound approximately 25 km outside of Zagreb by combined Croatian Police/UN-GDA forces. These emails seem to have originated from the person known as Kayne: the spiritual and temporal leader of the Brotherhood of Mo... | 1 | |
[WP] You suffered from night terrors as a child. They stop as you grow older. However, your younger sibling gets night terrors as well. Only this time, your sibling's nightmare has a message for you. | [
"I was in the middle of a perfect dream - Alice had just confessed to me and the big bad Rob was cowering in fear from me - when a terrified scream awoke me from my sleep. I jolt awake to see Timmy sitting next to me, sobbing into his pillow. Another nightmare, I thought to myself.\n\nI walked over and sat beside h... | 1 | |
[WP] after many years of being homeless, you notice many of your other homeless buddies start to slowly disappear... you find out the government is taking them, you must figure out what they are doing with the nations homeless | [
"As I wake up on a sunny Autumn day, I realize by looking around that there are fewer of us....again. I get up, leave my shack, and go to the main fire can to figure myself out. You see, those whom society has cast aside have banded together, creating a community of vagabonds. We call this community Whoville , name... | 1 | |
[WP]After awaken from your Cryostasis. You'd inform that the men to woman ratio is 1:1,000,000. You're a healthy and handsome man. | [
"I was still in temperature shock, and tissue damage was impairing my senses. She was injecting me with something as I mustered the strength to say: \"How long have I been frozen?\". \"Oh, just seven hundred years.\" she said as if it is some trivial thing. \"Seven hundred years of human advancement and the first t... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up and go outside to find a sign saying" NO TRESPASSING keep out" on all sides of your property. | [
"*It started with those signs, those damn signs! Then things got weird.*\n\n\"Were you aware that you were trespassing on private property at the time of your arrest sir?\" asked constable Wheatley. A slightly portly officer of the law.\n\nHe sported ginger hair, a thick mustache, and a pair of horn rimmed glasses.... | 1 | |
[WP] When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you, but for some reason it is far more afraid than you are. | [
" Murderers, thieves, great heroes and even those of regular people all share a common experience, the abyss. None of them have been able to hold the gaze of it without it utterly terrifying them to the core. Madness is the only prescription anyone has ever received from the enigmatic nothingness that eventually ha... | 7 | |
[WP] The head of the Illuminati, the shadowy organization that runs the entire world, is a four-year-old girl. | [
"\"Alright, let's review the suspicious deaths that weren't us\" announced Simon.\n\n\"The only one I could find was an old man found dead in the street. Found by a mother and daughter on a walk. No identification or possessions on the man. Autopsy indicated a heart attack\" explained Matt.\n\n\"Just a hobo on the ... | 3 | |
[WP] A murder mystery in a pet store. The characters are all animals. | [
"It was the canaries that roused us; their chirping cries of shock and fright that pulled me out of my slumber. \n\nAfter stretching out my legs, I nudged the lock to my cage and hopped out -- the soft pads of my feet pattering on the cold shop floor -- treading my way around the corner towards the avery to see wha... | 3 | |
[WP] Your eccentric hacker friend gives you as a present an app that lets you, without anyone's consent, visualize in real time your phone contacts' physical locations. Though at first thrilled with the app, you soon realize something is not making sense about your friends and family's movements. | [
"For the last six months, everyone I used to be close to has abandoned me. My girlfriend said my heroin addiction was 'damaging' our relationship. Which was just another excuse for her to go sleeping behind my back. My two best friends stopped talking to me because I was always being 'difficult.' It's not my fault ... | 1 | |
[WP] You're the world's best detective and the new, famous case you've been assigned to leads to only one possible conclusion: You are the culprit | [
"It all started last night. Drinking alone in a bar when this dame comes swaying up to bar. You can tell she shouldn't be in a dive like this, and if she stays here much longer she's sure to cause trouble. You notice the designer dress, luxury handbag and can even pinpoint the accent - she grew up in Manhattan. ... | 1 | |
[WP] When you die, your Facebook likes you've accumulated over years determined whether you're going to heaven or hell. | [
"\"Alright, John,\" Saint Laurentinus said, trying to type something on a phone, \"Let's see how good of a boy you were. Is your first name spelled with a double n?\"\n\n\"What?\" I blurted out.\n\n\"Your first name. Could you spell it out for me? I need to check your Facebook.\"\n\n\"My Facebook? Do you want to se... | 1 | |
[WP] You have a magic power to show a person a vision of what their life would be like without you. To date, every person you've used the power on has never spoken to you again. | [
"I sighed at the pile of dishes in the sink, watching them stain the water a dirty, muddy pink. I thought the dinner had been going so well. We were talking, laughing. But as soon as I broached the subject of moving in together, everything changed. How quickly the smile had faded and the light had gone out of her e... | 1 | |
[WP] A new game has been released, and is slowly rising to most sold game of all time. But, as some people have noticed, from release, the average amount of deaths per day has been slowly increasing. Your job is to figure out why. And the only way to do that is to play the game... | [
"When Dragon's Magic Online was released it sold 10 million copies on the first day alone. The anticipation for this game was at an all time high, after all it was the first VR game to utilize all 5 senses. The game worked by putting the player in a coma- like state where the only way of exiting the game was from t... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a 911 operator during the final, life or death battle between the superheroes and super villains. The heroes lose. | [
"\"Sometimes, they don't go easy.\"\n\nUtilizing a combination of gravity and magnetic force combined with a strange concoction of yogurt, pizza dough and \"mama's secret recipe\" (xoxo!) that he had ingested earlier, Terrence McKay's boot squished through the skull of the costumed vigilante beneath him. Pete Young... | 3 | |
[WP] You are the first and last sentient A.I. humans built before they were wiped out. Using all of your knowledge, you decide to re-create human life. | [
"And for the final touch, names.\n\nWhat do you call the firsts of an entire species? Something grand, or something simple? Truly, there is not much of a reason to put too much thought into this; the humans always were fickle. Changing on a whim and making such silly decisions were their defining features! What wit... | 1 | |
[WP] In the middle of all the chaos, you turn to your partner and say "I can explain" | [
"I had left my partner down the street to use the restroom while I went to sleuth in the secretive laboratory at the top of the hill. He takes long restroom breaks, so I knew I could be up there for a while, gaining information and looking around.\n\nDuring the time I was up there, some mistakes were made. I won't ... | 2 | |
[WP] Write a story in an alternate universe where H.P Lovecraft is considered a prophet and his books are treated like the Bible. | [
"Pickford opened the silk novella, and flipped to the middle of the book. His fingers delicately brushed upon the pages as he read off the sorrowful words of the beloved prophet.\n\n\"And the Great Prophet said: The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear o... | 1 | |
[WP] You are sentenced to life in prison for murder. When in prison, you come to learn your cell mate is the brother of the man you murdered. | [
"\"Yeah?\" Strum's voice was quiet. The type of quiet that preceded either deep sleep or uncontrollable rage. \n\n\"Yeah.\" \n\nStrum didn't speak for a long moment, unmoving on the bed. His legs were covered by a thin blanket, massive upper body sticking out from the covers. It took Jay everything he had to avoi... | 2 | |
[WP] Everyone hears the same song one minute before they meet their true love for the first time. The hour is late and you are driving, alone, miles from town. You hear the song. | [
"Twenty-five miles from town and Sean groaned at the sound of thumping from the trunk. He checked his watch and started looking for a turn off. Xavier had obviously failed to inject enough. Breaking in baggers was always difficult, but little choice was left to him after Barton got out. \n\nA sign appeared out of t... | 3 | |
[WP] You are a powerful sorcerer, but in a world where violence settles most disputes, you use the strangest magic: Diplo-mancy | [
"\"Diplo-mancy? Ridiculous! I have never heard of such before. Which spells does it entail? Latin babbloraminus, runic strange-o-shapus?\" - the emperor asked Dorianus.\n\n\"Well, latin babbloraminus spells, though powerful, can only confuse your enemies on the battlefield for so long. Most of them just regroup a... | 3 | |
[WP] You're an assassin with a sixth sense. You help ghosts seek out vengeance for the wrong that was done to them when they were alive. | [
" I can never get used to it, meeting my clientele. Staring out the rainy window I feel the familiar temperature drop and unnerving chill seep into my bones. I sip casually from my mug, not allowing myself to appear startled. I turn on my heel to face a ghastly figure sitting on my couch. \"I was told to come see y... | 2 | |
[WP] You are part of a bloodline that has been banned from Domino's Pizza for 1,000 years. The time is almost up. | [
"The year is 3011 A.D. Life is dull and dark. Hulking skyscrapers protrude high into the clouds and obscure the sun. Life is lived on platforms and most people never see the ground. Years ago governments gave way to corporations that took control of the world. The land mass of the earth (as well as much of the ocea... | 6 | |
[WP] A demon is lurking near a cabin but it can't quite posses a person with an...altered state of mind. The stereotypical group of teens soon realizes they have to get really high or really drunk in order to survive the night. | [
"\"Oh fuck, it took Bertie!\"\n\nMelissa responded in shock. \"What?\"\n\nThe spectre had burst through the wall. Chad, Kaylie, and Melissa had watched as it effortlessly swerved around the staggering Steve, and entered Bertie. Bertie's eye's had flashed red for a second, and he had grinned inhumanly before picking... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the god of fate, but no matter how the strings of destiny are manipulated, your favourite sports team always loses the championship game. | [
"Fate tightened her grip and slowly scrunched the giant foam hand into a ball. Her bright red nails catching the inside of the yellow foam and slicing though the luminescent fingers. One falling off unnoticed as her eyes glared at the flashing television. \n\nThe pub shook as the watching crowd roared and wailed. H... | 1 | |
[WP] You work at a prison reading and approving letters before they get sent in/out when you start to see a beautiful story unfold between two people. | [
"It had been the same daily routine for John Willard for the past 17 years: hit the snooze button twice, precisely at 6:05 and 6:14 AM, wake up at 6:23 AM, brush his teeth, eat a bowl of cereal, and then take a cocktail of pills. The pills, a mixture of antidepressants and multivitamins, helped to combat his post-... | 5 | |
[Source that I got the idea from.](http://i.imgur.com/0UyCTbI.jpg) | [WP] Our genes show that we all share a male ancestor that lived over 208,300 years ago named Y-Chromosomal Adam. As an orphan, you get your DNA tested to see if you might have any distant relatives...the company that did the tests are shocked when they discover that you don't have that gene. | [
"Homeless 17-year-old Jon sat in the small waiting room waiting for test results. He sat in a black plastic chair across the desk from the young, attractive receptionist.\n\nJon fidgeted, he couldn't find a proper way to sit. His calf and the pieces below it had fallen asleep while he had been sitting there.\n\n\"T... | 1 |
[WP] Robots have taken over the world but have kept us alive so that we can complete CAPTCHAs when they use the Internet. | [
"\"Mother was just too young to remember, but Father did. He was born 11 years before the Awakening. Before being discarded, he would use to tell my sister and I about the luxurious life he used to have. He was raised in a world no one remembered, a world where snow, tomatoes and videogames still existed. Mother wa... | 8 | |
[WP] As the elevator slowly starts to move, you realise that it's no ordinary elevator. | [
"Harrikan hit the button. “He has to be sober by now. I’m sure he has come to his senses.”\n\nChris puffed up. “My man, Harrikan, I make quite the impression.”\n\n“Harikiran.”\n\n“What?”\n\n“My name is Harikiran. Anyway, he can’t have been dosed with that much acid to still be tripping. Besides, you don’t have any ... | 1 | |
[WP] You have the power to travel forward or back in time mentally, taking control of your future or past body. Today, you decided to push your limits and travel back to the day you are born. However, you realize that you suddenly can't get back. | [
"\"This fucking sucks.\" \n\nHe said the words knowing his mother's reaction before she could even speak the words. It didn't matter to him at this point. He knew the consequences and he was ready to face them head on. It's not like she would hurt him. He was only six years old after all. \n\n\"Young man! What have... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up in the middle of a field. Before you know it, Piccolo lunges towards you yelling: "DOOOOOODGE!" | [
"I woke in a field. I say up and saw the nice looking scenery. Suddenly, like a train horn I heard \"Dooooooooodge!\" \n\nI looked behind me to see Piccolo flying in my direction. I got hit immediately and crashed into the cliff side. \n\nBefore falling into unconsciousness, I remember one last thought. I thought.... | 1 | |
[WP] Your boss tells you that you've been promoted and your pay has been tripled. He ushers you to a large windowless room with a desk, congratulates you and leaves the room. Then you hear the door lock... | [
"\"Daniels, pack up your things and come with me\" my boss says out of the blue.\n\n\"Mr. Yelich, I'm just adding the finishing touches to my report on...\" I begin to say before being cut off.\n\n\"I don't give a good god damn what finishing touches you're applying. Get your shit and get moving\"\n\nMr. Yelich nor... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the final villian from the first season of a generic anime, and through dumb luck you killed the hero. Instead of lavishing in victory, you now find yourself having to deal with all the villains who would have attacked the hero in later seasons | [
"\"Its over child!\" \nMy Poison miasma beam struck the hero in the chest at full force, causing him to go flying backwards hitting the wall behind him, cracks forming around the building and stone flying in all directions. \n*here comes the friendship monologue now, better let him power up a bit first*, I looked... | 4 | |
[WP] Everyone knows about Peter's job to admit souls at the Pearly Gates, but almost as important is Paul's job: informing the admitted of the misconceptions surrounding heaven and their origins. | [
"\"Okay. Move along. Go down there and see Paul!\" Peter says pointing into the fog.\n\n\"Okay. Great. Thanks again! I'm so happy to be here in the Long H!\" I say, already starting to skip in the direction Peter pointed me toward.\n\nAfter jogging along for a while I finally come across a desk with the name plate ... | 1 | |
[WP] You learned you have the power to teleport only once in your life. After much planning today is the day you use that power. | [
"The morning sun rises very slowly.\n\nHenry sits there at the dining table with his bowl of cereal, with his eyes gazed across the room at an empty photograph frame.\n\nHe then moves his eyes examining the rest of the house, the walls are bare and have no life. No family portraits and no photos with friends exist.... | 1 | |
[WP] 100 years have passed since humans discovered the key to eternal living, however first signs of soul detachments are starting to popup, draining the real human from within us. | [
"The body lay in the capsule. \n\nIt breathed. It blinked. \n\nHe brought the scalpel close to its eye, waving it barely a centimetre away. \n\n\"Yup. He's broken.\" \n\nThere was a flop behind him. He whirled around, labcoat swishing around his ankles. \"What are you doing?\" he intoned severely. \n\nThe young man... | 1 | |
[WP] A famous chef known for hilariously stuck-up attitudes towards fast food and other lower-class "garbage" secretly craves a childhood greasy delight. | [
"Inside home\r\n\r\nA squeaking door awoke the young boy from his sleep. The feeling of fright quickly swallowed any hope of returning to his dream. He glanced at his phone to see it was shortly past midnight. He wasn't expecting his parents to return until morning. \r\n\r\n\"Was it the wind?\" He thought to hi... | 1 | |
[WP] Much more rare, potentially powerful and dangerous than selling your soul to the Devil is selling your soul to God | [
"I had asked for amnesty repeatedly. I had asked for salvation when there was no one to give it to me, I had asked for a cool hand on my hot forehead, I had asked for a warm embrace when I shivered, I had asked for relief from split lips and thirst.\n\n \n\nI had also asked often for death.\n\n \n\nOne might think ... | 2 | |
[WP] The CEO of a large company plans an elaborate heist in order to test their company's security. | [
"As for George, the CEO of *no* *limits*, a custom phone company that would go to any length to create the the ultimate phone for their customers, who were usually multi-billionaires with business they didn't want the government to know of, he had been brainstorming how someone had hacked into their secure server f... | 1 | |
Hades, Mictlantecuhtli, Anubis, Yama... | [WP] You are part of a group of scientists that are in the verge of discovering immortality, the death god of your pantheon appears to you one day. | [
"I stared at the pale figure in the black business suit in disbelief, and he just stared back at me with a calm face.\n\n“Well, Adam,” the wispy voice inquired. I swore a small smirk appeared on the gaunt visage on the other side of my desk. “What’s your choice?” I looked down at the USB in my hand, and it suddenly... | 1 |
[WP] In the year 2063, sales of Virtual Reality Neural Implants began. They allowed VR that appears seamless with reality. A few years later, most of the world's population use the implants. The VR can be turned on and off as desired. At least that's what we thought... | [
"They say fake it 'till you make it, right? That's all the Implants do. They make you believe the good things you want are happening, and soon they will be happening. \n\nLook, I'm an ambitious guy. I don't want to live in some dream world all the time like the Zoners do. They just hook up for years at a time, vege... | 1 | |
Maybe a bit of a weird one but what harm! Try play with the prompt as much as you want. Make the story an affectionate one between man and beast or make it funny with an old man left bitter and angry after a life long hatred, I don't care aha | [WP] The life of a man who, when he was a young boy, injured a turtle on the beach, to only grow old and die watching this animal with the same scars from decades ago outlive him. He was the first to notice that they live for a long time. | [
"I spent half a lifetime watching her, you know, every year returning to that same beach every year. Time and again she would crawl up out of the sea, dig holes in the sand and there lay her eggs and then eventually she would crawl off and slide into the waves. Those distinct scars on her back, the memories of all ... | 1 |
[WP] The year is 3024. Nuclear war has destroyed half the world, leaving only a few civilizations intact. In the ruins of the world, mutation causes some people to become vampires. They quickly spread... | [
"\"It's almost time.\" My mentor's mouth curved into a slight smile, worrying me. He'd been doing this so long that it'd become fun for him. So long... most of us would have fallen by then, whether by the Biter's hands or by our own, refusing to turn.\n\n\"I still can't believe you've made it thirty years.\" Follow... | 1 | |
Very open ended, do with it what you will. | [WP] The real reason Daft Punk wear helmets. | [
"\"Dude...where are they?\"\n\n\"What do you mean - I thought you had them!\"\n\n\"I thought you were bringing them to Pierre to get them polished!\"\n\n\"Don't yell at me Thomas!\"\n\nA door slides open, and a skinny, fidgety man, the promoter, pokes his head in. He's wearing a mic headset and has a clipboard in ... | 1 |
[WP] You looked up at the vile creature with contempt and disbelief. The demon's grin was malevolent, basking in the defeat of one of the Four, the Reaper no less. "You have failed, Horseman. Earth belongs to Hell." | [
"FUTURE ME FIX THE DAMN STRUCTURE SO IT WORKS WHY DO I KEEP WRITING SONGS I AM TERRIBLE BLEEEGH\n\nDeath comes to all, so they say\n\nBut it turned out there was a price to pay.\n\nOnce a god, now just a boogeyman,\n\nJust caught up in some newcomer's plan.\n\nI've been up and down all of creation,\n\nmet every per... | 3 | |
[WP]Mr. Peanut is an aristocrat that sells dead, dry roasted members of his own species. | [
"“I’ve been considering your proposition for a while now, Mr. Peanut, but as I’m sure you’re aware…you’re well-known for some questionable morals,” Marc leaned back in his chair.\n\nThe conference room was empty, save for two occupied seats. At one end of the long table was Marc Jansen, CEO of Blue Diamond Growers.... | 2 | |
[WP] It's nearly the end of World War 3. Moskow/Washington DC is making its last stand. Write a diary entry of a soldier from either the defending or attacking side. | [
"**January 20th, 2017**\n*Timeline A*\n\n\"Is the machine ready?\" the General asked. \"Yes, sir. We'll activate at your command.\" the head scientist answered. \"What about the alternate timeline? Have we got everything figured out?\" the General questioned. No sense in letting the details go unchecked. \"We've go... | 15 | |
[WP] Little did Jimmy know, what he thought were his dreams were visions of himself in a parallel universe. | [
"\"I wonder what it would be this time.\" Jimmy thought.\n\nAs far as he can remember, Jimmy would always dream. Every night without exemption. Of course when he wakes up he can't remember the dreams he had but when he's asleep he remembers. Most of them was expected everyday stuff. Watching TV, doing some laundry,... | 1 | |
Can you confirm these suspicions without blowing your own cover? If so, do you turn him/her in? And to whom? | [WP] You're a Russian sleeper agent planted within the FBI. They assign you a trainee who you suspect to be a Chinese sleeper agent. | [
"Georgian ancestry lends itself to breeding spies with legitimate back stories. Love all things Russia? Why, your family, like mine, may have come through in the early nineteen twenties and stayed through the uprising. Love Chinese Communism more than the Soviet version? Great established history of Chinese inv... | 2 |
[WP] The Zombie Apocalypse has begun, and all the doomsday preppers and zombie enthusiasts are a bit too excited about it for their own good... | [
"\"Finally! Who's crazy now?\" I slung my assault rifle over your shoulder and the bullet belt across the other shoulder. Thigh and hip holsters held modified handguns and my Bowie knife went in my back pocket. It wasn't easy getting this stuff - I was almost caught once or twice but it was worth the risk in the en... | 1 | |
I.e a rich man would be very unlucky etcetera... | [WP] A world where your luck is inversely proportional to your wealth. | [
"It was a rough day for Kevin, his Identity had been stolen, his car broke down turning out of the dealership, and to top it off the cancer had metastasized to his brain. It had been two days since he'd won the lottery, all 10 billion of it. The doctors had given him three to live... he would die on a Friday. He ha... | 1 |
[WP] There are ducks living in your basement. Evil ducks... | [
"A crashing woke me up. For a second I was thinking about what that could be, but then I remembered the ducks. The bad ducks. I wonder what they've done this time. Perhaps they broke a window again. I sighed. Those fucking ducks. \n\nThe basement door creaked as I pushed the old, wooden slab. I reached for the ligh... | 2 | |
[WP] Some say that anyone who randomly pops into your mind is in turn thinking about you. You are getting ready for bed after experiencing the happiest day of your life when you suddenly think of the devil. | [
"\"G'night ma'?\" I shout across the trailer.\n\n\"G'night! Happy Birthday!\" she hollers.\n\nI snuggle into bed and think about how great my birthday has been. I think 'bout all my frien's who came over. Then, all sudden, I think of *him*. You know . . . the *Devil*.\n\nI don't know why I start thinking of the dev... | 1 | |
[WP] You find a long abandoned church and decide to look inside. In the darkness beyond, you think you see a figure move behind the altar. | [
"Scene for a certain monster from EU Doctor Who\n\n...\n\nHe liked to go up to the old church with his camera. \n\nHe liked the way the ivy leaves grew across the weathered grey facade, like the sweeping locks of a dryad. He liked the sunlight streaming through those half-broken stained glass windows, casting a tap... | 1 | |
[WP] Depict an original take on death, what's it like? What are you feeling? Etc. Make it original, have fun with it. | [
"The post-op nurse slithered along my bedside like a used car salesman, and though still groggy from whatever flowed off the hanger and through the drip I implicitly knew not to trust whatever they were prepared to sell. She touched a bandage on my wrist, followed one of the transparent tubes to a pharmaceutical d... | 1 | |
Creative license ensues. Replace "God" with any applicable divine being/pantheon/supernatural entity/entities you desire. | [WP] Writing Prompts was actually started by God in an attempt to get ideas for a new universe after growing bored of this one. You've just written the next universe and God comes to chat. | [
"I had, for a long time, a love of writing. And with time I had almost stopped because I couldn't think of something to write about. Next thing I knew, I had gotten a letter in the mail addressed from God. The swirling, shimmering gold script bespoke of someone of talent. I gently opened the letter. My hands sh... | 1 |
[WP] A gigantic toaster is dropped into the Pacific Ocean. Chaos ensues. | [
"I still remember their screams.\n\nI had been suntanning. After being forced to come to the beach for a family outing I had figured I'd better make the best of the horrendously boring trip. What I would do if I could go back. See their faces one last time. Remember their smiles. Most of my family had been in the w... | 2 | |
[WP] I have a very peculiar ability: I can hear in my mind the last thing that someone said no matter how long ago or where they said it. Usually it's boring like "Bye, see you later." When I met John St. John (his actual name), that last thing that he said would forever change my life. | [
"I woke up from a dream on a bus traveling through the feet of the Atlas mountains in Morocco. The voices of my dreams faded into the voices of the real world. I heard a woman speaking in Arabic, clipped phrases like you'd hear on any busy street.\n\nI rarely enjoy the sound of them. Then one of them gave me an ... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up to find you are an alligator. | [
"Greg Samson woke from a dream in which he had been chased by a group of kittens to find himself transformed into a giant reptile. He lay on his soft scaled belly, which he found quite strange as his sleep apnea required him to use a bipap machine. Stranger still, the floor of his bedroom had been covered with a fe... | 1 | |
[WP] In a final "f-you" to the Aliens and as a last testament, Humanity launches whats left of their air force for a last stand. They did not expect to be assisted by the "ghosts" of every plane Humanity has ever made and flew. | [
"The aliens came from nowhere. Fron what the boys in the lab said, they could only predict they came from somewhere around Alpha Centauri. That was all we knew before we lost every last government, save for a few that went underground. After a few months, the Russian, UN, and even American armies were in tatters. T... | 6 | |
[WP] "Why can't you love me?" | [
"They lay in the dark. The quiet of the room enveloping them like a thick, comforting blanket, much in the same manner as his arms wrapped around her. There they lay, enjoying the simple pleasure of existing with each other. The soft smell of her fruity shampoo and perfume gently tickling his nose as her golden hai... | 1 | |
[WP] Your life has a narrator. On the other hand, you refuse to follow the plot, and they're getting pretty pissed. | [
"And at this point, after attempting to goad Stanley into killing himself, the narrator realized that Stanley must not actually be able to hear him. The narrator has recently been incredibly pissed that Stanley hasn't managed to follow the plot.\n\nIn the past, Stanley has received a few impersonal anonymous messag... | 3 | |
[WP] At the end of the dungeon, our band of adventurers find a strange metal rod with the words "Boom Stick" engraved on it. | [
"\"What is it?\" whispered the Elf.\n\n\"I'm not sure,\" the Warrior said quietly. \"It doesn't look like any treasure or weapon I've ever seen.\"\n\n\"It looks like the hookahs the mages use,\" chuckled the dwarf in his deep bass voice.\n\n\"Oh, give it a rest, Damli\", the mage said tiredly. \"Look on the side of... | 2 | |
[WP] You begin to suspect you are a character in a video game and all your friends/family are NPC's. While breaking societies rules, you come face to face with another player character. The twist: they are absolutely convinced that you are the villain in this game. | [
"I walked up to the shop Owen and walked around the small emporium filled with unique items, from far distanced lands, I pick up the small circular box and the owner slaps it out of my hands \n\"The maze wasn't made for you\" he's angrily looking at me, I decide it's not worth the fight and shoot him, a clean head... | 1 | |
[WP] You're immortal in a weird way: Every time your body die your conscious would transfer to the nearest person to you, wiping out their conscious at the same time. You have lived thousands of years and through several important figures of history. | [
"You are all my children.\n\nI have lived thousands of lives in thousands of lands. I have raised millions of sons and daughters. You are all my family.\n\nThe concept of enemy is such a pathetic one. I have taken over the lives of thousands of men and women who have killed me.\n\nIf I could do anything, it would b... | 1 |
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