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[WP] The man laughed. "God left this place long ago" | [
"The searing light that once blinded me slowly dimmed, fading like a brilliant sunset, a welcome escape from its radiant majesty. \"Where AM I?\" My voice screamed into the fantastic void surrounding me. No answer, just emptiness. \"Hello?! HELP!\" No reply, just my own thoughts drowning a useless voice. \n\nDrowni... | 6 | |
[WP] You never wanted to be a deep space miner, but being the captain of your own ship has its perks. Humanity is believed to be alone in the universe. One day you stumble upon the debris of a massive space battle that happened long, long ago. The ships are clearly not of human origin... | [
"deeply unfinished, likely won't finish :?\n06/06/17\nFOR PRESERVATION, SEAL AND PRAY; \n\nRegardless of another scraping sound , a peaceful silence held its ground in this spartan cabin. Only Engines, with their violent outbursts of noise and hellish heat remained encased from the enlightenment of our situation. A... | 9 | |
[WP] You keep dreaming about a certain girl you've never met. It's been happening for years now. You talk to some people on what it could mean. Some say it's your guardian angel, some say it's just coincidence. But you know it means something else. Something bigger. | [
"It's her.\n\nI froze right in place. I could barely see her back, leaning against a low wall. Her golden hair gave her away immediately. I knew that she was the one. I had seen her so many times... She was always around, always waiting for me to catch up. She alway hurried me to come with her, but I always woke up... | 1 | |
[WP] A man approaches you and hands you a slip of paper. He looks at you, and says, "Don't lose it, this is your life line." as he walks away. The paper is blank. | [
"\"Don't lose it, this is your life line....\" I hold the paper in my hand--it's...blank? And quickly I look back up at the man, disappearing in the busy New York pedestrian traffic. \n\nWait...that man is homeless...\n\nWhatever. I roll my eyes, crumple the paper and walk the other way back to my apartment. I got ... | 1 | |
*Universally protected as a result of being well liked. | [WP] You are the bartender for the bar in between dimensions, where good and evil alike go to have a drink. You are well liked by all, and universally protected. One day, some New Gods try and fuck with you. | [
"**\"The Crack In The Wall\"**\n\n\"Another Black Salt'n'Satan Juice, Barkeep\", said the old wizard, leaning across the obsidian countertop.\n\"Coming right up, Asteroth!\" I shouted back.\n\nI snapped my fingers, and the air around me fizzed and crackled as the cocktail formed from nothing, before I grabbed it, a... | 6 |
[WP] "If there's on thing I know at Auntie Ann's Pretzels, it's that everyone wants a pretzel on Saturday." | [
"I finally decide to come out of my shelter a month ago. I don't know much about what happened maybe nuclear weapons or a meteor. There wasn't much of a warning. I don't know how many people are alive. I have only found a few people other than me. \n\nMe and a neighbor are hiding out in a Auntie Ann's pretzel facto... | 1 | |
[WP] One day, the mirror in your bedroom catches your eye. You look into it and see your reflection packing a bag full of clothes and supplies. "We don't have much time," it warns you. "They're coming." | [
"\"They are coming\", he.. I.. *We* said.\n\nI should have questioned it but the moment I saw my -our- reflection being out of sync, I understood. It was a moment of complete confusion followed by clarity. How did I not see it before? We are many.\n\n\"I see.\", I answered. Since my reflection had already packed,... | 2 | |
[WP] Write a story that ends "and they lived happily ever after" - but make that line seem as dark or foreboding as possible. | [
"June 3rd 2035\n\nI am one of the last ones left. I'm only writing this so that when we have all lost our minds, a future civilization can at least know what happened here and learn from our mistakes. \n\nYou see, a few years ago we discovered that if we wrote things on a very specific type of paper, God paper or s... | 2 | |
Based off of something I remember seeing a while ago, I thought I'd let you guys take a stab at the idea. Make the story into anything you want, I'm curious what you guys can come up with. | [WP] A rebellious teenager decides to take over the world. After he/she realized their mom was right and that it was just a phase, they're not quite sure what to do having already achieved global domination. | [
"“His majesty, King Roland, the conqueror of worlds,” declared a stout man in a tidy suit. He held one of the large double doors open. \n\nTwo men with briefcases and stern looks hurried into the throne room and knelt before an immense staircase. Atop the stairs was a great throne of ornate gold and velvet. Torches... | 1 |
[WP] You are part of a team of Search n' Rescue, searching for people after an earthquake, you find a little girl trapped with Crush Syndrome, she is going to die. | [
"\"Everybody quiet!\" Sam bellowed across the taped-off area, his voice cracking above the din.\n\nAlmost immediately all other movement ceased. Drills coughed and died, conversations trailed away into the air with questions left unanswered, and everybody stopped moving. Even the birds seemed to have been stunned i... | 1 | |
[WP] The world eagerly awaits the release of the first ever virtual-reality MMORPG. You're a few days late to the party, but you finally get a copy. Upon character creation, you are allowed a God/Godess to follow. You choose the one with the least followers, the Diety of Games. | [
"The disembodied voice which had so far guided the character creation process swelled with excitement as a pantheon of gods and goddesses appeared before me. The stood regally, as if their tans and muscles were only achievable by divine right. The variation between their character designs was impressive, as to be... | 1 | |
[WP] Make something harmless illegal, like apples, now write about the black market of said item. | [
"When I was a little girl, I owned a Tamagotchi. Those little animals, pixelated freaks, harmless I thought. Until I learned that all artificial intelligence is dangerous. That giving human characteristics to pixels was dangerous. Or so they told me, when they took the blue one. My parents didn't know about the pin... | 1 | |
[WP]You are George Washington. Not the George Washington. Just a George Washington. The human race is long extinct. You have been resurrected by alien archeologists. They ask you to tell them how you beat the British army. | [
"I was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2053. Unfortunately, we were still at least a few years away from a cure for my illness, and thus, my doctor gave me a year to live. In that year, I spent my time with family and friends, getting to know them a little bit better before the memories were ripped from my head. Or s... | 1 | |
[WP] "Do you know my name?" | [
"The professor glared at me as I came down the stairs to the main floor. On the table beside the leather chair, a stack of white papers reached almost to the height of the man's grey curls. Leaning back in his chair, he arched his eyebrow and made a small gesture with his hand to the echoingly empty lecture hall.\n... | 2 | |
[WP] Humans have evolved to the point where we can turn our Memories to Physical Items, the more we have, the shorter we live. You are on your death bed, trying to figure out which memories to erase.... | [
"Just breathing was hard. It felt like he had to force the air into his mouth, fight it into his throat, beat it into his lungs, and even then he only got a shallow drag before it escaped right back out.\n\nThe diary said things hadn't always been like this. It said he used to run miles without getting tired. It sa... | 1 | |
[WP] With your dying breath you wish to be young again and have an exciting life. So, you get reborn as a character in a teen romance novel. | [
" Well I made the best out of a bad situation, I'm kind of stuck in a book I didn't like. I wasn't really hating it but I definitely didn't want to read the thing either. I did see the first movie though during a class in high school a few years back so that did help me know what was coming. This all started when ... | 1 | |
[wp] Pressing snooze takes five minutes off your life everyone knows it but still does it to get those last few minutes of sleep | [
"**BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP**\n\nI roll over and look at my alarm clock.\n\n*6:00 AM*\n\nI've already used five snoozes this week and it was only Wednesday. Groaning my way out of bed, I switched the alarm to \"off\". You see, scientists managed to work out a system that tries to force people to get out of bed without s... | 1 | |
[WP] An aspiring supervillain was inspired by Batman when choosing their supervillain name. Unfortunately, their greatest fear is rather underwhelming. The resulting name is causing problems with their supervillain career. | [
"Bryce Buehner rubbed his eyes blearily as he woke up, the moon shining through the thin curtains and piercing his eyelids. It was time to go. \n\n\nHe was even more nervous about getting changed and going on patrol these days, ever since footage was leaked from when he had foiled the museum heist. It had been his ... | 3 | |
[WP] The thoughts of a post-apocalyptic survivor, mad with grief taking revenge on his surviving government for starting a nuclear war taking away all that he has held dear. | [
"''OH FUC-'' the soldier said as I opened fire, the booming roar of my shotgun opened his skull like a blooming flower of meat and blood, the others heard it, I take the safety off the M16 set it to full auto, they are coming, they turn the corner only to receive a rain of 5.56 rounds, both of them fall, I move for... | 1 | |
[WP] write a story where the world is a bubble in some aliens laboratory, and we find out | [
"It's been centuries since they were sent off, but finally, a ship has returned. Upon landing, some of the most terrified humans I've ever seen exited, shown only once in a brief clip on the news.\n\nThe letter that slid across my desk was so unexpected, even if I should've had some idea that it was coming. A small... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a story about a dancer beginning with "In the silence of the night" | [
"In the silence of the night, she tiptoes; moving quietly in the room so no one will know she is up. \nPractice makes perfect. No, perfect practice makes perfect. Every movement, every step must be exactly where it needs to be for the audition tomorrow. \n1,2,3,4... first position, pirouette, petit jete and land...... | 2 | |
[WP] The world is ending. And you? You forgot your popcorn. | [
"We, The Doomsday Club liked to think that our origins were ancient and that our legacy would surpass our first and final meeting. Of course, that was just a romantic wish. A fantasy of all of us who had given all their fucks and were ready for the end. \n\nEveryone knew the world was going to end sooner rather ... | 1 | |
[WP] A giant dachshund puppy destroys New York | [
"Some would say July 19th was like any other day in New York City, until about a quarter past noon. It was midday, and the sun was at its highest point in the sky. The birds of Central Park sang joyously, and the raccoons had their fill of scraps from the dumpsters. All were happy, and well. On the South end of the... | 1 | |
[WP] It's the year 2641. Violence is a thing of the past, there has not been a violent crime in the past 200 years. You are a detective underfunded and hardly trained after the first serial killer in the past 200 years. | [
"I was sitting with my wife and children for dinner. Just then I got a call from my boss. I have been working for the Metropolitan Police since I was 25. This call was strange. There was a murder inside the Shard, the 9th tallest building in the city. I immediately kissed my wife and said goodbye as I headed to the... | 3 | |
[WP] You are constantly being bullied by this one person and his/her clique in school. One day after another encounter with them, you pray that it will stop, and the next morning you wake up and realise you have switched bodies with that person. | [
"8:50 am. It was 20 minutes before class starts and Derek had still not left the drivers seat. Derek has been in shit situations before. Like the time he forgot his lines mid scene during the school showing of \"High School Musical\". And the time when his sister showed his crush that poem he wrote and that he thou... | 1 | |
[WP] It's the year 2517 and climate change has vastly altered Earth as we know it. As humans flock to the now-temperate poles, ancient ruins are discovered in the freshly thawed landscape. | [
"A warm breeze blew through my hair as I stood on the edge of the ship, and gazed across the ocean towards Antarctica. I couldn't help but smile at the sight of its shores far off in the distance. Finally, after waiting my entire life, I would be able to feel the soothing touch of sand under my feet.\n\nNow that I ... | 2 | |
[WP] She had always wondered why he had never invited her to his house... but now that she's here, she understands. | [
"“Hey, bae,” Rob greeted Jasmine with a peck on the cheek.\n\nJasmine’s beamed at the touch. She always liked it when he kissed her on the cheek. It was a little thing, but it felt like such an intimacy. Her face lit up with a smile, the outward glow matching the inner one she felt whenever she was with Rob.\n\n“He... | 3 | |
[WP] You've discovered that only you are immune in a zombie apocalypse. Unfortunately your face looks like a zombie's. | [
"They said I had a face only a mother could love. Yes, I was ugly. but surely there's someone out there for me? right?\n\nApparently not! cause they're all dead. \n\nYup, that's right every single one of them. Except they still walk by me every day. \n\nWhat's that you say? How can someone be dead and walking aroun... | 1 | |
[WP] Area 51's secrets have been exposed on wiki leaks, it's something worse than aliens. | [
"The pictures were one thing. It was the video that changed everything. The video, and the final picture. \n\nThe scary thing was how normal he seemed. In appearance that is, not in behavior. Black suit, black tie. Rather pale, but not unnaturally so. With well groomed short black hair, and freshly shaven, he stoo... | 1 | |
[WP] You live in a world of extreme reincarnation. Every living thing is a life you've lived or one you're going to live. One day, you realize this, all of you do. | [
"\"What if time is circular, reincarnation is real, and we're all just ourselves in different lifetimes?\" I typed. It was the first time I'd thought of such things. Chat rooms were still relatively new, giving me the ability to share thoughts normally I kept to myself.\n\n\"Okay, be honest. Everyone here is sto... | 3 | |
[WP] Deep sea researchers finally make a manned submersible that can withstand immense amounts of pressure. On their first voyage, after reaching the deepest man has even dove, the pressure gauge starts dropping and they see what looks like to be the ocean surface below them. | [
"“This is Virgil Zero One.” The navigator of the advanced submersible craft announced over the communications link between the ship and the surface. “Reporting that we are entering the trench, meaning that we are now officially at the lowest depth ever reached by humanity.” He said the last bit quite happily, and h... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a rhyming poem about the highlight of this day or week. | [
"It started real simple, a beer and a slice,\nMe and 3 friends, twas really quite nice.\nThen after that, we're back at my place,\nHaving more beer, and a Mario kart race. \nAfter a while we decided to snip it\nNow we're a team and needing to clip it. \nHour or so later, now me and one friend \nWe weren't really re... | 1 | |
[WP] You and your wife/husband decide to take a nap together before going out to dinner one night, you place your head on his/her chest and for the first time you notice... no heartbeat. | [
"Grace looked at the time, 4.19pm. 'Gawwwwd, I'm so tired' She said through a huge yawn.\n\n'Mmmm' said Michael from the sofa, his eyes closed. 'Come here sweetie' and he opened his arms for her, indicating that he wanted a snuggle.\n\n'But we have reservations at 6' Said Grace, stifling another yawn with the back... | 1 | |
[WP] "Wake up, sweetie.... have you forgotten today is the day?" | [
"“Wake up, sweetie,” mother says, lightly shaking me. “Have you forgotten today is the day?”\n\t\nI hadn’t.\n\t\nAs mother stares down at me, I roll out of bed, trying to avoid her devious smile because it makes me sick to my freaking stomach. She’s never tried to hide the fact I’m not wanted, that I was only born ... | 1 | |
[WP] You did the right thing, but you took it way too far. | [
"Cigarettes are a being sold for fifty pesos a pack in the busy streets of quiapo. But for one vendor, he's selling cigarettes and more. \n\n \n\nBetlog would usually walk along quiapo before the clock hits 8am buying a pack of cigarettes from Kantot. \"Keep the change\" said Betlog as he gave Kantot a two... | 3 | |
[WP] All mirrors lead to an evil alternate world, and your reflection is the only thing keeping you from falling in by putting their hand wherever you place yours. One day your reflection forgets.. | [
"As long as I can remember I’ve had an obsession with mirrors. Not in a vain way, of course. Just the fact that I can look at it and not truly see it, but rather see what it reflects. It has always intrigued me, when I was younger I would sit in front of mirrors for hours just staring. Now I just appreciate the... | 1 | |
[WP] You're the first man to be sent to Mars as a groundbreaker for the coming missions. Everything is fine until communications are lost and you finally remember... you left the stove on. | [
"\"Please...\" I begged the machine. It had stopped working five minutes ago, and was being a major pain. \"I promise if you turn out I'll say nice things to you. Compliment your antenna.\"\n\nThe piece of metal did absolutely nothing. It probably didn't understand me. For a moment, I considered making it voice act... | 2 | |
[WP] The monkey is looking at you funny, the rats seem off somehow and your wife texts you saying the cat is creeping her out. As head of the genetics department, you suddenly remember what happened during the office party two weeks ago. Your eyelid twitches, and so does your antenna. | [
"It was a huge mixer held by the science departments. Each department brought something unique from our labs as a kind of nerdy show and tell. The head of the Neurology department brought a new brain boosting nootropic they've been developing. Microbiology brought in their newly cultured, high efficacy, viral prote... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a flight crew on a plane and you think one of the passengers might be turning into a zombie. | [
"\"Man I just want to get home and die in my bed,\" I say to my buddy Danny, as I'm leaning over my cart. I became a steward to travel and maybe get some in a distant country. But you know chicks just don't go for the whole flight steward traveling the world thing. I should have went to flight school. \n\n\"The fli... | 7 | |
[WP] You were told of an oppressive evil empire in a distant land and have traveled across the world to stop their tyranny only to arrive and discover that the person lied and there is nothing evil or oppressive about them | [
"The door swung open by my powerful kick, as I entered the old bar I used to inhabit every Saturday night. My village had not changed much in the 5 years since my journey began, but I had. I was once weak, naive, and foolishly believed that the world was fair. I soon learned how wrong I was. \n\nFive years ago, I w... | 1 | |
[WP] You have a complicated relationship with the monster under your bed. | [
"*Hormones are a funny thing*, I thought to myself as I walked up the stairs to my bedroom after supper. At sixteen years old, I had the usual fears of most people my age. Those gross, bulbous pimples that grew under your skin, forgetting about an essay that was worth 40% of your final grade, and whether or not my ... | 4 | |
[WP] There are old gods, almost forgotten by humanity. You are one of their last worshippers. | [
"As a child, I grew up in a small, conservative town, the nearest city a few hours away. I could tell you the name of my town. It wouldn’t matter, you won’t recognize it. But I think I’ll keep it a secret, for my own sake as well as yours. \n\nReligion was a staple of our little village. You couldn’t walk anywhere ... | 1 | |
[WP] In WWII: After saving a fugitive who turns out to be a witch, she blesses you with an odd protection spell. Now, any projectile, explosive, blade, or blunt instrument about to strike you changes into cheesecake instead. | [
"\"And that's the story of how your Pappy survived the big, scary war,\" said the old man, tucking his grandchildren into bed. \n\n\"We can't go to bed now, Pappy! What if the witch comes, and gets us!\"\n\n\"She wouldn't want to hurt not one of the hairs on y'all's heads. She'll protect y'all, like she protected y... | 5 | |
[WP] You are an immortal who survived the end of human life and you search the land that once held life only to find another immortal.. | [
"Paris, I always liked Paris.\nIt was such a hive, like most cities, but there was just something about the place. That indefiniable je ne c'est quois which made it different. Now all that's left are sixteen mostly rusted girders from the Eiffel Tower and rubble everywhere.\nI was making the pilgrimage I took eve... | 4 | |
[WP] A Type-II Civilization declares war on Earth. Believing they are much more advanced than Earth, they let us make the first move. They're shocked when their entire arsenal is blown apart by one nuke. | [
"I stood at the command center, looking upon the weapon of weapons we'd brought to earth. A literal planet worth of soldiers and weapons in an indestructible, mobile base. The shell could handle incredible forces unseen from any civilization. In earth's numbers, it was stress tested at 150 Peta Joules. We could cre... | 2 | |
[WP] You run a secret keeping business. You keep the secrets your clients can't handle themselves. A new client might be the most challenging yet. | [
"Dale yawned, scanning the files splayed out in front of him: foreign military operations, politically-motivated assassinations, and the ever so common infidelity. Keeping secrets wasn’t as glamorous a job as one might think, mainly because the fun of secrets was divulging them. Dale, on the other hand, had never c... | 2 | |
[WP] You always, always keep your shower curtain open because you're paranoid that a serial killer might hide behind it. One day, you walk into the bathroom and notice that it's closed. | [
"I live alone.\n\n\nI brought this house four years ago because I had the money to do so. I do with it as I please.\n\n\nNo one closes my shower curtain because I live alone and I NEVER...EVER(!) close my shower curtain!\n\n\nThe Baretta in my left hand was aimed at head level to whomever might be in MY HOUSE and t... | 2 | |
[WP] Magic (and any stipulations you choose) exists, there's only one catch. It's fueled by emotion. While love can make beautiful things, so can hate. Joy and depression are equal in power. | [
"Love does wonderful things.\n\nIt breathes into the world with calm breaths of the one sleeping beside you. It speaks with the soft touches reminding you, \"I'm still here.\" And it listens with the peace of a quiet, warm afternoon. \n\nHate does powerful things.\n\nIt shapes the world with the tenacity of a deter... | 3 | |
[WP] There exists a mirror that shows the viewer what their own personal hell would be after their death. After looking through it yourself, you see your own reflection. | [
"Cold, clammy hands, covered with scars, Andrew told me. Ripping him apart, torn to pieces, only to reassemble him again. All intact, but all wrong at the same time. A testicle where his eye was, urine running through his veins. Pain and suffering as the hands tore him back apart, trying to rebuild him again and ag... | 2 | |
[WP]It is year 2343, Brain Machine Interfaces are common. Direct access to info and brain to brain communication is commonplace. It was revolutionary, till hacking BMI started. None of your thought is your own now, everything can be read and your whole personality is on display to hackers. | [
"Stephen hooked himself up to console in the library and felt the familiar tug as the system gained access. \n\n\"21st Century History... Where is it?\" He never spoke the words, but he heard them, clear as day. They echoed off the corners of the virtual room he stood in, a room glistening in white everything - flo... | 1 | |
[WP] Time travelers like to recruit people from our time period, because people from an earlier period don't understand how advanced technology works, and people from the future are used to automation, and don't know how to do much of anything themselves. | [
"My mind raced faster than the engine as I drove down 296. I hadn't left the house in the best mood, after letting Marcy have the last word, if you don't count slamming the door. The argument was a while in coming, but I didn't expect it to come to a head while I was getting ready for work.\n\nI drifted over a lane... | 1 | |
In this case I intend for "Sorcerers" to mean actual magic, but if you had an idea for something interesting with the name, go for it! | [WP] On the 6th of June 1944, you approach Omaha Beach as part of the first wave. You are a member of the 3rd Sorcerers Company, detached in support of the 29th Infantry Division. | [
"Dear Marion,\n\nI fear I may not live to see another day. Certainly, a Master of Illusions such as I must not fear death! Or so I was told all too often in Officer Training Corps, especially selected for a white horse regiment, or so they claimed, with however many silver spoons whose father had been an officer an... | 8 |
[WP] You make a deal with the monster under your bed in order to fight the boogie man that terrorizes the two of you from the closet. | [
"\n'ok 15 minutes till midnight, all we gotta do is... wait-' \"What exactly is the plan again?\" From below I heard the familiar creak that used to terrorize me until just a week ago. \" I hide next to the closet door and you hide under the bed, than it attacks the bed and I jump on top of him and you come a... | 3 | |
Was thinking about how so many of these stories take place in the same city... | [wp] superheroes have gotten rid of all the bad guys, and have moved onto stopping more petty crimes. | [
"My day was going pretty well, up until the moment Superman flew through my window.\n\nIt's pretty sudden. I'm browsing Reddit, listening to some music, and yeah. There's a loud shattering noise, glass everywhere, and the man of steel himself is standing tall and proud in my dorm room.\n\nI don't know if you've eve... | 2 |
[WP] "Look, I know it's a miracle and all but this wine that your kid just made from water, Mary? It's awful. Taste it and tell me it isn't." | [
"Yes, I suppose t'would be a true miracle. Wine from water, safe and clean with an aroma that at least hinted at the headache that would accompany.\n\nIt was on the hope of a miracle, that a weary pilgrim had made a long journey from the wild. A Voice in the night had awoken him and granted him purpose. Truth, he c... | 3 | |
[WP] You are a Ghost hunter, specialised in catching the spirits of people who said "You'll never get me alive" in their lifetime. | [
"Spirits manifest in all sorts of ways, some are just sheets of light, some are recurring noises, some are just images, some are intelligent and others are a combination of all of them.\nMy grandfather was the first person to be able to scientifically prove the existence of ghosts by learning how to trap them. The ... | 1 | |
[WP] You have the ability to place a curse on anyone you want. Unfortunately it doesn't always work out the way you hope. | [
"\"I'm sorry.\" She smiled and placed a placating hand on my arm. \"You're a nice guy and all...\" -*Oh, here it comes*- \"...but you're just not my type.\"\n\nI smiled. \"I understand.\" I lied.\n\nAs soon as she was gone, I put a curse on her. That she would never meet the man of her dreams.\n\nUnfortunately, my ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are in an everyday public location and you begin to notice people's actions and speech repeating over and over. Soon you realise that everyone around you seems to be stuck on some sort of loop. | [
"\"John, over here!\" Serena waved me over to her table. I kissed her cheek and asked her if she wanted a refill while I get in line.\n\n\"Medium double non-fat chai, no whip,\" I said to the brunette across the counter from me. She was cute. On another day I'd probably ask for her number, but not today. \n\n\"Oki... | 1 | |
[WP] You live your entire life, from birth to death, only to be born again and realize it's the exact same life you just lived | [
"\"Well look at that. Nothing's changed.\" A voice slithered in my ear. \n\n\"The dreams just needed to be more detailed and memorable.\" I murmured back. \n\nI slowly opened my eyes and found myself lying down in a familiar dark room. A scoff echoed somewhere above me. \n\n\"You keep saying the same shit, over and... | 2 | |
[WP] You are the towns grave digger. When you dig a grave, someone dies to fill it. Today you dug a lot of graves. | [
"I never thought of how much of a curse this life would be. How cruelly I could use this ability. How many could die to fulfill my twisted satisfaction.\n\nForty graves, all dug in anger. Forty people destined to die. Oh how I wish I could take it all back. If only I could fill those holes back in to save these peo... | 1 | |
[WP] Whatever the last song you heard was, use it as the basis of your story and have people guess what it is. | [
"As I am currently lying here trying to fall asleep, despite my disbelief, 999999 flying insects keep turning light bulbs on all around me until soon the entire planet will be covered in shining light bulbs. This is unbelievable! As I speak they have finished, until only one light bulb remains and suddenly one more... | 1 | |
[WP] Instead of writing a short story, write the plot for a large one. | [
"Ron Pulaski stood in front of the row of giant foam hands and looked at them more intently than anyone ever had. His writing partner Adam could tell by the way Ron's palm was resting on the top of his head that Ron had an idea fermenting in there somewhere. \n\n\"Ron, let's go. We can't be late, man.\" Said Adam. ... | 1 | |
[WP] Automation has slowly overtaken society until almost no one has jobs. As time goes on, fewer and fewer jobs exist. Eventually, in the year 3012 there is only one job left...yours. | [
"Showed up to this empty room with the button again. Every month someone is elected to come in this room and sit for twenty-four hours a day to oversee the master control button for the robots. Because the man who created the robots did not create the metal that runs them or the circuits that run the processors or ... | 5 | |
[WP] You're waiting for your tinder date in a café. You then realized you're not the only one waiting for her. | [
"I checked my watch again. It was only five minutes after one. \n\n\"Probably just running late.\" I sighed. \n\nI scolded myself for being so antsy. But how could I not be? The one cute girl I swiped right to out of hundreds of left swipes actually matched up with me. Me, of all people. I couldn't help but grin, l... | 1 | |
[WP] Due to budget cuts in heaven, caused by rapidly declining global faith, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are forced to find alternate employment... | [
"\"Jesus Christ, I could use a drink.\"\n\n\"Would you prefer red or white wine, my son?\"\n\n\"Red.\" Christ opens the top allowing the sparkling holy water to flow freely into the grail-like mug, before waving his hand across the glass transforming the liquid into the darkest of rouges. Famine takes a large swig ... | 1 | |
[WP] "To escape death, recreational drugs are taken to permanently travel to different universes and planes." | [
"Hayden Stanburg woke up to find himself lying on an operating table in a dank operating room, his wrists and ankles cuffed to the table. He was stripped down to his trousers, his greasy skin shining under the surgical light.\n\n\"Ah, so you're awake, Agent Stanburg,\" A foreboding voice spoke. Out of the darkness ... | 2 | |
[WP] While lazily browsing an Antique Book Store just before closing, you pick up a book and a piece of paper falls out of it. It's a map, with detailed markings and the text "Remember to dig up later..." | [
"-Oh! What on earth?\n\nAnd thus began my year long journey across the Atlantic from my cozy Boston home and into the hearth of the Ancient world. And it all began with a simple note.\n\nThat day, as I did on most, I was browsing around my favorite book shop, the world famous Brattle, in the hopes of finding a new ... | 1 | |
Hello Reddit, Today is my 18th Birthday and i love reading your stories, make me Happy please!!!
(Adult Super-Vision is meant to be like a "superpower" everyone gets in their 18th birthday) | [WP] You wake up on your 18th birthday and you start seeing things you couldn't see before, that's right, you just got Adult Super-Vision | [
"I stared blearily at the uneven white surface of my bedroom ceiling. Eighteen years old, what a milestone. A legal adult with all the trimmings. I sat up, stretched, and looked out the window.\n\nMrs Atherton stood naked in her bedroom.\n\n\"What!\" I slammed my eyes shut and held a hand over them.\n\nShe must hav... | 1 |
[WP] "There's magic in them bones, kid. I should know, I came from 'em." | [
"The dig site was empty now. The teams of researchers, onlookers, photographers and reporters had all fine home for the night, and while a few security guards roamed the perimeter, the field itself was abandoned save for myself and the dead. \n\r\nI liked to come back to sites at night sometimes. The security guard... | 1 | |
Heroes are lawful good normally. They are kind, sympathetic, upright, friendly and all-round good.
Write the story of the good guy we all want to unleash on the most evil people on Earth.
The good guy who doesn't tie bad guys up in his web and hangs them upside down from a lamppost for the cops to find. The good guy ... | [WP] Tell me a story about a monster who is a monster to other monsters. The story of the hero who doesn't do good because he wants to save people - he just wants to destroy bad guys. | [
"It had been an easy fight, and he was easy to find; most of the people on the list could be located on the golf course. All that remained of him was his blond toupee, which after I was done had been repeatedly teabagged. I got out the list and with a triumphant smile crossed off his name. That was the last of the... | 2 |
[WP] "I don't want to fight." "Too bad, because I do." | [
"I mean, what the fuck was he thinking? Did he really think I would sit there and smile when I finally found out he had committed such an atrocity? \n\nI was beyond anger. Steaming. Boiling rage. Livid. \n\nI had to find him. \n\nI grabbed my car keys and exploded out the house like a bat out of hell, slamming the ... | 1 | |
[WP] Serial killer goes to order fast food at Arby's and the worker messes up his order | [
"\tI pull up to the drive-thru window to pay for my order & there is an older woman standing behind her cash register receiving me with a grin so fake it makes me sick to my stomach. As she leans out of the window spitting her laminated & polished greeting I can feel a knot in the back of my chest tighten. ... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a world-renowned advisor. Not because you give good advice, but rather your advice is so bad that people follow the exact opposite of what you say to become successful. | [
"The gold trimmed stained oak doors opened before me like the sea parting before Moses. I strode forward, my internal music spurring me forth. I always have Applause by Lady Gaga playing on repeat in my mind, it keeps me focussed. It reminds me who I am.\n\nTo my left Jean from accounting, she got a wink for the cl... | 1 | |
[WP] A good man does a bad thing | [
"Many people have tried to guess the story of Mathias Masson. It is something that everyone feels that they need to know. It gets at the heart of something.\nMathias Masson was born in the old north, the Pennian north, into a military family. His father was an officer of the fleet. His grandfather had fought in the... | 1 | |
[WP]Being the top of the wanted list, your department had chased him for years. One kid claims to have found him. The suspects name? Waldo. | [
"RIIIING RIIIING\n\nThe all-too familiar ring tone of Detective Lee's phone cut through the silence of the night as he rolled over onto his side to glance at the bright screen. \"God dammit\" he muttered, as he answered the phone. \n\n\"What the hell do you want, Jones? It's 4 in the morning.\"\n\n\"Sir, there's a ... | 1 | |
[WP] A serial killer that's been hiding in a house for some time grows a soft spot for the child living in the house. | [
"The cries of a nine year old boy are like nails on a chalkboard. Roger had left the house that day. One of the many risks he had been taking. He had gone to the gas station two blocks over to get skittles and a fidget spinner. Dylan was the only kid in his grade who didn't have one. He had cried himself to sleep t... | 2 | |
[WP] A new US law now allows literal "hostile takeovers". Corporations begin raising their own private armies | [
"**Setup**\n\nNo one can remember how or why it started, they only know that it's been the only thing they've ever known. \n\nIts known that at some point in the past that centralized governments controlled the land. That they had police, an army, and regulated trade. But at some point that ended and the companies ... | 2 | |
[WP] Make the most cliched Hollywood blockbuster movie possible. | [
"His name was Richard End, and everybody wanted him dead. Richard had been an inside man, THE inside man at the White House. If a tweet was twittered, he typed it, if a presidential mistake was made, he was the first to grimace and face-palm, and if the FBI needed to be persuaded not to investigate, he was the one ... | 2 | |
[WP] every time you blink, something around you changes. At first it's small thing like a t-shirt. After a while, something massive happens | [
"\"Craig you asshole this better workout\" \n\nI chuckled stuffing his limp bag full of money. \"it'll workout\" I wink at him and toss the bag. Then I move onto my bag. After it's full I simply close my eyes and open them again. \n\nMy friend changed this time, into a horse. I grab his bag and hop on his back. A... | 3 | |
[WP] You have fallen into the same rabbit hole as Alice and after drinking the bottle labeled 'drink me' you realize it is strong liquor instead of a shrinking potion. Describe your drunken experience through Wonderland. | [
"I was a stranger child baby, wake up, wake up, it will come. Room, I Neath body. Electronic Pop Music Collection. Back ancestors parents have long died. Wow, I feel happy. And I also see mea'oki ball, if I think of all the things I can only college, what a week, I think, e'ae, school. So here I am, but .... I'm ki... | 2 | |
[WP] Immortality is finally achieved, by placing the minds of people into robots. The main reason: to have prisoners live out all of their life sentences to the very end. | [
"\"Keep 'em up and running!!\" is all I hear. \n\"Make 'em pay, make 'em serve his hundred years!!\" \n\nSure. Easy for the bosses to say. They're not fixing all the shit work done by the last tech, and his father before him.\n\nDidn't even solder the connections. They used fucking crimp connectors, and with f... | 1 | |
[WP] You, an adventurer following the California Gold Rush, happen upon a giant made of gold who tells you the newfound gold is the remnants of a great war of golden people. This is his story | [
"When he found me, I thought for sure that the heat and dehydration had finally gotten to me. My mother was right, I’d thought. Once I’d packed my bags and was preparing to leave, she’d assured me that some starry-eyed farm girl from the most fertile land in the nation wouldn’t last a day in the deserts of Californ... | 1 | |
[WP] After encountering Earth, a group of aliens have deemed human life insignificant and meaningless. They plan to destroy the planet, but then they discover the presence of a certain species of animal. | [
"Hello reader. Today, me and my comrades are preparing to destroy the planet known as Earth. It’s filled with the most insignificant creatures - Humans. Everything they do is pointless. They have jobs that have no significance at all. Some even dedicated their lives to those jobs! Their Planet is also filled with t... | 4 | |
[WP] You're just an average caveman, with your average cavewoman wife and caveman son. Suddenly, while out on a hunt, time travelers from all throughout history / future show up and try to kill you. | [
"Dark, then fire. Man look at me and talk fast. \nHungry and need water. He take shiny thing and put to my head. Feel danger, feel fear. I get angry, I get strong. I break out. \nI kill man. More of man come out and see me. I kill more man, but one live. \nI hear loud sound and feel bad pain. My arm can't move.... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a cave man in the future after the apocalypse. Only a few hundred humans are left. One day you hit your head and a holographic window appears. It reads "Connecting to Satellite"..."WiFi connection established". | [
"Oog hear!\n\nMan talk but Oog not see them!\n\nAAAAAAHHHH!!!\n\nThere is still!\n\nHelp Oog!\n\nOog mad!\n\nGet back! Oog has stick!\n\nDon't talk to Oog!\n\nOog see.\n\nVoices come from old man before Oog.\n\nOld man was smart. He make wonderful gadgets.\n\nOog can make use of these to better the tribe.\n\nYes, I... | 1 | |
[WP]: You are dropped into your current location in the year 2217. Being a primitive, frightening barbarian is actually fun. | [
"I opened my eyes and gasped. It was nighttime but the city was so bright. The lights of the city reminded me of when my parents took me to Las Vegas when I was a kid. I felt so small and scared of all the tall people walking by in the streets. But not here, people here are small and skinny. I guess that’s what hap... | 4 | |
[WP] You have just discovered that your mother isn't entirely human. | [
"My mother was always the shy type. She often chose not to attend late-night parties, and could often be found lying in bed at noon, despite supposedly getting a good night's sleep. Occasionally, she would growl if I tried to wake her up, and sometimes I wondered why she was so out of it.\n\nThe night I found out t... | 3 | |
[WP] You're having a really hard time telling the difference between coke (the drink) and coke (the drug) | [
"“Hey, you want a coke?” Dave asked.\n\nYeah, that’s a question I get a lot. ‘Do you want some coke?’ He might as well be asking me: “Yo, you wanna stuff some shit up your nose?”\n\nNot my cup of tea.\n\n“Hey, did you hear me?” Dave asked.\n\n“Yes, I heard you,” I said.\n\n“Well?”\n\n“No.”\n\nHe sighed. “Suit yours... | 1 | |
[WP] Bored with his time at work, God decides to make all those 'Upvote in X seconds for Y' to come true. | [
"Spam email, spam email, an email for Spam, more spam email, spam email...hey, JC, get your ass over here!\n\nYes, Pa? \n\nTell me why I have ladies in my email saying that they want to meet me for a quick \"suck and fuck?\" I give those people down there the Internet and THIS is what they do with it?\n\nPa, people... | 1 | |
[WP] It's lonely being stationed on a twilight dim outpost at the outer edge of a solar system. | [
"Bright Line Systems. “Bright Line” in text above, red and small. Meant to evoke a laser I think. Systems in green, the S two big arrows circling the word. What a lovely logo.\n\nA lovely logo to stamp on the meal packages.\n\nA lovely logo to stamp on the food heating unit.\n\nA lovely logo to stamp on the spacesu... | 5 | |
[WP]In a world where 50% of the population can channel their life force, or “The Gift” into scientific weapons and tools called “Soul Mods” that have different effects. “The Goddess: Chapter 1” | [
"For 8 years I have been waiting for this moment. I started training when I was just 7 years old for this day. My grandfather always told me \"the moment you were born I knew you were destined for great things\". Using one's life force is a very dangerous thing. Though everyone use their force, it takes a toll on t... | 1 | |
[WP] You get struck by lighting, after everything looks a little bit strange. | [
" Well this is pretty awesome, I mean I'm different but I can go wherever I want and my phone isn't gonna need to be plugged in... ever. I kind of am restricted by power lines but I'm basically able to travel to areas connected by them.... so basically through the energy grid I can get to New York if I want to. I ... | 2 | |
[WP] Death is accidentally killed, the best doctors from the world join efforts to save him. They, more than anyone in the world, know how important is he. | [
"Dale stood with his mouth agape. Ketchup dripped onto his shirt. He was paralyzed. \n\nThere, on the other side of the busy street, was a grim spectre, a dark being dressed in robes of purest black, shrouded by an aura of fear and despair, and wielding the Tool of the Harvest, a tall, black-handled scythe. \n\nOut... | 1 | |
[WP] They gather in the dead winter, searching for fire | [
"To some, winter is simply cold. Snow and cold, and not much else. Here we know better. There is the start of winter, when it’s still warm and wet enough to bring the snow in damp and heavy, turning to slush or ice as the sun goes up and down. Of course there’s the end of winter, too, with the spring bringing r... | 1 | |
[WP] In a world where superpowers are a common trait amongst humans, a zombie epidemic has just broken out. | [
"Off in the distance, an explosion shakes the air and sends a sky scraper crumbling to the ground. It was only the second night since the dead had risen, but they overran and dismantled the livings defenses with ease. A band of survivors continued up the path into the mountains. The path up to the mountains was bar... | 1 | |
[WP] to unify their kingdoms, the Burger King shall wed the Dairy Queen. | [
"They stood majestically, a queen adorned in white attire as clean as her title was regal, and a king as tough as the beef in his fields. None could attest against the fact that they were polar opposites, and yet they stood in harmonious marriage.\n\n\"Like hell I'll let them try to unite against me.\"\n\nThe blue ... | 4 | |
[WP] You unknowingly receive a diary that makes anything written in it a lie. | [
"I read over the instructions on the inner flap. It doesn't make any sense; how could a diary like this exist? I decide to try it on something small.\n\"Dear Diary,\nMy phone screen is not cracked.\"\nI look down at my phone and smirk to see no changes to the screen. The single light in my room glistens off the num... | 2 | |
[WP] By fate, or curse, you've been compelled to avenge your parents' murders. One problem: you absolutely hated your parents. | [
"I pulled the trigger again. The grimy bastard was now out both kneecaps. The muzzle flash lit his face better than the dim lights. His terror was priceless, but not enough to make up for his crime.\n\n\"You took them from me!\" I screamed for the second time in as many minutes. \"How could you?\"\n\n\"I-I-I d-don-... | 1 | |
[WP] "So, if we had several fragmentation rockets, do you think we could take out a Dragon?" | [
"\"Like a LAW or something?\" The Stryker bounced over the muddy rutted road, the armored vehicle making a decent clip despite conditions. \n\nThe marines inside had been having the same debate for about an hour now. \n\n\"Those aren't fragmentation dumbass. Those are high explosive.\" Private Hendricks rolled his ... | 2 | |
[WP] Every person in the world is a robot except you. | [
"In the morning I dust off my snowboard and catch the lift up to Gorgon Mountain, Colorado, Earth Epsilon. Rachel and Jane are waiting for me at the top in their light silk pajamas and snowboard-boots.\n\n\"Oh, Jem!\" says Rachel, popping up from the snow to hug me. \"You're up! How are you! Did you drink coffee?\"... | 1 |
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