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[FF] Write about a feeling with 10 lines, the first one being 10 words, next line 9, so on and so forth. | **Anxiety**
Pressure fills my chest as my heart beats wildly inside.
The tingling moves through my fingers, up my arms.
I grasp at my chest, push against it.
I feel every part of my body -
the blood pulsing in my head,
the prickling of every nerve.
You ask what's wrong.
Don't you know?
It's just...
me.
... | Ten years you held my heart locked in a cage.
I strive for calm but begin to come unhinged
You destroyed our lives with your casual fling
Your heartlessness served to set the stage
Deeply dreaming of my sweet revenge
Your lying throat I'll wring
My anger to assuage.
Burning to avenge.
Hot. Blinding.
Rage. | 2015-02-12T23:52:27 | 2015-02-12T22:26:14 | 40 | 26 |
[WP] Humanity long ago discovered all of reality is a simulation created by others. They are long gone. Memory in the system is running out, and reality is starting to fray. Time skips and stutters. You are a member of the team sent to augment the machine that is our world. | "Five. Four. Three. One"
Everything in the console went pitch black and, for a moment, we ceased to exist. When I woke up in the Mother Reality, I was staring at a sign in a dark closet that said "Please remember to charge the apparatus." I felt nothing. The networked maintenance robot that we had hacked and inserted... | It was a voyage that went no where. Took no time. And never existed. It was my future, my past, my present. We went forward by going back. And somehow, through it all, we made it. We were here. At the Omega, at the Alpha.
You could tell that it was...sick? Dying? The colours were bleached. Pulsating in veins across a ... | 2014-10-19T05:37:10 | 2014-10-19T02:30:45 | 26 | 15 |
[WP] Torrents mysteriously start appearing online for movies that haven't even begun filming yet. They are complete films using the planned script and cast (who have no knowledge of filming it) and the industry is desperate to find out where they are coming from, and more importantly - why? | "It's time travel, isn't it?"
I sighed. I was getting sick of this question. Here I was, standing in a room in front of all the head honchos of the biggest movie studios, and they couldn't get over the idea of time travel. Trust the moviemakers to have overactive imaginations.
I rubbed my forehead wearily and ... | Water dripped from the pipes, landing on the cold concrete. The only light sources was the old lightbulb, dangling from it's chain, flickering, shining the stairs leading up to the overworld. The other was the computer monitor as it's buzzing rhymed with the quick tapping of the keyboard.
A pale, lanky, creature sat o... | 2014-12-08T03:22:06 | 2014-12-08T03:10:56 | 245 | 26 |
[WP] When the Emperor appointed his horse to be the Consul and given it full executive powers, everyone thought it was a joke. Turns out the horse is AMAZING at its new job. | When the Emperor first received the horse from the Northlands, he was ecstatic. A beautiful silver coat with strange, blue eyes that seemed to be almost intelligent! He named it Alexander, after some long forgotten conqueror, and rode it into battle. In their first battle against the western kingdom of Solar, a wayward... | "Does The Emperor in all his greatness seems to be a bit coocoo today?" Said my fellow Royal Knight Commander John.
"That is an insult to the emperor in all his greatness my friend, yes he may seem to be... odd but I am sure that there is a reason" I spouted out while standing guard to the meeting board of the lord a... | 2021-10-01T10:38:50 | 2021-10-01T07:20:55 | 28 | 16 |
[WP] The Genie looks at you puzzled 'So... you wish for everyone to have 4 arms?', and you say 'yes, I wish that tomorrow everyone wakes up having 4 arms, no explanation, just 4 arms, and if they only had 1 arm or none now they have 4' | I wake up to the buzzing of my phone. Without opening my eyes, I reach over to silence it. *Just five more minutes*.
As I lay in bed, my mind starts putting together the pieces of last night’s events. I had been polishing an antique vase I had inherited from my great aunt Evelyn when all the air in my living room sudd... | I slammed my hands down behind my DM screen. "Dammit, Bobby. You can't do that."
Bobby gave me a slow lizard blink I had grown to loathe. "It's my wish. Perfectly legal." He rolled a 20 on his d-20 because of course the gods themselves decided to hate on me in this moment. "I don't even have to stick around for it. I'... | 2022-07-11T09:41:02 | 2022-07-11T08:37:59 | 425 | 128 |
[WP]There is no prompt. Just write a story you've always been thinking about or one you've been thinking about sharing. Anything goes. | Working on my thesis at the moment which revolves around my Dad growing up as an ethnic minority in Vietnam during the war (Degar, Rhade/E De tribe). But also working on a collection of short-shorts about my mothers life growing up as well.
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Our Garden in Saigon
I was seven, and my mother and I pushed a food cart... | Howard and I sat in our respective chairs, looking through thousands of white specs against the black curtains of the universe. We had been 2 of a team of 15 people working with the Hubble telescope. In reality running an operation like this takes a small town's worth of people, but as far as the actual research and da... | 2016-09-11T10:25:17 | 2016-09-11T09:59:29 | 103 | 14 |
[WP]Everyone can bend a single element just like in avatar.However these are actual elements like Argon.Most powerful individuals bend metals or flammable materials.But not you you bend carbon.You bend the carbon in people’s bodies. | Everyone thinks carbon makes up everything organic. And it does. Just not in the way people expect.
Take DNA, a repeating sequence of sugars, nitrogen bases and phosphate. All three components contain carbon. But none of them are specifically carbon. Proteins, made of amino acids. Again, lot of carbon there. But also... | Flight was the tricky part.
Bending always took at least some focus. It may have felt like a natural extension, but just like an arm or leg, anything complicated took focus.
Flight, however, was outrageously hard. Oh, not for everyone: People who could bend oxygen had it easy. They could ensure that oxygen still made... | 2018-05-08T05:56:14 | 2018-05-08T05:48:42 | 406 | 176 |
[WP] You come across a notebook that has the name of every person who has ever lived and the exact date and time of their death written next to it. Out of curiosity, and hopes that you live a long life, you decide to checkout your own name, only to find a date marked a few hours after your birth. | Sigh.... It's bad enough having the last name of Smith, but to have that, coupled with the world's least creative parents... Did you know that on the date of my birth, no less than 125 *other* John Smiths were born? Of those, 15 share my middle name of Allen. Of those, 14 are still alive. The one that died was just... | My fingers trembling, I put the notebook down on my table. My mind was a disarray of emotions.
There surely had to be some mistake...things don't add up here.This is surely a prank...Yes that's it! It's just a really bad prank played by one of my colleagues!
I picked up the notebook and frantically flipped through ... | 2017-09-05T04:10:50 | 2017-09-05T00:01:12 | 50 | 27 |
[WP] You've accidentally summoned an ancient, long-forgotten god while trying to pronounce furniture names at IKEA. Fortunately, the employees are prepared as this has happened before.
Edit: holy shit this really blew up overnight. Thank you to everyone who has written along, and to everyone else reading.
For those ... | "JENKINS!" The call came over the shoulder mounted radio. The *-Chirp-* it made was reminiscent of the old Nextels. Ours had to be updated, of course. Ikea standard issue. Prevented interference.
"Yeah?" I responded, between mouthfuls of meatball.
*-Chirp-* "WE GOT ANOTHER BIN 52!"
"Ah, shit. Another Mikkaelian?"
I... | "Excuse me, which wood is this, umm, BJÖRKSNÄS made from?"
As I was asking my question, by the reaction of IKEA employee I could understand that I butchered the pronunciation. As she opened her mouth to answer, with a loud snap the bulbs in the ceiling lightning blew up. I covered to not get hit by the shards and when... | 2019-01-03T00:56:07 | 2019-01-03T00:35:09 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] You and your pet rabbit live in a remote part of Australia, far away from your dark past. Animal control has come to your door and informed you that it is illegal to own a rabbit unless you can prove you are a magician. Now you must do something you swore you would never do again.
Edit: Oh wow, this blew up whil... | It was hot. The magician was used to this. His shack had no aircon, or even electricity -- it was a simple structure, clumsily slapped together out of planks far away from anyone or anything. There were tiny mapspecks around, but the closest city was Perth, and it was a very rough 10 hour drive to get there, the first ... | You slowly slink down on the sofa as the officer's dead eyes shift from you, to Mr. Fluffenbottom, back to you again. The shaking of your hands is barely concealed by the, in all honesty quite amateurish, card shuffle you're occupying them with.
Under the officer's watchful gaze, the memories of that fateful day are ... | 2016-07-09T07:56:08 | 2016-07-09T03:10:42 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] Marriage vows are now a legal contract. The line "until death do you part" now has to be taken literally. As a result, divorcing couples must now fight to the death. | This was his 9th Marriage.
He had been training for marriage since he was but a wee babe. No school for him and his ilk, just combat training from Dusk 'til Dawn. First marriage at 18, lucky to make it out of that one alive. He could hear the low rumble of spectators through the walls.
Vows were in 20 minutes meani... | Shaz looked at me, deep into my hops, glazed eyes.
"Fuckin' bet you wished you payed the child support now don't you dazza!"
I didn't. Me and the boys spent splent of good time on the pokes down our local to ever regret not paying for that little shit. And how about that time Johnny pulled Two-hundee out of a bloody ... | 2015-11-18T09:14:46 | 2015-11-18T03:21:54 | 1,150 | 41 |
[WP]You've had bad luck your whole life. One day, you see a free item in the window of a curio shop-a bad luck charm. You think, "What the hell? My luck can't get any worse!" And take it. You're right. Life hasn't programmed luck scores to go into negative. Your luck score rolls back from 0 to 9999. | Today was one of the worst days of this sad mans life.
Again.
There were times when he wished such a thing could be considered new for him. Luck also had a funny way of defining itself. No matter what happened to him he always managed to be on the cusp of just fine, whether that be, being saved from death, after gett... | I wondered, which shitty datatype life must be using to overflow at such a weird and rather low number. But whatever. Maybe it actually does get better for me once.
And so I went to the nearest kiosk and got myself a scratch-off ticket. I scratched and scratched and nothing... "Yeah, as if life would turn around so... | 2020-01-12T13:59:35 | 2020-01-12T12:59:26 | 164 | 43 |
[WP] Every time you look in the mirror, you notice something subtly different about your appearance. The differences are adding up but no one seems bothered by it. | They told me I had aged gracefully. They said I looked good, but where once the compliment had been genuine, now it rang hollow, qualified by an unspoken "for someone of your age."
Every day I studied myself. Sometimes changes were so slow, you'd hardly notice them happening. Skin that didn't snap back quite as quick... | I had made fun of people for misusing the word "kafkaesque" so many times that I'd started to forget what it really meant, but as I stared at my reflection in the mirror that morning, it was the only word I could call to mind.
It had started so gradually that I don't think I even noticed it until my nose had shifted a... | 2018-01-05T08:00:24 | 2018-01-05T07:24:52 | 108 | 58 |
[WP] Write a story that's terrifying without implying or threatening any physical harm on any characters
No blood, severed limbs, or corpses. Keep it intellectual, existential, psychological, emotional, or spiritual! | There's nothing behind you.
Nothing is watching you from the dark corner of the room.
That crack in your curtain? Nothing was peering through it just now.
What was that sound? Probably nothing.
Is your door open? I could have sworn it was closed.
Did you lock your front door?
What about your back door?
Are you s... | I've always been scared. Not of anything in particular, mind you - this is just my general disposition. I've heard it spun a thousand ways: that I'm a coward, that I'm hyper-sensitive, even that I'm intelligent. The fact of the matter is, I'm just more jumpy than an ordinary person. Like I'm waiting for something to ha... | 2015-10-30T11:37:30 | 2015-10-30T11:15:52 | 70 | 14 |
[WP] Every time you die, your power brings you back a bit stronger. As you slowly become less and less human, the other heroes become more wary of you. Today, for the first time, you were mistakenly attacked as a monster…and no one is coming to help. | I can remember the first time I died. A villain by name of The Black Crow grabbed Me and flew fourteen or fifteen feet in air.
"Please don't!" I begged him. He only laughed as he let me go. I remember the feeling of my soul wanting to enter the afterlife but my body wouldn't allow it.
I woke up only to see that I had... | I sit in the middle of the battlefield, surrounded by the corpses of my fallen enemies. I am battered and bruised, but I will not give up. I have fought and died countless times, but each time I come back a little bit stronger.
The other heroes fear me now, and rightly so. I am no longer human, but something else e... | 2022-08-26T11:35:05 | 2022-08-26T06:59:02 | 191 | 100 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | "Liechtenstein? Really? How the hell did Liechtenstein take out ISIS? And who the hell *is* Liechtenstein?"
President Trump's face was beet red. General Bundy's hands shook as he recited the relevant facts: small, German-speaking mountain principality on the Austrian border.
"So how'd they do it? This had better sou... | At first, we all thought it was just a stunt to get back in the headlines. We all knew the Prince was a bit of a publicity whore, but there was no way he could actually believe in their cause, right?
But joke or not, they came. First in rafts, setting off from the mainland. Then a hijacked cruise vessel, stolen off... | 2016-01-29T06:57:30 | 2016-01-29T06:56:50 | 190 | 55 |
[WP] Two wounded soldiers from opposing sides of the war find themselves in the care of the same nurse and snowed-in until spring. | He was writing letters on his bed, as he always did. Papers and pencils were in short supply around here what with every other soldier trying to write to their gal back home. But somehow he always had them. The nurses probably took pity on the man; one lone German captive amongst an army of pissed off Brits and America... | "Another drink?" I asked, reaching toward the liquor cabinet. Luckily for us it was well stocked.
"Do I ever say no?" Eugene laughed, finishing off the one he had in his hand.
It'd been 3 weeks since we got snowed in this place, but it actually wasn't bad. Neither Eugene nor myself had any real love for our count... | 2016-12-16T13:30:54 | 2016-12-16T12:40:58 | 103 | 28 |
[WP] Humanity has begun to explore the stars, but continually finds we are the most developed species, most alien species are still evolving. Suddenly, a message is transmitted to all human ships simultaneously, “WARDENS, DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND YOUR DUTY?” The signal itself is not of human origin. | Ambiguity is a dangerous thing.
Take the question "Did you put him to sleep?" - are you getting your kid to bed, or euthanizing a pet? Kind of a big difference there. It's a great trick for figuring out if you're talking to a dumb AI. I read an Old Earth book about this once - about how some aliens contact us, but we ... | "Any luck translating the rest of the signal?" Captain Janis McMitchell asked her first mate, Commander Jimbob Jenkins. "HQ is up my ass about this. We're the point of contact out here for all alien species."
"I don't know," Jimbob replied. "Let me ask our linguist, Sergeant Kelley."
"It's the first incident we've ha... | 2019-05-08T14:06:32 | 2019-05-08T13:55:10 | 4,974 | 352 |
[WP]: Rule of thumb: If you see something on a foreign planet that has all the outward traits of an apex predator, but no obvious and apparent way to kill you - run. The methods in which they kill aren't something you want to see. | It was maybe 2 meters tall and wore the dead skin of an animal wrapped around the connection between it's legs and torso. It's skin was a very dark and rich shade of brown. My best geust was ot was to withstand the arid heat of this continent. It stared at me in cautious curiosity with it's large white ocular organs. T... | Much like Johnny Depp in the 2000s, the sky was overcast. Morose and grey, with just a hint of precipitation, behind which lurked a vague threat that could result in anything from a sudden deluge, to a violent storm of thunder, screaming winds, and flying debris. Like breaking up with your psycho ex all over again. Chr... | 2021-01-25T08:45:18 | 2021-01-25T08:39:48 | 51 | 25 |
[WP] There's a door with a single key hole - it will open regardless of what key is used. All keys open this door, but what's on the other side, however, entirely depends on the key. | The door was as much myth as legend.
As the stories went, it was deep in a cave, which was itself deep in the woods that were deep in the mountains. The door would accept any key, and take you to wherever the key opened, or so the legend said. Given that one had to have the key in the first place, it would for most p... | [Part 1 of 2]
A door that will lead you to an unknown destination. Many scholars spoke about its magic, but I never believed the tales. I was a man of science and science rarely mixes well with farfetched tales, yet the shimmering glow of its golden doorframe was unmistakable, a keyhole awaiting a key, beckoning me to... | 2021-06-10T07:24:29 | 2021-06-10T05:21:09 | 44 | 33 |
[WP] You've been dating your partner for six months. Tonight they've invited you to a work event, and as you step onto the red carpet, you realize it for the first time: you're dating a celebrity. | Grad school was actually going to kill me, was the only thought on my mind when I exited the lecture hall. I couldn't really remember why I had wanted to get this degree so much in the first place, my motivation lost in the haze of balancing thesis advisor meetings and late nights in the library with spending as much t... | It wasn't for some time that I began to realize something was weird... off... about her interactions when we talked about going out. This wasn't a huge problem for me as I understood her job to be very difficult. She traveled constantly. Extremely busy. Out till all hours of the night. We lived across the hall from eac... | 2017-06-14T12:06:44 | 2017-06-14T10:18:55 | 47 | 34 |
[WP] Scientists discovered that vegetables and fruit have a conscience. Vegetarians and Vegans go crazy. | There are a many kinds of vegans. Most handled the news pretty well. But I'm not a real vegan.
Sandra is an ethical vegan. She was the one who first linked me to "Earthlings" years and years back. She isn't exactly what you'd call crunchy, but she does cross the street to give money to bums and for Christmas asks... | The sound of a television drones on in an apartment on 15th floor. The last echoes of a news report can be heard, then the slam of the door of a refridgerator.
"**Oh God**," she screams,
"Ohmygod. What the *fuck* have I done?!"
A woman is sprawled on the floor of her kitchen, the tiles littered with shreds of green, ... | 2015-12-06T11:32:45 | 2015-12-06T11:06:53 | 114 | 14 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | "They've taken Newtonport," Allen told me as I stepped into the ancient machine. Already the southern continental factories were busily upgrading a new batch up to current tech. We had gotten these old knightsuits from the old warehouses they had been stored in centuries ago.
"Shit eating fuckers," I said, actually ... | “The Birds” they called them.
Achr’gax are natural shapeshifters. The superlative merger of ferocity and intelligence. The ultimate predator. The pinnacle of evolution across star systems.
And we know.
We have conquered many.
'So many things we could have done differently,' I later told my superiors.
‘This ... | 2019-02-26T11:49:21 | 2019-02-26T09:52:04 | 54 | 40 |
[WP] A party of adventurers has hired you to "raise their spirits". You're wondering when to break the news that you're not a bard. You're a necromancer that plays the harp as a hobby.
EDIT: Great submissions everyone! If I missed giving you an updoot for it, the fault is with me and not your story. | “Yeah so I call this one the Song of Summoning. I uhhh, hope you like it?” Padraig sat across from his friends, a small travel harp resting against his body. Ava’s eyes were bright as they watched him, reflecting the firelight and something more besides. He had to turn away to play, else his nerves would give him away.... | Damn I made a huge problem for myself, didnt I?
A necromancer hired to be a fucking Bard. That's new. And laughable. In this world, there is only one thing that matters and for me its magic.
I play a harp as a fucking hobby to release stress aside... Other R-Rated activities. Anyway i decided to tell them during one ... | 2021-04-10T08:27:39 | 2021-04-10T07:19:39 | 600 | 43 |
[WP] You work as a technician, installing a new Crime Prediction AI in your small town. Instead of plugging it into the police database you plugged the AI to the internet. The predictions coming out of it are interesting to say the least. | "This is a classic machine learning problem."
Stuart cocked his head to one side. "How so?" It seemed reasonable enough to himself. More data was always better right? The AI could find more information and therefore make better predictions.
"Garbage in, garbage out." She took a long drag on the cigarette. "You can't ... | Jacob Smith was working, fortunately, from his home workstation. Okay, maybe not really "fortunately", since it happened to be new year's eve, with most, if not all, of the town out at bars, partying in the streets. But maybe, it was fortunate enough for Jacob, known introvert, computer whiz, and connoisseur of the fin... | 2022-03-21T07:48:08 | 2022-03-21T07:40:05 | 27 | 17 |
[WP] You are best friends with Death. Although you don't know this. Every Sunday he has you killed just to talk to you about his week then brings you back to life after. However you never remember the meetings. | "So I'm not allowed to remember anything after this is over?"
"My answer is never going to change. Be grateful your memories come back everytime you see me."
I shrugged and got him a bottle from the fridge. He wedged his boney finger underneath the cap and popped it open. He reached for mine but I had already unscrew... | I would kill for you, just to see
Your smiling face awoken to the hereafter,
Here and now, in truth, for there is no after
In death, only a long-before,
And once-upon-a-time ago.
You come to me as though you are
Some sunshiny Prince, and I
A dark Lord on my slouching throne,
Wh... | 2020-01-31T08:23:34 | 2020-01-31T07:30:48 | 63 | 23 |
[WP] You wake up in the 1400's dark ages, with nothing but the clothes on your back and your knowledge. The only way you get back to the present, is by surviving until your time period. You dont age until you reach the moment you were sent back. | ######[](#dropcap)
Her head pounded. Luna groaned and brought a hand to her temple, massaging it. She was never going to drink again. Then again, it hadn't really been her choice. It had either been drink or suffer through another night of missing his sorry ass.
Her eyes slowly blinked open. Above her head, the star... | The jeans, I had assumed, would be the biggest issue. You can’t just walk out into a city with no trousers on, but denim looked like it wouldn’t fit... whenever it was I had landed this time. The walls were stone but uneven and windowless, and the floor was dirt, so I knew I hadn’t pushed it too far, but it was still g... | 2018-08-17T17:46:34 | 2018-08-17T17:29:27 | 278 | 46 |
[WP] Getting arrested for a botched crime is a rite of passage in the Chebwick family. They take great pride in their long legacy of poorly executed crimes. But the youngest child has been a great disappointment. | #The Brickabon Tradition
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The most notorious crime family in Des Moines Iowa was undoubtedly the Brickabons. The patriarch, Yon Brickabon, murdered a rival gang leader in 1972 on live television. He spent the next few decades running Des Moines’ East Village from his prison cell. His sons: Mike, Jag, and Russ, lov... | Plenty of criminals sought out Alicia Fox's services. Most of them were kids born into crime families or mafia bosses who couldn't quite nail their nefarious public images. But none of them had ever asked for something like this before.
Alicia sat with her client at a table outside a quaint little French-style bistro.... | 2020-04-03T22:05:19 | 2020-04-03T21:43:50 | 182 | 44 |
[WP] You, a Human, have been sentenced to death on an alien planet. The method of execution: gas chamber. However, the compound used in executions, Tetrahydrocannabinol, isn't quite as lethal to humans as your executioners expect. | From within the smoky dome could be heard the human prisoner shouting "Dude, start the gas already"
This wasn't the way death sentences normally went, the prisoner was placed into the dome. The smoke ascended, which doubled as a descency filter, and justice could be heard to have been achieved by the screams. The pr... | From the light of my cell I glimpsed Xect'antenol, the Alien City, its garish glow oozing into an infinitude of stars. *How will I get out of this one?*
My extraterrestrial gaoler seemed unconcerned. With a sinister glare he unlocked my cage and shepherded me into a small room. "You. Die today," he declared furiously.... | 2020-05-20T08:01:56 | 2020-05-20T06:38:43 | 1,403 | 145 |
[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 E,
I love you. Not the cheesy love I felt in high school, and not the way I love the woman I think I'm going to marry, but you hold a place in my heart that no one else can.
We were destructive. We weren't good for each other. You were emotionally abusive, and I was amazed a pretty girl would give me the time o... | Dear you,
I've always meant to write this letter to you, but I was never able to really put it all together. We've gone through a lot together, to say the least.
I guess I just wanted to say thank you, for everything. For your generosity, for your openness, your pride, your confidence. I truly admire you as a person... | 2015-12-05T16:37:50 | 2015-12-05T15:18:49 | 94 | 18 |
[WP] You are a Rule 34 Enforcement Officer. Your agency's sworn duty: If it exists, there's porn of it. No exceptions. | "What do you mean it's not there?" Asked Agent N, leaning down to shoulder level, staring out from behind cold, expressionless sunglasses.
Agent L shook her head, exasperated, the glare of the data onscreen did not lie.
"There's nothing there! No cartoons, no bad cosplays, there isn't even a discussion board or a fan... | I awoke as a I normally did, 610 hundred hours on a dreary Tuesday. Pulling myself from my warm bed and happy thoughts I started the routine of getting myself ready for the day.
Honestly I'm no longer aware of the first part of my day. After I kick the covers off and stand up I don't remember anything other than th... | 2015-06-15T00:43:14 | 2015-06-14T20:17:27 | 56 | 13 |
[WP] At the age of twelve you started randomly seeing a green line and a red line appear on the ground. You always followed the green line and have lived a successful and happy life. Ten years later you are on top of the world, but bored. Time to see where the red line leads. | It's been ten years, and everything has gone my way. I graduated university with top marks, work at my dream job, and will soon be married to the best girl ever. All because of a little green line.
You see, following the green line keeps me safe. I never do the irrational or dangerous activities, so I never experienc... | I was finally there, at the top of the world. Around me I could see all of my journey highlighted in green, culminating in this moment. After soaking it all in and feeling quite pleased with myself for awhile, boredom slowly crept in.
I started glancing at the red line and wondering its destination. I resolved to foll... | 2017-08-23T07:27:41 | 2017-08-23T06:39:05 | 38 | 15 |
[WP] It's midnight on a weekend, and you're doing laundry at your apartment's laundromat. You hear the door swing open but pay it no mind until the fellow enters your peripherals and you see a very inhuman form. He is a werewolf, but is groggily just doing laundry. He hasn't realized he's changed. | It happened the second night at my new apartment. I was in the laundry room, loading my washed clothes into the dryer, when I heard the strange yelp from behind me. I gave it no mind, since the faint childhood memory of my first and only dog told me it was just a big ol' doggy yawn. I made a mental note to check my lea... | It was a sight that made you do a double-take. At first, I assumed the man was wearing an early Halloween costume or in a more drastic sense was an off duty serial killer. Neither appeared to be the case, his panting breaths generating a small cloud of fogged air as it collided with the air-conditioned room. That man w... | 2020-09-29T05:58:11 | 2020-09-29T05:25:11 | 3,353 | 377 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | DM: "Alright Jesus, you've just been executed by the Romans, Roll a death save."
Jesus: \*rolls\* "Natural 20."
DM: "Alright you wake up with 1 hp, what do you do?"
Jesus: "Alright I'm gonna play possum"
DM: "Roll a deception check"
Jesus: \*rolls\* Ok that's another 20, plus my charisma modifier which is \+5 so 2... | "A runner arrives with your orders. Would you like to read them out?"
"Sure." Katie unfolded the paper that Danny, the DM, just passed her. "It says that the Ruskis are carrying the guns away, and want us to stop them."
"So we charge those guns? That sounds ... dangerous."
"There's, like five-hundred guns. What are ... | 2018-05-29T09:31:25 | 2018-05-29T07:34:04 | 210 | 104 |
[WP] It's 2050. The Queen is still alive. People are starting to be suspicious. | No one questioned it when the national anthem became a mandatory part of the school day for children across the UK in 2020. It seemed like a positive act from parliament, designed to strengthen the bonds between the various cultures who call this island their home.
Five years later this act was extended, to enforce a... | "They're starting to figure out... We've been alive too long"
"Nonsense" The Queen spoke. "This is going just the way I wanted it to"
"Listen, we've both lived our grand lives. It's about time we went and lived one more humble. We could hide away in the mountains, or maybe in a small village in Asia. "
"Let's not ge... | 2022-10-29T10:31:46 | 2018-07-08T21:36:18 | 49 | 18 |
[WP] Write a G-Rated retelling of an R-Rated movie. | Not *too* long ago in the town of L.A.,
both Vincent and Jules had a heck of a day.
Marcellus, their boss, sent them both on a quest:
recover the briefcast he wanted the best.
Now Vincent, he gave all the villains a fright
while Jules washed his burger right down with a Sprite.
He quoted his verse and he b... | A boy lost his father a long time a go,
the man was a hero, and he didn't know
When he grew of age, a promise was kept
and he set on a path he wouldn't forget
meanwhile, a mad genius started to misbehave
he couldn't the climate, so perhaps the world, he could save
So he made up a plot, and made presidents slave
... | 2015-09-08T19:54:12 | 2015-09-08T16:20:48 | 39 | 12 |
[WP] You sold your soul to the Devil many years ago. Today he gives it back to you and says, "I need a favor" | "Hey there, we just closed up for the night," Tom said to the tall man. The bookstore had been empty for the last 2 hours, so it was a bit of a shock to hear the bell ring over the front door as the man entered.
'Well, haven't counted the register yet, so I guess if this is a quick sale...' Tom thought. "If there is ... | A great plume of smoke swirled in the living room, obscuring the view of my TV. I groaned and waved a hand, "Do that somewhere else man, I'm in a top three situation here."
The plume of smoke shifted slightly to the side, and allowing me to refocus on my Fall Guys game as the smoke drew inward and began to form a body... | 2021-01-22T22:07:58 | 2021-01-22T21:32:47 | 236 | 100 |
[WP] The submarine had run out of power and was now dead underwater. Slowly, you watched your crew mates die of starvation but for some reason you didn’t die, you survived months and years on end in a dead submarine. Fast forward 75 years and your submarine is found. | The depth charge hit our ballast tanks. We leaned hard to starboard, and then just sat there. Captain Wolford ordered a status report, and gradually, our heads racked with pain, we pieced together our crooked world.
We hung dead in the water at 150 meters. The starboard tanks were flooded, but the port tanks hung on. ... | "I-I dunno, maybe I'm really just hallucinating", I stuttered and took a step back from the perfectly round windows of the submarine that just started letting light trough them after what must have been half of an eternity.
"Nah bro, I think it's real", muttered Spots and took his turn on pressing his slightly wet nos... | 2019-11-11T04:42:50 | 2019-11-11T00:03:50 | 2,695 | 685 |
[WP] You tell your wife how glad you are to be a human and not a robot. She looks at you confusingly says, "What are you talking about? We're all robots. Humans have been dead for years."
Finally! Number one on the front page! Fuck yeah! Gonna sell this account for cocaine now. | I stare back "But...but I'm human" I protest.
"Keith, stop joking around" My wife is beginning to look pissed now.
"Honey, what are you talking about, I'm human. You can have my bloodwork checked if you don't believe me"
She stars at me some more and then belief seems to dawn in her eyes. "Keith you...Oh my god! ... | "What are you talking about Sarah? I am most definitely not a robot. Don't you think I would have noticed when they fixed my firmware or something?"
"Humans slowly died out over the past couple centries Jared. This is common knowledge taught in school. Firmware updates happened AT school. That's why there were so many... | 2017-01-29T04:02:14 | 2017-01-29T01:19:53 | 52 | 27 |
[WP] Bernie Sanders wins the presidency but is secretly assassinated. Now one of his team must continue his presidency ala Weekend at Bernie's. | "Did you get him?" asked the Vice President
"Not yet, sir. He hasn't picked up his phone."
"Well, keep trying."
"Should I text him, sir? The previous POTUS staff said he was a big texter."
"A big texter?"
"Yes sir, a texter is someone who uses texts as their primary mode of communication."
"Primary mode of? Chris... | A lobbyist enters the Oval Office.
Lobbyist: 'Ello, I wish to register a complaint.
(The press secretary does not respond.)
L: 'Ello, Miss?
Owner: What do you mean "miss"?
L: I'm sorry, I have a cold. I wish to make a complaint!
P: We're closin' for Martin Luther King day.
L: Never mind that, my lad. I wish to c... | 2016-02-05T22:36:01 | 2016-02-05T20:58:33 | 230 | 138 |
[WP]: every human being is born with a birthmark signifying a great deed they are fated do in their lives. Your first child has just been born, with the mark of a murderer across her face | The best birthmarks were always stretched somewhere across the back of the hand. The man who cured cancer had Flamel's sigil imprinted on his palm. The doctor had this small pattern of crosses on his arm. He showed it to me when he took my wife into the emergency room.
"She's in good hands. I was fated for this."
I b... | I rush to the hospital, excited beyond belief. A child! MY child! A little one to hold, to teach, to love! Words can not contain my boundless joy! I broke a few speed laws on the way, but who cares! I'm a father! I enter the hospital, rushing straight to the room number the clerk told me. Bursting in, I see my ... | 2014-05-10T23:53:07 | 2014-05-10T23:42:39 | 71 | 48 |
[WP] An S-Rank adventurer casually sifts through their quest log and notices they still have an uncompleted D-rank request. With a chuckle, they decide finding the farmer’s lost cat could be a relaxing change of pace— they were gravely mistaken. | The remaining cultists ran away when seeing me charge another lightning bolt.
I thought I'd have to fight more of them, considering my luck during this quest, but they quickly realized how much I out-leveled them after my first spell disintegrated over a dozen people.
All that remained was searching the abandoned t... | Years ago, I was thrilled to wake up in this new world. Initially, I believed it was a byproduct of dying. I had been in a car crash, saw the blinding white light, and moving towards it. As my eyes adjusted, I saw I was exiting a tunnel while riding in a wagon. There were three others with me, one who looked like a... | 2022-06-22T06:57:10 | 2022-06-22T05:25:20 | 72 | 38 |
[WP] "Oh, screw you! Don't blame the science department for this mess. The science went PERFECTLY. It's not OUR fault that corporate decided to skimp out on the compound's security and containment systems" | "Oh, screw you! Don't blame the science department for this mess. The science went PERFECTLY. It's not OUR fault that corporate decided to skimp out on the compound's security and containment systems!" Dr. Bentley said, hotly, jabbing a finger at Miranda, the corporate liason.
"Uh, *excuse me?*" Miranda hissed, narrow... | The yelling would fall on deaf ears, however. The emergency sirens blared in the background, making conversation virtually impossible. The man stared ahead, in shock at what was happening.
The three men had locked themselves in one of the remaining rooms. Some*thing* had escaped. The doctor with them wouldn't say a wo... | 2022-05-09T13:44:04 | 2022-05-09T13:05:50 | 102 | 17 |
[WP] Your daughter brings over her boyfriend for dinner for the first time. The kid seems nice, but then, while eating, he pokes a baked potato on his plate and says "This looks very interesting. What is this? A 'potato'? Oh interesting. Never heard of a potato, looks pretty good." | "Yeah, it's a potato. Have you never had one before?" I asked.
"Never. It seems pretty interesting. Do these grow on trees?"
"No, uhhh, they actually grow in the ground."
"Amazing. I've never heard of them before."
"You've never had a french fry?"
"A what?"
"A french fry, from McDonald's?"
"I've never hear... | 'Yeah, potatoes don't really grow around here. My dad sometimes sends them from up north,' I informed him.
​
'Do they taste good?'
​
'I dunno, try 'em.'
​
He held a spoonful of it, inquisitively, slowly raising it to his mouth. He stuck out his tongue, testing the waters. Needless... | 2018-09-22T11:38:18 | 2018-09-22T10:52:49 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] An alien super-intelligence routinely teleports a random creature from every inhabited planet's most dangerous species into a massive battle royale. Humans are known as a weak species with strange but useless textiles and objects. This year, a battle-ready soldier is chosen. | Oh god. I have no internet so let’s try writing this from my phone. Sorry in advance for typos and punctuation. Already hard enough on the phone but I also got fat thumbs! Best I can get with a quick and dirty write up on the bus!
“Are the contestants ready?”
“Of course Game Master Zerg. Right on time. We have a line ... | It had been years since he found himself in a situation this fucked up and unpredictable. Well, that would be according to his own standards, for most of humanity any of his weekly assignments would be insane. Working in the Foundation, anything could happen. And it means *literally anything*. But he usually had backup... | 2020-09-13T18:50:43 | 2020-09-13T18:47:59 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | "Another day another dollar," Bob Saget whispers to himself after a long night of shooting his latest motion picture: Horror Directly Following Late Night Movie Shoots.
"You be safe now! Don't want any sort of horror scenario happening to you on the way home!" chuckles the director.
"What the fuck did I tell you ab... | Once again I awaken. It has been a long time since I have last walked the land but I must always slumber or there will be no land to walk.
The ground is frail, as always. The crust was not made to hold a weight like mine. I stand from the green light-feeding life that has grown to entomb me . I tear the forest appart ... | 2017-05-05T07:10:06 | 2017-05-05T05:28:24 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] You, an atheist, have died. All the gods that have ever been line up to offer you their version of heaven if only you believe in _them_. Turns out souls are currency and yours is up for grabs. | Do you know what permeates the afterlife?
I mean, given my own personal inclinations, I would've said "nothing" -- you know, like those nights when you don't dream, you're just... gone. And you keep being gone until you no longer aren't; then the *waa-waa-waa* of the alarm and off you go, back neck-deep into the rat ... | I blinked… or whatever amounts to blinking as a formless consciousness. Before me sat many gods, some I recognized and some that I didn’t. Well fuck me surprised there is something after death, and what’s more it was very earth centric in those who wished to judge me. I had been confirmed Catholic before I realized how... | 2017-07-09T04:29:57 | 2017-07-09T02:33:46 | 36 | 12 |
[WP] Colony ships have been leaving weekly for awhile. The streets around your home are looking more empty. You don't qualify for the colony ships. You will always be one of the left behind. | You couldn't take a Ford-Mercedes on the colony ships.
You could take your children, all two of your spoiled brats that were allowed under the reproductive allowance. The Wilkins kids had shipped out the day before, and Lilian had watched them leave through the viewing port in the airlock to her habitation.
You could... | When the Earth began to crack at the height of the Great Mistake, Henry Thomas Long put his family put his wife and son on a colony ship and waved goodbye. Then he rented a skimmer, packed their things, and lost himself in the wilds of the North American Preserve.
When the skimmer broke down and he could no longer car... | 2021-06-30T08:08:47 | 2021-06-30T06:51:49 | 555 | 99 |
[WP] Write an upbeat post-apocalyptic tale where life is (for the most part) much better than it was pre-apocalypse. | You know, except for the goat-rabbits, life in America after the global nuclear apocalypse wasn't all that bad. I kind of enjoyed it, actually. I'd never been much of a people person, and it was nice to have some time to myself.
Basically everybody who didn't die to the Ebola X pandemic wound up perishing in the nuc... | Everyone talked about the apocalypse like it would be horrible. You never heard fun stories made up about it back before it hit. Let me tell you, though, *this shit is a blast.*
I don't pay taxes. I don't slave at work for 10 hours just to scrape by, barely getting enough sleep. There's no rent, no bills to pay, no po... | 2016-01-19T22:08:08 | 2016-01-19T20:58:25 | 902 | 116 |
[WP] A technology is invented that allows us to hear sounds locked into the clay of ancient pots as they were being formed. What is extracted are conversations that will alter the perception of history in the most terrifying of ways. | They were right when they said that Sound is the very Vibration of Matter, recent research indicates that Matter stores every Sound it had ever 'heard' in the form of quantum-stasi vibrations which could be recalculated using Fermi-Dirac statistics in tandem with inverse Fourier Transforms, which would give back the or... | We heard sounds you wouldn't even be able to imagine. It was about ancient, forgotten languages, wars we never knew, love that never should have happened. We heard gossip from all around the world, but all of this was never really interesting, and neither important.
Then a day came. It should've been a normal day in o... | 2019-03-18T17:23:16 | 2019-03-18T13:36:43 | 37 | 13 |
[WP] Write a lighthearted story for children, which changes it's meaning when read by an adult. | #Davie Learns How To Say 'Sorry'
*printed by VanMan Publishing*
*written and edited by M. Gaetz & J. Sandusky*
*illustrations by Asanagi*
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Davie is a boy who likes to go on adventures.
Sometimes Davie has an adventure that leaves a mess.
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People who have to clean up the mess, get angry if he doesn't a... | [Poem]
**The Boggel-de-Rump Song**
–
Two days into the Ooggelly Wood
The Snaphazad leered,
And greered, and feared,
At boggel-de-rumps (who were good).
–
The boggel-de-rumps (who went "Boggel-de-ray!"
At snaphazad's lop-sided grump)
Vamoosed through the woods screaming "Help! Run away!
It's the beast with th... | 2022-12-18T12:16:07 | 2022-12-18T12:02:17 | 274 | 79 |
[WP] Jesus has come down from the heavens, but is actually just a chill guy. He is sitting and talking to fans in your city but when you walk to see the savior his relaxed expression fades and is replaced with smugness and at the same time anger. He looks at you and calmly goes, “Ah, the Antichrist” | The man called Jesus is very handsome. Even in person, from across the church square, I can tell his megawatt smile is as bright as they’ve been showing on the news. Before the past year, when he landed on Earth with the ability to walk on water, I imagined Jesus to look like the basketball player Pau Gasol, and I wasn... | Oh fuck me. "Really? Here? Now?" I say. Jesus sneers at me. "I think so Antichrist." He looks to the gathered people. "Everyone!" he says, his voice amplifying so everyone can hear it. "This man here." He points at me, "Is the Antichrist, here to damn you all to Hell." The people turn to look at me. I sigh, "Look the A... | 2020-02-02T15:56:06 | 2020-02-02T15:07:16 | 2,214 | 25 |
[WP] 100 25 year olds have been chosen. each must choose a super power that cannot be repeated and cannot exceed the power of god. The goal is to see who can conquer the world. You have the number 100. The best powers have already been chosen. Then it's your turn and you choose..... | I stood speechless at the answer of the last candidate. Everyone else chose a super power following the spirit of the event, but the last one had a mischievous twinkle in her eyes. I glanced down at the written rules, wondering what idiot intern had threw together the wording, and how I was going to fire them immediate... | "Welcome to the Super Powers Depot, what can i do for you?" The clerk never looked up from their smart device. They couldn't be any more disinterested in the task at hand yet were still complying with the bare essentials of the minimum wage day laborer.
"My name's John. I was chosen to come pick out a free super powe... | 2022-11-17T07:33:47 | 2022-11-17T07:26:44 | 420 | 14 |
[WP] A moon sized battlestation approches the Earth and destruction seems inevitable. Only Disneys very thorough copyright lawyers stand between humanity and its doom. | *The Walt Disney Co. v. Glaksmar Death Cannon,* 120 F.5d 1 (S.D.N.Y. 2021)
**Opinion & Order**
This case concerns a motion for preliminary injunction brought by The Walt Disney Company (“Disney”) against the Glaksmar Death Cannon (“Death Cannon”) for infringement on two franchises: Star Wars and Mickey Mouse &... | \[inspired by Tom Scott's Earworm video\]
Human lawyers had been gradually outsourcing more and more of their work to algorithms for decades—the deterministic, clean-cut nature of large swathes of the legal system meant that artificial intelligence had a particularly easy time handling the bloated, backlogged courts o... | 2021-03-22T18:08:03 | 2021-03-22T16:54:02 | 104 | 36 |
[WP] You are the Evil Overlord. You have kidnapped the princess. Unfortunately, she developed Stockholm Syndrome. And she is far more evil and insane than you are. | "IS THAT HIS EYE," I screamed looking down at the mangled corpse of the hero was now strewn lazily about the floor of my laboratory.
"Yes, my love," she cooed in response, then pouted, "he had come to take me from you." She was the Princess even as she was my captive. Her classic pink dress was long gone however, an... | "So... we infiltrate Dunsten Villa with a Rhonkan Rogue Wizard, and have him open a summoning circle to the eighth... ring of Sheol?"
"The seventh".
"The seventh, right. And why exactly?"
"Because Balor demons live on the seventh, and have a taste for the flesh of children"
"Ok, ok. But wouldn't it make more sense ... | 2018-02-09T05:33:00 | 2018-02-09T05:32:19 | 158 | 20 |
[WP] After being pulled through a portal into a world built on magic, you’ve become one of the most renowned adventurers. Being able to navigate any labyrinth, and solve nearly any puzzle. Helps when you’ve got a high school level understanding of modern maths and science. | **How to destroy a peaceful fantasy kingdom with a high schooler's knowledge of math and science:**
1. Stagger through the weird looking portal until you're disgorged directly into a thrown room. Say something dumb about staying off mushrooms. Promise the King that you can be of use, if only he doesn't remove your hea... | "You get your hands off my wife," said the skinny carriage
nobleman to the dashing scoundrel, wearing a black eye mask and clothing.
"I don't think you're in charge here, noble," said the rogue, pressing his sharp blade up against his current hostage.
"My love, don't anger him," She pleaded to her husband.
"Look, ... | 2021-01-18T03:49:19 | 2021-01-18T02:53:11 | 140 | 96 |
[WP] How does the Grim Reaper react to a Zombie Apocalypse? | "Thank you for calling Ethereal Weapon and Supply Company. My name is QXkLUarq. How may I be of assistance?"
"My Scythe is not reaping correctly, Every time I harvest a soul it--"
"Thank sir I am sorry to hear you are experiencing difficulty. May I have your name please?"
"... rude ... YES Reaper, first name Grim... | “Apprentice! Come here! Explain… this. What is this nonsense?”
“They are called ‘Zombies’, my Lord.”
“Zombies? What are Zombies?”
“The folk call them ‘the undead’, Sir. They are alive and dead.”
“How can they be alive, if I can’t kill them? See? I can’t even touch them!”
“Life has left them, O dark Lord. Yet i... | 2017-06-16T11:13:06 | 2017-06-16T10:20:48 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] Since your earliest memories, everyone has had a 0 above their head, but when you told people, no one believed you. One cold winter day, you’re at a restaurant and your server has a 1 over their head. You can’t see your own number, but they tell you you have a 3.
Feel free to interpret the numbers however you wan... | “A freak, huh?”
“I beg your pardon?” I blinked in confusion.
My server, Julia by her name tag, smiled and pointed above her head. Her finger nearly prodded the floating number one that was there, the one that she and no one else in this lonely restaurant could see.
“By choice or by circumstance?” She asked, as if ... | You rush to the nearest restroom, realizing that the flashbacks will return. Slamming a stall door shut, you vomit into the toilet. Your body freezes as the flashbacks barge into your mind.
Your hand shaking, you reluctantly stab the boy on the right. You stab him hard, as your guardian directed you to do minutes earl... | 2019-12-28T21:40:27 | 2019-12-28T21:28:57 | 3,484 | 22 |
[WP] After staring out the train's window at the changing view for an hour, you get up for the bathroom - then realize: the train was standing still this whole time. | The ever rushing trees and plants zipping by were an incredible sight to behold. So many swirling colours and different landscapes. For the past hour there hadn’t been a dull moment. Swirling shades of verdant greens, the flashes of brightly coloured wildflowers. All of it offset by the stunning blue sky. It was imposs... | I finally let out a breath as the shining nighttime silhouette of the city inched away in the distance, it had been just about an hour since the train pulled out of Central Station, and with every passing minute, I was further and further away from that hellscape.
“Finally, safety,” I whispered, peeling myself away fr... | 2021-12-07T05:01:05 | 2021-12-07T03:53:13 | 23 | 13 |
[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?” | Do cure cancer?
The genie shakes his head.
Do I end the fighting in the middle East?
The genie laughs and again shakes his head.
Now visibly angry the man asks
Well, what did I do then?
The genie smiles and snaps his fingers.
An acorn appears in front of the man.
"You planted this, a decade ago"
The man racks ... | The genie smile's "You develop the first space-time gate in 2 years allowing humanity to instantly spread throughout the universe. "
I fill up with pride " I always knew I was special and a deal is a deal with my third wish I set you free"
The lamp crumbles and the genie shakes his arms as the shackles fall off.as he... | 2018-08-15T04:27:11 | 2018-08-15T04:08:10 | 124 | 15 |
[WP] You are a Historian sent back in time to record historical events. You are given a camera, and told to hide SD cards at sites of historical value, hidden in capsules which will survive through time. However when you return to the future, you find there's a hefty prison sentence for opening them | "We're sorry to bring you in like this, Agent Losdon."
The Director and the Agent were seated in a Langley holding cell. Agent Daui Losdon was uncuffed and clutched a glass of Pepsi, his eyes fixed manically on CIA Direcgor Abram Stone. The director wore a three piece suit with no cuff links, and the stiff agent wore ... | He could feel the air come to a start again, an audible *whoosh* and a pop in his ears, and suddenly the dark turned inward and out. Light peered in, like a pinhole, growing like a white blaze conquering trees of black. Then came his favorite part -- colors rose along the edges, the white becoming a myriad of hues and... | 2017-09-10T11:33:40 | 2017-09-10T10:39:00 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] “Dad, why aren’t we allowed to go outside?” your daughter asks one day. But she already knows. There is no outside anymore. | "Dad, why aren't we allowed to go outside?"
*My baby girl. So sweet. So innocent.* My eyes welled with tears. I had imagined this day for years, before Marie and I had even met, much less talked about kids. I always saw her little hand wrapped around my finger as we walked, my towering figure acting as a deterrent fro... | It had, like most things, seemed like a good idea at the time.
"Dad?"
I watched the glimmering, glittering patch of sky, the only light left in a vast expanse of perfect black. Stars were born, winking out moments later in flashes of blue-shifted supernova glare. Spiral arms of galaxies whipping around, flicking glit... | 2018-03-11T20:49:18 | 2018-03-11T20:32:59 | 130 | 29 |
[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 | As his back bounced off the unforgiving steel of his own locker Tomas contemplated what imagined slight he caused this time. It was always the same. Same oblivious parents. Same uncaring teachers. Same Jacob Meech.
The circle sigil on the back of his right hand a mocking symbol of his overall life so far.
He considered... | My head rebounds off worn red brick after Jackson threw me into the outside wall of the teacher's office. His cronies hold my arms to the wall as Jackson puts his sigil to use, cutting my shirt to ribbons with swipes of his fingers to reveal my sigil, his careless cruelty leaves many shallow cuts on me by the time my s... | 2020-02-26T07:36:26 | 2020-02-26T07:22:21 | 72 | 46 |
[WP] Satan is used to getting mail meant for Santa, but one day Santa gets mail that's meant for Satan. | Nick sat down at his table and sighed. It was early July, but already some of the more, "fortunate", kids had begun to send in desires or questions. He called his secretary, Rolland, to help him sort through them.
"Summer mail is getting bigger every hear, sir," Rolland said after about twenty minutes of silence. Nick... | The easy thing to do would have been to forward the letter to Acquisitions.
That would have taken Cherry less than a minute to process. She would have filled out a form (already pre-signed by her supervisor), stamped it to signify that her department, Evaluations, had reviewed the letter, and then she could have take... | 2017-09-12T23:45:05 | 2017-09-12T22:58:43 | 1,122 | 110 |
[WP]Humans start out at birth with milk-white blood. The more bad deeds they commit, the darker their blood becomes. One day, you meet your soulmate. Skip a few years, and things are amazing… Until your soulmate trips, falls, and the cut they get drips ink-black blood… | ** so I didn't follow the prompt exactly, but I liked my response so much that I wanted to post it anyways. Hopefully you'll like it enough to ignore the fact I didn't follow it to a T! **
I was in the kitchen when it happened. I heard the loud crash of glass a split second before I heard Jason's cries. I felt my hear... | You start to feel uneasy is everything you know about this woman a lie? You think about that time you went on vacation how she helped you overcome your fear of heights when you both jumped out of that airplane hand in hand. Is this why you haven't met any of her family. You've been dating for over 3 years now. How? You... | 2016-09-22T22:31:58 | 2016-09-22T17:07:36 | 91 | 50 |
[WP] A cult summons an elder horror only to find that the awful truths it has to share are only beyond the comprehension of the medieval Europeans who wrote the legends about it. Most of what it has to share is actually taught in grade school today. | "...So if you take the limit of x to a in (f(x)-f(a))/(x-a), you get the derivative of the function. The derivative can then be used to calculate the slope of the line tangent to the original equation at f(a). Now, a shortcut you can use to find the derivative is..." The gargantuan, tentacled beast in comically tiny sp... | It was a child. Honestly, I would have preferred the most hellish demon to the kid, who stared at me with lidless white eyes. His dark skin and short, curly black hair seemed to meld with the blackness of cellar, leaving only the two white orbs burrowing into my soul.
"You seek knowledge." It wasn't a question. I coul... | 2017-09-04T09:58:23 | 2017-09-04T08:28:16 | 280 | 51 |
[WP] You were forced to attend an interview for a job you do not want, but, no matter how hard you try to screw up the interview, the interviewer just becomes more keen to hire you. | Sixteen-year-old Theodore Cruz slouched in the cheap plastic booth, sucking the last dregs of his soda with obnoxious zeal and using a ketchup packet to paint a frowny-face on the table. In preparation for this interview, he’d donned his “Sperm Donor” T-shirt and smeared a tablespoon of lard into his hair. The look h... | This happened to me in real life. I was unemployed, and going to school. (I got to collect unemployment because I was working full time while going to school, and got laid off). I didn't want to go back to work. Unemployment office sends me a job, that I'm qualified for. Go to interview in dirty clothes, no shave, etc.... | 2017-08-29T11:49:17 | 2017-08-29T11:40:28 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] Write about a unique relationship between an immortal and a time traveler. | Emerus was a time traveler, and his brother Amerus could never die,
Emerus jumped through worm holes, while Amerus contemplated the sky.
They were both great men of science, they were the smartest of their kind,
But as Emerus jumped through time, there was only one thing on his mind.
To sneak up on his dear brother Ame... | I waited to see him.
Every day, every minute, every second.
See, I didn't know when he would arrive to see me. It was never planned. Such was our relationship.
Our love.
It was meant to always remain desperate, to always be urgent. When I saw him I would be filled with joy and excitement and when he left I would di... | 2015-05-03T03:38:18 | 2015-05-03T03:04:59 | 214 | 114 |
[WP] The private investigator was stumped. The scene of the murder was messy. Not in the gory sense, but it was littered with tons and tons of contradictory evidence. Thousands upon thousands of individual leads and not one connects with another. | I was no ordinary investigator, I made my reputation from thin air as the best homicide detective that Vancouver has ever seen.
I took the liberty of solving hundreds of cold cases, and I did so expecting nothing in return except the glory of having finally brought the guilty criminal to justice.
Yet when this case w... | (1/2)
“Here for room three-oh-four?” the superintendent asks me, her large nosy eyes prying for information out of me that the detective denied her.
“Horace Walden,” I tell her, presenting to her my business card.
She scrutinizes the three-and-a-half by two-inch paper, reads off the full text like everyo... | 2022-09-05T07:39:38 | 2022-09-05T06:48:22 | 56 | 37 |
[WP] The year is 2019. An unidentified radar contact appears over the English Channel, bound for an RAF base. It ignores all calls from Air Traffic Control. RAF fighters are vectored to intercept. The contact: a WWII B-24. Part of its wing is missing, and along its fuselage: long, jagged claw marks. | The Euro-fighters soared past the B-24, tail number 41-24301.
It had a hand painted name on the starboard side: "Lady Be Good". It's number 3 engine was spinning in the wind. Its number 1 engine was leaking a plume of black smoke as it burned slowly through the night sky.
"This is Wyvern one, run a check on a B-24, ... | "sSssSSSsky dragons"... It came out as a whisper but crackled over the radio clear as a bell.
"I DON'T SEE IT...WHERE IS IT?..TAIL, TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE?", said a new voice.
"We've been at this for YEARS 'Cap'... Does it even matter what I see? came the voice of the tail gunner.
"...sky dragons, 'Cap', that's wh... | 2019-12-01T11:42:29 | 2019-12-01T09:04:42 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Dear friend,
Oh dear friend. If only I could just step back for just one day and talk to you about all that has occurred since we last saw each other. I’m so thankful that we were able to spend the time in life together that we did.
I miss that little sigh of excitement that would rise up from my chest and escape my... | Not sure if this is more because this is what I want to tell you or what but here goes.
When I first came to this school. You where basically my first friend which then led me to becoming friends with a lot of people. However there was one person In particular I liked, a lot. One who gave me emotions I had never felt ... | 2017-11-05T23:44:56 | 2017-11-05T22:02:40 | 32 | 18 |
[WP] You are the inventor of the most powerful optical microscope. While testing it with some of your own skin cells, you find a tech support number on each of your cells. You decide to call it. | Roger ran his fingers over the smooth dermo-plastic of the android's thigh. Her muscles tensed by the touch of his fingertips, and tiny goosebumps prickled up. There was something special about building such an advanced creature from nothing -- it made him feel powerful, almost divine.
The surgical lights in the ceili... | *It actually started ringing. The number wasn't a fake, then again how could it be a fake. To be able to leave a phone number on a cell.*
It kept ringing a few times, each sound sending a new shiver through my body.
*Why was I so nervous, then again all this was so surreal, how could I not be?*
Then a crackling nois... | 2018-08-14T07:38:50 | 2018-08-14T06:45:36 | 366 | 148 |
[WP] Every night in your sleep you meet a successful-looking future you who tells you what you should do the next day. So far your life has gone well indeed, but one day you fall asleep during the daytime. You meet a tired, disheveled version of yourself who begs you not to listen to the other. | I don't remember the first time it happened, or how I came to believe it was real... but I've been having visions, visions of my future self telling me how to reach success in life.
I know it's hard work to get somewhere in life, especially when you're from a poor background like I am, but having a guide makes it so m... | It is the natural condition of the human mind to desire advancement. Sure, there are those that are satisfied with very little, but by and large? People like being promoted. It makes them feel important. Makes them feel valuable. Self-esteem issues and all that.
In the military, we are no different. When I finally ear... | 2017-04-01T07:08:25 | 2017-04-01T05:19:44 | 201 | 123 |
[WP] Charon, boatman of the river Styx, gets the last two coins he needs for what he's been saving up for since the beginning of time.
Charon always takes two coins for passage into the land of the dead. Whatever he has been saving up for, he has finally reached his goal.
Edit: Thank you, person who gave this gold! I... | Charon had served as the Underworld’s ferryman for quite some time, now. It had good pay, but it had gotten incredibly monotonous as the years went on.
He had gotten used to the howling and screaming of those who were denied passage. He had gotten used to the stench of the river which he floated over every day, and th... | On the paddle he drove into the water with calm precision, he drew tally marks. His day would come, he knew; there was a flaw in their plan. Charon would keep count in his own quiet way.
******
The woman in her modest black dress was old and shrunken and quite dead. Caroline was sure of the last one: she'd poked t... | 2014-10-29T20:05:27 | 2014-10-29T18:06:15 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] Ever since you received your letter for Hogwarts you've been curious about all the different spells there are. You've just bought your first wand and the first spell you try is what you believe to be rather humorous. "AbraCadabra". Nobody told you this spell was banned. For obvious reasons. | "Abra Cadabra -" Joey started saying with a giggle, waving his wand in Mr Ollivander's shop.
Mr Ollivander swept up from the corner of the shop, his silvery eyes huge with fright.
"What are you doing, boy?" he whispered. "Speaking the name of that spell?"
Joey stashed away his wand hastily, feeling rather frightened... | I opened up the spell book, itching and excited to try out my first ever magical spell. My little feet squirmed in my new blue Ravenclaw uniform socks. I'd never done a spell before. I read through the names. Athena, my pet owl, hooted, channeling my excitement, or perhaps trepidation.
How should I approach this? I ... | 2016-12-01T22:21:57 | 2016-12-01T19:46:27 | 1,995 | 84 |
[WP] Zombies appear one day, and people are thankful for zombie media teaching them how to survive. Unfortunately for them, a cure is discovered just a few days later, and many are put on trial for shooting the infected that could have otherwise been saved. | The TV flashed on.
"Have you or a loved one been charged with the murder of a zombified person?"
Jack paid attention. He had, in fact, recieved a summons.
"We can help! After spending years of studying written and case law, our firm is the only one specializing in defending those convicted of murder of zombies. Call... | He thought his daughter could be saved. So he kept her locked, and refused to kill any of them.
Her daughter's boyfriend had other plans, and killed everything in sight. He killed zombies because he wanted to kill the disease.
He was projecting the disease on those walking bodies.
Lucas, the father, never told Klaus o... | 2018-03-07T16:25:59 | 2018-03-07T13:13:54 | 72 | 51 |
[WP] This is… awkward to say the least. Your roommate just frantically confessed that they’re demonic royalty, and that they need a fiancé to meet their parent, the monarch of Hell, who will be here in under an hour. | A sharp knock on the door nearly sent me out of my skin.
With a precision and urgency only possible when under extreme duress, books snapped shut, candles flickered out, and typically overlooked trinkets went flying into opposite corners of the room in complete silence with a rapid set of gestures. I hadn't even heard... | Vanessa finished her spiel, and Kimberly continued to sit stock still on the couch. That had been a lot of information in a medium amount of time, and honestly it was a lot to take in. Halfway through, Kimberly had dismissed the idea that Vanessa was making everything up; she wasn't great off the top of her head. Once ... | 2022-10-09T00:07:13 | 2022-10-08T23:48:36 | 1,037 | 102 |
[WP] When a superhero’s family is mercilessly slaughtered by a gang of thugs, their world shatters and they become the worst supervillain ever seen. Only one person can stop them. The supervillain they used to fight
Edit: Thank you everyone for your submissions, if i haven’t already i will make sure to read and commen... | On the Morality of The Saint – Dr. Stephen Peterson, 2021
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” - Benjamin Franklin.
We are not free while The Saint reigns. I understand that he appears just. I understand that he fights for the weak, ... | The Bros. Gang had overstepped massively. They had killed the Jameson family. I couldn't be too mad at them. None of us knew who they were. But one person did. Captain Justice. Yes, I have taunted him on that name since our first encounter. But he has another name, George R. Jameson. Those bastards killed his family. W... | 2020-08-12T19:52:34 | 2020-08-12T18:18:56 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] A blind man suddenly/inexplicably regains his vision, describe the first thing he sees | The first time I went skydiving the press was present. Apparently I was being heralded as some sort of inspiration. It's bullshit, but that doesn't stand in the way of a good story, right? It was a tandem jump with the instructor treating me as if I were made of some sort of porcelain or a child to be placated. I half ... | "Am I dead?" He thought. He'd heard people talk about walking in to the light, but this wasn't the same. He wasn't dead. Everything was white. He stumbled round as he had done for the past 42 years whilst his eyes learnt how to focus. Nothing was new, but everything was different. It was light.
As his eyes taught them... | 2013-10-09T12:10:31 | 2013-10-09T06:03:57 | 31 | 14 |
[WP] Write the most elaborate, over-dramatic, and exciting story you can think of that all just turns out to be a set-up for a pun so horrible I'll want to punch you
It actually doesn't have to be dramatic or exciting or anything similar, just make sure it's elaborate so the final pun delivery is a gut-wrenching blow | It was Tuesday morning. God I hate Tuesdays.
You see, when you work in the sawmill of a small town, logs shipment usually comes in on Wednesdays. That keeps us busy for three days, sometime four, but Tuesdays are always dead.
This means that on Tuesdays, I have to listen to Tom, Jim and Preston talk about their mean... | My friends ask me why I did it, and while I had no straight forward answer to give them, I always tell them "If I don't do it, who will? Who will pave the path ahead of us if not me? Someone has to take the risk and go where no one has gone before."
I did it! I've finally done it.
Three days I've spent without food, ... | 2015-01-13T10:39:25 | 2015-01-13T09:52:04 | 188 | 21 |
[WP] Every thousand years the gods have to each choose a mortal to replace them. You have been chosen, but not for the reasons you expected. | When I first heard the voice in my head, I honestly thought I was going crazy.
"*Gillian*', it said. "*You have been chosen.*"
Chosen for *what*? I muttered, after the 15th time it happened to me.
"*Ah, excellent,*" the voice immediately answered, much to my surprise. "*Chosen for Godhood. We are so pleased we ha... | I stood in a glass room, looking down on the earth. A man in a dark blue suit stood next to me, filling out paperwork on a clipboard. Behind us, a man in long white robes and a beard to match stood brooding in the corner. The man in the suit turns to me. "So, Steve, can I call you Steve? Excellent. Now as you've probab... | 2014-07-28T12:46:05 | 2014-07-28T11:23:14 | 42 | 20 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | It was a curious solution and nobody expected it to be as easy as it was. Fifty years of isolation.
Nobody knew who fired the first shots. Some said it was the Chinese, some said it was the North Koreans, others said it was the Americans. In the end, it really didn't matter, because everyone ended up involved in some ... | **6th April, 2037 - HMAS *Maryborough*, Somewhere off the coast of Australia**
"So, the yanks bought it?"
The speaker leans heavily against the rail, staring at the smouldering coastline. A deck above, overstressed rotor blades whine slowly, cooling in the ocean breeze.
"Oh yes. Contrition, shame, repentance...if we... | 2018-01-18T02:39:17 | 2018-01-18T01:28:33 | 129 | 18 |
[WP] Drunkenly, you accidentally pour vodka into your pet's water bowl. As a result, your pet breaks the number one rule: do not speak to your owner... Ever.
Did NOT expect this amount of replies. Thanks guys! It'll be an interesting read. | "Blllrrgghhglglglglg"
I look around my room, as I rub my eyes. "What the fuck was that?"
I blink a few times and sit up abruptly as I hear it again.
"Blrghg blruruhrgrhhrhrurrururrr"
I look over to my aquarium and see Stanley my goldfish pressed up against the glass.
"Blrghg grrlrlrlrlrlrrlgghh"
"Umm... are... ar... | I dunno how much of that fucking Stoli I had last night. It's all a weird blur. For some reason, the clearest memory I have is dumping a lot of the water out of my goldfish Spike's bowl and replacing it with the vodka. To "give the little guy a buzz" or something, I dunno why I did it. I remember after I did that, Spik... | 2016-08-02T20:33:34 | 2016-08-02T20:31:04 | 24 | 17 |
[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. | "10" I said unconsciously.
My friend tore his eyes away from the girl walking past us down the hall and stared at me in surprise.
"A 10? Really?" He turns his gaze back to her. "Dude I'll admit she's a looker, but I'd say more of an 8. Not 10 material, but eh different stokes for different folks."
I wasn't listening ... | Snow swirled across the pavement, little lines of furious strands caught in a frozen wind. At once, they would settle, and at once they would fly with renewed flurry as the bus ploughed up to its stop. The ding of the doors opening broke the bluster of winds, and immense gratitude washed over her as this bus proved war... | 2014-11-29T15:22:56 | 2014-11-29T14:03:49 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] You are a cow.
[removed] | Grass is food. I eat grass and I not die.
Farmer is friend. I not kill farmer and farmer take me to new grass. I eat new grass and I not die.
Sometimes farmer take me to milk square and invisible calves feed, sometimes farmer take me to bed square and visible calves feed.
When visible calves grow they go away. Invis... | "Mind you put on your best behavior when we meet the king," Master Hniu said from my side. "Any disrespect like that time with the Burned God, and we might both be skewered on a spit."
I snorted in reply. It was enough to set him chuckling. If not for the fact that my shoulders towered over most grown men, and my hide... | 2017-10-02T06:13:08 | 2017-10-02T04:43:26 | 6,645 | 256 |
[WP] You died giving birth many years ago and now work in the bureaucracy of the afterlife. Your job is to complete the forms for those next to die. To your horror you see your child’s file arrive on your desk. | Admin in Hell is hell! Paperwork for the sake of paperwork with complex work orders and prerequisites all fiendishly designed to make it incessent and neverending. There is no day and night in Hell. You dont hunger or tire unless your specific punishments require it. I had no concept of how long I'd endlessly filled ou... | It was just another boring day at work. Tidily, I scrolled through the files I was to complete that day, counting them down by the tips of my fingers. “One thousand, three hundred seventy-two.” I sighed. It was going to be a long day.
“This would be so much more interesting if I knew how they died.” I murmured, beginn... | 2021-07-08T23:34:01 | 2021-07-08T19:28:00 | 80 | 50 |
[WP] ✓ Seen: 11:49pm | "I'm pregnant."
It was the last message that I'd sent to him. I glanced down at my phone every two seconds, my hands shaking. The test was still sitting on the bathroom counter, my eyes straying to it whenever I wasn't looking at my phone. We had been texting each other for the last two hours straight, and he'd bee... | "It worked!!"
"Would you keep it down John? We're also trying to work here."
"I know! But i sent a message back in time! Look, it says right there that is was seen around midnight."
"Hah! That's beginner stuff right there. Try sending a message back to someone in the beginning of the 19th hundreds. Then we can talk.... | 2015-05-03T14:37:47 | 2015-05-03T13:00:12 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] You order a pizza at 12pm. The delivery guy dosen't arrive until 7pm. When asked about what happened, he responds "It's a long story." | I had called back the pizza place at 2pm to cancel my order, but nobody answered. I figured if they did show up I would just not accept the pizza and dispute the charges with my bank.
At about 7pm a small green car pulled in front of my house. It was the delivery driver showing up with my pizza seven hours late. He w... | It had been an hour and a half and we had given up on him ever arriving. Gwen was pissed. I called the store but nobody picked up. She didn't believe me, thought I was trying to weasel out of the confrontation. So I called back with the phone on speaker.
It rang, unceasingly.
"You got the number wrong."
"No. I did... | 2017-02-10T02:21:26 | 2017-02-09T23:20:07 | 33 | 13 |
[WP]You die and you go to Valhalla... the map in Halo 3. Turns out after life is an endless Halo online match of Capture the Flag.
Tell me how is it like | "So how long have you been here?" I asked.
The woman in battered crimson armour looked at me with weary eyes,
"I don't know. Ten thousand matches? Maybe more?" She gestured with her gauntlet to the sky;
"Sun never sets ya see? Got no idea how long it's really been. Every day it's the same; we fight, die and we wi... | I remember it pretty clearly, actually. About 78 matches ago, now... before I came here. Before I died. I was driving down I-80 headed east; coming back from YNP where I had just did a summer seasonal gig. Great place to visit, fuckin' horrible place to work. Anyway, I was cruisin' along, windows down, stereo blasting ... | 2015-08-18T17:32:38 | 2015-08-18T17:30:29 | 100 | 12 |
[WP] The Superheroes arrive at the predicted impact site of the meteor, only to find the Villains already there. "We're going to destroy that blasted rock before it lands and there's nothing you can do to stop us!" a Hero calls out. "Stop you? We're here to help! We live on this planet too, dumbass" | The harbor was supposed to be evacuated. Sure, it was futile, but there had been a massive collaborative effort to get people to as much shelter as they could. Nobody in the city had a chance of surviving the impact, but broadcasting that on the airwaves wasn't going to help anyone.
No, the closest thing humanity had... | What are we, but leaves in the wind?
There were stories once, sung by the masses or known only by those who wrote them. Of guns and smoke, knives and high boots, artful games of respectful slaughter. Dozens of them, each catching light, before being lost to the confines of old history, buried deeper and deeper by the ... | 2022-09-11T08:32:27 | 2022-09-11T06:44:43 | 168 | 94 |
[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." | 4 digits. For a moment, my degree in mathematics failed me, as I struggled to count the numbers before me. Un, Deux, Trois, Quatre. There was no mistake, though the existence of such a person...frightened me. My vision had always been right, as evidenced by the guilty looks on the minors' faces when I turned them out o... | 2017-09-01T22:32:16 | 2017-09-01T22:15:29 | 1,408 | 16 |
[WP] One day in class you decide to scream something in your head to catch mind readers. As you do, you see your crush flinch | *Meh.*
My cheek is starting to feel a bit sore from the fist that keeps it and the rest of my face from meeting my desk. The arm upright beneath is stiff and sleeping, like a corpse, or half the people in my class. My bored eyes bore into the board ahead - *bored*.
*So fuckin' bored.*
On my other hand, my fingers da... | "Mr. S?"
"Yeah?"
"Can I just get something off my chest?"
"Sure, kid. 'Course you can."
"Band class is fucking boring when nobody actually tries. You just sit there with your instrument on your lap, staring into fuckin' space, listening to the poor teach' tryna get the attention of the class while everybody just sc... | 2017-11-13T21:43:25 | 2017-11-13T19:45:25 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Being a tavern wench is good, honest work. You wear long sleeves, not to hide scars but swirling tattoos. You’ve always had them. Today, an adventuring party come in. The shirtless ones have the same tattoos, and theirs not only swirl … they glow. | All sort of people stop by this tavern. It was a prime locale. Right at the edge of the city, so civilization was close, and right at the precipice of a hilly crossroads, so weary travellers could always find food and shelter and a place to rest.
Whoever built this tavern was clever int hat regard. Sure, the poor lads... | Maternara - At the crossroads.
Some secrets are best left hidden.
Life at the Crossroads Inn had treated Maternara well. The work was backbreaking and hard, but she thrived in it. The regulars loved her, she was the goddess that brought them drink, good cheer and a hearty smile. The transients were endless sources of... | 2021-06-15T09:15:27 | 2021-06-15T08:38:46 | 26 | 17 |
[WP] Two men play a game of chess. One can read minds; the other can see the future. | ###### 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... | This was it. The big day.
The famous mind-reader well already renowned for performing on stage and gazing into the minds of the audience, seeing whether they really believed he could do it before he did it, and when he did it, everyone knew what he could do and he knew that they knew.
The fortune teller regarded all ... | 2017-01-19T16:03:28 | 2017-01-19T14:12:27 | 129 | 58 |
[WP] When the representatives of humanity attend their first Galactic Council meeting, all goes well. That is, until a member of a psionic race tries to read the human's minds and begins to scream. | The Galactic Council was interrupted by a shriek. Well, scream would be a better term. And interrupted would be an understatement. It would be more appropriate to compare this to a racing craft hitting an invisible wall, which cannot be moved. Crushed in milliseconds. As far as deaths go, not the worst. In theory, a... | A Galactic Council meeting was about to be held in a few minutes, the first one humanity has ever attended since we first became a space faring species.
I was sent as one of humanity's representatives among 4 others to attend.
We stand around, talking to the other species, here and there, while waiting for the meet... | 2019-09-29T23:02:12 | 2019-09-29T22:40:14 | 48 | 19 |
[WP] Fallen angel is a pretty popular trope in fiction. But I want to hear about Ascended Demons. Demons that were too good/ kind/ pious for the underworld and managed to break out. | Without darkness, there can be no light. Virtue can not exist unless there is choice against vice. Only when there is a possibility of failure can humanity become better than they were created.
This was the mantra under which hell was created. It wasn't to simply torment humanity or to torture those within our domain.... | Peter was startled when Beelzebub appeared atop the floor of clouds, uncertainly approaching the gate.
"Demon," he mumbled to himself, a little too loudly. An unusual sight, to be sure. An unwelcome one, too.
Beelzebub shrugged. "Not a very good one, apparently."
"Unprecedented," Peter murmured. "This is highly unu... | 2019-11-08T06:42:11 | 2019-11-08T06:27:24 | 1,123 | 108 |
[WP]"The thing about immortality is that even if it preserves your body, it doesn't stop the wearing down of your soul..." | You don't want to become immortal. Believe me.
Immortality is a relatively easy process, given the benefits. Out of reach financially for most people, but for anyone with the resources and knowledge to gather the necessary ingredients, the steps are simple. But I won't tell you what they are, or what you have to do. Y... | *When the fire fades, the dead shall rise from their graves. From Ash to Cinder, all shall be called upon to link the flame.*
As I awoke, I heard her say those words. I looked around, but was alone in the crypt. The last memory I had was a grand battle. Steel clashing upon steel when I met my untimely end. All had hea... | 2017-01-30T11:48:12 | 2017-01-30T11:00:27 | 28 | 10 |
[WP] Write a story that literally makes no sense while reading it until the very last sentence. | Elephants are big but this one is unique. Almost the size of the sun but blue. He's flying, without wings obviously.
Ninjas everywhere. This poor man is surrounded by them, he will never make it out alive. Or maybe they are protecting him?
The most simple garden in the world. One huge flower. I wonder if it's harder ... | He looked at her expectantly. Waiting.
“Orange?”
He waited.
“Orange! CAT! MOTORBIKE!”
She tried so hard to get through to him but felt like nothing was happening. She searched for his eyes. Hers were beginning to moisten with the hopelessness of her situation.
“TELEPHONE!”
He looked straight at her, so conf... | 2022-09-15T12:44:53 | 2015-01-12T15:45:13 | 1,493 | 18 |
[WP] The world has taken precautions against super-powered beings, handing out inhibitors if deemed too 'destructive.' You sat in the principal's office with horror etched on your face as a pair of inhibitor gloves were handed to you. The smug grin of your life long bully telling you everything. | "What are those for?" I breathed weakly.
The question was rhetorical, of course. We'd seen those accursed gauntlets everywhere. Criminals and commoners alike were forced to wear them, so long as they were dangerous. The wrist cuffs were magnetized and anything that was special about a person was drained from them in j... | "No, no, no, no, youre maki-"
"QUIET!"
Said the princibal wanting be to put the gloves on me
"Please dont do this."
I said scared of what would happen, but then i noticed, my bully sitting and watching from the lockers with his "gfs", the grin on his face, i knew that he said to the principal about my powers.I knew... | 2022-12-25T07:48:11 | 2022-12-25T07:08:03 | 46 | 17 |
[FF] Write a 10 sentence story where the first sentence has 10 words, and each following sentence has one less word. | I didn't hear the bullet, but then, they never do.
There was just a thud, then I fell over.
Sergeant started shouting words I couldn't make out.
The rest of the squad hit cover.
No one came to get me.
Probably because I was exposed.
But still, nobody came.
I was alone.
And then.....
Nothing. | The ten sentence story, the first sentence has ten words.
Not so bad, only have nine sentences left so.
Not much pressure, I know I can do.
Oops ran out of words for that.
I can't seem to finish my.
I should not have waited.
Panic is setting in!
I need help!
HELP ME!
Fuck.
....... | 2015-01-27T11:35:40 | 2015-01-27T11:24:56 | 192 | 56 |
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