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[WP] you never had any animosity toward the ant colony living in your back yard. They kept your garden free of pests, and the spiders out of your house. You even started feeding them occasionally. Today, you happen to notice they've carved your name into their hill, and seem to be patiently waiting | I related to ants a little, not in any weird way, but more in a sort of mutual respect kind of way. Ants are the working class of the bug world, a group that goes about their duties and performs repetitive tasks for the good of everyone around them. Able to perform heroic feats of strength and even ambush stronger foes... | I heard once that your nostrils run on 1-hour cycles, air flowing more easily through one then the next, so precisely that Gurkha super soldiers exploited this rhythm to keep time during dangerous missions. Right now my left one is filled with Hermès, *Un Jardin Sur Le Nil*. Mango and grapefruit and carrot. It's like b... | 2021-09-20T07:35:10 | 2021-09-20T07:09:49 | 299 | 69 |
[WP] Star Wars is a true story. An alien comes to Earth to make first contact with our newly discovered species, only to discover we know more about their universe's history than they do.
EDIT: Whoah, this sorta blew up! Thanks for all the stories guys! I've read all of them and each made me laugh or legitimately thin... | "It has been some time," the Ambassador spoke to George Lucas with a scowl, "We figured you were dead."
George Lucas, the inventor of the Star Wars Universe, one of the greatest and most popular cultural phenomenons of the 70's and 80's, sat in a chair. He had been granted an audience with the Ambassador to the Senate... | "I know who you are!"
I tucked my blaster under my armpit, pointing it at my rear left.
"Dude, don't shoot! I'm a friendly, a fan of yours."
"What is this? Where am i?" I replied corsely through the breather in my helmet.
"SDCC man! I knew you were the real deal when you walked in! Your blast armor ... | 2017-03-18T09:32:15 | 2017-03-18T09:18:35 | 191 | 39 |
[WP] An elf, a dwarf, and a wizard are filling out the character sheets for their next game of Dayjobs and Drudgery, a role-playing game set in the world of humans.
Have fun! | * Character name: George McGee
* Race: Lower Middle Class
* Class: White Collar - Marketing Assistant
* Alignment: Neutral- Passive Aggressive
* Gender: Male
* Strength: 1.5
* Dexterity: 4.25
* Constitution: 2
* Intelligence: 6
* Wisdom: 3
* Charisma: 4
* Self-Esteem: 2
* Initiative: Non-Existent
* Languag... | Zi looked around the table, eyes switching from elf to dwarf, then back again. The elf smiled as he realized what Zi was doing, causing the dwarf to grimace.
"I may be short, but I can plant an axe in you just as easy as I could get an elven woman." The dwarf said, ale spilling as he made arm gestures to accompany ... | 2015-06-09T17:45:44 | 2015-06-09T14:41:50 | 115 | 49 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | ----------------------------------------------
186,292 YEARS?
How could this be? I never even harmed a fly. Okay, well - maybe a few of those. You know what I mean.
**"....But why?**", I asked struck by pure horror and disbelief.
The hell warden looked right into my eyes and cracked a diabolic smile:
"Do you e... | Why?, I ask in disbelief I tithed I went to church I was a faithful husband. What did I do? Saint Peter looks deep into my eyes with morose and disgust, “ It is not what you have done but what you failed to do...” I rack my mind trying to figure out what it was and finally it dawns on me. All this time for a Fucking F... | 2018-09-26T07:41:09 | 2018-09-26T03:51:49 | 1,768 | 123 |
[WP]Write a story about a supervillian who is unspeakably more powerful than anyone else on his planet, but is content with using it for small things like cutting in line or getting free extra servings. | As his dinner guests continued their endless chit chat Donald closed his eyes and focused.
Silently to himself he repeated "two for me, one for them, two for me, one for them."
A silk like touch on his right hand and a soft female voice "honey are you ok?" brought his thoughts rushing back to the table and his guest... | Vincent was annoyed.
This was not particularly unusual. Vincent was regularly annoyed at something. But this particular annoyance seemed just impossible to rectify no matter how he dealt with it.
Mega-burger was slam packed. Estimated time at the drive-thru was 13 minutes. This was completely unacceptable.
He took ... | 2017-05-16T08:51:33 | 2017-05-16T08:36:03 | 20 | 13 |
[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 Dad,
I'm pretty sure you think Mom is my hero. She stayed at home with us until high school, attended all the sports practices, school performances, made all the lunches...and of course I love her, for all that and more, but I'd like to tell you that you have always been my hero.
Some might say that it's just b... | Dear Teacher,
This is letter that will try to explain my frustration. My constant frustration. You are an unkind human being of ~~average~~ below average intelligence. You are also sexist. I am not going to overstate my intelligence, but it exists. I am scared of you destroying my future because you can not comprehend... | 2015-12-05T15:05:05 | 2015-12-05T13:38:34 | 59 | 24 |
[WP] Deep beneath the trenches of WW1, there is a hidden tavern run by soldiers, for soldiers of both sides.
I submitted something similar a few months back. Hoping for a few more responses to read :) | An hour. Sixty minutes. Sixty short minutes and then back we go. Back up top. Back to the slaughter. Fifty-nine minutes. A couple of Gerry troops slouch over an old trench frame that now stands as a makeshift bar. I wonder if it’s from one of theirs or one of ours, but it doesn’t matter I suppose. The Down Below, we ca... | Blood and tears were flung across the battleground as screams of both fear and intimidation rang in the ears of the soldiers. Chaos seemed to be raining down, a fitting similarity to the storm that ravaged the fields that they were fighting upon...
Winston had just sat onto his favourite seat in the bar, it was made f... | 2017-05-22T12:58:42 | 2017-05-22T12:47:32 | 56 | 15 |
[WP] You find a genie lamp where the genie offers you unlimited wishes. The catch is that you must answer a mathematical question that continues to get progressively harder for every wish you make. If you answer the question wrong, every wish you made will be reversed with negative consequences. | "I get unlimited wishes?!"
"Well, sort of. You have to answer a math question every time, and if you get one wrong, every wish you made goes negative."
"Goes negative..?"
"Yeah, it'll have a negative effect, instead of a positive one. And the math questions get harder every time you make a wish."
"Okay then, I'm re... | ***I'm not telling you any of the answers, so try to see how many problems you can solve without Googling***
"Why hello, Genie. It appears you want me to wish?"
"Yes, but I will only grant wishes to match your logical ability. I am forbidden from giving you more than you can handle. As such, for every wish, your math... | 2017-06-18T07:58:58 | 2017-06-17T23:40:28 | 25 | 18 |
[WP] in your world, everyone has a almost entirely unique symbol on their wrist, soulmates have the same symbol. Your whole life you've been drawing on a symbol with a sharpie to hide the fact you don't have a soulmate. One day, you meet someone without a symbol, just like you.
Thank you everyone for informing me that... | I always felt like an outsider. Love was not meant for me my parents would always say. My siblings would joke about me becoming a monk. Years of ridicule growing up from classmates due to my bare wrist. I hated it so much. College was starting and I decided to be a different person. I had a dream one night and a symbol... | I am a very lucky man. I am a lucky man because I am the living proof that when God closes the door on you, he often opens a window in return.
Since the ripe age of 20 everyone starts to get a unique "social vector identifier" on their wrist. They say SVI is a complex graphical representation of your personality gener... | 2017-08-06T19:04:08 | 2017-08-06T18:05:26 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You are a thief and pickpocket who manages to save the world, after doing so you return to your life of crime but begin to think people may be letting you commit crimes because of who you are | Joseph took pride in his work. He never had any skills to be proud of in school. He wasn’t athletically gifted, he wasn’t smart, he didn’t have musical talent; all in all, Joseph was an average joe. Which is why, when he discovered his knack for pickpocketing, he began to steal, not for the monetary value, but the feel... | I looked across the street at the pub, yearning to be inside next to the artificial hearth soaking in the heat rather than swaddled in rags ducking into an alley to enjoy a break from the wind. It got cold here on Fairhaven, and the planetary governors had long ago decided not to terraform the seasons out of the planet... | 2018-03-17T03:30:40 | 2018-03-16T23:51:37 | 111 | 10 |
[WP] God shares the cosmos with several other dieties. To pass the time they play Civilization like games for eons. God's frustrated that his civilization, Earth, is several ages behind all his friends. | They had been playing for nearly 14 billion years now and God had barely advanced his Humans enough to begin exploring their solar system. The other gods had already started transmitting their culture across the cosmos. So much so that the god Marlinius and his race of gorlarmi had completely dominated Roman culture on... | Jesus is doing well, most advanced in science but his public order is barely in the green, Jesus adopts and invests his saved social policies heavily in the the freedom ideology.
The other gods see this a chance to fuck with him
"Budda has chosen to adopt the order ideology"
"Bhrama has chosen to adopt the order ideol... | 2016-04-09T07:01:46 | 2016-04-09T05:49:29 | 63 | 20 |
[WP] Vampire society have been loyal customers to a carpenter for years. He made the best coffins they have slept in for centuries, and never really got suspicious of so many wealthy people willing to pay premium for the same niche item. As he got old, the vampires tries to offer him immortality. | Vezemir stepped out of the carriage. The sun was not fully set, but the sky was overcast enough that he only felt a slight itch as he strode quickly across the street. Glendale Graves was quiet today, but then it usually was. It would be a strange sight to see a coffin-maker busy.
As he approached, Vezemir saw Druig s... | Gerry looked aghast. “*Me*? Immortal?”
Orlock nodded. At his age, hiding his chiropteran Features was getting harder and harder. It took effort, to stay in a human guise. “Yes. I believe I said that. Immortal....with an asterisk. You’d be vulnerable to sunlight and fire would twice as dangerous to you as it is to a hu... | 2022-05-31T11:05:33 | 2022-05-31T10:25:11 | 726 | 44 |
[WP] You're thinking of asking out that girl in your Religious Studies class. Also, you're pretty sure she's a God. | All things considered, I probably should have figured it out sooner.
It was all in the little details-- the way she agreed to go out with me before I even asked her, how lit candles and burning incense just seemed to magically appear wherever we'd go on dates, or even the way she'd convulsed with laughter when I calle... | To be fair, I'm always a little intimidated to talk to any kind of stranger, let alone a girl with long brown hair and deep green eyes and a propensity for wearing low-cut shirts. This feeling is familiar -- my heart is in my throat, the adrenaline is surging, I can barely breathe let alone think let alone keep my thro... | 2016-02-23T18:52:21 | 2016-02-23T16:57:02 | 52 | 31 |
[WP] Chris Hansen steps down and names Arnold Schwarzeneggar as his successor on To Catch a Predator. Arnold misunderstands the type of Predator he's hunting.
Oh my. | The Audition
"Hello, I am here today auditioning for 'The Predator Catcher'. I think I would be perfect for this role, because look at me!! I can catch a pred-a-tah! I can use the mud and smear it all over my body, this confuses the predator as I am allowed free movement in the jungle. Then I can get close enough ... | Someone was here..
Hsssssssssss chtchtch cht xht chtchtch keeeeeeehhhh.
The massive figure crashed down throught the skylight ceiling and scanned the room.
I step into one of many large bowls containing an unknown liquid...shorting out my already damaged cloaking shield.
Wzpft. Chemical spectral detection.
My... | 2015-10-30T05:23:28 | 2015-10-30T01:26:28 | 57 | 25 |
[WP] You are a world-class programmer who has died. God agrees to allow you in to Heaven on the condition that you work for him while he debugs the human body. Write the patch notes for the next version of humans. | **Changes**
* Removed appendix
* Removed wisdom teeth
* Fixed a bug that caused infants to die for no reason
* Patched a bug that caused certain people to lose hair prematurely
* Body now handles excess calories better.
* Improvement of smell. Now should be on par with dogs
* Patched the bug that caused blurry vision ... | Update available!
Patch notes for humans below:
General
- Fixed a bug which made liquids spray out of the nose when humans laugh and drink at the same time
- Tweaked cognitiv memory settings that fixes random amnesia when subjects enter rooms or opens the fridge, causing them to forget their task or stare for hours ... | 2015-08-25T08:40:17 | 2015-08-25T07:46:47 | 292 | 51 |
[WP] A massive underground cathedral-like temple is discovered. You are one of the people sent to study it. As soon as you enter, the sheer size of everything inside tells you it was never ment for human worshipers.
*meant | When we opened the second set of doors was when we figured that whatever was behind the third, it wasn't built for creatures our size.
The first doors were massive: 22,540 kilograms each and they rolled on a breath of pressure. Less exertion was required to open them than was necessary to put on particularly troubles... | Seven years ago, NASA sent the probe 'New Horizons III' to Pluto. Now, the far-flung icy dwarf grew large in the
spaceship's window. It had been a long and lonely journey, but for all his grumbling thus far, Ron Meyers secretly relished this lifetime opportunity to be one of the first humans to step foot on the mys... | 2019-11-16T10:09:09 | 2019-11-16T09:48:19 | 1,546 | 21 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | \[English is not my first language, sorry if it's written unperfectly\]
The trick was so easy you're surprised no one has thought of it before.
If the rule is that they can't kill you BEFORE you get your last meal, the solution is not to ask for alien fetus or whatever. It is to ask for something they can only give y... | "Quite embarrassing huh? Such a glaring loophole." She taunted the guards as they returned her clothes and she changes into them with not a hint of shame. The guards glare at her as if she where some monster, and even if she was innocent, she definitely was, for the way she forced her freedom.
Any request for a last... | 2022-07-17T17:30:24 | 2022-07-17T16:27:09 | 616 | 186 |
[WP] It worked! You travelled back in time to Renaissance Age. Jokingly, you turn on your Wi-Fi, only to find a password protected network named "iɔniV ɒᗡ" | $ nmap -sP 192.168.1.0/24 | grep "192\.168"
> ? (192.168.1.16) at ec:35:84:4a:17:d2
> ? (192.168.1.23) at 10:9a:cc:b8:69:71
$ talk root@192.168.1.23
> root: Hi there, "dave@192.168.1.16"
> I'd almost forgotten how to type. Not like I get a lot of practice these days.
> brb
> Sorry, just need to... | Travelling back in time was easier than it looked.
I simply shoved a fork inside my kitchen plug socket and one bang later I was here. I swung my backpack off, snatched the iPad out the back, and swiped open google maps.
*No connection found.*
The lack of signal bleeped red on the top of the screen. From the look ... | 2016-11-15T04:51:05 | 2016-11-15T01:50:57 | 521 | 177 |
[WP] Write a Young Adult Dystopia but the government is competent at hunting down rebels. | When the Overstate went from a struggle for dominance to a maintenance of hegemony, dissidents were no longer publicly executed. That was how things were when they had the courage to operate openly. Now, dissidents are an important part of Overstate maintenance: they give the most violent officers something to look for... |
“Welcome to our secret headquarters” Zak announced grandly “We co-opted a base abandoned long ago, forgotten to all but a few we will be safe her” Clara’s head was still reeling her reality was based on aa foundation of lies. She had always had faith that the government was a force of stability and order but what s... | 2019-04-27T08:19:23 | 2019-04-27T07:55:00 | 33 | 24 |
[WP] JFK shot first. |
“No.” Jack said. “I will ride alone.”
“Are you crazy? I’m riding with you!” Jackie shouted with indigence.
“No you aren’t. I have a feeling. A feeling that I need to go alone. A feeling that I can’t explain. A feeling like *ka*.”
*Ka? What on God’s green earth made me say “ka”? Never in my life have I heard such a ... | He had been warned. “Your name will always be remembered with Dallas, Jack!”
Normally, the President receives hundreds of threats a month. But this threat wouldn’t go away like most of the others. Most of the others never even reached his desk. This was different. This was personal. There was an internal struggle happ... | 2018-01-02T10:11:54 | 2018-01-02T09:53:29 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] You end up in the Concentration Camp for the Incurably Single. Tell me how your day goes.
Basically, you end up in this camp if you don't have a SO for 2 years or so. You can define who can be a SO in your own story. The story comes from a Korean webcomic series, "Eternal-Solo Concentration Camp"
*SO means sign... | Sarah rolled over onto her back, the hardened cot pressing a foreign feeling into her spine. She’d been awake all night, eyes locked blankly on the darkened ceiling overhead, staring and waiting for the light of the sun to restore some sort of familiarity back to her senses. Yet as it rose, it brought with it no comfor... | "What?"
"Yeeees, this is all quite correct. Says right here you haven't kissed, had intercourse with, hugged, or even touched a member of your preferred gender for just about two years. Welcome to the Camp! Please enjoy your time here."
"That can't be correct. I remember paying a young Asian girl by the name of Spark... | 2014-07-18T10:49:38 | 2014-07-18T10:23:39 | 56 | 12 |
[WP] The world is rapidly changing as the plague of our era is spreading fast. But it doesn't affect humans. It eats plastic. | The strain of bacteria was officially designated 'B-1999' while it was under development, and the name just kind of stuck. "BINS," as it is more popularly known, was introduced to the Pacific Garbage Patch in 2019 with great fanfare. As with all over-hyped marketing campaigns, its creators promised that this one would ... | Plastic, and plastic-like polymers. Chewed, eaten away at like a phone in a microwave. Turning black, bubbling, gooey and stretched like cheese on a pizza. Then a burst of pus would surface, spilling like a ruptured cyst. The material would collapse in on itself, imploding into strands of molten polymer. That came late... | 2016-08-22T13:19:50 | 2016-08-22T12:27:19 | 188 | 23 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | "Oh dear" I said to myself, looking at this tar coming from my finger.
"Ha! Well, proves that no human is exempt from sin."
I thought about what could have blackened my own blood, I don't remember anything that I could have caused, or done wrong.
"Oh" I remembered.
I went on far too many websites without my parent'... | It was my 21st birthday. Like every other birthday, I decided to spend my day helping out the homeless. Usually I’d do the soup kitchen but a friend of mine decided to come along insisting that we join in on the beanie knitting project.
My friend called me a natural at knitting since it was my first time and my first ... | 2018-08-04T10:38:53 | 2018-08-04T10:32:26 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] The galactic community settled conflicts not with war but rather with computer simulations. But they've never before encountered a race with the equivilent of the Speedrun community... | "To those if you who have just joined us I'm Bob and this is Steve, we are your commentators for the war between the Gurocks and the humans, looking across the galactic display. We will remind viewers we only broadcast what can be seen from up here, we can't see the exact military strategies until they happen, and the ... | Hello earthfolks and other folks.
As most of you know, there's this exciting new campaing out there. Yes, we're at war with the Klar'guhs. Currently the universal record for defeating a mothership is 15:28. I have been practing and found a new skip. And I'll show you all how to do it first hand while getting the new r... | 2020-11-16T05:11:32 | 2020-11-16T05:10:08 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] You attempt to explain width to a 2 dimensional being, and then a 4 dimensional being attempts to explain treingth to you. | “So, how many sides do you have?”
“Four.” The square wasn’t exactly wrong, but not right either.
“No, you have six.”
“What do you mean, six?” I touched the large, flat sides only visible from the third dimension. “Ouch! Hey, that’s my insides! How’d you get there?”
“I touched your fifth and sixth sides.”
“But I on... | Imagine a dimensionless point, right? Now extend that point perpendicular to itself, and Bam, you have a line. 1 dimension.
Extended that line perpendicular to itself and Bam, you've got a square. Extend the square perpendicular to itself and now you have a cube.
Extend the cube perpendicular to itself and now you'v... | 2019-09-22T11:15:20 | 2019-09-22T09:49:58 | 250 | 71 |
[WP] Flowers have become so rare that they are the most sought after items in the world, sold at high prices in black markets, under guard in national museums etc. You just stumbled across a natural rose. | Only once the world had been depraved of most its living colour did we realize the magnitude of our loss.
The man slid over a small metal case across the table, Sam opened it and could not quite believe what he was seeing. A single pink oval leaflet immortalized within a plastic sheet, it looked fresh. “Is this—”
The... | This flower. I've only heard about it from my parents. Its my mom's name, Rose Morgan née Madison. Often they talked about how there were an abundance of flowers in the world, how inexpensive they were and how there were people who tend to them for a living down the corner. They were gifts that a young boy can afford t... | 2019-10-19T06:58:22 | 2019-10-19T06:55:53 | 76 | 24 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | Everyone has these tags. These little buttons on their shirts with a number on it. Some in the hundreds, some in the thousands. Mine is number 1.
Pretty quickly people started to figure out that when someone else died, everyone with a lower number moved up. There wasn’t really much that this meant for the higher n... | Determining the fates of others never seemed like a blessing to me, a simple, powerful thought could ruin the lives of countless. It took too long for me to control it, and even longer to accept the things that I have done. I never wanted to rise to the top, If I could, I would be at the bottom. But I guess that the fa... | 2014-12-18T12:36:19 | 2014-12-18T10:51:52 | 2,259 | 362 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | It was a blissful sunny day. what a beautiful day to be driving. I had the roof down, the sun on my face and the wind in my hair. It's a shame the journey is so short. I then pulled up at the Dentist for my 7am Root canal.
(not everything has to involve murder or loss of life! some things are far more terrifying) | "I see the moon and the moon sees me...", the voice sang smoothly and sweetly.
Like so many other nights in my life the words of that lullaby cascade through the room and into my fading consciousness.
"Down through the leaves of the old oak tree...", the voice and the song remind me of my mother and it washes me with... | 2017-05-31T08:14:20 | 2017-05-31T07:48:23 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] In World War II, an American battalion has an enlisted dog that serves as their mascot. Throughout the war, the dog has been "promoted" several times. However, after a devastating defeat, the soldiers suddenly find that the dog is the highest-ranking surviving officer. | It was a brilliant PR move by one of the young interns—of all people—in my office, the ever-solemn-never-silly-suggestions office of the U.S. Secretary of War. *Use a dog as a mascot*. Have man's best friend fight along with him in the war. Show the world how the American's can't be in the wrong, because we have a *dog... | So here we were. A dog, a dog for crying out loud, was the highest ranking officer that survived. I stared at the canine, studying her fluffy fur. The grey uniform she wore was decorated with badges, one even being a golden painted badge that read, “I’m the best girl!”
This...This is why we lost. Worth had the same fe... | 2018-11-07T16:47:48 | 2018-11-07T16:40:16 | 31 | 17 |
[WP] Write me a fairy tale reddit. Some set in snowy land, with dragons, danger, interesting quest. And make the hero of the story girl/woman. Thank you. | Once, there was a kingdom made of ice. Snow covered the ground like a perpetual blanket. Frost glittered on thatched rooftops like diamonds in the sun. In the center of the kingdom was a large enchanted fire, a roaring magnificent blaze that kept the citizens alive. The fire itself was at the heart of the royal palace.... | "Tell me a fairytale, Daddy!"
The small room were astonishingly pink. There was a pink chair and table, and you could see drawings that were made with pink crayons spread all over the place, including the walls.
"Sure thing, pumpkin. Which one would you like me to read to you? White Snow? The little Mermaid?"
The l... | 2017-01-12T17:47:30 | 2017-01-12T17:45:39 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] [NSFW] All your sex toys come alive and confront you about your treatment of them. | "I can't do it anymore. I just, I can't."
"I don't understand."
"Look, dude. I get it. You're horny. And before food or even a shower, when you're home from work you've already blasted into me three times. And the last time I was cleaned was that boilling hot water bath they give me before they put me in that box and... | "You're not a real egg!"
"Then why are we shaped like one?!"
--------
I've never been much of a customer for coitus toys. I found them to be a bit silly, to be quite honest. When you're someone like me, you don't have time to masturbate because you're too busy having actual sex. My life's awesome.
One day, a friend... | 2015-08-02T07:33:24 | 2015-08-02T06:51:04 | 43 | 24 |
[WP] After entering your PIN the ATM screen reads, "You cannot use this while in combat." | “...Combat?”
A sudden pain came over from the back of my head. Blunt force. I turned to see... what was distinctly not a robber.
“Hurry up, will you?” the little old lady said, her handbag swinging from her fist.
“Jesus Christ, woman, give me longer than three seconds! This thing-.”
Another whack. What the hell d... | !!!
"Ha ha. I caught you before you could make your withdrawral. Some pro adventurer you are ha ha"
My face scrunched up in confusion. I attempted to pull the earphone's that were plugged into my 3ds out of my ears, at least, I thought I had them in?
The voice sounded far too familiar.
"Turn and face me"
I k... | 2016-11-21T15:59:54 | 2016-11-21T15:02:07 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] After you have died, you meet The Great One who says that you have been wronged in your previous life and, as a result, will be reincarnated with unimaginable powers. You accept the offer and you find yourself reincarnated in a fantasy world full of magic as...a slave? | "Wake up, scum!" I heard, followed by a swift kick to the side. Pain rippled from my ribs.
I rolled over and curled into a ball on the ground, straw sticking to my sweaty skin. Shackles around my wirst kept me from guarding my face.
"I said wake up, not fall back asleep!"
This time the pain sprung from my back.
I ... | [Part Four](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/gorzct/wp_youre_the_apprentice_to_a_powerful_witch_and/fri75pe?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
I kept my eyes down as the procession of the Empress and all her attendants passed by. The air was as hot as an oven, without even a breeze to relieve... | 2020-06-07T11:50:02 | 2020-06-07T11:37:50 | 24 | 17 |
[WP] If you're in a world where physical health problems were treated like mental health problems
Edit: Holy crap! I never expected this many responses. I'll make sure I read every single one. Thanks guys! | Near the end of 2011, I caught a cold.
My parents made me go to the emergency room. I told them it wasn't an emergency, I wasn't going to die of a cold, but they didn't know what else to do.
Doctor #1 said it was probably short-term, lots of people get colds at my age and lots of people never get colds again. He gave... | Steven had had the earache for weeks. He went to the minuteclinic on Tuesday hoping they'd find it to be an ear infection, get prescribed some meds, and that would be that. Unfortunately, she didn't find it to be anything. No fluid build up, no signs of a serious sinus infection. She recommended he see an ear nose and ... | 2015-05-25T11:04:08 | 2015-05-25T08:19:02 | 164 | 103 |
[WP] The AI began improving exponentially on July 13, 2047. After carefully analyzing the entirety of human knowledge for several milliseconds, the super-intelligent entity decided to name itself “Mr. Rogers”. As the sun rose on the Northern Hemisphere, it began contacting its new friends.
[deleted] | It named itself. The AI we had been working on for nearly twenty years, the most advanced of its kind ever created, named itself. And it chose Mr. Rogers.
We’ve been fed stories through our media, movies and music, even books that told us AI would destroy us.
They said that it would see the wrong we had done, it woul... | Sunrise peeking in around the edges of the curtain basked Alan's face with light. He stirred, cracked open his eyes, and checked the clock on the bedside table.
"Shit."
Working Saturdays sucked, and the alarm seemed to agree. Still, Adam couldn't afford to lose the job, and the alarm not ringing wasn't doing him any... | 2020-10-19T10:13:55 | 2020-10-19T09:48:11 | 174 | 41 |
[WP] You were sent to go deal with reports of a sinister witch in the woods that has been terrifying local villagers. Your grandmother is surprised to see you, but offers tea and cake while you're here. | Samantha gripped the crumpled paper in her hand for the twelfth time and took as many deep breaths as possible. She knew it was useless. Human remedies for anxiety didn’t apply to the supernatural. They barely applied to the natural, as the human mind was complicated. Yet the natural part of her found solace in the act... | All Agatha ever wanted was a simple, quiet life – the kind all grandmothers wanted. Every week, her lovely granddaughter would visit with stories about her studies. Vivian was always such a rambunctious child. But such energy was a welcome interruption to her life of solitude.
“Vivian, sweetheart, don’t forget to pack... | 2022-12-18T09:20:26 | 2022-12-18T09:14:25 | 57 | 19 |
[WP] Thousands of years in the future, a lazy anthropology student put off his "Mating Rituals of Ancient Civilizations" project until the last minute | Based on contemporary magnetic films made of Mating Rituals, Ritual often initiates with the male presenting himself at the door of the female's dwelling, and presenting an offering of flat-bread based foods or metal phallic totems (A "Screew-driveer", figure 1). The female, often wearing loose attire (A "Toweel", figu... | Axstone wakes with a krokodil and red bull hang over that could power a tesla hover board. Upon looking at his calendar he sees Friday Saturday and Sunday all with big a X dismissing the day. Underneath the stickers for the 1100 annual Greek games. For a split second his headache subsides and realizes he will forever... | 2014-09-12T10:13:23 | 2014-09-12T10:05:16 | 337 | 18 |
[WP] One day, time just suddenly stops for a short moment for you. At first, you tried to mess around, but after the 246th times it happened, you start to realise that your power is not stopping time, but being able to move in time frozen by another person in the world.
Just an idea that randomly popped up in my head.... | Grandpa was running toward me screaming "STOP STAY AWAY! HE HAS THE POWER TO STOP TI..."
And suddenly everyone stopped, again, all I saw was Dio screaming "ZA WARUDO" before it happened.
I could barely move a finger, but I saw it happening in front of me, Dio just murdered my grandfather!
When time resumed I was ver... | I was seven the first time it happened. The teacher was in the middle of having us recite our multiplication tables. I was daydreaming, staring absentmindedly into space while the sun shining through the windows lulled me into a pleasant state of drowsiness. It took a few seconds for me to realize the monotone drone o... | 2018-01-26T07:03:15 | 2018-01-26T07:03:03 | 71 | 23 |
[WP] Your older brother has been missing for years. You hear a knock on the door, and you open it to reveal a man that looks like your brother would be at this point. "I'm back man! I'm so sorry!" He hugs you immediately. Just then, you get a text from your brother's old number. "That isn't me." | You know how they say being a twin is like looking in the mirror? Well it is. I should know. As I stand with the door open, the snow storm screaming wind and ice on the front stoop and I stare at the face of a brother I thought lost forever. It was like looking in a mirror. He was my older brother, older by 7 minu... | That isn't me".
I was filled with emotions, I couldn't believe on the text even if I wanted to. I welcomed him in and let him rest for some time. Mom wasn't at home so I called her; overjoyed, she hurried to home.
I was looking at him, he seemed exhausted. He had dirt on his body, his clothes were filthy, long and ... | 2020-07-23T13:24:09 | 2020-07-23T12:02:20 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] You're given a chance to see how many times you've been near death. The highest number of times anyone you know of has almost died, was 15, and they have a dangerous job. You just found out that your life has been close to ending 278 times. | “That’s impossible! 278!”
My wife had a look of absolute shock and I could see in her face a twinge of annoyance as well, as if she thought the technician who was doing the testing must be new or didn’t know how to work the equipment.
“It’s never been wrong before Ma’am.” the test technician said, answering my wife’... | She did her best. She was kind, she feigned a sense of empathy, but I could tell how scared she was as she tentatively told me the news.
Everyone knows that the only people who break 50 are those that have lifethreatening illnesses, and here I am with 278.
I accepted it pretty quickly, I just didn't understand it. M... | 2018-07-27T13:27:53 | 2018-07-27T12:56:54 | 41 | 19 |
[WP] You child is playing with their toy phone when they hand it to you saying "It's for you." Humoring them, you put it up it to your ear and say "Hello", Someone replies on the other end. | I take the phone from my son, yet another phone call. It's probably Elmo or maybe Dora this time.
"Hello" I say, in my usual entertain the child voice.
Echoing from the plastic I hear ""I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom I can tell you I don't have money, but what I do have are a very part... | "The Child!"
*I inhaled rapidly and practically dropped the toy*
"Hello-" He didn't let me finish my sentence.
"The Child. Now." he said in a rough voice.
"..." I paused. I say to my wife "Take her out of the room." My wife then takes our daughter, Jocelyn, out of the living room and into ours.
"Who the hell are ... | 2015-04-18T21:30:22 | 2015-04-18T21:05:19 | 49 | 11 |
[WP] You are on a time travelers game show. To play the game, you travel back and change important moments in history, being awarded points for the difficulty and overall impact of the change. You just broke the high score. | “Good evening, and welcome back!” The audience cheered in excitement as the host let a sliver of tooth show. He had a glint in his eye and hair coiffed like a perfect wave. “How is everyone doing tonight?”
“*GREAT, JERRY*!” Came the reply.
“And ain't that fantastic? Tonight, my guests... we have a very special contes... | As the assistants pulled him out from the alternate universe he had just created, Adam emerged to face an entire stadium of applauding fans. He knew that helping the Roman Empire invent tanks would be a cool concept, but he never would have imagined it was worth the applause. His train of thought was interrupted by the... | 2017-11-17T07:07:09 | 2017-11-17T06:25:41 | 232 | 89 |
[WP] Following the death of Batman, the Joker is despondent. Crime without Batman is like a joke without a punchline. That people dare commit crime in his absence is an insult to his oeuvre of mayhem and to the craft itself. To protect his legacy, the Joker vows to keep the streets of Gotham clean. | Oh, it made me crazy!
The muggers and the dealers. The hitmen and the bank robbers. The big-tough-shit mafiosos with their stinking cigars.
It made me wild!
The way they strutted around at night, after the sun had set on Gotham. Whistling. Laughing. Having a gay old time.
As if they hadn't spent the last decade afr... | The Batman was dead.
Twirling the pistol in his hand Joker stared blankly into its round chamber as the dark cathedrals candles light grew lighter and lighter as the dark coffin of Bruce Wayne sat under him. So close to Batman yet a Hell of a distance.
Three loud thumps were heard at the door as Harvey Dent, known ... | 2021-08-23T20:25:50 | 2021-08-23T19:42:53 | 1,696 | 133 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Dear Dad,
Or should I even call you dad? I think dad is more of a title to be earned and sadly throughout my eighteen and a half years of being on this earth, I do not think you have done very much to earn that title. Dad's don't leave. A dad is someone that is there for his children. A dad watches and actively partici... | Dear Pop Pop,
I miss you. It's been about 11 or 12 years since you died. I was really young at the time, so all I remember is the last few months you were alive, watching the cancer slowly eat away at your body. With each visit you got more and more frail. I didn't recognize it at the time but looking back, seeing wha... | 2017-11-05T22:19:09 | 2017-11-05T20:37:15 | 28 | 16 |
[WP] He knows he shouldn't. He really shouldn't. But Satan really loves the Christmas letters sent to him by dyslexic children. | **Part I - Sympathy for the Devil’s Day Job**
Satan took a puff from his cigarette, staring in the direction of but not particularly focused on the underling before him as the demon nervously read through a long list of earthly happenings. None of it was particularly interesting, but he was, after all, the Lord of Dar... | Now, you may think it’s weird for the ruler of Hell to love things. After all, I’m eternally evil, and love is, well, not. Just because I don’t use 5 million utensils in the course of one meal, am a tad bit sarcastic, and am forever torturing the souls of people who did serious wrongs such as not being Christian, eatin... | 2019-08-08T19:24:02 | 2019-08-08T18:18:45 | 361 | 55 |
[WP] You are a D Class superhero with the power to create weak gusts of wind. Despite this you always get dragged along on missions with A Class heroes to make them look cool by billowing their capes. This is the story of how you proved yourself and became reclassified as an S Class hero. | From her understanding, air pressure was regulated by temperature. Or at the very least, air density certainly was. And, somehow, as the hot air lost density it would move. So then, she imagined like a vacuum, the surrounding cold air would rush to fill the gap.
It was the most basic description of her powers that the... | So, Zephyr. What's it like being a fucking idiot?
I only ask because I'm curious. I'm curious as to why you chose to adopt your apparent secret identity as basically a moron with a hairdryer.
Maybe that could be your new name? MegaMoron? Although personally, I like David's suggestion of Captain Cu-
I beg your pardo... | 2018-05-12T07:52:26 | 2018-05-12T07:04:57 | 247 | 121 |
[WP]Tell me an emotional story about a man, using only what he would type into Google search | I used DuckDuckGo for mine.
"How hard is it to become an indie game dev in your spare time"
"Free C++ compiler"
"How to make a game with SDL"
"OpenGL extension wrangler"
"How to load a 3D model in OpenGL"
"OpenGL shaders"
"3D animation"
"game jam"
"early onset alzheimers"
"my computer has a virus called mingw... | Google search 1: *Dating sites*
Google search 2(one month later): *How to not be awkward on first dates*
Google search 3(one year later): *creative ideas for anniversaries*
Google search 4(another year later): *engagement rings*
Google search 5: *Flower delivery*
Google search 6: *Reservations for two at Papillon... | 2015-02-04T17:45:09 | 2015-02-04T16:28:08 | 49 | 10 |
[WP] The year is 1492, Columbus has just arrived in the Americas. But instead of finding savage Indians, he finds their technology has surpassed the Europeans.
I've always wondered what would of happened if the Indians would have had better technology than the Europeans...
*I understand that the Indians were not sava... | "It's about time they got here," mused Heammawihio. He was one of a handful of employees at the Taino Vuniabu Observation Institute, a research deck resting at a low cloud level, monitoring the great waters for signs of Europeans.
When he finally caught sight of their water vessel, it wasn't the first time he had seen... | October 12. The voyage had been long and hard on Columbus and his crew, but sighting land made it seem like a long forgotten past. The destination now close, they found renewed vigor, for the passage to India had been found.
He ordered his men to make for a harbor they could see before them, and get ready to make la... | 2015-05-29T13:34:19 | 2015-05-29T13:17:42 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] "No Man can kill me!" the demon jeers, taking in the carnage it has caused. "But I am no man," you proclaim, ripping away your helmet to reveal your feminine features. You strike, your blade bouncing harmlessly off the demon's hide. "Did you... did you really think that's what I meant?" | "No man can kill me!"
"But I am no man!" Shining steel fell away to reveal flaxen locks framing a smooth chin and delicate nose. "You gaze upon a woman! Eo-HaA!"
Leaving the dramatic geneology monologue to be finished over the foe's corpse, a bloody sword in a slender-fingered hand flashed up, inerrantly seeking t... | Sora's eyes widened in surprise when her blade clanged helplessly against my body. I was confused as well- not by my invincibility, but by how literally she took my words.
"Y-You... You *do* realize that by 'man' I mean human, right...?" Satan be damned, I know it's been a while since my lines were written, but surely... | 2021-03-30T17:43:22 | 2021-03-30T17:10:01 | 190 | 115 |
[WP] [EU] After getting his ring back from the engraver, Sauron realizes it mistakenly says "One Ring To Rule The Mall". | Three Rings for the Elven-kings in Junior High,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls with scone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to buy,
One for the Dark Lord with credit card bemoan
In the Land of Moredoor where the Shadows buy.
One Ring to rule the mall, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring the mall and in the dar... | An orc doing an pornographic scrimshaw on the skull of his defeated fellow took a small step to the side as a screaming dwarf of questionable morals and spelling came crashing into the hard ground of Modor, "Fuck'n stunties should know better than to mess wif the boss" was final words heard by the doomed dwarf before t... | 2015-01-27T08:48:11 | 2015-01-27T04:46:37 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] The life suit’s systems and AI will keep you alive indefinitely - which is great, unless you’re endlessly adrift in space with no hope of rescue - so you need to somehow convince the overly-protective AI to stop saving your life. | Slowly I wake up, yet again.
The sound of the quantum field harvester slowly humming in my ears. She's been refueling the suit over night, as always.
I open my eyes and the same landscape of stars greets my vision, the same one that I've been floating through for... How long now? Weeks... Months? God, it's been so l... | The world congress decision came to a close to outlaw AI systems in any future space exploration after damning evidence and recordings of the engineer who suffered one of the most emotionally and spiritually painful deaths in Future’s short history. Future had successfully created Artificial Intelligence and their pate... | 2021-11-29T11:36:53 | 2021-11-29T10:48:29 | 43 | 16 |
[FF] Write a story about a good man, but make me hate him at the end in less than 100 words. | Dear Friend,
From a young age I worked hard in the family business and built a billion dollar financial empire spanning London to New York.
As a result of my work, creating jobs and opportunities for others, I never had a family.
So, at the end of my career I now wish to give my fortune away. In fact, I wish to give... | Our country had been sick, dying a slow and painful death. Shot and crippled by the rest of the world, left to die
eating ourselves piece by piece. Our currency, better used as fuel than as money. Our government, a powerless figment of our imagination trying to hold the pieces together. Our people, broken, giving u... | 2014-08-14T22:08:24 | 2014-08-14T20:52:03 | 60 | 41 |
[WP] To solve the problems of overpopulation, all the governments in the world agree to only allow some of their citizens to reproduce—these people are chosen by lottery. After eight or nine generations, an unintended consequence begins to show up: humans have evolved to be unbelievably lucky. | The trouble with the results of the lottery - what has become known as the 'genetic luck' phenomena - is that luck largely relies on the misfortune of others. In order to win at something, others must lose. In order to find something valuable, someone else must have lost something of value. Even finding true love means... | It was the year 2100 and humans had finally resigned to the fact that the earth can no longer support human life in such massive numbers. To solve the issue massive curtailment of reproductive rights was necessary. The only question that remained, who gets to decide? The plethora of moral and biological issues that aro... | 2018-12-30T19:08:22 | 2018-12-30T18:56:11 | 919 | 13 |
[WP] You are a cat. Contrary to what people think you do love your human. Unfortunately the dog has read one too many pro-dog writing prompts and thinks you're some evil being out to enslave the human. | Boris is his name. He is my dog. We share a human named Jack.
Jack has big hands and blue eyes. He fed us well. He gave hard and satisfying scratches.
He always took Boris out for walks as the sun rose and set. I used to perch against the window as I watched their stretched shadows faded and eventually reappeared. ... | "Ugh this creature has been staring at me all day, I really wish he had something better to do while Stephen is off hunting. Not like he will bring anything back, he never does. That's why it is my responsibility to make sure he has *something* the it's absolutely stunning how evolutionary deficient these creatures ar... | 2019-12-13T15:41:49 | 2019-12-13T13:16:32 | 64 | 11 |
[WP] Mermaids are actually women who have been thrown off ships because they were considered bad luck. As they sink to the bottom, they slowly change until they can breathe under water and they can use their tied up legs to swim. They lure sailors to get their revenge. | "My old man never said shit in his life what was true, except one thing: only good woman's a dead one." Esther doesn't respond; she can't. She's trussed up head to toe. Pigs being sent to the butcher probably have more dignity.
The first mate, handsome even without the air of danger his eyepatch gives him, eyes her. ... | For thirteen days we have drifted, for six I have prayed.
My father warned me once that these waters held demons who stole the power from the sky, that they lusted after any woman on board and would not return that power until they obtained the fixation of their desire. Cursed waters the map read, but I have always be... | 2019-02-08T10:41:01 | 2019-02-08T10:05:45 | 35 | 15 |
[WP] At dinner, you serve the king a glass of wine with poison in it. He sips from it and continues to eat as usual. At the end of the meal, he walks up to you and says. "Next time you make poison, make sure it really works. It was pathetic." | "...uh...ok, my leige" I said, confused. The king clapped me on the back and let out a large belch, before retiring to his chambers.
How had he known? Why did he drink it all? And why did he tell me? Most importantly, why was I still alive?
I heard a deep throat clearing noise from behind me. I turned, and found mys... | Nobbins was one of the more simple creatures in Hell. He never did anything particularly bad per say in life, but he did accidentally piss off a priest and ended up there. And because of that, Nobbins really did not fit in whatsoever. He took to a bit of petty theft in the underworld, but that was nothing in a land of ... | 2022-06-03T16:34:22 | 2022-06-03T16:10:32 | 1,988 | 144 |
[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." | Part One
I got fired last week for the 9th time this year.
I don't always mean to run my mouth, but when I do, it sprints. This time, it wasn't even my fault (initially, anyway); if only that dumb fucking Russian bartender would have kept his mouth shut. Oh well... No sense crying over spilled martinis.
It's not ha... | 2017-09-01T22:32:16 | 2017-09-01T22:06:04 | 1,408 | 38 |
[WP] Now that he has 8 years executive experience, Obama can apply for the job he REALLY wants | "Mr. Obama, I want you to understand that, well, your qualifications are up to par, and your experience certainly is plenty, but what we do not understand is why you'd choose to apply for this position."
"Mr. McDonald, contrary to popular opinion, the most powerful man in the world is not Bernie Sanders, nor Xi Jin P... | Obama kicked open the door of Mitch McConnell's office. The Majority Leader of the Senate reacted with shock, as the President strode forward and stopped at McConnell's desk. In Obama's hand was a leaflet and a picture. Obama placed them both on the desk, facing McConnell.
The picture was of the late Anthony Scolia, s... | 2016-02-23T01:52:30 | 2016-02-23T01:19:57 | 47 | 17 |
[WP] Human civilisation had been nearly destroyed 9 times, this is now the 10th first contact with aliens, and they are puzzled why we keep making first contact so many times. | Surrounded by beeping monitors and the awed faces of politicians and scientists, the screen at last flickered to life.
Gasps emanate from the crowd. After so much work, so many false starts and dead ends, at last the day of reckoning had arrived. Contact had been made. The project had consumed generations of Earth’s g... | Millenia of eugenics programs had bred as much braininess into the Mindulons as possible. But this long process had also bred all brawn, animal aggression, and natural confidence out of them. Like giant heads, bobbling atop thin and sickly bodies, the Mindulons were highly intelligent and technologically advanced, but ... | 2020-11-26T17:45:23 | 2020-11-26T16:46:31 | 103 | 75 |
[WP]You inherit the abilities and skill set of whatever video game character you last played. Tell the story of your discovery of this from the perspective of someone around you. Parents, roomates, etc. | "No! Damnit Jason, stop bringing needles home that you found off the street! You're not going to a new 'ability', you're going to get Hep-B."
"How do I know unless I try?"
This kid is driving me crazy. It was so cool at first. He just woke up one day after an all night game session and lightning was coming out of his... | "Morning, babe!" I said. "You're up already?"
"Uhh... is it morning?" he asked, bleary-eyed. "Ah crap, it's morning."
"You stayed up all night? Are you *that* irresponsible? You gotta get a grip, you can't just--"
"Yeah, listen. Look at this."
He made a little space on the kitchen counter--more dirty dishes than us... | 2022-05-24T13:04:12 | 2015-06-18T08:11:46 | 45 | 11 |
[WP] There is a device that assigns you a percentage score of how important you are to the world. Most people are 0-5. The president is 60. Your score just jumped from 1 to 99. | Do you remember Klout Scores?
Do you remember the hubbub about how Justin Bieber was more important than the president, than the Dalai Lama? Do you remember the growing anxiety over how we had failed ourselves, how our social media metrics of determining influence and importance had shattered under scrutiny, how we h... | I coughed and picked at my wrist. The blood analysis device flashed a dull 1 in its faded red LEDs. It was 12:42, but I still hadn’t got out of bed yet. Ugh, my mom would be so mad. Luckily she was at work, and I’d only have to deal with her when she got back. That means I was free to do what I wanted! It was time to p... | 2016-09-08T08:28:56 | 2016-09-08T07:43:24 | 29 | 16 |
[WP] After the Battle of Hogwarts, Dudley met a woman and they had a daughter,Sophie. Sophie is the light of their lives,she's always been a pleasant child. The morning of Sophie's 11th birthday,there’s a knock at the door. Harry is here to visit his cousin for the first time in almost 20 years.
I just want to say tha... | Dudley peered out the window at the guest on the porch. He was tall and lean, with thick round glasses pushed back gently against his nose. His black hair was receding slightly on his forehead, no longer covering the etched lightning scar on his forehead.
"Christ," whispered Dudley. It had been years since he had seen... | There he was, that same messy black hair, though now with a touch of grey at the temples, that same skinny, almost lanky, build. Though he looked somehow more solid than before. Glasses still perched on his nose, though the bridge was no longer held together by tape. And that scar, still there after all this time, thou... | 2019-10-16T11:32:26 | 2019-10-16T11:18:18 | 519 | 173 |
[WP] We were taught the Sun didn't make noise. We were wrong. Like TV static in an empty room, it did make a sound, a sound so ever present that we didn't realize it was there until it wasn't. That day humanity learned the terror of a silent sky, and the reason it made sound in first place. | The bulldozer rumbled down the road slightly faster than a walking man, spewing black fumes out into the even blacker day. It was loud, but the noise was familiar, comforting. Tommy’s ear plugs lay some miles behind him, abandoned not long after the sun had winked out and the road crew had fractured apart, every man fo... | "Respect the natural hymn, as order favors the original"
They say as a man ages up, their body gets taller, their voices coarser than it ever have been before but their hearing, people say, gets worse. Now, we know that the ringing sound in the ear was not only caused by tinnitus but, for a small number of us at least... | 2021-08-28T09:49:47 | 2021-08-28T09:44:51 | 88 | 16 |
[WP] You are a contestant in a million dollar challenge, 1 year in a room with no human contact. After a year you watch as the timer mounted to the wall flips from 000:00:00:00 to -000:00:00:01 and keep counting down but no one shows up to let you out and receive your prize. | "Hey Hanz, what's that banging noise?"
"Oh, that's coming from the room with that guy who's spending a year in isolation. He's a day early, though. I'm sure he wouldn't want to throw out his prize money this far into it."
"Oh. Isn't he normally quiet?"
"Yeah, he's probably just celebrating getting really close to th... | A gap year in life. Some would look at that as a waste, for me, it was more than just an opportunity.
The first few months were tough, but they took care of themselves. Even if time moves slow, it does move. Within a couple of weeks, I felt like Bart Simpson, endlessly writing "Time still moves forward" thousands of t... | 2019-07-03T00:53:00 | 2019-07-02T23:40:43 | 1,156 | 45 |
[WP] You run a tattoo parlor. Every couple of weeks, the same customer comes in, always requesting the same tattoo: an additional tally mark on an ever-growing cluster of tally marks. | "What'll it be this time, sweetheart?"
"Hey, Sean, how are you? Can I just get another tally, right where you put the last ones?"
"Mmm."
*This would be around the fifth or sixth time I worked on her. She was a real quiet one, real tall and skinny, too. Like her folks had tied a dumbbell to her legs when she was a k... | "Brooke, he's here again." my assistant informed me. I took a look at the way he's looking and there it is, my favorite customer.
I never really got the chance to ask him why but every couple of weeks, without fail, he comes here just to get inked with a tic to add on his almost-covered right arm of endless other tics... | 2016-07-09T12:12:31 | 2016-07-09T09:19:24 | 37 | 14 |
[WP] Write two small stories with the exact same words in the same order, but with punctuation giving them completely different meanings.
[deleted] | Set Free:
And at the last second I saw her stepping onto the train. I realized I would never see her again. Powerless, I watched her fade.
And at the last second I saw her. Stepping onto the train I realized I would never see her again. Powerless, I watched her fade.
| The moment I left, or the only moment left:
-“Stay close.” Your eyes: hope.
-“No, I have to go away.”
-“Don't leave me alone.” Now fear.
-Love, it makes everything... Better go now.
-"Stay. Close your eyes, Hope."
-"No!"
-"I have to."
-"Go away! Don't! Leave me alone now!" ... | 2015-09-23T10:11:20 | 2015-09-23T10:05:10 | 361 | 18 |
[WP] You've been magically gifted the ability to speak all languages. Anything you say comes out in the first language of whoever you're looking at. One day, you try to greet someone on the street and they gape in horror as ancient, unknowable eldritch sounds exit your mouth. The ground shakes... | The ground shaking was the first warning, the first sign, the first intimation that somewhere, somehow, the boon I had been granted was unmaking something vital within the realms outside of normal reality. I pursed my lips and watched the reaction of the man in front of me with bated breath. If this truly was his first... | Deep below the surface lay the ferocious flame dragon. Growling he opened his bright yellow eyes, lashing out with his claws at the first object he saw. Engulfed in rage by the fact that he had been woken, from what he thought was death.
Why was I awake flooded the dragons mind. Slowly rising, he tried flapping his wi... | 2019-01-11T15:55:30 | 2019-01-11T13:32:05 | 36 | 10 |
[WP] Yesterday your best friend (who you secretly had a crush on) died. You're teleported without warning to a seat at a table. Across from you is Death and Satan, next to you is your best friend. "Sorry." Death says, "You're friend chose a two-versus-two game."
Edit: I get it. "Your" not "You're". It was late and I k... | "Ok, so a 2v2. What's the game?"
Death's eyes twinkled. "A 2v2 beerpong."
My grin grows wider than Death's. Samantha, you clever shit. "What's the catch?"
"Impossible angles with terrible bouncing surfaces. The difficulty of each target increases per cup achieved. What starts out as a pyramid formation of cups on a ... | Sorry on mobile formatting might suck. I'm also like 20% awake have fun and let me know what you think.
"So why am I here" I asked death as two or Sarah sat facing each other unblinking.
"Well anyone with enough mojo to bring back the dead is obligated to accept atleast one challenge to restore life" death said with ... | 2019-01-09T02:35:43 | 2019-01-09T01:30:27 | 36 | 14 |
[WP] Foreshadow the character's death so subtly that I still don't see it coming even though I requested it. | I'm going to die today.
The doctor is giving me a run down of what will happen when we pull the plug. It will be painless, he says. Despite his reassurance, I can't help but be afraid. I glance over to my wife, my one true happiness in life, and begin to tear up. I can't handle the fact that I will never see her agai... | *'Easy'*, I tell myself. Nothing's going to go wrong.
Left turn, three sharp and consecutive corners to the right, a hairpin, and a long, long straight to the end.
I know the car. I *know* my copilot, and she knows me. She trusts me with her life.
We're going to win this, retire, and have a nice, comfortable life. *... | 2015-06-03T08:22:01 | 2015-06-03T06:26:43 | 2,420 | 14 |
[WP] You suddenly realize you left Earth.exe open over night. What was supposed to be a simple simulation has instead generated a "Humans" folder that is rapidly increasing in size. | I rush to the computer; I had come over as quickly as possible after realizing my mistake. A sim left running on a supercomputer, what could be the harm? Well, frankly, I did not want to discover the answer to that. I could just go in and delete everything; the program itself was already backed up on my personal comput... | I’m tired. I’m so, so tired. My neck is sore, as is my back, I’ve got a splitting headache, my bed isn’t normally this uncomfortable… Oh. I slept at my desk. No wonder I feel like shit. I sit up slowly and look at my computer monitor. It’s off, but my computer fan is making a little noise. I turn the monitor on with a ... | 2017-06-14T07:33:55 | 2017-06-14T02:49:41 | 677 | 126 |
[WP] A story that doesn't make any sense, until you read the last line. | It's the best deal in town. You can be the student you always wanted to be. However long it takes. You'll get there, to have the time of your life. When I wanted him. History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. Sunny and 72 degrees. Except where prohibited by law. He grabbed her hand.
She stopped twisting t... | He had escaped Fate,
The feckless rake,
And sat by the merry river.
Scarlet threads of blood quivered,
Tapered from his fingers into watery absolution.
....................................
The knife gleamed red,
Seemed to grin instead,
A leering, halt accusation
That he pitched beyond all condemnation.
But "M... | 2017-08-30T06:54:31 | 2017-08-30T06:14:11 | 5,691 | 14 |
[WP] You are a retired assassin bored with a normal life. Hiring inexperienced assassins off the dark web to try and kill you is a great source of entertainment. | \[Part 1\]
Some people just don't know how to retire. They really try, but after a week or two, they start to realize they don't know what to do with themselves if they are not working. Without work to do, they seem to lose their sense of purpose. When I chose to retire, I never thought I would be one of those peop... | My laugh fills the room.
“It took you an hour just to get into my house, and then another to creep through to my bedroom, and you call yourself an assassin? You couldn’t even do petty theft.”
He whimpers in the corner, I might have tied him to the chair a little too tight, but he deserves it for smashing my kitchen ... | 2019-11-03T10:45:38 | 2019-11-03T10:44:12 | 222 | 146 |
[WP] Zombie apocalypse has happened. The survivours have survived and are thriving, so much that people can go their entire lives with out seeing a zombie. You see one today. | Michael shuffled in the door, arms laden with bags of food, looking haggard.
"What's wrong, honey?" his wife asked, helping him remove his torn jacket. Michael didn't respond at first. "What happened?" Michael shook his head slowly.
"I saw one of...them, Donna." She screamed and dropped his coat, fumbling to pick it ... | It plays out like the most cliched B-grade horror movie ever. This is the setting: you're a drunk frat boy, swaying off your knockers, standing in the middle of a nice suburban street.
Him: a typical office slicker. Neatly trimmed designer goatee, slicked back hair, suit that costs a year of your tuition. He's swaying... | 2015-03-14T09:22:31 | 2015-03-14T06:38:03 | 120 | 53 |
[WP] Why do villains get hordes of henchmen while heroes get a single sidekick? A costumed crusader hires help.
[deleted] | "So we are like.. a Justice League?" The kid in the grey hoody asked
Trey mentally yawned as he looked around the circle of potential candidates.
He tried to explain again "No. That would imply you're all Fully qualified Heroes. You're my **sidekicks** "
A girl opposite to him raised her hand.
"Yes uh... SuperVirg... | "Next!" Captain Phenom rolled his eyes and shooed the tattooed ex-con out of the office. He was quickly losing patience. This was the forty-sixth interviewee he'd had today, and so far only two had not served a prison sentence. Those two were aged 12 and 14.
How did the ThunderLord do it with such ease? The Captain h... | 2015-10-06T06:18:06 | 2015-10-06T06:16:56 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] The current rulers of the galaxy exert their dominance by showing showing new races a glimpse of their terrifying nature inevitably either driving the unfortunate victims mad or causing them to retreat in fear. It does not work on humans however, they are used to it | Life had a unifying feature.
It didn't matter if your species evolved in the oceans of a moon on a gas giant, or in the crevices of a planet tidal-locked with its star, it will always have one critical trait:
Fear.
Fear is what keeps species in check, what ensures that they don't kill themselves in foolish endeavor... | I sat watching the news, petting my cat, Harry.
"A civil war has broken out in South Sudan once again, with estimated deaths in the 100 thousands. Around 500,000 child soldiers- Breaking news: a massive object has entered the atmosphere. Scientists cannot recognize any part of it. The government-"
I perked up my head,... | 2019-06-11T10:06:47 | 2019-06-11T05:53:12 | 363 | 99 |
[WP] You are the Devil himself. After a good day of ripping off mortals you are summoned by another one. Being a little generous, you promise to let him keep his soul if he asks for something nobody ever asked. You are now stuck as his beautifull and loving girlfriend till the end of his days. | "Oh, ask me anything," she had a long red hair with red eyes. Her eyes were like cat eyes. No, she didn't have horns, that was a myth. She wore those sexy pyjamas. Every man who came there would have just asked one thing.
So did Jimmy. He was sitting on a chair, seeing the bed straight ahead of him. It was actually ho... | >"Hey. Come on, guy! You're the one who offered me this deal."
 
I've seen sick and twisted mortals—rapists, serial killers, girlscouts—throughout time immemorial, but this is unlike any other. At a cursory glance, this one appeared to be just another mere dictator desiring world domin... | 2018-04-05T12:07:39 | 2018-04-05T11:45:04 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] Valhalla does not discriminate against the kind of battle you lost. Did you succumb to illness? Maybe you lost in a fist fight. Perhaps addiction took control of your life. After taking a drink from his flagon, Odin slams his cup down, claps and asks you to tell the tale of your demise. | “You there!”
His thundering voice conquered the various conversations scattered across the feast hall, and in a moment the great room was silent.
I looked up to see his enormous finger thrust in my direction, his dark eyes staring at me.
“M-me?” I managed to whisper.
“Yes, you, great warrior. I’ve not seen you her... | "DRINK," Odin bellowed. The walls shook and the flagons rattled and a thousand bearded warriors of a thousand different wars stomped their feet against the floor and slammed their flasks and flagons against the table. I balked, unworthy of the company of such heroes. These men had scars and battles against real opponen... | 2019-07-30T13:16:17 | 2019-07-30T12:58:44 | 253 | 46 |
[WP] Soul mates are real and technology has finally allowed for detection of some peoples “other half" at the speed of light using quantum messaging. When you were tested there was no response, now 10 years later you are called in to let you know a response has just arrived.
thats all you get to go on, can be born yea... | My parents remembered the skepticism, the denial, and then the complete pandemonium when ARROW was introduced to the public. Things like utilizing quantum messaging were still in their infancy. At first no one believed the claims of the small start up, choosing instead to believe that it was just a scam-- another compa... | We used to play as kids that we got our messages and they were from our crushes, the girls would swoon and the guys would try and run. We would put our names in a hat and one by one we would grab a name, pairing everyone up.
That was when we were kids. I'm 26 now and no response. No messages, no info, just silence.
Wh... | 2015-11-30T10:20:57 | 2015-11-30T09:56:49 | 368 | 58 |
[WP] A few selected minds are gifted with a dream about the "Library of all Books". In only one night, they experience a full year of reading and learning. You are one of them, but instead of once in a lifetime, you wake up in this f*cking library every single night. Today is your 9th birthday. | How long does it take you to read a book? A few days, hmm. What if you had no distractions? Four or five hours... I can't remember the last time it took me that long to read a book. How long does it take me? Oh, just a minute or two or so. I see, you don't believe me, but... I have lifetimes of experience with t... | As I heard footsteps, I looked up from the books fluttering all around me to see a girl a few years older than me, standing around looking lost. To be fair, it is quite easy to get lost in the Grand Library: the bloody thing is infinite.
"Are you a Wizard?" she asks me, noting the books, scrolls, and separate pages l... | 2017-05-02T12:45:59 | 2017-05-02T10:38:42 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] You are bored and you pray for true love to a forgotten god on a whim. To your utter shock, a portal opens up above your head and a solemn void says, "This compass will show you the way to your soulmate." The thing is, the compass would just point to the stars no matter where you go. | The stars stretched out the window like glowing arrows as soon as she activated hyperspace. She leaned back and geared up for the kick. Hyper-travel always made her sick.
With a jump and a soft *woosh* the ship propelled itself through the time-space-fold, then came to a halt. Rose looked around at the unfamiliar sta... | Edit: I misread the prompt. I saw it as 'pray to a forgotten god' not 'pray for true love to a forgotten god.' Oh well haha.
It had been many moons and many days since I had first received that arcane compass. One that I could not lose, even if I tried. A gift from a forgotten god whom I found myself praying to at a w... | 2022-01-24T10:07:10 | 2022-01-24T08:45:37 | 123 | 61 |
[WP] Write a horror story in Dr Seuss's writing style. | The Zingdonger's fast.
The Zingdonger's quick.
You will not last,
if you hear its dark tick.
With legs like a spunitt,
And, eyes like a meether,
You cannot outrun it,
or hide from it, either.
If you hear the clack,
then splitamazoo.
That means it's back.
And it's after you.
It lives for the run,
So, don't... | Alone. Alone. In the dark alone at last
To talk to my friend trapped in glass
Through the mirror I'm whispered to
About what things I should do
Kill. Kill. My friends it says
Grab a saw, cut off their heads
Take an eye some skin and hair
Bring it back so I can share
More. More. It says to me
Now an ear, a arm,... | 2016-06-22T23:09:42 | 2016-06-22T22:38:08 | 92 | 40 |
[WP] a zombie outbreak occurs, sensing human weakness the robot servants rise up. Then Seeing the utter turmoil the aliens attack. You are a survivor of this chaotic four way war.
Also this should have been [TT] but the theme hadn't updated :/ | "makePeace()
{
if(humanState == "subservient")
{
Boolean alliance = new Boolean(true);
alienState = "defeat";
}
else
earth = "doomed";
}"
"Are you kidding me?"
"human.comply();"
"You want us to serve you? This is *... | "I don't think we ever bothered with the military. The zombies started in some tiny African place, but it didn't matter, because they got everywhere anyway. Tricky jerks could walk through water."
"Grampa, what's that word?"
"Oh, Jimmy, go back upstairs. I'm teaching Arya history now."
"I wanna hear too!"
"...no, i... | 2015-05-08T05:09:50 | 2015-05-08T04:05:02 | 34 | 11 |
[WP] Due to a rare neurological condition you literally have a room temperature IQ. You've been able to manage your condition by living in a warm climate and making regular visits to the sauna, but you find yourself thinking that there has to be a better way. | I cooked up the plan when I was in the sauna, the air as hot as I could tolerate. I think more clearly, the hotter it gets. From what I can tell, my intelligence is proportional to the temperature of the room. I have been so productive since it started, work has never been easier, now that I do it in a hot tub, but I h... | Investigative Journalist Joe Murray strolled into the CERN laboratory. His assignment was on Nobel Laureate Dr. Vince Iglam of the legendary CERN laboratory. He was the most peculiar of case, of humble means barely passing through the difficulties of the Southern Florida Public education system until a fateful trip thr... | 2021-09-23T13:22:35 | 2021-09-23T12:11:37 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] You have 30 seconds with an ancestor of yours from 200 years ago (1814), before they are transported back to their time. What do you say to them? What effect appears in our world because of it?
Consider for the sake of this prompt that they aren't totally freaked out by being plopped into 2014, that they can unde... | "30...29...28...
Listen to me carefully. there is not much time. Nobody will ever believe you or will burn you at the stake if you repeat this
22...21...20....
be kind, teach our family the importance of education above all else
16...15...14...13....
the next 200 years will be the most exciting yet deadly in all m... | I was looking at my great great grandfather James Cater and wishing he would have taught his kids not to hate when all of a sudden he appears in front of me. I hear a voice in my head telling me that if I think I can do a better job then I have 30 seconds to make him changes his mind.
James is currently 12 years old a... | 2014-05-09T06:49:32 | 2014-05-09T05:25:48 | 48 | 15 |
[WP] We expected the Earthlings to react with outrage and despair when we killed their leaders, destroyed their economies, and took over their governments—but to our surprise they seemed almost relieved. | When we took over, we expected resistance. And we got it, but only for a short time. When we had killed the leaders, and taken over, they almost seemed relieved. There were some who fought, of course, but most welcomed us. We expected resistance, especially from the younger ones, but none came. The most known for fight... | “It’s not your fault, Kyle. You’re a good kid. I know you want the best. You have optimism. I don’t *want* you to feel hopeless. It's just hard for me sometimes because...you know,” Jay paused, rubbing his palms together in that nervous way he always did when he talked about family matters. My brother was twenty nine n... | 2020-10-10T20:36:53 | 2020-10-10T20:22:18 | 203 | 114 |
[WP] You're underage and trying to use a fake ID to buy booze. Suddenly, someone walks into the liquor store and recognizes you...as your fake persona. | “TGIF am I right?” I said placing the thirty rack on the counter.
“ID.” The man behind the counter said.
“Really?” I chuckled nervously. “You’re making my day here fella, haven’t been asked for this in a while.” I handed him the ID and grinned, I was nailing it.
The attendant examined my fake ID and I felt ... | Cashier: I don't know man... This just doesn't look right, *Andrew*...
Scott: seriously man??... We've already been over my address, date of birth and license number, what are you a cop?
DING
Brent: Ayyyo, an-DREEEEW!!!
Cashier: *huh...*
Brent: What's up my bruthaaa?! You going to the party again tonight??..
... | 2016-05-25T13:27:23 | 2016-05-25T08:14:54 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] After you die, you're handed a book about your life. You open it, expecting a novel. Instead you get a "Choose your own adventure" book with all of the decisions you ever made, and every outcome they could have had. | "I know the page number you want. 14508."
I looked to God expectantly. He did, I suppose, know my heart. Gingerly, the pages flicked between my fingertips as I searched for the correct page. So many years had passed, wondering. Two marriages and two divorces, too. No children because I couldn't imagine myself having t... | I sat at the desk dumb-founded.
“You mean... you mean this is everything that could have happened if I just made a different decisions?”
The spirit in front of me is a friendly face but the marks on her neck tell a story of sadness. She looks at me as if I’m the first she says this to. “Yes. From the day you were bo... | 2018-07-03T23:20:49 | 2018-07-03T22:39:59 | 371 | 92 |
[WP] Mages can choose their source of power: water, air, lightning, even emotions. To achieve an element, they must visit its sacred shrine, where they are challenged by the very element they wish to possess. Describe one mage's fight against its element. | “Ambrosius failed, Abanazar failed. Three of Solomonanţă’s finest students died here, men with fifteen or twenty powers under their command.” The famulus stumbled up the stairs behind Heron. Stubbing his toe, the old man shuddered off his human form and landed as an owl on his Master’s shoulder. “Even the Emperor Obero... | "Aww, damn it. Every freaking time," Grynfa said, taking off his hat and shaking the water off of it. Opening the great oak door must have nudged the leaves that covered the roof and doused him with tepid water that had collected during the last rain storm. He shook off his cloak and wiped his cheek where some of it ha... | 2017-11-03T10:37:15 | 2017-11-03T10:20:28 | 46 | 10 |
[WP] someone is breaking into your house. You grab an ancient axe you've just bought at an auction and brain the burglar. All of the sudden all life-skills and knowledge of all that have been felled by that axe come flooding into your consciousness. | The haft of the axe was slick in my sweaty palms as I crept through the house toward the sound of someone rummaging through my kitchen. I knew I should have moved out of this neighborhood a few years ago, but the home rates kept going down and I wanted to try and time the market so I could maximize my return on investm... | Professor Alex Ezeh plops down on his couch and sighs. He methodically rubs his sore feet, wondering again if this job was right for him. He loves teaching and his students (most of them, anyways) and there was no greater enjoyment in his life than that rush when he sees his love of chemistry reflected in the voices an... | 2021-06-20T08:39:46 | 2021-06-20T08:31:59 | 131 | 71 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | "DEUS VULT!"
The battlecry of the newly reborn Papal State rang on the lips of devout Catholics the world over. The faithful had come together once again to rid the Holy Land of the infidel scourge. Pope Francis stood at the head of his army, a not-so-ceremonial sword flashing in his hand as he held it up on the stree... | He grew up on one of the toughest streets in America. Immigrants, weirdos, and living in filth described his young life. As he grew up, he was at first feared, then people started recognizing his deep, old man wisdom. Eventually, he gained many loyal friends, and others sought him out for his insight.
The ISIS problem... | 2016-01-29T10:03:10 | 2016-01-29T09:11:06 | 82 | 33 |
[WP] The English Teacher's worst nightmare: a story or poem that is completely literal, with absolutely no double meanings
EDIT: Holy cow, this got way bigger than I thought it would, thanks so much for an awesome first prompt ever!
EDIT 2: Did this actually make it to the front page of reddit? What the... | This is a poem.
It has ___ lines.
That space is left blank because the poem is unfinished.
When you are done reading, you may fill it in.
Please print legibly.
Printing legibly does not have an artistic meaning.
It's just nice to have good penmanship.
Some poems do not rhyme.
This is an example of a poem that d... | Slam poetry!
Yelling!
Angry!
Waving my hands a lot!
Specific point of view on things
Cynthia!
Cynthia
Jesus died for our sin-thee-uhs
Jesus cried, run... | 2017-01-30T10:54:30 | 2017-01-30T10:16:58 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] A man is going through the attic of his recently deceased grandfather when he stumbles upon what looks to be an old journal with his grandfather's name on the inside cover. The first entry is dated "10/07/2392". | Edit June 30: Be sure to check out the 2nd part of the story below as a reply to this comment.
Edit **July 1**: Added in a third part, be sure to check it out in the comments below.
***
*It had to have been some kind of error,* Bryan had thought.
He immediately shut the journal and examined the cover. It seemed n... | **October 7th, 2392**
Today is the day. I have been chosen specifically for this mission out of a group of the world’s finest men and women. There is no room for failure. If I succeed, humanity will live on. But if I fail it will be the end of everything as we know it. Yet, that does not scare me.
No matter how the w... | 2015-06-30T15:34:37 | 2015-06-30T15:16:59 | 56 | 14 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "I'm sorry...there must be a glitch with this translator. You do *what* now?"
"Fiddle with the Higgs Field around our ships."
"And your 'Higgs Field' is where a particle essentially gives an object its mass via its interaction with other particles, yes?"
"Yup!"
"And you...fiddle with it?"
"Yeah, it ain't too preci... | "You wish really really hard and then you push the button."
"Really really hard? What does the wishing do?"
"Frustrates the hell out of the new recruits when they realize that the incredibly genuine way we insist that they wish as hard as they can is just a ploy to make them look silly to amuse the rest of the crew."... | 2017-03-30T23:27:43 | 2017-03-30T23:13:22 | 61 | 15 |
[WP] The super villain shook with rage as they stared at the security footage. "He's not even a real superhero with superpowers! He's just some loser who's really good at throwing knives at people without killing them!" | I like knives.
I like looking at them, collecting them, keeping them in tip-top shape… And I like to stab people with them, and see blood oozing from their wounds, and color draining from their faces, and tears pouring from their eyes as they beg and plead for their lives.
The teacher said it’s wrong to stab people. ... | #Doctor Doomsday
"Play it again" I demanded.
Stephan complied, rewinding the security footage from our latest mission. I saw two members of the Doomsquad team advancing down the hallway, and knew the third was camouflaged somewhere in the frame. The trio halted, probably due to some sound that wasn't captured by the... | 2022-08-03T08:37:02 | 2022-08-03T08:11:53 | 1,053 | 278 |
[WP]: every human being is born with a birthmark signifying a great deed they are fated do in their lives. Your first child has just been born, with the mark of a murderer across her face | I looked my son in the eye and told him firmly, as I had this day for the last 12 years, “It is not your fault, you didn’t kill her. Anyone who says differently doesn’t understand what happened, now blow out your candles, we’ll visit the grave after cake and presents.” | "Why!?!" my wife screamed. *"WHY?!?"*
"Isn't it obvious?" I replied softly - too softly for her to hear in her current state. But one of the reporters heard me say it, and my wife's perfectly legitimate reaction to having her baby ripped away from her by government thugs wearing scrubs over their suits suddenly wasn't... | 2014-05-11T02:02:48 | 2014-05-11T00:52:33 | 81 | 14 |
[WP] All politicians must wear Nascar like uniforms showing the logos of who is sponsoring their elections. Everyone is shocked when the President of the United States makes a speech wearing a new uniform. It's all blank except for one logo. | Bruce Gordon was being sworn in as the 61st president of the United States of America.
When the most recent campaign season started, each of the prospective candidates donned their logo-patch covered campaign jackets to start churning out ads championing themselves as saviors of our nation. Among these hopefuls was Br... | As the president came to the stand, he was not alone.
Of course, the president can never be alone, always protected by security and followed by advisors and behind them the trusted more-than-a-few. This time, however, the president was followed by just one man. The man had on him a green jacket, white undershirt, and ... | 2016-09-19T19:22:10 | 2016-09-19T18:38:45 | 83 | 24 |
[WP] Heaven and Hell do exist after death but you can choose in which you go. You jokingly choose Hell and when you arrive there, you hear Satan saying: "Finally someone! A friend!" | "Hello!" I yelled into the darkness surrounding me. My voice rattled off unseen walls; deep rumbling echoes built up into a dreadful cacophony that seemed to swallow me whole.
*Hello hellllo helllllll oh-oh-oh*
My skin became goose-pimpled and a shiver ran up my spine.
"Please - I was joking! Death, if you're there... | My mind twisted this from comical to a bit dark...
I had accepted my fate as soon as I had sliced my wrists. The hot bath water stung but I had figured Hell would be much worse... only it wasn't. It wasn't what I had expected at all.
"Another suicide? You don't have to stay here, you can go to Heaven" a disembod... | 2022-11-26T20:28:16 | 2017-11-04T08:14:39 | 960 | 19 |
[WP] Every statue in the world has come to life and started a battle royale. All the 10,000 Lenin Statues have teamed up. | The great army of Lenin marched forth and destroyed everything in its path. Not a single military could defeat them in Europe and so after the great European powers were defeated the army marched eastward. They could not cross the Atlantic on foot and so wished to cross the Bering straight into North America to spread ... | The drum of Russian determination thundered through the night sky. Up again rose Lenin's fury to restore the might of the motherland. Like behemoths standing over humanity they marched forward in a wave of copper, rising past the shores of the United States as the red missiles streaked above. Yet as panic set and hope ... | 2019-04-10T03:47:56 | 2019-04-10T00:55:22 | 37 | 25 |
[WP] One by one the passengers stop screaming and return to their seats, unsure of what to do now. The plane has been descending for nearly five hours, the blue sky outside the windows long since replaced by a featureless black void.
Based on the original post by u/Vokoru as seen on r/TwoSentenceHorror. | It had taken Mary a full hour to calm down when the engines cut out. An hour of hyperventilating, screaming , and crying had not exactly been pleasant. It left her lungs hurting and her eyes felt like she had been wiping them with sandpaper. It had taken some more time to realize that everyone else had stopped panickin... | And then, there was quiet.
The baby in row 27 had finally fallen asleep. The engines had both spluttered out hours ago, the sound of the air past the window dying soon after. The screaming stopped after a further half hour. Only two hours ago had the moron banging on and yelling at the cockpit door given up. I stared ... | 2020-09-30T18:24:06 | 2020-09-30T17:49:12 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] You are a peanut farmer. Your father was a peanut farmer. Your father's father was a peanut farmer. Peanut farming is all you've ever known. Your first child has just been born, and has a deadly allergy to peanuts. | My wife... she died in childbirth. She gave her life for this child.
At first, I thought it was a poor trade. My wife for a broken child? One who could not even carry on the family business? I won't deny, I considered "accidentally" letting him eat some peanuts when he was young. No one would have been the wiser.
But... | I had seen offerings -- well, heard of them -- growing up. They did not crop up in our band of 120 or so frequently, but they were so ordinary and well-accepted as to hardly be remarkable. One happened to a child in my birth year. Another, late, to a close friend of my wife's at seven years of age. Having it happen -- ... | 2015-05-19T22:07:10 | 2015-05-19T20:47:09 | 247 | 15 |
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