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[WP] you're far from the first king to receive the prophecy that your new born child would cause your death. Where your story diverges is when instead of tossing the kid to the wolves, you are driven to be a kind & nurturing father. | What is a king?
A simple enough question. Really, it is.
A king is a man who rules a monarchy.
Simple.
But what makes a monarchy?
Is it the state? The people? The nobles? The land? Might?
No.
What makes a monarchy is legacy.
What comes after and what came before. That is what separates a monarchy from the trib... | My parents named me Arthur, after the great king of Camelot who ruled nearly a century ago. A powerful name, rich with history. A name fit for a King, as I was to become…as I am now. And so, as my newborn son lies before me in the nursery, I only see one suitable name for the boy who will kill me.
I’ve seen far too mu... | 2022-12-01T22:01:44 | 2022-12-01T21:12:02 | 16 | 10 |
[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. | A drop of sweat rolled down Gunther's temple.
Tuning into the annual Capitalist Awards, he sat alone in his office late into the evening. Mallmart had a good fiscal year, a little too good. In the past few years, the company had always coasted steadily into upper echelons of the Fortune 500, but they were far and away... | 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... | 2021-09-17T18:33:10 | 2021-09-17T16:08:22 | 70 | 11 |
[WP] You are born with two names tatooed on you body somewhere, one of your soulmate and one of the people that will eventually kill you. There is no way to tell who is who. | The doctor held up the new born baby.
"It's a girl!" exclamed the doctor.
"Well, What are the names doc?" the father said with joy.
The doctor looked at the baby's back, and only one name on it. James Webber. Chills shot down the doctors spine.
"Well Dr. Webber, who are they?
| Two names, two purposes.
One will kill one will complete.
No way to tell the difference.
At least that's the idea behind the names. I personally think they are both there to mess with you.
You can spend your whole life looking for your soulmate only to find you killer, or worse running from your killer only to find... | 2018-03-11T07:49:38 | 2018-03-11T07:33:45 | 4,830 | 177 |
[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. | I miss you big guy.
I miss the your terrible jokes and the attempts at accents that wound up sounding exactly the same no matter the country of origin.
I miss the quiet but fierce love of your family you had.
Most of all I miss the real dad, not the husk you became in the years leading up to your death.
I miss my be... | Hey kiddo. It's been too long since I've seen you. It's crushing to carry this weight some time. I'm really trying to show you that you can grow up and accomplish anything but it's manifesting in me leaving you behind. Your mom and I weren't right. She will forever hate me for it but I needed to do this for my happines... | 2017-11-05T22:27:41 | 2017-11-05T22:18:21 | 102 | 14 |
[WP] The bombs stopped falling. Slowly, you opened the bunker's door. You did not expect what you saw. Make it as scary as possible. Now, take this story and tell it to a five year old without frightening him/ her. | I slammed the door shut and threw the bolts, almost knocking myself off the ladder in my haste. I climbed down, and leaned heavily against the wall at the bottom of the ladder well. I could see Kira in the doorway, peaking around grandad's legs. God, why did those little eyes have to look so bloody HOPEFUL? With a deep... | My muscles tensed in anticipation of the explosions. As the whistling sound grew in intensity I knew the moment had arrived. We held hands and prayed while the children slept through their fiery pending deaths.
*SQUONKA SQUONKA*
What the hell?! The sound continued, sometimes close by, then farther away, but o... | 2015-05-11T05:16:04 | 2015-05-11T03:25:56 | 148 | 61 |
[WP] You were first exposed to r/WritingPrompts when it became a default subreddit. Infuriated by its potential to develop young writers who could compete with yourself, you set out to sabotage it by submitting endless prompts about Batman, the Devil, and Time Travel. | Their writing's improving,
I notice, with dread.
They're refining their talent,
All I see is red.
 
I cannot allow it,
no, this cannot be.
I can't have these writers
writing better than me!
 
But how can I stop them?
Oh aye, there's the rub.
The prompts, they keep coming...
Ah. Yes. Make ... | I checked my submissions tab. The scores were low, only one of them had a response, and it was really low effort.
"They're onto me, this isn't working..."
I did some research, calculated the statistics of how successful each kind of prompt was. The decision was made, I readied my keyboard and typed the Meta-Prompt. ... | 2015-04-05T10:14:58 | 2015-04-05T09:21:51 | 234 | 125 |
[WP] The manned mission to Mars went off without a hitch. The transmissions came back right on schedule: "Touchdown successful." "Habitat functional." "Life-support optimal." Then nothing for 48 hours. Then one last transmission: "We were wrong. Planet inhabited. Do not send rescue."
| "We were wrong. Planet inhabited. Do not send rescue."
These words silently flashed across the monitors of the stunned crew on Earth, their blinking the only sign of life in the still control room.
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
He was first to break the silence.
... | Red flashing lights and the sound of the allarm sirens echoes in the suffocating corridors of the Habitat Alpha-03. In the shadows an intestineless body blocks my path.
"You are going to make it, you can do this, I know you can"
Splatted blood trickling on the floor.
I gently move the corpse, that falls loudly at my ... | 2019-01-31T07:54:22 | 2019-01-31T05:21:38 | 2,633 | 53 |
[WP] A sniper and a photographer meet in a bar, neither aware of the other's occupation. They talk about 'how to take the perfect shot'. | The two men walked out of the bar. They had been making small talk when one asked what the other was doing in town.
"Oh, I'm here to shoot the president." the shorter of the men said. His new friend looked slightly surprised but eventually replied.
"REALLY? wow. Me too. Small world huh. Still, I guess the way this ye... | "Hello there!" Says the photographer after ordering his drink. "What's the name, Mac?"
The hitman (pretty drunk) responds "Depends, whats the job? Is the client posh or poor? Need to blend in their environment, y'know? Can't be Baron Neil Whitefeild in the slums, can I?"
"I am not sure I understand, sir."
"I shoot f... | 2020-11-05T05:44:49 | 2020-11-05T05:44:44 | 5,417 | 90 |
[WP] You are a world-class programmer who has died. God agrees to allow you in to Heaven on the condition that you work for him while he debugs the human body. Write the patch notes for the next version of humans. | **Changes**
* Removed appendix
* Removed wisdom teeth
* Fixed a bug that caused infants to die for no reason
* Patched a bug that caused certain people to lose hair prematurely
* Body now handles excess calories better.
* Improvement of smell. Now should be on par with dogs
* Patched the bug that caused blurry vision ... | git diff
similarity index 72%
rename from incentives.h
rename to motives/incentives.h
index f3e63d7..e8f44ba 100644
--- a/incentive.h
+++ b/incentives.h
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
- #include "greed.h"
- #include "power.h"
- #include "exploitation.h"
-
+ /*
+ Seriously,... | 2015-08-25T08:40:17 | 2015-08-25T07:52:12 | 292 | 69 |
[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. | A glimmer of sun. The peaceful sound of waves rolling onto the beach. Birds cawing. I yawned and stretched. The good kind of stretch where your body does that shake. I closed my eyes to return to my sleep.
“Woah hang on. I was not at a beach last night?” I think to myself as I jolt awake.
I prop myself up on my elb... | “Burrrmmmmm” faded as the bus pulled away from the Redline bus/W.sheridan stop and I snap awake, straightening out my frames, as the houses blur past.
“Shit my stop,” I said. pulling the chord.
The bus stopped in an instant. No momentum propelled fling forward from the driver hitting the breaks. But stopped like one... | 2020-01-28T14:20:02 | 2020-01-28T14:10:31 | 29 | 14 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | I wiped a tear from my eye as she walked down the aisle. My beautiful baby girl, all grown up!! I watched her step up next to the man she loved. He took her hand and they turned towards the adoring crowd.
He gave his speech. Everything my little girl had done! It seemed like a fairytale, coming out of his mouth. I wat... | Zachariah Jefferson was your average 12-year-old boy. He played soccer, basketball, and tennis though he was never really that good at it, but it was inspiring to see him try so hard.
When Zachariah turned 14, he gave up on sports and started to play the piano. He actually became quite the little pianist if I may say... | 2017-05-31T07:11:19 | 2017-05-31T01:07:06 | 1,143 | 573 |
[WP] The year is 2040, and you are the last smoker alive. The "Quit Smoking" ads get personal. | I don't know why they care so much. It's not like I'm hurting anyone besides myself.
I rarely smoke in public these days, and when I do it just doesn't feel right. I don't even smoke when reading the newspaper anymore because I can't handle seeing myself on page 7 everyday.
Oh what's John up to today? There he is ha... | George Barnes got out of his truck and headed back to his plantation. Family reunions were never easy, and this one had been the smallest number he'd ever seen. People were afraid. His family, his whole people, his way of life; gone.
George walked up the path to his small crop. The plants were already getting huge: br... | 2017-02-17T13:15:29 | 2017-02-17T12:05:48 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] A "popular" girl falls in love with a "nerdy" boy, however he hates her and she spends all her time trying to impress him
EDIT: THANK YOU ALL FOR TAKING YOUR TIME TO WRITE SHORT STORIES BASED OFF MY PROMPT!! I HAVE YET TO READ ALL YOUR STORIES THOUGH, AS I'M BUSY WITH SCHOOL AND OTHER STUFF :D
I'm sorry if I hav... | Not even a fictional piece, there are two people at my school exactly like this. I'll change names and make it dialoguey.
--
Cassie sighed a deep sigh as she walked into Theatre II, first period. She looked over at CJ casually playing on his years-old 3DS. The sounds indicated he was playing at iteration of smash.
... | Jonathan ran, his arms outstretched behind him, like the wings of a mighty bird of prey. He flew through the classroom leaping past desks and his classmates alike. He stopped at Billy's desk and karate chopped the papers and books onto the floor. Jonathan squealed in glee as he fled the scene at breakneck speed.
It... | 2016-05-29T11:05:26 | 2016-05-29T10:33:11 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] As a dragon of innumerable age you have guarded your gold horde for millennium. Many heroes have come with long speeches on how they will slay you, the great evil,none finish. However this one is odd.He throws a coin on your stash, looks you in the eyes and says "I have a proposition for you." | The hero walked in, and the small hole I made in the ceiling cast a shaft of light onto him, gleaming off his crown. Of course, this was to give heroes a false sense of confidence, but it didn't faze him.
He walked up to me and tossed a gold coin into my pile.
"You have my attention", I told him.
"Hi, I'm a Nigerian... | Sleep. Darkness. It was bountiful. It was warm and welcoming.
It was disturbed.
Heavy. Tired. One of my eyes lazily opened. My pupil expanded and contracted, adapting to the light within my castle. Within my treasury. I was surrounded, smothered, in mountains of gold. The peaks and valleys were so large and vast tha... | 2015-10-14T04:03:21 | 2015-10-14T03:54:02 | 32 | 13 |
[WP] You’ve been kidnapped by the SCP foundation. Why? You have the ability to ‘Mr. Magoo’ yourself out of anything. Sniper about to assassinate you? You bend down to pick up a penny just in time, SCP-049 about to touch you? A Sudden cannonball knocks them away. All with you being none the wiser. | **Item #:** SCP-777
**Object Class:** Euclid
**Special Containment Procedures:** No special safety procedures are required for the containment of SCP-777. SCP-777 is free to move about Site-19 so long as it does not attempt to engage with other SCPs, enter restricted areas, leave the premises or cause obstruction to ... |
Dear diary, I've had an interesting day to say the least. I was sitting at home when some very fancy looking men in suits arrived to inform me I'd won an all expenses paid trip to their luxury spa and hotel on behalf of the SCP foundation! Never heard of it, but it must be pretty big to send these fancy looking men to... | 2022-05-20T21:30:10 | 2020-08-18T08:59:30 | 4,017 | 86 |
[WP] When you became a vampire you assumed that you would have to watch out for vampire hunters but the truth is something much, much worse preys upon the undead. | He awoke, the puncture wounds on his neck still dripping in blood. He did not know why he was spared, nor targeted - all he knew was that something had irrevocably changed.
He did his best to abstain, though the hunger soon compelled him to seek out blood. Initially, he decided that he would just feed on those that d... | Ahh, I can recall like it was just yesterday. Just yesterday that I was finishing grad school and marrying the love of my life. It’s been thousands of years though now and I’ll never have that same happiness again.
It was all so sudden that It honestly took me a while to notice the changes. I noticed my skin slowly t... | 2021-10-28T20:38:53 | 2021-10-28T20:04:53 | 130 | 16 |
[WP] Write a suicide note in a Dr. Suess like fashion. | I will not do it on a train
I will not do it on a plane
I will not do it in a house
I will not use a single mouse
I will not dangle from a cord
I will not shift a single board
I will not puddle on the floor
I will not seal a single door
I will not leave a single note
I will not hint in things I wrote
I will n... | The time has come to say farewell,
I doubt I'll do it very well.
The skills involved I lack you see
They, like my life, were not to be.
I'll miss the sky, the purple tree, my last blue pie, my last high tea
I will not cry, I will not try, I will not swim, I will not fly
I never could, I never should,
death comes so... | 2015-01-17T11:47:28 | 2015-01-17T09:07:52 | 42 | 29 |
[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... | "Welcome to the Super Powers Depot, what can i do for you?" The clerk never looked up from their smart device. They couldn't be any more disinterested in the task at hand yet were still complying with the bare essentials of the minimum wage day laborer.
"My name's John. I was chosen to come pick out a free super powe... | 2022-11-17T09:26:30 | 2022-11-17T07:26:44 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | When the Jal-tharians had begun destroyimg human settlements and capturing planets, the Terran Federation asked for peace, hoping to resolve whatever had caused such violent acts against them.
When the Jal-tharians laughed and mocked, and destroyed the vessel sent with offerings of peace, the Terran Federation demande... | - So, commander. I want you to surrender the planet, and no harm shall come to you - said general looking into the eyes of an alien commander sitting before him. The alien smirked and said:
- surrender? To you? Peacekeepers and weaklings. I will NEVER surrender to you.
General smiled and said:
- peacekeepers? So th... | 2021-12-17T16:22:34 | 2021-12-17T14:28:48 | 54 | 38 |
[FF] What's on the tape?
(Inspired by seeing the trailer for the movie V/H/S)
Your character(s) find a VHS tape. What is on it? Where did they find it?
WORD COUNT MAX: 200 WORDS. (As always - http://www.wordcounttool.com if you need a counter.) | Veronica stretched out lazily on her grandmother’s couch. Upstairs, the rest of the family were happily chatting away. Veronica sighed. She hated the insincerity of family events. Her parents called her discontent a ‘teenage phase’, but she hated how her family could only express their feelings in food. Her parents had... | Jake walked into the moonlit study, eyes blurred from the subtle transition into awakening. Stumbling through the scattered books on the ground, his knee was caught by the low coffee tables bite. He fell to the floor, bringing the collection of papers around him down as well. His eyes caught a black box under his co... | 2012-08-08T09:08:56 | 2012-08-08T08:06:24 | 63 | 12 |
[WP] Scientists invented a pill that enables dogs to fully speak and understand English. It lasts for ten minutes, and will only work one time. You give a pill to your 12 year-old Border Collie, whom you've had since they were a pup. Your dog immediately says "Alright, listen very carefully..." | "You have a *bad*. I smell it in you. The bad is bigger." the electonic voice chirped from a nearby speaker. Zoe looked at Valerie from the table
Valerie blinked, and turned to the vet tech, looking for help. "The pill allows Zoe to speak English, but this doesn't fully explain all concepts to her.", she remarked. s... | I knew I really couldn't afford the Intelect pill AND pay my rent that month, but the commercials made it seem so special and interesting. People hugging their pets, giggling at their smart wit, deepening that bond between them... It sounded to good to be true. Sadly, one pill was $500, so not everyone got to try. I ha... | 2017-02-23T06:40:22 | 2017-02-23T06:22:01 | 75 | 22 |
[WP] Your son asked you "dad are clouds candy?" You told him they were water. Then he asked "dad, what are Earth's defense systems. Then you remembered you don't have a son, and then he asked again, his eyes now obsidian black. "what is the defense system father." | Trying to remember something... Just out of reach. It is always hovering right there, but before you can reach out and grab it there is something there to int-
"Dad, are clouds made of candy?"
"What? Of course not, lad. They should have taught you about the water cycle by now... What are they even teaching you in sch... | "Www...Wait I don't even." I managed to mumble in confusion. This little creature was watching me with its strange alien eyes. It's weirdly formed hand pressed against the glass, the fingers almost octopus like sucking to the flat cold surface. One, two ... only three of them. It's eyes examining me meticulously.
"You... | 2018-05-14T01:26:59 | 2018-05-14T01:23:17 | 27 | 15 |
[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. | Elizabeth
I never really knew you, but I'll never forget you. I see your face every time I'm alone in my car, and it always brings me to tears. I want you to know that I tried so hard to save you. I tried everything I could. I'm sorry your parents had to see what we did to you. I'm sorry they had to see the tubes stic... | We cannot sea each other, and perhaps that is for the best.
What we had was a kind of love, a kind of lust, intertwined with hatred.
When I hate, you love. When I miss, you go far. Our connection seems to be a hurting ever interesting scar.
I sometimes see you in the city center, and already the old wounds begin to... | 2017-11-06T02:41:21 | 2017-11-06T02:39:07 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] By Wizard Law, in order to learn a new skill, wizards are required to be apprenticed to a more experienced master. You, a barely trained journeyman fire mage, just took on an apprentice: a two-hundred-year-old Grandmaster Water Magic Lord. | Sam stared through the glass door at his new student, Lola Yismane. His new, 350-years-old, grandmaster of water magic, greatest healer in the known world, student, Lola Yismane.
Oh, he so couldn't do this.
But he had to--the position was literally forced upon him by the grand council, as he was the only non-apprenti... | Voulrin, the Lord of Water. Even though I was far out of my element, that name still swirled around my mind’s eye as one of the world’s foremost mages.
In person, the sense of awe did not evaporate. Deep lines carved out weathered trenches in his face, though clear blue eyes stared at me with the intensity of a starve... | 2022-05-30T16:12:40 | 2022-05-30T11:33:51 | 31 | 22 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | “Nobody’s spoken that language in thousands of years.”
I was confused, because this power usually made communication easier, but this girl looks like she’s starting to get really annoyed.
The immigrant cashier from a small village in Italy was really starting to get annoyed with me as I tried to order my lunch.
“D... | The cashier gave me the same look they all have given me. His eyes were welling with tears as he tried to catch his breath. He knew who I was.
"I'm so very sorry," I whispered softly as to not alarm anyone else. "I can make it very quick and dignified and you will feel no pain."
I handed the cashier my debit card to ... | 2022-11-14T01:20:39 | 2018-06-24T21:29:26 | 45 | 22 |
[WP] The English Teacher's worst nightmare: a story or poem that is completely literal, with absolutely no double meanings
EDIT: Holy cow, this got way bigger than I thought it would, thanks so much for an awesome first prompt ever!
EDIT 2: Did this actually make it to the front page of reddit? What the... | An Ode to Sunshine
Sunshine, sunshine,
You make me warm,
Sunshine, sunshine,
You let me see,
Sunshine, sunshine,
Life on Earth which is not supported by the heat of geothermal activity is entirely dependant upon you because you drive the process of photosynthesis which allows plants to grow and all food chai... | This is a poem.
It has ___ lines.
That space is left blank because the poem is unfinished.
When you are done reading, you may fill it in.
Please print legibly.
Printing legibly does not have an artistic meaning.
It's just nice to have good penmanship.
Some poems do not rhyme.
This is an example of a poem that d... | 2017-01-30T12:19:57 | 2017-01-30T10:54:30 | 28 | 15 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | The old woman pricked her finger upon accidentally touching the tip of the needle and her blood appeared to be a gelatinous obsidian black substance, the old lady was clearly distressed and confused about how she could be so "impure" but little did she know, she never thanked the Bus Driver. | The dull pain in my finger snapped me back to reality. I promptly wiped my finger and looked to see if anyone had noticed. Thankfully, the other volunteers were too busy to notice. I invented a quick excuse and left to go home.
I have no memory of the walk back home as my mind was consumed with itself and the flurry o... | 2018-08-04T09:48:46 | 2018-08-04T09:13:15 | 395 | 244 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | "Your army is marching upon grenoble. You face a royalist regiment of two thousand men blocking your path. What do you do?"
"I bear open my breast...", Napoleon started
"Jesus Christ, dude", the DM said
"...and proclaim, 'If any man here wishes to shoot his emperor, I am here'".
The DM sighed and rolled some dice... | Major Meridith: we attack the Emus.
Dm: Alright, that will be your Lewis guns, thats going to be your Dex Mods, Plus your proficiency modifiers. Roll to hit.
Major Meridith: ... 1, plus my mods thats a total of 7.
Dm: the emus dodge your gun fire, they taunt you. They run south beyond your sight.
Major Meridith: we... | 2018-05-29T09:37:40 | 2018-05-29T09:12:26 | 303 | 51 |
[WP]Tell me an emotional story about a man, using only what he would type into Google search | 6:00pm: dark souls good items
6:03pm: dark souls leo ring
6:05pm: dark souls how to find Ornstein and Smough
6:51pm: dark souls how to beat Ornstein and Smough
8:13pm: dark souls Ornstein and Smough tactics
12:42am: dark souls Ornstein and Smough tactics phase 2
01:12am: dark souls Ornstein and Smough how to beat
02:01... | Best private school LA
LA public school system
Jobhunter LA
Budget kids clothes
How to fix a leaky faucet
Modern student backpacks
How to qualify for an education loan
Return Klip-pack 9000
Amazon Ninja Turtles rolling backpack
Rain jacket size small
What to do if your apartment floods
Budget plum... | 2015-02-04T19:18:12 | 2015-02-04T17:13:32 | 128 | 23 |
[WP] “How many people would have been better off had I not been born?” The genie snaps and a few numbers appear in the air and form 7,592. “Okay, how many people would benefit from my existence?” With the flip of a wrist the numbers spin to a whopping 137 trillion. “Okay.... how?” | We spoke for hours. I complained that he was being vague with his responses, he claimed I couldnt know too much.
I still dont know what he meant, or how one person could possibly have such an impact. Me, a semi employed, struggling writer and artist, positively impacting trillions. Not possible.
During the conversa... | The genie smile's "You develop the first space-time gate in 2 years allowing humanity to instantly spread throughout the universe. "
I fill up with pride " I always knew I was special and a deal is a deal with my third wish I set you free"
The lamp crumbles and the genie shakes his arms as the shackles fall off.as he... | 2018-08-15T05:06:03 | 2018-08-15T04:08:10 | 374 | 15 |
[WP] "And how many claws does Stewie have?" you ask your daughter as you consult the list your mother gave you. You need to figure out if your daughter's invisible friend is a monster, demon, or fairy and if you have to kill it to save her. | “And how many claws does Stewie have?” I flipped through *the book*, wondering what horrors were trying to befriend Emmy now. For a 8 year old girl, she has a talent for attracting some doozies. Though my mother warned me before bequeathing *the book*, I was not expecting so many demon lords and fae queens to be so int... | Holly was confined to one room for now, which meant that there was only one room’s worth of space for her to bound about like a bunny with nuclear plants for lungs.
“Holly,” Clarissa said sternly. This was after trying calmly, politely, and exasperatedly. A different approach was sorely needed.
At a dime, Holly scree... | 2022-06-01T13:57:31 | 2022-06-01T09:41:00 | 69 | 26 |
[WP] You are legally allowed to commit murder once, but you must fill out the proper paperwork and your proposed victim will be notified of your intentions | It's a small act of defiance. I don't think it will change the law. But maybe, I can save a few lives. Maybe I can scare a few people out of line. My hand shakes as I write.
_____
**Form 10-95**
**Sanctioned Murder Registration**
Murderer: */u/thefonztm*
Victim: *The next registrant* | I liked these guys. None of them were as smart as I am but we got along, the house had a lot of space and they didn't infringe on my reality any. I went to class, I came home, I ate and I paid my bills. They did the same. I was going to be a doctor and all my bros respected that. I was grateful. It was better than livi... | 2014-03-17T10:18:55 | 2014-03-17T09:56:08 | 37 | 14 |
[WP]When you reach 18, you get put in a database which ranks you in different categories (ex. 207,145th in the world for most bug kills) You lived on a ranch and never used tech. You had to go into town after your 18th birthday. Everyone is staring at you. You finally decide to check the database.
Completely unaware o... | The men in the room stared at me. I stared back. We stayed like this for a while, hours maybe, without a word. Occasionally, someone would cough or sneeze, one of the agents even burped, but those moments were few and far between. At this point, it almost seemed like a competition on who would crack first and break the... | I arrived in town around 8 as usual. Ideally my father would come to town to pick up supplies so I wouldn’t have to, but he insists I learn how to interact with folks who aren’t farmers. So far, all I’ve learned is that I hate them. All their focus on money and possessions seems absurd to me. I’m a simple man. Animals ... | 2019-05-04T12:44:12 | 2019-05-04T09:56:06 | 1,055 | 226 |
[WP] You meet God before reincarnation and you discover that there is a prestige system going on. In your previous incarnations you chose to improve weirdly specific stats. | God pursed his lips and adjusted his spectacles. The scroll he read from was browned and cracking, clearly ancient beyond all reason.
“It seems that with each incarnation,” God said, “You’ve chosen to add one point to, ahem, *toe durability*.”
Mary felt her cheeks heat, there were literally millions of people listeni... | "Well that explains the dick."
"IT DOES EXPLAIN THE DICK," the booming voice said from everywhere and nowhere at once.
"What about my lack of smell, did I not put points into that? I mean, I can smell stuff if I get really close to it, but you know I missed a lot of good smells on this last go."
"ACTUALLY, YOU STOCKED... | 2019-01-24T12:24:39 | 2019-01-24T11:33:09 | 61 | 37 |
[WP] After years of static noise and boring afternoons a SETI researcher finally gets a hit. From somewhere out in deep space a signal is being sent that is consistent and repeating with one simple message "Do Not Leave Earth". | "Computer, translate again please"
"Do Not Leave Earth"
This wasn't a wow signal, the sender had sent this in binary.... they wanted us to read this and left no room for errors.
We contacted what allies we had left, it had been sent in their languages too, possibly best to assume every other nation received it also.... | For decades I’ve listened to the stars. For decades, they’ve said nothing back. Just static, ever since 1977 when Jerry Ehman caught the ‘Wow’ signal: “6EQUJ5”. I wasn’t born at the time, but it was still the only anomaly we had captured here at SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, even with the largest ... | 2018-06-02T16:13:21 | 2018-06-02T13:02:21 | 36 | 13 |
[WP] You are the Evil Overlord. You have kidnapped the princess. Unfortunately, she developed Stockholm Syndrome. And she is far more evil and insane than you are. | How the devil was I supposed to get rid of her? This nightmare I had unwittingly assumed responsibility for? She might be the death of me. Already, she'd torn down several priceless antique tapestries to redecorate, defiled my inner sanctum with flowers painted on the stone wall, and had the place guards roast my priso... | I need to give her back. She is vengeful, vindictive, vile, and absolutely marvelous, but this is not sustainable. She’s already on her way to controlling the tri-state area, and I didn’t even manage that over the last few years.
“Hey Stacy, we need to talk,” I try to ease her into it. “I’ve been giving it a lot of t... | 2018-02-09T05:27:35 | 2018-02-09T04:45:21 | 63 | 16 |
[WP] You're the owner of a cafe frequently visited by vigilantes and anti-heroes who absolutely adore your sweetness and acceptance of who they are. One day, though, a particularly rude customer comes in and trashes the place. Your friends aren't too happy to hear about that. | My cafe is my pride and joy.
I opened my cafe after graduating college. I had always had an eye for baking and serving people food I made. It always made my face go red whenever people would compliment my food.
I started serving my regulars one day a few months after my cafe opened up. A group of tough looking peop... | "You the last one left, Foxtrot?" I hear just after the door dings open. Gruff voice, but femenine all the same. Gotta be June, she's the only one who comes this close to closing time.
As I push my way out of the back, smile wide and apron twirling merrily, I see none other than June "Crow" Ubiquity standing by the fr... | 2018-10-20T22:37:12 | 2018-10-20T22:22:49 | 27 | 13 |
[WP] Your teleported to 44BCE Rome in your everyday street clothes. You're brought before Caesar and he believes you're from the future, hoping to bring him fortune. One day he questions you, asking "How do I die?"
Weewwww never knew my prompt would gain so much attention, thanks guys for all the interesting stories a... | "My Latin no good much," I mumble, stalling for time.
Caesar's already implacable face hardens further. "Your Latin *good much* enough. Answer." The command is absolute, carrying death behind it.
The stab of fear rebounds within me, and a surge of anger answers. "Would you know things whose knowledge makes them... | *“Tell me, how do I die?”* Caesar asks me in a language that seems familiar, but unavoidably foreign. Being an ignorant American, I naturally have no idea what the hell he is saying because I exclusively speak in poorly-worded English.
By some immeasurable stroke of luck however, my phone is still operational, as is m... | 2018-02-15T21:12:07 | 2018-02-15T20:47:22 | 109 | 33 |
[WP] Never, in 10 millennia, has someone successfully broken out of the Gates of Hell or into the Gates of Heaven. Of course, the Lockpicking Lawyer just died and he's up for a challenge.
Inspired by the [comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/rpghorrorstories/comments/m6smji/does_this_count_dm_is_proposing_35_ranks_of/gr8... | This is lock picking lawyer and what I have for you today is a very special lock indeed. Yes, this is the lock to the gates of Heaven, and it was temporarily entrusted to me by Peter from Circle 3.
As you can see it is a very fine example of a circular padlock made not too dissimilarly from units made by Master. It h... | Nothing had ever stopped him before, and this gate was not going to stop him. Arms folded across his chest; the lockpicking-lawyer formed a wry smile on his face. He had only applied for law school because he made a bet with his brother – And he was sure law school was worse than Hell itself – which is why he was confu... | 2021-03-17T11:40:07 | 2021-03-17T10:47:02 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | I wiped a tear from my eye as she walked down the aisle. My beautiful baby girl, all grown up!! I watched her step up next to the man she loved. He took her hand and they turned towards the adoring crowd.
He gave his speech. Everything my little girl had done! It seemed like a fairytale, coming out of his mouth. I wat... | You ever get lost in thought? So much so that you lose all track of time? Well I do, thinking about my life and what I regret. Wondering if that girl at the coffee shop likes me or am I delusional. The bills that are due and what I would like for dinner.
I get so wrapped up in it I can forget to even move. Like I'm s... | 2017-05-31T07:11:19 | 2017-05-31T02:05:57 | 1,143 | 646 |
[WP] You have spent the last few years learning and mastering morse code. You leave a small cafe at night and walk your way home. As you walk, it starts to rain. While the heavy rain starts to hit the ground, it sounds familiar to you. You realise the rain is telling you to run. | Drip drop drip.
I turned my collar up against the rain. Dammit, I should have taken an umbrella. If only I could remember where I’d left it. The street was dimly lit, and unfamiliar. My clothes were thin and clung to my skin.
Drip drip drop.
For some reason I began to notice rhythm of the rain. It didn’t feel…ri... | You have spent the last few years learning and mastering morse code. You leave a small cafe at night and walk your way home. As you walk, it starts to rain. While the heavy rain starts to hit the ground, it sounds familiar to you. You realise the rain is telling you to run.
You feel a sense of dread wash over you, a c... | 2021-10-20T08:13:31 | 2021-10-20T07:34:12 | 82 | 19 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | First word PHYSIO was fairly easy to see. Perhaps a Greek name he wondered as the word THE appeared below it.
"Oh wow" he thought, its going to be a superhero like 'Conan the destroyer'.
"Please be magician.... please be Physio the magician" he said under his breath, as the last word appeared. 'RAPIST'.
"Rapist..... r... | The Life Brand is thought to be a flawless and efficient system by most of the world's population. Few oppose the mandatory injection of nanites that will one day create your Life Brand because they view the world as fair, now.
I get it, I really do. The Border Wars of the 21st century were bitter and terrifying for e... | 2017-03-16T03:20:58 | 2017-03-15T22:51:56 | 427 | 37 |
[WP] 1,000 years after the battle of Helm's Deep, the orcs have tracked down the elves in the undying lands. Calling in a favour with their allies the men, the elves expect an army of 10,000. Instead they get 8 marines with MASERs, rail guns and anti-matter grenade launchers. | The elven rangers surveyed the orc camp that had been growing on the flat plains by the sea. The orc had come, and so far rebuked the elves’ attempts at driving them back into the sea. They tainted, cut and burned more land each day. The elves could feel their home dying as corruption feasted upon it. They turned their... | The elves were unsure of how to proceed. Though they were valiant warriors, they could not hope to overcome the sheer number of orcs that were marching towards them across the barren field. With each step, their fear grew ever greater. Yet, they couldn't retreat. They were in Valinor. They had no where further to go. E... | 2018-12-03T07:01:59 | 2018-12-03T06:43:36 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] As a henchman to the Joker, you've now broken the record for the longest surviving employee. This means you'll receive something no one ever has from him: your annual review. | The Joker sat in the director's chair. The office was a mess. Papers strewn all over the floor from the scuffle. Bloody footprints and generally a lot of blood. The room smelled like blood. Also due to the scuffle. Or maybe because of the director's dead limp body sprawled on the floor beside his own chair. Which the ... | Well. It's time.
I walked into his office. It was dark, the only light in the room was a spotlight on a chair in the middle. "Sit down." He said. I walked to the center and sat in the chair, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
I made it. A full year surviving under The Joker himself.
The room filled with light, and... | 2016-11-20T22:37:11 | 2016-11-20T21:59:16 | 3,095 | 72 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | It's always the high-numbered ones that think they have a shot. Some up and coming punk that thinks that this is their once in a lifetime chance to take down #1... as if they can just skip all of the other ranks and become a superstar. They never really consider how I GOT to be number one. I've fought fire powers, ice ... | It was actually quite a simple one. Any one of these people could defeat me. They just didn’t know it.
Erik had been after my title for years. Had it not been time manipulation, his massive ego could have been a power in itself. Time manipulation was truly unique in the sense that he was Kronos incarnate. Speeding up ... | 2014-12-18T18:29:42 | 2014-12-18T14:46:11 | 37 | 15 |
[WP] You picked up a dozen eggs at the farmer's market but when it came time to cook breakfast in the morning you find your fridge contained zero eggs and a dozen tiny dragons. | " I'm now the mother of dragons ??!!"
"Stop it Anneliese, how they get there??"
"Well, you bought it, when I asked for special eggs, I just wanted the organic ones, from who exactly you bought this eggs from???"
"The nice lady with the purple hair"
"Zoey, honey, you can't get eggs with the local witch, you su... | I went to the groceries that day, as I stood by the supermarket counter, I saw a bunch of rainbow coloured eggs, so naturally I bought them. The next day I heard munching sounds behind the fridge and some loud belches, so I quickly opened my fridge door!
There in front of me were a whorl of different coloured serpenti... | 2022-02-08T06:35:46 | 2022-02-08T06:03:19 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] Due to a loophole in the system, people can escape hell and get to heaven after death. You go to hell and all you see is Satan, just sitting there playing the harmonica. Everyone left him and now he's all alone. | I sit for a while and listen to the Devil play the exquisite, golden instrument. He has not even seen me; his eyes are closed and it seems as if he is in a trance. In his great hands the harmonica looks like a miniature, but he plays it so fast and loud, that somehow, the music it produces is more full than any orchest... | I never thought meeting Satan would be so sad. He sat on his thrones of charred bones all alone, with his tail lashing behind him and his horns protruding into the black and red sky. The shrill noise of the harmonica he was playing beat against my ears over the rumble of distant thunder and the crackling of Hellfire.
... | 2017-02-01T09:06:38 | 2017-02-01T08:46:08 | 3,165 | 168 |
[WP] You live in a world where everyone gets a dollar for every truth they say. Poverty is virtually eradicated.Today you meet a man without a dollar to his name | This man has rags for clothes, his hair is messy, and he smells. As I approach him I can only think of why this man is where he is. When I near him I greet him. "Hello my good sir, you look a bit down, would you like me to get you something to eat?"
The man nods and I start taking him to the local bakery. I end up g... | In the past twenty years, the world has changed in some ways more than others. While fraud related crime has fallen, hyperinflation has taken control. The US dollar, while once one of the two (USD and EUR) defacto world trade currencies, had been heavily downgraded.
Even with inflation though... even with the constan... | 2018-07-17T07:00:51 | 2018-07-17T04:32:58 | 113 | 12 |
[WP]: Suddenly, everyone with tattoos gains powers related to the tattoo. Tattoos of flames, you control fire. A tattoo of a gecko, you can climb on walls. All dudes with "tribal" tattoos have strangely bonded together. | The news called it the Great Awakening.
Regular folks called it chaos.
I called it confusing.
A month ago, everyone who had tattoos on their bodies began manifesting abilities that correlated with whatever was linked onto their bodies.
People with religious tattoos began manifesting healing abilities, the power... | Crime rates exploded when the ink activated in our bodies. Those who didn’t have tattoos before tried getting one so they could have a power of their own, but it didn’t work; so they took to belittling us, making us all out to be criminals. And what did I do? I did what any sane person would do, I hid. But even years a... | 2019-05-07T08:36:51 | 2019-05-07T07:52:07 | 128 | 43 |
[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. | I miss you big guy.
I miss the your terrible jokes and the attempts at accents that wound up sounding exactly the same no matter the country of origin.
I miss the quiet but fierce love of your family you had.
Most of all I miss the real dad, not the husk you became in the years leading up to your death.
I miss my be... | Dear Pop Pop,
I miss you. It's been about 11 or 12 years since you died. I was really young at the time, so all I remember is the last few months you were alive, watching the cancer slowly eat away at your body. With each visit you got more and more frail. I didn't recognize it at the time but looking back, seeing wha... | 2017-11-05T22:27:41 | 2017-11-05T20:37:15 | 102 | 16 |
[WP] You've been living alone for 13 years. Whenever you come home from work, you always find your bed made, dinner cooked and a message with "This could have been us." You moved out several times. This keeps going on. | There it is again, that pang of guilt as I push the door open to my tiny apartment, the smell of a nice home cooked meal hits my nostrils but my stomach churns as I step inside kicking the door closed behind me. Standing in the entry way I know the apartment is empty as I take off my coat and set my things down from th... | Another day, another note. It's the same words that seem all too familiar by now. Even the piece of paper that was written on is torn the same way everyday. The hand writing, however, is different every now and then. The first time it happened was 13 years ago, but by now it has become a routine. I actually liked it th... | 2017-12-09T04:16:45 | 2017-12-09T02:59:21 | 5,650 | 660 |
[WP] Google begins matching up people based on their search history in their new Google Dating program.
Edit: Wow, this got to the front page fast. | "Jesus."
After two years, there were still so many misconceptions about Google Dating---its origins, how it functioned. But that single phrase was how engineers remembered Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO, responding to an initial demonstration.
Social media success had been a goal for so long. The company had failed with... | GOOGLE HAS PAIRED YOU WITH LADYBONE69!
SEND HER A MESSAGE!!!
MOTORBOATER69: Sup?
LADYBONE69: Nothing just looking at some he/she porn sites.
MOTORBOATER69: Nice. Me too.
LADYBONE69: Man, isn't this great? The new Google algorithm makes it so easy. I can just come out and say that. My kinks are paired up wi... | 2017-05-25T13:39:39 | 2017-05-25T12:02:40 | 82 | 46 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | It was a natural fit, ending up as an obstetrician. There was a satisfaction in seeing the beginning of someone's life, and then knowing the end. That was, until about 10 years ago. It was infrequent at first. METEOR, the first one said. Now almost all of them do.
The telescope in my living room was bought once... | Nobody sees the world in the same way. Some people see it as an adventure, others as a game. Me? I've never had the liberty of enjoying it.
Imagine knowing how something would play out before it happened. Imagine the surprise of life being taken out. Imagine the joy of living being sucked away because all you can ever... | 2015-03-31T10:42:03 | 2015-03-31T09:32:55 | 30 | 12 |
[WP] What if Superman was raised by Batman? Bruce Wayne still goes about his career as Batman, he still has Nightwing, Red Hood, Red Robin and Damien. How different does Superman become? | "Master Bruce?" Alfred croaked from behind his arm chair.
"Alfred," he sighed, "please, sit."
"I've walked passed your doorway several times sir," he said gravely, "are you alright?"
Bruce Wayne sat hunched over in his seat, sitting in the light of a raging fireplace within his study in Wayne Manor. He sat gripping ... | “Stay,” he tells me, a dark outline wrapped in a red cape, backlit by the refrigerator light. “Please, Lois, stay.”
Another ice-cold droplet drips from the base of his Budweiser longneck and splashes on the floorboard. He already downed seven bottles during the past hour. Five he tossed in the trash can, two shattered... | 2022-01-21T14:26:03 | 2022-01-21T10:35:43 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] It's Christmas Eve 2038. The world has been destroyed due to nuclear war, but Santa, being immortal, has survived, and plans to deliver presents to the few remaining humans locked in their fallout shelters. | I heard, from down the hall, the bang-bang-bang as the bandits try to breach the panic room. They managed to get into the bunker. The outside door. Someone left it open. Don't know who. I'm the only one left. Locked in here. Alone.
My pistol, an old thing, only has 2 bullets left. One for myself, I suppose.
Dust f... | A tune only truly recognized by the oldest of us plays on the music-player in our living room. “Santa Claus is coming...” it sings to the 17 of us who are in the room. Some are drinking, others just talking, trying to hold on to the traditions of the old world. I just sit here on the couch, trying to enjoy myself. I ge... | 2017-12-22T15:31:03 | 2017-12-22T15:03:10 | 77 | 26 |
[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. | Everyone had a rating for how lucky they could be, from 1 to 100, 1 being close to no luck and 100 being the best luck. Most people had a rating of around 30ish. I was one of the few with a full score of 100.
Which would have been great, if bad luck wasn't a thing. The thing with the luck rating was that it was basica... | I was *born* with max luck, being told my whole life that I shouldn’t be, that I was *favored*. Nope, I was locked up and the key thrown away. I had spent my life, from age thirteen onwards here. My Luck was my weapon, but I wasn’t sure how. I *should have* been able to get out of here, press my own Luck to its max... | 2018-06-29T11:19:11 | 2018-06-29T10:57:06 | 72 | 12 |
[WP] you're in your bed about to go to sleep, with your arm dangling off the side. You feel a dark hand grasp yours, knowing first impressions are important you give it a firm shake. The next thing you hear from under your bed is "you're hired" | I collapsed into my bed, carelessly flopping onto my stomach and shooting my limbs across the mattress, letting my arm dangle off the bed. “Come at me, monsters”, I murmured into my pillow, feeling the lull of sleep pull my eyes closed.
Somewhere between the waking realm and fog of dreams I felt coming on, I felt a sl... | It was my first month living alone, I was raised in a big rich house, learned good manners and was very well educated, but I never knew it would change my life so much.
I was laying on my bed, very tired, but the sleep wasn't coming, so I just let my body hang on the bed, until i felt something on my right hand, a co... | 2019-08-30T06:39:42 | 2019-08-30T06:31:53 | 58 | 18 |
[WP] Write a dystopian vision of the future from the perspective of the year 1900, while actually describing our present world today. | Uncle, I am sorry to write so soon since our last correspondence, but I simply could not keep this to myself.
It was in the midst of a laudanum fugue when the visions came upon me again. I floated above huge, churning machines which chewed up crops beneath them, doing the work of one-hundred farm workers in a single... | Gather round kind folk and listen to this old man's dream.
Ahhh yes thank you, your coin will help this old one rest his bones for another week.
Ohh you have questions already about your line's future? I will tell you in due time what scraps I saw but let me tell what my recent dream showed me.
What I saw was not g... | 2015-12-19T09:59:49 | 2015-12-19T08:37:09 | 199 | 25 |
[WP] Gordon Ramsay mistakenly walks into your house to film an episode of Kitchen Nightmares, and refuses to believe that you aren't a failing restaurant owner | GORDON RAMSAY: DEAD AT 59
-BBC, 29 June 2016
NATIONAL TREASURE GORDON RAMSAY has been shot dead in a Florida home while filming an episode of Kitchen Nightmares, the American reality TV show.
The suspect, Michael Jensen, 56, allegedly shot the celebrity chef after Ramsay mistakenly entered his home.
"The deceased ... | It's tough holding a dinner party for your friends when you can barely cook. But trying to prepare food with Frankenstein's uglier Scottish cousin leaning over your shoulder is nigh on impossible. That's what I get for leaving a window open, I suppose.
As I take the chicken breasts out of the oven to inspect them, Gor... | 2016-06-29T03:00:02 | 2016-06-29T00:16:18 | 19 | 10 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | I remember asking my mom if her sigil vibrates on her skin. The look of confusion told me what I felt I already knew. My circle, though plain, feels alive.
There were no issues in elementary school, nor middle school. It was junior high that brought my happiness with my humming sigil to a screeching halt.
Victor bega... | Even before the rapture, that's what we've grown to call the day the sky lit up like a god had laid fire to a rainbow, i had trouble fitting in. I never enjoyed the "normal" things kids were supposed to: sports, video games, comic books. I was always staring out the window. Looking for shapes in the clouds or stars. Wi... | 2020-02-26T12:40:00 | 2020-02-26T09:02:03 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | I wake up to the sound of a familiar jingle coming from my phone. Groaning I turn over and turn it on. But then something grabs my interest, an official text, like the amber alerts you get sometimes, saying DO. NOT. LOOK.AT. THE. MOON. My screen then suddenly bursts up with hundreds of text messages saying the same thi... | The explosions had been rumbling off in the distance for hours as a young boy tried to drift off to sleep. The war might be raging, but the Allied Forces had deemed his village far enough away that an evacuation was only advised, not mandatory. With his mother the way that she was, the brunette knew that he would be sl... | 2022-06-27T10:58:59 | 2018-04-06T18:58:31 | 103 | 12 |
[WP] Canada invades something | First they took our snowmobiles, then the hockey... next was the national treasure Maple Syrup.
The last straw was the Timmies. The Timmies was the tipping point.
The armies of crunchy moms, safe space squares and Donnie don't-dos had their way with a once great nation and the masses have finally had enough. "Snowm... | "And so we uh declare there eh, that we're like not leaving this Denny's until those American bastards stop saying they're coming here if Trump wins"
"Sir please get down off the table"
"Sorry there but no, I'm not going to do that. I'm sorry but we have to do this. We have to hit the Americans where it hurts, restau... | 2016-10-08T07:56:19 | 2016-10-08T07:03:57 | 112 | 14 |
[WP] Ghost hunters use points system to determine how haunted a house is. 1 point for ghosts, 2 for fae spirits, and 3 for demons. A ghost hunter valued your house for 278 points and became the no. 1 haunted house around the world. Your house was only built 1 year ago. | "What do you mean?" I asked. "This is the most haunted house you've ever been to?"
"Look," said Peter. "I don't know how. I don't know why. All I did was count. And goddamn did I count the living hell out of myself. A word of advice for you, buddy."
He beckoned me in closer. I leaned towards him.
"Get out!" he shout... | "Right, so what you've got here is known in the industry as an ectoplasmic rift" A tall mustache in a short suit said to Lante.
"Sorry, a what?" Lante, who had been enjoying quite a pleasant dream involving a lazy river and a lazy susan before he had been rudely awoken by a series of frantic doorbell chimes at the ung... | 2020-05-13T04:38:28 | 2020-05-13T04:18:23 | 326 | 71 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear me:
That boy isn’t going to text back, it’s Saturday and he saw your message on Thursday. You always do this, you said you weren’t going to get attached, you barely have feelings for him. You don’t want anything but companionship from him, you say to yourself. But you know you want the whole thing: you want him to... | Dear [name redacted],
Hey, do you remember when you stopped talking to mecwithout giving me an explanation? How you walked away from that without any pain, but I was sent into a depressive spiral for months? Of course you don't. You can put those thoughts behind you. I can't put mine behind me. You're lucky, and I kin... | 2015-12-05T14:46:28 | 2015-12-05T13:04:29 | 158 | 36 |
[WP] You live in a world where every time you have a birthday, you get to level up a skill like in video games (intelligence, strength, charm etc.) most people spread their points evenly on each skill. But you put all 30 of your points into that one skill nobody cares about
You get to choose what that skill is. | As my thirtieth birthday came I happily put one more point into my only skill. Not that anyone would notice. See everyone always asks what skills did I put that allowed me in the end to build such an easy life for myself, and I just smile and tell them that it's my little secret. See in the list of skills and their der... | Nobody else believes in me, laughing at me and telling me I've wasted my life. They just don't understand. They look at me and think, 'There he goes, writing prompter. He'll never amount to anything.' But they just don't get it. I've devoted my life to inspiring others. It's not so simple a thing, to be the bedro... | 2018-09-12T09:54:07 | 2018-09-12T07:01:42 | 74 | 20 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | DM: "Alright Jesus, you've just been executed by the Romans, Roll a death save."
Jesus: \*rolls\* "Natural 20."
DM: "Alright you wake up with 1 hp, what do you do?"
Jesus: "Alright I'm gonna play possum"
DM: "Roll a deception check"
Jesus: \*rolls\* Ok that's another 20, plus my charisma modifier which is \+5 so 2... | "Alright I have the bomb and I'm ready to use it on the motorcade" Alen started his character Mehmedbasic ready to fulfill the job the party had been recruited for.
"Same here, let's do this," Larry said, excited that it was his character Vaso's time to shine.
"Alright both of you roll a stealth check and then an att... | 2018-05-29T09:31:25 | 2018-05-29T06:46:10 | 210 | 74 |
[WP] It is the year 2XXX. Medical science has advanced so far that complete body restoration is possible. However, patients revived from death consistently end up in a vegetative state and no one knows why. You are the first person to revive and retain their cognition. Now you know. | I can only REMEMBER.
Deep the twisting eddies shriek of lands of paradise lost and echoes yet to reverb.
"You're not making any sense," the doctor says with a sigh. I am another failure.
I remember the bottle. My savior, my harsh master. The years I spent gathering myself, pretending to be normal. Smiling at family,... | The cool logical void I was in where everything made sense was violently disrupted by warm fuzzy static. Nothing made sense anymore, every thought ^sliced ^^apart in^to p^ie ^^c ^es. One moment I was hurtling at high subluminal speeds towards Uranus -- the next -- I -- . The world returned to the cool logical void agai... | 2020-10-30T03:42:39 | 2020-10-30T02:29:54 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] The outgoing President of the United States has written a letter to the newly inaugurated President. Instead of friendly advice, that letter contains the horrible truth that the public doesn't know about. Write that letter.
What is that horrible secret? | Hello, Mr. President.
If you're anything like I was in the first few weeks of my presidency, you'll be getting into everything and looking for answers to all the wacky questions you can think of. I now know where Hoffa is buried, who killed Kennedy, who performed the sex change on Norma Jean Baker, what's going on at... | Hey Dogg,
It’s President Obama. Well, former-President Obama. What’s good? Don’t bother responding to that, this is an email and I won’t be able to hear what you said. I mean, you’re welcome to respond if you want, but it’s really not going to do much for you. Yeah, maybe it’ll make this whole “hey we’re cool dog” ema... | 2014-05-01T15:21:41 | 2014-05-01T13:44:04 | 89 | 38 |
[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 this got a little away from me and doesn't exactly follow the prompt but I already wrote it so I'm going to post it and you guys can read or not**
Rampage claws at his neck, the air, at nothing at all. Nothing to grab onto but still he claws desperately. His entire body convulses, legs kicking desperately against... | 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... | 2017-04-13T06:36:56 | 2017-04-13T05:10:16 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] They reworked the justice system. Now, in each cell there is a piano, and convicts are released after performing a song perfectly. Lesser criminals are assigned simple melodies, while the worst get full concertos. You've been a concert pianist your whole life. | "Harold, you've been charged with torturing and murdering a man in cold blood. How do you plead?"
Harold looked up at the judge, feeling a hundred eyes burning into him. It felt like his entire life was leading up to this moment.
"Guilty as hell, your honor."
The jury immediately reacted, murmuring to each other, b... | BREAKING NEWS, flashed in red and white across the TV screen. Ludwig took a pause in his work and turned up the volume.
*… as the serial killer known as “Mozart” has once again been released from maximum security and death row, after completing three full piano concerts. Here is Tracy Stevens with live footage.*
The... | 2017-05-17T23:27:06 | 2017-05-17T21:45:17 | 1,195 | 121 |
[WP] The Black Death wiped out all human life in the Old World. Describe the first Native American expedition to discover Europe centuries later.
*Edit;* for anyone interested in this prompt, a few cool people below pointed out that there's a book series known as [The Years of Rice and Salt](http://en.wikipedia.org/wi... | It was the smell.
Before anything else, before sight or sound of anything other than waves breaking on the shore, the smell was the first thing they sensed. Strong, overpowering, even over the salt water. Revolting waves of stench rolled even stronger than the atlantic swells, a stink that bore death and misery, decay... | "Hey. Would you look at that..."
"What?"
"On the horizon. It's... land! You know what that means, don't you? We are looking at..."
"The East Andes!"
"Great Scott!"
"This is heavy!"
"I told you! This thing just loops back around like a..."
"A klein bottle."
"Yeah."
"The prophecies were..."
"About completely di... | 2014-03-09T20:56:44 | 2014-03-09T20:54:12 | 150 | 75 |
[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. | Elizabeth
I never really knew you, but I'll never forget you. I see your face every time I'm alone in my car, and it always brings me to tears. I want you to know that I tried so hard to save you. I tried everything I could. I'm sorry your parents had to see what we did to you. I'm sorry they had to see the tubes stic... | I really miss the look on your face when I would pop up unannounced... You would walk into the room, eyes lit up and say "my Andy!" That always made my day. I loved feeling wanted, needed, loved. I'm starting to ache from the pain of no longer hearing your laugh. The way it would hit me full on in the chest and bounce ... | 2017-11-06T02:41:21 | 2017-11-06T00:06:31 | 27 | 13 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | I wiped a tear from my eye as she walked down the aisle. My beautiful baby girl, all grown up!! I watched her step up next to the man she loved. He took her hand and they turned towards the adoring crowd.
He gave his speech. Everything my little girl had done! It seemed like a fairytale, coming out of his mouth. I wat... | Alex takes her spot next to the man wearing 1000 year old bifocals, and then grabs the pen atop the booklet with her name on it. The cover page feels similar to cardstock; she can feel the indent of each letter from the back. As prompted before she walked in, Alex opens the booklet and prints her name on the solitary l... | 2017-05-31T07:11:19 | 2017-05-31T06:30:10 | 1,143 | 80 |
[WP] Fallen angel is a pretty popular trope in fiction. But I want to hear about Ascended Demons. Demons that were too good/ kind/ pious for the underworld and managed to break out. | My name is Barattiel, and I was once an angel in Heaven. What a lot of people didn't know is that many of us did not want to rebel. I mean, think about it. We were beautiful, powerful, and everyday was a literal orgasm of bliss. Why would we ever want to give that up?
Because of Lucifer.
He promised us that he could ... | Peter was startled when Beelzebub appeared atop the floor of clouds, uncertainly approaching the gate.
"Demon," he mumbled to himself, a little too loudly. An unusual sight, to be sure. An unwelcome one, too.
Beelzebub shrugged. "Not a very good one, apparently."
"Unprecedented," Peter murmured. "This is highly unu... | 2019-11-08T07:18:27 | 2019-11-08T06:27:24 | 283 | 108 |
[WP] You wake up in King Arthur's court with only the clothes on your back. Merlin hands you a box about the size of a pumpkin and tells you it will wish into existence any object from your age, once per day. Camelot will be attacked and destroyed one week from now. Help us, future-man. | OK, this is a quick jokey short.
"This box will give me one thing per day from my time, and Camelot will be attacked in one week?"
Merlin eyed me a little incredulously, "that is what I have just said, yes."
"OK then. For my first item..." I said, reaching into the box, "paperclips."
"Paperclips? Pray tell, what... | I write now to document. Bare with me. I was no scholar in my future life.
The army camped outside the city came with the Red Wizard. Merlin saw it coming. So is his power. His Blue Ball lets him see. That's why he brought me. Bastard.
When I arrived a week ago there was no warning. Just the feeling of wood against ... | 2016-11-28T05:24:59 | 2016-11-28T00:13:11 | 147 | 72 |
[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... | The song "Disasterpiece" by the Heavy Metal band Slipknot is an ode to the lead singer's passion for designing and making clothes. His name, after all, was Corey *Tailor* (he would also design elaborate masks for himself for performing music). Obviously the line "I wanna slit your throat and fuck the wound" is referrin... | 2015-08-16T10:07:53 | 2015-08-16T10:02:24 | 116 | 14 |
[WP] You're a biologist who made a deal with the devil: eternity in hell after death in return for unlimited funding for your research. The funding was worth it, you discovered immortality, and the devil is not happy about this. | It was late at night. I was hard at work in my lab when I heard his voice.
“So you found a loophole.”
I never even broke my gaze away from my work. I knew it was him and I knew what he wanted. “So I did. Lucky break, I guess.”
“Is that how you see it? Because I see it as stacking the deck.” He spun me around to face... | He sat up, panting quietly as he relaxed again. If he had properly seen what the microscope showed, he had finally cracked it. He removed the slide from the microscope, walking over to the pill fabricator.
"It acts as an antidote to poisoning..." he muttered to himself, smiling in triumph. "It's a cure for all know... | 2018-08-23T11:53:32 | 2018-08-23T11:20:34 | 5,923 | 174 |
[WP]Killing Hitler has become a sport amongst time travelers. Points are awarded for creativity and difficulty. You are last year's champion, how did you win? | The Hitler Games have been a huge hit when it became public in the 24th century. Sure, in the past people did it just for fun. Then came the betting of "Hey, betcha I can kill Hitler better than you." People put hundreds, then thousands of dollars to try and one-up each other on this simple task. The end result was the... | Everyone wants to kill Hitler but they can't quite do it right. The first time traveler decided to kill Hitler, right as the war was ending, via cyanide. Okay, sure, the suicide staging was pretty sweet, but the poor guys who had to live and die through it all probably wouldn't have appreciated it.
So later on, a few ... | 2016-02-20T10:56:09 | 2016-02-20T09:11:19 | 596 | 19 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | "Wait.. who?"
"Nigeria sir."
"Nigeria? The I'm a royal prince who needs your help Nigeria?"
The prime minister leaned back in his chair and stared at his aide.
"Yes sir."
"Well shit. How'd they do it?"
"Uh. They stole all of their funds."
The aide squirmed, he wasn't used to being the guy the PM interr... | A skinny man stands at a podium in front of hundreds of representatives from different countries. Brushing the long dreaded hair from his face revealing his bloodshot eyes.
"uhhhh Everyone, this is uhhhh Greg Brooks" says President Obama "it seems that he has stopped Daesh from their antics and quelled most of the ma... | 2016-01-29T10:29:48 | 2016-01-29T10:11:13 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a test has been created to eliminate 90% of the worlds population. You are the first to take this test. | I'd spent so long anticipating what this test would comprise of, and as I sat alone in the examination room, I was still none the wiser.
The booklet placed squarely on the small desk, I glance from the printed front sheet, to my surroundings, and back again.
I close my eyes and sigh, head dropping down, before I ope... | The world was gray, cold, and often dark.
Growing up in the labyrinthine alleyways and sewer complexes and housing towers that was Neo Angeles, life was harsh and often short. A particularly lucky girl, Yima, had lived to the age of 14 unmolested. Slight, with hair kept short and boyish clothes, she blended in for th... | 2016-06-11T10:11:10 | 2016-06-11T09:35:08 | 187 | 27 |
[WP] An alien super-intelligence routinely teleports a random creature from every inhabited planet's most dangerous species into a massive battle royale. Humans are known as a weak species with strange but useless textiles and objects. This year, a battle-ready soldier is chosen. | Humans. Normally a subject of derision, weak and infirm. But this thing was not really like those that had been taken before. Xallahieinxix looked at it in the cell it occupied ready for the Battle Royale.
It was taller than previous specimens and bulkier, clad in some kind of advanced armour. A dozen small drones buz... | I saw a flash of light, and an instant, my whole squad was gone.. I left iraq behind, for somewhere... Artificial... My environment has the look of a high resolution fortnite level.. it was definitely artificial. , Built with care. Bladed weapons were hovering above ground. Slowly rotating, ammo , med kits. Ever... | 2020-09-13T16:47:27 | 2020-09-13T16:14:49 | 3,862 | 81 |
[WP]The Hunger Games hits a large university, but people are on teams based on their majors. Describe how various majors try to survive. | God, this was sick, I thought to myself as I collapsed into an armchair in the lobby of the engineering building. The last five days had left me bloodied, dirty, and exhausted--but alive.
As it turns out, the most deadly tribe, so to speak, wasn't the business majors. What happens when you put a bunch of over-inflated... | Criminal Justice: Already knows all the ways to kill everyone. Improvises weapons and hides out. Lays false clues to incriminate others on deaths to incite in-fighting.
Chemistry: Makes poisons/uses various chemicals to incapacitate/kill.
Various Biologies (Entomology, Horticulture, Animal Science, etc.): Use known... | 2015-04-28T10:19:16 | 2015-04-28T09:15:04 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] The four horsemen: Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death are the harbingers of the apocalypse, serving forth chaos and destruction on all humanity. The Bible forgot to mention the fifth horseman: Kyle, whom the other four can't seem to ditch. | The White Horse
I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the five living creatures say in a voice like thunder, “Come and see!” I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest. ( Reve... | His pale horse brayed under him as his brothers approached. It was time for the quarterly report, Death always had a fondness for time and its principles. Perhaps that is why his brothers followed him and why even with all their different natures, his nature prevailed over all.
The first to arrive was the Knight in S... | 2017-09-22T04:55:02 | 2017-09-22T03:53:49 | 27 | 19 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | A man in a heavy trench coat with a thick beard approached the door. The number over his head, 1517. "Well, that's over 21" I thought. On his way through he tripped over the step and two dwarves toppled out of the coat. Their number were 15 and 17. "Nice try" I said, "no filthy dwarves in my good elvish bar." | >14:00
>Fourteen hours?
"Uh Ma'am you can't bring your baby in here"
"Fuck you cunt! You sound like one of them fucking doctors cunt! I need a fucking drink. I've had five kids and know my body better than them. It's just a bit a bleeding"
>I don't get paid enough for this shit
| 2017-09-01T22:32:16 | 2017-09-01T21:44:55 | 1,408 | 70 |
[WP] You were born with a birth mark the shape of a "9" on your wrist, one day you get in a fatal car accident. You wake up in a strange room and the first thing you notice is the 9 has changed to an 8 | Oh fuck, that *did* hurt like a bitch. Shouldn't have drank that last couple shots of vodka.
I sat up, gave myself a few moments to adjust back into consciousness, staring down at nothing in particular. My head just hurts too much for me to even lift it to a normal position.
My wrist also hurts. Did Larry fucking br... | "Making my way downtown. Driving fast. Driving faster~."
Ugh, dust and burnt steel(-No, aluminium?) clogging my nostrils and I still can't get that damn song out of my head. Also smells like hot tar. Wonder how close my head is to the street. I'd check, but I literally looking at the back side of my left leg (I know i... | 2016-08-03T20:23:35 | 2016-08-03T19:17:28 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] Karma is a real currency monitored by the government. It can only be earned through "good deeds" like volunteering and can only be spent on "bad deeds" in court to excuse a conviction. It can never be traded, bought, sold, invested, loaned, etc.
I don't want the prompt to be too constraining and I feel like it ma... | Take it easy on me, I'm not a strong writer and I'm mobile.
The government’s addition of karma farming has been around my whole life. However there is a restriction in place that if you are under 10 years old, your karma doesn’t count. Well the joke is on them. I turned 10 almost a year ago and I’ve been doing everyt... | Rodney Capitalism patted the old lady on her back.
"Have a great day, ma'am!" said Rodney, waving.
"You too, dear," said the old lady.
She hobbled down the sidewalk, her walker clanking loudly on the pavement.
Rodney pulled out his phone and opened KarmaTracker. 1,000,000 Karma. He put his phone in his pocket.... | 2017-03-15T16:58:35 | 2017-03-15T11:56:40 | 47 | 23 |
[WP] Two men play a game of chess. One can read minds; the other can see the future. | They walked up and took their seats.
They looked at the board.
They looked at each other.
They looked at the board.
Moments passed. Eventually the telepath looked to his opponent and said, "I have the worst fucking migraine right now."
"Me to," said the psychic. "Let's never hang out again."
"Agreed."
They left. | This was it. The big day.
The famous mind-reader well already renowned for performing on stage and gazing into the minds of the audience, seeing whether they really believed he could do it before he did it, and when he did it, everyone knew what he could do and he knew that they knew.
The fortune teller regarded all ... | 2017-01-19T17:36:57 | 2017-01-19T14:12:27 | 372 | 58 |
[WP] You are a superhero whose powers are based on the music you are listening to. Rock can make you stronger, classical makes you smarter, etc. One day, you're fighting your toughest villain yet, and you are forced to use your "forbidden" playlist. | I hide behind the wall, praying Starhands doesn't find me yet, and tremble as I fumble with my battered old mp3 player.
I don't want to but I have to use it. The forbidden playlist. The reason why I'm even on this team when my powers only last as long as the song plays.
Track 1. Running Down A Dream by Tom Petty And ... | The crime lord’s hand snapped up to meet my fist, which detonated in a brilliant green and white explosion on contact. At such close range, my visor’s blackout mode was only able to dull the blast from blinding to a painfully bright flash.
“Come now,” a calm, cool voice intoned. “Surely you didn’t expect such a simple... | 2022-05-17T12:33:11 | 2022-05-17T12:08:27 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Area 51 has four level emergencies for a breakout. Level 3: Armed forces intervention. 2: Public statement. United Nations joint resistance. 1: Worldwide evacuation effort. Use of nuclear weapons permitted. And 0: Call the number on the sticky note (and pray to God his demands aren't too high). | "Sir, we just received the call from the Joint Chiefs. We've been upgraded to level 0."
"...fuck. Go to my office and find the green sticky note on my desk. There's a phone number on it. Send that number a text that reads 'Priority zero'."
"A text message, sir?"
"The guy on the other end, he doesn't...he doesn't rea... | I can actually answer this, having worked at the facility myself. The prompt isn't far off from the truth, there is an actual number to call when shit hits the fan. In my time there it was only called once, when one of the air force's bombers went lost comms following a dual engine failure. Not sure if it was carrying ... | 2017-03-21T06:25:13 | 2017-03-21T05:37:43 | 40 | 12 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | *11:59 PM*
My family gathered around me, silently waiting. We were all eagerly anticipating the Choosing, a lame name for a cool time.
*12:00 PM*
My mother smiled at me. She grabbed my arm and looked as the word as it appeared.
"What is it?" a chorus of family members asked.
She frowned. I took my arm back and too... | I couldn't believe it. I would have never guessed it. I had so much potential. Everyone thought I would be a doctor, a lawyer, or maybe even an astronaut. I always dreamed of being someone famous. A musician, an athlete, a movie star. But according to some fucking ink, I'm neither. All my friends got good ones. Even Je... | 2017-03-16T02:03:50 | 2017-03-16T00:50:02 | 71 | 15 |
[WP] You work for a company that has developed the most real VR but no one has been able to endure it for more than a couple of minutes as it is exhausting for the brain to suspend disbelief. Except subject 9. He's been there 20 hours straight now and you must go check on him. | Virtual Reality was the future for the company. The headset used didn't matter to us only the worlds that were possible.
Things had started out well enough. An escape room that looked perfect, and with the right haptic setup felt okay. This was the problem with VR, no matter the visual quality of the environment the... | Space Force Lieutenant Daniel Taylor Jr straightened his tie irritably.
‘What’s so different about him compared to the others, why can’t anyone else do it?’ A hint of urgency in the lieutenant’s tone sent the scientists around the nerve-centre in to an immediate frenzy of tapping at their keyboards to find an avenue ... | 2020-05-18T04:36:44 | 2020-05-18T04:24:28 | 50 | 28 |
[WP] You just gave birth, your son has a colored hair like none before, the doctor declares that your son has been infected with a syndrome called the "Protagonist". Your lifespan has now been reduced to mere days. | “Is everything OK with my child?”
“Your child will be fine, pretty much by definition. Oh, he’ll have tremendous struggles and go through more life threatening situations than a group of Trump supporters drinking Clorox, but his particular condition will ensure he makes it through. Unfortunately, his condition also en... | *"When my son was born, I was the happiest father in the world. Someone who could be the best parts of me and my wonderful wife. But, something didn't feel right when they brought him back from his crib. I didn't think much of it when I saw his hair, neither did my sweet Angela. But then, the doctor came. She told us i... | 2020-04-28T06:45:50 | 2020-04-28T06:12:15 | 70 | 41 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | ----------------------------------------------
186,292 YEARS?
How could this be? I never even harmed a fly. Okay, well - maybe a few of those. You know what I mean.
**"....But why?**", I asked struck by pure horror and disbelief.
The hell warden looked right into my eyes and cracked a diabolic smile:
"Do you e... | I racked my brains, I was by no means a saint, but then, who is? I thought back to all the times I didn't intervene in other people's drama, because it was none of my business. Maybe I should have tried harder to help people in those situations? I couldn't help it that I didn't care that the husband of Rachel in accoun... | 2018-09-26T07:41:09 | 2018-09-26T06:12:40 | 1,768 | 153 |
[WP]: The most sought woman in the town has announced that she will marry whoever can open her door with the key around her cats neck. Many have tried to catch, trap and hunt down the cat, who always escapes. You are the first to figure out they've all been doing this all wrong. | Nobody expected me to try.
Everyone expected my friends, my far-off family, but not me. I was a woman, of course. I’ve always loved girls, and have crushed on her since high school.
I decided to get a small bad of cat food just in case it came around, and double checked in ally’s where I thought I saw something.
I c... | Humans have always been on the strange side, especially the Sukts. This Sukt however was a wealthy merchant, owning several ships, so we put up with her weirdness. Yep her, but we orcs are egalitarians when it comes to putting up with people due to money. However, she remained alone. One day as I walked through the str... | 2019-05-01T18:32:38 | 2019-05-01T17:15:21 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] Every child is given a pet rock when they turn ten. For the next decade the rock slowly forms into a shape that resembles the personality of its owner. Your rock still looks like a rock. | 'Why won't you change!'
The yell wasn't loud, the tears and dry throat shredded the volume and my intended powerful shout came out as a ripped, raspy whisper.
Everyone else had amazing artifacts following them around, from towering rock golems, to intricate clockwork rock automatons, to grand carriages with wheels an... | “Now Ms. Dumar, please lift your arm a bit... and you are set.” Dave took a step back and smiled encouragingly. “Still feeling up for a walk?” he asked. The woman caressed her sweater absently for a minute, her expression contemplative. “My Grandson bought it for me last Christmas you know, he has become such a fine la... | 2018-05-02T03:09:07 | 2018-05-02T02:55:25 | 358 | 108 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | "Your army is marching upon grenoble. You face a royalist regiment of two thousand men blocking your path. What do you do?"
"I bear open my breast...", Napoleon started
"Jesus Christ, dude", the DM said
"...and proclaim, 'If any man here wishes to shoot his emperor, I am here'".
The DM sighed and rolled some dice... | “I want to roll to invade them!”
“Uh, are you sure that’s what you want to do?”
“Yes. Of course. Just let me roll.”
“Fine. Roll.”
He rolls his 20 sided die across the table. It stops directly in front of the Dungeon Master, who looks down and smirks.
“Well. You go to invade Russia. You gather your troops and march ri... | 2018-05-29T09:37:40 | 2018-05-29T07:54:52 | 303 | 36 |
[WP] Write a suicide note in a Dr. Suess like fashion. | The sun did not shine,
It was too wet to play,
So I sat in my bed
For day after day.
So I stared at the ceiling
I stared at the wall
And deep down inside me
There was nothing at all
No anger, no fury
No happy or glad
Just a big fat old nothing
That was nothing but sad
I called up a doctor
T... | I am sad
Sad I am
Have i gone mad
I might just have
I would not could not anymore
my life is just one great big chore
I try to dream but cant escape
This life that i have learned to hate
Ive rustled and bustled
and truffled about
With bad thoughts and worse thoughts
I can't drown them out
So think me a cowa... | 2015-01-17T07:08:38 | 2015-01-17T04:21:47 | 1,010 | 15 |
[WP] Super powers are common, but super heroes are rare. It turns out most people don't actually want to face death or dismemberment on a daily basis, including you. You enjoy the 9-5 and having a 401k, but my god that government recruiter won't take no for an answer. | My job pays me like no other. And God I'm not going to give it up. Especially not to become some sort of superhero. I'm all ready making 200k as a senior programmer, and the 401k is just the cherry on top. I'm even due for a raise of 20k by the end of the year. And yet, the recruiters are the biggest pain in my fucking... | "Come on, Ryan, you can do anything you want but you have a desk job? Why not come with us? I can double your salary!," Mr. White says on the other side of the door for the second time today. I groan, pushing my back against the door in an attempt to ignore him.
"Fuck off, Mr. White. I would rather die than join your h... | 2022-07-31T22:10:28 | 2022-07-31T17:55:32 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] You and your immortal friends amuse yourselves with practical jokes. Since you're immortal, some of your joke setups take centuries, or even millenia, to execute. | This one had been a long time coming - far longer than I ever thought possible.
We'd met on a battlefield millennia ago, both surprised to find out that our strikes did not harm the other. It was the first, and only, other immortal I'd ever encountered.
It was the start of a beautiful friendship.
Naturally, being... | The cosmos is relatively easy to meddle with. A swipe of the finger, and you can toss around asteroids or zap a few nebulas into existence.
We set up some ground rules a long time ago. Galaxies have to stay in rough interstellar arrangements. Once you create a star, it has to die on its own. And most importantly, if a... | 2017-06-22T19:56:41 | 2017-06-22T19:53:14 | 5,933 | 763 |
[WP] You are about to make a speech on national television. As you step up to the podium and gaze over at the teleprompter, you see only one word: "Stall." | As I walk on the ceremonial podium, already seating at the idea that every citizens of my country will be starting at me for the next twenty minutes or so.I clear my throat finalizing my last mental preparation; I knew my speech by heart I knew I was ready.
I was wrong...
The light on the camera turned red, I sta... | The auditorium speakers squealed with feedback as I tapped the microphone.
*Stall.*
I sighed with frustration. It was still there.
"Good evening, everyone. I am honored to be here tonight to address the nation."
*Stall.*
It wasn't changing. I cleared my throat.
"It isn't every day I am asked to make a speech befo... | 2015-05-16T18:01:32 | 2015-05-16T17:45:13 | 24 | 10 |
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