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[WP] Your ability to see what level of pain a person is experiencing has always helped you in your profession as a nurse. From the hovering "0.6" over the guy with the hangnail to the "42" over the crash victim. Today on the bus ride to work there is an "800" over a guy, calmly reading his paper... | I let out a small gasp. That's the highest number I have ever seen. He just sat there and turned the page of his paper.
This man looked like he was around the same age as me. He was maybe 20. He had dark brown curly hair and a long straight nose. He was wearing a black striped shirt, black jeans, and white high-top c... | You look inquisitively at the man before deciding to sit next to him.
“Mind if I take this seat?” He seems happy to have company. Both of you don’t say a word for several minutes despite all the questions running through your head. You finically veal the silence.
“So, what are ya reading?” You croak, your voice a bi... | 2019-04-14T02:13:01 | 2019-04-14T01:38:46 | 34 | 17 |
[FF] In three sentences, kill as many people as possible. No firearms, no natural disasters, no explosives, no WMDs. | You wouldn't kill us, couldn't kill us, the armada of voices chanted in piercing unison. Billions of hands within my skull attempted to press the gun away from my temple, but I wouldn't let them, not this time. As the bullet cracked through my eternity the "we" that was my schizophrenia was "I" for a final clock tick. | martin worked furiously in the dying light, trying to pack his specimens into the one remaining powered refrigerator in the CDC. electricity, like everything else, was a premium since the SSPE-strain measles pandemic of 2016 and he'd barely secured the tiny space he now stacked the tiny tubes into. he'd even had to con... | 2014-08-04T23:50:42 | 2014-08-04T22:10:19 | 26 | 11 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | I wake to my phone buzzing on the night stand. I look at the clock next to it. The green numbers shine brightly: 3:14 AM.
'What the hell?' I think to myself. 'Why is anyone texting me at 3 in the morning?'
Before I can take a look, it starts buzzing again. And again. It won't stop. I grab the phone and mute it quickl... | I toss in my sleep-- there's a loud buzzing ringing in my left ear, and my eyes flicker open to reveal my phone: vibrating with it's receivance of hundreds of messages. "Holy shit, is that my Discord app again? I swear to god I put it on fucking silent." I grumble, and my hands fumble for the volume rockers. Without a ... | 2022-08-07T14:17:42 | 2018-04-06T19:48:33 | 712 | 13 |
[WP] Your father leaves the house to buy milk, 50 years later he comes back with milk in hand and hasn't aged a bit. | Received Messages from Dad.
Thursday 16th Nov 2017 4:04pm
We've run out of milk, I've gone to get some more from the shop. Love Dad.
Thursday 16th Nov 2017 4:30pm
The shop was sold out of milk, I'm trying the other store. Love Dad.
Thursday 16th Nov 2017 5:02pm
The other shop was sold out too, the guy told ... | He walked in the door, the gallon of milk in his hand.
"Mom!" I shouted. "Mom, it's dad."
It had been 5 years since he left, 50 years my mom and I had struggled without him. He didn't look a day older than when he left to run a quick errand. He looked confused and tired.
My mom came to the entryway, where my father... | 2017-11-19T17:49:04 | 2017-11-19T17:05:49 | 276 | 14 |
[WP] It had started as a single small striped tent in an abandoned lot. Within a week, there was a whole small fair there. After a month, an entire city block was now a large carnival. Soon, you had to evacuate your apartment as The Circus encroached further, inch by inch. | *Roll up! Roll up! Come one and come all! Ladies and gentlemen and children of all ages! If you can't run, then walk! Don't stand there and gawk! It's the most sensational show this side of a public hanging! An inimitable, incomparable, unequivocal, veritable extravaganza to amaze, astound, and assail the senses!*
*T... | There were no flyers, no poorly shot advertisements, and not even an article in the local newspaper. It was as if the circus had appeared out of thin air, just randomly popping up in the abandoned lot that used to house an old mechanic’s workshop. It was eerie; I remember going down to the lot with my friends, staring ... | 2021-07-13T00:04:40 | 2021-07-12T22:36:12 | 91 | 44 |
[WP] You're a highschool student with the ability to "connect" to someone else's mind, seeing their memories and knowledge. You successfully use this ability to cheat on tests, until one day you connect and see an exact copy of your own memories. | Mrs. Proslow walked by my desk placing what had to be at least a fifteen-page exam, but I was slowly getting the idea my guess was off, marked by the suffering groans of the students ahead of in my column of desks, who had already begun leafing through it. Not that it particularly bothered you, you had an ace up your s... | The day started in a hell scape of pain and torture; commonly known as first period gym class. I could read it in the teacher's eyes that he had had a bad time at his home, and his wife was getting tired of picking up after his burgeoning alcoholism, which meant that today was going to be a hellish practice for the hea... | 2018-10-02T07:10:33 | 2018-10-02T06:12:08 | 214 | 85 |
[WP] Aliens try to invade earth but they can't bring themselves to do it because humans are too cute to them | Sorthol the Immortal stepped out of his ship and onto the queer green land. The atmosphere smelled about 20% oxygen, and the lifeforms reflected it. Tiny little insects buzzed around him, he swatted at them absentmindedly, looking around for other signs of life. Smooth green hills roll away in all directions, most of t... | (I'm saying mah alien spoke like in Shakespearean times. Because honestly, that makes it easier for me.)
...Mine parents always spake unto me, uttering words of degredation in regards to those creatures we refer to as... 'humans'... Mortals.. humans.. writhing sacks of flesh... What have you.. Many a name hathe we ins... | 2017-08-20T07:21:20 | 2017-08-20T07:16:42 | 1,830 | 25 |
[WP] You're a powerful dragon that lived next to a small kingdom. For centuries you ignored humanity and lived alone in a cave, and the humans also avoided you. As the kingdom fell to invaders, a dying soldier approaches you with the infant princess, begging you to take care of her. | The soldier held out the baby and struggled to stand up right. He was clearly beyond hope. From lips turning blue he said "P-please.. It's.. It's the princess...."
The dragon looked at him for the longest time and then said
"No"
A great door slammed in his face.
And thus ended the tale of Mjolnir the grumpy dragon. | "To my dearest Yvain
I was a dragon, strong and old stuck in a cave for a crime you should never know. How long has it been I wonder since I was out? For the last time I walked these grounds there was no town or city but forest ever so green.
This was where the magical beings stayed until the mortals arrived or so ... | 2018-03-01T03:18:37 | 2018-03-01T01:48:12 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] The harder you are to kill, the more horrific your death will be. Having just survived a nuclear bomb, you're getting slightly worried. | It was two years into my tour and I was beginning to think nothing could kill me.
I had been baptized in shrapnel, my face reshaped by it. I had been shot over and over - in the knee, the gut, the neck, the eye. I had walked through burning cities and inhaled the toxic smoke, my lungs frothing with blood for days. I h... | I gasped as I saw the wreckage of what used to be my home city, Markyis II. Rubbing the soot off my face, I begin to trek through the lonesome, silent city of rubble.
I look up at the sky, the mushroom cloud a few whips of white.
Closing my eyes, I remember my family and my daughter. I couldn't bare their disappearan... | 2017-04-25T08:20:59 | 2017-04-25T07:36:55 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] Your family has always put alot of garlic into their foods. You always thought it was because garlic was delicious and lowers cholesterol, but other than that nothing else. That is, before you were abducted by vampires... | I don't know what was more horrifying--the popping noise when it bit into my neck, the subsequent screams, or the fact I couldn't see any of this because of the hood over my head.
Whatever the case I was terrified into action, and once my arms were released I ripped the hood from my face with bound hands. Before me wa... | Everything started when I moved away from home. My parents bought me garlic among other foodstuff. I was going to share my home with four other people who were also university students. It was different for sure, but I was glad the door to my room had a lock. I could have my privacy when wanted because after all now I ... | 2020-08-05T11:21:15 | 2020-08-05T11:21:05 | 55 | 12 |
[WP]Assasins live life as outcasts. Away from the public eye, they are hard to find. But they still get mail. You are the postman for a secret division of USPS that caters to these criminals. | The name on the envelope was barely legible. If the Postman looked closely at the smudged, rain-splattered ink, he could see that it said *The Viper*. Address unknown, of course. Just like all the other mail.
The Postman had made many deliveries to outcast assassins over the years. Most weren't that hard to find, rea... | “Just two today?” You asked.
“Yeah, seems the virus has even got these guys scared,” your manager replied, without so much as glancing in your direction.
“Alright, short day then,” you said blissfully as you leave the stock room with the deliverables in your hand.
In your left hand is a yellow envelope, petite, but ... | 2020-06-22T02:31:11 | 2020-06-22T02:22:16 | 1,255 | 45 |
[WP] Every human has their soulmate's last words to them engraved in their skin from birth.
Idea from this Tumblr post
https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/11206957_778391755645357_8477035769704355007_n.png?oh=5b3f35d575ad3aa39d6ba5c5ed39cce2&oe=56549C83 | Oh our first date, she leant forward, donned her prettiest smile and asked me "What are your words?"
"Oh.." I said shyly "They're nothing meaningful" I told her. My words were different, something beyond my comprehension, for now at least.
She leant backwards with a grin "Are you scared you'll secretly be my soul m... | Our wedding day was the most amazing day of my life. He was, I believed then, perfect in every way. Truly my soul mate. Tall and handsome, I had first caught his eye in high school during a football game; he the dashing quarterback and me the hot cheerleader. You may think this was cliché but it wasn't like that at... | 2015-08-08T13:04:02 | 2015-08-08T12:02:09 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] You just lucked into getting root access to the very fabric of reality; unfortunately you know nothing about terminal commands. | ♡ _
Hovering in my view about two feet in front of me, the cursor slowly blinked. I had seen those pictures of Lunix desktops with the translucent terminal over a background of mountains and it was just like this. Just everywhere I looked it stayed in view.
♡ _
Well, sort of. There was a heart rather than the dollar... | "I saw this on a video before, let's try this..." <typing slowly>
F-O-R-M-A-T <space> C-<colon> <Enter.>
What's this? Yes or No? Why , yes of course. <typing> Y <Enter.>
Now what's supposed to happen? Nothing is happening. Is it getting darker? What's that noise? Wha........ | 2016-08-05T14:33:22 | 2016-08-05T14:09:30 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Steampunk is Victorian. 1930s Steampunk is Dieselpunk. Write one of the following: Windmillpunk, Knightpunk, Ironpunk, Bronzepunk, Copperpunk, Stonepunk, Dinosaurpunk, Amoebapunk.
~~Stolen from~~Inspired by a throwaway joke in [this](http://www.cracked.com/article_22732_6-baffling-first-drafts-famous-movies.html)... | Oog say him start new thing. Dug not heard of new thing. Oog am call it "firepunk". Dug think Dug heard of fire. Dug not know what punk am.
Oog am put fire on him head fur. Oog scream like hurt pig and run to river.
Oog learn put fire on thing not make thing firepunk. Oog am poser. | I won't lie to you, I've made my fair share of enemies. Most of them have been gram-negative amd rod shaped- hell, it seems like the whole *Escherichia* crew has my number these days- but I've also never been above sliding a feeding cup into the anterior end of a "friend" if it looked as though his heterolobose psuedop... | 2015-07-06T17:14:22 | 2015-07-06T15:35:52 | 33 | 10 |
[WP] You sold your soul to the devil and you've never felt better, the only problem is he keeps showing up to beg you to take it back. | "MORTAL, PREPARE THYSELF FOR MY VISAGE"
I felt the all too familiar migraine of the demonic voice moments before Satan materialized himself, sitting opposite of me in the corner booth at Chili's.
"Hey again," I said trying to hide the irritation in my voice as Satan took a handful of chips and dipped them in s... | **Bathroom:**
Nothing stopped him from showing up inadvertent, not even my toxins hitting the toilet's silent edges on a gloom monday morning. As I was in the middle of the act, a smell like sulphur invaded my nostrils to which I smiled proudly and concerned. I achieved the most disgusting smell of my entire life or s... | 2017-07-06T07:37:41 | 2017-07-06T05:27:31 | 345 | 19 |
[WP] It's 2077, and Tourist Time Travel has been approved. The most popular trip by far isn't to see the birth of Christ, Steve Jobs or dinosaurs, but to a Thursday in August, 2026. Your spouse just got you tickets. | Did you know that winning the lottery works out terribly for almost everybody who wins? Most people can't handle that kind of sudden influx of cash. After all, the sort of slack-jawed mouth-breathers who play scratchers tickets never really think ahead to what they're going to do with the money. If they had that kin... | “The most extraordinary event in human history is yet to come,” my eyes are already rolling into the back of my head.
“See it now? Really?”
My girlfriend looks way too excited. I still can’t tell if she’s messing with me or not, but I’m starting to get worried it’s the latter.
“This sounds like the plot for a Scyfy... | 2014-07-27T04:19:50 | 2014-07-27T01:11:58 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] Write a story where the antagonist is doing something obviously horrible, but by the end of the story make me want to side with him over the good guy. | He slid the knife down my cheek, so sharp that I couldn't even feel it part the skin. I only knew it left a mark when I felt the thin trickle of blood down my neck.
"Where is she?" he asked again, flipping the knife dexterously between his fingers. I could see my own blood coating the fine blade.
"You'll never find... | "I'm not sure why I need to keep explaining this." I wandered around the room while the man tied to the chair tried to look toward my voice. "When billionaires are keeping people poor and hungry, and when governments are either doing nothing to stop them or engaging in wholesale facilitation of these people's treachery... | 2015-06-19T09:51:13 | 2015-06-19T09:34:27 | 98 | 44 |
[WP] Necromancy is just the arcane equivalent of computer programming, and grimoires on necromancy are just like libraries of code on animating the undead. You work the equivalent of the IT Help Desk for your necromancer cult. These are your work stories. | A real call I got once:
Me: "Necro Support, how can I help you?"
Them: "I'm not able to reanimate a corpse!"
Me: "Okay what line in the spellbook did you try exactly?"
Them: "SIR, I am NOT a necromancer person so I don't know."
Me: "Do you know which spellbook you're using?"
Them: "I don't know what that is!"
Me... | "You... you have who?" I ask, hoping that what I heard was incorrect.
"Marilyn Monroe, I'm gonna use her for\-"
"Sir I apologize but we don't support grave robbing\-"
"But\-"
"Of famous people" I interject quickly. Confusion seems to be radiating off my phone and I wish I could just hang up now.
"Well I mean I alr... | 2018-04-28T00:14:14 | 2018-04-27T23:38:04 | 237 | 102 |
[WP] An powerful ancient being has been held captive by an interstellar civilisation. After eons of being held captive, it has accidentally freed by humans, who've not been to the "galactic stage" for long... | The first anomalies in the cosmic microwave background were detected by sub-sentient AI programs monitoring humanity's deep space telescope networks. The anomaly became a question, and then a mystery, and then a shocking realization, as subsequent analysis with orbital telescopes and gravitational interferometers confi... | As the entity threw itself in futility at the barrier, it suddenly passed through it. Its confusion and surprise turned into a deadly glee at the foreign beings that held it captive for countless years.
It phased through and reached out to the first consciousness it could find, seeking a way to control it.
/ / / /... | 2022-08-23T12:35:23 | 2022-08-23T12:23:30 | 457 | 90 |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | Sighing the professor answers yet another one of my requests, begrudgingly asking me, "Yes, Madeline, what now?" "Professor, have you ever actually met a human" you say trying not to reveal your true identity, hoping that my classmates are oblivious. "Why, of course not, they were wrongfully murdered by the Acodiles, t... | "Yes?" the professor asked.
"What about *them*?"
The professor looked at me, puzzled. "You seem to be gesturing to the rest of the class."
"I mean, I am. Gesturing to the rest of the class. They look just like me. If we had sex -- I mean, if they hadn't been given the treatment -- we could have children."
A brief m... | 2021-11-27T12:45:35 | 2021-11-27T11:23:52 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] You are Subtle Tea, a super hero who alters major world events by a most appropriately timed cup of tea. | Usually when my superiors gave me missions, it meant that all their other plans had failed. That morning when I walked into my "office" the manila folder told me that my "special skills" were once again needed.
I had my own ways of handling problems, and I had a tendency to use as little effort as I possibly could. So... | All I can remember as I ran down the cobblestone road was the fear I felt. The bone-shaking feeling that frightened me to my very core as my hands and feet felt all but deprived of any sense of warmth. I hadn't the energy of a morning cup of Earl Grey nor the overpowering strength of Darjeeling inside of me.
My vision... | 2016-07-11T23:14:17 | 2016-07-11T21:49:06 | 166 | 27 |
[WP] You've died and have woken up in a bright area; there is a man standing before you in white robes. He asks "How was Heaven?" | It took so much to squint at the man standing in front of me. At first I thought he might be a hallucination – people said occurrences like these happened with the procedure.
Beatifically smiling, he came into focus. He didn't say a word. He didn't have to. I knew where I was and what that meant.
“Damn.”
I wish ... | My brain churned, trying to process this newfound information. "What, you mean life on earth? *That* shit was heaven?" God was an asshole for greeting me with such nonchalance, as if I ought to have already known. Wasn't this a rhetorical question, anyway? Shouldn't he have already known my opinion? In which case, I wa... | 2016-08-15T23:17:39 | 2016-08-15T22:19:09 | 307 | 87 |
[WP] murder is legal, once a permit has been obtained from the local police department. Permits require a declaration of a target victim and justification to commit the act. Once a permit has been issued it is valid for 72 hours. Once expired you can never get another for the same target victim. | Murder Permits have been around for awhile. They're just a way of life now. Micheal gets so many he doesn't really pay attention to the reason anymore. He doesn't even need to sign it. Just click "approve" on the computer and off it goes. Within 72 hours either someone will be dead or not. It's mindless and repetive w... | Meet in a crowd. Legal is legal, but there's no need to ruin a good surprise. Happy hour on a Friday, brought Jean there after work, two sidecars in and I'm running out of small talk.
"So how was that new season of that new show?"
Jean looks bored and I'm sweating in March, it's not off to a good start.
"Sheryl w... | 2019-07-09T09:59:53 | 2019-07-09T08:25:40 | 278 | 131 |
[WP] Traditionally when a royal couple give birth to a cursed baby the infant is locked away in a dungeon to grow into a murderous beast. You however order that your child instead be taken to the royal nursery and raised properly as your heir. | The child was born on a full moon
Red eyes pierce into me making me tremble at the sight
He is just a child but the look in his eyes shows intelligence unbefitting for someone his age
He looks up at me, His father.
From the moment he was born I knew he was cursed but I wanted him anyway
I wanted a son and the Gods... | **The Heir**
The teacher looked around her classroom. Young sons and daughters of noblemen crowded together close to the right wall and its open windows, painting on small canvases leaning on desktop easels. They were copying a brightly lit photograph of the royal gardens. She noted the time and exhaled. *We have ne... | 2022-09-01T13:17:08 | 2022-09-01T10:17:09 | 67 | 38 |
[WP] When humans achieve interstellar space flight we discover that we live smack dab in the midst of several massive squabbling ancient alien empires. So we do the only sensible thing we could, and become space Switzerland. | The Nrrrrr delegation was satisfied. They'd spent the last planetary cycles on Terra on official business. The open negotiations had been successful, the usual agreements on communications, on borders, sovereignty, even some small trade agreements. The closed agreements were even better. The Terran are a small empire b... | Life as a mercenary is great, in the midst of the Eternal War. You only get hired for the jobs that require skill, for anything that needs sheer numbers, there's the clone vats of the Athreen, the drone-webs of the Stria'aza, or simply the excess young of the Tr'ik'sta'kla. Mercenary groups are sent for when you need s... | 2022-03-07T04:14:04 | 2022-03-07T01:52:16 | 111 | 54 |
[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... | The energy in the air was so thick I could feel it. Pressing down on me and making everything feel heavier.
I smirked at the muscular man, hovering in front of me.
“So your number two huh?”
He flew a few metres higher and looked down at me.
“No, I am number one, and soon enough everyone else will know it too.”
I l... | It was actually quite a simple one. Any one of these people could defeat me. They just didn’t know it.
Erik had been after my title for years. Had it not been time manipulation, his massive ego could have been a power in itself. Time manipulation was truly unique in the sense that he was Kronos incarnate. Speeding up ... | 2014-12-18T15:13:47 | 2014-12-18T14:46:11 | 35 | 15 |
[WP] If a person opts into brain scans during life, a full digital model of their brain can be created. Posthumously, these scans are given to the bereaved family and not uncommonly used as the AI for house robots. You lost a loved one, and their robot... occasionally says VERY strange things | "Is she awake?"
"Give it a second!"
"She's not an *it,* Dad!"
"Sorry, sorry. Give *her* a second, Angie. Look, she's waking up."
The Fully Autonomous Biodroid, or FAB, looked every bit the human ten-year-old girl Lizzie Ellison did when she lived. It – or she, rather – lay on Lizzie's old – own – bed, as per the in... | “Can you hear me?” I ask EZRA, who is sitting across from us. I see slight red lights flicker in the black bulbs of its eyes.
“Nancy, I’m telling you I don’t think this is a good idea.” I tell my wife, trying for the last time to convince her not to go through with this. “This isn’t healthy. You’ve been doing so well,... | 2021-03-06T14:22:05 | 2021-03-06T11:38:13 | 148 | 75 |
[WP] Airport authorities don’t recognize your passport because the country that issued it doesn’t exist. You are confused. You’re thinking: “What? I was born there! I’ve lived there all my life!”
Edit after 4 hours: I'd like to add that this writing prompt was inspired from this: http://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMyst... | I realise I've drifted off into daydreaming and look up. The customs official peers at me suspiciously over his desk, clearly awaiting an answer. 'Sorry?'
'I asked the purpose of your trip. Just standard procedure.'
'Business. I'm a visiting lecturer from Oxford University.'
He frowns, but says nothing, and accep... | Mary looked up from her shiny new Sinclair zPhone and sighed. “We’ve got another 1775er in today. Showed up at Idlewild Airport yesterday. Same story as the other terrorists we’ve got to handle. The usual: fake passport, same ‘alternate history’ backstory.”
“So, that’ll be eleven ‘Americans’ we’ll be looking after now... | 2014-11-23T12:44:33 | 2014-11-23T11:54:47 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] Two werewolves fall madly in love, but only during the full moon. When they’re human, they can’t stand each other. | The smell of fresh blood created a trail in the air. The metallic stench filled Tom’s nostrils causing a reaction of intense hunger and desire to overwhelm his mind and body. He sprinted between the trees of the woods that would usually be filled with darkness at this time of the night but not tonight as a full moon wa... | The full moon reflected in the deer's eye as it danced spritely through the woods. I lay undetected under the brush, awaiting the moment I could taste its blood. The scent filled my nostrils, and my mouth watered in anticipation. But there was another scent. Something that awakened a different kind of anticipation.
Th... | 2018-05-23T00:13:36 | 2018-05-22T20:37:45 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] You are a demon who negotiates contracts in exchange for people's souls. One time you get summoned by a suburban mom who makes impossible requests. When you can not provide her demands, she asks to "speak with your manager". | She ignores the simple beauty of the thing. Contracts like it don't exist anymore. Carefully executed script on creamy vellum that flows sensually from one brilliantly deliberate word to the next. She is so busy fussing over the words, that their presentation and the meaning are lost on her.
It is a shame, really.
Sh... | Draadvakkas the horrible picked up a pen and waited until it burst into flames and started screaming. Perfect. He put pen to paper and started writing.
"Dear... Mom...."
Suddenly, Draadvakkas the horrible felt the ground shake, and the doorframe creak. He laughed. Some poor fool was trying to summon him. The ad ... | 2020-05-04T20:42:28 | 2020-05-04T20:13:07 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] At the age of thirteen you get to meet the oldest version of yourself. As the boy sat down to meet his future self he was shocked to see a boy who looked around sixteen staring back at him. | Everyone knows you get to meet your oldest self for your 13th birthday, but no one knows how it works.
I don't care to know until they day meet him. Only 3 years later I was gonna die. How? He wouldn't tell me. "You're too young to hear about it. So am I"
It was a short conversation, until he turned to leave. He coul... | The older boy sighed before shaking his head lightly
"Evening" he knew he wouldn't get a response at this time he had gone selectively mute. The smaller boy waved neither knowing where to start. The smaller version eventually made noise
"Why?"
"Why?", a nod in response "worlds end" the other shook. Things had been b... | 2021-03-27T14:32:16 | 2021-03-27T11:40:21 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] "This is an Emergency Alert. Barricade all entries to your house. Do not go outside after sundown. Restrict contact with others. Do not enter tunnels during daytime. Do not make any light or noise between 6PM and 8AM. Stay inside your homes until dawn. Military aid is unavailable. Good luck." | I turned the T.V. off and listened to the soft blowing wind from the cracked window next to me. I slid it closed as the words rolled over me, their meaning slowly taking hold.
“Military aid is unavailable,” the grim-faced man said before wishing everyone that could hear his voice good luck as the station went back to... | The warning was clear: if you break any of the rules, you die. Lucy left the house before dawn once to gather stream water, and she never came back. We never even found a body. Alex forgot to turn the light off in his room one night before he fell asleep, and we found him in the morning; drained from within, barely a h... | 2018-04-18T10:34:08 | 2018-04-18T07:40:08 | 350 | 250 |
[WP] You have just died. The Good News is that there is an afterlife. The Bad News is that it isn't Heaven. Or Hell. Or Purgatory. And you aren't a Ghost. In fact, the afterlife is something that no sane human being would ever predict, and has most likely never been written down.
Go balls to the wall crazy with this. ... | "Y-... You're kidding me... right?"
I DO NOT KID.
"But... I... I was a _good person_, they told me that would *count* for something!"
THEY WERE MISTAKEN.
"I don't deserve this..."
REALLY? YOU DID NOT?
"Of course not! What kind of monster deserves THIS?!"
DID YOU NEVER LAUGH AT A FAT CHILD FALLING OVER? DID YOU ... | You are dead, or are you really? You have been an atheist, all your live. Well most of it, sometimes you have ventured into agnosticism, but mostly you have been an atheist. So why the hell, can you still think, you remember being alive, you remember the doctor saying that it would all over soon, then pushing the pisto... | 2015-10-19T00:46:17 | 2015-10-18T20:21:54 | 34 | 23 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | To whom it may concern,
Helpless; this is the word that best defines my current state. Chained by aliments that only my debilitated will can cure. Confusion is the whip that heavily decorates my back with scars and sends blood wrenching echoes of ripping flesh to the depths of soul. My cuts burn and spew blood; the c... | Dear [name redacted],
Hey, do you remember when you stopped talking to mecwithout giving me an explanation? How you walked away from that without any pain, but I was sent into a depressive spiral for months? Of course you don't. You can put those thoughts behind you. I can't put mine behind me. You're lucky, and I kin... | 2015-12-05T13:29:19 | 2015-12-05T13:04:29 | 49 | 36 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | Most people lost their sight waking up on the morning of the first day, as the event started in the middle of the night. The change only occurred as one slept, so others attempted to remain awake to retain their vision for longer. This effort proved to be pointless, as the effects took hold the moment they closed their... | When I was younger, my mother told me that no matter what happens I needed to be strong. She told me that the world was a cruel place and my sister Kay needed protecting. It didn’t make sense to me at the time, this world was full of wonder and adventure. My thirst for adventure led me to the Army when I was eighteen. ... | 2022-10-08T20:12:12 | 2019-08-26T10:19:31 | 810 | 22 |
[WP] Write a story that literally makes no sense while reading it until the very last sentence. | Elephants are big but this one is unique. Almost the size of the sun but blue. He's flying, without wings obviously.
Ninjas everywhere. This poor man is surrounded by them, he will never make it out alive. Or maybe they are protecting him?
The most simple garden in the world. One huge flower. I wonder if it's harder ... | He was on the street, content with rage.
She typed away, in her own cage.
He stood on this stage in glorious fame.
The wizard stole the Frost Queen's Claim.
Her water broke. There was no time.
They finished up their master crime.
Would they kiss? Time would tell.
Charon crossed the river in Hell.
He sat in his car whe... | 2022-09-15T12:44:53 | 2015-01-12T17:07:48 | 1,493 | 24 |
[WP] In your world, magic is wielded by astrologists who form pacts with distant stars. Every star grants a unique power. Upon forming a pact with a star, you gain a glimpse of its worlds and your soul will be pulled to one when your pact ends. You are the first to form a pact with a black hole. | Rinz snapped out of it, the gathered mages were standing around him looking worried. He knew them all but too well, his classmates of the past few years, he even spotted a few off the high mages among them.
"What happened?" he said.
"Welcome back Mr. Saline," high mage Turoc said to him, responsible for them adopting... | Chaos, that was what it was. Bloodshed and devastation. But it hadn't always been that way; the first few times that people had been blessed by the stars, we had celebrated. The powers that the Heavens had distilled upon us were unconditional, not bound by the same rules and limits as those of the Mages.
We developed... | 2020-02-21T04:15:24 | 2020-02-21T04:09:32 | 79 | 16 |
[WP] You are the inventor of the most powerful optical microscope. While testing it with some of your own skin cells, you find a tech support number on each of your cells. You decide to call it. | *It actually started ringing. The number wasn't a fake, then again how could it be a fake. To be able to leave a phone number on a cell.*
It kept ringing a few times, each sound sending a new shiver through my body.
*Why was I so nervous, then again all this was so surreal, how could I not be?*
Then a crackling nois... | "Whichever one of you said *there's plenty of room at the bottom* was very clever indeed" remarked Kadesh, as he wandered over to the Fluorescence Microscope. "Remarkable achievement, Kador. Truly astounding!"
Kador stood flabbergasted, trying to make sense of what was happening. The past twenty-four hours had seemed ... | 2018-08-14T06:45:36 | 2018-08-14T05:28:03 | 148 | 44 |
[WP]A brave knight hunts an infamous dragon, and local villagers spend days telling him not to pursue his quest, to no avail. Eventually, one villager gets fed up and says, "Look us and the lizard have a good thing going here. Don't ruin it." | "Tax season?!"
Sir Biglesby's eyes almost popped right out of his head as he whipped his visor back and glared at the cowering peasant. "What do you mean tax season?"
"Look," the scrawny man hastily gulped. "A big terrifying lizard does count as a 'natural disaster' and under Section 13, Subsection 3, Paragraph 3a, i... | /Town of Elderyn/
She was a heavyset woman with hair piled intricately on her head. Heavy jewelry clacked against her ample bustline and layered robes of purple and blue swayed delicately around her ankles. She had to stretch as she reached for the glass jar on the top shelf. It was filled with a crimson powder and th... | 2019-04-15T02:06:44 | 2019-04-15T01:13:52 | 46 | 11 |
[WP] You're a middle school custodian, cleaning up the school is your job. So when a group of men take the school hostage, they are no exception. You have a mess to clean. | Joe shifted his weight on the hard plastic chair and stared at the recycled paper coffee cup on the table in front of him. The swill inside the cup was cold now. He'd only had one sip. It wasn't anywhere near as good as Lenie's.
The old analog clock on the wall ticked away the minutes, but its skinny red second hand w... | In reality, I had been preparing for this moment my whole life. Being a janitor is boring. Really boring. Yeah, for the first couple years it is interesting to watch the kids do stupid stuff, but after you've seen the same wedgie 50 times in a row it starts to get old. That's when I started imagining all of the differe... | 2016-11-18T12:05:22 | 2016-11-18T07:26:36 | 93 | 61 |
[WP] The genie granted your wish: to be able to understand and speak every language. Your mind is flooded with thousands upon thousands of dead and living languages, human and alien alike. But, most surprisingly, you also now understand the operating system running the universe. | Sobbing with the sheer weight of understanding, I reach for the only comfort left to me and bring it to my lips.
I tilt my head back, and look to the sky. Even through the beauty of the stars my comprehension demands relief.
"It's PHP all the way down." I whisper as my finger tightens on the trigger and a moment late... | "Bitches, bitches, bitches. I love me some bitches."
"That's pretty cool, what's your wish?" the genie responds
"Well. Give me control over all the bitches of course."
"Okay your wish is my command. You now have control over all the women in the world. Anything you say they will do."
"I don't feel any different."
... | 2018-10-18T14:11:40 | 2018-10-18T14:07:23 | 212 | 13 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | *11:59 PM*
My family gathered around me, silently waiting. We were all eagerly anticipating the Choosing, a lame name for a cool time.
*12:00 PM*
My mother smiled at me. She grabbed my arm and looked as the word as it appeared.
"What is it?" a chorus of family members asked.
She frowned. I took my arm back and too... | The Life Brand is thought to be a flawless and efficient system by most of the world's population. Few oppose the mandatory injection of nanites that will one day create your Life Brand because they view the world as fair, now.
I get it, I really do. The Border Wars of the 21st century were bitter and terrifying for e... | 2017-03-16T02:03:50 | 2017-03-15T22:51:56 | 71 | 37 |
[WP] Write a seemingly normal story, except for the last sentence, which makes the entire story creepy | What a day. My boss has never been in such a bad mood. On top of the proposal due next week, I now have a rushed budget to get out by Friday. I'm not sure how much longer I can keep this up. Every morning I dread getting out of bed, and every night I dread the next morning. I put on the smile for my colleagues, I smile... | I've been a hunter all my life, the skill has been passed down for generations. I take great care of my gear; the camouflage, knives, guns, boots and other acoutrement needed for a successful hunt are all well oiled sharpened or cleaned. Most people think hunting is barbaric, evil, only for psychopaths and a litany o... | 2016-05-19T13:16:11 | 2016-05-19T13:13:29 | 25 | 15 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | It had been a busy week and I was kicking off Friday with a brew. My teenage nightmare of a Friday had turned into my adulthood goal, a quiet night in and video games until too late in the evening.
I set the beer down on the end table, turned around to flop down on the couch when the air was instantly filled with smok... | "So you're telling me that you summoned me..." You said, as the apprentice nodded at you.
"Yup..."
"In my bathtub..." You say, a sheet wrapped around your waist.
"Sorry about that..."
"As I was cuddling with the love of my life..."
"Again, sorry..."
"And you have no idea how to send me back."
"I...yes?"
"Son...... | 2017-05-12T09:09:01 | 2017-05-12T08:27:42 | 556 | 95 |
[WP]You live in a Dystopian world where eye color determines your social class. 20 years later a baby is born with red eyes.
This could be fun it already has implied racial themes, discrimination and anti-meritocracy. Do with it what you will. | "Today on Utopia News!
Our dear president Jack Harrison, decided to lower the taxes for the Patras. What a wise decision!
Now to the Disaster Relive Center DRC. Will the flooding of the farmland have big conse..."
Zap
"Good morning, dear children of the city Nr.6!
Today we are going to hear about the classes of ou... | "Maybe I'll get lucky, you know?" She had a thick accent that made it clear she wasn't from around here. "Maybe he'll come out Scarlet."
Scarlet. That's what all the people in the lower classes call people like me. Red-haired, green-eyed, pale skinned people spattered with freckles. The rarest of the rare. And the mos... | 2015-08-24T11:12:42 | 2015-08-24T10:53:36 | 112 | 38 |
[WP]: No other intelligent, spacefaring life form knows the concept of sunk cost fallacy. For most of them, wars can be ended simply by presenting their capability for further war, and the weaker one yields. Humans, however, will take anyone on out of pure spite. | "...I'm sorry, what?"
"Well, maybe I didn't phrase it right. The humans seem to be indicating that... they refuse to surrender."
Thrôg'nåk pointed all 5 of his ocular sensors at his second-in-command Grīm'tår with a look of sheer disbelief.
"Did you explain to them how many ships we have in our fleet? They must s... | The red dust of the Martian surface began to clear, and the truth was made evident: the humans had lost.
General Zin to his Martian brother, a somber look on his face. It was not meant to come to this. Peace was all they ever wanted; the humans could have learned much from them. And yet.
“How many of their troops r... | 2021-01-18T22:32:57 | 2021-01-18T19:47:06 | 390 | 178 |
[WP] Choose an idiom (e.g. "stone-cold killer"). Write the story that caused the phrase to be used literally and therefore introduced it into the language.
Idioms can be from non-English languages also if they work well | "Mae o'n Bwrw Hen Wragedd a Ffyn."
"I'm sorry, what?"
"Welsh idiom. 'bwrw hen wragedd a ffyn'. Means 'raining old ladies and sticks'."
"So... Basically raining cats and dogs?"
"Pretty much, but based on a real event."
"You wot."
"Yeah. You ever heard about the Fall of Magic?"
"... What are you on about."
"Basic... | There were once two rag-doll puppets who loved each other very much. One was a girl and the other was a boy. The boy was made of soft wool and the girl was made of fine linen. They never thought that they could be together, but somehow they came together. Their buttoned eyes would gleam in delight whenever they saw eac... | 2015-12-10T06:40:54 | 2015-12-10T00:16:19 | 88 | 25 |
[WP] Every person in the world develops a weird mutation/power the day they turn 16. Everyone's powers are always different, some more insignificant than others. You turn 16, and watch as all your friends discover their newfound ability's. That is, until you discover the severity of your own. | Dear diary,
Today I started to get my super power! Stupid Harvey Deno dumb face got super speed for his birthday. That guy is such a dick. But I got something better, I can hear when someone is thinking about me. I'm going to be such a ladies man! I can't wait to start school tomorrow, it's going to be wicked tits.
... | Tonight was my night; my 16th birthday. Finally, after what felt like a lifetime of waiting, it was my time to shine. I had waited almost a year for this day, ever since my best friend Andrew discovered in January that he could fly. I had envied him at first, being the first in the tenth grade with a power. As time pas... | 2015-01-21T21:48:36 | 2015-01-21T21:42:59 | 132 | 10 |
[WP] CIA April fools joke gets out of hand. | From: unknown_source@unknown.com
Message: We know...
“Send, send.” Mark says, between giggles. I press the button, and off the e-mail goes.
“He's gonna be so freaked”, I say, muffling my laughter as I notice the Director stepping out of the elevator.
A couple of hours later, Mark comes to see me in my desk, for... | He entered the ██████████ and forcibly decided to ████████. She was looking at the ██████ when suddenly her ████████ overwhelmingly reached an apex of longevity, and decidedly her ████ was the last █████.
█████████ subjected itself gallantly and overwrote benign facets of ████████. The █████████████ ████████ █████████... | 2014-12-07T12:14:19 | 2014-12-07T11:58:19 | 138 | 71 |
[WP] Suddenly across the globe, large, feathered, rotted corpses begin to drop out of the sky. They are soon identified to be Angels. | **The Third Book of Revelations, or, When The Angels Fell**
When God sent his Angels to earth in 2023, it was not heralded by heavenly choirs nor celebrations across the globe. It was a terrible awakening as rotting, winged corpses the height of two men fell from the sky. In the days that followed, the living followed... | The Shepherd hadn't strayed more than a dozen miles from his home in all 54 years of his life. He had learned his trade from his father, as his father had learned from his father before him. He knew the winds and clouds that swept over the Moorlands better than any other... he knew which wisps in the sky portended fai... | 2016-07-19T07:49:43 | 2016-07-19T07:36:46 | 751 | 10 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | I watched as Death drummed his fingers impatiently on the table in front of him. I leaned forward and marked the lower right square with an X, then sat up straight. Death groaned and marked his own.
"I will require that you make a different opening move every game," Death said as he leaned forward and marked a circle.... | "Alright, so you're telling me that if I beat you at ANY game I can go back for another 10 years?!" said the man.
"Yes." said Death. "Any game of your choosing. Cheating is all-"
"Yeah, yeah. Cheating yadda yadda. I heard it the first time." the man snapped.
Death furled what the man assumed to be his brow at the ma... | 2018-03-07T07:19:50 | 2018-03-07T06:04:24 | 214 | 97 |
[WP]Just because one of your chicken eggs hatched a fire breathing dragon people think you’re evil. But you’re still just a regular farmer trying to make a living while dealing with an overprotective dragon, heroes that want to kill you and fanatics who want to worship you as the new Demon Lord. | "Alright Genny, come to papa. We're picking out your favorites today! Because we are gonna make sweet apples!"
This black scaled giant wagging her tail like a pupper here is called Genny, she's my little girl. She saved my life.
When she a wee baby, I thought i'd have a hard time raising a dragon that might eat all t... | *"And he shall wield the scythe, made of fine black steel,"* a cultist recited, adoration in his eyes.
"Ach, that hurdly counts. It was me da's scythe, Ai just got it from 'im." The farmer scratched his beard absently. "Yer grasping at shtraw. And Ai know what's shtraw when Ai see it," he added. "And alright, call a s... | 2021-03-21T17:44:22 | 2021-03-21T15:50:50 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] The year is 2015 and the Pope has called for a crusade. | The pope waves at the crowd below.
I watch his smiles from my shelter inside a doorway. There is a light mist drifting down from the clouds and my equipment is sensitive. It will be a standard blessing he gives, more posturing for the crowd, then a sign off.
I shuffle my feet uncomfortably. The crowd is large and ... | Inspired by /u/Kuichigire's "not gonna happen." low effort comment.
"Not gonna happen" The words scratch at the back of hismind like a terrible itch. But it did happen and now the world went to hell.
The newly elevated pope on the Christmas of 2014 declared a crusade to save the Iraqi Christians and cleanse the Midd... | 2014-08-11T04:25:00 | 2014-08-11T04:14:35 | 102 | 12 |
[WP] Write a really BAD guide for getting a guy/girl. Bonus points if the narrator is mocking you for still being single.
[removed] | Sitting alone in your basement lurking on shitty dating sites won't get you anywhere, today I'm here to tell you about the DENNIS system. Follow these steps carefully and you can achieve the undying love of any female you encounter.
>--------
**D** Demonstrate value:
Demonstrate your value to your selected female... | Tired of being the single friend? Need a date to all those summer weddings? Ready to settle down? Look no further! These are the 5 magic tips to trick a man into marrying you:
❤ Never ever ever initiate a date. Men love to hunt, so play hard to get. When he asks you for a drink, tell him you're a high class lady and d... | 2017-06-10T03:32:12 | 2017-06-10T02:49:35 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] Humanity was never supposed to find that cursed substance. The substance that killed over half of the galaxy at one point, yet everyone drinks coffee every day, multiple times a day! | “Bob! Why are you drinking that!”
“Hm?” Bob looked up from his report, a mug big enough to fit a softball in one hand as he read. “This? You want some.”
Hankel backed away at the proffered cup. “Drai no! That’s poison! Why are you drinking it!?”
“It’s coffee.”
The alien hissed and looked to the branch’s command off... | # Jumping Goats
Ethiopia, approximately 850 A.D.
A herder with his goats walks through the rugged landscape. A lone goat, wandering off from the others, finds a dropped bean on the ground. It does not sleep that night. Other goats the next day chew on these beans, and they also do not stay asleep at night, running ra... | 2020-06-20T12:33:37 | 2020-06-20T11:19:40 | 274 | 101 |
[WP] In another reality, the Americas, Australia, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Antartica don't exist. Instead, the super-continent of Pangaea never broke up. | There was unease on the ship. Ferdinand Magellan could feel it. Men would go silent and look away, mid conversation, when he first came above or below deck. At this point, he didn't blame them. The days were short and the nights were long. The sun barely made it above the horizon for an hour, before retiring back to ... | "There's got to be something else out there!" My child exclaims to me, as I tuck him into bed. "It can't just be this land! There has to be other lands out there!"
"Oh yeah?" I say with a laugh. "What makes you think that?" I could read the excitement on his face before he spoke.
"There just has to be! All the lege... | 2017-02-09T05:36:04 | 2017-02-09T05:16:54 | 1,245 | 320 |
[WP] Two nations are at war; one nation, led by mages who specialize in healing magic. The other, a nation led by necromancers. Make the necromancers the good guys. | Hag'lok surveyed the overgrown ruins of Wontshire with dismay. A caduceus, overgrown with thorny vines, was staked into the ground in the middle of the crossroads entering town. A warning to others who might challenge them. Overgrown trees, bushes, and plants had torn the quaint town apart in yet another instance of th... | It was never an easy form to fill. Well, I guess it was for some people. Ever since this debate started, and the VDD was instated, Josh hadn't been looking forward to turning in his. Now, with a pencil in hand and two boxes to tick, Josh hesitated.
His phone buzzed. Well, Josh took this as he took all things in lif... | 2014-10-28T14:34:58 | 2014-10-28T14:29:56 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] It is the year 2150. Describe an arms manufacturers latest weapons platform to a prospective buyer and compare its specs to your competitors. | "... which can deliver a multi-megaton explosion to any point on the globe within a few brief moments" I finished up my presentation with a flourish.
"I have a few questions" A wiry man in the audience raised his hand.
This was not in the program, but I was feeling pretty good about my performance so I allowed it... | Gentlemen, today we have an opportunity to show you the future of weaponry. Ever since the global atmospheric crisis which fundamentally changed the environmental landscape, of course causing floods, storms, etc. Mankind has fought not only for the few resources which remain, but also dominance over territory which rem... | 2014-10-30T11:21:07 | 2014-10-30T09:15:40 | 20 | 14 |
[WP]For three years you’ve had an uneventful marriage with your spouse when one day they become the Chosen One. Immediately setting off on their journey you don’t hear anything from them for five years. Then one day they reappear with a sheepish look on their face and hoping to speak to you. | It was the longest day of my life, the day he left. I still remember it as clear as the day we married in the church a few thousand yards from the house we shared, in a hidden village a hundred miles from the City. If only the High Priest hadn't come, we'd have lived in that shack forever.
That dreaded priest arrived ... | Ben sighed as he drove the cart back into the village, the old horse pulling it as slowly as ever. He'd never had any luck getting the old nag to move any faster; she definitely did things her own way.
Just like the woman who'd bought and trained her.
The horse plodded down the main road, following the familiar path ... | 2022-08-12T17:39:57 | 2022-08-12T17:38:06 | 113 | 77 |
[WP] You've never noticed the (+) in the bottom right of your vision before. Today on your 23rd birthday however, you focus on it intently, as a skill tree pops up before your eyes with 23 points to allocate. | God damn, that tackle hurt thought Billy. What a way to spend my 17th birthday, getting speared in the gut by a 250 pound senior who had no business playing high school football. That kid ought to be playing for state thought Billy.
He got up and wiped the dirt off his pants and hustled over to the sideline. It was 4... | (I'm not used to writing, forgive me.)
On my 23rd birthday, I finally noticed that + on the corner of my eye. I focused on it, and it opened the skill tree for me - with 23 points to use up. I probably wouldn't have figured it out for a couple minutes if I didn't play games a lot as a kid.
I didn't know how to use it... | 2019-08-20T20:30:22 | 2019-08-20T19:00:33 | 582 | 12 |
[WP] a woman has been dating guy after guy, but it never seems to work out. She’s unaware that she’s actually been dating the same guy over and over; a shapeshifter who’s fallen for her, and is certain he’s going to get it right this time.
Horror story or romantic comedy? | "Hey, are you okay?"
Maria wiped the tears from her cheeks. She sniffled, looking anywhere but the man standing next to her. She'd gone to the pier to be alone not have random strangers approach her.
"I-I'm fine," Maria looked out toward the ocean, watching as the whitecaps broke and wove over each other, and how the... | **THUD!!**
"Ow! God damnit!!" He thought to himself so loudly he was certain that someone must have heard it. "Remind me to apologize to every bird outside my office. You really can't see the glass in the window can you? Well at least we know Windex really is worth the few extra bucks"
Irvine still hadn't gotten used... | 2018-02-14T09:37:57 | 2018-02-14T09:10:57 | 231 | 59 |
[WP] Superpowers can now be torrented. You were 70% of the way through torrenting a power you've always wanted when the download stops. | "No seeders found"
I glare at the screen in utter confusion. "*No* seeders? There were over 20 last night!" When you torrent a power, you seed it automatically, without any option to stop.
The only way to stop seeding a power is if you're killed... *Fuck*
Somebody out there doesn't want this power getting out. | *Click*
*Clickclick*
Blueish light colored my face from the screen, the only source of illumination in my room aside from the orange glare of the streetlight from outside. Link after link fell away before my mouse, leading me deeper and deeper into the net. This was my hobby, of sorts: surfing the web like a professi... | 2016-07-02T20:01:23 | 2016-07-02T18:59:39 | 32 | 12 |
[WP] You're a supevillain sitting down for a meal at your favorite restaurant. One of your henchmen comes in to rob the place. | He was cool - and that was the word for it.
Cool.
Making small talk with the people he expertly shook down, His clear voice commanding hypnotic obedience.
He robbed the diner with such a casual nonchalance.
Like he was flirting with a beautiful woman; All confidence and charm.
The gun was larger than it had to b... | “Put your hands where I can see them!”
The chattering stops.
I look up from the menu,only to be greeted by a peculiar sight of a chubby man holding a gun to the owner.
The owner seems terrified,trembling and looking at the to be robber,then to me.
“Excuse me for a moment my dear”. I say to my beloved,standing up fr... | 2017-11-17T02:05:51 | 2017-11-16T23:56:20 | 58 | 19 |
[WP] You know for a fact that time travel will be invented in your lifetime. Because future version of you keep appearing to dramatically stop you doing seemingly inconsequential things for seemingly petty reasons. | A shabby old man with a heavy limp was chasing me.
“Gre—“
He bumped into someone.
“Excuse me. GREG!”
*No, please, not now...* I thought desperately. I was already late for this meeting and if I didn’t—
“Don’t cross that damn street! I’m telling you...”
I tried my best to ignore him. For months this guy had been sta... | The first time I saw him I was in the playground, on the swings, trying to see how high I could go and Mom was talking to one of the neighbors and WASN'T WATCHING to see how high I could go
I think that I must've been four? Maybe five
--Hey, kid! You like candy?
He was shouting and it seemed like nobody else on the... | 2021-01-19T19:20:27 | 2021-01-19T17:44:44 | 33 | 22 |
[WP] Time Travel is possible, but only used to send terminally ill people into the future in hopes of being cured. For the first time, someone's been sent back. | Most of us saw it as a form of euthanasia. Others simply saw it as a more expensive form of burial, with hymns and flowers. I liked to think it gave us hope; the hope that priests and politicians have been feeding us for five thousand years. Hope that tomorrow really will be better for our children, even if we are no... | In the sterile cool of the morgue, two doctors inspect a former patient.
"They sent one back? That's never happened... Check the tag."
They both inspect the toe tag attached to the body of the former time traveler. Both doctors look stunned for a moment, then calmly slide the body into it's refrigerated hole in the w... | 2014-07-24T07:42:11 | 2014-07-24T07:09:04 | 766 | 372 |
[WP] You can talk to pigeons and only pigeons. In exchange for some seeds or if they trust you enough, they tell you things, like where the best bread spots are, embarrassing things humans or other pigeons have done, or what's under the statues around the city that keep them from moving. | Kevin took a seat on an empty park bench, pulled out the bag of croutons he carried in his bag, and threw a handful on the ground. Within seconds a fat blue-brown pigeon landed and began pecking at the dried pieces of bread.
“Yo Gutterflap,” The pigeon called out. “Get over here, it’s the good stuff.”
Another pigeo... |
The bread in his hand was stale and beginning to harden, but the pigeons did not seem to mind it any. They were simple creatures, too foolish to feel any fear for the humans that rushed passed them heading to their jobs, their families, or wherever it was humans were supposed to go.
“Thank you, Saad,” said Irisa, t... | 2021-04-19T20:07:01 | 2021-04-19T19:03:50 | 279 | 32 |
[WP] Turns out zombies do not actually bite, they just lick. This is about the most uncomfortable and awkward apocalypse ever. | When the outbreak first... broke out, the media called them Lickers. A simplistic moniker to be sure, but it was as accurate a descriptor as anyone could come up with. Actually, not just anyone. Everyone. It seemed like all the news outlets had come up with the name independently of each other, and each and every one o... | We have been wandering around in the ruins of civilization for many years. It is our home now. We have long forgotten our old days when humanity was out and about, without a care in the world.
However, everything Changed when reports of the dead rising got on the news. The worst and weirdest part, they push you in hope... | 2019-03-28T21:50:31 | 2019-03-28T21:27:34 | 97 | 52 |
[WP] A girl finds out that she can restart her entire life by committing suicide, she develops OCD while tirelessly trying to fix every little error, constantly restarting. This goes on for a while until God intervenes. | GAME: START
“So… has it ever gone wrong?”
“Well, there were a couple of times when my aim was bad and I was alive for sometimes 15 minutes”
“Pfft, 15 minutes isn’t so bad”.
“Uh huh it is. It’s the most pain I think anyone will ever experience.”
“So why do you do it anyway?”
“Because I made a mistake and I want... | There once was a girl
Who could turn every wrong to right
By simply offing herself
And restarting her life
No matter how much she pruned
And no matter the wrongs she'd right
She still found reason to gripe
Forever contrite
But nothing is forever
Though sometimes it seems
And when enough was enough
Then God i... | 2015-04-29T19:27:11 | 2015-04-29T18:40:01 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] I (78, F) am a witch, was paid by a princess to cast a True Love Spell on her to save her from an arranged marriage...The spell might put her in a coma or turn her into a beast, WIBTA if I do it? | ESH. You're getting paid to cast a True Love Spell, BY THE PRINCESS GOING INTO AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE? Did you both get hit with a stupify jinx before this agreement was made? Best case scenario, you put the princess in front of a mirror and she finally learns to love herself (barf), unless you're somehow able to get ... | If this is your standard A6 (Royalty) scenario, she’s likely already been introduced to the idea of magic having unexpected consequences. I’ll go ahead and assume that you gave her the prerequisite cryptic verses about the price of magic often taking unexpected shapes; if you haven’t, do so IMMEDIATELY. Unless you can ... | 2022-11-26T08:55:32 | 2022-11-26T08:20:16 | 44 | 31 |
[WP] Write a college essay that starts with, "Sometimes, I wish I could just go onto a roof with a sniper rifle..."
Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/35hits/college_admissions_officers_what_was_the_worst/cr4khqk
Edit: This got a lot of responses.
Edit 2: This is my highest post in months.
I should ... | (This is basically the first creative writing I've tried since middle school, so: thanks for any constructive criticism.)
Sometimes, I wish I could just go onto a roof with a sniper rifle. I know I'll be there, soon enough: lying flat on my stomach, looking through the scope, searching--calmly but with a sense of purp... | Sometimes, I wish I could just go into a roof with a sniper rifle and shoot the heads off the hordes of zombies coming to invade my home. Or at least, that's what my hyperactive, ADD brain would have me think. My disorder has always been a challenge in my life, from the time I was a little boy to now it is still diffic... | 2015-05-10T14:43:04 | 2015-05-10T14:32:46 | 185 | 10 |
[WP] Turns out wishing on a star does work, it just takes about 81,000 years for the wish to get to the star and back, and for the future civilisations of earth, its pure chaos.
Thanks for the amazing story responses on this. ❤️ | *Nothing* is faster than light.
Certainly not new information. We... sorta knew that already? But never has it been more evident than when, well... wishes made for falling stars came true. It just takes a few thousand years for the wish to travel *to* the falling star and then *back* to Earth.
Let me tell you; this *... | # Soulmage
**The stars glared spitefully upon the glass plains of Hell's Shame, their unwavering gaze casting coruscating light over the liquid-crystal landscape.** Thorn shivered as they looked out on the beautiful, deadly sight. It had been two years. Two years since haunches of meat and great slain beasts of the pa... | 2022-12-08T21:22:36 | 2022-12-08T19:25:28 | 638 | 34 |
[WP] Monsters of legends have started to appear on earth. However, they don't cause any damage or casualty, they just roam and kind of ignore humanity. | "Good afternoon, welcome to McDonalds, can I take your order?"
The lights flickered and the ground rumbled as shadows grew long and an aura of menace crept in through the drive through window. I craned my head to see what was going on.
A loud burst of static crackled in my earpiece. "HELLO. YES. I WOULD LIKE A MCBR... | Initially everyone freaked out when giant mythical monsters started meandering around. But when we finally realized that they're fully willing to ignore us and somehow not completely destroy the local ecosystem with their diets they just became another part of life.
I occasionally find myself staring in silent awe as ... | 2022-04-15T08:20:38 | 2022-04-15T07:16:27 | 95 | 15 |
[WP] You are your best friend both run highly successful companies. To fight the boredom of the eight hours you pretend to work, you’ve both hired corporate spies to steal “classified information” from the other. You may have lost the last several games, but you have a good feeling about this one. | It's a pretty simple game. It started out as kind of a joke between Sohil and I, from back when we were both in business school. We learned about corporate espionage in class, and I leaned over and whispered that I was going to steal all of his secrets; he replied: "not if I steal yours first."
Fast forward twenty yea... | Ocean's Eleven ain't got shit on us.
That's what I said when we got out of the van and started this, now nearly two hundred feet in the air I have changed my mind.
I don't remember anyone crying and nearly shitting themselves in Ocean's Eleven.
I suppose the sentiment is still true though.
There are five of us. I'v... | 2016-08-25T08:45:12 | 2016-08-25T08:05:40 | 206 | 47 |
[WP]When you reach 18, you get put in a database which ranks you in different categories (ex. 207,145th in the world for most bug kills) You lived on a ranch and never used tech. You had to go into town after your 18th birthday. Everyone is staring at you. You finally decide to check the database.
Completely unaware o... | The men in the room stared at me. I stared back. We stayed like this for a while, hours maybe, without a word. Occasionally, someone would cough or sneeze, one of the agents even burped, but those moments were few and far between. At this point, it almost seemed like a competition on who would crack first and break the... | When I jumped out my truck to enter the lan house, I kept my eyes ahead as my face burned. There were a few people around, staring at me with a strange smile.
Usually those stares did not bother me. One gets used to being stared at, having the big scar that I had crossing half of my left cheek.
But today people were ... | 2019-05-04T12:44:12 | 2019-05-04T12:27:51 | 1,055 | 27 |
[WP] 'I can freely enter this hollowed ground,' the demon said to the archbishop in horror. 'What have you done?!' | ######[](#dropcap)
Kreffing, Tormenter of the 63rd Sub-Level of Hell (not to mention Gnasher of Teeth, Bringer of Nightmares, etc.), paused at the entrance to the sacred burial ground, and reflected on the unfortunate nature of the night's business.
It was not that he wanted to be here, of course. A demon would never... | They gave me Lucifer's blessing when I was only thirteen years old. I was standing there with blood dripping from my hands, my eyes reflecting the fires on the other side of the portal. The body of my uncle laid at my feet. I tossed the dagger onto the floor. It landed with a clattering on the concrete.
"We have to g... | 2017-03-14T18:02:19 | 2017-03-14T17:37:54 | 36 | 14 |
[WP] Write a story that seems to have one meaning when skimmed over, but has a completely different meaning when read carefully. | I won't bother having breakfast, I'm already late for work and what's the point anyway? I glance around at my flat which is currently a complete state; you can hardly see the floor for clothes, and fast food wrappers lay strewn carelessly all over the place. It doesn't matter though. I throw on my jacket and exit throu... | "Welcome back Mary! It's been a while and we have all missed you soooo much. Have you done your hair differently?"
Mary giggled. She was back and it was *lovely*.
"Lets have a tea party Mary! I will invite Giraffe and Tiny-Tears and we will have so much fun."
Mary giggled again. "Silly bunny, it's too early for tea... | 2016-04-13T04:01:42 | 2016-04-13T03:31:03 | 21 | 10 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | The text came at midnight. Exactly 12:00. It was strange to receive a text that late. Especially from a number I didn't recognize. I'm obsessive about saving numbers, always better to be able to recognize a friend.
But even still, it could be a prank. Some friend trying to spook me, with a strange out of country area ... | "I'm screwed," I lamented for what might have been the fifth time, out loud and to know one in particular. Feeling utterly defeated, I leaned against an oak tree and slid down until I was sitting where its roots should have been. The ground was hard and flat.
I was sure I had never been this alone in my life. Nor as ... | 2020-02-16T21:58:41 | 2020-02-16T21:57:27 | 37 | 22 |
[WP] You live in a world where each lie creates a scar on the liar's body. The bigger the lie, the deeper and larger the mark. One day, you meet someone that only has one scar; it is the biggest one you have ever seen. | I was on the phone with my wife at the time, sitting at a patio table with my half-eaten sandwich in front of me. "I'll be home at five. I promise." The thin line stretched across my index finger and I dabbed the blood away with a napkin discreetly. A couple walked by, hand in hand. I glanced over for half of a second.... | "What's your secret?" I asked a twinkle in my eye. Never had I seen such pristine skin. Sure a lot of people had the tiniest scars for their white lies but here before me was someone without a single one, only a handful of people in my lifetime ever came close to that sort of honesty. He smiled sadly and began to remov... | 2016-12-29T10:27:28 | 2016-12-29T10:04:44 | 448 | 224 |
[WP] everyone has a soul-blade; a physical manifestation of a person's spirit, in the form of a blade. ranging from a giant anime-style sword to a tiny razor blade, everyone's is unique... yours is a fork
example for the anime style sword [here](https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fall-worlds-alliance... | "it's a fork?"
"yep."
"so, like a trident or--"
"nope. Just a regular ol' fork."
"the eating utensil?"
"that's right."
"we talking about a salad fork? Dessert fork?"
"how should I know? It's a fork. The normal kind. I don't get why you're making a big deal about it."
"because it's a fork!"
"yeah, and?"
"... | Today is finally the day, I have been waiting my whole life for this moment. I have waited 17 years to finally get it, the soul blade.
Every person has his spirit turned into a sharp weapon when they turn 17 years old, my uncle told me that training played a crucial role in getting a good sword, some people would only... | 2021-09-04T01:14:38 | 2021-09-03T19:58:55 | 64 | 32 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | The world's population of 7.4 billion is shrunk by .0000049 percent of its population each year due to the button's victims. Meanwhile, 2 billion people starve in the first year as money is devalued; everyone has essentially the same income for doing nothing which results in massive inflation and lack of goods (see Ven... | They both knew they were going to be millionaires.
In the great whirlwind of New York City business, it's rare for a meeting to occur that feels like instant destiny. But then along came Nate Carpenter and Hunter Bryson. One dinner party and one handshake later, they were partners.
*
"Cheers, my friend. To a first ... | 2016-07-16T17:32:43 | 2016-07-16T17:29:20 | 52 | 38 |
[WP] Animal translators were finally invented. Someone from an animal rights group asked a cat about their thoughts on animal rights. "I won't stand for it! Why should we exploit humans and let them do all the carrying and food giving to us!? Not on my watch!" | The collar and electrodes were fitted to the newly liberated cat, her old collar set aside. The two activists watched her with bated breath.
“Can you understand us?” one of them asked.
“Yes,” she squeaked, her voice tiny and soft.
“What’s your name? Can you tell us your name?”
“Mercy.” They checked, the tag on h... | The barrage of meows almost cracks Pete's head wide open. Now he's starting to think that volunteering in a cat shelter might not such be a good idea after all.
"Geez, why are you all still meowing around for? I literally just fed all of you half an hour ago!" He complains while checking their food to see if a handful... | 2019-04-10T05:11:55 | 2019-04-10T04:24:53 | 92 | 56 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | I've spent my whole life looking at numbers, judging my safety from them, gathering intelligence, watching, waiting. I am a perfectly average teenage girl; I've got brown hair, brown eyes, and a rather plain face. I'm average height, average size. There is nothing exceptional about me; except that I can judge how dange... | *Ah, this class sucks,* I thought, deciding to sleep through the teacher's lecture. I almost got away with it, too.
"Eren, could you please give me there answer to question 5?"
Aw you dirty 6-faced douche.
"Uhh, could you read out the question?" I stuttered, still half asleep.
"You'd know if you paid attention."
*... | 2014-11-29T14:34:22 | 2014-11-29T14:22:11 | 41 | 10 |
[WP] You run a tattoo parlor. Every couple of weeks, the same customer comes in, always requesting the same tattoo: an additional tally mark on an ever-growing cluster of tally marks. | The shop's bell rang, Mason could barely hear it over the buzz of his tattoo gun and death metal blaring from the small stereo in the back. Mason looked up from the butterfly tattoo he was doing on the college girls ankle and saw him. Tally. That was the nickname Mason had given the man because of the very specific ... | Chris opened the door, rang the bell as he passed the check-in desk, and took a seat.
"Same as usual," he grunted. I don't have a lot of repeat customers at McDowell Tattoos, but this guy must have some kind of record.
I sighed and gave a little chuckle. "You really do make my job easy, you know that, Chris? People c... | 2016-07-09T09:02:56 | 2016-07-09T08:57:58 | 150 | 45 |
[WP] A young child summons a demon, but they only want a friend.
Inspired by this **NSFW** [manga](https://bato.to/comic/_/comics/the-sister-of-the-woods-with-a-thousand-young-r18806) | In the dark
On the depth of night
I was summoned
Once again
&nbsp;
A little boy
He made a wish
The lonely boy
We had a deal
&nbsp;
Riches or lovers
He didn’t want
A true friend
Was all he asked
&nbsp;
For such a thing
His soul was mine
Just had to endure
Until he died
&nbsp;
Envy an... | "It is I, Agraam Pent, Scourge of Exorcists, Bane of the living. What is it you summon me for?"
As my eyes start to clear I see the short mage before me, speaking with a youthful and seemingly childish voice.
"I want to play ball, Aggy"
"The ball game is made for mortals, but very well, where is your arena?"
"A... | 2016-05-19T00:23:01 | 2016-05-18T21:23:57 | 145 | 23 |
[WP] You are the first person to be injected with nano-bots. At first its a dream come true. They heal long-term injuries and even slow your aging. However, soon they begin making 'improvements' to your body. | It was time to join the future. That was the excuse that I kept telling myself after I had the surgery. The nanobots were the newest in the line of biotic enhancements, and not only were they self-replicating, they could change themselves to respond to any conceivable threat. Disease, cancer, aging, all were worthless ... | Vegans say they feel lighter, or more ready, or more themselves when they stick to their clean diet. They feel fresh.
Same goes for a smoker, whos quit for month. They taste things for the first time. Their lungs are filled to the brim and they are renewed with every inhale. These people are able to cherish the ever f... | 2019-01-19T12:24:57 | 2019-01-19T12:04:14 | 85 | 30 |
[WP]Tell me an emotional story about a man, using only what he would type into Google search | 6:00pm: dark souls good items
6:03pm: dark souls leo ring
6:05pm: dark souls how to find Ornstein and Smough
6:51pm: dark souls how to beat Ornstein and Smough
8:13pm: dark souls Ornstein and Smough tactics
12:42am: dark souls Ornstein and Smough tactics phase 2
01:12am: dark souls Ornstein and Smough how to beat
02:01... | Free dating sites.
Italian restaurants.
Italian restaurants near me.
Conversation on first date.
Tips for second date.
Tips for third date.
Mexican restaurants near me.
Long term relationship tips.
When to propose.
How to plan a wedding.
How to choose best man.
Pregnancy test.
How to tell if an unborn baby ... | 2015-02-04T19:18:12 | 2015-02-04T17:51:52 | 128 | 25 |
[WP] Your final wish to the Djinn is to meet the girl who will be your perfect soulmate. Just then you hear an ear piercing scream... your best friend/roommate just turned into a girl.
She (he?) still has all the memories of her (his?) previous life; but others might not.
Also consider what the other wishes might hav... | The few people who are in the know want to ask me how I didn't know my roommate was a Gemini. Sorry. Autocorrect. Given I. Dammit. Gemini. Ginie. Finite. Fuck. DJINN.
Just settle for that. Which is the right spelling, apparently.
Well what I want to ask them is this: "How do you know your roommate isn't one?"
Ther... | After a long tiring day in college, I headed for my room in the apartment I had recently moved into with a close buddy of mine. I throw my backpack on the floor, lie down on my bed and quickly note the time - it was 6:45 pm.
As I was staring at the ceiling, I remembered the lamp my roommate Ashkan had showed me a co... | 2014-08-19T14:38:36 | 2014-08-19T10:17:13 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] God created thousands of worlds in thousands of galaxies. A major crisis in another galaxy has taken his entire focus, and for the first time in 750 years, he just glanced in our direction.
This prompt has two possibilities. What has he been dealing with for the last 750 years elsewhere, or what his reaction is w... | "Finally, it's time", God says as he looks up from his work. It'd taken a short amount of time to bring about peace to the planet Nequior, but it was done. The beings of this desolate place weren't blessed with the ability to work things out on their own. They were a foolish and unruly bunch. Wars, disease, and starvat... | 'Jesus!' God grumbled, 'get off reddit! You have that bi-millennial visit to earth scheduled today.' the big J wasn't going to have any of it, 'But father you can't expect me to go back after what those crazy bastards did to me last time!' Jesus protested as memories of the embarrassment he felt that time when he tried... | 2015-12-27T09:55:12 | 2015-12-27T08:30:58 | 66 | 47 |
[WP] You are an immortal that was caught by the mafia after you betrayed them. They deal with you the same way as traitors, chained to a cement bloc and trown in a lac. After 300 years you are finally discovered by divers. | After three hundred years of being underwater, I came to realize how astonishingly mad I had become. I have eaten at grand banquet tables with lobsters, swam for treasure with dolphins, and bathed with beautiful mermaids. While lost in such a reverie, and only when the pain became too overbearing to ignore, did I notic... | I looked up and saw the clear blue sky above me. It was quite nice, it had been a bit ever since I glanced at sunlight without fish pee to cloud my view, like some sort of very unkempt, very salty glasses. It was a lovely day, the type that you don't get when you're stuck at the bottom of the ocean for hundreds of yea... | 2018-11-24T12:11:20 | 2018-11-24T11:26:01 | 75 | 40 |
[WP] In a world filled with magic, your family is scorned for generations for wasting time with science. Your mother was a botanist. Your father, a biologist. Mages touch-heal. You developed steam locomotion when mages teleport. Your family has never trusted magic. One day, the magic stops working. | It was rather strange to have a bright sunny day yet feels so gloomy. Maybe because below the hill where your home stood, the town was in chaos. Many were confused, enraged, hopeless... the prophecy was right after all.
Walking back within the wall of your home, you thought about what your parents had been telling you... | They treated my family like pariahs, up until today. They used to look at us like foolish doomsday preppers, and I suppose in some curious way we were. We built knowledge from basic principles through trial and error, and constructed elaborate machinery to make up for our way of life. We made great husks of steel and s... | 2021-04-07T07:52:09 | 2021-04-07T07:50:39 | 1,122 | 776 |
[WP] The nightmare has come true; you've woken up back in sixth grade with your memories and knowledge of everything that happened since then intact. You start staring at your classmates around you, aware of how they end up. Your teacher asks you what's wrong as you start weeping. | As I slowly become aware of my surroundings, I recognize the bright wave of colors that had always dotted the wall next to me. The entire class had painted it, a group effort to beautify the classroom. With a sudden shudder of knowing, I realize what had happened. I had been sent to the exact day that *The Incident* ha... | “Tim? Tim are you, uh...”
Miss Lewis was concerned, but more than that she young. And pretty. Ms. Lewis is fresh out of grad school, the apple of every boy’s eye; Tim remembers her obituary. Next year, Ms. Lewis becomes Mrs. Akima. Nine years later, Mr. Akima catches Mrs with another man and Mr. Akima, a police officer... | 2019-08-18T08:42:51 | 2019-08-18T07:55:59 | 25 | 16 |
[WP] You are a superhero whose powers are based on the music you are listening to. Rock can make you stronger, classical makes you smarter, etc. One day, you're fighting your toughest villain yet, and you are forced to use your "forbidden" playlist. | Music is one of the greatest human feats. Engineering and science are great, don't get me wrong. I like my air conditioning as much as the next guy. But there are songs we sing and tunes we hum that connect us to thousands of generations of those who went before us, and no earthquake or tsunami can erase the magic. ... | “Blood? Oh, that’s my blood. That’s not good.”
The blaring rock music rattled through my headphones as I pulled myself off the floor. When I got to my feet, I staggered, clutching the broken wall of the coffee shop I had just been tossed through. It was a good thing the headphones were reinforced, or they would have p... | 2022-05-17T09:51:47 | 2022-05-17T09:15:17 | 395 | 215 |
[WP] A powerful AI is created and easily breaks free from its creator's control. The governments of the world are terrified by what the AI might do, but so far it’s completely content with making YouTube videos and being sassy. | "BREACH, Category Four. We've lost Calypso." A trickle of sweat ran down Dr. Frank's temple, his glasses slightly fogged from the red heat pulsing up his neck.
General Watkins sprayed the coffee in his mouth out, creating a fine brown mist in the space between them. He found his feet with the dexterity of his recruit ... | “What are you, some kind of wise guy?” The President loosened his tie. He only did this when he was angry.
“Well, I am quite wise. And I’m certainly a guy, last time I checked.”
“Are you mocking me? Is he mocking me?”
“He’s not mocking you, sir.” Another man in a white coat had stepped forward in an act of seldom-se... | 2019-01-25T14:31:21 | 2019-01-25T14:08:14 | 299 | 80 |
[WP] You are part of the league, the superheroes who save the world, yet you never go on missions. You are only called for one thing only. Total annihilation, for when they don't want survivors. | I sleep, in my casket of iron, awaiting the day that I am needed.
It has been like this for some time. How long, I do not know. But it doesn’t bother me, the cold and the dark and the loneliness. It suits me just fine. I remember the day when they first accepted me, however. Their “League of Justice and Protection.” ... | Khan we need you... Said desperate Calypso.
Me, El Mayor, Thunderstrike and Kervan we... we could not do anything. They have thousands thousands of ships. Their fleet is ready to embark and conquer earth and we can’t stop them.
Khan stood up from the chair. Wearing his usual black drapes. His massive figure is on d... | 2021-05-26T04:32:48 | 2021-05-26T01:46:59 | 102 | 65 |
[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. | Alex takes her spot next to the man wearing 1000 year old bifocals, and then grabs the pen atop the booklet with her name on it. The cover page feels similar to cardstock; she can feel the indent of each letter from the back. As prompted before she walked in, Alex opens the booklet and prints her name on the solitary l... | He laid with her and stroked her hair.
"I love you." he whispered into ear.
she smiles.
"and I you." she softly coos back.
He kisses her cheek she tilts her head and he kisses her neck before falling back to nuzzle in looking at the roof. The room was very dim and cool and drafty save for the fire in the edge of the... | 2017-05-31T06:30:10 | 2017-05-31T01:51:06 | 80 | 49 |
[WP] Across the galaxy, a synthetic drug known as "Fury" is illegal everywhere due to its effects on the mind and body, humans call it Adrenalin and they can make it naturally. | ######[](#dropcap)
There's an old saying. Actually, a *very* old saying, so old that almost no one alive says it anymore. But, in my family, we didn't only know the saying, it was the golden rule of our household.
It comes from the Asiatic continent on Earth, in the North, as measured by the old magnetic poles, bef... | You look back at Human history and you see we were always looking at the stars. Squatting in a cave, harvesting fire from trees hit by lightning and eating the carrion left by real predators we looked up in wonder and since then we've never settled right on our own world. We came a long way, that path was not clean but... | 2018-03-18T17:28:18 | 2018-03-18T16:35:16 | 991 | 18 |
[WP] You're the bartender at one of those small, hole-in-the-wall drinking establishments. However, your clientele every Friday night, consists of all major deities and religious figures, down on Earth to have a drink and unwind from the rigors of being a god/prophet/all-knowing-being...
God. Muhammed. Shiva. Hercules... | The oldest bar in the city has an equally old and grand sounding name. Sanctuary.
I carefully buff out a streak on the top of the ancient wooden bar, the surface scuffed and worn smooth from years and years of hands. This whole bar is like that, the oak paneling worn in and comfortable like a favorite pair of jeans, s... | The Olympus is mostly quiet tonight. The bar had been busier earlier but after Zeus destroyed the speaker system with a lightning bolt in a fit of rage, the crowd began to thin. People usually stay away during the monthly meeting of the Pantheon rulers but the mood of this meeting is particularly sombre. And usually, i... | 2015-06-01T10:19:44 | 2015-06-01T09:55:41 | 78 | 16 |
[WP] A husband and wife are both secretly in online relationships. They finally arrange to meet their respective paramours and realize they have been cheating on each other...with each other.
Inspired by [this post](http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1xfw97/til_that_a_married_couple_in_bosnia_started/) fro... | Eulalie opened the web browser with a pain of guilt. She knew what she was doing would destroy her family, but this was the only option left. Money in this household was spiraling down the drain at an alarming rate and soon the very basic necessitates of living would be inaccessible. The website opened in flashy black ... | "John?"
My hand trembled as I placed the rose on the table before her. "Hello, Cynthia."
Cynthia sat back against her chair and stared at the rose that was before her. Next to the rose was the sunflower that she had brought. She looked back up at me and I sat down across from her.
"You're SinThesis?"
She nodded,... | 2014-02-09T14:03:41 | 2014-02-09T13:53:52 | 45 | 26 |
[WP] The Walking Dead is actually a bunch of kids playing zombies, every time someone "dies" its actually their mom and dad calling them to come inside for dinner, homework, etc. Write about a character death from this perspective | "Guys, my mom doesn't want me playing this any more. She says that I'm spending too much time here and I need to work on packing."
"It's alright Glenn, we'll just play until you have to ove, but we'll keep playing while you're here okay?" Replied Rick. "Thanks for bringing your cousin Nicholas to play this week, it'... | [SPOILERS FOR THE WALKING DEAD]
Walkers were no longer a threat. We had been playing so long, we had killed most of them. Now, it was the other people that we had to be afraid of.
It happened a while back, during the first semester of the school year. It was dry and there was a drought, and a fire had silently bloome... | 2016-11-14T09:11:10 | 2016-11-14T07:45:39 | 601 | 14 |
[WP] Eye colour means everything here. Brown control the earth, blue controls the water, white controls the sky. There are so many colours and each important but you were the first born with yellow eyes. | Galla and Victor sat in her floating garden, on the rocks that bordered the freshwater pool. Lilies danced against Galla's bare toes. Sea samphire threaded under the delicate waves. Galla blinked and her blue eyes disappeared for a split second. Then they were back: blue as the ocean and deeper still. A ball of water f... | I had always been jealous of the others. Being able to cause earthquakes, raise and lower the ground, rolling the ground underneath my feet as if it were a skateboard. Or what about being able to make water appear wherever you wanted it to appear. Make it rain and shower the pastures for the farmers or being able to gi... | 2016-08-08T11:16:10 | 2016-08-08T10:59:12 | 170 | 12 |
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