[ WP ] You wake up to realize that you 're living in the world of the last prompt you wrote .

``... two, one, happy new year!'' 
 
 `` What? Where... where am I?'' 
 
 `` Who are you? And how did you get here?'' 
 
 `` I do n't know... why are you saying happy new year? 2015 started five days ago!'' 
 
 `` Tw... twenty fifteen? You're from the past?'' 
 
 `` What? What year is it?'' 
 
 `` It's just turned 2017. Who are you?'' 
 
 `` I'm < NAME REDACTED >, I was born on < DATE REDACTED >, 1996, and I live in < CITY REDACTED >. I went to sleep on the night of January fifth of 2015 and I woke up here to you two saying'happy new year'. What's... oh, twenty seventeen.'' 
 
 `` What?'' 
 
 `` Was there a massive solar storm, as powerful as the Carrington event of 1859, that knocked out our power grid and most other nations' power grids on the first of May 2015?'' 
 
 `` Yes - how did you know that?'' 
 
 `` Well... you see, there used to be this website called Reddit, and on it people could post many things, and...'' 
 
 `` Yes, I've heard of Reddit.'' 
 
 `` Well, there was this subreddit called'Writing Prompts', where people could submit prompts for other people to write stories based on, and... one of them came true. You have fireworks, do n't you; you have a grandfather clock that your family has been diligently winding once a week for the past hundred years or so, and after the lights went out in 2015 you heard no word from the government, Conservative or Labour, and the BBC had been permanently taken off the air.'' 
 
 `` Alright, how did you know all that?'' 
 
 `` I do n't know... but then again, by all rights I should be in bed now and it should be January sixth of 2015 now. By all rights, I should definitely not be in a stranger's house... and I do n't know where my family are - they could all be dead by 2017 - so please could I stay with you for a month or two?'' 
 
 ``... well, this New Year's Eve really has taken a turn for the weird. You may stay with us tonight and tomorrow night - the night of Sunday, January first - but I do n't know what we'll do after that. We certainly do n't have enough food for all three of us - myself, Sophia, my husband, George, and you - we might try to find your family, but... `` 
 
 ``... but it'll be very difficult - my relatives have n't seen me for almost two years, although I last saw them not four hours ago - they could be anywhere in Britain by now... anyway, are you going to set off the fireworks?'' 
 
 `` Alright, let's go!'' 
 
 # 00:04 GMT, Sunday 1 January 2017
