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[WP] A prison is run by the clones of its prisoners | [
"I tell you what, do you know what prison's really like? Do you? Alright. I'll tell you. I've been in there once for three months. Driving without insurance, caught three times, judge says I need to be taught a lesson. So I get six months, three suspended. Apparently that'll tell me right off, won't it? Bastards. I... | 2 | |
[WP] Two soulmates catfish each other. | [
"Oh, god.\n\nSarah stared at him, and her stomach dropped into her boots. He had grown out his black locks but it was still him. Brendan. Brendan. Her Brendan.\n\nHe sat in front of the blackboard, chewing absentmindedly on his bottom lip as he scribbled on a pile of papers in front of him. Mr Paolo, Marilynn had g... | 1 | |
[WP] You choose to be a ghost after you die. You're randomly assigned someone to haunt. Rather than scaring them you decide to make their lives easier. They know something is going on when one day their laundry is mysteriously folded and the cat has been fed. | [
"\"why won't Mr. Whiskers eat?? Is he dying?\"\nyou decide the cat is sick and the kindest thing to do is put him down, so you call the vet and schedule an appointment.\n\"My clothes, they're.... folded?\"\nYou have no idea how your clothes got washed and folded. Perhaps the cat isn't sick. Maybe you were just supe... | 6 | |
[WP] It used to be the Deep Woods, dark and lush and green. Now it was the Expanse, a desert of sand and death. Yet the legends of the dragon within persisted. | [
"Brannan paused and kneeled at the edge of the creek to fill his well-worn water pouches. Cautiously surveying the area, he hastily scooped as much water as he could find into the leather packs. There was no time for him to dally here; this was no place for a battle to be fought and won. As Brannan got to his feet,... | 3 | |
[wp] You are a parasitic immortal, living in a piece of jewelry. You have completely control over the person that wears you. | [
"It's a strange and distant existence, in this state. You are not you, but you are you while living through another. I've been me, or at least me through another, since there has been another to live through. I know what it's like to be a human, I know the localized experience of the brain. I know the emotions, the... | 1 | |
[WP] Our world is the fictional world, and characters secretly love to write about us and ship us with people. | [
"I smile at the woman as I walk in. Not out of anything but sheer politeness. She smiles back of course - can't be rude to a stranger now, can she?\n\nAnd that should be that.\n\n*Should* be that.\n\nExcept the next thing I know...\n\n\"Is anybody sitting here?\"\n\nWhat the hell? Wasn't I on the other side of the ... | 1 | |
Here's the [ancient Canaanite religion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Canaanite_religion) and [Yahweh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh). | [WP] A minor warrior god turns against his brothers and sisters. Write about the rise of Yahweh and the destruction of the Canaanite pantheon. | [
"I Am... Jealous, an avenger. I Am... Vengeance and wrath. I exact vengeance on my foes, the ones I called sister, brother, father. I vent my wrath on Asherah, Ba'al, El. I Am the LORD slow to anger and great in power, my way is in the whirlwind and the storm, the clouds are dust on my feet. But in the times before... | 1 |
[Wp] A wizard tries to get some reagents for a complicated spell. Getting such Ingredients on a space station has proven to be quite the task. | [
"Salazor blinked in surprise as the bright white of the LED screen before him lit up in response to his last click, the spell he had been searching for, for *years* right there before him. The Wizard’s heartbeat began to escalate as he confirmed the authenticity of the document with a handy little app he had instal... | 1 | |
[WP]'I just want to stay until the lights go out' | [
"\"Do you want to paint today?\" I ask, sitting on the end of the bed to dig through the box of things that I've trucked into the room. With permission of course.\n\n\"No,\" she says, burying her head under the sheets like she does when she knows what she wants to do but won't tell me. I always makes me smile and I... | 1 | |
There could be other people with weird powers trying to kill you or something | [WP] When the chairman of the company found out that there is a hit out on him by the government he gives the role of chairman to the janitor(you) little did you know that once you had the title you could move chairs and only chairs with your mind! Now you have to run the company and survive the hit | [
"\"All of it?\" \n\"Yep all of it.\" \n\"Even the suits?\" \n\"Of course! You need to look professional now that you're the chairman. People won't respect you if you dress like a janitor.\" \n\"Yeah, I guess that makes sense. Can I just ask one question though?\" \n\"Sure, Mr. Chairman\" \n\"Why me? You could... | 1 |
[WP] The world is black and white until you meet your soulmate. After your soulmate dies, the world goes back to black and white. | [
"Who knew that something so small, so old yet so precious, yet so loving could ever leave this earth. The thing you’ve been looking for your whole life and it’s gone within an instant. All the things you remembered when she was still in your arms looking back at you like she was in the safest place in the world. Li... | 5 | |
[WP] After dying in a terrible accident, you have become a ghost. At first it was rather boring but you've learned how to possess computers. You have become a ghost-spy-for-hire... and part-time IT worker. | [
"**Please let me know what you think!**\n\n---\n\nMy life was rather ordinary. I worked part-time as a receptionist at a small veterinarian practice while I studied. I had been a semester away from getting my IT degree. I spent my free time reading old crime novels. \n\nIt was peaceful and routine. I spent most of ... | 1 | |
In case it wasn't clear, this prompt was inspired by the idea of video games without new game plus options, where the only thing you can do after completing the game is reload your old save. Clarifying here because character limits are hard sometimes. | [WP] A hero has gathered the mystical artifacts necessary to save the world... But refuses to do so. Everyone now hates him, but he knows that he has already slain the villain countless times, yet after every battle, time resets and he finds himself standing outside of the final dungeon once more. | [
"\"Why?\"\n\n\"Why not?\" Brae responded, shifting the weight of the pack.\n\n\"You can't just leave! The kingdom, the world...\"\n\n\"Will fall to darkness if I should fail. I know. Believe me, I know.\"\n\nWhen the Magister's jaw dropped, Brae dared to reach out and lift it back into place - Eternal or not, these... | 4 |
[WP] Every time the lights cut out the eyes would stare back at him | [
"His keys turned unlocking the antique bronze door knob, his keys rattling as Marcus nervously tried getting in. It was almost dark and in the dark the eyes are at their most strongest. The sun was setting behind him, his shadow quickly fading as the key got jammed and stuck in the knob. Marcus furiously jiggled an... | 1 | |
[WP] Hell freezes over. You watch things unfold that people said only would happen when hell, infact, freezes over. | [
"Donald Trump looked at his advisors and generals.\n\n\"Pfft, North Korea wouldn't be able to beat us unless Hell froze over,\"\n\nVladimir Putin said to himself,\n\n\"I wooodn't lloose the elaction oonless hell froze over,\"\n\nThe head of ISIS yelled right before a beheading: \"Ze Middle East will not become peac... | 1 | |
[WP] You are immortal, but you've been stuck orbiting Earth for ages. From a distance, you have witnessed the planet flourish and die a dozen times. However, for the first time, you spot something approaching you from the planet... | [
"Long ago I walked upon the Earth when it was young. A time when things were new, and all the possibilities unexplored. The human species were many then. Still able to give rise to new forms, like myself. I was created to be the perfect being. That which comprised the great strength of the Neanders, the wits of the... | 5 | |
[WP] You run a remote refueling base in the Arctic circle. At season's end, your charter plane crashes, destroying the radio tower. You rescue the pilot, who opens up about being a serial killer, promising you won't be harmed, as he owes you his life. It's four months till the end of winter. | [
"4 months.\n\n4 months living and sleeping in the same bed with a serial killer.\n\nI know who he is. Or rather, I know his persona. He's the Connecticut Slasher. He kills his victims through strangulation, and then slashes his signature mark on their chests.\n\nI don't know what to make of the situation. As soon a... | 1 | |
[WP] From the perspective of a pet, living with an owner dealing with depression. | [
"The feeder is back. I can hear his heavy steps. He's often noisy when he walks, these days. I don't think it's good though. When he walks fast, that means I will get food. When he doesn't, I get food most of the time but mostly hugs if he sees me. \n\nWhen he's noisy like today, he also often makes ringing noises ... | 3 | |
[WP] When a nun from Ohio learns to knit, not everyone is supportive. However, her fortunes improve when her friend finds a magic knitting needle. | [
"\"Maybe you should take up a craft Sister Julia.\" Sister Emily mentioned. The two sisters Emily and Julia were sweeping the main entrance way to the Church of Saint Longinus\n\nSister Julia was in a mental fog. The daily routine of the Convent was taking a toll on her. She's been a member of this Missionary for m... | 1 | |
[WP] As the Holder of Memory, you paint memories for amnesiacs. This time, however, you have a long history with your patient. | [
"Neatly filed away, in cabinets that stretch to the ceiling and meet in grand networks amid the rafters, is enough data to overwhelm 100 of the largest storage devices that men and women conceive of.\n\nIt is the total memories of every human that ever lived.\n\nThere are other species in here as well. Most are in ... | 1 | |
[WP] You have been charged with explaining what dogs are to an alien ambassador. | [
"The Psyrengian ambassador studied the human before him. The glowing ethereal blue jellyfish like creature that levitated next to an average looking human. Yes David was a brilliant diplomat chosen by the UN to answer the visitor’s questions, but a jellyface with slightly humanlike features took some getting used ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are an alien that knows about Earth and Humans. As a scientist, you bring up the idea to visit Earth. All your peers think you are crazy stating, "We do not go to that world! They consume poisons and are composed of biological fire! They are the Death Breathers!" | [
"Oxygen.\n\nIt's name brings about a shudder in our species. All fire requires it, and most cell death, brought forth by free radicals require oxygen. In our planet, an oxygen leak would lead to a mass evacuation. Not an element to be taken lightly.\n\nThat's why my colleagues thought I was crazy when I wanted to v... | 1 | |
[WP] A blind girl falls in love with Medusa | [
"Helen was wandering the fields of Skipsborough when she heard a scream from where she knew the forest was. Its ring was shrill, yet she was intrigued by its melody and she decided to find out what it was.\n\nCupo, tongue out, lapping, tail wiggling, trotted close beside her, tenderly helping her find the way unhar... | 7 | |
[WP] Personification of countries and planets is done all the time. You're used to it, everyone is used to it. What you are not used to, is hearing a very old voice in a dark cave asking you to kill it, and quickly. | [
"I can feel the turmoil inside of me. The stalactites are quivering. The limestone is warm. All sorts of minerals, beautiful constellations hidden where no one else can find them. The world is warm, and warming further.\n\n\"I don't want to die that way\", the whisper escapes. It is the gong ringing through my mind... | 1 | |
based on the music video for the song [The Wolf by SIAMES] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX44CAz-JhU)
edit: just to clarify a bit, it doesn't have to be the examples I gave. I just came up with them to help give ideas. the ones I read so far are good though! | [WP] Addictions are literal monsters who shows up when it's time to claim their victims. sometimes a woman, sometimes a wolf, sometimes something else entirely. yours appear just as when you're getting over your addiction. | [
"I thought I’d finally gotten the drugs out of my system. It took a long time, but I thought I was clean again. This one hit me harder than the others.\n\nAs I walked through the doors of the rehab center, another black shape emerged from the shadows. Not again. The black ghost formed itself into a young woman in a... | 2 |
[WP] You awaken with only one memory left; an odd moment of confusing sensory experiences. You are in a city on an island surrounded by an endless sea, no other land, and with a perpetually overcast sky. Nobody here seems to stay dead for long when they're killed. | [
"I awoke alone lying on a hospital room floor. It was empty. Faint memories of wind, blood, and burnt flesh surfaced then fled my mind with a migraine, leaving a metallic taste on the tip of my tongue. Vague muffled voices pierced my mind.\n\n*\"Mmrrr mff mowwr?\" one said.*\n\n*\"No, amm ammomiff. No, aggen,\" ano... | 1 | |
[WP] It has been a month since the zombie apocalypse arrived - and like all infections, it has begun to burn itself out, the once-mindless victims recovering to a world they have only vague, horrifying memories of, and the survivors who saw it all. | [
"When people started to turn back, we originally thought it was a new strain of the virus. We were very wary around the Returned, which is the name we gave to those whose virus had worn away. They managed to speak, and had memories just like us, but we didn’t know at first if this was some kind of adaptation or not... | 1 | |
[WP] You have the ability to sense other people's emotions. Because of this, you've been successful in everything from romance to work. You can understand(and even manipulate) everyone you meet, with one exception: when you have your first child, you can't sense their emotions. | [
"I knew something was off from the moment I got to the hospital. \n\nAs I walked down the hallway, a chorus of cries filtered through the walls around me, and I could sense the emotions behind them - anxiety, anger, tiredness, joy.\n\nBut one cry in particular, the one coming from my wife's room, had no emotion beh... | 3 | |
[WP] When a God falls in love they're bound by their lover's words. | [
"But he did not know. How could he? It is just a typical human platitude: \"I will be by your side forever.\"\n\nAnd now my quandry. My lover will die, and time will take its toll on his body. So must I carry around a rotting corpse around my neckfor the next millenia? I curse myself for falling into a puppy love c... | 2 | |
[WP] You, like Faust, have traded for eternal life until contentment, only problem your demon didn't try to swindle you. Been 1738 years, your done with life, but he doesn't know how to help you. | [
"\"I don't understand the objection,\" Aldrick groaned from his thickly padded chair. \"I am ready to die. I *want* to die.\"\n\nThe demoness stood in the high-arched fireplace, bathing herself in the warm flames and peering out at the far colder world of mortals. \"Exactly,\" she growled. \"I can't help you.\"\n\n... | 1 | |
[WP] Magic works much like handedness, in that magic cast with the right hand tends to be destructive, while magic performed with the left is restorative. Most mages are only able to cast with one hand or the other. You are one of the rare mages who can cast with both hands at the same time. | [
"The sky was overcast, threatening rain, but Will ignored this and closed the door to the boisterous dining hall behind him. He longed for the day he would become a 6th year student, who were given private dormitories, and thought about how good it would be able to eat in his own room without worrying about being d... | 4 | |
makes it hard to hold down a job. | [WP] Your life is constantly interupted by a wizard who summons you to another world to fight for him. | [
"Again??? I thought you promised that you'd let me have at least a week to myself.\n\nI'm sorry, Sid, but when things get this far out of control I just can't handle it on my own.\n\nSorry, wiz, but a deal's a deal. A week off means you don't call me for, let's see, 7 times 24 is 168, so, like, 168 hours - in a row... | 13 |
[WP]Humans have existed for billions upon billions of years and are about to experience the heat death of the universe. | [
"It is inevitable. The universe is breathing its last breath, and so are we.\n\nNone of the advances we’ve made really mattered in the end. After all, its all just going to turn into tiny particles of dust flying aimlessly and never meeting one another.\n\nHumanity was truly amazing. I’ve seen the records. How huma... | 2 | |
[WP] A 17th Century woman is brought to trial for witchcraft. She denies all wrongdoing, but the people have already decided her fate. | [
"\"you are hereby sentenced to trial by water.\" I knew what that included. Hell, everyone did, and most enjoyed it. Unfortunately, since witches aren't real, everyone just drowned. I was about to meet that fate. I hadn't done anything wrong. I woke up with the militia surrounding my house, chanting \"BURN THE WITC... | 1 | |
[WP] The kingdom has faced a never before seen peace, led by the incredibly beautiful and pure princess. The reason is because of you - a "cleaner", of sorts, who does the jobs so horrible and inhumane that even knowing about it would threaten the princess's purity | [
"\"Let me assure you, we have heard your plea here today. There is no need for fear. My men will arrange for everything that you need - return to your village knowing that your people will not face this day alone.\" She said. The man before her bowed, his face flushed red and a smile growing, and stumbled his w... | 1 | |
Also, name the sitcom
Edit: *an | [WP] the opening scene of a 90's sitcom about a dog, a cat, a goldfish, and a lion who move into a apartment in NYC. | [
" The audience roared with approval as the set lights illuminated the stage of a high rise apartment. A director rushed to take his place in a chair, marked with his title and the name of the show, \"King of the Foodchain\". The opening scene consisted of the dog, played by William Dafoe dressed in a dalmation ones... | 1 |
[WP] A Dwarf saves a Elf village in a way only a Dwarf could. | [
"\"By the power of Grundar's hammer, and Kedi's Ax MOVE!\" \n\nWith that as his battle cry Odam Snorrison dug his pick into the cave wall and heaved with all his might. The heat in the tunnel was overwhelming, but a life spent tending the forges of his home mine had toughened him, and honed his strength.\n\nFinally... | 1 | |
[WP] "The truth is, the sword is loose. Anyone can pull it out and become king." | [
"The Knight said as he wiggled the handle, with a smirk. \n\nIf that were the case, why had he not simply pulled the sword straight from the rock himself? \nAfter all, doesn’t everyone want to be King? \n\nStepping up hesitantly, thoughts ran through my head, the spoils of monarchy were mine for the taking. \n... | 1 | |
[WP] Rule no. 1 in war is to avoid invading Russia in winter. Clearly, the aliens have no idea about this. | [
"The year is 2109, planet Earth now only has one season. Winter. \n\nYear round it is cold except that in some areas it is moderate cold like in Hawaii whereas in areas like Russia it is extremely cold. The weather ofcourse dips even more from November to January. Going to such low temperatures that the 99% of the ... | 6 | |
[WP] A man attempts to rob a bank, but himself and everyone present are completely unaware that every other person in the room has super powers. | [
"\"Nobody *fucking* move.\"\n\nThe robber - ski mask, late twenties - holds a pistol shakily against a small crowd of people huddled against the glass of a teller's counter. He has eyes in the back of his head, so to speak, and struggles to split focus between what he can see in front of him and what could be appro... | 1 | |
[WP] Over the last four years, while studying at a college on the other side of the country, you've been exercising at the gym rigorously. Finally coming home no-one recognizes you so you decide to see what's different. | [
"What the gym?\n\nI’m going to karate chop in the nuts the next asshole who introduces themselves to me, welcomes me sarcastically to the Pike brotherhood, or asks if I need help finding anything. Hard and fast, like I’ve been learning how to do in my martial arts class. I mean jeez, you’d think that I’d been gone ... | 1 | |
[WP] Every deity has a Hand, a mortal imbued with a small fragment of their power. You are the Hand of a lesser deity. For some reason, your power is nearly equal to a major deity. | [
"Being the “Hand of God” isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. For one thing, there’s more than one god, so there’s actually a lot of us. For another, some of the gods are pretty minor, so some of us are pretty much powerless. I mean, the Hand of Iris basically gets free cell service everywhere since her boss is the mes... | 3 | |
[WP] A tropical storm forms in the southern Pacific Ocean but stays in one place. Sent to investigate, your team finds an ancient temple hidden in the eye of the storm. | [
"‘(Dramatic *yet accurate* synopsis of that day, December 10th, 1954 ~~entry draft~~ attempt one)\n\n“All the natives here are radioactive, Doctor” I said, putting away my Geiger counter.\n\n“How many sieverts?”\n\n“Roughly that of an Air Force pilot in low orbit- for a year. Lots of cataracts too- moles on the ski... | 1 | |
[WP] You are mind reader but can only see people's lost or repressed memories. You are part therapist, part detective, and much in demand. You are also a complete fraud. | [
"“It sounds like that makes you feel unappreciated” I told Alice in response to her vent regarding... coworkers I think. Honestly I zoned out a little. “Yes I do! I’m sorry for my little rant, I really came here to ask you about a repressed memory I feel I’m having” replied Alice. “Lately when I go to bed and close... | 3 | |
[WP] The Moon was full, and close, and red. The Moon was awake. The Moon was hungry. | [
"The nails so sharp and mouth agapes,\n\nbody tentions as the hunger wakes.\n\nFur so dark, eyes orange bright,\n\nsoon will start the hunt in night.\n\n .\n\nAnd in the sky above it all,\n\nthe moon is shining red and tall.\n\nOn his round face; grin is found,\n\nfor mankinds days have long been count.\n\n .\n\nTh... | 3 | |
[WP] Soon after moving in a tenant discovers their apartment complex not only houses humans, but supernatural beings too. | [
"\"Here's your key.\"\n\n\"Thanks.\"\n\nI enter my room. Everything is dusty, there are stains in the carpet, cobwebs in the corner, and the paint on the walls is peeling. It's a dump, but it's all I could afford. I unpack, meaning I open my overflowing suitcase on the sofa. It's been a long day and I need to relax... | 1 | |
[WP] A substitute teacher who normally teaches magic was asked to teach arts and crafts to young children at a non-magic school. Driving home, the teacher realizes they left their magical art supplies behind. They drive back only to find the school much different than how they left it. | [
"A long low whistle escaped my lips as I pulled into the parking lot. “Hooo boy,” I groaned as I reluctantly got out of my car. “This is going to take some fixing...” The plain brick school building I had left an hour before had been replaced by a garish architectural monster. Entire walls shone in a riot of color ... | 1 | |
[WP] For the longest time healing mages were thought to be secondary to battle mages as their powers are not offensive. That changed when you decided to prove everyone wrong. | [
"Kinda followed the flow of the other stories and ended up in first person, not usually my thing, but I wanted to be a good follow up to the others.=) Hope you folks enjoy!\n\nCatalyst\n---------------------------------------\n\nFor centuries the kingdom of Ori had lived in relative peace and tranquility despite th... | 3 | |
[WP] You open the front door and walk right in. Grab a beer from the fridge and take a seat next to a complete stranger. The owner of the house, you guess. | [
"\"Comfortable couch.\" I said as I opened my ice cold beer. \n\nAfter a contemplative pause, with an inquisitive grimace, the man thanked me. I could feel the tension behind his glaring eyes. \n\n\"I'm Owen.\" I said as I offered my hand. \n\n\"Stan,\" He replied, shaking my hand. \"Do I know you?\"\n\n\"Before to... | 2 | |
[WP] You and a bunch of friends are out camping, sitting around the fire and telling ghost stories. Suddenly, the fire turns a bright green, a ghost stepping out of it and sitting on a log. "That's cute, but let me tell you a REAL ghost story straight from the afterlife." | [
"\"It was 1922 and some man by the name of Jacob Lane had a moonshine run going. Jacob wasn't the wisest man so one night his buddies and he were out cooking the moonshine and it went up in smoke,\" the figure said.\n\n\"What happened to Jacob?\" said one of the friends, not even realizing he was talking to a ghost... | 4 | |
[WP] Initially, reincarnations of the chosen one don’t remember their past lives. After generations of experience they now remember everything every time they are reborn and are extremely apathetic about their destiny. | [
"\"If you want to save time I'll just do both our lines. Come in, or at least stop standing like that. You look like a coatrack.\"\n\nEnka was poised, leaning forward, arm raised to knock at the door. She had rehearsed for hours, looking down into a still pond at the edge of the village, screwing her face into ever... | 1 | |
[WP] Tears streamed down her face as she watched her diary burn. | [
"Let me tell you a story about a girl.\n\nA girl, and her book.\n\n \n\nThe girl grew up in the suburbs along with her family. At some point, like most children do, she decided to begin a diary. Unlike most children, she continued to write in her diary. And so, the diary began to fill. When the book ran ou... | 1 | |
[WP] Is anyone listening? | [
"Granted, the meeting had gone on for half an hour longer than anticipated. Everyone's eyes were drooping, hands were under the table, presumably to scroll through their phones undetected. All the jugs were empty. Cups of coffee long-since cold. But he was still talking. And nothing made him more mad than being ign... | 3 | |
[WP] A local scientist discovers that the proclaimed vacuum of outer space is nonexistent, and is filled with exponentially cleaner breathable air than what’s trapped inside of our atmosphere. It was just a matter of time before we realized why we were being restricted from leaving the planet. | [
"It's late. It's late enough to be early for the rest of the world. There aren't many nurses at the time, and the ones that are on shift are attending to other patients. The patients that stand a chance. The lights are on, he'd probably be asleep if they weren't. The heart monitor is getting slower. He hangs on eve... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up a week after your death, in a coffin, by a phone ringing in your pocket. | [
"I open my eyes, with shock and terror. \n\nI see nothing but darkness. I move my eyes a little. And, a cellphone!\n\nI try to move my hands, yet I see that I'm in a narrow place. I try to remember what happened, to get a clue on how I ended up where I am.\n\nOhhh, that's right. I died. \n\nI don't feel surprised o... | 9 | |
[WP] You’ve discovered who let the dogs out...and now the world is turning to you to answer other song title questions. | [
"\"You get one, and you picked a good one,\" I started. You get so many \"*How Deep is Your Love?*\" that you begin to resent people. A thinker comes up every once and again, you restore your faith in people, until the next one comes up and asks about the way to San Jose, and you gotta suppress a murderous rampage.... | 1 | |
[WP]At that moment, she had two problems and they both had to do with the dead man in her kitchen. | [
"Claire began to tiptoe forward before consciously making an effort to stop herself from acting on impulse. \n\nSurveying the scene, she summarised that she had two problems. There was the sudden appearance of a stiff laying on her kitchen worktop, and then there was the fact that she didn't put him there. \n\n*rin... | 1 | |
[WP] Unlike other races, Humanity allows artificial intelligence citizenship. This is the reason why machine lifeforms try to reach the safe haven, Earth. | [
"The gold-and-white-streaked gas planet of Theresmia filled most of the viewscreen as we pulled out of Theresmia Station. At least, that’s what the translators approximated the name as; the real name had a bunch of clicks and glottal stops that human tongues couldn’t perform. I never really got the U’chin fascinati... | 4 | |
[WP] There are thousands of Reapers, each one a different type of death (cancer, knife wounds, etc.). You are the Reaper they send when someone cheats death i.e. when another Reaper fails. Unfortunately, your current target is THE LUCKIEST guy ever... and been 12 years. | [
"*Meanwhile, in The Land Where All The Writing Prompts Are Simultaneously True:*\n\n----\n\nRon Thompson, Processing Intern, stared. \"What fresh hell is this?\"\n\n\"Ron,\" Ron's boss, an older man named Charles, frowned. \"Don't use the H-word.\"\n\n\"What?\" Ron said. He gestured out the window. \"We've got... | 1 | |
[Source](https://twitter.com/DothTheDoth/status/959909861151707138) | [WP] You wake up in the night to Alexa speaking a dead language. She suddenly stops and says: "They're awake" | [
"\"Aukude deemonid...\" Who is talking so loudly at this hour of night...\n\n\"Ma palun sind kõigi halbade nimede kaudu...\" That's Alexa. Why is she talking? No one activated her...\n\n\"Tulge välja pimedusest välja...\" Why is Alexa speaking in a foreign language...\n\n\"Ja pange see maailm sisse, kuhu sa jätsid!... | 2 |
Sorry if I’ve submitted this with poor formatting or something, just wanted to share the idea.
My intention would be that the agent would be spying on the family’s internet usage - sorry again if that wasn’t clear from the title. | [WP] An NSA agent is assigned to spy on a family. After 5 years they have developed an attachment and act as a sort of guardian angel. Suddenly they are required to reveal themselves to save the family from an imminent threat. | [
"In some ways I know there kids better than they do.\n\nSince a little after their thirteenth birthday I've been a silent sentinel ready to disconnect their power, their internet, and deploy a half-kilometer cell phone jammer, all in the hope of preventing a disaster.\n\nFive years ago someone was able to log into ... | 1 |
[WP] You’re an NPC in a video game. Every day you do the same things over and over, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have dreams and ambitions. You’ve fallen in love with Player 1 and can’t contain it anymore. | [
"\"Weather's getting up out there,\" came the grunted greeting from Draf the innkeeper, and the villagers fell silent. Apart from the cassette player behind the bar, striking up a rustic ditty for Smelda the bard to mime along to, the inn was the quietest it had been all day.\n\nSure enough, They had entered. The... | 1 | |
[WP] All small creatures are now big, and all big creatures are small. | [
"At first everyone thought this was the greatest things ever. Tiny elephants and rottweilers that stayed forever small were amazing. Even the occasional pet whale you could keep in your pool. It effected the bigger ones first. Suddenly people in Florida were no longer scared of crocodiles. People were more worried ... | 1 | |
Adapted from a Facebook discussion on inequality. Credit to Bob Simms for inspiring this post. | [WP] Once a year the richest and poorest person in the country are executed. The government does this to try and reduce inequality and encourage social cohesion. After the first execution, you realise you are the richest/poorest person in the country. | [
"It was a terrible system, anyway. At its current pace, the program couldn't actually redistribute wealth or reduce inequality in any meaningful way. One year was just enough time for the rich heirs to divide up the estate in such a way that none of their heads would be on the chopping block next year, and many oth... | 1 |
[WP] Heaven has reached maximum capacity. | [
"\"What the fuck do you mean we are out of capacity?\" said Gabriel with a sharp glare.\n\n\"Uh... I... Uh...\" stammered Michael, account angel second class, unable to summon the courage to continue their sentence to fruition. Thankfully Charmeine vice president of the soul analytics department stepped in.\n\n\"Si... | 1 | |
[WP] It's the apocalypse. You're a teenage boy with braces and suddenly you realize you'll probably never get your braces off so you start your search for an orthodontist who's still alive, while trying to survive. | [
"Her name was Audrey. She was a few grades ahead of me, but my brother and I went out for JV baseball together and I remember seeing her pick him up after practice from time to time. I never saw her again after, but I'll always remember her face on the Day. Her seeing me holding the door. Our eyes meeting. Her... | 3 | |
[WP] Employers have started fitting their employees with helmets that reduce independent thought. You find that instead of reducing yours, it frees your mind. | [
"Twisting her fingers as she continues down her braid, Lynnette thinks back to the day before. Her small head had meant that she wasn’t very likely to be put into those damn brain control helmets, but they’d finally gotten one in her size.\n\nTying off the braid with a pink elastic to match the one on the other sid... | 2 | |
[WP] "My superpower? I can, like, make puppies and daisies appear anywhere! And, like, you're totally gonna pay the ransom or, like, they're totally gonna burst out of your chest!" | [
"\"Stella, you can't do this.\"\n\n\"I totally can! I just have to want it, like, really badly.\"\n\n\"Stella, when have you taken your meds for the last time?\"\n\n\"Those pills are making me drowsy all the time. Like, roofied drowsy. It sucks, and I'm literally not taking them anymore.\"\n\n\"Jesus Christ Stella,... | 1 | |
[WP] Alternate timeline where instead of WW1 and WW2 we had the two great World's Fairs of 1914 and 1939. | [
"The bustling of the crowd woke Austin up. As he stretched and gathered his thoughts, he realized that he overslept the beginning of the parade. Groaning, he took a quick look at himself in the mirror before stepping into the shower.\n\nCelebrating the anniversary of the second World Fair was always fun for him as ... | 1 | |
[WP] You have the ability to save a life every time you significantly damage the feelings of another. | [
"Equivalent Exchange \n\nA faint buzz. Someone nearby was going to die. Not just anyone, but a *child*. Usually I could ignore it, usually I did ignore it, but there was something about a child dying that always ate low at my gut. I might’ve been called a ‘heartless bastard’ more times than I can count over the yea... | 1 | |
[WP]A corpse of a lone hiker is found near the edge of the forest clutching a journal. His fingers are completely black. | [
"Ranger Tierson had seen his share of bodies, mostly because they cropped up with surprising regularity in this part of the National Park. It was the tricky borderland between the day hiker’s balmy, heavily cut and maintained trails, and the no-tracks wilderness of the deep wild, where you had to be permitted out y... | 1 | |
[WP] "Tell me ghost - how was it that you came to haunt the dead?" | [
"\"Tell me, ghost, how was it you came to haunt the dead ?\" Ralnissa asked, readying her water-proof paper and pen as she sat down on a mouldering marble casket. Ghost stories were all the rage at the moment, you could hardly thumb through more than a page of the *Orlanic Assertion* without hitting one. Half of th... | 1 | |
[WP] You stare into the Abyss. After a while, it stares back, frowning. | [
"Faces blurred and conversation turned to static as the demon crept through its candidates. A montage of tears and locked jaws, dead eyes and pale faces, pill bottles and empty cans - an endless stream of sadness, an incomparable buffet.\n\nThrough the sobbing and he wailing, the pained silence, cut the piercing so... | 2 | |
[WP] 15% of the Earth's population has gained superpowers, but instead of heroes and villains, most people use theirs for mundane tasks. Your powers have awakened, and you can finally realize your dream: Small Business Ownership. | [
"\"With these hands of mine, metal has met uts true master!\" I laughed aloud to myself. My deep voice filling the room. Dash raised her head from the couch and looked at me. \"Oh sorry dog, sorry for waking you. Let's go for a walk.\" \n\nDash stretches after oozing her way off the couch. After an impressive shak... | 5 | |
[WP] Most people get memories of ancient times when they do past life regression hypnosis. You see space marines and Dyson spheres. | [
"“It shines brighter than our own sun, but there’s something around it, at least where I can see. Almost like a web.”\n\n“A web, you say?” asked the doctor. “Around a star?”\n\n“Yes, but more... intricate. A finer pattern, diamond-shaped criss-crossing filaments. Though somehow I know each of the points where they ... | 1 | |
PS: CC guaranteed... | [WP] As the Admittance Director at the World's Most Renowned Art School, you've grown a bit jaded when it comes to Creative Admissions. That is until you get a pencil sketch of a Solitary Flower with the caption, "I just want to Paint. Please help me paint." from a war torn neighboring country... | [
"The lines are perfect. Excellent use of color. Vibrant. And a tiny flair of originality. This is crap. Another art student attempting and failing. Failing to convey any real emotion. Technically proficient and yet, lacking any character, any semblance of something *genuine*.\n\nI need a break. I’m tired. I’ll grab... | 1 |
Based on this random website I stumbled onto called [Peter's Evil Overlord List](http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html) | [WP] You are now the Evil Overlord of Earth. Please consult the following document for further instructions: | [
"Greetings, INITIATE!\n\nWe welcome your addition to the ALLIANCE OF ADVERSE AUTHORITY, and we look forward to your contributions in your new role of EVIL OVERLORD of EARTH.\n\nTo help get you settled in, we have compiled a list of SEVEN helpful tips, tailored to your planet and/or realm:\n\n1. First, it may be use... | 1 |
[WP] The year is 2062 and Earth is dirty, polluted and massively overpopulated. Technology has come a long way and a new console is being released tonight. True VR! You bring your savings and buy a bundle with the console and a game... "Cube World". | [
"I have been saving up ever since the rumors had popped up online and now I finally have one sitting in my hands, even though its the basic model and comes with the game \"cube world\" I don't care, it takes me 2 hours to set up and create my new online identity but now, now I can join the millions of other \"true ... | 2 | |
[WP] This all started with you climbing on your woolly mammoth in a panic. | [
"\"Let's take it from the top, shall we?\" The officer had flipped open his notebook and poised his pen above the page to weave the tale of criminality. \n\"Well, um,\" I hesitated, staring at the nib of the pen. The policeman wiggled it slightly, indicating that patience was a limited resource in this situation. ... | 1 | |
[WP] A teen develops abilities from the preservatives in the numerous amounts of Twinkies he consumes. | [
"There once was a boy named Arthur who loved to eat Twinkies. Arthur was rather baby-faced for a 17 year old boy; people would always think he looked closer 14 or 15. Despite people mistaking him as someone younger than he really is, Arthur accepted his baby-faced self because he figured that he wouldn't a wrinkled... | 1 | |
[WP] A group of Heroes and Monsters from Dungeons & Dragons get tired of their realm and they hire you to take them Golfing as their Caddy. | [
"An elf, an orc and a troll walk into the clubhouse. Not the usual clientele, but some of the businessmen can be pretty surly, too. Most of the other guys ducked out when I wasn't looking, so the party called on me. My name is Max, I'm a caddy.\n\nI approached Lanadell, who at five and a half feet of height, was no... | 4 | |
[WP] The Sun has exploded and engulfed half of the solar system in flames. You and a group of survivors managed to escape on a spaceship. You see a black hole opening up and you decide to head straight into it... | [
"We had seen the movies with black holes and worm holes and hoped that while the rest of the human race had been decimated, perhaps the black hole would take us to a place where we could possibly survive. \n\nWe were wrong. \n\nOur spaceship headed straight toward the black hole, engines burning at full capacity. W... | 1 | |
[WP] After nearly two thousand years of silence, Dwarven city states are slowly reaching out to Elven kingdoms for talks of peace but they keep finding Human cities instead. | [
"They had light from the warm lava as well as their advanced alchemical relics which provided light that was just as clear as the open sun. They had great and fertile farms underground which easily fed them, and their beasts of agriculture and burden.\n\nAnd yet, being in the open air felt somewhat... grand. Sure, ... | 3 | |
[WP] I was conflicted the day our twins were born. | [
"Six weeks before I was to give birth, I found myself at a pop-up art show down in Fitler Square. A chill circled my bare legs and I held a free glass of champagne loosely in my fingertips. I had planned to spend a few hours roaming the grounds, feeling my way through the organized mess. But I never made it past th... | 1 | |
[WP] - Robot overlords overtake humanity, but instead of killin us with lasers they kill us with kindness and get democratically elected. | [
"I was at the inauguration of the first robot president, Robert Sparks. I didn't really understand it, but as it turned out, nobody did. Nobody human, anyway.\n\nI was most surprised by how ordinary it all was. A few things were different -- the President, of course; some of his supporters were robots (oh, excuse m... | 1 | |
[WP] You die in bed, surrounded by loved ones, but not long after your mind moves towards a light, and then you wake in an alien body with other aliens around you, holding a strange substance in your hand, and one other alien asks, "How was it?" | [
"I stare at Gy'L silently. Emotionless. There's no words that could correctly inform him what I experienced. Happiness? Sadness? Confusion?\n\n\"C'mon, tell us how it was!\", he implied. \n\nI just blink slowly in response. My mouth opens slightly, a deep breath is inhaled.\n\n \n\n\"It....it was...... | 2 | |
[WP] One of these days, you'll take my hand. | [
"She thought to herself, looking lovingly at the woman in front of her. *One day... you'll dump that jerk, and go out with me. He doesn't treat you well. I know.*\n\n\"Hey, Kate, you alright?\" The other girl asks, her smile bright like the sun, but dimmed with concern. \n\n\"Y-yeah, I'm okay, Jen.\" Kate replies, ... | 2 | |
[WP] War time love letter(any time period) | [
"**1st of June 1916, the Somme**\n\nDear Rosie,\n\n\nI am sorry for not writing you back. I did not have the chance to do so; we finished our training three weeks ago and went to the trenches two days later.\n\nSince then, my hands have been dirty, my feet hurt from the standing and the shells keep me awake when I ... | 2 | |
[WP] In a world of deaf people, you decide to check yourself into a mental hospital. You've been hearing things. | [
"The nurse gave me a pad of paper and a three inch pencil to write my symptoms down. *I guess the pencil is short so I can't hurt anyone with it* I thought.\n\n\"My hallucinations are bizarre.\" I wrote. \"There is no word to describe exactly what I'm experiencing. When people walk, I experience a phenomenon wherei... | 1 | |
[WP] Your girlfriend is secretly a robot. No ulterior motives, just a retired covert ops android looking for love. | [
"I woke with a start. Bad dreams have haunted me since my time in Fallujah, and I felt powerless to change them or will them away.\n\nOnce I realized that I wasn't walking into another shit-fest of a gunfight, I breathed a sigh of relief and rolled to my side. I unconsciously traced the long scar running from my ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a superhero with the powers of the seven deadly sins (Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy and Pride) who must stop a super villain with the powers of the seven heavenly virtues (Chastity, Temperance, Charity, Diligence, Patience, Kindness and Humility) | [
"Being a superhero isn't all its cracked up to be, actually no. Being the *parent* of a superhero isn't all its cracked up to be, just ask my mum. I was a terrible toddler, used to scream loud enough to break the plates in the house next door. As a little kid I managed to always come home from school with everyone ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are riding on a train across an unfamiliar country. During a stop in a small village you see the train conductor leave the train. He was to never return. No one from the train company has come to help. | [
"\"Where is he going?\" A voice shook me awake.\n\nI jumped, the newspaper falling from my lap and to the floor.\n\n\"I don't know!\" Another voice replied. \"He's just leaving!\"\n\nAs I slowly came out of my dream-state, I remembered where I was. Yes, the train, I was on a train. I cursed every metal wall of this... | 1 | |
[WP] A super intelligent AI has finally been developed. When asked to build the perfect body for itself, it builds a human body. Not with any mechanical or biological alterations, just a human body. | [
"You are referring to Maitreya/Jehovah/The Cosmos/The Order. He/she (Maitreya is a hermaphrodite) will be born in the year 5283 on April 3rd (though the calendar will be a bit different then).\n\nMaitreya's construction has already begun with several different projects on earth. The Ethereum project for instance.... | 1 | |
[WP] Most people are born in a hospital. You were born in a funeral home. | [
"I've been watching her for a while. The girl didn't have a particularly good life, but you couldn't say that it was bad either. Really, that girl was nothing special, just another pea in the pot. a student from a normal high school, with few friends and not particularly popular in class, but most definitely not bu... | 4 | |
[WP] Earth was admitted to the Galactic Federation, but it was the dogs that were admitted, not the humans. In fact, humans are considered potentially dangerous, and are not allowed off the planet unless accompanied by a dog. | [
"As the First Ambassador to Earth for the Galactic Federation, Spot the Great Dane now wearing a collar enabling Spot too speak with the Human Race currently residing in the United Nations Building. 10 minutes before his speech too the UN Spot looks at the mirror inside the bathroom.\n\n\"You are a good boy. You ar... | 1 | |
[WP] In the future, all disputes are settled by playing Yugioh. | [
"\"Alright, this is the end! Now, D/D/D Gust King Alexander, attack his life points directly!\" Mark pointed towards his opponent's empty field, the only thing saving him being his two pendulum monsters in the spell and trap card zone. But Mark knew their effects couldn't stop him. The king raised his sword, and ch... | 1 | |
Also, candidates are chosen at random. Optional: You have just been chosen as a candidate.
I meant to add the random candidate choice in the prompt itself, but that's what I get for trying to create a writing prompt from a dream the second I wake up. | [WP] You live in a democratic country where the loser or losers of any election are immediately put to death. | [
"Miran looked at the policemen. \"Is this really necessary?\"\n\n\"Candidate Miran, the projections see you at 5% of the vote. It is necessary.\" The officer looked a bit uncomfortable with this part of his job. \n\n\"I know where I poll. But I would have assumed that the state deemed me to have more honor than wha... | 1 |
[WP] You’re a demon, being summoned by a man that wants to transform himself into a demon. | [
"“Charun! Charun!” The sound bounces endlessly amongst the cavernous walls. “By the devil, what time is it?” Long, decrepit fingers reach to the century clock showing that it’s nearly the middle of the 22nd century. “Charun, Charun!” That sound it’s like the coo of a child, a puppy playing or rain on a spring day, ... | 2 | |
Edit: apparently this is a repost. I’m sorry I haven’t been part of this sub but for 2-3 days. This is my first post. Full credit to /u/james7919 and /u/fracati who have both posted this prompt before. Thanks for the wonderful responses. | [WP] When someone’s heart breaks, so does a little piece of our world. This creates fissures, valleys, chasms, even cracks in the pavement. Tell me the story behind the Grand Canyon. | [
"\"Many humans ask \"why, or What\" created the Grand Canyon on earth. It is a story literally as old as time. I remember waking up the day Sol was ignited. Breathing life on the earth, making it glow with amber brilliance. The first thing I saw was her. Neither of us could remember who or what we were, but we reme... | 17 |
[WP] Nobody in history has ever slept or had any type of dream experience before. You just had the first experience of a full night dreaming. | [
"\"Are you ready?\" They asked me.\n\nMy heart was racing, the blood pounding in my ears and the hospital gown twitching rhythmically above my chest. \n\n*Will* *it* *feel* *like* *I'm* *dying**?*\n\nThe question burned in my mind, but I didn't dare voice it aloud. I knew if they said anything other than a resoundi... | 1 |
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