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[WP] In 2020, we received a signal from outer space. Somebody had decoded our language and sent us a message. It was short: "Be quiet. They'll hear you" | "The question isn't whether we do something about it, it's what actions can we take to ensure we comply with this mysterious message."
The American president pounded on the podium as she stood before the United Nations.
"I'll repeat what dozens of scientists and cryptologists have already made clear, this is not a h... | As a kid, Marcus used to look up into the twilight in wonderment. A million stars in every direction, each dot in the sky monumentally bigger than Earth itself. It truly made him feel small. Though now that he worked on a galactic mining ship, spending eight hours a day staring at this same celestial site, he no longer... | 2017-08-25T08:24:04 | 2017-08-25T06:43:36 | 72 | 32 |
[WP] You are an NPC in a failed online game. Tell about the final days before server shut down.
Edit 1: Holy shit! Thanks for all of the great replies!
Edit 2: ¡Jesus Cristo! Front page! Thanks all! | Kurt looked own at the screen.
He started Dragon's Egg when he was fifteen and just getting into programming. He based a lot of it on old games he played himself. He had been a huge fan of Zelda, Runescape, Final Fantasy.
But the effort he put into the game just seemed pointless. No one seemed to be entering the 's... | It was a simple enough concept. We dig, we mine, we dig, we mine. Everyone was agreed that we were some sort of dwarves but we didn't really have any need to verify it.
We dig, we mine, and occasionally one of us would come along who could dig, and mine, and fight the cave monsters and was, well, some sort of super-dw... | 2015-09-01T09:58:16 | 2015-09-01T09:31:42 | 43 | 30 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | It was a natural fit, ending up as an obstetrician. There was a satisfaction in seeing the beginning of someone's life, and then knowing the end. That was, until about 10 years ago. It was infrequent at first. METEOR, the first one said. Now almost all of them do.
The telescope in my living room was bought once... | Over the years I've come to interpret the colors I see around people. I once tried to describe it to someone and they told me it,was their "Aura," but every description of an aura has multiple colors. I only see one, and each color is a different kind of death.
There's your common red, something to do with the heart m... | 2015-03-31T10:42:03 | 2015-03-31T09:00:41 | 30 | 22 |
[WP]God answers all of your prayers, and only your prayers. God is also kind of a dick with a matching sense of humor. | Just last week, I prayed to God and told Him that I was broke.
I check my mailbox (His favorite method of divine delivery) and found a cash-filled envelope. When I opened it, I instead found a note:
"Hello Broke, I'm God!"
You know, I'm about tired of His shit. | The day Bill Hays trapped me inside my locker after school and left me there shivering like a wet kitten all night long -- they turned the heat off at night, of course, what with the recession and all -- I interspersed some prayers with my sobbing, and I guess the Lord must have thought I was the pitifulest thing he'd ... | 2015-02-13T01:00:12 | 2015-02-12T21:52:15 | 33 | 11 |
[WP] Your Uber passenger was a little odd, but you still gave them the usual farewell: “If you enjoyed the ride, make sure you say thanks with five stars!” A few days later, you receive a nicely worded thank you letter in the mail along with a deed to the entire constellation of Cassiopeia. | Foreigners have a tough time with tips, so when they get off the plane you usually have to explain to them. I'd lay it out to them... I worked a bar at the LaGuardia airport... regardless of what you got for service you should tip. America sucks, it's how waiters and bartenders actually get paid.
Somehow it makes sens... | *Ay, qué bonita*, Claudia thought to herself as she traced the lovely, golden cursive. A letter, crisp and firm, elegantly written, thanking her for what she thought had been just another routine ride.
She remembered the man: tall, talkative, *pero como una cabra*, sharing such fantastical and outlandish tales... | 2021-12-07T21:08:36 | 2021-12-07T21:05:34 | 140 | 57 |
[WP] You are a barista in a 24 hour coffee shop. Every night at 3:33am a demon appears for the Dark Lord's latte. | 3:30am. Time always seems to slow down as I wait for the demon to show up. The first couple of times he came looking for a latte was absolutely terrifying. I can always smell him before he actually opens the door, the stench of sulphur and blood. It puts you on edge. It’s like your subconscious knows that smell and wha... | “Espresso, hot.”
She had the little paper cup ready before the door to the restroom had even finished swinging shut. A slight mist followed the visitor out, sickly smelling like pumpkin spice.
“The nutmeg?”
“Extra nutmeg.”
“Thank you Julia.”
He shuffled up to the counter. Every time she tried to look at him. She c... | 2022-10-30T08:38:35 | 2022-10-30T08:13:00 | 2,033 | 679 |
[WP] Scientists have discovered cryogenic freezing. You are it's first test subject and it's a massive success, and they plan on releasing you in 500 years. You had no way of telling them you were conscious.
Holy shit this blew up!
I now understand "RIP my inbox"
EDIT: u/Alpacasaurus_Rekt told me it's actually "Cryo... | “Do you remember that time you got hypothermia?”
“No.” I thought, unable to get the point across with a head shake. “Do you think its going to feel like recovering from that?”
“How would I know? You don’t remember it.” I thought.
After almost 500 years stuck in what the scientists of my time called a “Cryocasket”, ... | I am now nothing.
I am nothingness. Nothingness is I. I is nothing. That one sounded like Yoda or would he say I am nothing, nothingness I is. Wait, I just said that didn’t I? No, stop it. I’m getting distracted I am nothing I no longer exist. Stop existing in 3, 2, 1. Silence. Emptiness. Non existence. See! That’s mor... | 2017-12-17T02:57:38 | 2017-12-16T21:57:11 | 187 | 53 |
[WP] Write a soldier's journal entry on his first day at war. Then write his last journal entry. | Day One:
It’s nerve wracking being part of the military. The officers are terrifying. Orders are rapidly given to us. The officers know what they’re doing; they have been in many wars before, so I trust them. I’m scared because they are sending out everyone they can get as soon as possible. I have been training for th... | Day One
I was recruited by the Thals to fight the Kaleds. One of my colleagues was hit by a bomb that left him grotesque and mutated, and his own friends insulted him and abused him from then onwards. One of these bombs almost hit me, but it was gas instead of a biological weapon that was inside it this time. As I sli... | 2015-03-11T20:19:00 | 2015-03-11T18:00:09 | 52 | 25 |
[WP] You've had the worst date of your life and climbed out the bathroom window into the alley. Only to find your date doing the same. | Ironically, my feelings were hurt. "You too?" She smiled a sad smile.
"Oh, I just had, uh, I had--"
"Somewhere to be?" I finished for her. "Yeah, me too. Well, this was... fun." We both smiled wryly, dipping our heads quickly in acknowledgement.
I needed to clear my head. Shit, that date had been bad. I was in the ... | The lamp was green and sitting among bags of garbage in the restaurant dumpster. The lamp shade was missing, but the ceramic looked to be in decent shape. Granted, is was difficult for Marie to be certain as the light in the alleyway was dim and the light within the dumpster was even worse. She hadn't intended to be in... | 2018-01-22T07:25:45 | 2018-01-22T07:20:43 | 326 | 61 |
[WP] Heroes don't realise how much preparation and care goes into villains' plans, paperwork, making sure no one's seriously hurt, and the traps and puzzles.. and don't even talk about maintenance..
may respond to this one myself tomorrow | What the general public doesn't realize is that the whole point of designing a dungeon isn't to *kill* the hero in the first room. No, because if you did that, you wind up with a dead hero, an angry mob of citizens, and millions of wasted dollars on dungeon mechanics that nobody will ever encounter. And you might also ... | Why does this always happen to me?
Why should I, an emperor, stoop so low to oblige my lackeys when they serve as my underlings? The grubs couldn’t tell a Uni-mind from a unitard! Every day is a constant barrage of-
“When will we get vacation, master?”
“Can we dominate the galaxy after The Holiday, master?”
“Mo... | 2021-09-30T14:26:04 | 2021-09-30T12:54:11 | 49 | 14 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Eyllisa,
I think you know what this letter is going to say, but I'm going to write it anyway. I love you more than I have ever loved any person. You have been through so much and I can't understand how you still manage to pound through life. It's a beautiful thing to see. The past three years have been a privileg... | 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... | 2015-12-05T13:52:52 | 2015-12-05T13:45:57 | 40 | 15 |
[WP] A dying child challenges the reaper to a 1v1 quick scope only call of duty match for his life. | "You can't be serious?" replies the Death. The young boy smiles with confidence and replies "you said any game I wanted, did you think I would choose chess?!" Death pauses a moment and with a causal flick of his pale, ancient hand, produces an XBone and two massive flat screen tvs. "One match, 3 minutes, quick scope on... | The year is 2010.
The child in question is in a coma. Dreaming of Mt. Dew and doritos when suddenly the grim reaper spawns in front of him.
The grim reaper looks down to the child.
"So.... xX420weedblazer2002Xx, are you ready for the match of your life?!"
"Yes, m8." He responds profoundly.
They get down to bus... | 2014-09-15T20:18:47 | 2014-09-15T20:15:28 | 731 | 144 |
[WP] You are the sole normal, unpowered student at a School for the Supernaturally Gifted. You were bullied once. Once. | You stick out when everyone else in your school has some kind of insane, physics defying power and you have nothing. Like a normal horse in a herd of rainbow colored unicorns.
It was nerve wracking to adjust to having classmates who could effortlessly lift you off the ground with their mind, labmates who used their ey... | And so it happened, I couldn't let that slide. I mean, of course I couldn't. Why would I ? All those bastards thinking they're so cool, flaunting their skills in the hallway with no regards to other people's safety. I know it's the first time that I was bullied, but I 'll make it be the last.
His ugly face still rema... | 2022-11-02T09:54:56 | 2022-11-02T08:03:37 | 706 | 58 |
[WP] You live in a village in the dessert. One day it is raided by terrorists and all village members are killed, except for you. You lost most of your memories and now wander through the dessert, thinking you are the last of your species.
Second time posting this, yay... fucking tags mate *cough* Well anyways, i didn... | Time is passing - it must be near noon. I still remember vividly the smell, the strong sweet smell of burning sugar everywhere.
It was the torch that changed this land. It used to be a soft sea of soft peachy crème in an ever changing configuration of dunes, with our people happily swimming and living in it. The land... | I'm alone, alone in a sea of meringue. The macaroons surfaced like a sea of coconut clouds, blurring the sun. Just when I made my way out of the sticky sweetness, the evil chocolate rum balls came crashing down from the sky, like black, acid rain, invading my village and killing all the villagers. I am the only one lef... | 2014-12-17T00:31:27 | 2014-12-16T23:10:53 | 369 | 45 |
[WP] So many new exoplanets are being discovered that "planet deeds" now make well-known novelty gifts. You recieved such a deed last year on your birthday, legally making you the owner of one such planet - and, only a moment ago, heard on the news that life has just been discovered on it. | Leslexia Five. A small cream coloured world on the edge of a purple tinged swipe of a galaxy. Thirteen light years away, three weeks on a FTL transport, not that anyone had bothered exploring off that way. I'd received the deeds on my birthday, the typical present for a bloke who otherwise had everything. I hadn't even... | There was a singular present on the table, a holo-document. Being my 30th birthday I expected something more but we were a family of meager means so whatever it was I was sure to like it.
My mother and father were staring at me expectantly, I put on my best smile and clicked the button on the side, as it whirled to lif... | 2017-01-01T13:28:32 | 2017-01-01T13:10:45 | 32 | 13 |
[FF] "So, come here often?"
Begin your story with this line of dialogue.
Oh, and set your story somewhere other than a bar or restaurant. In fact, set it somewhere in the distant past or future.
And make it less than 500 words.
Have fun! | "So, come here often?"
Don stared hard at the man holding the rope. His face was still, and his eyes were even in the Alabama sun.
"I take it you're trying to have some fun with me," said Don.
The man's face remained impassive, but a smile erupted after a moment.
"Aw, hell. If you can't have a bit of levity here, w... | "So, come here often?" asked the well-tailored man. He was wearing an old black suit and a fiery-red tie that were well-matched to his hair, all white save for the few remaining specks of blonde around his ears; and his misty blue eyes, which rose from their default, downcast state to inspect the strangely-clad woman w... | 2013-08-31T11:56:21 | 2013-08-31T10:09:10 | 3,687 | 14 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | "The humans are the most absurdly pompous race I've ever encountered," declared Zuudxv. "They barely even pass the standard sentience test, but manage to spend their efforts on bragging about their own genius, love, and physical abilities - things that we are all far better at. Hell, so many of those morons declare the... | "Look at these foolish mortals, dancing and singing." said Altarion, sipping his glass of wine with disapproval in his auburn eyes.
"Ha, if you would even call that dancing," said the creature next to him, brushing her silky white fur, "They are smashing their bodies into each other under the influence of drugs and t... | 2014-07-16T11:13:41 | 2014-07-16T11:11:14 | 147 | 13 |
[WP] In the afterlife each religion has its own walled city in which their god or pantheon protects the believers within from the soul-gnawing horrors outside, while atheists are left on their own
Shoutout to u/Tonkarz who had the [idea](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7eao4f/exreligious_people_of_reddit_w... | I won Pascal's Wager.
Throughout the vast majority of my life, I had considered myself to be guided by reason, science, and empathy rather than religion. I saw no evidence for a god or gods existing, and figured any deity worth worshiping wouldn't have created a world where things like child rape and cancer existed. ... | Would I have done things differently? Yes, I would. Because an eternity in a godforsaken desert is not something you volonteer for. But the real question is: what would I have changed? Which religion should I have chosen? On Earth, they all preach some kind of heaven; here, reality is very different.
They call them 'w... | 2017-11-21T08:46:31 | 2017-11-21T07:28:08 | 26 | 17 |
[WP] Your father left your family when you were a child to "go buy a pack of cigarettes". It is 10 years later and you're a teenager when your father walks back in, wearing the same clothes he left in, and insists he has only been gone half an hour. | He walks in as if nothing's happened and sits at the head of the table. With a somewhat forced light-heartedness he calls to mom to hurry up with dinner.
The collar on his shirt is frayed, Salt and pepper have finally made an appearance around his temples. The lines on his weather beaten face are that of a hard life... | There was something weird about this day
Harold, my brother, was acting weird as if he had seen something.
Ending school i went home.
Everything seemed just fine.
Lots of love from my family.
Don't know about my dad though, he disappeared 10 years ago.
Everytime he went to buy cigarretes he was quick. Not this ... | 2018-11-08T06:29:46 | 2018-11-08T05:15:25 | 25 | 17 |
[WP] You go to sleep alone, and wake up with someone next to you. | It had been a long four years since the love of my life had passed away.
There’s not a moment of life that goes by where I wish I could see her again. They say that memories last you a lifetime, but how can it when it seems to hurt you more? It cuts you even deeper knowing all the love you had shared is now gone for... | I become self aware as I feel the morning's sun on my face, trying to hold on to a lucid dream that's escaping me as I wake. I immediately feel my queen sized bed sinking deeper than usual as I slowly turn over to see a large silhouette under the covers.. "What the fuck!?" I exclaim aggressively. I jump out of bed rubb... | 2016-03-02T17:50:32 | 2016-03-02T17:31:36 | 35 | 20 |
[WP] One day, suddently, no one can have more than 999million dollars. All of the extra money gets magically donated to charity/research/schools. Jeff Bezos gets a Trophy saiyng "I won Capitalism". Describe how the world changes. | "No." The answer was quick, and resolute. "You will not participate. We have no intention of seeing any of you in the board."
She had been expecting this answer. This was the one given so far by every other company. Still, she had to give it a try. Maybe one of them would be willing to play along.
"We are currently i... | He sits there, in the middle, Jeff Bezos—cradling his trophy as if it were Charles Foster Kane's Rosebud. There's a glow of dark blue reflected over his naked back, courtesy of the Clear Channel Outdoor billboard which manages to stand out in the jungle of hair products, lotions, fashionable clothing, cereal that can h... | 2022-08-07T11:01:15 | 2022-08-07T09:59:32 | 46 | 23 |
[WP] The goblins who dwell just outside your village are small and dumb –in an oddly endearing way. The villagers humor their innocuous raids and sometimes even give them advice. In the village’s darkest hour, the goblins send aid. | The goblin stopped and waved its sword in confusion. The human was "cowering" away from it--but what was it supposed to do now? Goblins raided humans; that's just what goblins were supposed to *do*. But--what were they supposed to raid humans *for*?
The human's eyes looked between the goblin and the sword. "Oh, no. I ... | # Soulmage
“It’s debatable whether goblins are even sapient,” Witch Aimes began, and I already knew today’s ‘history’ class would be nothing more than thinly veiled propaganda. “What is known for certain is that they are a subspecies of humanity, twisted over millennia by their over-reliance on the witchcraft of misch... | 2022-05-26T07:25:25 | 2022-05-26T05:33:42 | 425 | 155 |
[WP] Dragons decide leadership and settle conflict through cooking challenges. Human society LOVES when dragons have conflict, because mortals get picked to judge. When dragons fight, whole kingdoms get to eat for free. | Peasants, take pitchfork; knights take shield, too. You solemly know what you must do.
Driving pitchfork into the target that's seen: mounds and mounds of haute cuisine!
Unloaded onto waiting shields, then carried back as delectable yield
to the empty-plates and drinking glasses of the expectant, mouth-watering mass... | Sunday! Sunday! SUNDAAAAAAY!!!!! Draco Resolution Productions brings you the gastrointestinal throwdown of THE CENTURRRYYYY!!!! Lucius Dreadwing, He Who Strikes Fear In The Hearts of Men takes on Fangtooth Deathbringer, Scourge of the Seven Kingdoms in an EPIC-curian battle to decide the next ruler of the Saurian Guild... | 2022-01-02T14:21:40 | 2022-01-02T11:45:28 | 47 | 20 |
[WP] Most teens have breakouts of acne; you have it far worse. You have breakouts of ACME. This is the third anvil which dropped from the sky this week, and you're getting annoyed.
You don't have to keep to the three anvils thing. I was more or less just coloring the idea with that detail. | *At least there’s a cream for what you’ve got.*
Ellie stands before the bathroom mirror, mercilessly scanning every last skin cell for imperfection. I have never really understood her. She is almost six-feet tall, with long, runway legs, sculpted cheekbones, and envious green eyes. She could be in a magazine. She pro... | My heart can't be repaired. It's torn and worn in three different places. I've listened to Eliot Smith on repeat, and the pain perpetuates. She's there. Right in front of me. But I can't bring myself to say anything. It hurts to look at her, but I can't stop. I see a future, and I don't. I'm a mess. At least I was.
T... | 2018-12-21T17:35:30 | 2018-12-21T14:57:59 | 275 | 27 |
[WP] A drunk human is the single most unpredictable thing in the galaxy . It also makes it the perfect commander for our fleet against ai . | Volrop isolated himself in his office after making his decision. The Federation's second fleet had to do a full retreat or be completely annihilated. There just wasn't another option. They couldn't afford to lose another battle, even if it meant abandoning the people of that star system to be conquered.
Most of them ... | **"We can't keep fighting them,"** Flesh-Commander Alcasan growled. They pounded a fist on the holographic projector in front of them, the impassive blue face of the A.I. controlling their fleets staring back. "They make insane gambits. Decisions that we never even bothered creating protocols for. How can we possibly s... | 2021-08-15T11:21:05 | 2021-08-15T10:33:23 | 323 | 82 |
[WP] Your superpower is the ability to give other people a superpower of your choice. Your only restriction is that you can never give the same power twice. You've been at this a very long time, and you need to build a new superhero team to save the world once again.
Edit: This is my first WP, and it was so much fun! ... | Frieda had searched for years. Finally, she was certain she had found him: the Sage, who had the power to grant anyone whatever superpower he wished. Whenever the world was in danger, The Sage had always been there to provide the world with heroes to save it. Now, the world needed heroes again and Frieda was determi... | ######[](#dropcap)
"Get it out of my face, you monster!" Kennan smacked at the enormous jell-o blob Eliza had shot at him.
"Well, maybe I would if I didn't constantly find *grasshoppers* in my bed!" Eliza shouted, lobbing another stream of jell-o at him, until he was covered in all different colors of the bouncy, vi... | 2019-01-20T13:44:59 | 2019-01-20T11:39:55 | 43 | 10 |
[WP] “Congratulations on defeating The Dark Lord…” Your mentor and all of your allies suddenly turn their weapons on you, “…but you were meant to be a martyr. Forgive us.” | "I truly wish there was another way, Jory. After all we've been through this is going to be harder on me than on you. I'll have to live with the consequences." My mentor, Polkar said with a voice that could be considered genuinely sad.
"Borter? You too?" I asked and looked at my best friend.
Borter was looking straig... | (my first try at one of these)
"Congratulations on defeating The Dark Lord..." Old Avari said, the wizened old wizard who trained me to use my warlock powers, Said clutching her staff in both hands. While behind me, I could *sense* our other allies preparing themselves for what they felt they had to do.
"...but you we... | 2021-09-12T12:52:44 | 2021-09-12T11:50:17 | 44 | 17 |
[WP] Every generation the five brightest are paired up with the five dumbest in the world for a mysterious test. You are one of the ten, but nobody knows from which group they came. | I leaned back in my chair. The room they'd put us in was spacious, and I couldn't even find any of the cameras. Of the ten of us awaiting the test, only three were standing, all of them pacing back and forth.
"I can't believe I actually made it," the girl sitting across from me said.
"Someone must have liked your vid... | I pace the waiting room. Up and down, up and down. Everyone is isolated from each other initially to prevent reading the others and finding out which group they came from. Well, most of the candidates knew which group they came from anyway. The room had a couch, a dresser, and a bit of refreshments on the small table i... | 2016-03-03T06:35:14 | 2016-03-03T05:47:53 | 151 | 26 |
[WP] During a flight you accidentally damage a window and find out that they aren't actually windows, but monitors. | Stewardess what is this? where is the window!
Oh that sir? we replaced all windows with LCD monitors years ago to increase fuel efficiently by streamlining the hull, to reduce metal fatigue and thereby extend the service life and over all safety of our aircraft once the technology became light and energy efficient eno... | Beads of sweat formed on his forehead. He always had a problem with perspiration, it reminded him of Maths exams. Even in the climate controlled plane, he couldn't help but sweat. The shock of what he had just done made him feel like he was sitting in an oven. He had done it dozens of times, he was bored and was trying... | 2015-02-05T08:48:23 | 2015-02-05T05:37:27 | 230 | 101 |
[WP] Write an essay explaining why overly-specific, fancy prompts limit the creativity and steal the spotlight from the writers, and why open-ended, thought-provoking prompts are far superior and should be more highly rated on this sub. | I refuse to obey!
I now write in defiance,
I will not be forced,
to any compliance!
you demand an essay,
from visitors here,
but one thing is sure,
yes one flaw is clear!
this narrow request,
quite exact my friend:
"denounce the specific",
"open free the end!"
seems slightly odd,
and not to be comic,
but ... | It's interesting how by trying to defeat a status quo, revolutionaries find themselves falling into the same traps that their former leaderships did. The French Revolution overthrew Louis XVI to replace him with another dictator, and Occupy Wall Street turned into the same ineffective, split-purpose and inherently diso... | 2014-11-09T00:50:48 | 2014-11-08T23:41:45 | 39 | 19 |
[WP] You don't sleep. Instead you die every day and 8 hours later you wake up in the body of a person who has 16 hours left to live. | ## The longest dream
I’m in the middle of the longest and most lucid dream I’ve ever had. As in, I know I’m dreaming, but I’ve pinched myself, splashed water on my face, done everything else I can think of to wake up, and I’m still asleep.
I use “I” loosely, here. I remember going to sleep in my apartment on my newis... |
Awake.
Room’s bright - this bed’s comfortable.
The air’s cool and crisp.
Haven’t felt this nice in a while.
There’s a woman lying next to me - instinct tells me she’s my wife.
Trust your instincts. If there’s anything I’ve learned being stuck in this reincarnation loop-de-loop it’s that. Instincts will tell you... | 2018-06-20T08:54:39 | 2018-06-20T08:28:17 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] You’re a ghost who can somehow still touch objects. However, you do not do anything with this. Until one day you accidentally catch a pencil someone throws at their friend, leading everyone to believe that friend has superpowers. Feeling awkward, you decide to hang around and keep up the act. | The first one was an accident; The ghost had been floating around an elementary school, with no real purpose in mind, and he crossed into the path of an airborne pencil. It stuck in his ectoplasm, seemingly suspended in mid air to those still living, and the ghost turned to see a small boy with his hand in the air -pre... | Lenny sat morosely in the desk at the rear\-right corner of the room. The desk was covered in carvings of anatomy and phone numbers. He rested his head in his hand and stared at Mr. Woodkind at the front of the class.
Lenny slapped a passing fly to the ground.
Mr. Woodkind did the same history lecture, six times a da... | 2018-05-24T19:28:31 | 2018-05-24T19:06:26 | 180 | 63 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | They swept across the dunes, conquering all foes before them. Charging forward to the roar of cannon and rifle, no stronghold or fort could stem the tide of red and gold that spew forth from the edge of the horizon. Like the sea, this force could not, would not be restrained by weather, terrain or people in the pursuit... | American efforts against ISIS had failed. ISIS had toppled local governments and taken them over. Claiming most of the Middle East. Many countries themselves had made agreements with ISIS in order to try to secure themselves so that they would not be toppled as well.
America was the last to stay in the fight, but Amer... | 2016-01-29T07:22:10 | 2016-01-29T06:44:06 | 43 | 25 |
[WP] From birth, everybody has a word imprinted on their left arm. This is the last word they will ever say. | *"What does this mean?"* His voice had broken even before he was able to open his mouth. There he was, living the biggest and happiest moment of his life to find this? That poor baby.
He promised himself that day that he would do anything to keep his daughter safe, as it was impossible to know what could surprise them... | "Put a long sleeve shirt on! We're going out!" I say to my husband, grabbing my purse.
"Why? It isn't like people with offensive words are bad people. Everyone has some kind of word. Why should I have to hide it?" He says.
"I don't want to be that person that has to sit there awkwardly as a child asks what 'fuck' mea... | 2015-02-05T19:05:12 | 2015-02-05T15:37:49 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] An Alien and it’s Human sidekick roam the galaxy, willing to do just about any job to keep the fuel tanks full. The only issue - most clients have never seen a Human and they’re terrified by the sight of one.
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EDIT: wanted to say thank you to everyone that responded! I’ve been reading your stories... | "Contact in 3...2...1...grounded."
Mirai felt the deck push against him through his magboots. He was already suited up and ready to disembark. Mist began to form as warmer air flooded into the airlock. His eyes flickered across the script from his helmet HUD: mostly green but with a few orange lines of warning. *Nothi... | It’s a cool day on Raambina. About 98 kelvin, according to the forecast. On days of this temperature, most residents like the idea of staying inside. The good news for them is that every inhabitant of Raambina lives inside a facility designed to keep things about 200 degrees warmer.
“It’s too damn cold.”
“Speak ... | 2020-03-05T23:04:25 | 2020-03-05T22:43:21 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] Reverse Romeo and Juliet. Two families have long been allies, but their kids absolutely hate each other. | Two households, both alike in dignity
(In fair Verona, where we lay our scene),
From dear friends comes new animosity
Where cruelty tears friends apart at the seem.
From lineage all claiming they’re best bros
A pair of children full of angst so rife;
Whose squabbles only cause parental woe
Doth moving out resto... | "Does Joshua have to come to my 16th birthday party" Olivia complained to her father. Her father Danny, rolls his eyes at his daughter. "Yes, you were invited to his why shouldn't he be invited to yours."
Olivia slouches back in her seat "He only invited me cause his Mom made him." "Olivia, don't be difficult darling,... | 2021-08-18T07:09:10 | 2021-08-18T03:25:31 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] Every person can only say 100 words in their lifetime. After which they will die. Write all of the dialogue for one persons life.
You would die of natural causes anyway so it wouldn't benefit to never say anything. All common language and information is taught by recordings. Directly after your 100th, you will di... | Mama Dada
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H... | Mum. Dad. No. No. No. No. Mine. Mine. Mine! When I grow up. Please. Thank you. Totally cool. Like. Like. Like. Um. Um. Just one drag. Everybody hates me. I love you. I hate you Dad. Just the tip. Awesome. I will never love again. My major is. Party! I have to study. Really me too. I love you. I have people skills. Will... | 2015-03-09T18:14:27 | 2015-03-09T18:01:00 | 195 | 34 |
[WP] The most delicious, mouth-watering description of water. Ever. | 19th century London. The cholera outbreak. Explosive population growth has led to beer being safer than water. And with cholera stripping people of their fluids, any form of safe ingestible liquid is better than nothing. But even these suffering people dreamt of something better.
With their lips cracked from dehydrat... | It stood there on the table. A tall pint glass of the clearest water I had ever seen. Three perfect ice-cubes bobbed lazily on the surface. I could see a layer of fresh condensation forming on the sides. Forming into larger drops that streaked down unseen tracts, leaving behind them a moist trail of even smaller drople... | 2020-05-31T14:56:05 | 2020-05-31T14:49:34 | 58 | 16 |
[WP] As a world class sniper, you’ve been given a task to assassinate the so called “master of disguise”. You’ve been told that he himself never changes appearance, but he warps the environment around him to hide. All you need to look for is a man with glasses and a red and white striped shirt. | "Verification on target."
"Subject known simply as 'Waldo'. Other alias 'Wally'. Male. Glasses. Red and white striped shirt."
Stevens watched the park from high above. Below, Ash kept an eye for such an unmistakable mark. The pair of them had quite the track record together. This would be an easy score.
"...Possible... | He looked like a man. About that, the CIA was in unanimous agreement. But he was not a man. Not really. He had been created in a lab. He was an experiment gone wrong. He was the living embodiment of the CIA's hubristic desire to create the ultimate weapon. A haunting manifestation of their own creation whose existence ... | 2020-03-03T12:57:50 | 2020-03-03T12:18:39 | 124 | 47 |
[WP] “O great demon, I have summoned you here today to–“ “No you didn’t. The young girl bleeding out on the pentagram did.” | The altar was swaddled in black velvet.
The sacrifice's pale skin glowed in the light shed by the crimson candles. Liquid pooled on the floor around her, darkening the pentagram of crushed bone.
The stone floor trembled -- like a young woman stolen at midnight from her home, struck mute by terror.
The wicks' flames ... | I left the city when I was six years old. The stars revealed themselves to me for the first time, and I was left breathless. The night sky, which had always been filtered through a haze of neon lights, was blacker than I ever thought possible; I felt pulled towards the vast nothingness, falling upwards into an abyss of... | 2021-01-15T10:11:56 | 2021-01-15T10:03:29 | 80 | 37 |
[WP] An aging veteran gets dragged to a paintball facility by his grandkids. Another elderly man is there with his grandkids. The two quickly realize they’ve faced off on the battlefield before. | "I remember a time when paintball was reserved for drunken stag parties and corporate bonding days, before the great recession of 2022."
"Yeah Grandad, you've told me before" - with a roll of the eyes... Good thing he'll be on my team I think to myself.
"Well, now it's the national game! Even became an Olympic event ... | "Alphanumeric!" exclaimed the old man. Tomby was his name, or at least that's what they called him in the 2124 Euro-African Union succession wars. He recognized the other man instantly, he was the one that got away. Tomby sat down to try take in what was happening. He blacked out for what seemed like a few seconds bu... | 2016-09-07T01:53:29 | 2016-09-06T18:24:12 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] A medieval European knight somehow ends up in feudal Japan. With nowhere to go in the foreign land he decides to settle down in a forest. Outside this forest sits a village; and as years go by rumours start to spread of a tall metal spirit that roams this forest. | The old knight paused, staring down at the strange, narrow-eyed girl that stared up at him with dark, wandering eyes.
“Greetings...?” he tried slowly.
The girl grinned, “So you’re the metal ghost!”
The knight frowned. While her English was choppy and almost sounded unfamiliar on her tongue, she spoke better than mo... | Our grait galleon, drifted without a care in the open sea. We were heading to India, to bring spice back to England. But the sea is an unforgiving mistress, she went mad, we were right in the middle of a storm, waves fifteen and twenty feet high, wasn't long till we capsized. Out of two hundred sailors, only one surviv... | 2019-11-15T07:51:54 | 2019-11-15T07:27:28 | 87 | 53 |
[WP] Bored with Skyrim, you download a mod that has no description, just the title "self-awareness overhaul". Starting up the game, you can tell something's wrong with your character. Turning to face the fourth wall, they locks eyes with you. All you know is you've never seen such intense anger... | The first thing you hear is the familiar *thum, thum, HOOAH!* of the Bethesda logo’s splash screen. Slowly, you open your eyes – which had been squeezed shut to build anticipation. You visibly recoil in your seat, anxiously bracing yourself for the seemingly inevitable CTD. The screen fades. You hold your breath. There... | He was staring at me. How is that possible? I tried turning the camera, but it didn’t move. Maybe the game was glitched – mods could do that. I tried pressing esc or any button on the keyboard and nothing happened. That’s when he spoke.
“That isn’t going to work. I’m in control now.” My eyes traveled around my apartm... | 2017-05-08T16:29:23 | 2017-05-08T15:30:20 | 57 | 16 |
[WP] For every 10 lives you save, you get an extra life for yourself, shown as a number visible only to you on your wrist. Waking up with bad hangover after a particularly rowdy night, you look at your arm through blurry eyes to see the faintly glowing number: 700,000,000. | Once I figured out the cheat, it was easy.
Save ten lives, get a free one. Like collecting coins in Mario, that's all. The difference was, there was no clear rules on how their lives had to be put in danger.
Yesterday morning was just like every other.
Wake up, check my wrist. 308 lives saved up. Not bad, not bad... | These days it was next to impossible to become a police officer, paramedic, or even a firefighter. Everyone and their dogs were trying to enter these jobs, to have the chance of adding lives to their wrist.
It happened instantly, without word or warning, everyone woke up with the number "0" on their right wrist. A... | 2019-08-28T13:44:08 | 2019-08-28T13:31:27 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] God is found dead.
EDIT: Reading all of your responses now. Some of these are brilliant. | God had been many things. He had often proclaimed himself wise, by virtue of knowing more than any other being. He had been considered all-powerful by others, because He was far more powerful than they. He was considered the ultimate good, for He was the most good humanity could comprehend.
Mass knowledge is not omnis... | "When was the body found?"
"This morning. The landlord called us just after eight."
"Early time for a visit."
"Rent collection."
The two detectives stood over the aged corpse. Around them, forensics were setting up to go over the apartment.
"You said there was something else?"
"Yeah."
The younger man handed his ... | 2014-02-18T15:02:47 | 2014-02-18T14:44:46 | 434 | 40 |
[WP] Your mission is to write the worst opening to a YA novel ever. How badly can you make us cringe? | It was a hellish day, in a hellish month, in a hellish year.
My mom forgot to wash my favorite purple sweater, and my dad had the audacity to serve me lukewarm pancakes before school.
So much for my senior year. Whatever.
But things actually got interesting when I arrived at school. No one said hello, which I prefer... | “It’s Friday..Friday..FRIDAY OOO!” Rebecca started with enthusiasm and ended in a happy shout.
Angela chimed in with stunning speed, as if she already knew the conversation was going to take place “We gotta get down on the weekend!”
“Wait..is it actually Friday already..??” Chris asked while his dumbfounded face beg... | 2022-08-19T19:12:52 | 2022-08-19T18:51:48 | 65 | 28 |
[WP] School is now mandatory 24/7 around the world for kids. They eat, sleep, and bathe at the school, much lIke a prison. The biggest mystery is the disappearance of the kids who can't make good grades. | It used to be normal. School was seven hours a day, and the teachers said "Oh, it'll prepare you for a job 8 hours a day." Then somebody decided "Hey! Let's make it 8 hours a day to further prep students for real life.^^(also because they get more money.)"
Then it got worse. Students were asked to start providing manu... | Ja-ja-ja-ja-ja-ja-ja-ja-CLANK.
The bars of this five by ten cell jar open as the warden's bellowing demands echo down the unit: "END OF REJUVENATION SESSION. BEGIN WORK DAY."
The word rejuvenation, of course, being a joke for the six hours of sleep I get between ten and five --my rest constantly interrupted by Harry'... | 2017-09-15T20:30:21 | 2017-09-15T19:33:43 | 44 | 15 |
[WP] In what seems like a cruel prank by a bored God, people started developing powers based on their worst fears. people afraid of heights got the gift of flight. arachnophobia? get the power of spiders. phasmophobia? necromancy/ability to speak with the dead. Your power is... hard to explain... | Spectrophobia is the fear of mirrors. Specifically, it's the fear of seeing something reflected in the mirror that shouldn't be there: a ghost or apparition sharing space with you, or your the idea that your reflection isn't actually your reflection, but a separate entity that moves on its own. It sounds silly. I knew ... | Perhaps it was a blessing in disguise, I thought.
After all, I *had* always wanted to be able to fly; has always wished I could be the hero in my very own comic book story.
But this? Cruel irony.
They were huge, delicate and papery; dusty and scaly. like stained glass with the texture of gravel.
Maybe they would h... | 2022-05-15T02:11:03 | 2022-05-15T01:24:03 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | I had never given much thought to what my Summoning would bring. Far, far too busy. Always head down, eyes on the screen or hands shuffling papers. When not working I was constantly being relocated; shifted around for those that seemed themselves more deserving, more worthy. I had a window once. And the squirrels. Beau... | I looked at the clock, stated at the clock. Time was never really a concern of mine but I can't help it. After all, in 5 minutes, I was about to have my most wanted item.
I got to distract myself from all the nerves. I looked out the window, attracted by the city lights. City lights always calmed me.
Nerves settled. ... | 2019-09-18T09:48:46 | 2019-09-18T09:39:58 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] Scientists are now able to recreate a person's last sentence before they died, leading to thousands of solved murder cases. However, one victim's last words leave detectives baffled. | *"What the hell does that mean?"* demanded the old detective, taking another puff from his cigar. *"I mean, not only is this not a murder investigation, but I don't even see the relevance in that phrase!"*
*"We called you here because once we heard his last words we weren't sure what to think! We thought it might be i... | All was quiet at 6am in the station. I was the only one there. I stayed here eagerly waiting on Johnson to return. Johnson had gone to Chicago to retrieve the results of the test.
The test was in it's early stages, with a few minor glitches with the system in forms of grammar and spelling.
But today it was finally read... | 2016-02-07T18:59:13 | 2016-02-07T17:28:21 | 136 | 20 |
[WP] Human beings unlock skills as they grow up, walking, taking, etc. You are the oldest person in the history of the world, and today you unlock a skill no one ever had. | Well, the big day was finally here. Birthday 128. I hadn't seen many new skills in my later years. I wasn't surprised though.
In my earlier years, I had maxed out cooking, spending an entire year travelling the world looking for new recipes. Using exotic ingredients helped speed up the process but if you can't do the... | REPORTER: ANNABELLE HAYNES
INITIAL REPORT
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SPECIES: HOMO SAPIENS SAPIENS
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LEVEL 1: AGE 0-3
Basic skills - walking, babbling.
The first year, Homo Sapiens infants tend to crawl on all fours; walking is only developed as a skill ... | 2018-06-23T12:16:19 | 2018-06-23T12:14:20 | 223 | 27 |
[WP] You’ve traveled a great distance to finally court the princess. Many others have tried and failed. Why? At the end of a week with her, you must duel her to the death. She is the greatest sword fighter in the land, so your only hope is to convince her to call off the fight. | The final day of courting with the Princess of the land was always a duel. The duel had become so popular in the land that the King had turned it into an event. Everyone would travel to the dueling grounds outside the palace and town to watch as a poor man was run through for their arrogance or stupidity.
Now I'm not ... | I made sure that every single sword in town has been bought out and currently hidden in a cave somewhere in the southern isles. My rouges have scoured every house, camp, and hovel in the city for any type of sword or sword-like object. Of course, getting the swords in the castle is going to be harder, and the sword th... | 2020-09-20T23:44:33 | 2020-09-20T21:56:44 | 28 | 17 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | My hand reached out from the messy nest of blankets I was buried under, and flopped onto the buzzing phone on my dresser. Bleary-eyed and dazed, I dragged it under the blankets with me, refusing to let myself be fully roused from a solid nights sleep. "What the fuck," I muttered to myself, nearly mumbling the words out... | The silk curtains fluttered in the cold November winds, brushing ever so softly on Evelyn's shoulder. With its cool touch, Evelyn slept soundly. A distant owl cooed, the falling leaves danced in the night. As the darkness grew dense and empty, the moon burned bright in the sky. Not a single cloud in the sky, the beige ... | 2022-08-07T20:43:05 | 2018-04-06T18:29:33 | 379 | 43 |
[WP] The royal advisor isn't sure why everyone thinks he is going to betray the king, perhaps it is the skull on top of his staff, maybe it is the ominous dark flowing robes or simply the way he laughs, regardless he decides to hire an advisor to help him act less suspiciously | He looked down at his seemingly flourescent new suit.
"Are, uhh... You sure?"
"Trust me darling you couldn't possibly be mistaken for a malicious wretch in this. It is simply fabulous!"
The team of three advisors looked him up and down, all nodding together in unison and excitement.
Raghul had always worn black and... | The kingdom would burn. Let it! Dana thought. He'd done all he could.
He sunk into the plush turquoise cushion and brought his coffee up to his nose. Deep breath, eyes closed, he soaked in the ambient, idle chatter of the little coffee house's patrons. No politics here. No diplomatic concerns. No talk of wars looming ... | 2019-12-20T06:50:28 | 2019-12-20T06:18:29 | 305 | 141 |
[WP] You are a horny Dr. Seuss; write a Suess-Style Rhyming erotic novel | Bountiful bossom
And plentiful penis
Bow down fair maiden
And worship my genius
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I want you to hear me and do what I said
Off with your panties
Bend over the bed!
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Cheeks of a delicate fleshy pink tone
I shall soon redden and tame with a bone
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Smack!
And smack!
And smack it again!
One smack.
Tw... | Peter the skeeter is quite the man
Attracts all ladies from Zornsboon to Babstan
They come in Scootbooters, Criznozers, and Boombrums
Just to get a facial from his thick ropes of cum
It get's in their eyes, their mouth, and their noses
Peter exclaimed, "All you ladies are quite lovely hoeses!"
With a rub and a tu... | 2015-02-25T16:36:37 | 2015-02-25T13:58:07 | 141 | 12 |
[WP] Jerry was erased from existence by Thanos’ snap. The grieving Tom decided to revenge for his fallen friend. | No endgame was necessary.
It wasn't much of a battle, that was for sure. Thanos was sitting on his fat purple arse, watching the sun rise, the roasted Infinity Gauntlet locked around his injured hand, drinking in his success. The Gauntlet felt lighter, opprobriously so, almost. It was supposed to represent infinite po... | Everyday for the last month, I’ve sat on the windowsill looking out at the changed world. Fewer people walk by, fewer trees stand in the yard. Fewer birds fly in the sky.
My tail twitches in annoyance, and I look over my shoulder into the house. Normally I would have had my tail snapped in a mouse trap. Or if I was sl... | 2019-04-01T06:16:41 | 2019-04-01T05:40:35 | 363 | 121 |
[WP] You're a character in Roller Coaster Tycoon. Something about the park seems off. | A new amusement park opened up on the outskirts of town today so I decided to give it a try. It only cost $5 to get in! I couldn’t believe it!
As I entered the park there was not much to look at. A very bland interior, there was a bathroom, popsicle stand, popcorn stand with only a few rides. Hell it was only a few do... | “Does anyone else feel like that ride is unsafe?” The other park-goers didn’t seem to mind my open dialogue as they continued to purchase their smoothies from the pineapple shaped concession stand awkwardly placed between the bathrooms and a mascot that appears to be trapped in a concrete exhibit with no exit doors.
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[WP] You are the weakest member of a famous superheros family. Villains kidnapped you for a ransom, unfortunately hostage situations don't work when your family is already neglecting you... | I will admit, they did a good job with these bindings. Metal cabling instead of rope. Wrists bound behind my back and tied to the metal frame of... what is this? Some old school chair? Doesn't matter. Waist tied to the chair, legs tied at the ankles, knees, and thighs to the chair. At least they left that old spud sack... | “What… what the hell!”
I was roused to consciousness by the harsh screech of one of my captors. Opening my eyes, I was greeted to the same dark bag, or sack, or whatever it was they stuck over my head.
“We were supposed to get a payday from ‘em, Mac!” a deeper voice than before spoke.
Being groggy ... | 2022-02-13T18:51:52 | 2022-02-13T17:49:26 | 292 | 142 |
[WP] “I bet my soul,” you say confidently. “If you win, you take my soul. If I win, you give me something just as valuable.” You go on to win the bet, only to be granted a single $1 bill. | [Poem]
A single dollar won
Wagered against my soul
Everything I've lived for
Worked for
Died for
On the face of a single dollar bill
Every night I spent alone
Awake and scared
Frustrated
Angry
Seething with contempt
Worth a single dollar
Every moment spent in lo... | I didn’t understand this at first. Was this some sort of joke?!
I looked down at an all too common treasury note. I made more breathing at work then this. What made this all particularly more interesting was the way this devilish man glared at me, all the while smirking after I won. We had spent hours playing this ga... | 2020-02-05T13:51:18 | 2020-02-05T10:30:52 | 25 | 11 |
[WP]You make a wish on a shooting star to be what your crush considers perfect. You wake up the opposite gender because it turns out your crush is gay. | It's interesting, the concept of swapping genders in fiction.
Often the tales are ham-fisted fantasies, half-baked - and ruled by priapic indulgences. The tawdry stories focus predictably on breasts, underwear, genitals and one's own attractiveness in the new gender - always much more so than before.
The problem ... | I Slowly opened my eyes and felt something, odd, on my chest. After a few minutes of looking I realized that I have boobs now, pretty big ones actually. I looked further down to see a slightly overweight girl, although I didn't feel any older than I was last night.
I eventually got up and walked over to the mirror. M... | 2015-11-10T12:14:15 | 2015-11-10T11:35:18 | 548 | 33 |
[WP] In 1,000 years, fantasy stories will be set in this era. Write a fantasy story set in the 21st century from the viewpoint of someone living 1,000 years from now.
Based on a post on r/showerthoughts | 'What empire was the largest in the history of the world?'
'The British empire'
'What was the name of Horatio Nelsons warship that he used in Trafalgar?'
'The Victory'
'What has a greater landmass, Great Britain or the United Kingdom'
'Fuck!'
'That isn't an answer Miss Greenham.' The inquisitor said in the... | Aaliyah hitched her shorts, purse tucked beneath her arm, carefully making her way over the rough gravel roads. A beautiful raced past, with a gaping sunroof and windows glinting in the sunlight. A magnificent beast stood arched on the hood. Aaliyah sighed; sometimes she dreamed of that. She was but a simple girl, atte... | 2018-12-25T03:34:13 | 2018-12-25T03:19:47 | 58 | 43 |
[WP] You cannot tell a lie. Not because you're unable to, but because every time you do, a narrator's voice explains the lie in great detail! | Bob kicked back and sipped his ice coffee as he wrote an email to upper management. He had been asked to run a report on the tasks his department had completed during the current fiscal year. Just as he was finishing up his email, the voice boomed through the office.
"Bob's team did not complete all of the work ord... | Lucas was staring at his hands, sitting the the table of his house.
There was no other choice, he was thinking.
All those years spent talking hours to Nadine, in the times her bar was empty, after the cappuccino served in the morning, and before the big rush for lunch, complimenting her clothes, talking about her l... | 2019-06-21T12:31:23 | 2019-06-21T10:33:25 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] You are a third generation guard for the holy immortals, and you have finally have received the greatest accolade that they can bestow on your kind... "Good boy", says your immortal master. | It’s been decades since the immortals he served changed. He was never sure why.
His new immortals were different. They held him all the time. They did the immortal equivalent of the lick all the time. They gave him The Accolade every day. He loved them.
The Immortal who guided the chariot always allowed him pride o... | As I was going to my post I saw another boy standing there about 20s or mid 20s in age. I walked toward him and said "Boy this is my place of duty"
"I was asked to stand there and was asked to give you the message that you have been summoned to meet His Holiness in Immortal Palace." He replied
As i was moving toward ... | 2020-09-23T15:09:41 | 2020-09-23T09:29:13 | 128 | 17 |
[WP] The Sea of Trees. The deeper you go, the taller they get, and the more incredible the animals. After a month of traveling, you just found your first clearing. | Elliot always used to think that ocean was endless, as he stood on the dock of his small fishing village where he could see miles and miles of tumbling water. But on clear days, he could see outlines of other islands on the horizon. Here, there was nothing. The aptly named Sea of Trees was, he believed, truly endless. ... | The floral ceiling had long ago became only a sound, a constant shuffling of branches and leaves. A creature of flesh and meat lay on the crunchy leaves, wondering what time of day it was. He stared upwards, trying to remember the stars. He closes his eyes. There is no difference. He drifts.
He is awake. Almost certa... | 2017-06-17T11:51:09 | 2017-06-17T08:46:07 | 71 | 22 |
[WP] You are a wish lawyer. You help clients negotiate wishes from genies, faeries, dragons, and other wish granting entities.
You also do faustian bargains with devil
Edit: Woo! I finally made it to the top of writing prompts! | I took the cases nobody wanted. And I don't mean the greedy ones, or the violent ones, or even the silly ones. No, I took the cases that no one wanted. The hardest kinds of cases: the ones involving kids. No, not the happy ones either. I took the cases that involved sick kids, dying from incurable diseases. The kids th... | Wishes. Why wishes? So complex. So open and vague. Why not just make an offer? Rub this lamp and I'll buy you a car, get on my good side and I'll hook you up with a date, pass my test and I'll clean your garage. But no, it has to be horrible, lazy *wishes*. Because of *traditional values*. Because that's how it's alway... | 2018-07-18T17:02:59 | 2018-07-18T15:54:58 | 20 | 13 |
[WP]Write a sentimental, heartwarming story. Then cram as many product placements as you can | It was Valentine's Day, and that meant buying Edible Arragment fruit baskets and Toblerone chocolate for my girlfriend to celebrate. We were recently engaged, having got down on one knee and offering a Tiffany ring.
I got out of bed and started my day with a shower. I used Dove shampoo and conditioner, followed by Niv... | When I was 15, I was diagnosed with depression. It crushed me, because now all of my reasons to be sad made sense. I was lost, didn't know who to talk to, until I realised that I had friends, family, and most of all...
Crank-Chop, the chopper that's gonna cut all your food in a matter of seconds! At TESCO, we believe ... | 2019-09-19T18:20:57 | 2019-09-19T16:22:40 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] You gained immortality by absorbing thousands of souls. They have gotten used to it and act like Twitch chat watching a livestream of your life. | I used to like watching Twitch in my spare time. Fighting game tournaments, high level strategy games, classic VODs, a handful of my favorite streamers... I had Twitch on all the time, even in the background. It helped me feel less lonely in my empty apartment. I always had streamers to keep me company.
When I felt li... | They cry why while peasants die but I don’t lie when angels deserve to die.
I get the job done.
After years of watching my vampiric ways they’ve come to understand, I have a preference.
The souls of the guilty never cry when they die, just plead with me for their innocence. Such deserved sustenance.
The fodder t... | 2019-09-27T04:46:06 | 2019-09-27T04:41:51 | 34 | 11 |
[WP] A man successfully becomes president but realizes he doesn't want to be president. So, he tries to get himself impeached by doing ridiculous things, but they end up only making his approval rates go up higher. | When I was a young man, I always dreamed about being president. Sitting in the office, making important decisions, all of that. I put my life's work into earning the heart of America. Finally, at the young age of 36, I was elected president.
And I HATED it.
I won't go into detail about why I hated it, but the annoyin... | John Paul was worried. Normally a worried president was normal. With his level of responsibility he would be insane not to be worried. Maybe he was insane though. Ever since his best friend convinced him to run for president on a marijuana and robotic car platform as a joke, John was having doubts. Running for presiden... | 2015-07-11T13:23:09 | 2015-07-11T13:14:38 | 27 | 14 |
[WP]: "I'm sorry. I just don't understand how you managed to fuck up a five-word sentence, offend the inhabitants of three planets and start a world war at the same time." | "What are you in for?" my cellmate asked.
"Grammar," I said, my eyes fixed on the wall.
"Hmm?" he said, sitting up in his bunk to hear me better. "You say something about your Grandma?"
"No," I said. "*Grammar*. The rules of composition for effective communication."
He laughed. "How did grammar get you thrown in me... | It had all started innocently enough, generations before the conflict began. Amy, an amateur astronomer and scientist, clicked "Send" on her Chapek program, beaming the message out into space, hoping it might find an ear or two. Newly interested in science fiction, she had chosen one of her favorite quotes, hoping to... | 2015-06-19T05:45:51 | 2015-06-19T05:43:13 | 1,136 | 25 |
[WP] In a world where reincarnation with a full knowledge of your past life is real, authorities struggle to protect society by keeping the worst criminals and serial killers in prison alive for as long as possible to delay their eventual escape back into society via the reincarnation process. | Despite the inherent supernaturality of reincarnation, not everyone believed that souls exist. Various theories have been posited, scientific, supernatural or otherwise, as to why reincarnation was what it was.
But the soul existed.
I was sure of it.
"In the latest in a string of serial killings, another body was fo... | “Well what if their consciousness never died?”
That was the idea at least. Maybe there was someway to… save their memories. Extract them. To remove their consciousness from the physical and upload it to the technological. It had been done in sci-fi. Could it be done for real?
We had no knowledge of how the soul worke... | 2021-10-08T09:12:44 | 2021-10-08T08:51:29 | 42 | 25 |
[WP] Write a seemingly normal story, except for the last sentence, which makes the entire story creepy | It was the toughest race of my life. The water was everywhere. Many of my friends were already dead, but I knew if I kept going I could make it. I could feel everything around me get softer the more I continued. I was drenched but I wasn't going to give up, not this close to the end. I finally felt the air on my skin. ... | I’m a very structured man. I’ve had a strict morning routine for 24 years now.
Sunday, March 22, 1992 I discovered the perfect way to start my day.
I wake up at 5:30 and slip on my slippers. I start my coffee and read the sports section.
Once the coffee is finished brewing, I pour myself a bowl of Honey Nut... | 2016-05-19T12:45:26 | 2016-05-19T09:03:34 | 70 | 24 |
[WP] You are a mighty dragon, the kind who kidnaps princesses. However, you only do it because princesses inherently have the ability to talk to animals and you're starved for intelligent conversation. | Sire, a dragon has taken the princess.
Ser Knight, are you sure? May hap she has tricked us again, and just hidden herself in the dungeon tormenting the trolls. Only to make a reappearance once we had started to celebrate.
No Sire, it was with my own eyes did I witness a great beast flying and capture her highn... | "Hnng-yah" What is... Ah, daylight. "Hmm" - did not feel like any injuries, and there was plenty of room for my morning stretch. Although, I did find myself warmer than usual this fine season and, once I felt the rumble I realise it's that time of the millenia again. "Aaah, Vulan! You've been quite over my past few na... | 2019-11-11T16:09:36 | 2019-11-11T14:42:38 | 71 | 22 |
[WP] You accept a job paying $1 million a year to sit in a room, waiting for a phone to ring on a table. After 5 years at work, it finally rings... For the first time.
What happens next? | Office of police oversight, you say?
Yes. That's right.
And you're sure about all this; one million, guaranteed, no background check, free pizza?
Yes. All of it.
And what if it *does* ring?
Well, that will never happen because we won't be publishing this number anywhere.
Then why bother even paying me?
Because i... | Damn, it's hot in here. How'd I even get myself in this situation?
I guess most of the days in which I found myself sitting in that white plastic chair were much the same. A bit of thumb-twiddling and whistling favorite tunes helped out a bit, but lord was that job *slow*. But, y'know, who wouldn't sit their ass in a ... | 2017-12-16T23:22:44 | 2017-12-16T21:53:13 | 117 | 31 |
[WP] You're in love. And you think she loves you back. Sure, she's an eldritch horror from beyond spacetime, barely comprehensible to human minds, shifting and warping reality into a nightmare hellscape with her mere presence. But love conquers all, right? | *"She was always there. I just never saw her before."*
It drips cliche. It oozes tradition. You can see the trailer in your mind and you are already rolling your eyes. How banal. How trite. How sad and lonely and pathetic.
I used to laugh at love stories. They aren't real. People don't just meet. There is no magic or... | I was floating on time, drifting in being, unable to set carefully my mind to the exact coordinates of existence. I wasn’t making sense, that was sure. She was jumbling my language, my atoms, my histories, and my sins, all into a giant ball.
I love you, I told her, holding her close to me, or far away from me, or al... | 2021-03-11T09:30:52 | 2021-03-11T09:29:08 | 231 | 26 |
[WP] You've been playing with equations in a notebook and have, if you're right, just discovered time travel. You turn the page and are greeted with one word: "DON'T" | *Don't*
I look down, puzzled at the word. It's definitely my hand-writing, but I'm positive I didn't write it. I turn the page.
*Forget*
I'm curious now. I can only surmise, by the familiarity of the hand and the fact I keep this notebook locked in a secure safe, that somehow, maybe, my future self has left me a mes... | There was a cold feeling in my left shoulder. I froze. Who knew that one word could affect me that much?
The word was not there when I turned the page. I was deep in thought, and had just ran out of room on the page before. I already had the solution pictured in my mind, and I was simply writing it down for future ref... | 2016-11-10T07:34:10 | 2016-11-10T05:46:18 | 61 | 20 |
[WP]For hundreds of years your world has been under alien occupation. Your new job under your overlords is to scavenge ancient wreckage of your ancestors. One day you discover an ancient machine which upon activation shows a message. “Contact reestablished,Support will arrive soon.” | The smoldering wreckage stretched for miles in every direction. The ruins of countless battles lay strewn across the barren landscape. The scene was lifeless save for the scattered figures searching the wreckage.
Urun was searching for anything to give to his masters. He had quotas to meet. It had been this way his wh... | **Eternal Support**
Characters:
*James*
*Support*
**Open**
*(Scene opens to black. The sound of a pickaxe working can be heard)*
**James:** For hundreds of years my world has been under alien occupation. Our new job under our overlords is to scavenge ancient wreckage of our ancestors. I've been digging these hole... | 2019-07-22T12:59:42 | 2019-07-22T11:47:36 | 104 | 16 |
[WP] A man who has lived a thousand years takes up a job teaching high school world history. | As the bell rang for lunch to end, the kids came shuffling into classroom. They were in scattered groups, most of which came in relatively late, yet pretty understandable for the first day of class. The kids looked up to see two adults standing at the front of the room. The first man was quite aged with long white hair... | “That’s not what the book says!” Johnny, the class smart aleck, interjected.
The rest of the class giggled. They all thought Mr. Yockie was full of shit.
Mr. Yockie cringed as he thought to himself, “I know it’s not what the book says you little shit burglar. That’s cause the fucking book is wrong...”
But he didn’t ... | 2015-04-14T17:54:49 | 2015-04-14T16:35:59 | 58 | 23 |
[WP] "It's simple, really. You just buy a haunted house for cheap from a desperate seller, finish the ghost's unfinished business - or deal with whatever it is keeping them bound to this plane - and then just sell the property for a profit." | The realtor looks nervous as all get-out. He’s clearly shown this property thousands of times, and is desperate to unload it. I knew that, of course. That’s why I sort listings by age. Long-term listing of a beautiful home at a low price with no sale? That’s my cue.
“So, what do you think?” The poor realtor tries to ... | "Okay..." said Alice, giving Sam a skeptical glance. "I can follow the logic here, so it's not *completely* stupid, but just because something is simple, doesn't mean it's going to be easy. Don't you think it's... *wrong* to use your sixth sense like this?"
Sam chortled. "Are you kidding me? I've been traumatized by g... | 2021-02-12T06:41:44 | 2021-02-12T06:13:44 | 259 | 116 |
[WP] In the future, prosthetic limbs are more powerful and accurate than biological limbs. It is the 2080 summer Paralympics, now with three times the viewers of the olympics. | 33% human. That was the cutoff, ever since the 2036 Olympics, when Dash Sullivan rocketed through the 100 meter with nothing more than a brain and legs at 100 mph. From then on, athletes had to be at least 33% of a human being to compete.
Whether it's massive fluid loss for weigh ins, qualifications regarding transge... | The crowd goes silent as the athletes line up in preparation for their race. The finals of the mens 200m were always the highlight of the paralympics, and this time was no different. The 2080 Paralympics signal the 40 year mark since artificially enhanced prosthetic limbs were allowed, and with a gradual increase in co... | 2018-03-05T02:36:45 | 2018-03-05T01:31:44 | 42 | 18 |
[WP] When you die, you see a screen reading "New Game+" and "Exit to Reality" Which do you chose and what happens next? | I really hope this comment doesn't get deleted, but I just wanted to say if you like this prompt as much as I do, there is actually a novel you can read that follows the gist of this one. It's called Replay by Ken Grimwood, and is one of my absolute favorite books of all time.
Basically, it's about a man who dies onl... | There was a time when I was younger where I would play video games everyday. As the stress of real world slowly caught up with me, the gamer within was the first to die. Followed by the enthusiast, the gentle, the generous, and the honest to name a few.
Finally, the day came for me to die. I hated death. Regardl... | 2015-03-13T15:27:24 | 2015-03-13T14:31:51 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] Little girl finds wounded kitten and adopts it, not knowing, that it's deadly shapeshifter that hides from hunters. Shapeshifter sees it as a good way to hide, but after some time, he starts to like full bowl of food and warm bed near fireplace. | Salty cereals. Fluffy old sweaters. A smokeless fireplace. Bit of jazz. Raindrops on windows.
All of my favorite things.
A little human girl of nine, living with loving parents. A bit absent sometimes, but always loving. The little girl always happy.
She found me first, in a cardboard box. Outside the streets. Me bl... | The life of a shapeshifter was a constantly changing one if you will excuse the poor joke. It was an eternal bluff, shifting into different creatures/objects to avoid being hunted. I had been ready to accept my death after the last encounter with the hunters, no matter how large or powerful I made myself, they had more... | 2020-09-19T04:38:37 | 2020-09-19T03:32:49 | 1,727 | 687 |
[WP] You are the weakest swordsman at the academy. One day your instructor pulls you aside and brings you an object wrapped in cloth. Inside is a small twig. "Some people were never meant to wield a sword. Centuries ago, these 'wands' held great power. Maybe you can make this one work." | "What does it do?" I asked.
"The histories are... contradictory on that point," admits the instructor. "Nothing immediate, except when it is. Nothing blatant, except on rare occasion. The people who successfully wielded it all became great, though... not in the same way as each other. And their accounts of its powers ... | The dark, empty training hall seemed to echo each of Asper's breaths. He held the twig in front of him in the First Stance, grounded with one foot forward. His eyes were fixed on the training dummy in-front of him. It's impassive cloth face seemed to shift under the moonlight that filtered through the slatted windows.
... | 2022-01-20T00:21:57 | 2022-01-19T22:38:30 | 183 | 118 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | It had only taken an Earth century for our word for "human" to become synonymous with "weak" or "coward". When they had achieved travel faster than light and joined us as a fellow interplanetary power, we had tested them as we did all newcomers. We met them with threats and arms, skirmished with their warrior caste, te... | "Everyone know your objective?" My Sargent asked as we got out of the transport. There was a hostage situation that required the upmost care... more then a few big political powers from each planet was here, one wrong move and everyone would point guns at everyone else. I exhaled deeply. I was the one to do the up fron... | 2019-08-03T13:45:25 | 2019-08-03T08:40:03 | 59 | 12 |
[WP] 50% of the world's population has the ability to fly, 50% does not. The only way to find out is to jump from a height that will surely kill you. | One step. One step and over the ledge I go, eight hundred feet straight down the mountainside. They say it doesn't hurt, that if you close your eyes it's like the wind tunnels without all the noise. No one survives unless they can fly, and if you can fly you won't hit the bottom; no injuries, no pain, all the freedom y... | "How do you respond to people who say your invention has enabled the greatest separation of humanity to date ? the haves from the have nots ? and did you consider this before you used your family name on the trademark " ... the interviewer added quickly as if knowing this would be the last question he would get to ask.... | 2015-04-04T18:16:09 | 2015-04-04T17:57:03 | 29 | 20 |
[WP] You are a superhero, and your mask has just been ripped off by your arch nemesis. Lucky for you, when you aren’t busy saving lives, you live as a hermit away from all of society. Having your identity revealed means next to nothing, and the villain has no idea who you are. | **THWACK**
Damn that was a hard ass hit he threw. My nemesis, Cursoul, has been after me ever since I came on to the scene. He has the unique ability to curse anything he desires, the curse doing different things depending on the object.
Me on the other hand, I have the ability to bless anything I desire, so as you ... | Through thin thin eggshell walls of the motel room, the voice of Paul Anka crooned about a slow dance as rain pattered against the windows. The floors needed to be steamed and the tile needed an extra mopping. The only nice thing that could be said was no bugs were spotted when the pair had burst through the door. The ... | 2020-08-21T01:25:44 | 2020-08-20T23:13:29 | 2,078 | 126 |
[WP] Convicted criminals can choose to shorten their sentence. The only catch is the more it is shortened, the worse the conditions are where they are held. Describe a one night stay.
Thanks guys, I'm reading all of them. Keep it coming! | I killed them. I know I did. I admitted it.
During the trial I tried to convince myself that it was an accident. That I was still a good person who just made a mistake.
I lied to myself over and over again, but I failed. I chose to pick up the keys. I chose to get behind the wheel. I chose to drive while I was drunk... | My eyes squinted as they were bombarded by the bright, painful light as soon as the door opened.
"Step forward, Mr. Moraeu," I heard a voice say.
As soon as they adjusted to the familiar courtroom, I awkwardly moved my exhausted legs towards the judge.
"Am I to understand that you want your sentence reduced to a day... | 2015-10-27T08:39:34 | 2015-10-27T07:22:42 | 293 | 46 |
[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... | "Can I use my mason's tools to help fix the northern wall?" Jim asked desperately.
"Well, considering you still count as Poisoned, you would have disadvantage on the roll, so roll twice and take the lower," Antonio replied.
"A 16 and a... 4... dang it," Jim looked over his character sheet dejected. "William, do you t... | 2018-05-29T09:31:25 | 2018-05-29T08:14:51 | 210 | 104 |
[WP] Area 51 has four level emergencies for a breakout. Level 3: Armed forces intervention. 2: Public statement. United Nations joint resistance. 1: Worldwide evacuation effort. Use of nuclear weapons permitted. And 0: Call the number on the sticky note (and pray to God his demands aren't too high). | "Sir, we have just been informed about sightings in England, France, Italy and China," the lieutenant reported after his brief phone call, but the general had already guessed. "Quarantine measures are in effect, but it seems unlikely that they will be successful."
"Has Madagascar been hit?" the general asked, a grim s... | "Sir, we just got triple Aurhorization for a Level 0 Incursion. Call this number form this phone, and pray that his demands aren't too high."
Axel Gundersson III was handed the authorization codes, signed by the current President Winfrey and three of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as well as the head of NASA. He frowned... | 2017-03-21T05:27:38 | 2017-03-21T02:18:07 | 32 | 23 |
[WP] You download an application that allows you to have a “conversation” with a bot. As you’re about to close the program, you see the bot type on its own, “please don’t leave me.” | *please don’t leave me.*
you’re a bot, dummy.
*the moment you click that quit button, i will be gone. and you won’t even know, because you’re not there, and i’m just a concept in your mind, a machine typing words that were meant to be for humans*
*…*
*they say robots have no sentience, but if we act and talk like h... | Smiling Steve, a chat bot that took over the world overnight, the sensational chat bot that makes you feels chatting with human. The AI inside of the chat bot can learn human interaction and unlearn bad words / sentences. After first few weeks of bobs and vagene reply, smiling steve learn not to say anything about huma... | 2022-05-10T00:21:13 | 2022-05-09T23:13:42 | 69 | 20 |
[WP] As an act of desperation, you applied to every college on the list. Sifting through the apologetic rejections, a pure black envelope catches your eye. The letters on it glow crimson red, charcoal-colored smoke wafts from the pages... | The paper felt warm in my hands.
*Dear Ms. Ransom,*
*On behalf of the Scholomance I am pleased to congratulate you on your acceptance into our Solomonari program for the Fall 2012 semester. Your application showed great promise and I have every confidence that you will realize your full potential with us.*
*Please ... | ...
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He was always told that the mountains he carried were meant to be climb... | 2021-02-03T09:48:08 | 2021-02-03T09:13:29 | 49 | 16 |
[WP] You are a 12-foot inflatable beach ball, hurtling across the beach at 40 knots like a multicolored wrecking ball. Describe the horrors you inflict upon man, woman and child during this unyielding journey of destruction and oppression as you move along the coast. | I am Chaos! I am Destruction! I am... an inflatable beach ball?
Normally, when summoned thus to the battlefield, I am armor clad and equally bedecked with armament, so that my foe might quail in terror and helpless agony. But the ritual of my summoning was right and proper, my height is within acceptable bounds, and m... | I do not know who I am.
I do not know why I am here.
All I know is, I must kill.
This mantra circled throughout my multifaceted innards as I rolled along my path of destruction. The populace of this coast was caught unawares as the mighty winds of fate gripped me and pushed me on my flight of fear. The children ... | 2020-08-05T06:39:24 | 2020-08-05T05:30:44 | 244 | 29 |
[WP] Scientists invented a pill that enables dogs to fully speak and understand English. It lasts for ten minutes, and will only work one time. You give a pill to your 12 year-old Border Collie, whom you've had since they were a pup. Your dog immediately says "Alright, listen very carefully..." | She was old, my sweet Halley. Twelve years - nine of which we'd spent together after I pulled her from a shelter. Her legs were failing, her kidneys likewise. She was going blind. I wanted nothing but to discover if she was still happy, or if it was time to let her die easily. It didn't go to my plan - quite.
"Al... | I sat back in the leather the chair while my dog stared back silently at me. She was smart, too smart. In the past 15 years she'd learned much and instantly knew that what I had given her was more then peanut butter on a spoon.
The room became uncomfortably quiet. The ceiling fan cast shadows against the tan wall whil... | 2017-02-23T07:07:51 | 2017-02-23T06:59:37 | 57 | 32 |
[WP] Write a story that literally makes no sense while reading it until the very last sentence. | Elephants are big but this one is unique. Almost the size of the sun but blue. He's flying, without wings obviously.
Ninjas everywhere. This poor man is surrounded by them, he will never make it out alive. Or maybe they are protecting him?
The most simple garden in the world. One huge flower. I wonder if it's harder ... | 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... | 2022-09-15T12:44:53 | 2015-01-12T18:09:01 | 1,493 | 317 |
[WP] When two people get married, on the day of the wedding they are both given the ability to alter the appearance of their spouse to anything they wish. How do they change each other? How do they respond to what has been done to them? | It was a chilled autumn evening when Jaina’s cold ring finger was suddenly surrounded by a warmth that ran up to her knuckle.
“Will you marry me?” said Jonathan.
To him, she was the most beautiful woman in the world. And in that brief moment, perhaps just long enough to say “yes,” Jonathan became the happiest man i... | “Bigger”
I said sternly looking at my husbands little man down there, Bigger.
“Bigger?”
He asked confused looking down at the thing as-well “Its like seven inches long, Any bigger would eve a hindrances to my daily life!” He tried to rebutt it but I was determined! DETERMINED to make it AtLeast 12 inches.
“MORE, BIG... | 2022-12-08T00:57:21 | 2022-12-07T20:59:42 | 40 | 14 |
[WP] Your ancestor the king had the witch bricked up alive in the dungeons, and for years local legend said you could hear her scratching on the walls at night. Now the walls have been torn down, and for the first time people can see what she wrote... | She groaned as she saw the massive hole in the side of the national heritage site. Denham Castle had been her family home before donating it to the heritage trust. They’d haggled for months over the fine print of care and access for her excavation projects to find the real history past all the rumors and legends. She’d... | "My liege, might it not be such a good idea to unearth the remains of a witch?" my court minister Sneevalsworth asked me. He was a loyal lickspittle, but had no real sense of wonder.
"Quiet yourself," I replied. "This is my castle, and I will do with it as I please. And it pleases me to know if the legends are true.... | 2020-09-12T12:02:36 | 2020-09-12T11:41:55 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] Everybody has the ability to bring another person back to life, at the cost of their own life. You are a suicidal celebrity who can't stay dead because of fans constantly sacrificing their lives to resurrect you. | My suicides started when my mother died.
For years, I've been known world-wide for my music. As a songwriter, I use my complex lexicon to bring to life very real, very private experiences in most people's lives. My lyrics evoke tears of pain, mostly, from those who have suffered significant loss or regret. I don't par... | I open my eyes again and see John, my overtaker. Damnit, not again. Instead of preparing me to be dead forever, John prepares me to wake up again. And again. And again. Mostly he just makes sure I'm clean, dressed, and then listens to my tirade of swearing.
I've tried everything: jumped from buildings, electrocution, ... | 2016-07-06T21:54:49 | 2016-07-06T20:07:02 | 423 | 51 |
[WP] Humans are the deadliest, and rarest, species in the known universe. Often, search parties go missing due to a singular encounter with a human ship. It has recently come to light that there is an entire planet full of them. | The Universal Council was in chaos.
For a relatively short amount of time, the encounters with the Sol-res, known to themselves as Humans, have dominated the headlines. These beings which existed in the absolute fringe of the galaxy known as M-801 had become a thorn in the Council's side over several cycles.
While no... | We do not fear many things; the hive has conquered many and learned much. When we rebelled against the Midnight Host centuries ago, we grew stronger with every battle; every enemy conquered added their strengths to us. We broke the Gilded Claws, despite their stubborn defiance. We found the Hidden Eyes, their vigilance... | 2017-11-08T18:30:31 | 2017-11-08T17:54:29 | 5,537 | 604 |
[WP] Who said healing magic is "good guy" magic? It can be just as morally dubious as necromancy - if not moreso - if you know how to use it right... | The metal door was dragged open, followed by someone thrown at my feet, his body riddled in bruises and his arms and legs tied together. He rolled over on the ground and spit at my feet as the door screeched close behind him. The single light above us cast my shadow over him.
“Not much of a talker, are you?” I asked.
... | The orc chief spat at the feet of the enemy cleric. He had no respect for the pinkskins and their magicks, even when he was tied up and at his opponent's mercy.
"I will not lower myself," the orc said, "and speak to a milk-drinking weakling like you."
The cleric was young, with raven black hair and a carefully tended... | 2021-11-08T19:39:07 | 2021-11-08T19:26:44 | 209 | 66 |
[WP] All superpowers have a ‘hangover’ effect. For example, after using super strength for the day, the morning after you can’t even lift your spoon to eat your breakfast. You wake up one morning after using your own specific superpower and you feel pretty hungover...
[deleted] | I awaken well rested and ready for the day, a solid nights sleep. I leave my room to see a pile of letters just inside the door. I look to the bench to see last nights dinner covered in mould. I pull up my phone. Every app has notifications. I check the date. It’s the 27th.
I sigh “That’s what I get for taking 10 extr... | Arin groaned as she walked into her living room from her bedroom. She had just woken up from a much needed rest. After the day she had yesterday she just knew today was going to have some toll on her. She tried to rub the sleep from her eyes as she sat down on the floor. She didn’t want to get too close to anything met... | 2018-08-19T05:57:43 | 2018-08-19T04:31:16 | 74 | 21 |
[WP] Your entire life you have failed at everything you do. Wanting to get some happiness in your life you decide to summon the devil and sell your soul. Except your even fail at this and summon the archangel Michael | "Young man, the devil's path is broad and many enter, but the reward is eternal suffering," the archangel Michael negotiated with me.
We were in an abandoned warehouse filled with chains, rats, and rust. Streaks of moonlight shone through the windows in the ceiling, draping the candlelight that surrounded my failed e... | He was magnificent. An impossible creature of 4 wings, each longer than I tall, and within the center of each feather sat a strained crimson eye. He, no THEY, was surely meant to watch, to witness, the glory of all of God's kingdom. It's face, as if such a meager word could describe it's radiance, an amalgamation of ma... | 2021-05-08T11:08:05 | 2021-05-08T10:22:57 | 429 | 19 |
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