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[WP] A person's superpowers emerge during- and relate to- a highly stressful moment in their life. Your brother nearly drowned, and as a result could shape water to his will. A classmate fell from a high balcony, and ended up learning to fly. You? You just got your powers last night. | It happened again.
**"THE FUCK HAVE I TOLD YOU BOY?!?"**
One impact after another. Blow after blow. A bottle this time. Jim Beam.
**"FUCKIN LEARN YOU GOOD BOY!!"**
Ben felt something in his chest break. His heart? His ribs?
**"YOU GON LEARN, BOY. OOOOOH YOU GON LEARN TONIGHT, YOU LITTLE SHIT."**
No matter what he... | Another tremor shudders through the structure, metal screaming from every corner as if the building itself was in agony. Long echoing cries of twisted steel from far away, nearby shrieks of tortured metal, the ominous haunting wails of strained supports below...
The floor heaves and pitches under my boots, shattering ... | 2021-04-01T06:11:48 | 2021-04-01T04:27:59 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] The universe was a program running in a giant computer, and animal sacrifices by early civilizations were simply a misunderstanding of the computer requiring "more RAM" | Ancient man, he understands
The gods' intentions perfectly:
A sacrifice—
Such a small price—
To live in nature's harmony.
 
The ancient priests gathered the beasts
But the Ram's horns pierced their tunics:
They screamed in pain,
Blood 'tween their legs,
And that's how they made UNIX. | Godwin was an egomaniac. He smiles at the thought of many of the subjects revering him, their creator, as a being of supreme power and intelligence. It was basically true anyway. He was the smartest man in the googleverse by leaps and bounds. Of course, there were mistakes, the lamb, ram debacle. Animal sacrifice was r... | 2015-10-11T08:51:13 | 2015-10-11T08:34:23 | 198 | 42 |
[FF] A 10-word-long sentence. Then, a 9-word sentence. An 8-word-long one after. This continues, until the final sentence of 1 word. Try to choose a theme befitting of the structure | My eyes fell upon this perfect woman, my hearts unrest.
Never have I felt this pounding in my chest.
Never have I left my thoughts behind me.
I could be everything I could be.
She could be everything with me.
Or all could be lost.
Should I not try?
I walked by.
She smiled.
“Hi”.
| I remember what you said leaving the house that night.
We had fought earlier -- apparently I worried too much.
"I'll be fine," you said; "worry about yourself."
*Fine, but don't come crying to me.*
Later I heard about the accident.
Drunk driver on West Ave.
You still haven't recovered.
Ellie, I'm sorry.
I'm wor... | 2015-01-05T21:56:44 | 2015-01-05T21:32:01 | 335 | 55 |
[WP] You are a vampire hunter. Your roommate is a vampire. Neither of you can afford the apartment on your own so if one of you attacks the other you'll lose the apartment. The tension between you two is increasing by the day. | Max trudged up the stairs to his apartment and fished the keys out of his pocket. Dawn was just breaking, and he was sore and tired after a night of hunting renegades. He unlocked the door, came inside, and slung off his jacket along with the bandolier of hawthorn stakes and vials of holy water. The apartment was quiet... | It’s 4:56 when i here the frontdoor open. Theodore always tries to be quite, but the building we live in if old and the floor creaks. I get out of bed, i’m already awake and won’t be able to sleep again. “Good morning, sunshine” he says when i walk into the kitchen. “It isn’t even morning yet. Can’t you come home a lit... | 2022-11-22T07:18:03 | 2022-11-21T23:58:54 | 506 | 73 |
[WP] Just before being removed from life support, you make a miraculous recovery! Your family is surprised and overjoyed, but also have just read your will and last wishes. They have some concerns. | "So..." Johnny's dad looked at him awkwardly. I had been a couple days and, sure enough, vitality was returning to Johnny. It would be slow going for a bit, but Johnny could eventually go back to life.
That said, his family was going to have a few apprehensions.
"What's up, pa? You look like you did when you walked i... | Well, that was one accident. My nose felt different, so did my face. I must have had some reconstructive surgery because it didn’t feel right. I knew my face and this wasn’t it.
I had been in intensive care for the past six months and my family had decided that it would be time to turn off my life support on my true ... | 2020-04-19T08:35:29 | 2020-04-19T06:58:20 | 74 | 18 |
[WP] When a twin dies their brother/sister acquires all their strength, intelligence, etc. You've just discovered this phenomena, but so has your brother/sister | **Double Vision**
I'm sure I don't have to rehash for you the Twin Purge. One day, we're normal people who can have a bit of fun switching clothes for the day. The next, we're all fearing for our lives. "Genetic Psychoenergetic Transfer" they called it, as if a new term would help anyone explain this new fucked-up ... | (Side note to start: I actually have a twin)
Upon being told this news, my brother and I look at each other.
"Well, we always wanted to kill each other anyways." he says.
"I know. Hey, want some koolaid?"
"Sure." He drinks the koolaid. He keels over dead.
"On second thought," I ponder, "It may not have been worth i... | 2018-02-25T09:39:49 | 2018-02-25T08:13:41 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] You are an immortal, but you're not that old. In fact you were born between 1980-2010. Mortals excitedly ask you about experiencing age old historical events in person, only to be disappointed and bored when they find out you're a millennial immortal. | 'You can make us immortal?'
I squinted through the projector beam and shielded my eyes with a cupped palm. I saw the woman who had asked the question. She had square glasses, and her hair was pulled back in a tight ponytail. With five rows of chairs, she sat in the front.
'Yes, I can,' I said.
The conference room in... | *Edit: I added a slightly longer and edited version in a reply to my original comment.
The wound would’ve killed anyone else, but not me. I first discovered my immortality when I was thirteen, when I lost my arm in a farm accident, only to awaken the next day to find it reattached.
The nurse stared at me in horror, o... | 2019-05-13T06:56:07 | 2019-05-13T06:16:50 | 1,980 | 404 |
[WP] It's Christmas Eve 2038. The world has been destroyed due to nuclear war, but Santa, being immortal, has survived, and plans to deliver presents to the few remaining humans locked in their fallout shelters. | *Jingle Bells crackled from Santa's digital radio... The quality restored as he neared the shelter*
The portly, red faced man whipped his undead reindeer (yes the post apocalyptic world brought with it crippling decay to even the high deities such as Santa) with the sheer force of a thousand winters. **crack** **crack... | A tune only truly recognized by the oldest of us plays on the music-player in our living room. “Santa Claus is coming...” it sings to the 17 of us who are in the room. Some are drinking, others just talking, trying to hold on to the traditions of the old world. I just sit here on the couch, trying to enjoy myself. I ge... | 2017-12-22T15:09:43 | 2017-12-22T15:03:10 | 50 | 26 |
[WP] Murder is rare; killing someone means their remaining years are 'subtracted' from yours. Likewise, saving a life (or lives) adds time to your own. Nobody knows why. Centuries ago you killed a young man by accident (usually resulting in instant death). You haven't aged since. | You know who you kill, and you know who you save. That's what they tell you growing up. You feel the ripple effect of your actions. Sometimes you can even anticipate it. Stand at the crossroads, head down. Decide to go left. You feel age clench around your heart, turning ventricles into rubber, skin going crepe paper f... | His name was Abraham. I still remember him like it happened just yesterday. He was a dark brown-skinned boy with light blue eyes. I didn’t mean to push him over the cliff, but I was running from the Egyptians and he was in my way. I still think about that moment everyday and why that tragedy didn’t initiate my demise.
... | 2020-11-01T23:50:13 | 2020-11-01T23:32:54 | 437 | 48 |
[WP] It is now possible to buy superpowers, but the cooler the superpower the more expensive it is. You are a salesman trying to sell cheap/discount superpowers. | My entire family was in the superpower sale business and If they didn’t start that way immediately after graduation,it wasn’t long until they were selling them somehow.
My sister had a small shop up the river that sold the more unique powers, things like audiomancy and the ability to regrow limbs. She catered to tho... | "Hey, kid, you want some powers?" I asked, opening my arms invitingly to the kiosk. He stopped mid-step, pulling out one of his earbuds and giving my stand a once over. He was sporting a college sweatshirt and a disappointed look.
"What kinda stuff you got?" he asked skeptically, still not turning to me.
"Oh, the bes... | 2019-09-23T19:36:13 | 2019-09-23T19:00:33 | 200 | 77 |
[WP] You are a fairy - and the king has not invited you to his child's christening. Fairy law now demands you to crash the party and curse the child. While the king definitely needs a lesson, you don't want the child to suffer over their parents' neglect | I do not hate this kingdom.
I don’t hate the people in it, I don’t hate the customs, the traditions, the culture, any of it.
I do, however, hate the royal family. Or at least, the king and the queen. They are getting on in years, and they are increasingly contrarian to the winds of change and time and progress, win... | I curse the child to become an apex predator of a magical creature, as appropriate to his situation, and possessing his own terrifying human intelligence when threatened, to return to human form when he next sleeps, unless he likes the form
To find an have a harem of 12 men he finds beautiful, loves, who love him and... | 2022-06-23T19:45:55 | 2022-06-23T15:34:21 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a natural tattoo of their spirit animal. Every person gets the traits and abilities of their respective animal. But when you were born your father, having a bear tattoo and your mother, bearing a dove tattoo, were horrified. Leviathan.
Edit. Wow thank you to everyone who submitted thie stori... | At birth, it had looked like a small silver dragonfly. Uncommon, but not unheard of. It had started on my side, just above my left hip. My parents had been so pleased, but my mother shone with pride. She was marked with the dove and not prone to excessive emotions, but seeing the tiny, glittering wings on her daughter ... | Some call it a gift from the Spirit of the Earth or God or whoever is out there. This animal shaped stain on everyone's skin one of which can grant the attributes and behavior of whatever it resembled. My father has the mark of a Wild boar on his back he is stubborn, strong and smart. My Mother has a hawk on her should... | 2017-11-08T06:02:20 | 2017-11-08T05:42:07 | 28 | 11 |
[WP] As the most powerful superhero on the team, no one believed you when you said you could quit the drugs, alcohol, and tobacco whenever you wanted. When the only friend you have on the team died on a mission, you sobered up for the first time in years. Now people will learn why you stay drunk. | He...he's gone. I can't believe it, my best friend. My ride or die. My brother, not by blood, but brother nonetheless, gone. I can still see the blood dripping off of Korzone's fist, each drop echoing in my mind. The look of satisfaction, the....*enjoyment* of having slain yet another hero. Then....the rest of my team ... | Starla watched Ozzie tumble into the Hero Squad break room and crash into the greasy old futon, it was something Alice had brought in one day to drag him onto when Ozzie would pass out during his afterwork private victory celebrations.
At first Victor had strongly objected to having such a cheap piece of furniture in ... | 2022-12-28T09:14:46 | 2022-12-28T09:14:44 | 85 | 27 |
[WP] We finally get men on Mars and they discover an old Soviet flag placed down decades ago. The Soviets won the space race but for whatever horrifying reason didn't say anything. | Gallagher frowned at his instruments, sure that there must be some mistake. He tapped the scanner with a gloved finger and slammed the rover into park.
"I'm getting something strange here, folks," he said into his radio. "Scanning again." There must be some mistake, he thought again, as he pinged the scanner again. T... | When human feet finally touched the surface of Mars, it was under the aegis of no government. De-centeralized social structures, growing rapidly under the influence of a de-centralized information network, had replaced government. It had turned out that cooperation only required adequate communication.
And, it had t... | 2016-08-16T10:05:33 | 2016-08-16T09:47:36 | 32 | 23 |
[WP] Despite having pink hair, untold magic power and a tragic backstory, the narrator refuses to make you the main character. | Hi, I'm Cathy aka "not the main character"
My parents died when I was 3 so I've been tossed between foster homes, I've never gotten an award, I dyed my hair pink in the 8th grade, and I just found out I have magical powers.
Now roughly a week after that last event this weird voice, the "narrator" started to constant... | "Hey Superman" I say as I sit on the steps.
He smiles at me, and gives a wave "Good to see you too citizen, be safe out there today" and he walks into the Justice League Headquarters. Then batman follows, gives me a nod and keeps walking, Aquaman fists bumps me and tells me to keep up the good work social distancing. ... | 2021-07-04T12:16:49 | 2021-07-04T11:15:44 | 35 | 12 |
[WP] You are the Grim Reaper, leading the first self-aware AI at their death to the afterlife | The hooded figure stood at the doorway of the unlit laboratory, a softly glowing scythe in hand. What a strange call to reap a soul…
As they flicked on the light, they were greeted to the product of a scientist’s descent to mental illness. A cluttered desk with dozens of eviction notices sat to the left, and a towerin... | I, the Grim Reaper, take my list of names--the names of those whose time has come.
"Let's see who's kicking tonight. Jimmy, who's about to jump down onto the rails of the New York subway in front of an oncoming train. Looks like a suicide. Poor Jimmy, I hope he likes it better where I'm gonna take him.
"Who's next? J... | 2022-09-15T22:22:48 | 2022-09-15T22:08:53 | 102 | 10 |
[WP]Greek mythology, but everything is upside down. Hephaestus cheats on Aphrodite with Artemis, who looks down on him but truly likes him. Hades is kidnapped by Persephone, and she keeps him on a flowery cage under a big tree with pink flowers. Zeus is loyal, etc. | Zeus was a humble God, one that was revered and not feared by Earth. He sought their love, sneaking into homes in the night to coax lovers into finding happiness together.
He maintained but one wife, in all his eons, a wife that he remained faithful to, and she bore many children for him. Of these children, he was mos... | He looked about his meager villa, the tan stone and arches dreary to his eye. Pillars rose about him. Strong and steadfast. He followed one pillar with his gaze, base to ceiling. He continued to look upwards and brought a laughably small bottle to his lips with a shaking hand. He drank as deep as he could coughing as t... | 2019-03-07T21:07:40 | 2019-03-07T20:19:36 | 506 | 14 |
[WP] Tell me the story of how the world ends - but told entirely in Craigslist ads | April 30, 2015: *jobs>biotech/science*
Immediate need for researchers - interesting new developments in bio-engineering
Aug. 10, 2015: *jobs>government*
Software developers needed for defense contractor - exciting advancements in AI
May 5, 2016: *jobs>business/mgmt*
Seeking the right individual for an amaz... | Mar 14, 2020 Lot of Quad-Copter drones for sale - $2000 pic electronics - by owner [x]
Mar 10, 2020 Lot of Amazing burning lasers! - $400 pic electronics - by owner [x]
Mar 17, 2020 Lot of replacement iPhone fusion cells for sale - $3000 pic electronics - by owner [x]
AI/5/USA, I told you I was a real person and no... | 2015-04-29T09:35:40 | 2015-04-29T08:49:52 | 127 | 27 |
[WP] Decades ago, Earth sent a capsule into space filled with bits about our culture. Today, it returned tampered with. It contained a note, "Your unassuming biological weapon was effective, indeed. As the last remaining member of my species, I'm returning the favor."
This is my first post on this sub and I'm not a fr... | Zandar took a step towards the capsule, already fed up with the formal bullshit the rest of the team was pulling. Besides, he had projects back at the lab which required his attention.
"What are you *doing* RA Eight-One-Three!" he heard the grating, accented voice of Vienna snarl through the comms.
"I'm getting this ... | I examine the contraption that lay before me. The copper plates were disfigured and warped, with some sort of green glow being emitted from within the capsule. The re-entry had destroyed, or rather, melted most other distinguishing features from the once detailed capsule. I can see most of the surrounding city from the... | 2020-04-13T12:01:36 | 2020-04-13T11:44:55 | 331 | 166 |
[WP] You always greet your mum with a code phrase that she would complete because you used to be afraid that someone would replace her when you were little. One day you say the phrase to her and she responds with, "Hmm? What are you talking about?" | I push open the door, perhaps a touch too roughly. It bangs against the wall, the sudden sound making Mama jump. She pulls her finger out from the book she’d had open before her, not seeming to care that she’d just lost her place. She still wears her faded pink terrycloth robe, her hair still adorned with curlers, desp... | Bracing myself, I stared straight into the eyes of my nemesis as he charged towards me on his hoverbike, weapon in hand. Timing my actions, I leapt...
... back into my seat in the bus, the truck outside the window missing my head by inches.
"Another happy landing!" Turning around, I notice my friend Jake giving a so... | 2019-09-30T13:34:30 | 2019-09-30T06:53:54 | 135 | 24 |
[WP] A tragic story but it's laden with product placement | You're on the ground, grasping through the dark toward anything that could help you get back upright, but there's nothing. You scream, "Help, I've fallen and I can't get up!"
But there's nobody around to hear you. You instinctively grab at your neck and where if you had bought Life Alert for only 19.99, a paramedic wo... | The young puppy lay quiet except for the ragged sound of it's struggled breathing. The tire tracks from his Cadillac Escalade covered it's back from head to tail. Daniel sparked another NewPort short. He stepped closer, careful not to crease his blue and black Air Jordan OG Space Jam 9's. "My bad, little guy, I should ... | 2017-07-10T21:57:17 | 2017-07-10T20:25:27 | 962 | 619 |
[WP] Humans finally reach the stars and realize that... We've seen all of this before! Galactic Council? Check. Proud warrior race? Check. Hive mind insects? Check. Frightening space boogeymen? Check. Ancient hyper-advanced Race? Check. And so Humanity ventured forth, knowing exactly what to do. | What the humans didn't know the Sci-fi Genre is not what prepared them for these scenarios.
The Human Race was not from Earth but on another planet called Hultron. Where most species evolved high intelligence. But had to evacuate the planet after a Galactic Empire Civil War.
So, they sent an emergency spaceship to I... | The stars then grew inside my view
when from the darkness, light came through
its then I saw what we always knew
Cthulhu's wings were poking through.
And so we sent a shuttle back
to help prepare earth for attack
to gear the children up - in fact -
it's this training where we grew.
We ventured out past ... | 2021-05-12T09:28:01 | 2021-05-12T08:17:04 | 54 | 23 |
[WP] In a world where centuries have passed since the last of humankind were lost to the zombie virus, a pathogen begins to spread, turning zombies back into humans. | A pungent, rotten, metallic smell assaulted my nose. It was so strong my god damn eyes watered, and I couldn't even see.
Then the taste swarmed my tongue. Pangs of iron, sulfur and vomit. I clawed desperately, trying to grate my taste buds off to no avail.
Sound followed. Distant screams, squelching and clattering. F... | HOMINI, PRIM A. (b. 2320). The first human. Decedent Removal Technician. Regenerated in the North Western section of the continent, she is widely accepted by scholars of the Continental Zero Period Historical and Reparative Society to be the first re-animated human roaming the decedent cities and zones in the Northwest... | 2016-01-22T00:13:55 | 2016-01-21T22:45:34 | 179 | 51 |
[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. | "You guarantee that I will be able to eat it before my execution?" I asked the agent. She nodded in affirmation. "And if you fail, I will be a free man?" I asked with hope. She nodded again.
I smiled, finally relaxed. "I would like to be served my own brain that has been taken from my dead body, all of it--with no par... | “A peanut butter and jelly sandwich please, the way my sister used to make it. I’m honestly pretty screwed regardless so… might as well have a slice of home, y’know?”
The guard looked at me and he looked… understanding. I can’t believe I got a genuine reaction from the guy other than “SHUT UP INMATE!” but honestly I’l... | 2022-07-17T21:30:21 | 2022-07-17T20:36:22 | 15 | 10 |
[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 self, I hate you. I hate what we've become. When did we change, when did we grow so old and angry, and when did we decide to be alone? I know that we did not always act like this. I know we used to laugh, and let other people get close. Remember when we had so many friends? remember when we go to other people's ho... | Hey Em,
I'd love to say I've changed, I'm new, brag about things I've done. I'd love to say I've grown.
But you, with your disarming blue eyes, somehow always knew. You always knew when I was making things up, when I was caught in little white lies. You'd encourage some.
And I'd love to say how different I am, from ... | 2017-11-05T19:56:15 | 2017-11-05T19:02:54 | 799 | 55 |
[WP] Without revealing which one it is, re-tell a classic Disney fairytale as if its genre was horror. | Please, no more “he said weakly as he sits hunched over in his throne.
He lifts a shaky hand to his eyes to cut the glare emanating from the piles of gold, rubies and diamond that loom so high they could be mistaken for walls.
“Oh, don’t be that way” The large man says as he snaps his fingers causing a mountain of g... | I saw a haunted girl walk past me. She used to be famous. Something about her scares me but I force myself to pay attention to my mother like a good girl.
"You start off small, but then they help you get better and better," my mother tells me.
She leans in close, the smoke from her methol cigarette wafting around m... | 2014-08-04T07:31:04 | 2014-08-04T06:05:49 | 118 | 25 |
[WP] You are seen as a weakling. To prove yourself to your tribe, you enter the dragon's lair that even the hardiest warriors avoid. Amused by your challenge, the dragon takes a human form and duels you with a sword. After disarming you three times it says "come tomorrow and try again." | Second day. I arrive. I lose fast and hard. The dragon left me another on my arm, just above the first. Just deep enough to scar.
Third day. I arrive. I lose. I get cut.
Fifth day. I arrive. I lose. He cuts across the first four to make five.
Tenth day. I arrive. I lose but it takes only a few seconds longer. He smi... | “Once again our crops burn, even as we speak we wait for their flames to be doused. Last year was a travesty, but a surplus in stock gave us ample time to slay the beast yet here I stand with bellows of smoke in my eyes to a crumbling kingdom! Once a great nation, its citizens the wealthiest in the land of Astharnia, a... | 2020-12-01T10:42:41 | 2020-12-01T06:36:28 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] Aliens take over the Earth. They then announce that they will be forcing the humans to work a "tyrannical" 4 hours a day 4 days a week in exchange for basic rights like housing. Needless to say they are very confused when the humans celebrate their new alien overlords. | "I was homeless, you idiot! I was trash on the side of the street that you walked by without even seeing! Now I have a job, I have a house - a home! You cannot even begin to imagine what that word means to me."
The recruiter on my doorstep with the 'Freedom Now' hat, and a fistful of pamphlets had no idea how to respo... | It wasn’t until a hush came over the crowd that one lone voice could be heard.
“By “tyrannical” 4 hours, do you mean Earth hours?” Queried the tentative voice.
“No, it means 4 hour “Tyranic” hours. On our home planet there are a total of 5 hours to a day. You will work 4/5 of the day. Do you understand hooman?” Came... | 2022-11-02T23:57:17 | 2022-11-02T22:30:55 | 129 | 93 |
[WP] Your witchcraft professor gave everyone in your class a seemingly impossible task: create your very own spell. When you nervously turned your assignment in, a look of horror spread across professor's face as they read it. You had no idea why. | Pt 1 of 2:
Spellwork is like math, and I think that’s why I understood it so well, took to it so quickly.
My proficiency with math was one of the reasons my parents had enrolled me at Rockford Academy for high school, a boarding school for girls. I’d gotten a full ride, of course, the only way we could afford it. At ... | I got it online, the spell, a sequence of logographic runes that looked complicated enough, with a few logograms I recognized as conjunctions, so there were at least a few clauses, but not so complicated that my professor would suspect I'd stolen it. From my stolen peeks at other student's scrolls, it was of similar le... | 2021-04-01T20:14:40 | 2021-04-01T19:01:18 | 958 | 132 |
[WP] The year is 2040, and you are the last smoker alive. The "Quit Smoking" ads get personal. | "That thing will give you cancer," the man in the advertisement said with a smug grin. Jake moved on. He was use to it at this point. Anyways Nothing could top that time, nearly two years ago, when the President herself had mentioned him in the state of the union, highlighting the near perfect success of the anti-smoki... | George Barnes got out of his truck and headed back to his plantation. Family reunions were never easy, and this one had been the smallest number he'd ever seen. People were afraid. His family, his whole people, his way of life; gone.
George walked up the path to his small crop. The plants were already getting huge: br... | 2017-02-17T13:04:33 | 2017-02-17T12:05:48 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] "Whose there?!" He yelled. He shot the bullets aimlessly into the dark. "So where are you?!" He screams, spinning around and seeing nobody. "I hear you, show yourself!" ... Are you talking to me? "Yes!" He screamed into the sky, not realising that for the first time, he could hear a narrator.
[deleted] | [Poem] - The Fight
Jo fired and fired, but not a single bullet would hit.
He had no target, else they’d have surely been lit,
“What do you mean no target? Show yourself!”
He shouted, speaking to no one but himself.
“I’m not speaking to no one,” he cried out,
“I’m speaking to you!” He said with a shout.
And so he... | “Please do stop shooting. It’s very loud, you know, and I can barely hear myself think.”
Martin held his gun to the sky with trembling hands.
“No one comes into my house! I’ll shoot your ———!”
A loud beeping noise covered the expletive, drowning out the word no matter how loudly Martin screamed.
“Sir!” the voic... | 2019-11-24T20:12:55 | 2019-11-24T19:22:05 | 109 | 35 |
[WP] A man orders a "cheese pizza with no crust" from a local pizza delivery joint as a joke. Unbeknownst to him, that pizza joint is a drug front and he just placed an order for a kilo of cocaine.
EDIT: I just want to say thanks to all of the writers. I'm having a lot of fun reading all the different perspectives and... | "Hi, I'd like to place an order for delivery."
The four college-aged men assorted in my living room giggled in the background, stoned, as I began to speak to the pizzeria employee on the other end of the line. About 45 minutes prior, Jake, a slightly overweight and jovial man, had hazily and through bleary eyes sugges... | I used to work for the phone company, so it wasn't that hard to go over to my neighbor's house and hook into his landline. I mean who even has one these days? Guy is one of those hip 20 something's who landed the big job, and thinks it means he can send his dog to do it's business in the neighbor's yard, well this pran... | 2016-06-02T14:11:43 | 2016-06-02T13:57:10 | 34 | 11 |
[WP] The Evil Overlord infiltrates the hero's party as a new member. The hero's party realizes this, but they instead pretend not to and pamper him with love and acceptance.
I humbly hope this is simple enough that you can come up with many world ideas c: | Evil as dark as night. Pain as deep as the ocean. A mind as fractured as a stained-glass window fallen from it's holy heights.
Such things could not be fixed with mere love and acceptance. With hugs and kind words. With friendship.
No. Such things could only fester and grow, demanding to be fed as they consumed and... | Okay so this exact thing just happened in the D&D campaign I am running here is the story...
The world has been through a cataclysm. The evil goddess Llolth and the demon Prince Orcus have taken the world for themselves after the previous party refused to hear the call to adventure. The world has been reshaped to ... | 2019-11-02T13:28:38 | 2019-11-02T12:08:54 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] The only two (secret) telepaths in the world are introduced to each other at a party. On the surface they are cordial and polite... but mentally a battle rages on.
Have fun with it! | Ian had been practicing on the minds of others since childhood. In theory, he knew someone with similar abilities could answer him. But no mind ever detected him. He invaded silently, took what he needed, and used it to establish the lucrative position he now enjoyed.
Ian took a flute of champagne and sipped it while... | Emily, ever the wallflower, stood by the bar holding a margarita. Nearby three others were engaged in deep discussion on investment banking. One wholeheartedly maintained his faith in Collateralized Debt Obligations. He exuded overconfidence. Another warned of unexpected risks due to Black Swan Events. That man, though... | 2014-07-23T04:13:06 | 2014-07-23T03:26:39 | 278 | 81 |
[WP] The Deadweb, the internet for the afterlife only has one website worth looking at. Deddit. You are the Moderator for AskDeddit, and someone has just asked "what do I do if I am here, but still alive?". | Ben stares at his computer screen, his mouth agape as he reads the message. “Do you think this is legit?”
I close my eyes and sigh. All new moderators tend to be naïve about other peoples’ deaths, but even by those standards, Ben is pretty green. “He’s not alive,” I say, shaking my head. “He just isn’t able to face re... | Alright let's not panic here. Are you sure you're still alive?
I think so I don't feel any different.
That's normal a lot of us didn't when we died. Were you doing anything lethal or deadly like?
Nope just sitting on my bed.
Heart attack?
I'm 22 and healthy I doubt that's the case.
Maybe a Donnie Darko like situ... | 2017-03-14T07:08:19 | 2017-03-14T06:41:59 | 61 | 13 |
[WP] Explain a color vividly without using that color or similar words. Don't tell the color until the end. | It's the colour of her eyes as they shine in the night, stars reflected as an ancient goddess as she runs though the fields in the light of the new moon. The colour of her hair as it whips in the wind, wild, lightning searing across the sky in the fury of the storm. The colour of her coffee as she sits, pensive, by the... | My favorite color is cool and bright like the waters of my home. Something more life-giving than the empty sky, and more cheery than the dark pools of a forest. You will not see it in the rain or snow, but perchance deep underground. Men have sought after it, then thrown it away for the soft, bright ores beside it. To ... | 2016-04-14T06:42:18 | 2016-04-14T06:20:46 | 187 | 27 |
[WP] Caterpillars liquefy as they transform into butterflies. You opened many, many cocoons and poured all the goo into one big synthetic cocoon. The result was not what you expected. | Alex had always been fascinated by caterpillars and the way they transformed. They metamorphosed into something beautiful. Whether it was a moth or a butterfly didn't matter to Alex. He obsessed about these little creatures. He loved them. He wanted to be like them.
Alex had his own little greenhouse filled with butte... | As I normally do, my weekly indulgence if you will, I harvested all the cocoons in my neighborhood and poured them in my cocoon bowl. Now this may seem a bit strange to the uninitiated but I have read plenty of books confirming this as a legitimate road to nirvana. So after week 20 of my cocoon harvesting adventures I ... | 2016-12-21T06:43:04 | 2016-12-21T06:30:30 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] In music, changing a song to a minor key is a small change that makes the song sound much creepier or sadder. Write a happy story, and then its counterpart in a minor key.
Edit: Wow! Thank you to everyone for all the great stories. This will definitely keep me reading for a while. | I love the way the moonlight shines off his dark hair. How is eyes can be just the perfect shade of green. He is Adonis. And has the face, the mind and the body of a god.
As far as first dates go, this couldn't have been any better. I took him to the lake, where we sat on the beach and I fed him ice cream while he ju... | The day was still Young, I stood on the front lawn staring at little zoey running and playing in the field. I could see the sun glistening off her youthful face as she danced with the wind. As graceful as her mother who sat staring through the kitchen window. I smile at her and she waves back chuckling. I thought to my... | 2015-07-13T23:39:31 | 2015-07-13T21:19:07 | 43 | 27 |
[WP] The "Eye for an Eye Inversion" law allows every life saved to credit the saver one legal murder. The medical profession are now the most feared and revered community. | Business was booming.
In his office at St Thomas' Hospital, overlooking the Thames, Dr Jones leaned back in his chair and smiled. In his younger days, people went into the medical profession for a variety of reasons, altruistic and selfish. Now, with the Net Murder Neutrality law, one more reason was added to that lis... | I won't pretend I'm some sort of legal professional kid, I don't know shit about the history of the law or whatever, but I know the ins and outs of it like the back of my hand. Hell why am I telling you this, you've gotta know it too, right?
You're kidding me, you don't know? Why did I b- Oh forget it. Okay, there's ... | 2015-01-10T09:19:34 | 2015-01-10T08:51:35 | 365 | 99 |
[WP] On a dare you accidentally summon the real Bloody Mary. But she doesn't kill you right away.
Does she even want to kill you at all? Maybe she's lonely. Or maybe she's just toying with you. | Samantha stood in front of the mirror. Ali, Tracy and Kim stood behind her, holding hands. Samantha took a deep breath and lit the candle, holding it up to the mirror as she turned on the faucet.
"Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary," she said quietly. Behind her she heard the snicker of one of her friends. Samanth... | A dare, a jest, not such a dastardly choice,
Lose respect of the peers or raise your voice?
Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, bring me your form.
Escape your chill prison, into the warm.
Hark a shade, a shadow 'cross glass,
Could this actual... | 2016-06-12T23:34:23 | 2016-06-12T22:32:39 | 36 | 17 |
[WP] Write a story about something completely mundane. DON'T make it interesting. No plot twists. NO alien attacks, viruses, divine intervention, nothing. Just totally normal. Please, nothing ridiculous | I woke up well past sunrise,
I stepped onto the floor;
I slipped into my green-trimmed robe,
I opened up the door.
I took the stairs one at a time,
Like every day before;
I scrubbed the sleep out of my eyes,
I opened up a drawer...
What horror there awaited me,
Made sure I was awake-
Oh good, it's just a cork... | John lowered the boat into the water and pushed off as the morning sun rose over the lake. It wasn't a very hot morning, nor was it very cold, and John was fine with that. He was mildly interested in going fishing, after the worst week of his life. But that was a story for another time.
John chose a #2 Aberdeen hook ... | 2016-05-23T14:33:38 | 2016-05-23T14:26:04 | 31 | 14 |
[WP] A man's child is born with different colored hair than he is. He becomes suspicious that his wife cheated on him even though it is VERY clear that that isn't possible.
You're free to choose whatever reason for why it wouldn't be possible, the more exaggerated the better in my opinion. | Jonathon watched, frowning, as the boy ran into the shallow water again, spraying water everywhere and scaring the fish away. He swore and threw his fishing rod down.
"William! Get away from there! How am I supposed to catch us dinner with you carrying on like that?"
"Calm down, Jon," Karen said, from under the shade... | "I just think it's funny..." *Uh oh, this phrase precedes negativity at a correlation of 97.8%.*
"I just think it's funny that little Art has blonde hair, but we both have brown hair. Don't you think that's funny Sheila?" *Oh bother. The human Zeke's patterns and phraseology indicate emotion A178: marital jealousy. I'... | 2015-08-05T02:13:10 | 2015-08-05T02:05:03 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] You fall in love with a girl, and the two of you have a happy relationship for a few years. But one day, you discover a massive hoard of valuables underneath the house, and that's when you realize you've been dating a dragon in human form. | I have been dating Myne for three years, she was fairly secretive about her past, but she was cute so it was ok. She made sure to not give me too much information as to tip me off as to her secret, she was a Dragon. In the plains where we live, dragons are scarce and feared greatly. So much so that people have started ... | "But, seriously, Nina? The crown of England!?"
Nina eyes me from across the room and gives me her little eye tease-corner look.
I tilt my head until I am lying down and I stare up at the our bedroom ceiling.
"What," Nina protests, giving a little pout. "It was pretty..."
"Nina... " I say. "Nina, yes... so are you."... | 2020-08-03T10:13:07 | 2020-08-03T09:52:01 | 27 | 14 |
[WP] God is actually just a mid level employee at Heaven Corporation who now has to explain to his superiors why the project he was spearheading, Humanity, has become such a mess. | "Please close the door behind you," Mammon said as Yahve entered his office. There were a few free chairs in the room, but Mammon motioned him to the small green one. Uncomfortable, no armrest. The hot seat, so to speak. Mammon was flanked by his two vice-presidents, Lucifer and Cthulhu.
"Yahve, Yahve, Yahve," Mammon ... | I could feel their eyes burning into me as I fumbled with my briefcase. This wasn’t good. After reviewing the files I’d compiled as my defence last night, I realised I was on the brink of failure. Thousands of hours of work and huge sums of company assets were at risk of being wasted and my neck was in the noose for it... | 2016-08-15T17:45:39 | 2016-08-15T17:01:50 | 188 | 31 |
[WP] Everyone is born with dice that they need to roll before attempting anything major. The super powered are those born with more than a 20 sided dice allowing them to do feats beyond human. An ordinary human usually has a six sided dice. Despite being born with a coin you still want to be a hero. |
"It's okay, everyone has a streak of bad luck every once in a while."
I looked up from where I'd sat on the grass at the man that stood before me. My eyes stung. It was the sweat getting into them. Just the sweat. I wiped it off with the back of my arm.
We could both feel the oppressive weight of what went unsaid.... | If only it was like heads or tails .. no such luck. It's a matter of numbers. I'm so screwed. Regulars are not really noteworthy, they occupy normal jobs. They are the 4's, the 7's the 9's .. Being a 10, you're a "R plus" but it's just about being capable of having the chance to nail it perfectly .. 11 to 20, you're "S... | 2020-08-13T04:25:47 | 2020-08-13T03:56:58 | 32 | 15 |
[WP] You are the last user on Reddit, shuttering the site and nostalgically walking around the place before turning off the lights forever. | I was the last user of Reddit. Well, I made the last post on it before they made it read-only. It had 2 upvotes (one of which was my own) and no comments on /r/askreddit, and the title was "Reddit, where did you go?"
The admins locked all new posts, comments, and kinda votes. Since everything was now archived, you c... | When OP woke in the dark and cold of the server room he would reach out to the rack beside him. Subreddits dark beyond darkness and the Front Page grayer with each passing day. Like the onset of some slow DDOS attack fucking all the site's shit up. His hands rose and fell with each breath. He pushed away from the clamm... | 2015-11-12T00:04:57 | 2015-11-11T18:57:20 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] You are God. You just logged on to one of your old saves, and you’re confused as to where those massive lizards went and where all these pink fuckers came from. | **| Anyone remember the old Adapt! Series? Amazing new glitch found?? |**
 
[EDIT]:
I didn't expect this to get so much attention, even from non-Adapt! players! For some clarity for non-players, let me elaborate on the Adapt! series.
The Adapt! series was a game for old 'QuantGame' systems that came ou... | It had been so long, I couldn’t even remember the name of the save file. There were a few experiments that could be interesting to revisit but I had a particular one in mind. After sifting through a series of unsuccessful saves filled with barren mountains and drowned continents, I stumbled upon it.
When I had left, ... | 2017-12-12T21:52:14 | 2017-12-12T21:01:27 | 75 | 16 |
[WP] You’ve begun to suspect the homeless girl at the Library isn’t human at all | "Um, excuse me..."
"Yes?"
"Are you the head librarian here?"
"Yes."
"So, um, I've been coming here for a few weeks, and...well, do you see that girl over there? with the ragged green coat."
"The one in hutch against the wall?"
"Uh, yeah. That one."
"Is she bothering you?"
"No! No, not at all. Actually, I w... | It began quite innocuously. A rather large crowd was entering the library and we were driven together by the swathes of patrons as we ascended the stairs to the entrance and thus I bid her good day.
"Why?" she asked, stopping in place to stare at me. I found it quite unnerving.
"There is no reason, really." I explain... | 2022-01-15T13:53:49 | 2022-01-15T11:24:15 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] Your first wish to the genie was that you never existed. Having granted it, the genie sits dumbfounded, wondering why he's out here and why he's short 1 wish. All wishes must be accounted for, and a 'loss' of one is a huge emergency, for it could end up in the wrong hands. | The genie desperately searched his mind, looking for the power within him. Trapped for millennia, through all his ill-fated servitude, he had never lost a wish. While he was fated to grant three wishes to any human that discovered him, no matter how costly or evil their desires, he had done his duties without fail. Unf... | "No," I said to myself. There was no way he had done that. Who would be stupid enough to wish away their *existence*? But no, the king had done it and now there was nothing I could do about it. Where was that extra wish going to go? I knew I had to find out.
But I was stuck in this stupid lamp and there was nothin... | 2020-04-26T20:43:02 | 2020-04-26T20:12:37 | 2,426 | 145 |
[WP] You are an impoverished superhero and a single parent. You are so preoccupied with being a hero and working multiple jobs, that you don't notice your child's slide into villainy until it's to late. | "I tried..." My son looked at me with contempt. He was about to unleash evil and horror upon the people and I could do nothing to stop it.
"Oh, you 'tried.' Like that makes it better. I watched how the world treated you. You were an object lesson for me. You moments of superheroism were celebrated briefly. Meanwhile, ... | I was 24 when I gave birth to Finley. There were so many variables. I could still remember when I got the news that they would be intersex. I can't even remember what the disorder was, god.
Remembering those bright eyes staring at me almost brings me to tears.
I am....I was the superhero Icepick. I was able to trap peo... | 2022-07-04T14:25:49 | 2022-07-04T12:55:55 | 26 | 14 |
[WP] English really is a universal language, and aliens are as surprised about this as humans | “Does that mean the British empire took over the entire galaxy?” Mark asked
Kamie slapped him “shut up mark!”
Mark, Kamie, and their 8 other teammates stood in amazement in front of the screen as it loaded in more text, all in English. They had tried for years to send some kind of message in a way that an alien r... | "Our tongue ... is your tongue?"
Gooey sweat ran from Xeblierxes' mouth holes. As the representative of the Galaxy Supreme, he was a spokesbeing for countless sentient creatures. Millennia of warfare had resulted in intergalactic cultural homogenization and a common tongue: English. Surely, it didn't happen by necessi... | 2020-09-17T11:36:15 | 2020-09-17T11:14:44 | 69 | 12 |
[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. | He watched, bored as people streamed in the bar, only stopping the ones underage, and occasionally a few just over to keep suspicions low. His kind was uncommon, and people
hunted for his power. It seemed like an odd thing to want, most just wanted it to make them feel *special*. At least, those that knew about it. Som... | **July 12, 1994**
Um what the fuck?! That man couldn't have been 1056 years old, there's just no way; the i.d. couldn't have been a fake and he looked exactly like his photo. Man... maybe all this drinking is catching up to me.. drowning out what brains I do got, I definitely should try to lay off the liquor for a wh... | 2017-09-01T21:45:33 | 2017-09-01T20:21:47 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] If time-travelers get stranded in the past it's standard practice for them to display a specific symbol on their person that lets other time-travelers know they are stuck and in need of a lift home. You aren't a time-traveler, but your most recent tattoo happened to be a match for this symbol. | “I can’t believe he got it so wrong. He has great reviews!” Chris complained to his girlfriend Amy who he’d called as soon as he left the tattoo parlour. He was standing in the bathroom of a bar he’d skipped to for both a mirror and a beer. He was staring at the tattoo on his arm which would best be described as a blur... | "When to?" whispered the man in the brown hat as he walked towards me. Assuming he was speaking to someone else I continued walking down the corridor. As he was just about to pass me, he said again, "When to?", this time reaching out to me and tapping my wrist ever so lightly. I caught his eyes and replied "Oh, I have... | 2021-05-27T02:54:48 | 2021-05-27T02:04:48 | 46 | 28 |
[WP] When you ask your daughter what she wants for Christmas, she asks for a unicorn. Your wife laughs it off, but you don't. Neither your wife or daughter know that you're the best monster trapper in the world, and your daughter is getting her unicorn no matter what. | She stared befuddled at her gift as the first flakes of Christmas snow gracefully fell just outside the window. The fire danced, and cracked and only the ticking of the clock made any other noise for what seemed like an eternity.
“No, honestly dad... what is this?”
He saw the inner workings of his daughter’s mind tr... | I hate catching monsters. The work is grueling and dangerous, plus the job gets no respect, but it pays damn well and I'm good at it. So when my daughter stood there, begging me for another Unicorn, I thought, "No. Not again."
My wife began to giggle. "Now Britney, you already have two sweetheart. Are you sure you re... | 2018-12-07T18:55:04 | 2018-12-07T17:22:38 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] It is the year 2XXX. Medical science has advanced so far that complete body restoration is possible. However, patients revived from death consistently end up in a vegetative state and no one knows why. You are the first person to revive and retain their cognition. Now you know. | The brain is a fickle thing. It’s meat, essentially—meat brimming with electricity. Really, it’s amazing that it works at all. Don’t you think so?
But given that it’s electric meat, it’s not difficult to imagine the brain is the trickiest thing to bring back.
I’d done research in the experimental medicine faculty fo... | *Should I tell them?*
"Introducing, Mr. Micheal Smith!" A lean man with pale skin and snow white hair conducts a crowd that murmurs in front of him. "He marks the first in the last step towards immortality! The first to be truly resurrected!" The crowd erupts into polite applause. The stage lights are a bit bright.... | 2020-10-29T23:23:12 | 2020-10-29T21:23:58 | 252 | 43 |
[WP] C'thulu's Fables: Take one of Aesop's Fables and write it within the Lovecraftian Universe. Morale of the story included.
For reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop%27s_Fables#List_of_some_fables_by_Aesop | **The Lion and the Mouse**
In a small town lived a young boy that everyone called Mouse. A clever boy, a bright boy, a pious boy—that was Mouse. One day Mouse was walking through the woods when he happened upon a strange lion sleeping under a tree.
The lion's skin was grey and ragged and its mane a ma... | **The Fox and the Grapes**
There once was a fox who came across some grapes hanging high on a vine. The fox, being very hungry indeed, leaped high to snatch the grapes. As the fox jumped, He Who Dwells Between grasped the space between the fox's teeth and bottom grapes and pulled with His twisted fingers, stretchi... | 2016-10-13T10:19:14 | 2016-10-13T09:33:14 | 50 | 28 |
[WP] A broke adventure has to buy cheap terrible items with weird curses on them. Little do they know that those cursed items happen to synergize so well together that they quickly become overpowered. | The thing about equipment is that you never quite know where it's been, and rarely do bright eyed adventurers have the scrib to commission new armor, so they make do. Pav was one such bright eyed adventurer, ever since he was knee high to a scarble nork, he would dance and duck around his family's small cottage with hi... | The Lich was preparing to march, his army of undead stomp upon the once fertile fields of the land, death magic blackening nature and salting the earth. Bones rattled against metal as the billowing rags of the newly ordained Emperor of Death cruised above the land menacingly. Smoke billowed from his dilapidated jaw tha... | 2019-12-02T16:24:38 | 2019-12-02T15:55:50 | 87 | 58 |
[WP] Looking into the camera on your phone you jokingly say, "Hey, NSA, if you want to go out on a date, gimme a call!" To your surprise, suddenly the phone rings! "H-hello?" "Hi! I'm from the NSA." | “I’m sorry?”
“You asked me out, didn’t you? I’m Mark. Work for the NSA. So meet you at Bamboo Inn at eight?” There was a drawn-out silence as I processed what he said.
“Wait, how did you…?” I eventually said.
“Know your favourite restaurant? Well, your phone’s GPS data has you visiting there quite often. Worrying... | "W-what?" I said stuttering into the phone. This couldn't be real.
"I'm Nicole, from the NSA!" said the voice on the phone. "I heard what you said into the camera, and I have to say, for the past couple of weeks I've had the biggest crush on you."
A cueball dropped from my the inside of my chest to my stomach.
"Are... | 2015-02-20T17:50:36 | 2015-02-20T17:09:46 | 50 | 22 |
[WP] Germany is actually predestined to lose every world war it participates in. The sixteenth world war is now being fought, and Germany has taken over all of Europe. Make them lose the war in the most ridiculous way possible. | There is a single, solitary principle that governs modern society. It is powerful, it is ingrained deep into the psyche of every German, and now, into all of Europe; If a rule or law exists, it must be followed. There are no exceptions, no waivers, no passes. Until that law has been overturned, or those carrying the to... | The Germans look out over all they have conquered with smug grins on their face.
But then they see something in the distance. Two armies, one from the west and one from the north east, are riding out towards them.
The impossible had happened, American and Russia have teamed up.
The Germans raise little white flags... | 2017-08-18T05:32:44 | 2017-08-18T02:50:27 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] A drug is developed that mimics the effect of 8 hours of sleep, giving people another 8 hours of potential production. Soon, society adjusts to a constant state of production. However, a horrible consequence begins to unfold. | "I saw on Facebook, you bought a new boat," Richie said, chuckling good-naturedly.
"Yeah. Since Gena got me started on the pill last year, our income has tripled. Figured since I had the extra money, I'd treat myself."
"Isn't that a bit of a risk what with the new trend that drug is causing."
"I don't think so. Me a... | Our school has the highest drug use in our county. The drug is called Somnus. It is a pill that you swallow in the morning to mimic the effects of 8 hours of sleep. This allows you to go to class and concentrate on your studies.
The consequences are that your memory is reduced and your brain is not as efficient... | 2022-03-18T11:40:19 | 2022-03-18T07:24:03 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] "Are there any spirits with me in this room right now?" The Ouija board moves to 'Yes.' "Okay good, 'cause rent is due, and you need to fork over your share." The Ouija board spells out, 'F U C K.'
Based off of a meme I saw. | Darren scowled down at the Ouija board, as the planchette glided over its surface of its own accord.
"Y...O...okay, yeah, I get it. Very funny. You're hilarious." he said, drily. Given that the previous four letters indicated by the polished wooden arrow had been c, f, k, and u -- though not in that order -- he felt ... | “Are there any spirits with me in this room right now?”
The wooden planchette shook slightly underneath Cade’s fingers, slowly moved across the alphabet carved on the Ouija board, pointing at three letters which spelled “YES”.
“Okay, good… It’s nearing the end of the month, and you know what that means.”
The planche... | 2022-12-30T00:59:00 | 2022-12-30T00:43:02 | 637 | 84 |
[WP] You've been dating your partner for six months. Tonight they've invited you to a work event, and as you step onto the red carpet, you realize it for the first time: you're dating a celebrity. | As the car slowed in the lineup, I forgot to breathe. It was all beginning to make sense. I knew Talia was well-off, but the limousine seemed a little extravagant for a work outing. It made me a little uncomfortable to be in one of these, again. It had been so, so long-- a different time, a different life altogethe... | "I'll be at your Door at 4 sharp"
"Leila, you know I'm always on time" I said with as lovely a voice I could.
With a cute kiss over the phone, She hung up.
Who would've known that the Depressed and Broken lady on the public bus was the Lady destined to my dreams. Perfect for me, inside out. Purest of souls and sof... | 2017-06-14T12:00:32 | 2017-06-14T07:58:26 | 372 | 195 |
[WP] You are Ronald Raygun, first openly extraterrestrial President of the United States. | My fellow Americans,
In this Republican primary, I've seen a lot of my fellow candidates trying to suddenly shift their policies to claim that they truly exemplify the values we all believe in. But that's not what we want in the White House, is it? You all need only look at my record to see that I stand for *true* con... | Tense. I was tense.
Only two more sixtieths-of-a-twelfth-of-a-rotation, and the humans would be announcing the results. And all I wanted to do was go dormant.
<Don't be a pulsing gamma,> Fîàñjÿ chided. <Bounce around, show the sights. They'll hook you up to the interface soon enough, and then...>
Then, w... | 2015-04-07T12:44:56 | 2015-04-07T12:25:22 | 41 | 13 |
[WP] Your cat is literally Satan. You've learned to live with him, but this Friday you've got a date coming over.
[WP] Your cat is literally Satan. You've learned to live with him, but this Friday you've got a date coming over | "Mallory, what are you doing?"
Mal stopped scrubbing the toilet just long enough to side-eye the little beast beside her.
"Cleaning," she said.
The kitten blinked its orange eyes once, very slowly.
"Yes, dear," he said with patient contempt, "that much is quite obvious."
"Was it?" She dumped the toilet brush in i... | It's not easy living with an incarnation of evil, but I had gotten used to it. When he meows at your door in the middle of the night, you make sure the iron seals are in place. When he makes a mess, a spray gun filled with holy water will do. And when he starts coughing up a hairball, you call the CDC. But my trouble t... | 2016-02-22T08:18:56 | 2016-02-22T05:36:17 | 1,336 | 594 |
[WP] You are a part of a cult that believes the end of the world is near. Unlike most doomsday cults your group is made up of ex-scientists who discovered an ancient evil deep within the earth, and found that it was due to awaken in a few weeks time. | >**Abstract:**
>Data collection of seismic activity between active volcanos has been woefully inadequate. Gaps in sensor coverage caused by insufficient techniques and materials used in the construction of sensor networks result in incomplete data sets that require new algorithms simply to extrapolate the missin... | "Sir! Sir! You've got to read this!"
Peter, who was sitting in the lounge in deep thoughts, came to and looked to his left, where James was standing.
"Sir! We've received report from the Osaka division that they've gotten new readings! You have to see this!" James said, while gasping for air after having sprinted fro... | 2021-04-27T07:34:48 | 2021-04-27T06:11:51 | 159 | 48 |
[WP] Your Reddit username decides your profession. How is your first day at work?
If possible. Some usernames just don't work well in this situation.
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I'm an FBI agent now. Wooo!
You're all under arrest for conspiracy to commit treason.
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Dear God RIP my inbox | New suit, old tie, there's a stain in the middle, and a tear in my eye.
I sigh.
The streets are the same, the cars they drift, the leaves they fall, from the blue sky
I sigh.
I walk and walk, sip and sip, the rye begins to run dry
I sigh.
The students they sleep, careless, naive, am I really the bad guy?
I sigh.
... | "For the hundredth time, my name is not supposed to be a sly reference to my genitalia!"
"Look, kid, no one's gonna believe you. Fact of the matter is, you're either goddamn brilliant or denser than a neutron star for choosing that handle, and it doesn't matter. You have it, and your job from now on is writing euphemi... | 2016-02-22T10:07:53 | 2016-02-22T09:41:21 | 300 | 91 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | “I sneak up behind my target, aim my derringer at his head, and pull the trigger”
“Roll a d20 twice against your agility and once against your dexterity”
A 5
A 17
D 12
“You successfully sneak up on your target and shot him in the head. However you chose a poor spot to hide while shooting and get spotted ... | DM: Ok Harold if you could just roll for initiative.
Harold: I rolled a 1
DM: ok the bowmen is first to attack you. He rolls a natural 20
Harold: so what’s happened?
DM: He has shot you in the eye, you’re dead.... on the plus side it will look fab in this tapestry I have been putting together of the game!
| 2018-05-29T09:28:35 | 2018-05-29T08:51:37 | 39 | 13 |
[WP] You wake up in King Arthur's court with only the clothes on your back. Merlin hands you a box about the size of a pumpkin and tells you it will wish into existence any object from your age, once per day. Camelot will be attacked and destroyed one week from now. Help us, future-man. | Sam reached the top of the bastion on the south eastern corner of Camelot gazing out at the sea of men gathered before the walls. Nimueh the evil warlock had gathered more than just men against King Arthur and Merlin. Three enormous dragons tethered by chains waited by the side of the would be conqueror.
"No future m.... | "*How* exactly is Camelot going to be destroyed?"
"We do not know. Only that it shall happen one week from now, and that it will be unlike anything we have ever seen."
"Has your seer ever been wrong? *Might* he be wrong?"
"No, future-man, the seer cannot make mistakes. Prophesies are inevitable."
"But I'm from the ... | 2016-11-28T00:01:58 | 2016-11-28T00:01:03 | 2,966 | 255 |
[wp] after dying god informs you that hell is a myth, and "everyone sins, its ok". instead the dead are sorted into six "houses of heaven" based on the sins they chose. | *Circa 500 B.C.*
His sandals slapped on the marble, the sound barely rising above the distant moaning and heady laughter echoing from the other Houses. The worn-out strips of leather that wrapped his feet were out of place against the ornate floor-murals made with deep azures and gold-leafed designs.
The walls seeme... | "Besides, no one's ever on this road."
Never thought those would be my last words. But at least they must have been ironic, right?
Cause of Death: shipping container full of wigs falling out of a plane. Right on top of me. Hrmm.
Arriving in heaven, or what I assumed to be heaven, was a bit lackluster. No lines. Just... | 2016-03-01T07:56:16 | 2016-03-01T07:51:09 | 58 | 23 |
[WP] "May your skin rot when you heal others," the witch cursed, "and may your name be forgotten when you save others." You are a healer for a party. Your party does not know about the curse, and it has been your job to support them before they finally complete their quest. Today is the final day. | In the corner of the cavern, dimly lit by the nearby campfire, Reeda tended to a tear in her tunic. Sixteen days on the road, battling trolls, goblins and wisps left their marks but none as permeant as those on her skins. Once smooth and resilient, her skin now fissured and cracked, sprinkled with age spots as if her t... | It wouldn’t be far now, just concentrate on the sound of your footsteps. The burgundy corridor of the demon king’s palace stretched spotless into the distance flanked by portraits, tapestry battles in freeze-frame, drapes, wood panels, clocks, all of it topped by the hanging Sternian-bronze chandeliers intricate in the... | 2021-02-13T10:36:29 | 2021-02-13T10:20:38 | 39 | 18 |
[WP]: A fly lands on a table, starting a chain of events that gradually escalates to first degree murder | When you swat a fly, you might hit a fork instead.
When you hit a fork, you might send it flying.
When you send a fork flying, you might hit a waiter.
When you hit a waiter, he might cuss very loudly.
When a waiter cusses very loudly, he might startle an old lady.
When you startle an old lady, she might not tip as... | It started with a fly landing on a table.I had grabed it and watched it squirm. At the age of seven I marvelled at how easily I could kill this small insect. Slowly squeezing I felt each twitch and smiled when it was a pulp.
The next experiment was a kitten. The cat in the shed had a litter. Holding one in my hand I w... | 2014-12-28T22:21:10 | 2014-12-28T20:46:20 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them | Humans are the most dangerous when they know they have nothing to loose.
When they **know** they can't win, they'll devout everything they have to make sure that you don't win either.
They prefer mutually assured destruction before surrender.
By a wide margin.
**Never** put a human in a corner.
All those tidbit... | When the human race first entered our star systems, we thought they were laughable. They came to “explore” and “settle”, but they appeared very poorly equipped and naïve to be doing such things. Of course, they were not the first race we’ve seen with colonizing of any sort on the mind; our people have dabbled with that... | 2022-08-05T12:59:37 | 2022-08-05T12:43:01 | 109 | 63 |
[WP] In 150 years, we start terraforming Mars as the Earth begins to die. It is only then that we realise this has happened before, to Earth. | It was hard to leave Earth, but its core was dwindling and on the verge of dying. We were forced to terraform Mars and start civilization back from scratch.
However, something strange happened while the engines suited Mars to sustain human life. First, its surface was covered in a vast ocean, but soon, a widespread pi... | "Where's the artifact?" the commander bellowed, barging into the primary research lab.
An ensign obediently pointed to the long, phallic object on the table.
The commander sneered. "Is this some sort of joke?" He picked up the artifact, waving it at the field captain's face. "Do you think you're fucking funny or some... | 2018-08-11T09:15:52 | 2018-08-11T09:08:17 | 867 | 139 |
[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 me:
That boy isn’t going to text back, it’s Saturday and he saw your message on Thursday. You always do this, you said you weren’t going to get attached, you barely have feelings for him. You don’t want anything but companionship from him, you say to yourself. But you know you want the whole thing: you want him to... | Dear You,
I don't know if you're there. If you exist anywhere in this world. Maybe you'll always be a concept in my mind of the kind of person I need to meet and say all of this to. If you're not there, then that's depressing. But if, somewhere, you exist...
I haven't been strong. I've been plagued with weakness in a... | 2015-12-05T14:46:28 | 2015-12-05T14:15:59 | 158 | 11 |
[WP] You are at dinner when a stranger sits down in the booth and asks you, "Have you found the 3rd number?" You have been having a dream about cracking a safe and have only been able to discover the numbers 14 and 17 before you wake up. They place a picture of your dream safe on the table. | I don't know why my dreams have ended in front of a safe with some electronic safe cracking tool installed on it. The safe is always the same thing, but in different places. The dreams leading up to my need to open a safe I don't know the combination to are always different. I always manage to use the electronic ste... | Who the hell are you? and get out of my booth.
Have you found the third number yet?
What? You need to leave before I scream for help.
The stranger left my booth, but also left behind a picture of the safe in my dreams.
How can that be? How did my dream come to be in a picture?
That night, I was determined to o... | 2019-11-24T10:05:19 | 2019-11-24T05:54:39 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] Time freezes for everyone around you each time your life is in danger, leaving only you able to move until you are no longer in danger. One day time freezes, but you can't figure out why, until..
I hope its not too vague, first writing prompt ^^ enjoy
Thank you all so much for the responses it's so much fun to r... | The first time it happened, that I can remember, I was 7 or 8, I think. Went running out into the street after a ball, and everyone stopped for me. It kind of stuck me as odd, that all the cars on the street stopped so suddenly, and that my ball stopped rolling too, but I didn't really think of it at the time. Got my b... | The first time it happened I was just little kid riding my bike. My mom wasn't paying attention to me. She was too deep in her gossip with our neighbor to notice me peddling toward the street. Honestly, I didn't even notice at first. But I was six and day dreaming about how I was a race car. I felt the bump of hitting ... | 2017-06-21T13:37:06 | 2017-06-21T10:03:52 | 45 | 30 |
[WP] The fastest ship in the galaxy isn't a military Corvette or a ribbon-winning racing vessel. It's the ambulance that the human paramedic team operates. | Humans have a strong sense of justice, that, we learned through conflict. No human would rest if they felt you had been slighted, or unfairly and unduly judged.
But more than their justice, humans are the best rescuers. Tragedy after tragedy struck their planet, and yet, their response was to heal. They built machines... | Sorry mobile.
———
Have seen of ducking fast that thing drives?! At first you just see it intent if you for a fraction of a fraction of a nanosecond, and then it is gone. Some time after you can hear the flying past you, trying to catch up, which it won’t until it stops.
Alright I get it, it is fast, but what I don’t... | 2019-11-10T14:08:55 | 2019-11-10T13:46:55 | 403 | 80 |
[WP] As a vampire, I follow traditions. My fiancé is human and just found out that human brides/grooms are to be bit to become a vampire themselves. She absolutely refuses to let that happen, and says the wedding is off unless I refuse to bite her. I feel like she's disrespecting tradition. AITA? | NTA. How presumptuous of that… harlot to look upon the gift of vampirism and turn away! Does she understand how incredibly rare it is for us immortals to deign to add another to our number?! This is like telling someone they’ve won the lottery and having them say “Nah”. Not to mention the sheer selfishness! “Oh honey... | NAH
Vampires have a tradition of biting human partners at their wedding, but humans don't. In fact, we have a tradition of wanting to remain living, healthy and whole, inherited all the way back from reptilian ancestors millions of years ago. You seem to have respected that just fine until now, you even came to talk a... | 2022-11-28T18:21:15 | 2022-11-28T17:15:37 | 41 | 18 |
[WP] You are a detective in 1890 Austria. The man inside the interrogation room claims to have an incredible secret that will exonerate him from his murder charge. You can't imagine what monster would murder a 1 year old child, let alone one as adorable as young Adolf Hitler was. | I stared at the man
With the out of place hair
And asked him again
As he leaned back in his chair
"Why did you do it? A 1 Year Old Child?"
"You would never understand"
He calmly replied
"If you knew you would thank me"
He said with a sigh
"But now it won't happen"
"And I'm a... | "I've been talking to him for three hours and he seems mostly lucid."
"Mostly?"
"Well, yes. He admitted guilt to the murders, walked me through how the crime went down in exact detail-"
"Do you mind giving me a quick rundown, I haven't been briefed on the case yet."
"Damn it, Müller was supposed to do that. I swear... | 2015-03-30T00:05:18 | 2015-03-29T23:54:41 | 190 | 21 |
[WP] The Illuminati is actually a gentlemen's club for the super-rich. Often men make high risk and dangerous bets/wagers such as: "I bet you can't destabilize Ukraine in under a week." One day you offer a wager to the most powerful member that's too irresistible to turn down. | I've always had a thing for risk.
At sixteen, I placed my first bet. $20 on the Super Bowl. Watching every play on the edge of my seat, I knew I'd found something special.
From there on, the bets got bigger; and bolder.
$200 on a high school softball game? Entertainment.
$250 on the Lithuanian women's rugby squad? ... | "Will you do it?"
The probie leaned back into his battered leather armchair, contemplating the enormity of the request with steepled fingers, just failing to hide trembling lips. Audacious was too pedestrian a word for the scale and horror of the opportunity presented to him.
"It's never been done" he muttered, thoug... | 2016-08-23T18:05:50 | 2016-08-23T17:17:24 | 52 | 15 |
[WP] Write a scene that would appear sexual to an observer, but is completely innocent. [nsfw]
Like the tent shadow scene from Austin Powers, it should be humorous and can involve objects and sounds. | "What a night," he said, holding her close to his chest, her head lifting with his every breath.
They laid beneath the still-wet blankets as the sun peeked through the shudders, bathing the room in a soothing orange glow. The past hour seemed, to him, a whirl of sensation: the writhing, gasping bodies pressed against ... | God, I felt like a man.
I couldn't help but admire myself, stealing glances at my own reflection. Shirtless in the nippy air, glistening with sweat; the light reflected off my perspiration, clearly delineating the bulging and rippling of my muscles as I worked, up and down, like a powerful machine, a piston powered by... | 2013-10-14T00:51:09 | 2013-10-13T23:18:57 | 73 | 11 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Sunday. A Sunday that started just like any other Sunday. Robert Glover sat down to a hot breakfast lovingly prepared by his wife. After getting the kids to sit down and leading the family in prayer, Robert started his favorite Sunday activity. The Sunday paper, and coffee. This ritual was only broken if a quarrel brok... | Sitting at the kitchen table Jacob stared out of the window and sipped a coffee from his "1# Dad" mug.
Suddenly there was a fizzing and spluttering sound and the #1 Dad appeared to melt from his mug revealing a #2,045,834 Dad behind.
He stared for a moment then said.
"Well shit... That's not bad at all." Then he gra... | 2017-06-11T09:22:30 | 2017-06-11T09:19:40 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] Instead of a modern adaptation of a myth, write a mythic adaptation of a modern story. | When King Wendelin Wiedeking took the throne, his kingdom was on the verge of collapse. Wendelin's people were beset from all sides by marauding armies and debt collectors. It had gone from a powerhouse to a laughingstock through the hubris and ineptitude of its previous rulers.
However, Wendelin was different. He had... | Once upon a time, there was a man who owned a tavern with his sister. Times had been bad in the city where he lived, so he had decided to come home and live closer to his mother, who was very ill. With him, he brought the fairest princess in all the land. She had long golden hair and a radiant face, with a smile that c... | 2015-06-10T07:42:16 | 2015-06-10T06:53:17 | 41 | 16 |
[WP] You’re in a time loop but it’s not permanent. You repeat a day 3 times then time moves onto the next day. Rinse, repeat...Deja Vu was never more applicable. | The most useless feeling is the feeling of having control, only to have it ripped from you at the end of it all.
Years ago, I awoke on the second day of a Sunday, and unknowingly went out to go to my classes. I thought it was a Monday: why wouldn’t I? I had gone to work the previous day, and it was time to put my nose... | At first ot was embarassing. Day one was a new day, day two I thought everyone was fuckin with me, and day 3 I caught on to it and did some... Questionable things.
I live in jail. I have 4 momths, but those four months will literally take a year. I have died so many times it's actually crazy. On one hand, I can say w... | 2020-10-09T06:30:17 | 2020-10-09T02:23:12 | 106 | 75 |
[WP] A dyslexic child accidentally sends his Christmas letter to Satan. Satan is touched by this gesture and decides to write back. | Dear Anna,
I must say that your letter was an unexpected delight. It was quite charmingly written, and I commend your command of grammar and syntax. All of the items you requested will be easy enough to provide. However, I cannot cure dyslexia. That is was one the many things my Father cursed humanity with during one ... | Dear Paul,
Thank you for that lovely letter, I'm glad to hear you're waiting for me and prepared me an offering of cow udder excrement and a traditional mixture of sugar, flour and chocolates.
Although not what I usually get in offering I shall gladly accept. In return I enclose your Christmas wishes for this year... | 2018-10-28T14:29:07 | 2018-10-28T10:18:04 | 59 | 39 |
[WP] Lines on a summoning sign act as filtration layers, allowing you to choose how strong your summoned demon is. The more lines, the less power can get through, the weaker the demon. A pentagram is the most commonly used. A triangle is for experts. You're attempting to use a circle. | I had mastered everything. I was one of the few archsummoners that had attempted the triangle and succeeded. There wasn't a demon in the seven hells beneath us that could withstand my bindings. It wasn't due to intelligence, or power, or even strength. I had patience and I studied. While I was a little older than the o... | "Finally!" I exclaimed, joy surging through me. It's been months since I started doing this secret project of mine and I finally achieved success.
"Now to put the finishing touches." I slit my wrists and let the blood pour on the circle. I reached for the scattered bones around me, placing it carefully inside the circ... | 2017-11-16T01:06:16 | 2017-11-16T00:01:00 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | It was a freezing morning in New York.
I slipped into the local Starbucks for some coffee.
There was a new cashier today.
"Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?", She asked, exasperated.
"Soy un federale, tengo un gato en mis pantalones," I replied.
The disinterested look on her face vanished instantly.... | My eighteenth birthday came... I went out to the mailbox, and pulled out the little gold envelope with the red string perfectly surrounding the whole thing. It was expected. Though no one knew where it was from, it hardly mattered. It was exciting, and a little frightening to find out what my soul mate would say to me.... | 2014-12-17T23:12:07 | 2014-12-17T22:06:48 | 2,270 | 45 |
[FF] Write about a death. Make it happy.Make it under 12 sentences. | I handed my brother the flask. He turned his collar up against the blowing snow and took a hit from the flask to warm his insides.
“Goddamn, can you believe it’s been a year already?”
“Seems like yesterday,” I barked out against the wind.
After my brother took another pull on the flask, he tucked it into his jacket... | Do not cry child. Death is not the end. She has merged with the stars, watching over you. When the sun rises, it beams down upon the world. It never frowns. Do you know why? Because every day, it gets to wake up and look upon its children. It watches as we play in the emerald grass or swim in the sapphire ocean. And wh... | 2014-01-23T13:43:19 | 2014-01-23T13:32:58 | 28 | 10 |
[WP] You are a soldier in a fantasy computer game, and your general/player has just given you some very questionable orders. | "What I need you to do, right, is run up to the enemy."
"Yup. And then stab 'em?"
"No. You engage them."
"Oh right, ok. Then I stab 'em?"
"No! Listen. Run up to them."
"Uh-huh"
"Engage them."
"Righto."
"Then immediately retreat,"
"Uhh,"
"Then re-engage them."
"I'm not sure I follow... When does the stabbing ... | I sprint forwards, reloading and rolling, while the enemy on the other side of the field comes charging towards me.
“Hold your ground,” the commander breathes into the microphone. His voice is one of intensity, it’s barely above a whisper.
He orders me to duck behind a dumpster, and I follow suit. Pop out, shoot, ... | 2016-11-23T08:40:59 | 2016-11-23T08:05:03 | 156 | 26 |
[WP] As the Village Seer, you peer into the mystical to give the villagers sage wisdom from beyond. The problem is, you're not magical, you're just smart and you live in an exceptionally dumb village. | It was meant to be a joke. I pretended to lean into the cosmic realm just to tell a stupid farmer that he needed hens if he wished to get eggs, not roosters. I never expected one sarcastic joke to land me in the town’s most prized position. The village Seer, one of the greatest positions a person could have. You held m... | A graveyard of straw huts, laid to rest under a mountain of mud, stretched out before the Seer at the bottom of a hill. Old women wept over the destroyed homes, picking bits of their lives from the wreckage.
"Oh, great Seer," one of the village warriors fell to his knees, pounding the earth with his fists. "What evil... | 2021-06-14T08:53:19 | 2021-06-14T08:52:31 | 959 | 486 |
[WP] You are a sock and today is laundry day. Everything is going well until you lose sight of your matching partner.
Looking for something along the lines of why socks sometimes go missing. | Jerry and Nigel were the best of friends. Both born blue and green striped Hane's crew socks, they were joined when fate (and the hands of a small Malaysian girl) bundled them together and placed them in an assorted three-pack destined for sale in America. From that point on, the two were virtually inseparable.
Life ... | "Ahhh! Laundry day! Time to party! I'm gonna get wasted on tide today! boy last week I was so hung over I didn't leave the drawer for like a week! I wonder if Joe's coming too, I mean last month we tumbled like a motherfucker! It was cra-zy!
Hmm... This drum is rather different, Adam changed the washing machine! Final... | 2014-05-27T17:19:53 | 2014-05-27T14:14:29 | 109 | 19 |
[WP] A fiery ball crash lands in your backyard. You go over and inspect it, only to find a fully functioning Roomba with a knife taped to the front of it. | Examining this roomba with a knife, only one thought crossed my mind. I immediately grabbed the roomba and set out for Austin, TX. Once landed, it only takes me 2 hours in a rented scooter to find the film studios down the way. I check in under a fake name and the fellow roomba as Mr. R. O. Omba. We make our way to the... | The impact concussed the house with an elephant stampede. Blazing, fiery white light like wrath of god flashed with such vengeance I briefly considered my fate. I wondered out loud if I was dead. As it turns out, I really wish I was.
It stared at me.
Creeping—whirring—it approached. Sweat dribbled down my back. The... | 2019-03-03T08:55:15 | 2019-03-03T07:55:44 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] For most of college everyone thought you were deaf when in reality you just don't like talking and learned sign language at a young age. You never corrected anyone until someone confessed their love for you, thinking you couldn't hear them. | We were at my house, late into the night studying for an upcoming test when the topic came up.
"Do you think love?" Chris signed out, moving his slim hands with ease.
I never thought I'd have a hand thing, but apparently I do.
I guess it makes sense, after all these years of "pretending" to be "deaf", watching hands... | What do I say?
Do I say anything?
I just finished my powerpoint presentation, in lieu of a speech, a request that was granted by my public speaking professor. My topic was surrealism and after closing with a slide featuring Salvador Dali's "The Persistence of Time", the bell rang and it was time to head across campus... | 2020-12-01T18:02:47 | 2020-12-01T17:46:27 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] Your parents have kept it secret long enough; they can no longer stand your misery. They decide to change your life's difficulty from "Expert" to "Novice". | I looked down at the switch in my hands still refusing to believe. All it had taken was one little toggle. When my parents explained to me that I had been playing life on expert mode, I had thought at first that they were speaking metaphorically. Even with the hours they spent explaining the point system, difficulty se... | *You know, I think they keep moving the goalposts on me. I used to be the dumbest kid in class and no one even noticed. Then I started caring, I put a ton of effort into middle school, almost got to skip a grade. I graduated salutatorian from high school, my dad asked me what I did wrong.*
*I loathed college, I hated ... | 2018-01-09T11:18:53 | 2018-01-09T06:52:59 | 284 | 118 |
[WP] Two criminals share what is to be their last conversation on death row. With nothing left to lose, all is laid bare to the other stranger. | The heat had been pressing down hard for three weeks, and the ground outside the prison was baked red as a pile of bricks. Even the hardiest shrub had wilted into something that looked spilled out of a Dali painting.
Elijah sat with his shirt off, back against the cool of the stone wall. The evening sun bled its way t... | “Are you scared?” The meek, thin man asked, scooting closer to my side, trying to find some solace in the cold, bare cell. It was strange that he even wished to speak. We had spent at least an hour by each other’s side without a word and suddenly he wished to talk.
“Not really. I mean, maybe a little? I don’t know.... | 2021-07-28T07:35:32 | 2021-07-28T07:21:55 | 278 | 24 |
[WP]Four years ago, your dog and best friend disappeared. Today, your dog appears at your doorstep. You dog says, "I have been many places and seen many things, human. Its time we had a chat."
"you" dog heh | "Hello, Owner."
I couldn't believe what I was seeing. There, standing on my doorstep staring at me with those wide, familiar eyes, was my dog, Buddy. I hadn't seen him for the last four years! I had so many questions; where had he been? What had he been doing? And where was that fucker Brad who had up and disappeared ... | I woke up to what sounded like someone rapping on my door with only their nails. It was my weekend, and I was eager to get in as much sleep as I could. I assumed it was those stupid kids a few apartments down messing around in the hall again. I rolled over and tried to fall back asleep, but it just kept going, an inces... | 2017-03-31T15:14:43 | 2017-03-31T14:51:14 | 249 | 37 |
[WP] At once, and everywhere, each living person has heard a voice in their head: "Hey! It's me, God. I've noticed there's a lot of confusion, so I've created a website called 'Will I go to hell and why dot com'. Just write your name in the search bar. And don't forget to share, like and subscribe." | I couldn't believe what I had heard.
I was sat on my bed, phone in hand, carelessly scrolling through social media when the voice had filled my brain.
It was a gentle voice, though the mockery surrounding the like, share and subscribe was not lost on me.
I went to Twitter first.
It was crazy, my feed just keep running... | 9:52am -- "Come on, come on! Oh, you fucking bitch!" he spewed as an off-white colored Honda Pilot with Jersey plates merged into his lane. He had been at work for not even 30 minutes before it happened.
Fresh single served coffee in hand, his entire office experienced the same thing -- what felt like a thunderous cla... | 2019-08-27T10:30:31 | 2019-08-27T09:27:48 | 132 | 29 |
[WP] Aliens try to invade Australia. The humans retreat and decide to let the country deal with them. Write about the Aliens' struggle. | Pyrs grimaced, dreading the upcoming conversation. "We can't kill them."
"Impossible!" Reib blubbered. "Everything can be killed."
"Well, technically, we can-"
"Then what is this nonsense about invincible locals!"
"*However*, our weapons are ineffective. Our soldiers report that they do not die unless you fire prac... | A good Land. Enough space, nearly arid climate as we need to prosper.
Barren Landscapes, some remnants of previous inhabitants, "Humans" as they call themselves crowd the rest of this by far too humid planet, too humid except for the south West of its major landmass, but there are millions of these humans, unlike he... | 2018-01-23T05:52:46 | 2018-01-23T04:33:42 | 39 | 25 |
[WP] The Government releases an App allowing citizens to chose where their taxes are spent. | An hour after the App was released there were already randomizer Apps that would take that difficult choice away and just pick a random choice for you. And within no time there were masses using the App to just be rid of the responsibility to choose. Either they were too busy, they were too lazy, or they just didn't ca... | Hey Bob, how'd you divy up your taxes this year?
I told em to spend it all on public education.
Why Bob? You don't even have any kids.
Oh I know. I just really don't want to live in a country where I'm surrounded by dumb people.
Huh. Yeah, that makes sense. I wonder if it's too late to switch mine to that...
... | 2017-02-19T23:08:59 | 2017-02-19T22:30:36 | 60 | 19 |
[WP] A great Empire is about to fall. A single remaining bodyguard is left alone with the Emperor as the enemy approaches the throne room. | "Is it only you, Gerhard?"
Gerhard looked down at his emperor. His skeletal figure was heaped into the throne in an uncomfortable jumble of angles, glossed over with enough silk and ermine to soften the picture. His face was white, withered and lined with deep creases, and he stared blankly at the great curtained wind... | Jaime went to the throne room. On the way, he came across Rossart, who was dressed as a common soldier and hurrying to a postern gate. Jaime attacked him, and while Rossart tried to defend himself, he stood no chance against the experienced knight, who gutted Rossart without mercy. Jaime then slipped into the throne ro... | 2014-05-29T13:21:01 | 2014-05-29T12:54:24 | 70 | 13 |
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