Unexplained Phenomena in Normal Life Writing Prompts

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My German Shepard had to be put down today. We never knew where he came from. Please write about his adventures.

24,634 upvotes525 comments

You won a lifetime supply of Oreos when you were a kid. The apocoylpse and collapse of civilization was 30 years ago, yet every month the Oreos are still delivered to you, no matter where you are.

22,804 upvotes329 comments

You are an office worker in NYC in the year of 1999. You go for a cigarette break, but the elevator stops working and you get trapped in it for 2h. As the doors finally open, you walk out and see a brand new lobby, people holding thin digital cards and big screen TV's. It's the year 2018.

15,889 upvotes321 comments

A caterpillar has no idea it will become a butterfly, it simply has instincts that commands to start building a coccoon. In a similar fashion, you have no idea why you are compelled to start digging this really, really deep hole, but it feels verry important.

13,452 upvotes336 comments

As a joke you take your pet pig on a plane with you once you get up in to the air Suddenly, several things once said to be impossible until this very moment start occurring everywhere.

12,412 upvotes264 comments

Every year, the Mars Curiosoty Rover sings itself happy birthday. You are a NASA technician that typically monitors its system. Today, you heard a small, quiet voice singing along with it.

11,269 upvotes269 comments

You and your friends are goofing around and you decide to catch it on super slow-mo on your phone. When you show the video to your friends you notice a man in a nice suit casually walking at normal speeds through the frame while making eye contact with the camera. He winks.

10,431 upvotes158 comments

You filmed your girlfriend playing the “What The Fluff” Challenge on your Beagle. The sheet dropped, she was gone, and you got great footage of your dog’s response. That was three days ago. She hasn’t reappeared and the police are asking questions. Now, you and your dog have a mystery to solve.

10,398 upvotes107 comments

You nail the interview and get hired on the spot, but as your new boss shakes your hand he says "It's great to have you back." Likewise, your new coworkers seem to already know you, and act as if you've worked there in the past. They keep apologizing for 'what happened.' You have no idea why.

10,339 upvotes138 comments

You are a schizophrenic man that has accepted your hallucinations and ignores them. While you are shopping at Walmart, a giant fissure opens up randomly beneath your feet. You walk over it, believing it to be another hallucination. People are staring at you in shock.

10,322 upvotes111 comments

When you were a child, a mysterious voice whispered "follow the woman in the red dress with the gold polka dots". All your life, you never saw her. Now, lying in the hospital, 98 years old, you see a woman in a red dress and gold polka dots walk past your room.

10,276 upvotes299 comments

You are extremely famous. Everyone knows who you are. The only thing is, you don't know why you're so famous. You don't come from a rich family and you're unemployed. You don't even remember how you got a mansion or a Lamborghini. Even stranger, everybody looks so scared when you bring it up.

10,261 upvotes315 comments

No matter where you are, what you're dressed like, or what mood you're in, people always just assume you work there. Even the employees are fooled, and it always takes a long time to convince them you're not their boss. You've had enough. Today is the day you test how far this goes.

10,125 upvotes261 comments

While at a football game, you notice the man sitting in front of you is livestreaming the game to his cell phone rather than actually watching the game in front of him. You see on the screen a player running the football in for a touchdown, 32 seconds later you watch it happen in real life.

9,699 upvotes97 comments

You don't remember what you do for a living. Literally. You wake up, get in the car, then black out until you're back in your driveway in the middle of the afternoon 5 days a week, and you get a paycheck once a month.

9,654 upvotes224 comments

Whenever you flip a coin, it lands on its side, Rock-Paper-Scissors always ends in a draw, and when you enter the lottery you always win your money back but not a dime more. You're not lucky, you're not unlucky, you're... something else.

4,009 upvotes90 comments

Thirty years ago, you made a wish upon a star, hoping against hope for it to come true. What you didn't know was the star you wished on was fifteen light years from Earth.

1,850 upvotes57 comments

Everyone on Earth wakes up with a number on their wrist indicating how many lives they've impacted. You, an unremarkable person working a mundane job, have a number exponentially higher than anyone else

1,001 upvotes70 comments

You give the weird kid from school a chance, many years later you both are married on the couch watching a news broadcast. The broadcast is about a young boy who vanished with no trace. What struck you as odd was that the boy looks identical to your husband when you met all those years ago.

625 upvotes17 comments

When you were 10, you created a secret phrase with God so you would know how to identify someone as your solemate. Your partner of two years has never said it, but as you finish shopping and start loading your items onto the conveyor belt, a random cashier utters the words to you.

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You never had kids. So you're not entirely sure how you wound up with 20+ kids who all consider you their grandparent.

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"Your town... I mean, it's delightful, but do you know if it has always been... here? As in, in this specific location? Because I could have sworn there was a forest here, like, yesterday."

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Clean up in aisle 13. "Boss, there is no aisle 13" and he replies to just go take care of it.

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Tattoos appear on the bodies of the sexually active, generally around the womb, chest, or lower back. They grow the more one engages in sex, and the more one experiments with new kinks. Over the course of one night you barely remember, your GF goes from barely a dot to a massive and intricate

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You and your friend have crushes on each other, and both of you tend to have wet dreams while you sleep. But after talking one day, you start realizing that your dreams are very very similar...

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You just get off your work and now walking home, midway though you thought about the a cafe with nice espresso you- Suddenly someone grab your shoulder, turning your head you look at your own face saying "Don't go to the cafe, don't go anywhere else! Just go home!" before disappearing.

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Humanity has been 'affected' by a strange new development. Whenever someone is about to say something stupid, they suddenly become insanely sexually aroused in an effort to distract them from what they were about to say. Surprisingly, it works quite well, but it's a real effort.

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You go to bed, clutching some pillows. When you wake up you realize someone is in your arms, fast asleep.

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You ask your crush out on a simple date, just wanting to close friends. However, the universe seems set on the two of you fucking in public.

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L went to school and noticed my best friend Bethany was topless… I pointed it out and she seemed confused… she said that she was always topless. In fact, every girl was topless like it was nothing. And more things keep changing! Can I uncover this mystery before I begin to change too?

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