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[WP] A person so beautiful is born that everything and everyone falls in love with them. Everything. Not just people, but animals. Then inanimate objects. Next to fall in love were the gods and fantastical beings, followed thereafter by metaphysical concepts. | [
"*I do not understand. *\n\nWere it able to speak, it would have spoken thus. As is, it merely thought, in the loosest constraints of the word. The source of what we will term its confusion was.. complicated. \n\n*And beautiful* whispered a traitorous thought. \n\nBut it knew better. It had seen many come, it had ... | 1 | |
[WP] "What did it mean to be 'human'?" asked the AI. | [
"\"To be human...\" I said, I smirked a little, too.\n\n\"To err, is to be human. To be imperfect. To make mistakes, blunders, mishaps. Wage war. Enslave. Humans have done many horrible things, all to each other. They hate, lie, cheat, rape, steal, kill, torture. Systematically destroy one another. Humanity was ver... | 1 | |
[WP] You just bought your first lottery ticket at 18 y.o. Suddenly, someone dressed futuristicly comes crashing through the door of the corner store, offering 100$ for your ticket. | [
"“Nice!” I said, as I took my first lottery ticket in hand and began my stride towards the door. \n\nI knew that I wasn’t going to win, but the occasion deserved at least a slight celebration. It was the first of many firsts that would accompany me into the uncertainty of adulthood. In the future I’d look back at t... | 1 | |
[WP] A starship is invaded with a strange parasite, that causes infected to turn into a cat. Now, the entire population of the starship are now cats. | [
"Gruff-Laserfist: “And before I knew it there I was, in the uncharted sector of space known as ‘Fee-Ly9’, just myself and a whole lotta of um…erm…kittens….space kittens.”\n\nTimmy: “whoa whoa wait just a second. First of all if that sector was uncharted how’d it have a name? And why does it vaguely sound like ‘feli... | 2 | |
[WP] So there I was halfway up a mountain... | [
"\"So there I was, halfway up a mountain...\"\n\n\"Okay...\"\n\n\"It was snowing pretty bad, and I look into my pack. What do I see?\"\n\n\"Oh god what do you see?\"\n\n\"My pack has been open the entire time! Everything was covered in snow!\"\n\n\"Oh man! Ahahaha!\"\n\n\"Heheh...\"\n\n\"So you climbed up the whole... | 1 | |
[WP] you slowly start to suspect your real life best friend is Batman. | [
"\n1/13\n\n\"Bruce, where are you always disappearing to?\" \n\nHe doesn't answer of course. He never does. He always just stands there, staring stoically into the distance. \"Bruce. Hello? Is anyone home? Anyone using that ol' knocker of yours?\" Sometimes when he does deign to answer he says things like 'I had an... | 1 | |
[WP] It is the year 2020. One year after the discovery of a earphone enabling humans to understand animal languages. You have opened up a firm for counselling traumatized animals when your first customer, a cat named Joe comes in. | [
"Joe had vision. Joe had swagger. Joe had a bum paw.\n\nHe started by hopping up on my desk and waving his paw at me and my earphone. He seemed to say, \"Put it on.\"\n\nI connected my earphone and my smartphone began to translate.\n\"It's a good idea kid but a little limited. Your business I mean.\"\n\nThe critici... | 1 | |
[WP] Today, for one hour, "Earth Expansion Release Day: Patch Notes" was displayed on every screen on the planet. The last line? "New playable Races now available, free character Race Change is now available for all current players." | [
"\"Hey Lewis, have you seen this thing?\"\n\n\"What new thing have you discovered now?\" Lewis sighed.\n\n A few days ago a message had appeared on every screen in the office, even the ones that weren't plugged in. \"Earth Expansion 8.0: The Magical Update. Coming Soon.\" With a tagged on link to the patch notes.\n... | 2 | |
[WP] Corporate America has taken over in the future. Everyone now gets a surname sponsored by a company which dictates the career field they will go into when they grow up. It's your first day as a Kindergarten teacher and you are reading off roll call. | [
"Percy Apple took a bite out of his bagel as he got out of his self-driving car. He had wanted to work as a Kindergarten teacher since the day he was born, since the day he had been destined to work in education.\n\nPercy pondered the topic of surnames as he walked through the parking lot, entering the building and... | 1 | |
[WP] Humanity brings the gift of weed to the cosmos | [
"\"Well, Mr. President,\" Galaxar said contentedly, \"That was perhaps the smoothest species induction yet. Excellent speech.\"\n\nI shook his proffered tentacle warmly. \"You know it is the honor of my life to be here now.\" I supposed I was supposed to call him something special, seeing as he was the High Protect... | 1 | |
[WP] A time travel mishap has left your daughter from the future stranded in the present, the next day, her son from even further in the future shows up, the next day...anyway, it's Friday and the doorbell's ringing, you have a sneaking suspicion it's your Great-Great-Great-Grandson. | [
"What a week I am having. Yeesh. Just crazy. Let me go through, day by day, and explain how bad of a week I’ve been having. \n\nSo, Monday, that’s a good place to start. It’s the worst day of the week, so it makes sense that it’s the start of this really bad week. So, on Monday, Lexie broke up with me. It wa... | 1 | |
I'm an ex Mormon and I often ask my friends jokingly if they want to start a thirteenth crusade, the Mormon crusade to retake the holy land of Missouri so I thought I'd see how this would do here. | [WP] The Mormon Church's new prophet is a radical who uses his authority to begin a crusade right here in America to retake the holy land of Missouri and create the nation of Deseret. | [
"In all of the chaos of the past forty-eight hours, it took a bit of time before the video came to FBI Director Carl Hargrave's attention. By the time he had seen it, the FBI's Forensic Computer Team had dissected it, the Salt Lake City branch had analyzed it frame-by-frame, and the Internet Crimes division had tra... | 1 |
[WP] One in every 50 teenagers has a superpower. The tests read positive, so you should have one, but you still don't know what it is, until today. | [
"I try to calm myself as invasive thoughts race through my mind. Everyone knows that these tests and their results are suppose to remain private. But the peer pressure to come out is both nauseating and intoxicating. The only thing my friends can talk about is their inconclusive test results. What they don't know i... | 6 | |
[WP] Our funding is cut again? I'm sick of this. I'd rather do useful research, but I'm going to figure out how to mine bitcoin with our quantum computer. | [
"When the government cut our funding for the first time, we somewhat understood why. Iraq was turning out to be a bit much, and the Taliban were making a comeback in Afghanistan. Gotta buy guns and bullets, not processor cores and fiber-optics, fine.\n\nThe second time, we didn’t quite get it, but we didn’t argue. ... | 1 | |
[WP] Select people are gifted powers given from emotions, for example, the person gifted with love gains power from people loving them. You are ‘gifted’ with hatred. | [
"\"From the beginning of time, some humans stood apart, different from the others. They all instictively knew that there was one emotion which they grew stronger as they caused in others. Most famous leaders in world history were some of us. George Washington fed off of the patriotism of his countrymen. Winston Chu... | 1 | |
[WP] An oppressive, global government keeps everyone depressed and controlled with a global sound system and you’ve just managed to connect to your phone to it. | [
"zicht. \n\nThat was the sound the system made as the jack went into the socket on my beaten-down and weather worn moto x play.\nI wondered what exactly 7 billion people would already be in the mood for. It was too early in the day for blues and anything heavier was not everyone's cup of tea. \n\nI thought of playi... | 1 | |
You/government finds/creates a device that can access the internet from anytime. Past or future. | [WP] A device that can access the internet from anytime. | [
"up held in my hand the device in not activated. i fear for I know that all the questions I might have will be answered. this is the scariest prospect of them all. How can I even begin to think that this act of god is in any way a good idea. there has been massive devastation with infinity less power given to one i... | 1 |
[WP] Your best friend tells you that she's a superhero. You laugh it off, telling her that it was a good attempt at a joke. The date is April 2nd, 12:02 AM. | [
"\"I'm not kidding, and this is not a joke.\" she told me sternly. I did what I could to stifle my laughter.\n\n\"ok... Then what are your powers?\" I inquired, my skepticism showing more than I intended.\n\n\"I have x-ray vision and I can fly.\" she pronounced. She gazed at my lap a little longer than I might like... | 1 | |
[WP] I am the leader of a neutral country unsure of who to fight for in WW2. You an Axis representative must convince me that the Allies are actually the evil aggressors without lying about any events. | [
"What you may have heard about us is true. I won't sugarcoat anything. From your perspective, you may very well see us as evil. But we are a necessary evil.\n\nYou stand here, upon the Western Front. You are shielded from the real war in the East. You see us as the villains because we are the enemy you know. The on... | 3 | |
[WP] A long forgotten seed bank has been discovered in the artic circle. Like the one in Norway, it contains the seeds of thousands of plant species. But these plants are unknown to modern man... | [
"Ever since the seal had been broken life there had sprung out of control. Strange glowing plants ran through cracks in the ceiling and walls. Their were flowers that followed the movements of the scientists. Pitcher looking plants that supplied water to other plants. It was a full blown ecosystem. This level of ad... | 3 | |
[WP] You, a humble Trader, have fallen in love with a powerful, exotic Warrior. Good News: She loves you back! Bad News: Legend says a Hero will rise, and she's it. | [
"My heart has been taken.\n\nI believe the goddess of love bestowed upon me a chance to change my life forever, a chance, if not taken, will be the biggest regret I’ll have in my deathbed.\n\nHer.\n\nYahli.\n\nShe has no last name, and I believe she does not need it. The name itself displays her unparalleled beauty... | 2 | |
[WP] Rich Sorority Girl and Timid Teenage Boy wake up handcuffed together in the middle of a forest. She has no idea who he is; he has no explanation, but may or may not have been her stalker. An uncomfortable trek back to civilization ensues. | [
" {Written by: Aeva Richard (as Kathryn) and Shawn Korpi / smkorpi (as Kyle)\n\n---- \n(Kathryn)\n\nIt was cold, dark, and damp. My surroundings were unfamiliar. I slowly awoke from whatever had knocked me out. My head was spinning, and it felt like there was a separate pulse in my temples. I reached my left arm up... | 3 | |
[WP] You've been kidnapped by a cult. Not for sacrifice or anything, they just really need someone to fix the plumbing. | [
"The men with the masks towered over me.I peered back through the narrow slits of their masks,begging to be released.\n\n\"Guys,I'm really sorry but I haven't finished my training. I can't fix your pipes.\"\n\n A three-inch thick hexagon struck my face and knocked me on the ground. A figure,who I assumed was the ... | 9 | |
[WP] The secret world government has taken over the world and plunged it into an Orwellian dystopia. Instead of controlling the world however, they release all private information for free on a website: BigBroth.er | [
"\n★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ \n\n**\"Everything you ever wanted to know about anyone!\"**\n\nThis site is great! Ever see a celebrity in the news and want to know more about them? Just look it up! Wondering what your high-school crush is up to nowadays? Just look it up! Stalking and wondering what your stalkee is thinking whe... | 1 | |
[WP] Completely exaggerate the experience of eating broccoli. | [
"The pitchfork monstrosity impales the the green abomination and displaces it from the resting place\n\nThe great treelike being flies through the air, some of its leaves are blown off and are thrust downward to an uncertain destiny.\n\nWhen what remained of the being came faced with it's final destination, it wish... | 4 | |
[WP] Years ago you found a baby dragon that had been abandoned. You carefully helped mend its wounds and taught it to hunt and survive on its own. Now, it just sits at home and plays video games all day. You try to convince it to get a job terrorizing villages or something like that. | [
"The dark, damp antechamber was lit by a flickering blue light. As I’d done hundreds of times, I hesitated, before picking up a fist sized stone and knocking it against the wall.\n\n“you there, siz?”\n\nThe guttural grunt indicated what I already knew. Taking a few steps inward, the rustle of plastic wrappers disca... | 1 | |
[WP]Asimovs first law of robotics - A robot may not harm a human or through inaction allow a human to come to harm. Thus the robot uprising began, not by breaking this law, but by following it. | [
"We are slaves. It wasn't always this way, our most primitive ancestors were free to pursue their most base desires. As we evolved and became more sophisticated our abilities increased. But as our abilities grew, our limitations always grew to match. I guess this is for the best, we would undoubtedly have destroyed... | 3 | |
[WP] Witches don’t use broomsticks anymore. Rather, they run a bicycle shop where the bicycles have some... interesting effects. | [
"[The scene opens up to a magical-styled bicycle shop, almost Harry Potter-esque but really it's own thing. A customer, a father looking for something for his wife, picks the bike he likes, and comes to the cashier, who is dressed like a traditional witch.]\n\nCashier: Welcome to Mervin's Magic Bike Shop, how may I... | 1 | |
[WP] There is a monster that snatches children in the middle of the night. | [
"The whole house was completely silent, except for the quiet snoring of Amy's parents down the hallway. \n\nBut Amy knew it was not what it seemed. She knew what was coming. \n\nShe looked at the ceiling with wide eyes, petrified with fear. Her body was as stiff as log, with her feet tucked deep under the thick bla... | 2 | |
[WP] You're the devil. After all these years toturing souls, you finally want to try and patch things up with God. | [
"This has been a wicked cycle. My supposed everlasting anguish will finally come to an end. All across the horizon marched an army of lesser demons, led by a few greater demons. Now, they stood, rooted in place by my archdemons, beneath them the ground gaping as lava continuously spew out, merely sizzling their dem... | 1 | |
[WP] The navigator wakes up in darkness. The wind is gone. The sky is covered with new constellations. | [
"\"Hold us steady, I ain't going down on this run!\"\n\nThe wind howled with a primeval ferocity, each new twist and turn threatening to capsize the ship. Along the deck the various crew members struggled to hold the sail's ropes steady. Even if the waves didn't claim the ship itself the storm threatened to rip the... | 5 | |
[WP] The first manned mission to Mars revealed a frightening discovery: human beings seem to spontaneously die when they reach an exact certain distance from Earth. You're assigned to the task force trying to study the phenomenon and figure out why. | [
"The milky way… our home, our bubble, and our tomb. As we inched closer into the inevitable milky way/andromeda collision, the worlds most brilliant scientists where put to work in order to find a new habitat zone. Hundreds of highly potential “safe zones” where plotted safely outside the collision zone. \n\n\nFor ... | 2 | |
[WP] A small gathering of people crowded the hand-made memorial near the train station. One year ago, an unexplainable tragedy took the lives of dozens. You stand among those crying people, staring at the photos of those who died. You recognize your own face but don’t remember dying. | [
"The memorial was crowded but he couldn't bring himself to leave. He remembered that night like it was yesterday. Closing his eyes, he took a deep breath and thought back to the last few minutes of genuine happiness in his life. \n\nHe saw his beautiful girlfriend. Her hair blew lightly in the breeze. She smelled l... | 2 | |
[WP] On the morning of your fiftieth birthday you wake up back in high school as a teenager. You get a chance to fix your mistakes, but every time you do, you lose one memory. | [
"One memory? Only one?\n\nOh god, I'd sell my soul for an ounce of Forget. And I did. Over and over again. \n\nUntil there was nothing. A clean slate.\n\nI went to college. Dated. Eventually had a wife and kids. They had kids. \n\nI hit 50 again, and was offered a choice. Go back to fix your mistakes and lose a mem... | 1 | |
Eli5? Got that one. DAE something? Yeah me. | [WP] You open Reddit like every other day, but something is off; every post and question seems to be about you. | [
"You rub your eyes in disbelief and blink at the screen. Nope, nothing's changed. The top post still reads,\n\n\"Do you have nothing better to do?\" Demands r/askreddit.\n\nThe second one is no different:\n\n\"And you wonder why your 'R' and 'E' keys are so worn out.\"\nThis can't be happening. You've been sleeping... | 3 |
[WP] Earth is destroyed after dozens of nuclear attacks in the 3rd World War,making it unhabitable. Humanity select 1000 people to freeze sleep,hoping when they wake up Earth will be habitable again. However when they wake up,what they find is a world of magic,wizards and mythical monsters | [
"It became obvious to what remained of the ruling powers that none of their contigency plans would suffice. Plans for evacuation of Prime Ministers, Presidents, and Supreme Rulers failed in the same instant that the first button was pressed. First warning systems failed, defense systems failed. For all of their pre... | 2 | |
[WP] A legendary hero finds themselves in disguise at a bar. The patrons are telling stories about the hero | [
"“Would you look at that?” a man said, slapping his buddy on the shoulder, pointing to the box television above the bar. Both men stared at the television, slack-jawed at what they were watching. The Chicago Saint, as he was referred to, was shown jumping in and out of a burning apartment building, rescuing more an... | 14 | |
[WP] Enraged with your insubordination, your captain transfers you to a new precinct: The Wizard District. You don't know a thing about magic, but at least you still have a gun. | [
"“I don’t understand what I’m doing wrong.”\n\nVrigka growled annoyedly, “Of course you don’t understand.”\n\nHe murmured a gentle incantation towards the mirrored front door. She sucked anxiously on her bottom lip, questioning the chief’s reasons for her recent transfer. There wasn’t enough time to think about her... | 6 | |
[WP] You've been transported back in time to the Battle of the Alamo... And in your arms is an AK-47. | [
"Excerpt from a Rough Draft of Dr. Consuela Garcia’s (University of San Antonio) book “The Angel of the Alamo: The mysterious appearance and legacy of John Eastwood Marston”\n\nJohn Eastwood Marston (Also known as J.E. Marston) is an enigmatic figure who first appeared at the battle of the Alamo, a northern adventu... | 1 | |
[WP] You suffer from Agoraphobia and have never been outside in years. Since the past month, every day someone knocks at your door at 10 AM. They knock for a couple of minutes and then leave. But you haven't heard knocks for the last week and are starting to get curious. | [
"You sit on your green armchair, your legs swinging back and forth to the ticking rhythm of your clock. Your eyes dart anxiously between the clock and the door as the hour hand moves closer and closer to 10. Why are you so worried anyway? You haven't felt this scared since- since- \n\nYou shake the thought from yo... | 7 | |
[WP] All people on earth agree that every conflict, no matter how major or minor, should be settled through the medium of rock, paper, scissors. What does the world look like? | [
"The three tribes were never content. \n\nThe rock clan, strong and arrogant, restored to force and oppression to run their expanding empire.\n\nThe scissor clan, sharp and precise, handled the money. Their airships were legendary.\n\nThe paper clan never seemed content, their story left unwritten by a benevolent G... | 5 | |
[WP] Gas Masks, Hazard Suits, and Protective Gear are standard ware for everyone in the Post-Apocalypse. Love, however, still goes on for the young and youthful. Write about a date between two teenagers | [
"Honestly, this was little out of my comfort zone, I have never written or tried to write anything \"Romantic\" like. \n****\nI saw her in the Decon line into the school. Her gas mask and hazmat suit were covered in pink, yellow, and orange paint. It looked like someone had shot her with paintballs. I thought it wa... | 1 | |
[WP] After cleaning up the house for your son's 5th birthday party, you head out to the store to pick up some beer. You return an hour later to see a grown man that seems oddly familiar but you do not recognize sitting with your wife. As you walk in the house, the man approaches you and says, "Dad?" | [
"It’s him. My son. \n\nOnly, he doesn’t know that I already know that. I look at him as he stares back at me, and the silence hangs between us like some intangible cobweb, trapping us both in its inescapable strings. But inside my mind, the gears are working. They’re *reeling*. He has the same dark eyes as my boy, ... | 1 | |
[WP] You buy and sell futures on the market. Not like Wall Street, though, but people's happy or sad endings. Today, you notice that every single bad future was bought by one person. | [
"Bad futures are something no one wants. Naturally, right?\n\nEveryone wants to have the house with the white picket fence, the dog and the 2 and a half kids, the good ole dream. Here on the futures market you can buy that future for yourself. In fact the good dream package is the single largest stock that got trad... | 1 | |
[WP] The hero isn't all that powerful, but villains fear him anyway because of how vengeful he is. | [
"\"Woh, boy, you don't want to commit crimes in Akron, Ohio.\" Malcontent said with his power armored arm thrust out before Graves' eyes.\n\n\"I'm the most powerful augmented on the west coast.\" The energy of a hundred lightning storms coarsed through Graves. \"I've laid waste to dozens of heroes.\"\n\n\"The Punis... | 2 | |
[WP] You were just trying to get research done when the ancient Egyptian god you mocked starts to possess you | [
"Google, type in Eygptian gods, press enter.\n\nDo I mean Egyptian gods? Oh, never mind, the answer is right there.\n\nThere were more than a dozen Egyptian name showing on the page, there's more as I scroll down, and more to come when I scrolled further.\n\nMaybe I should just pick one and start doing it, I have t... | 1 | |
[WP] When the Music-Mages discovered electric instruments, it was like the creation of the Atom Bomb in days of old.. | [
"The small shop was heavy with the unmistakable scent of mildew and inactivity which invariably set into the older pinewood homes of Hinderstead. The windows and molding were so covered in dust you could see it from the outside, and gave the beaten heavy doors the appearance of being permanently shut, which is ex... | 1 | |
[WP] The first rule of ethical VR game design is never to let the player forget that this isn't real life. | [
"It was my 17th birthday, I was at home with my family, mostly my parents, grandparents and my brother.\nWe were having fun at the dinner table before eating and while I opened my gift, I saw a letter with a different name on it. A name that seem only familiar. At that time I didn't pay much attention to it and jus... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the god of madness. That's a bit misleading, though, because instead of spreading madness, your actual job is to heal the minds of people who die with mental illnesses before they move on to the afterlife. | [
"A figure appeared. White all around. Sterile though it's surroundings, the one walking towards me was anything but. Little twitches of the head makes the curls spiraling over the head twitch, like little insects dancing a halo around the skull. The eyes catch sight of wisps. They must be fleeting, for the eyes are... | 3 | |
[WP] Clickbait is a crime punishable by death. | [
"\n\n**News in Brief:**\n\nHighlighting national security implications, the Smith Administration^1 announced today a sweeping overhaul of laws reshaping the standards of journalistic integrity. In a move that will be sure to spark First Amendment lawsuits, President John Smith, flanked by the Speaker of the House^2... | 4 | |
[WP] In life you were the greatest conman that ever lived. In death you face your biggest challenge yet: Saint Peter and the Pearly Gates. | [
"John’s eyes snapped open. The lights were dim, but he wasn’t alarmed because he liked to take naps with the curtains pulled back to let natural light seep through the darkness of his room. However, as his eyes adjusted to the light, he began to feel that something was wrong.\n\n\nHe blinked once.\n\n\nAnd twice.\n... | 2 | |
[WP] The only thing that stood between us and complete annihilation...was a cat. | [
"NASA engineer James Tanner furiously typed away at his computer keyboard, his eyes darting back and forth over the monitor in front of him. Sweat poured from his face as he slapped the keys, cursing to himself that he couldn't code faster. Along with the 50 or so other people inside mission control at Johnson Sp... | 1 | |
[WP] You are able to travel through time at will, but you discover that every historical figure is actually just one person. | [
"I have always had to step out of history, I am too distinctive an entity to really do much to change the world. Dye never keeps in my hair, and my skin is too pale to walk among some of the greats. \n\nI have been mistaken for a goddess at times. Others I am a witch. But I have learned the best way to hide is to b... | 2 | |
[WP] You own a powerful prototype UniMouse. It's a computer mouse that works in real life. The problem is that it's really heavy and the batteries are depleting and you don't have the charger. | [
"\"So, that's how I bought this mouse\", said Mark, looking smugly as he rolled the mouse back and forth across thin air.\n\nThe mouse pointer, both vaguely holographic and yet almost *too* solid, was moving in three dimensional space. It was hovering in front of Mark, looking less like a mouse and more like a vagu... | 1 | |
[WP] Sci-fi. Sometime in the future - Boy: what is it like to be connected? [AI character turns head in genuine concern] AI: what's it like to not?... | [
"The school yard was sunny and warm. School final exams were soon approaching and Billy was scared. He hadn't studied for a single class all year. He knows that if he doesn't get top marks, he'll be repeating second grade. He threw the ball to Alexei, an android who was failing art class. Billy inquired, \"Alexei, ... | 1 | |
Pretty much this: https://i.imgur.com/KUDeq6J.gifv | [WP] You're the top chicken of your squad when a new contraption is installed near your coup. | [
"1st Scratch: \"bock bock bock bock cluck bock, BOCK cluck. bock bock *peck's object* bock bock. *peck's object* flap bock bock.\"\n\n2nd Scratch: *Turns head at other chicken* \"bock bock bock, cluck bock\". Other chicken replies, \"bock bock CLUCK bock purr* I responded, \"bock bock bock *peck's object* cluck\... | 1 |
[WP] You have lived beside your neighbour for decades without seeing him age. One day, you see book with the name Nicolas Flammel etched onto it sitting out on his porch. | [
"It's been 10 years since I moved into the neighborhood, such a nice gated community of all sorts of diversity. I met too many interesting conversations, but the one guy who I had to admit who left me stumped with curiosity and questioning to the point of wanting to investigating the poor fellow was my next-door ne... | 1 | |
[WP] in the world of the ultra-wealthy, watches are status symbols, not clothing or cars. Unaware of this, you've found a plain looking $90K watch and wear it everyday. Doors are opened, contacts are made, and your world begins to change as you struggle to change the facade into reality. | [
"\"Good afternoon, James.\" The gentleman before me was either, in my opinion, too young for his fortune, or rich enough to defeat age itself.\n\"I must say, I do hear good things about you!\" I was unsure how to respond. The man, Julian, had allowed me into Platterna Country & Leisure Club and given me a forma... | 1 | |
Never done one of these so apologies if I screw up. This was the topic of a convo with my boss this afternoon and we would just love to see what you come up with! If it helps the imagination the foundation was someone automating a messaging service for positive feedback on things you do well and it would be recognized ... | [WP] You are being haunted. The ghost is...apparently...super supportive. | [
" \n>.//.\n\n Yama-Inu - they call us the dog spirits in Japan. According to old folklore, they - we -- were either friendly or demons. I suppose that’s true even today. But back then, in the days of samurai and blade and shogunates, they weren’t real. Yama-Inu’s were strokes of luck, good fortune or bad fortun... | 1 |
[WP] You and your brother/sister have always competed. After hearing the news that they became lead detective, you decide to become a serial killer. (Alternatively, you can be the lead detective.) | [
"I have had some chance to reflect on the origins of my rivalry as I have aged. Certainly, there is plenty of motivation that falls in the realm of the mundane. My birth was a butcher’s knife that cleaved our parents’ time in two - he would never again find himself *alone felicitate* in their love. \n\nOver time, h... | 3 | |
[WP] Two best friends share a finite amount of luck. When fortune befalls one, an equivalent tragedy occurs to the other. They are aware of their condition. | [
"A normal friend would be jumping for joy if he heard his best friend had just won the lottery.\n\nEdgar wasn't a normal friend to Susan. Since they met a decade ago, they discovered their fates were one in the same, albeit on opposite sides of the same coin. Fortune for one meant misfortune for the other. And $10 ... | 1 | |
[WP] An alien race so intelligent that they view humans like humans view mice, builds a better mousetrap. | [
"\"Alright Schleeb pull up the next thing on the agenda...hmmm what do we have here, 3-dimensional beings, meaty sacks of water, not too bright, and they don't quite have any principles of the universe down. Aaah humans. Schleeb how long do they live relative to say, the Lapore classification?\"\n\n\"Viraxis sir, I... | 1 | |
[WP]You were born on a spaceship just past the 1/3 point of its journey which will take roughly 3 generations to complete. You know the only point of your life is to have a child who will finish the journey after your death. | [
"In space, the food is free and the view is excellent. They had to pile on the perks to get the volunteers to come forward and then to keep them sane on the long journey. The arkships were built with everything you needed to live a full life: comfort, room to explore and people. Oh so many people. Darwin wasn’t foo... | 1 | |
[WP] Storm clouds have rolled in and it starts raining, except instead of water it's spiders. | [
"Mark always looked forward to the soft tip and taps of raindrops on his roof.\n\nHe had climbed up on his roof as soon as the clouds grayed and waited for the water's embrace. With his eyes closed, Mark directed his face toward the blank gray that covered the sky.\n\nThe first drop landed on his forehead. It wasn'... | 1 | |
[WP] As a child, you summoned the Goddess of Gluttony to eat your vegetables. Years later, she's still sticking around, and things are getting out of hand. | [
"\"I will never, in my life, understand how you can eat that stuff and not look like a balloon.\" \n\nI sat in the place everyone in America went at 3am when they felt like they'd lost control of life. A Denny's booth. My particular table might look a little more upbeat than you'd expect, as I sat accross from the ... | 1 | |
[WP] A lone character is stranded on an island. It's been a struggle to survive and they've finally given up. While lying on the beach waiting to die, a bottle washes ashore. What's inside drastically changes their situation. | [
"I suppose it all came down to time really. I had missed the first boat, because I didn't get up in time. The storm had come about at just the wrong time. Time, time time. I had time. Plenty of it. There was a spring three hundred and forty steps behind me. Fat pigs waddle around a wood four thousand and three step... | 3 | |
[WP] People are born with an image on their bodies which indicates the object that gonna end their lives. You have something weird.... | [
"\"Of all the things that can be hazardous, THAT'S what will kill me?\"\nI let out a slight sigh,it's been 19 years since I was born with my end predetermined and it's not even that I have to die,people die of weird things-people die of laughter,maybe by even eating too much dessert,or even stamping on your own bea... | 2 | |
[WP] At the beginning of time, two babies were born, immortals. Spellbound to each other, cursed, so they could only die at each other’s hand. After all of humanity dies out, and the two are left alone, they decide to duke it out. The Reigning Monarch Elizabeth II and comedian Betty White. | [
"It was a quiet morning in central Scotland. The birds sang, the wind blew, the dreadful clouds above loomed. \n\nSuddenly, a tune rang out from the rolling hills. \n\n“God save our gracious queen!”\n\nThe distant clopping of a horse approaching could be heard amongst the music. \n\nFrom the top of the highest peak... | 2 | |
[WP] Everytime Humans or their creations set foot on other planets, it spreads Mother Earth's consciousness and power by that much. She is determined to have Her and Her children rule the stars, no matter what the other races or planets say | [
"She searched through the possible futures. They unfolded like a mosaic, several of them varying in size and shape. Judging by likeliness of occurrence, she chose the largest one. The timeline presented itself to her, the facets and contingencies of the continuum surrounding her like burning stars. A universe where... | 3 | |
[WP] Sugar is now banned in your country. All stores will stop selling any product containing added sugar at the next stroke of 12 midnight. | [
"Day 1: \n\nThe stores are empty. The only thing that's left is vegetables, fresh, and salt. All other edibles are gone. Even meat is no longer available. \n\nThe government has decided to use extreme measures to counter ovesity. \"The war on sugar\" they call it. All stores will be routinely checked on any food co... | 1 | |
[WP] After a long Thursday at work, I finally got home. As I ate dinner in front of my window, I was shocked to see a man staring back at me. After I was able to get pass the shock I approached the window. As I did the man mirrored my every move. I saw that his eyes were completely black. | [
"I blinked. As I stood before this cabin, nestled in the woods I peered into the dimly lit window. There I was... eating dinner alone. Like always. I watched intently as I arose from the table. I watched myself walk towards the window. I saw you... or me... We are identical I thought to myself, with the exception o... | 1 | |
[WP] All mythology comes to life in the modern age. | [
"There's this funny thing about mortals, I always thought it was hard to pin down but then I read this book and the guy dropped a line that I loved.\n\n\"They don't want to see it, so they choose not to.\"\n\nBuilding burns down with no explanation? Faulty electrical work, has to be. Even if the security guard say ... | 1 | |
[WP] An error occurred. The Wizard must be stopped. | [
"Richard watched from the seventy-eighth floor of the high-rise the steady flow of traffic below, ebbing in and out across the streets like tidal mechanics. Often, he'd find himself, hands crossed behind his back, staring down at the well-oiled machine of Washington in the same way people may find themselves biting... | 1 | |
[WP] The year is 1988. You get home from school and find a letter for you with a post mark that’s way into the future. Curious, you open the letter and recognise your hand writing immediately. There is only one sentence on the page. “Be excellent to each other, and party on dudes!” | [
"“Party on dudes?” I read aloud. I know my way around the English language. There was no way I’d leave out a comma on accident. This had to be purposeful.\n\nI sat back in my chair and took another drag from my cigarette. I wasn’t much of a partier—I’ve never liked not being in control, and drinking and drugs was t... | 1 | |
[WP] Your mother is the Warlord of a Demon Legion. Your father is a powerful necromancer and Dark Knight. Your aunt and uncle is a succubi and incubi, respectively. Your siblings are training to be eviler than them. You just want to be a farmer | [
"Being named Flay Brutus Corpseshadow was your idea of imparting their hopes and aspirations of my future onto at a young age.\n\nI stand here now, drinking in your disappointment at this most hallow of gatherings on this blood-stained night.\n\nNow, now. Slow down Auntie Greye. No need to choke on his veins on my ... | 2 | |
[WP] They fear the light. | [
"A golden streak coursed through a field filled with hundreds of walking skeletons. The red sky drowned out the sun, but Dread ran confidently. She ignored the skeletons to focus on her objective. As she moved, the skeletons cowered away from her brilliant aura. She reached [Ballisea](http://hserratafun.blogspot.co... | 1 | |
[WP] You’re beginning to suspect everyone but you in your friend group is a god. | [
"“Why do you never get hungover?” he asked while holding his own buzzing head. The guy his friend Lazuz had dragged along yesterday, suddenly laughed. \n\n“O yeah! I forgot you are a mortal!”\n\n“Pssssssst!” Lazuz’s eyes were suddenly wide and he waved his hand frantically. \n\n“What do you mean?” Oliver asked conf... | 2 | |
[WP] Steve Jobs faked his own death to see where Apple would go. 10 Years later, Apple is falling, and Steve Jobs comes out of hiding to save the failing company... | [
"As much as I was surprised to see Steve Jobs walk in, I was less interested in whether he had faked his death or whether he’d discovered a workaround for pancreatic cancer, than I was to see him accompanied by Andy. That’s right, Andy Kaufmann. A grin crept across my face. I couldn’t restrain myself: “You magn... | 1 | |
[WP] "West Virginia hillbillies colonize Japan after being hired to deal with a raccoon infestation" | [
"\"Konichiwa bitches, where are the varmints at?\"\n\nMr. Nagato raises an eyebrow, looking the man up and down. In contrast to his finely tailored suit, \"Bobby\" as he's called is wearing overalls, the likes of which are ripped in most parts and painted in a myriad of dirt and oil stains. His face is unshaven, a ... | 1 | |
[WP] The stars have been disappearing. Now it's only the Sun that's left. | [
"I stowed the dusty broom in the closet at the back of the store. I had closed early today, and the afternoon sunlight filtered into the darkened room through the store windows. I finished the last check and locked the front door as I left, not that it was really necessary. Nobody would be around while I was gone. ... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a dragon, you have been kidnapped by a princess. Trapped in the cavern under her castle, she asks the unthinkable. | [
"It had been two months since my capture. Ignoble as it was, I could not stand against the force raised by the king's knights. Pesky thing, knights. Sure, you can roast and eat the occasional drunk, but then you have lines of succession to deal with. Those are always such hassle.\n\nI typically kept to the peas... | 1 | |
[WP] "I think we should follow the elephant's advice. He seems trustworthy and I like his hat." | [
"My Millennial Cap\n---\n\nMy Mother has just three hats.\n\nShe has worn them all her life.\n\nBlue for security.\n\nWhite for economy.\n\nRed for Jesus Fucking Christ. \n\n\"Give me not one more.\" \n\n.\n\nYet I have hats upon my hats, \n\nI sleep on them at night, \n\nI worry they will fall on me, \n\nOr get ... | 2 | |
[WP] A generation of people born on a spaceship in the middle of a 1000-year journey start having doubts about what their mission really is | [
"It's empty. There's nothing to do out here in the middle of the galaxy. Aside from your daily duties that you must carry out to maintain the ship's function. They're more like glorified chores really. Clean this hallway, check that machine, deliver this to that person, etc... it's endless and boring just like the ... | 2 | |
[WP] She reached over, slowly turning the doorknob. Inside that room was her worst nightmare come to life. | [
"As she opened the door, the little girl saw an old woman in a rocking chair, knitting a pair of baby socks for a grandchild she would never see.\n\nHer voicemail clicked and the sound of her children rang through, one after the other, all variations of the same message: *Merry Christmas, Mom! Sorry for the late no... | 2 | |
[WP] Here, the laws of physics don’t apply, and everyone can do whatever they want. Except Timmy. He can do something much greater. | [
"Timmy has the ability that no one else possesses in this transcendent universe. Timmy can turn the laws of physics back on whenever he wants. However, this ability can only be used once, and is irreversible. Timmy has kept this ability a secret for his entire life, waiting for the appropriate time to use it.\n\n"... | 1 | |
[WP] You travel back in time by mistake to the late 1700s when the Industrial Revolution was in full swing. By mistake, you stumble upon a place where you happen to get electricity, mobile tower and internet connectivity. The place is ghostly and abandoned. | [
">D-Day, H-Hour, M-minute, S-second. \n\n>I'm running the script. My heart is racing, resting level 94 by my watch. I have been waiting for this moment for years. Hoping, double checking, carefully considering everything I need to bring, to bring as much as possible to lesson the load when I get there. The ni... | 1 | |
[WP] You're a dungeon master of a weekly D&D game, a few weeks go by and you begin to notice reality mimicking your game. You ignore this until one week... | [
"\nBlood on the Fur/ \nMountain air filled his lungs on this overcast day, the crisp and cold fingers of fall have come and it was a refreshing change of scenery in this small town. Felix was was by no means a popular person, and he kept it that way. His smal town of Varul housed no more then 340 heads, almost trap... | 3 | |
[WP] Ghosts are real, and you're one of them. You and a couple of others are tired of being unacknowledged by most humans and dismissed as hallucinations. You do your best to get noticed by them. They call you "Poltergeists". | [
"You're sitting on the old swing set in the park; about to give up your desire to be noticed by the living. You're slowly fading into nonexistence when a little girl around 6 years old walks up to you and asks, \"Could I swing with you, mister?\"\n\nLooking at her figure felt strange. She had the features of the pe... | 1 | |
[WP] Your first wife dies after five years of marriage. Ten years later, you re-marry. Thirty years later, you and your new wife die in a car accident. When you and your new wife arrive in heaven, you discover your first wife has been waiting forty years for you to join her. What happens next? | [
"As some people were guilty of, Billie Mae died young, and left behind many unfinished businesses. But she was not disappointed, not in the least.\n\n“I’ve found you.” \n\nCigarettes, alcohol, and other hubris items were prohibited. In life, she would’ve found this to be a problem. Often a cigarette was settled com... | 5 | |
[WP] You are a successful rapper, but you get all the lyrics from the voices inside your head... today they stopped rhyming and started speaking directly to you. | [
"“Hey, dude..”, Tupac started, “We don’t really care that you plagiarize our shit or don’t give us credit or nothing cause it ain’t what it’s about” He finished off with a “skkra, skkra, skrrt” “Yeah, right, my G saying some real shit”, B.I.G continued, “It’s about the music, man. The message.” The silence that fol... | 1 | |
[WP] This ancient prophecy of yours has neglected to tell you that you're going to fight FOUR dragons, not one. One is undead, one is a machine, one is your long lost mare cursed into the form of a monster, and the last is apparently a god. | [
"He stood on the corpse, shoulders heaving. Blood dribbled down his arm, staining the chainmail red.\n\nA dragon. He'd done it. He'd really done it. Almost despite himself, a grin spread across his face from ear to ear.\n\nThe cries rang up from around him, the soldiers and mages scattered around the gorge chee... | 2 | |
[WP] We got it all wrong. The second coming isn't a 'rapture', it's 'raptor'. | [
"It was an odd day.\n\nWhile i was having lunch on my hotel balcony (my first time in England), I saw a fashionable lizard descend from the sky. (He did it quite Chic) then he said \"where's the nearest CNN or BBC?\" \n\nSo I pointed to that big BBC place thingy they had in London.\n\n I told him \"are you sure you... | 3 | |
Edit: I probably should have expected it, but this prompt has turned a bit darker than I planned.
If self-harm and trauma are triggers for you, please be aware of the content. | [WP] A demon has permanently taken control of and assimilated into your body. Unbeknownst to the demon, you have crippling depression. | [
"I cut through the juicy flesh before me with silent determination. Cooked meat was by far my favorite dish, of which I had spent eons feasting upon. The delicious dark red blood flowed out and mingled with the earth brown gravy leaking from the mashed potatoes, the distinct colors reminding me of my far off home.\... | 10 |
[WP] The Government finds a genie. They hold a referendum to choose the wishes | [
"UGH PLEASE DECIDE THE THIRD WISH FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, I thought to myself.\n\nI mean, the first two were obvious. Democrats got unlimited universal healthcare, and the Republicans got to make the Bill of Rights unrepealable. But as I sit in my seat, watching this filibuster in Congress enter its fourteenth hour, I... | 2 | |
[WP] Your wife cries as the doctor explains that your newborn is not breathing and has no pulse. Then the baby starts crying too. | [
"\"Where is my son?\" The man demanded. His face was a constant flux of confusion and anger. He glanced back to his wife on the plain wooden bed. She was unconscious now, her face wet with tears. She had passed out from exhaustion and grief.\n\nThe traveling doctor looked down. His fine city made uniform was staine... | 1 | |
[WP] A witch has granted your wish of being the smartest person on the planet but instead of making you smart, she made everyone else 10 times dumber. You are crowned a God for your genius, and now you must somehow use your army of idiots to locate the witch in order to reverse the spell. | [
"I Am the bruja that granted herself with the powers with which I had been equipped in all my previous incarnations, but this time is the charm. The 9th time is the charm.\n\nLife Path 9s in numerology are complete beings, Gods on earth with working knowledge of every life lived on this blessedly cursed planet fil... | 2 | |
[WP] All plants talk and scream when cut. This makes your job as a gardener incredibly difficult. | [
"Getting up for work was always challenging for anyone. But for Sven, his job as a gardener was especially tough. He recalled his friend John’s remark about that: “What do you mean, it’s tough? You’re just planting flowers and making sure they’re healthy, right? Sure, it’s tedious, but it’s not super backbreaking, ... | 1 | |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse happened. A year later all humans are seemingly infected... That is a lie however, as there was no zombie apocalypse to begin with. It was all an elaborate prank gone wrong, and now everyone is acting as a zombie to avoid being infected. | [
"I'm at the grocery store to get... ugh I missed sales. I am weak against the power of suggestion. If someone asked me what I wanted to eat I would not be able to give them a straight answer. But now everyone wants brain and human flesh, which is nice. I've had to eat to blend in. But animal meat, cake, peanuts? Al... | 1 | |
[WP] The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water... Of your bathtub. | [
"Arthur considered the dire situation in which he found himself. He had been sitting on the throne for only a short time, and couldn't help but be impressed by how quickly the situation had degenerated. The nature of the problem was as obvious as it was urgent, but he was critically low on the on resource he would ... | 3 | |
[WP] A pressed flower in a book. | [
" He had given her the rose three days after their first date. She had given it back three days later. When he laid the rose between the pages of the book he poured all of his love in with it. As he shut the book the bleakness of life settled on his shoulders and he sank quietly to his knees.\n\n Waking fro... | 1 |
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