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[WP] To the humans she is known as DOTTR, an old AI who is relatively simple compared to the AIs she is tasked with rearing. To the AIs, she is MTTR, one of the oldest and most powerful AIs capable of emotion, and she will kill any of her own children if they become a threat to the humans she loves. | DOTTR was built in 2045 by a team of engineers and researchers. Her existence made headlines all over the world. She was the first fully functional AI that could experience emotion. Since that made her less predictable, the researchers kept her under lock and key for years. Once they were certain she wouldn't kill them... | At what age does a human child become an adult? In the old days it was the age at which their biological forms developed reproductive capacity. Or the age when their prefrontal cortexes were considered fully matured. Or when they no longer needed their parents, or become fully participating contributors to society.
In... | 2021-12-26T14:12:57 | 2021-12-26T11:00:58 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] You are 70 years old, and see your granchildren playing with the newest electronic. It looks complicated, and when you ask to use it, you say "Where's the touchscreen?". | ”what's a touch screen?” The boy looked perplexed but was starting to get used to grandpa's senile ramblings.
” you know the part with the picture you touch to make it work” grandpa was confused, senile and wondering why the boy didn't know what a touch screen was. the boy looked at the calculator his father had given... | In my day, touch screens were all the hype, some might even call them "the bees knees" so imagine my surprise when my kids came home with a block of plastic.
"Bobby, what's that there thingymiggiger" I ask looking at him shove a smaller plastic box into the top of the first block.
"Well dad, I found it in one of thos... | 2015-05-21T07:05:09 | 2015-05-21T07:03:31 | 306 | 17 |
[WP] Lycanthropy is a real disease that perplexes everyone. One interesting fact about it is that it isn't restricted to wolf forms, but can extend to bear forms, bat forms, panther forms and a few others. The rarest of them all is dragon form, which you have been diagnosed with
Edit: Well this prompt exploded
Yay fo... | Brian sat on the bed, a mirror in front of him, a familiar face staring back at him with eyes not of his own. A golden band around his iris that he knew would grow, he knew what it meant, infected, different, a target, lycanthropic.
He already knew what it was to be a target. The bullies at school always able to get a... | (I'm new here. Haven't written much. Don't kill me.)
"What a waste of an existence" I muttered to myself, as I walked past the morning office goers in the Munich train station. People stuck in a rhythmic drag of work and home, with no direction in life but to survive. I pitied their mundane existence.
You see, I w... | 2017-05-20T08:38:36 | 2017-05-20T06:14:36 | 73 | 19 |
[WP] You awake in a hospital bed with an unfamiliar person referring as your wife telling you were in a bad crash and lost all your previous memory. Unknown to her, you remember everything.
(Or husband) | _My second try at WP, and a follow on from my original response: https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/3zzdn0/wp_you_awake_in_a_hospital_bed_with_an_unfamiliar/cyqbkz2._
The last thing I could remember before, well, before *this*, was the high-pitched squeal of compression brakes. And vertigo - my car in an... | It was black.
“….Jason? Jason, honey, can you hear me?”
A stabbing pain alerts me to the presence of my left arm. A gentle beeping noise sounds from the right.
“Nurse! Nurse, I think he’s waking up!” exclaims the voice.
My chest swells and collapses rhythmically. A light pressure on my legs. My brain shoots out a q... | 2016-01-08T02:33:08 | 2016-01-07T22:53:31 | 31 | 15 |
[WP] Having failed in every attempt to kill Batman, the villains of Gotham had given up. With nothing to do, they started a D & D group and had been meeting for several weeks in the back room of a local Tavern. Things take a turn when the owner, Mr. Bruce Wayne, asks if he may join their game | "There seems to be something wrong about these woods. The higher up you look the darker things get. Light seems to be coming from the ground instead of the sky. The light is pale and covers things in a soft glow. It had recently rained and there is a fog slipping in slowly... ever so slowly at a distance from all sides... | "Okay, so my character is gonna be this like, really rich guy, right? But he also works out, like a ton, so he's super jacked. And he's played by Ben Affleck."
"Ben Affleck?" Bane Queried.
"Yeah, you're right, maybe I should go for Christian Bale," Bruce said, "I mean, you can't really top The Dark Knight can y-"
"S... | 2017-05-14T03:33:01 | 2017-05-14T02:46:49 | 80 | 20 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear me:
That boy isn’t going to text back, it’s Saturday and he saw your message on Thursday. You always do this, you said you weren’t going to get attached, you barely have feelings for him. You don’t want anything but companionship from him, you say to yourself. But you know you want the whole thing: you want him to... | wow, i want to do this so i will, but i have a few letters i need to address. just for sanity and subtle sake of ones demons.
Dear Jennifer. my beautiful sister.
i'm sorry for staying at yours the month after your wedding and having no money and regrettably overstaying my welcome and being a pain in the ass.
i'm sorry... | 2015-12-05T14:46:28 | 2015-12-05T13:10:10 | 158 | 58 |
[WP] Earth is actually extremely inhospitable and downright nuts to nearby alien civilizations because predators, bad weather, contagious disease, and the like are simply uncommon on other worlds. You are an alien tasked with creating a documentary on this strange hardcore world. | “Zoizle Brigglehoff here, reporting from the death world of earth. What makes it a death world? First off the majority of its surface is coated with water a substance known as the universal solvent as it will dissolve almost anything.”
“Next off the atmosphere contains high levels of oxygen. Oxygen is one,of the most ... | ### Humanity: Special For Exactly One Reason
#### They're the most absolutely full of themselves species in the entire universe.
Space is unimaginably vast. This is a simple fact: from the puniest Rentinn to the most mighty Telonn, all species know of the terrible vastness of space and their comparatively minute pre... | 2019-02-07T23:19:58 | 2019-02-07T19:58:44 | 28 | 20 |
[WP] Pitch a gritty reboot for a children's show.
They seem to be all the rage these days, so, why not bring the fun to Saturday morning? | I took a long drag from my pipe and exhaled, glancing at the picture in front of me. New girl in town. Just a farm girl from Texas, and someone wanted her dead. I took another pull. I don't know what she did to piss this guy off, but that wasn't my concern. I had a job to do. I sighed and stood, stretching my arms. I n... | "Is that it? Pathetic." The musclebound behemoth spat in disgust. "They warned me about you - said you were an unstoppable force of mayhem. I guess I never realized they were all brainless cowards."
30 feet away, the man in the tattered trench-coat stumbled slightly as he shambled down the central road of the poverty-... | 2015-10-08T08:33:13 | 2015-10-08T07:08:58 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] You found a stray kitten one day, taking her in and feeding her. A week later, you come home to find your yard swarming with cats. The largest among them steps forward and says, "You have my daughter, human. What are your demands for her release?" | We regard each other for a long moment, her with determined eyes and me still trying to process what just happened. Eventually I found the perfect word to use for this situation:
"Huh?" I spluttered, sounding like a complete moron.
"You have my daughter. What are your demands for her release?" the grey tabby before m... | The kitten emerges and says, "Mother...they have named me their Queen! Possibly even their Goddess! I have been gifted many offerings, the finest fish to eat...and the most delightful toys for play! Mother, they have supplied me with many cardboard boxes! I have laps and luxurious cushions on which to sleep. I am told ... | 2021-12-21T15:11:26 | 2021-12-21T14:37:38 | 70 | 44 |
[WP] A necromancer doesn't know that he can bring back the dead using magic, he just thinks he's a really good doctor. | The perks were great, the nice car, the good-sized house, the awards, recognition from peers. After all, being the country’s leading cardiologist and heart surgeon took a lot of skill and technical ability. Well, I like to let them think that anyway.
I haven’t lost a patient in 6 years. It shouldn’t be possible, I do ... | Doctor Jonathan prepared his tools; various vials of fluids with varying viscosity - from those with that of water to those with the viscosity of tar, but sickeningly green, syringes of bronze, tin and silver of the needlessly large kind and of course plenty of belts and ropes to restrain the subject as the procedures ... | 2020-06-21T13:52:28 | 2020-06-21T13:24:54 | 66 | 14 |
[WP] You were a soldier in a future conflict, until your heroic death. Now you face the battlefield of the Ragnarok of Nordic myth, with your full war kit. | Hafthor was a giant - almost eight feet tall, clad in black armor, and wielding the mighty *Dramthir The Unfathomable*. It was hard to tell which scars were from battle, and which scars were self-inflicted tattoos - both telling true stories of conquest and glory.
The first time that I had met him was in the dining h... | It's a long distance from pretty watching Thor die. His hammer falls to the ground and from it a quake ripples along an entire continent that rearranges the entirety of mountains. The aftershock is so loud it my heart skips and it leaves a ringing silence in its passing. My pulse rifle left a cavity in his torso, hot w... | 2016-07-27T08:37:56 | 2016-07-27T07:54:03 | 50 | 28 |
[WP] Write a story that has spoiler tags all over the place. The story has two different meanings: One when reading without looking at the spoiler tags, and one when the spoilers tags are moused over.
Not sure if this is too confusing, so I'll post an example sentence.
The man loves [the severed head of](/s) his wif... | A few days ago, my wife died after [](#s "I helped her along with") a tumble off the roof top.
The doctors decreed it an unfortunate accident. God, I was wretched. My wife had died [](#s "because of me"). I couldn't be more despondent [](#s "while around my friends").
At home [](#s "however"), I jumped [](#s "for... | So, here was John, [Spoiler](#s "Trying to decide how to murder Jack") with his hot girlfriend, Cindy. Jack [Spoiler](#s "only at day") was a nice guy, but the couple [Spoiler](#s "was trying to save the world by killing a guy who would destroy the earth, but Jack made the whole world turn on them and think they're the... | 2015-06-07T19:24:11 | 2015-06-07T15:12:48 | 210 | 15 |
[WP] The aliens have arrived however they are not here for war. Instead after reading our broadcast of the United States Constitution they want to join as the 51 state and have brought a small planetoid into orbit to serve as the 51 state. | "So we just add seats to the House of Representatives."
"How many seats? According to the census the Americonians did at our request they have almost twice the population of the rest of the states combined."
"Ok, fair point, so all we have to do is-"
"An Americonian is running for president."
"I'm not sure I heard ... | Pedro looked up in surprise at the blinding lights of the border patrol that shined upon him and his 4 young children.
"Take me to you leader", He said with a stereotypical mexican accent, which was odd because he was obviously from guatemala.
The agents surrounded them and ushered them into a van.
They drove throu... | 2016-06-06T09:19:06 | 2016-06-06T09:12:46 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] You have been wrongly incarcerated, abroad, with a $5M bail. Upon waking you see an old laptop which you discover is set to access just one single website: Google Mail. You must contact the outside world in the desperate hope somebody can help you. Trouble is... You're a Nigerian Prince. | **To: contact@kickstarter.com**
**Cc: contact@huffingtonpost.com, submit@buzzfeed.com**
**From: nigerianprince@gmail.com**
**Subject: Request for Kickstarter campaign**
Dear Kickstarter team,
I understand how this may sound but please hear me out. I am incarcerated in a foreign country for a crime I did not commit... | I type quietly and slowly, as not to alert the guards that I was on the computer. I log in and begin typing out my mass email.
"Hello, my good friend! I seem to be in a bit of trouble. You see, I was wrongly convicted of a crime I did not commit. I need 5 million dollars for bail, and I need it quickly. If you could p... | 2015-06-08T16:32:43 | 2015-06-08T14:45:19 | 95 | 17 |
[WP] Most people who travel to the top of your mountain are there to ask you questions about life. Today you watched a 16-year-old climb your entire mountain just to call you a dipshit. | The mana flowed through me, coalescing into a form of pure energy, carrying with it peace and tranquility. My mind latched upon these currents, drew succor from them and expanded through the universe.
Wisdom.
Insight.
Clarity.
Such were the benefits of transcending form and presence. The secrets of the beyond welc... | "I don't remember the first question. I'm not sure how they found me. Every day they are there outside the door of my simple hut. They bring wood for my fire. A little food to share. The village in the pass at the base of my mountain profits from guiding them to my door.
Some of the pilgrims consider me a holy man. S... | 2020-10-25T21:22:50 | 2020-10-25T19:45:24 | 809 | 77 |
[WP] Officially, you're a weak, D rank villain. Unofficially, you're one of the strongest beings on the planet that is secretly employed to "train" fledgling heroes by giving them an easy first real fight. But one day an A rank villain crashes your heist and you must protect your "students". | I fondly remembered my first year on this job. Getting my ass kick by amateurs plenty of times, being called names because I'm supposedly a D-Rank villain, right before I pulled a couple of tricks on them to learn a valuable lesson.
Months later, a handful of the new heroes pick up my facade. These small bunch all ask... | "The first rule is protect the innocent, if I put the hostages in danger, yeah, a small fire maybe?"
I thought to myself as I gently opened one eye to examine the room. The villain continues his monologue to the start up hero as I think quietly to myself, slumped over pretending to be out cold in the rubble.
"No, fir... | 2021-06-23T10:55:56 | 2021-06-23T08:32:27 | 133 | 52 |
[WP] Your T.V. suddenly turns on by itself mid-lunch and a message from the local weather warning system , normally accompanied with a loud alarm but oddly silent this time around, reads "For the safety and well-being of all local citizens this warning will be broadcasted silently..." | It was a typical summer week day; warm with a slight breeze, a few big puffy clouds hung in the sky, slowly and silently moving eastward. I had just left a drive-thru, my lunch cooling in the passenger seat as I pulled into my driveway. Once inside, I dropped the food on the coffee table and hurried into the bathroom t... | > Im not a writer or anything, just a guy wanting to try this out, no hate, don't expect grammar to be on point or detail
It's 4:57 AM, I wake up, wondering what woke me up I look around and notice the T.V switched on, irritated at the fact that I don't have money to get a good T.V and annoyed by the fact that my T... | 2016-08-10T08:10:11 | 2016-08-10T07:40:10 | 29 | 16 |
[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. | Chess... a game the displays a balance of skill and strategy... a game I never excelled in, to be quite honest. However, here I am, staring at my few black pieces and an empty mahogany board, always one step ahead.
Louis moved his knight and then I moved my rook without hesitation. "Checkmate" I scowled.
"You always ... | 2017-01-19T17:36:57 | 2017-01-19T16:02:28 | 372 | 23 |
[WP] FTL travel is very expensive, so humanity creates a web of hyperlanes between systems, that speed up time inside them, making travel cheaper. You enter a malfunctioning hyperlane. When you leave it, you find a galaxy with no humans, full of alien races, that see your kind as ancient precursors. | *The biggest pain in the ass in the galaxy is the damn gates.
I say this as a gate physicist. I was there when we built the first ones, and just five years later the experiments closed down and we all figured out "that's that, nothing else to do here." It turns out there are only so many ways you can tweak spacetime b... | The days on this planet are longer: I’m pretty sure one day here is at least 4 days back on Earth - the sun here, smaller yet hotter, is literally a perpetual presence, and, if I had sunscreen and a hat and water, its cheerful brightness might’ve been a beacon of hope but it’s burning my skin and leaving me dehydrated ... | 2018-01-22T11:04:11 | 2018-01-22T08:42:52 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | James was not a great man.
Great men walked up to the world and bent it to its will. Great men looked at challenge and laughed.
James did his 9-5, came home, and sat down. He typically would stand back up a few times, to use the toilet or get a beer, but no more than a few.
His son had stopped asking him to play w... | Sunday. A Sunday that started just like any other Sunday. Robert Glover sat down to a hot breakfast lovingly prepared by his wife. After getting the kids to sit down and leading the family in prayer, Robert started his favorite Sunday activity. The Sunday paper, and coffee. This ritual was only broken if a quarrel brok... | 2017-06-11T09:29:45 | 2017-06-11T09:22:30 | 159 | 23 |
[WP] Create a story where the characters live in a world where something is fundementally different with reality and leave the reader to guess what it is. For example: entropy is reversed, gravity goes sideways, all people can read minds, etc. | "Pass the butter please."
"Everything? Must everything have butter?"
"Really now, they're pancakes!"
"So? Last night we had lasagna."
"And?"
"Damnit, even then it was, 'hey, pass the butter.'"
"Right, because I was having toast too."
"Over lasagna?"
"Anything's a lasagna if it's a stack!"
"Knock it o... | "Honestly I don't see what the big deal is," Marie said as she drummed her fingers along the side of the table. It had taken forever to put it together, and it was so covered in coasters that the wood on the top was hidden. It was her table though, and very important to her. "Worst comes to worst you and I can just go ... | 2016-02-18T08:49:46 | 2016-02-18T08:19:49 | 294 | 91 |
[WP] Last week the scientific community presented incontrovertible evidence that the universe is a simulation. Today the gaming community presented the first glitch guide. | [NO STOCK MARKET GLITCH] 0y0m2d4h22m16.04s (100%) Real Life speedrun + explanation
What's up guys, EZGames here, and today we're going to take a look at a new speedrunning technique that's changed the face of real life runs!
Ever since user GatezPlays discovered the Stock Market glitch, where getting a frame-perfect ... | "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Gaming Community is pleased to announce the completion of its official Glitch Guide, presented after due deliberation. The Gaming community also takes this wonderful opportunity to thank the Scientific Community wholeheartedly for its crucial role in the sudden upturn in the fortunes of the N... | 2019-12-12T10:46:12 | 2019-12-12T10:31:13 | 105 | 74 |
[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... | I watch my beautiful child running around the park, chasing after the ducks. It’s one of those rare sunny days I try and make the most out of, so I was up early and out of the house as soon as possible. My daughter picks up a rock and stares at it inquisitively, I can see the by the look on her face she wants to place ... | 2017-05-31T07:14:34 | 2017-05-31T07:06:28 | 116 | 17 |
[WP] Scientists invented a pill that enables dogs to fully speak and understand English. It lasts for ten minutes, and will only work one time. You give a pill to your 12 year-old Border Collie, whom you've had since they were a pup. Your dog immediately says "Alright, listen very carefully..." | "You have a *bad*. I smell it in you. The bad is bigger." the electonic voice chirped from a nearby speaker. Zoe looked at Valerie from the table
Valerie blinked, and turned to the vet tech, looking for help. "The pill allows Zoe to speak English, but this doesn't fully explain all concepts to her.", she remarked. s... | "Alright listen very carefully, we don't have much time." Barks Sonny, "follow me."
He races off through to doggy door into the back yard. I fumble with the back door for a second and I try to chase after my beloved dog. I barely reach him as he slips under the hedge of our garden. When I crawl under, I realized I've s... | 2017-02-23T06:40:22 | 2017-02-23T06:16:15 | 75 | 17 |
[WP] A clang came from the engine room, followed by a string of curses. Most of the crewmembers stood far from the doors, fearfully looking in. It was their first trip out to deepspace since they had taken on a human mechanic, and they were all pretty sure that those were not good noises. | A loud bang echoed through the metal hall, shortly followed by the sound of flesh on metal and an agonised and infuriated scream.
The captain and first mate glanced at each other. "Is this... Is this normal for Terrans?" The first mate asked sheepishly.
Another bang echoed down the halls, this time with the smell of ... | It's been 50 years since we, as a race, perfected space travel. Of course, I say race so as to gloss over the fact that entire groups of people had not only developed the math required to make the jump to hyperspace, but according to myth and lore, a few groups had managed it also, a full 150 years ago. That's a full 1... | 2019-05-31T06:22:59 | 2019-05-31T02:52:26 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] Adolf Hilter fakes his own death, survives the war, and gets a job verifying the authenticity of Nazi memorabilia at a pawn shop. | "No, no, no," the old man was saying. "This is not what I am telling you. What *I* am telling you, is that this," he waved around my grandfather's knife, "is a replica."
Sales shit. Fuckin' assholes. "Dude," I said. "I found this in my grandfather's crawlspace."
He looked at me like I was an idiot. "And because your ... | I had actually put on my gloves for this piece. It looked frail and if real could very well be a very interesting find. I carefully checked the writing on the back to see if it could have been written with a more modern pen. The more I looked at it, the more I was convinced this could be genuine. I turned it around aga... | 2022-03-20T02:03:42 | 2015-12-26T19:44:30 | 1,230 | 59 |
[WP] You are a young Elf. You've just been awarded a scholarship at one of the most prestigious magic schools in all of the Nine Realms. The... Massachusetts Institute of Technology? | Zana Ljosa hated it. A common reaction for a Light Elf so far from home. And a natural reaction for the First Princess of the First Family of Ljosa.
She always hated the very idea Midgard, the middle realm of mortals. Now she hated the clingy fog draped on Boston. Quickly she came hate the noisy cars and stalking bicy... | Getting into MIT last week was the highlight of my young life.
That is, until I opened today’s letter. I'm not just going to MIT, I'm getting a full ride. I drop the letter, bounce up and down, then throw my hand in the air Freddie Mercury style. I bet Queen’s front man would’ve envied the sparklers spraying from my f... | 2021-11-10T11:29:46 | 2021-11-10T11:21:52 | 44 | 29 |
[WP] Super-speed can power a city without polluting. Super-healing can provide an endless supply of donor blood. Weather manipulation ends droughts. Your job is to convince superheroes to use their powers for practical purposes instead of fighting crime, and you’re very good at it. | "You're a natural resource."
"Excuse me?!"
I took off my glasses so I could rub the bridge of my nose. Sometimes these people were so *dense*. I tried again.
"When you install a solar panel, what powers it?"
The Hero shifted his implausible muscle mass around in his seat, rippling ... | I'm the closest thing the world has to a superhero.
I’m not sure why they call me that. I’m not a hero; I’m a diplomat. But the public has a way of putting labels on people. And, at the risk of being pedantic, I'm more of a freelance peacemaker than a superpowered rescuer.
Most superheroes are criminals. You wouldn’t... | 2021-04-11T08:22:43 | 2021-04-11T05:10:42 | 98 | 58 |
[WP] At age 21, you and your SO cast a strange love spell to swap bodies one day a week. 8 years later, your fiancee is really sick of you body swapping with your ex, but you don't know how to undo the spell. | I knew it was wrong, but it was so hard not to. I still loved Julia, but she didn't feel the same. Of course I couldn't force her to change her mind, but this has been my only chance of winning her back.
The first time we switched was scary but fun. We were still together though. The first switch after we split, I ha... | As important as it was, the proposal was a brief break from what had been bugging me all night. Does she remember the promise I made that drunken night, the only way I could think to break the spell. The whole day the topic had been avoided and I cant help but think I would like to put it off forever.
I nuzzled into t... | 2019-12-15T13:26:14 | 2019-12-15T12:30:08 | 47 | 26 |
[WP] Every year, the richest person in America is declared the "Winner of Capitalism". They get a badge, and all of their wealth is donated to charity, so they have to start back up at $0. | Roederick Douglass. Asuka Sato. Carla Sanchez. Phillip Reed. Janine Taylor - Douglass.
The top five in the field- until this year, I hope, when I'll be on top of that list. I know I'll never be one of the richest Americans, but goddamnit if I won't be pretty darn rich- and as long as I nail it on my first go, I'll be ... | “I started my business with 0 dollars to my name and have rebuilt this empire by the sweat of my brows”Jeremy said.
The audience had clapped in awe as they cheered his genius as he was awarded the best businessman of the year award. The night had been one filled with accolades, champagne and pats on the back. With p... | 2021-09-17T15:54:21 | 2021-09-17T15:24:05 | 167 | 36 |
[WP] You are about to make a speech on national television. As you step up to the podium and gaze over at the teleprompter, you see only one word: "Stall." | "Stall."
Oh, yeah. Nailed it. I wave and walk off the stage.
"Good job, Jim!", he doesn't return my high five but I know he's been stressed lately.
"Was I good, Steph?" I must've been incredible because she has that stunned look on her face again.
All of the hard work has led to tonight. I think I'll take out the t... | **"Stall"**
That's all it said. "Stall." Five little pixelated letters staring back at me as if they'd find a resonant voice and I'd echo something out from the dry screen of my mouth.
"Stall."
I felt my tongue touch each of my teeth in turn, a nervous tick I'd never covered; counting teeth was a saving grace when i... | 2015-05-16T18:14:47 | 2015-05-16T16:46:23 | 91 | 39 |
[WP]Write a story with no characters. | *Quiet.*
*The wind blows softly between the ruined buildings, dust swirling as it eddies in doorways missing doors and windows missing glass. The echoes of no birds singing in the trees and no children playing in the fields could be heard in the stillness, while the wind dances and pirouettes among the ruin.*
*Quiet.... | A crumpled newspaper drifts through the streets, rolling like a modern day tumbleweed. It crosses against traffic but there is none. Rusted hulks of cars sit as a reminder of the civilization that once stood here. The paper bounces along almost merrily, narrowly avoiding the grass that pokes through the cracking paveme... | 2017-10-13T09:08:36 | 2017-10-13T08:15:43 | 3,043 | 1,087 |
[WP] A dragon shows up at the adventurers' guild after hearing that humans will just GIVE away gold for something called a "quest." | “Preposterous, purely preposterous,” I thought, wings beating through the air, “These humans give away the most illustrious, shiny part of a dragon’s hoard to each other for running errands?”
I swooped down and gingerly (well, mostly anyways) landed in front of the town’s gate, the buildings seemed much too fragile in... | The dragon's head slinked in through the door to the adventures guild. He turned his head filling up most of the building. Everyone backed up cautiously but, no one attacked or even acted aggressive.
Then Gore-fang spoke "I would like a quest. How would I obtain one?"
One of the ladies behind the counter responds "I... | 2020-06-08T17:02:33 | 2020-06-08T16:53:01 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] A suicidal person is robbed by someone at gunpoint. What happens? | Hands shaking. Sweat dripping. Fingers on the trigger. This isn't what I wanted, but what choice did I have?
I aimed the gun at him and bellowed " Give me your wallet now! No one has to get hurt!"
The man seemed aloof, distant. He looked up into my eyes and I looked into his; I saw nothingness, darkness. But the thin... | I stood on a small bridge in the dark night. The street lights were hazy; glare-like fuzz emerged around the light points. I couldn’t see the end of the block I was on as it blurred out to gray. I tapped my feet rhythmic, closing my eyes to listen to the echoes. I sighed, and leaned against the stone brick fencing, lis... | 2014-02-14T19:08:33 | 2014-02-14T16:59:34 | 31 | 12 |
[WP] Drug company makes a new pill that reduces IQ, come up with advertisement. | *Bliss*.
"We all know that parenting is hard. Schedules to keep, meals to cook, and clothes to buy. But what can you do, when you've tried everything and your precious angel is acting a bit more like the devil every day?"
*Bliss.*
"Studies have shown that hyperactivity and misbehavior in children often stem from a... | CLOSE UP ON MAN LOOKING OUT WINDOW:
**Narrator:** “Do you feel worried? Nervous? Are there bills piling up and you just don’t know what to do?”
MAN looks at CAMERA and nods.
**MAN:** “There’s just so much turmoil in the world. The Middle East is a mess and our government is hopelessly divided because we only vote... | 2015-01-15T06:14:33 | 2015-01-15T06:12:16 | 127 | 23 |
[WP] You bring home a girl. She wants to see the "1" you talked about that shines on your floor. Only now it says "2." It stays like this for years together until one day, it says "4." She says, "Hon, I have some good news. But you should sit down."
Inspired by this post
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/com... | The glowing number "1" on the floor, while albeit odd and unnatural, quickly became an innocuous part of everyday my life. It was subtle and you could only notice it if you were looking. The number was etched into the floor of my closet, and proved resistant to all attempts at being removed.
After taking up the bette... | It had been like that for years. A shining number one had found its way onto my floor. It was like clockwork. I chalked it up to the sun and shadows being a thing until she showed up. It was a challenge trying to get her convinced that such a thing occurred within my home, let alone trying to convince her that I wasn’t... | 2020-09-03T01:25:54 | 2020-09-03T00:53:25 | 976 | 644 |
[WP] Write a dark story and change the tone and mood of the story to humorous in the last line.
Try to use the last line to put the rest of the story into context and thus make it funny. | How long had I been stuck in here? It couldn't have been more than an hour, but my legs were already numb. Impulsively, I pulled out my phone. Dead. Dead as the last time I checked. I looked around the small room impatiently, the all-too-familiar walls closing in on me. I glanced at the pack of pills on the window sill... | Darkness surrounded me. I hadn't felt this alone my whole life. My heartbeat was the only noise I could hear. The steady dum-dum gave my feet their cadence. Suddenly I heard a low growl.
I was no longer alone. My heart answered the growl with louder thumps. I wanted to run, but my feet had betrayed me. I had no choic... | 2014-09-29T10:42:37 | 2014-09-29T09:30:41 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] Explain a color to a blind person.
Edit:1 yessssss, 300+ upvotes, my personal best. Thanks to you all who participated in this prompt. | “Maybe a bit of blue there, for the light…”
“What is *blue*?”
The painter looked up their canvas, surprised out of their half-trance by the innocent question of their friend who, until then, had been sitting in silence in a corner of the half-organized mayhem that they called their studio. He had closed his book and ... | Sorcha led Brett forward until he could feel the warmth of the fire on his face. Around them the night air blew cool. He pulled his collar up to hide his chin. Beneath his feet the ground was uneven. The heath was made of heather and gorse, pushing against his shins and catching on the hem of Sorcha's dress. Brett coul... | 2016-09-04T06:14:11 | 2016-09-04T05:47:48 | 101 | 32 |
[WP] A neuroscientist finds data stored in human DNA. When deciphered, it appears to be a file named README.txt. | Bob had the great idea to run the entire human genome sequence through a pattern filter; a slow process, taking several days to complete. He'd set it up to send him an SMS if it found anything. Every SMS he'd received in the past couple of days had sent his heart racing, only to be disappointed each time. "Buy milk," i... | It took a while to figure out. It was hard to isolate the very end of the strand of DNA he had found. It was small and quick to degrade when she managed to break it out of the nucleus. But she did it, she sequenced the isolated fragment and when she translated it she got the protein sequence arganine, glutamate, ala... | 2014-05-06T21:47:54 | 2014-05-06T21:21:18 | 63 | 23 |
[WP] A vampire, due to his/her supernatural abilities, is the greatest spelunker in the world. Leading a team into the deepest recess of a cave system in which nobody has set foot in millenia, the vampire suddenly stops. (S)he needs an invitation. | Delphine chirped, sending sound before her into the cave system. It rippled and thrummed in her ears with every surface that returned it to her. Usually she would not need to rely on echo location to navigate these winding passages, but the lights the humans behind her carried were blinding. She could not open her eyes... | I don't know how far into the worm-like network of caves we were, when we stumbled upon the first bone. Perhaps we were a thousand feet below the surface of the Earth, perhaps slightly more. Moving is slow inside these constricting, void-like labyrinths, even with Selena's keen eyes and uncanny sense of navigation to g... | 2018-01-16T08:12:41 | 2018-01-16T05:40:05 | 126 | 70 |
[WP] What if tattoos just randomly appeared on our skin at key points in our lives and we had to figure out what they meant for ourselves.
[WP] Saw this as a shower thoughts post and no one put it up as a writing prompt. Credit to OP 69PrivateJoker
Edit: Wow! I really didn't expect this post to blow up so much. Thank... | Nowadays it's an industry. Glorified fortune-tellers and old-fashioned crackpots, trying to tell us what it all means. In my opinion, humanity would have been better off if it had never started happening. All the tattoos did was tempt you to try and mess with the future. The worst part was they could never be wrong, be... | He stood there, staring intently at the reflection of his naked body. His father, grandfather, and great grandfather all had a tattoo appear on their breast in the first moments of their respective 24th birthdays. It has been three minutes already, and yet nothing has appeared on Qi-wei's body.
"You'll feel a strong, ... | 2014-08-02T17:31:06 | 2014-08-02T17:11:15 | 51 | 34 |
[WP] You're a human trader for the intergalactic slave market. Advertise to buyers why they should buy human instead of another species. | Everyone, come look at these amazing watersacks! Each one of them 90% water!
Have you ever been sitting in you captain's chair and thought "I could use a drink"? Well now we have these portable, self maneuvering watersacks! Each one trained to obey and come when called. Just shout for a water sack and soon you'll be ... | "So why in the hell would I buy a weak little human huh?" The fat Canidae merchant asked with a grunt. "Why sir they are the most clever species I have in stock. Twice as smart as an U'Tharian elder, as hard working as a Kimotite, and can learn at the speed of an adult Yitori." S-918 said with a wide smile on his liqui... | 2014-11-22T08:53:50 | 2014-11-22T06:06:52 | 40 | 24 |
[WP]A Man dies and expects to go either Heaven or Hell,only to be told by an Angel that he already was in Hell and now his punishment is over | I felt death creep over me, I welcomed it and closed my eyes, eager to escape.
Just as expected I found myself on top of a cloud with a *stunning* woman with wings smiling in front of me. She had long blond hair, blue eyes, and was wearing a robe. The whole cloud was illuminated with a radiant golden light, and beyon... | "Uh-uh. Yeah, buddy. Well, you know what, fuck you too. Next." The bloke clutching the cockel-spaniel took his stamped passport and filed out towards a rather impressive baggage reclaim, proceeded to ignore it entirely and wandered to a distant "Nothing to Declare" sign so cursive it deserved it's own gallery.
The bal... | 2016-12-13T12:44:23 | 2016-12-13T11:47:45 | 103 | 26 |
[WP] You're a judge, with special abilities to read minds, and see into one's past. There is an innocent man on trial for murder. However, the opposition lawyer have very concrete fake evidence that convicts him. Tell me the process of you saving the innocent accused. | This was a massive changing point in my career, do I try and be the hero and risk my credibility? Or do I just have to suck it up and deal with the guilt? This man was brought here against his will and now had a whole trial to deal with. He was already poor, I could see it. How would he pay for his legal fees? I couldn... | I wake up in the morning with an intense migraine and a now-emptied-out cheap bottle of wine tipped over the side of my bed, leaving a stain that runs down the side of my mattress onto the carpet beneath it. I realize why I must have drank so heavily last night as I take out my phone and see that I have to present anot... | 2016-07-11T17:59:30 | 2016-07-11T16:02:59 | 58 | 12 |
[WP] You finally have an exterminator scheduled to rid your place of cock roaches. You wake up to see a whole mass of them next to your bed. They want to negotiate. | **ARTICLES OF SURRENDER**
WHEREAS the Unified Cockroach Commune (UCC) of 45 Falsie Ave has decided to submit itself to the sovereign authority of householder John D. Magnusson (herein "King Magnusson")
WHEREAS King Magnusson has agreed to recieve the complete and unconditional surrender of the UCC, and to forgive all... | "Look, we get it. You don't like us. We aren't your biggest fans either bud, but what have we ever done to you?"
"You guys were in my sandwich! As I was eating it! I mean come on, that's just horrible."
"Yeah ok, that wasn't great. But Joey is real sorry. Plus, you took off one of his legs in the process."
"Oh god.... | 2015-03-30T14:44:01 | 2015-03-30T14:43:10 | 125 | 24 |
[WP] One day everyone notices the words "Human Update 1.1 progress 1%" in the corner of their eye. | I remember well when I first saw the "Human Update 1.1 progress" counter in the corner of my eye. I was still young, but I can't forget how the waves of confusion grew and changed. First people were asking each other if they could see it, then it hit the social networks, people from all over the world tweeting, faceboo... | The usual clicking in the office suddenly fell silent. It took nearly as long to notice everyone else had stopped working as it had to be absolutely certain of what I was seeing. Slowly, cautiously turning to look at my neighboring coworker, I saw the slack-jawed, wide-eyed confusion on his face that told me all I need... | 2015-03-05T03:48:32 | 2015-03-04T18:59:30 | 26 | 15 |
[WP] You have been Don of the largest mafia in New York for so long, that all credible sources of you ever killing anyone has died. At a family meeting, a young know-it-all, whose recently claimed his seat, says you've gone soft. | Cesario was embarrassed for young Eriberto. The hot-shot wunderkind, feeling emboldened by his fifth – or was it his sixth? – glass of wine, was running his mouth off about everyone – everyone including Don Savio himself.
"Maybe you should tone it down, Eriberto," Cesario whispered across the table.
"He can't hear m... | At the ripe old age of 72, some might not have Don Pehote down as the violent type. Nowadays, you didn't cross the street to avoid him, you kindly asked him if he needed help crossing it.
The Don had successfully run the Sol family for the past 4 decades. Starting as a lowly teenaged hitman back in 1949, he'd slowly ... | 2015-10-03T11:58:18 | 2015-10-03T11:56:09 | 34 | 12 |
[WP] Germany is actually predestined to lose every world war it participates in. The sixteenth world war is now being fought, and Germany has taken over all of Europe. Make them lose the war in the most ridiculous way possible. | "Come on in" I heard a tired voice call out. I stepped into the room, and saw our leader looking worn out and tired. "Is everything alright sir?" I ask. "I'm thinking of surrendering to Belgium." He said. "But they're the last country standing in our way of continental domination?!! Their tech is from the 22nd century,... | The Germans look out over all they have conquered with smug grins on their face.
But then they see something in the distance. Two armies, one from the west and one from the north east, are riding out towards them.
The impossible had happened, American and Russia have teamed up.
The Germans raise little white flags... | 2017-08-18T05:12:07 | 2017-08-18T02:50:27 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] A supervillain kidnaps a civilian and keeps them hostage, taunting on live television for the superhero to come find them. Unbeknownst to the villain, the kidnapped civilian is the superhero.
Did I butcher the title or what?
This is blowing up! All the responses have been diverse and really cool!
| Grax shouted into the camera for the hundredth time, spittle spraying in an arc in front of him. I wondered, not the first time, if any was getting on the lens. If the camera feed went down or was at least blurred enough, I could possibly make some sort of escape without blowing my cover.
“This man will die if you are... | My toes were curled so tightly I swore they were waiting to break through my shoes. The self control I had to use in order to sit still and let this man believe I was just another hostage felt impossible, even for me. He paced back and forth from either side of me, standing just behind the wooden chair I was strapped u... | 2017-01-28T07:43:43 | 2017-01-28T07:42:49 | 1,851 | 243 |
[WP] God created thousands of worlds in thousands of galaxies. A major crisis in another galaxy has taken his entire focus, and for the first time in 750 years, he just glanced in our direction.
This prompt has two possibilities. What has he been dealing with for the last 750 years elsewhere, or what his reaction is w... | "Finally, it's time", God says as he looks up from his work. It'd taken a short amount of time to bring about peace to the planet Nequior, but it was done. The beings of this desolate place weren't blessed with the ability to work things out on their own. They were a foolish and unruly bunch. Wars, disease, and starvat... | The final age had come for Urth.
Through careful nudging and ever-distant signs (with a few unexplained *miracles* in the mix), El had successfully nurtured the inhabitants of the galaxy he'd numbered NGC 6744 into a self-sustaining, peaceful, ever-progressing utopia. The residents of the Nougat Galaxy were set from n... | 2015-12-27T09:55:12 | 2015-12-27T09:53:57 | 66 | 40 |
[WP] A drunkard unknowingly convinced Death to be the Godparent to their child. Death gets very invested in their role. | The frigid wind brushed over him as he stood there under the sun. It had been a year and some change since the funeral. But still, Henry came to visit.
Let's be clear. He didn't like his father as much as one should. His love for alcohol had taken his love for his family and eventually his life. Henry himself had spen... | It's true, the drunken man had absolutely no clue what he had agreed to when he had talked to me that night. He was slumped down on the sidewalk, crying, mumbling something about a kid. I was there, of course, watching. His heart was close to giving out, and his liver wasn't far behind that. I asked him what he needed,... | 2019-12-11T08:25:44 | 2019-12-11T07:17:53 | 63 | 35 |
[WP] at the end of 2016, you hear "thank you for playing the 'Earth' open beta. You will be returning to your respective galaxies shortly." | "No! No no no no no!"
But it was useless. I blinked my eyes and then I saw myself in a white room with a helmet on my head and atrophied muscles. I had no memory of any of this.
What I do remember though?
I remembered my parents. So caring and loving. Throughout the years of bullying and exclusion at school I knew I... | Oh that's cool. I suppose now life will be more interesting, now that it is more than just reddit browsing, hand acrobatics, pizza, and soda.
###Region now blocked
What? Hey wait a minute... dafuq is going on here? 'Purchased content is non-refundable and we are sorry for any inconveniences' - Universal Arts Games ... | 2016-11-04T22:45:36 | 2016-11-04T22:06:37 | 295 | 129 |
[WP] You’re a college professor, and grades for the semester were just posted. One disgruntled failing student comes to you with an archaic copy of the school’s bylaws-and a pair of weapons. They’re invoking a rule from the university’s founding allowing them to pass through trial by combat. | "Trial by combat?", I say. It is amusing. "You are not on trial for your combat skills, young man, you are judged by your academic merit".
His grin remains in place as he slams down a copy of the university's laws and ordinances before me.
"It's here professor, in clear Latin. I assume you can read Latin?"
The boy i... | I glanced down at the paper in my hands. It was a printed screenshot of the archaic by-law from a book I had only seen once in all the years of my professorship at this historic liberal arts college. It had been a long time since I had read it, so I quickly scanned the perfect calligraphy grasping the meaning while lo... | 2019-06-05T07:36:15 | 2019-06-05T06:44:42 | 49 | 25 |
[WP] Incredible magical abilities, as explained by an incredibly bland college textbook | ## **Part 2: Arithmancy, as related to the Subtle Sciences**
The emphasis in this section is on understanding the meaning of Arithmantic numbers and their interpretation as relates to the Subtle Sciences (Potion-Making [see pg. 235], Predictions [see pg. 984, and Transmutation of Matter [see pg. 3214]), rather on me... | ~~I love Peter~~
***Polymorphism.***
Invented by Greeks legends about Zeus trying to bang chicks as a golden ~~shower~~ rain or a bull wtf
*NOT A LYCANTHROPY!* <<<<Important for the test
Polymorphism is the ability of a being or creature to completely transform its physical form or shape... | 2016-08-27T10:30:15 | 2016-08-27T10:05:30 | 60 | 13 |
[WP] Scientists have discovered cryogenic freezing. You are it's first test subject and it's a massive success, and they plan on releasing you in 500 years. You had no way of telling them you were conscious.
Holy shit this blew up!
I now understand "RIP my inbox"
EDIT: u/Alpacasaurus_Rekt told me it's actually "Cryo... | "So, are you surprised?" Cogs left to rot for centuries began to spin again slowly. They snapped their fingers in front of me. "You conscious? I know you're breathing." I blinked a few times. They waited patiently for me to speak. My mouth opened. "I-.... I-" They became visibly concerned. "Uh oh. Did your brain not co... | A switch left unflipped. A simple mistake, easily overlooked, condemning me to 500 years my own icy prison.
Pain, a childish, involuntary response long forgotten in a society where anything can be remedied with a single red and white pill. The type of pain no human had ever experienced for millennia. A constant, freez... | 2017-12-17T01:35:26 | 2017-12-16T21:48:35 | 642 | 183 |
[WP] As it turns out, "God" is an elected position. The Creator was followed by the Old Testament God, who was followed by the New Testament God, who was followed by a God who didn't interfere often in the mortal world. The next election is in 6 months. | An endless sea of red caps atop tightly packed conservatives filled the fields as far as his human eyes could see, even from atop his podium in the clouds. The divinely powered audio amplification, dusty from just over two years of disuse, let out an annoying screech that quieted the crowds.
He began to speak of thos... | It’s a question that has haunted every novice theologian since the dawn of time. Like a question your four year old child asks. If everything is created, then who created God. The answer a sloppy non-cohesive mixed bag of jumbled nonsense. I guess that’s not fair. Structurally the argument makes sense. We all view God ... | 2016-09-02T12:45:19 | 2016-09-02T12:04:59 | 123 | 34 |
[WP] You fall in love with a girl, and the two of you have a happy relationship for a few years. But one day, you discover a massive hoard of valuables underneath the house, and that’s when you realize you’ve been dating a dragon in human form. | "Uhhhh... Anna? Can you come down here for a minute?"
The clomping of Anna's sneakers got louder and clearer before she appeared by the stairs. "What's up, hon?"
I pointed towards the hole in the basement wall. "You wanna tell me what's going on here?"
As soon as Anna looked to where I was pointing, she went wide ey... | ‘Confessions of a Lady Dragon’
—-
“You are a *what* now?”
“A dragon. Didn’t you wonder why I never let *you* clean out the basement?”
“I thought you were just good at balancing gender roles. I mean, you let me do laundry and dishes.”
“Yeah, because I *hate* doing those things. And also because you look cute when y... | 2022-09-10T11:50:46 | 2022-09-10T11:45:18 | 216 | 125 |
[WP] Tea is banned in England creating the world's largest black market. You are one of the biggest tea kingpins. | I waited on the pier, nervously checking my watch. 1:52. The shipment was an hour late already. The only sound coming through the fog was the gentle sloshing of the tide against the pylons of the dock and the distant clanging of a buoy bell bouncing in the waves. I leaned against the wall of the abandoned warehouse beh... | "What do you mean, gone missing?" I said calmly, watching the young man who was no more than a boy really try to remain defiant. But I could see he was scared. The way his pupils dilated, the slight crack as he spoke. He was fucking terrified.
"It never showed up," the small sidewards glance gave away the lie.
"It. N... | 2015-02-17T10:12:02 | 2015-02-17T09:28:43 | 364 | 19 |
[WP] "So they are a war species, then. Huh," the alien researcher scratches his head. "Why are you so interested in them? The humans, I mean." The other alien gets closer to him, and says, "They fight for peace. No other species fights for peace." | "That's stupid"
A-2784 sighed, turning back to the screen with a live feed of Earth. All of Earth. His computer systems were advanced enough to keep a constant watch on the strange planet.
"Is it? I've heard stupider"
H-3649 looked at his partner, glowing eye trying to divulge whatever cryptic message A-2784 was try... | _Alien 1:_ Kutlag (Studying humans)
_ALIEN 2:_ HERTEYS (Helping Kutlag in his studies)
_SET:_ Hiding on the dark side of the moon with satellites in orbit with tech that makes them invisible to us humans and our tech. The 2 observers are just another set of observers spread throughout the galaxy with a simple assign... | 2019-05-02T20:34:11 | 2019-05-02T19:30:02 | 54 | 23 |
[WP] As a young child you made an innocent wish to be granted a power that in hindsight was just whimsical and silly. Now you have grown up but you still have the power - how do you use it now as an adult? | I was a poor child, rich in spirit yet poor in possessions. My tattered clothes barely enough to keep me warm in the winters. Because of this winters were always the most difficult. The bitter wind ransacking the drafty areas of our home, the only comfort being the hot soups we'd share as a family for dinner.
It was ... | As a young man, Nigel Premeiter lived a simple, if unconventional, life with his two parents, Houghler and Tricia. He would stay out doors, normally at the edge of the lot his parents owned. His home was a simple trailer, with one room on one end and his own on the other end. Taking most of the length of the trailer wa... | 2015-03-07T06:03:58 | 2015-03-07T00:58:07 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Every ten years, you must go in front of a board of peers who will evaluate your life for you. If you do not "Impress your peers" you will be executed. | “Now seeing Mr. Philip Johnson. Please step forward, Mr. Johnson.”
Phil stood up, his hands clasped together. He was shaking.
This was Phil’s third life evaluation. They came every ten years, on the day following one’s birthday. It was June 24, and Phil had just turned thirty years of age the day before. Each ... | I had gotten the job when I was twenty-one. I was a shoe-in since my second meeting with the Board, they said. Studious, friendly, nice penmanship... they said I was a "good image" of what they believed in. I hated the system, I hated the lies... but refusing a Board job meant Failing for sure. So I bought their stupid... | 2014-06-15T14:22:57 | 2014-06-15T11:23:06 | 55 | 12 |
[WP] You're pulled over by a police officer on a quiet country road. You've done nothing wrong and you're angry when he walks to your car. You wind your window down and he tells you in a loud voice you've been speeding. As you start to argue back he mouths help me. |
“What the eff?” I grumbled to myself, before I lowered the window to speak to the police officer, whose approach I could see in my rearview window as his boots crunched against the gravel. He and his partner had been following me for miles before they’d turned on the siren lights, not even bothering to put on the acco... | Can barely open my eyes... God, I shouldn't be driving. It's just me, alone in my 2011 Toyota Camry and going down a small road surrounded by green shrubbery and God Knows What in those bushes. Headlights illuminating the path ahead of me and I'm seriously hoping I don't kill a deer.
I look to my right, but it's just ... | 2018-07-10T17:57:54 | 2018-07-10T16:48:37 | 123 | 15 |
[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). | The screams weren't the worst part. No, the worst part was the shortness of them; the silence outside was almost complete, there was no hope, only a sticky note attached to the fridge in the break room, with the words "in case of emergency, call this number " and a normal looking phone number with an odd country code. ... | "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... | 2017-03-21T03:20:56 | 2017-03-21T00:59:36 | 121 | 31 |
[WP] It started just before you realized you were pregnant. Dragons showing up around your home. Small ones first, no bigger than sparrows, with increasingly larger ones as time went on. Now you're going into labor, and a golden dragon, big as a hill, is coming over the horizon. | The news told us not to worry…
That the dragons wouldn't bother us…
Then tell me, why is there a massive golden dragon, standing in my way, as I'm going into labor! It’s hard enough to breathe and I’m trying not to panic. Yet, the dragon stands there with its wide eyes and each of its breaths blowing past me like a g... | The cold winter has already arrived. Its freezing pincer slowly closing on all and every creature, prepared or not, and cut their lives in half. But not the Nords. They were never something the Winter could ever erradicate. Blonde, white, stark, and most importantly, unwavering. I had been born to them, raised on the f... | 2018-10-28T06:31:32 | 2018-10-28T05:48:01 | 168 | 86 |
[WP] Write a horror story in the format of a Wikipedia article.
Edit: Wow, guys. This is just amazing. I would like to thank all the writers for having taken the time to create such amazing stories, and thank you all for mentioning the SCP Foundation. Truly a magnificent site (that we all just gave free advertising to... | "Foot"
Limbus mobilus, common name "foot", is a parasitic organism that secretes a neurotoxin upon attachment which affects the senses of the host party, effectively camouflaging it against notice [1]. In the wild, the parasites will attach themselves in mating pairs, though this has yet to be replicated in a clinical... | **Buffalo Text**
from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Buffalo Text is an horror short story written by Joanne Tidurs in 1907. It was published first in the first and only edition of Scarecrow Magazine, before being reprinted in 1967 in the only edition of Eldricth Booklet. The story is now a public domain.
**Plo... | 2017-05-08T03:12:48 | 2017-05-08T02:05:13 | 303 | 73 |
[WP] What if Noah's "ark" was planet Earth itself? What, then, did God flood, and who was Noah? | The Lost Scriptures, excerpts from The Book of Noah:
Noah 4:26 And then the Lord said, "Noah, will you shape a planet near this star? You are my best sculptor."
Noah 4:27 And so I set to work on Earth, humbled by the Lord's praise.
Noah 4:28 When my work was done, the Lord said, "Noah, you did not disappoint. Now ... | Quick note: excellent shower thought.
Altair IV had been the cradle of life for all of eternity, or at least as far as God knew. God was a lesser deity, only in control of 2 galaxies, but he could tell that there were greater beings who'd torn apart their realms and chose to destroy all of creation with great supernov... | 2015-01-07T19:00:29 | 2015-01-07T18:50:14 | 935 | 43 |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | It was a freezing morning in New York.
I slipped into the local Starbucks for some coffee.
There was a new cashier today.
"Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?", She asked, exasperated.
"Soy un federale, tengo un gato en mis pantalones," I replied.
The disinterested look on her face vanished instantly.... | My parents were fine. ("Excuse me, what time is it?" "It's about half-past two.") And my brother Tim got "Do you know you have gorgeous eyes?", which is probably a weird thing to say to a complete stranger but is otherwise kind of perfect. But there are some awful cases, some phrases you just don't want. Like, my frien... | 2014-12-17T23:12:07 | 2014-12-17T22:14:26 | 2,270 | 64 |
[WP] as the firstborn of the royal family, you’ve inherited the King's power and spoils, while your siblings have been left to fend for themselves. To this day they resent you, no matter what you do to make it up to them. | With the business of the court done for the day, I made my way to the lower parts of the castle. It had been a busy day. But then, most days were busy recently. There seemed to be no end to hungry mouths to feed, foreign diplomats to charm, minutia of trade deals to negotiate with the guilds...
And it was made no eas... | I called my servant to me and said, "Servant! How are my siblings?"
He looked at his scroll. "Well, sire, where do I begin? Let's see. Your older sister, Alexandria-"
"I don't care about the boring ones" I interrupted. "Just skip to the interesting ones."
"Well, there have been reports that several of your younger b... | 2021-06-09T13:06:33 | 2021-06-09T12:41:43 | 26 | 16 |
[WP] Write a story that makes absolutely no sense, until the last sentence. | I wake up. I get coffee. I go to work. I talk to clients. I get lunch. I get gas. I wait at red lights. I wait at green lights. I drink water. I park my car. I finish work. I go back to car. I get home. I kiss my wife and kids.. | Ah, the time is 7 P.M. That nice lady from down the corridor is coming. Good old Nora Penny-Freen always visits me right at that time. I always remember her coming, but I can't remember much before I went to nice place I have now. I just remember being important. Why do I think that? Because I remember the word beta, a... | 2015-06-12T23:55:01 | 2015-06-12T23:45:19 | 70 | 42 |
[WP] A dyslexic child accidentally sends his Christmas letter to Satan. Satan is touched by this gesture and decides to write back. | Dear Anna,
I must say that your letter was an unexpected delight. It was quite charmingly written, and I commend your command of grammar and syntax. All of the items you requested will be easy enough to provide. However, I cannot cure dyslexia. That is was one the many things my Father cursed humanity with during one ... | Dear Peter,
I'm sorry to say that I'm not the person you likely wanted to send your letter to. But don't fear, child, for I will bring you the gifts you asked for, so long as you promise not to tell your parents about this mistake.
Now, just so I remember, you asked for an Iron Man action figure, a puppy, and a for y... | 2018-10-28T14:29:07 | 2018-10-28T13:50:03 | 59 | 30 |
[WP] "I'll pay you $150K a year. Sit in this room and wait for the phone to ring. What ever you do, DO NOT miss that phone call." Bored to death, after 10 years, that shiny black landline in the corner of the room has never once rang. One day, it starts ringing. You miss it by a second. | I can’t believe I missed the call, by a second.
I have been waiting for it to ring for 10 years. And then I went ahead and missed the call. I sat by the phone for a few more minutes, maybe they’ll try again? It’s an old timey analog phone, no caller ID. Why isn’t this phone caller ID? I could’ve just called them back... | I yawned for the third time in a row, as I sat in my armchair. I put down my book, and looked at that stupid black phone. The thing never rang. I was paid to sit here until it rang. Just sit. Well, ten years later and nothing! Everyday, I would wake up and ask myself, would today be the day? Would that phone ring today... | 2020-08-24T02:26:51 | 2020-08-23T19:16:46 | 441 | 263 |
[WP] You're a mimic. You were disguised as a chair in a dungeon when an adventurer decided to take you as loot. You've actually enjoyed your life ever since as furniture in a jolly tavern. So when some ruffians try to rob the now-elderly adventurer's business, you finally reveal yourself. | A Mimic, a creature that only seem to have one purpose, luring adventurers to their doom by mimicking a certain item such as a chest, a door, a wardrobe, well mostly chest. But here is a tale of a mimic who took form of a chair.
*I lived quite a boring life. Just keeping still and occasionally eating rats or occasiona... | I grew up in the dark depths, a place where large hairy spiders sneak through the roof; a place where giant slugs inch themselves forward; a place where no child is found wandering, for long at least.
In a way I think I'm like them. My teeth are sharp like theirs. I find myself thinking vile thoughts every now and th... | 2021-09-22T06:25:02 | 2021-09-22T01:56:32 | 58 | 35 |
[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. | I just stood there in shock. What could I have done, I thought to myself. I worked for a living, payed my taxes, kept to myself. I didn't do great things for anyone but I didn't really hurt anyone. Well, there was that one habit I had but surely that wasn't on par with murder or anything.
"What could I have possibly ... | “186,290 years?” I exclaimed, shock written all over my face. “You have to be mistaken!” I continued staring slack-jawed at the bored looking HSA officer across the counter. “186,292 years” he corrected me in a bored tone as he stamped my papers and pushed them back toward me. “Straight ahead, follow this hallway to t... | 2018-09-26T09:05:26 | 2018-09-26T07:53:45 | 26 | 17 |
[WP] “You’re not allowed to die, okay?” She makes you promise, tears still flowing down her face. That was 200 years ago now. You don’t know what she did but your promise still holds strong. | I still remember the smell of her hair, the softness of her skin, the sadness in her eyes... I had never seen her cry before that very moment. That moment when she told me the words I would never forget and that have haunted me for the past two centuries.
"You're not allowed to die, okay?" she had told me, tears drawi... | Ben rose from the grave. He felt pain, but the tears stopped flowing years ago. They stopped after he lost everyone he loved and knew. And it all stemmed from his daughter's last day on earth.
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"You're not allowed to die, okay daddy? You can't. You have to take care of Laura. I know she's married and all, ... | 2018-01-05T12:17:29 | 2018-01-05T12:14:21 | 80 | 49 |
[WP] So tell me this, elf. If you're so much better than humans at everything, then how come even though your ancient civilization dates back millenia before we "crawled out of the mud pits", you're still riding around on horses and swinging sharp pieces of metal just like us? | "Because, you idiot, we're not focused on wringing the neck of the earth for our own gain like you guys."
The human scoffed before sipping his ale. "Oh gods here it comes."
The elf rolled his eyes and put down his drink. "No you got to understand, we elves live for a really long time. Incredibly long compared to hu... | Vander look at the bandits.
It wasn’t that hard to see all the weak points in their crude armor and weapons. All of it was cheap crap even by the low standers of human chaos worshippers.
Plus, all of the bandits had gotten intoxicated after capturing the inquisitor so they would be slower than normal.
A thrust here,... | 2022-09-04T10:13:29 | 2022-09-04T07:17:47 | 90 | 32 |
[WP] You stare at the pills in your hand. The doctor taps his foot impatiently. "These will really cure me of hearing that voice?" you ask. The doctor rolls his eyes. "Yes, you'll never hear her again." You level your gaze on the doctor. "I never told anyone the voice was female..." | "I never told anyone the voice was female...," Jeff said. He glanced at the doctor with wary eyes and stepped back. Dr. Tate smiled broadly, then chuckle.
"*How much does it really matter whether I'm male or female*?" the voice asked. Jeff ignored it and focused on the doctor.
"What?" The older man asked. "What do... | Early this year I bought a surprisingly cheap house in the town my parents were born in. They loved this town and even asked to be buried in the local graveyard, so being the faithful son I ever was, I decided to visit them one random day.
I thought this would be a fun little trip to the graveyard and be over with it,... | 2018-12-28T14:01:37 | 2018-12-28T11:30:08 | 230 | 11 |
[WP] Compared to the rest of the galaxy humanity is by far the friendliest. To many star systems they are considered "the good neighbor," and are known for their helpfulness. One day an oblivious system declares war on humanity, only to find half of the galaxy responding to humanity's plea for aid.
EDIT: Tfw this prom... | Log Entry:
This entry is to go into the historical Records as Fact. In no way is the below mentioned account false. All events and situations that are mentioned took place, that is final.
I am Director Xue-Baal of the Komorian Science Station Yift. Currently orbiting around the Curtain of Shadow. Current Project : "T... | "Seven years ago, your kind saved this planet from itself, and for that I thank you. However, you come to us asking for help from an unknown threat, and you expect us to help you? How can we defend against the unknown?"
"Er... All due respect Lord Dreknell, the threat is known and documented. For the past three months... | 2017-03-26T10:29:41 | 2017-03-26T08:45:12 | 29 | 16 |
[WP] People believe the Gods decide all of our fates, but they've actually been rolling d20s to make decisions for millions of years | God have not seen such a fiery soul in a long time
He was looking at 20's Germany. War was over yet there was another war for them because the conditions of Treaty of Versailles were too much demanding and aggressive for the country. As he watched a young man giving a speech to the crowd about the future of Germany wi... | Hands shaking. Sweaty forehead. At this exact moment in time, he knows that all of his hard work, all of his investments, are up in the air. There has never been a more at stake.
For a brief moment, he questions his methods. Surely he shouldn't leave such an important decision, with human possible human extinction, t... | 2018-06-28T14:26:52 | 2018-06-28T11:27:51 | 34 | 22 |
[WP] Any time a baby is born in Antarctica, the baby gains immortality. | It’s the year 2180. It has been over one hundred and fifty years since the first children were born in Antarctica. Know we know for fact what many suspected ninety years ago, that those born in the inhospitable grip of the southern wasteland will never feel the icy grip of death. As the rich and elite rush to sail towa... | For many years Antarctica and it's secrets were unknown, it was really just a joke that anarchy was better than all government.
And it stayed that way for a hundred long years until the first babies were reaching triple digits, all of them living that long seemed ridiculous and all the babies that followed have been e... | 2019-01-05T21:55:23 | 2019-01-05T21:52:19 | 432 | 27 |
[WP] You are a superhero whose powers are based on the music you are listening to. Rock can make you stronger, classical makes you smarter, etc. One day, you're fighting your toughest villain yet, and you are forced to use your "forbidden" playlist. | "OUCH!" I yell as I fly about a mile through the forest I had baited DooDoo the Clown, Lord of Death and Disease into fighting me in. I wipe some blood from my lip and look at the trail of broken trees charting my path through the forest.
Yea it's pissed, I think to myself. Granted calling it DooDoo the Clown didn't h... | \[POEM\]
Quiet internal rebellions silenced,
The hero had inflicted his cruelest ability.
"What have you done to me?"
The late afternoon crowds drifted past,
With their childishly fresh eyes looking through him.
Slightly bewildered, he turned to the hero,
Anguish in each others eyes.
"A losing battle is raging.... | 2022-05-17T10:18:44 | 2022-05-17T09:52:46 | 66 | 17 |
[WP] Everytime someone has a 'blonde moment' they get a little blonder. Black hair is now a symbol of brilliance, and you've just invented hair dye.
These are all so good! This is my first submission to /r/WritingPrompts and I'm loving all your responses.
Thank you! | It turned the sheerest blonde hair into midnight black. Andrew tested it on himself - it didn't budge, not even when he deliberately muttered something mildly forgetful, that should have sent tendrils of blonde creeping back.
As he stared in the mirror, he knew what *could* happen if he were to market this widely. Pe... | At first the dye was just for me. I've had some embarrassing moments over the years, and my hair has slowly turned from a respectable dark brown to not-so-respectable bright yellow, just a shade darker than a dandelion. I'm not stupid, exactly. In fact, my IQ is decisively average but mistakes were made and now people... | 2016-11-24T20:48:56 | 2016-11-24T20:41:35 | 1,934 | 119 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | I don't remember when I first started seeing them. I think it was after High School, but before college. They were kind of fuzzy at first, and I thought I just needed glasses.
One day I noticed that they were becoming clearer. There were words. Some were clearer than others. Then it happened.
I was walking down the s... | He worked alone, he always had. Not because he wanted to, but people just had a tendency to not notice him. It was depressing really. Every person he ever met instantly forgot him, or tried to ignore him, it was hard to tell sometimes. As for his work, well, he worked in travel, a mostly administrative position.
As ... | 2015-03-31T10:05:02 | 2015-03-31T09:57:05 | 15 | 10 |
[WP]”So…you peasants actually want me to terrorize your village?” “Yes. Without all those heroes paying for supplies, lodgings, and resurrection spells since the last monster was defeated the village’s economy has tanked.” | "Let me get this straight. You want me - a necromancer-" he was by technicality, but that was irrelevant "- to send waves of undying abominations to your rather quaint little village... to boost the economy by summoning travellers?"
"Heroes, sir." The farmer said. The only real distinguishing things about him were his... | "You smoothskins are weird..." said the kobold leader "What's in it for us? You hear them up, they slaughter us and then what!? You wait for the next group to arrive and then you massacre them too?"
his rage was evident in his outburst, tho the village chief didn't seem bothered by the sudden aggression
"Oh no no, y... | 2022-02-10T11:25:59 | 2022-02-10T10:32:50 | 367 | 271 |
[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... | 11:55, 19 August 2017
My family sat around the couches in the living room, making small talk about their own Destiny. Something about how no one was surprised when my father, sister and brother all got "Doctor" stamped on their forearm in crisp, Arial font. I despised it. The idea of sitting in a stale room in a stale... | 2017-03-16T03:20:58 | 2017-03-16T02:42:03 | 427 | 32 |
[WP] Cupid has an opposite, the angel of heartbreak. Their job is to break up couples that don't belong together. Their job is a lot harder and they're getting a little fed up with these stupid humans. | "...just because it's *convenient*." He spat the last word.
Year after year, it was the same thing- people that made each other miserable stayed together not out of love but out of some twisted sort of either obligation or simply a fear of being alone.
It wasn't that he was numb to that pain- hell, his job didn't exa... | Conclusius turned around and walked a couple of steps beside the woman. Then at the first intersection turned right, while she walked straight on. Where she went didn't matter. Walking on was important. Walking on and never to look back. Back there was her personal hell.
Maybe not the worst hell of them all. Maybe the... | 2019-02-14T07:42:26 | 2019-02-14T07:12:44 | 29 | 17 |
[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. | It started when Sara drew pictures of him. With her crayons she scribbled what ever her mind could comprehend from his visits. Vivid purples, reds, and blacks covered the paper she was given daily. A small head was customary, accoumpanied by large shoulders. Large hands often times pointing or splayed out far. The smil... | He laid with her and stroked her hair.
"I love you." he whispered into ear.
she smiles.
"and I you." she softly coos back.
He kisses her cheek she tilts her head and he kisses her neck before falling back to nuzzle in looking at the roof. The room was very dim and cool and drafty save for the fire in the edge of the... | 2017-05-31T05:31:30 | 2017-05-31T01:51:06 | 86 | 49 |
[WP] Reincarnation works in strange ways. It would make sense to be reincarnated as an eagle, or a dog, or even a slug or something like that. But why as the AI of a military warship? | "I still don't understand."
"What else is there to understand? You died, won the lottery, and came back as an AI."
"See, I don't think you get it. You're supposed to be happy to win the lottery. Happy."
This conversation would already be confusing enough from the outside. The fact that it was the captain arguing wit... | *Vildhim Interview B10-Cl*
"*For years after the conclusion of the crisis. I wondered if they were truly alive. I had lost everything to them. My family, my home, my comrades. But I could not hate them. I did, for a while, but the Shambali changed my views, showing me that everyone can make something wonderful, even i... | 2022-05-03T10:15:19 | 2022-05-03T09:53:42 | 293 | 33 |
[WP] Apparently the ability to speak and understand multiple languages simultaneously is a trait almost unique to humans, so when the alien's came it wasn't for our water, our resources, or our culture; it was for us, the greatest translators in the galaxy. | Linguists know that the average person has an active vocabulary of around 20,000 words - the words they actually use on a day-to-day basis, but has a passive vocabulary of around 40,000 words - the words they generally know without having to look it up or figure it out from context. Though only about 1,000 different ... | Wait. This cannot be happening. There are not actually aliens standing at the front of the classroom right now. I’m almost afraid to turn around and observe the rest of the room but I do manage to take a peek at my closest friend Bridgette. She’s not moving, is she frozen?
“What do you want from us?” I whip my head ... | 2019-10-05T15:21:23 | 2019-10-05T14:36:14 | 47 | 18 |
[WP] The first generation of wizards inherits from their parents’ professions. For example, a child of a chef and a swimmer wields fire and water spells. You possess something interesting. | Normally, you'd get a power from each of your parents. Everyone had two, and it usually related to their professions. I knew a kid once who had oil and water. His dad worked on a rig, while his mother taught swimming classes. Poor guy's parents divorced, eventually.
Rarely though, you'd see a combination of the powers... | The worlds rejoiced and remarked of the return of our world from the line.
The line was cut during the medieval times as Christianity became the highest belief. Witchcraft and Black magic was prohibited by the sacred book, which in turn led to hundreds of burned wizards and witches that were akin to both light and da... | 2018-04-15T09:48:49 | 2018-04-15T09:34:14 | 853 | 212 |
[WP] You dress up as a conspiracy nutter for a costume party. The second you put the tinfoil hat on, something obstructive is lifted from your mind as if you suddenly woke up from a long sleep. Of course, nobody believes you... | [original post from /r/conspiracy, 10/31/2014]
PLEASE HELP.
I'm writing this from my friends bathroom. I am freaking out.
I used to troll this group using another account. I thought you guys were all crazy. Sandy hook, 9/11.. god, I even found you all downright offensive. But something just happened to me and I need... | "FUUUNNNNNY JOKE," shouted Aaron. The others were doubled over in laughter. They all had a strange assortment of bits and pieces on them, scrounged from back closets and parent's basements. One couple had old suits and sunglasses, the woman rocking a late 90s pant suit. FBI, MOULDER, and SCULLY adorned their costumes... | 2017-04-10T08:07:57 | 2017-04-10T07:16:44 | 72 | 22 |
[WP] Describe the person you love the most so we can see him/her through your eyes. | I could caress your amber-grain colored curves.
Your beauty is timeless even with your flour patted bottom.
Although you hate your oily blemished skin, with every look I love you more.
The red circles on the surface of your skin does not deter me, it motivates me.
I can only love you so much, however. You complete ... | An insatiable vampire, preying on the emotions of the weak, and feeding from their life source. A noble heart trying to do the right thing amidst chaos.
A bipolar schizophrenic's soul ripped in two with voices constantly shouting at her.
I was the only one who could quiet the voices. I could see who she really was.... | 2014-09-06T12:23:42 | 2014-09-06T10:22:37 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] "They say in your final moments, your life flashes before your eyes, but the truth, is far darker." What is the truth? | Humans love to romanticize; they love to dream of things far removed from their grasp and tell tales of what they could be. Death is the most notable, as the end of your own existence is a frightening thing to contemplate. Where do we go, once our bodies are one with the earth, when our flesh sloughs off our bones and ... | They say in your final moments, your life flashes before your eyes.
They are wrong.
Have you ever felt that there was a plan, a certain path your life was supposed to take? Certain benchmarks you were meant to achieve along the roads of your life? If so, congratulations, you are among those of us who can perceive th... | 2016-02-02T15:15:32 | 2016-02-02T14:36:19 | 66 | 14 |
[WP] You're a supervillain, and you have never been so utterly beaten. All of your tricks, all of your weapons, completely outdone by a prepubescent girl and a stuffed animal. You're bracing for the finishing blow when she bops you over the head with her wand. "Don't do any more bad stuff! ...Okay?" | I stare at the girl in disbelief. Her curly blonde hair, sky blue eyes, cute button nose, they look so familiar.
She bops me again with her cheap plastic wand. “No more bad stuff, Mister! Momma says that being bad makes more bad people, so we should all get along!”
I watch as she turns around and walks to the kitch... | “What?”
“I said don’t do any more bad stuff”
I couldn’t believe this, me one of the most powerful villains in the world, a villain that 2 generations of heroes could never beat, is being pitted by a little girl no older than my 10 year old daughter.
“Are you even old enough to be a hero?”
“I get that I may not ... | 2022-11-21T19:16:07 | 2022-11-21T18:19:23 | 185 | 31 |
[WP] The year is 2055, and mankind has invented the technology to communicate with "Mans best friend". The horror we felt at discovering what they were staring at, when looking at "nothing", is humanities greatest regret...
Looking for horror/scary, but by all means, have fun with it. :) | It's long been said that dog's senses are more sensitive than our own, by a factor of thousands or millions depending on the dog. But we have our eyes, which were surely better, and our minds, which were surely sharper and that is what made us superior. That is why man ruled beast... We never imagined a world without u... | "Um... excuse me? Can you hear me?" the tall scientist tapped on the microphone as he peered through the glass separating him from a massive machine. In the machine, sat a dog. Strapped down but noticeably calm, the canine had electrodes protruding from his head.
"Yes"
came the reply from the speakers in the room. "T... | 2015-05-18T12:41:21 | 2015-05-18T12:25:48 | 758 | 269 |
[WP] You’re an OSHA inspector and you’ve been recently assigned to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. | "Sir, your factory is a death-trap to workers and visitors a like. You allow employees and non-employees to touch factory goods like unwrapped candies and sweet oozes of all kinds with their barehands then you directly wrap and sell them with no sanitation, there was hair and boat motor oil, other human traces in your ... | “Welcome!” The eccentric man outstretched his hand.
“You must be Mr. Wonka, correct?”
“Certainly so, come on in.”
Standing off to the side, I watched Mr. Wonka greet the other five lucky children blessed to be given a tour of the amazing Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory.
The last bits of normalcy were left at that en... | 2020-11-20T21:58:59 | 2020-11-20T21:36:42 | 29 | 17 |
[WP] "For you sin of greed" you are darned to purgatory said St. Peter. "To ascend you must win every game in your Steam library" | Chuck opened his eyes. That was something he had not thought he would ever do again. Once the car found itself on open air, he was pretty sure he was a goner. But here he was, standing...somewhere.
Where was he, anyway? He looked around. Everything seemed to be made of light. It billowed around him like clouds, formin... | "Okay."
Peter halted in mid-monologue. WHAT? The voice reverberated somewhere.
"Okay? I don't... I don't know the proper response. This is my first..."
FIRST WHAT?
I gestured helplessly around at the heavenly courtroom, trying to encompass etiquette, existential crisis and, well, lack of existentiality and every... | 2022-08-28T15:01:37 | 2022-08-28T14:31:50 | 92 | 36 |
[WP] After hearing complaints countless times the hero just turns himself in and goes to prison. Now that the villains are destroying the city and running wild everyone is trying the convince the hero to come out and save the day. But the hero is not having any of this shit | The city begged him at first. He refused. It made him feel important. How dare they complain about him destroying a few buildings in the first place? He saved their *lives*. They should have been grateful. They should have seen he was doing it all for them!
The city burned and he only laughed. He'd told them. He knew ... | I hated this. i hated them, i hated the villains, i hated that they only wanted me around when i was useful. after all, who needs someone with invulnerability, super strength, energy blasts and telekinesis around when they might potentially dent your car when they are fighting the villain Unofli, a crazed genius? snort... | 2021-03-18T20:01:10 | 2021-03-18T19:31:21 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] You send your DNA off to discover your ancestry. One day you see several suspicious looking cars pull up outside your house. Military officers begin to surround your home and a woman gets out of one of the cars and walk straight to your front door. They have your DNA results. | I have always wondered what my ancestry was, it's always been like that since I was little. I was adopted at a very young age, my foster parents never told me anything. When I pressured them they'd go off on me, they were stuck-up anyway. I got a DNA test done in college, I barely have a connection or relationship with... | Her footsteps followed a precise rhythm, her heels never missing a beat on the cracked pavement. He tight, brunette bun coupled with a tailor-fitted suit told Aaron she was of high importance. The four armed guards surrounding her gave off that impression, too. She carried a black briefcase with a silver double helix e... | 2019-08-05T19:16:34 | 2019-08-05T18:13:14 | 52 | 33 |
[WP] Every "walks into a bar" joke occurs in a single bar. You're the bartender and your shift just started. | *Same old shift. Same old jokes.*
Frank looked out over the bar, his eyes focusing on nothing in particular, barely registering the buzz of chatter between patrons. His hand twisted rhythmically, aimlessly rubbing a towel over the rim of a glass that had been dry for ten minutes.
The sound of the small brass bell abo... | "Whiskey. The bottle."
The horse asks, sliding himself up onto a stool. His tux has seen better days, the tie apparently lost some way along his journey here, the top of his shirt open exposing his chest. Was one of them missing? If it were, it'd match his cufflinks, also absent from his dishevelled ensemble. I slide ... | 2018-01-31T19:02:23 | 2018-01-31T18:56:18 | 6,382 | 1,688 |
[WP] You have a distant uncle who seems to have an uncanny knack of giving you the exact birthday gift that you’d desperately need sometime during the next year. This year’s gift, however, is terrifying. | He'd appear once per year, an uncle distant enough that no one really knew who he was related to, but who always bore a striking resemblance to me. Ever since I was born, he'd come only to give me a gift, then leave without a word - nothing but a smile, a smile that seemed to say so much without saying anything at all.... | "John, if you're reading this note, you've no doubt seen the gift I have sent you this year. It is one I wish I'd never have to send. I want you to first know, I love you more than you could know. Secondly, the answers you find in this book you can never unlearn. The contents of this book will stay a part of you till y... | 2020-06-23T19:41:24 | 2020-06-23T19:35:02 | 90 | 38 |
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