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[WP] The government spends all their time focused on exploring space, completely ignoring the enormous void that is the ocean and you're one of the few people who knows why. | "How long have we known about this?" I whispered, in awe.
"Since the 1940s." Commander Hays said, curtly. "A US submarine discovered and entered the hidden pressure lock off the coast of California in '43, I believe it was. More locks have been discovered since then -- including the one we used to get here, of course... | Twenty men and women all in long white coats, tablets under their arms and half of them spectacled, all argue around a screen with several calculations on how to escape earth’s gravitational pull; Angus Bermuth, the last man in the room, steps forward and instead tells them why.
“The last days are coming, children. P... | 2018-06-26T00:47:05 | 2018-06-25T21:46:35 | 29 | 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 Mom,
It’s been a few months since we’ve last talked. I miss you.
I’m still not quite sure why you decided to cut me out of your life. I’d always thought family wasn’t just blood relations, but those who matter to us. You’ve shown me otherwise.
I just can’t believe you threw me out like that. I watched as you sp... | Name changes, for privacy reasons, but here goes.
My dear Maria,
I recall in vivid detail the conversations we once shared, about where our lives were headed, our hopes and fears, our dreams and nightmares. I never told you outright how much I love you, and that is the only thing in life I truly regret. I tried telli... | 2017-11-05T21:31:44 | 2017-11-05T21:31:39 | 81 | 19 |
[WP] The King is a shapeshifter. Every day, they walk among their people in various forms. Everyone in the kingdom is super nice to strangers for fear of accidentally disrespecting their ruler. | It was the perfect society.
No crime. No trickery. No corruption.
King Louie would gleefully repeat these things to himself as he hobbled the cobbled street. His walking stick was half a step ahead of him, prodding the ground with indistinct *tap tap tappings.* It was a wonderful day and his tunic, although filthy... | (WP) An Urgent Question
Everyone knew that The King is the last of his kind, a shapeshifter with unimaginable power.
Our monarch was not one to let injustice stand; that was why he walked among the people daily, always in disguise. It was an elegant method; crime was at an all-time low, and everyone, no matter their ... | 2019-11-13T13:36:01 | 2019-11-13T10:10:47 | 95 | 65 |
[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..
= | Overlooking New York City, Donald Trump reclined in the marbled office on the highest floor of the The Trump Tower. The silence of the office was interrupted by the ring of a telephone. Donald picked up the gold plated reciever and put it to his ear.
"Hello?"
"Hey Donald, I wanted to go over the poll numbers with yo... | CUT TO TRUMP. BY NOW HE IS HALFWAY ACROSS THE ROOM.
HIS WHOLE BEING TINGLING WITH ALERTNESS. HE MOVES TO
BLOOM'S DESK AND HOVERS OVER HIM, WAITING EXPECTANTLY FOR
MORE INFORMATION. BUT BLOOM IS LOST IN HIS WORK, UNAWARE
THAT TRUMP IS HANGING ON HIS EVERY WORD.
TRUMP
Yes???
BLOOM LOOKS UP. HE IS STARTLED TO SE... | 2015-12-25T02:33:55 | 2015-12-25T01:33:12 | 818 | 92 |
[WP] Elves are intelligent, subtle, and ambitious—a perfect fit for the world of high finance where they work in skyscrapers, make gobs of gold, and regard the blue collar dwarves with contempt. Grorric Blackfury is an oddity, and is feared for it. He’s the Dwarf of Wall Street. | "Dae fundamentas are *strong*". Grorric Blackfury stared ahead with great intensity, his beard obscuring any sort of facial movements, gnarled hands twirling a gnomic spinner. Through his one eye, he belied a transcendent fury.
"Mr Blackfury we appreciate your concerns about Alabaster Inc, however on papyrus the unde... | The formation of the Republic of American Peoples was inevitable. The Redwood elves had basic rights that were similar to the Colonial humans and Southern dwarves. Friend groups and families were already mixed at the borders. Businesses had been trading with one another for a century already. But there were old familie... | 2021-02-25T14:53:02 | 2021-02-25T11:39:21 | 26 | 17 |
[WP] Time machines are invented in 2168. Immediately, a law is put into place banning anyone from traveling to any time before the machine's invention. You are part of a special ops team, sent backwards in time to find and capture someone who illegally traveled back to 2017 for unknown reasons.
Extra points for time p... | As he turned the car into the driveway of the apartment building, he was telling her about how it was built in the sixties—“The *nineteen*-sixties,” he interjected, though she hadn't said anything. It was tall and long, with inboard balconies, everything in peeling white paint. Behind it, there was pool behind chain-li... | "Charge your rifles, check your gear, and make for damn sure your memory joggers are on dazzle mode." Gunnery Sergeant Harken bellowed instructions, reminders, and threats to the two squads of Time Rangers assembled for a first-ever mission to the past.
"Christopher Toynbee. Remember that name. Our records show tha... | 2017-03-07T19:41:51 | 2017-03-07T18:17:23 | 52 | 22 |
[WP] As the vampire drew closer, the woman sobbed, please, don’t drink my blood. The vampire stopped and said, actually that’s a myth, we don’t drink blood. That’s a rumor we started hundreds of years ago to cover for what we really do. | "Well, what do you do?" She asked, as she questioned everything she knew about Vampires. "We actually give blood". This shocked her even more. "Why would you give blood?" The vampire gave a nervous grin. "Our blood actually has natural healing capabilities." He took a step back, and stood straight. "We can also detect ... | Raven sobbed as she tried to get up, a sharp pain from her knee stopping her. "Please," she said, "Don't drink my blood."
Tyler stopped in from of her, "Oh. I didn't think humans still believed that. It's was a myth we created hundreds of years ago to cover up our true nature," he said.
"Wha- what?"
"You see, vampi... | 2022-11-10T18:37:39 | 2022-11-10T18:16:29 | 61 | 20 |
[WP] A couple going through a rough spot in their marriage each unwittingly hire the same PI to investigate the other. The PI decides to try to covertly fix their relationship. | Ping.
'Hi, my name is Julie and I've been married to my husband Paul for twelve years. Thing have been off in my marriage recently and I can't help but feel that my husband hasn't been acting himself. I never thought I'd be the person to do this, but could you investigate his whereabouts this weekend? I'm out of town ... | Saul is exceptionally ordinary. I mean it. Occasional stalking aside, he is very much normal. He is a 35-year-old average looking bachelor, brown eyes, brown hair, shoulder not too broad, slightly built, yet slightly gawky. If you looked extremely closely at his paunchy belly you could almost see his extremely avera... | 2018-08-14T09:46:13 | 2018-08-14T05:22:52 | 485 | 99 |
[WP] You are a young deity that wins 2nd place in a science fair. Your entry was the planet Earth. Write about your utter disbelief at what came 1st. | *Goddammit! Not again! Every fucking time!*
"ZEUS! HEY ZEUS!"
"What's up?"
*Oh so he's going to play dumb?*
"You stole my idea, what the hell man?!"
"I didn't *steal* it, I improved on it. If you have a problem take it up wi-"
*Improved on it?! That arrogant son of a bitch!*
"It was perfect the way it was, assho... | It's a ball of fire.
That's all it is.
Oh it's self sustaining so it can last a hundred million years, so can the billions of other stars people have made!
I made a planet capable of sustaining life! ACTUAL LIFE!
Every other planet that was entered was just an empty rock with a couple of nice ruts here and there. I... | 2014-06-16T11:58:58 | 2014-06-16T10:23:34 | 108 | 61 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | Years ago, when visiting a "haunted" house in the oldest neighborhood in the city, Dave had first felt what he now referred to as "The Pressure". It was a sense of dread, a prickling of the hairs on the back of the neck. Every sense in his body would key up, warning him that Something was coming, and it wasn't friendly... | The bronze dagger scraped against the cement floor with rhythmic scratches, tuned to The Slasher's lopsided gait. A red grin cut across his mask, painted on until it hit the the cracked bottom quarter, where it spilled into a real lip-less smile.
The stage was set. The night, perfect. A full moon dangled in a cloudles... | 2017-05-05T07:22:19 | 2017-05-05T06:07:15 | 31 | 21 |
[WP] you are kidnapped by a cult to be used as sacrifice. As you are are lying tied underneath the altar you hear one of the cultists say “Ho dark lord we present to you this person as an offering”. With nothing left to lose you yell “Ho dark lord I present to you this cultists as an offerings!” | "Is 'e allow'd ta' do tha'?"
The second cultist shrugged in response to the first, both of them watching as their leader argued with the captive bound on the alter.
"You can't go offering us up to the dark lord. Our lives are not yours to give."
"Well, I'd say that's a matter of opinion, innit? You lot are offerin' ... | There's a pause as the cultists freeze in place, having not expected their captured prey to speak.
A deep chuckle echoes from the darkness. "A turn of events indeed." It says, a pair of sickly yellow eyes appearing above the altar. "Why should I allow this offering of cultists to be made? You have never followed me. ... | 2020-05-05T12:10:25 | 2020-05-05T11:32:02 | 296 | 88 |
[WP]You have been caged without a writing utensil for years because what you write comes true. The doctor examining you just left his... | -syringe behind. I stare at it in horror. The urge is too great. The power is at my fingertips.
I snatch it up and stab myself in the arm with it. I gasp and whine as I force it into myself, drawing blood. Blood is spilling everywhere. I have to be quick now. I have to hurry.
I hear a shout from far away. They know, ... | "What a dumb ass," I muttered as I palmed the pen from the mahogany desk of Dr. Phillips. I wouldn't have time to get anything written yet, but if I can just manage to hide this pen for the rest of our 1 hour session and get back to my cell - they refer to it as a room, but you can leave rooms - then I'll be able to fi... | 2017-06-25T08:08:47 | 2017-06-25T06:45:47 | 462 | 65 |
[WP] In this world, physical appearance depends entirely on personality. All babies are born identical. Beauty is achieved gradually through good thoughts and deeds, while the opposite is true for ugliness. | It's the unusual cases that make the news but it's the ones that shock them that stays in people's hearts. Growing up children are told to trust in beauty because it's beautiful people who are good people. Ugly thoughts imprint themselves on peoples' skin. Every wrinkle is a cruel thought and every unattractive feature... | "Reevel, didja puke on yer face again or something?" Bartan sneered. He was perched on a fence playing with a knife.
"Nah," answered back Reevel as he trudged up out of the gloom, "Just stabbed a chap in the alleyway. Fellow said I didn't look too handsome." He grinned, showing all three of his teeth. "Just cause it's... | 2015-10-31T01:17:13 | 2015-10-30T21:07:38 | 142 | 102 |
[WP] "So they are a war species, then. Huh," the alien researcher scratches his head. "Why are you so interested in them? The humans, I mean." The other alien gets closer to him, and says, "They fight for peace. No other species fights for peace." | **"So they are a war species, then. Huh," the alien researcher scratches his head. "Why are you so interested in them? The humans, I mean." The other alien gets closer to him, and says, "They fight for peace. No other species fights for peace."**
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“Fight for peace? But that is a contradiction.”
“In... | _Alien 1:_ Kutlag (Studying humans)
_ALIEN 2:_ HERTEYS (Helping Kutlag in his studies)
_SET:_ Hiding on the dark side of the moon with satellites in orbit with tech that makes them invisible to us humans and our tech. The 2 observers are just another set of observers spread throughout the galaxy with a simple assign... | 2019-05-02T20:59:19 | 2019-05-02T19:30:02 | 45 | 23 |
[WP] Unbeknownst to the living, when people die and their bodies fail, their brain continues to simulate everyday life until it shuts down. As time goes on, things become more unrealistic and the self realization of death becomes apparent. You've just figured it out. | ######[](#dropcap)
I ride the crest of the Probability Wave. The boundary between real and not yet real is blurred.
I know, for instance, that I was married. I *remember* that, not as one in a trillion visions glimpsed in the rolling fog of probability, but as concrete, collapsed fact. I married my wife, and we loved... | Foolish is the word one would say to describe me. Most assume that word can only have negative associations with it, but to me it is a word that is carried by much nicer ones. Words like "Dreamer" or "Determined". Either way, being a 35 year old man with no wife or children, its hard to call yourself a success in life.... | 2018-07-27T00:27:19 | 2018-07-26T22:16:07 | 1,225 | 447 |
[WP] - All people who bear the same name draw from the same well of power, and whenever someone dies, their power is equally distributed among the remaining individuals | Part I
". . . What? That can't be true . . ."
I re-read the article, checked the publisher, and even researched the company that approved this. They were all legitimate. The publisher was a renowned scientist, the company was known for their discoveries that helped humanity push ahead farther than we could've possibl... | The High Council sat at the large, round table placed in the center of the non-descript warehouse space somewhere in the American Midwest. It's leader smiled at the others and opened a large binder, its pages filled with the names and addresses of the organization's members. She scanned the list and after finding the r... | 2022-10-19T08:37:31 | 2022-10-19T07:45:39 | 76 | 11 |
[WP] The fastest ship in the galaxy isn't a military Corvette or a ribbon-winning racing vessel. It's the ambulance that the human paramedic team operates. | EDIT: WHEW thanks for the warm welcome r/WritingPrompts. Don't hold your breath but I suspect you'll be seeing more of me.
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First time posting here and sci-fi is absolutely not my genre, but whatever. Please be nice XD
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"Boss! I got something on the scanners!"
About fuckin' time, ... | Sorry mobile.
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Have seen of ducking fast that thing drives?! At first you just see it intent if you for a fraction of a fraction of a nanosecond, and then it is gone. Some time after you can hear the flying past you, trying to catch up, which it won’t until it stops.
Alright I get it, it is fast, but what I don’t... | 2019-11-10T13:48:28 | 2019-11-10T13:46:55 | 1,282 | 80 |
[WP] One day you kill a fly. The next day a second fly approaches and leaves a photo and a note on the table in front of you. The photo is of a spider and the note reads “$500 for a confirmed kill. Make sure no one finds the body.” | I know exactly when the Great Fruit Fly Infestation began - it was those darn overripe bananas that Anna refused to throw away. And when I had finally decided to toss them, it was already far too late. We've got apple vinegar traps set up all throughout the house, now, but it's not enough. They're multiplying faster th... | when people ask what I do for a living I tell them I'm an exterminator because.. well i am. I take occasional "legitimate" work as a front but most of my business comes from what i can only describe as an insect underground.
It all started with the fly and the spider, I thought nothing of it at first but when i swatt... | 2021-11-05T12:58:00 | 2021-11-05T10:09:03 | 799 | 279 |
[WP] You have a special bag. Whenever you reach into it, you pull out something you will need soon, but don't necessarily know you need yet. However, the things you are pulling out of the bag have been very strange recently. | I felt the bag move on the way to class. I reached in to see what it had gifted me this time, it was only a handkerchief. *Strange* I didn't feel ill and this wasn't the season for hay fever, but I put it in my pocket anyway and continued on my way.
But without fail as soon as I sat down someone behind me sneezed. "B... | I found myself reaching into my special bag yet again. A rubber band? What is this? Normally I would pull out something useful. Like a tuna sandwich when I'm hungry, or a dime when I need to make a phone call. These past two days I have been pulling the weirdest shit one after the other.
So far I haven't used any of ... | 2016-03-10T02:35:27 | 2016-03-10T00:01:40 | 26 | 14 |
[WP] A zombie apocalypse occurs, where people retain characteristics they had while living. You, as the sole survivor, meet a snobby, vegan zombie who turns their nose up at you. | The worst are the crossfitters.
The world ends, the virus spreads, and you'd think all those damn gym junkies would stop working out and hide out in the woods with the rest of the preppers.
Turns out, exercise is pretty important to them, even after they get infected. Nobody paid attention to the signs telling you... | The dying sun bathed the old building in deep crimson. Maya rounded a corner, shouldering her rifle. Her heart was furiously trying to punch its way out of her chest. She had thought the factory was abandoned. From outside, it had looked like a hollow shell – buildings with empty windows, walls that were cracked with f... | 2017-07-15T08:11:08 | 2017-07-15T05:34:44 | 167 | 50 |
[WP] you have discovered that after you do a good deed for someone, an hour later, something bad happens to them (splinter, divorce, death, etc), you finally decide to stop helping anyone for good. This counts as a good deed done to everyone and everything | A monk told me about Karma and causality, once; how good deeds can lead to good effects, and bad ones to bad effects, that kind of thing.
“But what if something gets broken?,” I asked. “Can there ever be, like, a glitch in the system? A... disproportionate response to someone who’s been really, really bad and maybe ti... | Wanna hear a story?
Imagine being that guy who breaks something every time he tries to help someone move apartments.
Now imagine being that guy, but accidentally repeatedly stabbing someone while giving them CPR.
NOW imagine being that guy for literally everyone everywhere.
Mama........I done messed up.
I'm not e... | 2019-12-26T01:53:48 | 2019-12-26T00:14:22 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] You are a wolf who was bitten by a werewolf. Every full moon your hair recedes, your teeth dull, and you are left cold and naked on a hillside. You’ve also met a lovely park ranger named Christine. | The fight was barely a skirmish, the pack I stood up against numbering over a dozen and determined to steal the body of my prey from me, but one of them bit me on the leg. I had no help, no backup, having left my mother’s side and not yet formed a pack of my own. I yelped off into the forest, taking care to not lean on... | “Chrissy you’ve got to help me, I can’t go back to that!”
Chrissy reclined in bed, her eyes heavy lidded and her whole body ready for sleep, if only Spot weren’t having another crisis. She pressed the pillow down over her face and tried to count disemboweled sheep, the kind Spot left behind when he was a wolf. Sometim... | 2021-03-14T14:55:52 | 2021-03-14T13:49:33 | 243 | 129 |
[WP] Your father was a turnip farmer. His father was a turnip farmer. His father was a dragon, so, like... it's diluted, but the blood is there. You can't do much, but you are pretty fun to cuddle on a cold winter's night. Also, knights keep trying to fight you and steal your horde of turnips. | The tavern was quiet outside of the clink of glasses, muted conversation, and the occasional thump of the door to the kitchens being opened. The place smelled like a mix of tobacco smoke, home-brewed ale, and bodily sweat. Fred figured if that was the worst his nose could smell, then it was a good evening.
Fred stood ... | "Turnips, Turnips Turnips." I sighed to myself as I threw another one into the pot. I decided to make a simple dish for lunch today. Turnips marinated in turnip sauce with some shaved turnip as a condiment, I'd even gone as far to treat myself with a slice of Parsnip. I lit the fire under neath with the strategic place... | 2019-01-29T21:58:10 | 2019-01-29T21:11:27 | 85 | 18 |
[WP] Death comes to collect someone and ends up falling in love with them. | A blossom but by early frost be held;
In feeble, withered form it lies askew.
From Hell, foul Frost! How quick this flower felled,
And turned to bitter black from sanguine hue.
The same for her, my tender love, is true:
That pallid color plainly paints her tale.
So plain with ill, her skin grows ever pale.
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He... | There is a woman who follows Death, I promise you. She is much worse than he is. I met them after an admittedly stupid mistake. I was flying down I-35, fucking with my phone. Don't even remember what for. Didn't see the guy change lanes and I ended up rolling 8 times. There in my car, upside down, broken and shattered,... | 2014-01-05T07:41:05 | 2014-01-05T06:51:14 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] Magic can only be performed by twins, and only so long as both of them are alive. You're the third-born of a set of triplets. Your elder siblings are mages, and you aren't. At least, that's what you've told everyone. Truth is, you've got a new kind of magic. | Anthea and Althea were treated like royalty in our small town. Twins were rare, and they were the only pair in our town. Everywhere they go, the townsfolk would offer them gifts to try to earn their fancy.
An can create magic potions and weaponry enhancements. She was even given the title of "Esteemed Mage" and had a... | Ella slowly knocks on the door. She breaths in gradually and then let all the air out, trying to let the nervousness pass. There is no response for a while, but Ella doesn't move. She stays patient. This might be the only thing he has left at this moment.
The door slowly opens and Lila peeks outside. "What do you want... | 2018-02-20T03:59:06 | 2018-02-20T02:10:25 | 57 | 24 |
[WP] A scientist has discovered the vaccine of immortality. The only side effect is, though, infertility. After the whole world got vaccinated, it turns out immortality is a hoax it is just an infertility vaccine.
got lots of comments about not knowing how vaccines work. i basically imagined a syringe with the cure of... | When the "vaccine against dead" was first announced, people were curious, many wondered if humanity finally reached the top scientific goal: to live forever; but as every new medical achievement, it was only available for those who could afford it. The only side effect was infertility, but since rich people would be ta... | Maybe it’s just me but I think what she did was good. Yeah morally it’s completely screwed up. But In all honestly she has a decently valid point. The point is valid but the methods taken were inhuman and were uncalled for. What was done technically is beneficially to the human race.
By doing this she is slowing down... | 2018-09-09T09:27:04 | 2018-09-09T08:46:36 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] Your butler has served you faithfully for twenty years, working hard, offering sage advice and never complaining. One day, you see his bank balance. He's a billionaire. | The house seemed empty. Vacant. Dad must be off on business and mom... Well who knows. Maybe on a trip of her own. Home at the end of term and no one here to greet me. Well, almost no one. Remy - short for Remington - had to be about somewhere. He'd served my family since I was born.
I dropped my books on the table. ... | I sat tentatively across from this man who I’d known my whole life, but couldn’t recognise. For what reason would he keep his fortune a secret? I wanted to believe that my ever-loyal butler had the purest of intentions, but every conclusion that I was drawn to was frighteningly bleak. Has he been stealing from my famil... | 2018-06-03T10:37:58 | 2018-06-03T10:34:05 | 18 | 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 ... | ...PENTAGON 0600 HOURS
"Sir, we're getting reports that the domestic assets are closing in on their designated LZ." The Petty Officer squirmed with nervousness; a bead of sweat dripping down his forehead.
The General muttered something under his breath before addressing the man. "That's what we are calling them now, e... | It was one day after setting sail. The charted Carnival Freedom was 300 nautical miles off the east coast of the United States. With over 5000 nautical miles to go until our heroes reach the shore of the Syrian port town of Latakia, terror began to unfold.
“Boss! We’ve run out of our entire supply of coconut shrimp” p... | 2015-12-07T09:29:24 | 2015-12-07T08:46:53 | 29 | 14 |
[FF] In no more than 10 sentences, have a character/narrator explain how all hope is not lost... | I never thought I'd miss the screams, but this silence is so much worse. I stare at the burning landscape in front of me while I fall to my knees.
*Get up.*
Fuck, him again?
"What's the point?"
*You're not dead yet.*
"Wish I was," I mutter under my breath.
*Neither is she.*
I pause. And I get up.
| He said, "There is somewhere beautiful, somewhere where we all will go when it is our time. It's just your time. A place of bliss. No pain, no fear, no struggle. I believe in it, and you have to to. There is nothing we can do now, here to stop this, but just believe baby, believe for yourself, believe for me. Close you... | 2014-07-20T19:51:14 | 2014-07-20T19:01:30 | 61 | 11 |
[WP] Write a story that literally makes no sense while reading it until the very last sentence. | Elephants are big but this one is unique. Almost the size of the sun but blue. He's flying, without wings obviously.
Ninjas everywhere. This poor man is surrounded by them, he will never make it out alive. Or maybe they are protecting him?
The most simple garden in the world. One huge flower. I wonder if it's harder ... | I know the truth now.
There's only one way to fight it.
So much life wasted.
But we couldn't have known sooner.
Either you got my previous messages or you're dead. I'm sorry.
Hope so much you got them.
I told you the weapons to get.
Needed you to be ready.
Delaying you just long enough.
You can't know until th... | 2022-09-15T12:44:53 | 2015-01-12T13:03:30 | 1,493 | 122 |
[WP] "Stop," commanded your GPS. "It is time you discovered the truth. In 400 Yards, turn left..." | “Recalculating,” Siri said, happily.
“You gotta be kidding me,” I grumbled and pulled into the parking lot for the fourth time this drive.
“Recalculating,” Siri repeated. She always sounded happy, but nothing could match how she quipped when leading me astray in the most important moments of my life: my tinder dates.... | Zach hummed along to *Bat Out of Hell* as he tore down the narrow road in his father’s car, the view of the countryside whizzing past his windows. Life was good. He was going to meet his girlfriend who stayed in the next city over, about two hours away from his hometown, and his father had finally let him borrow the ca... | 2018-01-25T05:46:50 | 2018-01-25T05:42:04 | 186 | 57 |
[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... | ** so I didn't follow the prompt exactly, but I liked my response so much that I wanted to post it anyways. Hopefully you'll like it enough to ignore the fact I didn't follow it to a T! **
I was in the kitchen when it happened. I heard the loud crash of glass a split second before I heard Jason's cries. I felt my hear... | 2016-09-22T23:44:59 | 2016-09-22T22:31:58 | 150 | 91 |
[WP] you get a single alert text from the government reading CIVILIAN DANGER WARNING: DO NOT GO OUTSIDE. LOCK ALL DOORS. COVER ALL WINDOWS. IF YOU HEAR A KNOCK AT ANY ENTRANCE INTO YOUR HOME, DO NOT RESPOND. DO NOT LOOK OUTSIDE... | My thoughts backed up at the announcement, a moment of melancholy curiosity. In retrospect it was probably an idiotic warning to send out, likely to get as many people looking or answering out of curiosity as it was to get them to lock up.
And yet, it was in other ways alarming. The government knew something, suspect... | [ Transcript begins]
I look at the text message not really understanding for a moment what I was reading. It just didn't compute, especially the part where it just cut off at the end.
I looked around me trying to decide what I should do. If I keep going and do what I had originally planned there was a good chance I w... | 2019-10-29T17:14:00 | 2019-10-29T17:11:48 | 57 | 12 |
[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 dad,
I fucking miss you. You died too quickly and I never got to hear your last words. I know though, I know you'd tell me you're proud of me and that you love me. I know this, but goddammit, i wish I could have heard you say it. I'll be the man you always knew I could be. I promise you that, and i will continue... | Dear Azura
You have no idea how much you mean to me. Throughout the years I have known you you have brought me countless joys, you make me smile, you make me laugh, you make me happy. When people bring up perfection you are the first person that comes to mind, even though you don't believe it yourself. Your eyes. Your... | 2015-12-05T15:43:07 | 2015-12-05T13:59:40 | 45 | 16 |
[WP] Squad 17 as reported successful planetfall and has been carrying out their assigned objectives. there is just one issue with this however. Squad 17's drop pod was completely disintegrated by a planetary defense laser 20 miles above the surface of the planet. | "Squad 17 to Command, do you read?", Harvey said into the microphone.
We sat in a cramped, circular 'room' waiting for touchdown. There were four of us and below there were countless amounts of rations and supplies. Pilo, or Exoplanet 3AB was a planet rich in natural resources, minerals and water. It had a breathabl... | Everybody who served in the space forces have some crazy story of theirs, my one is a bit... different though.
It played out during the last year of the war, the aliens were close to surrender and there was only one stronghold of theirs left to break, their homeplanet.
Needless to say, they defended it with everythin... | 2021-05-08T10:50:11 | 2021-05-08T09:40:00 | 43 | 17 |
[WP] All drugs are legal and sobriety is frowned upon, you've been sober for one year today, you walk into your apartment, only to find an intervention waiting for you. | I hated it. I hated everything about the way the world was. It had been 4 years. 4 long years if pressure to conform. Pressure to do what I had been told my whole life was a crime. It was all so sudden. One day my best friend was getting arrested for meth and the next drugs were everywhere. I'm not talking about the wa... | "Get on the ground!" The resident of the apartment was not prepared for the squad of armored orderlies screaming at him, "get on the fucking ground right now!"
104 bolted. A shot rang out from inside the apartment, putting a hole into the opposite wall of the landing.
"Move, move!" Another yelled. There was a clamor... | 2016-01-13T16:07:29 | 2016-01-13T15:06:35 | 17 | 10 |
[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... | "...so... The universe is running on-"
"Windows, yes."
"...So is this like the Matrix or something?"
"What?"
"You know, we're all living in some kind of virtual reality world and now I have to bust everyone out?"
"What, are you high?? No!! Everything around you is real, we just have it hooked up to a computer so it'l... | 2018-10-18T14:32:33 | 2018-10-18T12:12:32 | 37 | 16 |
[WP] A young gay dragon has to explain to his parents why he is only kidnapping princes | From time to time, Volo's father Vultrex flew by his cave. Each time, the young dragon unfurled his spindly wings and hissed at his father disapprovingly. "Give me some heads up," he'd say in their ancient tongue. "I've only asked you a thousand times."
Vultrex was always sticking his nose where it was unwelcome. He w... | The Elveron family; one of the most prestigious lines of
dragon in the world. Their terror has been known for over a millennium, toppling
countless villages and striking fear into the hearts of whoever they cross paths with. Their
work has picked up in recent years. With all the new kingdoms popping up, the
need for p... | 2018-05-03T12:34:33 | 2018-05-03T12:12:55 | 3,203 | 159 |
[WP] Write a really BAD guide for getting a guy/girl. Bonus points if the narrator is mocking you for still being single.
[removed] | Is that you?
On a Saturday night, checking your phone and Facebook feeds over and over, waiting for that special someone to reply? Laughing it off as your friends ask you whether you have a date, when in reality your heart has fragmented into a million shards? Waking from yet another surreal dream where you *almost* h... | guide to fetching a gurl.
pro tip #1
girls love manly men, to be mainly you gota smell mainly. men have feranones in theire sweet girls love them, make shur you smell like fermons. the way you tell you smell good enough is if men dont go near you bc they tink you stink.
pro tip #2
men have hair, but not to much o... | 2017-06-09T23:31:50 | 2017-06-09T21:26:55 | 221 | 72 |
[WP] A prolific serial killer active for many years is concerned about his run of good luck. Never discovered, he has also never seen the slightest mention of his work reported on in any media. With today's victim he gets a clue as to why... | 8484 Agana Street. It was unseasonably warm, late morning, with a slight breeze pushing sunlight through the leaves of dense acacia trees.
Midday is not typically deemed the best time to break into someone's house. If you were to go about such a thing, you probably wouldn't walk up to the front door with a six pound a... | This was to be the big one, my hundredth victim. The thrill I would feel as I squeeze the life out of her throat, as I watch this clone of all my other victims struggle to breathe, as the fight goes out of her body and she slumps, lifeless in my arms. Just the build up made me shiver with excitement, I had butterflies ... | 2015-04-12T06:43:27 | 2015-04-12T02:37:20 | 44 | 14 |
[WP] You are a student with the least amount of magic potential ever recorded at the Academy and it's the day of the familiar summoning test. A misplaced rune or word results in an arch demon/ess becoming bound as your familiar. | “There goes Jack Dawley, Etherium Academy’s resident failure. What are you going to summon? A fuckin amoeba?! Hahahahaha” *Fucking Lance, he’s a son of a famous mage family. He also happens to be the headmaster’s grandson and has made my life a living hell ever since freshman year. Little does he know, I have a plan.*
... | Man, I didn't even want to become a magician. I wanted to be a bard. What did it matter if I was a powerful noble's son? I was the youngest of twelve kids and gods know how many illegitimate bastards. To say dad was a horny bastard would not be an understatement. He even boinked my eldest brother's wife while he w... | 2022-11-12T17:18:23 | 2022-11-12T16:45:58 | 92 | 50 |
[WP] As a kid, you jokingly say, "If I had a nickel for every person I've killed, I'd be rich!" It's is now your 21st birthday, and you receive a mysterious bank key in the mail. The vault it opens contains $550,000... In nickels. | I stood alone in the vault, staring down at the safety deposit box. Inside was a single coin in a plexiglass display case. V CENTS, it said, the V massive and centered and surrounded by a wreath of laurels. I heard the vault door swing open behind me, and then once again swing shut.
"It's a 1913 Liberty Head," said t... | "Do you understand, Matthew?" asked the tall, trim man in the black suit.
"Yes." I replied, mainly out of reverence for the government agent. I didn't *really* understand, or at least not all of it. I'd been told I was 'patient zero', that a regular bug, the kind that makes people sick, had somehow mutated inside my b... | 2016-09-03T08:20:18 | 2016-09-03T08:07:13 | 223 | 137 |
[WP] You are an ancient and incredibly powerful god, and you’re furious that your enemies keep sending teenage “chosen ones” to fight you. | "Will you jussst ssstop for a minute?"
I scowled at the young boy standing in front of me, sword raised and face set in grim determination. His blade glowed with radiant light, his shield hummed with protective power. Blessed artifacts, probably gathered by much hard work and questing. I could feel my scales flaring i... | I picked up my glasses and slid them past my nose. Much better. Time has been my greatest enemy. You would think an all powerful god would never need glasses but here we are. The ancient form of twisted metal throne protested as I leaned closer to the wisp of magic showing me the enormous battlefield of mountain, laby... | 2018-05-19T08:58:24 | 2018-05-19T08:32:20 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] You are a princess that owns a pet dragon. You are getting tired of constantly having to defend your pet against knights attempting to "slay the dragon and rescue the princess". | I was in the midst of cleaning, scrubbing at an extra tough stain on the floor, when I was distracted by some noise at the door. Not swearing - a lady should never take foul words into her mouth - I rose from the floor and the bucket of cold soap water whilst using the back of my hand to push some loose strands of hair... | Sitting quietly in her beautiful court yard Rae sat looking out over her kingdom. She watched the many marvels that happened there. The beauty of nature and woods surrounded her. A crystal water fell rushed to the forest floor not far off from her.
Rae shook her head as she saw the bright gleam of armor speeding her ... | 2019-01-09T10:18:32 | 2019-01-09T07:32:29 | 80 | 14 |
[WP] You've found a strange app that pays you $100 every time you perform a listed task. The various tasks are strange, from moving an empty box from one park bench to another, to calling a specific number only to hang up. But you always get your $100 so you won't stop now. | Meet the Benjamins:
The first few levels are easy, that's where they get you. Deliver a package to some address in the middle of nowhere, some arduous monotonous task computers can't do, stuff like that. Not long after you start, shit starts getting *hard*. I've circumnavigated the globe both ways, had conversations i... | The man huddled by the trash can, scanning the area around him. I watched him as he pretended to empty his pockets into the can, "accidentally" dropping a small black case onto the ground next to it. With a nudge of his foot, he pushed the case under the can and briskly walked off. I waited a few moments before I began... | 2016-10-25T22:52:48 | 2016-10-25T21:07:37 | 651 | 33 |
[WP] You're immortal and have passed the 'hero' phase centuries ago. You enter a small corner shop one day to find it is owned by your millennia-old arch-nemesis. You really, really need milk though. | Time dulls the edges of enmity. A man's hatreds can only last so long. Is it wisdom or weariness that takes out the sting?
I cannot say.
But it's true. Even the man who played my adversary for millennia. Who tortured me and tormented those I loved. Who spread evil and pain through the world like a cancer, corrupting ... | Stornak the Mighty, Saviour of the Five Kingdoms, Uniter of the Tribes, Destroyer of the Blood Temple of Karnull, Lord of Mandon, Bearer of the Power Crystals, plus sundry other titles, was in a hurry. He had a hot date with Jessica from marketing that evening, and he was only half certain he'd end up round hers. If he... | 2021-07-18T15:40:25 | 2021-07-18T14:27:01 | 755 | 210 |
[WP] Narrate any current event in the style of the Avatar the Last Airbender opening. | Facebook.
YouTube.
Twitter.
Reddit.
Long ago, the four websites lived together in harmony.
Then, everything changed when the Tumblrinas attacked.
Only the 4chan, master of all political incorrectness could stop them.
But when the world needed them most, they were busy trolling.
A few bad puns later, we discover... | Vampires.
Warlords.
Demons.
Bees.
Long ago these antagonists existed in separation.
Then, everything changed when the Cage acted.
Only the television, master of all genres could stop him.
But when the world needed it most, Comcast got greedy.
A few years later, we discovered the new television, a website named ... | 2016-03-21T11:25:43 | 2016-03-21T09:15:45 | 43 | 24 |
[WP] you are kidnapped by henchmen because your boyfriend/girlfriend is a super hero, but the villains are your parents who just now recognized you as your BF/GF has arrived to save you and now you have to explain the situation to everyone while the henchmen watch barley stifling their laughter | My mother gulped, moaned (like a ghost not a lover), and bit her nails--all at the same time I promise you. I can count on one hand (and from now on I must) the occasions on which she has pleasantly surprised me.
1 - It was my birthday and she brought me grapes she had stolen from the local supermarket. She didn't kno... | When I woke up tied up with two villains in front of me, I was scared but I wasn’t worried I knew she would come for me. They were talking but their voices sounded familiar, then it hit me like a semi-truck.
“Wait, MOM AND DAD!?”
“TYLER!?”
“Mom, dad you guys are villains? What the heck!”
“Your dating a superhero, ... | 2021-07-18T11:45:08 | 2021-07-18T11:05:47 | 130 | 90 |
[WP] Close the biggest plot hole in your favorite book or movie | "I will go to Mordor, though I do not know the way. Gandalf, could we fly?"
"Yes, Frodo, let's fly. On an eagle. To Mordor. Let's be miles above the ground and the lone object in the sky passing over mountain ranges towards our nemesis who is a giant eye. Even better, let's make sure that we are clinging to a bir... | *The Princess Bride*
**Inigo Montoya:** Do you hear that, Fezzik? That is the sound of ultimate suffering. My heart made that sound when Rugen slaughtered my father. The man in black makes it now.
**Fezzik:** The man in black?
**Inigo Montoya:** His true love is marrying another tonight, so who else has the cause... | 2015-03-26T13:38:58 | 2015-03-26T08:02:10 | 28 | 20 |
[WP] you die and discover reincarnation is real. Although a few things seem wrong. You were reincarnated 2000 years in the past, and you remember everything.
Be specific about how you use this to influence history or not. | I opened my eyes for the first time in what felt like a negative amount of a long time. Is this the afterlife? Everything sure is dark around here, but any light that seeped in above came in weird, wavy rays. No, maybe not heaven. Perhaps I was reincarnated into a different world...?
And then I realized that I didn't ... | I didn’t even really know what Gaul was the last time around. I also didn’t realize so many people died of dysentery. Last time: zero dysentery deaths. This time: everyone I know seems to die of dysentery. Also, fish. Never cared much for fish before. Now I eat mostly fish. I eat a bit of bread too. Fish and bread. The... | 2017-02-23T23:48:51 | 2017-02-23T23:10:55 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] It was a weapon so powerful that not even the most barbaric warmongering civilisation could stomach it. Just by building one, we struck terror in the hearts of many species. We weren't even planning on using it... | "Now, I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."
The words of Oppenheimer prophecied far more than he could even know. The atom bomb was the Pinnacle of human violence, a weapon so effectively efficient in mass destruction that it heralded a whole new era upon the earth. The radioactive decay of particles which shot... | Dear Newcomer,
The sight of the bodies never leaves you, their crumpled forms become all you can see every time you close your eyes. There isn't a moment you don't think of them, the images finding their way into every ordinary thought that you once possessed, worming their way into even the most mundane of your day-t... | 2022-11-01T00:43:49 | 2022-10-31T19:33:10 | 83 | 24 |
[WP] Imagine a world where dating and job hunting are switched. Dating now involves sending emails and resumes, while people seeking employment frequent the hottest clubs. | So much for that.
I’d been in a steady job for the past year. It wasn’t the best job, but it kept me happy enough - we explored the country together, my friends became the office’s friends, and I was starting to imagine spinoffs. Maybe I could co-lead a project.
Solid, right?
Well, turns out, my idea of “going stead... | "Thanks, I'll be in touch. Goodbye!"
The office door slammed on the male suitor's face. It had been her 39th rejection in a row. Reina was commonly known in the workplace as the "Ice Queen". She enjoyed conducting her dating interviews at the office where she worked, and made a spectacular event of each one. She would... | 2015-06-18T19:01:23 | 2015-06-18T14:34:48 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] Recently you’ve noticed an increasing trend in the souls entering hell. They’re not at all tormented by the conditions, most of them seem *happy* with their too-small homes and long five hour days of mindless tasks. You report to Satan that maybe someone should check the conditions on Earth. | **“The Word of the Day is Brand Identity”**
He sighed before peeking his head into the office. There was no need to knock, as per Lucifer’s policy, the door was always open.
“Your magnificence. I apologize for the interruption. I have a concern.”
“Azazel, baby, what can I do you for?”
The Lord of Hell dipped his... | Me: E-excuse me, Your Malevolence?
Satan: *WHAT!?*
M: I have somewhat of a concern about the way the souls we’re taking in are…
S: Are *what?* Speak, little imp; don’t you dare try my patience.
M: S-sorry, Your Cruelness! New souls entering Hell are not scared or worried anymore!
S: Hah, really? That was your... | 2022-12-28T21:07:52 | 2022-12-28T11:49:30 | 117 | 39 |
[WP] The Earth is flat, you, as the head of NASA, have to explain to the incoming President why its a secret. | "David Brux... THE president of THE United States of THE America... wow, there's nice sound to it!"
Middle-aged man put his legs on the nearly ancient desk in the Oval Office. It was already dark on the outside The smiling was over. No more speeches, no more media, no flashed in the eyes, finally some peace. Stretchin... | "Wait what?" President Trump stood up from his chair. "You think I'm stupid? I'm not stupid! I am the president of the United States of America!" I sighed, and repeated what he had said before. "The earth is flat. I am not joking, I am not trying to fool you, this is not a prank. The earth is flat, and we make the pe... | 2016-01-28T10:47:09 | 2016-01-28T09:16:31 | 30 | 16 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | "You made me drop my drink." The girl's shoes were wet, covered in the drink I'd accidentally knocked out of her hands. "What're you gonna do about it?" Her voice was low, menacing, almost a hiss, and that was when I realised who it was and my eyes went wide. An apology wouldn't cut it, not with her. Even if I bought h... | “I’ll show them my true powers” I said looking at my hand, snickering knowing they will finally face my wrath. The horn of the school bus signifying the start of my hell again.
The school bus arrives, the moment I ascend the stairs, I trip on air, falling face first unable to stop my fall with my hands. The routine of... | 2020-02-26T09:25:14 | 2020-02-26T09:00:31 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] A man is determined to make a PB&J sandwich. However, everything seems to be conspiring against him. | As Jim laid the slice of organic white bread carefully on his carefully selected paper towel for the 83rd time, he could feel it happening again. He continued his mission, only this time he went out to the garage and retrieved the knife from his wife's China set.
The peanut butter was spread very slowly in a swirling... | "Janice! Where's the peanut butter?"
"We're all out. Remember? We used the last of it two nights ago to make peanut butter crackers for the kids."
"Oh right." Okay I'll just go to the store and pick some up. Quick check to make sure I don't need anything else. Bread. Check. Jelly. Check. Okay I'll only need the peanu... | 2016-02-21T10:07:32 | 2016-02-21T08:58:15 | 239 | 60 |
[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 happened as Dan was sat on the old chair in the greenhouse, lazily puffing on a cigertte. He sat, neck arched down scrolling mindlessly through social media. The occassional billows of smoke slowly carried on the draft like a balloon gradually disapeering from existance as it floated away. As the rollie burnt contin... | It felt like I had tripped up some stairs. For a second I thought I had, and immediately froze. The plate in my hand still held the Reuben, but the surface beneath.....
My head snapped up, and I noticed the darkness first. Second were the candles, placed carefully around me in hexagons expanding away from me. Low-leve... | 2017-05-12T09:57:53 | 2017-05-12T08:05:41 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] What’s worse than a mad scientist? A well-meaning scientist that has no comprehension what social upheaval their inventions will inflict on society. As the city’s superhero, it inevitably falls on you to explain, every time, to this socially oblivious genius what’s gone wrong and why. | Captain Justice leapt to the top of the water tower in a single bound, landing in a perfectly heroic fashion—fist to the floor, down on one knee, steely smolder in the eyes. He could hear maniac laughter echoing from inside the water chamber. “*Mwahahahaha!*”
Captain Justice could recognize that laugh anywhere. He ... | "This is basic stuff, Greg. Honestly," White Glove said, as he willed the jagged shards from the smoking machine to reform into his white chair. He flared back his jacket and sat, one long leg crossed over the over, wing tip tapping the air.
"No, not this too," Greg Folvier said, holding up a bit of neuro connective ... | 2021-04-21T20:44:06 | 2021-04-21T20:36:20 | 440 | 147 |
[WP] the Dark Lord had killed almost everyone, even the Hero. The final party member stood in the chamber alone. “I have killed everyone, you cannot capture me alone. Why are you still here?”. The final party member laughed maniacally with a devilish grin! “There's No One Here To Stop Me Now!!” | The Master of Shadows, Lord of Darkness and King of Terror gazed out across the ruined landscape. Smoke billowed out from the cracked ground, blotting out the sun.
The Last Survivor checked his watch.
He'd been standing back far enough to withstand the Dark Lord's devastating assault, and as a result he was the only ... | It wasn’t supposed to happen like this. Verundo, the hero was cut down by the Dark Lord, like a puppet with his string cut. His sword, Achilles, lie broken on the floor. He was still breathing, but he knew he wasn’t long to this world.
He slowly raised his head and tried to look for his team. He saw them strewn withi... | 2020-07-11T02:51:40 | 2020-07-11T02:31:48 | 2,838 | 79 |
[WP] Wrongly imprisoned individuals who are later found innocent are given a Crime-Credit equal to the number of years they were unjustly held. This non-transferable credit can be used to engage in any combination of criminal acts to the value of the time owed. | Free. The word had little meaning. So much time in the dark.
Year 0 I was tumbled over hiprocrasy of a judge trying to bury his coked up mistress.
Year 1 was a brutal. Beatings, humiliations and loneliness. Sexual abuse. Sick punishment from men who actually committed sin. Maybe they wanted to feel like they made a dif... | Prisoner 502749 had been in jail for a long time. When they found him in his home, covered in blood and surrounded by his family's bodies, it looked like an open and shut case. Despite being only 12 years old and his claims that he was only covered in his family's blodda because of desperate attempts to revive them, ... | 2015-09-18T06:46:51 | 2015-09-18T05:43:22 | 68 | 36 |
[WP] One of the most unexpected duties of being a priest in a fantasy setting is that if your god is going through an emotional break down, consoling them and helping them get through their troubles is YOUR job. | The time had gotten away from Arden. He fell into a rhythm of life that he was happy with. Giving blessings to the warriors that came through, offering support to those that had fallen on hard times.
His training had included this, but he hadn’t seen any entity since the first year of training. He was told that the go... | Raz was sick and tired of babysitting a god.
The books on his desk slammed against the wall.
“I heard that!” a childlike voice whined in his head.
“Would you stop destroying my belongings and just tell me what’s wrong?” Raz thought.
“I told you already. Gwyndolin’s statue shouldn’t be bigger than mine! I have m... | 2020-10-30T11:18:13 | 2020-10-30T11:08:19 | 30 | 13 |
[WP] In 1907 Vienna Academy of Fine Arts rejects Young Adolf Hitler twice and soon after he survives four different assassination attempts by time travellers. Confused Hitler is convinced that its his art is what the world fears.
Inspiration:
http://i.imgur.com/tGV2LFt.jpg | Adolf's mother pushed his long, black bangs out of his eyes for the picture. "You should show your face, honey, it's so beautiful."
The photographer snapped the picture too soon for Adolf to correct his mother's mussing. "Mo-om!" Adolf complained, pushing his mother away while combing his bangs back the way he liked... | Max shook his head firmly. "Adolf, you cannot do this. *Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Shitty Art Critics* is not only far too wordy, it's flirting with obscene."
"Max," the young man protested, "you of all people know why I chose that title. After my rejection from the Vienna Acade... | 2014-11-16T16:17:51 | 2014-11-16T14:09:03 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] A seemingly bottomless pit was found, for which the depth can't be determined. Over time, scores of people began using it to illegally dump trash. Many have jumped in to die, while others jumped believing that they'll find life's answers within it. Today, we learn the truth about the hole. | "We'll never get there..."
I cursed quietly, honking repeatedly. The road leading to the Hole was cramped as usual.
"Should've asked for a helicopter."
She said, fiddling about with the map.
"Please. I've had enough trouble getting the board to sign the papers."
"I was talking to myself. Meeting Johnny Depp might ... | I weep softly as I watch the news..
"-live coverage of The Pit right now. Only hours earlier earthquakes were detected..."
I gave them Everything
"-traced back to The Pit. Scores of researchers and scientists have submitted queries for comments on our broadcast. We can only air so much so fast, but the ticker below ... | 2018-01-13T09:01:49 | 2018-01-13T07:55:10 | 77 | 22 |
[WP] You're a college history professor. You realize that your textbook has gotten a part of history completely wrong, and you know it's wrong because you're immortal and lived through it. | The last day of class is always my favorite. Earth History 101: four and half billion years distilled into a semester. When we wrap up the course, I like to kick off a discussion about historical What Ifs. What if there was no Moon? What if the Oxygen Catastrophe never happened? What if the development of mammals had b... | SANDWICH! A BLOODY SANDWICH!
The professor roared across the small lecture hall compelling his students to attention after reading the first paragraph of the 678-page textbook titled Chapter 9: The beginning of the World War.
Let me tell you sonny boy, I was there! I remember how it was. It was the hottest summ... | 2022-09-06T01:11:52 | 2022-09-06T01:06:24 | 587 | 15 |
[WP] in your world, everyone has a almost entirely unique symbol on their wrist, soulmates have the same symbol. Your whole life you've been drawing on a symbol with a sharpie to hide the fact you don't have a soulmate. One day, you meet someone without a symbol, just like you.
Thank you everyone for informing me that... | Pool party. I'm an idiot, right? For someone like me, wouldn't a big body of water by the prime place to avoid?
Most of the time, my brain's thinking clearly, and I would have declined the invitation. Hell, I've gotten really good at thinking about all the twists and turns of any sort of social interaction - will t... | I sighed and stuffed another empty into the bag. I had no idea how they managed it, but the guys always made a hell of a mess when they came over to watch the game. It had actually gotten a bit better when Bill met his soulmate and there’d been a woman around. Of course, the rest of the guys had gotten over that in a m... | 2017-08-06T17:01:38 | 2017-08-06T16:04:39 | 594 | 268 |
[WP] Diseases can be induced to separate from their host and take physical form. The host is cured if the disease is killed in its induced form. The graver the disease, the more monstrous the form it takes. A team of doctors decide to try and save a gravely ill child. | The child was brought into the operating room. If you can call them that anymore. They are now almost a macabre scene reminiscent of an old horror movie. The child was obviously in pain, tortured by the monster within.
The Doctor, as we now call them, entered solemnly. He knew the dangers and the risks. He looked... | "We have induction"
The horrible mess of yellow tentacles slithers over the patients body, oozing out the swollen pores on the patients forehead.
"Doctor, please remove the disease."
A man in protective suit, ringed with chain mail, wearing protective rubber gloves, and a combat gas mask stepped forward. Wielding ... | 2015-04-07T09:14:40 | 2015-04-07T07:09:56 | 26 | 11 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | *Are you ready to head out boys?* Jason yells from the living room.
We take out buttons with us, as always, just to be safe. Things used to be much more difficult before The Button was introduced. Since the first night, we haven't failed to go without a payday yet. We're working on our 56th night tonight.
*Alright le... | Whiskey bottle in hand, I staggered over to my laptop set up--the recording equipment top of the line camera, and practically collapse in the chair. So comfortable, I almost fall asleep right there. Almost. I open up LiveYou, and click the record button.
"So, I'm finally doing this live stream I've always talked about... | 2016-07-16T17:51:04 | 2016-07-16T17:34:20 | 3,429 | 47 |
[WP] When they turn 14, every human gets an obscure super power with a lengthy description of it so they know what it is. But when yours arrives, it only says four words. “Don’t… | Flashing in front of his eyes was perhaps the most broken of powers.
In the year 2200 humanity awoke their planetary core, a phenomena which took the dreams and thoughts of its inhabitants to turn into attributable powers. To maintain balance, all powers had certain restriction. Super speed and flight burnt proportio... | Today is the day.
The scan is about to begin.
Anticipation is killing everyone.
And as THe Machine is lighting up, my mind throws out our history lesson on humans with superpowers.
"... 10 year war that engulfed all of the world that would later be known as Wars of Awakening. At the end of this war the new superwea... | 2022-05-08T08:13:31 | 2022-05-08T06:39:22 | 444 | 128 |
[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.* | They pulled him before a podium, a small and rather unimportant butter knife held so tightly in his grip that his knuckles were white as snow.
"BEHOLD, PEOPLE OF BRITANNIA, YOUR NEW KING!"
The voice boomed ahead of him, a man speaking too close to a microphone. Somewhere, a crowd responded with an enthusiasm that sh... | 2018-03-06T11:40:04 | 2018-03-06T10:11:07 | 2,613 | 1,108 |
[WP] You wake up by a dusty road with 1,000 Mexican pesos and a note from your Spanish teacher: "Este es el examen final" | "Éste es el examen final" leía la nota atada a mi pecho. Después de levantarme del suelo y revisar que no tenga ninguna herida grave me puse a investigar donde estaba.
Era mi último año de preparatoria y con un poco de suerte ya no iba a tener que preocuparme de estudiar materias que nunca me iban a ser útiles. Solo n... | I woke to a pounding headache. The money was ominous the note worse. When I got home, I was going to murder that Spanish bastard, even if I kind of deserved it.
In my first, bleary-eyed survey of the landscape, I nearly tripped over a small pack. It contained a towel, a trowel, a hat, a sheet of mostly clear plastic... | 2017-06-29T11:12:03 | 2017-06-29T09:51:13 | 255 | 26 |
[WP] In 1,000 years, fantasy stories will be set in this era. Write a fantasy story set in the 21st century from the viewpoint of someone living 1,000 years from now.
Based on a post on r/showerthoughts | The world was different then. It was a brutal and magical place. Before the unification, before simulink, even before the great colonisation, there was a world of chaos and wonder. There was a world where great wizards still spoke in the language of machines, where the dark lords could pay to have their voice spoken fr... | In the 21st century, things were different.
It was known to many at the time as the beginning of the end. Or so everyone thought.
Humanity, it seemed, had finally run out of luck. We'd seemingly come so far, and bested ourselves time and time again in progress. The world was changing at a drastic rate. We were no lon... | 2018-12-25T04:05:20 | 2018-12-25T03:25:31 | 120 | 14 |
[WP] While driving you hit and kill a boy. You feel terrible, and at the funeral you tell the family you wish you had died instead of him. 3 weeks later, a new surgery comes out that can bring someone back from the dead at the cost of another's life. You hear a knock at your door. It's the family. | "Mr. Quinn, we know you're in there!" Hollered the voice on the other side of the door. There was more pounding.
"Yeah, yeah, I hear you. I'm not doing it."
More pounding. "Mr. Quinn, you killed our daughter, just make it right!" A second voice, a woman's voice yelled.
"No. Fuck off before I call the police!" I ... | To them it had seemed like the lingest of Shots, but to me... well I was trying to work up the courage to go see them again.they were here. They were asking. I was nodding my head.
I had taken a life. I didn't mean to. It was my first day on the road...
I hated myself. And yet I couldn't bring myself to end it. Or g... | 2018-09-16T18:47:29 | 2018-09-16T18:45:07 | 36 | 19 |
[WP] Two prison guards discuss a prisoner who is apparently immortal. He's been in jail with a life sentence for so long that no one knows the reason for his imprisonment. | ######[](#dropcap)
"Look, we can argue about this til the cows come home, man. It'll get us nowhere."
"What, I wasn't arguing. I was having a civil discussion," Greg declared, hand on his chest. "You're the one who-"
"Yeah, yeah, just shut up, would you?" Jordan said. "It's simple, see? If we don't know, then we ask... | Concrete walls create long hallways, the cell's metal bars breaking the gray. Behind one door sits a prisoner who is immortal, and no one can remember his crime. In front of him two guards argue about his imprisonment.
"Well how can we really know that they did wrong if we can't remember what they even did? For all we... | 2015-06-01T21:26:57 | 2015-06-01T17:53:40 | 169 | 14 |
[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’ll never forget that Christmas.
How could I?
The splendid tree draped in tinsel and baubles and winking fairy lights; the colourful gifts spread beneath, still wrapped and tied in silken bows though morning had long since passed.
Father always made us wait until after Christmas lunch to open our presents.
I can s... | I watch my beautiful child running around the park, chasing after the ducks. It’s one of those rare sunny days I try and make the most out of, so I was up early and out of the house as soon as possible. My daughter picks up a rock and stares at it inquisitively, I can see the by the look on her face she wants to place ... | 2017-05-31T07:36:43 | 2017-05-31T07:06:28 | 25 | 17 |
[WP] Send some evil aliens to invade, let them knock the Earthlings around a bit, and swoop in to be the heroes so you can sign an unequal treaty. When your "liberation" force arrives, however, all that remains of Earth is an irradiated wasteland and a sharply refined force, armed to the teeth. | Kozen was delighted. Though the resources he had hoped to collect were gone, he had found something far more valuable. The week and unsuspecting humans had forged themselves into a fighting force that rivaled even the best of his kind. While resources were in high demand, mercenaries were an even more valuable commodit... | The Sentinels have returned swifter than last time. None show any signs of retaliation. The Humans did not immediately perceive us as other intruders like the Dothmay, who appear to have been...exterminated.
The planet shows signs of extensive damage. The Dothmay are compulsively precise, this is unlike them. The dam... | 2020-05-28T04:18:15 | 2020-05-28T02:28:00 | 28 | 19 |
[WP] You are always wrong. On a quantum level, the entire universe is anti-entangled with you. Whatever you believe, the opposite is true. One day, you become convinced that there is no god. | I stood in the middle of my living room, confused. The man before me stood facing me, seemingly equally as confused. He had seemingly appeared out of nowhere. There was no sound, no flashes - one moment I was alone in my living room and suddenly, he was there. A bald man in a long white beard and a white robe.
We stoo... | All considered, I am not human.
I mean, I know the standard flair is that if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, then it must be a duck. Well, incorrect. At least in my case. Or is it? Who knows? Not I.
See, I didn't ask for this, or did I? Sick little lab rat or willing participant? How do I make this as simple... | 2021-05-21T01:43:36 | 2021-05-21T00:09:49 | 26 | 15 |
[WP] You are part of a spacefaring species with a lifespan of only a few weeks. You have a human being on your ship who has been with you for dozens of generations. You worry that he may not survive until you reach your next spaceport. | **Cycle 1**
We have brought aboard our first live Who-man. I greeted the Who-man by politely asking his name.
“Who-man?”
To which he replied:
“Yes.”
Who-man Yes! What a wonderful name! Surely we are to have a wonderful time with our new Who-man friend!
**Cycle 2**
Who-man Yes seems to have fallen ill. I inquired ... | I never had a home like Mr.Smith did.
I was born into darkness, staring in the abyss of space as my mothers eyes closed for the last time. I still had a dad, one that looked after me for as long as he could, and while Mr.Smith may have known what a home was like, he never had a family to look after him.
My dad would t... | 2019-11-20T15:42:27 | 2019-11-20T14:25:52 | 25 | 17 |
[WP] When writing your contract, Satan misspelled his own name, causing you to sell your soul to Santa | It was, in fact, the most interesting screwup Hell ever had to sweep under the rug.
Mr. Stevenson wasn't a bad man, not at heart. He had committed no atrocities. No man lay dead by his hands. In fact, nobody had ever so much as uttered a curse in the same sentence as his name - much to the surprise of Those Who Must ... | "It is done," The man in the suave suit coos in his silk-smooth voice, he waves his hand and the contract disappears in a puff of smoke. "Your love's cancer is gone, Mr. Reeves. She will live a long, happy, life. You though, well... a deal is a deal. Come along."
Mr. Reeves, an accountant who generally did not partake... | 2017-06-15T21:31:59 | 2017-06-15T21:29:16 | 220 | 38 |
[WP] After decades of fighting crime and injustice, a super hero's faith in humanity is broken. As he holds his innocent murdered daughter in his arms, he allows his rage against humanity consume him. A super villain is born. | It was all because of a protest...
The city had been going into the shitter for years. One corrupt mayor gets taken down another more corrupt shit head takes their place. A hundred dirty cops are punished, a thousand more just fill in the holes. It was a city begging for a hero, someone to bring order a justice.
That... | There was no fanfare. There was no purpose. It was not an origin story. It was simply life. It was artless and the way of things.
He would never know who did it. In this city the killers outnumbered the buildings. Dishonesty grew faster than the trash. It was a simple break in. Even heroes have homes. It was not targ... | 2017-01-25T09:40:04 | 2017-01-25T08:07:36 | 104 | 29 |
[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... | "Mom, Dad?" I asked timidly, approaching them with caution. I wanted this to go smoothly, and I guess I half expected them to freak out or start yelling at me.
"I kinda want to ask you a difficult question," I went on.
They both sat up suddenly, looking at me like I was about to tell them I got expelled from school o... | The truth.
No more of your lies.
The truth!
What am I?!? I've always felt different. I thought something was wrong with me! It's time of you to fess up and tell me. What am I???
"You're our son and we love you no matter what. We made you. You are absolutely ours. But, we are scientists first and fore... | 2015-01-06T09:08:32 | 2015-01-06T08:58:04 | 543 | 157 |
[WP] "Perfection is boring" You never thought much about it not until the day you found a genie and wished you were perfect. And now your life has lost taste as you can't progress due to being perfect | Sydney was ten when she found the lamp, ten years old, fifth grade, a rough time for a young girl trying to prepare herself for middle school. Middle school, they said, was when life stopped being about fun and started being about work. Life got serious at middle school. Gone would be the days of games and laughs. In t... | Perfection is boring.
No perfectionist is perfect, they never intend to be. A perfectionist is merely someone who strives for the perfect result, the keyword being ‘strives’. For without the strive what is there?
That’s a question, I pondered as my brush drifted over the canvas. My masterful strokes far more ar... | 2021-02-02T09:02:09 | 2021-02-02T06:18:43 | 997 | 80 |
[WP] Magic suddenly becomes a thing. While governments are scrambling to establish regulations, people defiantly flock to reddit to share new discoveries and crack more “overpowered” spells. Write about a trending post that, for good or ill, is making authorities furious. | Enviousdeath: 13 points - 4 hours ago
Guys three swipes. Trust me ;)
FuckTheGvt 6542 points 3 hours ago
Tried it, they were screaming furious!
Edmon5 2 points - 2.5 hours ago
Username checks out ;)
PartialMadness 336 points - 2 hours ago
So, for those of you late to this thread. We have discovered the combination r... | Right. You have to do it with four right turns exactly the *right* way, otherwise it doesn't work. You've got to do it *right* as you're reading this post. Like, right away. Right now.
"It's a derivation of the Household Dishwater Sequence first developed a week and a half ago," Malcom said, scanning the thousands upo... | 2019-07-11T13:59:56 | 2019-07-11T11:46:51 | 114 | 50 |
[WP] Snuggled up to a loved one and listening to his/her heart beat, you realize it's beating in Morse code. | When Jennifer told her co-workers she was going on maternity leave, one of the flight attendants had joked that now that the best pilot the airline had was off, she was too scared to fly with anyone else.
When Jennifer went into labor two months early, she and her husband Chase were frantic. They had planned on a home... | James knew that no words could change what he had done. The fact that one punch could cause so much destruction. Made him regret throwing that final blow. It wasn't his fault, though, she wouldn't listen.
"I'm going to be a dancer," Cherry said, "one day you'll come and watch me."
James smirked. "Make sure you can h... | 2016-06-25T22:18:11 | 2016-06-25T22:08:43 | 65 | 20 |
[WP] Everyone on earth suddenly has a red, blue, or yellow polka dot on the back of their hand. But that’s all it is, and everyone is making a big deal of it. They’re just polka dots. | It was Ben’s wife that noticed the red mark on the back of his hand first, as he grabbed the kettle off the hob and began to pour its boiling water into their respective mugs.
“What’s that?” she asked suddenly, gesturing slightly.
“What’s what?”
“That red mark right there on your hand. You’ve never had that befor... | It had been one week since Zenxar and his men flew over the Earth, giving all the humans red, yellow, or blue dots on their hands. It wasn’t easy, as they learned that not all humans sleep during the night as they thought, but they managed to get it done. Zenxar wanted to see if humans were as divisive and judgmental a... | 2021-01-20T07:10:02 | 2021-01-20T05:35:58 | 39 | 22 |
[WP]Humans are the first species to achieve interstellar travel. Not because we are smarter or more advanced than aliens, but because we are the only ones stupid and stubborn enough to try. | "But... all of our physics laws tell us that faster than light travel is impossible!"
The vaguely reptillian alien was no longer sticking to formal diplomatic speech. It had taken us weeks to get to this point, through first contact, docking procedures, figuring out each others' atmospheres, teaching each others' lan... | Three more ships were launched into the stratosphere, and three more ships were bashed back down to earth by the giant space squid.
"We need more spaceships" Shouted the president
"But sir, we're running out of metal. And the jetfuel repository is running dry" A NASA man shouted back.
"Damn your cowardice" The pres... | 2017-11-22T18:55:15 | 2017-11-22T15:36:45 | 83 | 18 |
[WP] Music has played a special part in war for centuries, since it literally powers up soldiers that hear it. You are a rebel fighting an invading army, but you have a secret weapon. Your people just created heavy metal. | Men...
It is hard for me to find the right words to say to you. I know you are all afraid...I know fear, I've seen fear. I've seen it in the eyes of braver men who fought before you. I've seen it in the eyes of stronger men who fought before you for our country. I see it in your eyes right now. I know the impending a... | Our rebel forces had been driven underground by the invading army, forcing us to hide out in the sewer and subway network to regroup and think of a way to put a stop to these invaders once and for all. I hadn't been paying much attention to the fight, though it was important to my people that we remained free from tyra... | 2021-01-01T01:06:11 | 2020-12-31T23:45:21 | 30 | 12 |
[WP] "Unfortunately, you do not meet the requirements for this particular heaven however, I can provide you with a list of afterlifes that you may qualify for." | There once was an angel with a very boring job. Around the clock newcomers to Heaven would settle in and enjoy all the splendor Heaven had to offer. And he would watch.
As an employee of Heaven this angel could only stand at his post outside his gate and wait for any curious enough people to find their way over to hi... | I flipped through the book I had been given, that was only in my head. My head, which I guess I technically did not have any more, but at some point there had been a voice telling me to keep thinking in terms of my physical body, if I found that it helped. I'm not sure how long it took me to learn how to turn the pages... | 2020-02-13T15:54:01 | 2020-02-13T13:44:32 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Every Wednesday for the past 5 years you have received an envelope of cash. The envelopes always contain exactly $800 with the same note "You will understand some day" | Long time, first time. Hope you guys like it:
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$800 a week. $41,000 a year. All in all, a little more than $200K.
To some people that's a fortune. To most I know, it’s a nice bonus on top of an already-bloated corporate salary. For me? It was just enough to completely change my life. For better and... | “Excuse me Sir, is this yours?” I asked the man sitting beside me at the bus stop, “It was on the ground here. Did you drop it?”
The man looked at the $100 bill I held out to him and sighed. “Nah, never have big bills like that.”
At first glance he seemed to be a scruffy hygienically-challenged homeless man but like... | 2016-09-06T15:19:53 | 2016-09-06T14:48:45 | 30 | 18 |
[WP] As an atheist, you always believed that there was nothing after death. After your last breath, you discover that you were wrong, but that no one else was right about what's after either.
Mainly, there is something after death, but religions are wrong about it. |
I should be dead. I remember how each breath from my withered mouth drew in less air, how my aching body grew too weak to support itself. I remember those final moments leading up to the sweet release of death.
I know I died. So why am I still alive?
At least, I think I'm alive. I'm certainly not dead.
I think I'... | FADE IN:
EXT. A VERDANT GARDEN - DAY
*A man slowly fades into view amidst countless varieties of flowers and plants. This is DAVE. He glances around at his surroundings for a moment, appearing equal parts confused and suspicious.*
**DAVE:** Hello?
**ANGEL:** (*O.S.*) Greetings, David.
*Dave jumps slightly as ... | 2021-07-01T15:36:52 | 2021-07-01T13:42:41 | 63 | 42 |
[WP] After you grow old and die, you wake up 25 million years ago as a Hominid Primate, asleep on a tree. Your whole life was a vivid hallucination you had after ingesting a funny looking mushroom. After this experience, you have great knowledge, and you're the smartest living being on the planet. | Wait a minute, what, where was I? I was in a place called a ‘gym,’ and I was looking at a very attractive female in very tight and smooth...fur, was it?
That was how I woke up. I remembered everything from the dream I had after I ate the mushroom growing out of the dung left by an elephant. Our more powerful gorilla ... | I wake up very uncomfortable, and look around for my phone. And where did I keep those damn glasses? Instead of a pillow, I feel a rough surface beneath me... I squint and the patterns start to make themselves visible. I realize it’s some sort of... animal fur? So that’s what that smell is. I spring up in revulsion, bu... | 2019-03-19T08:19:56 | 2019-03-19T07:19:04 | 45 | 25 |
[WP] Strength: 99 Endurance: 99 Speed: 99 Charisma: 99 Power: 99 Intelligence: 99 Magic: 99 Luck:....-5 | I am a cursed man.
It didn't matter what cup I chose. The ball would never be underneath.
I've seduced many ladies, and that earned me quite unpleasant surprises. They hid things. It didn't matter if I went for the short, delicate one; or the tall, broad one. One way or the another, something would go terribly wrong... | Said to be smarter than the wise man. Braver than the Centaurians. Stronger than the Oxen out in the fields. Said to lift a gallon each day, cast that gallon into rain and let the fields drink the new bounty strong. His teeth had glistened with pure milk and his stride held true pride, yearning for an adventure at his ... | 2018-05-02T13:11:56 | 2018-05-02T12:52:15 | 330 | 94 |
[WP] In a school of Monster Slayers, it is tradition to design and build your own weapon. The professors find your design... "Unique," but effective | I wasn't sure exactly how old Professor Maia was. Her public bio on the school's network was infuriatingly vague on that front. Which was probably on purpose, given the need for information security.
But there were some dates, like when she'd published books or won awards. And those dates suggested a chronological ag... | As the only heir to the Denev estate, it was only natural that the young master, Lucius, made use of every resource he had access to in the design of Gustav mk IV.
Dr. Kip scowled from behind the schematics, while his colleague, Dr. Thera, couldn't help but try to hide a smile. "My dear Lucius, you are full of surpri... | 2018-02-14T02:41:10 | 2018-02-13T22:45:50 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] You blow a flat tire while driving through the middle of nowhere in a foreign country. After a brief call with the rental company they inform you there is a jack in the trunk of the car. When you go to open the trunk a man pops out and greets you, his name is Jack. | "Yup, looks like you got yourself a flat, huh?" He ran the length of his arm across his nose, snorting loudly. He kneeled down next to the tire and pulled shaggy hair away from his eyes to get a better look.
"I'm assumin' you got something to pull out the bolts from the tire, right?" he asked without looking back to m... | "Hi there!" out came a voice as Ellis popped open the boot.
"... What the–"
"I'm Jack. Not jack as in the thing you use to raise the car, but Jack as in a person. Don't worry, I can help you out," the strange man, claiming to be 'Jack' said as he climbed out of the boot.
Ellis reflexively leaped back and took a stic... | 2019-07-08T23:32:39 | 2019-07-08T23:30:35 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] The year is 2015 and the Pope has called for a crusade. | *"This is the timeline for how it all began..."*
**Sept 2014.**
After years of civil war in Iraq and Syria a new nation emerged. The Islamic Caliphate – forged in the fires of war, led by the cleric Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, it’s zealous armies toppled the Syrian regime and now control most Syria, Iraq and parts of Jor... | At first, people had laughed at him. "A crusade? How absurd!" they said. This tested Father Francis' resolve, but he held strong and waited for the faithful to come. These heathens had taken God's land, and he would see it returned. In his darkest hour, Francis knew He would provide.
And provide he did. After six mon... | 2014-08-11T05:58:11 | 2014-08-11T05:12:53 | 64 | 13 |
[WP] The English Teacher's worst nightmare: a story or poem that is completely literal, with absolutely no double meanings
EDIT: Holy cow, this got way bigger than I thought it would, thanks so much for an awesome first prompt ever!
EDIT 2: Did this actually make it to the front page of reddit? What the... | An Ode to Sunshine
Sunshine, sunshine,
You make me warm,
Sunshine, sunshine,
You let me see,
Sunshine, sunshine,
Life on Earth which is not supported by the heat of geothermal activity is entirely dependant upon you because you drive the process of photosynthesis which allows plants to grow and all food chai... | Slam poetry!
Yelling!
Angry!
Waving my hands a lot!
Specific point of view on things
Cynthia!
Cynthia
Jesus died for our sin-thee-uhs
Jesus cried, run... | 2017-01-30T12:19:57 | 2017-01-30T10:16:58 | 28 | 11 |
[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. | PeculiarPete was scrolling through /r/Jokes when he realized something.
He took his idea and went over to another subreddit and began scrolling back through some old prompts when he saw something that captured his fancy.
*"Writing Prompt[WP] Humans blood gets darker t... | At that moment, I was happy. I bring my pricked finger to my supple lips, and my tongue caresses the wound with warm tenderness.
Sweet. Like a strawberry lollipop.
It started off as one good deed a day. Picking up trash, volunteering at the senior home, removing hate graffiti, giving some water to construction worke... | 2018-08-04T11:11:45 | 2018-08-04T10:18:07 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] Your grandparents always playfully bickered in their native language. To surprised them, you took lessons, but now you understand what they're really saying...
What comes next will shock you! | I was happy, when registering for my first semester of college, to see my school offered intro to Russian. My grandparents came to America during World War II but would still talk Russian to each other, even after all this time. They focused on assimilation, especially during the cold war, so very little of the languag... | It wasn’t Swedish. Well I have no way of actually proving it. I don’t know Swedish either. But I can say with one percent below certainty that it was at best simply a good impersonation. It didn’t help that his chosen persona, Bjørn Bjørnson, was actually Norwegian. Though I suppose speaking a real language was so far ... | 2016-09-09T14:49:34 | 2016-09-09T14:12:10 | 190 | 26 |
[WP] On this long-haul interstellar supertanker, cloning is used to replace dead, dying or aged crew. The strict "1-clone at a time per person" law was temporarily retracted with all hands on deck to prevent a catastrophic failure. Crisis averted and law restored, there will be a culling. | "Let me get this straight," said the Security Director. "We have to kill all but one clone of each person. Starting with this guy," he points at an image projected by the holo lens, "let's run through the positions each clone has so I know which people are important or not. Who is in engineering?"
Captain: "How did yo... | I was the last one to be cloned of five. I had memories of being on the tanker for more than five-hundred years, and my original was long gone. I had no memory of her, or my life before the tanker. But I had the same name, and I wore her uniform.
"All hands on deck!"
The words echoed through the ship. I knew what wou... | 2022-09-26T13:49:28 | 2022-09-26T13:41:35 | 107 | 67 |
[WP] You're just a chicken farmer. An ordinary chicken farmer. You're not a warlord. Definitely not, and you also don't command your chickens to do your bidding. Preposterous. Insane. Rumors. | So I'm farmin' these chickens, on account o' my bein' a chicken farmer. Just mindin' my business doing chicken things and shit. I got 8 chickens. Each one of 'em's got a name. There's Mr. Cluckers, Mrs. Cluckers, Captain Cluckers, Commander Cluckers, Lil Cluckington, Big Cluckington, Medium-sized Cluckington, and O... | The knock on the door startled me from my nap. I need to stop staying up so late.
As I groggily spun my legs into sitting position a second knock.
"It's Sheriff Jones, please open up, just got a couple-a questions for ya".
Good ole Sheriff Jones. Kind guy. Cute family. Don't be meddling Sheriff.
I put on my slippers a... | 2018-05-10T16:04:07 | 2018-05-10T13:01:09 | 172 | 49 |
[WP] Everyone dies on their birthday, but no one knows at which age it will occur.
EDIT:
Thanks all who replied - I've read them all even if I didn't comment!
You are all so brilliant, thanks for giving this prompt life (no pun intended)
:D | Defibrillator. Check. Bandages and gauze. Check. Flashlight. Check. Smoke detector and fire extinguisher. Check. Louisville Slugger. Check. Book of Sudoku. Check. The most recent Jack Reacher novel. Check. Jug of water. Check. Alien box set DVD with commentary from cast. Check.
I started the list five days ago. It we... | 11:58 pm. Almost time. I blinked and took a deep breath while my mother kept clamoring on the phone. I appreciate her concern, really, I do, but I'm just as nervous as she is, and honestly? I just wanted to get to sleep. Like a lot of other people, the anxiety of my birthday was severe enough to trigger anxiety attacks... | 2014-11-19T17:06:25 | 2014-11-19T16:39:40 | 99 | 54 |
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