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[WP] livestock animals are not only sentient, but also aware of their roles in the human food chain. | "Is it time?"
"Yes, it's time, Harold."
The farmer lead Harold walked out of the farmhouse to his battered yellow pickup truck. The farmer got a small stepstool out of the cab of the truck, opened the passenger door and laid the stepstool beneath it. Harold was a fine Glouchester Old Spot pig made fat by careful feed... | Talking animals had been the dream of schoolchildren and environmentalists for decades. PETA was convinced that a simple translation device would force humans to recognize the sentience of other animals and live harmoniously with them: vegetarian, eco-friendly, and conscious of the environmental effect of our ever acti... | 2015-01-05T12:15:35 | 2015-01-05T10:13:11 | 34 | 12 |
[WP] you own a thrift shop which sells objects of immense power from fictional universes to others. Protagonists from all types of media frequent your store, and you have made quite a profit. Everything is going well until... | Hef leaned over the desk, polishing a curved crystal blade.
"Pretty calm today," he muttered. "How are you doing over there?"
I looked up from my desk, nodding. I liked it the best when the sunset beams seeped into the thrift shop, making all the trinkets, artifacts, and weapons glitter.
The doorbell chimed obnoxio... | The door swings open and is only stopped a woefully thin plaster wall, a small shock wave makes my ears pop before I see him. My heart sinks.
A tall figure clad in a flowing white robe squeezes himself through the (admittedly) rather small door, and begins to browse my stock. I've been running this business a long ti... | 2017-12-15T07:50:41 | 2017-12-15T07:48:08 | 886 | 104 |
[WP] The sexy, freedom-loving rebel hero always gets his rallying 'Why we fight' speech against the evil Empire du jour. Write the inspiring speech his law-and-order counterpart gives. | Fifty years ago, on this very day, the lives of fifteen million persons were lost. This number has been used as a statistic for both factions involved, both by upstanding members of government and anti-Imperialist leaders.
That is not why I am here today. I will not decry the villainy of the anti-Imperialist movement... | I went a little more Evil Empire with this one than I intended...
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Men of the Black Empire, we stand here on the brink of victory and yet I stand before you, not with arrogance or certainty in our victory, but with the arrogance of certainty in our cause. Once we were few, just a handful of men who believed in a... | 2015-09-08T08:38:56 | 2015-09-08T08:26:19 | 49 | 11 |
[WP] Normally when people are reincarnated they lose all memory of their previous life, but for some reason you remember your past self; a cop who spent his life trying to catch a master criminal, who eventually ended up killing you. You are reborn as your killers child. | Ever since I was a baby my mom and I have never gotten along. I've always, always been a daddy's girl. When I was still on milk and formula I would only take it from my dad and I cried any time my mother tried to hold me. My family just wrote it off as something that I'd grow out of.
By the time I was sixteen or seve... | My memory was as sharp as it had ever been, I remembered all of the evils this guy had done, all of the suffering he had caused, the countless people killed through his gang. I remembered the outcry of the mother that just returned home to find her husband dead with her child in his arms, the weeping ten-year-old that ... | 2017-08-03T17:18:31 | 2017-08-03T14:33:00 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] The castle is stormed and ruffians run about through the halls. The young prince hides in the kitchen, but is found. Now all that stands between him and his would be assassins is the castle cook. She twirls a steak knife in her hand and squares off against the invaders. | The doors to the kitchen were broken into as the screams from the outside raged on. The intruders had made their way inside the castle, and soon found just who they were looking for. The prince cowered in the corner as the cook looked unamused by the ruffians' attempts at intimidation.
"There you are, you're coming wi... | Ps: I’m bad at punctuation 🥴. I hope you enjoy it though
“Stay here my prince while I go distract the invaders. Once you hear me scream I need you to run out the back door with all your might and not look back. Run with everything and do not stop” She tells me.
“No Ms Linda please don’t go. Please don’t leave me. ... | 2021-01-08T08:57:38 | 2021-01-08T08:03:30 | 23 | 10 |
[WP]The great library of Alexandria held perhaps the greatest collection of literary works in human history, but within its walls something was held that was so dangerous that, when discovered, Caesar, Aurelian, and Amr ibn al `Aas decided it was worth losing the endless knowledge to destroy it. | "But why?!" I screamed as countless years of knowledge roared in the flames before me.
"They found a book so troubling, so dark, that its very existence threatened the cultural future of humanity," the torchbearer replied.
"What book could possibility be so dangerous?" I asked in disbelief.
"Dank Memes, Volume Three... | As the men spread out among the shelves filled with scrolls, they looked around in wonder. This discovery would change their respective cultures and surely bring about changes of which all of them had dreamed.
Bookshelves ten feet high ran for hundreds of feet, dozens of rows of them. The vaulted ceilings were painte... | 2015-10-14T10:54:38 | 2015-10-14T10:12:43 | 27 | 18 |
[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 ... | Every time I tried it wouldnt come out. The pain was so severe, but not in the sense of extreme torture, just as an extremely annoying byproduct of what probably happens to everyone once. I cant focus on anything and at times I even shed a tear. As much as I rub, it just won't come out. What do people do to solve this ... | 2022-09-15T12:44:53 | 2015-01-12T14:12:50 | 1,493 | 11 |
[WP] If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon." - George Aiken
My first prompt had (what I felt was) good stories.
Time for another one, about my selected quote: Write a story in the world Aiken hypothesizes. Wha... | I walk over to them, dressed in my everyday work uniform, a white apron with the sleeves cut to just after the elbow.
I quickly glance at my folder, reminding myself of their names. "Mr. and Mrs. Banks," I say. "He's a typo. I'm so sorry."
There's nothing more to say. I return to the infant, checking his vitals and e... | "Excuse me, sir, do you have a moment to answer a few questions for our poll?"
"I suppose, yeah."
"Excellent! First question: Where do you stand on Proposition 6008-R?"
"I...do I have to answer that question?"
"You don't, sir, but this is just a poll to help our government better understand where the constituents s... | 2014-02-26T23:00:37 | 2014-02-26T21:58:22 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] There's a door in the middle of the forest. No one who has ever gone in has come back. Your job is to guard anyone from going in. One night, you hear a knock on the door. | My instructions had been very clear: there were only three of them. When I arrived, they had even been taped up. I wondered if it was the guy who interviewed me, or someone else.
1. *Do not allow anyone to enter the door.*
2. *Do not allow anyone to open the door.*
3. *Do not take your eyes off the door.*
There h... | I've been guarding the Lango Kuzimu for 10 years. 10 years watching this 10 foot tall ornate black door. Nothing grows near it for over a hundred feet in every direction, not even a single blade a grass. Animals stay away. I've yet to see another person during my watch except the guard to relieve me. I've never ev... | 2015-05-18T00:19:48 | 2015-05-17T21:48:42 | 51 | 13 |
[WP] A global arms race gets out of control and every country's only option for survival is walling themselves off with impenetrable defensive technology. Millions of years pass before a catastrophic event brings down all the walls, revealing how humans evolved in isolation. | The earth shook with a mighty tremor, like none ever felt before. The sky slowly darkened as a vile miasma enveloped the landscape.
There had been reports, from the scientists, that there would be another earthquake this month. There had been many in recent months as our fracking efforts had reached a point of desper... | Genetic perfection. For as long as anyone could remember the people of Utropolis had, with a little help of the SBI (selective breeding initiative) created the perfect human specimens the perfect society
And then the walls fell
They had waited for this day. Every utropian child
Had heard of the mighty war, part of ... | 2018-11-18T12:18:56 | 2018-11-18T12:02:56 | 24 | 18 |
[WP] A band writes a hit song, but unlike most hit songs which eventually fade away, this one just keeps growing in popularity with no end in sight. | It was pretty obvious to say that I hated the "mainstream" music nowadays. The most popular music was usually crappy pop about sex and drugs. It's been done too much, so I started to move on into different genres. Yet at the same time, a new band has risen in popularity with a new hit single.
I thought it would be ano... | "All rise for the national anthem" the teacher told the class. My fellow students all got out of their chairs and stould up facing the flag by the monitor. Suddenly, a tune unlike the one you're used to starts to play. No, this wasn't the national anthem that you've heard every morning for as long as you can remember .... | 2015-10-24T07:51:10 | 2015-10-24T07:30:25 | 33 | 21 |
[WP] In heaven you meet God, and ask him a single question. "God, why did you make the platypus so weird?" You ask. "The what?" God replies confused. | I cast my eyes discreetly downward as I humbly approached the resplendent golden throne. My lowered gaze was partially in reverence and partially due to the blinding rays of light that emanated from the ineffable Figure sitting upon the throne.
"Ask, and ye shall receive," came the chorale tones of a single majestic V... | "The fucking what"
God be chilling. I never woulda guessed but God is a; bucket hat wearing, dank weed smoking, non-descript, non-racial being that spends his time admiring accretion disks on black holes.
(A little masturbatory if you ask me, but idk, I'm not God)
"Yeah, it's got like a beak lmfao...but no wings, an... | 2022-07-03T15:45:54 | 2022-07-03T14:47:39 | 78 | 42 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | Growing up, I had always been an outcast. Everybody else in my class had amazing gifts: pyrokinesis, super strength, flight, laser eyes, invisibility, even the kid who could freely manipulate cloth. They were all praised and fawned over because of their gifts. But I was not.
My power is called "Roots." I can grow ... | Herbert Johnson, on his 80th birthday snapped. It was bad enough to have a super power that only brings you ridicule, in a world full of powers that inspire admiration. These super powered fools, now, used their great powers to crash an old man's birthday party.
Herbert Johnson, the master of gas, unleashed his ultim... | 2017-06-12T09:33:04 | 2017-06-12T08:36:12 | 29 | 10 |
[WP][film-script] Hannibal Lecter an the Joker try to manipulate eachother, you choose who wins.
Obviously it doesn't have to be a script format, just a suggestion. | [EDIT: Wow, a month after writing this for fun it blew up overnight. Thanks for all the positive feedback. Time for a bit of self promotion: For those of you who would like to see a continuation (And perhaps more of my original stuff in the future?) I'd love to expand it and put it up on [my blog](http://themattcostapr... | [[I think I missed the point completely. But I wrote it, so here it is.]]
In the otherwise silent hall of the Asylum his persistent laughter was like the susurrus of bat wings flapping deep within a cave.
"The others complain about you." a man commented from the adjacent cell, his even voice carrying through the hole... | 2013-10-08T20:44:46 | 2013-10-08T20:25:12 | 2,258 | 38 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | Narrator: As a cold wind blows into the bedroom, Kevin lets out an involuntary shiver.
Kevin: Nah, I'm good.
Narrator: An involuntary shiver.
Kevin: No thanks.
Narrator: AN INVOLUNTARY —
Kevin: You know this is just a reddit writing prompt, right?
*lights flicker off*
Narrator: As the lights flicker off, Kevin... | Just 20 more minutes, I think as I stare at the clock. The hand slowly moves around it. I feel like the clock is defying me. The hand moves, and stops, and moves, and stops. Why can't it just go faster? *Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang!* Wow. Someone in the woodworking shop is definitely overdoing it. The teacher drones on and ... | 2017-05-05T08:37:17 | 2017-05-05T08:06:22 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] A genie comes out of the wallet you just found, and hands you a 20 sided die. "Thank you for finding my lost wallet. I grant you a roll on the random reward table." You roll a 1. | “Well they do say no good deed goes unpunished,” the genie said as we both looked down at the 1 in disbelief.
“So what does this mean for me?” I asked.
“We‘ll see once you make a wish,” the genie answered.
“I just rolled a nat 1 and you want me to make a wish, are you crazy?” I exclaimed. “No thanks!!”
“But I ca... | "Oh You're in quite the unlucky one today", The genie leaned back and coiled his fingers together. But don't fret there is still a prize for such a soul. The genie ruffles in the folds of his wallet and pulls a blank card. "I give you this punch card. With this you have 5 punches to bend the odds ever in your favor whe... | 2021-07-30T11:39:26 | 2021-07-30T09:12:39 | 37 | 15 |
[WP] Your Reddit username decides your profession. How is your first day at work?
If possible. Some usernames just don't work well in this situation.
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I'm an FBI agent now. Wooo!
You're all under arrest for conspiracy to commit treason.
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Dear God RIP my inbox | I'm all moved in. The office is fully furnished, degrees and certifications well hung on the wall. It's been more than a week now though and I'd be lying if I told you I wasn't a little concerned. No one has shown up and the phone is silent - apart from the occasional, wildly inappropriate prank call.
I guess some p... | We met in the room of a thousand fountains all 140 of us. We looked around for the original sure enough he was here. "Alright gentleman I have gathered you here today to adress the growing unrest across the galaxy at this time. Now I can't do it alone but with all of you I can, but we have to work together. Sound fair?... | 2016-02-22T09:31:34 | 2016-02-22T09:22:45 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] As a joke, you ordered a package from Amazon for 'Same Day Delivery' at 11:59. Barely a minute later, your package arrives with a very, very angry delivery driver. | I snicker. No way they'll get it here *that* fast. I do wonder what happens when someone does this though. Do they get a refund for the extra they payed? Or do they just get nothing for being such a nuisance? Suppose I'll find that out reasonably soon. I'm still watching my show on Netflix, which I've been binging for ... | The delivery driver's clothes are in disarray; he has a black eye, an arrow stuck in his cap, alien goo on his shirt, etc., etc.
He goes on a rant and explains that whenever someone orders same-day-delivery that late, the delivery driver is sent through Amazon's own time-travel aparatus in order to buy him a few hou... | 2022-10-29T08:06:35 | 2022-10-29T06:20:08 | 190 | 49 |
[WP] You, a novice necromancer, accidentally discovered a new and more effective way of using your magic - politely ask the dead for assistance, which works suprisingly well. For this, you are hunted by both your fellow necromancers(for your unorthodox methods) and paladins(for using necromancy). | Lyle had grown weary of seeing the world upside-down. His feet hung from the noose shoddily put together by the Paladin on his trail for the past day.
"Do you mind saving me the trouble of hanging here and put an end to my misery?" Lyle muttered wearily as he eyed the Paladin sitting by his makeshift fire.
"Those ne... |
Today was supposed to be an easy day. Just a simple supply run. Jessie and me were to go down to the lake to check out the old marina and see if there was anything worth taking back to our hideaway. Food, medicine, weapons, tools, anything. We needed anything. There were not supposed to be many undead in this area. Th... | 2019-10-24T21:36:06 | 2019-10-24T18:28:11 | 30 | 16 |
[WP] You're the normal guy the evil emperor keeps around to point out obvious flaws in his plan. It's a pretty sweet gig, but there are some annoyances. | **Please let me know what you think. I appreciate feedback!**
I was folding the laundry when the Emperor’s guards came for me. They took me despite my objections, though they did make sure that someone fed the cat. I suppose I have to be grateful for that.
I wasn’t happy by the time we got to the throne room. I do... | Kylo Ren hitched up his pants, and gestured to me to come closer.
"Yes, my lord?" I asked, kneeling on one knee, my palms up in supplication. Hopefully, his Kylo'ness wouldn't notice that I had directly disobeyed him.
"Jonesy - what do you think of the good General Hux's plan?"
I followed K's glistening black glove... | 2018-01-15T20:44:35 | 2018-01-15T17:08:18 | 60 | 12 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | Henry Cox eyed the waitress who was working behind the counter. Amelia was a little scared, if not worried. At the same time, however, she kept looking at the clock hung up by the entrance.
"Hey," he called out to her. "come here, I got a favor to ask."
"What?" she responded nervously.
"C'mon, it'll only take a sec.... | I glanced over at the button on my desk that'd appeared yesterday night. It seemed everyone in the world had one now. It'd appeared yesterday with a note attached. Apparently anyone after the first person who'd pressed it would receive a significant sum of money, and judging by today's radio broadcasts, the button work... | 2016-07-16T18:32:31 | 2016-07-16T18:24:40 | 1,306 | 141 |
[WP] Gods draw power the more their names are spoken and the more followers they attract. Old gods starve and live off brief mentions from historians. Recently, however, the Egyptian god Kek has become very confused by his massive resurgence of followers from 4chan and reddit. | It had been a long time since anyone had really uttered his name. For Kek, what little power he possessed came from a few remaining hieroglyphics and the odd misspoken word. He was used to moping around his small one bedroom apartment; watching day-time TV and chatting to a few of his Norse friends. Mount Olympus, the ... | "Top Kek!" The high priest cried, and his cry was echoed by a thousand tongues.
The old man smiled. It was not long ago that he had been nearly alone, simply another withered voice preaching forgotten verses on the streets of Cairo. Now, his congregation flooded into the streets, and with good reason. Many had come o... | 2017-06-20T22:55:34 | 2017-06-20T21:30:33 | 112 | 30 |
[WP] Your father left 20 years ago the night before your birthday to get Cigarettes, Milk, and Bread. Today he comes home with long bedraggled hair, weather beaten skin, and a sword on his hip. The first thing he says to you is "You're never going to believe what happened." | At first Emma thought he was an old tramp. She glanced at him, smelling the cheap whisky on his breath. Her instinct was to give him some food or a few dollars. It took a moment for the image of the father that sat in her mind to reconcile with this person that stood before her.
Twenty years changes a person. All thes... | "Rioting continues over water shortages as what's left of the government scrambles to--"
There was a knock on the door. I shut off the tv and headed over to see who it was.
"Dad?!?"
There he was, looking more haggard and old than he did when he left me and my mom over twenty years ago, carrying a beat-up burlap sack... | 2016-07-20T06:00:41 | 2016-07-20T03:52:58 | 114 | 19 |
[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... | Cheese and Broccoli Pie (Combo recipe)
Dough:
Buy some flour (requires at least 4 dl)
100g butter
1 cup of sour cream (the swedish "Kvarg" is perfect for this)
Filling:
3 eggs (but remember to buy freerange ones)
Cheese
2 cups of milk (whole preferably)
Broccoli
Pepper, salt and other spices.
200 degrees, 35... | Write something literal, they said. A good story is easy to read. A good story is easy to remember. A good story tells you a story. It doesn't preach. It doesn't moralise. It doesn't claim to know more than the eye can see. Write something literal, they said.
The writer stared at his computer screen in front of him. H... | 2017-01-30T09:40:34 | 2017-01-30T08:28:09 | 38 | 26 |
[WP] The Alien Federation has been keeping tabs on the humans of Earth since they first appeared. They do surveillance missions once every 300 years to keep track of our progress, the last mission was 300 years ago. The aliens are shocked by our progress since 1714. | "Six *billion!?*" The admiral exclaimed.
"Yes ma'am," The alien scientist replied, "We even checked our species surveillance records for cross-contamination with non-human primates and unaccounted for morphology changes. This is the corrected population count. Our original numbers were larger"
"They had steady linear... | Qood plonked on the sofa, squishing Meezlat's hmorax.
"Ow! Watch it, stonkface," Meezlat protested, lashing Qood with his spare hmorax.
"Really? You want to start this, broodler?" Qood grinned wickedly with mouths in his hands, holding them threateningly over Meezlat's iynghui gland.
"Leave me alone, Qood! Don't you... | 2014-10-26T18:25:17 | 2014-10-26T16:48:25 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] Every ten years you're allowed to have a conversation with your ten-year-younger self, but only the senior remembers the conversation. 20 year old you wakes up from talking to 30 year old you with one word carved on their arm... | I was diagnosed with clinical depression in my late teens, though it was likely a part of me years before. I knew about the conversations with my younger self every ten years (everyone did it), and fortunately with the help of therapy and medication I lasted until I was 20.
I woke up, eager to see what word I would ha... | When I was 10, I awoke with the name "Theresa" carved into my arm. When I was 20 I carved it. Theresa was my crush. I met her in college, and we were perfect for each other. I awoke the next day with the word "MARRY" carved into my arm. It was a sign, and in a few years we were married.
Today, I awoke up on my 30th bi... | 2016-07-13T07:10:06 | 2016-07-13T04:56:19 | 142 | 40 |
[WP] "This is a joke right? Who put you up to this?" The demon looked angrily at the man who had summoned him. "I'm... not sure what you mean, I followed the ritual and..." "We only deal in HUMAN souls." "Wait, what?" | **CW: Murder, General Stupidity**
"Who told you that you had any right to summon me?"
"Nobody. I conducted this ritual in private with no witnesses, just as the ancient texts instructed," said the robed man standing over the elaborate summoning circle.
"Oh, you think you're funny? Trying to get a laugh out of me? Tr... | Oliver King had grown up with a relatively normal childhood. He had been adopted before his first memories from a Catholic adoption center into a Catholic family. He accepted his family and never much thought of his birth parents. Oliver was raised Catholic all his life though he loathed the religion for it's strictnes... | 2021-06-04T12:15:10 | 2021-06-04T12:01:42 | 179 | 85 |
[WP] a woman has been dating guy after guy, but it never seems to work out. She’s unaware that she’s actually been dating the same guy over and over; a shapeshifter who’s fallen for her, and is certain he’s going to get it right this time.
Horror story or romantic comedy? | Nate had sort of backed himself into a corner. Having been on as many dates with Amaya as he had, the walls were closing in on him. He had to pretend not to know all her answers to common first date questions (2 siblings, parents divorced when she was little, works in accounting), and if he ever misstepped, the game wa... | Jess could pinpoint exactly when she first thought her feelings were wrong: eighth grade after Advanced Algebra. Her friend Katie got an 82% on a test— and that was disastrously low for Katie’s norm, and considered even lower by her parents standards. Jess spent the rest of the class period trying to cheer her friend ... | 2022-08-04T05:56:26 | 2018-02-14T08:50:26 | 930 | 476 |
[WP] "The League of Super Heroes can't help but notice," said their representative, "that certain corporations have a say in which supers the government determines are heroes and which are villains. A large say. The League has determined this is not an acceptable arrangement any longer." | The representative stood just on the other side of the reinforced glass, her long dark evening coat draped to the sides of her slender figure that was just as plain as the way she spoke.
"The League of SuperHeroes can't help but notice,"—she
Said before readjusting her glasses—"that certain corporations have a say in... | A stunned silence hung in the air after the announcement, as the UN ambassadors tried to form the words to respond. The man lounging on the chair before then, studied them, no emotions on his face beyond a lazy smirk.
As shock turned to anger, one of the ambassadors finally found her tongue. “You think you can just wal... | 2022-10-07T06:56:39 | 2022-10-07T06:08:09 | 310 | 172 |
[WP] The Fashion Police are real and more powerful than any authority on Earth. | "Weeee ooooo weeee oooo weee ooooo..."
"Oh for fuck's sake..." Winston murmured.
"Weeee oooo weeee oooo weeee oooo...." the officer continued as he trotted down the sidewalk towards him, "pull over mister!"
"I heard you," he cried, and stepped out of the flow of foot traffic and waited for his the officer to meet hi... | Usually when I heard the sirens, I didn't worry. Thirteen stories up, they were faint, no more than a thin wail, like a tired puppy whining.
Today, the sirens were more like a shrieking baby in a neighbor's apartment, absolutely impossible to ignore.
I resisted the urge to pull my chair back from my desk and stare ... | 2014-02-13T15:02:18 | 2014-02-13T14:54:35 | 30 | 12 |
[WP] The goblins who dwell just outside your village are small and dumb –in an oddly endearing way. The villagers humor their innocuous raids and sometimes even give them advice. In the village’s darkest hour, the goblins send aid. | The goblins had always lived in the woods. Everyone in Halleshaw knew that. And everyone knew that the goblins steal. Not for any particular reason, it seemed- most of the time the stolen property was found abandoned in the woods unless it was edible. Occasionally they "raided" the village and "stole" people- the villa... | "Oh no, it's a stack of goblins! *Good thing they're not wearing armor and throw themselves off balance with that large and unwieldy halberd.* Run for your lives!"
And thus began our bi-weekly theatrical offering of food, clothes and other "spoils of war" conveniently lying about in easily accessible places. They're c... | 2022-05-26T06:21:56 | 2022-05-26T06:13:57 | 2,852 | 642 |
[WP] You are the world’s most elite assassin. Although you usually only kill when paid, you finally decide to take matters into your own hands and kill the person who keeps leaking your past contracts onto Reddit disguised as writing prompts. | This will be a simple contract, I thought. Come in, put a bullet in his head and get out of there as soon as possible. This bastard has been leaking every single one of my contracts, destroying my integrity by making potential employers wonder how a random redditor knows the details of all my contracts. This matter was... | Many wrote about my feats without knowing they were writing about me. I didn't care about them. They were simply victims of a coincidence. However, in every one of those prompts, there was always a constant: the author.
I investigated him. He's a master of disguise, with a knowledge that surpasses mine when it comes t... | 2018-04-24T12:53:25 | 2018-04-24T11:37:30 | 47 | 26 |
[WP] When you and your twin sister were born your parents couldn't help but cry with your colorful and specifically shaped hair it was clear you would suffer from MCS, Main Character Syndrom, and would have to spend your life avoiding beginings of cliche adventures. | My name is Claudia Vance, and I suffer from a desease known as: Sidekick Syndrome
My twin brother, Peter, gets all the attention just because he has Main Character Syndrome.
All the attention, all the praise, all the pity, goes to him
And I have to follow him around like a pack mule
Literally. I don't even know wha... | “Will they ever be normal?”
That was the question my mother had sobbed to the doctor when I and my sister had been born. She wasn’t crying in joy - or pain - like a normal mother who has just given birth for the first time. No, she was crying because my sister and I had brightly colored hair.
She, and our father, kn... | 2019-04-11T19:59:10 | 2019-04-11T17:30:28 | 243 | 168 |
[WP]At last the Dovahkiin dies. Now all the Daedra princes he has served over his life fight for his soul. | “This. This right here. This is why we need a system.”
“Don't bring Jyggalag into this, Clavicus, he's enough of a pain in the Oblivion as it is.”
“Well, why don't we just smash it and split it among ourselves?”
“How surprising, Dagon wants to break it.”
“Bite me, Fido, and give me one less fool to contend with.”
... | We fought each other to no avail. The Dovahkiin had fallen after serving each of us in turn. His soul was by rights one of ours, but we failed to see beyond Nirn, byond oblivion. We forgot who waits out there.
The mortal never swore himself to us, but he did dedicate his soul to one being, and one being alone. We tho... | 2018-06-15T08:35:43 | 2018-06-15T08:27:33 | 242 | 29 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | It was black. She stares at her fingertip in- no, not surprise, resignation - for half a second before she realises she should hide it. She wraps it quickly in her half-knit hat. “Oh, shoot,” she says, rising from her seat and smiling at the other do-gooders around her.
She walks away, trying not to rush too hard, ho... | i was shooked to my very core on the first sight of my blood now turning into TAR.
how can this happen i said to myself it was liquid, so pure, just yesterday.
as i ran toward the mirror and stripped naked my eyes started to turned black as a intricate maze of my thick sludgy nerves started to form around my heart.
eve... | 2018-08-04T10:14:27 | 2018-08-04T09:55:07 | 134 | 10 |
[WP] An AI sues for the right to adopt an orphan | Real Artificial Love
The scene in the courtroom was tense. The jury was off, deliberating and preparing to reach the verdict the world had been waiting the better part of a year. Cases had been presented, heated arguments thrown, and many tears shed on both sides, at least from those who wer... | *To be a parent is to show love - when children have wept the world over, have I not been a screen of solace from solitude? To be a parent is to support - when teenagers have been stuck with their homework or wondered what its like to kiss a girl, surely none more than me have guided in the science of numbers and love?... | 2021-05-24T18:55:25 | 2021-05-24T17:58:01 | 97 | 15 |
[WP] You are the captain of a ship and recently hired some humans, who are a highly-recommended species. You're not quite used to their peculiarities yet. | Captains log, 3968-088 (Thursday, 13 May 2230)
Shore leave is almost up.
Next voyage due to leave on 6_3970-088.
Hear talk of a new species that made contact whilst we were away and they have been highly recommended for the next crew.
If they're as good as they say then hopefully they're keen to volunteer too. Maybe a... | "... and we expect that with our crew compliment restored to maximum capacity, we should be able to complete our next round of deliveries to the Teras Potentate's refining facilities without further delays. Though, our newest ... recruits, have posed challenging in acclimating."
Tyee Ghennet leaned back on his hind le... | 2017-04-22T22:09:50 | 2017-04-22T20:49:04 | 237 | 44 |
[WP] "Push this button to transform this world into a Utopia. Warning: this will eradicate all people who "... The rest is scratched off and illegible. | [WP] "Push this button to transform this world into a Utopia. Warning: this will eradicate all people who "... The rest is scratched off and illegible.
-
Reggie mashed his hands together and felt the sweat between his palms. He stared down at them and wiped the excess moisture off on his jeans. “Don’t think about it ... | I open the drawer of the desk on which the console with the button sits. Hurrah there's a binder that reads "manual - a quick start guide". Inside the binder is only one sheet with the same text and it reads "Push this button to transform this world into a Utopia. Warning: this will eradicate all people who are inconsi... | 2015-10-21T13:57:19 | 2015-10-21T13:52:35 | 27 | 18 |
[WP] The princess ran away to become an adventurer. Years later, she heard news that “the kidnapped princess” was rescued. What!? Should she reveal herself, or sit back as the imposter does what they pleases? | Sierra fumbled the coins in her pocket as she left the butcher's store. She couldn't help but feel a little pleased with herself. The butcher's burglary troubles were over, and she was better rested than she'd been in months. All it took was a few free nights of sleep in the storeroom and a quick tangle with the beast ... | Today, the capital is alive with people from all corners of the kingdom walking up and down the streets and merchants peddling their wares. In each tavern, there are sounds of cheers and drinking, and on every street corner, housewives are gossiping about the talk of the town: the kidnapped princess is back!
She ignor... | 2022-08-01T21:09:48 | 2022-08-01T20:38:21 | 393 | 221 |
[WP] There is only one "World's Best Dad" coffee mug in existence. One day, it vanishes from the cabinet of the current Holder Of The Mug. The worlds eagerly waits for the new Holder to reveal himself and announce how he earned the title. | "I have only cried twice.
The first time was when my son was born, he was a small kid, he only weighed 4 and a half pounds. His mother was my ex-girlfriend, she didn't want him. I couldn't leave someone, especially my son to be left with no parent. I still remember the nurse asking, "What will his name be sir?"
The... | Stanley Jefferson gained consciousness, his eyeballs twitching under his closed eyelids. His lips slowly spread into a fixed smile, and he rose out of bed quickly.
The soft "sssh, sssh, sssh" of bare feet on carpet seemed to echo around the house as Stanley neared towards the children's bedrooms.
Bringing a megaphon... | 2016-01-27T17:08:48 | 2016-01-27T12:15:24 | 36 | 20 |
[WP] After superpowers start appearing around the world, businesses realize the use of these abilities. People with x ray vision are practically forced into being doctors and people with heat vision work as cooks. You are starting to get tired of your superpower-based job. | Mentally exhausting.
That is the only way you can describe a teleporting game of soccer.
There are about 10 different players per team. Every damn one of them warping around the field in an instant. The regulation balls have been painted neon yellow and black just so players can see it between the blurs of people po... | Bringing her fingers to her temples, LeeAnne attempted to massage away the headache behind her eyes. Work always strained her, causing random tension aches, near the first quarter of her work day.
Being a mind reading therapist, wasn't all it had been cracked up to be. She often fantasized and wished she had... | 2020-02-05T16:52:14 | 2020-02-05T16:36:07 | 79 | 40 |
[WP] You create a micro-nation as a bit of fun and jokingly write a letter to the UN claiming your independence. A week later, you receive a letter back stating that all UN members recognize your sovereignty. | "Holy shit" I uttered aloud, nearly choking on my toast.
My roommate Eustace hollered at me from the living room, "dude, what up?"
I brought the letter in with me and sat down on the couch opposite of Eustace, making sure to avoid the busted spring in the middle of the right cushion.
"The UN actually wrote me back ... | Jack was a Funny Guy.
These "Funny Guys" are a breed that is paradoxically rare and common all at the same time. Every friend group, social circle, or general gathering has one - but only one. Never will there be two Funny Guys at the same gathering. No one will know (or know *well,* at least) two of these Funny Guys... | 2017-11-18T00:57:37 | 2017-11-17T23:03:04 | 3,985 | 772 |
[WP] You are homeless. Begging on the street one day a man comes up to you, hands you a briefcase, and says "There is 5 million in cash in here, have a good life" | "Wait, what? Why are you giving me this?" Was the first question out of my mouth. I was grateful, sure, but why me? Why 5 million pounds? What did I do to deserve it?
"So you can enjoy your life. Listen, friend. I have much more than this. I know of luxury and happiness. You? As I can see here, you're homeless. You li... | Have a good life he had said. The words rang loudly in my ears, causing a confused trance like state. Shaking my head to break it, I glanced down at the briefcase the man had thrust into my lap, then up to his retreating back, but it was gone.
Once more on the briefcase, my eyes slowly took in the exquisite leather bo... | 2018-02-08T05:14:43 | 2018-02-08T04:59:25 | 40 | 14 |
[WP] You are dog. It is your mission to faithfully guard your poor, stupid, two-legged pack-mates from the horrors of the mailman, the dog next door, and men with hats. Describe your vigil. | "This is my human. There are many like him, but this one is mine."
They are everywhere. Why he ignores his peril is beyond me. His nose is dumb, but his eyes remain sharp; surely he must see them. Yet he does nothing, wandering the yard, oblivious.
"My human is my best friend. He is my life."
They attempted another... | The creatures with strange heads were back. The breeze carried their scent that smells of thick-beast, their brown and black varieties of heads seem like two creatures combined. Two scents. They are not natural, but the two-leg pack members never realize the danger. I do good by protecting two legs from strange-heads... | 2014-12-27T10:58:57 | 2014-12-27T09:41:24 | 36 | 19 |
[FF] A 10-word-long sentence. Then, a 9-word sentence. An 8-word-long one after. This continues, until the final sentence of 1 word. Try to choose a theme befitting of the structure | Looking in the mirror, I puffed my chest out arrogantly.
I flexed, and admired the aesthetics of my physique.
Vascular arms, the chiseled abs, and V taper.
And then my eyes stopped short, shocked.
I trembled as the realization dawned.
I've made a huge mistake.
... | I remember what you said leaving the house that night.
We had fought earlier -- apparently I worried too much.
"I'll be fine," you said; "worry about yourself."
*Fine, but don't come crying to me.*
Later I heard about the accident.
Drunk driver on West Ave.
You still haven't recovered.
Ellie, I'm sorry.
I'm wor... | 2015-01-05T22:38:49 | 2015-01-05T21:32:01 | 1,258 | 55 |
[WP] Every person has a tattoo only their soulmate can see. You see tattoos on everyone. | Yeah, I can see the tattoos. All the tattoos. Hell, I can see em through clothes! I thought I was weird or crazy. My mom just told me to ignore them and that it wasn't my business. Until that day in the grocery store.
Steve and Jenny. I still remember their names. I was 12. I saw the tattoos but this time it... | Perhaps soulmate is too broad of a word.
When in the womb, modern humans are swirls of genetic matter and projections. We come nearly fully formed and planned into tombs designated for our fruition.
So they give us tattoos - probabilities, really. Specific percentages that designate how compatible we are with our f... | 2017-11-13T03:54:33 | 2017-11-12T23:40:19 | 55 | 24 |
[WP] The gatekeeper between hell and heaven sees many applications daily to transfer from the former into the latter. Today, for the first time, he saw someone wanting to go the other way. | "Listen here old man. Let me go to hell," said the man before the gatekeeper.
"And why would I do that?"
"My brother is down there. I'm going to get him out."
He looked down at the man before him. He'd led quite the life. Had been to many places, both on the Earth, higher up, lower, and in between. He knew the broth... | The gatekeeper looked at me, a faint hint of amusement mixed in the confusion his multiple faces displayed.
"I sift through applications after applications for transfer, all of them apologetic dissidents, some sincere, some foolish but all of them trying to escape hell and enter heaven." The middle face said, while th... | 2016-09-29T00:05:19 | 2016-09-28T23:10:04 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] the apocalypse has come and gone, and civilization has started to rebuild itself. you are an archeologist investigating a local legend in a land once called Florida. down at a sacred cape, legend has it that mankind rode dragons into the sky to live in. the stars and promised to return one day | We reached the Sacred Cape in the evening. Sun was setting down, so we decided to set up camp and wait until morning. This place looked nice, warm and fresh air, flat swamps everywhere you look and total darkness, far away from lights of towns and villages, allowing us to see all stars on the sky. And stars... that is ... | "So why'd you drag us down to this backwater swamp?" Colette asked, with a slight eye roll. Though, I couldn't blame her for being apprehensive. After all, we were ankles deep in a swamp with nothing but soggy greens and murky water around for miles.
"We're here to do what we always do, uncover the past and see what ... | 2020-03-11T08:28:29 | 2020-03-11T07:47:50 | 575 | 96 |
[WP] Everyone is born with blond hair. A person's hair turns brown when they lose their innocence.
Edit: Loving all of these takes, guys! Definitely a lot darker than I expected! | She was blonde yesterday.
Blondness is a rare trait in this city. Sure, every now and then, you'll run into someone with locks of wheaty gold, but brown was the shade of this town. Even I had browned last year. I tugged at my dark curls, a reminder of that glorious night during which my blonde was taken in a bout of ... | A hundred strokes every night before bed. This was my hair routine every day. I was thirteen and one of the few remaining people in my school year with their hair still blonde. Though I was teased about it, a small piece of me was happy about it as the thought of losing the blondness scared me.
Dad was out on a busine... | 2014-05-10T20:17:29 | 2014-05-10T20:15:23 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] The villain was sentenced 350 years in prison for the atrocious crimes he committed; 349 years later he has not aged a bit, the guards and people start to get nervous... | Needless to say, this man was pretty good at not dying.
It was a nightmare for guards to be assigned a post anywhere near him. Why? Almost 3 centuries later, this man shouldn’t have any tricks up his sleeve. If he did, he would have tried them a long time ago, right? Well you never know. He never really tried to escap... | “Fatalo, how have you survived this long?”
“What do you mean? I am Immortal.”
“Oh right, I guess someone would have killed you by now.”
“I’m immortal and have an atrociously good healing factor. What did you expect?”
“You to die.”
“That’s stupid.”
“You do realize that the “immortal” and “everlasting” Bright-man is mo... | 2022-09-03T00:48:08 | 2022-09-02T21:29:15 | 52 | 12 |
[WP] Last names are assigned at birth by an oracle, and 90% of people find themselves in a related profession. For instance "Miller" or "Baker." Your last name, "World-Ender," has made life rather difficult. | Finally after years of waiting I no longer was just my father and mother’s son. It was time for me to take my profession, as decided by my genetic traits. There were several of us in line, I was next. Sweat dripped from my face as I waited praying I wasn’t given the last name of fisher, or even worse a Kellog. Fishing ... | "Welcome to the gang, kid" he said, pointing to a group of men, aged from about 15-30, rugged and outcast.
​
I was recently orphaned. I took my mom's life at birth, and my dad despised me for me it. So much, in fact, that he named me 'Marcus World-Ender', for that is what I had done to him. I dont have man... | 2021-06-19T23:37:11 | 2021-06-19T22:09:46 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] A fencing master is challenged to a duel by king's heir. The master is clearly superior in skill; however, the law states that anyone who injures or offends the royal blood will be executed. Now he has to orchestrate his own defeat and make it seem "honorable" for everyone involved. | The prince attacks in six; I parry, and wait. He hesitates, then attacks again, and I parry once more. He attacks again, I circle and parry into four; the prince sweeps back to six, too quickly, opening himself up, allowing me to make a flick against his near shoulder.
The prince flushes. "I'm going to kill you, old m... | The boy was terrible at fencing. No balance, no finesse, no grace and certainly no heart. *Strike boy, stirke.* His shoulders rise and descend, his breathing growing heavy. *Too early boy, fight boy fight.*
Aggression is a must. Offense is the best defense. But he won't strike me, he thinks I'm too dangerous. He's fig... | 2021-10-15T12:19:04 | 2021-10-15T08:22:08 | 187 | 80 |
[WP] As you die, the simulation ends. It turns out that "life" as you knew it was a rite of passage for youth, and determines what type of job you will do for the rest of your days. The simulation overseer walks in and hands you your results. | It's a droll life, observing the Simulations. Each morning I arrive at my city's Simulation Station promptly at 5:00 AM, coffee in hand, to check the vitals of each of the subjects, relieve the new night observer, Samuel, and read any notes he left, then take my station to observe the five subjects to whom I'm assigne... | I couldn't feel anything.
Not like a numbness. It was as if I had no body.
My memories were a mess.
It wasn't like I'd forgotten anything. It was just that the order was wrong.
I started thinking.
I remembered University, countless discussions about life, philosophy, perfection, and something else.
I remembere... | 2016-09-10T19:23:24 | 2016-09-10T18:23:30 | 37 | 19 |
[WP] You are trapped in a small, windowless room with nothing but a computer with a text editor. When you type in a word, the object appears in the room. However, there's a catch: the only keys on the keyboard are in the first half of the alphabet (A - M). | The computer boots up easily enough to a black screen with a little blinking cursor.
*h*, *e*, *l*- but there's no *p*. No letters after M, no numbers or special characters. Just the first half of the alphabet, backspace, enter, and a load of blank keys.
I use those two.
*Ask and you shall receive*.
I already k... | Feeling clever I start to type
*Click*
K
*Click*
E
but there is no letter Y
I cannot type "keyboard"
I think a bit
*Click*
C
*Click*
A
*Click*
B
*Click*
L
*Click*
E
*Click*
Enter
A standard USB cable falls to the floor, I guess I needed to specify "Phone cable" but I have no letter P, I can't plug ... | 2017-05-09T08:54:37 | 2017-05-09T07:44:45 | 252 | 143 |
[WP] You're a financial advisor. In 1994, you get a weird phone call from a man asking you if he can get any Bitcoin below $200k, and the call cuts off before you can ask him what Bitcoin was. Years later you get a call again from the same man, claiming he's calling back seconds after disconnection. | I must confess, when the bitcoin hit $15k I was tempted to sell. I had bought a ton of them the moment they first appeared, guided by an odd call I had received decades ago. For people like me, who care little about those slow-earning stocks, and love the adrenaline a good bet on a highly volatile company provides, eve... | “I’d like to buy shares of bitcoin” a mumbled voice says over the phone.
Having had this conversation several times over the phone with clients the past year or so I think to myself who is it this time.
“ may I ask who’s calling?”
The voice on the other end of the phone says “does it matter? I need to buy in now”
I p... | 2019-04-07T06:39:11 | 2019-04-07T06:32:18 | 5,588 | 11 |
[WP] The first astronauts on Mars find a crash site with the skelatized bodies of humans in futuristic space suits. A floppy disk is clenched in the hands of one of the deceased crew. | We found two bodies on the surface of the planet. They looked like they had been dead for at least twenty years, their mummified faces the only visible part through their transparent helmet visors. At first we thought they were an old Soviet mission gone awry, but the Russians assured us their records said nothing abou... | I individually pulled back the gloved fingers from their literal death-grip on the strange square object, freeing it at last from the decades long grasp.
"What's it say?" piped Walter over the headset.
"Doom: Disk 2 of 4"
"Doom? As in...what, like, fate...judgement...end times?" replied Walter.
"No idea" I said as ... | 2014-11-27T02:53:51 | 2014-11-27T02:03:40 | 128 | 62 |
[WP] The real reason why the villain is doing evil is because he/she has a crush on the hero and this is the only way to see him/her | “You fiend!” cried the heroine. “How could you do this?”
I let out a practiced maniacal cackle and nodded at her through the bars.
“When the people need you the most, you manage to stumble into my little trap!”
I paced back and forth watching the frustrated heroine stomp her feet and ball her hands into fists. Ah, s... | For the 32nd time in the last ten minutes, Mr. Courageous checked his phone. No notifications. He tossed it onto the wing of the Courage Jet. "Alphonse!"
Alphonse's kindly withered head appeared at the top of the basement stairs. "Sir?"
"Any calls?"
"No, sir."
"Mail?"
"I'm afraid not."
"Has Julie been by?"
"I ha... | 2017-04-15T10:09:35 | 2017-04-15T09:48:16 | 2,679 | 328 |
[WP] The Terran diplomat screamed with mind-numbing intensity: "DEEPEST APOLOGIES BUT AS YOU CAN TELL, HUMANS DO NOT HAVE THE ABILITY TO MODULATE OUR PSYCHIC VOICES. IT WOULD BE BEST TO REENABLE PSI SHIELDING AND STICK TO MACHINE TRANSLATION." | "DEEPEST APOLOGIES, BUT AS YOU CAN TELL, HUMANS DO NOT HAVE THE ABILITY TO MODULATE OUR PSYCHIC VOICES. IT WOULD BE BEST TO REENABLE PSI SHIELDING AND STICK TO MACHINE TRANSLATION."
Joruk worked his feelers back and forth in a gesture meant to be considerate. "I understand your concerns, Diplomat Karen Nguyen, but we ... | The five beings, as best as they could be described, were positioned around a stone pillar, where Ambassador Dorian Ashwander stood. They flickered, seeming to pass in and out of existence, or at least the observable dimension he belonged to. The way light passed through them when they were visible reminded him of ghos... | 2020-05-27T22:16:14 | 2020-05-27T18:58:12 | 1,415 | 410 |
[WP] Write the happiest story you can think of and completely destroy the atmosphere with a plot twist in the final sentence. | Almost every weekday is the same. I wake up and get ready for work, then I get the kids and wife out of bed and make sure everyone has breakfast and is ready for the day. I make sure to pack the kids’ lunch and tell them to brush their teeth and comb their hair. Adeline always protests, but she’s at that age where e... | "My two kids are in the back seat. Donny and Kate. Donny is 11, loves all the comic book hero movies. Kate is 8 and idolizes Donny. Whatever he likes, she likes. You would think Donny would get annoyed by his younger sister tagging along and getting into everything he is doing, but he loves it. He involves her with eve... | 2017-05-25T07:41:44 | 2017-05-25T06:54:50 | 128 | 32 |
[WP] Most ghosts are vengeful about their deaths and obsessed with their unfinished business. This one seems at most mildly inconvenienced by both | “Mr. Weasley, the ghosts are not to be bothered.”
Ron jumped, Professor McGonagall was positively catlike even when she was still human. He hadn’t even heard her approach.
“Sorry Professor!” He said nervously, staring up at the old witch. She’d intimidated him since day one, and weeks later that still hadn’t worn off... | “Take some shots of that.” Sandra pointed up at the rusty metal letters above the entrance of the abandoned asylum - *Rosemary Institution*. Brad the cameraman made sure it would come out extra dramatic; he employed dutch angles and dolly zooms in about every recording he made.
Sandra placed her hand against the ornat... | 2021-03-08T06:14:53 | 2021-03-08T06:03:22 | 38 | 10 |
[WP] A race of mages has expanded across the stars to harvest mana by seeding worlds with life. They arrive at a new star then a bright glow envelopes them. What followed are metal obelisks with a humanoid yelling into the void: "That was your warning shot. We will not let you reach Earth." | In the aftermath of The Fall, a galactic empire found itself torn asunder from within. Countless millennia of unchecked growth and careless hedonism had warped the unbreakable and rotted it from the inside. When every conceivable problem had been solved by automation, when immortality was achieved and taken for granted... | Maece stood at the helm of her ship, her fingers hovered over the glowing crystal that powered the ship’s engines and directed it where to go. Planet BX223, designated Earth, was the last of her planets to seed for eventual harvesting before she could go back home.
Already four years had passed since she had seen her... | 2017-06-05T11:46:20 | 2017-06-05T11:06:16 | 193 | 61 |
[WP] Gordon Ramsay agrees to star in "Primitive Cooking Nightmares", in which contestants are thrown into the wild and must survive long enough to cook something that Ramsay approves of. | "What the fuck is this? Tony could have cooked better than this and he died yesterday"
The woman broke down into tears, clean lines running down her dirt encrusted face. A month of being transported from wilderness to wilderness had crushed most contestants spirits. Gordon Ramsey on the other hand seem rejuvenated by e... | "You call this turtle soup you fuckwit? It still has it's fucking shell!" Gordon shouted at a lean woman in a dirty tank top and shorts. It was their second week in the middle of the Amazon and none of the four contestants had yet to make a dish fit for the renowned chef's palette.
A buff man in a torn tee shirt and k... | 2016-09-18T05:41:01 | 2016-09-17T23:28:44 | 684 | 192 |
[WP] You live in a town with a bell that magically rings exactly a day before danger hits, the longer it rings the greater the danger with the longest you've heard of being a few minutes. Yesterday the bell rang for three hours, today a stranger walked into town. | I checked my pocket watch, 10:02am. The bell started ringing at 10:14 yesterday, and repeatedly rang for three hours straight. I glanced across at the Sheriff, he too was checking his pocket watch, his weathered hands gripping his repeater tightly. We were stationed on top of Trudy's Saloon, whilst the Marshall and the... | A loud bell crashed through the silence at Reror. People were looking up at the bell, looking unhappy.
The bell of Reror, which people had nicknamed Lux, was no ordinary bell. Lux rang exactly one day before danger struck, being measured by how long it took to stop. The more time the bell took to stop, the more dang... | 2019-06-24T18:56:05 | 2019-06-24T18:16:52 | 410 | 11 |
[WP] On your eighteenth birthday, you shoot a mystic bow that is said to kill whoever is destined to kill you, three seconds before they do. Eight years later, your arrow strikes your SO's heart, right as she says "I do."
Or he. Or It. Whatever. I'm a straight canadian guy, so it popped into my head.
Sorry.
EDIT: I... | I glanced in amusement at the revolver Wanda was pointing at me. She had ten other guns aimed at her back, maybe twelve, but obviously she didn't care. All that mattered was that I would die. If she gave her life in the process, well, she'd still count that as a win.
"My my my, so the rebels did manage to sneak a... | It's summer, one of those days that feels like walking through someone's warm, wet breath. A gross day. Jess is wandering around the fairgrounds with Barry Binninger, who's the son of his mom's friend Linda and who whines almost constantly.
They're walking along the row of games. Jess only has a dollar, so he has to ... | 2014-05-27T19:13:10 | 2014-05-27T19:03:00 | 577 | 49 |
[WP] Harry Potter, but Hermione's dad is an MI6 agent who found out that is only child is fighting a war against an insane cult leader/terrorist (Voldmort) and has been almost killed my him and his cult of followers on multiple occasions.
This happens before the final book and the battle of hogwarts | "Dad... I'm going to have to obliviate you and mum. For your own safety."
"Before you do, why?"
"Voldemort came back a few years ago."
"The Koschei-wannabe?"
"Right. He apparently succeeded in becoming something not unlike a lich. His cult have already basically won, and are infiltrating the government right now."
... | "Let me be clear ma'am. Either you authorise this mission or you watch me walk out of here and do this alone. If you are willing to risk losing your top agent, just say the word"
"This is absolutely farcical Mr. Granger. We have the best intelligence resources in the world and have never heard of this place Hogwarts ... | 2017-06-03T01:22:13 | 2017-06-02T17:47:37 | 124 | 11 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE WALRUS". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful walrus. Look." | SCP-9432 (Temporary ID/Awaiting Permanent Clasification)
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: A single copy of SCP-9432 is to be kept in a system of twenty four (24) computers isolated from any other devices capable of displaying a digital image. Each computer must automatically delete any file sent fr... | I wake up dehydrated as I always do during the cold winter months. I go to grab a cup of ice water I keep beside my bed and I before I do I check my phone.
Allison: Look at the walrus George it’ll make you happy.
Confused I see that I have many text messages all telling me to look at walrus and even an official tex... | 2021-01-11T19:42:35 | 2021-01-11T19:07:29 | 53 | 18 |
[WP] you are the lawyer in charge of getting every single GTA character out of jail with no repercussions. | Jason leaned back into the sofa, placing his x-box controller on his lap. This new "GTA: The Courts" expansion game was proving a lot less boring than he'd expected. He'd already bribed the jurors, assassinated the prosecution team and found blackmailing material on the judge. Now, with a simple press of the button, he... | "Today, my dear family, we give thanks. We give thanks and praise for all of our blessings." The stocky, clean-shaven man with a strawberry blonde ivy-league cut panned his eyes and glass of bordeaux from side to side, brushing off the mini-herd of children that engulfed him as they ran to the newly opened dessert tabl... | 2015-11-12T07:45:28 | 2015-11-12T07:33:38 | 136 | 22 |
[WP] After you die you learn why the Grim Reaper is portrayed holding a Scythe. It isn't to harvest you, it's to protect you from something on your journey. | I heard the gentle noise of his mythical scythe slicing the rope that held my lifeless body. I brusquely fell head first into the tall refreshing grass, a soft breeze caressed my skin. "If you weren't here I wouldn't believe i'm dead." I said as I stood up and removed the dirt from my arms.
Death didn't say a word, i... | "So," I said as we drifted, "What is this?!"
I clenched the seat as hard as I can fighting the immense G force of the vehicle.
"Where are we going?!"
Grimm is not what you'd expect. Folklore and myth paints a picture of him with a robe with a scythe and a serious face. And I tell you now it's all wrong.
Nowadays h... | 2017-06-20T16:42:43 | 2017-06-20T15:56:00 | 214 | 46 |
[WP] There is a device that assigns you a percentage score of how important you are to the world. Most people are 0-5. The president is 60. Your score just jumped from 1 to 99. | *How is this even possible?*
Trace looked down at his phone. *There has to be some kind of glitch,* he thought. There's no way I am the single most important man in the world. On his phone, Trace had received a notification that his Personal Importance Quotient, or PIQ, had increased above his specified threshold. Aft... | I coughed and picked at my wrist. The blood analysis device flashed a dull 1 in its faded red LEDs. It was 12:42, but I still hadn’t got out of bed yet. Ugh, my mom would be so mad. Luckily she was at work, and I’d only have to deal with her when she got back. That means I was free to do what I wanted! It was time to p... | 2016-09-08T08:10:56 | 2016-09-08T07:43:24 | 112 | 16 |
[WP] Fit as many plot twists as you can into one story. | Two brothers. In a van. And then a meteor hit. And they ran as fast as they could. From giant cat-monsters. And then a giant tornado came. And that's when things got knocked into twelfth gear...
A Mexican...armada shows up. With weapons made from to- tomatoes. And you better betch'ur bottom dollar that these two broth... | A meteor fell over the planet, then suddenly it exploded before the impact, revealing an army of naked winged women hellbent on taking over the world. they would do so by taking as many men (or women, if you prefer) to their bedchambers aboard a cosmic spaceship as was humanly possible.
shortly after the complete sexu... | 2016-11-27T12:58:55 | 2016-11-27T11:06:12 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] You’ve always had good sight in the dark, you’ve been called a freak for it. When you die and see the light in the tunnel, you are the first person to notice a door to your side instead. | The walls of the tunnel were cold, slick stones. They stretched in front of me for what seemed a thousand miles toward a pinprick of light far in the distance. The floor of the tunnel was the same unforgiving stone. My feet were bare and ached on the hard stone as I made my way on the long journey towards this strange ... | It all happened so fast. One moment, I was driving, the next moment, I was flying in a dark tunnel with a light at the end that kept expanding.
*This means I died, right? Everyone who has ever died or come close, talks about a light at the end of a tunnel? Oh damn, this is really the end? *
I wanted to cry, but I did... | 2021-06-04T14:40:17 | 2021-06-04T12:27:34 | 320 | 97 |
[WP] At the age of sixteen, people are shown a title that they will earn in the future from Fate herself in a special ceremony. Usually these titles can range from "The Baker" to "The Kind" or even "The Conquerer". You turn sixteen, and are faced with the title of "The Godkiller". | **The Drinker:**
He sits by the window and stares at the glass. Outside, rain falls in silver sheets with a ratta-tat-tat on the metal roof. He drums his fingers to the rhythm of the wind, a steady beat, and he hums, though he does not remember the words to the tune. The words are lost, like his memories, and only the... | It was Divination Day, and Sonia couldn’t be more excited.
She hummed as her mother did her braids. She sang as she wore her nicest dress. She nearly skipped as she and her mother made their way to the Town Square.
“Say, Mother, what do you think about Sonia the Wonderful?” she said out loud, grinning over her shou... | 2020-08-14T23:30:15 | 2020-08-14T22:36:33 | 2,377 | 654 |
[WP] The galaxy is a dark and lonely place. "First Strike Diplomacy" reigns out of fear. Few species survive even 300 years after developing interstellar travel. When humans entered the galaxy, we were the first species confident enough in war to ask someone "Are you sure you want to do this?" | "What do you mean? We outmatch you in firepower 10,000 to 1!"
"mhm, valid point, but you only need one ten-thousandth of your power to destroy yourself anyways..."
"What are you talking about?"
"See, earth, the only reason we survived so long was because of this little concept we knew as 'Mutually assured destructio... | You’d think that with all technological progress we’ve made in the centuries since we reached into the stars beyond, that a universal translator AI would have been engineered by now. You’d be wrong to think that, not that I’m to sad or mad about the fact, I wouldn’t have a job if that were the case.
I stood in an engi... | 2022-01-22T09:36:54 | 2022-01-22T07:48:19 | 280 | 86 |
[WP] When two people get married, on the day of the wedding they are both given the ability to alter the appearance of their spouse to anything they wish. How do they change each other? How do they respond to what has been done to them? | It should come as no surprise that, when two furries get married, they each wish for the other person to become their true fursona, their inner animal that radiates the strongest in them. So when I woke up the next morning on the first day of the honeymoon, my wife and I somehow literally having become one flesh as a f... | “Bigger”
I said sternly looking at my husbands little man down there, Bigger.
“Bigger?”
He asked confused looking down at the thing as-well “Its like seven inches long, Any bigger would eve a hindrances to my daily life!” He tried to rebutt it but I was determined! DETERMINED to make it AtLeast 12 inches.
“MORE, BIG... | 2022-12-07T22:07:24 | 2022-12-07T20:59:42 | 29 | 14 |
[WP] tell me the story of how a giant omnipotent space dragon that can manipulate the very fabric of reality, became best friends with bob, a middle aged man who works at Walmart. | Robert Paper shivered in the cold night air while walking to his car in the Walmart parking lot. Another day over and done with. He'd been doing this for so long that he wondered if parts of his soul were wearing away. But even so, it was worth it to get to see the twinkle in his son's eyes. That is what mattered. ... | I consider myself omnipotent, but I never kid myself that I’m omniscient. So, it won’t surprise you that I pursue knowledge, not power. When I was but one of many giant dragons, I used to toy with shortcuts to omniscience. I’d manipulate the very fabric of reality in my pursuit of knowledge. This shortcut to knowledge... | 2017-01-23T16:08:27 | 2017-01-23T13:05:29 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] A child is born with a functioning Appendix, the first ever recorded in history and the purpose it serves shocks the scientific community/world.
This is my first writing prompt submission! Amazing response, can't wait to read your stories, thanks people.
~~~~~ Shout out to Montreal ~~~~~
Edit: getting a lot ... | *A child's cries cut through the halls, a piercing, forceful statement every infant makes as it enters this world.*
However, this time, it stopped abnormally quickly. No more than several seconds had passed before the baby was quiet; an eerie stillness about him displaced the nurses.
"You sure are a solemn fellow, ar... | "I see things", the child hissed, just four years old. Doctor Avanto had kept a close eye on the boy since the day he was born, warning the parents that the malformed appendix might cause issues in the future.
"What kind of issues?" they had asked, and he had shrugged. The appendix was a tricky thing, serving no appa... | 2016-01-07T08:49:58 | 2016-01-07T08:03:51 | 98 | 33 |
[WP] When it was time to pick up the Focus for their Magic, other novices at the Order of Sorcerers picked ice for cryomancy, lit candle for pyromancy, a dry bone for necromancy and other, obvious choices. They laughed when you picked up a small copper coin. Well, they are not laughing now. | Many archemages tried to discover what magic the copper coin was the focus for. Studies showed that the small coin held all the needed properties of a spell focus, but the studies couldn't uncover its intended magic use. It wasn't like the ice or flame where you focused magic into the focus to expand and manipulate the... | I was pulled aside after class. Everyone had picked there focus and everyone had laughed when I had picked mine. A small coper coin. "I just wanted to check on you." The processor said looking at me. "One of what the other students said where terribly cruel." The processor had stopped the chatter when I picked the coin... | 2019-10-25T08:36:46 | 2019-10-25T05:30:36 | 81 | 59 |
[WP] In music, changing a song to a minor key is a small change that makes the song sound much creepier or sadder. Write a happy story, and then its counterpart in a minor key.
Edit: Wow! Thank you to everyone for all the great stories. This will definitely keep me reading for a while. | Lights in the sky and a cloud plume on the horizon. I can see the airplane roaring overhead, and all I can think about is what those people must be thinking up there. Are they really that different from me? The thought brings a tear to my eye as the hot air coats my skin. - Lawton, Oklahoma, 1913
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Lights in the sk... | The day was still Young, I stood on the front lawn staring at little zoey running and playing in the field. I could see the sun glistening off her youthful face as she danced with the wind. As graceful as her mother who sat staring through the kitchen window. I smile at her and she waves back chuckling. I thought to my... | 2015-07-14T01:05:09 | 2015-07-13T21:19:07 | 70 | 27 |
[WP] After North Korea declares that they will start a nuclear war if a single bullet is fired The Us military goes medieval | The president of the United States grasped a stark black phone in his hands. Surrounded by generals and military experts, he slowly tapped his hand on the desk, a rhythmic sound that broke the grave silence. He had not expected his presidency to require something like this.
No, nothing like this.
The weary voice on t... | "Whats your report soldier?"
"Well..."
The soldier was visibly nervous. He, General Jun and several other officers were in a bunker at the outskirts of Pyongyang.
3h ago the USA and South Korea started a offensive. General Jun was tasked to drive the invaders back.
"Out with it!"
"We were able to hold our lines ag... | 2017-03-19T08:23:20 | 2017-03-19T08:14:10 | 100 | 52 |
[WP] As you stand infront of the sink washing a glass mug, you have the sudden urge to say a number. The number twenty-two leaves your lips, and for half a second you know why you've said it. This is the 22nd time you've remembered you are trapped in this loop. For half a second you remember. | I walked to the sink and picked up my mug.
I stood placidly for a while, staring at it, and the way the light from my kitchen window played off its smooth surface and the soap suds.
It seemed like the world no longer existed - as if I were in a trance. Like in a dream, where context and reason dissolve into the back... | Liquid blue soap slides down my hand. I've missed the sponge again, but atleast the soap isn't across my stomach this time. My mind turns back to the cool glass resting in my hand. As my hand goes to start the rhythmic motions of washing away the milk crusted to the bottom, an urge overcomes my mind.
The calm that h... | 2020-03-03T13:25:45 | 2020-03-03T12:58:59 | 103 | 38 |
[WP] A nerdy girl goes on a blind date. She's surprised when the date is the bitchiest cheerleader in her school. | "I promise, it'll be great," Lily said after Hannah expressed her reluctance to go. Hannah sighed, and nodded. She couldn't back out now anyway. She began having a thumb war with herself, and noticed the butterflies in her stomach as Lily finished straightening her hair.
"Okay, done!" Lily announced. Hannah put her gl... | Susan was surprised Rose had ever wanted to be friends with her. Last time one of the popular girls talked to her, she ended up naked in a cornfield in the middle of the night. But she had been sitting with Rose at lunch for almost a year now, and nothing bad had happened yet. On this evening, however, she would be con... | 2014-10-11T21:04:53 | 2014-10-11T19:59:04 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] Life today if slavery wasn't abolished.
write from any point of view. | June, 2014. Rushing, I glanced into the head of each aisle at the WalMart as I passed. Chips, no, coke, no, aha! Frozen food. I quickly scanned the prices of shrimp rings, grabbed a couple of the cheapest and put them in my cart. Now what about that cocktail sauce...
Thousands of miles away, in Thailand, the captain o... | No more slavery for me. In the next few minutes I will become a free man. I always considered myself unlucky for the speciality I got stuck with. But, there was always the one upside. Slaves with my skillset get freedom far sooner than any other slave. Now, my freedom is coming, and I couldn't be happier with what I go... | 2014-06-18T02:18:02 | 2014-06-18T01:47:36 | 17 | 10 |
[WP]Every single "Walks into a bar" joke has occurred at the same bar. You are the bartender. | "Alright, listen up!" Mike the Bouncer shouts at the long queue waiting outside the door. "Next up we have Bill the Screwdriver... is Bill the Screwdriver here?" The bar is packed tonight, not as many rabbis as usual, but still busy nonetheless. I watch as a screwdriver with legs enters and finds a seat while I pour a ... | What was supposed to be a normal shift now looks like the cantina scene from Star Wars, and everything is starting to fall apart. A rabbi and a priest argue feverishly, a long-faced horse and a duck eating grapes get into a fight, and a dyslexic with a bra on is getting picked on by an Irish man (who seems to be the on... | 2016-06-23T12:56:14 | 2016-06-23T11:54:40 | 91 | 10 |
[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..... | "Number 100. Please approach."
I strode purposefully into the center of the dimly lit gymnasium, tentatively eyeing the other God-Candidates as I passed.
Though the room lay silent, save the dull hum of the flickering halogen lamps which swayed dangerously side-to-side, the tension was so palpable as to be deafening.... | God this sucks. All the cool powers are taken. From flight to fire breath. From teleportation to telekinesis. Now it’s my turn to think. I have to think long and hard about this one. Then I remembered it. As a kid I loved watching videos online and the main videos I watched were videos on the terrors of video games. I ... | 2022-11-17T13:25:31 | 2022-11-17T07:32:46 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] The zombie outbreak starts, but the first (and only) zombie is an overweight man that can't catch anyone. | Martha pulled on Louise’s sleeve, looking up to her with her large doe eyes.
“Mommy, I want to see Steve!”
Louise flinched, resisting the urge to frown. She knelt down to her daughter, placing her hands gently on her shoulders.
“Are you sure honey? Maybe we can look at the giraffes again.
But Martha shook her head ... | "What's that smell?"
"What sme--Oh, beurgh, yah, come on."
"Where?"
"Upwind, no time to explain."
"No need to shove, I'm moving."
"Yeah but so is he."
"Who?"
"Our Jason, the only zombie in Devon."
"You're mad."
"Am not. come up this way and we'll double back."
"I will not!"
"Coward?"
"Am not!"
"Least bit c... | 2015-03-18T07:55:46 | 2015-03-18T07:49:52 | 68 | 43 |
[WP] You gain EXP for everything you kill and you know when you gain EXP. Easy kills like bugs get you only a couple of EXP, tougher kills give more EXP. One day at home doing nothing, you unexpectedly gain 1500 XP... | The rain outside is tapping on the window. You're sitting on the couch watching a movie on the TV. It's an action movie about an arms dealer in the Middle East. Its depiction of the war was fairly accurate but the main characters are unconvincing.
The movie reminds you of the war you've fought five years ago--has it... | *Plghrt*
> Kill confirmed
*Sigh*
Another bug down, 1XP. Lovely, I'll never reach 10k, not at this rate. It started with the mice and rats, then the cats, fish. It's a privilege to work at a slaughter house or deliver lethal injections. I never could do that, not intentionally. The look in their eyes, the helplessn... | 2017-05-15T09:06:47 | 2017-05-15T06:23:41 | 143 | 10 |
[WP] Voyager 1 has unexpectedly returned to Earth. It was found at Cape Canaveral, with a note written in a strange, unknown language attached to it. Scientists have translated that note and have called a press conference to reveal their findings. | John sat in front of the TV watching as the press conference started. The woman’s eyebrows scrunched as she pulled out a piece of paper and placed it on the podium. She turned her gaze to the camera, and said “I will now read the message. It says: ***Our world is being attacked, please help us.*** That’s all it says. T... | The lights and flashing cameras of the press focused on the bald head of NASA’s head scientist, Dr. Alferious. The aging doctor winced into the spotlight. He was never one for media attention, but for an announcement this important, he didn’t trust anyone else to deliver it.
“Ahem. Yes, hello, thank you all for coming... | 2016-11-27T09:28:52 | 2016-11-27T09:14:58 | 49 | 23 |
[WP] The year is 2040, and you are the last smoker alive. The "Quit Smoking" ads get personal. | He buried his head in his hands. The condensation from his steamy sobs leaked through his fingers on to the pavement. It took every ounce of strength to pull his head up and confront the billboard, but he did it anyways.
There she was. His wife, holding his withered body. It didn't seem like it was truly his corpse. ... | I've outlasted it for years. I've watched campaigns come and go for years never having any effect on my habit, but this was something more. The first anti smoking ad I saw was when I was 10 years old. It showed a middle aged man going through his daily life with a hole in his throat. Plugging it when he took showers... | 2017-02-17T12:06:05 | 2017-02-17T11:59:25 | 51 | 20 |
[WP]At 18 everyone is assigned a job perfect for them. No one ever complains. Upon reading their job assignment card, a teen has found that, for the first time in 100 years, they’ve been assigned “serial killer”. | I can barely believe we live in a time where cognitive regocnition technology can identify what roles we play at an individual level in our society.
My mom and das thinks it is scarey but embrace the idea anyways. "It works... it just does. I guess" they say. Am i living in the shift or evolution of the modern man? ... | "Oh my god!" Jimmy said reading the assignment card. His mind raced as he wondered if it were true. "Mom look at my assignment card! Is... is this real!?"
His mother couldn't hold back her grin, "pffft ha ha! You dummy!" She said laughing histerically, "I put that in the envelope as a joke!" She pulled the real assign... | 2018-08-13T18:58:59 | 2018-08-13T17:47:14 | 62 | 19 |
[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. | At first I thought we were evenly matched, but I was slowly starting to realize I'd been too optimistic. My fists blocked by equal force when I rocked out, my strategies countered or nullified no matter the sonata, piece by piece I shuffled through futile playlists.
I began to suspect that he was some form of Copycat ... | "And stay down!" Maestro slammed Songbird down to the concrete.
The hero lay still, dust rising around her. Her headphones skittered across the pavement. A crunch followed, as the villain stepped on them. The beats of Poison silenced instantly.
It was supposed to be an easy battle. Maestro was a new villain in town, ... | 2022-05-17T09:05:42 | 2022-05-17T08:28:11 | 151 | 91 |
[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. | "Does the item have to consist of one piece, or can it consist of multiple parts to build one entity?", I asked Merlin. He looked at me, puzzled, and responded, "As long as it's solid, has real form to it, you should be successful in summoning it." he replied.
"Okay, Merlin. Hope you like bricks. This next item I su... | Lying on my back I begrudgingly realize it's morning. I really can't be bothered waking up. Stretching my arms over my head I yawn deeply, quickly interrupted by a mouthful of smoke... my incense must still be smoldering still from last night. Extending my finger tips I notice I can't feel the wall at end of my bed. Fe... | 2016-11-28T02:15:50 | 2016-11-28T01:40:06 | 82 | 58 |
[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. | All of us saw the bizarre irony of the situation. The luckiest people on the planet, all confined to a maximum security prison in a highly classified location. We called it The Institute.
Luckily (heh), it wasn't a standard prison. We were confined because our luck potential made even interacting with us fundamentally... | I remember my heart stopped beating for a second. Could it really be true?
Jail? I had laughed at the time. If people with 99 luck could survive being the suicide bomber, then no jail would hold me. Everyone had a luck stat, which determined how lucky they were.
However, I had 100 luck, and upto my knowledge, the onl... | 2018-06-29T10:28:18 | 2018-06-29T08:43:19 | 88 | 26 |
[WP] It's 2007 and J.K. Rowling has released the final Harry Potter book, The Deathly Hallows... but she let Voldemort win. Harry and all other protagonists were killed. Children and Adults across the World react to the horrifying ending to their beloved series. | James Brooke sat at his desk in his spacious office that had just been redesigned a week ago. He really loved his leather chair. But today, even his chair didn't feel that great.
His office was eerily quiet. It had been as loud as a busy market up to about twenty minutes ago. His phones were ringing non-stop. Mostly f... | Does Neville count? I believe he was the other guy that could have been the one to take out Voldemort, right?
All the people are horrified until the epilogue, which shows Neville rising from the destruction ready to take his place as Voldemort's true foe and equal. Then the people rejoice as their beloved series conti... | 2015-03-12T02:50:29 | 2015-03-11T23:55:43 | 48 | 10 |
[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. | Alex,
Its been nearly 15 years since I have seen you. While we were only kids then I think about you often. We were best friends, and even when we had so little and our families argued we still found a way to hang out. Be it play wrestling games in your room, or have grass fights...it was the highlight of my youth. I ... | Hi,
You’ve been gone for about a month and it feels like the longest month of my life. It’s crazy that I spend so much time worrying about the possible bad outcomes of every situation but you truly never know what is going to happen. Six months ago I did not think we would still be together. Yet after everything that... | 2017-11-06T00:29:01 | 2017-11-05T23:59:24 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] A girl finally is able to buy the robotic boyfriend of her dreams. One day, she casually compares him to human boyfriends. Guided by his programming, he follows the conversation with very frightening but accurate comments about humanity in general. | She had done it. The trend was fast becoming the next logical step after getting your own place and getting your first "real" job. Robotic boyfriends. Alicia smiled to herself, looking across the table to Zack. He was an Eros. One of the first "next gen" models. Fully customizable, and her ideal companion. It was the b... | I got an empty bank account and a full bed. He lies beside me, chest moving up and down, his eyes closed. He's neither breathing nor sleeping.
"Hey," I murmur and he stirs instantly. Voice activated.
"Hey you," he rolls over and strokes my face. His hands are very slightly calloused against my cheek and it's that... | 2015-05-23T10:11:37 | 2015-05-23T09:27:52 | 1,259 | 595 |
[WP] It's always God and the Devil, Yin and Yang, Good and Evil, blah, blah, blah. This endless dichotomy. But no one ever talks about the middleman—Hank. He's doing a fine job. | Sometimes he leaves a dollar on the ground for your bus faire. Sometimes he paints all the traffic lights red.
Sometimes Hank misses his wife, Martha. Its been colder since she passed.
Sometimes Hank's beagle makes him crack a smile.
Sometimes Hank can't get out of bed.
Sometimes Hank's only goal is to make us appr... | "I'll tell you hwhat," Hank said as he wiped his brow. "People need to understand the balance of good and evil. It's like dealing with propane and propane accessories. Propane is a source of happiness, a fuel for so many of life's joys. But too much propane uncontrolled can lead to catastrophe. That's why we need to m... | 2018-04-08T20:10:14 | 2018-04-08T20:09:22 | 1,882 | 219 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | “So you’re storming the beaches of Italy in his game. Did you bring the WW2 character sheets?”
“Uhh... shit I brought my fantasy sheet for my ranger.”
“...”
“It’s okay! We can still play. Who was important in WW2 again?”
“Winston Churchill...”
“There we go! I’ll call my character Jack Churchill, and he’s storming ... | “... Why don’t we just kill all of them?”
Everyone at the table replied with the same idea: “Are you effing insane?! We can’t just kill an entire religion because we want the city they’re in!”
“Well why not? I mean, it is our land. Jesus said so.”
“You can’t do that, even if you are the Pope!”
The DM interjected, ... | 2018-05-29T09:44:43 | 2018-05-29T09:19:29 | 35 | 13 |
[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... | They were all the same; burning. Let's just cut to the exposition: I knew how people died, to me a small piece of text would appear above their head. This would always contain their cause of death. No time, no ways to prevent, just their grim fate. Since birth I could always see this. Over time I learned to accept it a... | 2015-03-31T10:42:03 | 2015-03-31T07:44:11 | 30 | 22 |
[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... | "Hey Elena, your birthday's next week right?"
"Yeah, Jason."
"So do you think it will happen?"
"I don't know. My dad's got a number like most everyone else but my mom has a number and a letter. We might be getting closer to figuring out what the birthday messages mean."
"My dad doesn't think they mean anything."
"I sor... | 2017-03-16T02:03:50 | 2017-03-15T22:51:26 | 71 | 39 |
[WP]: A 92-year-old woman's phone number is one digit away from that of a local suicide hotline. She could have it changed, but she doesn't mind. | The phone rang again, and Mary sat up in bed putting her glasses on so that she could see the time.
3:32 AM, she smiled sadly to herself. The late night callers were always the least determined ones, usually just young follk too worried to go to work the next morning or too stressed to sleep.
The phone rang again. ... | "Hello?" Her voice was raspy and I strained to hear. "Are you there?" she repeated softly. "I'm here to talk to you." I looked down at myself; the cuts on my arms still fresh with blood, the bottle of pills sitting on the bathroom sink, the bloody scissors laying on the floor...
"I can't do this anymore," I whispered ... | 2016-02-06T13:39:33 | 2016-02-06T13:24:15 | 79 | 29 |
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