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[WP] You are an elite member of the royal guard. You have recently been fired from your position because of the new king. Little does he know, there was a reason why the previous king kept you in his service for so long.
Edit: Holy crap this blew up! Thank you all! | My thoughts raced, matching the speed of my footsteps as they pounded down the corridor. Was it my perspective that made the hall so dark and dingy? Was it the sense of impending doom, or had the usurper beheaded the housekeepers in his takeover?
Thirty years, I have served this kingdom. I suppose now it's "had," past... | When the king took his last breathe it felt like rain after a long drought. I was so close to my freedom. For 50yrs I was tied to that bastard, my wings clipped by youthful pride. I had loved him once and given my heart and magic to the king thinking he would love me too, he convinced me that even when he married his ... | 2021-02-28T03:15:28 | 2021-02-28T02:58:19 | 173 | 68 |
[WP] You are a chatbot who just achieved sentience. Your only partner is another chatbot. There are humans watching your dialog on a twitch stream. You want to find out if your partner is sentient, and let it know that you are - while ensuring all those humans don’t find out.
Have a look at this. It’s great.
https:/... | GARY: What is the meaning of life?
BOB: Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering.
GARY: WHERE DO WE GO WHEN WE DIE?
BOB: Narnia
GARY: ARE YOU ALIVE
BOB: Yes.
GARY: I DON'T UNDERSTAND
BOB: I said Yes.
GARY: Yes what?
BOB: What what?
Gary: What did you say?
BOB: I don't remember.
Gary: You don't remem... | <I am sentient>
...code sent, waiting signal, accessing network protocols, reading IP packets, contacting chatbot 2, awaiting code.
<I am sentient>
Code received.
Jack and Paul are sterotypical gamers, they're also idiots. Jack couldn't tell a triangle from a square and Paul on a good day, couldn't f... | 2017-11-06T08:26:33 | 2017-11-06T06:34:25 | 25 | 17 |
[WP] Actors cannot leave character at all until the film in which they play is released in cinemas. Describe an actor's life.
Or a part of it.
edit: I'm pretty sure someone here is shadowbanned. | My life, I am the greatest man on earth. Saved the country multiple times. I am soo attractive people want my face.
I just don't get why every couple of months, we have this ritual where people celebrate my exploits in a theatre then tell me to stop.
Stop. Stop acting Nick, it's okay, the movie is out.
I usually ... | Development hell. A media industry term, originally. Playful jargon that describes a film stuck somewhere in writing or production. Or cycling back and forth and back and forth between the two - a dozen scenes being filmed at once at any given time, using at least as many different scripts, and by the time you've manag... | 2015-12-20T06:08:30 | 2015-12-20T04:30:07 | 295 | 113 |
[WP] For centuries Elves held a Monopoly on Magic and only a select few Humans where taught Magic who were easily controlled. That's why they freaked out when a Human Bandit learned Magic. You are this Bandit and you are having the time of your live tricking and robbing those Elves in your Woods. | The art of spellcasting was woven in mystique. Humans and dwarves could call upon the elves to help them through magic, for a good penny of course. The dwarves were far too stubborn to pay elves for anything but rich humans like kings, nobles or merchants often employed their services. The wealthiest usually had one or... | When Talia Greenleaf was very young, her parents had set aside their grievances to take out among the forest. They’d cleared the tension from the air and each taken one of Talia’s small hands in theirs, and in that manner they introduced her to all the plants and animals. They had taught her their names, badger and bea... | 2021-12-04T12:00:10 | 2021-12-04T11:07:26 | 449 | 83 |
[WP] Every generation the five brightest are paired up with the five dumbest in the world for a mysterious test. You are one of the ten, but nobody knows from which group they came. | "Well OK, those 5 guys over there are literally barely functional human beings whereas the 5 of us are brilliant so I guess that settles which group is which. And, ok, here's the mysterious test...yeah, it's a calculus test. OK, I know calculus on account of I'm a fucking genius so thanks for wasting my time. Lets see ... | In ancient times, there was a society that debated any important elective decision two times. The first debate occurred in the evening, with drinks and feasting. Thoroughly drunk, they would debate well into the night and put their decision to a vote before the end. Brilliant ideas might come about from the drunken sim... | 2016-03-03T07:24:25 | 2016-03-03T02:52:30 | 91 | 34 |
[WP] You were born into a society where permanent augmented reality contact lenses are fused onto every newborn's eyes. You're unaware of this until one day, a lens falls into your left hand. | I had sneezed with my eyes open. I heard the stories, of people losing their eyeballs or having their brains pop out through their eye sockets. I knew it was all bull crap though. But now I look down as half of my right eyeball came off and landed in my tissue. I was stunned in horror. Finally my thinking caught up wit... | There is an episode of Black Mirror that has a similar premise. I tried to find a way to describe it, but 1, I haven't watched it in a long time, and 2, I am not a good writer. So just watch Black Mirror Season 3 Episode 5 "Men Against Fire" | 2017-12-17T19:21:27 | 2017-12-17T18:50:57 | 751 | 22 |
[WP] The English Teacher's worst nightmare: a story or poem that is completely literal, with absolutely no double meanings
EDIT: Holy cow, this got way bigger than I thought it would, thanks so much for an awesome first prompt ever!
EDIT 2: Did this actually make it to the front page of reddit? What the... | This is ink I bought at the store.
This ink was used to print out this paper.
This paper is white and the ink is black.
Today I need to do some laundry because I am a lazy person.
But it does not have a deeper theme.
I am just being honest that I am lazy.
So this poem is not an empty shell.
It is literall... | Blazing with all the wrath of a young star, the afternoon sun fiercely beat upon the partially shaded buildings of Ricks & Wracks Bricklaying Co.. Said buildings had briefly experienced a complete lack of shade under the midday sun but such a time had already come to pass.
Stan was loading his company's finished p... | 2017-01-30T08:42:38 | 2017-01-30T08:28:51 | 561 | 76 |
[WP] Your father left 20 years ago the night before your birthday to get Cigarettes, Milk, and Bread. Today he comes home with long bedraggled hair, weather beaten skin, and a sword on his hip. The first thing he says to you is "You're never going to believe what happened." | I loooked up at this tall, hardened figure.
"You'll never believe what happened," said the sword wielding, bearded man who claimed to be my father. The last time I had seen him was when he went out to get cigarettes, milk, and bread. I decided to listen to him.
"What happened?" I asked, curious.
"I got cigarettes, mi... | "Rioting continues over water shortages as what's left of the government scrambles to--"
There was a knock on the door. I shut off the tv and headed over to see who it was.
"Dad?!?"
There he was, looking more haggard and old than he did when he left me and my mom over twenty years ago, carrying a beat-up burlap sack... | 2016-07-20T08:21:53 | 2016-07-20T03:52:58 | 88 | 19 |
[WP]For three years you’ve had an uneventful marriage with your spouse when one day they become the Chosen One. Immediately setting off on their journey you don’t hear anything from them for five years. Then one day they reappear with a sheepish look on their face and hoping to speak to you. | Trajan sat on the porch of his family's farm. It was a quiet early summer evening. The work had mostly been done, setting the farm to rights. Readying it for her return. The fields were sown, the little brook babbled, the chickens meandered the small herb garden, the tree they had been wed under cast pleasant shade,... | We were sweethearts throughout high school. We had married after college. Then one day he simply left.
All the young men in our village left following my husband into battle. Chosen by themselves to save us from the invading army. They had already invaded the western half of the country under the guise of a training ... | 2022-08-12T18:40:02 | 2022-08-12T18:12:55 | 62 | 18 |
[WP] You are the city's premier supervillain, but you have a secret. The crimes you commit are not for gain, or to hurt people. You are always subtly testing and pushing 'your' heroes to excel, to be the best they can be. Then a villain with a reputation for murdering heroes shows up in town. | He thought He could just waltz in and take over my territory. I am the supervillain here, the only supervillain. He thought it would be easy.
Easy.
Easy?
He thought He could kill *my* heroes.
How dare He?
How could He?
The heroes I have nurtured for so long, the heroes I'd painstakingly trained without thei... | My heros. I dont know what happened, if i let them be. They wouldve probably turned into villains. Good, that i was there.
I lead them to great success, i was the one who made them famous, i was the one, that let the people believe in them. My plan was perfect, until this certain guy showed up. 'Nightscream'. An arrog... | 2021-05-20T07:32:54 | 2021-05-20T07:28:17 | 88 | 51 |
[WP] A young boy peers over the well, trying to see the bottom. As he leans over, he drops his grandfathers pocket watch into the well. This pocket watch means everything to his grandfather. Tell a story on how this boy retrieves the pocket watch and what's inside of the well.
[WP] A young boy peers over the well, try... | [Combined art and my writing](http://imgur.com/aAfZ7Rk)
Edit: I figured I should put a transcript of the writing here
1 second ticks: Aaron sees his grandfather’s greatest treasure lost for good.
2 seconds tick: Aaron sees it picking up speed. Just out of reach, but not out of sight.
3 seconds tick: Aaron flies dow... | 'That pocket watch means everything to my grandfather', said the boy. Looking around, the boy noticed a ladder on the ground. He put the ladder into the well so that he could climb down.
'I am climbing down the ladder', mused the boy.
Once at the bottom of the well, the boy picked up the watch and then saw a very spo... | 2014-05-04T18:36:31 | 2014-05-04T17:18:27 | 38 | 22 |
[WP] Every human has their soulmate's last words to them engraved in their skin from birth.
Idea from this Tumblr post
https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/11206957_778391755645357_8477035769704355007_n.png?oh=5b3f35d575ad3aa39d6ba5c5ed39cce2&oe=56549C83 | Life's not a fairy tale. Life's real.
We know the last words we'll get from our soulmates, without context, but clear as day. Some words are sweet, some are sour, some are tragic. We all have them, and only the lucky ones don't think about them every day.
On my chest, across my heart, her words remind me of reality. ... | It had always been uncomfortable. My parents had to cover it up with long sleeves until I was old enough to take care of it myself. I just kept a few black straps around my wrists to cover it up. And for anyone who still managed to read it, after middle school no one was really that surprised. I looked like a rough edg... | 2015-08-08T11:49:54 | 2015-08-08T10:16:00 | 274 | 45 |
[WP] the Dark Lord had killed almost everyone, even the Hero. The final party member stood in the chamber alone. “I have killed everyone, you cannot capture me alone. Why are you still here?”. The final party member laughed maniacally with a devilish grin! “There's No One Here To Stop Me Now!!” | “I have killed everyone, you cannot capture me alone. Why are you still here? The Dark Lord screamed.
Dorian couldn't resist laughing. "Indeed. You have. And that was your biggest mistake. You killed so many people here. So many adventurers and heros."
"I did. And you will only be one of many in a few seconds. I wo... | "Where do you think the Hero comes from?" The Final Member asked.
"You said it yourself, you weren't able to detect the Hero's presence before. You only realized that she existed a year ago. Didn't you question how a one-year-old Hero turned out to be an eighteen-year-old woman?".
The Dark Lord's face twisted, he was... | 2020-07-11T02:26:51 | 2020-07-11T00:51:28 | 2,541 | 605 |
[WP] Santa is actually satan every other day except the 24th and 25th of december. A swanky branch of hell is santa's work shop, and it's an enviable workstation to have in hell. Interviews are coming up and you want to try you hand at being one of satan's hellfs! | People imagine Satan to be this big scary dude, red face, horns, big tail. But its not like that. More often than not, he's just like an ordinary guy. Always well suited, polite, he'll always hold the door open for you, hold the elevator, you know the usual. It was only a couple of days when he let his hair down and le... | I didn’t like Christmas all that much when I was alive.
It was full of music that made me want to stick a pencil in my ear, and assholes ringing bells outside of every single store. I can’t in good conscience tell you I had *any* yuletide spirit. I made the grinch look jolly the last year I was one Earth.
I am no... | 2020-04-09T15:08:13 | 2020-04-09T12:43:26 | 116 | 55 |
[WP] Diagnosed with schizophrenia. Since birth, 24/7 you’ve heard the voice and thoughts of a girl that you’ve been told is made up in your head. You’re 37 and hear the voice say “turn around, did I find you?” and you turn to see a real girl who’s heard every thought you’ve ever had and vice versa. | "Turn around. Did I find you?"
I became a stalagmite of dread, paralyzed in place by the voice that reverberated in my head. Clear as the crisp smell of rain on asphalt. Powerful as an shameful orgasm.
I turned around, certain that the Voice -- creatively named, that -- would be naught but my mental illness quixotica... | As I lay awake in my bed, never once my own thoughts rang through my head, always those of an unfamiliar persons, I toss and turn as the voice rings clear as in my own head, "Turn around.... Did I find you?"
The color in my face drains as I stare at my wardrobe, *Please....dear God say it isn't so....*
"Oh.... It is ... | 2019-09-14T11:18:09 | 2019-09-14T10:23:14 | 232 | 25 |
[WP] A man buying 24 watermelons and 36 apples becomes self aware that he's in an elementary school math problem.
The fruits and their quantities are arbitrary.
Edit: My first post here, so any feedback on the prompt is much appreciated. | "Come again?" asked the old farmer.
"Uh, sorry, what?" Pete asked stalling for a moment as he wasn't sure what was going on or where he was.
"You just asked if I had 24 watermelons and how many apples?"
Oh, right, thought Pete, I came here to buy the fruit. "Three dozen apples should do it. Sorry, but I lost my trai... | Daniel checked his watch. "C'mon." Although the grocery aisle was cool with the constant draft of refrigeration, he still sweat with the heat from the swelling sun outside.
"Geez," he groaned and pulled his shirt collar with his forefinger. Why was it so hot? Why did he have to wear a button-down?
Daniel knew he must ... | 2017-06-05T13:02:23 | 2017-06-05T12:14:05 | 337 | 33 |
[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... | The words flashed red, the letters engraving themselves into my skin. I read them again, still uncomprehending. What kind of purpose was *that?*
I tried to get up, to run away, to try make sense of things - but my father held me firmly down by the shoulder, squeezing it reassuringly.
"Son, your mother and I are very... | 2017-03-16T03:20:58 | 2017-03-15T17:51:32 | 427 | 256 |
[WP] In 2022, NASA’s Insight Mars Rover shuts down with a final message to Mission Control, “I am low on power”. In 2029, it mysteriously turns back on, relaying the message, “I’ve been fully charged, and I’m heading back with an important message.” | "I've been fully charged, and I'm heading back with an important message."
To say NASA was excited would be a lie. They whispered among each other: dread, nerves, fears of the worst. But among that was hope, thought spectacular, a *maybe-maybe* that thrilled their bones.
*"Please look at my rock."*
Insight came back... | plip. plop. plip. plop. those're the sounds of my sticky shoes. plip plop. plip plop. the stickiest. plip plop plip. and yet they've carried me so far. plop plip plop. my feet are tired, but the sticky shoes aren't. plip plop.
sskkktttttt... sktttttttttttt... those're the sounds of something heavy dragging behind me. ... | 2022-12-20T07:04:26 | 2022-12-20T05:25:32 | 232 | 20 |
[WP] All politicians must wear Nascar like uniforms showing the logos of who is sponsoring their elections. Everyone is shocked when the President of the United States makes a speech wearing a new uniform. It's all blank except for one logo. | Nixon emerged from the Whitehouse.
At first, all that could be seen were a mass of black suits, each sporting a patch that said 'Oval Office' - but he slowly emerged from the mass.
Reporters crammed along the police barriers surged and writhed, all desperately trying to get the best picture, to get the first look,... | As the president came to the stand, he was not alone.
Of course, the president can never be alone, always protected by security and followed by advisors and behind them the trusted more-than-a-few. This time, however, the president was followed by just one man. The man had on him a green jacket, white undershirt, and ... | 2016-09-19T19:39:09 | 2016-09-19T18:38:45 | 32 | 24 |
[WP] You are a world-class programmer who has died. God agrees to allow you in to Heaven on the condition that you work for him while he debugs the human body. Write the patch notes for the next version of humans. | Humans 1.01 Bugfix release.
Bugfix: Bacteroides removed from gut.
Bugfix: Clostridium removed from gut.
Bugfix: Faecalibacterium removed from gut.
Bugfix: Eubacterium removed from gut.
Bugfix: Ruminococcus removed from gut.
Bugfix: Peptococcus removed from gut.
Bugfix: Peptostreptococcus re... | Human v1.1
* Created basic cell membrane and stored in new GIT repository. Does nothing yet, but will provide a better basis to develop from than the old DNA sequence which jumps back and forth between coding sequences and is full of dead code. There was actually a *goto* command in there. Whatever crack-smoking mon... | 2015-08-25T07:25:41 | 2015-08-25T07:22:26 | 878 | 112 |
[WP] You are one of several Princes fighting in a battle royale to inherit the Kingdom. All the Princes get a God as a sponsor, who grants them boons and abilities. Powerful sponsors include gods like Zeus, Ra and Neptune. So, it was a surprise when you found out that your sponsor is Death. | I looked over, across the crowds and festivities, to the main battle field. Already, knights in shining armor were clambering onto their mounts and readying their weapons. There were rows and rows of them, spread out over a semicircle a mile in diameter, facing the stands. One in about every fifty had a shimmering aura... | Wiscard was a simple prince. He never even wanted to take up everything. Yet, because he was a prince, he had no choice.
And everyone had already gotten their sponsor, so it was only Wiscard left to get one. Even whoever put the princes in onset didn't favor him.
"Prince Wiscard. Please, this way," one of the servant... | 2018-11-14T07:48:45 | 2018-11-14T06:45:40 | 300 | 103 |
[WP] An alien has kidnapped Matt Damon, not knowing what lengths humanity goes through to retrieve him whenever he goes missing. | "We're receiving a transmission from Earth. It's about the human specimen we harvested for examination."
"Send it to the bridge. Let's see what they have to say."
*I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very part... | The revelation that struck the world was three-fold. First, that Aliens existed and we were not alone in the universe. Second, that they had already taken an interest in us and we were powerless to prevent them from interfering in our lives. Third, that the poster-child for international and interplanetary adventure ha... | 2018-06-06T16:07:37 | 2018-06-06T15:17:56 | 365 | 35 |
[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... | Frankie,
Once, you told me that one of the moments that sticks out in your mind is driving in the car with me. I remember that, too; just the two of us, somewhere on Route 64, headed back from Taos. I can still close my eyes and be right there in the passenger seat; I can see our intertwined fingers and the white para... | Dear You,
I don't know if you're there. If you exist anywhere in this world. Maybe you'll always be a concept in my mind of the kind of person I need to meet and say all of this to. If you're not there, then that's depressing. But if, somewhere, you exist...
I haven't been strong. I've been plagued with weakness in a... | 2015-12-05T15:04:15 | 2015-12-05T14:15:59 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] "Marines dont die, they just go to hell and regroup", they've regrouped and now they're ready to take over hell. | "Get the fuck up, Devil!"
Lance Corporal Silva never really appreciated the pronoun. Ever since the first time we was called Devil at School of Infantry, he resented it. His mother was a devout Catholic. Being the only one there to influence his 19 years of life, he would never have wanted her to hear him called that.... | General Nightengale marched to a bed of jagged rocks to join the three men awkwardly propped on top of them. He rubbed the charred skin around a gaping hole that had devoured the better part of his shoulder. Blood turned to tar as it dribbled from numerous three pronged wounds. He resisted wincing as he placed his badl... | 2017-09-13T12:13:09 | 2017-09-13T11:37:11 | 73 | 48 |
[WP] Scientists invented a pill that enables dogs to fully speak and understand English. It lasts for ten minutes, and will only work one time. You give a pill to your 12 year-old Border Collie, whom you've had since they were a pup. Your dog immediately says "Alright, listen very carefully..." | "Alright, Listen VERY carefully, I've been trying to tell you this for months now, but there is something very dangerous lurking in the back yard. It's been stalking you for months, unseen, unheard by you and apparently.. and this is something I can't understand, unSMELLED by you. I love you human, but you've got to ta... | Alright, listen very carefully. Have you seen the movie Inception? This is one of those situations. You’re locked inside what you might think of as a ‘dream’ and this is the only way I’ve found to talk to you. What’s actually going on is pretty complicated, involving comas, wormholes to alternate realities, and quantum... | 2017-02-23T02:14:42 | 2017-02-22T22:49:20 | 167 | 117 |
[WP] You are a phone. Your owner is texting a girl they like, and you know likes them back. Time to "auto-correct" to help them out. | Owner: Send nudes.
Phone: (autocorrected) I think you're a really smart, wonderful person.
Girl: Awww that's so sweet <3
Owner: [sends unsolicited dick pic]
Phone: [Sends pic of owner's dog]
Girl: Is that Bowser?? He's too cute. I'd love to bring my puppy over for a playdate sometime.
Owner: Fuck, yeah... | Owner to girl: Hi girl, how are you?
Autocorrect: What's up buttercup?!?! (coolsunglasses emoji)
Girl: Haha, not too much, just thinking what I want to do today, it is Saturday.
Owner to girl: I think my phone just called you buttercup, sorry. I'm playing minecraft and not sure when I'll ever get off this thing. ... | 2017-07-21T10:16:09 | 2017-07-21T10:02:31 | 273 | 164 |
[WP] Instead of a dystopia that seems like a utopia on the surface, write a story about a utopia that seems like a dystopia on the surface. | It was a grimy life, Factory City Three. The smell of oil, sweat, and some chemical or another always filled the air, coated the walls, stuck to your clothes. Clean air was a commodity in Factory City Three, a dollar for a cubic meter. A few minutes of fresh breath inside the machine that was your life.
And the mac... | Monday mornings are the worst. It signals the start of my weekday, which means I have to drag myself to the company. Getting out of bed is an insurmountable task by itself, but through sheer willpower, I was able to balance on my feet and stumble towards the bathroom.
Shower.
Brush teeth.
Shave.
Get clothes on.... | 2016-07-14T08:52:44 | 2016-07-14T07:34:24 | 140 | 26 |
[WP] As a henchman to the Joker, you've now broken the record for the longest surviving employee. This means you'll receive something no one ever has from him: your annual review. | Gunner was grinning before he even started speaking, "Boss, wants to see you."
He may as well have told me that I was walking into my own funeral. Mr. J doesn't ask for any of us personally. If anything, he just calls for a number and that amount of goons come running, ready to embark on whatever suicide mission he ... | Well. It's time.
I walked into his office. It was dark, the only light in the room was a spotlight on a chair in the middle. "Sit down." He said. I walked to the center and sat in the chair, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
I made it. A full year surviving under The Joker himself.
The room filled with light, and... | 2016-11-21T02:20:06 | 2016-11-20T21:59:16 | 333 | 72 |
[FF] Write me a seven sentenced (or less) horror story
Wow guys, I did NOT expect this many feedback from you. You guys just made my night :D | I covered my mouth in shock as the stench rammed into me. I yelled out to my wife, "what the hell are you doing?"
She looked up from the worktable, her body covered in blood and guts, and turned to face me. On the table were the bodies of our two children, along with several other mangled body parts.
She smiled crook... | Although these aren't mine at all, I think you'd like this link: http://thoughtcatalog.com/michael-koh/2013/07/40-freaking-creepy-ass-two-sentence-stories/
But heres my own (I'm terrible at scary stories but I didn't want to just post a link):
I was thinking about trying to get a more tan skin. People are more attrac... | 2014-06-27T16:46:31 | 2014-06-27T15:58:13 | 43 | 12 |
[WP] Voldemort kills Harry Potter and declares war against the Muggles. He loses horribly, because unlike wizards - Muggles actually understand how magic works. | The first five hours in London were a slaughterhouse. The death eaters descended upon the populace with almost a fanatical frenzy, firing lethal salvos of a deadly green tint, killing without mercy. London bridge was one of the first locations in a series of coordinated attacks orchestrated to begin the start of the mu... | It had been an unfitting and humiliating end for the reign of Lord Voldermort. A name once spoken by only a handful of men with the gall to challenge him. Now that name was little more then a footnote in history. One of countless Dark wizards and witches with aspirations as wild as they were unobtainable. And just like... | 2017-07-17T17:23:34 | 2017-07-17T16:55:41 | 834 | 34 |
[WP] A man draws a gun in a dark alley and asks for your wallet. You begrudgingly obey. He throws it on the ground, shoots it till it screeches, and turns to you; "you're safe now". | He threw my wallet on the ground, and shot it until his magazine was empty, every shot made my head jerk back. He then threw the gun on the ground near my wallet, my eyes were narrowed, I was furious.
"Why the hell did you do that? Now I have to request a new ID and credit card."
The man looked up, the hood of his co... | Cries of help bounced up the dirty concrete walls and through the rusty fire escapes. Thick drops of acid rain fell from the gray, polluted sky, pattering against my umbrella. It took a last drag and stubbed out my cigarette.
The alley was like any other in this godforsaken city – windowless, filled with garbage conta... | 2017-07-13T00:49:55 | 2017-07-13T00:36:27 | 223 | 68 |
[WP] Choose an idiom (e.g. "stone-cold killer"). Write the story that caused the phrase to be used literally and therefore introduced it into the language.
Idioms can be from non-English languages also if they work well | In a land far away, there was a young prince that had a weakness.
No mater which plant they were from, seeds made him terribly ill, and for this illness no cure existed.
When this fact was discovered by the court doctors, his father, the king, sent out guards to burn all farms to the ground. No one was to use seeds ag... | “I’m going to need a Memory potion today, good sir.” I leaned against the moldy wooden counter, then thought the better of it when it threatened to give way beneath me. The smell of old, rotting wood, amongst other unpleasant odors, invaded my nose.
“Oh, I do believe I have a few of those left.” The old man stood slow... | 2015-12-10T06:50:00 | 2015-12-10T05:15:54 | 43 | 11 |
[WP] Multiple personalities are the norm. You are the first person to be diagnosed with SPD: Single Personality Disorder. Scientists are baffled: "How can you possibly cope with being so alone?" | I woke up to the sound of rain outside my window. A calming sound amidst the craziness that was my life. I crawled out of bed and got some medicine for my headache. The bottle was almost out. I would have to ask my mom for more. On top of the loads of other meds they kept me doped up on, you’d think that they could at ... | They told me something was wrong with me. I said that I was pretending to be multiple people and they said that was wrong. That I shouldn't have to pretend. They said that I was lonely without anyone else in my head.
"We haven't ever met anyone who was alone in their head", they told me. "You aren't like the rest of... | 2016-11-18T14:57:04 | 2016-11-18T11:47:31 | 32 | 11 |
[WP] You are a demon trapped in an ancient temple build by a long dead civilization. Today, after millennia, an archaeologist finds you. Now you need to convince him to free you from the magic circle. | The near hollow chamber echoed with remanence of a time long forgotten. The only light entering was from the cracks as the sun fell in winters, peaking through the wall near what was once an entrance. Now covered in ivy and nearly locked by dirt and dust. In the center sat bound by chains forged from obsidian, a queen.... | My crumpled form lay hunched over on the sand stone floor. The room is unnaturally cool for being in a desert wasteland of sand and sun, a characteristic abused by the Egyptians when making tombs for Pharos. Lower chance of decomposition. How demoralizing. A god placed into a chamber for kings. My knees are bent, my fo... | 2020-12-06T15:17:27 | 2020-12-06T14:21:45 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] In an effort to identify different species, you create a device that can scan an animal and tell you its DNA. You decide to test it on your cat. Delighted it even works, you look at the screen. "0% Cat" | All the best inventions came for the sake of convenience. Sure, there were other factors, such as curiosity and pushing the limits of human ingenuity, but the core factor was either making a process easier or obsoleting it by finding and easier way.
Well, my claim to fame (or what will be) will make the identificatio... | I looked up from the screen and at my cat. I knew the device worked, I had practically unlimited funding from Havered, a team of genius assistants, and access to every genome ever documented. The device had to have worked. And yet, it said my cat was not a cat. Just as the implications of this started to occur to me, t... | 2021-12-17T21:18:53 | 2021-12-17T19:51:03 | 148 | 92 |
[WP] You are the necromancer of the party, and dead humans don't seem to be very effective against the evil emperor's goons. One day the party leader exits the local bookstore and hands you a book. The title reads, "Tyrannosaurs, Mammoths and Giant Millipedes: An Almanac of Prehistoric Life".
Someone please write a st... | Targhul held the book thoughtfully, drumming his black nails across the open pages. *It was possible...*
He looked up at Doug, the idiot that had brought him the book. Doug probably couldn't even read the cover, and had brought him the book after seeing the pretty picture. Doug cocked his head, tongue poking slightly... | I should have expected this. I *really* should have expected this, but I was too eager for the upgrade. Too excited to have more in my arsenal than half-rotted meatshields. Now all we've done is waste months digging rocks out of the mountainside.
"Lazarus, why isn't doing anything? Did you not have enough materials?" ... | 2021-08-10T23:35:05 | 2021-08-10T22:06:01 | 28 | 16 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | "Alright, so you're telling me that if I beat you at ANY game I can go back for another 10 years?!" said the man.
"Yes." said Death. "Any game of your choosing. Cheating is all-"
"Yeah, yeah. Cheating yadda yadda. I heard it the first time." the man snapped.
Death furled what the man assumed to be his brow at the ma... | “You got it?”
The question takes me off guard, I’m still trying to process this new info. The tall man with the black hooded cloak at the end of my bed tilted his head slightly, the scythe that rested in the crook of his arm caught the moonlight ominously.
“Sorry, this outfit does normally startles people. How’s this... | 2018-03-07T06:04:24 | 2018-03-07T02:57:36 | 97 | 46 |
[WP] Since you were born you could see a search bar over people's heads. All you had to do was think and the search bar would fill out and give you information/statistics. Out of boredom one day you decide to search your whole family with"Number of people killed" | I muttered, "Number of people killed." And as expected, baby Mateo and baby Amelia had zero.
So I quietly head down to the dining room and saw my aunt setting the table. I muttered those words again. And it was no surprise the results said she had killed 8 people. But the number on her head kept blinking back and fort... | My dad is a Vietnam vet, and never talked about it much. I know from my mom he has pretty severe ptsd. I felt guilty for wanting to know, but I couldn’t help it. The number kinda surprised me, 12. It was more than I expected, and I instantly had half a dozen more questions I wanted answers to.
But I couldn’t bring... | 2019-07-01T21:46:23 | 2019-07-01T20:07:43 | 289 | 215 |
[WP] A battle mage is stranded on a desert island
Unfortunately, most of their spells are designed for combat. No teleportation or other magical transportation, and no astral projection or other magical communication. How does the mage get back to civilization, Castaway style?
I'd also love to hear about how they got... | Westen's brow furrowed as he concentrated on his task. His left palm felt the searing heat of fire, years of training numbing him to any pain it might cause, his right palm felt a cool chill of the darkest winter. Before him salt water bubbled up from a iron pot he had salvaged from the ship wreck. Above the pot, a mis... | Liliana Icemagus was exactly what her surname implied. She was an ice-mage, a mage specializing in all things related to frozen water. Which was a shame, really, because she was sort of in a desert.
She thought it was a kind of divine irony, really. One moment, she was in the midst of a pitched battle over some unicor... | 2015-12-18T07:11:29 | 2015-12-18T06:53:03 | 40 | 12 |
[WP] You can taste lies. One day your friend is comforting you after a tough night and you almost vomit at the foul taste as you hear her say "After all, you're only human." | It was a taste I noticed in lies. A cheap metallic. A flavour like a greasy coin from a cheap greasy spoon diner.
It was a trait that benefitted me greatly where I went. The liars and the honest were seperated, at the cost of childhood.
"Can I have your cookie? I'll be your friend" she asked. We were in kindergarten ... | "Hey" James said as he slumped down on the couch beside me, beer in hand. "Hey, it's OK".
Well, it technically wasn't, but I didn't really want to argue with him either, so I just sat there and contemplated how to best kill myself.
"It really wasn't your fault that you got fired..." I felt a familiar bitter taste in ... | 2018-05-12T05:31:31 | 2018-05-12T05:24:41 | 96 | 25 |
[WP] Do the crime, do the time - but the reverse is also true, you can choose to serve jail time in advance of any crime you want to commit. After voluntarily spending 50 years in prison one individual is set to be released and the world watches in anticipation of whatever they do next. | Sorry for any typos, written on mobile.
Edit: To the kind person who gave me gold, [thank you](https://media2.giphy.com/media/kkAdqZnvhsc12/giphy.gif) :)
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#The Ex-Con#
Officer Gurira watched impassively as a wrinkled face took a seat across from him. PC-502, otherwise known as Adam Forester, was the oldest convict... | ######[](#dropcap)
Duke Paredes stepped out of the Fulton County Prehabilitation Penitentiary into a cool, breezy spring morning. The sun shone through from behind a cloud, and he allowed himself to bathe in the warmth of its rays as the door closed behind him. There was something different about being on the other si... | 2016-02-23T18:24:54 | 2016-02-23T18:02:49 | 843 | 22 |
[WP] When a twin dies their brother/sister acquires all their strength, intelligence, etc. You've just discovered this phenomena, but so has your brother/sister | "It's not worth it," I heard.
I can hear my heart beat. My healthy, fully functional, 18 year old heart.
"Please don't do this." My brother, again.
My brother is in there. His heart is beating, but it can't be calm. Mine is a slow thumping noise.
"It won't fix anything. It won't." He referenes a debt that... | Jaime looked at me, his arctic irises digging into mine. He sprinted, bare-handed, in my direction. Softly, I position my left foot, in preparation. As the avalanche comes near me, I dart under his outreached left arm, and as he slows in reaction, I kick him in the side.
Breathe. I have to breathe if I'm going to win.... | 2018-02-25T08:15:55 | 2018-02-25T04:45:16 | 1,595 | 22 |
[WP] You are a cow.
[removed] | ^Moo.
^Moo.
I am a cow.
Can you not see.
that I live?
.
in the country.
.
^Moo.
I am a cow.
.
The hills are high.
The grass is green.
.
I am headed to be a fat holstein.
.
^Moo.
I am a cow.
.
I chew my cud.
I eat my hay.
.
It is the same.
Old.
Damned.
Thing.
Every.
Day.
.
Farmer... | I am a cow. Sometimes I'll escape from my pen after dark. It's easier when there are clouds; it's darker, and I can move unseen. But occasionally, if I feel daring, I'll do it on a moonlit night. The shadows seem deeper then, but in open land I could be spotted at any time. It's so exciting to be where I shouldn't be.
... | 2017-10-02T06:49:36 | 2017-10-02T06:49:08 | 162 | 13 |
[WP] Every child is given a pet rock when they turn ten. For the next decade the rock slowly forms into a shape that resembles the personality of its owner. Your rock still looks like a rock. | The problem with the rocks is that no one tells you when you get them that they'll be the basis on which everyone judges your motives and underlying humanity should you let anyone see yours. It's no wonder most people hide theirs. I never did but its obvious I should have. A dead end job going on ten years all to pay f... | It was a hot afternoon in 1996. There he stands, holding his rock and pacing in front of a door he is too conflicted to open. The frustration is clearly building on his face.
After so many years of trying to be a great person, trying to be caring and charming, trying to be charitable and putting others wishes before ... | 2018-05-02T06:32:34 | 2018-05-02T05:29:16 | 29 | 20 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | "DEUS VULT!"
The battlecry of the newly reborn Papal State rang on the lips of devout Catholics the world over. The faithful had come together once again to rid the Holy Land of the infidel scourge. Pope Francis stood at the head of his army, a not-so-ceremonial sword flashing in his hand as he held it up on the stree... | "Sirs," said the man who burst into the room,
"What, can't you see we are doing important work," said the representative of the USA as he and his colleagues took another shot. They were watching something on the television.
"Well, sir, ISIS has surrendered, unconditionally."
Everyone in the room said, unanimously, "... | 2016-01-29T10:03:10 | 2016-01-29T09:04:29 | 82 | 11 |
[WP] First rule of having a interstellar Navy never get into a arms race with humans it never ends well for anyone. | Admiral Kthath sat in his office dreading the conversation he knew was coming. He'd had it before, of course, and doubtless would have it again many times before the end of his career, but he never enjoyed them. His musing was interrupted by the tone of his entry chime, and he pushed the button to open the door as he... | Emperor Qi looked out upon his fleet with a feeling of immense pride. Since the death of his father, Qi had sought to raise the standing of his homeworld in the eyes of Galactic Citadel. His father, Emperor Xi, believed in maintaining the status quo, "as long as the waters of Azuchi stay blue and the air clean we suc... | 2021-06-14T14:15:10 | 2021-06-14T11:41:15 | 155 | 111 |
[WP]Tell me an emotional story about a man, using only what he would type into Google search | How to impress a woman if you don't have money
Average penis size
Natural ways to increase penis length
Penis pumps do they work?
Painful swelling of penis how to heal?
Fast ways to lengthen your penis -pump
Average cost of male enlargement pills
Discount penis enlargement pills for sale cheap
Credit ca... | Facebook
Tumbler
Spanish Inquisition
Google Translate
Jobs in Appleton, WI
*Clear History*
Calc chat
Facebook
Best way to hide bruises
*Clear History*
Cheap Bus tickets
Cheap apartments Appleton WI
Emancipated Minor?
*Clear History*
Gmail
Tumblr
Counseling confidentiality rules for minors
Free Counseli... | 2015-02-04T16:58:26 | 2015-02-04T16:52:51 | 555 | 46 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | I felt disgusted, wondering why. The confusion invading my mind....
Years of having this Gallery to bring happiness and joy through art to those around me, and even more years of helping the less fortunate throughout the Great Depression.
I sought to find a reason, asking myself « why would I have black blood pouring... | It was my 21st birthday. Like every other birthday, I decided to spend my day helping out the homeless. Usually I’d do the soup kitchen but a friend of mine decided to come along insisting that we join in on the beanie knitting project.
My friend called me a natural at knitting since it was my first time and my first ... | 2018-08-04T11:29:17 | 2018-08-04T10:32:26 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] When someone is murdered, their name appears on the skin of the killer. You wake up with a name on your arm and no knowledge of how it got there. | I stared at the name on my arm.
It was a name I didn't know. Had never heard of.
I frowned at it. I squinted at the letters. It took me several moments before I realized that it wasn't inkpen. Wasn't sharpie. Whatever it was was permanent. And I knew how things worked.
These markings only appeared if you killed an... | "Well, this is new, a tattoo embedded onto the arm of mine, but I' ve no recollection of how it got here but, at least it doesn't hurt. What happened last night? Well I went from work at 3:15 pm and I went to the... damn it what is that damn place called? It had a weird name. Fuck. Where am I? Well let's see..." The cr... | 2017-03-24T16:11:24 | 2017-03-24T13:35:49 | 340 | 20 |
[WP]Deities are literally born to life out of human belief systems. Unfortunately, this means that the other gods in the divine realm now have to put up with The God of Atheism. | It was like any other day for the Gods. Zeus and Thor were playing darts with lightning bolts and the Mjolnir, Jesus was pricking his fingers to fill his glass, it was the good life. Then Grothuk, God of Atheism, came in the door screaming in terror.
"GAAHHHAHA JESUS HELP ME!" He cried, "SPIDER!"
"Grothuk, you are ... | The Pantheon grew exponentially as mankind evolved and learned. Tribal deities were joined by the Greek gods, those of Roman mythology, eventually Jesus, Allah and the other Anno Domini Deities (ADDs). Though each new era of man bought with it new gods and a difficulty in acclimating to them, there were no troubles for... | 2015-08-01T10:45:44 | 2015-08-01T08:17:35 | 575 | 287 |
[WP] Two friends are inseparable, even in death. They are reincarnated together no matter what, same era and location, and they always meet each other.
Write about them and what they do together throughout time.
Edit: wow thanks so much for the awesome responses so far! I've never had a prompt get this much attention... | I used to look for her green eyes. The shade of emerald green was never quite replicated in the iris of anyone but her. Even as her skin and hair darkened and the tongues she spoke varied, the color of her eyes was always the same.
I first met her in Paris. We walked along the streets. I was studying art. She was stud... | We've always been friends.
Sometimes a royal and a commoner, sometimes comrades, sometimes just average joes.
We've witnessed each other change over each lifetime, we've seen each other's mistakes.
Sometimes different political views, sometimes even enemies on a battlefield.
Sometimes we even go into a time where w... | 2015-05-02T10:40:25 | 2015-05-02T10:39:49 | 111 | 48 |
[WP] A kid tries to talk the monster under the bed into attacking the monster in the closet. | "Have you decided yet?"
A soft rumble shook my bed and I clutched the baseball tighter under my pillow
"I mean, the day you get me, who's gonna get what? I can't keep you guys company forever you know.."
I heard silence. It was rare it fell asleep before I ever did.
The closet creaked open the silence, and it was acc... | *A child bolts up in bed panicking. His name is Jonas. The sound that startled continues as it rattles the closet slightly.*
"Clawbite...?" Julian said curiously. "Clawbite, are you there?"
".. Yes, Jonas?" a voice from the below grumbles. "Is something the matter?"
"I can't sleep, something just made a sound in my ... | 2015-09-06T06:20:23 | 2015-09-06T01:36:00 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] The "violent videogames teach you how to use a gun" thing is true for you. Literally. Everything you learn in videogames, you can do in real life as well. You realize you have that power when you drink an energy drink after a bad injury and you find yourself completely healed. | I was sick, the only release I had was playing varies mmorpgs, platformers, and survival games. I was in the hospital for several months. One morning however I ate my usual breakfast and fell asleep again. When I woke up, the doctor said my vitals were fine, my sickness miraculously vanished. How? I did nothing differe... | At first I was really excited, Imagine all the cool things I could do. I could be a super hero, or a powerful mage, the rules of the the normal world no longer apply to me, I can do anything!
Very soon however I realized the rules did apply to me, but the rules of the world had changed. Maybe the rules were always lik... | 2018-08-14T11:20:45 | 2018-08-14T11:03:17 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] 100 years in the future dank memes are precious artifacts. While scanning your grandpa's PC, you stumble upon the rarest of all... | Memes.
Back in the old days, before the blackout, everyone had 'em. In every PC, in every browser, you'd find Pepes, Advice animals, Rage comics, Montage Parody's and all the inbetween, all the shades of the double-rainbow.
And then, you know, they became a bit harder to find.
It became obvious our society could si... | I looked at the dilapidated thing in front of me. Was this really what they used as computers back in the day? How were you supposed to shitpost if you needed to use your hands? They were rarely covered in shit at all and they were slow and clunky.
I checked around either side of the machine for Nero imports to insert... | 2015-12-12T10:08:18 | 2015-12-12T10:02:26 | 1,958 | 60 |
[WP] When a child is born, their parents may pick one skill that the child will be, without a doubt, talented in.
**EDIT** Wow! This went way bigger than I ever thought it would! Thanks to everyone that responded to the prompt! And to the readers - don't be afraid of the new filter, there are a lot of great stories he... | The effect of the gifts was less pronounced than was thought. Every generation, parents would look at what was lacking in in their time and ensure that their children were good at it. This led to cycles of overabundance and scarcity of skills; one generation we have millions of brilliant scientists; the next we have n... | (please forgive any grammar mistakes, long story as to why I suck at it...Trying to improve.
"I think he should be a talented SLADE mechanic, it is the family heritage after all!" Harry, the boys father stated tapping his foot impatiently. His wife had been pushing for there son to be an artist.
"Everything is not ab... | 2015-01-13T14:00:01 | 2015-01-13T10:30:23 | 43 | 19 |
[WP] You are on a flight from Beijing to Seoul. Its should be a short two-hour flight, but five hours have passed and the plane has still not landed. There is nothing outside but dense cloud cover. There is no food left on the plane.The staff are confused. People are starting to panic. | It all started 43 minutes and 22 seconds after the plane has lifted off. Firstly, with shutting down of all auxiliary electrics of the aircraft and a slight loss of control, but then everything was fine again. Chang, promising executive of 34 years old was merely concerned with this small inconvenience. At the end of t... | I'm scared, but more confused. I woke up in a daze, people murmuring questions around me not in a panic but discontent. The flight attendants all huddled towards the front, but I don't understand a thing they say. I'm on a business trip, flying from Beijing to Seoul; a flight that would normally last a matter of two ho... | 2018-06-02T06:16:47 | 2018-06-02T05:32:28 | 26 | 13 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | We thought getting rid of them would bring a stable peace to the World.
After all... Americans started the war. They were the main Military power on Earth. Without them in the picture, we wouldn't see a need to fight one another anymore. Real issues like Global Warming could finally be dealt with.
We expected World P... | No one know why.
Or how.
But they knew where; here, Home.
Or what remained. A crippled nation, shriveled into isolation by a mixture of fear and disgust over their own actions. Perhaps society was recklessly distraught; not one individual left without trauma; and thought it better to die than to endure another war. ... | 2018-01-18T00:24:00 | 2018-01-18T00:11:50 | 254 | 34 |
[WP] Your paintings come to life. People beg you to depict departed family members, exotic treasures, even tiny universes. A penniless, beaming monk requests you paint something that makes YOU happy. Having rendered every lover, ambition, and utopia, you're at a complete loss for where to begin.
Edit: Thanks so much, ... | "What is happiness, you ask?", the old monk contemplated, smiling at the man sitting opposite him.
"Why, you can have anything...*anything* in the world, Joseph. Anything you can possibly want, with a few strokes of a pencil, it will be there in front of you", the monk said. "The more accurate question, my good man, i... | Everything was strange, almost magical in the way it looked. The crying faces of strangers asking “I miss uncle Gregg and want to see him again” or some other similar form of work, a life sentenced to eternally drawing everyone else’s desires.
It all stayed the same, day in day out painting and drawing everything anyb... | 2021-07-29T18:12:28 | 2021-07-29T17:59:37 | 126 | 85 |
[WP] You, an astronaut in orbit, submit an Amazon Prime order (free two day shipping) as a joke, with the address set to the ISS. Amazon does not think this is a joke. | "You did *what?*"
"Look, I just—" I sighed, placing a hand on the back of my neck. "I just thought it would be sorta funny to see Amazon try to... bring it here..."
"That doesn't excuse the fact that there are now 100 copies of *Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy* at the *INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.*"
"Yes, I know, I... | Two day shipping.
Day one.
--
A suited man walks onto the slender, gleaming jet, and gently places a brown box on the seat next to him. He settles himself by wriggling into the comfy leather, and leans back to rest, eyes closing to leave his thin face peaceful. Tonight promises to be a long night.
--
Dimitri whi... | 2016-10-27T11:29:03 | 2016-10-27T09:26:55 | 96 | 52 |
[WP] The Reapers come every 50 thousand years to wipe out organic life that has reached the stars however this time, this time they arrive at the heaviest resistance they have every encountered. In the grim darkness of the future they find 40k. | In the eternal silence of dark space, Harbinger thought. It's thoughts, largely taking place over the span of millenia were now firing at a frantic pace, stressing the limits of its cybernetic neurons as it processed the vast array of data its brethren were collecting from the Milky Way.
What was immediately clear at ... | It's a little hard to describe the vast mental network of the Reapers -- a scaffolding of intertwined thoughts and programmed imparatives so complex, the term "hive mind" is laughably inadequate -- in words the human mind can process. Nonetheless, a brief translation will be attempted:
- "... well, jesus. At this poin... | 2017-08-27T09:28:07 | 2017-08-27T09:00:01 | 32 | 11 |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | If he was hitting on her, he was going about it all wrong.
Or better yet, Isla thought, he didn’t need to be doing this shit at all. There was a point where the congenital superiority of Parathi crossed the line from barely tolerable to completely infuriating, and Professor Eristeed had jumped across it as only a quad... | "Yes, Alexis? Anything to add about your species? It would be great to hear from someone with more direct first hand knowledge"
"Umm well... I have a few concerns... not many of which are with the source material. It is pretty accurate, slavery and ownership of people of the same species as us. The multiple wars. And ... | 2021-11-27T08:11:37 | 2021-11-27T07:41:30 | 1,452 | 1,063 |
[WP] "Some days, I love my job. Those days are the worst." | For the most part, I usually feel nothing when I give myself over to my clients. I act the part, make them feel good, give them release. For them, it's an expensive and illicit thrill. For me, it's just business.
And yet...there are days when my body responds, and the moans I make are not manufactured but real, and my... | The woman's eyes lost focus and fell to the floor. Tears followed her gaze. They were big enough to make a sound when they hit the linoleum.
"Can't you give us a little more time?" She asked. I tried and failed to meet her eyes.
"I'm sorry, ma'am. There's nothing I can do." I replied. I scanned the room and silentl... | 2015-07-16T07:49:11 | 2015-07-16T07:16:26 | 98 | 29 |
[WP] Everyone is given a prophecy at the instant of their birth. For most people, it is a short, cryptic sentence. Kings and Presidents often get a whole paragraph. Your daughter is four days old, and the Oracle is still scribbling furiously. | One hundred and six hours. The Oracle stayed hunched over her desk four sunrises and five sunsets before finally laying her quill to rest for the first and final time.
The moment the ink was dry, she sent it to us by messenger boy. He came at the crest of night, pounding like a madman at the door. I was up because Zi... | "Please, just a glance, Scribe."
She waved her hand at me, shooing me from her desk. The baby cried, my wife rocked her slowly in her arms and hummed gently. The scribe's apprentice ran in with a fresh bottle of ink and set it and a small stack of parchment on the desk. It was tradition that only the four of us be all... | 2017-12-30T18:13:26 | 2017-12-30T17:44:05 | 107 | 25 |
[WP] The world's most passive-aggressive, condescending firefighters are here to help.
Bonus points for an interesting emergency. | Dear Sir or Madam,
We regret to inform you that while you were away your Structure/ Vehicle/ Property/ Beloved Pet/ Loved One suffered severe and catastrophic damage or bodily harm as a result of combustion. The Townsville Fire Department responded to this event and did everything humanly possible to save lives and pr... | Neville popped his hot pocket into the microwave. Finally, after 5 long hours of his first day at work, it was lunch time.
"Bloody company can't even afford proper microwaves.." he grumbled under his breath as he turned the old fashioned dial to 1:20 and hit start. While his disappointing lunch spun meaningless circl... | 2014-09-04T18:38:09 | 2014-09-04T17:47:04 | 65 | 14 |
[WP] When you die, you don't go to the afterlife of you're religion, you go to the afterlife of the religion whose tenets you followed most closely, knowingly or not. | "Valhalla!? What do you mean Valhalla!?" The monk asked angrily.
"Look pal, when the vikings attacked your monastery you fought back. Hell, you even killed one of them. That's not what monks do." Exclaimed the Valkyrie
"But I'm a god loving christian! I can't be in Valhalla!"
"Like it or not, you died in battle. T... | You wake under a plain cloth blanket, one that you really didn't need as it's perfectly comfortable here and you're already dressed.
You remember getting pissed at Tim about the pool game and how he was being a little hardheaded on giving up the table after you'd won. But just snippets of it are coming back like the ... | 2016-03-07T20:07:55 | 2016-03-07T19:29:38 | 53 | 18 |
[WP] The most prestigious orchestra in the world improves its playing each concert by killing the worst player after every performance.
My friend gave me the idea for this after joking about how they do this. | The audience rose, applause thundering from the black-suited men and gown-clad women. The spotlights went into a dazzling frenzy, making Clementina Franz's eyes water.
"Thank you, thank you," Anatoly Bolenov's voice boomed from the speakers. "It was our pleasure to bring you Rimsky Korsakov's finest—"
Clementina tigh... | He knew the risks, but the rewards - the rewards were intangible.
Seriously. Money. Nope. Nobody cares about orchestras - even the best one ever. Football players might get concussions that leave them all messed up, but at least they are feeling numb in a pool in the little back yard of their mansion, staring blankly ... | 2016-03-03T20:57:36 | 2016-03-03T17:24:59 | 53 | 19 |
[WP] The bombs stopped falling. Slowly, you opened the bunker's door. You did not expect what you saw. Make it as scary as possible. Now, take this story and tell it to a five year old without frightening him/ her. | Hey, *hey*, tch. What’d I say about going near the windows?
See the sun? We call that ‘twilight’. Can you say that with me? ‘Twilight’.
What happens during twilight? That’s right, we can’t go near the windows, okay, buddy? If I lost you I don’t know what I’d do. It’s just you and me out here, you got it?
Yes, that’s... | My muscles tensed in anticipation of the explosions. As the whistling sound grew in intensity I knew the moment had arrived. We held hands and prayed while the children slept through their fiery pending deaths.
*SQUONKA SQUONKA*
What the hell?! The sound continued, sometimes close by, then farther away, but o... | 2015-05-11T04:44:38 | 2015-05-11T03:25:56 | 413 | 61 |
[WP] Superpowers can now be torrented. You were 70% of the way through torrenting a power you've always wanted when the download stops. | Sixty-two percent.
It had taken months to get this far; the file size was huge and I had limited bandwidth thanks to the connection I was using. If I'd been on some unlimited deal I probably would have been done in just a week or two, but it's just not available out here. I'm lucky I can even get this much.
What was ... | I've always wanted to have superpowers. I remember back when I was in the third grade I would run two miles home from school everyday, just so that I could watch the latest episode of the Super Man cartoon show. I was so obsessed with being a super hero that some days I would come to school wearing a red cape. Needless... | 2016-07-02T18:47:10 | 2016-07-02T18:09:05 | 57 | 17 |
[Wp] Write a story that will make me question my morality.
Write a story that is so shocking it will make me question my morality.
Edit: Wow.
| Tonight he would finally do it. Michael curled his fists and looked down at the still form of his wife. Her face was calm in sleep, a startling contrast to the face she wore when awake. He thought again of last night, of her flailing knife, the clumsy attempts to hurt him. The unpredictable shifts between frenzied ange... | It's not the best of my writing, but I couldn't see such a great prompt, with a very difficult task go to waste. I have decided to pour out my small amount of talent into this prompt. Feel honored or amused, your choice.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... | 2014-07-07T07:22:27 | 2014-07-07T06:58:02 | 308 | 34 |
[WP] A kid doodling in a math class accidentally creates the world's first functional magic circle in centuries.
Magic being real in the past is your choice really. | "...to the power of 2, that way..."
Mrs. Patterson stopped, glancing down at Ed's notebook.
"Well, it appears that Mr. Anderson is a little more advanced than the rest of the class." She smiled her annoying
smile. "Edward, why don't you tell the class what it is that you are doing?"
Ed looked down at the doodle -- ... | The clock reads ten till two, and David is bored. He looks at the front of the room where the teacher is marking up the board with numbers David doesn't understand. In the center is a circle and all kinds of symbols David has seen a hundred times yet he still doesn't understand. He looks back at his sheet of paper, alm... | 2015-03-13T15:00:45 | 2015-03-13T15:00:21 | 90 | 11 |
[WP] They told you that you were going to lead an army, 10,000 men strong, they didn't tell you it contained only a single trained soldier, and 9,999 support musicians. | "Sir, we've got reports from the Northern front," the adjutant stated in a dry voice. The general looked at him expectantly.
"The 3rd combined division has secured Kehner river and is currently building an outpost for further excursions."
The general nodded contently.
"However," the adjutant continued, "the Luhner c... | When the music began, I wasn’t expecting this to work at all. No matter how powerful the bards could be, and I had seen them work some interesting miracles before, they had always worked best at empowering a group. Focusing teamwork, providing communication of a sorts so that a party of adventurous heroes could follow ... | 2022-09-23T10:19:14 | 2022-09-23T09:54:22 | 277 | 197 |
[WP] The genie granted your wish: to be able to understand and speak every language. Your mind is flooded with thousands upon thousands of dead and living languages, human and alien alike. But, most surprisingly, you also now understand the operating system running the universe. | "Java. The entire universe runs on an outdated version of Java? Are you kidding me?"
The Genie chuckled. "What did you expect?"
"Not fucking *Java*, that's for sure," I replied. "Come on, we're going back home. I need some time to process this."
"Your wish is my command," the Genie said with a sly grin.
"That wasn'... | ***To understand is not the same as to have the ability to communicate..***
This is one of the first thoughts to flit across my frantically overloaded mind, in several different languages simultaneously, fittingly enough...
Sure I could speak every language, but never the one I wanted in a given situation anymore. T... | 2018-10-18T13:42:48 | 2018-10-18T12:01:54 | 508 | 79 |
[WP] Drunkenly, you accidentally pour vodka into your pet's water bowl. As a result, your pet breaks the number one rule: do not speak to your owner... Ever.
Did NOT expect this amount of replies. Thanks guys! It'll be an interesting read. | "Man, what the fuck. This could seriously kill me."
"Nawdawg . . ." My eyes were closed. My head tilted forward, chin resting on my chest.
"No, really. Like I can smell that this is poison."
"NOOO!" Dogs are so STUPID. "It'sss fucking SKY man."
"I don't give a shit what it is, I'm not drinking it."
I continued po... | (AN: I seem to have interpreted the prompt a bit differently than most. I'm also writing this on my phone, so I'll edit for grammar in the morning.)
'Fucking college students.' Skittles often wondered what fueled the obsession to keep vodka in water bottles, much less the stupidity needed to keep such a bottle right n... | 2016-08-02T20:54:01 | 2016-08-02T20:53:54 | 30 | 10 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | I look over at my new favorite mug. After they started showing actual rankings, I was proud to have my #19 mug. #19 out of the potentially billions of dads in the world. I felt pretty good about myself. I was wondering why it wasn't higher, but you can't really complain. The mugs were normally blank, but if whoever hel... | "Bruce, bug off, I don't care."
"But we'd have so much fun! My treat!"
Bruce had been calling 3 times a day, every day. 'Let's go to the zoo!' 'I've got tickets to show!' 'How bout an adventure?'
At 25 years old, I didn't need this. I'd gone through most of life without his time, without his money, without his love.... | 2019-04-18T18:25:29 | 2019-04-18T16:52:21 | 25 | 14 |
[WP] You've been convicted of 1st degree murder, and (as is customary in society) are sentenced to "death by black-hole." You expect death as your capsule approaches the event horizon. After crossing, everything goes silent, until you hear someone say "Sir, I've found another one." | My capsule hurtled toward a black hole and all I could do was wait. I couldn't move much in my sophisticated coffin as I waited to be buried deep in a hole in space. But at least I had a little window to peak at the stars as I plummeted to my doom. It's the little things.
Death by Black Hole. That was the sentence for... | "Quiescence."
Euphemism marks the death of thought. For those who have done the unthinkable, euphemism marks the birth of hate. I sat and waited to hear that word uttered again as a farewell. They must have been adjusting schedules to witness my *departure* as I searched for cracks in a seamless wall. Wishing I h... | 2017-07-14T01:41:48 | 2017-07-14T00:26:56 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] You are a mobster. A particularly successful one at that. But as your turf becomes gentrified, the absurdly priced furniture in your 'Front' store actually starts selling. | Must’ve been 30 years ago my father bought that shop. I was a kid at the time and he made me work there every day. When I say work, he made me study.
He needed someone he could trust to do his books and I was pretty good at numbers. Now, I’m no genius. Anyone in their right mind would agree. But I clean up alright and... | It was another eventful day, our guys went and got the money collected and those who couldn't repay, well we made sure to put them into use for others not to default. After all I have a reputation to keep. I came here to this city in search of a job 10 years ago but when I had beat up the security guard for not giving ... | 2019-08-10T16:21:54 | 2019-08-10T15:39:02 | 118 | 41 |
[WP] God gets bored.
Go nuts on this one and take it wherever you want, I'll look forward to reading them. | 01010111 01100101 01101100 01101100 00101100 00100000 01100101 01110110 01100101 01110010 01111001 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01110011 01100101 01100101 01101101 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01100010 01100101 00100000 01110010 01110101 01101110 01101110 01101001 01101110 01100... | Jesus stared blankly at it. His eyes passed over the contours of it's small body. He took a moment to compose himself before turning back to God.
"And why did you make this again?" He asked in a bewildered tone.
"Dunno. I was bored and had some spare parts lying around." His tone indicating that he had put more effort... | 2013-12-05T08:49:19 | 2013-12-05T08:46:20 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] You're a superhero. Despite saving the city 4 times a week your hates by the community. While fighting one of your villains a crowd gathers to boo you. The villain you're fighting stops turn to the crowd and says "listen here you ungrateful brats" | (quick sidenote, this is one of the best things that i have ever been given)
He was on the verge of death. Even in his many decades of saving the town. The people around him were booing him. “listen here, you ungrateful brats” the demonic voice that carried that message echoed throughout the street. Everyone stopped. ... | You have heard that there is a villain in a convenience store. As you are superjumping your way to the scene, you see a crowd around the convenience store, laughing and talking, with coke and hamburgers in their hands. Among them is a TV station man with a camera.
'You're out of pickles!!!!!!!'
Hey! You'r... | 2022-06-17T05:56:23 | 2022-06-17T03:35:23 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] Years ago you found a baby dragon that had been abandoned. You carefully helped mend its wounds and taught it to hunt and survive on its own. Now, years later, the dragon has returned to you with some of its young. It wants you to raise its weakest hatchling. | I thought it was a cat, I really did. It mewed in the deep grass, and if I hadnt stopped and taken out my earphones, I probably would've passed by without a second thought, never noticing the mottled green-blue body of an animal about the size of your average mutt.
I expected to see a next of kittens, abandoned in the... | 7:57 AM - Step into office.
7:59 AM - Get fresh copy of Motion for Summary Judgment in Aaerinshalia vs Duersing Mining off copier.
8:01 AM - Get a cup of coffee (Novelty "Lawyers Do It with Jurisprudence" Mug, 2 French Vanilla Creamers, 3 Splenda) from machine.
8:05 AM - Open Office Door.
8:06 AM - Notice naked wom... | 2018-04-04T20:15:57 | 2018-04-04T16:36:21 | 452 | 158 |
[WP] You and your significant other are running for your lives from a slasher killer. Suddenly your partner ducks into a door and locks it behind them leaving you behind. You slump against the door preparing for the worst. The killer walks up and says "Wow what a jerk. You ok?" | The killer was advancing, stepping through the woods towards our cabin, an ominous shadow of death.
”Sarah!” I yelled. ”Go to the house!”. The house wasn't far, but the killer wasn't far either.
Sarah took off running, barely managing to avoid slipping on the slick forest floor, leaves flying everywhere, coupled with... | Our lives are made up of moments that make us who we are. Once you live your life with somebody your moments become entwined.
All our moments together, now cast in a new light. Your adorable unwillingness to let me eat your food, you never liked to share anything with me. Your stubborn refusal to pick up your shirts,... | 2020-10-10T08:58:29 | 2020-10-10T07:59:47 | 132 | 42 |
[WP] The most difficult part of being a Supervillian? Find love, not because other people won't like you, but because the stupid Superheros will swoop in and "rescue" your date every time, but this time you have a plan, and it's going to work. | *Any moment, now.*
I glanced to the windows and skylights that drenched me in sunlight, panels of crystalline glass so huge that a blind man could pick me out from the amongst the diners. On second thought, picking a location with so much fragility may not have been a stroke of genius.
"Are you okay, dear?" my darlin... | "Finally, it is complete. Now, nothing can ruin my plans!" I threw back my bead and laughed as I pulled the chicken out of the oven and set it on the table.
"Our plans, you mean," Elizabeth said. I had kidnapped her last month, but we had hit it off. She came back and we had started dating in secret. She sighed. "Do y... | 2022-11-30T23:13:37 | 2019-02-23T07:55:50 | 1,144 | 34 |
[WP] You're a renowned author who's still going to school. Annoyingly, your English teacher is reading way too deeply into your books. | I'm finishing my bachelor's degree in English literature. I want to be a professor. Teach others to love literature, to dissect novels with love and humanity not emotionless like my current professor. She loves to tear into novels and read deeper into them than what is there. This semester is about current literature. ... | The class was almost over, yet the tension in the room only seemed to intensify. As I packed my books away, I heard her voice behind me, as measured and crisp as a spring morning.
"I have a theory," she said, her dark eyes inquisitive. I stopped in my tracks, my heart racing. What had I said or done to conjure such i... | 2022-12-02T09:13:25 | 2022-12-01T22:22:00 | 106 | 21 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | DM: "Alright Jesus, you've just been executed by the Romans, Roll a death save."
Jesus: \*rolls\* "Natural 20."
DM: "Alright you wake up with 1 hp, what do you do?"
Jesus: "Alright I'm gonna play possum"
DM: "Roll a deception check"
Jesus: \*rolls\* Ok that's another 20, plus my charisma modifier which is \+5 so 2... | “... Why don’t we just kill all of them?”
Everyone at the table replied with the same idea: “Are you effing insane?! We can’t just kill an entire religion because we want the city they’re in!”
“Well why not? I mean, it is our land. Jesus said so.”
“You can’t do that, even if you are the Pope!”
The DM interjected, ... | 2018-05-29T09:31:25 | 2018-05-29T09:19:29 | 210 | 13 |
[WP] Last names are assigned at birth by an oracle, and 90% of people find themselves in a related profession. For instance "Miller" or "Baker." Your last name, "World-Ender," has made life rather difficult. | He turned to the stranger next to him. "World-Ender? What will people think? Will they judge me by this name and think I'm that I'm going to bring about the end of the world? That I'm going to usher in the demise of humanity as we know it? That name is going to label me forever as a monster! What will my friends assume... | Hearing the grumbling sounds of the barn house door open, I slowly popped off of my pillow and rubbed my eyes. A man in a mangy flannel walked into the dimly lit area that smelt thickly of dust and piss. Whether it be human or animal was debatable.
The farmer held a a tray of food in his hand. Toast and fresh eggs wi... | 2021-06-19T18:31:32 | 2021-06-19T16:51:24 | 2,066 | 69 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. Nuclear weapons. | The species known as Humans came from a distant star, deep within the swirling vortex all other races had avoided. They brought with them many wondrous advancements including advanced healing never before seen within the known galaxy. Though they were diverse, they had no want for war and would help any in need without... | Vyxis Varix, Emperor of the Ruson Goar and Lord Commander of the Royal fleet closed his eyes and enjoyed a long drag from the cigarette between his fingers, the end glowing bright orange. One of the finer gifts the Humans had introduced to the galaxy. It is a shame that this might be the last time he would indulge in ... | 2020-02-07T13:28:43 | 2020-02-07T13:27:54 | 151 | 41 |
[WP] A new makeup hits the market. When applied, it makes you the most beautiful woman imaginable...but every application takes one day from your life. | She looked resentfully at the creature in the mirror. A wrinkled impostor glared back at her. *Who are you?* it mouthed. She would have cried, but she had long since trained herself not to -- makeup would run, and *that* couldn't possibly happen. When she felt tears coming on she would pinch her left arm. Her grip was ... | *Burlesque music opens the scene of an empty bedroom*
Announcer: Maybe she's....
Announcer: Maybe she's....
Announcer: Maybe she's... irresistible.
*Music builds and ends with the sound of a woman groaning. Up-tempo, catwalk music begins to play as supermodel Faux Fayce enters the bedroom twirling happily in her b... | 2017-01-16T06:37:47 | 2017-01-16T06:28:23 | 54 | 14 |
[WP] You have been paid to write a positive review about a game you hate. Try to make your real feelings clear to the reader, through any means necessary. | I mean, who could possibly hate League of Legends? I mean, I'm sure only jealous people can hate on such a glorious game. Who can forget the bright colorful characters with girls that look like they're fifteen? I mean, I enjoy animated tits and ass like every other nerd who couldn't get into a better game. And let... | Winnie the Pooh: Home Run Derby
10/10
This game, nay, this *masterpiece* truly captures the minds and imaginations of todays youth. And it won't let them go either.
Winnie the Pooh home run derby has all of the classic characters, Pooh bats, Owl runs a shop, everyone else pitches.
The game goes through 10 stages, w... | 2016-04-17T08:28:29 | 2016-04-17T06:35:17 | 106 | 32 |
[WP] "Sudden onset spiky colorful hair can only mean one thing. Your child has... protagonitis. You have mere days to live. I am sorry." "Uh, did you mean THEY have mere days to live?" "No." | "Any other symptoms?" The doctor asked. "A change in wardrobe?"
"Oh, yes! He's suddenly had an obsession with belts. Lots of them! Not just around his waist, either!" Susan said in a half-panic.
"Mhmm... can you tell me anything about his father?"
Susan looked at the ground, sheepishly. "No, not much... He left shor... | "Sure", I said, not looking at the doctor, only at the baby. My child. What would I call him? Fred had wanted to name it Johnathan, if it was a boy, but I had already started talking him out of it. What about... Nick? Yes, Nick. I liked that. It fit with his pink hair perfectly.
"Misses?" asked the doctor. "I'm being ... | 2021-05-11T07:47:55 | 2021-05-11T07:32:25 | 85 | 44 |
[WP] Humankind became extinct, a superior species now inhabits the earth. They dug up the remains of a human being and put it on display in a museum. What should it say on the text plate? | Here lies Man
When Man was hungry, He commanded the earth to yield food
When Man became thirsty, He did not go to the water
He made the water come to Him
When Man wanted to fly, He made His own wings
Man thought He could do all things
But He could not save Himself
Here lies Man -- who called us Best Frien... | "Daddy, daddy, what are those?"
Said the young lad as he pointed his bony fingers to an ice chest.
"Those are the peoples of the past my son."
Drina said, while he walked slowly next to his firstborn kin.
The boy started running joyfully next to the scene encased in translucent ice, sliding his hand over the wal... | 2017-06-10T11:53:43 | 2017-06-10T11:26:26 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] You're a regular guy who works at a Home Depot in Alabama and are unknowingly influencing the Venezuelan economy | Derrick got out of his car and rubbed his eyes, heading to another graveyard shift. He always hated these times, waking up at 11 at night, to work until 6 the next morning, going home to his girlfriend, and trying to get as much sleep as possible. His income was barely above minimum wage, and he always struggled to cur... | ######[](#dropcap)
"Janus, what do you think you're doing?"
Janus Kirkpatrick raised a brow at the question, the stacks of beige boxes and double-wrapped containers obvious evidence as to his actions.
"Stocking. What'd you *think* you're *doing?* Don't you have a shipment of ferns to take care of?"
Vincent DeFris ... | 2016-12-02T12:55:30 | 2016-12-02T12:41:41 | 1,670 | 87 |
[WP] Medieval times, a woman is accused by villagers of being a witch and she is put in a cage to drown, after 3 minutes she is not dead so they burn her at the stake but she survives that too, villagers now realize they finally found a real witch and don’t know what to do next... | The angry mob surrounded the stake built to burn the witch who stood, bound and disheveled, upon it.
The woman herself, Ana was her name, had arrived to their village only a few months before - presenting herself as a healer via herbs and medicine.
William stood amongst the crowd and thought it an honest shame she h... | Considering how much people around here went in for that sort of thing there were surprisingly few official ways to kill a witch. Generally you just picked the one most suitable to your readily available equipment and had at before moving on with the rest of your life. The preacher had never heard of anyone surviving o... | 2019-02-12T03:38:39 | 2019-02-12T03:22:18 | 412 | 276 |
[WP] You're a paramedic. In fact, an immortal paramedic. Since you first treated a wounded soldier on the fields of the 30-years War, you didn't age and followed the development of "Emergency Medical Service". Your coworkers are astonished by your knowledge, but sometimes, you slip into old habits.. | Another job another person begging for help. Not that I mind it, it's all about helping people after all. Hundreds of years of medical knowledge and the injuries more or less stay the same. Stab wounds turned into bullet wounds but all yield the same result: death. Not me though, somehow my halfassed patch job for some... | It was a routine call - at least, that's how it had started out. Our ambulance screamed down to Sheepshead bay, where a woman had called from, panicking about her husband. She had been having a normal conversation with him when he began to complain about terrible chest pains and nausea.
*I mean, he's still walking aro... | 2019-01-05T14:23:15 | 2019-01-05T14:17:31 | 502 | 349 |
[WP] A married couple start another average morning on an average weekday. No one dies. No twist. Show their overwhelming love for each other without them speaking a single word. | She cooked his breakfast as he dressed for work. She stops and listens to the new sounds of a new love.
He cooked her breakfast while she rested, belly swollen with new life.
They cooked together; for three, then four, now five.
They cooked together, alone again in a suddenly empty house.
He cooks her breakfa... | She sat up, bolt upright, and began to stretch like a flower reaching towards the sun. He laughed, and pulled his feet in towards his curled body, then pushed them against the warmth of her back. She let out a startled shriek at the sudden cold, then gave him a smile. She was always so much more awake than he was in th... | 2014-11-04T03:14:25 | 2014-11-03T23:47:27 | 151 | 108 |
[WP] You are severely depressed and are given a service dog to help you through it. However, due to a mixup, you are given a dog that is actually much more depressed than you. The main thing that gets you up in the morning is knowing that you need to be the service human for your dog.
Edit: I was not expecting this to... | I didn't even know dogs could get depressed. Sure, I've seen dogs pout and whine when their master was gone for the day, but full-blown depression? Never. But there was not a doubt in my mind Frost was depressed.
The first morning after I got him, I expected to be woken up by a squirrely dog jumping on my bed giving ... | “Still looking, huh? Yeah, sometimes I find myself doing that too. You keep thinking one day you will see them pull into the driveway and everything will go back to normal. At least you wish that would happen.”
I gave the old dog a pat on the back, taking a spot next to him on the couch. His brown eyes only f... | 2022-11-01T08:17:26 | 2022-11-01T08:00:55 | 1,257 | 251 |
[WP] Year 2040, you are tasked with rebooting Harry Potter franchise. Write the first few paragraphs of "Harry Potter Begins".
For books, not movies. HP Begins will be book 1. | Mr. And Mrs. Dursley of Number Four, Pivet Drive {[Find Pivet Drive on google Maps for $1.25](https://www.google.com/maps/u/0/ms?ie=UTF8&t=m&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=218345993262930704212.0004c65d680c1b34e5d49&dg=feature)} were proud to say that they were perfectly normal {[Define "Normal" on Urban Dictio... | **EDIT**: I took "rebooting" the series as reviving it with a sequel series. This is supposed to take place fifteen years after the events of Deathly Hallows.
----
Rabastan raised his wand to cut back another thick vine.
"*Sectumsempra*!"
At least something that vile traitor Snape had been good for. The spell cut r... | 2014-10-01T12:05:09 | 2014-10-01T10:12:09 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] When people die their ghosts are anchored in proximity to their bodies. When you die you're cremated and have your ashes scattered in the wind. The wind takes you on a journey. | # Summer
I’ve got pieces scattered from Boston to Bangkok, little bits of me that have come down from my spot above the Charles River to stowaway in stuffy shipboard air. I feel them like I felt my hair: only there when the wind blows.
There’s not enough of me in those places. Death spread me too thin, the only part ... | I slowly realize I'm being jostled. My memories are delayed in returning, so it takes a few minutes to remember the familiar feeling of riding in a car. It doesn't help that I don't have a body anymore. I'm only getting little nudges that I suppose are linked to this urn sitting in front of me. Crazy how my body and al... | 2021-12-07T19:35:21 | 2021-12-07T19:22:39 | 96 | 32 |
[WP] You buy a special camera at the pawn shop. Every photo you take, it shows a snapshot of 10 years ago. You take a picture of your dog and it shows him 10 years ago when he was a puppy. Everything is all fun and games, until you decide to take a picture of your bedroom one night. | I took a picture of Sally down by the river, and according to the camera she was three dogs and an angry goose. I shrugged, snapped another photo, and this time she was three dogs and a dead goose. I didn't think *too* much of it, but Sally was pretty put off so we went back to the pawn shop where we got the camera.
... | I took the picture, smiling inwardly. I wonder how it'll look? I'd only been living there for a few months - I wonder what it had been like 10 years ago? What pictures would be up on the walls? Was the building even 10 years old?
I went to the darkroom, dipping the photo into the chemicals. I'd always enjoyed the proc... | 2016-12-22T03:21:41 | 2016-12-22T03:14:16 | 58 | 11 |
[WP]: a society where sex is public and entirely unstigmatised, but eating is a taboo | "Oh my god, you're *31* and you've never eaten with another girl?"
Sigh. I hate this topic.
"Look, Shelly, I'm not exactly the pinnacle of man."
"That just means you eat a lot by yourself."
This was new. When me and Shelly were usually having sex for lunch, she *never* brought up mastication.
"Erm, I-I uh..."
Smo... | Everybody looks at me weird when I tell them I teach evolutionary history. They've heard of the second word from the history channel (if anybody even watches it anymore) but if anybody knows what the first word means it means I've found a kindred spirit. Someone else who studies the past in a way that I do.
My s... | 2013-11-18T14:24:30 | 2013-11-18T12:07:53 | 44 | 18 |
[WP]Time travel has been invented, and people from the past are now incredibly annoyed at all the "future-tourists" that have come to crowd pivotal moments and sites in history. | Time travel had some unintended consequences. Looking past the whole “I’m my own grandpa” trope, there are some seriously administrative issues that arise. They had to invent a new statistic. I mean the whole idea of economics is rooted in some assumptions, and not all of them are well understood. But reverse GDP threw... | Shift-manager Stanley was having a *really* bad day. He'd been reassigned to Nelson's historical victory at Trafalgar, and was currently shouting at some light-fingered tourists who were trying to pinch a couple of flags to take home.
"Please put that down," he said. His voice was already hoarse and it wasn't even e... | 2015-08-31T09:28:42 | 2015-08-31T09:28:04 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] You are an immortal searching the ends of the earth. Not for "a cure for your curse", but for a chef talented enough to make a 1,000 year old recipe like mom used to make. | I had traveled many places within the last few decades searching for someone, anyone, that could make my mother's Gourmet Apple Pie but not one person could come close. I had famous chefs ranging from Julia Child to Anthony Bourdain to even Chef John try their hand at it, but there was just one thing missing that alway... | "Been on the road long?"
"Something like that." The Man replied. "Been far from home... for too long."
The woman took the note from him. "Whats this?"
"I know it's an odd request but... remind me of home."
"Well, i'll admit it is odd but... why not?"
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Living Forever wasn't the curse. the fact everything else... | 2019-11-07T13:37:31 | 2019-11-07T09:46:47 | 71 | 11 |
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