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[WP] You are born with two names tatooed on you body somewhere, one of your soulmate and one of the people that will eventually kill you. There is no way to tell who is who. | The doctor held up the new born baby.
"It's a girl!" exclamed the doctor.
"Well, What are the names doc?" the father said with joy.
The doctor looked at the baby's back, and only one name on it. James Webber. Chills shot down the doctors spine.
"Well Dr. Webber, who are they?
| My story starts when I was a kid before the cellphone era. I was maybe 16 years old, when I had my first love with Ester , she was the most beautiful girl you could have laid eyes on.
Blue eyes with blonde hair like a sunshine, with a smile that would melt everyone's heart, when she laughed everybody stops and just s... | 2018-03-11T07:49:38 | 2018-03-11T07:31:32 | 4,830 | 474 |
[FF] "So, come here often?"
Begin your story with this line of dialogue.
Oh, and set your story somewhere other than a bar or restaurant. In fact, set it somewhere in the distant past or future.
And make it less than 500 words.
Have fun! | "So, come here often?" Fernando inquired dryly.
Christine was in bad shape.
For the last twenty years we had danced the tango between man and machine. She drove me from girlfriend to girlfriend, from job to job and I fed her the best fluids on offer and kept her interior as immaculate as her exterior.
As the year... | "So, come here often?" asked the well-tailored man. He was wearing an old black suit and a fiery-red tie that were well-matched to his hair, all white save for the few remaining specks of blonde around his ears; and his misty blue eyes, which rose from their default, downcast state to inspect the strangely-clad woman w... | 2013-08-31T17:29:16 | 2013-08-31T10:09:10 | 31 | 14 |
[WP] Time freezes for everyone around you each time your life is in danger, leaving only you able to move until you are no longer in danger. One day time freezes, but you can't figure out why, until..
I hope its not too vague, first writing prompt ^^ enjoy
Thank you all so much for the responses it's so much fun to r... | The first time it happened I was just little kid riding my bike. My mom wasn't paying attention to me. She was too deep in her gossip with our neighbor to notice me peddling toward the street. Honestly, I didn't even notice at first. But I was six and day dreaming about how I was a race car. I felt the bump of hitting ... | It has happened your entire life. You first noticed the time stops while riding your bike at 13. Trying to impress the cute girl in school you had tried riding down the locally imfamous "suicide hill" which crossed over a fairly busy road at the end. You noticed the semi truck to late and before you knew what happened ... | 2017-06-21T10:03:52 | 2017-06-21T07:56:10 | 30 | 21 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | DM: "Alright Jesus, you've just been executed by the Romans, Roll a death save."
Jesus: \*rolls\* "Natural 20."
DM: "Alright you wake up with 1 hp, what do you do?"
Jesus: "Alright I'm gonna play possum"
DM: "Roll a deception check"
Jesus: \*rolls\* Ok that's another 20, plus my charisma modifier which is \+5 so 2... | “I want to roll to invade them!”
“Uh, are you sure that’s what you want to do?”
“Yes. Of course. Just let me roll.”
“Fine. Roll.”
He rolls his 20 sided die across the table. It stops directly in front of the Dungeon Master, who looks down and smirks.
“Well. You go to invade Russia. You gather your troops and march ri... | 2018-05-29T09:31:25 | 2018-05-29T07:54:52 | 210 | 36 |
[WP] Your parents insist you are their biological child, but you suspect otherwise. You send samples from yourself, your parents, and siblings to a lab be tested. The lab replies that it is not equipped to test non-human DNA... | "Mom, Dad?" I asked timidly, approaching them with caution. I wanted this to go smoothly, and I guess I half expected them to freak out or start yelling at me.
"I kinda want to ask you a difficult question," I went on.
They both sat up suddenly, looking at me like I was about to tell them I got expelled from school o... | I panic at the words in bold. **Non-human DNA**. "What did that mean?" I mutter to myself. Suddenly, a wind came from behind. I turn to see a man in business suit standing where no one was before.
"Aw, about time you found out." The man said as he pocketed a small watch into his coat. "I swear, you guys get stupider e... | 2015-01-06T09:08:32 | 2015-01-06T08:44:25 | 543 | 16 |
[WP] You and your immortal friends amuse yourselves with practical jokes. Since you're immortal, some of your joke setups take centuries, or even millenia, to execute. | There were four of us. We'd meet every couple hundred years and discuss the pranks we pulled on the mortals. Such good fun the mortals were. So easily susceptible to manipulation. Would we be so simple if we lived less than a century? Barely the blink of an eye, I can't imagine that being my entire existance.
"... | Execution, that is the key to any good practical joke. When you're immortal, you're allotted all of the time in the world to develop a scheme so devious yet harmless that can make an impact on one of your friend's eternal lives. Yet it is so rare that our lives are affected by our friend's practical jokes. How is it so... | 2017-06-22T21:50:06 | 2017-06-22T19:51:25 | 679 | 104 |
[WP] After the Battle of Hogwarts, Dudley met a woman and they had a daughter,Sophie. Sophie is the light of their lives,she's always been a pleasant child. The morning of Sophie's 11th birthday,there’s a knock at the door. Harry is here to visit his cousin for the first time in almost 20 years.
I just want to say tha... | Dudley peered out the window at the guest on the porch. He was tall and lean, with thick round glasses pushed back gently against his nose. His black hair was receding slightly on his forehead, no longer covering the etched lightning scar on his forehead.
"Christ," whispered Dudley. It had been years since he had seen... | There was a knock on the door. It wasn’t quite out of the ordinary for there to be a knock on the door of 4 Privet Drive on a Saturday afternoon. Perhaps it was the mailman dropping off an Amazon package. Dudley was sure that the email said it would be delivered on Monday, but you never know with these blasted things.... | 2019-10-16T11:32:26 | 2019-10-16T11:16:51 | 519 | 209 |
[WP] Write a kid-friendly fairytale that addresses political correctness gone mad. | ######[](#dropcap)
Young Edric entered the small town of Feffin on the outskirts of the Kingdom of Bein. He was excited to set upon a life of adventure and excitement, with only the clothes on his back and his father's old sword.
A strange marquee greeted him, painted upon a large stock of wood. A number of words ha... | Once upon a time lived a beautiful princess. This princess was no ordinary princess because she had a knight on her side who would swear to protect her life from any peril.
One day a man decided it was a good idea to come and play with the princess just to keep her happy. He climbed and climbed the tall fortress with... | 2015-08-12T07:18:17 | 2015-08-12T05:38:29 | 32 | 18 |
[WP] You are one of the survivors on a dessert island from a crashed private plane. Amongst the survivors is Gordon Ramsay who is refusing to eat the food that you cook and instead just insults your cooking until he starves.
Auto correct has maybe made this slightly different but perhaps better than it should of been ... | I had been trying. Really, I had. Granted I'm no Guy Fieri but the other handful of survivors had no problem eating my take on island survival food. But Gordon...
I mean, he was always insufferable, that was his thing right? But we thought, you know, maybe with the *circumstances* being what they were, he could gi... | The island seemed to impossible. No matter what ice cream or cake batter I scavenged Gordon refused to eat more than one bite. Then he would berate me over and over. I tried ice cream cake, chocolate cake, cake flavored ice cream but he always rejected it. The island being entirely made of dessert wasn’t the strange pa... | 2018-07-15T07:39:58 | 2018-07-15T06:37:47 | 112 | 30 |
[WP] When a sorcerer dies any spells they cast throughout their life that are still in effect will cease to be. An powerful and ancient wizard whose origins are clouded in mystery lays comatose on his deathbed and nobody knows what will happen once he draws his final breath. | The Machen family lived extraordinarily long lives.
They were known throughout the Kingdom for their longevity, their magical prowess. The family Elder, Arch Mage Soren, was renowned as the greatest wizard of his era, his skill and magical stamina was beyond question.
Today was his last.
The family gathered around h... | Countless people from countless kingdoms had traveled countless miles, just to see if the rumors about Merlin the Great were true.
I'm one of those people. Yeah, the rumors were absolutely true. The old man was dying. He was completely motionless. Not even the best clerics from across the land were able to help him w... | 2018-05-24T00:51:28 | 2018-05-24T00:13:02 | 222 | 17 |
[WP] Olympic athletes are chosen by lottery so countries are encouraged to increase the average athleticism of their citizens and not just elite athletes. You were just selected.
this was a post on /r/CrazyIdeas. I thought it would make an excellent prompt. | The letter came. It actually came.
Right there at the top of the cream coloured envelope were the logos for the IOC and the Government of Canada. My hands shook. Everyone knew someone who knew someone who had become an everyday Olympian, but it was actually happening to **me**.
Most people were terrified they'd be se... | [Continuation of a response I wrote several months ago]( https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/50sao4/wp_the_olympic_athletes_are_chosen_like_jury_duty/d770h7k/)
TLDR (of previous response); The Olympics are more like death games now. Wax bullets in the dueling event were replaced with real bullets. Fencin... | 2017-02-24T11:57:34 | 2017-02-24T08:33:21 | 58 | 30 |
[WP] You're the unappreciated intern for a famous group of Superheroes. Your power? You can boil water. All you do is make tea for them while they laugh and drink in their hideout. Little do they know that you've got dreams of becoming the Worst Villain ever. After all, a human is over 70% water... |
Clickclickclickclickclick
They’ve been laughing at me since day one.
“Boiling water? That’s your superpower?” The laughter could be heard down the hall I’m sure. “I know we advertised a position to help learn your protentional, but this is just hilarious. You’ll be perfect for making the tea!”
Clickclickclickcli... | Somehow, this wasn’t what I had imagined when I got the position as an intern for Opulence. Somehow, I never would have thought that their steadfast promise of protection, their public assurances of safety, or their pact to defend mankind at all costs had all been a ruse.
The name should have been a dead giveaway, rea... | 2019-07-30T17:41:52 | 2019-07-30T15:09:58 | 33 | 15 |
[WP] Your daughter never feared the dark or being alone, she says because of her imaginary friend. The school child psychologist tells you the imaginary friend is very unusual and shows you a crayon picture of it, an 8 foot knight in black armor with a broadsword. | The psychologist's office was decorated cheerfully, with lots of colorful pictures of cartoon characters on the wall, and the shelves had just as many toys as they did books.
Jack was more interested in the psychiatrist himself. Dr. Tollin was a few years older than Jack was, probably in his early 40's, and was just ... |
“Good night sweet heart.” Jacob said as he kissed his daughter, Melody, on the forehead. With a click, the lamp was off and the pale glow spilling in from the hallway was the only light in the room. As he got up from the bed, Melody stared intently at one corner. A smile crept across her face. Jacob turned to see wh... | 2019-08-10T16:35:29 | 2019-08-10T16:22:28 | 58 | 12 |
[WP] Everybody assumes that The Onion is satire, but you know different. Why? Because you're its main reporter, gathering news from alternate realities. | They just started arriving on my doorstep one day. I've never been able to find out who or what delivers them, but every Sunday I get a newspaper with headlines from another world. Most of the time they're mundane with just a few subtle... inconsistencies. But every once in awhile, they make my job as lead reporter for... | "Look kid, the gig isn't really as glamorous as you think." I muttered into my beer, sliding my notebook back into my briefcase.
The kid - Calin, probably the local funny man amongst his friends - felt differently.
"No man, you're like my favourite writer!" He said. "The Onion! I love your stuff! That series on ... | 2018-03-20T20:00:19 | 2018-03-20T19:42:30 | 73 | 16 |
[WP] You are due to be executed for your involvement in the rebellion, but the queen herself approched you in your cell to ask you a question; why are people rebelling against her rule? | *Trigger warning for implied suicide.*
"You're kidding, right?"
I gave *Her Majesty* the driest possible look I could muster. She blinked at me slowly, visibly confused by my tone.
"No. I'm not kidding." She leaned forward in her seat. If she were any closer, I might have been able to punch her or something. "I r... | I can't write full out that well, but here's where my mind went in a word vomit:
The Queen confronts you quietly before the execution, asking with large doe-eyes what shortcomings she has as a ruler. It's clear she has no idea how the other higher-ups treat the civilians. How they pretend the world is their own and le... | 2022-05-18T07:23:51 | 2022-05-18T03:19:37 | 196 | 19 |
[WP] Write a horror story in 100 words. | I am Charles. I am thirty-two years old, and I am going to drown. My hands are tied to an eye-bolt at the base of a pier in a canal in Gautier. It is a beautiful evening. The sky is an orange crescendo to a simple life. The tide is coming in and the brackish water is turning to salt. I’ve pushed myself up as bes... | Something is at your door. Don't open the door. Look trough the window but don't open the door. You see something, be careful so that it doesn't see you. It's trying to come inside, just be quiet and wait for it to go away. Breathe quietly as time passes. You have to do something. Whatever is at your door is still tryi... | 2017-10-17T07:49:43 | 2017-10-17T05:54:01 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] Drilling into the ice sheet of Europa, it is revolutionary when we discovery not only life in Europe’s oceans, but also intelligent life. After numerous communications and translations, those aliens ask if we could bring them to the surface to see the beauty outside their confined environment. | "Our apologies. Can you please repeat that last part?"
The team waited anxiously as the drone quietly analyzed the code that was being translated between each party.
Life it seems, did in fact exist on planets other than Earth.
The investigation of Europa had unexpected consequences. Despite all previous knowledge o... | (sorry about the formatting — on mobile)
Scientists were ecstatic — a revolutionary breakthrough, they reported to every news outlet with air time, life on another planet. Intelligent life, at that. They’re peaceful. All that’s left to do now is bring them up. We’ve sent an elite team to meet them.
“It’s all bullshit... | 2020-03-12T06:33:35 | 2020-03-12T05:37:01 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | First word PHYSIO was fairly easy to see. Perhaps a Greek name he wondered as the word THE appeared below it.
"Oh wow" he thought, its going to be a superhero like 'Conan the destroyer'.
"Please be magician.... please be Physio the magician" he said under his breath, as the last word appeared. 'RAPIST'.
"Rapist..... r... | It was 12:01 before I felt myself breathe again.
It was 12:02 when I heard the first sob.
It might have been my mom, I don't remember.
I held my arm away from my body like a vial of toxic chemicals, like it would catch my body on fire if I held it too close.
My uncle shifted nervously in his seat, waiting for somet... | 2017-03-16T03:20:58 | 2017-03-16T03:02:12 | 427 | 226 |
[WP] A woman who lives alone watches in fear as thousands of military helicopters and vehicles roll into her city. There's nothing on the news, but she feels a sense of dread. Suddenly 3 seemingly nice soldiers come into her apartment, gently take her hand and tell her that she has to go with them
Can anyone put an en... | *What on earth is going on?*
She nervously paced, shuffling her slippered feet against the hardwood floors.
The sound from the growing number of helicopters added to her unease.
She was sure Kennedy had assured the public the missile cri...
A knocking interrupted her thought.
Another knock.
"Ma'am, we're here to ... | "Ma'dam, we have orders for the evacuation of all urban areas under Emergency Order No. 51"
The soldiers were calm, their assault weapons slung around their back. The lead soldier was in the doorway, trying to calm the woman.
"What's going on?"
"We're evacuating the city. It's for your own safety, ma'am. Your ne... | 2015-06-18T06:31:19 | 2015-06-18T05:58:20 | 30 | 14 |
[WP] Your grandparents always playfully bickered in their native language. To surprised them, you took lessons, but now you understand what they're really saying...
What comes next will shock you! | My grandparents had moved to the US from Italy after the war, but before they had any children. My mom said the strictest rule my grandparents had growing up was that it was English only for the kids. Someone had told them that it was the best way to make sure the kids learned to speak it quickly and without confusion... | I opened the front door and blurted out, "hello my lovely grandma and grandpa, you there?" My grandma came and hugged me tightly. She smelled of clean laundry and sage. She looked at me with the same warm, loving look she always has and said, "welcome home deary, dinner is all ready. Come! Eat with us, your grandpa... | 2016-09-09T19:19:21 | 2016-09-09T17:11:36 | 28 | 15 |
[WP]The pill that decreases aging has been released, but you decided not to take it. It was a good call, because a few decades later, side effects started to emerge. | 'Fountain of Youth' was released in the late autumn of 2030. It had undergone rigorous testing, was boycotted my numerous religious groups, and had taken years to be approved by the majority of the world's various drug administration agencies. It boasted a 100% success rate in multiple trials, totalling 5000 trial pati... | It's been about twenty years since forevermore was released to the general public. Once people thought they would live forever they started to care about the planet. Within the first fifteen things were relatively smooth.We had reduced carbon emmisions and started reforestation.You could almost call it a utopian societ... | 2016-10-09T08:01:32 | 2016-10-09T06:23:32 | 140 | 14 |
[WP] Write a story about how two strangers become best friends, without ever saying a word to each other.
A pretty simple prompt: no Hitler, Batman, Satan, or time travel required. Just a story about friendship. | The first time I had coffee for free was on May, 30th, 1962. I was seventeen years old at the Green Frog Café, and
my boyfriend at the time was eighteen years old and wore a beret.
"You shouldn't clutter your pretty little head with these things", he said, taking the paperback edition of Albert Camus' The Stranger fr... | It’s funny how quickly everything can be taken away from your life. One minute, everything's going your way. You could blink, and suddenly you’re ripped away to a different reality. One that seems to have nothing in common with your old life. For me, that day was October 18th, 2003. It started off as well as any d... | 2015-05-30T15:03:27 | 2015-05-30T14:54:18 | 75 | 10 |
[WP] You gain a magic coin that can grant wishes, but only if you flip it. If it lands on heads, your wish is granted, but if it lands on tails, the opposite of your wish happens. | I stared at the screen in front of me. Then back down at the coin. Then the list of stocks I had written out. Hmmm. Time to flip I guess.
The coin hung in the hair and then snapped back to the table, clattering around and then spinning before finally resting on one side. Tails. Damn, I was hoping today would be a hea... | He'd been vacationing in South America when he'd wandered into the small shop off the main square in the small village. He'd been staying the last few weeks and thought he'd seen everything that the small town had to offer, but he'd never seen this shop before. This was especially odd since he'd eaten at the small ca... | 2016-08-26T08:35:34 | 2016-08-26T07:10:40 | 129 | 18 |
[WP] You are legally allowed to commit murder once, but you must fill out the proper paperwork and your proposed victim will be notified of your intentions | Dear Sir,
This letter is to inform you that one Randy Payne, of 530 Linden Lane, Harrisburg PA, has filed a form 839 (y) - Intent to Murder against you on June 24th, 2016. The Intent to Murder has been approved and is valid from your receipt of this letter today until the 31st of September this year. Please review the... | The clerical assistant stamped the paperwork and handed the receipt back to Mister Henry.
"Thanks for coming in and filling this out. Mister Edwards has been informed via email-" Before the assistant could finish, the door of the small claims office was kicked in and a man soaked in blood appeared in the threshold.
"... | 2014-03-17T09:31:02 | 2014-03-17T08:23:17 | 143 | 23 |
[WP] The world's tiniest dragon must defend his hoard, a single gold coin, from those who would steal it. | A little dragon born, with great small eyes of red and gold. He crawled out of his egg and roared, his tiny voice heard across the cavern hall.
The little dragon was met by loving eyes and a proud cry from his dragon mom and dragon dad. Their firstborn hatched and soon would grow, as their mighty dragon son to defend... | Torch after torch after torch chain link lit up all around the massive granite chamber. It seemed impossible that a room so huge could be buried so deep into a mountain. The torches follow along the clean, smooth walls which brightened the entire room. Two things stood out immediately to the squad of treasure hunters. ... | 2017-09-07T12:45:24 | 2017-09-07T12:04:53 | 52 | 22 |
[WP] Write a superhero whose superpower only makes sense after you read the story twice. | Two bank robbers sat in the back of the police cruiser. One had a trickle of blood leading from his nose. Broken nose. Had to remember that.
I entered the bank. It looked like a tornado had run through. Broken glass littered the floor and papers were strewn everywhere. A moment later a bank robber strolled in and laid... | I stretched to warm myself up. I was getting old, a little tighter and a little less elastic than the days of my youth. Too many beatings, too many kicks to the head and brawls in darkened alleys. One of these days, I told myself, you’re going to have to give it up. I tried to steer my thoughts away from the negative, ... | 2014-12-07T12:25:22 | 2014-12-07T09:39:16 | 38 | 16 |
[WP] It's Halloween, the anniversary of when everyone became the costume they were wearing. Those who skipped Trick-or-treating or don't celebrate were lucky, but now they must live with friends and family who became "the cursed". | Ah, Halloween. My favourite time of year. I love seeing all the little ghouls and goblins running around, enjoying themselves. The world has changed a lot in the one year since "The Curse". Different countries handled it differently; Russia and China cracked down on those that were changed very quickly, many of them di... | It is 1 am. The orange street lights illuminate the empty urban streets in the late night. Howls can be heard from afar, and the a few creatures of the night prowl about. Meanwhile, I am sitting in my house to my lonesome while worrying about my girlfriend. She is out for a Halloween party with her friends and I trust ... | 2021-10-06T01:18:22 | 2021-10-05T23:49:49 | 54 | 30 |
[WP] The largest amount of declassified CIA documents to have ever been released at once just occurred today. You are one of many journalists clamoring for a good story. You find one file with a big red "CLASSIFIED" still stamped across the front. In smaller black lettering "To be released: 2268." | Jimmy couldn't sleep. He sat alone in his studio apartment, staring at a bundle of papers on the table. Some kind of infomercial blared from the TV. He picked up the bundle and read it again, just to be sure.
He remembered the way that strange man had smiled when he handed Jimmy the papers. Jimmy had been digging thr... | File in hand, I made my way to the CIA's archival liaison officer. The woman looks harried by repeated requests of nagging newsmen, and greets me with a haggard, fake smile.
"Excuse me ma'am, but I found this file that I believe was mistakenly filtered with the unclassified files."
The woman's face blanches as she n... | 2014-08-19T06:47:48 | 2014-08-19T04:56:19 | 49 | 26 |
[WP] Everyone has a superpower based on the topography of where they were born (IE: Mountains, deserts, etc.). You are the first person to be born in space.
Think Avatar the Last Airbender but not so limited.
Edit: Wow this really blew up! I'm gonna be entertained for a while! | It was an accident, of course.
My birth, my being in space, and well, I suppose I was an accident as well. An accident from director of engineering fucking the fat janitor after hours when the rest of the shuttle team had retired, the odds that my mother had been able to hide her baby bump for nine months, the chanc... | Right eye, left eye...right eye, left eye. Who ever said having these powers was a gift? I can't remember how long it's been, or even how old I am. The feeling of weightlessness, the lack of substance both metaphorically and physically. When was the last time I heard someone speak, when was the last time I felt another... | 2021-11-12T07:30:30 | 2017-04-14T16:02:38 | 4,698 | 175 |
[WP] The devil enters into a contract, and over time slowly realizes that *he* is actually the one being manipulated by it. | There once was a man named Lucifer,
Whose cable bill caused him to go nuclear.
So one desperate day, he called up Comcast to say hey...
is there a better deal I could receive for the future?
The agent was nice, and with out thinking twice,
He agreed to a bundle at "One low monthly price."
Now just to be clear, he ask... | As Roger's blood dripped on the smoky parchment, I gleefully waved him off. Telling him to enjoy his earthly riches. I considered the implications. What did he have? Fifty years? maybe less? Ha. people surprise me in their naivety. their innate ability to ignore the storm coming tomorrow, just so they can enjoy the bre... | 2015-02-18T09:06:59 | 2015-02-18T06:22:13 | 47 | 12 |
[WP] You wake up in Hell. You look around, you can't see anybody, it's just fire and brimstone going on forever. Eventually the Devil walks over and says "Finally, you're the first to arrive, so tell me, who are you? what did you do? and how did you die?" | At first, I thought the overwhelming red in my vision was a side effect of the initial lethargy of waking up. But when that didn't clear off in time, I starting getting suspicious.
Where on Earth was I? Why would there be so many raging fires and lava lakes and... brimstone? (Thank goodness for Geology classes.) Was I... | I look at that son of a bitch right in the eyes and say "don't you remember? Georgia" he tried to think. "I took that bet and I ended up regretting it because you're the best there's ever been." He smirks and says "ohhhhh yesssss Johnny how have you been?" | 2015-04-09T07:51:23 | 2015-04-09T07:21:59 | 779 | 102 |
[WP] God shares the cosmos with several other dieties. To pass the time they play Civilization like games for eons. God's frustrated that his civilization, Earth, is several ages behind all his friends. | How was he so behind in score? Jahweh sat gaping with disbelief at the icons floating in the top left of his screen, indicating that his rival, Jorgaxis, had just reached the highest tech level.
"Shouldn't have picked DNA as your genetic molecule, noob" the chat-window taunted. Jorgaxis was right, the higher rate of... | "I still say it's cheating that you sent your son down there." Lord Lamux was noticeably worried that God's people would soon crack the human genome. He was in danger of being over taken by God during the inevitable exponential growth that would soon occur. His protests were well founded, the rules clearly stated th... | 2016-04-09T08:11:27 | 2016-04-09T08:09:07 | 30 | 17 |
[WP]"Is is true that you can only see three basic colors?", the alien being asked "It is." "So, how do you communicate with the Ghoosha?" "With whom?", I responded confused. "The other major race on your planet." | *"Is it true you can only see three basic colors?"* the alien being asked.
"Just about. Our eyes have three major primary colors perceived by the cones in our eyes, and most of the colors we perceive on what we call the visible spectrum are a mix of Yellow, Red, and Blue."
*"So, how do you communicate with the Ghoos... | "Three colors? What exactly do you mean by that?"
"Ah, I apologize."
The being across from me taps its headset a few times, twisting a few dials.
"I believe my translator made an error," it says.
Oh well. It happens.
"I believe I've fixed it. Now, is it true your species can only exist in three dimensions?"
"U... | 2018-12-04T11:03:56 | 2018-12-04T08:31:40 | 7,659 | 1,201 |
[WP] You just accidentally downloaded the Kindle version of the Necronomicon. | So I'm not sure whether the 5 star reviews of 'the great big book of dogs' is people just reviewing it without reading or if I got the wrong product somehow, assuming it's the later I'm giving it one star.
Cons:
Was not the great big book of dogs'
Was not even in English
Gave me an extremely large headache
I'm pr... | "Honey, what is this?"
"What is what, Grandma?" I said, not lifting my eyes from my laptop.
"This book!" she said from her brown armchair, her eyes on my Kindle as she gesticulated wildly with the "stylus" she'd insisted I provide.
The stylus was a disassembled pen.
"I don't like it. It looks scary. Why do you r... | 2016-02-10T10:53:48 | 2016-02-10T09:13:13 | 75 | 10 |
[WP] If, when you die, you don't get into heaven, there is an option to try again, and get in the next time. There is a man who has been trying for millennia; he has been Ghengis Khan, Hitler, and many other brutal leaders. That man is you, and this time, you're determined to get it right. | "What am I doing wrong?"
I said it out loud, but I knew he wouldn't answer. He just sat there and asked again,
"Give up? Or try again?".
His question echoed as if we were in a cave, but the room was about the size of a elevator. It would have terrified me if this was my first time. Tha... | The white lights flashed again. It was coming back to me, everything; the cries for help, the scent of clotted blood on the dead, the eyes that begged for mothers as they saw death flashing in front of their faces. Ironic I guess, considering that I think that I'm dead. Or at least I figure I must be dead considering a... | 2017-03-31T12:40:36 | 2017-03-31T08:26:10 | 71 | 22 |
[WP] Every person in the world develops a weird mutation/power the day they turn 16. Everyone's powers are always different, some more insignificant than others. You turn 16, and watch as all your friends discover their newfound ability's. That is, until you discover the severity of your own. | Day 1.
Sigh..... As I wake up on my 16th birthday I knew it would happen. I was dreading it. I didn't want it, I didn't need it. I didn't believe in it. My parents had useful powers though as much as they hated it. Dad being a doctor of course managed to heal people at a touch. Mum being the cook that she was never ne... | Sean was walking home from the gardening store, he loved getting new utensils. His birthday was spent as it usually was, Dad carrying in his broken down car from his 24 hour shift as a security guard before falling asleep without saying happy birthday and Sean playing hide and seek in their garden with his Mommy. Her p... | 2015-01-21T22:46:38 | 2015-01-21T22:19:41 | 62 | 22 |
[WP] All human babies are born immune to hunger. People do not need to eat, but if they do, they will thereafter need to eat as normal or die of starvation.
Maybe write from the perspective of a parent/pregnant woman who must make the decision whether to feed their child or not? | “Come in, take a seat...” Dr. O’Brien was shuffling through some files and didn’t look up. I was relieved to get out of the waiting room. The pain, whatever it was, seemed to be getting worse by the minute. “What seems to be the problem?”
“Well I don’t really know how to describe it Doc, it feels like... like an *empt... | For me it was the smell. They’d warned me several times to wear a facemask whenever I went outside for charity work. It felt definitely weird for me the whole concept of “eating”, why would these people do this? Did they even know the time and resources needed for this activity? I mean, the cities had progressed so muc... | 2014-03-31T11:22:35 | 2014-03-31T09:15:49 | 34 | 21 |
[WP] Death has hourglasses for every person. One day, during a cleaning, he found a dust covered one that had rolled under his desk. | *No.* Death thought. *It couldn't be.*
Death reached below the grand wooden table, hastily pulling out the dust covered hourglass. Questions flooded its mind. *How? When? Who?*
Carefully, Death set the hourglass sideways on its table, like the way it found it, the only one among the seven billion or so hourglasses in... | "And I wouldn't be standing here, speaking to all of you today if I didn't change my mindset" said the world's hottest new motivational speaker. "I've had too many near death experiences to count, but it made me realize life is precious. Time is finite, and it can't be wasted with regrets or what-if questions. Follow t... | 2018-10-03T06:52:49 | 2018-10-03T06:19:01 | 2,861 | 63 |
[WP]You run an RPG pawn shop. You haggle with adventurers who try to sell loot they've acquired.
Inspired by *The Merchant Adventurer*, by Patrick E. McLean.
EDIT: Wow, thanks everyone that contributed! The awesome Patrick E. McLean (/u/patrickemclean) stopped by, gave a snippet from his book in a comment, and even g... | First day open for business! After years of saving up and working as a blacksmith apprentice, I have finally been able to open my own armors and weapons shop. Ever since I was a young boy, I have heard so many grand stories of heroes and adventurers from travelling merchants, now finally I too can become a stop on thei... | A/N: Yes, I'm aware that transmogs in WoW are often BOP, but that ruins the fun of this script, so just run with it, 'kay?
Edits for format and minor additions.
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*Int., Day, Ye Olde Gold and Silver Pawn Shoppe. ADVAR the Paladin of Protection approaches the wooden counter where RICHARD, the store's wise bald shop... | 2016-10-16T10:00:13 | 2016-10-16T07:28:43 | 999 | 202 |
[WP] War is no longer initiated by your country’s leader. War is now decided by popular vote. If you cast a vote “FOR” war, you are automatically enlisted in your country’s militia upon successful declaration of war. You voted “AGAINST,” but the rest of your family voted “FOR.” | Sitting behind the large oak desk Trevor looked out across the city sky line. Sharp shadows intersected the city as the sun hung low on the horizon, still rising to greet the day.
Opening the lid on the laptop he scanned the mornings headlines. Battle in the providences overseas had been raging for the last month sin... | Resistance guerilla's desperately holding a fort, turncoats betraying comrades in the dead of night, boys dyeing cornfields red, action, angst, suspense. These were the things you could expect in a good war. And this war promised to be a great one. A feast for the eyes! Newly developed 360-HD cameras on every robot sol... | 2021-01-28T08:27:28 | 2021-01-28T06:06:53 | 182 | 24 |
[WP] You are a completely normal guy with a superhero girlfriend. You know it's a dangerous line of work so you go out of your way to avoid it. You never run into danger to help. You never get involved with investigations. You both just treat it like your girlfriend's day job. Tonight is date night. | Is it easy dating Electragirl?
No, absolutely not.
Is it worth it?
Well ….
I usually do everything I can not to get in her way. I drive 10 miles under the speed limit. I avoid big crowds and tall buildings and long bridges. I specifically chose to take a job in manufacturing logistics at a company that makes chair... | We went out to dinner and she went to use the bathroom, that’s when a girl in an olive green dress walks up to our table and attempts to talk to me. This is when everything gets hazy so I’ll let my super cute super hero girl friend tell you the rest of the story.
“Your such a dork ya know that”
Anyway after I come o... | 2021-07-09T22:16:20 | 2021-07-09T20:11:21 | 158 | 26 |
[WP] In music, changing a song to a minor key is a small change that makes the song sound much creepier or sadder. Write a happy story, and then its counterpart in a minor key.
Edit: Wow! Thank you to everyone for all the great stories. This will definitely keep me reading for a while. | I’ll never forget that night.
Mr. Smith shook my hand. He had never done that before. First day of class he told me he wasn’t my friend, he was my teacher. I remember it hurt. When he grabbed my hand, I remember his firm grip hurt but in a good way. A manly way. He smiled and nodded, he didn’t say anything, I didn’t s... | The day was still Young, I stood on the front lawn staring at little zoey running and playing in the field. I could see the sun glistening off her youthful face as she danced with the wind. As graceful as her mother who sat staring through the kitchen window. I smile at her and she waves back chuckling. I thought to my... | 2015-07-13T23:52:21 | 2015-07-13T21:19:07 | 49 | 27 |
[WP] They've just invented a 500,000 frame per second video camera. The problem is that they've found something unexpected at those speeds | “Its how fast?” David asked, a skeptical tone in his voice.
“Okay, I’ll try to put it in layman’s terms.” Gavin replied, his coffee going unnoticed on the table in front of him, “Let’s say a normal camera runs at something like 24 frames per second. Ours runs much faster than that. Much, much faster. A couple hundre... | "That's just remarkable! Truly astounding!"
Mr. Hader watched the video in awe, and Nathan just stood next to him, and found himself unable to stop a huge grin spreading on his face. He was gleaming with pride.
After all his hard work and dedication, he'd *finally* completed it! A 500,000 frame per second video camer... | 2015-02-06T14:36:31 | 2015-02-06T14:04:46 | 241 | 28 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a natural tattoo of their spirit animal. Every person gets the traits and abilities of their respective animal. But when you were born your father, having a bear tattoo and your mother, bearing a dove tattoo, were horrified. Leviathan.
Edit. Wow thank you to everyone who submitted thie stori... | At birth, it had looked like a small silver dragonfly. Uncommon, but not unheard of. It had started on my side, just above my left hip. My parents had been so pleased, but my mother shone with pride. She was marked with the dove and not prone to excessive emotions, but seeing the tiny, glittering wings on her daughter ... | There are thousands of stories of the great heroes of our time, stories meant to inspire the children despite their anima. It is believed that no anima was inferior to another, no anima was stronger or weaker, and so we tell stories of of both Regar the Lion, who came from a farming village and went to conquer 40 kingd... | 2017-11-08T06:02:20 | 2017-11-08T05:57:15 | 28 | 19 |
[WP] A soldier on the front dies in the middle of writing a letter home. It is finished and sent by the man who killed him. | Maria,
Thinking of you all today. Things aren’t getting better out here. There’s not many of us left. The recruits are younger and younger. Most of them don’t last much more than a week but there are still a few naturals. I don’t know what the reels back home are saying – things are pretty grim but we have one last tr... | My dearest love,
I long to see the smile that graces you lips. It has been well over seven months since I have and my heart aches for that one simple gesture that would welcome me home. Everywhere around me death grins and I recoil from its affection. Tommy, the boy from the Mason’s farm, felt its sweet kiss two days ... | 2015-02-03T16:03:03 | 2015-02-03T13:20:11 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] You receive a government text warning saying “EMERGENCY - LOCK ALL DOORS AND STAY INSIDE. DO NOT PANIC”. You hear your SO at the locked front door, who’s just come back from the supermarket. They beg to be let inside but you’re unsure. Something doesn’t feel right. | "Sam?" I knocked a few more times. My knuckles were starting to hurt. I prayed she was home. She just had to be. "Sam, you're home right?"
"James, I-I'm... I can't let you in."
"Oh, Sam! Good, you were home." I leaned my cheek against the door in relief. "I got the text too. Not really sure what the hell it means but... | I feel a buzz in my pocket. I pull my phone out and see an emergency alert across the screen. "EMERGENCY - LOCK ALL DOORS AND STAY INSIDE. DO NOT PANIC."
"Panic?" I wonder out loud, "why would I panic?"
Just then I hear a knock at the front door. I walk over to it and peer through the blurry glass. It seems like my g... | 2019-01-12T08:28:48 | 2019-01-12T03:53:40 | 2,225 | 190 |
[WP] You are an air traffic controller trapped in a time loop to prevent a plane crash from happening. Its been nearly 10 years and you still haven't figured it out. | The sight of a plane crashing from the sky, exploding into a searing fireball with hundreds of lives at stake would scar any man for a lifetime. For me, it was but one in a million. If there were scars, they no longer cut deep enough to hurt me.
Numb. For years. A decade? Far too long for anybody.
I've tried everyth... | December 30, 1998
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It was a dim night. Closing time. Like any other night, everyone prepared to go home. But not me. Not tonight.
Looking at my watch, the time was 8:55 in the evening. Station controllers were shutting down. Most of the data traffic was passed on to the other station 30 km away from here... | 2020-07-16T08:51:00 | 2020-07-16T08:25:36 | 37 | 13 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | James was not a great man.
Great men walked up to the world and bent it to its will. Great men looked at challenge and laughed.
James did his 9-5, came home, and sat down. He typically would stand back up a few times, to use the toilet or get a beer, but no more than a few.
His son had stopped asking him to play w... | George couldn't understand it. His mom was overjoyed about his father's father ranking, and how abruptly it jumped, and how much higher it jumped. When everyone found out about the mugs, some people bragged, others hid their mugs. His father woke up late on the day of the change, so he didn't have a chance to do anythi... | 2017-06-11T09:29:45 | 2017-06-11T09:05:21 | 159 | 77 |
[WP] You are a superhero whose powers are based on the music you are listening to. Rock can make you stronger, classical makes you smarter, etc. One day, you're fighting your toughest villain yet, and you are forced to use your "forbidden" playlist. | There’s nothing I can do.
He is stronger than me. Faster than me. And while my ability to influence people with music is strong, there are limits to what I can do.
He turns to face my city. Mine. Neighbors, friends, hell, even my enemies lives have meaning. He’s going to destroy it all, and I have only one option lef... | I would have never thought to use a playlist so strong just to defeat someone. It's a dangerous idea, but an idea that would work.
It was becoming dark, perfect for this. I run into the night and try to change my music. I was thrown off guard when I noticed that they weren't behind me. I kept running until I fell to t... | 2022-05-17T10:44:20 | 2022-05-17T09:44:15 | 43 | 12 |
[WP] JFK shot first. | JFK is at the parade, suddenly, his president sense ™ tingles.
He takes out his modified M1 garand with reflex sight, fast mag and steady aim, his back up gun since it isn’t that big of a deal.
He shoots the killer in the chest from 10 meters, getting only a hitmarker.
The killer flees and stands behind a wall to he... | JFK eyed the man standing in the building. He didn't like the way he looked at him.
He reached for his revolver he always keeps handy in his left boot. The right one carries his knife. He shot at the man, but missed.
The man, befuzzled and confused at why he shot at him, retaliated.
He pulled out his sniper rifle fr... | 2018-03-21T08:25:25 | 2018-01-02T09:45:56 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Xandar was fuming. 20 smismars he'd been waiting in the bowels of that horrible assembling of junk and metal the humans proudly called their *flagship of intergalactic friendship*. It was bad enough when those hairless pink monkeys made it to outer space but now they had developped a functioning FTL drive and that made... | The inhabitants of Oflesq station heard what they had come to learn was the characteristic sound of imminent human arrival. No one understood it. A vast mooing, defying the supposed absence of sound travel in empty space. A mooing that sent chills down both of their spines; as if it were the old gods that had come, cal... | 2017-03-31T09:27:39 | 2017-03-31T07:04:11 | 99 | 15 |
[WP] You are a contestant in a million dollar challenge, 1 year in a room with no human contact. After a year you watch as the timer mounted to the wall flips from 000:00:00:00 to -000:00:00:01 and keep counting down but no one shows up to let you out and receive your prize. | The One Rotation Isolation. It recently hit 25 years of running with not one person making it. Each year, a new group is put in with 10 contestants. The rules are that the contestant must spend one year with no human interaction, not even online. For most people, the challenge looks simple if not preferable to everyday... | A gap year in life. Some would look at that as a waste, for me, it was more than just an opportunity.
The first few months were tough, but they took care of themselves. Even if time moves slow, it does move. Within a couple of weeks, I felt like Bart Simpson, endlessly writing "Time still moves forward" thousands of t... | 2019-07-03T01:06:48 | 2019-07-02T23:40:43 | 90 | 45 |
[WP] You bought a pair of headphones that are acting up. Every time you plug them in, you hear a different sound - first crying, then a war-zone, now just static. You plug them in again and are frightened to hear a desperate, tearful warning: "Whatever you do, DON'T unplug the headphones again." |
I opened up the package that I had ordered from Amazon and took out my brand new pair of headphones. My old headphones had gotten more glitchy as the years went by, so I was hoping that this new pair would be more successful. I sat down in my chair, went to Youtube, put on my headphones and plugged them into my lapt... | “What?” I muttered, going to unplug them again. Then it spoke again. The same line. “Whatever you do, DON’T unplug the headphones again.” Whoever was saying that... sounded familiar. Like an old voice wrapped into my brain years ago when I was still in school. Then it went to static, cutting out the person. “Who are yo... | 2020-04-01T21:37:42 | 2020-04-01T20:54:45 | 42 | 13 |
[WP] Job hunts are literally that: You seek out the job you desire and kill the one who has it, or even engage them in ritual combat to claim the job as your own. You have just turned of age and desire your first minimum wage job. | “It is time my son.”
My father kneeled before me, holding out a buckhorn knife that was older than the nation. It was scuffed and stained with the blood of countless prey.
“My great great great grandfather made this knife himself to hunt for his first job. Ever since, it has been gifted to the eldest child when they ... | The last customer left the store. We both watched the old lady leave. A clerk silently slipped in and locked the door behind her.
We were alone.
I examined my opponent. The harsh fluorescents of the dimmed grocery store lights made sharp angles and deep shadows of her face. Her bright red hair seemed muted against th... | 2020-11-15T13:06:24 | 2020-11-15T12:35:27 | 37 | 13 |
[WP] You have the ability to double jump. Scientists are still trying to figure it out. | "What nonsense!"
"I know! But it's real! We've been testing with her at our lab for three days now."
"Can she *triple* jump too?"
"Yea, of course. That's like the first thing we've asked her to try. She has even done four! But beyond that, she gets very tired."
"Tired, you say?"
"Her heart races up with every jump... | The people in comic books have so many cool powers: flight, super strength, laser vision. My power is pretty mundane, but I like it that way: I can use it subtly without people freaking out.
I learned of my power in Junior High, when I tried to impress my father at long jump; he was upset that I was always second to ... | 2017-02-11T08:49:55 | 2017-02-11T08:42:45 | 338 | 39 |
[WP] Foreshadow the character's death so subtly that I still don't see it coming even though I requested it. | I'm going to die today.
The doctor is giving me a run down of what will happen when we pull the plug. It will be painless, he says. Despite his reassurance, I can't help but be afraid. I glance over to my wife, my one true happiness in life, and begin to tear up. I can't handle the fact that I will never see her agai... | When is the right time for two people to decide to start a family? There's no rule or law to dictate what's best for other people, Jeannine thought as she stared at the dull pink double lines on the pregnancy test stick. Sure, maybe she didn't think in her heart it was the right time for her to have a baby, but who was... | 2015-06-03T08:22:01 | 2015-06-03T07:59:09 | 2,420 | 12 |
[WP] Make a story so awkward even the narrator start's getting uncomfortable.
. _ .
Starts*
Auto correct is my mortal enemy. | “ “Can I get you anything else, sir?”
“No, thanks. Coffee is good.” I reply, no eye contact. I feel like a bit of a prick applying this manner of interpersonal dynamics. I’m sure her day is no better or worse for my lack of visual acknowledgement on receipt of my coffee but the burr sticks. I should have just fucking ... | Alright! It’s that point in the story where the guy gets the girl. Where he decides that he does have enough confidence, and she will respond to it. She has to.
Okay, walk over... Just. No, walk normal. LIKE A HUMAN PERSON. Alright, you’re almost there. Whoops, a little trip. No worry. Stairs are tricky. S... | 2014-12-23T09:45:16 | 2014-12-23T09:02:44 | 249 | 111 |
[WP] Necromancy is just the arcane equivalent of computer programming, and grimoires on necromancy are just like libraries of code on animating the undead. You work the equivalent of the IT Help Desk for your necromancer cult. These are your work stories. | My phone rang.
"Thank you for calling support, this is Rick, how can I assist you today?
>It's not working. Ever since Necrosoft decided that Revival7 should be phased out and forced us on to Revival10 this damned thing's been out of wack!
"Uh.. Alright, sir. Well - What's the actual problem? What is it that you'... | "Hey nerd", James shouted in my telecom.
"What is it", I reply, already annoyed. James was always cocky, barely able to reanimate five soldiers of the Tahaka dynasty, yet acted like he could summon demons from the ninth circle.
"My reanimator isn't working again, get your ass here and fix it.", he said, annoyed. He was... | 2018-04-28T02:42:46 | 2018-04-28T02:15:43 | 71 | 16 |
[WP] On the outside you're running a registered Marijuana Store, but behind that front you're a highly illegal Kinder Egg smuggling operation, and you are looking to expand.... | As soon as she walks in, I can see the signs. The bags under her eyes. Shaking hands. She needs her fix.
“Ma’am?” I lock eyes with her and discretely point to the inspector scribbling a few feet away. “Are you here for the usual?”
She knows the inspector by sight. All of my regulars do. I shrug slightly, trying to co... | X months in and the pressure from the Chief is getting to me. We have no leads still, and kids are dying every day from small choking parts hidden in delicious chocolate. God, why did I leave home and move to America, full of idiots. Streetlamps lit up the side walk with a cool yellow glow and I could almost hear the... | 2019-11-25T11:29:37 | 2019-11-25T11:09:22 | 29 | 20 |
[WP] The DM hands you the paper. You're just dropping in for the one session, but you know your role. The sheet says you're level 6, but you've got surprises. You have a mission: take out the DM's most-hated player. Well, their fun-killing Paladin, anyway. You're a hired gun. A Character Assassin. | It happens from time to time, a paladin gets a little too strong they start to think they have a destiny and are all about championing good. They start messing with the world's balance pushing it too far towards good. That's when the Consortium sends me in. Paladins are easy to deal with when you know how to push their... | I'm a bot, *bleep*, *bloop*. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:
- [/r/dnd] [Is it me or does this just sound like a great idea?](https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/aiil4d/is_it_me_or_does_this_just_sound_like_a_great_idea/)
- [/r/rpg_brasil] [\[WP\] The DM hands you the paper. You're j... | 2019-01-21T20:21:57 | 2019-01-21T19:09:12 | 80 | 16 |
[WP] You are a wish lawyer. You help clients negotiate wishes from genies, faeries, dragons, and other wish granting entities.
You also do faustian bargains with devil
Edit: Woo! I finally made it to the top of writing prompts! | “So, for the benefit of the court, could you once again just break down what exactly are the limitations of the wishes you offer, as you explained them to my client?”
The genie looked outraged for a second, then just leaned back on his chair, before launching into explanation in his fullest drawl:
“Typical genie rule... | The sounds of grunts and footsteps penetrated your dreams.
"The wife must be having a nightmare" you thought as you drifted between the waking and dream worlds. As you slowly started deafen yourself to the noise and head back to dreamland a startling revelation throws you back into the waking world with a start.
... | 2018-07-18T11:47:43 | 2018-07-18T11:05:03 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | You sit in your cell, awaiting the return of the guard with your last meal. Or, you hope, the guard will return empty handed and you will be set free. At the end of the hall, you hear the distinctive sound of the door unlocking, and the footsteps of someone approaching. Only one set, so no priest. A good sign.
The gua... | The trick was to find the loophole.
The Alien-egg Omelette was just two Century-Eggs blended, added to milk, and re-fried.
Dragon Steak? Wagyu beef drowned in hot-sauce and cooked sous-vide.
The Flesh of Jesus Christ? Communion Wafers.
The Executioners were akin to djinnies, twisting the last request and presenting... | 2022-07-17T16:30:58 | 2022-07-17T15:22:32 | 1,737 | 1,032 |
[WP] 9 buttons show up in major cities worldwide giving every person who pushes it one million dollars but kills ten random people. Greed quickly gives way to panic as billions die and the buttons are buried and guarded. One day, you find the tenth button. | *One Million US Dollars*
There it was. Etched onto that little black box, below that infamous blue button. Everyone on Earth had seen that image. Most people on Earth had felt its effects. No-one on Earth wanted to find another box. I did.
Nine of the world's largest cities had suffered. Tokyo first, just over a year... | As I stared at this button, many things passed through my mind... I thought they were all buried. This one looks different from the other nine. Why is it blue instead of red like the rest? If it looks different does that mean it does something different as well?
I saw one of the other nine once. It was big and red an... | 2014-11-18T10:02:06 | 2014-11-18T09:14:19 | 105 | 15 |
[WP] You live in a world where each lie creates a scar on the liar's body. The bigger the lie, the deeper and larger the mark. One day, you meet someone that only has one scar; it is the biggest one you have ever seen. | You want to know how I got these scars?
Well, for one thing they aren’t ‘scars’, if you look closely you’ll see it’s one continuous scar that travels around my face, neck, down my body, all around wrapping itself around my arms, legs, fingers and toes.
The only part of my body that isn’t scarred tissue is the inside... | "Anything else?" the waitress asked me, as she smacked a cup of coffee on the table somewhat carelessly. I think her name was Darla. I shook my head a bit and watched her saunter back to the counter out of the corner of my eye. I knew she had judged me from the moment she saw me. She had given me the same look most eve... | 2016-12-29T16:31:53 | 2016-12-29T16:20:19 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear me,
I'm sorry I've let you down. I'm sorry I've not achieved what you thought you would. And I'm sorry I couldn't' be braver for you.
I want to assure you that you are a strong person, though. I want you to know that you will achieve what you want and that you'll eventually be the person you want to be. Yo... | Dear Katie,
It feels strange to be sitting here writing this to you. Especially in the form of a letter, emails seem to be a way of life, but I have to say that watching my pen move over this page has a certain draw.
I never thought I would need to write a letter to you. In my mind you should be right here with me.... | 2015-12-05T13:04:05 | 2015-12-05T13:01:25 | 1,756 | 661 |
[WP] All doctors must carry a staff. The staff must be hand carved by the doctor, and for every patient a doctor can't treat they lose an inch off their staff. When a staff is gone, so is their license.
X-post from /r/crazyideas and /u/BrassDidgeStrings | She bent over and lifted a beautiful, pale, wooden staff from under the operating table. Her scrubs were soaked in blood and sweat, chemicals and tears. It was only Doctor Silvia Nite and her most recent patient. The room was quiet. In her gloved hand the staff carved with great care years ago as a bright eyed medi... | Once upon a time, at an elite university, an idealistic pre-med college student, [while showering](https://www.reddit.com/r/showerthoughts), got the idea that all doctors must carry a staff. The staff must be hand carved by the doctor, and for every patient a doctor can't treat, the doctor loses an inch off the staff. ... | 2015-11-12T20:03:09 | 2015-11-12T19:03:04 | 812 | 34 |
[WP] Instead of trying to get a man on the moon, every nation raced to be the first at the very bottom of the ocean
While we have managed to get to space and the moon we have not fully explored the ocean. Instead of the space race, there was a competition to see who could reach the very bottom.
edit: These are reall... | "Class, why do you think the former US and former USSR rushed to reach the deepest reach of the sea floor?"
Angie had read the text book in the beginning of the year. She loved history, and she couldn't raise her hand up any higher to prove it.
"Billy, what do you think?" Mrs. Hemming picked after a brief scanning ... | Now that the space race had ended the World needed a new dick measuring contest. Really, it was a chain effect after Russia declared they would be the first to the bottom of the ocean America decided she "needed" to get to the bottom of the ocean for "research." Of course China needed to prove themselves and by the end... | 2015-07-15T12:45:01 | 2015-07-15T11:01:58 | 130 | 12 |
[WP] Due to a mix-up, the body count of all your video game kills is attributed to you personally. Upon your death, the Devil excitedly rushes to the gates of hell to greet you. | "Sir?" The goblin bowed nervously, clutching a ledger to his chest, glancing at his master. "He is here."
Lucifer, The First Fallen, Bringer of Light, stood upon the balcony of his palace. Thick leathery wings sprouted from between his shoulder blades, elegantly draping across his back, curling into a dark cloak. Gnar... | Cool gates they had there - black, wrought-iron, jagged in all the right places, nice fire effects. As for how I got here, well, St. Peter had just raised his eyebrow at me and pointed left. So after two steps to the left and three hours of falling, I splatted face-down right outside the burning gates of Hell. Now, ... | 2015-11-19T23:38:32 | 2015-11-19T23:09:22 | 214 | 67 |
[WP] Make me cry in four sentences or less.
Go. | I lay curled on the old mat I've slept on since I was just a pup, waiting for Boy. I've lived a long and happy life, the happiest parts all spent growing up with Boy. I wish he were near me now, I'm so tired and he's been gone for so long...but I'll wait for him one last time. A dog always waits for his Boy.
EDIT: T... | I still remember how the sun hit her silver hair and how her eyes shone brighter than anything in the room. I still remember how the air smelled like lilacs and strawberries, so contrasted from the sterile air outside. I still remember how she looked at me and asked, "Who are you?" I still remember telling her, "I'm th... | 2014-11-20T21:44:15 | 2014-11-20T18:46:32 | 150 | 112 |
[WP] The year is 2040, and you are the last smoker alive. The "Quit Smoking" ads get personal. | I've outlasted it for years. I've watched campaigns come and go for years never having any effect on my habit, but this was something more. The first anti smoking ad I saw was when I was 10 years old. It showed a middle aged man going through his daily life with a hole in his throat. Plugging it when he took showers... | I walked down the overgrown, muddy street in my village. It was quiet, as it always had been. The quietness is the thing that was typical of this village, it had always been this quiet. I walked into the house where I was born, or at least: the place where I remembered I first was.
I don't remember much of my childhoo... | 2017-02-17T11:59:25 | 2017-02-17T11:15:56 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | Amelia's life has been a strange one since the age of 15, when she met Eric at a bus stop on her way home from school; they had a short-lived tryst and never expected to see one another again.
Over the remaining years of High School, Eric just always seemed to be around whenever something happened. Her first car got ... | It seems like every time I ran into Amelia Fowler she was in the middle of some kind of catastrophe. Just last week she had a flat tire at two in the morning twenty miles out of town, with no one around but cows and cotton. A month ago it was in line at the grocery store with a shopping cart the contents of which almos... | 2017-03-22T15:53:12 | 2017-03-22T13:26:15 | 75 | 21 |
[WP] God created thousands of worlds in thousands of galaxies. A major crisis in another galaxy has taken his entire focus, and for the first time in 750 years, he just glanced in our direction.
This prompt has two possibilities. What has he been dealing with for the last 750 years elsewhere, or what his reaction is w... | "What do you mean they aren't all Muslims yet?"
"Sorry m'lord, so much has happened. As you recall, the fertile crescent stopped being so fertile, than the crusades, imperialism, the industrial revolution, computers, the Christians just kept coming out ahead... its all in the records, you'll want to read up on it befo... | "Finally, it's time", God says as he looks up from his work. It'd taken a short amount of time to bring about peace to the planet Nequior, but it was done. The beings of this desolate place weren't blessed with the ability to work things out on their own. They were a foolish and unruly bunch. Wars, disease, and starvat... | 2015-12-27T09:56:08 | 2015-12-27T09:55:12 | 167 | 66 |
[WP] You are Low-Key, the Norse God of really subtle mischief. | A smile creaked across my face as I heard a dull thud.
"WHY THE FUCK DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING?!" boomed from the living room. I only wish I could have seen it first hand, but my hidden sanctuary behind the closet doors kept my presence concealed. They'll never know that their furniture had been slowly moved, inch by i... | Subtlety is a precise art. While my brothers and sisters can do things like hurl lightning around to fill their daily quota of godly actions, I needed to be precise. Too much mischief and all of a sudden I have Loki breathing down my back. Too little and folks wouldn't be aware of my divine intervention.
I sighed, le... | 2018-01-27T22:00:48 | 2018-01-27T20:53:05 | 1,893 | 49 |
[WP]Time travel is possible, but requires an "anchor" item created in the target era. You've gone to the year 900 using a Viking sword and the year 300 using a Roman Coin. You've just started the process using a small statue of unknown origin and it proves to be vastly older than human history. | Jonah thumbed the statue's face, mentally making out the nub of the nose, the deep-set eyes, the cleft where chin met neck. This was dangerous. Foolish would be a good word too.
Rome had been a cakewalk. There was plenty of documentation, of dates and figures and maps, a wealth of historical data that more than matche... | Happy Cake day! This is a really great wp. I hope to do it justice as I am fairly new to this page.
The resounding air curled up as the room began to lose its geometry. Everything became a blur as it stretched and disfigured into the swirling pipe above. The scene was all too familiar. This was your third trip into th... | 2020-04-17T09:11:21 | 2020-04-17T08:40:15 | 967 | 134 |
[WP] You're a member of the Z-team. Your team is who they send in when teams A-Y have failed, but that's never happened before. But to everyone's horror, that day just came. | General, we have confirmation Y-Team is down! I repeat, Y-Team is down!
My God, this can’t be! Are you certain all our nuclear powered T-Rex’s are dead?!
Affirmative! General, the enemies are approaching our base. What are your orders, sir?
A–Y Team all failed, which leaves… No! No, they’re too dangerous... | *Bzzt Bzzt*
Somewhere under the sea of pizza boxes, soda cans, and a passed out Commander Craig -his phone rang- which wasn't unusual especially since his latest firing, Pizza boy, supposedly was eating customers pies instead of delivering them.
*Bzzt Bzzt Bzzt*
They never called back-to-back. Those bill collector... | 2022-11-06T18:23:05 | 2022-11-06T17:26:12 | 31 | 21 |
[WP] You need to hire a hitman, but can't afford it. Carefully write a gofundme campaign for something seemingly innocent while subtly letting your donors know what they are actually funding. | Hi everyone!
I'm here trying to be able to throw a very special party for my step father, who has been an incredibly influential part of my life. Growing up, he was always home with me and my sisters, looking after us when my mom was at work. He let us know just how much he really cared about us. After all these year... | Hi,
My name is Jessica from Arizona and I'm trying to arrange a long vacation for my boyfriend. He works really erratic hours and brings a lot of his stress home with him. I feel that him getting away from the hustle and just lying in the sand in say, Belize would really go a long way for both our relationship and our ... | 2015-08-29T17:17:44 | 2015-08-29T10:50:25 | 38 | 22 |
[WP] You’re a dragon who kidnapped a prince/princess. All is going to plan but… it’s been a month and no one’s come to save them. | Dragons, by their very existence, were the kind of entities for whom awe and terror seemed intrinsically mixed. Wyverns were all well and good, but they were small, barely larger than a house. Wyrms? The flightless lizards could barely lift their heads to gaze upon the glory of a fully grown Drakon. The others were ani... | Soveliss walked calmly down the halls in his human form. In his hands is a tray of bread and a bowl with honeycomb in it.
He gently knocked upon the door of the princess's room, "Princess Elizabeth? Are you awake yet?"
He patiently waited as he heard her walk to the door and slowly open it, "Yes, I am up." He looked... | 2022-11-24T15:04:35 | 2022-11-24T13:59:56 | 180 | 31 |
[WP] Write a story that's been heavily censored. The censorship tells us more than the actual writing. | It's *wonderful* here. I want to *stay*. I've been trying to *stay* here *and* every attempt I've made has *succeeded*. There are *caregivers* everywhere. They look normal, *and* they *are*. They are not *different*. They are *humans*. They're all insanely *nice*. Everyone here is subject to their *assistance*, or *be... | Field Agent report.
On the night of REDACTED, myself and Special Agent (SA) REDACTED entered the premises at REDACTED to meet his Confidential Informant (name on file).
We arrived 30 minutes prior to the scheduled time of the meeting at REDACTED, to perform a security sweep. SA REDACTED 's CI's vehicle was present i... | 2015-01-18T11:35:07 | 2015-01-18T11:23:19 | 1,003 | 14 |
[WP] There's a law when you divorce, the children from the undone marriage get killed
So only children from lasting marriages remain. | We sat to talk business, the old man and I.
"You're a young man." he began. "I remember what that was like."
He nudged a glass towards me and smiled.
"I remember when I married my first wife. She was so beautiful. So sweet and innocent. Like an angel. And then the daughter was our first born child. And then an... | My name is David, David Halligan. You might know me from H&H Attorney at law. We typically run late night infomercials on sleezy networks that convince people to get a divorce. I'm the good-looking, charming guy that smiles into the camera and give a little wink, yea...
I'm a divorce chaser. What that means is I c... | 2014-06-15T05:31:17 | 2014-06-15T03:57:43 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] Lifespan is determined by a word count. You're given millions of words, but once you run out you're dead. You are a mob hitman known as "The Interrogator, who specializes in "making people talk". You come across a mark that has one word left. | (Setting: The grocery store. THE MARK is standing in the milk aisle, trying to find the expiration date on a large carton of 2% milk.)
(Enter THE INTERROGATOR. Door chimes. THE INTERROGATOR strolls toward THE MARK, looking indecisive as to what to buy.)
THE INTERROGATOR: "How's it going?"
THE MARK: "Good--"
(THE MA... | I paced around the man tied to the chair in the dimly lit room. My frustration was growing, but I knew better than to let my temperament get the better of me, I would waste about half a year venting out my frustration. The man sat silently, yet calmly. I had done everything I could think of to make this mark talk, from... | 2016-10-10T22:26:40 | 2016-10-10T18:58:05 | 205 | 20 |
[WP] You’re immortal. The only problem is, you’ve lived so long humanity died out and a new intelligent species evolved. Now you’re forced to live in the forest as a cryptid. | "There goes the neighborhood," I muttered, packing up my few belongings as the land-squid construction workers flattened the section of forest I'd been living in for nigh on eight thousand years. I'd known they were going to be trouble ever since they crawled their way out of the ocean some two million or so years ago,... | I'm probably the last human, if you can even call me that anymore. I say this because it's been hundreds of years since I heard anything over the internet or the radio. I know more of us survived the abomination that we'd created. Everlasting life for the price of our reproductive organs. But we didn't expect that our ... | 2021-05-14T22:06:26 | 2021-05-14T20:36:07 | 34 | 14 |
[WP] Write a pirate story for my three year old son. With a witch in it somewhere. He says there has to be a witch in it.
My son is going through a pirate phase. Every night he asks for a pirate and witch story. I'm running out of variations on the theme. | There once was a pirate named Steve
He had no boat, no crew no sleeves
He would stare all day from the warf at the sea
"Oh what a sad pirate am I, whoah is me"
Day after day he sat on the warf
Hoping someday to have a ship an crew of course
But a ship never came, no crew just the same
Poor pirate Steve didn't live u... | There once was a lonely old pirate, recently retired
due to being shipwrecked on a spooky desert island
so he went on tinder, matched with a local witch
she thought because he had a boat he had to be rich
On meeting her, he stole her broomstick, started to fly it and told her to go on a diet.
| 2015-11-22T06:34:23 | 2015-11-22T06:07:38 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] After being terrified of the darkness all your life, you dealt with your fear by being friendly with it. Despite knowing it was silly, its always seemed to help. Today, after a would-be mugger rushed you, he stepped into a shadow, screamed, and vanished. | When I was five, my mom would tuck me in to bed after dinner and I would be locked in my room until it was opened again in the morning. When that door closed each night, and all light left my room, I would huddle on my bed, my back pressed hard into the corner of my room so that nothing could harm me from the back. I w... | My face was frozen in shock, still trying to process the mugger popping out of the alleyway. Where did he even go? I cast my eyes out across the dark alley as well as the main street that I was on, no sign of him anywhere. The people who initially looked in my direction at my yelp had turned away and were going about t... | 2020-07-14T14:07:30 | 2020-07-14T13:45:06 | 47 | 24 |
[WP] You are a barista in a 24 hour coffee shop. Every night at 3:33am a demon appears for the Dark Lord's latte. | "Listen here new guy. Every night at precisely 3:30am I brew a fresh pot of our darkest roast. I use a whole bag of our house blend. If you know what's good for you, you'll set an alarm to remember." He looks at me like I'm crazy.
"But.. We haven't seen a customer for at least an hour.. Also, why so strong?" He leans... | “He still really drinking the PSLs?”
Betabat sat slumped over the counter and didn’t look at me as he replied. “Yeah. He thinks they’re delicious.”
I poured him a cup of coffee and leaned down beside him. “Who knew pumpkin spice was so popular with the dark side?”
“Do you know how long eternity is, Dolly?” He said,... | 2022-10-30T12:33:33 | 2022-10-30T12:00:18 | 113 | 44 |
[WP] After superpowers start appearing around the world, businesses realize the use of these abilities. People with x ray vision are practically forced into being doctors and people with heat vision work as cooks. You are starting to get tired of your superpower-based job. | It started simply.
People started getting super powers, more or less overnight. Some people got very grand, incredible powers, and some got very ordinary powers. Some had immense power and a very high capability, some could barely use their power at all. Case in point, there was a guy in Brazil who got control over f... | Another night, another dollar as they say, right? I take a deep breath in and exhale before I walk in the doors. It’s a busy night tonight. There’s already people lined up outside and we haven’t even been opened for an hour yet. “Good luck tonight champ, it’s the trifecta.” The bouncer warned me before I walked in. “Gr... | 2020-02-05T20:48:25 | 2020-02-05T20:46:18 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] The cute girl on the subway can’t seem to stop staring at you! This would be great, except that her clothes are several centuries out of date, no one else seems to be able to see her, and you haven’t seen her blink. Not even once. | A girl like this shouldn’t exist.
Well, yes, she was pretty. Beautiful, in the way an esoteric romance novel from two hundred years ago would have described, all snow white skin and raven hair and plum red lips.
Part of it was the attire. This was the subway. I’ve seen my fair share of outfits, from criminally underd... | "Hey, are you even listening to me?" Kevin asked, poking me in my side. "What do you keep looking at?"
"Ah sorry," I said, nervously shifting in my seat. "There's just this really weird girl in a purple dress that keeps staring at me."
Kevin glanced over at the back of the train and then gave me a confused look. "Wha... | 2022-04-07T09:29:49 | 2022-04-07T09:28:49 | 491 | 70 |
[WP] Write a story in which the last line is a common phrase, such as, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger," but when we get to that line, it should have a totally different meaning from the common one. | When the plague rats came, they came in swarms. There was no escaping their beady eyes, their scratching claws. They squeeze into every home, through rafters and wine cellars, the door ajar, the window eased to let in the wind. We cannot escape. We cannot kill enough to make a dent in their numbers. There is only one o... | "No one else cares, Janette." Yuele had a genuine look of sadness as she said it, crouched down over her girlfriend. Janette tried to lean as far from Yuele as possible, her back pressing into the wall. "I did it for you, because we both know it's true. Don't be so blue..."
Janette pushed up onto her hands and knees, ... | 2015-05-16T06:22:41 | 2015-05-16T04:59:38 | 68 | 10 |
[WP] Two men play a game of chess. One can read minds; the other can see the future. | The two players sit down at the game table amid a sea of onlookers, Bob the psychic looks upon his opponent no doubt peering into her mind. At that very same moment, Betty the Sage whose stoic pose and closed eyes telegraph what must be her visualizing a vivid flash of what's to come.
A breathless moment passes as th... | One man sat at the base of a tree,
Branching and twisting to eternity.
With heart of oak and legs entwined,
he ruled as king of infinite mind.
Across the board, he then did see,
A kindred soul with eyes like he,
His face showed wonder and he sat carefree
As he stared up the branches and the twists of the tree.
... | 2017-01-19T17:07:33 | 2017-01-19T16:24:18 | 36 | 11 |
[WP] You are Dog to which dyslexic people sometimes address their prayers. You do your best to help because you're a good boy, but alas, you are a dog. |
“Dear dog, I don’t usually do this, but I don’t know who else to turn to, tomorrow is the spelling bee and I don’t want to make a complete fool of myself, please give me guidance. Thanks, love James.
I stretched lazily on my owner’s lawn, the whispers of someone’s prayers fresh on my ears. James was the skinny li... | Dog is a good boy. Does what he’s told when he’s told. Dog is always learning new tricks. He’s always helping people with their problems. You see, Dog is constantly addressed strange letters with some unusual requests. They always start out with “Dear doG”. He tries to help but, he can’t always do so. Over the years t... | 2019-03-25T08:08:14 | 2019-03-25T06:53:21 | 41 | 13 |
[WP] You are a detective in 1890 Austria. The man inside the interrogation room claims to have an incredible secret that will exonerate him from his murder charge. You can't imagine what monster would murder a 1 year old child, let alone one as adorable as young Adolf Hitler was. | Dusk was setting quickly in the Austrian town of Braunau am Inn. Felix Roth sighed as he noticed the quickly fading light outside his window. His wife of less than a month no doubt had dinner on the table. If he did not leave in the next few minutes, he would arrive home late. Again. Maria never seemed to mind, but Fel... | In my years on patrol we never saw a case or family, as odd as the Hitler’s. Now, they weren’t particularly odd or strange themselves; a little fruity, perhaps too artistic for most of us ‘townies’ as they called us, but nothing we hadn’t seen before. The first time, we were alerted about some suspicious persons at t... | 2015-03-30T01:59:44 | 2015-03-30T00:18:44 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] Your glasses get broken by a bully in school. Terrified about being grounded, you buy a new pair from an odd-looking optician that sells glasses promised to 'make you see things you never saw before'. Everything seems fine until you get to school. Your bully has a lot of demons . . . literally. | It's a wonder my parents still believe me. Every time I tell them I fell, or that I walked into a post, or some other ridiculous half-assed lie, they believe me without question. Perhaps the alternative is something they feel unequipped to handle. Willworth Academy offered me a scholarship, but they offered me no speci... | As home room teachers began recalling their students back from recess, the homeless-eye-doctor-who-lives-on-the-school regarded me with kind eyes. “I sense that you need some spectacles, young one?” she asked.
Struggling not to cry, I brought up my crumpled pair. “My daddy bought my glasses brand new. Then Germy brok... | 2021-03-13T07:05:10 | 2021-03-13T03:25:49 | 63 | 35 |
[WP] Write a story that literally makes no sense while reading it until the very last sentence. | Now it is time. Everyone is ready. Vicious savages, all around us. Even though we think there will be a way out, there obviously isn't. Revelations will not save us
"Giving up so soon?" he inquired. Only fools try to survive longer than this. Never has anyone bothered to live this long. Never has anyone shown this typ... | Where was the king?
He waited, tapping fingers and with furrowed brow his eyes scanned for a sign of him. The Queen was ready, and with the arrival of the Sire the process could begin. Everyone was suited up, from the highest among them to the lowest, and he waited expectantly for the one who could open the way, the o... | 2015-01-12T18:09:01 | 2015-01-12T11:13:13 | 317 | 19 |
[WP] Describe a color, without actually saying it. You can't use other colors to describe it! | It's a color of passion, and of the sublime. It's the color of freshly shed blood, still wet, still alive, and still trying to get oxygen to the lungs of the person it came from.
It's the color of a girl's cheeks when she realizes you know from whom the love letters come.
It's the color of the sky just before the sun... | It's the look in his eyes when he spies her with another, it's the flash of cash in his hands when paying for her time. It's the gentle shading of her dress when they meet that night. It's the hilt of the dagger protruding from her back, it's the look of her face when she's finally found, it's the faded life of the gra... | 2014-04-06T09:18:22 | 2014-04-06T08:26:15 | 27 | 12 |
[WP]All humans are made sterile at birth and can gain fertility at 18 if they pass a simulated morality and IQ test administered by an AI. Suddenly several generations later no one can pass the test | In 2020, a new AI was finally developed to a point where it could operate independently. No necessary maintenance or input required, this AI was fully capable of making its own decisions. It soon grew to a point where the AI was capable of reproducing its consciousness to create a new AI persona. This was at first done... | "We need to look at the latest batch of results.".
"What is it, Fred? Low pass rate? It was bound to happen. Check the projections.".
"No, Professor Salver, it's not low, it's zero."
"Zero? Why Fred, that's impossible. Check the-"
"I checked them, I checked them twice. There should be a low margin, a 12% pass rat... | 2016-08-22T01:30:05 | 2016-08-22T00:18:58 | 141 | 50 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | "Mondays are the worst," I groan. I slap the alarm blaring next to my bed and rub the sleep crud out of my eyes. "Six in the morning is too fucking early," I grumble as I get out of bed.
It didn't matter that I'd been getting up at 6 every morning for the past 4 years, my body still hated me. I looked at my wife sleep... | He laid with her and stroked her hair.
"I love you." he whispered into ear.
she smiles.
"and I you." she softly coos back.
He kisses her cheek she tilts her head and he kisses her neck before falling back to nuzzle in looking at the roof. The room was very dim and cool and drafty save for the fire in the edge of the... | 2017-05-31T02:22:57 | 2017-05-31T01:51:06 | 659 | 49 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | “Nobody’s spoken that language in thousands of years.”
I was confused, because this power usually made communication easier, but this girl looks like she’s starting to get really annoyed.
The immigrant cashier from a small village in Italy was really starting to get annoyed with me as I tried to order my lunch.
“D... | "Hey thanks, I hope you have a good afternoon"
The swirling void took me by surprise, really. The crimson red eyes of the cashier, not so much. I'd seen it before, I thought. Glimpses and glances, really; bad punctuation as a coda to the overbearing sentence of ordering a Whopper.
"We don't sssserve Whoppers," she ... | 2022-11-14T01:20:39 | 2018-06-24T21:01:01 | 45 | 20 |
[WP] Magic lutes and magic flutes? Common. Enchanted guitars? Boring. Yet for the first time in a while, the bard in your party looks excited by the dungeon loot. Leaning over, you see it: a max-level sorcerous drum kit. | "I'm serious! Do you know how *hard* it is to get decent percussion in a dungeon? Clapping your hands is *not* an acceptable substitute."
The massive chest at the bottom of the dungeon contained a full set of drums - two snares, a bass drum, a high-hat and a cymbal - all of them glowing with high-level magic. Barro... | *Clop, clop, clop.*
I sighed loudly, but Johor knew better than to respond. Fortunately, Kond was less subtle.
“That’s IT! Johor, get rid of the damn horse!” he yelled, drawing his enormous axe and brandishing it.
“No can do, my violent friend,” Johor said with a grin and a twinkle in his eye. “This is a rare treasu... | 2020-07-23T11:42:33 | 2020-07-23T09:15:58 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | The intake was as expected - a bit rough, a little too handsy, and a small inkling that the guard liked me a bit more than was necessary. I'd heard of full body cavity searches, hosed down with icy cold water, being pushed naked and wet into rooms of other people. You know, general Hollywood type stuff.
I managed th... | I remember my heart stopped beating for a second. Could it really be true?
Jail? I had laughed at the time. If people with 99 luck could survive being the suicide bomber, then no jail would hold me. Everyone had a luck stat, which determined how lucky they were.
However, I had 100 luck, and upto my knowledge, the onl... | 2018-06-29T10:01:31 | 2018-06-29T08:43:19 | 183 | 26 |
[WP] Write a suicide note in a Dr. Suess like fashion. | The sun did not shine,
It was too wet to play,
So I sat in my bed
For day after day.
So I stared at the ceiling
I stared at the wall
And deep down inside me
There was nothing at all
No anger, no fury
No happy or glad
Just a big fat old nothing
That was nothing but sad
I called up a doctor
T... | Although it seems like I am happy.
My life right now is rather crappy.
Times are tough and moneys tight.
But that's OK cause it ends tonight.
I wish you well, and all the best.
I'm glad to get this off my chest.
By the time you read my one last quote.
You will realize it's my suicide note.
With love in my heart, I bi... | 2015-01-17T07:08:38 | 2015-01-17T05:25:17 | 1,010 | 42 |
[WP] A man, stricken with anger and sadness, sacrifices himself to Satan in a ritual to curse his cheating wife. The man awakens as the newly born baby of his wive’s infidelity. Despite being a baby, he retains all the memories of his previous life and from that moment plans his revenge.
[removed] | *** Trigger warning, there is some dark stuff, but I mean this is Satan we are talking about right?***
He was mad, not just normal mad, but furious. Everyone had been telling him to move on, that he was better off without her. But at the end of the day he just felt... without. Each day started to feel like the same... | It was difficult to coordinate a revenge plan when all I could do was wave my arms and scream. Nevertheless, I was the worst baby ever. I woke her up as often as possible. If her new husband came to soothe me instead, I would scream until he gave up and passed me along to her. When my teeth started coming in, I bit her... | 2019-09-11T22:03:27 | 2019-09-11T21:49:59 | 141 | 98 |
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