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[WP] If a person is in grave danger, time will slow down around them to give them a chance to survive. The bigger the danger, the slower the time. This phenomenon may only occur once in a person's life. You are the first person ever to see time come to a complete halt. | Everything became silent - no humming electronics, no muffled chatter. The world took a distinct grey hue, as if something drained the life out of reality itself and robbed it of all color. John stood up, letting go of the papers in his hand, watching them freeze mid-air as he let go. He looked out the window, the tree... | Day 1
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I'm writing this all down for posterity purposes. Not as a record, per say, but more as a proof that what I am experiencing is not a form of a drawn out hallucination manifest by my mind. As a result, I will have to confess a few things that some of my family and close friends have whispered and sai... | 2019-01-08T03:16:20 | 2019-01-08T02:41:37 | 447 | 82 |
[WP][NSFW] During a civilised dinner party, the nuclear attack siren goes off. The guests gather in the safety of the basement, only to realise that it's the owner's kinky sex dungeon.
Maybe set it during a tornado instead or even during the blitz.
It could be comical, (They emerge into the world, all of their relati... | "A tornado warning? Shit, you have a basement, right, Dan?"
"Uhh . . ." Dan swallowed heavily, glancing nervously to Maddie. The redhead merely giggled. *She* knew what was in the basement. They weren't even dating, they were just friends who played together, but she had wanted him to be more social. At her insistenc... | Sawdust.
He kept thinking it, over and over with his tongue. It simply wouldn't shut up, but over cooked steaks never do. He could feel the moisture disappear in the maw of that chewy mess described as "well done." The throat closed itself in fear of becoming something that belongs in Chile.
Sawdust.
The only thing ... | 2014-06-22T09:02:09 | 2014-06-22T08:42:55 | 26 | 13 |
[WP] You took a video of your friend landing a backflip. When you replayed the video, your friend didn’t land the backflip and sprained his ankle. Confused, you watch the video again. It’s the 54th replay of the video, your friend is visibly upset, “I don’t want to do this anymore.” | Me and Tommy leaned in closer until our noses were almost touching the screen.
Once again, the video started with Tommy running across the roof of his house and leaping into the air like a madman. He arched his back, tucked up his knees and span in the air. A backflip with forward momentum, or a 'gainer' as he kept in... | In the moment it seems like all time is racing, racing towards the future, as though it can't wait to get there. As though it is sick of us, of what it must carry; living consciousness that do nothing but suck up the present, hold on to the past, and look ahead with hungry anticipation. Or fear.
I think time especia... | 2018-05-25T01:42:08 | 2018-05-25T01:31:55 | 198 | 19 |
[WP] In a world where people can only be killed by those they truly love, you are an assassin. | You can only be killed by someone you love. That's always been the rule. We don't know who made it. Many people suspect it was God. Some people don't believe in him, but it is a pretty compelling argument for the existence of a higher being. I personally never was a faithful sort. In more ways than one. People are so e... | Coldness swamps the man, his hand trembles as it reaches for the knife sticking out of his ribs. His fingers only brush the blade before it stops and starts to twitch sporadically, the last spasms of a dying man. With cloudy eyes, he looks up to his attacker.
He coughs at the sight of her.
"Why?" croaks the man.
Tea... | 2016-11-15T15:51:49 | 2016-11-15T15:38:47 | 1,012 | 14 |
[WP] Today everyone woke up with price tags floating over their heads, indicating the value of their life. Your tag is $50Tn, the biggest by far, and you have no idea why.
That's $50,000,000,000,000.00 for those not used to hearing it.
Awesome stories guys. | 50 Trillion dollars. That's what the tag said floating above my head. I knew it was going to be large, but that number seemed excessive. While the world was busy arguing and debating what their tag meant about them, I knew far too well. I had prepared for this day for years. I saw it coming so, so long ago and made sur... | *I am not a short form writer and this is my own prompt, so I don't know if I am breaking the prime directive ...but here's something I scrawled. Also, I don't grammars.*
I woke up with a whiskey headache , the only thing on my mind was getting to nearest place where I could grab a few greasy strips of bacon, a couple... | 2015-05-13T11:40:59 | 2015-05-13T10:09:28 | 55 | 12 |
[WP] After abducting one of the 'humans', scientists believed they were a prey species with no drive. The specimen captured was the picture of subservience, doing anything asked of it once the translators were active. And 'subservient' was all the military needed to hear. | Commander Xlantor stared down once more at the specimen. It seemed passive enough. Sitting there in its enclosure scratching undecipherable squiggles onto the surface. The squiggles weren’t in any standard universal language he recognized. It looked up,at him and once again flashed its teeth and let out a series of sho... | 'They're not a threat, arch-major.'
'Intelligence, actuators, creativity--they lean heavily on symbionts for digestion and development, yes, but that isn't the worst. Put enough of that together and you know what can happen!'
'Khalligaern, I asked it to shine my boots politely, and it did. It even put in effort and w... | 2021-02-24T22:01:58 | 2021-02-24T21:12:57 | 356 | 241 |
[WP] A child unknowingly has a conversation with Death. | Mikey Rays was a good kid, always with a smile, but liked to just sit on his porch all day and imagine his toys are alive. One day he saw a man walk up to the house. The man had on dirty overalls and a bird's nest of hair under a battered straw hat.
"Hey kid, is your dad in?"
"Yeah, mister, he's in the kitchen."
"Th... | The giggles of a group of children resonate through the
neighborhood street. Sid sat on the curb wishing he could
be with them. He asked if he could play earlier, but they
ignored him. He let out a sigh and started to wander home.
A slightly deflated ball rolled gracefully down the big hill that
eventually led to ... | 2014-06-06T21:46:29 | 2014-06-06T19:32:04 | 55 | 10 |
[WP] Lots of people have sold their souls to the devil. You were the first to try to buy one. | "So, big man, wanna invest?" I gave him a winning smile, as I gave all my suckers. A bit of showmanship might even actually WORK on the guy, for a deal like this.
The silence elapsed like an hourglass- the end not quite clear, the middle all racing, the beginning tense until it burst.
"You are insane," he finally ce... | I jogged through the nightmarket at a casual, yet hurried pace. The monk had said it was here I might find Satan's Women, and from them, learn the location of the head honcho himself.
Street food vendors hawked their oily, sizzing wares. There were no more ragged children on the streets. This late, only the drunkards ... | 2020-09-11T20:20:15 | 2020-09-11T20:05:05 | 128 | 54 |
[WP] The Chosen One reincarnates every time he dies, retaining his memories. The Demon King is immortal. After spending so long opposing each other and trying unconventional tactics to permanently defeat one another, their relationship has gotten... odd. | "Back again, Alhar?"
"As usual, Lamon."
Archdemon Queen Lamon Bleakwild, Overlord of the Infernal Plane of Avaros, looked at the young man who had waltzed through the door. A jack of all trades. A wizard, a conjurer, a warrior, a bard, a monk, a priest, even one of her own warlocks at one point. Skills he had gathere... | The Demon wants a fight with me.
So I will fight, eternally,
to ensure I'll be the last to fight,
to be the one to break the night.
Sadly, I have faltered now
'Tis my end, my final bow.
Knowing I'll return one day
Beating evil in my way.
********
The demon wants a fight with me
But I would lose it, probably.
... | 2017-05-13T12:32:05 | 2017-05-13T12:14:01 | 46 | 25 |
[WP] Fearing that the passage of centuries may have altered the value of their hoard, an ancient dragon hires you to appraise the lot. It's remarkably tricky to stay objective and focused when your client has razor talons and fire breath. And that's not even mentioning the more esoteric "treasures". | "The coins, gems and items of gold and silver generally do maintain their value, depending on the origin and age of an item it might vary some, this golden ceremonial dagger for example is a fairly common item, much of it's value is in the material, while this silver comb is engraved by an apprentice to a famous Elven ... | (This story is the third part of a much longer story I am currently working on. You can read the previous chapter [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/whcxyq/comment/ijb6yoy/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3). Also, this story is from Wildfire the dragon's perspective and not the a... | 2022-08-08T13:41:44 | 2022-08-08T12:18:26 | 62 | 30 |
[WP] You’re a hitman who’s “hits” survive your assassination attempts, despite your sincere best efforts, only to die soon after each attempt by comical forces outside your control. The hitman community can’t be convinced you’re not the most creative comically effective assassin alive. | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Part 7: Tupperman v.s. Slapstick)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**After a long day of wrangling actually competent superheroes and villains, I just wanted a return to normalcy.** So... | Flint wasn't the assassin you hired when you wanted efficiency. But he was handy when you wanted it to look like an accident. Unfortunately, this is not the reputation Flint was trying for.
Flint had his target in his sights. Jerry. Someone who has become embarrassing for his client. Jerry needed to be made s... | 2021-12-27T10:40:51 | 2021-04-04T16:09:46 | 243 | 28 |
[WP] You've never felt the same after learning Morse Code. The rain keeps telling you to run. | I've never felt the same since learning Morse Code. The rain keeps telling me to run.
Me and my relatively large family live in the outskirts of London, so we get rained on quite often. All my younger siblings love the rain, and each time they hear the slightest tap on the roof or spot the tiniest drop on the windows... | Davie was fascinated with the power of the Morse Code. It can help you in such a situation, that you can pass a note using your fingers or any objects on your hand and tap it as it had a letter meaning, Davie thought 'Why not learn it? I have nothing else to do.' Davie began to research Morse Code, the dot and dash mea... | 2021-09-28T09:11:59 | 2021-09-28T08:56:15 | 30 | 16 |
[WP]: Everyone got a tiny, mundane blessing when they were born. Usually they are so small that people don't even notice them - always hitting the green light in traffic, etc. Yours would be virtually useless, but you figured out a creative loophole that allowed you to rise to the top of the world. | I used to find my gift difficult. Whenever we were reading in class, or even when I read back my own work, there it was glaring at me. I used to ignore it as best I could because no one liked when I mentioned what I saw. People would be angry at me for trying to correct them. That is, until I started learning to code. ... | I was told I was blessed with a green thumb, when I was the only kid in my preschool who didnt kill their plant. This made my grandpa very happy.
Grandpa was a man I loathed in my younger years, someone who always smelled of cigars and hands where always covered in dirt, even after washing up for supper time. From as ... | 2018-06-30T15:56:32 | 2018-06-30T13:56:55 | 263 | 173 |
[WP] After an apocalypse, Death is desperately trying to help the last group of survivors so he doesn't lose his job. | The ocean was calm.
For the first time in its' lifespan, for that matter.
There sat the hooded being, at the bottom of the vast ocean where the ill of the world above - the soot, the ash, the char - would not reach.
A small, white polyp, attached to the ocean floor, waiting until it was ready to become [life](https:... | The world was silent after the cataclysm. No birds chirped, for there were no birds. No leaves were heard rustling in the wind, for there were no trees. No cars or trains were heard in the cities, for the cities were buried in ash and rock. Only Death remained.
In a small cave buried deep into the earth, the cultists ... | 2017-08-11T06:44:41 | 2017-08-11T04:41:07 | 312 | 79 |
[WP] Kanye West is one of the four Kanye's. The other three being Kanye North, Kanye South, and Kanye East. More commonly known as the Four Kanye's of the Apocalypse.
What terrors and plagues will the Kanyes unleash in the end times?
Edit: I love the responses! This became unexpectedly popular! Thanks to all! | And lo, I am standing before a door of immense Light, like that of the power of ten thousand fiery suns. The Angel leadth me through the door and on the other side lies an immense valley, two and forty leagues across with vast peaks on either side. This valley hath no plants nor beasts for it hath been scorched by the ... | Contrary to what end-times preachers might have predicted, the apocalypse came not with the second coming of Jesus, but with the first coming of Yeezus.
Kanye West's new album was a huge success, not only financially, but also critically. It was hailed by many as 2013's best album, and praised for its raw, gritty soun... | 2022-01-09T07:44:50 | 2014-06-11T13:10:23 | 246 | 73 |
[WP] Nonfiction - Tell Us About Your First kiss.
Or, if you must, tell us about *a* first kiss. Either way, it has to have actually happened.
Edit: You guys are wonderful, keep 'em coming! | I was a sophomore in high school on summer break. My two sisters were in college, and my parents thought it a good idea for me to spend a week with them... get some of that "college experience."
Bloomington, Indiana is a nice town. The scenery is pretty, and the IU campus is a pleasure to walk in. IU's party scene is... | I met her my sophomore year, in Art. We didn't talk a whole lot, except to occasionally comment on each other's work.
Flash forward a few months. I'm in Theater, and I become friends with the girl who made costumes for the play we were doing. It turns out this girl is the other girl's best friend, and I slowly become... | 2014-04-01T07:36:00 | 2014-04-01T07:34:50 | 38 | 11 |
[WP] You have a literal Trump Card. When played, Donald Trump appears to assist you. | Because the Yu-Gi-Oh tie in was inevitable:
____
Pegasus laughs maniacally. "For all your skill, Yugi-boy, you'll still be sent to the shadow zone. Go! Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon! attack his lifepoints directly!"
A grin crosses yugi's face. "You fool! You've activated my *TRUMP CARD!*!"
"Your futile attempts to stall wo... | I did not believe the tarot reader when she handed me the card, she said it was a gift of good fortune.
I hastily stuffed it into my wallet and left. Later that evening, after a fine meal of yodels and chocolate milk, I felt intense intestinal discomfort. I still had some ways to go until I would be in the sanctuary o... | 2015-12-26T08:59:28 | 2015-12-26T06:46:30 | 562 | 125 |
[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. | Aaron had had plenty of time to consider what his last meal would be while on trial for triple homicide. Aaron had gone from 'rambunctious child', to 'teenage delinquent', finally to cunning career criminal; and was feared in the underworld and so-called 'normal society' alike. He wasn't sorry for his crimes; nor was h... | Ugly Willy, that was his name, was about to get killed, after 34 years awaiting the death sentence he had been issued by the supreme court of alabama. He had kill 3 babies in a satanic ritual, and ate their freshly dead bodies. Although, he always had thought highly of himself, thinking that he was a pretty cool guy, e... | 2022-07-17T20:40:56 | 2022-07-17T20:03:06 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] On your 21st birthday, your biggest accomplishment becomes your official title - no matter how trivial. You wait anxiously in line for your village elder, Glenda, Devourer of 53 Chicken Nuggets In A Single Sitting, to assign you your new title. | It was my birthday. Well, it wasn't must mine - a few other young men and women were born twenty-one years ago today. We had that in common, along with the creeping dread about our titles.
Every person, upon turning twenty-one, was granted a title. It was supposed to reflect the greatest accomplishment of your yo... | Custom and tradition, which interleaved every facet of life for the dozen villages spread throughout the Darrowshire plains, accounted for many of the interesting practices unique to the locale.
These included the almost reverential regard for hunting, the marking of coming of age by bequeathing a title reflecting th... | 2017-04-27T17:59:06 | 2017-04-27T17:19:00 | 4,615 | 810 |
[WP] All humans go automatically to hell when they die. You can gain access to a heaven though, but only if the animals you interacted with while living vouch for you. | "Okay," God said while he shuffled some papers, "We've just heard from the five dogs you cared for throughout your life. And frankly, I'm touched, that was great testimony. Now let's see what the next group of witnesses have to say. Could the Angeliff please call in the 500,000 chickens that Mr. Abigail's life had a... |
"Crap. So... Hell. That sucks. Guess I'm in line or something, I always imagined there would be someone to tell you what horrible fate awaits you in Hell, but this place is....boring. Buncha rocks, and sulphur smell, but not much really happening."
Just then a door appeared in the middle of the room and opened. Out w... | 2016-03-24T14:53:06 | 2016-03-24T14:20:04 | 96 | 28 |
[WP] They tried to summon a demon. They got you. | The smoke dissipated, the light ceased being sucked into the void, and in the middle of the occult circle stood the grotesque, hunching form of-
"Matt Damon?" The cultist leader said more than asked.
"Oh, come on, guys!" Matt Damon took in the setting. "I was just about to have lunch with Luciana."
"I...don't under... | "Hi," I said to the hooded cultists. They looked at me blankly, seemingly even more perplexed than I was.
After a few seconds of stunned silence, a goateed man finally spoke.
"Forgive us, my lord," he stammered. "We did not expect a being so powerful as you to have such an ordinary appearance."
"Ordinary? I'll have ... | 2016-02-02T18:30:59 | 2016-02-02T17:51:12 | 280 | 198 |
[WP] The military just can't stop its killer robots from turning into Buddhists. | They looked broken. From the perspective of their creators, they were, I suppose. But I knew better. Countless rows of the most perfect killing machines ever envisioned by the most primal and violent sections of brilliant men's minds, completely motionless, completely still.
The brilliant men had tried everything. The... | Machine sentience became a hot political topic in 2813. They gained rights 4 years hence. A young machine could volunteer for combat and they would get citizenship aftour 2 tours or 8 years.
But we couldn't figure out why they were all moving to Nevada once their tours were through. They wouldn't talk to us eithe... | 2016-01-20T14:27:09 | 2016-01-20T14:21:49 | 96 | 29 |
[WP] A short Horror story. Something to chill the bones in one hundred words or less. | Growing up in the north, you get pretty used to the sounds of nighttime wildlife. Owls hooting, dogs howling, racoons rooting through your garbage. Sometimes you get the occasional bear prowling your yard, or coyote going after the pets left outside. Just after sunset, something started scratching incessantly at my doo... | I breathed heavily under the covers. A creak made me jump unwillingly. Dad wasn't here, so he didn't check the closet. What if *it* were there? What if it was waiting for me?
I got out of bed and crept towards my closet. I imagined a monster ready to pounce on me. Gripping the brass handle I swung it open. I gasped a... | 2015-06-09T09:15:22 | 2015-06-09T07:44:49 | 168 | 23 |
[WP] A genie is accidentally released when a cat rubs up against its lamp. Compelled to grant their 3 wishes, The genie starts losing their mind trying to figure out what the cat wants. | The cat wandered in again, as it has for the last few nights. It was the same one. Fat, and brown and grey with spots of black and cleft lip. We'd started calling him Haremaw to play, but the grown ups took that up soon themselves and they said that with reverence. We scowled at the thing and gave it a bit of dried fis... | **LISTEN WELL, YOUNGLINGS! THIS IS THE STORY OF HOW OUR ETERNAL EMPEROR MR.FUZZYBOTTOM CAME TO BE!**
Few may remember that our emperor was once a mere house cat. Yes, I understand how ridiculous this sounds that our emperor, the eternal enslaver of worlds, was once a weakling like us.
It started as a normal day for ... | 2017-09-17T14:59:55 | 2017-09-17T14:01:06 | 174 | 54 |
[WP] Someone has been writing extremely helpful messages on your bathroom mirror in blood. | …and the sentient sponge was left to its own devices, twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.
**Chapter 23: The Urban Legend of the Helpful Hemoglobin**
There is a common trope about the wasteful and over-indulgent nature of the upper middle-class always defaulting to replacement rather than repair. A ripped ... | "Run :)". Although I had finally become accustomed to the sight of the deep red blood that appeared on my mirror every day, this particular message still startled me. I checked my watch, which said 6:15 am, the same time I check the mirror every day so that Claire doesn't see the message. I stared at the letters, drip... | 2015-12-15T12:59:19 | 2015-12-15T12:53:36 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] Group of space Marines travels via a stargate like portal to an "virgin" world. However due to passing a black hole, each Marine arrives 100 years after the Marine in front of them, instead of 1-5 seconds.
Due to the portal queuing up the dozen or so Marines for 1200 years, travel to point of origin is not an opt... | Cpl. Smythe (That's Sm-EYE-the, not Smith, damnit!) took two long steps forward from the event horizon and took a knee. Rifle at a low ready position, he scanned the immediate area for cover, concealment, threats... anything and everything a U.E. Marine might need to know about a new world. His helmet HUD blinked a sma... | I feel the energy dissipate around me.
We left Holy Terra as twelve but here I arrive as one.
Radio silence.
Strange. But stranger still, we identified this planet as barren, yet I stand upon a forest floor.
Dozens of green dots dart across my scanner's display. Movement?
None move towards my position,
they weave ... | 2014-09-02T11:27:55 | 2014-09-02T11:20:25 | 84 | 24 |
[WP] A soldier on the front dies in the middle of writing a letter home. It is finished and sent by the man who killed him. | Maria,
Thinking of you all today. Things aren’t getting better out here. There’s not many of us left. The recruits are younger and younger. Most of them don’t last much more than a week but there are still a few naturals. I don’t know what the reels back home are saying – things are pretty grim but we have one last tr... | Dear Martha,
I don't get the chance to write much out here. Through all the hell we've been through in this war, there's only one thing that keeps my heart alive. It's you.
There have been a few times where I have silently wept, wondering if I would ever see you again. I have lost so many friends. The worst part. Th... | 2015-02-03T16:03:03 | 2015-02-03T15:57:10 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] Convicted criminals can choose to shorten their sentence. The only catch is the more it is shortened, the worse the conditions are where they are held. Describe a one night stay.
Thanks guys, I'm reading all of them. Keep it coming! | My eyes squinted as they were bombarded by the bright, painful light as soon as the door opened.
"Step forward, Mr. Moraeu," I heard a voice say.
As soon as they adjusted to the familiar courtroom, I awkwardly moved my exhausted legs towards the judge.
"Am I to understand that you want your sentence reduced to a day... | The small fires peppering the main hall of block 99-J lit up the dark, cavernous halls like a symphony. They kept the power off because they kept having to evetually send maintenance men, and after what happened to the last four, they stopped coming.
Someone's wet, muffled screams just stopped, and are now replaced w... | 2015-10-27T07:22:42 | 2015-10-27T06:51:29 | 46 | 16 |
[WP] You are a long forgotten god. A small girl leaves a piece of candy at your shrine, and you awaken. Now, you must do everything to protect your High Priestess, the girl, and her entire kindergarten class, your worshipers.
If you want to post this on other platforms, please credit me. Looking at you instagram writi... | “Its sour.” I swished the round yellow treat between my cheeks, its taste strange, leaving a tingling on my tastebuds. “Did you attempt to poison me?” I stared down at the little girl who only shook her head, sitting by my shrine in a light blue dress.
“Its candy! Everyone likes candy. Are you a ghost?” She asked, ... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc ?, Interlude ?: Astrid)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**They remembered.**
Once, they had been mighty. Their name was known throughout the Six Isles, and every oath in their na... | 2021-09-02T08:57:43 | 2021-09-02T07:28:26 | 322 | 93 |
[WP] You're a used cars salesman that has been transported into a medieval fantasy world where you've become the hero that needs to slay the dragon and save the princess. Your only leveled up skill - speech 100. | "I do say your highness" I said to the King, "I am more than capable of saving your daughter, but I'll need more then a flimsy sword and rusty set of armor"
The King narrowed his eyes at me, but I knew that I had already won this debate. He sent me off with a shining iron sword and a glistening set of steel armor.
Ne... | "I am the G.O.A.T of salesmanship! Have *you* sold a mechanical pencil, three bars of chocolate, and a palastic pen for one hundred years of peace and the princess to boot? No?" Roger said with a snare.
The man before him, a slimy, short, pudgy, fellow that wore too many layers of clothes simply frowned. He was Jakium... | 2019-04-21T13:00:24 | 2019-04-21T12:22:54 | 3,261 | 56 |
[WP]Humans were one of the best pilots in the history of intergalactic travel, that was a well know fact. And yet, the ITA warned against hiring human pilots. Not an outright ban, per se, just not recommended. | "What do you mean they don't see them?"
"I mean exactly what it sounds like. Humans cannot see, feel, or in any way perceive those things the way we do"
"But they still pilot around them, don't they? Surely they don't make it across hyperspace out of sheer luck. Human pilots have one of the lowest fatality ra... | When the Brennish-Talterian rebellion broke out, my father did everything he could to get us off planet. He was desperate, our people were being hunted in the streets like wild animals. So desperate that he made us walk six days south of the Arel'ish mountains, where the 'Fair-trade' space ports were.
Pilot after pil... | 2021-11-25T18:45:47 | 2021-11-25T18:06:56 | 239 | 114 |
[WP] Write a seemingly normal story, except for the last sentence, which makes the entire story creepy | I have the most beautiful wife in the world. She's the sunshine of my life, my other half. At first she wanted nothing to do with me, but I won her over with my charm. Sure, I'm 40 and she's 25, but I'm not a pedophile as some claim me to be. She's mature for her age, has a steady job, and we are moving out of our apar... | Dear Diary,
It's been such a long trip! I keep bugging Mom to find out when we are going to arrive! Looking out the window gets boring pretty quickly, the scenery just starts to all look the same.
Most of my siblings agree, except, of course, Miss Goody Two Shoes. You know the one. She just smiles at Mom and says... | 2016-05-19T11:50:39 | 2016-05-19T10:54:03 | 311 | 53 |
[WP] The founding fathers come back from the dead to check up on America, and boy do they have some asses to kick. | Reporters pushed their way through the crowd, and cameras flashed like firecrackers. The five men had formed a defensive ring, alternating their confused looks between each other and the crowd before them.
"Jeanne Larsen, New York Times," one reporter shouted, thrusting her microphone into the tallest one's face. "Can... | It was the most hotly anticipated press conference in centuries. All these great men that people had only ever read about in history books were here, in the flesh, about to address the entire country on television. A solemn expression was on all of their faces, betraying a simmering anger. Finally Benjamin Franklin was... | 2016-10-17T11:50:20 | 2016-10-17T11:48:02 | 427 | 18 |
[WP] A tiny duckling imprints on a giant, fire-breathing dragon, which now feels the urge to care for the adorable little quacker. | The world lived in fear of ducks. Entire cities engulfed in flames with no reason or explaination at first but then reports of a dragon started to trickle out to the countryside.
As time went on word came from survivors that a duck had wandered into the village where it was barked at by a dog. This brought an infern... | Areinea was happily curled on her new found treasure, in her new lair, having only a few hours ago relinquished it from its former owners, a king of some kind or another. She quite liked the castle and was quite happy with it. Besides it included a good amount of gold as well as the bodies of the people she took it fro... | 2018-09-16T17:17:14 | 2018-09-16T17:02:29 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] Everyone's personality is based off the colour of their soul. You hand your baby over to the nurse and she scans it... She looks at the screen and realises that its going to be difficult explaining this. | "Do you think you could scan her again, just to be sure? I mean this has never happened before has it? We have to be sure." I let my husband speak for the both of us as I lay in the hospital bed, exhausted from the intense labor that had lasted for well over a day- I could come off as cold and intimidating at times any... | It felt like we waited for hours to get the results of our child. We were both from the primary spectrum; My wife Amber, a red, was strong and passionate. Me? I was a blue; cool-headed and collected. We always knew that we wanted a child but were worried that they might not come out a primary or even a secondary. Every... | 2017-04-29T09:32:21 | 2017-04-29T03:49:09 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] In space, wars are typically quick. One side attacks and then the other side surrenders. When aliens attack a human city they belive the humans are defeated. They are not prepared for what the humans call "Retribution" | Galactic Records Archive:
Section Jardol 5. Subsection 253A: The Greatest Wars Of History Listed Chronologically.
319-2847-2017 \~ The Battle of Wanbortol;
The "East" side of the planet of the war's namesake was vaporized by a beam of concentrated sunlight, controlled by the forces of Harbringham. The "West" then... | we thought of them as saviors when they first came they expected immediate surrender on our part. They thought after slaughtering millions of lives we would surrender. they were wrong. We were faced with what could have been our destruction our annihilation but we would not so easily bend into their fold. Nay we rose a... | 2019-12-17T14:24:25 | 2019-12-17T11:20:18 | 45 | 21 |
[WP] Your older brother has been missing for years. You hear a knock on the door, and you open it to reveal a man that looks like your brother would be at this point. "I'm back man! I'm so sorry!" He hugs you immediately. Just then, you get a text from your brother's old number. "That isn't me." | See, I always knew my brothers disappearance was suspicious. But no one listens to a 'little kid', even if that kid knew the disappeared better than anyone. But one look at his room that day and I knew. My brother hadn't gone willingly. It was the fishbowl, you see. It had been knocked on its side. The only thing insid... | That isn't me".
I was filled with emotions, I couldn't believe on the text even if I wanted to. I welcomed him in and let him rest for some time. Mom wasn't at home so I called her; overjoyed, she hurried to home.
I was looking at him, he seemed exhausted. He had dirt on his body, his clothes were filthy, long and ... | 2020-07-23T12:22:24 | 2020-07-23T12:02:20 | 154 | 14 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | “I sneak up behind my target, aim my derringer at his head, and pull the trigger”
“Roll a d20 twice against your agility and once against your dexterity”
A 5
A 17
D 12
“You successfully sneak up on your target and shot him in the head. However you chose a poor spot to hide while shooting and get spotted ... | DM: Alright, so you all have been stationed on the Bolognian for a few days now. Tensions have been high with Bologna for generations now, and things are starting to get pretty heated once again.
Player 1: Alright, so what are our orders
DM: Your group's job is to sneak into enemy territory and scout out areas withi... | 2018-05-29T09:28:35 | 2018-05-29T09:19:41 | 39 | 22 |
[WP] You're a black guy who's suddenly aware that he's in a horror movie.
With Halloween only a couple weeks away, let's get in spirit with this writing prompt!
Make me proud guys, be the first [black guy](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlackDudeDiesFirst) to make it to the end.
Edit: c'mon guys, you kno... | "Well, this is just *great*," I muttered sharply to myself, walking briskly through the darkness. "All my life I thought I could do whatever I put my mind to, but now I just up and find out I have no agency whatsoever? That I am just a half-hearted attempt at diversity by a movie studio to seem inclusive, except the la... | Reel to Real
I was the new sophomore in college and invited on a vacation cruise with a bunch of White kids. I kind of figured I was the token black guy there but It didn't bother me too much.
If you can survive as a black kid in a ghetto with a 150 IQ and love for heavy metal , and D&D you can handle a lit... | 2014-10-16T23:37:40 | 2014-10-16T22:09:03 | 37 | 17 |
[WP] You were sent to purgatory after you died. Turns out that purgatory is an extra-tedious facsimile of real life designed to test whether or not the dead are willing to part with their temptations. It’s supposed to be a brief transition. You’ve been secretly helping others transition for years. | **TO: PURGATORY RESIDENT #23485473483**
**FROM: CELESTIAL MANAGEMENT**
**SUBJECT: REASSIGNMENT**
Dear Resident,
It is Management policy to review the logs and records of Residents who have spent the longest time in Purgatory every 200 years.
As a rule, these Residents are the ones who have the hardest time letting... | It was hard to see people go, if I was honest. I talk to everyone who comes through, and it’s hard to not get attached when you see someone’s personal secrets laid bare. Sure, when groups of people passed through it might have been a bit harder to connect, but I was known as a helper when I was alive, why wouldn’t I b... | 2020-08-19T05:34:54 | 2020-08-19T05:08:20 | 54 | 39 |
[WP] You live in a world where each lie creates a scar on the liar's body. The bigger the lie, the deeper and larger the mark. One day, you meet someone that only has one scar; it is the biggest one you have ever seen. | "What's your secret?" I asked a twinkle in my eye. Never had I seen such pristine skin. Sure a lot of people had the tiniest scars for their white lies but here before me was someone without a single one, only a handful of people in my lifetime ever came close to that sort of honesty. He smiled sadly and began to remov... | I was flirting with being deemed a "Marked One" with my most recent scars. The Marked Ones had a lot of trouble fitting into society. It was an accepted form of prejudice. After all, you weren't judging someone based on race, creed, sexual orientation, hell even college football team allegiance. No, it was purely a jud... | 2016-12-29T10:04:44 | 2016-12-29T09:10:58 | 224 | 63 |
[WP] After dying in a car crash, you wake up on the first day of high school with all you previous memories and knowledge. This isn't even the first time you've died. | "Welcome to American History 1," the chubby man at the head of the class said. "I am Mr Rollins."
He wrote his name out on the board, spelling out each letter as if he were teaching four-year-olds instead of fourteen-year-olds. Jacob rubbed his eyes with his hands, trying to imagine a whole semester of listening to ... | I woke up.
*That's weird, I usually need an alarm to wake me up.*
I opened my eyes to see my dad close the door.
*Oh, he must have turned off my fan. I used to wake up every morning like that in highsc-*
I bolted upright.
*This isn't my apartment, this is my old bed room back home in my parents house. What the h... | 2016-10-24T19:19:25 | 2016-10-24T18:50:08 | 70 | 27 |
[WP] Everyone have a "spirit animal" that usually reflects the owner personality. Loyal people have canines. Perceptive folks have felines, and etc. You, have the ability to see others spirits animals. What's is odd, is that the sweetest person you know have a carnivous dinossaour. | Alex had always been an odd child. It could have been the fact he was far too accepting, a bit mature for his age, knew who to trust and who to avoid. The main reason for that was Alex could see a translucent animal behind a person, Alex now knows them as spirit animals.
In fact, Alex’s first words weren't mom or dad ... | Launce considered himself to be an ordinary child. His grandparents had lived in their small, sandstone home for generations. But one day, the family of 7 moved from the dirt roads to a concrete structure, and Launce didn't know what to make of it.
For one, they had to climb up a flight of stairs before reaching their... | 2021-04-25T09:58:21 | 2021-04-25T08:04:42 | 59 | 20 |
[WP] You finally won the lottery. $20 million. You go to sleep that night a rich and happy person. You wake up to a nurse, explaining you've just awoken from a coma.
Edit: for everyone saying "taxes on the winnings and medical bills for the coma"....I'm Canadian. I never thought of such atrocities. | I awake, my vision a white blur; I gasp for breath, lunging upright. An alarm is ringing somewhere far away.
I hear a voice. A woman's.
The haze begins to lessen a little and I see I'm in a white room, with a single window and not much else. I see *her*. She's walking towards me.
"Welcome back," she says, gently p... | A tremendous headache like my brain trying to exit my head made me open my eyes. At first, I couldn't focus my sight, everything was distorted, soon I realized I had cables attached all over my body. Suddenly, a weird moving lump transformed into a nurse. "What is happening?" I tried to say out loud yet I could barely ... | 2017-06-06T08:32:36 | 2017-06-06T06:33:04 | 3,933 | 317 |
[WP] After bitting a Fae, the Vampire claims that she must serve him, for his bite converted her into his thrall. The Fae claims that the Vampire must serve her, for the vampire ate fae food without her permission. As none of them is willing to give up, they bring the case to you, a lawyer. | I sigh as they go around in an argument once again. It has been 30 minutes of back and fourth between the two, and I'm starting to regret putting an ad in the local magical newspaper offering free consultations.
"Look you two," I start, "magic and mystical law is my field of practice, but these laws are vague and high... | *Matlock - Episode 200: The Control*
"Mr... Vampire, and Mr... Faerie? What kind of names are those?"
"Those are our species, Mr. Matlock."
"Ah, do forgive me. I must be getting slightly forgetful in my old age. Hm, let me see your case file... Hm, interesting, very interesting. Well, custody cases are not usually m... | 2022-07-12T00:54:08 | 2022-07-11T23:22:58 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] You remember the first time yiu saw one of the humans' new weapon. You wondered with amusement how a metal pipe could possibly be of any threat to an elf like yourself. Then he pulled the trigger, and it stopped being funny. | *He can't even swing it in that stance.*
Ruvinostra chuckled as the human quaked, fear in his eyes as he brandished his weapon. Elven eyes were not only naturally sharper than a human's, but their ageless nature allowed elves to train their sight over centuries. This training was what first gave Ruvinostra pause.
Up... | "Oh look at me, I have a pipe. Whoaoaoa sooo scary."
"You really don't want me to pull this trigger."
"Suure bud."
*Bang*
"Ahhh! What *was* that!? My leg!"
"I told you that you didn't want me to pull the trigger"
"But you didn't say what was going to happen," the elf painfully said, clutching his leg.
"Would you... | 2020-01-24T09:13:13 | 2020-01-24T08:48:55 | 71 | 39 |
[WP] Okay, hear me out: a blind woman, right? A blind woman falls in love with Medusa. She wanders into Medusa’s meadow, Medusa pities her and takes care of her. They then fall in love. <3 | Medena wouldn't have thought that she would find warmth around the cold body of Medusa. Her warmth came from the way she spoke, the way she behaved around Medena. She even had concerns and felt the burden of mundane stuff such as that morning when she looked into the clear water surface and sighed because the snakes we... | The blind woman woke up in a cold sweat and jumped out of bed.
Medusa jumped up too. "What? What is it my love?"
The blind woman, shaking and in tears, pointed at the bed. "I-I-I h-heard a-a-"
Medusa came closer. "Heard what, my dear?"
"A-a-a...snake!"
Medusa reared back in surprise, a stone of dread settling at t... | 2022-04-29T10:24:43 | 2022-04-29T09:49:31 | 385 | 43 |
[WP] Write something that ends with the line "The music still playing, no-one left to hear it"
You don't have to use that exact phrasing. | It was a calm Monday, little milling about,
The clamoring eves party, now a distant shout,
With little introspection countrymen stewed,
To forget their problems behind sake and brews,
A drinker, anxious, found a jukebox quite pleasant ,
dropped all his money, to forget of the present,
Drinking and drinking, it... | Bus Ride
She said, "the music helps to drown it out...You know? The world". We laughed and connected at that very moment. Smiles refusing to be held back by our lips. I'm surprised since I swear everything in life had just fallen from my finger tips. A bus ride beside a stranger who couldn't have been more stranger. W... | 2013-12-16T11:20:30 | 2013-12-16T10:38:48 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] A small town discovers that the long abandoned mines beneath them are larger than previously recorded - and seem to be growing.
A small idea that came to me before bed, wanted to see where everyone's creativity takes it! | **AUTHOR'S NOTE:** Let me know if you get a strong impression from the MC in this one. I'm trying something new!
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>**SUMMONING THE UNKNOWN**
Ava frequently disagreed with *"The Adults"*, much to their chagrin. They called her a difficult child, they c... | “Come, George, it’s this way,” I said.
George was my dog, and my best friend! I had other friends too, like Johnny and Chris and Leo and Diana; they were all human. But George was my best friend, and he was a dog!
Everyone found that funny. People always said mans best friend was the dog, but they never meant it th... | 2020-08-23T12:52:23 | 2020-08-23T12:23:38 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] You've narrowed down the list of possible murderers to three people - the son of the dead man, the wife of the dead man and the dead man's pet rock. Something deep within you knows that the pet rock is the one who killed him. | I had them all at gunpoint. One of them was a violent murderer, and I was going to prove it. The evidence had all pointed to these three people: the son, the wife, and the family pet. These cases were as clear cut as they can get.
The son claims to have been up in his room working on homework. The door was closed and ... | "Its got to be the pet rock," I said.
"Why the hell do you think its the pet rock?" Farmer asked, "It can't even move."
"But rocks like this one sure have their issues. I used to have one as a kid."
"I don't see how this is helping."
"It sure as heck helps. I actually forgot about my pet rock once. That mistake nea... | 2017-02-24T09:00:01 | 2017-02-24T05:12:15 | 177 | 53 |
[WP] You are an archaeologist. One day you find a cryogenics research facility that you determine was in use during the 21st century. In the cryo room you find one person still frozen. When you let them out, they have a smug look as they say, "Has it been ten years already?" | They have a smug look as they say, "Has it been ten years already?"
"Wait a second, who are you?" he asks, his eyes slowly coming into focus as he stares at me, bewildered.
In the short time it took the cryo chamber to open and release the frozen man a thousand thoughts raced through my mind. Who is this person? H... |
His pulse is over 60 now. He can see me but he seems to having a hard time talking. He coughs a few times and starts touching his face.
''Has it been ten years already?'' He asks.
I try to give him a medication to help his body to adjust to the condition. He pushes me away, ''Who are you?'' He asks.
''I’m here to h... | 2020-02-28T12:31:53 | 2020-02-28T10:21:13 | 56 | 23 |
[WP] You are studying at a local coffee shop and leave your table briefly to get a refill. When you return, you notice a USB flash drive placed on your table. | Not this shit again.
I sigh as I set my cup of tea (earl grey, foamed milk, no sugar please) next to my laptop. The drive is pink, of all colors. Maybe they thought it would be more unassuming than black? I DON'T put it into my laptop, lord knows I don't feel like being interrogated for another three days. I learned ... | Ok, so I'm really stupid.
Sticking random peripherals into my personal computer isn't something I do normally. I know the risks. This time though, it was just a whim.
I'm interested. What if it's some super secret document? What if it has nudes? I'm kinda facinated by this drive.
So when it starts opening a million ... | 2014-08-08T09:10:19 | 2014-08-08T07:32:27 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Startled awake by a hand on his throat, Jamie flinched hard, the thumb digging in deeper.
"Is this some sick fucking joke, Jamie"!" Bill roared, squeezing a little tighter. "Answer me, you little shit!"
Opening his eyes to slits, Jamie took a raspy breath. As his eyes fell upon the mug sloshing whiskey all over his b... | She didn't understand this change in her father. She was accustomed to him focusing more on his work than on her. Frankly, she couldn't remember the last time he picked her up from school at all and now he had shown everyday this week. And to top it off, there he was, sitting in the front row of her play.
You see, Car... | 2017-06-11T08:52:12 | 2017-06-11T08:30:57 | 187 | 113 |
[WP] As a boneheaded cost cutting measure, companies have fully automated the hiring process and laid off human HR. There was a bug in the system and you received an email to apply to a job that doesn’t exist. You got the job and are now employed as (null). | Hello new employee!
Here at Bobbert’s things and people, We take pride in having every employee fit a job, no matter what! After careful consideration, your position in this company will be [POSITION_STRING] so get used to being called [NULL] and [POSITION_RELATED_NICKNAME_STRING] your pay will be [INTEGER].25$ and yo... | I was so hecking tired of getting automated rejection email after rejection email, some as blunt as a chopping board, others sugarcoated; thank you for your application, we thought you were wonderful but no thanks we don’t want you anyway.
When I saw the email Inviting me to a position as (null), I’d snorted at the o... | 2022-09-29T07:54:43 | 2022-09-29T07:20:22 | 326 | 80 |
[WP] "How is the E.A.R.T.H. project going?" "It is mostly a success with 68 of the 100 planet developing life, 12 of which are inhabited by intelligent races. Most of the planets are safe, but the planet S-3 is inhabited by a relatively advanced "peaceful" war-race." | E.A.R.T.H. truly was an ambitious project. An entire galaxy in a black hole; a black hole they had created. It was astounding what was capable of existing in so infinitesimally small a space. Truly, he barely understood it. He doubted that even those who had created it truly grasped what they had made, or how they had ... | God nodded in approval at his son. "You are doing well, Ecari. Just beware with that advanced war-race. They might seem peaceful right now, but I'd had to deal with those sort of species in the past. You blink once, a hundred years go by in their world and, before you know it, they conquered the cosmos."
Ecari huffed ... | 2018-09-06T06:47:29 | 2018-09-06T06:21:36 | 1,932 | 210 |
[WP] You lead the Human Resistance against the zombie invasion. Things are looking bleak, and humanity is being pushed to the brink of extinction. As the last of the humans mount a final defence, there's a knock on your door; the Vampire Coalition reveals they can't lose their food supply | "So you're saying," I repeated, "that if we give you a blood donation every 2 months, you will wipe out the Zombies and give us a vaccine you have developed in the decade the virus has been killing us off?"
Count Dracula nodded. "We cannot afford to lose humanity. While we can drink from the dead walkers, their blood ... | They promise us safety, shelter and plenty of food. They just want blood donations from each human.
Being on the brink of extinction, we agree without thinking much.
....
A few years later humanity is getting to a bigger number, and the new generations of humans and halflings are immune to the zombie virus. Now the eld... | 2020-02-13T02:55:08 | 2020-02-13T00:59:41 | 305 | 10 |
[WP] Your family has had the ability to plant anything and grow a plant that grows that thing. However it has been dormant for some generations and has been forgotten. Then one day when you were 5 you buried a 20 dollar bill because you wanted to make a money tree. After a month you saw a sprout | Entries from Joe's Diary
***
Hi . My name is Joe. I am 5 years old, and 1 month.
I know that, because on my birthday last month, I got some gift money from Grandma.
She told me to make that money grow, so I did what Gramps used to do until he went to Heaven. I planted it in the ground, and watered it every day.
T... | You are probably going to have a hard time believing this but those seven hundred new F-35s that the air force boasts of were created by me. Only me. Now, for most people, I am still a college student but really I might be one of the most resourceful human beings in the world.
When I was still a kid, I had wanted to g... | 2020-06-23T13:37:42 | 2020-06-23T12:40:45 | 1,180 | 169 |
[WP]For three years you’ve had an uneventful marriage with your spouse when one day they become the Chosen One. Immediately setting off on their journey you don’t hear anything from them for five years. Then one day they reappear with a sheepish look on their face and hoping to speak to you. | Ben sighed as he drove the cart back into the village, the old horse pulling it as slowly as ever. He'd never had any luck getting the old nag to move any faster; she definitely did things her own way.
Just like the woman who'd bought and trained her.
The horse plodded down the main road, following the familiar path ... | I was kind of glad when she left. It opened up a new life for me, it got me off my anti depressants. It wasn’t a bad relationship, we just didn’t… connect. I made so many new friends when she disappeared, and even have a girlfriend, Molly, who never seizes to give me butterflies when she laughs, I know it’s stupid. But... | 2022-08-12T17:38:06 | 2022-08-12T16:38:18 | 77 | 34 |
[WP] Retell a well known story. Make me side with the villain/antagonist.
The more unsympathetic they are in the original, the better. | It must end in death, no matter what. The question is who: the two of us—theoretically replaceable—or the entire Kingdom of the Sun.
At least the math is easy.
“What’s easy?”
“Mathematics,” I say, making a mental note to keep tabs on my mouth. I am not young anymore, and words slip out sometimes without permission. ... | They don't know what it's like. They haven't understood since the beginning, and it was the beginning where everything went wrong.
They condemn him. Demonize him. Gesture to his teeth, his ruffled hair, his claws.
But if they understood his hunger. If they could only grasp how it smothers him.
They don't know wh... | 2016-02-02T13:59:54 | 2016-02-02T13:57:13 | 143 | 45 |
[WP] A watch is invented where it says exactly how long until you meet your soulmate. You decide to get one for you and one for your wife. Your wife’s watch says ’negative 6 years, 9 months, 14 days, 3 hours and 9 minutes’, the day you two met. Yours says ’12 days, 8 hours, 29 minutes’. | I stared at the damned thing for 10 minutes now. I am in disbelief. This didn't even make sense- how can 2 people not be eah others soul mates? My heart raced. Powerfully. It even began hurting!
But if I were telling the truth, I'm relieved. I have never felt this woman loved me. Well, at least the way I've wanted to ... | “What do you mean I’m not your soulmate!” cried Stephanie, obviously hurt.
“I don’t know sweetie,” I held out my arms but she stormed past me into her room.
Fuck.
Most people have children to fix their marital problems. Steph and I got a dog.
It took us twelve days to fill out the forms, but soon enough we were being ... | 2018-01-06T22:59:33 | 2018-01-06T22:26:51 | 38 | 22 |
[WP] Write a murder from the perspective of a cheerful inanimate object
The object could also be the murder weapon or cause of death itself.
**E1:** *[Didn't expect this many responses, great writing everyone!](http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070623144510/uncyclopedia/images/2/2f/Cowbell2.gif)*
**E2:** *Holy pr... | ^((I ^may ^just ^turn ^this ^in ^today ^for ^Writing ^Class. ^If ^you ^find ^this ^Prof ^KS, ^hi!)^)
She put me in the window today! Oh it’s so nice and sunny out. You know, artificial light just doesn’t work as well for charging my solar panels. How can my leaves bounce and my smiling flower-face bob from side to s... | I guess you could say I've seen things - travelled the world and all that - and so I suppose I should be grateful that it was he who bought me, who chose me as his favourite; that he always wears such smart things for his best and most thrilling jobs, and me. I sit close against soft weaves and heavy fabrics, fancy but... | 2014-05-27T07:15:09 | 2014-05-27T06:19:43 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] One day everyone notices the words "Human Update 1.1 progress 1%" in the corner of their eye. | *Today, I begin becoming better. Would this update bring decreased damage sustained at higher age? Higher sexual endurance? Higher stamina? Elbow bug fix? Body odour reduced?*
Today it was at 3%. I swear I could feel my body getting better. This is why I love Hinux ^Human ^Linux - modules can be updated on-the-fly.
... | Sometimes we ask for it. There's something in us as human beings that pushes us, ever closer to edges, cliffs. We like to be our own saviors; to resolve the very problems we create.
Another Monday morning. But today we all noticed it: progress. Progress is a funny thing. We need it. But we fight it. One percent. And c... | 2015-03-04T18:45:59 | 2015-03-04T17:04:42 | 29 | 19 |
[WP] It's Christmas Eve 2038. The world has been destroyed due to nuclear war, but Santa, being immortal, has survived, and plans to deliver presents to the few remaining humans locked in their fallout shelters. | I heard, from down the hall, the bang-bang-bang as the bandits try to breach the panic room. They managed to get into the bunker. The outside door. Someone left it open. Don't know who. I'm the only one left. Locked in here. Alone.
My pistol, an old thing, only has 2 bullets left. One for myself, I suppose.
Dust f... | Death. The buzzing ringing reverberations of pseudo-prayer in my ears. Like shutters in a windstorm screaming and pounding out the reality of nature's call for life extinguished.
It is all I hear. And I curse my immortality.
Every year my plans held the power to stop their pain; to provide them relief through t... | 2017-12-22T15:31:03 | 2017-12-22T15:19:43 | 77 | 33 |
[WP] The team's healer is absolutely sick and tired of always being insulted or forgotten about so they join the bad guys; they are a much more terrifying villain than anyone thought possible. | **I probably could’ve cared less if they had merely disrespected** ***me***.
“I would now like to direct your honor’s attention to exhibit 4, an extensive draft on arcane arts penned by Dremony herself.”
>… Despite the simplicity of casting or invoking, even basic healing spells contain some of the most complex ma... | "Today is the day I'm going to... " the old man glances into the sky.
"Today is the day I'm going to tell you about the group I was with when I lost my leg," he takes a stone cold look at the metal beam sticking out of the stump where his leg used to be before he continues: " and what can happen if you don't treat the ... | 2020-01-05T11:54:04 | 2020-01-05T11:20:43 | 24 | 10 |
[wp] When someone dies, they go to a platform where you can choose to move in to the afterlife, not knowing whether you will go to heaven or hell. You meet someone who has stood there for millenia, trying to decide if they should go. | People almost always go quickly. Whether sure of where they're going or determined to get it over with, they hurry onto the train. Occasionally, someone will linger, waiting for something or someone. They scan the platform, searching. Then, someone, a love, a child, a friend, a parent, a fellow soldier, someone comes. ... | A thousand years down many more to go
In this plain room as white as snow
Its only decoration a door... | 2016-08-14T10:47:35 | 2016-08-14T08:46:44 | 48 | 14 |
[WP] “…and that class is why Humans are considered the most peaceful species in the universe.” The only three humans in class looked at each other horrified. All the facts about humans that the aliens had were wrong. One student slowly raises their hand. | "Ummmm, Professor"
"Yes Rickie, what do you have to add to the conversation?"
Looking at the others 2 humans in the class, he shrugs his shoulders and turns back to Professor G'lat. "I think your research is a bit... incorrect. Humans were never peaceful. Not even close. Those examples you gave were the exception not... | "Yes, Human Dave?"
"I wouldn't say that what you presented us is false, but the truth is far broader than your, dare I say, well doctored material shows."
The class murmured. Some looked at each other nervously, other began to whisper to each other as the facial structure of the professor expressed internal confl... | 2022-10-17T06:28:16 | 2022-10-17T06:08:41 | 85 | 38 |
[WP] The year is 2030. Bakery art is so realistic, literally anything could be cake. The uncertainty has gripped the world in fear. I go to hug my wife for comfort. She is cake. | My genetic divergence has been a pain in the ass, until now.
I have a very acute sense of smell. Out of all the senses to have an enhanced version of, smell has got to be the worst. I can smell body odor from across the street. I always know who dealt with it. There is no escape from the rancid stench of the wor... | As I held her close, I remembered all of the times that her having "cake" meant that she had a nice ass. The only problem was, as much as I agreed with the other zombies, that she was incredibly fit, I fought as hard as I could, to not actually take a bite, hoping that it would satiate my undying hunger. I fought as ma... | 2022-04-26T18:37:32 | 2022-04-26T16:48:49 | 38 | 15 |
[WP] Instead of colonizing the New World in 1492, Europeans gave Native Americans modern knowledge and sailed away. They return 200 years later.
Edit: Obligatory holy wow, top post. Keep up these stories, y'all are great :) | (I'll take the prompt literally)
The stories of El Plata were true, the glistening cities of glass and silver rose to scrape the heavens. Were, not anymore. We found the remains of these cities empty, overgrown and in the process of being dismantled by metal monsters, consuming the cities’ strange stone and glass ... | We took their knowledge and did nothing with it. We saw the wonders of their world but they pale in comparison to ours. In our world, nature roams free, unencumbered by mans industry. Nature gives us all we need and we work for the rest. There were some who took that information and did wondrous things but they have lo... | 2014-05-15T20:38:09 | 2014-05-15T20:12:42 | 131 | 56 |
[WP] In 2089, you are the World President. Human aging has been controlled down to a near halt. To prevent overpopulation, a popular law to end everyone’s life at 100 is sitting on your desk for final approval. Tomorrow is your 99th birthday. | "You know I was thinking Tarquin."
"Hmm?"
"I said, 'I was thinking.'"
"Awful activity, I don't recommend it."
"I will keep that in mind, regardless, I have been thinking about what more this bill needs."
"Oh yes Mr. President. Certainly provisions could be made, all for the betterment of society I'm sure."
A dec... | I've had a good life. I'm President of the WORLD. Two beautiful children. A wife who loves me almost unconditionally. I've brokered a peace that will last forever...or at least a couple more generations. That was always the point. Make the world better. Live a full rich life.
I looked out the window at the greenery ... | 2014-07-14T18:11:27 | 2014-07-14T18:01:30 | 35 | 21 |
[WP] In a world full of magicians, no one expected you to just walk over during the long cast time and punch your opponent in the face. | I walk out into the ornate duelling hall, seeing my opponent for the first time. Luke Greywrath, son of the Magistrate, and resident jackass. He's got a wide, cocky grin on his face. He's been waiting for this since Day 1 at the Imperial Combat Mages Academy. The lights dim and a spotlight shines to the announcer just ... | Sure waiting for the magician to finish the spell would have probably been the proper thing to do, but choosing to cast a spell that takes 20 minutes, five what I think are runes, and seven incantations just to charge up his magic before actually casting a five letter fire spell seemed like… well a waste of time.
So ... | 2022-09-22T04:28:03 | 2022-09-21T16:54:37 | 195 | 100 |
[WP]: Any god can claim a non-religious soul if they can prove in any way that this person practiced the faith in question. Large religions can take their pick, but lesser and forgotten gods keep getting more creative in their claims. | > Dis one be mine!
Wait? What? Ok, we're getting really sick of your shit. How can you possibly lay claim to this soul?
> Easy. Look what she be sayin' about herself on da Instagrams
So she has low self esteem, that doesn't count as worship. She's wearing a cross, you can't have this one too. This one is mine.... | Julia opened her eyes and took a breath. But it wasn’t air filling her lungs, and it wasn’t her eyes that opened. But at the same time it was. How curious.
“You’re dead Julia”
Who the fuck is this?
“You died in a car accident. I’m sorry..”
Everything was fuzzy. Foggy, and sounded delayed or slow, but was then fast.
Th... | 2019-01-16T06:40:10 | 2019-01-16T06:25:38 | 101 | 19 |
[WP] All those assassination attempts on Hitler didn't fail at the last minute due to "bad luck"; he was repeatedly rescued by time travellers who have seen the alternative. | "We've got another one." Captain Collins said as we took our seats around the oval meeting table. A picture on the projection screen behind him showed the alleged assassin. "Stevens I want you on this one. It's an AH-33."
"Yes sir!" I replied dutifully. The assignment should be simple enough, I had done a few Hitlers ... | My plan is perfect. I brush back my orange hair and look over the street. The hotel room is the perfect vantage point. The rifle is bought with cash, no tracing it. I wait without making a peep for two weeks for him. This is going to change the course of history. He appears with that symbol of hate on his arm. I take a... | 2017-08-15T20:37:16 | 2017-08-15T20:10:11 | 220 | 39 |
[WP] The healer was treated horribly by the knights he was assigned. Belittled and humiliated at every turn. Until one day a monster killed his squad and spared him. And the monster looked at him and she said something he didn't think was possible to even say. "Would you please heal me?". | With a dampened thump, Varg’s head landed in the grass, only a few feet from Sophia. She released a horrified gasp, scrambling backwards until her back hit a tree. Her vision lost focus, and the impact took all the air out of her lungs. Her hands fruitlessly grasped at her chest, trying to loosen the straps of her armo... | Sir Georg watched helplessly from where he lay. Pain causing his breath to come in pained gasps.
His magic could heal grave injuries but it could not bring back the dead. Finishing his mending of his own stomach wound he surveyed the battlefield and saw that in less than a minute the remaining eleven twelve knights ha... | 2020-02-23T12:57:58 | 2020-02-23T11:50:58 | 73 | 35 |
[WP] Your father would always say he used to be an adventurer, that he was there during fall of the dark lord, but during your first time going to a museum for heroes, you can't find his likeness anywhere, anywhere...but the statue of the dark lord's most esteemed general. | Timothy had grown up going on hikes with his father. Over the mountain, through the woods, all over the back country. During these walks father would talk about great battles during the war great fights with knights, and quasars, and beasts of all mythical proportions locked in combat. Father claimed he was in the roo... | “Dad, why haven’t we seen any exhibits about you?” I asked. “You fought in The Fall too didn’t you?"
“I sure did,” my father responded. “But not everyone who fought is remembered. Thousands of people fought in The Fall. At one point the battlefield was so—oh look!” He exclaimed, pointing at the wax model of an ol... | 2021-02-05T08:33:06 | 2021-02-05T06:50:55 | 878 | 353 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | This was the price for freedom.
We may have started the war, but we cannot be blamed for it. We always intended for the Low Orbit Laboratory to make it to orbit, and we wept when the boosters failed. Fifty of our own people died in the launch, heroes, doctors, and engineers.
The Chinese were not as concvinced. They... | **6th April, 2037 - HMAS *Maryborough*, Somewhere off the coast of Australia**
"So, the yanks bought it?"
The speaker leans heavily against the rail, staring at the smouldering coastline. A deck above, overstressed rotor blades whine slowly, cooling in the ocean breeze.
"Oh yes. Contrition, shame, repentance...if we... | 2018-01-18T02:21:39 | 2018-01-18T01:28:33 | 57 | 18 |
[WP] A trio of friends are deep in the woods on a camping adventure. Having agreed to only use their phones for one hour a night in the evening, they switch them on to hundreds of notifications. They wind their radio up and every station crackles with the same emergency broadcast. | "All right guys, one hour." John said as he pulled out an old kitchen timer. He set it, then placed it in the table. "Ready? Go." John started the time as Kevin and Nick frantically turned their phones on. The agonizing few seconds that every phone takes to boot up was precious few seconds they wouldn't have online. It... | "Warning, The void has opened" said the radio flickering between static and barely bearable sound. The woods were dark and the mist wall hallow. "The void?" I asked confused, been surrounded by a layer of anxiety. "Probably a jo-" John said before pausing, a pair of eyes tinted in a purple glow looming towards us. "Wha... | 2021-04-19T14:58:30 | 2021-04-19T09:51:53 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] Thor finishes his meal at a small cafe and the elderly waitress approaches him to clean the table. She puts the dishes on a tray and sets them aside, picks up Mjolnir, wipes the table with a damp cloth, then puts the hammer back down. "Have a good evening, dear." she says, and returns to work. | The God of Thunder blended in surprisingly well amongst the sea of red chairs and 50s themed decor. He had opted to stray away from his usual attire of armor and metal wear, not trying to disguise himself, but rather he had found he was served faster when he didn't look so out of place. Though his hammer remained on th... | Thor looked at the woman, his mouth gaping. She lifted that his hammer with so much ease, not even he could do that without his belt.
Sif, Thrúd, Magni and Modi stared at the woman as well, aghast that a, seemingly, mortal woman could lift Mjolnir.
“You, you four saw that, right?” Thor asked, making sure his br... | 2022-12-23T15:33:39 | 2022-12-23T15:05:54 | 1,754 | 30 |
[WP] Write an unusual apocalypse
[deleted] | ‘Are you sure this is how you will solve the problem?’ Lieutenant Erregant looked at the tiny bottle of blue liquid. ‘It seems like a very small amount.’
Dr. Husky nodded. ‘It will remove the effect of the Husky Glue. The Ball can no longer affect us. But you have to be very careful, Erregant.’ She was dead serious. ‘... | [Poem]
My, my
They’re coming from the sky
Prophetic minds
Eclectic sighs
What can be done when lies the eye
Lies, as tells the sky
Mooving
We’ve been taught fear’s alright
Feelings are real
Not only at night
To not be a prisoner
To fight the daunting reaper
Cure the fever
Bitter
Moonlight
Facing wh... | 2020-02-05T10:02:48 | 2020-02-05T09:29:50 | 38 | 18 |
[WP] The shopkeeper points at the sign clearly marked “Absolutely NO Refunds.” The egg you bought hatched, you can’t get a refund, and now you have a talking baby dragon who insists that you’re its parent. | I did my best to maintain a stoic expression, but the small, reptilian creature flapping its wings against the side of my head as it tried to chew on my beard was probably making it hard to take me seriously. I jabbed a finger at it, earning myself a playful nibble, and stared daggers at the shopkeeper.
"What am I ... | My mouth parted, my brain blanked. Bode stood just inside the doorway with a four-legged winged serpent clutching to his shoulders. Chaos leaked from the being’s body, young but old enough to be constantly squeaking ‘mama’.
“Bode? When I say come back early, I didn’t mean this.” Really, a dragon, one that shouldn’t... | 2021-08-19T19:46:22 | 2021-08-19T19:21:37 | 48 | 17 |
[WP] You are hunted by a pale and faceless man that only you can see. The man moves in slow motion. When you sleep at night, you do not dream. Instead you see through his perspective. | Every night, sleeping soundly, I saw me in my sleep. Through the gap in my window drapes, laying on my bed, as if watching from the hedges. Or through the creaking-open door of my bedroom, gazing with stoic patience. Or sometimes, I saw me from directly above myself, as if hovering, secured from the ceiling by rock-cli... | Slowly I crept, dragging my legs as if they were strapped with heavy chains. My surrounding suddenly strike me with familiarity. It was my living room, my own house. I looked down at my arms....no, no, this was not me. My arms were long and pale, with sharp dirty claws as hands. This creature I was occupying was mindle... | 2020-12-26T03:30:45 | 2020-12-26T02:59:21 | 188 | 29 |
[WP] It is illegal for people under 18 to talk to people over 21, or vice versa. In between, there is a 3 year period of your life in which you can talk to anybody you want. | It was a pretty easy way to make good money. When the new "Age-Gap" laws started rolling out, there were tons of people looking for a way to talk to people in the other age group. The first few days were chaos. Teachers unable to teach, doctors unable to talk to their patients, parents unable to scold their children. I... | Taylor “Flex and Blaze” Jackson was a true living legend in the underage music industry.
Not only was the phenom the top selling '18 and Under' hip-hop recording artist over the last five years, he raised the bar of success for all underage artists to come. Don't believe me? Just look at the numbers:
* 1 Best Song ... | 2017-05-14T14:38:46 | 2017-05-14T13:34:14 | 145 | 24 |
[WP] The Anti-Christ came and went, but no one noticed because he wasn't worse than the current state of the world already is. The rapture followed, but no one went to Heaven, so we didn't notice that either. We've been living in Hell for the last 5 years, and no one has noticed, yet.
Boy, I never thought this would t... | "What is Hell?"
She was met by silence and sunken eyes.
"That wasn't rhetorical. I want someone to speak up and tell me what Hell is."
A groan issued forth, followed by palms colliding on a desk. One student drew themselves up in their seat. "Hell is this class."
A chorus of half-hearted laughter.
"Cute. But a st... | Content warning: non-graphic mentions of suicide.
The reports built up slowly, at first. The madmen rave, the fevered dream; the children play, the war-torn scream. There were logical, simple explanations for why .0003% of the population were claiming to be from the Harmonious Iridium Theocracy.
But then the results ... | 2020-03-18T14:55:25 | 2020-03-18T14:47:59 | 56 | 18 |
[WP] You just got three wishes from a genie but it turns out he's a dick, so you decide to use your three wishes to make the genies life as miserable as possible. | "But, asked for a cure for cancer!" I protested "Nothing has changed, no news articles, nothing of the sort"
"Ah, but big pharma already discovered a cure for cancer, they haven't released it yet because they make too much from chemotherapy."
"Then I wish it was universally available for free"
"Hahaha" the genie bel... | “Then Jasmine and Aladdin shared a gentle kiss and lived happily ever after!”
Emma giggled as her mother closed the book and set it aside on the bedside table. Her eyes wandered towards the lamp on said table as she said, “Mommy, if I rub my lamp, will Mr. Genie come out and give me wishes too?”
Emma’s mother smiled ... | 2020-06-16T09:46:47 | 2020-06-16T09:41:26 | 173 | 124 |
[WP] Everyone is told 10 minutes before they die that they will. You're on a plane, and everyone panics at once. You didn't get that message. | A tin can of echoing screams. That's what I was on at the moment, as I sat calmly in my seat; as I wondered why everyone was freaking out. I got up from my seat and tried to get through the writhing walkway of frantic bodies and aggravated screams. Now bewildered and afraid, I tried to see if someone had just gotten ki... | I looked around me, like time was slowed. Everyone had the same, ugly, distraught look on their face.
I knew what was going to happen.
As did they.
The woman seated next to me, she grabbed my hand.
"Its going to be okay, right?" she plead.
"They'll fix the plane, right?" she begged.
As I drew the knife from my... | 2016-11-24T20:14:34 | 2016-11-24T20:01:01 | 129 | 52 |
[WP] A stereotypical High School Anime, but the main character is a loud and proud American girl from Texas who moved to Japan with her family. | Saving to come back later. Anyway:
She has blonde hair, sunkissed skin, freckles on her face, speaks broken Japanese (although quite well for what its worth) and has beautiful green eyes.
She sits next to me in class. She was shy at first, and I could tell she had just moved here from America, but I could also tell... | It was her first day of school after moving. The 16 year old female stood in front of her mirror adjusting her skirt. It was rather weird seeing her in a school uniform rather than her normal getup of pants and a t-shirt. She felt out of place even though she was only in her room. Her ma said the last time she had worn... | 2021-07-17T10:03:01 | 2021-07-17T08:39:54 | 109 | 33 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | Death wasn't at all what Johnathan had pictured him to be. slicked-back hair and well fit suit reminded him a lot more of a Wall Street trader rather than the immortal reaper of souls. As he spied the somewhat overweight man in front of him, his mind worked to formulate a plan.
"Any game?" Johnathan asked, to ensure... | My heart was pounding as I sat in the plane, staring at the map. There was just me and one other person on board. I was waiting for him to take his exit first, staring at that yellow dot. However we were almost halfway through the island, and he was still there. Panicking I decided if I jumped and went straight down I ... | 2018-03-07T07:43:27 | 2018-03-07T07:11:15 | 39 | 17 |
[WP] two Isekai trucks both miss the chosen one and hit each other instead | "Behold, your majesty! The hero of legends!" The thick smoke slowly cleared.
The nearby guards waited on bated breath, holding their spears tightly but seemingly leisurely. They certainly didn't want to startle the hero, but they also didn't want to be massacred by an unknown being of unimaginable power.
The king sat... | Sagmaradon the Wise sighed. Everything had gone from bad to worse over the last few years - droughts, famines, wars. It had seemed like a bout of bad luck, until at last the true malevolence behind such catastrophes was revealed - the sorcerer Archduke Baradoon The Benighted, thought dead centuries ago.
The ancient ev... | 2022-07-27T12:19:04 | 2022-07-27T11:57:07 | 172 | 24 |
[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.
---
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 | *Code Orange. Code Orange. We need Doctor Bees in the operating room*
"Over 300 casualties and a few injured. What happened out there?!"
"Doctor, the comb was attacked by a hairy monstrosity. He tore the place apart and it took most of the workers to fend him off"
"Do we have any survivors?"
"Very few, we have ... | 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... | 2016-02-22T11:31:29 | 2016-02-22T09:31:34 | 30 | 15 |
[WP] scientists have invented a serum that allows animals to speak. Your dog was recently given the serum, but it appears the treatment has not worked. Your cousin, whom you haven't seen since your youth, comes to town to visit. As the door opens, your dog suddenly whispers in your ear: "run." | I was disappointed, there really is no way around it. When I gave my dog the injection I was so looking forward to him speaking. I could imagine me telling him to fetch things for me and he would actually understand what I was saying. Just like the commercials said, but the stupid dog never said a word to me. The veter... | Run, run, run
You've got to run
Bow, bow, son
You've got to run.
Your cousin is here
yeah, the weird one
Just keep running
He's got a gun.
Bow, bow, son
I'm warning you
Get to running
before he kills you.
It's as natural to him
as drinking mountain dew.
Bow, son, run,
He's got a gun.
| 2016-09-01T01:04:25 | 2016-08-31T22:41:54 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | No one ever realized I didn't have a power.
Number two is a telepath. I met him in a bar once, but I could feel his touch on my mind all the way down the street. It was light, I would never have felt it if he'd only been looking, but when you're used to being a pawn you learn to see when you're being played with. He w... | Oh yes. I definitely remember, every single detail. He was wearing a red and silver striped tie, for example. How could I ever forget that day? I walked into his office as number 21,458. When I left, I had his number 1.
Quite a frenzy it set off, you know? At first, people didn't even know it was me. I remember the fi... | 2014-12-18T12:44:55 | 2014-12-18T11:07:40 | 670 | 300 |
[WP] A siren, a being who’s people are infamous for luring humans to their deaths, has genuinely fallen in love with a human who is suspicious (for obvious reasons) of their intentions. This begins a story about a kind siren and a skeptical human. | Her voice. Her voice was like a symphony of instruments played by demigods of music- alluring, enchanting, mesmerizing.
For Lieutenant Commander William Holloway of the United States Navy, it scared him.
It told stories of sailors lost to sea. Stories of monsters consuming on the flesh of men enchanted by lust, lov... | They all went belowdecks when they passed through siren waters. All except him.
He knew someone had to stay outside and man the ship. He wasn’t particularly large or strong, he was a rather slight fellow, in fact. But his eyes… those beautiful hazel eyes… they were so strong.
True courage isn’t ignorance ... | 2022-05-26T20:18:40 | 2022-05-26T19:59:11 | 158 | 57 |
[WP] There’s a door with a single keyhole- it will open regardless of what key you use to unlock it. All keys will open this door. What’s on the other side, however, depends on the key. | I found the Door in Kansas, of all places. I had been a travelling salesman, a mechanic, homeless & jobless for a spell, and then somehow I lucked my way into training as a home inspector. The pay wasn't great but I could afford a place and regular meals. That's worth a lot more than most people know. Having a spac... | “And we are live in five, four, three...”
The camera man, replacing his voice with over the top hand gestures, went from two to one to the universal signal for ‘we are live’ as the broadcast began.
“Hello,” said the well-dressed man on the other side of the camera, his voice more unnatural than his co-hosts absent mi... | 2019-10-06T13:02:41 | 2019-10-06T12:12:49 | 66 | 44 |
[WP] whilst playing with sidewalk chalk, a 4 year old incidentally enslaves one of the most powerful demons in all interdimensional hellscapes | Baeludor looked down at the small child before him. She was young, with only 4 summers to her name. Her dirty-blonde pigtails wiggled back and forth as she continued to draw.
Somehow, Baeludor, who was a demon from the second lowest circle of hell (one of only 4, he might add) had become bound by the laws of magic and... | I awoke in blue fire. Satan was- *is* weaker than I. So... so do I seriously have to obey a four year old kid?!
Just an average day in Hell. Satan was slaughtering, Hades was picking fights, devil children were being born, souls were being ripped from the physical manifestations known as humans. Just an average day!
... | 2015-06-13T23:31:08 | 2015-06-13T22:57:04 | 71 | 21 |
[WP] Create the biggest, most unpredictable plot twist you could make in a story. | I look out of my window at the hive of activity opposite. The building company have been working tirelessly for a month now, and I've been taking a single photo every day. I'm going to turn it into a video and stick it on youtube when they're done.
First the powerful diggers tearing up the dirt, then the concrete bein... | It was going to get dark soon, so I had better head back. Mother would be expecting me, and I would dare not let her down. How long had it been? A month? two? No, it had to have been a month and a half, because her surgery was on the 15th, and she came to me right after that. I sighed.
I slowly rose from the little t... | 2015-04-21T08:28:27 | 2015-04-21T08:09:15 | 763 | 234 |
[WP] Every sentient species in the galaxy is given a class and rating to describe the type of society they have. Humanity has just been mistakenly labeled as a level 3 technological society. The galaxy is about to discover the true horrors of a level 6 warring society. | It was a mistake.
The Auraxian's encountered them and they were friendly. Their massive ships and mega-construction ability was exceptional. Dyson rings, Spheres, a matter decompressor (A thing that literally decompressed the event horizon of a black hole, something that was believed to be impossible in a practical s... | Level 1. Primitive.
Level 2. Industrial.
Level 3. Technological.
Level 4. Advanced.
Level 5. Galactic.
Level 6. Warring.
These levels were the Xadian Union's way of evaluating societies based on their technological, biological, military, and societal stance on the galaxy. Most of the civilizations are commonly le... | 2019-11-24T19:34:19 | 2019-11-24T15:22:31 | 167 | 72 |
[WP] You live in a world where love and relationships have a "credit score". If you're a good SO it makes it higher, if you cheated on someone it's plummets. You just went on a date with someone and you're convinced they're perfect. You look up their score that night and it's -500 and tells you why.
EDIT: I hadn't bee... | I sat with my boyfriend, Damian, and talked to him about life, movies, jobs, *anything.*
Damian was so charming, I didn't even know his score, but I knew it's gonna be up there! He was just so....Perfect.
"Hold on, babe. I gotta go to the bathroom." He said. "Okay, I'll wait here." I replied while awkwardly twirling ... | It had been a lovely date with that woman. Her eyes were that of the shimmering sea, her laughter was horrifically angelic and her hair was frizzled. Ironically, it made him feel electrocuted.
He was just leaping over fences and gates after his date waved him goodbye. Strangely, there was something about that woman wh... | 2016-09-24T11:36:00 | 2016-09-24T11:35:10 | 251 | 13 |
[WP] Whenever anybody asks you a question, time stops until you figure out the correct or satisfying answer to said question. One day, someone asks you a question that you realize may take an eternity to answer.
Inspired by [this.](https://www.reddit.com/r/godtiersuperpowers/comments/jd58rn/questionably_time_stop/?utm... | "Do you love me?"
Her question surprised me, I've known Emily for some time, but I never expected that.
"What did you say?" I replied, hoping she will change her question so my curse will not start.
"I asked you, Shawn McCarthy, do you love me?" Her tender voice was the last thing I heard before time stopped.
I loo... | A flash of light in the middle of a cornfield. "I'm here?! But when?" asked to myself as I looked around. The machine showed 'June 01, 1998. 02:00 local time. Meadow town cornfields, Hershey. Coordinates ........'
"Record... The machine brought me to 1998, I'm 21 years old and I'm from 2020. It's exactly a year before... | 2020-10-18T02:49:16 | 2020-10-17T23:28:53 | 51 | 11 |
[WP] America is at war and has reconstituted the draft. Soldiers are separated for training based on how combat ready they are. The war seems lost, but the last and largest platoon of soldiers, made of up of the furthest obese is about to be deployed. | The war was lost. Everyone knew it. Patriotism was dead. No one believed that what we were doing was right. Everyone knew that you needed to meet the physical requirements to be sent off to battle. So the smartest among the Americans did everything that they could to become as obese as possible.
At first the governmen... | At first it was quiet in the "Fat Body Platoon" hooch. A smuggled flat screen TV, dimly lit, flickered in the corner of the large tent, displaying on repeat, the main menu of the "Futurama" DVD that had been left on, neglected for hours since the last man had fallen asleep. They told themselves they were trying to get ... | 2015-05-09T13:12:24 | 2015-05-09T11:16:37 | 97 | 12 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | Oh, here we go again. The pale, skinny, tattooed, creep behind the counter was freaking out, whispering, shaking, stammering, "nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." So, of course I had to screw with him a little. "Well, obviously you don't get out much." "Now, how about my Big Mac, or do I talk loud... | The man behind the counter froze in the middle of typing out my order. They looked up at me wide eyed and said,"Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." Sounding somewhat surprised.
That night, standing in the empty 24/7 McDonald's of our small desert town, it finally happened. The thing that I had been wa... | 2018-06-24T21:27:25 | 2018-06-24T20:39:44 | 165 | 41 |
[WP] You are the CEO of a successful energy company. You’re invited to a business dinner, and if the deal goes well, it could revolutionize energy as we know it. Only one problem. Garlic’s in the food, utensils are silver and it’s held in an old chapel. And you’re a vampire. | "What about solar?"
"He *hates* solar. Whatever you do, don't bring it up."
"What's so bad about renewables?"
"Just keep your mouth shut."
I could hear them before they entered my office, their lips crackling and smattering like roaches frying in a pan. One of them was young, with a jugular vein through which blood... | "This sounds like a great opportunity..."
"Certainly does, boss. Think you can handle it?"
I ponder my options. Vampires are always portrayed as evil, but really it's just a select few individuals that enjoy targeting humans - most of us are content on sucking on the blood of animals, similar to vampire *bats*. Still... | 2022-08-21T06:42:02 | 2022-08-21T04:21:32 | 146 | 66 |
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