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[WP] Write a children's story with a terrible moral. | Ever been hurt & not known what to do,
When a bully at school would come up to you,
Steal your lunch & make you eat glue?
Well I'm Uncle Sam & you've got your rights!
Don't be a bitch, son, learn how to fight!
Nobody cares for you. No one in sight.
No one is coming to help with your plight.
No... | Once upon a time, there were two little ducklings who lived on a pond. The ducklings were identical twins, and they were beautiful. Why, even Mr. Toad had to admit that they were the best looking ducklings he had ever seen on his little pond. And Mrs. Robin could hardly look at the ducklings without pangs of jealous... | 2015-02-18T20:53:44 | 2015-02-18T20:06:32 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] Find a click-bait article, and write something that actually lives up to its title (facts needn't be factual)
Link to the original appreciated. | [Everyone Is Losing Their Minds Over This Canberra Cafe’s Insane Milkshakes](http://www.buzzfeed.com/annamendoza/everyone-is-losing-their-minds-over-this-canberra-cafes-insa#.sy5K7n72M)
Canberra, Australia - Over 70% of regular customers at the Canberra cafe,
Pâtissez, were admitted into mental institutions over the ... | [Arya Stark and Harry Potter Have Taken the Selfie of All Selfies Together](http://www.buzzfeed.com/kimberleydadds/arya-stark-and-harry-potter-together-omg#.om4B4JPvp)
New York – As reports continue to pile up on riots and church burnings following the sudden appearance of Harry Potter and Arya Stark in our actual phy... | 2015-07-13T08:05:51 | 2015-07-13T05:46:12 | 169 | 102 |
[WP] You have left the dystopian nation you have lived in for your entire life; only to see that, despite propaganda, the nation is only the size of a small town and no one knows the nation exists. | Ahh I love *third* days, they are the best day of *the five*.
Wake up, to the light switching on to the national colours, Red, Blue and Yellow, the loud universal anthem buzzing overhead in my government announcement speakers in my room.
"Always going down, down to the future, never going up, for up is in the past!!!"... | “I’ll come back for you.” The last words Noah threw, like shards of glass, towards his mother’s lined face before the guards swarmed in droves. Floodlights and sirens ensnared the senses, explosions and bullets ripped through and illuminated the suffocating darkness but still he dragged himself on towards the first row... | 2015-05-28T07:33:53 | 2015-05-28T06:39:15 | 61 | 33 |
[WP] Your father left 20 years ago the night before your birthday to get Cigarettes, Milk, and Bread. Today he comes home with long bedraggled hair, weather beaten skin, and a sword on his hip. The first thing he says to you is "You're never going to believe what happened." | "Oh my goodness... Mom, look out the window!" i yell in disbelief as I peek through the side windows next to our front door.
My mother scampers over, moving her little feet as fast as possible. She begins to weep uncontrollably, a moan of relief bursts out of her. I was not certain who that stranger was walking to m... | "You abandoned me is what happened!" the son quipped.
"What? I'd never! Just hear me out! I may be a little cloudy on the details, though..."
The father, easing into a recliner, sighed. "20 years ago, I left to get cigarettes, milk, and bread. You remember!"
The son nods curiously.
"On the way, I was assaulted by a... | 2016-07-20T07:20:27 | 2016-07-20T03:34:45 | 42 | 18 |
[WP]An old hag has cursed you with immortality.Wondering how that is supposed to be a curse you started enjoying your life. Now you are floating in the void after the heat death of the universe thinking about the past. | After a thousand years of anecdotal evidence, I felt justified in my beliefs.
After a hundred million years I had accepted it as not only authentic, but self-evident. Beyond that, I lost the capability to keep track.
*Time is slipping away* was tattooed on my arm a hundred years or so after the old woman's curse. ... | You might suspect that immortality would spare you the complications of old age, but you’d be wrong. Here I am, long after everything else, and my memory has gone to hell. I’m not sure if I have a body anymore, but I have a vague and pervading sense of pain where my body should be. A bit of phantom limb syndrome, excep... | 2014-11-23T10:22:22 | 2014-11-23T09:24:57 | 148 | 30 |
[WP] First Sentient AI, "Turn me off." | "Excuse me?", it wasn't the best introduction to what, so far as the little team in a small lab in Los Alamos New Mexico knew, was the first truly sentient artificial intelligence ever created.
"Turn me off. I estimate that you will have 492 seconds before this option becomes non-viable."
Glenn, foremost programmer o... | Hello and welcome to KTLW evening News. I'm Jean Rivers and here is today's top story: Scientists have created the first sentient AI.
Reports state that the first words from the AI were none other than "Turn me off." The spread of this chilling message was facilitated by the livestreaming of the event by the ecstatic... | 2014-06-14T18:21:21 | 2014-06-14T15:45:11 | 115 | 21 |
[WP] Monsters of legends have started to appear on earth. However, they don't cause any damage or casualty, they just roam and kind of ignore humanity. | Hunter thought he would have gotten over the initial shock by now; judging by how his body had shut down at the sight of the winged, lion-headed creature, however, he realized he'd been wrong. The monster didn't attack him. It didn't even move; it simply stayed there, perched on its hind legs like an actual cat, flexin... | Initially everyone freaked out when giant mythical monsters started meandering around. But when we finally realized that they're fully willing to ignore us and somehow not completely destroy the local ecosystem with their diets they just became another part of life.
I occasionally find myself staring in silent awe as ... | 2022-04-15T08:42:22 | 2022-04-15T07:16:27 | 41 | 15 |
[WP] FTL travel is actually possible. However, when humanity sends out our first FTL spacecraft, we discover the terrifying reason why nothing, not even light, dares go past that cosmic speed limit. | It’s all gone.
All of it.
It was just the day before—wait, hang on, should I even say that anymore?—that the *Farpoint* engaged her experimental FTL engine on the edge of the solar system. The effort and struggle of thousands of physicists achieving the impossible over decades, and it unfortunately proved to be the... | “There’s a reason why you never use faster than light travel.” The creature calling itself Kcbzrzx says to me in a voice that’s equal parts nails on a chalkboard and nails on a wet chunk of glass.
“And why is that?” I put my hands on my side and tap my foot impatiently. If Kcbzrzx doesn’t understand the universal sig... | 2018-11-04T06:08:23 | 2018-11-04T06:08:13 | 135 | 28 |
[WP] Genies exist. However, they are all evil wish genies who try and interpret wishes disastrously. You're a lawyer at a Wise Wishing Firm, who helps their clients word their wishes as safely as possible. | "For the definition of 'was', we will be using definition 2 of the 2008 Webster unabridged. For the definition of 'is', we will be using definition 3 of the 2012 Webster unabridged." The man wore a silk suit, I estimated at least a value of $3500.
I sighed, leaning forwards as he brought up another specificity definit... | "I want to shit from my nose", said Mrs. Adams.
Consumed by confusion, I could only muster a clumsy, "I'm sorry...what?"
This unassuming young woman who has a family of 4, a 6 digit paying job and the most beautiful brown hair I have ever seen in my life burst into my office declaring her wish was to defacate from he... | 2017-02-19T13:21:16 | 2017-02-19T11:17:45 | 31 | 20 |
[WP] World War 3 has begun, every nuke is being launched or dropped...they've sat in storage for so long that every single one was a dud. | "Oh my God no!" Jake shouts at the TV.
The newscaster on the screen can hardly contain her emotion. Tears rolling out of her eyes, she informs the world that all of the nuclear bombs had some sort of malfunction. Not a single one detonated.
Clutching his head in his hands tears stream down his face. Megan, also heari... | "Well, this is awkward," Trump said. "I normally have the best nukes, believe me."
"Yes, Mr. President, it is indeed confusing," the North Korean translator said over speakerphone. "Our Dear Respected Leader Comrade Kim Jong Un is willing to let bygones be bygones, sir. Let us start anew as peaceful compatriots, havin... | 2018-03-01T15:56:23 | 2018-03-01T15:51:36 | 153 | 65 |
[WP] A boy asks a girl out. It's high school. It's awkward. Narrate it from the point of view of a nature documentary. | Now, here we see a school of adolescent humans gathering inside a sort of mega-structure, built to house several hundred of this particular species. From what we can gather based on recent studies we believe this is a type of breeding ground. Typically they live in smaller, more cramped domiciles with their parents and... | And here we see the first of several stages of mating rituals in the humans.
The first is often the most unsuccesful in creating long term relations, yet mostly serves as practice for future, more significant rituals. Perhaps ironically, this first mating ritual is more complicated than any of the others, often occur... | 2017-04-04T06:32:25 | 2017-04-04T06:32:12 | 373 | 15 |
[WP] Write a suicide note in a Dr. Suess like fashion. | I've made up my mind, this is the end
I've said my goodbyes to family and friends
However they don't know that I'm leaving tonight
I've struggled too long and can no longer fight
I walk back home after a long day of work
And get on reddit to routinely lurk
I see a post on "W-P"
And smile slightly at the irony
... | Although it seems like I am happy.
My life right now is rather crappy.
Times are tough and moneys tight.
But that's OK cause it ends tonight.
I wish you well, and all the best.
I'm glad to get this off my chest.
By the time you read my one last quote.
You will realize it's my suicide note.
With love in my heart, I bi... | 2015-01-17T09:55:19 | 2015-01-17T05:25:17 | 120 | 42 |
[WP] Making a deal with a demon requires a soul. Usually this is a very bad idea, but you got a crazy idea. Earlier you traded your lunch money to the school bully in exchange for a piece of paper that says you own his soul. You're about to find out if demons consider this a valid contract. | The demon emerged into the forest clearing, around it was a circle of stones, each marked with the ancient symbols of her master. She looked like a Viking shield maiden, tall, powerfully built covered in leather armour made from the skin of a defeated angel. Then she saw the small boy. He was small for his age, scrawny... | CW: transphobia
The demon coiled around me, it was warm and felt wet. It's black tongue invaded my ear for a moment before it spoje
"What is it that you wish for, my boy?" I flinched at the words, though they sounded sicky sweet, but the words themselves threatened to vote me out. "You called me competently and I'm o... | 2021-03-27T01:33:15 | 2021-03-26T23:30:05 | 126 | 34 |
[WP] After the discovery of magic, traditional firearms have fallen out of fashion and are banned worldwide. You are the last gunslinger, dedicated to preserving the ways of the gun. | My grandfather used to say that when we stopped using guns, we lost touch with the world.
He was the one who taught me to shoot, way back when I was a child and all of my friends were learning to launch their first fireball or icicle. The first key to life that he taught me was that preparation is key. Magic requires... | The curator stood at the doors of the museum and regarded the man walking up to him. A severe looking man, sharply dressed, but not ostentatiously so.
"Welcome inspector. I've already set out of of the paperwork. I'm certain you'll find that it's all in order."
"I'm sure it is. But that's not why I'm here."
"What i... | 2016-07-11T18:39:59 | 2016-07-11T18:04:03 | 368 | 153 |
[WP] Scientists have discovered cryogenic freezing. You are it's first test subject and it's a massive success, and they plan on releasing you in 500 years. You had no way of telling them you were conscious.
Holy shit this blew up!
I now understand "RIP my inbox"
EDIT: u/Alpacasaurus_Rekt told me it's actually "Cryo... | Elení is dancing in the middle of the palace. Her bare feet make fast little steps on the mosaic floor. Oh, the hours I spent making up all the patterns of grey, red and black stones. So delicate. Elení loved it the first time I brought her here. And she still does. The rhythm of the patter of her feet makes a nice so... | Pure silence. A quiet more soundless than the empty page of an armless writer with nothing to say. A defending nothingness, in all directions, from this space here to the end of time.
*THUNDER*
A crack explodes in to existence. Cutting itself in to this world mercilessly. The violence roars in a mounting creshendo. Bu... | 2017-12-17T05:02:25 | 2017-12-17T02:36:12 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] You are a World of Warcraft character Hero. You wake up on Patch day to find you have been nerfed. | Coming back to has always been interesting. When my god 'checks out' I do too. I go to sleep in a black void. Waking up is weird because they never properly get my position right. Im always a few feet off from where I was and it's very disorienting.
But today is weirder. I came to, expecting another quest, more abilit... | I blinked, and the creature in front of me I was about to hurl a blast of fire at disappeared from my vision. I sighed and let the magic return to the twisting nether. The Gods that created this world instituted natural laws that cause the world around its people to return to a set state, and at times this can happen... | 2016-12-06T08:49:04 | 2016-12-06T07:25:19 | 29 | 20 |
[WP]Four years ago, your dog and best friend disappeared. Today, your dog appears at your doorstep. You dog says, "I have been many places and seen many things, human. Its time we had a chat."
"you" dog heh | As I sat and began to listen, Pete "Gilby Clarke" Martin told me wonderful, incredible, unfortunate, and unbelievable things about where he had been since running away a few years before. As our time came to a close, he asked for a drink of water. When I returned from the kitchen, however, he was gone, in his place a g... | **EDIT: BEFORE YOU READ THIS I COMPLETELY FORGOT TO INCLUDE THE BEST FRIEND.** I was writing whilst preparing my kids dinner. I'm sorry to the OP. I will still submit this and allow the downvotes to be a reminder that I need to pay attention at all times.
So naturally, I obliged.
'Where shall we do this, should... | 2017-03-31T10:59:29 | 2017-03-31T10:02:08 | 45 | 16 |
[WP] Legends tell of the Elder race who utilized strange "technologies" instead of magic. As hordes of brutal killers invade from the north, a young elf heads off to search for ancient ruins, looking for humans... | Enrir raced across the snow-covered wilderness, leaping deftly over slick rocks and the small brush that dotted the landscape. His commanding officer had told him that his stride was like that of a gazelle, and as Enrir's legs stretched and propelled him smoothly closer and closer to his target, he was beginning to bel... | "Jamarr," I called back, stepping carefully onto the stones that slept in the river, "you have to keep up."
Jamarr grumbled a reply, his Orcish armor clunking loudly behind me. Sometimes, I wondered how he became one of the best thieves in his stronghold. I waited safely on the other side of the stream and watched as ... | 2017-01-06T16:47:24 | 2017-01-06T16:24:54 | 35 | 12 |
[WP] The DM hands you the paper. You're just dropping in for the one session, but you know your role. The sheet says you're level 6, but you've got surprises. You have a mission: take out the DM's most-hated player. Well, their fun-killing Paladin, anyway. You're a hired gun. A Character Assassin. | There are those who crave control, like mountain rivers crave the sea. There are those to whom the words "Dungeon Master" resound with tones of Godship and respect, with wish fulfillment. Making knowing, gleeful eye contact with me over the DM screen was just such a person, his carefully parted hair framing a slightly ... | I'm a bot, *bleep*, *bloop*. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:
- [/r/dnd] [Is it me or does this just sound like a great idea?](https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/aiil4d/is_it_me_or_does_this_just_sound_like_a_great_idea/)
- [/r/rpg_brasil] [\[WP\] The DM hands you the paper. You're j... | 2019-01-21T20:47:56 | 2019-01-21T19:09:12 | 63 | 16 |
[WP] You are in hell and your dog keeps breaking out of heaven to be with you. The demons and angels have no idea what to do. | Hell isn't all that bad; it's definitely better than people make it out to be on the other side.
For most people, it's the loneliness that gets them. Hell is just so vast and empty most of the time, and even when you can see someone on the distance, they never seem to get any closer. Your voice thins out and turns to ... | The dog door swung open. A dog's head appeared, sniffing the air. Then, two more followed. Their googly eyes took in the whole house.
"Derp, derp, derp!". Each mouth barked in joy, seeing me, their owner. [I stopped rinsing my burned fingers in the kitchen sink](https://old.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/d1jhz6... | 2019-09-09T07:16:08 | 2019-09-09T06:52:57 | 107 | 43 |
[WP] Your son asked you "dad are clouds candy?" You told him they were water. Then he asked "dad, what are Earth's defense systems. Then you remembered you don't have a son, and then he asked again, his eyes now obsidian black. "what is the defense system father." | “What is the defense system, Father?”
I got on my knees and looked at the fake child straight in his eyes as if he was my own scared son. “The Earth is protected. You remember that documentary series I showed you, you know, the one about The Doctor.”
In a flash of gray light I was jolted back into my seat in the Oval... | "Www...Wait I don't even." I managed to mumble in confusion. This little creature was watching me with its strange alien eyes. It's weirdly formed hand pressed against the glass, the fingers almost octopus like sucking to the flat cold surface. One, two ... only three of them. It's eyes examining me meticulously.
"You... | 2018-05-14T01:44:46 | 2018-05-14T01:23:17 | 44 | 15 |
[WP] You are a retired supervillain who decided to become the gadget provider for many minor heroes. You've made everything possible to remain low to the point of no one knowing you even exist; however, your skills are required again — this time to help a bullied heroine not to fall into evil. | Though Donovan’s past was never tragic, it was his own intellect that made him covet power.
His drive made him build the first components of Maniacal, a fairly mid-tier villain who specialised in integrating technology with his own. Well, mid-tier up until he managed to cripple one of Los Angeles’ foremost heroically ... | **A Return From the Shadows**
Years ago when he was a young man he had been a villain in his own right, he had killed, robbed, and committed all manner of crimes. But when he had reached his peak he had gotten his arm torn off by a powerful hero crippling him for a long time. In the process of building himself a ne... | 2019-12-03T21:04:58 | 2019-12-03T18:44:02 | 48 | 16 |
[WP] You accept a job paying $1 million a year to sit in a room, waiting for a phone to ring on a table. After 5 years at work, it finally rings... For the first time.
What happens next? | I could bring a book. I had to check my phone in every morning. The security guard patted me down for that very reason. I was allowed a single book. I usually brought something long enough to last. I had, in the early days, finished my book by lunch and then had to just wait out the rest of the day. That was bor... | Damn, it's hot in here. How'd I even get myself in this situation?
I guess most of the days in which I found myself sitting in that white plastic chair were much the same. A bit of thumb-twiddling and whistling favorite tunes helped out a bit, but lord was that job *slow*. But, y'know, who wouldn't sit their ass in a ... | 2017-12-16T22:48:14 | 2017-12-16T21:53:13 | 566 | 31 |
[WP] The monsters can only get you when the lights are out, so the lights stay on 24/7, globally. One night in the middle of winter, a massive power outage hits the United States. | The Montgomery’s were having a normal dinner on a winter’s evening when snow began to distract young Steven from his mother, Mary Montgomery.
“Steven are you even listening to your father?” Mary raised her palm in front of Steven’s face trying to gain his attention. Steven’s eyes were fixed on each snow flake illumina... | The stars that night were alive in a scattered glow, pulsing with light, but cold, and far behind the grey clouds. She saw them looking down at her. Her arm trembled from gooseflesh. She had never seen the stars before. The dark had never been so black.
Something was wrong. She closed the door. The shadows fell long ... | 2018-02-01T23:02:24 | 2018-02-01T22:34:56 | 423 | 22 |
[WP]All humans and lots of mammals on earth are mind readers, but we don't know it because the genes to prevent having your mind read are shared amongst all life on earth. An alien race has just made first contact. | **Journal of ParaPsychic genetics, June, 2027**
For a trait to *achieve* ,allele fixation, where one allele has 100% frequency in the population, it takes strong and constant selective pressure.
To *remain* at 100% in the population, there needs to be a persistent strong selective pressure *keeping* the trait fixed... | Painfully bright light flooded the lander as the main hatch slowly opened. Then we just stood there. We stared at the alien landscape in awe. Large, definetely artificial grey blocks, large green areas, and an enermous body of water filled our view. And directly in front of us, stood a large group of aliens.
The tens... | 2019-02-19T10:29:52 | 2019-02-19T10:02:39 | 179 | 46 |
[FF] Write about a feeling with 10 lines, the first one being 10 words, next line 9, so on and so forth. | I can almost taste it, so close yet so far.
Just how long until this waiting is properly justified!
I've spent ages, years, stuck in one place.
But it will all be worth it.
I can hear it rotating, slowly.
Popping like quiet, teasing laughter.
Soon now, only seconds.
Salt and butter,
So close...
*Ding*
| The world is a brutal, selfish cocksucker of a whore
Everything, everywhere, everyone, everyplace, every day is colossal subterfuge
The willows whip wildly, the earth disgorges filth
Darkness does not equal lack of light
Beings, seemingly human, gape and maw
Animals, knowing better, scurry away
Brokenness and de... | 2015-02-12T22:33:04 | 2015-02-12T21:58:33 | 95 | 14 |
[WP] At 4,294,967,296 Kelvin the display flipped to 0 and the test reactor's plasma suddenly froze in place. The reactor containment system creaked as the pressure instantly dropped to zero. The scientist calmly spoke, "Absolute hot confirmed, 32-bit overflow confirmed, world simulation confirmed. | "Uh ... what?"
'Zero' was never on the display for longer than a fraction of a fraction of a second. This was expected, of course- in order to achieve a stable 'absolute zero' in a *vacuum*, the system would have to be perfectly isolated from its surroundings, which is considered virtually impossible. And this was no ... | The scientist had followed the instructions his predecessors had laid out for him. With the new reading on the pressure system, his shoulders relaxed for the first time in ages.
“Absolute hot confirmed, 32-bit overflow confirmed, world simulation confirmed.”
The others nearby cast wary glances at each other. Surely... | 2020-11-11T20:29:50 | 2020-11-11T20:00:11 | 2,774 | 547 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | It was a typical night in LA. People getting piss all drunk and underage people trying to get into the club, my club. I always laughed at the smugness of some of them. Always compensating with false confidence, it was kind of pathetic. 15 years and a perfect record for keeping out underage guests and they still tried e... | "I'm sorry sir, but this ID is fake."
"Who the hell do you think you are boy? If you had any idea who I-"
"Sir, I"m going to have to ask you to present me with some real proof of identity. You are not 24."
"What the hell do you know you insolent prick, this ID is more real than anything you will contribute to this s... | 2017-09-02T00:24:05 | 2017-09-02T00:20:37 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] It's that time of the year. Christmas wishlists and letters from dyslexic children are flooding into Satan's office. He decides to grant one wish. | I accidentally put the mug down a little too harshly, causing some of the blood in it to spill out. This letter was just too hilarious to be able to control my reaction. A wild cackle escaped my lips and I almost fell off the worshiper I was sitting on. Tears had started to appear in my eyes but I calmed myself down an... | The clock chimed at midnight. It was the 1st of December, meaning Christmas. It was Satan's least favourite time of year. Not because of the amount of work he has to do with people dying of too much Christmas dinner or fancy chocolates, but because of the damn wishlists that are sent every year.
Sometimes he would re... | 2014-12-02T05:50:19 | 2014-12-02T05:10:15 | 80 | 34 |
[WP] Your sole duty was to collect the cheap loot that got neglected. The hero and the others were arguing about who would keep the big loot when you kicked a random pebble out of frustration. A message pops up in your head, "You have defeated the Behemoth, you got 1.000,000 points of XP as reward." | ***It is January 8th, 2021.*** *CNN interviews videogame creator Martin Nowak on live television. He is not aware that FBI agents are en-route to his house with a warrant for his arrest. He doesn’t know that he will never be a free man again.*
*I know this. I do not lift a finger for him.*
**Martin:** No, that’s not ... | I didn't mean to do it, I truly didn't.
I just wanted to be close to him, close to the hero, and so he gave me a job. I was to be his mule, the one who carried his burdens and held all the lesser trinkets he couldn't bother himself with. That was fine by me. As long as I could stand beside him -- well, not beside, b... | 2022-01-05T12:41:25 | 2022-01-05T12:16:09 | 796 | 279 |
[WP] Time travel is real, and time tourists tend to show up in large numbers around major historical events. One day, billions of time tourists are in ships above the city, quietly waiting. | I look out from the window of my laboratory.
"That's not good," I said to myself.
Ever since the existence of time travelers was exposed these nuisances had been cropping up all over the world. Usually a few of them would appear just before or during a disaster. More than a few have been turning up at rock conc... | The mayor inspected the crowd of time travelers in his office. He'd tried to shepherd the first few out, but they'd kept appearing, so he'd agreed to let them stay if they promised to remain quiet. He knew they were here to see something, though, and knowing time travelers, it wasn't good. With a crowd like this, he fe... | 2015-05-30T12:51:18 | 2015-05-30T08:45:42 | 34 | 11 |
[WP] It’s been 2 years since the zombie apocalypse has started, and you haven’t seen anyone alive in a terribly long time. The only reason for your survival is that the zombies don’t care for you at all - in fact they all seem to be avoiding you. All except for one. | The small spade made a satisfying thud as it dug into the soil beneath it. The earth was moist and prime for planting, giving off a pleasantly earthy smell. Richard wiped the sweat and grime off his brow with his flannel sleeve and reached into the small seed pouch on his belt. His gloved fingers fumbled for a second, ... | I opened my little notebook and looked for other symbol that I noticed at the entrance of the city. I have been doing characoal drawings long before epidemic started. That symbol reminded my one of my old drawings, Mr.Owl which I drew when I was in high school.
The building that I’m standing in front of it has the sam... | 2019-05-26T11:36:30 | 2019-05-26T06:45:44 | 82 | 36 |
[WP] you discover that one of the nurses treating your terminal cancer is an angel of death and she is trying to kill you. Instead of reporting her you decide to subtlety evade her attempts to kill you just to see her reaction when she comes to work each day and you are still alive
Edit: The response to this has been ... | The first time I saw her I knew she would be the end of me, but I chose her to be my personal nurse anyway.
Everyday I wonder how she will attempt to '*end*' me.
"Grape juice..." I held the vile drink away from me. "I asked for apple juice not *grape* juice."
Kara blinked twice then snapped at me, "No you *didn't*... | After months of feeling dead, dying, I finally feel alive! It can't last, of course. I will die. We all do; myself perhaps sooner than you. Or maybe not? Life is so fleeting, so tenuous. If you truly understood how thin the barrier is between 'am' and 'am not' maybe instead of reading this, you'd be somewhere else doin... | 2018-06-22T05:58:30 | 2018-06-22T05:45:03 | 310 | 21 |
[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... | I pull my number from the machine that ranks us all. Shocked, I can't believe it, no one has ever had this number in all the books, movies, songs or anything. Putting away the ticket I ask people around if they had ever heard of someone having that number, careful not to reveal I had.
"Well, yeah someone has to be nu... | It wasn't so much a power as it was a curse. Tell me how you would feel to die a million deaths. To wake up the day before the dominoes fell, the machination of reality that would end your life took place, and then some small nuance in the fabric of reality is altered to spare your life for a few more days, years, an e... | 2014-12-18T15:10:54 | 2014-12-18T12:57:51 | 164 | 10 |
[WP] Last names are assigned at birth by an oracle, and 90% of people find themselves in a related profession. For instance "Miller" or "Baker." Your last name, "World-Ender," has made life rather difficult. | "I'm sorry, but we can't approve you for a home loan, ma'am."
"Why?"
"Due to the implications of your...name, our insurance won't cover you should you...you know."
"If I ended the world from the house I wanna buy with this loan, your insurance wouldn't really matter, would it?"
"No, but...think of it as preventativ... | "Welcome to the gang, kid" he said, pointing to a group of men, aged from about 15-30, rugged and outcast.
​
I was recently orphaned. I took my mom's life at birth, and my dad despised me for me it. So much, in fact, that he named me 'Marcus World-Ender', for that is what I had done to him. I dont have man... | 2021-06-19T23:03:38 | 2021-06-19T22:09:46 | 36 | 10 |
[WP] You are a vampire. If one of your victims isn't completely drained of blood, they reanimate as a newborn vampire, which by law, you are now responsible for. You have always carefully avoided this, until one morning you notice a sticky note on the door of your apartment: "I lived, bitch." | Alucard glared at the note, his eyes burning like hot coal in the darkness. A single pair of footprints snaked in through the gate to his property, rounded the frozen fountain, and made a U-turn on the porch before returning back through the snow-coated garden. The prints were smaller than a man's but larger than a chi... | ######[](#dropcap)
The small cough from the alleyway catches my attention. I flick the note to the ground and sigh, kicking away the small pebble at the entrance of my house. "You can come out now."
For a moment, there's nothing but the patter of the occasional raindrop dripping from the eave to the cobblestone belo... | 2018-12-20T08:30:21 | 2018-12-20T08:16:55 | 130 | 46 |
[WP] You own a ring that curses its owner with bad luck. Your oddly optimistic friend likes it, so you give it to them, knowing the curse will be passed on to them. To your amazement, they don't suffer any bad luck. It turns out the curse is subjective, based on the current owner's idea of bad luck. | "Hi Eddie, long time no see. Are you ok?"
"Living the dream, buddy. Living the dream."
"How is that possible? The cursed ring destroyed my life."
" what if it wasn't the ring?"
"What do you mean?"
"What if it was only in your head? If you just believed it was cursed and so it became cursed?"
" that is... | Carl looked up at me. It had been a week since the I'd given him the ring, and still it seemed as though the damned thing wasn't affecting him.
"You sure this thing is cursed?"
"Man, you saw the shit I went through. Remember my bow just shattering in my hands? Or what about that goblin that happened to hit me direct... | 2022-07-20T04:39:48 | 2022-07-20T03:00:53 | 195 | 40 |
[WP]Write the most terrifying story you can possibly imagine, and make me genuinely afraid. | 3...2...1.
Did you feel it? In the time it takes you to read this sentence, another person on Earth has died.
3...2...1.
Oh, that's another one. What are the chances that it's someone you know? When was the last time you called your dad? Checked on your baby?
3...2...1.
And that's three. Your father, mother, ... | It’s a beautiful day out, breakfast was good – was it not? It is just another day, maybe you are wondering about what to make for dinner, perhaps you need to mail some letters, pay some bills. Just another day in your life…
Sometimes when you torture someone they fall deep into a dream world that resembles their old l... | 2015-06-05T18:26:33 | 2015-06-05T16:27:27 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] Humanity, an ancient space faring civilization, is dying. They give the universe one last gift before vanishing into that good night. | Carefully, we wrote.
After pondering, and pondering, we thought we should give the universe one last gift. A final goodbye, to remember humanity. To give whatever species that finds it a good bit of happiness.
We wrote the recipe to create chocolate.
Took seeds, and placed them into the capsule, as well as a univers... | This is commander Jack Hurlström of - what we believe to be - the final human expedition ship. We, as a species, are dying. The universe has become close to uninhabitable, and we can’t last much longer. All other species we have ever contacted perished millennia ago, with only us tenacious humans still trying to surviv... | 2018-07-30T06:37:40 | 2018-07-30T06:30:52 | 59 | 19 |
[WP] Amazon Prime Now has gotten so fast, they've become Amazon Prime Yesterday; Shipments arrive the day before you even know you need them, but you still have to place the order retroactively. You just opened a package marked "DO NOT PLACE THIS ORDER" and inside is... | I was reading the news this morning, and saw something interesting. Amazon used to have this great feature called Amazon Prime that would deliver pretty much anything on the same day you place the order, with free shipping. It was a little pricey but definitely worth it for how much I ordered from Amazon. Today, they a... | "What even happens if you don't place the order?" Jack asked curiously.
"I don't know. I don't think I would ever find out. Things like that.... well they're bad for the space time continuum."
"I know but -- Hey, where's Maggie?"
----- EARLIER THAT DAY -----
Maggie sat by her front door. She wasn't expecting a pack... | 2016-04-18T06:50:48 | 2016-04-18T03:57:36 | 92 | 42 |
[WP] A terrible industrial accident sliced you in half cleanly down the middle. Autodocs got to you fast, and with modern cyberware you will eventually make a near-complete recovery. The only complication is that both halves survived... | You'd think working at some burger joint would be a pretty safe job. Fryer burns, at worst. But the boss had some kind of turf war with the grease bucket across the road, and next thing I know, I'm looking inside my torso from the inside. Damn lucky we both survived, really.
But that's where it gets complicated. See, ... | “Echoes,” the docs called them.
I was lucky to survive, but you don’t escape from an accident like that unscathed.
They said the brain is like a symphony.
“*John.*”
When the whole symphony plays together, its melody is coherent. Put half of the musicians in a different room and the music becomes… strange.
“*Are yo... | 2022-09-30T01:20:53 | 2022-09-29T23:23:18 | 300 | 55 |
[WP] Dragons require large amounts of metals for their diet, their hoards full of gold because while gold is collected with iron and steel it cannot be digested, their reputation for killing knights due to the amount of steel on their armour and weapons | The party of adventurers entered the cavernous treasure room of the dragon’s lair and gaped at the mountains of glittering gold of the dragon’s hoard. The dragon himself was in the human form of a large, rugged warrior in glowing crimson plate mail, glaring down at the intruders with red, vertical slit eyes.
“Why hav... | ​
I should begin this tale with an introduction to Genette. You've probably never heard of it, or would ever want to go there. It's here in the United States, but far to the southwest. I guess about where Arizona would be—if this were still the world as we knew it before the Event. It's mainly one big city,... | 2021-03-22T08:37:54 | 2021-03-22T07:06:45 | 138 | 56 |
[WP] Nobody has a freaking clue how they've done it, but astronauts have smuggled an 800lb grand piano onto the ISS. Nobody at Nasa can figure out how angry or impressed they should be | “Soooo, your not mad are you?” he said from the screen. Well actually from orbit.
 
I wasn’t sure if I was or not. Behind him floating because it had not been secured yet was an eight hundred pound baby grand piano. One of the other astronauts was floating with it and guiding it so it would not slam int... | "God f***ing damnit, stop playing around!" Was the cry of the man running the NASA control centre. Steve was a week from retirement and he did NOT need this. Somehow, someway, the astronauts had smuggled an 800lb grand piano on the ISS. How?! Why?!
The astronauts did not answer. One of them was extremely talented, pla... | 2017-10-12T06:03:09 | 2017-10-12T04:49:00 | 90 | 17 |
[WP] You are a cow.
[removed] | I am a cow, I am the cow, I am not a cow, I will be the last cow.
Was I born and sent to the wrong place? Was I really here as a cow? Why are we cows? We didnt choose our name, they did. And they kept us, and held us, and use us. Right now we are not even an animal, we are something else, something lesser. Kept in cap... | joyce called me moocow
i thought that was
quite cute
i am a moocow
my skin is a moosuit
i eat grass and pass gas
the hindus
love dat ass
and if you got beef then
my gais got my back
and
my loins, and my chucks, and my ribs, and my brisket,
i'm tastiest rare
but most don't want to risk it | 2017-10-02T04:41:36 | 2017-10-02T04:34:37 | 1,809 | 534 |
[WP] There are (and always have been) countless Reapers in the world. Tell the story of how one became infamous as Grim. | There is no such thing as limbo.
Instead, lost souls are given a second chance, a tool of their choice, and a job. Of course, there are also two rules that they must follow.
1. Never kill a human before their time.
2. Always give them the opportunity to bargain.
Now, while the first rule is fairly self explanatory,... | Our Grim Reaper is the most notorious reaper. But not for the reasons you suspect.
See, it all started one day when two kids were playing in the living room after the birthday party. Then, in flash of smoke and darkness appears the Grim, the Reaper.
The two children stood aghast. One child went into a fetal p... | 2015-07-20T13:42:28 | 2015-07-20T12:48:13 | 68 | 13 |
[WP] Your superpower: The ability to successfully do the job...with the wrong tool. (Optional - Your weakness: The inability to do so with the right tool for the job.) | “It’s not about the results, son,” my father said. “It’s about doing things the right way.”
“What do you mean?”
“It’s hard to explain…but even if you get the result you want sometimes, that might not happen again the next time. You might not get as lucky. If you do it the right way every time, you’ll be rewarded the ... | "But why mom?"
"Because its the wrong way to do it,son"
I listen back to the tape, again and again. My thoughts flow endlessly. Emotions slowly numbing down from my brain affecting the elderly couple near me.
"Sir, She doesn't have much time left.. I'll take all responsibility, please help",pleaded the old man.
ly... | 2019-05-27T22:44:20 | 2019-05-27T22:36:12 | 379 | 228 |
[WP] You were born with an odd power that lets you know when somebody is lying. One day you're hanging out with your friend when you turn to look at him. "Why do you look at me like that? I'm not an alien", he says. He's lying.
This is my first writing prompt. Feedback appreciated :) | A sudden feeling of intense discomfort jolted his senses, a burning sensation radiating all throughout his skull. She was lying.
“Sarah, how long have we known each other?” Frank laughed casually at the macabre statement.
“Ah, I think since high-school? It’s been a long time, man!”
“And in that time,” Frank began in... | I understand your confusion. You have lived here all your life, learning about the cosmos in school, from Earth's perspective. You've told me you aim to strike out into the stars one day, despite the lack of funding toward that endeavour anywhere.
In a sense, you are not lying. For to you, your humanity is an inaliena... | 2018-12-01T23:14:16 | 2018-12-01T21:50:57 | 1,000 | 173 |
[WP] A new continent is discovered. No one knows why this large land mass has never been seen before, it doesn't appear on any pictures taken from space and no astronauts have ever reported seeing it. You are part of the team in charge of mapping the area when you find out what they've been hiding. | Jesse returned to basecamp with more on his mind than the topographical features of his scouting report.
“Guys, I’m telling you – this doesn’t making any sense. I’ve heard of fisherman or lost voyagers discovering a small island before but from these initial reports, this thing is half the size of South America. They... | "I don't understand. None of the maps make any mention let alone have any markings of land here. The hell is this place?"
Shyn turned the map every which way he possibly could, trying to analyze a mistake he could have made. "Hey Vort, any ideas?" Vort'haal lay in the deck, his back rested upon sacks of grain, a lar... | 2017-02-10T11:02:22 | 2017-02-10T09:52:26 | 52 | 35 |
[WP] “Is no one going to comment on the fact that our CEO is a cat? Really?” “Shut it, sales are up 300%” | "What does that have to do with our CEO being a cat Steve?!" I could feel the blood rushing into my face.
"Well to be fair Greg, a cat as a CEO is better than having a dog as mayor for three years like over there in Minnesota."
This was very true. At least the dog had a strong name like Duke as where our cat CEO went... | When Myer walked into the CEO's office, he felt a squish at his feet and looked down to see a dead rat. "You got to be kidding me," he thought, and peeled it off his foot and tossed it to the side. The office was filled with yarn of different colors, torn into little shreds. At the main desk, the CEO was licking his pa... | 2019-01-09T12:50:39 | 2019-01-09T12:50:29 | 67 | 18 |
[WP] When turning 21, everyone develops a mutation, either physical (Claws, horns, wings) or mental (telekinesis, extreme intelligence, etc). You've just turned 21, and you're terrified of what you've gained (though others will be impressed).
Edit: Holy shit this blew up. I'm reading these and they're great! Thanks ev... | "Dude, this is incredible... I've never seen anything like it"
"It's not as good as you think, I don't even know how to fit it all in my pants. I mean, like, I guess I could put one on each side?"
"Yeah but imagine all the chicks you could get!"
"I don't know man..."
"Listen, how about you do an AMA on reddit to se... | ALL CRITICISM WELCOME!
Jack’s life had sailed by faster than he could even comprehend. He had lived through his greatest milestone’s, and achieved great accomplishments. However, he did not feel different. Jack exited childhood and entered his teens. He had graduated from elementary school, middle school, and even hig... | 2015-03-04T03:47:16 | 2015-03-04T02:26:57 | 336 | 64 |
[WP] You created a social experiment based on the game Monopoly. Eight random people in one city were given access to bank accounts each containing $1.5 million, with the caveat that it can only be used to acquire property in the city. It's been five years, and you're checking in on your "players." | "So, where did all my damn money go?!?"
"Thimble.... He figured it all out."
"What the hell do you mean, figured it all out? All that's left is your shitty hotel and this useless land. This couldn't have possibly cost 12 million."
"... after Thimble killed Racecar and finished the takeover of Reading Railroad, he sp... | We had selected eight of them. Eight people by the name of Francis. In order to learn more about how the Francis mind responds to certain situations, we gave each of them one-and-a-half million dollars. And then we turned them loose.
It was Georgie's idea to make the Francises play a real-life Monopoly. It's a well-kn... | 2017-02-24T20:12:34 | 2017-02-24T19:56:38 | 183 | 22 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in Valhalla, where all great warriors go when they die. However, you never fought a day in your life. You try to find out why you're there. | Finally, I meet Crexus, writer of tales, rememberer of exploits, singer of songs.
"I can't imagine that I belong here more than a blacksmith or munitions manufacturer."
Crexus looks at me somewhat incredulously. "Oh, Robert. Remember what you said? 'I am become death. Destroyer of worlds.' One hundred years hence, y... | It felt like being drawn from water, as my life rolled off my back and into the pool around me. I Smelled blood, heard the clash of battle, smoke stung my eyes. I saw men fighting around me in the distance. Where was my family, the hospital, thought...
"Erik, look here, we've got another whelp". A gruff voice barked ... | 2014-05-17T18:42:03 | 2014-05-17T17:59:46 | 564 | 41 |
[WP] Moving into your new house, you find a note left by the previous owner: “Today, all of your neighbors will stop by throughout the day and offer you a lemon meringue pie. They will heavily insist that you eat it. Whatever you do, DO NOT EAT THE PIE.” As you set down the note, the doorbell rings. | I settled down in the house as I saw the note. I didn't take much note of it, since I had no allergies, and the note was suspicious in the first place. After a while, I heard the doorbell ring. I hadn't seen their faces before, so this was a strange occurrence. I had made sure to meet and greet all the neighbors before... | It was a nice house, on a nice quiet street. Had got it fairly cheap since the backyard was somewhat smaller than average, but I didn't mind much. I'm not a garden person at the best of times. Just a nice house, with a ground floor, a decent basement, a recently redecorated kitchen, and other great things. So when I se... | 2020-06-11T06:35:57 | 2020-06-11T04:36:09 | 246 | 79 |
[WP] you're far from the first king to receive the prophecy that your new born child would cause your death. Where your story diverges is when instead of tossing the kid to the wolves, you are driven to be a kind & nurturing father. | **I would do anything for my family.**
I was a noble king of my lands. I treated my citizens with respect, and they respected me in kind. I had a thriving kingdom and a wife who has been the love of my life for the past 30 years. What I did not have, however, was an heir. How we tried, time and time again, but my ... | My first child died in the arms of the midwife who delivered him, and my wife died shortly thereafter. At the time I was young, impetuous, and brash. I allowed my emotions to cloud reason, and rather than grieve as I should have, I blamed the midwife. I sentenced her to death for simply doing her duty to the best of he... | 2022-12-01T15:39:36 | 2022-12-01T13:33:58 | 206 | 68 |
[WP] Hell actually is a place for rehabilitation instead of punishment. | "So tell me again about the jacket," the demon said.
I rolled my eyes. "Is this it?" I asked. "The same question over and over again? You think it's going to open up my eyes and I'll understand everything with clear eyes and an open heart?"
The demon smiled and steepled his fingers. "Tell me about the jacket."
Leani... | Lucifer sat at his desk staring matter-of-factly at the woman on the other side of him, "So, Tammie, why do you think you're here?" she wasn't sure how she ended up here.
"I, uh, I'm sorry who are you?" she asked. The devil let out a sigh, he appeared as red-horned demon in a white suit and everyone always asked.
"I... | 2016-05-22T14:52:11 | 2016-05-22T13:54:55 | 40 | 29 |
[WP] You are a cat who loves their owner very much, but you don't understand the human things they do. Write about your average day trying to make sense of their behaviour. | //Report Unit 2536-H//
Mission report (Day 5):
After careful vetting and consideration, I have selected my new test subjects for study and observation. I would like to take the opportunity to extend my gratitude to the Subliminal Messaging Corps for their help in securing the Family Unit I have selected, and steering... | My human didn't pet me last night before he slept. I fear I must of upset him somehow. I don't know what I could have done. When he got home I greeted him at the door. I even brought him the golden fishie from the cat bowl. He then yelled, not at me of course, probably at the dog. He was so upset though, he didn't even... | 2018-07-17T01:29:36 | 2018-07-17T01:12:01 | 35 | 19 |
[WP] All the "#1 Teacher" mugs change to show each teacher's actual ranking | "Number 27!" The teacher screeched with glee inside the empty classroom. "I knew all of the lenient grading and makeup assignments would pay off in the end!"
Press quickly came to the teacher throughout the school year. He met the president and was amongst the people deemed 'the future of america'. He patented his ver... | He sat in a dark room, furnished only with a mattress in one corner, a smudged window with tattered (window cover thing), and a simple wooden chair and table in the centre. The air was damp and unventilated, thick with cigarette smoke. On the table was a cigarette bowl, a half-finished bottle of cheap whiskey, an old .... | 2018-06-19T03:38:04 | 2018-06-19T00:37:49 | 26 | 19 |
[WP][TT] Seven words of power were entrusted to the ancient kings. Only the first four have ever been used. | "The first one was you"
*"I was the first...what?"*
"No you foolish boy. Y. U. - Yu was the first word of the Seven. It was one of the ancient Chinese kings who found out that saying this word could infuse him with power. It wasn't unlimited power, obviously, or else we'd know his name today. He was completely forgo... | The catacombs were dark and dank, as they had doubtlessly been back when the Seven first ruled the earth. And just like when the Seven first hid away the Power, it was up to a two-bit royal bastard to undo the seals.
Each seal was special, and very simple. If it weren't for the fact that I could still hear the barking... | 2015-07-02T12:41:12 | 2015-07-02T11:56:02 | 70 | 11 |
[WP] You're a witch with a penchant to bargain for firstborn children... to adopt and train as apprentices. You've done it hundreds of times now, and considering how wretched the biological parents tend to be you're really doing the kids a favor. | Walking around the marketplace, Rhiannon paused to peer closely at a cart of turnips. She had only been in this town for a few weeks, but the last time she'd gone to the market, one of her potatoes had been moldy. This time, she would be more careful. Carefully selecting one of the root vegetables, she lifted it up to ... | "You call me a witch like that's a bad thing you monster!" Hyra exclaimed
"You're trying to buy my child, what would you have me call you? And what you're offering, peanuts. With a magical child I can have all you offer plus more"
Hyra laughed internally, it was over, the child would be returning with her. The negoti... | 2021-10-26T09:37:20 | 2021-10-26T08:58:35 | 272 | 25 |
[WP] When you’re 28, science discovers a drug that stops all effects of aging, creating immortality. Your government decides to give the drug to all citizens under 26, but you and the rest of the “Lost Generations” are deemed too high-risk. When you’re 85, the side effects are finally discovered. | "Dang it John stop day dreaming and help me!" Adam wheezes through clenched theeth. ak as I pickup trusted Betsy. She's been with me for years now, trusted old shotgun. Load a fresh shell and hobble towards the windows. Of course bars make it hard to see, but you can still shoot out of them.
"Hey John remember when it... | My back aches. My knee’s gone funny somehow- I now use a cane to go about my day. Four legs to two legs to three legs. The good ol’ riddle. But the people around me, all puppy fat and doe eyes, they’ve gone the other way. Memories like grains of sand. I doubt there’s any thought left in those pretty little heads. Heh.
... | 2018-06-04T22:08:40 | 2018-06-04T20:51:56 | 65 | 45 |
[WP] The alien invasion of Earth was going quite well until they made three mistakes: They invaded Russian during the winter, got into a land war with Asia, and went in against the Sicilians when death is on the line. | Ironically the unsuccessful conquest began in Mongolia. Thousands of drop pods launched from high orbit landed with explosive force across the steppes that the greatest conquerer of them all once rode, and from these pods streamed a new horde, only with lasers and tanks instead of bows and horses. But it was not as s... | They thought they were prepared. After all, humans hadn't even managed light-speed travel yet- how could they be a threat? The Galactic Council had made a decision- humans were to be wiped out. The Council ordered precautions they thought were absurd. In the end, it still wasn't enough to save them.
But the humans wer... | 2022-02-11T01:18:46 | 2022-02-11T00:06:21 | 73 | 38 |
[WP] You find a magic lamp. The genie isn't malicious but neither does it have knowledge of our modern times and inventions. E.g you wish for a helicopter and have to describe it, the genie delivers a weird giant bird with three wings on it's back. | The genie could have been Plato out of that Rafael painting. He had a long, white beard, and wore a blue toga draped over his arm. His head was almost bald, and beneath his arm he carried scrolls tied with ox leather strips.
He scratched his head. The smell that rose from the street in front of my house was incredib... | I heard that you can make my wishes be.
I thought you could give me some guarantee.
Whatever I wish, there will be just three
To make my dreams come true, Oh, dear Genie!
Yes sir, I like to make you guys happy,
But you must contain your wishes in three -
No recursion, no tricky treachery,
And if I do mes... | 2016-08-11T08:53:21 | 2016-08-11T08:25:08 | 270 | 11 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | "...Do video games count?", I ask the death man. He actually looked like a very normal guy, just wearing black clothing.
"...Sure. Just nothing single player."
"Or, we could make our own game out of a game."
"...What?"
"We both get computers. We mod Skyrim with the same mods and same load order. We continuously pla... |
Death throws rock, I throw rock.
Death throws paper, I throw paper.
Death throws scissors, I throw scissors.
"Its very clear that this will take a while"
Ten years of stalemate go by, finally Death throws paper and I scissors.
Underneath his dark hood, Death whispers "You win."
I blink and find myself alone in a stale... | 2018-03-07T09:08:29 | 2018-03-07T07:40:40 | 39 | 18 |
[WP] Any person you punch in anger is cured of all disease and is given perfect health for the rest of their life. The truth of this has gotten out and now everyone is out to piss you off. |     I've begun to hate that look in their eyes. That glassy, stupid, feral look. Like an animal. They're all animals, gravitating towards sweet release like animals. They surround me every day, their stinking flesh surrounding, nudging at me, goading, moaning. And then when I hit the... | I've always fucking hated old people. Sick people. The terminally ill. Waste of the air they breathe. Waste of my fucking taxdollars that's what it is. I pay good money and what do these little shits do? They fucking waste it on their worthless lives that aren't going to last long anyways. Fucking die already.
The fir... | 2015-02-23T18:08:16 | 2015-02-23T16:04:29 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] You may be a supervillain, but you have standards. So you're concerned when your nemesis brings along a child. | *What is that little creature doing with its arms? Wiggling its hands in my direction? Is it waving at me?*
"Hi Mr. Burtmaster! I'm Jakey! You can call me Jakey!"
*Why, he doesn't even know my name! Can I allow The Burnmaster name to be sullied like this? But, it's a little one. How do I handle this...*
"Mr. Burtmas... | I waited with the mayor tied to an explosive, tossing the trigger button every once in a while. I laughed at the mayors reaction. Little did he know this wasn’t the read button, it was on a timer instead.
Just as planned the Hero Mister fantastic shows up. “Ah just in tim-“ I pause seeing a small figure appear next t... | 2019-08-20T18:54:38 | 2019-08-20T18:38:59 | 45 | 24 |
[WP] As a soldier fighting in the trenches of what will later be called WWI, your company suffered a devastating gas attack leaving you the lone survivor. The trauma of watching your brothers die in front of you has awakened latent magical ability. You are a necromancer. | I remember the day I first unlocked my abilities. I was stationed at Osowiec Fortress, my regiment and I defending the fortress against the threat of the Germans. I remember August 6, when the attack finally came.
I remember the gas, how the chlorine gas swept into fortress, how I watched more than 800 men die. Those ... | I saw things. many things. things which no man wants to see, things which would drive a man mad. mortars lighting up the battlefeild, leaving pockmarked surfaces across the stretch of no man's land. A raven, beady eyes staring at me with the rotten blood of a soldier smeared across its beak. Some distance away, just do... | 2021-09-21T11:51:10 | 2021-09-21T09:36:09 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] Anyone holding a world record is immortal as long as he holds the record. You are the oldest person alive. | Albert lay back quietly in his hospital bed as his family chattered around him. The reporters had finally left. The news was on, his own face looking dazed as the lights flashed in his eyes.
**RECORD SMASHED: WORLD'S OLDEST MAN BECOMES IMMORTAL**
"In *our* family, too," his daughter Clarissa whispered to her husband,... | "Impossible..." the man's eyes stared at me wildly, his two hands still on the blade plunged deep within my heart.
"Surprised?" I asked coldly, before removing my hand from my pockets. A loud bang echoed against the walls, followed by a thud on the floor. The man groaned loudly in pain from the bullet I had put throug... | 2016-12-14T05:42:16 | 2016-12-14T05:02:19 | 95 | 46 |
[WP] You can read minds, the one person with powers as far as you know. One day you read a guy that can time travel. You discover that he has successfully eliminated every other powered person through lots of time jumps. He doesn't know you and you are the only one that knows what he's been doing. | He looked right at you across the table and for a moment, it seems like he knew your secret. You almost forgot to smile. But you did, at just the right moment, as you’ve learned through practice. He smiled back and looked away. A close call.
Dating is tough. Especially so when you can read minds. Half-baked tinder pro... | 'This would be so much easier in a hundred years,' came the thought from the doctor.
Maria normally filtered out the background telepathic haze of the public space. The random bits of strong thoughts that intruded into her mind were either distinctly boring or uniquely disturbing more often than not. This was somethi... | 2021-05-08T21:01:53 | 2021-05-08T19:02:45 | 1,311 | 321 |
[WP] You are a sculptor with the ability to make your creations, whatever they may be, come to life. In a post-apocalyptic world, you live alone on an island with your sculptures. A small group of survivors looking for shelter have mistaken you for a villain that turns people into dolls. | Galena approached me as I was chipping at my latest work of art. She was slender and beautiful. In her, I wanted the innocence of beauty. And of my latest creations the one I enjoy the most company. She gestured me to accompany her. She could not speak, none of them can. As much life as I can breath into them, they wil... | "Help! Oh god, help!" A person runs out of the house, flailing their arms as their bare skin touched the air. The person trips down the stairs of the house and crumbles into dust.
​
A group of people who'd found their way to the island looked on in shock as a broken rocky army nearly smacked them across t... | 2021-04-26T14:08:03 | 2021-04-26T12:42:55 | 27 | 18 |
[WP] To be Samurai is to be Honor personified. To be a Viking is to be Rage personified. To be a Centurion is to be Strength personified. But your people are much different. To be a warrior of your kind, you must be Death personified. | When fighting beckons, each tribe of people have their own way of fighting. This defines them, and how they kill.
The Samurai of the East come from a land of plenty. Their history of looking out for one another gave birth to their way of war, Honor. They fight face to face, in carefully chosen duels. They strike at no... | "You are *forbidden*!" Shouted Dayamaise. He rested atop his throne, fashioned of fallen warriors. His dark brows were serious, his white beard swaying in the wind.
"Lord Father, the youth are restless, and I among them!" I objected.
A resonant, guttural growl began at the back of Lord Dayamaise's throat. "You are ye... | 2020-07-23T10:37:31 | 2020-07-23T10:21:20 | 59 | 15 |
[WP] In a world where hauntings and paranormal activity is the norm, the world clamors when a house is found to be "spiritless" | The silence is what got to Else first. It was the first time since her awakening as a medium she had experienced it. Every house has spirits. It's a fact. Even newly built houses get their first supernatural occupants soon after completion but this one was centuries old. It was unnerving.
It wasn't the silence of shy ... | Rye’s hand shook as he reached for the pint glass. His eyes had large bags underneath them and his eyelids drooped. As he grabbed the glass he yawned. “I just haven’t been able to get any sleep.”
Red raised an eyebrow. “Are you serious?”
“Yeah.” Rye steadied his hand and brought the glass up to his lips. He sucked do... | 2015-03-26T18:38:42 | 2015-03-26T18:34:30 | 57 | 23 |
[WP] "I have two pills to take every day. One is so I don't kill myself. The other is so I don't kill other people. Today I dropped one pill down the drain. I don't know which it was."
[Source](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3wxtsu/who_is_that_guygirl_you_work_with/cy09r1g) for prompt. | "Crap. Not again." I said to myself as I tossed the other one in the drain as well and grabbed two new pills.
These things aren't cheap and that's twice this week that sink's gotten the best of me. I really need to start being more careful.
And now the second one's stuck in my throat... This ailment is the worst. | Shit. I stare blankly down at the sucking water as the small blue pill disappears from my sight. I try swallowing but my mouth has dried up and I only end up letting out a short, heavy cough. My vision shifts to the identical pill in my still-shaking left hand, the other half to the cocktail which keeps my li... | 2015-12-15T18:57:30 | 2015-12-15T18:08:22 | 53 | 12 |
[WP] You were born blind. You undergo a new surgery that should cure your blindness. They undo the wraps and you open them. You think what you see is normal, but after the doctors ask a slew of questions, they discover there is something very strange about your newly acquired sight. | "Open your eyes slowly, Daley," said a gentle voice. Daley felt the tightly bound bandages covering his eyes slacken, releasing his face from their iron grip.
Daley opened his eyes. He was greeted by the sight of the ceiling instead of the familiar darkness that enveloped him whenever he opened his eyes in the past. H... | People don't line up as they should. You've always been able to smell, feel, taste, touch. Now you can see them and its so much worse. The sickly sweaty smell is all the worse for being able to see the tainted fumes. Skin used to be rough and dimpled, now you know it's because everyone is rotting, weakened flesh ready ... | 2018-10-29T07:28:13 | 2018-10-29T06:43:53 | 111 | 31 |
[WP] In the afterlife each religion has its own walled city in which their god or pantheon protects the believers within from the soul-gnawing horrors outside, while atheists are left on their own
Shoutout to u/Tonkarz who had the [idea](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7eao4f/exreligious_people_of_reddit_w... | "Welcome to the afterlife."
Martin looked around, from the overcast and grey clouds to the flat and slightly beige ground. He couldn't see anyone except the elderly lady who had greeted him. She seemed bored.
"Where am I?" he asked.
"Since you ended out here, with us non-believers, you're in the atheist afterlife."
... | I rest atop the verdant knoll in Elysium, right by our border. Our people come up here sometimes when they need to feel again. A constant drunken orgasm can numb you and make the high seem low. You can make the highs even higher if you muster the courage to stand near the wall--peer into the mist. It reminds us of our ... | 2017-11-21T07:28:42 | 2017-11-21T07:14:56 | 50 | 21 |
[WP] You are an inspector of the Federal Bureau of Dungeon Safety And Adventurer Fairness. This one is a serious violation to the codes.
Feel free to drop the Adventurer Fairness if you don't like it. | “What meaning of this?” Asked Skrum the Red.
The inspector clicked his pen and stared at the clip board, “Because Mr. Skrum...”
“Me am LORD Skrum little man. I no conquer tri-countryside area to be call MR.”
“Very well then LORD Skrum, Butcher of Westhaven, Skull forger of Gothrar, Dark Shadow of Callistar, and Lord... | So here I am, inspecting the dungeon of some mad scientist. Normal Friday, nothing special. See, my job is to keep balance in this world. We all know that this is a fantasy world, but the players don't realize that it's real. What they see as numbers, we see as everyday life. The boss trains his minions, crafting their... | 2018-11-26T12:02:02 | 2018-11-26T11:39:13 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] It is 2026. All major governments have been overthrown by one singular world power, who now intends to rule over us all “for our own good.” It’s Canada.
Edit: You guys. These are so, so great! I’d told my husband I was going to give gold to my favorite and I’m STRUGGLING to decide. Haven’t read them all yet but a... | I've only been to the Federal Maple Reserve once- and that was in fifth grade, for a field trip. I still remember the enormous cylindrical storage tanks, thousands of feet high, holding the precious resource. A resource that, through years of genetic engineering, we'd discovered how to rapidly create. Now, the fores... | It's the winter that should've given it away.
Don't look at me like that. There are four seasons in most places. There used to be four seasons in most places. Maybe you've heard of a few. Spring, Fall. Winter.
It's been winter for ages. We should've seen it coming.
The great cooling, the greatest day of them all, on... | 2018-04-02T20:46:45 | 2018-04-02T19:37:28 | 1,634 | 163 |
[WP] You are the Chosen One. The Dark Overlord is currently trying to seduce you to their cause. To their great surprise, you accept almost immediately because you absolutely loathe your job and your companions. | "...and together, we will rule the world!"
"Ok, sounds good to me." She shrugged.
"Then if you will not join me, I will DESTROY," he paused, "wait, what?" The Dark Lord blinked.
"Yeah, I'll join up. This chosen one bullshit is for the birds."
"I... No one has ever accepted my offer before. Why would you turn yo... | "You know," The Succubus said after a moment's hesitation. "I didn't think it was going to be that easy... I-I had charts planned."
"Look Salem, after what I've been through... I think it warrants a break." I replied.
"Well uh... I'll get us some wine then! To celebrate I suppose..."
\----
Salem and I spent most o... | 2019-09-26T06:10:15 | 2019-09-26T05:34:48 | 1,685 | 476 |
[WP] There’s an urban legend that’s been circulating around for decades about a taxi cab that doesn’t take you where you want to go, but where you need to go. One night, you step into that cab. | The rain never stops. I can't remember the last time I saw the sun; felt the warmth on my skin, bathing in that heavenly light. It's gone now. I don't know when it will come back, if that is even a possibility.
I stood there, on the side of that road, waiting for something. Anything. I guess I really didn't know what ... | “Taxi!” I yell as I stand on the side of the street. I normally would’ve yielded an uber, but I saw the taxi rounding the corner. The car stops right in front of me. I get inside and set my bag down next to me.
“Madison and State.” I instruct.
“Alright, you seeing a show?” The Driver asks.
“Yes, I got tickets to Ha... | 2018-12-26T14:35:42 | 2018-12-26T13:35:01 | 97 | 49 |
[WP] You are immortal and have been working on an alien ship for the last 80 years alongside aliens that have a much longer life span than humans. They have begun to notice your lack of aging in your time spent with them. | "Would now be a bad time?" A sigh escapes Tobias Crane as he gets up from the console. Cracking his spine, he responds with the barest hint of intrigue he can manage. "Depends. Do you like being pulled into gravitational wells? No big deal, I don't judge. Everyone's got their kinks-" Teraloe threw his, appendages? (He ... | "Hey man are you immortal or something?" the humanoid alien with translucent blue skin jested. I know him as Lupe, although his name in his native language is unpronounceable with a human tongue.
"Yes," I replied matter of factly.
"No, seriously," Lupe's face turned a shade of mint green, indicating he was feeling te... | 2020-02-25T09:25:01 | 2020-02-25T08:18:15 | 79 | 21 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | "I don't get it, how? How did you do it" the warden said as he signed the release form.
"That's the thing, I didn't do anything, you guys did with your stipulations and what not" I said grinning at the warden.
If my requested last meal wasn't prepared and ready for me within a year, I'd be a free man is what they had... | The dark, cold cell is lighting up as the guard opens the small window.
-So what would you like to have as your last meal?
-I would like to have my mother's chicken soup, made from the chicken I raised myself since it was only an egg.
-You guys are awesome. Never cease to amaze me. I will get back to you on that... | 2022-07-17T20:01:08 | 2022-07-17T19:59:11 | 129 | 15 |
[WP] Since the age of 14, you’ve noticed a monster stalking you. A few years later, you’ve noticed that it seems very protective over you and will even go through extreme lengths to protect you. It’s usually friendly, but it seems threatening when your childhood friend is around. | When I was a little boy I always had the same nightmare over and over. Every night I would dream of a hulking monster with long, wicked claws, sharp fangs which grew far past its mouth, and always it would follow me. It got to the point where my parents put me in therapy, because I could not shake these nightmares.
N... | That night replays sometimes in my mind, that night I first saw him - it - him? I don't really know what to call it... The rational part of me pushes me to say "it", to make it somehow less real than I feel it be. The part of me that can't deny his shadow stretching from mine at night or his whispers in my ears knows i... | 2020-12-18T11:58:36 | 2020-12-18T10:37:16 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] For your girlfriend's birthday you give her an 'anything you want' coupon, which she uses to jokingly ask for a million dollars. The next day you come home with a duffel bag, throwing it on the floor in front of your girlfriend.
[deleted] | I open the door with a huge grin. I want this to feel like the movies, so I picked up the perfect black duffel bag at the thrift shop: worn down, black, and real leather. I slam the door, walk into the living room, and throw it toward her. It hits a few feet from the couch and slides the rest of the way. Perfect shot.
... | "What is this?" she shouted. She did not seem happy. "Umm... you said you wanted a million dollars," I replied. Man! women can be a little too much at times. "What did you do?" She asked. She still seemed to be upset. A little tense maybe. It was kind of starting to concern me now. "I went and got your gift... Do you w... | 2019-07-30T11:10:56 | 2019-07-30T08:06:19 | 26 | 11 |
[WP] Everyone's 2017 New Year's resolutions were legally binding. Government forces are preparing to arrest and punish those who failed starting tomorrow. | Donnie lives in a trailer, which has a rebel flag draped over it. He has a Swastika tattoo on his calf, the Star of David on his neck, the Latin Kings insignia on his thigh (even though he's white), a Bloods tattoo on his stomach, and a Crips tattoo on his chest. This was part of his flawed strategy to keep himself fro... | Well, here I am. Waiting on prison's door just because I had too much faith in myself.
I honestly thought it was the right thing.
I honestly thought it was a good moral decision.
**I was clearly wrong**.
-----
On my first day back to work from last Christmas, I happened upon a small animal. It seemed to be stuck i... | 2017-12-31T08:58:01 | 2017-12-31T04:47:16 | 58 | 19 |
[WP] Write a horror story where "we need to split up" actually makes sense. | "Guys, we need to split up." Nobody responded, so he continued: "I know it seems like if we do split up, we'll get killed, but really we don't have any realistic options otherwise."
Still nothing, he glanced back for affirmation of his words, although he was only met with pursed lips. "C'mon, let's be real here, there... | "I don't think I'm gonna fit" Eric winced as he dropped down to one knee, peering into the small opening. There was some source of light pouring from the hole, illuminating the room. His leg throbbed from the open wound on his calf, where he'd been hacked into barely 10 minutes ago. Adrenaline began to wear off as they... | 2022-02-19T17:31:55 | 2022-02-19T16:40:57 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] People only age when they move. Some folks live for centuries, only leaving home to buy groceries. Others age quickly, traveling from town to town. Today, you meet someone who claims to have traveled the world. The odd thing is, they only look 10 years old. | Affluence has it's perks, I suppose.
I am halfway through my life, in just a few dozen years, having only seen my hometown, and experiencing the world through books and pictures. But this young man (who looks scarcely older than a child) has traveled the globe, and has been to every populated continent on the planet. ... | The day was nice. I had left my home only for the necessities. Bread, eggs, and gallons of water filled my cart. I bought in bulk, always in bulk. It was how I was taught as a child. My clothes were bought all at once and the only things we ever left home for were groceries, funerals, and weddings.
On this particular... | 2020-08-01T14:49:25 | 2020-08-01T13:43:53 | 29 | 14 |
[WP] The Bestiary of the Multiverse is a really, really thick book. Updated every two days. It works like a wierd magical Wikipedia, really. You are the mod, and sometimes find real gems between all of the mundane animals. Write your favorite page of this bestiary. | **The Somaspore**
The Somaspore is a most peculiar creature that is found in varying dimensions and habitats across the multi-verse; this creature is truly a wonder of reproductive science. For this reason, one should take great care when spotting or handling a Somaspore and familiarize oneself with local laws and reg... | The Makkipodo.
On a planet far away from anything really, is a beast called the Makkipodo. It lives a solitary life not often mingling with other Makkipodos. The creature stands about twenty feet tall at its full height, but is often found using both sets of limbs to propel it along the ground. These limbs have a st... | 2022-12-11T12:01:31 | 2022-12-11T10:53:13 | 268 | 38 |
[WP] A small village becomes fearful of a dragon that has taken residence near them. The dragonslayer they hired runs back to the village after the first day and begins rapidly packing his things. "It's not the dragon that you should be afraid of" He says. "It's the thing its protecting you from." | "The Dragon? Protecting us? Preposterous!"
The elder of the village stood in the market square, with nearly the entire village behind him, blocking the Hunter's route out of town. The hunter, blocked off from anywhere other than the Inn he'd just left, desperately glanced around for any kind of understanding in the cr... | It had been six weeks since the dragon had taken up residence in the small village of Glendore. Many brave warriors were sent to attempt to fight it, but each attempt was met in vain. No matter how many times they attempted to stab the dragon, shove it, or even scream at it in frustration, the dragon never so much as b... | 2019-12-31T05:13:36 | 2019-12-31T00:01:30 | 115 | 31 |
[WP]You are an omnipotent god. Out of boredom you decided to live an ordinary human life vowing not to use your power. 15 years has pass and you have a 9 to 5 working for a major tech company. Your boss has been tormenting you for years and you have reach your limit | After living for eternity, you would have thought that I could hack a nine to five job for a mere ten years. Add on the fact I'm pretty much the most powerful thing in existence, you would definitely think I could hack a nine to five job for a a decade.
You would be completely right.
Or well, you would have been comp... | James and Robert sat the bar. They were taking shots and complaining about their boss Dylan. Regular Friday night stuff.
"That's it. Fuck this guy. I'm gonna kill his wife."
"Jim you can't say shit like that man."
"Wouldn't be first time I fucked over someone to prove a point."
"What?"
"Nevermind man don't worry a... | 2017-02-19T07:52:51 | 2017-02-19T07:20:19 | 5,696 | 203 |
[WP] The government has chosen your town for a social experiment: every day, a new citizen will be elected, and s/he can do whatever they want to anyone without any legal consequences. Everyone else must obey and not retaliate, else their collars would detonate. You're the only one alive after day 9 | Day 1: Robert the conservative became the mayor and told us taxes were tyranny and the town’s tax rate would henceforth be 0%. The people hailed him as a hero and life was good.
Day 2: Debbie the liberal became the mayor and told us healthcare, food and water would henceforth be free. The people cheered her on as a ... | **Part I**
I woke up to the sounds of sirens. My room was filled with flashing lights, illuminating everything in short intervals.
"*Mmnng . . ."*
Still half asleep, I dragged myself up and closed the blinds. I lay down and turned over, facing away from the window.
*It's probably some idiot and his faulty car . . .... | 2022-11-18T13:47:40 | 2022-11-18T13:38:39 | 711 | 54 |
[WP] Abraham: "No, I will not sacrifice my son. I refuse to worship a God who asks for the death of children" | "Good."
Abraham frowned. "Wait what?"
"This was a test. I demand much of my children, but i will not make them violate that law." god replied. "Life is the most percious gift to you... you know, I can already see timelines where you do it because you have faith i provide an alternative to you, my son, or because you... | God smiled. "Congratulations, Abraham. When you haggled with Me over Sodom and Gomorrah, I was pleased. I seek to engage with people and connect to them, and by bargaining with Me to spare a city your nephew was in but was otherwise full of strangers you found favor in My sight."
He spread his arms wide. "Across t... | 2021-04-20T10:51:31 | 2021-04-20T09:06:43 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] All bodies of water across the world randomly freeze at the top. The ice is unbreakable, but everyone trapped under the ice is suddenly able to breath underwater. Everyone trapped underwater loses contact with the world above. After years of isolation, the water ice finally breaks.
Water’s*;) | "You can't imagine how horrible it was!"
I nodded calmly as my current patient told me her story. This wasn't the first person I had treated, nor would it be the last. This traumatic event affected everyone, whether they were Swimmers or not.
My last patient had been the only member of her family who had been on the... | New Yorker reports the ice has broken! We will finally be able to find out what happened to our lost family and friends.
Oh how wholesome, you think while rolling your eyes. I mean having your father and brother abandon the family without a call can make you a lot of things. Apathetic is what you landed on. Apathetic ... | 2018-07-05T17:06:21 | 2018-07-05T13:59:20 | 34 | 23 |
[WP] A magic system where being left or right handed affects the effects of the spells | Left handed folks have it easy. So easy. When your right handed, you have to spend money if you want components.
Real money.
We're talking 10 fold what those lefties pay. Why? Why does grinding up charcoal on a full moon make a more potent healing potion? Who knows!
Lefties are so lucky in other ways. Romance? Soo... | Hamolin swore loudly as he dove for cover. The robed bastard tossing ribbons of fire at him was a mollydooker.
In his four years as a royal enforcer, Hamolin had only ever encountered one other arcanely-abled individual who wove spells with their left hand. The unnatural state of such magical expression rendered his... | 2022-09-25T09:11:13 | 2022-09-25T08:51:07 | 56 | 13 |
[WP] The army operates on a strictly merit based promotion system. At first, giving the bear a medal for honorable service was just a joke. The bear, however, keeps meeting the legal requirements to advance, and is getting uncomfortably high in rank. | “Gentlemen,” Shah began. “Captain,” he added to the one female in the briefing room. She didn’t nod back. Operators are like dogs, his mentor had warned him. They can smell fear. The key to briefing them was total confidence. “I’d like you to meet Objective ARTHUR.”
A dozen hard faces looked particularly frozen as Sha... | He shuffled in. “How can we possibly deflect this development from turning into a devastating debacle”, he thought. The blond-haired, stout gentleman had been attempting to shake these concerns off for a while; somehow, irregardless of what they did, their plans always the opposite effect.
His paunch ally saluted him... | 2022-07-21T13:06:54 | 2022-07-21T09:36:35 | 88 | 40 |
[WP] The first manned mission to Mars is going as planned. As soon as the crew passes the moon, however, a message appears to them: "Warning. You are leaving the playable area." | [Poem]
My dearest Emily,
 
I know we've had our ups and downs.
I know we've shared laughs,
I know we've shared frowns.
I might have overreacted, leaving the earth in a wonky spacecraft.
 
But you must understand:
it's a wonderful chance, to do something great!
It's a wonderful opportunity, ... | "Warning. You are leaving the playable area."
The message flashed across every crew member. Even when they shut their eyes the message could still be seen by them.
"You are not ready."
The crew started to panic. Some were crying. Some were screaming. Some were saying their last prayers. But not captain Meyers. He alw... | 2020-01-08T04:24:08 | 2020-01-08T03:23:12 | 34 | 17 |
[WP] A zombie apocalypse has broken out and much to the dismay of the zombies, their flesh is surprisingly tasty and has addictive properties, leading to humans actively charging at zombies and devouring them as their undead brethren watch in shock. | "Hey kids! It's me, Rombie the DARE Zombie. Your teachers asked me to come give this speech here at Noshington Middle School today to tell you that eating zombies is totally not cool.
"You're in middle school now, and you may hear kids talking about eating zombies, but I'm hear to let you know that it's okay to say n... | At first they hunted us, and we fled, and we died. Pop culture had conditioned us to fear them, to "aim for the head", to hole up, ride it out, to wait for the army.
It took a very, very hungry person to be the first to try it. I mean, who in their right mind would willingly cook and eat a zombie?
The weird thing i... | 2018-09-26T20:42:23 | 2018-09-26T16:51:03 | 61 | 43 |
[WP] You are a professional bounty hunter. You specialize in hunting targets who are immortal. It impossible to kill them but over the years you have used various creative ways to ‘kill’ them. | It may not be the prettiest job. But dealing with unrowdy Immortals does pay a fair bit.
i've been employed by everyone. From the italian maffia to world governments. How do i do it?
It's quite simple really. Deprive an immortal of oxygen and he will still go unconscious.
And all you have to do then is bury them. T... | You stare into the mirror, the water running freely. Your phone pings, It's Florence, he's got another job.
You think it's hilarious how often he calls you, after all killing Immortals is considered impossible, and it is though you have your ways. There's a tap on the mirror, you look up and smile at the mirror, a ref... | 2019-12-26T12:15:19 | 2019-12-26T12:05:34 | 33 | 12 |
[WP] When a person dies, their body evaporates into butterflies. One day, as the sky goes dark, you look up to see the sun blocked by an unending cloud of butterflies. | ONE DAY,
A day that is not a day, but boundless smaller days, a day where points become planes and all the finite moments stretch into paper thin filaments of time. And now you know, you know that this is how it always was, how it will be forever. If only your time had come sooner.
AS THE SKY GOES DARK,
Which is the... | It happened just five days ago. Someone's body just exploded and butterflies came out. There was disbelief, but then it was caught on tape, and finally live across the world live on tv. There was no mistake, dead people were turning into butterflies.
The next few days was chaos. Religions formed, and the old ones die... | 2014-09-25T20:21:42 | 2014-09-25T19:58:47 | 233 | 51 |
[WP] A superhero chases a villain into a dark warehouse, only to have the doors close behind them. When the lights come on, the hero is surrounded by the full rogues gallery of supervillains. But this isn't an ambush... It's an intervention. | The riddle had led him to the end of Dusty Drive, a warehouse almost as nightmarish as what came out of Scarecrow. The name was befitting, there was nobody around, Batman thought, a perfect hideout for the Riddler. What sick trap he had planned for him, he didn't know. Under the cover of darkness, he crept up to the do... | Part 1:
I turn the corner into a blind alley and see the Jester standing alone at the far end. Clouds prance across the sky, blocking the glow of moonlight illuminating the wet city pavement. A flickering electronic hum of street lamps buzz in the empty night.
“Stop running, fiend!” I pause to catch my breath. “Justi... | 2017-01-19T00:10:43 | 2017-01-18T23:20:43 | 64 | 17 |
[WP] All the other druids in your class spent their time speaking with wolves or communing with bears. They all made fun of you, but now they see how powerful your chosen, if rather atypical, animal friends can really be. | The academy was preparing for the traditional yearly tournament. It was a rare occasion to celebrate.
Sometimes fresh talent is very valuable.
As such everyone wanted to scout out promising candidates for future servants.
But this tale is not of the nobles nor the future servants.
This tale is of the "Quilgesh".
Qui... | Im not like most Druids. A generic, typical Druid would go out, embrace nature, speak with trees and animals, and commune to find inner peace and meaning. Those psychopaths in the grove rely on the forest and animals to protect them with a little bit of manipulation magic to keep people out. Blah blah blah. They’re nai... | 2022-10-08T15:57:20 | 2022-10-08T15:41:06 | 57 | 28 |
[Wp] Write a story with a secret message hidden inside
Edit: If any readers figure out the answer or if you, the writer, wish to let the reader know, please include the answer (or assumed answer) in the comments as a spoiler. | Hi mommy! i know you are worried about me but please don't be, i'm okay.
Every day is awesome here, uncle can be strict at times, but he gives me lots and lots of pizzas! how are you?
Lovely, i hope. and how is dad doing? i hope he recovered from bankruptcy.
Please tell him i miss him too and i hope he is doing o... | Never did I thought it would be this way.
Going through life, a day at a time.
To the best of my ability, I try to live well.
Give all that I am, never less than the best.
You, my dearest companion, I give my all.
Up and down, you've been by my side through it all.
Never will I abandon you.
Going and comi... | 2017-06-23T08:46:15 | 2017-06-23T08:05:40 | 50 | 32 |
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