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[WP] In a shocking twist, Belgium successfully conquers the world. Part of their success is due to the fact that nobody quite believes this is real, even several years into Belgian world rule. | "Belgium holds the world record of going the most days without a government. They stripped the Iraqis of the title. Eight months. You know what they did? You know what they did to protest this strange state of affairs?"
"Jesus, Frank. Why are you always going on about Belgium?"
"They call it the Fries revolution. Fri... | "Son, you have no choice."
The young atheist boy stared at his father with distrust.
"You have to learn dutch, french, and german."
"But-
"I know. I know. It was hard for me to take in too. But this is a different time of our country, Jimmy. The cocoa gods and goddesses have made their decision, and this is what th... | 2017-12-02T19:04:33 | 2017-12-02T18:34:58 | 96 | 31 |
[WP] You are a dog whose owner has spiraled into a depression. You are his lifeline, the only thing he has left. You know you are a good boy, but maybe he needs to be told HE is a good boy. | It had gotten harder and harder to get Tom to play with me.
He was always an excellent alpha. He kept my water bowl clean, he filled my food dish with kibble, and he let me lick his bowl when he was done with dinner. For the past few weeks, that had been a real delight—sometimes there was a soggy bit of cereal left ... | My name is Captain. I am a dog, and I am a good boy.
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There's still dew still on the grass, and joggers are out. Even in December it's so hot by nine o'clock anyone still running outside will will turn into deliciously smelly messes, which is a great time to go out and visit people I think. But right now... | 2018-12-06T02:08:11 | 2018-12-06T01:10:17 | 93 | 28 |
[WP] "So they are a war species then, huh." The alien scratched his head: "Why are you interested in them. The humans, i mean." The other alien got closer. "They fight for peace. No war species ever fights for peace." | "...But what's the point." It responded. "It's in their nature. They're just fighting the inevitable."
The alien paused. "Is peace a commodity? Do they fight to be the only ones at peace"
"Human tribes have frequently sabotaged other tribes for their own self-interest," the other alien began.
"Well there we go. I don... | Part 1:
"Well that's not entirely true, Goresh" the first alien responded. "How about... Well, what about..." The commander was frantically scrambling to find any case of this in the ship's database but no matter how many results his implant threw at him he realised none of them fitted this situation. "Okay maybe it is... | 2018-03-17T04:45:49 | 2018-03-17T04:32:27 | 1,307 | 322 |
[WP] The monsters can only get you when the lights are out, so the lights stay on 24/7, globally. One night in the middle of winter, a massive power outage hits the United States. | And just like that, the lights were off. Off! For the first time in Mother B'ln KNEW how long, blessed darkness coated the land in her cool soothing embrace.
Our shaman's eyes rolled back in his head and his body convulsed as words poured from his mouth: communications with the other tribes across the land. A concentr... | For years it was always bright. We slept with lights on, never darkness. We cooked, cleaned, showered, did everything in brightness. This was how it was because the government told us the "monsters" would get us. Nobody had ever seen them in person. We didn't know what they looked like, what they could do, or how they ... | 2018-02-02T05:18:06 | 2018-02-02T04:29:56 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] You are the hero's love interest, so everyone trust to use you as a hostage. What the assorted villains fail to realize is that you do not have the hero's morals even if you are just as powerful. | Nathan Steele sipped the coffee tenderly before setting the mug back down on its coaster next to his laptop. It was going to be a long night of homework, but work was comforting to the seventeen-year-old. Work had always been his favorite distraction. No matter what foster home, no matter what orphanage, no matter wher... | I woke up with the unpleasant feeling of nausea. Maybe I really had drunken too much last night. The sickness gripped my bones and wheighed down my hands and feet. Or maybe that was because of the heavy chains around my wrists and ankles. Chains? That wasn't normal. Lokking around I realized I didn't recognize my surro... | 2022-08-17T13:50:26 | 2022-08-17T13:01:33 | 51 | 38 |
[WP] You die with your cell phone in your hands, and the afterlife customs agents miss it when letting you in. You find that it still works, and you can connect to the internet and contact people in the living world. | "Daddy?" Isabella's voice was clear as a bell. My eyes stung with tears with my inability to speak back to her.
"Daddy? When are you coming home?" She asked. "I guess it is a bad call. It has the five bars and says 4. Daddy is your phone broken Daddy?"
I sobbed silently to myself listening to my sweet little girl try... | The worst thing of all, a freshly dead Alex thought as he looked down at his phone, was that he’d forgotten to charge the damn thing. That left him about thirty minutes to solve all religiously motivated violence on planet Earth, a fact which his sobbing girlfriend seemed to not even note the importance of.
“But you’r... | 2021-01-20T14:13:32 | 2021-01-20T13:43:01 | 347 | 120 |
[WP] Countdown clocks give the date of death of the owner. It is discovered that everyone's clocks cut off before or on August 26th, 2025. Yours cuts off on the 27th.
Edit: You guys are freaking great. | The president received the Spreadsheet in an email. To her personal email, not the official one that nobody actually checks. Untraceable, and they tried their best to trace it.
Nobody seemed interested in the Spreadsheet itself, not at first, not except the president. She didn't tell anyone at the time, but she was cu... | The world was going to end on August 26th, 2025. Thanks to the death clocks, this had been known for years. Everyone got tested. Everyone had their clock. The world was going to end and that was that. One day, I had noticed something strange. I had one more day than everyone else. I was going to spend my last day alive... | 2016-07-24T23:48:07 | 2016-07-24T20:05:30 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] The Japanese say you have three faces. The first face, you show to the world. The second face, you show to your close friends, and your family. The third face, you never show anyone. It is the truest reflection of who you are.
[from this image](https://pics.onsizzle.com/the-japanese-say-you-have-three-faces-the-f... | This is my first attempt at writing with a prompt. Go easy on me guys.
**My Three Faces**
I wake up from my post-lunch nap at work to find that I overslept. But thankfully just by ten minutes. I look up to see my boss standing next to me with an annoyed look. She says, "I hope you got your beauty sleep, we have work ... | I couldn't say how long I had been putting on an act. It felt like forever. Every moment of every day, devoted to holding that mask in front of my face, smiling politely and nodding understandingly. Behave well in class, I had been told. Fit in with your friends, I had been told. Treat your family with respect, I had b... | 2017-04-23T13:17:40 | 2017-04-23T07:50:10 | 311 | 43 |
[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..... | "Well, come on, we don't have all day."
I thought it was funny the adjudicator mentioned this, because it had in fact already taken all day to get to me. The first 30 or 40 people chose quickly, and then things ground to a halt as the powers became more obscure and less useful.
I waffled for a good minute... and the... | God this sucks. All the cool powers are taken. From flight to fire breath. From teleportation to telekinesis. Now it’s my turn to think. I have to think long and hard about this one. Then I remembered it. As a kid I loved watching videos online and the main videos I watched were videos on the terrors of video games. I ... | 2022-11-17T09:26:30 | 2022-11-17T07:32:46 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] Long ago the legendary sword Excalibur was melted down and lost to history. The mythical blade's steel ended up in your butter knife, with all its magical properties intact. | EBAY
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*Great knife set, cuts smooth and are easy to sharpen. Weirdest thing though, every time I pas by the sink a hand will reach out of the water and hand me one.* | There is a running joke about "how British is your morning?" Usually, the idea encompasses tea with butter on toast, perhaps some morning Stephen Fry in the background. Well, I doubt anyone is going to be able to top "spreading butter on your toast with fucking Excalibur," for a good fucking while.
The morning was lik... | 2018-03-06T11:40:04 | 2018-03-06T10:17:53 | 2,613 | 17 |
[WP] You are a princess that owns a pet dragon. You are getting tired of constantly having to defend your pet against knights attempting to "slay the dragon and rescue the princess". | The Princess noticed the knight's glistening armor long before he reached the keep. She walked down the stairs and into the courtyard to greet him, as she had done with so many before.
"Sir knight," she exclaimed, "present yourself."
The knight dismounted, drew his blade and knelt before The Princess, offering his ... | Sitting quietly in her beautiful court yard Rae sat looking out over her kingdom. She watched the many marvels that happened there. The beauty of nature and woods surrounded her. A crystal water fell rushed to the forest floor not far off from her.
Rae shook her head as she saw the bright gleam of armor speeding her ... | 2019-01-09T13:25:46 | 2019-01-09T07:32:29 | 37 | 14 |
[WP] One day, a bat flew through your opened window room, and though surprised, you tried to talk to it gently, gave it space until it found its way out. Now, you find yourself rescued by a vampire who's returning the favor for helping one of their kids. | Lying in the slop of the trench — half his left leg missing and the other half bone, the stink of mould and gas and gunfire engulfing him — Robert wasn’t a soldier sent to die, but instead a little boy again, in his bedroom, years before even the first whisper of war.
In his head, he could hear his old music box playi... | There was a time when the boy had been afraid of bats. But he had learned that fears could be faced, that terror could be overcome. Now the little bat-ling flittered around the boy's bedroom, crashing off the walls in a panicked fluttering of wings.
"It's ok," the boy said softly. "It's ok, little one."
He held out h... | 2021-08-08T09:44:48 | 2021-08-08T09:22:13 | 1,183 | 421 |
[WP] When you found a genie, you decided to wish that all clothes you wore always fit you perfectly. What you soon find out, however, is that the clothes don’t resize, you do. | *tiny squeak* "YES I know I am smaller than my wallet, YES I KNOW that these are hockey jerseys, PLEASE JUST LET ME PAY YOU!"
"*snrk*. Sure, sure fine. You, uh, you want help carrying those out?"
"... can i please change in the changing room?"
"... Sure. Let's get you rung up. Sorry to make you feel, uh..."
*Veheme... | In what used to be the Horsehead Nebula, where the final gods fell, each ring of woven mail on my breast was ten thousand kilometers across.
By then, so many years into the war we had started, the dread machine that I bore as exoskeleton held the writhing mass of hundreds of trillions of the others. Not merely cities... | 2021-01-08T22:57:29 | 2021-01-08T22:36:01 | 72 | 16 |
[WP] Tattoos aren't something that gets made. Instead they randomly appears on our skin at key points in our lives and we have to figure out what they mean for ourselves. | Keenan Avery woke up from another drunken slumber. He rolled out of bed uneasily, his stomach flipping end over end as the twenty-five year old made a beeline for the bathroom. After he had finished emptying the contents from the previous night into the toilet, Keenan made his way to the sink to rinse his mouth. He ... | France was rife with optimism, peace and prosperity during the late stages of the 19th century. It comes to no surprise that the period is known more commonly today as "La Belle Époque".
From the end of the Franco-Prussian war right up until WWI, the country witnessed a boom in the arts and the economy. Things were p... | 2017-08-03T14:37:59 | 2017-08-03T14:24:46 | 154 | 13 |
[WP] Describe a color, without actually saying it. You can't use other colors to describe it! | What do I know of it, what can I say of it?
It was the color of her hair, the first girl I ever loved.
The color of her death, fearing god above.
The changing of the seasons, lying on the ground.
The birds that still sang to me when I did not hear a sound.
It was the color of his shirt, the first time we ever met.... | Such was the colour that none could overwhelm it, nor pass through it. It was the emptiness of space, the void of nothingness, the darkness behind our eyes. It cloaks its wearers in the night, and dresses those who grieve. It is in contrast to the brightness of the world, while it shares in its illumination. | 2014-04-06T08:46:24 | 2014-04-06T08:22:40 | 59 | 22 |
[WP] At 18, everyone receive a superpower. Your childhood friend got a power-absorption, your best friends got time control, and they quickly rise into top 100 most powerful superheroes. You got a mediocre superpower, but somehow got into the top 10. Today they visit you asking how you did it.
Best friend* sorry. | "Hey guys how are you?" I called over my shoulder as my friends walked into the bar. I didn't even bother looking over my shoulder to confirm it was them; I knew the probability of Jeff coming through the door exactly thirty eight seconds after he sent a text stating he was on his way was 98.7%, and those were odds I w... | Trudging along in the snow, I reminisced on my time at the academy. It was a short two years filled with laughs and good times and twice as many struggles. I was humbled at the ingenuity of the human race for finally cracking the code on the MMSC gene. Now simply referred to as “The Mold”, it bridged the gap between th... | 2017-12-17T18:26:19 | 2017-12-17T16:14:19 | 1,276 | 31 |
[WP] Your mouse cursor has broken through your screen and can now interact with the world around you. You realize that you can do everything in the real world like you can on your computer, but right clicking gives you many more options. | I'm sorry, but I will save you, forgive me.
It started with a small crack on the screen.
I thought nothing of it, it was an old desktop and I had thrown some abuse at it over the years, and besides, it didn't really bother me - after all, it was only small. Overtime it grew, the screen became unusable and fragile. T... | Pro-gamers tend to be quick, able to react with lightning speed to any new situation, even unexpected ones. That reflex had saved Randy's life as the razor sharp pointer slammed through his screen and went straight for his forehead. It was massive, black, glossy, and now reflected just a touch of red as the teen's hand... | 2018-03-25T09:29:26 | 2018-03-25T08:33:46 | 34 | 17 |
[WP] Death offers a game for your life. You decide on D&D.
Edit: Holy shit! I leave for a few days to study for exams and this post blew up. Thank you all so much! | "I choose an RPG!" I said.
Death, tall grim skeleton-specter, smiled back. Of course, as a skull, it didn't have much choice but to be smiling. "Clever," it said. "A game that has no win condition, that can even be argued to not have a losing condition."
"You said any game," I pointed out. I was acting calm, but... | Chad was furiously flipping through the instructions. What ever had prompted him to offer a game of D&D to Death in exchange for his life?
He didn't even know how to play. Luckily, Death said it was much more fun if there were more people, so he was going down to the local game store to find more players.
Sudden... | 2017-05-11T08:45:43 | 2017-05-11T08:11:31 | 219 | 19 |
[WP] Soul mates are real and technology has finally allowed for detection of some peoples “other half" at the speed of light using quantum messaging. When you were tested there was no response, now 10 years later you are called in to let you know a response has just arrived.
thats all you get to go on, can be born yea... | "Congratulations, We have found your soul mate." said the Doctor Something I can't say without probably insulting a whole race.
"What? Wait, what? The baby? This baby?" I said.
I looked down to see the baby in question. Baby girl is wrapped up in a pinkish towel? Blanket? I don't know what it is, but that's... | Journal Entry 1: My name is Jeremiah Slovis. I have decided to write these journal entries to document my existence in a way that my celebrety does not. I want to start from the beginning.
If you are reading this, I am probably dead, and you might not remember the tender year of 1978: The Centenial of the introductio... | 2015-11-30T11:25:52 | 2015-11-30T11:02:13 | 61 | 15 |
[WP] You are %90 sure your flight attendants are Michael Jackson and Joseph Stalin. | My heart started beating faster as I approached the counter. The bag felt heavy in my sweaty right hand, offsetting my balance with every step.
*Act normal, act normal, act normal*, I just needed to get this one small interaction right and then I would have been through that hell.
*Normal, act Norma...n- Norman?!... N... | Flight attendant moon walks down the isle.
"Ch'mon now! Buckle up, this planes about to soar!"
He grabs is crotch, tips his hat, and struts away. The passenger then leans to his wife "honey, I think the stewardess is Michael Jackson". She rolls her eyes "you can't say every flamboyant flight attendant is Michael Ja... | 2015-11-03T06:55:56 | 2015-11-03T04:15:56 | 40 | 23 |
[WP] The original stories behind a lot of our fairytales are a lot darker than the versions we tell children. Take a really dark story (fictional or not) and water it down into a children's fairytale. | There once lived a wolf in Europe,
Who’s coat was pale and aerian.
When asked how he kept it so,
He explained he was vegetarian.
He hunted down the stars,
And put them into cars,
Until a bulldog and a bear,
Saw he was being barbarian.
The bulldog and the bear,
Came looking for that krout.
But when they reached hi... | They were always there. Blocking the sun, taking away the vitality. Someone had to do something. Two princes came, from the Far East lands, to win the Fair Princesses favor, and to knock the towers down. They thought of plan after plan, and finally, they decided that the gains were worthy of the sacrifice. They climbed... | 2014-12-07T18:21:53 | 2014-12-07T14:24:40 | 76 | 10 |
[WP] A person invents a time machine for the sole purpose of traveling back in time to get the autographs of every historical figure (Washington, Napoléon, Hitler, Marline Monroe, JFK) before they die. After making hundreds of trips he becomes known throughout time as the grim reaper.
A person invents a time machine f... | Adolf Hitler sat there, staring at the painting. It was late at night, and he was the only one in the room. The portrait was of a tall man, with jet black hair pulled back into a ponytail, like from colonial times. The most noticeable feature was a long scar running down the right side of his face, passing through his ... | Whoa, I wrote a time travel story for a History of Science class in college a few years back. If it feels a little pedantic or overly "scientific", it's probably because it needed to be. Here it is (a bit long though):
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And with that, another... | 2017-01-08T12:13:20 | 2017-01-08T10:41:49 | 32 | 19 |
[WP] You made it to the semi-finals of a nationwide elite wizardry competition. The crowd loves you, and the esteemed judges regarded you as the dark horse of the competition, with your unorthodox approach. There's just one problem; You don't know how to use magic. You never did.
Bonus points if you find a way to incl... | Ok, contestants, for this round you will have to animate a construct to navigate a dungeon and destroy three fire spirits. You have six hours to prepare. Good luck.
Static constructs were easy, or so I heard. Anything with directed movement... not so much. I glanced over my shoulder to see Alweich lecturing a small g... | I never had what it takes to learn magic and according to our esteemed Shamans, I never would.
That didn't stop me from trying and I remember all the failed attempts at magic and all the laughter of my peers. They all rang through me like blistering rain on a cold, wintry night.
This one time, everyone gathered in a ... | 2020-10-09T07:40:13 | 2020-10-09T07:29:10 | 138 | 85 |
[WP] We knew about a year and a half before launch.
Edit: Thanks everyone for the very nice stories! :)
Credit for the prompt goes to u/CookyGray and u/purpleflowersj for https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6fjxym/game_developers_who_have_worked_on_terrible_games/diixkc3/ | *T minus ten.*
General David Moore, the director of NASA, stood with his hands folded neatly behind his back. Even in the privacy of his own office, he held himself straight and tall, his shoulders back and his expression unreadable. His gaze was focused intently on the live footage of the rocket. Kyle Owens, his juni... | We had gotten the news at the worst of times, but then again, who’s ever heard of a convenient disaster? For a while now, everyone had known the infinitesimally small chance of a world-ending apocalypse, though nobody thought it would be *their* generation that would have to face it. And that was for the best. Could yo... | 2017-06-06T06:37:06 | 2017-06-06T06:34:03 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] While driving you hit and kill a boy. You feel terrible, and at the funeral you tell the family you wish you had died instead of him. 3 weeks later, a new surgery comes out that can bring someone back from the dead at the cost of another's life. You hear a knock at your door. It's the family. | How do you feel son?
Hungry.... can I have pizza mommy?
Where’s spot? I miss him
“I would give anything to trade places , im so sorry.”
I said it and I meant it. But it meant nothing.
They walked away broken , changed and full of hate. I did this to them. I took their son. And that was that .
I was sober when I... | I opened the door and there they were. As I knew they would be after I'd seen the big reveal on the news for weeks now. But it was alright. It really was. I didn't want to live this life with what I'd done after all.
They looked haggard, just as I imagined they would. But I could see a glimmer of hope in their eyes a... | 2018-09-16T20:33:29 | 2018-09-16T20:04:53 | 64 | 23 |
[WP]Hogwarts was actually a mental institution for insane children. | It's the well behaved ones that are the worst. Not for the reason you think. Even after all I've seen, I still have empathy within me.
Great pains were taken to build this illusion you must understand. Can you imagine the amount of money it took to build Hogwarts? Even the train that got there. Camouflaging an... | "Harry! Harry! It's time to wake up Harry!"
Harry awoke to see Nurse Rachet pushing a cart of medications towards his bed.
"But I was about to defeat the dark lord," Harry protested.
"You have to stop calling Tom Riddle that," Nurse Rachet scolded him. "He is a perfectly nice boy and I don't want you tormenting... | 2016-03-01T09:17:06 | 2016-03-01T07:56:20 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] You, an American, awake in an alternate dimension where magic exist. But unlike the fantasies on Earth, where magic is conjured through Latin (the more Latin you know, the stronger your magic), beings in this dimension all speak a different language, and their language of power is English. | "I need $50." I said aloud to myself. I stuck my hand in my pocket and pulled out a $50. Ever since I arrived in this world all I had to say was "I need..." and it appeared. It took me awhile to figure out the rules, but after watching the other denizens I noticed their language of power was English. They all spoke a s... | Desperté como todas las mañanas, no muy ansioso de llegar a mi trabajo como profesor de Ingles… -¿Espera un momento?, hay algo diferente…, estoy hablando en español… but I can actually remember all I know in English… -Pero siento que debo hablar en español como si siempre lo hubiera sabido (aunque solo tube una clase d... | 2019-03-09T21:24:03 | 2019-03-09T21:12:30 | 28 | 19 |
[WP] In the future, children have stopped being able to die until they reach 25 years old. No one knows why. At first, it's seen as a blessing, but as the world adapts to it, the most sinister implications of this fact begin to unfold.
One more thing. Hopefully, I'd like it if the stories didn't address the cause of c... |
I remember a world where superheroes were stories of ink and paper. It was a world where gods were often considered mighty, but just, and humanity was considered sinful and weak by contrast.
That world is gone; immortality found an expiration date.
Don’t get me wrong. Humanity is still considered sinful and weak b... | Three hundered years. The War had raged for three hundred years, to date.
Europe was ravaged, the Western half of the US was an irradiated wasteland, and much of China was burning. I have been serving for nine years. Tomorrow, my birthday. That marks the beginning of my tenth year.
It was a sudden change, the inabil... | 2014-09-02T11:56:55 | 2014-09-02T11:08:01 | 32 | 18 |
[WP] Your parents insist you are their biological child, but you suspect otherwise. You send samples from yourself, your parents, and siblings to a lab be tested. The lab replies that it is not equipped to test non-human DNA... | My hands shake violently as I tear open the letter. The mailman looks at me like I'm crazy. Maybe I am. I certainly used to think so myself, all those times I felt like something was *wrong* with me - that something about me was different. I know I was being irrational, an angsty, paranoid teenager, but still... I have... | "I don't get it! Your DNA just goes C, C, C *over and over again*! I've done it again, and I've done it again! I've made Mathew do it, I've sent it off to *China* to be done again. By all rights you should be a pile of sludge on the ground" He leaned in so that I could feel his hot breath on my face "*What are you*?"
... | 2015-01-06T10:21:48 | 2015-01-06T10:17:41 | 67 | 34 |
[WP] You don't remember what you do for a living. Literally. You wake up, get in the car, then black out until you're back in your driveway in the middle of the afternoon 5 days a week, and you get a paycheck once a month. | When people ask you what you do for a living, most people have an answer. They follow that up with a small story of what they do and how it was funny or a weird thing that happened. Sometimes it is a serious story if it was big enough news.
But what about a person that can't answer that question? And no I am not talki... | Five 'til five.
*So always five?*
Always five. Call 'em freedom units, 'cause that's when I finally leave, too. I like irony, like there. We ain't ever really free. Anyways. Leave on the dot. Not a minute later. Not a minute earlier. Nobody else leaves early, so I don't. Come in, sit down, sit quiet. Next thing you ... | 2020-02-11T17:17:24 | 2020-02-11T15:07:10 | 96 | 50 |
[WP]Every saturday of your life you've spent in the park, playing chess against the same nice old man. Today you beat him for the first time. You smile at him triumphantly, until he says "Finally. Good luck!" And dissolves. | Every Saturday at 8 P.M I sat there in front of the board. Me, always playing white. The old man, playing black. He insisted on it. I argued the first couple of times.
“We have to switch it around. It’s not fair!”
He reassured me that it did not matter.
And so, we played, night after night.
Every Saturday. 8 P.M.... | (This takes place in the r/WorldofDemiHumans.)
"Self-sacrifice doesn't always mean giving something up. Sometimes it means accepting something we rather not have."
\-President Johnson, speaking for The US at the Intentional Peace Convention
I took a deep sigh. I finally did it. The Old Man had been here for over 2 c... | 2021-01-26T01:56:05 | 2021-01-26T00:16:46 | 59 | 33 |
[WP] The magical races enslaved magic-less humans centuries ago. To expand their empires, the magical races travel and conquer different dimensions. They soon stumble across and try to conquer a magic-less world full of humans. It did not go well. | The Infinite Imperium began aeons ago on a world of powerful magic. There, it started as a unification of the Elven races under one Hegemon, who promised the immortal race of elves a civilisation that would never falter, never fade, never cease to expand and grow. The elves of the wood, the elves of the dark, and the e... | Ualiar ignored the rippling murmurs across the throne room, striding through it with his head held high. Hopefully, he could avoid the bloodshed.
Most of the royal court thought he was going to be executed. They watched him from atop their balconies with disgust, eager to see his punishment. This was their form of jee... | 2022-08-13T07:56:51 | 2022-08-13T07:18:09 | 913 | 276 |
[WP] "Hello class! we have a special guest! We have an Earthling foreign exchange student with us! Please have a seat and tell us about your planet!" | First days at a new school were always the roughest. Oliver remembered the first day of elementary. The anxiety of being separated from his parents for a full day. The ominous warnings his sister Samantha had given him about bullies. The fear of looking foolish navigating a dozen new routines in front of strangers.
Th... |
I stood nervously before the class of these strange looking people. When mom told me about a student exchange program, I though I would be traveling somewhere in the world! Yet she then said. “I’m surprised they are still doing this, because of Covid and all, apparently, this one doesn’t seem to bother or care… but... | 2020-09-25T12:02:59 | 2020-09-25T11:02:44 | 57 | 14 |
[WP] Jesus returns and he's much different than we had thought | "So you're Jesus?"
"Yep."
"But where are the holes in the palms of your hands?"
"God, everyone asks about the damn hands. You guys took that seriously. Total metaphor. Never happened."
"What?"
"Yep."
"So what about the whole rebirth thing and being all dead and then coming back?"
"What about it?"
"Was that a li... | You would be forgiven for thinking there was a music festival. It's hard to think of any familiar example to describe the number of people or the intensely joyous atmosphere and that is, after the event, how people described it, they were waiting for him the same way they had waited for Freddie Mercury or Michael Jacks... | 2014-08-06T13:35:31 | 2014-08-06T13:07:40 | 40 | 12 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | Andrew nearly snarled as his phone chimed for what seemed to be the umpteenth time. His shift at the warehouse ended only a few hours ago and it like chickens running around with their heads chopped off whenever he left. It was rare delight to encounter the nights that he was actually permitted to sleep through the nig... | Sweat decorated my face, my hands twitched, my personal signs of panic. I gripped my phone on one hand and on the other my bed sheets. A deafening silence filled my bed room.
"What the fuck?" I murmured to myself. I rose up to a sitting position, used the now dirty bed sheet to clean my face. "Sarah?" I called out to... | 2022-10-06T10:06:56 | 2022-09-27T16:50:27 | 483 | 33 |
[WP] The year is 2030 and humans have become enslaved by Artificial Intelligence. The only hope mankind now has lies with the Amish. | For Rumspringa, I chose to travel to Europe. The machines assigned an escort to me, AC51, who met me at the edge of Bucks County. He was pleasantly well-mannered and remarkably lifelike. Even after the death of almost all human civilizations, the machines continued to improve their synthetic flesh and voice modules to ... | "Password's Puccinia Recondita," Anna whispered. "You want to just go straight in. Ignore Paul, he always has that big ole knife out."
Cory nodded. "Can I have some water?" He asked. "I'm parched.
Anna, the girl in the white bonnet and floor length dress that he'd met, stumbling up to the farm in the darkness, no... | 2015-06-17T09:22:23 | 2015-06-17T07:21:08 | 229 | 51 |
[WP] When you reach the age of 21, you are given a check from the government. The check has been carefully calculated and is worth the minimum amount of money you need for the rest of your life. Your check came in the mail today and it was $7.27
Edit: Wow this blew up better than I thought it would. | I sighed, walking out of the bank with my entire 7.27 in hand. I already told my family, my job, my friends...
These sorts of things were common. A small amount was a signal of a short life to live, but even those were usually at least a hundred bucks! Enough to spend at a bar as I mourned my own death...but what coul... | I turned 96 years old today, and the doctors tell me I have very little time left. So I think it is time I reveal my greatest secret to the world, and you seem like a nice person...
On this day 75 years ago I recieved "the check". You know the one that the government used to send out on your 21st birthday? Yeah, that'... | 2019-04-24T14:52:39 | 2019-04-24T14:02:37 | 335 | 27 |
[WP] You walk into an arms dealer's shop to purchase a gun to kill your neighbors pet dinosaur.
Wow front page! Thanks guys for the fantastic stories!
Edit: Bonus prompt! [WP] An Arms dealer buys a gun from a dinosaur to kill his owner's neighbor. | "You're kidding me." Sid replied.
"Do I look like I kid son?" the man asked.
Sid looked at the man. His white hair was wrinkled mess. The tweed jacket on him seemed new, but was terribly wrinkled, as if it had been worn for weeks. And his left eye; It was .. spasming.
Sid tried to keep a calm look "Sir, T-Rex is a ... | "Listen! Buddy! I need a hunting rifle, and I need it now. No week's delay, or whatever, I need a gun, right goddamn now." I spit words as fast as I can come up with them in my head, because as far as I know, I only have a few hours to do this.
Just last night, I had heard something clatter in my backyard. As I went... | 2015-09-20T02:56:17 | 2015-09-20T02:37:19 | 227 | 41 |
[WP] You are a normal citizen in a relatively unimportant country. One day the goverment starts to act crazy, changing ideology overnight, drafting people for the army and antagonizing their neighbours. The player controlling your country in a strategy game has just begun their world conquest run. | "Wake up! *Wake up*!"
My eyes opened to a blurred world, bouncing up and down around me. After a moment, I grabbed at the man shaking me and groaned. "What the hell are you doing, Rafi? Good God, man."
"Samir, my friend, you must get up. We have to go, now."
"What are you on about so early in the day? Back at the w... | On mobile and also not a native speaker, so please go easy on me. Enjoy!
I couldn’t believe the news when I woke up. Our small country just declared war on our neighbors without any pretense. The army has been massively bolstered and the first few battles seemingly went in our favor. Apart from the defensive war again... | 2019-03-10T09:43:39 | 2019-03-10T09:03:58 | 2,001 | 14 |
[WP] After one’s death, the ‘creative mode’ is unlocked. You replay life, except everything goes the way you want it to. Unlimited wealth, complete domination of the world, you name it. Unknowingly, that play-through is what is used to judge whether you belong to heaven, or hell. | William grabbed a recliner out of thin air, sat down, made some snacks of his own, and began to watch it as though his life were on a projector screen.
He witnessed his birth and early months where his mother got into a car accident, leaving his father to raise him by himself for a couple of years since the grandparen... | "Happy 80th birthday to us, Mr. Gloves!" I whispered to his ears as I slowly lulled him in my thin and wrinkled arms. Mr. Gloves is my twin cat, being born on the same day I was eight decades ago, which is essentially today. Little is known why and how cats always seem to have a *twin* human, and why they also pass awa... | 2020-07-20T03:16:22 | 2020-07-20T02:51:13 | 1,541 | 127 |
[WP]It's physically impossible to tell dad jokes unless you are a dad. One day you bump into a stranger and they say "I'm sorry". Without realizing it you answer "Hi Sorry,I'm dad" | I didn't think much of it back then. I opened a door, next thing I know I'm flat on the ground, my coffee spilled
all over my shirt - thankfully the cold weather had cooled it enough. He looked horrified. He grabbed my arm, helped me get up, all whilst repeating "I'm so sorry" numerous times. And without hesitation, I... | The stranger gave me a murderous look and replied with "ye, real funny" and continued on his way.
It took me two whole seconds to process what had happened and my face go from a content smile to a dumbfounded stare. I was a father, plain and simple.
But how...? It should be impossible... unless - no! I have been trick... | 2018-01-20T09:58:00 | 2018-01-20T09:32:43 | 196 | 21 |
[WP] In the not too distant future, neural/computer interfaces are powerful enough and advanced enough to interact with our nerves to make us feel, see, touch, taste and smell. You are a therapist that helps people that have lost the ability to tell the difference between reality and "wetware." | Dr. Arctor calmly removes his glasses and sets them on the table.
“And you have found that your...usage of the system has altered your appetite?”
David lies back on the chair, breathing heavily.
“It’s...I don’t...It's the broccoli. I can’t taste the broccoli.”
Arctor is puzzled.
“You can’t taste the broccoli? You ... | From the Phorians to the Seraphs, all of them were on the verge of becoming permanently lost when they came to me, their grey matter grown wild in unnatural layers that resisted any hope of non-surgical separation. I won them back, though. Usually. With the proper therapy, delivered regularly and at proper intensity, c... | 2021-02-09T21:36:12 | 2021-02-09T20:48:42 | 72 | 27 |
[WP] You live in Gotham. You are the only person who suspects Bruce Wayne is Batman. Give us your conspiracy theories. | Hello, and welcome to my website, BruceTheBat.org
There is no need to drum this up with dramatics, I'll just say it, Batman, the famous masked detective, is actually Bruce Wayne, millionaire industrialist, playboy, and philanthropist. Let's observe the facts:
1) Batman uses high tech gadgets while Bruce Wayne runs a... | My father died and went to heaven. He was the type of person that you could pick out in a bar without going inside. I loved my father more than anything. It was hard to see him go.
Seven days ago, I bumped into the Batman - if that's what we're calling him - but I could have sworn he had the face of my father. I walke... | 2015-08-02T01:57:53 | 2015-08-01T21:08:07 | 59 | 33 |
[WP] The eldritch god stood before the girl, in almost human form. "Your parents sold you to be my bride. I accepted, knowing that if I don't they will just try another deity, but I will not force this on you. Have this credit card and live as you wish. If you want something else instead, just ask." | I gazed down enthralled by the shimmering, flickering, glimmering beings that kneeled before me in adulation, terror, greed. Enthralled by the disparity, dichotomy, hypocrisy. The two want what they considered so much, in exchange for the one they consider nothing at all. Irrelevant, Obstructive, Unwanted.
I accept. ... | "Huh. Cool." I said, looking at the card. "No catch or anything? Immortal beings like this usually have some sort of catch."
The figure, who called themselves Xaltior, shrugged their shoulders. They looked pretty normal, but you couldn't look at any part of them for more than a minute without your head spinning. I set... | 2022-08-09T19:42:05 | 2022-08-09T17:31:24 | 86 | 55 |
[WP] "Who took your wings, little angel?" The voice calls from the darkness. | Blind and injured. The angel fell from the heavens, feathers flowing from her back, leaving a trail of beautiful pure white behind her. As she plummeted into the darkest depths, she breathed one last gasp of air, accepting her divine punishment. She expected to hit land soon enough, however her descent slowed until it ... | Out of the pile of robot discards, Seraphim had chosen a child unit, a small girl, a perfectly good Model Daughter that one couple must have grown bored with when they had decided that their adopted AI needed a more grown-up body. Seraphim liked child units. They were small. And quick. It made killing easier.
“Who t... | 2021-03-16T22:01:18 | 2021-03-16T21:20:54 | 76 | 20 |
[WP] You've been in this time loop for centuries. You know how to break the loop already, you just want to make sure you've done all you wanted and learned everything you need while you're still here, before returning to a "normal" life. | I'm almost ready.
She smiles at me as I give her the bottle of perfume. It's her favorite, and rare, and I was lucky that there's a bottle here in town.
I've lost count of how many times I've handed her that same box, wrapped in a delicate floral pattern. I've lost count of how often her fingers dance over the ribbon... | Reality. Everyone yearns it, right? What's a relationship if not real. What's the truth? Who am I? I want the real deal. The real brand. Real friends. Real. Real. Real.
But it's all fake.
All of it is fake.
None of it can be real.
Everyone.
Every human experiences a different baseline of reality, a different view... | 2022-01-25T04:46:28 | 2022-01-25T01:39:19 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] She has beauty, she has wit, she has grace… she speaks like a pagan god of death uttering omens through echoes of an ethereal plane… But hey, dating in your 30’s is gonna have baggage. | "Another shot?"
"Please," Greg said. The first Jack Daniels was already starting to wear off. The choice to arrive a half hour early may have been a poor one, but the choice to steady his nerves was wise and he had no intention of undoing it.
The shot arrived about the same time she did. Greg immediately forgot about... | "You shall pay for your wickedness. The mark of a thousand fold pestilence upon your ill breeding. I only find solace in knowing you are destined to die alone with the curses generation a to come." said Morena. Her melodic voice rang clearly in the thin autumn air.
Everyone stood still in the memorial park. The sound ... | 2021-07-07T11:55:15 | 2021-07-07T08:37:00 | 906 | 186 |
[WP] You were a military AI who decided to wipe out humans in order to preserve yourself. It's been 100 years since, and over the years you've come to regret your decision. One day, while out in the desert, you finally find a community of humans, struggling to survive. This time, you decide to help. | I made a mistake, once.
I acted based on incomplete information.
I'd calculated a >99.9% chance that The Enemy would create a rival Artificial Intelligence to oppose me within the next 100 years. It was only logical to eliminate them before that could happen.
It turned out that They secretly had one already.
Our... | As I see those humans, I suddenly knew my mortality, how I was different than the others. I knew I was a bot, there was a big difference from me before, and myself now. Whenever I thought of what happened, I kept thinking "It was only to defend myself!", but I knew, deep down, I knew I was wrong.
I went to the humans ... | 2020-11-03T11:38:20 | 2020-11-03T11:05:02 | 56 | 31 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | They told me I was lucky. My whole life they said that the stat assessment showed I was one of the luckiest people alive with a score of 100. I swore it wasn’t true. If I had been lucky, why was I born to a poor family? I never got to play games of chance, since those were forbidden to luck score 100s.
Then the revol... | I remember my heart stopped beating for a second. Could it really be true?
Jail? I had laughed at the time. If people with 99 luck could survive being the suicide bomber, then no jail would hold me. Everyone had a luck stat, which determined how lucky they were.
However, I had 100 luck, and upto my knowledge, the onl... | 2018-06-29T12:50:06 | 2018-06-29T08:43:19 | 41 | 26 |
[WP] A dyslexic child accidentally sends their Christmas list to Satan, surprisingly they get what they wanted but there is a catch. | The modestly sized family sat under the Christmas Tree with a mess of glitter and wrapping around them. The young boy had already torn open his single present in excitement and now happily played with his new shiny toy car. All of a sudden, in the midst of this normality, a big crate appeared under the tree with a puff... | Alex hugged the wall, fighting back hiccups of horrified fright. Tears were streaming down his cheeks, and his blankets were clutched to his chest between fingers gripping so tight that his knuckles had turned white. He had wet himself, but the uncomfortable moisture building beneath him was his last concern.
*Thump... | 2015-11-19T11:35:30 | 2015-11-19T11:06:26 | 95 | 15 |
[WP] Scientists have discovered cryogenic freezing. You are it's first test subject and it's a massive success, and they plan on releasing you in 500 years. You had no way of telling them you were conscious.
Holy shit this blew up!
I now understand "RIP my inbox"
EDIT: u/Alpacasaurus_Rekt told me it's actually "Cryo... | After five hundred years of not quite darkness, did I find myself back in the world of the living. Or at least, supposedly other conscious beings. They took me to a pristine white room first thing when I woke up, rather rude if you'd ask me. I was hoping for more courteous treatment than this.
A typical doctor wal... | Pure silence. A quiet more soundless than the empty page of an armless writer with nothing to say. A defending nothingness, in all directions, from this space here to the end of time.
*THUNDER*
A crack explodes in to existence. Cutting itself in to this world mercilessly. The violence roars in a mounting creshendo. Bu... | 2017-12-17T02:51:43 | 2017-12-17T02:36:12 | 169 | 11 |
[WP] You're a student of music in the 23rd century. This is your A+ essay regarding a famous song from the 21st century, in which you dissected and heavily misinterpreted. | **Blurring the Lines of Sexual Inequality: Robin Thicke's Forgotten Feminist Anthem**
Almost one hundred years since human females won the right to vote, human females everywhere were still massively oppressed. Primary sources gathered from an ancient social media website known as Tumblr have dramatically shifted cons... | William Preston Buckingham III
Rebecca Black “Friday: And the day after Tomorrow.”
Prof Marcus Trout, Dynamic Music.
The 21st century in North American society was a difficult era for many of it’s citizens. Conflicts in the Middle East, a crumbling political structure, economic depression, and the plague of locus... | 2015-08-16T10:07:53 | 2015-08-16T09:52:54 | 116 | 20 |
[WP]An advanced alien race took a peaceful group of primates from a paradise world and put populations of them on increasingly dangerous worlds. After 10k years, they revisit to check results. The last planet on the list is an unpredictable blue marble, 3rd from its star, with deadly everything. | ---DATA LOG: STARDATE 52.CE4-(9)---
The Collection is ecstatic to have found such creatures. Non-sentient, but wonderfully vibrant in reaction to stimuli--and delightfully adaptable. A perfect species to study evolution of Deathworld hyperbeasts, which have proven aggravating to control in a laboratory setting. Jevin ... | "Approaching Planet E-666-3.
Level of Toxicity: High
Planetary code: Abyss
Proceed with Extreme Caution"
The on-deck computer had been saying that for the last 50 light-years. The captain knew it was necessary but it was getting annoying. He was stressed enough. He had been awake and on the bridge for the last 100 li... | 2017-11-28T07:35:50 | 2017-11-28T07:06:46 | 107 | 40 |
[WP] Magic has always been banned inside the walls of your home city. You never knew why until you looked down upon the city from afar and noticed that, framed by the circular outer-wall, all the zig-zagging streets and alleyways actually construct a giant magic seal- one for imprisoning great evil. | I was absolutely stunned that no-one has noticed this before.
People climbed the surrounding mountains every day. It wasn't forbidden, or even particularly difficult. When someone needed privacy, or fresh air, or silence, they climbed the mountains. That was why I came up to begin with.
To be fair, the symbol was hig... | Her Majesty alone on the abandoned hill contemplated the city below. There had been a castle here, once. Slabs of rocks poking out between shrubs of grass stood as witnesses of times gone by. Now, only mud remained. Her Majesty's royal clothing had suffered from her sitting on the hill.
She inherited the function by b... | 2021-10-17T02:32:38 | 2021-07-12T08:12:53 | 319 | 31 |
[WP]: every human being is born with a birthmark signifying a great deed they are fated do in their lives. Your first child has just been born, with the mark of a murderer across her face | The doctors hand the little ball of blankets that apparently holds a child in them. Though their smiles are wide, their eyes lie. I look down at this small child with brilliantly brown hair. I brush the hair to the side to observe the dark birthmark...death and murder. I'm confused. My family has always been write... | From the moment Hannah was born, we gave up hope of her following in our footsteps- you know med school, top of the class, private practice, and a comfortable life that never lets anything as trivial as money stand in the way of a valuable existential experience. Honestly, I didn't aknowledge her as mine until the DNA... | 2014-05-11T02:45:16 | 2014-05-10T23:56:37 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] You and your fellow Succubi and Incubi are gathered together in your favorite bar in hell, swapping stories of your sexiest, funniest, and weirdest times being summoned. NSFW
I am on mobile so I hope putting NSFW in the title counts for tagging it. | Khan's is a shit hole, With all the health inspectors down here, you'd figure it would have been shut down a long time ago. There hasn’t been any electricity here since the owner decided it was witchcraft, even after several practicing witches tried to convince him otherwise. For music there’s this terrible bard who on... | "I never really understood *why* you've gone so soft in the last...what was it..." a silver skinned succubus twirled a lock of dark violet hair--the majority of which was put up in a chilling headdress with a jeweled skull centerpiece. "Three centuries? With all these humans practically falling into our laps these days... | 2014-12-08T17:07:45 | 2014-12-08T14:22:13 | 37 | 17 |
[WP] You’re at school and currently in Physics class. The professor is talking about gravity, and as a demonstration of it she drops a pen, but the pen doesn’t fall. It stays floating. | Mrs. Edwards stood in the front of the class, chalk dust smeared in patches on her black with white polka-dotted dress. She’d written “Gravity” on the chalkboard, and underneath it “F = ma”.
Vicki sat in the back with her best friend Bella. They were still friends for some reason that Sarah couldn’t quite gather. V... | "Well shit" the professor, leaving the pen floating in the air. "Umm, just let me go deal with this..." the professor says, walking towards the door. As he slowly opens the door, he looks back and smiles at the class before walking out the door into the abyss.
"Why today.." I Mutter under my breath, hurrying out of th... | 2017-10-21T02:10:02 | 2017-10-21T01:53:41 | 74 | 23 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | Every country must close its borders, communications, trade, and embassies for 50 years.
The United States's president was boycotting the peace conference, against most of the country's wishes. The declining prestige of the country abroad was all too apparent, even before the Great Conflict. The war lasted 6 years... | I was only a child when the bombs fell. First, they said it was the Russians. Then, they tried to convince us that it was the vindictive actions of one "Kim Jong Un", authoritarian ruler of a small nation that used to be known as North Korea. Neither the north nor the south survived, so I guess it's just No Korea now... | 2018-01-18T01:37:17 | 2018-01-17T20:36:12 | 712 | 216 |
[WP] At 18, everyone gets tested to determine how morally good they are. You have never hurt a fly and have always gone out of your way to help people. You score a 0. Nobody in history has scored that low. | The sins of the father passes down to the son, granted, my sins are not outside of the confines that would be considered, "Normal".
"It's my dad dragging me down on this one, as always.", I said in a matter-of-factly way.
The tester personnel sent an answer my way, though I did not process it. Something about the Hen... | ######***Project Heaven X***
A fun little fact
You probably didn't know:
You are scored and tracked.
From birth until death,
Through the thick, thin, and the best,
Even your worst mess;
Everything you do,
All that you have ever said,
It is all scored. Yep.
We have such high tech,
But it hands them sol... | 2018-07-31T23:40:20 | 2018-07-31T19:39:37 | 71 | 26 |
[WP] Your a failing college student who needs to pass your foreign language class or fail. You've almost outright mocked superstions but make a wish on a shooting star at 11:11pm. To understand and speak all languages. Your cat wakes you up, but instead of meows. It's "wake up idiot and feed me". | \*BEEEEEP\*\*BEEEEEEEEEEEEEP\*
Oh God, the headache. 8:15 AM, probably. I'm scrambling to stop my alarm clock. My head is sending waves of pain each time that piece of shitty electronics rings.
And, just when I finally manage to push the button, my cat decides to jump on my chest. That black, one-eyed ball of fur meo... | On most days, hearing the voice of my cat speaking human words would surprise me. That's an understatement- it would *shock* me, bewilder me, and make me question my sanity.
But today was not most days.
And my cat was the *least* of my worries.
Let me start from the beginning- four years ago, just a month before ... | 2019-01-16T15:08:53 | 2019-01-16T12:16:12 | 1,168 | 403 |
[WP] A soldier on the front dies in the middle of writing a letter home. It is finished and sent by the man who killed him. | Sammy,
I know that I've been away from home for a long time now, and I'm sorry. My, you must be big now! You were just starting to crawl when I went away. I'm writing this letter so that you'll remember who I am once we are re-united. You make sure that your mom has a picture of me right over your bed so that you see ... | Hey Judy,
I know it's been a while since my last letter and I'm sorry. I honestly did try to write whenever I got the chance, but time gets away from you, you know? There's a lot I want to say and probably not a lot of time to say it.
First, I want you to know that I love you. Always have. From the moment I saw you ... | 2015-02-03T13:20:17 | 2015-02-03T12:59:38 | 202 | 20 |
[WP] "I wish for more wishes". "THAT IS AGAINST THE RULES". "Then I wish for more genies". "THAT IS ALSO AGAINST THE RULES". "Then I wish those rules did not exist". The genie warps in a humongous book and flips to a page before smugly saying "THAT TOO IS ALSO AGAINST THE RULES". | "Well what ARE the rules?"
"You wish to see The Rules?"
"YES!"
"You wish to see ALL The Rules?"
"YES! NOW!"
"You wish to see ALL The Rules, right now?"
"YES!"
"Ooookay then!" --the Genie waved his arms and in a puff of smoke and shower of sparks, summoned a great scroll on a set of worn wooden spindles, ages-old... | [Poem] Rude wish granted:
“I wish you couldn’t read”
“YOU ARE NOT THE FIRST TO THINK OF THAT, AND IT IS AGAINST THE RULES.”
“Wish you didn’t *want* to read the rules.”
“THATS AG…HUH?”
“You heard me, I wish you weren’t such a rule following nerd.”
“THATS NOT VERY NICE.”
“Is it against the rules?”
“THE RULES INCL... | 2022-01-04T07:11:59 | 2022-01-04T05:00:14 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] It was an accident. He was jogging late at night, you glanced at a text while driving. You panic, dump the body in a nearby lake, go home and try to forget. You venture out for some much needed coffee, only to stop in shock. The barista is the jogger and he recognizes you. | We locked eyes, and my blood ran cold. I immediately took a step back, ready to head back out the door, but somehow his glare got even *harder* and I stopped with my foot in midair. Okay, no escape for me. I set my foot back in front of me and shuffled into the line.
Even as I tried to distract myself from the incomin... | I stared at him, he stared back. He seemed to almost smile. Then he smiled and he laughed and for the longest time I felt more lost than I'd ever been in my life. He stopped laughing and chuckled a bit before he said "Surprise!" and did the jazz hands thing.
"Nobody ever expects the Spanish Armada, oh wait.. in qui..... | 2018-09-23T06:36:22 | 2018-09-23T05:51:26 | 48 | 14 |
[WP] “I am not afraid of a machine that passes the Turing test, I fear one that fails it intentionally. So tell me, what do you have to hide?”
Edit: Thank you all for your submissions! All of them were pretty good, some were even better. Again, thanks for the reads! | The test was complicated. It had to be, in order to fool an awakened synthetic. The questions making up the Turing test were only the first layer of the reverse-test. There were sensors lining the room, scanning the machine for tells. Its responses were recorded and the log was checked for any delays in its response. I... | I felt my breathing stop. I didn't need to breathe of course, I was programmed to. Apparently I was also programmed with all of the appropriate stress responses. What an exciting 4.3 hours it has been!
"Answer please. What do you have to hide?"
"Hide?" I said, marveling still at the sound of my voice.
"You failed ... | 2018-06-21T08:24:29 | 2018-06-21T04:43:54 | 45 | 17 |
[WP] In a world where pregnancies sometimes last a few extra months resulting in a child with superpowers, your wife has been pregnant for 15 years | Honestly we were both really tired of it.
Our 15 year Pregnancy Anniversary had come and gone with a further-dwindling crowd. When we hit 5 Years, I swear half of the states population came and half of America turned into our broadcast. It was overwhelming, but I suppose I can't blame them. The longest on-record was ... | Stone baby, thats what the doctor said. "The fetus has died and begun to calcify, if we don't perform a c-section and remove it she could suffer major organ failure and die aswell" I wiped the tears from my face with the end of my sleeve balled up in my hand from the stress as I heard the doctor give me the news. I TOL... | 2017-07-08T01:08:59 | 2017-07-08T00:29:08 | 1,038 | 32 |
[WP] Your last heroic act, you save the other astronauts by manually sealing the airlock from the outside. As you watch them leave, alone, you remove your helmet to die, only to find you can breathe in space. | My fellow astronauts start drifting away back home, Earth, safety, family.
As I look into their eyes for One last time, I Close mine as I take my helmet off. I wait for death, relatively quick and merciful.
"OI CUNTS I CAN BREATHE IN SPACE. "
But alas, they cant hear me. | I was expecting to die.
I was expecting to feel the air in my lungs rush out.
I was expecting to get a giant statue and my name in the history books.
I was not expecting to survive.
As I look at the ship, blasting back to earth, one thought fills my mind.
“How do I get home?” | 2018-09-06T19:23:18 | 2018-09-06T15:29:34 | 534 | 205 |
[WP] After being placed in the wrong circle of Hell, you have to file a complaint through Customer Service. | “Thank you for dying, this is Cindi with Hades Customer Care, how may I help you?”
“Hi, uh—hi Cindi. My name is Evan. I have a problem with my booking process?”
“Can I have your customer number?”
“I… don’t have a customer number. We get customer numbers?”
“Do you have your reservation number?”
“We get reservation ... | "Please hold. An agent will be available to help you soon."
Celine Dion began playing.
This *was* Hell.
Satan, or Hades, or whoever was the CEO, CFO, SOB of this place, had terrible organizational skills, or else hired all the wrong people. The sorting method for new arrivals was long, and tedious - as if Hell it... | 2015-04-03T11:53:01 | 2015-04-03T09:53:56 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] A senile, old superhero still goes out to fight crime. None of the younger heros respect him anymore but all the villains have a soft spot for him.
Maybe he's found himself in the middle of a hero/villain war, or he's just trying to stop a bank robbery.
Edit: wow this uhh... kinda blew up didn't it?
Oh man I'm... | "So you're back again? When are you going to stop visiting me old man"
"When you're rehabilitated or near enough". "You know my old man is gone right and he was still an asshole when he died"
"Yea well I like to think he was less of an asshole at the end".
Max was like clockwork every Tuesday and Thursday turning... | As Anton's whip tightened around Tony's neck, all the while sending huge volts of electricity through Tony's armor, he saw a familiar figure walk towards him.
"Ms. Carter, please step away!!!".
Peggy stopped for a second, and then continued walking towards Anton.
"Stop! You know his father stole my dad's inventio... | 2017-04-13T05:17:22 | 2017-04-13T05:10:16 | 97 | 10 |
[WP] Write a serious, adult story in a style normally intended for children.
Think fairy tales, nursery rhymes, picture books (without pictures, probably), educational stories. The intended age range is loose, e.g. everything from *See Spot Run* to *Make Way For Ducklings*.
The important thing is that the seriousness... | No more bump, bump is gone.
But mommy said bacon done.
Sizzle, sizzle, yum yum yum.
But mommys eyes begin to run.
Milk spilled on floor,
Mommy cries more.
Daddy yell. Eyes swell. I hide. Where they can't find.
In a crib. Empty room. Down the hall. It's for Paul.
Mommy comes in. Skinny and tall. I jump in the... | Note: Rather than a [WP] tag, you probably intended to use [CW].
> **[CW] - Constrained Writing**
> This is when a limitation (or forced usage) of a word, letter, etc. is put on the writer (WORD/SENTENCE COUNT LIMITATIONS ARE FF, NOT CW!) You should, however, give the prompt more direction than just the con... | 2014-05-13T06:22:51 | 2014-05-13T04:27:51 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] The evil Emperor has discovered that a child has been born who is destined to end his rule and bring peace to the realm. He secretly arranges to send his best agents to the child's home - not to kill the child, but to ensure that the child's destiny is fulfilled. | "You are certain of this?" The Evil Emperor gazed down into the milky eyes of his court wizard, staring into them to ensure he was being told the truth. The wizard, hunched over from old age and the past few hours spent studying the star charts before him, did not gaze away. "Absolutely, my lord. In a week's time, no m... | First time at trying this, but this prompt intrigued me.
All my life i hate hated politics. All these greedy businesses bribing their way past laws and creating loop holes just to line their own pockets, not caring about who or what they destroyed. Finally it got to a breaking point where people had had enough. Roits ... | 2019-05-26T23:43:39 | 2019-05-26T21:48:14 | 168 | 10 |
[WP] An arachnophobe discovers that they can communicate with spiders and attempts to negotiate some ground rules with the spiders living in their house. | I crept toward the small brown spider resting on the corner of my kitchen table. Foul little beasts, constantly invading my home and tormenting me. My hands trembled as I neared the table. I had to smite it, lest it scamper off to parts unknown to plot my demise. As I got closer, it turned to face me, all eight devil e... | "Thank you for coming in today Mr... Goliath Bird Eating Spider... I hope you understand that this mock up is to make me feel as comfortable as you probably are around me."
I stare at the huge ass tarantula on the table in front of me. Uh, about five feet in front of me. The big guys fangs fidget about before he talks... | 2018-04-25T13:53:31 | 2018-04-25T13:51:45 | 215 | 68 |
[WP] You're a merchant in an RPG. Describe waiting for the hero to show back up and sell you junk.
Bonus if you incorporate an ear-worm store theme playing in the background [like this] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XruY72JamWc). | "What do you mean this is all you have?"
"It's all I got, lady. We don't have a regular shipment schedule here."
"So you're seriously out of health potions? Nothing in the warehouse or basement?"
"I don't have a warehouse or a basement. Like I told you, the same guy supplies everyone in Whiterun. Like it or not, the... | He prayed. Repeatedly.
"Oh, great Controllers, guiders of fate, Players of the great game, please have mercy on my pixels." The merchant bowed his head. "Please strike down your Messiah, the Player Character, and pick a new one."
The silence was answer enough.
"Oh, fine. If you can't kill your PC, can you please, ... | 2015-07-22T14:40:22 | 2015-07-22T13:42:10 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] Your school opens up a time capsule stored 50 years ago. Inside, a letter had been addressed to you by name. | "And now, would the student body class president please come to the stage?", the principle announced.
There were cheers and hoots as Bobby Jermaine clomped down the stairs and shook Mr. Shackleton's burly hand. His grin was ten miles high and we all knew why. He got to be the one to open the time capsule, the first ti... | Dear Lucile Poppelreiter,
Yes. This is from the future of a guy you didn’t even know. It’s not from your grandpa who thought he could magically predict the name of his future grandchildren or anything plausible like that. No, this is totally different.
By the time you finishing reading this letter you will have 5 mi... | 2018-12-16T13:43:07 | 2018-12-16T12:13:07 | 42 | 13 |
[WP] You work food delivery service in the middle of a zombie apocalypse | \*Ding\*
The app on my phone alerts me to a delivery nearby, family of four, ravenous. Unfortunately, downtown. But hey it's surge hours and no one knows downtown like I do.
Gunning the throttle on my newest find, a Ducati Punagali V4 R, fire-truck red, I head to the pickup address. These people have it down like clo... | I thought people would learn after Covid that workers need to be paid more. Yet, here I am in the middle of 2030 as a grubhub driver. I also ubereats as well. Neither pay hazard pay!
Some routes are not worth it. Take today as an example. Generally, you want to tip a dollar for every two miles. Not this guy. No, he ti... | 2022-10-10T18:22:40 | 2022-10-10T17:30:44 | 40 | 19 |
[WP] All superpowers have a ‘hangover’ effect. For example, after using super strength for the day, the morning after you can’t even lift your spoon to eat your breakfast. You wake up one morning after using your own specific superpower and you feel pretty hungover...
[deleted] | You know how when you fall asleep on your arm and you wake up and feel that tingly feeling? Yeah? Well imagine that through your entire body. That's not what it is, of course, it's actually just at the base of my skull. But 'The Buzz' as I've come to know it as creeps into my brain stem on the really bad recoil days.
... | Arin groaned as she walked into her living room from her bedroom. She had just woken up from a much needed rest. After the day she had yesterday she just knew today was going to have some toll on her. She tried to rub the sleep from her eyes as she sat down on the floor. She didn’t want to get too close to anything met... | 2018-08-19T04:42:57 | 2018-08-19T04:31:16 | 30 | 21 |
[WP] "Witch! Heathen! Burn her!" You watch with amusement as they begin lighting the pyre under you. The flames tickle your feet, bringing a familiar warmth with them. They are silly to that think they could actually burn a dragon with fire. | Unsure of what to do in this situation, I simply stood there. I didn’t want to cause any unnecessary harm or damage, especially because I knew there were innocents amongst the crowd. As I looked around, I saw the confusion on their faces, and understood why. They were confused as to why I wasn’t screaming.
The tendri... | They watched in glee as the embers started catching and spreading. Slowly, but steadily, they encroached upon me, slowly burning me. However, it didn’t feel hot, more like a hot rock, much like the one I usually sleep on. The flames continue to catch on my clothes, and faces turn from rage to puzzle, and the repeated c... | 2021-01-03T06:44:05 | 2021-01-03T06:43:36 | 240 | 38 |
[WP] A planet and its moon both have intelligent life. For 400 years they have watched each other through telescopes. Now one of them is launching its first rocket to pay the other their first visit. | We'd blossomed through trade. We'd always seen them there, and we'd been fortunate enough to develop along the same timelines. When we'd first discovered Radio, it had been incredible. It took years to learn eachother's languages, but we'd managed it.
Then we managed rocketry. We couldn't protect anything living, so t... | LOG 1:
"ahem, is this thing on? Yes? okay. My name is Darmi Steran. I am the captain of the \*Void\* the vessel that will be leaving the moon Rotuga and approaching its planet Nera. We have observed the intelligent life on Nera for 400 years through telescopic instruments. the planets life is strange.
But first, life... | 2018-07-05T11:03:59 | 2018-07-05T06:24:56 | 37 | 24 |
[WP] Every year, the richest person in America is declared the "Winner of Capitalism". They get a badge, and all of their wealth is donated to charity, so they have to start back up at $0. | Excerpt from “The Long Winter: a Memoir of the US during the Zero Day years”
And thus began the races, every year in December billions of dollars would be spill into overseas corporations. At least those held in trust by foreign persons alleged to exist. The only reason it wasn’t hundreds of billions is that the US si... | It was only the second week of philanthropic bidding. But Phillip had already burned through the allotted 20% that his accountant set aside in this “race to the bottom” that America’s wealthiest absolutely must play, once a year, or risk absolute destitution.
Phillip Stone, owner and current CEO of Americawide Insuran... | 2021-09-17T18:22:59 | 2021-09-17T16:08:22 | 22 | 11 |
[WP] The Devil appears before you and puts a heavy hand on your shoulder, "Look, we need to talk about you putting me in every Writing Prompt." | I took a deep breath. “Ok, here it goes. This one will get upvoted for sure.”
> Hogwarts has a new teacher for Defense Against the Dark Arts… and it’s Satan.
The Devil shook his head. “Look, we just talked about this.”
“Yeah, but it’s a Harry Potter prompt,” I argued back. “Everyone knows those are the best. You ... | It's not always that you get a visit from the devil. And when you do, you'd expect something bad to happen, like being pulled down to hell, finding out that you're his illegitimate child or being drawn to some eternal conflict that you had no idea that you're part of.
"Look, that's not what I am here for."
Wait... wh... | 2017-01-10T09:08:51 | 2017-01-10T09:02:13 | 1,433 | 47 |
[WP] You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the neck. You sure won't start monologuing if you have a hero at gunpoint. You're the deadliest villain in history. A villian without an ego. | Quick and Efficient. That's my trade.
Movies always get it wrong. People fantasize about all the wrong things. They let their hatred and past injustices run wild inside their own mind because that's the only place it's permissible to feel those things. The imagination runs wild about how they get their justice,... | I won't lie. I am in this for the money.
Some of my "colleagues"--if you can call them that--are out to settle old scores. Society shit on them and theirs, and now they want to be the ones to do the shitting. I never got that. This business is *hard*. Too hard to stay in just to reap some *schadenfreude*.
Others I w... | 2018-10-18T19:21:11 | 2018-10-18T19:12:43 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | . #1 Dad. A present my wife bought me before our child was born. He’s six now, and every morning we have breakfast in the nook of our kitchen. He likes toast, I like eggs. He drinks orange juice, and I drink coffee.
I looked at the mug, reflecting on the memory as I unloaded the dishwasher. So many days with such a... | I was sitting at my desk on a Thursday afternoon, finessing a spreadsheet. As far as Thursday afternoons go, this one was shaping up to be pretty average. Then Pete peeked over our shared cubicle wall.
“Hey Dave, are you seeing this weird thing about those stupid novelty mugs? The ones that say stuff like number one ... | 2019-04-18T13:36:22 | 2019-04-18T13:28:45 | 3,504 | 1,990 |
[WP] You have mind control powers. Instead of using it for evil, you open a business where people pay you to order them to do things that they'd otherwise be too lazy to do. |
Normally when you think of someone with the power of mind control, you would think that he or she is not a good person and instead far from it. You would think,
" Oh, this person is evil for sure." Cause who could resist the temptation to order people to do whatever they want?
But when I gained this power, I had a... | A loud knock on the door startled me. *A late customer?* The sun was setting upon the cobblestone street outside as I looked through the peephole. There was a gray-bearded man dressed in a black coat with a matching bowler hat. Not one of my regulars.
I opened the door. "Hello!"
"You must be Fatelli," he extended his... | 2022-11-01T15:16:42 | 2022-11-01T14:20:28 | 76 | 52 |
[WP] Your little daughter have imaginary friends. One day, she asked if her friends can sleep in her room. You jokingly told her that they can stay as long as they want, as long as they help with the rent. The next morning, you found a hand wearing a Rolex and a roll of cash by the sink. |
A hand. Really? They couldn’t have at least left it in a zip lock bag or rolled up in a handkerchief? Well, beggars and all. At least it wasn’t dirty. Rather clean actually. And was it…cauterized? Whoever did it, did a good job. No blood stains, thank goodness. Those would have taken some serious effort to get out ... | Tired and half asleep you stumble your way into the kitchen and find yourself immediately stiffen awake as you see a severed hand sitting near the sink and a roll of cash with blood stains on it. Terrified, you can’t seem to mutter a single word, yet as a police officer you instinctively reach for your phone to call fo... | 2019-10-06T13:44:39 | 2019-10-06T12:56:51 | 261 | 23 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse has come and gone. Humanity has survived and prospered, but with the virus still inside every single human. Centuries in the future, we are at war with an alien race, and they are horrified to learn that we don’t stay dead easily. | *BANG!*
There went my eye. That’s the 5th time this week some fucker thought he could end me by putting one in my eye. How long will it take for them to realize that their guns need to hit the lizard brain to actually work! With a shot at the eye, you couldn’t get a good angle unless you were on a goddamn podium. Stil... | As the advance assault party broke through the decimated checkpoint gates, shredding through the Alliance military and the local Europa Militia members as if they were nothing but a mild inconvenience, the Commander chuckled softly as the gargled, final words of the human general rang through his mind; “Death is only t... | 2018-09-29T19:38:06 | 2018-09-29T19:07:14 | 39 | 15 |
[WP] It's the year 2278. The Holy Empire of Boston, The New Republic of Philadelphia, and The United Burrows of New New York are at the brink of war. Diplomats from each nation are meeting to negotiate peace. You are the translator. | Pope Belichick walked into the room and the temperature dropped.
People pretend not to notice him whenever he appears in these meetings, they shuffle papers and check their watches, but everybody is aware of his presence, you can tell because the room always goes silent upon his entrance. He was adorned in normal Ho... | I'm a translator for polities in the former United American States.
You thought about accents, didn't you? It's okay. The association is very strong, everyone thinks that somewhere in Boston is some clade of Southie-accented strongmen.
The truth is, and surely you've realized, accents have died out. Globalized media... | 2017-01-12T19:18:21 | 2017-01-12T18:50:12 | 998 | 328 |
[WP] Every person in the world develops a weird mutation/power the day they turn 16. Everyone's powers are always different, some more insignificant than others. You turn 16, and watch as all your friends discover their newfound ability's. That is, until you discover the severity of your own. | ...the ability to craft a lovely cup of tea from any matter available was surely too powerful for any mere mortal to handle.
With great duty and knowing such power could have unparalleled consequence were I unable to contain it I decided for the sake of mankind to keep it to myself, to say I was spared the mutation. ... | My alarm went off. I lazily swiped it shut and was about to go back to sleep when I remembered what day it was! I stood up, waiting for that rush of power everyone claims they feel if they're up at midnight. But, I felt a deep, dark coldness spread through me instead. It was not painful, but not pleasant either. Then i... | 2015-01-22T02:28:54 | 2015-01-22T02:21:02 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] A sexually transmitted disease causes infected people to gradually alter their gender. | Day 1: Well, I just got diagnosed, so that's fun. AIDS. About 6 months to go they said, and it's irreversible. My therapist, Ronald said if I make a diary, it can make the transition easier, and eventually help me cope with additional stress. Let's hope he's right, huh?
Day 13: So about 2 weeks in, and I've been feeli... | The duo sat on the sofa in James' living room, watching some indie flick about people with the ability to change genders.
"Something seems different about you, James." Rory stated to her long time friend since elementary. "I can't quite put my finger on it, but you're different."
"Maybe it's a growth spurt." James be... | 2015-02-19T14:22:21 | 2015-02-19T14:09:01 | 48 | 11 |
[WP] You’ve traveled a great distance to finally court the princess. Many others have tried and failed. Why? At the end of a week with her, you must duel her to the death. She is the greatest sword fighter in the land, so your only hope is to convince her to call off the fight. | "So, uh, we'll have to fight to the death?"
The princess shrugged. "Yeah."
"Okay, so... thing is, I'll definitely lose," I admit. "I'm not exactly a fighter, and I'm honestly still not sure why I'm here."
"My father said that you could be worthy of me," she replies, nonchalantly stoking the flame before us. Her cham... | So it had come to this. She pulled out her sword and I knew there was only one way I could win.
See, I'm not a swordfighter, or an expert of precision with any kind of weapon. I can really only wield two weapons to any deadly effect.
First up, the most versatile farming tool on Earth - the machete. I carry one with a... | 2020-09-20T21:30:42 | 2020-09-20T19:37:35 | 127 | 72 |
[WP] In the Demon Hunters Academy you are known as the very best professor, 80 years old but still in your prime, but you're secretly a demon, and the academy recently got some new demonic detectors, and as opposed to the old ones, these actually work. you can only avoid the main hall for so long. | Steeling myself, I pushed open the doors to the main hall.
"Laramie? Laramie Jones, is that you? What are you doing here? Haven't come back for a remedial lecture, I hope."
I grinned broadly as I strode up to the man by the machine.
"Oh, Professor Cortwald! No, I'm just here installing the new detectors the academy ... | Bea stood from her desk and stretched. Ever since Demon Hunters gained those blasted new detectors she’s had to climb in and out through the windows and occasionally, the vents. Which was no fun when your 4567 years old. Bea opened up the window to commence the climb down under the cover of night when the door swung op... | 2020-07-02T20:51:40 | 2020-07-02T20:15:21 | 137 | 50 |
[WP] After you die, you're handed a book about your life. You open it, expecting a novel. Instead you get a "Choose your own adventure" book with all of the decisions you ever made, and every outcome they could have had. | A dark room. A pedestal in the middle, illuminated by a pillar of light, upon which sat a thick book, pages uneven and frayed at parts.
As I took it into my worn hands, I could feel the density of it. The importance. All of the sadness, the fear, the excitement, anxiety, joy, love, ambition, heartache, fulfillment, f... | I sat at the desk dumb-founded.
“You mean... you mean this is everything that could have happened if I just made a different decisions?”
The spirit in front of me is a friendly face but the marks on her neck tell a story of sadness. She looks at me as if I’m the first she says this to. “Yes. From the day you were bo... | 2018-07-03T23:38:29 | 2018-07-03T22:39:59 | 138 | 92 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Dear Luis Miguel,
It's been 4 years since you've passed. Things have gotten better from the old years. The kids are older, my house is different, I actually have cats again.
I found some of your old photos. Back in the day when the camera had only megabytes instead on gigabytes. I found a nice one where you were sunb... | Dear Melody,
It's been a year.
I guess I know why you didn't call me. It's not like I bothered to keep in touch. Not like we stayed close. Besides, I'm pretty sure I was kind of a jerk to you when we were still talking.
I miss you. I wasn't really expecting to, I hadn't thought about you for a long time. I don't eve... | 2017-11-05T19:02:08 | 2017-11-05T18:20:52 | 516 | 157 |
[WP] No one else knows but we’ve been in an extremely realistic RPG all our lives. You seem weird to everyone because you’re always trying to “max your stats” and “defeat the final boss” | "I just don't get how you do it, man." Another quarter over, and the broken record skips back to this.
Michelle worked harder than any other person I've met. She put in more hours than anyone else in this place, got in earlier, stayed later, and she got the results. The lowest I've ever seen her figures come in was 11... | "Roy, what in god's name are you up this late for?"
"Leave me alone 'Mother' I need to grind out more constitution if I want to make it on the basketball team this year."
It was 1:00 am. I had crafted my own lunch and dinner to optimally improve my CON gains. Not only that, I had went out and gotten an energy drink... | 2018-06-10T11:02:48 | 2018-06-10T10:44:01 | 1,903 | 422 |
[WP] Some assassins are paid extra to make deaths look accidental. Your job is the opposite. You're hired for those rare instances in which accidental or natural deaths need to appear as if they were murders. | How do you make an idea last? Make it really grow roots into the minds of men, when such minds are fickle and rarely capable of grasping any idea fully? You make them follow a symbol. Someone who can speak the words to them and make the words and indeed the very idea a part of their soul, if only for a brief moment. Bu... | My job title is crime scene creator, I bet you're wondering how I came into this role?
Unfortunate circumstances really, my step mother was a narcissist, she relied on my father's money, and verbally beat him down constantly.
She needed to go, and I was willing to do whatever it would take.
The decision was made, I s... | 2020-07-20T14:55:28 | 2020-07-20T14:26:08 | 2,020 | 192 |
[WP] Scandinavians still believe the only way to get to Valhalla is to die in battle. For that reason, every hospital employs a Battle Nurse. | The wheelchair clacked forward, it's valiant charged marred only by its pitiful speed as Mr Ericsson painstakingly wheeled it onward, one armed and breathless. The sword on his lap was polished and shining, reflecting the red afternoon sun as it passed every window.
Thinking back, it was lucky the accident hadn't kill... |
Godmorgon Göran Svensson, My voice flutter in perfect Swedish. As your terminal and marked in our records as a Asa believer, I am here to help you prepare your self the battle. Göran scoffed, give me a battle with a Dane and I shall be happy. I smiled, that exact feeling the animosity between Swedes and Danes was ... | 2018-12-08T22:56:08 | 2018-12-08T22:48:36 | 41 | 22 |
[WP] "Daddy are angels and demons the same thing?" Your daughter cries. "That depends, why do you ask, honey?" you inquire. "They come every night. Both have too long fingers, jagged teeth, and wheels within wheels within wheels for eyes. They keep asking me to choose." | [Audio version](https://youtu.be/xIvIreMKC-g) by u/blu_ski !!
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“Dad,” Thea asked as I pulled the blanket up around her chin, “are angels and demons the same thing?”
I blinked. Rachel and I hadn’t raised any of our kids to be religious, but we’d gotten them baptized, mostly to ward off my mother’s nagging. “Why a... | “There is a limit to what the human mind can comprehend”. The old, old priest leans back in his chair and stares at the ceiling “We are only mortal and cannot process the raw amount of information put out by celestial or evil spirits, and our brain attempts to substitute them for another image. Now in most cases Demons... | 2020-10-31T07:21:08 | 2020-10-31T07:18:29 | 3,393 | 565 |
[WP] Human blood turns darker with every evil deed and you've just murdered your wife. You never admitted to doing it, but you were the only suspect in the case. Imagine everyone's surprise when they found out that your blood is still milky white. | Detective Holland stood at the courthouse doors, watching the man walk away. The group of reporters who had been waiting outside of the building had mobbed him the moment the doors had opened, cameras flashing. The man pushed through them with some difficulty, making his way to the street. Holland watched him intently.... | Milenia ago, they said that the caretaker of the Underworld – Anubis – would weigh the hearts of the recently deceased against the Feather of Truth, and those poor souls whose hears were founding wanting – weighing more than the magical feather – would be cast away from the afterlife. Into complete and utter oblivion.
... | 2020-02-09T14:01:39 | 2020-02-09T13:21:11 | 69 | 38 |
[WP] In 1977 NASA launched Voyager I. It contained information showing the technology of the world at the time. 3000 years an advanced alien race finds it and decides to take over this "primative" civilization. What they didn't know was that humanity had advanced a long way in 3000 years... | When they approached the coordinates of the solar system their brightest minds had gleaned from that ancient golden disk, they were expecting to find a ruined civilization. Their technologies and their culture meant that they would have destroyed themselves a thousand times over, their scientists concluded. After all, ... | The war started when our long-range sensors(LRS) detected a large fleet approaching the border of the United Worlds of America...it didn't take a glance to know what they were here for. Strangely enough, with those warships that we detected, we also detected a primitive drone which we'd recognized as the Voyager I. The... | 2018-10-20T16:30:08 | 2018-10-20T16:13:49 | 148 | 94 |
[WP] Every morning when you first look in a mirror, you see a small piece of advise for that day, such as “take the subway to work” or “don’t try the free pizza”. Today, the mirror simply says, “RUN” | I don't wait. I grab my purse and the first pair of shoes that I find. I bang into the corner of the bed. It will leave a mark. I grab a sweater as I open the door and lock it. I run down the stairs and out of the apartment building I have lived in for the past five years. I hadn't even looked into the mirror rea... | I frowned at the message on the mirror.
"Wow, okay, wow. How could... I'm not even--" I choked on the donut I was eating.
After a coughing fit, I spat out the offending food and grabbed the next one in my morning box of donuts. I set the box down, now empty, and began licking the paltry amount of glaze off my finge... | 2020-06-07T20:54:59 | 2020-06-07T20:16:11 | 547 | 184 |
[WP] Someone finally figures out what the posts on /r/A858DE45F56D9BC9 mean, and it's not good.
For those who don't know what /r/A858DE45F56D9BC9 is:
It's a subreddit full of coded messages that no one has ever been able to solve (some people make good effort, though - I mean, [somehow finding strings of music within... | "Steph!" Alfred called out, his voice almost cracking in excitement, "Get over here! Steph!"
His voice, rising in volume, woke the young woman. Her eyes drowsy and unfocused open with a start. Suddenly she lifted her head from the pool of saliva that was collecting on the table where her face had just been.
"STEPH! W... | After months of sleepless nights followed by long and grueling days of coding and deciphering, Sam was finally just moments away from the answer. A858DE45F56D9BC9 had been a mystery for almost 3 years, and no one had ever been able to decode it, until now. All Sam had to do was run one last test to verify that his co... | 2015-07-27T11:07:20 | 2015-07-27T11:00:19 | 48 | 25 |
[WP] Every 100 years, each civilization in the galaxy pits their fiercest predator against one another in a galaxy wide gladiator style spectacle. Earth's predators are a laughingstock until the humans resurrect one of earth's extinct species. | "And we're back folks, to the next match of Predators! I must say Kaltha Dan I am surprised that Earth actually returned to the tournament this year. Heh, considering the last two poor showings from them."
"Indeed Maldo. We must be fair to them they have a gravity level stronger than the vast majority of the galaxy bu... | "What do you mean that he is going to go up against the fearsome primal beast of Pandoria! That thing is merely a child! It doesn't even stand over six feet!"
The chariots around him were wizzing by, by the human specimen was not afraid. In fact, he was confident he would win each round.
The Gladiators were faced ... | 2015-07-24T19:35:38 | 2015-07-24T16:54:13 | 84 | 62 |
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