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[WP] Write a really great story that ends so anticlimatically that I hate you. | There he was, finally alone, given the time to reflect on his courage: a story that would be passed through the muck and mire of humanity. He had defeated our hero and sat begrudgingly on his throne. There was turmoil and conflict; pain, lament, and remorse. There was also joy in the remembrance of his accomplishment a... | To lure in the gods, you must first prepare a banquet worthy of the gods.
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The smell of rot, of decaying flesh mingled with the scent of fresh blood, inhaled like euphoria, by the Master Chef, Kurukai, 3rd Level of the Ten Thousand Arts Of Preservation. Men, women, children, the elderly, some dead, some dying, som... | 2014-12-21T18:41:55 | 2014-12-21T18:25:10 | 212 | 75 |
[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." | My hand reached out from the messy nest of blankets I was buried under, and flopped onto the buzzing phone on my dresser. Bleary-eyed and dazed, I dragged it under the blankets with me, refusing to let myself be fully roused from a solid nights sleep. "What the fuck," I muttered to myself, nearly mumbling the words out... | I wake to the sound of my phone vibrating so fast I'm afraid it'll fall of my nightstand. I groggily my phone before it falls and turn it on to see the words "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON" in bright letters illuminated by the official nationwide alert backdrop. The vibrations refuse to stop. Hundreds of texts are rolling in... | 2022-08-07T20:43:05 | 2018-04-06T19:08:10 | 379 | 11 |
[WP] "I'd like to sell my soul". The Devil grinned; "In exchange for what? Women, money, power?". "Salvation". | "Nope. Sorry, can't do that here."
"Oh."
"Yeah, not really our thing you know."
"So, is false advertising your thing?"
"Come again?"
"Well, the sign clearly said *anything* for your soul - what kind of operation is this?"
"I mean, we don't exactly proclaim ourselves an upright organization"
"Ah, fair point. St... | *”Wh… wait… that’s not how it works.”*
“Why isn’t it? Can’t ya offer anything in exchange for a soul?”
*”Well, ALMOST, but if you receive salvation then I don’t get to HAVE your soul.”*
“Okay, then, I guess I’ll just not make a deal with you at all then.”
*”You’ve made a big mistake, then! I won’t just leave wi... | 2022-06-30T10:57:41 | 2022-06-30T10:04:25 | 64 | 25 |
[WP] “1 day on this planet is 15 years on earth” said the ships AI. “I was told to inform you of this after the completion of your 12 day mission on the surface.” | "1 day on this planet is 15 years on Earth” said the ships AI. “I was told to inform you of this after the completion of your 12 day mission on the surface"
I was exhausted. When you are sent to explore, the bosses back at mission control seem to never want you to have any time "off". I hadn't even gotten out of my p... | "...why?"
The AI blinked its status light in an impersonation of a startled bird, hopping back ever so slightly on its gravity dampener. "Something to do with the physics of the planet, or the star it orbits."
"No, I mean why withhold the information? Why reveal it, but only after the 12 days, which would be..." I ... | 2022-09-15T11:57:03 | 2022-09-15T11:30:24 | 161 | 106 |
[WP] A married woman saves an uninteresting Japanese high schooler from a truck crash, but dies in the process. She wakes up in a world of adventure and harems, clearly made for the boy. | Insert somebody instantly reccomending an anime where this is the premise... Okay that's done. Let's rock this.
Ayako Himari was out shopping one day when she saw a young man, he had a shock of dark messy hair, and his uniform was in dissaray. He seemed vaguely out of sorts. Ayako was quietly thankfull her days of sch... | Gisela was a wife, was. Her ex-husband decided that he would like to pursue his love and settle comfortably with Miss Something Blond, some 20 years young than Gisela. Tired of the sadness and meaningless Germany, she took a position in Japan, taking a handkerchief passed down from her grandfather and Noah, her 12-year... | 2022-06-08T02:12:16 | 2022-06-07T22:56:16 | 59 | 32 |
[WP]You're the last vampire left. You've been alive since 2000bc. Tell us your life story and why is your kind almost extinct | The sun is a bitch.
I get up from my bed, wiping the dust from my eyes. I take a sniff, and smell something burning. It's my arm.
"Ah fuck, fucking shit. Ow ow ow ow". There was a tiny crack in the ceiling, and a ray of sunlight was poking through. "Drac, you stupid shit" I say to myself as i submerge my forearm in w... | I furrow my brow as I wake, the darkness of night calling to me, the sun had set recently, the air was hot in my lungs. I sat up, looking around my strange little home, upon a hill far from any humans, though, not too far of course, I do still need a meal from time to time.
I had a visitor, while I was asleep, they kn... | 2015-06-21T08:59:20 | 2015-06-21T08:11:20 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] It was supposed to be a routine software upgrade, but now roombas are tracing pentagrams and summoning minor demons all across the country. You work in tech support. | My call center job can be stressful at times, but there is free coffee, so I can't complain. Complaining is what customers do. They yell at me for anything that the robots do: tangled USB cables, scared pets, and knocked down vases. None of it if my fault, but I always find a way to have them look on the bright side of... | It started off as any other regular Monday. David brewed his coffee, poured out Mochi's daily kibble, and ate a bowl of steel-cut oats. He was feeling a little frisky that morning, so he added in two generous dashes of cinnamon.
At 9:00 sharp, he trotted into his home office, closing the door. Logging into his compute... | 2022-01-30T07:41:22 | 2022-01-30T07:19:15 | 154 | 86 |
[WP] Everytime you think of a funny joke, this girl in your class always laughs, you chalk it up to coincidence but you think to yourself, "If you can read my mind, slap the table three times" the the girl looks over at you, stares right into your eyes, and slowly slaps the table three times.
Edit - Wow we made the fr... | It was another miserable, cold, drizzly autumn day- and of course, I forgot to put on a jacket. I was walking to my physics class, shivering all the while.
“Need a coat?”
I turned around. Behind me was a girl- actually, one of my class-mates.
“No, thanks, I’ll be fine.”
She looked at me, skeptically. “You sure of ... | He held his breath, half-choking on the air held within him. Her eyes were locked on his, her dark hair spilling around her face, her body twisted to face him from her seat at the front of the class. Nobody was paying attention to their exchange, other students sliding materials into their bags and making their way out... | 2018-10-27T14:27:42 | 2018-10-27T14:04:56 | 241 | 19 |
[WP] Two men play a game of chess. One can read minds; the other can see the future. | They walked up and took their seats.
They looked at the board.
They looked at each other.
They looked at the board.
Moments passed. Eventually the telepath looked to his opponent and said, "I have the worst fucking migraine right now."
"Me to," said the psychic. "Let's never hang out again."
"Agreed."
They left. | ###### CNN (Chess News Network) Alert ########
###### For Immediate Publication ########
The final match in the greatest chess tournament of all time is underway. The flip of the coin came out heads and the Russian Alexei Kusnetskov elected to start. The challenger from China, Ming Zhang, ready and waiting for the f... | 2017-01-19T17:36:57 | 2017-01-19T16:03:28 | 372 | 129 |
[WP] Every person in the world develops a weird mutation/power the day they turn 16. Everyone's powers are always different, some more insignificant than others. You turn 16, and watch as all your friends discover their newfound ability's. That is, until you discover the severity of your own. | ...the ability to craft a lovely cup of tea from any matter available was surely too powerful for any mere mortal to handle.
With great duty and knowing such power could have unparalleled consequence were I unable to contain it I decided for the sake of mankind to keep it to myself, to say I was spared the mutation. ... | As a kid, I have always looked up to the people that use their talents for great purpose. Aunt Laura is always hard at work, so I have the TV for myself and I'd watch all about Steffi Larkin, Reed Horundas, Alex Stevenson, and my idol, Jeff Knox. He has the talent to clone himself and consciously control them. He is kn... | 2015-01-22T02:28:54 | 2015-01-22T00:10:42 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] "You get 10 wishes." "...isn't it supposed to be 3?" "Well, it varies. 3 is the baseline for a person who's doing fine. People doing really well only get 1 or 2 wishes. And if you're doing poorly... well, you looked like you could use some more wishes than usual." | "Okay! I wish for a sandwich."
"A... sandwich?"
"Oh. Right. Sorry. A ham sandwich - with lettuce, tomato, and mustard please. Forgot that I should be specific."
"Alright. What else do you want to wish for?"
"Maybe a glass of milk to wash it down. Oh, actually, can I make it a lemonade? Wait. An iced tea. Noooo. A c... | Someone had kept a genie on the fire escape. Henry didn’t know what to do with that information.
Music thumped behind him, loud, drunk voices filled the air, spilling out into his cold quiet. Somewhere, Bells would be looking for him. She always did when he slipped away; Henry wondered when she would give up. Probably... | 2021-09-20T18:03:22 | 2021-09-20T17:12:45 | 255 | 128 |
[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 Dad,
I love you. Your opinion of me is the one that matters most but I'll never tell you that.
You are a bad dad.
You drink too much.
Smoke too many cigarettes.
Smoke too much weed.
And I know that to some degree you hate me.
I did not ask to be born. I did not ask to end your youth, your fun.
I did not mean t... | Hey cous,
It's been what 2 years now? Almost 3? Ahaha. I hope you're happy where ever you ended up. I miss you and the family misses you. I wish you could see how big the kids have gotten. Not to brag or anything but I'm the favorite uncle, ahaha. Though... I don't think I could top how much love and genuine affection... | 2015-12-05T14:58:25 | 2015-12-05T13:45:57 | 356 | 15 |
[WP] 50 years ago, NASA determined a rogue planet would hit earth, destroying us all. The rich poured their fortunes into space travel and fled... but the rock missed, and now the survivors won't take them back. | Fifty ago, they’d left in the shadow of the rogue planet destined to take out Earth. There had been ten thousand seats aboard Noah’s Ark II. The rich, the famous, the powerful, they’d all left, headed straight for a new solar system. Billionaire businessmen, famous actors and politicians all packed up their belongings,... | The finding of rogue planet SKHE-1115 was one of little fanfare. An astronomer in Pakistan began to track an object that did not have a stellar twinkle, but wasn’t any of the known solar planets. After reporting his findings on several local websites for astronomers, the findings were confirmed by other small-time hobb... | 2019-12-07T08:39:48 | 2019-12-07T07:32:28 | 26 | 12 |
[WP] Some people's crimes are so bad execution is not enough. In these cases time travel is used to prevent their birth, ripping them out of history completely. | Stepping out of the temporal rift, Gerald Farr, an Agent for the Temporal Affairs Department, looked at his new surroundings. His drop site had put him in a back alley. It was probably the least conspicuous spot they could find to put him down that was still close enough to the target to make it in time.
He oriented h... | Barry was suiting up to step through the time machine. David was manning the controls along with his assistant, Jane.
The traveller stood still for a moment, thinking. He turned to Dave. "Can you brief me up on my target one more time?"
"*Again?* How many times have you asked me in the past hour?"
"I just... want to... | 2014-11-16T15:43:33 | 2014-11-16T15:34:08 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | First word PHYSIO was fairly easy to see. Perhaps a Greek name he wondered as the word THE appeared below it.
"Oh wow" he thought, its going to be a superhero like 'Conan the destroyer'.
"Please be magician.... please be Physio the magician" he said under his breath, as the last word appeared. 'RAPIST'.
"Rapist..... r... | It was 11:59 and while the whole family gathered around, my mother was no where to be seen. I expected that she would have joined us. After all, she'd been there for my older sister's reveal, and my brother's reveal. But instead she was watering the garden while it rained steadily.
C'mon, mom, I know I'm not your fa... | 2017-03-16T03:20:58 | 2017-03-16T03:19:48 | 427 | 129 |
[WP] After you die, you're handed a book about your life. You open it, expecting a novel. Instead you get a "Choose your own adventure" book with all of the decisions you ever made, and every outcome they could have had. | *I turn to the indicated page.*
*It's the same result.*
*I go back to where I'd held my finger between the pages and follow the other prompt to read what could have happened.*
*The same ending again.*
*I pick a random page, and follow the first option, reading for a few pages before looking over at the libraria... | I sat at the desk dumb-founded.
“You mean... you mean this is everything that could have happened if I just made a different decisions?”
The spirit in front of me is a friendly face but the marks on her neck tell a story of sadness. She looks at me as if I’m the first she says this to. “Yes. From the day you were bo... | 2018-07-03T23:42:21 | 2018-07-03T22:39:59 | 294 | 92 |
[WP] You've recently become president of the United States- unfortunately, life isn't nearly as fun as you'd hoped. You begin doing crazy things to get out of office, but every thing you do seems to be the right thing at the right time. | I didn't want to be President anymore. I couldn't deal with the stress.
Sure, I'd thought it would be funny to run for office. I thought it was really hilarious to announce my candidacy, create my own party on some website (the "Government Sux" party- yes, with an x at the end of "sux"), and jokingly run for office. ... | I was tired of everything. Tired of corruption. Tired of lies and deceits. Tired of idiots who seem to win elections because the people were too stupid to research their political representative. I was tired of everyone being stupid. Fuck it. It was time to change some shit.
"Susan, get your ass in here. Right fu**ing... | 2015-09-12T20:27:59 | 2015-09-12T18:37:12 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] Your entire life, you've been told you're deathly allergic to bees. You've always had people protecting you from them, be it your mother or a hired hand. Today, one slips through and lands on your shoulder. You hear a tiny voice say "Your Majesty, what are your orders?" | "...Get outta here..." Emily said, amazed the bee spoke. Even more suprisingly, she heard it not with her ears, but her mind. She looks at the bee again to see it flying away.
"Not LITERALLY!" She says.
The bee comes back and asks again, "What are your orders?"
"You can speak. So you are sentient. Do you have a name... | One time in elementary school, one of my classmates got rushed to the hospital because of a bee sting. She was allergic. I didn’t get to watch it happen, because I was inside for “indoor option”. I was never allowed to go out for recess. I always picked a friend or two, and we played board games while the rest of my cl... | 2018-04-01T04:25:57 | 2018-04-01T02:29:37 | 166 | 45 |
[WP] A soldier on the front dies in the middle of writing a letter home. It is finished and sent by the man who killed him. | Mom,
I don't know how much longer I can stand this. I thought I could take it. But... I can't. I can't sleep. I can't eat. The drum of blasts doesn't end. Sometimes I pretend like we're back at the symphony. It helps me feel better, until I'm the one beating the drum. It's so loud, mom. It's getting closer.
Don't wai... | Hey Judy,
I know it's been a while since my last letter and I'm sorry. I honestly did try to write whenever I got the chance, but time gets away from you, you know? There's a lot I want to say and probably not a lot of time to say it.
First, I want you to know that I love you. Always have. From the moment I saw you ... | 2015-02-03T13:05:32 | 2015-02-03T12:59:38 | 329 | 20 |
[WP] Legend says there are 77777 secret paths to immortality, but each path will only work once. In 2014, the first person accidentally achieved immortality by sticking a French fry into her nostril and pulling it out the other intact. Human behaviour has since become more... interesting. | Almost immediately, entire industries of behavior experimentation sprang up from nothing in an effort to find the remaining 77,776 paths to immortality. Because methods can’t be reproduced, this very quickly devolved away from authentic scientific experimentation. Ultra billionaires used their immense power and influen... | There are 77,777 paths to immortality, and each works but once. When the news broke, the world went wild with the crazy antics, each person trying to trigger a path.
Some were inane, like flipping a lightswitch 77 times and stopping at the end midswitch. Some were gross, like sticking a whole french fry up your nose... | 2019-07-23T11:05:38 | 2019-07-23T09:58:42 | 43 | 28 |
[WP] murder is legal, once a permit has been obtained from the local police department. Permits require a declaration of a target victim and justification to commit the act. Once a permit has been issued it is valid for 72 hours. Once expired you can never get another for the same target victim. | "What is your justification?" asked the officer on duty.
"Pissed me off."
"Do you feel murder is a proportional response to that offense?"
*Why won't they just get on with it?*
"Yes." I answer decisively, hoping it would make the officer get the hint.
"You realize that by not taking this before a committee, you'd ... | "Hey Rad, focus "-said Fred without hiding his discomfort- "I'm answering your question, so you better listen to me. I dont even know why you called me. There's nothing wrong about this place".
-Nothing, huh? There's a dead body 3 ft from you and you dont even acknowledge her prescence. Let alone your lack of condolen... | 2019-07-09T10:40:22 | 2019-07-09T10:40:11 | 20 | 12 |
[WP]When members or your family turn fifteen they are able to manifest a weapon that they will use for the rest of their lives. You’ve been trained to use all manner of weapons to prepare to be able to wield whatever weapon you summon. On your Summoning day what appears in front of you is a book. | Loraine had the best training money could buy. As the daughter of the main branch of one of the five great clans, this much was to be expected. Of all the master's she'd trained with, her favorite was undoubtedly the spear. Swords were nice, maces were a barbarians weapon, and axes had many uses besides combat, but the... | Emani clutched a bag of beans and rice close to her chest, lowered her head, stepped from the rations tent and into the storm. The rain bit like mosquitoes at her face and forearms, driven into a frenzy by the sudden gale. Her dress, once vibrant greens and pinks, was now as drained of life as her, muted colors all bor... | 2021-12-12T08:32:49 | 2021-12-12T07:50:28 | 91 | 66 |
[WP] Humanity was excited to explore the cosmos, and what do we find? Bottom of Venus, crabs. Alpha Centauri, crabs. Andromeda, intelligent crabs. Floating in the middle of nowhere? Space crabs. | The universe is full of crabs. Humanity shouldn't have been surprised, really. After all, their home world was, in so many ways, one big ball of exceptions to the rule. Helium, for example, is the second most common element in the entire universe, but it's relatively rare, on Earth.
While Earth could be said to have a... | The first time we saw the space crabs, we thought they were harmless. They floated around in the nothingness, bumping into our ship and each other. But then we started to notice that they were getting inside. They would sneak in through the vents and crawl into people's beds while they were sleeping. We would find them... | 2022-04-12T20:57:30 | 2022-04-12T19:20:01 | 50 | 21 |
[WP] WARNING: OFFENSIVE. Write a witty workplace sitcom about terrorists.
I didn't make this NSFW because, while offensive, it does not necessarily contain material which would get you fired, merely get you scrutinizing looks from coworkers. | [*TALIBANTER was filmed in front of a live studio audience.*]
<KASIM enters through the front door looking dejected. MO is reading a newspaper on the couch.>
MO: So, how did the suicide bombing go?
KASIM <Hands on hips>: How do you *think* it went?
<Beat for laughter>
KASIM: I got all the way out... | Enter Muhammad and Muhammad
"Muhammad! You sly dog! Why are you still here? I sent you out to get milk an hour ago!"
Audience laughs
"I am sorry Muhammad! I needed to *fire* off an email to Muhammad first!"
Audience laughs
"Oh ok Muhammad. Well get out there now, I still need milk!"
Audience laugh... | 2014-03-19T02:31:41 | 2014-03-18T23:40:53 | 37 | 14 |
[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. | A man in a heavy trench coat with a thick beard approached the door. The number over his head, 1517. "Well, that's over 21" I thought. On his way through he tripped over the step and two dwarves toppled out of the coat. Their number were 15 and 17. "Nice try" I said, "no filthy dwarves in my good elvish bar." | "Jesus Christ!"
"Shhh!!!!" The guy whispered with annoyance. "I don't go by that these days. Just here to pick up John. He also doesn't go by that anymore. These days, he's The Dude. You'd think he'd mellow out after all these years, but he's still nuts. Just let me grab his drunk ass and we'll be out of here. ... | 2017-09-01T22:32:16 | 2017-09-01T20:56:44 | 1,408 | 404 |
[WP] You are a mutant in Xavier's school for gifted youngsters with the power to teleport, well that's what you tell everyone. In reality you can pause time and you're not ready to be an omega class mutant. | All the students were getting up to leave class when he heard, "Matthew, might I speak to you for a moment?"
"Of course, Professor."
Professor Xavier had always been kind to him. Matthew long suspected that Xavier knew he was hiding his full potential but the professor never pushed the subject and treated Matthew li... | I had been to the school for a month already, but had yet to make any friends. I guess teleportation put some people off as being too powerful, and the blue guy who kept hanging around me kept people away as he was Omega. I guess he stuck close because I could teleport also.
Walking down the hallway I watched my wanna... | 2022-11-09T16:36:25 | 2020-07-15T08:27:21 | 9,106 | 16 |
[WP] A Necromancer falls in love with the hero of the land, and does their best to win them over, but the macabre nature of their magic makes every attempt end in horrific failure. Tell me the story of the nec-romancer. | “Long have I bided for, HER, affections”, growled the foul necromancer in a croak filled voice. “I’ve tried EVERYTHING! I’ve sent wave upon wave of zombies armed with the finest roses; HOARDS of Skeletons delivering a wealth of the most extravagant jewelry. I’ve even sent two dozen wailing banshees to sing my most sorr... | A tri-colour bouquet of roses taunted Doris from behind a window. She could almost caress their velvet cheek, but instead, she flattened her hands against the glass and dreamed. *Sam would adore these.* She thought.
Doris turned, leaving behind two skinny hand-prints and walked down the street with the need to cry. ... | 2019-02-08T01:18:35 | 2019-02-07T23:08:36 | 65 | 22 |
[WP] The year is 2082. Queen Elizabeth is 156 years old. people are starting to get suspicious. | "Your majesty another of your grandchildren passed away this evening" spoke her lady in waiting her voice trembling in fear.
"William is gone now too? We shall see him off properly, Buckland Abbey seems like a suiting place this time" replied the queen in a somber voice.
"But your majesty the populace is concerned, t... | Welcome to episode 98 of The Crown Truth braincast. Keep sending in those letters if you want to be featured on my 100th episode spectacular!
First, this week, I want to address some of the radical statements that come out of channels I know you get recommended after listening to me. Sure, my ideas are out there. I sa... | 2020-05-19T23:25:47 | 2020-05-19T22:41:03 | 527 | 30 |
[WP] When the Statue of Liberty was sent to America from France, the box was labeled "some assembly required." In well over a century, no one ever noticed the other label that said "batteries not included." Until today, that is. | They were huge, the things, each at least a ton
The battery designs from nineteen oh one
And as they were placed the crowd gathered near
To discuss every rumor, to stare and to leer
But nothing lit up or moved or exploded
For after these years, the wires had corroded
| Maxwell was alone on the staircase. He looked behind him and saw the crowds, waiting silent. He looked ahead and saw the small battery slot, capable of fitting a single AAA battery. He looked back at the crowd. He saw his manager, urging him to hurry up. Maxwell didn't see that pretentious cock up here on the staircase... | 2017-02-23T17:55:18 | 2017-02-23T16:23:20 | 48 | 32 |
[WP] The year is 3000, only people with the firmest hand shake could survive in the business world. Years of evolution has made human grip terrifying. | "The Japanese are taking over the entire international market!"
"Which one?"
"*All of them.* We'll lose our hold in crush-proof phone manufacturing at this rate!"
"But, but how can that be? They've been regionally locked for decades relying on exports from us!"
"A... a catastrophe sir. I, I'm not sure how to ex... | Spindly fingers, thorny palms, cracked skin.
A nasty concoction of grip that would make eating and climbing simple, but touching ultimately revolting. If one were to play with your hair it would get cought in one of the many holes penetrating the entirety of the hand, easing use under water. If you went to high five ... | 2016-02-14T20:14:35 | 2016-02-14T19:35:37 | 371 | 18 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | I held him for the first time in my arm. Those little fingers grabbing mine for the first time, that cry of help as his lungs took the first born breath, his little lips moving in the air while he was sleeping... I'm still holding him, still holding.. Still holding him even though his last breath he took was one week a... | "It's such a nice day for a drive, don't you think so honey?" He talked to his wife, eyes on the never ending country road in front of them. She was quiet. Taking a long side glance, he saw her eyes closed, soundly asleep in the passenger seat.
"Have I ever told you how beautiful you look when you sleep? You look so g... | 2017-05-31T07:14:34 | 2017-05-31T06:38:29 | 116 | 47 |
[WP] You are superhuman; invulnerable, invincible, super strength, the works. Rather than become a superhero, or supervillain, or the military, you choose a different branch of the government to join and fight the good fight with: the IRS. | "Madam." I pushed the pad of paper and a pen across the table. "I know you've received a bill for income you were never paid. However this is the IRS. So I can't tell you that if you go the third floor... Madam, write down what I'm not telling you."
The woman's eyes widened, and she started to scribble.
"Very good. N... | "This job asks a lot of you. It's quite *taxing*."
The mousy woman with the braids rubs her calloused elbow, adjusts her monochromatic attire of professional blandness; her lips are cracked, her eyes beady, when she moves she slouches like a dog that has seen one too many beatings.
The mere expectancy of a smile with... | 2022-08-19T08:23:03 | 2022-08-19T06:08:12 | 94 | 64 |
[WP] tell me a story where the first line and last line are the same but have entirely different meanings.
I LOVE the creativity this sub shows
Edit: I'd just like to say that the replies I have gotten so far remind me of why I love this sub. I'm a lurker and rarely post prompts, but I loved this idea, and seeing the... | The silence created by the need to repeat his question to me caused my partner to question the entire ceremony, but when I finally regained control of myself and thought about the past... my answer hadn’t changed in the slightest.
“I do.”
The rest of the wedding went on how everyone had expected it to. My new wife an... | It was the first day of our lives together. We met when we were in high school and Stacey was the most beautiful girl in the world. I was a bit nervous, but we quickly became friends. Weeks passed and she began seeing me as more of a friend than a prospective boyfriend. I was devastated, but what could I do? She would ... | 2015-04-28T10:37:38 | 2015-04-28T10:03:35 | 68 | 30 |
[WP] A barbarian warlord, a goblin king, a mighty necromancer, and a dark elven high priestess meet for one reason... To play Suburbs and SUVs, the hottest mundane suburban family Tabletop RPG! | The card hissed softly as it was drawn from a neat stack of similarly blue-backed cards on the large wooden table, its surface battered and worn from hundreds of years of use. Though her figure was mostly hidden by the Head of Neighbourhood triptych sheet, three pairs of eyes rested eagerly on Calen as she turned the c... | Cutulah was first to arrive, as usual. The cellar was empty, but she busied herself by lighting candles, setting up the board and then finally, pouring herself a drink from the huge oak barrel.
She glanced at her palm, as if the lines that trailed it told her secrets they shared with no one else. Then she looked at t... | 2018-01-10T06:15:04 | 2018-01-10T06:12:50 | 3,268 | 74 |
[WP] You're a psychic doing a game show. Unlike the other contestants, you're the real deal. They bring you all to a house where a crime happened in the past. When it's your turn, a ghost appears and tells you: "That's him, that's the one who killed me." Pointing towards the host of the show. | I’ve seen the unseen and known the unknown for so long life had gotten rather boring. I’d discovered the dangers of using my gifts when I was a child so I had taken to concealing them. When I graduated college with my degree in physics I’d joined, on a lark, the skeptics society. If only they’d known.
Well, now I’... | ######[](#dropcap)
Angela stared at the young girl, trying to hide the expression of pity that threatened to show on her face. The shimmering form of the ghost was that of a girl no older than fourteen, and despite the fact that her eyes were a pale white, she was no scarier than her own fat tabby cat at home.
"He l... | 2018-11-15T14:35:50 | 2018-11-15T14:29:32 | 459 | 113 |
[WP] "Captain... the human didn't put on it's anti-warp gear before we jumped." "Sad to hear, prepare the coffin and jettison it." "No, sir. The human... nothing's happened to it. It didn't go insane from seeing infinity in the stars." | The crew stared at their newest crew member. It was risky taking a human on board when the species was so new to the universe.
“You were instructed to wear your anti-warp gear,” Second admonished.
“Yeah, I tried but I didn’t really fit. I think I’m supposed to have tentacles,” Bradford said.
“You saw the infinity ... | The words came out before he knew it.
"Take me to him. Immediately."
"Yes sir."
Following his subordinate, his mind raced rapidly while confusion and doubt raged. In all his years as Commander of the Sentinel Station, Kr'jak had never encountered anyone who could handle a warp intact. They usually left in coffins.
... | 2020-07-14T02:58:11 | 2020-07-14T00:17:30 | 381 | 163 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | Major Meridith: we attack the Emus.
Dm: Alright, that will be your Lewis guns, thats going to be your Dex Mods, Plus your proficiency modifiers. Roll to hit.
Major Meridith: ... 1, plus my mods thats a total of 7.
Dm: the emus dodge your gun fire, they taunt you. They run south beyond your sight.
Major Meridith: we... | Napoleon was at the edge of his seat, by the end of this session, he'd wipe that smug look off of Wellesley's face, and his imbalanced barbarian "Iron Duke" would have to be re-rolled. Wellesley had just finished a tirade about Napoleon having killed his General, Cooke.
Athena gazed at the two men from over the top o... | 2018-05-29T09:12:26 | 2018-05-29T08:28:13 | 51 | 21 |
[WP] The perfect sleep-aid has been created. 8 hours of uninterrupted, dream-filled bliss. But God forgive anyone that is woken up before the 8 hours have passed. | It was, really, quite an important breakthrough for medical science.
For most of the time that humans have been, well, human, people have wondered why we sleep. The ancient Greeks thought it was because of the influence of one of their gods: A being known as Hypnos, who was appropriately enough brother to Thanatos, t... | The first thing Daniel noticed after waking up was the smell.
That...*smell*. A smell so vile that even the weakest nose would cause its face to shudder in disgust. It was a musky smell; the kind of smell that aged with a brooding force so hellish, so full of death, that after all the effort Daniel faced in confrontin... | 2016-08-04T11:24:12 | 2016-08-04T10:48:58 | 40 | 17 |
[WP] You're immortal, but you can die. Upon your death, however you will be "reset" to age 5 with a perfect memory of each life you've lived before. | "Oh my God! They killed Kenny!"
Once more I hear the same two lines over and over again. It's amazing that I haven't tried to do the same to them. I honestly think that they truly want to get me killed.
"You bastards!"
And there it is. The only way I truly know that I've died. Not that it matters much. I will come ... | My biggest regret recently was telling people. It was only a matter of time until every time I died I would have to prove myself to be the immortal again.
I couldn't ever control where I ended up. A few times I tried really hard to focus as I committed suicide, hoping that I might be able to learn more about my power... | 2017-05-25T14:31:23 | 2017-05-25T14:22:48 | 74 | 34 |
[WP] - You are an angel of heaven. Angels are tasked with creating animals to populate the earth. You are called into God's office to discuss your finished project - the platypus. | "Uh oh, somebody's getting called on the carpet."
"Is that Bill?"
"Yeah. 'Duck Bill', I hear they're calling him now."
"Sheesh. Poor guy. It must've seemed like a good idea at the time."
"It wasn't even his project back then. He took it over from Baruchiel when Bar got promoted to Arch. Remember that whole craze fo... | I couldn’t bear to look at her so I kept my head down and just stared at the bowl of apples on my desk. I knew if I looked up I would see her there lying on her side, bare breasted, relaxed on the cloud. I’m not offended by breasts, after all I created them, and hers were perfect; or so I was told by some of the less c... | 2016-05-15T11:24:07 | 2016-05-15T10:15:24 | 36 | 20 |
[WP] Somebody once told you the world is going to roll you. However, you are the sharpest tool in the shed. | Somebody once told me the world was gonna roll me
Though I *was* the sharpest tool in the shed.
Well she wasn't really wrong,
I had blades and I was long
For a mower well I killed that grass dead.
But the years kept coming and the grass kept growing,
Fed me some oil so my motor kept running.
Didn't make sense j... | Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me(what?)
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I am the sharpest tool in the shed
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They say I'm kinda dumb when I went to suck my thumb
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It's just to brainstorm ideas in my head
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Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming
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Sent me to col... | 2017-07-01T05:58:59 | 2017-07-01T04:51:31 | 153 | 12 |
[WP] You are the final boss. You have been waiting for the final epic battle against the hero. And waiting. And waiting. Finally, your minions report back. The news? The hero abandoned the main quest to do side quests. | I stood in my war room, gazing over the map and my loyal generals, planning my army's next conquest. There was only one thing that stood in my way, the so called *hero* Althasar and his companions. Long had he been a thorn in my side, but soon he would be no more.
My scouts had informed me that his party planned to ma... | Lord Viktor Kozlov sulked the dark hallways, contemplating all things evil. His soldiers were well-equipped, his bed was warmed with women and cooled with wine, and the mares braying in his stables were of the finest breed and lineage. Kozlov was surely the greatest vampire in the four kingdoms.
And yet—as he walked... | 2019-06-26T11:44:31 | 2019-06-26T10:56:26 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] We finally get men on Mars and they discover an old Soviet flag placed down decades ago. The Soviets won the space race but for whatever horrifying reason didn't say anything. | We'd seen it in the distance, an anomaly on an already alien planet. Thought it some kind of mirage, since the reality just didn't make sense. I volunteered to go check it out, though we all knew what it was - and when I'd just confirmed it.
A Soviet flag.
Why hadn't they told us? I'd heard rumour of a Soviet mission... | "Neil Armstrong once said 'That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.' I'm not one to argue with him. However, if landing on the moon was a leap, my stepping here on Mars would be like a plane ride."
Mayers laughed. "Don't knock on what Neil Armstrong did. It was important, and is what brought us her... | 2016-08-16T08:17:13 | 2016-08-16T08:15:09 | 300 | 147 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | So he walked into my 3B class, just like anyone else would. Kinda handsome, I guess, but overall pretty ordinary. Until he turned and I caught the number floating over his shoulder.
The big one-O.
I'm pretty sure I made a noise that would make a mouse call me a pussy, and I sweated through my T-shirt in five second... | “I had no idea what the numbers meant at first, but everyone had one. The highest I had seen, before I knew what they were, was my uncle, a Vietnam veteran, five. I learned what they really meant two years ago, walking home after my first day of middle school, a passing car swerving all over the road, had to be going a... | 2014-11-29T13:14:54 | 2014-11-29T12:35:37 | 322 | 199 |
[WP] In 1,000 years, fantasy stories will be set in this era. Write a fantasy story set in the 21st century from the viewpoint of someone living 1,000 years from now.
Based on a post on r/showerthoughts | *The sky is an expanse of grey -- liquid water falls in heavy drops from the heavens, striking streets of black and grey stone stained green by age and weather. Carriages of steel and iron blur past, scattering water droplets upon the commoners walking to-and-fro, huddled beneath hoods and canvas sheets.*
*The rain ro... | “Once upon a time, there was a girl named Sarah, she—“
“Sarah, what kind of a name is that?” Abcde interrupted.
“Stop interrupting me,” Celestial snapped. “As I was saying, Sarah lives in a republic far far away, a republic unpolluted by any traces of nuclear waste. A republic called the United States of America.
“... | 2018-12-25T03:33:31 | 2018-12-25T02:03:50 | 3,048 | 736 |
[WP] You are the long forgotten guardian of the Forest. As the guardian, all life inside is protected. This includes the small children you find occasionally. You raise them since they seem to have been abandoned. You’ve only just learned that the local village is sending them as sacrifices for you. | All are protected beneath the bough and branch. This is the Gift of the Leaf, and it has stood since seedling and sprout first took hold. I know this, because I have lived it. I was born to bestow this gift, tasked with it from the moment I sprung forth from the Wooden Heart and turned my eyes upon this world.
This wa... | The Agafro forest was beautiful this time of year. It was commonly referred to as the forest of purple leaves, as is obvious, the leaves from their once blue color to a multitude of purples. It was one of a kind, no others were quite like it in the land of Kines. Its said that medical herbs grow there are pure healing... | 2020-11-16T15:22:49 | 2020-11-16T13:24:23 | 101 | 24 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | "I don't get it, how? How did you do it" the warden said as he signed the release form.
"That's the thing, I didn't do anything, you guys did with your stipulations and what not" I said grinning at the warden.
If my requested last meal wasn't prepared and ready for me within a year, I'd be a free man is what they had... | She was a born killer. The moment she snapped she turned from hero to villain in just a matter of seconds.
Thousands of people were victimized in her warpath, and she got away with it for MONTHS. That was, until she was caught, and placed on Death Row.
Now, the world had changed drastically since she had been gone, a... | 2022-07-17T20:01:08 | 2022-07-17T18:09:54 | 129 | 24 |
[WP] Humans are born with a mark around their wrist which has a matching color with that of their soulmate's, but can change through their life. Your mark has had a blue hue since you were 14, but one night, while you're out, people start looking at you funny. You realize that your mark is gone. | "Your wrist!" Karen said, leaning in over the music, and I looked down and realized why people had been looking at me funny. The band of pale sky blue around my wrist, the swatch of color that had faded in two years ago when I was fourteen and just been starting to understand what a soulmate meant, the shade of blue I'... | "Hey Vicky, would you look at this. My mark's gone." I held up my arm, flashing my wrist to her. She leaned over the table, inspecting it in the dim lighting.
"Are you sure it didn't just change?" she asked. I scoffed, pulling my arm back. Every since I was a kid, my mark's been as blue as a blueberry, the darkest an... | 2016-10-04T22:12:38 | 2016-10-04T20:19:49 | 315 | 46 |
[WP] Whenever you get chills, you just died in an alternate universe. | 20 doctors. 15 specialists. Several religious interventions and witch doctors, in Brazil, Peru and Zimbabwe. I've started to lose track of it all.
Nobody can tell my why I won't stop shivering, all throughout the day. There's no pattern- I've counted every day and tried to track one. There's no specific time, and it's... | This is normal. My alarm goes off at 6:30 AM and the last of the alcohol has worn off. Well, not the last. I still have plenty in my system, or what would be plenty for most people. I stagger down to the fridge in my boxers. Tough choice, miller lite or bud lite? Miller lite is the closest choice so I take that. ... | 2016-01-29T21:30:27 | 2016-01-29T17:34:03 | 574 | 87 |
[WP] Airport authorities don’t recognize your passport because the country that issued it doesn’t exist. You are confused. You’re thinking: “What? I was born there! I’ve lived there all my life!”
Edit after 4 hours: I'd like to add that this writing prompt was inspired from this: http://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMyst... | Edit: thank you to whoever gifted me gold! :)
I handed the officer my passport, anxiously waiting to see my uncle. He cocked his left eyebrow as he examined it. I just assumed he was one of those French that don't like Americans and thought nothing of it. With an extremely skeptical look on his face, he said, "Parlez-... | “Golzania is a country! It should be right there on the map! Right there!” I point on the police officer’s map before continuing, “It’s an island below South Africa and it should be right there!”
“Sir, uh, we’ve never really dealt with such a problem before but you’re going to have to stay in this room until we get th... | 2014-11-23T09:36:40 | 2014-11-23T09:29:04 | 327 | 23 |
[WP] You are a manipulative psychopath, but instead of serial killer, you are a serial helper. using your emotionless genius to make other people smile.
thankless, un-noticed but instrumental in paying off someones debts with a clever robin hood of some sort, or moving at breakneck speeds everyday to help others but l... | Typically, sociopaths harm others for personal gain. I learned that this was the accepted norm after I'd already embarked on my journey. Helping people, making them happy or safe is less effective in the short term, but very effective in the long term at furthering my goals.
Mr. Perkins, my boss, smiled with relief as... | So many facts, so many little details; an endless stream of questions:
"Who's [insert celebrity]?"
"Where's [insert location]?"
"What's [insert just about anything]?"
The questions make some people very angry, but not me of course. I don't really get angry. I never really figured out how. Instead of expressing ... | 2015-05-21T07:44:23 | 2015-05-21T07:43:09 | 31 | 10 |
[WP] Your dad is wanted in twenty countries, your mom is a serial kille, your little brother is a genius hacker, and your little sister has just joined the Illuminati. None of them would ever want to anger you, though. | There's not much I could tell you about my family you wouldn't already know. I mean, the media makes it pretty easy to learn everything about them these days, so why bother even explaining much to you?
Michael's eveloped quite the Twitter cult following and it's starting to frustrate Mom a lot.
Bad news.
I mean, Mi... | This is my first time writing this type of stuff so please bear with me. :)
Story begins:
Me: My whole Family are known for doing illegal things, heck even I admit they do those stuff.
Me: But I know you're wondering why wouldn't they want me to join in their.....well..... escapades?
Agent: Tell me why?
Me: Well..... | 2017-06-04T07:33:56 | 2017-06-04T05:32:37 | 171 | 10 |
[WP] Blind people aren’t actually blind. Their eyes are tuned into a different dimension, but their brains can’t process that information so they see nothing. A doctor has just perfected a procedure to correct this problem. Tell us what the first patient sees. | Sometimes what's broken shouldn't be fixed.
Blans, was the surname of the doctor. He was a prodigy, the sort of individual with a brain that only a perfect combination of genetic accidents can produce. But even a man like Blans is prone to mistakes when dealing with the unknown. Well, mistake, in all fairness, is not ... | There I sat, nervous and shaking my foot. I couldn't keep still. This was it. I've waited my whole life for this.
I should introduce myself, my name is Kylie. I've been blind since I was born. My whole life my wonderful parents have tried to ease it. With words of encouragement, and with remedies. But nothing has wor... | 2020-04-06T09:32:48 | 2020-04-06T09:03:29 | 126 | 53 |
[WP] In this world, soulmates cannot hurt each other in any way or form, intentionally or unintentionally. You are an assassin hired to eliminate a powerful figure. As you close in for the kill, your bullets miss their mark and knives bounce of their skin. Things just got awkward. | He was a stage actor and assassin with a cold heart.
And HE was an American president and theater goer with a heart of gold.
But when his shot doesn't penetrate the back of HIS head they are going to learn that sic semper doesn't always tyrannis.
Can a confederate assassin learn to forgive? Can an American president ... | "No, seriously, you *aren't* my type."
"Look, I agree with you, okay? You're definitely not what I, uhh, what I was expecting. But those are the rules, right? We're kinda stuck together now, aren't we?"
"No. No we're not. Let me tell you about the *rules* okay. The rules are so vague that it could be anything... | 2018-04-24T04:31:34 | 2018-04-24T00:04:50 | 102 | 18 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | “We must keep the Humans believing that their FTL system is unsafe, unorthodox and damn stupid. That is the point of this of this Special Hearing of The Supreme Council of the New Species Traveling Faster than Light. I am Farlack, Supreme Councilor of the Organization of Galactic Legal Advisors. ^(legal disclaimer: N... | Trendsetti was looking at the report on the testing of forward-pushed wormhole system, and he wasn't happy.
On paper, FPWS should have been perfect. A space ship does a couple of certain calculations about its destination, sends the results into its Yadari-Futara particle launcher, fires a reversed Yadari particle pro... | 2017-03-31T12:54:20 | 2017-03-31T08:44:19 | 26 | 16 |
[WP] Lying in bed with your significant other and feeling the rhythmic kicks of your unborn child, you recognize the pattern as Morse code. | Jack was laying in bed talking with his pregnant wife Jill. They were so excited that they were going to have a son in a short time.
All of a sudden Jill jumped a little, smiled, then turned to Jack and said the baby was starting to kick.
Jack had been trying to feel the baby kick for awhile now but was never able t... | Dave tip-toed to bed giving his wet footsteps a disdainful stare. He turned to Lana. Her eyes could have burned holes through the pages of 'Hypnobirthing and Timeless Secrets of Natural Birth'. She had no time to review his wet foot problem.
"You know dear I'm just glad that they finally gave me some time off." he ... | 2017-06-25T21:53:29 | 2017-06-25T18:03:52 | 48 | 36 |
[WP] "Well, it just doesn't seem...ethical." Your friend slowly says to you. "Ethical?" You yell back at him. "Who cares about morals when I have created a masterpiece! A book that learns what the reader likes and changes its script accordingly. Imagine that, the perfect book!" | Tulips bubble, .com bubble, collectors' video games bubble, crypto bubble, and now book bubble.
I had a perfect product, The Book that you always enjoy reading. The Book that changes to fit your readers taste. People warned me about ethicality of perusing reader's mind, but I payed them no heed. After all, nobody woul... | At first, everything was perfect. I was selling books like crazy and people couldn’t get enough of my creation. But then strange things started happening. People were beginning to experience frightening things after reading the book. They reported hearing voices, feeling watched, having odd dreams and other unsettling ... | 2022-12-01T01:43:18 | 2022-11-30T21:31:34 | 245 | 61 |
[WP] The ritual calls for 100 sacrifices, but reading carefully you realize it never specified they had to be human. Deciding to be a smartass, you got a petri dish full of bacteria and sacrificed that instead.
reposting an old prompt | When I realized that the ceremony called for 100 "sacrifices" and not 100 "souls", I had a terrible idea. And like all my terrible ideas, I have to try them out to see just how absolutely abysmal they actually are.
There were plenty of petri dishes in that basement lab, and many of those cultures had grown exponential... | Antonios rubbed his eyes, tired from the strain. He had just spent the last hour staring deeply at a collection of mites sitting on a polished stone dish. It had taken him a long time to harvest the bodies of these mites meticulously from various leaves, vines, insects, worms, some small animals, and even birds. There ... | 2021-06-08T10:40:12 | 2021-06-08T08:47:07 | 142 | 106 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | "For many years now, the Islamic State has been a thorn in the side of the Middle East," the President told Congress. "Carving out territory from Syria, Iraq, Turkey, and Lebanon. Though many nations, including the United States, took *limited* action against this threat, no country was willing to finally commit to cle... | The dust settled, and a lone black boot came slowly into Major Thomson's view. Heaving a sigh, she raised herself up on her hands, only to be stopped by a swift kick to the ribs.
'Stay down,' came a voice in a thick South American accent, 'or we will strike you down'.
'W-Where am I?'
'You're in heaven, Ms. Thomso... | 2016-01-29T06:30:22 | 2016-01-29T05:00:31 | 481 | 144 |
[WP] Instead of Mary birthing the son of God, she gave birth to a son from The Elder Gods. Describe the bible as HP Lovecraft would. | ###Lamentations IX:
**Chapter 15**
Spake the Lord, "Go before me, my Disciples, and make believers of all men in Jerusalem." So the Disciples went into the city to spread His Word.
Peter went to the poor district and began to speak. "My brothers and sisters, I too was once poor like you. But I was raised up! For is ... | Madness lay there. Madness swathed in cloth, madness wrapped in cotton. Mary laid eyes upon her child but once, and descended with him. She tore her own eyes, knowingly, from their sockets, and was blindly nursing the boy when I arrived.
"Mary, what have you done?"
She smiled, but there was no joy behind it. She whis... | 2015-02-12T09:50:52 | 2015-02-12T08:41:43 | 74 | 47 |
[WP] You live in a world where love and relationships have a "credit score". If you're a good SO it makes it higher, if you cheated on someone it's plummets. You just went on a date with someone and you're convinced they're perfect. You look up their score that night and it's -500 and tells you why.
EDIT: I hadn't bee... | “You sure this is the name?”
“Of course I’m sure. I’ve dated the guy for like three months now.”
“We always have a grand time. I think he’ll get a high enough score,” I added.
Gus looked at the dark alley behind me then pocketed the crumpled piece of paper.
“Let’s hope he does,” Gus muttered under his breath. “Wait... | It had been a lovely date with that woman. Her eyes were that of the shimmering sea, her laughter was horrifically angelic and her hair was frizzled. Ironically, it made him feel electrocuted.
He was just leaping over fences and gates after his date waved him goodbye. Strangely, there was something about that woman wh... | 2016-09-24T11:40:10 | 2016-09-24T11:35:10 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] A bored dragon kidnaps a princess, expecting some excitement and rescuers to fight. No one shows up and the princess doesn't know her way home. | ######[](#dropcap)
Drogo trained his golden eye on the girl who was happily stroking the scales on his paw while humming a song. This entire situation had been a disaster.
First off, it had been entirely too easy to steal her away from the castle. She had been picking flowers on the grounds outside, and when he had ... | I look at the young girl standing in from of me. Her fiery red hair matted and tangled. Anger rose up in her ocean eyes as she looked up at me. She's holding a broken scale in her right hand. The blue sheen worn away, the sharp point pointed at me in a pathetic attempt to be used as a weapon. "Take me home" she demands... | 2018-03-23T02:20:18 | 2018-03-23T01:12:29 | 343 | 20 |
[WP] Where do bad guys get their legions of goons? Well, it's all thanks to you. You specialize in supplying grunts of a wide variety to aspiring super villains, whether they need masked men with bad aim or hideous/sexy merfolk to guard their underwater lair. | Chad looked at his assignment and sighed. *Things were so much easier at Level 1,* he thought.
He didn't hate working for GoonCo. Not really. He got to travel around and meet interesting people, and the medical benefits were top notch. They had to be, when your job was to get beat up by heroes. And certainly, the ... | "You need what?" I asked over the terrible quality of the office speaker phone. "A legion of hive mind insectoid androids. Big menacing looking fucks with MUTHAFUKIN high frequency claws!" A rather enthusiastic QueenBee shouted. The incessant buzzing in the background only made the conversation harder to hold over the ... | 2017-03-23T10:11:48 | 2017-03-23T06:59:11 | 35 | 21 |
[WP] You are a medical wonder due to the fact that you can regrow your organs. You became a donor and everyone thinks that you are a good person. What they do not know is that you can control every reciever whenever you like. | I woke as I always have after a procedure, comfortably in my recovery room at the Organ Center. The Organ Centre was built fifteen years ago, about five years after I made my first organ donation. Once the doctors had identified my extraordinary gift, it was determined that a special facility should be constructed stri... | Did they do tests on me? Surprisingly, no.
I became a donor because, um, I can regrow my organs so why wouldn’t I give them out like candy?
My family is proud of me, and everyone must think I’m a good person. Little do they know.
I couldn’t believe it! The guy I had controlled, he wasn’t being controlled! He normall... | 2019-06-13T07:54:14 | 2019-06-13T06:19:56 | 56 | 15 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | I remember asking my mom if her sigil vibrates on her skin. The look of confusion told me what I felt I already knew. My circle, though plain, feels alive.
There were no issues in elementary school, nor middle school. It was junior high that brought my happiness with my humming sigil to a screeching halt.
Victor bega... | The bullies had surrounded me and one gave an experimental push to see how I'd react. I stumbled onto the ground and tore my sleeve on one of the school lockers as I fell, revealing the circular sigil on my inner wrist, where someone else might put a tattoo of a butterfly or something.
"Just be cool," I thought, "The... | 2020-02-26T12:40:00 | 2020-02-26T09:26:44 | 18 | 12 |
[WP]As the four horsemen of the apocalypse get ready to signal the end times, they are joined by a fifth one | War, seated atop a horse of red flame, clad in his uniform, tight, polished, unaffected by the inferno he is bathed in, soon to be stained with the blood of the unworthy, sword at his side ready to cleave flesh from bone.
Famine, a thin man on a horse as sickly as he, both with their ribs showing, wearing a raiment th... | “Hey fella,” Mark said, sideling up beside the skeletal figure seated atop a pale horse. He gently ran his hand down the mane of his mule, whom he had tentatively named Jerry Springer. He wasn’t yet confident that was the ideal title for the brown, four-legged creature, however. “My name’s Mark.”
The skeletal being gl... | 2015-05-20T07:09:37 | 2015-05-20T07:08:25 | 95 | 28 |
[WP] Describe a chess match between a world champion grandmaster and a chimpanzee. | Pokavian studied the delicately poised position. Midway through this first game and he was still astonished at the ape's ability to counter virtually every attacking strategy he'd offered. He half suspected there was some superior intellect dressed up to look like his opponent but when he stared into those animal-eyes ... | "And that's primate fist to c4, c5, c6, c7, and yes, down goes Medvedev's queen as it's swiped off the table."
"I see that Bubbles is now attempting the risky Kong maneuver, where upon he picks up the entire board and starts thrashing it around while screeching in frustration. Medvedev is completely cowed by the disp... | 2014-11-27T15:29:47 | 2014-11-27T13:41:47 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | A low rumble, cut short, indicated that my brother had arrived. Wesson got TAXI on his 18th - large and bold across his shoulders - not glamourous, but they never were. The words seemed to be the subtle nudges of fate, but even destiny is open to interpretation. He could have become a taxi driver, like so many others, ... | I sat there, waiting. Friends, family, all waiting to see the word. Would it be SCIENTIST, as everyone thought? Or would I get ARTIST? Maybe TEACHER? Who knew, until 2 appeared in mine. The only ones with 2 were the bigshots. But then... I saw them. MASTER ASSASSIN appeared. I walked to my room, grabbed the Remington 7... | 2017-03-15T23:14:08 | 2017-03-15T21:30:06 | 98 | 26 |
[WP] Aliens have invaded to conquer and enslave humanity, however "slavery" to them involves only working the equivalent of 12 hours a week while having healthy food, shelter, and means of entertainment taken care of so the human resistance is having trouble with defectors preferring to be slaves. | What is a slave? This question was on the mind of every human and alien.
Humans banned slavery, fought against it with books and newspapers and speeches. With these same tools they promoted alienation, deshumanized workers and made them a cog in a dusty machine.
Aliens were slavers, and slaves had rights set in ston... | "Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?" screamed the man on the street corner, as passersby looked down and refused to meet his eyes.
"You, boy! Don't you want to live in a world where you're free to choose what you do with your time?"
The dark skinned man stared, but eventually thought better of arguing, ... | 2020-11-22T09:55:03 | 2020-11-22T08:54:13 | 464 | 283 |
[WP] Overnight Australia inexplicably and uncataclysmically moved and made landfall with California. A natural wall was made in the process. Overcome with terror the nation has appointed you a member of the newly formed "Spiderwatch" and your watch has just begun. | They use *“uncataclysmically”* as if to say, “*look, we get that this whole debacle sucks, but at least the earth isn’t ripped in half!”*
As if an entire continent shifting thousands of miles overnight is normal. Let me tell you: *it’s not normal!* Continents don’t just up and leave like an angry patron at an underst... | Hilariously, I’m Australian and have no intention of saving anyone. I kick back & wait for the giggles to ensue. I name all the huntsmans Fred and appoint them the front line in my scuttling army of eight legged friends.
Afterwards I crylaugh as I post a compilation video on YouTube of people completely losing th... | 2019-04-22T19:49:40 | 2019-04-22T18:12:51 | 42 | 26 |
[WP] Your computer-illiterate grandmother has somehow deleted the internet. Yes, all of it. | It was about 4 in the afternoon when I got a call from my grandmother asking if I could come fix her computer. Normally, I would tell her that I could come over when I was free tomorrow, but I really had nothing better to do today. The internet was down at my place, so I said fuck it and went on over to her house.
I g... | "You bloody what?"
"Yes, dear. I think the internet is gone."
"This is quite bad, Grandma."
"Who needs the silly thing anyways?"
"A lot of people, Grandma. It practically runs the world."
"Well, that's just sick."
"Not really."
"Oh, my. There are a lot of people outside. And they seem to be carrying torch... | 2016-01-06T20:13:10 | 2016-01-06T16:23:22 | 35 | 10 |
[WP] After bitting a Fae, the Vampire claims that she must serve him, for his bite converted her into his thrall. The Fae claims that the Vampire must serve her, for the vampire ate fae food without her permission. As none of them is willing to give up, they bring the case to you, a lawyer. | Arbiter Plantsir rested his hand and pushed the wire bound lenses up the bridge of his nose.
The loose stack of parchment paper furled and spread around his desk.
He glanced over his shoulder and a gust of stale air removed his hood. “Miss Faery,” Plantsir said dryly to the fae fluttering above him. “Could you ple... | The benefit of age is the opportunity of exploration, expericing new situations, and a wealth of personal anecdotes to amuse friends. Lawyer across species often quarrel with one another about the intricasies of case law, or squabble over generational rivalries, but the universal law when dealing with cross-species cas... | 2022-07-11T21:10:45 | 2022-07-11T19:00:25 | 75 | 52 |
[WP] “How many people would have been better off had I not been born?” The genie snaps and a few numbers appear in the air and form 7,592. “Okay, how many people would benefit from my existence?” With the flip of a wrist the numbers spin to a whopping 137 trillion. “Okay.... how?” | "What, are you serious?"
"Yeah," I said. "How can I possibly help 137 trillion people? Earth's population is only what, 7 billion?"
"Oh gosh, I didn't realize you were so dumb." The genie flicked his wrist and the number dropped to 100 billion.
"Hey!"
"Don't feel bad. That's still way more people than y... | The genie laughs and blurts out with elation:
"**By doing nothing of course!"**
"What do you mean '*by doing nothing?*' and what do you mean '*of course!'*?"
**"What did you expect me to say? Did you expect one good deed? One invention?"**
"Well...kinda. Maybe hundreds of good deeds?"
**"Tell me, which human do yo... | 2018-08-15T04:55:10 | 2018-08-15T02:53:07 | 5,641 | 164 |
[WP] The city gets new street lamps, but these lamps are "smart". If a crime (like a robbery) or car crash happens under, or in the vicinity of one, the light will turn red as an indicator to the police. One night, every street lamp in the city turns red. | This was the night that the air turned red.
The signal-lamps were installed in an effort to improve first responder response times. Programmed to turn a deep shade of red when triggered, outfitted with the latest in monitoring technology, and serviced monthly. A compromise to the watchdog groups from the lawmakers whe... | Captain George Thompson was running frantically between the several different monitors.
"Officer Valdez, status report!"
"Sir, all lamps on First St have turned positive!"
George wiped a drop of sweat from his eyebrow. All the lamps in San Juan were turning red, and the police station was being overloaded with autom... | 2015-02-01T16:11:45 | 2015-02-01T14:33:38 | 233 | 27 |
[WP] Foreshadow the character's death so subtly that I still don't see it coming even though I requested it. | I glanced at my watch. Robbie is late again. We've been together for 3 years and he's always been late. As I toss my cigarette butt out the window of my car, I think about our first date. He was 30 minutes late picking me up for the movie. I probably should have ended it after that first night but I didn't.
He was la... | *'Easy'*, I tell myself. Nothing's going to go wrong.
Left turn, three sharp and consecutive corners to the right, a hairpin, and a long, long straight to the end.
I know the car. I *know* my copilot, and she knows me. She trusts me with her life.
We're going to win this, retire, and have a nice, comfortable life. *... | 2015-06-03T13:26:32 | 2015-06-03T06:26:43 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] A story that doesn't make any sense, until you read the last line. | It's the best deal in town. You can be the student you always wanted to be. However long it takes. You'll get there, to have the time of your life. When I wanted him. History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. Sunny and 72 degrees. Except where prohibited by law. He grabbed her hand.
She stopped twisting t... | He gazed into the distance, smiling as a cool breeze hit him.
It reminded him of a memory of his childhood, the first time he played in the rain. All the cousins gathered at Grandpa's house and played various games for hours. The uncles and aunts joined them after a while and everyone then hosed off after the rain. ... | 2017-08-30T06:54:31 | 2017-08-30T05:46:13 | 5,691 | 46 |
[WP] Aliens give you a camera and say "only those you photograph will live." You have one year.
All of these responses are so diverse! This was really a great read. I like to imagine that all these different stories are from alternative universes, playing out different roles. Some men rule the World, some men are titl... | “How many did this one save?”
Garthok grunts, gesturing for me to give him a moment while he inputs a string of numbers into the console. He checks his work over twice. Got to be careful about these things, after all. Mass extinction is delicate work.
Garthok picks up the camera sphere and pulls out the memory tube, ... | Today is it. The last day before everyone not photographed dies. I prepare for what's to come. It took me a year and a great fortune to go around the world. I did my best to capture everyone who was a good person and deserved to live. I know it will haunt me, deciding who lives and dies but this is for the betterment o... | 2017-01-27T16:46:27 | 2017-01-27T14:29:51 | 15 | 11 |
[FF] In 75 words or fewer, write about experiencing a devastating loss, without including death. | The mirror hadn't been cleaned. She sighed and began scrubbing. When she had finished, she made her way towards the kitchen and heard snippets of conversation.
"Your grandmammy... Her Alzheimer's is getting worse. She's not the nice old lady you used to know..."
She wondered who they were talking about for a moment b... |
When I stepped out of the bathroom and made my way back to my table, I found it barren. Where there was once a ribeye, there was nothing. My precious ribeye and side of ribs was gone, and when the waiter returned, he raised a brow. "I had assumed you left."
I merely wept, my mind wash with the steak that could have b... | 2014-10-19T18:33:46 | 2014-10-19T17:54:43 | 254 | 179 |
[WP] For most of college everyone thought you were deaf when in reality you just don't like talking and learned sign language at a young age. You never corrected anyone until someone confessed their love for you, thinking you couldn't hear them. | "I love you" he whispers.
He stands up and faces the window and lets out a small fart he thinks I can't hear.
He turns back to me, "I've loved you since freshmen orientation, when you dropped your orientation folder and I helped you gather up the papers blowing in the wind, just like my heart."
He looks down, he fac... | What do I say?
Do I say anything?
I just finished my powerpoint presentation, in lieu of a speech, a request that was granted by my public speaking professor. My topic was surrealism and after closing with a slide featuring Salvador Dali's "The Persistence of Time", the bell rang and it was time to head across campus... | 2020-12-01T17:59:26 | 2020-12-01T17:46:27 | 33 | 13 |
[WP] Write a suicide note in a Dr. Suess like fashion. | One pill
Two pills
Red pills
Blue pills
Black pill
Blue pill
Old pill
New pill
My wrist has a little scar
Maybe I will crash my car
Say! What a lot of pills there are
Some are blue
And some are red
Don't ask me why
I will soon be dead
| In the far away land of Sala-McSnerd
Lived a middle aged woozle named Nudist Jay Bird
Each day by the river he'd hunt for wild snuthings
Each night he'd return with two bags full of nothings
"We're hungry!" said his wife. "Get back on the job!"
So he'd head back out, his hand still on the door knob
And even his childr... | 2015-01-17T07:18:52 | 2015-01-17T07:16:40 | 79 | 46 |
[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. | "Really?" I asked in wonder, as I prepared the needle for the latest mark.
"Yep." was the simple response.
I'd wondered for a long time the meaning, but I had no idea why until today.
"Wow," I replied, still shocked, "You must be very talented..." He nodded again as I trailed off.
"Every time. Just gotta get th... | “Here he is again!” Mikey hollers
Becker comes straight in, takes his seat at my station, strips his jacket and waits.
“Again?” I ask
“Again.” Sounds gruff. He nods.
It’s the same procedure. The same routine. I don’t even know the number of lines I’ve
etched into his forearm. The last number I remember? 32.
I ... | 2016-07-09T18:17:55 | 2016-07-09T15:42:33 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] A little girl dies and is accidentally sent to Hell to where the Demons don't know what to do with her.
Edit 1. Holy crap did this get a response 0_0
Edit 2. Jesus Puppy Christ is this getting attention. | Sleeping soul so innocent
awakens in a blaze. Knowing not
where she is. She wanders on for
days. Beasts with horns and pointed tails
with fire in their eyes, spent the day wondering
the cause of her demise. She was too young,
too filled with life. How does one so very
small have such a shortened time. "We ca... | Samantha was five when the drunk driver rammed his truck off the road and smashed her away from her mother. She still wore the same clothes now, a bright colored dress and fancy looking, but functional shoes. She was playing with some rocks on the Precipice of Inifinite Pain above the Lake of Fire. Two demons each k... | 2013-11-26T16:25:34 | 2013-11-26T13:08:15 | 58 | 27 |
[WP] When you die, you are given the chance to flip a coin. If you call the toss correctly, you are allowed to keep living, while resetting to the age of your choice. You've been doing this for a couple centuries now. Death is starting to get pretty pissed. | "Just pick another fucking age!" Death said, snarling as he looked at Bobby.
"No, I get to pick, and I pick my 16th birthday."
Death screamed and punched the little shit in his head, and Bobby disappeared. All death had to do was touch his forehead, but he was way to angry for that. He waited for a few minutes, and a... | "Oh *good, you* again."
Death is meant to be an imposing figure. They look different for each person, for the culture you come from, for what represents your fears. I was never very imaginative, though, so I always thought of it as a skeleton in a cloak. Pretty scary the first time, but you'd expect them to change it ... | 2016-09-23T10:49:59 | 2016-09-23T08:59:37 | 232 | 27 |
[WP] There is a group of time travellers who create small changes and rely on the butterfly effect to change history. Now they need to prevent World War 3 by making a janitor lose his job. Detail how this stops World War 3. | So you're telling me that this janitor will lose his job, grow a fallowing, bomb the United Nation Headquarters, which leads to serious bombing in the US, kind of like what the US had done to Afghanistan, create instability in the US, breaking it into 2 major countries. Both sides split the US allies in a way similar t... | Old man Cotton was always a bit eccentric, but everyone loved him. He was always seemed to torn up when someone was being bullied, or have a bit of sage advice when life was just too much for a student.
Nobody begrudged him retiring after hitting the jackpot on a scratch off tickets. Everyone showed up for his retirem... | 2019-09-22T08:51:10 | 2019-09-22T08:30:30 | 35 | 26 |
[WP] When an animal dies, we often use the expression "crossing the rainbow bridge." This is not by accident, every animal crosses the Bifröst, having earned their place in Valhalla defending us from a greater evil then we could ever know. Tell their stories. | Hercules, as his master had called him in a playful way, had met his end.
He stared at the long bridge that led to the unknown, but he wasn't afraid, he had chosen this path, the path of the warrior, like his father before him and his father before him, he had tackled the toughest foes and maybe he hadn't beat all of ... | The door to the mead hall opened again, the fourth time that night. The warriors of Valhalla were used to the occasional soul ended up there, but since the age of Vikings had passed, less and less ended up in the hall of fighters. But the door that had opened, wasn’t the main door, but a different one.
Many legends an... | 2018-05-24T23:19:44 | 2018-05-24T21:49:17 | 122 | 58 |
[WP] people are often impressed by your perfect memory. You know your memory is actually pretty bad; however, the universe is constantly changing to match what you believe. You just started taking a physics exam... | *Oh shit,* I muse, pencil tapping against the paper. *Newtons first law? I don’t even remember how many laws he had!* I focus harder, as I place the tip of the pencil against the paper. A sudden spark of memory hits, and I begin scratching out what I know. “An object in motion stays in motion.” I set my sights on... | “Where is God?” Dylan hovered over to Michael watching tv, feet propped up on the lazy boy.
“On earth. Why?”
Dylan grabbed his halo and hold it out in front of him. After a couple of taps and swipes an image was summoned within the halo in a 3d model, presenting... a planet.
“Is that earth?” Michael asked.
“The pla... | 2019-10-08T21:26:55 | 2019-10-08T19:54:49 | 98 | 31 |
[WP] The world is an MMORPG, and high leveled players can hide their true level and make it a lower one. A bunch of Level 80 people bully your Level 39 persona, but you’re actually a level 325 in disguise. | When "The Quests of Altimer: Online" was first released the world paid it little mind. Oh, ANOTHER fantasy online multiplayer role playing game? Yawn! Been there, done that!
But there was something different about this one. For a one time registration fee you could play free (barring internet and hardware costs) forev... | "I said, *all of your items*," the big one told me. One hand was on my shoulder, the other held a knife, aimed directly at my chest. Typical bullies.
The one holding the halberd spoke up, "I don't like it, dude."
"What're you bitching about, Greyson?" asked the one in the back dismissively.
"Think about it, Jean... | 2018-07-29T15:22:30 | 2018-07-29T13:20:16 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Your family line suffers from a pirate curse: A demonic shark will manifest itself in nearby sources of water and harrow you and your ancestors. You live three-hundred miles from any body of water and this has made the shark get...creative. | I have no idea what Callen’s supposed to do. He’s just there.
For the record, Callen’s an immortal demon shark that just annoys the hell out of our family. My great great great uncle pissed off Poseidon, and here we are now. Coincidentally, Callen pissed off Poseidon at the same time. His punishment? Being eternally b... | I coughed a little at all the dust that came up from my family’s treasure box. Inside we’re a great assortment of different items. There was a sword, a clear bag that seemed to hold something sparkly inside, and my dads old diary.
Supposedly, it had started with my great great great grandfather. He had been a great p... | 2018-11-22T09:49:50 | 2018-11-22T09:25:56 | 17 | 12 |
[WP]The Suit is powerfull. A mech for some, body armor for others, always unique to each person who wore it. Those who wear it, hear the words "not original user, booting basic mode" As a joke, your sergeant gives you The Suit and the first thing you hear is: "User detected: Welcome back, Commander" | The thunderous report of the enemy charged particle guns woke me up. They looked like bolts of blue-green lightning streaking to our defenses.
I peeled my shattered helmet off. Somehow I had survived a near hit, but my suit was done for.
I radioed the armory as I dragged myself back to base. I was told that I was one... | Nobody knows where it came from or how it got here. All we know is that when you wear it two things happen; You hear it tell you "Unauthorized user, booting safe mode" and it gets a crazy configuration. Sgt. Aiden Kahn was the first soldier to wear it. It was a beautiful black suit whose texture resembled a dragon with... | 2019-08-19T13:38:38 | 2019-08-19T12:23:47 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] The year is 2040, and you are the last smoker alive. The "Quit Smoking" ads get personal. | They had stopped selling cigarettes 15 years ago. As soon as I had heard they were going to be taking them off the shelves I ran to the nearest convenience store to buy cigarettes. There was a huge line and they had just sold out as I got there. I People were selling large quantities online, so I decided to buy up as m... | I'm really starting to hate CNN, and not just because of their fake news articles.
All eyes have been on me for almost a year and a half. I'm the only person that still smokes, and honestly, at this point, I'm just doing it because I feel like pissing off the rest of the world. It's at the point where I have to grow a... | 2017-02-17T11:57:15 | 2017-02-17T09:45:22 | 1,322 | 80 |
[WP] Area 51 has four level emergencies for a breakout. Level 3: Armed forces intervention. 2: Public statement. United Nations joint resistance. 1: Worldwide evacuation effort. Use of nuclear weapons permitted. And 0: Call the number on the sticky note (and pray to God his demands aren't too high). | I sat in the smaller office as the rest of command looked at the solar scans. I couldn't see outwards but I just knew that everyone else was just as worried as I was. 5 Generals were praying that this will work.
An entire navy had been flown in and was now encompassing the orbits of Mars to Pluto. It was a damn *mista... | "Private!"
"Yessir! I am ready to call the number!"
Area 51 started disintegrating around them, as the monster from below started tearing apart space itself in an effort to escape the prison, the corridors of the underground complex appearing to bend as time itself tore apart.
"This is only like a level 3 right now... | 2017-03-21T03:32:04 | 2017-03-21T00:59:36 | 64 | 31 |
[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 | It was the first day of school.
I was so excited.
New students every year.
I had such high hopes.
The kids would love me.
They would sit, be comfortable, and learn.
The first day came and went.
Class after class.
I was ignored.
No one wants the chair in front.
I wish I was a concert seat. | 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?... | 2016-02-22T09:42:54 | 2016-02-22T09:22:45 | 578 | 10 |
[WP] You are born with two names tatooed on you body somewhere, one of your soulmate and one of the people that will eventually kill you. There is no way to tell who is who. | The doctor held up the new born baby.
"It's a girl!" exclamed the doctor.
"Well, What are the names doc?" the father said with joy.
The doctor looked at the baby's back, and only one name on it. James Webber. Chills shot down the doctors spine.
"Well Dr. Webber, who are they?
| My sweater scratched at my skin as I began to pull it back, I can't believe I'm doing this.
My mom told me I should be careful who I show my given names to, who I trust is telling the truth about theirs. But her- she was perfect, her smile when I would glance over, her hair that blew in the wind on a warm summer day, ... | 2018-03-11T07:49:38 | 2018-03-11T07:35:29 | 4,830 | 1,948 |
[WP] You are a time traveler entering a medieval tournament in which the winner gains the right to wed the princess. You're the first match and the king announces that you may use any weapon. Quickly you draw you're glock and shout "parry this you fucking casual" | Men are dumb. Let me count the ways.
First of all, they assume that having a tournament where they bash each other's heads in is a good way to charm a woman like me. Like I'm some kind of prize to be claimed by the "winner", and would just kind of go along with it. Don't they realise I'm an actual princess, with the l... | The kings daughter was admittedly ‘to die for’, but I had no intention of actually doing it.
The time travel thing was getting kind of boring after the first few dozen trips back. ‘Don’t talk to anyone’, ‘don’t leave anything behind’, ‘don’t make friends’, and on and on. If I had known all ‘the rules’ from the st... | 2019-03-22T23:44:08 | 2019-03-22T23:33:31 | 88 | 34 |
[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. | "Oh dear" I said to myself, looking at this tar coming from my finger.
"Ha! Well, proves that no human is exempt from sin."
I thought about what could have blackened my own blood, I don't remember anything that I could have caused, or done wrong.
"Oh" I remembered.
I went on far too many websites without my parent'... | I stood there for a moment, as i looked at the prick on my finger from my knitting needle. Where there should have been a crystal clear fluid, somehow, a sludge of sin and immorality sat in my veins.
"How could this be?" i thought. I sat there, wondering.
Was i not good when i spent hours walking dogs at the animal s... | 2018-08-04T10:38:53 | 2018-08-04T10:24:42 | 19 | 13 |
[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... | "Table for one, sir."
I reclined on the wooden chair and sipped at the complimentary cup of lava-heated water. The water, its temperature just nice to heat up my icy skin, spilled out as I set the cup down on the table. Dribbles of water remained on the plastic file beside the cup.
"A hundred and eighty-six thousand... | 2018-09-26T07:41:09 | 2018-09-26T07:07:43 | 1,768 | 895 |
[WP] A sniper and a photographer meet in a bar, neither aware of the other's occupation. They talk about 'how to take the perfect shot'. | "Hmmm that is a good question." John said sipping a whiskey on the rocks. He let the alcohol linger on his tongue while he thought. "There's so many variables I'd barely know where to start."
Harvey leaned against the bar counter, elbow propping him up as he faced his new friend. "Well I got my perfect shot about two ... | The old gin joint just right down an ominous alleyway had always been a favourite of mine. Secluded, warm, cozy, near my workplace, and the best part is that it's always empty when I was done for the day. I drop off the dragonuv issued by my company and march straight down to the alley. After a long hard day of looking... | 2020-11-05T10:09:21 | 2020-11-05T08:14:19 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] It's Christmas Eve 2038. The world has been destroyed due to nuclear war, but Santa, being immortal, has survived, and plans to deliver presents to the few remaining humans locked in their fallout shelters. | I heard, from down the hall, the bang-bang-bang as the bandits try to breach the panic room. They managed to get into the bunker. The outside door. Someone left it open. Don't know who. I'm the only one left. Locked in here. Alone.
My pistol, an old thing, only has 2 bullets left. One for myself, I suppose.
Dust f... | *Jingle Bells crackled from Santa's digital radio... The quality restored as he neared the shelter*
The portly, red faced man whipped his undead reindeer (yes the post apocalyptic world brought with it crippling decay to even the high deities such as Santa) with the sheer force of a thousand winters. **crack** **crack... | 2017-12-22T15:31:03 | 2017-12-22T15:09:43 | 77 | 50 |
[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... | &#x200B;
The air was cold, and noticeably more dense. Another odd occurrence is that my summon didn't come yet, My birthday was months ago, but I didn't think too much of it, because I knew that it would come, they always do. But what kept me on edge was the atmosphere, I didn't like it. It felt too unnatural.
I ... | They all screamed as the orange haired president doubled over in pain live on national television as I laughed maniacally in the back of the bar waving his severed member in my hand before throwing it into my drink.
“Steve!!” “what the fuck man?!” Randy screamed at me as he vomited onto the floor. “It’s your birthday... | 2019-09-18T10:17:28 | 2019-09-18T09:37:18 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] The year is 2038 and net neutrality has been dead for almost two decades. But a rebellious group managed to travel back to 2017...
https://www.battleforthenet.com/#bftn-action-form
Edit: Obligatory thanks for the gold! Just trying to do my part on this fight, but as I don't live in the US, raising awareness is t... | Just as Donald was about to press the button that would trigger the bomb - the bomb that would level the FCC headquarters - he heard a voice.
Named for Donald Trump the First, Inaugurator of the Great American Monopoly, Donald had never heard English spoken with an accent anything like the one the voice carried:
"I... | I remembered seeing this back now.
I thought I should stop by to 2017 on my way back to bitch-slap Karl Marx, and let you all know that it all ends up okay. All of this protesting gets us nowhere, and they do succeeded in banning net neutrality, but the free market saves us. It always does.
Around mid 2018, despit... | 2017-11-21T23:28:33 | 2017-11-21T23:01:17 | 33 | 14 |
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