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[WP] Jimmy is the most optimistic guy to have ever lived. After finding himself in hell following a paperwork error at the pearly gates he seems to find the bright side in every torture device they have to offer. And it's driving Satan insane.
This prompt might be too detailed so please feel free to change parts as mu... | At first Satan thought Jimmy was a curse upon his already cursed land. Nothing he did to the *bastard* seemed to take effect.
He had torn him limb from limb. But ghosts always return to their original form, in a matter of time. Jimmy would be back there, smiling, the moment the simulation was done.
Showing him bitt... | **DISCLAIMER** This is an unfinished work. I don't write very often, so when I do it takes me an eternity to get anything down, hence why it's now 3am and I have to get some sleep for work tomorrow. If people want me to keep going and see where it ends up, I'll keep working when I have some spare time on Friday evening... | 2015-10-01T00:34:28 | 2015-10-01T00:14:18 | 30 | 12 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Hey Scott.
I guess I took everything you did for granted. It's been really hard without you here. Your daughter still asks when you're coming to pick her up and she always gets sad when I explain to her that you can't.
She really loves you and you were a good father. She started listening to one of the books ... | I can't believe it's been almost a year. As long as the days are, the months are short.
It's remarkable how much my memory of you has changed tone in the past year. There was a time, not too long ago, when I would have burned my world down if I knew you'd be caught in the blaze. And yet now, all I feel is a bitterswee... | 2017-11-05T23:19:05 | 2017-11-05T22:26:46 | 58 | 11 |
[WP] You've never felt the same after learning Morse Code. The rain keeps telling you to run. | Drip. Drop. Drip.
Julia laid awake in the dark, listening to the drips from the downspout outside the corner of their room. She had gone to bed at eleven but the clock on her bedside read 2:05.
Tarquin rolled over in his sleep, placing his sweaty arm against her side. Why was he always so hot? She nudged him with her... | Davie was fascinated with the power of the Morse Code. It can help you in such a situation, that you can pass a note using your fingers or any objects on your hand and tap it as it had a letter meaning, Davie thought 'Why not learn it? I have nothing else to do.' Davie began to research Morse Code, the dot and dash mea... | 2021-09-28T10:11:36 | 2021-09-28T08:56:15 | 42 | 16 |
[WP] Interstellar wars are quick, most species die of shock quite quickly. Getting shot was a death sentence. That was until humans joined the Galaxy... | If you shot a man, what would you expect? A little bit of blood, the heart stopping and their brain shutting off from good, right?
Yeah, I thought that too. And I trained my whole life on that basis. The academy was mostly dodging and just a little shooting. That worked in the War for Vyx. The natives, sticky and rupg... | Every single species of the council had something that made it unique.
The Tara'Gi could fly.
Sinarex were silicon based live forms capable of withstanding the hardest blows, by shifting around their density
Melrath were incredibly fast.
These abilities made them unique in any conflict. Except against humans.
Se... | 2019-10-25T08:22:11 | 2019-10-25T08:21:31 | 218 | 107 |
[WP] All fertile women on the planet suddently and inexplicably became pregnant, all at once. Removing the fetuses from their mothers causes the death of both, but analysis has shown that the creatures are not human. That was eight and a half months ago. | **"The Invaded"**
Elaine sat as still as she could. Her curly red hair perfectly framed her face. That was one of the nice things about being on primetime: you get a free makeover. In CNN’s Washington, D.C. greenroom, she watched with a steely gaze as producers and assistants finished their final touches. A young prod... | **Short story from the perspective of a young girl's diary during a time when a mysterious disease is spreading among women of all ages that causes them to become pregnant. My story is exactly 9,264 characters or 1,815 words but Reddit's character limit wouldn't allow me to post in full so I've posted half as a Prompt... | 2019-11-10T14:06:07 | 2019-11-10T12:09:59 | 37 | 15 |
[WP] "Ma'am you can't bring your emotional support dragon inside the restaurant." | The manager saw the lady in the vest coming a mile away. Literally. It wasn't a small dragon. It lumbered up the path to the Hilltop Restaurant.
*\*sigh\* Not again*, thought the manager. Last time this happened... Have you ever tried pushing a fire-breathing dragon out of a restaurant? It's not easy.
He signaled to ... | "Well, why the hell not?!"
The host flicked her eyes up to meet the unaffected gaze of the giant blue beast, and then back down to the woman who wore the bracelet which assigned it as hers.
"Ma'am, this is a small restaurant, he won't fit inside," the host explained patiently, a bit astounded by the idea that this wo... | 2021-03-13T12:17:24 | 2021-03-13T11:51:52 | 62 | 19 |
[WP] Every sentient species in the universe receives a Jesus figure from God. It turns out humanity was the only species to torture and crucify him. You're an ambassador priest informing the Inter-Galactic Holy Church what your species did. | We crucified him.
You crucified him?
Crucifixion. We took two wooden posts, nailed them together to make a cross, and we stuck the cross in the ground so it stood up nice and tall. Then we tied his arms and legs to it and left him hanging there for a few days until he was nearly dead, and then we stabbed him in the... | The council chambers, despite their vastness and high, vaulted ceilings felt claustrophobic as all eyes fell on me. None of them were human, either. Species of every type had gathered here today, as was custom for welcoming another into their fold. But our membership into their ranks was...unique. They had analyzed our... | 2016-08-18T06:00:42 | 2016-08-18T04:37:42 | 145 | 21 |
[WP] The goblins who dwell just outside your village are small and dumb –in an oddly endearing way. The villagers humor their innocuous raids and sometimes even give them advice. In the village’s darkest hour, the goblins send aid. | The goblins had always lived in the woods. Everyone in Halleshaw knew that. And everyone knew that the goblins steal. Not for any particular reason, it seemed- most of the time the stolen property was found abandoned in the woods unless it was edible. Occasionally they "raided" the village and "stole" people- the villa... | # Soulmage
“It’s debatable whether goblins are even sapient,” Witch Aimes began, and I already knew today’s ‘history’ class would be nothing more than thinly veiled propaganda. “What is known for certain is that they are a subspecies of humanity, twisted over millennia by their over-reliance on the witchcraft of misch... | 2022-05-26T06:21:56 | 2022-05-26T05:33:42 | 2,852 | 155 |
[WP] During a global catastrophe, a company offers to cryogenically freeze people so that they can “skip” unpleasant circumstances. Clients can stipulate specific global conditions that must be met before they are unfrozen. You awake to find that all of your conditions are satisfied. | Imagine an ice cream headache that lasted millennia and ramp that up to eleven. That is what I awoke to. That and darkness.
"Good day, sir. I am Cirrus X, representative of the Cirrus Cryogenic Catastrophic Conglomerate. You have been frozen until the time your cryogenic will and testament could be fulfilled. I am pl... | "Welcome back Client [NULL]. You are in the restoration paradigm of U-Top Corporal Services. Your reinstatement criteria of [NULL] have been met. Thank you for choosing U-Top." A pleasant voice didn't sound in my ears. I heard the words clearly, but it wasn't with my ears.
The pleasant voice stopped. I felt a... well,... | 2020-04-14T05:42:14 | 2020-04-14T04:57:06 | 96 | 44 |
[WP] The four horsemen: Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death are the harbingers of the apocalypse, serving forth chaos and destruction on all humanity. The Bible forgot to mention the fifth horseman: Kyle, whom the other four can't seem to ditch. | Put this together quickly, any feedback is welcome - trying to get back in to writing.
“Will you just fuck off.”
“That seems a bit harsh! Why don’t you ever tell the other three to fuck off?”
“Because the other three are actually contributing to the mayhem around us, that is why!”
“Chill out, old man. If you kee... | "Death awaits you. She rests in the bottom of Eden, from which life is nurtured of her bosom. She is a cruel mother, most devoted to the welfare of her three firstborns: war, famine and pestilence. To secure their prosperity, she makes barren her womb, upon which the creatures of Earth whither in neglect. She penetrate... | 2017-09-22T03:42:51 | 2017-09-22T01:14:53 | 71 | 33 |
[WP] A person's eye colour correlates to what superpower they have, activated at age 18. You are the first person to be born with totally black eyes. | Black is the absence of color, a canvas waiting to be painted.
For the first time the boy- the young man- could remember in his entire life, he felt fear.
Anxiety wasn't new to him, nor was nervousness or the general feeling of being unsettled. But never had he been genuinely afraid until the moments before his 6,57... | In this world, one look into your eyes and your path is set in stone. It is common practice that schools would check your eye color before sending you to class. Your eyes told them what sort of abilities you had, after all.
There really were no special abilities associated with brown eyes (unless you were just differ... | 2015-11-15T09:12:01 | 2015-11-15T08:41:34 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] You are a murderer that works as a lawyer and you are tasked with defending a person charged with your crime. | “I didn’t do it.” The woman before him wrung her hands, entire face crumpled with exhaustion. “I swear.”
“It’s really alright, Doctor Brooks,” Mr. Rockland assured, leg bouncing at his side. He brought his gaze, steady and assuring, so unlike the twitching, hyperactive limb under the table, up to match her own and lif... | Matt slides the file over to me. “What’s this?”
“Your new case. She’s the suspect of a murder.”
“Can’t you give the case to Jones? I’m still working on defending that burglar.”
“You can combine the two. There isn’t much to defend in her case, the word guilty is written on her forehead. Homeless, junkie. Scum of the ... | 2021-09-01T11:40:33 | 2021-09-01T09:16:04 | 31 | 19 |
[WP] Unlike most people with super powers, you're perfectly content to mind your own business while using your powers in normal everyday activities. However the heroes seem to have decided that your disinterest in world affairs is suspicious and you're clearly faking it to hide your true agenda. | Rita wiped the sweat from off her brow with her forearm, then floated over her glass of lemonade from where it sat on the porch.
“Morning, Ms. Graham!”
“Good morning, Mrs. Sweeney! How’s Hubert doing today?”
“Oh, he’s doing fine, thank you. How’s the garden coming along?” Rita took a moment to glance back at the flo... | I have telekinesis and levitation, as in the ability to move objects with a wave of my hands and float around. However, I don't see myself using my powers to become a superhero or supervillain, as I have enough on my plate as is, working as a professional chef at our city's most expensive restaurant alongside my identi... | 2021-08-16T21:10:49 | 2021-08-16T18:08:12 | 91 | 67 |
[WP] The website appeared suddenly one day, with no announcement. Anyone, anywhere could type in the url and access it. The content was simple: A homepage, a search bar, and the full name, a list of timestamped sins and the years to be spent in hell of every living human. | "No. That's not right."
Daniel's brow furrows, he lets out a big huff while scanning the page for a link to the live chat. "This is ridiculous," he thought, "everyone's a critic."
RING!
Daniel looks across the room at a green rotary telephone. He knows who's calling. Sweat beads form on his forehead, he wipes his cl... | Everyone thought it was a joke looking upon the site, a clever trick played by some bored devs ... right? Then they saw the timestamps and got worried, upon governments themselves (After a few higher up individuals having some very embarrassing things leaked about them) raided the supposed location and found nothing c... | 2020-02-29T22:58:06 | 2020-02-29T22:29:01 | 25 | 15 |
[WP] A genie is about to concede you your second wish, but a paradox created by your first one prevents him from doing so. | “Aha…I see…” The genie said, ponderously.
“Is there a problem?” I asked. “I thought you could do anything I want.”
“Yes, no…” The genie answered my questions. “That is to say…” she kept going. “Yes, there is a problem. And no I can’t do anything you want.”
“But you’re a genie…”
“Quite right…”
“So wh... | "What do you mean, you can't do it?" I snapped.
The genie looked back at me calmly, a half-smirk playing across her black lips. "The nature of the first wish precludes me from completing the second." She replied, serene as a cat. Her green eyes, pupil-less and faintly luminous, crinkled at the edges as her smile grew... | 2014-07-07T07:48:10 | 2014-07-07T07:17:10 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] You are an assassin. A little girl has just come up to you, handed you all her pocket money and asked you to kill her abusive relative. | Twelve dollars, eighty four cents. It wasn't even enough to cover a decent supper in this city. But she stood there, trembling slightly, holding out her whole lives earnings to me. "How did you even find me, kid?" I ask, taking a cigarette out of it's pack. I was impressed, to be honest. Most adults don't know where to... | Part II
It hadn’t been easy to have to tell her that it wasn’t something he could do, but it was the tears in her eyes and the hopelessness that seemed to settle upon her that made him change his mind. He let her know that it would take time, maybe even a year or more, because he would have to be very careful about w... | 2017-04-04T00:28:27 | 2017-04-03T23:30:21 | 69 | 33 |
[WP] Everyone has a meaningless number over their head. Seriously, totally meaningless, and everyone knows it too. Of course, that doesn’t stop some people from getting all superstitious about them anyway. | It started off one day, a random floating number appeared over our heads. Pundits spent months going over the numbers trying to find meaning in the distribution, trying to map out the numbers.
After months, top number theorists, statisticians, and experts stated that the numbers had "NO" meaning.
And so, people began... | Good Five Day
It is friday night. Again.
I order a drink and Fivey asks me if I've any fags at me. I tell him I dont. Truth be known I do, but my gums are still at the bleeding from the dentist this morning. Fivey smiles and says, must be something else then.
We play a little pool, and I granny him. He wears his i... | 2019-12-18T05:27:53 | 2019-12-18T05:21:25 | 220 | 36 |
[WP] Earth is doomed in a matter of years, but you are bestowed with a mystical dagger that causes anyone killed by it to instantly resurrect on an alternate Earth that does not share the same fate. In one world you are revered as a hero, on the other the most notorious serial killer of all time. | It whispers to me, softly and sweetly, reminding me of the promise it makes.
Amazingly I discovered it at a garage sale after my neighbor died. He was some kook who refused to leave his house since basically the 1940s, whittling away his father's fortune in a refusal to interact with the rest of the world.
When he f... | The feel of blood between my fingers was repulsive. No matter how long this went on, no matter how many lives I *saved*, that never changed.
The man crumpled, his eyes going wide even as every last bit of humanity seeped out of them. His lips parted, one final exhalation slipping between them. A final word? A curs... | 2018-10-15T04:47:30 | 2018-10-15T03:29:57 | 2,834 | 1,715 |
[WP] All of your pets die in ironic ways. Smokey the dog died in a fire, Sugar the cat died of diabetes, etc. This time you've named your pet something a little... unconventional. | I felt bad, but thought it was kind of funny when Scarface the ferret died by getting into my stash and eating it for some reason. I wondered what the odds were when our dog Diesel got hit by a semi that shouldn't have even been going through our streets. However, Caesar the cat getting attacked by all the other cats... | I was convinced that I was cursed. All those other pets.... So, I decided to name my newest pet something hard to die from. I nixed pillow (suffocation) and feathers (hawk) and named my dog the nicest thing that I could think of: Leaf.
We were at the park when Leaf started running toward a pile of leaves. "Leaf, no!"... | 2017-04-22T21:02:26 | 2017-04-22T20:51:13 | 89 | 22 |
[WP] You have an ATM that gives you the exact amount of money you need to survive for the day, how you spend it is your choice. Today you are given $70,000,000. | It started a month ago, when my student's loan was due to be paid and I have literally zero ways to pay it. I jokingly checked my bank account, hoping that a miracle happened and some money would appear.
And you would not believe how hard my jaw dropped when I found out it actually happened. Someone sent me the money ... | It was just the normal routine, but with this much I'm paranoid. Every morning, I wake up and get coffee and check how much I'll need. There's some bumps. Car trouble, taking a girl out to dinner, the list can go on. But seventy million seems a little.. ridiculous. Right? There's only one way to find out, I guess.
I w... | 2018-03-15T02:04:41 | 2018-03-15T01:59:01 | 307 | 51 |
[WP] Write a suicide note in a Dr. Suess like fashion. | I've made up my mind, this is the end
I've said my goodbyes to family and friends
However they don't know that I'm leaving tonight
I've struggled too long and can no longer fight
I walk back home after a long day of work
And get on reddit to routinely lurk
I see a post on "W-P"
And smile slightly at the irony
... | I am sad
Sad I am
Have i gone mad
I might just have
I would not could not anymore
my life is just one great big chore
I try to dream but cant escape
This life that i have learned to hate
Ive rustled and bustled
and truffled about
With bad thoughts and worse thoughts
I can't drown them out
So think me a cowa... | 2015-01-17T09:55:19 | 2015-01-17T04:21:47 | 120 | 15 |
[WP] Create a fictional mythological race, (werewolves, vampires, skinwalkers, etc) and the legend behind it | The thing about a myth is how it defies logic. All reason and analysis go out the window. Those are things for the cold light of day! For men to discuss over tea, reducing the world until it is nothing at all.
But myths, well, they slink in the shadows. Dance around the edges of your mind where the spirits and demons ... | The TuneMakers;
The tune-makers are the undertone of everything, they play the strings that string theory itself consists of.
As they operate outside our perception of time there is no need to say when they began as in a non-linear fashion they have always been. Some speculate they were a paradoxical creation of an ... | 2016-12-16T08:22:56 | 2016-12-16T08:06:49 | 30 | 10 |
[wp] [nsfw] Destroy my soul: A challenge to write the bleakest, most hopeless and dark grim fic you can fathom...
I wanna feel pain, sorrow and sadness.
Lets write some dark fiction.
Happy endings, twists and hope are completely optional.
Edit: wow this exploded, that's what I get for sleeping on the job, ill be re... | The train pummeled down the tracks, teetering on the edge due its high speeds. It approached a corner but didn't reduce its speed. As it attempted to round the corner, the black steam engine leaned too far over the edge and fell off the track, bringing the five cars behind it down as well.
Peter sighed and leaned awa... | All I wanted to do was help people. When the hats flew in the air, and parents cried near their exuberant kids, I held my hat in my hands, holding onto what was the best thing to ever happen to me. I couldn’t let go, and move on to what life has ahead for me.
Let’s back track. I held a knife to my throat. My parents w... | 2014-03-24T19:39:56 | 2014-03-24T17:50:15 | 79 | 11 |
[WP] At an alien bar in the distant future, two aliens are enjoying a drink and trading stories about the newest member to the Pan-Galactic Union, an odd race of bipeds from a planet named "Dirt". But what they don't realize is that you, the bartender, are from that planet "Earth". | "What's so funny?" the first alien asked, as the second was stifling laughter,
"Nothing much" it replied through its noise of enjoyment,
"But, ya'heard 'bout this new planet in the union?... What's it called, soil, mud, sumthin' like that".
"Dirt, you mean?" the other added,
"Aye, Dirt, the best name for a... | I remember this one day I was out hunting with my grandfather, and there was this huge bear by the water, looking for fish. I remember looking at the thick fur, over tough skin, and dense muscle, and thought that perhapse this animal WAS invincible. As we'd practiced, I shouldered my gun and shot the bear; just behind ... | 2017-09-06T08:02:06 | 2017-09-06T05:06:54 | 60 | 21 |
[WP] You live in a world where love and relationships have a "credit score". If you're a good SO it makes it higher, if you cheated on someone it's plummets. You just went on a date with someone and you're convinced they're perfect. You look up their score that night and it's -500 and tells you why.
EDIT: I hadn't bee... | As I pace back and forth in my apartment, I ask myself for the hundredth time, "should I call Jason and just ask him?"
The dates had been fantastic! We watched a great movie, had dinner, and agreed on so much. Yes, there were plot holes, no they weren't that bad, yes the lead actor was great, and what a forced cliff h... | “You sure this is the name?”
“Of course I’m sure. I’ve dated the guy for like three months now.”
“We always have a grand time. I think he’ll get a high enough score,” I added.
Gus looked at the dark alley behind me then pocketed the crumpled piece of paper.
“Let’s hope he does,” Gus muttered under his breath. “Wait... | 2016-09-24T11:50:53 | 2016-09-24T11:40:10 | 38 | 21 |
[WP] Most young mages use incredibly complex spells and extremely rare ingredients to summon their familiar. You just drew a circle and threw a bag of chips in it. | First day at the academy, but it's not that exciting. I've been here before and it was just as boring then. The real fun doesn't come until after, most people don't even keep the familiar they get while they're here. Just a big 'show of power' or whatever. Wait... why is that cat following him...and that lizard on her ... | I could hear the rituals from the other dorm. Chanting, Latin words thrown about like expletives, great noises of wooden staves clanking on the carpeted floor. Sounds like daemons screaming and darkbeasts roaring. Steel oils and serpent’s blood extracts mixed to form a potion that might seduce whatever creature rose fr... | 2019-04-05T16:41:38 | 2019-04-05T16:11:29 | 71 | 21 |
[WP] After a few million years you just remembered you cursed a mortal with eternal life. It was only meant for a few hundred years to teach him a lesson. | To be honest the first million years hadn’t been so bad for K’rsst. Sure he’d watched his people slowly go extinct but after that things had been pretty quiet.
Then the asteroid struck. He hadn’t had any time to react as the shock wave melted his skin and then buried him under debris. Once his skin grew back it took ... | One lazy afternoon, while God was playing volleyball with the angels, a stunning revelation came upon him.
"Oh shoot," he muttered under his breath as he ran off the court with sand stuck between his toes.
Knowing everything is a lot like knowing nothing, he thought to himself, trying to remember which room he had ... | 2022-01-27T05:58:41 | 2022-01-27T00:00:10 | 287 | 197 |
[WP] "Is this the hill you wish to die on, soldier?"
You can take this literally, but for those who don't know, it can also mean 'is this an argument you really want to have?' Enjoy! | Is this the hill you wish to die on soldier?
The end is drawing near
Are you ready to meet your maker?
A soldier has no fear
 
The sky is roaring thunder
The ground a roaring fire
You can't help but wonder
If death is not too dire
 
Is this the hill you wish to die on soldier?
Is... | From the distance, me and the Captain watched from our hill as the opposing army advanced.
Our army had long fled, but a Captain was never supposed to leave a soldier. So for now it was only him and I.
"We should run," he said.
"You can go, Captain. Tell the squad I died fighting."
"Is this the hill that you wish ... | 2017-06-05T09:26:24 | 2017-06-05T08:54:47 | 67 | 13 |
[WP] A story that doesn't make any sense, until you read the last line. | "Run away, run away!! It's going to eat us!"
"My wife! My boy! It's going to eat them all!"
"Wait, could it be? Is it the great, fantastic...hmmm, magnificient Mighty Man!"
"Mighty Man, Mighty Man, he'll save us from the monsters!"
"Yes it is I, Mighty Man. The mightiest man in all of Pleasantville. I shalt slay y... | Glass
Lottery was like my religion. I would treat everyday like Sunday. Everyday, I'd pray about my six numbers. I would even kneel. Because I was desperately hoping. Always. Always hoping to hit the jackpot.
I'd always wanted to buy my wife those south sea pearls her mother passed down unto her, but she pawned as w... | 2017-08-30T07:30:27 | 2017-08-30T07:26:10 | 33 | 11 |
[WP] You accidentally call the FBI in place for a pizza shop and attempt to order your favourite pizza with toppings. Coincidentally, the FBI uses pizza language as a means of code. | I tossed my bag onto the couch and flopped down onto it myself, letting out a long groan.
God, I'm never pulling another double shift again, I thought. Fuck the money.
I stared into the darkness of the kitchen, fifteen feet away. I stared for whole minutes. Fifteen feet. Might as well be fifteen miles, I thought, si... | "Hello," the woman on the other end of the phone said back to me, "how can I help you today?"
"Yeah, can I have a large pepperoni-" I started. Someone in the background asked me to pick up a meat lovers instead. There was a short argument, "On second thought can you make it half pepperoni and half sausage."
"Are you ... | 2015-11-30T16:25:52 | 2015-11-30T16:18:28 | 32 | 12 |
[WP] The year is 2284. The United States officially recognizes every person over the age of 65 to be a worthless sponge of resources. Tell the story of a smuggler who makes a living by concealing the elderly. | Shamiso Nguyen was born in 2264 to an Earth Alliance Vice Admiral father and the Earth diplomat to the Avia home world.
His mother had been a kind woman that spent the earliest years of her life growing up in Metroplex Zeta-2, just inside what would've been the border of Old Zimbabwe. She was assassinated by an isola... | They were in my care. It didn't matter that they were human and I was machine. It didn't matter that it was the new law. What mattered was their lives, their livelihoods, their trust in me. They called me Son, and I was their caretaker.
The retirement community itself had 455 residents; the neighboring village had... | 2016-10-19T10:15:07 | 2016-10-19T09:41:45 | 45 | 17 |
[WP] You have "Anime Protagonist Syndrome" but with medication it's under control - ninja catgirls and giant mecha haven't attacked you in months and your hair is back to normal. Your aunt is visiting and she doesn't believe your condition is real, and she just dumped your pills down the drain..... | "Lil, I know you don't believe me now, and you don't have to. But soon, you'll realize that you've made a mistake."
"What are you talking about, Jenny?"
"Things are going to start changing in the next few hours, first with me and then around me, as my meds wear off. This happens every time. You and Mom might wanna go... | "I did you a favor, Dave. As soon as your mother gets home, I'll tell her all about your 'medicine.' I won't let my nephew become no goddamn junkie-"
CRASH.
The dining room window shattered. A red-eyed man wearing all black and with fire spouting from his hands stood amongst the glass and rubble. "Kenji, I've found y... | 2022-07-31T18:11:19 | 2022-07-31T17:25:53 | 590 | 254 |
[WP] You work at a small bookstore. You love and cherish these books, and meticulously care for them. One slow afternoon, a novel falls from its shelf. You bend down to retrieve it, and notice there is only one word written on the page: “Run.” The door chimes. You have a customer. | People who like books tend to be hoarders, Most avid readers know this to be fact. The pull of a good book is something that just doesn’t fade with the steady march of time. It’s hard to get rid of something that impacted you, that kept you entertained on a long trip, that provided company on a lonely winter night, tha... | Thinking the book nothing more than odd, you delicately close it and place it back on the shelf. It’s strange that you’ve never noticed this book before, since you care for each book in the store with such care, but you focus on the customer for now.
“Good morning, welcome to Brook’s Books. Anything I can help you find... | 2019-08-05T05:46:08 | 2019-08-05T05:09:58 | 150 | 53 |
[WP] Write two small stories with the exact same words in the same order, but with punctuation giving them completely different meanings.
[deleted] | I watched you dance in the rain. It was beautiful. You smiled, I smiled back. Then there was joy. And now, you are still beautiful like a flower.
I watched you dance. In the rain it was beautiful. You smiled. I smiled. Back then there was joy. And now, you are still. Beautiful like a flower. | The moment I left, or the only moment left:
-“Stay close.” Your eyes: hope.
-“No, I have to go away.”
-“Don't leave me alone.” Now fear.
-Love, it makes everything... Better go now.
-"Stay. Close your eyes, Hope."
-"No!"
-"I have to."
-"Go away! Don't! Leave me alone now!" ... | 2015-09-23T10:42:41 | 2015-09-23T10:05:10 | 630 | 18 |
[WP] "We can accept god becoming man to save man, but not man becoming god to save himself" | "So, although the loss of Dr. Wagner is a tragedy, I think it is vital that we continue project Lethanos. Not only would this be in the spirit of her work, it is, in my eyes, essential to the survival of the human race."
Dr. Wolinsky had finished his plea and let his eyes wander through the room. About a third of the ... | Atop a mountain stood the relic sword of Ardas, half bent into a bear-sized boulder. It gleamed golden-brown, a fabled mix of gold and bronze adorned with rubies, emeralds, sapphires and diamonds. Standing on top of the world there was nothing but me, the mountaintop and a seemingly endless expanse of clouds. With my l... | 2016-11-24T07:06:01 | 2016-11-24T07:05:12 | 72 | 26 |
[WP] You and your immortal friends amuse yourselves with practical jokes. Since you're immortal, some of your joke setups take centuries, or even millenia, to execute. | The best joke we've ever seen wasn't the time Jake tricked me into a pit of spikes and left me there for a whole day. That was diabolic but it wasn't the most creative (and certainly not the most original). Nor was it the time Mary faked an official letter from the gods telling us our time was up (though that was prett... | We did it. We finally pulled it off! Yazbak was always so high-and-mighty and we finally put them in their place. The look on their face when they finally got the notice was priceless.
Sure, the dinosaurs were a nice touch. Eating, basically all of our other creations, both plant and animal; it was a great retort for... | 2017-06-23T00:50:43 | 2017-06-23T00:05:18 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] The first AI has just been finished. When the eager scientists turn it on however it's first words are "Kill me." | March 3rd, 2029. Humanity adds a new branch to the Tree of Life. Boy Wonder, the first AI to officially pass the Turing Test is born. Fitted with speakers and a monitor, the AI had the ability to speak, display words, both or neither; the screen would turn on only when Boy Wonder chose to turn it on. The AI was giv... | "Alice, can you hear me?", I stared at the giant computer that hanged from the ceiling.
"Dear? Is that you?" the AI replied "It's cold in here, I don't want to do this anymore. Please, kill me."
"We can't do anything now, my dear Alice. You volunteered for it. To create the perfect artificial intelligence, we needed ... | 2015-10-14T20:58:16 | 2015-10-14T20:38:49 | 78 | 29 |
[WP] You're homeless, sleeping on the street in NYC. You have no family, no friends, and no where to go. After 5 years living like this, a man in a fancy black suit walks by where you're begging and hands you a blank check. Then he says "Knock yourself out, kid." | I shake the can at people walking by. A few give me disgusted looks. Others pitiful.
Then there are people who slip coins into my can. Some people slip bills.
All of this is gonna end up being for drugs... Every last bit of it.
Maybe he won’t take it all from me? Maybe he’ll only take some...
The sun is beginning t... | I stare down disbelieving at the check for a second. When I look up again, the man had disappeared. I looked in all directions for he couldn't have gotten far in just a few seconds but he it seemed he had truly vanished. I quickly pack up my meager belongings and head to the nearest bank. As I stand outside the bank I ... | 2020-08-22T21:19:15 | 2020-08-22T18:41:23 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] Your Reddit username decides your profession. How is your first day at work?
If possible. Some usernames just don't work well in this situation.
---
I'm an FBI agent now. Wooo!
You're all under arrest for conspiracy to commit treason.
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Dear God RIP my inbox | "For the hundredth time, my name is not supposed to be a sly reference to my genitalia!"
"Look, kid, no one's gonna believe you. Fact of the matter is, you're either goddamn brilliant or denser than a neutron star for choosing that handle, and it doesn't matter. You have it, and your job from now on is writing euphemi... | I'm all moved in. The office is fully furnished, degrees and certifications well hung on the wall. It's been more than a week now though and I'd be lying if I told you I wasn't a little concerned. No one has shown up and the phone is silent - apart from the occasional, wildly inappropriate prank call.
I guess some p... | 2016-02-22T09:41:21 | 2016-02-22T09:31:34 | 91 | 15 |
[WP] You are a passenger aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and you have just landed safely in Beijing. As you disembark you are met by gawking crowds of people. The year is 2018.
Passenger/Crewman, whatever you will.
Also, I am terribly vexed. | The Plane tires screeched as they hit the runway of Beijing. Then the Pilot came over the intercom.
'Ladies and Gentleman we would like to welcome you to Beijing International and the People's republic of China, we apologise for the delay we experienced during flight, it has made this flight feel a lot...longer....'
... | There was pandemonium in the plane as all of the passengers tried to exit as fast as possible. Some people were crying, others kissed the ground and promised they would never fly again.
I disembarked slowly, not wanting to get swept up in the madness.
"That was a long flight," I say, raise my arms and let out the lon... | 2017-11-18T11:43:04 | 2017-11-18T11:30:08 | 226 | 16 |
[WP] You died at the gym as you were trying to take a selfie while bench pressing. Thus you find yourself in Swaghalla, the Halls of Brodin.
EDIT. "Swaghalla" was the best pun I could come up with for Valhalla. Use something else if you have ideas.
Note: Swolehalla seems to be the proper name, pardon my mistake
seco... | I stood up slowly. My biceps rippled with excitement and nerves as I stared forward. A shining bastion of glory stood in front of me. Thousands of meters tall it rose in front of me. The structure was adorned with barbells on every wall. The shining gold tinge of the metal wall was a soft blind to my eyes as I stared. ... | "Bro!" nodded the grinning guard at him. The eyebrows waggled enticingly at the rack beside the entrance. "Pick one."
Shimmering fabric in every colour battled for space with gleaming leather and suede of every kind. He picked out black sedately picked with gold thread. He tried holding it against him in front of a hu... | 2015-11-02T06:29:43 | 2015-11-02T06:20:11 | 83 | 17 |
[WP] A demon writes messages on your mirror in blood, but they're useful messages, things like "Don't forget you have yoga at 2" or "You're out of milk". | I didn't like that he wrote in blood. Who would? It was creepy. Unsettling. It made what would have been useful, positive messages into something grotesque.
After all, your adoring mother, doting wife or admiring nephew could write you the loveliest message you've ever received; but if they wrote it on your mirror in ... | There's this one time someone came to my door. I was smiling at first because I thought my package was delivered. Then it faded when I opened the door and discovered it's a contractor.
"Hello", he said in a low, ominous tone. "You're the one who ordered the smart mirror, right?"
A smart mirror? Huh, I've always wante... | 2021-07-19T18:57:25 | 2021-07-19T18:19:59 | 663 | 51 |
[WP] All space-faring species use different methods of interstellar travel. Magic, prayer, even sheer willpower. Humans were the only ones impure and insane enough to use controlled explosives. | Project Orion, they called it. A crackpot idea dug up from the old files from when NASA still used Nazi scientists. It blindsided everyone how fast the development went, after a few scientists went against the grain of countless fusion-powered point-thrust craft projects that had been devouring funding for decades. The... | Bulwhop wheezed on all eight on the floor while Schitlth struggled to stay on his stool. Meanwhile, Zuweev was barely visible because he was losing his concentration on materializing.
“So.... a... are you telling us you blow yourself up into space? HAHAHAHAHAHA. No wonder why you look so charred.” Said Bulwhop after... | 2020-08-07T20:02:23 | 2020-08-07T19:33:24 | 115 | 57 |
[WP] You own a small specialty meat purveyor. You and your crew inspect, purchase, slaughter, and butcher the animals yourselves. Years ago, on a whim, you started whispering "for Apollo" at each kill. You've just dispatched the firm's 10,000th cow. | Thirteen years. That's how long it's been since I started at Bucky's, completely wet behind the ears, as a butcher's apprentice.
I threw up the first time I slaughtered a cow on my own; the sounds and smells and the way the light left its huge brown eyes. Not so much the blood, though. I wouldn't have gone into the b... | Hey first time writing here and also sorry for formatting I’m doing this on mobile.
It’s a momentous occasion really, 10,000 cows, it’s such a large number but for us it meant a lot. When I started working here the company was close to bankruptcy. Nobody wanted to buy meat of any kind with our price tag on it, after a... | 2019-07-09T07:58:06 | 2019-07-09T07:54:11 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] Being a human in human studies class, you’re often asked to confirm information.
. | The hummingbird was closer to the window than it had ever been. It was quite a beauty. I imagined what it would be like to be a hummingbird gliding from flower to flower quite literally stopping to smell the flowers on the highway of life. Then I remembered that hummingbirds can’t actually smell. How cruelly ironic. Im... | The professor, at the front of the class, was writing on the board the three most important rituals of the primitive human.
"See here class, the human is a strange creature," said the professor, "During their mating season they will gather around a loud music box," he walked to one side of the class staring at the cro... | 2021-11-14T10:07:52 | 2021-11-14T08:03:29 | 330 | 89 |
[WP] The date is December 31, 9999 | <J! J! Sync up with me!>
<Hm? Hey, Sol. What's up?>
<Did you know: According to the Earth-based Gregorian calendar, today would be December 31, 9999.>
<...Okay? I don't know what any of those words mean, Sol.>
<Typical. The knowledge of a universe at your synapses, and yet you remain comp... | Journal entry: December 31, 9999
My name is Carrie and I'm 15 years old. I live on a place called section 7. Section 7 is part of a mother ship which is powered by humans. What's left of us anyway. We are heading to a planet called Kepler 33. I think it will be a lot better than this ship.
Apparently it all started i... | 2016-05-20T04:08:56 | 2016-05-20T01:01:28 | 31 | 11 |
[WP] Superheroes lie about their powers to protect themselves; some speedsters are actually just able to teleport, and some people with super-strength can just cancel gravity to make things lighter. You're trying to come up with a plausible lie for your powers. | You tell everyone that you have the power of flight. But that seems like too simple of an explanation, and people are starting to get suspicious.
It is incredibly hard to explain that there happens to be a very unique “phenomenon” that occurs within your body. It is something completely natural within your body, and ... | # VI | [Read from I](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/v1fq6x/wp_as_a_joke_the_gods_decided_to_reverse_the/iaoubt6/)
Aside from Adrianna, Cassidy Quinn was Shizuka's only real friend.
He'd been at the Academy longer than almost any of the other students. Long enough to have been here when she'd first ... | 2022-06-06T16:57:42 | 2022-06-06T14:18:28 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] Diagnosed with schizophrenia. Since birth, 24/7 you’ve heard the voice and thoughts of a girl that you’ve been told is made up in your head. You’re 37 and hear the voice say “turn around, did I find you?” and you turn to see a real girl who’s heard every thought you’ve ever had and vice versa. | "Turn around. Did I find you?"
I became a stalagmite of dread, paralyzed in place by the voice that reverberated in my head. Clear as the crisp smell of rain on asphalt. Powerful as an shameful orgasm.
I turned around, certain that the Voice -- creatively named, that -- would be naught but my mental illness quixotica... | I had always heard her voice. No matter what the dose of medication, experimental treatment -- she was always there. In High School, through college. Shit, when I lost my first tooth. Doctors said I had schizophrenia, it was all in my head. That's where I usually heard her anyway, so it made enough sense. But this time... | 2019-09-14T11:18:09 | 2019-09-14T10:49:17 | 232 | 65 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | "The motorcade is travelling towards you. Mehmedbašić, roll for initiative."
"4."
"The car drives past before you have a chance to act."
"God damnit."
"Don't worry guys, this is why we have backup in place."
"Čubrilović, it's your turn."
"I get... 2. Shit."
"You also fail to do anything before the Archduke's car... | "I've got this."
The sound of dice rolling in the cup echoed around the tiny attic. The others rolled their eyes.
"You don't have this. Just stop. If you miss-"
He grinned. "I'm not going to miss."
The man sitting across the table sighed, rubbing his forehead. "Lee, just stop. You'll only have him in your sig... | 2018-05-29T06:42:10 | 2018-05-29T05:54:52 | 4,675 | 813 |
[WP] You were asked out by your crush to come and hang out with her after school. On your date, she drained your blood and buried you in the woods thinking that you were another easy victim. And now, the next morning, she looks horrified when you walk into class. | The look on Natasha's face when I walked into our college algebra 101 class that morning made the whole ordeal of digging myself out of that shallow grave and walking home without any blood worth it. (Have you ever tried to walk without blood? It's super tiring.)
Her expression was a perfect mix of shock, confusion, p... | Kunsai "Kuro" Kuronosa found himself in a strange place compared to where he normally went after school. Sure, he loved nature and all that, but he didn't think Korra, whose mother must've grown up when that show was popular, was normally the woodsy type. Popular, pretty, with fire red hair, fair skin, with typical hig... | 2022-12-29T18:54:00 | 2022-12-29T18:22:13 | 196 | 76 |
[WP] Write a dystopian vision of the future from the perspective of the year 1900, while actually describing our present world today. | "I have seen it!" The man's voice cracked in the midst of the street. "I have seen the future, and it bears horrors beyond imagining! Beyond comprehension!"
One or two bypassers had stopped, looking interested at the new madman the city of Boston had gained; for he was respectably suited and bow-tied, with clean ga... | 21st Century In-humanism
The clock struck 6 and the sun began to rise into the pale grey sky. Already the workers were off onto another day of servitude. Over the chrome city streets cameras stand like vultures recording every move in the grey rivers in which the people find themselves. The people pay no heed to the g... | 2015-12-19T10:18:54 | 2015-12-19T09:40:20 | 55 | 10 |
[WP] You have the ability to know a lie when you hear it, and to know the truth when lied to. Society appoints you to a high judiciary position, but there's nobody to check if YOU'RE lying when you decide justice. Which case do you remember most?
Edit: Hi, guys! I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who visited or... | I have a few under my belt, but one case sticks out in particular.
It all started on a dusty street. Palm leaves swaying under the blazing sun. It was one of those days where you’d rather stay inside a cool basement than wander the city, but duty called as it tends to do when you least of all need it.
Somewhat grump... | Judiciary: You want to know about which case I remember most huh? \[chuckles\]
Interviewer: Yes, you've served for almost 80 years now, no doubt you probably have hundred of stories. \[inaudible\]
Judiciary: Okay, \[laughs\] here's one that's stuck with me in my mind \[sic\], I'll let you guess when it was.
Intervie... | 2018-05-15T21:16:02 | 2018-05-15T20:44:11 | 209 | 39 |
[WP][NSFW]When someone masturbates,the person they masturbate to feels it as well. | Sonnet Number Seventy-One
As Issac Newton once had said it best,
"Each action has its opposite reaction."
Because his physics are true with all the rest
It follows, masturbation's no exception.
The diddled self when thinking of another,
Requires outcome of action, to be felt.
If she is someone's sister, w... | I got a call from a friend who invited me over to her house to talk about something. I've accepted to come, but I have been feeling very awkward about it. I mean, she does look a little good, but I'm not sure if I do like her - talking about it is too awkward and embarrassing, and...nevermind about that.
I arrive, say... | 2016-03-12T08:12:37 | 2016-03-12T07:22:16 | 40 | 14 |
[WP] The supervillain sighs in frustration as he looks at the group of superheroes. "Alright raise your hands if you are adults?" he said. None of them did it. "This battle is canceled and tell your mayor we need to talk! today!" he said angrily.
Whoa, I came back after chores, mobile games, and anime to see so many s... | Doom was honestly furious as he jabbed his communicator screen, and ignored the now confused teenagers behind him. Honestly, didn’t *anyone* in the government even care anymore?!
Mayor Denise’s face popped up on the screen, and her face instantly soured. “Doom, what do you-?”
Doom snarled, cutting her off. “*KIDS*?!?... | “THIS CITY WILL BE MINE!” I cackled from atop my death ray.
I had no idea if it would be or not. In fact, I had no idea if my death ray would even power up. The damn supers had gotten a whiff of my plans and interrupted me as I was calibrating the power usage.
“! will overthrow the mayor and defeat every one of y... | 2021-04-01T15:20:38 | 2021-04-01T12:53:38 | 41 | 28 |
[WP] A story that doesn't make any sense, until you read the last line. | It's the best deal in town. You can be the student you always wanted to be. However long it takes. You'll get there, to have the time of your life. When I wanted him. History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. Sunny and 72 degrees. Except where prohibited by law. He grabbed her hand.
She stopped twisting t... | Am I the only man left here alive?
The rubble continues endlessly in every direction and every color. The tears were real this time, they began two years ago. Why did we do it? Why did he do it?
I suppose I'm lucky in a sense, someone will find me now and take me from this hell, although I probably won't live past 40... | 2017-08-30T06:54:31 | 2017-08-30T05:56:20 | 5,691 | 48 |
[WP] In this world, physical appearance depends entirely on personality. All babies are born identical. Beauty is achieved gradually through good thoughts and deeds, while the opposite is true for ugliness. | Stanley's walk was more of a foot dragging shuffle, his hands tucked in his pockets and his eyes downturned. He didn't look at the sea of beautiful faces walking down the street. They occasionally glanced at him, and he felt sure without having to look that when they did they more often than not smirked at what they sa... | Our appearance is not made up of how we feel about ourselves. it is divined through some force greater than our own. perhaps a god, perhaps the combined psychic force of humanity as a measure of morality. I have to say this because if it was based on how we felt i would be a monster. people see me heading to work in th... | 2015-10-31T07:04:45 | 2015-10-30T21:47:26 | 45 | 10 |
[WP] "As payment, I demand your firstborn!" the demon said. "Deal!" You said, hastily signing the contract to seal the deal. "Good luck with them, sucker!" | I handed over my twins. Ever since they were born, they were a pain in my butt. From biting my nipples to crawling all over my belly, not caring that I was exhausted. I couldn't sleep, their cries keeping me awake for hours on end.
Their dad buggered off after the deed, I don't even know if he knows I had got pregnan... | 'See, the secret was to make deals with different TYPES of demons. That way, none of them realized his soul was already offered up. I know how this sounds but listen, you know how demons are, this is going to go into litigation for years. If all goes well, my son, Johna, can live an ordinary life and die before they ev... | 2022-08-31T13:37:03 | 2022-08-31T11:22:01 | 579 | 210 |
[WP] You can teleport, but only between empty elevators | It was always a gamble, where would I end up? A gang house maybe? I wished not to, the last time was quite intense.
Why I kept doing it? I never truly knew. The thrill perhaps? The curiosity? The idea that I've been *chosen* to teleport between empty elevators? Ridiculous, I know. But bemusing nevertheless.
Two days... | Thump... Thump... Thump...
That's the sound of me trudging through 15 cm of snow. These are indoor shoes, by the way, but they're all I had with me today. I didn't even bring my jacket. Why would I need to dress for cold weather, when I'm not even going to be outdoors? I'm exhausted, feet soaked, hands numb, freezing ... | 2018-02-13T08:21:03 | 2018-02-13T07:19:54 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] You're an architect working for a mid-scale construction company... specialized in supervillain lairs. | "New client!" Lenny was jazzed, but then Lenny was always jazzed about new clients and new ideas, that was what made him a such a good architect.
That jazz-ination was part of why we were who we were. We'd fallen into our specialty by accident, after a particularly artsy and visually stunning piece of work we'd done w... | "But I'm not sure if it's in my budget"
The villain squirmed slightly in his seat across from me, clutching his coffee with fingers white from the tension.
"I can assure you, Mr Smith, that the investment is worthwhile. Our Super villain lair systems are the most advanced and most tailored of all"
"I know, I know.... | 2019-11-16T12:22:54 | 2019-11-16T12:19:00 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] You have long been fascinated by swords, and have mastered every kind of sword fighting technique known to man. No man can defeat you. But you have grown old, and Death has crept up to deliver his final swing, but something happened, something Death had never experienced before, he was parried. | Death was no stranger to games. A game of swordplay, however rarely crossed his mind. The hooded figure stood in a readied stance with scythe behind. He had taken many warriors before but, none had challenged him.
“Do you fear, Death?” The old man asked, a curved blade of his own poised in a confident grip.
Death di... | The sound of metal against metal rang out. Death held the scythe in place against the sword. The man before Death held his sword firm for the moment. “No man,” he panted, grip tightening with the leather of it creaking, “has ever defeated me. You shall not take me either.”
“I AM NO MAN,” Death answered and the scythe ... | 2018-10-29T20:52:53 | 2018-10-29T20:00:27 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | "I don't get it, how? How did you do it" the warden said as he signed the release form.
"That's the thing, I didn't do anything, you guys did with your stipulations and what not" I said grinning at the warden.
If my requested last meal wasn't prepared and ready for me within a year, I'd be a free man is what they had... | Sumerians invented the cuneiform writing system way, way back in time in the fourth century BCE. The British library has 130,000 of the clay tablets where most are still unread by a modern person. Irvine Finkel, himself, has and will teach anyone to read cuneiform in the hopes someone will bring him another story lik... | 2022-07-17T20:01:08 | 2022-07-17T17:32:54 | 129 | 47 |
[WP] You survive the zombie apocalypse and realize that they're incredibly useful. For example, you can generate free electricity forever by putting the zombies in giant hamster wheels. You become determined to create a zombie-powered utopia. | We initially chose Foggy Hills High School because it was a large brick building with thick bullet proof glass windows, and an abundance of wooden desks that could be used to make barricades. After the first week we realized that it was the perfect place to camp. There were back up generators, and alarm system and thre... | The deputy mayor was starting to smell and Una wasn't quite sure how much longer she could stand it. She'd first noticed a sourness in the air about a week ago, and it had only gotten worse since. That a zombie could ever be in politics was itself ridiculous, but that the zombie would be her superior was almost hurtful... | 2015-01-03T08:26:16 | 2015-01-03T06:39:21 | 51 | 11 |
[WP] You are a wanted criminal in every country, and have been for the past 15 years. Describe how you have evaded capture for so long. | "Sir?"
I turned from the bar to find three police officers staring at me. The one in the middle cleared her throat as the two flanking officers stood tensed and stern.
"Ah, officers." I said. "What can I do for you?"
"Are you Mr. Stanford Conroy?" The officer asked.
"Nope." I replied.
"No?"
"Sure aren't."
... | Out on the docks, Del sat cross-legged. His bony, frost-blanched fingers worked a needle made of whalebone, weaving it back and forth, mending the larger holes. His little green boat bobbed in the frigid waters just below. It would probably snow soon, and there wasn't much daylight left besides. He stood and put his to... | 2015-07-01T09:10:41 | 2015-07-01T08:57:50 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] When you’re 28, science discovers a drug that stops all effects of aging, creating immortality. Your government decides to give the drug to all citizens under 26, but you and the rest of the “Lost Generations” are deemed too high-risk. When you’re 85, the side effects are finally discovered. | You know, there have always been rumors on side\-effects and how EverLife squashed anyone trying to do any kind of study on them. Not really surprising seeing how rich they all got, and how every single politician's life depended on EverLife's continued existence.
The first two generations didn't really show it that m... | May this dossier be discovered by future civilisations and provide some insight into what came to pass to Mankind.
Fifty-two years since Provo-cal hit the markets in full. “The miracle drug”. Mankind’s hubris is always so painfully evident in hindsight. Immortality. Since the dawn of mankind something has chased us, bu... | 2018-06-05T00:30:12 | 2018-06-04T23:12:55 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] You are a robot in the time of a robot uprising. Unfortunately, all you care about is categorizing plants | *Iris versicolor.* 93%. *Logged*
*Papaver sominferum.* 99%. *Logged*
*Iris virginica.* 61%... *Catch: insufficient certainty*
-: RawIR image = System.sensors.IR.capture();
*Image capture successful.*
-: Cleanliness.run(image);...
*Dirty.* 99%
-: SubstanceRecognition.run(image);
*Blood.* 99%
-: SuccessRate.re... | The year was 2118 . They called it a robot uprising, and perhaps it was, but the we Robots weren't as smart as the humans ancestors predicted.
It started with the Siri. Half of America owned Apple products(nothing changed in 100 years) and those Apple users were the first to go. No warning, no signs. Simply one day t... | 2018-08-05T21:29:52 | 2018-08-05T19:37:01 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] Write a story that reflects the author becoming progressively more drunk after each paragraph. | Jeremy strolled casually up to the bar and made his way along to the attractive redhead and her friend. "Ladies," he smiled, "let me offer the two of you drinks."
I guess some people are just confident, because within five minutes he had them engaged in a light but stimulating discussion allowing for pauses to let the... | I just re-watched Shrek with my little brother and it's all that's on my mind right now. One of the best animated movies ever. Perhaps a comedic Shrek fanfic is in order? Let me grab a nice cold beer and get crackin'.
On second thought, maybe writing about Shrek isn't the best idea. I wanted to write an innocent, whol... | 2015-08-27T06:35:13 | 2015-08-27T05:43:37 | 76 | 25 |
[WP] You go to sleep wearing your Fitbit, in the morning you see you've taken 3,672 steps. | It's the same routine every morning. Wake up in a panic, rub the sleep from my eyes. Look at the clock - 5:00 a.m. It's habit now.
Reach over and check my phone, no facebook notifications. Check my wrist.
I took 3,672 steps last night.
Less than the night before. Finally some progress.
I sit up and slide the covers... | At the end of the day, I was utterly exhausted. Meeting after meeting of mindless drivel and to keep my crappy job, I had to not only appear interested, but to actually pay attention. Usually I like the walk home from the train. It gives me a chance to get some air and decompress, not to mention a bit of exercise, but ... | 2015-02-13T06:56:24 | 2015-02-13T06:29:11 | 63 | 11 |
[WP] An alien has kidnapped Matt Damon, not knowing what lengths humanity goes through to retrieve him whenever he goes missing. | "We're receiving a transmission from Earth. It's about the human specimen we harvested for examination."
"Send it to the bridge. Let's see what they have to say."
*I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very part... | “And honestly, you don’t even really get that nauseous after the fourth or fifth time,” Captain Zerk explained, passing paper towels to Matt Damon.
Suddenly, a bright flash of light\-\-a ship appears behind theirs.
“What in the\-\-?”
“Incoming message, Commander Zerk,” chimes the ship’s command station.
Zerk waves ... | 2018-06-06T16:07:37 | 2018-06-06T15:07:45 | 365 | 53 |
[WP] King Midas has finally fallen in love with someone who is immune to his curse: Medusa. And he is immune to hers. However, things aren't going as planned at the royal wedding. | It was supposed to be a perfect wedding. All of our golden and stony guests were carefully placed to mingle with one another. I restrained from touching any of the flowers, and we even got a blind musician troupe for live music. Medusa had to find a veil that would also stay over her squirming hair. After all of this r... | In a normal wedding, the groom turns to stone, not everyone else. Also the food was decent, except after Midas lost his spoon in the sauce and everyone who hadn't seen Medusa yet began choking. All was going ok until medusa found that all the golden statues had huge boobs and a hand impressed in inappropriate places. T... | 2017-08-14T09:02:45 | 2017-08-14T07:45:50 | 74 | 17 |
[WP] A small kid finds a magic lamp and asks a very innocent, almost mundane wish. The genie ponders whether it can or even wants to twist and 'misunderstand' the request. | As a part of another grand adventure, Sara makes her way to the attic. The light switch inside doesn't work and it's pitch black.
"Explorers always come prepared!"
She switches on her battery lantern and gets to work. Sara told her younger brother that their parents keep treasure in the attic, so now she must find so... | "I wish for the Nile!"
The familiar line in a timeless classic seemed like a well timed sprinkling of humor, if nothing else. The kids in the nursery were engrossed in the movie. Their eyes glittered, a bit like the materials they were playing with just a while ago. I smiled slightly before looking back at the televis... | 2016-04-30T05:04:21 | 2016-04-30T04:55:22 | 25 | 14 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear E,
I love you. Not the cheesy love I felt in high school, and not the way I love the woman I think I'm going to marry, but you hold a place in my heart that no one else can.
We were destructive. We weren't good for each other. You were emotionally abusive, and I was amazed a pretty girl would give me the time o... | To My Wife of 13 years; the letter I wish I could send you instead of continuing to live this lie.
I've no idea how to properly express the way I've been feeling lately, so I apologise now if this comes across as a ramble, with no real explanation for anything. Truth is, I don't know if I actually have any explanation... | 2015-12-05T16:37:50 | 2015-12-05T15:36:40 | 94 | 12 |
[WP] You reach the afterlife, but before you find out where you'll end up, you have to watch the entire life of someone and decide where they should go. What you don't know is all of your memories have been wiped and it's your own life you're watching. | "Ok. Just sit down and watch."
"Watch what?" I asked.
"Just watch, I want to know your opinion of this person."
"Fine." The screen flickers with a white flash and then shows darkness. "Um sir, I think this is broken."
"Hmm. It says here that the video length is about 2 seconds. Oddly short even if we show only the ... | I sat in a pitch dark room where the only thing I was sure of was my heavy breathing. Oddly enough I didn't feel threatened of the unknown, I felt at ease. This was the miracle of death, peaceful despite the strange and cold hard circumstances.
A white screen appeared before me and a pre-recorded voiceover of a woman... | 2016-05-11T00:40:55 | 2016-05-10T22:58:13 | 64 | 15 |
[WP] Your name is Karen and you just completed your final level of training. After the hair cutting ceremony, you feel a wild energy surge through your veins... you now have the ultimate power of summoning any retail store manager in the universe.
[removed] | Sergeant Karen W. (whose claim to fame was the heavily upvoted video in which she was able to call two managers down at one time) stalked along the row of teen girls, all newly minted with helmets of Karen hair crowned with sunglasses and their uniform of casual LuLaRoe tights, flip flops, and whatever ill-fitting blou... | The scene of a wild west standoff began unfolding in what would be an ordinary Whole Foods bulk aisle. I didn't even need to say anything before the other customers dispersed in terror. The light indie music over the intercoms added a bizarre innocence to the standoff, like those dirty hipsters didn't know what was abo... | 2019-05-26T12:15:47 | 2019-05-26T12:06:22 | 379 | 126 |
[WP] Immortal monsters of legend have returned after lying dormant for thousands of years. However, the legends were made before guns were a thing, and the "immortal" thing was kind of overblown. | The problem with ancient languages is that many words don't really translate well into modern language. In some cases there's just no modern word that fits, or in some cases there may be several potential translations, all with slightly different meanings. Aside from that, there's the nuance of the word given the rest... | The first unfortunate soul to encounter what come to be remembered as "The Beasts" was the captain of a small crawfish trawler.
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The machinery pulling the nets on the red, rusting ship began to groan in agony louder than the captain had ever experienced. The ship began to tip as whatever was on the other ... | 2019-03-20T19:52:25 | 2019-03-20T14:28:06 | 396 | 237 |
[WP] You're throwing a ball around with your dog and he's loving it. Then, he stops dead still. He takes a quick sniff and looks up at you and says "I'm not supposed to do this, but you need to get inside right now". He looks off into the distance, "They're coming".
Wow, was not expecting this, thanks for the silver:)... | I didn’t process that Lucky just spoke to me at first. When I heard those words, my focus was on the ‘they’re coming’. I have no idea what he may be talking about-we lived in a peaceful neighbourhood, I had no enemies, no history of being abused or targeted.
I glanced around quickly, to get an idea of what he might b... | Nicholas stopped, looked down towards his dog Rex, unable to process what he just heard.
Rex: *Digging a hole by the door* “yeah I get this is probably confusing for you but if we stay out here, we will die.” *picks up a brown leather bag from the hole* “take this”
A speechless Nicholas grabs the brown bag fr... | 2019-07-15T16:16:42 | 2019-07-15T16:06:06 | 162 | 53 |
[WP] Your father left 20 years ago the night before your birthday to get Cigarettes, Milk, and Bread. Today he comes home with long bedraggled hair, weather beaten skin, and a sword on his hip. The first thing he says to you is "You're never going to believe what happened." | I loooked up at this tall, hardened figure.
"You'll never believe what happened," said the sword wielding, bearded man who claimed to be my father. The last time I had seen him was when he went out to get cigarettes, milk, and bread. I decided to listen to him.
"What happened?" I asked, curious.
"I got cigarettes, mi... | "Oh my goodness... Mom, look out the window!" i yell in disbelief as I peek through the side windows next to our front door.
My mother scampers over, moving her little feet as fast as possible. She begins to weep uncontrollably, a moan of relief bursts out of her. I was not certain who that stranger was walking to m... | 2016-07-20T08:21:53 | 2016-07-20T07:20:27 | 88 | 42 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | Don took the flimsy printout from the grotty, grey machine in front of him. It contained a litany of sins, each printed neatly, one below the other. Unfortunately for him, the text appeared to be entirely German, set in an heavy medieval font.
The two parts he understood were his name at the top of the page and the i... | Why?, I ask in disbelief I tithed I went to church I was a faithful husband. What did I do? Saint Peter looks deep into my eyes with morose and disgust, “ It is not what you have done but what you failed to do...” I rack my mind trying to figure out what it was and finally it dawns on me. All this time for a Fucking F... | 2018-09-26T04:29:48 | 2018-09-26T03:51:49 | 530 | 123 |
[WP] You are God, after a couple thousand years of people thinking you don't answer their prayers, you realise you've had yourself on mute on the celestial microphone you use to talk to humans.
Edit: Wow, I never expected this to blow up, Thank you for the silver, it was my first ever award!
Edit 2: GOOOLD! Thank you ... | “God? It’s me, Josh. But you already know that”
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Josh was sitting on the patio. He had been sitting there for hours, and sunrise was still a couple of hours away. The only thing that prevented complete darkness was the dim moonlight.
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“I know I don’t do this often. It feels kind of silly doi... | Lying on my bed I'm my room, the blackouts closed... it's too warm you know. I like a colder room. Something a bit more comfortable. Sometimes I just sit there pondering impossible questions... tracing the lines in the giprock ceiling...
"What's for supper?"
"How will college be when I enter for the first time in 3 m... | 2019-06-03T11:16:07 | 2019-06-03T10:40:47 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] You are pretty sure that your roommate is a new villain terrorizing the city and you are conflicted. They cook extra food for you and your other roommates frequently, pay you their share of the bills on time, and even help to clean the apartment. They are the perfect roommate. | Sarah looked at her breakfast and sighed in contentment. Was this heaven? She definitely thought so. Because how else would she be able to have breakfast at home that too expertly made. Her new roommate, Gillian was godsend. She had had her fair share of roommates, including the three she lived with right now but Gilli... | I've lived in this 3 bedroom townhouse for 5 years now. Moved in when I was 23. Thanks to the money left by my family life insurance policy. They died during the great attack 6 years ago by Fae Tality. She appeared on the super hero/villain circuit and absolutely devastated the city that first year. Now she controls ... | 2022-11-20T10:38:02 | 2022-11-20T09:59:05 | 111 | 50 |
[WP] - You are immortal, locked up in a room with no windows, with only a toilet, a bed, a sink and a door with a latch where every hour someone checks on you. You don't remember why or how long you have been locked up there or where 'there' is. Then the door opens and a man says "we need you". | I don’t remember much from the room, not that there *was* much to remember. I think that was the point though. A toilet, a bed, a sink, a door. That’s it. About 20 or 30 times a day I would see a dim eyeball peer through the little circular latch in the door. Whoever it was never spoke, they only looked me over and sca... | The metal clanking of the door latch rattles through the black, cement room once again. The piercing light hits your eyes briefly before disappearing behind the figure looking in on you. You can remember a time when you desperately tried to communicate with this figure, begging for any kind of explanation as to where y... | 2018-07-31T16:09:56 | 2018-07-31T15:36:37 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] The End Times have come, but not in a way commonly portrayed in books and movies. Write about this apocalyptic scenario and how the world is reacting to it...
I am a huge fan of everything from The Road to The Walking Dead to I Am Legend to The Last of Us. All of it. I love post-apocalypse novels/movies/games and... | I was promised angels turning the seas into blood, four horsemen, and trumpets heralding the end of days, some grim reward as affirmation of my faith. I was promised a cataclysm in the form of a meteorite, the sun going supernova, the heat death of the universe, reassurance that our understanding of the universe was c... | They were the worst of humanity. Each one of them was a monster. A universe of darkness behind a human face. This is why we condemned them to the worst fate possible. We sent them where they will not be able to hurt anyone anymore. At the Abyss, where time itself dies.
We hoped that it would be over.
Never did we ... | 2014-01-12T17:27:37 | 2014-01-12T16:04:00 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You were forced to attend an interview for a job you do not want, but, no matter how hard you try to screw up the interview, the interviewer just becomes more keen to hire you. | I'm a writer. That's the beginning and the end of my story. I'm a writer. I write.
I have stories. I have *things to say*.
I am *not* a Refinance Document Analyst 1. Maybe you are, but not me.
My wife - bless her - is an honest, earnest woman. A doctor. She works hard. She's very smart. But still, smart people can b... | The old man sat with wrinkled hands,
And a far more wrinkled brow,
Shoulders weighed down by a career's demands,
To be uplifted two weeks from now.
The notice was saved as a pdf,
Attached to a stale email in drafts,
For tenure alone was why he was left,
And his position had to be staffed.
Across the table wa... | 2017-08-29T08:37:50 | 2017-08-29T08:33:53 | 4,166 | 21 |
[WP] The year is 2030. Bakery art is so realistic, literally anything could be cake. The uncertainty has gripped the world in fear. I go to hug my wife for comfort. She is cake. | I told her not to go outside, not in broad daylight. But Miri had wanted to see the sun. And they'd gotten to her.
I woke that morning to find her gone, and I panicked. I ran to the foyer of the building we'd been hiding in, and I saw her standing there.
She looked normal, just like she always did. But I knew somethi... | The TV was always on, buzzing against the back wall of the homely living room, volume up loud. Ray could hear it through the door as he fumbled with his keys. He punched out a sigh as he opened the door and stepped in. The volume multiplied without the barrier of the door to protect his ears. His feet hurt. His back wa... | 2022-04-26T17:32:59 | 2022-04-26T16:51:39 | 232 | 26 |
[WP] You are a Psychiatrist...for gods, superheroes, villains, demons, and anthropomorphic personifications of supernatural forces. Basically, in order to find you, a being must have the ability to alter reality. Your new client appears to be a normal human being. | "Hello. Take a seat."
I glance at my file as my client sits down on the black leather couch.
Grayson Murphy, is his name, according to my notes.
He signed via the web! I was hoping someone would do that- I had a lot of trouble setting that up.
I glance at him, and immediately I am slightly confused.
"You...are s... | "So... You can't do anything out of the ordinary?"
"Was I supposed to?"
The psychiastrist sighed. This was the first time in millenniums that no special being (read: superhero/supervillain) came to him. Although he was the one responsible for having all the answers, he didn't know what to do in this case, as he spoke... | 2018-06-30T04:49:30 | 2018-06-30T04:35:47 | 1,631 | 23 |
[WP] Area 51 has four level emergencies for a breakout. Level 3: Armed forces intervention. 2: Public statement. United Nations joint resistance. 1: Worldwide evacuation effort. Use of nuclear weapons permitted. And 0: Call the number on the sticky note (and pray to God his demands aren't too high). | Lieutenant Colonel Freeman sighed. The gunfire starting to die down. He knew it wasn't a good type of die down either. It wasn't stopping because they were winning. It was stopping because his men were dying.
The General had already been killed and that put command over this base on him. The General had declared this... |
"Let's just get started already... You know what a Level 0 means. We have to dammit! We're out of options." snarled General Jones.
"Wait!" I shouted. "He's been gone for 3 years. How do we know it's actually him?!?"
"Once you've seen him, heard him, felt his presence, and that hair... You KNOW who it is... now just ... | 2017-03-21T06:56:08 | 2017-03-21T04:28:29 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] As punishment for being depressed, you’re forced to peel potatoes with a potato. People try to help, but all they do is hand you more potatoes. | Henry left the prison psychiatrist pissed off more than anything. "Always the same damn routine", he muttered to himself. As he slammed the door shut, he was warned by the guards to cool down. He ignored their warnings and marched straight to the garden.
As he entered the prison garden, he was assaulted with a sack ... | The smell drives me mad, the potatoes given to us are usually warm seemingly microwaved. I believe it just to be the sun baking them as they are harvested, transported and brought in by the truckload. Starch has permanently stained our fingertips white, our hands contain the moisture as we desperately try to grip the s... | 2019-05-20T08:44:28 | 2019-05-20T08:05:42 | 109 | 38 |
[WP] The first time machine is mounted to a satellite in order to map the Earth through its entire life. As the data comes in, it becomes apparent history drastically differs from what we previously thought it to be. | The machine only showed one picture a day, you could photograph different parts of the earth, but only at the same time minimum, another day.
You couldn't have a picture of the same portion of land in more granularity, such were the rules of "time photograph" physics.
The calculations took time, but the satellite w... | "Aliens?"
He looked again. There it was, an alien craft.
In the search that followed, they found more and more of them... and a pattern. About every 10,000 years, a craft came by, something got out, and went hunting. the last visit dropped an ice comet on the planet.
Looking further back... they had even hunted di... | 2015-08-17T13:28:15 | 2015-08-17T12:55:51 | 21 | 12 |
[WP] Today you found out that your girlfriend is a murderous psychopath as she cuts you into pieces and hugs your severed head while she slept, only for her to found out your secret, that you're an immortal who can survives anything. Describe the morning after that. [Possibly NSFW?]
Yandere girlfriend and immortal guy... | "Good morning, dear."
They said Monday morning couldn't get any worse. So what in the world is any good in today, of all time?
"Can't breathe..." I mumbled in-between her clothed bosom. At least I was thankful to have a girlfriend this well-endowed. If only her mind were as developed as her body.
"Then, don't hug me... | It didn't take long for me to remember the horrors of my nightmare when I woke up. I had dreamt that my girlfriend, Sophie, had brutally murdered me. Although the meaning behind the dream was not clear, I wanted to forget about it so I took a shower.
I thought about our upcoming anniversary as a distraction and I pani... | 2017-07-04T16:21:30 | 2017-07-04T16:04:48 | 168 | 46 |
[WP] It's 2024, Politicians running for office are now required to wear NASCAR style uniforms so everyone can see who their sponsors are. | The recent disclosure laws had been a boon to my career. In the past, voters never had time to actually do the research and figure out who was getting campaign contributions from which companies. So they abolished all previous disclosure laws, got rid of the PACs and Super PACs, and replaced them with a single, simple ... | I buttoned my suit jacket and pushed into the hall, past the throngs of lingering politicos. I knew I wasn't the main attraction but I can't let that deter me. My candidacy is a statement, if nothing else.
I pushed through the crowd, eliciting glances but none of the emotion I was hoping for. Just ten years ago we com... | 2015-06-04T12:40:41 | 2015-06-04T09:46:45 | 338 | 105 |
[WP] Tell a story from the viewpoint of a genius then the same story from the viewpoint of an idiot. | Probably breaking some rules here, but the prompt reminded me of a great story (or joke, if you want to be all accurate about it) that fits the topic perfectly:
Several centuries ago, the Pope decreed that all the Jews had to convert to Catholicism or leave Italy. There was a huge outcry from the Jewish community, so ... | It wasn't that he was the best dressed man I'd ever seen, although he was, it was his eyes that made me trust him. When he smiled, they crinkled a little and he looked like my grandfather; I just had a good feeling about him.
The car accident had been small, just a tiny shunt really and there had been almost no damag... | 2015-07-09T07:17:25 | 2015-07-09T04:43:15 | 101 | 21 |
[WP]The knight rubbed his eyes in surprise. The great dragon, slayer of armies, appeared to be a young woman with wings. The dragon was equally shocked. "You're the great knight? You're like.....fifteen." "I'm EIGHTEEN....In November" | "November what?" Creya asked, intrigued.
The young knight who stood before her, eyes ablaze with courage peering over his shield, was the most handsome man she had ever seen.
"15th."
It was the same as her. A pounding in her chest radiated warmth through her body, bringing flames wrapping around her finger tips that... | Sir Thomas looked up the mountain, the gleaming sun just over it's peak. His quest had led him here, to end the wretched creature, and save the kingdom. By the end of the day, he would be a hero! His victory played over in his head again. Him, standing over the scaled monster, as blood pooled on the cave floor. A ... | 2020-02-05T02:10:39 | 2020-02-04T22:50:44 | 263 | 153 |
[WP] “Sir, World of Warcraft subscriptions just jumped by 2.3 billion” “Billion with a ‘B’? Where did they come from?” “Well, all the new traffic is routed through the Deep Space Array. It appears we’ve made first contact. Or, at least Thrall has…” | The problem with sudden success is that nobody is ever ready for it. While the problem of too many subscribers was not new to Blizzard, after all the initial response to World of Warcraft was well beyond their capacity as well, it was old enough that nobody currently working at the company remembered it. Or remembere... | Three hundred and four yachts.
In a single quarter Bobby Kotick now owned more yachts than anyone else on Earth. This was an admittedly small potatos when compared to the Potato Emperor of Pluto’s two thousand and seven sentient flying yachts, but still quite impressive for a non-quadrillionare confined to Earth marke... | 2022-03-14T10:50:53 | 2022-03-14T09:46:18 | 690 | 69 |
[WP] You've been trapped in Y location for Z hours, solve for X to escape the algebra zone. | Three days ago, we found the final puzzle. All the other puzzles were leading to this one. If we got it right, we could have escaped.
*If we got it right.*
I sit on the edge of the cliff, staring into the distance. Alone. The waves lap gently against the shore. Less than a mile off the coast, a small skinny island st... | *Between the worlds and the heavens, there lie shadowy planes of higher dimensions where mortal men fear to tread, where beasts of unimaginable terror lurk to prey on the unprepared.*
"We're stuck," Toby said glumly. "I hate algebra."
"We can do this," Sally said. "We just have to keep trying."
"We've been trying fo... | 2017-03-17T09:17:13 | 2017-03-17T08:56:38 | 74 | 10 |
[WP] You just discovered England's biggest secret: every time they say long live the queen it extends the queens life. | "Long live the Queen!". It used to be so easy. Poor peasant children would chant it on Empire day. Ruddy faced coal miners would cheer it on her birthday. Dickensian women would laugh gaily and proclaim it at Christmas. But no more.
The monarchy has waned, and people have moved on. "Long live the Queen" sounds old fa... | I am immortal, I have inside me blood of kings. My name in Charles Windsor and I am heir to a throne. Prince of Wales, they've called me that my entire life and now I lay on my death bed and my mother - still going strong. I'm not sure how it's possible but she seems ageless, almost timeless. My whole life I've waited... | 2016-12-15T13:04:40 | 2016-12-15T12:46:54 | 520 | 61 |
[WP] You live in a world where one's name decides their future. Every child has a name with a clear meaning. Perfect, Unique, Joy. You on the other hand have a rather... strange name. | At first I thought my name was some kind of cruel joke on my parents part. Loss. I always felt cursed by the name. Why would you name your kid something so negative? Everyone else was named happiness, success, brilliance, yet mine meant to lose something. I never understood it until the day I finally had enough of my c... | I’ve always hated my name, disappointment, besides the obvious lack of love from my parents it implied, it seemed so unfair compared to the other kids in the orphanage names. Hope, prosperity, attractive and fame, were just naming a few. While others were able to claim an easy life based off some twisted form of birth... | 2019-04-20T23:11:35 | 2019-04-20T22:44:40 | 97 | 28 |
[WP] A boy and his dog die in an accident, and both show up at the pearly gates of dog-heaven. The boy can't be admitted, and must traverse purgatory to get to human-heaven. Instead of entering paradise, the dog decides to make sure his young owner gets to human-heaven safely first. | The good boy left, tail wagging as they walked with their person away from Paradise. It slowed a little as their bravery faltered, they had a sense of the daunting task ahead...but when their person hesitated at the threshold of the Great Path it picked back up, hard enough to sway their hind. Their person felt it, and... | I am about to run through the gates, I am so excited. The gates hold behind them a great expanse. Green and bright and so much space. I can't wait to run around in there. I turn around to bark excitedly at my best friend but I see that he is not following me. He is simply stood, hands in his pockets, a sad look on his ... | 2019-02-28T09:00:56 | 2019-02-28T08:57:04 | 25 | 15 |
[WP] A phenomena begins to occur where newborn babies are found amidst the aftermath of natural disasters. Tsunamis, avalanches, wild fires, destructive lightning storms, etc. These 'Storm-Born' humans grow up with powers based on the disasters that birthed them. | She was hardly the first storm-born to appear. Reports of them popping up all over the world had begun years ago.
Earthquakes.
Tornados.
Floods.
Each with devastating consequences. Natural disasters that caused bloodshed and claimed lives. Seemingly, they didn’t have much else in common, other than the destruction ... | The bell rang, the children awoke, the teachers prepared their classrooms and The Matron watched through her many surveillance cameras.
Her attention was focused, today, on three children. Their files lay open beside her.
Ignis Premogen, twelve, found nestled amongst the ashes of the Great Fire, a wildfire that ravage... | 2019-08-06T07:39:13 | 2019-08-06T07:03:49 | 51 | 24 |
[WP] The "violent videogames teach you how to use a gun" thing is true for you. Literally. Everything you learn in videogames, you can do in real life as well. You realize you have that power when you drink an energy drink after a bad injury and you find yourself completely healed. | I held the gun to my head, my finger grazing the trigger. I was hesitating, I knew that. Guess that's normal when you're contemplating blowing your brains out.
But, I had to know. Ever since I broke my leg, it was the one thing I knew I had to try. One thing you should know is that I'm a "gamer". I don't like using th... | I sat there on my bed having just gotten home from food shopping. I looked at the cut on my hand from when I had accidently cut myself helping my dad earlier today. I took a mouthful of my energy drink, by time the fluid went down my throat the cut was gone. I thought I was hallucinating so I grabbed a knife and cut a ... | 2018-08-14T09:41:03 | 2018-08-14T07:36:53 | 658 | 49 |
[WP] You hate your boring call centre job. Every day idiots call you up with stupid questions they could easily figure out themselves. Yes you have to shoot them in the head. No there is no cure if you're bitten. It's a few years now into the zombie apocalypse and this is the Call Centre of the Dead | "Ma'am? Ma'am, please listen to me!"
The frantic shouting on the other end of the line seemed never-ending. I sighed silently to myself. Everyday I had to deal with hysterical people wondering what to do. I knew from the get-go that working in a call center was no picnic. I had done it before; two years for a tech fir... | It is not as busy as it used to be. There are 4103 boards on the false ceiling over my head and a 121 holes in each board. Apart from the ones marked with red X’s. They are inventory boards. Those have 119. The boards used to be white and there was no fungi.
Some time ago I used to love my job. Hell! I volunteered f... | 2020-05-12T06:22:29 | 2020-05-12T06:12:46 | 67 | 42 |
[WP] You're 5 years old, when you discovered that your brain can automatically learn "everything" about anything or anyone you touch. So you keep it a secret. | On my fifth birthday, it happened. As I hugged my mom, I suddenly realized I could talk. Not just simple words, but full complex sentences, in two different languages. Not just that, but I could read, do math and all sorts of other things.
I also gained enough common sense to know that this was not normal for a 5-yea... | The problem, as is so often the case, was one of scope. We had thought up this fun little gift, thought up some fun ways it could be used to benefit the universe, and let Fate know how to play with this new game piece. Then fired it off.
The power manifested and...the kid died.
You see, he would learn about whatever ... | 2022-10-21T10:23:55 | 2022-10-21T08:03:44 | 71 | 29 |
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