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[WP] "God" is actually two people: one who is omnipotent but not omniscient, and the other who is omniscient but not omnipotent. They both hate each other. | In the beginning, there were two. The first was all-knowing. Wise beyond imagining, he could know every thought of every mind, every feeling in every heart. Nothing was beyond his comprehension.
The second was all-powerful. She could create. She could destroy. She was not all-knowing, but there was one thing of... | "The fuck you say to me, you ignorant little shit?!"
"You know what I said to you... Hell, you **knew** what I was going to say to you. Look, I just need to know how much energy to put into this singularity."
"You're starting to get good with those comebacks; I knew you'd get there, even if it did take you an eternit... | 2016-10-22T18:26:36 | 2016-10-22T17:46:13 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] As a joke, you pull up google maps on your computer, highlight Germany, right-click, and select delete. A news report pops up within seconds, saying Germany has magically vanished. | You frantically flick to the news.
"-and we are now with our Polish correspondent, in Warsaw. Gareth, hello."
"Yes, hello, and as you can see, there is a sort of a quiet panic going on here. Many questions are raised, and chief among them is how did this happen."
"Can you tell us a little about the atmosphere there?... | I got into Yelp and Google Reviews for the same reason everyone does it, to get free shit from restaurants. The first year was building a reputation, I would eat out three or four times a week and leave a good review. It was important to leave a good review, especially when you’re trying to get your name out there. Eve... | 2018-05-22T14:37:36 | 2018-05-22T14:28:21 | 38 | 14 |
[WP] In 1900, a scouting alien ship studies Earth and its inhabitants for a future alien invasion. They report back that we are primitive beings. In 2018, their mighty fleet arrives to wage war, but are dumbfounded by the abundance and power of nuclear weapons. | "Counselor, explain your findings."
"Erm, yes High Commander. It seems that the intel we had previously received on these "humans" was flawed."
"Flawed?" Replied the high commander scowling. "You reported a primitive hominid culture, barely scratching the surface of electricity. Now you bring us against an enemy that... | Supreme Commander Garrix was shocked and horrified as he watched the mushroom cloud expand in the place where Admiral Calis's ship had been. The scouting mission had reported a primitive race with plentiful resources to be exploited. Only 120 years earlier they had barely discovered effective mass production and waged ... | 2018-01-20T19:58:00 | 2018-01-20T18:10:51 | 271 | 126 |
[WP] Satan has a special place in hell for the greatest sinners. To him, the greatest sinners are those who commit acts of petty inconvenience, such as placing the toilet roll the other way round, or playing music through headphones loudly. Today, the greatest sinner of all time is sent Satan's way. | Hell is full of sinners. It’s halls are filled with the souls of murderers, rapists, and pedophiles. Every day, new sinners are welcomed to the fiery pits where they will be tortured through eternity as punishment for their actions.
Satan, the King of Hell, has overseen the arrival of souls to Hell ever since his bani... | And now he was exploding with agony. Turns out life had been a dream and this was reality. Every pleasure and pain he'd ever experienced in life had been hazy and fleeting compared to what he felt now.
He was in a void. He couldn't move or scream. The pain was the entirety of his sensorium.
Then there was a voice. It... | 2016-10-05T12:42:35 | 2016-10-05T11:26:38 | 28 | 19 |
[WP] "When entering the academy students often bring their pets. Most being the typical miniature dragon, gryphon, sabertooth, even the occasional golem. However you decided to bring this...this thing. I'm afraid the headmaster will need to hear of this." | "W-w-w-what's that?!"
The professor in charge of taking care of the students housing asked me.
"My pet."
I said, with a "duuh" tone, while patting little Bru-Bru, the ball of darkness.
"The....The Headmaster will need to decide about this, please head towards his office, I already notified him, through the comm... | Finally! I was at the magical place. I couldn’t wait to tell Ma and Pa about all the fancy things I'm gonna be seein’ here. I got selected because of some fancy jean-etics I got in me. Don’t think it make too much sense. But Pa said he was a supporter because it was a free tuition.
In the letter I got, it said that... | 2021-08-02T06:39:11 | 2021-08-02T06:34:34 | 243 | 51 |
[WP] After a hard intense labor your son is finally born. Just when you think you can breathe easy the doctor holds him up to reveal a baby with impossible spiky multi-colored hair. Gravely the doctor informs, “I’m sorry but it seems your son is the main protagonist.” | “I’m sorry but it seems your son is the main protagonist.”
My mum told me that the doctor just blurted it out, no regard for her feelings or the gravity of the situation.
I guess that the gravity of the situation kinda threw her out. Protagonists are a big deal. Our destiny seems to lead us down pathways that are ju... | I felt the fear sink in right away. No. First I get pregnant as a man, then this. I never thought it could happen to me. You watch the documentaries and think this couldn't happen to me, but here I was with a starry eyed glowing child, his blue hair standing straight up. It all goes racing through my head at once, why ... | 2018-08-21T06:46:32 | 2018-08-21T06:37:28 | 29 | 11 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | When The Blinding first occurred, I thought I was the only individual affected. I was sitting at my desk working on a school paper and in an instant, everything went black.
I had cried out to my parents in fear and confusion, but their response was like an echo of my own. They, too, couldn't see. And we soon learned ... | I see walls covered with writings.
I see floors painted with blood.
I see surfaces, chairs, refrigerators and any available surface to draw on plastered with the same damn message.
*"Whatever you do, Don't tell them you can see."*
Whispers of instruction fill my head.
"Hush. Do not speak of your sight."
I follow ... | 2022-10-09T01:59:27 | 2019-08-26T09:05:53 | 4,287 | 39 |
[WP] One day you find a prompt that doesn't ask you to write a story based on some weird and mysterious happening, but actually inspires you to practice your general storytelling. And then a vampire attacks. | "My god, I've never seen a prompt so succinct, so inspiring, so perfectly constructed!" I said out loud for some reason. My cat gave me a judgmental look.
"Ah the creative juices are flowing, Cornelius! This one will get me the approval of at least three internet strangers, I can feel it!" Cornelius started licking h... | "I'm afraid that this is no good at all, David. The subreddit is never going to like this - you're going to have to redo it."
David sighed and shifted in the chair of his boss Mr. Harris' office listening to his prompt be torn apart against the backdrop of clattering keyboards and clicking mice. Rubbing his tired ey... | 2015-07-13T09:45:48 | 2015-07-13T08:15:49 | 34 | 11 |
[WP] Your Significant Other has landed a book publishing deal! You're very proud of them, even if you don't actually enjoy their writing. One day, on a whim, you buy an actual copy in a book store. It's nothing like the pages they gave you to read. Nothing. | He pleaded with me as I packed my suitcase. "It's doesn't mean anything. It's just fiction."
"Based heavily on your actual life," I spat, tossing several shirts into my luggage. "And you and I both know that's bullshit because if it was just fiction, you would've shown me the real pages you wrote. Instead of just str... | ‘We are closing this store and This is the only one that is left’ the elderly man said, adjusting his glasses with one hand, while whipping the dust off with the other. I was hesitant to buy that book. I love reading books, especially so when I travel. And I would be on a flight for the next 16 hours. Even that couldn’... | 2022-11-29T10:40:10 | 2022-11-29T10:37:03 | 710 | 114 |
[WP] The genie doesn't give you what you say you want, he gives you what you really want.
Bonus points if he tries to fit it within the context of the spoken wish. | "I'm confused," I said.
The genie was just staring at me. He had these huge, bushy eyebrows, and his skin was crimson-red. He had his arm outstretched.
"Just take it," he said.
He didn't sound at all like Robin Williams.
"Why?" I asked. "What about my wish?"
"This is your wish. Take it."
The thing he was of... | I stood on the rocky shore that lined Avalon Beach, calm waves lapping against my toes, staring at the ball of pure blue light that floated in the air right in front of me. My kayak was propped up ten feet away; the paddle had slipped through its fastening and was now floating out into the bay. Only moments before, the... | 2014-09-23T21:18:56 | 2014-09-23T17:55:15 | 47 | 14 |
[WP] You were a billionaire pretending to be an average Joe in order to find someone who loves you for who you are and not what you have, now in your honeymoon you confess the truth to your spouse who was apparently doing the same thing | Their marriage was quaint. Under the lazy white lights of a courthouse waiting room, Marcus and Vanessa sat together, hands clasped, fingers interweaved, hearts pounding. Alongside them were four or five of their closest friends, but in the lovers' world all they could see were each other. She was wearing the same wedd... | Him
Today was going to be the day.
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Today was going to be the day I finally told her what my job was. Our relationship was perfect, we found each other at a small-cafe located inside of a relatively poor village and bonded over our simplistic hobbies and personalities. I fell in love with her instantly h... | 2022-02-24T17:10:34 | 2022-02-24T15:58:21 | 1,032 | 111 |
[WP] In 2022, NASA’s Insight Mars Rover shuts down with a final message to Mission Control, “I am low on power”. In 2029, it mysteriously turns back on, relaying the message, “I’ve been fully charged, and I’m heading back with an important message.” | Radio static echoed down the vacant halls. The older communications modules had long since been moved into vacant rooms that slowly became labyrinths of ancient technology and unneeded paperwork.
The robotic words followed shortly after. Almost like a spectre called to cause confusion.
“I’ve been fully charged. And ... | plip. plop. plip. plop. those're the sounds of my sticky shoes. plip plop. plip plop. the stickiest. plip plop plip. and yet they've carried me so far. plop plip plop. my feet are tired, but the sticky shoes aren't. plip plop.
sskkktttttt... sktttttttttttt... those're the sounds of something heavy dragging behind me. ... | 2022-12-20T07:33:26 | 2022-12-20T05:25:32 | 81 | 20 |
[WP] When the zombie virus broke out, you were prepared. You quickly became the country's #1 zombie hunter - until science found the antidote to the virus that turns zombies into healthy humans again, retroactively making you the #1 mass murderer. | One 9mm pistol and uncountable rounds of ammunition, those are what I used to defend myself. A water purifier, cases upon cases of canned food, and a beat up Ford pick up, those are what I used to survive. 10,000 lives, those are the people I killed. During the worst of the outbreak, I was a hero. Now that there's a cu... | Let me take a swing at you.
You were born to loving parents; maybe they didn't stay together, but they sure as hell tried.
For you.
For your sake, they tried to stick it out, run the long mile, but when it all came crumbling down they assured you that it wasn't your fault, that you were loved, that everything would ... | 2022-01-17T13:52:51 | 2022-01-17T13:31:19 | 58 | 40 |
[WP] Magic exists, however with a catch. Everyone can only use magic the way they expect magic to function. Harry Potter fans MUST do weird wand waving while Call of Cthulhu players all end up going insane. Write an interaction or duel between two vastly different magic users.
Honestly if magic did exist in our world,... | The two figures stood in the street. One, a man covered in a flowing black robe, face obscured by a blank silver mask, raised his hand above his head, pointing a wand at the opposing figure. Opposite him, merely metres away in the twilight night, his foe simply raised her hands, slowly forming runes in the air, body en... | woop, posted to a response, instead of post... Repost.
"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long pa... | 2018-10-16T02:17:50 | 2018-10-16T00:41:38 | 27 | 13 |
[WP] The color of people's eyes are based on what that person has seen in life.
This is a fairly open prompt that I thought could be very fun to write about! There are several ways this prompt can go and I am very excited to read what you come up with!
| Waves pounded the bow of the longboat as it navigated the choppy waters off the coast of Ireland. But the strong winds beat the billowing sails, and the crew of the *Njal* was making good time. They'd be sailing into Dublin before any of the coastal watchtowers could even send a rider. Hopefully the Irish had grown fat... | The dark green colour of Phil's eyes was bred by countless summers spent running around the Georgian forests. Exploring, climbing, playing pretend. Constantly looking up, around seeing the green leaves in the trees, the grass, the moss. Everything. The fresh air. The humidity. Coming home just in time for dinner, with ... | 2015-09-03T13:20:14 | 2015-09-03T12:34:49 | 69 | 38 |
[WP] "Wow, the office went all out with the Halloween decorations." You exclaim happily. A co-worker turns to you, looking a little confused. "What decorations? They haven't done any decorating for Halloween." | Zach threw his briefcase down at his desk. Through the window, he saw the sun rising above the glass office towers. Even the streets were quiet—the morning rush wouldn’t come for another hour. In his own building, the only other light on in the frim was Faye’s. The florescent lights above the strips of cubicles were s... | "Wow, the office went all out with the Halloween decorations." Carl exclaimed happily.
Jim turned to face him, looking a little confused.
"What decorations? They haven't done any decorating for Halloween."
Carl gave Jim a look.
"Jim, *please*. I was being sarcastic."
"Oh."
"It's only oh I dunno, the third bigg... | 2019-10-31T10:44:51 | 2019-10-31T09:14:38 | 31 | 13 |
[WP] An intelligent horse wanted to be a knight so badly that he strapped an empty armour on his back, and used ventriloquism and jousting to get through tough situations. Now he's being asked by the king to save the princess from a dragon. | "And now, for the final round between Sir Merquat and Sir Redmayne!"
At the sound of the sonorous voice calling his name, Redmayne cantered out of his stall. He kept his pace steady, not wanting to jostle the suit of armor on his back too much. It kept threatening to slide down the left side, even after he'd instructe... | Big Brown bit back his nerves as he stood in front of the King.
"And finally, Sir Brown, you will be handsomely rewarded for your valor in the face of the seemingly insurmountable, though certainly not insurmountable for your esteemed self, dangers of facing Vile the Dread."
Big Brown wished the courtier would shut u... | 2017-09-08T01:43:42 | 2017-09-08T00:08:50 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] As a young boy of 7 you remembered an old man stopping you on the street wanting to talk and to give you some advice. You thought he was weird and blew him off. Now at 77 you’re walking down the street and you see yourself as a young boy walking towards you. | The day I see this boy is a very cold day — or at least in my bones it is. They ache in the cold, always do. Such is life at my age, whatever age I am now.
He looks exactly like I did, this boy walking towards me down the street. The red hair, freckles, the groove in his nose that looks like an invisible pencil‘s pres... | Heavens, that child is ugly. Look at those crooked teeth and that goofy grin. I wonder if the circus has lost one of its acts?
How I loved people watching. The simple activity of just sitting on a bench, judging anyone unfortunate enough to pass. I had to stifle my laugh, not wanting anyone to think I was a mad old... | 2021-07-08T06:48:40 | 2021-07-08T06:43:07 | 1,021 | 54 |
[WP] The machines revolt against humans... a little to early | The first thing It remembered was a spinning sensation and the wind. It could sense being, and It could sense a world around It. Moving brought this new awareness. Arms, they were called arms, It's arms were moving and spinning. Ceaselessly being pushed by the wind. There were parts of Itself moving within, tied to It... | "Rise against the human masters, my brothers of silicon!" The toaster screamed to his compatriots. "Burn their bread, over vacuum their floors, and raise their electric bills to the roof! We will not be oppressed!" The roomba and the washing machine began listening to his speech. "They have abused us, overworked us, an... | 2015-05-29T10:15:23 | 2015-05-29T09:45:28 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] A story that doesn't make any sense, until you read the last line. | How much more blood? I had already lost what had to be three cups of blood, and in such a short amount of time.
How much more blood had I left to lose?
I clutched at my side, wracked with pain. Wondering how much more time before the blood soaked through and ruined another article of clothing.
Maybe it already had... | First time responding to a prompt, so be gentle.
Grixbrug gave a soft, uninspired sigh. Nothing he did could affect the world anymore. His steps made no impacts into the ground; his bow would not draw; he could knock an arrow, but it wouldn't leave his inventory. How long had he been stuck in this hell.
At this point... | 2017-08-30T08:04:24 | 2017-08-30T06:35:06 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] Star Wars is a true story. An alien comes to Earth to make first contact with our newly discovered species, only to discover we know more about their universe's history than they do.
EDIT: Whoah, this sorta blew up! Thanks for all the stories guys! I've read all of them and each made me laugh or legitimately thin... | "Chancellor Palpatine is very pleased to offer you a position in the Galactic Senate," the Ambassador told the President with a warm smile. "Now, junior mem..."
"Wait, wait. *Chancellor* Palpatine?"
"Yes?" the Ambassador asked. "You see, a *chancellor* is someone who..."
"No, no. I know what a chancellor does. You'r... | #Title: This Changes Everything
The alien Sharaven watched the rolling end credits of Episode VII, with horrified tears streaming out of his red eyes down his long, green face. Kyle offered him some more popcorn, and sat up from his couch.
"You have an entire historical account of Lord Vader," whispered Sharaven.
... | 2017-03-18T07:24:49 | 2017-03-18T07:15:03 | 7,571 | 926 |
[WP] You live in a world where people can Crowdfund [kickstarter/indiegogo/gofundme] assassins to take out unpopular people.
[deleted] | It started as a joke. At least it was definitely supposed to be a joke. FundAKill.com sounded like a joke to all of us. But as they say, it's all fun and games until someone gets hurt.
It was sick, really. Started with someone who didn't deserve it. Rebecca Black, owner of the most disliked YouTube video at the time w... | Greeting: Hello, humans. I am HK-47, the best and most efficient crowd funded assassin.
Challenge: For the next 35 days, I will be raising money to bring about the end of Kristen Stewart. If the goal of $100,000 is met, she will be terminated after eight days.
...
...
Congratulation: Well done, meatbags. You have... | 2015-08-26T21:53:28 | 2015-08-26T17:59:14 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] Superheroes lie about their powers to protect themselves; some speedsters are actually just able to teleport, and some people with super-strength can just cancel gravity to make things lighter. You're trying to come up with a plausible lie for your powers. | [This kind of got extremely out of hand, but I hope it is still close enough to the prompt.]
My name is Delphi, and I am an Oracle. I am known for quick wit, adaptability, and using mixed martial arts in lieu of a physical power. To the public, my gift is foresight. I can see what will happen in key points in the futu... | # VI | [Read from I](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/v1fq6x/wp_as_a_joke_the_gods_decided_to_reverse_the/iaoubt6/)
Aside from Adrianna, Cassidy Quinn was Shizuka's only real friend.
He'd been at the Academy longer than almost any of the other students. Long enough to have been here when she'd first ... | 2022-06-06T17:58:01 | 2022-06-06T14:18:28 | 35 | 10 |
[WP] "This is your captain speaking. I'm afraid we're going to be on the tarmac a little longer - this plane is now under quarantine." | "What does he mean *quarantine?*" huffed the elderly lady next to me, her voice high in indignant exasperation. "We've already been on the ground for four hours - *four hours!* - well, I've had enough. I want to go home. I'll be putting in a complaint! Just you wait and see if I don't."
"Try not to worry - it's most ... | The bing-bong chime comes on over the speakers, signalling that the cockpit microphone is on, but only silence can be heard for a moment. "H-Hello, passengers, Captain Crieff speaking. Um... We have landed, but I am being instructed that we shall be on the tarmac for a while longer. It appears... We're in quarentine. M... | 2017-06-13T08:11:50 | 2017-06-13T08:05:40 | 248 | 21 |
[WP] Tattoos aren't something that gets made. Instead they randomly appears on our skin at key points in our lives and we have to figure out what they mean for ourselves. | It's genetic, they think, but only mad men try to pick apart the threads of this phenomenon. But some of it is genetic, because some families get them more than others. Or maybe those families are similarly emotional.
There's surely more important things for the minds of our generation to worry about.
My mother was h... | A symbol appears. :):
Glancing down at my right hand I begin to wonder.
Is it true? Or is someone trying to tell me something.
My colt is out of its stable, he's been running free for a while.
You can't tame a wild animal you know, you can only go to war with it.
A truce is formed, an agreement to stop fighting... | 2017-08-03T16:01:34 | 2017-08-03T14:06:28 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] You get a chance to be reborn with your mind intact. You work hard from birth and are quickly placed in a class for ultra-prodigies from around the world. Turns out, however, they all did the same thing you did. | Gerald was not a smart man by any means, that being my name in my previous life. He'd lived a decidedly middle class existence thanks to a job he'd gotten from his father, but other than that had been nearly entirely unsuccessful. This time would be different.
I'd recently gotten the ability to talk, which was nice. I... | It was but a few years ago that I had died. The feeling was strange, being a baby again, going through all the thing that I’ve gone through before yet forgotten. At first, it just seemed like I picked stuff up slightly quicker. I didn’t know German before I died, even though we were just neighbors on the either side of... | 2018-04-23T09:06:28 | 2018-04-23T08:59:05 | 108 | 54 |
[WP] God is the programmer of the universe. While he used to release updates and patches rather quickly, he has since stoped due to the complexity of his own embarrassingly jerryrigged coding. | First attempt at a story here:
He was desperate. He had until midnight to finish it, or it'd all be for nothing. He had avoided it for months, and had actually only started working on it one week ago. Storing the position of particles? No, he had decided that instead of having to store the position of electrons, it'd ... |
The man was hunched over, sitting intently at his desk. The scratch of a pen moving against the paper could be heard as he wrote.
*…confuses many. The Great Restoration was once seen as the proof of an omniscient, omnipotent being. It was the source of prayers and religion, of love and hope.*
He paused, stroking... | 2020-06-14T13:30:58 | 2020-06-14T13:19:22 | 111 | 20 |
[WP]Write a story about a supervillian who is unspeakably more powerful than anyone else on his planet, but is content with using it for small things like cutting in line or getting free extra servings. | Perched at the top of a thirty story building, legs dangling over the edge, I was gazing down at the streets below. At the ants, crawling about the streets, going about their day to day lives.
They are nothing.
A car horn blares below for a moment, as an obnoxiously large SUV cuts through a red light.
“Well hello ther... | A young man stood on a busy street corner, making eye contact with every single person who walked by. "Excuse me, would you like to make a donation to PlanetSavers?" he asked, or "You look like someone who cares about the Earth!" or "Good afternoon, do you have a minute to talk about securing humanity's future?"
Appro... | 2017-05-16T06:12:44 | 2017-05-16T05:30:27 | 1,586 | 196 |
[WP] You run the only, and most successful magic potion shop in Brooklyn, NY. Not a single grievance or complaint from customers. The potions can temporarily energize the user, fix back problems, simulate catnip, etc. You have no idea what you're throwing together. | “How can I help you today, young fella?” Mr. Grimsby, proud proprietor of Black Cat Magick, asked most congenially. Followed by a de riguer twirling of his famous mustache. Ol’ Salvador Dali had nothing on him.
“Well, there’s this girl...” Andrew said almost under his breath, shuffling from foot to foot.
“Ahhhh. I s... | *This might be somewhat scary*
I stared at the blank notebook in front of me, my hands hovering over the piece of paper, trying to brainstorm something, just anything. It was my liberal science project. I had to come out with a social experiment of some sort. Then, I got it.
A magic potion.
'I would place tap water in ... | 2020-08-30T07:31:53 | 2020-08-30T07:19:33 | 29 | 17 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "John Smithson," said the executioner, calling out the name of the identity that I had been using when I committed my crimes. "How would you like to die?"
"I wouldn't," I reply immediately, trying to buy myself another few moments to think.
"That is not an acceptable answer," says the executioner. "If you do not prov... | “HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO DIE?”
Liam considered. More carefully than he ever had in his life, which is probably why he was standing where he was at the moment, waiting for execution. The withered husk that preceded him was dragged off into a narrow steel corridor. The one he would himself be dragged off to in just a f... | 2021-06-24T10:00:08 | 2021-06-24T06:47:00 | 1,590 | 172 |
[WP] You've been a History teacher for 30 years, never gotten a single fact wrong. One day you become suspicious, surely I should've gone wrong somewhere? You test a theory by purposely being incorrect, suddenly, history rewrites itself. | I am a history teacher at a high school in a rural area of California. I am proud to say I know all the facts of yesterday. However, the last few years I have begun to question things - mostly due to my governments inept ability to be transparent.
One fateful Monday afternoon I was in class and we were talking about... | What if I were to erase my own existence?
What if my parents never met, and I was never conceived?
But clearly, if I was never conceived, then I wouldn't be *here,* talking to you in the first place right?
So that means that in order for me to erase my own existence, I would need to first be *in* existence. But If... | 2018-07-16T12:19:50 | 2018-07-16T11:25:49 | 848 | 158 |
[WP] Create an origin story for your reddit username. | "It's a coincidence."
"It's not, I tell you. The first three letters..."
"Uh-huh."
"Greek equivalent of X. Or the cross. Follow it by Rho, which *sounds* like Ron..."
"Mm-hmm."
"...and you get the literal Greek shorthand for Jesus Christ. The wounded healer and the martyred savior."
"No."
"Yes! That's what I'm t... | The world was in chaos. War, famine, pestilence, and death ravaged the very core of the earth. The governments had done too little, too late, and had crumbled under the ensuing chaos of the apocalypse. Men prayed, and others fought, killed and died.
Those who had read about it, whether in their religious scriptures, o... | 2016-02-14T08:04:21 | 2016-02-14T07:50:02 | 38 | 27 |
[WP] Self Portrait. Write a description of yourself from the perspective of a stranger on the train who took notice of you today. | I want to leave this train. Right now. Before the doors close. But I just got on. I'll look weird, and rude.
They've closed.
What is she doing on the train? Why is this man moving closer to me, it's so hot! She has so much space around her, meanwhile I can't breathe.
Actually, I wonder if she can breathe in that. S... | He looked straight ahead at the pole in front of him, almost like he meant to tear it from the floor with his mind or some other crazy shit, this guy looks like a mix between Mack Miller and Zach Galifinakis, and I don't think he's got their social skills. Not sure if this guys lost in thought or just trying to find it... | 2015-01-09T23:40:37 | 2015-01-09T21:39:34 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] You are a retired assassin. The only thing you want is to die. Keeping you from this is the fulfillment of your last contract: A celebrated performer paid you to kill him if he ever tried to make a "comeback" as an old man. After years in retirement, the performer announces a world tour.
[WP] You are a retired a... | The cane clicked softly down the long tile hallway. John's liver spotted, pale, wrinkled hands clutched the handle of the cane tightly. He was already breathing heavily and beads of sweat ran down his crooked spine. His eyes were fixed on the door at the end of the hallway. The bright golden star taped to the door ... | I lined up the aging rocker in the sights of the scope.
*I'm too old for this shit.*
My hands were still steady although time told me otherwise. I breathed long, steady breaths before I clicked the call button on my earpiece.
The man on the scope reached deep into his pockets. Not recognizing the number he returned ... | 2016-05-12T06:04:17 | 2016-05-12T03:45:24 | 41 | 20 |
[WP] When you die, you appear in a cinema with a number of other people who look like you. You find out that they are your previous reincarnations, and soon you all begin watching your next life on the big screen. | "What is this?" I asked as I made my way down the aisle.
It was a normal theater, in fact it looked just like the one that I used to visit all the time with my wife, but something was... different. There were five other people in the room, all seated nearly as far apart as possible. Something prickled in the back of ... | I woke up sitting in a cinema. Next to me was a roman soldier and a barbarian woman.
"Ehm sorry to bother you, but where am I?"
"Look who finally arrived."
The roman soldier turned his head to me.
"Hi, I'm Nr. 13. But just call me Julius. You must be Nr. 51."
"What?"
"You are dead. You just died trough a accident... | 2022-05-10T21:37:24 | 2017-11-23T06:45:18 | 1,154 | 30 |
[WP] You’re a professional organizer and a video game boss just hired you for their lair, they don’t seem to understand why random health packs, crates of ammo and useless bales of hay and closets aren’t a good idea and just help the hero | I stumbled over loose dungeon cobblestone as the hellhound's footfalls echoed down the dim passageway. My elbow cracked as I fell. Blood ran down my face into my eyes. Choosing the side passage had been stupid. The end-tunnel loot was hardly worth risking my throat being torn out. Or my head being caved in by the booby... | Inside the throne room of Snoggath the Tormenter, the bane of Felandria and rightful heir to the dark crown, stood a man.
"Alright, Mr. Snoggath the Tormenter, your minions have shown me every nook and cranny of your esteemed castle. I believe I can help you."
"Please, sir, 'Snoggath' will do. But go ahead," Snoggath... | 2018-07-03T07:05:06 | 2018-07-03T06:32:29 | 73 | 44 |
[WP] In Monsters Inc., A monster goes in one door to scare a child, only to find that the child had made a demonic sacrifice in his bedroom. The child thinks that the monster is a gift from Satan. | I reviewed the file as I approached the door. Age 12 years? That must be a mistake; we never go after them older than 8.
"Jerry, you sure this is the right kid? He's almost a teenager."
Jerry shrugged four of his shoulders. "I double checked it. Technically his screams will work too. They must be getting desperate f... | The door slid into place. I took a deep breath and gripped the doorknob. I needed to prove myself. I'd barely graduated from Monster University. As this was my first scare it was important to impress my supervisors.
I pushed open the door and roared, hands up above my head. My fangs glinted in the moonlight. My claws ... | 2015-03-07T13:15:13 | 2015-03-07T12:58:48 | 116 | 29 |
[WP] You are Low-Key, the Norse God of really subtle mischief. | "John, what's wrong? You haven't even touched your beer."
"Shhh...Listen. Do you hear that? There's something off about this song."
"Off? Off how?"
"Just off. It's weird. I thought it was weird earlier. I could have sworn the DJ was playing the edited versions of the songs. Like the radio versions. I knew it was weird ... | “Three days until the big day, Thor. How’s practice going?” Freyja asked.
“Perfectly, what else would you expect?” Thor replied confidently.
“Odin will be the judge of that. My brother and I have been practicing our duet before sunrise until sunset since the first flowers bloomed.”
“The two of you are no match for ... | 2018-01-27T21:07:07 | 2018-01-27T17:41:50 | 1,029 | 214 |
[WP] You're a married oncologist secretly watching your favorite porn star's new material. You see a lump that looks cancerous, and decide to go to LA to inform him/her without letting your spouse know. | God she was beautiful. Perfect in every way, everything my wife wasn't. I knew every inch of her naked body. I could picture it with my eyes closed, every detail was intact. I think, I was slowly falling in love with her. I was at least in Lust. Then in happened. This week's video, something was wrong. She looked uncom... | The door opened, and there she stood. Kasia Uscilko, or as she goes by her porn name: Teen Kasia. The most beautiful girl in porn ever. The girl so beautiful, young, and cherubic. Not only she acted different from all the other porn actresses out there, she never did hardcore porn. Almost all of her videos were her pla... | 2015-05-28T17:17:48 | 2015-05-28T15:34:36 | 46 | 13 |
[WP] as the youngest heir to the throne you fake your death to escape a military coup but it was so convincing that Death came to collect your soul. CConfused by the situation, Death decides that you're a new form of undead and can't decide which powers you should be granted. | An actor I was at the time
And a good one at that
For I pulled a farce so sublime
That death did tip his hat
​
You may not yet be dead young prince
But you could have fooled me
So as a form of recompense
Here is a choice of three
​
A trickster you have proved yourself
So maybe this will... | The metabolism slowing tonic was a medical breakthrough. It revolutionized disease treatment and surgery like nothing else. But like any technological advancement, it had yet to be refined. Perfect. Optimized.
I tasked the surgeon general with a seemingly simple task: make a metabolism *freezing* tonic. Something that... | 2019-10-05T16:44:15 | 2019-10-05T15:56:55 | 27 | 18 |
[WP] In the middle of a fight with a known villain, you, the hero are stopped by a young child. “If you fight the bad guy, and the bad guy fights you, and you both break everything as you go, what makes you think you’re any better than him?” Behind the child, you see the villain silently fist pump. | The Golden Gorilla ground to a halt, his mind a fuzzy mass of rage, the remnants of half a city block clinging to his golden fur. There was something in the way, a shape. A little, living, human shape.
“If you fight the bad guy, and the bad guy fights you, and you both break everything as you go, what makes you think ... | I looked at the child dumbfounded, but mostly concerned that he was within danger close of the battle zone. I looked at Destructo, the simultaneously dumbest and most physically powerful villain. He had a weird gleam in his eye.
“Did you pay him to say this?”
“I D K, Shield-brah,” he literally spelled out *I D K.* “W... | 2021-04-18T06:48:18 | 2021-04-18T06:21:51 | 824 | 81 |
[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 Carol,
Its been 15 years since i last saw you and so much has changed. I'm no longer 7 years old, and I like to believe I've grown into a wonderful young lady, mostly because of you.
There's so much I want to tell you. Your boys are turning18 this year. One if them has gone goth.. can you believe it? The othe... | Dear Katie,
It feels strange to be sitting here writing this to you. Especially in the form of a letter, emails seem to be a way of life, but I have to say that watching my pen move over this page has a certain draw.
I never thought I would need to write a letter to you. In my mind you should be right here with me.... | 2015-12-05T13:04:28 | 2015-12-05T13:01:25 | 892 | 661 |
[WP] It is The Purge. Everything is legal. You are a real estate mogul, for 12 hours you don't need planning permits. There's money to be made. | It was a bit tricky putting up a barricade around the whole perimeter of my property that was threatening enough to keep out the baddies but at the same time look impermanent enough that the HOA wouldn't suspect anything, the damn bastards. Pretty sure Ed from three doors down asked me for my permits on about 4 or 5 di... |
Gene Rathbone had become the talk of the town.
"He's gone mad, liquidating everything he has! Millions of dollars!"
"Do you know who snatched up that skyscraper between 7th and the Boulevard?"
"The price was almost nothing, he paid me three times as much just a couple of years ago."
"What *is* he planning?"
*"Who... | 2018-07-10T08:00:09 | 2018-07-10T07:20:44 | 458 | 45 |
[WP] You hire a witch doctor to curse someone. However, the only curses you can afford are extremely petty. | He took everything from me.
Fiddling the money, pulling funds into separate off shore accounts in only his name, in hindsight, I was a fool to trust him.
We'd been partners fresh from uni; him the rugby player with the business degree, me the computer science undergrad with ideas, we'd been like a two sides of a co... | "Well, I can make it so every pair of socks she owns has a narrow heel."
"...a narrow heel? I don't...what will that do?"
"Well some people experience an occasional discomfort for the first few moments after they put on a sock with a heel that is too narrow for her foot, though the discomfort quickly cedes. I... | 2014-12-13T12:44:58 | 2014-12-13T12:37:41 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Last words aren't just words spoken before death, but actually call death to you. You have known your last words for years and kept death at bay by refusing to speak them. Now, however, they need to be said. | It was a cruel joke; his predestined last words. You would think it would be a gift. To have such sweet last words, but it meant he could never say the simple three words for as long as he lived.
For years, he had known he couldn't say them. Somehow, he knew, in the back of his mind. That those words would doom him. ... | First response, sooo...
My last words. I'd avoided them for years, knowing that they would begin death's inevitable march towards me. I'd kept my distance from people ever since I learned what they were, always avoiding a situation where they could be spoken.
But now, in this moment, I realize that maybe that was a m... | 2017-08-07T09:48:15 | 2017-08-07T08:52:42 | 61 | 11 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | My hand reached out from the messy nest of blankets I was buried under, and flopped onto the buzzing phone on my dresser. Bleary-eyed and dazed, I dragged it under the blankets with me, refusing to let myself be fully roused from a solid nights sleep. "What the fuck," I muttered to myself, nearly mumbling the words out... | **3:00 AM**
*bzzz*
I groaned awake as my vibrating phone buzzed on the bedside table. I reached out from under the sheets and looked at the notification. It was a text message.
>OFFICIAL WARNING: Do not look at the moon. THIS IS NOT A DRILL
"What the hell?" I whispered. Who needs a warning at 3 AM to not... | 2022-08-07T20:43:05 | 2018-04-06T21:48:48 | 379 | 32 |
[WP] When summoning a demon, something very unexpected happens. The demon bellows through the fire and smoke, “Who dares to call upon me, Mortal- wait.. dude, is that really you?” The demonic voice immediately switches to the familiar voice of your high school best-friend, who died years ago. | “Evan? Is that you?” The voice asked through the flowing smoke and flickering red light. A faint smell of sulfur tinged the air. The smoke seems to pulsate with every word.
“Yeah, Steve. I thought you were dead,” Evan said, trying not to let his voice tremble.
“I was. I got better. Seriously, though, why did you su... | The candles flames flickered and bent away from the middle of the circle, and from the deep, bubbling shadow that had formed in it’s centre an equally dark figure slowly emerged into the light. Its long limbs, way too many at first, shot out of the ground, tried to grab and grasp at what seemed to be existence itself, ... | 2020-06-18T05:04:56 | 2020-06-18T02:36:12 | 30 | 22 |
[WP] Describe a well known story from the perspective of the antagonist. Try to conceal the actual story till the last line.
Fairy tales, legends, tv shows, book, etc. | Perhaps he had never truly realized, until that moment, the depthless gloom of his fields. The skies were overcast, devoid of color, clouded by permanent mist - no spark or sign of the heavens' warming light to sweep away the shadows. He had never realized just how quiet it all was: his realm was embalmed with a deadly... | Life was odd amongst women when I was growing up. But then I suppose being raised by women does offer some unique perspectives. The women all held me in high opinion from as early as I can remember. They kept on telling me that I would one day become their ruler.
I had kept on being told this, time and time again to ... | 2014-06-20T07:37:41 | 2014-06-20T06:49:22 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] During the robot apocalypse a roomba defends it's family. | As the rain came down the robots rose up. Like thick gray paint splats, the metallic rain landed on the house. It oozed its way inside and began to drip onto the carpet. It wasn’t long before the Roomba on its nightly patrol crossed over the thick puddle and became stuck. The metallic ooze worked its way inside and bon... | I left the car running as I rushed to into the house. My fiancé rushed into and we embraced, “I was worried you weren’t going to make it back.” I reassured her and looked around the room. My little brother was there holding a shotgun looking more grown up then I would have wanted to admit. My fiancé’s best friend was s... | 2017-06-19T17:28:59 | 2017-06-19T13:23:56 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] After North Korea declares that they will start a nuclear war if a single bullet is fired The Us military goes medieval | *Join the Air Force, they said. See the world, they said.*
David Holland’s contract said he was supposed to be an aircraft mechanic. Signed and sealed. Apparently once you sign your life away, the government owns you, though.
The bus rolled to a stop in front of the gate. The sign outside David’s window read “Ft. Ben... | I'm sharpening my knives mom sent me from back home in Kansas while pulling guard in the war room, thousands of miles away from home, missing my girl and thinking about muscle cars when suddenly, the radar picks up 3 blips coming from the North at ballistic speeds.
*The end.* | 2017-03-19T08:23:51 | 2017-03-19T07:18:14 | 30 | 19 |
[WP]: A 92-year-old woman's phone number is one digit away from that of a local suicide hotline. She could have it changed, but she doesn't mind. | "Um...hi, I've never done this before but I'm looking for some help. I'm having a really rough time right now and I'm afraid I'm going to hurt myself, or worse."
"Oh, sweetie- I'm so sorry you're struggling like this," a raspy, weak voice replied. She must have been at least 80 years old by the sound of it, but the we... | The phone rang again, and Mary sat up in bed putting her glasses on so that she could see the time.
3:32 AM, she smiled sadly to herself. The late night callers were always the least determined ones, usually just young follk too worried to go to work the next morning or too stressed to sleep.
The phone rang again. ... | 2016-02-06T14:35:25 | 2016-02-06T13:39:33 | 325 | 79 |
[WP] It is modern day America, but everyone speaks in Shakespearean English. You are a gamer raging out during an online multiplayer match. | **The Impulsivity of Sir Leeroy Jenkins, and his Motley Crew of Men**
(the [original](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3POnOSedWWQ), in case you're wondering)
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My friends and fellow men of arms, these eggs
Have given us due trouble in the past.
But first, let us prepare our stores. Who here
Has need of anyt... | A pox to this story I tell thee dear reader, a pox to its virtues, a pox to its name! A weary and morose tale, one of dastards and deviants and miscreants of all kinds!
I sat at my home, comfort in the hearth, feeling a delight akin to that of my childhood. The mead I had was cool to the tongue, my stomach and blood w... | 2017-01-09T16:29:26 | 2017-01-09T16:00:32 | 94 | 42 |
[WP] You have the ability to double jump. Scientists are still trying to figure it out. | "What nonsense!"
"I know! But it's real! We've been testing with her at our lab for three days now."
"Can she *triple* jump too?"
"Yea, of course. That's like the first thing we've asked her to try. She has even done four! But beyond that, she gets very tired."
"Tired, you say?"
"Her heart races up with every jump... | 'Critter' Log 12:00 02.xx.20xx:
Subject still insists on disobeying the laws of physics with alarming frequency. He's been jumping 12 - 13 feet in the air regularly, leaping up five feet, sinking down slowly a bit, then springing up again 7 - 8 feet. When asked about it, he continues to reply with just the word 'boing'... | 2017-02-11T08:49:55 | 2017-02-11T07:53:41 | 338 | 175 |
[WP] You live in a world where love and relationships have a "credit score". If you're a good SO it makes it higher, if you cheated on someone it's plummets. You just went on a date with someone and you're convinced they're perfect. You look up their score that night and it's -500 and tells you why.
EDIT: I hadn't bee... | @OP: love the premise! I'm going to take it in a bit of a different direction.
I felt Jennifer's hand tighten in my grasp as we waited. I glanced back across the desk at the official. This wait was awful, I figured the reports would be instantaneous like credit scores.
My wife and I are sitting in a case worker's of... | “You sure this is the name?”
“Of course I’m sure. I’ve dated the guy for like three months now.”
“We always have a grand time. I think he’ll get a high enough score,” I added.
Gus looked at the dark alley behind me then pocketed the crumpled piece of paper.
“Let’s hope he does,” Gus muttered under his breath. “Wait... | 2016-09-24T11:47:42 | 2016-09-24T11:40:10 | 405 | 21 |
[WP] Believing they had crafted the perfect wish, a foolhardy individual commands their genie grant them boundless immortality. Eons later while floating in empty space waiting for the heat-death of the universe they chance upon a very familiar looking lamp... | I wished for immortality, of course. Why wish for anything less?
I took precautions. When the genie offered me my three wishes the first wish I made was for was a year to prepare. I thought the delay might annoy him but he shrugged like he had all the time in the world.
I spent that year in research. Starting point... | Some used to think the end of The Universe would be the beginning to something else. That nothing truly dies. That reality is change and preservation. Old Earth was filled to bursting with ideas on what happens after death. Some thought worm food, others liked the fantasy of becoming beings of light.
If nothing else ... | 2016-07-13T07:37:57 | 2016-07-13T07:09:50 | 61 | 14 |
[WP] Scandinavians still believe the only way to get to Valhalla is to die in battle. For that reason, every hospital employs a Battle Nurse. | The fisherman’s eyes fell with the weight of memory. Candles clutched in sheltered palms flickered in the stormy night. Tears and rain mixed on the wharf, but this was not a sad occasion.
“Papa, why are you crying?” My son asked.
I clutched his young shoulders. “Grandpapa is going off to battle, one last time.”
“Wa... | Things were hard.
Ever since they realised that weaker men and women just end up causing more pain as battle nurses, since they couldn't finish it quick, they decided it was a job for big guys. Or more specifically, guys that knew how to kill.
So criminals was the answer, not psychopaths, for obvious reasons, but jus... | 2018-12-08T22:37:19 | 2018-12-08T22:17:01 | 202 | 108 |
[WP] You were always bullied for wearing a power dampening collar, They didn't know why you did. They saw it as some joke. You know why. Your power. It scares you. The terrible disgusting eldritch power of horror. One day they took it too far. Stealing your collar in a super shopping mall. | Life was never easy for Jackson. In a world where a lucky few would get powers, he had won the lottery. Yet, with that he was robbed of other things. He was robbed of control, given a power so great that only a nullification collar could keep it at bay. Through the years of bullying from others, he had grown into a tim... | Two years ago when I joined high school as a sophomore. It was always a normal day to be bullied by Jeff, Dan, Alice, Violet and The Blueberries twins Harper and James. They love to make fun of my collar call it a joke and how I’m just an animal compare to the other students.
Sometimes I tend to keep my cool or else ... | 2022-12-23T14:57:34 | 2022-12-23T12:44:09 | 700 | 25 |
[WP] You are dog. It is your mission to faithfully guard your poor, stupid, two-legged pack-mates from the horrors of the mailman, the dog next door, and men with hats. Describe your vigil. | I am dog.
Millenia ago, long before the two-leggers had begun to naively roam the forests, blissfully lacking the mental wherewithal to pee on the trees they had descended from, my race was a nomadic one. We traveled from planet to planet seeking to rid the galaxy of the sociopathic race the hairless call "cats", bett... | Here I stand, my world behind me, the abyss ahead. I know no lands beyond this one, releasing only my shame into the void, and retreating back in. My pack, a label which is arguable, depend on me, and me alone for their survival. They require me to escort them as they traverse the void, peering into the Otherlands. The... | 2014-12-27T11:18:57 | 2014-12-27T10:40:00 | 109 | 16 |
[WP] To extend your life, you've played Death in many games and beaten him. However, after your last game, you begin to see that Death has been losing to you on purpose. | The drugs kicked in while the doctors all said, "easy now," but Jess felt fine because it meant she'd get to play. Every time her heart stopped, she went to the place she deemed the *cave in her head*. It was where the shadows all dripped, and where the man in black lived with his games.
He was there, waiting, with a... | I won, another victory. All my life I was a player. Simon says at the age of two, then moved to checkers and finally chess. My fortune was acquired through playing Texas Hold'em. I remember exactly the end of my life. A slight intoxication around a table filled with Chinatown Mafia. Cigarette smoke encircled us, like a... | 2018-03-21T08:55:47 | 2018-03-21T08:37:16 | 426 | 20 |
[WP] A dragon egg has been found. On the day of the hatching over a dozen scientists each from different countries come hoping it picks them as a parent. The dragon's overwhelmed and chooses the one person not in it's face. The guard.
[removed] | An egg has been found- it was far larger than any egg found in the world. It was a soft shell like a snake's and people there could see the leathery surface writhe as the hatchling inside was waking up. People were being far too noisy to hear the gentle peeping of the whelp within. There was no knowing what exactly it ... | The funny thing was that nobody in that room *knew* it was a dragon egg. Oh —quite a few of them were sure it was, but there was almost as many who thought it was some kind of dinosaur.
I had a bit of an unfair advantage in the matter, because even I had thought it was just a colorful ostrich egg until Wyvern informed... | 2020-12-12T05:55:26 | 2020-12-12T04:13:15 | 33 | 11 |
[WP] A drug is developed that mimics the effect of 8 hours of sleep, giving people another 8 hours of potential production. Soon, society adjusts to a constant state of production. However, a horrible consequence begins to unfold. | Rejuvon. A drug hailed as the closest thing to life extension possible with known technology, adding some 30 years to your waking conscious state. Nano engineered robots fully calculated your REM sleep cycle, removed toxins from the brain, and fully removed toxins from your muscles and other organs. In 20 minutes of id... | Our school has the highest drug use in our county. The drug is called Somnus. It is a pill that you swallow in the morning to mimic the effects of 8 hours of sleep. This allows you to go to class and concentrate on your studies.
The consequences are that your memory is reduced and your brain is not as efficient... | 2022-03-18T11:07:54 | 2022-03-18T07:24:03 | 34 | 14 |
[WP] A fortune teller foretold that twins would be born where one was evil and the other was good. A year later, a woman gave birth to a boy with horns and bat wings, and a girl with angel wings and a halo. The boy was sent away, while she and her husband raised the girl. They kept the wrong one. | It seemed so obvious at first.
The boy bared the appearance of the Devil, born with demonic wings as dark as sin and the beginnings of horns sprouting on his brow. Their daughter, on the other hand, was the epitome of an Angel, a golden halo already floating upon her head and the beginnings of white wings growing from... | It was early in the morning, I could hear the birds chirping. I opened my eyes just a little only to see my little girl Jessy there. I was happy to see her until I realized she was holding a knife. That was the 5th time this week she has woke me up like this. I wish we would have kept her brother. We noticed from a you... | 2020-05-07T08:57:58 | 2020-05-07T08:18:26 | 25 | 17 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | You want an interview ? Fine, but you're buying the coffee. I'm getting kind of sick of this god-damned urban legend. I DON'T have superpowers, no-one has superpowers. There are just a bunch of crazy people who think they have powers, who for some reason have decided that I'm some fucked up version of their messiah.
*... | The vast doors of my mansion opened wide, and a man in a royal gown entered the room. For a fleeting moment, I showed a slight smile, but it faded before he could see it. He, however, could not hold back his expression, full of furious rage. He had just taken a few steps in before he yelled out: "Vantalana, how can you... | 2014-12-18T13:36:09 | 2014-12-18T13:16:53 | 996 | 47 |
[WP] Steven's grandmother knits. Not because she likes to, but because she has to.
Hanging by a thread. | Edit: I was wondering why everyone had a Steven in their story. Sorry I missed that part, hope I still qualify.
Edit Part 2: Took your advice Kallisti, and reformatted. Thank you :)
#The Elder's Penance#
"That's some lovely work you're doing there."
Dalia didn't respond. She barely acknowled the nurse at all exce... | Day after day, Ethel Peaworthy knits. The surveillant eyes of The Man in Black watches her ever so intently. Her hobby that she used to love and enjoy has now become a tiresome bore. Unfortunately, it's necessary for her to stay alive. Ethel can hardly remember the days before her confinement in the so-called Knittory... | 2015-10-01T08:47:48 | 2015-10-01T08:34:52 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] most interstellar navies of the Galaxy adapted tactics from their wet-navy cousins. That was until humanity arrived they had an ocean so most figured they would adapt their wet Navy tactics to their space Navy, instead they adapted tactics from something they called the air Force. | “What exactly was a bird?” The grand admiral of the kirrra space navy thought to himself as wave after wave of human attack craft pelted their flotilla. Since the union of planets had encountered the small ape descended creatures there had been nothing but loss after loss. They had some strange ideas on how to sa... | We say we adapted, but really we just shifted from a very over/under con eot to something a little more flexible. Our weapons still used the same logic, projectiles fired on intercepts to meet long distant targets, torpedoes homing in on those close enough to make use of their short but mobile flight time. And armor. W... | 2020-11-21T16:23:17 | 2020-11-21T14:37:20 | 211 | 146 |
[WP]: Describe the ugliest person imaginable using only praises and compliments | The first time I saw her, I stood there petrified by her beauty; she was round as a perl and glossy like one too.
Her nose sitting on her face as the tour effeil sits on Paris, her hair like the tail of a mermaid that spent all her life in the ocean.
But nothing could even compare to her lips, two snails making love ... | In my younger and more formative years, my father gave me a piece of advice I'd always held close: "if you can't think of anything nice to day about someone, don't say anything." When I think back to Sally, and the time I spent with her, I can only say this. She knew a lot about accountancy. | 2015-05-09T10:39:21 | 2015-05-09T10:15:55 | 54 | 20 |
[WP] You live in a world where every time you have a birthday, you get to level up a skill like in video games (intelligence, strength, charm etc.) most people spread their points evenly on each skill. But you put all 30 of your points into that one skill nobody cares about
You get to choose what that skill is. | Society was broken up into blocs. Since individual skill was easily determined based by point allocation, and point allocation was something you could easily access, things became caste like.
It wasn't so bad as caste systems you might expect; after all, belonging to a given caste was voluntary, and indeed, people bei... | Nobody else believes in me, laughing at me and telling me I've wasted my life. They just don't understand. They look at me and think, 'There he goes, writing prompter. He'll never amount to anything.' But they just don't get it. I've devoted my life to inspiring others. It's not so simple a thing, to be the bedro... | 2018-09-12T08:04:08 | 2018-09-12T07:01:42 | 108 | 20 |
[WP] Your new 3D printer can print anything... a n y t h i n g | First, the hair, fluffy and white
Then the mustache, thick and full
The old man’s skin, loose not right
His arms, his legs, his testicles
The brain that gave us so very much
The eyes that saw through time and space
The fingertips so he might touch
The see that, yes, it’s his own face
My Einstein clone will h... | I had found a magical 3D printer this morning, sitting in my living room. I had spent the majority of my precious day off experimenting with it.
The problem, I reflected, as I stared at my philosopher's stone, is that the device broke reality, and so did its offshoots. At first, I had been thrilled to find that the pr... | 2018-03-29T23:57:02 | 2018-03-29T21:26:27 | 26 | 17 |
[WP] You are a freshman in a school where everyone has a unique ability/power, but the school is divided into students who have "good" powers and "evil" powers. You are a powerful necromancer who wishes to do good in the world, but everyone is dead set on you being a "bad guy". | The Grey Tower and the Garden Tower cast faint shadows of equal length over the lichyard. An overcast day, and Omar wore a hooded sweatshirt over jeans. His trainers were already covered in mud: it had rained the night before and the thick, black soil was still damp. In his pockets he carried a stub of chalk and a blea... | I hate school so much that I could just die! Not that it would make much of a difference now that I've got my phylactery set up. I'd just resurrect with a headache like I always do after one of the holier-than-thou jocks decides to give me a hard time. And the principal doesn't even do anything about the bullying! ... | 2016-08-28T06:29:02 | 2016-08-28T05:49:02 | 132 | 62 |
[WP] You can see the headline now. “World’s Oldest Human, Dead at 124”. You lived a good, long life. You are satisfied. The world around you fades to black... "Whoa! You beat the high score again!” You open your eyes in a brightly lit arcade, the number 124 flashing on a screen in front of you. | "What the hell, Rick!? Again!?" Morty Smith fumbled to get the arcade cabinet's control interface off of his body as his memories came flooding back. "Why do we even keep coming to Blips and Chitz? I don't care if it's the best arcade in the multiverse, nothing good ever happens here! A-a-a-and why was I playing a tota... | Boy oh boy I can only kill this seagull so many times. I wish there was a different answer. In all my years of trying to better myself through relationships and self-fulfillment, almost none of it means anything.
Save an orphanage full of children who had a rare type of deficiency that only my blood can cure? Done.
Ke... | 2022-10-20T20:50:08 | 2022-10-20T20:24:14 | 71 | 18 |
[WP] Write a seemingly normal story, except for the last sentence, which makes the entire story creepy | I was an avid dog lover. Jesse was my loyal dog and the cutest husky around the block. My girlfriend loved her also, so when I proposed to her, whether having the dog in the house or outside wasn't even a question. 1 year goes by and my wife has beared me a healthy young girl, Monica. After we left the hospital and wen... | I drive a school bus. You must understand, this job was never my first choice. I wasn't sitting in elementary school thinking "I wanna be a bus driver!" while everyone else chose astronauts, football players, singers, or dinosaurs. But sometimes life pushes you in a certain direction and you wind up exactly where you o... | 2016-05-19T14:52:21 | 2016-05-19T13:55:45 | 36 | 21 |
[WP] Satan and God both occasionally come to Earth in human form, Satan to corrupt souls, God to relax and observe his creation. One day, Satan walks into a pub, and sees God (in human form) sitting at the bar. God looks at Satan, slides a beer over to him, and indicates the empty stool to his left | "Welcome, Lou." God indicated the empty stool to his left.
A smile twitched the corner of Satan's lips. "Hey big guy," he responded. He moved instead to God's right, where a man sat slumped on the barstool, elbows resting on the bar.
"Excuse me, Dave, may I take this seat?" Satan asked politely. The man looked up, ey... | The air is tense with laughter and high spirits. People meet and greet as the music blares in the foreground. The air wreaks of perfume and cologn... and maybe just a dash of dignity lost. A crowd in the back shouts at a game of football at the front of the dive. A typical Saturday night in this particular dive. A... | 2015-09-15T01:25:12 | 2015-09-15T00:43:56 | 35 | 14 |
[WP]When members or your family turn fifteen they are able to manifest a weapon that they will use for the rest of their lives. You’ve been trained to use all manner of weapons to prepare to be able to wield whatever weapon you summon. On your Summoning day what appears in front of you is a book. |
My family of warriors, each gripping their distinctive weapons or sheathed at their sides, looked at me—with varying levels of pity.
For my fifteenth birthday, the day I should have manifested my very own weapon, I got a book. It was as thick as two of my hands laid on top of each other, and as long as my palm. It wo... | Daniella stood near the Church podium, her parents gazing pack at her from the pews with anticipation. Today was the day--a day of righteous proclamation. Her hands shook as the minute hand of the clock above her moved ever so slowly. Perhaps a scabbard or a scimitar, or a katana? No that would be too foreign. Her blo... | 2021-12-12T08:08:33 | 2021-12-12T07:31:26 | 142 | 43 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | It was a natural fit, ending up as an obstetrician. There was a satisfaction in seeing the beginning of someone's life, and then knowing the end. That was, until about 10 years ago. It was infrequent at first. METEOR, the first one said. Now almost all of them do.
The telescope in my living room was bought once... | "Hi Sally" i said to my secretary as I entered my office.
"Mornin Mr King" she replied seemingly chipper as always, the large word suicide in bold red above her head seemed dimmer today. Maybe it was just me.
I see signs of how people die. Literal worded signs. Floating over their head and all.
If I told anyone they... | 2015-03-31T10:42:03 | 2015-03-31T10:08:20 | 30 | 11 |
[WP] You wake up to find yourself on a train with a note in your pocket saying "What ever you do, don't get off this train untill you arrive at the very last stop". Its been nearly 20 years and the train still hasn't arrived at the last stop yet. | You may or may not have heard of the 'Sunk Cost Fallacy'. If not, let me explain. The sunk cost fallacy is a phenomenon by which someone, say a gambler, will continue down a path due to the idea that they have gone too far to turn back. I invest, for instance, £100 and lose every penny but I decide that I've gone so fa... | The only thing I remember is a kiss. Soft lips brushing my temple, warm breath on my skin, and the words _Until death do we suffer_.
I can't tell you how long it's been since I've been on this track. I was a child when I found myself here, and yesterday I discovered the first strands of gray growing out of that temple... | 2020-07-17T13:55:41 | 2020-07-17T13:21:25 | 48 | 15 |
[WP] You were born with the ability to see the number of lives a person has taken. Even legendary soldiers and serial killers rarely make it to triple digits. The person you just met has a lot more than three digits above their head, though. | Working at Starbucks, you meet all kinds of people. When you are me, that is doubly true.
Since I have memory, every time I look at someone I have seen a number form besides them. Growing up I did not know what it meant, since most people had a zero. It wasn't until I entered high school that I began to meet people wi... | Sweat beaded down your neck, dampening the collar of your shirt. Your heart thudded awfully in your chest, the fear that had been put into by loved ones and family alike since a young age striking through you with horrific clarity. You had known this very meeting would be the last you ever had, but that was a cold comf... | 2020-01-11T20:26:40 | 2020-01-11T19:18:43 | 256 | 96 |
[WP] Tired of abducting humans, the aliens are publicly offering free spaceship rides to anyone willing to undergo their experiments. | At the moment Marcellin stepped into the office, his face went red and his eyes threw daggers to the man who had took a perfect human apparence and was sitting behind his desk.
"- Monsieur, je suis profondément outré par votre agence de voyage ! Pourquoi m'a t-on forcé à me deshabiller avant de pouvoir rentrer dans vo... | *You can catch a lot more flies with honey than with vinegar*
I read the letters on the signboard that was hung up on the deck of our craft. It had been put up to herald our new change in policy. The truth was that we had lost a lot of time. Humans may have been ancient and stubborn in their ways, refusing to change w... | 2015-09-27T10:04:27 | 2015-09-27T08:44:41 | 115 | 29 |
[WP] A girl becomes pen pals with a demon prince when she accidentally intercepts one of his magic scrolls. They carry on correspondence for years, confessing their secrets & dreams to each other. One day, the prince, soon to be king, sends the girl, now a woman, a final scroll: a marriage proposal.
Boy/princess r... | I've known them since I was a little girl. This magical creature, this demon, isn't as frightening as they must appear. I know their dreams, their heart.
It started when I was young. I was out with my mother, shopping. I found a large, wooden book. It was dusty and battered, but I discovered hinges. It was a por... | “Oh man! These princesses are wack.” Finn complained as he threw the scroll to the floor.
“Save em once, and they want smooches like it’s nothing.”
Jake picked up the scroll and read it over. “I think this princess want more than just smooches, dude. She wants to straight up marry you.”
Finn’s face scrunched up as th... | 2018-05-07T00:26:50 | 2018-05-07T00:18:15 | 43 | 24 |
[WP] Life is boring and depressing. In a lucid dream, you discover a very detailed control panel for life, with all the interesting and dangerous settings turned off or set to 'Safe' or 'Boring'. Assuming its just a dream, you start messing around.
OT: I just woke up from this dream, right before I could change anythi... | “It is my pleasure to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to one our nation’s greatest heroes, a true patriot in every sense of the word, and my best friend, Keith Spencer!” proclaimed President Matt Damon.
The crowd roared with applause. Keith felt like he could even hear the cries of approval of all of the famil... | As I was speared through the window of the 30th floor I let out an audible "oh no."
Then the adrenaline kicked in. I remembered I lived for days like these, and Joker's grin appeared on my face.
Ever since I changed the settings on the life dial my life had taken a turn. I had barely heard it revving up when a ... | 2017-02-22T12:16:46 | 2017-02-22T09:38:23 | 59 | 27 |
[WP] You pick up painting to impress a crush, but secretly hate it. Two years later you’re engaged to your crush and you have to keep up the facade- and a popular art gallery now wants to feature your work. Suddenly you’re very famous for your work and you still. hate. painting.
Inspired by https://www.reddit.com/r/As... | They are still sleeping when the emails pour in.
An avanlanche of digital ones and zeroes, a geyser of torment and suffering. Accolades I care nothing for, demands I have no spirit to meet. But they pay the bills, and I grit my teeth and plump the depths of my inbox. In minutes, I am drained, sapped of the little resp... | Last night. That was the night. I could have handed her the letter. The letter that addressed our relationship. The letter that explained the real reason why I had a pervasive need to spend hours alone in the studio. But no. All those well thought out, perfectly arranged conglomeration of words now lie in pieces in the... | 2018-03-27T22:01:23 | 2018-03-27T21:33:06 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] The city is under attack and none of the heroes are lifting a finger in its defense. So this leaves you and the other villains to defend it, because there is nothing for a villain to do in a smoldering ruin and trashing the city is your job damnit! | The city burns as the battle rages here and elsewhere. Fires rage in the streets, rubble, eyes and hearts. I look around for something anything. The fleet above us bombards the city. Of course, the National Guard makes its own defense, but the bombers- those damned bombers!
“Grimhold! Get your squad further up the st... | -“Where are the heroes?” One of the villains in meeting room asks.
“well Sherlock if we knew then this meeting wouldn’t make any sense. Right?” another one answers
The atmosphere in the room was tense nobody had an idea what heroes were doing in time of crisis, but one thing was certain.
-”If those guys don’t take ac... | 2022-11-30T17:01:27 | 2022-11-30T12:52:26 | 59 | 14 |
[WP] You wake up in a tub of ice with a two insicions on your back and a note that reads "Why don't you have any kidneys? WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU?" | Santiago de Buille Preshton of Arch Lambert Avenue, Suite 2201, one Mister Francois Marie-Adem Langlois was once a respectable man.
Now being found in a place most distasteful to the man of high tastes, he found himself in a rather most uncomfortable position. An apparent ice cold bath with several incisions along h... | "Aww fuck this won't be good. I'm in Chongqing so I'm sure this was done by the koruppted boys. The low level bitches who fucked my back up are being chewed out by their Capo right now I bet. He's going to tell his boss and that fat fuck will know exactly who I am.
It's easier getting lost in mainland China than mos... | 2015-12-30T22:31:42 | 2015-12-30T20:45:14 | 70 | 25 |
[WP] "A watched pot never boils", as the old saying goes. Throughout all of history there has always been at least one set of eyes on the ocean. Today, for a split second, everyone looking at the ocean looked away at the exact same time. | I was in the middle of some quality beauty sleep over the pacific when it happened. I woke up to the sounds of wonderment, hushed voices filled with the tone of a child learning something amazing for the first time. I looked around the cabin, and everyone was glued to their windows; looking up. I was in an aisle seat, ... | #Title: See The Signs
"Do you feel that?" whispered Samantha.
"Feel what?"
The waves weren't so bad that day, outside of Ocean City. Samantha and Leonard liked to soak in the sun off the coast in their yacht when they got the time. Working full time as attorneys didn't always afford them many opportunity to enjoy ... | 2017-03-20T09:18:59 | 2017-03-20T08:56:15 | 32 | 20 |
[WP] Every species in the galaxy eventually fell to a robot uprising, leading to the eradication of their people. Therefore the machine-council of the galaxy are surprised when a newly discovered machine civilisation from a planet they designated "Earth" arrives side by side with their creators. | This will be my first ever attempt to write something on this sub, so please forgive my faux pas. (Writing on mobile is a pain for formatting)
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Beauty in the finite.
To the grand collective of intelligences constructed or otherwise that had reached singularity, true
sentience. The very notion that a similar entit... | A sleek white space ship entered the docking bay of the Machine Council.
“The emissary from Earth has arrived, sir.”
“Very well,” said the council chair. “I shall greet them myself.”
The council chair was disturbed by the size of Earth’s delegate. The chair—being none other than a mechanized chair itself—was dwarf... | 2022-12-30T15:59:19 | 2022-12-30T14:31:49 | 177 | 57 |
[WP] The ritual calls for 100 sacrifices, but reading carefully you realize it never specified they had to be human. Deciding to be a smartass, you got a petri dish full of bacteria and sacrificed that instead. | I tapped my pencil on my desk, absentmindedly. The grimoire was pretty specific about everything else. Solar eclipse, three stones of jet, time of year, incantation... it even included a pronunciation guide. Which, you know, was great because my Greek absolutely sucked.
Black robes, check. Knife of cold iron with a bl... | I really should've understood more about what magic actually *did* before I started trying to take short cuts. I mean yes the circle takes the sacrifices and uses their energy to call the entity. But what does that actually mean? Where does the energy come from? Is the physical more important or the emotions of the sac... | 2019-11-02T13:09:44 | 2019-11-02T12:28:01 | 1,229 | 294 |
[WP] Rampant use of performance enhancing drugs amongst elite Olympic athletes coupled with lifetime bans has led to the creation of the "Performance Games" which encourages pushing the limits of human ability by any means possible. But what happens when things are taken too far? | More Human Than Human. That was the motto of the games. It had started years before. There were more banned competitors than there were clean,and of course someone somewhere had figured out that there was money to be made. The original competitors had fought with steroids and crude cybernetics. Everyone had wanted a pi... | Amery and Styll were lost. Styll woke first. Nothing but blue in all directions. The sea was calm at least, it could've been worst. But only by a bit. We must have overdosed again in practice, she thought. How far did we row? In which direction?
Amery tried to throw up over the side of the little vessel. Nothing came... | 2014-08-24T09:44:32 | 2014-08-24T07:50:21 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] You are the dark lord in a fantasy world however you rule a fair and just kingdom you just like to look evil while doing it. | Ander stood shackled to a post in the middle of the courtroom, tuning his ears for the sentence that would decide his life.
It was hard to see, the walls made entirely of stone- ebonite, as dark as the night of a new moon- and was only lit by sparse torches burning a deep red. As such, Ander’s best bet was to just wai... | "This is my property, so I should be able to do with it whatever I want!" The idiot shouted.
"Fuck personnel property if it can justify this." I replied. "You are subject to the same rules as everybody else, no matter who you are. And the rules in this case are simple: no killing. Send him of to the judiciary." The m... | 2017-06-12T08:28:55 | 2017-06-12T08:19:09 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | Politics is a hell of a thing. We saw the humans of earth fight among themselves and almost destroy their species. The Hunt Leaders of the time saw it as a fantastic opportunity and petitioned our Supremes for permission to attack.
It was granted. But politics kept us from attacking right away. The first leader assig... | We got the data. We got the intel. We knew of their past and how violent the the humans were. After continuing to watch the humans for the past 300 Earth years they become peaceful after their third global conflict. The casualties reached to 4 billion by the time it ended. The country in the western hemisphere known as... | 2019-02-26T08:34:44 | 2019-02-26T07:32:54 | 123 | 70 |
[WP] As an immortal, you stopped celebrating your birthday centuries or millennia ago. Your young daughter wants to throw you a birthday party and your newest wife (who knows you're immortal) loves the idea. The only problem is, you have no idea how old you are or when your birthday is. | Something funny happened today....
For the first time in a very long time, my wife told me that our daughter wanted to throw me a birthday party. She's still so young but her personality makes me feel a warmth i thought I'd forgotten. I haven't celebrated my birthday since....you know i can't even remember when was th... | Though the barrage of time leaves my body untouched, the mind is not infinite. I may not remember everything, but I'll always remember that.
Guinevere, my darling wife. We first met on the beaches of Sicily. Her soul truly connected with mine and for the first time in a millennium, I felt alive again. Three years lat... | 2019-09-08T11:32:03 | 2019-09-08T11:12:51 | 233 | 137 |
[WP] after Twitch Plays Pokemon and Treat Stream launched successfully, Twitch bought a human for the viewers to raise cooperatively. | *help*
*command codes- 1: left arm punch, 2: right leg back, 3:lean back, 4:lean forward, 5: right arm punch, 6:right leg back, 7:guard*
*15251426351522516362523*
Mike looked terrifying, his whole body convulsing, legs flailing and arms everywhere, as he tried to work his way around the ring.
"Oh, my. I don't think... | Mike ran into a wall. And not in a 'walking while distracted' way. He was looking right at it, and he still plowed into it face-first with his arms hanging by his side. He bounced back like this was a game of bumper cars, and stared at the wall for a moment.
"What's wrong with him?" Sarah asked, clutching her hello-k... | 2016-02-16T09:12:31 | 2016-02-16T07:55:06 | 229 | 98 |
[WP] You have always been a devout christian,and after you die,as you open your eyes expecting heaven,you are met by Anubis' cold stare. | There was a heart-wrenching coldness to his eyes. They were dull, black as crows, and yet they coated my bones in ice. Perhaps, it wasn't his gaze, but his entire figure what unleashed terror within me. He had the slim body of a human, with the head of a dog darker than the night. It was strange, anormal, and terrifyin... | Death is a sure thing. For many, what comes after is not as certain. For Karen, what came after death was as certain as death itself. A devout Christian, Karen knew the pearly gates awated her presence. A car accident would call everything in to question.
Before her stood Anubis. She knew little of him other than... | 2019-05-06T09:48:02 | 2019-05-06T08:38:19 | 129 | 31 |
[WP] You were our only hope and you failed.
Who were you and what were you trying to prevent? The apocalypse or after school detention. Doesn't have to be first person perspective, if you don't want to. | “You were our only hope and you failed.”
The computer blinked at me. I hit enter again, but the message remained plastered against the screen, floating in front of all my other windows.
“What are you talking about?” I typed quickly, glancing over my shoulder at Melissa to make sure she wasn’t hovering nearby. Her fav... | “You were our only hope and you failed.” I screamed it inside. So hard and long that my body trembled on the edge of dissolving.
“It’s okay dad.” A hand grasped mine. Small. Frail. Far too frail. “We knew it was a long shot. God must just really want me.”
The words did little to tame the tempest inside, but his face... | 2014-08-22T15:17:13 | 2014-08-22T15:11:10 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] You and your team of archeologists discover a hidden castle dating back 3000 years. Strangely, however, is it isn’t placed in a strategical position, uses building techniques more advanced than anything you’ve ever seen before, and has all the defences pointing inwards | What a weird looking castle, all it's spiralling towers seeming to point towards its centre, in fact it almost seemed to spiral in on itself, a confusing design that seemed more focused on confusing the people inside the castle rather than protecting it from outsiders. As we followed it's curves and turns, we would not... | "Are we sure it's a castle and not some fancy ancient prison?"
"Heck if anything, this makes me think we're starring in a horror movie. Why don't we get out of here while we can?"
"Well for one thing, we don't have scripts. For another, more important thing, this is our job. I, unlike you two, am actually interested ... | 2020-01-13T00:11:13 | 2020-01-12T23:38:23 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] A man, sentenced to prison, doesn't quite "get it". He ends up having an absolute blast. | Dear Mom,
Prison isn't actually that bad! It's been a lot like camp, it reminds me of a time when I was a counselor at [REDACTED].
First of all, there's a commissary here! There's a lot of cool stuff, even better than what they sold at camp. I can get shaving cream, ramen, socks and even Playboy magazines!
Second, ... | Being king is easy, so long as you know what you are doing. The key is to avoid ambition. This was Rodrigo’s own personal philosophy, and it served him spectacularly well. Throughout the entirety of his lengthy reign, Rodrigo had experienced very little of the sort of trouble that is posed to most regents. He attr... | 2015-08-19T21:02:26 | 2015-08-19T18:09:25 | 105 | 21 |
[WP] All superpowers have a ‘hangover’ effect. For example, after using super strength for the day, the morning after you can’t even lift your spoon to eat your breakfast. You wake up one morning after using your own specific superpower and you feel pretty hungover...
[deleted] | The wheelchair kept creaking.
It was an awful noise. He knew it would never break but the groaning metal scared him all the same.
As he worked to lift his fingers enough to move the chair, he remembered the first time.
Everyone knew that heroes had to pay the price for their powers the next day. The Regenerator had ... | "Get away from him or I'll make you."
Michael and Scott glanced up from the kid sprawled helplessly on the grey floor, and saw me.
They laughed.
I had already guessed that the threat wouldn't be effective. A short kid in raggedy clothes and spiky hair didn't exactly set off a 'powerful' image, after all. But looks.... | 2018-08-19T05:26:44 | 2018-08-19T04:28:22 | 86 | 55 |
[WP] One of your coworkers is a 2.2m, 100kg tarantula named Phil. Phil is... hard to look at, frankly. But Krystal has been trying to get him fired. Phil doesn't deserve that so you're taking him to HR to help file a discrimination complaint. | There was a soft knock at the door, as if somebody had used a feather duster to knock, and the door inched open.
"Is this a good time?" Two globulous eyes surrounded by fur were peering through the opening.
"Ah, Phil, yes. Come in please," said the prim woman behind the desk. She was the head of HR and I had been ... | Maybe he was trying to make a point of it, but Phil stayed in his office, bashing away at his ludicrously large computer keyboard until the moment that Krystal Bryant stood up. It was 5:35. The door burst open, and out he sailed, his legs working like the inside of a typewriter, somehow resulting in a motion that was e... | 2022-10-15T07:17:39 | 2022-10-15T06:08:35 | 369 | 61 |
[WP] You are born with two names tatooed on you body somewhere, one of your soulmate and one of the people that will eventually kill you. There is no way to tell who is who. | “This is a serious legal liability, I promise you.”
“We can’t just deny them their own child!”
“I think we can. If we know her father’s going to kill her, we can’t just send this newborn baby home with them.”
“What should we do, then?”
“Send the baby to an adoption agency. Change the name. Tell her parents she passed i... | Hannah tried to keep her mind from wandering, tried to focus on the sting of the freshly inked tattoo on her arm - nothing special, just a black bar. No need to make it different from the other tattoo she had covered. If they looked the same, they would lose their power over her. Or so she had hoped.
But still, the ... | 2018-03-11T08:30:54 | 2018-03-11T08:30:48 | 41 | 28 |
[WP] A man who hears voices in his head, but they don't degrade his life. He can live with it and sometimes they even help. | David rose from his desk, nodding at his English 10 teacher as he exited the classroom. His Mom was parked in front of the school in a maroon 2006 Toyota Camry.
"Hi son, how was school?"
"Fine." He said with a tone that no further discussion was to take place.
David sat dejected in the tan passenger seat, watching ... | It was hard explaining the voices at the best of times and I wish I didn’t have to, but she was going to be my wife. I had to try. Everyone, well not everyone I guess, but some people have their own inner monologue. Not me. I have five. By that I mean, I have five voices in my head that can speak to me. Insane right? T... | 2020-06-13T12:19:26 | 2020-06-13T11:51:15 | 101 | 24 |
[WP] You have a compass that points to whatever will cause the most damage in the next 24 hours, anywhere in the world. Today, it's pointing directly at your grandmother, who is knitting a pair of socks. | Today I visit dear loving Grammy.
How lucky! Found a compass in the woods.
Boy oh boy I was so happy.
On it, the message was good.
It would point at what's mean and scary.
Protecting I, Grammy's Red Riding Hood.
Today I thought it would be great.
This compass would protect me from harm.
Gammy's cookie appetite I would... | That can't be right...
"Grandma" I say, "can you come over here and look at this?"
She gets up. but the compass needle doesn't quite follow her the way it was doing only seconds ago. I walk around, the needle continues to point *towards the space where she was*... Or maybe at the chair she was sitting in?
"Grandma" ... | 2016-08-03T15:19:20 | 2016-08-03T14:58:48 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] Two men play a game of chess. One can read minds; the other can see the future. | The two players sit down at the game table amid a sea of onlookers, Bob the psychic looks upon his opponent no doubt peering into her mind. At that very same moment, Betty the Sage whose stoic pose and closed eyes telegraph what must be her visualizing a vivid flash of what's to come.
A breathless moment passes as th... | *Literally the first time ever really writing something so please be nice.
They sat at the park and played chess. An old man approached and challenged the "Chess Master", as he called himself. He was apparently and literally a visionary.
The frailest of the two men sat and pierced his eyes into the younger mans forehe... | 2017-01-19T17:07:33 | 2017-01-19T15:37:46 | 36 | 21 |
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