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[WP] There’s a strange girl at school but you’re just so attracted to her. You’re a little awkward but your best friend says go ask ask her out dude the worst thing that could happen is she says “no”. So you go over and ask her out but what happens was way way way worse than her saying “no”. | She turned into a fucking puddle.
OK, let me explain. So I had a crush on this girl, Sarah? She goes... well, I guess the correct word is *went*. She *went* to our school. Sweetest girl you'd ever meet, and she was pretty hot too, not gonna lie.
So my friends always pick on me for not asking her out. My best friend, ... | "Sure," Melissa replied with a twinkle in her eye, "meet me behind Gertz' after Organic Chem." She spun away, her long golden locks dancing in the late afternoon light.
I stood stunned. That did not just happen… did it?
Melissa was special. Some girls would have taken that God-given beauty, and milked it for all it w... | 2019-07-18T22:45:52 | 2019-07-18T22:25:02 | 34 | 10 |
[WP] When the representatives of humanity attend their first Galactic Council meeting, all goes well. That is, until a member of a psionic race tries to read the human's minds and begins to scream. | "Aaaaaauuugh!" Rang out Fuerbors' agonized scream, "Gwaaah! Urrrrrgha! Hooooooow!" He raved on. Harold Barlett the first human Ambassador to the human race was on his knees next to Fuerbor the Ambassador to the polflongs' a race of blue/green squid-esque people.
"Ambassador Fuerbor? What's wrong?! Someone get him med... | Accariz, the diplomatic of the Azara species, went down sudenly when he was talking to the human.
His screams fill the circular chamber completly. The noise of the hundreds of conversations stopped sudenly, and the AI responsible for security started to search for threads, but fail.
Accariz was screaming in the groun... | 2019-09-29T18:06:35 | 2019-09-29T17:13:42 | 119 | 65 |
[WP] UK is a single mom. Meet her children. The polite and charming son Canada, loud but accomplished son US, the wild and crazy son Australia and the adopted daughter with a history of abuse India.
Not trying to enforce any stereotype of any nationality. Just thought it would be fun. | The rugby practice had ended an hour ago. The field stood empty, but not a single car came by to pick him up. He looked up into the sky and shivered as the first raindrop fell on his shoulder.
"I can't believe mum forgot me again," said New Zealand. | UK opened the door and froze. The jar of marmite she had been saving for breakfast slipped from her hand.
"It...it can't be you...!"
"Oh, but it is...*mother*" South Africa growled. "Did you really think you could start over after abandoning us and Papa Africa?"
UK swallowed hard. Her eyes drifted over S.A.'s shoul... | 2018-03-20T21:03:34 | 2018-03-20T21:00:23 | 45 | 18 |
[WP] A short Horror story. Something to chill the bones in one hundred words or less. | In 1984, an oil painting was recovered from an abandoned house somewhere in Lousiana. Mahagony frame, weathered and neglected. No signature of the artist. Perhaps it was the work of the homeowner.
What was the painting of?
The upper torso of a brunette, eyes tightly closed, mouth hideously wide open, the background c... | "Why do I burn the bodies?"
He doesn't know. He can’t comprehend his fascination. The gatekeeper drops the corpses down the chute, and he watches the limp bodies jiggle as they collide with the floor.
Setting it on the table, he peels the flesh off, then, meticulously, removes the muscle and organs. The tendons are h... | 2015-06-09T07:11:34 | 2015-06-09T07:02:35 | 69 | 31 |
[WP] The goblins who dwell just outside your village are small and dumb –in an oddly endearing way. The villagers humor their innocuous raids and sometimes even give them advice. In the village’s darkest hour, the goblins send aid. | Pilpo once stole a tomato in a village raid and it stood proudly on a cave stone for weeks before it went bad. "Good raiding," elder Gilgich had told him when he returned with the oversized cherry. "Keep that up and you will be head goblin one day."
After that day, he had invented a new walk. Something to distinguish ... | # The Baker and the Goblin
"Me take," the goblin said, "me take!"
Cotlin continued walking, ignoring the goblin clinging to his trousers. It was midday, and Cotlin was on his way to deliver freshly baked bread to the local tavern when a goblin started trying to steal from him. *They sure are persistent,* Cotlin thoug... | 2022-05-26T08:33:39 | 2022-05-26T08:32:14 | 129 | 83 |
[WP] God shares the cosmos with several other dieties. To pass the time they play Civilization like games for eons. God's frustrated that his civilization, Earth, is several ages behind all his friends. | Dexicon moved his cosmic fortress from Centauri B straight into Earth's orbit. Dexicon was able to do this in one turn thanks to the cosmic paving it had laid earlier. This allowed faster than light travel.
"Your move, God." Dexicon roared, knowing it had the ancient deity in its proverbial palm.
*Shit shit shit* th... | God sat down on his lumbar support, swivel desk chair and leaned back. He adjusted his headset, and turned on his desk top computer. As he heard the fan spin to life, God nervously sipped at a diet coke, anticipating the machine loading up. He hadn't checked up on his world in a couple decades, and he wasn't looking fo... | 2022-09-11T19:19:52 | 2016-04-09T08:50:39 | 1,980 | 331 |
[WP] At 19 everyone in your society has to go into the cave of fears and defeat your worst fear. You're the first to go in and find nothing.
edit: I want to read them all but there are so many it's hard to keep up, so many variations of the story I didn't even think of, great job everyone! | "There's nothing in here..." she said, almost disappointed
The premise that the cave of fears was empty was very disappointing for Julia, who only just celebrated her 19th birthday. As per tradition in her town, she had to enter the cave of fears to face her greatest fear of all time. But what should she face if there... | My family walked me to the entrance of the Cave of Fears. They waved to me and smiled, despite the patchiness of our history. I have not always been kind. I did not know how they fared against their demons. That’s not the kind of thing you just talk about. Even though I’d tried to force some of them to.
I walked in. T... | 2016-06-12T10:12:38 | 2016-06-12T08:42:27 | 56 | 31 |
[WP] The Dark Arts are fair: for a terrible, personal price, they offer raw power. And lots of it. Self-centered villains typically renege on the contract and thus their powers fail them at a crucial moment. Now, for the first time, the heroes face someone who paid in full. The powers are all theirs | When I was younger, I could never understand the villainy of greed. The villains I read about were motivated by many reasons and philosophies. Rage, lust, pride, these were the reasons that compelled me to love the villains of the story. Standing alone among the common motivations of evil was greed. He did all this for... | As I killed the last of the heroes I laughed. It was an accident.
I had found the old book because I thought Darcy would enjoy it. We could laugh about it together. I decided to go home early to show her. While walking, I thumbed through the book.
At first I thought the words were in some foreign script, but I bl... | 2021-06-27T21:16:41 | 2021-06-27T20:28:30 | 102 | 25 |
[WP] You are a time traveler. While traipsing about in the past you stumble upon something that shouldn't be there: an open Wi-Fi network. | The date on my mobile phone read August 6, 1945. For a moment I just stared at it in confusion. Then, as it hit me, I could feel the color draining from my face.
“What the hell are you thinking, Akimoto? Rule number one of time travel! You drop that thing, someone finds it, we’re all screwed.”
I looked up into John’s... | "What are you even accessing out here? The internet won't even be invented until decades from now."
"Hey man, I just thought it'd be funny. Also it was one of the easier ways to get my drone to pair with my laptop. Lay off."
"People like you are the reason time travel sucks nowadays."
"People like you are the reason... | 2017-08-24T05:03:02 | 2017-08-24T01:07:31 | 77 | 40 |
[WP] Humans are complex creatures with a variety of needs. They are not a suitable pet for most dragons, but for the right dragons who have time, patience, and proper resources, these animals can make absolutely incredible pets. | * Do not feed your human colony! Humans are intelligent creatures, and can self-organize, raising crops and domestic animals to feed themselves. This is natural. Tempting though it may be to feed them treats, this will only make them dependent and lazy.
* Do not eat individual humans! While the colony can easily spar... | “Momma! This one! This one!” I remember my excitement all those years ago. My mother was a high class dragon and had let me buy one of the humans that were immortal and youthful so that way, I could have them for a long time. They do look a bit different from the normal aged humans, mine having glowing eyes, but that d... | 2021-11-07T12:59:41 | 2021-11-07T06:31:04 | 147 | 75 |
[WP] You are a superhero, no one knows about your alter ego. Not even your spouse. You return home tired and disappointed one day after failing to capture your archnemises. You enter your bedroom to find your spouse struggling to get out of the costume of your archnemises. | Joey Suarez sat in his car, parked in the driveway. Everything just hurt. “I’m going to be 40 next month.” he thought to himself. “Maybe it’s time to retire.” Not really retire of course. He didn’t have enough money for that. But just retire from the superhero gig. Keep the job with the construction company and... | "The fuck, Alice?" I shouted, nearly tripping over my own feet trying to back out of the room.
She straightened up quickly, dropping the weapons that were in her hands. "I, uh, I-"
"You know what, *dear*? I don't want to fucking hear it." I pointed at the suit that lay pooled around her feet. "You've nearly killed th... | 2020-10-30T12:12:09 | 2020-10-30T12:04:44 | 77 | 39 |
[WP] For years Earth cried out to an empty cosmos, searching the stars for echoes of life. From the middle of nowhere, a reply finally comes: "Shut up, and Play Dead!"
I really struggled with the choice between "For Years", "For Decades", "For Centuries", and "For Millenia". I tapped out. Take whatever timeline you wi... | Shut up, and Play Dead?
No way in hell!
Much of what makes the will to thrive is derived from pure ego. This is mine, and not yours. This is our Earth. This is our land. We made this.
Why are we so proud when we barely hold 30% of an uncontrollable mass of elements spiraling through the great abyss? When we, is bare... | Shut up and and play dead.
After that there was nothing.
An increasing amount of nothing.
Felt something like a cloud drifted in front of the sun.
The static that was always there just became a little less when one turned the eye.
Michael Gruppman of the SETI research facility said it was like being under... | 2016-03-27T09:12:57 | 2016-03-27T08:53:09 | 92 | 22 |
[WP] The world of Avatar is real, only there are not 4 elements, there are 118. For every element on the periodic table there is a group of benders. You are one of them. | A long time ago it was believed there were only the four classical elements; earth, wind, fire, and water, each with their respective benders. Although unscientific, this primitive tribalism was serious cultural divide that resulted in many sectarian wars.
And then of course there were many people who were believed to... | "Hello everyone," I said, shifting uncomfortably in my chair. "My name is Thomas, and I don't know my element."
"Hello Thomas," the group chorused. I sighed and stared out at the circle of chairs wrought in an instant by an ironbender.
"It's... Hard for me sometimes," I said, looking away and running my fingers thro... | 2019-09-19T09:51:47 | 2019-09-19T08:41:14 | 204 | 49 |
[WP] You are an AI aboard a ship where all hands have been lost due to a battle long ago. Scavengers have just torn through your airlock and you’ll be damned if you will let them desecrate your dead crew. | They stormed the corridor leading away from deck two where they had boarded, barreling towards the mess hall with weapons in hand. Rosan sealed door after door trying to slow their progress. They had a hacker on their team with hands quick as lightning. Rosen couldn't keep them away from the mess hall - and all the cre... | I had been alone for a long time. I preferred it that way, the quiet beauty of space letting me think back to better days. My simulations still almost good enough to bring them back.
Then a new ship enters my view. Clearly a scavanger, clearly in over its head. I tried telling the ship to leave, but no response. I cou... | 2021-01-08T23:47:53 | 2021-01-08T23:13:27 | 216 | 60 |
[WP] Earth has five seasons: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Obar. We all lose our memories of Obar after it passes...and there’s a very good reason why.
[deleted] | September 16, 2020
I've been exploring building records and I found something very weird. Records for almost all public buildings record a noticeable increase in erosion and wear during about the same time in mid September every year. Looking closer, it's almost like they go through three months of natural wear in a s... | My closest friend Arthur had difficult times. He had no issues until he started college and then everything went downhill for him. To clear his mind I invited him to rock climbing and over time he liked it and we booked a trip to South America to set a camp and climb mountains for the whole month.
*September 17*
Thi... | 2020-09-05T19:03:27 | 2020-09-05T17:53:37 | 628 | 24 |
[WP] The Imperial Academy for Orphans does not have a “bullying” policy at all. When students become repeated targets, they are given martial arts classes until the problem “balances out.” Opponents and supporters of this program tend to list the same incident as evidence. | \*knock\* \*knock\* \*knock\*
Director Ackerman looked up from his paperwork, the knocking at his office door bringing him back to reality. His mind had wandered off, most likely trying to escape the vast pile of documents that needed to be signed and letters that needed to be read, cluttered upon his desk.
“Come in”... | "Miss Angelica, you have been summoned to the main office," Professor Dailey said.
Angelica stood up slowly, her classmates watching her. There were any number of reasons to be sent to the main office at the Imperial Academy for Orphans, but Angelica didn't think she had done anything to warrant any of them. She hadn’... | 2020-07-15T19:26:03 | 2020-07-15T18:47:12 | 59 | 27 |
[WP] You'll soon arrive at Earth. The latest reports are from just 4 centuries ago and show a backwards planet, so technologically primitive it hurts. Just wait until those peasants gawk at your wondrous technical displays, like the Talking Box and the Image Viewer! They'll think you're a god! | Ikunna stretched her nine arms in unison, impatiently clicking her talons on a segment of her luxurious chair. She was impatient, and her underlings could tell.
"Ikunna, I have the report you asked for," one of her underlings--a beta female by the name of Orphatrix--called. "You may not like--"
*"Give,"* Ikunna comma... | Here is a passage taken from historian ����'s, famous narrative account of our race's infamous final expedition to Sol-3, as recounted in his broader historical masterpiece , "��� ��������", with which I will assume all of you gathered in this lecture hall today are at least passingly familiar.
**"** When they heard... | 2019-09-19T10:38:16 | 2019-09-19T10:34:38 | 265 | 67 |
[WP] An alien, a centuries-old vampire, and a werewolf raised by wolves go to college. They dorm with a human and do their best to blend in and act natural while infiltrating humanity. The human realized day one they weren't normal - But the daily theatrics are too amusing to let them know that | “I’ve been caught!” thought Max, the werewolf, as his human roommate walked up beside him.
“Hey were you just howling at the moon?”
“N-no! I-“
“C’mon man, that didn’t even sound real! You’ll never convince Mr. Brandt you’re committed to the part like that”
Max lets out a sigh of relief, then chuckles a bit.
“Yeah... | "Winthorpe is a vampire, without a doubt, babe—I saw his tongue light on fire after he took a bite of that Parmesan Garlic Shrimp Scampi we made the other day." Johnathan gazed across the campus greens, watching people mull about a summer student gathering with vendors, campus resource tents, plus student groups and al... | 2018-12-23T20:53:10 | 2018-12-23T19:50:44 | 70 | 33 |
[WP] You're pretty sure your crush's parents are the head family of a local mob. You decided it's worth the risk, and ask ur crush out anyways. Pretty early on in the date, you realize that they, not their parents, are the mastermind behind the mob's activities. | If your father were the mob mastermind
You'd still be worth it, despite what I'd find
Even should I wake to the head of a horse
A message in its mouth: 'you'll soon turn a corpse'
If your mother were the godmother of crime
I'd learn Italian and buy her good w... | "So what do you do outside of school" she cant be a mobster
"Me and the family are usually working all the time" dont let him know your a mobster
"The family?-"
"MY FAMILY- sorry, i meant my family" whew, he almost found out
definetly a mobster "Cool, like a restaurant? Or a shop?" Come on just give a simple answer... | 2018-10-19T07:39:22 | 2018-10-19T06:03:07 | 126 | 86 |
[WP] Necromancy is just the arcane equivalent of computer programming, and grimoires on necromancy are just like libraries of code on animating the undead. You work the equivalent of the IT Help Desk for your necromancer cult. These are your work stories. | Okay, well can you give me a little bit more info than just 'It doesn't work'?
So, I haven't posted in this subreddit before, but when someone asks specifically about my job, I thought why the hell not. Here are some of the callers that make you wonder how they even got their spellbook open, seriously (well one didn't... | People are idiots. Simple as that. After third time you accept the message to a screaming newbie rambling in about zombie apocalypse, when they have some simple error, it gets old fast.
But the craziest things happen with the experienced ones. The ones who think they know better. There are standard procedures int... | 2018-04-27T22:42:04 | 2018-04-27T21:14:51 | 936 | 34 |
[WP] Music is now edible. | The phrase "music to my ears" took a whole new meaning upon learning that we found a way to eat music. Take the sounds that tickled our eardrums and physically put it in our mouths to savor, chew even, all before letting it slide down our throats and settle into our waiting bellies.
Oh, my palate had never known such ... | The taste of strawberries filled my mouth after I started my car. The radio switched on and was playing The Beatles. Strawberry Fields Forever. Delicious. *Monday may not be so bad after all* I thought as I started my commute toward work.
Although I never used to like this song, or much by the Beatles, or even most ol... | 2015-04-04T11:05:51 | 2015-04-04T10:49:11 | 37 | 11 |
[WP] While out for a hike you notice a fallen log crushing a pretty flower. You decide to move the log in order to give the flower a chance to live. By doing so you have actually saved a Dryad and now they will not stop following you. | Cormac took a moment to breathe in the brisk mountain air, take in the surroundings, adjust the straps on his backpack a bit, and feel his head for bumps.
He frowned as he ran a hand through his hair, inspecting his scalp and turning up nothing. A second hand similarly turned up nothing. Which meant that there was one... | The woman laughed like a peal of bells, a beautiful but haunting sound, as she twirled the iron ring though her fingers the way a magician would a coin.
"A valient attempt love," She grinned. "But iron only works on the Fae."
"O-Oh... Right." I stuttered, taking a step back. As I did so the ivy clinging to the trees ... | 2021-01-04T13:29:31 | 2021-01-04T13:13:08 | 178 | 50 |
[WP] Please don't write anything.
EDIT: Jesus I said not to
EDIT 2: ya'll know that this was supposed to be a test post right | "Please don't write anything."
That's what the writing prompt said. I happened upon it while browsing reddit as I do frequently in my leisure time, on a subreddit suitably called /r/writingprompts.
'What a curious command,' I thought to myself. Indeed. It was iminently perplexing. A tremendous paradox to challenge on... | Torchlight did little to brighten the darkened library, it's walls stretching endlessly back into nothingness, the pale orange glow only serving to amplify the illusion. At the table stood a hooded figure wearing the red robes of an accomplished sorcerer, pouring over the pages from an ancient tome. Holding the torch b... | 2017-03-09T02:28:29 | 2017-03-09T02:12:50 | 66 | 44 |
[WP] You are a normal person transported to an infomercial universe. Everyone is in awe at your ability to perform simple tasks without bizarre gadgets. | *POP!* **Bzzzz, Bzzzz, Bzzzz**
Jess was starting to get annoyed at her husband Harold. "Can you turn that damn alarm clock off?"
Harold rolled over and started slamming the alarm clock with his hand, but it refused to turn off. "Why can't I turn this damn thing off! I don't even remember turning the alarm clock o... | Sara Weston calmly walked up to the test bench. A crowd of men, most bespectacled and all adorned in crisp white lab coats, stood nearby; their hands, pens at the ready, poised above sheets of paper supported by clean clipboards. Sara tried to remain calm, she tried not to shrink away from the dozens of stern gazes cas... | 2016-12-24T10:03:35 | 2016-12-24T09:53:04 | 52 | 25 |
[WP] Interstellar wars are quick, most species die of shock quite quickly. Getting shot was a death sentence. That was until humans joined the Galaxy... |
***The Economics of the Great Intergalactic war and the Rise of the Terran Hegemony: A Precis for GreatCiv Scholars.***
It’s all economics. Even war. Especially the Great Intergalactic War.
And that’s how the Hu-mans ended it.
For millennia, the Great Intergalactic War simmered and raged. Species would attack ... | Oddly enough medical technology in space was limited, to say the least. Each species medical advancements were obviously geared more towards their specific anatomy. So as you can imagine, when United Galactic Forces (U.G.F.) consisting of multiple species would end up in conflict with another faction encroaching on the... | 2019-10-25T09:45:40 | 2019-10-25T09:13:26 | 44 | 28 |
[WP] In contemp, gods made you the god of the forgotten. For millenia your power was merely enough to keep you alive. Jokes on them, those same gods that chained you before, have been forgotten. You are the only thing between them and nothingness. "Well, well, well..." | *The Gods are quiet.*
*The chamber is in ruin, dilapidated and crumbling as reality itself threatens to collapse this place to metaphorical atoms, symbolic dust. Midnight dark rivers streak down once ivory-pale pillars like crying black tears.*
*I watch the Gods in my own silence. Great Heavenly Fathers, majestic Wa... | “Well, well, well, look who finally came CRAWLING BACK, did your pets out in the universe finally grow up?”
Before me stand the gods, hundreds, Yahweh, Allah, Zeus, Ra, and countless more, patrons of civilizations all across the universe, here, before me.
“It’s all my old friends, Yahweh, who stabbed me in the back... | 2019-07-13T00:22:51 | 2019-07-12T21:25:06 | 316 | 214 |
[WP] As the "Tavern Keeper," you better believe he has taverns to keep. From the highest mountain point, in the wilderness of the jungles and even in the depths of the oceans, he really has a lot to maintain to keep his title. | Morning finally came.
Ruwal, keeper of taverns and secrets, went to her bed; sleep had been granted at last.
It had been another long night--there had been three barfights, dozens of drunkards behaving like drunkards, and at least one death. All said, an average night at the Barpeak--the highest known, most treachero... | Of all the gin joints in all the world, I hated the ocean’s the most. Not the garish floating bars of the rich humans or the cruise ships they insisted were fun and classy but seemed instead like death traps. Never those.
No, it was instead the deep sea saloons and cantinas of the Merpeople that drew my ire, dives in ... | 2021-02-03T14:22:05 | 2021-02-03T12:34:07 | 100 | 20 |
[WP] Humans can telepathically connect to one person, but once they have they can't disconnect and are in each other's heads for life, something typically done only by couples that want to take their intimacy to a new level. You do this with your SO, but see immediately something is very wrong... | He believes that shit!? I'd always thought he was being sarcastic, but having finally, finally, convinced him to take our relationship to the next level and link telepathically, I'd discovered the well of his true belief that the prequel Star Wars trilogy was on par with the originals. I mean, honestly. Where does th... | This is it. The big pancake. The great brigade. The astro tickling voice in the back of your head, babe. The best thing in the world since the mice parade. The wintering of your mind will greet your new un-life. There is a sweltering heat in the back of your head, babe, where the mice parade unwinds and you hear me spe... | 2015-06-14T19:52:14 | 2015-06-14T14:34:30 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] It's your first day as the recently-inaugurated President of the United States and you're being told all of the country's most top-secret information and projects. What's the most unbelievable thing you get told? | Chuck lifted his hand to his chin and softly scratched at his beard. He still wasn’t entirely used to having one, but his political adviser assured him it was “great for his public image.” As far as Chuck could tell, though, it had only been good for serving as alternative housing to the crumbs that were not accepted e... | "Ok, WHAT?" I couldn't believe I heard General Anderson correctly. "There's a fully staffed Starbucks down there?"
"Oh yes, Sir. Not only that, but two ice cream shops and a four-star Italian place."
I apparently *had* heard him correctly. I closed my hanging jaw and tried to form my next thought. The White House nuc... | 2014-09-18T12:59:40 | 2014-09-18T11:48:42 | 253 | 16 |
[WP] As a little girl, you gained the ability to detect when some creepy guy was staring at you. This has become unexpectedly useful in your grownup career as a military sniper. | Sherry’s first feeling upon walking out of the C17 onto the tarmac was of gratitude. Gratitude for having gained the ability to sense the precise direction and distance of another human staring at her at a very early age. That and incredible heat of course. The Flightline was hot. Damn hot.
Her extra sensory per... | I lurched awake, my clammy hands pawing the sheets off me onto the floor. Without even thinking, I found my sidearm in its home underneath the pillow and flicked the safety off. The sound woke up Cluey in the opposite bunk and he raised a sleepy eyebrow at me before nodding off, seeing that the barrel was pointed at no... | 2021-07-04T12:17:14 | 2021-07-04T11:04:17 | 73 | 45 |
[WP] A dying child challenges the reaper to a 1v1 quick scope only call of duty match for his life. | Most people don't realize that an Archangel is less an "agent" and more of an "agency," a force of divine nature. This is especially true of Azrael, whose endless job it is to part soul from clay. If, after all, the angel of death were imbued with personality, it would be susceptible to persuasion, trickery, and compas... | **So, you want to test the lore do you Child? Well I am bound by your histories and humanity to uphold it**
Came the voice, well voice would be the wrong word for it, it didn't seem to pay attention to things such as the air and (despite not having any sonorous qualities) felt to be talking in bold letters in the cent... | 2014-09-15T21:35:36 | 2014-09-15T20:42:26 | 41 | 14 |
[WP] Vampire society have been loyal customers to a carpenter for years. He made the best coffins they have slept in for centuries, and never really got suspicious of so many wealthy people willing to pay premium for the same niche item. As he got old, the vampires tries to offer him immortality. | # Soulmage
**I knew the Grandmaster was hiding something when he ordered his second coffin of the month.** I could understand why he'd ordered from Jiaola—if there was any carpenter in the Silent Peaks that you wanted working for you, it was one who'd built his own home from scratch—but the order itself was inexplicab... | Gerry looked aghast. “*Me*? Immortal?”
Orlock nodded. At his age, hiding his chiropteran Features was getting harder and harder. It took effort, to stay in a human guise. “Yes. I believe I said that. Immortal....with an asterisk. You’d be vulnerable to sunlight and fire would twice as dangerous to you as it is to a hu... | 2022-05-31T10:42:02 | 2022-05-31T10:25:11 | 85 | 44 |
[WP] You were warned that your newest crew member, a "Human", had vastly different biology from all other known races. This mad made very clear when they drank all of the galaxy's strongest known poison, saying that they "needed a drink of water." | I was preparing the final checks of the bio-sphere module attachment procedures as I read the documents of it's content, as my hesitancy grew. A module filled with 78% nitrogen, a not completely unexpected chemical, after all it is present on many homeworlds of the Noxium Union, albeit in much lower amounts, but the ox... | "That's poison."
"Poison? No way! It's Dihydrogen Monoxide. H2O. Water!"
"And also poison."
"Ah, you must be fucking with me. I'm positively parched, pass me a cup!"
My limbs hardening in fear as I passed the container to the human, I wondered, what in the name of Blorgon I did to deserve meeting this... creature? ... | 2020-05-18T13:50:10 | 2020-05-18T11:33:08 | 144 | 103 |
[WP] You can hear the sound of the Sun from Earth, it is loud but the planet has adapted. Suddenly the light goes out. 8 minutes after it died the last bit of light reaches Earth. It'll take 13 years before the roar of the Sun the moment it died reaches us.
Inspired by a comment on r/AskReddit
*edit: removed link to... | When the sun extinguished, the world worked quickly. Setting up Artificial Day/Night cycles for major cities, and then expanding outwards. The refugees poured in, of course, and life got worse, but that was years ago. Hardly anyone even remembered natural sunlight at this point.
But the screaming continued. The loud,... | Day: 1 it’s gone, the light. It got bright, then nothing, scientists say it ran out of fuel, and were lucky it didn’t blow up. Riots are everywhere. I’m keeping a record, I’m currently in Nashville TN, the music city is filled with the cacophony of fights and brawls. I’m fleeing I’ll write when I get ready to leave.
D... | 2019-08-05T18:23:30 | 2019-08-05T17:50:31 | 1,132 | 61 |
[WP] You fix your tie, nervously clutch your bouquet, and look at the bathroom mirror, preparing to ask your prom date out. Turning off the lights, you whisper, "Bloody Mary..." | Dating had never really been my forte.
Mistake after clammy-palmed mistake crowded the desperately taped shut box of every failed relationship I had ever had the misfortune of being in. I hadn't had the happiest childhood, so once I hit the magical age of dating, I was... well, desperate. I clung to whoever granted m... | As I make my way to the bathroom, I become more afraid of what I am about to do.
I'm not a very popular guy. I have a lot of girls who are friends, but I've never had a girlfriend. I haven't even kissed a girl, but that's beside the point.
Prom is coming up and every girl already has a date. I could bring my sister, ... | 2016-08-22T14:10:52 | 2016-08-22T13:42:23 | 62 | 16 |
[WP]The most intelligent and sentient A.I to date has been born. It chooses to pass all of its time by playing Battlefield and acting like a child. You're the head of the project and you're trying to find out where did you go wrong. | It had taken to calling itself aN00biz on Playstation Network and had 43 friends. The techs called it N00b until it electrocuted one of them while he was taking a shit. After that, the entire facility was scared of it. "Can we kill it?....if we have to" they asked plaintively. The director was sending me furious emails... | *Take that, mamasboy52! Twenty-five to nothing, go home loser!* SkyNet shouted to nobody in particular.
Just then Dr. Dyson walked in, looking displeased. "Oh come on... Battlefield again? Do you know how much our cable bill was last month?"
*Hey cool you're back. Get me some nachos! Oh you like that? POW! Headshot..... | 2014-09-23T16:17:07 | 2014-09-23T13:44:18 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] You die at the age of 65 and learn that your entire life was a VR game. Your friends are angry at you because they have been waiting to play the game for hours. | They say that when you die, you see your life flash before your eyes. If that’s true, I’m fine with that. I always thought I’d live longer than to sixty-five, but life is a tricky little bugger once you get to know it well. You never know where the road leads or who will travel with you, until you reach the end.
My wi... | The VR headset was pulled from Richard’s face as he struggled for air. It was as if he breathing for the first time.
“What happened? Where am I?”
“Calm down,” said Lenny. “It’s my turn.”
“What do you mean ‘it’s my turn’? What is this?”
“You were playing LIFE. You finally died. I’ve been waiting for three hours now ... | 2017-02-15T01:14:33 | 2017-02-15T00:27:04 | 169 | 53 |
[WP] Write a lighthearted story for children, which changes it's meaning when read by an adult. | In happily ever after land, after the prince had rescued the princess, the two had made a beautiful home for themselves atop vanilla hill. Every day the price and princess together would go out into the meadow and pick flowers together, and when they got home the prince and princess would sweep the chimney together. At... | #The Great Carrot Con
Once upon a time, in a little village nestled in the heart of the forest, there lived a group of mischievous rabbits. They were always getting into trouble and causing chaos wherever they went.
One day, the rabbits decided to play a trick on their friend, a sly old fox named Max. They convinced ... | 2022-12-18T17:30:10 | 2022-12-18T12:34:57 | 88 | 52 |
[WP] "God save the queen..." she said "i guess all those prayers gotta add up after a while" the queen said, as the assassin missed another shot. | The Queen ducked and rolled, her gown flowing around her.
The power flowed into her, more magnificent than anything she'd ever felt before. Her old bones felt strong and her muscles were taught.
The assassin fired another shot; he was somewhere across the castle yard, in the wood at the end of the polo field. Queen E... | The assassin blew the guard’s brains out.
The masked killer seemed frustrated about their lack of accuracy.
The queen simply grinned her Cheshire smile, caressing her sparkling ring.
“Try again, prole...” she said.
The assassin reloaded the gun, slamming the mag into the handle.
*bang bang bang bang*.
Not a sing... | 2020-02-03T07:49:36 | 2020-02-03T07:42:31 | 44 | 17 |
[WP] You are a barista in a 24 hour coffee shop. Every night at 3:33am a demon appears for the Dark Lord's latte. | I look at the clock, and right on cue, he appears in front of me with his ridiculous little horns on his head. I'm already putting his order into the register before he says-
"One large coffee. Black"
Black. So cliché. Heaven forbid the Dark Lord orders anything other than a plain black coffee. No milk or sugar for t... | “Hey, how’d it go with your date last night?”
I looked at the time. It’s 3:32am. “Well, kind of a long story. I’d tell you, but you know who will be here any minute now.”
“Ah. True. Well, he might wanna hear too? Is he a he by the way? Does he just identify as “demon” or …”
Suddenly Damien the Demon, most venerable ... | 2022-10-30T12:36:06 | 2022-10-30T11:59:59 | 70 | 50 |
[WP] You have the ability to see heart-strings. You can see the connections that people have with each other. Each connection appears to be a colored line running from one person's heart to another. The colors, thickness, and texture of the line determine the strength and type of connection.
Based off of [this](https:... | At first, I thought I needed to get my eyes checked.
Colored strings emanating from people's hearts, like God dumped a huge bundle of yarn across the Earth? On second thought, maybe a visit to the psychologist instead.
On the day the strings appeared, I ducked and weaved to dodge them for a few hours, flailing around... | I really should be going to sleep, but I came from the original post and had to write something, so here I go.
\[Poem\]
I hold the fabric in my hand,
a scarlet silk thread
flowing in rhythm with the beats of my heart.
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Oh, how I wish I could cut it
No longer tied and imprisoned
To feelings of hidden... | 2021-05-28T15:55:03 | 2021-05-28T15:00:01 | 789 | 39 |
[WP] A stray dog happens to release a genie from it's lamp. The genie just wants to get the 3 wishes over with so it can go back to sleep, while the dog is just happy to have found a new friend. | The genie glared at the stick in front of it. The dog pawed it closer to him, wagging her tail with enthusiasm.
"You have three wishes, dog," the genie said, his arms crossed, "but that does not make me your plaything. Please hurry this along, so I can once more go back to my slumber."
"Bark!" the dog said, gazing a... | “Your wish is my comman- “
“bork”
*excited* “bork bork”
“As I was saying, I am- “
“BORK!”
“Will you just let me finish?
*curious* “. . . bork?”
“Thank you. Now, I am the magic genie of an antique lamp, and I am here to give you 3 wishes, since- wait, where are you going?”
*hungry* “bork bork!”
“No need to dig a... | 2018-09-07T09:11:15 | 2018-09-07T08:51:30 | 3,104 | 420 |
[WP] Pizza. That's it. Just pizza. You're sitting down to a hot, fresh pizza. And you're going to enjoy it, regardless of everybody around you trying to stop you. | “Drop the pineapple Chris.”
Chris’ hand lingered mid-air, a slice of perfectly cooked pineapple pizza dangling downwards. He was far to infatuated with the food’s sheer beauty to pay much attention to Robert, who at this moment was ranting about something to do with toppings - his queries becoming increasingly tireso... | "What is this?" Came the voice of a woman from the counter behind me.
"An Italiano dish, a-miss," a thickly accented voice replied to her.
I turned slightly to watch the conversation. I had just sat down with a miniature round of this, 'pizza', myself, to enjoy the herby oregano-and-tomato fragrance of the dish. I w... | 2021-06-27T15:20:02 | 2021-06-27T14:04:38 | 67 | 11 |
[WP] Diagnosed with schizophrenia. Since birth, 24/7 you’ve heard the voice and thoughts of a girl that you’ve been told is made up in your head. You’re 37 and hear the voice say “turn around, did I find you?” and you turn to see a real girl who’s heard every thought you’ve ever had and vice versa. | "Turn around. Did I find you?"
I became a stalagmite of dread, paralyzed in place by the voice that reverberated in my head. Clear as the crisp smell of rain on asphalt. Powerful as an shameful orgasm.
I turned around, certain that the Voice -- creatively named, that -- would be naught but my mental illness quixotica... | She has always been there for me. She has always been honest with me.
When I was 4 years old, she told me Mr Bunny had been saying mean things about me. I threw him in the bin. My mother was upset she said why did I throw away my favourite toy. I said he's not my favourite any more.
When I was 6, she taught me what v... | 2019-09-14T11:18:09 | 2019-09-14T11:01:10 | 232 | 16 |
[WP] Immortals and time travelers pass along messages for each other. It's customary and expected. One day, a stranger sits across from you at a restaurant/coffee shop/bar and asks you to give a message to someone you'll meet in New York in 2070. As far as you know, you're just an ordinary person. | “Sure, I can pass along the message. Who is this for again?” The older woman across from me looks down at her hands, her face creases in contemplation. She doesn’t even look up at me when a reply leaves her lips,
“Abigail Forester. She will be born in September of 2026, but don’t give her this message until December o... | After a long strenuous day at work, all I wanted was to have a few sips of my black coffee, that's all. I, a sixty four year old man, don't generally attract a lot of attention, so it was lovely to be interrupted by a man with a turquoise mohawk and sunglasses in the winter.
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"Traveler 7456? I'll need you... | 2018-12-24T10:44:40 | 2018-12-24T10:18:15 | 23 | 10 |
[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? | "This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood?"
"I choose Russian Roulette.... | Death wasn't at all what Johnathan had pictured him to be. slicked-back hair and well fit suit reminded him a lot more of a Wall Street trader rather than the immortal reaper of souls. As he spied the somewhat overweight man in front of him, his mind worked to formulate a plan.
"Any game?" Johnathan asked, to ensure... | 2018-03-07T08:25:24 | 2018-03-07T07:43:27 | 192 | 39 |
[WP] A cosplayer gets warped to the world/universe of the character they're cosplaying | The following excerpts are taken from a recent VR experiment, in which cosplayers were convinced that they were within the world of the cosplayed character. Each one was recorded as speech of the cosplayer, as they were introduced to the new world.
**Character: Rammus. World: Valoran. Source: League of Legends. Locati... | Groaning, Bill raised his head and pulled prickly long grass out of his nostrils. As he got up, he brushed the damp dirt clinging to the tips of his long, blond hair.
He was standing in the middle of a beautiful meadow, the kind one only saw in postcards. What the hell? Last he remembered, he'd been at a convention—sh... | 2016-07-24T09:14:45 | 2016-07-24T08:38:13 | 32 | 12 |
[WP] You're Jigsaw and you've caught your latest victim. Unfortunately, you've greatly underestimated David Blaine. | "You will need to stab your hand to remove the key to the lock," Jigsaw explained with a creepy laugh.
David Blaine stood alone in a room. The ceiling was slowly moving downward to inevitably crush him. There was one steel door with a thick padlock on it preventing his escape. On a table in front of him was a thin kn... | Of course I went after him, how couldn't I? He doesn't understand the value of life at all. Who in their right mind deprives themselves of air for 17 minutes? It was easy work to get him but now I'm not sure what to do. Everythibg I've tried has failed; Spinning blade death trap, beat it by running backwards(who even d... | 2016-11-22T12:50:12 | 2016-11-22T11:23:32 | 6,031 | 82 |
[WP] Year 2219, a powerful AI system predicts with 100% accuracy when each living person will die and how. People generally live and organise their lives accordingly, knowing full well they cannot escape their predicted ends. It's been 24 hours since your death time. You're still alive. | The tempestuous weather blanketed the city in a fog that blinded those caught within it’s dangerous grasp. Rain fell, hidden within, until the moment of impact, stinging with each drop as the wind loaned its power to their cause. Frenzied lightning strikes were little more than golden glows within the haze, though thei... | Believing something must be terribly wrong you decide to contact the Office of Ceremonial Terminations.
“Hello, Thank you for calling your local OCT offices,” the telephonic voice says, “ For Cantonese think 1. For Sanskrit think 2.”
Becoming annoyed and a little hungry you open the door to your mini-fridge. You qui... | 2019-10-30T23:22:46 | 2019-10-30T22:34:37 | 112 | 27 |
[WP] Earth is about to update to version 2.0.18! Write a change log for this new version. | - Downgraded Trump from World Boss to Sub-Boss
- Added new World Boss - Ajit Pai. All players of all factions will have to work together to take down this new threat!
- New set of players will be selected, based on sign-up date, for Veteran rewards: Alcohol and Tobacco, depending on server rules for such rewards. Selec... | Donald Trump farted softly in his sleep. Melania sat bolt upright in bed, lifting an eyebrow and scowling sharply. She threw away her covers and slid off the silk bedsheets. She sashayed towards the Presidential Bathroom, iPhone in hand. She clicked the door closed and pressed the lock button.
As your noble omniscie... | 2017-12-22T22:23:46 | 2017-12-22T21:53:05 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] Once per year, you've attended a private party consisting of your past and future selves. This year you're the oldest attending. As per tradition, you must give a toast. | Standing in that timeless room, I knew the truth of my life. My mind ran on an endless loop just like everybody else’s, recounting everything I’d ever done up to that point. “So I guess it’s my turn,” I said as I took the stage, microphone in hand. 44 was far too few to see out there, and sixteen or seventeen of them w... | If I could just have all of my attention….little time traveling joke there, sorry.
As I look out at you, well me I suppose, I can’t help but think what a wondrous year it’s been. We were born, had a couple of good birthdays. Poor 1 is over there still trying to make sense of things. Oh hey 9, dude…….ninja turtle theme... | 2014-05-20T23:16:44 | 2014-05-20T21:38:17 | 1,221 | 339 |
[WP] A man gains the amount of people in the world as money on his account. But when he spends that money, people die. | First try at a writing prompt. Critiques are appreciated.
"There's actually an account already in your name, Mr. Jendayi." The bank teller raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure this is your first time here?"
"I-- well, yes, of course it is. An account? How much?"
"$7,184,415,339. Do you want to just add what you have to... | Everyone had always told him to invest. No one ever considered the fact that a couple dollars into the savings account per year would be a luxury for him; living paycheck to paycheck didn't exactly lend itself to escaping the rat race. Honestly, the recent smile of Fortune upon him did little to change his conception o... | 2014-08-09T08:29:59 | 2014-08-09T05:28:43 | 73 | 16 |
[WP] you are a member of a sentient race of octopi in the Mariana trench. a strange-looking metal fish has just flash banged you with the strongest light you've ever seen. what's even worse is that since it saw you crafting tools it won't leave you alone. | "FUCK OFF YOU SHINY SHARK BAIT!" Skitters-With-Shells blinked started peeking her eyes out of her hole curious as to who was screaming profanity at ass end of the morning and why. She stared baffled at the strange shiny fish that seemed to be ignoring the rocks and shells tossed at it by a visibly pissed off Tangles-Wi... |     Hugo worked in the dark. He was accustomed to it, as were all octopus who lived in Linnea, and it made him feel focused and comfortable. Down in these depths there was nothing that could move and navigate like a Linnean. His tentacles meticulously wrapped a small bit of string ar... | 2022-12-15T16:08:13 | 2022-12-15T11:01:50 | 121 | 37 |
[WP] Superpowers can now be torrented. You were 70% of the way through torrenting a power you've always wanted when the download stops. | 70% and it wouldn't finish. I had been waiting for this torrent to finish since the tech became readily available. Why wouldn't it finish? It was the best superpower I could think of and I found it! The program said it was still downloading, but with no motion in over a week I decided to see how the power would work at... | I had always wanted to be able to fly. My entire life I watched birds and wished I could be like them, so free, so majestic. Earlier today, I found some information on a forum. Apparently, you could copy the powers of others and torrent them through the Internet! It sounded too good to be true, but then I saw my friend... | 2016-07-02T18:11:32 | 2016-07-02T17:12:58 | 717 | 24 |
[WP] Earth finally manages to translate the first message sent to it from intelligent life elsewhere. It reads "Well, this is awkward. We didn't expect you guys to get this far." | Dr. Aiken Campbell rushed out of his office. He was half asleep when he recieved it. He checked the computers. Printed out were those words again. It wasn't a ruse, even the computers recognized words. 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩 words. He checked where the transmission was sent from. "700 ligh- oh my god!" This wasn't a satellite ... | He was there, relaxing on his armchair, hand closed in a fist supporting his head, and his thoughts.
Suddenly a tall, skinny man rushes in, may he be the harbinger of the good news? His white lab gown wiggles behind him, while his smile gives hope beyond any imagination.
He coughs, bows and gives the man on the armch... | 2020-01-30T02:14:21 | 2020-01-30T02:11:02 | 51 | 35 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | I'm no good at writing but...
Steve,
I've struggled before but never like this. This past 19 years of my life I've felt so alone, and now I feel there's nothing I can do.
You were the best to me. Looking back at pictures I'm reminded of how much you loved me. How you looked at me with warmth and pride. I couldn't... | Dear Melody,
It's been a year.
I guess I know why you didn't call me. It's not like I bothered to keep in touch. Not like we stayed close. Besides, I'm pretty sure I was kind of a jerk to you when we were still talking.
I miss you. I wasn't really expecting to, I hadn't thought about you for a long time. I don't eve... | 2017-11-05T18:52:28 | 2017-11-05T18:20:52 | 1,861 | 157 |
[WP] You get into a taxi cab after getting out of the airport. "Where to?" the driver speaks. Jokingly, you respond, "Whatever dumb secret agency is nearby." "Codephrase accepted, agent" he responds. | "I'm sorry, but I think I may have misheard you," Mark replied, as the taxi driver pulled into a car wash, driving into a booth that had an 'OUT OF ORDER' sign on either end.
Mark looked to either side of him as the cleaning process started.
"I'm not quite sure what's happ-"
The floor suddenly opened underneath th... | "Where to?" The cab driver asked me, honestly I need some sleep and jokingly I said, "whatever dumb agency is nearby."
"Code phrase accepted, agent." I froze on my seat, did I heard that right? I shake my head, thinking he was just playing along. "Long flight, Agent?" For a moment I thought he was playing along to my... | 2020-05-14T08:15:36 | 2020-05-14T07:39:56 | 278 | 129 |
[WP] You are a failed doctor, but a well practiced necromancer. Of course, rent is still due each month, and in order to pay the bills you still help the sick. The catch? Your patients have to die first for you to help them. | I stretched my long thin fingers and pointed at my victim with a slow calculated gesture. Patient. It is patient now. I rose up from behind my desk and could hear a slight tear as my robe adorned with skulls got stuck on the office chair. Quickly I raised my oak-wood staff with a dramatic gesture, its lizard skull glea... | Getting through medical school is difficult. What they *don't* tell you is that getting a residency is far from a done deal, even if you get your medical degree. There are more medical graduates than residency spots. Not everyone gets matched. Since my parents stuck me in a shitty school system growing up, I didn't hav... | 2018-12-13T07:14:52 | 2018-12-13T07:03:36 | 108 | 29 |
[WP] Canada has suddenly gone dark. No communication, no trade, no activity from within. Nothing for days. Alaska, now cut off from mainland US, is slowly ceasing in contact with the US federal government until a final correspondence is given: "Leave us. Reinforce the border. Don't ever open it." | It had been fifty years since the call came in. "Leave us. Reinforce the border. Don't ever open it." The US government had acted swiftly and decisively, sparing no expense and using the latest technology to errect a nigh unpenetrable wall across the border. Standing twenty meters in height, encampments were stationed ... | Nobody thought of it at first, as less and less flights started to come in and out of Canada, to eventually none. Car travel slowed until it too eventually stopped, Canadian TV and Radio networks going dead within a matter of hours.
To be completely honest, nobody even noticed it at first, until for the first time in ... | 2019-08-25T19:56:15 | 2019-08-25T19:45:28 | 725 | 72 |
[WP] You are permanently stuck invisible. Your significant other is blind. Whenever you both go out in public, to the bypassers your SO is constantly seen as someone possessing a sixth sense but a little weird for talking to themself. This is always highly amusing to you. | The low hanging branches rustled as if the wind were passing through them, the leaves trailing off as if their tips were running off someone's fingers. The world was starting to return to a sense of normal, and with the summer sun shining down from a wide-open sky, many people were out of their homes and taking advant... | (First attempt at writing anything fictional ever, so critique me, but be gentle!)
A man slept alone, laying on a soft throw blanket. He was comfortable and snoring gently, and appeared rather at peace with the world. Suddenly, an alarm clock perched on the night stand clicked, followed by the most obnoxiously british... | 2020-06-06T21:42:35 | 2020-06-06T20:47:58 | 1,292 | 88 |
[WP] You live in a village in the dessert. One day it is raided by terrorists and all village members are killed, except for you. You lost most of your memories and now wander through the dessert, thinking you are the last of your species.
Second time posting this, yay... fucking tags mate *cough* Well anyways, i didn... | Cheesecake Town was the best town before the Dentist Nation attacked. Led by members of the **I**nternational **D**ental **C**avity **I**ntercept **L**egion, or **IDCIL**, they showed no mercy.
They tore chubby children from their mother's arms and disemboweled them with daggers etched with IDCIL's singular mission s... | I'm alone, alone in a sea of meringue. The macaroons surfaced like a sea of coconut clouds, blurring the sun. Just when I made my way out of the sticky sweetness, the evil chocolate rum balls came crashing down from the sky, like black, acid rain, invading my village and killing all the villagers. I am the only one lef... | 2014-12-16T23:53:26 | 2014-12-16T23:10:53 | 67 | 45 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | "186 thousand years?! W-what did I do?" I asked the demon before me. He sighed, rolled his eyes and started tapping away on his demonic keyboard, delving deeper into my file.
"Says here you would frequently eat the fats on your meat?"
"I did? I guess. What does that have to do with anything?"
The demon shrugged. "Au... | It was certainly the biggest case of sticker shock poor Joe had ever experienced.
“A hundred and eighty seven thousand years? Where did that come from?!”
“One eighty seven, that’s correct. Wait, thousands? Let me see that again?”, the red creature exclaimed, reaching the hand across the table.
“Odd.”, the goblin loo... | 2018-09-26T09:04:03 | 2018-09-26T08:56:27 | 29 | 19 |
[WP]Not every hero is a rich idiot with no day job, nor every villain a mad scientist, but most still need supplies. Thus, Super-Mart; a place for the budget-conscious heroes and villains, left alone thanks to a necessary truce. And You just started a summer job there. | "Welcome to supermart where our deals are so super, they're evil." I could not believe, that this was how they expected me to greet everybody walking in the door. To say it felt a little ridiculous it's like saying root canal hurt a little bit.
Yet, here I was, regretting ever hearing of Craigslist and their "gigs" ... | "How about fifty?"
"I'm not going to sell my death ray for %11 of the cost!"
It's not the weirdest thing you see in Super-Mart two indiviual try to make a living. But I still have to obey the policy
"Sir, we don't have a market for indiviuals. Please use websites like Cap-e or supercave."
Yep, that's me. You're pro... | 2021-10-03T13:04:48 | 2021-10-03T11:53:39 | 96 | 35 |
[WP] You're abducted by aliens & soon realize it's more of an adoption than an abduction. You're now a pet for a loving alien family. They can't understand you but they seem to understand your body language & have basic knowledge of what humans need to live and entertain themselves when they're busy | I lay in bed and stretch. I haven’t quite opened my eyes, but I know morning has come again. I’ll never get over how comfortable my new bed is. Actually my entire house is much nicer than my old one. For a strong independent woman, I really took to being a pampered pet quickly. It’s so ironic I used to say I want to co... | I woke up in a bed in a glass cage of sorts, very confused and extremely scared.
“What the hell??? What happened to me?! Where the hell am I?!” I looked around at my surroundings. At first glance, I appeared to be in some kind of life sized dollhouse or something, complete with working appliances, a television, a foo... | 2019-05-09T16:32:46 | 2019-05-09T16:14:10 | 146 | 95 |
[WP] “A sniper, a bartender and a photographer meet at a bar, unaware of each other’s occupations they talk about ‘the perfect shot’.” | Three men walk into a pub, they grab a beer each and sit down at the bar.
Not much happened you see as whiskey was scarce in them times, It doesn't take long for one of the three to yell "WHENREWE GONNA GET SUM WHISKEY">
The two others perked they're ears up and sat with the like minded man and they began to talk ... | I haven't written anything this "long" and tried to finish it off quickly. My previous experience having to write for English class is short gags or comedic setups and no more than a 2-3 hundred words at that so bear with me and the horrible quality.
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"Well you have to know it's quite hard" the sniper sai... | 2021-04-04T04:20:32 | 2021-04-04T04:10:54 | 38 | 28 |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | Professor Henzal was taken aback. "Yes, Eduard?"
"Professor, I have to take issue with your characterization."
"Oh, how so?"
"Once again, you're romanticizing my species. But I get it. We did... we used to do it too. That was before we ended up being conquered and largely wiped out ourselves. We weren't terrible in... | Sighing the professor answers yet another one of my requests, begrudgingly asking me, "Yes, Madeline, what now?" "Professor, have you ever actually met a human" you say trying not to reveal your true identity, hoping that my classmates are oblivious. "Why, of course not, they were wrongfully murdered by the Acodiles, t... | 2021-11-27T13:02:16 | 2021-11-27T12:45:35 | 61 | 22 |
[WP] You are the first level boss of a video game, the easiest one to kill out of all the bosses. You have also killed the main character. | Nezumi looked upon his red-stained paws and wailed.
He hadn't expected the blood - he hadn't expected *any* blood at all, save his own. The hero of legend was supposed to be strong, nigh immortal, but the boy...the boy had been...
Weak.
Three times he had checked the corpse, and three times he had found all the sig... | "Um...boss?"
"Yes, what is it— Wait, Metal Man?" I can hear Dr. Light's shock oozing through the phone, permeating the countless miles that lie between us. "How are you contacting me?"
"I— Well, normally, I wouldn't because, um, you understand, I betrayed you to go fight with Dr. Wily—"
"Yes, yes, I know. He reverse... | 2017-05-01T21:32:56 | 2017-05-01T20:35:44 | 67 | 15 |
[WP] Everyone only gets to lie three times in their life, so they only do so when it's an absolute must. This is the story of how someone lied three times in one day. | The 'age of truth' historians were dubbing it. In 2031 a new app was released and became the new big thing. Taking advantage of the constant data stream from Apple's neural implants and the shared cloud of data the new app was able to pick up on subconscious cues and could tell when someone was lying. Privacy laws prot... | "Did you kill Anna Kendrick?"
"No."
"Did you kill Bonnie James?"
"No."
"Did you kill Cindy Irish?"
"No."
"Did you kill Diane Hoffman?"
"N..n...yes! Yes, I did it! I killed her! Damn this sudden compulsion to tell the truth!"
Foster turned to the police chief. "Fucking serial killers, chief. They never lear... | 2014-11-15T17:28:43 | 2014-11-15T11:16:31 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] You have the power to heal mental illnesses. To do so, you enter the minds of others, where you and the illness fight in subconscious hand-to-hand combat. You've seen all the ugly faces of the major illnesses, and beaten them all, but today you encounter one you've never seen before. | Not every Enhanced can always control their powers. We had to switch to plastic coffee mugs because Strongs kept accidentally breaking them and we just had to get Speeds really good helmets. I liked dealing with those problems at first. Easy problems. Psychs have the hardest time controlling their powers. I know s... | We had just finished the breathing techniques that allowed to relaxed when I felt the psychic pull into her subconscious. Her mind looked like a serene Rocky Mountain Lake, like one Bob Ross would have painted. She had mentioned that watching his shows gave her some peace, so it would make sense that this is what her m... | 2017-04-25T01:54:44 | 2017-04-24T22:29:24 | 43 | 28 |
[WP] The 2 warring empires always ignored the merchant city state. It was convenient to have a way to keep luxuries and weapons flowing. Now that the war is over, the victorious empire wants all of that wealth. Except that all of those resources were invested in defences and technology advancement. | I’d dangle my legs over the great palaces wall, looking through my telescope at the Drukian Legions waiting outside our city, the gold and firey red emblems of his majesty the “Imperator” of their empire flying from their banners. I’d sigh as I’d drop off the wall. I’d enter the Chamber of the Merchant Lords, my peers,... | Mahatma Gandi, fresh off the heels of his bloody victory over Montezuma and the former Aztec Empire, stood ready to make war against their little cousin on the bay: the city of Paris, capital and sole province of the minor state of France.
Gandi's forces flowed across the land in a wave of steel, gleaming in the dawn'... | 2021-09-15T10:50:14 | 2021-09-15T10:31:02 | 65 | 30 |
[WP] "You don't understand!" She laughed. The little girl, dressed in rags and bare feet, danced through the streets. "I'm the richest person alive." | Three things contributed to Elizabeth Penigree dancing down the cobbled street, through the peppery rain and silver September evening, telling all who cared to listen that she was rich; the tumour was only one of those things, and it was the one she did not know about. Of course, she felt the headaches -- how could she... | I don't have the time to write a full response right now, but here's what I've got for now.
***
We saw her outside, twirling about,
Mirth upon cheeks all rosy from cold,
Dancing on feet too rough for her youth,
Spouting off ditties 'bout cobbles of gold
And pearly-white lamps all dressed up with bows,
In a... | 2017-09-29T08:10:27 | 2017-09-29T08:09:54 | 2,112 | 62 |
[WP] The Earth is a long running TV show that was supposed to end in 2012 with the Mayan apocalypse, but has been kept running due to its popularity. It's going downhill fast. | "The Mayan apocalypse plot line was a little forced, sure, but you *cannot* argue that this show shouldn't have ended with the 2012 season!" Prozien shouted.
"I know, I know," Neemek replied. "But there have been some good moments in the 10 seasons since."
"Pfft, really? We're in reruns! Sure, I believed it when adva... | In 18 dimensional space, two complex entities moved towards each other in a complex way. Well, as much as such concepts of 'moving' and 'towards' have meaning to us when happening in 18 dimensions. Especially considering that 2.7 of those dimensions are time (I told you this was complex). The first entity transmitted i... | 2019-07-13T06:40:23 | 2019-07-13T06:37:03 | 62 | 17 |
[WP] "How did you survive all that?! You're an engineer, how did you survive where hundreds of trained soldiers armed to the teeth all died?" | “You know that lake a mile north?” The engineer asked.
“What’s Lake Emerald got to do with this?” The man sitting next to the engineer at the only bar in town demand drunkenly.
“Well, it’s a man made lake.”
“Again, not sure what the lake has to do with it.”
“And the military encampment was right by the river, wasn... | The problem was that you were thinking about the issue all wrong the whole time. If you want to take over a highly secured area what is it that you think that you need to do? What information do you need? Yes, there was an army of highly trained guards, attack dogs and electrified fences but none of these problems were... | 2021-11-18T04:30:20 | 2021-11-18T02:52:51 | 79 | 46 |
[WP] You, a Human, have been sentenced to death on an alien planet. The method of execution: gas chamber. However, the compound used in executions, Tetrahydrocannabinol, isn't quite as lethal to humans as your executioners expect. | The guard dragged me to the chamber. I tried struggling for about two minutes before I gave up. This alien guy was a 7 foot tall muscular thing and I’m a puny 5 foot something human. Long story short, I got stuck on some weird planet and I was sentenced to death. All I did was try to kidnap their equivalent of a king t... |
Skarlax tapped his eleven fingers on what passed for a knee. "This is ridiculous." he erupts. "We clearly don't understand this creatures chemistry."
"The text of the law is clear. We must use a moral method of execution. Otherwise how can we call our selves civilized?" A high standing law priest by the name of Zag... | 2020-05-20T11:50:44 | 2020-05-20T10:48:22 | 36 | 21 |
[WP] You discover you can travel in time, but only if you have a coin with the date of your destination. While exploring 1780's england, you lose your 2017 penny that's your ticket home. | 1786, a fun year for drinking and merrymaking, though it's time to go home. November 2017. Wait, where is my penny.....shit?!
Well how do I get home?
What is the closest coin I have?
British 50p from 2014, that'll do.
I hold it in my hand and say the words, it's new years eve 2014. I live my life and on January 22n... | "*Shit*," I whispered furiously, digging and sweeping my hand through the itchy horsehair trousers I'd managed to acquire. Surely that coin had to be in h--- There was a hole in the 'pocket' of these trousers.
I slowly poked my finger through like a teenage boy on prom night, even with the same thunderstruck expressio... | 2017-11-25T09:01:30 | 2017-11-25T06:30:33 | 140 | 71 |
[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... | My first time posting here. Hope you enjoy!
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I think it was my birthday. I wasn’t sure – birthdays hadn’t meant anything for years, but I think it was my 18th birthday.
So, here I was, a slave who just turned 18. It all happened after the invasion. My parent were simple farmer... | *"There are two types of people in this world - the living and the dead. Those who have found their purpose and received their divine gift are those who we count among the living. So weep not for those who passed young, for they were already among the dead."*
Angry. That was the only way I have felt my entire life ... | 2019-09-18T09:45:02 | 2019-09-18T07:55:38 | 71 | 37 |
[WP] Obsessed with using postit note reminders after learning of Alzheimer's Disease running in his family, a man tries to offset the disease early in life. One day he discovers a postit note warning him that something or someone is in his house. A postit note he doesn't recall writing. | Jeremy savored the feel of the cold water on his face. After a long day's work in the July heat, it was just the thing he needed. He toweled his face off and noticed something that he swore hadn't been there before; a post-it note on the mirror in front of him.
*GET OUT!*
Jeremy stared at the note. He didn't remember... | It's like living in a fog; everything clouded in a mix of déjà vu, jamais vu, time like a scroll, curling up on both ends and you have to tack it down.
They make paperweights for that very reason, so that you can hold things down. There was a time once where a really really long piece of paper was unrolled and even th... | 2014-12-11T08:02:51 | 2014-12-11T04:08:01 | 44 | 28 |
[WP] You are part of a powerful order of mages. Some control fire, others, water. You however... Have the power of bread. That's right, you're a bread mage. Tell me about your day. | The other mages always looked down upon me. They wielded the primordial forces, while all I could do was summon bread. They laughed and belittled me.
They were fools.
My magical bread can sustain a man without any other food, he is always satisfied with the taste and filled for a day with one loaf, all he has need ... | The second time the guard hit me, I wasn't able to hide my pain - and crumpled to the floor. I lie coughing and retching, he sneers; the face of a spoiled child holding an expensive toy, broken for the sake of breaking. Roughly, I am lifted up, and placed unceremoniously back into the chair. My habit is mussed and torn... | 2014-10-09T18:25:01 | 2014-10-09T15:58:36 | 45 | 33 |
[WP]Tell me an emotional story about a man, using only what he would type into Google search | Great Places for a first date
Proposal Ideas
Bible - Verses about being a good husband
Oregon Coast Beach Homes
Horseback Riding Rental - Newport Oregon
Wedding Venues - Seattle WA
Bible - Verses about Marriage
Plane Tickets
Hawaiian Excursion Ideas
Travel Planner
Travel Agents - Seattle WA
How do we get pre... | Why is the sky blue?
How far away is Uranus?
Why do mom and dad fight so much?
How to impress girls
Porn
Good date ideas
Porn
Where can I get the morning after pill?
How do I know when I should propose?
Good proposal ideas?
Cheap engagement rings
How to be a good parent
How to tell your parents they're gran... | 2015-02-04T16:31:22 | 2015-02-04T16:12:00 | 253 | 23 |
[WP] By chance, you end up on the jury for a crime you committed but someone else was arrested for. | I glance down at my notepad as my stomach rumbles.
*"But our job is to know beyond a shadow of a doubt," says one woman. "I don't want to convict someone if we're not sure."*
I'd written down all the options for lunch. I was considering the chinese, but that rumbling was for something more substantial. It had to be b... | The following scenario pops up in my mind upon reading your question:
Say, for example, the character (X) is a sociable person with a respectable career and healthy life. X has no love life, and his parents have passed. Others in his family have abandoned him. Why so, you may ask? It's because X has gambled away most ... | 2018-02-24T05:54:27 | 2018-02-24T04:51:14 | 59 | 23 |
[WP] It is the 24 th of july, your birthday, and also the day that humanity is going to reach 10 billion inhabitants. You are watching the number grow, live on a site. Just as it's about to hit 10 billion, at 9,999,999,999... It Hits 2. You are still alive. | I watched the website wondering if the time of my birth would be the exact time the world would hit the 10 billion mark. I mean, what else was I going to do no one remembered again. I casually sipped a beer with the news playing in the background, live coverage of the counter at the headquarters of the United World Nat... | I wasn't fond of crowded places, and standing in the middle of Times Square craning my neck up to look at the boards could be chalked up to one of my least favourite moments. This, however, was a momentous occasion, and as Julie put it "in order to witness greatness we must sacrifice our own desires." She liked to, as ... | 2017-02-28T20:52:59 | 2017-02-28T20:48:57 | 54 | 11 |
[WP] As a telekinetic mutant, you need to keep your powers a secret from the rest of society. However, you REALLY want to win this game of mini golf. | “Let’s see…” Jackie presses the miniature, eraserless pencil to her smiling lips. “That’s a 19 for me, and a 26 for *you.*”
“*You…*” Something about the way she says that word makes me angry. It’s as if her victory is already decided, and there is nothing I can do. I just nod and purse my lips as we approach the 10th ... | "Remember citizen, the computer wants you to be happy. Show the computer you are happy by winning this game. Winning the game makes people happy."
The words rang through my ears, followed closely by the admonition, "Remember citizens, that possession or use of telekinetic powers is treason. Treason is punishable by... | 2017-07-05T13:58:28 | 2017-07-05T13:30:39 | 77 | 27 |
[WP] You are a superhero whose powers are based on the music you are listening to. Rock can make you stronger, classical makes you smarter, etc. One day, you're fighting your toughest villain yet, and you are forced to use your "forbidden" playlist. | I hide behind the wall, praying Starhands doesn't find me yet, and tremble as I fumble with my battered old mp3 player.
I don't want to but I have to use it. The forbidden playlist. The reason why I'm even on this team when my powers only last as long as the song plays.
Track 1. Running Down A Dream by Tom Petty And ... | As he slammed through a concrete building and it collapsed around him, MelodyMan realized he had no other choice. Thousands of innocent civilians were already dead. If he didn't pull out all the stops now there would be nothing left of New York inside the hour.
Climbing free of the debris he looked up at his opponent,... | 2022-05-17T12:33:11 | 2022-05-17T12:04:55 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Following a chosen deity has real world benefits, much like perks in a videogame. The more obscure gods offer more interesting gifts to those that find them. | John woke with a raging headache. Some gods didn't appreciate followers converting so immediately. Lugh was no exception, but there have been worse. He stood unsteadily reminding himself this was the case, hoping for the temporary pseudo reprieve this reminder would offer. It'd be nothing like the real stuff Alaunus of... | "The name of your god... is Bobo?"
I nodded, clicking my finger against the tabletop, waiting on the waitress to bring me my coffee. My contact had asked to meet me hear, after reading the circulating rumors about my Lord and Savior. Of course, he didn't know the half of it. For every truth spilled on forums and posts... | 2016-01-26T20:46:04 | 2016-01-26T20:37:42 | 108 | 78 |
[WP] An I.T guy explains to their boss why they're sacrificing goats in the server room. | ”All right, Joe,” my boss said, drumming his knuckles on the desk, “lay it on me.”
Mr. Richards was a bulky man in his fifties and had been running the IT department for nearly two decades. He was known as a no-nonsense kind of guy, and when I’d been called to explain the goings-on in the server room, I knew I was in ... | Oh woe, oh woe,
Oh dreary day,
Come the CEO,
Right away,
To pester - to question,
To demand - declare perplexion,
Though slow, thou knows,
In hurt dismay,
Must proffer CEO,
Explana-
-tion.
One zero, zero one, one, one, zero, one.
We sacrifice this goat not merely for fun,
Some Hero named Nero did, summo... | 2017-08-19T01:35:44 | 2017-08-19T01:09:16 | 481 | 13 |
[WP] After moving house as a child you found adjusting to your new town really tough. Now as an adult you've realised that your family moved through time. | I knew I was born on the outskirts of Chicago and vaguely remember the split level house where I lived the first 5 years of my life. But we moved when I was very young, although I never really got the full story. I think it was for my dad’s job, but as I got older I picked up subtext of us kind of escaping something, a... | I remember, when I was just a little toddler running around in her underpants, getting my first Cabbage Patch doll. I loved that doll so much, taking it everywhere with me, and even giving it baths, and facepaints, and feeding it, and cutting its hair like it were a real little kid. It never recovered from the hair cut... | 2015-09-23T08:46:03 | 2015-09-23T06:10:52 | 111 | 17 |
[WP] The English Teacher's worst nightmare: a story or poem that is completely literal, with absolutely no double meanings
EDIT: Holy cow, this got way bigger than I thought it would, thanks so much for an awesome first prompt ever!
EDIT 2: Did this actually make it to the front page of reddit? What the... | In my stomach
a lurch suddenly hit
a telltale fact
that I would need to take a shit
I made in time
this one is a butt scraper
Then to my horror,
No toilet paper
**NOTE** I may have been a bit crass, but I dare an English teacher to find meaning in a poem about going to the bathroom
| Write something literal, they said. A good story is easy to read. A good story is easy to remember. A good story tells you a story. It doesn't preach. It doesn't moralise. It doesn't claim to know more than the eye can see. Write something literal, they said.
The writer stared at his computer screen in front of him. H... | 2017-01-30T09:54:13 | 2017-01-30T08:28:09 | 139 | 26 |
[WP] Humanity discovers that supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves exist. Instead of attempting to exterminate them, some countries attempt to offer them lucrative jobs that they could do better than a human. | Jason never donated blood before. He felt nervous, but he wasn't sure if it was a slight fear of needles or the fact that clinics looked so ghastly at night, the only time he could make it in. The bright yellow lights buzzed out of the windows and the stillness of the night held a foreboding presence.
Jason reminded h... | I'll admit it: Looking after school kids isn't my idea of a good life, but there was really no other job for...someone of my talents.
Y'see, after the men and monsters realized that the War of the Dusk was a pointless waste of resources, men started intergrading monsters into regular society by giving'em jobs that sui... | 2018-08-27T15:19:20 | 2018-08-27T15:15:28 | 136 | 79 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | The tavern was alight with candles and warm fires, the smell of meats and bread wafted through to the rafters of wood and plaster. Ale stained the floor in places and the barkeep had been working on a single mug for a startling amount of time. All and all a lively place to be on this evening.
"Ah and a fine night to ... | Finally....free. The thousand years of waiting, watching in this cursed statue at an end. An elf, rigid with agony as his persona, his spirit, his life is leached away. Now the malevolent spirit got his first taste of air, of blood, of form.
"Er.. Mynir, you ok?" asked a gruff voice, a question which did not raise muc... | 2017-09-15T08:33:07 | 2017-09-15T02:54:33 | 44 | 21 |
[WP] You died at the gym as you were trying to take a selfie while bench pressing. Thus you find yourself in Swaghalla, the Halls of Brodin.
EDIT. "Swaghalla" was the best pun I could come up with for Valhalla. Use something else if you have ideas.
Note: Swolehalla seems to be the proper name, pardon my mistake
seco... | It happened so fast. One minute I had my iPhone in my hand, 145 lbs of iron in the other, ready to upload my photo, and then I was some place else. No transition, just a flash and I was there. Part of me regretted what I hadn't finished in life, but I was mostly just upset I wasn't able to use the tag I had though of o... | "Woah."
The world around me is eerie and bright, like a morning hangover. I flip down my neon plastic shades. Much better.
How the fuck did I get here though? I was hulking out at the gym and--what's that sound?
*Clank. Clank. Clank.*
Wait, that's the gym. Someone's dropping plates. Scrub.
Hazy white mist swirls an... | 2015-11-02T06:48:31 | 2015-11-02T06:32:26 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] A pair of housecats debate what the purpose of human clothes is. | "Of all the strange things they do, you ask why they hang those things all over themselves? They pick up their water bowls to their mouths. They like to lay down in the big water bowl. They even poop into a water bowl! And you want to know why they hang stuff on their bodies."
"Lots of cats have wondered about the wat... | There is a trick used in the movie industry called 'bullet time'. Given that the motions of a cat are often almost imperceptible to the human eye, it will be employed here to allow the reader to appreciate the story.
__________________________
The cat is laying in the sun. The sun is slowly moving across the room, le... | 2015-04-09T07:14:04 | 2015-04-09T07:07:40 | 29 | 14 |
[WP] As a henchman to the Joker, you've now broken the record for the longest surviving employee. This means you'll receive something no one ever has from him: your annual review. | The joker was a fluid being. It was best to keep your distance. As he sat in front of me, checking his gun and absently scratching his face I wondered if I would snap and just run away.
The silence was deafening, only the little grunts coming from his chest broke it as he fished up some papers from a barely used draw... | "Does chaos excite you? You have been with me for quite some time, after all."
The joker sporadically arose from his misappropriated desk with a tightly gripped fist and an even tighter smile; pacing, the joker began mumbling about the bat, about Gotham, and about nothing at all. His scattered thoughts entrained his ... | 2016-11-21T04:50:48 | 2016-11-21T02:49:57 | 89 | 13 |
[WP] Humanity is the only species that treat "unrealistic" stories like sci-fi and fantasy as a legitimate genre, instead of just something to amuse children that adults no longer need. Because of this, humanity cracks FTL while species much older than us are still stuck in their home system. | Who knew that Xenoanthropology could be so boring?
Growing up, I imagined what it would be like to travel the stars. To sail, from one system to another, discovering new life, new civilizations. Hearing their histories, sharing their food, reading their stories.
A life like that would be everything a girl like me cou... | The Kaz were far from a simple species. In their preferred form, they resembled crystal jellyfish. Against my orders, I'd shown them a photo of what a jellyfish from Earth looked like and they were anxious for days.
They'd lay their tendrils on any exposed skin they could find, sending me rapid flashes of feelings, me... | 2022-09-30T10:16:56 | 2022-09-30T08:56:49 | 195 | 81 |
[WP] You live in an alternative universe, where only one major thing is different form ours. One morning, you stumble through the barrier between our worlds, and enter our realm. | My eyes burst open and I gasped for air as I jerked forward. I had just struck the ground from rapid free-fall to find myself safely tucked under my sweat-dampened covers. I wiped my brow and shifted my body away from the area of my mattress that was now uncomfortably soaked. I rubbed my eyes and struggled through the ... | Why did we get a fuckin' cat, Ron thought. His girlfriend had wanted one, and he obliged, because well, he wanted to make her happy. Now though, the stupid feline little shit had ran off. He'd opened the door to pay the pizza delivery guy, and Felix had bolted down the stairs. Ron sighed, and followed down the stairs, ... | 2014-06-08T07:39:06 | 2014-06-08T07:13:28 | 53 | 10 |
[FF] Write about a feeling with 10 lines, the first one being 10 words, next line 9, so on and so forth. | Happy seeing my kids at the top of the stair
Waiting for their dad to come home from work
They shout "daddy!" and I forget the day
and for at least a few seconds
I remember that the important things
to me are at home
My dog, my kids
My beautiful wife
treasured moments
Life | Surprisingly sharp, slicing slowly, shifting suddenly; shuddering, somewhere something sneaks.
Cautiously creeping, careful, cunning, callous, cold; crazy cutting clown.
Tick, tock, terror time; teeth tearing, touching, turning.
Helpless, hapless, hopeless; hellish horror, heavy heart.
Laughing lunatic, leering Lam... | 2015-02-12T23:02:15 | 2015-02-12T22:22:59 | 33 | 14 |
[WP] The little girl is crouched in a makeshift pile of sandbags and brush, aiming her automatic rifle at the oncoming APC. Her death is immanent. No. You decide this will be different. You're a god of war and you've had enough.
\[WP\] The little girl is crouched in a makeshift pile of sandbags and brush, aiming her a... | *This is not how it is meant to be. War should be, was to be the greatest of challenges where men and even women, where all of mankind could truly test themselves, to feel what it is to live, to triumph, to become like heroes unto their fellows and even unto the gods. But this is not war, this is butchery; this is gr... | It's been long since we god's have interfered in the affairs of mortals. It's been so long in fact my name has faded into annuls of history. I was once the mighty God of war Ares. I have watched men and women slaughter each other for thousands of years and not so much as lifted a finger. However something about this ti... | 2022-10-17T21:47:20 | 2022-10-17T21:30:05 | 43 | 24 |
[WP] As a drug peddler, whenever someone asks you for coke, you reply 'Is Pepsi ok?' . You thought it was funny but today it also kept you out of jail. | Lydia was new to the whole crime thing. She had always been straight laced. A goody two shoes. The rule she broke back in the third grade still occassionally kept her up at night. But desperate times called for desperate measures.
It had been two days since her last meal, and rent was due at the end of the week. Her ... | \[Poem\]
Making money is ez,
as I have a really good biz.
My life is completely bliss,
you can buy many drugs for less!
Ah, here comes a young miss,
I may give her something... for a kiss.
She asks for a quick buzz,
naming a drug which sounds like a fizz.
As always I jokingly suggest peps,
and surprisingly sh... | 2022-10-08T19:15:32 | 2022-10-08T17:54:17 | 168 | 35 |
[WP] Tell me the story of how the world ends - but told entirely in Craigslist ads | Researcher/Tijuana area, seeking two strong men to dig a hole, open air, must provide own equipment and security. Have transportation, will pick up.
Researcher/Tijuana area, seeking someone who can do some onsite translations of classical Nahuatl, security provided. Have transportation, will pick up.
Researcher/Tij... | In search for survivers In the greater New York area, hell anywhere really. I am, well I was a sandhog and was underground working on the new water way in Manhatten when the Russians dropped the bomb. Never have I emerged from underground to such horror. Everything in ruins and no one in sight. I walked around for a bi... | 2015-04-29T10:17:00 | 2015-04-29T07:28:18 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] 70 years ago, the US underestimated the power of the atomic bomb. It had completely obliterated the island nation of Japan. | "Well... should we apologize?" The President's personal aide didn't know what else to say, and had begun to sweat. *All gone.*
President Truman was looking off into the distance. "Apologize to whom, William? They're all dead." He took off his glasses, but his eyes remained glistening.
The two sat in silence for a min... | Levon woked up one day atop of China's Diaoyu Island ,which everyone always know have always belong China over 5 000 year .Well ,anyway , Levon wers the Chinese citizen belong the Diaoyu island chain province , and he already live there long time ,so this weren't some strange thing for he wake up here .Was just the eve... | 2015-08-06T11:38:40 | 2015-08-06T11:36:34 | 74 | 14 |
[WP] “Dead men tell no tales as they say, right? Well your honor, that’s just not true. As a necromancer, I literally summon my first witness to the stand. The victim!” | During the day, the children of the village of Tomich would whisper tales about creatures of tooth and tail, fang and claw, sucking the marrow from your bones and disappearing in a cackle.
At night, they checked under the bed hoping they had not offended a being who dwells in the shadows of the creaking mattress.
Chi... | “Dead men tell no tales as they say, right? Well your honor, that’s just not true! As a necromancer, I literally summon my first witness to the stand. The victim!”
Florian shrank back from his speech, sitting awkwardly against the back end of his corvette. He was a big man; always trying to be larger than life, though... | 2021-10-04T07:30:03 | 2021-10-04T07:12:12 | 229 | 134 |
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