156 words [WP] You're a sadistic philosophy professor who kidnaps people and puts them in real-life versions of famous thought experiments. 482 words [WP] You are a software developer with a strange power. You can tell what the cost of a line of code is. Normally the cost is measured in cpu cycles, or bytes of RAM, or hours of future maintenance. Today it's measured in lives lost. 605 words [WP] You are a long forgotten god. Alone in your realm as your existence slowly lose meaning, you try to remember your name. 1,179 words [WP] When you were a kid, your guardian angled killed a man to save you. The last you ever saw of him was his ethereal form being dragged into hell. Flash forward 15 years and out of desperation, you summon a demon to trade away your soul. Suddenly, your ex-guardian angel appears before you. 332 words [WP] Immortality is not as cracked up as people think it is, yes you can't die and heal from all wounds, but it doesn't protect you from illness. 438 words [WP] You casually say out loud that it would be fun to be the opposite gender for a day. The next day you wake up as the opposite gender. 324 words [WP] You knew the job wouldn't be easy, but this was ridiculous. 536 words [WP] For months you've had a recurring dream of dating a Demon Queen. Just a silly dream that you joke with your friends about at lunch. Until today when you see her in the cafeteria glaring right at you, and making a bee line for your table. 133 words [WP] The aliens intend to enslave humanity. 10 hours a week, with free food, housing, and medical care, on a paradise planet. But they've heard about humans. They're expecting a fight. 872 words [WP] A psychiatrist that can see physical depictions of their patients' mental illnesses. 487 words [WP] There was a brief window in the 1800s where you could have an adventuring party made up of a samurai, an elderly pirate captain, a Zulu warrior, a cowboy, and a Victorian gentleman detective and have it be 100% historically correct. Write the story of this unlikely group of adventurers. 149 words [TT] Theme Thursday - Distraction 174 words [WP] You're a time police, you job is to detain and explain time travelers who want to "change things for the best" that we live in the best timeline, and every change in history will just make thing worse. 472 words [WP]Little Orphan Annie is praying that someone will come and adopt her. During the next open house, Daddy Warbucks never shows, but another beloved billionaire does, Lex Luther 541 words [TT] Theme Thursday - Nonsense 916 words [WP] Yet another group of adventurers died with a backpack full of tools they could've used to save their lives, and you're tired of collecting these souls so you're going to give them some advice and send them back. 476 words [WP] You have been fated to rule, even though you don't really want to. In every one of your reincarnations, you end up leading your people, whether by force or sheer happenstance. 219 words [WP] A little girl has been kidnapped, but her parents don't even care, and the police are too incompetent. Desperate to see their precious little human again, the family dog and cat decide to take matters into their own paws. 751 words [WP]The Hero slowly realizes that the various hordes of monsters aren’t really evil at all. They’re just people. The King is simply a bigot. 464 words [WP] The world's greatest hero has three children & is of common stock. Yet they've fought dragons, gods, and saved the world from prophecy a dozen times. The would-be chosen ones always get distracted questing or some epic romance. They are starting to get quite irritated at the new hero.