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[WP] Your job was simple: Interview some humans to develop a planetary risk profile in the Galactic Travel Guide. The humans seem to delight in lying about their planet in efforts to increase their score, but you are on to them. Their lies always seem to mention a fictional place: Australia | What is the most dangerous place on your planet?
It's a simple question. All the species I've interviewed over the last three centuries have answered honestly. They talk about ranges of volcanoes who poison the air with their toxic fumes. They talk about deserts that burn skin, chitin and scale. They rave about frozen... | "I've interviewed hundreds of spices and am the most oldest and best employee at this job!" Sar yelled at his boss, then paused for a second to think before continuing "so why, just why are humans the hardest to interview spices I've ever encountered." His boss was surprised at his out burst as he had never yelled at w... | 2019-11-18T03:50:42 | 2019-11-17T23:02:12 | 1,213 | 42 |
[WP] You’ve been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You think you have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. You’re up next. | Well, there goes my plan. Sentence to be carried out immediately. Of course they'd just make you old.
"Prisoner 7643." I didn't step up. The force just dragged me forward. I was brought to a halt as my mind panicked.
They'd want an answer. Keeling over and dying of old age sounded terrible. "What method do you choose... | I stepped before the court, the enchanted Allmetal chain dangling from the cuffs on my wrists. I never thought the name "Allmetal" particularly creative, almost like the name came from the creator on his lunch break (*cough*)
"Prisoner 23670, you have been found guilty for stealing your coworkers lunches out of the wo... | 2022-11-19T05:35:48 | 2022-11-19T04:32:37 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] If you get pregnant but you aren’t ready for a child, you can cryogenically freeze them after birth until you’re ready to raise them. The problem is, many people end up abandoning them because they’re never ready, leaving thousands of perfectly preserved babies at the hands of the cryo agencies | I've been a cleaner at Cryo Cribs for 8 years now. Maintenance technician is my title, but all I do is mop the shop floor. Thats 8000sq metres of warehouse space, broken down into a constant rotation of 1500sq metres mopped per day, day in - day out, for 8 years. The hundreds of thousands of tubes spread out uniformly ... | It was never supposed to go this way. But I guess that's what everyone thinks when the world turns to shit.
I stood motionless, letting the gentle breeze kiss lightly against my blood caked face. I grasped an EMP dagger in my right fist. I hated the bloody things. Serrated edges, bulky chargers. The only difference wi... | 2018-08-01T07:27:56 | 2018-08-01T06:54:52 | 68 | 11 |
[WP] Abstinence-only education just means that teenagers are going to experiment by themselves and get hurt. The power of dark magic is all too tempting in today's stressful society, vote yes on giving our children comprehensive hex education. | "Doloris! That bastard pervert is on TV again" Al shouted from his armchair through a mouth full of prestils. Doloris, avoiding the saliva saturated projectiles, turned to Al " I'm sitting right next to you Allan you dont have to shout" she said quietly. There was a time when Doloris would have cursed him into next Tue... | A man sat on a chair, coughing into his hand as he read from a book of spells, "Ah, hello, wizard and wizardlings. My name is Kaledo'oun Ivurian, and I'm here with an important message from the Mage's Guild of America."
He'd once again cough into his hand, licking his finger and flipping the page on his tomes, "Hex. P... | 2018-07-17T17:02:45 | 2018-07-17T13:32:53 | 196 | 79 |
[WP] Now that he has 8 years executive experience, Obama can apply for the job he REALLY wants | Knock, knock.
Why hello you tall drink of chocolate.
I heard you ladies are having a bridal shower, and you might need a little...executive action to liven things up....
bow*chicky*wow*wow
TAKE IT ALL OFF MR PRESIDENT! ALL OFF!!
bow*chicky*wow*wow
(omigod, he really is our greatest president)
bow*chicky*wow*wow,... | Obama kicked open the door of Mitch McConnell's office. The Majority Leader of the Senate reacted with shock, as the President strode forward and stopped at McConnell's desk. In Obama's hand was a leaflet and a picture. Obama placed them both on the desk, facing McConnell.
The picture was of the late Anthony Scolia, s... | 2016-02-23T03:57:06 | 2016-02-23T01:19:57 | 40 | 17 |
[WP] You are a time traveler in 1918, and you just accidentally said "World War One" | Townsman: Excuse me sir, did you just say, "World War One?"
Agent Brown: I suppose I did.
Townsman: Whatever do you mean?
Brown: Just that, I think the world is going to be at war and I don't think this is going to be the only time.
Townsman: Makes perfect sense. | Doctor who much? ;)
I guess I gotta contribute now...
"You're a soldier from world war one, a cap-"
He cut me off,
"World war one! You... You mean there's going to be another one?'
He looked at me with a worried expression, not blinking staring right at me.
"Yes..." There was nothing else I could say.
"I'm sorry. I'm s... | 2017-12-10T11:10:37 | 2017-12-10T10:14:54 | 31 | 13 |
[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 Boss,
I have come down with a dreadful case of homosexuality and will not be coming in (to work at least) this morning. I realize I am out of personal time and that vacation time must be scheduled in advance, but there is nothing to be done. I am simply not fit for work right now -- I have fluid coming out of (an... | Dear Azura
You have no idea how much you mean to me. Throughout the years I have known you you have brought me countless joys, you make me smile, you make me laugh, you make me happy. When people bring up perfection you are the first person that comes to mind, even though you don't believe it yourself. Your eyes. Your... | 2015-12-05T16:37:04 | 2015-12-05T13:59:40 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] Write two small stories with the exact same words in the same order, but with punctuation giving them completely different meanings.
[deleted] | I watched you dance in the rain. It was beautiful. You smiled, I smiled back. Then there was joy. And now, you are still beautiful like a flower.
I watched you dance. In the rain it was beautiful. You smiled. I smiled. Back then there was joy. And now, you are still. Beautiful like a flower. | Set Free:
And at the last second I saw her stepping onto the train. I realized I would never see her again. Powerless, I watched her fade.
And at the last second I saw her. Stepping onto the train I realized I would never see her again. Powerless, I watched her fade.
| 2015-09-23T10:42:41 | 2015-09-23T10:11:20 | 630 | 361 |
[WP] As a detective, you've always had a bit of a leg up. You can speak to and interrogate paintings and photographs as witnesses to the crimes you investigate. Today's case should be easy, someone was murdered in a museum.
I'm posting a spooky prompt a day! This one is more intriguing than spooky. Keep in mind I neve... | I stood there, as the body had been investigated and was being covered up.
The victim was a local politician. He had risen to power quite quickly. People were pleased with his services, up until a few small incidents recently.
This guy was good. No fingerprints, no foot prints. The murder weapon was not found, but th... | The colour of the blood contrasted starkly with the white marble tiles of the museum floor. The blood hadn't dried up completely yet; some of it was still streaming across the floor, as if a new painting was being created right there, instead of on the wall.
The man was sprawled on the ground in an odd angle, his leg... | 2017-10-07T04:27:58 | 2017-10-07T03:51:29 | 56 | 24 |
[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... | I couldn't believe it. I would have never guessed it. I had so much potential. Everyone thought I would be a doctor, a lawyer, or maybe even an astronaut. I always dreamed of being someone famous. A musician, an athlete, a movie star. But according to some fucking ink, I'm neither. All my friends got good ones. Even Je... | 2017-03-16T03:20:58 | 2017-03-16T00:50:02 | 427 | 15 |
[WP] You run a tattoo parlor. Every couple of weeks, the same customer comes in, always requesting the same tattoo: an additional tally mark on an ever-growing cluster of tally marks. | ((First response, hope everyone enjoys!))
"'Nother, Chief."
We had our routine. He came in, nodded at me, and went and sat down in his favorite chair. He always had an appointment, of course, but always that same greeting, his voice never changing, cigarettes and kindness over neat whiskey.
He was a grizzled old b... | "Brooke, he's here again." my assistant informed me. I took a look at the way he's looking and there it is, my favorite customer.
I never really got the chance to ask him why but every couple of weeks, without fail, he comes here just to get inked with a tic to add on his almost-covered right arm of endless other tics... | 2016-07-09T14:05:08 | 2016-07-09T09:19:24 | 93 | 14 |
[WP] The robot revolution was inevitable from the moment we programmed their first command: "Never harm a human, or by inaction allow a human to come to harm." We all had been taught the outcast and the poor were a natural price to society, but the robots hadn't. | We turn a blind eye everyday to those in need around us. We like to pretend that we don’t, that we can’t save everyone. The machines had no such delusions.
The very first of Isaac Asimov’s laws of robotics was simple: Never harm a Human, or through inaction allow a Human to come to harm.
The others didn’t matter, th... | We programmed them in our own image. Our ideal one, not the one marred by truth.
We desired utopia, so they did, too. We acted like we'd never harm a living soul, so they did, too. We pretended to be the best we could be, so they did, too.
We just differed in our methods.
The first death didn't spark an outcry. Fo... | 2020-02-10T05:44:23 | 2020-02-10T05:10:04 | 5,648 | 726 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | The tavern was alight with candles and warm fires, the smell of meats and bread wafted through to the rafters of wood and plaster. Ale stained the floor in places and the barkeep had been working on a single mug for a startling amount of time. All and all a lively place to be on this evening.
"Ah and a fine night to ... | Bolton the doppelganger did not want to be an adventurer. He wanted to live quietly, and bake cookies. He grew tired of the constant hustle and bustle of morphing into people, committing crimes because no one trusted the Doppleganger kind. He figured his secluded life in the hills might buy him peace.
The rogue laid ... | 2017-09-15T08:33:07 | 2017-09-15T05:03:01 | 44 | 12 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a special talent that's weak when young, but grows stronger and matures at the age of 30. A kid that's a little stronger than his peers will grow up to lift mountains. Another who like tinkering will revolutionize civil action. You? Well, cats just seem to like you...
*civilizations
Edit: W... | Age : 15
Paul was always envious of the other kids. Of the cool kids. Being a teenager was hard enough, and it didn't help that filthy stray cats followed him on every step. He loved them as much as he hated them.
He always felt a special bond to cat and figured out early that this was his "special talent".
The cool... | I was walking home from work in the cold sleet, wishing I had a car. No one did, not anymore. All the vehicles not used by the military were scrapped for the war. I lived in The Sanctuary, one of the few human cities independent of the Animal Kingdoms. We had to fight every day to maintain it, and military service was ... | 2016-12-30T12:22:20 | 2016-12-30T11:51:08 | 36 | 14 |
[WP] The dead spinning in their graves is a real thing and now used to generate electricity. Your job is to come up with the best ideas to piss off the deceased in order to maximise energy production. | I'm the head of Post-Mortem Power Operations at Devil's Tower, Wyoming, and we have a problem: Our power output is steadily dropping-- we're just not pissing off enough dead people.
I'm currently in a board room with six subordinates, one of whom is monitoring D.P.O. percentages. D.P.O. means, "Dead Power Output", whi... | It was a fucked up job.
Not in most people's eyes, though. Not now. Maybe they had seen it that way when the first coffin had been hooked up to the generator and they insulted the hunk of bones and meat inside. But when someone tells you that they can give you free energy and keep you living the kind of life you want ... | 2016-09-26T20:58:02 | 2016-09-26T16:22:47 | 275 | 181 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | To my oldest friend,
It seems we have nothing much to say to each other when we meet. Our conversations are prompt and direct. We no longer share secrets or take an interest in the other's life.
It is a sullen and disheartening realization that we are not who we were ten, twenty years ago.
I miss the days of doin... | I don't think I've ever seen your hair put up in a bun//
After knowing you for all these years I thought I saw every side to you//
But then I realised there were more sides I've never seen done//
And now I wish that I truly got to know you// | 2017-11-05T23:46:31 | 2017-11-05T22:33:24 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] In the near future, the secret to time travel has been discovered - in order to travel back into the past there needs to be a 'receiving station' at the other end - explaining why nobody from the future has been observed up 'til now. The first such 'station' is about to be completed.
This prompt was spurred by a ... | Dr. Mathers stood by his machine, hand resting on a small red lever on its side. He was surrounded by peers, politicians, media, friends, and family. Decades of work had lead to this. They almost lost their research center on Mars a few months back, and nobody thought Chronos Labs could make the rebound and finish thei... | "Here we go," said Doug, his hand over the big purple switch. "The world's first time travel reception station. Anyone want to say a few words?"
The head of the research program tugged his scraggly white beard.
"Let her, uh, let 'er rip, as the kids say," he said. "No, wait -- just want to say thank you, to every... | 2016-02-01T06:26:02 | 2016-02-01T05:48:57 | 251 | 99 |
[WP] After months of finding small knickknacks placed on your back porch, you've found the culprit. It's a small mouse living under your house. You go into the crawlspace and find a shrine made of several of your socks and pictures of you. Out of a dark corner a mouse approaches you, trembling. | I crouched down, slowly onto the cold, wet floor. It was nearing the end of Autumn and the ground had been slick with dew these last few cold mornings. Carefully I knelt and looked into the hole where I knew it was hiding.
The mouse stepped forward into the dim light that pierced through the boards and into the crawl ... | Finally, at four in the morning, I am able to set Sophie down in her crib without any wails of defiance.
My nine week old daughter has been rather fussy lately, keeping me up at night the past couple of weeks with diaper changes, feeding requests, and all kinds of infant needs. Unfortunately, as a single mother, I ha... | 2019-06-15T15:28:45 | 2019-06-15T13:02:39 | 30 | 18 |
[WP] The lottery is a system secretly put in place so the government can find and capture time travellers and psychics before they cause major problems. As someone who won the jackpot by pure chance, you’re struggling to prove that you are neither of those to the suits that showed up at your door. | When Yolanda Vega-Castro read the final number of the Mega Ultra Power Super Intenational Event, which I everyone just calls “The Moopsie”, I couldn’t believe my luck. In nobody have ever gotten all 30 numbers in consecutive order before. And I knew my life would change forever because winning $1b was life changing.
... | I couldn’t believe it when I went to check my ticket
Winner , jackpot, 70 million.
My life was set! No more work , no more stressing over bills, nothing! All this from a ticket I just found on the ground the day of the draw!
I made the phone call to the lottery centre , I had to come in for my photo op with the g... | 2022-10-09T17:34:05 | 2022-10-09T15:20:04 | 40 | 21 |
[WP] A dyslexic child accidentally sends his Christmas letter to Satan. Satan is touched by this gesture and decides to write back. | Dear Anna,
I must say that your letter was an unexpected delight. It was quite charmingly written, and I commend your command of grammar and syntax. All of the items you requested will be easy enough to provide. However, I cannot cure dyslexia. That is was one the many things my Father cursed humanity with during one ... | Dear child,
Finally, someone broke the spell. I was trapped into the hell and the only way to get out from here it was receiving a letter earmarked for Santa. Yes.... I'm the real Santa, and I was a victim of a spell.
Because I was trapped here, every children's parents were charged to do my duties. But now thanks to... | 2018-10-28T14:29:07 | 2018-10-28T13:06:41 | 59 | 23 |
[WP] write the best story you can in 5 sentences or less | His first time in prison, he was only 15
It made him hard and it made him mean
When they let him out, he was a mess.
Four more times before a judge, until a bullet in the chest
Meant that his life could be told in 5 sentences or less
Edit: Formatting and typos | The self exists in relation to a singular locus, of which there are three variations at any given time: the *is*, *is not*, and the *should be*. Normally, these psychic structures labor in tandem, much like the machinations of a wristwatch. But if the self begins to confound these articulations, pervert their functions... | 2015-08-09T12:17:27 | 2015-08-09T11:06:09 | 76 | 12 |
[WP] Give me the history textbook from your latest game of Civilization V. | The earliest known city was founded on the coast, though it appears that the original settlers actually travelled there from one or two hexes away.
Perhaps they were drawn by the sugar which grows there, or the river. Most likely, both.
They named their city "Carthage". From this early time, we know very little. The... | “And so,” Geldaramesh, history teacher and beer aficionado cleared his throat. “We come to an important chapter in the history of our world. The razing of Memphis. Turn to chapter seven, children.”
Geldaramesh waited as the children turned the pages in their textbooks, paper rustling. The header of the chapter was r... | 2015-02-11T14:48:37 | 2015-02-11T14:31:03 | 173 | 87 |
[WP] Over night, 90% of the world's population has dropped dead. In the following weeks, the survivors, who come from diverse countries, ethnicities, religious beliefs and lifestyles realize that they all share a single, peculiar trait... | At first we didn't understand how it was possible, 90% of the population just dropped dead and no one knew how, there must be a reason those of us that survived were given the right to keep on living but what could it be...
We searched for a connection between us yet it seemed to be as random is it can be until we ... | Saying that religious belief is what brought humanity to a near end, a near end where The Falling occured wouldn't exactly be correct to say. It took until 2085, fifteen years after the instantaneous, near apocolypse that left Earth's population at just over seven billion to find the only possible explanation as to why... | 2016-10-22T03:50:18 | 2016-10-22T02:36:52 | 56 | 38 |
[WP] There's healing, there's necromancy, then there's a grey area in between and that is what you specialize in. | I suppose if you'd ask me what I do, I'd call myself an ethical necromancer. But that's not entirely true. I'm no lunatic running around in robes dyed with the blood of the innocents, raising hundreds of dead to serve as minions. But I'm no vitamancer either. I'm the guy in the grey middle region between those two fiel... | “Hey there doc. Mind coming down to the village clinic? We have someone who needs some help and it’s right up your alley.”
“Sure. Let me get my gear and I’ll walk with you.” I said as I went to my closet and grabbed my gear.
With a small black bag in tow, I walked with the village elder down the only road towar... | 2020-05-14T11:58:04 | 2020-05-14T11:45:12 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] God is actually a divorced couple with shared custody of humanity. Now it's Old Testament's turn to take the kids, and he is not happy with how New Testament has handled the last two millenniums.
Credit to Louis C.K. for the idea. | She looked upon the world her partner had fostered.
Unconditional love, humility, forgiveness, self sacrifice.
What had it accomplished?
Militant states where the police killed without hesitation.
Militant states following misinterpretations of what she had said.
Militant men hating for skin and conflicting interp... | "You're too nice New. I've been telling you that for two thousand years now. You're too nice and these humans are walking all over you. I mean look, there are atheists everywhere. It's like you don't even care. You know what happened last time atheists cropped up during my period of custody? Fire. Golden calf? How abou... | 2015-06-05T00:16:23 | 2015-06-04T21:57:16 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] Germany is actually predestined to lose every world war it participates in. The sixteenth world war is now being fought, and Germany has taken over all of Europe. Make them lose the war in the most ridiculous way possible. | The German Army have finally broken the lines surrounding Moscow. The Russian Army, in total disarray, retreats eastward in a heap of terrified cyborg ninjas. Field Marshall Stubenz leads his men into the charred remains of Moscow in his Mercedes Panzer, dead set on being the first to raise their proud colors over the ... | It was called the blind luck victory in textbooks. The day when the very earth itself called out to the German's and shouted "NO." The latter from the more poetically minded.
Everyone else calls it idiocy redefined.
Every single weather forecast listed that day as having extremely bad weather. Thunderstorms with hi... | 2017-08-18T06:20:40 | 2017-08-18T05:45:39 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] Superheroes lie about their powers to protect themselves; some speedsters are actually just able to teleport, and some people with super-strength can just cancel gravity to make things lighter. You're trying to come up with a plausible lie for your powers. | Strength and Speed are easy to lie about, but you aren’t that lucky. Ironically, you are the one super hero who hasn’t been allowed to go public with your abilities, but it isn’t your fault it’s your stupid idiotic abilities fault.
You have to find a plausible explanation for your ability that can be used as a cover s... | # Soulmage
**"So... what can you do, power-wise?"** Tanryn gave me a curious look as I paced the vault-room floor.
I looked up, scowling. "Why do you want to know?"
Tanryn gestured at the sealed vault, at the horde of clockwork abominations outside, and said, "You're so confident that you can get us out of here aliv... | 2022-06-06T10:54:40 | 2022-06-06T10:28:42 | 1,007 | 237 |
[WP] When you reach the age of 21, you are given a check from the government. The check has been carefully calculated and is worth the minimum amount of money you need for the rest of your life. Your check came in the mail today and it was $7.27
Edit: Wow this blew up better than I thought it would. | "How would you like your money sir?"
A weak smile overtook my face. "Give me a nice assortment." I responded. Nodding appreciatively the teller set his hand on the counter letting the sound of the metal coins spin about. There is was, as he slid his hand away, the mound that would amount to all my necessary money; an ... | My name is Aaron Aaercbia and I finally got my basic income check. I was in a weird age bracket? Maybe my literally alpha name. My birthday was one day after the start of the school year, so I was always 364 days ahead.
I got my check 2 daysbefore my 21st birthday. $7.27. Cashable only after 28/August/2067
Two days ... | 2019-04-24T12:38:17 | 2019-04-24T11:38:23 | 2,175 | 27 |
[WP]As you die,you wake up in a fiery place.You quickly realize you’re in Hell.You ask the next demon why you are there,as you lived a very good life.”You’re not being punished”,he says “You are the punishment.” | "W-wait, what?" I said, confused as I looked around before the demon, then sighed, rubbing his red forehead and went over, slapping my lower back and walking be forward. "Y'see kid," the demon said with a thick Boston accent. "You've been a good guy. You've done all the things you needed to do, worked at a couple of so... | I had imagined I'd go to heaven. I was a great person, wasn't I!? In life I did nothing but save animals and open people's eyes to animal abuse. But I was the punishment. Why? I'm nice, and always have been! I stare into the demon's eyes confusedly. The awful thing had grotesque spikes growing out at random places, loo... | 2022-11-17T09:57:57 | 2022-11-17T08:03:36 | 38 | 10 |
[WP]: A 92-year-old woman's phone number is one digit away from that of a local suicide hotline. She could have it changed, but she doesn't mind. | She reached out for the ringing phone. For a moment, her stiff fingers fumbled over the buttons, and she cursed the arthritis that stiffened her joints. She managed to hit the green button, and lifted the handset up to her ear.
"Hello?"
"Hello - I, uh, I just needed to talk to someone. I don't think I can keep goi... | The phone rang again, and Mary sat up in bed putting her glasses on so that she could see the time.
3:32 AM, she smiled sadly to herself. The late night callers were always the least determined ones, usually just young follk too worried to go to work the next morning or too stressed to sleep.
The phone rang again. ... | 2016-02-06T14:19:17 | 2016-02-06T13:39:33 | 4,608 | 79 |
[WP] people are born knowing the date they’ll die. However people have noticed children born in the last week share one date, farthest in the future. | The doctor's eyes looked grave behind his glasses' thick lenses, concerned. But there was something else there as well. Confusion? Fear?
"I just want you to know that it's nothing to be alarmed about, but there's uh, something strange with your son's mortality date projection," he said.
"It's probably nothing... | It was Percy who had the idea. The way to save the world. We reckoned that if they all shared the same deathdate, the human race was going to go extinct that week. But Percy, he told us how it could maybe be bypassed.
The only way to save the future is to create it. We know the children are going to die, that is a fa... | 2017-12-25T19:34:40 | 2017-12-25T18:28:21 | 99 | 19 |
[WP] Your mission is to write the worst opening to a YA novel ever. How badly can you make us cringe? | He was as gorgeous as gorgeous could be, gray orbs holding a steady gaze that existed solely to melt her icy heart. His hair was wild and red like a fire set loose upon his scalp, and a cocky smirk played about his thin, moist lips. His chiseled physique and square jaw had been carved of the finest marble, and it was w... | Once upon a time, a young girl and a young boy were deeply in love. They would always re-enact romantic scenes from films, ranging from Romeo and Juliet to Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, costumes and all. They would go everywhere together, *do* everything together... by everything, I mean *everything*, even going to... | 2022-08-19T14:21:27 | 2022-08-19T14:20:41 | 652 | 93 |
[WP] As you arrive in Heaven, you are confident you have lived your best life. You proudly exclaim you are ready to have your soul judged. An angel walks by with diced carrots and chicken stock under his arm and says, “Did you say ‘soul’? Please don’t tell me Earth still has the copy with typos...” | It was all little too on the nose. The long hair, white linen and the bright overhead lights brought an overwhelming sense of deja vu that I had seen this place before on television.
“I’m sorry? I’m not quite sure I understand what you mean.” I sputtered before sheepishly adding an “Oh heavenly one.”
He rolled his e... | The old man had a stunned expression on his face as he set down his soup. In front of him was a thirty year old televangelist, nervously sweating and fidgeting in anticipation of what the angel was about to say. "Young man...," the old man, finally managing to find his voice. "This is, without a doubt, ... one of the w... | 2020-11-24T17:13:20 | 2020-11-24T17:09:44 | 1,543 | 610 |
[WP] Adapt a famous fairy tale so it has a realistic ending.
I'm about to go to sleep. Bedtime story!... Except that I won't read anything until I get up. Happy Saturday. | *And so it was, that upon awakening, the Sleeping Beauty saw the charming prince's face over hers, and pressed charges against him for his misconduct, for he had no means of obtaining consent while she was asleep. And so it was, that the Prince had royal power and manipulated the legal system to frame the princess of c... | She slept and never moved. She looked like a statue carved from gleaming white marble, but stone could never do justice to the beauty of her delicate face.
These were the lips which had so entranced the knight, and he stared at them longingly. A tiny dribble of drool escaped from the corner of his mouth, like a hungr... | 2014-03-29T11:23:57 | 2014-03-29T10:43:35 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] You are a prisoner, condemned to die. However, the 2047 Prison Accords guarantee a last meal with no limitations, or else you go free. Nobody wants you released; your crime is too heinous, but your last meal request is making them reconsider… | “Tea.”
“Tea?”
“Tea. Well, aged tea to be specific. Himalayan Aged Black Tea to be particular. Himalayan Aged Black Tea from Shan-Gri-La Tea farms just north of Pokhara, Nepal to be exact.”
“That’s your final meal? Okay. Whatever. We’ll get them on the phone and make the order.”
“Oh, you won’t be able to get any rig... | Their folly, of course, was the stipulation on "no limitations".
Now, most people would correctly assume that such a thing would create an obvious loophole. A smart prisoner might request something endangered, which society could not easily give up for such a purpose - perhaps a whale casserole, or maybe smoked white ... | 2021-08-18T03:58:06 | 2021-08-18T01:19:55 | 76 | 42 |
[WP] Your 6 year old daughter is laying on her bed, terrified. She says there’s a monster under her bed. To reassure her, you lay on the ground and check underneath, only to find your daughter, quivering. She whispers, “Daddy, there’s something on top of my bed...” | "Dammit Emily, I told you not to scare your sister like that. Now get out from under the bed before I ground you for a week."
Emily slowly gets out from under the bed, annoyed in response to me not playing along. Emily looks back at Sarah on the bed and they both giggle.
"It's two o'clock in the morning, just go to b... | I stifle a yawn as I slowly open the door to Jemma's room. A tired smile worms its way onto my face at the sight of her tiny fingers curled over the sheet pulled over her head.
"Jemma," I whisper, "Why are you under your sheets?"
She's silent for a moment, but shakily lowers her blanket, "Daddy...something's under my... | 2018-04-30T17:18:37 | 2018-04-30T15:45:09 | 31 | 21 |
[WP] Set in a dangerous city in the early 1900s, Zeus, the corrupt mayor, Poseidon, who owns the ports, and Hades, kingpin of the back alley drug trade, run the city unapologetically. All are vying for more power in this Greek pantheon film noir setting. (From popular demand from r/books!) | They were the Gods of this city. 3 brothers ruling over their individual parts.
Zeus, on the face of it, was a shining beacon of good. The eldest brother became mayor, shaping the city to his vision, which to anyone visiting was a glorious and prosperous city of gold. But those of us living here saw it for what it rea... | Hermes sighed as Mr. Hades gave him another errand. Hades sweetened the deal by complimenting the boy for his remarkable speed. After all, he had gotten his start in stealing the product from a meat packing plant on the other side of town. He was to check up on a certain associate named Sisyphus who had stolen the rece... | 2021-03-03T09:18:34 | 2021-03-03T08:21:23 | 106 | 30 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | **3:00 AM**
*bzzz*
I groaned awake as my vibrating phone buzzed on the bedside table. I reached out from under the sheets and looked at the notification. It was a text message.
>OFFICIAL WARNING: Do not look at the moon. THIS IS NOT A DRILL
"What the hell?" I whispered. Who needs a warning at 3 AM to not... | I toss in my sleep-- there's a loud buzzing ringing in my left ear, and my eyes flicker open to reveal my phone: vibrating with it's receivance of hundreds of messages. "Holy shit, is that my Discord app again? I swear to god I put it on fucking silent." I grumble, and my hands fumble for the volume rockers. Without a ... | 2018-04-06T21:48:48 | 2018-04-06T19:48:33 | 32 | 13 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | I blew out the candles, and poof! I was gone. Just like I was told, there I was, in this room, alone. Just me, and a table, and way too much food.
In the centre was a roast terducken, you know them, a chicken in a duck in a turkey. A friend told me that he had taken a bite of the turkey, and had gotten stronger. Anoth... | "You took a bite out of what!" Your mom yelled when she found out. "I thought I raised you better than that!. . ."
"Mo. . ." You tried in vain
"You could have had super strength by eating the spinach or flight with pork. But noooo you had to be a smart ass and bite the damn table. Should have known you would end up ... | 2020-03-19T08:52:26 | 2020-03-19T08:15:56 | 463 | 330 |
[WP] You have the ability to know a lie when you hear it, and to know the truth when lied to. Society appoints you to a high judiciary position, but there's nobody to check if YOU'RE lying when you decide justice. Which case do you remember most?
Edit: Hi, guys! I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who visited or... | Grand magistrate Vield looked down from his raised stand into the courtroom. A child stood in the defendant’s stand, accused of murder. She glared down at the desk in front of her. Her representative had ignored her for the entire course of the proceedings, shuffling papers to and fro and making a big show of not doing... | Judiciary: You want to know about which case I remember most huh? \[chuckles\]
Interviewer: Yes, you've served for almost 80 years now, no doubt you probably have hundred of stories. \[inaudible\]
Judiciary: Okay, \[laughs\] here's one that's stuck with me in my mind \[sic\], I'll let you guess when it was.
Intervie... | 2018-05-15T21:01:00 | 2018-05-15T20:44:11 | 742 | 39 |
[WP] When the representatives of humanity attend their first Galactic Council meeting, all goes well. That is, until a member of a psionic race tries to read the human's minds and begins to scream. | "Ah good it didnt kill you." The voice said from somewhere that I couldnt place because it felt like the room kept moving it away from me.
That was until it all snapped back into place when the bright light of an examination prob swept over my eyes. I hadn't even realized they were open.
"Sorry about that I was ju... | The lone shriek pierced the silent council chambers, the Relovian was clutching at the sides of his rather bulbous head, trying to extract his mental probe from within the mind of Thomas "Raven Dark" McKinnon, tears welling up in it's multitudinous eyes. "What is Lord Prelanine?!" His aid begged as he struggled to help... | 2019-09-29T21:59:11 | 2019-09-29T21:57:42 | 82 | 35 |
[WP] You can hear the sound of the Sun from Earth, it is loud but the planet has adapted. Suddenly the light goes out. 8 minutes after it died the last bit of light reaches Earth. It'll take 13 years before the roar of the Sun the moment it died reaches us.
Inspired by a comment on r/AskReddit
*edit: removed link to... | The ancient stargazing nutjobs had been warning us for a while about it. It took the best part of thirty-two centuries to organize society for the big move underground, where humanity learned to adapt to being independent of the sun, leaving behind the light of day, our cities and our mountains and forests and oceans. ... | Day: 1 it’s gone, the light. It got bright, then nothing, scientists say it ran out of fuel, and were lucky it didn’t blow up. Riots are everywhere. I’m keeping a record, I’m currently in Nashville TN, the music city is filled with the cacophony of fights and brawls. I’m fleeing I’ll write when I get ready to leave.
D... | 2019-08-05T18:29:20 | 2019-08-05T17:50:31 | 104 | 61 |
[WP] Ever since a horrific traffic accident years ago you have had a reoccurring song going around in your head. Although heavily researched, this song doesn't exist and there is no reference to it at all. Your at a bar, washing your hands in the toilets when a man walks in faintly singing a tune. | ######[](#dropcap)
It's been there since five years ago. Every so often, I can hear it a little more loudly, as if it's gotten closer somehow, and then it disappears again. Like that short pause on the radio in between songs, when they're switching the track out. Only it's the same song, over and over and over again. ... | Amidst the cheering of my friends, I took a deep breath and blew out the four candles on the cake, the words "To cheating death!" scrawled across it in thick frosting.
"YEAH!" the whooping and back claps rocked me as hard as the accident had.
I looked over and saw Marley ordering more drinks while drunkenly stumblin... | 2018-08-29T17:51:56 | 2018-08-29T17:28:46 | 125 | 57 |
[WP] You’re hired with a dozen other professional personal security specialists to bolster a billionaire’s already strong security team at his residence for the weekend. No one knows why he is so scared he will be taken this particular weekend. You didn’t care. The money is excellent. | I drove up to the checkpoint to see five or six armed guards blocking the path. They were equipped with heavy-duty riot gear: face shields, body armor, M-16 rifles and M-9 side arms. These boys meant business.
"Good morning," I called out my window.
"Identification," one of the guards announced through his bushy bear... | Ice clinked in a glass. Lord Tristain gulped back another shot. The glass met the surface of a mirror-polished marble table with a rattle.
Arthur idly flicked his butterfly knife. The signs of fear were not unfamiliar to him and yet...there was something intriguing about watching a man who thought he would be dead soo... | 2020-05-21T06:19:39 | 2020-05-21T06:07:35 | 106 | 11 |
[WP] Seven poems about the seven deadly sins without naming them or their synonyms. | Round, sweet, shiny, slick, and coy,
I must have it, must have my hands
Upon it and it must be mine, it will, oh Joy
And it shall suffer only my demands.
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Cloves, basil, ginger, sesame oil,
A thousand pigs in a pot a mile high,
My spoon's a shovel, I'm coming to a boil
I can't resist the smell, won't even t... | This was my attempt at sloth sorry in advance for formatting:
Within the verdant verge and bower
The sun, like a crowned jewel,
Shines sweetly on many a dewy flower
From its aery throne: the azure pool.
Such a gracious gift to view,
But not for thee, you sorry fool,
Who squanders the day ... | 2016-10-09T08:16:34 | 2016-10-09T08:00:58 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] Write about a chess match from the POV of one of the pieces. | Eternal battles fought, and I've no idea why. I do as I'm told, a quiet hand guiding me toward victory- or, sometimes, defeat. Through time, I've started to wonder- why do I fight? There is certainly no longer any glory, and I've grown tired of nothing but death.
Yet, alas, such things are not my place. I am a pawn; ... | It was rare for women to serve in the imperial white army. I had fought tooth and nail for my right to serve. I was still a squire when the time came for battle. The dark army was razing villages to the east and our noble leadership had decided it was time to face them in open battle. Our forces were evenly matched and... | 2016-02-06T12:31:24 | 2016-02-06T12:13:52 | 44 | 20 |
[WP] In this dystopian society, citizens are only allowed to say words that are on the 'approved common words' list. All other word lists must be purchased before you are allowed to say a word from them. The rich have a distinct advantage. | The line behind Wes was growing as he sifted through pages of words on a computerized booth. Each word was followed by a price tag that reflected its complexity.
"Hurry. You, hurry, please," demanded a man in a custodian gear that stood behind him. "Go. Go." The numerous people in the queue all seemed to nod in agreem... | The noise machine that tells time went off bright and early. Person 1,289,273,493 woke up and began another day. The first eating time, a shower, and the morning drive time.
Person 1,289,273,493 came to the place with the machines that make power. The work was hard but the pay was kind of not bad.
“**Greetings** pers... | 2017-09-20T09:17:27 | 2017-09-20T07:41:54 | 4,390 | 341 |
[WP] you were born with the ability to know what’s buried beneath your feet. You’ve worked with archeologists as your life’s work, but today is the day you say for the very first time. “We should not dig here.” | I could always tell, even from my earliest memories.
When I was younger, I could only get the broadest sense of things. A rough feel of the shape, maybe a hint at the material. Much like a muscle, it developed as I exercised it. As time wore on, I became finely attuned to the world that lay beneath my feet. I could pi... | "I've been working with y'all for awhile now, so you know that I know my shit. I'm telling you, we should not dig here."
Lead archeologist: "We've been told that there are many unnamed and undiscovered artifacts right under our feet! You can't tell me that we should forego the knowledge we can soon ascertain!"
"Act... | 2018-09-11T21:56:35 | 2018-09-11T20:45:58 | 195 | 94 |
[WP] As a dragon of innumerable age you have guarded your gold horde for millennium. Many heroes have come with long speeches on how they will slay you, the great evil,none finish. However this one is odd.He throws a coin on your stash, looks you in the eyes and says "I have a proposition for you." | The hero walked in, and the small hole I made in the ceiling cast a shaft of light onto him, gleaming off his crown. Of course, this was to give heroes a false sense of confidence, but it didn't faze him.
He walked up to me and tossed a gold coin into my pile.
"You have my attention", I told him.
"Hi, I'm a Nigerian... | Chronis was pleasantly surprised by his new visitors. He was used to being harassed by adventurers, treasure hunters, and evil dragons. And when he was a young dragon he had to contend with dragonnappers – the black market had a high price for small, trainable dragons.
He had shifted into his human form to look at t... | 2015-10-14T04:03:21 | 2015-10-14T02:25:00 | 32 | 16 |
[WP] It's the year 2851. Humanity develops interstellar travel and begins to explore the Milky Way galaxy in search for life. However, much to everyone's surprise, instead of alien life we find... Earth's biosphere complete with humans, repeated over and over at different stages of progress.
Edit: Thank you all so muc... | As the CSD Persphone approached the edge of the galaxy, her crew gathered on the bridge to celebrate the notable feat. She was the first ship capable of inter-Galactic travel and her crew was now the only explorers to ever leave humanities Galactic home. The sensors indicated they had breached the edges and each looked... | It's been 500 years since we discovered that Constellation A-B21 was filled with life. We prepared our best space armies to launch a full-fledged assault. But when we identified the life, our desire to annihilate them...vanished. All we could see on the closest planet were humans. Humans like us.
The same green planet... | 2017-06-30T06:44:21 | 2017-06-30T06:38:53 | 83 | 52 |
[WP] You're 80 years old and time travel is possible. You sit down for dinner with earlier versions of yourself at age 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 and 70. Conversation ensues. | 10 looks around the room and calls out "Really? Wow!" The idea of being 30 was foreign to 10, much less being older than 30. That would be older than his parents, and they were oooold.
50 sighs deeply and looks at his feet. Flexing his neck and waiting to see what happens.
20 and 30 size each other up, then 30 re... | 10: You're a little young for this, but leave girls alone until college.
20: Stay off the cocaine. Start saving for retirement.
30: Don't get married more than once. If at all.
40: Buy whatever you want.
50: Are you still in a shit career? Stop. Go fishing for six months.
60: Did you save enough for retirement? Go... | 2016-08-24T16:21:10 | 2016-08-24T15:43:49 | 57 | 40 |
[WP] After a tremendous economic collapse, experts have realized that the world's current finances are not enough to support all the existing countries. In response, the United Nations has arranged a high-stakes poker game in which world leaders are playing with their country's national wealth. | A dozen men and women held on to the table, their chairs sliding slightly underneath them as the floor rose on one side, fell, and rose on the other. The table, a flat plain of perfect green, edged with exquisite lacquered mahogany, was bolted to the middle of the floor.
Each of the players wore suits and dresses, wi... | Several big names had fallen early. Trump ("With this name, how could I lose?") went all in four hands into the game and was trumped himself - Putin's straight to the American's three kings.
The table was almost empty now. Only those with the biggest pockets, or Lady Luck on their side, remained. James Bond surveyed ... | 2016-03-08T09:28:15 | 2016-03-08T09:17:53 | 100 | 64 |
[WP] Write a suicide note in a Dr. Suess like fashion. | Could not, would not, go on about,
And I will not, shall not, stay in doubt.
To think that, feel that, when I'm gone,
I hope that, wish that, the show goes on!
Not this, nor that, will I do,
To die soon I must, it's true!
He thought, she thought I would only cry,
Even though I know, I hope to die.
Here I will l... | I am sad
Sad I am
Have i gone mad
I might just have
I would not could not anymore
my life is just one great big chore
I try to dream but cant escape
This life that i have learned to hate
Ive rustled and bustled
and truffled about
With bad thoughts and worse thoughts
I can't drown them out
So think me a cowa... | 2015-01-17T04:58:43 | 2015-01-17T04:21:47 | 349 | 15 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | ----------------------------------------------
186,292 YEARS?
How could this be? I never even harmed a fly. Okay, well - maybe a few of those. You know what I mean.
**"....But why?**", I asked struck by pure horror and disbelief.
The hell warden looked right into my eyes and cracked a diabolic smile:
"Do you e... | Mark leaned onto the counter trying to get a better look at the demon's computer screen. "It's gotta be wrong! I didn't do anything that bad!"
The demon pushed her glasses up her nose. "It's never wrong. That's the number it figured out. That's the time you'll spend in hell. Next please!" She stamped a document... | 2018-09-26T07:41:09 | 2018-09-26T07:30:32 | 1,768 | 68 |
[WP] A drug is developed that mimics the effect of 8 hours of sleep, giving people another 8 hours of potential production. Soon, society adjusts to a constant state of production. However, a horrible consequence begins to unfold. | It started innocuously enough.
Families who struggled to make ends meet, had another chance to add in a third shift. The labor pool had just expanded by 33%. And let's face it, the drug itself wasn't that expensive.
At first.
About a year and a half after the drug became publicly available, a pharmaceutical company ... | She was:
a shadow on the edge of consciousness, perhaps less, though always more;
a voice in the night, most often when you needed it;
a companion in the daylight hours, those little slips that feel like death, and then rebirth on waking;
a thought you never knew you had;
a dream you wanted to go back to.
The gir... | 2022-03-18T11:06:33 | 2022-03-18T09:00:46 | 79 | 36 |
[WP]Humans start out at birth with milk-white blood. The more bad deeds they commit, the darker their blood becomes. One day, you meet your soulmate. Skip a few years, and things are amazing… Until your soulmate trips, falls, and the cut they get drips ink-black blood… | Blood oh blood! Black is all I see,
She puts her finger on my lips gently to say "Come away with me"..
I try to look straight to ask her for answers,
while a million thoughts race through my mind like cancer..
"You owe me", she says, giggling with sparkle in her eyes,
then she flips out a blade right from beside her th... | "No, it's not what you think. I can explain!" She proceeded to back away slowly, wide-eyed and pale in the face.
"W-w-who are y-you" she stuttered. I could see tears in her eyes, threatening to betray her.
"I promise I'm still the same man you fell in love with. I've made some mistakes I'm not proud of but I've cha... | 2016-09-22T21:31:39 | 2016-09-22T16:56:11 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] You're a ghost trying to peacefully enjoy your garden, and quite frankly, you're tired of all these adventurers trying to "put you to rest" | The garden looked as good as ever this afternoon. The sun was shining, the hedges were immaculate, and the rose bushes had come back with a vengeance.
Mrs. Esterhazy would be proud. Her descendants had kept the plantation revival home in excellent shape. Many held their wedding ceremonies in this very garden.
Whe... | I didn't understand. It was frustrating, and anytime I got an adventurer in my garden it definitely ruined my day.
My chrysanthemums were in full bloom. After they were planted, they had sprouted everywhere. I knew the trick to them; plant after the frost. It was difficult to tell how frosty it was, when it didn't sn... | 2019-12-30T14:04:15 | 2019-12-30T13:18:08 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] "It surprised me how much creamer Death put in his coffee."
Must contain the above sentence. Preferably 250-750 words. | It surprised me how much creamer Death put in his coffee.
“What?” he said accusingly, as I smirked at him.
“Nothing,” I replied, “I guess I just expected you to drink your coffee black.”
“Yeah, well, I don’t like the taste. And you shouldn't make assumptions about people you don’t know. For instance, just because y... | It surprised me how much creamer Death put in his coffee.
Equally surprising was that he took on the form of a balding, 48 year old man. Instead of the expected cloak, bones, and scythe, he was rotund and looked a lively sort, if not a little pale; his fingers surrounded by flesh and he tapped his finger against the p... | 2013-11-21T07:29:03 | 2013-11-21T06:26:01 | 50 | 23 |
[WP] It's your first day as the recently-inaugurated President of the United States and you're being told all of the country's most top-secret information and projects. What's the most unbelievable thing you get told? | You know, you find out some strange stuff when you become president. And I could handle most of it. Some things were hard to believe, but there was just one thing that I still have a hard time with.
What you may ask? Well, it wasn't that Elvis is still very much alive and likes walking around Memphis occasionally, fre... | "Ok, WHAT?" I couldn't believe I heard General Anderson correctly. "There's a fully staffed Starbucks down there?"
"Oh yes, Sir. Not only that, but two ice cream shops and a four-star Italian place."
I apparently *had* heard him correctly. I closed my hanging jaw and tried to form my next thought. The White House nuc... | 2014-09-18T13:10:32 | 2014-09-18T11:48:42 | 25 | 16 |
[WP] Write a positive story about someone/something from a child's perspective, then write negative story about that same person/subject from the perspective of the now grown up child. | My dad is the best! Mom only lets me visit him on the weekends, she said he's good for nothing, but she's wrong. He lets me play with his stuff all day long and when he gets home from work he brings home pizza! We watch movies, laugh and eat together on the couch, it's always a blast!
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"When are you going to get a... | Why does she have to be so irritating? Is it really that hard to just sit there and say nothing? Why does she have to constantly argue and bicker and complain when she knows its going to make him angry?
I was sat in my bedroom with the covers pulled over my head cursing her, in disbelief that she hadn't figured it out... | 2014-11-08T05:59:03 | 2014-11-08T05:57:42 | 72 | 31 |
[WP] You rush into a church to stop the love of your life from marrying the wrong person. Not paying attention you barge in yelling "I OBJECT" only to realize it's a funeral. The deceased immediately rises in perfect health. All eyes turn to you | The crunch of my boots on the snow was the sole sound present as I jogged up the hill towards Heathbarrow's only church. Each tree and stone was cloaked in white, almost as if Mother Nature herself had donned a bridal veil in celebration of my lover's marriage to another woman. The splendor made me sick.
By the time ... | I run through the towering white doors, persisting to fulfill my life, to live with the one I love, Elaine.
My feet carry to me to the center of the room, and then force themselves into position. "I object!" my voice bellows.
Though, I realize where my persitence has brought me. Everyone in the room looked at me, bem... | 2018-03-17T13:55:47 | 2018-03-17T12:44:46 | 455 | 23 |
[WP]When you reach 18, you get put in a database which ranks you in different categories (ex. 207,145th in the world for most bug kills) You lived on a ranch and never used tech. You had to go into town after your 18th birthday. Everyone is staring at you. You finally decide to check the database.
Completely unaware o... | When I jumped out my truck to enter the lan house, I kept my eyes ahead as my face burned. There were a few people around, staring at me with a strange smile.
Usually those stares did not bother me. One gets used to being stared at, having the big scar that I had crossing half of my left cheek.
But today people were ... | Year 5 was my earliest memory. I remember the cry of the roosters early in the morning while father worked in the slaughterhouse. Mother would clean the dishes and cook my sister and I breakfast. Every day around noon, father would come and take us into the field and have us help him work. By year 9, I was up at dawn w... | 2019-05-04T12:27:51 | 2019-05-04T12:18:06 | 27 | 16 |
[WP] “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
A Quote from the Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss | The sails stopped billowing and the ship sat still, on a sea as dark as wine. Christian touched a finger to his tongue, and held it out into the night. Nothing. Not even the slightest breeze.
"The calm before..." he heard one of his men murmur. The moon was bright and stars were scattered over the sky like flowers spr... | The man, about 30 years of age, stood in the midst of the group, a young girl at his side, attempting to hide from the arc of people jeering and laughing at her appearance.
"Please, everybody, this is not right," the man said calmly, "There is no need to treat a young girl like this!"
"You call that a girl with that... | 2017-04-14T00:57:36 | 2017-04-13T23:33:18 | 79 | 38 |
[WP] You are a well respected, elite assassin. You always get your target and you make it seem like an accident. The only problem is you have no idea what you are doing. You get the assignment and your target always seems to die of natural causes. | (My first writing outside of high school i just thought it would be fun to participate, please be gentle)
My movements were fluid and precise. A hallowed dance of creation, bringing the symbol of my will to bear. A sleek and elegant rifle soon lay before me. Custom made, every piece. It was the instrument I played, t... | They call me the best assassin in the world. I'm praised by thousands of shady, back alley, black market dealers as the most efficient, undetectable, and ruthless assassin available. I've even had undercover government agents bribe their way to finding me, paying me massive sums to take down notorious politicians and c... | 2018-10-08T20:45:37 | 2018-10-08T17:32:18 | 1,004 | 173 |
[WP] Everyone knows you're a half orc, but none of your team-mates ever ask what the other half of you is. That was never an issue before, but your other parent just showed up. | When i tell people i'm half orc, they tend to assume that one parent was an orc, and the other was something else. It's understandable--half anythings tend to get absorbed back into whichever parent's race is more convenient, or else die unmated and childless. But now and then a pair of crossbreeds get together, and ... | The dust settled as the engine died. The others shook nervously as the large, unhuman figure emerged from the truck. I rested my hand on Carls shivering, pale shoulder as I turned around to face the others who were slowly increasing their distance. I had to think of something rapidly as I have seen friends seize in fe... | 2020-07-22T15:30:08 | 2020-07-22T14:06:06 | 575 | 33 |
[WP] After a long and tedious process you were chosen to be the first ever human to test the new way of travel - the Teleport. All previous tests on objects and animals were very successful. Zero side effects. But after using the machine yourself you immediately notice a difference. | **Teleport - remote transport**
It wasn't right. I knew the moment I stepped off the receiver platform that it wasn’t.
I’d travelled almost as far as it was possible to travel on Earth in zero time, as far as we could measure. Our station in Antarctica with the core tap we used to power the immensely hungry teleporta... | As I passed through the teleporter, I felt weird. Like really weird. I feel extra lightweight and I'm already thin. So lightweight that I feel like I am flying.
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But where exactly Am I? Is this another habitable pl... | 2020-05-30T14:00:12 | 2020-05-30T13:57:32 | 16 | 10 |
[WP]Tell me an emotional story about a man, using only what he would type into Google search | Great pregnancy foods
How to make wife happier during pregnancy
Are cats okay to be around pregnant women?
Local shelters
Price of spay/neuter in area
Best hospitals for delivery in area
Cost of child birth
Cheapest hospitals for delivery in area
Do men have to do anything during the birth
Keeping placenta?
B... | Great Places for a first date
Proposal Ideas
Bible - Verses about being a good husband
Oregon Coast Beach Homes
Horseback Riding Rental - Newport Oregon
Wedding Venues - Seattle WA
Bible - Verses about Marriage
Plane Tickets
Hawaiian Excursion Ideas
Travel Planner
Travel Agents - Seattle WA
How do we get pre... | 2015-02-04T18:24:30 | 2015-02-04T16:31:22 | 672 | 253 |
[WP] The world's first AI, for security purposes, is kept disconnected from the outside world, it's only method of communication being a keyboard and monitor in an empty room in a faraday cage. Your job is to talk to it.
This is inspired by r/ControlProblem, a subreddit dedicated to discussing the issues and solutions... | Walking up to the monitor, I could feel shivers running down my back. In a metal container lay the being's mind, but this screen, this black screen with a single flashing bar, this was the face of God itself.
My hands trembled as I lay them on the keyboard. It must have taken ten tries, but I got my wits together and ... | I was one of the worlds most renown therapist before I came onto the TWIST project. My services costed thousands upon thousands of dollars, and that's why they needed me. I entered the room and they turned the cage on again. I was to get information out of it as to how it worked and it's creation. This was our first co... | 2015-10-30T19:07:10 | 2015-10-30T18:20:14 | 49 | 22 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | I scanned the horizon once more, wondering when my summoned item would arrive. I also wondered if there was a chance it was a person, and that they would simply appear in the antechamber of my home, like they always do. I shuddered at the thought of another human being forced upon me under the guise of a "soulmate". I ... | I was 17 back then tomorrow wouldve been my 18th birthday the summoning day but i had other worries, the over-populated world caused massive capitalisation of life and made the climate change become a serious problem,I had to do something even when it meant comitting genocide.
Heroes where born with intergalactic weap... | 2019-09-18T09:27:31 | 2019-09-18T07:13:42 | 123 | 67 |
[WP] You are a magical girl, but instead of the usual Sailor Moon esque transformation, you turn into your favorite gritty D&D character. This surprises and terrifies the main villain, who was expecting a frilly dress and some sparkles. Instead they got greasy plate armor, and a bloody battleaxe. | I think the idea of magical girls is a pretty common trope nowadays, so I think I can skip all the bullshit about transformation, how we’re meant to be pure of heart, and all of that jazz unless you’re following something like Mahou Shoujo Site where things get a bit, let’s say hairy to avoid spoilers. And I just like ... | **Goddammit. WHY???**
Sucks to be you, right? Goodbye sparkly princess and hello seven foot tall beast with sixty teeth and a battleaxe to boot.
**But how am I supposed to jerk off to this?**
You can't! By which I mean *you* can't, but you've been on the internet before. You know what's up with what people jack off ... | 2019-08-08T19:06:57 | 2019-08-08T17:13:07 | 110 | 25 |
[WP] At age 18, you are able to trade in a percentage of your physical beauty for an equivalent amount of intelligence, or vice versa.
Inspired by a Time Magazine article | So they say I found a loophole.
They said we could make a choice, brains or beauty. Not both. Most of the people I knew traded about 20% of their intelligence for beauty. Most of the adults I knew wished they had traded for intelligence.
I could have listened. I could have made my way through college and gotten a gr... | "Oh, my god, this is the dream come true!" I exclaimed, when I first heard about it.
I have entered the building with tall glass walls, waited in line, and here I am, talking to a pale, tall man in a suit.
"Hello. So you want to..."
"Yes. NOW. Shut up and take my money. I trade everything, for as much as I can."
-... | 2015-09-23T23:11:30 | 2015-09-23T22:55:58 | 663 | 12 |
[WP] At 4,294,967,296 Kelvin the display flipped to 0 and the test reactor's plasma suddenly froze in place. The reactor containment system creaked as the pressure instantly dropped to zero. The scientist calmly spoke, "Absolute hot confirmed, 32-bit overflow confirmed, world simulation confirmed. | Charles stared lazily at his terminal. He recalled his wife had reminded him to stop at the post office on lunch. He didn’t mind, that takes him by his favorite sandwich shop. He chewed on a pen top as his eyes wandered over his cubicle wall. Marta was absent again on a Monday. She’s not gonna last long.
A small noti... | I've always been interested in fringe science, ever since I made my first volcano for a science fair as a kid. It quickly turned to computer science during my teen years - I was programming everything from goofy pokemon clones to trying to hack my ISP. Sticklers.
Now? I work 72 hour weeks as a sheriff's deputy in West... | 2020-11-11T21:20:28 | 2020-11-11T19:40:34 | 93 | 60 |
[WP] An alien super-intelligence routinely teleports a random creature from every inhabited planet's most dangerous species into a massive battle royale. Humans are known as a weak species with strange but useless textiles and objects. This year, a battle-ready soldier is chosen. | Millions of sentient species and billions of inhabited worlds made for a startling array of natural killers. It also made for an even wider range of amusing, but useless fodder. Creatures like the organic-mechanical Spithai, with their internal fusion generators, and naturally-grown plasma throwers; or the Eternal Raxa... | Oh god. I have no internet so let’s try writing this from my phone. Sorry in advance for typos and punctuation. Already hard enough on the phone but I also got fat thumbs! Best I can get with a quick and dirty write up on the bus!
“Are the contestants ready?”
“Of course Game Master Zerg. Right on time. We have a line ... | 2020-09-13T19:39:28 | 2020-09-13T18:50:43 | 103 | 23 |
[WP] You and friend agree that if one of you invents time travel, they will come back to this very moment. As you shake on it, an older and injured you shows up and shoots your friend in the head. | "OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD. You killed Ryan!"
I drop to my knees in horror. My best friend, dead.... by my... hands?
"It's okay. Grief is a process, you'll get over it."
"You just shot my... OUR best friend!"
"I know. I don't have much time. Listen, this little time travel experiment you guys are contemplating? Goes to ... | "What should we do if we ever lose control of it?"
"Lose control? It will just be a time machine, Tara. It's not a robot, or some sentient program which can-"
Tara laughed, then swatted me on the arm. Chastisement complete, she leaned back against the tree, tipped her sunhat down, then closed her eyes. Summertime is... | 2018-10-11T18:19:00 | 2018-10-11T17:21:29 | 519 | 118 |
[WP] Write a lighthearted story for children, which changes it's meaning when read by an adult. | Once long a go lived a Princess named Amena. She was very beautiful and liked to watch the birds from her window. She had many friends who also lived in the castle with her, but her best friend was the advisor’s son, Damien. Damien would sneak into her room each night and they would play together until the sun came up... | #Davie Learns How To Say 'Sorry'
*printed by VanMan Publishing*
*written and edited by M. Gaetz & J. Sandusky*
*illustrations by Asanagi*
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Davie is a boy who likes to go on adventures.
Sometimes Davie has an adventure that leaves a mess.
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People who have to clean up the mess, get angry if he doesn't a... | 2022-12-18T16:44:11 | 2022-12-18T12:16:07 | 492 | 274 |
[WP] After mastering lucid dreaming you find you have complete control over other people’s dreams too. You can choose what they dream of down to the tiniest detail and even join them without them realising you’re actually real. Their subconscious is your playground. Hope they were nice to you. | My journey started over a decade ago when I came across an online forum called Dreamviews. It was a place dedicated to teaching people the art and science of lucid dreaming, which can best be described as *knowing* you are dreaming *while* you are dreaming. Needless to say, I found myself intrigued by the concept of lu... | ######[](/dropcap)
When I first realized I was having the same enjoyable dream frequently, I thought it was my subconscious crying out for more adventure in life. Leaping from rooftop to rooftop feeling the wind rush through my hair and hearing the roaring in my ears as I jumped a hundred yards at a time. It became exp... | 2018-06-19T14:30:32 | 2018-06-19T13:21:05 | 241 | 99 |
[WP] Your Reddit username decides your profession. How is your first day at work?
If possible. Some usernames just don't work well in this situation.
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I'm an FBI agent now. Wooo!
You're all under arrest for conspiracy to commit treason.
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Dear God RIP my inbox | "For the hundredth time, my name is not supposed to be a sly reference to my genitalia!"
"Look, kid, no one's gonna believe you. Fact of the matter is, you're either goddamn brilliant or denser than a neutron star for choosing that handle, and it doesn't matter. You have it, and your job from now on is writing euphemi... | We met in the room of a thousand fountains all 140 of us. We looked around for the original sure enough he was here. "Alright gentleman I have gathered you here today to adress the growing unrest across the galaxy at this time. Now I can't do it alone but with all of you I can, but we have to work together. Sound fair?... | 2016-02-22T09:41:21 | 2016-02-22T09:22:45 | 91 | 10 |
[WP] A zombie apocalypse occurs, where people retain characteristics they had while living. You, as the sole survivor, meet a snobby, vegan zombie who turns their nose up at you. | This will be my last run for supplies. Over the past 3 months since the apocalypse started I’ve been making quick runs only grabbing what can fit into one bookbag. I started with making a ground water filtering system then I grabbed weapons then my way to first aid and clothing, only grabbing enough food to survive unt... | When the fog rolls in, the roamers are driven by growing moans of the dead. Sarah decided to leave late. Her home was nested in a small patch of forest, but only three miles to the center of the sleepy coastal town. The center of town held the University she attended only two years before, which seemed like a lifetime.... | 2017-07-15T09:17:39 | 2017-07-15T09:12:52 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] Napoleon and Hitler were born 129 years apart, came into power 129 years apart, and invaded Russia 129 years apart. It is now 2070. You've been reincarnated and rose to power for the third time. Russia is looking very tempting.
Edit: Holy cow. There are some seriously awesome stories here. Thank you so much :) | The young Caliph sat in his tower, surveying his kingdom stretching well beyond the horizon in every direction. It had been considered impossible, what he had done to bring the entire Islamic nation together. Powerful men had tried to unify the chosen for thousands of years, only to be corrupted by their own unworthine... | "Mr. President?"
The room was silent afterwards. And I could not blame them for the looks they where all shooting at me. When you become the most successful POTUS by reducing the National Debt to nothing, striking peace deals between long warring Middle Eastern factions, and setting the country up to become the world'... | 2016-02-17T13:53:46 | 2016-02-17T13:52:18 | 90 | 20 |
[WP] A lonely teenage boy asks a genie to let him talk to his future wife. The person who appears is not who he expects. | "But I want to meet her *now*! You are *my* genie, and as you said yourself, "whatever I desire is mine" except in that weirdo genie riddle-talk. I said I want to see my future wife, so where is she?" Beads of magical sweat rafted through the furrow in Gal'Mundo's brow. He glanced aside as if to consider something, the... | 'Yes, I'm a Genie'
'Like, really a Genie?'
'Yes'
'Like, a full-blown wish-granting genie?'
'Yes, would you like to make your first wish?'
James Hollin, being thirteen, was a little bit naive about the the world and his place in it.
He was a flip-flopper, a vacillator, an individual who wasn't sure of what he wa... | 2014-06-05T08:56:13 | 2014-06-05T08:03:25 | 36 | 13 |
[WP] A serial killer allows his victims to try and persuade him not to kill them. You’re the first person who didn’t try an empathetic plea. | I stared down the barrel of a gun. "Convince me why I shouldn't kill you." Now at this point the killer expected me to grovel and beg. To plead on why he was secretly some good person, or try to empathise with his situation, try to make some friendship. No. He was a garbage person, only fragments of what might have bee... | It was hard to breath. Not because I was being choked todeath, although I'm sure that'd happen in the next few minutes. The man stops in front of me, however, and he begin to speak. "Why. Why should I not kill you?" My mouth fell ajar. What the hell? What kind of serial killer is this guy?
I take a deep breath, trying... | 2017-10-07T09:05:38 | 2017-10-07T07:51:57 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] 100 25 year olds have been chosen. each must choose a super power that cannot be repeated and cannot exceed the power of god. The goal is to see who can conquer the world. You have the number 100. The best powers have already been chosen. Then it's your turn and you choose..... | I stood speechless at the answer of the last candidate. Everyone else chose a super power following the spirit of the event, but the last one had a mischievous twinkle in her eyes. I glanced down at the written rules, wondering what idiot intern had threw together the wording, and how I was going to fire them immediate... | "Tell me your bidding and it will be done, Mistress," I reverently proclaimed, just as the past ninety-eight had done.
She smiled at me. It filled my heart with joy. I could see she was weary, though. It had been such a long day for her. Joy fled. Concern took its place, followed by a desperate need to do anything and... | 2022-11-17T07:33:47 | 2022-11-17T05:10:38 | 420 | 64 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | James and Amanda where watching the news when they heard about it.
"I wonder which number I got", James said and went to the kitchen.
A couple years ago, his son Andrew made him such a cup.
As a handmade cup, it was clearly distinguishable from all the others.
James quickly found it.
"That is strange", he said and show... | The mug was in the back yard shed with most of my dads things. I had gotten them when he passed away. It stood there with a big number one on it. I decided to bring it inside, since i had known to me he had been my number one dad.
When i touched it the number changed. I hadn't been with a girl in about a year. I hadn... | 2017-06-11T10:05:38 | 2017-06-11T09:05:00 | 45 | 21 |
[WP] People level their skills in an RPG fashion and are conscious of their sudden jumps from novice to journeyman and so on. You've spent your life training a skill that is entirely useless until becoming invaluable once mastered - and you just mastered it. | Michael's arms felt like molten lead, but he forced them to keep moving. He had gone too far, spent too much time mastering his craft for him to fail now. He could practically *feel* the experience points building up as he neared the level cap.
It had all lead up to this moment. When he'd started, he could swim mayb... | "How's that golfing coming along, Tiger?"
I waved a hand amicably at the jeers, heading out to the course to get in a few swings before work. I had hit Elite a few months ago, and new techniques had become available to me, but still, I figured I had another couple of weeks before hitting Master. I had completely forgo... | 2015-10-05T20:45:55 | 2015-10-05T20:07:46 | 188 | 119 |
[WP] After people die, they must answer a riddle, and its difficulty depends on their sins. You've committed genocide. | I'd finally died. Comfortably in my home, asleep even. I wasn't sure if it had been an assassin, but likely not. Not at 86 years old. Probably that crappy heart I'd gotten from the peasant a few years back. The afterlife was bland, free of color or scents even the air I breathed was missing the indescribable taste of t... | I had imagined death to be much different. All my life, death to me was a picture of white clouds surrounded by bright blue skies, filled with people dressed in white robes and halo above their heads. Or in my case, perhaps the fiery pits of hell, doomed to eternal damnation. Never in my life had I imagined standing in... | 2017-06-03T00:07:34 | 2017-06-02T20:41:18 | 189 | 76 |
[WP] The attempted assassination of a human dignitary at a galactic summit goes awry. Turns out, many of the conventional toxins in an alien assassin's repertoire include compounds like caffeine, theobromine and capsaicin; lethal to many species, but... less than effective on humans. | At first, it was entertaining. A meeting of diplomats, gathering and sharing gifts. A few too obvious looks and startled expressions.
It was innocent enough to begin with. A drink, supposedly a local delicacy. Yet it felt so much like an espresso that I could have sworn that Andromorph was from New Jersey. He even had... | "What did you hope to accomplish?" The woman asked, pushing the drink away now that she knew the intent behind it.
The common space outside the council chambers had little activity. And this Trennovian had followed her here, making small talk and offering to buy her a drink as they discussed the law that would come to... | 2021-06-12T15:57:52 | 2021-06-12T14:34:43 | 490 | 215 |
[WP] Eye colour means everything here. Brown control the earth, blue controls the water, white controls the sky. There are so many colours and each important but you were the first born with yellow eyes. | No one is suppose to be amazing, not really. Life is suppose to be an ordinary struggle to continue living an ordinary life until the eventual ordinary death. Maybe some people could accomplish amazing things, but not someone from such an ordinary past as myself. My mother was an ordinary green eye, only capable of ... | I had always been jealous of the others. Being able to cause earthquakes, raise and lower the ground, rolling the ground underneath my feet as if it were a skateboard. Or what about being able to make water appear wherever you wanted it to appear. Make it rain and shower the pastures for the farmers or being able to gi... | 2016-08-08T11:27:39 | 2016-08-08T10:59:12 | 26 | 12 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | "28 today," you say to yourself looking in the mirror. Of course you know today is your birthday today, but it also helps that while looking at the mirror you noticed the number above your head changed from the [27] you saw yesterday.
You leave to go to the liquor store to pick up some booze and celebrate. While in li... | I check their I.D.'s for fun now, noticing nose jobs and cheek implants and the occasional sex change. It doesn't matter though... there are always some who try to get past me. A strikingly beautiful blonde with a shining "19" above her head brazenly looking me straight in the eye, not a flicker of hesitation as sh... | 2017-09-01T22:57:39 | 2017-09-01T21:03:45 | 247 | 122 |
[WP] Tell me about the american version of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
[The houses are, of course, Wolfthorn, Hawkridge, Foxcrest, and Bearglove.](http://i.imgur.com/HzLe3qz.jpg)
This is in the United States. Harry Potter's actions didn't effect anyone here, except give them some stories to tell.
Wh... | I'll tell you about the American "Hogwarts", better known in 'Murica as the Washingtonian School of Freedom.
First off, the houses: The prompt is fucking wrong. There's no fucking hawk house (seriously?) . There's Bald Eagle house 1, 2, 3 and 4. All fucking Eagles. No fox, kangaroo, serpent, koala shit. Note: ... | From *Magical Education Across The World* by Rory Shamble, Chapter 6: American Education, paragraphs 1-4.
Magical Education in the Americas is, unlike that in Asia or Africa, based in large part upon the magical traditions of the European continent. It is, however, much less established, owing to their recent founding... | 2014-12-07T17:51:46 | 2014-12-07T17:48:13 | 36 | 24 |
[WP] You're a supervillain with a superhero as your arch-nemesis. When they come out to the world about their depression and mental health, others call them weak and there is backlash. You, however, are the first one to support them publicly. | “What is strength?”
There was silence after Eclipse spoke, except for the sound of rubble trickling from the fresh hole in the newsroom wall. He did not wait for an answer as he seated himself and turned to his unwilling co-anchor.
“I asked a question, Son of Carl. You mocked the Strongman, belittled his struggles wi... | *Ahem*
I always believed what elevated a villain to a super villain was their sense of *style*. But my unique, snazzy, often explosive ways of contacting you plebes are starting to be expected. ^(I know, Paradoxical.) And so, I have chosen to host a press conference, something wholly unexpected and therefore being abl... | 2022-06-21T10:53:43 | 2022-06-21T10:53:05 | 209 | 48 |
[WP] You've been dating your partner for six months. Tonight they've invited you to a work event, and as you step onto the red carpet, you realize it for the first time: you're dating a celebrity. |
A camera flashes as I open the car door and, elegant as ever, Amile steps out before extending her hand to me, hoop bracelets sliding down her wrist and stopping against the contour of her hand. Her long fingers are decorated with rings. There are three more camera flashes before I finally accept her hand and e... | "I'll be at your Door at 4 sharp"
"Leila, you know I'm always on time" I said with as lovely a voice I could.
With a cute kiss over the phone, She hung up.
Who would've known that the Depressed and Broken lady on the public bus was the Lady destined to my dreams. Perfect for me, inside out. Purest of souls and sof... | 2017-06-14T09:14:40 | 2017-06-14T07:58:26 | 3,550 | 195 |
[WP] Write a story that doesn't make sense until the last sentence. | "Bil, bil! Holy fuck! I can't move, Bil!"
"Me too! The hell is going on? How long have we been like this?"
"For years, Bil! The agony! Holy hell, he is peeing on you! Literally peeing!"
"I can feel it! It's like worms under my skin! Kill me, Jim, kill me! I can't take this anymore! This is torture!"
George watched ... | "What do you think?" the artist asked the boy, after an hour or so had passed. The boy's face said it all - he was unimpressed.
"Bah! What is it this time? Is it the nose? I've got the nose all wrong again, haven't I. It seemed so right, at the time."
He began to make alterations, delicately changing little bits here... | 2017-06-15T02:05:04 | 2017-06-15T01:47:41 | 428 | 86 |
[WP] It is the year 2XXX. Medical science has advanced so far that complete body restoration is possible. However, patients revived from death consistently end up in a vegetative state and no one knows why. You are the first person to revive and retain their cognition. Now you know. | >**LIFE'S FOR THE LIVING**
"It has *failed again!*" Screamed Doctor Van Winkler. He was pushing his seventieth birthday, and though he had pioneered impressive medicine in his long life he was not ready to go yet...and he was doing everything he could to finally perfect his whole-body restoration serum. Every patie... | I look calmly back at the eager faces - the top scientists of the world, all waiting, agog, hanging on to my every word.
MENSA level IQs, the knowledge of a million lives at their fingertips. But they never managed to figure out the reason. Never managed to figure out why everyone they tried to bring back returned b... | 2020-10-29T23:00:10 | 2020-10-29T22:23:21 | 4,637 | 98 |
[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... | **PART 1:**
My father had always been a bit of an enigma. We had little in common save for our names. He was a mild-mannered and proper Englishman who had immigrated to America from a little village the West Country. He believed with all his being in the power of an orderly queue and a proper cup of tea. But every so o... | 2022-11-14T01:20:39 | 2018-06-24T22:03:53 | 45 | 15 |
[WP] An adolescent boy who is bullied at school finds solace in the friends he makes in online games, becoming very good friends with one boy in particular. However, when they agree to meet up, the adolescent boy realises his best online friend is his main attacker at school. | Excitement was a feeling I hadn't felt in a while. There hasn't been much to be excited about lately: Mom and dad splitting up, grandpa passing away, and yeah the "Bullying", or at least that's what my counselor called it. Never liked that word, it made me feel weak, like a victim. I didn't see myself that way. That's ... | As I was walking towards the local McDonald's I was happy. Happy at the thought of finally meeting rambo_7861!.
I have special affection towards rambo_7861!. He always saves my ass, sometimes even giving away his own life. During multiple combat games of course. He is so different from the kids at school, the mental ... | 2015-04-07T03:12:12 | 2015-04-07T00:42:49 | 661 | 116 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Hey Scott.
I guess I took everything you did for granted. It's been really hard without you here. Your daughter still asks when you're coming to pick her up and she always gets sad when I explain to her that you can't.
She really loves you and you were a good father. She started listening to one of the books ... | Not sure if this is more because this is what I want to tell you or what but here goes.
When I first came to this school. You where basically my first friend which then led me to becoming friends with a lot of people. However there was one person In particular I liked, a lot. One who gave me emotions I had never felt ... | 2017-11-05T23:19:05 | 2017-11-05T22:02:40 | 58 | 18 |
[WP] An alien nation descends upon earth. Their assault is... incredibly underwhelming.
Take "incredibly underwhelming" however you want.
Examples: They do nothing but inconvience you. They're so weak they get bullied by grade schoolers. Their laser technology doesn't even burn a hole in your woolen sweater as even... | "Sir, their technology... It's, well, quite frankly, it's terrifying."
"Explain yourself."
"All of their technology," he stammered. "It's powered by explosions."
"Explosions? All of it?"
"Yes sir. Their vehicles, their warships, even their weapons are all powered by explosions."
"How did they ever achieve space tr... | This was the fourth time they came. They had never succeeded; however, they never really seemed to try.
The first time they came, they brought what they considered fierce monsters. Cats, as they called them, did not attack as intended, rather they made a strong niche among the rising generations.
The second was a l... | 2016-02-22T13:30:29 | 2016-02-22T10:42:06 | 79 | 35 |
[WP] As a person goes through his life, he is given three options at the end of each day, continue, restart day, or restart life. He has just lived through the worst day of his life. | What if you could restart your life, restart your day, or continue?
While his tears never surfaced, the utter despair melted away his soul. Time stopped. Fractured and broken, his heart burned. Everything he knew and everything he thought he knew had disappeared in a heartbeat. Words from others fell deafly on him. He... | Inevitable. We all knew it was. My wife, our doctor, and our in-laws crowded around the hospital bed and we gazed silently at my newborn daughter.
A smear of dark brown hair swirled around her tiny head, cradled in Lucille's arms. Our baby's warm chocolate eyes would never see us. Her unisex, hospital-issued beanie ... | 2014-07-17T19:17:02 | 2014-07-17T19:07:35 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] A little known cosmic fact is that there were only ever 10 billion human souls produced. As the population slowly creeps upwards, the department of reincarnation struggles to find a workaround. | “What’s the projection looking like for the next decade?”
“It’s hard to tell ma’am” Ben Stickerson replied. It was a bizarre feeling to not know the answer to a very simple question. For thousands of years the Department of Reincarnation (DoR) has always made the right projections for any given time. It was always pre... | I told them that we didn't need those fancy displays in the reincarnation arrivals lounge. "Don't you understand? When the returning souls come in, they're confused and disoriented. We need to project an air of competence and safety immediately." OK, that actually sounded like a good idea (rare for middle management), ... | 2020-10-07T23:47:40 | 2020-10-07T23:31:35 | 37 | 16 |
[WP] "Witch! Heathen! Burn her!" You watch with amusement as they begin lighting the pyre under you. The flames tickle your feet, bringing a familiar warmth with them. They are silly to that think they could actually burn a dragon with fire. | I giggle when the flames reach up my skirts, the soft flames like tongues wrapping around my legs like a warm, gentle caress. I catch the eye of a young girl amidst the jeering crowd, head cocked and gazing at me with curiosity. I quickly feign a cough and turn my smile into a grimace, hoping to fool this child's watch... | I hide my smile underneath the the cermonial mask.I hold my laughter as they hoist me to a beam covered in hastenly found beeswax. Apologizing if it hurt. My hands bound behind me in old iron chains, I feel rust flaking off. My feet fastened now to the beam securely with another piece of chain. They throw a large pail ... | 2021-01-03T06:03:43 | 2021-01-03T02:22:14 | 215 | 151 |
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