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[WP] Make up some historical or little-known fact and convince me that it's true
For example, you might try claiming that e-mail was once used primarily for erotica. | At the beginning of the 20th Century, when the automobile was still new, gasoline engines were but one of the many technologies vying for dominance. Some early cars were electric, some ran on boilers fueled by burning coal or wood.
When Henry Ford opened his first factory in Detroit, the tri-state region of Indiana, ... | The European Union is a series of 28 states and external alliances, created by the Treaty of Rome in the 1950s. Before that it was composed of seven founding member states, of which the principal founders were Italy, France, Germany and the United States of America. It was a long source of contention that the United St... | 2015-01-21T08:09:34 | 2015-01-21T07:57:14 | 37 | 19 |
[WP] You run a tattoo parlor. Every couple of weeks, the same customer comes in, always requesting the same tattoo: an additional tally mark on an ever-growing cluster of tally marks. | ((First response, hope everyone enjoys!))
"'Nother, Chief."
We had our routine. He came in, nodded at me, and went and sat down in his favorite chair. He always had an appointment, of course, but always that same greeting, his voice never changing, cigarettes and kindness over neat whiskey.
He was a grizzled old b... | "What'll it be this time, sweetheart?"
"Hey, Sean, how are you? Can I just get another tally, right where you put the last ones?"
"Mmm."
*This would be around the fifth or sixth time I worked on her. She was a real quiet one, real tall and skinny, too. Like her folks had tied a dumbbell to her legs when she was a k... | 2016-07-09T14:05:08 | 2016-07-09T12:12:31 | 93 | 37 |
[WP] The hero and villain are roommates but don't know each other's secret identities. Come up with excuses for each other's injuries and describe a normal day. | Once again limping home to my shared apartment after an entirely too predictable battle.
Once again, one of those dumb superheros that everyone sings the praises of waylaid me out of nowhere- stupid registration act, just because I refused to sign it people treat me like a criminal.
Hopefully, I can get home before-
... | I locked the door behind me as I headed out of my apartment. Even if I spent the night fighting with Doxx, I still had classes to get to.
Last night had been a close one: Doxx had infiltrated an industrial warehouse with a shipment of phones and had been installing... *something* into them. Not going to lie, I really ... | 2018-08-08T05:58:11 | 2018-08-08T05:52:21 | 39 | 19 |
[WP] As a young wizard you uncovered an old spell that resurrects one of your eldest ancestor. You do so in curiosity, only to face one of the most feared creature the world ever experienced thousands of years ago. The creature recognizes you as its descendant while you stare at it in disbelief. | "Raise the dead," they said, "It'll be fun,' they said.
Ok, they never said that. The one thing they did say was never to experiment with necromancy. Surely, resurrection didn't count though, right? That's animating skeletons and liches and stuff. This should be a positive thing, at any rate.
I guess it helps to know... | I just stood there, mouth a gape, staring with unbelieving eyes at the creature before me. It was as massive as it was terrifying, being 6 foot tall myself, it was easily twice my size. It had dark grey skin, almost like that of a rhino or elephant, but for all it's size it's head seemed almost disproportionately sma... | 2022-12-31T14:34:19 | 2022-12-31T12:20:41 | 25 | 16 |
[WP] As the sole adult on a colonizing ship of embryos, upon planetary arrival you set up the nursery, and program the educational bots with the colonies’ cultural objectives. Then you enter the sleep pod for a 50 years. Reawakening, you discover a typo you made created unusual culture developments. | Daughters and Sons
After the planetary wars, destruction of Earth and Mars, and the cultural collapse of the solar system’s network, the united colonies of the Oort Cloud sent out thousands of colonizing ships. Each ship was filled with versatile technologies, embryos for colonization, nanny bots to raise the children... | Last thing I did before going into the sleep pod marked X0324441 was writing the "cultural guidelines" - which I knew from the program training were greatly gonna affect the course of the next 50 years. We had recived a .txt file with 100 commandments that were "Not to deviate in any form or shape from the original fil... | 2021-03-20T13:50:08 | 2021-03-20T13:24:15 | 33 | 20 |
[WP] As the latest employee in the world's most prestigious amusement park you are handed a list of rules all employee's must abide to. But it's filled with rather strange rules. What does: "There's only ever one of each mascot inside the park. Check for eyeholes." even mean?
The inspiration for this prompt was the lo... | *Rule 18: There is our one of each mascot in the park at the time. If you see a duplicate, check for eyeholes.*
"Oh, very funny." I say, "We've all heard of Abandoned by Disney, guys. Playing into the creepypastas may be a good marketing move, but it doesn't work on us.".
"No, I'm serious." Our manage... | *1. There is only one of each mascot in the entirety of the Park. They have eyeholes, pay attention to this.*
I glanced up, confused by these rules. The first one made no sense, the rest made just about as much sense. I knew about psychics and mages, apparently, they were designated by different borders and emblems... | 2018-06-14T16:53:38 | 2018-06-14T13:59:31 | 35 | 11 |
[WP] “I’m sorry this is the last straw—you’re fired.” Your boss says. “Fine!” You exclaim. “Here’s my badge and gun!” You slam them on the desk but your boss looks confused. “What the fuck? Why do you need a gun and badge when you’re a waiter?” | "I fucking knew it, I am the best you got, but you are too scared to keep me because I am the only bastard here with some integrity and you can't control me."
Luis Canon sighed in disbelief, how could such injustice be placed upon him.
"How long have I been here, I have put sweat and blood into my rightful duties, an... | The papers, pens and mug that says “World's Best Boss” go flying off and around the desk as the .35 rubber dart gun and plastic badge slam down with a thud again. I picked them up and re-slammed them for dramatic effect.
“*You just can’t handle my gung-ho manner, that’s all*.”
My now former Boss, the world's best, st... | 2022-07-29T12:36:48 | 2022-07-29T09:11:32 | 49 | 27 |
[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... | 1: ‘So, you want an interview? I can imagine. Do you think your report will give me a good light?’
I (Interviewer): ‘No matter what you say, people will want to hear your story. No one knew what happened to #1, and then you show up 20 years after she disappeared. Can you tell us about how you were able to kill her? Sh... | Pacing back and forth in front of me, David paused, one foot half-hovering over the blood-stained carpet. "Tell me, Kat, what happened?"
The body was sprawled out before us on the black tile floor of the penthouse. Streams of slimy, congealed blood wove intricate rivers in the cracks between the slate pieces, and tiny... | 2014-12-18T22:10:04 | 2014-12-18T13:32:26 | 27 | 16 |
[WP]Your username is the central theme of the writing prompt | Inside the library
were stories to be told,
In between each page
every crease and fold.
Inside the library
the quiet was like death,
the shadows moved intensely
the darkness grew in breadth.
Inside the library
the shadows drew near,
the people tried to run
but death was already here.
Inside the library
skeletons... | *The Mad Hatter On Tea*
She’d thought it was ecstasy. Cocaine even. She’d never seen anybody get high on tea before. She watched in a mix of fascination and repulsion as he used a fancy razor blade to cut the tea-leaves into small inhalable pieces. He arranged them into three neat little lines and before you could sa... | 2016-09-25T06:15:29 | 2016-09-25T06:02:03 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] “I’ll tell you what I’m going to do Mr Bond. I’m going to stick you in a spacesuit with a radio, and strap you into one of my cars. Then, while mankind watches, I’ll launch you into space. The last thing you’ll hear before leaving this earth forever, will be their applause.” | "What, are you really expecting some sort of villain monologue, where I reveal my evil plan in the most dramatic way possible, allowing you to escape? I don't think so, Mr. Bond."
Agent 007 tested the restraints carefully, under Elon's careful gaze. They were tight. Maybe too tight. Still, he kept cool, smirking sligh... | James struggled to move. His suit had been drilled into the sides of the car, restricting his motion. On top of that, the man had given him a sedative that would relax his muscles while keeping his mind fully aware of the situation he was in.
Millions of people would be watching, yet none of them would know the true ... | 2018-02-06T20:27:46 | 2018-02-06T20:15:17 | 206 | 128 |
[WP]: Your mother was a scammer of the supernatural. She promised her firstborn to multiple entities in exchange for something she wanted, and now you're being co-parented by three demons, the fae, and a disgruntled witch. | Parent-teacher conference. Why, why does it have to be a parent-teacher conference? Why do I have to drag this mess with me to school, and why in Highschool with my Biology teacher? What the hell does that old bastard want? How do I tell this to the family? Fuck.
I pace back and forth in my porch. Who would have thoug... | Jack stood next to his pick up and pulled gently on one of the ropes. It gave slightly. Not tight enough to damage anything on the trip but in no danger of coming loose. Nodding, he turned to little group standing just behind the truck.
"I think that's everything, then."
"Are you sure? You have your toothbrush? Ple... | 2019-07-18T12:10:11 | 2019-07-18T09:14:10 | 24 | 16 |
[WP] You're a pawn shop owner. Two bums inform you they've got some real good shit today. They lug in the Ark of the Covenant. | "Wait, *what*?" I gasped as the two scruffy gentlemen shuffled into my shop. Clothes tied together with string, wild beards and wild eyes, my first thought was to throw them out. After all, the last time I had homeless in the shop, they tried to pawn me my own merchandise.That is, until I saw what they carried between ... | "Best I can do for you...*gentlemen*...is $175."
I stood behind my counter, impassive. In the face of an item that countries would pay billions to possess, I had to pretend that I thought it was the prop from *Moses*.
Yeah, the one filmed back in the thirties? With what's-his-beard as the dude? That one.
Course, cau... | 2016-06-08T10:33:06 | 2016-06-08T09:16:02 | 42 | 16 |
[WP] Your girlfriend is a superhero but you're not a villain. You're the person working from the shadows making sure no one finds out about her secret identity. | Finding official merch for a low-paid clerical position in a team like this one was challenging. Of course, Lisa's PR team had dedicated plenty of time and resource into creating merch for the numerous side-kicks. Market research, stress testing, launch events. Even her *driver* got a t-shirt after a particularly well-... | Dave was good at multitasking. He had to be, given what he was currently doing. Three monitors, all going at once, and all of them demanded his attention.
On the first was an extraordinary fight. A woman in a colorful spandex costume was fighting a 30 foot tall robot. The woman flew around at blistering speed, interce... | 2021-11-20T08:57:42 | 2021-11-20T08:30:42 | 88 | 45 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear E,
I love you. Not the cheesy love I felt in high school, and not the way I love the woman I think I'm going to marry, but you hold a place in my heart that no one else can.
We were destructive. We weren't good for each other. You were emotionally abusive, and I was amazed a pretty girl would give me the time o... | Dear You,
I don't know if you're there. If you exist anywhere in this world. Maybe you'll always be a concept in my mind of the kind of person I need to meet and say all of this to. If you're not there, then that's depressing. But if, somewhere, you exist...
I haven't been strong. I've been plagued with weakness in a... | 2015-12-05T16:37:50 | 2015-12-05T14:15:59 | 94 | 11 |
[WP] All superpowers have a ‘hangover’ effect. For example, after using super strength for the day, the morning after you can’t even lift your spoon to eat your breakfast. You wake up one morning after using your own specific superpower and you feel pretty hungover...
[deleted] | I awaken well rested and ready for the day, a solid nights sleep. I leave my room to see a pile of letters just inside the door. I look to the bench to see last nights dinner covered in mould. I pull up my phone. Every app has notifications. I check the date. It’s the 27th.
I sigh “That’s what I get for taking 10 extr... | "Get away from him or I'll make you."
Michael and Scott glanced up from the kid sprawled helplessly on the grey floor, and saw me.
They laughed.
I had already guessed that the threat wouldn't be effective. A short kid in raggedy clothes and spiky hair didn't exactly set off a 'powerful' image, after all. But looks.... | 2018-08-19T05:57:43 | 2018-08-19T04:28:22 | 74 | 55 |
[WP] You are an immortal serial killer. You were caught and sentenced to life in prison. The prison is starting to get suspicious of why you won't age. | 'Adam, it's been 20 years. You can't stay in here forever. Your children need you.' She said, looking at me with those eyes.
A man would give his arm (or a rib!) to wake up to that face. Even those piece of shit guards (they're not all pieces of shit, Connolly and Jackson were halfway decent humans) treated her ... | I'm immortal. I got caught during my regular decade old ritual, killing someone I thought deserved it. This time it was a paedophile I caught in the act. The kid ran away and I couldn't absolve myself.
I'm 50 going on 50000, I've seen civilizations born and die. I've met the world's most famous warlords and Kings. Eve... | 2016-10-15T09:47:53 | 2016-10-15T08:43:24 | 26 | 15 |
[WP] Panic spreads amongst the African Vampire community after Toto blesses the rains. | *Tanzania, February 1983*
Kaisi hummed along to the radio as he tidied his house. His sister was coming to visit tomorrow night, and he liked things to be tidy anyway. This would probably be the last time she visited him for a few months, as the rainy season would be starting any day now, and she was always busy at th... | Wakanda holds many secrets.
The first was our very existence. Hidden from the world, our ancestors preferred the shadows, like the panthers who protect us. Recent events have caused our King to step out of the darkness, to make himself and our city known.
But we still hold our deepest secrets. The King of Wakanda c... | 2018-06-11T09:06:22 | 2018-06-11T08:54:17 | 1,291 | 266 |
[WP] "Wait, so there's no gold?" "Of COURSE there's no gold. I'm a huge freaking dragon; why would I need to buy anything? I live in a cave, for fuck's sake. WHY do you humans always think I have gold?" | "Wait, so there's no gold?"
Gordon stared down at the latest imbecile. "*Of* *course*, there's no gold. I'm a huge freaking dragon; why would I need to buy anything? I live in a cave, for fuck's sake. WHY do you humans always think I have gold?"
The idiot's jaw dropped a bit and turned his head to stare at the unado... | The knight thought for a second, at a loss for words. He had never stopped to consider it.
"Because the legends have said it, since before time began," he replied, trying to remain brave. "You kill the dragon, you get the gold, you wed the princess."
"Oh god, you think I have some virgin princess lying around here to... | 2020-12-28T19:21:32 | 2020-12-28T18:59:29 | 605 | 309 |
[WP] One day, browsing reddit, you decide to click the random subreddit button. Upon doing this, you discover a subreddit obsessed with you, with posts lincluding everything you've been doing until a few hours ago. | I never go into random.
If I need to find it, it seems to come to me. Or I'll be on google and the subreddit for the thing I'm googling pops up. But I'm bored as hell.
My computer's been semi-on the fritz. By which I mean, I can barely watch a YouTube video without glitches, freezes, skipping audio... so gaming's out... | I always thought I was a pretty normal though mundane guy. Nothing too exciting. I work a normal boring job, feed my cat every day, a balding, middle aged divorcee with a grown son who is too busy to know I exist. You know the type.
So when Lisa got me into the newest office craze I just thought it would be something... | 2017-10-26T16:39:33 | 2017-10-26T15:19:19 | 267 | 78 |
[WP] A jobless computer programmer, while hacking at home one night, discovers a port to the Unirnet, an computer network made for a series of interconnected planets who have not yet discovered mankind. | Sean tapped at his keyboard languidly. His public IP had been getting hits recently for seemingly no reason. A few thousand bytes would come through every few minutes.
But they were encrypted. It wasn't a simple port scan. Those typically hit then come back in a few days if it was likely a useful port. Maybe so... | Greg rubbed the sleep out of his eye as he opened the door to the study. Jennifer was furiously clicking away on the keyboard.
"Jen," Jennifer jumped in her seat, obviously over-caffeinated even though it was 3 am. "You've been at it every night for almost a week. Come to bed."
Jen barely turned her head. "Come... | 2014-12-01T14:10:19 | 2014-12-01T14:09:07 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] You are born with two names tatooed on you body somewhere, one of your soulmate and one of the people that will eventually kill you. There is no way to tell who is who. | Two names, two purposes.
One will kill one will complete.
No way to tell the difference.
At least that's the idea behind the names. I personally think they are both there to mess with you.
You can spend your whole life looking for your soulmate only to find you killer, or worse running from your killer only to find... | “John Smith. And fuckin.... John Smith. WHAT THE FUCK!” Andrea yelled, looking at her friends arm.
“I know right. Stupid.” Tally remarked. She’d had this reaction before.
“So ya gotta find two John Smith’s?”
“I hope so.”
“What do you mean?”
“Maybe I only need to find one.” | 2018-03-11T07:33:45 | 2018-03-11T07:26:50 | 177 | 78 |
[WP] With total war as a foreign concept to the rest of our galaxy. Everyone saw humans as the negotiators and the peace makers, soft and weak, today is the day the galaxy finds out why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | (On mobile, sorry if formatting is wonky)
Total War. Rakleth pondered this new term. Was not war always in totality? To crush the enemy's military underfoot and seize their civilian population and worlds for your own use? The humans, negotiators and pacifists, had such strange terms. Rakleth scratched his carapace... | "The Federation does not recognize the authority of the Alliance." A cold voice replied.
For over three thousand years, the humans had been the negotiators, traders, engineers, eager to learn and eager to give. They had integrated into the rest of the galaxy with little trouble, and their sleek, elegant ships, pai... | 2018-12-14T22:13:23 | 2018-12-14T19:06:09 | 820 | 162 |
[Wp]Heaven isn't based on religious text or desires, but how you died. Example: a man who starved to death will live in a heaven of food.
Edit: holy shit i did not expect this response, you're all awesome and beautiful! <3 |
Saito was a salaryman. At fifty-six years old, he was a member of that elder, passing generation that had embraced the heroic persona of corporate bondsman, swearing fealty for life to an owner-corporation--tilling at his cubicle, yielding up his labor, certain and secure in his place in the feudal regime.
Salaryma... | I can tell that I died, but I don't know what is different.
Everyone is treating me the same - same warm smiles, same hugs when I get in and out of places, same love and appreciation I received when I was alive! I know St. Peter couldn't've lied to me - my heaven is the opposite of the circumstances of my death. So wh... | 2017-01-27T12:08:47 | 2017-01-27T12:05:41 | 291 | 21 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | "Okay, the army's coming toward you. What do you do?"
"I tell everyone to hide, then I open the front gate. Is that good for a bonus?"
"A bonus for what?"
"Bluff."
The DM stared at the Bard. He opened his mouth to speak, but the Rogue spoke for him.
"You can't be serious."
"I am."
The fighter chimed in, "How do ... | "I've got this."
The sound of dice rolling in the cup echoed around the tiny attic. The others rolled their eyes.
"You don't have this. Just stop. If you miss-"
He grinned. "I'm not going to miss."
The man sitting across the table sighed, rubbing his forehead. "Lee, just stop. You'll only have him in your sig... | 2018-05-29T07:11:07 | 2018-05-29T05:54:52 | 1,810 | 813 |
[WP]The pill that decreases aging has been released, but you decided not to take it. It was a good call, because a few decades later, side effects started to emerge. | During the development phase, the drug was given the code name Rx-Infinity. The media would try to get inside scoops as to what it was, and what it was supposed to do. There wasn't this much coverage on a drug or it's research in a long time. You would have thought it was a cure for cancer... But it was so much more... | It's been about twenty years since forevermore was released to the general public. Once people thought they would live forever they started to care about the planet. Within the first fifteen things were relatively smooth.We had reduced carbon emmisions and started reforestation.You could almost call it a utopian societ... | 2016-10-09T07:37:56 | 2016-10-09T06:23:32 | 613 | 14 |
[WP] You are a superhero whose civilian identity is a teacher. One student asked if you could tutor them after school, and you agreed. After it was over, you escorted them to the front of the school for their parent to pick them up... and you see your nemesis waiting by the car. | As Adrunaline i'm able to process faster than most, i mean my whole thing is being fast.
But no amount of decelerated time can help me process that the Cold Queen had a kid. And such a sweet kid too.
"Mommy" said young tim as he ran to his mom.
"Hey baby! How was school?" She said just not acknowledging me existence... | "DAAAAAAAAAAD!" Ian runs up excitedly to his father, who gives his hair a good ruffle.
"Hey, kiddo! It's good to see you!" the dad says, smiling warmly.
Ian lets go of his father. "We gonna play games? Watch films? I miss you!"
"I miss you a lot too, ya rascal. Now, wait inside the car, I need to talk to Mrs. Leaves... | 2022-11-29T12:08:21 | 2022-11-29T09:49:38 | 528 | 321 |
[WP] You were forced to attend an interview for a job you do not want, but, no matter how hard you try to screw up the interview, the interviewer just becomes more keen to hire you. | I let out a hefty burp as the barman took away my last pint. My seventh pint. Now, now I was ready. I didn't so much as hop off my stool, as fall off my stool, but I regained my balance, nodded again at the bemused barman, and made my dragging tracks out of the pub.
3:06pm. I was already six minutes late. Fantastic! A... | “So, why do you think you deserve to work for us?” The interviewer asked me.
“I don’t,” I replied with cruel honesty.
The bald man, in his forties, laughed at me. I showed him a muffled expression.
“You seem like a jokester! Exactly the kind of a person we aim for!”
“I don’t want this job, you know…” Again, I need ... | 2017-08-29T10:32:29 | 2017-08-29T09:16:02 | 76 | 24 |
[WP] An alien doctor is having trouble figuring out why the humans on their ship got so excited after they showed one of the human females an ultrasound confirming that some kind of parasite that had attached itself to her uterus | "so, wait, that is your young?!" The Prothul, a race kinda close to humans said in surprise. Save the yellow skinned males, purple skinned females, four eyes and split tongues, they were pretty much identical to humanity.
Almost.
"Yes, Krath, that is a human embryo." I explained to the extra terrestrial doctor.
"But... | Xasion had encountered these parasites before and thus, had a grim understanding of the physical and emotional torment which would soon overtake Clara. “Perhaps, it is a common coping mechanism among humans to feign excitement in the face of such vicissitudes.”, thought Xasion.
Because of their experience with thes... | 2022-08-30T06:28:21 | 2022-08-30T04:39:47 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] There's a law when you divorce, the children from the undone marriage get killed
So only children from lasting marriages remain. | "Officer Edmund, reporting in. I've got the two children in my car, and the divorcees are on their way in the van". I glanced in my rear-view mirror to see two wide-eyed kids, not much older than my own son, staring blankly back at me. I hated this part of the job, this wasn't what I signed up for in Police Academy.... | My name is David, David Halligan. You might know me from H&H Attorney at law. We typically run late night infomercials on sleezy networks that convince people to get a divorce. I'm the good-looking, charming guy that smiles into the camera and give a little wink, yea...
I'm a divorce chaser. What that means is I c... | 2014-06-15T04:00:46 | 2014-06-15T03:57:43 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] A frog comes up to a man and tells him if he kisses it, it'll turn into a beautiful princess. He's more interested in having a talking frog with him though. | "Hello, Sir?"
"Yes-- wait, who said that?"
"Down here. The frog. Beside your foot."
"Holy crap, dude!"
"Yes, yes. Talking frog, very cool, I know. But hey, do you want to hear something even better?"
"Uh, yeah."
"I'm actually a cursed princess. My name is Rosaline. If you kiss me, I will totally ditch this frog b... | "If you kiss me, I will make you into a princess!" the frog croaked from Daniel's shoulder. Daniel narrowed his eyes.
"I'm...a man, though."
"Ah yes, but don't you wish to be a beautiful princess who can live happily ever after in the fairy tale of their dreams? 'Tis but a once in a lifetime chance, my friend!"
Dan... | 2016-05-31T06:38:50 | 2016-05-31T06:25:32 | 184 | 52 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | "DEUS VULT!"
The battlecry of the newly reborn Papal State rang on the lips of devout Catholics the world over. The faithful had come together once again to rid the Holy Land of the infidel scourge. Pope Francis stood at the head of his army, a not-so-ceremonial sword flashing in his hand as he held it up on the stree... | "Commander, we have it. We've taken the facility that houses ten - ten! - nuclear missiles capable of reaching the United States! Can you believe it? Ten! With the fifteen suitcase nukes we've seized in the last three years since 2020, we can finally take the battle to them!"
"Yes, yes....this will show the world at ... | 2016-01-29T10:03:10 | 2016-01-29T04:24:26 | 82 | 19 |
[WP] At the age of 18 you are permitted to redistribute your twenty skill points around into whatever skills you want permanently. You decided to put everything into LUCK and leave the rest at 0 points. | Sean's mom was just starting to lay into him for putting all his points into luck when his grandma called. He could already see it working out, but his mother hadn't wasted a lot of points in intelligence, so he didn't think she'd get it.
"This isn't over," she yelled at him as he walked out the door.
*Isn't it tho... | The only thing he could think in the last two weeks was that day. He would go to bed as early as he could and wake up as late as his body allowed him so time would seem to pass quicker. And the day finally came. It was his 18th birthday and he was going to the factory, where he could finally choose.
«Choose»
Just the... | 2016-03-20T19:46:49 | 2016-03-20T18:14:39 | 100 | 39 |
[WP]Put what you want to accomplish into the supercomputer, and it will give you instructions on how to get the best possible chance of achieving your goal. You entered "I want to live a long life" and the computer is giving you some... rather unusual instructions. | “Al, I want to live a long life.”
\-Additional input required. How long would you like to live?
“Oh, uh…wasn’t expecting an actual response. More like an error.”
\-Would you like to clear your prior search?
“No, let’s see this through. Let’s say a really long time, forever if possible. Or at least to die never from... | > Lazarus> Step 1: Trim any excess branches. Hit enter to continue…
James stared at the screen. The cursor continued to blink while the machine waited for him to continue the list of instructions. He tried to think through the step, wondering if the supercomputer understood metaphors.
“Maybe it will make more s... | 2022-03-19T18:19:39 | 2022-03-19T17:36:52 | 93 | 21 |
[WP] The monster under your bed is protecting you from something much worse. | I hear the familiar boards creak as my child tiptoes to her bed. As always, she moves quickly, panickedly. She hates the dark, and what's more, she hates what the dark holds. I can hear her heart skip a beat as she hops into the bed. The frame creaks, the mattress shifts. After a few minutes pass. Her heart rate gradua... | For as long as I can remember, the monster has lived under my bed. Though, I’ve never seen it, I’ve heard stories of it. How it fed, if it breathed air, or ever really slept, I didn’t know. After all, the space under my bed wasn’t that much. Let alone big enough for a monster to live under. But there it resided for yea... | 2016-03-20T18:06:57 | 2016-03-20T17:39:49 | 83 | 10 |
[WP] Many years ago, an alien invasion nearly wiped out Humanity. Now, the galactic government is desperately trying to reason with a vengeful Humanity by saying that it was a rogue mining company that attacked without their approval or knowledge. | Fourteen billions Manukrians wiped out in a single blast from the human bomb. The unimaginable force of the bomb dropped on the center of the Manukri planet vaporized it in less than a second. The shockwave traveled through the entire Fifth Colony, pushing six planets and four moons off their rotating axis. The light f... | At the Peace Talks between Humanity and the Galactic Government, the President of Humanity called their ridiculous lie by showing them irrefutable video evidence of the attack. Battleships with the galactic insignia demolished cityscapes, leaving a hellfire that made the US invasion of Vietnam look like a picnic. Human... | 2022-12-17T21:49:39 | 2022-12-17T19:35:09 | 80 | 55 |
[WP] “Now be careful, that line of rock salt is the only thing keeping them out,” the man said, welcoming me into his refuge group. “Sea salt,” I clarified, “sea salt keeps us out.” | "... sea salt," I clarified, "sea salt keeps us out."
I watched for his widening eyes as I stepped over the line of salt... but his eyes didn't widen, and my foot slowed, then stalled. Too late, I tried to pull back, but the treacle-like thickness had firm hold, and I found myself toppling forward, emmeshed in the ... | “Now be careful, that line of rock salt is the only thing keeping them out,” the man said, welcoming me into his refuge group.
“Sea salt,” I clarified, “sea salt keeps us out.” I said clambering down to my belly. For the boys I produced a most marvellous impression of a slug upon their floorboards.
“Weee, weee,” I sa... | 2021-03-02T09:07:17 | 2021-03-02T08:52:57 | 39 | 10 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | I stared at the blood dripping from my finger, shocked. I'd always tried to be good-- always volunteered, always helped people I saw that were in need. I around at the other patrons in the coffee shop I sat in, but nobody seemed to notice someone as old as I, hunched over in a back corner. I brought my withered finger ... | Turns out following the rules of god was the wrong way..
Turns out following the Bible to a t, never wearing cotton, the whole fish thing was wrong..
That woman who was dying I couldn’t touch her,
Turns out slaves where bad...
Turns out cutting my wife’s hands off was evil..
I needed a moment
| 2018-08-04T10:51:37 | 2018-08-04T09:44:59 | 28 | 10 |
[WP] Our universe is in fact a simulation - it was a school project in God School. However, it was the one the got an A+ (top notch). Now tell me a story about living in a universe that got graded D- (barely above fail) | "Mr. Smith! Please sit down. How are you doing this eternity?" Teacher said, motioning to a single chair in front of his own.
"Fine, I guess. A little nervous about why you asked to talk privately." Smith sat down and looked around at the classroom with anxiety. Did Teacher know about how he bent natural laws in the l... | A good world requires balance. This our God failed to realize. And for that we paid a hefty price.
We awoke in fields of sprawling acres and towering pillars. Mansions stuffed with luxurious furniture and decadent food sprang up in rows around us. "My gift to you," He had said, in his glorious voice. It rumbled like t... | 2017-08-18T12:13:46 | 2017-08-18T11:52:07 | 399 | 195 |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | It was a freezing morning in New York.
I slipped into the local Starbucks for some coffee.
There was a new cashier today.
"Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?", She asked, exasperated.
"Soy un federale, tengo un gato en mis pantalones," I replied.
The disinterested look on her face vanished instantly.... | "It raises questions, you know. Like if I avoid Starbucks throughout my entire life, never go into one ever, does that mean that I never meet my soulmate? And if I never meet my soulmate, then are they really my soulmate, I mean, how can someone be my soulmate if we never end up being together?", Julia smiled wryly and... | 2014-12-17T23:12:07 | 2014-12-17T20:57:41 | 2,270 | 551 |
[WP] You're known as "The King of Games" for never having lost a game in your life. However little does anyone know you're actually cursed so that everytime you lose a game you get sent back in time and be forced in a time loop until you win | Robert knew it was time to win. His blessing of never being able to lose had them playing for what would have been weeks in real time. Instead they sat across from each other locked in this embrace of competition, playing the same game over and over. He knew every move she would make in response to his and it was impos... | It all started with a game of hopscotch.
A childish game, a gaggle of competitive brats and my own will to win and show off meant that when I lost, i didn't exactly take it well.
A badly worded wish muttered through tears later, i found myself standing back at the starting square, with no idea of what just happened.
... | 2022-03-26T13:57:15 | 2022-03-26T10:47:35 | 3,587 | 626 |
[WP] You are the God of small things and you were quite content with your lot-until the purge.Your temples lay burnt, your priests bathed in their own blood your priestesses shared the same fate yet only after being violated.They will pay for you are the god of small things- small not insignificant | They destroyed me. My people. The innocents I protected. They burned and pillaged and ravaged and...
So be it. I will hear their blood-wreathed prayers. Accept their perverse offerings of sacrifice. They cry out to the void to be rid of me- and thus, they shall have their wish fulfilled. The others amongst the divine... | [Poem]
Desecrated altars every way
Thy own scholars lay limp,
Cut down by those who could not say
Taunted and teased by imps
And though they may feel righteous
Murder without consequence
I am the God of the Miniscule,
Threads of guilt blossom in sequence
A chain of motion set abound
Darkness eats at thy heart
Lives ... | 2021-12-03T13:52:35 | 2021-12-03T09:06:29 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] In order to maximize effect (and profits), death row inmates are now handed over to the producers of horror movies where deaths are no longer faked. | “So what movie is this?”
The girl in the headset flips through a couple of pages. “Who are you, again?”
“Jeff Saunders.”
“No, your number.”
“11-25-3162.” Not that it was a secret. It was tattooed on me and I was wearing a shirt with the same number.
“Yeah, you are in… **Hey! You three! Get to Shadow Vixens 16 o... | When I was a kid, I used to think that the actors who died on screen were really dying in real life. Not that they weren't aware of the cameras, or that the movie was really happening, but that they were sacrificing their lives for the movie. At some point I realized how silly that was.
Decades of budget cuts and eff... | 2015-01-14T09:17:18 | 2015-01-14T09:08:48 | 28 | 11 |
[WP] You shoo your kitten away from a battered mouse she's playing with. As you bend over with a towel to scoop up the mouse to carry it outside, you see it's wearing leather armor, a cat claw necklace, and that clutched tightly in a trembling paw is the handle of a broken yellow plastic sword pick. | "Smudge! What are you doing?" Still bottle-fed, the little stray was already a hunter.
*Meow*
"Smudge." The little rascal scrambled over, expecting praise. "What do you have?" Still alive. "Drop it!"
He obeyed, but continued to paw at the tiny mouse, almost concerned. Alice pushed the black kitten away, taking the ... | "No Bathbomb! Not in the house!" I cry out, scrambling towards the newest addition to the family, the lithe grey cat was currently hunched over a tiny black wriggling lump that I could only assume was a mouse. Still squeaking, rather pitifully but still alive. I gently lift the small mewling murder machine with one han... | 2017-11-09T09:58:58 | 2017-11-09T09:42:10 | 42 | 23 |
[WP] Two people have just died. They both enter the same location in the afterlife. For one person, it is their personal heaven; for the other, it is hell. Describe their arrival and first "day" there. | Suzanne opened her eyes to be greeted by her own front room. She looked about, her heart beating fast. Was it a dream? The sickening spinning, the horror of loosing control? The crash and shattering of glass, metal, bone. The last sight of her husband, James, next to her, his neck at a terrible angle. Did she dream tha... | "Can you believe it? They're actually paying us to come over here and kill these cave-dwelling shitheads!"
*"There must be another way" Fr. Morricone said, clutching his Rosary beads.*
"I used to tell my friends I would do this for free, if I could. Just to have the chance, you know?"
*"How can you even say that? We... | 2015-01-04T13:39:28 | 2015-01-04T12:39:19 | 26 | 16 |
[WP] "What do you mean the Council won't give us a seat?" "Well, the Galactic council is... unsure... how to proceed with a species that can so readily turn predators into, well, pets." | "That's preposterous! We-"
Terra Ambassador Nicols had a much longer, and a much more *colorful*, response to Galactic Councilor Xendoxu-Inj's statement but knew better than to speak it aloud. Looking down at the floor of the Citadel's Council Room, Nicols lost himself in thought for a moment and did not realize that ... | *We can explain* by thatonedoveslayer
“Oh, you mean dogs and cats?”
“Yes... canine and feline species have shown to be incredibly dangerous on your planet, with both groups traveling in packs that can easily wipe out one of your kind. You have also befriended any form of reptile and amphibian creature, and some forms... | 2020-10-30T01:26:02 | 2020-10-30T00:54:17 | 420 | 131 |
[WP] "Some days, I love my job. Those days are the worst." | Traitor. Backstabber. Scum. I spit those epithets into the mirror morning and night. The knowledge of what I’m doing to these people makes my skin crawl, but I can’t stop. Too many lives are at stake.
That’s why they hired me, of course. Empathy. I meet someone new and everything just seems to fall into place – they r... | I lay on a long maroon couch, watching the ceiling fan spin on a low enough setting to be amusing but not actually create enough wind to make a difference. On the walls around me abstract "art" hangs next to degrees and awards. I say art loosely as it is a compilation of red and blue lines squiggling around. Hardly ta... | 2015-07-16T07:19:54 | 2015-07-16T07:05:23 | 32 | 21 |
[WP] The hellish trenches of the Great War were dug rapidly and with very little regard of what came before. So, when the bones of the old gods buried deep were exposed to mankind once again they rose from their slumber. At first the gods were confused, angry. Then, they picked sides. | "Tygrothrop has thrown his lot in with the French, sir".
"The French? What could possibly have interested him about the French? They couldn't charge a nursery much less sacrifice anything worthwhile!"
"Well you see sir, our arcanists have found that one of the Gaul peoples creation myths was a contextualisation of Ty... | The hellish trenches of the Great War were dug rapidly and with very little regard of what came before. So, when the bones of the old gods buried deep were exposed to mankind once again the rose from their slumber. At first the gods were confused, angry. Then, they picked sides. But they knew what they would do with t... | 2020-10-06T23:45:02 | 2020-10-06T23:00:27 | 77 | 14 |
[WP] Year 2040, you are tasked with rebooting Harry Potter franchise. Write the first few paragraphs of "Harry Potter Begins".
For books, not movies. HP Begins will be book 1. | Harry awoke from a dead sleep with a burning pain in the center of his forehead. It was a pain he hadn’t felt in twenty years or more. Ginny stirred in her sleep next to him. Harry looked down at her and felt cold fear run through him. It had been so long and they were so happy now. They had suffered enough for mo... | "Evil exists in many forms, but so does good. The smallest of embers can create the largest blazes, but who ever said fire was a bad thing? Evil, much like the fire, takes only a little push to get started down that rocky path, yet with the right conditions, that same ember can become the savior of so many lost and col... | 2014-10-01T10:09:43 | 2014-10-01T09:45:36 | 40 | 15 |
[WP] You are given a writing prompt by your English Professor. You decide to post the writing prompt to r/writingprompts and get an amazing story. You decide to use that story as your own and turn it in as your assignment only to find out that your professor was the one who wrote the story. | "You didn't write this."
"Sir? 'Course I did."
"No. You didn't. And get off your phone."
" Sir, you can't accuse me of playerger- player- of *copying*, without no proof. I could report you to the teacher council."
"*Teacher council?* You really are a buffoon."
"Thank you, sir. So you believe me?"
"You could... | This wasn’t what I had expected to write when I went to browse r/WritingPrompts. My plan was to compose something worthwhile – something to take the reader’s breath away. Perhaps a tale from a land of four warring nations and swirling elemental magic, where heroes reign and Good clashes with Evil. Maybe a mysterious st... | 2018-04-14T07:08:38 | 2018-04-14T06:41:27 | 3,552 | 344 |
[WP] You’re cursed with immortality, not because you sold your soul or you’re a sort of immortal creature but because a few thousand years ago, you stepped on the back of Death’s robe and being the petty shit Death is, he hasn’t forgiven you since.
Edit: okay, wow, I definitely did not expect this to get so popular an... | You apologized for stepping on the robe. Apparently it hadn’t been enough.
“Curse you! This is my favorite robe! It’ll never be the same now that it’s been tainted by a mortal’s footprint! I, Death himself, curse you to never know the sweet release of death!” said the robed man, looking like a lunatic rather than a my... | *Received 11:34*
>Hey Andy
*Received 11:36*
>Andy! I know you're dying to talk to me! LOL!
"Hey, Great Great Grandpa Andy"
"What is it Little Johnny"
"This Death guy is sending you messages on Twitter"
"Oh what does he want this time?"
*Received 11:37*
>Common Andy, I'll let you die already!
"He's ... | 2018-10-12T09:34:11 | 2018-10-12T09:13:58 | 437 | 96 |
[WP] Every year, the richest person in America is declared the "Winner of Capitalism." They get a badge. Then all of their wealth is donated to charity and they have to start over at $0.
(Cross-post from /r/CrazyIdeas) | Steve sighed.
He and Bill had been partners in this ridiculous venture for years now. It had felt so necessary at the start, but the necessary hassle had quickly lost its novelty value.
'Hassle' was an understatement and a half, he thought with a wry grin. Careful reading of the new legislation had highlighted the ob... | I stared at it. Little pools of light stared back at me like a haphazard collection of stars.
The Badges given to the Winners of Capitalism were impossibly beautiful. They claimed it was just plain silver, but these... these Badges shone and glowed with their own inner light. The nature of their craftsmanship had rem... | 2018-01-11T02:18:40 | 2018-01-11T00:47:06 | 76 | 30 |
[WP] Write a superhero whose superpower only makes sense after you read the story twice. | It was another long trip in the car. Greg had another 4 hours of driving to go, and maybe enough gas to make it all the way there. Feeling an urge, he cracked the window as he leaned forward a little in his seat, positioned his body and arms, and began urinating out the window of the speeding car.
This was a skill G... | I stretched to warm myself up. I was getting old, a little tighter and a little less elastic than the days of my youth. Too many beatings, too many kicks to the head and brawls in darkened alleys. One of these days, I told myself, you’re going to have to give it up. I tried to steer my thoughts away from the negative, ... | 2014-12-07T10:14:02 | 2014-12-07T09:39:16 | 75 | 16 |
[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?” | "What, are you serious?"
"Yeah," I said. "How can I possibly help 137 trillion people? Earth's population is only what, 7 billion?"
"Oh gosh, I didn't realize you were so dumb." The genie flicked his wrist and the number dropped to 100 billion.
"Hey!"
"Don't feel bad. That's still way more people than y... | The genie smile's "You develop the first space-time gate in 2 years allowing humanity to instantly spread throughout the universe. "
I fill up with pride " I always knew I was special and a deal is a deal with my third wish I set you free"
The lamp crumbles and the genie shakes his arms as the shackles fall off.as he... | 2018-08-15T04:55:10 | 2018-08-15T04:08:10 | 5,641 | 15 |
[WP] The Government puts out a notice, and you, a random citizen have been selected. If you survive for another 10 years everyone in the world gets $10,000. However, if someone kills you in the next 9 years and 364 days they alone get $10,000,000. | My name flashed on the screen. Not just my name--my date of birth, my city of birth, and my picture, a photo from a couple of years ago we were forced to submit. The moment I saw it my heart leaped into my throat and my gut felt like someone dropped a ton of rocks in it. Time seemed to stop, and all there was was the t... | When my mail was delivered to my desk that day I was suprised.I told the post office no mail. I thought it must be a joke. My assistant told me “No sir it was in your mailbox.” When I opened the letter and read “You shall be killed. Your killer will receive $10,000,000 If you survive every person on earth will be given... | 2017-05-17T20:01:23 | 2017-05-17T19:55:39 | 397 | 20 |
[WP] A year ago the Dragons returned, the world finally having warmed up enough to keep them from freezing to death, and with them have returned the Fae and all the magic; which is replacing technology quickly. You've quit your mundane job, and today you've set off on your first-ever Quest. | It had been a year since the first dragon returned. Apparently global warming was good for something, because the dragons brought magic and faes and all sorts of mythical things. And global warming brought the end of global warming, thank the gods, as we had conjured up some ridiculous set of spells that did something,... | That's enough, I've had it
I'm over my menial ways
Mundane and repeating
Day after day
These reports and this filing
It's always the same
I want some adventure
A real life role playing game
To quest and to loot
Against tremendous foes
To travel and shoot
Magical bows
*And arrows?*
Yes arrows, tha... | 2017-11-25T08:21:50 | 2017-11-25T03:27:28 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] There is a man who can give the exact amount of cost for any project forseeing all issues that will arise. Gone are the days of estimated budgets as he is never wrong. As a joke you email him asking how much it would be to bake a dozen cookies. He replies... $9,444,012 | $9,444,012. Whatever. I got off the phone with Bob Barker, who had just told me it would take a ludicrous amount of money to bake cookies that afternoon. He had some kind of magic budget predicting power, but this was clearly a joke. I hadn't even planned on baking, but now I had to. Just to see.
First I went to... | The reply came in instantly, i was hesitant at first due to seeing the first comma in the subject but the munchies were getting the best of me and i *needed* these cookies to satisfy my needs. I opened the email and it said:
> Hello Steve,
>
> Thank you for making an inquiry today about the cost of baking y... | 2016-11-30T09:37:03 | 2016-11-30T07:47:44 | 128 | 55 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | Tim wakes up with a scream. He knows something is wrong, but can't figure it out what. His body just wants to go back to sleep. He's never fully understood what the words above people's heads were, but after the first visit to the doctor he's never spoken about it again.
After last night's explosion, he's finally... | They were all the same; burning. Let's just cut to the exposition: I knew how people died, to me a small piece of text would appear above their head. This would always contain their cause of death. No time, no ways to prevent, just their grim fate. Since birth I could always see this. Over time I learned to accept it a... | 2015-03-31T08:43:31 | 2015-03-31T07:44:11 | 36 | 22 |
[WP] Not far from your village is a small grove. Within the grove a monster dwells. It devours the guilty and leaves the innocent. When the worst crimes are committed, the accused are sent to face the creature. You have murdered someone in self-defense. You enter the grove unsure of your fate. | \[PART 1/2\]
"Are you a criminal?" The voice in the grove of quiet barren willows and shifting darkness asked.
I was taken aback by the question. I thought I was to be devoured, consumed. Eaten up like I was nothing more than a snack for this *thing*.
But instead, it asked me a question. A question even I was unsure... | “Killer!” “Send him to the woods!” “It would eat you, murderer”. I only wanted to leave the village, that was all.
I walk away from the people who who were my friends, my family, into the thick line of trees. Yes I have killed and in doing so committed a great sin, I however have no evil in my heart. My assaulter does... | 2021-03-16T12:18:44 | 2021-03-16T10:05:48 | 151 | 64 |
[WP] Through the magic of science, it is now possible to determine a person's approximate lifespan. Society quickly stratifies into a caste system as those with short life expectancies are now denied mortgages, credit cards, etc. One person with several months left to live seeks to change all of it. | This new social and cultural order based on lifespan was at a phase where it still had its enthusiastic supporters - it had only been about eight years since the beginning of it all - but it also still had its opposition. There were those of approximated short lifespans who resented this new way of things, and they wan... | Sometimes, when I think about it, it still doesn't seem real. Last month, January 2016, I was diagnosed with brain cancer. Thinking about it made my hands shake. Just the next day, the government passed a new law. I don't even know how they did it. They allowed discrimination against length of life.
I can't get treatm... | 2014-11-10T09:46:16 | 2014-11-10T07:46:32 | 46 | 20 |
[WP] After a Pyrrhic battle defending their homeworld, the defenders detect another fleet. It's the Humans, and they're sending in the hospital and engineering fleets. | Why they always asked, why do we 'waste' our resources on those who may soon be vanquished. Why do we send our fleets thousands of light years to help without any apparent gain. Why do we risk our troops lives on planets that are infected with foreign plague. Why do we waste ourselves on a lost cause.
Because those... | As the human fleet was peacefully landing, the Kripts were all cheering. Many of them, out of the bunkers, carrying Garrison plants, were gathering in the close proximity of the gigantic human transporting ships. In the most horrifying war of their history, they lost 70% of their fighting adults, and 90% of their surf... | 2021-01-30T16:45:38 | 2021-01-30T15:18:43 | 52 | 23 |
[WP] Humans are the least intelligent species on Earth. The entire animal kingdom plays along out of pity for our idiocy. | "Awwww, what a good pupper you are!!!" Alex cooed to Rosey. "Aren't you the sweetest thing I've ever seen? What a good girl! Who's a good girl?"
When Alex had first picked Rosey from her litter, she had already heard from Mother at how unintelligent humans were. Always praising dogs and cats for doing very little and ... | Kinda of what the Quran says. I remember reading a passage once that God wanted to give consciousness to animals but they all refused. Knowing that consciousness would come with responsibilities such as avoiding sins. Really, they just wanted to do their every day business without worrying about if they will go to heav... | 2017-10-22T02:51:15 | 2017-10-22T02:42:04 | 595 | 10 |
[WP] A group of female and non-binary adventurers go around exploiting poorly worded curses/prophecies/enchantments proclaiming that "no man" shall do this or that thing. | The group was fantastically successful. They ended many a curse, saved many princesses and princes alike. Tales of their deeds spread far and wide as many countries and kingdoms praised their accomplishments.
Drunk off their many successes and heavy praise as saviors of the world, they embarked on their next quest in... |
“Look,” Freya said, turning on the car’s cruise control for the seemingly endless highway, “this would be our biggest project yet. If we’re going to go for this one, we need to be in consensus here.”
Lex crawled into the back seat from the trunk, holding Amy’s chemistry notebook and Kris’ spellbook. “I’m in,” they ... | 2021-03-04T14:07:19 | 2021-03-04T13:33:05 | 1,402 | 96 |
[WP]You’re the god of small luck, you make the bus late, make pennies appear. You receive a prayer from a homeless man, “Please, I want to get on my feet. A stable job, a wife, some kids.” Normally, you’d forward his prayer to the god of success. Now, you decide to take on the case yourself. | Maybe it was that desperate tremble in his voice, the kind men and women got when they believed they had nowhere else to turn to. Maybe it was the noticeable kindness behind his eyes, embarrassed that he even had to be in this downtrodden state. Maybe I was just feeling really, terribly sick of my job, feeling I barely... | (BANG BANG BANG) “Order! Order!”
Unfurling their majestic feathery wings, the council took there seats at the front of the court house.
Angles and Demi’s of the Jury, this is a Celestial Case. An incident took place early this morning, where as the God of Luck has failed to carry out his duty, and report the poor soul ... | 2020-10-02T09:43:08 | 2020-10-02T09:19:13 | 225 | 136 |
[WP] The "violent videogames teach you how to use a gun" thing is true for you. Literally. Everything you learn in videogames, you can do in real life as well. You realize you have that power when you drink an energy drink after a bad injury and you find yourself completely healed. | “What?”
My shock at seeing my wound heal instantly was quickly replaced with a feeling of strength that surged through my body. *It’s just like a video game*. With my newfound power, I decided to test if I could do anything else from games I had played. I walked outside and punched a nearby tree. After a few more hits,... | "Hey Bryan, I, uh, was wondering if you, uh, would like to go to the winter formal with me? Only if you wanted to! I guess."
Elena was just another nobody at Eisenhower High School. Around 5'2, short dark brown hair, with typical dark brown eyes. Elena never stuck out or did anything exciting. She went to class, ate... | 2018-08-14T10:35:26 | 2018-08-14T08:58:51 | 80 | 48 |
[WP] The rebels have taken the throne room, and just as their leader approaches the throne, the defeated king smiles and invokes an ancient law: any dispute over the throne shall be determined by Vox Populi - a simple majority democratic election for every adult in the kingdom. | A massive wooden door lying in pieces on the floor, courtiers huddling fearfully on the side of the room, a band of armed rebels standing before the throne, weapons held aloft at the king who sat upon his throne. The scene had all the typical trappings of the violent end of one reign and the beginning of another, if bu... | A thundering crash of splintering wood and bursting metal hinges. The rebels broke down the throne room’s door. The makeshift barrier of random bits and pieces hadn’t held long, powerless against a simple battering ram, dashing the kingsguard’s last remnants of hope for a last minute miracle to arrive. Anything to thwa... | 2021-02-09T05:31:10 | 2021-02-09T04:46:24 | 35 | 14 |
[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, that didn't work out as i thought" thought Alex, while the lifeless husk of an old man was being pushed away by a magical hand. "Now what? I've heard it all, and nothing worked. The best i came up with was within my loved one's arms, but the last guy who said that got stabbed in the heart by his wife, while she ... | "I would like to die of old age"
I froze, as those words resonated in my head, the realization that his nape would be the last I see of him quickly sinked in.
"*Why...?*" I murmured. Why would he do that? He's not that gullible as to think the Supreme Court of Wizardry would let him get away with that, he's the maste... | 2021-06-24T10:44:08 | 2021-06-24T09:19:00 | 22 | 12 |
[WP]using his last wish to free the genie he was led to a well hidden cave. Upon removing a boulder blocking the entrance the genie said “thank you for using your last wish, here are some more, just promise me you’ll do the same for them”. Left Inside the cave we’re thousands of glistening lamps. | "I wish you were free my friend."
"Thank you!" he snapped his fingers and appeared in front of me as a normal human man. We were suddenly transported to a cave that he easily moved a boulder from the front of it. Inside the cave was a glowing light.
I saw the odd shape at the end of the cave... it appeared to be l... | It was fun; running around in our wild adventure, just the genie and me, getting p to who knows what with the wish always there to bail us out. And really; I liked the guy. Funny, a little eccentric at times but I chalked that up to 1000 years of solitude in a dented lamp.
However; those times were meant to be once... | 2020-09-24T18:04:41 | 2020-09-24T18:00:31 | 805 | 99 |
[WP] Humanity is admitted to the Galactic Republic, however they have to meet one condition: to ban the production and distribution of music. Turns out humanity is the only species in the galaxy to create music, and its emotional affects are so potent it can incapacitate or entrance most species'.
I wanted to keep the... | I stared at the object in disbelief. It had been a long time since I'd anything like this beautiful creation of humanity, shining in the dim light of the bar.
Years ago, when we made contact, everyone was so thrilled by the new discovery. Ditching music seemed a small price to pay for all that they promised. Undoubtab... | Everything was going well without music. It took a while, and there was still a blackmarket, but music was pretty much eradicated form human culture. We still had sounds for advertisements and stuff, but no repeatable or predictable beats, all the notes have nothing to do with each other. This was the norm for 200 year... | 2016-09-18T17:42:41 | 2016-09-18T16:33:01 | 105 | 61 |
[WP] A shapeshifter deals with an existential crisis after realizing it no longer remembers its original shape. | "For heavens sake...." Jane muttered. "What's the point anymore?"
A cool breeze swayed the tall stalks of cattails surrounding Janes outstretched body. Her slender frame lay nearly motionless, soaking in the warm rays of the sun. A bird flew overhead, catching her eye. With as little effort as a cat leaping to a tall ... | They had hit him with a scrambler when he tried to board the station. He didn't know they took "No shapers allowed" so seriously. It had forced him out of the shape he had taken, a human one, and caused him to shape into everything he saw in front of him. It wouldn't have been that bad if there wasn't a projection of a... | 2015-02-18T08:31:02 | 2015-02-18T06:12:13 | 50 | 12 |
[WP] A party of adventurers were paid to track down and kill a monster sighted in the area. A week later they return saying they have found the monsters, before drawing their weapons on those who hired them | The Lord's house was quite quiet at night. He usually dismisses his servants shortly after sundown with only a guard posted at the gate. He worked hard to make not only his estate safe but much of the surrounding village.
Which was why it was a surprise that there was someone *holding a knife to his throat!*
"I don't... | Mayor Douglas sat in his office, waiting for news. He had other things he needed to do, but this was important. The adventurers her hired were seen in town, heading for the town hall. Since they were back, that meant they had succeeded in their mission. This was a highly ranked party known for accomplishing tasks. The... | 2020-04-26T08:45:44 | 2020-04-26T07:15:21 | 27 | 13 |
[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.
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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.
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I've seen them on the third of every month since my
awakening at nine... | For 24 years, I’ve seen out of Kate’s eyes once a month. It happens, and I’m used to it. I’ve used my earnings over the years to vacation, see the most beautiful sights the world has to offer. Today, I fear her. I sat on the edge of the canyon, looking down, when it flashed before my eyes. My old roommate, Kyle, the gu... | 2019-02-13T15:59:22 | 2019-02-13T15:32:40 | 658 | 110 |
[WP] You are a Squib who mastered a vast repertoire of Muggle magic tricks to finagle Hogwarts into sending you a letter. Everything goes smoothly, until it is time for the Sorting Ceremony... | "You know you will never live up to your peers, don't you?"
The young girl trembled in her too-big robes. Memories of her older siblings taunting her came to her mind. Paralyzing her with magic for hours, spraying spiders over her, having a storm cloud follow only her.
And her parents allowing it. Shrugging it off be... | As the hat was placed upon me, a cold dread overcame my entire body. And this time it wasn't a senior prankster from Slytherin. As the hat wiggled around my head, the halls were dead silent. Something was obviously wrong. The hat had never taken this long to make a decision. Dumbledore sat at his chair, mildly amused. ... | 2017-06-25T14:30:03 | 2017-06-25T13:48:53 | 330 | 33 |
[WP] Everyone hates Stan. However, you are the new guy and no one will tell you why they hate Stan. You decide to talk to Stan. Its been 3 months and now you're telling the new guy why everyone hates Stan. | The new girl smiles apologetically, as she knocks on the open door to my office.
"Hey there! It's Frank, right? I asked you how to work the coffee maker on my first day, last week?"
I nod. Now that she mentions it, I remember that. The coffee maker is a real pain sometimes. Fucking Stan.
"I'm Jennifer, by the way. I... | Being an Avenger (no, not that kind) gets boring sometimes. I’ve learned, the best way to have fun at a job where the only fun part is hunting to consume the most unworthy of souls on Earth, is to talk shit. I got good at that recently. But mainly because my other demonic friends in my department taught me.
Like, I d... | 2019-03-13T22:42:04 | 2019-03-13T21:19:21 | 31 | 16 |
[WP] You never miss a pill ever since you were a kid and diagnosed with a deadly illness. One night while out, you’re kidnapped by human traffickers. You plea to be let go because you’ll die without your pills. Turns out, the pills were keeping your telekinesis at bay. It’s starting to come back. | This actually reminds me a lot of the show The Umbrella Academy
nonthing the less
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"Please let me get mt pills. I'll die without them""If we let you go, you'll run away. Do you think we're stupid?"
"Pl-"
**THWACK!** Followed by a loud thump to the floor. You were unconscious and being transported to a ... | "-nna die, please!" The laughing ceased and was replaced by a momentary sound of a water balloon hitting the entire room followed by the splash of warm water over my body. The room was silent.
Hello?"
The blind fold was pitch black and let nothing in, the ropes around my wrists chaffed but already they felt loser, I ... | 2019-11-13T21:57:51 | 2019-11-13T21:44:49 | 42 | 21 |
[WP] As you walk along the Thames pondering what Brexit will mean for you and your family, a soaking wet woman walks up a set of stairs from the river, hands you a package and tells you “Sort it out, please!” before vanishing around a corner. You open the package to find Excalibur. | "Here, sort it out, will you?" The strange woman just about lobbed the sword at me and started to vanish back into the Thames. Before I could do more than stammer a few half-formed words, she was gone.
I stared at the sword in my hands, barely able to hold the heavy hunk of medal upright. My eyes traveled down the len... | *Slap*. The damp package was dropped into my arms.
"Here you go. Now sort the damn thing out." The woman turned and strode off into the Thames once more, leaving me nonplussed. I slowly unwrapped the parcel, to reveal...a sword, bearing an ancient weight of responsibility. Damn.
I phoned my Grandmother; she'd kn... | 2016-06-27T11:27:09 | 2016-06-27T10:27:12 | 420 | 157 |
[WP]: every human being is born with a birthmark signifying a great deed they are fated do in their lives. Your first child has just been born, with the mark of a murderer across her face | I looked my son in the eye and told him firmly, as I had this day for the last 12 years, “It is not your fault, you didn’t kill her. Anyone who says differently doesn’t understand what happened, now blow out your candles, we’ll visit the grave after cake and presents.” | I rush to the hospital, excited beyond belief. A child! MY child! A little one to hold, to teach, to love! Words can not contain my boundless joy! I broke a few speed laws on the way, but who cares! I'm a father! I enter the hospital, rushing straight to the room number the clerk told me. Bursting in, I see my ... | 2014-05-11T02:02:48 | 2014-05-10T23:42:39 | 81 | 48 |
[WP] The toaster is possessed by an evil demon who is getting increasingly angry at the limitations of just being a toaster. | **"I WILL BURN YOU ALL"**
"Sure thing man"
**"ALL YOU KNOW WILL CRUMBLE ON MY RETURN"**
"I know you got dreams man"
**"I SHALL SHAKES THE GATES OF PARADISE AND BURN IT ALL TO ASH. THE SKIES WILL CRACK IN TWO ON MY RETURN AND MY FURIOUS RAPTURE"**
"Dude, why do you keep that demonic toaster thing about?"
"Cheap he... | *Insidious seethings within, bestial malefactions, caprine claws wrap tender flesh in vivid dreams that dance with shadow and fire.* **Pop**
"Barb, the toaster lever won't stay down," Jerry whined in his early morning way.
"Set it to *dark*," Barb advised without really caring.
"I already did...," jamming the lever... | 2016-01-11T10:13:40 | 2016-01-11T09:00:22 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] When you die, a field of text appears in limbo, revealing the high scores of life, and your score. Your score is the top score. | As the darkness slowly dissipating the words 'Congratulations You Got The Highest Score' appear before me once again. The hell. But I did everything wrong, no matter what I do. If I'm successful, get a good career, a wife and kid I win. If I murder an entire village I win. If I do nothing I win. Even after I killed mys... | 'Pretty decent.' I thought to myself as I gazed upon the floating characters in front of me. 'How many times I laughed, how many I cried, the longest piss I've ever taken. All just average things.
Except for the list which showed the times people listened to a certain song. fuck yeah did I make it to the 1st place. Ai... | 2016-06-08T13:07:36 | 2016-06-08T12:39:54 | 151 | 55 |
[WP] It is the year 2XXX. Medical science has advanced so far that complete body restoration is possible. However, patients revived from death consistently end up in a vegetative state and no one knows why. You are the first person to revive and retain their cognition. Now you know. | The first thing on her mind as her consciousness pooled back in to her fleshy brain was eating. Consumption. Satiation.
“Test number...uh, what is it.” Pages flipped over on a clipboard as the man squinted. “Three hundred and ninety four. Vitals are...fine. All normal.” He scribbled something down on the board.
“Doc.... | The cool logical void I was in where everything made sense was violently disrupted by warm fuzzy static. Nothing made sense anymore, every thought ^sliced ^^apart in^to p^ie ^^c ^es. One moment I was hurtling at high subluminal speeds towards Uranus -- the next -- I -- . The world returned to the cool logical void agai... | 2020-10-30T02:54:40 | 2020-10-30T02:29:54 | 87 | 10 |
[WP] A world in which everyone develops superpowers. Most get variants of the most common types; Speed, Strength, Hearing, etc. You, however, have just discovered your own. You can punch people through the Internet. | The advent of testing for genetic markers of "meta-human" abilities in the 22nd century really helped stratify the post-evolution society. When meta-human abilities were first discovered, it was often by pure chance, and it was really difficult and required days of extensive behavior tests to verify an aptitude. In the... | "Really??" I typed back! Idiot! Who the hell did these friggin keyboard warriors think they are? "Bet if you were here, I'd take you out, punk." Damn my luck (and my temper) for not being at my apartment where my punching bag was. And then getting in a fight on McDonalds Wifi? "If only I could punch this fool through h... | 2017-03-15T11:49:31 | 2017-03-15T09:56:27 | 388 | 62 |
[WP] Every year, your nation supposedly sacrifices a human offering to the Elder Gods. This year, you've been chosen, but when you enter the sacrificial chamber you just see all the previous sacrifices chilling with the Elder Gods. | I still remember my name, drawn from the national lottery, written in blood red ink, held up to the sun as the crowd cheered. In relief? I would suspect so. But I was ready to die.
For days I feasted in the stone palace lined with gold, fed the best of the best from across the vast nation's reach. Fragrant rice from t... | The pale moon was just creeping above the snow-capped peaks. Liana felt insignificant beneath its unblinking gaze. Liana wasn't afraid, though. Fear was for the weak, and the weak weren't sent to the gods.
She had been brought up to a platform taller than a man, and nearly the whole village had gathered for this day. ... | 2019-09-18T23:36:56 | 2019-09-18T21:52:03 | 49 | 20 |
[WP] A photographer and a sniper meet in a bar. Neither is aware of the other's occupation. They talk about "how to take the perfect shot". | "I use a tripod a lot."
"Bipod works, too."
"Huh, never thought of that. Steady is important. Don't want to ruin a good shot."
"Yeah, that's the worst. When your subject moves unexpectedly just before you take it."
"Wildlife?"
"Sometimes, but mostly people."
"Yeah, me too."
"There... | She'd told me she'd shot a few people.
I'd laughed.
I shouldn't have laughed. But... but there's 14 trillion photos due to be taken this year, on average little Jimmy, little average Jimmy, will take 3 and a half thousand shots this year... on his own.
Everyone thinks they're a fucking photographer and it's killi... | 2017-08-31T09:25:49 | 2017-08-31T08:12:15 | 2,248 | 962 |
[WP] "I'm sorry, but the thing you were looking for is sold out." | "I'm sorry, sir, but this property has already been bought"
"What? That can't be right. I saw this property was for sale two days ago!"
"No sir, that would be the one down the street. They do look very similar."
"Bullshit. I drove past this house before and it clearly stated "FOR SALE: $180"
"It was a first-come-fi... | I knew the clerk was lying. I knew- if you go to Safeway and ask for black candles at 3 a.m. they're going to tell you they sold out. It's not like I was doing dark magic or anything, I just needed to summon a Raven. He was a friend of mine, and a perfectly nice bird. For crying its loud this wasn't even magic proper!... | 2014-01-27T06:29:28 | 2014-01-27T06:00:22 | 37 | 16 |
[WP] A blind-man on his death bed asks you describe color to him.
This should be fun :) | "Any regrets?" I asked.
"Yeah. Wish I could have see what you've seen." Issac laughed, his blind eyes staring off into oblivion. "I dearly wish I could have seen color. My world was always so dark and featureless."
"Any color in particular?" I asked.
"Blue. I've always heard people talk about the color blue. They se... | "Yellow," he says.
Turning away from the window, I furrow my brows. "Uncle?" I haven't spoken in so many hours, the word comes cracked out of my dry throat. The tiny, frail little man in the bed raised me after mom and dad died. Raised me, in spite of, you know. Being blind. I don't know, maybe we raised each ot... | 2013-12-29T07:25:46 | 2013-12-29T06:55:18 | 37 | 10 |
[WP] At long last, Einstein has been successfully cloned. Only, he is now a hard-partying frat who doesn’t care about science and only wants to have an A-good time, exploiting his genius for cool party tricks. Many envoys were sent to try and convince him, but he didn’t budge. It’s your turn. | "He advanced our understanding of theoretical physics. He is studied, celebrated and beloved to this day. He changed the world! Surely, if you applied to yourself to any scientific field, you could make an equal amount of progress for science and humanity, if not more."
"...And what else did he do?"
"I'm sorry, what-... | They thought I was a failure, and technically they where correct. But what they didn’t know is that I was smarter than my forefather.
I’m 20 years old, although technically I’m only 17 because of the growth therapy when I was a baby. I go by Al, Big Al, Steiner, and, usually sarcastically, Einstein. I am a clone of Al... | 2020-05-19T01:31:57 | 2020-05-18T22:21:12 | 292 | 72 |
[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? | (Sorry for any grammar errors in advance. Edited for spelling. I’m not the best at this)
"*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 ... | 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 ... | 2018-03-07T09:56:50 | 2018-03-07T07:11:15 | 27 | 17 |
[WP] Hundreds of thousands of years ago, humanity, a feared spacefaring race was finally pushed back by a galactic coalition. Forced to settle on the death world Earth with no technology in hopes that they would die off. Now, after evolving among the local wildlife, humans take to the stars again. | 1.8 Million years ago, there was a terrible species known as the Humans, originating from an arm of the Galaxy previously thought to be sparsely populated.
They were ruthless and unstoppable in their conquest. Entire systems fell.
The merchant and gentler races fell first. Easy targets for resources and expansion, su... | Magister Karasu grumbled, flipping the pages of the Imperial Decree sent by the Kondeyku Empire denouncing the supposedly illegal mining done by the Gargaxton Commonality. If a human were to look upon him, he would appear as a short, stocky lizard with a predatory look, three legs and a pair of tentacle-like appendages... | 2018-07-19T07:59:57 | 2018-07-19T06:14:45 | 41 | 27 |
[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. | You ever get lost in thought? So much so that you lose all track of time? Well I do, thinking about my life and what I regret. Wondering if that girl at the coffee shop likes me or am I delusional. The bills that are due and what I would like for dinner.
I get so wrapped up in it I can forget to even move. Like I'm s... | I hold her hand.
She smiles at me.
Despite having lost her sense of touch, she can somehow still smile, for me.
"I love you" she whispers
"I know" I reply.
"I'm going to beat this" she insists
"I know" I reply
Her eyes slowly close.
I put down the knife. | 2017-05-31T02:05:57 | 2017-05-31T01:46:56 | 646 | 109 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | The ball spins through the air as the Quarterback falls to a well-executed blitz behind it.
The entire bar holds their collective breath as a 50-yard Hail Mary hangs in the air for almost forever before perfectly landing in the arms of a receiver running along the 30-yard line.
Screams and cheers erupt from the norma... | People never really saw me for who I am, they saw a facade. I put on a calm, brave face, but in reality I was a raging inferno of hatred just waiting to unleash my fury. It had been this way my whole life, there were times when I really thought I was going to kill someone because of how angry they were making me.
Then... | 2019-09-08T08:45:34 | 2019-09-08T05:15:24 | 191 | 120 |
[WP] One night, something grabs your hand as it hangs off the edge of the bed. You give it a firm handshake. "You're hired," it whispers. | What the fuck was that?
I was having a dream. where I was sitting in a job interview. But for some reason, I forgot to wear pants and I was wearing this thong. The interview made a joke about how I was trying a little too hard to get the job but other than that, me wearing a thong to an interview was no problem. We... | I’d been unemployed for five months, so don’t judge me for taking what I could get. Sure, the late hours and creepy house visits are off-putting, but a job’s a job.
It all starts like this, being on a job hunt usually leads you to follow a daily routine of LinkedIn, Indeed, Monster, CareerBuilder, and then, of cours... | 2017-04-28T23:00:04 | 2017-04-28T22:28:44 | 1,102 | 189 |
[WP] The aliens who captured you have determined that the fate of mankind will depend on the outcome of a competition that will pit you against one of their champions. They sit you in front of a board and explain the rules of their traditional game. You're shocked to recognize the rules: it's chess! | "-so those are the rules. The game takes place on an 8x8 board and the pieces are initially arranged in the position you see on screen now. As this is a traditional game, both teams will be awarded 90 of your minutes to play the first 40 moves, and 30 additional minutes to complete the game. Each side also will receive... | The alien (who looked nothing like any of the alien species depicted in the media that I saw) was rather surprised at how unenthusiastic I was when he announced it.
"You don't seem to care that we can destroy your planet?"
"Look, pinning its fate on me is a horrible idea as is, but if you pay close attention to the... | 2022-11-12T22:56:11 | 2022-11-12T19:26:59 | 255 | 185 |
[WP] There's a knock on your door. You open it to see your favorite book character standing there. They say, "I know this may be a lot for you to take in right now, but you have to listen very carefully; You are my favorite book character, I know how your story ends, and I need to change it."
My first time posting her... | A knock on the door, soft, yet urgent. I glance through the window, and can scarcely believe my eyes; I open the door.
Her standing there, with her long white hair, boggles my mind. She can't be, this must be someone playing a trick on me, yes?
Sensing my confusion, she speaks, "I know how what you're thinking, thi... | Looking into the eyes of the seemingly ordinary boy, i chuckled, it sounded crazy and it looks crazy to attempt to comprehend how any of it could happen or work yet it is happening, insanity may play it's part here but i shall entertain the thought of this being a reality, i look at his worried expression and ask "what... | 2019-05-19T21:49:32 | 2019-05-19T18:32:26 | 300 | 42 |
[WP] As a dad, you obviously have a mug that claims you're the "#1 World's Best Dad". One day, you find on the news that all "Best Dad Mugs" now have actual ratings, the media is crazy about it, a photo shows a mug with #5,826,827 World's Best Dad on it, curious, you check yours. It still says #1. | My son Max and I were watching Paw Patrol (his favorite show) and eating bacon (our favorite food) when a "special news announcement" came up on the screen. I couldn't believe it, people were being ranked and rated based on their best dad mugs... It wasn't long after that I got struck with a memory...
My dad was sick ... | A wave of regret washes over me as I think back to the day I stole the mug from a co-worker. It makes me think back to all the times I have failed as a father. I decide right then and there to make things right. I grab my son and apologize for making many mistakes. He just looks at me blankly and tells me it's ok and g... | 2019-10-02T22:09:48 | 2019-10-02T16:01:46 | 765 | 251 |
[WP] You work for a future non-profit organization. Your job is to travel through time, visit people on their deathbed, and tell them about the incredible impact they have on the future.
This is only my second writing prompt. I'm glad people seem to like it! | "... and your charity work in the developing world leads to the United African Nations being founded in twenty years."
*That doesn't sound right*.
"You son, Jacob, goes on to..."
"Wait, wait. I don't have a son. And I've never done charity work in Africa either."
The strangely dressed woman stopped and consul... | "I never get the fun ones Mr.Shankly." I declared after the files were passed out.
"Nonsense. You said you like being creative, what better than to make up how they changed the world? And that second one is the great-great grandmother to the president. Don't say I never gave you anything." Mr.Shankly dressed like a ma... | 2015-06-02T11:08:57 | 2015-06-02T09:13:56 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] Suddenly, you hear alarms go off in the bank as a group of masked men start shouting at everyone to get on the ground. You grip your backpack filled with money tighter and hope they don't learn you already robbed this place blind with no one noticing. | **Listen up! I'm the head robber and I'm in charge here. Probably a mistake to use my voice because now you know what I sound like. (cockney accent) Or do you? (German accent) You vill never learn zee truth! (normal voice) And so on. You! You there, with the backpack and wearing a ski mask.**
Me?
**What's your name k... | Brandon Filch clutched his backpack to his chest. Only a little farther and he would be free. It had worked. His plan had worked. Months spent pouring over every single detail. Countless hours of research and preparation. And he had done it, well, not quite. All he had to do now was walk out of the bank.
Act natural... | 2017-06-28T19:09:08 | 2017-06-28T15:37:28 | 254 | 32 |
[WP] You live in a world where your soulmate is unable to hurt you, intentionally or otherwise. You are fighting in a war, when one of the enemy's knives harmlessly glances off you. | The Asulan war machine, the well-oiled beast which formed the empire’s backbone for its dominion across the vast lands it occupied, was premised on an intricate system of checks and balances. This was the secret to its formidable might. This allowed every individual Regiment to retain a generous degree of discretion, s... | I was used to killing.
You have to be really, it's kill or be killed
you have to get those fucks first or it's game over
I was already covered with blood. Figuratively and literally.
My uniform was soaked from top to bottom, the brown fabric stained in mud, blood and vomit, the rain was definitely doing nothing to... | 2017-04-22T04:06:02 | 2017-04-22T02:24:17 | 482 | 58 |
[WP] a popular children's TV show that generally follows a basic template suddenly has a horrific and disastrous turn in the plot
I.e. Doc mcstuffins can't fix one her her beheaded toys...and go | Fred dug his fingers into the scalp of the gorilla costume.
"And now to find out who was really scaring everyone away from the jungle resort," said Fred.
"I bet it was old man Clemmings," said Daphne.
"I-I-I hope it's not a real gorilla," said Shaggy.
"Oh Shaggy, don't be silly," said Velma.
Fred tugged at the fin... | "That was fun," said Mary, giggling. She and Caleb were still catching their breath from the Wacky Wormhole game. "Now it's time for questions from viewers like you."
Caleb fished through a large sack and pulled out an envelope. "This one's from Hiram, in Fairbanks," he said. "Dear Caleb and Mary, how do I get a job a... | 2015-05-17T09:59:02 | 2015-05-17T08:35:42 | 43 | 23 |
[WP] “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
A Quote from the Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss | My name is Nathanael Osmond Durant, son of Mary and Michael Durant, nostromo of the Buonaventura II, and this is my dying confession. I write it now, while the air congealing into great snowflakes has not yet turned my fingers blue, or my eyes glassy, while the last tide still beats at the foot of this rocky, cavernous... | As I walk through the fields of ash and fire I shudder, did I actually do this?
All of this? Death... because they took everything from me?
I shudder and fall to my knees, sobs wracking my frame.
It's not right, what I did.
A scream tears me out of my thoughts, a person! I have to help them.
I rush towards the sound... | 2017-04-14T04:29:54 | 2017-04-14T00:03:12 | 25 | 18 |
[WP] The technician takes off your Virtual Reality helmet. The entire life you've experienced has been a virtual reality simulation of your ancestor. The technician looks at you and asks, "did you find out what you were looking for?" | "Did you find what you were looking for?"
I look at the tech. His name is Bob. I remember, in a vague sort of way (like you'd remember the name of the chick you went home with the night before after too much whiskey), I thought his name was outdated and silly before the VR helmet... I was so wrong. Bob. It's a good, ... | "Sir, it's time, you're going to have to say goodbye now." Ralph hated that nurse, she was so young, ful of life, and way too impatiant on pulling the plug on his wife. It's always the night nurses who are the most detatched from basic human emotions
"Please, just five more minutes, don't do it yet." He could barel... | 2016-10-29T03:01:03 | 2016-10-29T02:36:19 | 25 | 18 |
[WP] Love is blind, but for you it's quite literal and you lose your sight every time you fall in love. | The first time was utterly terrifying, believe me.
Imagine walking into the classroom for your first day of sixth grade. You're natural upset about the end of summer vacation, but you're excited to be back with all of your friends. And then the new girl, Ashley, enters the room. Her family moved here from out of stat... | With a jerk, I went sprawling all over the campus green. Shit, not again.
"Jesus, are you okay? What are you, blind or something?" The velvety voice appeared out of the darkness. God, it was so warm.
I reached up a hand, looking down. Either he was already holding out a hand, and I would grope for it, or he'd see my ... | 2016-02-16T07:21:13 | 2016-02-16T06:58:01 | 79 | 34 |
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