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[WP] You and your friends are tasked on killing the protagonist in the world you live in | [
"\"You're insane, aren't you?\"\n\n\"He is absolutely insane!\"\n\n\"Now look, guys. I know this sounds hard. But I believe that we may actually be able to do this! It will be well worth the payoff! Besides, it's not like he's a god or anything like that!\"\n\nSilence filled the small back room where three young me... | 1 | |
[WP] Tell the story of the first person to die in space | [
"You still remember the way she looked the first time you saw her. You knew you were in trouble just by looking at her. Others called her cold. But she was always molten for you. Begging you dive in and explore. Other boys. They were intimidated by her. Scared at her force of will. \nShe was a force of will. \nTh... | 7 | |
[WP] Mer-people (Mermaids and Mermen) have re-introduced themselves to land dwelling humans after fading into legends and have declared war on humanity once more. Due to Earth being mostly ocean and their strangely advanced technology, they have the advantage. | [
"\"Earmuffs on, people!\" The commander barked out. \"Do not be deceived by them!\" He merely pointed towards the stronghold, indicating the start of the assault. The squadron of men and women marched onwards, some willing, some not so much. \n\nThe base, occupied by the merfolk, had been already outfitted with its... | 1 | |
[WP] You're challenging Adam for Eve's hand. | [
"Adam and I had a difficult marriage. He desired a demure, obedient little wife. As if. I left his naked ass so fast. So, naturally God - who's also a man, mind you - declared the marriage null and void. He started again, creating the most beautiful creature I've ever beheld, notwithstanding the fact she came from ... | 1 | |
[WP] A male and female serial killer meet on a dating site, not knowing each other's dark intentions to murder their date. It gets awkward once they realize what the other is really doing. | [
"She was a beautiful like a bear trap. Her neck was a ski slope of placid white and her face was a jumble of pleasing images that set his nerves itching and scrabbling across his skin, burning like the afterglow of a rocket's reentry. Eyes like empty sockets, pitiless, hunting. The curve of her jaw was the edge of ... | 7 | |
The more clichés, the better. | [WP] Write a story with as many clichés as you can. | [
"It was a dark and stormy night. John stood outside of the house, as thunder rumbled in the sky, the rain drenching him. The locals avoid the house like a plague, but not John. Mary Susan, the mayor's daughter was kidnapped yesterday, and they said that she was taken to this house.\n\nJohn knew little of the histor... | 1 |
[WP] You are kidnapped at 10:45am. Your kidnapper insists he is protecting you. You are going to die in the next hour. You escape and call the police. It is 11:15. | [
"I ran across the street, holding the phone in front of my face, quickly dialing 911. I put the phone to my ear as I looked behind me. I didn't see him, but I couldn't be too sure.\n\n\"911, what's your emergency?\"\n\n\"Yeah, I-I was kidnapped, I escaped,\" I came to a stop and panted. \"I-um, I'm running away.\"\... | 1 | |
[WP] "You can leave all your stuff here, electricity doesn't work there and we won't need money where we're going." | [
"\"Are you ready for this?\" the man gave a knowing smile. \n\nCharles has given him a nod back trying to avoid looking at his eyes. \n\n\"You will see\" the smile grew. \n\nNaked, the warm night air swirled around as a gust came into the hut, Charles body shuddered. \n\nHe sfelt a nudge from behind him, steppe... | 1 | |
[WP] The (wo)man with two souls | [
"\"Why did you leave?\"\n\nThe question caught Nathan by surprise. Of all the things he could have been asked, that one was near the very bottom of the list. \n\n\"Pardon?\" he asked, hoping he'd misheard her. The woman repeated herself.\n\n\"Your XO, Lieutenant Federov, he said that you were an officer in the Andu... | 1 | |
[WP] In a world identical to our but with magic, you are a Battle Mage of the U.S Air Force. Describe one of your engagement with the enemies. | [
"\"Yes, yes. That spell is the exact one for this situation. Please let me know when it's done.\" replied General Thompson, commander of Air Force Spending Money on Shit Command. Later, while addressing a joint session of congress, I surreptitiously slip in the activation words as part of a joke: 'increaso budgeto!... | 2 | |
[WP] One day, everyone on the entire Earth gains a power. And everyone is so terrified of being found out, and so unbelievably dense, it isn't found out for years. But the new generation is beginning to be born, and all hell is breaking loose. | [
"Unearthly flashes outlined the clouds above the valley. They could see the small explosion of purplish light in the village far beneath them. On the front lines, the night was rarely dark.\n\n\"What was it like, papa? Before?\" Serkan asked as their feet dangled over the edge of the cliff. \"Before everyone had th... | 1 | |
[WP] To the cashier, it seems like a normal grocery cart: bananas, lemons, garlic, gum, candy, string, listerine, oil, matches, soap, and bleach. Little do they know you intend to murder them with the items. | [
"The bored looking cashier picked up the bananas with a scowl on his face. He’d been given a pay-cut, his girlfriend had left him and his dad had been diagnosed with stomach cancer. His life, in his eyes at least, couldn’t possibly get crapper than it was currently. Of course, the cashier was unaware that the norma... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the descendant of a person who managed to trap a powerful, otherworldly being. That being has broken free, but while you were supposed to be destroyed as revenge, it fell in love with you. Now it pursues you and attempts to do things for you, but its help is more harm than help. | [
"\"I would ask how you got into my house, but at this point I'm guessing it's not even worth bothering.\"\n\nI sighed audibly. There were a lot of things I'd call an eldritch horror if you asked, but I had to admit I never expected a nuisance to be one of them. Salamander, Emperor of Fire, Calamity of Ages stood in... | 1 | |
[WP] This world began with but one people. These people lived in the center of a great continent, in the middle of a vast meadow, in a town built ‘round an immense stone pillar. | [
"In the beginning, there was only darkness. Man crawled on their hands and knees in the dirt and muck. They lived in a great land unbroken, except by the poisonous water that surrounded it.\n\nAt first, they were aimless, grasping for direction in the absolute darkness of the land. Then one day, a group of people w... | 1 | |
[WP] Your best friend, who just so happens to be a god, teaches you how to pick up girls. | [
"My best friend just happens to be a god. She is in touch with the far shore.\n\nIn teaching me how to pick up girls, she first taught me how to properly go on a date: A date should be something like a party for just two people. There's a balance that should be found between doing an activity and just honestly talk... | 2 | |
[WP] You realise that every train you catch is always on time. You decide to find other people out there with slightly helpful superpowers and put a team together to figure out how to use them | [
"\"Fucking A, we acrually just ran into the train because of that timing! Youve got an incredible thing going TBullet!\"\n\"ThankManIGotThisThingWithSpeedNethsAHelluvaDrugIWishIHadSomeCrystalRighNaoWheresBMXTossAt?\"\n\"He and Sister DNA are coming from the south of main street, were gonna hit at the Essex intersec... | 5 | |
[WP]All the gods, goddesses, angels, demons, and mythical entities are real, and they are some of the most foul mouthed, perverted, and uncouth people you could ever meet. | [
"\"And these ungrateful sods, you know what they did?\"\n\nThe old man emptied his glass of wine, which automatically refilled the moment the glass came to a standstill. Which wasn't long, as the old man took another drink, emptying it again. His hair was long and silvery, and his face flushed with the color of a d... | 1 | |
[WP] A blue light emits from your closed bathroom, as you lay under the sheets. You investigate to find that there lay a single egg on the floor. A note was laying beside it, that note and egg would change your life forever. | [
"I was already in bed, and I was tired but I could have swore I heard a noise from the bathroom. I lived alone and my mind immediately went to sewer rats making their way up my pipes, climbing out of my toilet. I regretted all the late nights I'd stayed up watching random youtube videos.\n\nReluctantly pushing as... | 1 | |
Bonus: as the villain reaches the door after the session, your next client, the hero, enters. | [WP] You are a psychiatrist. Your next client is a super villain, who is very frustrated with the hero constantly thwarting his plans. | [
"\"Okay, Mr. Miller, you are on the clock. Tell me how your week was.\" The pencils were out of line, I fixed them, pushing them point facing me, and eraser facing Mr. Miller as he clasped his hands. \n\n\"You saw how it was, nobody even gives me a chance to succeed. Nobody believes in me, not now. Not ever.\" \n\n... | 1 |
[WP] You're a garbage man who is having a normal day, until a bag tears open outside of an long-abandoned house. Within the trash, there are hundreds of Polaroid photos of you sleeping—each one is numbered. You realize that the photos count down, and last night was marked "1." | [
"The bag was heavy – too heavy. It probably should have been double-bagged, but nobody cares about doing that much anymore. The bag rips and hundreds of polaroid photos scatter into the street, into the gutter, under the truck and everywhere else. The wind carries some of them further down the street and you con... | 3 | |
[WP] you are going camping with your family, however unknown to you, every animal has become carnivorous. | [
"\"Uh, Mom? Dad? Why are the squirrels looking at us like that?\"\n\n\"They're probably just curious, sweetie,\" said Mom.\n\nDad grinned. \"You already know what I'm going to say. Listen to your mother - she's always right.\"\n\nThey giggled together like a teen couple on the first date, while I went back to looki... | 1 | |
*your that's embarrassing | [WP] You and you're middle school bully are the lone survivors of the apocalypse due to being immortal... only when you are within fifteen feet of each other | [
"\"You can't leave my sight Pat. If you run off, we're dead. So I'm doing this for both of us.\" He cuffed my hand around his and threw the key out of the fifteen feet range. The keys incinerated instantly into dust.\n\n\"I would rather die than live with you like this. All the years you tortured me with your games... | 1 |
[WP] Life on Earth came about because aliens seeded the planet as a scientific experiment. They have come to see the result. | [
"\"Oh for fuck sake guys!\"\n\noh my god, are you aliens?\n\n\"yes, we created you\"\n\noh my god...so all our religions are false?\n\n\"What? what religion?\"\n\noh wow this is embarrassing\n\n\"enough of that what the hell did you guys do\"\n\nwe, we advanced as a species? so wait your basically God?\n\n\"Advance... | 1 | |
[WP] Every night, at exactly 11:32pm, your dog stands at the window and starts barking at something on the street for one full hour. It is until today you decide to investigate. | [
"I drew the curtains shut slowly.\nMy breath lets out in a shaky manner and I hurriedly go to my drawer and took out crucifix. \n\nI thought I had gotten all those demons who were chasing me, but it seems like i missed one.\n\nI curse as I rush down the stairs, I was lucky I saw the demon before they broke down my ... | 3 | |
A fun idea for this that I had was trying to excuse yourself from brunch. | [WP] You are an afternoon Cinderella. Instead of all your good looks and fine things taken away at midnight, they are taken at 12pm. | [
"It was strange how it worked. If I was being honest, I still couldn't explain why it happened, but it did. As a kid I never really noticed, I don't really thing anyone did. I never wore pretty dresses or did my hair really nice. But when I did, I always figured that I was playing so much or just being a wild child... | 1 |
[WP] The council of superheroes convene to counter an unprecedented threat. It wasn't their arch nemeses nor some paranormal force that threatens the world, but an average man named Bill. He isn't extraordinary by any means, yet the leader of the council speaks his name with a hint of fear and panic | [
"Indra Nethis, aka \"Router\" sat cross legged in the center of the conference table and concentrated with all her might. Her lotus pose was picture perfect and her back iron tree straight as she closed her physical eyes and concentrated on the pictures forming in her mind's eye instead. Her hood was raised, but he... | 1 | |
[WP] The new popular talk show revolves around the host summoning famous and infamous guest star ghosts via Ouija Board. Today's guest is a notorious ghost who starts the show off saying "Finally I can tell my side of the story." | [
"There was a blinding white light and a swirl as the dark, hairy man vanished from my guest chair. \"Alright that was Genghis Khan, notorious Eurasian conqueror.\" I said in a cool even voice before having a sip of coffee. \"Up next we have Richard M. Nixon, former U.S. President.\"\n\n\nI uncrossed my legs as my c... | 2 | |
[WP] You can absorb negative emotions from other people. However you will suffer from nightmares related to the emotions you absorb during the day. | [
"My daughter had been kidnapped and rescued, but had never recovered completely.\n\nSome nights, she slept peacefully through. Other nights, she screamed until neighbors felt that they had to call the cops.\n\nWe went to psychologists, psychiatrists, read books, went online, and spent all the money we had been savi... | 1 | |
[WP] You died after living a life devoted to the betterment of society. In Limbo, death offers you one limitless wish for your good deeds. "I want to know about the universe, the truth about religion, what makes everything tick". | [
"\"Am I... Really dead? \" I asked as I gazed at the last vestiges of my corporeal body.\n\n\"Yes.\" replied a cold gravelly voice. Towering over me was a being cloaked in darkness, emitting an aura that was both foreboding and kind. \"I am Death, and you have been granted a wish for your deeds to the living. \"\... | 1 | |
[WP] And the animals watched as the last human building collapsed. | [
"The building continued to creak and grown as the wind rose. He could hear it easily with this kind's long ears. Something popped deep inside and gravel rattled around, flushing several flocks of birds from various parts of the building that were open to the sky. The elders said that wasn't always the case, but he ... | 1 | |
Based on Marvel's Pleasant Hill | [WP] You have a steady job, a loving wife with kids and living in classic Suburbia. Now you discovered that you were a supervillain, the suburbia is a prison, your wife is an Agent/Robot and your kids are also robots. | [
"I was a simple man, I liked simple things. I liked coming home after a hard days work in the office and sipping on a cold beer. I liked pulling my wife into my arms and giving her a kiss. I liked going to my sons baseball games and watching him play the best he could. I liked going to my daughters clarinet recital... | 1 |
[WP] You're a brain surgeon. One day, while operating on a patient, you find a small computer chip embedded in the tissue. No one else in the operating room can see it. It starts to beep. | [
"I am not a religious man. I find the nuances of the human body to be far too fascinating to believe that this was all placed here by some deity. Evolution, the process of change over millennia, is the only true way to appreciate the majesty of life. Through successes and a lot of failures, we have gotten to become... | 2 | |
[WP] Your patient wakes from a coma and looks at you wild-eyed. "You don't understand! I have to go back." | [
"Back to the past.\n\nSamurai Jack.\n\nThe man spoke.\n\n\"wHERE'S MY SWORD????\"\n\nHe spoke again.\n\n\"Now, Mr... Jack? I assume. You've been in a coma for 50 years, but you have not aged. We've cycled through dozens of nurses here for you. Sure your beard still grows but your blood pressure and muscle mass are ... | 1 | |
[WP] Your wealth determines how fast you age. Billionares live for a couple of months, while the poor live for centuries. You have just won the lottery. | [
"It was the last Friday in June, also known as National Lottery Day. While smaller, more local lotteries were held at more frequent intervals, National Lottery Day was the big one. Everybody in the country would be glued to their television sets right around now, eight o’clock in the evening. I sat on my couch in t... | 2 | |
[WP] This is the way the world ends... Not with a bang, but with the click of a mouse. | [
"The mouse's wheel scrolled again and again and again down the 900 page pdf. \"It's on the last page.\" The man said\n\n\"There are faster ways to scroll down the document, we are only on page 82.\" His servant replied. \n\n\"No, this is fine, we are almost there. I don't know why they have to send us all this nons... | 1 | |
[WP] A seemingly small inconvenience befalls you, within hours nuclear war begins. | [
"Normally I would have stopped. I should have stopped. But I didn't. I was a little tired today, and so I didn't.\n\nNow here I was, the sound of muffled explosions ringing loudly and clearly despite how distant and quiet they were. Here I was, staring down the Devil himself.\n\n\"I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch th... | 1 | |
bonus points for a romantic twist but not necessary c: | [WP] A demon tries to tempt/trick a human, but is inevitably deceived themselves. | [
"The human sat on the bench, waiting for the bus. They were on the very periphery of the light the lamppost cast, both in and out of the shadows.\n\nThe sign proclaimed in piercing red LED letters '3 minutes until next arrival'.\nThe bus was coming, true, but nowhere soon. And that human was deliciously alone.\n\nT... | 2 |
[WP] "Did I ever tell you about that time I saved all of humanity with nothing but a dusty old piano?" | [
"\"Stuff it, Carl. You're obviously drunk again. You've told this story half a million times by now and it hasn't gotten any funnier.\" Gerald was on the other side of the bar, stuffing his face full of nachos.\n\nCarl continued on with his story. He was an old man, in his seventies or so. He was explaining his sto... | 2 | |
[WP] The old Narrator has stepped out of the office for five minutes, you are the intern and something amazing in the story is about to go down. | [
"But Jill couldn’t do it. She weighed the options relentlessly in her head, but no matter how good he made it sound, she knew it was wrong. \r\n“Sorry, Paul. I just can’t. It’s too much. There must be—”\n\r\n\n**buzz buzz**\n \r\n\n“There must be something el—”\n\r\n\n**buzz buzz**\n\r\n\n*“Ugh, hold on, I’m gettin... | 5 | |
[WP] Twas the night before Tax Day... | [
"'Twas the night before Tax Day, when all thro' the house
No evader could hide, not even a mouse;
The W-2s were laid out on the desk with care,
In hope that exemptions would find themselves there;
The dependents were nestled all snug in their bed,
While numbers 0-9 swirled in my head,
\nI buckled down and worked al... | 2 | |
[WP] You can read minds; however, you are unable to distinguish other people's thoughts from your own. | [
"You stare at the mathematics answer sheet with a tight grip on your pen. You close your eyes and try to focus - it's been about thirty minutes into the exam and you are yet to answer half of the problems laid out in front of you.\n\nThe thoughts merge together into a big puddle of confusion and you feel lost in al... | 3 | |
Everyone has an internal dialogue that they use for making decisions, judgements, etc. what would yours say? | [WP] If your entire internal dialogue was recorded, what would it say? | [
"\"Are you serious? Did you just delete that internal dialogue?\"\n\n\"Yeah I think I did.\"\n\n\"But now we have to type it all out again for the writing prompt.\"\n\n\"No we don't, if we retype it it isn't really an internal dialogue, its a pretend dialogue.\"\n\n\"Yeah but that dialogue was funny.\"\n\n\"Was it?... | 1 |
[WP] By night they rise. They're neither living nor dead, but you'll know them by the sound of their wings. | [
"Ajax and Bern hustled because they didn't have long. The guards had left the cemetery only a half hour before, when the light started to dim. But that put the two of them with a pair of shovels at the center of the biggest cemetery on Earth, an hour before full dusk. After dusk, their odds of getting out dropped p... | 2 | |
Just how many worlds are in trouble anyway?!
(Not summoned to the same world every time. It is just that it is the same save the world scenario every time.) | [WP] Just like in the cliché setting, you have been summoned into a fantasy world to defeat the demon king, save the world, blablabla... honestly, this happens at least twice a month, and it is getting very, very tedious to keep redoing the exact same questline over and over again... | [
"-------------------------------------------\nA sturdily built man sat on an old mahogany bench that stood lonesome on a rocky shore. The bench was positioned seemingly close to the edge of the rocky shore, and the silky ocean was dancing rhythmically in the horizon. The man’s white shirt was torn apart from the tr... | 4 |
[WP] Write a short mystery story with all of the elements that are needed to solve the mystery in the story. The more difficult it is to solve the mystery, the better. | [
"\"Leah, are you alright?\"\n\nIn the shadow of the forest, the dark devours all color with an preternatural silence.\n\nAmy reaches for Leah's forehead. A sticky viscous liquid covers her hand. \n\n\"Blood.\" Amy whispers the word, but she feels like every trunk and every leaf hears her. The stillness is pretern... | 3 | |
[WP] You are a working as a Systems Admin for the human body. Today you get a call about an issue that surprises you | [
"*- Sir! Sir! We have a situation!*\n\nI was sleeping when the screaming came to me. Our client had been late to revise their work for an exam. Which meant I had to work twice as hard for two full days. Still groggy, I looked at the intern coming at me with one eye half open. \n\n*- What do you want?*, I asked g... | 1 | |
Inspired by [this prompt.](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/62iaz5/wp_write_a_horror_story_difficulty_the/) I thought this would be harder. Sorry if there's already too many similar to this out there | [WP] Write a horror story, but the story takes place in full daylight. | [
"“During the war, American revolutionary forces were constantly faced with ammunition shortages. Unlike the Redcoats, America’s Continental Army did not have an established military framework or supply stockhouses. A classic example is seen in the Battle of Bunker Hill. Does anyone know what the American forces wer... | 8 |
[WP] Write about a sentient haunted house. | [
"I awake to cold sunlight and the chirping of birds. Rafters heave and plaster cracks as I stretch, the rusted, hidden nails in my termite-gnawed frame groan their protest and their relief at once. I settle then, with a pop and a snap, dust falling from the ceilings within my darkened halls, tinkling as it makes pi... | 1 | |
[WP] Aliens have waged war on Earth. Modern weapons don't work against them. It's time for the ways of the ancient warriors to make a comeback. | [
"\"So, get this, the humans, right? They've got this cultural belief that they're superior and that, through cunning and quick thinking and sheer grit, that they somehow defeat us. You know, beings capable of crossing interstellar distances using technology they literally cannot imagine due to their undeveloped m... | 1 | |
[WP] You and a crew of 1 million are finally ending a 300+ year mission to colonize a new galaxy. Upon waking up, you discover it's already been colonized by future humans, who used faster ships. You are no longer seen as brave pilgrims. You are now cavemen. | [
"\"Wait a minute\" a scientist among the ship thinks, \"If we used ships that were fast enough to get us to another galaxy in our lifetime, time would have sped up.\"\n\nHe continues his thought, \"A significantly faster ship would have accelerated the dilation of time in our favor.\"\n\nRealizing the paradox, the ... | 4 | |
It can also be a die or any other small unimportant item | [WP] A coin which topples an empire | [
"Queen Esmereldias II paced in front of the Great Throne, her surcoat whipping through the air. She had been queen for thirty-six years and had held her fury and anxiety in check all that time. In fact, she had become well known as a patient ruler among the royalty and peasantry alike. Today, however, was differ... | 2 |
[WP] Write a story where the characters are constantly referring to 'the incident'. | [
"“I don’t... want to go camping any more.” Steve sighed.\n\n“Whoa! Why not bro?” Steve’s best friend Kevin questioned him while spinning his baseball cap to the side of his face.\n\n“I just... I just don’t like camping any more.” \n\n“Hold on bro! This isn’t about ‘the incident’ again... is it?” Steve said while ma... | 3 | |
[WP] Write a story from the perspective of anyone, in a world where superheros are slowly becoming obsolete as the army is slowly becoming advanced enough to deal with any threats. | [
"My feet dangled. I felt the cool breeze slide between my toes as I stared into the Great Star, hoping to burn away all feelings of remorse. I squeezed the dry, scratchy thatch of the rooftop and exhaled softly, hoping to release this enormous weight on my shoulders. I clenched my body tightly, every tendon and lig... | 4 | |
[WP] There's a man sitting outside your house. And he's wearing a black coat, and holding a sickle. | [
"A pale man sits in the backyard of Peter Hollands dump of a house. He wears a tattered black coat, so ragged it might have been dragged underneath several city buses, but this was not the oddest thing about him. Loosely in his hand he holds a rusting sickle, its hilt wrapped in leather, though this still is not th... | 2 | |
[WP] You live in a world where everything you dream of has a 50 percent chance of becoming true. One night, you dream of your own suicide. | [
"Dreams used to be an escape. For as long as he could remember, he led two lives. One during the day: A normal sort of life. One at night: Dreams that took him to far away places, with unfathomable power. Dreams that exercised every sense. He would wake up every morning the imprints of his dream still vivid in ever... | 1 | |
[WP] Your name is Joe | [
"The first thing he noticed was the cold. He'd felt it before, he could remember. A world of white, laughter, stiff movement, not from cold but the layers to keep warm. He shivered. Or at least, he tried to shiver.\n\nHe blinked his eyes open. This world was also white, but instinctively, he knew it was different. ... | 1 | |
[WP] god likes to narrate from on-high, unfortunately, everyone on earth can hear his narration, no matter who or what he's narrating. | [
"**\"Okay, so like, okay. Umm. Okay, like so what the hell is up with platypuseses? Platypi? What's the plurallality of, like, just *one* platypus\"** God stared across the room at Gabriel. Gabriel tried their best to ignore the Most Toasted Holy Host. God tossed a wadded up sandwich wrapper and hit Gabriel in the ... | 2 | |
Or you can use another riddle | [WP] The backstory behind the guard who always tells the truth, and the one who always lies | [
"Very early in their lives, Johnathan and Johnathan knew what they wanted to be: Philosophers. \n\nAlthough they wanted to ponder on existence and morality their whole lives, they still needed to make a living. J & J, as the twins where often called, tried multiple jobs together, they joined the circus, became ... | 2 |
[WP] You discover that the dinosaurs didn't go extinct. They became intelligent enough to leave our planet for deep space. They wiped away any evidence of their technology and only the poor ones remained to die on earth. | [
"In the American Southwest it isn't uncommon to see lights in the skies. Many people in the region believe in UFOs, government space craft, and other such things, though no one really knew what they were. A young hiker was making his way through a lonesome trail in the desert when one of those familiar lights app... | 2 | |
[WP] You wake up, next to five strangers in a concrete bunker. You don't know how or why you are here. Every hour someone drops dead. On the wall there is a simple message "one of you knows why." | [
"The panic started to set in when the second one dropped dead. After the first, people were just slightly on edge, trying to work out if it was just a joke. I mean, maybe the guy was suicidal. Maybe he agreed to die for a prank. But it was after the second died that we knew. We knew this was no joke. \n\nThe room w... | 2 | |
Can incorporate "respawn zones", but cannot be a simulation or robots. | [WP] A world where respawning actually exists. | [
"Ok, I'm here again. That's pretty frustrating. I can remember each time I came here but I can't remember how I arrived. Over and over. I recognize the place. I 'm lying on the ground, facing the naked night sky, full of the small pale stars lights. And the wind, it's always the same wind, slow and sweet in my hair... | 1 |
[WP] At age 9, you signed a contract to become the longest tenured "Kidz Bop" kid in history. Today, on your 30th birthday, you are coming to regret that decision. | [
"\"Uh, look...\"\n\nThe guys behind the desk - the CEO's - look. And they look *hard*. And they *look hard*.\n\n\"I'm a little...uhm...a little....\"\n\n\"Dick? Shit? Little dick-shit? Little shit-dick?\" They suggest. \n\n\"Uh, no. Listen, I quit. I'm out. I'm done. I'm 30 years old. I have a wife. I have kids. I ... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a golden retriever puppy who can speak, but only when your human is doing badly in video games. One day, your human buys Dark Souls 3. | [
"\tAshley! That’s literally the only thing I could think of as I saw the Great And Mighty Ashley, stride through the door! Aww man I am so excited to see him, Ahh yeah here he comes to love me! The next thing I knew, I was standing there eyes closed and tail a’waggin as it should be, by myself. Where had Ashley gon... | 4 | |
[WP] You're a sight seeing ghost who has been enjoying your eternal existence up until now. You decided to visit Area 51 and things were fine...until you were caught. | [
"The afterlife can be an amazing experience. Amazingly great, or amazingly horrific.\n\nI died a teenager in a random car accident. I was extremely distraught. I never got to accomplish any of my dreams. I never even got to have my first kiss. I knew maybe I would have ended up like the defeated adults who gave up ... | 2 | |
[WP] You find a magic Polaroid camera with the power to photograph things in the future, it even has adjustable date dials. | [
"I would end up using it for financial gain; however, my neighbor would have been using it for years and have 1000s of pictures through my living room window put up on his walls. When we discover it, we notice some pictures are missing, and we don't think anything of it. The last picture is just an a shot of our em... | 2 | |
[WP] Describe the 2008 recession from the perspective of an elite stock market trader | [
"He thought of his children and wife as the wind breezed through his hair. He saw his solution to the problem but knew he had to give up all that he loved to achieve it. Faster and faster he went down the path to financial freedom. Screaming internally. Finally he saw the end in sight. Falling in love with its simp... | 1 | |
[WP] Have a conversation with all of the other planets as Pluto | [
"\"Nobody cares about you, Mercury.\n\nVenus, you never pretended to care about me, and I can't pretend to like you anymore either. You're too much like the Bad One.\n\nNeptune, you always had my back, you were always right there for me. But you're too different now, because of the Bad One. \n\nMars, you were the B... | 1 | |
[WP] Once a year humanity votes to make a single person immortal | [
"It's been 25 years since the ceremony began that gave the people role models, figureheads and characters that truly stood the test of time through immortality.\n\nAt first humanity was confused about the rules, arguments raged on leading to physical conflicts and mental anguish. It turned out that on the same day,... | 1 | |
[WP] "Promise me something... before I close my eyes for the last time, let me see the darkness once more... take me to the black abyss... leave me in the void..." | [
"\"This is it.\" The familiar voice echoed into the dazzling light \"This is the end of our path.\"\n\nEverything was blurry, and I can't see anything. The room we just walked in vanished, and we were both floating somewhere that I didn't even know. But I was sure, we both smiled, like always. We both knew this wou... | 1 | |
[WP] To help society work together, a doctor links seven random adult individuals; if one of them feels pain, then the rest of them feel that same pain. | [
"Saturday night was upon them. Six of them begged, pleaded, with the seventh, to forego the ritual just this one time...just *this* week. Please. They sobbed; he smiled widely, the corners of his eyes crinkling as he relished in their, and his, torment.\n\nThey'd been \"linked\" for nearly eight months, now. Th... | 2 | |
[WP] You went to bed last night in the arms of your fiancee. Today, you wake up and they've been erased from existence. | [
"The sound of a splash coincides with your dreams and you realize you're awake, half asleep in bed. This is not your bed. You feel your heart ready to send a jolt of adrenaline, but it backs down after realize where you are. Still face down in your pillow, memories come flashing back; Paris, dinner, a proposal u... | 1 | |
[WP] Your superpower is your stunning good looks. You immobilize the villain and take them into custody. The challenge is letting them down easy afterwards. | [
"I sighed and walked up to the bank doors. I could hear the man inside, shouting something. I really didn't need this. I had homework to be doing, but if the city needed saving it was my duty to save it.\n\nWith a flip of my hair I walked in through the bank doors.\n\n“-And that's why I have three pinocolatas and a... | 2 | |
[WP] At least death is a gentleman | [
"He came at night, when she was sleeping. She awoke at the light touch of his icy, thin fingers on her shoulder. Her eyes flicked open, and for a moment, she saw a grin made of bone. Then the moment passed, and it was only a man, with sad black eyes that could have been brown in another light.\n\n\nNot in the light... | 1 | |
[WP] Everyone is obligated to do two things on their twenty-first birthday: 1) Choose a superpower 2) Register as a superhero or super villain. You and your SO choose the same superpower. Your SO registers to be a super villain without telling you, while you register as a superhero. | [
"It was 20 years ago to the day that I had chosen my superpower, the power to manipulate electricity and pure energy. Me and Hannah had decided what we would pick a good few years before, though she had to wait a couple months before getting her power, once those few months were over, we would be the perfect couple... | 1 | |
[WP] It's a murder mystery... except every character has a name which explicitly states their role in the story (e.g. Traitor, Good Guy, Victim), AND they are aware of this. Subvert expectations. | [
"\"Well, there it is. We all know this is going to happen sooner or later.\" Suspect-But-Not-Really-The-Killer said. \"Victim is dead, guys.\" He continued.\nProtagonist, Irrelevant-Bystander1, Irrelevant-Bystander2, Comic-Relief, Detective and Killer all enter the room. \n\n\"Oh no! Whatever shall we do?\" Killer ... | 3 | |
[WP] An aquatic species achieves air flight for the first time. | [
"\"So, this is it then?\"\n\nI clicked to Tii as I gazed upon our nation's latest creation, a strange-looking contraption made of steel. It was the culmination of the efforts of all our scientists and engineers, much like the tidal disruption bomb that had ended the last great war just a couple decades ago.\n\n\"Ye... | 1 | |
[WP] The first human spaceship as reached deep space. The astronauts in the ship felt they were prepared for anything, until they get pulled over for intergalactic speeding. | [
"Approximately 120 AU from Earth, a large spaceship sped along at 0.9 times the speed of light. Inside, a group of 256 astronauts had gathered together in the ship's common room. The artificial gravity of the spinning centrifuge kept the humans grounded as they sat in front of a massive screen, which itself sat in ... | 4 | |
Civilization lives hidden thousands of feet under water. | [WP] There is a civilization deep in the Pacific smarter than Humanity and ancient beyond belief. You stumble upon one of their children in your boat. | [
"The sun striking Gary full on his face began to wake him up. He rubbed at his temples with his first two fingers of each hand and sat up, keeping his eyes closed. He looked around.\n\n“Where the?”\n\n“Oh, good morning Gary. Nice of you to join us.”\n\nGary turned around to see Phil slouched against the side of a c... | 1 |
[WP] A general motivates his unit for their final stand | [
"\"Greater men will do greater things than we will do today.\"\n\nIf the General had been trying to inspire us, it didn't work. If he had been meaning to intimidate us, it didn't work. None of it worked. But I suppose that was a characteristic of everything that had gone on in this campaign.\n\nMaybe, just maybe, h... | 1 | |
[WP] "Dammit, Karen, the 'crisper' is not for literal heads." | [
"Squelch.\n\n\n\"Dammit Karen, the crisper is not for literal heads!\" I yell, withdrawing my gunk-covered hand from the salad drawer. \n\"But it keeps them fresh!\" Karen moans from the other room. Her voice is slow, like a death rattle. I can tell she's feeling hangry. I don't care. \n\"Yes, and it also keeps ... | 1 | |
[WP] Nobody finds you attractive. Nobody. During the zombie apocalypse, you discover that not even zombies come after you. | [
"\"Why doesn't anybody like meeee?!\" Joanne screamed, stomping her feet in the dirt and folding her arms across her chest. \"I'm not ugly, am I?\" She asked, looking towards me with sad, wavering blue eyes.\n\n\"Not at all,\" I answered, truthfully. Joanne was a beautiful blonde with big, innocent baby blue eyes, ... | 1 | |
[WP] "Invite us in," they screamed from below the balcony. But she knew if she did that, they would tear her apart. | [
"\"I don't get it,\" her boyfriend said, lounged out on the couch. \"Isn't this what you've always wanted?\"\n\n\"No! I mean, well...yes, but...\"\n\n\"Your fans love you, Sue. If I were you, I would just accept it and let them tear me to bits with love.\"\n\n\"You're not helping!\"\n\nHe sat up and crooked his fin... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a simple story, but sneak an overly complicated backstory into it. | [
"I was at the grocery store browsing through the aisles when I saw her. I knew her piercing blue eyes in an instant as they locked with mine. We both stopped and stared, expressionless. A wave of memories overwhelmed me, feelings were brought to the surface.\n\nIt all started when I was a junior in high school. I w... | 2 | |
[WP] It is a social norm for everyone to randomly break out into song and dance in a well choreographed seemingly rehearsed fashion. All of human civilization is basically a giant musical, with the exception of one single person struggling to understand to odd connection everyone has. | [
"This is it.\n\nAnne flexed her fingers, rolled her head around, and shook her shoulders, as if trying to loose invisible chains from around her body. It was an awkward exercise to do in the middle of a church pew, flanked by so much of the bride’s family she did not recognize.\n\nFor example, the elderly lady sitt... | 1 | |
[WP] In this world guns aren't as deadly as they seem, although they eliminate targets, they do so by transporting them through time. You've been 'assassinated' by someone and you've been transported to a different time. You plan on getting revenge. | [
"My brain was foggy, but what really made it difficult to think was feeling like I'd been eaten by a pack of tharn and then shit off the edge of a cliff. Even my hair hurt. You know the worst hangover you've ever had? Multiply that by about a million, and you're getting in the ballpark. \n\nLooking back, I thin... | 1 | |
first one of these. don't know if this will get any traction but i'd love to read some stories! Happy Writing! | [WP] Virtual Reality gaming has become so life like, its now very hard to tell between real life and gaming. Today you decide to play a real life simulator | [
" This game is pretty cool, they need to bring some mechanics of it to other games. Before this the greatest VR game was probably Resident Evil but for a new VR system that actually puts you in the game. Problem is it was in its early stages and you couldn't feel a thing, this new game I'm testing is where you cr... | 1 |
[WP] In a world full of flawed superheroes, your power is to always have the perfect plan, or even just a witty response. The catch is it's always just late enough to no longer be relevant. | [
"I took another bite of my burger. \"If I had just cut hires we would have stopped him.\" I realised as I took a swig of coke.\n\n\"You know what they say, hindsight is 20/20.\" Dave said.\n\n\"Stop saying that. Lots of people make wrong judgements even after an event has happened. How'd you like it if I kept on sa... | 1 | |
felt like posting a prompt here | [WP] You have been recruited as an angel of death; each day you are put in control of somebody's body to get them killed by the end of the day. | [
"\"But that's not how people die,\" I told the main assignment officer. \"Everyone is always in control of their own body so I'm not sure why you aren't asking me to intervene externally, where I can, you know, effect the outcome?\"\n\n\"Thems the rules,\" they responded back. They weren't joking. This made perfect... | 3 |
[WP] Every shadow of a living creature is a sentient being with thoughts and emotions. It has to follow the creature's actions, but that doesn't mean it approves of it. | [
"The human I am attached to is a monster - a remorseless embodient of the seven sins.\n\n*How is it that I am the shadow, yet this man's heart is so dark?* I wonder. *Why is the light so cruel? Why does it bring me to life just to make me watch the evil that this man commits.*\n\nHe beats the wife that he cheats on... | 1 | |
[WP] You're the only human who doesn't have special powers in a world where everyone has them. | [
"Everyone fits their little niche.\n\nThe speedsters are messengers and delivery guys. Pizza will be at your house in thirty second or less, guaranteed! It's a pretty common ability so you see them all the time, running down the streets at warp speed. And there's Jack, jogging. Slower than any other person running ... | 1 | |
[WP] "Most people have one, or two, or a handful of "Guardian Angels"... Logan, on the otherhand, has an entire Legion." | [
"He looked down at the six adamantium daggers that stuck from his hands. They retracted into him, and blood flowed freely from them. Something was wrong. Had been, for some time. He told the kids at the school, Scott, Ororo, the rest, that he'd contracted a Microverse visus. Weaved a tale about the Black Panther an... | 1 | |
[For the unfamiliar] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record) | [WP] The alien equivalant of the Voyager Golden Records are discovered. | [
"I'd been working on salvaging near Earth orbital debris from a number of years when I made \"the find.\" The only reason I have a story to tell is because for the first few years, it was something me and some college buddies were trying to figure out over e-mails."
] | 1 |
[WP] When he broke the mirror there wasn't just a wall behind it. | [
"\"You couldn't even fucking get published. It's been two years. You had one job. You are an ugly, hopeless fucking wannabe. I want you fucking dead.\"\n\nI punched the youthful failed writer, breath smelling of an exhumed casket full of honey whiskey and cigarette smoke, right on the bridge of his nose. His face e... | 2 | |
[WP] You have a peculiar type of Midas Touch: whenever you touch someone, they gain a superpower. | [
"I felt like Oprah at Christmastime. \"You get a superpower! And you get a superpower!\"\n\nEvery superpower I granted seemed to be a counterpoint to the recipient's biggest weakness. \n\nThe celebrity pop singer received invisibility. The person terrified of heights received flight. The girl who couldn't lift more... | 1 | |
[WP] All of your family's bloodline have fierce or majestic beasts for spirit animals. Bears, wolves, lions, stallions, elks, gorillas, orcas and eagles to name a few so you wonder why you ended up a goldfish for a spirit animal | [
"“I just don’t understand! Why a goldfish?” Lily was pacing around the living room. Her mother sat on the couch, calmly sipping tea. “Everyone else in the family is fierce. Grandpa’s spirit animal is a wolf. Dad’s is an eagle. And yours is a grizzly bear, Mom! It’s not fair that I got a goldfish. What does that eve... | 1 | |
Plasma facts:
1. Plasma makes up 99% of the visible universe.
2. Plasma can range in temperature from relatively cool to incredibly hot and dense to make up the core of a star.
3. Stars are made up of very high temperature gas that creates plasma.
Please forgive me if I have a fact listed that turns out to not be true... | [WP] A world similar to the "Avatar the Last Airbender" universe, except people are born with the ability to control the 3 states of matter: Solid, liquid, gas. However, the "Avatar" is born and is able to control the 4th state of matter, plasma. | [
"The night had a kind of soft silence around it. I considered, as I dangled my legs off the side of the roof, that maybe the world was generally very quiet and I just didn't notice.\n\nThat morning, my sister had sent the table through the window and slammed the front door with her mind. She'd flung back the curtai... | 1 |
[WP] You live inside a movie, but everyone can hear the soundtrack playing in the background. | [
"As I leant forward in a misjudged attempt to kiss her, a romantic jazz song with ridiculously deep vocals began to permeate the room, \"What the hell? I don't like you like that! Ugh! I cannot believe you!\" she stood up, the song abruptly cut short. Silence reigned on the musical front as she ran, almost crying,... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a sarcastic fan letter to your least favourite celebrity | [
"Oh Bo,\n\nYour comedy is so funny. Your lyrics are so complex. Your words are so thought provoking. I love that all your comedy sets are exactly the same, that's something that nobody expects. Plus, when you do that, people pay you to do minimal effort. It's like a double win for you! How clever. I also really lik... | 3 | |
[WP] A rogue planet has begun to orbit the sun. Oddly enough, it seems to be emitting a signal. | [
"Some stuffy nerd Earth scientist takes a peak at his flat screen with a whole bunch of data scrolling on it. He gulps hard in a nervous sweat and loosens his tie. With a cracking voice he says, \"It's just as we feared... That new planet is Party Prime, the most super cool non-stop party planet in the universe. It... | 2 | |
[WP] You live in a world where when you die all your past sins and crimes and misdeeds shape you into a hideous monster. You are a hunter of these monstrosities and you have just been handed a contract to hunt down a escaped monstrosity of the class 10 level the most dangerous class | [
"“Class 10? Are you fucking serious?” Bozeman asked.\n\n“Competence has it's downsides, Joel,” Cortez answered with a shrug.\n\n“What if I pass?”\n\n“And violate the Peterson Act? Face it, you're the highest-rated Hunter in three states. This is your duty as an officer of the court.” Cortez was saying things Bozema... | 2 |
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