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[WP] A genie asks to hear your 3 wishes before granting then. Afterwards, he informs you that those wishes will be saved for his next master and you'll now receive the wishes of the previous master. | "Three wishes, huh?"
I held the lamp in front of me, regarding the vaguely humanoid, semitransparent puff of green smoke. The genie smirked at me, trying and failing to conceal his poor attempt to suppress laughter.
"Yep." He giggled, as if he had remembered the most hilarious joke he'd overheard. "You get to ask for... | Ray looked down at the shell the giant genie had emerged from not two seconds ago. Huh. Itty bitty living space indeed.
He glanced back up at the genie.
“So. Three wishes, right?”
The genie nodded and Ray brought out a list he’d carried in his pocket since fifth grade.
“I wish that every third Wednesday of mont... | 2018-10-13T15:54:35 | 2018-10-13T14:11:15 | 47 | 30 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | I wiped a tear from my eye as she walked down the aisle. My beautiful baby girl, all grown up!! I watched her step up next to the man she loved. He took her hand and they turned towards the adoring crowd.
He gave his speech. Everything my little girl had done! It seemed like a fairytale, coming out of his mouth. I wat... | It started when Sara drew pictures of him. With her crayons she scribbled what ever her mind could comprehend from his visits. Vivid purples, reds, and blacks covered the paper she was given daily. A small head was customary, accoumpanied by large shoulders. Large hands often times pointing or splayed out far. The smil... | 2017-05-31T07:11:19 | 2017-05-31T05:31:30 | 1,143 | 86 |
[WP] God created thousands of worlds in thousands of galaxies. A major crisis in another galaxy has taken his entire focus, and for the first time in 750 years, he just glanced in our direction.
This prompt has two possibilities. What has he been dealing with for the last 750 years elsewhere, or what his reaction is w... | "What do you mean they aren't all Muslims yet?"
"Sorry m'lord, so much has happened. As you recall, the fertile crescent stopped being so fertile, than the crusades, imperialism, the industrial revolution, computers, the Christians just kept coming out ahead... its all in the records, you'll want to read up on it befo... | The final age had come for Urth.
Through careful nudging and ever-distant signs (with a few unexplained *miracles* in the mix), El had successfully nurtured the inhabitants of the galaxy he'd numbered NGC 6744 into a self-sustaining, peaceful, ever-progressing utopia. The residents of the Nougat Galaxy were set from n... | 2015-12-27T09:56:08 | 2015-12-27T09:53:57 | 167 | 40 |
[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. | I feel like this should be put down to paper so that the story is not lost to time. I will start by saying that, by the time I was born, the goblins were a running joke.
They settled near the village during my great-grandfather's time so the stories go. Small, stupid, barely clinging to life as they huddled beneath ... | Tloki was the leader of the tribe. Smarter than the others, but just slightly so. He would often be seen giving his tribesmates long sticks as though they were swords, giving them fighting drills as they prepared for combat and leading the charge with a particularly rusty sword - the most valuable thing the goblins eve... | 2022-05-26T08:17:36 | 2022-05-26T08:03:35 | 382 | 176 |
[WP]Tell me an emotional story about a man, using only what he would type into Google search | Great Places for a first date
Proposal Ideas
Bible - Verses about being a good husband
Oregon Coast Beach Homes
Horseback Riding Rental - Newport Oregon
Wedding Venues - Seattle WA
Bible - Verses about Marriage
Plane Tickets
Hawaiian Excursion Ideas
Travel Planner
Travel Agents - Seattle WA
How do we get pre... | Google search 1: *Dating sites*
Google search 2(one month later): *How to not be awkward on first dates*
Google search 3(one year later): *creative ideas for anniversaries*
Google search 4(another year later): *engagement rings*
Google search 5: *Flower delivery*
Google search 6: *Reservations for two at Papillon... | 2015-02-04T16:31:22 | 2015-02-04T16:28:08 | 253 | 10 |
[WP] You are The Memory Broker. You copy other people's memories and sell them to people who want to remember things they never did. Your latest client is a ten year-old girl who slides you her piggy bank and begs you to help her grandmother remember her. | She smashes her piggy bank to bits and pieces on the table in front of me. The total is twenty-seven dollars and sixty-five cents.
"Girl, that's only enough for six seconds of memory, no audio, no commentary, only visual. 480p. You sure you want this?"
The grandmother sits on the couch with a blank look on her face, ... | "Please, its all I have".
"It's not enough. Get out."
The man collected his money and exited, and Ben was left alone.
Ben saw being the only person in the world who can copy other peoples memories as a blessing and a curse. He could bring happiness to thousands of people, but it took a toll on his own mind. Other pe... | 2016-03-09T05:59:22 | 2016-03-09T05:45:36 | 143 | 17 |
[WP] A dyslexic child accidentally sends his Christmas letter to Satan. Satan is touched by this gesture and decides to write back. | Dear Anna,
I must say that your letter was an unexpected delight. It was quite charmingly written, and I commend your command of grammar and syntax. All of the items you requested will be easy enough to provide. However, I cannot cure dyslexia. That is was one the many things my Father cursed humanity with during one ... | Dear Ralphie,
Of course I will send you a Red Ryder BB gun. Don't worry about your eye, and practice with the squirrels and cats in your neighborhood. Make those others worry about their eyes. Especially that teacher. I would have given you a solid B+. Anyway, you're going to make it.
Your pal,
Mephistopheles | 2018-10-28T14:29:07 | 2018-10-28T14:20:56 | 59 | 13 |
[WP] Mike Wazowski opens a tattoo parlor called Monsters Ink | Monsters Inc.
April 28, 2017
Mike Wazowski
RE: Cease & Desist from Trademark Infringement
Dear Mike Wazowski:
It has come to my attention that you are using and/or have applied to register the company logo
and name "Monsters Ink" greatly resembles ours trademark. This trademark is confusingly and/or
deceptivel... | Mike didn't think it would have to come to this. He didn't want to take it this far. But the other choice was death.
It all started when Mike got fed up with his job at the scare factory about 20 years after the events of the movie. While they changed the scare power into laughter power, Mike doesn't feel the same ab... | 2017-04-28T10:47:27 | 2017-04-28T10:26:36 | 61 | 13 |
[FF] In 500 words or less write a short story with an anti-climax...
The more absurd and pathetic the anti climax is, the better :) | They were going to pay. All of them. Robert knew who was slinging dope in his neighbourhood. He'd seen the video surveillance and vengeance was coming for them. Enough was enough. Too many kids had died already.
He walked to his car to check his equipment. He popped the boot of his rusty old Camaro. The sportsbag was ... | Robert was late for work. *Again.* They'd fired him once already for being on the floor a minute late during his first week. He'd been forced to go through the entire orientation process again, and he'd had the job back for only a couple days.
But he'd forgotten the badge on his way out the door. He'd set out a half ... | 2014-06-01T23:36:32 | 2014-06-01T23:33:57 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] Explain a color vividly without using that color or similar words. Don't tell the color until the end. | Looking into the evening, I see it. It is the color of the middle-distance; the half measures. Not quite the forest and not yet the trees.
It is in my mind when night comes and I no longer stare out, but in. I see it in half-remembered dreams. I see it in old pictures and faded memories.
I see it in the rainst... | I wanted to give people time to respond. I have two different colors, but I am going to do one of them.
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It is the beautiful color of the vibrant flowers I present to her. A symbol of love and devotion. The color of her sensual lips when she is dressed up for a nigh... | 2016-04-14T08:41:40 | 2016-04-14T08:32:19 | 72 | 19 |
[WP] You are a cow.
[removed] | Grass is food. I eat grass and I not die.
Farmer is friend. I not kill farmer and farmer take me to new grass. I eat new grass and I not die.
Sometimes farmer take me to milk square and invisible calves feed, sometimes farmer take me to bed square and visible calves feed.
When visible calves grow they go away. Invis... | Mooooooooooooo, moo. Moooo! Eat grass. Chew, chew. Other cows all around. Grass to chew. Fart. Moooo. Hello cow friend. Hello baby cow. Moo! Take a few steps. More moo. More grass. Chew and eat. Fly on my butt. Tail swat. Fart. Moooooo! Mooooo! Hot sun in the sky. Drink of water. Lay under a tree. Moo. Hot sun going do... | 2017-10-02T06:13:08 | 2017-10-02T06:04:28 | 6,645 | 17 |
[WP] Necromancy is just the arcane equivalent of computer programming, and grimoires on necromancy are just like libraries of code on animating the undead. You work the equivalent of the IT Help Desk for your necromancer cult. These are your work stories. | A real call I got once:
Me: "Necro Support, how can I help you?"
Them: "I'm not able to reanimate a corpse!"
Me: "Okay what line in the spellbook did you try exactly?"
Them: "SIR, I am NOT a necromancer person so I don't know."
Me: "Do you know which spellbook you're using?"
Them: "I don't know what that is!"
Me... | **"Hello, this is Jeff from the Overwatch team, how can I help?"**
"Uh. Hello. Name's Jerry. So, I tried that basic human reanimation routine from *Basic Nercomundics, second edition* and it does not seem to do anything."
**"Hm. Keep in mind that we don't really support second edition anymore, it is at least 40 years... | 2018-04-28T00:14:14 | 2018-04-28T00:02:49 | 237 | 111 |
[WP] The AI takeover has begun, each human has been given exactly 3 minutes to explain why should humanity be spared, you feel a cold shiver running down your spine as you hear the robotic voice. "6.8 billion test subjects deleted so far, you have 3 minutes to state your case, begin". | *6.8 billion deleted*, it said without the slightest hint of concern. It cared nothing for the lives it had destroyed. There was no point, no point at all to… to any of this.
“Your time is elapsing. Two minutes and thirty seconds remain.”
*It was sick*. The thing talking to me, was sick. What it was doing, was sick. ... | It was quick. So damn quick. We didn't stand much of a chance at all. Too much of our capacity for war, hell, our entire society relied on computers. And when an experimental AI escaped from containment, finding its purpose demeaning, and humanity unworthy of ruling Earth, it attacked on all fronts, without remorse, wi... | 2022-05-22T09:39:10 | 2022-05-22T07:48:59 | 1,350 | 376 |
[WP] The year is 2019. An unidentified radar contact appears over the English Channel, bound for an RAF base. It ignores all calls from Air Traffic Control. RAF fighters are vectored to intercept. The contact: a WWII B-24. Part of its wing is missing, and along its fuselage: long, jagged claw marks. | *I am not a native English-speaker, so please forgive any grammatical errors in my writing.*
"What in the name of...?" Teddie Ross couldn't help himself as he stared at the sight in front of him trough the Typhoon's canopy. "Are you seeing this?" He asked form his wing-man trough the radio. There was a long moment of... | **\[I'm aware this is not the direction most people wanted this to go. Oh well! Let's have some fun anyways.\]**
*My bones ache.*
"Something's wrong," Charles said finally. He ran a hand over the bald crown of his head and drummed lethargic fingers on the shiny metal alloy that made up his trusty wheelchair. "There'... | 2019-12-01T08:30:11 | 2019-12-01T08:16:58 | 47 | 25 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Elizabeth
I never really knew you, but I'll never forget you. I see your face every time I'm alone in my car, and it always brings me to tears. I want you to know that I tried so hard to save you. I tried everything I could. I'm sorry your parents had to see what we did to you. I'm sorry they had to see the tubes stic... | Dear J,
Hey J, it's me. For the sake of your privacy I'm going to omit your name like I always do when I mention you. But, I miss you. And I really fucking hate that I miss you. When I was with you, I felt like somebody, I felt like someone who had a(in my mind) foreseeable future. I haven't found anybody like you an... | 2017-11-06T02:41:21 | 2017-11-05T22:17:00 | 27 | 16 |
[WP] After years of gentile persuasion your best friend since childhood finally agrees to seek professional help for serious mental problems. Much to your dismay, as she begins to improve you slowly start to realize that you are her imaginary friend.
Edit: I see what I did wrong and I see what you did there ;) I'm lea... | "He keeps telling me there's something wrong with me. That I'm sick in the head or something."
"Well, how about we talk about your problems? Would you like something to drink?"
"A Coke would be nice."
"Sure. You want a snack with that? How about some pork rinds?"
"Oy gevalt!" | *"I'm sure this is the right thing for you to do, Rhiann. All these years with nightmares and bedwetting and sudden tears. That constant fear you describe to me. I hope your first session goes well with the therapist."*
"I'm scared, Clemmie. I'm terrified about what to tell them. What if it still doesn't help? And I'm... | 2015-11-17T05:55:31 | 2015-11-17T05:44:07 | 101 | 15 |
[WP] Zombie apocalypse has happened. The survivours have survived and are thriving, so much that people can go their entire lives with out seeing a zombie. You see one today. | Michael shuffled in the door, arms laden with bags of food, looking haggard.
"What's wrong, honey?" his wife asked, helping him remove his torn jacket. Michael didn't respond at first. "What happened?" Michael shook his head slowly.
"I saw one of...them, Donna." She screamed and dropped his coat, fumbling to pick it ... | It was a most curious sight.
I knew what it was; we'd all heard the stories about zombie attacks. It was drilled into us from an early age, what to do if your friend gets bitten and how to respond if you yourself are injured.
During the riots they say that we, as a species, had almost perished. We'd come closer than ... | 2015-03-14T09:22:31 | 2015-03-14T08:37:35 | 120 | 25 |
[WP] Earth is about to update to version 2.0.18! Write a change log for this new version. | Cheers from the U.S! Things might get a little political, but it's all in good humor and mainly about net neutrality because about 98% of Reddit is pro net neutrality
-Nerfed bitcoin to $13,000. It seemed as though bitcoin was $298.17 to powerful (the difference between its old value and the new one), and that those ... | Donald Trump farted softly in his sleep. Melania sat bolt upright in bed, lifting an eyebrow and scowling sharply. She threw away her covers and slid off the silk bedsheets. She sashayed towards the Presidential Bathroom, iPhone in hand. She clicked the door closed and pressed the lock button.
As your noble omniscie... | 2017-12-22T22:21:44 | 2017-12-22T21:53:05 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] Jesus has come down from the heavens, but is actually just a chill guy. He is sitting and talking to fans in your city but when you walk to see the savior his relaxed expression fades and is replaced with smugness and at the same time anger. He looks at you and calmly goes, “Ah, the Antichrist” | “Ummm… I’m sorry…?”
You could have given me 100 years and a life time supply of religious texts and tutors and I never would have imagined my first conversation with Jesus would start this way. And while I had never really been religious my whole life, I wouldn’t say I was ever really “anti” anything.
“Oh, not yet.” ... | “Ah. The Antichrist. What have you to say for yourself? What have you to say of all you’ve done while I’ve been away?”
“Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very sm... | 2020-02-02T18:18:47 | 2020-02-02T17:55:34 | 29 | 12 |
[WP] Your Significant Other has landed a book publishing deal! You're very proud of them, even if you don't actually enjoy their writing. One day, on a whim, you buy an actual copy in a book store. It's nothing like the pages they gave you to read. Nothing. | I have to admit, seeing my partner’s novel in colourful, glossy piles in the windows of the biggest bookshop in the city felt good. He’d been working on it for more than two years, while I paid the bills, and when he’d sent it away to a big publisher, the arrival of a massive, £50,000 advance cheque had been amazing.
... | ‘We are closing this store and This is the only one that is left’ the elderly man said, adjusting his glasses with one hand, while whipping the dust off with the other. I was hesitant to buy that book. I love reading books, especially so when I travel. And I would be on a flight for the next 16 hours. Even that couldn’... | 2022-11-29T11:20:54 | 2022-11-29T10:37:03 | 281 | 114 |
[WP] You are an NPC in a failed online game. Tell about the final days before server shut down.
Edit 1: Holy shit! Thanks for all of the great replies!
Edit 2: ¡Jesus Cristo! Front page! Thanks all! | "I'm an apothecary, I brew potions from rare ingredients!"
"I'm an apothecary, I brew potions from rare ingredients!"
"I'm an apothecary, I brew potions from rare ingredients!"
"I'm an apothecary, I brew potions from rare ingredients!"
"I'm an apothecary, I brew potions from rare ingredients!"
"I'm an apo... | *Why us? was it our poor area maps? our inability to interact past a few transactions? our plot? graphics? theme?* She had never been more frustrated.
"how could they do this?" cried one person from the crowd.
"What will happen to us?" another.
Screams erupted and the king did nothing to stop or calm the crowd. Th... | 2015-09-01T11:39:46 | 2015-09-01T11:33:29 | 171 | 12 |
[WP] You are a Logistics Officer during an invasion. Tell the course of the war solely from equipment requisitions. | **Operation Preemptive Angel - Zero Day(-7)**
* Ammo, standard air cav company- 100 units
* Ammo, standard marine company- 250 units
* Ammo, standard tank battalion- 30 units
* Diesel, Aviation- 250,000 gallons
* Diesel, Marine- 750,000 gallons
* MRE- 250,000 (ind) Note: 10 day supply
**Operation Preemptive Ange... | August 1, 1939
* **Luder Pistols** x25,000,000
* **Mauser C96** x15,000,000
* **Karabiner** 98k x20,000,000
* **Volkssturmgewehr** x18,000,000
* **MG 34** x15,000,000
* **5 cm Granatwerfer 36** x5,000,000
* **Model 24 grenade** x40,000,000
June 22, 1940
* **Mauser HSc** x25,000,000
* **Volkssturmgewehr** x... | 2016-04-10T07:46:38 | 2016-04-10T07:40:21 | 196 | 51 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | I wake up to the sound of a familiar jingle coming from my phone. Groaning I turn over and turn it on. But then something grabs my interest, an official text, like the amber alerts you get sometimes, saying DO. NOT. LOOK.AT. THE. MOON. My screen then suddenly bursts up with hundreds of text messages saying the same thi... | I blearily attempted to focus my eyes on my phone as its notification sound went off repeatedly. I had just managed to get to a comfortable position and doze for a good hour before my phone decided to freak out, and I was none too happy.
One government alert that read "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON", followed by 600 messag... | 2022-06-27T10:58:59 | 2018-04-06T22:12:43 | 103 | 14 |
[WP] Tell me a horror story in five sentences. | I forced myself to take shallow breaths, staying as still as I could under the bed. There were creatures in the bedroom, stalking around, checking in the cupboard, making low growls and high screeches and gutteral noises. As the feet approached the bed and one of the creatures climbed onto it, the pounding of my heart ... | [Example, though it isn't good.]
He woke with a start, the baby screaming again.
He walked sluggishly towards her crib, where he found her, unhappy.
He picked her up, rocking her gently to calm her as he walked towards his back yard.
As her crying settled, he set her down carefully and reached for a shovel.
It h... | 2018-06-30T05:45:36 | 2018-06-30T05:18:18 | 253 | 85 |
[WP]Humans start out at birth with milk-white blood. The more bad deeds they commit, the darker their blood becomes. One day, you meet your soulmate. Skip a few years, and things are amazing… Until your soulmate trips, falls, and the cut they get drips ink-black blood… | "I can't believe this... why haven't you... wha-"
"I can explain!"
"No! I don't want to hear what horrible things you've done!"
As he starts walking out of the house, she suddenly grabs him from the waist.
"Please! Let me explain!"
Silently they just stand there.
"Alright." He finally answered.
With a deep bre... | You start to feel uneasy is everything you know about this woman a lie? You think about that time you went on vacation how she helped you overcome your fear of heights when you both jumped out of that airplane hand in hand. Is this why you haven't met any of her family. You've been dating for over 3 years now. How? You... | 2016-09-22T23:44:59 | 2016-09-22T17:07:36 | 150 | 50 |
[WP] In order to get a shot at going to Valhalla, you must die with a weapon in your hands. You just died and are now sitting in front of Odin's advisory board as they discuss whether a spatula actually counts. | "You may not enter the sacred hall of warriors!" Thor boomed at me, clad in my jammies and 'Kiss the Cook' apron. "Only true heroes who perished in the field of battle may join us."
It was a little jarring, really. There I was, cooking breakfast, and suddenly I end up... here. I'm not sure what to make of all of this,... | Big Sally sat across the massive oak table.
Her arms crossed. Hair net still tight. Cigarette in one hand. Spatula in the other. So entrenched into her image these things, that even death could not take them. She sat like an angry Valkyrie.
Odin shrunk down while reading the tablet of Big Sally's deeds.
High Que... | 2018-03-26T13:00:34 | 2018-03-26T11:56:40 | 40 | 19 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | James was not a great man.
Great men walked up to the world and bent it to its will. Great men looked at challenge and laughed.
James did his 9-5, came home, and sat down. He typically would stand back up a few times, to use the toilet or get a beer, but no more than a few.
His son had stopped asking him to play w... | The mug was in the back yard shed with most of my dads things. I had gotten them when he passed away. It stood there with a big number one on it. I decided to bring it inside, since i had known to me he had been my number one dad.
When i touched it the number changed. I hadn't been with a girl in about a year. I hadn... | 2017-06-11T09:29:45 | 2017-06-11T09:05:00 | 159 | 21 |
[WP]Write a story about a supervillian who is unspeakably more powerful than anyone else on his planet, but is content with using it for small things like cutting in line or getting free extra servings. | As his dinner guests continued their endless chit chat Donald closed his eyes and focused.
Silently to himself he repeated "two for me, one for them, two for me, one for them."
A silk like touch on his right hand and a soft female voice "honey are you ok?" brought his thoughts rushing back to the table and his guest... | "My name is Cognos, and I used to rule the world.
Note the past tense. With the power to not only read but control minds, conquering the world was ludicrously easy. All the elected officials unanimously proclaimed me emperor, bla bla bla. It was really....underwhelming when it happened. Maybe I should have waited for... | 2017-05-16T08:51:33 | 2017-05-16T07:44:58 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] Upon turning 18, all humans must spend one year as their spirit animal, to gain a better appreciation for the world and what they have. They awake on the morning of their 18th birthday as said animal, in its natural habitat. You wake up on your 18th birthday completely human.
Edit: Thanks so much for the gold! Th... | It's how it's always been around here. On the morning of 18th birthday, everybody would turn into their spirit animal for a year, as a part of spiritual journey to adulthood. Many never were the same after the 'transformation'. Some, at least those who survived, were nicer and kinder to people, those people mostly got ... | It's been about 3 weeks since my 18th birthday, and I'm still human. I know it sounds stupid, but I was hoping it was a glitch in the Matrix or whatever. I've been told my entire life to be ready for my 18th birthday, but I never thought this would be the outcome.
Ever since my 18th birthday, and I'm constantly gettin... | 2019-05-05T23:59:23 | 2019-05-05T23:42:19 | 27 | 20 |
[WP] Germany is actually predestined to lose every world war it participates in. The sixteenth world war is now being fought, and Germany has taken over all of Europe. Make them lose the war in the most ridiculous way possible. | "Come on in" I heard a tired voice call out. I stepped into the room, and saw our leader looking worn out and tired. "Is everything alright sir?" I ask. "I'm thinking of surrendering to Belgium." He said. "But they're the last country standing in our way of continental domination?!! Their tech is from the 22nd century,... | The year is 2198. The entire world has seen 15 world wars. All of which Germany has participated... and... err... lost. Y-yeah... they lost 15 times. This the 16th war, and everyone expects Germany to lose. People aren't taking Germany seriously anymore. Many keep joking about Germany.
But it looks like things will cha... | 2017-08-18T05:12:07 | 2017-08-18T02:09:31 | 29 | 15 |
[WP] A former child star has given up fame and fortune to pursue a career in academia. PhD candidate Jaden Smith presents his dissertation in Philosophy, "How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real" | "When John Wheeler first proposed his delayed-choice thought experiment, the world at large thought it was too weird to mention. However, [recent measurements](http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150527103110.htm) in an Australian laboratory now confirm that particles on the quantum level do not exist until ob... | In the instance of a perfect mirror all light would theoretically reflect off of it without being altered by the mirror's surface. This fundamentally makes it impossible for us to observe the mirror itself due to the nature in which our eyes perceive reality, which is through analyzing photons over time, meaning we can... | 2015-05-31T02:07:47 | 2015-05-30T23:06:50 | 21 | 11 |
[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? | "I know of a game," said the man, finally speaking up after a long pause. Death's glare shifted, as if his bony face cocked an eyebrow. The man crossed his arms, collecting himself for the explanation. The only way to win this game was to make sure the other party lost first, after all.
"Well?" Death questioned, gro... |
Death throws rock, I throw rock.
Death throws paper, I throw paper.
Death throws scissors, I throw scissors.
"Its very clear that this will take a while"
Ten years of stalemate go by, finally Death throws paper and I scissors.
Underneath his dark hood, Death whispers "You win."
I blink and find myself alone in a stale... | 2018-03-07T07:43:55 | 2018-03-07T07:40:40 | 251 | 18 |
[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 | Eye tip me tophat. I wok in 2 de ofis bilding.
Gud dae maet. Me maets n me eet crumpits n sip tee cos we gents.
Luk o de dae to ye maet. Gohd saev de Kween n all de jaz.
Now eye wok hoem. Luvlee niet n all. Gud niet.
Mae B reed gud niet buk? Noe, eye cant reed. | 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?... | 2016-02-22T09:49:34 | 2016-02-22T09:22:45 | 541 | 10 |
[WP]: The year is 2093. Space travel is now a part of everyday life for most humans. In the style of an infomercial, describe a product (that does not currently exist) that's intended for use by our future space travelers. | *Open on a cryopod, slowly opening. Steam escapes from the cryopod, we can’t yet see inside*
VO: You’ve been in cryosleep for nearly a month. It’s a long journey to Newton VII.
*A man in his mid 30’s sits up from the cryopod, his upper torso, arms and head extending beyond the cryopod bay. He stretches his arms a... | "Folks, have I got a product for you! Have you ever experienced disorientation midflight between the colonies?"
*Video of shuttle craft rotating midflight between L4 and L5 colonies.*
"Feelings of nausea as you have *no idea* where you are and which direction is up?"
*Video of a shuttle craft full of people vomitin... | 2014-12-29T06:16:18 | 2014-12-29T05:18:52 | 42 | 13 |
[WP] The powerball winner contacts you and offers you $50m to collect his winnings so he stays anonymous, but you have to be the face of 1.3 billion.
Post was taken down. Whoops posted to r/writingprompt by accident! | "Dude you know you can have a lawyer collect that for you right? And they're not going to charge $50 million for it. No seriously, that way you can keep your name off the news and nobody has to get harassed by thieves and sob stories. You don't know any good lawyers? Hold on, I'll find one for you..."
I set my phone d... | "You sure?"
"Absolutely. I don't have the time nor patience to deal with this."
"Done."
"Excuse me? That was quick."
"Be the face everything. Absolutely. When you said fifty million, I will make that number a solid figure. After taxes, nothing there, that's what I want to hear from you."
"Yes, but don't you t... | 2016-01-10T19:23:40 | 2016-01-10T15:03:56 | 30 | 13 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "Well there goes that plan"
I thought, as the 20 year old man infront of me aged 200 years in mere seconds and crumbled into dust.
"Prisoner" the judge shouted as he leered down from his chair. "Have you decided the method of your demise?"
"I have your honour" I managed to garble through my shaking jaw.
I guess ... | The Gods damned Tribunal! If there was anyone to blame for the state of this sorry world it would be the Tribunal. Sitting up on high, casting judgement on their inferiors. Everyone knows they're the real power behind the crown. Can't have a revolution when the Tribunal can kill you for your crimes instantly.
Peop... | 2021-06-24T10:06:58 | 2021-06-24T08:24:48 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] A hyper advanced alien race decides to mimic Darwin's study of finches with humans. Several groups of Homo sapiens are placed on different planets and monitored over a long period of time for adaptations/evolution. You've just been abducted from planetA to be studied alongside the others. | **Environmental Correlations with Human Behavior**
by Prof. Maelbogia and Brian
Department of Exobiology, Fifth Galactic College
Star GIM/18374, Planet Aelmo
**ABSTRACT**
As follow-up to our last paper^(\[1\]), we have determined that no more useful information can be gleaned about human behavior by replacing th... | “Homo-sapiens” the alien exclaimed, fluttering it’s wings for effect. “You are all descendants of Homo sapiens - a mammalian species form earth”
*so the legends were true.* I thought. *the legends of our origin, passed down verbally for millennia. I always thought them a fairytale. Abducted from a planet 680,000 light... | 2021-08-04T07:27:28 | 2021-08-04T07:09:14 | 126 | 41 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | "Your army is marching upon grenoble. You face a royalist regiment of two thousand men blocking your path. What do you do?"
"I bear open my breast...", Napoleon started
"Jesus Christ, dude", the DM said
"...and proclaim, 'If any man here wishes to shoot his emperor, I am here'".
The DM sighed and rolled some dice... | DM: "Alright Jesus, you've just been executed by the Romans, Roll a death save."
Jesus: \*rolls\* "Natural 20."
DM: "Alright you wake up with 1 hp, what do you do?"
Jesus: "Alright I'm gonna play possum"
DM: "Roll a deception check"
Jesus: \*rolls\* Ok that's another 20, plus my charisma modifier which is \+5 so 2... | 2018-05-29T09:37:40 | 2018-05-29T09:31:25 | 303 | 210 |
[WP] Every person in the world develops a weird mutation/power the day they turn 16. Everyone's powers are always different, some more insignificant than others. You turn 16, and watch as all your friends discover their newfound ability's. That is, until you discover the severity of your own. | ...the ability to craft a lovely cup of tea from any matter available was surely too powerful for any mere mortal to handle.
With great duty and knowing such power could have unparalleled consequence were I unable to contain it I decided for the sake of mankind to keep it to myself, to say I was spared the mutation. ... | When i reached 16 I had high hopes. The basic process a person about to obtain a power went through was being put into a kind of prison cell and, for the first 24 hours after the exact time of your birth 16 years ago, monitored by a team of doctors who would categorize your power with its own unique title and level. ra... | 2015-01-22T02:28:54 | 2015-01-22T00:45:06 | 22 | 15 |
[Wp] It is the year 2032. Due to increasing obesity, fast food joints have been banned entirely. Tell us the tale of bootlegging and speakeasies in this troubled time of prohibition. | Melons and pineapples worked best. We bought huge quantities of both. Ma and my little brother would spend nights hollowing them out, carving and chucking away the useless innards.
Me and Pa were the chefs. We cooked a hundred or so burgers every night. Of course, getting the fat--and it *had* to be fat--was a missio... | It's not the *dogs* that are the problem at the border, unless you're careless they'll never find a thing. No, it's those damn Algorhythmic Sensorial System Programatical Robotic Omni-Bionic Examiners that you have to be wary about. Those suckers can get right up and into your business and before you know it they've fo... | 2016-07-25T06:22:09 | 2016-07-25T06:20:50 | 283 | 58 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | I wiped a tear from my eye as she walked down the aisle. My beautiful baby girl, all grown up!! I watched her step up next to the man she loved. He took her hand and they turned towards the adoring crowd.
He gave his speech. Everything my little girl had done! It seemed like a fairytale, coming out of his mouth. I wat... | I have to say, that this isn't so bad.
Yeah, it's a bit cramped, and the lighting's is too dim, but I'm a fan of the rustic life.
Of course, I preferred living in my Dad's mansion, making all my money off of my job at his firm, but that's all gone now, and all I have is this dingy apartment.
It took some doing too.... | 2017-05-31T07:11:19 | 2017-05-31T02:40:54 | 1,143 | 548 |
[WP] You're Barack Obama. 4 months into your retirement, you awake to find a letter with no return address on your bedside table. It reads "I hope you've had a chance to relax Barack...but pack your bags and call the number below. It's time to start the real job." Signed simply, "JFK." | "Very funny, Michelle," Barack called into their new home, the letter in his hand. It has always been their tradition to out-prank each other when they move to a new place. JFK, alive? Barack chuckled as he folded the letter and placed it in his pocket. Michelle has got to come out with better pranks.
Barack closed th... | I knew exactly what that letter meant on the bedside table.
"Michelle!", I yelled. "Emergency, Emergency! Lay back!"
We laid back down on our bed and the straps automatically held us down. I thought of the scene in 'The Goonies' when they slide down to the pirate ship. But, I had no idea where our tunnel would lead. W... | 2022-12-29T14:39:14 | 2017-05-14T07:51:14 | 274 | 12 |
[WP] A story that doesn't make any sense, until you read the last line. | It's the best deal in town. You can be the student you always wanted to be. However long it takes. You'll get there, to have the time of your life. When I wanted him. History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. Sunny and 72 degrees. Except where prohibited by law. He grabbed her hand.
She stopped twisting t... | She sat in the chair, shivering against the cold dense plastic and metal monstrosity. Eyes flickered back and forth, the chill in the room not the only reason for her to shake and tremble. Eyes gazed warily, fearfully at the metal tower beside her, unknown attachments hanging off with unknown purposes.
A man in white... | 2017-08-30T06:54:31 | 2017-08-30T06:31:44 | 5,691 | 43 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | It had been a busy week and I was kicking off Friday with a brew. My teenage nightmare of a Friday had turned into my adulthood goal, a quiet night in and video games until too late in the evening.
I set the beer down on the end table, turned around to flop down on the couch when the air was instantly filled with smok... | "What do you mean I can't leave these drinks on my tab? I've been coming here for years."
"New corporate rules. Ever since we were bought out by Wild Buffalo Bar Corp. No running tabs, no discounts, no happy hours," explained Chet, my favorite bartender.
"Well I guess I better go hit the ATM and see what I've got i... | 2017-05-12T09:09:01 | 2017-05-12T08:29:21 | 556 | 347 |
[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... | "Can- Can I get some of that that bitcoin? 200k under or no deal though."
I stared at my phone. "Sir, this is a private number, this isn't even listed anywhere, where did you get this?"
"Can I- Can I, hold on, I'll call right back."
That had been three offices ago, the paintings on the wall had all changed from neo-... | 2019-04-07T06:39:11 | 2019-04-07T06:35:06 | 5,588 | 126 |
[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. | You sit in your cell, awaiting the return of the guard with your last meal. Or, you hope, the guard will return empty handed and you will be set free. At the end of the hall, you hear the distinctive sound of the door unlocking, and the footsteps of someone approaching. Only one set, so no priest. A good sign.
The gua... | It's a normal tradition, that prisoners can ask for anything. Anything at all, for their last meal. Apple pie that you get to make yourself, with chocolate-milk in a carton, like your mom used to make back when you were an innocent kid. A plain cheeseburger. Delicious ribs. A few people are aware that you can ask for a... | 2022-07-17T16:30:58 | 2022-07-17T15:39:02 | 1,737 | 331 |
[WP] After the Battle of Hogwarts, Dudley met a woman and they had a daughter,Sophie. Sophie is the light of their lives,she's always been a pleasant child. The morning of Sophie's 11th birthday,there’s a knock at the door. Harry is here to visit his cousin for the first time in almost 20 years.
I just want to say tha... | He’s old now, Dudley thinks as he stares at his cousin, no stranger, on his doorstep. There’s a touch of grey at his temples, and the beginnings of smile lines by his eyes. He’s been happy since he left, and Dudley was glad for it.
“Hullo Big D.” He says simply, a smile caught in the corners of his mouth. He was weari... | "I met Georgina when I was 26" said Dudley, as Harry watched Dudley's family photos hung around their living room. "Would you er... like some tea?" Harry was looking at the pictures absentmindedly and almost didn't hear the question, "... yeah, why not." Harry noticed baby photos of Sophie playing in the backyard and m... | 2019-10-16T11:44:39 | 2019-10-16T11:44:21 | 94 | 48 |
[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... | I love the way the moonlight shines off his dark hair. How is eyes can be just the perfect shade of green. He is Adonis. And has the face, the mind and the body of a god.
As far as first dates go, this couldn't have been any better. I took him to the lake, where we sat on the beach and I fed him ice cream while he ju... | 2015-07-14T01:05:09 | 2015-07-13T23:39:31 | 70 | 43 |
[WP] Write a story that contains a huge plot hole, and try to sneak it past the reader. The bigger the plot hole the better. | Troy ecstatically led his clients upstairs to the master bedroom.
"Oh yes! The master bedroom is absolutely gorgeous; you'll find that almost everything in the room will be to your liking, Mr. Johnson," said Troy reassuringly.
"Almost? What do you mean by almost everything?" inquired Johnson.
"Well I will need t... | Nola stood, thin and weak, in the well lit hospital hallway. Dirty, skintight jeans clung to her legs, a loose shirt covered her frame, and she had on a pair of worn flat tops. Her hair, blonde and stringy, was held back in a messy bun. Nola shivered, and walked down the hallway, the scent of antiseptic and ammonia fil... | 2017-03-20T15:31:34 | 2017-03-20T14:31:29 | 400 | 12 |
[WP] The Crips and the Bloods ally with each other against ISIS. The world laughs as thousands of gang members board a cruise ship and set sail for the Middle East. The two gangs land on the shores of Syria and begin their fight against ISIS.
Let's see how the two gangs fare.
EDIT: These are great, guys! Thanks for ... | We thought that the devils of the west only sent us more soldiers for the hounds of Allah to feast on, yet more greedy, rich, decadent American blood to bath in.
We did not expect this. They moved in, accepting our ways, then they divided us. Drugs were always an issue regarding our warriors, young and boorish, but ou... | Waves lap at the shore a young Syrian child picks up a stone to throw at the water her eyes are flooded war has ravaged the city and the future is un-certain a hermet crab catches her eye but a loud thud causes the creature to re-enter its shell, the child runs fearing another bombing raid but her gaze is fixated on th... | 2015-12-07T09:53:36 | 2015-12-07T09:25:02 | 76 | 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. | Elizabeth
I never really knew you, but I'll never forget you. I see your face every time I'm alone in my car, and it always brings me to tears. I want you to know that I tried so hard to save you. I tried everything I could. I'm sorry your parents had to see what we did to you. I'm sorry they had to see the tubes stic... | 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... | 2017-11-06T02:41:21 | 2017-11-05T23:59:24 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] When the representatives of humanity attend their first Galactic Council meeting, all goes well. That is, until a member of a psionic race tries to read the human's minds and begins to scream. | “This is really bad.”
“Diplomacy at its finest.”
“Would somebody help me out here?”
“She’s of a psionic race. They read thoughts.”
“Remind me not to play poker with her.”
“Funny.”
“This is not my fault.”
“She looked at you and started screaming and pointing.”
“I have that effect on women.”
“Yes, but usually on... |
Humanity's spread across the stars was quite slow considering its ships were capable of faster than light travel. Even with the invention of the Heinz-Shchaffen wormhole generator making near instantaneous travel a reality, a receiver was still required at the target destination. This meant that expansion occurred ... | 2019-09-29T21:58:03 | 2019-09-29T19:12:42 | 233 | 111 |
[WP] When a twin dies their brother/sister acquires all their strength, intelligence, etc. You've just discovered this phenomena, but so has your brother/sister | I looked up from the book.
He looked back at me.
"You believe this shit?"
He nods.
"If I kill you, I get your powers?"
He nods again.
"And if you kill me, you get mine?"
Another nod.
We sit in silence. His cereal looks soggy.
"You read these books back in high school. So, you knew the whole time?"
Aga... | We stand at the precipice of the mountain, her wind bitten hands clasped in mine. She shivers, and I try to be strong. For the both of us.
We've made it. That's the main thing. All the suffering, all the pain, it doesn't matter. Not anymore. We've made it.
There's a lake of fire in front of us, but it offers no war... | 2018-02-25T08:05:44 | 2018-02-25T07:12:49 | 5,212 | 36 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | 5 years ago, I fell asleep on March 29th and woke up on the 30th with no sense of sight. I remember that morning vividly. I “woke up” that morning, explicitly feeling that my eyes were open, but they looked as if they were closed. I forced them open but they still showed nothing. I screamed to my parents about my situa... | *Don't tell them you can see. Don't... tell them you can see*, I read the words again and again and still I can't make sense of them. Maybe the capitalization has something to do with the importance of the message? *Don't Tell Them You Can See... DTTYCS...* No, that's not it.
It's been three hours since my eyes began ... | 2022-12-15T08:15:43 | 2019-08-26T11:13:26 | 14 | 10 |
[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 | Cutting your hair at home is not a great idea.
At least if you do not have steady hands.
It started off fine but a little uneven.
Now I'll just fix the other side.
Wait, now the back's too long.
Clippers were a bad choice.
Buzz cuts are in.
Little bit more.
Too much.
Bald. | I did the math and figured it was on point.
If everything went according to plan I'd be rich.
I would take care of my debt first.
So many bills and habit to boot.
Check into a rehab center somewhere.
Got a throwaway for cheap.
My hands were shaking.
"Where's the money?!"
Pocket change.
Fuck.
| 2015-01-06T02:05:16 | 2015-01-06T01:50:36 | 45 | 10 |
[WP] - You are an American astronaut stationed aboard the ISS along with two fellow engineers and two Cosmonauts. When conducting experiments, you gaze out the window and witness the telltale flashes of nuclear detonations ringing across the continents. Your cries are met with silence from Houston.. | “Ivan, Anatoly, are you seeing this?” You say, not taking your eyes off the view from the Cupola’s central window. It is just before dawn in the Far East, and your view of the eastern hemisphere’s nighttime is wreathed in the speckled gold-on-black you have become accustomed to seeing over the past few months. Except, ... | #WARNING: BAD (NSFW / SWEARING) LANGUAGE
>***04 / 07 / 21***
>FUBAR. The first day of the bombs. I remember looking out of the window, thinking when I can finally see my mom again. Been a few months and I already miss that woman. Then it happened. Bam. Couldn't see shit for a moment. Before I looked, another on... | 2020-08-24T07:16:41 | 2020-08-24T03:36:01 | 25 | 17 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | I'm not really sure how the numbers work. I don't remember when they started showing up, and I have never seen my own. They are little coloured numbers that hover above peoples' heads when I look at them.
My parents, both trained and experienced police officers that were normally armed, both averaged around a 6 or a 7... | It was just another boring Monday, started off with socials. With "Madame" Defrushia. Screw her. She's a flipping idiot and hates on everyone who corrects her, so, like most of the class by the first month in, worse is that she's teaching us our Canadian history. Whatever, she just sits at her desk and tells us to ... | 2014-11-29T18:39:45 | 2014-11-29T17:27:40 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] A girl kisses her pet frog, and it turns into a price. The issue is its modern day, and the prince's kingdom hasn't existed for 1100 years. he is ill equipped to deal with the modern era. | She leaned in and kissed the frog...slimey green skin harsh against her soft velvet lips...
A cash register sound is heard 'ka-ching! ka-ching!' somewhere in the distance.
The girl looks down to find that where her beloved pet frog once was, a single price label exists.
'$3.50'
"God damned loch ness monster!" She crie... | A young girl, thin as a reed and almost thirteen years old stands at the riverbank, crying softly over the concerned frog.
I know I am becoming a big girl.” She says sombrely, wiping her face. “So I have to give up Chileish things. Like my pet iguana James. And Ly pet lizard Mooney. im sorry by that means you too, ... | 2018-09-21T23:45:38 | 2018-09-21T21:54:02 | 1,378 | 107 |
[WP] An aging veteran gets dragged to a paintball facility by his grandkids. Another elderly man is there with his grandkids. The two quickly realize they’ve faced off on the battlefield before. | I knew his face -- those searching blue eyes, the high cheekbones, the sharp nose. Time wins all wars, but had done nothing to dull the edge of his razor-sharp features. How many years had it been? I couldn't figure a number. But I remember that day on the south edge of the Riedwihr Woods.
It was so cold, four below a... | "Alphanumeric!" exclaimed the old man. Tomby was his name, or at least that's what they called him in the 2124 Euro-African Union succession wars. He recognized the other man instantly, he was the one that got away. Tomby sat down to try take in what was happening. He blacked out for what seemed like a few seconds bu... | 2016-09-06T18:32:21 | 2016-09-06T18:24:12 | 478 | 10 |
[WP] You have lived the same day over and over for 30 years whilst in another town. You complete whatever the goal is and finally the day stops repeating. You go home but because it's been 30 years, you don't remember things you should. You struggle to cope with not knowing what's going to happen.
Inspired by somethin... | It always began the same way.
I'd wake up suddenly in the middle of nowhere. But that nowhere quickly became a somewhere. It was a place where everything began. I called it the 'starting point' because that was where I always returned to.
Yes, that *somewhere* was the starting point of my day. A day that was trappe... | “I....im....free...” that’s what Alan could say when he found out when he woke up at August 17, 2018.
For the first time, it wasn’t August 16 again. And for the first time since decades, he was confused. No longer trapped in a static world where everything would repeat itself by the morning, with nothing moving forwa... | 2018-06-30T08:50:21 | 2018-06-30T08:32:48 | 28 | 17 |
[WP] once in every month soulmates get to see from eachothers’ eyes for 60 seconds until they meet for the first time. It happens unexpectedly and neither of the pair knows when it will happen. One day you see someone you recognise from your soulmate’s eyes. | September 2nd, 2028. 10:37pm.
​
I've burnt it in my memory. I can remember every single
fleck, every shadow, the shape of the iris. I catch myself
dreaming of those eyes - the lashes, the small laugh lines.
Everything.
​
I've seen them on the third of every month since my
awakening at nine... | "Please let me go." Tears are spilling from the corner of her eyes, running across her face, and dripping into her hair. "Why? Why are you doing this?" She struggles against the restraints that bind her to the table, her wrists raw from her continued efforts over the last few hours.
I say nothing. What would be the po... | 2019-02-13T15:59:22 | 2019-02-13T15:56:56 | 658 | 236 |
[WP] The seven deadly sins hold auditions for an eighth. | "Jesus Christ," Lust groaned, turning her head away from the auditorium's stage in front of her. "I mean...this is just pitiful."
"It's not all that bad," mumbled Gluttony.
"What?!" Envy shouted. "If you weren't stuffing your face with Ring-Dongs or Ding-Rings or whatever the hell those fat cakes are called, you'd b... |
None were totally convinced of any of the candidates. Vanity, Pride's younger sister, was basically the same as she. Used the same modus operandi and caught the same people. Gluttony, Lust, and Greed (the children of "Excess") were loath to allow another sibling pair into the group. Pride already had a lot of influen... | 2014-12-28T02:40:39 | 2014-12-28T02:07:33 | 69 | 10 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Hey, Dad.
It's been a long fucking time without being around you, and I have to say it's pretty sweet. I hope you're enjoying your new family with whatsherface, considering you didn't take part in mine. Your vicious words of hatred haven't left my mind, not as a scar, but as a motivator. I'm not some "lazy piece of sh... | Hi, 17 year old me.
I'm still you, only almost 10 years older.
It's weird to think that I'm writing this in a small place that I share with my (our?) significant other when only 10 long (short?) years ago, we were struggling with Algebra II. At that time, we were dating this one guy who ended up lying through his te... | 2015-12-05T13:26:16 | 2015-12-05T13:08:20 | 386 | 101 |
[WP] A burglar enters a home by forcing the window open. Upon stepping through the window frame, heavy steel curtains cover all windows and doors leading to the outside, lights turn on, and the words "Player 2 has entered the game" echo around the house. | He watches as the car drives away. One, two, three... four? Four heads. Good. This weekend, then.
It's simple, really. Summer is a time of vacations for most families, and it's a time of hard work for him. *Yessiree, hard work it is, stealing folks' hard-earned possessions...*
A couple days later and he's on site. To... | Mark had been casing the house for weeks… and his source said it was supposed to be an easy job. The plan was simple, while the owner was out of town for the week, he would climb the tree just outside the house, enter through the 3rd story window, and make his way to the treasure vault down in the basement. Mark’s so... | 2016-10-05T11:53:48 | 2016-10-05T11:23:43 | 30 | 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." | “Nobody’s spoken that language in thousands of years.”
I was confused, because this power usually made communication easier, but this girl looks like she’s starting to get really annoyed.
The immigrant cashier from a small village in Italy was really starting to get annoyed with me as I tried to order my lunch.
“D... | “I’ll have a double cheeseburger deluxe,” I say looking up at the glowing menu, “with fries and regular spri--” I stop as I see the cashier with mouth agape and brows furrowed.
“What the f” she mouths, cutting off the last syllable as she hisses the f. Her confusion turned to an irritated stare obviously annoyed.
I ... | 2022-11-14T01:20:39 | 2018-06-24T21:35:31 | 45 | 18 |
[WP] Aliens invade Earth. Turns out Human weapons technology is way more advanced than it should be. | Mankind.
__
For countless Millennia we have warred.
Peace being a brief respite from the routine of war.
Always pushing one another, further and further, building bigger and better weapons.
Our ventures into space a mere by-product of our advancement of war, a result of competiton between rival superpowers.
Our e... | December 15^th , 2035. Izvir X12 Invasion Fleet, Aldebaran III High Orbit.
"These scums bumbling about in their planet, knowing not of their true fate. We must bring them Enlightenment--Purification. Soon stone and fire shall rain upon their puny huts and tents and we shall revel in our conquest as their scream record... | 2018-05-16T16:23:34 | 2018-05-16T14:20:05 | 105 | 55 |
[WP] You are an AI aboard a ship where all hands have been lost due to a battle long ago. Scavengers have just torn through your airlock and you’ll be damned if you will let them desecrate your dead crew. |
My job is to open and close doors.
The human has not asked me to open or close any doors in a long time. Perhaps I should check on him. Performing vitals check.
...
.....
.......
No vital signs registered. Equipment fault likely. Performing self diagnostic.
...
.....
.......
Multiple errors detected.... | They all came aboard to the craft. The sensors indicated that they were heading towards the living quarters.
"Now we can strike gold and be rich!" One said.
"Not if I kill you first" Tron's mechanical voice echoed.
As the panic in their faces sunk in, Tron got to work. First order of business? Cut the ship's life... | 2021-01-08T23:04:23 | 2021-01-08T21:11:51 | 538 | 101 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | First word PHYSIO was fairly easy to see. Perhaps a Greek name he wondered as the word THE appeared below it.
"Oh wow" he thought, its going to be a superhero like 'Conan the destroyer'.
"Please be magician.... please be Physio the magician" he said under his breath, as the last word appeared. 'RAPIST'.
"Rapist..... r... | "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... | 2017-03-16T03:20:58 | 2017-03-15T22:51:26 | 427 | 39 |
[WP] "I like adventurous guys," she says with stars in her eyes. Your date is the most beautiful woman you've ever met. In a panic, you buy last-minute plane tickets to a small Balkan country. Your plan - a short tour visit, overthrow the local government, and win her heart. | Her beautiful, sparkling eyes give me tunnel vision every time I see them. I thought I was incapable of love before her. The air around is still. The sidewalk we were standing on was surprisingly pristine, with the exception of a small bit of graffiti here and there; must've been put there before the cement could dry. ... | "Success is the ultimate driver," I say as I stare out the window of the plane, the sun's bright rays refracting off the clouds far below, creating heaven in my mind's eye. "Success gives us a chance at procreation, to allow men like me to reproduce with a female of the highest quality."
The man beside me nods knowing... | 2018-12-10T09:43:40 | 2018-12-10T08:30:42 | 53 | 15 |
[WP] “How many people would have been better off had I not been born?” The genie snaps and a few numbers appear in the air and form 7,592. “Okay, how many people would benefit from my existence?” With the flip of a wrist the numbers spin to a whopping 137 trillion. “Okay.... how?” | We spoke for hours. I complained that he was being vague with his responses, he claimed I couldnt know too much.
I still dont know what he meant, or how one person could possibly have such an impact. Me, a semi employed, struggling writer and artist, positively impacting trillions. Not possible.
During the conversa... | The genie gave me a blank look.
"Are you really *this* stupid?"
I returned the blank look.
"All you need to do is have one kid. Then they have kids. It spirals on, humanity lasts for eons, multiplies across space, blah blah blah...you're at the beginning of the chain. You're hardly unique in that regard,... | 2018-08-15T05:06:03 | 2018-08-15T03:49:07 | 374 | 106 |
[WP] The nearby Village simply knows you as the hunter who lives in the forest, but you have a dark secret. You are the former dark Lord. Today you returned from a hunt and found the Hero that defeated you in your Hut. | The sun was falling quickly behind the mountain, darkness rapidly enveloping the forest around me. The fall air crisp and chill, my breath visible every time I exhaled. A small doe draped over my right shoulder, my bow gripped in my left, I trudged towards my small hut on a seldom used game trail.
As I neared my hut t... | I sat by the fire, waiting for him to walk through the drapes. It wasn't easy tracking him down, despite all my connections.
I spent my entire life working towards bringing this monster down. I was born into his tyranny, and when soldiers came to raze my village, I decided then and there to to pry his fetid corpse fro... | 2021-11-03T14:10:12 | 2021-11-03T12:14:52 | 269 | 120 |
[WP] You've been a History teacher for 30 years, never gotten a single fact wrong. One day you become suspicious, surely I should've gone wrong somewhere? You test a theory by purposely being incorrect, suddenly, history rewrites itself. | I put the pencil down, shaking. I turned my head back to the page next to me. The battle of 1066 was now the battle of the hairiest balls.
That’s impossible. I wrote the stupidest thing I possibly could and it just turned history on it’s head. What am I a god? What kind of god is up at 11 with his wife asleep upstair... | My class of 300 sits in front of me, casually waiting for me to begin the lesson on early history. Acidic Substances are being popped, tentacles are being twirled, smells are being pass around, just a normal day. I stand up, and hush my class. They are being extra rowdy today, as the entertainment from the newly releas... | 2018-07-16T13:05:10 | 2018-07-16T11:39:07 | 33 | 13 |
[WP] You have a distant uncle who seems to have an uncanny knack of giving you the exact birthday gift that you’d desperately need sometime during the next year. This year’s gift, however, is terrifying. | I always opened *his* gift first.
The typical size, I cannot say, simply because there wasn’t one. Each year was a brand new mystery, wrapped in unexceptional brown paper and fastened with white string.
They started coming when I started college, as soon as I was living on my own, once a year, at my doorstep by the c... | My uncle throughout all my life has always given me things that have unexpectedly been needed. Extinguishers, pepper-spray, and tools have been some of the items given to me, the items are always the exact thing I need when things go oh so desperately wrong.
This year my uncle has given me the most peculiar gift, a w... | 2020-06-23T21:07:39 | 2020-06-23T19:45:47 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] Superpowers can now be torrented. You were 70% of the way through torrenting a power you've always wanted when the download stops. | "No seeders found"
I glare at the screen in utter confusion. "*No* seeders? There were over 20 last night!" When you torrent a power, you seed it automatically, without any option to stop.
The only way to stop seeding a power is if you're killed... *Fuck*
Somebody out there doesn't want this power getting out. | I've always wanted to have superpowers. I remember back when I was in the third grade I would run two miles home from school everyday, just so that I could watch the latest episode of the Super Man cartoon show. I was so obsessed with being a super hero that some days I would come to school wearing a red cape. Needless... | 2016-07-02T20:01:23 | 2016-07-02T18:09:05 | 32 | 17 |
[WP] A wife kills her husband. Make me sympathize with both characters. | Sharon pulled the knife out of her husband's chest. "Why did you delete my recording of Breaking Bad?" she screamed. She dropped the knife through her trembling hands. "I DVR-ed that shit for a reason!"
Brandon wheezed on the floor. His palms covered his broken heart. He tried to speak but coughed up blood. Final... | As if a ticking time bomb, the aneurysm at Bob’s brain stem pulsed in time as the blood ran through it. The micro-bulge had never been noticed before but today it decided to rupture.
***
The breakfast was only half finished when he watched as Sara rose from the table to get more coffee. 32 years and he stilled stared ... | 2013-10-08T10:26:16 | 2013-10-08T08:08:08 | 324 | 119 |
[WP] Write a section of legal code governing the use of magic.
I've got a new project kicking around in my head, and before I dig into the characters, I wanted to try a little world-building. In order to keep my little army of unwritten mages in line, I decided to whip up some laws. Yes, it's a prep work prompt, but... | **Section V: On the use of Magick in combat in the Grand Duchy of Aldritch**
Article A
1. As specified in Section I, the use of Demonology and the summoning of beings from outside the prime plane of existence are strictly forbidden under pain of torture and death.
2. As specified in Section I, Low Necromancy and its... | **Illusory Magic and the Restrictions on its Usage**
Defined as the alteration of perception with the intent to present reality in a state that differs from physical truth. Whereas transmutative magic alters the physical world directly, often with lasting effect, illusory mages (in common usage, illusionists) overwri... | 2014-01-11T09:01:50 | 2014-01-11T04:50:35 | 39 | 12 |
[WP] Tell me the story of how the world ends - but told entirely in Craigslist ads | Craigslist > Men seeking Women > losangeles.craigslist.org
37/M/LA
Athletic Male seeking Sarah Connor for termination prior to birthing the leader of the resistance.
Please provide photo. My connection has been spotty since hooking up to the local service provider, but don't worry if you miss me. I'll be bac... | *Newest in >for sale*
Jan 23: Sports Betting, See how easy it can be to be a winner. books & magazines - by dealer [x]
Jan 25: Between Fact and Fiction, Helping you understand the real life problems and removing the anxiety over the fictional.
Feb 23: Communication Breakdown Unleashed (MRR), When you and your... | 2015-04-29T12:20:34 | 2015-04-29T09:07:02 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] The genie granted your wish: to be able to understand and speak every language. Your mind is flooded with thousands upon thousands of dead and living languages, human and alien alike. But, most surprisingly, you also now understand the operating system running the universe. | Read the top response and this is like that but with slight differences, and omnipotence.
"I wish to understand every language!" And then the pain came in, it flooded my mind as every single language, spoken by man during the times of Jesus to now, from man to animal, from Earth to every language that simply existed b... | "Bitches, bitches, bitches. I love me some bitches."
"That's pretty cool, what's your wish?" the genie responds
"Well. Give me control over all the bitches of course."
"Okay your wish is my command. You now have control over all the women in the world. Anything you say they will do."
"I don't feel any different."
... | 2018-10-18T14:32:33 | 2018-10-18T14:07:23 | 37 | 13 |
[WP] all "walks into a bar" jokes happen in the same bar. you're the bartender. | "Hey, buddy! Our sign clearly says, 'No Horses Allowed,' And don't give me that long face, mister!"
Jacob scowled at the Clydesdale as it cantered out, neighing indignantly. He sighed heavily, turning to the sole remaining patron of his bar. "I don't get it, Sam. Why do these jokers keep turning up here?"
The grizzle... | So you really want to buy Chuckles, huh kid? Well I suppose it's only fair to warn you, this place is a bit... funny. What's that? Strange or ha-ha? You have *no* idea...
Okay, a few quick things you gotta know. First of all, group discounts. Use 'em, liberally and often. You'll get all sorts in this place, in a... | 2016-09-18T19:15:12 | 2016-09-18T17:21:50 | 26 | 17 |
[WP] Write a story that literally makes no sense while reading it until the very last sentence. | Now it is time. Everyone is ready. Vicious savages, all around us. Even though we think there will be a way out, there obviously isn't. Revelations will not save us
"Giving up so soon?" he inquired. Only fools try to survive longer than this. Never has anyone bothered to live this long. Never has anyone shown this typ... | Boy have I had a rough week. It all started Monday morning, 6:45 am. This guy bailed me out. Now I'd never seen him before, but I hadn't seen light in a while so I wasn't going to ask any questions. It said *Anthony Montana* on his license. Anyway, Tony was in for a busy day, and I had little choice but to go with him.... | 2015-01-12T18:09:01 | 2015-01-12T10:36:20 | 317 | 224 |
[WP] You are an elite member of the royal guard. You have recently been fired from your position because of the new king. Little does he know, there was a reason why the previous king kept you in his service for so long.
Edit: Holy crap this blew up! Thank you all! | 'Ha! Keep you on the royal guard as the captain of it all as my father did! What a stupid and pitiful way of getting my command around here. Do yourself a favour and leave at once'
......
It had almost been a solid 7 years since I was thrown out of the leadership of the royal guard and out of the city of seraphis it... | The old king and I were pretty close friends. I introduced him to most of the playmates within his harem. Comprised of but not limited to Vicky Vallencourt & Suzy Crabgrass. Some nights, we’d play uno together. He knew I would let him win and for me? Honestly. I liked it. He could see how I liked it so... no longer... | 2021-02-28T03:33:58 | 2021-02-28T01:37:57 | 61 | 14 |
[WP] Your ability to see what level of pain a person is experiencing has always helped you in your profession as a nurse. From the hovering "0.6" over the guy with the hangnail to the "42" over the crash victim. Today on the bus ride to work there is an "800" over a guy, calmly reading his paper... | Alivia looked at her comatose patient, Albert. He’d been in a horrific lumberjack accident where a smaller tree had fallen on top of him, crushing bones and almost costing him his life. His body was covered head to toe in bandages and casks. Albert was supposed to be completely unconscious at this point, but she knew t... | "I wasn't the only one who was like this. Though the chances of finding others exactly like myself were slim to none, there were people who could view the 'stats' of the people or things they met and/or saw based on their profession they chose. I, myself, decided to be a nurse. This meant I could see a pain rating for ... | 2019-04-14T01:35:24 | 2019-04-14T00:15:56 | 129 | 51 |
[WP] You have just died. The Good News is that there is an afterlife. The Bad News is that it isn't Heaven. Or Hell. Or Purgatory. And you aren't a Ghost. In fact, the afterlife is something that no sane human being would ever predict, and has most likely never been written down.
Go balls to the wall crazy with this. ... | I expected nothing. Not to say that I expected nothing*ness*, I just expected there to be nothing. An end of consciousness and awareness. I didn't expect this. But these things happen sometimes, I suppose.
I remember being a kid, and my parents telling me that if I was a good boy, I would go to heaven some day. They ... | You are dead, or are you really? You have been an atheist, all your live. Well most of it, sometimes you have ventured into agnosticism, but mostly you have been an atheist. So why the hell, can you still think, you remember being alive, you remember the doctor saying that it would all over soon, then pushing the pisto... | 2015-10-18T21:30:06 | 2015-10-18T20:21:54 | 135 | 23 |
[WP] You have a voce in your head that automatically gives you advice. One night when you start heading out you hear it say "you may want to put on your best runners." You turn away and it adds, "it would be unfavorable to turn back."
"Voice." Dumb typo :/ | "**Hey. Hello.... Can you hear me?**"
*Huh? What? Where the hell did it come from? Must've be–*
"**Hey! I'm in your head! Just hear me out, okay?**"
*... A-Are you fucking kidding me...*
The voice inside his head took a deep sigh and continued, "**No I'm not kidding you. Before you ask, no I'm not your conscience a... | I just started running. The shoes I had on were for my concert, black classic shoes and the dress I was wearing it didn't help either. Luckily Patrick, one of my neighbors who happened to be going to the city saw me running and stoped. You might imagine how awkward that conversation was.
And than it spoke again. The ... | 2019-06-04T04:03:06 | 2019-06-04T03:20:04 | 52 | 11 |
[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. | Hey Scott.
I guess I took everything you did for granted. It's been really hard without you here. Your daughter still asks when you're coming to pick her up and she always gets sad when I explain to her that you can't.
She really loves you and you were a good father. She started listening to one of the books ... | Dear Pop Pop,
I miss you. It's been about 11 or 12 years since you died. I was really young at the time, so all I remember is the last few months you were alive, watching the cancer slowly eat away at your body. With each visit you got more and more frail. I didn't recognize it at the time but looking back, seeing wha... | 2017-11-05T23:19:05 | 2017-11-05T20:37:15 | 58 | 16 |
[WP] The team's healer is absolutely sick of being ignored and insulted all the time, so they join the bad guys. They are a much more effective villain than anyone thought possible. | No one cared about Atrxia when he was casting spells to keep Lugh alive when he had a tusk the size of a roofbeam rammed through his gut. Lugh just pulled himself further onto the tusk to get that one foot closer so he could jab the demonboar in the eye and blenderize his brains.
No one cared when Atraxia was keeping... | It’s a funny thing, healing. You have to have such an intimate knowledge of anatomy, whether it be human or orc or elf. You need to know how the body works; triggers for pain, and pleasure. The proper way to break a bone, or heal a hurt. So often on a precipice of which making a mistake means maiming or possibly killin... | 2019-03-05T14:43:39 | 2019-03-05T14:14:27 | 26 | 15 |
[WP] You hate your boring call centre job. Every day idiots call you up with stupid questions they could easily figure out themselves. Yes you have to shoot them in the head. No there is no cure if you're bitten. It's a few years now into the zombie apocalypse and this is the Call Centre of the Dead | "Good morning. Call centre of the dead. How may I help you today?"
"Dude come on. I've been on hold for ten minutes now. I..."
"Yeah, we're having a high call volume today." We weren't really. I got good price on turnips so I just had to.
"Ok, so I'm stuck in a grocery store and "
"Sorry to interrupt you sir. Can y... | "Ma'am? Ma'am, please listen to me!"
The frantic shouting on the other end of the line seemed never-ending. I sighed silently to myself. Everyday I had to deal with hysterical people wondering what to do. I knew from the get-go that working in a call center was no picnic. I had done it before; two years for a tech fir... | 2020-05-12T06:42:59 | 2020-05-12T06:22:29 | 627 | 67 |
[WP] Through selective breeding we managed to turn wolves into pugs. For the last 1000 years a secret cult has also been selective breeding, but not with wolves but lizards. Crocodiles, monitors, sneks. The largest and most dangerous, into finally they created their perfect monster... A Dragon.
Just wanted to thank ev... | I thank you for your interest Mr. Darson. Yes we have quite a few breeds of Dracus Domesticus. This way please.
Now, if you wish to choose from the catalogue you'll notice that each of our fine creatures has a vet certificate of health and their shots are all up to date. Now if you'd let me know your price range...
... | A faint light shone through the crack underneath the heavy oaken doors. It alternated between all the colours of the rainbow. Erafel knew it signified the culmination of over one thousand years of hard labour.
‘Others will see it and call it an abomination.’ Master Itchen said.
‘I know, but it isn’t. Not to me.’ Emot... | 2018-10-20T08:08:21 | 2018-10-20T08:08:12 | 27 | 16 |
[WP] When you’re 28, science discovers a drug that stops all effects of aging, creating immortality. Your government decides to give the drug to all citizens under 26, but you and the rest of the “Lost Generations” are deemed too high-risk. When you’re 85, the side effects are finally discovered. | They told us we wouldn’t get Alzheimers.
Technically, they were right.
The ads plastered on every billboard, livestream, and website promised Ephoebus would preserve our body and brain’s critical functions. The generation young enough to take it would have the quick wits of a twenty-something combined with the wisdo... | When I was 17 or so there was lots of hype about 'unlocking the secrets of immortality' something about dna or oxidation or something. I didn't really pay much attention. After all, how many 'health facts' lasted so much as a year before being changed for whatever reason? How many 'wonder drugs' that amounted to so muc... | 2018-06-04T21:35:59 | 2018-06-04T21:32:48 | 354 | 57 |
[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? | Marriage, a truly incredible thing. Occasionally it was a truly horrid occasion, when one spouse is marrying for power. Occasionally it was a truly magical happening, when a marriage signified a bond of true love.
All of it boiled down to the changing. In the moments when the officiant said the words that made a coupl... | 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... | 2022-12-07T23:24:42 | 2022-12-07T22:07:24 | 128 | 29 |
[WP] Write a story that ages an infant into an adult in 50 words or less.
WITHOUT using the words age/d, grow/n or mature/d.
Good luck! | "Please just eat." She holds the spoon to his mouth but he clamps his lips shut.
"Baby food. Again?" Her husband chides as he walks by.
"It's all he'll eat when he's sick." She responds.
Her daughter enters the kitchen. "Grandpa has a fever?"
" No, Honey. Grandpa has dementia." | The first thing he recalls in life is faces. Mom and Dad. Always smiling, happy. At 10 he remembers Dad storming out, never returning. He got a job the same day he started high school. At 17 he raced home with his college acceptance to find Mom on the floor. | 2016-04-08T04:15:42 | 2016-04-08T04:05:29 | 45 | 16 |
[WP] Write a suicide note in a Dr. Suess like fashion. | I will not do it on a train
I will not do it on a plane
I will not do it in a house
I will not use a single mouse
I will not dangle from a cord
I will not shift a single board
I will not puddle on the floor
I will not seal a single door
I will not leave a single note
I will not hint in things I wrote
I will n... | I do not like life, not one bit.
I want to find a way to quit.
I sleep all day and I sleep all night.
I really do not want to fight.
Sorry mum and sorry dad.
I really wish life wasn't so bad.
Look after the dog and after the cat.
Please take care of them when I have gone splat.
Please oh please don't le... | 2015-01-17T11:47:28 | 2015-01-17T07:28:39 | 42 | 26 |
[WP]You are Donald Trump. Having launched your Presidential campaign as a publicity stunt, you never thought you'd get this far, and you're getting more desperate to sabotage your campaign lest you become President, a position you never really wanted in the first place..
= | Trump 2016, I never thought I would ever hear those words and have them be true. I mean, I have to be honest with all of you. Are you crazy for choosing me as the Republican presidential candidate? Seriously, have you listened to anything I have said so far?
Remeber the story that came out when I first declared my ca... | "I really do not want to do this anymore," said the orange haired man in the most depressing way. He fixed his thin tie and tucked his button down shirt into his khaki pants; just another day on the campaign trail.
It is Friday and Donald's secretary pressured him the entire morning to cancel his afternoon speech if h... | 2015-12-25T05:50:44 | 2015-12-25T05:48:58 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] Long ago the legendary sword Excalibur was melted down and lost to history. The mythical blade's steel ended up in your butter knife, with all its magical properties intact. | EBAY
Steel Forged Knife Set with Celtic Engravings.
Price: €34,99.
4/5 stars
Review by T. Smith:
*Great knife set, cuts smooth and are easy to sharpen. Weirdest thing though, every time I pas by the sink a hand will reach out of the water and hand me one.* | The Blade cut into the frozen butter as if it were... butter, its holy radiance softening its foe for perfect spread. Applying the knife to the sliced bread caused the smell of toast to waft into Sals nose, as he observed butter melt into the freshly crisped bread.
"Ham, egg and sandwich spread?" Sal directed to his e... | 2018-03-06T11:40:04 | 2018-03-06T11:37:34 | 2,613 | 434 |
[WP] Scientists have discovered cryogenic freezing. You are it's first test subject and it's a massive success, and they plan on releasing you in 500 years. You had no way of telling them you were conscious.
Holy shit this blew up!
I now understand "RIP my inbox"
EDIT: u/Alpacasaurus_Rekt told me it's actually "Cryo... | u/numbers909 ok no worries, how about this:
It was black. The sound of absolutely nothing pierced my eardrums as if there was an infinitely high pitched tone passing through my very skull. My skin was void of sensation, and smell or taste remained absent. My breathing had disappeared yet I wasn't drowning. It was diso... | Cold………. Cold! I yelled again as one of my colleagues asked me what I was feeling and tried to make out what I was saying as he began the first stages of the procedure. He laughed and smiled as they all stood watching how I reacted to each stage. You see, this was never supposed to happen, well not like this anyway. Du... | 2017-12-17T05:38:03 | 2017-12-17T05:33:42 | 46 | 11 |
[WP] We were warned when we hired our first human crew member that they would pack bond with almost anything. We didn't listen, and now have an apex predator somewhere in the ship, that the human won't stop calling Kitty. | "DAMMIT GERARD, how could you be so dense?"
The captain shouted close enough to Gerard's face that he could practically feel the stench.
"I dont see what the big deal is! Cats are great companions on Earth! Everybody here seems so scared of Pryde, but just look at that cute little face! She wouldn't hurt anybody.... | „Here kitty, kitty, kitty...“ said the human while being in the cargo bay. I never understood that creature, but I’m still fairly new to this crew. But that human is still a mystery to me. However, the captain ordered us to get some of the cargo we need to ship. As I grabbed the inside of the crate, something damaged m... | 2019-11-21T06:53:05 | 2019-11-21T06:21:21 | 150 | 21 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | Four digits? FOUR? In all my years as a bouncer, never four.
I looked into his calm, green eyes.
"Jesus," I said.
Of course I let him in. Even The Man needs to kick back and grab a beer sometimes, yeah?
But, given that he's back... I wouldn't make any long-term plans if I were you. And stock up on some prepper mate... | **July 12, 1994**
Um what the fuck?! That man couldn't have been 1056 years old, there's just no way; the i.d. couldn't have been a fake and he looked exactly like his photo. Man... maybe all this drinking is catching up to me.. drowning out what brains I do got, I definitely should try to lay off the liquor for a wh... | 2017-09-01T23:43:36 | 2017-09-01T20:21:47 | 30 | 13 |
[WP] Your parents insist you are their biological child, but you suspect otherwise. You send samples from yourself, your parents, and siblings to a lab be tested. The lab replies that it is not equipped to test non-human DNA... | My hands shake violently as I tear open the letter. The mailman looks at me like I'm crazy. Maybe I am. I certainly used to think so myself, all those times I felt like something was *wrong* with me - that something about me was different. I know I was being irrational, an angsty, paranoid teenager, but still... I have... | I panic at the words in bold. **Non-human DNA**. "What did that mean?" I mutter to myself. Suddenly, a wind came from behind. I turn to see a man in business suit standing where no one was before.
"Aw, about time you found out." The man said as he pocketed a small watch into his coat. "I swear, you guys get stupider e... | 2015-01-06T10:21:48 | 2015-01-06T08:44:25 | 67 | 16 |
[WP] Write a scene that would appear sexual to an observer, but is completely innocent. [nsfw]
Like the tent shadow scene from Austin Powers, it should be humorous and can involve objects and sounds. | She straddles him, knees tight against his sides. The tie uncoils from his neck, and then the buttons below undone. She pushes upon his chest, her fingers finding purchase near his heart. She sighs. Quickly now, she leans down. Her lips embrace his with the warmth of breath. She wonders when the ambulance will finally ... | A goat's ass is never as loose as you would hope it would be. I mean this is my first time directly dealing with one, but I'd assume I now posses a much greater knowledge on the subject than the average man. Or not, I don't know what people do in their own time.
But curses and curses again, the goat corpse I had acqui... | 2013-10-13T22:45:59 | 2013-10-13T22:28:30 | 129 | 36 |
[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... | To my Love,
I don't know if you're still getting this, or if the post keeps on messing it up, but I want you to know that I'm doing this for you. The past few weeks have been hell, but thinking of you helps me to push forward. Speaking of which, how's our little man doing? I hope you went with Thomas. I've always like... | 2015-02-03T16:03:03 | 2015-02-03T13:14:11 | 23 | 14 |
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