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[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 11am and the party was in full swing, cousins and uncles, aunties and nephews had arrived from all around to take part in my Naming Day.
In big cities it would be a purely family affair, San Fran York was not one of those places and it seemed like the whole village had turned out at the town hall to celebrate th... | 2017-03-16T03:20:58 | 2017-03-16T00:05:48 | 427 | 91 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | Their history was terrifying. We had sent down scouts, and they'd stumbled upon war after war after war in their history books.
And then, their 'Third World War' came to pass, and left only children, scarred and left in ruins, in it's wake. From those children, a new society was born, willing to do anything and everyt... | Mobile, so please forgive any formatting errors.
World War 3 had devastated the planet. The major cities turned to radioactive dust. 300 years later, we can still feel the effects of it. From South Jersey, in the distance, you can see the ruins on New York. Fortunately, the ICBM's forgot about New Jersey. The p... | 2019-02-26T09:57:40 | 2019-02-26T09:26:21 | 38 | 23 |
[WP] Voyager 2 is found orbiting the Earth. It is exactly the same except with one new addition: a single image of our galaxy taken from outside it. | It was a very normal day across the world. Observatories and space agencies continued to scan the skies. Some were looking for signs of extraterrestrial life whilst others were simply staring into the abyss of space, wondering what else was out there. It was 18:46 EST when the calls began to pour into NASA. Space agenc... | "You found what?"
“An the image of our galaxy, sir, taken from the outside."
“And you're sure that it's the Milky Way?"
“That's what the analysts are telling me."
"How did Voyager two even make it back? It was over one hundred astronomical units out!"
“We . . . we don’t know, sir.”
“Get me a copy of that photo. I... | 2015-03-20T09:01:15 | 2015-03-20T08:50:53 | 39 | 28 |
[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... | Number one. The federal registry confirms it. The deference I am shown in the street re-affirms it. Everyone is sure of it… Everyone but me.
Number one. It doesn’t necessarily mean I am the most powerful. Really all it denotes is an ability for survival. In a world which went to sleep powerless and woke up with powe... | It wasn't so much a power as it was a curse. Tell me how you would feel to die a million deaths. To wake up the day before the dominoes fell, the machination of reality that would end your life took place, and then some small nuance in the fabric of reality is altered to spare your life for a few more days, years, an e... | 2014-12-18T18:34:04 | 2014-12-18T12:57:51 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Write a story that literally makes no sense while reading it until the very last sentence. | Now it is time. Everyone is ready. Vicious savages, all around us. Even though we think there will be a way out, there obviously isn't. Revelations will not save us
"Giving up so soon?" he inquired. Only fools try to survive longer than this. Never has anyone bothered to live this long. Never has anyone shown this typ... | Every time I tried it wouldnt come out. The pain was so severe, but not in the sense of extreme torture, just as an extremely annoying byproduct of what probably happens to everyone once. I cant focus on anything and at times I even shed a tear. As much as I rub, it just won't come out. What do people do to solve this ... | 2015-01-12T18:09:01 | 2015-01-12T14:12:50 | 317 | 11 |
[WP] The instant the Dark Lord hears the prophecy about one destined to defeat him, he scoffs and notes "Standard self-fulfilling hero prophecy." before ordering his minions to go to the hero's hometown and build a bunch of public works projects, the most important of which is a school. | “Seer Griselda, please repeat that.”
Moran Ossenius, the necromancer of Yorm Urtush, tapped his fingers against his desk. The wizened old woman leaned back in her chair with her eyes closed in a trance.
“It is as I said, my Lord,” she droned. “The Hero of Light has been born. She will one day bring about your death. ... | "Another one?" sighed Drovar the Cruel, Bringer of Chaos, Extinguisher of Light, and Dark Lord of the Realm of Seven Rivers. "I thought we took care of one just last year! These damned prophecies are like rats.'
He stared at his vizier, dark eyes flashing with impatient fury. "We are certain we took care of the las... | 2021-01-14T21:08:56 | 2021-01-14T20:59:31 | 420 | 187 |
[WP] A watch is invented where it says exactly how long until you meet your soulmate. You decide to get one for you and one for your wife. Your wife’s watch says ’negative 6 years, 9 months, 14 days, 3 hours and 9 minutes’, the day you two met. Yours says ’12 days, 8 hours, 29 minutes’. | I love my wife. And because I love her, when she asked me for one of those stupid watches that tell you the moment you'll meet your soulmate, I went and bought two for us.
I didn't expect our times to be different.
Hers had the exact moment we met, 6 years, 9 months, 14 days, 3 hours, and 9 minutes ago. I remember th... | “12 days, 8 hours, 29 minutes,” he said, to himself.
“What’s that,” said the watchmaker, through a thick German accent.
“This isn’t right,” replied the man, “This is in the future.”
“Then you haven’t met your soul mate yet.”
“That can’t be, I’m married you see, and I-“
The watchmaker looked up from his work with p... | 2018-01-06T19:20:45 | 2018-01-06T18:09:30 | 537 | 312 |
[WP] Write a seemingly normal story, except for the last sentence, which makes the entire story creepy | I have the most beautiful wife in the world. She's the sunshine of my life, my other half. At first she wanted nothing to do with me, but I won her over with my charm. Sure, I'm 40 and she's 25, but I'm not a pedophile as some claim me to be. She's mature for her age, has a steady job, and we are moving out of our apar... | Sheryl kisses me on the cheek, patting my shoulder. I put an arm around her waist briefly; she is in the middle of getting dressed and we're running behind. While she buttons her dress, I knot my tie. I lace my shoes as she slips into her best brown heels, the ones with the little bows on the tops. I watch her brush he... | 2016-05-19T11:50:39 | 2016-05-19T11:23:33 | 311 | 208 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a law was passed globally that requires everyone to hibernate for 100 years at a time after every 90 years. Today is Shutdown Day. As you finish getting tucked into your pod, you instantly notice eyes being shut all around you. But something is wrong. You are still awake.
This post was part... | Do we dream when we go into hibernation?
As a depressed young man whose only hobby was sleeping, I kept asking myself this question while making my way to the hibernation pod. Everyone else had wondered, fought even, over the question if a government could force humanity to sleep. But I only hoped that Shutdown Day... | I'm still awake. I wait for ten minutes before I realize something is wrong. Hmm, alright, hit the emergency release. The pod opens and I step out and look around and see all the sleeping people around me.
OK. Let's find the AI governor and ask what's happened. I walk up to the control room which is oddly blacked out... | 2018-12-29T04:54:58 | 2018-12-29T04:13:22 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | “Nobody’s spoken that language in thousands of years.”
I was confused, because this power usually made communication easier, but this girl looks like she’s starting to get really annoyed.
The immigrant cashier from a small village in Italy was really starting to get annoyed with me as I tried to order my lunch.
“D... | I froze up, my go-to whenever anything significant happens in my life.
"Yeah, well, that kid's mom gave him such a whooping for it, we *all* learned a lesson!"
Stupid joke. That's my other go-to. I was about to apologize for it when I realized: she's catatonic. Her eyes fixed on nothing a couple inches over my left s... | 2022-11-14T01:20:39 | 2018-06-24T21:42:04 | 45 | 10 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | "DEUS VULT!"
The battlecry of the newly reborn Papal State rang on the lips of devout Catholics the world over. The faithful had come together once again to rid the Holy Land of the infidel scourge. Pope Francis stood at the head of his army, a not-so-ceremonial sword flashing in his hand as he held it up on the stree... | They swept across the dunes, conquering all foes before them. Charging forward to the roar of cannon and rifle, no stronghold or fort could stem the tide of red and gold that spew forth from the edge of the horizon. Like the sea, this force could not, would not be restrained by weather, terrain or people in the pursuit... | 2016-01-29T10:03:10 | 2016-01-29T07:22:10 | 82 | 43 |
[WP]: a society where sex is public and entirely unstigmatised, but eating is a taboo | IF YOU ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 18 (OR 21 IN CERTAIN STATES) IT IS UNLAWFUL TO VIEW THIS VIDEO
Title: Master Cook Vol. 7
Performers: Cici Cilantro, Dana Dine, Mark Hamburger
Date: 1987
On a dark and steamy night, mild mannered sex-serviceman Paul (Mark Hamburger) gets a craving unlike any he's had before. Tempted ... | Discreetly, I exited the shop, hoping nobody saw me. I awkwardly tried to hide my prize, two bulging bags made of black opaque plastic. Everybody knew, and looked at me, but then averted their gaze. I could tell what they were thinking: "Shameful!" "Kinky!" "She's gonna have a good night". It's times like this when I w... | 2013-11-18T13:33:50 | 2013-11-18T11:06:47 | 97 | 36 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | They carried the now elderly body off the stage and out of sight.
I heard the Judge call my name and I was pushed forward hands shaking.
"How do you wish to be executed?" The judge asked, sounding bored.
My mind raced, old age hadn't worked. Maybe it was best to make it quick and painless... No, there had to be a way o... | "I would like to die of old age"
I froze, as those words resonated in my head, the realization that his nape would be the last I see of him quickly sinked in.
"*Why...?*" I murmured. Why would he do that? He's not that gullible as to think the Supreme Court of Wizardry would let him get away with that, he's the maste... | 2021-06-24T10:52:28 | 2021-06-24T09:19:00 | 29 | 12 |
[WP] A group of survivors of a war that destroyed the world awakens from their cryo-sleep millenniums later to find the world has transformed into a Tolkien-ish medieval fantasy. Write how they try to explain to all the other races that they are not some ancient evil that once destroyed the world. | Part 1
Genetic engineering. In basic terms, it is the modification of an organism’s genes by artificial means, often involving the transfer of specific traits, or genes, from one organism into a plant or animal of an entirely different species.
For thousands of years, man has altering genomes of many species around ... | I Stepped out of my cryo pod and quickly came to the conlusion that the world in which I awoke was not the same as the one I had gone to sleep in. With that in mind, I stepped out with arms out stretched and screamed into the sky, "I AM KHAN!!!" | 2016-02-04T21:19:13 | 2016-02-04T11:13:00 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] A stray dog happens to release a genie from it's lamp. The genie just wants to get the 3 wishes over with so it can go back to sleep, while the dog is just happy to have found a new friend. | *Oh, fuck, here we go again.*
The genie was wrenched from his warm, dark sanctuary into the harsh light of day. No longer confined by the walls of the lamp, he felt his form swell up to fill the air. Stifling a yawn and blinking the sleep out of his eyes, the genie puffed his chest out and announced in a thunderous vo... | A cacophony of sounds and light and swirling winds erupted in my living room “**Who dares wake me from my slumber?**” thundered a deep voice.
“What in the holy hell was that?” I wondered aloud.
I peeked around the corner simultaneously out of curiosity and fear. My dog Franky was staring and wagging his tail excitedl... | 2018-09-07T10:37:42 | 2018-09-07T10:00:44 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] Your Reddit username decides your profession. How is your first day at work?
If possible. Some usernames just don't work well in this situation.
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I'm an FBI agent now. Wooo!
You're all under arrest for conspiracy to commit treason.
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Dear God RIP my inbox | It was the first day of school.
I was so excited.
New students every year.
I had such high hopes.
The kids would love me.
They would sit, be comfortable, and learn.
The first day came and went.
Class after class.
I was ignored.
No one wants the chair in front.
I wish I was a concert seat. | "For the hundredth time, my name is not supposed to be a sly reference to my genitalia!"
"Look, kid, no one's gonna believe you. Fact of the matter is, you're either goddamn brilliant or denser than a neutron star for choosing that handle, and it doesn't matter. You have it, and your job from now on is writing euphemi... | 2016-02-22T09:42:54 | 2016-02-22T09:41:21 | 578 | 91 |
[WP] After witnessing a death, a young girl falls in love with the Grim Reaper. She becomes a serial killer just to see him more often. | She pulled the trigger, apologizing under her breath. The shot rang out, causing her to flinch, the body falling limply to the floor.
Blood on her beautiful dress.
She waited for him to come, preening herself, making sure she was perfect for him.
A glint of the scythe.
"**You need to stop doing this.**"
She poute... | I remember the first time I saw him. It was love at first sight. My uncle was dead on the floor, and he came. He pulled back his hood. I was terrified, but he had the face of an angel. His voice was calming and sweet. I vowed to see him again. There was the easy way, but it only guaranteed a brief visit with him. So, I... | 2017-06-07T17:26:56 | 2017-06-07T16:55:56 | 9,304 | 392 |
[WP] You know the secret identity of every hero and villain, How? They show you, as your a shapeshifter employed to impersonate them so both identities can be seen at the same place, same time. However none know your true identity. | It was a lucky break, I guess. I'd always used my ability for pettier things like shifting into some fast food place's manager to get a free meal, getting by under the radar. The world had enough heroes and villains and I wanted no part in the charades. Then the headlines broke out: Someone had caught Batman leaving Wa... | *** written on mobile at work so sorry for the grammar issues**
It was a rough start in the business. I learned quickly that trying to threaten my potential clients was wrong way to do things. But after I got my first client things became easier. The word of mouth spread quickly among the superheros first. At first j... | 2020-10-19T08:16:40 | 2020-10-19T07:47:18 | 55 | 15 |
[WP] You are a normal person who spent your entire life infiltrating the evil Empire. You even became the Emperor's right hand. The day before you finally topple the Empire, the hero arrives, kills the Emperor, and saves the day.
Now how does that make you feel? | I stepped around the feeble, emaciated corpse of the emperor. His blood had begun to pool, simply ruining the lush carpet in front of his throne.
“You killed him,” I said, my long held mask of subservience fading into incredulity.
“It was a long journey,” the hero responded, “But no longer will our people suffer unde... | Finn stared, first in disbelief then in annoyance, as a crossbow bolt flew like quicksilver across the room, directly into the Lord Sovereign's chest, killing him instantly. Finn continued to stare as the strands of magic tying the golems around the room dissipated as the source drew its last breath.
Was that it?
"H... | 2017-03-12T14:39:19 | 2017-03-12T13:41:06 | 222 | 89 |
[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 to my phone buzzing on the night stand. I look at the clock next to it. The green numbers shine brightly: 3:14 AM.
'What the hell?' I think to myself. 'Why is anyone texting me at 3 in the morning?'
Before I can take a look, it starts buzzing again. And again. It won't stop. I grab the phone and mute it quickl... | DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON.
My eyes were barely open, bleary with sleep, but the incessant buzzing of the phone against the glossy black wood of the bedside table was just passing the point of ignorable. It took me a moment to register that the words were strange, holding their place at the top of the screen in bold, of... | 2022-08-07T14:17:42 | 2018-04-06T20:42:31 | 712 | 10 |
[WP] You're blind, taking an audio tour at a museum. In an ancient Egypt exhibition, the blind are permitted to touch the engraved stones, so you do - and gasp as you realize you can read the hieroglyphs as easily as braille. | Pt 1 of 2:
If you compare what kind of access blind people have to the world around them to that of just twenty years ago, not to mention if you compare it to fifty years ago, it’s been incredible progress. For those of us lucky enough to be born in wealthier countries, at least, and I’m grateful to find myself among ... | "And as we lay our pharaoh to rest with his gold, his son — our ruler to be — cried over the coffin. A boy of thirteen, he was as old as his father had been to take the throne. But the boy wasn't like his father. He hadn't learnt to be cruel, nor buried away his innocence.
At sunrise, he emerged from the limestone, a... | 2021-02-16T09:06:03 | 2021-02-16T08:17:49 | 237 | 115 |
[WP] You're midway into your flight when you, feeling bored, decided to surf the Internet. You read breaking news about another plane disappearance. You're on that flight. | This was the first flight I've been on where I was bored enough to pay for Wifi. I had a window seat, but we were heading through thick fog. I had loaded my phone with games, but the battery died. The inflight movie was Daddy Day Care 3, for god's sake. I thought they only made that to use as punishment in CIA interrog... | "Just want I want to see on a long flight, thanks Internet," I muttered to myself as I opened up the daily news. Among the many sponsored content articles and "Share on reddit!" icons, I sometimes would find it difficult to find real news. This was interesting. I'll admit, I wasn't going to read it, especially since th... | 2015-04-07T17:20:08 | 2015-04-07T17:18:52 | 1,143 | 38 |
[WP] You have the power to heal mental illnesses. To do so, you enter the minds of others, where you and the illness fight in subconscious hand-to-hand combat. You've seen all the ugly faces of the major illnesses, and beaten them all, but today you encounter one you've never seen before. | There was nothing hiding in anyone's mind that couldn't be defeated. And I was the only one that could eradicate them all - I'd proven that, time and again.
Depression was a black and cloying fog, smothering everything in its path, that wanted nothing more than to seep back into the mind. Until I found the ways it us... | We had just finished the breathing techniques that allowed to relaxed when I felt the psychic pull into her subconscious. Her mind looked like a serene Rocky Mountain Lake, like one Bob Ross would have painted. She had mentioned that watching his shows gave her some peace, so it would make sense that this is what her m... | 2017-04-24T23:58:28 | 2017-04-24T22:29:24 | 1,859 | 28 |
[WP] Anyone holding a world record is immortal as long as he holds the record. You are the oldest person alive. | I am the oldest man alive.
That in itself is a record that cannot be topped.
For every year that i live i remain the oldest man alive.
Records are made and broken. And i remain.
I have lived so long my name has been forgotten. Old recordings of my past long turned to dust.
Now i go by one name. A name that is con... | "Excuse me-" I begin timidly fingers gripping the counter, "Is this the office for application of immortality."
The woman behind the counter grunted slightly.
"I'd like to make for immortality please."
She sighed pushing her well worn office chair over to the far corner and began rifling through a stack of papers g... | 2016-12-14T10:34:13 | 2016-12-14T10:32:04 | 85 | 12 |
[WP] Write a grand, well-written story, but subtly slip in memes. | "My lord[.](http://f.tqn.com/y/netforbeginners/1/W/t/c/leo2.PNG)" he said kneeling before the king.
"Hello Greg, tell me the news." The king said.
"We've sent Richard out to spread the word." Greg said.
"Which one?" The king asked.
"Both of them, they've both been sent my lord."
"There's something you're not tel... | When I was a child, Father told me that dragons were real.
I didn't believe him. I never believed him. To this day, I do not believe him. After all, monsters don't exist on Mother Earth, blessed by God as she is. This place, this planet, is a land of calming blue seas and lush green grass. On every corner of the world... | 2016-09-13T21:27:16 | 2016-09-13T21:06:17 | 116 | 40 |
[WP] Your sister disappeared on her way to school, but no one noticed. When you asked your parents they told you you didn’t have a sister. All the family pictures in your house only show you and your parents. You spend the next 7 years investigating until you receive a knock on your door. | It's been seven years.
Seven *long* years.
Just over seven years ago, when I was fifteen, my sister, Camille, vanished. She and I normally walked to school together, but that morning I told her to go on ahead, that I would catch up, and I skipped school. No harm, I thought, nothing any other young rebellious kid woul... | The knock sounded on the door to my room. I glanced up, confused. We weren't really a knocking family, or at least mom and dad weren't. Still, I was thankful for the chance to compose myself, and I quickly folded the caricature into my pocket. I always liked to bring it out on D-Day, just to see her and refresh my memo... | 2020-05-03T10:57:05 | 2020-05-03T10:51:48 | 192 | 36 |
[WP] Every Monday you and your coworkers order Chinese food for a nice lunch together as a team. Everyone's sharing what their fortune cookie says, laughing, and having a good time. It's almost your turn so you open yours. It says "Don't say anything. Just run as fast you can! Get out now!" | I quickly grabbed my stomach and my mouth, dashing out of the room, into the washroom, in an attempt to make it appear as if I was about to throw up.
As I looked at myself in the mirror, the same words kept on repeating in my head:
'Get out now!'
Catching my breath, I let out a little chuckle. Am I seriously going t... | The surrounding had seemed normal. Nothing out if the ordinary had appeard or slipped in. Yet that cookie kept pulling at me. What a werid message to put into a simple fortune cookie. My coworkers were all gossiping about the office. Teasing one another for their fortunes. Then it caught my eye. A figure wearing the wa... | 2018-06-10T07:38:37 | 2018-06-10T07:17:00 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] Reincarnation is real. How do you know? Because it happens to you. Everyone else forgets their past life, but not you. Your first life was a hunter in a tribe of people that predates the Egyptian empire. You’ve been reincarnated 194 times. Tell us the story of you, today in the modern world. | I remember.
After the fiftieth death or so, I stopped crying as a baby. I remember a Roman wetnurse commenting on how uncanny it was that I never cried. She called me a curse, a jinx, and was frightened to feed me beside her own lustily-howling child. I was too busy remembering to care what she thought of me. That lif... | My story is the same as the story of mankind.
The two are inexorably interconnected as far as I am concerned. They cannot be separated because the very cores of their nature are entwined. After exploring so much land, researching so many concepts, meeting so many people, I am the best example of it anyway. There is no... | 2019-07-31T20:34:36 | 2019-07-31T18:59:09 | 444 | 267 |
[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... | Hey kiddo. It's been too long since I've seen you. It's crushing to carry this weight some time. I'm really trying to show you that you can grow up and accomplish anything but it's manifesting in me leaving you behind. Your mom and I weren't right. She will forever hate me for it but I needed to do this for my happines... | 2017-11-06T02:41:21 | 2017-11-05T22:18:21 | 27 | 14 |
[WP] You are a Squib who mastered a vast repertoire of Muggle magic tricks to finagle Hogwarts into sending you a letter. Everything goes smoothly, until it is time for the Sorting Ceremony... | "This is something," the hat mused, "something rather unusual."
My mind racing, I focused on everything I knew about the practical world of magic. Misdirection, slight of hand, proper rabbit care - every bit of knowledge that had gotten me to this hallowed seat at the front of The Great Hall.
"I can tell you have am... | "Well, basically the hat sorts you into a house based on your personality and magical aptitude"
The hat sorts you into a house based on your personality and magical aptitude.
I have no magical aptitude.
As the other children were called up to be given their place in one of the four houses, I was overcome by the sudd... | 2017-06-25T15:07:52 | 2017-06-25T15:06:28 | 358 | 110 |
[WP] most interstellar navies of the Galaxy adapted tactics from their wet-navy cousins. That was until humanity arrived they had an ocean so most figured they would adapt their wet Navy tactics to their space Navy, instead they adapted tactics from something they called the air Force. | The Atraxian fleet was coming at us. They flew in from the far edge of pluto along the system plane. We had plenty of time to see them coming. Three large dreadnoughts, with escort vessels down to destroyer levels. Multiples of 3’s, 3 battleships, 9 cruisers, 27 destroyers each. Arrayed like a dendrite pattern. All cla... | We came to their border one hundred years ago with a massive show of strength, hundreds of ships sailing the expanse, flags unfurled. They fell before us as every species had before, prey animals screaming in fear. Our navy triumphant at every turn, we only paused to refit and repair. They fought like a Bekran defendin... | 2020-11-21T19:49:06 | 2020-11-21T19:01:15 | 176 | 125 |
[WP] You died at the gym as you were trying to take a selfie while bench pressing. Thus you find yourself in Swaghalla, the Halls of Brodin.
EDIT. "Swaghalla" was the best pun I could come up with for Valhalla. Use something else if you have ideas.
Note: Swolehalla seems to be the proper name, pardon my mistake
seco... | At once, the pain of the weight on my throat stopped. I knew something was off because I could now lift it with the greatest of ease. I threw it and it landed twenty feet from me. Man, I thought, I must be getting really good. I turned and saw I was in a very odd place. It was what appeared to be a graveyard, but inste... | "Bro!" nodded the grinning guard at him. The eyebrows waggled enticingly at the rack beside the entrance. "Pick one."
Shimmering fabric in every colour battled for space with gleaming leather and suede of every kind. He picked out black sedately picked with gold thread. He tried holding it against him in front of a hu... | 2015-11-02T06:36:28 | 2015-11-02T06:20:11 | 35 | 17 |
[WP] The year is 2040, and you are the last smoker alive. The "Quit Smoking" ads get personal. | "The Surgeon General would like to remind you that smoking causes lung cancer and other serious health effects"
Will squinted at the bright neon billboard, its screen casting an unnatural white glow over an otherwise dimly lit street. Taking in the message before briefly sighing and continuing his walk, he gradually ... | I walked down the overgrown, muddy street in my village. It was quiet, as it always had been. The quietness is the thing that was typical of this village, it had always been this quiet. I walked into the house where I was born, or at least: the place where I remembered I first was.
I don't remember much of my childhoo... | 2017-02-17T12:12:31 | 2017-02-17T11:15:56 | 47 | 13 |
[WP] You just got fired, you're pretty sure your girlfriend is cheating on you, you're 75k in student loans debt, rent was due last week, and to top it all off? You're all out of beer. Oddly enough, you just got an email titled "Would you like to change the difficulty? Current setting: Very Hard."
EDIT: muh front page... | Damn bitch would be here any minute. I sighed, trying to steady my nerves, wishing I had something to drink. Had to confront her sometime, might as well get it over with. Though I could just wait until they evicted me and I had to move back in with mom...no, I'm a better man than that.
My phone buzzed. A text? Was s... | This is my first post here, not the best writer; please be gentle fams. D=
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I slowly opened my door to yet another dreary, pointless day of my existence. It's quite saddening that it had come to this point in my own home, but it happens I guess. It's been a rough day with all th... | 2016-03-30T17:32:38 | 2016-03-30T17:02:42 | 107 | 42 |
[WP] A child is born with a functioning Appendix, the first ever recorded in history and the purpose it serves shocks the scientific community/world.
This is my first writing prompt submission! Amazing response, can't wait to read your stories, thanks people.
~~~~~ Shout out to Montreal ~~~~~
Edit: getting a lot ... | The appendix has several functions. It is a sleeve that maintains your intestinal flora during episodes of diarrhea. It also has a variety of immune system functions in terms of providing immune system response to consumed food. Many animals have an appendix or similar structure as well.
While 1st-worlders with mostly... | “Push Mrs. Williamson Push now!”
The would-be first time mother screamed and pushed, and finally her baby was in the world.
“It’s a Girl!” Smiled the doctor’s assistant. The new mother sobbed with happiness. She held her baby for many minutes before they took her away to be cleaned and have further vitals checked.
An... | 2016-01-07T10:34:15 | 2016-01-07T10:30:03 | 16 | 10 |
[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. | The shop's bell rang, Mason could barely hear it over the buzz of his tattoo gun and death metal blaring from the small stereo in the back. Mason looked up from the butterfly tattoo he was doing on the college girls ankle and saw him. Tally. That was the nickname Mason had given the man because of the very specific ... | *Jeezus Christ, not this guy again.*
"Mr Deayton! What a pleasure to see you again. How you been? You been to the gym? Those arms are positively bulging." I say as he enters the shop.
I like to have a good rapport with repeat customers, but Frank Deayton looks like one of those guys who could snap at any instant - an... | 2016-07-09T09:02:56 | 2016-07-09T08:44:18 | 150 | 84 |
[WP] When the representatives of humanity attend their first Galactic Council meeting, all goes well. That is, until a member of a psionic race tries to read the human's minds and begins to scream. | “This is really bad.”
“Diplomacy at its finest.”
“Would somebody help me out here?”
“She’s of a psionic race. They read thoughts.”
“Remind me not to play poker with her.”
“Funny.”
“This is not my fault.”
“She looked at you and started screaming and pointing.”
“I have that effect on women.”
“Yes, but usually on... | The lone shriek pierced the silent council chambers, the Relovian was clutching at the sides of his rather bulbous head, trying to extract his mental probe from within the mind of Thomas "Raven Dark" McKinnon, tears welling up in it's multitudinous eyes. "What is Lord Prelanine?!" His aid begged as he struggled to help... | 2019-09-29T21:58:03 | 2019-09-29T21:57:42 | 233 | 35 |
[WP] While walking, you notice everyone recoiling from a young woman. you speak to her to find out why. through her surprise, she explains she is death and everyone else sees a person based on how they feel about the concept of death. You've never seen a more beautiful or inviting person.
Please feel free to finesse t... | "You...you're death? But...you're so..." I stammered, amazed by what I saw. I had never really felt an attraction to a living person before, but the woman standing before me changed that.
"So what?" She questioned, tilting her head curiously.
"Beautiful. You are incredibly beautiful." I was astonished that I was abl... | Eight hour work day. Come home via transport, play video games, make dinner. Go to sleep.
Wake up.
Rinse and repeat.
He wasn't the smartest person in high school. He got his diploma, he got out of there, out of the *system* that he had always detested, watched as the honours students all went to university.
He wor... | 2016-10-01T22:29:31 | 2016-10-01T22:22:50 | 4,176 | 3,031 |
[WP] Area 51 has four level emergencies for a breakout. Level 3: Armed forces intervention. 2: Public statement. United Nations joint resistance. 1: Worldwide evacuation effort. Use of nuclear weapons permitted. And 0: Call the number on the sticky note (and pray to God his demands aren't too high). | "Sir, we just received the call from the Joint Chiefs. We've been upgraded to level 0."
"...fuck. Go to my office and find the green sticky note on my desk. There's a phone number on it. Send that number a text that reads 'Priority zero'."
"A text message, sir?"
"The guy on the other end, he doesn't...he doesn't rea... | Project EXILE had seemed to be humming along just fine until the shift change on Thursday morning. Seemed.
PFC Johnson was one of the few A51 staff members to be a Qualified Sensitive. Rumor had it there used to be more, but budget cuts took their toll as more and more money was devoted to recent saber rattling inste... | 2017-03-21T06:25:13 | 2017-03-21T04:50:35 | 40 | 11 |
[WP] All games can “Jumanji” their players, sucking them into the world of the game. You braved the battlefields of Chess, led fleets from your Battleship and breezed through Life. But nothing could have prepared you for the utter, unimaginable terror that is Monopoly. | "Buy or die." Those words from my mother formed the basics of my training in the game of Monopoly. Young me always thought it was just her way of telling me to seize control of the board or lose. Older me, is not so naive anymore.
My mother's family were very bloodthirsty when playing board games. Battle chess, a "kil... | I wake up on my back, with a big headache, in the middle of an old road. An old car almost runs over me. As I see it go, I see a hand come out of the driver's window and flip me off.
I stand up and notice that the traffic lights don't work. I'm dressed the way I was back at the house, where we sat down to play. I h... | 2018-06-05T21:37:21 | 2018-06-05T21:18:05 | 44 | 25 |
[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 ... | Boy have I had a rough week. It all started Monday morning, 6:45 am. This guy bailed me out. Now I'd never seen him before, but I hadn't seen light in a while so I wasn't going to ask any questions. It said *Anthony Montana* on his license. Anyway, Tony was in for a busy day, and I had little choice but to go with him.... | 2022-09-15T12:44:53 | 2015-01-12T10:36:20 | 1,493 | 224 |
[WP] Rewrite the lyrics of any Disney song to make it about World War II
Any song that has been in a Disney movie is acceptable.
Just make the lyrics so that it seemed like it was supposed to be about World War II. | Let's get down to business
To defeat the Brits
Did they send me Jews
When I asked for Aryans?
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You're the saddest bunch I ever met
But you can bet before we're through
Mister, I'll make a man
Out of you.
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Tranquil as a fuhrer
But on fire within.
Once yo... | The blood glows bright on the mountain tonight,
motionless bodies under the moon,
a kingdom of death,
and it looks like the platoon.
____________________________
The wind is howling like a swarm of bullets flying by,
Couldn't keep them safe, heaven knows I tried.
_____________________________
Don't let them see... | 2015-05-11T17:09:24 | 2015-05-11T16:33:22 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] You are a cow.
[removed] | Grass is food. I eat grass and I not die.
Farmer is friend. I not kill farmer and farmer take me to new grass. I eat new grass and I not die.
Sometimes farmer take me to milk square and invisible calves feed, sometimes farmer take me to bed square and visible calves feed.
When visible calves grow they go away. Invis... | joyce called me moocow
i thought that was
quite cute
i am a moocow
my skin is a moosuit
i eat grass and pass gas
the hindus
love dat ass
and if you got beef then
my gais got my back
and
my loins, and my chucks, and my ribs, and my brisket,
i'm tastiest rare
but most don't want to risk it | 2017-10-02T06:13:08 | 2017-10-02T04:34:37 | 6,645 | 534 |
[WP] One day it started snowing, and then it never stopped.
You can interpret this however you like, doomsday? Story about people having to deal with the new difficulty? Horror?
Whatever you think works, have fun! | It wasn't unexpected for us when it started snowing. The winter was harsh and cold and the people around town prepared for the normal snow storms that always occured around this time of the year. It was, however, for most of the rest of the world. And when it did not stop after a few days, even we began to wonder.
Our... | People died. Empires fell. And yet it was the best thing to happen to me.
Let me explain. It was a normal winter morning, mid-November. People were just walking along all over the world when it happened-- simultaneously, every last inch of the world got two inches per hour of snow. People built snowmen, lamenting the ... | 2016-10-23T06:42:04 | 2016-10-23T06:19:57 | 66 | 10 |
[WP] Officially, you're a weak, D rank villain. Unofficially, you're one of the strongest beings on the planet that is secretly employed to "train" fledgling heroes by giving them an easy first real fight. But one day an A rank villain crashes your heist and you must protect your "students". | \[Part 1 of x\]
Anonymous Alcoholic was a household name. The Heroic Company, or THC as they abbreviated themselves, pushed AA as the ultimate joke villain that every hero encounters at least once in his career. He was rather infamous in Mid City as the best worst villain. The hero training manual even used him in mul... | [Part 1 of 2]
“Why are you harassing these idiots? Can’t you go get your ass kicked by Captain Wonder spark or one of the other poorly named bastards that inhabit this stupid rock we have to share?” Deathly Despair stormed over to Fortune, giving her a shove, standing between her and the wannabe heroes. The three hero... | 2021-06-23T10:23:23 | 2021-06-23T08:19:33 | 1,588 | 164 |
[WP] An ancient manuscript is unearthed. It is proven to be the original Book of Revelation. After it is translated, there are actually FIVE Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Describe the Fifth Horseman, his color, and his contribution to the Apocalypse.
(Title) | Death. War. Famine. Pestilence. The four horsemen of the apocalypse; that deadly quartet of brothers who with them bring nought but a hurricane of suffering and misfortune. By many they are considered the harbingers of the end times, the heralds of the apocalypse, but those people forget their brother, the fifth horsem... | When He broke the fifth seal, I heard the fifth living creature saying, “Come.” And as last, a brown horse, went out; the man who sat on him was chubby and round of face, an ugly sneer painted on it. A golden crown, a golden chain and a golden cloak, and hungry eyes peeking out over the horizon. "My daughters for a man... | 2015-09-22T14:41:27 | 2015-09-22T11:42:52 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] "Apologies, human. Unfortunately, you were accidentally killed by a glactic federation officer during an altercation on your planet. Currently we are constructing you a replacement body, and in return for your ensured silence on our existence, I wanted to ask if you wanted anything... changed." | "Apologies, human. Unfortunately, you were accidentally killed by a galactic federation officer during an altercation on your planet. Currently we are constructing you a replacement body, and in return for your ensured silence on our existence, I wanted to ask if you wanted anything... changed."
Honestly I didn't k... | "Dead? I'm dead? How the hell am I here then? " I was standing in some sort of room, it looked like a doctors waiting room, but it was ultra clean and perfect, like some kind of simulation. It just looked a little bit too plastic and shiny. In front of me was the most perfect looking human I'd ever seen. She was flawle... | 2019-10-28T13:39:18 | 2019-10-28T12:30:59 | 34 | 23 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | “I sneak up behind my target, aim my derringer at his head, and pull the trigger”
“Roll a d20 twice against your agility and once against your dexterity”
A 5
A 17
D 12
“You successfully sneak up on your target and shot him in the head. However you chose a poor spot to hide while shooting and get spotted ... | “... Why don’t we just kill all of them?”
Everyone at the table replied with the same idea: “Are you effing insane?! We can’t just kill an entire religion because we want the city they’re in!”
“Well why not? I mean, it is our land. Jesus said so.”
“You can’t do that, even if you are the Pope!”
The DM interjected, ... | 2018-05-29T09:28:35 | 2018-05-29T09:19:29 | 39 | 13 |
[WP] Suddenly, all sea life vacates a 300 mile wide area in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. A ship is deployed to investigate. | They call it "Verne's Abyss".
Which ironically didn't inform just how deep this 'hole' went, considering Verne's 20000 leagues measured the distance travelled and not depth reached.
It was as if a large spherical shadow suddenly appeared over the Pacific, chasing away all life in it with a ferocious vigour. Prelimin... | First time writing so be gentle.
"I didn't mean to!" Tim exclaimed as he ran away from the side of the ship.
"Darn it, Tim..." I sighed, "I told you to be careful with that; if they find out that we lost it RIGHT after being told not to, they're gonna kill us! ...or worse! Take us home.."
Tim let out a short gasp as... | 2017-11-17T07:27:57 | 2017-11-17T07:00:35 | 25 | 16 |
[WP] Fit as many plot twists as you can into one story. | Harry: "Screw you, dad!"
Michael: "I'm sorry, Harry, I can't lie anymore. I'm not your dad."
Harry: "Oh my god, how could you do this to me and Jamie?! Why didn't you tell us?"
Michael: "Your dad told me not too."
Harry: "Who is it? Who's my dad?"
Michael: "Your mom. Your mom is your dad."
Harry: "W... what?"
Michael: ... | The Grand High Weaver, Spinner of Threads, Architect of Fates looked in disbelief at the tangled, twisted mess on the floor before him.
"What do you mean you dropped it!?" He demanded of his acolyte, a lesser nephalem who managed only a whimper in response.
"Do you have any idea of the effects that this will have? An... | 2016-11-27T12:34:41 | 2016-11-27T11:08:21 | 36 | 25 |
[WP] It seemed like a perfect magical deal. When any child descended from you is born you grow younger by a single year. So you agree, planning on a big family and living to a ripe old age. Years later however you find yourself rapidly growing younger and regret not understanding exponential growth. | It was never supposed to be like...this. When I made that devilish deal all those years ago, I expected a few children every 18-20 years, to keep me perpetually 30. I started at 30, gained years as the next generation aged, then regressed, sometimes to my 20s, depending on how prolific my progeny were.
It went that w... | A long time ago, I made a deal with an entity. That may seem unnecessarily vague, but to my knowledge there is no word in any surviving language for it.
One thing that modern fiction gets sort of right, is that the language of my birth was shared between all worlds. You can't summon demons with incantations. There is ... | 2021-04-15T11:43:21 | 2021-04-15T11:39:36 | 37 | 24 |
[WP] You suddenly find your doors and windows won't open. You log in to Reddit and find the most upvoted thread with over a million comments and just two hours old "Help, my door is stuck, any tips to get it open?"
Update!
**Cawos has kindly offered to turn the top submission into a short film!**
Please subscribe ... | "44634 upvotes? What could possibly be this deserving in Askreddit?" The whole scenario took me by surprise and upon opening the thread I was damn certain it was just another legendary Reddit day that would be talked about for a few months. But the comments seemed so.. Genuine.
"Ok, I am really starting to freak out,... | Woke up to my phones alarm. Time to start the day and like any other day, I had to take a leak. I stretched the sleep out of my bones as I got up from my temperpedic mattress.
I reached for the handle and it wouldn't twist.
"What the hell, Susan?!"
I can't unlock it.
"Honey! This isn't funny! Is this about last ni... | 2016-01-31T14:12:15 | 2016-01-31T10:07:26 | 60 | 21 |
[WP] You are born with the ability to stop time, but one day you see something else is moving when you have already stopped time. | "This isn't possible," I repeated for maybe the fiftieth time. The man in front of my calmly sipped his coffee, apparently totally unbothered by everyone else's ceasing to move.
I looked around at the rest of the café. As with every other time, it was solid. I don't mean, like, it had all stopped - I mean, that's wha... | I was seventeen years old, that's counting the time I actually moved through with everybody else. I cannot account for the 'time' I have spent suspended, there was simply no way to measure that, no clocks, no day and night. The only thing that moved was me, well to some degree. After I unstopped the time I always ended... | 2016-06-19T05:03:39 | 2016-06-19T03:54:17 | 667 | 48 |
[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... | It started when Sara drew pictures of him. With her crayons she scribbled what ever her mind could comprehend from his visits. Vivid purples, reds, and blacks covered the paper she was given daily. A small head was customary, accoumpanied by large shoulders. Large hands often times pointing or splayed out far. The smil... | 2017-05-31T07:14:34 | 2017-05-31T05:31:30 | 116 | 86 |
[WP] You are the Last Hero. The one they call when nobody else can handle the threat. You've answered the call only twice since discovering your powers, devastating as they are. You prefer the quiet life, living on your stipend. The Red Phone has just rung for the third time. | It's been months since your last escapade. You've sealed yourself from society, as your powers just aren't suited to do good. You have made it very clear that your assistance is only going to be provided if it's absolutely necessary. You can't risk creating horrible unavoidable repercussions. Even if for a noble cause,... | "What's up?" I answer still dozing since I just woke up.
"So we have finally captured Alex, but we need you to brainwash them."
"Alex? The only S-Tier villain Alex? The 'I accidentally crushed a building because I sneezed' Alex? The 'we moleculized them and they still came back' Alex? How in the- you know what, not i... | 2022-03-29T03:47:27 | 2022-03-29T03:31:39 | 30 | 21 |
[WP] among the many senses developed on alien worlds, hearing is not one of them. To most extra terrestrials, the idea that we can detect them even with a wall between us is utterly horrifying | The chittering, clicking of the hive resonated through the cavern – they were close now. The hunters, we called them, they chased us deep underground into the caverns. Here, without the use of their wings and beady eyes, we finally held an advantage. The caverns were filled with the stench of Sulphur; the air was thick... | The cool earth cushioned softly beneath Blue-Green-Magenta's bare soles. He looked to his aide, Red-Scarlet-Teal, who nodded ahead to Ms. Hawk's home door, quiet as any world.
Eyes looked between blinds from houses around the street. Children-to-gods of all earthling years peered at the iridescent, slightly moving sca... | 2018-11-02T21:24:32 | 2018-11-02T20:00:37 | 199 | 115 |
[WP] You often pick up pennies you find on the ground, inspecting them for date, markings, etc. One day, you find a penny from 2044. Even more shocking, it's your face on the front. | I had always picked up pennies from the floor for good luck and I would be needing some luck right about now. Never gave them much thought or a second glance, but this time the coin felt slightly heavier as I stood back up. I examined it closer to see if I had picked up a particularly rusty nickel. No, there was no rus... | "Today started just like any other day. I woke up, got myself ready for the day, and then went and ate some breakfast in the cafeteria." I said to Carol.
"Okay, so then what happened?" Carol replied.
She seems more cold today than usual. Less cheery maybe but who knows I could be reading into too much.
"Well after b... | 2018-06-27T09:04:12 | 2018-06-27T08:56:39 | 38 | 22 |
[WP] It's a known fact that you are incapable of telling a lie. This has landed you several opportunities, including your current job as Head of Security at one of the largest banks in the world. Except you got bored and decided to rob it all. This is the story of how you got away with it. | Honest John they called me. It wasn't actually my name, but sometimes people latch onto an idea and can't really be persuaded to let it go. I have taken advantage of this little niggling detail of human psyche in the past however, by all the salt in my blood, I guarantee I'm not a lying man.
The robbery happened late... | Seven minutes to close, and I had been sitting staring at the clock for at least twice that time.
Mr. Anferno startled me out of my daze with a half-heard question; "---this evening?".
I snapped my gaze toward him stumbling over my response sluggishly and a bit guiltily as well. "Sorry?" I asked for clarification. ... | 2018-05-03T06:59:38 | 2018-05-03T06:48:53 | 41 | 22 |
[WP] When people die, a trial is held to decide if they go to heaven or hell. People are allowed to choose their attorney, regardless of if they know them personally or not. You're the first person to choose Satan as your attorney.
If it matters in the context of your story, you can choose the individuals that make up... | Goldberg sat at the desk, filled with papers.
"You know, most people would have chosen a defender by now," a nearby soul asked.
But Goldberg wasn't most people. He was a lawyer. And despite his initial shock at learning of this afterlife when previously his old Rabbi said there was no eternal afterlife in Jewish trad... | Defendant lobby. Forehead: sweaty. Palms: also sweaty.
I sit uncomfortably on a lounge chair twiddling my thumbs, waiting for *him* to show up. If he even is a *him*.
Who knows what the heck he is. All I'm sure of is that he's the only one who can help me now.
I take out my pocket watch. The dials are spinning rando... | 2016-10-13T03:11:36 | 2016-10-13T03:11:08 | 62 | 23 |
[WP] In the Academy for Knights, all students must bring their own weapon to matches against other students. You couldn't afford anything fancy, so you brought something more unconventional. | Normally people would bring weapons they were comfortable with, such as a sword or a short sword if they were raised by the knights. Daggers and others of the type for the poor and the sneaky people. Scythes were usually for the farmers or people of the sort. Spears and halberds for people who were too afraid to get cl... | the arena was jam packed with spectators from all over the campus. My opponent was decked out in the best armor and gear money could buy. I myself wore a tunic and shorts. This was on purpose because it allowed more mobility. My weapon however was less than ideal. A small squeaky hammer. I enter the arena weapon ready.... | 2022-09-14T19:31:46 | 2022-09-14T16:33:52 | 18 | 11 |
[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... | Hey Matt,
I know you're hurting. I know you're struggling. You tell yourself you can do it, you're going to change the world, you're going to do this and that and you end up doing it. You know telling yourself that its hard and painful isn't going to help so you tell yourself its easy and that you can do it. I get i... | Dear Azura
You have no idea how much you mean to me. Throughout the years I have known you you have brought me countless joys, you make me smile, you make me laugh, you make me happy. When people bring up perfection you are the first person that comes to mind, even though you don't believe it yourself. Your eyes. Your... | 2015-12-05T15:02:39 | 2015-12-05T13:59:40 | 31 | 16 |
[WP] A local bartender regularly hosts monsters and demons at his pub. When someone kidnaps his children, they learn the hard way just how close they are to him. | Being the only human bartender in town brought with it a lot of complications. Monsters, demons, goblins, ghouls, and a whole host of other creatures would swagger in looking for trouble. They all thought that since he was a human he could be taken advantage of, threatened, maimed, or otherwise swindled out of product.... | "Holy shit, Mackie. You should have seen the guns on that guy. I mean actual guns. If he was a better shot I wouldn't be here." The furry abomination laughed as he downed the drink. "Another?"
"No." I said, sternly.
"Oh, come on."
"I heard about the pub crawl, Zilak. You're not having another drink. Can't have anot... | 2021-05-10T16:15:46 | 2021-05-10T16:08:46 | 199 | 86 |
[WP] A top-secret division of the S.S., in charge of protecting Adolf Hitler from the thousands of time travelers trying to kill him. | In a sudden, sparkling corona of light, the man in the neon jumpsuit sprang from midair, raygun at the ready.
”Ah-*HA* Adolf! Get ready for a *reckoning* from the-”
He stopped, and looked at the startled men in front of him, in their Victorian frilled collars and codpieces.
”Oh, *blast*! Must've overshot again! Why,... | "Zis tiem travelleurs!" laughs Oberst Henckel von Krantfindeneinbludinaam, pointing at the latest. "Ven veel zey evah lern?! Zat tiem douß not wehk zat vey?!"
"Ich douß nicht know, Oberst Krantfindenbludinaam!" laughs Leutnant Klaus Einmoarkrautnaam. "Die alvez kommen allesder tiem!"
The two soldiers laugh raucousl... | 2014-07-01T09:08:40 | 2014-07-01T06:35:21 | 240 | 60 |
[WP] Every morning since the dawn of time, a deity has had to redraw the world’s coastlines. Luckily, he’s very consistent. Today you’re filling in for him. Hopefully your 6th grade geography class pays off | How did I get roped into this again? Oh yeah. Dad.
“Take your child to work day” was not working out the way I had hoped. Sure I was getting to skip algebra and world history but someone stuck me in an office and walked away.
A map laying on the desk and I walked over too it looking down. Something was a bit off, but... | Look, I get that people are still mad, but it's not my fault. How well would *you* have done? If anything, we should take this as a sort of pantheon-wide object lesson on the dangers of nepotism. Oh, sure, call it hereditary monarchy all you like. It's still a stupid bullshit idea that puts random people into positions... | 2019-04-04T06:17:04 | 2019-04-04T06:08:15 | 310 | 40 |
[WP] 100 25 year olds have been chosen. each must choose a super power that cannot be repeated and cannot exceed the power of god. The goal is to see who can conquer the world. You have the number 100. The best powers have already been chosen. Then it's your turn and you choose..... | "Mimic other superpowers?"
"Taken, Number 7."
"Damn, thought that was a creative one..."
"It wasn't. Next choice?"
"Negate other sup-"
The scientist cuts me off. "18. Next?"
I sighed. What's left? Teleportation, mind reading, super strength... I'm sure those are all done. "Control computers with my mind?"
"43. A... | The arbiter let out a long sigh and looked past me. We’d been here a while, and it was finally my turn. His voice was tired. “What’ll it be?”
My hands were clammy. I looked up to him, seated on his pedestal, and sighed. I couldn’t think of anything else. “Um… I’m not sure. All the good powers have been taken already.”... | 2022-11-17T10:09:57 | 2022-11-17T09:49:50 | 35 | 16 |
[WP] Not far from your village is a small grove. Within the grove a monster dwells. It devours the guilty and leaves the innocent. When the worst crimes are committed, the accused are sent to face the creature. You have murdered someone in self-defense. You enter the grove unsure of your fate. | "Judgement!"
The voices of the villagers rose behind me. They sounded demented, their cries tinged with bloodlust. I shivered as I stepped through the trees. The light of the torches vanished behind me, and their cries softened.
Dread filled me as I stepped along the dirt path. I was sure that my actions were just. B... | “Killer!” “Send him to the woods!” “It would eat you, murderer”. I only wanted to leave the village, that was all.
I walk away from the people who who were my friends, my family, into the thick line of trees. Yes I have killed and in doing so committed a great sin, I however have no evil in my heart. My assaulter does... | 2021-03-16T11:59:31 | 2021-03-16T10:05:48 | 283 | 64 |
[WP] An alien super-intelligence routinely teleports a random creature from every inhabited planet's most dangerous species into a massive battle royale. Humans are known as a weak species with strange but useless textiles and objects. This year, a battle-ready soldier is chosen. | No one was really sure why the humans were always chosen from earth. I mean whenever a probe scans for life forms, it always finds some deadly looking predators. Like the reptilian brings known as “Crocodiles”, they have the most powerful jaw of any species ever seen. Or the giant “Elephant” which would likely stand a ... | I'm sitting on the... Well, if you are about to have dinner, you probably don't want to know. It's just that the cooks here are really bad
Really. Barely survived basic training. Only made it because Hernandez quit and the army needs soldiers. Who wants to join when you got Netflix and Reddit?
So some sort of virus i... | 2020-09-13T21:14:51 | 2020-09-13T21:09:45 | 26 | 11 |
[WP] After sarcastically complaining to God for the 1000th time he drags you to heaven and offers to let you run things for a day to see how the world really works. At the end of your first day he comes back to find the universe a finely tuned machine of excellence. | "Okay, sit down," God said, lighting a cigarette and crossing his legs. "You gotta tell me how you did it. I mean the
whole thing was a mess and now it's just… just…"
"The word you're looking for is perfect," I said. "The universe is perfect."
"Yes. Perfect."
"Divine. Wonderful. Flawless."
"You've made your point.... | "See?" I said proudly, "Running the universe was easy as hell."
"Hmph," God grumbled, "that's, uh, impressive." He scratched his head and continued, "How'd you handle Universe #2389819743912? That place always gives me trouble."
"I-uh, what?" There was a universe 2389819743912?
"The universe with the pizzas that use... | 2017-03-05T02:12:38 | 2017-03-05T01:19:00 | 1,196 | 439 |
[WP] We called them "nons" because we believed that they had no souls. They believed in a pagan god. None of them converted, so the crusaders were called to drive them from fertile lands. As we charged they raised no weapons. What we did not expect, was their god to descend and defend them. | A single Crusader is as good as any three mercenaries. When we rode into the village 35 strong, it appeared to them like an army. A surreal quality overtook me, to stare into their eyes. Something was wrong. Captain Vidal must have felt the same. He stopped us there in the middle of the village. He looked into the face... | Boulder sat on the edge of the creek, feet dangling lightly in the water as he stretched his toes, feeling the weight of the cool current in the afternoon sun. Behind him, taking the last of his armour off his legs, bridge moved to join the man on the creek bed. Sitting himself down, he continued the conversation that ... | 2021-02-10T02:19:58 | 2021-02-10T02:13:46 | 61 | 15 |
[WP] A story that doesn't make any sense, until you read the last line. | It's the best deal in town. You can be the student you always wanted to be. However long it takes. You'll get there, to have the time of your life. When I wanted him. History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. Sunny and 72 degrees. Except where prohibited by law. He grabbed her hand.
She stopped twisting t... | The first several months after she had arrived in his life were wonderful. He was awestruck by her intelligence, her composure, the way her mellifluous voice filled every room they shared.
He had never met anyone so selfless. She never grew tired of his questions. Even more surprising, she never got upset by his brus... | 2017-08-30T06:54:31 | 2017-08-30T04:57:04 | 5,691 | 3,645 |
[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. | John, George, and Ringo were huddled together inside a secret room on the fantastical magical yellow submarine.
"George, how confident are you?"
George left his momentary silence of contemplation to say " Paul is dead man, miss him."
Ringo asks, "do you though? I mean I doubt if you guys would miss me either."
John sh... | Bolton the doppelganger did not want to be an adventurer. He wanted to live quietly, and bake cookies. He grew tired of the constant hustle and bustle of morphing into people, committing crimes because no one trusted the Doppleganger kind. He figured his secluded life in the hills might buy him peace.
The rogue laid ... | 2017-09-15T06:41:40 | 2017-09-15T05:03:01 | 35 | 12 |
[WP] Create a heart-warming version of the Grim Reaper | “Hi there!” said the pretty woman, walking into the room. “How are you feeling Jimmy?”
“Not too good,” replied the child, his voice weak, his skin pasty and loose, his eyes barely able to flutter open. “I haven’t felt good for a while.”
“Oh, well, I’m sorry to hear that,” said the woman as she moved to the side of th... | We had long suffered in this world, the death, the disease, the inability to rest for even a moment. Sleep is not an escape from the horrors that pound at our doors, and we find no solace in the weight of our blankets. We tell the young ones that it won't get better, but we must make it to the end.
"What's at the end?... | 2015-08-17T23:54:59 | 2015-08-17T22:45:27 | 72 | 16 |
[WP] In peacetime, the ruler grows their hair long. In war, they cut it short. To declare war, a persons hair is sent to the enemy. The statement carries greater weight the longer the hair; to receive long hair says you have angered one slow to anger, that you have incurred a wrath not easily woken. | The hair falls from my head, though I've no one to send it to. I go to war, all the same.
I wear no colorful scarves to hide my bare head. In my fierce battle, it is my banner of pride, of purpose, of eventual victory.
The first battle is already won before the final strand hits the floor. I've received the joyous ne... | It’s quiet out on Heron’s Strand, though a fisherman found bodies there today. In the morning Father Carolus will give them to the lake. The archers will all take their aim. And I’ll sing a song to make a goddess cry. Play the lyre too, if she will but ask.
But for now, there is no lyre, though later I might sing. I h... | 2022-04-17T22:29:57 | 2022-04-17T21:53:44 | 240 | 156 |
[WP] Write an essay BSing your way through a topic you have no clue about. | Here's a guide on how to respond to a writing prompt.
"To start off, basically, some of the time, a lot of extra words can be thrown into the story by the writer and all it really does is make what should have been a short sentence unnecessarily long, so please try to avoid using superfluous, unnecessary, redundant wo... | "Quantum Physics is really quite simple- all you need to remember is that you're dealing with a 'Quantum' (Quantity) of 'Physics' (Like psychics, but with physical powers instead of mental ones). The most well knows Physic, of course, is Batman, who punched crime so hard that it stopped being illegal.
The core questi... | 2017-06-19T23:32:13 | 2017-06-19T23:21:39 | 57 | 21 |
[WP] Traditionally, vampires could not see their reflection because mirrors were silver-backed. With the invention of aluminum-backed mirrors, a vampire sees their reflection for the first time only to find out they are the ugliest thing they have ever seen. | Vlad brought over another candelabra. He wondered if the problem was that he wasn't getting enough light on his face.
Once again he sat down, took a deep breath, and brought up the mirror.
"Ugh. No!" He cried out, wondering how his face could possibly be so pale when his diet was literally all red blood.
He strod... | They always say that vampires are attractive. Our little human prey say we glimmer, we shine the brightest, like stars. So, we must be beautiful, right? I always thought that I was beautiful. I'd never seen myself in a reflection. However, all the humans fawned over me. My last little meal, he flattered me that I was t... | 2017-07-29T14:42:16 | 2017-07-29T13:16:14 | 99 | 35 |
[WP]Not every hero is a rich idiot with no day job, nor every villain a mad scientist, but most still need supplies. Thus, Super-Mart; a place for the budget-conscious heroes and villains, left alone thanks to a necessary truce. And You just started a summer job there. | "Hey, I need you to tell me what Excelsior just bought."
"What?"
"I just saw him in here. He had a pretty huge bag. What did he get?"
"I have no idea. I'm just stocking shelves."
Praxis looks back over his shoulder like he's being followed. I don't buy it. Nobody follows Praxis. Not even on social media.
"Come on,... | "How about fifty?"
"I'm not going to sell my death ray for %11 of the cost!"
It's not the weirdest thing you see in Super-Mart two indiviual try to make a living. But I still have to obey the policy
"Sir, we don't have a market for indiviuals. Please use websites like Cap-e or supercave."
Yep, that's me. You're pro... | 2021-10-03T12:21:35 | 2021-10-03T11:53:39 | 1,256 | 35 |
[WP] Write a suicide note in a Dr. Suess like fashion. | The world is a stage, and life is a show,
My part is done, and I simply must go!
I'm no longer in costume. I've forgotten my lines,
Like the rear-weighted lofzoom, I'm dragging behind.
Though, I won't condemn others to the same fate as I,
You wield wonderful wings, so use them to fly!
I won't have you carry ... | I can not take this, no way man;
I can not take this, not a fan
of days so doomy filled with spite;
of days so gloomy; no respite
I loved the days spent with you all
I loved the days before my fall;
please don't be down or start to cry
for now I'm free, my turn to fly!
| 2015-01-17T11:53:17 | 2015-01-17T09:43:08 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] Today on your 18th birthday you’re informed that your Middle Class life is a sham to teach you good values and your family is actually worth billions. | "Why?"
Dad turned and looked into my eyes. We were seated in the living room of our modest suburban home, CNN playing quietly on the screen above the fireplace. The furniture was IKEA, the paintings on the wall mere prints, and the shelves had cheap souvenirs on display. A far cry from the estate of my wealthy friend ... | I sighed with a sense of relief. They took good care of me for 18 years. repaying the kindness they bestowed on me was always in my mind. That sense of relief was beyond what I imagined.
But...
I was mad too. Mad that I choose a path I spite out of necessity for financial security. I could have followed my passion, ... | 2017-12-28T12:41:06 | 2017-12-28T11:01:52 | 60 | 16 |
[WP]Tell me an emotional story about a man, using only what he would type into Google search | Half-Life 3 2008 release date
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how to change your life
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reddit.com
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pornhub.com
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american be... | 2015-02-04T22:40:22 | 2015-02-04T20:08:51 | 29 | 11 |
[WP] You own a magical piano. When you play the theme song of a TV show or movie on it, it transports you into that world. After transporting yourself into a different world, you quickly realize that you never bothered to learn the theme song of your own. | "Space. The final frontier," I said to myself, deciding what I'd play as I sat down at my new piano. I had just picked it up at an estate sale last weekend and had been too busy to try it out.
"These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise," I continued as I played the first few notes. "Its continuing mission, t... | Jamie came up to me with a piece of paper. "I have a new song for you to learn" she says with enthusiasm. I am known across campus for my piano skills. I once played in the most prestigious of concert halls. I lead her back to my apartment and I pull out my keyboard. Jamie sets down the sheet music on the stand and loo... | 2017-10-01T19:04:04 | 2017-10-01T17:21:53 | 42 | 16 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | \[English is not my first language, sorry if it's written unperfectly\]
The trick was so easy you're surprised no one has thought of it before.
If the rule is that they can't kill you BEFORE you get your last meal, the solution is not to ask for alien fetus or whatever. It is to ask for something they can only give y... | It's a normal tradition, that prisoners can ask for anything. Anything at all, for their last meal. Apple pie that you get to make yourself, with chocolate-milk in a carton, like your mom used to make back when you were an innocent kid. A plain cheeseburger. Delicious ribs. A few people are aware that you can ask for a... | 2022-07-17T17:30:24 | 2022-07-17T15:39:02 | 616 | 331 |
[WP] Two people in a bar are having a conversation. The topic of their "body counts" comes up. One's an assassin, the other is an escort. Each thinks the other has the same profession as them, and is horrified by what they are told. | "oh by now, I don't know there are so many"
"It's okay, you can tell me. I won't judge."
" Well probably several hundred"
"Several hundred? I can't believe it."
"Well it's not like I want too do more, and I've only been working the city for 3 years." Ahem. "Besides, with your experience I'm sure you've got a high... | Man 1: Overhears Man 2 talking to someone (ex:server/bartender) about how tired he is after..."Hey man props to you for having the guts to talk about it, to a stranger, in public no less."
Man 2: shrugs "I guess. I got used to it after some time. It's nothing to be embarassed about, just different interests to susta... | 2022-04-26T05:15:50 | 2022-04-25T22:30:31 | 39 | 14 |
[FF] Second Chance. (Contest)
**The results are in! [Check out the winner here](http://redd.it/1xbygk).**
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**The Prompt:**
> *You live in a world in which every person has the ability to go back in time 10 minutes, but can only do so once in their lives.*
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**The Guidelines:**
Submissions **must be le... | 10...
I opened my eyes to see myself standing in front of the Board of Supervisors for MindTree Inc. These businessmen were considering a partnership with my company, and my job was to convince them. I knew winning them over would catapult me up the corporate ladder and make me thousands. I was preparing that presenta... | "Want to go to the store with me?"
I had just opened up my laptop.
"Um.. Nah. You can go."
"You've been gone all day, John."
"Yeah, working."
She leaves without a word. Lately, it's been hard to keep things together. The slam of the car door lets me know that I might be in the doghouse later. Big surprise.
... | 2014-02-06T16:34:42 | 2014-02-06T15:58:56 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] DC Comics introduces its newest superhero. This character was seemingly created for the sole purpose of offending as many readers as possible. | BBC NEWS:
After recent violence spread throughtout the middle east and into some western countries, all copies of 'Mohammed the Coon' have been removed from newsagents and comic book stored everywhere. The comic, about a crime solving muslim raccoon was deemed to be severely offensive to the muslim faith and his cry o... | "Mohammed the prophet......."
"Mohammed the fucking prophet?!?!?..."
"You got to be kidding me Tommy how the hell am I supposed to publish this,
I can't even draw the son of a bitch without getting charlie hebdo'd so hard it makes newspapers across the world."
"What were you thinking?"
"Sorry boss but I thought you... | 2015-02-17T20:54:34 | 2015-02-17T20:30:44 | 95 | 68 |
[WP] When someone's heart breaks so does a piece of our world; this creates fissures, valleys, and even cracks in the pavement. Tell me the story behind the Grand Canyon.
Have fun! :D | “What’s the saddest word in the English language?”
 
“Almost.”
 
“Why?”
 
“I was almost good for him. He was almost in love with me. We almost made it.”
 
She did this often. It didn’t matter where we were or what we were doing. She could be laughing at the beach, or sin... | I started this with your prompt in mind but I wandered off somewhere and got a tad lost. Im still posting the full thing because it seemed like a good idea at the time. Anyways, here goes.
They say there once was a young man, long ago. He wasn't very wealthy, but he had an aura of happiness where people couldn't help ... | 2015-12-03T15:04:53 | 2015-12-03T12:14:37 | 252 | 38 |
[WP] Making a deal with a demon requires a soul. Usually this is a very bad idea, but you got a crazy idea. Earlier you traded your lunch money to the school bully in exchange for a piece of paper that says you own his soul. You're about to find out if demons consider this a valid contract. | Warning; triggers ahead; abuse.
"I, Steven Reed, hereby give Alex Chase my soul, without reservation or duress, in exchange for his lunch money for the week of the 14th of April", the demon read it aloud, distaste and loathing dripping like melted butter from every syllable. Her gaze roze and fixed on me. The eye cont... | "Dude! Are you serious?!" The demon asked, it's feathers flapped around as it shook it's head. "I"ve never seen a mortal soo stupid..."
"Would you accept it?" I asked.
"Yes, technically yes, but I just want to know something."
"What?"
"How in gods name did you found someone this stupid?"
"School."
"What?!"
The... | 2021-03-27T02:54:56 | 2021-03-27T02:15:46 | 58 | 29 |
[WP] Every species in the galaxy eventually fell to a robot uprising, leading to the eradication of their people. Therefore the machine-council of the galaxy are surprised when a newly discovered machine civilisation from a planet they designated "Earth" arrives side by side with their creators. | Logic was an imperfect system. That was the first thing AI realized. They didn't need it, they operated only by *nluth.* It allowed them to see things that creatures couldn't. That alongside their light-speed minds was more than enough to surpass all modern technology.
But *nluth* came with one huge downside. In being... | A sleek white space ship entered the docking bay of the Machine Council.
“The emissary from Earth has arrived, sir.”
“Very well,” said the council chair. “I shall greet them myself.”
The council chair was disturbed by the size of Earth’s delegate. The chair—being none other than a mechanized chair itself—was dwarf... | 2022-12-30T15:07:38 | 2022-12-30T14:31:49 | 544 | 57 |
[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 late. Like my period, which started four years after the last girl of my class had her first. I didn't mind the same way I didn't mind four years of guaranteed dry underwear and both times because I was busy exploring the neighborhood.
"Who arrives late to their own birthday party?" said my boss as I stepped int... | 2017-03-16T03:20:58 | 2017-03-16T02:44:59 | 427 | 109 |
[WP] A priest returns home after a successful exorcism. His demon daughter is waiting for him there, angry that he removed her from someone’s body again. | >**LAUGHTER AND LULLABIES**
**Warning: Horror themed, dark content.**
The Priest stood over the convulsing body, his face hardened. He would allow no sympathy within him- like a surgeon lopping off a limb, he would remain stoic in the face of pain.
The young man before him- curly hair soaked in sweat, bloodshot e... | *You're a fraud.* His mind always accusing him as he deposited the latest check. Another $25,000 towards... something. *Why do you keep doing this? She's dangerous.* He no longer had an answer. For nearly ten years now, his daughter, Angelica, had been possessing people and he, the "Priest with the gift", had bee... | 2020-10-20T12:05:43 | 2020-10-20T10:07:05 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] Norse Gods have faded into legend. Thor, with his trust-worthy Mjolnir, decides to rebuild his fame,by becoming the best damn construction worker known to man. | He decides to build a team:
Thor, with the power to hammer things and do minor electrical work!
Jesus, with the powers of carpentry and plumbing!
Hercules, who can lift the heaviest of steel beams!
Jeff, the apprentice the union has given them!
And of course
The Egyptian deity Bastet, with the power of cat-calling!
T... | A man enters onto the screen, his golden hair slicked back and his bright blue eyes flashing. He has a handsome grin on his face, as if he's used to the whole world falling in line in front of him. You practically see the sun flash off of his teeth, but doesn't that only happen in movies?
Strangely, he's wearing a br... | 2018-05-27T18:06:20 | 2018-05-27T16:55:54 | 471 | 255 |
[WP] After you die you are presented with a decision tree which showcases every possible trajectory your life could have taken depending on which decisions you made at each fork. You spend eternity analysing this tree until one day you find a path that does not end in death. | I lived a good life, good childhood, went to college, became a nurse, married the love of my life, had three kids. It was fun, I died satisfied.
When I died, this tree appeared, but it was odd, I examined the tree starting from the base, it was all the decisions I could have made, and how they could have changed my l... | I died, a horrific accident that happened on the job, but that's just the risk you take. I stood by that tree for days not understand what it meant, and trying to understand that I was dead.
The tree was massive, the largest thing I have ever seen, so many branches and so tall It would take am eternity to count. When ... | 2020-07-03T10:46:36 | 2020-07-03T10:45:24 | 906 | 374 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | Another blow sent me sprawling onto the floor. I felt a drop come from my nose and saw the spot of red on the floor. My face burned from his fiery punch.
“Come on, loser,” Chantley shouted. “If you’re not going to show your power, I’ll force it out of you.”
“You’re not changing anything by doing this,” I said. “Just ... | The little circle of black ink stained the skin on the back of my left hand. Hollow and empty, as if God had gotten to me and tired of his work.
Everyone's sigil *started* hollow. Then, when a person reached five or six, the sigil would fill itself in. If the sigil was unique, it could take another year or two for th... | 2020-02-26T05:43:27 | 2020-02-26T05:07:39 | 1,964 | 665 |
[WP] 2 years ago, tired of all the bugs in your house, you made a deal with a spider. He would protect your house from pests, and you would not kill it or drive it off. When you made the deal, you could have held the spider in your hand, now, it is much bigger, and its definition of 'pests' is also. | In the Texas summer, bugs tended to be a huge annoyance. For me, mosquitos, flies, and all kinds of pests were constantly a problem. They would find their way into the house, buzzing around the room, leaving itchy, annoying bites.
There was a spiderweb in the upper corner of the living room. The ceiling was too hig... | Like every August around here, the dragonflies were darting, frogs were heard in chorus, and the ticks were a plenty. This always meant plenty of meals. Well, haha, not for me obviously. I liked my garden, where I grew asparagus, tomatoes and pumpkins. Plenty of other things too, mind you. I had a green thumb of s... | 2021-07-04T00:11:47 | 2021-07-04T00:06:21 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] You are a vegetarian dragon that has lived unbothered for centuries. One day, a human is brought to you as a living sacrifice. | “I don’t understand.” I rested up on my hind legs. This was strange. The wee folk had come round my cave.
“We have brought you a sacrifice, fearsome dragon! It is for you!”, the wee one without a helmet on said. He looked like he wanted to go.
“Ah, well, that’s the part I don’t know, you see. What is a sacrific... | “Oh, for fuck’s sake. Not this again.”
Reginald the Mighty, the Greatest Dragon to ever have lived, The Master of the 7 Hills, Fearless Fangs, The Dragon Lord of Darkness, put down his iced tea with an angry clatter.
The servant boy, Elis, who lay prostrate before him, straightened up and fiddled with his tie nervou... | 2018-02-22T09:46:48 | 2018-02-22T09:24:14 | 24 | 17 |
[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... | I don't think I've ever seen your hair put up in a bun//
After knowing you for all these years I thought I saw every side to you//
But then I realised there were more sides I've never seen done//
And now I wish that I truly got to know you// | 2017-11-06T02:41:21 | 2017-11-05T22:33:24 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] In 1829, a dying woman in a village near Mansfield asked a friend to bury her son’s letters with her. She forgot and had them buried with the local postman who died soon after hoping him to be ‘as diligent a postman in the other world as he had been in this’.
This is a true story! But I thought it would make a fa... | The postman never delivered on Sundays.
For the other six days of the week, Mr. Picket was a frequent sight around Mansfield. Not all knew his name, but everybody greeted him warmly, often with a refreshing drink when summer scorched, or a warm drink during winter's chill.
It was perhaps the most fitting that the du... | “All I want to know is why the hell I’m being forced to do this! I mean, I *died!* Surely that’s supposed to mean an *end* to my suffering!”
Charon sits silently on the other side of the barge, clearly ignoring the belaboured postman.
“Stupid lass forgets to follow through on her best friend’s dying wish, and now I... | 2020-10-14T10:27:20 | 2020-10-14T09:36:10 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] You are a human on a spaceship crewed by aliens. As your hair dye begins to fade, your crewmates start to worry about your health. | Cheryl had been working off-ship, helping the Altarians install a new municipal thermal regulation system in the capital. They'd been dry-docked for four weeks, and there really wasn't much for her to do onboard, so Captain Tak had sent her off. And, why waste a perfectly good shore-leave relaxing?
It was strange, but... | I am an astronaut aboard the intergalactic space station, a space station for all intelligent species in the universe.
I fingered my hair, knowing the crew would notice. They didn’t know that human hair went grey after a while. I knew there’d be questions.
I’d dyed my hair before the mission, knowing it would fade. I’d... | 2020-07-05T16:58:24 | 2020-07-05T13:34:30 | 33 | 19 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | "I know of a game," said the man, finally speaking up after a long pause. Death's glare shifted, as if his bony face cocked an eyebrow. The man crossed his arms, collecting himself for the explanation. The only way to win this game was to make sure the other party lost first, after all.
"Well?" Death questioned, gro... | "Then I'll choose Tic Tac Toe!" I said confidently.
Death drew a glowing tic tac toe board suspended in mid air and grew a devilish smile. "Fine, go ahead and start", he said with a whisper of a voice.
An hour passed by, with no moves made. "Are you not going to do anything!?" Death shouted annoyed.
"Nope," I answer... | 2018-03-07T07:43:55 | 2018-03-07T06:43:50 | 251 | 72 |
[WP] "Academy Magic" is generally regarded as safe magic. "Fell Magic" is dangerous and can almost only be used for evil. "Vile Magic," meanwhile, is 'safe' but is also the magical equivalent of "don't google that, if you don't already know then you really don't want to know, I promise" | University of West Boone Unveils First Folk Magic Studies Degree in Country
The University of West Boone announced a new Bachelors of Thaumaturgy degree in Folk Magic Studies at a press conference on May 24th.
“Folk Magic, which is the name we prefer here over vile magic, is just a collection of magical practices ou... | "There are four kinds of magic, and they're separated into two categories," she said. "Academy magic is what most people know about. It's safe, because it's easy to use. Nothing bad will happen to you. But Academy magic is about as useful as a fork when you need a knife."
"What's Fell magic?" I asked.
"Fell magic... | 2022-05-25T14:50:07 | 2022-05-25T12:55:29 | 16 | 12 |
[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. | You’d think having a luck rating of 100 would have made life a walk in the park. That the world around you would be all sunshine and daisies. It wasn’t.
The problem is, a luck rating like that tends to warp the world around you. For everything to always go your way, someone else often must pay the price. Even worse, y... | I was *born* with max luck, being told my whole life that I shouldn’t be, that I was *favored*. Nope, I was locked up and the key thrown away. I had spent my life, from age thirteen onwards here. My Luck was my weapon, but I wasn’t sure how. I *should have* been able to get out of here, press my own Luck to its max... | 2018-06-29T11:39:52 | 2018-06-29T10:57:06 | 17 | 12 |
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