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[WP] “He’s dead....finally that son of a bitch got what he deserved” Charlie said as he reads the headline of the news paper. “Candy Extraordinaire Wonka has passed away”. Now, Charlie sits, and remembers the true events of the day he and the other children visited Wonka’s Factory. | When I was a child I idolized him. And only when I began to enter adulthood did I really see how much of a monster he was. His insatiable greed which drove his every decision, not to mention his childish recklessness and sick mind games. He was no better than those four children he so pretentiously derided as they were... | “There you go, Grandpa Joe,” Charlie sighed as he fastened his grandfather’s diaper.
“What’ssat sposed tuh mean?” Grandpa Joe slurred angrily, as he immediately began to wet himself again. “Wha’d you call me, you spiteful little bassard?”
“I didn’t call you anything, Grandpa Joe,” Charlie mumbled. Grandpa Joe had s... | 2019-03-21T10:38:18 | 2019-03-21T10:19:04 | 179 | 106 |
[WP] You're the unappreciated intern for a famous group of Superheroes. Your power? You can boil water. All you do is make tea for them while they laugh and drink in their hideout. Little do they know that you've got dreams of becoming the Worst Villain ever. After all, a human is over 70% water... | The Instant Kettle. That's what my "Super Heroic Temporary Title" is. Granted, I'm to blame for that, instead of properly explaining my power I decided to be a smart ass. So of course when they asked what my power was, I skipped answering that question in favor of the practical one. And I caused the water to boil in hi... | My name is Miles Brandenburg and they say you should never meet your heroes, and, if anything, the past six months of my life have been living proof of that. Like most kids growing up, I worshipped Commander Titan and The Mighty. I had his poster on my wall, along with the rest of The Mighty—Ajax, Artemis, and Strangel... | 2019-07-30T14:48:32 | 2019-07-30T14:38:27 | 965 | 514 |
[WP] They've just invented a 500,000 frame per second video camera. The problem is that they've found something unexpected at those speeds | It all started when someone asked the question, "What if we could?" As with most creations, what drove us to create was simply our quest for answering that question. What if we could? What would we see?
The science was difficult, to say the least. To put it into perspective, it was easier to slow down the frames... | Barry couldn't believe his eyes. All his wildest imaginations, which he had pushed back into the corners of his mind turned out to be true.
It had been his project, and he had gotten the founding from some eccentric millionaire, as no government agency would support him: Putting high speed camera on buoys in an especi... | 2015-02-06T14:36:14 | 2015-02-06T14:34:08 | 26 | 11 |
[WP] You’re a peasant who’s house has been raided hundreds of times by adventurers passing through. So, you built a defense so they would stop stealing from you. One thing led to another, and your house is now a dungeon and you’re the final boss. | **Oak Village.**
It was located on the border of the Earth and Central Province, near the southern tip of the Main Capital, outside a patch of small woodlands near the Great Forest of Kao.
For a frontier settlement, its population was unexceptional — a hundred souls, distributed among twenty families.
In turn, this ... | A peaceful house in a nice village they said.
Come spend the evening of your life in Redfall they said.
I was sitting with my head staff in the meeting room. Everyone was looking on the ground. Not daring to lift their heads. Not because they could catch the wrath of some overlord.
We just got news one of the wises... | 2018-05-28T16:18:16 | 2018-05-28T14:52:00 | 78 | 38 |
[WP] Every person in the world develops a weird mutation/power the day they turn 16. Everyone's powers are always different, some more insignificant than others. You turn 16, and watch as all your friends discover their newfound ability's. That is, until you discover the severity of your own. | Day 1.
Sigh..... As I wake up on my 16th birthday I knew it would happen. I was dreading it. I didn't want it, I didn't need it. I didn't believe in it. My parents had useful powers though as much as they hated it. Dad being a doctor of course managed to heal people at a touch. Mum being the cook that she was never ne... | "What do you mean I am *normal*" Mellanie screamed at the poor doctor.
He was desperately trying to maintain his composure, stuttering as he tried to begin speaking between her outbursts.
"No, no it's not like that. Mellanie please, listen to me." he pleaded, waving a clipboard over his head like a mother getting an ... | 2015-01-21T22:46:38 | 2015-01-21T20:05:45 | 62 | 36 |
[WP] The bride is having an affair with the best man. During his wedding speech the best man decides to see how heavily he can hint about it without anyone actually working it out. | "Please everyone be upstanding to welcome the best man."
Applause rang around the reception hall as the best man accepted the microphone from the MC and beamed widely at the now captive audience.
"For those of you that don't know me, my name is Jeff, and I'm the best man. Which is about the only thing the new bride ... | Congrats to my best friends Kyle and Erin on their recent marriage! Sorry about the lack of presence this week bud, I've been busy doing errands. I mean, its been tough keeping up with all of it. Just constantly running around with errands to do. First the thing at the yacht club. That was the first one. It was a huge ... | 2015-04-02T22:21:01 | 2015-04-02T22:11:05 | 55 | 15 |
[WP] Your 14-year-old sister finally wakes up from a coma of 6 years. She panics when she realizes how much she's grown. | Her blue eye opened first. Daisy was one of a kind in every single aspect of life, right down to her multicolored eyes. One blue and one brown. She had been out of my life for six years, and sadly she would leave me again a few days after waking from her coma. Only this time it would be forever.
Daisy and I were twin... | White used to be her favorite color.
Vanilla ice cream and
Clouds and
Cotton now
Sheets and
Gloves and
Doctors.
There was strange inconsistency
In how her eyes still were the same
Even though all the rest had changed.
She was still my little sister.
Even with eyes trembling
Hands shaking, grasping, sear... | 2017-08-02T06:46:21 | 2017-08-02T06:45:19 | 37 | 15 |
[WP] After a screw up occurs at the post office, Santa starts receiving damned souls while Satan is stuck with thousands of wish lists. | Satan sat slumped on his throne, glaring at the UPS delivery guy.
"You know this isn't mine. Come on man.." He says but the driver simply throws the mail sack back at him and sprints in terror back to his truck. Satan watches the taillights, the driver hightailing it to the highway back home.
Slowly shaking his head... |
It was, rather unsurprisingly, snowing in Lapland. It pounded upon the ice, compacting it denser than the toughest steel. Just visible through the relentless snowstorm was the faint silhouette of a large cabin.
It looked big. *Far* to big to be structurally sound, and yet, the aging wood brushed off the fe... | 2015-07-17T13:00:30 | 2015-07-17T11:52:11 | 32 | 19 |
[WP] In your meth class, while your teacher is busy explaining the correct way to shoot up, your buddy leans over with a calculator and asks you, "hey, man. Do you wanna try some math?" | "Shhh, keep your voice down!" I whispered, as the girl beside me shot us a dirty look while she slapped her forearm, trying to locate a vein. My buddy leaned his head in closer.
"What? My brother and his friends were doing it the other night and they let me try a little. Man, it was so invigorating!"
"That shit's fo... | Meth class is so boring! I understand the class is supposed to be the introduction into meth, to learn about the effects of Meth and all that, but this is insane. The teacher has a visual diagram of the needle naming the parts and the safe dosage against the dangerous dosage. My dad does meth 4 times a day, 3 of them o... | 2017-12-14T13:29:30 | 2017-12-14T13:19:46 | 391 | 97 |
[WP] You're a special genie. You allow whoever finds you to re-experience three events that happened in their life for the first time again. Some people choose to re-experience a great movie as if watching it for the first time, some re-live their first kiss. Your latest request sounds quite odd. | "How specific do I have to be?" Noah asked. His light brown eyes were ablaze with a curious light. The geenie had a feeling that this person was not like the others.
"If you can't think of a time, as long as you can specify the event relative to yourself. For example if you want to say I want to remember the time I me... | “Well, what will it be?” asked the Genie, always enjoying the final wish the most. It never ceased to amaze the Genie what people would seek to relive when they are down to their last wish.
The young woman stared at the Genie with a perplexed look on her face. She had sat with that same look for quite some time no... | 2017-09-16T17:23:28 | 2017-09-16T13:41:47 | 142 | 78 |
[WP] The Apocalypse begins, and the Four Horsemen ride out leading an army that will depopulate Earth. But the old pagan deities of Earth do not consent, and side with humanity. | They were no army, but only four.
War, famine, pesitlence, and death.
A ballad of destruction, a symphony of the end.
No man could stand to them, for they were gods. But humanity were not on their own.
With them stood a millenia of belief.
The old gods.
As the four stood upon a hill, overlooking the old world. The ... | "We will not have it." Neith stamped her staff on the rotted Earth three times, "I say we will not have it."
Death rode his faithful steed above her. She did not raise her head. She did not raise her voice. And yet, her volume bolted to the skies, daring whatever plague he and his brethren intended to strike down onto... | 2018-05-17T07:56:16 | 2018-05-17T07:47:41 | 69 | 40 |
[WP] The absolute worst opening line to a novel you can come up with.
must be coherent | Unfortunately, I think all of our efforts are drowned by that black hole of horror, *My Immortal:*
>Hi my name is Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way and I have long ebony black hair (that’s how I got my name) with purple streaks and red tips that reaches my mid-back and icy blue eyes like limpid tears and a lot of ... | A UPS man walked up the driveway to a suburban house to deliver a cardboard package at the doorstep, then got back into his truck to drive away, but as soon as he started up the engine his truck was hit by another, larger truck, and the UPS man died, because life is cruel. | 2014-01-14T19:35:53 | 2014-01-14T18:20:58 | 59 | 27 |
[WP] Aliens have invaded Earth. Instead of attacking, they find the human race remarkably cute and decide to keep them as pets. It’s quite degrading, but it’s better than being eaten- right? | “Where is your ruffle? You should have your ruffle on by now.” Fizmik started looking through my closet. Ugh, ruffles!
“Oh god, stop. I’m telling you we haven’t worn ruffles for like 600 years!” The Bhu are certainly benevolent overlords, but they just don’t get fashion at all. They saw, early in their first visi... | They're telepathic. They speak every language. Their voices are a beautiful harmony of countless notes layered upon each other in an ever-changing symphony of chords made of melodies, of which humans can only hear a small fraction. Dogs can hear slightly more.
"Music is the language of the gods."
Zach was 15 when the... | 2018-04-16T09:16:23 | 2018-04-16T07:52:05 | 59 | 10 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | I scanned the horizon once more, wondering when my summoned item would arrive. I also wondered if there was a chance it was a person, and that they would simply appear in the antechamber of my home, like they always do. I shuddered at the thought of another human being forced upon me under the guise of a "soulmate". I ... | In this city, when people turn 18 they summon something that will be very important to their life. Some summon swords, or spears and others summon simple tools needed for various trades. My mother had summoned a needle which she used to sew together some of the finest pieces of clothing in all the land while my father... | 2019-09-18T09:27:31 | 2019-09-18T08:42:40 | 123 | 72 |
[WP]You adopt a stray cat. The gifts it leaves on your bed are getting more concerning. | I thought it was adorable at first. It started a few days after I brought her home. I had a giant potted plant in my living room. It's leaves were bigger than the cats head. She would rip an entire leaf off the plant, and carry it all the way up the stairs, down the hall to my bedroom and leave it on my bed.
It was ... | I couldn’t turn away fast enough. I immediately slammed the door closed and screamed “WHAT THE FUCK!!” in utter disbelief of the image forever now branded into my deepest synapsis. Atoms overloaded, neurons on all cylinders, new pathways forged instantaneously. Milliseconds turned into centuries as I barely made two st... | 2021-12-17T07:06:19 | 2021-12-17T07:05:33 | 47 | 10 |
[WP] The dark sorceress kidnaps the infant prince of a powerful kingdom, the only son of a king still grieving the loss of his wife. While caring for the child and negotiating the surrender of the king, she finds herself falling for the bereaved ruler, and his bubbly infant son | She'd known the queen, before she had died. They hadn't been friends, merely acquaintances. But she'd liked her. Witty, yet also polite, charming and charismatic. She had an attractive nature to her, practically everyone had liked her. Her many vapid suitors had called her the most attractive woman in the world, and th... | The guttering candles make the shadows tremble. I combine the brimstone and saltpeter with the soot from yesterdays bonfire and daub the mixture in a circle on the floor. I arrange the fabric on the bone rack, then use a black candle to set the mixture alight.
​
I pull shadow down from the wall, wrap myse... | 2020-12-03T09:45:57 | 2020-12-03T08:51:07 | 73 | 37 |
[WP] One day, in an industrial accident, fire is found to have a new use. One we would have never expected. | "Holy shit, Jim, you have to come see this."
I held out my hand, still wrapped in black plastic. The same material that made up all of our suits, which we wore mainly to protect us from the chemicals we worked with.
"So what?" Jim said. "You're wearing your gloves. We all wear them." He held up his own hands, showing... | Screams of pleasure and acid
Wash over the little children
Leaving nothing but bones
.
Shattered fingernails and teeth
Rip my eyes from me
And give them to the poor
.
"It's okay, Ma'am"
Brilliant darkness is unpure
Licking at my toes
.
Orange agony fills them
But pain is not present
Fire cle... | 2015-03-25T10:38:54 | 2015-03-25T10:15:32 | 128 | 16 |
[WP] You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the neck. You sure won't start monologuing if you have a hero at gunpoint. You're the deadliest villain in history. A villian without an ego..
[removed] | Look. I wanted to be theatrical. I really did. I come from a long line of villains. My father was the Dark Lord, and he raised me to be his heir, and rule with an iron fist. I still remember the first time Heroes broke into the castle and father dueled their Leader fairly one-on-one. He paused to give a monologue, and ... | There are rules, you see.
There's no rulebook, but everyone understands them. There have to be. The amount of time and money both sides invest demand it. Armies of henchmen. Million and *billion* dollar companies. Weapons that would make the pentagon blush. This to say nothing of *power*. A gun means nothing to a man ... | 2019-08-06T19:20:38 | 2019-08-06T19:15:11 | 167 | 44 |
[WP] You attend to a job interview. The thing is you don't know what job you are applying for, and the questions just keep getting weirder | “Alright Mr. Smith, before we get started can I get you anything? Coffee? Water?”
“No. Thank you though.”
“I see.” The hiring manager jotted a note on her legal pad.
“Ok, so let’s see here... so you’ve spent the last three years developing for Android platforms, is that correct?”
“Uhh, yeah...yes that is correct.... | There are some things that the government doesn't have to cover up. Things so strange they sound like they were born in fixture, or in the mind of a crackpot conspiracy theorist. Things so insane that, even if you heard of them, you'd bet your life savings that they were false.
Over twenty years ago, the Crenshaw exp... | 2016-04-05T16:09:28 | 2016-04-05T15:45:33 | 81 | 31 |
[WP] Torture was never invented. Countries instead spoil prisoners like kings to get information out of them. You are an instructor tasked with training spies to resist the enemy's kindness. | "What if they invite you to a banquet?"
"I'll nod politely, eat, drink and refuse to give any information."
The instructor nodded. "What about parties?"
"Is this really relevant? I don’t –"
"Parties are a *huge* part of how the enemy gets information out of you, agent! They'll throw amazing black tie
parties just ... | **The drip of water echoed like gunshots.**
Blindfolded and bruised, Luce tried squash the fear that threatened to grab hold of her stomach, and fling it out of her throat.
Her wrists and her legs were bound tight enough to make her limbs numb. To her left and right, she could make out the sounds of at least two oth... | 2016-04-13T06:42:59 | 2016-04-13T06:29:55 | 230 | 68 |
[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 you,
I've always meant to write this letter to you, but I was never able to really put it all together. We've gone through a lot together, to say the least.
I guess I just wanted to say thank you, for everything. For your generosity, for your openness, your pride, your confidence. I truly admire you as a person... | Dear You,
I don't know if you're there. If you exist anywhere in this world. Maybe you'll always be a concept in my mind of the kind of person I need to meet and say all of this to. If you're not there, then that's depressing. But if, somewhere, you exist...
I haven't been strong. I've been plagued with weakness in a... | 2015-12-05T15:18:49 | 2015-12-05T14:15:59 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] "Apologies, human. Unfortunately, you were accidentally killed by a glactic federation officer during an altercation on your planet. Currently we are constructing you a replacement body, and in return for your ensured silence on our existence, I wanted to ask if you wanted anything... changed." | "Like.. Anything, anything?"
"Well anything about your physical body, we can't grant wishes, just make alterations"
"So if I were to say... I don't know... Make me a girl, you would do it?"
"Of course human, but why would you wish for us to change your sex?"
"Because otherwise it would cost tens of thousands of ... | "Anything" I said to the little voice in my head
"Yes" it responded
One billion thoughts rushed through my head, I could become a litteral god among men, no scratch that I could become a supermodel.
The thought that I could finnaly have 20/20 vision crossed my mind, and just like that poof this mist surrounded me.
"A... | 2019-10-28T09:59:28 | 2019-10-28T09:49:48 | 452 | 18 |
[WP] The year is 2040, and you are the last smoker alive. The "Quit Smoking" ads get personal. | They had stopped selling cigarettes 15 years ago. As soon as I had heard they were going to be taking them off the shelves I ran to the nearest convenience store to buy cigarettes. There was a huge line and they had just sold out as I got there. I People were selling large quantities online, so I decided to buy up as m... | It was 2040. The United States, most would agree, was in phenomenal shape. The economy was booming, contrary to what pundits predicted would become of President Karenna Gore's policies. The air and the water was clean. The average American was considerably healthier than just a decade ago. Nobody in the *world* even sm... | 2017-02-17T11:57:15 | 2017-02-17T10:43:36 | 1,322 | 174 |
[WP] Your Xbox Live friend is God. Unfortunately he's not very good at video games. | **"You know, I really don't know why you want to play such a violent game all the time. Isn't there anything nicer you want to play?"**
"Come on, G-Man, it'll be fun."
**"Hmm... well, I suppose you do only have a little bit of time left to enjoy this kind of thing."**
"What was that?"
**"Oh... nothing. Ooh, let's d... | "You don't have to hold back that much Dad."
"I know, but if I go all *serious* then I'll crash another multiplayer server."
"Do we have to tank our score every time though?"
"It's bonding time! Does it matter how well we do?"
"No."
"See? Then lets load up another---"
"But it *does* matter if you aren't pla... | 2016-02-25T21:59:47 | 2016-02-25T19:03:11 | 251 | 39 |
[WP] Cthulhu opens a portal to the mortal plane to attack Earth and is promptly blown to pieces by space guns. Now a group of young eldritch horror adventurers sets out on an epic quest to close the portal and stop the human invasion of their world.
Space guns are mentioned, because I'd really like to see a story with... | Dark's fabric hung in tatters, a curtain so wide that it seemed endless, spanning forever and ever as a barrier between worlds. Beyond it was black, and that blackness made the dark seem a nightlight in the world of the Gods.
They had come ready, the void inside growing colder and emptier. They had been hungry, yes, ... | Chunks of Cthulhu's form were blown back through portal, splattering the Eldritch Plane like great gobs of apricot jam.
The shimmering blobs coated the landscape, and Zruila's stunned face, before slowly dissolving into the starlight and ether that had formed them.
There was a moment of eternal silence that lasted al... | 2017-09-27T08:12:07 | 2017-09-27T07:44:31 | 100 | 16 |
[WP] While cleaning your attic, you find a box of glass balls with names on them. You accidentally drop one, and as soon as it shatters, you hear your neighbor scream. Her husband has dropped dead. | The new house wasn't really what I'd hoped for.
Desperate to move out of my piece-of-crap rental, I'd bid on every house I could get a loan for - anything had to be better than an asshole landlord and a carpet that smelled like piss. If it was my own house, at least I could do something about the carpet.
Sadly, what ... | I hope this doesn’t break the rules in some way, but I wrote another WP earlier today and I thought that this one would make a good follow up. No obligation but if you want to read the “beginning” of this story, click [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/dr1hva/wp_you_invent_time_travel_and_the_first... | 2019-11-03T23:23:28 | 2019-11-03T19:55:00 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] It's 2050. The Queen is still alive. People are starting to be suspicious. | Quick edit for readability: a lot of comments are telling me the time skips aren't showing up on mobile, since you can't see the break lines. So I'll just add in dates.
Westminster Palace, 2050
Rodney Bradley eased himself to a stand and felt a series of clicks in his left knee. He straightened his back to a chorus o... | James Wright tapped his finger on the desk absently.
Another dead end. He had made a career out of following the royal families movements and reporting any peculiarities.
Why they never seem to age was easily waved away in the way of Hollywood stars. Lotions, potions and the best doctors money could buy.
However ... | 2022-09-28T19:15:05 | 2018-07-09T01:29:27 | 1,931 | 37 |
[WP] You die and find out that the diety with the most followers is in charge of the afterlife. Unfortunately, you also find out that animals have their own dieties - including ants who outnumber humans by over a million to one. | it's not so bad being dead. Yeah sure, it's almost entirely populated by ants and there's a stupid amount of hard labor to be done for ant god but you technically have eternity for just as much relaxing as hard labor. right now you're spending some of your eternity playing cards with a couple friends. Horace, Marge, an... | “Bloody hell!”
“Hey, quit complaining. This place is substantially better than hell, you have to admit that much.”
*Like hell I will. To think, one moment I’m enjoying a road trip with my best friend, next, we've driven into a lake, and then I suddenly find myself surrounded by giant, sentient ant monsters ordering ... | 2016-09-12T00:37:30 | 2016-09-11T21:55:41 | 101 | 14 |
[WP] Instead of a dystopia that seems like a utopia on the surface, write a story about a utopia that seems like a dystopia on the surface. | A lot of people were unhappy when the world went to shit, but not James Henderson. For him, it had all been a dream come true.
It started with drugs. Growing, refining, smuggling: James did it all. But he always knew that he wouldn't be limited to just one market. When war broke out in the Middle East yet again, one ... | The year is 2044. Chicago is in ruins. Drug dealers, kidnappers, scammers, rapists, all over the surface. Businesses are crumbling. Banks practically don't even exist. People fear for their life. The chance of a child younger than 25 joining a gang was 87%. You can hear gunshots all night long. But, underneath the city... | 2016-07-14T06:26:04 | 2016-07-14T04:39:28 | 2,263 | 205 |
[WP] You can make a lie become truth, but only one lie at a time, once it is a lie again everyone involved will know immediately. You’re on your deathbed, holding one lie as truth for decades. You know hell will break loose once you die and the lie becomes a lie, and everybody will know. | I have been a baker for many, many years. It wasn't always a passion or even something I thought I could do. I lied at a bar to impress someone and one thing led to another and here I am baking rolls and bread.
Another lie was that I had perfected that art of cake making. People believed it and flooded the store with ... | I think they would understand why I did it. The truth is terrifying at first, but ultimately has no immediate impact, and will not for some time. But it will still change everything. Except, it did not have to, at least, not yet, and that was the reason why I did it. Maybe I was selfish, maybe I just wanted to live ou... | 2022-11-18T09:05:17 | 2022-11-18T05:25:43 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] Dumbledore decides not to leave Harry Potter with the Dursley family. Instead young Potter is sent to Chicago and placed on the doorsteps of Harry Dresden's home.
Edit: Thanks for the gold! | "You're a wizard, Harry."
"What."
"And the only one we could find in the American phonebook. We were somewhat suprised, really," the old wizard glanced at me over his half-moon spectacles. He reminded me of the Merlin, if somewhat less grouchy. Still, the guy just popped into my office with five minutes warning, and ... | **Spoilers up to Dead Beat for the Dresden Files**
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The building was fire, and it wasn't my fault.
No, really.
Stop looking at me like that.
Chicago is my town. I'm the "Who you gonna call?" dude. Something bad happens in this city that's just a little weirder than weird? That's my thing. Good news is, ever si... | 2017-08-16T11:18:02 | 2017-08-16T10:51:07 | 470 | 42 |
[WP] People often attribute your success as a superhero to your power. However the truth is the power itself sucks, you just learnt how to use it well despite its limitations over the years, as one power stealing villain painfully learnt | I have been in the superhero game for a lot of years, since I was a preteen as a matter of fact, and have grown to become one of the best and most successful heroes in the world. I’ve served on countless minor teams from the Combat Kids to the New Crew and even spent a couple of years on Young Victory, the “feeder team... | ***GOO (Short story)***
Chapter One:
“The Gelatin! The Gelatin!” The people cry out my heroic name as I step through the masses to face the bank in which the tellers are being held hostage. “The Gelatin! The Gelatin!” Okay, I mean, my hero name sucks, but The Hero Association is the one that gives out names according... | 2020-12-02T11:03:41 | 2020-12-02T10:37:43 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] Every time you are late, you dodge an otherwise-fatal bullet. Miss a plane and it will crash, every time. Miss a job interview, the place will burn down. Today, despite leaving unfathomably early, you get stuck in gridlock on the way to your wedding. You begin to panic. | The traffic was horrible. That was an awful sign.
I wasn't late by much - I'd probably still get there about 5 minutes late - but that didn't matter, because if I arrive late, it's always to protect me from some disaster. I shouldn't have made that wish 10 years ago, but to be fair, I thought it was a joke. How was I ... | I tapped the steering wheel relentlessly. Deep breaths, Heila, deep breaths. The sky is a clear blue, the birds chirp relentlessly in the distance. It's reminding me of my trip to Hawai'i, actually. Five minutes late to a bus, next thing I know it's hit a gull and rolled into the ocean.
It's not easy, you know. I wish... | 2021-10-22T08:18:47 | 2021-10-21T20:42:22 | 152 | 73 |
[WP]Just because one of your chicken eggs hatched a fire breathing dragon people think you’re evil. But you’re still just a regular farmer trying to make a living while dealing with an overprotective dragon, heroes that want to kill you and fanatics who want to worship you as the new Demon Lord. | It had been 3 years since Dracona (I'm not that creative, but she seemed to still like it) was born, and we were wiping out yet another group of "brave adventurers". In reality they just wanted the glory of being able to say that they were the ones to take us out. Most people who had at least an ounce of sense in their... | FADE IN:
INT. A HUMBLE HUT -- SUNNY
*One man sits at the head of the table, head in his hands. This is FARMER. He is dressed simply, streaks of dirt decorating his face and arms.*
**FARMER:** My family name is literally Farmer. I farm. My father and his father before him farmed on this very piece of land.
*To his l... | 2021-03-21T14:12:00 | 2021-03-21T13:10:16 | 180 | 128 |
[WP] You are a SpaceX astronaut on Mars. The earth as you knew it was lost to a nuclear war between NATO and China/Russia. Luckily your mission was to construct the colony and you have enough supplies to survive indefinitely. It’s been 25 years since loss of contact. You hear a knock on the door.
Edit: Wow thanks for ... | > *Knock Knock*
The sound rang through the capsule like a gunshot.
That couldn't be... no, it was just my mind running away from me again. The martian landscape was a barren wasteland outside of my own personal bubble of land.
The SpaceX Phoenix Project saw what was coming. The international dickwaggling, the W... | It didn't occur to me what it was at first. Maybe the generators vibrating or rocks falling onto the roof. The second time I realized; there was someone at the door.
Dropping my lukewarm coffee on the floor, my head snapped towards the large steel door 10 meters to my left. Silence.
Three knocks this time, louder, mo... | 2018-03-05T05:48:19 | 2018-03-05T05:46:03 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] A lighthouse keeper begins to suspect the lighthouse is up to something besides warning boats of the rocky shores. | **A Recountance of the Lancaster Lighthouse**
**November 23, 1821**
*It is on this day, this very day, with the waves of winter beginning to swell and my breath beginning to show in the air, that I must begin my recountance of the happenings of the Lancaster Lighthouse.*
*Fear. That is the motivation for these small... | Jared peered out into the dark vista, his binoculars dialed in to the max. He saw a small vessel piloting dangerously close to the rocky reef. Flipping on the lighthouse lamp, he focused the beam on the craft and its obstacle. With its increased vision, the craft was able to navigate its way safely to shore.
The ligh... | 2022-02-21T11:01:03 | 2022-02-21T09:22:43 | 36 | 14 |
[WP] One day all the human males on earth vanish. 30 years later they return, for them it was only a moment. Only one person claims to know how and why.
For the sake of the story lets assume science figured out the whole, how do we have babies thing. | No civilization can withstand the disappearing of an entire half of it's population.
The end of men came silently, husbands disappeared while speaking at the dining table. Many planes feel from the sky before the passengers realized what had occurred. Understaffed coal mines cut the power to the first world while un... | I look out my window bored as mother prepares pancakes for breakfast. Lily and Mary are giggling as little girls do and drawing with crayons on paper.
I tell them, “Girls, remember that you need to make that paper last. I’m only going in for a half day of work and I’m not going to spend it stealing paper.”
Lily glan... | 2014-08-09T11:55:04 | 2014-08-09T09:14:59 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] You are a multi-billionaire with a lovely wife, who is trying to kill you to inherit your fortune. You love her so much that you just don't have the heart to tell her you are immortal. | Today is the day I die.
I wake up, as I always do, within the arms of the woman. The woman for whom I have swore to dedicate my life towards, to spend together, in sickness and in health, my lovely wife, Beth. I dress in my casual wear, pull up the weary-edged book I’ve pretended to read a thousand times over, and wa... | I might be the luckiest man alive.
 
Her curves drew my gaze in all the right ways. Her smile was perfectly straight - no doubt the product of expensive orthodontics. Her smile was several shades whiter than brand new tile, and that smile lived in a face that possessed a perfect peaches and cream complexion... | 2019-07-31T10:31:10 | 2019-07-31T10:29:16 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] Most young mages use incredibly complex spells and extremely rare ingredients to summon their familiar. You just drew a circle and threw a bag of chips in it. | Three years in and still I needed remedial tutoring. It was humiliating. I knew all the spells, could recite all the formulas, but once it came time to actually put it into practice, the magic always did what it wanted, when it wanted, no matter what I tried. It did have a bad tendency to knock random items off walls a... | When a mage first starts their training for summoning familiars, the instructors make it very clear about the dangers of under-preparation. They told us about the chemistry that had to be understood, the laws of physics and the laws of dimensional energy, the dangerous demons and spirits that mages attract because of n... | 2019-04-05T15:47:48 | 2019-04-05T15:18:09 | 102 | 25 |
[WP] The date is July 13, 1836. You're the clerk at the front desk of the U.S. Patent Office on opening day. Things are going just fine until a number of strangely-dressed people get into an argument about their placement in line. Coincidentally, they're all trying to patent methods of time travel.
EDIT: I never imagi... | I'd been getting things ready for a couple of hours. The papers were all neatly stacked, the pens filled with ink and the blotting paper spotless.
Everything was exactly as it was supposed to be and everything was in it's correct place, just what the rulebook said.
No-one could have cause for complaint that I was ... | Ulysses had never seen a man from the future before. He'd expected drama on opening day, but this left him rather speechless.
He gulped. "Sir, I need to fetch the director for this application. A minute, please."
Taking two steps backwards, he forced his eyes closed to shut out the visage that terrified him so. He to... | 2014-09-13T11:51:14 | 2014-09-13T11:44:28 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] Write the most uncomfortable to read story you can. | Tony revved the chainsaw between his legs causing the teeth to dig into his his pants. The chain bit into the cloth, and rode up to his vulnerable ball sack. It began stripping the flesh from his testicles, digging further up. The chainsaw cut further up into his manhood, causing the chain to snag on the flesh as it pi... | The butler swiftly moved throughout the house, everywhere he went leaving a trail of stench behind him.
"I think he shit his pants"
"My god I think I'll die if I experience this foul odor one more time."
This and more the guests ventured to say.
As the butler waddled, he felt the squenching of feces in his posterio... | 2016-02-28T11:59:56 | 2016-02-28T11:49:36 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] You put your 5-year-old daughter in an elevator by herself, and run to the next floor to make her laugh when the doors open. You get there, the elevator arrives and a 20-year-old woman steps out. "Hello Dad. We have a lot to talk about" | I put my 5 year old daughter, Emily, in the elevator, and waited until the doors closed before running down the hall to the stairs. I'd done this trick before, and seeing my daughter's 5 year old face light up filled me with an unforgettable sense of joy.
I heard the 'ding' just as I dismounted from the staircase on t... | I remember dad and I would always play this game. When the elevator door closed I would close my eyes during the descent and wait for my dad to surprise me, but this time the elevator came to a jerking stop. I immediately opened my eyes and seeing what appeared to be the paths of life I could take surround me. I didn’t... | 2019-09-07T22:18:13 | 2019-09-07T19:55:10 | 6,170 | 1,554 |
[WP] “How many people would have been better off had I not been born?” The genie snaps and a few numbers appear in the air and form 7,592. “Okay, how many people would benefit from my existence?” With the flip of a wrist the numbers spin to a whopping 137 trillion. “Okay.... how?” | A bead of sweat formed on the genie's brow, as he nervously searched for the right words to use, fully aware that he was about to deliver my fate.
"Your existence will result in the cure for cancer being developed, which will pave the way for hundreds of generations to come," he said, confident that he had delivered n... | "You were a very influential figure in the future, young lord. What you have done in your lifetime have allowed all those lives to attain a much brighter future."
"But what did I do?"
"I cannot say."
"Can't or won't?"
"I cannot. Though I can see into the future, the exact reason for your influence is unknown to me,... | 2018-08-15T06:31:04 | 2018-08-15T01:57:47 | 351 | 55 |
[WP] While at a football game, you notice the man sitting in front of you is livestreaming the game to his cell phone rather than actually watching the game in front of him. You see on the screen a player running the football in for a touchdown, 32 seconds later you watch it happen in real life. | Am I allowed to post a story on my own writing prompt? Oh well...I'm going to anyways. Hope you guys like it...its been awhile since I've done any writing!
I tried not to stare but I wanted to so badly . I must have been confused. He was just watching a different game from a different time and it was just a coinciden... | Holy fuck, it happened. It just happened.i couldn’t believe my eyes. The next thing I knew, the screen showed a loud explosion during half time . 💥 I immediately got up from my seat and began running. Pushing, shoving everyone out of the way. No time to think, no time to explain, no one would believe me, I had less ... | 2019-01-09T23:38:19 | 2019-01-09T23:22:09 | 33 | 16 |
[WP] You're a superhero. Despite saving the city 4 times a week your hates by the community. While fighting one of your villains a crowd gathers to boo you. The villain you're fighting stops turn to the crowd and says "listen here you ungrateful brats" | "Listen here you ungrateful brats.", the words echoed down the city streets, the sound carried by technology built into Demology's suit.
"You people...YOU PEOPLE would be a splat on the road if it wasn't for her! You! Yes, you, you slack-brained tub of useless molecules!" Demo pointed a mechanical finger to a particu... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 0, Part ?: Clara Olsen v.s. Public Opinion)
**Tupperman leapt out of Dani's Second-Hand Jewelry, skidding on the street, and sprinted towards his beat-up old getaway car.** I sighed. Poor kid couldn't even afford a proper getaway driver. I didn't even particularly *want* to arrest him.
... | 2022-06-16T22:37:47 | 2022-06-16T21:56:50 | 2,019 | 285 |
[WP] For his kindness, the dragon taught the squire the dragon song. A song that was sure to make whoever sang it irresistible to the ladies. In hindsight, the squire should have known that by ladies, the dragon meant lady dragons. | Under a swinging ashen grey sign was a door filled with laughter and song as the twilight hours of the evening faded. Intricately carved figures of dragons and men danced together in the dark wood as small puffs of smoke pushed their way through carved holes bringing the dragon's menacing figures to life. A lute starte... | It should have been clear from the start... That there was something that I was missing when the great Níðhöggr offered to teach me the "Draki Að unna", the dragon song. They said that it would give me the power to be irresistible to ladies...
As soon as I started singing it because very clear who the target audienc... | 2022-11-06T07:58:31 | 2022-11-06T07:55:05 | 55 | 30 |
[WP] A magical mirror shows your reflection and your future soulmate. You only see your reflection. | I fucked up. I kicked the mirror over-- a mirror I paid $500 to see. It showed no one. Just me.
Before I could even turn, security grabbed me by the arms and shoulders. "Fuck off!" My thin arms struggled against their firm grip. "There was no one! You hire people to advertise this shit scam?" I almost elbow the white... | "Holy shit he's sexy!" I said, unable to contain my excitement. I'd spent my whole day worrying over this moment, worrying over this stupid magic mirror. But now I was happy. So happy I'd come.
I gazed back into the mirror, just to reassure myself I hadn't been mistaken. Nope, just my gloriously divine body and rugged... | 2014-05-30T22:05:21 | 2014-05-30T20:14:18 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] It has been verified that dying will result in going to heaven, no matter what. You are the government, trying to lower the suddenly skyrocketing suicide rate. | The world was failing and the bodies were building. There was only plan B.C. left to try.
All of the radio station were set in gear and prepped for the last stand. All tv's were under the government's control.
3...
2...
1...
"Oooooh baby do you know what that's worth, oooh heaven is a place on earth"
Belinda Carl... | They always said humans fear the unknown more than anything else.
My reply: Find me someone who doesn't fear death, then we'll talk.
I could barely hear the first few gunshots through my office window. The dull double pane lazily deflected their sharp reports like a horse flicking its tail at flies - letting them li... | 2015-02-02T06:43:00 | 2015-02-02T06:41:02 | 126 | 44 |
[WP] You have the lamest super power. But somehow, it's going to save the day. | I come from a very long, renowned line of shapeshifters.
My family has documented our gift far, far back into the reaches of mankind, and it appears that in almost every generation we've had at least a few truly great and influential people. It isn't surprising. Having an ability like this - a super power as the world... | "Aw man! Not again!" My mother sighed. I flinched instinctively, like a puppy waiting to get hit on the nose with a newspaper.
"I'm sorry! You know I can't help it!"
"Well could you at least try to do your business somewhere that's not in this damn house! I'm running low on anti-freeze!"
Ever since I discovered th... | 2014-03-24T08:25:24 | 2014-03-24T08:14:46 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] A man makes a deal with the devil to make the world's greatest pizzas in exchange for his soul. After years of making pizza he decides it's no longer worth it, and concedes his soul to the devil. The devil, having become addicted to the man's recipe, finds himself in a bind. | "You want what?" I stared down at the man who'd summoned me. The wind blew the dust around our feet, the crossroads quiet, as if we were the only two beings alive in the world.
"I want to make pizza. I want to make the world's greatest pizza. That's what I want in exchange for my soul. Can you do that?" He squinted up... | Look, you just...
Okay. To start off with, this 'soul' business is a load of BS. If it existed like that, not only would it never make any sense to trade it, you'd never be *able* to. Since it's, y'know, *part* of you.
Yes, you can sell a kidney, but this is a lot more like selling your whole nervous system. Just... | 2022-09-02T20:14:27 | 2022-09-02T20:13:33 | 1,611 | 62 |
[WP] In the style of Dr. Seuss explain a major event in human history. | Hello dear friends, lend me your ears,
let me tell you of a conflict that's gone on for years,
of families teared apart, amidst all the tears,
that caused a schism between foes and peers.
I'm not relaying this conflict to make you pick sides,
but for the hundreds of thousands who need somewhere to hide,
from b... | The rain fell hard as if God himself had spat,
with a pitter and a pat
Noah pulled an idea out of his hat
"A boat! An ark! How about that!
I'll need some, wood, glue and electrically safe mat,
And then I'll bring my friends Mr. and Mrs. Cat, Rat, and Bat."
| 2014-08-10T00:32:41 | 2014-08-09T19:25:57 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] Write a seemingly normal story, except for the last sentence, which makes the entire story creepy | As you sit there reading this, no doubt comfortably snuggled into bed, or your desk chair, you're probably thinking "I wonder what creepy sentence he will end with?"
I've not really thought out where this will go to be completely honest. I could tell you a story about an unassuming gentleman who keeps people locked in... | Tattoos used to be taboo, but now they're just cliché. Well, except mine. Mine aren't those shallow cookie-cutter inks; I have to dig deep for my tattoos. For me, each tattoo is a memory laboriously unearthed, another life--lived vicariously. Tattoos bring a sweat to my brow, and a beat to my heart. My skin is... | 2016-05-19T18:15:49 | 2016-05-19T14:31:38 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] 105 years ago humankind decided to become extinct by not reproducing. You are the last human alive sitting in your home when suddenly you hear a voice of a young woman over your CB radio. | The voice was quiet, silent at first, and I figured I'd imagined it - like I often did. When you were alone - so, so alone - you tended to hear things. To see things that weren't there. And how you wished that they really were.
But then I heard it again - clearer, less ethereal. I turned to my radio, staring into it,... | Man, I haven't cleaned the house in *months*. The dust was finally starting to get to me. Probably should have closed the window, but...I suppose we learn from our mistakes.
*I* learn from my mistakes. Me. There was no longer a 'we'.
It had been the most complete reversal of evolution ever. My parents - God bless th... | 2016-11-29T07:19:16 | 2016-11-29T07:13:01 | 28 | 20 |
[WP] You have the ability to tell how powerful an organisation is by looking at its headquarters. However, you’ve never found which one is number 1, despite walking past many world governments. Today, you find what number 1 is: a small flower shop in Tuscany. | "This doesn't make sense," I muttered, perturbed. The tulips didn't seem to have any microphones inside. The hydrangea arrangements seemed like they were for sure hiding a secret passage but if that were so it was too well-concealed for even me to find - which should be impossible! There wasn't even a security camera o... |
It was a neat trick to pull out at work events, mentioning how a specific government was or wasn’t even in the top ten most powerful organizations. Of course, when you were a member of the President’s Security Detail for the US Secret Service, you weren’t exactly doing that as a bar trick. You generally whispered i... | 2019-10-29T09:16:28 | 2019-10-29T08:51:05 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] The Zalrex were feared among the galaxy as the most cruel, violent and ruthless species. They would bully, slap, hit, sometimes even kill other species. Nobody could stand in their way.. till they arrived on a small blue planet named Earth. | It had been going so well.
The Black Vanguard, first wave of the Zalrex Expansion, had encountered little resistance upon first contact with the primitive species who called themselves "humans". They were short and slight creatures, hideous in their lack of scales, but Sub-Commander Ssessoreth was not one to judge a s... | Far from urban areas, a woman was on her morning walk when a marvelous airship landed right before her eyes. For a thing so massive, it was disproportionately quiet. The woman was too stunned to speak. Soon enough, the news spread, and a crowd had gathered; only to be separated again after the authorities arrived at th... | 2022-08-22T08:22:21 | 2022-08-22T03:55:13 | 34 | 13 |
[WP] A woman prophesied to give birth to the Chosen One gives birth to triplets instead. | _"You know the prophecy."_
A figure with a gun stood in the shadows, speaking in an oddly high voice.
"But..."
_"There is no use, you fiend. I am the Chosen One. Give up."_
That voice would make any self-respecting villain want to give them a punch in the mouth. Unfortunately, the figure caught him at a good moment... | ”AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHH!” the woman in front of me exclaimed. She was in deep pain. She was giving birth to triplets. Strangely, they all came out together. The woman was in agony. She was bleeding horribly.
She died in a few hours.
*18 years later*
My name is Michelle Kazara. I have three children; they’re not min... | 2022-02-17T01:18:19 | 2022-02-16T23:40:39 | 357 | 13 |
[WP] Every night in your sleep you meet a successful-looking future you who tells you what you should do the next day. So far your life has gone well indeed, but one day you fall asleep during the daytime. You meet a tired, disheveled version of yourself who begs you not to listen to the other. | It is the natural condition of the human mind to desire advancement. Sure, there are those that are satisfied with very little, but by and large? People like being promoted. It makes them feel important. Makes them feel valuable. Self-esteem issues and all that.
In the military, we are no different. When I finally ear... | Every night when I fall asleep nothing happens, but tonight something happened. I met a man in my sleep who told me that he was future me and told me what I should do tomorrow, it didn’t seem dangerous so I did what he said. While walking around the corner that he told me to walk around I found $100.
everything was go... | 2017-04-01T05:19:44 | 2017-04-01T03:58:44 | 123 | 12 |
[WP] An advanced AI is asked to draw God. This event is being live-streamed across the entire world. As soon as the AI is done everyone turns towards you and you look up and see the drawing, It’s you. | It's somewhere in Nebraska. Me and my pals are sitting in a bar, watching the life feed on an old TV tube that somehow managed to still work after all these decades. The picture was bad as you might imagine, but surprisingly good considering it's limitations.
Today was the day when the first seemingly sentient AI, cr... | I'd never really cared much about the growth of AI. It either would become self-sufficient, or it wouldn't. Either way, I still had to get my morning coffee and croissant on my own, then walk to my office. Whether AI became intelligent or not, I'd still have to work my shitty 9-5, paper-pushing office job.
So I'd not... | 2021-11-13T23:01:04 | 2021-11-13T22:33:37 | 83 | 44 |
[WP] As someone is time travelling and changing the past, you have to live in a constantly changing present.
Someone is time travelling and changing past events. You, a completely normal person living in the present, have to deal with constant alterations of your life. | I eyed the piece of bacon on my plate suspiciously. It looked more like a bacon-shaped and bacon-scented dog treat than *actual* bacon. "Honey, what is this?"
She slid the eggs out of the frying pan onto my plate and made a regretful face. "I know, I'm sorry. It's some kind of soy bacon. Some environmental terrorists ... | "Janette, will you marry me?"
She looks at me and her eyes shine with tears. "Oh, Hal. Yes. Yes! Of course!"
I stand and force my face into a smile I know will make my cheeks ache. We reach for each other, my arms outstretched to pull her in and kiss her.
And suddenly I'm not in a fancy restaurant eating dinner. I... | 2016-05-18T06:10:14 | 2016-05-18T04:54:23 | 393 | 64 |
[WP] As a blacksmith of a small village, you double as a weaponsmith. One day, a group of adventurers enters your smithy with a broken ivory sword that they dare you to fix it. As you run your fingers over the familiar ancient engravings, you hear a voice whisper in your mind. ‘Hello, old friend’. | The oafish warrior places the sword down in front of me that he says he wants sharpened. I stare at the gleaming ivory blade edge and the runes carved along the length of the dull edge. The light from my forge daces off the perfect implement of death I made so long ago. I never thought I would see it again.
But how d... | It was another slow morning in the smithy, Viorn was in the back of his shop cleaning metal shaving from the ground, waiting for the rare customer with a broken farm tool that needed fixing. This small village wasn’t the best place for a blacksmith, save from the farmers and the rare adventures that sometimes stopped b... | 2021-09-25T10:56:45 | 2021-09-25T10:39:47 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] The man who found the cure for AIDS is being interviewed on live television. The interviewer is slowly realizing this man doesn't understand ethical medical practices. | The slightly balding man with over-sized glasses takes his seat next to the young attractive host. He clears his throat before exposing the audience to a melodic French accent.
"Tissue samples." he says, "We took small samples from a large number of people afflicted and tested out, oh, one thousand iterations of our m... | 'So, please welcome my next guest, Dr. Andrew Reynolds!'
The applause from the audience thundered as a thin man walked out into the studio. He wore glasses and had a well-tailored suit. His hair was gelled up into spikes. He looked to be in his mid-twenties, which made his achievement all the more special.
For Reynol... | 2015-02-22T20:04:01 | 2015-02-22T15:15:37 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] In a world where spirits are visible haunting the people or animals that killed them, it's fairly obvious who to avoid. You, a murderer of over 100 people, don't have any spirits haunting you. | Murderer. That's what some call me. Honestly, I know I'm not. If I were, their ghosts would be trailing after me, haunting me to my own demise, and perhaps even hastening it. So many people have a ghost haunting them. My own mother, for example, is forever plagued by the ghost of a boy she dated in high school, who she... | I used to see them, sitting in my backseat, spying their lifeless eyes in the rear view mirror. Like a weight I could feel them stroll beside me down a sidewalk. Like a cracked window I could hear whistling as their breath warmed my ears when trying to sleep.
Yet they stopped showing after a time, for the longest bou... | 2018-02-25T02:04:49 | 2018-02-24T23:55:58 | 195 | 14 |
[WP] An ordinary old man sits in a park. He is not batman, nor the devil, and most certainly not a time traveller. He sits and thinks about his life's greatest triumph, or defeat.
The title joke aside, I'd like to see what WP could be formed about a regular old dude. | The bittersweet irony that my greatest triumph is ultimately my final defeat does not escape me. I sit here with my coffee, alternately sipping from the burnt, steaming cup, and the burnt, steaming memories. In a life filled with defeat, my son was my only victory. Like a solitary palm tree, deep in the desert of the A... | An old man sits in the park in Gotham City. As he sits there, pondering the end of his life, which he senses is near, he looks back fondly at his life's work.
This man isn't Batman, he is just Bruce Wayne. He may have been Batman, but that was lifetimes ago.
His triumphs were not the gadgets he developed that have ... | 2015-04-12T05:16:12 | 2015-04-12T04:48:32 | 276 | 10 |
[WP] You just gave birth, your son has a colored hair like none before, the doctor declares that your son has been infected with a syndrome called the "Protagonist". Your lifespan has now been reduced to mere days. | After the din of the previous four hours, my wife laboring in agony with the birth of our firstborn, the silence of the doctor as he cleaned and wrapped our child was unnerving, but not as unnerving as the sickly green hair sprouting out of the boy's, *my boy's*, sickly green head.
"Is..." I struggled for words, "Is e... | My fingertips were as blue as my son's face as he emerged from behind my wife's gown. I had long lost the feeling in all of my hand and was in a trance of anticipation and anxiety. Seeing his bloodied little face wailing into the void was surreal. The moment had finally come. I had been through 10 months of planning,... | 2020-04-28T05:56:54 | 2020-04-28T05:36:29 | 423 | 110 |
[WP] Germany is actually predestined to lose every world war it participates in. The sixteenth world war is now being fought, and Germany has taken over all of Europe. Make them lose the war in the most ridiculous way possible. | "Wait so if this is the only the third World War why was it called the Sixteenth World War?"
"Well Timmy, that's because a company called Microsoft, notorious for being terrible at naming things, had won a government contract to name the war, and it stuck. We're lucky they didn't rename World War One World War 360!"... | The Germans look out over all they have conquered with smug grins on their face.
But then they see something in the distance. Two armies, one from the west and one from the north east, are riding out towards them.
The impossible had happened, American and Russia have teamed up.
The Germans raise little white flags... | 2017-08-18T04:28:36 | 2017-08-18T02:50:27 | 102 | 10 |
[WP] Humanity has a low-key Hivemind that was the origin of the “sixth sense”. When another gestalt entity attempts to invade earth, the Hivemind fully awakens. | It was a gradual change. It went unnoticed at first, save the fact things began to improve for us. People who previously couldn't give a toss, stopped for a moment. A child's birthday party brightened the mood of those around. A funeral caused passersby to bow their heads. But ever time someone slept, the connection op... | “We received a boon, a long time ago,” said Anne, curling her graying hair around her index finger.
“Yeah? And how do you know?” said Twitch.
“I’ve always known. And so have you. And so has every man, woman and child on earth.”
She released the springy curl and pointed to the sky. Oily pink and purple clouds swirled... | 2021-01-26T11:07:04 | 2021-01-26T10:51:28 | 51 | 17 |
[WP] You are a knight who was chosen by the King to defeat a powerful dragon. Most of the city was destroyed, but you prevailed. You've settled with an amnesiac woman traumatized by the battle. One day you come home to her screaming. Her hands are clawed and coated in all too familiar scales. | "I remember!" she screamed. "I remember! After you cut him down. When he lay upon the cobblestones. And I thought he was dead, so I crept closer and peered at his face. But he opened his eyes! Those terrible, yellow eyes. He held me in his power! And as he exhaled his last breath, I inhaled it. A part of his evil! His ... | Another long day at work, patrolling the city isn't an easy job, but someone has to do it.
I was once a Great knight, tasked to vanquish a ferocious beast, a full fledged fire dragon.
I succeeded, but with the battle, we've destroyed more than half of the city.
But something good came out of that battle...after t... | 2021-07-31T02:38:20 | 2021-07-31T00:46:28 | 93 | 34 |
[WP] A story that doesn't make any sense, until you read the last line. | It's the best deal in town. You can be the student you always wanted to be. However long it takes. You'll get there, to have the time of your life. When I wanted him. History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. Sunny and 72 degrees. Except where prohibited by law. He grabbed her hand.
She stopped twisting t... | I wake up and stare at the ceiling wondering for the 100th time how did I end up here? I turn my head and see my wife asleep in the bed next to mine.
She feels so far away, I want to cry.
Instead, I look up at the ceiling again and sigh. I know she loves me. She tells me every day. So how the hell did I wind up here... | 2017-08-30T06:54:31 | 2017-08-30T06:29:36 | 5,691 | 288 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | I've seen the numbers since I was a little girl. I remember my father losing his job, rising from a 4 to a 5. I remember watching my grandmother slowly dwindle down to a 0. At first I thought I was going crazy, not realizing what they meant. I eventually caught on. The numbers were a person's ultimate quantifier, broad... | Numbers taste funny. Nines bud into fires on my tongue, their spent embers resembling something akin to zeros. Ones bleed blue like melting ice or my nurse's cerulean eyes. Fives dissolve like Wonderbread and feel like cotton in my ears. When I went to school with other children, they tasted like loaves of stale white ... | 2014-11-29T14:43:43 | 2014-11-29T13:27:21 | 295 | 86 |
[WP] You're an arctic biologist who spends 5 months at a time away from all society. At the end of a stint your bush pilot never shows. After a 3 day journey to the nearest town you make a shocking discovery. You're more than likely the last person alive. | As always the rest of the team left a week earlier. One man had to stay behind to look after the facility until a new team arrives. The rest took the samples, dirty laundry and read books with them, so Jamie's only job was to make sure the generator is going.
He didn't mind the job. The white all around you is crushin... | Five months ago I looked forward to this place. Now, not so much.
"Jim! Where are you?!" I shout to the clear sky.
He doesn't answer. He was supposed to answer days ago. He was supposed to pick me up. I was supposed to be *in* the chair *in* the sky, comfortably flying home! But Jim never showed up and now I'm stuck ... | 2019-08-14T22:53:20 | 2019-08-14T22:16:05 | 1,179 | 44 |
[WP] Buddhism is now the only world religion, and everyone takes it very seriously. In addition, everyone has a 'progress' bar above their head to indicate their level of enlightenment. | I was sitting on a bench, feeding the birds at the park when I saw him. There was a young man lying on the grass staring up at the sky.
His bar was full.
Involuntary jealousy surged within me. I had been on this plane of existenance for forty years, I have yet to pass a fifth of my bar; yet there was a man that h... | The old man walked down the street towards the park where every day a group gathered to listen to him speak. As he went, all around him people would pause and stare. Or point at him and excitedly whisper to a friend who hadn't yet noticed. The bar floating a few feet above his head glowed a magnificent bright green ... | 2014-09-26T12:35:00 | 2014-09-26T12:29:22 | 73 | 21 |
[WP] You chant "Bloody Mary" three times in your car's side view mirror and then hit the gas laughing all the while as she sprints towards your car desperately trying to keep up.
Edit: Optional inclusion, it's the eighth time you done this. | “Pull over !” she says, as she manages to catch up to match my speed.
She’s running swiftly beside my vehicle now, travelling upwards of 55mph.
I roll the window down and say :
“It’s a cardigan, but thanks for noticing!”
I give her a friendly thumbs up as I speed off into the sunset. | What if she appears in the passenger seat, rear seats, or in the trunk.
Imagine she appears in your trunk and remains silent. You don't see her and dismiss this as some dumb story told to scare kids.
Sometime later, you are walking up to your car from the store to put groceries or something into your trunk. You open... | 2018-10-01T15:22:26 | 2018-10-01T15:10:07 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] You see the Grim Reaper and ask if it's your time. Death checks a clipboard and says "Nope. Looks like you're not due for another... three thousand, one hundred and forty-one years? That's weird. Also, how can you see me?" | As a nurse I had seen way too much weird things in the hospital. But when I saw the sharply dressed man with a name tag in his chest poking the body of a woman in the morgue, then I was sure I had seen it all.
"Excuse me?" I asked hoping he would stop poking the woman.
He seemed to ignore me as he focused in the clip... | Sick and bent double, I look up from the bathroom floor and through the sick haze,
A dark smoky form stands in front of me with the face of death.
*Well, nobody lives forever*, I thought resignedly.
I closed my eyes and bowed my head towards the reaper.
​
He laughs and looks at his board.
“It’s not you... | 2020-01-24T11:48:58 | 2020-01-24T11:27:15 | 86 | 40 |
[WP] A medieval king suddenly finds a smartphone and tries to unlock it. But each time he fails, years later it has become a tradition for nobles to try to unlock it. You, a simple servant, fiddled with it the night before the ceremony and unlocked it.
Edit: just think the phone is solar or something to ignore the bat... | It started with king Ryse, who had found it under his pillow. He claimed that a woman came to him dressed like a man, whispered something in his ear and left in a bright light. He was convinced it was an angel. Unfortunately, he could not remember what the angel told him other than the sense of being warned that stayed... | "You!" a voice boomed from the end of the hall. "What have you got there! That's the prized Glassy Tablet! Remove it from your unworthy hands you dim-witted scoundrel!"
"Ah, but, I unlocked it, your Grace," replied Hrothgar.
"Nonsense, buffoon, nobody on this long flat planet will ever be able to--" his jaw spanked aga... | 2017-10-14T06:55:50 | 2017-10-14T06:27:50 | 692 | 22 |
[WP] A man draws a gun in a dark alley and asks for your wallet. You begrudgingly obey. He throws it on the ground, shoots it till it screeches, and turns to you; "you're safe now". | Cries of help bounced up the dirty concrete walls and through the rusty fire escapes. Thick drops of acid rain fell from the gray, polluted sky, pattering against my umbrella. It took a last drag and stubbed out my cigarette.
The alley was like any other in this godforsaken city – windowless, filled with garbage conta... | The wallet was still twitching, its faint whine gradually fading away. Leah gaped at it as the man grinned at her, twirling his gun nonchalantly.
"You're safe now," he began to say, then winced as the weapons slipped from his fingers and clattered to the ground.
"Blasted things..." he muttered, blushing as he picke... | 2017-07-13T00:36:27 | 2017-07-13T00:34:07 | 68 | 49 |
[WP] We did it! We finally achieved FTL travel! At first, alien races seem thrilled to have a new neighbor. Then they seem terrified of us. We are the only ones to reach the stars with technology instead of magic. | FTL changed everything. 747s were sent to the junkyards. Airports replaced with spaceports that reached the farthest edges of the galaxy. Mars and Venus were terraformed to become brother and sister planets. Saturn became a tourist destination. People started commuting between America and China. FTL made planet Earth f... | 200 years ago, humanity discovered that the new elemental material, Unductindenium, could be refined into a light warping spacecraft shell, allowing humans to travel faster than initially thought, by transferring energy that was being carried by quantum particles, we could now bend physics to our will.
And at first th... | 2019-01-18T10:10:15 | 2019-01-18T10:08:27 | 81 | 10 |
[WP] A barbarian warlord, a goblin king, a mighty necromancer, and a dark elven high priestess meet for one reason... To play Suburbs and SUVs, the hottest mundane suburban family Tabletop RPG! | G'ol Bognil let out an expansive sigh as he settled his considerable girth before the marble table. "Alright, before we get started, remind me your names and classes again?"
Lethus did not move but a phlegmy mutter emanated from under this black hood. "I am Steve. The dentist."
Polara was next to speak. Her glitterin... | "Zixor the Fallen, we don't just have to roll dice to see how depressed teens and desperate housewives are," Priestess Aerosmith Daughter spoke in a warm yet authoritative tone. "You will find the emerging market of independent rulesets that focus on collaborative narrative and nuance that-"
"You're just salty your ma... | 2018-01-10T07:13:41 | 2018-01-10T06:17:28 | 70 | 20 |
[WP] You are Dog to which dyslexic people sometimes address their prayers. You do your best to help because you're a good boy, but alas, you are a dog. | I try to be a good boy. Dogs are man's best friend, right? Our two species practically grew up together. I suppose it's that feeling of ancestral duty that makes me do it.
Despite all of man's advances, some still can't tell the difference between GOD and DOG. Dyslexia is a bitch (no pun intended). So when I get an e... | Dog is a good boy. Does what he’s told when he’s told. Dog is always learning new tricks. He’s always helping people with their problems. You see, Dog is constantly addressed strange letters with some unusual requests. They always start out with “Dear doG”. He tries to help but, he can’t always do so. Over the years t... | 2019-03-25T07:38:52 | 2019-03-25T06:53:21 | 64 | 13 |
[WP] The universe has placed you in a groundhog day style time loop until you learn a lesson. Problem is, you REALLY LIKE being in the loop, so now the universe is constantly sending you not so subtle hints that you're supposed to be learning something. | I yawned, stretched out my arms and woke up at 7:00 am May 2, 2018 for the 343rd time. Luckily I had a good memory, so I could remember exactly how many times I had looped.
The first couple loops had been honestly frightening, but re-watching Groundhog Day on Loop #17 had helped. I was pretty sure there wasn't a Rita ... | I woke, as always, to a tickle on my lip, and the sudden realisation it was a cockroach. I'd stopped bothering a long time ago, I let it continue it's journey over my ear and down the back of the bed.
I swung my legs out of bed and walked over to the window. From my elavated position I could see a large area of the ne... | 2018-05-01T23:31:09 | 2018-05-01T22:51:20 | 151 | 11 |
[WP] A little girl is terrified of the monster under her bed, but what she doesn't know is that the monster under her bed protects her from the true monsters - her parents. You are that monster.
Thanks for the huge amount of responses! Loving most all of them, thank you! Sorry it was a bit simplistic though. | Savages. The absolute fucking savages.
They bought another goddamned pink and purple tricked out party dress with glittery pumps and purse to match.
Do they even know who their daughter is?
I mean, she sits there, in the backyard, or out at the park, wherever, right? Surrounded with all manner of flora and fauna, an... | "It's scary though"
"Don't worry. If you don't believe in monsters they die"
I seethe, sharply drawing my breath as her father turns to leave. I shift as familiar weight settles upon my back. I can feel the sharpness of the words, digging into me. Gradually she begins to drift away. From downstairs I can hear the b... | 2014-05-14T13:09:06 | 2014-05-14T13:08:42 | 32 | 17 |
[WP] Thousands of years from now when humans are extinct and dolphins are the dominant species they discover a mosquito in amber with perfectly preserved human DNA. Dolphin scientists are able to recreate humans and decide to make a giant theme park where dolphins come to see real live humans. | A few miles down, near the Galapagos, just past one of my favorite kelp forests if you take the South Equatorial Current, is where they are building the land-sea-monkey exhibits. Air-carriers (my buddy Lorenzo is one; he's a whale) have been contracted from all around to supply the caves there with enough air - at just... |
Keglo dashed over the reef and soared through the water towards the entrance of his favorite theme park; Meltdown Park. It was there that an entire zoo full of creatures from the meltdown period had been resurrected and displayed in artificial captivities of what was once their natural atmosphere.
'Whoa, slow down y... | 2017-06-27T06:25:37 | 2017-06-27T04:28:32 | 63 | 13 |
[WP] You have just died due to several different causes at once (ie heart attack at the same time you get hit by a car) only to find yourself surrounded by the gods of each respective cause arguing over who has the rights to your death | [Poem]
A flash of light,
A fiery roar,
And now somehow
I am no more.
The fire I get,
The light... not sure,
Which one cut me
Down to the core?
I expected the one,
The other... not quite,
It came out of nowhere,
That bright flash of light.
So which one killed me?
I wish I could say,
But I do not know
and neithe... | No one tells you how peaceful it feels when you die, but I supose people don't usually come back and talk about it. My death was bound to happen, smoking, drinking and too many drugs. I had blocked arteries, when the doctors tried to save me from my latest heart attack they were just as surprised by the quake and the c... | 2021-05-04T18:50:41 | 2021-05-04T18:46:49 | 30 | 22 |
[WP] PVP has been turned off for years. Everyone now knows, that no blade can pierce the skin with the INTENT to kill or harm. You are at the doctor getting a shot when the needle bends upon touching your upper arm... | I hate flu shots. I have a bit of a fear of needles, if we're being honest. All my work in construction, welding, and general contracting, I have no problems. I've had Jeremy shoot that damned nail gun into my forearm on his second damn day (he's damned lucky to be my wife's nephew, or I'd have fired him for showing... | I don't remember it happening. How could I? I was just a baby at the time. My mom tells the story all the time though.
"There he was, my precious little baby," Mom would start. I always rolled my eyes when she told the story. Gave a long suffering "Mooooooom" to show my annoyance. Mom's don't care, they think it... | 2016-08-31T08:29:47 | 2016-08-31T08:23:16 | 23 | 11 |
[WP]Killing Hitler has become a sport amongst time travelers. Points are awarded for creativity and difficulty. You are last year's champion, how did you win? | You see, all the previous competitors had focused too closely on the guidelines to the game. Find Hitler during one of his great speeches, or when he was asleep, or some other time where he was easily accessible. No one thought outside the box.
I teleported to 12 August 1866, in the village of Spital in Austria. There... | I couldn't help but dwell on the stories of my father killing Hitler using only a menorah and some olive oil, from the opposite side of town. How was I to top that? It was the only 99% on record.
I've had my whole childhood to scheme, and at 18 I figured that to get a perfect score, I'd just have to be farther away an... | 2016-02-20T08:24:48 | 2016-02-20T08:21:16 | 215 | 41 |
[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 | The sigil remained dull, black and inactive. Even through the shoving, the pushing, the punching and name calling - it didn’t light up even once. Maybe it wasn’t the best to get used to this type of treatment, but Dalton refused to use his powers on anyone. While his powers were not inherently destructive, they were ha... | I’ve never activated my sigil in public. It’s not a cool power anyway... that was what I thought.
But in a world where everyone has their own talent manifest, I just didn’t fit in.
That’s why the bullies found me to be an easy target.
“Look it’s Shit ring!” I heard Warren yell as I tried to ignore him.
That’s right, ... | 2020-02-26T07:49:39 | 2020-02-26T07:22:06 | 92 | 43 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile only to learn that no one else actually went into isolation. | "You mean that you talked with everyone else?" asked the shocked president.
"Yes." responded the British prime minister. He was old, old enough to have long memories of the time before the war.
"But, why? Why put up the rule in the first place just to break it?"
"Well you see now old chap, you guys started the war. ... | Lying underneath the broken husks of countries, some semblance of government had remained. And together, in their wisdom, the greats had decided that - to avoid any further conflicts, which could prove even more disastrous - each country should isolate itself from its neighbours. That way, even if some internal crisis ... | 2016-10-18T15:10:28 | 2016-10-18T14:31:05 | 2,982 | 158 |
[WP] Some nut job from a joint Japanese-American defense technology company thought that replacing traditional tanks with 80ft tall bipedal robots is a good idea. This pisses you off so much that you're determined to create a tank that can counter them in every way imaginable at 1/10th of the cost. | When my associates and I first caught wind of project Jotunn, only the formal declassification to the public was enough to convince us that this wasn't an out of season April Fool's prank.
The sanctioned drone footage on the breakroom TV was a scene straight out of a Saturday morning cartoon. Towering, bipedal husks ... | General Graves was chewing on his half smoked domestic cigar in anger as he stared at the monitor. The United Japanese Coalition had come up with an abomination to replace the backbone of the Military artillery forces. The M1 tank. The designation BM-452 which was a dubbed the “Samurai Marine” was an 80 ft mech. It was... | 2021-08-12T13:38:26 | 2021-08-12T12:15:29 | 267 | 22 |
[WP] Airport authorities don’t recognize your passport because the country that issued it doesn’t exist. You are confused. You’re thinking: “What? I was born there! I’ve lived there all my life!”
Edit after 4 hours: I'd like to add that this writing prompt was inspired from this: http://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMyst... | “What do you mean?!” The man exclamed, hysterical.
“It doesn’t exist, sir.” I said, sighing. I had had to put up with a lot of clueless travelers throughout the years, but ever since the ‘big opening’ was a fact following the inevitable collapse, their ranks were swelling.
“Are you telling me that my whole life has b... | “Golzania is a country! It should be right there on the map! Right there!” I point on the police officer’s map before continuing, “It’s an island below South Africa and it should be right there!”
“Sir, uh, we’ve never really dealt with such a problem before but you’re going to have to stay in this room until we get th... | 2014-11-23T09:29:43 | 2014-11-23T09:29:04 | 821 | 23 |
[WP] You are a supervillain, but every single one of your plans of world domination has somehow collapsed into a harmless flirtatious encounter with the superhero by accident. Today, the superhero has come to propose to you. | T minus 9 minutes.
This time I would succeed.
I stood on the massive bridge in the middle of the night, looking out to the bright lights of the city in front of me, the cold night wind gently blowing past me. It was chilled just slightly, and it sent goosebumps across my skin, almost as if it were caressing me ge... | There was a knock at my door. I sat in silence for a moment, hoping it would go away. It didn't. There was something strange about the knock, but I couldn't put my finger on it. Like... like five-hundred fists were hitting the door at once, but it was just as loud as one.
Obviously I wasn't expecting anyone. Villains... | 2017-05-30T14:28:44 | 2017-05-30T14:24:58 | 108 | 61 |
[WP] Gordon Ramsay has to deal with one of his most difficult restaurants yet, the failing undersea restaurant 'The Chum Bucket' created by Sheldon J. Plankton. | *Ramsay walks up to the exterior of the Chum Bucket*
"Well then. The Chum Bucket, eh? Looks like a piss bucket."
He enters the front doors.
"Oh my god. This decor is hideous. What is this from, the nineteen-fucking-seventies?", he chuckles. "It feels like I've landed myself in the middle of the Cold War for God's sa... | "Absolute bollocks"
"I'm over here trying to trying to help this mad man bring his livelihood back together and he's out taking the piss doing [~~fuck~~](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN0H0g4pZaY) all."
FishRamsey
"KAREN!" FishRamsey yells towards the back room. Yelling is entirely unnecessary of course, he knows ... | 2019-08-22T21:22:13 | 2019-08-22T20:40:37 | 54 | 17 |
[WP] Sailors have always been a superstitious bunch. In the long stretches of darkness and isolation between stars superstitions still run high. So let's hear a ghost story from deep space. | The called it the Black Dog. They said it was a massive black hole, gravity so powerful light couldn't escape, and so much more science jargon. But what they were really interested in was the large yellow orb inside the Black Dog. What was it? A star? coalesced plasma? What could be bright enough to stand out again... | “Give me your spear,” the hunter said.
The companion almost stopped in his tracks, before the hunter looked at him, and urged him to keep going on. “What do you want my spear for?”
“Just give me your spear. And don't stop. Keep walking.”
Around the two men, the forest whistled with the wind, and around them it was d... | 2014-12-26T21:19:24 | 2014-12-26T20:53:42 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] You receive a government text warning saying “EMERGENCY - LOCK ALL DOORS AND STAY INSIDE. DO NOT PANIC”. You hear your SO at the locked front door, who’s just come back from the supermarket. They beg to be let inside but you’re unsure. Something doesn’t feel right. | Rachael texted me and said she would be back home here soon. Usually I would run to the store and grab groceries, but I was exhausted from work. Spent 12 hours working buoys and being on the boat really took a toll on me today.
I was laying on the couch watching Netflix. Finally getting some time to relax while our c... | [Poem]
She’s out there, calling for the
Knock ridden door to open
And for her to vacate from an torn
Dangerous outside world
I was told to ignore.
She’d cry out in a direction
Before crying again in another
Door to door, window to window
‘Let me in, let me in’
To which I silently proclaim ‘no.’
She’s know... | 2019-01-12T08:26:32 | 2019-01-12T06:30:43 | 49 | 12 |
[WP] 20 tons of Nutella have been stolen. You are part of a secret task force tasked with finding it. Your partners: the M&M guys, an Oompa Loompa, and Count Chocula | I sat hunched in front of the computer monitor. Behind me, I could hear Count Chocula pacing up and down in agitation. We all knew that our careers depended on bringing down this crook. I shot a brief glance at the Red M&M. His face was impassive but the corners of his mouth were tauter than I've seen before.
The ... | The radio buzzed with the words *"Sergeant O'Riley, you and your crew have been sent the coordinates of the stolen Nutella, neutralize all of the hostiles in the faculty and prepare for the trucks to transport it back."*
"Well.." I looked at my crew, the red and yellow M&M, one Oompa Loompa, and Count Chocula (the... | 2017-08-19T10:13:15 | 2017-08-19T09:15:42 | 101 | 35 |
[WP] For as long as you could remember, you and your city have followed very strict rules: "Never listen to the 7:30 morning show. The real one comes at 8.", "Our city does not have a subway system. If you see an entrance, report it.", and "Don't donate to the beggars on 32nd.", just to tell a few. | "They are rather strange when you think about it," said Absco.
Absco was always saying things like that. He was always trying to make what was normal and acceptable appear monsterous and unbearable, and vice versa. If it were up to him, day would be dark and night would be light; right and left would be reversed; nega... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Interlude 1: Min Min)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**Heroes and villains left... aftermath, when they clashed in earnest.** In some cases, the fallout was more literal—the clash be... | 2021-04-06T13:51:10 | 2021-04-06T13:07:57 | 338 | 27 |
[WP]Everyone has known the secret to immortality for quite some time, yet because of what you have to do to achieve it, so far nobody has felt as though it was worth it. | "Goose shit."
"You're kidding."
"Nope. And it has to be *fresh.*"
"That is fucking *disgusting.* But on the other hand: *Immortality.* Couldn't you get used to it after a while? Like kale or whatever?"
"You'd think that, right? But people have tried. There was one guy, Fernando Feliz. He made it through something ... | "Children, there is a way to gain a power that many of you desire." The old lady inched in, "Immortality is possible. There is no cost to immortality, or process." The elderly woman grinned, her wrinkles spreading on her face.
"Why isn't everyone immortal then?" A young child popped his head out and yelled. The old la... | 2017-01-04T16:07:13 | 2017-01-04T15:52:14 | 127 | 14 |
[WP] Lycanthropes only transform when 100% of their planet’s moons are full. Callisto III, which has seven moons with varying cycles, has become a haven for this reason. However, nobody realized that each moon increases the intensity, and the moons have just aligned. | Time stopped. Oh, how that moment seemed to last forever, that moment of wonder. They all felt it, every single one of them stopping in their tracks with their eyes to the heavens.
Seven celestial orbs, perfectly aligned. All of them full. This had been the very first time their people had witnessed such an occurrenc... | Oso’s Chronicle, 2281
Thought I’d write while I can. Hope someone peeps this.
It was about 260 years ago that space popping began. It was the late 2020’s. That decade tote-totes was bonzo sick loser, and so like the cromulent have-haves started thumbing for other planets. Mars fell first, then Titan, then the race... | 2021-06-27T18:52:03 | 2021-06-27T15:15:41 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] You are the sole survivor a famous serial killer as a college student. Years later, after being diagnosed with terminal cancer you finally pluck up the courage to visit him in prison and ask one question that’s been plaguing you for decades: “why didn’t you kill me?”
Thought I’d do a human story in the sea of bul... | *Two elderly women driving a car down the highway.*
"Why now?"
"Paul is out of town, he always thought it was bad idea"
"You should listen to your husband, he's been there for you the last forty years."
"Yeah I know but, oh, take a right turn here"
"You do know I have a GPS, hehe? You were saying?"
"Well I don't ... | It was raining hard the day I decided to pay him a visit. The prison swam within a sea of mist and fog, it was so humid that breathing became difficult. The incident did not leave me ever since, when he stood under that crimson moonlight, menacing eyes and a bloody knife in his hand, staring down as I crawled helplessl... | 2018-07-21T10:13:28 | 2018-07-21T09:32:19 | 31 | 18 |
[WP] Your sibling was murdered a month ago and as their closest living relative, you buried them last week. Now, going through all their effects, you come across an old walkie-talkie that you used as kids after lights out. Nostalgia makes you turn it on, and say their old call sign. They answer. | Charlie looks down at the little box in the attic, an aching in his heart. Scrawled across the lid in a child's handwriting were the words "Charlie's and Ben's Treasure Box!!!". He traced the outline of the words longingly, tears forming in his eyes.
*Oh Ben, why did they have to take you before your time.*
The stead... | ##Find My Killer, Over
Marcus opens the box in the attic and sadness carried by a wave of memories washes over him. The first item that draws his eye is the Gameboy that he used to watch his brother play. They were supposed to share, but his brother hogged it using the power of age. Next to the Gameboy, he finds a sma... | 2021-03-25T19:43:19 | 2021-03-25T19:37:16 | 86 | 43 |
[WP] A magically enforced law has passed whereby if you deliberately murder someone, you will die in 1 hour. Murder rates fall, but what do you do when you need to assassinate someone? Hire the terminally ill. | When the Law was laid down, murder rates fell to almost zero immediately. You know that part already. But the key word is ‘almost’.
Because sometimes, you want someone dead badly enough to take one for the team. This is classified, but a business of single-use terminally ill assassins sprang into existence around the... | In my time things are a little different. When the key to magic was rediscovered by a group of children the whole world practically changed overnight. I guess you could call them the new kids on the block, or as they refer to themselves, the Overall. Children no more than seven years old, ruled the entire world with an... | 2019-06-04T03:41:15 | 2019-06-04T02:42:25 | 26 | 13 |
[WP] You are the main character of a 24/7 reality show. It is the most popular show on TV because of a complex gambling market around it. More money is wagered on regular activities like what you will eat for breakfast than the outcome of the Super Bowl. | I strolled lazily towards the dining table. I was already accustomed to the numerous cameras placed around the house. As I sat down for breakfast, I could see the numerous faces pressed against the windows and peering right in.
I groaned in disgust as I took out my phone to check the horde of messages that had been d... | Very few people know how to speak Navajo, other than myself. I learned because when it's your job to be unpredictable, it pays to know how to think and write notes in a language that very few people know.
So, when a person starts speaking it flawlessly to you, you know that they've done their homework.
It was in a g... | 2017-12-19T19:41:30 | 2017-12-19T16:57:13 | 41 | 18 |
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