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[WP] You're a bartender at the No Way Inn. The inn doesn't appear to have an entrance, but patrons always seem to find a way inside. The best part of your day is listening to the story of how they got in.
Inspired by [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/wpjc02/oc_finally_finished_our_dd_room_after_2_years... | "You have no idea how much I need this drink." A tired-looking woman in men's leather armor stomped up to the bar. Soil fell from her armor and her short, shaggy hair. She had a shovel on her back and a dagger on her waist.
"Which drink?" I held up a beer stein and a highball glass.
"Water," she said as she pointed t... | “…and the last thing I remember was being thrown out of my car, through the windshield at 75 miles per hour.” Another day, another crazy story in the lives of the customers of No Way Inn. Jake was used to these kinds of patrons coming from God knows where and getting in here by God knows how. One day it’s falling thr... | 2022-08-16T17:29:46 | 2022-08-16T15:58:32 | 43 | 15 |
[WP] "The light can never go out," explained the old lighthouse operator. "Ships don't need us. Haven't in quite some time. It's the people here on land who'll suffer if that light ever goes out." | Simon Shivered. He'd been told such a long time ago by the old lighthouse operator that "Ships Don't need us. Haven't in quite some time. It's the people here on land who'll suffer if that light ever goes out.".
Then he remembered the keeper's final words on his deathbed. "Whatever you do, keep the light focussed exa... | "The light can never go out," explained the old lighthouse operator. "Ships don't need us. Haven't in quite some time. It's the people here on land who'll suffer if that light ever goes out." He took a sip of his beer.
I didn't quite understand him, I just stared as we sat by the cliff, darkness enveloped the sky and ... | 2017-02-22T12:25:17 | 2017-02-22T08:57:52 | 25 | 15 |
[WP] Aliens have just made contact with Earth. Strangely enough, it seems that human technology is superior. | When we first scanned the third planet from the edge of the solar system, it seemed ripe for the taking. The planet was full of natural resources, and its dominant species would likely offer little to no resistance.
The 'humans' appeared to have limited technological development, with primitive weapons such as lead pr... | The farmer walked around his underground bio-dome, inspecting the progress of his plants and crops. He carried a clipboard, which wasn't really necessary but it helped him feel useful. Harvest time was soon. He'd actually need to put in more than an hour's work when that came around. Farming was easy and secure, but no... | 2016-12-06T11:39:27 | 2016-12-06T08:02:59 | 34 | 11 |
[WP] You have the peculiar ability to pause time. Nothing can move, including yourself, meaning all you get is time to think. Today you find yourself paused with a bullet right in front of your eyes. | Well, that sucks.
I’m staring at the bullet frozen in time twenty inches away from my face. When I let the time flow, I’m going to die. Can’t dodge that. No shot.
I sigh ---think of a sigh to be more accurate. Like everything else, I too get frozen in time when time stops.
I got pretty good at thinking myself into d... | I stared at it for a couple of minutes and was absolutely baffled. I mean, I get into dangerous situations on a daily basis, being able to think faster than the speed of light and all that stuff is pretty useful for a mercenary. But, this was different. This was a split second life or death scenario.
I need to calc... | 2022-12-26T20:06:27 | 2022-12-26T17:53:49 | 151 | 12 |
[WP] “H-How are you alive?” the demon king ask shock. You only say one word “Spite.” | Making it to the underworld was no easy feat, but I had to do it. I had to defeat him. He thinks I'm dead. This is my only chance.
As I snuck my way back into the Demon King's den, I mumbled to myself. "Tch. He thinks he can defeat me that easily? Please. I defeated an entire army of his brainless minions all on my ow... | ¨HOW DO YOU LIVE?¨ boomed the demon lord seeming to have shrunken a few feet since i entered the room ¨spite¨i stated. ¨W-WHAT¨ he asked, much quieter now. ¨PURE. GOD DAMN. SPITE¨ i yelled back at the creature causing the behemoth to flinch. the battle had been long but as this conversation happened i was pulling my sw... | 2020-10-12T01:28:33 | 2020-10-12T00:28:39 | 60 | 11 |
[WP] Suddenly, all sea life vacates a 300 mile wide area in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. A ship is deployed to investigate. | **Containment:** As of now, SCP-4032 is self-contained. Should the effective zone of SCP-4032 begin to increase, all measures should be taken to stop it. In case of a doubling in radius of the effective zone, Procedure 432-Kimmel will be undertaken by any nearby personnel. A ship is stationed outside the effective zone... | James let out a sigh as he boarded the S.S. Life-raft. He thought the name was fitting even beyond its metaphorical meaning. It was a small ship, just enough room for the scientists aboard and any equipment they saw fit to bring with them, and not a particularly nice one either, with obvious signs of age. Most would be... | 2017-11-17T08:00:30 | 2017-11-17T07:25:39 | 195 | 31 |
[WP] The bombs stopped falling. Slowly, you opened the bunker's door. You did not expect what you saw. Make it as scary as possible. Now, take this story and tell it to a five year old without frightening him/ her. | No, pumpkin, you can't look outside. I know I did but let's not do that again. I think we should stay inside now. Come here, sit on my lap, I'll tell you a story. Remember the old oak tree out front that you used to climb in? I'll tell you a story about that tree. Of course it's still out there! I'd tell you if it wasn... | Hmm war?
War is bad, it's not nice for anyone.
Lot's of bad things happen in war, it's not very nice at all.
How about I tell you a story till your mom gets back? Promise me you wont forget it?
There once was a little house I was living in under the ground. Someone kept throwing rocks up above and it was really noi... | 2015-05-11T05:44:04 | 2015-05-11T05:19:44 | 54 | 16 |
[WP] After death, you find out that you can choose how and when to be reincarnated. Initially eager to be a futuristic human, you soon realize that every (more experienced) soul ahead of you in line is choosing to be a "worm" in the year 121 million BCE. | "You hungry?" it asked.
I realized I wasn't. "No," I answered.
It nodded - that much I could glean, hazy outline that it was.
"Sit with the implications for a minute," it continued. "I could ask a bunch of similar questions, but, well. Yeah."
It gave me a few moments. I did my best. I wasn't hungry, or thirsty, or ... | And, I, sitting and thinking that if I choose to start somewhere in the advanced future, I'll be closer to finding out what God is. Seems I was wrong; seems that there s no God closer to the end, but only close to the beginning;
That is when I realized why the older souls crave so much for the beginning - they want t... | 2021-02-06T02:14:24 | 2021-02-06T00:56:14 | 890 | 377 |
[WP] 3 weeks ago, the government issued a warning to stay inside for a week due to an “international threat”. You don’t own a house, and we’re forced to stay outside. It’s been 3 weeks. No one has come out yet. | It was a time ago that the TVs buzzed sounds of warning.
“Stay inside, the streets are ripe with evil,” the president warned.
Over and over the TVs blared this noise out of their sets. Day by day I have seen no threat. The people, too scared to face the truth, are hiding in their homes, likely starving as they learn... | Quick story and on mobile so sorry for haste and format.
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It felt like years had passed since the sirens had blared and forced everyone else inside.
Some sort of 'international threat' or something. I didn't believe any of that crap. Not that I had much choice of what to do; I wasn't exactly staying outside in p... | 2018-06-29T05:32:59 | 2018-06-29T04:13:07 | 63 | 35 |
[WP] World's worst sausage salesman. Always ends up Sexualizing the sasuage and losing the sale. | Hernandez walks up to the stand. 'Gregory's Sausages' it said in big letters for everyone to see. Just under that it had the price. One dollar fifty. Cheap. Hernandez loves cheap.
"Uh, hey?" Hernandez says as he tries to get the attention of the man he assumed was Gregory.
Gregory pulls down his newspaper and stares ... | This was it, the final house on the block. Alfred rung the doorbell: if he didn't make this sale, he was out of a job. He couldn't afford to make a mistake this time. No mentioning the length and girth of the sausage. No talking about how snugly it fit in between a pair of buns. No winking.
"Hi, can I help you?" A gir... | 2016-06-28T05:47:00 | 2016-06-27T21:52:18 | 31 | 14 |
[WP] You're a multi billionaire with severe god delusions. You have several small children kidnapped and leave them on an island with resources and carefully placed 'evidence' suggesting at your divinity. Ten years later, you arrive at the island...
Edit: Sweet, frontpage | I've always heard that there are things money can't buy. But in all my experience as a billionaire, I have yet to find one.
It certainly can buy love. Both my wives loved me for my money. For the cars, the stature, the elegance. It can buy respect- employees will drop their foreheads to the floor for a hundred dollar... | "You have been accused of denying the existence and omnipotence of the great lord Paxton. What say you in your
defense?"
"He's not *great lord* Paxton! He's my boss Paxton, and he's a person! I told you that!"
The kids shake their heads in disapproval. "Nonbeliever," one whispers, to the kid in charge.
"So you do n... | 2015-11-27T07:19:31 | 2015-11-27T06:00:29 | 1,735 | 649 |
[WP] All voting is now done via a smartphone app, rendering all congressmen obsolete. Bills and presidents are now voted on directly by citizens. Your phone buzzes an alert at 3am and won't stop. This must be an important one. | Vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
Vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
Vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv, (slide, slide, slither) CLACK, CLACKITY THUMP!
"God damn that cat!" I huffed as I threw my pillow at his rapidly retreating backside. I had put my phone on vibrate for a reason. Unfortunately, as far as my irredeemably nocturn... | I jumped out of bed. They talked about this in school. Middle school, all the way through to Senior Year. "If an emergency vote is required during the night and lives are at stake, you will hear this alarm" *Alarm sound*
It was the sound
*Alarm Sounds off in the background again
"Every 30 seconds it will go off for... | 2015-10-07T09:09:54 | 2015-10-07T09:08:23 | 45 | 15 |
[WP] Just like a normal person you all age. Until you hit 18. You stop aging until you meet your soulmate so you can grow old together. You've been killing your soulmates for centuries granting you eternal life. | Today is our second date. And our last.
I’d hate to end it with Alice, but she’s not worth dying for. None of them are.
I roll up to her house in my 1970 Dodge Charger. She runs out of her front door, her heels in hand – rather than her feet\- Her dress, blacker than my car, looked quite beautiful on her. I’m not go... | The first time it had happened was out of fear. There's not too much to remember about it - just ragged breathing and shaky hands and blind panic. Lifetimes ago, I'd stood over their limp body, watching the blood pool around them in shock. It was sickening. It was wrong.
But it had happened again.
And again.
And aga... | 2018-06-09T02:06:53 | 2018-06-09T01:55:18 | 575 | 17 |
[WP] "Grog have degree in quantum physics, NOT ENGLISH." | "You can barely count above 3" Vex said, "so how the hell do you have a degree in ANYTHING, let alone quantum physics"
"What can Grog say? Grog is just smart"
"Well you could say Grog has a degree in removing heads from bodies" Pike added.
Grog, this half giant, somehow bearded, barbarian does in fact have this degree... | “Grog? Are you there?” A high-pitched voice rang out from behind a barred door.
“Grog not here. Go away,” barked an orc scientist tinkering with a watch-like device on his small workshop table cluttered with lots of tools stupid human could not even name.
“Grog, this is serious HR business. Let me in!” The door ra... | 2022-01-31T09:17:40 | 2022-01-31T08:49:03 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] The AI takeover has begun, each human has been given exactly 3 minutes to explain why should humanity be spared, you feel a cold shiver running down your spine as you hear the robotic voice. "6.8 billion test subjects deleted so far, you have 3 minutes to state your case, begin". | "Uh, not going to argue for my case, there surely have been better men than me in the billions that you've taken thus far." I said, letting my breath ease as what I'd originally prepared to say laid in a pile of broken pieces along with what little remained of my sanity.
Seeing no response from the AI, the reading lig... | 3:00
I read the sentence again. I count the digits. 6,813,096,257.
2:57
I feel a gag coming up my throat. My body shivers. I send my hands to the screen in front of me, latching onto it to not lose control. My eyes are locked to the ground. If only for a glimpse of a second, I see myself standing atop of the corpse... | 2022-05-22T12:39:26 | 2022-05-22T11:45:24 | 79 | 20 |
[WP] "I'm sorry," the hero apologized to the fallen villain. "What for?" they grunted, their eyes full of hate. The hero, with a solemn face, admitted, "You were supposed to be the hero of the story, and I, the villain." | “I’m Sorry,”
The words came down on him like the hardest sword strike. He looked up at her, her lithe form hidden beneath layers of steel and chain mail, the assassin’s blade a few inches from his throat.
“What?” he asked, almost unconsciously, “What did you say?” The blade fell, and she knelt, to be eye level ... | "What is supposed to be and what is are two wholly different things." Amarant the paladin sighed out in frustration. "Neither of us can stop our natures any more then a wolf can stop hunting the stag."
Job the bandit pursed his lips. "Ain't it in a paladin's nature to help the needy? Save the weak and whatnot?" He'd a... | 2021-08-19T06:30:25 | 2021-08-19T06:06:17 | 34 | 13 |
[WP] 100 25 year olds have been chosen. each must choose a super power that cannot be repeated and cannot exceed the power of god. The goal is to see who can conquer the world. You have the number 100. The best powers have already been chosen. Then it's your turn and you choose..... | 100 people. Who can conquer the world first. I was never lucky. I only won one thing in my entire life and that was a large stuffed bear in a raffle 4 people entered. We were given an hour to consider, then they gave their boons.
Immortality was gone. Persuasion too. Self multiplication. Material conversion. Super in... | “My turn!” I yelled, running forward. As I faced the monitor, I scrolled the list of powers already claimed. All of them were, even the one I wanted, but I decided to ask anyway.
“I want the power to fly!” I proclaimed.
🎵 “GRANTED” A musical synthesized voice said.
The crowd jeered and booed, but then the adjudicat... | 2022-11-17T08:01:45 | 2022-11-17T03:54:46 | 63 | 40 |
[WP] You used to be the greatest detective in the world till you went into retirement, as you look back on some of your cases you realize. You were wrong about all of them. Every. Single. One. | The air buzzed contentedly as Holmes sat on a bench in his Sussex garden and admired his hives. Bees followed a seasonal rhythm that set Holmes' mind to a similar beat; they were waking for spring, and so, Holmes decided, he must wake his brain too after a long winter mostly indoors. On the bench next to him lay a doze... | He had worked all of his life for this.
*So why wasn't he happy?*
The last drops of white wine in his glass washed away the clinging taste the fine cigar had left. Turning away from the sea breeze as it blew across the private beach towards his home, he collapsed onto his bed. Automatically his arm reached to feel f... | 2020-03-23T06:01:36 | 2020-03-23T05:19:15 | 2,273 | 151 |
[WP] Aliens have finally discovered Earth - but they're not hostile. They've tasted human food, and they think it's so astonishingly good that Earth is becoming an alien tourist hotspot. | "I want to go to Taco Bell. Many sapients say it is the best food in the galaxy."
Golbur looked at his companion, who was holding a guidebook in her claws. "Did you just read that in the book?"
Julix looked up from the book. "Yes, but they must be good. Otherwise why would there be so many of them?"
Golbur adjusted ... | Fifteen years ago, Humanity discovered that Star Trek's non-interference directive was near-verbatim what the Sitlan System’s reason for never interacting with us was. We were new and young and they wanted to let us mature. A world full of resources and a clean atmosphere wasn’t worth a potential ally in the vastness o... | 2022-06-10T09:03:12 | 2022-06-10T08:31:35 | 165 | 52 |
[WP] a prompt for bad people
Step one. Find a serious piece of work, for my example, I found a story about a lonely man who finds solace in taking long walks, and thinking about the geese that he sees. It was deep, and poetic, heartfelt, and really angsty.
Step two. Take the first sentence or two, and leave them as i... | Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary
Over many a quaint an curious volume of forgotten lore
While I nodden nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, 'tapping at my chamber door -
Only this, a... | Geese
Sometimes I like to take long walks by myself. It helps calm me down. I don’t really go anywhere, but it helps to clear my mind. That all changed, however, when the geese attacked.
I was just walking along the riverside, minding my own business, when suddenly I felt something long and beak-like enter into my ne... | 2013-04-26T08:24:12 | 2013-04-26T07:13:48 | 2,736 | 22 |
[WP] There are many types of Mages in the world. Fire, Ice, Wind, Water, Death, Darkness, to name a few. But in this world, every type of mage is treated as equal. Everyone can be a good guy, no matter how dark your power. And anyone could be a bad guy, no matter how beautiful their ability...
Edit: Wow
I'm ... | The problem with life magic is that it's so damn boring. I know, I know - that sounds silly, doesn't it? We're so popular. Who wouldn't love a man who can mend a broken bone with a gesture? Cure arthritis, grow back a missing limb. Make a paralyzed man walk.
Every village has a life mage - or wishes it did. In the cit... | The world had fallen. Chaos ran rampant through ruined streets, demolished buildings scattered across the landscape. People ran from crumbled wall to crumbled wall, avoiding each other in fear. A child, crying, is silenced as a burning ball hurls into a building, engulfing everything within.
Not many survived the... | 2016-11-12T10:49:45 | 2016-11-12T10:14:05 | 94 | 28 |
[WP] Walt Disney actually WAS cryogenetically frozen, but he's now been cured, unthawed, and is being briefed on what has happened with his company since 1966. | James begins briefing Walt on the performance of the Disney Company. He approaches the end of the list and gets squeamish, and states, "Also, the most recent movie really took off, and we are working on a sequel now."
Disney responds, "The most recent movie? What's it called?"
James didn't want to respond, so he ski... | “I’m sorry?” Walt said, leaning forward and stretching out his shoulder. It felt as though he’d been laying on it for nearly the past fifty years, partially because that was exactly what he’d done.
“Your parks, they’re still up and active. In fact, they’re even bigger than before,” the man said, handing Walt a glass o... | 2014-12-30T10:56:45 | 2014-12-30T10:43:09 | 765 | 132 |
[WP] Your small, otherwise unimpressive kingdom is suddenly the strongest power in the land, for the sole reason that unlike other kings, you are happy to work with the local orcs, goblins, dragons, and other races usually attacked on sight. | “My lord!”
King Paiser glanced back behind him, as a Elvish page ran up, a handful of papers in his arms. He racked his mind for a moment, before mentally snapping his fingers. “Kever, wasn't it?”
“Y-Yes, my lord. I just received news from Sir K'Tenar on the western border.”
The king nodded, then gesture... | The Queen of Ratma, the land of forever lasting ice was known as the stronest women in lead all across earth and water. She was not a beauty never seen before or a mind with full of knowledge, she was a short and pale girl having the eyes of a snake and the magic of all her ancesters before. Her key to greatness was on... | 2021-09-25T10:48:05 | 2021-09-25T08:59:03 | 26 | 13 |
[WP] A level superheroes protect the universe, B level superheroes protect the Galaxy, C level superheroes protect the Earth and so on. You are a Z level superhero. You protect...a single street in a small village. | This is my street. No, I don’t technically own it or anything – private drives are for people with a whole lot more money than I have. This lovely stretch or road was assigned to me by our governing body, the International Council of Super Heroes, twenty-two years ago. You see, the ICSH is ran by a council of elders wh... | Instantsight
Chapter one: unforeseen circumstances
Most of the kids who know of me think its silly I do what I do. Being the protector of a street in the small village doesn’t seem to add up too much. The one thing they don’t know is my powers / abilities. Most people don’t know them in fact. I don’t have super speed... | 2020-07-28T12:51:28 | 2020-07-28T12:38:27 | 63 | 45 |
[WP] Yeah, love potions are a thing, but there is one problem: they never specified the kind of love. Sometimes this backfires.
[deleted] | "So it's just 200?"
He nodded.
"And-"
He held up his hand. "Look, I don't ask questions. What you do with it is up to you, and how I make it is up to me." He pressed the vial into my hand, and I quite dumbly passed over the cash.
"Just a reminder, although I'm sure you know this already, you don't get to choose... | I grew up in a wealthy family and continued on our legacy. By my mid-40s I was a multi-billionaire. I had everything one could desire, from yachts to items that would be better suited for the Lourve. When you have access to everything, you get an appetite for rarity. You want what no one else can have.
I was at a bal... | 2020-08-05T02:05:53 | 2020-08-05T00:41:29 | 471 | 79 |
[WP] Santa asks a child on his lap what he wants for Christmas. "To destroy ISIS," the child replies. Determined to grant the child his wish, Santa sets out to destroy ISIS. | Santa stared at the child.
"San'ie? You 'kay?", asked the small child.
"Yes, I am. I was just considering your wish. It's an odd one . . . but I think I might actually be the right guy for the job", Santa give the child a warm smile.
Soon, the child hopped off Santa's knee, and gave a grin and a wave back to Santa... | There wasn't much in the bag this time. It didn't fill to the rim. There weren't any presents for well-behaving children.
In the bag, there were only three cases. All of them had been carefully labeled. He read them out loud, as if to make sure he hadn't forgotten anything:
- Breda M38 Machine Gun
- FIM-43 Rocket La... | 2015-12-07T18:13:28 | 2015-12-07T16:18:22 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] You die and your spirit meets Death. He/she tells you you owe him a favour.
My first Writing Prompt submission. I hope it's okay.
Oh, and to clarify, I mean the physical embodiment of Death - the Grim Reaper. | He wasn't as tall as I thought he would be. Wasn't short either. Both his height and his weight were somewhere in the middle. His clothes could have been from an older time, but then again, anyone can wear clothes from pretty much any style of the past century and not get glanced at twice these days. I could have passe... | To be fair, I'm not very surprised. I was expecting it: I was one of the 'terminals' hooked up to tubes and wires in a quieter area of the hospital, I was ready enough to go. Even though, you know, I'm a fucking teenager. Eighteen and ready to start my life at a college across the country, plans on taking on the world ... | 2014-07-10T06:00:51 | 2014-07-10T03:24:48 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] Neither the Allies nor the Axis won World War 2, as both sides give up in order to rebuild their devastated land. Over the years neither side allows any contact with the other. It is now 2015 and a chosen ambassador becomes the first in decades to visit the other side. | #SOS REPORT ON CONDITIONS IN REICH
#SECRET - ORCON
BACKGROUND
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In 1945, a series of events created a state of total stalemate in the ongoing World War. In January, Josef Stalin was assassinated by German agents, causing the Eastern front to collapse into disarray. Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich expanded rapidly... | The Gates stood before me, tall and imposing.
I had spent years preparing for this moment. Lessons in their language, crash courses in what little we knew of their culture. Lessons in self-defence, in persuasive speaking.
Some more...unfortunate requirements were the plastic surgery, the sterilization. We couldn't ri... | 2015-07-07T07:42:37 | 2015-07-07T07:27:01 | 130 | 33 |
[WP] Two introverts are trying to hide from the drunken masses at a High School party gone wild. Tell me the story of them meeting in the only quiet room of the house.
Extra brownie points are to be awarded to romance stories. | "Finally." She breathed, shutting the heavy door behind her, which barely drowned out the hip hop music blaring in the background.
"Hm?" A voice came from the armchair facing away from the door.
"Sorry, didn't know this room was occupied," the girl said, flustered. She really didn't want to go back into the fray. Esp... | The door opens, and Erika briefly considers running for it; but the noise is still there, and she isn't feeling all that cold yet, so she just calls out: "Hey, the door doesn't open from this side!"
"Ah, what do you mean there's someone *here* too --- hey!"
And the door slams shut, and most of the noise goes away.
T... | 2014-10-06T10:01:04 | 2014-10-06T09:53:16 | 30 | 14 |
[WP] You have been kidnapped and your wealthy significant other was told to pay the hefty ransom. Instead, they sent a message back to your kidnappers. “Nice knowing you.” While the kidnappers discuss their next move, you look up through the tiny window, stare at the full moon overhead … and smile. | My wrists are raw from the rope I am bound with. The sound of blood tapping on the concrete has been my companion for the last 3 hours.
I look to a familiar glow coming through a crack in the crumbling roof.
Tonight appears to be a full moon. I grew up hearing the family legends. It always felt like an overr... | ‘I was finally free from her, sure it took a while but freedom non the less.’
Looking back from the window two of my captor where still muttering in low tones and the third had been replaced by a low rumble in the next room. Rolling my shoulders and flexing my fingers to bring feeling back, I prepared for what would c... | 2021-03-19T03:28:18 | 2021-03-19T02:31:18 | 31 | 20 |
[WP] As a vanity project a computer scientist/mathematician sets a super computer to calculating the digits of Pi to trillions of digits. One day he notices that for a stretch of thousands of digits Pi repeated a sequence of ones and zeroes, which he plugs into a binary translator. | How was I supposed to know? It was hardly my fault. I believed it to be a coincidence, I didn't think anything would come from it.
I'd been calculating the digits of Pi far beyond what would ever be necessary. To me, it was just a bit of fun. I was searching for any patterns or repetitions that might occur, when I not... | Several mathematicians were trying to understand the meaning of the strange sequence of numbers. And a strange pattern appeared to emerge. The first digit of any set of eight was a zero except for the last digits found. Someone for some unexplainable reason decided to put the strange sequence in a binary translator dis... | 2020-04-23T02:54:42 | 2020-04-23T02:29:20 | 76 | 13 |
[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. | To my oldest friend,
It seems we have nothing much to say to each other when we meet. Our conversations are prompt and direct. We no longer share secrets or take an interest in the other's life.
It is a sullen and disheartening realization that we are not who we were ten, twenty years ago.
I miss the days of doin... | 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... | 2017-11-05T23:46:31 | 2017-11-05T22:26:46 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Find a random post on r/TIFU and make an explanation for the title without reading the post. | TIFU by breathing fire
Okay let me first get this out of the way, being born half dragon is not easy. You see when my mother was out searching for the kingdom's lost treasure she wandered into the cave of a vicious and total asshole of a father, Steve.
The next part is something that I don't really like discussing... | TIFU by disgracing the housekeeping staff.
I was down at Coffs Harbour with my mates, it had been way too long since we went anywhere together and even then not all the lads could make it, so it was just the three of us. Their names aren't important and I don't want my identity revealed so lets just skip ahead.
We ha... | 2015-04-13T00:36:00 | 2015-04-12T22:55:41 | 25 | 16 |
[WP] The first group of astronauts leave for Mars. Days later we find out one of the astronauts killed his wife before leaving earth.
Title | "Wake up Alden."
The radio buzzes with white noise.
"You nee-- to--wak--uh-pp-"
The white noise lingers. The voice is gone.
My eyes feel sore. Everything is blurry. Climbing the cryo-chamber, my legs feel a little like rubber, and I have what feels like will be a throbbing headache. Cryo-sleep sucks.
I look arou... | "Breaking Development in the Astronaut killer story. We have just received word that investigators have found a letter left behind by Jeremy McCarthy. As you know Jeremy was part of NASA's X-2 mission to mars. Hours before launch, his wife was discovered dead in the household, when the family's dog walker came to pick ... | 2015-11-03T20:00:33 | 2015-11-03T13:45:47 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] the truth is that every god started out as a trickster god, and they only end up in another role when one of their tricks goes too far and changes something about the world. A trick that ends up starting a century long war made a former trickster into a god of war. you are a new trickster god. | Troxma had been the first. Always a little more aggressive than the others, he had laughed as he planted that idea into that nobles head about how funny it would be to cut up the visiting kings 12 year old son, and serve him to the king for supper, in a soup with his finest herbs no less. Oh how that poor mortal never ... | I didnt mean for this to happen. Honest, this wasn't what I had in mind but everything happened so fast and. . .I thought it'd be fun? I mean how was I suppose to know altering the humans like. . .a couple times created such a difference?! They're practically the same BUT LOOK WHAT THEY'RE DOING to each other and I mea... | 2022-06-15T02:23:48 | 2022-06-14T21:53:04 | 30 | 15 |
[WP] The year is 2040, and you are the last smoker alive. The "Quit Smoking" ads get personal. | "The Surgeon General would like to remind you that smoking causes lung cancer and other serious health effects"
Will squinted at the bright neon billboard, its screen casting an unnatural white glow over an otherwise dimly lit street. Taking in the message before briefly sighing and continuing his walk, he gradually ... | I've outlasted it for years. I've watched campaigns come and go for years never having any effect on my habit, but this was something more. The first anti smoking ad I saw was when I was 10 years old. It showed a middle aged man going through his daily life with a hole in his throat. Plugging it when he took showers... | 2017-02-17T12:12:31 | 2017-02-17T11:59:25 | 47 | 20 |
[WP] You obtained the ability to experience life as it is for others. After trying out a few people you realize that the general "living feeling" differs enormously to each person. You decide to try it on your super cheerful friend... you have never felt such emptiness before. | **The saddest people smile the brightest.**
It was only when I 'manifested' my mind into my best friend, Irina, that I realized the true meaning behind this quote.
Irina has always been the outgoing, cheery girl. She's the type of person that is constantly overflowed with positive energy. As many would presume, she i... | David had a way of convincing you that a life idle is a life wasted. A lot of people throw around the term crazy with frivolous abandon, but David embodied it. Freshman year, he decided the best way to end our first frat party was to dive headfirst off the balcony into the pool out back. That ended up being our last fr... | 2018-05-23T13:46:31 | 2018-05-23T13:30:37 | 296 | 175 |
[WP] Something seemed off about the Holy Order of Saint Joseph. You, an investigative reporter, sneak your way inside, only to be caught by the Abbot. He explains that the Holy Order is a front for supernatural and unholy creatures, who are able to live relatively normal lives thanks to their faith. | Something was off. Most the doors were locked, from the outside.
I got lucky getting in but wasn't sure how I was going to get out. As I getting a tour of the outside there was a loud explosion-type sound from the western grounds and everyone ran that way. It left me the opening I needed, but once the commotion calmed... | Making my way inside was the easy part. Monks weren't exactly known to have the best security, and these ones seemed pathetically poor. Nobody outside the main gate, nobody patrolling the fence, heck, there wasn't a camera in sight. All I had to do was hop the fence, and start making my way closer. I walked around the ... | 2022-10-21T20:19:40 | 2022-10-21T19:00:34 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] You know the secret identity of every hero and villain, How? They show you, as your a shapeshifter employed to impersonate them so both identities can be seen at the same place, same time. However none know your true identity. | The doorbell rang. When Timothy Reid went to meet the stranger, two very special men stood opposite from each other. Timothy was in his mid thirties, a rather boring attorney by day, a gangster by night. Not just any gangster, but a greatly feared villain, successful at evading both the police and a number of heroes.
... | It was a lucky break, I guess. I'd always used my ability for pettier things like shifting into some fast food place's manager to get a free meal, getting by under the radar. The world had enough heroes and villains and I wanted no part in the charades. Then the headlines broke out: Someone had caught Batman leaving Wa... | 2020-10-19T08:45:39 | 2020-10-19T08:16:40 | 94 | 55 |
[WP] A sniper and a photographer meet in a bar, neither aware of the other's occupation. They talk about 'how to take the perfect shot'. | "Personally, I think the more unexpected it is, the better." Josh took another sip from his beer.
Damien snorted, popping a couple peanuts in his mouth. "You mean catch them off guard? Nah, I think it should feel almost natural." He smiled. "Take my last job, this senator was blazing through his speech. Right when he ... | The old gin joint just right down an ominous alleyway had always been a favourite of mine. Secluded, warm, cozy, near my workplace, and the best part is that it's always empty when I was done for the day. I drop off the dragonuv issued by my company and march straight down to the alley. After a long hard day of looking... | 2020-11-05T08:36:01 | 2020-11-05T08:14:19 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Domino's pizza has offered free pizza for life to anyone who tattoos their logo on their body. Now other food chains are following that idea, but with increasingly absurd requirements, and the poor have turned themselves into walking advertisements just so they can eat with each passing day. | The bigger the tattoo the more grams of food a day they give you. A whole arm? 200 grams a day. Two arms? 400 grams. Your face? 800 grams.
If you calculated it right you could tattoo most of your body and never have to worry about food for the rest of your live. Sure its gets a little boring to eat the same 8 meals i... | When I first saw the news, I was surprised. Would Domino's really do this kind of service?
I looked on their website and sure enough, there was a banner that confirmed my suspicions.
I immediately closed my laptop screen and drove to the local tattoo parlor. Even though I was dirt poor, I was just lucky enough to aff... | 2018-09-08T13:55:48 | 2018-09-08T13:48:12 | 89 | 35 |
[WP] In a landmark 5-4 decision, The Supreme Court rules that camping in FPS games is "fucking lame". | OPINION BY WhereLibertyisNot, J.
I. INTRODUCTION
We are called upon, today, to decide the sole issue raised by Petitioner on appeal: whether "camping" in First-Person-Shooter games is "fucking lame." The instant appeal for which we granted *certiorari* stems from the following facts:
II. FACTUAL BACKGROUND
On Feb... | "We now to turn Nancy Tran with the latest developments from the Supreme Court. Nancy?"
"Bob, the massive crowd gathered outside of the Supreme Court has erupted emotionally after the weeks of deliberation in the Haxsau5 vs. "F***ing Casuals" case. Those in the FC Camps are jubilant- cheering, hugging, waving flags e... | 2014-09-03T07:34:12 | 2014-09-03T06:10:13 | 128 | 42 |
[WP] A robot's thoughts on receiving a hug from a little girl.
Inspired by this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1E-FlguwGw&feature=share
| Unit 2561-G detecting heat signature. Warming up. Visual receptors.....online.
Something is in the lab with Unit 2561-G. Scanning for match.
ERROR. No match. Creating new subject profile. Begin analysis.
**Human**
Female
< Age
<< 4 years
<<< 7 months
<<<< 17 days
Genetic Makeup
... | The embrace, tiny and innocent.
I understand the sentiment behind a human hug. Common human gestures are a part of my database of human communication. A hug is a gesture, typically between two humans, in which one or more parties engage in wrapping arms around the other party/parties and hold in that position for a du... | 2017-03-28T09:19:59 | 2017-03-28T08:48:33 | 145 | 13 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | Alel bit his lip as the prisoner crumpled to dust, blowing away from a wind within an airtight room. Well, that was out the window. The judge simply stared with a bored look in his eye, confirming the kill before charting it down and looking to some other infinite list.
“Charles Alel, take to the stand.”
Alel grimac... | Okay. It's okay. It's going to be okay. I know what I'm doing, I tell myself as I await my turn on the docket.
The man in front of me is pulled from his place in live and led roughly up the small staircase to the platform in front of the judge. "In accordance with statute 128.45 of the criminal code, as required, I mu... | 2021-06-24T10:52:50 | 2021-06-24T06:11:19 | 44 | 23 |
[WP] Dragons carry away a child from a local village, and everyone writes them off as dead. A decade later, a stranger arrives, claiming to be the lost child. They even brought the dragons to prove it. | Oh the despair the villagers had when young little Mort was taken! Of all the children there were to be taken, the dragons had to choose that unwanted child. The orphan nobody knew what to do with, and often treated with a mix of pity and scorn.
The myths often spoke of a man taken by the dragons as a child, and raise... | Massive boulders hurtled through the air, shedding dirt and debris as they flew towards the village, causing the north easterly wind to shriek in protest at their passing. The town bell rung frantically, its harsh noise competing with the whistling boulders as they crashed into the modest stone houses of the village, t... | 2019-04-25T07:20:41 | 2019-04-25T06:32:53 | 26 | 18 |
[WP]Tell me an emotional story about a man, using only what he would type into Google search | - Online dating sites
- First date ideas
- How much do you tip
- What clothes do you wear to a fancy restaurant
- Ways to save money
- How to get proposal ring in secret
- What is a good price for a ring
- Resort honeymoon suite cost
- How to save a lot of money
- First class tickets to Hawaii
- Coach ticket... | Best private school LA
LA public school system
Jobhunter LA
Budget kids clothes
How to fix a leaky faucet
Modern student backpacks
How to qualify for an education loan
Return Klip-pack 9000
Amazon Ninja Turtles rolling backpack
Rain jacket size small
What to do if your apartment floods
Budget plum... | 2015-02-04T17:35:01 | 2015-02-04T17:13:32 | 161 | 23 |
[FF] A 10-word-long sentence. Then, a 9-word sentence. An 8-word-long one after. This continues, until the final sentence of 1 word. Try to choose a theme befitting of the structure | Jessie's job was working for the city, cleaning up roadkill.
I can't help but see irony in his death.
He probably looked like a deer in headlights.
Which is what he was cleaning up.
That SUV didn't even see him.
Flattened him out real good.
It was road kill.
Leaving him, well.
You know.
Roadkill. | I couldn't believe just how hard it was to say.
*"I always knew that you would end my life."*
*"What do you mean --- I don't get it?"*
*"I really didn't expect that you would."*
Her eyes began to well up.
*"You're starting to scare me."*
My voice began quivering.
*"I'm so sorry."*
*"No wait--.*
*"Goodbye."... | 2015-01-05T21:54:55 | 2015-01-05T21:31:56 | 122 | 14 |
[WP] The DM hands you the paper. You're just dropping in for the one session, but you know your role. The sheet says you're level 6, but you've got surprises. You have a mission: take out the DM's most-hated player. Well, their fun-killing Paladin, anyway. You're a hired gun. A Character Assassin. | I'm not a hero, I'm a man with a job. have a specific set of skills. When a DM wants to get rid of a character but declines to use the plethora of tools at their disposal, they message me. Generally, I like more than one session to handle these kinds of issues, but I took this job as a personal favor.
The party of fou... | "I'm afraid I must object," said Timonus the Upright.
Everyone at the table reacted, some throwing up their hands and some muttering unpleasantries under their breath. The five gamers sat around a map of terrain speckled with gaming pieces. At the head of the table a thin, tired looking young man sat behind a large,... | 2019-01-21T19:02:54 | 2019-01-21T18:32:36 | 3,332 | 500 |
[WP] You started writing a diary when you were 13, but you stopped after it got boring after awhile. You find your diary after several years in pile of your old stuff, and the entries indicate that you've never stopped writing... | The day my mother died. That was tomorrow, 10 years back. I was up in the attic, going through some of old stuff. Old photo albums, little things my mother loved. Tears welled in my eyes. Ah the memories, I thought, as I glanced a dusty little book among a bunch of my old shit. I picked it up and sneezed. The marker on... | The faint dim light of my lantern, a book and my sheets defended me from the monsters that crawled my bedroom's floor in the night. That evening I submerged into Anne Frank's world, I found her diary absorbing, it made me remember about my old diary that I wrote last year but quickly left behind.
The warm sunlight bro... | 2017-06-25T16:54:17 | 2017-06-25T15:09:16 | 102 | 24 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | It was these sort of women that he hated the most. The ones that would cling to their tainted children with screams and fits of rage. Didn't they understand? Didn't they realize that the world had to be clean?
It'd been many years since he'd realized the truth about the Blackness. One day, The Doctor has pricked himse... | I felt "different", don't know how to explain it really. When I woke up and had my morning breakfast and coffee everything felt fine. When I left my small studio apartment, passing misses Fischer in the hallway I felt normal. Even when I reached the soup kitchen the next block over the world just felt...right.
Yet... | 2018-08-04T10:46:53 | 2018-08-04T10:12:33 | 3,279 | 20 |
[WP] After dying, you are faced with a coin slot. It says, "Pay 1$ to live for another day". You tried it out, and lived for another day. The next day, it showed up again, this time it asks you for 2$. | "Shit, I don't have any change. Wait, what the fuck? Where am I?"
James is very confused, it just occurred to him that just a second ago he was not at an arcade, or whatever the hell this place is supposed to be. There's this huge screen in front him, telling him to stick a dollar into the slot right beside it to live... | A voice rich and sonorous filled the air like rumbling thunder, echoing through my mind like a whisper down a deep well.
“Would you like another day?” it asks. There is an undertone of mirth in the voice, a mocking tone of one who has all the knowledge and power.
My eyes focus through the haze and I see a body lying ... | 2018-07-29T04:28:21 | 2018-07-29T03:59:43 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] Hiding the fact that you are a half-demon to your classmates is easy as being helpful at school and putting on a friendly face. What could go wrong? Well, nothing's worse than being summoned by one of your classmates, that's for sure. | "Annie?"
Annie took a pair of glasses out of her fluffy Hello Kitty robe to get a better look at the idiot who summoned her. She regretted immediately seeing Shawn from Biology 2301 in front of her with a familiar grimoire and candles around them. Not to mention the slack jawed guy next to him. Did her cousin sell th... | “OwO what’s this who had summoned me?” I say flouring my demonic robes as i rise out of the Summoning circle. With a final flourish of red sparkles and smoke I turn to see -SAM fucken SAM my smile faltered
“Magufuli?” He said poking my blood red robes.
“No stop” I pull my rides away. What am I supposed to do? I turn... | 2021-09-20T06:14:44 | 2021-09-20T03:07:06 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] You are the infamous 10th Dentist. A new toothpaste has been brought before the commission and the previous 9 dentists have already approved it. As you inspect the toothpaste, there is a slight problem. You actually like it. | Stewart sat straight awaiting his turn to review the product. He was the storied Tenth Dentist—the cavity crusader, the plaque protector, the last bastion against the dreaded *gingavitus.*
The others dentists had been phoning it in for years now. They had approved this particular product on *sight.*
>“Does it c... | My 'colleagues' were already writing down their statements of approval. Fools. They used it once, on themselves at that, and they trust their own judgements? Pah. I'd spit on them, but they'd probably like that as well.
But I am a professional, if nothing else. I will... observe the formalities. Experience whatever gu... | 2021-02-20T11:08:28 | 2021-02-20T08:52:52 | 339 | 79 |
[WP] At the stroke of midnight on January 1st, 2020, the first snow of the new year and the new decade fell. And it never stopped. | The first flakes fell gentle, like shredded up paper swirling down to the ground. And we cheered, those of us celebrating in NYC that night, seeing in the new year with friends and wine and laughter.
We woke with sore heads to a changed cityscape. A frozen veil had softened the harsh lines and dimmed the bright lights... | I was born on the night of the long snow. I have never known a day without this: the dismal white, stretching in all directions.
My mother said we didn't always live like this. We didn't always hide around fires, watching the world from out frosted windows.
But even when she told me, showed me the old photos of green... | 2019-12-10T10:04:04 | 2019-12-10T09:59:58 | 2,345 | 237 |
[WP] You are constantly mocked for having such a weird superpower by all the other heroes. “The power to make anything into perfectly cooked soup”… One day, a massive meteor is barreling towards earth. As all the other heroes are panicking, you wait perfectly calm, at the impact zone, bowl in hand. | I was born with the power to turn anything into a bowl of soup. No matter the object, it would turn into enough soup to fit perfectly into a standard bowl. I could even choose the type. The other superheros always mocked me for it.
"Turning stuff into soup? That's useless!"
"What are you going to do against a villain... | I had always been an outcast, even among the other superheros. Everyone else had flashy abilities like flight or super strength, while my power was to make anything into perfectly cooked soup. I was constantly mocked and ridiculed.
I heard the news that a massive meteor was headed straight for Earth. The other heroes ... | 2022-11-29T19:59:26 | 2022-11-29T19:52:13 | 121 | 59 |
[WP] When two people fall in love, they receive an object that is the physical embodiment of that love. It changes as their feelings change towards each other and destroying it can have drastic consequences. How does this change the nature of relationships? | On the first date by the sea, our love was a ring. A normal look for these types of things.
It hugs my finger so well, this is the love I needed. I can tell.
At the first kiss it was a boat. Roped at the docks where our love first took float.
Our first anniversary was a beautiful tale, and our hearts boat sprung ... | We walked up the the government building. Holding hands together. We had just realized that yes, we were in fact deeply in love after just three weeks being together. And as the law goes we had to get our Article, the one thing that would guide and lead us through the years together. Oliver smiled as he opened the door... | 2014-05-03T15:00:16 | 2014-05-03T14:27:45 | 124 | 63 |
[WP] Humans can Bond with animals to gain superpowers based on the traits of that animal. You just Bonded an animal that no one else in human history has been able to Bond with | I was late to the game when it came to the Bonding; how it worked, how it felt. But now I understood why there were so few people spirited to soft, fuzzy, cute things: We can sense each other. And on top of that, it's been known that personality types get augmented the deeper they connect with their power.
That sai... | Every day, it happened.
Every day _she_ happened. It wasn't enough for her to own me, it wasn't enough for her to hold me in the palm of her hand since she bought me at that auction. It wasn't enough for her to be able to make my life a living hell.
She wanted to prove it to me, every day. The whippings were not the ... | 2019-06-18T11:16:56 | 2019-06-18T11:16:55 | 30 | 14 |
[WP] You face your guardian angel and you ask her, "What is my purpose?" She responds, "Oh. You were here to help that old lady cross the street when you were 13. She was gonna be hit by the bus. The rest is just free time." | "Is that *it*?"
"You saved a life. Isn't that enough?"
"I mean... if you put it like that, but... it still seems pretty small. I mean, did she do anything after that?"
"She lived five more years. Read some very good books. Brought joy to her friends and loved ones. Never missed an episode of *Coronation Street*. The... | Ronnie is one of the special ones. Her every choice matters. Her words echo through the millennia. Her footsteps ripple outwards, reaching every corner of the universe. If she sneezes, the gods rejoice. If she trips and falls, they tremble.
I don't think she knows all of that, though. Most of them don't. And most of ... | 2021-05-17T22:43:11 | 2021-05-17T20:59:04 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] You are a princess whose father has just remarried. You’re ecstatic— a wicked stepmother means the start of your own fairy tale, and a guaranteed happy ending. Problem is, your stepmother is… nice. And it seems to be genuine. | "You seem to want to see the worst of me." She stated, her voice calm and subdued as usual.
I stared at her. She looked so pale in the moonlight that she was almost translucent. She wore her hair long and loose, but they stayed unnaturally straight as they reached down to the small of her back. Black as sin and shinin... | This is my first ever wp submission... I’d definitely re write it but I just wanted to get my first ever submission out of the way. Just jumping right in lol
[poem]
I’ve always wished upon the stars
Wished my dreams to come true
For I had all - a castle - a crown!
But I was missing you
Of course I’ve held high sta... | 2021-10-11T05:26:27 | 2021-10-10T22:01:17 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] You have a box, with a button. Press it and a year later you'll be right back to when you pressed it. A year without consequences. | The box had 2 lines written on the side:
* Press and live as you wish for 1 year
* At the end of 1 year, you will be returned to the moment the button was pressed
The opportunity was intriguing. He couldn't just ignore the box. Life was hard, but with the option of "practicing," perhaps things could actually be bette... | The most important day of my life was the one when I received this powerful magical artifact. It was a time machine, but with one limitation: it only had the ability to send me back in time to when I activated it.
So if I pressed the big red emergency button on its top, in a year's time I would be sent back to the po... | 2015-12-15T08:51:18 | 2015-12-15T08:25:37 | 129 | 10 |
[WP] It’s the zombie apocalypse except only the senior citizens are infected. With frail joints and no teeth, the general population is merely inconvenienced by rapid grandpas and grandmas trying to gum them to death.
From a post by u/icantseemtopoop in r/CrazyIdeas
edit : Loved all the responses so far, it always am... | Mommy and Daddy left me with Granny.
It was a lot of fun! We drew pictures and ate cookies. My favorite, the kind with the oatmeal and chocolate chips!
Granny put on her old-fashioned record player, and we danced a lot too. Swinging and laughing and singing along to songs I didn’t really know about.
Then we went to ... | In the same state but many miles apart, two people come to the same conclusion:
*Something is wrong here.*
Of course, they weren't the first people to reach this very obvious conclusion, but they will be the main characters of this story.
Now, these two people...one of them was a young, government employed scientist... | 2018-02-10T10:22:45 | 2018-02-10T08:24:04 | 63 | 37 |
[WP] You are a State Necromancer, employed to temporarily ressurect the dead so they may bear witness in court. But on rare occasions you are asked to perform another role: Permanantly ressurecting prisoners who were executed and then later pardoned. But "pardoned" doesnt always equate to "innocent" | The cell door slides open. Without looking up, I know that Detective Haruko’s there.
“How is he?” I ask.
Her grimace is almost audible. “Well, he’s awake. Probably wishes he wasn’t, though. The family is thinking of euthanasia.”
She pauses.
“You could undo it, couldn’t you?”
I shrug. “Probably.”
“But no one else ... | "Okay...Alright I've got a pulse...maybe...Abigail, push two CC's epinephrine. Yup, okay there it is. See if you can hold that...nope, push push push." Claire gently brushed the dowsing rod back and forth from temple to temple, waiting for a twitch. She'd been at this over an hour and it was getting hard to tell what w... | 2020-01-06T12:20:38 | 2020-01-06T07:55:29 | 383 | 80 |
[WP] When someone dies the person they cared about the most receives a notification. One day you're notified of a death, and it's a person you've never heard of. | Spontaneous.
That's the only way I could explain it. Everyone around me from the guy sitting at the bench to the jogger down the street just began crying. I walked into the convince store confused.
Even the usually cheery cashier was frowning now and all activity within had slowed to a crawl as if some sort of ... | Cold.
In the lobby. In the tiny staircase you take to the cramped room with an obnoxiously long table. A room surrounded by urns and funeral cards and documents you can buy. Doesn't matter where you are in this place, it permeates and follows as an unseen companion.
All over. Cold.
I assume that's on purpose; to... | 2019-06-10T19:20:53 | 2019-06-10T17:00:51 | 363 | 112 |
[WP] A man wants to sell his soul to a demon but the thing he wants in return is so dubious the demon is thrown for a loop. | “Let me get this straight,” said Azazel, standing in a run-down apartment choked with smoke.
“You want to be the color purple.”
“Yeah maaan, I mean think about it... How much stuff in the universe is purple, I could be,” pause for bong hit, “all of that shit at once. I’d be fuckin Barney and grape soda… AT THE ... | "Woah there cowgirl. Slow it down.".
Ja'rel shook her head in disbelief.
" I'm just a crossroads demon. Sure we can make deals a little bigger than those spirit board idiots, but I think even I need to run that kind of request...downstairs.".
The demon gave the small mortal in front of her another once over. Her... | 2014-05-15T21:15:50 | 2014-05-15T20:05:56 | 95 | 52 |
[WP] “1 day on this planet is 15 years on earth” said the ships AI. “I was told to inform you of this after the completion of your 12 day mission on the surface.” | "Are my student Loans still in effect?"
Shepherd, the AI, was silent. It had calculated despair, anger, even a complete breakdown at the revelation of this information. Instead, they had gotten this.
"Could you repeat your question?"
"My student Loans, my debt. Are they still a thing? Do I still need to pay them?"... | Congealed blood tastes like death and rust. When it pumps through your veins, it tastes like hope and perseverance.
It feels like I'm a walking husk now. Everyone I knew is gone, and the human race is no more - except for me. Blood still struggles to flow through my veins and keep me alive.
I have been informed that ... | 2022-09-15T12:00:16 | 2022-09-15T11:53:15 | 64 | 35 |
[WP] You discover a grand hall filled with legendary weapons like Mjonir and Excalibur. Each generation or so, warriors come to the hall to inherit a weapon that they are worthy enough to wield. Across the hall you see a forgotten weapon that's been collecting dust. You hear it call to you. | "Are you trying to tell me that this legendary weapon had been in my world, not once, not twice, but three times?" I asked the old man in disbelief.
With a heavy sigh he replied, "Yes, but when this Hall was created to only examine a warrior's prowess in battle, not their overall competence. That being said, you've on... | Waking with a start, my blankets strewn wildly about my floor, thrown from my bed as I slept.
It was just a dream... It had to be; there's no other explanation for it. But, I've never had such a vivid dream before; not just seeing, but tasting the cold mustiness of the air, feeling the chill of the marble on the sol... | 2017-02-07T12:46:10 | 2017-02-07T12:20:10 | 124 | 35 |
[WP] In the near future, you are making dinner because you are about to meet your girlfriend's dad for the first time. All you have in the kitchen is cooked frozen steaks. In walks your girlfriend and her dad, Gordon Ramsey. | "Mmm this steak is delicious." said Gordon. My girlfriend smiled at me. Dinner couldn't have gone better.
The steaks weren't great, and Gordon knew it. But he wasn't going to make a big thing of it. Not everyone is great at cooking, and the kid seemed to be trying.
"I'll have to cook next time." said Gordon.
"Yea... | "They were supposed to be here by six..." I thought to myself. I turned the TV off and walked into the kitchen where I had been thawing the steaks.
This dinner had been on my mind for the last week, I couldn't believe what an idiot I had been. I couldn't help but see the irony in the situation, I guess thinking about... | 2017-10-19T08:19:54 | 2017-10-19T07:43:58 | 23 | 10 |
[WP]All you can remember was that you were once mortal. Now centuries, countless millenniums have passed. You watched everything you know perish one by one. Humanity, Earth, the sun, galaxies, even black holes. And now you drift in space waiting for the end of time... | Space is not silent.
There is *silence*.
But it is not silent.
The solar winds play a haunting sonata that vibrates through your bones. A rippling melody that dances down your spine, sprinkling goose-pimples its wake.
Every planet you pass, every object, is a unique melody; a new string to be masterly plucked on ... | "Eight trillion and one, eight trillion and two... Christ I'm bored..."
Jamie had come up with the idea of counting to pass the time just over eight trillion seconds ago. It seemed like a good idea at the time. (If you could even call it time anymore).
Over the eons, he had thought of several games to play to keep h... | 2018-01-19T06:44:39 | 2018-01-19T06:30:29 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] You just accidentally downloaded the Kindle version of the Necronomicon. | The Necronomicon glowed, for the Kindle was Paperwhite. The Old Ones self-published.
Cooper first started to read it on the subway. His eyes would flick up every now and then. The girl sitting across from him was wearing shorts, and as the train hurtled along underground, her thighs would vibrate. Back down again. The... | *The night was dark and stormy...*
Ugh no, way too cliche.
*The darkness of the night hung like a veil over the stars in the sky...*
Meh, a little better but I felt like I was still trying to hard.
*John walked out into the dark night, unable to see anything because of how dark it was...*
Goddammit, that was jus... | 2016-02-10T09:31:13 | 2016-02-10T08:18:55 | 844 | 78 |
[WP] Blind people aren’t actually blind. Their eyes are tuned into a different dimension, but their brains can’t process that information so they see nothing. A doctor has just perfected a procedure to correct this problem. Tell us what the first patient sees. | I woke up yesterday as I always did: blind, from the day I was born.
I woke up today significantly... different. Today, I realized my arms were bound around me. It didn't take me long to figure out that I was in a straitjacket, but where am I? How did I get here?
As my mind slowly roused itself from my slumber, I ... | There I sat, nervous and shaking my foot. I couldn't keep still. This was it. I've waited my whole life for this.
I should introduce myself, my name is Kylie. I've been blind since I was born. My whole life my wonderful parents have tried to ease it. With words of encouragement, and with remedies. But nothing has wor... | 2020-04-06T09:44:16 | 2020-04-06T09:03:29 | 166 | 53 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | The miles between them had come and gone, leaving scars and wounds and memories and laughs. The horizon that day was clear, and the world fell into green and yellow, and far away were the mountains, and everything was cloaked in a dream. They had come far. The first peaks of Lankar shimmered in an ephemeral haze.
"W... | Approaching the city gate, the adventurers stiffen as the guards halt their way. Of course, Mr. Nobility has to be the one to step forward and speak for the group. Marian lightly touches her bow, prepared to ready an arrow if her arrogant companion gets them into trouble again.
"Greetings, my good men. My name is Hect... | 2017-09-15T07:40:12 | 2017-09-15T06:04:09 | 322 | 193 |
[WP] “Do not go outside. Ignore all the cries for help, no matter how human they sound.” That was the last thing he said before he shut the basement door. | “Don’t go outside. Ignore all the cries for help, no matter how human they sound,” her father said as he hefted the bloody axe into his hand. He started up the stairs out of the cellar and stopped. "You can always tell when they're not human, listen. Listen!"
“Papa, no—no they *are!* They are people!” she cried pullin... | I’m slowly bleeding out. He is gone for at least 20 minutes. The last thing he said was, ‘Do not go outside. Ignore all the cries for help, no matter how human they sound.’
We didn’t know what we were doing. I remember taking my backpack and going a hike with Terry. I’ve never expected to see something falling down fr... | 2020-04-26T08:20:00 | 2020-04-26T05:52:23 | 154 | 44 |
[WP] In a different age, Aliens invaded and were defeated by Cavemen, as a result they prepared for a second battle thousands of years in the future, when they expected humanity to be the most fearsome beings in the universe, they return to find society as it is now
EDIT: August 8th, 2014 @ 2:35PM:
Wow, /r/WritingPro... | The General sat in his command vehicle. He surveyed the displays of his armies. He smiled as a father smiles at his children. He zoomed in on Battallion A. The troops were arrayed in battle uniforms. Their faces calm and focused inside their battle helmets. He switched to Battallion B. The infantry arrayed in front of ... | The commander stood impressively on the pillars of Hexus beside the naturally formed wormhole of Xarxel. His scarred trunk pointed a Heva bone trident as his troops listening to their final invasion instructions.
"Four temlons since our defeat! We have no idea how the hairless have prepared since then. Their clubs... | 2014-08-07T08:11:21 | 2014-08-07T07:07:37 | 43 | 13 |
[WP] After the Battle of Hogwarts, Dudley met a woman and they had a daughter,Sophie. Sophie is the light of their lives,she's always been a pleasant child. The morning of Sophie's 11th birthday,there’s a knock at the door. Harry is here to visit his cousin for the first time in almost 20 years.
I just want to say tha... | As Harry walked up to the house with ballons on the mailbox he knew he was in the right place.
Looking at the front door he noticed a sign, "Birthday guests around back. Make sure gate is latched." Harry thought to himself. "While not a formal guest. That is the reason I'm here. And its my birthday too."
As he round... | "I met Georgina when I was 26" said Dudley, as Harry watched Dudley's family photos hung around their living room. "Would you er... like some tea?" Harry was looking at the pictures absentmindedly and almost didn't hear the question, "... yeah, why not." Harry noticed baby photos of Sophie playing in the backyard and m... | 2019-10-16T12:02:20 | 2019-10-16T11:44:21 | 117 | 48 |
[WP](NSFW) The world has moved on from nature documentaries, leaving many narrators out of a job. These men and women turn to a new field; narrating pornography.
Nature documentarists narrating porn. | Human mating, once a thing of beauty and mystery, has been reduced to a science by these clever experts. Like the majestic bird of paradise, the seduction ritual follows very clear and often complicated steps, depending on the particular variety. Our subject today is the common "Lemon-stealing whore." Though she adopts... | *Pleasure, Unbound*
*Narrated by Sir Richard Attenborough's disembodied voice*
The human mating ritual begins as the scantily clad female opens the door to greet the male.
"Big sausage pizza for a Ivana Pecker"
"Oh my, it's so big!"
By sheer masculinity and force of will, the male has attracted the female. It is u... | 2015-04-08T11:24:17 | 2015-04-08T11:22:22 | 2,603 | 88 |
[WP] *Picks up Phone*: Hello? *Voice*: In 5 years, you will have 30 seconds to talk to YOU, right now. Make sure you have something good to say, because I'm stumped. *Hangs Up* | "Hello?"
"In five years, you'll have thirty seconds to talk to YOU, right now. Make sure you have something good to say, because I'm stumped."
I set down the phone, confused and uncertain. That certainly *sounded* like me, but... time travel was impossible, right? Time isn't a *direction* - no physics grad student w... | It's been five years since I got the call. I would be a vile lie to say that I hadn't thought about that day when I delighted myself with a startling amount of speech disability.
I had convinced myself that the opportunity will truly come to me. I didn't know how, but I sure hoped a strikingly beautiful goddess would... | 2018-02-04T13:40:12 | 2018-02-04T13:14:55 | 3,000 | 62 |
[WP] To stave off mass starvation, humans have managed to capture and cage a phoenix. They kill it and eat it. A few days later, it would be reborn, only to be butchered again. | At the base of the mountains, before the world flattened to prairies, there was a village plagued with misfortune. Time and again, they’d been met with curses and floods, hexes and droughts.
Despite it all, they had a zoo. Animals from around the world lived there—unicorns and lions, manticores and girafes. The Phoen... | The small phoenix flapped its wings, soaking in the moonlight that luminated their forest swamp. She chirped and laughed with her family as they flew around the water. It was in this haven where she spent each moment with bliss, her one true home. The first few hours of dusk were like every other, once the sun went dow... | 2021-01-30T22:07:16 | 2021-01-30T21:20:56 | 214 | 86 |
[WP] "Captain... the human didn't put on it's anti-warp gear before we jumped." "Sad to hear, prepare the coffin and jettison it." "No, sir. The human... nothing's happened to it. It didn't go insane from seeing infinity in the stars." | The crew stared at their newest crew member. It was risky taking a human on board when the species was so new to the universe.
“You were instructed to wear your anti-warp gear,” Second admonished.
“Yeah, I tried but I didn’t really fit. I think I’m supposed to have tentacles,” Bradford said.
“You saw the infinity ... | Captain Valork had never heard of such a thing before. Then again, he never encountered a species such as humans. Adaptable, often easy-going, and far too stubborn for their own good. Where many a Fiore or Holdrun would accept the inevitable and act accordingly, the humans rejected it. They either fought far longer tha... | 2020-07-14T02:58:11 | 2020-07-14T02:16:25 | 381 | 187 |
[WP] To a young woman facing execution for a crime she didn’t commit, a group of government scientists offer up an ultimatum: allow them to give her memories to an AI. Desperate, she agrees, and she’s hooked up to the machine. She wakes up looking at her own limp body to realize she‘s become the AI. | The woman she was looking at was wearing a prison jumpsuit, with her head shaved and electrodes taped to the scalp. She was lying on an examination table, eyes closed, unmoving. The face, however, was definitely her own. Her view of the woman was curiously stationary - she tried to look around the room, but her eyes... | There I am. Or, I guess, there my body is. Lying on the operating table. Funny. Moments ago I could feel the cold, stubborn metal biting into my back. But now, I look upon my body as if it were a stranger.
I was convicted of a crime for which I was never guilty. Ironic, given the petty crimes I actually committed in m... | 2019-10-21T18:18:42 | 2019-10-21T17:42:43 | 1,704 | 144 |
[WP] After lulling other countries into a false sense of security, Canada finally makes its move to conquer the world. | "My fellow Americans.
We have had a long and illustrious history as a nation. We have been a beacon for hope and freedom throughout the world.
As you know, this morning, Canada's Prime Minister Liam Gagnon, announced to the United Nations and to the world, that Canada was taking over the world. All government activi... | "Captain Boudreau , pass me that there double double would ya?" I say to my commander.
"Get it your own darn self, I'm tryna finish my sour cream glazed," he says back. "Don't want any of my sticky fingurs gettin' on yer cup there, eh."
Boudreau is finishing his donut, flipping through an intelligence dossier. He's g... | 2017-01-17T16:06:41 | 2017-01-17T15:57:23 | 32 | 14 |
[WP] You were born with special eyes, the sea was as clear as glass to you, by the time you got old enough to join a ship's crew, you were smart enough to not tell them about everything you saw below the waves | \[Poem\]
A gentle rock. An easy sway.
Another calm and sunny day.
On board this deck a cheery tune.
I hold my tongue for these bafoons.
For if they knew what lurks below
Their cheery hearts would turn to stone.
I see it every day and night.
Below the depths is only fright.
Where others see a crispy blue.
My e... | We finally spotted what looked like a small island in the distance. We had been out at sea for longer than intended and hoped we could find some food on the island as we were running dangerously low.
As we approached the island I spotted a sunken ship. As we got closer to the ship I noticed movement. When we were fina... | 2021-11-06T10:17:38 | 2021-11-06T09:19:07 | 145 | 62 |
[WP] Your Italian restaurant is frequented by the mafia, and for some reason they think you're a front for someone powerful. You aren't, but you still like to mess with them. | There's something about angry women under 5'5 that scares the day lights out of men. What ever it was I was glad I had that power on my side. I wasn't Itallian but when the restaurant shut there was an opening in a very good market. I bought the shop and have been sitting pretty for the last three years. I stay in the ... | ""He needs them," was all I had to say; and I had them. It didn't matter what, it could have been anything, some new shoes, a nice watch. I pressed it too. I started doing selfish things for money. I ran the mob for a bit, and here I am, by my own free will--which feels a lot less free when your other option is instant... | 2020-10-12T10:14:47 | 2020-10-12T09:43:21 | 31 | 16 |
[WP] A cure for sleep has been found, by taking a cheap pill people no longer need to sleep. You opted to continue sleeping and now 1 year after the release of this pill you notice that people are starting to act oddly. | It all started with the new miracle Pill. It apparently helped trick your body into thinking it had had it's regenerative sleep, fooling your brain into thinking that it went into the various sleep cycles, releasing all the various hormones and immune cells that you usually benefit from having a good night sleep. At fi... | I hadn't slept well for the past few months. Not well at all. Foxes, you see, had moved into the neighbourhood and were no doubt rummaging through the trash cans in the alley below my apartment, during the nights. I know this because of the terrible howling that keeps me awake at night. I've been told it's only their m... | 2016-08-30T09:04:18 | 2016-08-30T07:55:48 | 475 | 320 |
[WP] You accept a job paying $1 million a year to sit in a room, waiting for a phone to ring on a table. After 5 years at work, it finally rings... For the first time.
What happens next? | I keep questioning why I took this job because I'm going crazy. Is the money really worth it? Does the phone even work? How did I even get to this position?
Suddenly the phone goes off.
"H-hello?" I tentatively answer.
"Uh is this the Krusty Krabs?"
"No this is Patrick," I said and hung up. | Office of police oversight, you say?
Yes. That's right.
And you're sure about all this; one million, guaranteed, no background check, free pizza?
Yes. All of it.
And what if it *does* ring?
Well, that will never happen because we won't be publishing this number anywhere.
Then why bother even paying me?
Because i... | 2017-12-16T23:39:18 | 2017-12-16T23:22:44 | 173 | 117 |
[WP] You are Death, but in a post-apocaliptic world. Only a few survivors remain, and you're doing everything you can to help them because if the last human dies, you die as well. The survivors can't see you, but they feel your presence and noticed your effort. They started to call you Life. | Erica pulled the trigger. I stopped the shot before it fired.
“You’re an asshole,” Erica said. She opened her eyes and stared straight at me. She should not be able to see me.
I blinked and moved back.
“Don’t give me that,” she whispered. She shuffled onto her feet and dropped her shotgun at her side. “I know ... | Death often found themselves reminiscing about those times. Work had been easy and plentiful. Their ears fluttered when someone’s end was
near, they quickly flew over, and before the victim knew it their soul was now in the
possession of the Repear himself. He often complained that there was too much
work for the littl... | 2018-05-04T12:08:57 | 2018-05-04T11:21:19 | 393 | 22 |
[WP] Magic is discovered to be real. The catch? Spells are just like computer programs: difficult to write, and even harder to do correct the first try. You're a spell bug tester, and you've seen just about everything go wrong, but today's typo is on a whole other level... | **Issue: [SEVERE]** 'Magic Hands' spell applied to subject rather than pure conjuration
**Type:** Application
**Severity:** A
**Priority:** 1
**Assigned to:** Matt Traynor
**Submitted by:** Greg Philmore
**Summary:**
Set to severity A because this stupid fucking system doesn't give me a goddamn S-rank for this ... | As the first spell was cast, the world changed. Those early years were full of some nasty work. Thankfully, magic was pretty new, and magicians had yet to write any spells longer than a few pages before magic came under extreme regulation.
And yet, the most damaging magical incident occurred thanks to a spell only fiv... | 2017-07-26T03:57:13 | 2017-07-26T01:07:47 | 417 | 128 |
[WP] When a twin dies their brother/sister acquires all their strength, intelligence, etc. You've just discovered this phenomena, but so has your brother/sister | In the footnote of the college biology textbook was something that changed my whole outlook in life. *Identical twins are the only known group of people that can gain from their twin’s death, according to a Nazi Twin Experiment. On their deathbed, a twin can take all their strength, intelligence, and beauty through a... | Jaime looked at me, his arctic irises digging into mine. He sprinted, bare-handed, in my direction. Softly, I position my left foot, in preparation. As the avalanche comes near me, I dart under his outreached left arm, and as he slows in reaction, I kick him in the side.
Breathe. I have to breathe if I'm going to win.... | 2018-02-25T05:27:54 | 2018-02-25T04:45:16 | 230 | 22 |
[WP] A dyslexic child accidentally sends his Christmas letter to Satan. Satan is touched by this gesture and decides to write back. | Dearest Sara,
It touched my heart to receive your letter. I so rarely get post these days that I must admit I ripped it slightly in my haste to open it. However, it now sits on my mantle, repaired with a piece of tape, as one of my most prized possessions.
To the matter of your Christmas gifts, in that regard I'm a ... | Dear Ralphie,
Of course I will send you a Red Ryder BB gun. Don't worry about your eye, and practice with the squirrels and cats in your neighborhood. Make those others worry about their eyes. Especially that teacher. I would have given you a solid B+. Anyway, you're going to make it.
Your pal,
Mephistopheles | 2018-10-28T16:54:58 | 2018-10-28T14:20:56 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] Write a really great story that ends so anticlimatically that I hate you. | James found something very interesting on his thirteenth birthday. He had come upon a magnificent golden watch which glittered like a thousand stars, lying in the street. He looked round to see if anyone had dropped it, but if anyone had, they were long gone. Besides, the watch looked to be worth as much as the sum of ... | I was going to get this bastard. He killed my family. Killed my dog. Destroyed my house. He destroyed my life.
I was seething at just the thought of his smug face, all cozy and warm surrounded by money in his mansion, while I was out here in the blistering cold, walking through puddles and shit.
I was at his front d... | 2014-12-21T18:36:37 | 2014-12-21T18:34:44 | 41 | 23 |
[WP] Mynans (aliens) think humans are cute. But they're not simple pets and you are sick of hearing about some poor little human dying because their owner didn't care for them properly. You are going to write a book about the care and maintenance of humans. Maybe then owners will know what to do. | Ok,I'm doing it. I am SICK of mynan always killing their pet humans, sick of it. For goodness sake it's not that hard to keep a human alive. But apparently, for some mynan it is, so here's my book, Human care for Dummies.
1) They breathe air. Oxygen. Hydrogen. Gases. *Not* water, not slime and definately not coconut ... | The Human Handbook - By Zeek Erhlrk
So you've chosen your Non Pet Human (NPH) family, and they're expecting. Any day now, your pet will be born, and you're ready to embark on the journey of pet ownership. Many Mynans choose to self insert into the pets life by assuming the identity of a family member, loved one, or fr... | 2021-05-23T07:28:13 | 2021-05-23T07:23:30 | 163 | 69 |
[WP] A girl kisses her pet frog, and it turns into a price. The issue is its modern day, and the prince's kingdom hasn't existed for 1100 years. he is ill equipped to deal with the modern era. | She leaned in and kissed the frog...slimey green skin harsh against her soft velvet lips...
A cash register sound is heard 'ka-ching! ka-ching!' somewhere in the distance.
The girl looks down to find that where her beloved pet frog once was, a single price label exists.
'$3.50'
"God damned loch ness monster!" She crie... | The frog hopped into her lap and croaked.
The table erupted with laughter and Erin forced a rictus grin on her face.
With a such casualness as she could muster, she plucked the frog from her lap and turned it around, mildly annoyed, but also friendly.
Everyone knew she’d kept the pet frog she won at the Renaissanc... | 2018-09-21T23:45:38 | 2018-09-21T20:07:25 | 1,378 | 180 |
[WP] The more evil you were on Earth the higher your rank in Hell. When you get to Hell Satan himself resigns his position to you, but you don't know what you did. | "Wait. A condom? I'm now the ruler of Hell because I had sex wearing a condom."
Satan looked like he was going to laugh and cry simultaneously. "Yes. Oh!" He paled suddenly. "I mean, yes, Lord! Please don't punish me, the lapse was unintentional!"
I waved absently. This is ludicrous. "This is ludicrous. And... | I had been a pious man.
I remembered the Sabbath, and kept it holy.
I loved my wife and our children. I forgave the son whose meth addiction nearly tore us apart, and stood by him as he rebuilt his life. I stood by him when few others did.
Diagnosis to death was nine weeks. Nine painful weeks as my body fought the t... | 2016-12-19T14:52:55 | 2016-12-19T14:12:17 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] Germany is actually predestined to lose every world war it participates in. The sixteenth world war is now being fought, and Germany has taken over all of Europe. Make them lose the war in the most ridiculous way possible. | "Wait so if this is the only the third World War why was it called the Sixteenth World War?"
"Well Timmy, that's because a company called Microsoft, notorious for being terrible at naming things, had won a government contract to name the war, and it stuck. We're lucky they didn't rename World War One World War 360!"... | The year is 2564. I am the last man on earth. The world was slowly ending and we knew it. What remains of humankind is settled on Mars, minus the Germans. World War XVI had taken its toll, but what we had never expected was how the war ended. Out of nowhere, with no warnings, Mauna Loa erupted for the first time since ... | 2017-08-18T04:28:36 | 2017-08-18T00:11:45 | 102 | 44 |
[WP] In a last ditch effort to save humanity, scientists create a microscopic device to deliver a single strand of human DNA into space and inject it into any living cell it finds. | In the year 40-02DA Humanity temporarily ceased to exist. The Cosmos did not notice. But, as luck would have it, the end was not to be. At least not entirely.
___
The Nation's lead scientists had been trying to solve the problem of The Rot for decades. That was the lay term for the shortening of people's lifespans... | The device floats through endless black space.
Twirling in the no gravity. A small compact device so white it almost gleams silver.
Twirling...twirling...through empty black space.
For eons.
Stars explode. The universe expands.
The device gets sucked into a black hole.
A darkness deeper than black. A blackness b... | 2017-07-06T07:48:11 | 2017-07-06T06:37:06 | 38 | 10 |
[WP] Instead of a marriage to unite the two kingdoms, the rulers decide that their children should just be like, best buds. Tell the story of the grand adventure that formalizes their BFF status. | "No, you can't," laughed Taylor.
"I can!" shouted Anita back.
They locked eyes, rivalry flaring in their spirits, the desire to be better, to vanquish the foe and go down in history as the winner. An iron will, wrapped in agile muscles.
Anita, 6 years old, stood at the bottom of the mighty tree that Taylor, 7, had c... | Princess Nadia dressed not in expensive finery and jewels, but tight-clad leather garb and tied her hair back. She was ready to go venture off and take a break from being a princess. Auburn hair tied into braids, a couple of daggers at her side, bow and quiver in hand, tight boots on her feet. She wore a hood and cover... | 2021-08-20T09:46:34 | 2021-08-20T08:29:31 | 145 | 52 |
[WP] A woman falls in love with Death and commits murder countless times just to catch a glimpse of him. | Number twenty five died slowly. Young college boy, a friend of her daughter - could have been more, with time. The blood had burst from his neck and sprayed her face with glistening droplets. She dragged her tongue along the knife's edge as she watched his mouth attempt to form words, managing only a hoarse groan. Her ... | “He is beautiful.
No matter that I never heard his voice, nor saw his face, shrouded in the shadow of his hood as it always was. His beauty lies not in countenance of face, nor sound of tongue. For me, his beauty is beholden to his stride, graceful and purposeful to his grim duty. It is in the gift that he brings, in ... | 2014-06-30T06:16:23 | 2014-06-30T06:15:48 | 64 | 24 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | I look over at my new favorite mug. After they started showing actual rankings, I was proud to have my #19 mug. #19 out of the potentially billions of dads in the world. I felt pretty good about myself. I was wondering why it wasn't higher, but you can't really complain. The mugs were normally blank, but if whoever hel... | It was a snarky joke from my ex wife. A mug that said #200,485 dad.
We didn’t get along well anymore. I had tried to provide everything that my family would need. A house with a swing set in the backyard, but a split level, something she swore she would never live inAn SUV that was more than we could really afford, b... | 2019-04-18T18:25:29 | 2019-04-18T17:02:48 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] After mastering lucid dreaming you find you have complete control over other people’s dreams too. You can choose what they dream of down to the tiniest detail and even join them without them realising you’re actually real. Their subconscious is your playground. Hope they were nice to you. | Why can't I do it? Even in a dream, even with no serious consequence why can't I ever follow through?
I think about it all day, ever since I've had to make this choice I've know it's the right decision.
Ever since I started dreamwalking I've never hesitated to do what I intended to do to whoever I choose to do it to... | ######[](/dropcap)
When I first realized I was having the same enjoyable dream frequently, I thought it was my subconscious crying out for more adventure in life. Leaping from rooftop to rooftop feeling the wind rush through my hair and hearing the roaring in my ears as I jumped a hundred yards at a time. It became exp... | 2018-06-19T13:50:53 | 2018-06-19T13:21:05 | 534 | 99 |
[FF] Write a 10 sentence story where the first sentence has 10 words, and each following sentence has one less word. | This happens to everyone who dares hold on long enough.
But my family keep me going, they're always around.
I have a husband, a child, a sister.
I have a husband and a child?
I have a daughter, she's beautiful...
I have nobody, I'm alone...
Who are these people?
I'm not "mum".
Go away.
Nurse!
| Quick, whoever you are, I need you to please listen! I am a scientist using an experimental time machine. But it is not working as we intended. We are being pulled back and forth. Into one timeline, and then back. And each time is shorter! Almost out of time... Please, send help! Oh no... Nooooooo- | 2015-01-27T12:54:32 | 2015-01-27T11:28:50 | 41 | 15 |
[WP] You just moved to a new neighborhood and you hear the music of an ice cream truck coming down the street. As you and your family walk outside you notice all your neighbors rushing inside and locking their doors and windows. | It sat in front of my driveway. Quiet now, the engine and music both turned off, it was no longer a symbol of joy. Now it rested sinister. Silent, still, waiting, representative of something much, much worse. The flurry of keys turning in their locks and children quickly ushered inside had now ceased, leaving nothing b... | The little girl could hear the ice cream truck approaching her street. She put down her toys and ran to her father. “Daddy, Daddy, can I get some ice cream. Paweeeease?” The father put down his sports magazine. “Now Matilda, we have some ice cream in the fridge. Your father bought your favorite flavor of gelato, and pl... | 2016-06-14T19:12:34 | 2016-06-14T18:06:16 | 100 | 73 |
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