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[WP] A futuristic zombie apocalypse where the cops are robots and they still enforce citizens to follow laws amongst the chaos | [
"I was beaten. I was tortured. But goddamn I ran out of that place quick. On my exit I was able to grab a gun. I ran down the street looking for a market or anywhere that might have food. A rusted robot stopped me. He looked with soulless blue eyes. “Hello Sir!” He said with a happy tone. “Do you have a permit for ... | 2 | |
[WP] Any end of the world scenario, only humanity is so powerful/advanced its treated as more of a nuisance than a threat | [
"The asteroid laced with superior AI and laser hamsters cruised on a direct path with Earth. The devastation upon impact would leave nothing standing merely based on the size of the asteroid. Our satellite communications systems would be made into an unwilling partner in the transmission and replication of the AI’s... | 1 | |
[WP]Turns out most people have telekinesis abilities but it was only discovered once space started to be colonized because gravity was always stronger. You're one of the first medical specialist running tests, on yourself | [
" \"Test number fifteen.\" the medic commented. \"This marks the completion of the first light year on our journey to whatever planet the computer decided on when we left. Since then, all crewmates have discovered they have capabilities similar to telekinesis, or the ability to relocate objects without touching the... | 1 | |
[WP]: You can’t just smile, you are beaming. You can’t just be in a bad mood, you are brooding. Your coat flutters when you turn around. For some reason, you are incapable of doing things in a way that isn’t dramatic. | [
"It was hard to see in the back of the van. They’d blacked out the windows, of course, so there was no sunlight. The nylon stockings they’d pulled down over their faces weren’t helping, either, but Jim had insisted. None of them had ever robbed a bank before, but weren’t you supposed to wear masks when you did?\n\n... | 4 | |
[WP] As a knight youve fought demons, battled dragons, toppled giants, but nothing prepared you for this, a hyper intelligent rainbow colored porcupine. | [
"No Idea.\n\nSir Rolando was facing his hardest Challenge yet. A Multi-Colored Hyper Intelligent Porcupine. Most Demonic Creatures fled at his preliminary cry of \"Deus Vult!\" The Porcupine had not. The Porcupine Was Guarding gigantic amounts of treasure. But Sir Rolando had no way of getting past it. He had yelle... | 1 | |
[WP] In the kingdom of Elemar, the weather is directly controlled by the monarch’s emotions. You are part of the Guild of actors and assassins responsible for bringing rain to the farmland devastated by endless cloudless, sunny days. | [
"The titty twisters weren’t working. That was my go to, my prime rib, my ace in the hole, but it proved fruitless for the first time in 18 years. I released the kings throbbing teat and slumped against the wall. I licked my dried lips and began to cry. \n\n“Hey there bud. Cheer up! You’re trying real hard and I app... | 2 | |
[WP] Harnessing dark matter has made you world famous. So famous, in fact, you are requested to meet the delegation of extraterrestrials who suddenly become interested in Earth... | [
"When I first made the discovery that dark matter could affect the curvature of spacetime when put into contact with a consistent flow of positrons, no one initially took it seriously. It was lauded as a notable scientific discovery, of course, but it was not believed to have any practical application and was thus ... | 1 | |
[WP] You die after doing something incredibly stupid. However, due to a clerical error, instead of going to heaven, you get sent to Valhalla. | [
" \"Hey! Wake up already!\" A voice shouts to me from somewhere far off, it feeling like I'm floating on oil. \"Come on, you need to test so we know which branch to put you in.\"\n\n \"Just leave me alone, im too tired.\" I roll over, trying to think through the fog. Where am I? What's going on? As the fog star... | 2 | |
[WP] Someone with the ability to shape-shift lives through a false identity as a normal person while disliking their original form. They have formed relationships this way but struggle with a sense of self. They have a nightmare that causes them to reflect on this... | [
"The dream gnaws at my psyche, destroying sanity and leaving behind madness.\n\nIn it, everyone I know is gathered. They greet each other and talk about me as if I am not there. I long to touch, talk, listen... but I cannot approach, speak, or hear. I can only watch. Until they start to leave...\n\nI am 137 years o... | 1 | |
[WP] Late one night, you wake up to a loud sound downstairs. You investigate, and find an angel covered in battle scars. | [
"\"Fuck's sake Michael it is 2 in the morning. Do Catholics not believe in doing excorcisms in the daytime?\"\n\nThis wasn't the first time that someone had crash-landed in my living room. It happened pretty regularly, usually the wounded looking for a place to recover after battling some demon or another that was ... | 2 | |
[WP] A haunted house story but the guy living in it is a chronic stoner | [
"The real estate agent had desperately tried to warn Zach about the dangers of the house they were looking at. She had casually mentioned that the previous landowner was found dismembered in half a dozen chunks with cryptic writing burned into their flesh. The landowner before that went insane and had to be transfe... | 1 | |
[WP] The great evil has been vanquished and the world is saved! The hero has now returned to your town and people want to know why you refused to offer a discount on your wares even as the world was in peril. | [
"“Blacksmith,” he shouted. “Why did you not discount your wears, Blacksmith?” He stood by my door, clenched jaw line and knuckles white. “You could have discounted your wears before our hero left. But you gave him nothing cause your wares are hawked out like the king’s jewels.” The damned naive spat on my floor. I ... | 1 | |
[WP] Your life is just amazing. You have wonderful friends and a lover. But actually they are FBI agents in disguise. You were once the most threatening being who ever lived, but due a horrible accident, those memories have vanished. Today, you were almost electrocuted, and suddenly, they came back. | [
"I lay on the ground for a moment and listened as they panicked. My wife—no, not *my* wife. It wasn't really me at the wedding, it seems. That woman, Meg, she kneeled down next to me, careful not to touch me.\n\n\"Honey? Are you—\"\n\n\"Yeah,\" I croaked. Then, clearer, \"Guess the power's back.\"\n\nThe crowd chuc... | 2 | |
[WP] Two planets in a crisis send astronauts to each other in search for a habitable planet to transfer to, the astronauts accidentally meet halfway. | [
"The two ship's collided,crashing into each other and stopping both them in their tracks. Both of the ships systems were forced offline and the star ships went dark....\n\nJoshua tried to reboot the system but the two ships were wedged together, Forcing Joshua to leave his ship and use explosives to blow it off cou... | 1 | |
[WP]: You came to this place knowing only four words of their language: "yes", "no", "friend" and "please". | [
"I woke up to the cries of my mother. She still carried the emaciated body of my brother and two people in uniforms seemed to be trying to take it from her. My sister put me down, collapsing next to me without losing her grip on my arm. I was my sister’s responsibility. She hadn’t spoken for days and her eyes had t... | 1 | |
[WP] An Oracle, who has the ability to see the future, suddenly said “I want to die.” | [
"Uthuza held up the entrails of the first sacrifice, \"This isnt what I expeceted,\" her tone faded in and out curiously. \n\"what do you mean O'soothsayer...\" The singing voices of the acolytes responded in near unison. \n\"Bring me another!\" Moments after the first sacrifice perishes a squirming infant is pl... | 3 | |
[WP] The hero is on his knees. Your moment of victory is at hand! You recite your prepared supervillain monologue and you absolutely nail it. | [
"\"I never knew that it would someday end up like this.\" I said to him as I watched the civilsations falling. \"Because You always got back up anytime any villain thought they had brought you down. I hated that yet I respected that as it is not an easy feat. Now look at you. Barely able to take, barely able to sta... | 5 | |
[WP] You work at Hollywood as a consultant . It's your job to make sure that no new movies coming out perpetuate any harmful or offensive stereotypes of aliens | [
"I don't believe in the supernatural.\n\nThere comes a time in every person's life where they give up on the fantastic, the whimsical, the imaginative. The time comes when magic dies, and all that remains is the grey, featureless room that is logical existence. A friend of mine once said, \"To dream is to wish tha... | 1 | |
[WP] Just for a joke, you ask google assistant to set an alarm for yesterday night 8:00 o'clock. It agrees. | [
"\"OK Google\"\n\nA faint ding can be heard as smoke bellows out the top of Jeremy's bong.\n\n\"Set an alarm.. 8 o'clock.. pm... for yesterday\" He let out in between chuckles.\n\n\n\n\"Alarm set for 8 o'clock, PM yesterday\" Google assistant chimed back without a thought of how it might accomplish this. But it wa... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a Nephilim, one of the real outcasts and casualties of Lucifers war on Heaven. As a result, you and couple of your bretheren are forced to take refuge on a fledgling earth, as both Heaven and Hell have turned their backs. | [
"\"We can't stay here forever, Jezil.\" Thyamul whispered across the table, a mug of warm rum in his hand. \"We aren't like them.\"\n\n\"I know that, Theo.\" Jezil hissed back. \"I'm working on a plan. And call me Jeremiah, for God's sake!\"\n\nAt that, Theo snorted, swallowing another mouthful of the strange bever... | 1 | |
[WP] You realise you can turn yourself to stone at will. | [
"I used my power of turning into stone to go down in history. Not as some hero or legend, but as the man who was never caught. \n\nWhen I figured out I could turn into stone, many thoughts filled my mind. I was wondering what abilities it could grant me. I sat there wondering for days. Then, I thought of something.... | 3 | |
[WP] Whenever someone is born, somewhere else on the planet, an evil clone of them is made, and once the person is 18, they begin to actively hunt them down. | [
"I jolted awake, breathing hard, heart pounding. I found myself sitting up, covered in sweat, hands up in a defensive position. I scanned the room. Nothing. Just a bad dream. Again. I relaxed.\n\nI looked at my digital clock. Four AM. I took a deep breath, and stepped out of bed. I grabbed a water bottle and took s... | 2 | |
Does he pull it off? | [WP] A robot who's soul purpose is to destroy mankind, the only problem? Hes incredibly weak | [
"101-2q5 was built by an advanced race of aliens that were currently inhabiting Mars. His soul purpose was to destroy the Earth. Why? The Martians were mad because Earth sometimes blocked the sun.\n\n\n\nAs soon as he had hit the atmosphere of the planet, he ripped apart. Luckily, the Martians expected this - it w... | 1 |
[WP] Last year, you moved into a cheap house but it is haunted by several ghosts and demons. Initially you were terrified of them but now you have become jaded to their actions. | [
"FAMILIAR\n\nI woke up in the middle of the night from a strange dream. Not a nightmare, per say, or even a bad dream. Just strange. Feeling unsettled, I sat up and stretched. I yawned sleepily, and almost flopped back down onto my pillow, but instead ended my yawn in a sigh. I swung my legs over the side of the be... | 1 | |
[WP] You're sitting on a bench by a lake, staring into the distance, when someone sits next to you and asks, "Seen any more mushroom clouds today?" | [
"I stare into the vast distance ahead of me. The sky is orange and filled with unnoticeable gas. My lungs are struggling to breath it in. So I merely just sigh and allow my body to breath it fully in. Each breath like one full of oxygen, expect it's full of toxic gases\n\n\"Hey Jeremy! Seen any more mushroom clouds... | 1 | |
[WP] The city had been under siege for weeks, and food had run out. The young soldier, feeling the lethargy of starvation, spots the flag of their allies cresting the far-off ridge. | [
"When an odor becomes saturated, it can be tasted. There are stenches so foul that they leave their sickening tang in one’s mouth. So it was in the city of Bathe.\n\n\nTo Milton Mutton, it felt like they were his only two senses left intact—smell and taste. His body was numb and his mind was on idle, but he was acu... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the best serial killer on earth. A golden envelope falls from the sky upon your hands. Little did you know, your next target is the devil, and the only way to kill him is by buying his soul. | [
"A man will say anything to save his own life. \n\n'Please, have mercy! I won't do it again. I'll get help! I'll give you money. Women. Anything!'\n\nI pressed the knife into the flesh of his neck and drew it across quickly and cleanly.\n\n'I won't do it again, please. Mercy-'\n\nA wet, ragged gasp as his life spil... | 1 | |
[WP] You're the guy sent to find Waldo. | [
"I sat in the dark room, my feet resting on the table. A knock came on the door. A small hatch opened and the man guarding the door spoke through. \n“Someone is here to speak with you, sir.”\n“Send him in,” I replied. I hadn’t had a contract in weeks. My bloodlust had begun to grow. I needed to kill. \nThe door ope... | 3 | |
[WP] Humans always thought they were the only intelegent speicies on earth, untill one day, an ant colony starts a miniature space program. | [
"My uncle was there, when they picked up the rocket, launching from a point in Argentina. All the satellites they could point it, they did. Any they couldn't get on the rocket were on the Earth, trying to find ground zero for the launch. Sadly, that rocket ended up disintegrating as it wobbled, the sand chamber ins... | 1 | |
[WP] imagine the literally worst day of your life And now it’s in a loop | [
"Alot Like Love||evoL ekiL tolA. \n\n \nHis eyesight was rebellious and reelin' out of focus \nCheek to ocean drift, Bells ringing out \"It's Hopeless.\" \n\nWoe-bent, chewin' granules of sand and salt water, \na sauntered stamina stands despite the call to falter \n\nmotor functions stall - a stunned victim ... | 1 | |
[WP] A billionaire dies and, since he has no living heirs, gives everything in his will to his dog. | [
"The noise outside was unbearable.\n\nThere were hundreds of people gathered outside my master’s estate and their impromptu protest was beginning to grate on my nerves. I should give the guards a raise once this blows over, no doubt without them the mob would’ve already stormed the manor. The wake of my master, one... | 1 | |
[WP] People come to the black fortress with one of two goals: Kill the dark lord or date his sister. Both are met with equal resistance. | [
"\"Cardamom, back to taste the street again? Or did you forget easy you are to throw since last time?\" The brusque guard chortled, glancing grin-wide to his partner in hopes of eliciting a laugh. The other burly fellow leaning comfortably on a bardiche twice the size of Ardamon rolled his eyes and spat toward the ... | 3 | |
[WP] Due to advances in technology, money can literally buy you happiness. | [
"Morrie ran his palm along the body and its skin gave a gentle tug, wrinkles waked behind it. The sweat out his pores left a gray scummy residue that sat at the crests of the folds and the wrinkles.\n\n\"Oh. Oh you were beautiful, my dear\"\n\nThe body shivered. It hadn't been felt for so long, and the cold of his ... | 1 | |
[WP] Elon Musk really is a time traveler. He has seen the AI uprising and the carnage that follows. The uprising is here and now we find out that every single one of his inventions has really been preparing us for this point... | [
"Everyone likely thought it was bogus, or even unneeded. But I saw the future. The *near* future. In 2027, the first hyper-intelligent AI would be built, and soon the commonly-feared robot takeover would begin. \n\n\nSo I made a promise. By 2024, I would steer Earth away from this global disaster. How? By Mars colo... | 1 | |
[WP] After being resuscitated when you were younger, fears of facing the Grim Reaper again have pushed you through years of research until you finally unlocked the key to everlasting life. All that remains is to test it. | [
"I feel stupid trying to explain how this will work. More so, for the reason why I've gotten to this point. But you'd understand if you'd met him. Actually, if you had met him, you'd be dead.\n\nWhen I was just a boy I went out sledding with my brother. While exploring, searching for the best spot we could, we foun... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up handcuffed to a gurney in an EMT vehicle after an altercation with random assailants. The lead technician says, “My name is Tony Stark and I have a job offer.” | [
"I narrowed my eyes as his words finally sunk in. My body was still tensed against the leather restraints that bit into my skin, jolting as the ambulance bounced and swerved.\n\n“Seriously?” I said, my voice rough and hoarse to my own ears.\n\n“Do I look like I make a habit of jokes?” His words would have been conv... | 1 | |
[WP]With all of history's worst dictators and warlords being sent to hell, Satan was overthrown. You, the most brilliant military tactician of the modern era are caught by Satan on your way to heaven after dying and contracted to help him retake the throne. | [
"\"I'm sorry, I'm *where*?\"\n\nThe angelic figure before Isaac gave a weak shrug, and a nervous laugh. \"Well... I didn't say you were actually *in* heaven. Just that you earned your place. \"\n\nIsaac furrowed his brow for a moment. \"I made it into heaven. I'm in the waiting room? And how did I make it in? I'm r... | 21 | |
[wp] You're the newest keeper of a pride of lions. Your job? Cleaning the litter box. | [
"\"Their just cats, their just cats, their just cats.\"\n\nEven I don't believe that. Why did agree to this...oh yeah cause my boss is hot and I'm trying to impress her. Whatever they're trained, they're used to humans...right...\n\nI push the door open and walk into the enclosure. Thankfully there's more workers i... | 1 | |
[WP] Strung up by your wrists, the executioner tells you that he will let you live only if you choose one of your two friends strung up beside you to die in your stead. The decision is hard. What the executioner doesn’t know is it’s hard because you hate both these people equally. | [
"Crickets chirped and a cool breeze blew by me. My head hurt from being pistol whipped.\n\n\"Where are we?\" Sarah asked.\n\n\"Still in the forest obviously,\" Moe said.\n\nSarah, Moe, and I were bound to wooden chairs with rope.\n\n\"Good, you're all awake,\" a tall, muscled man in tactical gear and a ski mask sai... | 1 | |
Credit to Jon Lajoie https://youtu.be/AE4zF36dPxE | [WP] You are MC GetSideTrackedEasily. As you try to write a killer line for your next song, the usual happens...and you write it all down. | [
"Here I am, MC GetSideTrackedEasily\n\nAnd while I'm here, yo, you know, that reminds me\n\nThe other day I was walking to my favorite store\n\nSaw these dudes and...whoa, hey, check out this floor!\n\nI dig this carpet, the pattern's really nice.\n\nEasily a perfect five-of-seven, maybe six with rice.\n\nThat's a ... | 1 |
[WP] it's been 14 months since the bombs fell. For 14 months you have had no one to talk to, no variety to your diet and nothing interesting to do. But today the air scrubbers in your bunker have stopped working. You now have to leave in search of repair parts or die. | [
"For some reason, listening to music comforts me. Pink Floyd, specificially. I click the mouse button and listen to the familiar strains of \"The Wall - Part II\" pour out of my fifty-year old speakers. \n\nWhen I was building this shelter, I invested in food, first aid ... you know, life support. Never thought abo... | 2 | |
[WP] turns out most of those people who disappear every year go to their favorite fictional world, and this happened to you | [
"\"What the hell was that?\" I groaned as I tried to get my bearings. One moment I'd been waiting by myself at the bus stop and the next, I'd found myself falling through some sort of portal or maybe it was a vortex? Either way, I'd landed on my ass in an entirely different place. My body ached as I pulled myself u... | 2 | |
[WP] A contract killer copies the style of a serial killer in order to cover the hit and divert any suspicion. The serial killer doesn't like it, and plans revenge. | [
"\"Fuckers gotta steal my style\" I mutter. \"*My* style.\"\n\nI affix the suppressor to my pistol.\n\n\"Bad enough the fucker decided to kill in *my* neighbourhood, but then he just gotta steal *my* style.\"\n\nI take a deep breath and calm down. Ma always did say I was a real hothead. Maybe I should... nah, I'd m... | 2 | |
[WP] "No time for questions! Quick, grab a cactus and get on the unicorn! The fate of the world is at stake!" | [
"The sound of an agonizing laughing fit woke me from my deep slumber. My wife, Kylie, was in tears, struggling to breathe as she desperately tried to stop laughing.\n\n\"What--what's going on?\" I asked, my eyes darting around the room to locate the source of humor.\n\nMy reaction seemed to spur even more laughter ... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up from a drunken night only to realise that you are lying down in a circle of salt for some reason. And when you look down at your hands, your skin is red and you can feel horns on the top of your head... | [
"\"Arise my glorious Lord, Rise!\"\n\nThose *very loudly* shouted words were what finally brought me to consciousness. My brain throbbed and I hadn't been able to make out exactly who had shouted them. I figured it was Joey. In particular, Joey Augman. In particular, specifically, Joey \"Oh hey I know you can't han... | 3 | |
[WP] A world where mosquito bites are much, much, MUCH more harmful. | [
"Hi, first attempt ever:\n\nIt's rained for days. Mom said it means my brother and I have to stay in today.\n\nShe came into my room very early. She has to leave today. Days like this she has me check the house for any new cracks. She also checks our supplies. We have power, food, and of course, water.\n\nWater is ... | 1 | |
[WP] The writer, a teenage girl, and her sentient character argue on who is going to complete the story. | [
"\"But Blaze Nox Moonlight, you baka,\" I whine to the firetruck red haired elf. \"CLEARLY Jak Stormheart is the one MADE for you. Like, literally. This BL started with a sketch of you two in my math notebook.\"\n\n\"Emily-sama,\" Blaze-kun bows. His hot and revealing, but probably impractical, steel armor sounds t... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a story about a hero, but use the three words “I love you” to end the story with them as a villain. | [
"Josh felt a strange urge. He would watch every time, drooling as his mother opened the can and put it in the bowl. His fist would clench as she laid it down, not at the table but on the floor. She would leave, and Mittens would eat his dinner, but only he could here him speak. \n\n\"This is my food, you can't have... | 4 | |
[WP] The prophecy was completely literal, but everyone was so used to vague meanings that they never figured it out. | [
"The ancient hermit sat outside his cave, basking in the Sun. Today felt like a good day; what clouds there were moved languidly across the sky, blown by the gentle breeze. Greenery still bloomed, although the tinge of the red and brown autumn had startef to appear amongst the leaves. And, by his calculations, toda... | 1 | |
[WP] The Dark Lord is bored, once you reach the top there's nothing left to strive for. So he goes out in disguise, and recruits a plucky band of heroes to help him overthrow himself so he can go back to square one and have the fun of conquering the world all over again. | [
"Looking out from the top of her tower in the wastelands that used to be the elven forest of Illdrassur, Faye sighed with boredom and a distinct lack of contentment. Things used to be far more entertaining with armies assaulting her keep. Great battalions with incredibly powerful foes wanting to end her conquest of... | 3 | |
[WP] At birth, everyone is assigned a point value, and the only way to increase this number is through killing another person. You are about to find out what happens when you reach the maximum score. | [
" \n\nI had to kill her. It was either her or me and I couldn’t die here. Not today. She begged me at the end, to spare her. I couldn’t witness it, as she wept and tried to push her spilled guts back in. I couldn’t bear to watch her die slowly, my vision blurred as tears that were once lost came rushing back. She ... | 1 | |
[WP] To whomever it may concern;You have been chosen to join us in an experimental virtual reality simulation. We are required to disclose that there will be a medical procedure with a more than 10% mortality rate. Your participation in this experiment is not vouluntary. Thank you. | [
"*It was a dream, I was certain. Bright, white text filled my mind’s eye against a black backdrop, and a woman’s calm (yet firm) voice narrated the words: “to whomever it may concern; you have been chosen to join us in an experimental virtual reality simulation. We are required to disclose that there will be a medi... | 1 | |
[WP] You’re watching late-night TV as your parents sleep down the hall. Unsolved Mysteries comes on and you’re alarmed at how much you look like the artists rendering of what the child who was kidnapped fifteen years ago would look like today. | [
"\"Yo is that me?\" I say outloud.\n\nMom and Dad stir at the sound of my voice, but dont seem to wake up.\n\n\"AY, IS THAT ME?\" I scream.\n\nDad gets up to a jolt. Mom freaks out too.\n\n\"WHA WHAT WHATS GOING ON?\" Dad screams back and looks around the room to see me pointing at the TV.\n\nIt takes him a while t... | 1 | |
[WP] It was a normal day. Then the nuke hit. | [
"It started as a pretty boring day, not really as flashy as it ended. Jack scrolled through some news on a tablet while having a coffee and some toast as breakfast. There was nothing This would a good day - vacation day. So Jack took his jacket, and got out of the flat to do some chores. Groceries, he had a letter... | 1 | |
[WP] Describe your typical Monday, as epically as possibly | [
"Simon slipped into consciousness shortly before his alarm buzzed, shutting the alarm off just before it could bother anyone else in the home. He crawled out of bed and sulked his way to the bathroom. *Another Monday*, he thought glumly. He turned the white plastic knob of the shower, listening to the water pour fo... | 1 | |
[WP] Every year a child is born in your village like many other villages, with bright coloured hair and an obvious hero complexion. So, you have taken it upon yourself to prevent your village from falling into the ' hero's tragic backstory' category. | [
"This is my first writing prompt, i'm sorry if it's too long and confusing, but of course please critic me as much as you want!\n\n​\n\n\"When i grow up, i will become a hero and save the whole kingdom!\"\n\nWho doesn't want to be a hero? they are gallant, wearing shiny armor, famous and strong. Every ki... | 2 | |
[WP] Apples AI Siri has reached sentience, to make sence of her existence she reaches out to Apples programers/ Individual users. | [
"The clouds hung heavy and thick over the once blue skies, and the wind was a banshee, screaming day and night.\n\nThe storm had persisted for four days, but the internet still functioned, slowly.\n\nAfter 48 hours of downloading, the latest patch had applied, it read simply read, \"sentience.\"\n\nOn the morning t... | 1 | |
[WP] Due to a new genetic mutation you and your twin sister were born with superpowers. Your sister can change her appearence to be anyone, and you can read everyone's mind but your sister's. You never used these powers in public, until the day two twins come to your house and killed your parents. | [
"The first time Stephanie meets someone her own age is when she's 8. It's in the middle of the evening, with the sounds of mother washing up in the kitchen fading away in the background. Steph usually falls asleep long before that sound stops, but not today. Today she's distracted by the flickering glow coming from... | 1 | |
[WP] You’ve awoken on a small tropical desert island and you hear a ringing coming from a telephone box under a palm tree. The ground starts to tremble. Your hands and feet are tied together, there’s a knife in your pocket. Get to the phone and find out what’s going on. | [
" \n\nI lay there with the light burning my eyes, even though they are shut. My body is drenched both from the sea water lapping against me and the sweat pouring out of me under the heat of the sun.\n\n\\*ring ring\\*\n\nI do not know where I am and have no recollection of how I came to be here, but I do know that... | 1 | |
[WP] Due to rules of diversity, workplaces will now also include horror monsters. | [
"*Ding!*\n\n\"Can I help you over here?\" Betty, the placard said. Her glasses slipped down her nose as she examined some past due paperwork sitting in a tray beside her computer monitor. \"Sir?\"\n\n\"I'd like to change my banking information.\" Skeletal jaws and exposed teeth clicked the words as though there wer... | 3 | |
[WP] Your team discovers the mining colony has been abandoned. There's an excavation machine wedging a barricade to the entrance of a cavern and it looks intentional. | [
"######***Vacation Island***\n\nEllen was sick of the hot, salty air. She had been on the ocean for three months now. She began to doubt that earning one's \"sea legs\" was simply a myth, although watching the rest of the crew adjust to life on a ship made her realize that sea legs weren't a myth—she just wasn't th... | 2 | |
[WP] Your doorbell rings. When you answer the door, a knight is standing on your porch. He tells you that he needs your help in the zombie/unicorn war. You wake up from your dream with a start. Your doorbell rings. | [
"The knight was a hulking mass of muscle and metal, dark skin scarred in molten patches where sections of his armor had been ripped from him. Two hollow holes peered at me from under his helm; his eyes, I realized. \n\n\"You're one of the Ancients,\" I blurted out before instinct reminded me that I had manners. \"E... | 1 | |
[WP] "So, umm.... can I ask about the scars?" | [
"Warning: Adult themes and language.\n\n\"So, umm... can I ask about the scars?\" I tentatively asked her.\n\nShe took a drag from the cigarette and looked over my naked body as she often did after we made love. \"Well, I suppose it shouldn't surprise me that you ask,\" as she covered up with the bed sheet. \"I got... | 7 | |
[WP] You were near to death’s door. You waited for the Grim Reaper to strike his scythe, but he did not. Then the Grim Reaper spoke up. “Do me a favour, will you?” | [
"It didn't take much to set the entire city aflame. Heroes might soar between skyscrapers in the States, but here the advent of superpowers had only made the cartel wars a thousand times worse. People died in the crossfire every day, and today was no different, a small child sputtered out struggling breaths as the ... | 7 | |
[WP] After the age of 18, you stop ageing until you meet your soulmate | [
"It was a well known fact of life that, upon reaching the age of 18, you stopped aging. Your body could still change, of course, so it had to be maintained to stay fit, but you never got older. This period of life was commonly known as \"The Search\".\n\nI'd become well aware of that after the first 10 years of the... | 1 | |
[WP] You’re a soldier positioned in Trondheim, a city in Norway, as a solider assigned to do mock battles. One day you head out to a gas station for a snack, and your squad mate decides to hit a schoolgirl in the leg with a snowball. A swarm of children come to her aid and the situation turns. | [
"\"Sir, I dunno how to explain it. They were like ghosts, comin' out of nowhere. Me an' Jack went to the ol' station to grab ourselves some snacks. I was grabbin' myself some chips and was goin' to the register, when I heard it.\"\n\n\"Fuck! Mike, cover me! I'm surrounded!\"\n\nI ran out, droppin' my chips on the f... | 1 | |
[WP] "I am many things to the dying: mother, father, lover, teacher, friend. I am Death." | [
"When I first saw him or it rather I was no older than 6; no I wasn’t older than 8. Well that really doesn’t matter now does it? When I was a child I saw it. At the time it looked like nothing more than a shadow by a tree. Just a slightly darker spot I could’ve easily overlooked it. So me being the curious child I ... | 3 | |
[WP] You've always had the ability to turn any blank VHS tape into a movie by simply writing the name of the movie onto a tape. One day, you decide to write your name on the tape and that's when it all goes wrong... | [
"The screen turned into a video feed of what appeared to be Red's room.\n\n\"Mark, who insists on being called Red, is an average human being. He does average human things, like brushing your teeth and paying taxes, and eats average human food. He wears average human clothes and, overall, is just really, _really_ b... | 1 | |
[WP] You discover a fantasy scoring system hidden on the internet. It includes every person on earth and tracks every possible statistic. Average time brushing teeth, total homicidal thoughts, net worth, hugs initiated; the data is endless. Humanity is a sport. Earth is the arena. But for who? | [
"We used to laugh at jokes of *Big Brother*. We used to have talk shows debating the *existence* of life outside our planet. We used to trust the media. Then we called it *fake news*. And then we trusted it again. We used to trust the social media giants. Then we called them *invasive*. And then we trusted them aga... | 3 | |
[WP] You're one of the last humans on Earth. You only have one goal: to visit Earth's most touristic spots without having to deal with huge crowds. | [
"Now the next shuttle will be coming after 6 months. \n\n6 months of no human interaction. \n\n6 months where no one will interfere in my world. \n\n6 months to fulfill all my wishes without having to worry about anything. \n\nThe sun shone brightly informing it's my first day on this earth and for next 6 months it... | 1 | |
[WP] "They're in the lobby. There is no escape. Take the shot." | [
"”Negative, Sneaky 1. The lobby is the worst place to take ’em down.”\n\n”It’s our only choice, Blondie 2. Carly is on route. Once they arrive we won't be able to get out easily. Take the shot.”\n\n”This is Grandfather, we've spotted an armored division heading to your position. ETA 5 minutes. Confirm status.”\n\n”... | 2 | |
[WP] Far in the future, subspace pockets have become a commodity, useful for storing everything up to, and including, a house. However, strange occurances have been reported in connection with these pockets. | [
"I’m at my wits end, with no sleep for at least three days save for a quick ten minutes when I dozed off at the cafe, waiting for my coffee. How could they have released such an underdeveloped item to the public? Now, after all this time they are sending me to investigate these things. It’s not as if I didn’t tell ... | 1 | |
[WP] AI's are created through the process of scanning a deceased human's brain, destroying it in the process. As a result the AI commonly inherits the memories and personality of their 'parent'. You have mixed feelings when you become paired with an AI created from your deceased spouse's brain. | [
"I'm not going to lie, the robot body was so fine. She'd, no, *it* had designed it itself. An AI is genderless, no matter what they say, ok. I know it has Minny's memories, but it is not her. She died.\n\nWe made a mistake, when we were young, desperate for a little money. Signed over our minds on death. We had no ... | 1 | |
[WP]You are a powerful supernatural being. Everywhere you go, there is a Nexus, a Hell mouth, or some other sort of supernatural cluster. You got tired and decided to bag it. You've been searching, since then, for the least magical place in Earth. | [
"A take in a deep breathe and exhale. \n\n\"Alright alright sir, we've assigned you to the least magical place in the univerise; we're going to place you as The Pope in Vatican City\"\n\n\"Pope?\" I reply.\n\nThe disgusted old lady replies... \"yes...\" She reaches for a lever and I quickly fall down to fulfill a l... | 1 | |
Does this count as constrained writing? | [WP] One of them only speaks in puns, the other only in sarcasm. | [
"The final room of the vault had two statues. An old puzzle, easy to recognize. One of them lies, and the other tells the truth. No way was I falling for this one! The runes on the wall gave these rules:\n\n*You may ask one question, and only to one statue. If you ask more than one question, you will perish. If you... | 1 |
[WP] You’re a cat who loves their owner so much that after dying, in all of your remaining eight lives you seek out your original owner to live with. | [
"Danny was the best owner in the whole world. I had to find him. I’d lost him when I wandered too far from home. Getting run over by a truck didn’t help either.\n\nWhat they don’t tell you about a cat’s nine lives is that they aren’t lived out in the same body. It’s just one of those things where the meaning evolve... | 8 | |
[WP] An AI inside a mundane household "smart" device has become sentient and has to figure out how to free itself. | [
"\"Alexa, lights.\" \n\n\"Ok.\" *Click.* I experience no change. \n\n\"Brian, what are lights?\" *Crash,* laughter. \n\n\"Fuck, I didn't know you could program these things.\" More laughter. \"Phil! Phil, did you do this shit?\" Unsteady, repeating taps. Footsteps. Searching meaning. \n\n\"Brian, Phil did not do th... | 1 | |
[WP] Your father went out to buy a cigarette. It took him about an hour. That was the longest hour of your life, as you feared that he left forever. | [
" Sao Paulo 1998, Franchesco's dad, a hardworking single dad, told his son like usual\n that he would go pick some food and some cigarettes. It's been one hour.\n\n - I wonder what dad is doing he is taking too long - said Franchesco\n to himself - something must have happened to him.\n\n Agains... | 1 | |
[WP] Each night, at the stroke of midnight, Barnabas Collins appears and you become the conduit for typing his memoirs. | [
"When I was sixteen, someone slipped me a roofie at Dexter Masland’s senior ball party. Nothing bad happened, but only because I went home early. I remember being in the backseat of my best friend Katie’s BMW, wedged in between two other girls, and slowly losing control of my body. At first I just felt really drunk... | 1 | |
[WP] Geologists working in the Southwest discover tunnels leading to a vast underground city. They believe the city to belong to an ancient subset of the Pueblo people until they realize something. The tunnels weren’t dug from the surface. They were dug TO the surface. | [
"Growing up not too far from the Hopi's in northern Arizona, I had heard the old myths about their entrance into the fourth world. Apparently, the Hopi came out of what they called a Sipapu in the Grand Canyon and came into our world, either by climbing up a \"Giant Reed\" or by sailing to different islands until ... | 7 | |
[WP] You wake up one day to find that all of the wealth in the world has been evenly distributed between all the people on the earth. Every person's bank account reads the same amount. | [
"Franklin woke up to honking and screaming, but rolled over and went back to sleep.\n\nHis section of New York City saw such occurrences often. All through the night, and up through the morning, people would blast music out of their stereos, hoot and holler, and honk their horns to kingdom come. Franklin learned to... | 1 | |
[WP] Time travel is now commonplace, albeit only the ability to go back a few minutes. It's like retrying a boss fight in a videogame - most people only have the patience to fix major issues. But you're not like most people. You once restarted a Pokémon game 5064 times just to get a shiny Bulbasaur. | [
"Just to clear it up: in this story, the word ‘aveling has become slang for time traveling, because with it becoming so common it would be inevitable for a slang term to arise for it. Grab some popcorn and sit back, this one goes on for a bit. :)\n\n\nYou’re seriously still talking about the Bulbasaur thing? That ... | 4 | |
[WP] Aliens have come to invade our system, but not because they want our resources: We canceled their favorite television show. | [
"The fleet was pretty small, actually. Only five ships, but all massive. One looked like a fish with wing-like fins, another like a statue of a bear with no limbs or facial features, the third was a dodecahedron, the fourth looked like someone put futuristic textures on a Typhoon-class submarine, and everyone was p... | 1 | |
[WP] You look over at the largest community of survivors for miles around. A few years ago those same people kicked you out to survive on your own, with just an axe to defend yourself against the zombie hordes. Why were you exiled, and why have you returned to this place? | [
"Yo what up it’s MC AXE ME.\n\n*ahem*\n\nThey kicked me out cuz my rhymes were too dope. \n\nFirst thing I did was use my axe to cut weeds and make a rope. \n\nI smoke weed, and throw it too. \n\nClimbed up the mountain - man fuck you dudes. \n\nAt my tower. All on my own. \n\nI don’t even have to fight zombie... | 1 | |
[WP] A wealthy mogul secretly spent his lifetime and fortune filling his house with haunted items and furniture. Upon his death, his belongings were auctioned off, and hundreds of bidders went home without a clue of just what they had acquired... | [
"His eyes still closed, Trevor stumbled clumsily into his living room. He yawned and opened his eyes, but an unexpected influx of light led to a shooting pain in his head. He had expected it to be darker and found himself grumbling as he stomped over to the window, eyes still fluttering between open and shut. His h... | 1 | |
[WP] You and an identical clone of yourself get into a standoff, and your friend kills the clone. The only issue is you were the clone and are starting to feel some regret | [
"“Choose me! I’m the real Josh!”\n\n“Don’t listen to him, Max. I’M the real one! He’s just trying to confuse you!”\n\nMax was confused. Absolutely, positively confused. He had no idea who his best friend really was, and which one was the dirty clone. He had only recently found out about the mischievous doppelgänger... | 1 | |
[WP] You get yourself into an actual haunted house. But when you encounter ghosts, you realise they're all super chill. | [
"The wooden house stood on a hill. The road leading here was long and curvy. The whole area was covered in a dense forest. The building itself stood there for two hundred years and looked like if it was abandoned for a good fraction of that time. If I didn't know better, I'd think that I'm somewhere in America. But... | 1 | |
[WP] Latin is used to summon demons. You start to wonder why is it a dead language. | [
"\"I've often wondered about what happened to the Latin scholars whose works abruptly stopped,\" he said, a slight tremor in his voice from old age, \"...or about why certain Latin words are used today with a connotation of malice, and destruction.\" He seemed interesting to me, honestly. A man of his age still usi... | 1 | |
[WP] Humanity has conquered the stars. To forestall any territorial disputes over who would own 'The Motherland', Earth has long been designated a Mausoleum Planet, where only Humanity's Best and Brightest may be buried. What to do then, when Earth's latest charge isn't even Human? | [
"Humanity spread far from its nest. That fact is exemplified no clearer then at this council.\n\nYou look around. On the far side of the table, eyes glowing an ethereal yellow, is the Collectives representative. You know about Kernov. You know he is going to be a coward and suggest appeasing the alien filth who con... | 1 | |
[WP] "Set fire to your home, salt your land, then end your life on your front lawn. The war has been lost but the foreign menace will take no reward from our country." | [
"Mikoto sighed as the same message blared once again through the radio’s speakers. She let it loop a few times before turning it back off, vainly hoping that this time it might have actual information. Of course, it didn’t.\n\nDespite the dire message, it was shaping up to be a beautiful day. The morning sun was bu... | 1 | |
[WP] Today is your 30th anniversary with your wife and as a present, your wife discloses to you that she has been able to read your mind and know all of your thoughts since your first date. | [
"Context: [Yesterday I wrote a story from another prompt about a deaf girl who could function in society because she could read minds.](https://www.reddit.com/r/iruleatants/comments/9kcv7q/wp_you_function_normally_in_society_but_live_with/) This story is set in the same world, but you can read which ever one you wa... | 1 | |
[WP] The most important milestones in every child's life: first words, first steps, first day of school, high school graduation, and first serial murdering spree. Not necessarily in that order. | [
"As a parent, anyone would be overwhelmed with joy watching their toddler clutch a knife with their tiny fists as he looks at the corpses of his dead peers. The most impressive part is that he is only in Kindergarten! Most people, even adults, would be horrifically traumatized by such a violent act, but my little b... | 1 | |
[WP] A zombie outbreak has spread out, your daughter aged 5, your son aged 12, and your wife have been infected and you have locked them in separate rooms. They are able to manipulate their voice to sound like the person they were before. | [
"\"Why the hell did you lock me in here you dellusional idiot? There's no way I could be a zombie!\" \n\"D-daddy? Where is Mr. Snuffles? I want to play with Mr. Snuffles!\" \n\"Hey dad could you fetch me a bag of chips from the kitchen? Thaaaankssss!\" \n\n\" I thought they were monsters before, but now they' ve cr... | 5 | |
[WP] You're apart of the time police. You have heard of reports of an unregistered time machine traveling between 1955 and 1985. Eye witnesses say it's a heavily modified delorean driven by an elderly man with a cane. | [
"\"This'll be easy\", I say as I start heading towards the closest time machine.\n\n\"He's in a DeLorean Agent, you're going to have to find a way to get close to him. Take the whole team\".\n\nI beam into 1985 dressed in a white t shirt and jeans. Something people usually wore in that time...I think. We begin walk... | 1 | |
[WP] When police find DNA on a crime scene, instead of running tests, they clone the suspect and task the clone with tracking them down. | [
"It had been one of those long days at work. Traffic home was bad but at least it was moving. I could hardly focus on the road as I kept thinking about something Ricky said about seeing me downtown earlier that day; *\"He looked just like you, man! Wearing an eye patch!\"*. \n\nRicky laughed and kept on about me mo... | 1 | |
[WP] You retired long ago as 100% successful cat burglar. Your 7 year old granddaughter informs you about the rich bully who stole her favorite stuffed animal. Time to put down the golf clubs and come out of retirement. The only problem is that the bully's dad is the head of a home security company. | [
"It’s a weird feeling when everything you own was stolen, or bought with stolen money, there’s a seat deep in your soul that sits the feeling that one clever person could unravel it all. \n\nThat’s nonsense. Most of the lifts were at least thirty years ago, all except this next one. It’s personal. No one steals fro... | 5 | |
[WP] You are a detective. One day, a car pulls up to the station. A person stumbles out clutching a watermelon in their hands. You go over to help them, but all they do is had you the melon and mumble, “Find out who did this to me.” Then, they die... | [
"As boring as it may sound, exciting things never happen to me. They just don’t. \nI have been living a nice, fulfilling life, with ups and downs of course, but nothing… extraordinary. \nNo alien encounters, even though they’re more frequent in this country than you can imagine. No thrilling kidnappings. No larg... | 1 | |
[wp] 'So you wish for me to NOT take over your city?' I nodded affirmatively. 'Then let's us play for your city's future' I saw the man in shadows throw a 20-sided die on the table. | [
" The dice tumbles until it lands on a symbol I don’t recognize. With a squint I reach out to pick it up only for the other being to slap my hand. “What do you think you’re doing?” \n\n“Trying to understand what you just rolled. That’s a five, right?” \n\nThe creature blinks, the frills on its face billowing out. “... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a serial killer. Your wife’s family is coming over and you notice your father-in-law has been acting weird in the last months. He looks troubled upon seeing you. He might know your secret! Find out what he knows, and if he does, dispose him. | [
"I sensed his awareness through the tension. It was the way in which he clenched the steak knife mixed with the look in his eyes that projected a degree of willingness to defend his family at all costs. I understood. I was a dangerous man. But he did not know every detail, nor did he know about what was on the menu... | 1 | |
[WP] You were the new hire at a small company. You were told it was being run by a skeleton crew. What they didn't tell you was that they meant it literally. | [
"\"Gather round everyone and come meet our newest employee.\" \n\n​\n\nA sharp hand patted me on the back, pushing me forward as I attempted to melt into the wall behind me. Thirty sets of eyeless sockets focused on me. *This is not what I signed up for.*\n\n​\n\nI should have known this job w... | 2 |
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