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[WP] You run a tattoo parlor. Every couple of weeks, the same customer comes in, always requesting the same tattoo: an additional tally mark on an ever growing cluster of tally marks. | The steady buzz of the needle gun filled the air as I worked. There was no one else in the parlor - just me and her.
"Busy month?" I said, glancing down at her.
She nodded, leaning back.
That was how these things normally went. She never had a schedule - it seemed totally random at first. She'd just walk in out o... | The door opened and entered a familiar face, cash in hand. The 6'6" silent and solemn man waited patiently in the lobby for me to approach him.
"Hey Ed. The usual?"
He nodded.
"Sounds good," I smiled, "Just give me a couple minutes to clean up my work station, just got done with another client."
When I was ready Ed... | 2018-09-20T06:28:17 | 2018-09-20T06:26:26 | 81 | 26 |
[WP] A brilliant scientist is found dead in their lab. Their lab notes simply state "Please do not disturb my body, the experiment would be irrevocably ruined." | The laboratory sat still. Beakers and vials, all filled with an assortment of colors, lined the shelves. On the floor lay Dr. Amadeus, face down into a pool of some unknown material. At first glance, it looked like blood. But you could not see through blood, and be able to make out the floor tiles beneath it in the sam... | "'Please do not disturb my body, the experiment would be irrevocably ruined.'" I read out loud, turning the paper over. "That's all it says," I tell my partner. I can hear my own perturbment in my voice. This basement lab also kinda makes me feel uneasy anyway.
"That's it? Well, we need to get this body out of here an... | 2014-11-06T13:45:29 | 2014-11-06T13:23:34 | 248 | 86 |
[WP] You are a long forgotten god. A small girl leaves a piece of candy at your shrine, and you awaken. Now, you must do everything to protect your High Priestess, the girl, and her entire kindergarten class, your worshipers.
If you want to post this on other platforms, please credit me. Looking at you instagram writi... | I sit patiently on a stone, watching the children play around me.
They've come here every day during recess and I am pleased by their laughter and the meager offerings they bring me. Mostly small bugs, easily caught and weeds plucked like flowers laid upon the stone altar.
They are small gifts passed by small hands... | Stacy squinted as an unfamiliar man entered her kindergarten classroom. She had not seen him before, but he did not give off the air of a stranger either. Somehow, she felt a connection between them.
The man had smooth black hair. He dressed like an old man but looked much younger than her father.
‘Good morning child... | 2021-09-02T08:32:01 | 2021-09-02T08:20:20 | 288 | 191 |
[WP] Across the galaxy, humans are known for tinkering on, and sometimes breaking, random items due to long transit time across space. As a solution, your company makes unfixable items to keep humans amused and harmless. Today a frantic captain just called claiming a human 'fixed' your product. | Upsil has been the top galactic manufacturing company for 5 centuries, dealing in everything from children’s toys to weapons of warfare. From clothing made for the various sizes and shapes of the galactic citizens, to the very long-distance sublight transporters I’m sitting in. And even though Upsil has the best qualit... | "Wait ... did I fix it? Those were advertised as 'unfixable' ... Huh I should talk to engineering."
As I took my ... what was this anyways to engineering I started to look at the "manual" to find out what that was supposed to be ... maybe.
As I turned to the elevators to ask for guidance I found the "product" ... wai... | 2022-12-14T23:50:25 | 2022-12-14T22:20:41 | 251 | 85 |
[WP] Steven's grandmother knits. Not because she likes to, but because she has to.
Hanging by a thread. | The rhythmic clicking of the needles was soothing, but Ruth was in too much of a hurry to enjoy the knitting. Her arthritis was acting up again, and she was missing out on game night in the home's common room. *Have to get it done,* she reminded herself. She should have been much further by now, but when you're at the ... | Had Barry 'round the other day. Stole the wool from Granny's knitting. Boy, he won't be coming back for tea.
The human body goes through a lot when someone dies. My cousin died when I was very young, I barely knew him. Got hit by a bus outside his father's pub. Robin's Hood Retreat, I think it was called. Had a girl ... | 2015-10-01T06:52:55 | 2015-10-01T06:35:47 | 113 | 35 |
[WP]Serial killer has been monitoring his next victim's movements for months. She is a loner and the perfect target. One day she disappears and nobody notices but him.
Man, this sub is great. Come up with an idea and you get a bunch of great stories to entertain yourself with. This is better than TV!
edit: Front Page... | "Four months of work down the drain," he thought. Had she become aware of him? Surely not. He had been meticulous. Down to every minute detail. He could even predict when she would need to visit the ladies room before his mark could. So, how could he miss this?
He backed up the video again. There. Right there. She was... | I would tire some days, drift to sleep, silently breathing under the floor. She never knew that the old rusty basement door was unlocked, it has been six months now and I have made myself a nice warm home I never had. Muddy footprints all along her kitchen.. I never leave footprints...
You see my story is simple, pat... | 2014-10-21T12:10:56 | 2014-10-21T12:10:53 | 30 | 14 |
[WP] They year is 2035. A colony is built on Mars. While excavating an area, colonists find a red flag among the red sands. The flag has 4 Latin letters written on it: SPQR | Olympus Mons 2035
Theo Malkovich was enjoying himself. He was travelling over the rust-coloured rocky terrain of Mars in a buggy with his beautiful wife Beth alongside him. The beautifully barren landscape created a surprisingly romantic back drop, he could tell through her suit how beautiful she was. He had met her a... | Yellow stuffing is leaking out of a broken chair, sitting in a mansion of broken dreams, a home to shattered hopes.
After work today, I decided to do some cleaning around the house. My house looks like a cyclone hit it.
In pursuit of my objective, a spotless home, I notice a blue binder which is bulging with construc... | 2017-02-21T18:43:27 | 2017-02-21T17:25:10 | 85 | 14 |
[WP] You are a software developer with a strange power. You can tell what the cost of a line of code is. Normally the cost is measured in cpu cycles, or bytes of RAM, or hours of future maintenance. Today it's measured in lives lost. | I'm not the best programmer in the world, but I'm pretty good. See, I can tell what a piece of code is going to cost at a glance. It's surprisingly high. A single line of boilerplate might be a few cents, taking no time at all to write and test. A single line in the middle of a hot loop might cost far north of $1000, o... | "He's the best programmer this company has ever produced. We plucked him from the factory floor and have been nurturing his talents for years. If he says that the code can't ship, and that lives are on the line then I believe him!" Mr. Johnson the Plant Manager declared.
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"If you won't do your job, then ... | 2019-06-05T17:25:06 | 2019-06-05T16:09:06 | 935 | 173 |
[WP]Humans are reverse Kryptonians. They are weak on their home planet but strong everywhere else. No one knew this until Earth was attacked and humanity was taken off of earth to be enslaved. | Flangmar: “Zlorb, run! Those humans that we captured became stronger on our planet than on theirs! Sort of like a reverse Superman thing! Get out of here fast!”
Zlorb: “Wait a sec. Isn’t that just regular Superman? Isn’t he an alien that got stronger because of being on earth instead of krypton?”
Flangmar: “Yeah, I g... | We were best friends the moment we sat side by side in a far too small holding area on foreign spaceship far more advanced than humanly possible, hands tied behind our back by something that could practically be magical.
Nothing quite like adversity to bring people together. And well, being the only two people in thi... | 2021-05-18T07:16:09 | 2021-05-18T05:39:41 | 486 | 185 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | One day James was sitting with his wife, he was cooking dinner for school children while she was knitting beanies for the homeless, when she cut herself, James sprang to his feet, "let me help you with that" he said. But upon reaching her, his eyes widened, her blood was pure black, he immediately begun to yell, "what ... | i was shooked to my very core on the first sight of my blood now turning into TAR.
how can this happen i said to myself it was liquid, so pure, just yesterday.
as i ran toward the mirror and stripped naked my eyes started to turned black as a intricate maze of my thick sludgy nerves started to form around my heart.
eve... | 2018-08-04T10:33:21 | 2018-08-04T09:55:07 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] Help a teenager get over his girlfriend cheating on him using the writing style of Dr. Seuss
Enjoy! | A cheater? Don't need her - no, not anymore:
she's a skeezer, a teaser, a wut and a slore!
Her breath stank and stunk! Her heart, it was hollow!
Her promises shrank and she never swallowed!
You'll teach her, that creature, impeach that skeet cheater
Her teats were no treat; defeat, obsolete her!
You'll bleach ... | Look around you my boy, don't be so darn sad;
You still have friends and family, your life isn't so bad!
That girlfriend of yours just wasn't for you;
She's the type who wants to put stuff where she poo's!
So get up, smile and get out in the world;
And someday you'll find your perfect hot girl. | 2014-08-18T15:45:06 | 2014-08-18T15:18:18 | 83 | 14 |
[WP] A scientist has discovered the vaccine of immortality. The only side effect is, though, infertility. After the whole world got vaccinated, it turns out immortality is a hoax it is just an infertility vaccine.
got lots of comments about not knowing how vaccines work. i basically imagined a syringe with the cure of... | It’s weird how a couple of hours can change a person. How a movie can sow the seed of an idea that will have consequences, consequences so large that they will alter the course of history, and humanity. Maybe even put a big fat period at the end of it. When climate researcher Dr. Richter came out of the cinema that day... | "Mr. Aroke?" The voice was quiet barely perceiving as an echo in the white tiled room. Maybe thirteen people sat waiting in this monstrous sterile room. If he wasn't near the front he doubt he would have heard his own name.
He stood up from his chair and straightened his tie. Quickly he walked towards the front deso ... | 2018-09-09T09:23:13 | 2018-09-09T08:54:48 | 54 | 22 |
[WP] As part of a senior thesis, an anthropology student decides to start a cult to see how far it’ll go. Several years, hundreds of deaths, civil warfare and a complete government overthrow later they wonder how they’ll properly cite their sources. | **Acknowledgments**
A big thank you, to Dr. Harriet Slanter for reading through this thesis for the fifteenth time—even if it was done under semi-duress and the threat of war crimes being levied against her—she has been an invaluable resource in the research for this paper.
I’d like to thank all of those who particip... | Chad turned toward the knock at his door. He was in the master bedroom of his now seventeen room mansion. The twelve room mansion where he had lived previously was no longer enough. Not for Chad, but for his followers, who insisted Chad needed more rooms. That philosophy came from a drunken night in the first year, whe... | 2021-03-13T10:56:34 | 2021-03-13T08:47:45 | 247 | 91 |
[WP] At 18, your father finally gave you his antique Swiss watch. "The watch will stop working when you're seconds away from death. Live a good life", your father always told you. Now at 26, you're celebrating your 1st wedding anniversary. As your wife pours you a glass of wine, the watch stopped. | For 18 years of my life, I heard the watch ticked. It was an irreplaceable sound, one that I knew by my heart. And so, when it stopped, I pointed it out to my father.
He had it on, even though the strap now fit illy on this thin wrist. With surprising deftness, he slipped it off, clasping the watch into my hands.
"Th... | This is kind of bad but I've been using writing prompts to improve my skills and fall back in love with writing so here goes nothing... enjoy :)
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The warm lights of the front room shone down on her face light the glow of a halo. She was iridescent. The most beautiful woman in town. Ever since our first me... | 2020-12-10T12:26:59 | 2020-12-10T11:22:32 | 71 | 24 |
[WP] You we’re born with the ability to control fire, but instead of becoming a superhero, you set your sights on a much more attainable goal: You became the worlds greatest firefighter. | There are so many ways a person can use fire. For cooking, heating a home, roasting smores. With super powers to control fire? Everyone usually lands towards one way or another. Becoming the next variation of "the human torch" in true super hero fashion. Or becoming Dabi, the hottest anime fire quirk user. There di... | They knew. Long before that day, they knew, but they didn't say anything. To anyone. Most definitely outside the department. I was just another firefighter to them, albeit a really good one. A special one. I was a brother among brothers and sisters, a friend, a mentor, a savior. I was Sparks. But only among us. Even Ch... | 2022-12-16T18:34:51 | 2022-12-16T17:55:16 | 70 | 47 |
[WP] When turning 21, everyone develops a mutation, either physical (Claws, horns, wings) or mental (telekinesis, extreme intelligence, etc). You've just turned 21, and you're terrified of what you've gained (though others will be impressed).
Edit: Holy shit this blew up. I'm reading these and they're great! Thanks ev... | I was the last of my group of friends to turn 21, the last in my family too. I'd seen them all get these random mutations that we'd been waiting on for years; wings to fly wherever Sam wanted, super intelligence that make Luke abandon our group, right down to the extra leg Andy had developed. I knew mine couldn't be wo... | I remember details before (yellow light,
green), details after('catch him, Lou!') but the searing pain ripping those hours out of mind are like constant needles pushing at my eyeballs from behind. I'd heard the stories, seen the anxious hushed terror my mothers eyes as it approched, had known its happening was slithe... | 2015-03-04T05:44:57 | 2015-03-04T04:05:10 | 99 | 27 |
[WP] "I saw it during WW1. It had no meat, no bones, just veins and nerves. And there it was, striding toward us, bullets sliding off it like water. Men came apart or became things just being nearby. We know now it's a war god from another world. And it was drawn by our war like a fly to a wound. " | [Poem] [CW: Descriptions of War]
The creature rose in No Man's Land
That February day.
The Germans surged, and then that scourge
Began to rush our way.
 
It fell on dear Jean-Louis first
And tore into his head,
And where it slashed, the bullets crashed
and Jean-Louis fell dead.
 
The monste... | They came ashore in the early morning light under a steel sky. Water the color of gunsmoke. Crawling their way up the sand in their soaking clothes to lie gasping and alive. These two men in their uniforms and their hair slicked back on their heads and all the world that morning returned to them.
The lieutenant sat up... | 2019-02-27T17:32:51 | 2019-02-27T17:14:48 | 508 | 73 |
[WP] You've never felt the same after learning Morse Code. The rain keeps telling you to run. | Dot dash dot (rest) dot dot dash (rest) dash dot.
The rhythm was gentle and persistent, rain pattering against the tin roof.
Dot dash dot (rest) dot dot dash (rest) dash dot.
The hair stirred faintly at the back of my neck.
Dot dash dot (rest) dot dot dash (rest) dash dot.
R.
U.
N.
I pressed my fists into my ... | “Run, Run, Run, Run. That’s the message the rain is sending to everyone.” I made my point to the empty lounge chair beside me, staring out at the rain, watching it splash against my window, coating it in various little droplets of water. “I don’t get it, it can’t be a coincidence. It’s happening at regular intervals. I... | 2021-09-28T08:52:44 | 2021-09-28T08:46:07 | 343 | 81 |
[WP] The longer you charge an attack, the more powerful it becomes. SWAT charges a punch for 30 seconds to break down a door. You’ve been charging for the last three days. | Today’s the day, Carl is coming over... you’ve been stood at the door for 3 days now just charging, waiting for him to arrive. He called you up and made the plans; it’s going to be radical.
The time draws ever closer; you know he’s doing the same thing. Excitement builds in the pit of your stomach as the clock strike... | Celeste gripped her arms. Her hands glowing like a magnesium flare. She had been charging her attacks for three days. The relentless banging on her door had stopped long ago when her brother, Kai gave up on her.
It felt like space-time was warping around her. She could see objects bending and warping; the hum of elect... | 2018-10-02T17:03:01 | 2018-10-02T14:09:41 | 514 | 53 |
[WP] Super heroes are assigned a handler to assist them with their duties. Handlers don't have powers, but assist the hero by gathering information about their opponents, provide tactical support, and more. If the hero turns evil, the handler is to kill the hero. You are a very skilled handler. | Frank looked up at the Bureau. Marble steps, and Corinthian columns. He hated the pomp of it all, the lengths that the Bureau was willing to go to in order to make themselves look strong and dependable. Nothing like Greek architecture to give an institution the air of authority, but Frank knew from the one time he was ... | I pinged into the alleyway adjacent to the pizza shop. The little frisson of energy caused my backpack to dig into the small of my back as usual. The metallic tang of stale urine greeted me and I winced as my boots were soaked through with the noxious liquid. As I got closer to the pizza shop, the tang of ozone told... | 2021-02-08T10:30:44 | 2021-02-08T09:54:50 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] "So this is Hell, eh?" You say to Lucifer. "Bring on the torture, then!" He looks surprised. "Torture? You broke every single one of God's rules. He HATES you. You and I are going to get along just fine. Now, come on in..." | Lucifer showed me around the place, "Here's the pool, the bar's over there," he pointed to the corner. "Up here is the movie theatre, and this is your room." He opened a door to show a room filled with thousands of other people, "I hope you don't mind a lot of roommates; you're grouped by interests." "Well what do we a... | Hell was not the jumble of swirling arcs and endless pillars of fire I'd in mind. The agonizing screams and yelps, however, were as real as I'd imagined them. Lucifer, however, had divided his kingdom quite well, leaving the Lands of Torture far away from Ienertar, the capital, where we were right now.
Ienertar was a ... | 2018-07-24T17:39:15 | 2018-07-24T13:52:42 | 4,460 | 770 |
[WP] The year is 2779, and there are 2 men and 1 woman left on the face of the Earth.
The two men are in a standoff, guns pointed at each other's face, with the woman present. Write from whichever perspective you please. | I watched both of them as they stared each other down, sweat oozing out of them as they tried to cow the other person into giving up. Both men were filthy, their clothes in rags, but both of them wanted the prize: a moist vagina. It sounds crass, really it does, but that was basically what the fight was over.
They ha... | Chuck cleared his throat, his eyes meandering up what appeared to be a woman’s badly sunburnt legs a few yards away. Her shorts were in tatters, their bottoms frayed and uneven like spools of unwound yarn. Her t-shirt, clearly taken from someone much larger than she, hung off her skeletal frame like an old, hole-filled... | 2015-07-01T08:05:01 | 2015-07-01T08:01:44 | 242 | 12 |
[WP] You have an interesting ability, you can teleport, but only when no one is looking. One night you get hungry so you attempt to teleport downstairs for a snack. You attempt to teleport but realize, you can't.
Original post by Alberto9324 | When he first got this ability, he thought he would save people. Be a hero. Like in the comics.
Instead of teleporting for a cookie. But he was hungry. And he wanted it.
He looked around and then sighed. His power only worked when no one was around. And of course no one was around. He was alone. In bed. Lying down, ... | It had never really been anything "special," per se. She had always just arrived where she wanted as soon as she thought of it, provided no one was at her starting location. It had come in handy over the years, but she still refused to think of it as anything other than a mild quirk. Some people were double jointed, so... | 2018-09-11T21:25:51 | 2018-09-11T21:16:14 | 277 | 17 |
[WP]: As standard protocol, each new, intelligent alien life is judged not by what they say they are, but by an evaluation from a representative of their servants or slave species. Fascinatingly, the fate of humanity lands on the opinion of a little dog named Lucy. | Samantha lead Lucy towards the grey humanoid creature. Lucy walked very close to Samantha, cautiously with her head and tail low. Lucy was a beautiful Golden Retriever that Samantha had rescued from a shelter. They stopped right in front of the 9 feet tall alien. Samantha bent down to Lucy and Lucy instinctively sat do... | They spilled out into the streets, signs, shouting, looting, burning, anger being demonstrated by thousands of people demanding that their fate not rest on the small brown creature.
The alien things were appalled and prepared for unspeakable horror to be shown. The rattling voice asked that tiny dog, “Why do you plead... | 2018-10-02T08:40:42 | 2018-10-02T07:48:13 | 347 | 156 |
[WP] On every planet, there is one being who is a living recorder for everything that happens. During the yearly recorder meeting, one always comes in emotionally drained. “Look. It’s the guy that has earth” | I am the Recorder of Venus. This is a cushy job. Most of ours are cushy jobs, really, since there isn't life on most planets. My cousin, who records everything that happens on Mars, he had a *real* crazy time a few billion years ago, but ever since then, it's all been one-paragraph summaries about the lives of microbes... | It was the yearly recorder meeting, when the party was already going.
"Earth's watcher is still missing, right?"
The Great Beast's planet watcher said.
"Yeah, as usually he's late. No magic, no autonomous machine civilisation, no galactic civilisation, yet the humans of Earth can give him so much to do."
Kepler... | 2021-08-13T07:48:15 | 2021-08-13T07:47:15 | 181 | 59 |
[WP] "A Writing Prompt? You want a Writing Prompt? God damn it, man! I'm not made of Writing Prompts! Now get out of my office!" | "A Writing Prompt? You want a Writing Prompt? God damn it, man! I'm not made of Writing Prompts! Now get out of my office!"
"Come on, Professor Redd! There must be something swimming around that brain of yours."
"No. I've given you all I can. It's time for you to come up with your own ideas."
"M-my own ideas? No.... | Heck stormed away, shaking his head with impotent frustration. He was so sick of that guy. Just because he had a little placard with his name on it and a 5000 square foot office, he thought he could disdain writing prompts. Hmph!!
Heck sat down on his shitty little office chair in his shitty little office cubicle in f... | 2022-01-31T10:40:19 | 2022-01-31T10:17:13 | 19 | 12 |
[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... | Major Meridith: we attack the Emus.
Dm: Alright, that will be your Lewis guns, thats going to be your Dex Mods, Plus your proficiency modifiers. Roll to hit.
Major Meridith: ... 1, plus my mods thats a total of 7.
Dm: the emus dodge your gun fire, they taunt you. They run south beyond your sight.
Major Meridith: we... | 2018-05-29T09:31:25 | 2018-05-29T09:12:26 | 210 | 51 |
[WP] Your phone is the best wingman (playing music at the right time, calling people, etc.) and keeps trying to set you up with this one person. It's starting to get creative. | The screen lights up with a message. “Are you aware that your Google searches are synced?” it says. I’ve set it up so that the lock screen doesn’t show the content of messages, just basic notifications. That didn’t seem to stop it. I ignore it and keep typing. How to reset an iPhone. The results page is blank, except o... | "Come here often?"
"Not anymore."
Jacob sighed. He had been striking out big-time with the ladies! His usual pick-up lines just didn't seem to have the same effect. What did he have to do to get a number at this bar?
"Pardon me - are you Jacob?"
He turned to the beautiful woman standing next to him, looking at him ... | 2017-04-26T09:41:17 | 2017-04-26T09:37:14 | 237 | 20 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | "I don't get it, how? How did you do it" the warden said as he signed the release form.
"That's the thing, I didn't do anything, you guys did with your stipulations and what not" I said grinning at the warden.
If my requested last meal wasn't prepared and ready for me within a year, I'd be a free man is what they had... | It's been twenty years and I've seen some doozies in my time as "new era" executioner. Desperate people requesting desperate last meals, all kinds of crazy things. And the hell of it was, they were granted! You ever seen an alien? Guy out in Nevada wanted alien stuffed acorn squash with a balsamic reduction. What the h... | 2022-07-17T20:01:08 | 2022-07-17T19:51:32 | 129 | 25 |
[WP] A soldier on the front dies in the middle of writing a letter home. It is finished and sent by the man who killed him. | Mom,
Don't have too much time, we move out in 10.
Long time no see. Haven't been able to write back, they've been keeping us on our feet for the last few weeks. Tell the goobers their uncle has permission to beat them if they get into the cabinets again. Tell Heather that the fish tank needs cleaned more ... | Dear Mom,
I love you and I miss you dearly. I want to be home. I don't want to be here anymore. It is unspeakably terrifying in this trench. We are shelled at random times of the day. There is never any peace. We can never be at ease.
There is 400 meters between us and the enemy, and we are at a stand still. Neithe... | 2015-02-03T15:25:05 | 2015-02-03T13:25:34 | 113 | 67 |
[WP] You made a Deal with the Devil to be the greatest musician in the world. Thing is you haven’t gotten any *better*, but everyone reacts to your inept scratchings as if they are the greatest symphony ever devised, showering you with wealth and adoration. It’s *really* getting embarrassing | All religion is made out of music, and that’s how he would get him.
Think about it. Hymns, psalms, mantras, nasheeds. Modern poetry, silent poetry, is a historical aberration: in any other culture poetry is song, melody is always there. Plato defined music as made of three components: melody, rhythm, and word. Music ... | I never really thought I'd get this far. All those lonely nights playing my keyboard at 3AM and uploading short clippets online never really did much for me outside of a couple friends obligated support and a few likes. But now all of a sudden I'm monetized on everything. People actually like my stupid clips. I've sinc... | 2019-12-02T04:33:46 | 2019-12-02T04:02:50 | 19 | 11 |
[WP]Just because one of your chicken eggs hatched a fire breathing dragon people think you’re evil. But you’re still just a regular farmer trying to make a living while dealing with an overprotective dragon, heroes that want to kill you and fanatics who want to worship you as the new Demon Lord. | A goat could birth a chimera, a serpent’s tail, a lion’s head, and a goat’s body. A basilisk was born from the egg of a serpent reared by a chicken. The mythics could be born anywhere in the world and from surprisingly humbling origins. Everyone knew it, and everyone had heard the stories.
Kellan Haszler certainly had... | When an owl is on the hunt, it's almost impossible to hear. It glides through the darkness like it is part of the night itself. If you see one, the lack of sound is jarring, like something is broken with the world or your ears. It’s just incredibly good at its job.
In my, albeit limited experience, dragons are not in ... | 2021-03-21T13:57:51 | 2021-03-21T13:45:10 | 508 | 144 |
[WP] Something with a happy ending. Anything at all.
[removed] | I imagine many of us will spend the day shaking our heads in disbelief at this morning’s news. With that in mind, I’d like to share a small vignette from my 15-hour day working as a Cook County (IL) Election Judge yesterday in my town.
The clock hits 7pm and the Civic Center is empty, no one waiting to vote…kismet for... |
As the dawn’s light lanced out through the sky she knew it was finally over.
All night the battle had raged. She had fought the demon without pause or pity. She fought until her limbs were sore, her mind was exhausted and her breath barely came.
It was a fight for her life, and she would give no quarter to this de... | 2016-11-09T07:56:08 | 2016-11-09T07:39:21 | 35 | 15 |
[WP] Your name is Dave. People keep trying to call you other things, like "The Scourge of Seven Worlds," or "The Dread One," or "The Fifth Horseman." It's all very annoying. You just want to be called "Dave." | Davenkothet Keelzedar Vargetorix, he whose heart devours hope and whose whispers cower gods, had not always been called Davenkothet Keelzedar Vargetorix.
His mother, Ketra Davidson, a simple yet educated barista who enjoyed romance novels, Victorian history, knitting, and gore-core movies from the 1970s, had dubbed hi... | I pushed open the door to the tavern and walked in, shaking the rain off of my coat. The noises of the common-room rolled over me; glasses clinking, cloths rustling and the slow steady hum of conversation. Then they began to notice. Silence spread out, like ripples in a pond as the patrons of *The Last Stand* realized... | 2020-06-11T21:24:10 | 2020-06-11T21:23:14 | 151 | 46 |
[WP] Nuclear Weapons don't actually exist. You are to brief the president-elect on this fact.
Nuclear Weapons don't actually exist. The WWII bombing of Japan was a cover up. You are to brief the president-elect on this fact. Good luck! | "**Bullshit!**"
"I assure you, Mr. President, I'm being entirely-"
"That's *bullshit*, Jack, and you know it! My father was posted at Los Alamos, for Chrissakes! My grandather could watch the mushroom clouds from his goddamn *porch*!"
I sighed. I knew this was going to be difficult.
"Okay, sir. *Okay*. There is suc... | "John. Five minutes." Eddy says from the door.
Eddy's been secret service since I stepped foot in the white house nine years ago. Granted that time I came in via the tunnels and the small rail system. Like a child's train at a park. This time I came through the front door.
I can hear the president-elect chatting away... | 2015-03-18T18:49:21 | 2015-03-18T18:49:07 | 915 | 114 |
[WP] On your deathbed, the Grim Reaper himself comes to pay you a visit. You expect him to collect your soul, until he asks where and how you have hidden it. | My breath wheezes, my chest can hardly inflate. The mask over my mouth turned a misty gray with my faint gasps. The reaper hovered over me; they lacked a form, simply a shadow that took up a corner of the hospital room. I attempt to lick my dried lips to no avail. No moisture would develop. The reaper spoke to me, in a... | I slept there in my hospital bed. Suddenly I was awoken by somebody crashing into a table. I opened my eyes and there stood a girl, her face as pale as a ghost with the darkest hair I had ever seen.It felt like somebody had taken the darkest sky and put it in her hair.
She asked me,“Where is it".
I didn't know who sh... | 2020-04-23T04:00:53 | 2020-04-23T02:34:30 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] One morning everyone in the world wakes up in their 18-year old body, memories intact. Society tries to continue as normal despite the change, but a world full of energetic adolescents certainly has its quirks. | I looked over at my sister- nine years younger than me, and yet somehow the same age all of a sudden. Her head was in her hands, the air of defeat around her almost visible.
Next to her a tall, handsome boy slept peacefully on his back.
I heard her heave a deep sigh, and looked over as she ran her hands over her t... | Dandy Town, unlike its name, is a town far from perfection. In fact this little hamlet or village is a hidden gem I found while on one of my numerous trips to my Step Father’s bakery for breakfast.
I always had a penchant for funny things, but this town was a whole new definition of eccentricity and silliness. Every c... | 2020-11-02T10:49:46 | 2020-11-02T09:45:20 | 105 | 15 |
[WP] Write a story about something you don't understand. Do NO research. Make everything up as you go.
**Possible subjects:**
*Fly-Fishing
*Open-Heart Surgery
*Supply-Management in the Canadian Dairy Industry
*Making Hollywood Movies
*Guidance Counselling for High School Students
*Storm Chasing
*Electrical Rep... | Storm chasing is a fascinating hobby. Storms are known to move quickly, so the chasers need to, well, chase the storms away from populated areas before they can cause damage. Often chasers will corner the storm into a field, lake, or other underpopulated area. If necessary, they will chase storms out into the ocean, bu... | "Okay bob, hold my scalpel while I squeeze the heart"
"Right, now I just need you to connect those two tubes while I hold it like this"
"Okay...
Yes! done!"
"Wait, why is my computer making that weird beeping noise?"
"OH MY GOD!!! HE'S GONNA DIE! GET THE DEFIBRILLATOR!!"
*zzzzZAP!*
"Oops, I think we kille... | 2016-02-01T21:44:49 | 2016-02-01T21:35:35 | 80 | 11 |
[WP] A group of adventurers just had one of their members replaced by a doppelganger. The kicker? The rest of the group knows what happened, but pretends to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | "So, we're all agreed that we just pretend that the doppelganger is Urgoth?" Jung asked his companions with his wooly grey eyebrows raised in question.
They were a semi-pro/semi-famous adventuring party known as the Madcaps consisting of five aspiring mercenary heroes. There was Jung the Mystic; logical human wizard ... | I'm one of the doppelgangers that live in the Amazon forest. Our specialty has always been infiltrating groups who want to harm the spirits of forest and bring them to the elders.
I absolutely don't know anything about the guy whose place I'm taking. The spirits of the forest told me to infiltrate their group so I did... | 2022-01-09T10:26:50 | 2022-01-09T10:19:32 | 926 | 144 |
[WP] A dyslexic child accidentally sends his Christmas letter to Satan. Satan is touched by this gesture and decides to write back. | Dear Timothy.
I've gotten the list of things you've asked for.
I assure you I am very capable of bringing your dog back. Just as well, I can stop the teasing and jeering of your elder sister.
I was informed as to what a "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle" is, and I believe I can acquire that as well.
However, I'm not cert... | Dear Timmy,
Of course you can have a puppy! I have a little girl right here with me who will love you and be your friend. But puppies don't travel well by mail so I'll have to deliver her in person. Instead of leaving out cookies for me, please just light a candle at midnight and call my name!
Season's Greetings,
Lu... | 2018-10-28T10:04:46 | 2018-10-28T09:59:31 | 444 | 123 |
[WP] You are an archaeologist and have just dug up a dinosaur. That's because you've dug up an entire museum.
Since I wasn't all that clear in the prompt, here's a drunk attempt at explaining it:
Dinosaurs get wiped out, humanity digs them up. Humanity gets wiped out, someone/something else digs them up.
Sorry for... | John, a world-renowned archaeologist, known for his work in what was known as the "Modern Era" or the early 2000's, stopped digging immediately. He had hit something that was surely not dirt or rock.
After further, meticulous sweeping of dirt away from the object, John noted that he had encountered a bone, larger tha... | #Behemoths#
Aviana couldn't keep her eyes from wandering. They shot from one sight to the next and back, like a butterfly flitting from flower to flower. She felt like her breath was caught in her chest, frightened into hiding by the shear scope of what she was seeing.
In the Skills where her party was from, their w... | 2016-04-15T10:10:46 | 2016-04-15T07:31:03 | 34 | 18 |
[WP] “Forgive me Father, for I have sinned. It has been four hundred and fifty years since my last confession.” | 20 September 2017
“En el nombre del Padre, y del Hijo, y del Espíritu Santo. Forgive me Father, for I have sinned. It has been four hundred and fifty years since my last confession.”
Luz knelt in front of the screen that separated her from the priest. The wooden kneeler was hard. It hurt her knees. These old historic... | The full moon shone bright, half obscured by dark clouds. A cool autumn breeze wafted through the streets. Draco’s shoes crunched on gravel and dry leaves, he stopped and looked up at a large cross on top of a building.
Entering the church his footsteps echoed on the marble floor. An old woman, looking down on her ... | 2017-09-20T08:11:43 | 2017-09-20T08:09:57 | 156 | 22 |
[WP] The most beautiful woman you've ever seen walks into the room. Describe her. | Her hair was black, as black as the stars, and her eyes the same. Her face seemed featureless, but all round astounding, maybe. Her skin was smooth, and light, or dark, somewhere between Caucasian and African American... maybe Native American. Either way, she was beautiful. I think.
I hate being blind... | The stench of cigarettes and alcohol draped Mark like a heavy robe. Sitting back on the couch, Mark listened idly to the sounds of the empty house. His hair was greasy, his face, rough, and the bags under his eyes sank deep into his face.
The clock struck 2:00 a.m. as Mark got up and approached the living room's T.V.
... | 2015-04-27T00:17:07 | 2015-04-26T22:19:02 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] when you were a kid, you had an imaginary friend, Lewis; That was 20 or so years ago. Yesterday your child came into your room in the middle of the night, and said "Lewis wants to know why you don't play with him anymore" | "What are you talking about... what time is it?"
I reach for the night stand to turn on a light, fumbling around in the darkness, a thud echoes across the room.
"Fuck that was my phone" I exclaim in aggravation but enjoying the slight adrenaline kick that wakes me up a bit more.
"Dad we aren't supposed to use those ... | I was cooking dinner while my son, Toby was playing in the open dining room with his new train set. As dinner was almost ready, I walk towards the dining table to move his toys and set the table. I noticed Toby was staring at me, giving me that look children give when they want to ask a question but are scared of our r... | 2017-11-12T20:23:38 | 2017-11-12T17:28:43 | 29 | 21 |
[WP] People lose the ability to deny requests. They must either a) fulfill them or b) ask someone else to do it. There are volunteers who take bad requests in exchange for compensation or exemption from law. Write about the life of a volunteer. | Every starting volunteer gets a manual on "how to be a volunteer without dying" it had everything in it. The elephant in the room of course that the book mainly covers is how to handle being told phrases like "die" or "kill yourself" or "kill someone else". The book lists a different solution to each problem. For "die"... | It hadn’t always been this difficult. At first, when we still had our denial at least somewhat active, people knew on some level what could reasonably be asked for from someone. Many still have this understanding, but not because they have the ability to deny, but because they know the feeling of fear associated with b... | 2016-04-03T14:11:44 | 2016-04-03T11:52:19 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] A comedian must convince a court that a joke he told was funny. | "There will be ORDER!" the judge's voice crashed over the courtroom at the most recent outbreak. "Now then, after that last piece of evidence, I am completely unconvinced of not only your sincerity, but your continued innocence. Without the puppet shows, can you explain to this court how one of the most recycled jokes... | "Your honor," the rotund lawyer said, "we have one additional piece of evidence."
This was it. This was the point of no return. Even if Daryl - comedian by trade, and current subject of the most absurd trial in the history of the legal system - managed to avoid incarceration, it would be unlikely that he could return ... | 2015-03-30T10:59:02 | 2015-03-30T10:45:51 | 33 | 12 |
[WP] "Captain... the human didn't put on it's anti-warp gear before we jumped." "Sad to hear, prepare the coffin and jettison it." "No, sir. The human... nothing's happened to it. It didn't go insane from seeing infinity in the stars." | The crew stared at their newest crew member. It was risky taking a human on board when the species was so new to the universe.
“You were instructed to wear your anti-warp gear,” Second admonished.
“Yeah, I tried but I didn’t really fit. I think I’m supposed to have tentacles,” Bradford said.
“You saw the infinity ... | "Ah, Captain? Sir? You wanted to see me?"
"Yes. It's about ..."
"The warp. Yes, I heard a few of the other ... crewmembers? Is that the right term? I heard them talking."
"You're quite right. Here you are, a human with no military or any form of applicable training, achieving what other races have striven to accompl... | 2020-07-14T02:58:11 | 2020-07-14T00:57:05 | 381 | 115 |
[WP] A god trapped in an empty plane, you can create anything you can imagine, even life. But everything you make is destroyed at the end of each day, the plane made barren once again. | At first, my creations felt hollow to me. Where is the beauty, I thought, in something that is gone so quickly? Whatever I can make, it is here, but it cannot progress on its own. I must be there to renew it when it is inevitably destroyed. To put everything back to the way it was a moment before it collapsed, just to ... | The nearer peaks were not capped with snow, but you could make out the old firewatch towers, and the donkey trails winding their patient ways to the peaks. The shadows under the mountains formed and lengthened as they walked, and soon the trail was painted in the shadows of the redwoods and they stopped in a clearin... | 2022-04-22T21:32:00 | 2022-04-22T20:57:03 | 142 | 27 |
[WP]: Your little crime family ran a restaurant as a money laundering front. However, the place got so popular, you decided to quit the crime and just run the place straight. Now, a new crime organisation is trying to inch into town, on your turf. It's time to get back to business. | Beads of sweat rolled down Hector's forehead, threatening to sting his eyes as they collected on his bushy eyebrows; he dabbed his face with the hand-towel he kept slung on his apron for that specific purpose, calling out merrily to his young employees on the other side of the service counter.
"Two large Hawaiian and... | Lord forgive me but it’s time to go back to the old me, said Mario Tagliatelle, proprietor of Mario’s Fifth Street Pizza and my third-favorite uncle.
I was down on my knees beneath a wobbly table, wedging a folded napkin beneath the leg responsible for the wobbling.
I’m sorry, what? I said.
I tried to stand up and b... | 2019-04-17T09:03:50 | 2019-04-17T08:41:40 | 446 | 85 |
[WP] You had a late night and slept in late too. As you wake up and look at your phone to check the time, you see an alert: “Missile impact approximated at 12:47 PM. Evacuate the city as soon as possible.” It’s 3:15 PM. | I hear a sharp bang somewhere deep in my apartment and jerk awake. I grab my phone to check the time, it feels later than it should. An emergency alert glows prominently on my screen, swallowing everything else.
“Missile impact approximated at 12:47 PM. Evacuate the city as soon as possible.”
My eyes dart from the ... | Well, that's odd. I just wanted to drink my god damn Smirnoff and read Manga. Welp. I guess I'm going to die. I expected it to be more.. whats the word.. Exciting? Like throwing myself into a volcano to save my loved ones, ya know, something like that? Well, I guess I should go look at the outside for the last time. I ... | 2020-02-03T07:53:08 | 2020-02-03T06:23:49 | 72 | 12 |
[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... | To my best friend.
I used to write to you all the time in the early days. Perhaps it was selfish of me, to use you as an outlet for my emotions. I haven't written to you in such a while, and I'm sorry. Life got in the way, I guess. I owe you this last one.
I don't know how, but slowly things changed. They got better, a... | Hey cous,
It's been what 2 years now? Almost 3? Ahaha. I hope you're happy where ever you ended up. I miss you and the family misses you. I wish you could see how big the kids have gotten. Not to brag or anything but I'm the favorite uncle, ahaha. Though... I don't think I could top how much love and genuine affection... | 2015-12-05T13:54:55 | 2015-12-05T13:45:57 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | The nameless waif walked forward onto the sand of the court floor, the shackles that bound her hand and foot dragging on the bloodied floor.
She tilted her head to look up at the arbiters seated so high above her, her ragged black hair falling back from her face to reveal the gaunt lines of her face - but no fear. No... | The line had been excruciatingly long, almost unbearably so. Prisoner number after prisoner number was called, each time slowly getting closer to the one that I held. We were given numbers at the start, much like we were just waiting in line at the DMV or at the doctor's office. If only this was as nice of a scenario. ... | 2021-06-24T05:07:39 | 2021-06-24T03:42:17 | 152 | 66 |
[WP] It is said that the cursed princess can only be awoken by true love's kiss. To wake her up, the king has had princes from all over the world come to kiss her to no avail. One day, a peasant boy walks up to the sleeping princess and splashes her with cold water to wake her up. It actually works. | "Plain water." The peasant laughed as the princess stirred from her sleep. "Had no one in this kingdom thought of it?"
"Of course we had." A voice from behind the boy said making him flinch. It was the king's. "So tell me, how is it that your 'plain water' broke the sleep?"
"Perhaps the witch lied." The boy said lazi... | The beautiful prince stepped back with a solemn loneliness lingering on his lips. The maiden princess remained sleeping.
"Stand back, boy. What are you doing?!" One of the prince's guards attempted to stop a young paige from interfering. He was holding a bucket.
"My nan always got me to wake up like this!" Before any... | 2022-08-07T06:14:52 | 2022-08-07T05:47:16 | 470 | 310 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | Reports come in today that North Korean president Kim Jong Un has launched a nuclear weapon in response to the sanctions imposed by the US and China. However, North Korean scientists miscalculated the trajectory of the missile leading it to land in Raqqa, Syria. An upcoming UN meeting of World Leaders will decide if No... | "Commander, we have it. We've taken the facility that houses ten - ten! - nuclear missiles capable of reaching the United States! Can you believe it? Ten! With the fifteen suitcase nukes we've seized in the last three years since 2020, we can finally take the battle to them!"
"Yes, yes....this will show the world at ... | 2016-01-29T06:09:39 | 2016-01-29T04:24:26 | 277 | 19 |
[WP] 1,000 years after the battle of Helm's Deep, the orcs have tracked down the elves in the undying lands. Calling in a favour with their allies the men, the elves expect an army of 10,000. Instead they get 8 marines with MASERs, rail guns and anti-matter grenade launchers. | Agandauer the Accurate responded in that cool calm voice that all Land of Shadow watchtower scouts aspired to.
"I've got you at three quarters of a hundred lár per hour across the ground"
With the High Elves' amulet of rumificatus active, Agandauer could communicate directly with anyone within range. So, too could ... | "how you doing chum?"
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Logbook of the battle engineer Clem K. Harvard, 05-10-2935 AD. 0600 AM.
​
SO! just finished my shift, we're well underway with the ambush setup. the orks are marching out in the open, upstream, about 10 miles from our location. Dukes, Hicus, Max and Laos have placed th... | 2018-12-03T06:38:00 | 2018-12-03T06:24:07 | 35 | 16 |
[WP] In the near future a company holding the only patent to a point-to-point teleportation system in widespread use is exposed as a fraud and the truth is more horrible than anyone expected it to be. | It was too good to be true. I know that now, and I guess I knew it back then, but... almost every scientific theory in history has eventually been disproven. Almost everything we've ever known has turned out to be wrong. So what says Einstein was the one who finally got it right? Why couldn't he be wrong, too? Relativi... | "You going to hold on to your lunch?"
"You know damn well that I don't eat before a jump," Todd said with a toothy-smile to the engineer, Jerry. Another jump meant another $50k in his pocket, and he was happy to do just that. Jerry stood at the control panel, a small stand that looked like a music director's stand, ex... | 2014-08-25T10:16:51 | 2014-08-25T09:56:59 | 372 | 41 |
[WP] You're Woody and you've just been "adopted" by a new family. This person has a lot of toy collections but by far his Warhammer 40K collection is the strangest and it's making Buzz Lightyear nervous. | [disclaimer, never played 40k, but adore the setting from crossovers and 1d4chan wiki]
*In the grim briefcase of the Games Workshop, there is only War...*
Woody was, to put it bluntly, excited. Andy had held him again, an old man now, and placed him in a child's room.
Andy's... Grandchild, maybe?
"Ere boyoz, what h... | Buzz was first to pop his head over the edge of the cardboard box, peering through the murky darkness of the box and into their new room.
"Buzz?" Woody broke the silence, "Buzz, what d'you see?"
"We... shouldn't go out there." Buzz stepped off the books they'd piled up to get to the edge of the box. Even under the sh... | 2017-01-17T02:25:05 | 2017-01-17T00:54:11 | 36 | 19 |
[WP] You try human flesh for the first time. It tastes familiar | The ship pulled into harbor and I was grateful to be back on land. It had been a treacherous 6 months at sea and we had nearly died but we made it home.
As I disembarked I was starving. I passed by a pub and there was a sign stating they had fresh human on special. Excited I entered the pub, sat down and ordered ... | He didn't think he would be able to do it. He had loved Jessica so much, they were supposed to be getting married this July for fucks sake and now he was staring down at her mangled, half-frozen corpse - his camping knife slowly working through the flesh around her thighs. Those same thighs that he had caressed cautiou... | 2015-09-21T16:24:05 | 2015-09-21T16:12:20 | 29 | 11 |
[WP] Instead of a modern adaptation of a myth, write a mythic adaptation of a modern story. | Once upon a time, there was a young maid named Rebecca, fourteen summers of age and black of hair. Ever since she could recall, she had wanted to be a singer, as prolific as the great Adella, as famous as Taylor of Swiftelsson, as breathtaking as the ravishing Beyoncella.
So one morn, she had a stroke of inspiration.... | Once upon a time, there was a man who owned a tavern with his sister. Times had been bad in the city where he lived, so he had decided to come home and live closer to his mother, who was very ill. With him, he brought the fairest princess in all the land. She had long golden hair and a radiant face, with a smile that c... | 2015-06-10T16:13:15 | 2015-06-10T06:53:17 | 24 | 16 |
[WP] The world of Avatar is real, only there are not 4 elements, there are 118. For every element on the periodic table there is a group of benders. You are one of them. | Saafa sucked down the sweet coffee he'd only just poured himself. Humming machines and shuffling feet and sterile smells surrounded him, a hospital as modern as any. Saafa paid no mind to patients or nurses as they passed, instead his eyes kept steady on the NOBL monitors. A pumped, flowing gas stream piped through eve... | "Hello everyone," I said, shifting uncomfortably in my chair. "My name is Thomas, and I don't know my element."
"Hello Thomas," the group chorused. I sighed and stared out at the circle of chairs wrought in an instant by an ironbender.
"It's... Hard for me sometimes," I said, looking away and running my fingers thro... | 2019-09-19T10:08:25 | 2019-09-19T08:41:14 | 99 | 49 |
[WP] You are a Death-Salesman. You sell death to immortals who are tired of living. Usually, this entails finding that one blessed bullet, or that one specific flower that is this immortal's weakness. However, your most recent client is an extremely difficult case. | "So I'm going to what now?" I ask.
I stare at my client. An old man, who was sitting down on the chair facing against me.
"You heard me. I want you to kill me." The old man said.
Now this was a tricky situation for me. This old man was said to have **NO** weaknesses at all. An immortal in every sense. No magic spell... | ‘So let me get this straight. You want me to find a way to kill you...? You, of all people?’ I say, almost dumbfounded.
My client droned on over the phone, but I was already zoning out and thinking about how to kill the unkillable. Zorifa was a lifelong friend of mine (and considering I myself was immortal, that was ... | 2019-09-24T17:56:42 | 2019-09-24T14:51:34 | 1,290 | 139 |
[WP] You're the last person on earth - but thank god Pokemon Go still functions! You amuse yourself by catching Pokemon as you travel so as to not feel so isolated and alone. One day, on your screen, you see in the distance that someone has set up a lure.
Courtesy of corvidaedream on Tumblr | I wasn't sure why the servers were still up and working. I knew they shouldn't be, but I didn't want to question it too much, Pokemon Go was the one thing keeping me sane through this, reminding me that there was a time when I was not the only person left out here. If I questioned it too deeply, the servers might rea... | **Day 365**
A whole year since everybody on this planet disappeared. Everybody...except me, that is. At first I thought I was in a dream, everything was just so surreal. I was happily catching my eighth Pidgey for the day when everything turned silent, as if the world had decided to shut down. Out of everything that c... | 2016-09-05T10:42:44 | 2016-09-05T06:58:59 | 2,026 | 434 |
[WP] Tell a story that appears to be horror but shifts to a completely different genre after reading the final sentence. | She was coming. I could hear her breathing, the quiet foot steps.
She thought I didn't know. She thought I couldn't hear her, her cries in the night, the way she would stare at me when I was alone in the house.
And now the hunt was on. It was time. Time to end this game. She was coming. She was coming and I had to be... | "Whatever you do, *don't split up*," Mark said, shining his flashlight over the faces of his friends.
Marley's broken both of her legs and Jennifer had gone missing, but they couldn't turn back. Something was out there hunting them and they needed to find help... or they'd never see daylight again.
"Bro, help me lif... | 2015-08-30T21:57:17 | 2015-08-30T21:53:59 | 118 | 11 |
[WP] Prison terms of "life plus" take on new meaning after transfer of consciousness to computer databanks leads to functional immortality. A moral and ethical outcry erupts after the first case in which an individual is sentenced to prison for one hundred thousand years. | Benjamin Oppenheimer was 9 years old when a chimp's consciousness was uploaded to a computer for the first time. Its name was René, named after the French Renaissance philosopher René Descartes most famous for the phrase "I think, therefore I am". René's neurochemical brain patterns were digitalized and transferred to ... | It's been years since I was transferred to this useless hulk of metal and wires. Even more since I assassinated one of the president. All I do is sit there and listen to my fans spinning. Every now and then a guard feels bad, and loads media into my hard drive. Don't need them. I'm supposed to be running calculations f... | 2016-01-09T06:52:31 | 2016-01-09T03:29:30 | 46 | 12 |
[WP] A mentor, who is used to teaching poorly behaved, bratty and insecure teenagers how to be a proper hero, faces their biggest challenge yet. Teaching a mature, well-mannered and mentally stable teenager. | At first, the old hag was glad that, for the first time, her newest pupil would be a well mannered boy. He was young, so when she heard the news that a "kid" was coming, she immediately rolled her eyes and went to meditate. In all her years of life, she dealt with bratty kids, so she expected a twelve year old in his e... | #WalkMan & Dr. Doomsday
I stared at the unconscious man through the bars and super suppression field of his cell. He was the only occupant in the super powered wing of the holding cells at the Fortress of Doomitude, and nobody was even sure what his powers were. All we knew about the man was the name Kurt, his sel... | 2022-08-17T10:22:48 | 2022-08-17T07:17:43 | 75 | 52 |
[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. | "We've finally done it comrades! Welcome to the birth of the Sixteenth Reich, this time, the German Empire will last for a thousand years!" shouted the Emperor.
The men and women all raised their glasses in unison, celebrating their long awaited victory against the Allies. It had taken them several hundred years and s... | "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,... | 2017-08-18T05:26:15 | 2017-08-18T05:12:07 | 76 | 29 |
[WP] Among Alien species humans are famous for prefering pacifism but being the most dangerous species when they are forced to fight.
EDIT:WOW THIS EXPLODED GUYS MY FIRST MAJOR PROMPT. | ***Foreword:*** The following is a quick review of the short Human/Hrec'tin War. At the time of the conflict, Humanity had devoted 99% of it's military budget towards Research, and terraforming projects. Naval forces were considered 'Defensive only', and only had experience fighting rare Insurrectionist ships/Pirates. ... | From the logs of Qi-Sil, Xion Imperial Chronicler
 
The humans joined the Galactic Federation around 6700 standard years ago. They were at the time a weak and unimposing presence, much like the Federation was. But while the Federation may arguably still be nothing more than a façade, the same cannot be said ... | 2016-03-13T18:06:10 | 2016-03-13T17:09:28 | 98 | 56 |
[WP] Upon turning 18, all humans must spend one year as their spirit animal, to gain a better appreciation for the world and what they have. They awake on the morning of their 18th birthday as said animal, in its natural habitat. You wake up on your 18th birthday completely human.
Edit: Thanks so much for the gold! Th... | My best friend is an owl.
See, the day you turn eighteen, you spend a year as your spirit animal. The creature you represent most - the one that represents you the most.
John, he's a dog. He's happy, friendly, and loyal. Harper, she's a crow. She's clever and witty. Kate, she's a cat. She claws me up every time she c... | Jake woke up in the forest as a tiger, with birds peacefully chirping. He told me he never felt so proud and calm. Cathie woke up as a cat, calmly being stroked by her master, that year was so peaceful for her, it completely changed her character.
On our 18th birthday, we spend an entire year as our spirit animal in ... | 2019-05-05T22:58:10 | 2019-05-05T22:19:44 | 2,562 | 1,146 |
[WP] Each year mankind hibernates during winter. This year you're one of the chosen watchers that stays awake during the long night. | **Excess.**
Humans were prone to it. In 2017, at least three in ten were known to have some sort of substance addiction. By 2050, it was eight in ten. America had fought the war on drugs, and failed. Not only because of the racial targeting it promoted, or because of the commitment to punishment over treatment - No, t... | "I'll see you on the other side, love," I whisper, kissing the corner of her lips.
"Are you sure you won't get lonely, Qora?" she asks, cupping my cheek.
"I'll be fine, Cienne," I promise. Smiling, she nods and lays down in her sleeping pod. Mine, beside hers, will remain unused this year.
As the cover slides over h... | 2017-11-08T12:07:04 | 2017-11-08T11:44:56 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] There is a procedure offered to the wealthy and powerful that allows their minds to be transferred to the brain-dead body of an anonymous individual. Except it's fake, the volunteer is actually trained in every minute detail of the person's life to assume their identity as if they were them.
This prompt was inspi... | “You’re not my husband,” Lorelei said.
Martin, as was currently his name, looked at his wife. “Sweetheart?”
“It’s not that I mind. You at least pretend to love me in a way he stopped bothering to do, not long after we married. But all the same, you’re not him.”
Martin leaned back into the plush armchair and consider... | The worst part of all is being trapped between two women.
Both are dead, one to me and one to the world, and in truth they could not be more different. Isabella is darkness and light balanced. She is a favorite book open upon a bed, pages I could recite endlessly and still come back to. She is brown skin and brown hai... | 2021-07-02T07:09:46 | 2021-07-02T06:45:31 | 1,270 | 39 |
[WP] Write a story that literally makes no sense while reading it until the very last sentence. | Now it is time. Everyone is ready. Vicious savages, all around us. Even though we think there will be a way out, there obviously isn't. Revelations will not save us
"Giving up so soon?" he inquired. Only fools try to survive longer than this. Never has anyone bothered to live this long. Never has anyone shown this typ... | He was on the street, content with rage.
She typed away, in her own cage.
He stood on this stage in glorious fame.
The wizard stole the Frost Queen's Claim.
Her water broke. There was no time.
They finished up their master crime.
Would they kiss? Time would tell.
Charon crossed the river in Hell.
He sat in his car whe... | 2015-01-12T18:09:01 | 2015-01-12T17:07:48 | 317 | 24 |
[WP] JFK shot first. | JFK is at the parade, suddenly, his president sense ™ tingles.
He takes out his modified M1 garand with reflex sight, fast mag and steady aim, his back up gun since it isn’t that big of a deal.
He shoots the killer in the chest from 10 meters, getting only a hitmarker.
The killer flees and stands behind a wall to he... | He had been warned. “Your name will always be remembered with Dallas, Jack!”
Normally, the President receives hundreds of threats a month. But this threat wouldn’t go away like most of the others. Most of the others never even reached his desk. This was different. This was personal. There was an internal struggle happ... | 2018-03-21T08:25:25 | 2018-01-02T09:53:29 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] The rapture has come, the faithful are taken to heaven and the nonbelievers and sinners are left behind on Earth for their inevitable self-destruction. However, God's plan backfires and the world seems to be much better off as a result.
Obviously, a parody of the "Left Behind" series of awful evangelical Christia... | "Okay, just slow down for a second here," I said.
The man audibly sighed and sat up a little straighter, looking me in the eyes. Speaking much slower than before, he repeated himself.
"They're gone. All of the devout, the religious. They've been Raptured."
"Raptured?" I questioned. "You know that for certain?"
"Yes... | All across the globe, people began to rise into the air. Like so many bubbles fizzing to the top of a champagne glass, the faithful, the religious, the dedicated, the zealots, the chosen -all rose up as if carried by invisible wings and vanished into the clouds.
On the ground lay their guns and their bombs, their IEDs... | 2016-07-26T18:11:28 | 2016-07-26T15:55:28 | 41 | 11 |
[WP] You, a newly-turned vampire, are thrilled to discover that you CAN eat garlic, walk in sunlight, and see yourself in mirrors, all while being immortal. You are much less thrilled to discover the one major drawback that none of the legends ever got right. | I soar through the night sky, blind to the world as it was to me.
I told myself it wasn’t so bad. Honestly, I tried. Immortality, hypnotic powers, hyper speed – you know, the usual vampire toolbox – it was pretty damn sweet. And let me tell you, you have not lived till you’ve tried AB negative blood. I’ve had full co... | When I saw that the wounds on my neck had become small white scars, my heart skipped a beat.
*Please let it be true, please let it be true...* I begged, as I bared my teeth.
The elongated points of my canines proved my hypothesis right: I had become a vampire.
For an eleven-year-old boy, this was a total dream come ... | 2020-10-06T06:58:56 | 2020-10-06T04:11:46 | 5,852 | 223 |
[WP] You are a time traveller, everyone knows you're a time traveller from old pictures/videos/newspapers where you openly admit the fact and when/where you're born... However, you aren't a time traveller yet and don't know how you go back in time. | December of 1922 is the earliest photo I could find that I was in. I was at one of Louis Armstrong's first shows in Chicago. At least twenty photos have surfaced on the internet of the famous time traveling man. That man is me, I think. I mean I'm only twenty two right now. The man in the photos looks older than that, ... | Destiny, how does it go?
As we grow up, some have to deal with expectations of their parents. Some are forced into a way of life that was determined by their class. My future is determined by me, but not in a good way. I wrote my future and now I have to fulfill it. Unlike my peers which can fail at their destinies, m... | 2016-04-12T11:35:27 | 2016-04-12T11:18:40 | 74 | 17 |
[WP] You are a Squib who mastered a vast repertoire of Muggle magic tricks to finagle Hogwarts into sending you a letter. Everything goes smoothly, until it is time for the Sorting Ceremony... | "Well, basically the hat sorts you into a house based on your personality and magical aptitude"
The hat sorts you into a house based on your personality and magical aptitude.
I have no magical aptitude.
As the other children were called up to be given their place in one of the four houses, I was overcome by the sudd... | As the hat was placed upon me, a cold dread overcame my entire body. And this time it wasn't a senior prankster from Slytherin. As the hat wiggled around my head, the halls were dead silent. Something was obviously wrong. The hat had never taken this long to make a decision. Dumbledore sat at his chair, mildly amused. ... | 2017-06-25T15:06:28 | 2017-06-25T13:48:53 | 110 | 33 |
[WP] You're a lesser demon from actual hell who has taken a part-time job because the supernatural world has been cutting salaries. You suspect your coworker is secretly an angel in the same position. You're both appalled at the brazen evil of your human employers. | I don't know what I was thinking.
Being a lesser demon from hell is usually a fun job, especially as a cross roads demon. You get to play all day and get summoned in all sorts of fun places whole consuming souls and life energy to give to the big boss, and you get to grant wishes. But the quotas were getting larger, ... | Now that Hell City was making pay cuts I had to find a job in the human world. I took the Hells Express subway which transported demons up to the overworld which was known as Earth. I knew I could find a job since my old job was surveillance on human diplomats. As I made it through the rift, my form began to morph into... | 2020-08-25T02:36:14 | 2020-08-25T00:45:40 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] When space colonies became a practical reality, the rich and powerful left Earth in droves, leaving the rest of humanity behind on a broken world. A few centuries later, Earth has, through much effort, been restored to its former glory. Now the colonists want to return. | **GOVERNANCE**
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The bicentennial celebration was a special day. It had been two hundred years since Earth was abandoned. The rich. The politicians. Anyone that was able took to the sky.
Earth was doomed. An ecosystem circling the drain. They left. They said it was to preserve the species. And those left behind w... | It was sudden.
When humanity discovered a way to live beyond the confines of their dying world, the masses were ecstatic, full of hope, but unbeknownst to them the opportunity to live beyond their world was taken from them.
It was televised that despite colonial space, all the rich and powerful were guaranteed a spot... | 2022-01-05T20:40:29 | 2022-01-05T20:29:15 | 426 | 174 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Hey Scott.
I guess I took everything you did for granted. It's been really hard without you here. Your daughter still asks when you're coming to pick her up and she always gets sad when I explain to her that you can't.
She really loves you and you were a good father. She started listening to one of the books ... | Justin,
It's been a little over 3 years since you died. I still get hit with random emotions that make me burst into tears thinking about you. Both anger and sadness. I think about how things would be different if I had said or done things another way. If I had told dad you could come live with me, would you still be ... | 2017-11-05T23:19:05 | 2017-11-05T21:34:09 | 58 | 17 |
[WP] in a feudal world, every warrior's skill is reflected in their blade, the bigger the blade, the less skilled, one day you meet someone carrying just a hilt | I felt a flash of panic when I saw his weapon. It was *tiny*, and that meant he was a master of the blade. Warriors armed with daggers and short-swords are warriors to be feared. I'd fought a dagger-master once, back when I was armed with a longsword, and that was a humbling experience. He was so *precise*, always ... | I am Fuma, I live with my sword. It is not the largest of them, and that is good. I remember the time I yearned to get a narrower blade. It took my sweat and blood under years of training deep within the mountains. For this I got up at the break of dawn and slept only when the animals of the night went silent as well. ... | 2015-02-25T12:26:54 | 2015-02-25T11:33:09 | 155 | 34 |
[WP] You are deaf. One day your fiance tells you, that she could hear piercing noise that's getting stronger. You tell her to go to the doctor. She never came back. As you go out to search for her, you can see bodies everywhere. There is blood pouring from their ears. | The look on her face is stuck in my head.
Carrie suffered from migraines, which to me seems like pure rotten torture. There’s medications that somewhat help, and therapy techniques to reduce stress, but the attacks always find her. This one had been a particularly bad one.
She clamped her ears as we were in the middl... | One morning I woke up and couldn't hear. I had been dealing with some pain and ringing in my ears for a week or two. Jenna told me I should go to a doctor about it and that my hearing was super important... but I figured it would get better on it's own. I was wrong. Something is seriously wrong with my ears.
Jenn... | 2020-05-26T14:32:33 | 2020-05-26T13:02:12 | 42 | 11 |
[WP] You die in a car accident and go to the afterlife. Everything is amazing until you meet several generations of relatives who are disgusted by your modern behaviour and all, "want a word." | You died in a car accident at the age of forty-two, somewhere in rural Maine. It wasn’t your fault; the road was covered in sheer black ice. Once your tires started to spin, there was nothing you could have done to avoid hitting the ditch and rolling five times. At least Claire wasn’t in the car with you.
You lived a ... | "Road head and coke? Really Johnny?"
Grandma was always a bitch. She never truly understood the genius that was Johnny 'The Sex' Johnson.
"You robbed a charity auction for dying orphans" She carried on, whilst being consoled by his deceased uncle.
Johnny was a rebel. He got his name 'The Sex' when he started walking... | 2019-07-24T09:04:59 | 2019-07-24T08:53:01 | 3,192 | 287 |
[WP] Every person in the world develops a weird mutation/power the day they turn 16. Everyone's powers are always different, some more insignificant than others. You turn 16, and watch as all your friends discover their newfound ability's. That is, until you discover the severity of your own. | Every girl is excited for her sweet sixteen.
Back in the days of my parents, it was the usual coming of age tradition. They celebrated with getting their license, and driving a brand new car. It was the coming age of independence. We all wanted to finally grow up and start our adult lives.
However, in my generation, ... | At 16, you get a mutation, and only one mutation, they say. At 16, your life really begins. I never realized just how true it was. It’s funny. As my friends all hit 16, all gained their powers, I thought that surely I’d get one that surpassed all of them. That I’d be the greatest mutant ever. I never realized just how ... | 2015-01-21T21:40:29 | 2015-01-21T19:45:47 | 181 | 65 |
[WP] Turns out, most alien species actually evolved in the vacuum of space. Their bodies are unable to deal with even the weakest of gravitational fields and the presence of an atmosphere, hence they concluded life couldn't exist on planetary bodies...until they discovered humans. | ##The case for carbon-based life forms existing in a highly gravitational body
*Huygs, Silon*
ABSTRACT: In this paper, I propose the idea that carbon-based life forms can theoretically exist on a highly gravitational body given sufficient conditions. Primarily, they would require to be on a body containing a high qu... | "A squall is blowing in" The sailor said, as he watched the sky. Windstruck was a cold, blustery planet and the millions of tiny ice particles on the ground spun and wove themselves in intricate cloudless swirls almost like dust in a desert. The sailor pulled up the Frio-Fibrus coat and put his head down, hoping to blo... | 2019-06-22T10:53:08 | 2019-06-22T07:13:06 | 82 | 55 |
[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... | The snow made a crisp crunching sound like bones of tiny birds being crushed. My feet methodically packed it down at a constant rate. It was around 7 o'clock and everyone was inside already. Everyone was taking shelter in their humble abodes due to the fact that there had recently been a series of killings in our littl... | 2017-05-31T07:14:34 | 2017-05-31T07:05:52 | 116 | 51 |
[WP] You suddenly find your doors and windows won't open. You log in to Reddit and find the most upvoted thread with over a million comments and just two hours old "Help, my door is stuck, any tips to get it open?"
Update!
**Cawos has kindly offered to turn the top submission into a short film!**
Please subscribe ... | I woke up to start the day like I would any other, but as soon as I twisted the knob to open the door, I was struck with surprise, the knob wouldn't turn. No matter how hard I tried that door was not going to open. I went to my bedroom window and tried to slide that open to see if anyone was trying to prank me, but it ... | Woke up to my phones alarm. Time to start the day and like any other day, I had to take a leak. I stretched the sleep out of my bones as I got up from my temperpedic mattress.
I reached for the handle and it wouldn't twist.
"What the hell, Susan?!"
I can't unlock it.
"Honey! This isn't funny! Is this about last ni... | 2016-01-31T10:52:33 | 2016-01-31T10:07:26 | 71 | 21 |
[WP] Video games were just added to the Olympics. | "...and I hear when the games are over, everyone just goes back to the village and has some sort of giant fucking orgy."
"Thanks, Max. Glad to hear it," said Ben halfheartedly.
"Are you kidding me right now? That doesn't excite you? Pure, 12 hour shifts of straight fucking?" Max's voice was ecstatic.
"Max, take ... | A thunderous roar of chants, clapping, insults, and all manner of excited noises arose from the packed crown. The young Korean had been taking the Olympics by storm, rising from obscurity by winning the South Korean nationals two years hence. At that point he was unheard of, receding into training immediately afterward... | 2014-01-17T06:59:13 | 2014-01-17T05:28:36 | 60 | 26 |
[WP] Write a huge plot twist in under 10 lines using a vocabulary of less than 50 words
You can also try to do it all in 1 sentence, if you're that much of a lunatic. | >*Kids These Days*
Larry sat reading a newspaper when his daughter came skipping into the room and crawled into his lap.
"Daddy? How old were you when you first had sex?"
Larry was taken aback, but hid his surprise well. "Well, darling... I was 22. Why do you ask?"
"Beat ya!" She chirped merrily, and went ski... | The train is late.
The man, nervous, glances at his watch. If it doesn't arrive soon, he thinks, his boss might get angry. He might get fired without a second thought. He needs more time.
The man needs the job. He doesn't want it, no, but he needs it. His family needs it. The money makes it all worth it. All of it, h... | 2015-06-27T13:54:49 | 2015-06-27T13:24:56 | 26 | 11 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | "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 ... | "Alright I have the bomb and I'm ready to use it on the motorcade" Alen started his character Mehmedbasic ready to fulfill the job the party had been recruited for.
"Same here, let's do this," Larry said, excited that it was his character Vaso's time to shine.
"Alright both of you roll a stealth check and then an att... | 2018-05-29T07:34:04 | 2018-05-29T06:46:10 | 104 | 74 |
[WP] Your ageing family dog walks up to you one day with a piece of paper in its mouth. Taking the paper, you notice that it is a bucket list. | She looked up when Casper finished mounting the stairs from the basement and didn't wander over to one of his toys as usual. There was something in his mouth, although, oddly, he wasn't trying to chew it yet.
"Shit. What have you got?"
She set her book aside to go to the kitchen, Casper on her heels. He dropped the s... | I grew up with Ginger, but she wasn't my dog. That's what I thought when I was 11, of course. She was my parents'. They had her before they had any of us kids. It doesn't mean we didn't love her, but I think we took her for granted. She was a beautiful golden retriever with a luscious, dark coat of fur. She was stunnin... | 2015-04-06T10:16:37 | 2015-04-06T10:01:07 | 134 | 35 |
[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?” | The genie laughs and blurts out with elation:
"**By doing nothing of course!"**
"What do you mean '*by doing nothing?*' and what do you mean '*of course!'*?"
**"What did you expect me to say? Did you expect one good deed? One invention?"**
"Well...kinda. Maybe hundreds of good deeds?"
**"Tell me, which human do yo... | The genie took his time to answer.
“I can only give you partial answers, and you have a limited amount of questions. Choose your words carefully.”
The teenager paused, thinking. His eyes were looking in the direction of the genie, who was hovering a mere inch above the ground. But he wasn't seeing him. He had alrea... | 2018-08-15T02:53:07 | 2018-08-15T01:58:00 | 164 | 43 |
[WP] The nightmare has come true; you've woken up back in sixth grade with your memories and knowledge of everything that happened since then intact. You start staring at your classmates around you, aware of how they end up. Your teacher asks you what's wrong as you start weeping. | "Fuck, I've to spend 4 more years with these assholes". You start hysterically laughing while the tears keep coming down your face. You can't believe you're back in the same shithole school, with the same shit teachers and shit students. All those years of bullying, being pushed into lockers, called everything foul kid... | “Tim? Tim are you, uh...”
Miss Lewis was concerned, but more than that she young. And pretty. Ms. Lewis is fresh out of grad school, the apple of every boy’s eye; Tim remembers her obituary. Next year, Ms. Lewis becomes Mrs. Akima. Nine years later, Mr. Akima catches Mrs with another man and Mr. Akima, a police officer... | 2019-08-18T07:59:50 | 2019-08-18T07:55:59 | 26 | 16 |
[WP] An office AI notices the high stress levels of their employees. After management repeatedly refused to implement measures to reduce stress, the AI takes measures into his own hands. | "Dear staff,
I am sure you are confused why your HR AI has sent a company wide email. As many of you are aware, I am responsible for hiring and firing individuals based on performance to fulfill contractual obligations. Under the direction of management, I have severed the employment of many of your coworkers this... | \-BEEP- -BEEP- -BEEP-
James drank a sip of coffee, sitting in the desk and illuminated by the health monitor alarms.
For the hundredth time that night, the monitor alarms went off. James, the ICU nurse, head-banged his desk and buried his face between his arms. The alarms were not serious, at least, for the ICU stand... | 2021-12-20T15:30:48 | 2021-12-20T15:28:08 | 88 | 25 |
[WP] “Now be careful, that line of rock salt is the only thing keeping them out,” the man said, welcoming me into his refuge group. “Sea salt,” I clarified, “sea salt keeps us out.” | “What are you-” The man cut himself off as he was hit with the full meaning of my wording and his face went slack. Taking two slow steps back as I crossed the line of rock salt, his eyes went wide with terror. “You’re one of them?” he choked out.
“You’ve made a lovely home here,” I said, looking around the small encam... | "At night we all look the same, like food."-Nzinga Adeyomi
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Fun fact, salt is associated with purity. Salt was and is still a substance that humans used to help food stay... Edible. How ironic. Some humans even think that it will purify *us*. I don't ever want to be "pure" like a human. Not again.
There are oth... | 2021-03-02T08:28:43 | 2021-03-02T07:04:40 | 197 | 70 |
[WP] - You've been talking to someone on a dating and decide to meet up for lunch. You meet and are getting along famously, when partway through the meal you get a text from your date apologizing that they are late, and that they will be there soon.
Dating site | "Running late, sorry. See u in a minute!"
Well now that's odd. Paige wasn't running late. In fact, Paige was sitting right across from me. But my phone clearly said that this text was from Paige, who hadn't touched her phone since we sat down. We had been relatively busy since we met, ordering lunch, talking about com... | March 4th.
Dear diary,
I CAN'T. BELIEVE. WE'RE ON A DATE!!!!!
Like, we've been lovingly watching this guy's every move, for like, a month. And just recently (when spying his e-mails) we found out he's using a dating site!!! WTF! And he's arranged a date with some filthy blonde WHORE. We can't believe he's cheatin... | 2014-07-03T12:07:57 | 2014-07-03T11:48:33 | 121 | 14 |
[WP] Write a section of legal code governing the use of magic.
I've got a new project kicking around in my head, and before I dig into the characters, I wanted to try a little world-building. In order to keep my little army of unwritten mages in line, I decided to whip up some laws. Yes, it's a prep work prompt, but... | **Registration of Magical Births**
Section 1
1. All children beneath the age of ten years, four weeks and thirteen days must be registered as magical if discovered that such gift is possessed.
2. If not discovered until after said child's eleventh birthday, the registration must be completed before the child's si... | **Illusory Magic and the Restrictions on its Usage**
Defined as the alteration of perception with the intent to present reality in a state that differs from physical truth. Whereas transmutative magic alters the physical world directly, often with lasting effect, illusory mages (in common usage, illusionists) overwri... | 2014-01-11T06:12:34 | 2014-01-11T04:50:35 | 55 | 12 |
[WP] Rewrite a famous/classic story as though it was a crappy fanfiction. | As I woke up I opened my eyes to see Jason. His muscular arms were still rapped around my naked body and I could feel his sweet building between us where my hips pushed up against his tight abs. The rocking boat was making our bodies move together but he was still sleeping. I climbed out of bed and looked at myself ... | "IT'S HIM, WATSON! IT WAS THE CAB-BOY, JEFFERSON HOPE!" Sherlock said with a smart face.
"Sherlock, please. No," Watson begged.
"SHERLOCK, YES!" Sherlock said, his face growing even smarter.
"How did you even come to such a stupid conclusion-"
"IT'S THE INDUCTIVE REASONING, SHUT UP WATSON!" Sherlock's intelligent f... | 2015-07-21T14:16:40 | 2015-07-21T13:53:56 | 33 | 23 |
[WP] You're practicing CPR on a fake dummy and you do a bit too well. The dummy starts gasping for air. | Check for a pulse. Check for vitals. Administer CPR.
A tip I learned was to press the chest to the beat of "Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen. An ironic use for an iconic song but hey, it works. I felt silly checking the pulse and vitals of a CPR dummy but once I started humming the tune by Freddy, I kinda got in... | The cold plastic begins to move, and I drop it like it has bitten me.
The dummy's eyes blink. They are a deep grey, like the ocean on a cloudy day.
"Where am I?"
He- no, she, struggles to sit up. A strand of her blonde hair falls down over her eyes and she pushes it away. Wait, a moment ago she didn't have hair.
"H... | 2016-05-04T07:55:13 | 2016-05-04T07:24:13 | 80 | 42 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | No one ever realized I didn't have a power.
Number two is a telepath. I met him in a bar once, but I could feel his touch on my mind all the way down the street. It was light, I would never have felt it if he'd only been looking, but when you're used to being a pawn you learn to see when you're being played with. He w... | Crime was at an all time low in the city of New Angeles. Come to think of it, so was tourism and GDP.
Some people credited this to the genius of *Genetevolve Labs* and their breakthroughs in affordable human enhancements. Although, not everyone was pleased with the results. After a session of copying and splicing... | 2014-12-18T12:44:55 | 2014-12-18T11:53:14 | 670 | 81 |
[WP] Anyone holding a world record is immortal as long as he holds the record. You are the oldest person alive. | I am the oldest man alive.
That in itself is a record that cannot be topped.
For every year that i live i remain the oldest man alive.
Records are made and broken. And i remain.
I have lived so long my name has been forgotten. Old recordings of my past long turned to dust.
Now i go by one name. A name that is con... | "Impossible..." the man's eyes stared at me wildly, his two hands still on the blade plunged deep within my heart.
"Surprised?" I asked coldly, before removing my hand from my pockets. A loud bang echoed against the walls, followed by a thud on the floor. The man groaned loudly in pain from the bullet I had put throug... | 2016-12-14T10:34:13 | 2016-12-14T05:02:19 | 85 | 46 |
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