WP "And now only the healer is standing. What are you gonna do now little one?" "Are you serious right now?" "What?" "I'm a priestess. Why do people keep underestimating us? I literally have the creator of the universe on speed dial to perform miracles. Not magic! Literal miracles!"



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WP "ugh I hate my job I'm called an imperial steed attendant and I'm just a stable boy." Said a servant to another "try being head of refreshments and hunger management." Said a maid. "Try being Head of heir production and management." Interjected the king swirling his wine.



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WP "May I have your name?" the Fae asks. You've been dating for 2 years now. This is getting awkward.



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WP A vain queen routinely asked her mirror if she was the most beautiful of them all. It always responded in the negative. Despite her obsession, she sacrificed her perfect skin to save a small child from dragonfire, marring it irreparably. She sullenly checked the mirror one final time.



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WP The Soul of the Hero is reincarnated each time it dies, and there can only be one. However, you need information, so you have your party resurrect the last one. As the body rises, intense static rings in your ears and your vision blurs.



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WP A kind stranger gave you some advice that turned your life around. 20 years later you spot that same stranger, and decide to go say hi.



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WP Everyone is born with a mark that represents how they will die. Wheel for road accident, heart for heart attack, etc. You were born markless.



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WPWith nothing left to loose you step out of your tent. The war is lost. The Hordes have won, and you are one of the last remaining Humans alive. But you'll be damned if you go quietly! It took you 2 Years of studying in secret, but now you can finally do it, even if its too late.



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WP you’ve been able to talk to animals for as long as you remember, so when a dragon attacks, you find out it’s issues and solves it



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WP Just as all dogs go to heaven, all cats go to hell. They're not being punished or anything, they just like lazing around in the heat.



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WP You've felt many Eldritich Horrors but this one is different. Instead of a feeling of wrongness this one has a feeling of rightness that makes everything around it feel wrong in comparison.



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WP "uh son what is that?" Said the older man to his son "this is youf first grandchild." Said his son "you mean the glowing ball of light with 13 eyes?" Said the older woman to her son "well that's what happens when you have a child with a seraphim order angel." Said their son.



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WP For whatever reason, a capricious mage has placed a curse that was supposed to turn your father's firstborn into an abomination, but you were twins, which split the curse in twain, you were cursed with a monstrous body, and your sibling was cursed with a bestial mind.



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WP Armageddon comes and war between good and evil envelopes the world. During that time humanity learns two things. The indomitable human spirit wasn't actually something god made us with. And both angels and demons fear it.



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WP throughout your life there’s always been a guy in a trench coat that randomly appears, tells you failed the test, then disappears. Today he told you that you passed.



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WP You have powers, but you are neither a hero, nor a villain. You are the mediator, highly respected among both heroes and villains, and you only ever use your powers to break up their fights, should they ever get out of hand.



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OT Tuesday Free Write - Share stories, post poems! Prompt inspired or personal works are welcome!

Welcome to the weekly Free Write Post! Feel free to post anything and everything writing-related. Prompt responses, short stories, poems, personal work, anything you have written is welcome.

This post is mainly meant for sharing your work, not advertising or promotion. You can link to your published novels, but not the same one repeatedly.

Please use good judgement when sharing. The rules for what content is allowed here still apply. If it's anything that could be considered NSFW, please do not post it here.

If you do post, please make sure to leave a comment on someone else's story. If you want critical feedback, it’s a good idea to say that before or after your story, since most readers won’t assume that you want criticism.
A thing you might want to know about r/WritingPrompts
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Open Campfire—read a story of yours aloud and get feedback every first Friday
World Building Campfire—present and be interviewed about your world every second Friday
Character Building Campfire—present and be interviewed about your characters every fourth Friday




This Day In History

On March 17, 461, St. Patrick dies at Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland. Today, the late Christian missionary, bishop and apostle of Ireland is honored with the holiday of St. Patrick’s Day on the anniversary of his death.

How St. Patrick died is unknown, though he is believed to be in his 70s at the time of his death. Some sources report he was born in 385, but others state it was 387. In death, he was unofficially declared a saint.

Much of what is known about Patrick’s legendary life comes from the Confessio, a book he wrote during his last years. Born in Roman Britain (likely in what is now Wales, western England or southern Scotland) to a well-to-do Christian family of Roman citizenship, Patrick was captured and likely enslaved at age 16 by Irish marauders. For the next six years, he worked as a herder in Ireland, turning to a deepening religious faith for comfort. Following the counsel of a voice he heard in a dream one night, he escaped and found passage on a ship to Britain, where he was eventually reunited with his family.

For centuries, the Irish have observed the anniversary of St. Patrick’s death as a religious holiday by attending church in the morning and celebrating with food and drink in the afternoon. The first St. Patrick’s Day parade took place not in Ireland but in what is now the United States. Records show that a St. Patrick’s Day parade was held on March 17, 1601, in the Spanish colony of Florida under the direction of the colony’s Irish vicar, Ricardo Artur.

Many legends have grown up around Patrick. The patron saint of Ireland is said to have baptized hundreds of people on a single day and to have used a shamrock to describe the Holy Trinity. In art, he is often portrayed trampling on snakes, in accordance with the belief that he drove those reptiles out of Ireland. In reality, research has found snakes were not in the country to begin with.



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OT Fun Trope Friday: Mouthful of Pi & Slice of Life!

###Welcome to Fun Trope Friday, our feature that mashes up tropes and genres!

How’s it work? Glad you asked. :)

 

- Every week we will have a new spotlight trope.

- Each week, there will be a new genre assigned to write a story about the trope.

- You can then either use or subvert the trope in a 750-word max story or poem (unless otherwise specified).

- To qualify for ranking, you will need to provide ONE actionable feedback. More are welcome of course!

 

Three winners will be selected each week based on votes, so remember to read your fellow authors’ works and DM me your votes for the top three.

 



Next up… [IP](https://www.deviantart.com/lej-ah/art/PI-344934220)

 


Thank heavens we’re done with this February love business as there are much more interesting concepts and events to celebrate! Like who knew March had so many fun ones? Owing to that, for March we’re exploring four very cool events that happen during the month. Please note this theme is only loosely applied.

 

“Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.” – Isaac Newton

 

Trope: [Mouthful of Pi](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MouthfulOfPi) — Believe it or not, [Pi Day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day) is kind of a big deal. Well, for nerds. None of those here, right? Pi Day is an annual celebration of the mathematical constant π (pi). Pi Day is observed on March 14 (the 3rd month) since 3, 1, and 4 are the first three significant figures of π, and was first celebrated in the United States. It was founded in 1988 by Larry Shaw, an employee of a science museum in San Francisco, the Exploratorium. Celebrations often involve eating pie or holding pi recitation competitions. In 2009, the United States House of Representatives supported the designation of Pi Day. UNESCO's 40th General Conference designated Pi Day as the International Day of Mathematics in November 2019. A quick way to show that a character is a genius is to have him recite pi to an absurd number of places. With its endless parade of decimal digits, π has both mystique and geek cred. Most of us never memorize it past a few places, so anyone who can fire off a hundred surely must be a genius, right? The truth is, only a handful of digits are needed for most applications — only 11 decimal places are needed to calculate the circumference of the Earth to a millimeter, while only 42 are needed to find the circumference of a circle the size of the entire universe to within less than the diameter of a single proton. There's not much point in memorizing a hundred places other than to show off. But still… it’s cool, right?

 

Genre: [Slice of Life](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slice_of_life) — Slice of life is a depiction of mundane experiences in art and entertainment. In theater, slice of life refers to naturalism, while in literary parlance it is a narrative technique in which a seemingly arbitrary sequence of events in a character's life is presented, often lacking plot development, conflict, and exposition, as well as often having an open ending.

 

Skill / Constraint - optional: Baking is mentioned.

 

So, have at it. Lean into the trope heavily or spin it on its head. The choice is yours!

 

Have a great idea for a future topic to discuss or just want to give feedback? FTF is a fun feature, so it’s all about what you want—so please let me know! Please share in the comments or DM me on Discord or Reddit!

 



Last Week’s Winners

PLEASE remember to give feedback—this affects your ranking. PLEASE also remember to DM me your votes for the top five stories via Discord or Reddit—both katpoker666. This is a change from the top three of the past. In weeks where we get over 15 stories, we will do a top five ranking. Weeks with less than 15 stories will show only our top three winners. If you have any questions, please DM me as well.

Some fabulous stories

this week and great crit at campfire and on the post! We had 10 stories, so we’re back to three winners. Congrats to:

 

- wileycourage

- the_lonely_poster

- oliverjsn8

 



###Want to read your words aloud? Join the upcoming FTF Campfire

The next FTF campfire will be Thursday, March 19h from 6-8pm ET. It will be in the Discord Main Voice Lounge. Click on the events tab and mark ‘Interested’ to be kept up to date. No signup or prep needed and you don’t have to have written anything! So join in the fun—and shenanigans! 😊

 



###Ground rules:

- Stories must incorporate both the trope and the genre
- Leave one story or poem between 100 and 750 words as a top-level comment unless otherwise specified. Use wordcounter.net to check your word count.
- Deadline: 11:59 PM EDT next Thursday. Please note stories submitted after the 6:00 PM EST campfire start may not be critted.
- No stories that have been written for another prompt or feature here on WP—please note after consultation with some of our delightful writers, new serials are now welcomed here
- No previously written content
- Any stories not meeting these rules will be disqualified from rankings
- Does your story not fit the Fun Trope Friday rules? You can post your story as a PI with your work when the FTF post is 3 days old!
- Please keep crit about the stories. Any crit deemed too distracting may be deleted. This is a time to focus on our wonderful authors.
- Vote to help your favorites rise to the top of the ranks (DM me at katpoker666 on Discord or Reddit)!

 



Thanks for joining in the fun!
 



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WP The guild has forbidden you from using any of your experimental brews and concoctions without being tested beforehand. But considering that you all are about to die, you'd rather take a punishment later than death right now.



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WP Having found the records of someone having been bricked into the farthest room of a building two hundred years ago, you decided to to tear down the wall and give them a proper burial. On the otherside tou are greeted by a grinning youthful face, "I told them I wouldn't be held here forever..."



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