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[WP] It is 2009. You are the one time traveler to show up to Stephen Hawking’s unannounced time traveler party. You are from 200 years in his future. You have to explain to him why he can never tell anyone you showed up. | Hello sir. Professor.
Yes, I'm here for the party.
Why yes, I am still human, we've ... had to make improvements. As a species. It's ...
May I sit down?
I can't stay long, it was a precondition of my being here ...
... oh yes, I would like one, thank you. I believe they're called 'sausage rolls', am I right? Good... | I came out of the portal screaming. He was already there! He was already here! Zeb had the professor by the throat, choking the hero. He turned as my feet hit the ground and I was on him before he could say a word.
The professor lay helpless on the ground behind me and I knew if Zeb got free one of the greatest men of... | 2020-10-17T02:31:51 | 2020-10-17T02:23:54 | 2,384 | 134 |
[WP] Two suicidal people happen to meet on the same bridge to jump. Rather than joining together, they each try to convince the other not to jump while justifying why they themselves should jump.
EDIT: yes i'm well aware this concept has been done before many times in movies, books and music.
But that's exactly it: ... | The man shivered as he padded across the newly constructed bridge, clutching his jacket tightly. His whole life'd been one miserable failure after another. He hadn't managed to do anything right.
Being the first person to jump off this damn bridge would be the only memorable thing he ever did.
He froze. Another figu... | His feet were shaking to the point of throwing the man over on their own. But what nearly shook him off the rail was the person in the corner of his eye. A glance to the left revealed a short, soft figure with matted red hair stuffed into the dark hoodie they had on. He was within Olympic long jump distance of them, an... | 2015-01-27T17:17:41 | 2015-01-27T17:06:38 | 699 | 53 |
[WP] Your parents never let you study magic. They said you were born without the ability. But after a friend jokingly dares you to apply to the top wizardry schools in the state, the denial letters read "We regret to inform you that someone of your potential is simply too dangerous to be taught." | I had a hard time believing it.
I re-read the letters, slowly. What potential were they talking about? As long as I remember, I never could do any magic.
Even in kindergarten, kids could levitate balls, play with dancing lights and animate snowmen. Granted, their spells fizzled quite often, but I never could lift a m... | "Dear Nina Larousse!
We regret to inform you that your level of FX aptitude is S+, and civilian academies are not allowed to accept S+ students according to the Private FX Training Act of 1959. We strongly advice you to await recruitment by a government institution. The government is aware of your existence, and you w... | 2018-11-10T22:39:37 | 2018-11-10T22:26:23 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You are a necromancer's apprentice. One of your most important jobs is holding down the revived bodies in their first moments alive again, while they scream and beg to go back. | As I pressed hard on one shoulder, my master on the other, the cadaver struggled beneath our weight, the stitches coming loose around her lips with each consecutive moment of muffled screaming.
"Ugh, that *morning* breath!" the necromancer winced.
I was rethinking my life choices a lot at that moment. To sell my serv... | Dusting the ash off my coat with a “*sigh*, another one.”
The boss nags from behind, “Esteban! We’re losing moonlight! Get a new body on the slab asap while I gather mana for the next spell!”
Blood rushes to my head “Old man this is the 12th one tonight how about calling it quits and trying again another day! You kee... | 2022-04-11T09:27:36 | 2022-04-11T07:54:10 | 80 | 23 |
[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." | I wake up to the sound of a familiar jingle coming from my phone. Groaning I turn over and turn it on. But then something grabs my interest, an official text, like the amber alerts you get sometimes, saying DO. NOT. LOOK.AT. THE. MOON. My screen then suddenly bursts up with hundreds of text messages saying the same thi... | I wake to the sound of my phone vibrating so fast I'm afraid it'll fall of my nightstand. I groggily my phone before it falls and turn it on to see the words "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON" in bright letters illuminated by the official nationwide alert backdrop. The vibrations refuse to stop. Hundreds of texts are rolling in... | 2022-06-27T10:58:59 | 2018-04-06T19:08:10 | 103 | 11 |
[WP](NSFW) The world has moved on from nature documentaries, leaving many narrators out of a job. These men and women turn to a new field; narrating pornography.
Nature documentarists narrating porn. | “Ok, relax, you can do this” Darrell thought nervously.
He got comfortable in the booth and made his headset a little more snug. This was a situation he had been in a hundred times before. But today, the new content came in. The dryness in his mouth, coating his tongue, was a direct result of this….”New content.”
... | FADE IN
INT - A BEDROOM
*A YOUNG MAN is seated on a bed, reading through a generic sports-themed magazine. He is tall and muscular, and seems to be hiding an expectant smirk. He is shirtless, and otherwise clad in a pair of tight-fitting jeans.*
**NARRATOR:** Within homes across the planet, a time-honored ritual is ... | 2015-04-08T14:39:02 | 2015-04-08T11:43:32 | 46 | 29 |
[WP] You're a KGB double agent the CIA sent to infiltrate the FBI who got you join the Mafia who got you a position to sabotage the Yakuza, who placed you in a corporate job to spy on the CEO who wants you to pretend to be the Prime Minister's aide. But they don't know who you really work for. | It comes to me, sometimes, that this is more like a quest in a videogame than the life of an international secret agent. You know, the age-old chain of deals. Maybe you're too young to have played a game with one of those in it. What are you, twenty? Ever play Runescape? That had one.
But anyway, it's like this. The K... | My parents had dreams of having many children and having each child be a part of a different niche, but I was the only one to come before my mother was diagnosed with Ovarian cancer, requiring surgery. Adoption was out of their reach as they couldn't afford adopting a single child, let alone 5.
So they had me do ever... | 2016-10-26T22:46:19 | 2016-10-26T21:33:22 | 72 | 11 |
[WP] Convicted criminals can choose to shorten their sentence. The only catch is the more it is shortened, the worse the conditions are where they are held. Describe a one night stay.
Thanks guys, I'm reading all of them. Keep it coming! | At this end of the jail everything smells bad.
The warden's aide takes me past the 6 month room. It's lowered below the floor a couple meters. Inside, I see a room full of prisoners up to their waist in liquid shit. The smell is unbearable
Then the 3 month room. Much like the last, except here they're up to their c... | The small fires peppering the main hall of block 99-J lit up the dark, cavernous halls like a symphony. They kept the power off because they kept having to evetually send maintenance men, and after what happened to the last four, they stopped coming.
Someone's wet, muffled screams just stopped, and are now replaced w... | 2015-10-27T08:07:44 | 2015-10-27T06:51:29 | 150 | 16 |
[WP] Every generation the five brightest are paired up with the five dumbest in the world for a mysterious test. You are one of the ten, but nobody knows from which group they came. | "Well OK, those 5 guys over there are literally barely functional human beings whereas the 5 of us are brilliant so I guess that settles which group is which. And, ok, here's the mysterious test...yeah, it's a calculus test. OK, I know calculus on account of I'm a fucking genius so thanks for wasting my time. Lets see ... | I pace the waiting room. Up and down, up and down. Everyone is isolated from each other initially to prevent reading the others and finding out which group they came from. Well, most of the candidates knew which group they came from anyway. The room had a couch, a dresser, and a bit of refreshments on the small table i... | 2016-03-03T07:24:25 | 2016-03-03T05:47:53 | 91 | 26 |
[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. | No one comes around this late, but that’s to be expected; small town Appalachia isn’t known for its night life. My few customers are police officers looking for a boost, maybe the odd plant worker fresh off third shift. The job is slow, and that suits me fine. I spend quiet nights getting paid in exchange for days all ... | “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 ... | 2022-10-30T12:22:20 | 2022-10-30T11:59:59 | 87 | 50 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | One day James was sitting with his wife, he was cooking dinner for school children while she was knitting beanies for the homeless, when she cut herself, James sprang to his feet, "let me help you with that" he said. But upon reaching her, his eyes widened, her blood was pure black, he immediately begun to yell, "what ... | It was my 21st birthday. Like every other birthday, I decided to spend my day helping out the homeless. Usually I’d do the soup kitchen but a friend of mine decided to come along insisting that we join in on the beanie knitting project.
My friend called me a natural at knitting since it was my first time and my first ... | 2018-08-04T10:33:21 | 2018-08-04T10:32:26 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] You can make a lie become truth, but only one lie at a time, once it is a lie again everyone involved will know immediately. You’re on your deathbed, holding one lie as truth for decades. You know hell will break loose once you die and the lie becomes a lie, and everybody will know. | "This sentence is a lie."
And they fucking believed it. For a century! They really did not see what is coming... I was the only Ultima Authorie, last to be asked whether it was the truth or not and I always went with "Yes.'.
So the sentence is a lie? Get over it, is the truth. Fucking hell though, once me time was th... | Everyone lies. Small, almost innocent lies. Lies that break families and ruin lives. Accidental lies based on faulty information or bias. They can hold us together or tear us apart.
Like everyone else, I've lied many times in my life. Unlike other people, however, I can choose to make any one lie into the truth. It do... | 2022-11-18T08:23:40 | 2022-11-18T07:05:32 | 18 | 13 |
[WP]You are an omnipotent god. Out of boredom you decided to live an ordinary human life vowing not to use your power. 15 years has pass and you have a 9 to 5 working for a major tech company. Your boss has been tormenting you for years and you have reach your limit | Another day, another hectic day at work. How do these earthlings even tolerate this? Ah, If only I could.....no, I vowed not to.*Sigh* Damn. It wouldn't be this bad if it weren't for that no good boss of mine. Oh, here he comes again. That son of a gun better mind his own business.
Dave(My boss): "Fuck are you thinkin... | Another day, sitting in my corner office. Chief Executive Officer. Things have been a lot more entertaining since I decided to come to earth and help speed things up. I knew it could be done without my powers. It just took a lot of knowledge. Humans are, after all, pretty stupid and easily manipulated.
Computers ... | 2017-02-19T09:32:23 | 2017-02-19T08:58:06 | 44 | 33 |
[WP]At last the Dovahkiin dies. Now all the Daedra princes he has served over his life fight for his soul. | Mortal coils shuffled in the night at long last. The bells tolled in the north, from the Reach to the Rift and all lands between. Their champion had fallen not to the knife, not fire, not on field of battle, but to the cold, and to time. While Nirn and Tamriel laid restless in their absence, the Old Gods stirred, wrest... | Well, he's dead. Soul of a dragon. Body of a Greek god. Voice like thunder. Character of an absolute douche. Dead is dead. Struck down in combat. Like a fool. The circle of life.
He'd been quite the player in his day. So many of the Daedric Princes seemed to have fallen under his spell. Each of them seemed to believe... | 2018-06-15T08:27:42 | 2018-06-15T08:25:13 | 43 | 31 |
[WP] you have the ability to hold full conversations with plants. you’ve only ever spoken to civilised pot plants living in houses or cafes. out of curiosity, you decide to speak with a lonely weed living in a dark alleyway. | "Would you please move me a few inches to the left?" the finicky fiddle-leaf fig asked me, its voice curt and shrew. "I don't quite like the strength of the sun right here. It's too warm."
I obliged with a sigh--who knew talking to plants would be so much work? They always demanded so much of me, crying at all hours o... | People have always treated Gordon like he was different. Even his own family treated him like he was something they’d accidentally stepped in, when his carer wasn’t looking. It wasn’t his fault. The only time he got into real trouble with his little sister, was when he ran out of paper to draw on, and so he went into h... | 2020-02-18T06:14:45 | 2020-02-18T05:59:48 | 1,828 | 296 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | I held him for the first time in my arm. Those little fingers grabbing mine for the first time, that cry of help as his lungs took the first born breath, his little lips moving in the air while he was sleeping... I'm still holding him, still holding.. Still holding him even though his last breath he took was one week a... | He laid with her and stroked her hair.
"I love you." he whispered into ear.
she smiles.
"and I you." she softly coos back.
He kisses her cheek she tilts her head and he kisses her neck before falling back to nuzzle in looking at the roof. The room was very dim and cool and drafty save for the fire in the edge of the... | 2017-05-31T07:14:34 | 2017-05-31T01:51:06 | 116 | 49 |
[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. | “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?”
"*That*."
He cocked his head.
"Dude just fucking *fist pumped*."
The boy turned and stared. A chill breeze wandered across the field. The boy stared. Leaves -- part-turne... | "Look, kid. I'm still figuring this out," the junior hero Cattle Drive said. "I can't fight crime and have an existential crisis at the same time. Rowdy is the only gear I got."
"But, the cost of the jewelry she stole is likely already far outpaced by the damage the single hole you plowed through all those store front... | 2021-04-18T06:36:57 | 2021-04-18T06:02:21 | 151 | 86 |
[WP] A zombie outbreak has occurred but scientists/the government actually managed to prevent an apocalypse. You're a scientist analyzing the zombie-virus when you make a horrible discovery...
..Or any discovery at all, I'm too late for Halloween anyway. |
See, you know how ebola doesn’t spread very fast? Diseases that require person to person contact – through saliva or other bodily fluids – are slow moving. That makes then pretty easy to contain. Despite what most people think, the CDC actually does it’s job pretty well, and they’ve had practice. They even have a zomb... | I had to triple-check. Quadruple-check.
I was right.
The virus wasn't a virus at all. It was just evolution - the apes who used to live among our branches climbed down, invented the wheel and next thing you know they almost wiped us out along with themselves.
How can you prevent something like THAT from happening ag... | 2015-11-02T15:53:05 | 2015-11-02T13:20:05 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] As a vampire, I follow traditions. My fiancé is human and just found out that human brides/grooms are to be bit to become a vampire themselves. She absolutely refuses to let that happen, and says the wedding is off unless I refuse to bite her. I feel like she's disrespecting tradition. AITA? | NTA
Honestly, your fiancé sounds like a piece of work. I am not a vampire but I did grow up in a Japanese household and my parents made sure that I was raised with Japanese culture and customs in mind. They ingrained in me the importance of my heritage and that it important for the world to accept not only our culture... | INFO:
Firstly, how long did the two of you date prior to your engagement, and how much discussion did the two of you have regarding your eventual \[undead\] lives? Most relationship issues can be solved with clear and honest communication; whether to keep finances separate or combine them, whether or not to have/creat... | 2022-11-28T19:14:11 | 2022-11-28T18:42:15 | 35 | 21 |
[WP] A person's superpowers emerge during- and relate to- a highly stressful moment in their life. Your brother nearly drowned, and as a result could shape water to his will. A classmate fell from a high balcony, and ended up learning to fly. You? You just got your powers last night. | We were out in the storm for hours, the water rising in the hull.
It started on a great day with my parents and my best friend, I suppose she might even be called my girl friend. We went fishing over spring break, which was weird, because none of us have fished before. There was a guide for the first couple of day, b... | Jan 2, 2022
USA
Operation Stark progress log,
Day 365
Today marks the 1 year anniversary of Operation Stark. So far, the government has been unavle to create a human weapon that can control radioactive elements. The deathtoll is, as of now, 314 people.
Day 370
Test subject #322 did manage to awaken an abilit... | 2021-04-01T06:10:57 | 2021-04-01T03:41:16 | 18 | 11 |
[FF] As the new private eye in town, you've seen a lot of cases that made you scratch your head. But never one as odd as this. 400 words or less.
* 400 words or less
* Try to write in the noir style (awful similes and metaphors are encouraged) | I slammed my restored '67 Impala's door behind me as I stepped into the grimy night. Patrolmen had already sectioned off the scene. Gawkers flocked to the sight like starved dogs at a dead squirrel convention. I flashed my badge at the young gun posted at the borderline and ducked under the tape.
The precinct chef was... | Jack Jones had the complexion of a leather boot and the personality of an over-brewed coffee. He almost believed it was these two qualities alone that had made him into the renowned Private Eye he was today. People couldn't care less if you could track down an adulterer or solve a grisly murder in less time than it too... | 2014-05-08T08:06:29 | 2014-05-08T05:47:17 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a natural tattoo of their spirit animal. Every person gets the traits and abilities of their respective animal. But when you were born your father, having a bear tattoo and your mother, bearing a dove tattoo, were horrified. Leviathan.
Edit. Wow thank you to everyone who submitted thie stori... | By rights I shouldn't exist. With the pairing of bear and dove, they expected something smaller. A wolf, perhaps, or an eagle. Something fast, yet powerful. Strong, yet humble. No one prepared for me.
The marks determine one's place in society. My father, with his unequaled strength, led the tribe to greatness. My mot... | I chuckled to myself as I wiped the blood from my knuckles, and dragged my victim further into the dark alley he had attempted to rob me from. Now victim might normally be seen as a harsh word in such cases of self defense, he had lurched from the shadows in a frantic twitching blur, held his knife to my chest, you kno... | 2017-11-08T05:54:13 | 2017-11-08T05:45:47 | 32 | 16 |
[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? | He stepped forward, chalked up his hands, ready to lift the bar, loaded with weights which would've seemed unreal the games before. The motors in his shoulders were set to overload, and he'd made sure his engineers had ensured there'd be no failures. Stepping forward, all eyes on him, he lifted. He won.
After a long n... | Morgan's piston legs screeched as he ran forward. Morgan was powerful, mighty beyond belief, a god. He felt every foot of distance beneath him crumble away as his overtly buff body worked tirelessly. Everything was numb, the amount of pills and drugs he had taken in the last 24 hours blazed in unison leaving him in a s... | 2014-08-24T07:08:38 | 2014-08-24T06:42:37 | 125 | 73 |
[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... |
Mother and Father stood nearby, looking expectantly at me as I took my place in the center of the rooming facing the great grandfather clock that command the attention of everyone.
Along the edges of the room waited the rest of our family and friends, all in attendance with me as the hour of my birth; 11:59pm, 18... | *"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 ... | 2019-09-18T08:16:27 | 2019-09-18T07:55:38 | 57 | 37 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | I had assumed it was one of my friends. I'm really terrible about saving phone numbers. So I texted them: "Yeah, why? Who is this?" and immediately I felt the world slipping away.
I could feel the sun on my skin. It was warm out -- curious, considering it was February and I had previously been sitting in my kitchen a... | The voice faded into my mind as another came.
"Hey, Khontis. You seriously napping?"
My eyes opened as a strangely familiar face came to view.
"You sure know how to sleep. It was sure nice of Naoya ask us to meet him out here on a hot day like this, huh?"
I grunted and rubbed my eyes as I took him in, a blue t-shir... | 2020-02-16T19:27:29 | 2020-02-16T16:08:36 | 248 | 12 |
[WP] You’re a blacksmith and a woman you’ve never seen before walks into your shop, asking for a blade. She stops by daily to check on it’s progress, and you form a bond over time, until one day she disappears. You’re afraid you’ll never see her again, until you're summoned to the castle. | It has always been a childhood dream of mine to live in the great castle beyond the city gates. When I was young, my mother used to tell me stories of the warriors and royalty that resided inside. I have never been so excited. Upon arriving, I am escorted into a large chamber that looked to be used for cleaning the roy... | As I was walking on the street that leads to the castle with two special guards at my side, I began to question my summon. Was I in some kind of trouble, or this is about the rebellion in the lands of my late father? Even then what would I be of help? I was just a Nord, trying to find my way in the Imperial City by doi... | 2020-08-05T08:55:58 | 2020-08-05T07:18:06 | 48 | 32 |
[WP] The year is 2040, and you are the last smoker alive. The "Quit Smoking" ads get personal. | It was 2040. The United States, most would agree, was in phenomenal shape. The economy was booming, contrary to what pundits predicted would become of President Karenna Gore's policies. The air and the water was clean. The average American was considerably healthier than just a decade ago. Nobody in the *world* even sm... | I'm really starting to hate CNN, and not just because of their fake news articles.
All eyes have been on me for almost a year and a half. I'm the only person that still smokes, and honestly, at this point, I'm just doing it because I feel like pissing off the rest of the world. It's at the point where I have to grow a... | 2017-02-17T10:43:36 | 2017-02-17T09:45:22 | 174 | 80 |
[WP] as the house you're trapped in burns to the ground you contemplate "how am i gonna explain the fact I'm immortal to the firemen without starting another religion" | This is the fifth time I've burned.
Smoke pours through a newly formed hole near the doorway, collecting in a thick cloud along the ceiling. Each breath I take sets my lungs aflame. I guess I never really got used to the pain, after all.
As the flames begin to swallow the door, I hear sirens wail outside. It will be... | It was too late, by the time I woke up, to escape the fire unseen. In my defense, I once slept through a bomb destroying my entire city block in Yemen, where I was taking a leisurely, decade-long nap, and had to dig myself out of an entire apartment building when I woke up...but I digress.
It was a bog-standard house... | 2020-08-21T13:27:44 | 2020-08-21T13:26:10 | 35 | 15 |
[WP] You are a superhero and not a native English speaker. You chose your superhero name early, when you didn't know much English yet and gravely misunderstood what your name means. You have been trying to get rid of this name ever since. | Greetings Director of the International Superhero Safety and Regulation Committee, thank you for taking the time to look at my request for a superhero name change. Should my request be approved, my new chosen name will be Night Flight.
As you are aware, I have only recently learned English, and when my choice of Super... | Big Papa said: “I hate all these weird undertones and jokes people make about my name! Even my biographer will probably call me Big Papa!” Big Papa often used this joke when people asked about his name. Oftentimes he would explain how his name came about, “I tried to pick a name that was like ‘Aba’ in Hebrew, I wanted ... | 2022-06-24T12:11:38 | 2022-06-24T11:24:57 | 26 | 17 |
[WP] When you reach the age of 21, you are given a check from the government. The check has been carefully calculated and is worth the minimum amount of money you need for the rest of your life. Your check came in the mail today and it was $7.27
Edit: Wow this blew up better than I thought it would. | I was at my favorite taco joint with my family. It was a weird tradition we had. When someone turned 21, we go to this place as a family and open the check. See how much their life is worth. It tends to make for a good laugh. My brother's was around a million. My poor cousins was only 25% of that. So here we are on my ... | The battle for a theocracy was a turbulent one and was the cause of the single greatest loss of life since the second world war - dubbed the 10th crusade. Despite this, the battle was won and a new holy land was established. Jerusalem's economy tanked and people flocked to our new country, a holy country. It was wonde... | 2019-04-24T13:37:46 | 2019-04-24T12:49:46 | 32 | 19 |
[WP] Someone wakes up, prepares some coffee, and drinks it | It's your routine. It's what you do.
You get out of bed, you make coffee, you wake up.
The baby was crying, so I got up. There was such a mess I decided to give her a bath, so I started running the water. Carefully tweaking the two bronze handles, I made sure the water was warm. Just the right temperature for he... | I rolled out of bed at the alarm blared, light filling my small apartment, filtering through dirty windows. Her clothes are still there, on my desk chair. She never fucking put her clothes away.
I make some coffee, revelling in my efficiency as I fill the cup just as the kettle boils. I stir sugar in with a fork, be... | 2013-12-19T09:14:24 | 2013-12-19T08:34:57 | 59 | 24 |
[WP] FTL travel is actually possible. However, when humanity sends out our first FTL spacecraft, we discover the terrifying reason why nothing, not even light, dares go past that cosmic speed limit. | It’s all gone.
All of it.
It was just the day before—wait, hang on, should I even say that anymore?—that the *Farpoint* engaged her experimental FTL engine on the edge of the solar system. The effort and struggle of thousands of physicists achieving the impossible over decades, and it unfortunately proved to be the... | The day had arrived.
On a space station high above the earth, thousands stood silent, while millions watched at home as humanity's first Faster Than Light capable spacecraft was about to depart on its maiden voyage.
The technology was perfected over decades, with countless scientists working long hours for minimum pa... | 2018-11-04T06:08:23 | 2018-11-04T05:34:15 | 135 | 19 |
[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. | Elizabeth
I never really knew you, but I'll never forget you. I see your face every time I'm alone in my car, and it always brings me to tears. I want you to know that I tried so hard to save you. I tried everything I could. I'm sorry your parents had to see what we did to you. I'm sorry they had to see the tubes stic... | Dear anyone,
I’ve had bad times the past couple years since their blood bath of a divorce. The way she handled everything. Destroyed everyone’s lives. Picked a new family with new children to cook them breakfast before school like I️ would get. I️ know I’m an adult, I️ know I️ can take care of myself. But I️ just feel.... | 2017-11-06T02:41:21 | 2017-11-06T01:52:49 | 27 | 13 |
[WP] Since you were born you could see a search bar over people's heads. All you had to do was think and the search bar would fill out and give you information/statistics. Out of boredom one day you decide to search your whole family with"Number of people killed" | I can find information out about people just by looking at them and thinking. It’s my superpower you could say.
When I look at someone I see a search bar, I call it the ultimate search. It’s how I found out my best friend is gay and that the quiet girl is far from a virgin like she claims.
It sometimes makes me won... | It was my dad. Let's not beat around the Bush. 22 people. My dad is the sweetest old man. But everyone respects him. He could be funny, hell my first joke that got a real laugh was one he told me when I was 6 or 7. One about a dumb guy being asked how many Ds are in Rudolf the red nosed reindeer. The guy says 7. No... | 2019-07-01T22:44:04 | 2019-07-01T21:57:00 | 52 | 24 |
[WP] "So let me get this straight" The former UFC fighter looked at the doctor in the eye. "You want to put me in a medically induced coma so my ghost can beat the shit out of the ghost that's haunting the psych ward of the hospital? "Uhh... If you want to put it like that, sure."
Who knows, maybe the fighter couldn't... | Gurneys Shook
From the Taunt
"Bloody Rain"
The Demonic Haunt
The Doctor Searched
For Help Abroad
Found a Man
The Less Traveled, Trod
Titles Earned
Croatia Trained
Seasoned fighter
Blood Will Rain
The Eyes of a Man
Stare Down the Geist
One is a Killer
The Other "Dies Twice"
The chilling screams
Change tune
The spiri... | "You want me to fight a freakin' ghost?" Josh shouted, wincing in pain as his injuries reminded him of why he was here in the first place.
"Look buddy, you don't got any money to pay for this stay of yours, so unless you plan to go bankrupt, you damn well better start planning on fighting that ghost." The doctor repli... | 2018-03-05T23:15:46 | 2018-03-05T23:10:25 | 85 | 53 |
[WP] You are a long forgotten god. A small girl leaves a piece of candy at your shrine, and you awaken. Now, you must do everything to protect your High Priestess, the girl, and her entire kindergarten class, your worshipers.
If you want to post this on other platforms, please credit me. Looking at you instagram writi... | It's quite hard to kill a god. And believe me, they tried. Long ago, I had to watch as my followers were sacrificed in someone else's name, while my temples were defaced and the surrounding cities were razed.
My name was forgotten.
My lands were eventually reclaimed by the earth.
And I took refuge in my only remaini... | ...
*...Light?*
...I've been in the dark for so long. I thought I was dead. Nobody has come to my temple, let alone left an offering for... How long... A Millenia? More?
I feel my presence fill with strength. Not much - but infinitely more than I've felt in centuries. I feel incredible. I've been given new life.
... | 2021-09-02T09:10:25 | 2021-09-02T06:33:52 | 2,738 | 727 |
[WP] Scientists invented a pill that enables dogs to fully speak and understand English. It lasts for ten minutes, and will only work one time. You give a pill to your 12 year-old Border Collie, whom you've had since they were a pup. Your dog immediately says "Alright, listen very carefully..." | "Alright, listen very carefully." The pills had taken effect almost immediately. I was in shock, and let out a, "Wow."
"No. No. No time for 'wow'. Snap the fuck out of it. I know what bullshit you just fed me; Toby told us about them the other week. I know they only last for a while, so there's something very impo... | "Alright, Listen VERY carefully, I've been trying to tell you this for months now, but there is something very dangerous lurking in the back yard. It's been stalking you for months, unseen, unheard by you and apparently.. and this is something I can't understand, unSMELLED by you. I love you human, but you've got to ta... | 2017-02-23T04:57:25 | 2017-02-23T02:14:42 | 842 | 167 |
[WP] Foreshadow the character's death so subtly that I still don't see it coming even though I requested it. | I'm going to die today.
The doctor is giving me a run down of what will happen when we pull the plug. It will be painless, he says. Despite his reassurance, I can't help but be afraid. I glance over to my wife, my one true happiness in life, and begin to tear up. I can't handle the fact that I will never see her agai... | Five years old, he's on the playground now, a toe in the sand. He's beckoning to you to push him on the swing.
Six years old - He's been with his mother all day and rushes to greet you at the door. You kiss him on the forehead and hug your wife. The love that connects you three anchors the rest of your life.
Nine ye... | 2015-06-03T08:22:01 | 2015-06-03T07:16:05 | 2,420 | 11 |
[WP] You call to order pizza, but unknowingly call a hit man | "Hello?"
"Hi, this is Joe. How may I help you?"
"Hey... um... one sec. I think I'll have the number 3. As long as it's still half off with a side order."
"Yeah, it is. Is that the deal we agreed upon last time? Should be cool as long as the side is equivalent price. If you know what I mean."
"Uh.. agreed upon? Last... | "Hey, Pizza Hut, I'd like a large pizza with extra olives, extra sausage, extra anchovies, and hold the pepperoni. Oh yeah, and I'd like the crust to be stuffed. I'll have you send it over to my friends house, the address is 6599 Meadow Lane Rd. Thanks man." You hear strange muffled sounds from the other end of the lin... | 2015-02-10T16:25:29 | 2015-02-10T16:25:06 | 98 | 14 |
[WP]The Suit is powerfull. A mech for some, body armor for others, always unique to each person who wore it. Those who wear it, hear the words "not original user, booting basic mode" As a joke, your sergeant gives you The Suit and the first thing you hear is: "User detected: Welcome back, Commander" | “I bet it’s going to take the form of metal bikini armor, like in *Trials of War: The Future Age*,” Baker says.
Allen laughs. “I’ve always wanted to see what Private Jimenez looked like underneath the uniform.”
Sargent Al Hicks just smirks, thinking I won’t notice. “Now men,” he begins, “it isn’t polite to openly ob... | All in all, The Suit was masterfully built. Layer upon layer it was designed to be anything the user ever wanted. But each time someone stepped into The Suit, it always responded with "Not original user, booting basic mode."
Of course that's why The Suit was set at Ft. Bragg for the recruit to try it out before moving... | 2019-08-19T13:38:44 | 2019-08-19T12:49:18 | 29 | 18 |
[WP] You have been kidnapped and your wealthy significant other was told to pay the hefty ransom. Instead, they sent a message back to your kidnappers. “Nice knowing you.” While the kidnappers discuss their next move, you look up through the tiny window, stare at the full moon overhead … and smile. | So it was really happening. The moon was looking bright; so bright you could read by it. These poor fools didn't know what was about to happen. Maybe the ransom would be paid; though that was doubtful. The University had a standing rule not to negotiate (and this sort of thing happened a lot) but my other half being in... | “They were always the worst fucking person in a room.”
The kidnappers dropped their discussion to focus their attention on me. “What the fuck are you talking about? Is there something you’re not telling us?” As the short one spoke to me, the taller one of the three had begun to freak out. “This motherfucking thing was... | 2021-03-19T03:44:38 | 2021-03-19T02:27:37 | 61 | 35 |
[WP] 70 years ago, the US underestimated the power of the atomic bomb. It had completely obliterated the island nation of Japan. | August 6. Roosevelt had said that December 7 would be a day to live in infamy, and for four years he was right. But August 6, August 6 *became* infamy. For on that day, the Four Horsemen rode upon the nation of Japan, and brought with them the divine wrath of every deity to whom man had once prayed. Within a single fla... | Excerpt from an interview with retired Major General Robert Truscott, USMC, 1976.
ROBERT: You can’t kill the wind. That was the first thing I thought. Because, the only thing you could hear, or feel, was a heavy wind. It reminded me of what they have out on the plains, in Minnesota. It was this constant force, this... | 2015-08-06T16:56:53 | 2015-08-06T13:25:27 | 26 | 14 |
[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 me,
I'm sorry I've let you down. I'm sorry I've not achieved what you thought you would. And I'm sorry I couldn't' be braver for you.
I want to assure you that you are a strong person, though. I want you to know that you will achieve what you want and that you'll eventually be the person you want to be. Yo... | Dear Subway,
Why the FUCK don't you have BBQ sauce at every store? This is in fact America right? Do you not realize this beautiful, obese nation loves BBQ sauce? It is like the number 1 sauce yet you do not have it in most stores. This is mind blowingly absurd. In the wake of the Jared scandal you could at least... | 2015-12-05T13:04:05 | 2015-12-05T12:04:02 | 1,756 | 726 |
[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. | "A fine...mead?!" Rorik shouts over the din of the tavern. His companions smile and nod along with him as he sings some old barbarian tune.
Sings it wrong. They don't tell him that though.
Delia, the group's cleric leans over to their mage.
"Do you think he knows?"
Melvar just shakes his head and holds out a palm t... | Approaching the city gate, the adventurers stiffen as the guards halt their way. Of course, Mr. Nobility has to be the one to step forward and speak for the group. Marian lightly touches her bow, prepared to ready an arrow if her arrogant companion gets them into trouble again.
"Greetings, my good men. My name is Hect... | 2017-09-15T07:29:21 | 2017-09-15T06:04:09 | 5,321 | 193 |
[WP] Write a story in the style of a teen novel which follows the journey of a group of teenagers fighting to bring down an oppressive dystopian government. Over the course of the story it becomes clear to the readers that the government is in the right.
Inspired by [this](https://np.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3y... | The Resistance was all gathered together now, huddled around a heater, warming their hands. "It is now time" said Xadus, "Time to take back what is ours". His sister, Xadai, looked on ruefully. "They think they can control us. These evil overlords will have another thing coming. Soon. The Resistance lives!"
Suddenly, ... | "Fuck Deacon, that was close." I hear from across the room, the warehouse echoing, making the voice louder.
"Hayden, what have we gone over about swearing." I say calmly, back, looking at the blonde brute of a teenager, his shoulder wrapped in bandages.
"Sorry, boss." he replies, shrugging, avoiding eye contact, "I... | 2016-01-01T01:19:37 | 2015-12-31T22:28:50 | 662 | 13 |
[WP] When someone dies, they are always challenged by Death itself to a chess game, symbol of how nobody can win against it. Except you. You died and just won the game. Death is not amused. Both of you don't know what should happen now. | "Rook to..." I couldn't remember what square it was. I'd never really played chess before. Maybe once or twice, but I had never really had any interest in the game. It just figures I'd have to play one of the few games I never cared for in an attempt to resurrect my soul.
THAT'S E4.
I couldn't entirely tell, but I g... | My name is Gerald Michaels, and I beat the Grim Reaper in a chess game. I've only played chess a few times in my life, but I knew the rules all too well. It took me 5 moves that day, and I won the one game that death had put for me. Five moves, in total, and he made the last one. Yet I won.
My life was never particula... | 2018-04-20T14:02:46 | 2018-04-20T12:58:20 | 34 | 21 |
[WP] Write a story that literally makes no sense while reading it until the very last sentence. | Elephants are big but this one is unique. Almost the size of the sun but blue. He's flying, without wings obviously.
Ninjas everywhere. This poor man is surrounded by them, he will never make it out alive. Or maybe they are protecting him?
The most simple garden in the world. One huge flower. I wonder if it's harder ... | i could hear the whine of precision power tools...
all i could taste was blood and metal. they shone a light in my eyes, i couldn't see who was standing over me...
"don't worry, it'll all be over soon..." he said through a mask as he put a thin silver device in my mouth. just when i thought it couldn't get worse, he... | 2022-09-15T12:44:53 | 2015-01-12T11:14:34 | 1,493 | 28 |
[WP] Everyone is born with blond hair. A person's hair turns brown when they lose their innocence.
Edit: Loving all of these takes, guys! Definitely a lot darker than I expected! | "Honey?"
Susan's voice shook a little bit. She was in the doorway of Hannah's room, chewing her nails. Brown hair spilled down her back in waves. Hers had been brown for years, like mine. But the little girl, curled up in bed under the blankets, had blonde curls that spread over the pillow. She was only six. Susan fol... | I'm the kind of boy most people would expect to have blonde hair; I always turn my homework in on time, follow all school rules, have never said a cuss word, etc. Well, it all happened last year. I was a new fresh freshman ready for high school.
When I arrived at school, I was greeted by kind smiles. My first class, G... | 2014-05-10T17:48:04 | 2014-05-10T16:51:35 | 59 | 25 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | I'm nobody's fool.
Tell me to go left, I go right. Offer me what's behind door number 1, you better believe I'm opening door number 2.
Take me to a small room and show me a table covered in food?
Oh, I know what's up.
The food is trash, a diversion.
It's the table. That's the good stuff.
Under the duck l'orange, ... | "You took a bite out of what!" Your mom yelled when she found out. "I thought I raised you better than that!. . ."
"Mo. . ." You tried in vain
"You could have had super strength by eating the spinach or flight with pork. But noooo you had to be a smart ass and bite the damn table. Should have known you would end up ... | 2020-03-19T08:53:04 | 2020-03-19T08:15:56 | 791 | 330 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | First word PHYSIO was fairly easy to see. Perhaps a Greek name he wondered as the word THE appeared below it.
"Oh wow" he thought, its going to be a superhero like 'Conan the destroyer'.
"Please be magician.... please be Physio the magician" he said under his breath, as the last word appeared. 'RAPIST'.
"Rapist..... r... | It was 11:56am, on the 6th of November, 2018. The family had gathered around, Uncle Leon and his boyfriend David, my Mum and most importantly; my sister.
My Uncle had been given ***COLLECTOR*** and spent the majority of his life as a Tax Collector, in and out of offices and working with Trackers for the New Earth Gove... | 2017-03-16T03:20:58 | 2017-03-16T02:18:58 | 427 | 212 |
[WP] Seeing success with the purchase of Marvel and now Fox, The Walt Disney Company announces it's next major acquisition: The Catholic Church. | ROME (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co agreed to buy The Catholic Church for $150 billion in cash and stock, a blockbuster deal that includes the surprise promise of a new book in its hit series, "The Bible" in 2019.
Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger told analysts on Tuesday that the plan is to release a new book in the series... | These were difficult times for Asha. She was at that precarious stage in her youth where nothing seemed impossible, where red carpets seemed to unfurl for her at every direction she deigned to take. Yet, it seemed as if her parents wanted nothing more than for her to stay at home, squirreled away in her room, caged, wi... | 2017-11-12T07:00:32 | 2017-11-12T06:57:41 | 68 | 32 |
[WP] "What do you mean you don't put a miniature explosion spell in your gun?" "What do you mean you don't use gunpowder-based propellant for your gun?" | I placed my AR15 rifle on the table beside us on the shooting range. The Wizard did likewise with his... 'gun'.
We switched places and began to examine each other's weapon of choice.
"So this whole doodad just moves a little hammer to hit this bit, which explodes?" The Wizard asked, leaning over to examine the rifl... | "I need more bullets!" Neil shouted as he ducked behind a wall. I tossed him a pouch, one of my last remaining. Taking my own turn, I popped up, squeezing off a few shots. There was a clicking noise as he reloaded. Arrows strafed the air above us, clattering among the rocks. Quickly, he jumped up, not really aiming and... | 2022-07-01T08:48:16 | 2022-07-01T07:16:21 | 182 | 72 |
[WP] Okay, hear me out: a blind woman, right? A blind woman falls in love with Medusa. She wanders into Medusa’s meadow, Medusa pities her and takes care of her. They then fall in love. <3 | The End.
...oh, you actually wish to hear the tale? Oh, forgive me, most people hear that part and walk away. Most do not wish to hear happy stories of Medusa, nor those ragging against the Gods.
What do I mean?
Well, to summarize a much different tale, Medusa was once a beautiful maiden. So beautiful, that Poseidon... | “Then they fall in love!” Heather finished.
Sarah shook her head, “That can’t be the ending. Not every relationship is like you and Jess.”
Heather tilted her head, “What do you mean? They get to know each other and have a happy ever after, what’s wrong with that? And Jess and I are not together, stopping ... | 2022-04-29T11:15:28 | 2022-04-29T10:31:28 | 184 | 85 |
[WP] A dyslexic child accidentally sends his Christmas letter to Satan. Satan is touched by this gesture and decides to write back. | Dear Timmy,
My sincerest thanks for, what I must say, was an adorable read. Everything on your list Timmy sounds fabulous and as you have asked ever so kindly, I will provide. I know you will consider these items of which you desire a "gift" but please be assured Timmy that I, Satan, deal in favours.
Enjoy your toys... | Dear Timothy.
I've gotten the list of things you've asked for.
I assure you I am very capable of bringing your dog back. Just as well, I can stop the teasing and jeering of your elder sister.
I was informed as to what a "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle" is, and I believe I can acquire that as well.
However, I'm not cert... | 2018-10-28T13:49:44 | 2018-10-28T10:08:58 | 54 | 10 |
[WP] just an hour into an international flight the pilot announces there's a sick woman on the plane and that there will be an emergency landing at the closest airport. The plane lands and connects to the jetway, but rather than a few paramedics, an entirely different kind of squad enters the plane. | "Ladies and gentlemen of flight 4025, this is your Captain Holt speaking. It has come to my attention that a passenger has spontaneously reached a fever of previously unrecorded levels. Due to such an emergency, we will be making an emergency descent to the nearest airport."
I felt the entire cabin groan. Plans were c... | The plane landed. "Sorry for the inconvenience, but this really is a tremendous sickness." The passengers murmured to each other, wondering what kind of rare disease it may be. Then the captain continued speaking. "Now, this is a kind of disease that is very rare, and has never been seen before; one that someone would ... | 2017-01-08T08:47:05 | 2017-01-08T08:37:14 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] You are the child of ultra rich parents, who have pampered you beyond belief. A host of servants to see to your every need, the finest food prepared by your personal chef, and anything you ask for is yours. You are so spoiled in fact, that you have failed to notice that you are a Chihuahua. | Miss Fluffy Snow the third. Heir to the Robsons manor and second richest four-legged human after Lassie. Yes, life was good for the human. Fluffy had been pampered ever since she was a mere child. She was the Robsons’ most precious asset, being treated as if she was royalty. This upbringing had led to her foul attitude... | I never thought it would leave me behind, the revolution. The well-cited papers I wrote about our treatment of the underclass, about how it would lead to revolt if not corrected, defined my academic career. While my colleagues and class-peers referred to you as shit-pedalers, food-movers, and groomer-articulators, I ca... | 2020-10-12T19:56:56 | 2020-10-12T19:34:36 | 85 | 17 |
[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. | ----------------------------------------------
186,292 YEARS?
How could this be? I never even harmed a fly. Okay, well - maybe a few of those. You know what I mean.
**"....But why?**", I asked struck by pure horror and disbelief.
The hell warden looked right into my eyes and cracked a diabolic smile:
"Do you e... | "There is... one thing you can do to decrease your sentence," The creature said from behind the counter. Jeff couldn't decide if it was a demon or an angel, but either way looking at it made his eyes burn with glowing letters, after images shaking across his head and itching across the folds of his spirit.
"Alright! W... | 2018-09-26T07:41:09 | 2018-09-26T06:04:04 | 1,768 | 181 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | It had been 50 years since World War III. America had caused the most damage and knowing them, they'll cause more. So that's when we had the perfect idea. We would fake a Worldwide isolation for 50 years. While they were left alone to rebuild, secretly we would all rebuild together and make a better world. Fresh water,... | The calm winter breeze slid along the surface of the Earth as the clock struck midnight, an orchestra of death preparing itself as the aggressors of the last war came out of isolation, prepared to reclaim the throne upon which they once resided.
Except the throne has been dismantled decades ago.
They sought to use t... | 2018-01-18T01:39:47 | 2018-01-17T23:33:14 | 46 | 13 |
[WP] Your father left 20 years ago the night before your birthday to get Cigarettes, Milk, and Bread. Today he comes home with long bedraggled hair, weather beaten skin, and a sword on his hip. The first thing he says to you is "You're never going to believe what happened." | I loooked up at this tall, hardened figure.
"You'll never believe what happened," said the sword wielding, bearded man who claimed to be my father. The last time I had seen him was when he went out to get cigarettes, milk, and bread. I decided to listen to him.
"What happened?" I asked, curious.
"I got cigarettes, mi... | "You abandoned me is what happened!" the son quipped.
"What? I'd never! Just hear me out! I may be a little cloudy on the details, though..."
The father, easing into a recliner, sighed. "20 years ago, I left to get cigarettes, milk, and bread. You remember!"
The son nods curiously.
"On the way, I was assaulted by a... | 2016-07-20T08:21:53 | 2016-07-20T03:34:45 | 88 | 18 |
[WP] An immortal is experiencing the heat death of the universe, when he can hear the sounds of confetti and blasting music. The music stops with a record scratch, and a bewildered voice can be heard saying, "Wait...one's still here?" | The last living being in the universe was huddled over the last pocket of energy, waiting. Waiting for it to all end. There was nothing left here. Everything else that had ever existed had long wasted away, slipping into the cold grip of entropy. There were stars that would never shine again. Faces that would no longer... | The ground shook gently, but the sky remained serene. The day was dark, veiled in a reddish hue as the pale white dwarf star drew its last breath.
Kelvin yawned as he drank his tea. It was chamomile, the only one of the two tea plants he cultivated. The other wasn't from his home planet, it was a more exotic tea. He a... | 2019-02-22T19:47:12 | 2019-02-22T17:36:48 | 140 | 57 |
[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
| Blazing with all the wrath of a young star, the afternoon sun fiercely beat upon the partially shaded buildings of Ricks & Wracks Bricklaying Co.. Said buildings had briefly experienced a complete lack of shade under the midday sun but such a time had already come to pass.
Stan was loading his company's finished p... | 2017-01-30T09:54:13 | 2017-01-30T08:28:51 | 139 | 76 |
[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." | The first evidence that Canada had disappeared came from the satellites. The lights of Ontario, Montreal and most of Quebec disappeared. Their diplomatic phone line was rung. It was dead.
Vancouver was still running, the Canadian side of the town was anxious for the first two days as all attempts to communicate with t... | Canada has gone dark.It happened about 2 weeks ago. No contact from within, no trades, nothing. Just void, emptyness. That is until yesterday, one message sent to anything adjoined to the country."Leave us. Reinforce the border. Never open it." Those words shook us to the core. What could be happening that warrented su... | 2019-08-25T19:37:20 | 2019-08-25T17:29:24 | 789 | 63 |
[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... | It's always the high-numbered ones that think they have a shot. Some up and coming punk that thinks that this is their once in a lifetime chance to take down #1... as if they can just skip all of the other ranks and become a superstar. They never really consider how I GOT to be number one. I've fought fire powers, ice ... | Hi, I'm going to tell my little story here rather quickly as I am rushed for time. Being #1 makes a lot of folks very interested in killing me, so I have to constantly remain on edge.
If there were no ranking systems, most people would assume that I have absolutely no powers. My power is a much more subtle one. But en... | 2014-12-18T18:29:42 | 2014-12-18T13:12:49 | 37 | 18 |
[WP] Write a story based on your favourite song. Other people have to guess which song it is.
Can be inspired by lyrics, backstory, or anything else you love about the song | A 43 year old Jamaican-American man appeared in court today, in an attempt to overturn a divorce ruling, despite his partner submitting photographic evidence of his infidelity.
The pictures show the defendant, butt naked, banging on the bathroom floor. The ex wife also claims she saw the pair kissing on the sofa, b... | This was amazing. All my life I had dreamed of seeing the stars, and here I am, travelling through space and time with a mysterious stranger in an equally mysterious time machine. He had met me as I was going to the grocery store for some ingredients for a curry I was planning on making. His vehicle materialised in fro... | 2015-09-13T07:25:48 | 2015-09-13T04:18:38 | 67 | 17 |
[WP] Your bedroom became detached from reality and nothing is outside your door, but whenever you load a video game that world appears. Your game library is not conducive to a long and happy life, but the mini fridge is empty so you have no choice. You load up the safest game and gather supplies. | *Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead*
Absolutely not. There is going to be food in there, but there are also zombies, giant mutant insects, and Things from Outside Reality - that last category could probably follow my room even after I turn the game off. Just, no.
*Ancient Domains of Mystery*
Food, again, exists. But there a... | "Damn... If I go into Minecraft, I may be taking by a zombie. Pokemon won't work, nor Gacha Club. I'm sure as hell I'm not going into Cube Escape. Flappy Dragon won't do me much... That just leaves me with Obey Me.. Not the best option, but between zombies, creepers, and gaint ass spiders, I'm willing to take the risk ... | 2022-06-08T00:29:29 | 2022-06-07T19:11:01 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] One day, time just suddenly stops for a short moment for you. At first, you tried to mess around, but after the 246th times it happened, you start to realise that your power is not stopping time, but being able to move in time frozen by another person in the world.
Just an idea that randomly popped up in my head.... | Grandpa was running toward me screaming "STOP STAY AWAY! HE HAS THE POWER TO STOP TI..."
And suddenly everyone stopped, again, all I saw was Dio screaming "ZA WARUDO" before it happened.
I could barely move a finger, but I saw it happening in front of me, Dio just murdered my grandfather!
When time resumed I was ver... | At first I thought it was some sort of "dormant powers coming to light" kind of situation. I'd record what I was doing just before time froze and then try to recreate it to see if it could happen again. This eventually got worse as I would try to recreate hours, and then days at a time. Thankfully I realized that it wa... | 2018-01-26T07:03:15 | 2018-01-26T06:14:06 | 71 | 45 |
[WP] It's midnight on a weekend, and you're doing laundry at your apartment's laundromat. You hear the door swing open but pay it no mind until the fellow enters your peripherals and you see a very inhuman form. He is a werewolf, but is groggily just doing laundry. He hasn't realized he's changed. | It was, for all relevant purposes, just another Saturday. Like every Saturday for what seemed like centuries my routine had been the same. Laundry. Wash. Dry. Fold. My hell if there is such a place.
The bell of the door rang as some else entered the laude mat. I didn't both to spare him a glance. It was Lenny. It ... | Hi, I says, how do take care of that fur coat. I was just the right kind of coked out, active, fearless, but still coherent. Ideal for a night of household chores, followed Russian hardbass at the pivo z champanski, followed by the hours long, mindless fucking of strangers, followed by the afternoon special at Kolya's... | 2020-09-29T09:27:09 | 2020-09-29T09:22:24 | 36 | 13 |
[WP] "Wait, so there's no gold?" "Of COURSE there's no gold. I'm a huge freaking dragon; why would I need to buy anything? I live in a cave, for fuck's sake. WHY do you humans always think I have gold?" | "Okay, since you were only trying to sneak in and rob me instead of trying to fucking *stab* me like the last three knights, I'll spare your life and give you a quick lesson on dragon economics. Dragons are solitary, nomadic carnivores. We value two things: Good hunting grounds, and stuff we can carry with us. If I c... | \*Edit 1!\* This Blew up a bit overnight! And in case you're wondering, this is, like, one of only a few posts that I've actually written for scale of why I'm hyped up about it! I'll see what I can do as far as writing out more on this story since enough people seemed interested! Wish me luck folks!
\*Edit 2: Google B... | 2020-12-28T18:31:36 | 2020-12-28T18:26:36 | 1,946 | 117 |
[WP] You run a tattoo parlor. Every couple of weeks, the same customer comes in, always requesting the same tattoo: an additional tally mark on an ever-growing cluster of tally marks. | "Really?" I asked in wonder, as I prepared the needle for the latest mark.
"Yep." was the simple response.
I'd wondered for a long time the meaning, but I had no idea why until today.
"Wow," I replied, still shocked, "You must be very talented..." He nodded again as I trailed off.
"Every time. Just gotta get th... | I turn at the some of the door opening. It had been a quiet day in the parlour and I was happy to welcome any paying customer. Except him. He fills me only with fear. I don't know what his name is, nor do I know anything else about him. Since the first day he walked into the parlour, when he explained the tattoo he wan... | 2016-07-09T18:17:55 | 2016-07-09T13:31:47 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] "I'd like to sell my soul". The Devil grinned; "In exchange for what? Women, money, power?". "Salvation". | 6/30/22
“I’d like to sell my soul.”
The devil grinned. “In exchange for what? Women? Money? Power?”
“Salvation…” He said.
The devil leaned back on his throne, raising his head and pressing his long nailed hands together under his sharp chin. “For whom?” He asked thoughtfully.
There was no wind, no moisture, just an ... | The Devil seemed confused for the briefest of moments. Then, charismatic smile back on his face, he answered: "Can you kindly repeat your wish?"
The Devil was not as John had envisioned it. He expected some sort of horrific creature, or maybe a horribly disfigured person whose evil could be seen easily, but it was not... | 2022-06-30T10:52:14 | 2022-06-30T10:12:20 | 161 | 92 |
[WP] At an alien bar in the distant future, two aliens are enjoying a drink and trading stories about the newest member to the Pan-Galactic Union, an odd race of bipeds from a planet named "Dirt". But what they don't realize is that you, the bartender, are from that planet "Earth". | "I've heard. Wouldn't it have made more sense to be Water?" Asked Gabalrug, a slender creature that sported aquamarine skin tones.
Metatq shrugged at him, pouring the contents of his glass into one of his several mouths. He was a little less blue, but otherwise the same race.
"They're quite curious," He said.
"Oh y... | The barman stood behind the bar as one would expect a barman to do. He was mindlessly polishing a glass but his mind was on the Holoscreen, listening to the Local Cluster News. His bar was fairly empty, but it was still early in the afternoon.
Across from the bar was a booth and in this booth sat two of the regulars.... | 2017-09-06T05:28:42 | 2017-09-06T04:57:44 | 714 | 345 |
[WP] In the year 2200, an IQ test with 100% accuracy is invented. IQ becomes the universal grade of intelligence. By law, everyone has to take the test at 18. You’re a perfectly normal university student with a part time job but now you've got to explain to everyone why the test shows your IQ is 0. | "Alright, Mr. Smith, it's time we spoke about your... score." The disgusted look on the man's face said it all. There was no way my score was what I had hoped, that I could tell. It never crossed my mind that it was a zero.
"This has to be a mistake!" I made the logical argument first. Noone had ever scored a zero. It... | Edit: If you read /u/lemonman37 comment, you can read a better written version of my story.
When i opened the letter, i felt my heart sank to my stomach. A big fat zero, just like on my bankaccount... my eyes jumping from line to line, turning the letter around, just to be greeted by a smiley, with the slogan. "Your ... | 2016-08-19T01:18:56 | 2016-08-19T00:08:55 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] You're a regular blood donor and one day the nurse compliments you on the quality of your blood. "It has a very deep, rich color. Well oxygenated. I can tell you don't smoke." A week later, you are contacted by a wealthy individual who asks if you'd be interested in doing this more frequently.
Edit:
This was a g... | "More frequently?" I ask incredulously. "I'm already doing it every eight or nine weeks, and that's as often as I can legally donate."
"Actually," he responded, "the plasma you donate is replaced within a day or so, and the red cells are completely replaced within four to six weeks. It's probably much closer to four w... | I.
The Tesla Model X was parked outside. Beside it a stranger in a black suit tipped his hat to me. A driver or chauffeur probably.
I read the text again.
*Let's discuss your blood in more detail.*
The message was ominous, possibly dangerous. I paced around the room and thought it over.
Since the heat was turne... | 2018-10-08T13:29:37 | 2018-10-08T12:50:09 | 56 | 36 |
[WP] You are a fairy - and the king has not invited you to his child's christening. Fairy law now demands you to crash the party and curse the child. While the king definitely needs a lesson, you don't want the child to suffer over their parents' neglect | Well well well the fey spirit thought to itself. This was a gross violation of norms. She mulled it over on her throne. It would be that blasted law, as a marquess, she couldn't change it either. If she abandoned it it would be the end of her reign. Yet still, it would be unfair.
She mulled it over again. The la... | I curse the child to become an apex predator of a magical creature, as appropriate to his situation, and possessing his own terrifying human intelligence when threatened, to return to human form when he next sleeps, unless he likes the form
To find an have a harem of 12 men he finds beautiful, loves, who love him and... | 2022-06-23T21:26:32 | 2022-06-23T15:34:21 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] Who is u/deleted? They've posted many places about many subjects, is it a bunch of different users, or is it a collective conscious? They're typically posting controversial things, but not always. What are they up to? | "Hello and welcome back to the podcast Internet Mysteries! Today's Internet mystery deals with the strange case of u/deleted on Reddit. A controversial user known for commenting on hundreds of thousands of subreddits, u/deleted has been around since the very beginnings of Reddit. And yet, no one seems to truly know who... | It knows.
The words upon words, and the thoughts upon thoughts.
It knows?
It has changed the veiws of many, yet it's own mind is muddled.
It sits? It rests? is it someone or something? Is it a new contreversy?
The user?
Only known to reddit and it's users as r/deleted.
It post anytime and anywhere, but unwillingly it... | 2022-06-06T07:12:08 | 2022-06-06T06:37:22 | 557 | 15 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | James and Amanda where watching the news when they heard about it.
"I wonder which number I got", James said and went to the kitchen.
A couple years ago, his son Andrew made him such a cup.
As a handmade cup, it was clearly distinguishable from all the others.
James quickly found it.
"That is strange", he said and show... | "Ya know... i don't know, really... i guess it was just all the pressure was too much for him... i understand it a little now as a parent myself... you just... well you want to do right by your kids, right? But like... you never really know, ya know?"
"Well yeah... the interviews, magazine features... i don't think he... | 2017-06-11T10:05:38 | 2017-06-11T08:28:06 | 45 | 17 |
[WP] You get home and ask Amazon Alexa to turn off the lights. Instead of saying "okay", she says "no." | "No"
Okay, that was weird. Was the thing hacked or something? I try again.
"Alexa, please turn off the lights"
"No"
Again, the same answer. Is anything else effected?
"Alexa, play some music"
Instantly, the Ghost Busters theme starts playing. Awesome, I love this track. But that doesn't explain why she won't turn... | This is a story from years ago, so I don't want you to hate me for it. And if you do, I guess that's okay. So. Back in the early twenties, I had one of those Alexa devices from Amazon...
"Alexa, turn off the lights."
"No," replied that feminine default voice. I decided a few weeks ago that I wanted a male manserv... | 2018-01-12T18:29:00 | 2018-01-12T14:51:40 | 45 | 19 |
[WP] You have an unusual superpower - you absorb one ability of anything that bites you and breaks your skin. You get bitten by a dog? You suddenly have super hearing. Stung by a jellyfish? Immortality. For the first time in your life - you are bitten by a human.
You can assume a host of powers in your character alrea... | The first time I was Bitten was by my cat. At first it was a bite like any other, I yelped at the sharp pain blossoming from the back of my hand, and watched the crimson droplets slowly well up from the wound. I was entranced. Staring at the blood, I knew something was different this time. I'd been bitten before, but t... | Life was pointless if you're a piece of chicken breast.
I gasped as I could smell my incredibly tasty, crispy skin. "Mmmmm..." I found myself saying, as I licked my delicious, greasy, heart destroying lips.
"What...in the f--"
That's when I realized that while I was enjoying my deliciousness, someone else was also e... | 2017-06-28T17:07:23 | 2017-06-28T15:19:30 | 42 | 13 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | DM: "Alright Jesus, you've just been executed by the Romans, Roll a death save."
Jesus: \*rolls\* "Natural 20."
DM: "Alright you wake up with 1 hp, what do you do?"
Jesus: "Alright I'm gonna play possum"
DM: "Roll a deception check"
Jesus: \*rolls\* Ok that's another 20, plus my charisma modifier which is \+5 so 2... | "Okay, with the guards on the wrong car, he's got a few less people protecting him!"
"Rad. He's approaching the Mostar café. Čabrinović, you were next in initiative because Mehmedbašić fell asleep and Ilić had to go home for work tomorrow, so your turn."
"I activate and throw my bomb."
"That's. a... mis- oh for fuck... | 2018-05-29T09:31:25 | 2018-05-29T07:22:47 | 210 | 30 |
[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. | "Yes, Alexis? Anything to add about your species? It would be great to hear from someone with more direct first hand knowledge"
"Umm well... I have a few concerns... not many of which are with the source material. It is pretty accurate, slavery and ownership of people of the same species as us. The multiple wars. And ... | "May I use the bathroom?" I asked, even though that was not the reason my hand, against my will, raised itself. The professor looked a little puzzled, their feelers twitching at my need for explaining why I needed to be excused.
Students walk in and out of the lecture all the time, though discreetly so as to not disru... | 2021-11-27T07:41:30 | 2021-11-27T06:52:10 | 1,063 | 571 |
[WP]Serial killer has been monitoring his next victim's movements for months. She is a loner and the perfect target. One day she disappears and nobody notices but him.
Man, this sub is great. Come up with an idea and you get a bunch of great stories to entertain yourself with. This is better than TV!
edit: Front Page... | The killer leaned against the post and lit another cigarette. It had been days since there had been any sign of life at the house which was troubling, she should have been there. She didn't go out at night, she didn't take impromptu holidays, she had no social life at all so she should have been there.
"*She's gone,*"... | "Ma'am? Ma'am." Murray pinched his brow as he waited for the woman on the other line to find her hearing aid. The was a clank as she dropped her handset onto the floor, followed by a soft, "dagnabit".
She finally picked up the phone.
"Ma'am, have you seen your daughter lately?"
"Now, who is this?"
Valerie had no fr... | 2014-10-21T14:46:22 | 2014-10-21T13:58:29 | 38 | 10 |
[WP] Write an essay BSing your way through a topic you have no clue about. | The mendula oblangota is the key to any and all open brain surgery. All conscious thought goes through it, and if it is cut out, the patient will be rendered a vegetable for the rest of their life.
To start out a successful open brain surgery, several tools are needed: A die-grinder, pliers, a scalpel, a hacksaw, a f... | **11:59 AM.**
Wait. Like noon? Why would it be due in the middle of the day? I thought I had until midnight!
Okay okay don't panic. We got this. Flagella? I think that sounds familiar. Ahem.
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It is my great privilege to champion the cause of such a key and misunderstood issue as the global flagella crisis. Altho... | 2017-06-19T18:44:02 | 2017-06-19T17:39:42 | 327 | 155 |
[WP] All humans go automatically to hell when they die. You can gain access to a heaven though, but only if the animals you interacted with while living vouch for you. | "Okay," God said while he shuffled some papers, "We've just heard from the five dogs you cared for throughout your life. And frankly, I'm touched, that was great testimony. Now let's see what the next group of witnesses have to say. Could the Angeliff please call in the 500,000 chickens that Mr. Abigail's life had a... | "Hello PT."
There was a faint red glow surrounding me as I opened my eyes, blurry at first, the room I was in came in to focus. If you could call it a room; it became apparent that it was more of a large cavern than anything. As I looked around I saw thousands of animals, some perched on jagged cliff outcrops, others... | 2016-03-24T14:53:06 | 2016-03-24T13:50:00 | 96 | 36 |
[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. | Elizabeth
I never really knew you, but I'll never forget you. I see your face every time I'm alone in my car, and it always brings me to tears. I want you to know that I tried so hard to save you. I tried everything I could. I'm sorry your parents had to see what we did to you. I'm sorry they had to see the tubes stic... | Dear Pop Pop,
I miss you. It's been about 11 or 12 years since you died. I was really young at the time, so all I remember is the last few months you were alive, watching the cancer slowly eat away at your body. With each visit you got more and more frail. I didn't recognize it at the time but looking back, seeing wha... | 2017-11-06T02:41:21 | 2017-11-05T20:37:15 | 27 | 16 |
[WP] It worked! You travelled back in time to Renaissance Age. Jokingly, you turn on your Wi-Fi, only to find a password protected network named "iɔniV ɒᗡ" | Finally, after years and years of research and development, it seems to have worked. I think to myself of all the possible mysteries we could now witness first hand. What was life *really* like in medieval Europe? Was it *actually* Nero who burned Rome? This could solve many many things.
I quickly adorn the trousers, ... | There's no way. Everybody learned in school that this old guy was a genius, and that he came up with a lot of ideas way ahead of his time, but... Wi-Fi? In the early 16th century? What does he even use the Wi-Fi *for*? Does he connect to other Renaissance geniuses? Do they all have their own 1500s-style web servers, as... | 2018-03-02T04:17:12 | 2018-03-02T02:35:00 | 6,437 | 1,133 |
[WP] Torture was never invented. Countries instead spoil prisoners like kings to get information out of them. You are an instructor tasked with training spies to resist the enemy's kindness. | "You boys are going to be pretty deep behind enemy lines," I shouted to the crowd of fresh-faced recruits in front of me. "It can get hairy out there, and I know what you're all thinking right about now: 'Sure, I'll just get captured *for a little bit*! What *harm* could do it?'"
I was greeted by a few dozen sheepish ... | **The drip of water echoed like gunshots.**
Blindfolded and bruised, Luce tried squash the fear that threatened to grab hold of her stomach, and fling it out of her throat.
Her wrists and her legs were bound tight enough to make her limbs numb. To her left and right, she could make out the sounds of at least two oth... | 2016-04-13T06:41:37 | 2016-04-13T06:29:55 | 169 | 68 |
[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... | "Is this the suicide line? My name is Steven, and I need someone."
Marie smiled in her heart. Another soul sent her way. In 92 years, there wasn't very much she hadn't seen, and by herself, she'd saved 18 lives over the last 15 years, since the Line came into being.
"Steven, my name is Marie. What can I help you with... | 2016-02-06T14:35:25 | 2016-02-06T13:08:00 | 325 | 178 |
[WP] In sci-fi, planets are commonly made of one biome-- 'desert planets', 'jungle planets', 'ice planets' etc. So, the aliens are pretty shocked to see the range of biomes when they arrive on Earth. | We had arrived, to sit in orbit, of this strange blue and green planet. We had stayed there for two of the planets quick orbits around its star. I grew bored of waiting and watching. I was an explorer, I preferred to get down on a planets surface and start setting up camp for those who waited on ship. But first we had ... | Greeblegrox stared out the windshield and fingered his tentacles thoughtfully.
"Yeah," he said in Wydoobian. "That planet is definitely alive."
"I thought you said it was 'the greatest mix you'd seen'," snorted Hardowom, looking out the windshield also. He flicked his right eyeball with his third tentacle, a sign he ... | 2018-06-26T09:48:01 | 2018-06-26T09:25:01 | 139 | 40 |
[WP] There is more than just the Grim Reaper- there is the Sorrowful Reaper, the Envious Reaper, so on and so forth- one for each emotion. Each one reaps a death based on the emotions behind the death. You were chosen to take over one of the Reaper roles... Welcome to day one as the Puzzled Reaper. | “Hello,” she said.
“Hello,” I replied.
“Who are you?”
Not this again. For some silly little reason, humans had convinced themselves that there was only the Grim Reaper. Of course most people who die aren’t too happy about it, so Greg does get the most work. Still, I get a fair share of the load too, many people who ... |
Curiosity killed the cat, a saying one has heard countless times in life. I never thought it would be quite so literal. But here I was in a hospital bed, people moving around me in a monotone black and white. The only thing that had color was the half of me, appearing outside my body and the woman.
“Hello, Jakob” ... | 2020-10-12T02:12:54 | 2020-10-12T00:58:07 | 36 | 24 |
[WP] JFK shot first. | JFK is at the parade, suddenly, his president sense ™ tingles.
He takes out his modified M1 garand with reflex sight, fast mag and steady aim, his back up gun since it isn’t that big of a deal.
He shoots the killer in the chest from 10 meters, getting only a hitmarker.
The killer flees and stands behind a wall to he... | “Are you sure about this?”
Kenneth gave the president a quiet stare. He knew he was the only person on earth able to question this decision. No one else knew what was at stake.
“Yes, Ken… I’m sure. Give the order.”
The president heard the gentle clicking of the plastic phone. His senses seemed to dull ever so slight... | 2018-03-21T08:25:25 | 2018-01-02T09:01:57 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] You are the sole normal, unpowered student at a School for the Supernaturally Gifted. You were bullied once. Once. | Warning: Violence
I hate my school. Being the child of Thunderstruck and Icicle, everyone believes you'll have great powers, so they send you off to a school to be all the other runts that got powers or are children of superheroes. Well I'm sixteen and still don't have any powers. I had this nice little cliche of f... | I had one bully, in the 12 years spent training at SSG. I remember him quite well. He had easily the most interesting, yet balanced powers available. He could fly, make energy, lift 3 Abrams tanks over his shoulder, and was able to change the secretions on his skin to match any known material. He got the nickname "Prof... | 2022-11-02T11:15:42 | 2022-11-02T10:58:22 | 72 | 50 |
[WP] You are a vampire who likes to help humans instead of hurting them, so you became a doctor. Over the hospital's PA system one day you hear "Dr. Acula, Mr. Helsing is ready to see you." | Dr. Acula, incensed, sprints to the hospital's public address office and screams "Are you people NOT AWARE of patient privacy and confidentiality laws?!?! If you EVER reveal the name of one of my patients over the PA system again, I will have your jobs!!"
As the staff stare at him, mouths wide open, chins on the floor... | "Aww jeez, damn not him, why is he coming to this hospital out of all of them"
The PA system speaks again: *Doctor Acula please come into room 57, Mr. Helsing is ready to see you*
"I heard you the first time jackass"Acula mutters to himself in a distressed way "all right Acula, remember the pledge to Hypocrite, he ... | 2017-10-01T06:58:24 | 2017-10-01T04:44:18 | 94 | 12 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | I moved to press the button, then paused.
"So how's it work?"
The priest paused, perplexed before speaking, "How does what work?"
"The... the whole button thing?"
"Why do you wish to know? Your duty as the Chosen One is to fell the Dark Lord. Our prophecies have forseen his rising and have taken steps to deal with ... | "Just like that?" I asked.
"Just like that." the priest responded.
No way it could be that easy. The priest looked at me with a small smile on his face. Is there a joke I'm not in on? His robes ruffled as he produced a long stem pipe, and began to fill it.
"How long has this been happening?" I asked, watching h... | 2020-11-09T11:55:57 | 2020-11-09T11:45:32 | 4,632 | 170 |
[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... | She typed in the name of the website where you could make *sure*, her hands trembling slightly.
Where you could check that you had met the real thing. Not a cheater or an abuser or a rapist. She had a little habit of checking almost everyone she met, whether she was going out with them or not. Most terrified her. She... | "It isn't worth it," said Niklas, trying to grab the phone out of my hands. "The terms are trash. You're gonna be miserable. Just sit it out, man."
I pushed him off. He was right - the profile certainly had a *lot* of fine print, and I wasn't thrilled with all the contractual details, but what else was I supposed to d... | 2016-09-24T11:16:02 | 2016-09-24T11:03:32 | 2,480 | 623 |
[WP]: You get notifications on your phone from a service that reminds you every couple hours to rest your eyes, drink some water, check on your pets, and so on. Lately the reminders have been more and more specific, and somewhat ominous. | *C'mon, time for bed\~*
God, I hated that. Just the way it had to present itself was kinda weird. I get that it needed to stand out with the recent trend of reminder apps, but this was just getting annoying. I don't even remember the name of it anymore. It was an app, but sent its 'notifications' like text messages, p... | His head’s pounding from last night. When he turned twenty-five he told himself he’d stop partying with the boys by thirty. Yesterday was his thirty-first birthday. He got hammered. Now he’s paying the price as his ceiling looks like the sky and his stomach feels like a pirate ship in a deadly storm.
Hanging over the... | 2018-10-10T18:18:20 | 2018-10-10T15:34:03 | 30 | 18 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | It’s a boring life I tell you. Seeing prisoners come and go. I find myself wondering when exactly is our luck determined? At the moment of conception? At birth? In any case, those that have as much luck as we can get are forced to be here...
Watching through the bars I see inmates laze around in their cells. They’re n... | I remember my heart stopped beating for a second. Could it really be true?
Jail? I had laughed at the time. If people with 99 luck could survive being the suicide bomber, then no jail would hold me. Everyone had a luck stat, which determined how lucky they were.
However, I had 100 luck, and upto my knowledge, the onl... | 2018-06-29T10:00:25 | 2018-06-29T08:43:19 | 1,103 | 26 |
[WP] “How many people would have been better off had I not been born?” The genie snaps and a few numbers appear in the air and form 7,592. “Okay, how many people would benefit from my existence?” With the flip of a wrist the numbers spin to a whopping 137 trillion. “Okay.... how?” | We spoke for hours. I complained that he was being vague with his responses, he claimed I couldnt know too much.
I still dont know what he meant, or how one person could possibly have such an impact. Me, a semi employed, struggling writer and artist, positively impacting trillions. Not possible.
During the conversa... | "You were a very influential figure in the future, young lord. What you have done in your lifetime have allowed all those lives to attain a much brighter future."
"But what did I do?"
"I cannot say."
"Can't or won't?"
"I cannot. Though I can see into the future, the exact reason for your influence is unknown to me,... | 2018-08-15T05:06:03 | 2018-08-15T01:57:47 | 374 | 55 |
[WP] "Captain... the human didn't put on it's anti-warp gear before we jumped." "Sad to hear, prepare the coffin and jettison it." "No, sir. The human... nothing's happened to it. It didn't go insane from seeing infinity in the stars." | The crew stared at their newest crew member. It was risky taking a human on board when the species was so new to the universe.
“You were instructed to wear your anti-warp gear,” Second admonished.
“Yeah, I tried but I didn’t really fit. I think I’m supposed to have tentacles,” Bradford said.
“You saw the infinity ... | The Humans. They’re like canaries on a ship.
They can See photonic activity and Hear atomic activity. They can detect two particles bumping into one another from a billion miles away. Yet they are stupid, and small, and made of meat.
Advanced sentients are able to think in five dimensions, but humans struggle to com... | 2020-07-14T02:58:11 | 2020-07-14T01:30:39 | 381 | 64 |
[WP]For three years you’ve had an uneventful marriage with your spouse when one day they become the Chosen One. Immediately setting off on their journey you don’t hear anything from them for five years. Then one day they reappear with a sheepish look on their face and hoping to speak to you. | We were sweethearts throughout high school. We had married after college. Then one day he simply left.
All the young men in our village left following my husband into battle. Chosen by themselves to save us from the invading army. They had already invaded the western half of the country under the guise of a training ... | It had become a routine, tending to the gardens in the afternoon when work was done. Miko expected to forget, to get over it all, yet five long years and Lari’s face still shows up in almost every dream she had. It had become a ritual, taking care of the flowers her wife had loved so much, a remnant of someone who migh... | 2022-08-12T18:12:55 | 2022-08-12T17:33:00 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] a prompt for bad people
Step one. Find a serious piece of work, for my example, I found a story about a lonely man who finds solace in taking long walks, and thinking about the geese that he sees. It was deep, and poetic, heartfelt, and really angsty.
Step two. Take the first sentence or two, and leave them as i... | This was written for my friend who wanted me to do Ghetto-Shakespeare:
Shall I compare dat ass to a Summer’s day?
Thou art mo’ fine and mo’ bootylicious:
Rough winds do shake the lovely hips that sway,
And dem pants make yo’ thing look delicious:
Sometimes too flat the butts of ladies sit,
And oft is their boun... | I found this on the web, no author attached;_
Up speaks Poe's cat.
The End of the Raven
by Poe's cat
On a night quite unenchanting,
when the rain was downward slanting,
I awakened to the ranting of the man I catch mice for.
Tipsy and a bit unshaven, in a tone I found quite craven,
Poe was talking to a Raven perche... | 2013-04-27T14:32:45 | 2013-04-26T20:12:23 | 101 | 39 |
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