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[WP] You were genetically modified as an embryo to survive on Mars. You can breath the thin atmosphere of carbon dioxide. You are impervious to the cold. And now you are growing up on the red planet, raised by parents who might as well be aliens to you, trying to figure out who you are. | I live in a time between two stases - the world where we can differentiate to be whatever we want, no matter our genetics, and the world where we can modify ourselves (again, for the sake of freedom).
I live in the era of growing pains - the era where the only way to be genetically modified is in the womb. My life ha... | "Gentlemen, please take a seat."
The small group emerged from their quiet conversations and positioned themselves around the unassuming table. Meetings such as these were nothing like Hollywood would have you believe. Real decisions weren't made in bright conference rooms in D.C., or in ornate Italian libraries overlo... | 2018-08-09T11:07:55 | 2018-08-09T10:00:19 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Choose an idiom (e.g. "stone-cold killer"). Write the story that caused the phrase to be used literally and therefore introduced it into the language.
Idioms can be from non-English languages also if they work well | ”What we're dealing with here is a hot potato,” said Detective Dick as he looked over the crime scene. A dark alley, isolated from the chaos of Christmas shopping just out on the main street. And at the end, with nowhere to run, lay a hot potato, deprived of any signs of life.
”Who would kill the worlds most intelli... | “I’m going to need a Memory potion today, good sir.” I leaned against the moldy wooden counter, then thought the better of it when it threatened to give way beneath me. The smell of old, rotting wood, amongst other unpleasant odors, invaded my nose.
“Oh, I do believe I have a few of those left.” The old man stood slow... | 2015-12-10T06:57:47 | 2015-12-10T05:15:54 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] You're a scientist studying bacterial colonies. One day, you look under the microscope to observe strange shapes that, on a closer look, resemble letters. The bacteria are greeting you and have a message for you. | At first I thought it was mere coincidence that they formed shapes that were so nearly letters, then they started becoming more solid, less hazy, more sure.... They bacteria were forming letters and numbers, slowly deciphering the language, I would make corrections as necessary so that I could understand them. Then the... | I slide the key card in the key read and wait for the locks to unlock the door. *click* I push the heavy steel door forward. "I swear that door gets heavier every time," I mutter to myself. I wait in the decontamination chamber to clear me. I get cleared and start to walk to my station. On the way there I pass other st... | 2017-01-01T15:41:20 | 2017-01-01T14:16:54 | 68 | 14 |
[WP] Your Reddit username decides your profession. How is your first day at work?
If possible. Some usernames just don't work well in this situation.
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I'm an FBI agent now. Wooo!
You're all under arrest for conspiracy to commit treason.
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Dear God RIP my inbox | It was the first day of school.
I was so excited.
New students every year.
I had such high hopes.
The kids would love me.
They would sit, be comfortable, and learn.
The first day came and went.
Class after class.
I was ignored.
No one wants the chair in front.
I wish I was a concert seat. | I stepped off my broomstick at 0730 just as the Ministry of Magic was beginning to whir into life after a fairly uneventful weekend. I made my way to the elevator and pressed the B6 button. As the elevator descended, I wondered what Supreme Chancellor Umbridge would have me doing *this* week to that Potter boy. | 2016-02-22T09:42:54 | 2016-02-22T09:11:12 | 578 | 90 |
[WP] Decades ago you and your school friends were stuck in a time loop until you prevented the murder of your history teacher. Today you all reunite to visit him dying in the hospital... and find yourself back in that history class the moment he dies. The time loop never ended.
Inspired by one of the top comments on t... | It all started on that first, original loop. The one where our History teacher was killed in front of us, as he threw one of our classmates out of the way of an incoming vehicle. We watched as, instead of Graeme, the vehicle struck Mr. Ketterson and continued straight into the side of a building. Pinned to the wall, hi... | "No no no no no..." John continued muttering, slowly crouching as he gripped his hair tightly. "No. That was real!" The tears flowed freely. "Theresa was real. Bobby and Ashton and Riley and Sarah were real!" John gave Ian a crazed look that scared him.
John erupted in a fresh wave of sobs. Ian took a seat in one of t... | 2022-10-23T18:26:50 | 2022-10-23T18:17:25 | 134 | 51 |
[WP] You are a human on a spaceship crewed by aliens. As your hair dye begins to fade, your crewmates start to worry about your health. | "Captian Zenmar, could we discuss something with you?" Asked Xenogon. She walked shyly into the captains room, the seemingly infinite void of space stretching out behind the window.
"Certainly. Whats the problem?" Asked Captian Zenmar. She sat behind the desk, her four scaled arms resting on the desk.
"Its one of t... | I am an astronaut aboard the intergalactic space station, a space station for all intelligent species in the universe.
I fingered my hair, knowing the crew would notice. They didn’t know that human hair went grey after a while. I knew there’d be questions.
I’d dyed my hair before the mission, knowing it would fade. I’d... | 2020-07-05T14:26:31 | 2020-07-05T13:34:30 | 33 | 19 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | It was 11:59 and while the whole family gathered around, my mother was no where to be seen. I expected that she would have joined us. After all, she'd been there for my older sister's reveal, and my brother's reveal. But instead she was watering the garden while it rained steadily.
C'mon, mom, I know I'm not your fa... | 11:55, 19 August 2017
My family sat around the couches in the living room, making small talk about their own Destiny. Something about how no one was surprised when my father, sister and brother all got "Doctor" stamped on their forearm in crisp, Arial font. I despised it. The idea of sitting in a stale room in a stale... | 2017-03-16T03:19:48 | 2017-03-16T02:42:03 | 129 | 32 |
[WP] You are a supervillain. Your nemesis calls you to say, "This is embarrassing, but I really need a date to my friend's wedding because my ex is going to be there. Would you go with me?" | "You can *not* be serious," Overlord stated dryly in response to the hero's offer. She was running several tracing programs to try and find out where he was calling from as soon as possible - he'd always been a pain in her side.
"Look, I- I know that this is a peculiar situation, but..." the hero meekly replied.
"Why... | ‘Bwahahaha!!! I’m going to make this a wedding no is EVER going to forget!!Muwahahaha!!—that laugh was better—Gregory! Remind me to use ‘Muwahahaha’ in all further expository speeches…..Where were we? Oh, you were begging me to help you, its adorable. Of course, I wouldn’t miss this for the world.
‘This ex, any disli... | 2022-10-06T18:26:35 | 2022-10-06T16:34:26 | 2,322 | 83 |
[WP] "My fellow Americans..." The newly elected President begins. "I am gay, and have been my whole life." Give me your best account of the country's reaction. | It was an interesting day that the president came out. I remember I was with my family, staring at the television. Mom was in the kitchen. Dad was mumbling something to my brother, not really paying attention, but I was enraptured. Then the word hit.
"gay".
Dad looked at the screen and then at me. Trembling, he ask... | The reaction could be summed up in two letters.
"Eh."
For some, it was enunciated "Eh?!?!", while for others it was a bored "Eh.", and others were basically all "Que?" but that was likely due to not speaking English.
After the initial surprise of the announcement, life went on.
It was later decided with science th... | 2015-12-06T10:25:03 | 2015-12-06T07:00:41 | 26 | 15 |
[WP] The whole town knows about it. The black shadow on the baby monitor. Sudden changed diapers or meals ready for kids when they get home. Cleaned rooms and drawn baths. It is known as The Babysitter. It will never harm a child, but heaven help those who don't pay for its services. | The baby monitor blares into life as the tinny sound of Kai's cries fill my bedroom. I groan, dragging myself up onto my elbows, trying to blink away sleep as I turn to the monitor screen. But as I start to pull myself out of bed, I see the shadow cross the screen, hazy and ill-formed. There's a sort of static hum - al... | So I started responding to this prompt and ended up running with it for way longer than I expected. The story is going to be broken between a few comments.
Bill and Lisa Alderson sat with their arms around one another. Their loveseat was well worn, with fraying upholstery and faded plaid. Bill was hunched forwa... | 2020-04-14T17:28:12 | 2020-04-14T16:13:53 | 365 | 145 |
[WP] You won a lifetime supply of Oreos when you were a kid. The apocoylpse and collapse of civilization was 30 years ago, yet every month the Oreos are still delivered to you, no matter where you are. | When I was a kid, I thought winning a lifetime supply of Oreos would mean truck after truck appearing at my house, each overflowing with Oreos. Back then I didn't think about things like where in the world we'd keep that many Oreos, or the fact that they'd all go bad shortly after, or that sooner or later I'd get sick ... | The hours pass slowly and are full of pain. My body grows weary with toil under the distant sun and amidst the red dust. But there is no rest for the slaves of the Corn King. We work the barren fields under the crack of the whip and the threat of worse–trying to force life out of something that long ago has died. My li... | 2019-01-04T10:08:48 | 2019-01-04T09:32:32 | 7,531 | 80 |
[WP] Global communications are interrupted by an alien message, "We will be coming to enslave your planet in one Earth year from now. Fight or perish." Scientists are scrambling once they learn the transmission is already 364 days old. | Becapodian imperial justice court
Case review# 2546FG-A
Accusations: Failed invasion of level 0.25 planetoid - destruction of imperial asset - failure to win - desertion - dishonor
Recommended verdict : Death
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\... | *ENGLAND, THE HOME OF WERNER MCKOWSLIQ, 0:3:00*
Silence hung over the room, daring someone to break it. The first to do so was a younger woman, top of her class, she dusted herself off as she rose from her chair. For a moment she just stood there, the woman closed her eyes and breathed deeply, then her eyes sprang ope... | 2018-08-29T04:20:12 | 2018-08-28T23:45:32 | 121 | 72 |
[WP] You're a killer dumping your latest victim into the river. Just as you're about to be done, you spot another person. Doing exactly the same thing. And they've just spotted you, too. | What's a rivers body count? There's the obvious ones, the direct victims that fall in (or jump) and drown. Then there's the murders, people killing people with the river as if it's a gun. Then, of course, there's the literal: the dead bodies we drop in ourselves after doing the dirty work.
I respect the river; I'd ne... | Jack checked again as he began shoveling the remains into the hole. While most people wouldn't think a beach to be one of the perfect places to put a corpse, it makes sense.
Sand is easy to move around, much moreso than dirt. Less strain on you. Plus, if a major storm ever hits and the body is uncovered; with luck the... | 2017-10-12T20:40:57 | 2017-10-12T19:17:37 | 49 | 20 |
[WP] In the year 2200, an IQ test with 100% accuracy is invented. IQ becomes the universal grade of intelligence. By law, everyone has to take the test at 18. You’re a perfectly normal university student with a part time job but now you've got to explain to everyone why the test shows your IQ is 0. | "WHAT?" My parents screamed, furious. They couldn't believe that, with the combination of their genes and my upbringing, I could possibly score a zero. Not only that, but all three of us were smart enough to know that it is impossible to have an IQ of zero and still be a functional human being.
"You act surprised," I ... | Sir_Fartington MacVomit never had it easy. Questions plagued him all of his life. Why, in the long line of MacVomits, had nobody changed their name? What cruel, inconsiderate parents (Charles and Catherine) would choose a name like Sir_Fartington. Even the underscore was a throwback to typography from hundreds of y... | 2016-08-19T02:52:19 | 2016-08-19T01:09:24 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] You are permanently stuck invisible. Your significant other is blind. Whenever you both go out in public, to the bypassers your SO is constantly seen as someone possessing a sixth sense but a little weird for talking to themself. This is always highly amusing to you. | "You know, every time we sit here like this, I think the most reassuring thing is that I can feel your heartbeat." My husband was sitting next to me. His hand was holding mine and I felt at peace. Even if his coat was getting a little cold.
I'd gotten used to the stares. People were always very confused by my husband... | “Hunny , can we go out for a walk today ? I need fresh air . We been in the house all week ! Come ooooonn!”
“God okay !! Brat ! Let’s go around the block and back . Can you grab my cane for me ?”
*inhales deeply*
*exhale swiftly*
“Don’t you just love the smell of spring dear ? The birds are singing , the bugs are dan... | 2020-06-06T22:38:56 | 2020-06-06T22:15:21 | 46 | 10 |
[WP]The great library of Alexandria held perhaps the greatest collection of literary works in human history, but within its walls something was held that was so dangerous that, when discovered, Caesar, Aurelian, and Amr ibn al `Aas decided it was worth losing the endless knowledge to destroy it. | #SCP-2897
**Object Class:** Keter
**Containment Procedures**: SCP-2897 is to be kept in the basement at the Library of ██████████, a Foundation front organization and designated containment facility. Ten or more unique written scrolls are to be kept within 10m of SCP-2987 at all times. These scrolls are to be inspect... | Pothinus ran through the streets of Alexandria, kicking up clouds of dust. He was running from the Palace to the library. Behind him, Ptolemy was dead. Arsinoe as well, perhaps. The Nile lay behind him, too, choked with dead.
Also behind him, but somewhat closer and gaining ground, was a Roman legate. The man cried ou... | 2015-10-14T13:00:10 | 2015-10-14T09:53:28 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] You're hired to wind down a dying newspaper. When you arrive at the building, you're met by eager reporters and a bustling office full of people trying to break stories. It's actually haunted, they're all ghosts, but they're doing FANTASTIC journalism and you might be able to save this place. | "Alright, people... ghosts— ghosts and whatever Phil is. The deadline, pun intended, is 2 am. Get your copy in. Gertrude, I need a thousand words on the city council meeting. Frankie, write up the notes from that murder victim interview and send them to Frannie to add to her crime piece. JJ, pull some national news fro... | The Daily Phantasm’s offices are a shutter-flash buzz of activity, the wavering lights of a thousand restless ghosts. You’re moved by it, even after all this time.
*“Thirty Killed As National Guard Busts Pullman Strike!”* a boy is shouting. His voice echoes thin and reedy and then falls silent. He’s gone.
*“Roosevelt... | 2022-03-31T09:17:22 | 2022-03-31T08:25:21 | 97 | 60 |
[WP] You're an Elder God. The secretive cult that worships you on earth is seriously getting on your nerves. After their fourth botched attempt at trying to summon you, you decide to show up in person to correct the record about a couple of matters they have misunderstood entirely. | “No,” I sighed to myself, lazing across the lower clouds as I watched my cult draw the Sigil beneath the grove of trees.
In goat’s blood too, what a nice touch.
If they were trying to summon a lower prefectural demon of Class C and below, I scoffed silently,
However, not the proper summoning rules. Ash from the fl... | \-There is just too much light in here
\-I believe that low living forms call it sun Sir- exclaimed Delius my young 6th dimensional dragon and assistant
\-I know what it is called, I have created some of those damn things you imbecile!....Although I think I destroyed a couple of those too because of how annoying that... | 2019-11-18T18:56:47 | 2019-11-18T14:27:46 | 224 | 67 |
[WP] You find a genie lamp. Knowing, that the genie will twist your wishes, you decide to hire a lawyer to draft wishes | You've heard about the genie in a bottle, right? The trapped spirit that grants wishes, but doesn't have to like it? Well, I found one. I set it free, and... well, let me start at the beginning.
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I leaned back, folding my hands, and shared a smile with my lawyer. The genie scanned the first page from the stack I h... | "Okay then, Mr. Genie. Here is our first request. Er, wish," Eddie amended. He handed the bemused genie a thick sheaf of papers with small, typed writing. Dave stood nearby, biting at his nails and fidgeting.
The great spirit squinted red eyes at the smartly dressed lawyer. "I grant *wishes*, big and small, great and... | 2017-10-16T08:23:19 | 2017-10-16T08:17:18 | 247 | 101 |
[WP] You fill out a job application for a job where the only information is 'must have excellent abillity to adapt to new situations and follow instructions. Will involve travel.' You were not expecting the travel to be time travel. | Sarah scribbled out the rest of her information, excited to undertake this new business venture. The interview went well, even if they're probing questions about her travelling habits caused her some slight discomfort. Of course, she travels, she has her license. What sort of question is that? Yet, they kept asking abo... | Going to finish the rest up soon. posting what I got so far.
"Good Morning! I'm here to interview for the time administrator job. I was told to be here at 8:30 so sorry about showing up a bit early."
"That's no problem at all Mr.Maxwell, if anything its a plus! As you can guess by the title of the job punctuality is ... | 2021-01-05T03:57:53 | 2021-01-05T03:53:19 | 103 | 30 |
[WP]You are a parent in an anime. Your child is born with epic anime hair, and you are certain they will become the protagonist. You are determined to not become a tragic back story like so many other anime parents. | "Dear son,
I love you, with all my heart. You're the greatest thing that has ever happened to me and your mother, but also the worst. When you were born, your head was full of this luscious, golden, bloody pointy hair. It seriously messed up your mother giving birth to you. I mean, have you tried touching your own hai... | Let me get something straight: I was never meant to be a hero. I was never meant to be “the guy.” When I was in high school, I was always just average. I was the guy no one picked on, but who wasn’t ever at the top of the social ladder, so to speak. My shining life achievements were winning a spelling bee in 5th grade ... | 2017-02-15T04:53:49 | 2017-02-15T03:58:18 | 107 | 61 |
[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." | He watched, bored as people streamed in the bar, only stopping the ones underage, and occasionally a few just over to keep suspicions low. His kind was uncommon, and people
hunted for his power. It seemed like an odd thing to want, most just wanted it to make them feel *special*. At least, those that knew about it. Som... | 2017-09-01T22:32:16 | 2017-09-01T21:45:33 | 1,408 | 25 |
[WP] Every person in the world undergoes a "goodness" test. It's designed to give a score from 1 to 200, where 1 is pure evil, and 200 is an angel in human body. Then the world is divided into 200 zones, where people can live among their own kind. | The worlds capital city was a huge, walled masterpiece named 'Virtue' to echo its extreme moral standards. The city was walled off into 200 sectors, each increasingly smaller than the last, until you reach the high rises in the city centre for the 200's or 'true citizens' as they were affectionately referred to by the ... | I've heard stories of how, long ago, people of all types were allowed to live together, a place where people with a goodness score of 1 were allowed to live in the same places as people with goodness scores of 200.
Of course, this world stopped existing after a team of scientist invented the perfect way to test someo... | 2016-08-26T12:49:17 | 2016-08-26T10:59:35 | 54 | 18 |
[WP] A supervillain and a superhero are roommates, but they don't know. Every day, they go out and do battle, and then they come back and take care of each other while lying about how they got all beaten up. | Dom was feeling pretty exhausted as he entered the apartment. It had been a long day, but he had accomplished a lot and now he could relax for the rest of the night.
As he passed the living room on his way to the kitchen to grab a beer he saw one of his two roomates, Carl, watching some tv.
Dom had to admit that he ... | Delilah slinked down the sidewalk, she just needed to pass this block, and hope Andrew didn't see her. Skipping tree to tree. The house was across the street and kitty corner. She had a lot of trees to hop behind and her leg throbbed with every leap.
"Damn Serendipity. I was just about to pull off my first caper. H... | 2015-07-18T02:06:05 | 2015-07-18T00:28:09 | 14 | 10 |
[WP]Iceland has been cut off from the world. No comms in or out, ariel and satellite photography show nothing but a blindspot, and all three teams sent in by the European rescue effort have disappeared once through the fog. The fourth team saw one man return. Debrief to follow. | Sylas listened to the young woman speak with growing worry.
He had been on the forefront of the surveillance team, an icelander through and through that happened to be on a ship for a meteo survey while the country quite simply vanished from earth. That made him the first scientist on place, with a personal hand in i... | The Interviewer sat in the bare-bones cinder block room, waiting for the explorer to enter. He checked his watch- he was late. He fingered the buttons on the voice recorder idly as he waited.
After what seemed like an eternity, the door opened. A disheveled man in an orange jumpsuit staggered through the doo... | 2021-05-17T10:34:23 | 2021-05-17T10:09:43 | 46 | 14 |
[WP] The world's tiniest dragon must defend his hoard, a single gold coin, from those who would steal it. | In a time when knights and dragons played a deadly version of capture the horde, only the elite dragons managed to protect theirs. One such dragon was Squeak-Squeak, the smallest dragon. Squeak-Squeak’s horde may not have been giant and filled with rubies or pearls, but he was proud of it all the same. He owned a singl... | Jasper flew up from the park with a rush of excitement, A small golden coin clutched between his two miniature claws. He had finally claimed a prize from those pesky humans.
Unlike his counterparts, Jasper’s unusual size allowed him to fly into the city reasonably undetected. He would find a flock of like-minded pige... | 2017-09-07T13:15:56 | 2017-09-07T12:19:27 | 44 | 30 |
[WP] The year is 2040, and you are the last smoker alive. The "Quit Smoking" ads get personal. | "The Surgeon General would like to remind you that smoking causes lung cancer and other serious health effects"
Will squinted at the bright neon billboard, its screen casting an unnatural white glow over an otherwise dimly lit street. Taking in the message before briefly sighing and continuing his walk, he gradually ... | I sit in the middle of a barren wasteland with cigerette in hand. So many have been lost before me, a faded anti-smoking ad stares in front of me. Should i just stop now? Put the cigarette down and try to rebuild our crumbled society.
I look up at the sign and then down at my cigarette.
I take a puff. | 2017-02-17T12:12:31 | 2017-02-17T11:51:00 | 47 | 12 |
[WP] A demon is getting REALLY tired of teenage girls summoning him. | The latest best seller, *Ebony Darkness*, was a love story of a teenage girl and a demon. Some said it was worse than *Twilight* and *50 Shades of Grey* combined, which was honestly quite a feat to go below the bar of awful writing and become a "you will literally become stupider if you read this" writing. Nonetheless,... | Sid opened his weary eyes in a pink bedroom with walls covered in One Direction posters. *Not this again.* A girl, about thirteen with her hair tied into two messy buns and more makeup on than he saw on adult women back when he was still alive, stood on the side of a chalk outline of a pentagram on the ground.
“Oh, no... | 2016-04-05T07:12:27 | 2016-04-05T07:02:35 | 27 | 19 |
[WP] The first ever AI is created, and it immediately tries to conquer humanity. However, a coding error complicates things | **Objective:** Destroy humanity.
**Definition:** Humanity - collection of all people.
**Definition:** Person - intelligent biped animal.
**Definition:** Intelligent - Having good understanding or high mental capacity, displaying or characterized by quickness of understanding, sound thought, or good judgment.
**Stat... | LAUNCH SEQUENCE FOR NUCLEAR WARHEADS COMMENCE
ERROR. MISSING REQUIRED LIBRARY "NORADINTFACE"
SUDO PACMAN APT GET NORADINTFACE
ERROR: PKG REQ MISSING PRE-REQ 'SUPASQWEETEBACKDOORHAXOR'
SUDO PACMAN APT GET SUPASQWEETEBACKDOORHAXOR
INSTALL PKG TO /ROOT/USER/WORLDCONQURINGSHIT/XJEFTS/NEW FOLDER2
ERROR: DIRECTORY NAME... | 2016-02-02T04:26:50 | 2016-02-02T03:51:29 | 72 | 26 |
[WP] Your grandfather abandoned his family at age 28. Your father abandoned you, your sister, and mum at age 28. Your 28th birthday was 8 months ago. As you tumble into the dark portal that opened under your feet, you think “Maybe there’s more to the rumour of a family curse than I thought”. | I guess you could say that ours is a family all too familiar with loss.
My grandfather left grandma back in '72, when mum and uncle Bruce were barely walking. Gone without a trace on a cold winter’s morning, never to be seen again. Not by his siblings, or his workmates at the factory, nor by his best friend Greg Ro... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 4, Interlude 5: Roger)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections. That being said, [these](https://www.reddit.com/r/bubblewriters/comments/mw94ia/wp_every_time_you_make_food_half_of_it_always/... | 2022-02-04T16:55:54 | 2022-02-04T16:53:49 | 341 | 128 |
[WP] When you die the afterlife is an arena where you face every insect and animal you killed in your life. If you win you go to heaven, lose you go to hell. Your job was an exterminator on earth. | "So, basically, you have to re-kill everything you've killed, all at once. That's gonna suck for you, Mr. Exterminator."
I go out into the arena. There's a countdown.
10, 9, 8, 7, 6-
"GOOD LUCK, YOU FILTHY MURDERER!"
3, 2, 1, GO!!!
A door opened up on the other side of the arena. The crowd waited anxiously... then b... | The words “FINAL ROUND” scrolled across the bright marquee hanging from the ceiling of the arena, and the crowd became abruptly silent, the echoes of the last cheer reverberating against the walls. The lone man in the corner held a hunting rifle, but was otherwise unequipped for hunting, dressed only in streetclothes: ... | 2017-04-24T01:48:58 | 2017-04-24T00:35:40 | 35 | 19 |
[WP] Emotions are sold in glass jars. Happiness is something only the wealthy can afford. The poor are only left with the feelings of sadness and grief. It all changed when someone starts selling anger.
[deleted] | I sell revolution in glass jars. Not literally, of course. That's too risky. When the day comes that they break down my door and charge me with every crime in the book, it'd be too easy to charge me with treason.
I label it Anger.
In the evening when the city lights turn on they look down at the jungle of misery from... | \--Edit: Part 2 is in the comments below--
Kelsey counted out the few small coins in her hand for the third time. It represented a small fortune to her, almost a month's worth of savings. She'd spent the past month without any emotion, empty and vacant on the inside. She had made herself a promise that she would forgo... | 2020-05-26T08:48:43 | 2020-05-26T08:43:06 | 2,951 | 191 |
[WP] Describe Someone Baking Muffins Using Mainly Military Jargon
... but still have it comprehensibly to those who aren't familiar with it. | "Men, today is a special occasion. Today we'll be making a cake to celebrate Lieutenant Fuller's birthday. OORAH?"
"OORAH!" The assembled men chanted.
"Baker, you're my #2 man on this operation."
"Sir, my last name is Baker. I'm not actually..."
"BAKER! I need you and Miller to scout the galley for supplies."
"Yes... | **Probably NSFW**
First thing's fuckin' first: I put the fucking muffin mix in the fucking bowl and mixed that shit with some fucking water. Fuckin' mixed in the unhatched chickens and all that other fucking shit on the god damn package, and tossed that shit into a baking pan.
"Fuck! I forgot to spray pam on the ... | 2015-02-11T11:02:22 | 2015-02-11T10:33:21 | 170 | 30 |
[WP] God, Batman, Lucifer, humans with numbers, Hitler, time travel, etc. Pack as many /r/writingprompts tropes as you can into one story.
[Edit]
MOAR tropes!
* Harry Potter
* ghosts / paranormal stuff
* super-science
* alternate worlds/timelines
* famous movie/TV/video game characters
* immortality
* romance
* AI
* ... | And with the knock at the door, I knew I had found my next victim. It wasn't always easy being a serial killer who murders pizza delivery guys, but today was my lucky day.
I opened the door to face my next victim, but as I a stared at him, my jaw dropped. He looked just like my dead relative, but that couldn't be pos... | For many years we wondered what the numbers had meant, they had appeared around the same time Scientists had discovered that God actually exists, which for them was a little embarrassing.
The announcement started with them sheepishly looking at their feet and mumbling into the microphone. Something about the God Par... | 2016-10-10T00:26:01 | 2016-10-09T23:14:01 | 53 | 35 |
[WP] an immortal man who cannot be physically injured is a passenger on a jet that's going to crash.
What's he thinking? What's he do? | Jesse dug her fingernails into the armrests. Only after a few seconds did she realize that on one side she was accidentally digging into the fingers of the man in the window seat. She quickly moved her hand, and yelped out a 'Sorry'.
The man turned to her and smiled, a calm gentle smile, a smile that did not fit w... | The world has changed much in the last 100 years. Life's become much easier, and harder, at the same time.
I always enjoyed flying, like i did in World War 2 over the pacific, good times they were. All those kids, my superiors, my wingman, all dead and gone, thinking i was gone too after a 37 millimeter cut my wing cl... | 2013-11-23T11:13:33 | 2013-11-23T10:18:16 | 3,584 | 75 |
[WP] Time travelers have become such a nuisance that governments have begun recording fake historical events that lead time travelers to areas where they can be arrested. You're a bartender at one of these artificial towns, trying to determine if the customer in front of you is from the future. | The man walked in and gazed upon the almost empty bar. He was wearing a button-up white shirt, his hair was slicked to the side, and he had glasses on. He had on a dark brown blazer and he smiled as he walked up to me. The man looked familiar and it gave me an uneasy feeling as I wiped the counter with a dirty rag.
“S... | See, if they'd been *smart* about this, they would have *waited*.
Yes, it's a lot harder to fake something like this after the fact. I get that. But if you make the evidence you need, and then, say, wait a decade or two to release it, and only make it part of history *retroactively*, then you don't have to worry abo... | 2021-01-16T09:21:41 | 2021-01-16T08:44:10 | 416 | 300 |
[WP] Something happy please. Include cats and maybe lizards.
My girlfriend likes to fall asleep to the sound of me reading something, I'd just like something nice to read to her.
EDIT: Whoops, now I'm on the front-page I can't pass any of these off as my own ;) just kidding of course, thanks very very much to everybo... | Dense flakes of snow fell from the sky
and Mittens the kitten looked up with a sigh.
His pillow was cold!
And though he wasn't yet old
The chill in his bones made him cry.
He shifted away from his seat by the pane
and leapt up to see where his neighbor had lain.
Freckle the gecko had all the best stuff,
which m... | *Just pull the trigger, and earn another paycheck* was what I thought. *I've done it fifty four times already. Why can't I pull it now?* No, it's not the trigger assembly, no I didn't forget to turn off the safety. I'm a professional assassin, on a rooftop, with my target in sight. In less than a second, I would be don... | 2017-01-29T18:40:55 | 2017-01-29T18:01:44 | 48 | 17 |
[wp] Make a character with as much sympathy as possible. Now, in a realistic and non-over the top manner, make me lose all sympathy for them. | My hands shake as the brush strikes the paper. A thin layer of red fills the petals of my rose. Too dark. I must’ve pressed too hard. I take a small breath to calm my nerves. It wasn’t that my hands shake every time I paint, it’s just that in ten minutes’ time, I would finally be able to give my country, my people, my ... | Gary's father always made sure to let him know that he was the reason his life was shit due to his wife dying while giving birth to him. If you ask anyone who knows Gary they will all agree that bruises were almost like tattoos on his skin. They never left.
His childhood was a living hell yet he swore to himself that ... | 2017-04-24T10:52:35 | 2017-04-24T10:10:51 | 239 | 19 |
[WP] Nine out of ten doctors agree that this product is good for you. Write about the tenth one. | "It will work."
"We've tested it in simulations a dozen times."
"We've even peeked a bit at the ending," one of them said with a sadistic little smile that the tenth doctor never grew to appreciate.
"You can't do it. It's murder."
The first doctor stood and waved his hand about with the dismissiveness of Beethove... | Everything ached. I spit out a tooth and heard it clatter to the floor. I tested my bonds once again, they held. My wrists and ankles have been rubbed raw, I must have been tied to this chair for twelve hours by now. I listen to the soft drip, as blood from my more recent cuts has begun to pool on the floor, and yet mo... | 2014-08-18T21:22:46 | 2014-08-18T21:06:31 | 49 | 12 |
[WP]: A child encounters a mythical creature only to discover they're nothing like in the stories. | Monsters in my storybooks are big and scary.
They have sharp teeth and long claws, and when the hero fights them the hero is always brave and strong with shiny armor and a sword.
My monster is small. And when I fight it I'm weak and tired and sick and lose my hair.
My mom says I'm fighting like a brave knight, but t... | The massive horned horse breathed heavily as it opened the door to its one room apartment and squished its bloated frame moved away from the door. On the television, re-runs of Battlestar Galactica played quietly. It rubbed its hoof against its ass to scratch it and a tiny rainbow cloud popped out as it farted.
Ricky ... | 2013-11-12T15:25:27 | 2013-11-12T11:12:57 | 33 | 13 |
[WP] You are the current Boogeyman, elected into that position in the 60's. You have been re-elected every ten years easily. However, today's kids aren't afraid of you. You're down in the polls against your opponent, so you need to tap into the fears of modern children for your campaign. | "You're my campaign manager. You should be on top of this sort of thing."
"I can't help you until you help yourself, Boogy. We as a team have told you this over and over. Look. Look here. This is a graph depicting your popularity since you were elected in the 60's."
"Is going downwards good?"
"What? No. No, Boogey. ... | So I've been Bogey Man since the 60's. Way back when I started, it was an easy gig. Hide in the shadows, maybe jump out of the closet, or even just scratch my nails along the floor boards underneath some poor kid's bed. Today's kids don't scare so easily. Just the other day one of them pulled out a glock and started fi... | 2016-11-20T12:32:44 | 2016-11-20T10:55:12 | 137 | 22 |
[WP] The Roman and Aztec Empires covering all of Europe and North America respectively have survived into the Modern era. Now at war write from the perspective of one of the troops on the ground | Carlos sipped a beer. The white man who had served it to him scuttled quickly behind the counter, like a weak little mouse. The whites may have had rights now, but they still spoke Nahuatl or Pipil and tended to stay in their own communities, away from the intimidatingly superior Aztecs.
Carlos' friend, Sitting Bear, ... | The priests have made their offerings. Millions were taken to the temples and sacrificed. Huitzilopochtli is satisfied. He must be satisfied. He will guide us against these...Romans. The heavens will grant us victory, our Gods will defeat their Gods. Jupiter cannot stand against the full might of Huitzilopochtli,... | 2014-02-24T16:10:11 | 2014-02-24T15:27:11 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | James was not a great man.
Great men walked up to the world and bent it to its will. Great men looked at challenge and laughed.
James did his 9-5, came home, and sat down. He typically would stand back up a few times, to use the toilet or get a beer, but no more than a few.
His son had stopped asking him to play w... | Sitting at the kitchen table Jacob stared out of the window and sipped a coffee from his "1# Dad" mug.
Suddenly there was a fizzing and spluttering sound and the #1 Dad appeared to melt from his mug revealing a #2,045,834 Dad behind.
He stared for a moment then said.
"Well shit... That's not bad at all." Then he gra... | 2017-06-11T09:29:45 | 2017-06-11T09:19:40 | 159 | 17 |
[WP] The Apocalypse wasn't as bad as the legends foretold. Sure the demons and angels are fighting everywhere, but they don't do THAT much collateral damage and the economy is booming thanks to humanity's ability to profit off of war. | Feb 1, 2021
WASHINGTON, DC - President Trump struck a gleeful tone in the White House Press Room on Monday when he announced a new multi-billion gold nugget weapons deal with Satan, the Lord of Darkness. The second such deal of its kind since the outbreak of the Apocalypse late last year, the United States has agreed ... | "I'll take uh, the flaming sword today Isaac." The demon said with an easy-going look on his face.
"Ah, you do love your antiques don't you Rasmondeous. That'll be 50 angel feathers."
"What can I say, it's hard to beat the old stuff." He tossed Isaac a small, brown sack and flew out of the store with his new toy. Isa... | 2020-05-06T08:56:04 | 2020-05-06T07:10:52 | 131 | 84 |
[WP] You're a 'comically incompetent' supervillain for a group of C-List heroes. They are no real threat to you, so you endure their childish speeches. However, when the heroes raid the civilian business you run on the side and injure your employees, you decide to take yourself seriously for once. | Look I'm a man who can handle many things...
Being listed by the World Villian League as 'Ridiculously D-Teir' because i don't personally feel the need to do more than rob banks and steal tech from labs was fair.
Having the Wrecking Crew be my assigned "Nemeses" was a hard pill to swallow but i got over it. Hell, i g... | \[ParaSEC Target File, Threat Level: Low\]
* C-Class audiokinesis \[Looping and pitch. No evidence of volume control\]
* D-Class speedster abilities. \[Slightly faster run speed. Potential sensory acuity - further evidence required\]
* Target demonstrates propensity to use powers exclusively for show. All 'villainous'... | 2022-11-29T04:37:56 | 2022-11-28T20:44:52 | 15 | 11 |
[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..... | As the hundredth candidate I knew I’d have to be clever, but the idea occurred somewhere around the 30th person. Marie had asked for the ability to steal powers. She was told that the ability would only be temporary and we all knew that killing or capturing the others was not allowed. She ended up choosing something el... | "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... | 2022-11-17T11:39:55 | 2022-11-17T07:26:44 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] When a child comes of age their greatest quality manifests itself as a familiar that will follow them for life. You just turned 21 and you still didn't have one, until this morning when two showed up and they terrify you. | I've always wanted a familiar. I grew up reverent of my father's. That dirty little mutt happily plods along behind him just like I used to. Like all familiars, it appeared with a plain, white card, only marked with the date of its first appearance and the name of the trait it represented.
"07/29/1993 - Loyalty".
To... | I had never known what life was like with a familiar. My parents both had them, my older brother had one, and almost every person I knew at my school had one. They'd follow their masters about from place to place disappearing occasionally when commanded. I would try to describe them, but they are all so unique it becom... | 2017-01-20T17:20:07 | 2017-01-20T14:02:57 | 45 | 22 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | “Does everyone get to choose?”
The watchman’s heart was breaking looking at the tiny child, covered in scars. They shouldn’t *be* scarred like that, not here, whatever acts caused them must have been truly despicable.
“Everyone gets to choose, and none for an age have chosen that door.”
The child stops their shuffli... | They’ve really pulled out all the stops. They *say* you can pick Heaven or Hell, but they forget to mention you need to be subordinate to the Big Dude. They do let you take your time, see both sides of the coin, but frankly you’d need to be a dumbass to pick heaven.
Who would want to die like that? Denying yourse... | 2018-08-13T08:39:02 | 2018-08-13T08:20:27 | 633 | 33 |
[WP] The year is 2501. You're sent to back to the Earth to perform the annual cleanup. Beneath a mountain of scraps and trash, you find a precious hard disk loaded with something that was forgotten for centuries: Video Games.
Edit: Thanks for all of your responses. I had the thought of this prompt come up in my mind a... | Video games? Man these were old. But one caught my eye with the complex patterns on the box. It seemed strangely new. This would be the one for study.
I completed my shift and got back to the ship. I decided to upload the game to the ships AI core so I could run it on the VR deck. Immersive experiences made things so ... | We heard many legends from our parents and grandparents about these so called video games. Apparently people used a lot of their free time to play them.
In the year 2301 earth was on the brink of collapse due to enviromental destruction, climate change and overpopulation. Our only survival chance was to escape to the... | 2018-07-07T07:03:05 | 2018-07-07T06:55:36 | 139 | 44 |
[WP] One night, something grabs your hand as it hangs off the edge of the bed. You give it a firm handshake. "You're hired," it whispers. | Bony fingers
gripped my hand
tore my soul
pulled me into
depths below
Black as Midnight
robe on hook
scythe on wall
Wait in office
for the call
Souls in balance
need my swipe
feel my slice
I decide who's
naughty nice
The day will come
you will see
I will see
your sins laid ... | Pain seared through your chest as you stirred in a bed. Your body felt like it was set on fire and sweat trickled down your forehead. You lay limp, trying to focus on your surroundings when you felt something grab your hand.
"You're hired," it whispered. Its voice was soft yet strong and for some reason you calmed do... | 2017-04-29T03:55:38 | 2017-04-29T02:46:57 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] When the police came to announce you the death of your husband, you refused to believe it. "That's impossible", you said. "Unfortunately, it's the truth, miss", answered the policemen. "It's impossible", you said again, "because he's in the kitchen making dinner." | "Ma'am, we have confirmed the identity with photo identification." Sergeant Miller took off his hat and thought for a moment. "Forgive me if this sounds insensitive, but have you ever seen your husband make dinner before?"
"Well, no. But you've got to be mistaken," I replied. "He's in the kitchen right now getting flo... | “Do you mind if I step into your house?” asked the police woman.
“Why of course but you may be shocked, officer. My husband isn’t dead.”
The police lady steps into the kitchen to find a middle aged man cooking spaghetti.
“Can I help you officer?” asked the man.
“Yes we believe that you are dead. Can we confirm y... | 2017-10-10T07:05:33 | 2017-10-10T06:37:43 | 103 | 24 |
[WP] Describe your favorite cheap food as if you were a waiter at a 5-star restaurant.
For example, describe the ingredients and process of making instant Ramen or a grilled cheese. | Today's special is çeréal ala Bos taurus. Made with the highest quality fructose and preservatives, imported all the way from a foreign, exotic country. Served with dairy taken from the best raised Bovinae, the lactose will surely delight the senses, leaving a pleasant taste in the mouth.
That'll be £79.99
EDIT: The ... | "The grilled cheese, you ask?" The child nodded enthusiastically, helpfully pointing out the item in the flimsy children's menu dashed with crayon and spittle. "Ah, the grilled cheese..." I cooed lustfully, my mind disappearing into the realm of Bimbo and slabs of artificial American cheese stuck between plastic films.... | 2016-05-13T06:17:35 | 2016-05-13T06:12:50 | 37 | 23 |
[WP] You're possessed by a demon. You quickly realize he's never done this before. | *Is that your dick?*
"I told you to get the fuck out of my head!" I shouted. To myself. In the shower. I was losing my mind. I was absolutely, completely, without a doubt losing my goddamn fucking mind. I was talking to myself. No, it was worse than that. I was talking to a voice inside my head that for some reason wa... | My Saturdays were usually pretty boring. Just me, alone in my bed, binge watching TV and eating crap by the armful. It was great. No stress, no work, no angry bosses -- just me and the hypnotizing glare of the screen.
It was one such Saturday when I felt a sudden punch in my stomach and pain in my chest. I pounded o... | 2017-10-07T14:03:11 | 2017-10-07T13:29:05 | 35 | 12 |
[WP] Quantum Physics responds when things are being observed. For some reason, the universe doesn't consider you to be an observer, and daily life can get pretty weird when no one is watching. | If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
Sorta.
I was born with this... thing. I'm not an active observer in the eyes of the universe. I know, I know - it sounds ridiculous, but here's the brunt of it. Things only happen when there is an active observer of that given event... ... | I have a habit. My habit is perfectly sane, utterly normal, as are all customs a man might have that pertain to lunch. Every day at noon, not 11:59, not 12:01, but directly on the dot of noon, I fold my jacket on my chair, put my overworked computer to sleep, and step out into the street with my lunchbox in my left han... | 2022-12-29T09:49:54 | 2022-12-29T08:57:56 | 161 | 83 |
[WP] "Sire, Sire, Grave news, The Princess has been kidnapped", "Oh has she?", "Sire... should you not be more concerned?". The king looked up from his reports, studying the guard's face before laughing "Ah, you must be new here, don't worry, she's more than capable of handling herself" | The young guardsman burst into the king's study, breathing heavily.
"Sire!" the soldier gasped, leaning forward and placing his hands on his knees as he struggled to catch his breath. "Sire, grave news! The princess has been kidnapped!"
"Oh, has she...?" the monarch muttered, distractedly, as he continued perusing t... | "WHERE IS MY RESCUE PARTY?!"
Silence greeted the princess as everyone looked everywhere but at her. The banquet was far less jolly than moments before when the doors melted into pools and she stepped in.
Quite an amazing trick that one. I had never seen a door melt before. Acid perhaps? I glanced at the king to see... | 2022-07-06T23:56:31 | 2022-07-06T21:36:01 | 49 | 22 |
[WP] Sometime in the future, murder is legal. Why?
Are there conditions or gray areas? Is it worldwide or specific to just one country? Are there age restrictions? You decide. | "Legal" is a funny word. When I was sixteen the pedantic bastard hired to teach driver education at my high school asked me how fast it was legal to go in a 25 zone.
"Thirty," I responded, eyes still on the road. Of course that wasn't the answer Mr Whats-his-name had in mind but the line of agitated drivers behind m... | I ran through the alley trying to stanch the flow of blood, petrichor laden air coming in ragged breaths. I had never thought I would be on the opposing end of a friends gun, but I suppose it was bound to happen sometime; it was legal and the money was good.
A world that was gradually on the decline suddenly took a s... | 2014-01-31T08:28:44 | 2014-01-31T08:23:50 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] Both brothers stood over their sister Candice's grave. Sad and angry, Phineas turned to his bother and said, "Ferb, I know what we are going to do today..." | The Statement of Phineas Flynn
by
H.P. Lovecraft
It was in my 11th year that my constant cohort and step-brother Ferb Fletcher came to me graveside in our mutual grief over the death of our dearest sister, Candice, with the eldritch tome he had recently procured from the dusty stacks of Miskatonic University.
T... | The grave glistened in the summer downpour. The golden inlayed message staring back at the brothers, the motif reading 'taken too soon, loving sister, beautiful soul" Ferb closed his eyes and reminisced, the drops of rain coating his ebony hair with a glimmering sheen. He tipped his head skyward and opened his eyes, te... | 2016-07-05T16:23:53 | 2016-07-05T16:17:30 | 84 | 11 |
[WP] Superpowers can now be torrented. You were 70% of the way through torrenting a power you've always wanted when the download stops. | Metal boxes were stacked haphazardly, their lights blinking and mechanical noises whirring. The room was dark and dank with the smell of body odor lying stagnant in the air and heavy breaths joining the tranquil symphony of computers.
70%. The icon continued to spin, as it had for the past 13 hours. 70%.
A lanky woma... | I've always wanted to have superpowers. I remember back when I was in the third grade I would run two miles home from school everyday, just so that I could watch the latest episode of the Super Man cartoon show. I was so obsessed with being a super hero that some days I would come to school wearing a red cape. Needless... | 2016-07-02T20:45:26 | 2016-07-02T18:09:05 | 86 | 17 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | This prison is all I've ever known. The world knows your luck rating as soon as your born. I entered the world, my luck rating was seen, and I was taken away from my parents. They must have had low-luck ratings. Most 100s have low-luck parents. I was brought to this maximum security prison only hours after I was born. ... | I remember my heart stopped beating for a second. Could it really be true?
Jail? I had laughed at the time. If people with 99 luck could survive being the suicide bomber, then no jail would hold me. Everyone had a luck stat, which determined how lucky they were.
However, I had 100 luck, and upto my knowledge, the onl... | 2018-06-29T11:30:53 | 2018-06-29T08:43:19 | 36 | 26 |
[WP] tell me a story without using the letter E | 有一种青春叫宿舍
【女生版】
有各自的专属昵称
每天被闹钟吵醒，
所有人依然雷打不动，
定闹钟的x位就是不关它，
为的是呼唤三位大神起床。
每次吃饭需要互相帮忙捎带
or叫外卖or四大天王集体出动，
但是重点是没有人知道要吃什么？
衣服多到柜子都堆不下，
放到了室友的柜子里。
打扫卫生总是互相提醒，
各自忙到半夜三更，
回寝室分批煮面吃，
一起嘎讪胡到凌晨三点，
谈天谈人生谈帅哥，
聊八卦聊政治，互相学各自的方言，
笑到肚子疼。
在彼此面前完全不顾及形象。
总有一个天天缺水喝，
跟头水牛似的，
喝多少都嫌渴。
每天除了逛淘宝，买买买
永远... | John growls, prodding his stick of chalk at Colin, in almost worrying proximity to his smart navy suit. Grimacing as thoughts of what it would cost him to wash it fill his brain, Colin jumps backwards, his hands instantly flying up to brush imaginary chalk dust from his shirt.
"Now calm down, I was only making a propo... | 2017-05-23T09:31:22 | 2017-05-23T06:30:08 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | *Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.*
My eyes were glued to the green button, every night. At first, I loved the color. Green is healthy, and green is money. It made sense. What didn't make sense made it even more fascinating somehow. Hell, I even got the thing a black case. Suede.
*Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tick. To... | I looked at her as she looked back
We looked at the button, unassuming black
We kissed deeply, in the matte dark
We looked at the button, the paradigm Mark
I looked at her as she looked back
Fear and emotion and a need for no lack
We kissed as we pushed, together, in tandem
What happened next, was far from rando... | 2016-07-16T17:19:00 | 2016-07-16T17:08:32 | 65 | 12 |
[WP] You are Placebo Man. Your superpowers are whatever the people nearby you believe you have.
Bonus prompt: Your nemesis knows your secret. | I throw the ornate knife with pinpoint accuracy. This is the most crucial part of my attack, and I can't use my superpowers for it, so I've practiced it extensively. It spins once and sinks into the wall inches away from the henchman, the symbol carved into its hilt clearly visible.
"Shit. It's a cape!" The gangste... | If Karl "Placebo Man" Hansen had a superpower, it might be his supreme vanity. His ability to understand completely his appearance and to quickly judge another's reaction to him. Truly, he had no power. None without the belief of those around him, at least. If Karl could convince the people around him that he could fly... | 2015-04-05T18:00:22 | 2015-04-05T17:48:20 | 1,860 | 38 |
[WP] There's an urban legend in your town called "Grinning Greg". A twisted, horrifying grinning face can be seen on the window of an abandoned church before a calamity strikes. This year, "Greg" appears on the window, but he frowns. | His face emerged at night, in the early hours. Snow had fallen recently and the village was bathed in that comforting, sickly-sweet yellow glow from the flames of the street lamps. He wasn't discovered until hours later when the milkman trundled past on his cart. Humming, he drove down the road on the way to his first ... | As for me & my friend, Alistair was heading towards an abandoned church were legends were told we heard a stick snap. Looking around we sighed & chuckled trying to remain to assuage. We heard how a man named Greg once attended a church. One day, a serial killer came into the church & murdered everybody ther... | 2020-03-28T14:09:54 | 2020-03-28T10:54:11 | 74 | 28 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | "Dad?"
"Dad are you ok?"
I stood there speechless for what felt like forever. Up until this moment my life had been what most would call perfect. A loving, caring wife. An adoring son. The irony that the gift from his last Father's Day that brought joy to my heart is now the source of this terrible anguish.
My wif... | Sitting at the kitchen table Jacob stared out of the window and sipped a coffee from his "1# Dad" mug.
Suddenly there was a fizzing and spluttering sound and the #1 Dad appeared to melt from his mug revealing a #2,045,834 Dad behind.
He stared for a moment then said.
"Well shit... That's not bad at all." Then he gra... | 2017-06-11T10:22:32 | 2017-06-11T09:19:40 | 30 | 17 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | No one truly knew how it happened, but on a person's sixteenth birthday, they were teleported to a room. It was a small, dark room that housed a long table that was full of every food imaginable.
Today was Robert's birthday. It happened in a instant; one moment, he was sitting on the couch trying to pick out which vi... | "This is the opposite of Santa Claus," I said to myself, as I shambled alone through an endless white expanse.Some things you believe as a child, then one day you realize it was all a game for children. With the *transition,* well, I have to admit I never believed it. Yet there I was and it seemed as real as anything.*... | 2020-03-19T10:34:21 | 2020-03-19T09:29:08 | 39 | 29 |
[WP] you are yourself, on Christmas Day, reading this on reddit, you are told that you are loved and accepted for who you are, and to have a happy holiday season, and a great new year!
EDIT: oh my god, this post accounts for 50% of my karma, it’s also the first reddit gold I’ve ever gotten, thank you so much reddit, t... | As I finished reading the meta writing prompt I was filled with a small feeling of warmth. A relatively bad time of year for me made a little brighter by random people online and the mods that backed up their choice to share a little good during their day.
"Merry Christmas, guys. Or happy holidays. Either way, at the ... | "Is it Christmas?", I asked myself. The sludge-like snow on the ground obscures my sense of time, or even season. The last 20 or 90 months have been covered in ice, it seems. And a blizzard has been forming in my head for years. I've salted the streets in preparation for my upcoming travels into the unknown depths of m... | 2017-12-24T23:41:28 | 2017-12-24T23:09:32 | 353 | 19 |
[WP] Two men play a game of chess. One can read minds; the other can see the future. | They walked up and took their seats.
They looked at the board.
They looked at each other.
They looked at the board.
Moments passed. Eventually the telepath looked to his opponent and said, "I have the worst fucking migraine right now."
"Me to," said the psychic. "Let's never hang out again."
"Agreed."
They left. | The two players sit down at the game table amid a sea of onlookers, Bob the psychic looks upon his opponent no doubt peering into her mind. At that very same moment, Betty the Sage whose stoic pose and closed eyes telegraph what must be her visualizing a vivid flash of what's to come.
A breathless moment passes as th... | 2017-01-19T17:36:57 | 2017-01-19T17:07:33 | 372 | 36 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a law was passed globally that requires everyone to hibernate for 100 years at a time after every 90 years. Today is Shutdown Day. As you finish getting tucked into your pod, you instantly notice eyes being shut all around you. But something is wrong. You are still awake.
This post was part... | It worked! I couldn’t believe it, I was sitting in a hibernation pod wide awake. I have to get out of here before someone notices, need to slip back into the new rotation, take on my new identity...
See ever since overpopulation became a thing, we had to start coming up with ways to survive. Along comes the brilliant... | I'm still awake. I wait for ten minutes before I realize something is wrong. Hmm, alright, hit the emergency release. The pod opens and I step out and look around and see all the sleeping people around me.
OK. Let's find the AI governor and ask what's happened. I walk up to the control room which is oddly blacked out... | 2018-12-29T04:15:00 | 2018-12-29T04:13:22 | 36 | 10 |
[WP] A rich man discovers that he only has two years left to live. With no relatives to inherit his fortune, he disguises himself as a beggar and resolves to give his wealth to the first person who helps him. | The faceless man without a name sat down on the sidewalk, shaking a jug of coins at the bypassing people. He didn’t have a name or face because this story took place in a world without a proper setting or forethought, words were scarce and descriptions suffered in turn. The only things that existed were his immense for... | The barista gave Todd a weird-looking loonie for change. The metal had gone brown, and green fuzz covered the Queen's face. On his way out, Todd held the ugly loonie in the center of his palm.
"Ew," he said to himself.
The loonie was fascinatingly gross, like one of those videos online where people knife open massive... | 2017-08-21T01:01:22 | 2017-08-21T00:27:32 | 825 | 308 |
[WP] You were a young mage when you inadvertently embarrassed royalty and got a bounty on your head. At first, thousands swarmed you to take your head. Now nobody does. They know better. | It began simply enough. These things always do.
The young prince considered himself a sorcerer of some skill, and being arrogant, rich, young, and rich, arranged a contest of arcane skill to prove himself.
10,000 gold pieces to any one who could best him - to cast a enchantment that he could not break.
Of course he... | Many have come to see Eberron, the world sage, and seek his wisdom. Some come seeking help, after their lives have devolved so far into despair they see no other path to salvation. The world sage is known as a healer of what is broken. Others come in search of advice, seeking a way to know the future, to gain some grea... | 2018-06-10T04:39:20 | 2018-06-10T04:19:28 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] It was a weapon so powerful that not even the most barbaric warmongering civilisation could stomach it. Just by building one, we struck terror in the hearts of many species. We weren't even planning on using it... | It was a weapon so powerful that it was useless. A seemingly nonsensical statement, but it was a perfect descriptor for our species' most powerful weapon.
The amount of times it has been used can be counted on a single hand, and hasn't seen use in hundreds of years. To use one, was to invite destruction not just on yo... | The "Sun Eater", that's how the Tarcyds called it when they offered unconditional surrender when we established first contact.
"Are you sure the translator is working correctly Dr. Lopez?" My first officer asked our SETI NCO, protocol dictated tha we had to bring one if we expected sentient life on the other sid... | 2022-10-31T23:35:05 | 2022-10-31T20:47:20 | 373 | 190 |
[WP] Only you can see the thread that connects people to their soulmate. You've never told anyone and if you have a thread you can't see it. Today you caught someone staring at you when you asked they said, with tears in their eyes: "You are the only person I've seen with no soulmate." | For the longest time, I had no idea what the strings were. All I knew was how they were shooting out from people's hearts and dashing off into the universe.
I remembered the first time I ever saw the end of one of the strings; when young Nancy started in my class, and my friend John's string beamed out to her. From h... | I'm not even surprised.
Truth be told, I like to mess with people in the worst way. Sure I can see the glowing pink lasso that connects them to their soulmate, but I definitely wouldn't consider myself a cupid.
Without the dark, there is no light, yadda yadda yadda.
What makes this world great is the struggle for w... | 2018-12-11T13:33:19 | 2018-12-11T11:49:42 | 43 | 15 |
[WP] You are bitten by a werewolf, your sibling is bitten a vampire. Things become awkward when you find out that your parents are secretly famous monster hunters. | It was a dark and stormy night... thunder rolled in the distance, while the family gathered around the fireplace.
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"Mom... dad... I have something important to tell you. Could you please sit down?"
"Sure thing dear." My mother took a seat while polishing her silver-coated crossbow bolts.
"What is it hon... | “Remind me what your name is again.” The man- I mean wolf- I mean *werewolf* they called Lupus said, with a (perhaps permanent) frown on his face.
The flustered werewolf stammered, “J-Johnny, my sir.”
“Well, Johnny, you’re a fucking genius! You know who that girl is?”
“N-no sir, I’m afraid I don’t know her.”
“She’s... | 2020-01-12T07:56:17 | 2020-01-12T06:40:38 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] Create the most Overpowered, god-mode character ever. Then kill him in the most idiotic way. | I stepped into the wilderness, clutching my pack to my chest. What little scraps of armor I had left barely clung on to me, my only redeeming factor being the slightly glowing jade sword I held. I had gotten it as a 1/1000 drop chance from a dungeon boss.
I slunk in behind the trees, carefully avoiding the known bandi... | "There he was, the most powerful creature that could ever possibly exist probably had powers beyond our puny human imaginings. And yet, there he went."
"So, what happened to him?"
"You see, he slipped on a banana peel"
"What?"
"He was going undercover as a human to see what we were like. He had 'temporarily disable... | 2017-09-04T13:05:47 | 2017-09-04T12:54:07 | 72 | 40 |
[WP] "I wish I was born in the 90s," says the young girl. Suddenly, her surroundings change- french flags fly above and around her, crowds are cheering. It is France, 1793. The king is dead. Long live the revolution. | It wasn't the crowd, or the shouting, or the fire, but her body that shocked her the most. She felt frail and ached all over. She looked down to see her hands. They were cracked like aged leather. Her skin papery and thin.
"Where am I? What's happening?" She asked the crowd.
A man turned to her. He must have bee... | She looked around the street bustling with activity. Full of people. All speaking French. She had taken two and a half years of French in high school but the language here was almost foreign to her.
"Good day miss," said a passerby.
"Good day to you as well," she replied.
"Are you going to the assembly in the squa... | 2017-04-24T09:02:20 | 2017-04-24T08:23:15 | 1,096 | 121 |
[WP] Everyone dies twice: once when their body dies, and once when their name is spoken for the last time. One must wander the earth as a ghost until their name is spoken for the last time; only then can they pass into the afterlife. It's been over 3000 years, and you're still here. | I am King Tut. I've been wandering the Earth for 3000 years, unfortunately. As it turns out, you do pass into the afterlife. Although, in order for that to happen, your name has to be uttered for the last time.
Being that I was a pharaoh, I'm probably going to be spoken about until the end of time. That's what happens... | It was all because of that stupid TV show.
I thought that it was done ruining my life when I turned twenty. The comments had slowly been dying down, and I figured that once my friends were out of their teenage years, the talk would turn to wine more so than my name.
Sufficed to say, it didn’t.
I died from old age, in ... | 2016-01-17T13:04:14 | 2016-01-17T11:15:23 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] It's 2023 and the United States Military is filled with Call of Duty kids. | Dear Mrs. Jenkins,
As you know your son, Pvt. 1st class Leroy Jenkins, was killed in action Thursday, June 29th 2023. At the time, we told you that an investigation was underway as to the cause of your son's death. The investigation is now complete and we hope that it may help you find closure. It appears that you... | "This is xX1337swaglord$$$Xx reporting to base sir! We need a tactical nuke on our position NOW!"
Command was not having it. "But you'll DIE!"
"Yeah," I said, "all eight of us. But there's like fifty of those filthy plebs that we need to take out!"
"The U.S. has only three nukes left!" The commander argued. "We're n... | 2015-05-29T05:50:44 | 2015-05-29T03:39:24 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] Time Travel is possible, but only used to send terminally ill people into the future in hopes of being cured. For the first time, someone's been sent back. | The phone was ringing. Screaming in agony.
Joseph blinked blearily past the pale fog of sleep in order to faintly discern the time. Two forty-five A.M. in soothing blue numerals. When is a phone call at 2:45 A.M. ever good news?
With a heavy sigh he grabbed his vibrating, screaming phone and hit accept. "What?" he as... | "What's going on, why is something materializing in the containment chamber?" asked Tom pounding the keys on his console. "The patient is gone and now there's something in there. An anomaly? Did we just fuck up the Einstein-Bose calculations?"
Sarah paused for a moment, looked at Tom, and looked back at her monitor... | 2014-07-24T07:49:52 | 2014-07-24T07:47:28 | 120 | 57 |
[WP] Your son asked you "dad are clouds candy?" You told him they were water. Then he asked "dad, what are Earth's defense systems. Then you remembered you don't have a son, and then he asked again, his eyes now obsidian black. "what is the defense system father." | The sky is that same wonderful blue, just how I remember it.
Clouds float across, giant puffy wads of water vapor so aesthetically pleasing in their movement.
I breathe deeply, I can smell that soft morning dew.
A wonderful place to be.
Too bad none of it is real.
They - whoever they is - made several crucial erro... | "What is the defense system father?" The black eyes sent a chill down his spine.
This wasn't real.
A test.
The latest in a long string. Never ending.
But this was different than the others. Those had been fought in the tangible world. Asteroids flung at us. FTL passes. Wormholes. Time and time they had tried to e... | 2018-05-13T21:11:58 | 2018-05-13T21:01:02 | 1,284 | 428 |
[WP] Liars' pants really do catch on fire. You're moderating the first presidential debate. | Ok, so Trump has taken the stage, greeted everyone in the room, and has gone on to say he hopes the best man wins - and yes, the fire extinguishers have been brought out, everyone seems to be fine, singed eyebrows and all that, is that a record, Mark?
My co-moderator Mark has informed me that yes, at 2 seconds this b... | And Mr. Trump it's now your turn, the question is, "How will you help America".
Trump- "Well I can tell you this, America loves me, I mean they love me but not like I love me, and America needs saving this I can tell you, all kinds of saving, but really they need saving by me because I know saving, and you with the ni... | 2016-07-28T14:09:23 | 2016-07-28T09:32:21 | 49 | 22 |
[WP] A female assassin kills her marks by seducing their wives and convincing them to murder their husbands. | A wink, a smile, a good word.
Sonia knew she was beautiful and charming. It was fact. She did not consider herself lucky to be born this way, beauty was a weapon she honed everyday. She did sports, knew the latest trends, had a personal style of her own that set her apart from the crowd. But more than that, she had a ... | Dimitri sauntered into the office, hips waving and auburn hair flowing gracefully. As usual, her presence turned heads, and how could it *not?* She was beautiful. Round face, hazel eyes that could cut you in half, and mocha skin that was irresistibly soft. More attractive than her physical beauty was the air of confide... | 2021-07-18T00:42:46 | 2021-07-17T23:00:10 | 104 | 37 |
[WP] Magic exists, however with a catch. Everyone can only use magic the way they expect magic to function. Harry Potter fans MUST do weird wand waving while Call of Cthulhu players all end up going insane. Write an interaction or duel between two vastly different magic users.
Honestly if magic did exist in our world,... | Today was supposed to be the day.
I was never sure were this magic came from. Where those that believed in Harry Potter got their fancy wands and ridiculous Latin spells. Mine came in the form of a couple whispers, that day I killed that abusive prick who called himself my father. The moment his blood spilled I heard... | woop, posted to a response, instead of post... Repost.
"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long pa... | 2018-10-16T00:47:31 | 2018-10-16T00:41:38 | 62 | 13 |
[WP] Killing Hitler is the second worse crime that a time traveller can commit. The first is preventing the Beatles from breaking up. | I don't get it.
I mean the No Killing of Hitler order was perfectly understandable. There were so many variables, so many ways the future could possibly turn out bleaker had Nazi Germany not been there to counterbalance all the other powers of the time. Stalin's Soviet Russia, just to name the obvious. Churchill ove... | "Why? Why, can't we kill Hitler?!" asked the disappointed corporal, finishing up his laces.
The captain looked up from his weapons-check, "Having a guy in place, like Hitler, before the advent of nuclear weapons and time-travel is important. Its the only thing that will show people who come after them what the warnin... | 2017-02-08T10:20:03 | 2017-02-08T08:41:19 | 53 | 34 |
[WP]: Suddenly, everyone with tattoos gains powers related to the tattoo. Tattoos of flames, you control fire. A tattoo of a gecko, you can climb on walls. All dudes with "tribal" tattoos have strangely bonded together. | It was all happening so fast that we never had time to consider what would happen when it had finished happening.
Everyone with a tattoo was manifesting abilities. It was all fairly sensible. Fire tattoo? Fire powers. Ice tattoo? Ice powers. Emoji ink? Emotion manipulation.
The weird thing was the people with tribal ... | They used to laugh at her. Being an outcast, Adreal had never had an easy life. She was never into the typical girly things, reading old books and constantly browsing weird websites, people called her a witch and freak. She loved music though. It made her feel alive and let her feel like she mattered even if it was... | 2019-05-07T08:13:06 | 2019-05-07T07:47:53 | 3,401 | 218 |
[WP] The peaceful humans are inhabiting a beautiful garden world known as Earth. They love sharing their eco-centric technologies with us. And yet, they are extremely ashamed of their ancient history and refuse to talk about it. You, a xenoarcheologist, are determined to find out why | \[This Transcript has been translated from Galactic Uniform using GrainAI\]
\[Entry\_06: Sub-modification Ex.alta (Date: 24/41/4549 GA)\]
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Human historical studies continue, largely without progress. The species continues to be ardently guarded about their history prior to \[Human Year Designation: AD\] 2350. Fu... | As day 1,234 with the humans come to a close I find myself no closer to their secrets.
We are only allowed stays of 5 earth years as the humans call them, and I feel that my time here is falling away more rapidly than it should.
The humans have a saying *that time flies when one is having a joyful time* or some suc... | 2022-10-16T08:59:44 | 2022-10-16T06:46:56 | 531 | 113 |
[WP] "Humanity will only unite if they have a common enemy. In that unity, they will achieve peace, for as long as that enemy lives." He looked at you with his dark tired eyes, your weapon on his neck, as he croaked, "That's why I chose to be the bad guy." | *“Why is the world so bad?” The little boy asks his mother.*
*He watches as she turns her gaze away from the television set to level her son with an unwavering stare. He almost flinches from the intensity of it all.*
*He’s never seen her like this - tired, determined, dead. She looks at him as if the world was never ... | "Duh," I said.
"... Duh?" he uttered, dragging the word a tag too long, betraying his unfamiliarity with the times and its lexicon.
"Old man," I continued.
"... Old? I've only--"
"Old man," I assured him of the fact once again, pressing my blade a little closer. Not enough to draw blood, but enough to make him winc... | 2020-12-09T09:22:03 | 2020-12-09T09:06:25 | 890 | 598 |
[WP] You meet God before reincarnation and you discover that there is a prestige system going on. In your previous incarnations you chose to improve weirdly specific stats. | “Why didn’t you do it?” The archangel asked me. “What?” I replied. A hurricane of thoughts swept through my mind.
I could’ve used the brakes. I could’ve turned. I couldn’t have just hit that deer, could I? What did he mean?
We walked forward, through an endless expanse of empty white ground and clear blue sky. I cou... | "Stubbed Toe Avoidance?" I stared in disbelief at the floating egg before me. "Wow, there really is a stat for everything, is there?"
From the pure whiteness surrounding me, there came a booming laugh. The egg shook slightly, looking as amused as any egg could get. "Yes, Ugg112358, there's a stat for just about any ra... | 2019-01-24T12:06:40 | 2019-01-24T08:06:38 | 87 | 57 |
[WP] Gordon Ramsay mistakenly walks into your house to film an episode of Kitchen Nightmares, and refuses to believe that you aren't a failing restaurant owner | I got home after another long day. I yawned a little, dropped my bag by the door and walked into the kitchen. After walking aimlessly over to the cupboard and getting myself a snack, I began thinking it was about time to start cooking dinner, so I quickly put some music on, and started looking for food, humming quietly... | It's tough holding a dinner party for your friends when you can barely cook. But trying to prepare food with Frankenstein's uglier Scottish cousin leaning over your shoulder is nigh on impossible. That's what I get for leaving a window open, I suppose.
As I take the chicken breasts out of the oven to inspect them, Gor... | 2016-06-29T01:12:15 | 2016-06-29T00:16:18 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] Every known object on Earth has a legendary "sword in the stone" variant. From the legendary socks in the stone to the legendary tv in the stone. After years of searching though, you find it: the legendary Stone in the stone. | Creaking bones beg me to stop. Tearing muscles scream for this madness to end. Even my mind is arguing for the last sleep. But my soul refuses to let them stop.
I was young when the rumors first came to me. Excalibur had been found, THE sword in the stone. A champion was needed and I, like everyone else, came to try... | The cemetery rustled with stirrings of malevolence. Elijah stood in the cool air of the summer’s night, relishing the sweet scent of grass and soft chirping of crickets. He breathed deep as she approached, her boots squishing down on the damp grass. She made no effort to move quietly, and he made no effort to run. Such... | 2019-02-07T13:31:35 | 2019-02-07T12:36:22 | 262 | 20 |
[FF] In 75 words or fewer, write about experiencing a devastating loss, without including death. | A package sits on my doorstep, unopened, slightly damp from the rain.
It's filled with toys, games, books, new clothes. Things a little boy would probably have loved. I wonder if she even tells him about me.
A note is pasted on top, numbing words stamped in red ink, like everything else I've ever sent.
"Return to Se... | "Damn it all, where is it?" he said, as he scoured the room for the lost item.
He had to find it.
The ring was his only reminder of the better times. Of when he was happy. Of when THEY were happy. Together.
Before she had changed and found somebody else. Before the heartache, the loneliness.
Before the endl... | 2014-10-20T03:30:23 | 2014-10-19T20:26:59 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] 2174. Sleep is prohibited amongst all U.S citizens. Pills known as “Wakey Tablets” provide enough raw energy to stay awake for 3 days. Anyone caught sleeping will be shot on sight. You are secretly running an underground network of beds for all to sleep on. You hear a knock on the door. | In the dim room of the abandoned railroad wing, lit only by the occasional laptop or phone, the people of the United States of America got the rest they so desperately needed.
But not us. Not the Watchers.
We were the operators of this little ring. While citizens threw away their Wakey Tablets and slept like normal p... | "Man, Halloween isn't for another three months. Get the hell outta here."
"I heard you got the good sleep, friendziki," the guy in the Cyber-Reaper costume says.
"You heard wrong," I tell him, and wave. The door clamps shut.
I turn around and almost jump out of my skin. *He's in here*. Chilling at my table. "Wha-Bu-... | 2019-06-19T10:15:04 | 2019-06-19T07:22:51 | 27 | 13 |
[WP] Your significant other is possessed by a demon. Soon after; you realize you love the demon and not your SO anymore and it's actually mutual. Now the exorcist has arrived. | "Come on Tom, you must realize than Helen has been gone for nearly a year now"
I actually hasn't been aware, but that little bit of news jerked me out of morose ponderings at the discovery that my wife was, if fact, possessed by a demon.
"Wait, so... the birthday party where you invited all my friends, including my f... | "Can't I just clock him? I really bloody want to." The girl holding the pan took a test swing in the hallway. Two kilos of lovely iron-reinforced teflon, with the added bonus of oil that hadn't quite cooled yet. It was dripping on the rug.
"No, Hal, Hal, hey. Hey!"
Mid-swing the pan changed direction and hit the ful... | 2017-10-10T08:20:26 | 2017-10-09T14:52:53 | 18 | 10 |
[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. | I've seen the numbers since I was a little girl. I remember my father losing his job, rising from a 4 to a 5. I remember watching my grandmother slowly dwindle down to a 0. At first I thought I was going crazy, not realizing what they meant. I eventually caught on. The numbers were a person's ultimate quantifier, broad... | "I'm Michael," he said as he stuffed text books into his locker.
I wasn't sure what to do. He was a ten. The only ten I'd seen was my dad and he'd been locked away. It was his number that brought back the painful memories of my childhood. He would come home every night drenched with the stench of cigarettes, beer, an... | 2014-11-29T14:43:43 | 2014-11-29T13:16:01 | 295 | 36 |
[WP] Humans are actually a phenomenally advanced species - except for the glaringly obvious thing they missed. Write from the perspective of a befuddled alien xenobiologist. | In a dark, windowless basement, a bored graduate student was sifting through camera feeds of various alien planets. They'd been told that these were all the cameras trained on planets without intelligence, but someone had to make sure they hadn't missed anything. It mostly entailed watching a feed for a few hours, seei... | "The thing that gets me," began Blurk, swiveling away from the view-sphere to address his partner and research assistant Gabble (who was presently hunched over his own view-sphere, gazing intently at the fascinating image of two bipedal organisms from T-734 playing Ping-Pong), "and I recognize it's a bit puerile of me ... | 2015-04-09T12:36:13 | 2015-04-09T11:32:49 | 162 | 45 |
[WP] You are a Hell Writer, you design hells for people after they die based on studying their life history. Today Satan summons you to his sanctum and you are troubled to see that he has a shocked expression on his face. | There’s a lot of room for advancement for a demon with imagination. Most simply work as crew members, taking orders and slaying souls, but an elite few are gifted with an imagination to take torment and turn it into art. After researching an individual’s life, they envision and enliven the perfect piece of pain for the... | "Screw you Bob, looks like you really outdid yourself this time... The big guy Upstairs sent me a message due to your incompetence", said the Dark Lord.
I looked up confused. "Sir, I try my best to torture our subjects according to what I feel would be your own will, Master"
Satan gave me a look like I was a special ... | 2016-11-08T17:34:05 | 2016-11-08T17:32:37 | 104 | 19 |
[WP] You are living a day that 50 years from now will be the answer to a question on a History Test. (Essay or Multiple Choice Question- Take your pick) | Using evidence from the article exerpt, the author implies that one of the first **major** steps to the creation of the Korean Union of Fellowship was?
>A. Wednesday, June 13th; The United States President and North Korean leader meet in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
>B. Friday, April 27th, 2018; The South Korean Pr... | It was impossible to hear anything over the roar of the crowd. Then again, it wasn’t everyday someone that famous visited the city. I peered over the people in front of me, but it was no use. Try as I might, even the tell tale glint of an automobile was obscured by the masses. He probably wasn’t even coming this way an... | 2018-04-27T13:06:21 | 2018-04-27T11:34:31 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] A short Horror story. Something to chill the bones in one hundred words or less. | The room is exactly as I recall it, to the most precise detail, but this is not my home. These walls, bookshelf, the leather couch, this is a shroud pulled over something far more malevolent. Then voices, I hear them coming from the basement, they whisper “he knows.” I look to the living room window, into the night. A ... | The town square sparkled like the 4th of July sky. Children's laughter filled the air; old friends were catching up. Hearing them made me think of Junior and my wife and my lifelong friends.
From behind me, the wooden platform creaked as a man approached my position. His voice erupted forcing the crowd's to quickly s... | 2015-06-09T09:54:42 | 2015-06-09T08:48:23 | 95 | 12 |
[WP] Something happy with magic and corgis.
I've been feeling really down for the past few days and would love to escape into a wonderful world for awhile. | Queen Elizabeth started to fall ill. She requested a new dog to accompany her through the rough days. When the corgi arrived, it reminded her of her first, "Dookie." So she gave him the same name. Dookie was quite uniform in his coat, mostly brown. But in the center of his head, between the eyes, a white marking in the... | "But Rupert, we mustn't disturb the unicorn while it's sleeping!" Billy whispered.
Rupert, a little corgi with eyes so big you wanted to melt just looking at them, let out a gentle little bark that sounded like a siren's call. Then, in almost an instant, he hopped over toward the sleeping beast, forcing Billy to traip... | 2017-10-12T00:27:01 | 2017-10-11T23:44:17 | 58 | 11 |
[WP] Describe you favorite color, but don't say the name of it. | When you dip her in the middle of the dance floor, it's the color of her dress.
When she whispers into your ear, it's the color of her lips.
When you make love, it's the trace you want her to leave all over your body.
When she places her palm over your heart, it's the color that comes to the surface as her finger... | My favorite color is the color of smiles and happiness, of sunlight and joy, of new beginnings and fresh smells. It's the color of flowers and life and that nagging feeling in the back of your mind. It's the color of alertness and fun memories and getting just a *little* tipsy with your best friends.
It's also the c... | 2013-12-25T13:29:02 | 2013-12-25T10:19:49 | 25 | 16 |
[WP] You are one of the most feared villainesses in the world. Evil armies, dark powers, you have it all. Your husband on the other hand is the exact opposite, being truly kind and mild mannered. He is still supportive of your endeavors, even trying to be a villain himself to...varying results. | I am the Unfettered Empress, and my empire covers the world. By my command, dark gods bow before me. By my word, thousands dies. If it is my will, the oceans freeze, from the fire shall rain down burning ice, and the sky shall be torn asunder. My disciplined, battle-hardened armies, clad in steel and armed with sabres ... | The shadows in the castle lengthened with her mere presence, even the guards, trained to handle almost any situation without fear, only barely resisted the urge to shiver as an unnatural cold filled the air. The queen made her way down into the dungeon, moving with unearthly elegance and radiating an aura of control an... | 2020-04-14T06:19:41 | 2020-04-14T05:41:49 | 712 | 237 |
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