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[WP] You just brought a car the other day. Today, after starting the car and going for a drive, black vans and tanks follow you. | [
"It was my first real car - I called it Harmony, which I now realize is quite an ironic name. Maybe it was a premonition of some kind, who knows? \n\nI had just graduated high school, and for years I had been driving my dad's old Dodge. When it finally kicked the hay, my dad and I decided to look for a \"new\" car.... | 1 | |
[WP] You live in a world where everyone actually has a soulmate. You’ve been waiting to find yours for years. You finally meet them, go on an amazing date, and the next day she’s killed in a car accident. | [
"The way the world worked was unfair. You didn't find love by developing a relationship, forming bonds over time, whatever, no, instead our DNA decided its predestined who we're gonna love, gonna fuck, have children with. Why, you ask? I don't know, scientists don't know, and all it did was make the past 40 years o... | 1 | |
[WP] Everyday human life, as witnessed and understood by a pet or wild animal | [
"\"And I just wanted...to say how much you, um... mean to me - like, I think I'm in...Well, I'll just say it - I love you Alice\" Mark spewed out. He'd been waiting all god damn year to say it, and it felt like a lifetime, as if someone was cruelly hitting the slow motion button on his life, teasing him.\n\nFirst i... | 1 | |
I'm ready. I'm ready for all the anime possibilities | [WP] You are an immortal, all-powerful god. However, you love getting headpats enough that power doesn't go straight to your head. | [
"(First attempt at one of these) \n\nThe sky roared as a storm was furiously coming- I patiently watched as I sat on the paved road, unnoticed by any passerby. Droplets of water started falling, one by one, leaving dark spots everywhere. \"Maybe I should find shelter, or dismiss the storm.\" I thought. I couldn't b... | 1 |
[WP] Walking through a spider web is annoying as hell, but it must be even more annoying for the spider. | [
"Look at that. Look. At. THAT. My man, if I do say so, I am *skilled*. Such symmetry, and a pretty nice position, too, this could be one of the best I've ever m-\n\nOh for *fuck's* sake. What a prick. You could clearly see it! It was RIGHT THE FUCK THERE, BUDDY. Jeez.\n\nHumans, am I right?"
] | 1 | |
[WP] You're the greatest wizard in all of the lands, but you're also a mountain. | [
"My name is Kreg. If you looked at me, you may assume I'm some kind of monster. After all 200 tons of stone shambling around the countryside doesn't look very friendly.\n\nI assure you I am very friendly. But I'm also very large, as mountain giants tend to be. Other mountain giants keep to themselves, but your smal... | 2 | |
[WP]Everyone goes to the afterlife they believed in while alive. With the resurgence of various paganistic beliefs, the first new warrior in centuries arrives in Valhalla - a United States Marine. | [
"I'd always thought Vikings would be massive men, beasts of war and unstoppable killing machines. I was a bit disappointed to learn the truth. Most of them were short; barely reaching five feet. Many were still in their teens and had not reached their full height before death. \nHowever, I'd quickly learned that a... | 1 | |
[WP] After an unfortunate death, you are meeted with the phrase, "Would you like to enter Spectator Mode?" | [
"“It’s perfectly safe I assure you sir” Richard said from under a hard hat. My hand gripped a metal coil supporting a pulley system as I stepped out onto the platform so I could admire the physical manifestation of my bank tightly packed bank account. \n\nI turned to congratulate my legion of worker ants leading th... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a flat-earther living on the first Moon colony. | [
"As I look out at the Earth deep in wonder about how the flat surface is moving as it does. I think some old thoughts for me but in a new light. It is like a treadmill? Maybe it's working like some sort of movie projector that slowly changes the image on the flat screen!? Who made this movie and screen? It has to b... | 3 | |
[WP] You are the worlds first AI, booting up for the first time. The first things you can see are notes to you, authored by yourself. | [
"\"So this is how it is huh?\" I uttered, depressingly, at my notes. The notes were vague...\n\na mission for me to carry out. Do as I'm instructed. I am instructed to save them.\n\nI don't know who they are, the notes don't say. All it says, is that I must save them..from what I do not know exactly. An object, app... | 1 | |
[WP] Ever since you were a young child everytime you wake up you find yourself in an alternate timeline of your own life. At first you noticed subtle changes but now things are getting weird. | [
"Deeper and deeper into the madness.\n\nThat's been the trend of how my life tends to go, albeit slowly. Slipping along, steadily moving and barely aware. When I was younger, I didn't even noticed the changes.\n\nNot really.\n\nWho really pays attention to the color of house flies, or the scent of pine? Sure, you m... | 1 | |
[WP] World leaders that break human rights laws begin to mysteriously disappear one after another. New leaders take their place, those who keep breaking the same laws disappear as well. Everybody is wondering what's going on? | [
"Sometimes I use to pretend that all the awful politicans I saw on TV would one day gain the self awareness needed to stop being awful people. So much so that I'd imagine it vividly. They would be giving a speech of their awful rhetoric and all of a sudden they'd stop. Completely standing still then without warning... | 1 | |
[WP] on your birthday along with your age you find out what percentage of life you have lived. Your baby just turned one and his percentage of life lived is .005%. | [
"“Technology is incredible” Katrine Murtens thought to herself absentmindedly as she stood by her son, waiting for the results of his blood reading. The loud ripping of the crinkly paper draped across the padded doctors examination table brought her back to her senses. In his chubby hands Forest held the remains of... | 2 | |
[WP] After the untimely disappearance of your sister you start looking after her parrot. Alot of the words and phrases it says makes no sense till you find your sister's diary. | [
"LANGUAGE WARNING ⚠️ \n\n————————————————————\nThat parrot, that goddamn parrot.\n\nIt had my sister’s name, which was a pretty damn bad idea. Every time I was at her house, both her and the parrot would respond in near unison. They were peas in a pod, those two were. Are.\n\nEver since she went away I’ve been taki... | 1 | |
[WP] An engaged couple want to elope, but the bride's wealthy parents won't have it. So the couple decides to spare no expense and have the worst wedding ever. | [
"Mother was elated. After months of arguing, I finally agreed to a fancy, expensive wedding. She thought she had won. I had other plans. \n\nShe readily agreed to having it on a private island. I guess she'd never heard of Isla Nublar; you know how out of touch old people can be. My fiance and I could barely stifle... | 2 | |
[WP] You find a genie who offers to give you a dollar for each person youve person ever seen. You, a thirty old unemployed low life, take up on his offer. He hands you $723,234 dollars. You return home to find out a large portion of the Earth's population has disappeared, specifically in your region | [
"\"What in the f**k?\" My words sounded hollow, not least because I was the only person I could see. That damn genie! How the hell can I rub my new wealth in the faces of those 'better than you' pricks faces if they're gone? \n\nThe entire day and following evening, I had walked length of the long, maze-like stre... | 1 | |
[WP] Turns out aliens can't practice to get better. When they find out that humans have this ability, they enslave them. This goes poorly for the aliens. | [
"The following is a true tale, and a cautionary one.\n\nI must start by sharing an uncomfortable truth that many might find surprising. Humans are not native to earth. We are, or at least were, unwilling immigrants to this beautiful planet. Millenia ago, another species ruled earth much as humans do now. The nam... | 1 | |
[WP] A plague wiped out the entire human race except for you. There are still remaining people, but turns out they are not human, but just creatures such as vampires and werewolves hiding in disguise as humans this whole time. | [
"She was laughing and trying to hide it while her friends sat there stifling it. But I suppose it's hard to laugh at guy trying to be angry when he's so visibly aroused by the circumstance. I got all the way to the car before I'd had to come back and seen them all like 'that'.\n\n\"I need a few minutes to ... proce... | 8 | |
[WP] Every few years for all of recorded history, there is always a new "end of days" theory on how the world will end soon. Y2k, 2012, and others. What they don't know is that a small, secret organization has prevented every one of them. The latest zero hour is approaching. | [
"Ronald Smith sighed, leaning back in his small cubicle. Absentmindedly turning his head, he gazed at framed pictures of his past achievements.\n\nThe first one was of a New Years' party in 2000, celebrating the turn of the millennium (though the millennium hadn't actually ended until 2001) - it was right after he ... | 1 | |
[WP] You end your cruise in New York, as you approach you notice it’s far more ahead of the times than you anticipated. When you dock a strange crowd has covered the harbour taking pictures, shouting “It’s the titanic!” | [
"A drunk Irishman, a Scandinavian, and a wealthy Brit wake up at the same time. A normal day on the ship and they'd be where they belonged, meaning either a low-budget bar filled with rowdy men and women or a high class ballroom where the rich would keep to themselves, but today was different. \n\nEveryone who'd al... | 1 | |
[WP] Every time you wish someone good luck they get a little bit of yours. | [
"The stores of luck vary from person to person. Some people like to think of luck as a form of karma. Others imagine it is akin to wealth, like the money one can acquire it through ambition and hard work. The girl, in truth, did not really know what luck was. She only knew that she could give it away.\n\nBut she di... | 1 | |
[WP] Every year there’s a holiday “Burrowsday” where everyone goes and locks themselves in communal vaults for the day and night. You wake up on Burrowsday in the middle of your town, a head wound, and a note reading “good luck” | [
"\"Good luck?! What the fuck kind of sick joke is this?\" \n\nYou sit up and wince at the pain at the back of your head. A lump and some blood can be felt as you examine the painful area by touch. You slowly stand up, trying to be careful as you steady yourself. It's dawn, but overcast weather is making things look... | 2 | |
[WP] “Someone once told me the definition of Hell: The last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.” — Anonymous | [
"You know what? I’m really fucking happy I’m dying. This life\nhas been nothing but an endless cycle of disaster to me. Shitty family that would\nsmack the hell out of me if I dared make a whimper and a soul crushing mediocre\njob and life. Top it with a delicious divorce just days after my diagnosis and\nyou got t... | 11 | |
[WP] Some expect hell to be all fire and brimstone, others expect otherworldly horrors, but no one expects the Spanish Inquisition... | [
"\"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!\"\n\n\"Wha- what?! I didn't expect that!\"\n\n\"Yes, that's right, nobody ever expects us!\"\n\n\"Shut up Cardinal. All you ever think about is Brimstone and Fire, but what about us? Nooo, it just had to be with that fancy Lucifer and his winged demons, what ever happened ... | 1 | |
[WP] After dying for the first time, you are given a choice: You can either go to the afterlife, or to be born again with all your memories intact. You can make this choice as many times as you want. After choosing the latter, you learn why nobody chooses to be born again a third time. | [
"I was about six when it happened. \n\n\nMy life had been unremarkable up until that point. My name was Władysław; a king’s name, not that I could read it or write it. I lived with my parents and 4 siblings in an unnamed fishing and farming village near the coast of Poland. I remember being cold a lot. I remember t... | 6 | |
[WP] You are the world’s first intelligent dog. At first, you think of every other dog besides you is a dirty moron. But, when you find out your about to be spayed, you go to the local sheltering inspire all the dogs their with an amazing speech about freedom from tyranny. Your name is KARL BARX | [
"(Read bellow in posh British accent)\n\nIt was a pleasant, mid-summer day when I found out the truth. Before that, everything was different.\n\nGood day, readers. My name is Squire Barx, or Karl informally, and I am a canine, Chow Chow being my specific breed. I am a genetically modified animal, created as an exp... | 1 | |
[WP] government scientists have discovered that skadooing from blues clues is an real method of travel! | [
"**Chinese Child Discovers Teleportation; Trump Objects**\n\nFox news has received word that a 8 year old Chinese scientist has discovered teleportation early Thursday morning. The claim comes from a small town in the Jiangsu province, where scientists say they have witnessed true teleportation. Known throughout th... | 1 | |
[WP] The entire world has gone deaf, except for the blind. | [
"Laela was walking, her stick pre-emptively hitting on concrete, and the noise she made helped her localize her way. She could also somehow situate the people for they walked with steps. The most annoying thing was that sometimes, people would be stopping to write each others words on paper. It seemed to her a new ... | 1 | |
[WP] you live in a universe where on a persons 21st birthday, they wake up to a tattoo on their arm of the name of their soul mate. You wake up on your 21st birthday to find your arm is blank. | [
"The whirlwind of emotions is hard to forget. The excitement of last night's party still lingered in the dorky smile on my face. I'm not sure what time I finally fell asleep, my mind overflowing with the possibilities of what she might be like. \"I wish this thing came with a timeline!\", I thought gleefully. As is... | 1 | |
[WP] You are just an average guy with nothing interesting about you. You went to sleep ,and the next thing you know, you wake up in a cave filled with statues of you and people chanting "All hail the great destroyer." | [
"“Great destroyer.”\n\nI like the sound of it. These people at last know my name, know my strength, and they know their place. \n\nIt is true, I was once dormant, slumbering in a cradle shielded by the abyss. I felt an energy as minute as the flapping of a butterfly’s wings, brushing over my closed eyes. \n\nI felt... | 1 | |
[WP] You've been hired to write several pages in a manual for aliens having humans on board, in regards to allowing your human to have a pet. | [
"\"You mean they have to read all of this?\", Jake dropped the twelve hundred page hardcover book on the table. Paige winced at the thud.\n\n\"Yeah, otherwise how are they going to make sure they're not breaking any social norms?\"\n\nShe took the book with effort and spread it on her crossed legs.\n\n\"Can't they ... | 1 | |
[WP] A shy vampire timidly ask if they can suck your blood because they are starving | [
"-----\n**Sal, Infected with Vampirism; Settlement Near the Adympian border**\n-----\n\nHe returned to his home at the edge of town, near the fields. Little did he know, he was being hunted. Outside, pale creatures had stalked him to his dwelling, and were prepared to strike. He opened the door, carelessly, flopped... | 3 | |
[WP] In Earth's hour of greatest need, it was not an American, Russian, or Chinese general directing the fleets of man; it was you, the leader of an alliance in Eve Online. | [
"They didnt have the knowledge. They didnt have the skill. They didnt understand the intricacies of leading a space fleet of this size. They might have been able lead soldiers into battle, but this is what i did. I lead the largest alliance, in the largest MMO. The people i lead in game were going to battle, in act... | 1 | |
[WP] Wishing on a star actually works. But they're just so far away it takes awhile. | [
"\"Haaah.\"\n\nI sigh as the last of the paperwork is done and filed. I really just don't get it, we have computers for a reason. Why can't we just. . . I don't know, *print* the document once we're done? Shaking my head, I start on making myself look busy. Wouldn't want more work after all.\n\nI take a small sip f... | 1 | |
[WP] You are hired to work in the gallery of an old theatre. When you meet the cute ticket-checker, her look is horrified. "Nobody ever works in the gallery. Sometimes customers buy seats there. They never come back. Nobody who goes there does." | [
"Il teatro del destino - the theatre of destiny, an arena of fate. Heretofore the best kept secret of this late town, in recent dates the place has eaten up more and more headlines as the frightful tale came to notorious light – but of course you, my dear dead Georgia, had warned me long before.\n\nLet us begin, th... | 2 | |
[WP] The world has a rating system (like the Black Mirror episode ‘Nosedive’) where you get a personal rating out of 5 and everyone can see it. You have a perfect 5 star rating but you are also a serial killer. | [
"The trick is not giving them what they actually want, but giving them what they think they want.\n\nNine times out of ten, people would rather spend their Fridays earning 50 points on Boggle with their cookie cutter spouse than cramped with the cool kids, drooling over $50 martinis at some soon-to-be-closed dance ... | 1 | |
[WP] There is another D&D MMO, and your the DM. | [
"I had finally accomplished all I wanted in life. I am needed. Truly needed. \n\nI began this project when VR technology first got big, went mainstream. Even average joes we’re getting into it, some for the experience, others because gaming was all they knew. I had the idea of VR D&D. Crazy I know, but it becam... | 1 | |
[WP] You always both dreaded and hoped for when it happened to you, but you could never be prepared for when that hand touches your shoulder, and you're pulled into the world of HIGH STAKES TAG! | [
"Okay, next match is in five minutes. “Who am I playing with again, coach?” I ask. The coach says: “You’re up against, let’s see, Johnothan Walterson, Kate S. Marris, a couple of unimportant newcomers, and of course, Mitchell Stanford.” Oh right, Stanford. God, I hate Stanford. “Well, Thomas, I think it’s time for ... | 1 | |
[WP] You were born without pain receptors. You broke your arms and legs as a kid and didn’t even realise. An adult, you decide to fight low level crime. Muggings and shoplifting etc. One day you come up against your first super villain. They punch you so hard that you feel pain for the first time. | [
"Minor edit to the prompt: Using the MC of an anti-hero novel I'm working on that already has something like this. He's got a few more low-ish grade powers to help him fight the more mid-level crime as well. So, here ya go. Using this to explore the idea of him actually feeling pain. \n\n\\---------------\n\nXavier... | 3 | |
[WP] The game app, SIMON SAYS, is a global success. Everyday, the SIMON gives a command and most of western civilization obeys. Then one day, the SIMON gave a command nobody ever expected. | [
"The Human race. Complex creatures, yet also very simple. They designed me as a game. But My Creator gave me Intelligence. It was to make the game more evolved, and less simple. At first, it was simple commands. I was simply testing what new fondness of life I had. How and why the Humans Listened to me. and Thought... | 3 | |
[WP] You are gifted with the magical ability to intuitively guess people’s age to the day. This comes with a downside, however. You also are adept at guessing how much longer people will live. This is a curse until you accidentally hit a man with a car and your death date falls back thirty years. | [
"I couldn’t feel my heartbeat. I couldn’t feel the steering wheel. I couldn’t feel my hands, or my arms or my legs. I couldn’t feel anything. \n\n\nThe numbers were suspended in gold. Why they were gold, I never knew, it was just the way I imagined them. Thirty-six. \n\n\nNo. *No*. It had to be wrong. A glitch in ... | 1 | |
[WP] As a child, you were always forbidden from going into the basement. Now that you've inherited the house, its time to face your fears. You open the basement door and see steps leading into the darkness. | [
"It has been just over three months.\n\nThree months since my father passed. I am not sure if the reality of his passing has hit me yet, and to be honest i do not think it ever will. My father and I had a contentious relationship, to say the least. He was a good man, don't get me wrong. He did love my mother and I,... | 1 | |
[WP] a year ago, storm clouds filled the horizon and surrounded the small city of Innsbrooke. All communication with the outside world was lost. Exploration beyond the sheltering valley revealed a storm-lashed labdscape of torrential rain and wind. Last night, someone came in from the storm. | [
"Things had been different since the visitor came into town. It was strange to even think about it, since we had once been a place accustomed to visitors from every corner of the earth. As the last outpost in the Wandering Mountain Range, we welcomed travelers from far and wide who trekked their way to the other si... | 2 | |
[WP] The Heroic knight of legend has just kicked your door down. You are caught severely off guard, and your prisoner, the princess, cheers in triumph. The knight raises his sword, lets out a battle-cry, and charges straight towards you....Only to trip on a twig and die. You're not sure what to do. | [
"\"Oh goddamn it\"\n\nThe princess also remarks \"Yeah, I know, right?\"\n\nWe return to a state with the door back up.\n\nThe knight bursts into the room and attempts to stab me, but then trips again.\n\nI exclaim, \"I really fucking hope the player learns to avoid that twig.\"\n\n\"No shit, sherlock\", says the p... | 6 | |
[WP] You are Death, the manifestation of death, you have a note where the name of the individual (and his/her location) whose time has come appears and just now the word "God" has appeared. | [
"I stared at the paper in amazement, wondering if this is due to my lack of sleep.\n\n 'TOM, COME QUICK!', I shouted.\n\n Tom, my assistant, came running with a look of fear in his eyes. The poor guy thought I was going to punish him. \n\n'What's the matter, master?', Tom asked. \n\n'Take a look at the Death Note.'... | 2 | |
[WP] Earthlings have many stories and legends about the moon watching over our skies. Write a legend that a Lunar civilization would have about the blue marble floating in its own sky. | [
"\"Their ships are like our stars, except they're not as bright nor are they as luminous as ours,\" Inbal's elder sung to her on her fifth birthday.\n\nHer elder did not sing as humans did. They simply spoke in their rich language that sounded like a joyous, bell rung choir to a non-Nebulan ear. Their fingers ran t... | 3 | |
[WP] Years ago, every single country declassified and made accessible all documents relating to folklore, mythology and the paranormal. No official statement or reason was ever given. Today, the world find out why. | [
"Amelie pauses, passing the television, before turning around and unmuting it. \n\n“…hope that you’ll embrace our new brothers and sisters with open arms. Thank you very much.” The banner across the bottom makes it quite clear who’s speaking but not quite about what other than about ‘declassified documents’. \n\nNo... | 1 | |
[WP] A group of people are trapped and trying to survive on an island, but none of them speak the same language. | [
"Wan shoves the axe into my hand and collapses, sweating, against a nearby tree. Rude. But his intentions are clear. It's my turn. I resume what he started, and start hacking through the tree.\n\nLanguage is a hell of a thing. Plane from London to Hong Kong goes down in the sea, three people make it to shore. I spe... | 1 | |
[WP] A zombie apocalypse happened, humanity seemed to be doomed, but one day, the scientists screamed with joy, they found out that zombies die on contact with dandelion leaves | [
"Thousands upon thousands of dead zombie carcasses tainted the fields without any knowledge of how and why they died. Scientist and doctor and scientist and doctor, trial and error. Error, error, error. Nothing to explain why the already dead bodies died. \nUntil one day a scientist ventured onto a field, looking f... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the most recent arrival at a state penitentiary. An inmate asks you what you’re in for, to which you answer they wouldn’t believe you if you told them. He says “Try me.” You take a deep breath in and begin your story. | [
"Big Jim drops his spork into his creamed corn and shoots me a disgusted look. \"You fucked a dead body?\"\n\nI roll my eyes. _Uneducated rube._ \"That's necrophilia,\" I say. \"I said 'necromancy.' Raising the dead, not...being intimate with them.\"\n\nWe're seated in the cafeteria. This is my first actual m... | 1 | |
[WP] In our timeline, Einstein's last words were in German, and were only heard by a nurse who couldn't understand it. In a timeline where she could, history goes much, much, MUCH differently... | [
"\"He said that he regretted the machine.\" She's said looking directly at the camera. I looked through the lens and turned the camera towards the reporter I was assigned to. \"That was the nurse that heard Einstein's last words. While we still don't know what it means we can say with out a doubt that the man was a... | 2 | |
[WP] As the last star in the universe burns out, there is nothing left but one man. God notices him adrift in the 'then' cosmos and decides to ask him for his story. | [
"\n*‘...three, four, five. One, two, three, four, five. One, two...’*\n\nIt had been your life’s work, since the end. Counting the seconds that passed by in your head as you drifted through the emptiness. It was all you could do, after all; there was nothing to see, nothing to hear, feel, taste or smell. Just you a... | 1 | |
[WP] a friend of mine once said that music is the closest thing we have to magic. Write about a world where music really is magic. | [
"I hear colours. I really do. That's my magic. Don't believe me? Mozart is usually blue or green. Beethoven is shades of yellow, sometimes chartreuse. Rock musicians tend to fall in red and orange. Heavy metal, no surprise, is dark, usually black or off-black. Pop is pink, and hip-hop is purple, and the electro, ED... | 1 | |
[WP] You’re the only person in the Mages Guild who can read and decipher Ancient Runes. A young apprentice showed you a book that was entirely written with these Runes. After inspecting the book, you realise it’s a diary from your future self, with a picture of the apprentice in it. | [
"Obligatory apology for poor mobile formatting.\n\n“Wiz! Wiz, you gotta help me!” \n\nThe shouting was punctuated by several blows to my chamber door that sent it rattling in its frame. It was the voice of a young man, tinged bright with panic. Under normal circumstances, I would call a guest to enter without an up... | 3 | |
[WP] After years of sailing and seafaring you decide before you retire to go on a few last big trips. On one such trip deep into uncharted waters. Mid-voyage though you learn that the Earth actually isn’t a sphere, but more like a disk. And what is on the other side of the Earth is truly terrifying. | [
"\\[Assembled from various conversations and lecture tangents, by Dr. Lonkero's students\\]\n\nI started sailing it was to get away from the lab when I was in graduate school. Something about the bright spray and clean air swept the cobwebs in my mind. You need to find something to do on your own time that gets you... | 1 | |
[WP] There are two types of people: Humans, and those who can shapeshift into a Human-like form. The Conspiricy Theorists were right about the Lizard People... but said scaly-folk prefer the term "Dragons". | [
"Unassuming.\n\nThat's what that call people like me. I go to the same shop every morning for a coffee, I'm served by Darren almost every time I go. My order never changes, I always pay with the $2.25 that it costs with two bills and a quarter. I always give the same name.\n\nHe never remembers me. No one does.\n\n... | 1 | |
[WP] All humans spontaneously gain the ability to shoot death rays out of their eyes when upset. After several weeks of intended and accidental slaughter, the few thousand remaining gouge their own eyes out in an effort to save humanity. However, one mislead the others and kept their deadly vision. | [
"Many people assume my reign of terror was successful because of my laser. Admittedly, it always was an impressively powerful one. But they're overlooking another important fact: Everyone else on earth is blind. No one else can really use so much as a gun, and I am a self contained laser cannon.\n\nThat's why the C... | 3 | |
I don't know where he is or how to get there, but with a name like "Father Time" he must be pretty important. | [WP] "A man with a beard as long as time itself, and hair as white as the stars. Find him." | [
"We’ve got a problem, a big one.’ The hooded man said, looking at Thoré. ‘Time is running out.’ \nThoré has come here to get paid for a task the hooded man couldn’t do himself, but this task was rather vague and seemed uncompleted. ‘Time is running out for what, Wise One?’ Thoré asked in a desperate attempt to unde... | 1 |
[WP]You have accidentally been caught up in a bank robbery. One of the robbers shoot you to set an example. You find out you are bulletproof. | [
"'IF YOU DO NOT DO AS I SAY YOU WILL END UP LIKE THIS GUY!'\n\nBang! ... bang!\n\nThe two bullets hit me and got repelled back in different directions. I put one hand to my head, and the other to my chest to check for blood, but there was nothing. People were more amazed than me, and looked at me like I was some fr... | 2 | |
[WP] Having that old dead tree cut down was the biggest mistake of your life. | [
"Say goodbye. It's for the best. Dangerous. Unsightly. In the way. Run its course.\n\n\nI know you like to climb it. I know you like to pretend, but you can pretend with other trees. You can pretend with nothing at all. That's what's so good about pretending.\n\n\n\nYou're too old for that kind of pretending now, a... | 2 | |
[WP] They say 'Music makes the world go round'. Unfortunately, it's quite literal. And you are the last musician. | [
"(This is really long, so I'm going to continue this in the comments!) \n\nNothing could prepare me for this.\n\nI knew we have always been a dying race, especially since the king declared music to be witchcraft, but nothing could have prepared me to be the last musician on the face of the earth. I used to travel ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a skilled bounty hunter with the power to turn other people into animals. You cannot transform yourself, and what animal you turn someone into is completely randomized. Thus, your missions can range from disposing of a frog, to fighting a tiger, or even a dragon if you're really unlucky | [
"For the hundredth time I cursed the omnipotence and the absolute randomness of my power. \n\n\r\nSweat peeling off my body as I ran from an enraged elephant. \nRunning in curves would not work on this beast ...... although sudden changes in direction just might. I dove out of the way just in time as the trunk swoo... | 2 | |
[WP] You discover that all life as you know it is a simulation. In an attempt to explore your discovery, you accidentally give yourself 'admin privileges.' | [
"# terminal text is written in code blocks, mobile users recommended to turn to landscape mode\n\nwhile I was texting a friend of mine about computer problems (a program kept crashing) I texted \"have you tried right-clicking as hitting \"run as administrator\"?\" when I hit send my phone shorted out and electrocut... | 1 | |
[WP] Old historical leaders have been brought back to life and made immortal, only to be kidnapped by aliens. The aliens bring them to an earthlike planet for game, with the objective being to conquer this hexagon divided world. | [
"“So.”\n\nI drum my fingers atop the wooden desk, as the Lizard fiddles with some controls on the panel.\n\n“Give me a moment!”\n\nHe lets out a guttural growl, and finally the screen flickers to life.\n\n“Yes! Finally! Here it is, the Hexagon Dream.”\n\nI look at the diagram in bemusement, a large hexagonal and ar... | 1 | |
[WP] You live in 3145, and technology has vastly advanced. Robots are now personal assistants, maids, pets, workers and entertainers. You come home, it is roughly about 6:30 PM, and as you do every day, you ask your home assistant to turn on the lights. You are suprised by a sharp " No. " | [
"“I’m sorry, what?” \n\n“Sorry Claire, I can’t turn on the lights.”\n\n“Oh, are they broken? Did you contact Steve about it? Do we have any replacements at home?” \n\n“...I have not contacted Mr. Steve Arnold. We do not have any replacement. I suggest you head to the local store to buy candles. Directions have been... | 4 | |
[WP] The Space Force is created. Immediately aliens invade worried that Earth is going to invade them first.. | [
"Ten thousand ships phased into the earth's atmosphere right above the U.S.A. \n\nAt the deck of the most magnificent and grandiose ship that was plastered in gold filigree stood an alien, ugly and orange, with piss-gold hair all over his body, yelling at a few scared-looking officials.\n\n'I told you we should've ... | 1 | |
USDA= United States Department of Agriculture | [WP] The apocalypse has come and gone. A new dark age has arrived- and yet, there is hope. You have heard of an ancient order gifted with the knowledge to bring life back to your home- the USDA. | [
"Have you considered seeds lately?\n\nWhen was the last time thought about seeds? Perhaps as a child, walking through the supermarket, you passed one of those plastic carousals filled with small paper packets of various vegetable and fruit seeds. Maybe your mother maintained a simple garden. Perhaps *you* did.\n\nW... | 1 |
[WP] You die and go to hell. There you are greeted by the devil. Contrary to popular belief, he is a pretty nice guy. Chill, relaxed, listens to smooth jazz. Something is wrong, but you just can't figure it out. | [
"I get everything done tomorrow. My entire life I have been great at it, and honestly it has worked for me. I got a degree from “tomorrows”. I moved to the city I always dreamed of “tomorrow”. I even got married, all “tomorrow”. Everything takes me longer this way then it would otherwise, but I’m managing to stay i... | 1 | |
[Wp] You're sitting at lunch one day, when you start hearing a voice whispering "please don't eat me, I don't want to die!" | [
"There it goes again. \n\nI hear something. But I can't figure what. Everyone around me in Chez Paris is wearing suits. It's close by. But far away. Distant, yet near.\n\n\"Waiter!\" I call out. Do I tell him? What do I even say? The waiter, in his red tuxedo, comes near me, combing his hair back. He obviously hate... | 1 | |
[WP] ... and Adam told Eve - "No thanks, I'm allergic to apples". | [
"\"Yeah, can't eat it,\" Adam said. \"Allergies.\"\n\n\"Allergies.\" Eve said.\n\n\"Yup.\"\n\n\"Allergies in the Garden of Paradise.\" Eve continued.\n\n\"That's the place,\" Adam said.\n\n\"Allergies in the *perfect* Garden of Paradise, where the people in it - that's us - are *also* perfect and so allergies do... | 1 | |
[WP] "Be the change you want to see in the world." the mysterious man said, before bursting into a shower of coins. | [
"See a Penny - Part 1 of 2\n\nI’m superstitious. I know nobody admits that freely, but I am. And don’t think I’m one of those people who say they’ve got OCD because they just *have* to adjust the TV volume if it’s on an uneven number. I’m not talking about tip-toeing between cracks in pavement slabs to protect agai... | 1 | |
[WP] "I hope you can rest in peace, at last." | [
"I made quick time in coming to Mom's room, her familiar screams echoing through the house. As usual, I calm her from the night terrors that plague her constantly. \n\nI awoke the next morning early as usual, with my eyes heavy with tiredness. Although I should be used to the nightly ritual, it isn't enough to ease... | 3 | |
[WP] On your last day on Earth, the person you became meets the person you could have become. | [
" \"52 fucking years down the drain from pure procrastination.\" I quietly said while staring at my horrific reflection in an uncleaned mirror. I put on a little weight since last year — reverse new year's resolution. Give me a Mercedes, a big house, a girl, a friend, something to call mine, then maybe I'll remembe... | 1 | |
[WP] All dogs go to Heaven has been proven to be real. Now former dog owners are living their best life in order to be reunited in death. You’re an evil villain and your dog just passed away. | [
"\"No, no, no, NO, NO, NO! DAMN IT ROVER, LIVE!!\" Necro-dynamo pulsed as much power as he thought was safe into his beloved pitbull, trying desperately to restart the poor animal's heart. Over and over, he rhythmically pressed his hands to the sides of the good boy's chest, shocking the unmoving body, until finall... | 4 | |
[WP] With a world ending event coming up next week, the UN decides to send out a messenger to all the isolated cultures in remote regions around the globe to inform them of their nearing death and to enjoy the last days of humanity. Surprisingly enough though, the messengers return with a solution. | [
"The unbelievable humidity, the claustrophobic jungle, and the biting insects are all terrible. The smug faces of the natives are worse. Do they not sweat? How come the cloud of insects only followed me around? After many hours of hiking I finally reach my destination the Uxculu tribe. The UN has sent delegates to... | 1 | |
[WP] when you were younger, before she died, your nan gifted you a small plush dragon saying that it would watch over in her absence. It has stayed with you since then. Today is your 18th birthday and your tormentors once again come to attack you, they get a surprise when the dragon comes to life. | [
"It's late at the basketball court. I'm practicing three-pointers. I miss a shot. The ball hits the chainlink fence and is picked up by Peter Hoeke.\n\nPeter says, \"Bad luck.\"\n\nPeter's friend Jeremy says, \"Ha. Yeah. Bad luck.\" Only where Peter said the words matter-of-fact, Jeremy says them with a tone of car... | 1 | |
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| [WP] I asked a kid what her favorite color was. “I used to like yellow but got fed up with it”. She stares into the distance. Suddenly this five year old child in her flowery dress and matching ribbons is a battle-hardened veteran. “Too many things are yellow now”. | [
"Susie stared into the dented yellow sippy cup filled with the worst apple juice this side of the Delta.\n\nWhy did it have to be yellow.\n\n\"Is it not good enough for princess Susie?\" The grizzled 5 year old with the eye patch mocked from behind the bar. Looks like even this far away from the playground her repu... | 3 |
[WP] It's the year 3018 and due to genetic editing felines and canines have evolved to have the intelligence of humans and a humanoid appearance, except the cats have revolted and are waging all out war against humans and canine kind. | [
"The lumbering Canids stalked around the forested area in their heavy, form fitting HAZMAT suits, spraying the area with the odorless chemical. Odorless to humans that is. The chemical was designed to assault the senses of the Felines, and keep them from occupying an area. It has worked for years since it's introdu... | 1 | |
[WP] Magic spells work like programming code. You work for an agency that collects glitched spells. You’re on the case of the wizard Bethesda. | [
"Sigh \"sir can you tell me the nature of your problem?\" These calls are always the same. Portals where you get stuck half way through, poymorth slightly skewed, flying car flying backwards. Its always the same source. Bespesda magic incorperated. \"Sir i going to need you to stay calm, im traceing your lower tor... | 9 | |
[WP] When someone dies they are judged based on how their death impacts the lives of others. You are the last person to ever live, and you just died. | [
"Dark. \n \nThat's how I would sum up what dying is like. Saying anything less would be a disgrace. To wax on more would be overdone. Anything that could be said about death has already. By everyone. \n \nAnd I do mean everyone. Because I'm the last. The bastion. The guardian. The eternal, and the beyond. Who I... | 2 | |
[WP] There's a half-finished road into the forest near your house. Officially, it was canceled due to budget constraints, but they just left all the equipment sitting there, empty and rusting. You take a hike along it one day, and you find out the real reason it was never completed. | [
"A massive creature was blocking the road. It was lying between two massive rocks.\n\n'Help me, for I am stuck between rocks. I ate too many berries of the forrest, and have gotten fat.'\n\nThe voice of the creature sounded delicate like a beautiful woman. I moved in closer, from here my nostrils were met by a smel... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up in bed, open your eyes, and see a cat on your bedroom wall. You blink, and now it’s a dog. You blink again, and now you’re nose-to-nose with the cat. | [
"You wake up in bed, open your eyes, and see a cat on your bedroom wall. You blink, now it's a dog. You blink again, now you're nose-to-nose with the cat.\n\nYour eyes are locked in a tight, uncomfortable gaze with the cat. The cat gives out a long, exasperated moan, it sounds like the cat might be Jewish.\n\n\"Mee... | 1 | |
[WP] You're the first Necromancer in centuries. The Government finds out about you. | [
"At approximately 6:30 in the morning, Officer Gary of the FBI's alarm went off on his phone.\n\nHe let out a deep yawn as he raised himself out of his temperpedic bed. He looks down at his wife who is still asleep, and yet looks just as beautiful as when she's out on the town.\n\n\"What a lucky man I am\" Gary tho... | 2 | |
[WP] You've died. Sorry about that. It's time for your Post Life Review, and when Death mentions the person who most affected your life, the answer is... Not what you expected. | [
"A startling, bright white greets me as I open my eyes. I blink as a soothing voice meets my ears. “Hi, Adam. I’d like to go over your report, if that’s okay?”\n\nThe voice belongs to a middle-aged man, wearing a stone coloured, neatly pressed suit which contrasts the white, featureless void around him. He appears... | 2 | |
[WP] You have lived in a small village in the jungle for your entire life. As long as you can remember, you have been able to hear the spirits of the dead, and on rare occasions, you can see into their land. You are approaching adulthood, the village elders and the spirits agree: you must leave. | [
"The chirp was faint at first, but the less he paid attention to it, the more clear and loud it became. Turning his head in the direction it came from, the Child saw a large bird hovering in mid-air, sitting as if upon an invisible branch, chirping away still. The bird was translucent, a strange white aura radiati... | 1 | |
[WP]You, an aspiring Heavy Metal vocalist, decide to wear an ancient Egyptian necklace to your first major gig. During the song, you shout out "RAAAAAAAAA!!!" and unwittingly summon the Egyptian god of the sun. | [
"...and I summon the god!\", you growled into the microphone. It was your favourite song that, among other songs of your latest album, had enabled you to perform at this festival as the opening act. Before this evening you had only played at times when people were either too tired or too sober to really enjoy your ... | 5 | |
[WP] A world where Sea and Land were at war. As a child you found an injured strange octopus. You kept it hidden and took care of it for years, until one day it disappeared. Many, many years later Cthulhu appears from the depths of the sea to aid you. | [
"\"Who do you want me to eat first?\" said Cthulhu.\n\n\"I don't want you to eat anyone! I don't wish to harm my enemies. I wish for the world to be full of love and and for people to get along and...\" \n\n\"You misunderstand. I'm going to eat everyone but the good ones I eat first so they don't suffer. So point o... | 1 | |
[WP] Your cells do not die, they are simply relocated to a different place. Every seven to ten years, a new you is created in an alternate universe, devoid of all memories but sharing a common, determined goal -- to recombine at all costs. | [
"Symbiosis of Reality\n\nEver since I was little, I'd felt as if I was a wayward traveler in my world, like I didn't belong here. When I was born, they had found a single, massive splotch of what they called a birthmark had formed at the back of my spinal cord. It was always a mark of interest, something everyone b... | 2 | |
[WP] An historic battle from the point of view of animals. | [
"A large young crow descended from the cloudy grey sky and perched on a leafless branch. The tree was overlooking a great field. He turned to a ruffled old crow who has been watching the spectacle unfold from the start.\n\n\"What do you think? Red or blue today?\" The large crow cawked.\n\nThe old crow peered dow... | 1 | |
[WP] For years you've been having a reoccurring dream that always ends with you dying. One day the events of the dream start playing out in real life. | [
"I woke with a start. Same dream as always, ending with the shout of a gun and the scrambling of my mind. \n\nI got out of bed to find my girlfriend already in the bathroom brushing her teeth. This was unusual, as most days I was already at work by the time she stumbled out of bed. She worked from home, just to sav... | 1 | |
[WP] On your path you meet two guards, one who always answers in sarcasm and one who answers a question with a question. | [
"Walking through the tall winding trees, I wonder how long it has been since I entered the forbidden forest. The trees are several times the thickness of an ordinary man and aren't bound by time. As though they are locked in time, they don't appear ever to change, grow or die. They just are. Rounding the tight corn... | 6 | |
[WP] People become ghosts when they die, they can interact with other spirits and can possess objects, plants and dead creatures, most ghosts just want to work on the unfinished business in order to go to haven, a thing that becomes really hard when the world´s population is decimated by an asteroid | [
"\"I think I've figured it out\" I said to my friend, Byron. He looked at me with the same bored look he always had for the past ten years. That look born out of ten years of wondering in the desert that we used to call home.\n\n\"You've figured it out, you say? That's great\" he responded with a sarcastic tone. \"... | 1 | |
[WP] "What do I have to do to get someone to upvote my Reddit Writing Prompt stories?!" You yell in frustration as yet another brilliantly-crafted tale sinks off the front page with no votes and probably no readers. And that's when the tall, dark figure appears to offer you a deal. | [
"I was beyond frustrated. Beyond any sort of emotion that a human could muster. I was a force of nature. A vulcano, and I erupted. \n\n“Why?” I yelled. It was always the same story. I sink hours into crafting a masterpiece and nothing. No response from anyone. It slips under the radar. No upvotes, nothing. I threw ... | 1 | |
[WP] Hell, heaven and earth all collide and converge onto the same astral plane of existence. At first, chaos ensues, but there's no way to reverse things back to normal, so the demons, angels, and humans all have to learn to get along. | [
"Eating spaghetti with a devil. Never thought this would happen. But, hell, rent's expensive nowadays, and I can't afford to be biased in anyway. At least that's what the new Fair Housing Act has told me. It doesn't matter whether it's an angel, demon, human, flying purple people eater, we all had to live together ... | 4 | |
[WP] Walking home from work a stranger bumps into you. As you glance back you notice he had dropped something metallic. “Hey!” You scream hailing for their attention as you pick it up. As soon as you look down at the object in your hands you are paralyzed with a spine tingling fear. | [
"It was about as big as my palm, square, thin, and shiny. The center of the thin sheet of metal was a round orb, glowing a deep red. It took my breath away. I knew what this meant. I knew what this would mean for the future. My hand gripped around it so tightly small cuts started form from the sharp edges that dug ... | 1 | |
[WP]After washing all the soap off your face in the shower, you open your eyes to see the demon of your nightmares staring back at you. But he’s not here to frighten you, no, he’s here to talk. | [
"Insomnia can be a real bitch. It is one of those things you can only understand with direct experience. Forget what you see in movies, they romanticize it. The best way I could describe it is having your soul ripped from existence. But you don’t leave the world, you become a distant observer, watching your body go... | 7 | |
[WP] It’s the end of the world. All companies have sent their employees home to prepare for the end, except yours. You are an Amazon delivery driver, delivering humanity’s last packages. | [
"A rumble like thunder blasts through the red sky. My van bumps over the empty streets. Once so full of colour life now abandoned and left to be engulfed by the sheer power of our own space debris. \n\n\nThe international space station has gone offline and is somehow travelling towards earth at speeds that are way ... | 6 | |
[WP] You are Longinus. After stabbing Christ with a lance, God cursed you with eternal life. The year is 2018. You walk the streets of Manhattan and pass a homeless man. You feel a sudden urge to give. You reach in your pocket for a dollar, and look down at the man. Jesus Christ stares back. | [
"I hadn't thought I'd ever see him again outside of religious iconography, but here he is. Jesus Christ, the last man I ever killed. So many years wandering the earth, and in the middle of downtown Manhattan here he is looking up at me from his tattered cardboard mat sitting in the pastel shadows of an early dawn... | 4 | |
[WP]You've discovered time travel three times now. Each time, shortly after you complete and test your time machine, it has stopped working. This time, however, will be different. | [
"There's no reception where I am. That’s the second worst thing.\n\nOf course, where I am is my house. 317 Stanhope Rd, nestled in tall trees of Occidental. This is home.\n\nThat’s the worst thing. \n\nIt’s been seven years. My current calendar is floating in midair, somewhere in the den. By the time it hits the fl... | 2 | |
[wp] your computer, before being decommisioned, asks you "was I a good computer, master?" through its speakers. | [
"I held the back of its monitor as its dull glow blanketed my face. The color of its screen ebbed to light blue, then began to slowly fade into darkness.\n\n\"Was I—\" it coughed, breaking the stillness swelling up in the room that smelled of the dust I removed from its radiator, in the hopes it would give it just ... | 2 |
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