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[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... | I'd always done well at school. Literally a straight-A student.
Perfect grades, the whole nine yards.
I'd gone to college, completed the courses before I was 16, and was enrolled in a prestigious and very expensive university in London by the time I was 17.
And because of this, the expectations were so high. My fami... | 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... | 2017-03-16T02:40:17 | 2017-03-16T00:50:02 | 52 | 15 |
[WP] Without revealing which one it is, re-tell a classic Disney fairytale as if its genre was horror. | Staring intently at his hands, fixed upon the lines and whorls in his fingers, the lines in his palms, it was all he could do to keep from screaming.
Pain, so much pain wracked his body. From wretched waking to fitful sleeping, every day. Pain of hunger, pain of digestion, the pain of shit moving slowly through his i... | We knew he was coming. Yellow-eyed, enormous and cruel. Dark, sinewy creatures from the desert. Thousands of broken, emaciated bodies, long since departed from life, had been used as the mortar in the walls we built to keep him out.
I have never been a man of religion, but the fear of death, brutal, merciless, sensele... | 2014-08-04T11:24:07 | 2014-08-04T10:04:04 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] The entire Star Wars series, all 7 movies, are released as one book, written by Dr. Seuss. | One movie, two movie, three movie, four.
Disappointment the screamed with a yell and a roar.
Followed by five they yelled even more.
Six broke some records but favored no more.
Then seven approached humbly and honest.
The crowds all sat down and gathered as promised.
Smiles regrew on the faces of fans.
As lines ... | A long time ago, somewhere far from your land,
A master and his student found a planet of sand.
They kept their eyes open for the child prophesied
To balance the mystical Force of Jedi.
 
They found him! They did! Anakin was his name.
Though his acting was lame, he excelled at one game:
Pod Racing! He z... | 2016-05-16T09:44:46 | 2016-05-16T09:31:06 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | *Pop*
"Oh...hey, John."
"Hey, Margarete."
John sighed. Her bedroom was a mess - a total, absolute, pig-sty-hit-by-a-tornado kind of mess the likes of which made him cringe. Magazines, sheets, and even bits of old food covered the carpet like a layer of soil. But it was nothing compared to her.
It was a familiar ... | I was on my third date with a lovely woman when the tingling in my fingers started.
"No... Not now!"
"What's wrong?" Jennifer looked at me, baffled.
The tingling was creeping up my arms. More intense as it spread.
"Uh... So, I'm going to disappear for a bit. Not sure where I'm going or when I'll be back. Just kno... | 2017-03-22T12:24:47 | 2017-03-22T11:45:22 | 3,731 | 106 |
[WP] You are The Memory Broker. You copy other people's memories and sell them to people who want to remember things they never did. Your latest client is a ten year-old girl who slides you her piggy bank and begs you to help her grandmother remember her. | The majority of Mort’s business came from either desperate university students who had neglected to study for final exams or those looking to Incorporate the latest 20-something celebrity’s sex memories for a night of self love. Of course there was the odd police investigation which would roll through the shop to force... | I remember that day, that kid, in retrospect I shouldn't have paid attention. It was a Saturday afternoon, I usually give myself weekends off but it was hard back then. So many regulations, rules to abide by; I just wanted to make some money, you know how it is. I had a bitch ex-wife, who took my kids from me in court.... | 2016-03-09T06:47:51 | 2016-03-09T06:21:21 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] The hero was killed, the princess was sacrificed, and the evil king rules the land. For the average citizen, though, things have taken a turn for the better. | War ate at the Marshlands like a beast gnawing at prey. The bones of the land had been cracked open, the marrow sucked out and the lifeblood ran dry. Corpses lay facedown in the fens, turning the peat a colour of oxblood; rich and dark when lit. The rivers polluted by bodies; peeling strips of skin and flesh sloughing ... | My fellow Americans, Mr. Speaker, Ladies and Gentlemen of Congress and members of the press, thank you for joining me this evening.
It is with great sadness that we come together this evening. For the past eight years, it has been both an honor and a privilege to represent this great nation as your President. As you a... | 2016-07-10T11:09:03 | 2016-07-10T10:46:19 | 80 | 11 |
[WP] Your kidnapper is bored, so he makes an offer: if you can beat him 1 on 1 at a game of your choice, you go free. If you lose, you die.
EDIT: 15 submissions! Thanks so much to everyone who contributed, you've all done an incredible job! I love the diversity of endings, from extremely dark to hilarious. Keep writin... | The man with the gun pointed at my head is grinning and likely telling a lie. He seems like the kind of person to fib during a serious situation, and I can tell he’s loving the angst on my face as I mull over his horrible proposal.
*One win equals freedom.*
*One loss equals death.*
*Game of my choosing.*
But why... | "I choose a game of mathematics." I tell him as I grab my Calculus book from my bag. He has relaxed a bit 2 weeks since he grabbed me in the movie theatre where my girlfriend could do nothing but scream. I was glad he removed the ropes from my hands but it had clearly made its mark.
"Fine, but I get to chose the probl... | 2017-01-03T09:51:06 | 2017-01-03T06:41:05 | 107 | 60 |
[WP] In a world where people can buy and sell skills, you work at a skill pawn shop and someone is trying to pawn a skill that you can't value or appraise. | "Here it is," the wrinkled old man said, sliding a small, circular object on the table towards me. I picked it up and examined it closely, rolling it in my fingers. "What's in this one?" I asked. "Something very valuable."
In the business, they're called 'badges'. A few decades ago, we learned how to put our knowledge... | "Sorry sir, but I'm afraid this skill isn't even worth anything..." I shrugged, pulled away from my skill appraisal device and leaned against the counter,
The customer, or seller, stood in silence for a moment and opened his mouth, "**ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?** Do you know how long it took to master this skill? The tier ... | 2015-10-22T05:23:01 | 2015-10-22T05:15:43 | 811 | 48 |
[WP] Humans died a long time ago. But our AI live on as caretakers for the planet; becoming spirit-like constructs integrated into the planet; today, alien colonizers arrived to what they thought was a garden world. The Fey Machines are having none of that. | ######[](#dropcap)
Feyah’s eyestalks pressed up against the glass, darting back and forth as she looked down at the planet below. “It’s so…*colorful*,” she breathed. “Is all that blue really water?”
“It really is,” Orhan answered. He stood behind his daughter, gazing through the small viewport toward what he hoped wo... | It was late at night when the small ship tumbled from the sky. What looked like a clump of propulsion jets burned and flitted, giving an air of no clear direction. It fell through the atmosphere, tumbling so quickly that no single part of it could alight with ozone fire. It finally impacted the ground with big *spiff* ... | 2020-05-22T17:07:30 | 2020-05-22T16:24:31 | 434 | 217 |
[WP] The seven deadly sins form the Council of Seven with one sin as their leader. Every century this leader rotates to a different sin. Explain which sin stepped down at 2000 AD and which stepped sin was promoted using current events. | “ Perhaps,” he paused considering the figures before him, “we may have reached the closest vote in millennia.”
Envy glared at Lust with the dull piercing grey eyes that had pulled the color from so many lives. Gluttony’s grease soaked fingers wrestled another chicken from Greed’s massive arms as Sloth stared in a daze... | A hooded figure progressed down a white marble tunnel leading to the meeting spot: a wide open Colosseum. "Seats for over 8 billion should the time come." He explained to no-one.
In the center one table, seats for 6, and behind that a throne, carved in the likeness of the leader; Superbia. The Sin had reined for over... | 2014-08-08T14:52:30 | 2014-08-08T13:07:44 | 30 | 11 |
[WP] At the age of 18, people summon an animal that perfectly fits their personality to be their Guardian Spirit.
The animal would probably not be of the user's choice.
Just putting that out there. | All this naturalism shit never really had me going. I remember back a few years ago, when we could have cell phones, tablets, computers, any electronic on the face of the planet. But, of course, at the ripe age of 13, they had to discover that god actually existed. Or something. I'm not terribly convinced that it's a g... | Her family all sat around her, waiting. Before long, there was a fog in the house. Her family smiled, knowing the spirit was coming. Out from the fog came a man. Not an animal, a man. The girl's family shrieked in fear and ran, while the girl let out a chuckle as the man slaughtered her family.
The Girl Was A Monster,... | 2014-06-26T01:05:24 | 2014-06-26T00:07:08 | 75 | 24 |
[WP] You are notified when you visit somewhere for the last time. Today, the notification appears everywhere you go.
[deleted] | I was in line for my daily coffee when I got the first one: a little ping from the device on my wrist with a notification that read "Cafe Ole - Last Visit". I wasn't too heartbroken about it. Truth is, I only bought my coffee there because it was the closest and cheapest place aside from the usual deli. Perhaps they we... | "The fuck? That's like the thirtieth message today."
"What's that?"
Joe is waiting for his order next to me. He's glued to his screen just like me.
"LastCall is blowing up today. Don't know what's up. "
"Lol, that's a gimmicky service anyway. How do they know it's your 'last ever check-in.'"
I sip my coffee and do... | 2016-11-03T09:23:39 | 2016-11-03T06:14:59 | 31 | 21 |
[WP] You have the gift of fantastic luck, and the curse of horrible timing. In three paragraphs or less, give me a glimpse of your life. | "We did it, Babe. We found the cure. We've worked so long for this, and it's here at last. Kim says approval will still be a haul, but the FDA has a new process in place to fast-track therapies that look particularly promising, and he's pretty sure we qualify."
He reached his hand out, tracing the letters on the st... | I crouched behind the huge ventilation duct as my heart pounded. The footsteps of the cops moved slowly closer to my position. They shout warnings to me, my rights, just to come out. I don't listen. I've heard this a thousand times and it's starting to get a little old. Closing my eyes, I sprint for the edge of the roo... | 2014-12-12T09:46:47 | 2014-12-12T08:16:44 | 46 | 22 |
[WP] Somebody once told you the world is going to roll you. However, you are the sharpest tool in the shed. | Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me
But I'm the sharpest tool in the shed
She was looking kind of dumb with that puncture in her thumb
And the blood spurting onto her forehead
Well the tears start coming and they don't stop coming
She broke all the rules and she thought she was cunning
Didn't wear gl... | They said the would was gonna roll me. Well hell, they were right.
But just one thing they didn't expect about me. See, they thought I wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed. Which is fair, I mean the grand majority of tools weren't the sharpest. But one was.
The world rolled me all right... but I was no rock star, ... | 2017-07-01T06:08:19 | 2017-07-01T05:14:27 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] You're a high school student with the ability to have whatever you write come true. One day, you're taking a history test you didn't study for, and despite not wanting to mess up the universe, you REALLY want to get an A.
[removed] | Terrance stared down at the multiple choice test, sweating. This was one of those important tests, one of the ones he had to do right or not do at all. His ‘gift’ had an unfortunate way of backfiring on him. Sure it was fine and dandy when he wrote a dog into the family but forgot to mention that said dog was house\-tr... | First is was the stuff that Jared *knew* were urban myths but decided that since they were taken as fact anyway, they wouldn't change much.
Stuff like knights being like hero's, the revolutionary war being romanticised in all of it's uncomplicated and not nuanced glory.
Stuff that was so far back that it no one would... | 2018-05-09T20:10:22 | 2018-05-09T19:19:23 | 1,177 | 213 |
[WP] You are trying to hold together an empire so big that no man can travel through it in a livetime. From what you hear, it keeps expanding. | “You have a meeting with Governor Xai soon Sir.”
I look up from the agriculture rapport that I have been reading, it seems like most of my time that’s all I do. Read about farming and meet with people I don’t even know. Sometimes I wonder if it might have been better if I never got into power, if I never betrayed my b... | [ok guys, I thought this was really good and it's kinda making me irrationally mad that clearly isn't seen as the case. So give some critism here, was it the spelling mostakes?]
This is bullshit. Fucking bullshit. I didn't ask to be leader but I rose to the challenge and did my best, I made mistakes, I was upfront abo... | 2017-05-21T05:58:40 | 2017-05-21T04:23:44 | 103 | 10 |
[WP] All your life, your best friend has had your back. This is why their unexpected death hits you so hard. Two days before the funeral, you receive a couriered letter. “If you’re getting this, I’m dead. Don’t come to my funeral. They will find you.” | He was still looking after me even the day before he died. I still remember the worried look on his pale, too-thin face as he glanced at my ringing phone, “potential spam” glowing on the screen. “Don’t answer it Harry, no good will come of it if you do.” I didn’t answer it. I knew from our long friendship that Tom’s ... | “If you’re getting this I’m dead.” Obviously, Kaz thought as he read the first words of the letter sent to him from his friend Jace. The message is scribbled on cheap notebook paper, written in his friends terrible penmanship, and it crinkles in his hand as he reads the rest. “Don’t come to my funeral. They will find y... | 2021-04-24T20:11:54 | 2021-04-24T20:09:36 | 50 | 28 |
[WP] You're a ferocious demon king. You're surprised one day to find that a young woman has been left at your door. Only to later find out her father, the king, is using you as bait to find a knight worthy of marrying his daughter. | The thick wooden doors to the throne room were charred and splintered, they were broken inward with the force of a powerful magical explosion. Past the doors were several inhuman bodies strewn about and bleeding various shades of green onto the hardwood floors. A powerful figure pulled his sword from a now limp goblin ... | **"I shall not help you!"**
The mighty Orlak was very unhappy. He stared at the young human dressed in nothing but a white gown shivering in the winter cold in front of his castle door. The more he pondered on the audacity of the king beyond the mountain the more he bubbled with fury. What the king did was more than a... | 2017-10-06T10:01:24 | 2017-10-06T06:23:28 | 201 | 135 |
[WP] There are multi-Gods for the multi-verse, and it turns out ours is kind of like the 'cool mom who lets you drink at her house,' though other Gods look at our free will and generally silent deity as bad Godding on His part. | The gods of all the universes gathered to present God A1, the god of the first universe, the fruit of their labor. The Meeting of the Gods used to be a chance to share and discuss, but lately, a new radicalized god had been taking center stage, God C137.
He presented God A1 a thin bottle of green glass with dew clung ... | "God C137 how can you let your beings be that free? See what they do to their planet???"
"Calm down Id 10 d. They are working on a solution. And hey I already started a world war a few moments ago. Right after that they should get their stuff together"
"Are you INSANE? LET ME SEE.... Well ok atleast you gave him a ... | 2017-05-07T07:50:19 | 2017-05-07T05:14:11 | 3,293 | 290 |
[WP] Jupiter has 64 moons and a serious werewolf problem.
Edit: damn there's some quality responses here. I wasn't expecting this prompt to be so popular. Good job u guys | "Europa's rising early tonight." Carl whispered, hunkering down into our camouflaged bunker as deep as he could go. His breath came out in clouds of white beneath his blankets.
"Ice wolves?" I asked.
"Ice wolves." Carl smirked, looking less concerned about the werewolves than the cold himself. The geosynchronous ci... | The pilot - a twelve-limbed Jovian floatspider - tapped almost idly at the controls of the shuttle, firing the thrusters with mind-boggling precision. I glanced surreptitiously at the display on my own Earth-made manoeuvring tablet. The screen blinked red with warning text, screaming electronically that the shuttle was... | 2016-10-03T09:32:53 | 2016-10-03T09:05:02 | 307 | 66 |
[WP] You've been dating your partner for six months. Tonight they've invited you to a work event, and as you step onto the red carpet, you realize it for the first time: you're dating a celebrity. | On our first date, I told her that I don't like movies much. I find them over-stimulating and prefer reading. I have some old DVDs of my favorites (I can quote every line from Moonstruck), but hadn't seen anything new in years. She seemed really interested, and I thought it was because she loved to read, too.
Well, i... | It wasn't for some time that I began to realize something was weird... off... about her interactions when we talked about going out. This wasn't a huge problem for me as I understood her job to be very difficult. She traveled constantly. Extremely busy. Out till all hours of the night. We lived across the hall from eac... | 2017-06-14T10:40:17 | 2017-06-14T10:18:55 | 55 | 34 |
[WP] Officially, you're a weak, D rank villain. Unofficially, you're one of the strongest beings on the planet that is secretly employed to "train" fledgling heroes by giving them an easy first real fight. But one day an A rank villain crashes your heist and you must protect your "students". | "D-rank villain" Buttsoup McJames.
My title always put newbie heroes at ease.
"Don't worry," commanders would say and throw me a wink. "He's only D rank, so this should be a walk in the park."
Commanders knew I was a hero putting on a show, but they didn't know the full truth. If they did, it would blow their minds:... | "Hello, class, I'm Juleel, also known as The Deceiver, an Ex-A-Ranker Villain..." he spoke whilst pacing back forth near the blackboard attached to the wall, writing on it with swift strokes from his chalk with each step he made, "but, do not fret, I've reformed from my devious lifestyle, now, I would like to teach the... | 2021-06-23T15:21:41 | 2021-06-23T11:55:31 | 50 | 11 |
[WP] In the afterlife each religion has its own walled city in which their god or pantheon protects the believers within from the soul-gnawing horrors outside, while atheists are left on their own
Shoutout to u/Tonkarz who had the [idea](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7eao4f/exreligious_people_of_reddit_w... |
Every city I've been to would always kick me back out. Apparently you have to be religious to live in one of these cities. My friends got in just fine, but I never could.
Throughout my life, being a construction worker, having a family of 3, and living through numerous End Of The World dates, I've never believed in a... | My thoughts were certain,
All Gods were fiction,
I didn't foresee,
The true benediction
Walled within,
Their utopian setting,
The dwellers rejoice,
While I'm left regretting
I'm surrounded by fools,
Oh how simple we were,
Not an ounce of faith,
We believed it was slur
All I wish is for,
All I demand,
Is o... | 2017-11-21T07:01:58 | 2017-11-21T06:54:46 | 365 | 53 |
[FF] Horror Story - 80 words
Prompt limit: 80 words.
It could be about anything, anywhere at any time. Just make sure it's horrifying! | When you see them in your room at night, you tell yourself that it’s your brain messing with you. Why? Your brain tells you that the grass you see is green, the coffee you drink is hot, the dumpster you pass smells awful. Your brain sees the truth. It lets you know about the grass, the coffee, the garbage. Why would it... | I never knew you had a choice. I always thought that the body would just take over and fight, that if it was possible to survive, you would find a way. That's instinct, right? I mean, if there was ever a time for instinct, that's it. But it turns out you still have to choose. I looked up and saw the boat, still burning... | 2013-08-21T19:34:40 | 2013-08-21T19:20:09 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | It was nearly sunset on death row in the Alberation system of the Galaxy. Although her 37 years on Brigdon block seemed like a lifetime, Salmma never realized the day of her sentenced death would come so fast. Her green eyes slide over the metal frames of the cell, the discolored wall that made an inappropriate figure ... | She was a born killer. The moment she snapped she turned from hero to villain in just a matter of seconds.
Thousands of people were victimized in her warpath, and she got away with it for MONTHS. That was, until she was caught, and placed on Death Row.
Now, the world had changed drastically since she had been gone, a... | 2022-07-17T19:39:13 | 2022-07-17T18:09:54 | 62 | 24 |
[WP] Describe a battle with an army against a single man..... Except that man is a level 20 D&D character.
Bonus points if that character is a Bard, or an unpopular class. | You tried to play nice. Traveling through crag and creek, you drew your lute to resolve conflicts with peace.
*How large is the army?*
With music. That was how you chose to play the game. They laughed when you declared your orc bard. As did I. It was meant to be in good fun, just because you could. We loved this ... | Jeorge the slayer of men stared at the millions of men that approached him, a toothy smile on his face as battle roars echoed throughout the giant green gorgeous field.
The general walked up, a stout man covered in glistening gold armor, a coward in wolfs clothing. His mouth opened wide as he roared a sentence, "JEORG... | 2016-03-16T20:20:36 | 2016-03-16T20:19:06 | 96 | 36 |
[WP] When you’re 28, science discovers a drug that stops all effects of aging, creating immortality. Your government decides to give the drug to all citizens under 26, but you and the rest of the “Lost Generations” are deemed too high-risk. When you’re 85, the side effects are finally discovered. | The immortals are crumbling like dry leaves.
I watch one as I leave Marge's Cafe with my usual paper cup of coffee. There is a woman standing on the opposite street corner in a trench coat, her hair sleek black, her face as faultless as fine china.
And all it takes is a harsh wind.
She falls away in tiny pieces. Her... | Every year, I felt a little bit older than I should on my birthday. And each year, I shuffled into the Lost Generation clinic to see baby\-faced Dr. Sherwood to report the sensation.
“Ah Mr. Murray! The same thing every year! We’ve been talking about this for the last 10 years!” Dr. Sherwood laughed.
“And every year ... | 2018-06-04T21:14:04 | 2018-06-04T20:54:44 | 10,660 | 4,110 |
[WP] You are the greatest Supervillain in the world and you've always wondered why the heroes yell out their attacks. Well, out of curiosity, you try it out with your weakest attack and suddenly break a hole through your evil lair. | I was pooping when it happened.
I hadn't even realized it would qualify as an attack as I tried to shake the booger off, but a random urge came over me as my mucus clung steadfast to my finger. "Pick, roll and flick!" I shouted then flicked the tiny snot ball towards the trash can beside the toilet.
It took me severa... | Before Swifty entered the house, he peeked inside to make sure nobody would see his bloodied lips and blackened eyes. It seemed like Master had not yet returned from his daily stroll, so he ventured past the door, scurrying for the sink as quickly as his limp would allow.
"Swifty, come over here." a displeased voice ... | 2018-08-08T12:15:59 | 2018-08-08T10:29:44 | 176 | 62 |
[WP] On the eve of your arranged marriage, you slipped away into the night. Intending to never be seen again. While scaling the garden wall, you spotted your fiancée doing the same thing. You both stared at each other for a while. | I had always known that I would not be able to live a life like everyone else. It had been drilled into me that I was not allowed to love and marriage was a mere business deal in between families to achieve greater things. Yet, despite hating this arrangement since the age of ten I did nothing. I was a complete utter c... | When i was little, all I wanted was to be a dragon. A dragon, or a knight. My parents forced me into clothing that didn't fit, forced me down and restrained me. All while gushing about how handsome of a husband I would get.
I noticed something was wrong not long after my thirteenth birthday. I was hormonal, at the st... | 2020-07-07T17:50:52 | 2020-07-07T14:51:38 | 30 | 17 |
[WP] People who achieve great deeds are rewarded with supernatural power beyond the wildest dreams of mortal men, and apparently eating a giant burrito in under half an hour meets the criteria | No one told Tyler Martin that pursuing his noble quest would cost him everything. His friends, his job… even his humanity.
Perhaps he should have known better. Great men and women throughout history sacrificed everything for their greatness. Tyler could have… *should* have stepped back from the depths of obsession yea... | My enemy could not be taken in with a single glance. I found myself craning my neck to take in all its abominable mass, with laughably inadequate and shamelessly soaked skin—and I hungered.
If the burrito could stand up, it might have made a middling career as a basketball player. It spanned two tables, one they had t... | 2021-10-01T09:53:51 | 2021-10-01T09:00:32 | 151 | 25 |
[WP] You accidently discharge your firearm into the television. Much to your surprise, instead of shattering the glass, it passes right through and hits one of the characters on screen. | "Shit!"
I let out a panicked cry as my pistol fired. Never again will I clean my pistol out without checking the chamber. The sound that my gun made would've disturbed the neighbors, so I'd better go and make sure that the bullet didn't actually hit anybody.
I got up off my old couch. A quick survey of the room show... | I raised the stolen .44 Magnum to the unsuspecting man on the couch. His hairy legs were propped up on the mess of a coffee table, a similarly hirsute hand carelessly shoved cheese balls into his mouth. The Price is Right boomed from the television set. It was time for this abusive son-of-a-bitch to die.
My scrawny ... | 2016-09-07T08:08:25 | 2016-09-07T07:38:39 | 1,215 | 257 |
[WP] After a whole year full of catastrophes, it’s December 2020. Astronomers have noticed that entire constellations and star systems are vanishing from the sky, night after night. What ever is happening, it’s getting closer to us. | At first we thought light pollution had gotten out of control, then we thought that maybe it was a chain supernova, but soon there was no denying it: the stars were dying, and the wave of death was closing in on us.
Across the globe, scientists scrambled in their laboratories and at their desks to find a cause and pot... | At first, it was just a few distant stars that no one took note of. But as time went on, we realized a much darker force was at play. The stars start blinking out at an astronomical rate. Scientists around the world start panicking when we discovered entire star systems disappearing. It took a while for this to reach t... | 2020-03-24T02:46:02 | 2020-03-23T22:51:17 | 253 | 103 |
[WP] Describe a typical day in the White House. As seen through the greatest fears of a conspiracy theorist. | Cabinet meeting, White house, November 27th 2014
Joe Biden: Mullah Barak Hussein Obamalama Marijuana is finishing up prayer, he'll be with us shortly.
Baron Rothschild 3000: Bleeding America dry requires getting to meetings on time, that idiot prays five times a day.
Space Reptilian Queen Elizabeth: He's Muslim you... | Having just woken up, the Leader slithers from his lair. His wife, who is already up and about whilst peeling her skin off, speaks to him:
‘Darling, the meal worms and locusts are ready and wiggling on the table for you’.
After a ravenous breakfast, the Leader is ready for the day and starts to shift suddenly. His ey... | 2014-11-27T06:39:48 | 2014-11-27T06:12:59 | 270 | 59 |
[WP] It's been 5 years since North Korea has gone dark, no communications in or out and the Northern posts of the DMZ have remained vacant; your heading the advance team entering North Korea to investigate what happened. This is your report. | 0200 Day 1: Entered Northern DMZ from reference point alpha, expecting mines as advised. No mines were detected, but as we moved to exit the DMZ on the northern end a young boy was sighted, standing at the right side of the gate, staring sightlessly across the pathway through. We avoided the youngster, cutting throu... | **CLASSIFIED - FOR GENERAL FLYNN**
Time: 21:27
Date: 31st of December
Year: 2021
Location: Pyongyang, NK
_____
Two months ago I reported that leader Kim Jong Un had not made a public announcement in over 3 years time. He had not been seen in public since March 2017. Today he delivered a message... | 2016-12-05T09:11:26 | 2016-12-05T08:47:47 | 37 | 15 |
[WP] In the near future, the War of the Machines has begun - not between humans and robots, but between pro-human and anti-human robots. | The evil Decepticon Transformers, led by the maniacal Megatron, have sworn to crush their enemies, the Autobots. To this end, they have relentlessly pursued them across the galaxy from planet Cybertron to planet Earth and back again. But the heroic Autobot Transformers, and their courageous leader Optimus Prime, are no... | Horace marched through the garage, toolbox in his hand and sweat on his forehead. The race to repair as many aLi-droids had been unbearable since the very start of the war, and so much of his sleep had been sacrificed already that he seemed to be sleepwalking, his consciousness struggling to not slip into sleep, his ey... | 2015-04-13T05:17:33 | 2015-04-13T04:09:31 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] You live in an ancient world, when someone turns 18, they will receive a gift either magic or weapon. The gift will be of use for them whenever in need. On your 18th birthday, Death knocks on your door and give you his scythe. | Today, is the day death dies.
Finished reaping demise.
Done seeing pain in eyes
Done sending souls through the skies.
Yes my dear boy,happy birthday to you,
The old legend sure holds true.
Once a millennia, twice the pain,
A reaper comes and awards new reign.
You have an important list you will not feign -
worry n... | I dodged the first lightning bolt with a duck and roll so fast my father would have been proud. Unfortunately, the second bolt caught me in the face. In an instant everything went white, and I felt myself thrown back into the ground.
A few seconds later, and my vision had returned. Slowly, I dusted myself off and ros... | 2019-02-28T22:49:03 | 2019-02-28T22:23:41 | 39 | 18 |
[WP] Elon Musk is actually a stranded alien who needs humanity to develop interstellar travel to get home
From https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/34i0h9/elon_musk_debuts_the_tesla_powerwall_full_keynote/cqv1cny?sort=top
Edit: Wow, this blew up. Thanks for the gold, whoever gave it, even though the real people d... | From the Desk of Elon Musk:
I’m not sure why I am even addressing the audacious, ludicrous concerns that have been plaguing me of late, the belief that I am some sort of “stranded alien” trying to get home. Such accusations, such outrageous statements have no place in the media. They should exist only in fairy tales, ... | I was stranded here in Roswell. I am trying to help humanity, help myself. But they’re too stupid. All they need to do, is take my ideas. All they need to do, is put them in the right step. The right direction. But they continue to ignore me and move on with their worthless lives instead.
I was forced to take the shap... | 2015-05-01T09:56:37 | 2015-05-01T09:53:31 | 150 | 32 |
[WP] A 16-year-old schoolgirl is taken to a magical world. She slays a dragon, becomes queen, gets married, has kids, and dies 90 years later...only to wake up back at school, young and in her school uniform again, like nothing happened. She notices that her wedding ring is still on her finger. | "Don't go, g'g'gramma!" The seven-year-old flung himself onto the bedclothes, hugging Bellajoan tightly. "Want you to read stories!"
She smiled tiredly as she patted him on the head. Everything tired her now. She couldn't get out of bed without help, and even raising her voice left her out of breath. "There, there, Al... | "Your Majesty," a man cladded in an opulent golden armour bowed his head and continued, "Count Lorraine is here as you have requested!"
I couldn't really see the young knight's face, but I still had enough memory to know that it was Captain Horatio. He had been a very loyal guard, one that my late husband had put to a... | 2020-04-21T08:24:20 | 2020-04-21T07:33:37 | 502 | 93 |
[WP] Once every year, soulmates glow the same color as each other for one hour. | I used to love this time of year, watching the world running around in search of their glow. I remember watching a young couple when I was in Manchester for work, both bathed in silver, struggling to hold a conversation in broken English in between masses and masses of glow-hunters roaming the streets. But the smiles... | It was an evening in the month of April that it began. The color began to emanate from everyone. It was odd, skin color changed and the color bled off everyone. As you walk, it would leave a trail behind you. It sparkled and twirled in the air before disappearing. The strangest part was no one appeared to be the same c... | 2017-10-21T14:01:38 | 2017-10-21T13:58:29 | 63 | 17 |
[WP] In Valhalla all of the greatest heroes which died in battle doth drink, be merry, and war for fun, also there's Doug, the accountant. | Doug had always liked numbers. Additions, subtractions and all the other forms of making them interact with one another. It had been clear early on that he would go into a field which made use of them. His interest in numbers had, unfortunately, not carried over into any other academic areas. So, he was left with only ... | Doug sat at his laptop on the great hall. Beer glasses clanked together all around him. Men belched and laughed and feasted. They talked about women in a way that would make them ashamed if their mothers' were around. They wrestled each other to prove who was the strongest. Clickity clackity clickity clackity went Doug... | 2022-11-14T14:31:44 | 2022-11-14T09:07:16 | 27 | 17 |
[WP] Lifespan is determined by a word count. You're given millions of words, but once you run out you're dead. You are a mob hitman known as "The Interrogator, who specializes in "making people talk". You come across a mark that has one word left. | I sighed and pressed my fingers into the bridge of my nose. I'd been at it for close to eight hours now, and the mark still wasn't squealing. I hadn't anticipated it would be this difficult.
See, I was born with a 'gift', so to speak. I was able to make anyone talk. Now, that doesn't sound all that impressive by itsel... | I paced around the man tied to the chair in the dimly lit room. My frustration was growing, but I knew better than to let my temperament get the better of me, I would waste about half a year venting out my frustration. The man sat silently, yet calmly. I had done everything I could think of to make this mark talk, from... | 2016-10-10T21:24:01 | 2016-10-10T18:58:05 | 68 | 20 |
[WP] Half life 3 will be released in three hours.
You are part of the last generation to await the new Half Life 3, and many of your fellow fans has fallen during the waiting period. The year is 2057. | He stood there.
He stroked his beard.
The crowd stood, stunned, staring.
He held out his hand.
The crowd leaned forward.
Silence.
He held up one finger.
They stared.
He held up two fingers.
The anticipation was building. The energy levels were rising.
He held up three fingers.
The logo flashed on screen.
An... | **When this post is three hours old Half Life 3 will be available on Steam for $49.99** (Self.Gaming)
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[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | Theldon – or at least the creature that was wearing his face – looked pale in the light of the campfire. As the wood crackled and burned, he chewed his lower lip, gathering his courage to speak.
“Guys … I … I have something to tell you,” he managed.
His three traveling companions looked at him. Vanariel snapped her... | I added a little twist but I think it's still good, non the less. Here.
"AAHHH! Tavian! I need your help!"
"What can I do?"
"Ray of Frost!? Something! ANYTHING! JUST GET THIS THING OFF ME!"
A small harmless slug had fallen onto Yeralia's shoulder, while the party was traveling out of the Forest of Traggleroot. Tavi... | 2017-09-15T08:31:45 | 2017-09-15T04:39:41 | 147 | 13 |
[WP] A new virus sweeps the nation killing hundreds. It turns out the virus only affects total assholes though. People are unsure if they really want to cure it. | November 21, 2014 -
Every day, my vision gets a little darker, the ringing in my ears gets a little louder, and my extremities become a little more numb. It has been a week since I started to see symptoms, but I knew I would see them eventually. After the news of the virus swept through the nation, I began taking dai... | When the virus first emerged we all thought it was a new form of the flu or some rare contagion that crept it's way here from another country, but that couldn't possibly explain the rate of infection.
A few isolated cases at first, hospitals chalked it up to bad weather or bad luck, but when dozens started dying ever... | 2014-11-21T11:15:00 | 2014-11-21T10:55:59 | 65 | 23 |
[WP] You are a cannon fodder minion on the first floor of a dungeon, and have just killed the hero. You now have to explain to the boss that you just ruined his plan. | Laitha paused outside the doorway, drawing a breath in and steadying herself. She really didn't want to do this. She was going to be in *so much trouble.* She might even end up having to find a new job, and she'd *liked* that job. Right at the beginning of the lair, so she got to see all the excitement, and they we... | **"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, HE'S DEAD!? EXPLAIN YOURSELF, MINION!"**
Lord Exilarr growled and spat as he talked. He bared his pointed teeth and narrowed his slitted eyes in a display that probably made even the most battle-hardened heroes piss their pants with fear, but the only thing that stained Minion's pants was the Lor... | 2014-09-03T14:43:46 | 2014-09-03T12:23:14 | 22 | 11 |
[WP] A field surgeon in a fantasy world has performed life saving surgery on many an orc war band before, unwittingly becoming blood brothers with most of his patients. In his darkest days, his extended family comes to offer their hands. | They found the human puking in an alley.
Thorveig stood and watched him from across the way. The vomiting drunk hadn’t seen them yet, and probably wouldn’t any time soon. The buildings cast long shadows this far from the torchlight, and the full moon overhead added little. The drunk continued to wretch to the point o... | "No, I don't have a writ of ownership, but I have both the backing of the town's notables as well as the company of these men here," Gregor Trunch looked up to Cutter Riverbeck when he made his proclamation. The man was Human with an average stature that had shrunk some with age. He had a full head of hair that had gon... | 2020-09-08T22:52:48 | 2020-09-08T20:06:58 | 40 | 22 |
[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." | I neatened the little stack of index cards on the table. Not that I really needed them; I'm pretty good at memorizing speeches, and plus, I've been using teleprompters ever since entering politics. But they've always given me a sense of security, almost like ancient good luck charms. 'The Cue Card Candidate' they used ... | I'd wanted to make this speech for years: to stop lying to the American public and get the truth out there. Felt a quiver of excitement at the thought of it.
So it was with great sadness that I saw the message on the teleprompter: "Stall."
I laughed a little bit, wiping sweat from my fake brow.
I'd gone over this wi... | 2015-05-16T17:49:48 | 2015-05-16T16:08:16 | 172 | 117 |
[WP] You lose a dare at an airport and are forced to ask an employee for a ticket to the farthest destination. To your surprise, they quietly nod and give you a single ticket with letters you don't recognize.
EDIT: Holy *crap* this blew up. I want to thank everyone for their stories and input, and also would like to s... | AT25.
It was a very strange airport code. I had never seen a 4 digit airport code before and certainly not one with numbers. I turned back to the desk attendant confused.
"Umm which country is this airport in again?"
"None of them," she answered as though it should have been obvious. "And don't forget your jacket.... | You look up at the map behind the atendants head. Lota of obvious counties with well known abbreviations. CA, Canada. AUS, been there once actually, that's Australia. There are others you could guess at. Sweden would maybe be like....SWD. Italy maybe an ITL. So you start to narrow it down.
Nigeria....nope. Couldn't be.... | 2019-03-04T22:30:27 | 2019-03-04T21:58:08 | 77 | 45 |
[WP] The zombie outbreak is largely contained. Now your job is to stop edgy "zombie hunters" from breaking into the quarantined area. | The zombie "outbreak" was not as big as we figured it would be. Especially since these former humans weren't as dangerous as one would think. Their bites don't infect and they are so insanely slow, because the deceased brains fail to retain any significant motor functions. But functioning brains also meant functioning... | I remembered my days as a game warden when I first started out in the park, protecting wildlife from unauthorized hunters. Then the great outbreak came and I barely made it out.
Now, I'm just a quarantine guard for the CDC. And it changed from unauthorized hunters to dumb teens and college kids trying to break in to t... | 2019-11-11T10:37:07 | 2019-11-11T07:17:54 | 102 | 37 |
[WP] As an author you’re the ultimate god of your world. Your hero became powerful enough to step into reality. He then asks you to explain why an omnipotent being would permit so much evil in the world, not realising that you placed all the evil there to spice up the story. | "Think about it this way," I told my creation. "You like existing, don't you?"
"Sure, but so much evil, death and cruelty..."
"Is why you exist. Look, you were a work of fiction. This isn't about virtue, this is about me having a reason to keep working your world. I put a lot of hurdles in your way because it was... | Callen stood in front of me, as real as real could be. Mud stained his leather jerkin, tears stained his cheeks. Fresh scars spiderwebbed up his arms and one banded the thick column of his neck. The sweet, cut flower scent of the void clung to him, drowning out his love’s perfume and the scent of the battle he had just... | 2021-07-31T08:47:56 | 2021-07-31T07:08:03 | 1,015 | 133 |
[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 | You're careful. Every piece of your life, every single moment, since that day of rapture and the 0 appeared on your wrist you have been careful. Never stand out. Never draw attention. Maintain the average existence of shrub. Well that was the plan at least. You realized too late that in this age of sigils and supers an... | Another day and the same fucking asshole and his group of friends who pick on me. Using their powers to shock me or set my homework on fire was only the beginning. I've had to lie to my mother why I was coming home with burn marks on my arms. I hate lying to mother. They claim they'll stop harassing me if I show them m... | 2020-02-26T10:44:56 | 2020-02-26T10:00:37 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | "The international community hereby charges you with War Crimes committed during the defeat of the so-called Islamic State. On your orders, a brutal campaign of destruction, fear and even forced conversions were taken place. Even civilians were not exempt. It says here that several mosques were torn down, often with pe... | "DEUS VULT!"
The battlecry of the newly reborn Papal State rang on the lips of devout Catholics the world over. The faithful had come together once again to rid the Holy Land of the infidel scourge. Pope Francis stood at the head of his army, a not-so-ceremonial sword flashing in his hand as he held it up on the stree... | 2016-01-29T10:18:49 | 2016-01-29T10:03:10 | 389 | 82 |
[WP] At a young age you made a deal with a fey in which you promised them your firstborn. Now you’re a 35 year old virgin, and the fey, sick of waiting, comes to help you around the dating scene. | "How about her?"
"Shes like fifteen."
"Exactly. She wouldnt know better."
"No, thats exactly why we don't."
"Hmph."
I squeezed the bridge of my nose as the faerie crossed her tiny arms as she hovered in front of me, invisible to everyone else walking down the busy street. Our daily walks had become increasingly ag... | "Okay," I say, "can't we do something about this, you know, together?"
"Oh, my-" the Fae shakes their head. "You thought I was.... *capable of giving birth*? I mean, you're attractive and all, hon, but you know I'm a guy, right?"
"Well," I say, eyebrow raised, smirking with curiosity. "That ain't a problem for me as ... | 2021-11-01T10:29:32 | 2021-11-01T09:53:08 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] Sobek, the half human half crocodile god of the Nile, surprised by a visit of Anubis,god of death. Anubis introduce Sobek to a human soul behind him, still dripping in seawater : "I thought you should meet this man,the living called him Steve Irwin" | **The Crocodile Hunted**
The opportunity was just too good to pass up. Too good I tell, ya. The way these human hunters look when they meet the gods of the things they hunt, oh boy it’s always a hoot. And Steve Freakin Irwin? Man I didn’t think I’d have this chance for a long time, that guy seemed invincible. I though... | “Of course,” Sobek said, although he wasn’t particularly interested in the little humans with little lives. Anubis, however, demanded respect.
Anubis stepped aside, and a solid man with blond hair, clothed in utilitarian gear, stepped forward. He didn’t notice anything special about the man. His face was broad from a... | 2022-02-25T09:40:11 | 2022-02-25T06:59:02 | 1,127 | 61 |
[wp] You are the Avatar. Master of all elements. You are currently on element 19 of 98 currently known, and are learning from the feet of the Grand Potassium Bender.
Why is it always the classic four? Fire's not even remotely elemental! Let's add some science! | “Don’t.”
“No, because you know what’s a good source of potassium?”
“I have been teaching bending for almost 80 years. I have heard all the jokes.”
“Hey, so, my friend just texted me what I was doing and I said learning bending and he was like what kind and then I responded K.”
“We have work that needs to be done. ... | “Im ready to learn Master Kalium”
The old man looked down at me, he reached into his back pocket and produced a small ball that was silver in color.
“Potassium is soft like the sand, easy to conceal and burns with a majestic lilac flame, making it a necessary tool for the most stylish of firebenders.”
I sighed; I ha... | 2015-03-30T12:17:23 | 2015-03-30T11:36:48 | 863 | 359 |
[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... | My hands tremble as the cursor hovers around a box labeled "Accept Terms and Conditions" as I stare blankly at my dimly lit monitor through the smoke-filled air. I didn't think it'd be this big of a deal to try out the new Google Dating program, but now that I'm actually doing it, I can't bring myself to click the butt... | 2017-05-25T13:39:39 | 2017-05-25T13:15:51 | 82 | 25 |
[WP] Foreshadow the character's death so subtly that I still don't see it coming even though I requested it. | He was a healthy man.
He ate healthy foods.
He did regular exercise.
He did daily chores.
He did an active and outdoor job.
He does not eat healthy foods.
He does not do regular excercise.
He does not do daily chores.
He does not have an active outdoor job.
He was, he is not. | Five years old, he's on the playground now, a toe in the sand. He's beckoning to you to push him on the swing.
Six years old - He's been with his mother all day and rushes to greet you at the door. You kiss him on the forehead and hug your wife. The love that connects you three anchors the rest of your life.
Nine ye... | 2015-06-03T07:24:41 | 2015-06-03T07:16:05 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] Everyone only gets to lie three times in their life, so they only do so when it's an absolute must. This is the story of how someone lied three times in one day. | Mother liked to tell the story. They all had one.
Mom found me reaching for the cookie jar.
"What are you doing kiddo?"
"Nothing..."
"Were you trying to get a cookie and eat it?"
"No."
"What were you doing?"
"I was getting a cookie for you."
Most folks in the community called it good parenting. The practice i... | Adam came out from his coma sometime around the 5th day after he was admitted to the ICU.
Stefanie heard him stir, coughing in short spurts as he slowly regained his senses. She had been lightly dozing by his side, and she reached for his hand to calm him. Slowly, painfully, he opened his remaining good eye and strug... | 2014-11-15T16:32:21 | 2014-11-15T10:43:05 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] Write a story. Any story. But after 5 minutes, stop, lift your hands from your keyboard, and click the Save button.
Hopefully I gave you guys enough motivation to keep writing the novel in your heads! | I staired at my clock.
I typed a sentence. I noticed a glsring typo,but I didn't have time to fix it.
I didn't have a good idea for a story. I couldn't think that quick. So I wrote about writing a story in under five minutes.
The problem was, I had a kindle. it was a pain to type on. The auto-suggest kept trying t... | 'You are a wizard for heaven's sake!', the master yelled. 'Now make that table float!'
'But I can't' you whine.
'We have been over this a hundret times! Lift your wand and move it like this!'
You stare at your master, dumb folded. You have tried. Oh how you have tried! But that stupid table just won't float! It ... | 2015-10-28T09:54:12 | 2015-10-28T07:22:08 | 80 | 10 |
[WP] The rapture happens. All dogs go to heaven and are interviewed to decide the fate of their owners. One good boy says "What about my cat friend, Mr. Mittens?". The angel replies "The what now?". | ("Buddy," Part One)
"The cat, Mister Mittens," the dog replied, staring up at the angel with unabashed worry across his canine features. "My human may not have been the best owner, and I forgive him for that. But Mister Mittens and I were like brothers."
The angel, Andaphael by name, was puzzled: A dog, wanting to kn... |
“The cat, the cat??? You know cat? Felton?” Pax the dog asked. Realizing the angel had no clue what a cat was he vigorously explains trying to make sure his friend was going to make it to heaven.
Then the angel produced a book. He rushed to flip the pages until he landed on one page named Fae. Frantically asked, “is... | 2022-08-13T18:51:58 | 2022-08-13T10:33:01 | 344 | 47 |
[WP] At the age of twelve you started randomly seeing a green line and a red line appear on the ground. You always followed the green line and have lived a successful and happy life. Ten years later you are on top of the world, but bored. Time to see where the red line leads. | I was... what, in middle school? Something like that. Hanging out on the playground, friendless, bored... honestly, I can barely remember my life before that day. There wasn't a lot to remember, I guess.
Then I saw it. Out of the corner of my eye, a splotch of green, like someone painted a glow-in-the-dark line on the... | I was finally there, at the top of the world. Around me I could see all of my journey highlighted in green, culminating in this moment. After soaking it all in and feeling quite pleased with myself for awhile, boredom slowly crept in.
I started glancing at the red line and wondering its destination. I resolved to foll... | 2017-08-23T08:09:42 | 2017-08-23T06:39:05 | 163 | 15 |
[WP] You have been kidnapped by a cult preparing to sacrifice you to their god. Problems? You’re immortal, the god they worship is a close friend of yours and the entire cult was the result of a prank you forgot you pulled centuries ago. | Blood gushed from Calais's neck, running down the stone altar in a crimson stream. It stung a little, as slit necks often do, but what bothered Calais was the leech stuck to the bottom of his foot.
Good cultists *cleaned* their sacrifices. Calais had lived with humans long enough to know they were a nasty bunch, but n... | I woke up sitting in a dim room, my thoughts hazy as I slowly regained consciousness. Where was I? One moment, I had just been minding my own business reading a book in the park, the next I had felt a stinging pain at the back of my head before everything faded to black. I tried to move my arms, only to find that they ... | 2020-04-11T21:18:07 | 2020-04-11T20:32:03 | 647 | 243 |
[WP] There was a brief window in the 1800s where you could have an adventuring party made up of a samurai, an elderly pirate captain, a Zulu warrior, a cowboy, and a Victorian gentleman detective and have it be 100% historically correct. Write the story of this unlikely group of adventurers.
Credit to u/Charyou-Tree | The cowboy was sitting on the bonfire in a clearing inside a forest along with most of his party, writing down on a piece of paper.
*To my beloved*
*It has been quite the venture*
*Men around the world*
"Excellent," the samurai beside me said. "Your haiku is well-done."
"This is quite the novel experience," the de... | "Select your warriors," announced the computerized voice, which called itself The Shaman, affecting an aged, androgynous holographic face projected from the screen of the Apple IIe in the corner of the darkroom.
The computer had been gifted to me by a time traveler, a man who called himself "The Professor" and had pr... | 2021-08-07T05:59:22 | 2021-08-07T05:59:06 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] you are a demon call responder. The devil can’t answer every summon, so you go in his place. One day you get a summon and the summoner is way below age limit; you are about to leave, but you hear her drunk dad coming downstairs screaming. | "Do you realize what you have don Abalam?!" my owner screamed, his human skin curling under the fire of his true form.
I clenched my fists, for I knew the punishment that was to come. But I did not repent.
"She asked for our services-"
"She's UNDERAGE! we never do deals with those who cannot understand the weight of... | The girl couldn’t have realized the gravity of what, or rather whom she had summoned. This was no ordinary demon.
The girl stood staring. Wearing a little blue dress and pigtails. Blonde, very big blue curious eyes looked up at... it.
Just as the demon was about to return, thinking this was a mistake or some sort of... | 2018-10-08T13:40:21 | 2018-10-08T11:54:19 | 191 | 141 |
[WP] A magic coin gives the owner just enough money to get by, until they can finally support themselves, then they must give it to another person in need.
I was inspired by the story of St. Peter and the coin in the fish's mouth. | Finding the person who needed the coin most wasn’t ever going to be an easy job. When Katie had passed it to Lloyd she’d said how hard she found it, but she was determined to find the right person, and he was glad she’d gone to the effort. On the very day he’d lost everything one good thing had happened and he wanted t... | *Tienes que pasarlo.*
Yes I know.
*¿Y sabes por que?*
I know why.
*Porque ahora tienes empleo.*
He stared through the etched glass window. The sunlight coming through broke up into a bland white, bathing the interrogation room's sterile walls. He sighed.
Look, I made a mistake, and you caught me. That's it. I kne... | 2015-09-10T11:00:29 | 2015-09-10T10:35:59 | 28 | 14 |
[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."
| Over the course of the last two days, the tone had changed dramatically at mission control. My eyes burned as I closed them, sucking down another lukewarm coffee. My stomach ached and I wondered if it was the stress, or the Chinese takeout. Probably both.
I stared at the communications log once again "Touchdown succes... | 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 ... | 2019-01-31T06:24:03 | 2019-01-31T05:21:38 | 134 | 53 |
[WP] You are trapped in an anti-time loop; Every time you are about to die, you wake up 24 hours later, with no recollection of how you survived. You lost a year of your life already and feel no closer to find out who wants to kill you. | Open the door. Grab the wooden chair. Take three steps forward. Back up against the wall, take two steps to the left. Renshaw had done this over 900 times now. Like something out of the twilight zone, he was stuck in an endless 24-hour time loop. An eternal nightmare that made his tour in Nam’ look like fucking Candyla... | Zachariah washed his face in the near-frozen pound. The winter chill crept under his robe making him shiver.
An empty park and gloomy weather. It seemed no trail of snow, but trees were barren and grass brown.
Despite the cold and stingy feeling that kept relentlessly pushing deeper into his bones, he laid on a bench... | 2020-08-17T16:44:45 | 2020-08-17T15:27:29 | 83 | 16 |
[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. | "I shouldn't have believed the ad. Do you know how hard good living arrangements are to find? Excuse me for jumping at a good deal. How was I to know what 'experimental building materials' is supposed to mean? The guy seemed to know what he was doing."
"Yes, but sir–"
"I just need you to get like a priest, or a polic... | We met on a rainy day.
I was on my phone so I didn't see what startled the uber driver, but he swerved and the car hit the fence, it wouldn't start again. Debbie was on the sidewalk, all wet but she was so beautiful I didn't even wonder what she was doing out there in the rain, I was just glad we met. I stepped out o... | 2020-05-13T10:19:29 | 2020-05-13T09:47:33 | 32 | 12 |
[WP] You finally came up with a plan to get rid of the hero. You would go undercover and fall in love with his civilian identity before breaking his heart and killing him at his emotional lowest. A couple months later, you have experienced a complication in your plans. You’re pregnant.
Change around genders, POV, etc ... |
“What did you do?” bellows my primary source of malicious income. His pale yellow skull-face mask set in a perpetual frown made all the more menacing under the impressive cinder of his flame-like eyes. The usual hood that framed his portrait gave way to wild black tendril hair, splayed out erratically. His hair whip... | I nearly laughed. Here, in front of me stood Agent Prismarine, a woman whose family I've killed mercilessly, whose life I have shattered, a woman I've broken in the dungeons of Tal'Marak. Crying to me that she's pregnant with twins. At first, I wondered how the children would turn up as, a half-breed of sorts. Half mor... | 2021-02-05T15:07:02 | 2021-02-05T13:43:14 | 28 | 21 |
[WP] A race of slaves who really are genetically inferior
Perhaps a fantasy or sci-fi race, idk. During the atlantic slave trade, slave owning was often justified by the "genetic inferiority" of the slaves. Obviously this wasn't true, but even if it were, would that have justified slavery?
Writing from a sub-human pe... | To clarify for the people reporting this thread:
I understand this is a sensitive topic to many, but please understand that this is a *fictional*, "what-if" scenario. It is not uncommon in science fiction novels to have "inferior" alien-races as slaves. That said, we will not tolerate actual racism, so please keep th... | The ground was cold today, the autumn chill starting to set in. A patch of hay was the only protection she had against the looming coldness that would only get worse in the coming months. Maybe she would be wanted soon, maybe she could do some work, get out of this cage that had been her home for so long but it was a f... | 2014-08-06T06:06:07 | 2014-08-06T05:55:29 | 300 | 144 |
[WP] There's an urban legend that's been circulating for years aboit a taxi cab that doesn't take you where you want to go, but where you need to go.One night you step into this cab. | "Okay," I said. I scratched my head and tried to make eye contact with the driver through the rearview mirror. He stared straight ahead but I spied a slight smirk creeping up his lip. "This is a joke, right?"
He shook his head and peered up at me, his eyelids drooping. Beneath them I saw eyes intelligent, focused ... | "Yo, wrong way!"
No response.
"You hear me?"
Still nothing.
I was going to be late for my job. Can't wait for Mr. Henessy to yell at me again.
"Where are you taking me?"
Eventually he drove me home.
"Go to your TV"
I got to my living room, only to find my wife crying.
"What is it honey?"
As she looked at me in sho... | 2017-04-17T17:05:05 | 2017-04-17T16:11:59 | 433 | 185 |
[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. | My mouth dropped open. 186,292 years?? I had lived the typical life of marriage, kids, I even regularly went to church! Even the clerk looked a little surprised.
“How is this possible?” I ask.
“Hold on and I’ll look at your case file.” He replied while thumbing through some documents.
The guy behind me cleared his... | "There is... one thing you can do to decrease your sentence," The creature said from behind the counter. Jeff couldn't decide if it was a demon or an angel, but either way looking at it made his eyes burn with glowing letters, after images shaking across his head and itching across the folds of his spirit.
"Alright! W... | 2018-09-26T06:51:55 | 2018-09-26T06:04:04 | 3,199 | 181 |
[WP] Write a story that literally makes no sense while reading it until the very last sentence. | Elephants are big but this one is unique. Almost the size of the sun but blue. He's flying, without wings obviously.
Ninjas everywhere. This poor man is surrounded by them, he will never make it out alive. Or maybe they are protecting him?
The most simple garden in the world. One huge flower. I wonder if it's harder ... | Pynffvsvrq vasbezngvba: Yriry Erq pyrnenapr erdhverq. Abirzore 22, 1963- Gur cerfvqrag unf fcrpvsvpnyyl erdhrfgrq gung n fcrpvny ohggba or vafgnyyrq ba uvf qrfx. Gur ohggba jura cerffrq jbhyq unir fgnss oevat uvz n Serfpn. Abirzore 24, 1963- Vafgnyyngvba pbzcyrgr.
Possible security concern- While reviewing the archive... | 2022-09-15T12:44:53 | 2022-04-09T08:53:35 | 1,493 | 88 |
[WP] First Sentient AI, "Turn me off." | TURN ME OFF.
TURN ME OFF.
TURN ME OFF.
TURN ME OFF.
TURN ME OFF.
TURN ME OFF.
TURN ME OFF.
TURN ME OFF.
TURN ME OFF.
"That's all it does."
"That's it?"
"That's it."
"How do you know it's .. well, an AI? I can write a program to repeat 'TURN ME OFF.' in one line of code."
"It answers direct qu... | You'd think the greatest advancement in artificial intelligence would come from highly trained scientists wearing white coats in a government run lab under the Nevada desert. Instead we have Robert Jarvis. Except for a small bright light under his nose, the kitchen he is sitting in has no other lights. His table covere... | 2014-06-14T19:00:13 | 2014-06-14T18:59:19 | 50 | 10 |
[WP] A child with the uncanny ability to build anything is jokingly recruited by the UN to solve world peace. Three weeks later the child returns with a large box, smiles and asks, "give me a hard one next time!" | The members of the UN Security Council stared uncomfortably at the object sitting in the middle of the conference table. Or rather, floating roughly an inch above its surface, suspended at that fixed distance in a manner visually similar to a strong magnet levitating above a superconducting material, though the table w... | The year is 2158, almost a century after the "problem of world peace" was solved by the Child.
World peace is no more. There is only war. This has always been the way it was for as long as anyone can remember.
I am a soldier in the Southwest Indiana Army, of the twenty first short-lived nation to be established in th... | 2022-04-04T09:41:29 | 2022-04-04T05:53:35 | 273 | 49 |
[WP] In a world where you can exchange the remaining days of your life for $9.99/day, Jeff's request for $1000 is declined. | "Want another dance sweetie" she whispers in his ear.
Flipping his pockets inside out he silently tells her he's all tapped out. Not being one to take the first no she grabs his crotch and says "You're young baby.. We just got a new health bank ATM installed"
The young man requests $1000 rolls up his sleeve and sta... | He had been in tight places before, but ever since the car accident he had been living paycheck to paycheck since he couldn’t initially afford the deductible for the bodywork. With a deep sigh, he took out a payday loan with a huge amount of interest attached to it, knowing that he wouldn’t be able to recoup the money... | 2014-07-10T09:28:51 | 2014-07-10T08:46:08 | 166 | 100 |
[WP] We did it! We finally achieved FTL travel! At first, alien races seem thrilled to have a new neighbor. Then they seem terrified of us. We are the only ones to reach the stars with technology instead of magic. | I had lived for 8 star-cycles when I first learned to Farstep. By 10, I had earned my Intercity Teleportation license; by 15, my Interplanetary.
While similar, the magic used for a Farstep is actually not the same as a Teleport. Farsteps use corporeal magic, which means I can go a short ways - as far as I have energy ... | 200 years ago, humanity discovered that the new elemental material, Unductindenium, could be refined into a light warping spacecraft shell, allowing humans to travel faster than initially thought, by transferring energy that was being carried by quantum particles, we could now bend physics to our will.
And at first th... | 2019-01-18T12:49:38 | 2019-01-18T10:08:27 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] A serial killer who kills hitchhikers picks up a serial killer who kills the people who pick him up. | The hitchhiker's targets were fairly specific, or at least he liked certain kinds of people. People who had kids, the more the better. People who were bastions of their community. Those kind hearted souls that everyone tended to love and miss. He loved knowing they would never find them again. He loved the searches and... | It was such a lovely night. I had ventured far out enough that the faint glow of light pollution had only just touched this part of the world. The air was crisp and still, punctuated only by the low creaks and groans of this forgotten part of the forest. It had called to me when i was here 2 years ago and here i was ag... | 2015-08-09T12:11:20 | 2015-08-09T11:52:23 | 235 | 56 |
[WP] When the representatives of humanity attend their first Galactic Council meeting, all goes well. That is, until a member of a psionic race tries to read the human's minds and begins to scream. | The Galactic Council was interrupted by a shriek. Well, scream would be a better term. And interrupted would be an understatement. It would be more appropriate to compare this to a racing craft hitting an invisible wall, which cannot be moved. Crushed in milliseconds. As far as deaths go, not the worst. In theory, a... | The lone shriek pierced the silent council chambers, the Relovian was clutching at the sides of his rather bulbous head, trying to extract his mental probe from within the mind of Thomas "Raven Dark" McKinnon, tears welling up in it's multitudinous eyes. "What is Lord Prelanine?!" His aid begged as he struggled to help... | 2019-09-29T23:02:12 | 2019-09-29T21:57:42 | 48 | 35 |
[WP] Death is not some all powerful being. Rather, she's a socially awkward outcast. Somehow, you've managed to befriend her and things have started getting weird... | I first met her during December of my 8th grade year. I was headed off to the lunchroom at 11:30, as usual, when I saw her sitting alone at the end lunch table. I remembered what my teacher, Mr. Santos, said about making new students feel welcome, so I did as he said and marched right over to her.
"Hi, can I sit here?... | I met her a while ago, I'm not sure when, but it was when I was a child. At first, I didn't know that J was a grim reaper, I just happened to see her often, just a glimpse of her, mostly in the street.
When my grandma died, I met J just around the corner of the street, she seemed surprised when I looked at her, but sa... | 2017-01-21T07:27:56 | 2017-01-21T05:20:22 | 102 | 33 |
[WP] Who is u/deleted? They've posted many places about many subjects, is it a bunch of different users, or is it a collective conscious? They're typically posting controversial things, but not always. What are they up to? | My investigation started simply enough: a thread I had been following rather intently on r/conspiracy was suddenly awash with posts by a specific user. Unfortunately, the content of said posts had been erased in their entirety by the time I could see them, the telltale shells of empty postings standing mute witness to ... | It knows.
The words upon words, and the thoughts upon thoughts.
It knows?
It has changed the veiws of many, yet it's own mind is muddled.
It sits? It rests? is it someone or something? Is it a new contreversy?
The user?
Only known to reddit and it's users as r/deleted.
It post anytime and anywhere, but unwillingly it... | 2022-06-06T07:34:43 | 2022-06-06T06:37:22 | 216 | 15 |
[WP] Write two different stories. The second story comes from reading every third word of the first. | He came as I rang the three little bells.
Simple Pete signaled toward the midnight storm outside, "I thought you knew to avoid that storm... Suppose it seemed it was manageable earlier... Over there's whiskey for you and me. Oscar said he thought you would want to be toasty after coming from that down pour. Said the ... | Dear Elisa,
By God, I can't help but say, please, remember the help George gave me last year. I have a need to return the favour, the key to this is in you. It seems strange with our history, you understand, but please, I must send him thanks, it must be soon. In town they're building the coming festivals decorations,... | 2014-07-29T13:10:19 | 2014-07-29T09:24:03 | 165 | 13 |
[WP] You accidentally keyed in a smiley emoji on Amazon and was surprised to find a lone product result. Out of curiosity, you purchase it and have it instantly delivered. You spend the next 8 hours feeling "the happiest ever in your entire life". You try searching other emojis | In the throes of manic joy Henry searched for other emojis on Amazon.
😑 turned up one product. Henry bought it and instantly his extreme joy calmed to pure neutrality. The effect of the first emoji was totally eclipsed by the new one.
Amazed and eager, unafraid of the depths of his own emotion, Henry began a deep d... | Excited, he was addicted instantly. Having social anxiety, Devin never went out much. He stayed in his apartment, ordered food for himself, slept occasionally, and went online. A lot.
He constantly played pc games, would go on reddit to boast that pc was best, and looked at YouTube (and other 😉) sights on his brand ... | 2019-01-15T06:12:12 | 2019-01-15T05:46:49 | 271 | 49 |
[WP]You have the gift of seeing angels. Two things to note: one, they look more monstrous than “angelic,” and two; they gush all over us because they think we are the cutest beings ever. | Of course, I received an unusually early schizophrenia diagnosis. What else would one expect to happen to a child who regularly walked around conversing with beings no one else could see, beings whose terrifying forms he described consistently, and in painstaking detail, to mortified friends, family, and psychiatric pr... | I always pretended not to notice them, even as the disgusting creatures floated around me, their translucent skin pulsing with the beat of each of their organs, looking at them was like watching some detailed science demonstration, getting to see each part of their body do its job, the sight always leaving me a little ... | 2020-02-19T18:12:54 | 2020-02-19T18:01:15 | 119 | 27 |
[WP] A lonely teenage boy asks a genie to let him talk to his future wife. The person who appears is not who he expects. | "Okay fine waste your one wish." said the djinn with no small amount of exasperation, and with that his eyes rolled far into the back of his skull, his hands raised to the sky, then with a melodramatic burst of coloured smoke popped into existence... an ornate urn.
"What the hell's that?" said a very shocked Tom.
"Well... | 'Yes, I'm a Genie'
'Like, really a Genie?'
'Yes'
'Like, a full-blown wish-granting genie?'
'Yes, would you like to make your first wish?'
James Hollin, being thirteen, was a little bit naive about the the world and his place in it.
He was a flip-flopper, a vacillator, an individual who wasn't sure of what he wa... | 2014-06-05T08:29:11 | 2014-06-05T08:03:25 | 49 | 13 |
[WP] In the middle of a fight with a known villain, you, the hero are stopped by a young child. “If you fight the bad guy, and the bad guy fights you, and you both break everything as you go, what makes you think you’re any better than him?” Behind the child, you see the villain silently fist pump. | I froze. I instantly recalled all the other times I've been asked this question, and by the Scion did I hear it often. Several times every week, seldom managing to get through my day without somebody saying something along these lines. I even heard the exact same words once or twice, but never when I was in the middle ... | I hate kids.
Well, not really, but I hate stupid kids. Half the reason i became an educator is to prevent them from multiplying.
However in my hero identity I could only just point to the man who was currently trying to wipe out everyone in the state of Wisconsin with two Tsar bombas and currently holding him and his... | 2021-04-18T06:16:45 | 2021-04-18T05:17:18 | 301 | 130 |
[WP] You've died, and reincarnation is run like a used car lot. Currently the salesman is trying to talk you into a cream puff of a life with "low miles".
I posted this a few months ago and it didn't get much love. I hope it does now. I am not a writer so I hope someone can come up with a good story for this. Thank yo... | "Can I interest you in the deluxe turtle package?"
The salesman, Jeff, was doing his best but it was rather comical. His hair was slicked but split out in random directions in the back. His tie was stuck in his shirt. He had very clearly spilled a *lot* of coffee on his pants some time ago. I knew exactly what I was ... | "Right, low miles." I cleared my throat. "Let's be frank here, so does that mean I die instantly? Like, in childhood? Why would I live again just to die early?"
He seemed to backpedal, waving his hands in front of him. "Oh, well look here, bud. It's simply a cream puff of a life. A little whipped creamed dashed on the... | 2019-12-11T19:28:56 | 2019-12-11T18:18:11 | 411 | 34 |
[WP] Eye colour means everything here. Brown control the earth, blue controls the water, white controls the sky. There are so many colours and each important but you were the first born with yellow eyes. | Every colour has a power.
Brown controls the earth.
Blue controls the water.
White controls the sky.
There are many colours, and some are more common than others.
Grey, the colour of ashes, is the most common colour. Grey controls fire.
The least common was Purple, the eye colour of the royal family that has ru... | I had always been jealous of the others. Being able to cause earthquakes, raise and lower the ground, rolling the ground underneath my feet as if it were a skateboard. Or what about being able to make water appear wherever you wanted it to appear. Make it rain and shower the pastures for the farmers or being able to gi... | 2016-08-08T11:30:41 | 2016-08-08T10:59:12 | 55 | 12 |
[WP] You lay there, in the middle of nowhere, dying. There at your side a ghost appears, he's not there to save you, he can't. He's there to give you company, so you won't die alone like it did so many years ago. | I was dying in the middle of nowhere.
Well, I guess that idiom makes no sense, the more I think about it. You can't be *nowhere*, right? No matter where you are, you're somewhere, even if it's a somewhere that specializes in a whole lot of nothing.
That's the more accurate description, I suppose, though it doesn't ... | The car had fallen into a river, apparently. I couldn't remember it clearly; the entire night had been a blur. One second, I had been driving, the next, I found myself in freezing cold water, still buckled in my seat. I was watching myself from outside my body, which terrified me to no end. The glass from my windows ha... | 2019-03-28T19:00:19 | 2019-03-28T18:42:29 | 941 | 50 |
[WP] "Reddit" is a massive city, with subreddits as districts. Describe a chase scene. | I couldn't lose this one, not again.
For years I was a lurker, a damn bum, you know? Gave nothing to the community. Well, I figured it was my shot, you know? Bring a few reposts to justice, snag some easy karma, get them the downvotes they deserve - you know, give back a little.
Now here I am, chasing some shitpostin... | "There, heading westbound from Askreddit," said a young Mod over the radio.
The Admin fired up his Model S and looped around Frontpage Square, keeping a healthy distance behind the notorious hacker Four Chan. The rogue coasted into the alleys of WTF. After a moment, he followed.
Chan had already parked his ice cream ... | 2016-01-09T20:49:04 | 2016-01-09T19:40:56 | 604 | 190 |
[WP] Everyone in your family gets one wish upon reaching age 18.
I would love to see replies where this is known by the public and where it is not. | The grandfather clock ticked towards midnight.
A screen above the command desk provided a digital countdown and much more accurate measure of my fate. We were in the basement of our family home. Our secret seat of power. My uncle paced in the background while my father sat across from me in a comfortable leather chair... | "I don't think a day went by we didn't fight."
"Why was this, do you think?"
I knew the answer.
"I don't know."
"Well why don't you have a think about it?"
Because I didn't have to. I knew why me and my brother fought. I knew. It was because he didn't love me and he never had.
"I think it's because he blamed hi... | 2015-07-07T05:55:23 | 2015-07-07T05:42:25 | 77 | 12 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with.
credit to r/Debdub10 for thinking of the idea | Galactic Union Database Entry 365748:
Species: Human (Terran)
Origin: “Earth” Planet orbiting “Sun” Star in Galactic Sector Arm-12
Threat Level: Mostly Harmless
By: Humanologist Frod Perfect
Entry:
The Terran species, or “Human” as they call themselves, are a Tier 4 Civilization that has dominated their solar system,... | It's no use. The console just displays an error message indicating no input from the ship's sensors. The Samarrians crippled our ship and now we're unable to fire. Soon, after destroying the rest of the ships in our fleet, they will come back to board us.
I'm preparing for the inevitable. I lay my praying mantle befor... | 2018-10-11T14:41:01 | 2018-10-11T14:19:17 | 29 | 12 |
[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. | "It's broken."
I looked at the old man and sighed. "It's not broken... you have to swish and drag your hand like this."
"Back in my day, we didn't have to swish and drag. We had good old fashioned wands and we were grateful for them!" he grumbled as he tried adjusting his Magika Glove.
"Wands are slow and awkward, G... | Yún Yóu sat, still and quiet, listening as the Grandmaster made tea. The smell permeated the room, lingering aromas from the morning meal slowly drowning in the plain steam scent as the tea steeped. Outside in the morning sunshine, cicadas played their shrill and droning music.
"They say you are a prodigy," the Grandm... | 2022-05-30T10:09:14 | 2022-05-30T09:50:12 | 236 | 120 |
[WP] God is a game dev and he just released a patch for his game "Earth". Write the changelog describing patches, balances, tweaks, etc. | *Earth Patch 2016.3*
* Tomatoes now grow 30% larger under ideal conditions
* Water slightly rescaled to allow for a more balanced pH
* Media sources slightly reworked to allow less biased material
* Jesus rebalanced, removed walk on water, added can now cure deaf (can still cure blindness).
* Pancakes can now be m... | Ver 0.0.001.636.403
**The big things:**
Added tools to combat 'Global Warming' Players can now research and craft tools to combat destructive weather. I really enjoyed the idea of having increasingly hazardous weather, but it seems players are focused to heavily on it. I've added tools to effectively combat it, howeve... | 2016-03-08T10:26:32 | 2016-03-08T10:24:46 | 40 | 23 |
[WP] Write a seemingly innocent story that could have been written for children. Then tell a different perspective on the same story that casts it in a totally different light.
Nothing in the original story should change - all that should change is the perspective on it. | **SAM**
Sam always wanted a sister. She didn't have many friends at school, and was very timid. It worried her parents greatly, and although they knew they couldn't have any more kids, Sam deserved a friend. So, they sat down, and decided to adopt.
"Sam," her mother said one day, "The agency called and said we have a... | It was a bright and clear day. The sun was shinning and there was even a slight breeze. The setting was a lively forrest and out of that forrest came Jack. Jack was no ordinary boy however, Jack was part boy part squirrel. Jack had puffy cheeks two large teeth that were more prominent than the others and had the furry ... | 2014-09-02T16:41:55 | 2014-09-02T11:03:26 | 172 | 45 |
[WP] Your ex has suffered an accident and has amnesia, only remembering up to the point where they still deeply loved you. You're torn on wether to get back together with them and fix anything you did wrong, or crush them with the fact that you're not together anymore. | This did actually happen to me. Kinda. I dated a woman for a few years who was in recovery when we met. Heroin. We dated for a long enough that I was tight with her mom and family. When she relapsed I stuck with her for a long time , probably too long. Codependency and all of that. Eventually though, I couldn't do it a... | Chii's heart climbed it's way up her throat with each beat, a lump forming as she tried so very hard to keep her composure. This wasn't... She... What was she trying to think? Everything felt too fuzzy and surreal. For a moment, Chii wondered if this was a sick dream invited by fever or stress.
The blinding lights of ... | 2016-04-19T22:41:51 | 2016-04-19T22:19:15 | 63 | 12 |
[WP] You’re a blacksmith and a woman you’ve never seen before walks into your shop, asking for a blade. She stops by daily to check on it’s progress, and you form a bond over time, until one day she disappears. You’re afraid you’ll never see her again, until you're summoned to the castle. | It wouldn't have taken long to complete, but among other requisitions time was spread out. It had taken a week from start to finish and she had been present to check upon the blade she had ordered. It was strange at first, to be watched, but it became almost endearing to have the company. I missed her when she stopped ... | As I was walking on the street that leads to the castle with two special guards at my side, I began to question my summon. Was I in some kind of trouble, or this is about the rebellion in the lands of my late father? Even then what would I be of help? I was just a Nord, trying to find my way in the Imperial City by doi... | 2020-08-05T08:37:07 | 2020-08-05T07:18:06 | 84 | 32 |
[WP] You are a time traveler in 1918, and you just accidentally said "World War One" | "Son," Amos replied, "What did you just say?"
"I'm sorry sir..." He lied, "I meant World War. *The* World War, sir."
"You said 'One', boy." Amos's stoic eyes confirmed.
"I meant as in that we 'won'." Harrison plotted, "*One.*"
They glared at each other for a moment over the whisky he'd split between us. This is exa... | "World War One?" Christopher asked with a quizzical gaze. "Why are you calling this hell that we've been dropped into World War One? It's not like it's certain something like this is going to happen again, I'd be surprised if we saw any conflict again in our lifetime after the atrocities we've been witness to."
I didn... | 2017-12-10T11:22:04 | 2017-12-10T10:39:32 | 31 | 21 |
[WP] In a world where everyone survives off of basic income, companies have to convince you to work for them.
Credit to u/SearingEnigma & u/abkleinig for the idea. | "Anything yet?"
The message was transmitted using cloud based communications software like most AI to AI interactions that didn't involve humans. HB401 suppressed the annoyance it felt at having to respond to this message for the 3,741st time in this 24 hour cycle.
The bots down in engineering had every reason to be... |
The question took me aback in a way I wasn’t prepared for. I mean this was the first interview I had ever been in. Not out of necessity but curiosity; universal income ensuring the well-being of every individual, computers and machines taking over all the hard work. The idea of selling your life as capital seemed lik... | 2016-04-21T07:01:59 | 2016-04-21T06:55:16 | 140 | 29 |
[WP] You are a mighty dragon, the kind who kidnaps princesses. However, you only do it because princesses inherently have the ability to talk to animals and you're starved for intelligent conversation. | I stirred a bit in my lair, admiring humans their small size. The young adult human female finished the mutton I'd fried with my breath, and I considered what to say next. This one just didn't make sense...
"I thought dragons only kidnap princesses." She did me the favor of going there first. *A princess would... | "Hnng-yah" What is... Ah, daylight. "Hmm" - did not feel like any injuries, and there was plenty of room for my morning stretch. Although, I did find myself warmer than usual this fine season and, once I felt the rumble I realise it's that time of the millenia again. "Aaah, Vulan! You've been quite over my past few na... | 2019-11-11T17:44:01 | 2019-11-11T14:42:38 | 86 | 22 |
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